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A folio of prints, watercolours, drawings, topographical views etc

A folio of unframed engravings, to include military and nautical interest

A folio containing assorted prints, to include maps from around the world, watercolour drawings, topographical engravings etc (a lot)

A folio of unframed topographical engravings, seascapes, views, plans etc

A pair of Swedish unframed prints being bird studies in printed card folio

A folio of assorted prints and engravings, to include John Sell Cotman, maps of London, topographical views etc

A box containing a collection of mainly Folio Society books, many in slipcases, to include The Grand Tour by Hudson, Treasure Island by Stephenson, and Fanny Burney's Diary etc

A box containing a collection of various books, to include The Folio Shakespeare in six volumes and slipcase, Heloise by Rousseau quarterbound in tan leather, and Revolt in the Desert by T.W. Lawrence

A box containing mainly Folio Society books, to include Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky, Big Chief Elizabeth by Milton, and History of the English Church & People by Bede

A box containing a collection of mainly Folio Society books, in slipcases, to include A Guide to Trollope by Gerald, Eminent Victorian by Strachey etc

A box containing a collection of mainly Folio Society books, in slipcases, to include Egypt Revealed by James, and The Vikings by Jones

A box containing a collection of mainly Folio Society books, in slipcases, to include Byzantium, A History of England, and Travels with a Donkey

' Fine Lines ': a boxed folio of fourteen poems by Guri Peto and Dick Bixby, from the limited edition of 90, signed by artist and poet, with fourteen lithographs, box with hessian style covering, pages approx. 53cm x 66cm; and 13 other boxed sets similar (14)

FOLIO SOCIETY - ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Forty Seven titles, vg. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot. Condition Report:  This is in a very good to fine condition. Postage: £No estimate Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO SOCIETY - KENNETH GRAHAME, 'The Wind In The Willows' 1995, AXEL MUNTHE, 'The Story Of San Michele', 1991, and twenty-one other Folio Society books, generally all vg. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £45 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO SOCIETY - CHARLES DICKENS, 'My Early Times', 1988; RICHARD HAKLUYT 'The Tudor Venturers' 1970 and eighteen other folio books. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £45 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

HORTICULTURE and BOTANY. 'Florilegium Imperiale: Botanical Illustrations for Francis I of Austria,' H. Wlater Lack, carboard slip, original cloth, Prestel, London; 'The Journals of Hipolito Ruiz,' translated, original cloth, unclipped dj, Timber Press, Oregon, 1998; 'An Illustrated Guide to the Flowers of Saudi Arabia,' folio,original cloth, unclipped dj, illustrations throughout, Scorpion Pub, London, 1985; Plus nine other books. (12) Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years. At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £35 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN. 'Lord of the Rings.' Folio Society, cardboard slip case, illustrations by Ingahild Grathmer, 1977, vg; With two 'The Hobbit' published by the Folio Society and six books written or about Tolkien. (11) Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years. At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £35 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.   The Hobbit- Folio Society in Slip case (Brown Spine), De Luxe Edition, 1976. The Hobbit- HarberCollins, pictorial slip case, 4th edition, 1978. The Lord of The Rings- Folio Society, 1977. Tree and Leaf Smith of Wooton Major, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth- Unwin Books, 1975. Bilbo's Last Song- Hutchinson, 1990. Farmer Giles of Ham- George Allen & Unwin, Eighth impression, 1971. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil- George Allen & Unwin, fifth impression, 1971. The Father Christmas Letters- George Allen & Unwin, First, 1976. The Plants of Middle-Earth- The Kent State University Press, 2006. The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun, HarperCollins, First, 2009. The Children of Hurin, Harper Collins, First, 2007.

