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Lot 3942

Politics - Poor Laws, Abridgment of the Abstract of the Answers and Returns Made Pursuant to an Act, passed in the fifty-fifth Year of His Majesty George the Third, Intituled, "An Act for procuring Returns relative to the Expence (sic) and Maintenance of the Poor in England; and also relative to the Highways:- So Far As Relates To The Poor, [London]: Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 3 March 1818, later 19th century morocco over marbled boards (faults), institutional labels and stamps, folio (45cm x 29cm), (1); ten 18th and early 19th century parliamentary committee reports, various subjects and dates, disbound, folio, (1); etc., [12]

Lot 3958

Scotland - Brown (Andrew), History of Glasgow; and of Paisley, Greenock, and Port-Glasgow [...], Glasgow: William Paton, 1795, publisher's boards, Trinity College Library, Glasgow, case label and blind stamp, 8vo, (1); Keltie (John S., F.S.A. Scot., editor), A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments [...], Illustrated, two-volume set, Glasgow: M'Gready, Thomson, & Niven, 1879, contemporary boards only, 4to, (2); In the Land of Burns, Select Illustrations of the Life and Writings of the Scottish Poet, London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1896, contemporary green cloth, oblong folio, (1); etc,. [5]

Lot 3962

Shakespeare - [Halliwell (James Orchard)], A Fragment of Mr. J.O. Halliwell's "Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare"/For Presents Only, number 18 from a limited edition of 50 (inscribed in ink MS on the title-page, ?by the author), London: Printed by J.E. Adlard, 1874, printed in parallel columns, various pagination, pp: 4, 86-91 (being the Appendix to the First Part), contemporary cloth (chipped, disbound), later institutional inscription, stamps, and bookplate, crown folio (39cm x 28.5cm), [1]

Lot 3973

Sport, Cricket - Ryall (Richie), A Brush with Cricket, number 327 from a limited edition of 850, CTP Book Printers: 1991-1992, printed on New Shaka Matt by Sappi Fine Papers, dustjacket over blue cloth, folio, (1); Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1947, cloth, 8vo, (1); Daft (Richard), A Cricketer's Yarns [...], London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1926, green cloth, 8vo, (1); Bill Bowes, (2), [5]

Lot 3977

Stothard (Charles Alfred, FSA, illustrator) & Basire (James, FSA, engraver), The Tapestry of Bayeux, from volume of VI of Vetusta Monumenta, London: Published by the Society of Antiquaries, 1819-1823, 17 large-format hand-coloured engravings as called for, contemporary calf over marbled boards (perished and fragmentary in places, including the spine), oblong atlas folio (74cm x 53cm), [1]Described by the art historian Sir Eric Maclagan (1879-1951), as "exquisite plates [which] still provide what is in many ways the most adequate representation of the original".

Lot 3978

Talbert (Bruce James), Examples of Ancient & Modern Furniture, Metalwork, Tapestries, Decorations, &c., first edition, London: B.T. Batsford, 1876, pp: [iv], 6, [6], 21 photo-lithographed full-page plates by James Akerman, contemporary pictorial cloth, folio (44cm x 31cm), [1]Provenance: Stockdale Harrison, St Martins East, Leicester, 19th century ink MS ownership inscription.

Lot 3990

Travel and Ethnographica, Polynesia - Edge-Partington (James) & Hewett (John, editor), An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress of the Natives of the Pacific islands: a facsimile of the original work [...], Part One only, limited to 350 copies, London: The Holland Press, 1969, illustrated in b/w throughout with accompanying text, pictorial dustjacket over brown cloth gilt, oblong folio (21cm x 42.5cm), [1]

Lot 145

SELIM ROTHWELL (1815-1881). A pair of Bruges town scenes, the one inscribed 'The Belfry Tower', unsigned, watercolours, framed and glazed, 16 x 12 cmProvenance: Purchased from Folio Fine Art Ltd 1969

