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Winston Churchill: 'The World Crisis', Folio Society, 2007, 5 vols, complete box set in original slipcase (slightly worn); 'A History of the English Speaking Peoples', Folio Society, 2003, 4 vols, complete in slipcase; 'My Early Life A Roving Commission', Folio Society, 2007, slipcase (10)

Stanhope ALfred Tollemache (b.1855, Helmingham Hall, Debenham, Suffolk, d.1934, Bentley Manor, Ipswich), a large folio scrap album containing 95 pages of mounted manuscript letters/correspondence, cuttings and manuscript notes etc, circa 1870's-1920's, much content relating to local Suffolk agriculture and estate management, Helmingham and environs, as well as Ham, Cheshire, Grantham etc, due to connection with other Tollemache family estates, items include Autograph Letter signed from Sir John Bennet Lawes (1814-1900), agricultural scientist, to Stanhope Tollemache, December 29 96, Rothamsted St Albans headed paper, 2 1/4pp, content re agricultural matters; ALS Charles Hanbury-tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley, to Stanhope Tollemache, 1916, Ormeley Lodge, Ham Common headed paper; manuscript letter on Royal Gardens Kew embossed headed paper dated 17 August 1898 "Dear Sir, The cones sent for identification are those of the "Cluster Pine", Pinus Pinastera native of South Europe, not of New Zealand. The plant in question must have introduced in the latter country", with another leaf with some books on trees written in the same hand mounted alongside, and another letter from Royal Gardens Kew similar, some other pencil notes on plants and flowers below, and at foot of page m/s not "the plants recommended by Lady Agnes"; other notes, entries, cuttings etc on a wide range of subjects, mainly relating to natural history and agriculture, Helmingham cricket, sale of brewery, Suffolk licenced Victuallers annual dinner, Bentley Manor inspection of rams, electrical lighting, cost of thatching, manuscript notes headed "John 1st Baron Tollemache notes on his policy in respect to Estate Management", tithes, family marriages and deaths, letter from Ipswich solicitors re estate water rights, letters/notes about Dodnash Priory Farm, Bentley, and the Austinian Friars, on headed paper, notes on statue of Perseus, Helmingham Garden, funeral lieut B.H. Tollemache killed great war cuttings, death of John 1st Baron Tollemache cuttings, large folding printed document Royal Commission on Agriculture Particulars of Estate Expenditure estate of Helmingham Rt Hon Lord Tollemache 1872, with manuscript entries, letter from Ipswich solicitors regarding if liable to pay a servant "Re Gertrude. cook. who was taken from Ipswich to Bournemouth", leases, surrenders, etc etc, manuscript index page at front, bound in 20th century half cloth over patterned paper covered boards, calf label attached to spine with S.A.T. (Stanhope Alfred Tollemache) initials in gilt

A circa late 19th Century photograph album containing approximately 18 albumen print and other photographs of India, in the historical regions of Bengal/Jharkand/Bihar, images include Jubilee day at Berhampore (3); grand colonial house/villa captioned 'Surda' [Jharkand]; image captioned 'Darjeeling from Jellapahar Road', with houses amongst hills and trees visible in foreground and snow capped Himalaya in distance (approx 23 x 19cm), plus 4 others Darjeeling including from Botanical Gardens and 'Darjeeling, sunset on Kinchinjunga [Kangchenjunga]', these images all with neat contemporary m/s pen & ink captions beneath, all relatively large size (sunset Kangchenjunga aprox 18 x 30cm); others uncaptioned colonial mansion/estate scenes; plus 12 images of Venice; 3 of Tenby, Wales; 1 of Suez canal, these all captioned beneat, mainly 22 x 28cm, folio, old calf gilt album (slightly worn), all edges gilt

Folio Society, a collection of 27 assorted volumes, including Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales illustrated W. Heath Robinson; Myths & Legends of India; Legends of King Arthur; A History of Venice; Dee Brown 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'; The Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery Collection, 4 volumes in slipcase, etc (27)

