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The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds by William T. Cooper & Joseph M. Forshaw, published Collins 1979 large folio with many full page colour plates and text illustrations bound in cloth with original dust-wrapper & cloth slipcase with title label. Parrots of The World by Joseph M. Forshaw illustrated by William T. Cooper published David & Charles 1978 second edition revised with almost 500 birds illustrated in colour in cloth with colour dust-wrapper (2)   

Raymond Ching The Bird Paintings, Watercolours and Pencil Drawings 1969-1975 with Text by David Snow, A.H. Chisholm & M.F. Soper, published Collins 1978 first edition with reproductions of 24 colour paintings and 31 black & white illustrations hardbound, in dustwrapper and matching slipcase. Folio.  

F.C. Stern A Study of The Genus Paeonia with 15 illustrations in colour by Lilian Snelling and drawings by Lilian Snelling & Stella Ross-Craig, published The Royal Horticultural Society 1946 first edition folio in original gilt cloth (top corner bumped)   

[SIGNED] Poem of The Month Club, a series of 12 individual broadsheet poems each signed by its respective poet, printed by John Roberts Press (1970) contributions by Robert Graves, Philip Larkin, Stephen Spender. C. Day-Lewis, George Barker, Anthony Thwaite, Elizabeth Jennings, Norman MacCaig, John Fuller, Roy Fuller, Stevie Smith and Peter Porter. Each poem signed in ink beneath, loose in a cloth backed folder. [The 12 Poems offered here made up folio "The First" - with several other folios to follow, each with 12 Poems, with around 500 subscribers for each folio]  

Pears Christmas Annuals for 1912-1921 and 1923 folio magazines illustrated with colour plates by A. Wallis Mills, Hope Read, Ernest H. Shepard, H.M. Bateman, Leon Bakst, Mabel Lucie Attwell, John Hassall, Frank Reynolds, H.M. Brock, Charles Robinson, W. Heath Robinson, Steven Spurrier etc, bound in original wrappers (some wear), also included are a number of the separate presentation plates including colour prints by W. Russell Flint "The Bloom of Youth", John Everett Millais "The Boyhood of Raleigh" and "Bubbles"; F.D. Millet "Between Two Fires", William Affleck, Frank O. Salisbury & another after Sheridan Knowles

William Rickatson Dykes Notes On Tulip Species edited & illustrated by E. Katherine Dykes and introduction by Sir A. Daniel Hall published Herbert Jenkins 1930 first edition folio containing 54 full-page colour plates bound in gilt lettered cloth  

Gravetye Manor or Twenty Years' Work round an Old Manor House being an Abstract from the Tree and Garden Book of Gravetye Manor Sussex, kept by the owner William Robinson, published John Murray 1911 first edition folio with etched frontispiece and other illustrations. Bound in full limp vellum with gilt title and ties   

William Rickatson Dykes The Genus Iris with 47 coloured drawings by F.H. Round, one coloured plate of seeds by Miss R.M. Cardew and 30 line drawings by C.W. Johnson, published Cambridge: at the University Press 1913 first edition folio, coloured plates all with protective guards in Morocco backed cloth boards with gilt titles   

Charters of The Cinque Ports, Two Ancient Towns, and their Members Translated into English with Annotations Historical and Critical thereupon by Samuel Jeake, printed for Bernard Lintot 1728 folio in full leather (worn). Sir Thomas Mantell's New Editions of Tracts Relative to Cinque Ports and Coronations from 1771 to 1828 printed by Z. Warren 1828 in boards with printed label (worn and covers detached). The Loss of The Ship "Northfleet" with Photographs of The Vessel, Romney Church, Captain and Mrs. Knowles etc  A complete account of all connected with the Sad Disaster, published 1873 in gilt letter cloth (3)   

A quantity of Folio Society books.

P Francis Hunt. Orchidaceae, with coloured plates, after drawings by Mary A Grierson, folio, velum bound, with suitcase, published by The Bourton Press, 1973, inside cover having front presentation cacografic plate and autographs of the presenters.

Perry, George Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells London: William Miller, [c.1823 (text for plate 1 watermarked 1823)]. Folio, 61 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary green morocco, sides with gilt roll-tooled border, spine gilt, gilt edges, some light offsetting onto text, lightly rubbed, armorial bookplate of Charles Collier

Prichard, James Cowles The Natural History of Man London: Balliere, 1855. 3 volumes, comprising 2 text volumes, Fourth edition, 8vo, 62 hand-coloured engraved plates (including 16 of N. American Indians, some by George Catlin), 5 uncoloured, contemporary calf, spines gilt, red and green morocco labels, neatly rebacked retaining original spines; and accompanying atlas, folio 'Six Ethnographical Maps, illustrative of The Natural History of Man... Second edition', 6 large hand-coloured folding maps, black quarter morocco retaining original printed label, a couple of maps neatly strengthened on verso (3)

Thomson, John The Atlas of Scotland Edinburgh: for John Thomson & Co., 1832. Large folio (54 x 41cm), contemporary half calf, [4] viii 18, engraved 'Index Map' hand-coloured in outline, 2 engraved plates ('A Comparative View of the Heights of the Principal Mountains of Scotland' and 'A Comparative View of the Lengths of the Principal Rivers of Scotland') both hand-coloured and folding, 29 engraved maps, all folding and hand-coloured in outline, a few with inset town plans, many on multiple sheets, printed caption slips to versos, covers detached, Index Map, title-page and dedication leaf loose, variable faint offsetting, Edinburghshire map sheets 3-4 rumpled and with a few nicks along edges, Argyllshire split along join between two sheets, Fife and Kinross partly split along one fold, map of Skye browned [Chubb Scotland XXXII]Note: 'A splendid atlas' (Chubb).

Two atlases 19th century comprising: Mitchell, S. Augustus. Mitchell's New General Atlas. Philadelphia: S. A. Mitchell, 1869. Folio (330 x 395mm), 40 (of 60) hand-coloured engraved maps, contemporary half morocco, binding very worn, lacks spine, upper cover detached; Monin, V. Petit Atlas National des départements de la France et de ses Colonies. [Paris]: Blaisot, Mars 1833. Oblong 4to, additional engraved title, and 96 maps, lacks plate 3, 17, 86, and 99, old boards, rebacked with cloth, dampstained, worn (2)

