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Bernard Kay (1927-2021)A folio of 26 drawings and watercolours titled 'Theatre Work', September-December 1952to include set designs, costume designs, and calligraphysome inscribed and signed (26). Qty: 26

Bernard Kay (1927-2021)A folio of drawings and watercolours titled 'Southport Work', 1950-1953predominantly abstracts (43).

Bernard Kay (1927-2021)A large collection of drawings and watercoloursto include a folio titled 'Child Work', life drawings, portraits, landscapes etc.

Bernard Kay (1927-2021)A folio of drawings and watercolours, mainly 1970-1980to include sketchbooks, still life drawings, European landscapes/townscapes and portraits.

Photographs - a mid 20th century black and white archive of a trip to  the Holy Land c.1960; another folio of seabirds, nests etc.

Mike Goldberg, an artist archive folio complete and incomplete works, inspirational images, prints, etc qty.

Railways. Pigot & Co.'s British Atlas, comprising the Counties of England (upon which are laid down all Railways Completed and in Progress), London: Pigot & Slater, Fleet-Street, and Fountain-Street, Manchester, c.1840. Folio (410 x 290 mm), title-page with engraved vignette, 'Address' leaf with list of contents at foot, 'Distance Table of 72 Principal Towns in England and Wales' (1 f.), 'Distance Table, in English Miles, of 73 Principal Towns in Ireland' (1 f.), 'Distance Table of the Principal Towns in Scotland' (1 f.), 'Distance Tables of the Principal Towns in the English Counties' (4 ff.), 41 hand-coloured steel-engraved maps (of 43: without 'Yorkshire' and 'Pigot's New Map of the Environs of London', but retaining the 3 large folding maps, 'England & Wales with Part of Scotland, including the New Lines of Canals, Rail Roads, etc.', 'New Map of Ireland embracing Every Recent Alteration', and 'New Map of Scotland with the Latest Improvements', each dated 1840), disbound, title-page soiled, folding maps with short splits to extremities of folds and neat linen-tape reinforcement to central intersection of folds verso, other maps with old tape-reinforcement along gutter (never affecting images), Buckinghamshire and Kent with juvenile pencil markings verso, closed marginal tear to Northumberland, a few marginal nicks to last few maps, Worcestershire extensively torn and crudely repaired (qty: 1) This edition apparently not in Chubb but cf. CCCCXXV-CCCCXXVIII. Sold as a collection of maps.

Bible (English; Authorised). [The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the Originall Tongues and with the Former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesties Speciall Command. Appointed to be read in churches, Cambridge: Thomas and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1629]. Folio in sixes (295 x 192 mm), near-contemporary olive-green morocco, each cover gilt with concentric dogtooth rolls enclosing large coat of arms with crest of a gryphon statant (slightly rubbed, ties gone, score-mark to rear cover), all edges gilt, signatures [par.]6 A-3I6 3K4 3L-4A6 4B4 (4B4=blank), ruled in red throughout, woodcut initials, 18th-century bookplate (William Greene Esqr), engraved general title-page lacking, moderate browning, signatures N6-O1 and 2Q4-5 with light circular stains toward gutter, stronger staining in gutter of quires 3U-3A, leaves R5, 3B4-5 and 3L4 with closed tears extending into text (repaired in 3B5 and 3L4), New Testament title-page (3L1) with long closed tear in gutter (affecting one letter), two other closed tears and 18th-century manuscript genealogy verso, a few marginal nicks and other marks elsewhere, Book of Common Prayer bound in at front and The Whole Book of Psalmes at rear (both defective) (qty: 1) Darlow & Moule (1903 edition) 324; ESTC S107038. First edition of the King James Bible to be printed at Cambridge, a 'beautiful' edition (Darlow & Moule).

Bible (English; Authorised). The Holy Bible. Containing the Bookes of the Old and New Testament, Cambridge: John Field, [1660]. 2 volumes, large folio (457 x 290 mm), contemporary red goatskin gilt by Samuel Mearne, spines richly gilt in compartments incorporating the royal cipher of Charles II, each cover gilt with 24 impressions of the royal cipher in two different sizes between concentric floral and fillet rolls, comb-marbled endpapers, all edges and turn-ins gilt, pp. [16] 680; [2] 681-1103 [1] 1-258 [2], [2] 1-338, signatures [par.]-2[par.]4 A-3K6 3L4; pi1 3M-4Y6 4Z8 a-x6 y4 (y4=blank), A-2D6 2E8, ruled in red throughout, engraved general title-page to volume 1 by Lombart after Diepenbeeck depicting Solomon enthroned (undated; counted in pagination by ESTC), volume 2 with letterpress general title-page ('The Second Part of the Holy Bible', dated 1660) and letterpress New Testament title-page (dated 1659), engraved arms of Charles II by Hollar to each volume, 118 engraved plates mainly by Visscher or Le Blond after Heemskerck, de Bruyn, de Vos, Coninxloo, Potter and others (mainly double-page, and including a folding panorama of Jerusalem on two sheets), engraved double-page map by Hollar (facing volume 1 p. 298). Bindings variably scuffed and rubbed, superficial score-marks, ties possibly renewed, occasional light browning to contents, volume 1 with closed tear in C2, plate at p. 12 with closed tear in gutter and fraying along top edge, plate at p. 468 with split to foot of central fold, volume 2 with short closed tears in a1, D4 and N6, closed transerve tear through P2 to no loss of text, marginal nicks or tears to a few plates (facing pp. 872, 1008 and 138), and a longer closed tear and marginal fraying to panorama of Jerusalem (qty: 2) Darlow & Moule (1903 edition) 525; ESTC R17044. A splendid copy of the illustrated reissue by John Ogilby of John Field's two-volume folio Bible of 1659, in contemporary red goatskin by Samuel Mearne (1624-1683), royal binder to the restored Charles II. According to Darlow and Moule the reissue had a new general title-page dated 1660 and reading 'illustrated with Chorographical Sculps by J. Ogilby'. Our copy appears to retain the original general title-page, as it is undated and does not contain the reference to Ogilby. The number of plates is known to vary; ESTC calls for a total of 102 only. Provenance: Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet (1608-1666), diplomat, poet, translator and prominent royalist; given by him to Sir Edmund Turnor (1619-1707) of Stoke Rochford, Lincolshire, with Turnor's engraved bookplate (dated 1702) and 18th-century ink inscription 'A present to Sir Edm. Turnor from the Rt Hon. Sir Richd Fanshawe' to the initial blank of each volume (volume two with additional 20th-century annotation 'his brother-in-law, Ambassador at the Court of Spain').Without the dedication leaf to Charles II found in some other copies (see note). Volume 2 additionally with short closed tear to foot of first title-page (pi1) and spill-burn in 3X5 affecting one letter verso.