Edward Tuite Dalton: 'Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal', Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing', 1872, 1st edition, 40 lithograph portrait plates as called for, comprising frontispiece 'The Rest at Noon' depicting a group of Oraons taken at Ranchi by Tosco Peppe, plus 39 other, lithograph portrait plates from photos by Tosco Peppe & Sir Benjamin Simpson, each with corresponding descriptive printed tissue guard, final few plates with marginal waterstaining/ slight soiling, VI, 327 + (12)pp index at end, folio, contemporary half green morocoo (worn), rebacked retaining original backstrip , inner joints reinforces, original marbled end papers, verso FFEP with comtemporary signature/ inscription '*** Peppe Katc Chola Nagpore (?)', appears to be signature of either Tosco Peppe or another member of Peppe family, replenished front and rear blanks. The term Bengal in Dalton's time referred to what are now the Indian states of Bihar, Orissa, West- Bengal, Jharkhand, tripura, Assam, Arunacha/ Pradesh, Megalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland, and the present day country of Bangladesh. A rare and important work by the irish born Soldier & Anthropologist colonel Edward Tuite Dalton (1815- 1880), a geographically precise description of the lands and people with each tribe described by Dalton and portrayed in stunning lithographs. Possibly one of only 100 copies printed, and also stated in preface of Herbert hope Risley's ethnologies of British Colonial India that 'the book is now a rare one, I am infirmed that they entire stock was destroyed by an unfortunate accident some years ago'

A collection of books on Norfolk church architecture & ecclesiastical art, etc, including: Richard Taylor: 'Index Monasticus, or, The abbeys and other monasteries, alien priories, friaries, colleges, collegiate churches, and hospitals with their dependencies : formerly established in the Diocese of Norwich and the ancient kingdom of East Anglia / systematically arranged and briefly described, according to the respective orders and denominations in each county, and illustrated by maps of Suffolk, Norfolk, and the city of Norwich, and the arms of religious houses', London, 1821, large paper copy, folding engraved view of Norwich + plate of arms + folding engraved plan of Norwich + 2 flding engraved maps hand coloured in outline of Norfolk & Suffolk as called for, large folio, contemporary half calf gilt, rebacked retaining backstrip. Scarce; MAURICE DRAKE: THE COSTESSEY COLLECTION OF STAINED GLASS, FORMERLY IN THE POSSESSION OF GEORGE WILLIAM JERNINGHAM, 8TH BARON STAFFORD OF COSTESSEY IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK, intro Aymer Vallance, Exeter, William Pollard, 1920, 1st edition, 25 plates including 6 coloured as called for, folio, original cloth backed boards gilt, formerly from the library of the late Ron Fiske of North Walsham and Morningthorpe Manor, esteemed local historian, bibliophile and collector, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Scarce; 'Ranworth Rood Screen, Norfolk. Drawn by R.O. Pearson; Hawtrey J. Enraght, vicar.', [Ranworth , c. 1910?], 23 unnumbered leaves of plates, housed loose in old card folio, mounted illustration to front cover. Scarce; FARRER, Rev. Edmund: 'List of Norfolk Monumental Brasses', Norwich 1890, large paper copy, limited to 40 copies only, author ALS loosely inserted stating 40 large paper copies at 5/- each etc, headed Rickinghall, Diss, original printed paper covered boards, rebacked (not recent), m/s title to spine; Edward F. Strange: 'The Rood-Screen of Ranworth Church', Ranworth Vicarage, The Rev. Hawtrey J. Enraght, [1902], original cloth backed boards; plus 4 others including Norwich Cathedral Medieval Roof Carvings etc. From the colelction of Father Peter Harris (9)

Tom Oldham (photographer): 'ON/OFF', War Child, c.2015, collection of photographs of singers, rock groups etc by Oldham, published in support of the charity War Child, large folio, original boards, slipcase

