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Thomas Bankes: 'A New, Royal, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern', London, J. Cooke, circa 1790, a/f, lacks all before p.57, many leaves & plates creased/with marginal closed tears/mainly marginal part losses/some leaves loose etc, 19 engraved maps + 79 engraved plates, comprising 10 folding maps, 9 single page maps, 13 plates each with a full page illustration, 60 plates each with two half page illustrations & 1 plate with four quarter page illustrations, includes content/plates Captain Cook's voyages and discoveries/Pacific Ocean, from chapter IX, p.59 onwards, including Otaheite, Society Islands, Marquesas, Easter Island, Sandwich Islands etc, 988pp + list of subscribers, folio, dilapidated contemporary calf, sold with all faults not subject to return

A.K. & G.H. Johnston: 'The Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography', Edinburgh & London, W. & A.K. Johnston Ltd, 1912, 2 folding colour charts of North & South Poles at front + 59 double page colour maps as called for, folio, original half morocco gilt (slightly rubbed and worn), all edges gilt

(Mappa Mundi), P.D.A. Harvey & Scott D. Westrem: 'The Hereford World Map', London, The Folio Society, 2010, 2 volumes, comprising Introduction, colour frontis & colour ills. throughout of the Hereford Mappa Mundi, 108pp; Commentary, 2 black & white plates + 12 colour plates showing sections of the Mappa Mundi, lvii,476pp, each 4to, original pictorial blue buckram gilt, Merida end papers, ribbon page markers, slipcases. The two companion volumes (only), produced to accompany the Folio Society limited edition facsimile of the Hereford World Map issued in 2010 (2)

'King Henry's Map of the British Isles', The Folio Society, 2009, limited edition (2,750), facsimile map, reproduced from Cotton MS Augustus I.i 9 in the British Library and printed on Neobond (a high quality simulation vellum), approx size 63 x 46cm, silk ribbon tie, housed in original velvet lined decorative blue cloth gilt map box, printed paper label inside lid, metal clasp, together with the companion commentary volume by Peter Barber, Folio Society, 2009, 48 colour illustrations (of which 3 double page) as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, slipcase. A Superb Facsimile of the King's personal map, produced by the Folio Society to commemorate the quincentenary of Henry VIII's accession. This historic map of Britain, Angliae Figura, hung on the walls of Hampton Court Palace, where its owner, King Henry VIII, would have consulted it frequently. Now a treasure of the British Library, it is the most important manuscript map of Britain created during Henry's reign. (2)

Franklin Hudson: 'The Brasses of Northamptonshire', London, Thomas McLean, 1853, 1st edition, 94 lithograph plates printed in grey, gold and black (of which 20 double page/folding), folio, original blindstamped cloth gilt (slightly worn), rebacked retaining orig. backstrip, Rugby School armorial bookplate "L.S. Schol: Rugbirns: Biblioth." to front pastedown, with another bookplate beneath of Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1805-1888), native of Rugby, a Warwickshire antiquary and amateur archeologist, and author of a popular guide to Gothic architecture. He was the original source of the legend of William Webb Ellis' invention of the game of Rugby football

(Extra illustrated), Francis Blomefield: 'The History of the City and County of Norwich', Fersfield, 1741, engraved folding plan of Norwich + engraved plates as issued in the original work plus extra illustrated with numerous additional engraved portrait plates etc, 913pp, title page in red & black, folio, contemporary calf gilt, issued separately, but ordinarily forming volume 2 of Blomefield's 'An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk', 1739-75

Rev. Edmund Farrer, FSA: 'Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West)', London, Bernard Quaritch, 1908, one of only 100 large paper copies, this copy numbered 57, list of subscribers (Prince Frederick Duleep Singh a subscriber to a large paper copy), numerous portrait plates of portraits in Suffolk houses, including the Maharajah Duleep Singh c.1855 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 418pp, folio, original half buckram gilt (worn), top edge gilt

