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(Country Life, Sporting, Stately Homes.) 'Country Life Illustrated: The Journal for all Interested in Country life and Country Pursuits', vols 1-4, No.'s 1-103 consecutive, January 8th 1897-December 24th 1898, consecutive run bound in 8 volumes, folio, uniform old half calf gilt, plus volume 15 No.'s 365-390 consecutive, January 2nd-June 25th 1904, bound together in one volume, folio, contemporary cloth gilt, all profusely illustrated in b/w, content/ills. on country, sporting and social matters, Horses, hunting, shooting, farming, Golf, Fishing, Horse Racing, Falconry, Gardening and Surveys of Stately Homes & Manorial Estates, period adverts etc (9)

(China, Xi River, Wuzhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Pearl River.) Photograph Album WEST RIVER TRIPS. China, Leonard Philpott 1902 – 1907. landscape 34cm x 24 cm. An early 20th Century photograph album containing 88 mounted photographs of China, 1902-1907, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces, Southern China, images include Wuchow (now Wuzhou), Kwei Ping (now Guiping), including Pagoda, Pingnam (now Pingnan), Shiuhing (now Zhaoqing), Takhing (now Deqing), etc etc. The first page pencil note ”WEST RIVER TRIP S.CHINA” – THE THREE TRAVELLERS TAKEN DEC 1903”. tipped in photo and duplicate, of the 3 travellers pencil note, “Browne on left Grant in middle.” Then follows 29 pages of photographs. 13 of the photos are approx., 20 cm x 13 cm and 70 are 7cm x 9.5 cm. All neatly mounted and mostly with pencil notes identifying places, people etc and in very good condition. The photos show places i.e. Wu chow, Kwei Ping, Ping Nam, Kong How, Shiu Hing. Temples, the Ting Mo Shan Monastery ,officials, people , river scenes, house boats, native boats, Junks etc. One page has a mounted pencil sketch of Kong How At the end of the album 3 pages with tipped on, 5 red paper sheets and one loose, 20cm x 9.5cm with script in Chinese with pencil notes besides, 2 identifying the Prefect & Magistrate of Kwog Chan, the over 3 Barwick. S . Browne - G.C Lindsay Grant and Leonard. D. Philpot, and a similar loose sheet possibly a travel permit. Followed by a full-page photo “Lotus Pond.” There is also a large folding sheet in a Chinese text. Then 9 blank pages. An interesting tour album of original material and photographs of Southern China one of the most influential parts of China bordering Hong Kong . The 3 travelers were Philpot, Leonard Daniel, 1877–1973 Painter, architect, and designer, born in London. Studied architecture at South Kensington Schools and practised in Britain, China, and America. Also designed rooms and furniture. Took up painting and exhibited RA, RI, Fine Art Society, etc. Barwick Sharpe Browne (1881 - 1963) A British Army officer, the first librarian of the Institute of Archaeology Grant Lindsay G. C No information found.Oblong folio album landscape 24 x 34cm, rebound modern quarter black leather, black leather gilt title label to spine

Ida S. Rentoul Outhwaite, 6 titles, comprising: 'Mollie’s Bunyip', Melbourne, Robert Jolley, 1904, 1st edition, [50]pp, illustrated throughout, some leaves at front and end creased/worn, oblong 4to (21 x 24cm), original stitched pictorial wraps (worn). First book by the Outhwaites; 'Australian Songs for Young and Old.', George Robertson & Co., 1907. 1st printing. Landscape Folio, 30.3. x 25cm, pictorial card wraps, with original gold cord binding. 32pp of words and music for nine songs including a dedication page 'To Her Excellency The Lady Northcote' and nine full page black and white illustrations by Ida Rentoul (Outhwaite); 'More Australian Songs For Young and Old', Allan & Co., Prop. Ltd, 1914. Imperial Edition No. 337, Landscape Folio, 30.7 x 23.8cm pictorial card wraps with staple binding. 36pp of words and music for eight songs and eight full page black and white illustrations and others throughout by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. An unusual very early printing with 2/6 price (2/9 posted) on the rear cover and with the publisher location listed as Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Bendigo only; QUIN, Tarella. 'Gum Tree Brownie and other Faerie Folk of the Never-Never.', George Robertson & Co., 1907. 1st Edition, 2nd Issue with text corrected to "A ride on a comet". 22 x 19cm landscape green cloth with bevelled edges and red & black stamped decoration and titles to the front. All edges green, marble endpapers vi, 184pp, with black and white illustrations by Ida Rentoul (Outhwaite) throughout; 'Bunny and Brownie The Adventures of George & Wiggle.', A & C Black, 1930, 1st Edition, 8 colour plates + 8 b/w plates as called for, 4to, orig. cloth backed boards, printed paper label to front cover, dust wrapper; Plus 'Little Green Road to Fairlyland', 1925 reprint, original cloth, dust wrapper. (6)

Maurice Sendak (illustrated), 7 titles, including 'Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water', London, Bodley Head, 1967, 1st UK edition, colour ills. throughout, oblong, original pictorial boards, dust wrapper (2 copies), 'Lullabies and Night Songs', L, Bodley Head, 1969, 1st UK edition, folio, orig. pictorial cloth, dust wrapper, 'Dear Mili', L, 1988, 1st UK edition, oblong, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Bee-Man of Orn', L, 1967, 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Where the Wild Things Are', NY, Harper & Row, [nd], c.1963 or later, oblong, orig. cloth backed pictorial boards, and a softcover Picture Puffin edition of the same title, 1970 (7)