A victorian photograph album circa 1860's/ 70's containing approx 75 mounted albumen print photographs of India & Ceylon (Sri Lanka), some images of Ceylon by Skeen & Co, including waterfront/ harbour view, numbered 1219, plus portrait photo of lady captioned in pencil to mount 'Kandian Lady' numbered 1203, others portraits of people including 'Singhalese Man', 'Tamil Girl', etc, some topographical views including 'kandy from Lady Horton's Walk;, Grand Hotel Mt Lavinia, near Columbo, 'View from Mount Lavinia hotel' showing railway line hugging coastline, group photograph of local musicians in tribal / ceremonial dress, rural scenes depicting tea plantations and factories, several group photos depicting European colonial inhabitants, in Eastern India, large colonial Estate, Birdpore Estate, Piprahwa, India, Estate of William Peppe and family neat the Nepal Franker, on which a Buddhist Stupa was found containing Buddhist relics, possibly of the Buddha himself, or those of his Kingsmen, images include view villa with gentleman posied in tennis court, group photos depicting colonial and and indigenous inhabitants together, military etc, images approx 7 x 9cm- 22 x 27cm, mainly larger images, a few with pencil captions to mount, oblong folio album, contemporary decorative calf (a/f), some areas of insect damage causeing large losses to front cover

[John Worlidge]: 'Systema Agriculturae; The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered', London, T. Dring et al, 1675, 2nd edition, engraved frontispiece, printed "Explanation of the Frontispiece" preceding, printed general title page, woodcut illustrations, additional printed title pages for 'Kalendarium Rusticum' & 'Dictionarum Rusticum', [36],324,[4]pp, folio, contemporary calf worn (boards detached but present). The first book published by Worlidge, one of the first British Agriculturists to discuss the importance of farming as an industry, this being one of the earliest works to consider the crop of turnips

A small collection on Norfolk & Suffolk architecture, Country Houses etc, including Basil Oliver: ''Old Houses and Village Buildings in East Anglia', 1912, profusely illustrated with collotype plates from photographs & numerous ills. in text throughout, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt; H. Munro Cautley: 'Norfolk Churches', Ipswich, 1979, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper depicting Ringland Church, after Albert Ribbans; Claude J.W. Messent A.R.I.B.A., 4 titles: 'The Old Cottages and Farm-Houses of Norfolk', 1928, first edition, original cloth, 'The Ruined Churches of Norfolk', 1931, 1st edition, original cloth (worn), 'The Monsatic Remains of Norfolk & Suffolk', 1934, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'The Weather Vanes of Norfolk & Norwich', 1937, 1st edition, all illustrated throughout; plus 'Burke's & Savills Guide to Country Houses Volume III. East Anglia', 1981, 1st edition, profusely illustrated from photos throughout, folio, original cloth, dust wrapper. From the collection of Father Peter Harris (7)

Philip Morant: 'The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex, compiled from the best and most ancient Historians', London, T. Osborne et al, 1768, 2 volumes, 9 engraved folding maps + engraved plan + 23 engraved plates (of which some large folding, including the often lacking Audley End plate) as called for, folio, handsome contemporary full calf gilt, rebacked retaining spine gilt in compartments, early 18th Century ownership signatures of John Deeley, Battlesbridge Mill, Rawreth, plus armorial bookplates of Henry Drummond (1786-1860) of Albury Park, to front pastedowns. An internally crisp copy of Morant's accomplished county history of Essex (2)

A Victorian Police ledger/log book, Uckfield, Sussex, with over 400 pages of manuscript entries dated July 1886 to April 1890, each page with printed headings and columns, these comprising Day and Date; On Duty/Off Duty at; Visited the Parishes and Places below named; Time of visiting; No. of Miles from Station; Whom I reported myself to at each place; Public Houses and Beer Shops visited. The time of remaining there and for what purpose; State of the Weather; Occurences and Remarks, some of the manuscript entries in Occurences and remarks column including "17th [July 1886] further information of attempted murder at Chailey £2.5- Reward", "25th --- of warrant against Arthur Hadland for Bastardy at Hailsham. also as warrant --- James Mitchell for leaving his wife at Cuckfield, also...against John Durrant at Eastbourne. Also of warrant against George Rich for leaving his wife and family & family at Hailsham, also...against William Philcox for drunkenness at Battle, also Patrick Harrington in custody on suspicion of stealing a coat at Eastbourne...", other warrants described for embezzlement, game trespass, stolen plough chains, burglary, stolen carriage apron and wire netting, "went to Grantham Lincolnshire and apprehended George McKinley on warrant charged with maliciously wounding a horse[?] the property of Sir Spencer Wilson...", burglary at Hurst Pierpoint Post Office, "fouls killed at Hailsham £2 reward", assault, watches stolen at Brighton, etc etc, many of the notes in this column about visiting various stations in Sussex including Framfield, Danehill, Buxted, Fairwarp, Fletching, Nutley, etc, also attending services and special sessions etc, a/f, folio, old vellum lower board, lacks upper board and backstrip

