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Winston S Churchill, The Second World War Folio Society, and other Folio Society books

A collection of various Folio Society volumes including Quest of the North West Passage, The Normans, Winston Churchill "My Early Life", etc.

A collection of various Folio Society volumes, including The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire

A collection of various Folio Society history works

A collection of Folio Society books including Pepys Diary and The Forsyth Saga

A collection of Folio Society books including Hanley Cross, Legends of King Arthur, Mr Sponges Sporting Tour etc.

A collection of Folio Society books including Charles Darwin, Toms Carlisle etc.

A BOX OF THE FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS, fifteen titles comprising Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 1984, Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain 2006, Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier 1979, The Bayeux Tapestry and The Norman Invasion by Lewis Thorpe 1973, The English Language by Robert Burchfield 2006, Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck 2004, The Virginian by Owen Wister 1981, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons illustrated by Quentin Blake 1977, Barnaby Rudge 1987 (front pages bent near spine) and The Pickwick Papers 1981 by Charles Dickens, My Life by Thomas Bewick 1981 (missing slip case), Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park 1984, The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith 1971 (case split), The Warden by Anthony Trollope 1976, and Dicken's London introduced by Rosalind Vallance 1966, all dates are the Society's publishing dates (1 BOX)

THREE BOXES AND LOOSE BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS, comprising five Folio Society publications to include the Pax Britannica trilogy by Jan Morris and Pick of Punch, more than thirty antiquarian titles including seventeen volumes of the Punch Library of Humour, poetry, etc, and newspapers including several issues of The Birmingham Daily Post from the 1860s, etc (sd) (3 BOXES AND LOOSE)

BOOKS, eleven titles in hardback format comprising three volumes of The Oxford Library of Words and Phrases, published by The Oxford University Press, three volumes of Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari published by The Folio Society, The Rise & Fall of the House of Medici by Chrisopher Hibbert published by The Folio Society, The Library of Golf by Joseph S.F. Murdoch, published by Gale Research Company, Padua in the Age of Dante by J.K. Hyde published by Manchester University Press / Barnes and Noble Inc. New York and ex. of Cornell College Library, The Valley of Decision by Marcia Davenport published by The Reprint Society and Thoughts on Beagling by Peter Wood, illustrated by Ivester LLoyd 1938, 1st Edition

After Giovanni Battista Piransi, a group of unframed Roman views, including the Colosseum, Piazza di Navona and others, loose sheets, probably 19th century folio edition (approx. 10)

A pair of brand new Folio Society hardback books in sleeves 'Napoleon' by George Lefebvre and 'Lives of the Engineers' by Samuel Smiles (2).

Collection of books, to include Nelson Mandela; Long Walk to Freedom, Alan Bennett; The Uncommon Reader, Folio Society books etc, in four boxes

Five Folio Society books, comprising A Narrative of The Voyage of the HMS Beagle, The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, Edwin Drood, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon and Maupassant: Une Vie, together with a collection of other books, in three boxes

A folio of unframed pictures, to include a portrait after Rembrandt

A folio containing mixed book plates, lithographs and prints etc, and two watercolours of impressionist figural scenes, both monogrammed J M.

A turn of the Century Edwardian oak folio stand of simple open form having paneled sides tapering inwards creating a V-shape with all raised on shaped legs upon castors. Plaque to the side for Lechertier Barbe & Co. No signs of visible damage. Measures approx; 79cm x 61cm x 21cm. 

