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Wain (Louis). In Cat and Dog Land with Louis Wain, Raphael Tuck, no. 6256, circa 1906, 12 full-page chromolithographed illustrations, numerous two-tone illustrations, some toning, later gift inscription to front free endpaper, hinges slightly cracked, stain to rear free endpaper verso, original bevelled-edge pictorial brown cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Gant 25.

* Ratcliffe (Mildred M., 1899-1988). An album of original artwork, approximately 25 thick grey leaves with artwork mounted or tipped-in on rectos and versos, comprising watercolour or gouache paintings, illuminated manuscript leaves, pen & ink drawings, pencil sketches, designs after medieval manuscripts, and a few prints and photographs of illuminated leaves, including designs for title-pages, illuminated and decorated large initials, a design for a bookplate, an illuminated pen & ink on parchment nativity scene (and the same design repeated in watercolour and gouache on card), border designs, painted alphabets, a gouache painting of the resurrection, etc., a few designs and leaves loosely inserted, including a certificate for leather work awarded to Mabel Ratcliffe (possibly the artist's second name?), some illustrations annotated by the artist, several signed, 2 dated 1921 and 1925 respectively, a number of blank leaves at rear, original patterned boards, with crudely-applied leather spine and corners, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Artist and calligrapher Mildred M. Ratcliffe (1899–1988) is well-known for the poster designs and other promotional work she produced for the Post Office Savings Bank during the 1930s to 1950s. In 1950 Ratcliffe produced an illuminated manuscript 'Book of Acknowledgement' for the Benenden Civil Service Chest Hospital's Appeal Fund, which was presented to Queen Elizabeth when she opened the hospital. She exhibited at two Royal Academy of Arts summer exhibitions and was appointed a Fellow of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators. Examples of her work are in the collections of the Imperial War Museums, The Postal Museum, The National Archives, and Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery.

* Pogany (Willy, 1882-1955/56). Under The Greenwood Tree, watercolour, depicting Princess Elsa and the Little Brother skipping towards woods, some toning throughout, signed lower left, 28 x 19cm (11 x 7 4/8ins), mounted, framed and glazed (51 x 40.5cm), Redleaf Gallery label to verso, together with a copy of the book for which the illustration was produced: The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, after the Drama of Richard Wagner, by T.W. Rolleston, [1913], eight mounted colour plates, numerous colour and black & white illustrations and decorations, pictorial endpapers, inscription to inside front pastedown 'To Tippie From Sydney with fondest love. Xmas 1915', original pictorial green suede gilt, designed by Pogamy, small tear at foot of front cover, light stains to rear cover, small folioQty: (2)

Alchemia Press. Particles of Gold. A Book of Picture Poems, by Mark Jeoffroy, Alchemia Press, 2002, colour illustrations, original half cloth, folio, limited signed edition 1/95, inscribed for John with thanks for his support, together with Collected Poems, by Mark Jeoffroy 1980-2003, Alchemia Press, 2003, printed in red and black, autograph poem as a frontispiece by Jeoffroy, original cloth gilt, acetate wrapper, 4to, limited signed edition 1/100, with 2 others by the press: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Illustrated and Versified by Mark Jeoffroy, 2005, limited signed edition 5/100, and The Girl in the Cartwheel Hat, 2005, signed by the authorQty: (4)

Blake (William). The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil 1821, British Museum Publications, 1977, a complete set of 17 wood engravings made by Iain Bain and David Chambers from Blake's original wood blocks, each print on Japanese Hosho paper (sheet size 120 x 150mm), loosely inserted into card folders with printed text relating to each image, together with the accompanying booklet with an introduction by Andrew Wilton, original printed wrappers, housed as issued in original brown cloth drop-back book box with gilt-titled leather labels to spine and upper cover, small folio (30 x 19.5cm)Qty: (1)Footnote: 150 sets were produced, 135 numbered copies and 15 out of series numbered I-XV. This is a fine but unnumbered copy with blank spaces left on both the limitation label inside the box lid and on the booklet title-page verso.

Essex House Press. The Masque of the Edwards of England: Being a Coronation Pageant to Celebrate the Crowning of the King, by C.R. Ashbee and Edith Harwood, Essex House Press, 1902, 18 hand-coloured lithographed plates, including 17 full-page, some heightened with white or silver, presentation inscription in blue ink to front endpaper from Janet and Charles Ashbee to the Nason family: 'To Muriel, Alice, Cuthbert, Paul, Philip, Mary, Margaret, John & Elizabeth Nason; Xmas 05; From their friends Janet & Charley', untrimmed, inner hinges slightly loosened, original tan cloth, some light marks and stains to covers, oblong folio, limited edition 154 of 300 copies on paper (an additional 20 copies were printed on vellum), together with: The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Metalwork and Sculpture, made into English from the Italian of the Marcian Codex by C.R. Ashbee, Essex House Press, 1898, 11 monochrome plates after photographs, several illustrations and some decorations to text, publisher's advertisement to verso of final leaf, partly uncut, and untrimmed, original publisher's cloth with paper label to spine, lightly rubbed, folio, limited edition 507/600Qty: (2)Footnote: The first work is a presentation copy from the Ashbees to Reverend Muriel Nason, the vicar of Saintbury Church, and his family. The Ashbees switched allegiance from their local church in Chipping Campden to Saintbury Church on the other side of Dover's Hill after they had scandalised with a bicycle ride to Warwick on the Lord's Day in June 1902, making it uncomfortable for them to continue regular worship in Chipping Campden. The Ashbees were often invited to lunch by the Reverend Nason after the Sunday service; this presentation copy is thus a first Christmas present from the Ashbees to their new vicar and his family.

Golden Cockerel Press. Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher, Golden Cockerel Press, 1934, wood-engraved illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, bookplate of Rainforth Armitage Walker (biographer of Aubrey Beardsley), top edge gilt, original vellum-backed orange boards, slight dust-soiling and small light faded patch, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Limited edition 20/247.

Bates (H.E.) The Hessian Prisoner, London: William Jackson, 1930, frontispiece by John Austen, top edge gilt, original buckram gilt, some fading to spine and extremities, small folio, limited signed edition 52/550, together with Mrs. Esmond's Life, privately printed, 1931, 1 pp original manuscript bound-in at front, signed by the author and inscribed 'cancelled page' at head, top edge gilt, original green buckram gilt, spine faded to brown, some fading to covers, 4to, limited large paper edition of 50, this copy out of series and inscribed 'A.W. Steele from H.E. Bates, March 1931' (the recipient a bookseller and publisher of Furnival Books), plus A Threshing Day, London: W and G Foyle Ltd, 1931, printed on japon vellum, original parchment, some spotting to covers, 8vo, limited signed edition A15 of 25 large paper copies, from an overall edition of 300, together with The Country of White Clover, 1932, limited signed edition 28/100 (water stained at head of covers), 8vo, and A Threshing Day, 1931, limited signed edition 73/300Qty: (5)

Bradbury (Ray). The Halloween Tree, edited by Jon Eller, Colorado Springs: Gauntlet Press, 2005, illustrations by Joe Mugnaini and Ray Bradbury, original boards, dust jacket, laid into original metal tray case with loose chapbook, the upper cover with a pop-up tree with free-swinging jack-o-lanterns, oblong folio, without two loose signed prints sometimes found with this editionQty: (1)Footnote: Limited edition of 52, this copy lettered 'B' and signed by the author.This copy is without the two signed prints sometimes found with this edition.

