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A Folio Society 'A Century of Conflict', five volumes, in slip case.

Folio Society. Mark Haworth Booth. Book of the 100 Greatest Photographs. London. 2006. Slipcase plus 26 further Folio Society titles (27)

BECKER FERDINAND.  Etchings After Nature. Etched frontis title, plates & vignettes. Small folio . Poor bdgs. 1821; also 2 unrelated vols.  (3).

FOLIO SOCIETY. A carton of various vols. some in slip cases.

FOLIO SOCIETY.  8 various vols. in slip cases; also The Norton Facsimile of The First Folio of Shakespeare, folio in slip case.  (9).

COOPER W. T. & FORSHAW J. M.  The Birds of Paradise & Bower Birds. Col. plates & text illus. Folio. Orig. two tone cloth in d.w's & slip case. Nice cond. 1977.

FOLIO SOCIETY & Others.  14 vols., mainly in slip cases.

FOLIO SOCIETY.  15 vols. incl. sets, in slip cases.

House of Commons.  Experiments Relating to the Pendulum Vibrating Seconds of Time in the Latitude of London. 2 fldg. eng. plates. Folio. Disbound. 1818; also First, Second & Third Reports of the Commissioners Appointed to Consider the Subject of Weights & Measures, folio, disbound, 1819.  (2).

DUGDALE SIR WILLIAM.  The History of the Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral & Collegiate Churches. The two "Additional Volumes" by John Stevens. 2 vols. Rubricated titles & fldg. & other eng. plates & plans (as called for with an additional plate in vol. 1). Vol. 1 has the rare original prospectus bound in at the end together with a list of the subscribers to date (this dated London, March 10, 1721). Eng. Bartolozzi bookplate of Sir Thomas Gage, Hengrave Hall. Folio. Calf, gilt backs. 1722.

DU BARTAS.  His Devine Weekes & Workes ... translated & written by Ye Famous Philomusus Josiah Sylvester. Eng. port. frontis & eng. title. Fldg. eng. plate, The Mysterie of Mysteries. Collated complete although with mis-numbering. Folio. Old calf with ownership stamp I. (or J.) B. Robert Young, 1633.

Maret (Russell) Aethelwold etc: Twenty Six Letters inspired by other letters..., number 25 of 44 copies signed by the artist, from an edition limited to 55, printed in red & black, colour plates by Maret, original alum-tawed pigskin-backed boards, spine titled in gilt, original cloth drop-back box, Port Chester and New York, 2009; with an envelope of prospectuses and other ephemera from Maret, folio (2)⁂ Superb alphabet in the form of a writing manual, with each letter inspired by a different printer or typographer from the Middle Ages to the present day. One hundred and five different ink colours were used in the printing with up to nine for individual letters.Winner of a Judges Choice Award at the 2009 UK Fine Press Book Fair.

China.- Irishwoman in Tientsin Siege.- Tientsin during the siege. An Ulsterwoman's experience. Graphic narrative, 'Reprinted from "Belfast News-Letter" of Saturday, 13th October, 1900', bifolium, folds, no place [?China], 1900; and a copy of "The Chinese Times" for 21st January, 1888, folio & 4to (2)⁂ Unrecorded. An extensive eye witness account of the siege, and subsequent relief, of Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.

James (Henry), Jean Lorraine and others. - Lucien Daudet's childhood album amicorum, signed inscriptions from Henry James, Jean Lorraine (with 9-line poem), Juliette Adam, Paul Alexis, Gustave Toudouze and others, a few pencil or watercolour drawings, a few pages or signatures excised, some pages working loose, original morocco with initials "L. A. D." blind-stamped onto upper cover, rubbed, g.e., oblong folio, [late 19th century].⁂ A good volume of autographs and drawings with interesting Proust and Henry James associations. The author and painter Lucien Daudet (1878-1946) became a friend and companion of Proust's. The nature of their relationship was publicly challenged by Jean Lorraine leading Proust to challenge Lorriane to a duel (both survived). Henry James was hugely influenced by Alphonse Daudet, he modelled the outline of his Bostonians on Daudet's L'Évangéliste and Daudet's Numa Roumestan was the inspiration for his short story The Liar.

Botany.- Willmott (Ellen) The Genus Rosa, 25 parts in 2 vol., first edition, 132 chromolithograph plates by Alfred Parsons, most with tissue-guards, illustrations, many full-page, 'Instructions to Binder' bound at end vol. 1., original wrappers bound at end, bookplate, scattered faint spotting, cracked hinges, near contemporary morocco-backed boards, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, folio, 1910-14.⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of Graham Stuart Thomas (1909-2003), a horticulturalist who specialised in roses, he wrote the classics 'Old Shrub Roses', 'Shrub Roses of Today' and 'Climbing Roses Old and New'.

