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ZERO - - Günther Uecker. (1930 Wendorf - lebt in Düsseldorf). Zum Schweigen der Schrift oder die Sprachlosigkeit. Mappenwerk mit 18 Offsetlithographien nach Photographien von Wolleh, davon 15 mit Siebdruck überarbeitet. Text von Eugen Gomringer. Erker-Verlag, St. Gallen u. Edition Haberbeck, Lage/Lippe 1979. Im Impressum von Uecker handsigniert. Lose Lagen in Original-Holz-Kasette. - Nur die Kasette mit Wasserflecken. Das Portfolio tadellos. With 18 offset lithographs after photographs by L. Wolleh of which 15 have been hand-embellished with white paint by screenprint. Folio. Original plywood slip-case with a wooden drawer. (Slightly stained). The portfolio impeccable. In the imprint handsigned by Uecker.

Abstrakter Expressionismus - - Paul Jenkins. (1923 Kansas City - 2012 New York). Euphories de la couleur. André Verdet. Mit 12 (6 signierten und 6 auch mit typographischem Text) Lithographien von Paul Jenkins. 1988. Imperial-Folio. Blaue Leinenkassette mit geprägtem Deckeltitel - Etwas angestaubt, beschabt und bestoßen. Eines von insgesamt 60 nummerierten und im Druckvermerk vom Künstler signierten Ausgaben "sur velin numerotés et signés ... entièrement concu et mis en couleurs par l'artiste. Les lithographies ont été tirées sur les presses de l'Altelier Bordas. La typographie a été composée et imprimée par l'Atelier Merat. L'emboitage a été realisé chez Bernard Duval à Paris". Grossformatiges Meisterwerk des 1923 in Kansas City, Missouri, geborenen und im Juni 2012 gestorbenen US-amerikanischen Malers Paul Jenkins, einer der prominentesten Vertreter des Abstrakten Expressionismus. - Sauber und tadellos erhalten, in leuchtender, überaus prachtvoller Farbigkeit. Abstract Expressionism. - With 6 full page handsigned and 6 with typographical Text big sized lithographs. One of a total of only 60 numbered editions signed by the artist in the imprint. Large format masterpiece of the US American painter Paul Jenkins, born in 1923 in Kansas City, Missouri, and died in June 2012, one of the most prominent representatives of Abstract Expressionism. - Clean and impeccably preserved, in luminous, exceedingly magnificent color.

A mahogany library bookcase of full height, the lower section enclosed by two sliding doors with panelled finish and three folio divisions, the upper section with four graduated shelves, 190cm wide

A collection of mostly Folio Society books including Dante's Inferno with illustrations by William Blake published 1998 complete with slip case (17)

A collection of Folio Society books including a number of art related subjects (23)

A collection of Folio Society books all with slip cases (33)

A collection of miscellaneous books all containing illustrations from notable artists including Lionel Edwards, Ronald Searle, John Piper, John Austen, etc, Songs of Innocence by William Blake, published Arthur L Humphrys, London 1911, with original dust jacket and slip case, together with a cardboard folio containing loose pages from Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting by E. OE. Summerville, published by Longmans Green & Co, 1903(incomplete) (26)

A collection of Folio Society books, mixed subjects (26)

Chrisp Quentin, The Naked Civil Servant, 1st Edition 1968, Mankowitz Wolf, A Kid For Two Farthings, 1st Edtion 1953, together with a mixed collection of poetry and other books including Folio Society editions and a box of vintage Penguin paperbacks (approx 26)

The Audubon Folio, Thirty Great Bird Paintings and a collection of other prints and ephemera

An artists folio and a bookcase with sliding doors

° Ainslie, Robert, Sir (editor) - A series of twenty-four views of illustrative of the Holy Scriptures, folio, quarter calf, illus.