FOLIO OF SCREEN PRINTS AND ARTIST PROOFS,including Terry Frost and Willy Tin Austin Hayes Gallery York Exhibition poster, and other artists including T. Hodgsen, Paul Sharp and C.M Davies, all loose and unmounted sheets

Österreich: Leopold-Orden, Ritterkreuz Urkunde für den Feldmarschalleutnant Anton Fiala.Pergament, Folio-Format, Schmuckvordruck, Querformat, ausgestellt Wien, den 15. Oktober 1906, aufgelegtes Oblatensiegel, OU Kaiser Franz Joseph u.a.Anton Ritter Fiala von Fernbrugg wurde 1910 noch der Charakter eines Feldzeugmeisters a.D. u. pens. verliehen.Zustand: I-II

Preussen: Eisernes Kreuz, 1914, 2. Klasse Schmuckurkunde für einen Gefreiten des. Kgl. Württ. Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment No. 125.Folio-Format, Schmuckvordruck, farbig, mit Randläsuren, ausgestellt den 1. Juli 1918, gesiegelt.Zustand: II-

Faksimile - - Velllekoop, Marije und Renske Suijver. Vincent van Gogh. The Sketchbooks. 4 faksimilierte Skizzenhefte und 14 lose faksimilierte Blatt sowie ein Kommentarband. London, The Folio Society & Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 2013. 79 S. (Kommentar). Original-Broschur und Kartonage-Umschlag mit montiertem Deckelschild (Kommentar & Loose leaves) sowie Original-Papp- bzw. Leinenbände (Faksimiles) zusammen in Original-Leinenkassette mit montiertem Deckelschild und goldgeprägtem Rückentitel.Eins von 1000 nummerierten Exemplaren. - Sehr schöne Faksimiles der vier Skizzenbücher und 14 losen Blätter in der Sammlung des Amsterdamer Van Gogh Museums. Der Kommentar zu den Skizzen von Marije Vellekoop und Renske Suijver. - Tadellos. - Dabei: Edwin Buijsen. The sketchbook of Jan van Goyen from the Bredius-Kronig Collection. Den Haag, Bredius-Genootschap, 1993. 109 Bl. (Faksimile), 121 S., 1 Bl. (Kommentar). 21 x 16 cm. Faksimile- und Kommentarband in Original-Leinenschuber mit goldgeprägtem Rücken- und Deckeltitel. - Sehr guter Zustand.

Birds.- [Cooke (Thomas)] A Letter to Mark Milbank, Esq. M.P....with Two Plates descriptive of the character of the Whistling Swan and of the Peculiar Structure of its Trachea, only edition, presentation copy from the author to Miss M.A.Lovett inscribed on inside front wrapper, 2 lithographed plates after Cooke on india paper and mounted, printed by Hullmandel, both a little spotted (particularly the second), horizontal crease from folding, loose (stitching broken) in original printed wrappers, foxed and soiled, small label and manuscript number to upper cover, spine worn, preserved in modern cloth portfolio, folio, 1823.

British diplomat.- Fane (John, eleventh earl of Westmorland [formerly Lord Burghersh], diplomatist and composer, 1784-1859) Copy Letter Book of dispatches from Berlin with copies of letters from the Duke of Dessau, Bernstoff and Bülow, manuscript in English and French, 48pp. excluding blanks, disbound, 1851; and another, manuscript legal opinion on the Duke of Sussex's desire to have custody of his children after his marriage had been declared invalid by George III invoking the Royal Marriages Act, [1805], folio (2).⁂ First mentioned correspondence regarding the Schleswig-Holstein Question, between Denmark and Prussia.

Stow (John) Annales, or a Generall Chronicle of England. Begun by John Stow: Continued and Augmented... by Edmund Howes, woodcut title, black letter, double column, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary and 20th century ink notes to front free endpaper, title cropped, lacks BS8 at end (blank), trimmed with occasional minor loss to text, a few tears, mostly marginal, some edges frayed, occasional browning, occasional damp-staining, 18th century calf, rebacked with red morocco spine labels, coat-of-arms blind-stamped to upper cover, later endpapers, rubbed and scuffed, [ESTC S117586], folio, Richard Meighen, 1631 [1632].

