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Sotheby (Samuel Leigh). Ramblings in the Elucidation of the Autograph of Milton, London: printed for the author by Thomas Richards, 1861, monochrome photograph frontispiece, 25 plates of facsimile manuscript, some spotting throughout, all edges gilt, contemporary ornately gilt decorated green morocco with inlaid illustrated front & rear boards bound by J. Wright, some light rubbing to head & foot, some spotting & marks to the boards, folio, together with:Kingsley (Mary H.), West African Studies, London: Macmillan and Co., 1899, 28 monochrome illustrations, 2 colour folding maps, bookplate to the front paste down, front & rear gutter fix with blue tape, some light spotting & toning throughout, rebound later calf spine retaining contemporary half calf boards & gilt decorated spine, rubbed with some loss to head & foot, 8vo, plus other mostly 18th & 19th century literature, mostly contemporary leather or vellum bindings, overall condition is generally fair/good, 8vo/folioQTY: (5 shelves)NOTE:Approximately 65 volumes

D'Hulst (R.-A.). Jordaens Drawings, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: Phaidon, 1974, numerous monochrome illustrations, original uniform cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, 8vo, together with:Danto (Arthur C.), Mapplethorpe, prepared in collaboration with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, reprinted, London: Jonathan Cape, 1995, with numerous and graphic monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, with 2 further volumes of Robert Mapplethorpe reference, plusVermeersch (Valentin, editor), Bruges and Europe, 1st edition, Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1992, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket & slipcase, folio, and other art reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Hudson (C. T.) The Rotifera; or Wheel-Animalcules, both British and Foreign, 3 volumes in 2 (including Supplement at end of volume II), 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889, 34 double-page plates, most partly coloured, other plates and illustrations, occasional light spotting, bookplates of Andrew C. Campbell, original cloth gilt, joints and edges rubbed, 4to, together with Fryer (Alfred & Arthur Bennett). The Potamogetons (Pond Weeds) of the British Isles, 1st edition, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1915, 60 hand-coloured lithograph plates, light spotting front and rear, top edge gilt, original red cloth gilt, edges slightly rubbed, 4to, plus Allman (George James). A Monograph of the Fresh-Water Polyzoa, including all the known species, both British and Foreign, 1st edition, London: Ray Society, 1856, 11 engraved plates (10 hand-coloured), a little minor spotting, original cloth-backed limp boards, some wear to spine, small tear to upper cover, folio, with 5 others including T. H. Huxley's The Oceanic Hydrozoa, Ray Society, 1859, Studies in the Art Anatomy of Animals, by E. Seton Thompson, 1896, and Types of Floral Mechanism, by Arthur Harry Church, 1908QTY: (9)

Vanity Fair. The Vanity Fair Album: A Show of Sovereigns, Statemen, Judges and Men of the Day..., volume 14, 1882, additional half-title, 56 (complete as list) colour lithographs after 'Spy', 'Chartran' and 'T', each with a page of descriptive and biographical text, including three 'special numbers' ( Purse, Pussy, Piety and Prevarication, Force no Remedy [and] The Gladstone Memorial), with others including Cetewayo, Lord Walsingham, Lord Wimbourne (Tennis), George Fordham and General Booth, gutta-percha perished, contents shaken and loose, all edges gilt, publishers green cloth gilt, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:The contents are unusually clean, bright and un-marked. Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return.

Colman (George). The Comedies of Terence, translated into familiar blank verse, London: printed for T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt, 1765, 8 engraved copper plates, period ink marks to the head of the title page, some light spotting throughout, gutters cracked, contemporary front & rear boards partially detached, rubbed with some minor loss, large 4to, together with:Byron (Lord George), Don Juan, Cantos 1 to 5, London: G. Smeeten, 1821, monochrome title page vignette, 4 hand-coloured engraved plates by Cruickshank, bookplates to the front endpapers, front gutter cracked, some marginal toning & spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary gilt decorated full calf bound by Morrell,slight damage to the front board, some light marks to the rear board, hinges partially cracked, 8vo, plusChambers (William), A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, London: Priestley and Weale, 1825 , engraved portrait frontispiece, 54 monochrome plates, modern endpapers with bookplate & text excerpts to the front endpaper, some light toning & spotting throughout, rebound modern calf spine retaining contemporary gilt decorated full calf boards & spine, slightly rubbed with some minor loss, large 8vo, and other miscellaneous 18th -early 20th century literature, some contemporary leather bindings, some original cloth, some odd volumes, overall condition is generally good, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves)

Salmon (William). Botanologia. The English Herbal: Or, History of Plants Containing I. Their Names, Greek, Latine and English. II. Their Species, or Various Kinds. III. Their Descriptions. IV. Their Places of Growth. V. Their Times of Flowering and Seeding. VI. Their Qualities or Properties. VII. Their Specifications. VIII. Their Preparations, Galenick and Chymick. IX. Their Virtues and Uses. X. A Complete Florilegium of all the Choice Flowers Cultivated by our Florists..., 1st edition, London: Printed by I. Dawks for H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710, additional engraved title (few closed tears and tissue lined to both sides), title printed in red and black, numerous hand-coloured woodcut botanical illustrations throughout, with six-page 'Index morborum' (sometimes lacking), tissue repair to 6F1, final two leaves of volume (Index Latinus) frayed with loss to fore-margin and tissue lined to both sides, some leaves browned, light dust-soiling, scattered spotting throughout and few marks, modern calf-backed marbled boards, black morocco title label to spine, folioQTY: (1)