WILLIAM ROBINSON. 'Gravetye Manor, or Twenty Years' Work Round An Old Manor House, being an abstract from The Tree And Garden Book Of Gravetye Manor, Sussex, kept by the owner William Robinson ...' Folio, paper case, restored (with report), frontispice engraving, foxing to endpapers, in drop-back box, John Murray, London, 1911. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £35 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO SOCIETY - P. G. WODEHOUSE 'Jeeves & Wodehouse', two cardboard cases containing eleven books in total, 2000, vg. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £35 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO SOCIETY - EVELYN WAUGH, 'Sword Of Honour, 1990; 'From The Strand', CHARLES DARWIN, 'The Voyage Of The Beagle', 2003; W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, 'Collected Short Stories', 1998; IZAAK WALTON, 'The Compleat Angler', 2000; LESLIE STEPHEN, 'Hours In A Library', 1991; 'A Gardener's Year', 2008, all vg. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £19.56 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO SOCIETY - H. RIDER HAGGARD, 'African Adventures' Trilogy, 1995; ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, 'The Lost World', 1977, and fourteen other folio society books, vg. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £45 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

THE GUTENBERG BIBLE. 'A Commentary, Historical Background, Transcription, Translation,' by Jean-Mari Dodu, two volumes, double column, original cloth, Paris, Editions les Incunables, 1985; 'Die Gutenberg-Bibel,' two volumes, large folio, facsimile edition, original decorated boards, slipcase, Hildesheim, Zurich & New York: G. Olms, 2000. (4) Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £45 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO SOCIETY. Sixteen volumes of Thomas Hardy including Tess d'Urbervilles, The Woodlanders, and Jude the Obscure etc. Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years. At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £No estimate Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

F. C. STERN. 'A Study of the GENUS PAEONIA.' First edition, folio, original boards with gilt title, toning to title page and some sporadic foxing, fifteen colour illustrations complete, The Royal Horticultural Society, London, 1946, g; GERTRUDE JEKYLL. 'Garden Ornament.' First edition, original boards, folio, marked with some sun fading, toning to frontispiece, b & W illustrations throughout, Country Life, London, 1918, g; With one other folio book. (3) Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years. At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot. Condition Report: Gertrude Jekyll- has slightly rubbed and bumped cloth boards. foxing to textblock edge. Good. F.C. Stern- Bumped ends to spine. Toning to endpapers from cellophane wrap. Foxing to edge of textblock. Tight text bock with vibrant illustrations.  Bouquets- Repairs to dj. Pen inscription to endpaper. Ex Libris. Good to very good. Postage: £35 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO Society, various titles, six in original cellophane packaging. (11). Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £35 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

H. WALTER LACK. 'Alexander von Humboldt and the Botanical Exploration of the Americas.' Folio, carboard slip case, Prestel; CHARLES CRAIB. 'Grass Aloes in the South African Veld.' Standard edition, 1915/2000, folio, carboard slip case, Umadaus Press, 2005; With seven other folio books. (9) Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years. At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £45 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO SOCIETY - HARPER LEE, 'To Kill A Mockingbird', 1996; ALBERT CAMUS, 'The Plague' 1987; T. E LAWRENCE, 'Revolt In The Desert, and nineteen other Folio books. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £45 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO SOCIETY - HERMAN MELVILLE 'Moby Dick' 1974; 'Beowulf', 1974, and nineteen other folio books, vg (21). Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £45 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

TASCHEN. 'The Garden at Eichstatt,' and 'The Lilies,' folio, colour illustrations throughout, both vg. Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years. At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £35 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

WINIFRED CURTIS. 'The Endemic Flora of Tasmania.' Six vols, folio, original cloth, unclipped dj, painted by Margret Stones, The Ariel Press, 1967. (6) Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years. At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £45 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO SOCIETY - MERVYN PEAKE, The Titus Books Trilogy, 1970, vg. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £35 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

BOTANY. 'The Rhododendron.' Two vols, folio, original cloth, unclipped dj, tears and chips to vol I dj, The Leslie Urquhart Press, Sussex, 1958, g. Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years. At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot. Condition Report:  Vol I has a repair to top fore edge of dj and to tail of dj. Both are protected by cellophane wrap. Toning to edges of leaves. Good to very good. Postage: £19.56 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO SOCIETY - 'East Of The Sun West Of The Moon', illustrated by KAY NIELSEN, 2000; Five other Folio Society books; and other books. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £No estimate Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

FOLIO SOCIETY WITCHCRAFT INTEREST - 'The Witches Of Salem', 1982; JACOBUS SPRENGER & HEINRICH KRAMER 'Malleus Maleficarum' 1968, both vg. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £19.56 Please note that the postage quote is an estimate of the amount that we would charge to send the item to a buyer in the UK. If you are outside of the UK, or there is no estimate shown here, please contact postage@davidlay.co.uk for a bespoke quote.