China.- American Presbyterian Mission.- Legends of Ancient China [Temple Hill Cut-Outs], 9 hand-cut and mounted black cut-out illustrations (including title), captioned tissue guards, publisher's single page letterpress explanation leaf loosely inserted, contemporary stitched pictorial silk covered flexible boards, small oblong folio, Chefoo (China), [c.1930?]; and another (2) ⁂ The introductory letterpress leaf explains: "The cut-outs of Temple Hill are an adaptation of figures of animals, plants, insects, dragons, etc. cut out by the women of Shantung for unknown generations [...] We have 'Christianised' Chinese cut-outs by using their skill to cut out Wise-men and camels, or the shepherds on the hills of Bethlehem for our Christmas cards". The works offered here relate to Chinese mythology and folklore. It would appear that several versions of these books were produced by the Self-Help Department, Women's Bible School, Presbyterian Mission.

Italy.- Notarial ledger, manuscript, c.130pp., excluding blanks, in various hands, heavily water-stained at foot, wormed, some fraying, all with loss of text, contemporary limp vellum, worn, small folio, [?Venice], 1480. sold not subject to return. ⁂ A substantial ledger beginning Venice, 1480, and with a few contemporary notes or documents loosely inserted.

Nash (John & Paul).- Nash (John) Twenty One Wood Engravings, one of 100 copies, from an edition limited to 112, original vellum-backed boards, uncut, original cloth drop-back box, Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1993 § Greenwood (Jeremy) The Wood-Engravings of John Nash, one of 811 copies, Liverpool, Wood Lea Press, 1987; The Wood-Engravings of Paul Nash, one of 550 copies, Woodbridge, Wood Lea Press, 1997 § Blythe (Ronald) First Friends: Paul and Bunty, John and Christine - and Carrington, one of 300 copies, Denby Dale, Fleece Press, 1997 § Boulton (Janet, editor) Dear Mercia: Paul Nash letters to Mercia Oakley, 1909-18, one of 300 copies, folding colour plate in pocket at end, Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1991, plates or illustrations, some colour, some tipped in, all but the first original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards with slip-cases; and 3 others on John or Paul Nash, folio & 4to (8)

Shanty Bay Press.- Circus: The Artist as Saltimbanque, number 29 of 60 copies signed by the artist and printer, colour linocut and pochoir title, plates and tail-piece by Walter Bachinski, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, uncut, cloth slip-case, folio, Ontario, Shanty Bay Press, 2010.⁂ Delightful work with magnificent striking pochoir plates.

Midnight Paper Sales.- Esslemont (David) & Gaylord Schanilec. Ink on the Elbow: Conversations between David Esslemont and Gaylord Schanilec, number 26 of 200 copies signed by the authors, colour wood-engravings by Schanilec including large folding panorama, colour linocuts by Esslemont, original patterned cloth, uncut, Stockholm, Wi., Midnight Paper Sales, and Newtown, Powys, Solmentes Press, 2003 § Emerson G.Wulling: Printer for Pleasure, number 67 of 140 copies signed by Schanilec, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, uncut, 2000 § Ernest Morgan: Printer of Principle, number 31 of 200 copies signed by Schanilec, original cloth-backed boards, 2001, plates and illustrations, some colour wood-engravings by Schanilec, a few folding, some tipped in, all with slip-cases, Stockholm, Midnight Paper Sales; and an envelope of ephemera including a signed colour wood-engraving of Schanilec by David Esslemont from the first item (one of 50 copies), folio (4)

Shanty Bay Press.- Virgilius Maro (Publius) Georgics, translated by Robert Wells, number 28 of 67 copies signed by the artist and printer, woodcut plates on Japanese paper and pochoir title, plates, initials and tail-piece by Walter Bachinski, prospectus loosely inserted, original half cloth over boards with woodcut to upper cover, uncut, cloth slip-case, folio, Ontario, Shanty Bay Press, 2007.⁂ Handsome example of the great classical work with superb woodcuts and illustrations.

Gwasg Gregynog.- Dowd (Anthony) & James Brockman. The Special Bindings of Gwasg Gregynog: An Illustrated Catalogue...1977-2002, number 56 of 215 copies, title in blue and black, original blue morocco, device in gilt to upper cover, slip-case, 2004 § Esslemont (David) & Glyn Tegai Hughes. Gwasg Gregynog: A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing at Gregynog 1970-1990, one of 100 copies bound by Alan Wood at Gregynog, from an edition limited to 900, original morocco-backed boards, slip-case, 1990, plates and illustrations, some colour, a few folding, some tipped in, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog; and 2 others relating to the press, small folio & 8vo (4)

Lake District Quakers.- Phillips (John, preacher) Letter Book & religious writings, 128pp., 6pp. index of letter book & 70pp. religious writings, browned, original calf-backed marbled boards, worn, joints splitting, lacks head of spine, Whitehaven & Colthouse near Hawkshead, 1789-97; and 2 other manuscripts, extracts from the writings of Francis Howgill and Edward Burrough, Quaker activists, folio (3).