17th-century biography Collection of works comprising: Clarke, Samuel. The Lives of Sundry Eminent persons in this Later Age. In Two Parts, I. Of Divines. II. Of Nobility and Gentry of both Sexes. London: Thomas Simmons, 1683. First edition, folio (31.7 x 19cm), contemporary sheep, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, engraved armorial plate, 10 engraved portraits in the text, binding worn, small worm-track in text from front to sig. X (never affecting more than a letter), a few sporadic worm-tracks in margins elsewhere, spill-burn in K4 affecting a word either side [ESTC R5310; Sabin 13466; Wing C4538]; Laud, William. The History of the Troubles and Tryal of the most Reverend Father in God, and Blessed Martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Written by himself, during his Imprisonment in the Tower. London: Ri. Chiswell, 1695. First edition, folio (31.5 x 19.8cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece, title-page in red and black, advertisement leaf, light damp-stain in gutter at front [ESTC R354; Wing L586]; Hacket, John. Scrinia Reserata: a Memorial offer'd to the Great Deservings of John Williams, D.D. Who some time held the Places of Ld Keeper of the Great Seal of England, Ld Bishop of Lincoln, and Ld Archbishop of York. London: Edw. Jones for Samuel Lowndes, 1693. First edition, folio (37.7 x 22.8cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece, errata leaf, advertisement leaf, extra-illustrated with a contemporary engraved portrait of Williams from another work (mounted to title-page verso), front joint cracking, a few spots and marks [ESTC R9469; Wing H171]; Heylyn, Peter. Cyprianus Anglicus: or, the History of the Life and Death, of ... William [Laud] ... Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Dublin: James Carson, for John Hyde, and Robert Owen, 1719. First Dublin edition (third overall), folio (30.2 x 19cm), contemporary panelled calf, wear to binding, small worm-track in lower margin [ESTC T107058]; and 6 others (these not collated): Thomas Carte, An History of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde, 1736 (first edition, 3 volumes, folio, non-uniform bindings, ex libris the Conservative Club); William Camden, The History of ... Princess Elizabeth, c.1680 (folio, contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, title-page supplied in facsimile, edition unknown); William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her Son and Successor James, 1656 (first edition, folio, 18th-century mottled tan calf gilt, engraved portrait of James, lacking portrait of Mary); idem, A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, 1658 (first edition, folio, contemporary calf, portrait of the author, lacking portrait of Charles); Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs, 1771 (4to, contemporary calf); David Lloyd, Memoires of ... those ... that suffered ... for the Protestant Religion, 1668 (folio, modern cloth, frontispiece laid down, title-page margins extended) (12)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Camden, William Britannia, enlarged... by Richard Gough London: John Stockdale, 1806. Second edition, volumes 1-3 only (of 4), folio (43 x 25.5cm), contemporary diced russia, rebacked to style, 49 engraved maps (most folding), numerous engraved plates, bookplates of ornithologist and bibliographer W. H. Mullens (1866-1946) and of Thomas William Evans, surface-wear to bindings; Drake, Francis. Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the County of York. London: by William Bowyer for the author, 1736. First edition, folio (37.5 x 23.5cm), modern quarter morocco, 60 engraved plates, plate 15 with closed tear to foot of central fold, plates 58-9 damp-stained [ESTC T65433]; Hutchins, John. The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1774. First edition, 2 volumes, folio (37 x 24cm), modern blue half morocco, engravings in text (including the Cerne Abbas giant, vol. 2 p. 293), folding tables, bound without the plates and map, damp-staining [ESTC T99476]; Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. London: for R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter, and J. Tonson, 1721. Second edition ('corrected and enlarged'), 2 volumes, folio (39.5 x 24cm), modern quarter morocco, browning [ESTC T59423]; and 5 others: Letters from Roundhead Officers written from Scotland and Chiefly Addressed to Captain Adam Baynes, Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1856 (first edition, 4to, original cloth, presentation inscription); William Hamper (editor), The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale, 1827 (first edition, 4to, contemporary quarter cloth, spine torn at head); Charles James Fox, A History of the Early Part of the Reign of the James the Second, 1808 (first edition, 4to, contemporary quarter cloth); White Kennet, Parochial Antiquities attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and Other Adjacent Parts in the Counties of Oxford and Bucks, 1818 (new edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half cloth, front inner hinges gone); Sir John Temple, The Irish Rebellion, 1812 (4to, contemporary cloth, front joint cracked, spine defective); the lot sold as seen (14)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Chillingworth, William The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield, and are to be sold by John Clarke, 1638. First edition, folio (26.3 x 17.8cm), contemporary calf, endpapers and final blank discarded, spill-burn in O1, worm-track in text from quire 2M [ESTC S107216; STC 5138]; Heylyn, Peter. Aerius Redivivus: or the History of the Presbyterians. London: by Robert Battersby for Christopher Wilkinson [and others], 1672. Second edition, folio (29.5 x 18.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked, small hole in 3N3 [ESTC R6051; Wing H1682]; Stillingfleet, Edward. A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion. London: for H. Mortlock, 1681. Second edition, folio (31.5 x 19cm), contemporary mottled calf ruled in blind, imprimatur leaf [ESTC R10821; Wing S5625]; Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. The Works. Edinburgh: James Watson, 1711. First collected edition, folio (33 x 20cm), contemporary calf, 2 engraved portraits (one as frontispiece, both of Drummond, without the plate of the 'Five James's' occasionally noted but almost always absent), title-page frayed in fore margin, closed tear in 2Q1-2 [ESTC T125750]; Nicolson, William. The English, Scotch and Irish Historical Libraries. Giving a Short View of the Character of most of our Historians, either in Print or Manuscript. London: for G. Strahan [and others], 1736. 'Third edition, corrected and augmented' (first collected edition), folio (34.5 x 22cm), contemporary panelled calf, drawer-handle cornerpieces to covers in blind, joints superficially cracked [ESTC T60243]; and 3 others (these not collated): James Usher, A Body of Divinitie, 1653 (fourth edition, folio, early mottled sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece, stripping to leather, browning, marginal worming to rear); Gilbert Burnet, The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, 1677 (first edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, 2 engraved portraits, binding worn, joints cracked); Bulstrode Whitelocke, Memorials of the English Affairs, 1682 (first edition, folio, contemporary sprinkled calf, worn, joints cracked) (8)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Coke, Edward The Institutes of the Laws of England The First Part ... a Commentary upon Littleton; The Second Part ... Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient, and Other Statutes; The Third Part ... Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes; The Fourth Part ... Concerning the Jurisdiciton of Courts. London: [various printers], 1684-42-44-69. 4 works in 3 volumes (Third Part and Fourth Part bound in one), ninth, first, first and fourth editions, folio, First Part in 18th-century calf gilt, gilt supralibros incorporating baron's coronet to each cover, frontispiece discarded, retaining engraved portrait of Littleton and folding woodcut table of consanguinity, binding worn, text not collated, Second Part in contemporary sheep, decorative woodcut border to title-page, retaining colophon leaf, chip to head of front joint, T2-3 transposed, no frontispiece called for by ESTC, Third-Fourth Part in contemporary blind-ruled calf (recornered), Third Part with decorative woodcut border to title-page and [16 pp.] index not mentioned in ESTC, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White (the portrait noted as signed 'I Payne fecit' by ESTC, the example in this copy apparently moved from the Fourth Part where no portrait called for but here offset onto A4 v.) [ESTC R473, R12887, R12841, R35651; Wing C4928, C4948, C4960, C4931]; Idem. Les reports [Le second part ... Le tierce part ... Le quart part]. London: per assignationem Johannis More, 1636 [parts 2-4: 1635]. 4 parts in 1 volume, folio (28.2 x 17.5cm), contemporary speckled calf ruled in blind, text in English, Latin and Law French, in roman and black letter, decorative woodcut border to title-page of first part, woodcut and typographic headpieces, woodcut initials, part 3 retaining final blank, joints split but cords remaining intact, occasional browning [ESTC S4184 (10 copies world-wide), S4185 (13 copies), S4186 (14 copies), S4188 (18 copies); STC 5494.8, 5498.5, 5501.5, 5503.7] (4)Note: The first section of the Second Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England (pp. 1-78) is a commentary on Magna Carta. Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Harrington, James The Oceana of James Harrington and his Other Works; some wherof are now first publish'd from his Manuscripts. The whole collected, methodiz'd, and review'd, with an Exact Account of his Life prefix'd, by John Toland. London: to be sold by the booksellers, 1700. First collected edition, folio (30.8 x 19.4cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, engraved frontispiece, portrait after Sir Peter Lely, plate ('The Manner and Use of the Ballot'), advertisement leaf, variable light spotting and browning [ESTC R9111; Wing H816]; Brady, Robert. An Introduction to the Old English History, comprehended in three several Tracts. London: by Tho. Newcomb, for Samuel Lowndes, 1684. First edition, folio (31 x 19.2cm), 20th-century quarter sheep, marbled sides to style, browning, 2N3 slit for cancellation (the cancel also present)[ESTC R34414; Wing B4194]; Thomas May. The History of the Parliament of England: which began November the Third, M. DC. XL. With a Short and Necessary View of some Precedent Years. London: by Moses Bell, for George Thomason, 1647. First edition, folio (28.8 x 17.6cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, imprimatur leaf, title-page in red and black, light damp-staining to lower fore corners [ESTC R8147; Wing M1410]; Walker, Edward. Historical Discourses upon Several Occasions: viz. I. The Happy Progress and Succes of the Arms of K. Charles I [...]. London: by W. N. for Sam. Keble, 1705. First edition, folio (34.2 x 21.2cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, engraved headpieces and initial, full-page engraved portrait of Charles I, engraved folding plate, bookplate (Thomas Bagnall, St Edmund Hall, Oxford) to title-page verso, variable spotting and browning; Hakewill, George. An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World. Oxford: William Turner, 1635. Third edition ('revised ... besides the addition of two entire bookes not formerly published'), folio (27.8 x 18.5cm), modern half calf, engraved additional title-page, letterpress explanation leaf ('The argument of the front and of the worke'), retaining medial blanks 3E4 and 4A4, contemporary ownership inscription ('Ex libris Thomas Wadland') to letterpress title-page, occasional light browning, a few marks [ESTC S120609; STC 12613]; and 3 others (these not collated): Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State in the Reigns of Queen Mary [to] Oliver's Usurpation, 1746 (first edition, 2 volumes, large folio, modern quarter morocco, engraved frontispieces, all edges untrimmed, possibly a large-paper copy); William Howell, An Institution of General History, or the History of the World, 1680 (second edition, folio, modern cloth); Edmund Sawyer, Memorials of the Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly from the Original Papers of ... Ralph Winwood, 1725 (first edition, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and relined, without portrait) (11)Note: John Toland's influential edition of the works of James Harrington was an important component in his project to introduce republican ideas to an 18th-century audience, and 'provided a foundation for the whig intellectual tradition that influenced Maximilien Robespierre, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine' (ODNB). Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Abbott, Henry Antiquities of Rome London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820. First edition, large folio (57.6 x 41.6cm), contemporary half calf (front board gilt-lettered 'Charleton' and with gilt calf title-label 'Rome' to centre), letterpress title-page, etched panorama of Rome on 4 folding sheets, 24 sepia aquatint plates, descriptive text-leaf to each plate, tissue-guards, backstrip perished, panorama with faint spotting and offsetting in places and first sheet with faint crease across one corner, plates faintly offset onto text-leaves through tissue-guards [Abbey Travel 179]Note: Rare. The work seems often to have been broken up for its spectacular plates, here all present and in excellent condition. Provenance: Charleton House, Fife.

