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Mein, Robert, 8 Very Rare or Unique copies, comprising A Memorial for the Royal Boroughs of North at their annual Convention at Edinburgh, 1772. 4pp. (one sheet folded), signed "Robert Mein" at end, [not in ESTC]; [Mein, Robert] Edina's Welcome to our Royal Sisters at their Convention in Edinburgh, in July 1774. 3pp. (one sheet folded), signed "Robert Mein at foot of p. 2, [Not in ESTC]; [Mein, Robert] An Habiack, Encomium, for the New Year 1770. Humbly inscribed to the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council of the CIty of Edinburgh. By the oldest, longest and most obedient Servant of the Council. 4to, [1770], 4to, 4pp, one sheet folded, [ESTC T198517, Bodleian only]; [Mein, Robert] A Nominal Encomium on the Election of the Magistrates 1766. Folio, 2pp., [referencing himself in the poem], [ESTC Bodleian only]; [Mein, Robert] An Anagramical and Nominal Encomium humbly inscribed to My Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council with an Epithalamium to be sung upon Edinas Marriage, by their oldest Servant now alive for the new year 1771. [1771], 4to, 4pp, one sheet folded, first page dust-soiled, [ESTC T198517, Bodleian only]; Mein, Robert A Nominal Encomium, upon the Election of Magistrates at Michaelmas, 1772. [1772], folio, one page, with one word corrected in ink, [not in ESTC]; Mein, Robert A Nominal and Anagramical Encomium, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable James Stoddart, Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh, by their oldest Servant now alive this present year 1775. [1775], 1 page, folio, typographic ornament at head torn without loss, [not in ESTC]; Mein, Robert A Joyful Ode on New Year's Day 1776, Humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable James Stoddart Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh, by their oldest Servant now Alive. [1776], 1 page, folio, [not on ESTC] (8)Footnote: Provenance: Seemingly from the personal collection of Robert Mein; see other items relating to him and Edinburgh Council in this sale.

Chaucer, Geoffrey The Works our Ancient, Learned & Excellent English Poet, Jeffrey Chaucer London: Printed in the Year 1687. Folio, [36 (including portrait frontispiece)], 660, [22], edited by Thomas Speight, third Speight edition, double column, black letter, engraved frontispiece incorporating portrait of Chaucer after John Speed, large woodcut on verso of 'd1', 7 line cancel slip pasted over bottom right-hand stanza on p. 42, leaf c1 mis-signed as 'd' and mis-bound, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original spine, corners repaired, slightly rubbed, bookplates of George Cockburn and General J.G. Clay K.C. reaffixed to twentieth century endpapers, [ESTC R3920; Wing C3736], a little light spotting to a few leaves, a few light marginal pencil words (from 'The hard words of Chaucer explained' at end) or light pencil scoring

Letchford, Albert, illustrator A Series of Seventy Original Illustrations to Captain Sir R.F. Burton's "Arabian Nights". London: H.S. Nichols Ltd., 1897. Large folio, 'Choice Edition de Luxe', portrait and 70 plates, brown half morocco gilt, slight fading to covers, a little foxing

MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] 4 signed limited editions, comprising The Kind of Poetry I want. Edinburgh, 1961. 4to, number 290 of 300 copies signed by the author, original vellum-backed patterned boards, t.e.g., slipcase, inscription of Professor B.J.G.J. Knight on front endpaper, with T.L.S. from Kulgin Duval to Professor Knight discussing MacDiarmid items available for purchase, and invoice for this volume (£6 s.8 d.0), date and initials of Professor on slipcase; Direadh I, II and III. Frenich, 1974. Number 169 of 200 copies signed by MacDiarmid, original quarter morocco, slipcase; Selected Lyrics. Duval & Hamilton, 1977. 4to, number xvii, limited to 135 copies, one of 35 not for sale, presentation inscription on title "To Michael and Deirdre with love from father Hugh MacDiarmid", original vellum-backed patterned boards, t.e.g., slipcase; Wright, Gordon MacDiarmid, an illustrated biography. 1977. Folio, inscribed "No. 21 of 50, Hugh MacDiarmid" on title, black half morocco gilt, slipcase (4)