Counter-Culture Magazines. 45 issues of British & American Counter-Culture Magazines, c.1970, pictorial publisher's paper wrappers, occasional chipping to extremities, occasional light spotting to covers, 4to & folioQty: (45)Footnote: Includes a run of 20 issues of Ramparts magazine, 6 issues of Crawdaddy, 3 issues of Homegrown and others.

Hockney (David). Hockney's Alphabet, signed limited edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1991, signed by artist & illustrator to limitation page, 27 illustrations by Hockney, original publisher's yellow buckram, base of spine marked, original slipcase, 4to, together with: Garland (Alex). The Coma, signed by author & artist, London: Faber & Faber, 2004, no.58 of 300 copies, numerous black & white illustrations, signed to colophon, original publisher's paper boards, original slipcase, folio, with: Grass (Gunter). Drawings and Words 1954-1977, London: Secker & Warburg, 1983, no. B.45 with original Sign in the Sky etching, numerous illustrations, original publisher's cloth, dust jacket, original slipcase, slightly bumped to extremities, folio and one otherQty: (4)Footnote: Signed by both Hockney & Spender.

Oz Magazine. 31 issues of Oz Magazine, 1968-73, original paper wrappers, some chipping to extremities, issue 30 (Hendrix) complete with poster, 5th-anniversary issue with tear to upper margin (with loss), folio, each contained in protective sleeveQty: (31)Footnote: The most iconic counter-culture magazine of the sixties and seventies, inventive and visually striking. The issues present are as follows: 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 0, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 44, 45, 48 and the 5th anniversary issue.

* McCartney (Paul, born 1942 & McCartney, Linda, 1941-1998). Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, circa 1990s, a CD signed on the inside front cover of printed matter, ‘All the best Nige! Paul McCartney’, together with Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking, 1990, signed to the title-page, 'Gilly & Nigel & Tessa & Fritha, Go Veggie, Love Linda McCartney’, original printed wrappers, small folio, plus The Linda McCartney Calendar 1994, signed to the front cover, ‘For Nigel, Gilly & family, love Linda McCartney’, spiral-bound, oblong folio, and Linda McCartney, Sixties: Portrait of an Era, 1992, signed to the half-title page, ‘For Gilly, love Linda McCartney’, original printed wrappers, 4toQty: (4)Footnote: All the autographs were obtained in person by the vendors of this lot.

* Milstein (Nathan, 1903-1992). Russian-American violinist. Important collection of autograph manuscripts, autograph letters, typed letters and annotated scores by, or relating to Nathan Milstein, including notably: Autograph manuscript in the hand of Nathan Milstein (unsigned) of the Adagio 2nd movement of the Vivaldi Violin Concerto in A major, headed in his hand ‘from Concerto (interestingly written above the word Sonata which has been crossed out) in A minor’ (the tonality of the slow movement) (Tomo 323), 24 bars for violin and piano in 12/8 time, two edges slightly worn and a small blot in one corner, neither affecting legibility, 2 pages, folio, (with the exception of the final bar of this movement, the reverse shows 18 bars of autograph sketches from the Grave movement of Vivaldi’s Sonata in A minor Op 2 no.12 (see above)), together with: Autograph Manuscript in the hand of Nathan Milstein (unsigned) from an incomplete and unidentified composition for violin and piano, relating to the central part of a composition that may possibly be by Milstein himself (the violin part has three alternative passages that suggest ‘second thoughts’ rather than ossias and the violin part has been heavily fingered). In its 37 bars (which occasionally alternate between 9/8 and 12/8) the violin writing is akin to a moto perpetuo with every bar filled with semiquavers, 4 pages, folio, plus Printed score of the solo violin part for the Concerto in A major (3 movements ‘Allegro, Adagio and Allegro’) by Antonio Vivaldi, no place, no date, written on the front cover in his hand, ‘Vivaldi / Concerto La Major / (Tomo 323)’, some staining to the top corners of the first two pages, not affecting autograph title or music quotation, 7 pages, folio, and with approximately 20 bars of additional material for solo violin written out by Milstein (unsigned) on two pages, being the violin part from the above slow movement and a quasi-cadenza on a separate page, plus Printed score (by G. Schirmer New York) of Harry Kaufman’s transcription of Rodolphe Kreutzer’s Etude – Caprice for Violin and Piano ‘piano accompaniment by Harry Kaufman’, inscribed by Kaufman on the title page (‘For Nathan Milstein / in esteem and admiration of his great artistry / Harry Kaufman’), the piano part has been heavily annotated and transcribed by Nathan Milstein with changes to nearly every bar and is also inscribed by Milstein to the front cover ‘Revised Copy’, some wear, 2 with tape to front cover, 9 pages, folio, plus other related signed material including 3 autograph manuscripts by Artur Balsam (1906-1994), pianist and principal accompanist of Nathan Milstein; 2 autograph manuscripts signed and printed score signed by Jacques de Menasce (1905-1960), American composer; 3 signed items byDiran Alexanian (1881-1954), Armenian ‘cellist and composer, 3 signed byVittorio Rieti (1898-1994), Italian composer, and 2 items (one signed) by Donald Martino (1931-2005), American composerQty: (18)Footnote: A fine group of manuscripts, all of which have a connection to the great violinist Nathan Milstein. The arrangement of Balsam’s transcription of Ravel’s Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure has been recorded by Milstein, but with the pianist Leon Pommer. A more detailed description of the contents of this lot is available by request.

