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Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie [-The Ende of Nero and Beginning of Galba... The Life of Agricola], 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut initials, lacking initial and final blanks, title and first 2ff. of prelims with restoration to upper and outer margins, affecting text on verso of third ff., occasional worming to upper margins, a few ff. lower margin chipped, small hole to M4 with loss to 1 or 2 letters of text, ink inscription to endpaper, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, splitting to upper joints, rubbing to extremities, [STC 23646], sm. folio, by Arnold Hatfield, 1612.⁂ Provenance: Fitzedward Hall (bookplate); W. Douglas Simpson (1896-1968, Scottish academic and archaeologist, his ink ownership inscription with addresses).

Comines (Philippe de) The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton, first edition in English, title within elaborate woodcut historiated border (shaved to border), woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, genealogical tables on pp. 379-96, lacking final errata f., title and final text with some fraying to margins, first 4 ff. including title trimmed at head, some staining to title, occasional light browning, contemporary calf, covers with central gilt arabesque with initials "W. W." to either side, rebacked, some chipping to corners, light surface wear, [Pforzheimer 190; STC 5602], folio, by Ar. Hatfield, for I. Norton, 1596.⁂ Translated by Thomas Dannett and dedicated to Lord Burghley, Comines' Historie is essentially a memoir of his diplomatic experiences along with some thoughts on the prerogative of princes.

Estienne (Henri) World of Wonders: or, an Introduction to a Treatise Touching the Conformitie of Ancient and Moderne Wonders, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition in English, titles with woodcut devices, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, lacking initial blank and rear endpaper, small rust-hole to first title and 2C5, one or two short marginal tears, contemporary calf, covers with arabesque centre-pieces in gilt, sympathetically rebacked, additional restoration to joints, corners repaired, rubbed, [STC 10553], folio, for John Norton, 1607.⁂ First published in 1566 as Apologie pour Herodote, Estienne's work ran afoul of the church in Geneva. The author was arrested and forced to remove the offending sections.

ARTHUR FREDERICK COX: REMINISCENCES OF SEVENTY YEARS, Jean & Gordon Cox, 1995 (70), numbered (39), "This volume has been prepared from one of the original typescript copies...", folio, original wraps

Scenery and antiquities - plate books. FISHER. Drawing Room Scrap Book, 4 vols. in two, circa 1850, 4to, plates, light foxing or staining, calf, rubbed; [SMIRKE (R) Illustrations to Gil Blas], folio of mounted small india paper engravings, upper board detached; another - [Illustrations to the Arabian Nights], india paper engravings, tissue guards, large 8vo, half calf; a quarto album of engraved plates of Scottish subjects after Cordiner, circa 1786, without title, uncut, damaged binding; FAIRHOLT (F W) Miscellanea Graphica, Representations of ... Remains in the possession of Lord Londesborough, Chapman and Hall 1857, 4to, plates including coloured, light foxing, plain cloth; BARKER (Benjamin) English Landscape Scenery, 48 aquatints by T. Fielding. Bath 1843, oblong folio, spotting to plates, calf backed boards, rubbed; MONACO (D) Specimens from the Naples Museum, 1895, 4to, cloth; TOMBLESON. Views of the Rhine, lacks title, rather stained throughout, worn (10)

CULPEPER (N) English Physician and Complete Herbal, [1794], 4to, engraved frontispiece and plates, somewhat age toned and soiled in places, reverse calf rubbed; RAPIN De THOYRAS. The History of England, vol. I only, 1788, folio, folding map of Gt Britain, portraits, calf (2)

A folder of pressed flowers, Finnish, labels for each specimen dated 1942-44 all written in Finnish and signed Kaisa Kuskila, each specimen on a loose folio leaf, in a folder with cloth tiesCondition report: there are about 80 usable sample sheets.

CHAUNCY (Sir Henry) The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, in 2 vols. 1826, 8vo, folding map and plates as required, variable foxing and spotting throughout, calf, rubbed edges; WALPOOLE (George A) The New British Traveller. London: for Alex Hogg, no date c.1800, folio, frontispiece damaged, lacking general map and 7 other plates of maps, 14 map plates only present including Cross Roads, (Scotland map damaged), numerous plates of views, subscribers list incomplete, stains and faults, binding worn (3)

HARRADEN (R B) Cantabrigia Depicta, circa 1830, oblong folio, mounted india paper title (soiled), plan, 40 plates only (one added from a smaller size edition), variable staining throughout, contemporary worn boards, rebacked. Sold as a series of plates, not subject to return.