Wood-engraving and woodcuts 25 volumes, including Daglish, Eric Fitch How to see Insects. 1934, dustwrapper; How to See Flowers. 1933, dustwrapper; How to see Beasts. 1933, dustwrapper; The Smaller Beasts. 1928, dustwrapper; Birds of the British Isles. 1948. 4to, original blue buckram, t.e.g.; Armstrong, Martin Desert. Woodcuts by Ravilious. 1926, number 1 of 100 copies, dustwrapper; Harling, R. Notes on the Wood-Engravings of Eric Ravilious. 1946, dustwrapper; another copy, without dustwrapper; Wragg. Arthur The Lord's Prayer in Black and White. 1946, dustwrapper; Housman, A.E. A Shropshire Lad, engraved by Agnes Miller Parker. 1953, dustwrapper; Miller, P. Ana the Runner. 1937, engravings by Clifford Webb, dustwrapper; Tomlinson, H.M. The Sea and the Jungle. Wood engravings by Clare Leighton. 1930, dustwrapper; Landor, W.S. The Sculptured Garland. 1948. 4to, number 104 of 500 copies, wood engravings by Iain Macnab, original brown half morocco, t.e.g, slipcase; Shaw, Bernard. Negerpigen der Dorg ud for at Opsoge Gud. Copenhagen, 1943, 4to, one of 96 copies, wood engravings by John Farleigh, original boards, dustwrapper; Edwardes, Patrick and Moira Thus we go to Australia. n.d., wood-engravings, original pictorial wrappers; League of Nations Union Welsh National Council Ninth Annual Conference. 1930. 8vo, wood engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton, original wrappers; Balston, Thomas English Wood-Engraving 1900-1950. 1951. 4to, quarter cloth, dustwrapper; McLean, Ruari The wood-engravings of Joan Hassall. 1960, dustwrapper price clipped; Burne Jones, Dan. The prints of Rockwell Kent, a catalogue Raisonne. 1975. 4to, cloth, dustwrapper; Hughes-Stanton, Penelope The Wood-Engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton. Pinner, 1991, folio, original cloth; Kernoff, Harry Thirty-six Woodcuts. 1931, 4to, signed by Kernoff, original cloth, lightly soiled; Mitchison, Naomi The Alban Goes Out. Raven Press, 1939. 4to, wood-engravings by Gertrude Hermes, original pictorial wrappers, slightly discoloured; Warner, S.T. Boxwood. Sixteen engravings by Reynolds Stone. 1957, original cloth; Stone, Reynolds Engravings. 1977. 4to, dustwrapper; Bone, Gertude Oasis. Woodcuts by Stephen Bone. 1924, 8vo, presentation copy, original quarter cloth

Edinburgh Council, c. 1750. - [Robert Mein] 7 Manuscript Poems An Essay toward Ways and Means to keep in Memory Edina's Council, chosen Seventeen half Century, with a doing one May success still attend their Ministry. 6pp, 8vo, dated March 1752 and inscribed at end "Mon Ferbie Inv, Robert Mein Sert.", sewn; [Mein, Robert] Some Seasonable Overturs [sic] for the Good Touns Intrest Humbly offerd to the Consideration of all Concernd. May 1737. 10pp., 4to, [overturs for advancing the Lawfull Trade of the Free Men Burgesses of Edinburgh & increasing the Revenue thereof]; [Mein, Robert] A Satyr upon Lahren MacDrew the Church and Cities ungratefull foe and Officious Calumniator. Manuscript acrostic poem, undated, 2pp. folio, slightly frayed at bottom with loss of a couple of letters; [Mein, Robert] An Acrostic Satyr upon Lahrne Macdrew. Calumniator of the City of Edinburgh's Magestrats. "Neon Ferbie scripsit" at foot of manuscript title, 4pp., 12mo, lightly soiled; [Mein, Robert] Manuscript poem, ?incomplete, on Lahren Macdrew, 2pp., folio, torn in half, and loss of a few letters; [Mein, Robert] The Councils Honble. Propicious Names, dated 1762, 1pp., folio, poem, referring to many councillors; Mein, Robert A Homenal Encomeal Essay and Memorial of the Magestrats names in Edinburgh ffor the year 1762/3, humbly inscrib'd to their Honours by their Honours most obedient & humbel servt. Robert Mein. Edinburgh, 1 January 1763, 4to, 6pp., lightly soiled (7)Footnote: Note: The poem lists by name the Lord Provost, Bailies, old Bailies, members of the Merchant Council and Deacons of the Sundry Incorporations, and proceeds to praise them in verse. Robert Mein, author of ‘City Cleaned and Country Improven’ (1760); see printed works by Mein in this catalogue.

Alembert, J. Le Rond d' The Plan of the French Encyclopaedia. London: W. Innys, [&c.], 1752. 8vo, [iv], 179, contemporary half calf, worn; Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences. Proposés par Souscription. Paris: Briasson [&c.], 1751. Folio, 10pp., inner margin of title repaired, lacks the double-page sheet "Systême Figuré des Connoisances Humaines" (2)

Sorabji, Kaikhosru Opus Clavicembalisticum London: J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., [1931]. Oblong folio, one of 23, this copy signed and inscribed by Sorabji "for his dear friend Norman Peterkin", original wrappers, tape repair to upper joint, original wrappers a little edge-worn; [Idem] The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musician. Author's address... typescript, 151 typed leaves with an additional leaf in manuscript, some leaves with extensive manuscript notes in Sorabji's hand, several more minor corrections (2)

Garrard, George A Description of the Different Varieties of Oxen common in the British Isles London: J. Smeeton, for the Author, 1800 [1799-1814]. Oblong folio, 52 hand-coloured plates, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, some rubbing to covers, several text leaves creased, a little foxing especially to tissue guardsFootnote: Note: An unusually complete copy of this work with all 52 hand-coloured plates.