Dalton (Michael). The Countrey Justice; containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace as well in as out of their Sessions ... Now again enlarged with many Precedents and Resolutions of the Quaeres contained in the former Impressions: and the Statues of King Charles I and His Majesty King Charles II added under their several Titles, London: John Streater [and others], 1666. Folio (282 x 180 mm), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, rebacked retaining original label, bound without preliminary and possibly final blank, spill-burn in 2N6 - Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language ... The Fourth Edition, revised by the author, London: printed by W. Strahan, for W. Strahan [and others], 1773. 2 volumes, folio (410 x 235 mm), 19th-century maroon half morocco, gilt morocco labels '15th Regt' to front boards, manuscript presentation leaf inset into initial blank ('Doctor Badenach requests the officers of the 15th Regiment to accept for their library Johnson's Dictionary & a map of England, as a small mark of that regard which he will ever entertain for them, 20 Upper Baker St. London, Febry 22nd 1826'), imperfect, volume 1 title-page with marginal loss and extensive closed tears, laid down, substantial loss to volume 2 title-page and subsequent leaves - Nalson (John). An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I, London: for S. Mearne, [and others; volume 2: for A. Mearne ... ], 1682-3. 2 volumes, folio (326 x 195 mm), contemporary non-uniform calf, refurbished, volume 2 rebacked, each volume with engraved frontispiece and 'The Mind of the Frontispiece' leaf, volume 2 with engraved portrait, incomplete, lacking at least volume 1 leaves A2-4 - Southwell (Henry). The New Book of Martyrs, London: for J. Cooke, No. 17, in Pater-Noster Row, c.1785. Folio (365 x 230 mm), 20th-century boards, partly preserving original spine, incomplete (40 plates of 42 or 43?: lacking plates 19 and 23a; and lacking at least quires 3I-3L), front inner hinge cracked - Fuller (Thomas). The Historie of the Holy Warre, 4th edition, Cambridge: Thomas Buck, 1651. Folio (286 x 180 mm), contemporary sheep, rebacked, engraved frontispiece (preceded by 'A declaration of the Frontispiece' leaf), engraved folding map (staining and repaired loss along folds), incomplete (lacking at least text-leaves C2-3) - and 2 others including another copy of Fuller, Holy Warre, 3rd edition, 1647, bound with The Holy State, 3rd edition, 1652, Holy Warre lacking at least the frontispiece and folding map, Holy State incomplete at end but with numerous engraved portraits in the text (qty: 9) ESTC R29291 (Dalton), T117232 (Johnson), R6970 & R229450 (Nalson), T105997 (Southwell), R12547 (Fuller).

Dudgdale (William). [Origines] Juridiciale, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal [...], 2nd edition ('with additions'), London: by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman, 1671. Folio (346 x 215 mm), contemporary speckled calf (joints cracked, corners worn), imprimatur leaf, title-page in red and black (with section excised from head to loss of first word, 'Origines'), errata leaf, 5 engraved portraits by Wenceslaus Hollar and others (of 6: lacking the portrait of Edward Coke), engraved arms throughout the text, together with: a manuscript antiphonary leaf on vellum, probably Italy, c.1500, with 4 puzzle initials in red and blue bodycolour; 3 manuscript documents relating to transactions in the parish of Ightenhill, Lancashire, 1733; a large manuscript indenture on vellum, 1779, involving one Thomas Smith of Leyland, Lancashire (with engraved royal arms); and a copy of The Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, volume 1, number 1, 1 January 1825 (spotted) (qty: 7) ESTC R225633 (Dugdale). Dugdale's work was first printed in 1666.

Milton (John). Paradise Lost ... Seventh Edition [and:] Paradise Regain'd ... To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions, London: J. Beecroft [and others], 1770 & 1766. 2 works in 4 volumes, 8vo (203 x 124), uniform contemporary calf (variable wear to spines and cracking to joints, volume 1 joints tender), engraved portrait frontispieces to each volume except Paradise Regain'd volume 2, Paradise Lost with 12 engraved plates after Francis Hayman, Paradise Regain'd with 5 engraved plates also after Hayman, contemporary ownership inscriptions to endpapers and title-pages (Thomas Bargus of Pembroke College, Oxford, dated 1772) - [Burke, Edmund]. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. The Fifth Edition. With an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste, and several other Additions, London: J. Dodsley, 1767. 8vo (202 x 128 mm), contemporary calf, gilt crest of Francis Foljambe (1749-1814), British politician, to foot of spine, front cover detached, rear joint cracked - Carew (Thomas). An Historical Account of the Rights of Elections of the Several Counties, Cities, and Boroughs, of Great Britain, 1st edition, London: John Nourse, 1755. Folio (410 x 250 mm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined - Dodington (George Bubb). The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington ... New Edition, Salisbury: E. Easton, 1784. 8vo (196 x 120 mm), contemporary mottled calf, half-title, advertisement leaf - and 10 others (not collated), mainly 18th-century English literature, history and theology, all in contemporary calf bindings, including Livy, The History of Rome, Translated ... by George Baker, 6 volumes, London, 1797, Hugh Blair, Sermons, 4 volumes, 13th edition, 1894, and similar (qty: 41) ESTC T133912 (Milton, Paradise Lost), N19462 (Milton, Paradise Regain'd), T42253 (Burke), T144424 (Carew), T144755 (Dodington).

