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Basnage (Jacques). Le grand tableau de l'univers, ou, L'histoire des evenemens de l'eglise, depuis la creation du monde jusqu'a? l'apocalypse de S. Jean. Represente?e par des tailles douces. Explique?s par des remarques historiques, theologiques & morales, avec les annales de l'eglise & du monde, depuis la creation jusqu'a? la mort des apotres, & un abrege? de la geographie sacre?e, 8th edition, Amsterdam: Jaques Lindenberg, 1714, additional engraved title with near-contemporary hand-colouring heightened with gold, description leaf facing additional engraved title also with near-contemporary hand-colouring, two engraved portraits, five double-page maps, double-page plate of Jerusalem, and 82 plates (including New Testament title, many plates with two images to each, & some with text to verso), lacking leaves L2 & L3 of text, some browning and scattered spotting, few short closed tears, sewing weakening in places, endpapers renewed, contemporary gilt panelled calf, covers with a large gilt-stamped vignette of an armillary sphere raised by angels with the text "Libera nos a Malo" (Deliver us from evil), rebacked, rubbed, board edges worn and corners showing, folioQTY: (1)

Pope (Alexander). An Essay on Man. Address'd to a Friend. Part I., 1st edition, 1st issue, London: J. Wilford, [1733], together with An Essay on Man, Epistle II, London: J. Wilford, [1733], & Epistle III, London: J. Wilford, [1733], half-titles to Epistle II and III, occasional light dust-soiling, some leaves frayed and worn to edges, stitched as issued, Part I & Epistle II in original wrappers, covers worn and Epistle II covers detached, Epistle III without covers, folio (Foxon P822, P833 & P840), together with:Pope (Alexander), Of the Characters of Women: an Epistle to a Lady, London: Printed by J. Wright, for L. Gilliver, 1735, half-title, publisher's advert leaf after author's advertisement (B1), few minor marks, disbound, slim folio (Griffith 361, variant b),[Whitehead, Paul], The State Dunces: Inscrib’d to Mr. Pope, London: Printed for J. Dickenson in Witch-Street, [1733], [2],17,[1]p., short closed tear to final leaf, light dust-soiling and minor marks, disbound, folio (Foxon W427. In this edition p.[18] is blank and sig. F1 is signed)QTY: (5)

Chambers (Ephraim). Cyclopaedia: or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 5 volumes, London: J.F & C. Rivington, A. Hamilton [& others], 1786-89, engraved frontispiece to volume 1, 145 engraved plates contained in final volume (few folding), few leaves of specimen type and printing (two folding), occasional light marginal damp stains to few leaves, contemporary diced calf, gilt decorated spines and borders to boards, head and foot of spines torn, wear to extremities, folioQTY: (5)

Symonds (Thomas, of Merton College, Oxford). Adversaria Historica, Critica, Philologica, Moralia, &c. [so titled at front], original manuscript, late 18th & early 19th century, including transcriptions of texts on history, law, philosophy, theology, epigrams, poetry, etc., the final 10 leaves containing receipts for wines, mead, ink, cures for distemper in dogs, the bite of a viper, mange, etc., index at rear, a total of approximately 350 pages in a legible hand with a few diagrams, a few leaves detached, author's ownership name inscription to front pastedown, contemporary reversed half calf over marbled boards, some wear, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Symonds Thomas (1773-1845), antiquary and vicar of Eynsham, Oxon. Matriculated Merton College, 1 December 1790, BA 1794, MA 1797; vicar of Eynsham, Oxon, 1826, and Stanton Harcourt, 1827, until his death (Alumni Oxonienses).

Beebe (William). A Monograph of the Pheasants, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Witherby & Co, 1918-1922, 90 chromolithograph or collotype plates, 88 photogravures, captioned tissue guards, 20 maps, occasional spotting, modern red half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, folio, 451 of 600 copiesQTY: (4)NOTE:Nissen IVB p.84; Wood p.228; Zimmer I, p.49.

Folio Society. The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours, MS 1058-1975, 2009, fine colour facsimile manuscript, all edges gilt, original full gilt decorated blue silk brocade by Smith Settle, with separate volume of commentary by Stella Panayotova bound in quarter cloth, 8vo, both volumes contained together in blue cloth solander box with gilt lettering to spine, box measures 23 x 16.2 x 6.8 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition 1157/1180.