Lot 900

FOLIO SOCIETY 11 titles in s/cases

Lot 901

FOLIO SOCIETY 11 Thomas Hardy in s/case

Lot 1838

Set of seven Folio society Jane Austen books in case

Lot 471

FOLIO SOCIETY; a collection of history related books in original slip covers, 'History of England' four volumes, four authors G M Young; 'Victorian England', Philippe Fernandez Arnesto; 'England 1945-2000', G R Elton; 'England Under the Tudors' and Eli Halevy; 'Edwardian England', 'The Princes in the Tower', a set of three 'Life in a Medieval City', 'Life in a Medieval Castle' and 'Life in a Medieval Village', a set of three 'Marvels and Magic', 'Heroes and Saints' and 'History and Romance', Andrew Wheatcroft; 'The Hapsburgs', Paul Murray Kendall; 'Richard the III' and Christopher Hibbert; 'The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici' (10).

Lot 472

Folio Society; a group of historical related books all in original slip covers by various authors, 'Lives of The Later Caesars', 'The Black Death', three volumes of 'Domesday Book', 'Alexander The Great', 'Medieval People', and 'The Greek Myths' (6).

Lot 477

Folio Society; a collection of fiction, fairy stories and poetic interest, Wilkie Collins, four books, 'Armadale', 'No Name', 'The Woman in White' and the 'Moonstone' all in original slip cover, 'The Green Story Book', 'Jane Austen's Letters', seven novels by Jane Austen, Eric Newby; 'A book of travellers tales', Tennyson and Milton 'Paradise Lost', all in original slip covers (7).

Lot 617

The Self-Interpreting Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with references and illustrations, by the Late Revd., John Brown, with engravings, calf, folio, published by Brightly & Childs, Bungay, 1814.

Lot 254

Four boxes containing a large quantity of antiquarian and later books including Folio Society volumes etc

Lot 51

A collection of antiquarian and later volumes relating to misecellaneous subjects : Lamas of the Western Heavens by Regis-Evariste Huc, Folio Society, 1982, together with fourteen further volumes. (15)

Lot 2168

A Regency mahogany folio or print stand, raised on four swept supports, with panelled frame and well matched flame veneers, with carved corner pieces, 90cm wide x 122cm high

Lot 865

A large collection of Folio Society Editions complete with slip cases, together with three further Folio Society books, without slip cases including Autumn - A Folio Anthology (26)

Lot 252

12 Len Deighton novels and a Folio Society boxed set of 5 Sherlock Holmes short stories

Lot 1051

Folio Society, 20+ assorted volumes including "The Raj", "The Apocrypha", "Aztecs - Incas - Maya", three volumes, Jane Austen, William Blake, Emily Bronte, etc

Lot 1232

Philip A.S. Phillips: "Paul de Lamerie - Citizen & Goldsmith of London, His Life and Work", Holland Press, 1968, limited edition (500), folio, original cloth, dust wrapper

Lot 1484

A folio of pencil sketches, mainly 19th Century

Lot 358

A collection of nautical books, to include Frank Cowper M.A., Jack all alone his cruises, 1897, signed and dedicated by the author, Story of the Sea, Cassell & Co. 1895, Vol I and II and five Folio books.

Lot 100

Brewery.- Collection of manuscript notes, printed Acts, broadsides and forms on Brewing, Alehouse licensing, Poor Laws, Tithes etc., c.215pp of manuscript notes, tipped-in acts, broadsides and printed forms (some with manuscript insertions), manuscript index at end, several loosely inserted manuscript notes, contemporary half-calf, upper cover detached, small folio, c.1840's.

Lot 104

Crimea.- [Crimean War broadsides], 3 broadsides all on the Crimean War, folds and creases, one with small loss to margins, not affecting text, occasional faint spotting, loose as issued, small folio, Nottingham, Thomas Stevenson, c.1854 (3).⁂ Scarce. ?Unrecorded.