NO RESERVE Blew (William C. A.) Brighton and its Coaches: a history of the London and Brighton Road, frontispiece, plates, tissue-guards, later half-morocco by Bayntun, gilt, 1894 § Birch Reynardson (C. T. S.) 'Down the Road' or Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman, frontispiece, additional vignette title, plates, previous owner's ink signature, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1897 § Harris (Stanley) Old Coaching Days, lithograph frontispiece and plates, scattered spotting, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1882; and 2 others similar, 8vo & oblong folio (5)

NO RESERVE Ward (Adolphus William) The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession, one of 1000 copies, colour frontispiece, plates, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, later half-morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt, 1903 § Russell (W. H.) A Memorial of the Marriage of H.R.H. Albert Edward Prince of Wales and H.R.H. Alexandra Princess of Denmark, chromolithograph frontispiece, lithograph plates, marginal tears and creases to one or two, neatly repaired, tissue-guards, illustrations, marginal scattered spotting, original decorative cloth, expert repairs to corners and spine ends, a little rubbed, [1863], 4to & folio (2)

NO RESERVE Warner (Sir George F.) Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum, 60 chromolithograph plates, scattered spotting, near contemporary half-morocco, slight rubbing to joints, 1903 § Hassall (W. O.) The Holkham Bible Picture Book, plates, original half-morocco over vellum, a little rubbed, 1954, folio (2)

Folio Society.- Rochester (John Wilmot, Earl of) Perfect and Imperfect: Poems, frontispiece, plates, original morocco-backed boards, housed in original drop-back box, a little rubbed, 1992 § Wood (Frances) The Silk Road, illustrations, original decorative cloth, gilt, original slipcase, 2002 § Watson (James D.) The Double Helix, frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, original slipcase, 2010 § Maeterlinck (Maurice) The Life of the Bee, plates and illustrations, original decorative cloth, gilt, original slipcase, a little rubbed, 1995; and others Folio Society, v.s. (c.85)

Burne-Jones (Georgiana) The Beginning of the World. Twenty-Five Pictures by Edward Burne-Jones, 25 illustrations, occasional faint scattered spotting or finger soiling, pages unopened, endpapers browned, original cloth-backed boards, corners slight scuffed, 1902 § Hayes (Alfred) The Vale of Arden and Other Poems, number 11 of 75 copies, signed by the author and Harold Baker (illustrator), photogravure portrait frontispiece, 6 plates, tissue-guards, printed in red and black, original half vellum, spine with black morocco label, folio, Birmingham Guild of Handicraft, 1897 § Evan Morris (Gladys) Tales from Bernard Shaw, signed presentation inscription from author, colour illustrations, bookplate of Vera L. Holmes by Jessie Marion King, upper panel dust-jacket tipped in at rear, original pictorial cloth, some damp-staining, 1929; and 3 others illustrated or private press, v.s. (6) ⁂ The Burne-Jones illustrations are a collection of designs made for an illustrated edition of J.W. Mackail's Biblia Innocentium, published by the Kelmscott Press, 1892. The Morris inscription in Tales from Bernard Shaw reads, "To Jack in memory of old school days. September 12th 1930"; "Jack" is Vera L. Holmes who was a cross-dressing lesbian activist and actress, chauffeur to the Pankhursts during the Suffragette movement and heavily involved in Evelina Haverfield's Serbian Mission (bookplate from her library).

NO RESERVE Cruikshank (George).- Cruikshankiana, an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank, letterpress title, 83 etched plates, on wove paper, light spotting to title and initial 2 plates, occasionally scattered thereafter, occasional light marginal finger soiling, contemporary half roan, extremities rubbed, folio, Edward Lumley, [c.1860?]

Doré (Gustave).- La Sainte Bible, 2 vol., half-titles, frontispieces, plates and illustrations by Gustave Doré, occasional light marginal spotting and finger-soiling, near contemporary half-morocco, gilt, slight rubbing to corners and spine extremities, folio, Tours, 1866.