Whittington Press.- Wong (Judy Ling) Harlequinade: Mezzotints & Text, number 18 of only 20 copies, signed by the author/artist, 8 mezzotint plates and a tail-piece, each printed in a different colour and numbered and signed in pencil, bound in red goatskin, by Paul Collet and David Sellars, upper cover inset with panel of viridian suede onlaid with dancing figure in black goatskin, lower cover with diamond made up of 4 smaller inlaid diamonds of black, citron, dark purple and green goatskin, viridian suede doublures, t.e.g., others uncut, together with the prospectus in original felt-lined black cloth drop-back box (very slight rubbing to corners), folio, Andoversford, 1979.⁂ A truly limited edition of a superb production in a suitably dramatic binding, each one to a unique design by the artist. One of the scarcest and most sought after books issued by the press, we have been unable to trace any copies having appeared at auction.

Astronomy.- Wing (Vincent) Astronomia Instaurata: or, or a new and compendious Restauration of Astronomie... Whereunto is added, a short Catalogue of . . . Coelestiall observations by Tycho, Longomontanus, Gassendus, the Landgrave of Hassia and others, first edition, title in red and black, errata leaf at beginning, woodcut diagrams, tear at tail of title, 3E1 & 3N1 & front flyleaf, some ff. working loose, some ff. with slight dampstaining, John Wing's copy with an ink inscription on fly-leaf and signature at tail of title, also contemporary ink signatures of Tycho Wing, John & James Lord, numerous near contemporary ink notes, bookplate of a 19th century Tycho Wing V on front pastedown, contemporary calf, extensively rubbed, two corners worn, joints splitting at head and tail, lacks tail of spine, [Tomash & Williams W90; Houzeau & Lancaster 9228; Wing W2987], folio, by R. and W. Leybourn, for the Company of Stationers, 1656.⁂ With contemporary manuscript notes on two astronomical phenomena observed in the seventeenth century. (1). "Dr. Wallis [John Wallis (1616-1703), mathematician and cryptographer] observed, this Eclipse at Oxford A.D. 1654 Begin Aug: 2d... He also observ'd ye visib. Diam. equal to that of ye D contrary to what ye Astronomical Tables gave it."(2). "1680 On the 11 day of December there appeared a comet [known as The Great Comet, Kirsch's Comet or Newton's Comet] which set about an hour sooner than venus but on the wednesday after it set but a little before venus or near a quarter of an hour as I soposed and continued until the middle of January."John Wing (bap. 1662, d. 1726), surveyor and almanac maker; nephew of Vincent Wing.

Barbarian Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Play of Pericles Prince of Tyre, edited by Crispin Elsted, 2 vol. including 'Reading Pericles: Essays by Simon Brett & Crispin Ested', number 23 of 100 copies signed by the artist, editor and printer, from an edition limited to 116, printed in black and colours, wood-engravings by Simon Brett, calligraphy by Andrea Taylor, play in original purple morocco, upper cover with inlaid vellum panel titled in gilt, gilt-stamped vellum label to spine, accompanying essays in original purple morocco-backed printed boards, vellum spine label, both by the Rasmussen Bindery of North Vancouver, uncut, together in original white linen chemise and purple silk slip-case, small folio, Mission, B.C., 2010.⁂ Stunning production of one of Shakespeare's rarest performed plays.Winner, First Prize (Limited Editions) 2011 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada.

Parrot Presses & Artists' Choice Editions.- Dodgson [(Charles Lutwidge), "Lewis Carroll". The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits, illustrations by John Vernon Lord, original pictorial boards, uncut, Artists' Choice Editions with Goodacre (Selwyn) All the Snarks: The Illustrated Editions..., original patterned cloth, dust-jacket, Inky Parrot Press, together 2 vol., number 65 of 220 copies signed by the artist or author, together in slip-case, 2006; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, number 178 of 348 copies signed by the artist, illustrations by John Vernon Lord, with prospectus, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, Artists' Choice Editions, 2009; Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There, number 86 of 420 copies signed by Jasia Reichardt and Graham Ovenden, printed in black, red & blue, illustrations by Franciszka Themerson, original pictorial boards, rubbed, Inky Parrot Press, 2001, illustrations, many colour, Church Hanborough; and another copy of the first, small folio & 8vo (6)

Whittington Press.- Llywelyn (Robin) Portmeirion, number XXII of 125 special copies with an additional suite of prints including one extra & a poster and signed by the author & artist, from an edition limited to 350, 7 double-page colour plates by Leslie Gerry, folding concertina style in original pictorial boards, 8 additional prints signed in pencil and loose in paper folder, together with large folded poster and prospectus in original decorative board drop-back box, oblong folio, Risbury, Whittington Press, 2008.⁂ A new departure for the press with the plates produced digitally, but with spectacularly vibrant results. The special copies were to be limited to 60 but a label affixed to the colophon states that "the edition now consists of 125 special and 225 regular copies".