(South African War 1899-1902, Second Boer War.) 'The Graphic History of the South African war, 1899-1900, Complete Narrative of the Campaign, by Wentworth Huyshe [and others].', London, The Graphic Office, 1900, 107,[1]pp, b/w frontis Field Marshal Lord Roberts, full page & in text b/w ills. throughout, folio, original cloth backed boards, mounted sepia illustration to front cover, together with 'The Illustrated London News record of the Transvaal War, 1899-1900 : the achievements of the home and colonial forces in the great conflict with the Boer Republics.', L, Illustrated London News and Sketch, [1902], 8 tissue guarded photogravure plates + numerous b/w ills. throughout as called for, 84,[2]pp, folio, original pictorial wraps (2)

(Suffolk, Wortham.) [Ambrose Wretts.] A large manuscript account book, compiled 1772-1780 in the Wortham area of Suffolk, recording sale of all manner of grocery & general goods including tobacco, cloth, nails, lump sugar, green tea etc., entries mainly Wortham but also Burgate, Palgrave, Mellis, Rickinghall, Botesdale, Banham etc, contemporary m/s inscription to inside front cover "Ambrose Wretts Bought this Book Augt. 12th 1772" c.600pp of manuscript entries, some ff. at beginning and end loose, ledger folio (42 x 17cm), original vellum (very worn)

(Folio Society, Kelmscott Press.) Geoffrey Chaucer The Works, facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer of 1896, Folio Society, 2008, title, decorations and illustrations after William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, folio (42 x 29cm), original decorative tan cloth gilt, slipcase

John Guille Millais: 'Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches; Illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage, and the Hybrids and Varieties which occur amongst them', London, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1892, 1st edition, portrait frontispiece + 16 colour lithographic plates, 18 plates in autotype + 30 wood engraved illustrations in the text as called for, all tissue guards present, plates by J.G. Millais and G.E. Lodge, folio (40 x 32cm), original half red morocco gilt by Blunsow & Co. for Sotheran & Co., top edge gilt, armorial bookplate of Carlos Rein Duffau to front pastedown. A Lovely copy of Millais' well-known monograph on the four primary species: Capercaillie, Blackgame, Grouse and Ptarmigan.

Charles Leslie The Theological Works 1721, two elephant folio vols in full leather Cambridge binding 7 raised bands Gilt title and emblem. He became a leading Jacobite propagandists after the 1688 Glorious Revolution one of the Irish Protestants who supported the Stuarts and is remembered for this role publicizing the 1692 massacre of Glencoe   

"The Way of Birds" by R.B. Talbot Kelly illustrated by the author, folio size, Collins 1937 first edition ; "The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs" by T. A.  Coward, F. Warne & Co, 1921 third impression, 2 Volumes; "Beetles, Butterflies, Moths & other insects " by A .W Kappel & W.G Kirby, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1893 edition 

DOYLE, Richard 'Fairyland, Pictures from the Elf-World' First edition, folio, original green gilt cloth, unusual binding error with the title page bound after list of illustrations, sixteen chromolithograph plates as listed, by Edmund Evans, some instances of light finger soiling, generally vg, Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1870.

(Botany) J. G. Millias 'Rhododendrons and the Various Hybrids,' Second series only, 444/450, folio, original red cloth with some sun bleaching, light sporadic spotting, plates throughout, Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1924.

(Arthur Rackham illustrations) J. M. Barrie 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens,' Reprint by The Folio Society, original full buckram with decorations, card slip, colour plates complete, vg to fine, The Folio Society, 2005.

Kenneth White and John Christie (ill) 'A Walk Along the Shore,' Number 54 of 95 copies, signed by the author and artist, nine screen prints, loose as issued in folder, slip-case, folio, Surrey, Circle Press Publications, 1977.

The Folio Society. 'Grimm's Fairy Tales', illustrated by Arthur Rackham; Andrew Lang, 'The Pink Fairy Book' and 'The Blue Fairy Book'; J.R.R Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' and 'The Silmarillion', together with thirteen other Folio books each in their own cardboard sleeve. (18)

DORE, Gustave 'Historical Cartoons from the 1st Century to the 19th Century,' Oblong folio, original pictorial paper laid over, some loss to margins, full plates, some spotting, John Camden Hotten, London, [c.1880]Tear to foot of cloth spine; loss to edges of printed paper; text block is detaching from cloth with some leaves loose, the gutta percha seems to have perished; large spot running through plate no.5 to 6 including text, again for plate no.12 to 13; large teat to text for 'Surprised by Watchmen'; sporadic spotting throughout.

'Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Map Making in the County Of Surrey,' 'A Collection of Reproductions of Printed Maps Published Between the Years 1579-1823,' Large Scale maps by Saxton, Norden, Rocque, Greenwood and others, introductory Notes by William Ravenhill, large folio, fine condition, published by Harry Margary 1974.