* Walsingham (Thomas, 1561- 1630). Courtier to Queen Elizabeth I and literary patron to Christopher Marlowe. An extremely rare autograph signature, ‘Tho: Walsingham’, at the foot of an Autograph Letter by Sir John Scott, Kent, 28 July 1608, being a Kentish Muster addressed to Sir William Twysden (1566-1639), requiring Twysden to have his company in full effect, that it '…may be fitt to appeare before the muster maister at Cockesheath, uppon the fivetenth day of October, by eight of the clock in the morning…', the text almost certainly in the hand of Sir John Scott, signed by Scott, Walsingham and John Levyt, some spotting and dust-soiling, small seal tear to lower blank not affecting text, 1 page with integral address panel, folio, laid open and flat on card with printed caption at foot, overall 30.5 x 40cm, framed and glazedQty: (1)Footnote: Sir Thomas Walsingham is best remembered as being the literary patron to Christopher Marlowe. He was related to Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham (first cousin once removed) and was the employer of Marlowe's murderer Ingram Frizer. This connection is one of the reasons offered for suggesting that Marlowe's death may have been linked with intelligence work and not a dispute over a bill for food and accommodation, as in the coroner's verdict. The first poet to seek Walsingham's patronage was Thomas Watson, an old acquaintance from the time when both men had been engaged on Sir Francis Walsingham’s secret business in France. His timely dedication to Thomas Walsingham, newly come into money through his inheritance, prefaced A Lament for Meliboeus, an elegy on the death of Sir Francis. Watson's venture was based on the family relationship between the dedicatee and the dead statesman, but Thomas Walsingham proved to be a genuine patron of literary endeavour and other poets followed the example. It is probable that Watson introduced Marlowe, a friend from the London literary circle, (with whom he was arrested for brawling in September 1589), to Thomas Walsingham; although their paths may have crossed earlier, during Marlowe's own service to the late Sir Francis. Walsingham appreciated the dedication, and the introduction, with Marlowe becoming a frequent house-guest at Walsingham's home in Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent. It has been further suggested that there may have been intimacy between the two men. Walsingham was a mourner at Marlowe's funeral. Sir John Scott (c.1564-1616) of Scot's Hall and of Nettlestead Place in Kent, was an English soldier, Member of Parliament and an early investor in the Colony of Virginia. In 1601, Scott was implicated in The Earl of Essex's Rebellion but succeeded in clearing himself and in the same year was a parliamentary candidate for Kent. He was unsuccessful on this first attempt, but was elected its MP in the Parliament of 1604 and for Maidstone in the Addled Parliament of 1614. He became a member of the Council for Virginia in 1607, the year when that colony was re-established and was a councillor of the Virginia Company of London in 1609. He died in 1616 and was buried at Brabourne in Kent.

Film Memorabilia - selection to include a 1967 folio of prints of sketches by Nicholas Volpe, framed and glazed print portrait of Olivia deHavilland by same artist, Elvis Presley stamps, various booklets, programmes etc.  From the estate of Leslie Pound, who was the Senior Vice President for International Marketing at Paramount Pictures

A collection of several hundred largely circa 1920's family photographs contained within seven albums including country homes, skiing and other holidays, India, New Zealand, Army service etc, together with an album of photographs from Clifton College, a small folio of amateur watercolour studies, a bound edition of Findens' Tableaux and other ephemera from the same estate

An interesting 1940's folio by a G G Rogers, a child or a young person, subjects to include Disney, WWII, film stars and others

A collection of books including Jane Austen Folio Society, The Treasure Seekers and various others

A folio of assorted unframed artworks Condition Report: Available upon request

Allan (John H). A Pictorial Tour in the Mediterranean, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843, half-title, lithographed title, 40 lithographic plates, sporadic spotting, sewing occasionally exposed, hinges cracked, textblock detaching from backstrip, near-contemporary blue cloth gilt, spine stained & rubbed, extremities worn, joints rubbed with split to head of rear joint, folioQty: (1)

Guthrie (William). The Atlas to Guthrie's System of Geography, [1785 or later], lacking title, but retaining half-title and index, 17 ( only of 24) engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, lacking the maps of The World, Germany & Switzerland, British America, United American States, West Indies, South America and New Discoveries, also lacking the plate of the Armillary Sphere, text block detached and broken, partially disbound, boards detached, contemporary half calf, heavily rubbed and worn, slim folioQty: (1)Footnote: Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

Map Reference. A collection of approximately 55 books, 20th century, map reference and cartographic history including Tooley (R. V.). Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, Revised Edition, 4 volumes (complete), Map Collector Publications in Association with Richard Arkway Inc. 1999, additional half-title, numerous black & white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jackets, 4to, together with Bonar Law (Andrew). The Printed Maps of Ireland 1612 - 1850, The Neptune Gallery, Dublin, 1997, numerous black and white illustrations throughout, publishers' cloth gilt, dust jacket, folio, with Beresiner (Yasha). British County Maps, Reference and Price Guide, Antique Collectors' Club, 1983, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, folio, plus Van Den Broecke (Marcel). Ortelius Atlas Maps, An Illustrated Guide, HES Publishers, Westrenen, 1996, numerous black and white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket,8vo, and Parker (Philip). History of Britain in Maps, Harper Collins, 2017, additional half-title, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, publisher's colour-printed boards, folio, with others similar including examples by Moreland & Bannister, Skelton, Russell, Booth, King, Lister, Seymour Manasek, Crane, Bennett and Fisher, various sizes, good conditionQty: (approx. 55)

S. D. U. K. (publishers). Maps for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, vol.2 (only) Chapman and Hall, 1844, printed title, loosely inserted map of 'The World on Mercator's Projection' (not called for), 45 (only of 49 maps), lacking British North America, New South Wales, Western Australia & Islands of New Zealand, 42 city plans (only) lacking Berlin, Birmingham, Dresden, Frankfort, Geneva, Hambourg and Munich, slight dust soiling throughout, upper hinge broken, contemporary half morocco, rubbed and worn, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

Martin (R. Montgomery). The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, John Tallis and Company, London and New York, 1851, additional half-title, frontispiece of the Great Exhibition near detached, 2 comparison plates, 81 (complete as list) engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, slight marginal dust soiling, some maps with old stitch marks to foredge, upper hinge partially cracked, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed and worn, folioQty: (1)

Thomson, (John, publisher). A New General Atlas Consisting of a Series of Geographical Designs on Various Projections Exhibiting the Form and Component Parts of the Globe..., Edinburgh & John Cumming Dublin. 1817, folding frontispiece of a comparison plate, printed title, dedication to Alexander Keith of Dunottar and Ravelston, index and 22 pages of introductory text and 22 pages of a consulting index, 50 (only) double page and folding engraved maps, lacking The Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, North Horizontal Hemisphere, South Horizontal Hemisphere, Remote British Islands, Denmark & Iceland, Chart of the Mediterranean, Switzerland, Persian Empire, General Map of America, North America, Spanish North America Northern part, Spanish North America Southern part, Jamaica, Barbados & St. Vincent [and] Chart of the North-West Passage, slight staining, bookplate of Thomas King, text block cracked and broken, hinges and joints cracked and split, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed and worn, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

Illustrated London News. A broken run of 30 volumes, January 1891 - January 1903, numerous black and white illustrations, including some folding and double-page, appears to lack all the city panoramas, some hinges and joints broken with text blocks detached, slight worming, a few leaves detached with some fraying to margins, occasional duplicate volumes, mixed, bindings, some with heavy wear and lacking spines, several boards detached, folioQty: (30)Footnote: Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return.