Whittington Press.- O'Connor (John) The Wood-engravings...with a commentary by Jeannie O'Connor, 2 vol., number XXIX of 50 specially-bound copies with additional proofs and signed by the artist and editor, from an edition limited to 350, wood-engravings by John O'Connor, some printed in colours, text in original morocco-backed pictorial boards, uncut, additional engravings all signed or initialled in pencil and loose in original board folder, together in slip-case, folio, Andoversford, Whittington Press, 1989.

Financial panic.- Hareward, or the Time Bargain. A tale of the Panic, 3 vol., manuscript, 343 numbered pp. (vol.1 133pp.; vol.2 100pp. and vol 3. 110pp. (including one mis-numbered inserted leaf)), occasional corrections, occasional spotting and light staining, disbound, folio, 1880.⁂ Anonymous unpublished triple-decker novel, with a financial crisis at its centre, featuring a Lady Torridge and her family. This family is also found in Giles Ingilby by William Edward Norris, which may lead us to an author attribution.

Whittington Press.- Nicholson (William) An Alphabet, number 54 of 150 sets, 38 plates including 2 versions of E & T and some unused designs, all but four printed from the original woodblocks, 1978; An Almanac of Twelve Sports [and] London Types, number 70 of 150 sets, 34 plates including 4 unused versions, 1980, together 2 vol., each with separate introduction by Edward Craig (one of 300 & 225 signed copies respectively, original wrappers), loose as issued in original cloth drop-back boxes, illustration mounted on upper cover (the first hand-coloured), folio, Andoversford, Whittington Press (2)

Conchology.- Pulteney (Richard) Catalogues of the Birds, Shells, and some of the Rare Plants, of Dorsetshire, [second edition], engraved portrait and 24 plates on 13 leaves, modern black half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, folio, 1813.⁂ Whilst the text covers the three subjects mentioned, the plates are all of shells and fossils. The first edition appeared in 1799 but does not include the portrait.

Gregynog Press.- Lamentations of Jeremiah (The), number 49 of 250 copies on Japanese vellum, printed in blue and black, wood-engraved title, initials and illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, 5 full-page, some light spotting and soiling, mostly marginal, original dark blue calf, title and device in blind on upper cover, rubbed and scuffed, [Harrop 29], folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1933.

Suffragettes.- Pankhurst (Sylvia, editor) The Woman's Dreadnought, 47 issues only, comprising: Special Advance Number, 8pp., March 8 1914, no.1-21 and 23-47, all issues 4pp., except issue 41 with 8pp., illustration to p.1 of each issue, many issues frayed, torn (especially at fold) or chipped at edges, issue 2 torn in half, issue 14 browned along and around fold, but text for the most part unaffected and legible, preserved in later portfolio, folio (445 x 287mm.), East London Federation of the Suffragettes, March 8th 1914 - February 6th 1915.⁂ Extremely rare and near-complete run of this highly important suffragette newspaper, missing only one issue (number 22, August 15th 1914) from the first 47, and here together with the Special Advance Number. The periodical appeared fortnightly under the editorship of Sylvia Pankhurst during the build-up to and first few months of the First World War. Much of the suffragette movement rallied behind the government at the beginning of the war, but Sylvia took a different path, diverging from her patriotic mother and sister to set up a working-class suffragette movement in the East End of London, producing this publication, which soon changed its name to The Workers' Dreadnought with more overtly socialist leanings and later being adopted as the official organ of the British Communist Party. Despite a claimed circulation of 20,000, these early issues seem exceptionally rare and we can trace no issues appearing for sale at auction.

Whittington Press.- Omar Khayyám. [Rubaiyat] The Mirror & the Eye, translated by Iftikhar Azmi, number 9 of 126 copies, original vellum-backed marbled boards, 1984 § Azmi (Iftikhar, translator) The Garden of the Night, number 55 of 240 copies, original cloth-backed boards, 1979 § Song of Songs (The), translated by Keith Bosley, number 47 of 206 copies, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine lightly soiled, 1976, all signed by the translator and artist, illustrations by Richard Kennedy, uncut, slip-cases, Andoversford, Whittington Press; and 5 others, illustrated by Kennedy for the Press, folio & 4to (8)

Esslemont (David, binder).- Gentleman (David) The Wood Engravings..., Introduction by Fiona MacCarthy, number X of X specially-bound copies with additional material and signed by the artist and binder, from an edition limited to 350, illustrations, bound in alum-tawed goatskin painted with red, yellow, blue, pale blue and black acrylics through stencils across boards and spine, each cover with irregular line of small gilt dots, by David Esslemont, with folder of 5 loose signed wood-engravings, 2 book covers and a sheet of stamps all by Gentleman, together in original black cloth drop-back box, oblong folio, Montgomery, David Esslemont, 2000.⁂ Splendid bold and colourful binding.

