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EPHEMERA: An album titled 'Long long ago', containing numerous invoices or invoice headings, mostly engraved, with illustrations, arms and/or calligraphic script, contemporary morocco, rubbed, lower joints splitting, folio, 19th century. - Engraved note-paper, a large bundle of note-papers, each with an engraved topographical illustration at its head, loose, 4to, 19th century; and another small collection of invoice headings (3)SOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN. 

Ɵ PRINTS and DRAWINGS: 15 volumes. CARRACCI, Annibale. Imagines farnesiani cubiculi. engraved title and 7 (of 11) plates by Petrus Aquila after Carracci, lacks dedication and 4 plates, contemporary calf gilt, worn, large oblong folio, Rome, Rubeis, [c.1690]. - Album containing 21 sheets with watercolour drawings of insects (mainly butterflies and moths), often more than one to a sheet, mounted in a half calf album, oblong folio, inscribed on end leaf, 'Richard Wilson R[oyal] A[rtillery] Gibralter, 1833': and 7 parts of Osterly Menagery (affected by damp), 5 parts of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, and part 3 of De Fer's Les Forces de L'Europe.

Ɵ BENAKI, A.E. (1873 - 1954). [editor]. Hellenic National Costumes. 2 vol., limited to 325 copies, text of vol.1 a reprint (100 copies printed, dated 1969), text in English, French and Greek, 112 coloured plates (numbered 1-85, plus 27 supplementary plates), text of vol.2 in original wrappers, otherwise loose as issued in original cloth portfolios, folio, Athens, 1948-1954 (text of vol.1 dated 1969).Antonis Benakis (Greek: Αντώνης Μπενάκης) was a Greek art collector and the founder of the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, Provenance: The Art Library of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Weston Hall. 

A FOLIO OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS19TH CENTURYMany laid on the blue sugar paper pages and boards63cm x 50cm 

Ɵ ART: Five volumes. STOKES, Adrian. (1902 - 1972). Venice, Illustrated by John Piper, Artist's Presentation copy to Sacheverell and Georgia Sitwell, 1965, and four others, 1948-1978. comprises: STOKES, Adrian. (1902 - 1972). Venice, Illustrated by John Piper, Artist's Presentation copy to Sacheverell and Georgia Sitwell. Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., London, 1965. first trade edition, 8vo., (245 x 198mm), publisher's blind-stamped dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dustwrapper unclipped, design John Piper, endpapers and illustrations throughout by John Piper, inscribed and dated to Sacheverell Sitwell and his wife Georgia Sitwell, by the artist in blue ink on front free e/p., 'Sachie & Georgia, with love / and Christmas greetings / from John & Myfawny, 1965', half-title, 69pp. John Piper (1903-1992) was an English painter, printmaker, designer of stained-glass windows, opera and theatre sets. Sir Osbert Sitwell invited John Piper in autumn, 1947, to do some paintings of his Italian home Montegofoni, for his autobiography, four of which were used to illustrate Great Morning and Laughter in the Next Room, Boston: Little, Brown, 1948; PRAZ, Mario. (1896 - 1982). An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration from Pompeii to Art Nouveau. London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. first edition, folio., (301 x 245mm), publisher's brown gilt cloth, gilt lettering to spines, dustwrapper clipped, further within glassine wrapper, 396pp; CLARK, Kenneth. (1903 - 1983). Piero Della Francesca. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1951. first edition, small folio., (310 x 240mm), publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, title page in red and black text, 219 b/w., reproduction illustrations, 7 full-colour, 212pp; together with PARKER, K.T. The Drawings of Antonio Canaletto in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle. Oxford & London: The Phaidon Press, 1948; LAURITZEN, Peter: ZIELCKE, Alexander. Palaces of Venice, Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1978. Provenance: The Art Library of Sir Sacheverel Sitwell, Weston Hall.  

Ɵ SITWELL, Sacheverell / RUSSELL, James. Old Garden Roses, Part 1, 1955 with Three TLS. relating to Georgia Sitwell and The Times newspaper, 1977. comprises: SITWELL, Sacheverell / RUSSELL, James. Old Garden Roses, Part 1. George Rainbird Ltd., in association with Collins, London, 1955. single volume, first edition, Limited edition of 2160 copies, this being No. 213, folio., (430 x 315mm), original publisher's green papered boards, pink label lettered in gilt to front, colour illustrated with 8 reproductions from paintings by Charles Raymond, foreward by Graham Thomas, 52pp, NPG. tissue wrapping with printed label. National Portrait Gallery Exhibition. The Sitwells: 14/10/94 - 22/1/95. Catalogue No. f72 / 6.51n; together with three typescript letters loosely inserted, the first letter - a copy of a typescript letter, unsigned, from Georgia Sitwell to the Literary Editor of the Times, 1977, 12 lines, typed to a single leaf, 'May I be allowed to say a few words in defence of my late, and by me, lamented father-in-law, Sir George Sitwell . . . it seems unnecessary that someone as biased as your reviewer in last Saturday's Times should be allowed thus to malign him . . . the review seems utterly obsessed with the 'social' side of Osbert's autobiographies to the detriment of their literary credits . . . '; the second letter - a response to Lady Sitwell from from Ion Trewin, the Times Literary Editor, October 14, 1977, 10 lines, ' . . .In my opinion . . . it would be a very boring book page if we indulged solely in literary criticism . .'; the third letter - from the original reviewer of the Times article, to Lady Sitwell, October 18, 1977, 22 lines, typed to a single leaf, printed address, Arundel Terrace, Brighton, Sussex, . . . 'Since we were fellow guests at Robin Maugham's 60th birthday party, and I sat next to your husband . . . '.Provenance: The Sitwell Family Library, Weston Hall.  