Brontë Family. 'Form of Rate. An Assessment for the Relief of the Poor of the Township of Haworth in the Parish of Bradford in the West Riding of the County of York, and for other purposes chargeable thereon according to law, made this twenty eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty six, after the rate one shilling and sixpence in the pound. Being the first rate for the year ending 25th March 1847'. Oblong 4to (168 x 235 mm), original reddish-brown sheep, manuscript ledger with printed rules and headings, [1] 91 [3] ff., headings include Name of Occupier, Name of Owner, Description of Property, Name or Situation of Property, Estimated Extent, Gross Estimated Rental, Rateable Value, Amount Actually Collected, and similar, final 2 pp. comprising a 'Declaration of the Overseers and Churchwardens' with the autograph signatures of William Greenwood, John Dugdale and George Feather, and Justices of the Peace William [?] Mee and Joseph Greenwood, binding rubbed, leather on spine cracked and friable (qty: 1) A substantial primary source for the social makeup of one of the most fabled milieus in the history of literature, exactly contemporary with the flowering of the Brontë family's collective creative endeavours, which were brought to a tragically premature end by the deaths of all the Brontë children except for Charlotte between 1848 and 1849. The Poems of Charlotte, Emily and Anne were published in May 1846, followed by Charlotte's Jane Eyre in October the following year, and Emily's Wuthering Heights in a set with Anne's Agnes Grey in December. Their father, Reverend Patrick Brontë is listed on the verso of folio 20: his house and garden, owned by the trustees of the church, is rated at £7 13s 6d; his poor-rate liability of 11s 6d is recorded as paid in full. The presence of numerous Earnshaws attests to real-life influences on the imagined world of Wuthering Heights, and the mill-owning Greenwood family, well known to the Brontës, are prominent throughout. Provenance: originally in the archives of Keighley town hall; the archives set for disposal c.1973 prior to the borough's amalgamation into Bradford metropolitan council; the manuscript rescued by a member of the Borough Treasurer's team and given to the current vendor (an employee).

Sausmarez (Ronald Philip Stanley de, 1880/1-1973, Commander RN). Album of watercolour jeux d'esprit, 1947-54. Oblong folio (262 x 300 mm), contemporary 'Reedsdale' post-bound half morocco album, containing 39 postal covers expertly illustrated in pen-and-ink and watercolour with various scenes and caricatures including 4 of dancing fairies, 2 from the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (the Mad Hatter's Tea Party and Alice's meeting with the King and Queen of Hearts), Father Christmas driving a sleigh, the Chelsea Flower Show, seals on an ice floe, an 18th-century rendezvous between a shepherd and his lover, Humpty Dumpty, a parade of anthropomorphic cats in the style of Louis Wain, a group of shipwrecked mariners on a raft with a sea-monster in the foreground, and various other scenes and caprices, all skilfully incorporating the address of the recipient (N. F. Pasbach, later Mrs R. de Sausmarez), together with 9 watercolours of exotic bird and plant species with accompanying manuscript light verse (e.g. nutmeg, sunbirds, the coffee-plant, each 190 x 150 mm or reverse), 9 smaller watercolours comprising a partial alphabet of exotic species (e.g. 'T is for Tamarind'; 'Y is for Yucca'; 'Z is for the Zapote', each 91 x 61 mm), and a few similar items, all mounted rectos and versos to black card album leaves (qty: 1) 'Ronald de Sausmarez was born in 1880 or 1881. He married Nora Frances Pasbach in 1947. He joined the Royal Navy and served as a Midshipman in HMS Royal Arthur, from 1897. He was promoted acting Sub-Lieutenant in HMS Blake, from 1901. He served as a Lieutenant in HMS Formidable, 1903-4, and HMS Psyche, from 1904. In 1908, he was placed on the retired list. He joined HM Naval Base, Holyhead, to plan offensive measures against submarines, March 1918. He was promoted to the acting rank of Commander and appointed Senior Naval Officer of the base, August 1918-19. He died at his home in East Molesey, Surrey, on 30 September 1973' (The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985, cited after Churchill Archives Centre, University of Cambridge, GBR/0014/RDSA, online, accessed 26/06/2021).Amendment 6/1/21: The lot is also sold with Commander de Sausmarez's First and Second World War group miniature medals (1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals, 1939-45 Star and Defence medal) in a glazed pine frame, together with a framed photograph of de Sausmarez with his medals.

Surveying; Yorkshire. Illustrated manuscript guide to surveying by Thomas Wilson, 1792-3. Folio (330 x 205 mm), contemporary mottled half calf, spine compartments ruled in gilt, paper sides printed with a geometric and floral pattern in red, retaining a contemporary wrapper of heavy wove brown paper with calligraphic manuscript title 'Surveying by Thos. Wilson 1792', edges dyed blue. [84] ff. (laid paper, Britannia watermark), 2 folding estate plans in pen-and-ink and watercolour with decorative cartouches ('A Plan of Part of the Estate of John Jackson Esqr lying in the Parish of Barton' and 'A Plan of Westerdale-Town with some of the Fields Adjoyning'), calligraphic headings, some 80 diagrams and plans in the text, including about 30 simple trigonometric diagrams in pen and ink only, the rest comprising more detailed diagrams and estate plans incorporating stylised features in watercolour including cottages, hedgerows and river courses, calligraphic ownership inscription 'Thos. Wilson's Book 1792' to front free endpaper, a few old stains, in very good condition, unrestored (qty: 1) A remarkable unpublished document produced at the height of the agricultural revolution. Sections include 'Description and Use of Gunter's Chain', 'Practical Surveying by the Theodolite', and 'Irregular Figures to Exercise the Young Surveyor in Casting up'. Provenance: by direct descent to the current vendor.

Cartes de visite. An album of about 80 cartes de visite, c.1870. 4to album (305 x 230 mm), contemporary embossed black padded morocco over bevelled boards, metal clasp extant, gilt edges, a few sitters accompanied by their dogs, studios including E. Greaves of Halifax, C. Johnson of Leeds, and similar, the album also including 4 cabinet cards, at least 2 real-photo postcards, and a few near-contemporary gelatin-silver print portraits, all window-mounted rectos and versos in stiff card leaves, gilt frames throughout, a few leaves with chromolithographic floral borders (including title-page, with title 'Album, Lingua floris', and index leaf, together with: 5 similar cabinet-card albums (all blank, one with backstrip perished); 2 photograph albums of Switzerland, one dated 1907-9, containing 116 albumen prints, all personal snapshot-style photographs, manuscript title 'Sunny Memories of Switzerland' and ownership inscription 'Alfred Orme' to initial blank, the other c.1930, containing 60 gelatin-silver prints, apparently professional views; and a large blank album, c.1900. large folio (415 x 290 mm), contemporary red half roan, with 30 linen-hinged stiff card leaves (qty: 9)

