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9 Folio Society books in slip cases

16 Folio Society Books including Joseph Conrad, Mozart (2 missing cases)

12 Folio Society Books and Set including Dickens and Durrell and 4 Volumes of Collected Poems by Alfred Noyes

Pictures and prints - a folio of mid 20th century oils on board - Emi Navarro, ‘Seville’, signed, others, landscapes, monogrammed LP and LM, 30cm x 38cm and smaller; portrait of and elderly man, oil on board, unsigned; etc, 1 box.

Robert Rowe, Fine Art Photography - A folio of signed photographs, ‘Empire State from the east river’, ‘Statue of Liberty’, other landscapes, and American subjects, etc, (10).

Caw (Sir James L.).Sir James Guthrie, A Biography.Macmillan, 1932, folio in fours, plates, dust jacket;Yamane (Yuzo), Japanese Coloured Porcelain: Volume 1, Imari; Volume 2, Kakiemon, Kutani, Nabeshima. Kyoto-Shoin, 1953, two volumes, each comprising 100 loose colour plates in cloth folio with 'bone' fasteners, worn cardboard packaging;with five others. (8)

Malton (Thomas).A Compleat Treatise on Perspective in Theory and Practice ....Printed for the author, 1778, second edition, folio, [12], 296 pages, frontis (edge worn and reinforced), 47 (of 48 plates), four with moveable parts, lacking plate 11, wear to plates, some with repairs or loss to edges (including image), dust marking, T2 fore-edge cropped, repaired tear to 2K2, recent reversed calf binding. [sold not subject to return]

Illustrated London News.Volumes 18 - 25, January 1851 - Dec 1854, eight half-yearly volumes, folio, all but vol. 20 with a large fold-out frontis depicting; Crystal Palace (exterior), Crystal Palace (interior); Funeral of the Duke of Wellington; Panorama of Edinburgh; The British Fleet; The House of Commons and Commanders of the Allied Armies (the latter with repaired tear), worn half roan bindings [periodical] (8)

Moss Bros.Robinson (Heath), Behind the Scenes at Moss Bros.Moss Bros., no date, oblong quarto, card wraps;Hicks (Capt. J. S.), An Illustrated Army List.Moss Bros., no date, oblong quarto, card wraps;Bateman (H. M.), The M.F.H. Who Ran Riot.Moss Bros. no date [1934], oblong folio, card wraps;with three other Moss Bros. publications. (6)

Edward Bawden.Greenwood (Jeremy), Edward Bawden Editioned Prints.Wood Lea Press, 2005, limited edition of 450 standard copies (and 55 special copies), oblong folio, original cloth-backed decorative boards, slipcase. Fine;Yorke (Malcolm). The Inward Laugh, Edward Bawden and his Circle.Fleece Press, 2005, limited edition of 750 (675 for sale), folio, original cloth-backed decorative boards, slipcase. Fine;Bawden (Edward). Engravings 1927-1929. Merivale Editions, 1988, limited edition of 500, original decorative wraps. Fine;with twelve others by or about the artist. (15)

Greenwood (Jeremy).Ravilious Engravings.Wood Lea Press, 2008, limited edition of 800 standard copies (and 55 special copies), folio, original cloth slipcase. Fine copy in near Fine slipcase. No inscriptions. Slight scuffing to bottom edge of slipcase.

Rogerson (Albert).Pen, Paper and a Box of Paints, Albert Rutherston, Illustrator and Designer for the Stage.The Fleece Press, [2015], limited edition of 250, folio, colour illustrations, quarter cloth;Hagreen (Philip), Boxwood & Slate.The Fleece Press, 2015, limited edition of 45 copies, booklet printed to save the Cornish gravestone of the Blewett sisters, marbled paper wraps;Bliss (Douglas Percy), While Daddy's Away at the War, Poems for Prudence & Rosalind.The Fleece Press, 2019, limited edition of 500, oblong octavo, quarter cloth;

Carroll (Lewis).Russian Alices, Illustrated Editions of Alice in Wonderland from the USSR and Post-Soviet Era. With contributions by Tatiana Ianovskaia, Olia Harris & Ella Parry-Davies.Artists' Choice Editions, 2016, numbered limited edition of 48 Special copies with additional folder of four signed aquatints, folio, cloth-backed boards, housed in original solander box.