Hayes (William). [A Natural History of British Birds, &c. With their portraits accurately drawn and beautifully coloured from nature, London: printed for S. Hooper, 1771-75], engraved dedication, 40 hand-coloured engraved and etched plates after William Hayes, including 2 folding, a few with imprint, lacking title and all text, some light toning to 2 or 3 plates, otherwise in clean condition, some spotting to endpapers, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rebacked, corners repaired, rubbed with stains, folio, 50 x 36.5 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Anker 198; Fine Bird Books p. 80; Nissen IVB 421; Mullens and Swann p. 287; Zimmer pp. 293-94.

Holinshed (Raphael). The Firste [- Laste] Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, 2 volumes, first edition, London: for John Hunne & for Lucas Harison, 1577, woodcut titles to each part, with arms to verso, numerous woodcut illustrations and initials, largely printed in double column black letter text, gutter margin of initial title to first volume repaired, erratic pagination, lower outer corner of leaf b7 in Historie of Englande (in first volume) torn with some text loss, leaf 2E3 in Historie of Scotlande (in first volume) torn with two-thirds of leaf missing and with photocopy facsimile tipped-in, cancelled leaves E6-8 in Historie of Irelande (in first volume) and F7 also a cancel (line 1 column 1 'the Belweathers' and watchword 'upon'), title to second volume with reduced margins and lined to verso, erratic pagination in second volume p. 541 headed 'Richarde the Seconde' with following page numbered 142, p. 1733 headed 'Queen Marie', p.1841 with catchword 'buried' (i.e. STC 13568 variant b), later engraving of the tomb of Katherine Parr at Sudely Castle dated 1782 tipped-in between 4F6 and 4F7 (pages 1612 and 1613), double-page woodcut of siege of Edinburgh bound between leaves 4Y6 and 4Y7 (pages 1868 and 1869) with slight close trimming to ruled border, occasional mostly light damp-stains to few leaves in both volumes, few marks and minor dust-soiling to few leaves, first volume with armorial bookplate of the Johnstone family bearing the motto 'Nun quam non paratus', with 19th-century manuscript notes to front endpapers, contemporary calf with blind roll work decoration to boards, bindings covered in old thin vellum with manuscript title and volume numbers to spine of each, lacking clasps, joints cracked and some wear, folio (approx. 29 x 20 cm), contained in modern archival card portfolio style boxesQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: The bookplate to the first volume suggests the work belonged to either John Johnston(e) of Galabank, Annan (d.1774) or his son James Johnston(e) MD of Kidderminster (1730-1802).STC 13568b; Pforzheimer 494.First edition of the first volume of Holinshed's great narrative history of the British Isles. The work was conceived as part of a 'deliberate movement to elevate the status of England, English letters, and English language through writing and publishing maps, histories, national epics, and theoretical works on English poetry' (ODNB). It is the single most important chronicle written in English in the 16th century — a secular counterpart to Foxe's Actes and Monuments (1563) — and the principal source for all of Shakespeare's conventional English history plays as well as King Lear, Macbeth and Cymbeline.

Langley (Batty). Pomona: or, the Fruit-Garden Illustrated. Containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England. Calculated from great variety of experiments made in all kinds of soils and aspects. Wherein the manner of raising young stocks, grafting, inoculating, planting, &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated... Likewise several practical observations on the imbibing power and perspiration of Fruit-Trees; the several affects of heat and moisture tending to the growth and maturity of fruits. To which is added, a curious account of the most valuable cyder-fruits of Devonshire, 1st edition, London: Printed for G. Strahan, R. Gosling, W. Mears, F. Clay, D. Browne, B. Motte, and L. Gilliver..., 1729, title printed in red and black, 79 plates on 68 leaves, including 11 folding, cancelled library bookplate of the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library to front pastedown, occasional minor marks to outer margins (contents generally in clean condition), contemporary calf, worn with covers detached, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Dumthorne 175; Henrey 928; Hunt 478; Nissen 1135.'The handsomest english eighteenth-century production devoted to the culture of fruit' (Henrey).