Parkinson, John Theatrum Botanicum or the Theater of Plants or an Universall and Compleate Herball. London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. Folio, additional engraved title cut round and laid down (slight loss to top corner), contemporary calf, printed title slightly cut down and mounted, numerous woodcuts, 4 pages of index with corners replaced with page numbers supplied in pen facsimile, final leaf of index and errata leaf mounted, some staining, chiefly towards beginning, rebacked, rubbed

Architectural Plans - Abercrombie Mausoleum, Forglen House, Aberdeenshire Alex and William Reid, A folio containing designs for the mausoleum at Forglen House, Aberdeenshire, dated 1864, including colour illustrations of the North Elevation, Ground Plan, South Elevation, Foundation Plan, Longitudinal Section, Plan of Roof, West Elevation and Transverse Section on four sheets of tracing paper, and a further five sheets of paper with detailed designs and plans for the mausoleum, several coloured, a little dampstaining in places

Dugdale, William and Roger Dodsworth Monasticon Anglicanum... London: Christopher Wilkinson, Thomas Dring & Charles Harper, 1682-61-73. 3 volumes, folio, engraved title, 109 plates, contemporary calf rebacked, covers blind tooled with gilt stamped crests showing three lion faces, blind stamp to volume 3 of Edward Hepburn of Monkridge, ESTC suggests each volume lacking an initial leaf, several leaves in volume 3 misbound, a few small holes with loss of several letters (3)

Quakers, a large collection including Baxter, Richard The Saints Everlasting Rest.... ninth edition. 1662. Large 8vo, engraved frontispiece, with slight loss, laid down, contemporary panelled calf, title repaired at head, some spotting and browning, occasional wormhole, rebacked, corners repaired; Fisher, Samuel The Testimony of Truth Exalted. Printed in the Year 1679. 4to, contemporary calf, slight damp stain to first few leaves, worn, upper cover detached; Howgill, Francis The Dawnings of the Gospel-Day, and its Light and Glory Discovered. Printed in the year 1676. 4to, title ragged and with some loss of margin, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, corners neatly repaired, records of the dates of births and deaths of members of the Ballard family on final blank leaf; Barclay, Robert Truth Triumphant through the Spiritual Warfare. London: T. Northcott, 1692, 4to, title cut round, mounted and loose, slight dampstaining to preliminary leaves, some light spotting, lacking both covers; Bugg, F. The Pilgrim's Progress from Quakerism to Christianity. 1700. 8vo, engraved frontispiece loose, contemporary calf, worn; Sewel, William The History of the Rise, Increase and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers. London: J. Sowle, 1722. 4to, later calf, inscription to front endpaper 'This Book belongs to the Friends (the People called Quakers) belonging to their Meeting at Canterbury 1722', some slight spotting, slightly rubbed; Whitehead, George The Christian Progress. 1725. 8vo, contemporary calf, textblock splitting, upper cover detached; Claridge, Richard The Life and Posthumous Works. 1726. 8vo, contemporary calf, title slightly soiled, neatly rebacked, spine gilt; Barclay, Robert Theologiae vere Christianae Apologia. 1729. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, cover detached; An Abstract of the Sufferings of the People call'd Quakers. 1733, volume 1 only, contemporary calf, some spotting and staining, rubbed, upper cover detached; A'Kempis, Thomas The Christian's Pattern. 1759. 12mo, contemporary red morocco gilt, rebacked retaining spine; Fox, George A Journal or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings... George Fox. 1765. Folio, contemporary calf, a few preliminary leaves loose, worn, upper board detached; Barclay, Robert An Apology for the True Christian Divinity. 1736, sixth edition, pp 287-290 torn with some loss, contemporary panelled calf; Brook, Mary Reasons for the Necessity of Silent Waiting, in order to the Solemn Worship of God. London: Mary Hinde, 1774. Second edition, 8vo, with initial blank, original wrappers, uncut; Woolman, John The Works. 1775. 8vo, contemporary calf; [Gordon, Thomas] An Inquiry into the Powers of Ecclesiastics. 1776. 8vo, modern quarter calf, uncut; Acts of Parliament A Collection of Acts of Parliament... relative to those Protestant dissenters... Quakers. 1777. Small 4to, contemporary calf, rubbed, red morocco label; Barclay, Robert An Apology for the True Christian Divinity... the eighth edition. 1780. 8vo, contemporary calf; Churchman, John An Account of the Gospel Labours. Philadelphia, Printed, London, Reprinted, 1780. 8vo, contemporary calf, rubbed, upper cover detached; Bathurst, Elizabeth. Truth Vindicated. 1788. Fifth edition, 12mo, modern quarter calf; Penn, William No Cross, No Crown... thirteenth edition. 1789. 8vo, contemporary calf, head of spine rubbed; Whiting, John Persecution Exposed in Some Memoirs relating to the Sufferings of. 1791. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, slight dampstaining, rubbed; Watson, Richard An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters addressed to Thomas Paine. 1796. 3rd edition, 12mo, contemporary half calf, rubbed; Scott, Job A Journal of the Life, Travels, and Gospel Labours. New York printed, London reprinted: J. Phillips & Son, 1798. 12mo, contemporary calf, rubbed; Penn, William The Select Works. 1825. Fourth edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary diced calf, lacking spines; Wood, Ephraim. Quakerism unveiled: Truth Prevalent. Liverpool, 1815. 8vo, original boards, uncut, rubbed; Tuke, Henry Biographical Notices of Members of the Society of Friends. York, 1826-15, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf; [Society of Friends] Extracts from the Minutes and Advices of the Yearly Meeting of Friends held in London. 1802. Second edition, 4to, contemporary tree calf, a few lower margins dampstained at beginning, foot of spine worn; Charles I Eikon Bazilike. London: R. Royston, 1681. 8vo, frontispiece and 1 plate, disbound; [Jacob, Henry] To the right High and mightie Prince, James... an humble Supplication for Toleration and libertie. [Middelburg: R. Schilders], 1609. 4to, disbound, lacks first blank leaf, a few leaves slightly wormed in inner margin; [Defoe, Daniel] The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. London: R. Baldwin & M. Cooper, 1755. volume 2 only, 11th edition, folding twin hemisphere map frontispiece, slightly shaved at foot, contemporary calf, worn; [Indian Natives] A Brief Account of the Proceedings of the Committee appointed in the year 1795 at the Yearly Meeting of Friends of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, &f for promoting the Improvement and gradual Civilization of the Indian Natives. Philadelphia printed, London reprinted, sold by Phillips and Fardon, 1806, 8vo, disbound; and 2 defective Quaker volumes, and 40 others (theological, miscellaneous, history, French, a few defective); sold not subject to return (c. 75)