Folio Society Twenty three works Including Anthony Trollope, Harper Lee, L. M. Montgomery, Rosemary Sutcliff, John Fothergill, Thomas Turner, Mary Russell Mitford, Dorothy L. Sayers, etc, mostly all vg in original slipcases. (23)

* Siege of Paris Balloon Post. An important and extensive archive of original manuscript correspondence and some printed documents relating to the establishment and organization of the new balloon post from Paris (the world's first airmail), by the Direction Generale des Postes under Germain Rampont, during the siege of Paris by the Prussian Army (September 19, 1870 to January 28, 1871), with further manuscript documents concerning the Paris Commune of 1871, as well as a number of subsequent retrospective administrative reports, approximately 650 items in total, circa 1870-1873, consisting of approximately 600 original official manuscript letters, many on headed letterpaper, reports, fair copies of contracts, descriptions by various inventors of prototype balloons and navigable air transport, permits, decrees, letters of recommendation, inventories of courrier pigeons and balloons used during the siege, accounts of flights undertaken, alternative methods of communication and delivery of post over the enemy lines by water, plus several contemporary printed newspapers (containing articles on balloons and aerostats), and a few contemporary printed booklets, etc., many letters and documents addressed to Germain Rampont, Head of the Direction Générale des Postes, his deputies, and a committee of experts on aerial navigation (including Hervé Mangon, balloonist and Ingénieur en chef des ponts et chaussées), etc., and including six signed letters by Nadar, five signed letters by Eugène Godard (26 December 1870-8 January 1871), numerous signed letters and notes by Jules Favre, ministre de l'interieur, Chassinat, De la Follye, Charles Delcourt, Louis Tellier, Louis Reyjal, Achille Brachet, Comte d'Oliveira, Bukaty, Francisco Antonio d'Almeida, the constructors Yon & Dartois, the photographer and inventor Réné Dagron (1819-1900), Albert Fernique (1841-1898), Gabriel Mangin, etc., mainly loose and divided into small folders with an outer paper wrapper (many inscribed with the subject matter contained in the correspondence), with one third loosely contained in a later cloth portfolio cover, folio (majority of documents between 36 x 28 cm and 18.5 x 12 cm)QTY: (an archive)NOTE:On 19 July 1870 France declared war on Prussia. It was a disastrous miscalculation. By 2 September the French emperor Napoleon III and his army had surrendered to the Germans at Sedan. By 19 September, the Prussians had surrounded Paris and laid siege to the city and its two million inhabitants. For France it was the end of empire. A new republican government abandoned the capital and headed south-west to Tours. As a consequence, with all post stopped, Paris had an urgent need to communicate with the outside world, especially the provincial départements. Having already used tethered balloons to observe the enemy, they decided to set up an air mail service. They sent out a call for every existing balloon in Paris and they set up shops for building more balloons. In all, 66 balloons left Paris carrying information to France beyond the German lines. Most flights were made at night. The balloons delivered hundreds of carrier pigeons for return mail. To bring mail back by pigeon, the French outside Paris used microscopic photography to reduce 16 pages of text to a 1 1/4 by 2 inch piece of film. Of the balloonists, two were lost at sea, and six were captured by the Germans when they landed. When others came down behind enemy lines, their pilots managed to deliver the mail anyway. One landed on an island off the coast of Brittany, another on the Scilly Isles. The most dramatic flight was one that landed in a Norwegian forest after an astonishing 875-mile trip. One flight carried the Minister of the Interior, who landed in an oak tree.This highly important archive contains unique manuscript documentation relating to the foundation of the Balloon Post, the rapid development and manufacture of dirigibles for transporting mail from the besieged city, requests for government officials to be transported to the French provinces on official missions by balloon, and other related matters, all under the direction of the Director General of the Post himself, Germain Rampont (1809-1888). Rampont was appointed to his post on the 9th September 1870. On the 19th September, with all post stopped, Rampont initiated a plan to develop an aerial post service by balloon, firstly with carrier pigeons, and then with the use of microscopic photography, and navigable balloons. The first balloon, Le Neptune, successfully took off from the Place St. Pierre in Montmartre with 103 kilos of 'dépechés', or government despatches. Amongst the many important letters and documents contained in the archive are numerous prototype designs by professional and amateur aviators and engineers, submitted to the Direction des Postes for consideration, following an appeal for technical assistance from the skilled members of the besieged population. After much careful examination of the various methods put forward (by an examination committee consisting of Hervé Mangon, Cornu, and others) Rampont commissioned Eugene Godard, and Yon & Dartois, to manufacture 2000 square metre balloons, with land at the Gare d'Orléans and the Gare du Nord set aside for their use. The archive contains letters and copies of contracts between Rampont as Head of the Direction Generale des Postes and Godard, Yon & Dartois, the photographers Réné Dagron and Albert Fernique (on the creation of a micro-photographic process to be used in balloon post), and others including photographer and engineer Félix Nadar (1820-1910), founder of the Compagnie des Aérostiers militaires.A more extensive list of the contents of the archive is available on request from the auctioneers.

* Special Air Service. SAS War Diary 1941-1945, the Services Edition (354/1000), London: Extraordinary Editions Ltd., [2011], facsimile with colour and monochrome illustrations printed on thick paper, original blind-stamped light brown leather over bevelled boards with leather strap, large thick folioQTY: (1)

* R.A.F. Far East Flight. A rare folio published to commemorate the 1927-1928 flight of four Supermarine-Napier 'Southampton' flying boats which successfully flew from Felixstowe to Singapore, departing 27 October 1927 arriving 28 February 1928, the folio contains two extracts from the official log of this 'Greatest Flight in History' commanded by Group Captain H. M. Cave-Browne-Cave, D.S.O. D.F.C., press extracts, colour plates of air and ground crews with a 'Singapore' scale model and S1151, a 'Southampton' in flight, the four aircraft at Singapore and a chart showing the route flown, original blue folio with a pictorial reserve, Department of Aeronautics Imperial College stamps and some creases and annotations, 33 x 47 cm QTY: (1)