Ɵ BESANCENOT, Jean. (Jean Girard, 1902 - 1992). Costumes et types du Maroc. number 127 of 310 copies, 60 coloured and plain plates by Besancenot, each numbered and identified on tissue guards, one double-page map, 8 plain plates printed recto/verso lettered A-H, loose as issued in original boards portfolio with printed label on upper cover, folio, Paris, Editions des Horizons de France, [1942].Jean Besancenot, pseudonym of Jean Girard, was a French photographer, painter, draughtsman and ethnologist. His art and ethnography represent Moroccan costumes and customs of the first half of the twentieth century. Provenance: The Art Library of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Weston Hall.   Condition Report: text slightly spotted, portfolio worn (upper cover detached, lacking flaps, some fraying/tears, one tie detached) Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ AMUCHASTEGUI, Axel. (1921 - 2002). Some Birds and Mammals of South America, with an introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell. Tyron Gallery, 1966. single volume, Limited edition of 355 copies, folio., original morocco-backed boards, this copy 'Complimentary copy for Sacheverell Sitwell', Presentation copy, inscribed by Sitwell to Gertrude Stevenson, coloured plates, slipcase. Provenance: The Art Library of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell

Ɵ FURNITURE: 4 vols., 1927-1973. comprises: MACQUOID, Percy (1852 - 1925). EDWARDS, Ralph. (1894 - 1977). The Dictionary of English Furniture, Vol. III, (M-Z), London: Published at the Offices of Country Life and Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1927. first edition, folio., (410 x 295mm), publisher's green gilt cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt top, dustwrapper unclipped, green patterned e/ps., half-title, 16 colour plates, numerous in-text b/w. photo. illustrations, 340pp; BRACKETT, Oliver. English Furniture Illustrated. A Pictorial Review of English Furniture from Chaucer to Queen Victoria, Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1950. revised edition, edited by H. Clifford Smith, 4to., (310 x 255mm), publisher's cloth gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, 240 full-page plates, 300pp; HAYWARD, Helena. [editor]. World Furniture. An Illustrated History. Hamlyn, London, New York, Sydney, Toronto, 1975. seventh impression, folio., (345 x 260mm), publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, photo. illustrated e/ps., b/w. and colour illustrations of early Egyptian, Greek and Roman furniture through the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 320pp; WATSON, F.J.B. Louis XVI Furniture. London: Academy Editions, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1973. square 8vo., (190 x 165mm), publisher's black cloth, white lettering to spine, dustwrapper clipped, 162pp. text, plus 242 b/w. plates and drawings. Provenance: The Art Library of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Weston Hall. 

Ɵ MISCELLANEOUS: mostly nineteenth-century books in English, 114 volumes. GIBBON, E. The Miscellaneous Works, 5 vols., contemporary green morocco-backed boards, 8vo, 1814. - GURNEY, J.J. Notes on a Visit made to some of the Prisons in Scotland... with Elizabeth Fry, contemporary cloth, faded, 1819. - DIBDIN, T.F. The Library Companion, contemporary half calf, 1824. - [APPERLEY, C.J.] Remarks on the Condition of Hunters, the Choice of Horses [&c.], original cloth-backed boards, somewhat worn, 1831. - PAYNE, publisher. Orbis Pictus, or Book of Beauty, engraved plates, spotted and stained, n.d.; Reynard the Fox, plates, n.d., 2 vols. in one, contemporary red morocco gilt, [c.1850]. - FORSYTH, W. The Great Fair of Nijni Novogorod, and how we got there... not published, original cloth, 1865. - SCOTT, George Gilbert. Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, original cloth, 1857. - BRINDLEY, W. and W.S. WEATHERLEY. Ancient Sepulchral Monuments, original cloth, folio, 1887. - WALLACE, A.R. Island Life... second edition, original cloth, slightly worn, 1892. - COBBETT, W. Rural Rides, 3 vols., limited to 1000 copies, woodcuts by John Nash, Rothermere bookplate, green half morocco, 1930; and 98 others, various sizes.SOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN. 