Whatman (James). Specimen book of James Whatman handmade paper, W. & R. Balston Ltd., Springfield Mills, Maidstone, Kent, 1931, printed in red and black, one tipped-in plate heightened with gold, 4 signed etchings, original printed boards in torn glassine dust jacket, small folio, together with:Balston (Thomas), William Balston, Paper Maker, 1759-1849, 1st edition, 1954, black & white plates, original cloth in dust jacket, a little spotted and toned, 8vo, plus Balston (Thomas, editor), The Housekeeping Book of Susanna Whatman, 1776-1800, 1st edition, 1956, portrait frontispiece, wood engravings by Frank Martin, some spotting, original parchment boards lettered in blue and gilt, glassine dust jacket, small 8voQTY: (3)

Foster (Myles Birket). Pictures of English Landscape. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. India Proofs [1863], 30 wood engravings on india paper, mounted on card, with title page, some scattered spotting, mostly to margins, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated brown crushed full morocco, inside gilt dentelles, a little rubbed to edges, folio (52.5 x 40.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:A presentation copy from the engravers to the artist himself, inscribed in brown ink to blank leaf before title 'To Birket Foster Esq. with the kind regards of The Brothers Dalziel, Apl 29th 1863', with the artist's bookplate to front pastedown. Exceptionally fine engraver's proof impressions after Birket Foster's landscape views, mostly of Surrey where the artist had moved in that same year.

Foster (Myles Birket). Pictures of English Landscape, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, with pictures in words by Tom Taylor, india proofs, presentation copy, London: George Routledge and Sons, [1881], presentation copy, inscribed by Birket Foster ' Capt. C.G. Nelson. R.N. from Birket Foster, 14th Feb. 1885' to half-title upper margin, 30 engraved plates on india, occasional spotting, offset, original cream paper boards gilt, rubbed & marked, some wear to spine extremities, folio, one of 1000 copies QTY: (1)

Foster (Myles Birket). Poems by Thomas Hood, London: E. Moxon, Son & Co, 1872, 22 engraved plates by Birket Foster, contemporary gift inscription to front blank, small ownership ticket of A.B. Blackburn to front pastedown, a few light spots, near-contemporary red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, thick raised bands finished in gilt, elaborate gilt devices to spine compartments, broad gilt turn-ins, some wear to extremities, 4to, together with:Summer Scenes, a series of photographs from some of his choicest water colour drawings, London: Bell and Daldy, 1867, ALS from Birket Foster mounted to front blank, 15 photographic plates, spotting, contemporary blue morocco gilt, some wear, 4to, withPictures of English Landscape, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, with pictures in words by Tom Taylor, India proofs, presentation copy, London: George Routledge and Sons, [1881], 30 engraved plates on india, original cream paper boards gilt, rubbed & marked, some wear to spine extremities, folio, 804 of 1000 copies, with 7 others, many by or associated with Birket FosterQTY: (10)

Hogarth (William). The Works, from the Original Plates restored by James Heath. With the Addition of Many Subjects not before collected: to which are prefixed, a Biographical Essay on the Genius and Productions of Hogarth, and Explanations of the Subjects of the Plates, by John Nichols, London: for Baldwin and Cradock by G. Woodfall, circa 1835, portrait frontispiece, engraved title, frontispiece offset on to title page, 116 (complete) uncoloured engraved plates, many plates with multiple images, occasional marginal closed handling tears, "Company of Undertakers" with long closed tear and another repaired closed tear, "Night" and "The Politician" with long closed repaired tears and "England plate 2" with long closed tear, some spotting throughout, front endpapers creased, hinges and joints weak with the upper board near detached, upper hinge crudely repaired, contemporary half calf with gilt decorated spine, lower board and marbled sidings torn with loss, heavily frayed, large folio (685 x 530 mm)QTY: (1)

Hondius (Hendrik). Les Cinq Rangs de l'Architecture, a scavoir Tuscane, Dorique, Ionique, Corinthiaque, Amsterdam: J. Jansson, 1617, title with woodcut vignette, 30 double-page engraved plates (complete), a few tears and repairs to plates, plate KK right side laid down, some toning and water stains, contemporary annotations in French to endpapers, later sheep, some wear at spine ends, a few stains, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Berlin Kat 2221; Cicognara pp. 745-747; Fowler 434. First edition in French, first published in Antwerp in 1565.

Paine (James). Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Houses, and also of stabling, bridges, public and private, temples and other garden buildings; executed In the counties of Derby, Durham, Middlesex, Northumberland, Nottingham, and York. By James Paine, Architect, One of the Directors of the Society of Artists of Great-Britain. Part the first. Illustrated by seventy-four large folio plates, London: Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; Mr. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Mr. Brotherton, Cornhill; Mr. Webley, near Chancery-Lane, Holborn; and at the author’s house, Salisbury-Street, Strand, 1767, 55 engraved plates numbered I-LXXIV (complete, comprising 36 single-page and 19 double-page which are given 2 numbers each), list of subscribers, bookplates of Richard Henry Roundell & John Currer de Kildwick Arm to front pastedown, occasional light spotting & offsetting, hinges cracked, contemporary speckled calf gilt, red morocco title label, spine separated into 8 compartments by raised bands, 7 compartments with elaborate gilt foliate decoration, some wear, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC T135969; Archer 243.1; Fowler 207; Harris 664.The first edition of architectural designs by James Paine (1717-1789), including Chatsworth, Sandbeck, and Axwell Park. Volume two appeared in 1783, accompanied by the second edition of volume one.