Robert Taylor & others: 'The Air Combat Paintings of Robert Taylor', 1989-2009, 6 volumes, various publishers and printings, profusely colour illustrated, oblong folio, uniform original cloth gilt, dust wrappers (6)

John Sell Cotman: 'Specimens of Architectural Remains in Various Counties of England, but principally in Norfolk, with descriptive notices by Dawson Turner and Architectural Observations by Thomas Rickman', London, Henry G. Bohn, 1838, 4 series in 2 volumes, engraved portrait, engraved dedication plate, two added engraved title pages and 190 engraved plates as called for (Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, A Series of Etchings, 60; Specimens of Norman & Gothic Remains in Norfolk, 50; Castellated & Ecclesiastical Remains in Norfolk, 50; Architectural Remains in York, Cambridge, Suffolk, Lincoln, Essex, North Wales, 30), series 1 slight marginal damp staining to series 2-4 persistent damp staining, mainly marginal but also affecting plates, large folio, old half Morocco gilt, slightly worn and some staining to boards, top edges gilt. From the collection of Father Peter Harris (2)

Henry Avray Tipping & Christopher Hussey: 'English Homes - Norman & Plantagenent; Early Tudor; Mediaeval & Early Tudor; Late Tudor & Early Stuart; Late Stuart; Sir John Vanbrugh & His School; Early Georgian; Late Georgian.', London, Country Life, 1921-1937, 9 volume complete set, volume 2 (Period II Vol.1) 1929, 2nd edition, volume 4 (Period III Vol.1) 1929, 2nd edition, volume 6 (Period IV Vol.1) 1929, 2nd impression, volume 9 (Period VI) unobtrusive ex institutional markings at front, profusely illustrated with photographic illustrations throughout, folio, original blue cloth gilt, volumes 2-7 in dust wrappers. Henry Avray Tipping FSA (22 August 1855 – 16 November 1933) was a French-born British writer on country houses and gardens, a garden designer, and Architectural Editor of Country Life magazine for 17 years. Christopher Edward Clive Hussey (21 October 1899 – 20 March 1970) was one of the chief authorities on British domestic architecture of the generation that also included Dorothy Stroud and Sir John Summerson. This major venture was a collaboration between Hussey and Tipping, his mentor and predecessor at Country Life magazine. Together with two Gertrude Jekyll titles. From the collection of Father Peter Harris, with his bookplates to front pastedowns (11).

(Essex, Audley End), Henry Winstanley: '[Ground Plans, Elevations & particular Prospects of the Royal Palace of Audley End]', 21 magnificent engraved views of Audley End, (of which 5 double page or large multi-folding approx 51 x 57cm-51 x 86cm, and 16 single page approx 30 x 51cm), this comprising a complet set of the Kip restrikes [c.1725], lacking as always 3 plates of the original and dedications, many plates with the original Littlebury imprint, and without the Kip numbering (33-53) which Upcott, Essex XII says was applied to restrikes, a few margins just trimmed, folio (51 x 32.5cm), old drab wrappers, rebacked, m/s pen & ink title "Audley End" to top wrap. Born in Saffron Walden, Essex, in 1644, Henry Winstanley is best known for building Edystone Lighthouse and accumulating a bewildering array of gadgets and designs at his house in Littlebury, Essex. Winstanley developed an interest in engraving after a grand tour of Europe between 1669 and 1674, where he was impressed by Continental architecture and the engravings in which it was portrayed. On his return he is believed to have studied engraving with Wenceslas Hollar, and was employed at Audley End House as assistant to the Clerk of Works. In 1676 he embarked upon a detailed set of architectural engravings of Audley End House, which took him ten years to complete. First published in 1686 from his house at Littlebury, and later reissued as a supplement to the Britannia illustrata of Johannes Kip c.1725 as here, they form an important early record of English Manor House Architecture. His greatest work proved fatal to himself, as he completed the lighthouse for Edystone Rock but lost his life during the night of 26 November 1793, when a storm broke and carried the structure with Winstanley in it off the rock. The fine engravings comprise the multi-folding 'A General Prospect of the Royal Palace of Audlyene','A full Prospect of the Innermost Court', 'The Prospect of the South Side of the great Court', and 'The Prospect of the Bowling-greene side', etc. A very scarce work that seldom appears at auction, only very minor foxing to some plates, else generally plates very clean/VGC condition