Brady, George Stewardson Tyneside, Yorkshire and Derbyshire A collection of 21 albumen prints of views of the North East of England, circa 1860s, approx. 15 x 20cm to 36 x 27cm (largest), including views of York, Scarborough, Bywell Tower, Bothal Castle, Gibside, Tynemouth Priory, Naworth Castle, Knaresbro, Lanercost Priory, Blackgate in Newcastle, Devilswater, Bakewell, pasted onto folio leaves, some mounted (21)Footnote: Note: George Stewardson Brady (1832–1921) was an eminent British surgeon and zoologist. He practiced medicine in Sunderland between 1857 and 1892 and became a Professor of natural history at Durham College of Science (College of Physical Sciences), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1875. Brady was also an active member of the Tyneside Naturalists Field Club and was honorary curator of botany at the Museum of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Most notable of his publications were those on marine and freshwater crustacea, followed by reports on the ostracoda and copepoda of Darwin's Challenger expedition.

Books from the Library of George A. Zabriskie Including works of Americana Squier, E.G. Notes on Central America. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 8vo, contemporary calf, lower cover detached; Read, John Meredith A Historical Inquiry concerning Henry Hudson... Albany: John Munsell, 1866. 8vo, ALS from the author bound in, orange half morocco gilt, bookplate; Lossing, Benson J. The Hudson from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York; Smith, James Reuel Springs and Wells of Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City. New York: The New York Historical Society, 1938. 8vo, brown quarter morocco; The Evolution of New York. New York, 1897. 4to, blue half morocco gilt, Zabriskie bookplate; Darley, Felix O.C., illustrator The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The American Art-Union, 1849. Oblong 4to, original wrappers, slight dampstaining; Milbert, J. Picturesque Itinerary of the Hudson River... , facsimile reproduction in green card folder; Murphy, Henry C. Journal of a Voyage to New York. Brooklyn, 1867. 8vo, later cloth; Loomis, Elias A Treatise on Meteorology... New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 8vo, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, lower cover lacking; Henslow, T. Geoffrey Ye Sundial Booke. London, 1914. 8vo, contemporary blue half morocco gilt; Du Chaillu, Paul B. The Viking Age. London: John Murray, 1889. 2 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Eutropius Eutropij de Gestis Romanorum Libri Decem. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1539. 8vo, contemporary calf, upper board detached, a few neat notes in an early hand; Buchanan, George Poemata... Leiden: Elzevir, 1628. 24mo, later red morocco, upper cover detached; Villon, Françoys. Le Testament Françoys Villon. Paris: la Sirène, 1918. 8vo, red calf gilt with embossed hanging men motif, chipped and darkened; [Scott, Tom] The Cruise of the Midge. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1836. 2 volumes, 8vo, blue straight-grained morocco gilt, bookplates of George A. Zabriskie and Lilian Henkel Haas; The Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland Transactions, volume 1. Edinburgh: William and Alexander Smellie, 1792. 4to, modern boards; An Elementary Manual of Heraldry. New York: Gorham Company, 1905. 16mo, red half morocco gilt; Pater, Alastair and Walter Sebastian van Storck. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927. 4to, number 352 of 1050 copies, original cloth, slipcase; The Universal Historical Atlas... New York: Warren Cockroft and Company, 1873. Folio, original green half morocco gilt; and 6 others, sold not subject to returnFootnote: Provenance: from the collection of George A. Zabriskie

Essex House Press [The Prayer Book of King Edward VII] The Book of Common Prayer London/Campden: Essex House Press, 1903. Folio, number 33 of 400 copies, red half morocco gilt over wooden boards, joints rubbed and hinges cracked

McCarthy, Justin - Mrs Campbell Praed - Mortimer Menpes The Grey River London: Seeley and Co Limited, 1889. Folio, number 85 of 230 copies, 12 plates signed in pencil by Mortimer Menpes, original cream cloth gilt, soiled, lower part of spine detached, a little spotting in places

[Mörner, Hjalmar] Il Carnevale di Roma Roma: Francesco Bourlié, 1820. Oblong folio, (410 x 540mm), 20 etched plates, contemporary maroon half morocco, spine gilt, slightly spotted, chiefly in the marginsFootnote: Note: Hjalmar Mörner (1794-1837) travelled in Europe studying art in 1816-29, staying in Rome with the Swedish sculptor Johan Niclas Byström, where he made this finely detailed depiction of the Roman carnival. A few copies were hand-coloured by the artist.