Ɵ SITWELLIANA: A SCRAP ALBUM, 'OF DAME EDITH SITWELL', 1920s-1960s; and A Wicker Basket of press cuttings, 1960s-1970s. comprises: A single album, folio, (445 x 330mm), black cloth, navy-blue leather spine, with silver stencil letters pasted to front, titled 'Of Dame Edith Sitwell', light brown e/ps., decorative manuscript title-page, 'Of Dame Edith Sitwell, Time Soon or Late will Close the Brightest of Eyes, Tis only what is Written Never Dies', the album compiled from 1927 until Edith' death in 1964, approx. 304pp., newspaper cuttings, many with photographs, magazine articles by and about Dame Edith Sitwell, including 'The World's Finest Nose Identified' by Gertrude Stein, Edith's articles on other authors, reviews of her published works, family related articles, press coverage of Edith and Osbert's American Tour, with a few obituaries for Edith Sitwell at the end of the album written by some of her closest friends such as Cecil Beaton and Evelyn Waugh, NPG tissue wrapping and label. National Portrait Gallery Exhibition, The Sitwells: 14/10/94 - 22/1/95. Catalogue No. d55/4.34a; together with A cone-shaped wicker basket full of newspaper press cuttings, mostly 1960s-1970s. Provenance: The Sitwell Family Library, Weston Hall.  