W.J. Miles: "Modern Practical Farriery, A Complete System of Veterinary Art", late 19th Century volume published by William Mackenzie, coloured and black & white plates throughout, folio, half calf gilt, together with "The Complete Farrier & British Sportsman", circa 1816, engraved plates, a/f very worn (2)

Ten volumes on Illuminated Manuscripts, Books of Hours, etc, including Walter Cahn: 'Romanesque Manuscripts', Harvey Miller', 1996, 1st edition, 2 volumes, numerous colour & black and white plates as called for, folio, original cloth, dust wrappers, 'The Cambridge Illuminations', Harvey Miller, 2005 reprint, ills. throughout, orig. cloth, dust wrapper, plus others Book of Kells, Bedford Hours, Benedictional of St. Ethelwold, St. Cuthbert etc (10)

FOLIO OF ORNOTHOLOGICAL STUDIES,predominantly watercolour, variously signed, titled and sized

FEMMES VINGT-QUATRE ETUDES DE RODIN, a folio of prints of drawings and sculptures, published 1966

BLACKWOOD (WILLIAM)The Atlas of Scotland, Containing Maps of Each County, 29 engraved maps on 58 sheets, hand-coloured in outline, first few leaves and 2 or 3 maps chipped at edges and creased, contemporary half morocco, defective, large folio (560 x 390mm.), Edinburgh & London, W. Blackwood & W. & A.K. Johnston, [1855]Footnotes:The Atlas of Scotland was originally issued by John Thomson in 1832; W. & A.K. Johnston took over the engraved plates in 1838. In this surprisingly rare edition, map titles have been altered since the previous issue, and railways added.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROBERT I ('THE BRUCE')Letters Patent in his name as King of Scotland, granting lands at 'Uthirtyre' [Auchtertyre] in the sheriffdom of Forfar to his supporter in the Wars of Independence Sir William Oliphant, in return for the feudal service of three archers in the King's army, in Latin, witnessed by William de Lamberton, Bishop of St Andrews; Bernard of Kilwinning, Abbot of Arbroath; Duncan, Earl of Fife; Maol Iosa, Earl of Strathearn; Walter Stewart, High Steward of Scotland (Robert the Bruce's son-in-law and father of Robert II, the first Stewart monarch) and Sir Gilbert de la Haye, Lord High Constable, with flourished ascenders on the first line, bearing indistinct fragment of the Great Seal attached by original vellum tag with docket 'King Robert/ 20 year of his reigne', address panel on verso, one sheet of vellum, some dust staining and other marks, oblong folio (137 x 330mm.), seal 45 x 80mm., Scone, 20 March [1326]Footnotes:ROBERT THE BRUCE REWARDS HIS LOYAL SUPPORTER: An important document granting land at Achtertyre in Forfarshire to Sir William Oliphant for his services in the wars of independence.Sir William Oliphant of Dupplin and Aberdalgie (d.1329), was a veteran of the Battle of Dunbar of 1296 and the siege of Stirling Castle of 1304 where his cousin (of the same name, d.1313) was governor, and was imprisoned by the English on both occasions before finally returning to Scotland in 1313. After swearing allegiance to Robert the Bruce, possibly after the battle of Bannockburn, he was to receive '...a number of grants of land throughout the reign and put his seal (three crescents) to the declaration of Arbroath of 1320. In the final years of the reign he also performed the office of escheator...' (Fiona Watson, ODNB). In fact Oliphant and three of the witnesses to this document, Walter Stewart and the Earls of Strathearn and Fife, had put seals to the Declaration, a letter sent in April 1320 by fifty-one Scottish nobles and magnates to Pope John XXII in Avignon, declaring Scotland's status as an independent sovereign state and defending her right to defend herself when attacked. It asserted that Scotland had always been independent, that Edward I had unjustly attacked Scotland and committed atrocities, and that Robert the Bruce had been the one to deliver the nation from this peril. The lands awarded to Oliphant by Robert I, together with those acquired by inheritance and advantageous marriage alliances meant that the family held substantial swathes of property across Perthshire and Forfarshare and estates in Fife, Kincardineshire and Midlothian which, in later years, were used as an endowment for different branches of descendants.The document is dated the '20 year of his reigne' from the year 1306 when Robert the Bruce was crowned at Scone. Years of struggle ensued after his coronation, culminating in Scottish victory at the battle of Bannockburn in June 1314 and the treaty of Edinburgh of March 1328 by which the government of the young Edward III, under his mother Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, granted Scotland unqualified recognition as a sovereign nation. This document is well-known to scholars but its whereabouts was, for nearly a century, unknown. It originally formed part of a group of seven writs (including one other in the name of Robert I dated 26 December 1317 granting lands at Newtyle and Kinurney to Oliphant in return for the services of one knight), passing to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (1636/8-1681), Lord Advocate, in 1682 from David Hallyburton of Pitcur, and thence by descent, as part of the so-called Mackenzie-Wharncliffe Charter-Chest at Belmont Castle in Perthshire, to Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 3rd Baron & 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827-1899). The records from Belmont Castle were sold by Sotheby's, 9 June 1920.It was first published in the Fifth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts of 1876 and the Latin text was included in Joseph Anderson's, The Oliphants in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1876, appendix 2) where it was noted that 'the service of three archers was commuted by King David II into a reddendum of 'three broad arrows' [on the feast of St Martin yearly at Ochtertyre] in 1364'. He also points out that on 8 March 1326, a few days before the date of our document, Oliphant had been present at the Parliament held at Holyrood. It was then printed in English and illustrated by J.W. Barty, Ancient Deeds and other Writs in the Mackenzie-Wharncliffe Charter-Chest (Edinburgh, 1906, appendix III, 131 and plate III) who commented that the writs were 'of exceptional interest and bear evidence to the fact that the lands of Newtyle, Kinpurney and Auchtertyre, and Balcraig had been the personal property of the great national hero, Robert the Bruce'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Europe.- Barlow (Percival) The General History of Europe and Entertaining Traveller, engraved frontispiece, becoming loose, 51 engraved plates only (of 52), 7 with marginal loss and/or old repairs, 2 with small marginal loss, 19 folding engraved maps, occasional off-setting and spotting, occasional marginal ink markings, new endpapers, later half-calf, rubbed, folio, W. and J. Stratford, [?1791].