Law.- Anni, regum, Edwardi Quinti, Richardi Tertii, Henrici Septimi, et Henrici Octaui, omnes, qui antea impressi fuerunt, black letter, text in legal French, title within ornate woodcut decorative border, woodcut decorative initials, 17th century ink marginalia, mostly marginal water-staining, occasional spotting and light staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped calf, covers with arabesque centre-pieces, upper cover detached, lower joint split, but holding firm, spine ends worn, stained, rubbed and scuffed, [STC 9903], folio, Jane Yetsweirt, 1597.⁂ Year book for for 1 Edward V, 1-2 Richard III, 1-16, 20-21 Henry VII, and 12-14, 18-19, 26-27 Henry VIII, printed by one of England's first woman law printers. Provenance: Humfry Walcot (contemporary ink inscription to head of title).

Astronomy.- Wing (Vincent) Astronomica Britannica: in qua per novam, concinnioremque methodum, hi quinq; tractatus tradunter. I. Logistica astronomica... II. Trigonometria... III. Doctrina sphærica... IV. Theoria planetarum... V. Tabulæ novæ astromicæ, John Wing's copy with his ink signature on 2A3 and numerous ink annotations in Latin in some margins, also Tycho Wing's copy with his ink signature on front free endpaper (18th century hand), numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations, lacks engraved frontispiece portrait, without the engraving which should be present on H3 and with Latin note stating its loss, first part B1 (sub title of part 1) detached with loss of left margin, B1 (second part) torn with some loss, M4 small tears, lacks 1f. between 2B4 & 2C1, lacks 2Z4 towards end and all after 3A3 (last 2ff.), some ff. working loose, browned, some ink marks, endpapers and fly-leaves loose, bookplate of Tycho Wing V on inner board, contemporary panelled calf, extensively rubbed, corners worn, spine defective, [Hozeau & Lancaster 9232; Wing W2986], folio, George Sawbridge, 1669; sold not subject to return.⁂ A slightly distressed copy of an important astronomical work rendered unique with John Wing's notes in the text. On the inner board is inscribed "for John Wing", and along with the unprinted engraving at H3 indicates that this is an early family copy, possibly a pre-publication issue of this work. Other early family names include Elizabeth Wing (possibly John Wing's daughter born in 1664) and Tycho Wing (an early Tycho Wing with an eighteenth century signature).Wing's most important work, published posthumously in 1669. Astronomia Britannica, a Latin treatise on the Copernican movements of the planets, with observations by Tycho Brahe, Bullialdus, Gassendus and some by Wing and other English astronomers. This work was highly influential and was instrumental in the adoption of the Copernican heliocentrism over the Tychonic System.

Royal Navy.- Malcolm (George John, Rear-Admiral, 1830-84) Log Book on HMS Cumberland and Letter Book, autograph manuscript & others, 36pp. excluding blanks, 5 pen and ink plans for a house, original roan, gilt lettering "GJM" on upper cover, rubbed, 1851-52; Work Book [Letter Book] on HMS Barracouta, autograph manuscript, c. 70pp. excluding blanks and pages of pencil calculations, numerous pencil sketches, original roan-backed marbled boards, lacks spine, 1861, reverse entries, 4to & folio (2). ⁂ Places visited include: Dominica and Montserrat, Bermuda, Port au Prince, Port Royal Jamaica etc.

Barbarian Press.- Elsted (Crispin) Founts & Circumstance: A Typographical Portfolio of Display & Titling Faces in Grand Isolation & in Company, one of 58 copies signed by the author & printer, text booklet in original wrappers sewn with string in Japanese style, uncut, broadside specimens loose as issued, some folding, some colour, title with mounted signed photographic print by David Evans, together in original cloth drop-back box with 72 point Bembo letter 'm' fixed in lower right corner, 2001 § Under Strange Sail: Translations & Improvisations from many hands, one of 115 sets of broadsides, loose as issued in original wrapper portfolio, 2007, folio, Mission, B.C., Barbarian Press (2)

Law.- Regis pie memorie Edwardi tertii a quadragesimo ad quinquagesimum, black letter, text in legal French, woodcut historiated title, woodcut decorative initials, final f. blank, contemporary ink marginalia, the odd short marginal tear, occasionally with loss (not affecting text), title little chipped (with small piece missing from lower blank corner) and with some staining, occasional spotting, a few stains, lightly browned, modern brown half morocco, spine in compartments and titled in gilt, [STC 9583], folio, Richard Tottel, 1565.⁂ Second edition of the year books 40 to 50.