Wilkinson (Robert). Londina Illustrata. Graphic and Historic Memorials of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Schools, Charitable Foundations, Palaces, Halls, Courts, Processions, Places of Early Amusement and Modern and Present Theatres in the Cities and Suburbs of London & Westminster, 2 volumes, 1819, decorative calligraphic titles to each volume, extra-illustrated with 241 (206 called for) engraved plates, maps and plans, some folding and double-page, index bound at the rear of volume 2, later endpapers, slightly later calf with gilt decorated spines, joints cracked and weak, worn and rubbed at extremities, large 4to, together with Harrison (Walter). A New and Universal History, Description and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, The Borough of Southwark, and their adjacent parts, London: J. Cooke, at Shakespeare's Head, 1776, allegorical frontispiece, dedication, 100 uncoloured engraved plates and maps, near contemporary ownership signature to the front endpaper, crude later half calf, worn and rubbed, folio, with Fearnside (William Gray & Harral Thomas). The History of London Illustrated by Views in London & Westminster, W. S. Orr & Co., circa 1840, additional decorative title and preface, 26 (only of 28) uncoloured engraved views, [bound with] Trotter (William Edward). Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles round London..., circa 1840, additional decorative title, 32 uncoloured engraved plates, but lacking the map, slight spotting, burn holes to the front endpaper, contemporary decorative morocco gilt, burnt along the lower margin of the upper board, worn and rubbed, 8vo, plus Smith (John Thomas). Antient Topography of London Embracing Specimens of Sacred, Public and Domestic Architecture..., 1810, decorative coloured title and 32 uncoloured etched plates, later ownership signatures to the front endpaper, old newspaper cutting to the front pastedown, contemporary half calf, rebacked, partially retaining the original spine, slim folio, with another sixteen later volumes on London topography, various sizes and conditionQTY: (21)

Stukeley (William). Stonehenge, A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, 1st edition, London: W. Innys and R. Manby, 1740, engraved portrait frontispiece (offset to title), 35 engraved plates (including 7 folding and 2 double-page), title with few short closed tears to margins and initial leaves creased, folding plate number V with long closed tear, plate XXIII cropped to ruled border and lined to verso, bound with Abury, A Temple of the British Druids, with some others, described. Wherein is a more particular account of the first and patriarchal religion; and of the peopling the British Islands, 'volume the second', 1st edition, London: Printed for the Author: and sold by W. Innys, R. Manby, B. Dod, J. Brindley, and the Booksellers in London, 1743, 40 engraved plates including folding bird's-eye view frontispiece of Avebury (4 plates folding including frontispiece), two woodcut tailpieces and one engraved illustration, frontispiece with short closed tear to fold near gutter and folding plate XXV slightly trimmed to fold with minor loss, together with:Stukeley (William). Itinerarium Curiosum: Or, An Account of the Antiquities, and Remarkable Curiosities in Nature or Art, Observed in Travels through Great Britain, Centuria I [& II), 2 volumes (text and plates), 2nd edition, with large additions, London: Messrs. Baker and Leigh, 1776, engraved portrait frontispiece (slightly creased and offset to title), text to Centuria I and II bound together, plate volume containing 206 engraved plates, plans and maps (including 4 double-page plates, 2 double-page maps and 2 mezzotint plates), occasional light toning and minor spotting, all edges gilt, contemporary uniform straight-grain red morocco, gilt border decoration to boards, spines with volume numbers I - III in gilt (comprising vol. I - Itinerarium Centuria I & II, vol. II - Itinerarium plates, vol. III - Stonehenge & Abury), spines lightly rubbed, first volume of Itinerarium Curiosum with remnants of small paper label to upper board, folioQTY: (3)

Bible (English). The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testament. Newly translated out of the originall tongues and with former translations diligently compared and revised his Majesties speciall command..., Amsterdam: Stephen Swart, 1672, additional engraved title, letterpress with woodcut royal armorial, letterpress New Testament title, five double-page engraved maps including defective world map (some by Jacob Savry), one double-page plan of Jerusalem, 116 double-page plates published by Vischer (artist and engravers names include Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolaes de Bruyn, Jan Harmensz. Muller, Jan Londer, David Vinckboons, Abraham Bloemaert, Jan van Londerseel, Marten de Vos, Theodorus Berna, Maarten van Heemskerck etc.), one plate detached and torn with loss and one other torn with loss, few other plates with closed tears and frayed edges, some cropped at head and foot with slight loss mostly to printed captions, fraying and closed tears to few text leaves, occasional toning and scattered spotting, contemporary diced calf over wooden boards, brass corner pieces, vertical split to centre of upper wooden board with consequent cracking and wear to leather, spine torn with loss, lacking clasps, worn, folio (cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 557; Herbert 708.Darlow and Moule and Herbert call for a map of the World, plus two other maps.

Plot (Robert). The Natural History of Oxford-Shire, being an essay towards the natural history of England, 2nd edition, Oxford: Leon Lichfield for Charles Brome, London: John Nicholson, 1705, folding engraved map by Michael Burghers, 16 engraved plates, contemporary ownership inscription of Thomas Hearne, 1714 to title, light soiling and small tears to front endpaper, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine repaired, small splits to joints, a little rubbed, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Upcott pp. 1069-70.

Salmon (William). Botanologia. The English Herbal: or, History of Plants, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Printed by L. Dawkes for H. Rhodes, 1710-11, engraved additional title, volume I title printed in red and black, numerous woodcut illustrations, bound without the 6. pp Index morborum sometimes found at the end, a few small marginal worm tracks, some spotting and browning, bookplates of G. K. Cowlishaw, contemporary calf gilt, joints cracked, some edge wear and stains, folio QTY: (2)NOTE:ESTC T83065; Henrey 1308.