Early Ballooning. A collection of newspapers including Bell's Weekly Messenger, number 810, 13th October 1811, 4 p., detailing 'Mr. Sadler's Balloon' at Birmingham and 'Arrival of Mr. Sadler at Birmingham', a few spots, disbound, folio (39.5 x 27 cm), together with: The Daily Advertiser, number 17408, 16th September 1784, 2 p., detailing 'Yesterday, Mr. Lunardi made his experiment of ascending into the air, from the Artillery Ground, Moorfields, my means of an air balloon', lightly spotted, disbound, folio (48.5 x 31 cm), with Salopian Journal, number 1594, 18th August 1824, 2 p., with woodcut advert for 'Mr. Green's Aerial Voyage', disbound, folio (50 x 38 cm), with 11 other newspaper extracts detailing airship events, including The Edinburgh Evening Courant, 4th August 1784 (The Duke of Chartres and the Robert Brothers), 21st September 1785 (advert for balloon rides in Lunardi's balloon) and 3rd October 1785 (classified advert for Lunardi's flight from Herriot's Gardens)QTY: (14)

* The Wing. Journal of the RNAS, Felixtowe, 36 issues, November 1915-December 1917, numbers 2, 4 & 6-39, illustrations and advertisements, some light toning and staple rusr, 2 issues with upper wrappers detached (but present), 8vo (numbers 2 & 4 folio with light folds and small marginal tears), together with other WW1 aviation periodicals including Squad 20 Gazette, 2 duplicate issues of No. 7, May 1916, Royal Naval Air Service Gazette, No. 2, July 1916, The Pom-Pom, January 1916, The Eagle, 2 issues, December 1917 & January 1918, Flighty. The Premier Air Service Journal, 2 issues, 1917, The Chingflier, 20 issues, 1917, Pulham Patrol, 6 issues, 1917-18, The Piloteer, 2 issues, 1917-18, The Prop, 9 issues, 1918, Roosters and Fledglings, 7 issues, 1918 QTY: (approximately 60)

1867 Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript Ballads and Romances. Ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, publ. N. Trubner & Co. 1867. Full vellum binding, heavily gilt spine with morocco spine labels, gilt borders and red edges, marbled endpapers. Boards and spines a touch discoloured, extremities bumped, small cracks visible to the tails of the spines, title page of vol I with some discolouration near the gutter, pages otherwise smart and bindings tight. An interesting Victorian edition of the manuscript used by Thomas Percy to write his 'Reliques of Ancient Poetry', in lovely vellum bindings. 8vo.

Waits by Corbijn '77 - '11. Published Schirmer / Moser. A limited edition of 6,600 copies with slipcase. Text by Jim Jarmusch and Robert Christgau. Illustrated with Anton Corbijn's photographs of Tom Waits in colour and black and white throughout. Publisher's quarter cloth binding, with pictorial boards and cloth pictorial slipcase. Folio.

Military First World War interest. A collection of books relating to WWI. The lot comprising Dover and the Great War by J. B. Firth, The History of the Royal Fusiliers 'U. P. S.' University and Public Schools Brigade, 1991 Invasion by Piper Bill Millin signed by the author to ffep, 1996 Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves publ. Folio Society in slipcase, 1969 Royal Flying Corps 1915-1916 ed. Christopher Cole in dw, Portsmouth and the Great War ed. William G. Gates, 1921 Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 Part 26 the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and The History of the 53rd Welsh Division in the Second World War by Brigadier C. N. Barclay. Eight works in total. 8vo.

Circa 1935 Kildine, Histoire d'une Mechante Petite Princesse par Marie, Reine de Roumanie. With a preface by Robert de Flers, illustrated by Job. Published Maison Alfred Mame et Fils. Publisher's original pictorial paper wraps, bookplate of Matilda Constance Ismay (the wife of Charles Bower Ismay, brother of Joseph Bruce Ismay & highest ranking official to survive the sinking of the Titanic in 1912). Loss to the head of the spine and edgewear to extremities, limited edition of 30 printed on Japanese paper, this one appearing out of series. A scarce and beautifully illustrated fairy story, written by Queen Marie of Romania. Folio.

Carruthers Gould, F. 1895 Cartoons of the Campaign, A Collection of Political Cartoons made during the General Election of 1895; bound with 1896 The Westminster Cartoons, a Pictorial History of Political Events since the General Election of 1895, and seven further volumes, the last being 1904 The Westminster Cartoons, a Record of Political Events in 1904. Publ. The Westminster Gazette. Contemp. full cloth binding, wear to spine commensurate with age. Including advertisements. An interesting exploration into British politics at the turn of the 20th century. Small folio.

Ballets Russe at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. A collection of 1930s Art Deco ballet programmes, many for the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo under Col. W. de Basil. Including 1936 June-September folio programme with tipped in colour plates by Nathalie Gontcharova, Jean Hugo, M. Larionow, Pablo Picasso, J. M. Sert, costume designs by Cecil Beaton, and photographs of Russian ballet dancers such as Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Toumanova, Yurk Shabelevsky and others. Along with programmes for the 1946 Sadler's Wells Ballet, Ballet Rambert, and for various seasons of the Ballets Russes 1936, 1937 & 1939, a programme for a performance at the Theatre Royal, Bath in 1944 of The Green Table starting Kurt Jooss, and a small collection of 1940s tickets for various performances. A charming collection of interwar and post-war theatrical and ballet interest, richly illustrated with Deco advertisements. 

Sporting interest. 1984 Oriental Field Sports; being a Complete, Detailed and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East; and Natural History. Illustrated with forty coloured engravings by Samuel Howett. Taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson. Originally published by William Bulmer and Co., the facsimile printed by Anthony Atha Publishers Ltd. Limited edition of 350 copies, this being no. 340. Introduction by the Duke of Wellington. Publisher's original full cloth binding, gilt titles to spine, extremities a touch bumped & odd scuff to the boards. Folio.