Telford (Thomas). Atlas to the life of Thomas Telford, civil engineer, containing eighty-three copper plates, illustrative of his professional labours, 1st edition, London: Payne and Foss, 1838, 82 plates (plate 28 unissued), spotted, some leaves damp-stained (with some damp-mottling), contemporary half calf, black morocco title labels lettered in gilt to boards, lacking backstrip, boards loose, folioQTY: (1)

Botany. An album containing approximately 285 watercolour drawings, circa 1850, 285 watercolours on 120 sheets, with manuscript Latin titles and source of each specimen, each drawing tipped onto an album sheet, some sheets with multiple images, mounted back-to-back, mid 20th century ownership signature to the front endpaper, hinges and joints weak, some ink staining to the foredge, contemporary half morocco gilt, spine partially detached, worn and rubbed, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:The watercolours each have a date and place of discovery, including Bantry Bay, Lyme Regis, Canterbury, Jersey, Deal, Ragland Castle, Hamstead Heath and Dinton (Wiltshire).

Frohawk (F. W.). Natural History of British Butterflies..., 2 volumes, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1924, 60 colour plates plus monochrome plates, some minor spotting, original uniform blue cloth with dust jackets, volume 1 dust jacket in pieces but present, volume 2 dust jacket rubbed with some tears & loss, folio, together with:Pennant (Thomas), British Zoology, 4 volumes, a new edition, London: printed for Wilkie and Robinson, 1812, numerous monochrome illustrations, period inscription to the head of volume 1 title page, some light spotting & toning, later endpapers, top edges gilt, rebound in later white cloth with calf spine labels, boards & spines slightly toned & marked, includes a loose period hand written letter in volume 1, 8vo, plusGambado (Geoffrey), An Academy for Grown Horsemen; containing the completest instructions..., 3rd editon, London: printed for W. Nicholson, 1808, monochrome copper plates, bookplate to the front pastedown, repaired tear to the frontispiece, some light marginal toning, later gilt decorated & embossed full calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed, folio, and other 19th & early 20th-century natural history reference, including A Natural History of British Moths, by F. O. Morris, 4 volumes, 3rd edition, London: John C. Nimmo, 1891, original uniform gilt decorated green cloth, 8vo, & Sporting Magazine, a broken run of 19 volumes, 1858-70, all in contemporary uniform half calf, 8vo, some leather bindings, some original cloth, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio QTY: (3 shelves)

Brown (Leslie H., Emil K. Urban & Kenneth Newman). The Birds of Africa, 6 volumes, 1st editions, London: Academic Press, 1982-2000, numerous colour plates, original cloth in dust jackets, spines slightly faded, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, folio, together with:Stuart Baker (E. C.), The Indian Ducks and their Allies, London: The Bombay Natural History Society, 1908, 30 colour plates, some spotting & minor toning, top edge gilt, contemporary half morocco, spine faded, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plusMorris (F. O.), A History of British Birds, 6 volumes, 5th edition, London: John C. Nimmo, 1903, numerous hand coloured plates, some minor marginal toning, top edges gilt, original uniform gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other 19th-century & modern ornithology reference, including A History of British Birds, indigenous and migratory:..., 5 volumes, by William Macgillivray, London: printed for Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1837-52, contemporary uniform embossed brown cloth, 8vo, some leather binding, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (5 shelves)