Dryden (John).Songs And Poems Of John Dryden, Chosen and Introduced by Gywn Jones. Drawings by Lavinia Blyth.The Golden Cockerel Press, 1957, folio, un-numbered limited edition of 500, eight colour plates, prospectus bound in at rear, bookplate of Patrick Storrs Fox, light foxing to endpapers and adjacent leaves, half morocco by Robert Porter of Preston (faded).Carroll (Lewis), Russian Alices, Illustrated Editions of Alice in Wonderland from the USSR and Post-Soviet Era.With contributions by Tatiana Ianovskaia, Olia Harris & Ella Parry-Davies.Artists' Choice Editions, 2016, numbered limited edition of 160 standard copies, folio, cloth-backed boards.Fine Press Book Association, Parenthesis No. 12.FPBA, November 2006, deluxe edition, quarto, cloth backed-boards, with a cloth-bound portfolio of printing ephemera from a variety of presses, slipcase;[Bookplates], Contemporary International Ex-Libris Artists, Volumes 1, 2 & 3.Portugal: Typografia Abreu, Sousa & Braga, 2002-4, three volumes, each a limited edition of 300, English text, original boards. (6)

O'Brian (Patrick).The Aubrey-Maturin Series. Folio Society, 2009-2013, twenty volumes, a Fine set in individual slipcases.

Folio Society.Shakespeare (William), The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare.Folio Society, 2007, quarter bonded leather bindings, eight volumes in two slipcases;Gibbon (Edward), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.Folio Society, 1983-90, eight volumes in two slipcases;Lovill (Justin), Notable Historical Trials.Folio Society, 1999, four volumes in slipcase (split to edge of slipcase);With seven others, all in slipcases.

Sitwell (Edith) & Walton (William).Facade, An Entertainment, the Poems by Edith Sitwell, the Music by William Walton.Oxford University Press, 1972, numbered limited edition of 250 copies signed by the composer, quarto, illustrated by John Piper, quarter morocco with Piper designed boards, original solander box, lacking the original recording of Facade Entertainment;Rawsthorne (Alan). Facsimile manuscript of a choral work orchestrated for the opening of a new music school at George Watson's College, Edinburgh. Presented to The Earl of Harewood who opened the school on Founder's Day, Tuesday 10th March 1964.Folio, 35 pages, caligraphic presentation inscription mounted on front pastedown, full morocco binding (spine head pulled).with six others. (8)

Britten (Benjamin).Sonata in C for Cello and Piano Op.65.Boosey & Hawkes, [1961], front cover inscribed and signed after the first performance (7th July 1961 at Aldeburgh) by the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the dedicatee of the work and possibly the greatest cellist of the 20th century.. The inscription in Russian 'To Lady and Lord Harwood, As a souvenir of the first performance of this wonderful work. With warmest love hoping for more frequent reunions, Mstislav Rostropovich'. original wraps.idem, The Making of Peter Grimes.Boydell Press for the Britten Estate, 1996, two folio volumes, Vol I a facsimile of the composition draft and Vol II, Notes and Commentaries, original cloth, slipcase:idem, Children's Crusade, Kinderkreuzzug Op. 82.Faber, 1973, limited edition of 1000 facsimiles of the composer's manuscript, folio, illustrated by Sidney Nolan, quarter cloth (3)