Lot 121

Pope (Alexander).- Homer. The Iliad, 6 vol. in 3, translated by Alexander Pope, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved folding plate (short tear), half-titles, list of subscribers, occasional faint spotting and browning, marginal ink-stains (vol. 1 only), short tear without loss (X1, vol. 5), bookplate, occasional very faint marginal water-staining, contemporary calf, gilt, a little rubbed, W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, 1715-20; and 3 vol. only (of 5) of Pope's translation of Homer's Odyssey, folio & 4to (6).⁂ The subscriber's list for The Iliad includes Sir Isaac Newton and Joseph Addison.

Lot 130

NO RESERVE Report from the Commissioners ... to execute Measures Recommended by a Select Committee of the House of Commons ..., occasional faint spotting, faint marginal water-staining, 1812; [Appendix to Report from the Commissioners ...], lacking title, marginal loss affecting text (3M1), occasional marginal water-staining, [1837]; ex-library with bookplate and occasional ink-stamps, uniformly bound in later morocco-backed boards, sunned spine, small abrasion mark to spine foot, library blind-stamps to upper covers, folio (2)

Lot 154

NO RESERVE Illustrated London News, loss at beginning, numerous wood engraved illustrations, some relating to the Great Exhibition, lacks double-page plates, some margins creased (1 crudely repaired), browned, original marbled boards, rebacked in modern leather, folio, August 1851 - March 1852; sold not subject to return.

Lot 223

Art and Letters. An Illustrated Review, first edition, 4 vol., half-titles, titles in red and black, plates and illustrations, some foxing and offsetting, original red half morocco, gilt spine, t.e.g., extremities scuffed, 1888; and a later edition of the same, folio (8)

Lot 227

Mesopotamia.- Woolley (C. Leonard) & H. R. Hall. Ur Excavations, vols. 1, 2 & 4 only (in 4 vol.), plates, some folding, illustrations, ex-library with usual marks and occasional blind-stamps, abrasion marks where bookplates removed, original cloth-backed boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, rubbed, library blind-stamps to upper covers, folio, Oxford & New York, 1927-56.⁂ Volume 1; 'Al-'Ubaid. A Report on the work carried out at Al-'Ubaid for the British Museum in 1919 and for the Joint Expedition in 1922-3.Volume 2 (in 2 vol.): The Royal Cemetery. A Report on the Predynastic and Sargonid graves excavated between 1926 and 1931.Volume 4: The Early Periods. A Report on the Sites and Objects prior to the Third Dynasty of Ur discovered in the course of the excavations.

Lot 235

Binyon (Laurence), J.V.S. Wilkinson & Basil Gray. Persian Miniature Painting, first edition, colour frontispiece, 113 plates, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, folio, 1933.

Lot 247

Textiles.- [Albrecht (E. W.)] Morgenländische Motive: Original - Teppiche - Stoffe u. - Stickereien, 27 chromolithograph plates, without text, ex-library with ink-stamps to title and plate margins, small abrasion mark to title where label removed, modern cloth, folio, Plauen, Christian Stoll, [?1907].⁂ Scarce. Only 3 copies on Library Hub, 2 at the Glasgow School of Art and 1 at the V&A.

Lot 248

NO RESERVE Textiles.- Seligman (G. Saville) Domestic Needlework, limited edition of 500, colour frontispiece and 31 colour plates, 100 halftone plates, illustrations, cracked upper hinge, ex-library with barcode to front free endpaper and occasional ink- and blind-stamps, original cloth, small stain and blind-stamp to upper cover, a little rubbed, chipping to spine extremities, [1926] § Phillips (Philip A. S.) Paul De Lamerie: Citizen and Goldsmith of London, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, ex-library with barcode to front free endpaper and ink-stamp to title verso, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1968, folio (2)

Lot 29

Herbal.- Gerard (John) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, engraved pictorial title, numerous woodcuts in text, occasional later ink marginalia, including name 'Gideon Paterson', lacking dedication f. [par.3] and initial and final blanks, title torn and repaired with considerable loss, cropped / closely trimmed at foot in places, affecting text, some fraying (mostly at start and end), a few repairs, occasionally affecting text, some spotting and staining, a few tears, new endpapers, a few later hand-coloured botanical engravings bound in or loosely inserted, early 20th century half, covers detached, spine ends little worn, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Henrey 156; Hunt 230; Nissen BBI 698; STC 11752], folio, Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636. sold not subject to return. ⁂ In this edition D1r last line begins 'of' and 7B5v has editor's 'Aduertisement to the readers'.