DICKINSON'S Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851, two vols. large folio, 1854, with 52 (of 55) 'proof' chromolithographed plates, of which 10 are loosely inserted and cut down, after Joseph Nash, Louis Haghe and David Roberts, some apparently signed in pencil by Joseph Nash, slight staining, the bindings worn, with detached front boardsCondition report: please note Vol. I title is also cut down and loose. Some (around half) of the cut down plates have no lettering whatsoever.

BEAUMONT (Francis) and John FLETCHER. Comedies and Tragedies... Never printed before, And now published by the Authours Originall Copies. London: for Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, 1647, bound with - The Wild-Goose Chase. A Comedie, 1652, first collected edition, folio, portrait frontispiece of Fletcher in emended state as usual, paste-on cancel a2v of The Wild-Goose Chase present; text generally good with a few spots and slight stains, small paper tear to 4F1 without loss; all in contemporary mottled calf with good reback preserving original spine strip, armorial bookplate of Colonel James Cotes of Woodcote, Shropshire dated 1755

FARREN (Robert) The Granta and the Cam, from Byron's Pool to Ely. Cambridge: MacMillan & Co 1881, folio, vignette title and 36 etched plates, cloth gilt slightly rubbed; Cambridge and its Neighbourhood, Macmillan & Co 1881, folio, vignette title and etched illustrations, first free end paper damaged, cloth gilt (spine ends worn) (2)

CLUTTERBUCK (Robert) The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, 3 vols. 1815-27, folio, map, plans and plates, a few with hand colour, some typical mainly marginal staining, half calf, rubbed

SIDNEY (Sir Philip) The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, 11th edition, 1662, small folio, rather age stained and soiled throughout, two small holes through most of the text, two margins torn without loss to main text, calf, (re-backed and worn)

MICHELANGELO. CHASTEL (Andre) The Vatican Frescoes of Michelangelo, New York 1980, Abbeville Press, large drop back box with 2 large folio plate volumes of photographs by Takashi Okamura, quarter morocco with inlaid leatherette boards, a smaller cloth bound text volume, and an extra suite of selected images (slight wear to box)

CORVINUS PRESS. TOMLINSON (H M) Ports of Call, 1942, 8vo, number 21 of 30 signed copies, reserved for Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, cloth; HOGG (Neil) Zodiac with Interludes, 1943, 8vo, number 21 of 30 signed copies, printed for Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, cloth backed boards; CORVINUS PRESS. OUIDA. A Tale of a Toad, 1939, folio, number 21 of 24 copies on Auvergne paper, printed for Mrs Pleydell-Bouverie, rather foxed throughout, morocco backed boards (3)

Illustrated. GOBLE (Warwick, illustrator). Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales, by Grace James, 1910, small 4to, 40 tipped-in colour plates with captioned guards, light foxing/spotting to text throughout, contemporary gift inscription to first leaf, original blue cloth gilt; RACKHAM (Arthur, illustrator) A Midsummer-Night's Dream, 1914, small 4to, 40 tipped in colour plates, light staining mainly to first and last leaves, original cloth gilt; LONDONDERRY (Marchioness) The Magic Ink-Pot, 1928, colour plates, red cloth gilt; PUSHKIN (A S) Evgeny Onegin. The Pushkin Press 1937, illustrated, no. 212/775, morocco backed boards; VICTOR-HUGO (G) Mon Grand-Pere, Paris 1931, 4to, no.97/125 copies on Velin d'Arches paper, half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, boards slightly spotted; The Overbrook Press: STEVENSON (R L) An Inland Voyage, 1938, one of 150 copies, pochoir illustrations, slip case; FRANCE (A) L'Affair Crainquebille, 1937, folio, slight foxing, slip case (7)

BAYLE (Pierre) Dictionaire Historique et Critique, 3 vol., second edition, Rotterdam: chez Reinier Leers, 1702, folio, titles with engraved vignettes, calf with good modern morocco reback (3)

HOGARTH (William) The Works of William Hogarth, from the Original Plates restored by James Heath, with the addition of many subjects not before collected: To which are prefixed, a Biographical Essay on the genius and productions of Hogarth and Explanations of the subjects of the plates, by John Nichols. London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822, large folio, 65 x 49cm, 119 sheets of plates (as called for), some sporadic slight age staining or spotting but generally good, in sound half morocco binding

