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Bayle (Pierre). Dictionaire Historique et Critique, 4 volumes, Amsterdam: P. Brunel et al, 1740, engraved vignette titles, titles printed in red & black, lightly toned, occasional faint marginal damp-staining, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, red morocco labels, worn, folioQTY: (4)

Bacon (G. W. publisher). Bacon's Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs..., with an Alphabetical Index..., circa 1930s, title and contents list, contents page with long closed repaired tear, 7 lithographic double-page county maps, 25 maps of London, index maps and 34 sheet map of London, publisher's half morocco, worn and rubbed, hinges and joints weak and cracked with the upper board near detached, folio, together with Commercial and Library Atlas of the World with Index-Gazetteer, circa 1890, additional half-title, title page with some spotting, preface and index, frontispiece of 'The Flags of all Nations' and 100 colour lithographic maps and diagrams, slight dust soiling, index bound at rear, later endpapers, modern half morocco but retaining the contemporary boards, slight staining to the sidings, folio QTY: (2)

Atasoy (Nurhan & Julian Raby). Iznik, the pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London: Alexandria Press, 1989, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original red cloth, folio, together with:Coysh (A. W. & R. K. Henrywood), The Dictionary of Blue & White Printed Pottery 1780-1880, 2 volumes, reprinted, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 2001, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, covers rubbed with small tears, large 8vo, plusSotheby's Belgravia, publisher, Philippe Garner Studio Ceramics, 12 volumes, 1971-79, monochrome illustrations, original wrappers in a faux leather ring binder, 4to, and other modern ceramics reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves)

Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of). A Collection of Several Tracts of the Right Honourable Edward, Earl of Clarendon ... published from his Lordship's Original Manuscripts, 1st edition, London: T. Woodward and J. Peele, 1727, contemporary panelled calf, joints split and some wear mostly to extremities, folio, together with:Mede (Joseph), The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-Learned Joseph Mede..., corrected and enlarged according to the author's own manuscripts, 4th edition, London: Roger Norton, for Richard Royston, 1677, half-title repaired at foot of gutter margin, title in red and black with engraved illustration, folding engraved plate, endpapers renewed, contemporary blind panelled calf, rebacked, folio,Laud (William), A Relation of the Conference between William Laud, Late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, and Mr. Fisher the Jesuit, 4th edition, revised, London: Printed by Ralph Holt for Thomas Bassett, 1686, title in red and black, contemporary blind panelled calf, joints cracked and some wear to extremities, folioQTY: (3)

Italian Art. A large collection of Italian art reference & related, including Andrea Del Sarto, 2 volumes, by John Shearman, 1st edition, London: Oxford University Press, 1965, uniform original cloth, volume 1 in dust jacket, large 4to, plus others, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG,8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Ballarin (Alessandro). Doso Dossi, la pittura a ferrara negli anni del ducato di Alfonso I, 2 volumes, Ferrara: Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara, 1995, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original uniform cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, spines lightly rubbed, folio, together with:Strehlke (Carl Brandon & Cecilia Frosinini), The Panel Paintings of Masolino and Masaccio, the role of technique, 1st edition, Milan: Continent 5, 2002, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plusEisler (Colin), The Genius of Jacopo Bellini, the complete paintings and drawings, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 'as new' in original plastic wrap, folio, andAkkema (Bernard & Beverly Louise Brown, editors), Il Rinascimento a Venezia e la pittura del nord ai tempi del Bellini, Durer, Tiziano, 1st edition, Milan: Bompiani, 1999, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus other modern Italian Renaissance art reference & related, some Italian language, all original cloth in dust jackets, VG, 8vo/folio QTY: (3 shelves)

Folio books, Orient Line diaries, stamp albums, handwritten documents etc

A TUNBRIDGE WARE FLORAL PANELpossibly the front of a folio, the spray of poppies and daisies on an ebonsied ground inside a marquetry and geometric frame, together with a Sorrento ware olive wood panel with a marquetry image of a young boy inside a mosaic border of scrolling foliage, signed, and a Sorrento ware oval picture frame (3)33cm x 24.7cm (max)Qty: 2

ANTONIN PROUST?; watercolour, two men inspecting a folio, signed with initials lower right and with indistinct French gallery label verso, 20 x 17cm, framed and glazed.