Botany.- Evelyn (John) Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions..., second edition, initial order-to-print leaf, engraved arms to title, woodcut initials, engraved illustrations, one full-page, with final errata leaf, I3 & 4 towards end of Pomona misbound after K2, a few ink or pencil markings, one or two rust spots or tiny holes, tear to lower margin of Ff1 just extending into text but no loss, slight worming to lower margin, David Bellamy's copy with his signed bookplate, contemporary speckled calf, rubbed, a few worn patches or gouges, corners worn, rebacked, [Henrey 133; Keynes 41; Wing E3517], folio, for Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, 1670.⁂ A protest against the destruction of the forests of England in order to fuel industry; includes sections on cider and vegetables & salads.David Bellamy (1933-2019), botanist, ecologist, conservationist, and television presenter.

L'Image 1896-1897: Revue Litteraire et Artistique,12 issues (all published) bound as 1, 48 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, original wrappers to all issues bound in at end, publisher's advertisement leaf, some margins lightly toned, scattered spotting to fore-edge, endpapers browned with a few chips to extremities, rear free endpaper with tissue repair to upper corner, hinges cracked but covers holding firm, original half-calf over pictorial green cloth, gilt, designed by Henri Bellery-Desfontaines, quite rubbed with corners bumped, t.e.g., others uncut, small folio, Paris, Floury, 1897.⁂ L'Image was a monthly magazine published by the Wood Engravers Corporation of France between December 1896 and December 1897. This volume, a collection of the twelve issues, contains plates after Mucha, Degas, Rodin, Pissarro and Vierge, among others. It also features an illustrated score of Debussy's Chansons de Bilitis (pp. 339-342).

Music.- Croft (William) Musica Sacra: or, select Anthems in Score, 2 vol. in 1, engraved portrait frontispiece, letterpress titles in red and black to both vol., vol. 1 engraved dedication leaf, vol. 2 letterpress dedication leaf, both vol. with an engraved 'Table of Anthems', with ink manuscript annotations, vol. 1 184 engraved plates of music, vol. 2 155 engraved plates of music, a few instances of ink annotations, two nineteenth century ownership inscriptions to front pastedown, cracking to gutter at upper hinge, vol.1 plate 110 and vol. 2 plate 44, contemporary vellum, gilt, remains of morocco label to spine, upper cover slightly warped, folio, John Walsh, John and Joseph Hare, [c.1730].⁂ A reissue of the [1724-25] edition, vol. 1 with engraved dedication leaf replacing letterpress dedication and without the list of subscribers in the original edition.

Grand Tour scrap album.- Collection of over 180 neatly mounted prints, including Italian, Swiss, and French interest, with early lithographs by N. Strixner and Ferdinand Piloty, others by Bartolozzi, Romanet, Carle Vernet, Engelmann and others, with many after old master paintings and drawings, the majority being views of European cities and sites of interest, some character studies, all mounted onto coloured album leaves, various sizes each leaf approx. 430 x 285 mm (17 x 11 1/4 in), scattered spotting and minor surface dirt, contemporary green boards, very worn, folio, early to mid 19th century

Shakespeare (William) A Midsommer Nights Dreame, one of 75 copies with plates on Japanese Paper, from an edition of 375 copies signed by the artist, half-title, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 13 plates by J. Moyr Smith, many tinted, tissue-guards (one working loose), illustrations, ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, the odd spot or patch of finger-soiling, gutter weak, some scattered spotting to endpapers, original morocco-backed dark blue cloth, gilt, quite rubbed with a few patches of soiling, spine with small loss to foot, t.e.g., others uncut, folio, Bernard Quaritch, 1892.⁂ Rare, the last copy appearing at auction in 1921. The illustrator, John Moyr Smith, was a Scottish architect who produced ceramic tiles for Minton, including pictorial tiles depicting themes from Shakespeare.

NO RESERVE Celestial.- Middleton (John) A Celestial Atlas containing Maps of all the Constellations visible in Great Britain with corresponding Blank Maps of the Stars, calligraphic title, preface and index, and ten plates including five white on black maps of the heavens and five engraved celestial maps opposite each other, each leaf approx. 330 x 415 mm (13 x 16 1/4 in), off-setting and browning, spotting and some pencil inscriptions, spine split with pages largely loose in two quires, original boards present but detached, lacking spine, heavily worn, oblong folio, Hamilton Adams, and Jarrold & Sons, [1842].