Surveying.- Wing (John) Geodaetes Practicus Redivivus: The Art of Surveying: Formerly Publish'd by Vincent Wing, Math. Now Much Augmented... With the Description and Use of a New Quadrant [bound with] Scientia Stellarum: Or, the Starry Science.., 2 vol. bound in 1, as usual, 7 engraved plates and tables (1 folding), errata/advertisement leaf bound after preface and another leaf of advertisements at end, E2 & 4Q2 small tear at head, extensively browned, bookplate of Tycho Wing V and ink inscription "received from Colonel J.B.V. Wing... 20th September 1905" on front pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, corners bumped, [Wing W2985 & W2992], folio, by J. Matthews, for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1700.⁂ John Wing's updating of Vincent Wing's 1666 Art of Surveying. "The folio volume can be regarded as presenting the normal instruction course which a surveyor would follow in 1700." - Taylor, 529a.

Dickens (Charles).- Revallin (Fred) The Pickwick Quadrille, chromolithographed upper cover, n.d. § Jullien. The Cricket Polka, [?1846], music scores, original printed wrappers, light soiling; and 10 others, music to words by Dickens or inspired by his writings, housed together in custom drop-back box, folio (12)

Whittington Press.- Hanscomb (Brian) Cornwall: An Interior Vision, number 25 of 135 copies, 1992; The Phoenix, number 9 of 100 copies, 2005 § Jefferies (Richard) & others. Sun, Sea & Earth, number 89 of 125 copies, 1989, the first two signed by the author/artist, copper-engraved illustrations by Hanscomb, original wrappers sewn Japanese style, slip-cases, folio & 4to, Risbury or Andoversford, Whittington Press (3)

Gregynog Press.- Milton (John) Four Poems...L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Lycidas, original blind-stamped red calf, spine and corners a little rubbed, 1933; Comus, prospectus loosely inserted, original buckram-backed boards, glacine wrapper (slightly torn and defective at foot of spine), 1931, each one of 250 copies on Japanese vellum, wood-engraved titles, plates and illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, the first with old ink library stamp to verso of title at foot, [Harrop 26 & 19], 8vo & small folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press (2)

Whittington Press.- Butcher (David) Pages from Presses: Kelmscott, Ashendene, Doves, Vale, Eragny & Essex House, number XII of L specially-bound copies with a Doves Press leaf on vellum, 13 original paper leaves and an additional portfolio of 6 original leaves, from an edition limited to 185 and signed by the author, printed in red and black, folding frontispiece, original leaves mounted on stubs, original scarlet morocco, uncut, additional original leaves (paper leaf from Doves Bible with annotations in coloured inks) loose in pocket in original cloth-backed board folder, together in original cloth drop-back box, morocco spine label, folio, Risbury, Whittington Press, 2006.⁂ Including original leaves from the Kelmscott, Ashendene, Doves, Vale, Eragny and Whittington presses.

Bianchini (Francesco) Hesperi et Phosphori, first edition, title in red and black, with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece, engraved head-piece, 2 initials and 2 embedded vignettes, one embedded mezzotint vignette, 10 plates, of which one mezzotint the others engraved (2 folding, one double-page), some foxing and light browning, including to some plates, contemporary vellum, spine worn with small section restored, [Honeyman 323; Graesse I, 437; Riccardi I, 132.15], folio, Rome, Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728.⁂ The first book of telescopic observations of the planet Venus. Bianchini (1662-1729) sought to determine the rotational period of Venus and to draw a map of its surface. Although his results on the rotation proved incorrect, his topographical observations were a pioneering effort in investigating the planet, identifying 'continents' and 'oceans'. The text is also significant in the history of lunar cartography, notably for the mezzotint views of the crater Plato and the Alpine Valley, which Bianchini was the first to chart, cutting through the mountain range of the Alps; this phenomenon was uncharted by the great Cassini lunar map (1670s). Bianchini's book is perhaps best known today for two often reproduced plates of aerial telescopes, of extremely long focal length, with lenses by Campani.

Midnight Paper Sales.- Attwood (Margaret) & others. Hungry Midnight, Series 2-4 (of 4), one of 20, 30 and "PP" respectively from editions limited to 90 copies and signed by Gaylord Schanilec, 1997-2000; Midnight Ruminator First (& Last), one of 60 copies signed by Schanilec, 2004, each series containing 6 broadsheet poems on thick paper, all signed by the authors and with colour wood-engraving by Schanilec, Series 2 & 4 with additional material loosely inserted, loose as issued in original cloth portfolios, folio, Stockholm, Wi., Midnight Paper Sales (4)

Doves Press.- Ruskin (John) Unto This Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy, [one of 300 copies on paper], presentation copy from T.J. Cobden-Sanderson inscribed "To Blanche Foster Xmas 1914 C.-S." on front free endpaper, bound in crushed russet morocco, spine titled in gilt, uncut, very slightly rubbed and marked, [Tidcombe DP11], Doves Press, 1907; and 2 others from the press including a specimen leaf from the Doves Bible, 4to & folio (3)