French military drill and formations. Disbound folio of 26 plates with little text, lacking pl. 10 as stated, rather frayed and water stained; An Account of the Visit of .. The Prince Regent and their Imperial and Royal Majesties the Emperor of Russia and the King of Russia to the University of Oxford in June MDCCCXIV. Clarendon Press 1815, 4to, paper wraps, folding table, 2 plates, some tears and creasing (2)

Childrens. De BRUNHOFF (J) Histoire de Babar, 1949, folio; Babar and that Rascal Arthur, 2nd edition; LANG (A) The Pink Fairy Book, first edition 1897, 8vo, spine faded; DARWIN (B & E) Tootle Two, Nonesuch Press, one leaf taped; Lear's Nonsense (reprint); The Katy Kruse Dolly Book, 1927, somewhat worn and marked; NESBIT (E) The Phoenix and the Carpet, Newnes, no date, illustrated edition; 3 others (8)

Sandford (Francis) A Genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, from the Conquest, Anno 1066, to the Year 1707... Continued to this Time... by Samuel Stebbing. London 1707, folio, title printed in red and black, slightly dust soiled, dedication leaf with reinforced fore-edge, illustrations, lacks frontispiece, contemporary calf, spine gilt; BARLOW (Rev. F) The Complete English Peerage, 2 vols., 1772-73, 8vo, plates, worn calf; RIDER (C) British Merlin for 1806, 12mo, occasional spotting, later half calf (4)

BLUNT (Wilfrid) and William T. STEARN. Captain Cook`s Florilegium, a Selection of the engravings from the drawings of plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook`s first voyage to the islands of the Pacific. Lion and Unicorn Press 1973, large folio, number 93 of 100 copies, title printed in black and gold, 30 engraved plates with tissue guards, original morocco backed silk covered boards, with the subscribers list and original prospectus, in drop back box with - LAW (Joy) Captain Cook`s Florilegium: a note on its production, 1976, one of 175 copies, quarter boundFootnote: The subscribers list shows that of the 100 copies produced, 46 went to libraries and 12 to book-sellers, leaving a very small number going to private collectors.Condition report: Box itself slightly scuffed in places. One corner rather more bumped than the others. Loose cover sheet a little finger stained in places. Smaller flyer sheet less so.Vertical creases to first 2 blank leaves. Off-set stains from glued down endpapers on to opposing sheets. See images.

BRETTINGHAM (M) The Plans, Elevations and Sections of Holkham in Norfolk. London: by J. Haberkorn 1761, folio, 28 sepia plates including folding or double-page, water staining throughout, 20th century half morocco

CORVINUS PRESS. LAWRENCE (T E) Two Arabic Folk Tales, 1937, folio, number 21 of 30 copies, printed for Audrey Field [Pleydell-Bouverie], original cloth giltCondition report: slight fading to outer (mainly top) margins of boards and spine. Just the odd slight fox mark or very minor finger blemish internally

DALTON (Michael) The Countrey Justice, London, 1682, folio, slight cockling and dust staining in places, calf, spine gilt; another edition, The Savoy 1727, folio, worn calf; with - The Laws and Acts made in the First Parliament.. of James VII, Edinburgh 1731, 12mo, bound with William and Anne, 3 parts in one, calf; SMETIUS (H) Alostani Prosodia.., Geneva 1664, small 8vo, worn, covers near detached; ENFIELD (W) The Speaker, Liverpool 1804, small 8vo, calf (5)

FOSTER (A A) The Stuarts, in 2 vols., Dickinson's 1902, folio, no.5/20 copies 'Edition Royale', signed by the author, coloured plates, tissue guards, fine full red morocco gilt by Bumpus, top edges gilt, others untrimmed (2)

SHAKESPEARE (William) Third Folio. [Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, The Third Impression, London: for P.C. 1664,] 2nd issue, adding for first time Pericles and the six plays now known as Shakespeare’s Apocrypha; lacking portrait frontispiece, title, one leaf in Sir John Oldcastle (A5) and final leaf (G6) of Locrine, these supplied in good facsimile; repairs to margins of Dedication leaves A2 and A3, A6 (Oldcastle) and G3 of Locrine with small repaired tear, G4 with slight loss at inner margin with small repairs, G5 with repaired upper corner. Generally a fair to good copy with occasional soiling or staining, in 20th century panelled calf binding by Bernard Middleton.Property of a deceased Cambridge academic estate. Believed acquired from a London dealer in the late 1990s or early 2000s.

