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BADEN POWELL (Robert): COUNTRY HOUSE ALBUM, a fine early 20th century country house visitor's album, comprising signatures of guest and hosts at numerous British country houses of the day, neatly arranged amongst additional photographs, ephemera and drawings, houses including Hatfield, Rushmore, Buckshaw, Kirkham Abbey, Kings Newton, Denton, Northill Grange, Chatsworth and others: includes an original pen and watercolour sketch of a leaping boy scout holding the flag by Robert Baden Powell, his autograph beneath, the drawing measuring approx 12 x 9cm, whilst at Rushmore House, Salisbury: numerous other signatures of nobility and noted figures of the day: oblong folio album, later red half morocco gilt by Bayntun of Bath, their receipt for the work from the 1970s loosely inserted, full provenance of the album typewritten by a former owner and pasted onto the front end leaves. (1)

FOLIO SOCIETY: collection of 72 vols, Folio Society, all but one in slipcase, plus 'The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes', 2 vols in slipcase. (74)

VICTORIA HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND: 'Hampshire and the Isle of Wight', Westminster, Constable, circa 1900: 5 vols, folio, Vols.1-4 in publishers red half roan, Vol.5 in publishers red cloth, some wear else a good set. (5)

JACKSON (C J): 'An Illustrated History of English Plate Ecclesiastical and Secular...', London, Country Life, 1911: 2 vols, publishers green half morocco gilt, spines sunned and rubbed, folio: with 3 others related: from the library of Birmingham Assay Office, small discrete stamp to front endpaper. (2)

FOLIO SOCIETY: a large quantity of Folio Society publications on 6 shelves, generally in good condition. (Qty)

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: EGYPT & INDIA: late 19thc album containing approx 150 albumen print photographs of various sizes, pasted onto thick card leaves, some captioned in pencil to include, 'Climbing the Pyramids': 'A Camel Corps Patrol': 'The Residency, Lucknow': 'Benares and River Ganges': 'The Much Abused Punkah-Wallah', series of 4 views showing coolie operating fan, 'Elephants Lifting Timber': 'Bulford Camp', etc: small folio album of period, half morocco, spine deficient. (1)

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS: group of four large format 19th century photograph albums, British and foreign topography, family portraits etc, all contemporary leather bindings, folio/4to. (4)

SCRAP ALBUM: Victorian scrap album, numerous pasted in prints, engravings and a few watercolours, some contents excised, green morocco gilt album, aeg, large folio. (1)

SCRAPBOOK: an early Victorian scrapbook, numerous pasted in hand-coloured and other prints and engravings, a few watercolours and pencil drawings, mounted to vary-coloured papers in small folio album of period, green morocco backed marbled boards, generally in good condition. (1)

BOOKS & ALBUMS: a large carton, miscellaneous books and albums, to include a folio of black and white photographs, blank stockbook mid-c20 and sundry. (Box)

THE RACING CALENDAR: two bound yearly volumes for 1909 & 1911: both folio, worn half calf with spines deficient, earlier volume with boards detached and tears to initial leaf, for sale as a periodical and not subject to return. (2)

DAVIES (John, Dr 1570?-1644): 'Antiquae Linguae Britannicae Nunc Volgo Dictae Cambro-Brittanicae', London, R Young, 1632: title and final 2 leaves in good quality facsimile, recent blind ruled calf in period style, folio. (1)

PRINTS, WATERCOLOURS & ENGRAVINGS: a large folio, of material, various periods, sizes and genres. (Folio)

SOUTH AFRICA: PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: late 19thc, containing original and commercial photographic views round South Africa, some postcards and 2 panoramas, various sizes, all pasted onto 28 thick card leaves, oblong folio album of period, spine deficient. (1)

DUGDALE (William): 'The Baronage of England, or an historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility...', London, Thomas Newcomb, 1675: 2 vols in 1, first title page cropped and relaid, contemporary calf gilt rebacked and cornered, folio: together with 12 other volumes, large format antiquarian. (13)

BIBLE ENGRAVINGS: 'Figures des histoires de la Saincte Bible...', Paris, Chez Guillaume le Be, 1646: folio, numerous fine half-page woodcut illustrations, some early leaves with damage and repair, old blind ruled sheep covered boards, for sale with all faults and not subject to return: together with a large carton of misc. other books and some postal history. (Box)

WEMBLEY EXHIBITION: period album containing 42 b&w photographs of the Wembley Exhibition, each image window mounted and captioned below in white ink, the images approx 10.5 x 15cm mounted 2 to a page, blue cloth album, small folio. (1)

INDIA: PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: late 19thc album, containing approx 120 albumen print photographs of India, images of various sizes pasted onto thick card leaves, contained in folio album of period, diced black calf gilt with boards loose, aeg, contents generally sound. (1)

