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A folio of unframed watercolours and drawings, (Q).

After Canaletto, 19th Century, 'Doges Palace, St. Marks, Venice', An antique copper plate engraving, The Folio Society trade label verso, 10.5" x 16.5".

Six boxes of various books including mainly Folio Society volumes: "Great stories of crime and detection" volumes 1-4, JOHN BUCHAN "The Three Hostages", "The Thirty-Nine Steps", "Greenmantle" and "Mr Standfast", P.G. WODEHOUSE, DOROTHY L SAYERS, DAPHNE DU MAURIER, AGATHA CHRISTIE, ANTON CHEKHOV, GERALD DURRELL, ROBERT GRAVES, GEORGE ORWELL, EVELYN WAUGH, ELIZABETH GASKELL etc, together with other later printed classics

Five boxes of various Folio Society volumes including "Legends of King Arthur", "British Myths and Legends", "Legends of the Grail", "Legends of Ancient Rome", "Icelandic Gods", "Myths of India", "The Greek Myths", "The Myths of the Near East", C.S. LEWIS (7), "The History of Western Philosophy", "The Arabian Nights", "Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales", "Perrault's Fairy Tales", "Tanglewood Tales", "The Fables of Aesop", "Michaelangelo", "The Twelve Caesars", "The Folio Christmas Book", "A Travellers Christmas", "Christmas Ghost Stories", "Christmas Crime Stories", "The English Christmas" etc

Two boxes of Folio Society books various including "All Quiet on the Western Front", "A Shropshire Lad", "Scarlet and Black", "Treasure Island", "Ghost Stories of M R James", "The Secret History", "Dream Street", "The Red Badge of Courage", "The Return of the Native", "Tess of the d'Urbevilles", "The Woodlanders", etc, etc (34) together with five boxes of books various including arts and antiques, "An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mysticism", "A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentleman of Great Britain", edited by the Rev. F O Morris, volume II, etc

Folio Society. A cased set of The Birth Of The Middle Ages, The Waning Of The Middle Ages, The Making Of The Middle Ages, The Crucible Of The Middle Ages, and The High Middle Ages, in slip case. (5)

Three limited edition books, comprising The Poems Of John Keats limited edition 691/1500, The Poems Of Wordsworth limited edition 1176/2000, and The Poems of Robert Browning limited edition 691/1500, folio copies in outer sleeves, bearing signature for the Illustrator printed especially for the Limited Edition Club.

Folio Society, comprising A Treasury of Mark Twain, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Life of The Buddha, Elsarco The Bandit, The Diary of a Nobody, Travels with a Donkey, Journal of a Country Curate, Sir John Barrow, Pick of Punch, Mutiny of HMS Bounty, Herboko, Memoirs of The Fox Hunting Man, and Liaisons, each in presentation case. (13)

Folio Society, various novels to include The Genius of James Furber, Misson To Tashkent, The Song of Songs, A Man of Singular Virtue, A Month in the Country, William Dampler, John Evelyn's Diary, Expedition to Surinam, Lives of the Most Notorious Pirates, The Somme, A Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, My Early Times, The Return of the Native, French Short Stories, Travels in the interior of Africa, In Search of England, Goodbye to Berlin, The Making of a Miracle, and Goodbye To All That, in presentation cases. (19)

Folio Society, a collection of folio books to include The Boer War, Medieval People, Gulliver's Travels, The Decameron, First Five Days and Second Five Days, Pather Panchali, The Story of San Michel, The Grand Tour, Egypt Revealed, Shakespeare's Life and World, Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, Folio Golden Treasure, Mapping the World, etc, all in presentation cases. (13)