Illustrated London News. A broken run of 9 volumes, 1869 - 89, numerous black and white illustrations, including some folding and double-page, appears to lack all the city panoramas, some hinges and joints broken with text blocks detached, slight worming, a few leaves detached with some fraying to margins, occasional duplicate volumes, mixed, bindings, some with heavy wear and lacking spines, folio, together with The Graphic. A broken run of 6 volumes, 1886 - 89, numerous black and white illustrations, including some folding and double-page, appears to lack all the city panoramas, some hinges and joints broken with text blocks detached, slight worming, a few leaves detached with some fraying to margins, occasional duplicate volumes, mixed, bindings, some with heavy wear and lacking spines, folioQty: (15)Footnote: Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return.

Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New, London: Barker and Assigns of Bill, 1631], lacking general and New Testament titles, text incomplete and some leaves torn with archival repairs, double-column roman text, bound with an incomplete Common Prayer at front, recent endpapers, modern calf with contemporary covers relaid, brass bosses and corner pieces, lacking clasps, 8vo, together with: New Testament [Greek], He? Kaine? Diathe?ke?· Novum Testamentum. : Huic editioni omnia difficiliorum vocabulorum themata, quæ in Georgii Pasoris lexico grammatice? resolvuntur, in margine apposuit Carolus Hoole. In eorum scilicet gratiam, qui prima Græcæ linguæ tyrocinia faciunt, London: excudebat R. Nortonus pro Josh. Kyrton, 1653, title with early inscription to verso, single-column greek text, 18th century reversed calf, light wear at head of spine, 12mo, together with other antiquarian including Operum D. Hieronymi, a mariano victorio realtino, canonico..., volume 4 only, Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1578, printer's woodcut device to title and old ink library stamps, incomplete at rear, some damp staining, 19th century half sheep, spine crudely repaired, worn, folio, and The Holy Bible..., London: printed by John Field, 1660, initial half of text only covering Genesis to Nehemiah 13: 31, engraved general title, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated red morocco, 12moQty: (7)Footnote: Sold with all faults, not subject to return. The 1631 Bible appears to be similar to Herbert 440 (Darlow & Moule 337), with Gen L.26 ... hee was | put in a coffin in Egypt. Deut. heading appears different. This volume was printed in the same year as the 'Wicked Bible'.

Bindings. The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments ... together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches, London: printed by Thomas Baskett ... and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1754, engraved frontispiece of St. Paul's Cathedral, title in red & black, few leaves frayed and dust-soiled to margins, all edges gilt (leaves a little sprung), marbled endpapers, contemporary gilt decorated morocco, gilt armorial of King George II to centre of each board, gilt monogram 'GR' to each spine compartment, without ties, joints slightly cracked at head & foot, folio, together with: Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments..., Cambridge: printed by Joseph Bentham printer to the University, 1760, red-ruled title and borders throughout, all edges gilt (leaves sprung and some fraying), recent patterned endpapers, contemporary gilt decorated morocco, gilt armorial of King George II to centre of each board, gilt monogram 'GR' to each spine compartment, without ties, folioQty: (2)

Clarke (Samuel). A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners, held forth in some thousands of examples..., Whereunto are added a Geographical description of all the countries in the known world: as also the wonders of God in nature; and the rare, stupendious, and costly works made by the art, and industry of man. As the most famous cities, temples, structures, statues, cabinets of rarities, &c. which have been, or are now in the world, 2 parts in one, 3rd edition, very much enlarged, London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Tho. Newberry [Part II: printed by R.I. for Thomas Newberry], 1657, engraved portrait frontispiece (neatly strengthened to gutter and lower margins) and engraved title to second part (Geographical Description), both by R. Gaywood, without additional engraved general title, occasional light spotting, bookplate with viscount coronet and monogram W.G. to upper pastedown, ownership signatures and attached note to front endpaper, contemporary gilt panelled calf, gilt decorative devices to panel compartments of spine, red morocco title label, wear to upper joint and head & foot of spine, folio (27.8 x 19cm)Qty: (1)Footnote: ESTC R26027; Wing C4551; Sabin, 13447; McAlpin III, p.198. The second part containing the Geographical Description includes a section describing America (pp.169-190). Provenance: contemporary ownership signature 'P. Glenurchye Empr. Lond. 1659', and name of Patrick Campbell, ownership inscription of Irvine Masson 'bt. fr. John Grant, Edinburgh, 1926', and with tipped in note in his hand, with further details of Samuel Clarke and the engraved portrait, and thoughts on the earlier provenance '... suggests a possible Patrick Campbell on the line of Viscounts Glenorchy. The bookplate with initial W.G. could possibly be that of Willielma Campbell, Viscountess Glenorchy (1741-1786?).

[Daniel, Samuel]. The Collection of the History of England, printed for Simon Waterson, 1626, licence leaf, title within woodcut border, bound with A Continuation of the Collection of the History of England, beginning where Samuel Daniell Esquire ended, with the raigne of Edward the Third, and ending where the honourable Vicount Saint Albones began...[by John Trussell], 1636, occasional light water stains and soiling, one or two small burnholes, ownership signature of D.L. Cumming, later half calf, small split to upper joint, folio, together with [Bentivoglio, Cardinal Guido]. The History of the Warrs of Flanders... Englished by the Right Honorable Henry, Earl of Monmouth, 1st English edition, London: Humphrey Moseley, 1654, bound with Historicall Relations of the United Provinces & of Flanders, 1652, folding engraved map by John Speed (a couple of small splits along folds), 23 engraved portraits only (of 24, lacking frontispiece), one detaching at gutter, a few small marginal wormtracks, some light spotting, contemporary signature of Henry Bradshawe to title, ownership signature of D.L. Cumming, booklabel of William Reynolds, contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked (upper joint splitting), a little rubbed, folio, together with two others: The History of Diodorus Siculus. Containing all that is most memorable and of greatest antiquity in the first ages of the world until the war of Troy [translated by Henry Cogan], 1653, and The Historie of Guicciardin: Containing the warres of Italie and other partes..., translated by Geffray Fenton, 2nd edition in English, 1599 (lacking leaves X3-4)Qty: (4)

Fuseli (Henry). Sorrows. Sacred to the Memory of Penelope, 1st edition, large paper copy, London: W. Bulmer and Co, 1796, frontispiece, 2 plates, illustrations to text, light spotting (mostly marginal), contemporary manuscript leaves tipped-in, manuscript annotations to verso of frontispiece & front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscription & later pen markings to title, hinges cracked, contemporary half calf over cloth boards, joints worn & cracked to edges, boards worn & marked, backstrip worn with loss, lacking title label, folioQty: (1)Footnote: A scarce example of the large paper copy. Famous for its frontispiece after Fuseli, the portrait of Penelope is after Joshua Reynolds.