Mozart [Wolfgang Amadeus].Overture und Gefange aus: Weibertreue oder Die Madchen find von Flandern (Cosi Fan Tutte).Bonn: N. Simrock, oblong folio, engraved vocal score, plate number 91, paginated title-21, 29-32, 39-48, 64-70, 74-75, 114-124, 130-172, [1], evidence of the removal of leaves after p. 172, worn half vellum binding;idem, Cosi Fan Tutte o sia La Scuola Degli Amanti. Opera in due Atti ... Ridotto per il Piano Forte da C. G. Neefe.Bonn & Cologne: N. Simrock, no date, oblong folio, engraved vocal score, plate number 91, 208 [but 214], [1] pages, first gather loose, well worn half leather binding;idem, Idomeneo Re di Creta. Opera Seria in tre Atti ... Idomeneus Konig von Creta ...im Klavierauszuge von A. E. Muller.Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, no date, oblong folio, vocal score, [4], 164 pages (some numbers cropped by binder), plate number 2286, some annotation and a little staining, music seller's stamp to title page and label to pastedown, well worn half leather.idem, Don Juan Oper in 2 Akten in Musik gesezt .... Il Dissoluto Punito osia Il Don Giovanni ....il Pianoforte da A. E. Miller.Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, no date, oblong folio, vocal score, German and Italian title pages, [4], 4, 7-206 pages, several pages torn with loss, predominantly to lower corners, margins cropped close with loss of some page numbers, foxing, re-backed marbled paper boards.[Each with the bookplate of the 7th Earl of Harewood to pastedown] (4)

Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus).Les Misteres d'Isis Opera en Quatre Actes ... Arrange eh Mis en Scene par Lachnith.Paris: Sieber, no date [c.1801], folio, vocal score, [4], 365 engraved pages, plate number 1666 throughout, title page signed by Sieber lower right with two faint stamps, annotation to several pages, corner folds, bookplate of the 7th Earl of Harewood, letter in mounted envelope identifies the work as the 'first print ... of the 'Magic Flute' music ... published and performed in Paris in 1801 ..' half vellum binding (rubbed and edgeworn).

Beethoven (Ludwig van).Leonore. Oper in Swey Aufzugen ....Klavierauszug.Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, no date [?1806], oblong folio, vocal score, [2], 82 pages, several numbers cropped, foxing, well worn half leather binding lacking backstrip;idem, Zwei Romanzen fur Violine & Orchester ... Ausgabe fur Violine & Klavier.Leipzig: C.F. Peters, no date, oblong folio, engraved music score, 21, 9 pages, plate number 2, quarter vellum. (2)

Rossini (J.) [Gioachino].La Gazza ladra Melodrama in due Atti. Die diebische Elster, Oper in zwei Aufzugen ... Klavierauszug.Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, no date, oblong folio, vocal score, [2], 232 pages, interleaved with blanks in places, plate number 3158, some annotation in pencil, several numbers cropped, foxing, 'T. Boosey' stamp to title page, quarter roan binding (rubbed);idem, Otello, ossia L'Africano in Venezia, Othello oder fer Mohr von Venedig ...Klavierauszug.Leipzig: Brietkopf & Hartel, oblong folio, vocal score, [2], 184 pages, plate number 3074, well worn half leather binding;idem, Partition de l'Elizabeth Reine d' Angleterre Musique de Rossini Arangee pour le Forte Piano.Paris: Carli, no date, folio, vocal score, [4], 240 pages, plate number 1436, foxing and staining, indistinct signature to title and several pages, well worn half leather binding with 'Mr Delpech' to leather label on upper board;idem, Armida Opera Seria in tre Atti Del Signor G. Rossini ...Paris, Janet et Cottelle, no date, folio, engraved vocal score, [4], 220 pages, plate number 2182 J.C., foxing throughout, half calf (well rubbed);[Each with the bookplate of the 7th Earl of Harewood] (4)