Maharajah Ranjit Singh on horseback with attendants and sepoys Punjab, Lahore, probably from the workshop of Imam Bakhsh Lahori, circa 1830-40gouache and gold on paper, orange and pink borders 289 x 228 mm.Footnotes:Maharajah Ranjit Singh was known as a natural horseman and his love of horses was legendary. He expended considerable sums to maintain a large stable of Arabian thoroughbreds. It was a common saying that the price of the entire city of Lahore was equal to the cost of the Sikh king's horses.The two soldiers that form part of the guard in this painting are men of the infantry, an arm of the Fauj-i-ain or regular army. The Maharajah's meritocratic character and pragmatic approach towards realising his ambitions in the early days of his empire-building career led him to create a modern army made up of all manner of warrior tribes and nations. Hindu Gurkhas, Biharis and Oriyas, as well as Muslim Punjabis and Pathans, were skilfully blended together with the Sikhs to form 19th Century Asia's most formidable fighting force. While his generals were all members of Punjab's new nobility, the men were drilled and marshalled by several dozen foreigners. They included former Napoleonic generals and English deserters from the ranks of the East India Company. Along with Italian, American, Spanish, German, Irish and Greek soldiers of fortune, all contributed to the new army's uniquely cosmopolitan fusion of military cultures. Taking the regular infantry as an example, Ranjit Singh made sure he hand-picked each man. These recruits would be drilled using French words of command.In this Europeanised army, each soldier was given a red jacket every two years. These jackets had a lion, an elephant or a panther on the right sleeve to designate the regiment. Superior officers had no uniformity in their dress. According to General Court (one of the French officers in the Punjab), 'many wore Brandenburg jackets embellished with gold or silver, and an odd cut, poorly imitated from our hussar uniforms'.The painter Imam Bakhsh (active circa 1825–45) was employed by the Sikh nobility but produced commissions for Claude Auguste Court and Jean Baptiste Ventura, French and Italian generals in Ranjit Singh's army. In 1838, General Ventura had French artist Alfred de Dreux paint a large oil painting based on a similar equestrian portrait of the Maharajah by Imam Bakhsh to present to King Louis-Philippe of France (Musée du Louvre Inv. 4096). In 1841 Imam Bakhsh painted another comparable equestrian portrait of Maharajah Ranjit Singh for General Court (Musee Guimet BG 399756).The present composition is closely connected with an illustrated folio (f. 284a) in a manuscript in the Royal Ontario Museum (and sold in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 28th April 2005, lot 115) of the Ain-i-Akbari (Chronicles of Emperor Akbar), Lahore, 1822, which shows Ranjit Singh riding, a parasol above him, surrounded by attendants. The Maharajah sits in an almost identical riding posture, holding a kerchief, and the three men behind the Maharajah and his mount are portrayed in the same poses (other figures are different).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An album of photographs consisting of good views in Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Darjeeling, Trichonopoly, Ceylon, and several local groups or studies Samuel Bourne or attributed to him, 1860s-70s41 albumen prints, mounted one per page (recto only) on thick card, 21 signed by Bourne within the negative, some others attributable to him, Colin Murray or Charles Shepherd, all captioned in ink beneath the image, contemporary full morocco gilt, g.e., expertly rebacked preserving the original spine, oblong folio prints approx. 200 x 315 mm.; album 410 x 490 mm.Footnotes:A fine album of views, mostly relating to Kashmir and Northern India, by or attributable to Samuel Bourne, including images taken during his three extensive photographic expeditions which took him to Chini and Spiti (1863), Kashmir (1864), 'where verdant landscapes inspired some of his finest photographs...' (ODNB), and the source of the Ganges at the base of Ganotri glacier (1866), together with some slightly later images in Ceylon/Sri Lanka and elsewhere.The subjects comprise:Copper Mines on the River Teesta, Darjeeling.Cane bridge on the Teesta River leading into Bhootan.Bunderpoonch, 20,758 Feet Above BarssoThe Ganges at DeraliSmall temples on the Ganges at DeraliSodee Talm [?] Jummotri, a lake seldom visited by travellersTwig Jhula Bridgeon the Chenab, KashmirView on the Kashmir Road near BudrawarView on the Canal, KashmirThe 'Duke', the largest Elephant caught at the KraalMoonshee Bagh Commissioner's Boat, KashmirView Down the Jhelum, KashmirScinde Valley GlaciersView from the Thibet Road at PangiThe great Chini Peaks in the backgroundGroup of Kashmir FemalesWooded Valley from Fuladam Srikanta peaks in the distanceVillage of Mokba on the Ganges, Bandarpoonch in the distanceThe Source of the Ganges, ice cave at the foot of the glacierA Shooting Party in Camp, Srinnggur, KashmirHindoo Fakeer: A native of NepaulThe Ganges at GangootriCurious gravel formations on the Lagudarsi Stream, SpitiContorted Strata at Losar, SpitiA Prince, wives and attendantsKeep of the Botanical Gardens from 'Lambsknowe', NeilgherrieKandyan Ladies, CeylonThree smaller Gopurums, TrichinopolyThe Great Pagoda and Stone Wall, TanjoreThe Great Pagoda from the ramparts, TanjoreMundapum with facade of stone horses, TrichinopolyGroup of Nautch Girls & musicians, KashmirVillage Life in BengalChurch, Court-house, and Library, OotacamundBuddhist caves near MonlmeinReversing Station, Bhore Ghat RailwayFernery at GangaranaThe Chief of the Temple, Kandy, CeylonJhtuba, CeylonThe great Hindoo Temple, Colombo, CeylonIndia rubber trees, Peradenia, CeylonChief Priests at Bhudda, Kandy, Ceylon.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Libanus Press -  Finzi Joy " In That Place" plates, limited edition , signed , 1987, two copies , 128 and 129 of 300 copies signed by the artist, quarter black morocco over patterned paper boards, small folio , both with slip cases ( 2)