Law Collection of English legal treatises and reports, 17th-18th century comprising: Davies, Sir John. Le Primer Report des Cases et Matters en Ley, Resolves et Adjudges en les Courts del Roy en Ireland. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1628. Second edition, folio (28 x 17.3cm), 20th-century half leather, text mainly in black letter, woodcut title devices and initials, typographic headpieces, initial blank present, early marginalia, ownership inscriptions to title-page ('Robert Wm Osborne, November 1844' and 'Robt Molesworth'), damp-staining to lower margins, occasional browning [ESTC S123364; STC 6362]; Dalton, Michael. Officium Vicecomitum. The Office and Authoritie of Sherifs. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1623. First edition, folio (28 x 18.5cm), contemporary blind-ruled calf, strapwork woodcut border to title-page, damp-staining and concomitant softening and fraying in fore margins (causing slight loss to title-page border, text otherwise unaffected), either free endpapers or initial and final blanks discarded [ESTC S107284; STC 6212]; Sheppard, William. An Epitome of all the Common and Statute Laws of this Nation. London: for W. Lee [and others], 1656. First edition, folio (28.6 x 17.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, endpapers renewed, browning, old ink-stain to 5F1-2 obscuring a few words, [ESTC R10939; Wing S3184]; Blount, Thomas. Nomo-Lexikon [graece]. A Law Dictionary. London: for H. Herringman [and others], 1691. Second edition ('with some corrections, and the addition of above six hundred words'), folio (31 x 18.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, worn, spill-burns in 2R2 and 3O1, closed tear in 3Y2 [ESTC R11153; Wing B3341]; and 7 others (these not collated): Les Reports de Sir William Jones ... un des justices del' Banck le Roy, 1675 (first edition, folio, modern half sheep, browning); Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of the Exchequer ... collected by Sir Thomas Hardres, 1693 (first edition, folio, modern half sheep, imprimatur leaf, contemporary marginalia, browning); The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Macclesfield, 1725 (first edition, large folio, contemporary tan calf, imprimatur leaf, bookplate of Sir John Cope, Bart); Michael Dalton, The Country Justice, 1727 (folio, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked, hole in half-title/advertisement leaf); Giles Jacob, A New Law-Dictionary, 1736 (third edition, folio, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked); John Selden, An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government in England, 1760 (fifth edition, 4to, contemporary calf, bookplate of Thomas Dundas of Upleatham, Yorkshire); Daines Barrington, Observations on the more Ancient Statutes, from Magna Charta to the Twenty-First of James I. Cap. XXVII, 1769 (4to, contemporary quarter calf, front board detached, closed tear in title-page) (11)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Purchas, Samuel Purchas his Pilgrimage Or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered, from the Creation unto this Present ... The Second Edition, much enlarged with Additions through the Whole Worke. London: by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1614. Folio (27.8 x 18cm), contemporary calf, blind panels to sides, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, loss to foot of spine, joints cracked at head and foot, corners showing, title-page with section excised from head to no loss of text, small interstitial spill-burn, and short closed tear in fore margin extending into text without loss, initial quires [par.]-A damp-stained and with minute worm-track in gutter, closed tear in H4, marginal spill-burn in T2, small hole in T3 costing a few letters, closed marginal tear T6, V2-3 with spill-burn in text, marginal excision to foot of 2V3, index (4H-I) damp-stained, 4I1 r. with old repair affecting text, a few old marks and stains [ESTC 111828; STC 20506; Sabin 66679]Provenance: 1) Front pastedown and free endpaper annotated with a 17th-century personal library catalogue, headed 'Febery 1696 my ffolio case' and 'Oxtavo case in Febery 1696', entries including '1577 a grate bibell with bras plate', '1681 dokter Crews Rarities of the Royell Society', and similar. 2) Various 18th-century ownership inscriptions including: 'John Tills sent his book 1754'; 'Hannah Wickens her book bought at Felix Smiths sale' (to front free endpaper; similar inscription repeated on title-page); 'This book was printed in the year 1614 / Newton Tills it is my name / And with my pen i write the same'; 'Elizabeth Parker'. 3) Joseph Forrest Fry and Susanna Fry, presented by their daughters to the Taylor Institution, University of Oxford, c.1950 (cancelled presentation plate to rear pastedown, Taylor ink-stamps to title-page verso and margin of p. 581, ink-stamped call number to foot of final page). 4) Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplate).

Sarpi, Paolo The Historie of the Councel of Trent London: by Robert Barker, and John Bill, 1620. First edition in English, folio (33.5 x 21cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, colophon leaf present, blanks and endpapers discarded, inner hinges strengthened, quires 2M-N transposed, C3 with short closed tear at foot [ESTC S116698; STC 21761]; Fuller, Thomas. The Church-History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ, to the Year M. DC. XLVIII. London: for John Williams, [1655]. First edition, folio (33 x 21.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved folding map of Cambridge, 4 engraved plates (one double-page), rear board detached, loss to lower fore corners of first 2 leaves to partial loss of imprint in title-page, occasional browning, a few damp-stains and other marks, folding map laid down, old repair and early annotations to final leaf verso [ESTC R14493; Wing F2416]; [Adams, John]. Index Villaris: or, an Exact Register, alphabetically digested, of all the Cities, Market-Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or other Division of each County, London: for T. Sawbridge, 1690. Second edition, large folio (37 x 22cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked at an early date, no pp. 265-8 but text continuous, closed tear to foot of E2, light worming in gutter towards rear [ESTC R4927; Wing A480]; [Commonwealth of England]. Original Letters and Papers of State, addressed to Oliver Cromwell ... Found among the Political Collections of Mr. John Milton. London: by William Bowyer, and sold by John Whiston, 1743. Folio (35.5 x 21.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, contemporary bookplate (Lt. Colonel Pechell), Castle Goring book-label, heavy craquelure to sides, variable browning [ESTC T56123]; and 8 others, 17th and 18th century folios (these not collated): [John Stow, The Annales, or Generall Chronicle of England, 1615] (first edition, contemporary calf, lacking all before [par.]7 and all after 4Q2, ex library, covers near-detached); John Walker, An Attempt towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy ... in the late Times of the Grand Rebellion, 1714 (contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Tracts, being a Collection of Several Treatises relating to the Government. Privately Printed in the Reign of K. Charles II, 1693 (contemporary mottled calf, front board detached); [John Oldmixon], The History of England during the Reign of the Royal House of Stuart, 1730 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Sir Robert Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1643 (first edition, 19th-century tan half calf, engraved portrait frontispiece and title-page, both laid down, early text-leaves remargined, browning); Peter Heylyn, The Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, 1681 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, worn lacking frontispiece); idem, Ecclesia Restuarata: The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 1674 (third edition, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recornered); Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy, 1683 (contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, browning, worming) (12)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Selden, John Titles of Honor London: by William Stansby for Richard Whitaker, 1631. Second edition, folio (27.8 x 18cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined retaining old label, title-page in red and black, frequent Anglo-Saxon, Arabic and Hebrew types, woodcut illustrations throughout, 6 full-page engravings depicting the ceremonial dress of ranks in the English peerage (from baron to the prince of Wales), corners worn, front inner hinge gone, browning, damp-staining to gutter of prelims and occasionally to fore margins later on, title-page with closed tear in gutter, 5Y3 torn (most of text intact), final blank discarded [ESTC S117044; STC 22178]; Willis, Browne. A Survey of the Cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle [etc.]. London: for R. Gosling, 1727. First edition, 4to (24.5 x 19cm), contemporary panelled calf, half-title, 20 engraved plates (all but one folding), engraved armorial bookplate of the Barons Kenyon, 'Peel Library' inscribed above, old reinforcement to inner hinges [ESTC T93608]; Weever, John. Antient Funeral Monuments of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent. London: by W. Tooke, for the editor, 1767. Second edition (first published in 1631), 4to (26.5 x 20cm), contemporary marbled half calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, folding table, woodcuts in text, bookplate of Henry Carington Bowles (1763-1830), publisher and map- seller [ESTC ST28052]; and 5 others (these not collated): John Evelyn, Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees ... With Notes by A. Hunter, 1786 (2 volumes, 4to, modern half leather, engraved plates); Roger North, Examen ... into the Credit and Veracity of a Pretended Complete History, 1740 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, frontispiece, worn, joints cracked); [John Hughes, editor], A Complete History of England, 1719 (second edition, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary panelled calf, engraved portraits, joints cracked); John Tillotson, The Works, 1728 (mixed editions, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved portrait, spines worn); John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities, 1813 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked) (13)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Sidney, Algernon Discourses concerning Government. Published from an Original Manuscript of the London: to be sold by the booksellers, 1698. Folio (31 x 19.5cm), contemporary mottled calf panelled in blind, rebacked and recornered, endpapers renewed, quire B with 3 leaves only as usual (the pagination and text continuous), small worm-tracks to lower fore corners of 2D3-2F1 and to gutter of quires 3C-3O, 2K3 with short closed tear in top margin, 2L2-3 browned, a few trivial marks [ESTC R11837; Wing S3761]Note: Principally a justification of armed resistance to oppressive government, the Discourses was a major influence on the Founding Fathers of the United States, its fame owing much to the prominence it attained in Sidney's trial and execution for treason in 1683. 'For subsequent influence in Enlightenment Britain, America, the United Provinces, Germany, and France [Sidney] had no seventeenth-century rival except John Locke. For modern scholars his claim to a major place among early modern political writers rests upon two foundations. The first, alongside Locke, is as one of the two pre-eminent seventeenth-century English resistance theorists ... The other is as the most influential of the English republicans' (ODNB). Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplate).