BOX: large carton of books, to include publisher's cloth and leather bindings, two Folio Society, Cowden Clarke Shakespeare 3 vols, and sundry. (A box)

Maritime interest, a wooden flag pole, three pennants, a 16th edition Admiralty Leisure Chart Folio The Solent and Approaches, boxed Weems & Plath Ultralight Dividers / Compass 7", and other navigational instruments

A mixed box of hardback books, to include multiple Folio Society editions to include Anthony Trollope; Alfred Newton, 'Dictionary of Birds', 1896 etc

Complete set of four Calvin & Hobbes novels in slip case, and Folio Society - The Celts and Greek Myths

A collection of Folio Society books, all in slip cases, to include The Arabian Nights, The Canterbury Tales and others. (22)

A large quantity of Folio Society books, many unopened.

A quantity of folio society books including Painter of Passion The Journal of Eugene Delacroix, 1 is still sealed,

A folio of 19th century and later etchings, aquatints and other prints, various subjects

Sir John Waldron: a folio of eight unframed watercolours, Continental views, including Swiss mountains, Alpes Maritime, Corsica, etc, ex Huntsham Court, SomersetThe watercolours measure around 13" x 20"

A large quantity of assorted books to include two Clarice Cliff reference books, leather bound volumes I-IX of "Cassell's History of England", RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN "School for Scandal", published Folio Society 1949 and "Love Lyrics from Five Centuries Selected by George J Harrap, Pictures by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz, published George. Harrap, limited edition No'd. 45/125, signed by the selector and illustrator, etc

A box of various toys, games, models including bone and ebonised dominoes, Britains Royal Artillery Limber for use with Howitzer guns No. 1726 (boxed), Britains Royal Artillery 4.5" Howitzer (boxed), Pheasant puzzle after Archibald Thorburn, four Warhammer model kits, six Airfix kits including HMS Fearless, Grumman F-14A Tomcat, James Bond autogyro, Panzer IV tank, Brewster Buffalo F2A-2, British Infantry Support Group, Pass the Bomb and Cards Against Humanity etc together with a collection of match books and a modern Chinese folio

Books and ephemera, Number 2 Pipers Music Folio Of Hymes, Misson Praise, Electrical Installation Work, New English Bible, other religion, other related books, ephemera. (a quantity)

Abbott (George). Views of the Forts of Bhurtpoore & Weire, 1st edition, London: Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. for J.M. Richardson, 1827, lithograph title, dedication (to General Combermere), letterpress explanatory leaf, subscribers list and 11 uncoloured lithograph plates on india paper by Lynch, MacKenzie, Templeton, Harding and Gauet after Abbott, occasional light marginal tears, soiling and stains, disbound, oblong folio, sheet size 33.2 x 48 cmQty: (1)Footnote: Uncommon. Not in Abbey Travel. The views are of the Forts of Bhurtpore (modern day Bharatpur), capital of the Kingdom of Jat, and Weire after the siege of the fortress by British troops, commanded by Lord Combermere in 1825-26.

Gardiner (Alan H., editor). The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos, 4 volumes, 1st editions, London and Chicago: Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Chicago Press, 1933-1958, 231 lithographic, chromolithographic and collotype plates including some double-page and folding, after drawings by Amice Calverley and Myrtle Broome, original beige cloth with gilt device on upper covers, publisher's(?) plain brown wrappers, volumes 2 & 4 with publisher's original paper packaging and printed paper labels retained, elephant folioQty: (4)

Heylyn (Peter). Cosmography in Four Books. Containing the Chorography and History 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: P.C.T. Passenger, B. Tooke, T. Sawbridge, 1682, imprimatur leaf, additional engraved title stating 6th edition, letterpress title in red & black with ownership inscriptions, four double-page engraved maps (Europe, Asia, Africa, with imprints 'Philipi Chetwind, 1666 and Americas with imprint 'Anae Seile, 1663'), letterpress title & following leaf of text with closed tear, maps close-trimmed to borders, 3T4 torn with slight text loss, some worming & trails mostly at gutter throughout much of volume, toning and scattered spotting, marginal fraying mostly to first & last few leaves, contemporary calf, old reback, maroon morocco title label to spine, upper board detached, spine & extremities worn, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Wing H1696.