WESTON HALL: Two folio Ledgers, 'An Inventory of Contents', 1911 / 'Legacy, Succession and Estate Duties', 1814-1923, with two related letters, 1912-1950. comprises: WESTON HALL. (Northamptonshire). Inventory of Contents, Weston Hall Stabling & Gardens &c., 1911. An Inventory of the Household Furniture, Oil Paintings, Engravings, Miniatures, Silver, Jewellery, Linen, Wines, Garden Utensils, Stable Requisitions, &c., compiled by H.P. Stage, Auction, Land Estate & Valuation Brackley, (Northamptonshire), on behalf of solicitors, Frere Cholmeley & Co., 28 Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C., June, 1911, folio., (325 x 203mm), buff- coloured, ruled soft paper wrappers, titled in manuscript to front, 'June 1911, Lady Harriet Frances Wyndham Hanmer deceased . . . ', title page, 4pp. Index, and 82 leaves of single-sided typed inventory, 7 leaves of which have further pencil manuscript lists and marginal notes written to versos at the back of the ledger, 6 loose leaves of typed inventory listing Plate and Oil Paintings, stapled to top of pages, together with two letters loosely inserted, the first - a 1pp., 8 line manuscript letter, dated August 7, 1912, from the solicitors firm, Frere Cholmeley, 28 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London W.C., written on their printed headed notepaper to Mr. Thomas, Hurworth Manor, Darlington, (County Durham), 'Dear Mr. Thomas, I now enclose your copy of the Inventory of the contents of Weston Hall. It has now been carefully examined with the original copy approved & signed by you, & is quite correct'; the second letter - a 1pp., 10 line typescript, dated 1st July, 1950, from the solicitors firm, Frere, Cholmeley & Nicholsons, (same Lincoln's Inn address), to Mrs. Sacheverell Sitwell, Weston Hall, Towcester, Northampton, 'My dear Georgia, We have been making some searches here and found some old papers giving a list of pictures, etc. which were included in the Estate of a member of the Hamer (sic) Family which we believe form the basis of the Weston Heirlooms. I enclose a list and would be grateful of your views. . . .', the firm advises Georgia Sitwell to add to the enclosed list the items of furniture which are heirlooms, or take away those that are no longer there, in order for the present Trustees and Sachie (Sir Sacheverell Sitwell), to sign the list and 'get the thing settled'; WESTON ESTATE, NORTHANTS. Accounts for Legacy, Succession and Estate Duties, 1814- 1923. a bound ledger of documents, folio, (430 x 275mm), dark blue cloth, titled label to front 'Accounts for Legacy, Succession and Estate Duties, paid on the deaths of 1) Colonel The Hon. Henry Hely Hutchinson in 1814. - 2) Harriet Frances Lady Hanmer in 1911. - 3) Mrs. Georgina Mary Thomas in 1923, (bound 11/8/24)', 117pp., includes Inland Revenue accounts of real estate and leasehold properties, annuity receipts, debts in bond and other securities, three valuations, 7pp., of plate, oil paintings and books in the Library at Weston, 1923, 3pp. list of The Weston Estate cottages, land and tenants, 1pp. typescript document detailing the line of inheritance for the Coolcott Estate, situated in the Barony of Shilmalier and County Wexford, Ireland, held under Foo Farm Grant, dated 22 August, 1856 between the Honourable Henry Hely Hutchinson and the Rt. Hon. Barbara Dowager Countess of Donoughmore. Weston Hall was the home of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell and his Canadian wife Georgia Doble, from 1927 until his death in 1988. The house was inherited through the female line of the family until Harriet Hely-Hutchinson died in 1864, leaving Weston Hall to her daughter, Harriet Frances, (later Lady Hanmer), who bequeathed Weston Hall to her nephew, Sir George Sitwell, (1860 - 1943). The 17th century manor house and ancestral home of the Sitwell family played host to an eclectic circle of art and literary friends including Evelyn Waugh, Arthur and Zita James, Rex Whistler, Virginia Woolf, and Cecil Beaton. The young William Walton, a protégé of the Sitwells, composed much of the music for his choral cantata Belshazzar's Feast whilst he was living at Weston Hall. (Qty. 4) Provenance: The Sitwell Family Library, Weston Hall.  Condition Report: 1. The Weston Hall Inventory - paper covers marked and stained, the cover corners and leaves of inventory curled at the corners, internally a little toned, o/w, clean.2. Frere Chomeley Letter to Mr. Thomas - some marks overall.3. Frere Cholmerley Letter to Mrs. Sacherverell Sitwell - folded, minor mark beneath 'I enclose . . . ' o/w. clean.4. WESTON ESTATE, NORTHANTS. Accounts for Legacy, Succession and Estate Duties - cloth worn and marked, corners scuffed, spine bumped and rubbed head/ tail, the documents with minor foxing and toning, some pages with marks and ink stains, o/w. mostly clean.Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ  POLYBIUS. THE HISTORY . . . translated by Edward Grimeston. first complete edition in English, single volume, woodcut title, folding plan, ('The plot of the Romanes campe'), old calf, new endpapers, folio., London, N. Okes for Cornelius Bee, 1634. Condition Report: Lacks first leaf (blank), binding rubbed, worn at head of spine. boards marked, corners scuffed, 2 small splits to leather at top of spine, r.h. edge of title page a little ragged (with loss) and the first 6pp. stained to r.h. lower leaf edges, some crinkling to pages throughout. Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ  CANES, Francisco. Diccionario Espanol Latino-Aribigo. 3 vols., first edition, double column, roman, italic and Arabic type, half-titles and errata leaf in each volume, contemporary calf, folio., Madrid, 1787. Intended for the use of missionaries in Africa and the Middle East, this is an early dictionary focusing on colloquial rather than classical Arabic. Condition Report: Binding rubbed and worn.Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ  OTTOMAN ATLAS: Raif Efendi, Mahmud. Cedid Atlas Tercumesi [A Translation of a New Atlas]. single volume, hand-coloured engraved pictorial title with the tughra of Sultan Selim III, text in Ottoman Turkish, (79pp + 1p.), 24 hand-coloured terrestrial maps, including 2 twin-hemispheres and one world, all double-page, (some additionally folded), one double-page, plain celestial chart (coloured in outline), contemporary Ottoman blind-stamped calf, folio., (548 x 365mm), Constantinople, 1218 AH (April 1803 - March 1804). Provenance: Probably given to General Lord Hely-Hutchinson of Alexandria, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore, by the Ottoman Sultan Selim III. RARE. This is the first large folio world atlas printed in the Islamic world, 'of which only 50 copies were printed' (Catalogue of the Library of Congress). The maps are based on William Faden's General Atlas (pub. 1796), a copy of which was obtained by the author when he was in London serving as private secretary to the Ottoman Ambassador. They are close to Faden's originals, but place names are transliterated into Arabic script, Christian symbols are removed, and the cartouches are without their human figures - Neptune's trident remains but not Neptune himself. They are accompanied by Mahmud Raif Efendi's geographical treatise.The atlas is one of the products of the Ottoman 'New Order' (Nizam-i Cedid), a series of reforms instituted by Sultan Selim III to match the European powers militarily and politically. Several copies were reserved for high-ranking officials and important institutions, but others were lost during the Janissary revolt of 1807/8, during which Selim was deposed and Raif was killed. Selim was killed by assassins soon after.It has been estimated that a maximum of twenty complete copies might survive in institutional or private libraries, though this figure may be revised slightly in the light of recent discoveries.How such a rare and prized book found its way into this library is uncertain. One possibly would be through General John Hely-Hutchinson (1757-1832) who was second-in-command of Abercromby's expedition to Egypt in 1801. On Abercromby's death Hely-Hutchinson assumed command and his successes at Cairo and Alexandria against the French led to him being rewarded by Sultan Selim III, who made him a Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Crescent. Another possibility is Frederick North (1766-1827), fifth Earl of Guilford, the philhellene and book collector, who travelled in the Ottoman empire and settled in Corfu. Other family members included Richard Heber (1773-1833), the bibliophile, and Reginald Heber (1783-1826), bishop of Calcutta and half-brother of Richard. Condition Report: Binding slightly rubbed, short split at head of spine. Minor damp-staining to some pages. Covers slightly worn. Please refer to additional images. Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ FOXE, John. [Book of Martyrs]. 2 volumes, (1033pp. +788pp.), vol. 1, inscribed 'Reresby Sitwell from Professor Edward J. Dent', uniform contemporary calf, folio., pr. for the Company of Stationers 1610-1641, comprising: [Vol. 1] Actes and Monuments, vol. 1 engraved portrait by G. Glover, woodcut title (cut down and mounted), woodcut plate (at p.332) and illustrations, 1610; [Vol. 2] The second volume of the ecclesiastical history, woodcuts, 1641.Sold Not Subject to Return.Condition Report: Sold Not Subject To Return.Bindings worn, some soiling and slight staining; Volume 1. last leaf torn just touching text. Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ THEVNOT. The Travels . . . into the Levant. single volume, first English edition, engraved portrait (cut down and mounted), 3 plates, errata leaf, contemporary calf, folio, 1687.Condition Report: Portrait cut down and mounted, occasional slight soiling, binding worn, lower cover detached.Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ MORTON, John. The Natural History of Northampton-shire. single volume, first edition, folding map, 14 plates, contemporary panelled calf gilt, folio., 1712.Condition Report: Binding expertly rebacked, lacking label.Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: 8 volumes. BRIDGES, John. The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, 2 vols., first edition, seemingly without the plates usually called for but instead extra-illustrated with c.47 plates (final leaf 'Directions to the binder for plates...' at end vol.2 is pasted over), contemporary calf, rather worn, folio, Oxford, 1791. - BAKER, George. The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton, 2 vols., first edition, plates, contemporary russia, spines somewhat rubbed, vol.2 lacking head of spine, folio, 1822-1830. - BAKER, A.E. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases, 2 vols., original cloth, 8vo, 1854; and 2 others by Whellan and DrydenSOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN.