Japan.- Takashima (Suteta) and Kazumasa Ogawa. Illustrations of Japanese Life, 100 collotype plates, all but one heightened with colour by hand or through stencil, first plate torn though not affecting image, one or two finger-staining marks, otherwise an excellent copy internally, original pattered silk with lilac cords framing inlaid coloured illustrated silk panels, gilt-flecked endpapers, g.e., a little faded, joints starting to fray, housed in original box (stained and rather rubbed), folio, Yokohama [&c.], Kelly and Walsh Ltd., 1896.⁂ A good example of the popular photographically illustrated books depicting Japanese costume and culture. The publisher states at the beginning "I send it out to the public feeling confident that no such gallery of photographs, giving the exact picture of every day life of the Japanese, has ever been presented before in one volume". Subjects include geisha girls, Buddhist & Shinto priests, Ainu, sumo wrestlers, fencers, acrobats, musicians, the tea drinking ceremony, silk production, agricultural workers, transport, shops and street traders.

NO RESERVE Sri Lanka.- Hamilton (Vereker M.) & Stewart M. Fasson Scenes in Ceylon, title in red and black, 20 plates, damp-staining and marginal tears to first few leaves, not affecting plates, scattered faint spotting, tears to front free endpapers with tape repairs, cracked hinges, original pictorial morocco-backed boards, rubbed and worn, oblong folio, [1881].

Space.- Mailer (Norman) Moonfire. The Epic Journey of Apollo 11, one of 1969 copies, profusely illustrated, original cloth, dust-jacket, housed in a white resin box with convex plexiglass window, in original cellophane wrapping, accompanied by a framed photographic print signed by Buzz Aldrin to verso, both in the original packaging, folio, Cologne, Taschen, 2009.⁂ Made to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing.

Botany.- Moore (Thomas) The Octavo Nature-Printed British Ferns, 2 vol., first 8vo edition, 122 nature-printed colour plates, tissue guards, occasional spotting, ex-library copy with numbers to verso of titles, contemporary cloth, rebacked and recornered in calf, spines slightly faded, [Nissen BBI 1401], 1859 § Sinclair (George) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, second edition, half-title, 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates, half-title and final leaf browned, light spotting, the naturalist & ecologist David Bellamy's copy with his bookplate, also stamp of the botanist C.E.Hubbard, modern buckram, spine faded, [Nissen BBI 1850], 1825; and 3 others on mosses, 8vo (6)⁂ The first contains many more plates than the folio edition of 1855.

NO RESERVE England & Wales.- Seller (John) and Francis Grose. Collection of 56 county maps, including Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of White, and Isle of Man, each leaf approx. 340 x 230 mm (13 1/4 x 23 in), scattered spotting and surface dirt, bound in later blue cloth worn, 4to, [circa 1780]; together with Fullarton & Co.'s 'The Imperial Map of England and Wales' folding in sections into original cloth box, splitting, and with a largely disbound copy of Philip's 'The Imperial Atlas of the World', lacking covers, folio, 1914; sold not subject to return.

Perrault (Claude) Memoir's for a Natural History of Animals..., translated by Alexander Pitfeild, 2 parts in 1, first edition in English, additional engraved title, title in red & black, 35 engraved plates, a few contemporary ink corrections to text, light water-staining and crinkling (mostly to second part), some light soiling, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, corners worn, lower cover impressed from cord where previously tied, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, new red morocco label, [Nissen ZBI 3125; Wing P1582A], folio, by Joseph Streater...to be sold by T.Basset, 1688.⁂ Important work on comparative anatomy with 30 engravings of various animals. The second part, entitled 'The Measure of the Earth' and with a separate title-page, is Richard Waller's translation of Perrault's attempt to remeasure an arc of meridian for measuring the earth's radius, with 5 engravings of scientific instruments and diagrams.