La Quintinie (Jean de). The Compleat Gard'ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen-Gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of Husbandry. In six books. By the famous Monsr. De La Quintinye, chief director of all the gardens of the French-King. To which is added his Treatise of Orange-Trees, with the raising of Melons, omitted in the French editions. Made English by John Evelyn Esquire, 2 parts in one, 1st English edition, London: Matthew Gillyflower and James Partridge, 1693, engraved portrait frontispiece (early ownership signature to verso 'Tho Poore'), 11 engraved plates (including 2 folding), title in red and black, leaves P2 & P3 browned, light damp-staining to final leaf, bookplate of Rt. Hon. Charles Abbot to upper pastedown, bookplate of the Constitutional Club Library (gift of Rt. Hon. Lord Colchester 1887) to lower pastedown, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked and board corners repaired, board edges worn and showing, folio (31.7 x 20 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Frederick Alkmund Roach OBE (1909-2004).Keynes, John Evelyn 103; Henry 218; Hunt 388; Wing L431.

Potter (Beatrix). The Pie and the Patty-Pan, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne & Co., colour illustrations, decorative endpapers (some toning), contemporary ownership inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper, original plum drab boards, re-cased with original spine laid down, inset circular mounted illustration to upper cover, rubbed and some marks, 8vo, together withGilson (Captain Charles). The Lost Column, A Story of the Boxer Rebellion in China, illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo, London: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909, colour plates, some scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, lightly rubbed, contained in modern blue half morocco drop-over bookbox, plusGwynn (Stephen). The Fair Hills of Ireland, with illustrations by Hugh Thomson, 1st edition, Dublin: Maunsal & Co.,1906, colour frontispiece, monochrome illustrations, occasional spotting, top edge gilt, original gilt-decorated green cloth, rubbed and upper joint a little frayed at foot, 8vo, and other literature and illustrated books, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, illustrated by Gustave Doré, Milan: edizione d'Arte 'Felix', 1966 (with slipcase), with L. P. recording of the poem by Sir Ralph Richardson, folio, T. S. Elliot, The Dry Salvages, little gidding and Burnt Norton, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1941-42, all original printed wrappers, stapled as issued, an original cartoon portrait of Iris Murdoch by 'Chas', signed and inscribed by Iris Murdoch to upper left, reprint edition of Arthur Ransome and Beatrix Potter, all 20th century, etc.QTY: (approx. 100)

Speke (John Hanning). Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863, numerous engraved illustrations, folding map to the rear pocket, later endpapers, some spotting & light toning, rebound with red cloth spine retaining original gilt decorated brown cloth boards & spine, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:Stanley (Henry M.), Through the Dark Continent..., 1st edition, 2 volumes, London: Sampson Low, et al, 1878, monochrome illustrations & colour maps, bookplate to the front pastedowns, gutters re-enforced with tape, some light toning & spotting throughout, rebound with later brown cloth spines retaining original gilt decorated brown cloth boards & spines, slightly rubbed to head & foot with some minor loss, 8vo, plusNorris-Newman (Charles L.), With the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange Free State in 1880-1, 2nd edition, London: Abbot, Jones & Co., circa 1890, colour & monochrome folding maps & plans, minor marginal toning, original green cloth, boards & spine very lightly rubbed & marked, 8vo, and other late 19th & early 20th century history & travel reference, all original cloth/boards, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Roethlisberger (Marcel). Claude Lorrain, The Drawings, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Berkely: University of California Press, 1968, numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original uniform cloth, large 4to, together with:Duncan (David Douglas), Picasso's Picassos, the Treasures of La Californie, London: Macmillan & Co., 1961, numerous colour plates, some minor spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, cover worn with some tears & loss, large 4to, plusHartley (Keith et al, editors), The Romantic Spirit in German Art 1790-1990, 1st edition, London: Thames & Hudson: 1994, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, and other art reference, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves)

Shakespeare (William). The Works of Shakespere, Imperial Edition, edited by Charles Knight, 2 volumes, London: J. S. Virtue & Co, [1876], engraved frontispieces, additional vignette title pages, many full-page black and white engravings to both volumes, all edges gilt, near contemporary green half morocco, gilt decorated spines, extremities slightly rubbed, folio QTY: (2)

Ralegh (Walter). The History of the World, in five books, 2 volumes, 11th edition, London: G. Conyers, 1736, titles printed in red and black, portrait frontispiece to volume one (with later hand-colouring), 8 engraved double-page maps, lightly dust-soiled, contemporary calf gilt, red morocco title labels, some loss to head of spine of volume two, rubbed with a few light marks, folio QTY: (2)

Fashion. Le Style Parisien, Directeur-Gerant Lucien Vogel, Paris, numbers 1-7, 1915, numerous colour pochoir fashion plates, mostly single-page, including some double-page, some leaves loose, together withLes Elegances Parisiennes, Gerant: H. Bernard, numbers 1-9, (1916) numbers 1-12, (1917), and numbers 1-2 & 10-12 (1918), Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1917-18, numerous colour pochoir plates, many single-page, and some double-page, tipped in colour pochoir illustrations to text, bound in three uniform contemporary black morocco-backed cloth, rubbed and scuffed to spines and rear joint to third volume partly split, large folio (first volume binding size 45.5 x 33 cm, second and third volumes 42 x 31 cm)QTY: (3)