Stafford, Sir Thomas Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced or, an Historie of the Late Warres of Ireland, especially within the Province of Mounster. London: printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes], 1633. First edition, second issue, folio (32.5 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf, 16 engraved plates (of 19: without the 2 portrait frontispieces and 'Map of Mounster'), extant plates comprising views of battles, castles and cities (Limerick, Yougal, Cork), 'A Map of the Siege of Kinsale' folding, 'A Map of Muskrey' single-page, the rest all double-page, title-page laid down, marginal repair to final leaf of prelims, small hole in 2D3, plates sometimes closely trimmed or frayed along edges, marginal damp-staining to pp. 1-50 and approx. 377-391 (end) affecting 3 plates, folding plate with discreet old repairs verso [ESTC S117457; STC 23132a]; Sprigg, Joshua. Anglia Rediviva; Englands Recovery: being the History of the Motions, Actions, and Successes of the Army under the Immediate Conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt. Captain-General of all the Parliaments Forces in England. London: by R. W. for John Partridge, 1647. First edition, folio (28 x 18.2cm), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, armorial woodcut frontispiece, folding engraved portrait, folding letterpress table, extremities worn, lacking plan (Battle of Naseby) and text-leaf L2, damp-staining to title-page and final few leaves, spill-burn in D1, short closed handling tears to folding portrait and table [ESTC R18123; Wing S5070]; [Davies, John]. The Civil Warres of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing an Exact History of their Occasion, Originall, Progress, and Happy End. By an Impartiall Pen. London: by R. W. for Philip Chetwind, 1661. First edition, folio (29 x 18.5cm), contemporary sprinkled sheep ruled in blind, rebacked and relined, front board detached, title-page in red and black, ownership inscription to front pastedown ('A. W. G. Lowther F.S.A., 1957'), browning [ESTC R9924; Wing D393]; and 7 others similar (these not collated): John Nalson, An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I, 1682 (first edition, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, 'Mind of the Frontispiece' leaf present, old repairs to spine-ends); Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, A Collection of Several Tracts, 1727 (first edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The State Letters of Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the Reign of J. James the Second, Oxford, 1763 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary cat's-paw calf, volume 2 rebacked, inscribed 'The gift of the Right Honourable Lord Milton to John Armstrong of Tipperary July 1766' on initial blanks), [William Dugdale], A Short View of the Late Troubles in England, 1681 (folio, contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, portrait discarded); Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafforde, Letters and Dispatches, Dublin, 1740 (2 volumes, folio, contemporary tree calf gilt, worn, endpapers renewed); Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, Dublin, 1801 (first edition, 4to, contemporary marbled calf, 10 engraved folding maps and plans, a few closed tears, binding worn, front board near detached); [Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, editor], Miscellaneous State Papers from 1501 to 1726, 1778 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary tree calf, joints cracked, volume 2 front board detached, frontispiece offset) (14)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Strada, Famiano De bello Belgico The History of the Low-Countrey Warres, Written in Latine. In English by Sr. Rob. Stapylton. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1650. First edition in English, folio (28.8 x 17.3cm), modern leather, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall, 13 further engraved portrait plates, toning, a few marks, frontispiece repaired recto, small worm-track in top margins from front to quire G and in lower margins from quire 3A to end, closed tear in M2, closed marginal tear to plate facing 2H4 [ESTC 24631; Wing S5777]; Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State [-The Profane State]. London: by John Redmayne for John Williams, 1663. Fourth edition, folio (28.2 x 18.5cm), modern half sheep, engraved additional title-page, engraved portraits throughout the text, early ink annotations and underlining, browning, marginal repair to H4, I5 with spill-burn affecting text verso, a few leaves (e.g. H4, N2, Y2, 2B4, 2C1, 2Q5) strengthened in gutter, worming in gutter of 2C-2F, bound after a defective copy of The Holy Warre, third edition, 1647, lacking at least the engraved title-page, retaining the folding map (loose, laid down, closed tear to one fold) [ESTC R15500; Wing F2446]; Idem. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof. London: by J. F. for John Williams, 1650. First edition, folio (33.2 x 22cm), contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 7 double-page engraved plates and plans (only), tear to foot of spine, front joint reinforced, engraved title image shaved along fore edge, quire A also trimmed, frontispiece bound after quire A and repaired in lower margin, shallow chips and some paper-thinning to fore margins of temple plans facing 2Q2 and 2T3, map of Midian facing 3C1 with short closed tear, marginal paper-reinforcement in index [ESTC R18096; Wing F2455]; Ralegh, Sir Walter. The History of the World. London: for G. Conyers [and others], 1736, Eleventh edition, folio (34.6 x 22cm), contemporary marbled sheep, 8 engraved folding maps by Emanuel Bowen, bound without portrait frontispiece, bindings worn along extremities, volume 1 joints cracked, volume 2 rebacked with original spine laid down, one map (facing p. 101) with strip of browning [ESTC T36544]; Whitelocke, Bulstrode. A Journal of the Swedish Ambassy, in the Years M.DC.LIII. and M.D.C.LIV. London: for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1772. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (25.3 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, half-titles, worn, labels perished, spotting to front and rear, early labels of Greenock library to front pastedowns [ESTC T144829]; Davila, Arrigo Caterino. The History of the Civil Wars of France. A New Translation ... by Ellis Farneworth. London: for D. Browne [and others], 1758. First edition thus, 2 volumes, 4to (26.1 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, front joints slightly cracked [ESTC N8421: 7 UK copies; 'Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 copies printed']; and 3 others (these not collated): Paul Rapin de Thoyras, The History of England, 1743 (third edition in English, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary speckled calf, numerous engraved plates and maps, several folding, joints cracked, labels perishing); James Macpherson, An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, 1773 (third edition, 4to, contemporary calf); Vertot, The History of the Knights of Malta, 1728 (first edition in English, volume 2 only, folio, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, engraved portraits) (13)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Antiquarian literature Collection of English and continental books, 16th-18th century comprising: Hooker (Richard). The Works, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity. London: for Thomas Newcomb for Andrew Crook, 1666. Folio (36.5 x 22.8cm), contemporary red goatskin, large gilt arms to covers comprising prince’s crown above monogram ‘V A’ (or reverse) between ostrich feathers, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional architectonic title-page, bookplate of the dukes of Portland (two arms counter-embowed, vested and gloved each holding an ostrich feather), front cover detached [ESTC R11910]; Ruscelli, Girolamo. Le imprese illustri, aggiuntovi nuovam[en]te il quarto libro da Vincenzo Ruscelli. Venice: Francesco de Franceschi senesi, 1584. 4to (24.1 x 17.5cm), old calf, 4 engraved title-pages, 2 folding plates (signed O2-3 and 2B3-2), engraved emblems throughout the text (many full-page), bookplate of John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe (1680-1741), styled as the Earl of Roxburghe, front board loose, variable browning and mottling throughout, 2R1 loose, a few early headlines shaved [Adams R955]; Antoninus Florentinus, Archbishop of Florence, Saint. [Summe majoris, part 2 only of 4]. Lyon: Jean Cleyn, [1506]. Folio in 8s (29.5 x 20cm), modern leather backing wooden boards, text in double column, gothic letter, 68 lines and headline, contemporary hand-painted initials and capital strokes throughout (in red or blue), old vellum manuscript fragment bound in at rear, lacking first quire (A), last leaf apparently blank (otherwise final quire lacking a leaf) [Adams A1214]; and 8 others (these not collated), including: Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655-61-73 (3 volumes, folio, modern calf, engraved plates); Silius Italicus, De bello Punico, Lyon, 1547 (16mo, later binding); Giovanni Pietro Valeriano Bolzani, Hieorglyphica, Frankfurt, 1678 (4to, modern tan morocco gilt); Tacitus, Opere, Venice: Giunti, 1620 (4to, contemporary vellum, engraved additional title-page, front inner hinge gone); Galen, Omnium operum, Venice: Valgrisi, 1562 (3 volumes only, of 10, folio, modern bindings, repairs); Ben Jonson, Workes, 1616 (first collected edition, volume one only, folio, modern orange morocco, numerous leaves including title-page supplied in photocopy); Biondi, An History of the Civill Warres of England, betweene the two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, 1641 (lacking engraved title-page); and similar (16)

Africa Photograph album relating to the Four Power Commission on ex-Italian colonies, 1946-7 Oblong folio album (32 x 50cm), reversed calf binding, lettered 'Middle-East & East Africa 1946-1947' on front cover in blind, containing 195 gelatin silver print photographs (nearly all 9 x 14cm), slit-mounted on paper leaves, a few with typescript captions verso, and 52 studio photographs or real-photo postcards (many signed A. Parodi on reverse, printed on matt cream card stock with deckle edges), similarly mounted, depicting urban, rural, village and desert scenes mainly apparently in Eritrea (Keren, Asmara, Agordat, etc.), Libya (Tripoli) and Egypt (the Nile, Muqattam Hills with Sultan Hassan Mosque in foreground), European officials and local figures and ethnographic 'types', and similar, together with an additional 130 loose photographs (various dimensions), many with mounted typescript captions in Italian and depicting rallies and troops of the 'Lega Mussulmana dell'Eritrea' (Independent Moslem League), and a small selection of passes and related documents belonging to one K. D. Heath of the British delegation

Pamphlets Collection of plays and tracts, 17th-19th century including: [Vanbrugh, Sir John]. The Provok'd Wife: a Comedy as it is acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields. London: for Richard Wellington, 1698. 4to, early-20th-century morocco, bookplate of Duff Cooper (1890-1954, British politician), bound without half-title, spotting and browning, tape-repairs to K1 and K4 (the repairs extending into text in the latter, not affecting legibility) [ESTC R3704: eight copies in UK libraries; first published the previous year]; [Swift, Jonathan]. The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace, Paraphras'd and Address'd to Richard St--le, London: for A. Dodd, 1714. 4to, 20th-century sheep, browning [ESTC T35561; first published the previous year]; [Defoe, Daniel]. A New Discovery of an Old Intreague: a Satyr level'd at Treachery and Ambition: calculated to the Nativity of the Rapparee Plott, and the Modesty of the Jacobite Clergy. [London:] printed in the year 1691. First edition, 4to, 20th-century green morocco, retaining final blank (E4), slightly browned, closely trimmed at head, [ESTC R4948, four copies only in UK libraries]; Idem. A Word about a New Election, that the People of England may see the Happy Difference between English Liberty and French Slavery. [London]: printed in the year 1710. First edition, 8vo, modern boards, browning, closely trimmed at foot shaving a few catchwords [ESTC T70864]; Idem. An Essay upon Literature ... proving that the two Tables, written by the Finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first Writing in the World; and that all other Alphabets derive from the Hebrew. London: for Tho[mas] Bowles [and others], 1726. First edition, 8vo, c.1900 quarter morocco [ESTC T70337: eight copies in UK libraries]; Jonson, Ben. Horace, his Art of Poetrie, made English [extracted from The Workes, 1640]. [London: printed by Richard Bishop], 1640. Folio, modern boards, 29 pp., slightly browned, damp-staining; and approx. 25 others (these not collated), including William Whitehead, Elegies. With an Ode to the Tiber, 1757 (half-title, engraved title-vignette), Thomas Southern, Oroonoko, A Tragedy, 1735, William Grimston, The Lawyer's Fortune ... A Comedy, 1736, Thomas Arne, The Guardian Out-witted, 1764, Arthur Murphy, The Desert Island, a Dramatic Poem, 1760, and similar, mainly in modern wrappers or disbound, a theatrical sammelband (containing e.g. Macklin, Love a-la-Mode, 1784, Sheridan, The Duenna, 1784, Southern, Isabella or the Fatal Marriage ... altered by D. Garrick, 1785, etc., Dryden & Lee, Oedipus, 1784, etc.), and similar (approx. 30)

European literature Collection of works in French and other languages comprising: Proust, Marcel. Les plaisirs et les jours. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1896. First edition, folio (29.5 x 20cm), later half morocco, 14 tinted plates, partly unopened, original wrappers bound in; Eluard, Paul. Le dur désir de durer. Illustrated by Marc Chagall. Philadelphia: Grey Falcon Press, & London, Trianon Press, 1950. One of 1500 copies, 4to, original wrappers, colour frontispiece; Gide, André. Montaigne. An Essay in Two Parts. London: Blackamore Press, 1929. One of 800 copies signed by the author, 4to, original cloth; Gautier, Théophile. Musée secret ... pointes sèches originales de Mya. Paris: Frazier-Soye, 1932. One of 875 copies on vélin d'Arches, folio, original wrappers, 10 plates, glassine dust jacket, plates and text in unbound bifolia as issued, spotting; Claudel, Paul. Les Euménides d'Eschyle. Paris: Nouvelle revue française, 1920. One of 100 copies 'sur papier Whatman à la forme ... réservés aux bibliophiles de la Nouvelle revue française', 4to, original wrappers, glassine dust jacket, edges untrimmed and unopened, glassine dust-soiled; Boiardo, Matteo Maria, conte di Scandiano. Sonetti e canzone. Milan: Societa tip. dei classici italiani, 1845. One of 250 copies only, 4to (24.2 x 18.6cm), 20th-century crushed green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, title-page vignette hand-coloured, top edge gilt, others untrimmed (wide margins); Gallo, Agostino. Elogio storico di Antonio Gagini scultore ed architetto palermitano. Palermo: Reale stamperia, 1821. 4to (26.5 x 19cm), later half morocco, copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, 30 pp., light staining to final leaf, Baron Napier bookplate; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Jena: Eugen Diederich, 1909. 'Jubilee edition' (Jubiläumsausgabe), one of 1000 copies on Van Gelder paper, 4to, original blind-stamped brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with one clasp (of two); and 6 others similar (14)Note: Les plaisirs et les jours was Proust's first published book.