Berg (Bengt). Birds of the North, 1st edition, Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1925, signed & inscribed by the author 'To the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Grey of Fallodon...' to the front endpaper, 60 monochrome plates, some light marginal toning, original boards with cloth spine, boards slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, folio, together with other modern natural history reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Wilson (Timothy). The Golden Age of Italian Maiolica-Painting, catalogue of a private collection, 1st edition, Turin: Allemandi, 2018, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers very lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, together with:Bromberg (Ruth), Canaletto's Etching, revised and enlarged edition of the catalogue raisonné, San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1993, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, small mark to the front cover, large 8vo, plusFried (Michael), The Moment of Caravaggio, 1st edition, Princeton: University Press, 2010, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4toAfter Caravaggio, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, andNorman (Diana, editor), Siena, Florence and Padua, art, society and religion 1280-1400, 2 volumes, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, both in original wrappers, large 8vo, plus other Italian Renaissance & Old Master art reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Tovell (Ruth Massey). Flemish Artists of the Valois Court, 1st edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1950, signed by the author to the half-title, 10 colour plates plus 49 monochrome illustrations, some minor toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers very lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, together with:Borenius (Tancred), The Leverton Harris Collection, London: privately printed, 1931, 5 colour & 31 monochrome plates, original quarter vellum to blue cloth boards, slightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, plusCentro Di, publisher, Gli Uffizi, catalogo generale, 2nd edition, Firenze, 1980, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket & slipcase, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, folio, and other art reference & related, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Humphreys (Henry Noel). A Record of the Black Prince, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849, title in red and black, six chromolithograph illustrations (4 full-page), decorative initials, text in red and black, gutta-percha perished and contents detached, all edges gilt, original papier-mâché boards illustrating the Black Prince's coat of arms, rebacked, board corners chipped and worn, 8vo, together with:Barber (John Thomas), A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire. Comprehending a General Survey..., 1st edition, London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1803, twenty sepia aquatint plates (including frontispiece), folding hand-coloured engraved map, some offsetting to text, contemporary gilt decorated diced calf, slight wear to upper joint, spine faded, 8vo,M'Leod (John), Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, to China, Corea and the Island of Lewchew: with an account of her shipwreck, 3rd edition, London: John Murray, 1819, engraved portrait frontispiece, five hand-coloured aquatint plates and folding engraved map, occasional spotting, edges untrimmed, modern navy half morocco, 8vo, plus other 18th & 19th-century antiquarian etc., including The North Briton, from No.I to No. XLVI..., [with appendix], London: W. Bingley, 1769, contemporary half calf, joints cracked, folioQTY: (3 shelves)

Twyman (Michael). Lithography 1800-1850, 1st edition, London: Oxford University Press, 1970, monochrome illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with:Zigrosser (Carl), The Expressionists, a survey of their graphic art, 1st edition, London: Thames and Hudson, 1957, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, some minor marks, original cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed with some small tears & loss, large 8vo, plusMatrix, A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles, Number 26, The Whittington Press, Winter 2006, colour & monochrome plates & illustrations, original boards in wrappers, large 8vo, and other art & printing reference & related, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves & a carton)

Macoun (John). Manitoba and teh Great North West, 1st edition, Ontario: The World Publishing Comapny, 1882, folding panarama frontispiece, 3 folding maps plus monochrome plates, front endpapers partially detached, front & rear gutters cracked, blind stamp to the foot of the title page, some light toning & spotting throughout, original gilt decorated red cloth, spine partially detached, boards & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with:Yriarte (Charles), Florence, l'histoire, les médicis, les humanistes, les lettres, les arts, 2nd edition, Paris: J. Rothschild, 1881, numerous monochrome plates & illustrations, previous owner inscription to the half-title, some light spotting, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, folio, plusAngelo (Sydney & Anthony Wagner), The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster, a collotype reproduction of the manuscript, 2 volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968, 23 monochrome plates, some light spotting, original cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, 8vo/oblong 4to, and other 19th-century & modern North American & European travel reference & related, mostly original cloth,some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Gilpin (William). Observations on the Western Parts of England, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, London: printed for T. Cadell, 1798, 18 monochrome plates, modern endpapers, some light spotting & marginal toning throughout, modern gilt decorated half calf with a red morocco spine label, 8vo, together with:Pratt (Anne), The Ferns of Great Britain, and their Allies the club-mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, circa 1887, numerous colour plates & monochrome illustrations, front endpaper through to the frontispiece detached, some marginal toning & spotting, contemporary gilt decorated green full calf, boards & spine rubbed, spine faded with some small loss to head & foot, 8vo, andHatton (Edward), A New View of London; or, an ample account of that city, 2 volumes bound in 1, London: printed for R. Chiswell et al, 1708, engraved frontispiece & 3 folding plates, modern endpapers, some light toning throughout, modern half calf with a red morocco spine, 8vo, plus a 20th-century facsimile of A Declaration of the State of the Colonie and Affaires in Virginia with the names of the adventurors, and surnames adventured in that action, London: printed by T. S. 1620, [but later 20th-c. facsimile], 39 pages, some marks, offsetting & toning throughout, 20th c. gilt decorated full morocco, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian literature & bookbinding reference & related, some leather bindings, some odd volumes, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, some volumes broken & incomplete, sold as seen not subject to return, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves & a carton)