Haydn [Franz Joseph].La Creation du Monde, Oratorio en Trois Parties Traduit de l'Allemand Mis En Vers Francais par Joseph A. Segur. Musique d'Haydn Arrangee pour le Piano ... par D. Steibelt.Paris: Erard, Lyon: Garnier, no date, quarto, vocal score, engraved frontis (replacement fore-edge margin), [2], 176 engraved pages (no plate number), gilt presentation initials to front endpaper, all edges gilt, gilt-tooled full morocco binding;idem, Die Jahreszeiten von Joseph Haydn, Klavierauszug.Leipzig, Breitkopf & Hartel, no date [1801], oblong folio, [2], 176 pages, worn with several tears, vocal score, letter from Ludwig Doblinger (1949) certifying the score as a 1800 first edition, large unidentified signature on title page and page 1 (worthy of further research), worn original covers with leather spine, housed in solander box with bookplate of the 7th Earl of Harewood. (2)

Purcell (Henry).Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of all the Choicest Songs for One, Two, and Three Voices, compos’d by Mr. Henry Purcell. Together, With such Symphonies for Violins or Flutes, As were by Him design’d for any of them: .....Printed by William Pearson and sold by John Young, 1706, folio, [2], vi, [2], 190, 189-286 pages, lacking portrait frontis, [bound with]idem, Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of the Choices Songs for ......... The Second Book, which renders the First Compleat.Printed by William Pearson for Henry Playford, 1702, first edition, folio, [4], ii, [2], 32, 35-99, 140-141, 102-170, 143-146. 175-176 pages, irregular pagination but text and register continuous, ink amendments to pagination and register of pages 143-146.Other than some very light foxing, contents generally clean, bound in contemporary panelled calf with wear to edges and spine, joints cracking with split to head of upper joint. ESTC T154319 & T153688

Manuscript - 'Adolph Prince D Angleterre 1796'.Manuscript vocal scores in Italian, French and German.Comprising index (on front free endpaper verso) and 191 pages of scores, presumably for a musical performance, one page headed 'Recit: et Aria de Sigs: Giuseppe Giordani', oblong folio, bookplate of the 7th Earl of Harewood, some staining to latter pages, front hinge broken at endpaper, all edges gilt, worn full morocco binding with title in gilt to upper board.[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850) was the tenth child of George III. He lived in Germany for most of his early adult life where he commanded the Hanoverian Guards. A village in Hanover (Adolphsdorf) was named after him. A basic internet search has failed to find a published work under this title though it is possible that the 'title' relates to ownership or presentation rather than the name of the work.].

[Jones William].A Treatise on the Art of Music.Colchester; published by the author, 1784, folio, signed by the author at end of dedication and numbered in manuscript on title page, forty plates on twenty leaves, (first plate torn with crude repair), gift inscription at head of title page commemorating John Henry Robson, department orgnanist of Kings College, Cambridge, quarter roan binding (worn).

Bell (Charles).Illustrations of The Great Operations of Surgery, Trepan, Hernia, Amputation, Aneurism, and Lithotomy.Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1821, oblong folio, viii, 134 pages, twenty engraved plates (seventeen with full or partial hand-colouring), creasing and tear to top edge of endpaper, title page and preliminaries, lower edge of B2, loss to lower margin corner of G3, dust-marking and some light foxing throughout, hinge broken after title page, worn quarter leather binding with tear to cloth, leather gilt label to upper board.

Holy Bible.The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New ....Robert Barker, 1616, folio, [10], 535 leaves, lacking final blank, New Testament title page dated 1616.General title torn with loss, extensive annotation verso (visible recto), fos.147, 244, 324, 429 and 430 torn with significant loss, tears within text of fos. 1, 30, 179, 208, 237, 256, 274, 369 and 384. Numerous marginal tears, those at fos. 161 and 294 causing partial loss of margin note. Small holes in fo. 241, 245, 279, 388 and 468, a small number of words amended, staining in places, some pencil marks in margin of Apocrypha, manuscript note dated 1655 tipped-in to fo. 428, [Herbert 349, ESTC S113708][preceded by];Common Prayer. The Booke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David ....Robert Barker, 1616, folio, [A (1 of 4)], B-G6, lacking three A leaves but title page present, the title page with later gutter and head margins and loss to top corner, some staining throughout, [ESTC S122897];[between the BCP and the Bible are two remnant maps (one detached) and several pages of pedigrees numbered 5/6, 9/10,13-18 and 23-34, some with significant loss/repairs][bound at rear];Sternehold (Thomas), Hopkins (John) et al., The Whole Book of Psalmes Collected into English Meeter ...Company of Stationers, 1624, folio, [2], 114 [113], [7] pages only, some spotting and staining, final leaves torn and creased.Annotation to pastedowns, contemporary calf (well worn, upper board detached).