2016 Bob Dylan A Year and a Day by Daniel Kramer. Published Taschen. A signed limited edition, this being No. 0876 of 1,965. Signed by Kramer to limitations page. Publisher's original striking pictorial full cloth binding, presented in clamshell box. Richly illustrated in black and white with photographs during the early days of Dylan's illustrious career. Folio.

2000 Dylan in Woodstock by Elliott Landy. Published Genesis Publications Limited. Signed limited edition, hand numbered No. 1744 of 1,750 copies. Signed by Landy to bookplate to verso of ffep. Illustrated with Landy's portraits and photographs of Bob Dylan. Publisher's quarter suede binding with pictorial boards, presented in pictorial slipcase. Small folio. 

Theology & religion. 1613 Alphonsi Tostati Hispani Abulensis Episcopi, Philosophi, Theologi, ac Pontificij Iuris Caesareiq, cosultissimi, nec non linguae Graecae & Hebraicae peritissimi. Operum Tom. IV in Duas Part Divisus. continens Commentaria in Lib. Numberorum. Printed Coloniae Agrippinae, Sumptibus Ioannis Gymnici, & Antonij Hierati. Two volumes, being Volume IV, two parts bound as one, and Volume X, also two parts bound as one, of thirteen folio volumes. Bound in later full calf bounds, recently rebacked and restored, featuring gilt figure to front board. Ownership bookplate of The Right Honourable Washington Sewallis [Shirley] Earl Ferrars to front pastedown, woodcut illustrated title page. Two volumes from the complete works of Alonso Tostado (also known as Alfonso Fernández de Madrigal and Alphonsus Tostatus), an important Spanish theologian & Bishop of Avila. Folio.

Folio Society:- Jane Austen. Six titles c1960 in worn condition plus Shorter Works 1975 plus two related and two pamphlets plus a collection of nine mixed Folio Society titles in slip cases (20)

Shakespeare (William) 'The Life of Henry the Fift' pp81/82 from the Second Folio, looseIt is very delicate and fragile.  The paper is time discoloured, with stains and minor tears to edges, also pencil inscription to one corner.Please see photos via condition report tab.

The National Shakespeare, a facsimile of the cert of the first folio of 1623 illustrated by Sir J Noel Paton, RSA, published by William Mackenzie, 69 Ludgate Hill, a set of three large Folio books

Pablo PicassoHead of a woman, from the Gongor seriesA print36.5 x 28cmThe Folio Society - Collectors' corner label verso

Coin and banknote collection. Folio of South American banknotes including Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil; assembled currency sets of circulating coins from Malta, Greece, India, Portugal, South Africa, China, France, Italy and Germany, among others the coins secured with tape; a quantity of British cupronickel Crown coins; a 1953 UK coronation-year coin set sealed in plastic; coin album sleeve pages with a range of 20th century circulating world coins; a blue wallet 'Britain's First Decimal Coins' set; and a loose collection of coins from the UK, Australia and Norway.

Walker (J. & C.) Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas; containing separate Maps of every County in England and the three Ridings of Yorkshire, London: J. and C. Walker, folio, circa 1860, Bookplate for Michael Lord Sandys, red morocco binding, the pictorial cover later tooled with 'Ombersley Court' and the Ombersley coat of armsOmbersley Court, Worcestershire

A collection of books on Seamanship and Engineering to include Sothern (J. W. M) Marine Diesel Oil Engines, Glasgow: James Munro, 8vo, 9th edition, two volumes; Willis & Greenhill: The Coastal Trade, Phaidon, oblong large folio (qty)

The Land of Shakespeare A Series of Thirty-one Etchings from Original Drawings specially made for this Work by John MacPherson Introduction and Descriptive Text by Frederick Gard Fleay, M.A. John Bumpus, London, 1889, Antique Paper Edition, no. 16 of 300 copies, large folio volume measuring approx. 49m x 37cm Condition Report:Available upon request

A large quantity of mixed books, to include bound Christie's/Sotheby's auction catalogues (Works of Art from Houghton Hall, The Codex Leicester by Leonardo Da Vinci etc.), titles on Scottish topography/hillwalking, an Admiralty Navigation Manual for 1938, Folio Society edition of the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, specimen edition of the Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, a small quantity of early 19th century leatherbound volumes, 20th century children's literature, two boxed silver-mounted Good News Bibles etc. etc. (6 boxes) Condition Report:Available upon request

An album of late-20th century tourist postcards, together with other loose cards of an aviation interest, a folio of prints relating to the German Third Reich and a small collection of cigarette cards Condition Report:Available upon request

'Guernsey 1982', a folio of twelve tinted artist's proof etchings, each 7 x 13½in. (17.75 x 34.25cm.), signed and inscribed in pencil to each etching, also signed and numbered frontispiece, bound in the original green leather case with gilt title.

translation and Notes by James Hogarth, Introduction by Graham Robb, foreword by Andrew Dixon, Folio Society 2014, limited edition no. 272/1250, pictorial boards, quarter leather, gilt titles, silk ribbon marker, in clam shell box, together with original labelled shipping box.* Excellent condition, lightly read if ever.

two volumes of beautifully engraved portraits by the brothers Finden, with letterpress descriptions, contemporary red half morocco, gilt spine titles, raised bands, folio, published by J. Hogarth, London, 1849.*Some scuffing to joints and edges, spotting to pages. Otherwise in good condition.