DICKES William Frederick " The Norwich School of Painting - Crome, Ladbroke, Hodgson, Thirtle, Cotman.....Daniell etc" Jarrold and Sons, number 133 of Special Edition 400 at Two guineas, sepia plates with tissue guards, numerous other ills throughout text, marbled endapers, half title, second fepp has been torn out, original brown cloth with gilt decs and titles to front board, some stains and corners bruised, corners bruised, inked name dated 1966 on ffep, folio

George Algernon Fothergill Artist's proof "Finishing touches", signed in pencil and titled 'A Proof, George A Fothergill' lower left, ??cm x 45cm, framed "George A Fothergill's Sketch Book", parts 1, 2 and 4, limp covers, oblong folio 

After Giorgio Bonelli Two coloured engravings believed from 'Hortus Romanus' [1772]'Bigonia Americana - bifolia ....' and 'Bigonia Americana - fraxini folio....'framed (2)

Railwayana to include Pendleton, Jay "Our Railways, their Origin, Development, Incident and Romance", Cassel & Company, two volumes, photographic and other illustrations, pictorial boards, green cloth, Roult, LTC "Isambard Kingdom Brunel" Longmans Green & Co. 1957, blue cloth, dustjacket, not price clipped, Taitaf "Views on the Manchester and Leeds Railway" Elephant Folio with dustjacket, Bury,T.T. "Colour Views on Liverpool and Manchester Railway", Folio, dustjacket, slipcase, Roult LTC "Red for Danger", Webster "Railway Motive Power" and related volumes (2 boxes)

Art -    Rooses Max "Fifty Masterpieces of Anthony Van Dyck  in photo gravure selected from the pictures exhibited at Antwerp in 1899..." Sampson Low Mileston & Company 1900, numerous plates with tissue guards, half vellum with blue and black pictorial boards, gilt titles folio, with boxed set of "Sculpture", four volumes published by Taschen folio, paintings of Edward Sego, paintings of Sir William Russell Flint, John Chancellor's classic maritime painting, Roland, Hilder Sketching Country, Denver, Bernard "Impressionism", Robert Taylor Air Combat paintings... and other oversized volumes (2 boxes)

Pop memorabiliaPeel, John and Ravenscroft, Sheila"Margrave of the Marshes", Bantam Press 2005, signed by John Peel on tp, photographic illustrations, pictorial ep, black cloth, dj not price clipped and another similar copy not signedFletcher, Tony "Dear Boy, the Life of Keith Moon", Omnibus Press 1998, inscription in biro on ffep, dj not price clipped"The Beatles Unseen Archives" (paperback)"The Beatles Anthology", folio, dj"Elvis Presley Unseen Archives"Masters, Brian"The Swinging Sixties"Shapiro, Marc"All Things Must Pass, the Life of George Harrison""The Top 100 Best Selling Albums" and other related items 

The Domesday Book Studies, Middlesex and London, folio and maps and introduction and translation, 3 vols The Alecto Historical Editions 1987, elephant folio, brown cloth with cream buckram backstrips, in fitted slip case (splitting)The Nonesuch Press - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare in 4 vols, 1953, marbled boards, gilt titles, within fitted slip caseAnderson, Emily"The Letters of Beethoven", 3 vols, Macmillan, djs in fitted slip casePlomer, William"Kilvert's Diary", 3 vols, dj, some water damageProust, Marcel "Remembrance of Things Past", 3 vols, Chatto & Windus 1981, purple ep, black cloth with gold and purple abstract design and gilt titles, within a black fitted slipcaseFolio Society Wilkie, Collins, 4 vols "The Moonstone", "The Woman in White", "No Name" and "Armadale", green cloth with black stamped decorations and titles, reminiscent of the original first editions, in green slip case 