GIBBON (Edward) Miscellaneous Works, in 3 vols., 1796-1815, 4to, with portrait, some dust staining, tree calf, rubbed and cracked, one board detached; BURNETT (G) History of his Own Time, 2 vols. 1724-34, folio, calf, worn; with other miscellaneous leather bound literature, mainly 18th century

Architecture. TRIGGS (Inigo) Formal Gardens in England and Scotland, Batsford 1902, 4to, subscribers copy, half bound, rubbed; LUTYENS (Sir E) The Lutyens Memorial, 3 vols., folio, Country Life 1950, lacking dust jackets; HUSSEY (Christopher) The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1950, small 4to; HOBHOUSE (H) Lost London, 1971, 4to; few others, various, including two worn albums of late 19th century photographs of artworks

Whaling and ships. BAYLY (Captain G) Sea-Life Sixty Years Ago, 1885; BERTRAM (J G) The Harvest of the Sea, 2nd edition 1869, original cloth; DAVIES (G Christopher) On Dutch Waterways, no date circa 1880, 4to, cloth gilt; SOUTHWELL (T) The Seals and Whales of the British Seas, 1881, cloth gilt; SCORESBY (Rev. W) The Whaleman's Adventures in the Southern Ocean, 1850, 12mo, cloth; LESLIE, JAMESON & MURRAY. Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions, 1830, 12mo, folding chart, illustrations, contemporary cloth (torn); HINTON (Martin A C) Reports on Papers left by the late Major G E H Barrett-Hamilton relating the Whales of South Georgia, 1925, folio, cloth bound section from p.57 to p.209, soiled paper wrapper bound in at end, with folding graph and index; and various others later including 20th century (30)

Japanese whaling. Two vols. folio, 19th century, with foldout continuous text and illustration, uncoloured, cloth covers (2)

La QUINTINYE (Jean de) The Complete Gard'ner: or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen Gardens, now compendiously abridg'd, and made of more use, with very considerable improvements by George London and Henry Wise, 4th edition, corrected, London 1704, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, 10 engraved plates (including 9 folding), few tears, 'Advertisement of J. Evelyn to the folio edition of Monsieur La Quintiney' leaves inserted between pages XIV & XV, with 3 pages of 18th century manuscript notes on planting fruit trees at the end inscribed "Francis Donneau French Gardener at Chelsea", rebacked with front board detached

WOOD (Anthony) Athenae Oxoniensis, An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops of... Oxford, in 2 vols., London 1721, folio, 2nd edition, titles in red and black, contemporary calf (vol. I binding repaired, vol. II cracked along spine), ex. libris bookplates of Rose Macaulay

CHAMBERS (E) Cyclopaedia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences..., 5th edition in 2 vols., 1741-43, folio, 21 plates including double page Caslon Specimen Table, reverse calf, one board detached; COLLIER (Jeremy) The Great Historical, Geographical... Dictionary, 2nd edition, 3 vols. including Supplement, 1701-05, folio, portrait frontispiece, damaged bindings, some staining and detached boards; BAILEY (N) A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary, revised and corrected by J. Scott, 1764, folio, engraved frontispiece and plates, spotting, cracked worn binding; 2 other Bailey Dictionaries, 8vo, later editions (8)

Country house decoration, design, etc. BLUNT (W), Sacheverell SITWELL and James RUSSELL. Old Garden Roses, 2 vols. 1955-57, folio, no.16 of 160 signed copies, illustrated by Charles Raymond, half vellum; various others by M. Jourdain, C. Latham, Sotheby's Duke and Duchess of Windsor sale catalogues 1997, slip case; Country Life, bound vols. for 1946-54, (2 per year; one vol. in cloth), bound without many adverts, blue half morocco, spines faded

Folio Society. Collection of typical works, some in slip cases, including a Kelmscott Chaucer facsimile in slip case (printed by Cambridge University Press), Troilus and Criseyde 1990 in quarter morocco, The Iliad and Odyssey, both 2001 in quarter morocco; Norton (USA) Facsimile Shakespeare, 1996, folio, slip case, others - Folio Society