Folio Society books, including Bronte collection, Arabian Nights, Perraults Fairy Tales, etc.Qty: 52

§ DAVID HOCKNEY O.M., C.H., R.A. (BRITISH 1937-) A BIGGER BOOK - 2016 First edition, one of 10,000 copies signed by the artist, elephant folio, original pictorial cloth and dust jacket (each to the same design by Hockney), limitation leaf printed on translucent paper, illustrated throughout. Housed in publisher's cardboard case with original stand designed by Marc Newson (incorporating multicoloured metal tripod and glass top), two white gloves and two allen keys (in pink plastic zip-up wallet), a copy of David Hockney: A Chronology, 40th Anniversary edition (unopened in original shrink wrap), and polystyrene packing material. Cologne: Taschen, 2016.Dimensions:the box 110cm x 58cm x 20cm (43.25in x 22.75in x 8in)Note: Note: 'A Bigger Book is a majestic visual survey of David Hockney’s art. In it, Hockney takes stock of more than 60 years of work, from his teenage days at art school up to his recent extensive series of portraits, iPad drawings, and Yorkshire landscapes. Never before has Hockney’s oeuvre been published in such scope, with such investment from the artist, and on such an astonishing, immersive scale' (publisher's website).

Two boxes containing Folio Society volumes, Charles Dickens books, Heron books etc.

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)'Figure study'pen and ink and watercolour14.7 x 10cmProvenance: With the Folio Society, London;with Squire Gallery, London.Condition ReportOverall 35 x 30cmAcid staining and fading with light foxing emerging, the work has an acidic mount. Unexamined out of glazed frame.

Robert Smith, a folio of pencil signed etchings

RECORDS OF OLD LONDON VANISHED AND VANISHING, with coloured plate illustrations after original drawings and with descriptive letterpress by Wm. G. Habershon, published by J.S. Virtue & Co. folio detached (1)

SIX BOXES OF BOOKS & MAGAZINES containing over seventy miscellaneous titles, mostly in hardback format, subjects include art, history, plants and animals, atlases, etc, many 'coffee table' type books and a small number of Folio Society publications, magazines include Discovering Art and musical scores (6 BOXES)

Folio Society. Anthony Trollope. (7)

Folio Society. Fairies and Children's interest. A nice selection. See images for titles. (7)

Antiquarian. Hooper, Jacob - An Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, During the Reign of King Charles the First. 1738, 1st thus. Small Folio. pp. 304, 205-212, 313-628 (text continuous despite pagination). With frontispiece and plates (a few having tears). Tear to head of title page. Final page of text repaired due to loss. Contemporary mottled calf, surface wear. Sometime re-cased with original spine laid-on. Sporadic toning and spotting. (1)

Jane Gardiner Folio of watercolour studies of birds of preyCondition Report8 watercolours and 2 prints

Jane Gardiner  Artists proof colour print  Snowy lake scene with clump of trees on an island, signed in pencil, 28cm x 36cm,  three signed original colour screen prints, lake scenes and a folio of similar unframed screen prints by the same artist

Jozef Theodore Maria Buskens (Late 19th/Early 20th Century) - Thirteen woodcuts - signed and titled, various, unframed and contained in folio, each approximately 9ins x 14ins

A Victorian Graphic Diary, of a journey down the Nile, pencil and ink with ink descriptions, twenty-eight loose sheets, in embossed card folio, each sheet approximately 7ins x 10.5ins, and six other albums of drawings, engravings and watercolours of historical, topographical, humorous and portrait interest

The Buchanan Portfolio of Characters from Dickens. Comprising one frontispiece and fourteen plates with prints of paintings owned by James Buchanan & Co., Ltd, Scotch Whisky Distillers, in folio.

A small folio containing a collection of early 20th century pencil sketches, all being figure and portrait studies by various handsLight foxing and discolouration throughout.