Albums. A group of 5 albums, containing approximately 390 engravings and etchings, mainly 18th century, laid down on paper, including approximately 80 by George Cruikshank (taken from Bentley's Miscellany, Rookwood, and other publications), other artists include: Wheatley, Peters, Smirke, Hamilton, Stothard, R. Corbould, Burney, Phiz, Angelica Kauffman, Richard Westall, and others, engravers include: Bartolozzi, Heath, Walker, Skelton, A. Smith, etc., a few with contemporary or near-contemporary hand-colouring, including 'Paul Pry Among the Bankers', published Ingrey & Madeley, c.1835, most of the engravings taken from various publications including: Bell's British Theatre (various dates); The Novelist's Magazine, published by Harrison and Co. (various dates); The Seasons by James Thomson (various editions); Cooke's Pocket Edition ... Select British Poets (various parts); Parson's Select British Classics, 1794, and others, one album with 2 small full-length portrait sketches (one watercolour, one pen & ink) by an unknown artist, one depicting George Cruikshank, the other Mrs Keeley as Jack Sheppard, plus a collection of loose leaves containing another 105 engravings (window-mounted with blank versos visible), taken from Abrégé de l'histoire universelle, en figures, published Duflos, Paris, 1785, occasional generally light spotting, toning and dust-soiling, mixed bindings, 4 joints cracked, variable wear, 4to and folioQty: (6)

Dietrich (David). Flora Universalis in Colorirten Abbildungen, volume 8 (only), 1831, title in facsimile, partially excised with 161 (only) engraved plates with contemporary hand-colouring, very occasional spotting, upper hinge broken with upper board and the spine detached from the text block, near-contemporary half-morocco gilt, upper joint split and frayed, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return.

Illustrated London News. A broken run of 95 volumes, 1845 - 85, 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: (95)Footnote: Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to retrun.

North America. Oakes (William), Scenery of the White Mountains with Sixteen Plates from the Drawings of Isaac Sprague, Crosby, Nichols and Company, Boston, 1848, title page and 12 (only) uncoloured lithographic plate, one with long closed tear, crudely repaired on the verso, some spotting throughout, lacking boards and spine, folio, together with Illman & Sons (publisher). William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. This Justly Celebrated Treaty was formed in the Year 1682..., hand-coloured engraving, with another copy similar and a further 5 uncoloured examples, slight spotting, each 380 x 280 mm, with Sabatier (Leon Jean Baptiste). Vue de l'entree de la Baie de San-Francisco (hte. Californie), originally published in Abel de Petit-Thouars's 'Voyage Autour du Monde sur la Venus', 1841, uncoloured lithograph after Romuald G. Menard on India wove, some spotting, long closed repaired tears but not affecting the image, 145 x 305 mm, plus Hayward (George). View of the Quarantine Grounds and Buildings, Staten Island, May 1858, uncoloured lithograph, old folds, slight staining and offsetting, 155 x 430 mm, with an uncoloured wood-engraved vignette of Baltimore in 1752, circa 1860, 125 x 380 mm, plus a colour printed lithograph of the steamship 'City of Chicago', 380 x 265 mm, and ten uncoloured engravings of North American cities (all late 20th-century re-strikes), each approximately 145 x 210 mmQty: (22)

Print Stand. A stained Beech Print or Map folio stand, early 20th century, a large hinged stained beech folio stand, with brass handle, ceramic castors (lacking one castor), some wear to extremities, height 1100 mm, width (when open) 800 mm, length 940 mmQty: (1)

Aesop. The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, London: Thomas Roycroft, 1668, bound with Aesopics: Or a Second Collection of Fables,1668, titles printed in red & black, lacking frontispieces, Fables with 78 engraved plates (of 81), Aesopics with 60 engraved plates (of 68), these being the earliest state without captions, preliminaries of Fables (including title & first 5 plates) with loss affecting text & image, a couple of plates with closed marginal tears (repaired) affecting image, a handful of leaves with faint watermark, Aesopics with heavy damp-staining to a couple of leaves, some leaves with marginal repairs, spotting & light dust-soiling to both volumes, modern red half morocco over marbled boards, titles in gilt, folioQty: (2)Footnote: Wing A697 & A698. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. One of the finest illustrated books of the 17th-century, Hollar's plates being some of his best.

Albertus Magnus. Diui Alberti Magni summi in via peripathetica philosophi: theologique profundissimi naturalia ac supranaturalia opera per Marcum Antonium Zimaram philosophum excellentissimum nuper castigata erroribusque purgata: necnon cum marginibus optimis annotationibus ornatis doctrinaque excultis atque fideliter impressis feliciter incipiunt. Que sunt hec. vz. De physico auditu Lib. VIII. De Celo & mundo Lib. IIII. De Generatione & corrup. Lib. II. De Methauris Lib. IIII. De Mineralibus Lib. IIII. De Anima Lib. III. De Intellectu & intelligibili Lib. II. De Metaphysica Lib. XIII, Venice, impensa heredum quondam Domini Octaviani Scoti Modoetiensis: ac sociorum, 19 February 1517-15 January 1518, three parts in one: [12], 1-108; 1-150; 1-174 leaves, black letter text in double column, numerous woodcut initials, including many criblé, woodcut illustrations to text, printer's colophon to final leaf of each part with woodcut printer's device, occasional minor waterstains to margins, one or two leaves marked or lightly discoloured (generally a good copy), title with later 17th century engraved bookplate of the prior general of the Augustinian order Nicolaus Oliva of Siena: 'M.F. Nicolaus Oliva a Prato senen. Augus.' pasted at foot, later 17th or early 18th century calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed and minor wear, folio (29.5 x 20.5 cm)Qty: (1)Footnote: Albertus Magnus (circa 1193-1280), or Albert the Great, scientist, philosopher, and theologian, one of the great medieval polymaths, surpassed only by his near contemporary Roger Bacon (1214-94), in his understanding of nature.