Lot 94

Chimney Boys.- Davis (John, chimney sweep) Autograph Letter signed to Captain Godfrey, storekeeper of the Office of Ordnance, 1p., folio, Purfleet, 11th June 1813, "You will give directions for the Chimney shape attached to Taylors shed to be enlarged as there is a check by the roof so as to prevent the Boy or a wiff of straw to go up or down which was the occasion the chimney being on fire"; and another, Letter signed sending the report by Davis to Major Birch, Royal Engineers, a few small holes, folds, browned (2).

Lot 97

NO RESERVE Land Survey Exercises.- Square Field... Lands Surveyed near Beccles, manuscript, 54pp. excluding blanks, titles in red ink, numerous pen and ink drawings, slightly browned, hinges a little weak, modern ink stamp on inner boards, original morocco-backed boards, worn, upper cover partially stained, , printed paper label "Education Beccles Academy for Young Gentleman W. Cowles Master. J. Dalliston" on upper cover, folio, [c. 1820]; and 3 other manuscript school mathematical exercise books, folio & sm. 4to, v.d. (4).

Lot 293

Bartholomew's Royal Atlas of England and Wales, one vol, folio

Lot 1724

A folio containing thirty three mid 20th Century New Era Class Pictures & Charts educational aids - sold with five unmarked similar by K.M. Blair - plate numbers fully listed

Lot 1726

A blue folio containing Thomas Shotter Boys Original Views of London Volume I 1954 and Volume II 1955, both Pub. Charles W. Traylen - sold with Winchester Colledge colour reprints and several old newspapers

Lot 1751

Ralph Steadman: Tales of The Weird, folio paperback book, with unique sketch to frontispiece and text For Nigel, Thanks Ralph Steadman - ISBN 0224030299

Lot 667

A vintage embossed leather Radio Times folio cover - sold with a Readers Digest Mario Lanza record box set

Lot 394

Of architectural interest: Barozzi, Jacopo. Gli Ordini D'architettura Civile, edizione seconda, Milano 1814, together with Jean Nicolas Louis Durand, Recueil et Parallele des Edifices en Tout Genre Anciens et Modernes, elephant folio, and 'The Lutyens Memorial Volumes Prospectus'.Qty: 3

Lot 1243

Werkdruckeder Staatlichen Hochschule für Baukunst und Bildende Kunst Weimar im Goethejahr 1949, 16 Blatt Folio, darunter Schäfer Ast, altersgemäße Erhaltung; dazu Dieter Hülsmanns Hommage, Sinnliche Irrealität, Eremitenpresse 1961, Nr. 11 von 300 Exemplaren, 33 S., lichtrandig und Stockflecken.

Lot 82

15 LITERATURE INC RARE KING LEAR FOLIO/TEXT, REF 722B

Lot 4013

Peter Sturgess (1932-2015) Artist Folio, early and incomplete works, Lion Walking, Rhinoceros Standing, Squirrel ,Birds, Monkeys, Tigers, Lions etc, assorted sizes qty

Lot 1328

Robert Graves and Paul Hogarth. Deya - A portfolio of five poems and lithographs published Motif Editions London 1972, 1 folio.

Lot 1329

Six Master of the poster of the Eighteen-Nineties. Published The Sunday Times - 1 folio.

Lot 419

John Skelton, The Royal House of Stuart, 40 colour plates, half morocco gilt, folio, Macmillan, 1890.