(Botany, Orchidaceae), Carlyle August Luer: 'Thesaurus Masdevalliarum. Eine Monographie der Gattung Masdevallia. A monograph of the genus Masdevallia', Munich, Helga Königer, 1983-1993, volumes 1-13, 15-18, (17 of 21 volumes), each volume with 15 colour plates after watercolours by Anne Marie Trechslin as called for (some double page/folding, 255 colour plates in total), each folio, original printed wraps (17)

(Botany, Horticulture), Paul Jones: 'Flora Magnifica', London, The Tryon Gallery, 1976, limited edition, (229/506), numbered and signed by Paul Jones, 16 colour lithograph flower plates as called for, printed at The Curwen Press, each tissue guarded, large folio, original half vellum gilt by Zaehnsdorf Ltd, original cloth slipcase; Crispin Van De Pass: 'Hortus Floridus. Contayninge a very lively and true Description of the Flowers of the Springe (Summer, Autumn, and Winter). With a Preface by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde and calligraphy by Margaret Shipton. 2 vols.', L, The Cresset PRess, 1928-29, 2 volumes, limited edition (numbers 164 & 473 of 500 copies respectively), numbered, reproduced illustrated title pages and numerous plates from the rare original 1614 edition, oblong, original quarter green morocco gilt over marbled paper covered boards (slightly worn), vol I errata slip tipped in and parts of original printed dust wrapper loosely inserted; Auriol Batten: 'Flowers of Southern Africa', Frandsen Publishers, 1986, limited edition (263/4000), profusely illustrated with colour plates throughout, large 4to, original leatherette gilt, dust wrapper, prospectus loosely inserted; plus Grigson 'The Englishman's Flora', 1987, 1st facsimile edition, orig. quarter cloth gilt, d/w, 'Maples of the World', Portland, Timber Press, 1994, orig. cloth, d/w, plus 1 other (7)

(Fine Binding, Gardening), Mariapia Cunico: 'Il Giardino Veneziano: La Storia - L'Architettura - La Botanica', Albrizzi Editore, 1989, 1st edition, profusely illustrated in colour and b/w throughout, folio, finely rebound in full blue morocco gilt, onlaid green and brown panels blocked and ruled with elaborate gilt decoration, forming pictorial design of an arbor, to both front and rear covers, gilt lettering to spine, marbled end papers/pastedowns

(Garden Design, Country Homes), Gertrude Jekyll & Lawrence Weaver: 'Gardens for Small Country Houses', London, Country Life, [nd], c.1912, xvi,260pp + 16pp catalogue of adverts at end, colour frontis + b/w ills from photos and sketch plans throughout, large 4to, rebound buckram, inset decorative blue morocco gilt title panel to front cover, marbled end papers & pastedowns; Henry Avray Tipping & John Leyland (edited): 'Gardens old and new : the country house and its garden environment', L, Country Life Library, [1900-1908], 3rd edition, volume I, ills. from photographs by Charles Latham throughout, xxiv,298,[1]pp, folio, original pictorial cloth by Will Jenkins, Robert T. Gunther (1869-1940) Christmas card, 1903, tipped in at front (2)

H. Inigo Triggs: 'Formal Gardens in England and Scotland - Their Planning and Arrangement, Architectural and Ornamental Features', London, Batsford, 1902, six page list of subscribers, 125 plates as called for (of which 72 from drawings by Trigg and L. Rome Guthrie, and 53 from photographs by Charles Latham), xxiv,63,[1]pp, elephant folio, original half green morocco gilt over olive cloth (slightly worn), all edges gilt. An impressive work illustrative of estates and their gardens produced during the turn of the century revival of interest in the formal garden by Henry Inigo Triggs (1876-1923), one of the foremost proponents of formal garden design and country house architecture of the period.