Barbet de Jouy (Henry). Musée Impérial du Louvre. Les Gemmes et Joyaux de la Couronne, 2 volumes in 1, Paris: Musées Impériaux, 1865, half-title, 60 engraved plates on India laid paper, lightly spotted (mostly marginal), hinges repaired, contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, rebacked with original spine laid on (some loss), extremities worn with some loss of leather, rear board with portion of leather peeling, raised bands worn with loss, lacking head & tailcaps, folioQty: (1)

Bouchet (Jean). Les annalles Dacquitaine faictz et gestes en sommaire des roys de France et Dangleterre pays de Naples et de Milan... jusques en l’an Mil cinq cens trente et cinq et de nouvel jusques en l’an Mil cinq cens xxxvii, Paris: Denis Janot, [1 June] 1537, title printed in red and black, black letter, woodcut initials, large woodcut printer’s device on final verso, small hole in text of X1 (small piece adhered to X2), small marginal tear and loss to A4, a few light water stains, ownership signature of D.L. Cumming, all edges red, eighteenth century cat’s paw calf, spine gilt in compartments, lacking label, joints cracking, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Adams B2580; BP16 108392; USTC 11082; Rawles, Denis Janot 61. Provenance: Ever. Buckworth, 1777, inscription at head of title, additionally signed to leaf A1. Sir Everard Buckworth, 3rd Baronet (1704-1779) was Assistant Gentleman Usher to King George II. First published in 1524, Bouchet's account of European history was reprinted many times. Jean Bouchet (1476-1557) was a prolific author, poet and chronicler, whose unpretentious writing style proved popular. Denis Janot printed numerous works of Bouchet’s.

Cerceau (Andre de). Oeuvres de Jacques Androuet dit du Cerceau, Paris: Edouard Baldus, c.1870, engraved title, extra-illustrated with 70 engraved plates, spotting (heavier to preliminaries), hinges strengthened, bookseller's tickets to pastedowns, contemporary green half morocco, boards worn, remnants of label to spine, corners bumped, folio, with: Raphael. I Freschi Delle Loggie Vaticane Dipinti Da Raffaele Sanzio, Rome: Niccola Nori, 1842, 42 engraved plates, some marginal damp-staining (touching text in title), light spotting, contemporary quarter calf, joints worn with small portion of worming, boards rubbed, extremities bumped, gilt title & borders, folioQty: (2)

Charles I. Reliquiae [sacrae] Carolinae. Or the works of that great monarch and glorious martyr King Charles the I. Collected together, and digested in order, according to their several subjects, civil and sacred. The contents appear in the ensuing pages. C.R., Hague [i.e. London]: Printed by Samuel Browne [i.e. for R. Royston], 1657, title in red & black (torn to upper outer corner with loss of second word), margins to initial leaves frayed, some soiling, occasional damp staining and browning, lacking front endpaper, contemporary mottled calf, paper label to spine, extremities worn, 12mo, together with: Book of Common Prayer, The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments. And other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1627, title in red & black with woodcut decorative border (cropped to border edges and upper left corner torn with loss, lined to verso, dust-soiled and toned), separate title to 'Psalter, or Psalmes of David' also with decorative woodcut border, black letter text throughout, numerous woodcut decorative initials, bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., London: printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1627, title within decorative woodcut border, black letter text, final leaf soiled & damp stained, some toning throughout, occasional light damp stains and few marks, verso of rear free endpaper with early ownership inscription 'Richard Whatt(?) owneth this booke anno dom 1674', later front endpaper, contemporary gilt panelled calf, rebacked and corners repaired, surface of board leather worn, small folio, Camden (William), Remains concerning Britain: their languages, names, surnames, allusions, anagramms, armories, moneys ... artillerie, wise speeches, proverbs, poesies, epitaphs, 7th impression, London: Charles Harper & John Amery, 1674, woodcut armorial illustrations, occasional marginalia, small rust hole to S8, light dust-soiling and scattered spotting, contemporary calf, old reback and corner repairs, joints cracked at head and head of spine worn, 8vo, and one other defective 17th century antiquarian volumeQty: (4)