Three Folio Society facsimile volumes - Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales illustrated by W Heath Robinson and The Fables of Aesop, illustrated by Edward J Detmold 4to, in slip-cases, to/w various other children's books (8)

Stamps; GB booklets, booklet panes, booklet folio, etc., (face value exceeds £60)

A folio of assorted watercolours and prints

A LIMITED EDITION ROYAL AIR FORCE JUBILEE, 950 SETS OF FOUR PORTRAITS by Eric Kennington, each signed by the sitter, to include; Squadron leader Douglas Bader, Flight Lieutenant John Cunningham, Sergeant James Lacey, and Flight Lieutenant Roderick Le aroyd, in original folio, No. 328

André Chevrillon: 'Visions du Maroc', Marseille, F. Detaille, 1933, limited edition (1,500), this number 1,129 of 1,300 copies on velin paper, numerous full page and in text heliogravure illustrations from photographs as called for, including Tangier, Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech, the Atlas, Meknes, Fez, etc., Folio, original decorative ornamental archway wraps by Henry Varade, mounted portrait illustration to top wrap, plus 4 others Algeria related, including Blanguernon: 'Le Hoggar', Roche: 'Le M'Zab', Henissart: 'Wolves in the City', etc (5)

Rome. Photograph album, c.1880. Oblong folio album, contemporary vellum binding lettered and decorated in gilt and with blue morocco onlays, 49 large-format albumen prints mounted rectos only to stiff card leaves, depicting Roman antiquities, paintings and statuary, many captioned in the negative, together with Gilbert & George, Twenty London East One Pictures 2003, oblong folio, original wrappers, inscribed 'For Dear Uncle Howard with lots of love on his birthday, from Gilbert and George' on the title-page, and two cartons of assorted art reference books (qty: two cartons)

Fairbairn (James). Fairbairn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland. A New Edition. Revised and brought down to the Present Dat eby Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1892. 2 volumes, 4to, 20th-century dark blue crushed full morocco, numerous lithographic plates - Hinton (John Howard). History of the United States of America, London: J. & F. Tallis, c.1850. 6 volumes, large 8vo, original decorative blue cloth gilt, numerous steel-engraved plates and maps - Jekyll (Gertrude). Garden Ornament, 2nd edition, London: Country Life, 1927. Folio, original cloth - Hakluyt Society (publisher). The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. Charts and Views drawn by Cook and his officers and reproduced form the Original Manuscripts. Edited by R. A. Skelton, Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1955. Several plates loose in original portfolio as issued, text-leaves replaced in photocopy, porfolio damp-stained - and various other works including numerous issues of Flight Magazine, 7 volumes of the Gardener's Chronicle (1851-7) in contemporary calf, and similar (qty: 3 cartons)

Paget (Guy). The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley (1782-1860), 1st edition, Leicester: Edgar Backus, 1931. 4to, original quarter morocco, colour plates - Miles (W. J.). Modern Practical Farriery, London: William Mackenzie, c.1880. 4to, contemporary half sheep (joints cracked at ends), numerous colour plates - Baines (Edward). History of the Wars of the French Revolution, 1st edition, London: Longman [and others], 1817. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half calf, engraved maps and plates - Gibb (William, illustrator). The Royal House of Stuart ... With an Introduction by John Skelton, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Compnay, 1890. Large folio, contemporary half morocco (front joint split at head and foot), chromolithographic plates - and various others (two large boxes) The lot not collated and sold as seen

Sargent (John Singer). The Work of John S. Sargent R.A. With an Introductory Note by Mrs. Meynell, London: William Heinemann, 1903. Folio, original cloth (marked, loss to spine ends), photogravure plates - Holme (Charles). English Water-Colour, with Reproductions of Drawings by Eminent Painters, London: The Studio, 1902. Folio, contemporary half calf, covers detached - Twenty Representative Paintings of the Best Artists. Including Sir Edward Poynter, P.R.A. Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A [...], London: Virtue and Company, c.1870, photogravure plates loose as issued in original quarter cloth portfolio - together with numerous others including assorted antiquarian in contemporary calf (odd volumes or incomplete sets including Burnet, The History of his own Time, volume 2 only, 1734, Goldsmith, The History of England, 1771, Froissart, History, 3rd edition, 1808, and similar (qty: 4 cartons) The lot sold as seen, not subject to return.