Hardy, Thomas "The Dynasts", Macmillan & Co 1927, 2 vols only of 3 - one of 525 copies printed on large paper signed Thomas Hardy in ink on 2nd ffe, deckle edges, patterned boards with half-vellum , gilt titles and brown paper dj with titles Hardy, Thomas"The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall in Tintagel ...", Macmillan & Co 1923, offsetting to ep, green cloth, gilt pictorial and gilt titles, dj, glassine coverThe Earl of Carnavon (ed)"Letters of Philip Dormer 4th Earl of Chesterfield to his Godson and Successor ...", The Clarendon Press 1890, 104/525 copies, bkpl inside front board, deckle edges, a facsimile letter, four edges rather stained and toned, t.e.g., quarter vellum, blue cloth with gilt titles and armorial crest, gilt titles and gilt bands to backstrip, small folio (4)

Shaw, Bernard and Ricketts, C (ills)"St Joan, a Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue", Constable & Co 1924, limited edition of 750 copies, colour plates tipped in, with lettered paper guards, folio, patterned boards with pastedown title to front board, quarter buckram with pastedown title to backstrip, glassine cover, t.e.g.Porter, Andrew (trans) and Fraser, Eric (ills)"Richard Wagner, the Ring", Dawson 1976, no.149/200 specially bound copies accompanied by a separate suite of the illustrations printed by T A Saunders mold-made paper by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, cloth, pastedown title to front board, with series of illustrations within a separate folder, the whole in a fitted slip case The Golden Hours Press - "The Amorous Poem Entitled Hero & Leander, begun by Christopher Marlowe and finished by George Chapman ...", newly imprinted with engravings by Lettice Sandford for the Golden Hours Press 1933, faint offsetting from the plates, green cloth with gilt titles to front board, t.e.g., gilt titles to backstrip, corners a little bumpedCoppard, A E "Ring the Bells of Heaven", The White Owl Press, no.85/150 copies signed by the author, frontis, pink boards with quarter cream buckram backstrip, gilt titles Salaman, Malcolm C (ed)"The Way of the World by William Congreave", unexpergated edition including an original signed etching by A R Middleton-Todd, A.R.E (the frontis), The Haymarket Press 1928, many pages uncut, blue cloth, damp damage to the lower boards and lower right corner and left corner bumped, dj not price clipped (5)

Naval history to include:-"Navy and Army Illustrated ... A Magazine ...", published George Newnes, vols 4 & 5, large folio, quarter-leatherWallace from Jungle to JutlandShowell, JPM"Donitz, U-Boats, Convoys"Hill, Richard"Lewin of Grenidge"Rodger, NAM"The Safe-Guard of the Sea", vol 1 only (2 boxes)

Assorted books in German, children's books, assorted subjects, Shakespeare Dramatic Works published in Leipzig, 16mo, full marbled boards, music scores and "Andrees Neuer Allgemeiner und Osterreichisch-Ungarischer Hand Atlas" Moritz Perles Wein 1904, double-page maps, elephant folio, half-morocco, front board and backstrip detaching, maps clean (1 box)

Large quantity of folio society to include:- T H White, Umberto Echo, Kay Nielsen, JRR Tolkein, Gerald Durrell, John Buchan, Kenneth Clark, Heath Robinson, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, etc, all within their slip jackets (4 boxes)

Johnson, Samuel "A Dictionary of the English Language in which the words are deduce from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations...", "The History of the Language and an English Grammar", two volumes, 5th edition, London, printed by W and A. Strahan 1784, title pages pages printed in red and black, title to vol I is creased and some loss, full contemporary leather has seen some wear, raised bands and paste down titles, an old lot number or library number is paste down on vol I,  Elephant Folio

Ralegh, Sir Walter Knight "The Historie of the World, in five books...", London printed for George Dawes and to be sold at his shop over against Lincoln's Inne Gate in Chancery-Lane in 1671, engraved frontis portrait, title page printed in red and black, five double page maps, final page repaired and laid down, re-backed with contemporary boards by Ron Pearce, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, brown end papers, the engraved half title repaired and laid down, the introduction "The Mind of the Front" facsimile and ink inscription scribbled out on the title page by the word 'London', bookplate for William Cecil Chambers, two stains on the frontis portrait, (see image) inked inscription top of page 81, toning to the edges not affecting text, page 931 has tear from the bottom of the page, ink splashes page 75   Folio