[SAINT-FOIX (Germain-Francois Poullain De)] Catalogue des Chevaliers, Commandeurs et Officiers de L'Ordre du Saint Espirit. Paris: Christophe-Jean-François Ballard, 1760, folio, half-title and title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, head and tail-pieces and over 900 woodcut coats of arms, all on thick laid-paper stock, contemporary calf gilt [by Bonnet], arms of the Ordre du Saint Esprit in gilt to boards, gilt corner-pieces with crowned H, spine gilt with the Cross of the Holy Spirit in six compartments, rubbed and worn in places, upper cover near detached, with Bibliotheque de Mouchy armorial bookplate

JONSON (Ben) The Workes. London: Printed by William Stansby, 1616, folio, with second vol., [London: W. Stanbsy 1641 [i.e. 1631-40-41], First folio editions of Jonson's works, 3 vols. in two, vol. I with engraved title by W. Hole carefully window mounted, very first and last leaves with renewed margins, single intermittent worm hole to first section of vol. I without loss of text, a few spots and slight stains, one corner (4P4) creased and repaired, Vol. II with The Divell is an Asse title page dated 1641 only, working loose, with early inscription of 'Gervas Hamond junior 1693', (without general title and Bartholomew Fayre and Staple of Newes, probably as issued), vol. III parts 2-4 complete but not bound in Pforzheimer order, some old staining and toning, a few minor repaired tears and rust holes. Vol. I in fine late 19th century red morocco gilt, second tome in 19th century calf by J. Larkins, with gilt spine, a little rubbed. Second tome with bookplate of Sir Edward Sullivan Fleming-Crooks (2)

HOOKER (R) The Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie. London: for Andrew Crooke, 1666, folio, engraved frontispiece and title, some later pencil notes to the margins, calf, rubbed

BEWICK (Thomas). HUGO (Thomas) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Choice and Valuable Collection of Books, Wood Engravings... by or relating to Thomas & John Bewick. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1877, 8vo; WOLF (Joseph) The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, 1874, folio, plates, all leaves loose in original cloth; with others illustrated by or about Bewick, Hogarth etc. and general engraving/illustration

BUTLER (A S G) The Lutyens Memorial. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 3 vols., first edition 1950, folio, green cloth gilt, in chipped stained dust wrappers; HUSSEY (Christopher) The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1950, small 4to, edges stained, chipped and foxed dust wrapper (4)

REPTON (Humphry) The Red Books of Humphry Repton, in 4 vols., Basilisk Press 1976, no.90 of 500 sets, folio and oblong 4to, quarter morocco, with slipcases in sectional box.Note: With facsimiles of Antony House, Cornwall; Attingham Park, Shropshire; and Sheringham Hall, Norfolk

PROPERT (W A) The Russian Ballet in Western Europe, 1909-1920, with a Chapter on the Music by Eugene Goossens..., John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1921, folio, no. 127/500 copies, 64 (of 66) tipped-in plates, mostly colour, portrait frontispiece, endpapers spotted and foxed, top edge gilt, original cream cloth-backed marbled boards, corners worn, spine darkened. Provenance: ink inscription of Gladys Spencer-Curling dated 1925 to first free end paper

A folio of mixed prints and engravings to include: Samuel & Nathaniel Buck (X 5); Vanity Fair (X 15); Henry Macbeth Raeburn Portrait; Napoleon related (X 2); Old Masters and later strikes (X 9) etc., all unframed