James Basire after Charles Stothard, The Bayeux Tapestry, London, Society of Antiquaries, 1819-1823, 16 (of 17) large format hand coloured engravings (the 16 plates present depict the Bayeux tapestry in its entirety, the lacking plate (No 17) being a close up of image of one part of the tapestry), oblong folio (54 x 76cm), contemporary half calf gilt (worn)

Frederick Ross: 'The Ruined Abbeys of Britain', London, William Mackenzie, 1882, 2 volumes, 12 coloured plates as called for, plus black & white engraved ills. in text, all after drawings by A.F. Lydon, folio, original blindstamped pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt. From the collection of Father Peter Harris (2)

Folio of mostly 17th and 18th Century engravings, pencil sketches, etc., to include studies after Titian "In the Duke of Marlborough's Gallery at Blenheim", Dutch Old Masters, etc.

JOHN ADEY REPTON: NORWICH CATHEDRAL AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Farnborough, Gregg Press 1965 (1000), (494), original elephant folio, cloth gilt, slip case

FOLIO SOCIETY: 21 assorted vols all in slip cases, quantity 21

FOLIO SOCIETY: 18 assorted titles all in slip cases, quantity 18

A folio of watercolours, cathedral interior, Italian Harbour, Still Life; Rocky River; others

An interesting folio of watercolours and drawings, various subjects, figurative studies, still life, etc

Peter Pan & Wendy Large Book, by J M Barrie, illustrated by Debra McFarlane. Printed on Caxton Wove paper by St Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds. Book housed in outer case. This large-format Folio edition takes its inspiration from the most beautiful children's books of the Edwardian era. Artist Debra McFarlane's 12 exquisite watercolours illustrate the edition, alongside 23 integrated black-and-white ink drawings including a detailed map of Neverland. With pale blue endpapers printed with a design by the artist, and a silver blocked buckram binding, this is a book to treasure and hand down for generations to come.

Bills.- Rochester.- Warrant by John Dulinge Mayor of Rochester and Admiral of the River Medway to John Fisher water bailiff ordering all businesses and fisherman to assemble "to pforme all such things wh belong to ye sayd office of water baliffe", manuscript in English, 18 lines, remains of wax seal, folds, edges chipped slightly affecting a few letters, 160 x 302mm., 1624; and a collection of bills and warrants for payment, many for provisions for the Watts Charity House, Rochester, manuscripts, folds, creased and browned, some edges chipped, folio et infra, 1631, 1667, 1684, 1701-69 (c. 75 pieces).

Arithmetic.- Waller (John) The Golden Rule, manuscript, 72pp., ruled in red, first f. soiled, torn with small loss, browned throughout, edges chipped, original wrappers defective, lacks upper c over, folio, 1801; and another, a manuscript copy of Sir Charles Hanbury's poem to Sir Hans Sloane, 3pp., watermarked 1803, v.s., v.d. (2).

NO RESERVE Wickedness.- Knight (William) A Concordance Axiomaticall, Containing a survey of theologicall propositions: With their reasons and uses in holie Scripture.., first and only edition, text in 3 columns, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, title and endpaper lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, joints and extremities rubbed and worn, small folio, for John Bill, 1610.⁂ Only edition of this rare theological treatise in alphabetical order on hundreds of core beliefs and fundamental statements of the Christian faith related to passages of the Bible by their Reason and Use, as the middle columns of each page read. The entries on Jews (over 6pp.) and the Wicked (32pp.) reveal the author's sympathies for the Puritans. Women hardly cover two pages but tend to be of a reproving character. This concordance of axioms was of course intended to be used by ministers in preparing their sermons, and gives the axioms, or doctrines, in plain vernacular phrases.