Gwasg Gregynog.- Thomas (Dylan) Deaths and Entrances, edited by Walford Davies, number 241 of 268 copies, double-page colour offset lithographs by John Piper, original morocco-backed striped cloth, slip-case, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, 1984 § Fowler-Wright (Hugh) & others. Piper in Print: Books, Periodicals & Ephemera, number 131 of 384 copies signed by the first author, colour illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, Church Hanborough, Artists' Choice Editions, 2010, folio & 4to (2)

Gwasg Gregynog.- Hermes (Gertrude) Wood Engravings for The Lovers' Song-Book, number 28 of 50 sets of engravings, from an edition limited to 100 (50 sets to be offered individually), 10 mounted numbered wood engravings with embossed Gregynog stamp, together with accompanying text by W.H.Davies (one of 350 copies in original wrappers) and prospectus in original cloth drop-back box, 1993; Wood Engravings...being illustrations to Selborne..., number 132 of 240 copies, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, uncut, 1988, folio, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog (2)⁂ Both commissioned by the Gregynog Press in the early 1930s but the projects were abandoned.

William III (King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and Prince of Orange, 1650-1702) Commission signed to Mark Ranford to be a captain of a foot company in the Militia of Dublin, D.s. "William R" and countersigned "Robert Southwell", printed form with manuscript insertions, blind stamped paper seal, torn along folds, laid down on card, browned, folio, Chapelizard [Chapelizod, near Dublin], 30th July 1690.⁂ Perhaps Sir Mark Rainsford (1652-1709), Lord Mayor of Dublin 1700-01 and owner of the St James's Gate Brewery, which the Rainsfords sold to Arthur Guinness in 1759. This document was signed less than a month after the Battle of the Boyne.Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702), diplomat and government official.

Gwasg Gregynog.- Morris (Jan) A Machynlleth Triad, number XXXVII of 50 specially-bound copies, from an edition limited to 400, tipped-in illustrations by Brenda Berman, original morocco-backed boards, uncut, cloth slip-case, 1993 § Parry (Robert Williams) Cerddi, number 1 of 200 copies, wood-engravings by Peter Reddick, each titled in pencil, Lord Kenyon's copy with his signature to front free endpaper, original green morocco-backed cloth, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, uncut, spine slightly faded, Newtown, 1980 § Swrdwal (Ieuan ap Hywel) The Hymn to the Virgin, edited by Raymond Garlick, number 66 of 100 copies, text in Welsh and English, tipped-in wood-engraved frontispiece by Colin Paynton, bound in blue morocco, original wrappers bound in, 1985 § Llyfer Ionas [Book of Jonah], number 164 of 250 copies, printed in blue and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Colin Paynton, original wrappers, uncut, 1988, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog; and 12 others, Welsh, from the press, including the two boxes of pamphlets Places and Gregynog Poets, 8vo & small folio (16)

Ireland & India Botany.- Album of botanical watercolours and accompanying manuscript poetry, some signed 'Mamie' others with initials 'M.G.E.' or M.G.McF.', a few with decorative borders rather than botanical subjects, some marginal soiling, silk endpapers, original morocco, gilt initials ?J.H.E. on upper cover, rubbed, folio, Malahide, Dublin, Lucknow, Dinapore etc, 1873-78.⁂ The style, subject-matter and places all strongly suggest that 'Mamie' was from the same family as Frances Elizabeth McFall, to whom we tentatively attributed a very similar album, sold in these rooms, 27 May 2021, lot 94.

Whittington Press.- Book of Posters (A), printed at Whittington, with an Introduction by John Randle, number 3 of 50 special copies with an additional portfolio of posters (Edition A), from an edition limited to 125, wood-engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn, 35 tipped-in posters, many printed in colours, some folding, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, portfolio with 10 assorted posters loosely inserted (some folded) in original cloth-backed board folder, together in cloth drop-back box, morocco label on spine, large folio, Lower Marston, 1996.

Gregynog Press.- Revelation of Saint John the Divine (The), number 72 of 250 copies on Japanese vellum, printed in dark red and black, wood-engraved title and illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, several full-page, bookplate of Charles Peter Alford, original red calf, title and device in blind on upper cover, a little rubbed, spine faded, slip-case (worn), [Harrop 24], folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1932.

Gregynog Press.- Joinville (Jean, Sieur de, Seneschal de Champagne) The History of Saint Louis, translated by Joan Evans, number 66 of 200 copies on hand-made paper, initials designed by Alfred Fairbank and printed in red and blue, 17 hand-coloured wood-engraved coats-of-arms by Reynolds Stone, 2 maps, genealogical tables, original brown morocco with arms of St.Louis in gilt on upper cover, by the Gregynog Press Bindery, t.e.g., others uncut, very slight rubbing to one raised band, [Harrop 37], folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1937.⁂ One of the most handsome books produced by the press.