Ɵ THE ANDES: Three Works: FITZGERALD, E. The Highest Andes, Limited edition, 1899; and two related. 1892, 1901. comprises: FITZ GERALD, Edward Arthur. (1871 - 1931). The Highest Andes. A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys. Methuen & Co., 1899. Special edition limited to 60 copies, this being number 31, folio, (300 x 240mm), blue half buckram over paper boards, gilt device to front, edges untrimmed, half-title, photogravure frontispiece after A.E. Lightbody with tissue guard, 45 plates including folding-panorama, from photographs after the author, A.E. Lightbody, and Stuart Vines, 4 full-page illustrations, in-text illustrations, 2 folding maps at end: (Neate: Mountaineering Literature, 273). An account of the first successful ascent of the 6960m Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas and outside of Asia, along with reports of the surrounding topography, geology and natural history, to which other members of the expedition contribute, Neate: Mountaineering Literature, 273; CONWAY, Sir Martin. (1856 - 1936). Climbing and Exploration in the Bolivian Andes. A Record of Climbing & Exploration in the Cordillera Real in the Years 1898 and 1900. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. first edition, 8vo., (230 x 155mm), publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, gilt top, others untrimmed, frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w. photographic illustrations throughout. an account of the first major expedition to the area, led by Conway: WHYMPER, Edward. (1840 - 1911). Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. London: John Murray, 1892. single volume, first edition, 8vo., (235 x 175mm), publisher's olive green gilt cloth, gilt lettering to spine, edges untrimmed, chocolate e/ps., half-title, 20 full-page illustrations, numerous in-text illustrations, 4 maps (3 folding), manuscript notes in pencil to lower free e/p., and further within a few margins. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. (3)         Condition Report: 1. The Highest Andes - boards marked, corners scuffed, spine bumped head/tail and cloth split at head of spine, browning to untrimmed edges, upper and lower boards joints weak, and to pp. 192-193, toning to leaf edges and to the second folding map at end. 2. Climbing & Exploration in the Bolivian Andes - boards marked, corners scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, a damp stain to lower centre edge of leaves, toning to leaf edges. 3. Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. - boards marked, corners scuffed, spine bumped and rubbed head/tail, toning and sporadic foxing throughout, folded map at end 'Central Portion of the Province of Quito' with clean edge tear (with loss, approx. 9cm.) to centre l.h. fold crease. Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ HOWARD-BURY, Lieut.-Col. C.K. (1881 - 1963). Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922. Large paper edition, no. 43 of 200 copies, single volume, folio., (325 x 250mm), publisher's vellum-backed burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt top, others untrimmed, previous ownership name and dated 1922 in pencil to front free e/p., half-title, photogravure frontispiece with tissue guard, 32 photo. illustrations, plus the 14 extra plates not included in the trade edition, comprising 12 photogravure plates with tissue guards and 2 folding panoramas, 3 folding maps and errata at end. 356pp. within removeable clear wrapper. The account of the first Everest Expedition. Charles Howard-Bury was a British soldier, explorer, botanist, and Conservative politician. In 1921 he led the Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition, financed by the Mount Everest Committee, (a joint body of the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society). Howard-Bury was awarded the 1922 Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his leadership of the expedition. Condition Report: clean cloth boards, vellum spine marked and bumped head/tail, toning to e/ps., some minor sporadic foxing throughout, mostly to the first few pages, foxing also to the 2 folding panoramas, folding maps clean, Map 1. Preliminary Map to illustrate the route of the Mount Everest Expedition 1921 creased along lower centre fold. Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ ADAMS, Ansel. (1902 - 1984). Books By and About: Seven Works: Two volumes SIGNED by Ansel Adams. 1958-1996. comprises: Ansel Adams Images 1923 - 1974. SIGNED. Boston: New York Graphic Society, (1974). first trade, special edition prepared for Time-Life Books subscribers, with the signature of the photographer, oblong folio. (360 x 440mm), publisher's olive green cloth, silver lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, photo. illustrated e/ps., SIGNED by Ansel Adams, foreward by Wallace Stegner, 115 extended range b/w. photolithographic reproductions, 127pp. within glassine wrapper and contained in original brown card slipcase: ADAMS, Ansell. (1902 - 1984). and NEWHALL, Nancy. (1908 - 1974). This is the American Earth. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1960. first edition, folio, (350 x 270mm), publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, numerous b/w. photographic illustrations after Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Edward Weston et al., 89pp: JOESTING, Edward. (1925 - 1986). The Islands of Hawaii. SIGNED. Bishop National Bank of Hawaii. (1958). first edition, oblong folio., (280 x 360mm), cream card wrappers, original rice paper dustwrapper unclipped, SIGNED by Ansel Adams to title page, 105 b/w. photographs after Ansel Adams, text by Edward Joesting: ADAMS, Ansel. (1902 - 1984). Yosemite and the Range of Light. New York Graphic Society, Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1979. oblong folio.,(310 x 390mm) publisher's grey, maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, introduction by Paul Brooks, 28pp. plus numerous photographic illustrations: BOHN, Dave. Glacier Bay. The Land and the Silence. Sierra Club, San Francisco (1967). Exhibit Format Series, first edition, 4to., (350 x 270mm), fawn cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, blue map illustrated e.ps., b/w. and colour photo. illustrated and text by Dave Bohn, edited by David Brower, 165pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper: SHIRAKAWA, Yoshikazu (b.1935). Himalayas. Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1971. first US. Deluxe edition, elephant folio., (420 x 310mm), original white faux morocco, red and black lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design by Ishibumi Mizuno, black e/ps., full and double-page colour photographs by Yoshikazu Shirakawa. 6 large folding panoramas, 2 folding maps at end, foreword by Arnold Toynbee, introduction by Sir Edmund Hillary, and a testimony by Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, king of Nepal, with an accompanying 34pp. pamphlet, 'Notes to the Photographer', all contained within a black cloth folding slipcase, stamped in red and white, paper title label, and bone tie: ALINDER, Mary Street. (b. 1946). Ansel Adams. A Biography. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1996. first edition, black cloth over grey paper boards, white lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, b/w. photo. illustrated throughout, 489pp. (7) Condition Report: 1. Ansel Adams Images 1923 - 1974 - a clean copy, the signature page detached and loosely inserted, slipcase worn, stained and a little scuffed. 