British Isles.- Schedel (Hartmann) Anglie Provincia, folio XLVI from the 'Nuremberg Chronicle', one of the earliest obtainable views of England, albeit largely "imaginary", wood-engraving with hand-colouring, on laid paper without visible watermark, sheet 430 x 295 mm (16 7/8 x 11 5/8 in), small repair to tear at lower right corner, further repair to the upper right corner, minor marginal nicks and tears, handling creases, unframed, [Nuremberg, 1493].

Delamarche (Charles-François) and others. Composite atlas containing 13 double-page maps, including maps by Robert de Vaugondy, Vivien and Lapie, of Europe, Africa, Asia, America, and country maps of Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Russia in Europe, British Isles, Spain, and Scandinavia, engravings with hand-colouring, various sizes, each sheet approx. 560 x 780 mm (22 x 30 3/4 in), or slightly smaller, numerous losses throughout, nicks and tears, damp-stains and surface dirt, contemporary boards, spine split with large losses, boards nearly detached, heavily worn with losses, folio, [circa 1825].

*** Please note the description of this lots has changed.Atlases.- SDUK. Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 2 vol., 218 engraved maps as called for, some double-page, a few folding, the Geological Map of England and Wales with full hand-colouring, the rest uncoloured, includes the six celestial maps, each leaf approx. 415 x 335 mm (16 1/4 x 13 1/4 in), scattered surface dirt and minor browning, with spotting throughout, contemporary half vellum, spine gilt, red label to spine with vol. number, joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed, folio, Chapman and Hall, 1844.

Crimea.- Lièvre (Édouard) Retour de Crimée, hand-coloured lithograph title and 15 hand-coloured lithograph plates, scattered spotting, faint marginal water-staining, bookplate, original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, Paris, c.1850 § Nolan (E. H.) The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia, 2 vol., portrait frontispiece, additional engraved titles, plates and maps, occasional spotting, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, rubbed, [c.1857]; oblong folio & 8vo (3)⁂ The first is scarce, it humorously depicts children in the roles of French soldiers returning from the Crimean War.