A folio and contents of assorted pictures and prints, to include topographical engravings, colour satirical prints, original watercolours etc (a lot)

Belcher, John and Macartney, Mervyn E.: Later Renaissance Architecture in England, 2 vols. numerous plates, London B.T. Batisford, 94 High Holborn, 1901, 1/2 red tooled morocco over red cloth boards, folio. (2)

Redoute (Pierre-Joseph), Roses 2, published by The Ariel Press, together with Fruits and Flowers, each folio, also Albert Durer Revived, a book of Drawing (late 18th century), a hand written account of ' The Installation of Ladies to the Most Noble order of The Needle', three unframed pencil marine studies and other ephemera including a 1931 copy of The Laws of Croquet

GREGYNOG PRESS: DYLAN THOMAS ‘DEATHS & ENTRANCES’ limited edition (41/250), dated 1984 - colour illustrations by John Piper, Folio publisher's Morocco backed textured cloth, gilt lettering to spine, includes original slipcase. Edited with an introduction by Walford Davies. Printed on T. H. Saunders pure rag mould made paper and bound under the direction of James Brockman. Colour offset lithograph reproductions of illustrations by Piper by Adrian Lack at the Senecia Press, colour frontis plus seven double page colour platesProvenance:private collection Swansea, consigned via our Cardiff officeCondition Report:surface marks to slip case, sl. browning to papers, overall very good

GWASG GREGYNOG, 2008 See-Paynton (Colin), 'Birds of a Feather', limited edition printed from artist's block, no. 31/150, title in green and black with feather vignette in gold, wood-engraved illustrations by the author, original dark blue morocco-backed cloth by John Sewell with illustration mounted to upper cover, cloth slip-case, folioProvenance:private collection Cardiff, consigned via our Cardiff officeCondition Report:very fine, near mint

GWASG GREGYNOG, 2008 - See-Paynton (Colin), 'Birds of a Feather, 'a limited edition printed from artist's block, no. 32/150, title in green and black with feather vignette in gold, wood-engraved illustrations by the author, original dark blue Morocco-backed cloth by John Sewell with illustration mounted to upper cover, cloth slip-case, folioProvenance:private collection Cardiff, consigned via our Cardiff office

Winston Churchill interest - The History of the English Speaking Peoples. Folio Society. Four volumes in Slip-case; The Second World War. Twelve volumes. Cassell paperback edition; Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches. 2003. Signed by his grandson Winston S. Churchill; and two other books

A.R Harrison 'The Boulevard' watercolour 26.5 x 37cm. Paul, Alpine Scene, oil on canvas, watercolour, folio.

James H. Auty (Wakefield Artist 1919 - 95), Five countryside scenes each with river, all oil paintings, in folio; Another by the same artist 'Main Street, Ottringham' watercolour, signed and dated 1992, 20 x 28cm. 'Sunset' plus four unframed watercolours including New Miller Dam (11).

Folio of various 18th c. and 19th c. watercolour sketches and prints, inc. life studies in pencil stamped Ecole Beaux Arts Rouen

Folio of 12 various prints, inc. three Judaic subjects. Together with 28 prints after Detmold, Kirchner, etc.

Folio of assorted etchings, inc. works by W.H. Sweet, Edward Cherry and others, inc. one attributed, or in the manner of, Man Ray

Large quantity of Folio Society books (Sixty-six individual volumes and four box sets) to include; Crotchet Castle, Bird Poems, To The Lighthouse, Crime Stories from the Strand, English Eccentrics, Rides Around Britain, Brave New World, Wessex Tales, The Jubilee Years, Lord Jim, etc.

Peterson, Roger Tory and Peterson, Virginia Marie - 'The Audubon Folio', 30 Great Bird Paintings', Text by George Dock Jr, Heron Books, London

Peterson, Roger Tory & Virginia Marie - The National Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio - 'Audubon's Birds of America', revised edition, pub. Abbeville Press, hardback with dust jacket and slip case

Photography.- Adams (Ansel) My Camera in the National Parks, first edition, signed by the photographer/author to blank, 30 black and white plates, original printed card wrappers and spiral binding, dust-jacket, small amounts of chipping and creasing to spine ends and edges, two closed tears to spine, lower portion upper flap cut-away, folio, Boston, 1950.