China, Singapore & Malaysia. Photograph album, c.1869 and earlier. Oblong folio (340 x 380 mm), contemporary red morocco album (rubbed), gilt edges, 27 albumen prints, mounted on rectos only, contemporary manuscript captions, initial blank inscribed 'To dear Lizzie from Papa on her birthday, August 2nd 1869', various dimensions, two of the smaller photographs defaced (one almost entirely removed), another with a short closed tear, 5 further mounted albumen prints laid in (4 with Frith blindstamp and depicting Seville and Granada, one depicting Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria and with blindstamp of David Robertson of Alexandria; spotted and damp-stained) (qty: 1) The notable photographs in this album include: 1) A group portrait, the figures identified in captions as Major McNair, Col. Anson, Mr Jones , The Governor, Sir W. Hackett, Mr F. Brown, Mr Waller, and Mr Plow (203 x 230 mm, corners shaped, lifting at upper left corner). (William Hackett was Recorder of Penang Island from 1866 and Acting Chief Justice, Straits Settlements from 1871.) 2) '''A Bowling Match''. H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh & officers of H.M.S. Galatea versus the Gentlemen of Yokohama' (172 x 272 mm, creased from folding). 3) 'The Maharajah's Bungalow. Johore Bahru', 177 x 240 mm (corners chamfered). 4 & 5) 'Two views from the Maharajah's bungalow at Johore' (152 x 192 mm, arch-topped, and 100 x 132 mm, oval-shaped). 6) 'Dr Robertson's House. Singapore' (180 x 228 mm, corners chamfered). 7) 'A Pagoda at Soochow about 90 miles from Shanghae. It is used as a lookout in times of war & is of great age' (170 x 220 mm, corners shaped, lifting at lower corners). 8) 'Two Bridges at Kading, a city in ruins 35 miles from Shanghae, destroyed by the rebels in 1860-1861', 175 x 226 mm (corners rounded). 9) 'Government House, Singapore' (circular, 122 mm diameter). 10 & 11) Two village views, uncaptioned (both 184 x 239 mm).Prints variably faded; a few faint creases; 'Dr Robertson's House, Singapore' lifting and with a few faint pencil marks above skyline; several leaves excised with only stubs remaining. Provenance: acquired from an antiques shop in the north of England c.1985.

Hong Kong. Photograph album depicting a tour by Lieutenant William Gray Rawlinson (1890-1915), 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1913-14. Oblong folio album, contemporary half skiver (spine defective), 134 photographs (apparently gelatin silver prints), mainly snapshots (90 x 75 mm and similar), but several larger (up to 220 x 288 mm), mounted rectos and versos to linen-hinged stiff card leaves, depicting various street scenes and views, including pagodas, temples, a racecourse, junks, Rawlinson with his horse, and many views depicting or taken from a yawl ('Irene') off Stonecutters Island and elsewhere, the album also depicting a journey home via North America including Niagara Falls (the section including several images of steam locomotives), a visit to South Africa ('J'oburg Gold Mines', etc.), and a few domestic scenes (around Penny Bridge, Ulverston), manuscript captions (some apparently by Rawlinson himself, later captions evidently by a relative), 2 Hong Kong-printed sale notices for horses belonging to Rawlinson ('The following polo ponies must be disposed of immediately owing to the D.C.L.I. being ordered to India') mounted to front free endpaper, Rawlinson's memorial card incorporating portrait photograph mounted to front pastedown ('killed in action March 14th, at the battle of St. Eloi, Belgium') (qty: 1)

Lace-making. Visit of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary to the Works of Birkin & Company, Nottingham, on Wednesday June 24th 1914. Oblong folio (274 x 340 mm), original light blue wrappers with gilt-embossed royal arms to front, title-leaf printed in blue, 5 engraved text-leaves printed on rectos only, 9 photogravure plates with tissue-guards, secured by a blue silk ribbon tied through three holes as issued, ribbon frayed (qty: 1) One other copy traced, at the University of Nottingham, with a different collation, though our copy is evidently complete.

Marlborough House Set. 'Photographs taken at Packington Hall, during the Royal Visit, November 1874. H. J. Whitlock, Photo[grapher], Birm[ingham]' [cover-title]. Oblong folio album (350 x 460 mm), original tan calf, smooth spine ruled in gilt, front board with gilt lettering and decoration including Greek-key roll within broad embossed frame, 34 albumen-print photographs all window-mounted rectos and versos in 9 thick card leaves, including 3 large oval prints (255 x 325 mm), 4 large oblong prints (230 x 330 mm), the rest of various dimensions (165 x 220 mm to 85 x 60 mm), subjects comprising views of Packington Hall, and group and individual portraits, the latter including the future Queen Alexandra (feeding dogs, in a horse-drawn trap, or accompanying a child, presumably the future George V, in a goat-drawn pram), the Earl of Aylesford, and other unidentified figures, front joint cracked at foot, spotting to mounts and sometimes to prints, a minority of the smaller prints faded (qty: 1) An imposing visual record of the visit of the future Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to the seat of his close companion Heneage Finch, 7th Earl of Aylesford, whose divorce from his wife Edith a few years later provoked a scandal which brought the raffish behaviour of Edward's circle to public attention and ensured that 'Marlborough House ... became a byword for louche morals' (ODNB). Alienated by her husband's habitual drunkenness and philandering, Lady Aylesford conducted an affair with Lord Blandford, who was the future Duke of Marlborough and the uncle of Winston Churchill, and eventually demanded a separation in 1876. In 1883 Aylesford went into self-imposed exile in Texas but died of alcoholism two years later at the age of 35. The future Alexander III of Russia (1845-1894) is also known to have been in attendance at Packington and appears to be present in three group portraits taken on Packington's terrace, wearing a beret and seated on the stone balustrade. Provenance: by direct descent to the present owner.

North-West Frontier Province. Photograph album of military service, October-November 1930. Oblong folio album (263 x 362 mm), contemporary buff buckram, 76 gelatin silver print snapshot-style photographs (various dimensions, mainly 70 x 130 mm), corner-mounted rectos and versos to 7 linen-hinged black card leaves (plus many left blank), with detailed captions and headings throughout, and depicting operations, exercises (including artillery) and camp life in locations including 'The concentration camp at Bara', Miri Khel, Kandao Kotal and Wacha Ghari, many depictions of native troops, notable scenes including 'Field Marshall Birdwood leaving the camp' and two of a British intelligence officer with an Afridi informer, 2 large-format photographs laid in (both with wetstamp of I. Dass & Co., Peshawar, one an expanded version of one of the snapshots, captioned in the album 'My section with Mtn Bde H.Q. personnel nearing the top of Kandao'. Together with a similar photograph album (in fair condition), and a collection of material relating to the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, comprising: 1) 'A Comparison of the Expenditure of 1915-16 and 1919-20', typescript memorandum, 76 + 2 ff.; 2) 'Report on the Working of the Transportation Department 1924-25', printed memorandum, 3 copies, each 8 pp., 3) 'Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Weekly Notices of Signal Alterations, Relaying and other Permanent-Way Operations, Repairs to Bridges, etc'., Vol. XXI No. 21, 27 May 1927, 18 [2] 7 pp., in envelope addressed to 'D. A. Fenton Esq.', 4) Employment contract of David Anderson Fenton, Assistant Locomotive Superintendent, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 1898 (qty: -) The photograph album depicts the campaign against the Afridi Redshirt Rebellion of 1930-1.