Britain.- Slater (Isaac, publisher) Slater's New British Atlas, comprising the Counties of England (upon which are laid down all railways complete and in progress), vignette title, 2 folding linen-backed hand-coloured maps only (of 3), lacking England & Wales, 39 hand-coloured maps, 2 folding, one with short tear, tape repairs to verso, 7 distance tables, lacking contents, tissue-guards, newspaper clipping pasted to front pastedown, previous owner's ink signature, occasional faint marginal finger soiling, original half-calf, gilt, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, folio, [c.1850].

Malta.- Photograph album of landscape and interior scenes in Malta, 15 albumen prints, including 3 folding panoramic scenes of the Sliema, and fortification front of Valletta, panoramas each 1005 x 195mm (41 1/4 x 7 3/4in), plates each (200 x 165mm (7 3/4 x 10 1/4in), first few leaves detached, light toning to edges, panorama corners a little creased, original boards, upper cover detached, endpapers browned, [late 19th century]; and 2 other European scenic albums, including one of Ravenna in engraved wooden binding, folio (3)⁂ An excellent photograph album of pre-war images of Malta. Known to be one of the most intensively bombed areas during the war, the album accounts for some lost buildings, as well as the now much-changed Valletta waterfront. Includes a view of the Porta Reale which was built in 1853 and demolished in 1964, the front and back of the Porte de Bombes after the addition of a second archway in 1868, and others.

World.- Kitchin (Thomas) A General Atlas, describing the whole Universe, letterpress title, with 24 map sections only (of 35), including maps of The British Isles, Europe, Russia, Asia, and South America, many folding, various sizes, some outline hand-colouring, minor offsetting in places, handling creases, minor surface dirt, some nicks and tears to extremities, title and maps mounted stubs, a few loose, some missing, marbled boards, rubbed and scuffed, very worn, folio, [circa 1773 or slightly later]Literature:cf. Phillips, Atlases 653 and 3514

Atlases.- SDUK. Complete Atlas of Modern, Classical and Celestial Maps together with Plans of the Principal Cities of the World..., 2 vol., 218 engraved maps, including 52 city plans and 6 celestial maps, all with hand-colouring, each sheet approx. 430 x 360 mm (17 x 14 1/4 in), scattered spotting and browning throughout, the title and front free endpaper detached with upper cover to both vols., some additional sheets loose, small loss to contents and index etc., some other small losses, abrasions and surface dirt throughout, both lacking spines, original pictorial boards present but detached, very worn, folio, Thomas Letts, 1877

China.- [Nieuhoff (Jan)] An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, first English edition, lacking letterpress title, additional engraved title, 14 engraved plates only (of 17), 2 with small holes affecting image, 2 folding maps and plans, short tears with old repairs, 121 engraved illustrations, engraved initials and head-piecesl lacking a-d² and ²E2 (final blank), 3D2 with small rust hole affecting odd letter, 3R1, 3R2 & ²B2 with short tears affecting text, 3F1 & ²K1 with short marginal tears, occasional spotting and browning, occasional marginal soiling, later half-calf, upper cover detached, rubbed and worn, [Wing N1152], folio, [by John Macock for the author], [1669]; sold not subject to return

Britain.- Camden (William) Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of ... England, Scotland and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent ... enlarged by the latest discoveries by Richard Gough, 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, 57 engraved maps, all but 5 folding or double-page, one bound upside down, 95 engraved plates only (7 folding), one folding table, illustrations, 3 leaves with short tears, expertly repaired, occasional spotting and soiling, vol. 2 lacking 5E2, later calf, gilt, boards detached, rubbed and worn, folio, 1789; sold not subject to return

Railways.- Stephenson (George & Robert) Plans & Sections of the Chester & Holyhead Railway, title as upper cover, with 25 lithographed plans, and one manuscript plan in pen and brown ink, each sheet approx. 470 x 640 mm (18 1/2 x 25 1/4 in), numerous repairs to splitting and small losses, surface dirt and browning, pencil inscriptions throughout, some ink annotations, upper cover with ink inscription 'NB. This set is from the same set as actually deposited', held together with linen cloth stitch-spine, limp oblong folio, 1843; together with a set of 10 contract plans, showing Contract No.3 from Rhyl to Colwyn Bay, lithograph with hand-colouring, each sheet approx. 500 x 740 mm (19 3/4 x 29 in), mounted on linen, small losses, repaired nicks and tears, handling creases and surface dirt, stitched together without covers, oblong folio, [c. 1844] (2)⁂ Plans showing the whole route of this main line connecting London with Ireland, intended at first to utilise the Menai suspension bridge but with a supplementary plan of the deviation to a separate crossing of the Straits at the Britannia Rock, as finally built and opened in 1850.