'Audubon's Birds of America. The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio. By Roger Tory Peterson & Virginia Marie Peterson.', London, William Heinemann, 1981, 1st UK edition, 435 colour plates (some folding/double page) as called for, folio, original buckram, dust wrapper

John James Audubon: 'The Birds of America, A Selection of Plates Facsimile', 1972-3, The Ariel Press & Edition Leipzig, two volumes, numbered limited edition of 250 copies for Great Britain and the Commonwealth out of a total of 1000, this copy numbered 744 and signed by director of the Ariel Press, large folio, forty colour plates as called for, large folio, original half cloth (worn). A selection of full-sized facsimiles of Audubon's Birds, taken from a copy in the Meiningen State Museum, Germany. (2)

Tony Keulemans & Jan Coldewey: 'Feathers to Brush, the Victorian Bird Artist John Gerrard Keulemans 1842-1912', Privately Published by the authors, 1982, 1st edition, limited edition (401/500), numbered and signed by the authors to limitation page, 94pp, colour & b/w illustrations throughout, folio, original half calf gilt

(Ornithology, Birds), Archibald Thorburn: 'British Birds', L, Longmans, 1925-26, new edition, 4 volumes, 192 colour plates by Thorburn as called for, uniform original cloth gilt; Eric Fitch Daglish: 'Birds of the British Isles', L, Dent, 1948, 1st edition, 25 hand coloured wood engraved plates + 23 b/w plates as called for, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt, dust wrapper, original prospectus and Eric Daglish Christmas card loosely inserted; Ticehurst: 'A History of the Birds of Suffolk', L, Gurney & Jackson, 1932, orig. cloth gilt (slightly worn), armorial bookplate of Charles Pynsent Elliott to front pastedown, Suffolk Naturalists' Society headed memo from Claude Morley, typed and signed in initials, to C.P. Elliott at Glemham Hall, Suffolk, loosely inserted, together Suffolk Bird Report for 1950 and some other ephemera; plus others W.H. Hudson: 'Birds and Man', 1915, Warde Fowler 'Tales of the Birds', 1889, 2nd edition, plus others Hollom, Hudson, 'Birds Through the Year', Hilda Quick, Peter Tate, 'The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton', 1972 facsimile edition by Scolar Press for Paul P.B. Minet, of the original 1678 edition, folio, orig. cloth gilt, top edge gilt, slipcase, plus 2 others Paul P.B. Minet facsimile editions 1972, J.H. Gurney and George Edwards, etc

° ° Hale, Kathleen - Orlando (the Marmalade Cat). Becomes a Doctor. First edition, coloured pictorial title and coloured illus. throughout. publisher's coloured pictorial wrappers, folio. Country Life, 1944; together with (Same Author) Orlando ... His Silver Wedding. First edition. coloured pictorial title and coloured illus. throughout; publisher's coloured pictorial wrappers, folio. Country Life & NY., Transatlantic Arts, 1944: Orlando ... A Seaside Holiday. First edition, coloured pictorial title and coloured illus. throughout; publisher's cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards and d/wrapper, patterned e/ps., folio. Country Life, 1952 (3)

BOOKS, three boxes and loose containing assorted titles, mostly in hardback format which includes thirty two books and sets of books published by THE FOLIO SOCIETY, boxed sets include A.J.P. Taylor's A Century of Conflict in five volumes, Notable Historical Trials in four volumes, Fernand Baudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in three volumes, other authors include John Steinbeck, Joseph Conrad, Robert Graves, Mark Twain, and Erwin Schrodinger, most other titles are of a historical or geographical nature including a Folio Society edition of The Times Atlas of the World (3 boxes + loose)

Laurence Sterne Hardback Book Titled The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman. Published in 1970 by Folio Society. Housed in a Slipcase. Cloth Wrapped. 493 Pages. Spine in Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

Attributed to Emilie E. Vickers (19th/20th century), Windmill Scene with figures, watercolour, with a note to the reverse stating that it was from a folio collection of 40 watercolours presented by the Earl of Claremont to Lady Claremont, Sept 26th 1874, (see pictures for full note), 23 x 32.5cm. (1)

A large assortment of books and related, including a folio contacting vintage prints of mid 20th century flight (a lot)

A quantity of assorted prints, including unmounted coloured engravings of fish, also a folio of architectural prints (a lot)