Campbell (Colen), Woolfe (John) and James Gandon. Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect..., 5 vol., vol.1-3 later editions, vol.4 & 5 first editions, engraved titles in all but vol.3 (that in red and black), titles of vol.1 & 2 in third state without imprints, titles and text all in English and French, engraved dedications in all but vol.2 & 3, vol.4 & 5 with lists of subscribers, 491 engraved plates on 385 sheets only (of 493 on 386, lacking the double-page plate of Umberslade at end of vol.3, often missing), including 91 double-page plates and 5 quadruple, this copy with an additional engraved allegorical frontispiece in vol.1 after William Kent, vol.3 with later engraving of Wycliffe Hall & letterpress description mounted on verso of plate 91, vol.4 with engraving of the Pantheon with royal box by James Wyatt for commemoration of Handel mounted as frontispiece, and vol.5 with engraving of 'Royal Academy in the Strand' (Somerset House) mounted on rear endpaper (all trimmed to border or plate-mark), some light foxing or browning (slightly worse in vol.4 & 5, titles browned), engraved bookplate of John Cade, contemporary calf with decorative roll border, rather rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, rebacked preserving old red & black roan labels (one or two chipped), some regilding to borders, [Berlin Kat. 2329, vol.3-5; Fowler 76, vol.4; Harris 102 & 945; Millard, British 10 & 94], folio, [?1731]-31-67-71.⁂ Campbell's monumental work promoting the virtues of neo-Palladianism and featuring many of the great houses of England.

Foyle copy.- Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus) Opera, edited by Johannes Andreas de Buxis, Bishop of Aleria, collation: a-f8 g6 h-k8 l6 m-o8 p14 q r8 s6 t4 (b1 unsigned, b2 signed b, &c.; sig. c mis-signed b), 139 ff. (of 148, lacking a1-8 and [b1]), 45 lines and headline, Roman and occasional Greek type, initial spaces with guide-letters, occasional early ink marginalia, small wormholes to final 6 quires, occasional spotting, some light browning, 18th century red morocco gilt, the spine richly so, spine in compartments and with a brown calf label (a second label missing), foot of spine and corners worn, upper joint splitting, but holding firm, rubbed and marked, lightly soiled, g.e., folio (296 x 203mm.), Venice, Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 21 April, 1390 [i.e. 1490].⁂ The second edition edited by Bussi, and the tenth edition overall. Lactantius was advisor to Constantine I, and tutor to his son Crispus. It includes his poem on the phoenix. Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, bought Sotheby's 16th July, 1945, lot 509, £10 (burgundy morocco bookplate). Literature: BMC V, 477; Goff L-10; HC 9815; Bod-inc L-O11; BSB-Ink L-9; GW M16563; ISTC il00010000.

Lapérouse (Jean-François de Galaup, comte) Voyage de La Pérouse Autour du Monde, 5 vol. including Atlas, first edition, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, Atlas with engraved title, portrait frontispiece and 69 maps and plates, many double-page or folding, tissue-guards, text with ink stamp of Domus Lugdunensis Soc. Jesu to titles, vol. 1 with ink inscription "ex dono Radactoris" to pastedown, dated Paris 1821, occasional light spotting, Atlas with bookplate of Frederick E. Ellis, some dust-soiling to extremities, upper hinge weak but holding, all vol. uncut in original decorative boards, printed paper labels to spines, wear to extremities, particularly spine ends and joints, with some chipping to paper, text with small paper label with manuscript shelfmark to spine foot, Atlas a little darkened and with label worn, upper joint split and repaired at head, preserved in 3 morocco-backed drop-back boxes, [Sabin 38960; Hill 972; Ferguson 251], 4to & folio, Paris, 1797.⁂ An impressive set of one of the finest narratives of maritime exploration, covering Easter Island, Hawaii, Macao, Formosa, the Aleutian Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Australia.

World.- The Illustrated London News, 134 vol. only of 139 (lacking vol. 1851 I; 1854 II; 1860 II; 1870 II; 1859 II), 69 years in 134 vol., engraved title to each volume, indices, wood-engraved and lithographed plates and illustrations, some folding, some coloured, some leaves loose, bookplates, Cambridgeshire Libraries sticker to rear pastedown, some tissue interleaves sticking to colour plates, some leaves with Illustrated London News Supplement stamps, uniform later purple half morocco, turquoise endpapers, edges gilt, some cloth faded (more pronounced to 1887 I), some covers stained (heavier to 1882 II), cloth peeling from some covers, folio, 1842-1911 (134)⁂ With numerous maps, panoramas and views, depicting Soudan (1884 I), London (1842; 1844; 1861 I); Paris (1848; 1867 II), the United States (1861 I), New York (1876 II); Glasgow (1864 I); Edinburgh (1868 II; 1848 II)), Oxford (1870 I); Transvaal (1896 I), the Baltic (1856 I); Rome (1850 I); Dublin (1846 I); Vienna (1873 I), and Alexandria (1882 II), including depictions of the Paris Exhibition (1901 I), the Dublin Exhibition (1865 II), The Great Exhibition (1851 II), Wellington's Funeral Car (1852 II), the Manchester Ship Canal (1883 I), Queen Victoria's Diamon Jubilee (1897 II), and Queen Victoria's death and funeral procession (1901 I).Seemingly lacking the "Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition" (1852 I); "Environs of London. Windsor Castle to Gravesend" (1855 I); "Arrival of the Emperor and Empress of the French at Windsor Castle" (1855 1); "The Crimea and adjacent coasts" (1856 I).