Gregory I (Saint and Pope). Dialogi, [Strasbourg: Jakob Eber, not after 1481], 78 leaves (including blank [C10]), gothic letter, double column, initials supplied in red and rubricated throughout, old neat brown ink marginalia (largely identifying chapter numbers and titles), some pepper wormholes, worsening towards rear but not affecting legibility or sense, some scattered marginal staining and one running wormhole affecting lower blank margin of several leaves, first two (contents) leaves soiled and frayed at lower and inner margins with old paper repair to centre margins, small paper repairs to lower inner blank margins of final 7 leaves, modern boards with leather spine label, folio (265 x 195mm)Qty: (1)Footnote: GW 11397; Goff G403; Hain/Copinger 7959; ISTC ig00403000.

Heylyn (Peter). Cosmographie, in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles thereof ... With an accurate and an approved Index ... much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last Impression, Revised and Corrected by the Author himself immediately before his death, London: Anne Seile, 1666, imprimatur leaf not present, additional engraved title stating 3rd edition and with imprint 'London: Printed for Philip Chetwind, 1666' and early inscription to upper margin 'Thomas Knapp Queen's College Oxford' (engraved title torn to lower outer corner with loss and repaired), letterpress title in red & black, one folding engraved map of Asia only (of four, lacking map of Europe, Africa, and Americas), lower left corner of map torn away and short closed tears & fraying to margins, divisional titles present (with varying imprints Philip Chetwind 1665 & 1662), without leaf A6 (blank?), some leaves with short worm trail or hole to lower blank margins at gutter, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed and light wear to extremities, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Wing H1691; Sabin 31655.

Holles (Denzil). The case stated of the jurisdiction of the House of Lords in the point of impositions, London: printed in the year 1676, original wrappers stitched as issued, 8vo (Wing H2453), together with: Plutarch, Plutarch's Morals by way of abstract: done from the Greek, London: J. Nicholson, W. Newton, R. Knaplock, & D. Midwinter, & Benj. Took, 1707, title with contemporary signature Edm Pryce, contemporary panelled speckled calf, neatly rebacked, morocco title label, 8vo, Dindsay (David), The tryal and condemnation of David Lindsay, a Scotch gent, late secretary to the Earl of Melford, for high treason, upon the statute made in the ninth year of of the late King William the IIIrd, for returning from France without license under the privy-seal of England. At the Queen's-Bench-Bar at Westminster, the 24th of April, 1704 with all the learned arguments of council on both sides..., London: Isaac Cleave, 1704, [2],24pp., ink stamp to title, close trimmed at foot of final leaf, light dust-soiling to first & last leaves, disbound folio, Dalcho (Frederick), Orations of the illustrious brother Frederick Dalcho Esqr. M.D., reprinted by permission of the author under the sanction of the ill. the College of Knights of K.H. and the original chapter of Prince Masons of Ireland, Dublin: printed by John King, 1808, engraved title, list of members, and four leaves of engraved music, contemporary gilt decorated marbled calf, maroon morocco title label to spine, joints cracked and board corners worn, 8vo, Fletcher (Andrew), The political works, reprinted, London: sold by A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch and J. Clarke, 1732, armorial bookplate of Andrew Wauchope of Niddrie Marrishall to upper pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked, 8vo, Ross (George), Leading cases in the commercial law of England and Scotland, 3 volumes, London: W.G. Benning & Co.; Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co., 1853-57, edges untrimmed, contemporary calf, large 8vo, plus eight othersQty: (15)

Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed a history of the language, and an English grammar, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755, titles printed in red and black, volume I title and a few Preface leaves with marginal repairs, one Preface leaf with tear and small hole with loss of a few letters, one or two leaves with small marginal tears, some vertical creasing of first few leaves of volume I, a few leaves, i.e. 19L-19N in volume 2 bound out of sequence, occasional light spotting and toning, later marbled endpapers, hinges reinforced, contemporary calf, sometime rebacked with original spines relaid, somewhat rubbed and scuffed with some edge wear, folioQty: (2)Footnote: PMM 201; Rothschild 1237. First edition of one of the greatest scholarly achievements in literary history. "Dr Johnson performed with his dictionary the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography... Johnson introduced into English lexicography principles which had alre4ady been accepted in Europe but were quite novel in mid-eighteenth-century England. He codified the spelling of English words; he gave full and lucid definitions of their meanings... and he adduced extensive and apt illustrations from a wide range of authoritative writers." (PMM). Johnson was commissioned to write the dictionary by a consortium of London booksellers in 1746 and paid 1500 guineas. It took him seven years and contains over 42,000 words illustrated with over 114,000 literary quotations from Shakespeare, Milton and Dryden among others.

Justinus (Marcus Junianus). Giustino historico nelle historie di Trogo Pompeo, tradotto per Thomaso Porcacchi, Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1561, printer's woodcut device to title and verso of final leaf, decorative initials and headpieces etc., light damp stain to fore-margins of some leaves, bookplate of John T. Betts of Pembbury to upper pastedown, contemporary limp vellum, leather ties worn, slim 4to, together with: Malespini (Ricordano), Storia antica... dalla edificazione di Fiorenza per insino all'anno MCCLXXXI, con l'aggiunta di Giacheto... dal detto anno per insino al 1286, Florence: Filippo Giunti, 1598, woodcut device to title, scattered spotting, 18th century morocco-backed boards, gilt decorated spine, joints cracked and wear to board edges, 4to, Ruscelli (Girolamo), Epistres des princes, lesquelles, ou sont addressees aux princes, ou traittent les affaires des princes, ou parlent des princes. Recueillies d'Italien par Hieronyme Ruscelli, & mises en Francois par F. de Belle-forest, Commingeois, Paris: Jean Ruelle, 1572, engraved device to title, some light damp staining, armorial bookplate of Calwich Library to upper pastedown, late 18th/early 19th century half calf, joints cracked ans some wear, 8vo, Spain, Capitulos y leyes discedidos en las cortes que su mag, Valladolid, S. Martinez, 1558, woodcut armorial to title, drop title, upper outer corners of initial leaves torn and repaired, some repaired worming, 19th century red morocco-backed boards slim folioQty: (4)