Ɵ CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of. History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. 3 vols., first editions, 3 engraved frontispieces, contemporary calf, bookplate of Tho[mas] Perrot, folio. Oxford, 1702-1704. Condition Report: Bindings somewhat rubbed and worn (more so to volume 1, with loss to head of spine).Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ GOVERNMENT, LAW, etc. 17th and 18th century folios, 7 volumes. SIDNEY, Algernon. Discourses concerning Government, first edition, 1698 - [ALLESTREE, Richard] The Works... the second impression, frontispiece, first few leaves with slight water damage at lower edge, Oxford, 1687. - TEMPLE, Sir William, The Works, 2 vols., first edition, 1720. - PUFENDORF, Samuel von. Of the Law of Nature and Nations, third edition, 1717. - DOMAT, Jean. The Civil Law in its Natural Order, 2 vols., first edition in English, 1722; all contemporary calf, rather worn, folio (7).SOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN.  

Ɵ JOHN, Augustus. (1878 - 1961). Fifty-two Drawings, with an Introduction by Lord David Cecil. single volume, number 4 of 150 copies signed by Augustus John and David Cecil, further inscribed on title-page by Sacheverell Sitwell, plates, original half vellum, slipcase, folio. 1957.Provenance: The Art Library of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell.

Ɵ SITWELLIANA, Vol. 1: A Scrap Album, compiled by the Sitwell family, c.1920s-40s. a single album, folio. (446 x 345mm x 65mm), light brown buckram binding, red morocco, gilt lettered labels to front and spine, manuscript decorated title to first page 'Sitwelliana Vol. 1', with 'W.B.M. Archives No. 34' written to lower pastedown, 376pp. of newspaper cuttings and photographs, including numerous magazine articles written by and about the Sitwell siblings relating to travel, food, music, art, poetry, gardens and architecture, many cuttings for reviews of their written and stage works, personal memoirs, caricatures, book launches, parties, fashion statements, press announcements of family engagements, weddings, births, deaths, and articles featuring the Sitwells 'at home' in their various properties including Weston Hall, Northamptonshire, Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, Castello di Montegufoni, Italy, and Osbert Sitwell's home in Chelsea, London. The cuttings taken from many publications including Tatler, the Bystander, the Times, the Everyman, and the Sketch, with NPG. tissue wrapping and printed label. Provenance: The Sitwell Family Library; the National Portrait Gallery Exhibition, The Sitwells: 14/10/94 - 22/1/95.  

BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS: a folio of seven portrait photographs, 1920s-30s. comprises: HERBERT RICHARD LAMBERT. (British, 1882 - 1936). Violet Gordon-Woodhouse and Agustin Rubio, c. 1930s. two bromide prints on photographer's tissue mounted card, inscribed in pencil to tissue mount, 'Herbert Lambert / Elliot & Fry Studios', the images 15.2 x 20cm and 14.3 x 19.8cm, both with manuscript captions in pencil beneath, 'Violet Gordon Woodhouse, the musician with her master', and 'Violet Gordon Woodhouse', both numbered in pencil on versos of card, H5849J and H5849A, 31 x 26.5cm overall. Herbert Richard Lambert was a British portrait photographer known for his portrayals of professional musicians and composers including Gustav Holst. Lambert became managing director of the Elliott & Fry portrait studio in 1936. In addition to photography, Lambert was also an amateur maker of musical instruments, specialising in harpsichords and clavichords. Violet Kate Eglinton Gordon- Woodhouse (1872 - 1948), was a British harpsichordist, clavichordist, and pianist. Violet first met Osbert Sitwell at one of the Sunday afternoon recitals she gave at her home in Ovingdon Square, London, during the First World War. She became a close family friend, and all three Sitwells stayed with her at Nether Lypiatt, her home in Gloucestershire, and visited her in Mount Street, Mayfair. Violet later studied with Agustin Rubio, Spanish cellist and music teacher to Pablo Casals. Sacheverell and Osbert Sitwell both wrote that they had only known two women of genius, one was their sister Edith, the other was Violet Gordon-Woodhouse. Sacheverell, being the most musical of the Sitwell siblings, spent time with Violet discovering the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti; PAUL LAIB. (German, 1869 - 1958). Viva King. c. 1930s. a photographic print of an original portrait painting, on card mount, manuscript caption in pencil beneath, 'Mrs. William King nee Viva Booth', photographer's printed stamp to verso of mount, the image 22 x 17cm, 39 x 30cm overall.Paul Laib made photographic records of paintings, drawings and sculpture for his artist clients. The majority of the photographs were taken whilst work was in the artists' possession. Laib photographed works of all the major artists working in Britain between 1898 and 1950s. Mrs. Viva King (1893-1978), was referred to by Osbert Sitwell as both 'the Queen of Bohemia' and 'the Scarlet Woman'. Her marriage to Willie King (British Museum curator and ceramics expert), was unconventional, (both were said to proposition young gay men). Viva became the hostess of a successful salon at Thurloe Square, London...' (Elizabeth Wilson, Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts, 2003). 'Queen of Bohemia'; HUGH CECIL. (British, 1889 - 1974). Hon. Desmond Parsons, c. 1920s. a bromide print on card mount, signed lower right, manuscript caption in pencil beneath, 'Hon. Desmond Parsons, brother of Michael Earl of Rosse', the image 23 x 18.6cm, photographer's printed label, green text, to verso of card mount, numbered 11099 A, 35.9 x 25.9cm overall. Hon. Desmond Edward Parsons, (1910-1937) was an aristocratic aesthete, regarded as 'one of the most magnetic men of his generation.' He had a passionate friendship with James Lees-Milne, the one true love of Harold Acton, and the unrequited love of Robert Byron. In 1934 they lived together in Peking, where Parsons developed Hodgkin's Disease. His brother, who was visiting him, managed to bring Desmond Parsons back to Europe where he died on 4 July 1937; MACADAMS (?possibly), MONTREAL. Elizabeth Le Mesurier. c. 1920s. a bromide print on card mount, signed in pencil lower right by the photographer, manuscript pencil caption above, 'Elizabeth le Mesurier, friend of Mrs S Sitwell', further inscribed by the sitter in pencil beneath, 'very best love / Betty', the image 22.5 x 17.2cm, 31.7 x 25.5cm overall; GREENS STUDIO, FLEMINGTON, N.J. Frances (Mufi) Engleman, c. 1920s. a bromide print on card mount, silver elastic mounts to corners, captioned in pencil beneath, 'Frances (Mufi) Engleman, 1st cousin of Mrs S Sitwell, (daughter of Frances Engleman - nee Hyde, maternal aunt of Mrs S Sitwell) (1902 - )', the image 23.5 x 17.5cm, studio printed stamp to verso of photograph, 34.5 x 25cm overall; PAUL TANQUERAY. (1905 - 1991). Georgia Sitwell, 1928. a bromide print mounted on card mount, signed and dated in pencil lower right, the image 29 x 23.7cm, photographer's printed label, red text to verso of card mount, the studio address 139, High Street Kensington. W., and numbered 697B, 42.5 x 32.5cm overall. Paul Tanqueray began his photographic career as a pupil of photographer Hugh Cecil. Tanqueray opened his first studio at 139, High Street, Kensington in 1925. Tanqueray, as London's youngest photographer of the day, documented an era that had become obsessed with youth and modernism. During this time he employed ex-Cambridge graduate, Cecil Beaton as his assistant; the photographs loosely inserted into a blue folio folder, with the Lenare portraiture studio's name and address in gilt to front. (Qty. 7).Provenance: The Sitwell Family collection.              

AN ITALIAN PAINTED WOOD DONKEY CART PANEL'FABRICA (sic) DI CARRI DI GIUSEPPE JONITALBANO (?) PIAZZA DEL ARDONE FONDATA NEL 1830', (from the wagon maker of Guiseppe Jonitalbano, Piazza del Ardone, established in 1830) possibly Sicilian, painted with a figural scene titled 'RIVOLTA DEGLI SCIAVI' (Revolt of the Slaves), with a carved folio border, inscribed verso '1826' and with ink stamps 'MADE IN ITALY'Approximately 44cm high, 60cm wide (probably cut down from a larger panel)Condition Report: Very worn, with splits, worm holes, chips and losses Condition Report Disclaimer