Cescinsky (Herbert, & Ernest R. Gribble). Early English Furniture and Woodwork, 1st edition, London: Waverley Book Company, 1922. 2 volumes, folio, original quarter morocco (spines rubbed and rolled, wear to tips), colour frontispieces, halftone illustrations throughout the text - Robinson (Frederick S.). English Furniture, 1st edition, London: Methuen and Co., 1905. Large 8vo (246 x 166 mm), contemporary dark red crushed half morocco gilt by Bumpus, all edges gilt, half-title, photogravure frontispiece, 80 collotype photographic plates (numbered 1-160) - Dillon (Edward). Glass, 1st edition, London: Methuen and Co., 1907. Large 8vo (243 x 164 mm), contemporary dark red crushed half morocco gilt by Bumpus (uniform with the preceding item), all edges gilt, half-title, 49 photographic plates including frontispiece (many in colour) - and 6 others, furniture reference (qty: 10)

Gonse (Louis). L'art gothique, 1st edition, Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, [1890]. Folio, contemporary quarter vellum, top edge gilt, 28 plates (heliogravure, halftone, chromolithographic or etched), a little spotting - Jekyll (Gertrude, & Christopher Hussey). Garden Ornament, 2nd edition (revised), London: Country Life, 1927. Folio, original green quarter buckram, green linen sides, halftone photographic illustrations throughout - Cook (Sir Theodore Andrea). Twenty-Five Great Houses of France, 1st edition, London: Country Life, [1916]. Folio, original white half cloth, top edge gilt, halftone photographic frontispiece (mounted), halftone photographic illustrations throughout text - Weaver (Lawrence). Houses and Gardens by E. L. Lutyens, 1st edition, London: Country Life, 1913. Folio, original white quarter cloth, halftone photographic frontispiece and text-illustrations - and 2 others similar (Audubon, The Birds of America, 1937, and Bossom, An Architectural Pilgrimage in Old Mexico, 1924) (qty: 6) All with the bookplate of Christopher Hatton Turnor (1873-1940) and associated green morocco shelfmark label to foot of spine.

Le Corbusier. Des canons, des munitions? Merci! Des logis ... s.v.p., 1st edition, Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris: Editions de l'architecture d'aujourd'hui, 1938. Oblong folio, original cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, 147 [1] pp., halftone photographic illustrations throughout, binding toned, rubbed and marked, wear to extremities (qty: 1)

Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri). Elles. With a specially written Introduction by Michel Melot, 1st edition thus, number 218 of 1250 copies only, London: The Toulouse-Lautrec Circle, 1969. Large folio, original quarter cloth, slipcase, 11 tipped-in colour plates (each numbered in pencil 218/1250), together with the publisher's limitation certificate (single bifolium) within original blue glassine jacket (chipped) and containing additional mounted 'presentation' print ('Clownesse au Moulin Rouge', number 522 of 5000 copies) laid in (qty: 1)

Turner (J. M. W.). The Turner Gallery. A Series of Sixty Line Engravings. From the Works of the Late J. M. W. Turner, R.A. The Descriptive Text by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, London: J. S. Virtue and Company, Limited, 1890. Large folio (455 x 330 mm), original red half morocco, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 60 steel-engraved plates on india paper, mounted, each with title-leaf, leaf of descriptive text, and tissue-guard, extremities rubbed, front joint cracked at head, together with 2 others (not collated: The Turner Gallery: A Series of One Hundred and Twenty Engravings, c.1880, 3 volumes, bindings shaken and contents working loose, and Joseph Halfpenny, Gothic Ornaments in the Cathedral Church of York, 1831, plates only, plate 13 absent, spine defective, front board detached), and a carton of art reference, 20th century (qty: - ) First item: number 26 of 300 copies only; no other copies traced in auction records.

Watts (George Frederic, 1817-1904). Memorial volume produced by Christopher Hatton Turner (1873-1940), architect of the Watts Gallery, c.1904. Folio (400 x 270 mm), finely bound by the Guild of Handicraft in green sheep (with their stamp gilt to rear turn-in), pewter panel mounted to front cover with elaborate repoussé decoration comprising outer frame with foliate cornerpieces around central laurel wreath enclosing lettering '1817 Watts 1904', numerous red and orange glass cabochons inset, 100 heavy blue-green wove paper leaves, with various material mounted to rectos and versos including 5 photographs of the interior of the Watts Gallery and 4 portrait photographs of G. F. Watts (probably platinum prints), one of the portraits signed by Watts in black ink ('G. F. Watts, 1902'), another (depicting Watts at work on his statue of Tennyson) annotated on mount 'September 1903, C Turnor phot.', 18 numbered leaves of manuscript notes by Turnor (beginning 'The following imperfect notes of conversations I had with Mr Watts, from 1902 when I first had the privilege of meeting him to 1904 ...'), and about 50 prints of paintings by Watts (mixed media), many leaves left blank, spine slightly sunned, rubbing and some stripping to spine-bands, joints and board-edges (qty: 1) Christopher Hatton Turnor (1873-1940) was a relatively inexperienced young architect living near Compton with his parents when he was selected by Watts to design what became the Watts Gallery; the choice was evidently informed by the artist's Arts and Crafts ethos of working with local craftsmen and designers. Turnor's design was inspired by Voysey and Lutyens, and Watts lived just long enough to see the finished product, dying on 1 July 1904 three months after its completion. Turnor had unexpectedly succeeded to the family estate at Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, in 1903, and went on to become an ardent campaigner for rural reform. 'Unlike many of his contemporaries Turnor was not prepared simply to enjoy the social amenities of his new position or to accept the prevailing view that there was little future for British agriculture. Instead, committed to the belief that land ownership was a trust, he helped to pioneer a new and more dynamic approach to estate management' (ODNB).