Arrianus, Flavius Arrianou Nicomedeos Anabaseos Alexandrou biblia epta kai Indike Arriani Nicomediensis Expeditionis Alexandri libri septem et Historia Indica. Ludugnum Batavorum: Peter Vander, 1704. First Gronovius edition, small folio, vignette engraved portrait, contemporary calf, some cracking to joints; Willis, N.P. Canadian Scenery. London: George Virtue, 1840. 2 volumes, 4to, portrait, 2 additional engraved title-pages, frontispiece and 117 engraved plates, original green cloth gilt, covers slightly spotted, frontispiece a little nibbled along edges (3)

Bedford: Reports and Observations A collection of documents The Report of Thomas Yeoman Engineer, concerning the Drainage of the North Level of the Fens, and the Outfal of the Wisbeach River, 1769. 8vo, folding plan, paper wrappers; and another copy; Remarks upon That Part of the Great Bedford Level, called the North Level: in which the Causes of its First Drowning, and of its present ruinous Condition, are considered..., 1748, folded folio; and another copy; The Report of John Golborne Engineer, concerning the Drainage of the North Level of the Fens, and the Outfal of the Wisbeach River, 1769. 8vo, folding map, paper wrappers; and two further copies; Observations on the Bedford Charity... London, 1761. 8vo; A Plan for Obtaining an Act of Parliament for the better Draining of the North-Level..., [n.d.], folded folio; A State of the Revenues and Debt of the Corporation of Bedford Levels... [n.d.], folded folio; Resolutions of the Associated Architects, with the Report of a Committee...to Consider the Causes of the Frequent Fires, and the best means of Preventing the Like in Future, [n.d.] 8vo, wrappers; The Report of John Smeaton Engineer, concerning the Drainage of the North Level of the Fens, and the Outfal of the Wisbeach River, 1768. 8vo, folding plan, paper wrappers

Pinelli, Bartolomeo Tasso, Torquato [Seventy-two engravings illustrating the “Gerusalemme liberata” of Tasso.] Rome, 1826-27. Oblong folio (422 x 545mm), engraved frontispiece and 72 engraved plates by Pinelli, contemporary maroon half morocco, spine gilt, some light spotting

Pinelli, Bartolomeo [Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe] Avventure di Telemaco. Telemaco, inventato, ed inciso, da Bartolomeo Pinelli in Numo. cento Tavole. Rome, 1827-28. Oblong folio (426 x 554mm), etched title and 100 plates, contemporary maroon half morocco, spine gilt, a few plates lightly spotted

Pinelli, Bartolomeo Istoria Romana incisa all'acqua forte da Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano L'Anno 1818, e 1819. Rome: Giovanni Scudellari, [1818-19]. Oblong folio, 468 x 600mm), 101 engraved plates (including the frontispiece which is numbered '1'), an additional 8 plates [from another work] by Pinelli bound in at end, contemporary maroon half morocco, spine gilt, very occasional light spotting, lightly rubbed

Pinelli, Bartolomeo Dante Alighieri La Divina Commedia. Rome, 1824-26. 3 volumes, oblong folio, (430 x 550mm), [in total engraved title, 3 frontispieces and 141 plates], comprising Purgatorio: engraved frontispiece and 42 plates (a plate numbered '66' bound in in place of number 1); Paradiso: engraved frontispiece and 34 plates; Inferno: engraved general title to the whole work, engraved frontispiece and 65 plates; contemporary maroon half morocco, spines gilt, lightly spotted (3)

Pinelli, Bartolomeo 2 works, comprising Istoria di Roma Illustrata [title taken from spine] Rome. [c.1821-24]. Oblong folio (425 x 550mm), 50 plates, contemporary maroon half morocco, spine gilt, slightly spotted; Pinelli, Bartolomeo Raccolta di Quattordici rami disegnati, ed incisi all' acqua forte... in Roma. Rome: Agabito Franzetti & Giovanni Scudellari, 1822. Oblong folio (421 x 555mm), 12 engraved plates, printed title, contemporary maroon half morocco, spine gilt, light spotting, chiefly marginal, title-page somewhat spotted, lightly rubbed (2)

Quadri, Antonio Il Canal Grande di Venezia Venice: Dalla Tipografia di Commercio, 1831. Oblong folio, additional engraved vignette title-page, engraved map and 47 plates, original printed paper boards, some foxing, boards in plastic coating, endpapers renewed, a little light spotting

Robson, George Fennell Scenery of the Grampian Mountains illustrated by forty-one plates. London: Longman, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819. Large folio (531 x 348mm), list of subscribers, folding coloured map and 41 hand-coloured aquatint plates, recent green half morocco, spine gilt, original lettering piece to upper marbled board, some offsetting from plates to text [Abbey Scenery, 506]