Complete Farmer (The): Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry, fourth edition, engraved frontispiece and 34 plates, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title, frontispiece and title browned, some marginal finger-soiling, damp-staining to final few leaves, endpapers with scattered spotting, modern half calf, spine gilt, lightly rubbed, [Goldsmiths' 15586], folio, for T. Longman & others, 1793.

NO RESERVE Child Employment.- Report of the Minutes of Evidence ... On the State of the Children employed in the Manufactories of the United Kingdom, plates, occasional pencil underlining and marks, small tear to title, neat tape repair, 1816; Report from the Committee On Employment of Boys in Sweeping of Chimnies, occasional marginal pencil marks, 1817; Second Report of The Central Board of His Majesty's Commissioners ... as to the Employment of Children in Factories ..., loss to bottom corner of final leaf, neat tissue repair, 1833; Supplementary Report of the Central Board ... as to the Employment of Children in Factories, 2 vol., folding tables, 1834, scattered spotting, ex-library with usual labels and stamps, uniform modern cloth, blind-stamp to upper covers, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, folio (5).

NO RESERVE Bible, English. The Holy Bible, with A Devotional and Practical Commentary, Containing the Old and New Testaments, 2 vol. bound in one, edited by Rev. Robert Jamieson and Rev. Edward Henry Bickersteth, engraved frontispieces, additional vignette titles, many full-page engraved plates, 2 colour lithographic maps of Palestine and Egypt, printed in double columns, family records for marriages, births and deaths blank, spotting and foxing to some text and margins and versos of plates, toning to pages and leaf edges, contemporary full-morocco, gilt, spines gilt decorated within compartments, boards rubbed and scuffed, extremities bumped, inner dentelles, gilt, g.e., contents tightly bound, boards and spine detached, folio, Virtue and Co., [c. 1861]

Lawrence (D.H.) The Captain's Doll, first American edition, Harry Truman's copy with his pencil signature, cracked hinges, ex-library with ink-stamp to title verso, Harry Truman pamphlet loosely inserted, original cloth, rubbed and worn, bumping and chipping to corners and extremities, New York, 1923; The Ship of Death and Other Poems, title vignette and illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, scattered spotting, occasional neat strengthening at gutter, contemporary morocco-backed boards, 1933; The White Peacock, first edition, second impression, cracked hinges, ex-library with labels and ink-stamps, original cloth, bumping to corners and extremities, 1911; and others by the same, 8vo & folio (c.115)

NO RESERVE Times Literary Supplement, 11 vol., ex-library with labels and ink-stamps, contemporary morocco-backed boards, library blind-stamps to upper covers, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, 1935-45; sold as a periodical, not subject to return

NO RESERVE Exposition Universelle.- Walton (William) Chefs-D'Oeuvre de l'Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1889, 10 vol., c.100 plates, most photogravure and in two states, tissue-guards, chipping to margins, silk end papers frayed and torn, loose as issued in original cloth-back boards, splitting to spines, rubbed, folio, 1889; sold not subject to return.

Folio Society.- Kipling (Rudyard) Just So Stories for Little Children, one of an edition limited to 1000 copies with an original etching by Niroot Puttapipat, signed and numbed by the artist, 14 colour plates by Puttapipat, tipped-in, original vellum-backed pictorial boards, housed within original presentation cloth drop-back box, 4to, The Folio Society, 2012.

Hale (Thomas) A Compleat Body of Husbandry, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, one folding, bookplate removed from pastedown, contemporary ink ownership signatures to pastedown, light staining but overall a very good clean copy, 20th century calf with contemporary calf covers laid down (worn), red morocco spine label, [Fussell I pp.37-38; Goldsmiths' 9099; Kress 5528; Perkins 737], folio, for T.Osborne and J.Shipton, 1756.