Livius (Titus) Historiae Romanae decades, edited by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus, collation: [*]6 a10 b6 c10 d-n8 aa-ii8 kk ll6 A-G8 H10, 256 ff. (of 262, lacking sig. [*6], the first of which blank), a1 and n8 blank, 59 lines and headline, Roman type, initial spaces (the first supplied in later ink), some mostly marginal water-staining, spotting or light foxing, lightly browned, modern vellum, yapp edges, red morocco label to spine, folio (327 x 215mm.), Venice, [Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis], 5 November, 1491.⁂ A wide-margined copy of this rare edition at auction of Livy's Roman history. Matteo Capcasa has also been suggested as the printer, but although the types are indistinguishable the layout suggests Rubeus rather than Capcasa (Sheppard 4119).Provenance: later Dominican ink inscription to upper margin of a2. Literature: Goff L-245; H 10137; GW M18491; Bod-inc L-123; BSB-Ink L-193; ISTC il00245000.

Trade.- Merchants-Petitioners and Trustees for the Factory at Leghorn. The Answer...to the Account of Damages laid to the Charge of the Great Duke of Toscany by Sir Alexander Rigby, Mr. Will. Shepard, and Mr. Will. Plowman: together with their reply, and the Merchants-Petitioners second answer thereto..., first edition, with the additional title-page 'An humble apology to the Queen', light marginal soiling to main title, a good crisp copy in attractive contemporary pink patterned-paper boards with a design of foliage and flowers with animals, birds and hunters, rubbed and faded, corners worn, lacking most of backstrip, [Goldsmiths' 4052; Hanson 390; Kress 2408], folio, 1704.⁂ Scarce. A complex case of malpractice and commercial double-dealing in the important English business community at Leghorn (now Livorno) in Tuscany. The case involved John Pollexfen (1636-1715), the rich English merchant and political economist who was an original member of the Board of Trade (from 1696-1707), and the lawyer Sir John Cooke (1666-1710), the Advocate-General. The other players were Sir Alexander Rigby, whose trading company, Sir Alexander Rigby & Co., had been established at Leghorn in 1690, but who by 1716 was declared a bankrupt having been imprisoned for debt. The Grand Duke of Tuscany was Cosimo III de Medici (1642-1723).Scarce, with only 5 copies in UK, 5 in America and one in France.

Arab World.- [Shippard (William Henry, Captain, army officer in the 29th Regiment, 1803-65)] [Notes on the Arab World], autograph manuscript, c. 190pp., loose leaf notes, a few small tears, slightly browned, folio, loose brown wrappers, inscribed "Arabian Manuscripts of the late Captain Shippard", a few marginal tears, [c. 1830s]; and another, Shippard's autograph manuscript notes on Persia, [c. 1830s], folio (2).⁂ Subjects include: "Arab Musical Instruments"; "Progress of Arabians"; "Arab Commercial Stations"; "Baghdad"; "Morocco"; "List of Places where Arabian Coins have been found according to Lederburn"; "Cyrus"; "Odesa Steam Navigation"; "Sarmatia"; "Cambyses I"; "Assyria Media Persia"; "Caucasus"; "Observatory Meragha" etc.

Machiavelli (Niccolò) The Florentine Historie, first English edition, translated by Thomas Bedingfield, title in woodcut border with printer's device at foot, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, tiny chip to title fore-edge, first few ff. lightly browned, lacking final blank, twentieth century 'Grolier' style calf, decorative onlay and gilt, raised spine bands, gilt, [STC 17162], small folio, by T[homas] C[reede] for VV[illiam] P[onsonby], 1594.⁂ The first edition in English of Machiavelli's history of Florence, which was commissioned by the Medici family. It was first published posthumously in 1532.