Morris, William "The Story of the Glittering Plain..." Longmans Green & Co. 1894, front hinge cracked, foxing to edges, backstrip and boards faded from shelf wear, "The Sundering Flood" Longmans Green & Co. 1898, the decorative edges rather worn, map, ink name and date 1898 on ffep, red cloth, paste down, some wear "The Water of the Wondrous Isles", Longmans Green & Co. 1897, foxing, front hinge cracked, section cut from ffep,  Bell, Malcolm "Sir Edward Burne-Jones A Record and Review" George Bell & Sons 1898, the plates, illustrations the book, has become disbound, pictorial boards and gilt titles, backstrip faded, Hueffer, Ford M. "Ford Madox Brown A Record of his Life and Works", Longmans Green & Co. 1896, sepia frontis with lettered tissue guard, plates, illustrations, foxing throughout, pictorial boards, backstrip faded, Reynolds, Graham "Painters of the Victorian Scene" Batsford 1953, dustjacket, not price clipped, Thorold, Anne (compiled by) "A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Lucien Pissarro" 1983, numerous illustrations throughout, green cloth, green slipcase, "Wigs" "The Work of Ambrose McEvoy..." published by Colour Magazine and printed by the Morland Press 1923, frontis small folio, colour plates tipped in and other illustrations, the grey boards are rather stained and backstrip worn, and two other volumes (10)

Rossetti Dante Gabriel (Trans), pictured by Evelyn Paul with music by Alfred Mercer "La Vita Nuova-The New Life...", George Harrap printed at the Cheylesmore Presse, colour plates, illustrations throughout text, half title, hinges cracked, decorated end papers, pictorial cloth, the bottom of the backstrip is rather bruised as are the corners decor edges with related material to include Marillier H.C. "Dante Gabriel Rossetti", George Bell & Sons 1904, front board and backstrip separating, Nunes Art Library "The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood", and "Sir Edward Burne Jones" "Drawings of Rossetti", George Nunes small folio, plates tipped in, other plates, vignette on title page, inscription dated 1919 inside front board which has offset onto the end paper, pictorial boards rather stained, "Drawings of Sir Edward Burne Jones" George Nunes, colour plates tipped in and other illustrations, inscription inside front board dated 1913, pictorial boards but very stained and bumped, Bate, Percy H "The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters..." George Bell & Sons 1899, plates throughout, frontice small folio pictorial cloth and "Pre-Raphaelite Painters" printed  by the Phaidon Press 1948, red cloth, dustjacket (8)

Marillier, H.C. "Dante Gabriel Rossetti An Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life",George Bell & Sons 1899, two volumes, one volume has an envelope with accompanying letter from William Rossetti (the son of Gabriel Rossetti) to a gentleman name Spielmann , dated 3rd November 1899, marked St John's Wood, November 13th '99 and an order form for the book, to Mr Spielmann whose bookplate is on the inside front board, the front hinge of this volume is cracked, dark blue gilt pictorial cloth, gilt titles, the top of the backstrip is split, the other volume has various postcards and advertising leaflets and a letter from the Oxford Union Society to an Uncle Herbert, some foxing, the bottom right hand corner of the front board is split, both volumes folio (2)Condition ReportPlease see additional image

Charles Dickens interest"Master Humphrey's Clock", illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Brown, Chapman & Hall 1940, in 3 vols, to include 'Barnaby Rudge', Chapman & Hall 1941, rebacked with calf and gilt titles, contemporary marbled boards and leather laid downAldin, Cecil (ills)"The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club", Chapman & Hall, Lawrence & Jellico E 1910, 2 vols, vignette on tps, colour frontis with tissue guards, colour plates with lettered tissue guards, illustrated headers to the chapters and text and illustrations through text, brown cloth with black blindstamped titles, djs to both vols, some loss "Hard Times", Bradbury & Evans 1854, full calf rebacked, some staining, t.e.g., 8voCopping, Harold (ills)"Character Sketches from Dickens", Raphael Tuck & Sons 1924, frontis portrait with tissue guard, colour plates with tissue guards, contemporary brown cloth, blindstamped gilt titles, t.e.g.Reynolds, Frank (ills)"Mr Pickwick, Pages from the Pickwick Papers", limited edition 91/350 signed by Frank Reynolds, published Hodder & Stoughton, plates tipped in with lettered tissue guards, colour frontis tipped in with lettered tissue guard, illustrated tp, full vellum with pictorial front board and gilt decorations, t.e.g., deckle edges, ribbon tie is missing, folio (8)

Todd, Rev James Henthorn"Descriptive Remarks on Illuminations in Certain Ancient Irish Manuscripts", printed by Nichols & Sons, sold at the Departments of the Society of Antiquaries 1869, elephant folioVan Voorst, John (publisher)Plates showing Sculptural Details to include Figures,  Corbells, Heads, Bosses, Bands, elephant folio, etc, disbound (2) 