Grasses.- Amos (William) Minutes in Agriculture and Planting...Illustrated with Specimens, first edition, leaves of grass samples showing 10 samples in total, 2 leaves of corresponding hand-coloured plates, 7 engraved folding plates, each page with upper corner or margin excised and restored, some spotting or browning, modern morocco-backed boards, trimmed though not affecting text, corners bumped, otherwise a sharp and crisp copy, [Fussell III pp.11-12], Boston [Lincolnshire], J. Hellaby, 1804; and 2 others, grass samples, 4to & folio (3)

Bacon (Sir Francis) Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall History. In Ten Centuries, sixth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional pictorial title, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, contemporary ink inscription to verso of title, additional title and a couple of gatherings working loose, occasional damp-staining and light soiling, modern calf, very lightly rubbed, [Gibson 176; Wing B327], folio, J. F. for William Lee, 1651.

Perrault (Claude) Memoirs for a Natural History of Animals, first English edition, 2 parts in 1, translated by Alexander Pitfeild, title in red and black, 35 engraved plates, woodcut tail-pieces, lacking additional engraved title, some light mainly marginal damp-staining (including to some plates), endpapers renewed, modern half calf, [Wing P1667; Nissen ZBI 3125], folio, Joseph Streater, for T. Basset et al., 1688.⁂ First English edition of an important work of comparative biology, first published by the French Académie des Sciences in 1671-1676. Memoirs was translated by Alexander Pitfeild, and The Measure of Earth (part 2, with separate title page) by Richard Waller, both Fellows of the Royal Society.

NO RESERVE Railways.- Great Northern Railway (Newark and Leicester) Bill. Midland Railway (Nottingham and Rushton) Bill. Minutes of Evidence and Speeches, scattered spotting, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, contemporary half-calf, upper cover and first few leaves detached, blind-stamp to upper cover, rubbed and worn, Westminster, [1872] § London and South Western Railway Illustrated Guide, [c.1887], bound before, Metropolitan Railway Illustrated Guide, [c.1887], together 11 Illustrated Guides bound as 1 vol. illustrations, advertisements, original wrappers bound-in, the first is chipped and with marginal loss, one leaf with tear into text, ex-library with usual labels and ink-stamps, upper cover and first few leaves becoming detached, later cloth, paper label to upper cover, rubbed and worn; and 4 others, railways, folio & 8vo (6)

NO RESERVE Alexander (J.J.G., editor) A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6 vol. in 9 [a complete set], illustrations, some colour and tipped-in, margins slightly toned, vol. 6 with hinges weak, original cloth, lightly rubbed, 1975-96; with a duplicate of vol. 3, folio (10)⁂ The 6 vol. in 9 comprising: Alexander (J.J.G.) Insular Manuscripts 6th-9th Century; Temple (E.) Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066; Kauffmann (C.M.) Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190; Morgan (N.J.) Early Gothic Manuscripts, 2 vol., 1190-1285; Sandler (L.F.) Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, 2 vol.; Scott (K.L.) Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, 2 vol.

Cast iron trade catalogue.- de Prins van Oranje (Ijzergieterij) Album van Ijzerwerken, metaalwerken, machinerien..., 2 vol., 100 lithograph plates, 97 double-page, one large folding and two tinted, original publisher's boards, rather worn and discoloured, spines splitting and cracked with some loss, folio, The Hague, Wed. E. Spanier & Zoon, [1865 & 1868]⁂ A scarce and beautifully presented trade catalogue of the major Dutch iron foundry the 'Prince of Orange' with a huge variety of product.The plates depict various gates, fences, banisters and balustrades, garden furniture, ovens and stoves, movable iron bridges, town pumps, skylights, paddle wheels, horizontal steam engines, umbrella stands, fire grates, lamp posts, brackets, band saws, drilling machines, iron framework for buildings, stable fittings, dockyard crane, door furniture, window frames, columns, a canal dredger, cast iron daybeds, street lanterns, Archimedes' screw, and sanitary fittings.