A superb folio-presentation table-top album showcasing large-format original professional motor racing photographs of the early post-war years of Grand Prix and Sportscar International events.High-quality b/w studies and images depicting the leading drivers of the day including Fangio, Hawthorn, Moss, Collins, Behra, Salvadori, Brooks, Bonnier, Bueb, Scott-Brown, Von Trips, Hill, Brabham and Schell etc. 34 black double-pages containing some 84 images, mostly hand-captioned and dated in white 'Chinagraph'; heavy leathercloth covered board-bindings with reinforced edges and bolt-through hinges. The largest images are 34cm x 38cm and the album measures 36cm x 45cm.    Click here for more details and images

δ Frank Auerbach (b.1931)BillEtching printed with tone, 2009, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 100 in pencil, printed by Marc Balakjian at Studio Prints, London, on Somerset Velvet, loose as issued, with full margins, 180 x 150mm (PL), together with a copy of the book, Frank Auerbach by William Feaver, published by Rizzolo, New York, within the black cloth covered portfolio case, the title printed in silver on the uppers, overall 325 x 270mm (12 3/4 x 10 5/8in)(folio)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

Four Folio Society fairy tales books, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Heath Robinson & Detmold

A Folio society 'Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man'

A portfolio of five Thomas Bewick woodblock prints, with 1968 Folio Fine Art Ltd invoice, 28 cm x 25 cm print size

A Quantity of Books and Maps, including history and topography, modern first editions, two Harry Potter first editions, a folio of photographs of Rome, OS maps, etc (in five boxes)

Frank Sinatra: Frank The Vintage Years, Autographed Souvenir Programme with original concert ticket, 1980.- Britt (Stan) Frank The Vintage Years, published David Fellerman, 1980, first edition, inscribed, signed and dated in black ink on the front cover by Frank Sinatra, 'To Sylvia, Love Frank Sinatra 1980', with the original concert ticket for Frank Sinatras 8pm.performance at the Royal Festival Hall, London,Thursday 11 September, 1980, neatly stapled to the first page, photo. illustrated wrappers, photo. illustrations throughout, 98pp., folio, 30.5 x 30.5 cm.Provenance: The programme was signed in person by Frank Sinatra for the vendors mother whose husband was Catering and Events Director for The London Festival Hall. He and his wife, Sylvia, met Sinatra backstage at the performance.Condition Report: light marks to covers, internally clean, with strong inscription and signature.

Frank Sinatra: Frank The Vintage Years, Autographed Souvenir Programme with original concert ticket, 1980.- Britt (Stan) Frank The Vintage Years, published David Fellerman, 1980, first edition, inscribed, signed and dated in black ink on the front cover by Frank Sinatra, 'To Nick - All the Best Frank Sinatra 1980', with the original concert ticket for Frank Sinatras 8pm.performance at the Royal Festival Hall, London,Thursday 11 September, 1980, neatly stapled to the first page, photo. illustrated wrappers, photo. illustrations throughout, 98pp., folio, 30.5 x 30.5 cm.Provenance: The programme was signed in person by Frank Sinatra for the vendors father who was Catering and Events Director for The London Festival Hall. He and his wife, Sylvia, met Sinatra backstage at the performance.Condition Report: light marks and some fading to covers, internally clean, the signature also a little faded.

Pulp Fiction (1994) Five Original Film Production Call Sheets, 1993.- 5pp. on printed folio. white sheets as used for filming days 11, 16, 17, 20, and 24 (of 50) scenes and set-ups include, day 20 as being a closed set for shooting interior Mason Dixon Pawnshop, with detail call times for the main cast and supporting actors, including John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel Jackson, Harvey Keitel and Bruce Willis, and specific shooting requirements for special effects, make-up, props and transport, with crew members required each day detailed on verso, each sheet 8 ½ x 14 inches. (5)Provenance - the vendor was a crew member and is credited in the film's end titles. Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino won the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards.The film's title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century.Condition Report: light creasing from use on the production, three with staples to top left-hand corners, overall good condition.