Livy. En amics lector apportamus tibi summa diligentia post Germanam editionem. T. Livii Patavini Latinae Historiae principis quicquid hactenus editum fuit, sed aliquanto quam antea emaculatius..., Venice: Lucaeantonii Iuntae Florentini, 1532, woodcut printers device to title and final leaf verso, woodcut initials, a few lower corners trimmed towards end, occasional light spotting and soiling, lacking front endpaper, ownership signature of D.L. Cumming, contemporary half vellum, a few splitrs to spine, some edge wear, folio (Adams L1328), together with: Flavius Josephus. Opera Josephi viri inter Judaeos doctissimi ac disertissimi quae adnostram aetatem pervenerunt, omnia, nimirum: De Antiquitatibus Judaicis libri XX, Frankfurt: Sigismundi Feyerabendt, 1580, title within large woodcut border, numerous woodcut illustrations and initials, a few marginal worm tracks, one or two burn holes, some spotting and browning, previous owner inscription, 1639 at front, ownership name of D.L. Cumming, front endpapers renewed, later half vellum, a few stains, folio (Adams J367), plus 2 others: Gaius Julius Solinius' Commentaria... et Lucii Floride Romanorum rebus gestis, libros ac tabulam cebetis... praeterea Pomponii melae de orbis situ libri tres, cum commentariis Joachimi Vadiani, Basel, 1557, and Lucretius' Poeta Cometarii a Joane Baptista pioediti, Bologna, 1511 (defective, lacking 2A3 & 4)Qty: (4)

Malebranche (Nicolas). Father Malebranche's Treatise concerning the search after truth. The whole work compleat. To which is added the author's treatise of nature and grace ... together with his answer to the animadversions upon the first volume: his defense against the accusations of Mr. De la Ville, &c. ... all translated by T. Taylor, 2 volumes in one, Oxford: printed by L. Lichfield for Thomas Bennet, 1694, contemporary gilt panelled mottled calf, neatly rebacked with gilt decorated spine and morocco title label, corners repaired, folio, together with: More (Henry), The theological works..., London: printed and sold by Joseph Downing, 1708, engraved portrait frontispiece, some browning and spotting to few leaves of text, later endpapers, contemporary blind panelled calf, spine worn and with odd joint repairs, later morocco title label to spine, board corners worn and showing, folio, Cave (William), Ecclesiastici: or, The history of the lives, acts, death, & writings, of the most eminent Fathers of the Church, that flourisht in the fourth century ... Together with an introduction, containing an historical account of the state of paganism under the first Christian emperours, London: printed by J.R. for Richard Chiswell, 1683, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black with signature J. Penn to upper blank margin, few engraved illustrations and portraits, contemporary blind panelled calf, neatly rebacked, green morocco title label to spine, board corners worn & showing, folio, Vossius (Gerardus Joannes), De Theologia gentili et physiologia christiana; siue De origine ac progressu idololatriae; De que nature mirandis, quibus homo adducitur ad Deum, libri IX. Edito nova, quorum IV Libri priores ab auctore plurimùm aucti, addemdaque in calce eorum suis locis inserta. Posteriores V Libri ex auctoris autographo munc primùm prodeunt. Oeconomicam totius operis exhibet pag. tertiae proximè sequentis facies altera, Amsterdam: Joannem Blaeu, 1668, woodcut vignette to title, 20th century quarter calf, marbled paper sides, folioQty: (4)

Nannus Mirabellius (Dominicus). [Polyanthea]. Polyãthea opus suauissimus floribus exornatum..., [Saonae: Simone Bibllaqua, 1514], title printed in red and black with woodcut illustration and border, leaf A1 printed in red and black within woodcut border, woodcut initials, some soiling and marginal worming to title, occasional light water stains occasional early underlining and annotations, endpapers renewed, eighteenth century calf with embossed paste paper over covers, manuscript title label to spine (with vertical split), joints and edges a little rubbed, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Adams N22.

Orsini (Fulvio). Familiae Romanae quae reperiuntur in antiquis neumumabis ab urbe condita ad tempora divi Augusti ex bibliotheca Fulvi Ursini, Rome, Francisci Tramezini, 1577, lacking the elaborate engraved title page (*1), three preliminary leaves (*2-4,403pp. of text, 10pp index, and separate colophon leaf at rear, with woodcut vignette, copper engravings to text, depicting groups of Roman republican coins, some early marginal annotations in brown ink, first and last leaf with some light browning, small brown water stain to centre of inner margins at front of volume, 20th ownership inscription of D. L. Cumming to front endpaper, early full sprinkled calf, rubbed and some light wear with joints partly cracked, folio, together with Lunno (Francesco). Le Ricchezze della Lingua Volgare, 1st edition, Venice: Aldus,1543, woodcut Aldine device on title and final leaf verso, italic text in double column, marginal hole to title, a little light soiling, bookplate of John Thynne, 3rd baron Carteret de Hawnes (1772-1849), ownership signature of D.L. Cumming, later mottled calf gilt, joints cracked, a few small worm tracks, some wear at spine ends and corners, folioQty: (2)Footnote: Adams A 842; Renouard Alde 151:7. First edition of renowned lexicographer and calligrapher Francesco Alunno’s glossary of Boccaccio’s Decameron together with appendices on etymology; he had also written glossaries on Petrarch and Dante. Brunet 29803; Cicognara 3027; Dekesel O4 (For Orsini); Mortimer, Harvaad Italian Books 330. 'Handsomely printed, Orsini's Familiae Romanae is full of erudite commentary and an enormous quantity of illustrations-223 engraved plates, each containing one to six Roman republican coins, showing obverse and reverse, a total of about 750 specimens (Jonathan Kagan, Numismatics in the Age of Grolier, 2001). The early annotations probably dating from the 17th century, are patently by a collector of coins, as the illustrations are frequently marked with a horizontal line touching the engraved coin in question, accompanied by the word Habeo [I have this].

Ovidius Naso (Publius). Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G[eorge]. S[andys]., Imprinted at London: [by William Stansby], 1626, engraved title by T. Cecill (torn & frayed to margins, lined to verso), full-page engraved portrait by William Marshall, lacking initial leaf ("The minde of the frontispiece"), woodcut device to final leaf, early ink verse to blank margin of C4, small hole to F1 with minor loss of a couple of letters, small rust hole to G1, light damp staining to upper margins, 20th century half calf, marbled paper to boards, small folio, together with: Virgil, Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensita [edited by H. Laughton], Cambridge: Jacob Tonson, 1701, additional engraved title, engraved head & tailpieces, scattered spotting, armorial bookplates of F.W. Manaton, surgeon and Richard Prime, contemporary mottled blind panelled calf (rubbed), rebacked preserving original gilt decorated spine, morocco title label, 4to, Bell (John), Bell's New Pantheon; or, Historical Dictionary of the Gods, demi-Gods, Heroes and fabulous Personages of Antiquity, 2 volumes in one, London: J.Bell, 1790, 37 engraved plates, occasional spotting, contemporary diced calf, neatly rebacked with gilt decorated spine, 4toQty: (3)Footnote: ESTC S121917; Sabin 76456. This first complete edition of Sandys' Ovid, which was composed by Sandys in part during his 1621-25 stay in Virginia, where he served as treasurer of the colony.