Cranmer (Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury). An Aunswere by the Reverend Father in God Thomas Archbyshop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitane, unto a craftie and sophisticall cavillation, devised by Stephen Gardiner Doctour of Law, late Byshop of Winchester agaynst the true and godly doctrine of the most holy Sacrament, of the body and bloud of our Saviour Jesu Christ. Wherein it was also, as occasion serveth, aunswered such places of the booke of Doct. Richard Smith, as may seeme anythyng worthy the aunsweryng..., Reuised, and corrected by the sayd archbyshop at Oxford before his martyrdom..., 2nd edition, London: printed by John Daye, 1580, title with early gift inscription to lower blank margin 'Liber Caroli Pratti ex dono amicissimi sui Johannis Nurse generosi 20 Juni 1610' and with ownership signature 'Ann Hill Mackey' to upper blank margin (small hole to title, detached & frayed to edges), black and roman letter type throughout, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, without the two woodcut illustrations, upper half of final leaf (2P6) cut out with loss of John Daye's woodcut device, sewing weak at front with initial leaves detached, leaf F5 trimmed to fore-margin, lower blank margin of Q5 excised, single worm hole & short trail to inner blank margin at foot (& head) throughout much of text-block, occasional damp stains mostly at head & foot, few marks (including occasional ink smudges), some marginal fraying, without front free endpaper, contemporary calf, blind arabesque to centre of each board, spine largely lacking, leather torn to lower board, board attachment weak, worn, folio (28.5 x 19.8 cm)Qty: (1)Footnote: STC 5992. Stephen Gardiner (1483-1555) was the Bishop of Winchester, and Mary Tudor's chancellor during the persecution of the Protestants, who died before Cranmer was executed on 21st March 1556. Cranmer's Aunswere, part of a controversy between Cranmer and Gardiner on the sacrament of communion, was first published by Wolfe in 1551. A reply to "An explication and assertion of the true catholique fayth, touchyng the moost blessed sacrament of the aulter" by Stephen Gardiner and "A confutation of a certen booke, called a defence of the true, and catholike doctrine of the sacrament, &c. sette fourth of late in the name of Thomas Archebysshoppe of Canterburye" by Richard Smith. The text includes a reprint of Gardiner's work and portions of Cranmer's "A defence of the true and catholike doctrine of the sacrament of the body and bloud of our saviour Christ". The woodcuts on the two plates (not present in this copy) were from blocks used in Foxe's "Book of martyrs", and Cranmer's life is in part compiled from the same. The plates were sometimes bound folded. This edition (or parts of it, at least) were printed on the sheets of an earlier work printed by Daye, John Foxe's "Pandectae" (1572; ESTC S113167), a largely-blank commonplace-book ("The Latin headlines in rules appearing upside down at the foot of several versos in some copies (as in this copy) indicate unused sheets of [STC] 11239 were employed in the printing"--STC).

Perronet (Jean Rodolphe). Description des Projets et de la Construction des Ponts de Neuilly, de Nantes, d'Orleans & autres; Du Projet du Canal de Bourgogne..., 1782-88, plates only, portrait frontispiece, 75 plates (many folding), lacking title, spotting (mostly marginal), Westminster public library bookplate to front pastedown, stamps throughout, contemporary half morocco, extremities rubbed, tailcap lacking, joints rubbed, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Jean Rodolphe Perronet (1708-1794) was one of the founders of the Ecole des ponts et chaussees in Paris in 1747. The present work describes his projects at Nogent-sur- Seine (1766-1769), Neuilly (1768-1774), Sainte-Maxence (1775) and in Paris, the Pont Louis XVI (1787-1792), as well as navigation and canal improvement projects.

Guevara (Antonio de). Libro primero de las epistolas familiares (Segunda parte de las epistolas familiares), 2 parts in 1, [Valladolid: Juan de Villaquirán, 1544-1545, titles printed in red and black within woodcut border, woodcut initials, large paper flaw in h7 with some loss of text, a few annotatins, closed marginal tear in m1, some light soiling and marginal tears to title and following leaf, some damp staining towards end, final leaf frayed, previous owner signmature of D.L. Cumming and crowned monogram 'DC' to first title margin, contemporary limp vellum, spine titles in manuscript, cloth ties, some soiling, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Palau 110210 & 110212; USTC 336710 & 336732. One of several editions of Guevara’s letters issued by Villaquirán and which was first published by him in 1539. Some of the letters reflect on the Revolt of the Comuneros of 1520-1521, in which Castile (including the city of Valladolid) sought to free itself from the rule of Charles V, who was perceived as a foreigner; Guevara claimed to have been an eye-witness to the events. His accounts of the time, however, have been shown to be a combination of fiction and history, portraying himself in the best way possible with the help of hindsight.