Lot 2

Dan Hillier (British Contemporary). 'Forest 2010', limited print 20/100 with hand embellished drawing . Framed. 78 x 98 cm opening 54 x 73cm. signed bottom right This was part of a dark Victorian surrealist series of portraits for the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. He’s exhibited at big-name venues such as the Saatchi Gallery and Les Musee des Arts Decoritifs at the Lourve in collaboration with Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton.Dan lives and works in Hackney, London, making art for himself and for exhibitions and galleries, and he has also collaborated with others, including Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, The Folio Society, rock bands Architects, Royal Blood, The Broken Family Band and Steven James Adams, and recently he created the opening titles to BBC1's major 6-part drama 'Requiem'.Works from Dan's more recent solo shows, 'Ceremony', at Saatchi Gallery, and 'Aeons', at a self-initiated space in London, are available amongst all other work here, made over the last 12 or so years. As well as Saatchi Gallery, Dan's work has also shown in The Louvre, Paris, Turin Natural History Museum, Glastonbury Festival of the Arts and the V&A Museum in London, to name a few sweet spots.Dan has also been invited by the British Council to represent Great Britain at the Giant Creator Show in Beijing, China.Perhaps that's why they call him 'The Ambassador'

Lot 103

FOLIO SOCIETY - WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN IN SEVEN VOLUMES IN SLIP CASE, AND TEN OTHER BOOKS IN SLIP CASES

Lot 847

Taylor McCall, The Major Arcana of the Tarot, illustrated by Taylor McCall 1974, published 1975 by Bocaccio Santa Fe, limited edition folio, twenty two silk screen prints, signed by Taylor McCall numbered 13/15056 x 40.5cm (sheets), Provenance Tymn Lintel, purchased directly from Mick Taylor and Sheena McCall. Private collection

Lot 258

A WWI Military Cross pair to Second Lieutenant Gilbert Hart, 173rd (Tunnelling) Company Royal Engineers, comprising George V OBE (Military) maker Garrad & Co, London 1919 and Military Cross: together with a letter from the City Surveyors Office, Town Hall Manchester.'Dear Mr Hart. I was very pleased to receive, this morning, your letter of the 17th instant, informing me that you had been awarded the Military Cross. I congratulate you upon the honour, which has been conferred upon you , and I wish you every success. Yours faithfully J deLauncey Meade. City Surveyor.'framed and mounted together with brass 'RE' shoulder badges and a gilt and enamel Royal Engineers lapel badge in a glazed display case and a folio of related research material including a Town Council missive 'Resolved, That this committee desire to place on record the pleasure with which they have learnt of the distinguished service rendered by Lieutenant Hart in France, and to convey to him their congratulations of the well deserved honour of the Military Cross which has been bestowed upon him by his Majesty...'

Lot 440

A 19th Century pine and mahogany folio cabinet with brass side carrying handles

Lot 494

A box of folio books. Including Charles Dickens Dombey and Son, Mozart, History of England, etc.

Lot 1376

° Chambers, Ephrain. Cyclopaedia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., 5 vols, (including Supplement and Plates volume), with hundreds of illus. on the very many engraved plates: contemp. gilt decorated tree calf with red and black spine labels, marbled e/ps and edges, folio, 1786

Lot 1527

° After John Roque - An Exact Survey of the City’s of London, Westminster, Ye Borough of Sout’wark and the Country Near 10 Miles Round London, in 1746, folio, Harry Margery, London, reprinted in 1971

Lot 1393

° Meinertzhagen, Richard- Nicholl’s Birds of Egypt, 2 vols, folio, green cloth gilt, with 3 folding maps, and plates after G.E. Lodge, Roland Green and H. Gronvold, Hugh Rees, London, 1930

Lot 1381

° Birch, Thomas - The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, engraved by Mr Houbraken and Mr Vertue, With their Lives and Characters ..., new edition, 107 (ex 108) copper engraved plates; contemp. black straight-grain morocco, gilt-ruled and decorated boards, gilt extra decorated and panelled spine, folio, 1813

Lot 1382

° (Holy Bible). Figures de la Bible, pictorial engraved title and 199 copper engraved plates (?2 ex 212, 28 double page); old half calf and marbled boards, folio, La Haye: Pierre de Hondt, 1728

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