Plutarch. Les Vies des Hommes Illustres, Grecs et Romains, comparees l'une avec l'autre, Paris: Jaques du Puys, 1575, [colophon: Lausanne, François le Preux, 1574], title with woodcut device, colophon with woodcut device to recto of final leaf, woodcut medallion portrait illustrations, title laid down with small repair affecting a few letters, a few leaves close-trimmed at top margin, occasional light spotting and soiling, later calf, joints cracking, a little wormed and stained, folio, 35 x 22 cmQty: (1)Footnote: Provenance: Patricia Milne-Henderson (1935-2018), art historian. Adams P1625. Translated from the Greek by Jacques Amyot and Charles de l'Escluse.

Themistius. Orationes XXXIII. E quibus tredecim nunc primum in lucem editae, Paris: Sebastianus Mabre-Cramoisy, 1684, engraved armorial to title, decorative headpiece, double-column text in Greek & Latin, scattered spotting, Chatsworth bookplate to upper pastedown, endpapers with later bookcloth hinges, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked preserving gilt decorated spine, recent morocco title label, folio, together with: Theophrastus, Graece & Latine opera omnia, Daniel Heinsius textum Graecum locis infinitus partim ex ingenio partim e libris emendauit..., Leiden: ex typographio Henrici ab Haestens, Impenses Johannis Orlers, And. Cloucq & Joh. Maire, 1613, title in red & black with woodcut device, double-column text in Greek & Latin, additional part title with woodcut device, marbled endpapers with Drayton Manor armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), calf hinges, all edges gilt, contemporary diced calf, recent neat reback with morocco title label, folio, Iamblichus, De mysteriis liber. Praemittitur epistola Porphyrii Anebonem Aegyptium, eodem argumento. Thomas Gale Anglus Graece nunc primum editi, Latine vertit, & notas adjecit, Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano, 1678, engraved illustration of the Sheldonian Theatre to title, double-column text in Greek & Latin, errata leaf present at rear, occasional light damp staining to lower margins, without rear free endpaper, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked preserving gilt decorated spine & morocco title label, board edges worn, folio (ESTC R13749; Madan III, 3179)Qty: (3)

Bindings. Illuminated Addresses Related to Birmingham & the Midlands, early 20th-century, 4 morocco gilt bindings, titles in gilt to front boards, gilt turn-ins with binder's signatures to lower margins (3 of 4), silk pastedowns & endpapers, 3 with all edges in gilt, some rubbing to extremities, 4to & folio together with a volume on Birmingham University & a facsimile of the Baskerville slateQty: (6)

* Voyage to India. Manuscript journal of a voyage from Madeira to Calcutta, aboard the frigate Warren Hastings, 1 July - 1 December 1811, written by Barbara M[ouat?], a contemporary copy in the hand of Frederick Campbell (1779-1816) of the 42nd Highlanders, husband of Cordelia Mouat (1788-1921), for whom the journal was intended, Trevor Hall, New Llangollen, Denbighshire, ‘I promised you my much loved Cordelia that I would keep a journal and from this day I will begin and try to give you as exact an account of all that passes as I possibly can, what your fond Barbara relates may serve to amuse you sweet girl and with that idea she study to recollect all that happens tho’ I am afraid the my Delia's’ patience will be exhausted long before she reaches the end of her Barbara’s journal', 29 pages, disbound with contemporary stitching, some spotting and browning to final leaf verso (docketed blank), old clear tape repairs to spine, folioQty: (1)Footnote: The 5-month voyage is spent in some comfort, dining, reading, promenading on deck and dancing, but there is an underlying sense of an oppressive ennui interspersed with strange vignettes - the gentlemen amuse themselves fishing for shark; a snipe flies into the dining room miles from land. There are darker moments too - a midshipman on an accompanying ship throws himself overboard, ‘which is said to have been done on purpose’; a sailor on the Warren Hastings dies in the night ‘when hearing the dreadful sound of the tolling bell ... I could no more compose my feelings which gave way to tears’. And throughout, there is uncertainty whenever another ship comes in to view, should it be an enemy French ship liable to take them prisoner. A note at the end of the journal states, ‘A copy taken from our dear Barbara’s journal written by her on her passage to Calcutta to her sister Cordelia of Trevor Hall’. However, records suggest that Cordelia Mount was the only child of Captain Stephen P Mouat of the Royal Navy, suggesting that Barbara may either have come from a second marriage, or be a more distant family member, living with the Mouats. She appears to be travelling as a companion with Captain James Mouat (1776-1829) of the East India Company, and his wife, Wilhemina Mouat and on arriving in Calcutta, moves in to the Mouat household. There is also a strong on-board relationship with the Ahmuty family.

Duncan (James). A Complete County Atlas of England & Wales containing Forty-Four Superior Maps, with all the Railroads and Improvements..., circa 1840, printed title, double-page geographical and statistical table, 44 (complete) engraved maps with contemporary hand-colouring, additional uncoloured folding wood-engraved map of the Isles of Manbound in, map of Hertfordshire with frayed margins, old folds and marginal closed tears, repaired on verso, map of England & Wales with the foredge margins strengthened on the verso, map of Devon with later pencil reticulation, slight dust soiling and some offsetting throughout, ornate manuscript presentation inscription to the front blank, later endpapers, later quarter morocco gilt, folio, with another seven small scale late 19th and early 20th century atlases, including examples by 'The Children's Friend', A & C Black and Philips, various conditionQty: (8)

Bibliography, bookbinding & printing reference. A good selection of related reference, including Croft (P.J.), Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 volumes, London: Casselli, 1973, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, contained together in original slipcase, folio, Needham (Paul), Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings 400-1600, London & New York: Pierpont Morgan Library & OUP, 1979, colour frontispiece, monochrome plates, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, Leighton (Clare), Wood Engravings of the 1930's, London & New York: The Studio, 1936, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, Adams (Herbert M.), Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600 in Cambridge libraries, 2 volumes, reprinted, Cambridge: University Press, 1990, original cloth, 4to, McLean (Ruari), Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings in Paper, London: Gordon Fraser, 1983, monochrome and colour illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, glassine & transparent plastic dust jackets, slim folio, and others similarQty: (approx. 120)