Minton, John (illustrator) Time was Away A Notebook in Corsica. Written by Alan Ross. London: John Lehmann, 1949. First edition, 4to, original yellow cloth, 8 lithographic plates in colours, dust jacket (a few shallow nicks, closed tear to foot of front panel); Pushkin, Alexander. The Queen of Spades. London: Blackamore Press, Limited, 1928. First edition thus, deluxe issue, one of 25 copies on Japan vellum (there were also 250 copies on Rives, and 35 copies not for sale), 4to, original black boards (dyed japon?), colour-printed wood-engravings by A. Alexeieff throughout, joints partially split, slipcase; and 5 others: Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, Secker & Warburg, 1955-54-6 (first edition in English, second impression of volume 1, first impressions of volumes 2-3, 3 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets); Malachi Whitaker, Frost in April, Jonathan Cape, 1929 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket). H. S. Ede, Savage Messiah [on Henri Gaudier-Brzeska], William Heinemann Ltd, 1931 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, inscribed by the author); Vivien Gribble (illustrator), Sixe idillia, London: Duckworth & Co, 1922 (one of 380 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, this copy inscribed to Naomi Mitchison by her husband Richard, 1922); Wood Lea Press, The Wood-Engravings of John Nash, 1987 (one of 750 copies, folio, original quarter cloth, slipcase); Fleece Press, Dear Mercia, Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley, 1909-18, 1991 (one of 350 copies, 4to, original quarter cloth, slipcase) (10)Note: This edition of The Queen of Spades by Pushkin is 'the first to contain a full English version of the original text'; no other copies of this deluxe issue traced in auction records.

Folio Society Collection of deluxe illuminated manuscript facsimiles comprising: The Winchester Psalter Miniature Cycle, 2015. One of 980 copies, folio, original red goatskin richly gilt, original solander box; Leaves from a Psalter by William de Brailes, 2012. One of 480 sets, comprising 7 photographic facsimiles of illuminated miniatures, each printed on vellum and tipped into card mount as issued, in original solander box, with accompanying commentary volume (8vo, original cloth), without the DVD on the facsimile's manufacture; The Getty Apocalypse, 2011. One of 1,000 copies, folio, original maroon quarter goatskin, with the commentary volume (folio, original cloth), housed together in original solander box; The Holkham Bible, 2007. One of 1,750 copies, 4to, original blue half goatskin, with the commentary volume (8vo, original quarter cloth), housed together in original solander box; The Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold, 2001. One of 1,000 copies, original maroon goatskin, front cover lettered in gilt, with the commentary volume (8vo, original quarter cloth), housed together in original solander box (6)

Folio Society Group of five deluxe limited editions comprising: The Pearl Manuscript, 2015. One of 989 copies, small 4to, original purple goatskin gilt, with commentary volume, housed together in original solander box containing non-integral recessed velveteen panel as issued; William Shakespeare. Sonnets and Poems. Edited by Colin Burrow, 2009. One of 1,980 copies, folio, original blue half goatskin, with commentary volume, original solander box; Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer ... with Wood Engravings by Eric Gill, printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1927 [2011]. One of 1,250 copies, folio, original black goatskin gilt, all edges gilt, with commentary volume, original solander box; The William Morris Manuscript of the Odes of Horace, 2014. One of 980 copies, small 4to, original black goatskin, with commentary volume (4to, original boards, in original solander box with velveteen-lined recess; together with one other deluxe manuscript facsimile, not Folio Society (Codex Sinaiticus, London: British Library, 2010, large 4to, original cloth, slipcase) (7)

Gregynog Press Agnes Miller Parker. Wood Engravings [Volume 1:] From The Fables of Esope. [Volume 2:] From XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales. Tregynon: Gregynog, 1996-7. One of 185 numbered copies from the total edition of 200, 2 volumes, folio, original cloth-backed patterned boards, slipcases, 44 wood-engraved plates printed on Japanese vellum from the original blocks; Whittington Press. John Craig. Britten's Aldeburgh. Risbury: Whittington Press, 1997. One of 352 numbered copies signed by the author, from the total edition of 440, folio, original half cloth, slipcase, 3 folding linocuts in colours and 3 folding wood-engravings (all tipped-in as issued), wood-engravings in the text (3)

Vale Press The Centaur. The Bacchante Translated from the French of Maurice de Guérin by T. S. Moore. London: printed at the Ballantyne Press, this book is published by Hacon & Ricketts, 1899. One of 150 copies, 8vo, original white cloth, spotting to top edge of text-block, endpapers browned; Old Stile Press. In the Margins of Shakespeare. George Mackay Brown. Wood-Engravings by Llewllyn Thomas, 1991. One of 220 copies signed by author and artist, narrow folio, original hand-painted boards, slipcase; St Dominic's Press. God's Book and Other Poems by Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P., 1930. One of 430 copies, 8vo, original quarter cloth, manuscript poetry to rear endpapers; and some 27 others including Gregynog (Chosen Essays by Edward Thomas, 1926, one of 350 copies; Don Quixote. An Introductory Essay in Psychology by Salvador de Madariaga, 1934, one of 250 copies), Golden Cockerel (Doctor Heraclius Gloss by Guy de Maupassant, 1933, one of 150 copies), Embers Handpress (Federico Garcia Lorca, Sonnets of Dark Love, 1984, one of 50 copies on Charter Oak paper, signed by the translators, from the total edition of 126), and various works by minor presses (e.g. Enitharmon, Black Sparrow, Rampant Lions, Grabhorn, Aylesford, Celtic Cross, and similar) (approx. 30)

Broughton, Thomas Duer Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809 Descriptive of the Character, Manners, Domestic Habits, and Religious Ceremonies, of the Mahrattas. London: John Murray, 1813. First edition, 4to (26.6 x 20.8cm), 20th-century half calf to style, 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates, retaining directions to the binder leaf, half-title discarded, light offsetting, modern tissue-guards laid in [Abbey Travel 433], together with 11 other works on India (these not collated), including: Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell, Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (first edition, contemporary quarter skiver, book-label of Ronald Munro Ferguson, presumably the 1st Viscount Novar and governor-general of Australia, 1860-1934); 'Outline of Political, Territorial and Administrative Changes in the Punjab (Earliest Times up to 1947. V. S. Suri, Director of Archives, Punjab', Patiala: Punjab State Archives, 1966 (roneoed typescript, 73 ff., folio); Stanley Reed, The Royal Tour in India, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1906 (4to, contemporary blue half calf); The House of Bagrian, Lahore: Lion Press, c.1930 (oblong folio, original half cloth, halftone photographic plates, wear to spine); W. F. B. Laurie, Sketches of Some Distinguished Anglo-Indians, 1887-8 (2 volumes, new edition of volume one, 8vo, original cloth, volume 2 frontispiece loose); William Ward, A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos, 1822 (3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half russia, joints cracked, some covers near detached); D. Warren, The Motor Car in India, Bombay: Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1906 (8vo, contemporary quarter leather by M. Narsimlu of Hyderabad, library markings to title-page); and similar (14)

[Sir Walter Scott interest] Regiam majestatem. The Auld Lawes and Constitutions of Scotland Faithfullie collected furth of the Register, and Other Auld Authentick Bukes ... be [sic] Sr John Skene. Edinburgh: Thomas Finlason, 1609. Folio (27.4 x 17.2cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, P2 [f. 84] misnumbered 85, P3 [f.85] missigned P, retaining medial blank 2D6 and final blank 2H4, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, author's name added to title-page in a contemporary hand, spine worn, damp-staining towards front and rear [ESTC S117424; STC 22626]Note: Inscribed 'Walter Scott, Abbotsford, 1825' on the initial blank by an unidentified contemporary hand.

Macdiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] A collection of signed works [Manuscript Poem] Manuscript copy of Island Funeral by Hugh MacDiarmid, in MacDiarmid's hand, with a few corrections, 11 loose leaves Idem. Sangschaw. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925. 8vo, inscribed: "To Margaret Campbell with my best love, from Hugh MacDiarmid. Motherwell, 29th May 1952", original blue cloth, dust-jacket; Idem. Direadh I, II and III. Frenich, Foss, 1974. 4to, number 156 of 200 copies signed by MacDiarmid, original red quarter morocco gilt, slipcase; Idem. Selected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid. Glasgow: William MacLellan, [n.d.] 8vo, signed by MacDiarmid to front free endpaper; Idem. A Lap of Honour. London: MacGibbon and Kee Ltd., 1967. 8vo, signed by MacDiarmid, original red paper-covered boards, dust-jacket; Idem. The Fire of the Spirit. Glasgow: Duncan Glen, 1965. 8vo, signed by MacDiarmid, original wrappers; Idem. Scots Unbound, and other poems. Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1932. 8vo, number 114 of 350 copies signed by MacDiarmid, original brown cloth gilt; Idem. The Uncanny Scot. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968. 8vo, signed by MacDiarmid, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Idem. A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle. Edinburgh, [1962.] Fourth edition, 8vo, signed by MacDiarmid, original blue cloth; Idem. A Political Speech. Edinburgh, 1972. 8vo, copy number 16 (of 50), signed by MacDiarmid, original wrappers; Idem. Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn. Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1977. 8vo, inscribed: "Signed for my friends Edward Nairn and Ian Watson with affection, gratitude, and my best wishes Hugh MacDiarmid.", original boards; and another copy, in wrappers, signed by Hugh MacDiarmid and Valda Trevlyn; Idem. Cunninghame Graham, a centenary study. Glasgow: Caledonian Press, [n.d.] 8vo, inscribed: "Signed for my friends Edward Nairn and Ian Watson with kindest regards and best wishes Hugh MacDiarmid", original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Idem. On a Raised Beach. Biggar: Valda Grieve, 1985. Folio, copy number 40 of 100, signed in pencil by Valda Grieve and Reinhardt Behrens, original blue cloth; Idem. The Day Before the Twelfth, a loose typed poem, inscribed: "Signed with pleasure for Miss T.M. Walton by Hugh MacDiarmid"; Wright, Gordon. MacDiarmid, an illustrated biography. Edinburgh, Gordon Wright Publishing, 1977. 4to, inscribed: "Signed with pleasure and best wishes for my friends Edward Nairn and Ian Watson by Hugh MacDiarmid.", original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; Glen, Duncan. A Small Press and Hugh MacDiarmid. Preston: Akros Publications, 1970. 4to, signed by Hugh MacDiarmid, original wrappers (17)

Clutterbuck, Robert The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1815-27. First edition, large-paper copy, 3 volumes, large folio (49.2 x 31.5cm), later tan half morocco by J. Leighton of Brewer Street, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 52 engraved maps and plates (1 hand-coloured), 2 hand-coloured lithographic plates, most plates marked proof, occasional light spotting; Samuel, Nathaniel. The History of Hertfordshire. London: [no publisher], 1728. First edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, [8] 368 pp. engraved folding map, binding worn, front joint cracked [ESTC T36381, calling for [8] 369 [1] pp. with the final leaf unsigned, this not present in e.g. the Yale copy, and the text apparently ending on p. 368]; Chalmers, George. Caledonia: or, an Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain, from the most Ancient to the Present Times. London: for T. Cadell, 1810-10-24. Second, first and first editions, all on large paper, 3 volumes, 4to (33.5 x 24.5cm), later tree calf gilt with twin morocco labels, engraved folding map, 5 plans, folding table, bookplates (motto 'Fortes fortuna juvat'), volume 1 head of front joint cracked; Bruce, J. Collingwood. Incised Markings on Stone, found in the County of Northumberland, Argyleshire, and Other Places. London: for private circulation, 1869. First edition, large folio (62 x 58cm), contemporary half morocco, 32 tinted lithographic plates, spotting, wear to head of spine with commensurate paper-erosion to head of gutter throughout, touching images of double-page plates, otherwise affecting guards and margins; Gordon, Sir Robert. A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1813. Folio, uncut in original boards, 3 engraved plates (portrait frontispiece, damp-stained; arms; and folding manuscript facsimile), wear to covers: Bartlett, W. H. (illustrator). The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. London: Virtue and Co., c.1840. 2 volumes 1 in, 4to (26 x 20.2cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, all edges gilt, engraved map, 110 engraved plates including 2 additional vignette title-pages (10)Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.

Burghley, William Cecil, First Baron (1520-98) Autograph letter signed to Matthew Hutton Dean of York and later Archbishop of York, 'Good Mr Deane, I most hartely thank y[ou] for your harty commendations, which this berer Mr. Ramsden delyveyred me, with a token in gold, being the monument of the good elect king Edward my master, whom God took seasonably for his soule to be a kyng in heaven, and onseasonably from this his erthely kingdom, thereby blessing him, and scourgying us. God favor us now in the reign of our Soverayn with more of his marcy, though I feare our offences are gretar. From Buxton, the xiith of August, 1577. Yours most assured loveing frend, W. Burghley God contynew his graces in you, by which your liff and actions ar reported very good of all your neighbors; and in sekying to reform those that ar out of the waye, the ordinary way to reduce them which I heare you use is, by gentle instruction of them first to se and fele their palpable errors, and so to prepare them to se the truth. [Addressed in another hand on outer face of the blank folded folio] To my very loving ffrend Mr Doctor Hutton, Deane of the Cathedrall Churche at Yorke.Note: Lord Burghley seems to endorse Hutton's approach to religious reform.

[Insane 17th-century annotator] The Most Notable Antiqui[ty] of Great Britai[n], vulgarly called on Salisbury Plain. Restored by Inigo [Jones]. London: printed by James Flesher, [1655]. First edition, folio (27.7 x 18.2cm), disbound, lacking E2, portrait frontispiece and 4 folding woodcut plates (of 7; the remaining plates with old repairs), with 3 initial blanks (all detached), title-page defective, browning, damp-staining towards front. With profuse ink marginalia throughout in a contemporary hand (closely trimmed in places; occasional concomitant paper corrosion), in English and occasionally Latin (and a few phrases in French), unrelated or only tangential to the printed text, in a rambling, scurrilous and repetitive style, with numerous references to 17th-century figures and events, and exhibiting a fixation with large sums of money, the printed dedication 'To the Favourers of Antiquity' (A4) signed 'Pembroke & Muntgomrye' in the same hand as the marginalia, the signature asterisked with an accompanying annotation by an 18th-century hand, 'This Philip E. of Pembroke and Mongomery [sic], was the writer of these wild notes. A Wood woud have less belyed him, in calling him a mad man, than in saying he was illiterate & coud not write his name', 19th-century annotation to initial blank, 'There is reason to believe that the notes scrawled upon these pages are written by the Philip Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery to whom the book is dedicated, E. D.'Note: The dedicatee of the work was Philip Herbert, fifth earl of Pembroke (1621-1669), though the 'writer of these wild notes' is more likely to have been his son, the infamous seventh earl (1653-1683), also Philip, who succeeded in 1674 and 'quickly acquired an unenviable reputation for barbarous and violent behaviour' (ODNB). He was reported by John Aubrey in Brief Lives (1680) to keep at the family seat of Wilton House a menagerie of exotic animals, was committed to the Tower for blasphemy, and killed two men in separate drunken incidents, escaping punishment first through claiming privilege of peerage, and second by royal pardon. The character who emerges from these annotations is obsessed with money, and those who have it, motifs which recur throughout a bewildering variety of ravings, doggerel verse and arbitrary lists, written in spelling eccentric even for the period, altogether suggesting a person of entirely unsound mind. If he was not the earl of Pembroke, references to Wilton House and Ramsbury suggest that he at least thought he was, and the annotations are perhaps dateable to the 1660s on the basis of a recollection that 'some 40 or rather 44 years agoe, there was a great faction betwixt ye Digberians & ye Buckingamians' (p. 26); another remark, 'How ould art thou? fifteen come Lent. If Christmasse lasted all ye year, then what should become of Lent' (p. 15), suggests that the annotator was an exact contemporary of the seventh earl's. Further examples include: 'If hee be mad as my Lady Harewood says whose tongue is not slaunder it is rather for wantinge ye ten thousand pounds an year his father promisd to give him tha[n] yt hee thinkes 6000 an year to bee too mutch for him to manage with Wilton & Ramesberye' (p. [vi]); 'And was it not strange, that in one week His Grace should loose one thousand pounds at gleeke? or 4000 ls at gleeke. Hath hee burned ye teats of her virginity? Certayneley that ould woeman wanted businesse that sette London bridge afyre, shee did [?] the city of London to ye value of cent mil escu au moins' (p. 1) 'The house of ye Howards is now goinge towards theyre woonted declininge, for when they are great, they emprison & beat, & then ye sunne leaves shining then thousand hee & shee hereticks, ten thousand hee & shee Armineans, ten thousand hee & shee Armenians, London lickpenny, Lincolne lickpenny, Mrs Sarah Graunty widdow hath a 1000 an year land of inheritance to live on' (p. 14); 'Ravilliack Crummewell is to bee pulld apeices wth 4 wild horses upon London streets & then to bee hang draiwen & quartered not decapite[d]' (p. 31); 'Hinnico Jones alias Iniguity Jones a justice of peace of ye qudrum and custos rotilorum hath for keepinge ye kinges houses in repayre deaux cens mil escu per an, three score thousand ls starlinge an year and well payed hee is 4 score years ould. Midwife Mrs Bullard midwife Mrs Whiteby midwife Mrs Cutler twoo parsons widdowes' (p. 34); 'Mathew Cardroe lyeth heer, whooe drunke too mutch of bottle bear. I care noe more to kill them in bravado then forto drinke a pipe of Trinidado [...] Tom Tippett uppe & downe doth walke & cannott see himself in his owne optick glasse' (p. 41); 'Wilton House Ramsberye house Pembrokes Earl Pembrokes & Muntgomeryes then Lord Chamberlaynes. Personal suppositum intelligens ten of 20 ls an year augmentation monye to ye Greeke lecture or buildinge at Cambridge, Oxford Caius de Antiquitate Cantabrigi' (p. 43); 'I kneaw ye 3 Mackullyes taylours all three Scottshmen & brothers ye woorst of them dyed woorth twenty-thousand pounds they three dyed in all woorth three score thousand starlinge deaux cens mil escu au moins' (p. 50); 'I was nurst 2 years at Mourtleack two years togither [...] by Nurse Beck, whoe nurst ould mad Besse Tallmatch' (p. 61); 'Sr Ferauncis Cranes hanginges all ye suits at Mourtleck upon ye Thames where I was nurst cost ten thousand pounds at least. Hee made my Lord keeper Williams ye 4 seasons of ye year & sould them to him for £500 Sir Firauncis Crane of Grafton Auditour Crane' (p. 63); 'Hee & shee marquesse Ormonde, hee & shee Marquesse Toosmond, Hee & shee Marquesse Desmond, Rabshekais & Achitophells, Madam you must bee whippt at a cart stayble, or you shall ride in a dunge cart, or have rotten eggs throwne at you[r] Irish honour' (p. 69).