Harding (James Duffield). Harding's Portfolio, Published by Charles Tilt, 1837, 24 tinted lithographic plates including vignette title, foxed throughout, contemporary green half morocco gilt, rubbed, folio, together with: Williamson (George C.), Richard Cosway, R.A. and his Life and Pupils, Miniaturists of the Eighteenth Century, 1st edition, George Bell, 1897, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, some occasional heavy spotting, top edge gilt, near-contemporary crushed blue half morocco gilt by Hatchards, 4to, (one of 350 copies), plus: Erskine (Mrs Stewart), Lady Diana Beauclerk, Her Life and Work, 1st edition, T. Fisher Unwin, 1903, colour and black & white plates including some tipped in, some spotting, top edge gilt, original gilt-decorated buckram, folio, plus other miscellaneous art, illustrated, etc.Qty: (2 cartons)Footnote: Provenance: From the Library at Spetchley Park, Worcester, home of the Berkeley family.

Illuminated Leaves. Illuminated musical score on single vellum leaf, c.1500, illuminated initial with gold border & floral infill, two other large initials, portions of text in red, some marginal dust-soiling, folio, together with: Illuminated manuscript vellum leaf, c.1480, illuminated initial with gold & border & floral infill, other initials & portions of text in red & blue, a couple of faint water spots, some faint dust-soiling, 4toQty: (2)

Manton (Thomas). A Practical Commentary, or an Exposition with notes on the Epistle of James. Delivered in sundry weekly lectures at Stoke-Newington in Middlesex, neer London, London: printed by J. Macock for Luke Fawne, 1651, title within typographic border and with early signature J. Hotchkis, some marginal browning, light dust-soiling and few marks, contemporary calf, old repairs to joints, upper board detached, rubbed and worn, 4to, together with: Jane (William), A Sermon preached on the day of the Publick Fast, April the 11th 1679 at St. Margarets Westminster; before the honourable House of Commons, London: printed by M.C. for Henry Brome & Richard Chiswel, 1679, imprimatur leaf present, bound with, Scott (John), A Sermon preached at the Assizes at Chelmsford, in the County of Essex, August 31, 1685, before the honourable Sir Thomas Street, Kt. one of the Judges of his Majesty's Court of Common Please, London: printed by M. Flesher for Rob. Horn & Walter Kettilby, 1686, and bound with five other similar pamphlets, each pamphlet badly damp-frayed & stained at fore-edge, contained within contemporary calf boards (volume raided with other pamphlets previously removed), old reback, 4to, Guarini (Battista), Il Pastor Fido, The faithfull Shepherd. A Pastorall written in Italian ... and now newly translated out of the original, London: printed by R. Raworth, 1647, one engraved plate only (lacking frontispiece), free endpapers torn away, contemporary mottled sheep, later maroon morocco title label to spine, upper joint cracked at head, extremities rubbed, 4to, and two others, Ambulator; or, the Stranger's companion in a tour round London..., 3rd edition, London: J. Bew, 1787, folding engraved map frontispiece, contemporary sheep, joints cracked, extremities rubbed, 12mo, and Barrow (Isaac), Opuscula; viz. Determinationes, conc. ad Clerum, Orationes, Poemata, & &c., volume 4 only (of 4), London: Brabazon Aylmer, 1687, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red & black, contemporary calf, red morocco title label to spine, joints split, folioQty: (5)

[Notitia Dignitatum]. Notitia utraque cum Orientis tum Occidentis ultra Arcadii Honoriique Caesarum tempora... cui succedit descriptio urbis Romae... [edited by Sigmund Gelen]. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, 1552, woodcut Froben device to title and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials and numerous illustrations, title with small marginal losses laid down, occasional light water stains, hinges reinforced, bookplates of Sir John Hynde Cotton (4th baronet, 1717-1795) of Madingley Hall, Cambridgeshire (to title verso) and James Elwin Millard (1823-1894) to front pastedown, bookseller descriptions pasted at front, ownership signature of D.L. Cumming, all edges yellow, nineteenth-century calf, rebacked, a few small stains, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Adams N354; VD 16N 1884. First illustrated edition of the Notitia Dignitatum, listing the offices of the later Roman Empire. This volume also includes Alciati’s treatise on Roman magistrates and Philo of Alexandria’s debate between Hadrian and Epictetus, along with a description of the city of Rome ascribed to the spurious Publius Victor. The numerous illustrations include depictions of books in codex form as well as coins, armour, regalia and representations of forts. On the woodcut of the forts of the Saxon Shore, the names of the forts in English have been added in manuscript.