Demidoff (Anatole de) Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée, atlas vol. only, half-title, 88 engraved plates and maps only (of 95), most hand-coloured, tissue-guards, scattered spotting and browning, ?ex-library with remnants of ink-stamp and ink numbers to title, small hole to title, cracked hinges, contemporary calf-backed boards, bumping to corners and spine extremities, folio, Paris, 1842.

[Cavendish (Margaret, Countess of Newcastle)] Letters and Poems in honour of the Incomparable Princess, Margaret, Dutchess of Newcastle, O2 with short marginal tear, ex-library with ink-stamp to title foot, marginal worming affecting odd letter or word, some repaired towards end, scattered faint spotting, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, [Wing L1774], folio, In the Savoy [London], by Thomas Newcombe, 1676.⁂ Scarce. ESTC lists only 4 copies in the UK, with 2 at Cambridge University, 1 at Marsh's Library and 1 at Oxford University. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), was a poet, philosopher, essayist and playwright who published under her own name at time when most women writers remained anonymous. She was the first woman to attend at meeting of the Royal Society, and an advocate of women's education. She insisted that her own works would have been even better had she been educated in the same manner as her brothers.

Krusenstern (Capt. Ivan Fedorovich) Voyage Autour du Monde, Fait dans les Années 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806, 3 vol. including the rare Atlas, first French edition, half-titles, Atlas with 21 lithographed plates and 9 engraved maps (3 folding), tissue-guards, vol. 1 with contemporary ink ownership inscription to title, text lightly browned and with a few instances of marginalia in red pencil, some light scattered foxing or spotting, uniformly bound in later calf-backed marbled boards, spines gilt with morocco labels, very lightly rubbed, Atlas spine a little sunned, an attractive set, [Sabin 38332; Hill 953], 8vo & folio, Paris, 1821.⁂ The first French edition of Krusenstern's circumnavigation, thought to be translated from the original Russian by the author. This is the only edition to include the Atlas, "very important and difficult to obtain" (Hill).

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English, translated by H.F.Cary, one of 1475 copies, printed in Monotype Blado, text in Italian and English, double-page plates from drawings by Sandro Botticelli, browning and light spotting to endpapers, original vellum stained orange, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, upper cover a little spotted, some slight splaying to covers but without the usual fading to spine, folio, Nonesuch Press, 1928

Bougainville (Hyacinthe, Baron de) Album Pittoresque de la Frégate La Thétis et de la Corvette L'Espérance, half-title, 28 lithographed plates and illustrations, all ff. mounted on stubs, plates with discreet "FB" blind-stamp (as usual), margins with occasional light damp-staining and short tears neatly repaired, text with a few small portions of marginal loss repaired, light foxing, later half calf, spine gilt but sunned, lightly rubbed, [Sabin 6874; Hill 161], large folio, Paris, 1828.⁂ The first account of Hyacinthe de Bougainville's diplomatic mission to Réunion, Cochin-China, Pondicherry, Manila and Macao, including visits to Singapore and Rio de Janeiro. This series of fine views was published nine years before the official account of the voyage.

Commonplace Book.- Shippard (William Henry, Captain, army officer in the 29th Regiment, 1803-65) Commonplace book of various countries and the ancient world, autograph manuscript signed, 123pp., Irish printers book label on front pastedown, original roan-backed marbled boards, covers slightly creased and rubbed, folio, 1832-34.⁂ Subjects include: "Of the Origin of the Arts and Sciences of the Antediluvians"; "Of the Ancient Egyptians"; extracts from the "Description de l'Egypte"; "The Chinese Language..."; "Morrisons Chinese Dictionary"; "Runes"; "Cuneiform Writing"; "Ceylon"; "Description of the Egyptian Drawings of which I have obtained copies" etc.

Edward Burne-Jones' copy.- Virgilius Maro (Publius) Opera Virgiliana cum decem commentis, collation: a6 b-q8 r6 aa-ff8; A6 B-Z8 AA-OO8 PP6 †8, double column commentary surrounding text, numerous fine woodcuts within text, woodcut decorative initials, lacking all before b1, F4&5, and †1-8 at end, marginal repairs throughout, water- / damp-stained, 19th century calf, gilt, rebacked, gilt spine in compartments, rather worn, but holding firm, folio, [Lyon], [Jean Crespin], 1529. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Provenance: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), British painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (North End Road, Fulham book label to front pastedown and ink inscription to front free endpaper 'E.Burne-Jones. London.1884'). Literature: Adams V474; Mortimer, French, 538.