Naval & Maritime. The extensive naval and maritime library of Patrick Watson, comprising mainly 20th-century hardback naval and maritime reference including Jane's Merchant Shipping Review, Fairplay Shipping Year Books, academic monographs (e.g. Serena Cant, England's Shipwreck Heritage: From Logboats to U-Boats, 1st edition, Swindon: English Heritage, 1913; Lavery, Nelson and the Nile, 1st edition, 1998), Conway Maritime Press titles, and similar, together with various older titles (e.g. World Cruise of the British Special Service Squadron 1923-1924 [cover-title], commemoration album, oblong folio, original suede gilt, with numerous gelatin silver print photographs mounted to rectos and versos; J. D. Henry, Thirty-Five Years of Oil Transport, 1st edition, 1907), numerous paperbacks, and 8 cartons or box-files of original naval photographs (many evidentl's Watson's personal research photographs, but a number with studio ink-stamps verso including British Petroleum Co. Ltd.,) and printed naval plans (qty: approx. thirty-eight boxes and eight cartons/box-files, various sizes) Patrick Brian Watson, naval architect, was born in Brixton in 1928. He undertook his apprenticeship at Fairfields shipyard, Glasgow, and completed his professional qualifications at the Royal Technical College in the city followed by the Paisley College of Technology. He then worked for London marine consultancy Burness, Kendall & Partners before commencing private work for Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos, who commissioned him to build a yacht with the specific brief of outdoing Aristotle Onassis, whose own yacht was a converted destroyer. He later worked for Whessoe in Darlington and lives in the town today. He is a chartered engineer, a member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, and a member of the Institute of Non-Destructive Testing

7 vintage Folio books (2 from 1940's and 5 from 1950's) including Rubaiyat of Omar Kuayyam 1955, Grimms Fairy tales 1949, Trilby 1947. Minor shelf ware but apart from that in good condition.

dating: 1881 provenance: Edinburgh, 'Ancient Scottish Weapons - A Series of drawings by the Late James Drumond R.S.A' with introduction & Descriptive Notes by Joseph Anderson'. George Waterston & Sons, Edinburgh & London, MDCCCLXXXI. Folio with 54 partially-colored plates and texts. Number 485 out of only 500 samples. Ex libris Henry Arthur Johnstone 1899 and Hendrik Verdier Canada. Beautiful, red-leather hard cover with title in gold. height 41 cm.

dating: 1893 provenance: Paris, 'Catalogue des Objets D.Art et de Haute Curiosite Antiques, du Moyen-Age & de la Renaissance'. Folio. Vol. I and II of the famous sale, Paris, 1893. 3369 described lots with some illustrations. Red, leather hardcovers (partially abraded) with golden imprints and title, red, silk internal part. Scarce. height 40 cm.

Auer, (Dieter), (Rainer) Grund und (Anatoli) Karpow. Faszination Schach. Perlen der Schachkunst. Hockenheim, Autorengemeinschaft, ca. 1994. Folio. Mit 1 Faksimile und vielen, meist farbigen Abbildungen im Text. 160 Seiten. Orig. Pappband mit Schutzumschlag. (45) * Mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift aller drei Autoren auf erstem Blatt weiß. Exemplar "45" von 199 Exemplaren, der von Karpov unterzeichneten Bildbände, vergl. dazu beiliegenden handgeschriebenen Brief an den vorhergehenden Besitzer. Die Abbildungen zeigen überwiegend Schachfiguren und Briefmarken mit Schachmotiven. Beiliegt: Strouhal, Ernst. Schach. Die Kunst des Schachspiels. Hamburg, Nikol, 2000. Folio. Mit vielen, teils farbigen Textabb. und Diagrammen. IX, 462 Seiten. Originaler Pappband mit Schutzumschlag. Sonderausgabe für den Nikol Verlag. Zustand: Beide Bände etwas berieben und bestoßen, an den Rändern stärker. Ein Exemplar mit Exlibris im Vorsatz.

Braque, Georges (?). (Blumenbouquet in braunen Farben). Farblithographie (Mischtechnik) auf Papier nach einem Original von Georges Braque. Im Druck monogrammiert "GB". Nummerierter Abzug (unten links) "130 von 300". Arbeit nach 1966. Blattgröße 31 x 42 cm. Rahmengröße 55 x 67 cm (Hochformat). (21) * Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) war französischer Maler Graphiker und Bildhauer. Nach einer frühen fauvistischen Schaffensphase war Braque zusammen mit Pablo Picasso der Mitbegründer des Kubismus. Zu dem hier vorliegenden Blatt vergl. den Umschlag der Zeitschrift [George Braque, Jean Grenier]; "Derriere Le Miroir No. 166." George Braque: Derniers Messages. Paris: Maeght, 1966. Folio. 28 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen farbigen Lithographien und schwarz-weiss Photos des Künstlers - und die Angaben von Dora Vallier; Braque. Das graphische Gesamtwerk; Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta, 1982 ... diese Farblithographie wurde nach einem Original des Künstlers angefertigt. Blumenbouquet in braunen Farbtönen in der typischen gestalterischen Maier des Künstlers. Zustand: Die Graphik ist papierbedingt leicht gebräunt und durch eine vorhergehende Rahmung etwas lichtrandig. Mit geringen Benutzungs-, Alterungsspuren und geringen Randläsuren. Rückseitig mit Klebe- und Montagespuren. Der Rahmen ist an Ecken und Kanten berieben und bestoßen. Schönes und dekoratives Blatt.