Antiquarian. A large collection of mostly 19th-century literature & reference, some odd volumes, some French language, mostly contemporary leather bindings, some rebound in modern cloth, overall condition is generally fair/good, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Delacour (Jean & Dean Amadon). Curassows and Related Birds, 1st edition, New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1973, signed & inscribed by one of the artists (Albert Earl Gilbert), numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, together with:Snow (D. W., editor), Proceedings of the XIV International Ornithological Congress, Oxford 24-30 July 1966, 1st edition, Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Society Publications, 1967, original cloth in dust jacket, covers & spine slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, includes a typed & signed letter to Robert Gillmor from Nikolaas Tinbergen (the Nobel Prize winning Dutch biologist) dated 15th November 1967, plusVon Frisch (Karl), The Dancing Bees, an account of the life and sense of the honey bee, 1st English edition, London: Methuen & C0. 1954, monochrome illustrations, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper, some minor toning, original cloth in dust jacket, spine faded, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other modern natural history reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Hancock (James A. et al). Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World, 1st edition, London: Academic Press, 1992, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, together with:Nelson (J. Bryan), The Sulidae, Gannets and Boobies, 1st edition, Oxford: University Press, 1978, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed with some small tears to head & foot, large 8vo, plusFerguson-Lees (James et al), Birds of Wiltshire..., 1st edition, Devizes: Wiltshire Ornithological Society, 2007, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, some minor marks to the front cover, 8vo, andTaylor (Moss et al), The Birds of Norfolk, 1st edition, East Sussex: Pica Press, 1999, colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus other modern academic ornithology reference & related, including publications by T. & A. D. Poyser, Helm, the universities of Oxford & Cambridge, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (2 shelves)

Simms (Eric). A Natural History of British Birds, 1st edition, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1983, numerous monochrome illustrations by Robert Gillmor, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with:Pitman (Ian), And Clouds Flying, a book of wild fowl, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1947, 1 colour & 8 monochrome illustrations by Peter Scott, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plusBratby (Michael & Peter Scott), Through the Air, adventures with wild fowl and small-boat sailing, 1st edition, London: Country Life, 1941, 21 monochrome illustrations, some light toning throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other modern natural history reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (5 shelves)

Alighieri (Dante). La Divina Commedia or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English, London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928, 'trial copy' starting at pp.225, monochrome prints, numerous blank leaves, some light spotting & toning, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated orange vellum, spine faded & lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, together with:Farrer (Reginald), In Old Ceylon, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, 16 monochrome plates, original gilt decorated blue cloth, 'File Copy' label t the front board, lightly rubbed 8vo, plus Green (W. T., editor), Notes on Cage Birds: (second series) or practical hints...by various hands, London: L. Upcott Gill, 1899, monochrome illustrations, advertisements to the front & rear, some marginal toning, original gilt decorated light blue cloth, boards & spine rubbed, 8vo, andWislinzenus (A.), Memoir of A Tour to Northern Mexico, connected with Col. Doniphan's Expedition in 1846 and 1847 [Miscellaneous No. 26], 1st edition, Washington: Tippin & Streeper, 1848, 3 folding maps, modern endpapers, spotting & toning throughout, bound in later red morocco to marbled boards, spine rubbed, thin 8vo, plus other miscellaneous literature & reference, including poultry, travel, military, illustrated literature, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Hall (Mr and Mrs S. C.). The Book of the Thames, from its rise to its fall, new edition, London: J. S. Virtue and Company, circa 1877, monochrome illustrations, prize bookplate to the front pastedown, front gutter cracked, light marginal toning, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with:Mrs Brassey, A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam'..., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878, Sunshine and Storm in the East,..., 1880, The Last Voyage, 1889, folding maps, numerous monochrome illustrations, all ex-library copies with associated marks & stamps, modern endpapers, some light toning, all edges gilt, uniform modern gilt decorated red half morocco amateur binding, 8vo, plusSwift (Jonathan), A Tale of a Tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind, 10th edition, London: printed for Charles Bathurst, 1743, 7 engraved plates, period inscription to the verso of the frontispiece, some toning & light wear, modern endpapers, modern half calf amateur binding, 8vo, and other miscellaneous literature, some amateur leather & cloth bindings, many original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves)

Jay (Leonard). Letters of the Famous 18th Century Printer John Baskerville of Birmingham together with a bibliography of works printed by him at Birmingham, Birmingham: School of Printing, 1932, black & white portrait frontispiece, top edge gilt, later gilt decorated brown morocco bound by Hugh D. G. Burkitt, 8vo, together with:Rummonds (Richard-Gabriel), Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2004, monochrome illustrations, original uniform cloth in dust jackets, some minor rubbing to the head & foot of the covers, large 8vo, plusRhodes (Barbara & William Wells Streeter), Before Photocopying, the art & history of mechanical copying 1780-1938, 1st edition, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1999, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, folio, and other modern bookbinding reference & related, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves)