A Bridge Too Far (1977) Original film production call sheets, photograph albums, letters and related ephemera.- comprises: 20 Original main unit call sheets, 7 May 1976 - October 4, 1976, mostly 3pp., eleven of which have location maps attached; a main unit progressive schedule, No. 5, Week 19, dated 23.8.76, 6pp, all printed on folio white sheets, 33 x 21cm; 24 Original second unit call sheets, 6 of which have location maps attached; and a second unit schedule, week 3, dated August 18, 1976, 3pp., all printed on folio yellow sheets, 33 x 21cm; a group of 24 manuscript letters, of which 6 are within original postmarked envelopes, written by crew-member, George Smillie, to his family in Cornwall, from his film location address, near Deventer, Netherlands, George, action vehicles driver and film extra, records a first-hand account of filming many action scenes on location. On the bridge again today, outside Frosts house, they had it all rigged up to look as if it was on fire, it was very realistic until they found out it really was on fire then the place burnt down. Theres never a dull moment on this job; a pair of photograph albums, containing 68 and 69 images taken on location, mostly colour and a few black and white, depicted the cast, crew and director, Sir Richard Attenborough, aircraft, tanks and other armoured vehicles, mostly 9 x 5 inches; production storyboards, (photocopies),5pp. marked on front sheet Steve Lanning [assistant director] Sc. 584-586, depicted 33 action shots; crew member's official production photo. I.D. card and letter of engagement, 2pp., typescript, Signed by Sir Richard Attenborough, on his Beaver Lodge, Richmond, Surrey, headed paper, April 26, 1976; together with a collection of related ephemera including press and magazine cuttings. (Qty). Provenance: crew member, action vehicles coordinator, driver and film extra, George Smillie, who worked with tanks and armoured vehicles during his national service, and later drove and repaired military vehicles for the Military Vehicle Museum, Lamanva, near Falmouth, created by the late Charlie Mann, who was the military vehicles advisor on the film.

Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989), Purgatorio, from Dante's The Divine Comedy containing 16 original colour plates, folio, complete, in original card outer case

Mee (Margaret) Flowers of the Brazilian Forests, one of 500 copies, colour plates, tissue guards, prospectus loosely inserted (faded, creased and bent), original morocco-backed boards, slip-case (a little marked), an excellent copy, folio, The Tryon Gallery, 1969.

Demosthenes & Aeschines. Principum Graeciae oratorum opera, cum utriusque autoris vita, & ulpiani commentariis, novisque scholiis, edited by Hieronymus Wolff, 6 parts in 1 vol., fourth edition, parallel Greek and Latin text, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of otherwise blank final f., large woodcut diagram to α6v, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, penultimate colophon f., title all but neatly detached, some spotting and staining, the latter most pronounced in final part, but not obscuring text, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, spine in compartments and with later black leather label, lacking metal clasps, spine with split to pigskin at head and worn at foot, outer edges worn, soiled and marked, but solid, [Adams D268; Schweiger 87; VD 16 D 486], folio, Basel, Eusebius Episcopius, 1572.⁂ Fourth and best edition, which won for Wolff an excellent reputation among contemporary scholars. Contributors include Guillaume Morel and Johannes Oporinus.

Gospels.- Chemnitz (Martin) & others. Harmonia quatuor Evangelistarum, 2 vol., vol.1 engraved portrait frontispiece, additional pictorial title and full-page portrait to verso of letterpress title, vol.2 half-title with full-page engraved portrait verso, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, 2 errata ff. at end of each vol., both vol. some neat underlining in brown pencil or ink and occasional contemporary ink marginalia, some spotting or mostly light staining, mostly lightly browned throughout, attractive 19th century black crushed morocco gilt, spines in compartments, upper covers with central monogram of Rev. Theodore Williams, lower covers with central arms, some scuffing and marking, rubbed, folio, Frankfurt, for Zacharias Härtel, 1652.⁂ An attractive set of these commentaries on the Four Gospels. Provenance: Rev. Theodore Williams (1785-1875), Vicar of Hendon, who amassed a magnificent library and commissioned the finest binders of his time, including Derome, Payne, Charles Lewis, and John Clarke. He sold the library in 1827 (gilt monograms to bindings).