Schleswig - Holstein. Atlas. Danckwerth, C. Newe Landesbeschreibung der zwey Herzogthümer Schleswich und Holstein, zusambt vielen dabey gehörigen Newen Landcarten. Husum (M.und N. Petersen) 1652. Folio. Mit 1 gestochenen Titel und 40 doppelblattgroßen Kupferkarten. 4 Bl., 301 Seiten, 1 Bl. Restaurierter brauner Lederband. (48) * Vergl. dazu Phillips 8804. Einzige Ausgabe der gesuchten Topographie mit den schönen und wichtigen Karten, die von den Brüdern Petersen [Goldschmiede] nach Zeichnungen des Husumer Mathematikers Johannes Mejer gestochen worden waren. Die meisten sind mit dekorativen Kartuschen, Randplänen und Stadtansichten versehen. Damit gewinnen die Karten zusätzlichen Informationswert und kartographischen Reiz. Hervorzuheben ist vor allem die Weltkarte und die Karte von Schleswig - Holstein mit den 18 Randplänen. Wichtig ist auch die textliche Beschreibung von Land und Leuten der Zeit. Komplette Ausgaben sind selten geworden. Eine Karte ist koloriert. Mejers Landesaufnahme von Schleswig - Holstein gilt als die Beste der Zeit. Sie war im fürstlichen Auftrag von 1638 bis 1648 erfolgt ... astronomisch ... mit dem Kompaß ... durch Schrittmesser oder nach Schätzungen... und blieb bestimmend für die Kartenproduktion bis um 1800. Die Kupferstiche liegen in schönen und tiefen Abdrucken vor - und sind so zumindest den später bzw. neukolorierten Karten dieser Ausgabe vorzuziehen. Zustand: Einige Karten mit Einrisse am Rand, diese sind sachgerecht hinterlegt und restauriert. Text und Karten leicht gebräunt und fleckig, einige etwas stärker und mit kleineren Fehlstellen und Beschädigungen. Einige Karten am Rand etwas knapp beschnitten mit Läsuren und kleineren Defekten. Die Vorsätze erneuert und haben eine Knickfalte. Der braune Lederband ist sachgerecht restauriert, unter Verwendung einiger Teile des alten Einbandes. Eine Ausgabe, die vom interessierten Sammler besichtigt werden sollte.

Bachmann, Ludwig. Eigenhändig von Ludwig Bachmann geschriebenes und zusammengestelltes Manuskript von seinem Werk "Schachjahrbuch 1929 / 30. II. Teil. 45. Fortsetzung der Sammlung geistreicher Schachpartien und Aufgaben." Ohne Ort ca. 1930. Folio. Mit einigen Diagrammen. Titel, 111 Bll. Lose ohne Umschlag. (81) * Außergewöhnliches schachhistorisches Dokument. Das vorliegende Manuskript hat eigenhändig von Bachmann geschriebenen Text und vielen aufgeklebten Ausschnitte aus Zeitungen, Schachspalten, Zeitschriften und Veröffentlichungen zum Schachgeschehen sowie Diagrammen. Der Reichsbahndirektor Ludwig Bachmann (1856 – 1937) galt als bedeutender Schachschriftsteller und Schachhistoriker. Er gab von 1897 bis 1930 die Schachjahrbücher heraus. Bachmann wandte sich der Theorie, Literatur und Geschichte des Schachspiels zu, da ihn sein Beruf keine Zeit für die Teilnahme an Turnieren ließ, obwohl er durch seine lebhafte und kombinatorische Spielweise durchaus dort Erfolge erzielen hätte. Zustand: Die Textseiten sind etwas gebräunt, teilweise stärker, etwas fleckig und haben teilweise Leimspuren oder Knickfalten. Wenige Seiten mit Defekten. Sehr seltenes Sammlerstück.