Plinius Secundus (Gaius) The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Natural Historie..., translated by Philemon Holland, 2 vol. in 1, second edition, lacking title to vol.1 (supplied in facsimile), also lacking initial & final blanks but with final advertisement leaf, vol.2 with separate title with woodcut device, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials, some water-staining, a few leaves with marginal defects particularly a6 in vol.1 and 3I6 in vol.2 (lacking portions from fore-margins), last few leaves creased, near contemporary calf, rubbed and marked, some scuffs, corners worn, spine ends repaired, [STC 20030a], folio, by Adam Islip, 1634.

NO RESERVE Sitwell (Sacheverell) & Wilfrid Blunt. Great Flower Books 1700-1900, 1956 § Sitwell (S.), Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher. Fine Bird Books 1700-1900, 1953, together 2 vol., limited editions, plates and illustrations, some colour, the first with small stains to title and frontispiece, the second ex-library copy with stamps and labels, original half cloth, rubbed § Campbell (Bruce) The Bird Paintings of Henry Jones, one of 500 copies, colour plates, original half calf, gilt, cloth slip-case a little rubbed, 1976, folio (3)

[Surtees (Robert Smith)] [The Sporting Novels], 6 vol., comprising; Ask Mamma, Mr Romford's Hounds; Handley Cross; Plain or Ringlets; Hawbuck Grange and; Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, Subscription editions, hand-coloured frontispieces, title vignettes and plates, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, light sunned spines, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [c.1880]; and 5 others, including 3 duplicates, 8vo & folio (11)

Glass.- Holbach (Paul Henri Dietrich, Baron d', translator) Art de la Verrerie, de Neri, Merret et Kunckel, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 15 folding plates, contemporary ink initials "B.R.F." to head of title, several extensive pencil annotations/translations to text particularly sections with recipes and a couple of plates, occasional browning, final section 'Secret des Vraies Porcelaines de la Chine et de la Saxe' water-stained, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, [Duveen 427; Ferguson II, 135], Paris, Durand & Pissot, 1752 § Delaval (Edward Hussey) Ricerche Sperimentali sopra le cause de'cambriamenti de'colori nelli Corpi Opachi, e Colorati..., first edition in Italian, with final imprimatur leaf, modern calf-backed marbled boards, Bologna, Tommaso d'Aquino, 1779; and another on glass-making, 4to & folio (3)⁂ The second work concerns the colours produced in glass by various metals.

Lathes.- Plumier (Charles) L'Art de Tourner...; Die Kunst zu Drechseln..., first edition in French and German, engraved additional pictorial title (duplicated at beginning of plates), title-vignette, charming head-piece of putti in a workshop and 83 plates, printed in double column in French and German, text a little browned, some foxing to plates, modern half calf, spine gilt with red calf label, spine slightly soiled, folio, Leipzig, B.C.Breitkopf, 1776.⁂ The first comprehensive work on lathes, first published in French in Lyons in 1701. The plates depict lathes designed for watchmakers, lens grinders, screw-cutters, engineers etc., and other tools.

Steam Engines.- Act of Parliament. An Act for vesting in James Watt, Engineer, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, the sole use and Property of certain Steam Engines, commonly called Fire Engines, of his Invention..., title and 8pp., extract pp.1587-1594, by Charles Eyre and William Strachan, 1775; An Act to enable Matthew Boulton, Engineer, to export the Machinery necessary for erecting a Mint in the Dominions of His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of all the Russias, 3pp., extract pp.753-755, 1799, disbound, preserved together in modern cloth portfolio with morocco label § Partington (C.F.) An Historic and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine, first edition, folding engraved frontispiece, advertisement leaf and 7 folding plates at end (foxed, some loose), trace of library stamp to title, original boards, uncut, rubbed, rebacked, 1822 § Young (C.F.T.) The Economy of Steam Power on common Roads, first edition, large folding plate of Boydell's Traction Engine, errata slip, plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, spine faded, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [1860]; and another on steam engines, folio & 8vo (5)⁂ Watt took out his first patent on a steam engine in 1769; the first act here was an extension of that patent giving him and his partner Matthew Boulton the sole right to manufacture the engine until 1800. Boulton used Watt's invention to improve the minting of coinage, for which he took out a patent in 1790. He produced the machinery at his Soho Foundry in Birmingham, the second act enabling him to export it to Russia, which would otherwise have been illegal.