Bible (German).- [Luther (Martin)] Biblia das ist die gantze H. Schrifft, Altes und Neues Testaments, lacking front free endpaper, lacking engraved portrait and engraved title, title in red and black, wood engraved illustrations, scattered spotting and staining, one or two short tears, tiny worming affecting odd letter, bookplate, previous owner's ink inscription to front pastedown and title, previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, contemporary decorative calf over wooden boards, 7 metal corners only (of 8), metal clasps, lacking one, modern spine label, rubbed and worn, folio, Nurnberg, Christoph Endters, 1670

NO RESERVE Bourassé (Jean-Jacques, l'abbé) La Touraine. Histoire et Monuments, half-title, chromolithographed additional title and 3 plates, 14 steel-engraved plates, all by Karl Girardet & F. L. Francais, one map (hand-coloured in outline), wood-engraved illustrations throughout, occasional light foxing, attractive contemporary green morocco, richly gilt, spine slightly sunned, some rubbing and a few small stains, lower joint split at foot, g.e., [Brunet I, 1174], folio, Tours, 1855.

Scotland.- Butler (James, first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1610-88) Letter signed to "My Lord", 3pp., folio, Dublin Castle, 16th July 1680, reporting on the rebellion in Scotland of the Covenanters and their murder of James Sharp Archbishop of St Andrews, folds, slightly browned.

Italian Preacher.- Segneri (Paolo, Italian Jesuit, preacher, missionary, ascetical writer, 1624-94) Similtudini... Ragionamenti, first part only, manuscript in Italian, title and c. 265pp., slightly browned, contemporary patterned boards, paper spine, a few small tears, rubbed, [18th century]; and 3 others, manuscripts in Italian, including 2 account books, 8vo & folio (4).

Victoria (Queen, 1819-1901) Grant signed of the dignity of a Companion (Military) of the Order of the Bath to Colonel Thomas Wright, D.s. "Victoria RI", manuscript, 1½pp., folds, slightly browned, 1871; and another, printed document relating to Colonel Wright, folio (2).

Calligraphic manuscript.- To William Francis Dixon-?Nuttal, calligraphic testimonial manuscript on paper, 2ff. behind glass, illuminated in many colours and heightened in gold, original morocco, gilt, with mounted brass letters, ornate inner dentelles, folio, St. Helens March 22nd, 1906.

Sidney (Algernon).- The Very Copy of a Paper Delivered to the Sheriffs, Upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill, first edition, 2ff., creased at fold, final f. lower margin defective and supplied in paper, disbound, [Wing S3766], for R[obert] H[orn] et al, [1683] § The Arraignment, Tryal & Condemnation of Algernon Sydney, Esq; for High-Treason..., some minor fraying at margins, modern half rexine, [Wing A3754], for Benj. Tooke, 1684 § Letters of the Honourable Algernon Sydney to the Honourable Henry Savile, Ambassador in France, first edition, half-title, modern cloth, for R. Dodsley, 1742; and 5 others relating Sidney, his letters, works and trial, folio and 8vo (8) ⁂ Algernon Sydney (1623-1683), politician and republican political theorist - his ideas are seen as culminating in the Glorious Revolution and the founding of the United States. Although opposed to Charles I's execution he was later charged with plotting against Charles II, in part based on his most famous work, Discourses Concerning Government and was executed for treason. The first here mentioned is the first edition of Sydney's famous speech as he ascended the scaffold for execution at Tyburn.

Egypt.- The Mosques of Egypt, 2 vol., number 610 of 1200 copies, plates and illustrations, folding maps in pocket at end, limitation bookplates loosely inserted, original morocco, gilt, housed in original slipcase, folio, 1992.⁂ An important academic study, containing records of many mosques which were destroyed or badly damaged in the earthquake of 1955.