Atlases.- Lizars (Daniel) Lizars' Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas, 68 double-page engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, with 1 double-page 'Tables of Mountain Chains' map, all mounted on stubs, some offsetting, occasional light soiling to margins, title with restoration visible, blindstamp of Uttoexter Mechanics Library, further blindstamps of Joseph Bladon, modern half calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio, [1842].⁂ Including the two rare maps depicting the Republic of Texas between its secession from Mexico in 1836 and its annexation in 1845.

De L'Isle (Guillaume) Atlante novissimo che contiene tutte le parti del mondo, nel quale sono esattamente descritti, first vol. only (of 2), engraved half-title, title printed in red and black ink, 26 engraved maps only (of 27, lacking the world map), some handling creases, occasional minor spotting and surface dirt, date scraped from title, contemporary limp board, ink title to spine, rubbed and scuffed, spine splitting at upper section, folio, Giambattista Albrizzi, [circa 1740-1750].

Japan.- Kaempfer (Englebert) Historia Imperii Japonici [The History of Japan], translated by J. Scheuchzer, 1 vol. only (of 2), additional engraved title, without letterpress title, 43 engraved plates and maps only (of 45), all but 6 folding, 4 with short marginal tears, scattered spotting, bookplate, manuscript note to front pastedown, contemporary boards, becoming detached, rubbed and worn, folio, 1727.⁂ Scarce. This is a plate volume only and lacks all text.

Atlases.- World.- Sharman (John, Dublin-based publisher) [Sharman's Geography], without title [? as published], 31 engraved maps, one folding, including a double-hemisphere world map, the Americas, Asia, China, India, East and West Indies, each leaf approx. 205 x 360 mm (8 1/8 x 14 1/8 in), on wove paper each with watermark date of '1810', several sheets with numerous tears and handling creases, some edges reinforced verso, otherwise scattered surface dirt and marginal nicks and tears throughout, with original brown paper wrappers present, extensive ink marginalia to both upper and lower wrapper, modern endpapers, modern half calf, marbled boards, contemporary red morocco label to upper cover with gilt initials 'H.G.', oblong folio, [circa 1794 to 1810].⁂ Scarce at auction. WorldCat records only one other copy, held in the British Library, which has only 24 maps present. Another copy is found in the Library of Congress where 29 maps are included.

France.- Beaulieu (Chevalier de) [Les Plans et Profils des principales Villes et lieux considerables du Comté de Flandre avec les Cartes generales et les particulières de chaque gouvernement], manuscript title in pen and brown ink that reads 'Receuil de touttes Les Villes, Plan, et Carte, de touttes Les Villes Conquise Par Louis XIIII', with over 130 engraved maps and views, some duplicates, each leaf approx. 195 x 240 mm (7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in), manuscript index at end, scattered spotting and surface dirt, later green boards, spine splitting, rubbed, oblong 4to, [17th century]; together with Alexandre Vuillemin's 'La France et ses colonies. Atlas illustré. Cent cartes dressées d'après les cartes de Cassini, du Dépot de la Guerre, des Ponts-et-Chaussées et de la Marine', oblong folio, Paris, 1851 (2)

East Anglia.- Badeslade (Thomas) The History of the Ancient and Present State of the Navigation of the Port of King's-Lyn, and of Cambridge ..., first edition, 7 hand-coloured maps and plans, 4 folding or double-page, scattered spotting, modern half-morocco, [Hanson 3496], folio, 1725.

Railways.- Stephenson & Sons (George) Plan of a Proposed Rail-way from London to Birmingham, 9 lithographed map sections, from parliamentary plans, each approx. 385 x 645 mm (15 1/8 x 25 1/4 in), each linen backed on stubs, corners cut, minor handling creases and surface dirt, limp cloth boards with printed label to upper cover, oblong elephant folio, [c. 1833]; together with two bound related works, including 'Book of Reference' to the plans, and 'Acts relating to the London and Birmingham Railway 1833-1837', uniform black cloth, rubbed, 4to, [c. 1833] (3)⁂ The 112-miles London and Birmingham Railway was the first intercity line from London, opening throughout in 1838.