Thévet (André) Les Vrais pourtraits des hommes illustres grecs, latins et payens, recueilliz de leurs tableaux, livres, médailles antiques et modernes, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, collation: a b6 c4 A-Z Aa-Ee6 Ff4 Gg-Zz6 AAa-ZZz AAAa-ZZZz AAAAa-TTTTt6 ã6 ē6 ĩ6 õ2, engraved architectural title, portrait of Henri III with a sonnet by Scévole de Sainte-Marthe beneath, portrait of the author (b5) with a verse by Jean Dorat beneath, and numerous fine large portraits within text, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, Gg3 blank, lacking a6 and title to vol.2 (Gg1), first title with upper margin trimmed and mounted on blank recto of a2, a few short marginal tears, occasionally with loss (not affecting text), some spotting and staining (including water-staining (heavier at end), and the odd ink stain), a few small wormholes / traces to margins, lightly browned, later panelled tan calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, spine ends little worn, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, folio (372 x 242mm.), Paris, Widow of Jacques Kerver & Guillaume Chaudière, 1584.⁂ Thévet's handsomely printed comprehensive collection of biographies of the great and the good. Thévet (1516-1590) was a French Franciscan priest, explorer, cosmographer and writer, who travelled to the Near East and to South America. Provenance: 'De la biblioteque de Messire Bernard de Noblet, Chevalier Comte de Chenelette, Lieutenant des Mareschaux de France' (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown). Literature: Adams T625; Mortimer French, 518.

Atlases.- Waghenaer (Lucas Janszoon) The Mariners Mirrour, wherin may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, soundings, flouds and ebs... for th'entrings of the harbouroughs [sic], havens and ports of the greatest part of Europe... Together with the Rules and instruments of Navigation. First made & set fourth in diuers exact Sea-Charts, by that famous Nauigator Luke Wagenar of Enchuisen and now fitted with necessarie additions for the use of Englishmen by Anthony Ashley..., 2 parts in 1, first edition in English, engraved title to each part, the first signed in the plate by Theodore de Bry, engraved dedication to Sir Christopher Hatton, 4 engraved navigational diagrams and star chart, without volvelles or moving parts [no sign of ever being present], with 35 double-page maps engraved only (of 45) by De Bry and Joducus Hondius, all leaves on stubs, maps not bound in correct order with maps from first part at the end of second part, maps lacking from part 1 include nos. 15, 16, 17, and from part 2, nos. 6, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20 and 21, with pt. 2 no. 2 bound upside-down, each double-page map sheet approx. 390 x 520 mm (15 ¼ x 20 in), map no. 1 from part 2 trimmed within platemark [as issued?], on various laid paper sheets with late 16th century watermarks of bunch of grapes and armorial gate, part 1 title with early partial ink inscription that reads '... noble of London the XXIXth of December 1591... [?] Johan Harries... [?]', part 1 title and dedication with right edge of sheet reinforced and extended verso, both with handling creases, surface dirt and minor damp-stains, otherwise some scattered damp-stains within central sections of maps and text leaves, surface dirt, occasional minor offsetting, some of the maps printing weakly, others well inked excellent impressions, some printer's creases present within the maps, minor nicks and tears to some extremities, 19th century half calf over marbled boards, spine splitting, rubbed and worn, folio, [1588].⁂ The essential early guide for English mariners, with the author's name being so thoroughly adopted that a "Waggoner" eventually became synonymous with any volume of sea charts. Two years after the highly successful appearance of Waghenaer's Spieghel der Zeevaerdt Lord Charles Howard of Effingham, Lord Admiral of England, drew the attention of Her Majesty's Privy Council to Waghenaer's sea-atlas, and suggested that it was the answer to a long-felt want. Shortly thereafter it was "esteemed by the chief personages of the grave counsell worthy to be translated and printed into a language familiar to all nations." One Anthony Ashley was commissioned to translate the text and place names; the charts, entirely re-engraved, are among the earliest copper plates made in England. ['World Encompassed', Baltimore Museum of Art, 1952, cat. No. 182]. "Heerin also may be understood the exploits of lately atchived by the right honorable the L. admiral of Englad with her maties navie; and some former services don by that worthy knight sr. Fra. Drake" [title page, Mariners Mirrour, 1588].Provenance: Johan Harries, London [1590s] (ink inscription on title).Literature: S.T.C. 24931; Phillips, Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, no. 3981.

Shanty Bay Press.- [Homer.] Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, translated by Susan C.Shelmerdine, number 3 of 110 copies signed by the artist, colour woodcut title, 2 plates & tail-piece and 3 pochoir plates by Walter Bachinski, with prospectus, souvenir leaf and Christmas card from the press loosely inserted, original half-cloth over pictorial boards, uncut, sloth slip-case, folio, Ontario, Shanty Bay Press, 2003.