Gotch, J Alfred "Architecture of the Renaissance in England ...", BT Batsford 1894, 2 vols, photographic plates, illustrations throughout text, photographs throughout text, elephant folio, brown cloth Penrose, Francis Cranmer "An Investigations of the Principals of Athenian Architecture ...", McGrath Publishing Company, Washington DC 1973, elephant folio, black cloth (3) 

Triggs, H Inigo and Tanner, Henry"Some Architectural Works of Inigo Jones ...", published by Batsford 1901, numerous plates, photographic illustrations, drawings, frontis with tissue guard, light inscription in pencil dated 1903 on half-title, elephant folio with black cloth, gilt titles and decorations, all a bit bumped and rubbed but text and plates clean, possibly rebacked Stratton, Arthur"The Engish Interior, a Review of the Decoration of English Homes and Tudor Times to the 19th Century", Batsford (1920), numerous photographic plates, illustrations throughout the text, blue cloth with a buckram backstrip, gilt titles, backstrip chipped and splitting at the top"The Smaller House ... being selected examples of the latest practise in modern English domestic architecture", The Architectural Press 1924, architectural business stamp on tp, numerous photographic illustrations, diagrams, plans, etc, brown cloth all rather bumped and worn"Sir Christopher Wren, Bicentenary Memorial Volume published under the auspices of the Royal Institute of British Architects", Hodder & Stoughton 1923, colour frontis with tissue guard, numerous plates with architectural drawings, plans, etc, pictorial ep showing a letter from Sir Christopher Wren, blue cloth, gilt armorial crest to front board and gilt titles"Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723" with contributions by Paul Waterhouse, Reginald Blomfield, etc, The Architectural Press 1923, photographic illustrations, small folio, gilt titles to front boardHarris, Eileen "The Genius of Robert Adam, his Interiors", published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by The Yale University Press 2001, numerous colour and other illustrations throughtout the text, pictural ep, tan coloured cloth, djClifford Smith, H "Buckingham Palace ...", Country Life Limited 1931, photographic illustrations and others throughout text, blue cloth, gilt titles, dj, bookshop label stuck on ffep not price clippedWatkin, David"Sir John Soane ...", Cambridge University Press 1996, black cloth, gilt title on pastedown to backstrip, dj Harris, John and Snodin, Michael (ed)"Sir William Chambers Architect George III", Yale University Press in association with a Courthold Institute of Art 1996, illustrated throughout, pictorial ep, dark green cloth and dj, in slip caseColvin, Howard"A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840", 3rd edition, Yale University Press 1995, maroon cloth, dj (10) 

Folio Society  and other miscellaneous volumes to include Austen John (ills)  "The Adventures of Harlequin" Selwyn & Blount 1923 frontis , ills, decorated endpapers, boards with pastedown title on front board, corners bumped, bookseller stamp from Simla on ffep and inked name and date 1925,  Behan Brendan " Brendan Behan's Island  - an Irish Sketchbook " with drawings by Paul Hogarth, Hutchinson 1962,  green mottled cloth, d-j not price clipped,  Nonesuch Press 1963  " Alice in Wonderland" and  "Alice Through the Looking Glass" yellow cloth with orange and gilt decs to front board and silver titles to back strip, Hassall Joan (ills) " Portrait of a Villlage" Francis Brett Young, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937, black cloth...... ( 2 boxes

Folio society - 3 boxes, to include A History of England etc

Folio Society - 3 boxes, to include Kay Nielsen,  Heath Robinson etc

Folio Society - two boxes in to include Jane Austen boxed set

Folio society to include Christopher Isherwood, Alexandra Dumas, William Napier, Rudyard Kipling, Flora Thompson, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Aldous Huxley (2 boxes)

A selection of Folio Society books, including: four volumes set of The Dictionary of Gardening; Grimm's Fairy Tales; four volumes by Patrick O'Brien, and other books, one box.

A selection of Folio Society classics and other books, including: set of five volumes by Charles Dickens; and titles including Vanity Fair; Moby Dick; and The Vicar of Wakefield, one box.

A selection of books relating to poetry and literature, including: six volumes relating to the works of Scott; Folio Society volume of The Pre-Raphaelites and their World; and other books relating to authors including Sylvia Plath and Thomas Bewick, one box.