Jaffé (Michael). Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Macdonald, 1966, numerous monochrome illustrations, volume 1 front gutter cracked, original uniform cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, folio, together with:Serena (Raffaella), Embroideries and Patterns from 19th century Vienna, London: Antique Collectors' Club, 1998, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, small tear to the head of the front cover, large 4to, plusKoreny (Fritz), Albrech Dürer and the Animal and Plant Studies of the Renaissance, 1st U.S. edition, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, some minor spotting to the text block, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, andKallir (Jane), Grandma Moses in the 21st Century, 1st edition, New York: Art Services International, 2001, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other art & antiques reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Yale University Press, publisher. Sir William Chambers, Architect to George III, edited by John Harris & Michael Snodin, 1st edition, New Haven, 1996, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4toWorldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings, architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India, by Tamara I. Sears, 1st edition, 2014, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4toThe Tradition of Indian Architecture, continuity, controversy and change since 1850, by G. H. R Tillotson, 1st edition, 1989, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to the head, 4to, together with:Weaver (Lawrence), Houses and Gardens by E. L. Lutyens, reprinted, London: Antique Collectors' Club, 1998, numerous monochrome illustrations, ex-libris stamp to the half-title, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, large 8vo, plus other modern architecture reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves & a carton)

Kirby (W.F.) European Butterflies and Moths, London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882, 61 hand-coloured lithograph plates, 1 uncoloured plate, occasional light spotting and offsetting, contemporary presentation inscription to title, contemporary half calf, some worming to spine ends, some edge wear and stains, 4to, together with Frohawk (F.W.) Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 volumes, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1925], 60 colour plates, 5 half-tone plates, occasional light spotting, original blue cloth, spine ends rubbed, some light fading, folio QTY: (3)

Macgillivray (William). The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History, and of the Physical Sciences with the Animal Kingdom of the Baron Cuvier, 7 parts in 2 volumes, [all published], Edinburgh: published for the proprietor, 1835-40, 130 hand-coloured engraved plates (complete), plate 74 "Merops" in part C incorrectly listed as plate 94, occasional light spotting, original cloth-backed printed boards, some spotting to covers, light edge wear, folio QTY: (7)

Meinertzhagen (Richard). Nicoll's Birds of Egypt, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hugh Rees, 1930, portrait frontispiece to volume I, 3 folding colour maps, 37 colour and photogravure plates, endpapers a little toned, bookplates of Oswald James Finney original green cloth gilt, a few small marks, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Anker 363; Nissen IVB 675.

Millais (J.G). The Natural History of British Game Birds, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1909, 36 plates (18 colour) by Millais and Thorburn, original red quarter cloth gilt, top edge gilt, rubbed, backstrips faded, folio, together with:Thorburn (Archibald). Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1923, 38 colour plates (with tissue-guards), lightly spotted & toned, original red cloth gilt, rubbed, 4toQTY: (3)

Sander (Frederick). Reichenbachia. Orchids Illustrated and Described, 4 volumes in 10, London: H. Sotheran & Co., Saint Albans: F. Sander & Co.,1888-1894, 192 chromolithographed plates mounted on card after Henry Moon, W.H. Fitch, A.H. Loch and C. Storer, accompanying text leaves in English, French & German, further wood-engraved illustrations to text, lightly spotted, one plate offset, lacking half-titles, later half brown morocco gilt, heavily worn with loss, atlas folio, one of 100 copies on Whatman paperQTY: (10)NOTE:Great Flower Books p. 75; Nissen BBI 1722; Stafleu & Cowan 10.219.Widely regarded as the greatest book on orchids ever produced. The project was immensely expensive, almost bankrupting Sander.

Sargent (Charles Sprague). The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees Which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico, 14 volumes, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891-1902, engraved plates throughout (tissue-guarded), bookplates to front pastedown & front free endpaper, occasional staining, a few library blindstamps, original publisher's paper boards, printed paper title labels to spine, worn with some loss to spines, a few volumes damp-stained to spines, volume XIV with library numbers to spine bases, folioQTY: (14)NOTE:Nissen BBI 1728.

FOLIO SOCIETY; a quantity of books to include boxed sets, Bronte Sisters 'Shirley', 'The Professor', 'Villette', 'Wuthering Heights', 'Agnes Grey' and 'Jane Eyre', 'Cream of Noel Coward', 'The Plums of P.G. Wodehouse', 'The Wit of Oscar Wilde', 'The Best After Dinner Stories', 'Sherlock Holmes Selected Stories', 'Brideshead Revisited', 'A Book of Travellers' Tales', Eric Newby, 'Memoirs of a British Agent', R H Bruce Lockheart, and others.

FOLIO SOCIETY; a group of historical interest books to include boxed sets, Gibbon 'Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire', 'Domesday Book', 'First Crusade', 'Spanish Inquisition', 'Black Death', 'Napoleon', 'Pevsner', 'Culloden', 'Glencoe', 'Trafalgar' and others (2).

FOLIO SOCIETY; a group of books to include boxed historical sets, Winston Churchill, WWII, WWI, Seven Years' War, etc.