Arrowsmith (John). The London Atlas of Universal Geography exhibiting the Physical & Political Divisions of the Various Countries of the World, Constructed from Original Materials. London: J. Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square, 1842, calligraphic title page with late 19th-century ownership inscription, preface and contents present, 66 folding maps (16 not mentioned in contents page) all with contemporary outline hand colouring including Texas (2nd state), 1843, Acquisitions of Russia since the Accession of Peter 1st, 1842, Ionian Islands & Malta, 1844, West Coast of Africa Expedition of Captain Trotter, 1813, Australia East and West, 1846, The World on Mercator's Projection, 1844, England and Wales, The Inland Navigation, Rail Roads, Geology & Minerals, 1845, India, 1842, Burma, Siam & Cochin China, 1842, British North America, 1846 and others showing parts of Europe, Asia, Americas and the World, edges frayed with some loss to title page, preface and contents, splitting at folds to most maps (largest being 360 mm) and some marginal tears (not Texas), dust soiling to title tabs, boards detached and worn, spine lacking, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:An early edition of one of the greatest 19th-century English atlases. This particular atlas is enhanced by 16 additional Arrowsmith maps, some being his scarcest and most important including the rare 2nd state 1843 Texas map titled; Map of Texas compiled from Surveys recorded in the Land Office of Texas, and other Official Surveys…, Recognised as an Independent State by Great Britain, 16th Nov, 1840. The map shows the seals of the Republic of Texas and the General Land Office of Texas beneath the title plus two insets of Galveston Bay and the geographical relationship of Mexico, Texas and the United States before the Mexican War. This map was the best available information on Texas during the decade when the political fate of the new Republic was of international concern. The information on geographical features, roadways, location of Indian tribes and the latest political divisions for the map was provided by the General Land Office of Texas.

Calvi (Donato). Scena Letteraria de gli Scrittori Bergamaschi aperta alla curiosità de suoi concittadini..., 2 volumes bound in 1, Bergamo: Marc'Antonio Rossi, 1664, engraved title page, further in-text portraits & vignettes, modern endpapers, liquid stains to the title page, some minor marginal toning, modern paper boards, 4to, together with:Mosheim (Johann Lorenz), De Rebus Christianorum ante constantinum magnum commentarii, Helmstadt: Friedrich Weygand, engraved title page vignette, bookplate to the front pastedown, ex-libris ink stamp to the foot of teh title page, some loss to the front & rear pastedowns, some light toning & spotting, contemporary embossed full vellum, boards & spine slightly marked & rubbed, 4to, plusClement (Francois), L'Art de Vérifier les Dates des faits Historiques, des Chartes, des Chroniques et autres Anciens Monuments,..., nouvelle édition, Paris: G. Desprez, 1770, engraved title plus further vignettes, bookplates to the front endpapers, gutters partially cracked, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards & spine marked & rubbed with some small loss to the extremities, hinges split, folio, and other 17th to 19th century Italian, French, & German language history & ecclesiastical reference, mostly contemporary leather & vellum bindings, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)NOTE:Approximately 115 volumes

Bacon (G. W. publisher). Bacon's Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburb (revised Edition) with an Alphabetical Index..., circa 1920s, title and contents list, contents page with long closed repaired tear, 7 lithographic double-page county maps, 20 maps of London, index map and 35 sheet map of London, publisher's half morocco, worn and bumped, folio, together with Bacon's Popular Atlas of the British Isles..., 1907, additional half-title, preface and contents, 72 double-page colour lithographic maps and diagrams and charts, upper hinge weak, publisher's decorative gilt cloth, a little frayed along the spine, folio, with Bacon's General Atlas of the World with Index, circa 1930, title and contents, frontispiece of national flags and 49 double-page colour lithographic maps, index bound at rear, manuscript presentation inscription to first front blank, hinges weak, contemporary half morocco gilt, worn and rubbed at extremities, folioQTY: (3)

Hobbes (Thomas). Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Printed [by Thomas Warren and Richard Cotes] for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1651, 1-248, 247-256, 261-396 pp., additional pictorial engraved title by Abraham Bosse, with manuscript signature to lower blank margin 'W. Best' [?] dated 1713, letterpress title with woodcut ornament with head motif (indicating the first issue), folding letterpress table, errata list struck through in early ink to verso of A3, several leaves at front of volume (mainly between leaves B1-E2) with occasional early marginal notes, occasional ink markings and underlining, short closed tear to lower blank margins of I1, 2S2, upper blank margin of 2T1 tiny rust hole to 2D4 affecting one letter of text, repaired closed tear to lower edge of 3B3 (without loss), further manuscript notes (probably by the same annotator) to rear flyleaf, light toning or browning to outer margins of a few leaves, late 19th-century blind-ruled calf, decorative ligatures in blind and red morocco title label to spine, spine and extremities slightly rubbed, covers lightly faded, folio in 4s (leaf size 27.7 x 18 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Macdonald & Hargreaves 42; Pforzheimer 491; PMM 138; Wing H2246.The remarkable additional engraved title by Abraham Bosse, designed in collaboration with the author) in this copy is an excellent and strong impression. The face depicted on the figure of Leviathan (whose body represents the 'body politic') at the top of the title is almost certainly that of Hobbes himself.Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. His most important work of political philosophy Leviathan espouses the idea of a 'social contract' which is freely entered into between an absolute ruler and their subjects. It was his main work upon which his contemporary reputation was founded and aroused a storm of opposition. Its contents haunted political, religious, and philosophical writers for several decades, so necessary did they find it to refute Hobbes' ideas. The Roman Catholic Church placed the work on the Index of Prohibited Books for its idea that the sovereign should also act as head of the state's religion. Leviathan is the product of those troubled times leading up to and during the English Civil War. 'The State, it seemed to Hobbes, might be regarded as a great artificial monster made up of individual men, with an existence which could be traced from its generation through human reason under pressure of human needs to its destruction through civil strife proceeding from human passions. The individual (except to save his own life) should always submit to the State, because any government is better than the anarchy of the natural state' (PMM). Leviathan was written while Hobbes was resident in Paris and also tutor to the Prince of Wales. After the Restoration, he was protected by Charles II, who always retained affection for him.