Illuminated Bible.La Bibbia di Borso d'Este.Bergamo: Banco Popolare, 1961, two large folio volumes, colour and monochrome reproductions of the original manuscript leaves, Italian introductory text, silk endpapers, top edge gilt, full ?bonded morroco gilt with metallic centerpieces to upper covers, original slipcases.

Missal.Missale Romanum ex Decreto Sacrosancti ...,Ulyssipone [Lisbon]: Michaelem Manescal da Costa, 1764, folio in sixes, [60], 672, cxliv, [4], [10], 58 pages, [672 misnumbered 658], three full page illustrations, Missae Propriae Sanctorum ... with separate title page dated 1765, tear (without loss of text) to lower margin of 2A3, 2A5 and 2B4, tear without loss in text area of 2A4, foxing and staining from 2A6 to 2B6, sporadic spotting/splashing thereafter, small heavy stain to p.436, red and black latin text, ten fore-edge tabs, [bound with]Missal, Missae Sanctorum Novae ...Olysipone [Lisbon], 1824, 37, [3], 8 pages. gauffered gilt edges, contemporary morocco gilt with metal clasps, a little worming to upper board, joints rubbed, corners bumped/worn.[Provenance: from the library of the late Francisco Gil de Borja e Menezes of Lisbon]

Lloyd (W.W.).P & O Pencillings, published for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company by Day & Son, no date, oblong folio, twenty-four mounted chromolitho plates, colour map, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt (some loss of frontis surface from adherence to title page chromo, front endpaper split at hinge)

Life-Boats.Report of the Committee appointed to examine the Life-Boat Models submitted to Compete for the Premium offered by His Grace the Duke of Northumberland ....W. Clowes, 1851, folio, coloured frontis map, [6], 78 pages, thirteen folding colour plates of life-boat designs and folding colour chart of wreck sites, some foxing to preliminaries and plate margins, several plates misfolded with creased, dust marked and frayed fore-edges, original cloth gilt (stained with a little wear to extremities).

Manganese Bronze and Brass Co.A Few Notes on The Selection of a Bronze for Steamship Propellers. 1908, oblong quarto, 87 pages, illustrated, original pictorial cloth (stain to front cover);Stanton (Samuel Ward), American Steam Vessels.New York: Smith & Stanton, 1895, oblong quarto, 498, [2] pages, some restoration to edges of early leaves, line through one word on p.486, couple of minor tears not affecting text, original cloth;Ellerman Lines, Particulars of Steamers of Ellerman Lines Limited ...Hull, 1934, large quarto ledger with typed and manuscript entries, original cloth with screw binding: 'Engineering', The Forth Bridge, Reprinted from 'Engineering', February 28, 1890.folio in eights, [4], 72 pages, nineteen plates (many double page), original cloth;Sir William Arrol & Co. Ltd., [Catalogue] 1920.Glasgow, quarto, illustrated, original cloth gilt. (5)

Flags and Signals.Hounsell Brothers, Flags and Signals of All Nations ... edited by George C. Hounsell.Field and Tuer, no date (19th cent.), folio, chromolitho title and seventy-one chromolitho plates, minor scribbles to intro. and memorandum, re-backed original cloth with recent endpapers;World Flags, a large quarto album containing an extensive collection of flag illustrations.Predominantly mounted printed flags but also including hand drawn and coloured examples, marbled endpapers and edges, indexed fore-edge, full calf binding with 'Catalogue E.W.C' to front cover. (2)