Markham (Francis) The Booke of Honour, first edition, lacking initial blank, [STC 17331], Printed by Augustine Matthews, and John Norton, 1625, bound with Five Decades of Epistles of Warre, with initial blank, final leaf with contemporary ink inscription, [STC 17332], Printed by Augustine Matthews, 1622, woodcut initials, head- & tail-pieces, some worming, mostly marginal, but heavier towards end and affecting some text, occasional light spotting or soiling, later panelled calf, rebacked, preserving old gilt spine, worn at extremities with loss to spine ends, joints splitting at head and foot, folio.⁂ From the library of the Marquess of Bute at Luton Hoo house, with "Luton" in blue pen to front pastedown.

Maimbourg (Louis) The History of the Crusade; or, the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land, first English edition, translated by John Nalson, bookplate of Hans Sloane to front pastedown, contemporary calf, joints cracked but stitching firm, minor wear to upper cover top edge, [Wing M290], folio, for Thomas Dring, 1685.

Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Works of Virgil: containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Æeneis, translated by John Dryden, engraved frontispiece by Michael vander Gucht, 101 engraved plates after Franz Cleyn, most by Wenceslaus Hollar and Pierre Lombart, contemporary ink inscriptions to front free endpapers and a few preliminary leaves, frontispiece a little frayed at fore-edge, the odd marginal chip or short tear, 1 plate with small hole affecting image, some foxing, contemporary panelled calf, quite worn with loss to spine, [Wing V616], folio, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1697.

Autograph Album.- 2 Albums containing c.545 cut signatures of MPs and Lords, tipped onto c.59 leaves (excluding blanks), many with ink postmarks, several other cut signatures or envelopes loosely inserted, some light spotting or soiling, contemporary half roan, quite worn, spines faded, [19th century]; with an A.L.s. from Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle requesting further flags for the flotilla under his command, folio (3)⁂ Album also including the signature of pioneering physiologist Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie.

France & Italy.- Albanis de Beaumont (Jean Francois) Travels through the Maritime Alps from Italy to Lyons, additional engraved title, 17 sepia aquatint views only (of 18, lacking "Nice and its environs") and 1 engraved plate, 4 engraved maps or plans (1 folding), 1795, bound with Select Views of the Antiquities and Harbours in the South of France, additional engraved title, 11 aquatint views only (of 12, lacking "Harbour and City of Marseilles"), 2 engraved plans and 1 plate, 1 leaf working loose, 1794, together 2 works in 1 vol., offsetting, some light foxing, contemporary half morocco, worn at extremities, rubbed, joints split at foot, [Abbey, Travel 51 & 52], Printed by T. Bensley, folio.

Picture Post, a complete run in 49 vol., original wrappers bound in, the odd chip or short tear at edges but overall crisp copies, uniformly bound in modern green morocco-backed cloth, "Picture Post" in gilt to upper covers, spines a little sunned with occasional light spotting or staining, folio, 1938-57.⁂ A pioneer of photojournalism, the Picture Post's pictorially led features captured the everyday lives of British people from October 1938 to June 1957, along with the global events that impacted them.

Cookery.- Huth (Angela, novelist and journalist, b. 1938) [Cookery diary at Wootton House & Ladybird Cottage], autograph manuscript, 38pp. excluding blanks, on thick card, 29 photographs, including: Princess Margaret & Lord Snowdon, Norman Parkinson etc., original cartoon by Nicholas Garland, original hessian-backed boards, folio, 1966-74.