Folio Society. His Dark Materials, 3 volumes, by Philip Pulman, 2008, 8vo Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, 2 volumes, by Lewis Carroll, 1961, 8voTo Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, 1996, 8voThe Spanish Inquisition, by Henry Kamen, 1998, 8voThe Rosetta Stone, by Robert Sole, circa 2006, as new in original plastic wrapper, 8vo, together with 82 further Folio Society publications, 69 volumes in original cloth & slipcases, 13 vomlumes lacking slipcases, 4to/8vo, G/VGQTY: (90)

Folio Society. The Complete Tales of the Unexpected and Other Stories. An Omnibus Volume Containing Kiss Kiss, Over to You, Switch Bitch, Someone Like You, and Eight Further Tales of the Unexpected, by Roald Dahl, 2002, 8voRudyard Kipling Selected Poems, by Andrew Lycett, 2004, previous owner inscription to the title page, 8vo O. Henry 101 Stories, by Laurent Lalonde, 2002, 8vo Life, by Richard Fortey, 2008, 8vo Confucius The Analects, by A.C. Grayling, circa 2008, as new in original plastic wrapper, 8vo, together with 98 further Folio Society publications, 82 volumes in original cloth & slipcases, 16 volumes lacking slipcases, 4to/8vo, G/VGQTY: (103)

History. A large collection of modern history reference & university publications, Sylva, or a A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesties Dominions, by J. E. Esq., reprinted facsimile edition, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1973, original cloth, folio, limited edition 479/500, The Old English Herbals, by Elanour Sinclair Rohde, London: The Minerva Press, 1972, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket, 8vo, limited edition 378/500, & publications by the universities of Oxford & Cambridge, all original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio QTY: (6 shelves & a carton)

Parkinson (John). Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris..., facsimile reprint of 1629 edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1904, pictorial title page and several large illustrations throughout volume, some light scattered spotting, edges untrimmed, original cloth-backed boards, printed paper title label to spine, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Frederick Alkmund Roach OBE (1909-2004).

* Pressed Ferns. New Zealand Ferns [so titled on upper cover], 1860s, an album containing pressed dried fern specimens mounted on the rectos of 64 stiff card leaves with neat ink Latin name inscriptions to mounts, presentation inscription written to front free endpaper, 'Mrs N. Chevalier, with kind regards, B.L. Farjeon, Dunedin, November 1867', contemporary green morocco with gilt title to upper cover, heavily rubbed and corners slightly bruised, oblong folio (25 x 34 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Benjamin Leopold Farjeon (1838-1903) was an English novelist, playwright, printer and journalist. In 1854 Farjeon emigrated to Australia. During the voyage he was moved from steerage to cabin class because he had produced some numbers of a ship newspaper, the Ocean Record. He worked as a gold miner in Victoria (Australia), started a newspaper, then went to New Zealand in 1861. He settled in Dunedin, working as a journalist on the Otago Daily Times, edited by Julius Vogel, of which he became manager and sub-editor. Over the next 35 years, Farjeon produced nearly 60 novels. Many of his works were illustrated by his long-time friend Nicholas Chevalier. Farjeon married Margaret Jane ‘Maggie’ Jefferson, daughter of the American actor Joseph Jefferson, and was the father of J. Jefferson Farjeon, Eleanor Farjeon, Herbert Farjeon, and Harry Farjeon, all notable figures in the Arts. Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1902) was a Russian-born artist who worked in Australia and New Zealand. He married the recipient of this album, Caroline Wilkie (1836-1917), a British writer and one of the first women to write about travelling in New Zealand. On her death, a collection of her deceased husband's works was given to the New Zealand government. See Dictionary of New Zealand Biography online.

Moore (Thomas). Nature-Printed British Ferns: being figures and descriptions of the species and varieties of ferns found in the United Kingdom, 2 volumes, 1st octavo edition, London: Bradbury, Evans and Co. 1859, half-titles, additional titles, 122 nature-printed plates by Henry Bradbury, occasional light spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary maroon half morocco gilt, joints and edges rubbed and scuffed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:The 1855 folio edition of this work was the first book published in the UK using the nature-printing process. Bradbury's claim to have invented nature-printing was disputed by Austrian imperial printer bv Alois Auer but 'certainly Bradbury brought the process back to Britain and there perfected it' (ODNB).