FOLIO SOCIETY; a group of books relating to exploration and science to include, 'Captain Cook's Voyages', 'Lewis and Clark', 'William Russell of the Times', 'Raj', Henry Moreton Stanley, Charles Darwin, etc.

FOLIO SOCIETY; a group of books to include boxed sets of historical interest, 'The Waning of the Middle Ages', 'The High Middle Ages', 'The Crucible of the Middle Ages', 'The Making of the Middle Ages', and 'The Birth of the Middle Ages', 'Genghis Khan', 'History of the Indians of the United States', 'The Greek Myths', 'Russian Short Stories' and others.Condition Report: I have checked a couple of the books and I get the impression it is the first time they have been removed from the sleeves and have no inscriptions.

FOLIO SOCIETY; two boxed sets, William Shakespeare, 'The Complete Plays' eight volumes (2).

After L Armstrong, a group unframed Spanish costume prints, mainly showing figures dancing. Folio not included. 33x47cm approx. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Box of antiquarian books to include: large half Moroccan bound Webster's Dictionary 1880, published by London George Bell & Sons, 'Thompson's Gardener's Assistant', New Edition, quarter calf bound, illustrated, 1810, a folio of antique piano music: 'A collection of 100 favourite English, Scotch & Irish airs', 'The ABC short tutor for pianoforte' etc, 'Elements of History', 'Barclay's English Dictionary', leather bound copy of Welsh bible etc. (B.P. 21% + VAT) All books have some damage to the binding.

Folio of early 20th/late 19th Century sheet music to include: Ausgewahlte Sonata in pianoforte von Joseph Haydn, 'Halle's Musical Library, favourite Rondos', Schubert, Selection from Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan's opera the Gondoliers for the pianoforte, 'First set of 60 voluntaries arranged for the harmonium by J.W Elliott', 'Faust', 'Five songs with German and English words, Songs by E. Lassen', 'Studies and pieces for the pianoforte' Royal Academy of Music 1903, 'Seven Voluntaries for the Organ' 1899 etc.(B.P. 21% + VAT)

DAVID NEAVE; SMALL GROUP OF ITEMS FROM AN OLD FOLIO COLLECTION; A VIEW OF MARTINHOE COMMON, NORTH DEVON, WATERCOLOUR SIGNED & INSCRIBED, TOGETHER WITH A LARGER WATERCOLOUR VIEW OF NORTH DEVON, ALSO 2 PENCIL DRAWINGS OF TOPSHAM C1919, LARGEST 11 X 15” [4]

Seven clothbound Folio society books of various subjects, including two A History of England, England under the Tudors and England under the Stuarts, Rudyard Kipling Short stories and the Wit of Oscar Wilde.

Soviet Political Posters, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1973,a complete folio group, nos 1 - 32, in original folio with catalogue, 41 x 30cm overall.

Antiquarian Calamy, Edmond "An Account of the Minsters, Lecturers, Masters and Fellows of Colleges and Schoolmasters who were Ejected or Silenced after the Restoration in 1660 by, or before, the Act for Uniformity ...", 2nd edition, vol 2 only, London printed for J. Lawrence in the Poultry, etc 1713, contemporary ink inscription dated 1713 on ffep and on verso another dated 1812(?), remains of what appeared to have been a wax seal on ffep, front hinge cracked, contemporary full leather binding, with blind tooled panel and speckled calf Johnson, Samuel"A Dictionary of the English Language ... Abstracted from the Folio Edition", vol 1 only, printed for J Knapton 1756, hinges cracked, some foxing, front board and initial pages detaching, full contemporary leather, backstrip leather cracked, the whole rather wornBailey, N"A Universal Etymological English Dictionary ...", London printed for E Bell, J Darby ..., etc, 1721, woodcut header to the preface which is in Latin, front board and back boards detached, full calf with blind tooled panel to front and back board (3) 

BRANDT NICK.  A Shadow Falls. Signed ltd. ed. 65/150. Forewords by Vicki Goldberg & Peter Singer. Fine & evocative double-page, single page & other photographic illus. Oblong folio. Dark brds. in photo-pictorial d.w., contained in a rectangular black cloth clamshell box with slipped in original limited edition 9/75 photograph of an elephant, pencil signed by Brandt & dated 2008. Abrams, New York, 2009. Some marks and fading to box. Print has crease down right hand side, just in from margin, from slipping in box when shut and catching in fold. Book has good clean dust wrapper. Generally very good clean condition but small dent to bottom of back board and crease to bottom edge of back of dustwrapper.