Everard (Edward). A Bristol Printing House, spoken of in several fragments, Bristol: printed by Edward Everard; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., [1903?], chromolithograph and photogravure plates & illustrations and decorations throughout (including two folding), original green cloth, slim folio, together with: Johnson (Alfred Forbes), One Hundred Title-Pages 1500-1800, London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1928, illustrations throughout, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, publisher's half vellum, 4to (limited edition 24/100 on handmade paper), Illuminated presentation book, Presented to Major G.R.A. Beckett, M.C. in grateful memory of 41 years devoted service by the Governors, Headmaster, Staff and Pupils, past and present of Colston School [Bristol], July 1945, illuminated title by W. Bennett of Broad Street Bristol, and 11 leaves of lists of names (written to rectos), contemporary dark navy blue morocco, white metal inset dolphin motif roundel to upper board, spine slightly rubbed, slim 4to, Kaemmerer (J.H.), Practical Letter Book, edited by Arthur Seymour Jennings. Containing several hundred alphabets in 140 plates, together with descriptive text, London: Trade Papers Publishing Company Ltd., 1911, ink library stamp to title and few plate versos, occasional short closed tears to margins, library bookplate and ink stamp to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary cloth, gilt library stamp to front board and spine, oblong folio, plus other paper and printing related etc.Qty: (a carton)

Ferranti Pegasus Computer. Programming Manual, Issue 1, List CS. 50, Manchester & London: Ferranti Ltd., September 1955, photographic illustration, unpaginated with 11 chapters, 2 appendices and an amendment list, 25/- sticker to inside cover, original printed wrappers, some soiling and fraying to spine ends and fore-edges, together with a related Ferranti Pegasus Computer publication, The Pegasus Autocode, List CS. 217A, Computer Department, April 1959, 43 pages, original spiral-bound printed card wrappers, ownership signature of K.S. Munday to upper cover (slightly damp stained), both folioQty: (2)Footnote: The Pegasus 1 was first delivered in 1956, the Pegasus 2 in 1959. Ferranti sold 26 copies of the Pegasus 1 and 12 copies of the Pegasus 2. It was Ferranti's most popular valve (vacuum tube) computer. At least two Pegasuses survive, one in the Science Museum (London) and one in The Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.

Folio Society. Plutarch Lives, 4 volumes, 2010, Byzantium, 3 volumes, by John Julius Norwich, 2003, Citizens A Chronicle of the French Revolution, 2 volumes, by Simon Schama, 2004, India A History, 2 volumes, by John Keay, 2003, The Nile, 2 volumes, by Alan Moorehead, 2001, together with 20 further volumes of Folio Society, all history reference, all original cloth in slipcases, VG, 8voQty: (33)

Folio Society. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, 2009, The Magic Mountain a novel, by Thomas Man, 2000, Germinal, by Émile Zola, 2010, Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, 2nd printing, 2005, The Lifted Veil, women's 19th-century stories, 2nd printing, 2006, together with 29 further volumes of Folio Society publications, all fiction, all original cloth, 28 volumes in slipcases & 6 without, G/VG, 8voQty: (34)

Folio Society.The Fables of Aesop, illustrated by Edward J. Detmold, 5th printing, 2003 East of the Sun West of the Moon, old tales from The North, illustrated by Kay Nielsen, 2000 The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 6th printing, 2002 A Dance to the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell, 2006, as new in plastic wrap, S.O.E., by M. R. D. Foot, 2005, as new in plastic wrap, together with 43 further volumes of Folio Society, all original cloth in slipcases, G/VG, 8voQty: (48)

Folio Society. Pensées, by Blaise Pascal, 2011, An Autobiography or the story of my experiments with truth, by M. K. Gandhi, 2010,The Gnostic Gospels, edited by Marvin Meyer, 2008, Ethics, by Aristotle, 3rd printing, 2005, Charlemagne Father of a Continent, by Alessandro Barbero, 3rd printing, 2008, together with 45 further volumes of Folio Society publications, all history reference & related, all original cloth in slipcases, G/VG, 8voQty: (50)

Folio Society. The Novels of Anthony Trollope, 39 volumes, circa 1990s, original cloth gilt in slipcases, 8vo Nonesuch Dickens, 11 volumes, by Charles Dickens, 2004-2005, all edges gilt, original quarter morocco gilt in slipcases, 8vo, some as new in plastic wrap, VGQty: (50)

Folio Society. Paradise Lost, a Poem in Twelve Books, by John Milton, illustrated by Ian Pollock, 1991, folio Myths + Legends of India, by William Radice, 2001, blue quarter morocco The Arabian Nights, the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, 6 volumes, illustrated by Kay Nielsen, 2003 Selected Poems, by Robert Frost, 2010 The Folio Shakespeare, 6 volumes, by William Shakespeare, 2nd impression, 1990 The Novels of Jane Austin, 20th printing, 2003, together with 48 further volumes of Folio Society publications, all fiction, all original cloth in slipcase, 8vo/folioQty: (70)

Folio Society. Lives of the Later Caesars, by David Magie, illustrated by Sue Scullard, 2005, original grey full morocco Metamorphosis, by Ovid, 1995 Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius, 3rd printing, 2003 Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs (2 volumes), by Wilfred Thesiger, 2005 The Assassins, a radical sect in Islam, by Bernard Lewis, 3rd printing, 2006 Chronicles of The Dark Ages, 3 volumes, by Richard Barber, 2008, together with 74 further volumes of Folio Society publications, all non-fiction/history reference, all original cloth in slipcases, VG, 8vo/folioQty: (83)

Church (John). A Cabinet of Quadrupeds, 1st edition, London: Darton & Harvey, 1805, 84 engraved plates, spotting, offsetting, hinges repaired, contemporary red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, boards with gilt floral borders, gilt panels & motifs to boards, gilt turn-ins, spine compartments in gilt, tailcap to volume 1 lacking, joints rubbed (with split to base of volume 1), backstrip worn, extremities rubbed, boards marked, corners bumped, folioQty: (2)

Dartington Printmakers (publishers). A Printmakers' Flora, 1996, title printed in yellow & black, additional half-title, dedication and index, thirty original prints by twenty artists in various mediums including lithographs, linocuts, wood engraving, etching, collagraph and card intaglio, each on uncut hand made paper, signed by all twenty artists at the rear, publishers blue silk with blind-stamped title to the upper board, bound under the direction of Mary Bartlett of the Dartington Bindery, oblong folio, contained in publisher's cloth book box with printed card label to spineQty: (1)Footnote: Five years in the making this large and luxurious book focuses on British Wild Flowers. The edition consisted of thirty-seven with one additional Artists' Proof copy. Twenty-three of these were given to the participants, one was purchased by the V & A, and one by the Dartington Hall Trust. The remaining twelve were offered for sale. Supplied with the original promotional material, newsletters and bookmark. As far as we are aware, only one copy has ever appeared on the open market and that was in these rooms in 2012.