Royal Variety Performance. A group of 8 multi-signed Royal Performance programmes, at The Palladium and The Coliseum, London, for 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1950, photo illustrations and adverts throughout, the 1945 programme containing a total of 11 autographs comprising: Harry Marlow, Robert Nesbitt, The Nine Avalons, Jules Adrian, Vic Oliver, Maurice Colleano, George Doonan, Jerry Desmond, Sid Field, Van Phillips, together with show backstage pass; another copy for 1945 containing a total of 10 autographs signed by: Van Phillips, Jill Manners, Jules Adrian, Grace Spero, Vic Oliver, Douglas Wakefield, Sid Field, Jerry Desmond, Webster Booth, Anne Ziegler, Tommy Trinder, together with a separate performance order programme; the 1946 programme containing a total of 19 autographs including: Val Parne, Mary Naylor, Cairoli Brothers, Terry Thomas, Oscar Natzke, Harry Lester, etc.; the 1947 programme containing 18 autographs, including: Gracie Fields, Dolores Gray, Jack Durant, The Crazy Gang, Marilyn Hightower, etc.; the 1948 programme containing 2 autographs, comprising: Julie Andrews and Charlie Chester; the 1949 programme containing 18 autographs, including: Johnny Lockwood, Joy Nichols, Wilfred Pickles, Maurice Chevalier, etc.; the 1950 programme containing 25 autographs, including: Max Bygraves, Frankie Howerd, Gracie Fields, etc., together with a ticket for the performance; signatures in all programmes mostly in blue ball-point pen and adjacent to their publicity photographs with some pages multi-signed, all original printed wrappers, slim folioQTY: (10)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).

* Panama & Cuba. An album containing 26 corner-mounted gelatin silver print photographs, c. 1900-1910, comprising 12 photographs of the construction of the Panama Canal by W.A. Fishbough, 11 x 16 cm, and 14 photographs of Cuban views by J.B. by F. B. Co., 8 x 13.5 cm, the majority titled in the negatives, some leaves blank, contemporary cloth, rubbed, oblong small folioQTY: (1)

* Cromwell (Oliver, 1599-1658), English Statesman, politician and soldier, Lord Protector 1653-1658. Document Signed, ‘Oliver P’, 3 April 1654, manuscript warrant on vellum, appointing Samuel Style to be an ensign in a Company of Foot commanded by Captain Philip Eyton, in Sir William Constable's Regiment, fine, clear signature at head and papered seal of the Commonwealth at foot, some age soiling and original fold marks, stitch-marks to left and right margins, oblong folio (19.5 x 29.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).A clerical error must have occurred during the preparation of the document for Styles’s name is written over the erased mistake, with some resultant thinning of the vellum membrane. This is repeated twice with Styles’s name on the verso, the vellum thinning from one erasure creating a small pinhead hole near the upper margin, to the right and away from Cromwell’s autograph. This document is mentioned in The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, (Clarendon Press, 1988), Volume 3, p. 239. It was sold by Maggs Bros. in 1958 (Catalogue 852, item 52), and previously in 1927 (Catalogue 497, item 2156).

* Naval Papers. A group of 13 mostly Nelson-era Autograph Letters and related, 1796/1841, including three letters signed from Evan Nepean (1751-1822), 1799/1801, all to Rear Admiral Duckworth, the first (ALS) approving the conduct of Captains Blackwood and Brenton, Master of the St Vincent schooner, the second a cover letter concerning another letter received from a Mr Madden at Liverpool containing intelligence respecting the sailing of a Spanish squadron from Havana to Cadiz, the third marked 'Secret' and 'Copy', to Rear Admiral Duckworth, concerning the safety of the white inhabitants of the island of St Domingo, 'that the intentions of France in respect to its reduction, should not be known to the Blacks and People of Colour; you are not to communicate on any account whatever, the information which has been given to you on the subject, excepting to persons from whom it cannot be withheld without prejudice to the Public Service... '; Two Letters Signed from James Gambier (1756-1833), 1808/09, both to Duckworth, relating to the transporting of the French Army from Portugal to Quiberon Bay, and giving naval instructions; An Autograph Letter Signed from John Thomas Duckworth (1748-1817), signed with Initials, Port Royal, 3 March 1804, to Lieutenant General Rupert, concerning the use of various vessels, corrections and deletions; A statement concerning a Court Martial on board HMS Bellerophon at Port Mahon, 17 April 1799, following an order from Admiral John Thomas Duckworth, signed by 7 Captains including Darley, William Drury, W. Rowell, Robert Campbell and others; A Letter Signed from several Captains on board the sloop Hunter, 10 September 1802, concerning an order from James Richard Darres and reporting that they 'find there are Two Mulatoe Lads on board who entered at Barbadoes on 14 July last', giving further details of their names and trades; an Autograph Letter Signed from William Cross, Spanish Town, 21 September 1802, giving his version of the events to an unidentified officer, 'The officers of the yard have misinformed you, in acquainting you, that I have given an opinion so contrary to reason, as that the Negroes alluded to were proper subjects, to be tried for Murder, because a Boat ran foul of them, in the execution of their duty, by which accident some people were drowned... '; plus 4 others, some occasional browning, a total of 25 pp., mostly folio/4toQTY: (13)