Britain.- Camden (William) Brittania: Or a Chorographical Description of..., 4 vol., 56 engraved folding maps (only, of 57), 106 engraved plates, some double page or folding, a few with small tears at folds or sellotape repairs to verso, light foxing with some browning to vol. 4, initial 2ff. vol 4 with large hole, including title, and front end papers defective, contemporary calf, gilt, vol. 1 with large burn to upper cover, vol. 2 lacking upper cover and the others all with at least one cover detached, John Stockdale, folio, 1806.

NO RESERVE Sailing.- British Sports and Sportsmen: Yachting and Rowing, first edition, one of 1000 copies, photogravure frontispiece, plates and illustrations, damp-staining, some ff. cockled, original chamfered red morocco, gilt, a little stained and marked, spine faded but still bright, g.e., folio, 1916.

Birds.- Giacomelli (H.) [Birds and Flowers], without title, 20 plates, occasional marginal spotting, one plate becoming loose, slight chipping to edges, without text, contemporary half-calf, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, folio, [?c.1880].

NO RESERVE Gardens.- Robinson (W.) Home Landscapes, first edition, photographic plates, original half vellum, a fine copy, housed in original folding box, worn, folio, 1914.

NO RESERVE Solleysel (Jacques de) The Parfait Mareschal, or Compleat Farrier, 2 parts in 1, translated by Sir William Hope, additional engraved titles, part two lacking title, 5 folding or double-page plates only (of 6), plate 6 misbound at beginning, one or two short tears, occasional staining and off-setting, loss to bottom corner of final 5 ff. affecting text, bookplate to pastedown, near contemporary calf, upper cover detached, rubbed and worn, [Wing S4458 but including part 2, not called for], Edinburgh, George Mosman, 1696; and another, Farrier's Guide; folio & 8vo (2)

Phillips (G.F.) Principles of Effect and Colour as applicable to Landscape Painting, first edition, hand-coloured plate of colour wheel and 8 aquatint plates, 6 hand-coloured, paper guards, title lightly spotted but plates clean and bright, original cloth, label to upper cover, rebacked preserving old spine, rubbed and faded, spine a little worn, oblong folio, [cf.Abbey, Llife 167, third edition of 1840], F.G.Harding, 1833.⁂ Rare first edition of this artist's manual, with attractive plates. Library Hub records only one copy, in the British Library, and the National Art Library at the V & A contains only a later edition. The last copy sold at auction appears to have been in 1961.

Terentius Afer (Publius) Comoediæ sex, woodcut printer's device to title, initial spaces with guide-letters, lacking final blank, ink marginalia to k5, title repaired verso, some small areas of worming in text, water-stained, mostly at ends, 18th century calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with burgundy morocco label, foot of spine little chipped, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams T333; Schreiber 67; Renouard 53], 4to, Paris, Robert Estienne, 1541 [colphon January, 1542]. ⁂ 'A copy in a handier format of the 1536 folio edition...included are the commentaries of Donatus, and the tract on comic meters by Erasmus.' (Schreiber).

Military.- Cavalry.- Basta (Giorgio) Govverno della Cavalleria, Das ist, Bericht von Anfuhrung der leichten Pferde, first German edition, 11 (of 12) engraved double-page plates by Johann Theodor de Bry, 1 plate (?from another copy) with repaired fraying with a little loss of image, some water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, antique style panelled calf, spine faded, [Mennessier de la Lance 84; Jahns 1053 ('Die beste wissenschaftliche Anleitung fur die Kavallerie'); cf. Cockle 123 (English edition)], small folio, Frankfurt, M. Becker, 1614.⁂ On the use of light horses in the field, based on the extensive practical experience of Basta.

Cartography.- [Ogilby (John)] Ogilby's Road Maps of England and Wales from Ogilby's 'Britannia', 1675, facsimile reprint, Reading, 1971 § Goss (John) The Mapmaker's Art: An Illustrated History of Cartography, 1993 § Skelton (R.A.) County Atlases of the British Isles 1579-1850: A Bibliography, 1970 § Darlington (I.) & James Howgego. Printed Maps of London circa 1553-1850, 1964, plates or illustrations, original cloth or boards, the last three with dust-jackets, a little soiled; and 5 others on maps, folio & 4to (9)

Klauber (J. & J., publishers) Historiae Biblicae Veteris et Novi Testamenti, parallel Latin and German titles in red and black, 100 engraved plates after Stockmann, soiling and some spotting, occasional fraying, margins of title and a few other leaves repaired, 19th century half vellum, oblong folio, Augsburg, 1750.