Rathbone (Frederick). Old Wedgwood. The decorative or artistic ceramic work, in colour and relief invented and produced by Josiah Wedgwood, F. R. S. at Etruria, in Staffordshire, 1760-1794, 1st edition, London: Bernard Quaritch, 1898, colour portrait frontispiece, portrait plaque, 65 plates, most coloured, occasional slight offsetting to text, original blue printed wrappers bound at rear, a few small marginal finger marks, top edge gilt, contemporary navy morocco by Zaehnsdorf, signed and dated 1898 to turn-in, covers lavishly gilt-decorated, upper cover with central figure of a classical Greek woman leaning on a stand, the lower cover titled in gilt, joints and edges lightly rubbed, folio, 51 x 37.5 cm.QTY: (1)

Four boxes of books, Folio editions etc

Box of Folio Society cased hardback books to include: 'Jane Eyre', 'Anne of Green Gables', various Anthony Trollope books, 'Madam Bovary', 'Jane Austen's Letters' by Dierdre Le Faye 2003, Elizabeth Gaskell 'North and South', 'Portrait of a Lady', 'The Old Wives' Tales' etc. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Collection of seven Folio Society hardback books to include: 'The Cream of Noel Coward', 'The Pick of Punch', 'The Best of Dorothy Parker', 'The Grapes of Wrath' Steinbeck, P.G Wodehouse short stories, 'Rumpole', 'The Best after Dinner Stories' etc.(B.P. 21% + VAT)

Box of Folio Society hardback cased books to include: Elliott, George; 'Middlemarch', Dickens, Charles; 'My Early Times', 'Elizabeth I', 'Folio book of humorous verse', Vickery, Amanda; 'The Gentleman's Delight', Bryson, Bill; 'Notes from a Small Island', Gaskell, Elizabeth; 'Wives and Daughers' and 'Mary Barton', 'Nelson and Emma', 'A Month in the Country', 'The Franchise Affair' etc.(B.P. 21% + VAT)

Teesdale (Henry). An early 19thC atlas, with forty seven engraved and coloured plates by J Dower, Pentonville London, folio, published by Henry Teesdale and Company.

The Folio Society. Grimm's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Andersen (Hans) Fairy Tales, illustrated by W Heath Robinson, The Greek Myths, two vols, all with slip cases. (4)

Bob Dylan, American b.1941-The Drawn Blank series, 2012, (the complete portfolio of 8 prints): Sunday Afternoon; Man on a Bridge; Vista from Balcony; Truck Stop; Sunflowers; Bicycle; Dad's Restaurant;each giclée print on Hahnemühle wove, each signed and numbered from the edition of 295, published by Washington Green Fine Art in association with Black Buffalo Artworks,  each sheet: 70 x 56 cm, contained within the original grey folio,  (unframed) (8)Note: each print comes with its own certificate of authenticity from Washington Green Fine Art.

Bob Dylan, American b.1941-The Drawn Blank Series (set of four 'Man on a Bridge'), 2008;each giclée on Hahnemühle wove, each signed in pencil and numbered 109/295,  published by Washington Green Fine Art in association with Black Buffalo Artworks,  each sheet: 70 x 56 cm, contained within the original grey folio,  (unframed) (4)Note: each print comes with its own certificate of authenticity from Washington Green Fine Art.

Bob Dylan,  American b.1941- Drawn Blank series, 2016 (complete folio): Sunday Afternoon; Man on a Bridge; Sidewalk Café; Sunflowers; Fisherman; Woman in Red Lion Pub;six giclée prints on Hahnemühle wove, each signed in pencil and numbered 227/295,  produced by Washington Green Fine art and Black Buffalo artworks, each sheet: 70 x 56 cm, contained within the original grey folder, (unframed) (6) Note: together with certificates from Washington Green Fine Art.

Bob Dylan, American b.1941-The Drawn Blank series, 2008, (the large format portfolio of 6 prints): Amagansett; Man on a Bridge; Woman in Red Lion Pub; Still Life with Peaches; Truck; Train Tracks (Green);each giclée print on Hahnemühle wove, each signed in pencil and numbered 109/295, published by Washington Green Fine Art in association with Black Buffalo Artworks, each sheet: 91.5 x 71 cm, contained within the original grey folio,  (unframed) (6)Note: each print comes with its own certificate of authenticity from Washington Green Fine Art.

Bob Dylan, American b.1941-The Trailer, 2013;giclée print in colours on Hahnemühle wove, signed in pencil and numbered 220/295, published by Washington Green Fine art, in its own cream Dylan branded folio, sheet: 70 x 56 cm,  (unframed) Note: together with a certificate of authenticity issued by Washington Green Fine Art. 

Bob Dylan, American b.1941-The Drawn Blank Series (set of four Woman in Red Lion Pub), 2008; each giclée print on Hahnemühle wove, each signed in pencil and numbered 109/295, published by Washington Green Fine Art in association with Black Buffalo Artworks,  each sheet: 70 x 56 cm, contained within the original grey folio (unframed) (4) Note: each print comes with its own certificate of authenticity from Washington Green Fine Art.