* George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1760-1820. Document Signed, 'George R', as King, 7 May 1800, 'Warrant for holding a General Court Martial for the trial of Lieutenant Caleb Minchin of the 36th Regiment of Foot, late of the 51st Regiment of Foot' (endorsement), addressed to Sir Charles Morgan, Bt, signed at head and countersigned by the Duke of Portland (Home Secretary, later Prime Minister) at foot, papered seal, several splits on folds with some paper repairs not affecting text, some browning, 3 pp., folio, together with:Victoria Battenberg (later styled Victoria Mountbatten), Marchioness of Milford Haven (1863-1950), Autograph Letter Signed, 20 February 1888, to 'Dear Miss Simmons', from Valetta (Malta), inviting her to dinner, plus other sundry ephemeral items comprising:Two tickets of admission to the coronation Edward VII (Constitution Hill Stand), number 163 and 164, undated, but 1902, either 26 June or the postponed date of 9 August following the king's abdominal surgery; Letter to Mrs Charles Orman (?wife of the cricketer, 1869-1927) from her father, Sandringham, 27 January 1895, describing a house party given by the prince (probably the Prince Regent), including his conversation with [Leander Starr] Jameson 'who commanded in the Matabele wars' and describing the house etc. ('All the clocks are set at half an hour in advance of railway time, which is most puzzling'), 11 pp., 8vo; Conveyance of property in Brandenburgh Road, Gunnersbury, 1 January 1902, between Harry Valentine Crane and Charles Dickens [not the son of the novelist]; Army discharge certificate, 5 June 1838 for Private Stephen Frost. ?mid-nineteenth-century copy relating to the Count of Schomberg, 1691, 4 pp., 4to, with a separate account of the Ionian Isles, 2 pp. 4to; Extract 'On the Slave Trade Ext[racted] from Montesquieu 1804 Autumn’, 3 pages, 4to, with a (?draft) covering letter to Miss Goodwyn; Letter to Dr Buxton at Maize [Maze] Hill, Greenwich, unsigned, 27 April 1804, incorporating verses addressed to the Duke of Portland, and discussing horticultural matters, endorsed on the address-leaf 'Poem by Crowe', with a copy written by Buxton of the apparent last letter (in French) of an 'unfortunate gentleman [who] put an end to his life on Saturday 14th February 1789 in the evening about the time he mentions, in Greenwich Park'; Verses in an unknown hand 'Stork Song’, late 19th century, with a sketch of the bird at the head, 1 page, 4toQTY: (14)

* Cecil (William, 1520-1598), 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. Letter Signed as Lord Treasurer, ‘W. Burghley’, ‘from my house in the Strand’, 26 November 1595, to Robert Constable and Hugh Bethell, esquires, requesting them to disregard his former letters and take steps in the matter of Thomas Ellison of Cliffe [in Hemingbrough in the East Riding of Yorkshire], the bearer of this letter, who claims to be the heir of Henry Gamble to copyhold lands held of the queen’s manor of Hemingburgh, from the possession of which he has been wrongfully kept out by Ann Watkinson, widow and William Eskirke, ‘both recusants as he allegeth’, one page with endorsed blank integral leaf, dust-soiling, second leaf neatly relaid and re-joined with paper loss for seal tear only, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).The manor of Hemingbrough passed to the Crown on the dissolution of Durham Priory, and remained in hand until 1614. Hugh Bethell of Rise Park in Rise became the Crown’s sole lessee of the manor of Rise in 1591; his descendants owned practically the whole of Rise civil parish in 1995. VCH Yorkshire East Riding 3 (1976) 37-47; 7 (2002) 330-40. It can be assumed that Robert Constable and Hugh Bethell were both justices of the peace.At about this time Thomas Ellison took proceedings in Chancery against William Donnington and Peter Robinson, claiming the same land as the heir of his maternal grandfather Henry Gamble: TNA C2/Eliz/E3/59.Robert Thorpe, a Yorkshire Douai priest, was arrested in 1591 at the house of Thomas Watkinson at Menthorpe in Hemingbrough; he and his host were executed at York on 31 May. Father Robert Watkinson of the same family was executed in London in 1602: Dom Hugh Aveling, Post Reformation Catholicism in East Yorkshire 1558-1790 (East Yorkshire Historical Society, 1960) 22, 34. William Eskirke is perhaps an error for William Aske.

* Convict Transportation. A printed order of transportation, Croydon, Surrey, 20 August 1829, a pre-printed document, completed in manuscript, concerning William Rose, aged 26, convicted and attainted of horsebreaking and larceny, to be 'transported to New South Wales, or Van Dieman's Land, or some one or other of the Islands adjacent thereto, for the Term of his natural Life', together with another similar, Worcester, 31 March 1834, concerning William Beavan, 'who has been indicted and tried for stealing two gallons of vinegar of the value of one shilling and two gallons of cyder of the value of one shilling of the goods and chattels of Thomas Horton his Master and found guilty be transported', both slightly frayed, 1 page, folio, both endorsed, plus a manuscript gaoler's report, Isle of Man, 8 November 1834, concerning Thomas Lynchey and Sarah Lynchey's conviction for stealing money and to be transported, 'Received on board the Ganymede Hulk, Woolwich, 13 May 1834', 6 pages with endorsed cover, some dust soiling and fraying, folioQTY: (3)NOTE:William Rose was one of 167 convicts transported on the Adrian, 13 April 1830, arriving in New South Wales. William Beavan was one of 306 convicts transported on the Mary Ann, 6 July 1835, arriving New South Wales. Thomas Lynchey was one of 280 convicts transported on the Norfolk, 4 July 1834, arriving at Van Diemen's Land. (Convict Transportation Registers [HO 11].