Davidson, Allan A. South Australia. Journal of Explorations in Central Australia... The Central Australian Exploration Syndicate...1898 to 1900. Adelaide: By Authority, C.E. Bristow, 1905. Folio, South Australia no.27, large folding map and large folding plan (each with some closed tears), brown cloth, text-block loose, bookplate of the Comité Bruxellois pour la Restauration de la B.U.L. and a subsequent inscription in black ink; Hamada, Kosaku P'i - Tzu - Wo. [Archaeologia Orientalis Volume I] Prehistoric Sites by the River Pi-liu-ho, South Manchuria. Tokyo / Kyoto: The Toa-Kokogaku-Kwai, or the Far-Eastern Archaeological Society, 1929. Folio, frontispiece, 2 folding tables, 68 plates, with a gift inscription to the front free-endpaper dated 1949, original red half cloth gilt, text-block split with spine partially detached; Soules, François (translator) Affaires De L'Inde Depuis le commencement de la Guerre avec la France en 1756... jusqu'à la conclusion de la Paix en 1783. London and Paris: Buisson, 1788. First edition. 8vo, two volumes, fold-out map in volume II, contemporary calf, gilt spine, bookplates of Monsieur Laplagne Barri, some dust-soiling and damp-staining, endpapers detaching from boards, binding wormed in places, edges bumped (4)

Manuscripts Collection of manuscripts on various subjects, 17th-19th century comprising: Law. Manuscript legal dictionary, 17th century. In English, 273 pp. (29.6 x 19cm), 'Pot II' watermarks containing monogram 'G I', written in a variable non-scribal hand, many leaves partially excised, nearly all leaves between pp. 72 and 121 removed (only partial sections of 4 leaves remaining), worming to head of gutter, early annotations and pen-trials to front and rear blanks (including 'buy 3 handkerchevs, and a shirt, a paire of shoos, a paire of sleeves, some ribbond, crevats'), contemporary binding of mottled calf ruled in blind, heavily rubbed, top spine compartment coming loose, front board with extensive crack along reverse; War of the Spanish Succession. Manuscript letter-book relating to the Treaty of the Hague, c.1698. 48 pp. (19 x 14cm), comprising transcriptions of letters mainly between the Earl of Portland and James Vernon, secretary of state to William III, the letters all dated 1698 and the hand contemporary, old ownership inscription ('Napier'), contemporary comb-marbled wrappers, longitudinal central crease, contents evenly browned, a few stains; East India Company. Manuscript on the treatment of liver disorders, c.1771. 21 ff. (17.8 x 11cm), ff. 1-6 comprising extracts of letters on 'a cure being effected in the disorder of the liver communicated to us by a gentleman of rank in our military service at Bombay by means of castor oil' and including an 'Extract of a letter from Lieut. Colonel Brewer to Hans Sloane dated at Bombay in the year of 1769', ff. 7-21 comprising a substantial letter on 'bilious disorders', dated Fort St George [Madras], 3 November 1771, 9 additional ff. with later (19th century) annotations including 'Observations on the gout by Doctor Fothergill', medical remedies and similar, numerous blanks, contemporary bookplate of Charles Wedderburn of Pearsie (1748-1829), contemporary reversed calf binding; Ottoman Empire. 'Report on Turkey sent in to the C[ivil] S[ervice] Commissioners February 28 1861'. Manuscript, [55] ff. (22.5 x 18.7cm), annotated 'private' on title-page, signed Henry Lockwood at end, including an extensive section ([18] pp.) with pencilled heading 'On woman in her social state', contemporary maroon half roan binding, rear inner hinge gone and last few leaves detached; and 8 others, comprising: 'A Collection of Sentences, Moral, Divine etc. etc. for the benefit off [sic] and extracted by me, And[re]w Adamson, Vol. Ist, Cliftonhall, 1777' (12mo, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, 121 pp.); 'M. S. Accounts of Selkirkshire' [spine-title], c.1850 (folio, contemporary half calf, 50 ff., bookplate of Lord Napier); 5 Bible commentaries and similar religious writings, early 19th century (all stitched only); commonplace book, c.1825, including Byron's 'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte' (contemporary marbled wrappers, separating along spine) (12)Note: Some of the letters transcribed in the War of the Spanish Succession letter-book can be found in published works including The History and Proceedings of the House of Commmons (1742); the manuscript legal dictionary and the 'Report on Turkey' appear to be unpublished.

Edinburgh Town Council Six 18th century Manuscripts, probably by Robert Mein comprising: Table of Deus payable by Burgesses & Gildbrothers at their Admission, with manuscript list of sums to be paid, 1 leaf, [? c. 1720]; Edinburgh the fifteenth day of July One thousand seven hundred and three years The Which day the Lord Provost Baillies Council, Deacons of Crafts being Conveened in Council upon Report of the Dan of Guild did statute and ordean that the dues payable to the present Dean of Guild Officer and his successors in office be as follows in all time comeing..., 1 page, manuscript, integral blank, signed 'Nasmyth' at foot; At Edinburgh, 26 July 1729. The Dean of Guild and his Councill having Considered how much the Steets of Edinbr. is interrupted and straitened by the Red Rubbish Stons &c, lying dispersed and more Bounds taken up than what is neadfull, therfore they ordain that the Sundry Builders upon the Night Street, do contract their stons, rubbish & so on that there may be at least twenty four foot in Breadth of an open and clear passage upon one or other side of their Street.. on1 page, folio, initialled D.G. at foot; Three manuscript slips showing dues of Burgesses Entries, the first on entering Burgesses 1754, another listing those who enter by Right of their father, burgess only at first, gild brother after, B & Guild both at once, &c., circa 1750 (6)Note: The first item has Robert Mein's characteristic decorative flourishes to initial letters. See other items attributed to him in this sale.

Baskin, Leonard (illustrator) William Shakespeare: Othello [Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press], 1973. Folio, text in unbound bifolia, signed and numbered 1/200 by Baskin on the colophon leaf, 10 woodcut plates on Japanese paper, each numbered 1/200 and signed by Baskin in pencil, with a suite of duplicate plates, each numbered 1x/200 and signed by Baskin in pencil, all loose as issued in the original solander boxNote: First edition, deluxe issue, the tête-de-tirage, number 1 of 200 copies with an additional suite of woodcuts and available only from the Kennedy Galleries in New York; there were also 200 bound copies. This is the second and final published volume of the never-completed Gehenna Shakespeare; the first volume was Titus Andronicus, which appeared in 1970.

Bone, Sir Muirhead With the Grand Fleet London: Country Life, 1917. Large folio, 6 coloured lithographed plates, all signed in pencil by the artist, original green wrappers (wrapper extended with extra slip at head), the upper wrapper marked 'Edition de luxe... signed proofs'

Bone, Sir Muirhead Munition Drawings London: Country Life, 1917. Large folio, 6 coloured lithographs, each signed in pencil by the artist, original green printed wrappers, lettered 'signed proofs' (wrapper extended at left side)

Denon, Vivant Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte [London: Samuel Bagster, 1807]. Folio (48.5 x 28.5cm), 19th-century half morocco, engraved frontispiece, 107 plates (many folding), including large area map, plans, views, and depictions of hieroglyphs and antiquities, plates 25 and 84 not present (these listed as bound as frontispieces to the text volumes), tide-mark to head of gutter (encroaching on a few platemarks), occasional spotting and browning, plates 74 and 77 each with short closed handling tear, a few other marks [cf. Blackmer 471]

Dürer, Albrecht and German Renaissance painting Collection of works Dürer Vier Holzschnittfolgen... Leipzig: E. Haverland, [n.d.] Second edition, folio, 58 reproductions of woodcuts, original boards, worn and soiled; Springer, Jaro, editor. Albrecht Dürer Kupferstriche. Munich: Holbein-Verlag, 1914. Folio, original cloth; Epitome in Divae Parthenices Mari ae Historiam ab Alberto Duerro... [N.p., n.d.] Folio, containing a collection of facsimile woodcuts, original boards, spine chipped; Waetzoldt, Wilhelm. Dürer und Seine Zeit. Leipzig: Phaidon, [n.d.] 8vo, original cloth gilt; Voss, Hermann. Meister der Graphik...Band III...Albrecht Altdorfer und Wolf Huber. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, [n.d.] 8vo, original cloth; Burger, Fritz. Die Deutsche Malerei Berlin-Neubabelsberg: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H. Koch, [1913]. Large 8vo, contemporary half calf, spine lacking, covers detached; sold not subject to return (6)

Hogarth, William Hogarth Restored The Whole Works of the Celebrated William Hogarth as originally published. Now re-engraved by Thomas Cook. Accompanied with Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth, and Explanatory Descriptions of his Designs. London: printed for the engraver, and G. and J. Robinson, 1801. Large folio (56.4 x 46cm), contemporary calf, letterpress title-page, engraved portrait, 110 engraved plates on 88 sheets (mounted on guards; plates 1-12, 64 and 72, 66 and 68, 78-87, 94-5, 96-7, 99-100, 102-3, 104-5 each two plates to a sheet; plates 69, 73 and 76, and 70, 74 and 75 each three plates to a sheet), modern tissue-guards, binding worn, front board detached, Temple Belwood ink-stamp to tissue-guards before title, title-page chipped and browned, occasional marginal browning to plates, a few plates with narrow margins at head and foot, plates 1-2 and 11-12 with repaired tears in images, 5-6 torn in gutter, plate 57 ('Gin Lane') with extensive closed tear through image (repaired), occasional marginal repairs elsewhere, plates 78-96 (i.e. mainly the 12 Hudibras plates) damp-stained, a few other marks. Together with the Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth (London: for the engraver, and G. and J. Robinson, 1803, 8vo, contemporary half calf, covers detached, Temple Belwood ink-stamps) (2)Note: A prospectus for Cook's edition of Hogarth was printed in 1795 (ESTC T36576). This copy contains all the prints listed in the accompanying copy of the Anecdotes. Most copies traced at auction are dated 1802 on the title-page; there was also a Stockdale edition in 1806. Library Hub traces one copy dated 1801 (Tate Britain).