Scotland 10 volumes, comprising The Laws and Acts of Parliament made by King James the First, Second... Edinburgh: printed by David Lindsay, 1681. Folio, engraved coat of arms, additional engraved title-page, title-page in red and black, 9 portraits, contemporary calf, lacking inserted leaves between p.2O2 and 2O3 which should be entitled "The King's Majestie's Letter...", rubbed, joints split; Manuscript: "A few Scenes of Scottish Story, to cousin Carlie, with love from E. Sinne". [c.1870], 4to, 9 leaves of original pen and ink illustrations mounted on thick card with manuscript verses on verso, pictorial cloth with ties; Victoria, Queen Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands. 1868; More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands. 1884, plates, original green cloth and original pictorial green cloth, the first lightly rubbed; Lauder, Thomas Dick An Account of the Great Floods of August 1829. Edinburgh, 1830, Second edition, 8vo, plates, maps, modern quarter calf, uncut; Haldane, Gen. Sir J. A.L. The Haldanes of Gleneagles. 1929, presentation copy to B.E.A. Napier, and with autograph letter from author, bookplate (slightly damaged) of Hon. Wm. Napier loosely inserted, original decorated cloth gilt, t.e.g.; Knott, C.G. Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume. 1915. 4to, presentation copy to John Scott Napier, original white buckram gilt, t.e.g.; Geikie, Walter Etchings illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery. [c. 1853]. 4to, 94 etched plates, contemporary maroon half morocco, slightly rubbed; Geikie, Walter Etchings illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery. 1884. 4to, one of 50 copies with proof impressions of the plates on India Paper, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, uncut, binding lightly soiled; Greig, G .and A. Keith Last leaves of Traditional Ballads and Ballad Airs. Aberdeen, 1925. 4to, original buckram, t.e.g. (10)

Simpson, William The Seat of War in the East London: Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., 1855. Folio, both series together, lithographed title-page for each series, dedication and 55 (of 79) tinted lithograph plates, contemporary green morocco gilt with cloth gilt label to upper cover, plates largely detached, some foxing and a little light dampstaining, initial leaves with some chipping

Solvyns, Frans Baltasar Les Hindoûs Oû Descripion de Leurs Moeurs, Costumes et Cérémonies. Paris: Chez l'Auteur...et chez H. Nicolle, 1808-12. First French edition, 4 volumes, folio, four colour-printed etched vignette titles and 288 colour-printed etched plates (many hand finished), later green half calf gilt in a sensitive and contemporary style, top edges gilt, a little foxing and browning, mostly very light and predominantly in volume 1, a few plates sensitively remargined with later mounts, crease to half-title of volume 1 with name trimmed from upper right edge [Abbey, Travel, 430] (4)Footnote: Note: Collected from the original 48 parts, a full set such as this, with plates coloured by the author, would cost around 2,600 francs at the time of publication. An early example of colour printing, it seems that two printing plates were used to apply a chiaroscuro effect with one or more colours applied by each. Extra colour was then applied by hand. The work in total illustrates Solvyns's observations of Hindu customs, celebrations, occupations, costume and the caste system. Customs and habits are described in the accompanying text. Dutch native, Balthasar Solvyns, travelled to Calcutta at the end of the 18th century and worked as an artist, providing illustrations for a report by Alexander Kyd on his expedition to Penang and the Andaman Islands. Observing that the British displayed a keen interest in Indian costume and culture, Solvyns was inspired produce “A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings Descriptive of the Manners, Customs, and Dress of the Hindoos” in 1799. The present work is an enlarged version of this, with a total of 288 plates with text in French and English.

Davenport, W. Historical Portraiture of Leading Events in the Life of Ali Pacha... London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823. First edition, folio, 30pp. [plus publisher's advertisement leaf at end], 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates engraved by G. Hunt after Davenport, half-title, original boards, original paper lettering piece on upper board, frontispiece plate slightly offset onto title, early reback to spine, corners rubbed, [Blackmer 454; Abbey, Travel 206]Footnote: Note: The strikingly dramatised scenes depicted were evidently chosen by Davenport to give a romantic view of Ali Pasha's life. The text was taken from Beauchamp's Life of Ali Pacha. Provenance: From the Library of the Late William St Clair

Atlas Classica, Being a Collection of Maps of the Countries Mentioned by the Ancient Authors both Sacred and Profane,London, 1808, engraved title page and fifty-three hand coloured engraved maps and tables, some folding or double-paged, all plates complete as list, folio, half calf with marbled paper boards, together with A New Historical and Commercial System of Geography: Containing a Comprehensive History and Description of the Present State of All the Kingdoms of the World, Manchester, 1812, b.w. engraved frontispiece, fifteen b.w. engraved maps, twelve b.w. engraved views, two engravings relating to Captain Cook, folio, bound in full calf with gilt tooled surround, gilt tooled spine with five raised bands, pp. 693, (2)Condition: Atlas Classica is missing spine and front and back boards are detached, boards are worn lacking calf corners and edges are scuffed and ragged, due to missing spine bound sections of the book are beginning to come apart title page is foxed with water damage to the corners, plates are generally intact with small amount of marks and stains, small tears to sheet edges, Geography has scuffs to the calf and bumped edges and corners, some cracking to the spine and lifting of material, some pages loose from binding, plates pages in generally passable condition with some minor foxing and stains to edges.