R.J.S. Bertram - Old Newcastle, a folio of 15 Reproductions from Drawings, published by Mawson Swan & Morgan Ltd, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

Folio containing a collection of various World War II German related ephemera and other photographs including a mounted photograph of the Royal Army Ordinance Corps, 1942

The Society of Wood Engravers folio, ' The Great Storm of October 1987 ', containing five signed engravings by Claire Dalby, Monica Poole, Peter Reddick, Peter Smith and George Tute, each etching a signed Limited Edition

Folio and suitcase containing a collection of various unframed watercolour landscapes, sketches, head and shoulder portraits etc. by Mark Pollock, including three artists engraved printing plates with engravings

Folio containing a quantity of various 1930's newspapers, relating to R101 airship

Folio of prints ' The etchings of Samuel Palmer and his illustrations for Virgil and Milton 'No date or title page, folio is 18ins x 12ins Multiple small prints inside, also in general good condition

Two modern oils on canvas, abstract studies, indistinct stamp verso, three various ink and watercolour drawings and a folio ' La Vallee Des Legendes '

Folio containing a quantity of various pen and pencil sketches, nude and figural studies

EUSÉBIO DE CESAREIA.- Hystoria dela Igle | sia que llaman Eccle | siastica y Tripartita. | Abreuiada y trasladada de Latin en Ca- | stellano, pr vn Religioso dela or- | den de sancto Domingo. | Y aora nueuamente reuista y corregida | por el mesmo | interprete. | Año de M.D.LIIII. | Con priuilegio real.- Coimbra: por Juan Alvarez, 1554.- [4], 171, [3] f.; 27 cm.- E. ., Second Portuguese edition of a work based on the «Ecclesiastical History» by Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260/265- ca. 339/340) and his successors (especially Rufino and Cassiodorus), divided into nine books, the translation being the responsibility of the Dominican Fr. Juan de la Cruz. Unlike the first edition, printed in Lisbon by Luís Rodrigues in 1541, the present one includes a detailed colophon at the end of the text (f. y3r, fol. 171): ¶ A lo[v]or de Dios y dela gloriosa Virgen Maria se acabo de empremir la presente historia dela yglesia de Dios trasladada d[e] latin e[n] romance por el padre frey Juan de la cruz d[e]la orde[n] de predicadores de la prouincia de Portugal y agora de nueuo corregida por el mismo interprete. Fue impressa en la muy noble ciudad de Coimbra, por Juan Aluarez, impressor delRey nuestro señor a veinte & siete del mes de Agosto De .M.D.Liiij. The title page (blank verso) presents a Renaissance architectural framework; followed by the dedication to King D. João III (front and back); the «Prologo del interprete al Lector» occupies the third folio and the front of the following one (on the back the «Auisos»). On the front of the fifth folio (A1) we find the «Prologo de Eusebio Obispo de Cesarea», the text itself beginning on the verso of the same folio, which extends to the front of page 171 (f. y3r); the «Tabla delos Libros y Capitulos» fills the last seven pages (f. y3v to y6v). With the exception of the current titles, the text of the nine books is composed entirely in Gothic characters; the remaining texts (preliminary and final pages) are also printed in round characters. Copy very slightly cropped (carmine edge) and with slight browning, but generally clean; minor restoration on the lower margin of the third sheet. Recent and simple binding, complete with flexible parchment. Anselmo, 61. Palau, 115185. BN (16th century), 245. King D. Manuel II Library, 150.

HYGINUS, Gaius Julius.- [Poeticon Astronomicon] Higinius de Stellis.- Papiae: Impressum: arte & industria Iacob Paucidrapësis de Burgofrãco, 1513.- [52 (i. é 51)] f.: il.; 19 cm.- E., Beautiful edition of this astronomy manual, printed in Pavia, early 16th century. Work attributed to Hyginus de Stellis, Latin polygrapher (ca. 64 BC-17 AD), born in the Iberian Peninsula, according to some, or in Alexandria, according to others, a friend of Seneca, responsible for the Palatine library in Rome. His biography was transmitted to us by Suetonius. The princeps edition was printed in Venice in 1475, curiously with blank spaces for the illustrations that never made it to print. The work went through at least four editions in the 15th century. The present one includes a representation of the «Sphæra Mvndi» on the first folio, which is repeated on the reverse side, plus 47 figures of constellations and stars, with astrological zoomorphic or anthropomorphic representations. The edition is almost entirely composed in rotunda Gothic characters. Volume missing the last blank sheet, slightly cropped, but clean, showing a small restored worm hole on the outer margin of part of the sheets and that only occasionally touches the typographic stain. Non-contemporary binding in full flecked sheepskin. Provenance: auction 46, Pedro de Azevedo, May 2004, lot 332, Salema Garção Library (same copy). BM STC (Italy), 337. Leonardo Cantamessa (Astrologia), II, p. 1302.