DAME EDITH LOUISA SITWELL D.B.E. (1887 - 1964). 'THIS IS YOUR LIFE', 1962A small group of 6 items. Edith Sitwell's Personal memorabilia presented to her by the BBC. television series. comprises. 'The Big Red Book', oblong folio., (260 x 32.5mm), red cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, 'This is Your Life, Dame Edith Sitwell, D.B.E.', 85 thick grey card pages, including 6pp. of programme maker's credits, a 1pp. 'Thank you' to Francis Sitwell and Elizabeth Salter, 1pp. list of the guests, (including George Cukor, who could not attend and pre-recorded his tribute on film), 27 black and white photographs pasted down, depicting Edith receiving her guests during the broadcast, 20 x 15cm, with 3 black and white B.B.C. Television Service stills photographs loosely inserted, blue printed captions, numbered 31-33, and dated 6.11.62 to versos, 6 x 21cm; together with a framed pair of photographs, within white card mounts, depicting Edith Sitwell with her friends and relatives on the set of 'This is Your Life', by John S. Sherman for the BBC., the top image from left to right, Sir Cecil Beaton, Baroness Bosmelet, Anthony Bernard, Tom Driberg, Sacheverell Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell (seated), Marjorie Proops, Georgia Sitwell, Veronica Gilliat, Francis Sitwell, Velma LeRoy, John Robbins, Edith Sitwell (seated), and Reresby Sitwell, the lower image, depicting Dame Edith with her family and Eamonn Andrews, the host of the show, both images 14.5 x 20cm, N.P.G. blue and white printed label to verso of frame, framed and glazed; with a loosely inserted typed letter, dated 28 May, 1994, from the National Portrait Gallery to Francis Sitwell, asking for his assistance in identifying some of the guests who had appeared on the programme; National Portrait Gallery Exhibition, The Sitwells: 14/10/94 - 22/1/95, Catalogue Nos. d76 / 4.51a and d75 / 4.51b; with a framed artwork of a Programme cover, designed for a concert held in celebration of Dame Edith Sitwell's 75th Birthday, Royal Festival Hall, 9 October, 1962', 23.5 x 17.5cm, framed and glazed.Edith Sitwell featured on the 200th programme in the series 'This is Your Life', broadcast 6 November, 1962, one of many events arranged to mark her 75th birthday. The usual format of surprising the subject was waived owing to Edith's state of health. Edith Sitwell submitted to the ordeal only when she heard that her elderly maid, Velma Leroy, was making the journey from California for the occasion.  Provenance: Dame Edith Sitwell DBE (1887-1964). Condition Report: 1. . 'The Big Red Book' - red cloth binding worn and scuffed, title page with water stain? and a few holes to top and the l.h. side of the page, a few minor marks to some of the grey card pages, the photographs clean and bright.2. Framed photographs of Edith Sitwell with her friends and relatives on the set of 'This is Your Life', by John S. Sherman for the BBC - 48 x 38cm overall in a modern black frame, a few marks to the frame, the photographs and mount clean and bright.3. 4. 5. Three loose black and white B.B.B. Service stills photographs - clean and bright.6. National Portrait Gallery letter - clean.7.. Dame Edith Sitwell 75th Birthday artwork - 33 x 17cm overall within a modern black frame, the printed stamp of Bicket & Fitzroy, Northampton, to verso of frame. the artwork clean and bright.Condition Report Disclaimer

Pierre-Joseph Redoute, two volumes - 'Fruits and Flowers' and 'Roses 2' , The Ariel Press, 1955/1956, both with soft covers with floral pictorials, folio. (2)

Oxenham, John and Toplis, William - The Book of Sark, pub. Hodder and Stoughton 1908, original vellum with gilt title to front and decoration to spine, folio, no. 124 of an edition of 500, signed by the author and illustrator. Good copy

Dore, Gustave (illust.), Paradise Lost, by John Milton, ed. Robert Vaughan, pub. Cassell & Company 1905, numerous b&w plates throughout, original half morocco gilt, spine gilt, folio, cloth taped reinforcement to spine.

Botanical interest - Oxlade, Diana (illust.), A Tropical Glen, A Florilegium of Belfast Botanic Gardens, text by Reg Maxwell and Robert Scott, pub. Belfast (Nicholson & Bass) 2000, 1st ed., signed and numbered 63/500, 46 coloured plates, quarter green morocco and green cloth gilt, folio, with signed and numbered Subscriber's List.

A folio of British stamps from 1837 onwards including a Penny black and Penny reds, a folio of Stamps from Malaya, Aden and other commonwealth states, together with 3 albums of commemorative 1st day covers.

3 boxes of folio society books. (35).

A collection of Format international securities printed folio stamps, (19), first day covers, stamp sets etc…. Including Disney first day covers.

A large collection of mixed coinage Together with a folio of British coinage 1925-1952.

SIX BOXES OF BOOKS, over one hundreds and sixty books, mostly on the subject of cookery, gardening, art and history, includes Folio Society 'The Greek Myth I & II' in slip case, s.d, etc (6 boxes)

° Carthusianus, Dionysius - D.Dionyii Carthusiani Insigne Opus Commentariorrum In Psalmos Omnes Davidicos, folio, contemporary embossed vellum with brass clasps, cover detached, lacking portrait frontispiece, boards with scattered worming, text in two columns, woodcut capitals, bookplate of Muri Abbey in Switzerland, Haeredes Ioannis Quentelij & Geruinum Calenium, Cologne, 1558

Group of nine woodblock prints in original folio - masterpieces of Feminine Charm

Folio Society, set of 17 volumes in slip cases, The Works of Charles Dickens.

A Holy Bible dated 1872, in contemporary blind stamped leather boards, illustrated with fine plates, maps and plans as called for, together with The New Family Bible, embellished with fifty beautiful engravings, N.D., 2 vols., contemporary calf and The Rev. Farrar's Life of Christ, N.D., with in text illustrations, half morocco, small folio and Henry's Bible from Genesis to Deuteronomy, half calf.

Books - The National Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio together with the Taschen Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.