Technology.- Librairie Commerciale, publishers. Le Mécanicien Moderne, 2 vol., 10 chromolithographed plates, all but one with multiple flaps, endpapers a little nibbled by insects, [c.1905] § Desarces (Henri) Grande Encyclopédie de Mécanique et d'Électricité, Atlas vol. only, 20 chromolithographed plates with multiple flaps on thick card mounted on stubs, [1913] § Hettinger (P.) Travail et Progrè au XXème Siècle exposant les Inventions et Applications Industrielles, Atlas vol. only, 7 chromolithographed plates with multiple flaps on thick card, one flap detached, explanatory leaves rather brittle and slightly chipped at edges, 1907, occasional light spotting, all original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, the first slightly faded, Paris; and 2 others, 4to & oblong folio; sold not subject to return (6)

A box of Folio Society books

Chinese Miniatures From the Life of a Chinese Lady, edited by Dr. Rudolf Payer Thurn, text in German, Folio, Illustrated in colour, original portfolio with heavy paper boards, not complete, 12 illustration plates and title page, the twelve colours prints approximately 22cm high x 28cm high  Condition Report: extensively losses and worn at spine and outside cornersthe prints with some light foxing stains and paper with creases mainly at the tops where stuck to mounting papercomprises twelve prints mounted on paper, depicting Chinese ladies in different daily activities. Those illustrations are said to have "come from the large collection of Chinese miniatures, which Emperor Franz acquired in 1826 from the English Consul General Watts for his private library''. Rudolf Payer-Thurn or Payer von Thurn, (1867-1932), German scholar, historian and librarian was director of the Vienna Trust Library, administrator of the Goethe Museum and vice-president of the Goethe Society of Vienna in the 1920s. Condition Report Disclaimer

A Safavid painting of a pair of Lovers, Safavid Iran, 17th century, gouache with gold on paper, laid on a marbled album page, with two panels of elegant nastaliq script, folio: 36cm x 26.5cm, image: 24.5cm x16cm  Condition Report: good other than minor stains to front and some staining to reverse please see additional images for visual reference to condition Condition Report Disclaimer

A mahogany folio stand attributed to Gillows of Lancaster c.1840 with adjustable pitch lattice supports for the display of open books, prints, charts, the bun feet concealing brass casters, 84cm wide, 105cm high at tallest point

A Victorian walnut metamorphic folio stand, the hinged rectangular cross framed top, on fluted and turned supports, the central support rising to form a flat surfaced stand, raised on chamfered legs terminating in brass castors, width 28ins

Hong Kong. Picturesque Hongkong [so titled on upper wrapper], c. 1925, Foreword with printed initials "Y.O.P." at end, 28 sepia photogravures on 26 leaves, mostly 10 x 15 cm, original wrappers with spine tie and mounted photographic illustration of Hong Kong Harbour to upper cover, slightly rubbed and soiled, together with Hong Kong: La Perla del Oriente [so titled on upper wrapper], printed in Brussels, c. 1930, 33 collotype images on rectos of 15 plates (21 x 27 cm), all captioned in English in the negatives, original printed wrappers with mounted photographic illustration to upper wrapper, slightly rubbed and soiled, both oblong folio (21 x 29 cm)QTY: (2)