Picart (Bernard). Impostures Innocentes; Or, a Collection of Prints... , J. Boydell, 1756, portrait frontispiece, [12] + 63 engraved plates (of 78?) by Picart after Rembrandt, Le Brun, Guido and others, some spotting throughout, foremargin of plate 23 trimmed into plate impression, title browned, contemporary half calf, some wear and covers detached, folio, together with Picart (Bernard, engraver), Oeuvres diverses de Mr. Bernard de Fontenelle, c. 1727-29, a bound collection of 65 engraved plates on 29 sheets, bound with 8 leaves of Explication from a later duodecimo edition laid in to folio sheets at rear, some spotting, stitched at inner margins, contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, some soiling and wear, folio, plus a part copy of George Bickham's Universal Penman, 1743, comprising 66 engraved plates only and lacking title, some soiling, tears and repairs, contemporary panelled calf, heavily rubbed, some edge wear, folioQty: (3)Footnote: Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

Raleigh (Walter). The History of the World, in five books ... whereunto is added in this edition, the life and tryal of the author, London: Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Benj. Tooke, Tho. Passenger, Geo. Dawes, Tho. Sawbridge, M. Wotton, and G. Conyers, 1687, engraved portrait frontispiece, 'the mind of the front' present facing frontispiece (detached, frayed & torn to margins), additional engraved title (closed tear to gutter margin at head), letterpress title in red & black with early ownership inscription 'Ex libris Johannis Morris', six double-page engraved maps and two double-page engraved battle plans, text leaves K2 & K3 cropped to outer margins, 2I1 with repaired closed tear to fore-margin, occasional light spotting, fraying to margins of initial leaves, without front free endpaper, armorial bookplate of George Augustus Thursby to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, maroon morocco title label to spine, boards detached, old repair to upper panel to spine torn, slight wear to extremities, folio (38 x 23.5cm)Qty: (1)Footnote: Wing R168; ESTC R33765.

Shakespeare (William). Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies faithfully reproduced in facsimile from the edition of 1623, London: Methuen & Co., 1910, facsimile half title and title portrait, spare spine label tipped-in at end, partly unopened, endpapers toned, ownership signature of D.L. Cumming to front pastedown, original buckram-backed boards, paper label to spine, a few light marks, together with Methuen facsimile editions of the Second Folio (1909), Third Folio (1905) and Fourth Folio (1904), uniformly bound, plus Francesco Colonna's Poliphili Hypnerotomachia, facsimile edition, Methuen, 1904Qty: (5)

Titus Lucretius Carus. In Carum Lucretium poetam commentarii a Joanne Baptista Pio editi: codice Lucretiano diligeter emendato, [Paris]: Venundatur ab Ascensio & Joanne Parvo, [1514], fine decorative woodcut title printed in red and black with large woodcut device of Jehan Petit, bound with Caius Valerius Flaccus. Argonauticon libri octo cum eruditissimis Aegidii Maserii Parrhisien. Commentariis, Joannis Parvi & Jodoci Badii, 1519, fine decorative woodcut title with printer's woodcut device of Jodocus Badius, several woodcut illustrations, final few leaves with light water stain to extreme fore-margins (both texts with clean wide margins), old vellum with red morocco title label to spine, rubbed and some marks, folio (32.5 x 22cm)Qty: (1)Footnote: Adams L1650; Renouard II, 122, 250 & Adams V76; Renouard III, 316 respectively. First work, Carus is the first Paris edition, first published in Bologna in 1511. The second work, Argonauticon by Valerius, first published in Venice in 1501 in quarto format, this 1519 folio edition contains the much expanded commentary by Gilles de Maizières (originally produced in the 1517 edition) and eight fine woodcuts illustrating the adventures of Jason and his 50 companions in his quest to obtain the Golden Fleece from Colchis.

Vergil (Polydore). Adagiorum liber. Eiusdem de inventoribus rerum libri octo, [Basel: Johann Froben, July 1521], title within a woodcut border by Urs Graf, additional letterpress errata leaf headed “Castigationis mendorum index” inserted at end of preliminaries, first leaf of text within a woodcut border, woodcut initials and headpieces (some historiated), woodcut printer’s device on final verso, erratic pagination and register (pagination corrected in manuscript) occasional early marginalia, occasional light marginal water stains, a few small marginal wormholes, printed booklabel of William Reynolds of Streatham and bookseller catalogue description at front, all edges gilt, nineteenth century calf over heavy boards tooled in period style, upper cover detached, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Adams V442; VD16 V772. There was a mild dispute between Vergil and Erasmus over whose Adagia had been published first; this edition includes a preface addressed to Richard Pace asserting Vergil’s priority. Erasmus and Vergil were well acquainted, particularly through their English humanist friends. The title border also appears in the 1513 Froben edition of Erasmus' Adagia.