Skelton (Joseph).Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection of Llewelyn Meyrick at Goodrich Court.J. Skelton, 1830, two folio volumes, additional engraved title and frontis to each, 150 plates, some foxing and staining throughout, all edges gilt, full calf, re-backed retaining original backstrips;Grose (Francis), Military Antiquities respecting A History of the English Army, from the Conquest to the Present Time. Stockdale, 1812, two quarto volumes, engraved title and frontis to each, engraved plates, contemporary calf, rubbed and re-backed, retaining original backstrips. (4)

Lloyd (W. W.).P & O Pencillings, published for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company by Day & Son, no date, oblong folio, twenty-four mounted chromolitho plates, colour map, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt (a little wear to head and tail of spine).Wear to head and tail of spine and corners (see images). Some light foxing in places, heavier on rear endpaper (recto), light offsetting from colour illustrations. Gutter gaping in places, slight split to upper front endpaper hinge (see image).

[Domesday Book - Gale (Roger) edit.].Registrum Honoris de Richmond ...R. Gosling, 1722, folio, large margins, possibly the smaller form of the two large paper copy sizes (page 404mm x 247mm), [4], xxxv, [3], 106, [24], 287, [30] pages, latin text, first part printed in red and black, folding map, six double page genealogies, nine plates (1 double page), light foxing throughout, contemporary panelled calf (worn and re-backed, retaining remnant backstrip)ESTC T150024, Boyne p.173.

Nutter (M.E.).Carlisle in the Olden Time, A Series of Views of Antient Public Buildings ... Carlisle: Charles Thurnum, 1835, folio, [8], 44 pages, additional hand-coloured litho title, hand-coloured frontis, sixteen hand-coloured plates, worn quarter leather binding with marbled boards.

Sheffield Steel Industry.John Brown and Company Ltd., General Description of the Works and Products of..Sheffield, Atlas Works, April 1924, oblong folio, colour frontis, illustrated throughout, quarter morocco (scuff to lower spine);idem, John Brown and Company Limited.Bedford Press, 1903, quarto, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt;[Wm. Jessop], Visit to a Sheffield Steelworks [Brightside Works].no date [1913 or later], quarto, original cloth;with a large quantity of other books, catalogues, pamphlets and magazines on Sheffield industries, including John Brown, Firth, Vickers, etc. (qty)

Eshton Hall, Gargrave.Day Book 1849 - 1851.A folio ledger with detailed accounts for the period, diary entries give more historical information and commentary than normally found in such accounts. Red and black manuscript. Vellum binding with some staining.Eshton Hall was owned at this time by Miss Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785 - 1861) who has been described as 'England's earliest female bibliophile'. Miss Currer had a library of more than 18,000 books at Eshton Hall and was visited by Dibdin who wrote '... with the exception of Althorpe, Chatsworth and Stowe, I know of no such collection in the country which can pretend to break a lance with it'. Charlotte Bronte was an admirer of Miss Currer and adopted her name as part of her pseudonym, Currer Bell. An archive of material relating to the hall is held by Leeds University.Extra images added to the Tennants website.

Greenwood (C. & J.).Atlas of the Counties of England from Actual Surveys made from the Years 1817 to 1833 by C. & J. Greenwood.Greenwood & Co. April 1st 1834, large folio, page size 65cm x 80.5cm, title page with hand-coloured general map, forty-six hand-coloured county maps of England and Wales, engraved by J. & C. Walker, later half morocco binding (cloth faded).

Mennie (Donald).The Pageant of Peking, Comprising Sixty-Six Vandyck Photogravures of Peking and Environs from Photographs, Shanghai: A.S. Watson, 1922, third edition, folio, 65 (of 66) mounted plates (lacking plate 39), worn cloth binding.

Pliny, the Elder. The Historie of the World, Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus.Adam Islip, 1601, folio, two books in one, lacking first title page and five other preliminary leaves (one a blank). Lacking all leaves after 'Byturos' in index of second volume (3J6), some worming and staining, early calf binding. [Not collated].