2. This is the American Earth - clean copy. 3. The Island of Hawaii - foxing to card wrappers, part of front dustwrapper, and e/ps., clean internally. 4. Yosemite and the Range of Light - some marks and toning to leaf edges, o/w. a clean copy. 5. The Land and the Silence - a few marks to dustwrapper, o/w. a clean copy. 6. Himalayas - a clean copy. slipcase stained and a little scuffed, signature page detached and loosely inserted. 7. Ansel Adams. A Biography - a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ BONATTI, Walter (1930 - 2011). Magie du Mont Blanc. SIGNED. Denoel Editions, 1988. single volume, folio., (345 x 250mm), publisher's grey cloth, white lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, photo. illustrated e/ps., SIGNED by the author to title page, French text, translated from the original Italian by Felix Germain, preface by Pierre Mazeaud, colour photo. illustrations throughout, 208pp., contained within a photo. illustrated, titled slipcase. Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, explorer and journalist, he pioneered difficult and little unknown climbs in the Himalayas, Alps and Pategonia. He was one of three survivors of the disasters on the Central Pillar of Frêney in 1961. (1) Condition Report: some light marks to the slipcase, o/w. a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ BONATTI, Walter (1930 - 2011). Four Works: first English editions, three volumes SIGNED. 1964-2001. comprises: On the Heights, SIGNED. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964. 8vo., (225 x 150mm), publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, SIGNED by the author to title page, b/w. photo. illustrations, translated from the Italian by Lovett F. Edwards, 248pp: The Great Days. SIGNED. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1974. 8vo. (220 x 145mm), publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, luminous yellow e/ps., half-title, SIGNED by the author to title page, b/w. photo. illustrations, translated by Geoffrey Sutton, 189pp: The Mountains of My Life. SIGNED. The Modern Library, New York, 2001. paperback, 8vo., (230 x 130mm), SIGNED by Walter Bonatti and Robert Marshall to title page, 442pp: Magic of Mont Blanc. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1985. folio., (350 x 255mm), publisher's grey cloth, white lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, b/w. and colour photo. illustrations throughout, translated by Geoffrey Byrne-Sutton, 208pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, explorer and journalist, who pioneered difficult and little known climbs in the Himalayas, Alps and Patagonia. He was one of three survivors of the disasters on the Central Pillar of Frêney in 1961. (4) Condition Report: 1. On the Heights - some toning to leaf edges, o/w. a clean copy. 2. The Great Days - boards marked, corners a little scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, a clean copy. 3. The Mountains of My Life - a clean copy. 4. Magic of Mont Blanc - (unsigned) dustwrapper with some crinkling, o/w. a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ REDOUTE, Pierre, Joseph. (1759 - 1840). and THORY, Claude Antoine. (1759 - 1827). Les Roses, peintes par P.J. Redoute, decrites et classees selon leur, ordre naturel. Paris: P. Dufart, St. Petersbourg: J. F. Hauër et Cie, 1835. three volumes, third edition, 8vo., (240 x 160mm), green morocco and marbled boards, French text, half-titles, 2 engraved portraits of Redoute and Thory, 184 fine stipple-engraved plates printed in colour and finished by hand, includes the colour frontispiece floral wreath, 23 new plates, portraits of Redoute and Thory, and a biographical note on Thory, none of which had appeared in either of the previous octavo editions, nor the first folio edition of 1790. The last and most comprehensive edition of one of the greatest of all flower books, published under the direction of L.J. Pirolle, the collector of roses and tulips who had supplied Redoute with many of the specimens. (3) Condition Report: boards clean, corners scuffed and spines bumped head/ tail, light foxing and marks to edges, further sporadic foxing internally to some pages affecting a few of the plates. Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ LOW, David. (1786 - 1859). The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. two volumes bound in one, first edition, folio (440 x 350mm), brown half morocco, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, half-titles, 56 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Fairland after W. Nicholson, from paintings by W. Shiels, including sections on the horse (8 plates), the ox (22 plates), the sheep (21 plates), the goat (unillustrated), and the pig (5 plates). David Low was professor of agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, and commissioned the artist William Shiels to paint portraits of the animal subjects from which the lithographed plates were made. Condition Report: minor marks to boards, corners scuffed, foxing throughout, affecting a few of the plates; complete, Volume I: [2], vi, iii, [1], xxii, 46 p.; xxii, 55, [1], [6] p. ; Volume II: [2], v, [1], 72 p.; 8 p.; 18 p..           Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria. (1650 - 1718). Memorie Istoriografiche delli Regni della Morea, e Negroponte . . . author's Presentation copy. Venice: Coronelli, 1686. single volume,, folio, (420 x 280mm), contemporary vellum, the Athenaeum club logo to spine end and embossed in gilt to upper cover, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt, engraved half-title, title and coat-of-arms of the Duke of Brunswick, engraved initials and tail-pieces throughout, 16 double-page illustrations (mounted on stubs), 4 engraved illustrations on two facing leaves plus an additional 15 illustrations in the text, many of these illustrations include early maps and plans of the region, lower margin of engraved title with presentation inscription by the author to 'D. Hyeronimo', plus a presentation letter from Admiral Smyth to the Atheneum Club tipped-in between the half-title and title, plus an engraved presentation bookplate from the same to upper pastedown. Provenance: Authorial presentation inscription on engraved title addressed to a Mr Jerome Vinodo (?) of the academia Capsario, then gifted by Admiral Smyth to the Athenaeum Club 20 November 1847 with a manuscript presentation letter tipped-onto the engraved title. Text: A grand publication produced on behalf of the city state of Venice following their defeats over the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the war that was declared in 1684, their victories in Morea and re-conquering of the Aegean and Dalmatian territories with plates, battle plans and maps of these events throughout the volume. The first edition of this text is rare. Coronelli's works are often found with variants and the lack of a standard collation make this a challenge for cataloguers, however the plates and illustrations present conform with a copy in Atabey (their 268). Condition Report: some very minor finger-soiling to extremities else very clean and crisp condition spine probably rebacked and corners strengthened in the nineteenth-century by the Athenaeum club, covers a little soiled, vellum on spine starting to warp, vellum backed spine beginning to lift from front vellum board. Condition Report Disclaimer