Konvolut 3 Bände Martin Luther1. "Deutsche Thesaurus, Des Hochgelerten weitberumbten und theuren Manns D. Mart. Luthers/ Darinnen alle Heubtartickel/ Christlicher/ Catholischer und Apostolischer Lehre und Glaubens erklert und außgelegt..." Geprägter Pergamentband auf Holzdeckeln, Titelholzschnitt in Rot und Schwarz, Einband mit Defekten, innen stark gebräunt, mit vereinzelten Wurmgängen, Schließen fehlen. Verlag: Feyerabend, Frankfurt dat. 1568. 2. "Der Dritte Teil || aller Bücher vnd Schrifften / Des || thewren seligen Mans Gottes / Doct. Mart. Luth. So er || nach dem Christlichen / selige Abschied / aus diesem Leben... . Gedruckt zu Jhena / Durch Donatum || Richßenhan/ Anno 1560" Blindgeprägter Ledereinband auf Holzdeckeln,Titelholzschnitt in Rot und Schwarz, Einband mit Defekten, innen gebräunt, mit wenigen Wurmgängen, 1 Schließe feht. Verlag: Donatum Richtzenhain, Jena dat. 1560. 3. "Der Fünfte Teil / aller Bücher und Schriften / des thewren seligen Mans Gottes Doct. Martini Lutheri / vom XXX. jahr an / bis auffs XXXIII. zum dritten mal gedruckt / aller ding dem Ersten und Aanderen Druck gleich ..." "gedruckt zu Jena durch Donatum Richtzenhain und Thomas Rebart Anno 1566" Blindgeprägter Ledereinband auf Holzdeckeln, Titelholzschnitt in Rot und Schwarz, Einband mit Defekten, innen gebräunt, mit wenigen Wurmgängen. Verlag: Donatum Richtzenhain und Thomas Rebart, Jena dat. 1566. Die Bände nicht kollationiert, je Folio ca. 34 x 22 cm (2°).

Folio Society, "Cities and Civilisation" by Christopher Hibbert, together with a 1990 Venice Biennale Anish Kapoor exhibition catalogue

Four Folio Society publications

"Modern Painting II. The Work Of P. A. De Laszlo, M. V. O." with foreword by A L Baldry, published by The Studio Limited, 44 Leicester Sq, W.C.2, 1921, and "Les Tresors De La Peinture Falfrancaise" folio of prints together with descriptions (2)

Alexander Charles - Jones "Piggy Paradise" watercolour, signed, W29cm H22cm, other equestrian watercolours by same artist and folio of 1960's educational "Blyton: nature plates" published by Macmillan & Co Ltd

Reverend Alfred Suckling: "The History & Antiquities of the County of Suffolk - The Hundred of Blything", 1848, pp 115-452 only dealing with the Hundred of Blything, 17 plates including Henham Hall, Somerleyton Hall, Gray Friars Dunwich, Ruins of the Convent Dunwich, etc., small folio, old quarter cloth, plus one other on Halesworth (2)

Folio Society - 'English Eccentrics', 'Coleridge', 'The Proud Tower'. 'Thomas Wolsey', etc. (15)

Folio Society Books - 'The Vikings', 'Mozart'. 'Cranford', 'Besiary', 'William Dampier', etc (16):- One Box.

Folio Society - 'Lives of The Artisits' and 'A history of The Crusades', three volume sets in slip cases. 'A History of England', three volumes.

Folio Society - 'The Relief of Lucknow', 'Most Notorious Pirates', 'A Lady's Life, and 'Marco Polo'. Cigarette and trade cards. H.G Wells books.

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

Folio Society Thomas Hodgkin, eight volumes.

A Folio Society 'The History of The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire', eight volumes in two slip cases.

dating: 1954 provenance: USA, 'Colt Firearms from 1836'; The Foundation Press, Santa Ana, 1954; Folio with 398 pages with black and white illustrations. Canvas hardcover with original dust jacket. height 30.5 cm.

BARTOLOZZI (Francesco): 'Seventy-three prints, engraved by F. Bartolozzi, &c from the original pictures and drawings...', London, John & Josiah Boydell, (c.1800): Vol.II only, with 60 engraved and etched plates only (of 73), a few folding, foxed and browned with some waterstains to margins, worn contemporary half calf with boards detached and spine deficient, for sale as a collection of plates only and not subject to return: together with an unrelated folio volume. (2)

GEORGIAN SCRAP ALBUM: a finely arranged early 19thc scrap album, comprising cut engravings and printed matter, interspersed with manuscript entries, watercolours and drawings, circa 1825-30, includes 4 line manuscript verse 'On a clergyman named Brooke who preaches at Racton Church', period half-calf album with upper cover detached, folio. (1)

TIMES NEWSPAPER: two large bound volumes, for May-June 1924 & October-December 1947, cloth/calf backed boards, elephant folio, contents browned. (2)

SHIPWRECKS: HARBOUR ACCOMMODATION REPORT: 'Report from the Select Committee on Harbour Accommodation', London, Hansard, 1884: numerous maps and plans of harbours, inc. 3 folding charts of shipwrecks around England, Scotland and Ireland, folio, library half calf with associated markings. (1)

HIGGINS (R A): 'Greek and Roman Jewellery..', London, Methuen, 1961, dustjacket, 8vo: GALLO (Miguel): 'The Gold of Peru', folio in slipcase, dustjacket, 1959: and approx 36 others, largely on jewellery and precious metals, all ex-Birmingham Assay Office Library with small inkstamp to front flyleaf. (Approx 38)

PRIP-MOLLER (J): 'Chinese Buddhist Monasteries...their plan and its function as a setting for Buddhist monastic life': Hong Kong University Press, 1967: 2nd edition: large folio, publishers cloth, slipcase, rubbed: together with approx 80 other books over three shelves, Oriental and Indian history and art. (3 shelves)