* Hua Guofeng (1921-2008), Chinese politician who served as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and Premier of the People's Republic of China. Signed head and shoulders portrait, November 1979, colour photograph on Kodak satin paper, signed and inscribed in Chinese characters and dated ‘1979.11’ in black fibre pen vertically to right light area of image, 185 x 150 mm, together with a TLS on Embassy of the People’s Republic of China letterhead, 19 November 1979, to Peter Bland, acknowledging his kind letter to Premier Hua who, though busy, ‘was good enough to sign a few photographs to meet the request of wellwishers. I have the pleasure of enclosing herewith an autographed picture of the Premier to be added to your collection of signatures of world leaders and celebrities. I hope to hear from you on receipt of the photograph and trust that it will be cherished’, signed by Chang Hsien Li, Private Secretary to the Chinese Ambassador, 1 page, folio, plus the original posting envelope (and card stiffener), postmarked ‘London, 27 November 1979’QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).A rare autograph of this Chinese political leader, signed during his brief time as the second Premier of the People’s Republic of China, 1976-1980.

* George IV (George Augustus Frederick, 1762-1830), King of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed 'George V' as Prince Regent, Court at Carlton House, 16 August 1817, printed document completed in manuscript, addressed to Rt Hon. Charles Long and Rt Hon. Frederick John Robinson, Joint Paymasters General of His Majesty's Guards, a warrant for the pay of the Isles Regiment of Fencible Infantry totalling £24,097.3.3, countersigned by Viscount Palmerston, 1 page with endorsed blank integral leaf, some spotting and fold wear, folio, together with:Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex. Document Signed, 'Augustus Frederick', 1 April 1815, manuscript on paper, appointing Herbert Hill as a chaplain, signed at foot with remains of red wax seal, 1 page with registration note to verso, integral blank with mounting remains to outer corners, folio, plus 3 sets of paired autographs of Prince George, Duke of York (later King George V) and Victoria Mary, 6 February 1906, on The Residency, Bangalore headed paper; Edward, Duke of Windsor and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor on an album leaf; and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and his wife Louise Margaret, both dated 1887, on her monogrammed stationery, all 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).

* Macindoe Family Albums. A group of 3 photograph albums compiled by Armida and Rosemary Macindoe, 1932-1946, gelatin silver print snapshots, a total of approximately 1,000 mostly snapshots on rectos and versos of 87 stiff card leaves, numerous ink captions and dates throughout 2 albums, identifying places and people, family names include Cholmondeley, Pooley, Baring, Buckhurst, Astill, etc., mostly family and society candid shots at home at Norton Hall and other houses and holiday destinations, mostly UK but including touring in Germany (October to December 1934), featuring photographs of Hitler, Goebbels, Unity Mitford, Diana Mitford, Diana Guinness, one album broken, contemporary padded morocco gilt, some wear, one with covers detached, two with monogram 'RM' to upper cover and one with 'MAM' to upper cover, oblong folioQTY: (3)NOTE:Mary Armida Macindoe (1917-2010) and her sister Rosemary (1918-?) were the daughters of James Douglas 'Toby' Macindoe (1888-1954) and Maria Margaret Hungerford Pollen.

* India, South Africa, etc. An album containing approximately 40 photographs compiled by an officer in the Wiltshire Regiment, c. 1880s/1890s, including views and camp scenes, commercial views, etc., including Bermuda (4), South Africa (4), India (5), Egypt (5), Malta (2) and English country houses and views in North Devon, etc., images 20 x 25 cm and smaller, mounted singly and as multiples on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, some printed ephemera pasted at back and front, several leaves loose, contemporary half roan, covers detached and backstrip deficient, oblong folioQTY: (1)

* South Africa. An album containing 15 mounted photographs mostly by Barnett, c. 1900, gelatin silver prints, including 3 photographs of local types, 'Drilling of market square', 'Pit made by dynamite explosion February 19th 1896', 'Boer commando', Diamond Jubilee procession', 'President Kruger', etc., mostly signed and captioned in the negatives, 15 x 20.5 cm, mounted to stiff card leaf rectos only with sporadic ink captions to mounts, some soiling, together with 3 smaller related photographs loosely inserted, and a poster '"Natal Mercury" Souvenir Special', May 19th 1900, giving details of the Relief of Mafeking, 43 x 26 cm, contemporary cloth, slightly rubbed, small oblong folioQTY: (1)

* George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert, 1865-1936), King of the United Kingdom, 1910-1936. Document Signed, 'George RI', Court at St James's, 24 June 1910, a pre-printed document, completed in calligraphic manuscript, granting a Companion (Military Division) of the Order of the Bath to Surgeon-General Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd, VC, signed at head adjacent to papered seal, a little spotting at extremities, 2 pp. with integral blank leaf, folio, together with blue ink signatures of Edward, Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII) and his wife Wallis Windsor on an off-white album leaf, plus cut ink signatures of George VI and his wife Elizabeth mounted on off-white card, 'George RI, 1940' and 'Elizabeth R'QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).

Royal Variety Performance. Royal performance in the presence of her Majesty the Queen at 7.45pm on the evening of Monday 20th November 1989 at the Palladium, London, Souvenir programme, colour portraits of the Queen, Queen Mother and Prince Phillip, colour and black and white illustrations of the performers , plus other illustrations including adverts, signed in various pens by Tina Turner, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Julian Lloyd Webber, Paul Nicholas, David Essex, Joe Longthorne, George Marshall, John Mills, Gerry Lewis, Michael Ball, Chris de Burgh, Nigel Kennedy, Wayne Dobson, Rosemarie Ford, Lisa Waddingham, Lance Burton and Elayne Boosler, some pages multi-signed, original printed wrappers, minor marks and light crease to lower outer corner, slim folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003).Peter Bland, whose original printed ticket (seat X20, light vertical crease) is included with the lot.