Wilson (Thomas). [The Art of Rhetorique, for the use of all suche as are studious of eloquence, sette forth in English...,], [London: Richard Grafton], 1553, folios 17-119 (final 3 leaves misnumbered), lacking the first 22 leaves, with 'faultes escaped in thenprintyng' to verso of leaf 119, 5 leaves of index, black letter text throughout, some light marginal soiling, vellum, with small gilt morocco title label to spine, rubbed and light soiling, small 4toQty: (1)Footnote: STC 25799. Folio 21 verso includes a text by Erasmus titled An Epistle to perswade a young gentleman to mariage (Hazlitt III, 268). First edition of the book considered to be the earliest systematic work of literary criticism in the English language, in which the author castigates the use of pedantic language based on classical models, which he calls "strange inkhorn terms", as well as the use of 'French and Italianated' idioms, which 'counterfited the kinges Englishe'. According to Hardin Craig, Shakespeare and Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique, Studies in Philology, volume 28, number 4, October 1931, pages 618-630, borrowings from Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique are found in Timon of Athens, Much Ado About Nothing and elsewhere.

Xenophon. Opera [translated by Francesco Filelfo], [Lyon: Barthélemy Trot, 2 September 1511], title printed in red and black with Trot’s woodcut fleur-de-lys device in red, title trimmed and laid down, first few leaves water stained with some small marginal worming, occasional underlining and a few early annotations, ownership signature of D.L. Cumming, later half calf, upper cover detached, joints and edges rubbed, 8voQty: (1)Footnote: USTC 155119. David J. Shaw, "The Lyons Counterfeit of Aldus's Italic Type: A New Chronology", The Italian Book 1485-1800 (1993) pp.117-133, no. 49. This is the second edition of Xenophon printed in Lyon by Trot; it was previously issued in an undated edition around 1504. The texts of Xenophon included are: Cyropaedia, Devenatione, De republica et de legibus Lacedaemoniorum, Agesilaus, Apologia pro Socrate and De tyrannide. While it has the appearance of an Aldine counterfeit (because of its format and typeface), Aldus only printed Xenophon in the original Greek in folio format, and the text of this edition is actually taken from the 1502 Bologna edition of Benedictus Hectoris, complete with Filippo Beroaldo’s preface to Gregorius Fliscus.

Yearwood (Randolph). The penitent murderer. Being an exact narrative of the life and death of Nathaniel Butler; who (through grace) became a convert, after he had most cruelly murdered John Knight..., London: printed by T. Newcomb for J. Rothwell & Tho. Matthews, 1657, some early underscoring and annotations, late 19th century vellum, 16mo in 8s, together with: Parliamentary Intelligencer, The Parliamentary Intelligencer, comprising the sum of forraign intelligence, with the affairs now in agitation in England, Scotland, and Ireland. For information of the people, numb. 19, Monday April 30 to Monday May 7, 1660, 289-296 pp., scattered spotting, disbound 4to, Mercurius Publicus, comprising the sum of forraign intelligence: with the affairs now in agitation in England, Scotland, and Ireland. For information of the people, numb. 31, from Thursday July 26 to Thursday August 2, 1660, 481-488pp., some damp staining and fraying, disbound 4to, Charles II, Recevil des lettres, harangues, messages & declarations de sa Majesté de la Grande Bretagne, depuis le 4/14 avril 1660, jusqu'au 29 decembre 1660/8 ianvier 1661, The Hague: Samuel Brown, & Iean de Lescluse, 1661, engraved armorial frontispiece, title in red & black, latte 19th/early 20th century cloth, spine faded, slim 4to, Prideaux (John), Gowries Conspiracie. A sermon preached at St. Maries in Oxford, the fifth of August, London: Felix Kyngston for John Budge, 1621, [2],26pp. (signatures M1-N6)scattered spotting, all edges gilt, 19th century half morocco, extremities rubbed, slim 4to, [Burnet, Gilbert], A letter written upon the discovery of the late plot, London: H. Brome & R. Chiswell, 1678, bound with [Burnett, Gilbert], The unreasonableness and impiety of popery: in a second letter written upon the discovery of the late plot, London: R. Chiswell, 1678, short closed tear to lower margins, modern cloth-backed boards, slim 4to Prance (Miles), A true narrative and discovery of several very remarkable passages relating to the horrid Popish Plot: as they fell within the knowledge of Mr Miles Prance of Covent-Garden, goldsmith..., London: Dorman Newman, 1679, license leaf to print present, engraved portrait frontispiece, manuscript numbering to upper margins of some leaves, bound with Prance (Miles), The additional narrative of Mr Miles Prance of Covent Garden, Goldsmith, who was the discoverer of the murther of Sr. Edmondbury Godfrey, London: Francis Smith, Thomas Basset, John Wright, Richard Chiswel & Samuel Heyrick, 1679, 19th century half calf, rebacked, upper joint cracked, slim folio, and 8 other 17th & early 18th century antiquarianQty: (15)

Browne (Thomas). Pseudoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths, 1st edition, T.H. for Edward Dod, 1646, imprimatur leaf before title, some spotting and light browning, contemporary calf with neat calf gilt reback and corner repairs, folioQty: (1)Footnote: Wing B5159.