Flaxman (John) The Odyssey of Homer [ - The Illiad of Homer], 2 vol., engraved titles, 34 and 39 plates respectively, original boards, paper labels to upper covers, extremities worn, rubbed, 1805; Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus, engraved title and 30 plates, title with repaired vertical tear (no loss), contemporary half calf, loss to spine, worn, covers detached, 1795; Lectures on Sculpture, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 52 plates, 1 folding but chipped at fore-edge, a few trimmed close at fore-edge affecting imprint, contemporary calf prize binding with "Presented by The Royal Academy to Mr George James Miller" in gilt to upper cover, spine broken, lacking backstrip and lower cover, g.e., 1838, some spotting and damp-staining; with 2 others, an illustrated Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Cox's Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours, oblong folio & 8vo (6)

Letchford (Albert) A Series of Seventy Original Illustrations to Captain Sir R.F. Burton's "Arabian Nights", one of 250 copies of the "Choice Edition de Luxe", this copy unnumbered, half-title, 71 photogravure plates after Letchford (including portrait of Burton), each with printed tissue-guard, front free endpapers with fraying/worming to fore-edge, a few other leaves a little frayed or chipped at edges, occasional finger-soiling or light spotting, upper hinge cracked with front free endpaper working loose, contemporary half red morocco, spine richly gilt, rubbed, some soiling, t.e.g., others uncut, large folio, 1897.

NO RESERVE Arnoux (Guy).- Kerdyk (René) Les Femmes de ce Temps, one of 500 copies, 10 colour plates, 1 becoming loose, scattered very faint marginal spotting, original pictorial boards, light spotting, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, folio, Paris, 1920.

Braque (Georges).- Malraux (André) & Hervé Alphand. Des Dieux et Déesses ou Hommage a Georges Braque, one of 145 copies on grand vélin d'Arches, from an edition of 225, 12 full-page plates, scattered faint spotting, loose as issued, previous owner's discreet blindstamp and pencil note, housed in original blue cloth drop-back box, gilt relief image to upper cover, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, folio, Paris, 1971.

Dutry (Marc).- Renassia (Daniel) & Joseph Ben Aaron. Le Livre du Job, Letter 'D' from an edition of 4, from a total edition of 230, 16 full-page plates by Dautry, illustrations, 2 additional suites of 13 plates, 1 sepia and 1 black and white, 2 mounted copperplates, 1 loose, lacking original gouache, all loose as issued, faint marginal spotting, previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, housed in original paper wrappers, housed in original pictorial vellum drop-back box, a little rubbed, fractional bumping to corners, folio, Nice, Joseph Pardo, 1961.

Erotica.- Louys (Pierre) Aphrodite, number 86 of 125 from an edition of 200, signed by author to Ch. Meunier, 33 hand-coloured plates, 35 engraved plates, captioned tissue-guards, loose as issued, occasional very faint spotting, original wrappers, fractional spotting, original glassine dust-jacket, original chemise, splitting at upper joint but holding firm, original slip-case, a little rubbed, Paris, Association et Cercle Grolier, 1932; Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, limited edition, 27 plates and illustrations by Suzanne Ballivet, loose as issued, original paper wrappers, original glassine dust-jacket, original chemise, a little rubbed, original slip-case, rubbed and worn, beginning to split but holding firm, Monte-Carlo, 1945; previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, and another by the same, folio(2).

Guild of Women Binders.- Jacobs (Joseph) More English Fairy Tales, number 123 of 160 copies on Japanese vellum, 8 plates (each in 2 states) and numerous illustrations and ornaments by John D. Batten, bookplate of Mary Landon Baker, blue crushed morocco gilt by Guild of Women Binders, dragons rampant to covers and spine in gilt, spine a little darkened, chip to foot of spine, joints a little rubbed, corners slightly bumped, t.e.g., small folio, David Nutt, 1894.

Piper (John) John Piper's Stowe, one of 300 copies signed by the artist, illustrations, some colour, original marbled cloth, original glacine wrapping and carboard packaging, folio, Hurtwood Press in association with The Tate Gallery, 1983.

NO RESERVE Sappho. Quatorze Burins par Espérance, one of 150 copies, 14 plates, tissue-guards, loose as issued, bookplate, previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, original wrappers, original glassine, housed in original cloth portfolio, printed illustration to upper cover, black cloth ties, fractional bumping to corners, folio, Paris, Éditions du Raisin, 1944.