RESENDE, André de.- Libri Quatuor | DE ANTIQVITATIBVS LVSITANIÆ | à Lucio Andrea Resendio olim inchoati, & | à Iacobo Menœtio Mascancello | recogniti, atqœ absoluti. | Accessit liber quintus de antiquitate minicipij Eborensis, ab codem | Vasconcello conscriptus, quo etiam autore, secundus | tomus quique atios libros continens, cito, | deo opt max. fauente, | in lucem prodibit. | Permittente regia maiestate, & supremo sacro sanctæ | inquisitionis senatu, cum privilegio | ad decennium.- Eboræ: Excudebat Martinus Burgensis, 1593.- [35], 259 (aliás 261), [1 br.], 46 (aliás 45), [21] p.: il.; 29 cm.- E., One of the most sought after works by the author, a pioneer in the field of archeology in Portugal. It includes numerous illustrations depicting epigraphic inscriptions. Since the pagination is a bit confusing, here's the exact collation of the copy: first section (from the title page) with four folios (signature +); second section (signature A) with eight folios (begins with the dedication of Diogo Mendes de Vasconcelos to Filipe II); third section with eight folios (signature B), in which the text of the work begins (folio B6 v.), curiously on the left page (Fol. 1 to Fol. 259, with a blank verso); 15 sections of 8 folios follow: signatures C to R (blank verso of R8); 4 sections with two folios signed +, ++, +++ and ++++ (blank verso of ++++2); three sections (signatures A, B and C) of eight folios, paginated from 1 to 46 (actually 45, due to an error on the last numbered page), errata (C7 v.) and two more blank pages; finally, the section that integrates the index (signature §) and consists of 9 folios with the last page blank. Exceptionally clean copy with good margins. Ex-libris of António Cupertino de Miranda. Binding from the 19th century, in full painted sheepskin, with a smooth spine, gold decorated. BN (16th century), 791. Samodães, 2761. Biblioteca de D. Manuel II, 469.

A suitcase containing a Folio Society book; simulated pearls; pens etc.

ONE BOX OF MIXED BOOKS TO INCLUDE FOLIO SOCIETY

Japanese folio of prints, together with a set of horse paintings on silk, etc (a lot)

HISTORIA LUTHERANISMI, Commentarius historicus et apologeticus de Lutheranismo..., Seckendorff, Veit Ludwig von, Frankfurt/Leipzig, bei Gleditsch, 1692, Folio, Ganzpergament der Zeit. Ausgabe der Übersetzung und Widerlegung der antilutherischen Schmähschrift des Jesuiten Maimbourg

GROUP OF TRAVEL, EXPLORATION & HISTORY INTEREST BOOKS,including 'A Narrative of the Voyage of the HMS Beagle', by Capn. Robert Fitzroy, published Folio Society, London 1977,'The White Nile' and 'The Blue Nile' by Alan Moorehead, published Hamish Hamilton, London 1971 and 1972 respectively, 'The History of the Conquest of Mexico' vols. I & II, by Prescott, and other examples

Rare Book The History of Kent. In Five parts. Containing I. An exact topography or description of the county. II. The Civil History of Kent.. V. The Natural History of Kent. HARRIS, John (c.1667-1719). London: Printed and Sold by D. Midwinter, 1719. [Kent Topography/Cartography] FIRST EDITION. Folio (40 x 29cm), pp.; iv, Dedication; iv, Preface; ii, Ode to Kent; iv, List of Subscribers; 592; xl. Illustrated with 43 fine engravings, of which 39 are double-page and/or fold-out. Includes fine panoramas of Rochester and Tunbridge Wells, the map of Romney Marsh, the map of the Isle of Thanet and a Latin version of the same. A county map of Beacons is included, but not the large folding county map. Elegantly bound in a late Georgian or Victorian polished and panelled calf with gilt-edges in the rough, by G.J. Andrews Binder of Bloomsbury. Contemporary ownership of David Polhill, many views exquisitely conserved at the time of rebinding, portrait frontispiece window-mounted at that time, subsequent repair to joint. Shows well. Volume One was all that was published, being issued shortly after Harris' death. A superb collection of views of the great Kentish houses, by Kip and Badeslade. Clearly given attention and expenditure in the nineteenth century, this is a well-preserved example. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

˜□ A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD AND MAHOGANY FOLIO STAND, CIRCA 1835 the hinged sides on cross framed ratcheted brackets, the end supports joined by a ring-turned stretcher between downswept legs and bun feet 111cm high, 61cm wide