Ɵ MINER, Harriet Stewart. (1840 - 1895). Orchids The Royal Family of Plants. Publisher's Presentation copy. London: John Slark, 1892. single volume, folio., (360 x 270mm), olive green decorated cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, INSCRIBED to front e/p. by the publisher John Slark to his niece, 'Florence Allport / with her uncles love / John Slark / March 24 1897', 24 chromolithographed plates after the author's paintings of live plants, including species of orchids native to South East Asia, South America, Australia, and the Caribbean, printed S.J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, 90pp. (1) Condition Report: boards marked and worn, spine bumped head/tail, e/ps. and title page attached, all other pages present but detached, foxing to e/ps., toning mostly to leaf edges, plates clean. Condition Report Disclaimer

A set of seven The Folio Society works by Jane Austen 1975 in presentation box

published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, c.1870s, containing lithographed title-page and sixty lithograph plates with captioned tissue guards, gilt decorated cloth binding, folio

AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY OAK WRITING DESK, hinged side flap above folio slide and four right hand drawers, panelled end, on short square feet, 33 ins x 18 ins closed.

A pig skin Pittway & Brothers gentleman?s travelling Gladstone type vanity case, enclosing a selection of dressing table bottles, including six silver topped examples by Norman Marshall, London 1911, brushes, a vesta case, a shoe horn, a writing folio etc, case 42cm wide

BOX OF MIXED BOOKS TO INCLUDE FOLIO SOCIETY

BOX OF MIXED BOOKS TO INCLUDE RANGE OF FOLIO SOCIETY, JANE AUSTEN ETC