Audubon (John James).Birds of America. London:Natural History Museum, 2011, folio, original embossed cloth, slipcase;idem, The Birds of America (Bien Chromolithographic Edition).W. W. Norton; 2013, text by Joel Oppenheimer, large folio, original cloth, slipcase;Buffon (Georges-Louis LeClerc, Comte de), All the World's Birds, Buffon's Illustrated Natural History ...N.Y.: Rizzoli, 2008, large quarto, dust wrapper, slipcase (staining to slipcase);Gould (John), The Family of Toucans, The Complete Plates.Taschen, 2011, large folio, fifty-one individual fine art prints and accompanying book, housed in original solander box (scuffed);Lear (Edward), The Parrots, The Complete Plates.Taschen, 2009, large folio, forty-two individual fine art prints and accompanying book, housed in original solander box, two copies, one in publishers shrinkwrap. (6)

Ornithology.Morris (Frank T.), Pencil Drawings, 1969-78.Lansdowne Editions, 1978, numbered limited edition of 500 signed by the artist, large folio, 100 plates, full leather;Thorburn (Archibald), A Naturalist's Sketch Book.Longmans Green, 1919, quarto, 60 colour and monochrome plates, top edge gilt, original cloth;with six other volumes on birds. (8)

Houghton (Rev. W.).British Fresh-Water Fishes.William Mackenzie, no date [1879], two folio volumes, forty-one chromolitho. plates (Pike plate placed out of sequence), all edges gilt, half calf (bindings rubbed, occasional light foxing, previous owner's inscription to fly leaf).

Gerarde (John).The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson ... Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636, folio in eights and sixes, engraved title (laid down), [34], 1630, [48] pages, lacking [par.]1-3 (1 a blank) as well as final blank, staining, several marginal repairs and tears without loss of text, some illustrations with hand colouring, margins trimmed close with partial loss of running title, page number or fore-edge initials in a few places, some annotation, lower fore-edge of 4D4 trimmed into text, 2H1, 5N5 and 6T1 torn with basic repairs, 3D2 and 3D6 transposed, lower corner of 3O5 and centre of 5T1 torn (slightly affecting text), 7A3 bound out of sequence, repairs to 7A1 onwards (Table etc.) with loss of text in places, all edges gilt, full calf gilt with detached upper board and torn backstrip. [ESTC S122175]

WORLEDGE (John) Systema Agriculturae, The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered, folio, pp. [32, incl. additional engr. pictorial title preceded by explanatory leaf], 278, [6], full calf, L., Printed by T. Johnson for Samuel Speed, 1669; together with a defective copy of the 3rd Edn. of 1681 (2)First Edition, 1669. Wing W3598. Early owner inked name of Wm. Griffiths on title; printed blue label of Gloddaeth Library on front paste-down.

♦MITCHINER (Michael), Oriental Coins and Their Values [Vols. 1-3], a complete set of Mitchiner's three comprehensive guides to Eastern coins comprising: Vol. 1 The World of Islam (London, 1977); Vol.2 The Ancient & Classical World 600 B.C. - A.D. 650 (London, 1978) and Vol 3. Non-Islamic States & Western Colonies A.D. 600 - 1979 (London, 1979); a truly comprehensive guide with over 14,000 coins catalogued across the three volumes, with illustrations, lists of coin weights, and a guide to values at the time of writing RAREFolio, dark blue leatherette binding with gilt lettering

A 1951 Biggles Defies the Swastika by Capt W.E Jones, a signed Major Christopher Draper 'The Mad Major' book and other books and magazines to include Folio Society Location: A2F

A folio of assorted watercolours and engravingsLocation:

D. Napier and Son Ltd. A group of 5 confidential aviation reports, c. 1946-48, titles comprise 'Gas Turbines or Reciprocating Engines for Powering Transport Aircraft', 'The Aerodynamic Effects of Heat and Compressibility in the Internal Flow Systems of Aircraft', 'Wind Tunnel Investigation of "Naiad" Air Intakes, with Special Reference to the Design of Ducted Spinner', 'A Study of Various Aircraft Layouts Installing E.122 Engine' and 'The Influence of the Power Plant on the Design and Performance of Long-Range Transport Aircraft', mostly typescript copies with photographic prints of graphs and illustrations, etc., a few related letters and a few related sketches of experimental apparatus on tracing paper, etc., loosely inserted, stapled into Napier limp cloth folders with typed title labels to upper covers, folio, plus one further folder including various items including one further report, 'Basic Principles of Aircraft and Power Plant Design'QTY: (6)

Sixteen Anthony Trollope Folio Society books including Lady Anna. P&P Group 3 (£25+VAT for the first lot and £5+VAT for subsequent lots)

Inqvisilionum Ad Capellam Domini Regis Retornatarum in publis archivis Scotiae, Vols 1-III, pub 1811, folio, rebound; (3)

DYKES W.R., Notes on Tulip Species, edit E. Katherine Dykes, into by Sir A. Daniel Hall, pub Herbert Jenkins, London, first edition, 1930, folio, green cloth with D/W worn and stained; (1)

Full title: A large and varied collection of Chromos Liebig albums, 19th/20th C.Description:Folio. The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition. Please contact us to let us know which lots are of interest, so we can make the requested reports for you.Once complete, they will be published on our website.High resolution pictures are already available on our website at www.coronariauctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@coronariauctions.com

British School, 19th CenturyTwo folios of watercolours and sketches believed to be by George William Mercer Henderson (d.1881) of Fordell Castle. The approximately 190 works feature views of Italy, France, Germany, Scotland and England between 1848 and 1880, including views of Fordell castle itself.variously inscribed in pencil with dates and details of the locationswatercolour and pencilfolio size: 32 x 47cm (12 5/8 x 18 1/2in) and 34.6 x 47cm (13 5/8 x 18 1/2in). (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Slavery.- Act of Parliament for transferring to His Majesty certain Possessions and Rights vested in the Sierra Leone Company... and for preventing any dealing or trafficking in the buying and selling of Slaves within the Colony of Sierra Leone, 2 ff., extract pp.[285]-287, 1807; An Act for rendering more effectual... An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 3ff., extract pp.[245]-450, 1811; together with c.50 other Acts of Parliament, some lightly foxed or with marginal light browning, loose, Eyre and Strahan, small folio (c.50)⁂ Other topics covered in the Acts here together from the reign of George III, include: the East India Company and Indian territories (c.10), Naval matters (2), the Quakers (1), smuggling (1), relating to relations with America and Canada (c.10), relating to plantations and trade, across America, Canada, the West Indies, and others including of tobacco, run, sugar, silks and others (c.30) and a few domestic affairs such as the marriage of lunatics and the stealing of turnips.

NO RESERVE Slavery.- Papers relating to the Slave Trade... Correspondence between the Admiralty and Naval Officers..., 35 pp., peripheral ff. with some light surface soiling, otherwise a few isolated spots, un-bound, small folio, ordered, by the House of Commons, 1828.⁂ Correspondence extracts relative to the suppression of the slave trade, with references to vessels located off St Thomas, Jamaica, Cuba, Brazil, Chile, Cape coast, Sierra Leone. Parliamentary papers of this early date, prior to 1835 when they were made more generally available, are scarce.

Slavery.- Slaves. Protectors of Slaves Reports; Demerara, Berbice, Trinidad, St Lucia, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, vol. XV, original cloth, paper label to spine, surface soiling, one or two small stains or manuscript markings, folio, ex-libris Home Office, 1830-31.⁂ Amazingly detailed reports from the officials appointed by the British government to monitor the conditions and treatment of slaves in each colony, and to serve as a point to collect and relay details of grievances. Contains a wealth of detail on individual plantations and indeed individual slaves and their punishments. Parliamentary papers prior to 1835, when they were made more generally available, are scarce.