MAJOR SYMES., Michel., Relation de L'Ambassade Anglaise Envoyee En 1795 Dans Le Royaume D'Ava, Ou L'Empire Des Birmans Par le Major Michel Symes, ..., traduits De l'anglais avec des Notes, par J. Castera. Atlas volume only, Paris, chez F. Buisson, 1800, first French edition, library stamp to titles page, full page engraved map of the Burmese empire, folding engraved map of the Irrawaddy River by Thomas Wood, 28 engraved plates of monuments, people, botany and Burmese culture to include the taming of wild elephants, the Temple de Schoe-Madou a Pegu and the ceromonial yacht of the Burmese Emperor, gilt dec. calf backed original dec. boards, folioCondition: Calf spin is cracking on both hinges at top of spine. Calf on spine is torn lower down and lifting. Contents clean with some marginal soiling and slight spotting otherwise contents clean

LUDOLF, Hiob, A New History of Ethiopia, Being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abellina,London, 1682, 1st English edition, seven engraved plates including six folding, a folding genealogical table and an engraved plate of the Ethiopian alphabet, lacking folding map, folio, full mottled calf boards, gilt tooled spine with five raised bands, marbled edges, bookplate for John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1750-1842), pp. 398,Condition: Edges of the boards are bumped and scuffed with losses to the corners, board hinges are beginning to crack, losses to top and bottom of spine, overall binding quite worn, foxing and stains to the pages and margins, tears to one of the plate causing the edge to protrude, folds to some pages,

DAPPER, Olfert, Naukeurige Beschryving van Asie: Behelfende de Gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie of Klein Asie,Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680, two volumes bound as one, engraved title page, title page printed in red and black, sixteen folding plates, folio, bound in full mottled calf with gilt tooled border and gilt stamped royal arms below 'Military Depot', richly gilt tooled spine with six raised bands,Condition: Some bumps and scuffs to the board edges, cracking between spine and boards, foxing throughout the pages but text is clean

CONFUCIUS, Confucius Sinarum Philosophus Sive Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita,Paris, Daniel Horthemels, 1687, four parts in one volume, one engraved folding plate depicting Confucius, engraved map to rear, numerous tables, genealogies and chronologies to the rear, 1914 bookplate to the von der Gabelentz family, hand-written name of one of the von der Gabelentz family, folio, full mottled calf binding, gilt tooled board edges, richly gilt tooled spine with impressed gilt title and six raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers, pp. cxxiv, 108, 21, 159, xx, 20, 8, 23-108,Condition: The binding is in good condition commensurate with age, bumps to the corners and scuffs to the edges, rubbing and scratches to calf, bumps to top and bottom of spine, some staining to the initial page margins, foxing and staining to pages throughout but text is generally clean The last section - Tabula Chronologica has its title page but the pagination starts from 23. 

HOME, Robert, Select Views in Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan,London, 1794, twenty-nine engraved plates and four folding engraved maps, folio, half brown calf with marbled paper boards, spine blind tooled with five raised gilt tooled bands, pp. 48Condition: The binding is rubbed, some scuffs and losses to the edge of the boards, loss to the spine at the top, cracks appearing at hinges, some foxing and discolouration to the pages of text, some stains and marks to margins of plates but images generally ok.

HOME, Robert, Select Views in Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan,London, 1794, twenty-nine hand-coloured engraved plates and four folding engraved maps, folio, full red morocco with gilt tooled band to edge, spine with gilt tooling and five raised band, gilt edges and marbled end papers, pp. 48Condition: The binding is in overall fair condition with rubbed areas, markings and stains to the morocco, some losses, scuffs and bumps to the edges, rubbing to the spine, foxing and stains to the margins, two of the maps have been secured with sticking tape

KAEMPER, Englebert., De Beschryving van Japan, behelsende een verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen Staat en Regeering van dat RykAmsterdam, 1729, first Dutch edition, half title, b&w engraved frontis, printed title in black and red, 48 plates, many folding including full map of Japan,folio, marbled wrappers, pp. 500,Condition: Marbled End papers rubbed and worn. Binding loose. Vellum backing strips cracking and fatiguing. Some marginal spotting to frontis and endpapers with spotting. Some plates with marginal spotting. Small marginal worm hole in margin pages 395-500

MASON, George Henry., The Punishments of China, illustrated by twenty-two engravings: with explanations in English and FrenchLondon, printed for William Miller, Old Bond-Street, by Vulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's, c.1801, (plates watermarked 1836), 22 hand coloured stipple engravings, folio, contemporary gilt tooled full red morocco, gilt edgedCondition: Some offsetting. Occasional light spotting. Corners bumped and board edges rubbed. Hinges rubbed, dry and cracking. Top of spine is detached but present

MASON, George Henry, The Costume of China, Illustrated by Sixty Engravings: with Explanations in English and French,London, 1800, sixty hand coloured stipple-engraved plates some watermarked 1818, folio, a contemporary fine grained green morocco binding with blind and gilt-tooled decoration, gilt tooled spine with four raised bands, gilt page edgesCondition: Some losses and rubbing to the morocco boards and scuffs and bumps to the board edges and corners, front board slightly detached from spine, lifting of material to spine, some markings and stains to margins, some of the plates have reacted with their opposite pages, one or two pages loose in the binding