India & London Zoo, etc. A photograph album containing approximately 45 mounted albumen print photographs, 1870s, the first 15 of India interest including a western man with a group of 6 local men and various skinned tigers, a man astride an elephant, camp at Bombasa, a photograph of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales with a group of men and a shot tiger, initialled and numbered for Bourne & Shepherd '50' in the negative, 95 x 135 mm, various group portraits including naval officers, etc., followed by a series of approximately 30 photographs of London Zoo enclosures plus a zebra, a lion enclosure (later gelatin silver print, Hamburg) and 3 loosely inserted albumen prints of scenes with an elephant at London Zoo photographed by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, and 5 real photo postcards of Penang and Singapore loosely inserted with 3 other miscellaneous views, the photographs in the album of various sizes, 20 x 27 cm and smaller, mounted to rectos singly and as multiples without captions, inner hinges cracked, contemporary cloth, some soiling and wear, folioQTY: (1)

India & Nepal. An album containing approximately 95 mounted photographs of India & Nepal, c. 1880s/1890s, mostly albumen prints, including a series of 16 photographs of Nepal (possibly Bourne & Shepherd Studio) on rectos and versos of 5 leaves, titled on the mounts, Coolies carrying timber (29 x 23 cm), Group of Lama Priests (19 x 24 cm), the remaining Nepalese portrait photographs measuring 20 x 15 cm and titled Praying Wheel, Kashmiris, Family group of Nepalese, Nepalese, A Bhootea group, Nepalese, The Witch at Ghoom, A goorka, Nepalese tea garden coolies (working dress), Nepalese coolies (holiday attire), a porter, Bhootea woman, Bhootea lady and Coolie carrying tea chest, the series preceded by 48 albumen (and a few gelatin silver) print views and related of Darjeeling district including Himalayas, many possibly by Bourne & Shepherd Studio, 22 full-plate photographs 22.5 x 29 cm and similar, 6 with Himalayan mountain views and 7 of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway scenes, the remaining India photographs mostly 15 x 20 cm and smaller relating to Darjeeling district and including the Washing Festival, the Balarun Valley, Balasung, Kerseong, Turzun, Sonada, etc., mostly identified and a few dated on the mounts, plus a further 14 photographs of Suez & Port Said (3), Burma (4) and Malta (7), various sizes, mounted singly and as multiples on stiff card leaves, a few additional photographs torn or defective, some spotting and marginal damp-staining, 20th-century morocco-backed cloth, slightly rubbed and marked, oblong folio (40 x 30 cm)QTY: (1)

India. A Souvenir of the Visit to Jeypore Samasthanam of His Excellency the Right Hon'ble Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst, Governor of Madras and The Viscountess Goschen, 14th December 1927, presentation album containing 89 photographs [by Calastry, Sons, Secunderabad & Madras] on 83 pages, mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card mounts, mostly mounted one to a page with printed captions beneath, the largest photographs 15 x 20 cm, many 12 x 15 cm, signed presentation inscription in purple ink to front free endpaper verso, from Ramchandra, the Maharajah of Jeypore to 'Captain Gerard Goschen, Aide-de-Camp to H. E. the Governor of Madras', photography studio's business card laid on front pastedown, original half morocco over cloth, gilt-titled upper cover, joints weak, some leather wear, oblong folio (22 x 29 cm)QTY: (1)

India. A souvenir photograph album associated with the Royal Tour of the Prince of Wales [later Edward VIII] to the princely state of Gwalior in central India, 1922, 70 mounted sepia photographs, some featuring the Prince of Wales, plus scenes of the procession, Palace, the march past, 2 photographs with shot tigers, horse racing, etc., other figures depicted include Maharaja Scindia, Prince George Jivaji Rao and Princess Mary Kamlaraja, a total of 70 photographs including a four-part panoramic view of the Gwalior Army (13 x 72 cm), photographs 20 x 15 cm and some smaller, mounted singly and as multiples on to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with printed captions pasted beneath, original cloth with leather reback, embossed stamp to upper cover, 'HRH Prince of Wales, Gwalior, 1922', now somewhat indistinct, heavily rubbed and slightly soiled and damp-stained not affecting contents, oblong folio (27 x 37 cm)QTY: (1)