Furniture design.- Bertin (Léon) Meubles Modernes, 40 lithographic plates, some with short marginal tears or discolouring though not affecting image, loose as issued,original cloth-backed folder with linen ties, (lacking one pair), lightly rubbed and worn, cloth frayed, Paris, Ch. Juliot, [c.1890]; and 2 others, similar, folio (3)⁂ Leon Bertin, an author of several works on furniture design collaborated for this publication on the latest trends with several French manufacturers and designers. The colour plates are reproductions of technical drawings, characterized by the omission of central perspective. They clearly testify the the influence of British arts-and-crafts and the early stages of French art nouveau. The eclecticism and historicism of earlier decades has been moulded into one aesthetics, which is as well caused by the use of machines in the furniture industry which rules out certain overladen and complex patterns.OCLC locates only a single copy, at Cambridge University.

Trade catalogues.- Ornamental metal or ironwork.- Robert (Emile) Travaux de Ferronnerie Moderne, 40 phototype plates, loose as issued, original cloth-backed portfolio, cotton ties (lower one lacking), slightly discoloured and rubbed, Paris, Librarie Générale de l'architecture et des arts décoratifs, 1912 § Zukov., text in Czech, German, French, Russian and English, 36 original mounted black and white and 8 colour photographs, 2 pages photographic reproductions, original black plastic with hole-punch binding, Zavody Umelecke Kovovyrobyn, Brno, Zukov, [1965] § Fontaine (Joseph), Vaillant and Ferte. Serrurerie Ornée pour Batiment, 19 double-page lithographic plates, some short marginal tears, one plate with torn corner, another loose, original pebble-grain cloth, rather rubbed, Paris, [F. Goyer] for Fontaine, Vaillant & Ferté, [c.1887]; and 4 others, ironwork trade catalogues, folio or oblong folio (6)

Ambrosius Mediolanensis, Saint. Omnia quotquot extant D. Ambrosii episcopi Mediolanensis opera, edited by Erasmus of Rotterdam, 5 parts in 2 vol., titles with woodcut printer's device, part 4 lacking title, part 5 lacking colophon with printer's device, index to part 5 bound at end of part 3, vol. 2 initial leaves worn at lower fore-edge corner (no text loss), some very light damp-staining, contemporary vellum over parchment, toned, vol. 1 upper cover small chips to vellum, vol. 2 tear at upper joint foot and lower cover portion of vellum lost with worming to exposed parchment, Basel, [for Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius], 1555; and 2 other C17th similar, folio and small 4to (4)

The Fourth Phoenix Folio of Reproductions, incomplete; H Alken, after, The Wrong Sort; another, The Right Sort; F C Turner, after, Vale of Aylesbury Steeple Chase, plates 1 - 4; reproduction maps, Cheshire, Oxfordshire, Stafford, Norfolk; others

The first folio of Shakespeare, The Norton facsimile, 1996 second edition, in slip case

Richard Norman Shaw - Architectural Sketches from the Continent, published 1872, folio, cloth binding, leaves detached

Owen Jones - The Grammar of Ornament, folio edition, pub. Bernard Quaritch, 1868, with 112 fine colour lithographic plates including some by Christopher Dresser. Bookplate for George Frederick Watts, R.A.Binding is generally ok, some bruising to extremities, contents with some spotting to pages, time staining throughout

Three boxes of Folio Society books

Good collection of Folio Society books (3 boxes)

Collection of Folio Society books. (3 boxes)

Box of Folio Society books

WWI German folio of photographic prints, Aus Den Kriegsgefangenen- Lagen circa 1917. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Photograph Album: 1910-1911British, Belgian and French, oblong folio; half leather, covers detached

BOX OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS, VARIOUS EPHEMERA, HERALDIC PLAQUES AND OTHER ITEMS

Modern British, a folio of assorted works including oil on paper portraits, and watercolour still life together with a few earlier works, largest 46 x 42cm 23 works.

G. Borelli of Rome. A folio of photographs of antiquities and historical artefacts, together with an etching by Hedley Fitton, overall 49 x 38cm

Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), 'The Great War, 100 cartoons', published by the Fine Art Society 1916, limited edition reprint in folio case Condition: Book contains hand-written inscription by the author/artist, to a Mr George Pullman, dated 1925, before the title page - see image. Book in good condition; case poor, flaps torn, edges with tape repairs.

THE NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE. A FACSIMILE OF THE TEXT OF THE FIRST FOLIO OF 1623 THREE VOLUMES