Arago (Jacques) Promenade Autour du Monde, 3 vol. including Atlas, first edition, half-titles, Atlas with engraved map and 25 lithographed plates, bookplate of Carl Wendell Carlsmith to front free endpapers, scattered foxing, Atlas with portion of marginal damp-staining throughout, modern half calf, spines gilt but a little sunned, Atlas in later boards with printed paper label to spine, rubbed at spine ends and corners, uncut, text partly unopened, [Hill 28; Ferguson 850], 8vo & folio, Paris, 1822.⁂ A personal and sometimes eccentric narrative of the Freycinet circumnavigation by the voyage's official artist, written in the form of letters to a friend. Extensive portions relate to Australia, with descriptions of Sydney and the Blue Mountains. The plates largely depict individuals encountered during the voyage.

Manuscript Facsimile.- The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian. A Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Wormsley Library, 2 vol., colour illustrations, original morocco-backed cloth, vellum corner tips, t.e.g., fine, slipcases, folio, Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club, London, 2000.

Mathematics.- Euclid. Evclidis megarensis mathematici clarissimi elementorum geometricorum libri XV., translated by Bartolomeo Zamberti, woodcut printers device to title and final verso, numerous woodcut diagrams, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, obliterated ink signature to title, foxed and stained, some water-staining, lightly browned, 20th century binding using old vellum, orange leather label to spine, little stained, folio (282 x 188mm.), Basel, Johannes Herwagen & Bernhard Brand, 1558.⁂ Third Basel edition in Latin, with valuable commentaries by Theon, Campanus of Novara and Hypsicles of Alexandria. Our copy without the 3ff. of foreword by Melanchton, as often. Literature: Adams E976; Thomas-Stanford 15; VD 16 E 4157; cf. PMM 25.

Raverat (Gwendolen Mary "Gwen", pioneering woman artist and founding member of The Society of Wood Engravers, 1885-1957) Comprehensive album of 530 wood engravings, including Raverat's first wood engraving to some of her last, wood-engravings, some printed in colours, a few examples of working proofs in variant states, on various papers, all neatly tipped onto album leaves, nearly all with pencil annotations to leaves describing print titles, some dates and cost prices, all in a uniform hand, possibly that of the artist's cousin Frances Cornford, the prints of varying sizes between approx. 60 x 40 mm (2 1/4 x 1 1/2 in) and 230 x 330 mm (9 x 13 in), some associated prints presented with several to one album leaf, all leaves mounted on stubs and probably expanded and re-arranged in order, occasional handling creases and old folds, a few delicate prints with minor condition issues to extremities, inscription to front endpaper that reads 'Francis and Frances Cornford/ from GR/ July 1926, contemporary cloth, lacking spine, upper cover nearly detached, very worn, folio, circa 1909-1950Provenance:Gifted by the artist to her cousin, the poet, Frances Cornford (1886-1960) and her husband in 1926; subsequently expanded and added to by the Cornfords; then by descent to the present owners.⁂ The largest and most extensive bound collection of Raverat's wood engravings that we can trace to be offered on the art market. A unique opportunity to acquire a comprehensive collection of wood engravings, the beginnings of which were compiled by the artist herself, and later expanded by close family. The album charts her developing aesthetic over 40 years, as well as chronicling Raverat's total refinement of the wood engraving technique to express her artistic vision. Among the collection, highlight prints include: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, 1909; Child Stealers, 1909; Margaret's Ghost (ballad), 1909; Sir Thomas Browne No. 1 and No. 2, 1910; Flying, 1910; A Dream, 1910-1911; The Creation of Light (drawn by Jacques Raverat, cut by G.R.), 1912; The Storm, 1912; Poplars, 1916; Le Pelvoux (drawn by Jacques Raverat, cut by G.R.), 1918; Boys Bathing, 1919; Bathers, 1920; Bathsheba, 1920; Dancing Boys, 1920; Sleeping Beauty, 1921; Witches, 1924; Sleepers, 1927; The Bourne, 1929; Fighting Goats, 1939; Winter Morning, 1939; The Owl's parachute, [?]1940; Escure's before the War, 1946; Mill by Moonlight, 1946; Childe Rowland, in two variant states, 1947; Swans, 1946; Europa; Horses at night; and Boat Race, amongst many others.