Miro, Joan Femmes Texte de Claude Simon. [Paris]: Maeght, 1965. First edition, trade issue, large folio, [9]-20 pp. text, woodcut frontispiece in colours, similar vignettes to title-page and colophon leaf, 23 offset lithographic plates in colours, all loose as issued in yellow wrappers, housed in original yellow card portfolio, ties extant, very slightly distressed at extremities; Chagall, Marc. Chagall Lithographe. [Volume 1 of 6]. Monte Carlo: André Sauret, [1960]. First edition in German, 4to, original cloth, lithographic dust jacket, 11 lithographic plates, illustrations throughout the text; Beaulieu, Paul. O visages ... poème satirique de Jean-Louis Vallas. Paris: aux dépens d'un amateur, 1952. First edition, one of 67 copies on Vergé pur chiffon, from the total edition of 85, 4to, 33 etched plates, text, in bifolia, loose as issued in original wrappers and card folder; Jansem, Jean. Oeuvres graphiques. New York: Touchstone Publisher Ltd., 1970. First edition, one of 3,000 copies, 4to, original cloth, lithographic dust jacket, 8 lithographic plates; Manet, Edouard. The Raven. Poem by Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1978. 'Limited edition' (limitation not stated), large folio, 16 pp. text, 4 lithographic plates, all loose as issued in portfolio and slipcase (slipcase partially split at foot) (5)

Nevinson, C. R. W. Modern War Paintings With an Essay by P. G. Konody. London: Grant Richards Limited, 1917. First edition, 4to, original green quarter cloth, green paper boards, printed labels to spine and front cover, dust jacket, colour lithographic frontispiece ('The Column on the March') signed by Nevinson in pencil and with captioned tissue-guard, 24 monochrome plates, peripheral toning to boards, corners bumped, dust jacket with toned spine, chipping to head and foot of spine and joints, short closed tear to head of front panel, a few small marks; Bone, Muirhead. Glasgow. Fifty Drawings. Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1911. 'Special edition', number 2 of 110 copies (of which 10 were for presentation) with a signed original etching, comprising text volume (folio, original wrappers, partly unopened), signed etching (in window-mount), and 53 unbound plates (each on separate card mount and including duplicates of plates 3, 11 and 36), all in portfolio as issued; Binyon, Laurence. The Art of Botticelli. An Essay in Pictorial Criticism. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. First edition, one of 275 copies, folio, original quarter vellum, etched frontispiece by Muirhead Bone (signed by the artist), 23 tipped-in colour plates, tissue-guards browned; Burns, Robert (1869-1941). Scots Ballads. London: Seeley Service & Co Limited, [1939]. First edition, one of 320 copies only, folio, original quarter cloth, printed on japon, wood-engraved illustrations throughout; [Chromolithography]. Poem by Lord Byron. Illuminated by W & G Hudsley, Architects. London: Day & Son, 1865. 4to, original decorative cloth, 20 chromolithographic leaves, gutta percha perished and contents loose; Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books, New Arabian Nights. A New Edition; Ballads. London: Chatto and Windus, 1888-89-90. 3 works, large-paper editions, each one of 100 copies only, 4to, original cream cloth, slightly marked, tips bumped (8)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de Douze lithographies Paris: Librairie Gründ, 1948. First edition,folio, one of 600 copies on vélin supérieur from the total edition of 750, 12 lithographic plates in colours, all text as called for (in bifolia, comprising: half-title and limitation page; title-page, 3 pp. introduction, list of plates, justification page), all loose as issued in original quarter cloth portfolio (portfolio marked, ties extant), 4 unrelated prints laid in

Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William - Vesalius, Andreas Tabulae anatomicae sex Six anatomical tables. London: privately printed for Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 1874. Large folio, engraved presentation page printed in red, title-page printed in red and black, 1 engraved portrait plate, 6 anatomical plates, original quarter maroon morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled boards, extremities rubbed, short split to lower outer joint, one of thirty copiesNote: One of Stirling-Maxwell's 'pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods' (ODNB), of which 28 copies were printed, in addition to one copy on vellum and one on parchment. A set of six oversized broadsides, the Tabulae anatomicae sex, originally printed at Venice in 1538, were designed to be mounted on the wall for reference during dissections and, as a result, only two complete copies of the original printings of the six oversized anatomical plates survived. One set is in the Bibliotheca nazionale Marciana of Venice. Another, which became the basis for this edition, was purchased in 1857 by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, and is now in the Hunterian Library in Glasgow. There is a third set in the Biblioteca statale di Cremona (USTC 764591). Library Hub traces only four copies of the 1874 edition in UK institutions (Glasgow, Oxford, Royal Academy, and Royal Society of Medicine.) Provenance: 1) Christie’s, The Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 22-24 May 1995, lot 712. 2)The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).

Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) Examples of the Engraved Portraiture of the Sixteenth London & Edinburgh: privately printed for Sir William Stirling Maxwell, 1872. Large folio, original tan half cloth, cloth sides, title-page in red and black, 199 photolithographic facsimiles of engraved or woodcut portraits on 114 numbered sheets (many mounted), laid-in autograph letter from Sir William Fraser (1816-1896), Scottish historian, genealogist and archivist, to Stirling-Maxwell (29 November 1870; concerning woodcuts), spine rubbed, front joint partially cracked, mottling to sides, light spotting to outer leaves, front free endpaper creasedNote: Number 50 of 50 copies only; one of Stirling-Maxwell's 'pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods' (ODNB). Stirling-Maxwell (1717-1878) was fascinated by printing and reproduction. The fourth volume of his Annals of the Artists of Spain consisted of extra illustrations using the Talbotype photographic process developed by William Fox Talbot. It became the first use of photography in an art history book. 'Further evidence of his commitment to the multiple image was provided by his pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods, including Examples of the Engraved Portraiture of the Sixteenth Century (1872)' (ODNB). In the preface, Stirling-Maxwell draws attention to the various methods used in reproducing the prints, e.g. the photo-lithographic: the photo-type; Sun-printing, i.e. the carbon process; and the photodynamic. These masterpieces of book production appear to have been distributed by presentation to friends, notable persons and institutions. As the present and subsequent volumes all remained at Keir, there are no presentation inscriptions. Provenance: 1) Christie’s, The Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 22-24 May 1995, lot 712. 2) The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).

Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) The Entry of the Emperor Charles V into the City of On the Fifth of November MDXXIX. Reproduced from a Series of Engravings on Wood printed at Venice in MDXXX. Florence, London & Edinburgh: privately printed for Sir William Stirling Maxwell, 1875. Large folio, decorative half-title and title-page printed in red and black, 16 double-page plates, original quarter morocco, yellow paper boards with bevelled edge, binding rubbed and marked, spotting to half-title and final plateNote: The great Renaissance figure of Charles the Vth was one of Stirling-Maxwell's heroes (ODBN). The individual woodcuts show a continuous parade of nobility, standard-bearers and heralds, musicians, knights in armour on horseback, arquebusiers, halberdiers, pikemen, and riders drawing artillery, moving from right to left and were originally intended to be joined together laterally to form a frieze nearly nine metres long. In the preface Stirling-Maxwell notes that the bad printing of the originals (a copy in Florence) had been amended during the photo-lithographic process and numbers added to the prints for clarity. One of Stirling-Maxwell's 'pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods' (ODNB), of which 100 copies were printed. Stirling-Maxwell had seen only four copies of the original, and used the Uffizi copy as the basis of his edition. Provenance: 1) Christie’s, The Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 22-24 May 1995, lot 712. 2) The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).

Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) Solyman the Magnificent going to Mosque From a Series of Engravings on Wood published by Domenico de'Franceschi at Venice in M D LXIII. Florence & Edinburgh: privately printed for Sir William Stirling Maxwell, 1877. Large folio, original green quarter roan, green cloth sides, illustrated throughout with facsimiles of engravings and woodcuts, including 2 portraits, decorative head-and tailpieces and initials, and 9 plates (all but one double-page), wear and loss to spine, sides rubbed and cockled, half-title spottedNote: One of Stirling-Maxwell's 'pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods' (ODNB), of which 100 copies were printed. 'Intended, apparently, for the decoration of walls, these woodcuts are exceedingly rare. Only two sets have fullen under my eye, one in the Print Room of the British Museum, and another in the Royal Collection at the Uffizi at Florence ... The Florentine set appears to have been made up from two or more impressions of the work. From that set the following photo-lithographic copies, of the full size of the original, were made for me by Signor pIetro Corrado Smorti in 1875' (Stirling-Maxwell, introduction). Provenance: 1) Christie’s, The Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 22-24 May 1995, lot 712. 2)The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).

Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) - Coecke van Aelst, Pieter The Turks in MDXXXIII A series of drawings made in that year at Constantinople by Peter Coeck of Aelst... with an introduction by Sir William Stirling Maxwell London & Edinburgh: privately printed, 1873. Large oblong folio, printed in red and black, engraved title-page, head- and tailpieces, text-illustrations, 12 plates (including title-page and colophon to Coecke's work), original green cloth, binding slightly rubbed, very slight paper discolouration throughout, faint crease to early leaves including title-page [Atabey 261; Blackmer 379; this copy with plain rather than the usual monogrammed pastedowns]Note: One of Stirling-Maxwell's 'pioneering books of facsimile prints using the new photolithographic methods' (ODNB), 100 copies printed. Provenance: 1) Christie’s, The Property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 22-24 May 1995, lot 712. 2)The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).