'The Engravings of Eric Gill’, Wellingborough, Christopher Skelton, 1983, limited edition, (1350), profusely illustrated throughout with Gill wood engravings, typefaces etc, xxiv,545,[2]pp., folio, finely rebound full decorative navy blue and cream morocco gilt, spine skilfully titled in decorative gilt, replenished marbled paper end papers and front pastedowns

(Edward Bawden, Illustrated, Typography), a collection of illustrated titles including 'The Histories of Herodotus', Heritage Press, 1958, 2 volumes, numerous full page & in text colour illsutrations and decorations by Edward Bawden throughout, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, slipcases; plus Folio Society titles illustrated by Bawden including 'Vathek', 'The Discovery & conquest of Peru' & 3 vol set in slipcase 'Malory's Chronicles of King Arthur'; plus five Heritage Press illustrated titles in slipcases, plus others Paul Nash, John Buckland Wright, Rowland Emmett, Bernard Meninsky, Joan Hassall, Clare Leighton, Mervyn Peake, John Farleigh etc (23 vols)

(Calligraphy, Typography, Biagio and Constantino Santerini), 'La Moderna Coltura Calligrafica', Bologna, Raffaele Radisini, 1840, 26 engraved plates as called for, comprising engraved dedication plate, descriptive plate & 24 further engraved plates, the designs by Fratelli Santerini (i.e. Biagio & Constantino Santerini) and engraved by Raffaele Radisini, large oblong folio (sheets approx 43 x 54cm), contemporary half calf, marbled paper covered boards (worn)

J.G. Lubbock: 'The Sphere of Rocks and Water', London, Bertram Rota, 1983, limited edition, one of 80 copies only, this copy numbered 19 and signed by Lubbock to the limitation page, designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, 10 colour plates by Lubbock as called for (mainly double page), each tissue guarded and printed from copper-plates worked by aquatint, etching, and engraving, 50pp, folio, original quarter blue morocco gilt over blue pictorial cloth gilt by George Percival at Leicester, top edge gilt, others uncut, original acetate dust wrapper, original patterned paper covered slipcase. Joseph Guy Lubbock (1915-1929) moved to Suffolk in 1963, around the time he turned his full attention to painting and writing. His work drew on the beauty of the Suffolk landscape of his home near Woodbridge: the river, reed beds and marshes, the shingle banks and beaches. His travels to the remoter parts of the world, including the Himalayas, the Galapagos Islands and the Antarctic, were also a great influence on his work

Six Nonesuch Press titles, including Mariette Lydis (illustrated); George Hamilton (edited): 'The Greek Portrait', London, Nonesuch Press, 1934, limited edition (314/425), numbered, designed by Francis Meynell, 3 collotype plates by Mariette Lydis, each with acetate guards as called for, original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, slipcase; M.R.H. Farrar (illustrated); John Milton & Henry Lawes: 'The Mask of Comus', L, Nonesuch, 1937, limited edition (268/950), numbered, 5 colour plates (including frontis) and colour title vignette printed from the linoleum cuts of the artist M.R.H.Farrar by the Curwen press as called for, ex library (small number unobtrusive marks at front, else leaves clean/vgc, no other lib markings), folio, orig. blindstamped paper covered boards gilt (slightly worn); James Thomson: 'The Seasons', L, Nonesuch, 1927, limited edition (198/1500), numbered, 5 copper engraved plates & title page vignette as called for, watercoloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, 4to, orig. marbled cloth, leather gilt title label to spine; plus 'The Mistress With Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667', Nonesuch, 1926, (1037/1050), orig. polished buckram, 'Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne', Nonesuch, 1923, (493/645), orig. patterned paper covered boards, dust wrapper, plus 1 other (6)

(Barnett Freedman), Leo Tolstoy: 'Anna Karenina', Printed at Cambridge University Press for The Limited Editions Club, 1951, limited edition (469/1500), numbered & signed by the illustrator Barnett Freedman, 2 volumes, decorated title pages, ornamental tailpieces + numerous full page colour lithograph illustrations by Freedman as called for (including end papers and pastedowns), the ills. drawn on stone by Freedman and printed at the Curwen Press, original pictorial cloth gilt (designed by Freedman), top edges gilt, orig. slipcase with printed paper label; Charlotte Bronte: 'Jane Eyre', NY, Heritage Press, 1942, full page colour lithographs, end papers, pastedowns by Barnett Freedman, orig. pictorial cloth gilt (by Freedman), slipcase; Dickens: 'Oliver Twist', NY, Heritage Press, 1939, 8 colour plates + in text b/w ills. by Barnett Freedman as called for, orig. pictorial cloth gilt (by Freedman), slipcase with pictorial labels to covers; plus Walter De La Mare 'Ghost Stories', L, Folio Society, 1956, full page colour litho plates and original cloth gilt by Barnett Freedman; plus 1 other Folio Society title illustrated by Freedman (6)

W. Heath Robinson: 'Some Frightful War Pictures', London, Duckworth, 1915, 1st edition, 24 black & white plates as called for, folio, professionally recased cloth retaining original pictorial paper, end papers professionally reinforced/laid down on later paper, later printed title label to spine