Webber (Byron). James Orrock, R.I. Painter, Connoisseur, Collector, 1st edition, number 92 of 500 copies only, London: Chatto & Windus, 1903. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, numerous halftone or photogravure plates (all present), front free endpapers removed - Wedmore (Frederick). Turner and Ruskin. An Exposition of the Work of Turner from the Writings of Ruskin, 1st edition, deluxe issue, number 143 of 160 copies, London: George Allen, 1900. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth, numerous photogravure plates, mounted as issued (all present), without the extra suite of plates on india paper - Erskine (Beatrice). Lady Biana Beauclerk. Her Life and Work, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. Large 4to, original dark red cloth gilt, 10 plates (various media) - Harrison (Florence, illustrator). Early Poems of William Morris, 1st edition thus, London: Blackie & Son, 1914. 4to, original blue cloth gilt, 16 tipped-in colour plates - and approx. 20 others, art reference and illustrated books, original cloth (not collated), including Baldry, Hubert von Herkomer R.A., 1st edition, 1901, Palmer, The Life of Joseph Wolf, 1895, Marcus Ward (publisher), Our Native Land, its Scenery and Associations, 1879 (with mounted chromolithographs), and others similar (qty: approx. 30)

Bryden (Robert). Some Woodcuts of Men of Letters of the 19th Century, London: J. M. Dent & Co., [1899]. Atlas folio (585 x 455 mm), woodcut title-leaf in red and black, 10 woodcut portraits each with integral captioned tissue-guard (of 12: without the portraits of John Ruskin and Walt Whitman), all loose as issued in original cloth portfolio, printed label mounted to front, together with: Dulac (Edmond). Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman, 1st edition, trade issue, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. 4to, original decorative orange cloth gilt, 50 tipped-in colour plates spotting to early text-leaves, crude repair to gutter between pp. xvi and 1 (qty: 2) The portraits remaining in this copy of Bryden's work depict Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, William Morris, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, R. L. Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, and Victor Hugo.

Carroll (Lewis). Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. Twelfth Thousand, London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked, marked - Golden Cockerel Press. The Hansom Cab and the Pigeons. Being Random Reflections upon the Silver Jubilee of King George I by L. A. G. Strong, 1st edition, one of 1,000 copies, London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. 8vo, original quarter cloth, woodcuts by Eric Ravilious - Hudson (W. H.). Green Mansions. A Romance of the Tropical Forest. Illustrated by Keith Henderson, 1st edition, London: Duckworth, 1926. 8vo, original green quarter cloth, woodcut plates - and approximately 48 others, including 13 Folio Society with illustrations by notable artists (e.g. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm. With water-colour drawings by Quentin Blake, 1977; Bronte, Wuthering Heights. Lithographs by Charles Keeping, 1964; etc.), 10 King Penguins including 2 copies of The Hunting of the Snark ... by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake, 1942), 3 copies of British Art. Six Broadcast Talks by R. M. W. Gleadowe, 1934 (in pictorial boards or wrappers designed by Eric Ravilious), Kate Greenaway, Marigold Garden, c.1900, and more similar (qty: approx. 50)

Haggard (H. Rider). A large collection of Rider Haggard reference and related works, 20th century, including bibliography (Scott, A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Henry Rider Haggard, 1947, number 30 of 500 copies only), works relating to Haggard (e.g. Iwan-Müller, Lord Milner and South Africa, 1902, contemporary red half sheep), various modern editions of Haggard's works (e.g. a Folio Society omnibus edition of King Solomon's Mines, She and Allan Quatermain, 1995), academic studies (e.g. Low, White Skins/Black Masks: Representation and Colonialism, London: Routledge, 1996), Ditchingham reference, and numerous other (qty: approx. 100) Provenance: The H. Rider Haggard Collection of Geoffrey Bullock, Provenance: The H. Rider Haggard collection of Geoffrey Bullock, president of The Rider Haggard Society

Folio Society. Collection of 63 Folio Society titles, most in slipcases, and including P. G. Wodehouse (Jeeves and Wooster and 'Best of Blandings', each comprising 6 titles in single slipcase), Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, John Buchan, Greenmantle, Graham Greene, Travels with my Aunt, and similar, mainly English literature (qty: 63)

Sandys (George). Travells, containing an History of the Original and Present State of the Turkish Empire ... The Mahometan Religion and Ceremies. A Description of Constantinople ... Also, of Greece ... Egypt, Armenia, Grand Cairo, Rhodes, the Pyramides, Colossus ... Alexandria ... the Holy Land ... the Jews ... Italy ... Cyprus Crete, Malta ... and other places, 6th edition, London: for Rob. Clavell [and others], 1670. Folio (300 x 188 mm), contemporary panelled calf (worn, spine-label renewed in the 19th century, front board and free endpaper detached), pp. [6] 240, engraved additional title-page, folding map, folding panorama of Constantinople, engravings throughout the letterpress (mainly plans, views and antiquities), engraved title with partial hand-colouring, map slightly browned and with 55 mm split to foot of one fold, marginal burn-hole to Q5, a few other marks (qty: 1) Blackmer 1484; ESTC R15984. Provenance: Roger Lee (19th-century armorial bookplate).

Camden (William). Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Islands adjoyning, out of the depth of Antiquities ... Written in Latine ... Translated newly into English by Philémon Holland, London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610. Folio (328 x 210 mm), contemporary calf, later spine-label (binding rubbed and scuffed overall, loss to spine-ends, small area of restoration to lower inner corner of front board, tips showing), copper-engravings in the text including a large vignette of Stonehenge, woodcut headpieces and initials, lacking at least the engraved title-page (fleuron1) and all the maps, damp-staining and commensurate fraying to top edges of prelims and initial text-leaves including letterpress title-page (qty: 1) ESTC S107167; STC 4509. Sold as seen, not subject to return. Provenance: 'Th. Hay, Dalmahoy, Oct. 7 1794' (ownership inscription to head of letterpress title-page).

Clarke (George B., editor). Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire. Laid out by Mr Bridgeman, delineated in a Large Plan, and Fifteen Perspective Views. Drawn on the Spot by Mons. Rigaud, now reprinted, to which is added an Account of the Original Publication and Descriptive Notes to each View, London: BW Publications Ltd, 1987. Elephant folio, original leather-backed boards in facsimile of an 18th-century binding, matching slipcase, page-edges untrimmed (qty: 1) Number 54 of 450 copies, from the total edition of 474 copies only; this copy has the receipt of the original subscriber G. W. Horner laid in.