Bob Dylan, American b.1941-Drawn Blank Series (Bicycle; Slide; Sunday afternoon; Woman in Red Lion Pub; Cityscape; Bragg Apartment, New York city), 2014; the complete set of six giclée prints in colour, all editioned 295/295 and signed by the artist in pencil,  printed by GTZ Fine art editions, New York, published by Washington Green in association with Black Buffalo artworks, each print sheet: 70 x 56 cm, four contained in a grey card folio case, (4 unframed & 2 framed)Note: each together with COA issued by Washington Green Fine Art. 

James McQueen, British b.1977- Stupid Crazy Love, 2023; mixed media print on wove, signed in pencil and numbered 38/195, sheet: 68 x 101.5 cm, (unframed) (ARR) Note: together with certificate of authenticity from Washington Green Fine Art and original orange and white folio.

Bob Dylan, American b.1941-The Drawn Blank Series (set of four Train Tracks), 2008;each giclée print on Hahnemühle wove, each signed in pencil and numbered 109/295, published by Washington Green Fine Art in association with Black Buffalo Artworks,  each sheet: 70 x 56 cm, contained within the original grey folio,  (unframed) (4)Note: each print comes with its own certificate of authenticity from Washington Green Fine Art.

Bob Dylan,  American b.1941- The Drawn Blank Series, 2008 (the complete portfolio of 10 prints): Sidewalk Café; Statue of Liberty; Two Sisters; Lakeside Cabin; Sunday Afternoon; Vista from Balcony; Woman on a Bed; Cassandra; Bragg Apartment, New York City; Dad's Restaurant;each giclée print on Hahnemühle wove, each signed in pencil and numbered 109/295, published by Washington Green Fine Art in association with Black Buffalo Artworks, each sheet: 70 x 56 cm, contained within the original grey folio, (unframed)  (10)Note: each print comes with its own certificate of authenticity from Washington Green Fine Art.

THE FOLIO SOCIETY 34 VOLUMES, mainly classics, many with slip casesProvenance: private collection Conwy

The Folio Society Oscar Wilde 3 vol boxset; together with The Folio Society I. Claudius, by Robert Graves, in its slipcase; and The Folio Society, Claudius The God, by Robert Graves, in its slipcase.

A selection of Folio Society books, most in their slipcases, primarily relating to history, titles including: A History of England: England Under the Stuarts, by G. M. Trevelyan; A History of Rome, by Thomas Mommsen; The Kings of England, by Robert Glover and Thomas Milles; William the Conqueror, by David C. Douglas; The History of England 1485-1685, by Thomas Babington Macaulay; and others. (8)

A selection of Folio Society books, most in their slipcases, primarily literature, titles including: Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe; Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad; Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding; Lark Rise, by Flora Thompson; and others. (10)

A selection of Folio Society books, most in their slipcases, primarily relating to history, titles including: A History of the Indians of the United States, by Angie Debo; The Travels of Marco Polo; The Silk Road; The History of England in the 18th Century, by Thomas Babington Macaulay; and others. (8)

A folio of Old Master and other prints, 18th c and later, including Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Veduta dell' Arco di Costantino, e dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo, from 'Vedute di Roma', n.d. [18th c], engraving, repaired, 41 x 55cm, Carlo Lasinio (1759-1838) - Napoleon's Coronation; Napoleon and his wife Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma being received at a tent, 1811, engravings, 54 x 70cm, Pierre Lombart (1612/13-1682) after Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), Penelope, Lady Herbert; Elizabeth Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire; and Anne, Countess of Bedford, a set of three, later 18th c restrikes, engravings, 38 x 27cm, tipped onto leaves, [Scotland] Smith, Elder, & Co's aquatints of Cromarty and Rothesay, n.d. [early 19th c], 43.5 x 54.5cm, mounted on card, a pair of 'Grand Tour' aquatints, 18th/19th c, trimmed within the plate-mark but with loss of all lettering, on stretchers, 45.5 x 59.5cm, Hackert's Pompeii, 1793, engraving, 44 x 60cm, Grégoire Huret, a defective 17th c map of Moravia, etc Piranesi defective. The rest in mixed condition.

Books. Six shelves of general stock, late 19th c and later, including Folio Society, post-1917 and later Beatrix Potters, decorative pictorial bindings, Punch annuals, some children's books, literature, non-fiction, art, etc., mostly hardback, mixed sizes

Antiquarian and Later Books. The Illustrated London News, July to December 1862, illustrated throughout, original publisher's cloth boards, rebacked, folio, The National Gazetteer, four-volume set: volumes I-III plus Atlas, London: Virtue and Co., 1868, chromolithographed maps, in-text illustrations, contemporary black calf gilt over cloth, marbled edges and endpapers, 4to, France, Illustrated, volume IV only, London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co., n.d. [c. 1840], steel engraved plates, contemporary green quarter-morocco over cloth, rubbed, aeg, 4to, miscellaneous issues of The Great War Magazine in original wrappers, etc

Potter (Beatrix), a set of 23 titles produced by the Folio Society contained in two slip cases, four dec cl-bound limited editions (of 1000) and thirteen other mainly Anniversary editions.

Potter (Beatrix), "The Tales of Beatrix Potter", Folio Society, a complete set of twenty-three volumes in two slip cases, in unopened plastic covering.

Collection of Folio Society books to include novels & literature (23) including Thomas Hardy, Noel Coward, Anthony Trollope & others

Collection of Folio Society books (18) principally historic interest