Doomsday Book Studies Kent & SussexAlecto Historical Editions, London, 1987, folio, each formed of 3 vols, Studies, Introduction and Folios & Maps, in slipcases, (2)Condition: Fine. Slipcase of Kent has a crack along one edge

Collection of miscellaneous items, including Kodascope Movie Viewer, 'Construments', draftsman's set in wooden case, Johnson model 12 optiscope projector (in original case), late 19th/early 20th century walnut writing slope (height 17cm), among other collector's items and ephemera. With folio of 19th century engravings of Halifax by J. R. Smith (sheet size 45 x 60cm each)

MARLBOROUGH DUKE OF: (1650-1722) John Churchill. English Soldier and Statesman. Commander-in-Chief of the Forces 1690-91, 1702-08. Signed document, one-page folio, dated 24th December 1714. Addressed to Thomas Erle, Lieutenant General of His Majesty’s Ordnance. This manuscript dictates that Stephen, Anthony & James Swift will be "appointed to provide Small Boates at Woolwich to serve and carry Guns, Carriages, Shot and other Stores of Warr from thence to Tower Wharf, Deptford, Greenwich, Galleons, Longreach, Gravesend" and other places. The document goes on to say that this arrangement will be allowed to continue for "so long as they shall behave themselves loyally, faithfully & diligently in his Majesty's Service." Counter-signed by Marlborough's secretary and political ally, James Craggs the Elder, with Marlborough's blind embossed papered armorial seal at the head alongside three embossed VI Pence stamps. Laid down on backing paper. There is some age wear at the folds particularly at the central fold, just affecting the text. Further losses to the edges and corners.

A Collection of Vintage Theatre World Magazines, Folio Society Magazines, Pair of Watercolours etc

Two Folio volumes ' Handzeichnungen Spanischer Meister ' 1915 by Karl W. Hiersemann Leipzig

Folio volume, ' A Von Le Coq die Buddhistische Spatantike in Mittelasien ', published Berlin, 1924 together with two illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900 and 1903 and one volume ' Israel, Ancient Mosaics '

Large late 19th Century leather bound folio volume, ' The Hermitage ', containing eighty four photogravures directly reproduced from the original paintings in the Imperial Gallery at St. Petersburg by authority of His Imperial Majesty, the Tzar, published The Berlin Photographic Company, London

A HISTORY OF ENGLAND, 12 vols, Folio Society, blue cloth with gilt lettered spines, in slip cases (12).

A collection of miscellaneous prints, watercolours and a folio

Two large black folio cases, one containing drawings etc.

An interesting folio of various prints, engravings and watercolours

Billings, R.W- The Baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh [1848-52], 4 Volumes, Folio.

A Scarce Volume Entitled Adolf Hitler 133 pages with over 200 tipped in photo plates (Black and White) and 5 colour reproduction of watercolours painting by Hitler. (The Large Folio is in Fair condition some shelf ware and several loose pages, staining from the staples) Along With A Two Page Article Entitled Berlin Misery (Life in the Once Proud Prussian Capital in 1947) The Sphere December 13 1947.

Hermann Goering (1893-1946) autograph signature. German Luftwaffe promotion document, 17 April, 1940, folio cream paper printed in gold and black and embossed with eagle and swastika, with elegantly penned manuscript promoting Hautmann Emanuel Lerch of the Luftwaffe to be Major as of 1 February 1940. Dated Berlin 17 April 1940, signed by Herman Goering and with handstamp signature of Adolf Hitler. Framed with gilt embossed cream card folder.

German Kriegsmarine, U-Boat captain's promotion document, 16 May, 1942, folio cream paper printed in gold and black and embossed with eagle and swastika, promoting Oberleutnant Hellmuth Kurrer to be Kapitanleutnant as of 1 June 1942. Dated Berlin 16 May 1942, with handstamp signature of Erich Raeder. Framed with gilt embossed cream card folder.Hellmuth Kurrer commanded U-189 on her launch on 1 May 1942 until she was sunk east of Cape Farewell (Greenland) by depth charges dropped by a British Liberator on 23 April 1943 with loss of all hands.

Bunting, Edward. The Ancient Music of Ireland, arranged for the Piano Forte. To which is prefixed a Dissertation on the Irish Harp and Harpers... Clementi, London, undated, Folio, marbled boards. Lacking spine, boards loose, pages loose, tattered and soiled otherwise good.

Daly, Leo. James Joyce and the Mullingar Connection, signed limited edition, Dolmen, Dublin, 1975, folio, 60 pp. illustrated, red cloth, gilt, black endpapers, signed to the colophon page.

Harry Clarke: Gordon Bowe, Nicola. The Life and Work of Harry Clarke, signed by the author, Dublin 1989, small folio, book very fine, dustjacket fine; together with Clarke, Harry (illust.). Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe, reprint, 1928, b & w illustrations, scattered light spotting, illustrated black cloth gilt. (2)

James, Major General Henry; Facsimiles of the National M.S.S. of Ireland, Southampton 1874, part one only. Forty five lithographed and hand coloured plates, large folio. The covers detached and the binding worn.