Davis (J. Scarlett). Twelve Views in Lithography, of Bolton Abbey,. Wharfedale, Yorkshire, 1st edition, London: Charles Frederick Cock, 1829. Oblong folio (293 x 455 mm), contemporary cloth-backed marbled paper wrappers, 5 pp., 12 lithographic plates (mounted as issued), title-leaf and final 2 plates remaining attached to binding, all other text and plates detached but remaining integral, variable dust-soiling and spotting, marginal nicks and repairs to text-leaves and mounts, together with: [Holderness]. A Series of Seventeen Views of Churches, Monuments, and Other Antiquities, originally engraved for ''Dade's History of Holderness.'' Now first published, Hull: J. Greenwood, 1835. Folio (450 x 280 mm), original printed wrappers (rear wrapper perished, front wrapper nicked), letterpress title-page, 15 engraved plates (containing 17 images), toning, damp-staining to first few plates (qty: 2) Library Hub traces five copies for Davis's work and none for the second.

Drake (Francis). Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York, London: William Bowyer, 1736. Folio (442 x 268 mm), 19th-century half calf, rebacked, 60 engraved maps and plates, many double-page (including 2 maps, hand-coloured, and a pictorial title-page to part 2), numerous engravings in the text (many full-page), very occasional light spotting, old marginal repairs to plates facing pp. 524 and 527, the 2 coloured maps (at pp. 36 and 380), and text-leaves 4E1 and 7Y1 (qty: 1) ESTC T65433. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 100 copies; there were also 700 copies printed on crown paper. Provenance: James Worsley Pennyman (1856-1924), of Ormesby Hall, Middlesbrough (bookplate).

Whitaker (Thomas Dunham). The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York. The Second Edition, with many Additions, Corrections, Map, and View of Gentlemen's Seats, Antiquities, etc., London: J. Nichols and Son, 1812. Folio (385 x 265 mm), contemporary calf, gilt palmette roll to covers, all edges gilt, vii 530 pp., engraved folding map, 18 letterpress pedigrees (a few also folding), 72 engraved or aquatint plates in total, many hand-coloured, and including 2 unlisted plates (facing pp. 32 and 415), 17 hand-coloured duplicates of uncoloured plates (mainly of country seats), and one plate (Eshton Hall) in two states (aquatint and engraved; both uncoloured), the duplicates all unlisted, front cover detached, offsetting, a few repairs to folding pedigrees (qty: 1) Deluxe large-paper copy; the coloured duplicate plates are not present in other copies we have traced, and many of the remaining plates which are coloured in our copy are uncoloured in others.

Armour (G. Denholm). Mr. Jorrock's Lectors. From Handley Cross by R. S. Surtees, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. 4to (242 x 180 mm), contemporary red crushed half morocco, pictorial vignette made up of morocco onlays to spine, top edge gilt, 25 tipped-in colour plates - Blew (William C. A.). The Quorn Hunt and its Masters, London: John C. Nimmo, 1899. Large 8vo (258 x 168 mm), near-contemporary red crushed half morocco, spine gilt with hunting motifs, top edge gilt, 12 colour plates after Henry Alken (2 double-page), folding map, uneven fading to cloth sides - De Trafford (Sir Humphrey). The Foxhounds of Great Britain and Ireland. Their Masters and Huntsmen, 1st edition, London: Walter Southwood & Company, 1906. Folio, original half morocco gilt, photogravure plates, spine slightly sunned, joints rubbed, a little sunning to covers - Maxwell-Lyte (H. C.). A History of Eton College, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1877. 8vo (214 x 142 mm), original presentation binding of full vellum gilt over bevelled boards, Eton leaving inscription dated 1888 to initial blank, binding slightly dust-soiled, spotting to endpapers - Hussey (Christopher). Eton College, 2nd edition, London: Country Life, 1926. 4to (305 x 240 mm), contemporary blue quarter morocco, slightly marked - together with 13 others comprising 12 copies of the Jorrocks novels (either in red half morocco or red half calf, rubbed), and Berkeley, Reminiscences of a Huntsman, 1854 (with 3 plates of 4) (qty: 18)

Blome (Richard). The Gentleman's Recreations: in Three Parts. The First Part contains a Short and Easie Introduction to all the Liberal Arts and Sciences, etc. The Second treats of Horsemanship, Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Fishing, Agriculture, etc. ... The Third is a Compleat Body of all our Forest, Chace, and Game-Laws, as they are at this Time ... The Second Edition Corrected, with near One Half of Additions, London: for R. Bonwicke [and others], 1710. 3 parts in 1 volume, folio (390 x 245 mm), 19th-century red half morocco, engraved additional title-page, 73 engraved plates after Francis Barlow and others, of which 2 folding and 3 printed on both sides (requisite number unknown), bookplate of Christopher Turnor (1873-1940), incomplete (with text ending abruptly at part 3 p. 66, signature R1), part 1 signature 3Y1 with repaired closed tear, hole in part 3 signature A2 to loss of text, part 1 signatures H1-2 and plate facing p. 29 extended in fore margins, a few other plates with repaired closed tears to lower margins, 3 plates with repaired holes in images (facing part 1 p. 285 and part 2 pp. 90 and 151) (qty: 1) ESTC T135908. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. The first edition was published in 1686. The majority of the plates (45 in total) are found in the second part and consequently relate to horsemanship, hawking, hunting, etc.

Moll (Herman). A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales, etc. With the Great Roads and Principal Cross-Roads, etc. Shewing the Computed Miles from Town to Town, London: sold by H. Moll; Tho. Bowles, J. Bowles, 1724. Folio (357 x 230 mm), contemporary panelled calf, letterpress title-page, 50 engraved maps (including 2 general maps, both folding), all hand-coloured in outline, the county maps including engraved vignettes of local antiquities in margins, contemporary ownership inscription (Eliz[abe]th Wallace) and later bookplate (Christopher Coleman Gill) to front pastedown, binding worn, front board detached (together with front free endpaper and initial blank), rear joint cracked, browning to letterpress title-page and the 2 general maps, map of Cornwall slightly toned and mottled along edges (qty: 1) Chubb CLXI. First separate edition of the maps from Herman Moll's A New Description of England and Wales, published the same year; the only change is that the maps are now numbered between brackets in the top-left corner. According to Chubb the maps were uncoloured.

Thorburn (Archibald). Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923. Folio, original red cloth gilt, 30 colour plates, spotting to endpapers - ibid. British Birds, 4th editions of volumes 1-2, 3rd editions of volumes 3-4, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918. 4 volumes, 4to, original red cloth gilt, 82 colour plates (numbered 1-80B), spines sunned, volume 4 headcap slightly frayed, occasional spotting to text-leaves - ibid. British Mammals, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920. 2 volumes, 4to, original red cloth gilt, 50 colour plates, spines sunned and rubbed, bookplates of Monica E. H. Goldsmith - ibid. A Naturalist's Sketchbook, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919. 4to, original red cloth gilt, 60 plates, binding slightly marked, plates 33, 35 and 59 with small tears to tissue-guards (qty: 8)

White (Gilbert). [The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in Braille], c.1950. 2 volumes, folio (340 x 265 mm), contemporary cloth bindings, titles in white ink to spines ('Selections from the Natural History of Selborne'), 54 + 71 ff., together with a quantity of photocopied notes and research on Gilbert White, and a set of 20 Selborne-related colour photographic slides with related booklet 'Gilbert White and Selborne by John Clegg' (Portsmouth: Focal Point Audiovisual Ltd, 1978) (qty: -)

White (Gilbert). A Nature Calendar. Edited and with an Introduction by Wilfred Mark Webb, London: The Selborne Society, 1911. 7 copies, folio, original green cloth over bevelled boards, edges untrimmed, cloth variably faded and marked, together with a disbound copy inscribed by the editor on the initial blank 'Sabine Wilson, First prize in the competition for junior members of the Selborne Society arranged by the Natura Study Centre 1914, presented by Wilfred Mark Webb' (qty: 8) First editions, each copy one of 250 copies only, printed on Italian handmade paper and signed by the editor on the limitation page (one copy is out of series, and unsigned).

White (Gilbert). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne and A Garden Kalendar. Edited by R. Bowdler Sharpe, 1st edition thus, deluxe issue, London: S. T. Freemantle, 1900. 2 volumes, 4to, original vellum, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, all plates as called for, nearly all on india paper (mounted), variable spotting to plates, tissue-guards browned, facsimile letter to face volume 2 p. 158 supplied from another copy - ibid. The Natural History of Selborne. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by E. M. Nicholson. Illustrated from engravings on wood by Eric Daglish, 1st edition thus, London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1929. 4to, original quarter japon, all plates as called for, with an additional woodcut ('Snipe') signed by the artist laid in, binding rubbed, wear to extremities, closed tear to spine - ibid. Wood Engravings by Gertrude Hermes. Being Illustrations to Selborne with Extracts from Gilbert White, 1st edition, Newtown: Gwasg Gregynog, 1988. Folio, original cloth-backed patterned boards - ibid. The Gilbert White Museum Edition of The Natural History of Selborne. Illustrated by Frederick Marns, London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1977. 4to, original quarter morocco by Zaehnsdorf, slipcase together with 8 other limited or deluxe editions of White's Selborne, 20th century (not collated), including Frank Buckland's edition (London: Macmillan, 1876), deluxe issue (in 4to; ex library), 2 copies of the Limited Editions Club edition illustrated by John Nash (each one of 1500 copies signed by the artist) (qty: 14) Sharpe's edition (1900) is number 34 of 160 copies, signed by the editor and artists (including J. G. Keulemans) on the limitation page; Nicholson's edition is 127 (sic) of 125 stated copies; Wood Engravings by Gertrude Hermes is number 116 of 200 copies from the total edition of 250; the Gilbert White Museum Edition is number 129 of 150 copies.

FIVE FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS TO INCLUDE THE STONES OF VENICE

SEVEN FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS TO INCLUDE STEINBACK TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE TENDER IS THE NIGHT BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

SIX FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS TO INCLUDE GREEK MYTHS 1 AND 2

7 VARIOUS HAND-COLOURED FASHION PRINTS DATED BETWEEN 1840'S - 1880'S - FOLIO

3 X UNFRAMED JAPANESE PRINTS OF SEATED FIGURES, ALL SIGNED - FOLIO

JAPANESE WATERCOLOUR OF A KINGFISHER PERCHED ON A TREE BRANCH TOGETHER WITH A JAPANESE HAND-COLOURED PRINT OF FIGURES, BOTH SIGNED WITH RED SEALS - FOLIO

Alexis Deacon (20th century) - Five illustration sketches - 'You and that boy!', mixed media, signed, 18 x 13 cm, similar to that illustrated in Barbara Jean Hicks - 'Jitterbug Jam', Hutchinson 2004 to/w four other sketches and a folio of various drawings and preparatory sketches for 'Slow Loris', published 2002

Everard, John - Adam's Fifth Rib (photographic nude studies), 2nd, 1936, folio to/w various other volumes including travel, Nausen, Fridtjof - The First Crossing of Greenland, 2 vols, 1890; Japanese interest, Layard's Discoveries of Nineveh and Babylon, 1853, embossed cloth 8vo, etc (12)

WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY GERTRUDE HERMES BEING ILLUSTRATIONS TO SELBORNE WITH EXTRACTS FROM GILBERT WHITE, introduction by William Condry, postscript by James Hamilton, full leather, gilt floral embellishment to front cover, six wood engravings, clam shell case with folio of the six loose unframed wood engravings, all marked as copy number I, Gwasg Gregynog, Powys 1988Provenance; The Estate of Lord Kenyon, Gredington. 

LARGE VICTORIAN FOLIO 'BIRDS OF PARADISE' PRINTS

2 BOX LOTS OF TOYS AND ART FOLIO CASE

A Collection of Books on a Topic of Fishing to Include 1892 Edition of Rod and River or Fly-Fishing for Salmon Trout and Grayling by Major A. T. Fisher, 1914 Edition of The Complete Science of Fly Fishing and Spinning by Fred G. Shaw with 152 Illustrations, Side-Lines, Side-Lights & Reflections by G. E. M. Skues, a 1919 Second Edition of Letters to a Salmon Fisher's Son by A. H. Chaytor, Folio Press Edition of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton and a 1901 Edition of Fly Fishing by Sir Edward Grey. Condition Issues to Include Ware, Foxing etc

Quantity of assorted volumes to include:-Snowman, Kenneth A "18th Century Gold Boxes of Europe", Faber & Faber, large folio, green cloth, gilt titles"The Eton Boating Book", 3rd edition, to the year 1932 by the Eton Vikings Club, Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co 1933Topography, Natural History, Militaria, etc (3 boxes) 

Folio Society - most with slipcases, ( 1 box)

Folio society to include Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, etc (33 vols) (2 vols not folio society)