Napoleon.- Masson (Frederic) Cavaliers de Napoleon, illustrated by Edouard Detaille, half-title, additional letter press title (browned), coloured frontispiece, 21 engraved plates, half-page illustrations, captioned tissue guards, some light foxing, including to titles and some plates, final blank loose, bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary half-morocco, extremities and spine rubbed, folio, [1895].

NO RESERVE Guernsey.- Carteret (Amice de, Jerseyman, Jurat of Jersey's Royal Court and later Bailiff and Lieut-Governor of Guernsey, 1559-1631) & others.- Ordonnances relating to tithes levied in Guernsey, manuscript in French, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, Guernsey, 1616; and 2 others 17th century documents including another relating to Guernsey, folio et infra (3).

Bible, English. [The Bible, that is the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament], woodcut illustrations and initials, double column, lacking initial 7ff (all before A2) including title and various ffs throughout (D6, F6, 2O3-6, 5H2, 5R1, 5S1), New Testament title and following leaf with woodcut map loose, [STC 2119], Christopher Barker, [1577] bound with an incomplete book of psalms, lacking title, A1 and all after H3, together 2 works in 1 vol., soiling and browning, margins trimmed often touching side notes and headlines, some ink annotations, eighteenth century calf, heavily worn, folio; sold not subject to return.

Malvezzi (Virgilio) Discourses upon Cornelius Tacitus, translated by Sir Richard Baker, first edition in English, title within elaborate woodcut architectural border, woodcut head-pieces and initials, title lightly soiled and frayed at edges with contemporary ink signature crossed out at foot, creasing to last few leaves, K1 with small rust-spot causing loss to one letter, modern half calf, spine gilt and faded, slight rubbing to edges, [Wing M359], folio, by E[dward] G[riffin] for R.Whitaker and Tho.Whitaker, 1642.

NO RESERVE Trial.- The tryal of Laurence Braddon and Hugh Speke. Upon an information of high-misdemeanor, subornation and spreading false reports. Endeavouring thereby to raise a belief in His Majesties subjects, that the late Earl of Essex did not murther himself, first edition, lacking initial imprimatur f. and final blank, occasional spotting, lightly browned, disbound, folio, Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1684.

NO RESERVE Mining.- An Act to prevent disputes and controversies concerning Royal Mines, black letter, title with royal arms, woodcut head-piece and decorative initial, with final blank, final 2 ff. browned, disbound, Printed by Charles Bill and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1693 § Hopton (William) A conversation on mines &c. between a father and son: to which are added questions and answers to assist candidates to obtain certificates for the management of collieries - A lecture on the atmosphere, its changes and explosive gases, eighth edition, full-page plans, portrait of the author at p.308, wood-engraved illustrations in text, 5pp. advertisements at end, occasional pencil diagrams and marginalia, front free endpapers removed, occasional spotting and staining, hinges split, original cloth, gilt title to upper cover, spine faded, very short split to lower joint, lightly stained, a rare edition, Manchester, Abel Heywood & Son, 1886; and a 20th century work on the mines of Cardiganshire, folio et infra (3)

NO RESERVE Urie (Robert, printer).- Law.- Memorial for John Urielate of Holmhead, and Robert Urie Printer in Glasgow, his Interdictor, [?Edinburgh], no printer, 4th June, 1745 bound with 2 others, related, occasional ink marginalia, a few small holes within text of last 2ff. of final work, with loss of a few letters, occasional light staining, disbound, fold, causing some splitting to last f., folio sold not subject to return. ⁂ Under Scottish law an interdictor is someone who causes a legal restraint upon a person of weak mind, who is likely to be taken advantage of. Urie's father John lost his inheritance through coercion into various one-sided property and business deals.

Slavery.- Scrap album, c.280pp., including Plan of an African ships lower deck with Negroes in the proportion of only one to a ton, engraving (c.120 x 320mm.) and letterpress explanation, trimmed, Bristol, T. Deeble, c.1790; Pedigree of the dogs, broadside announcing performing dogs of various breeds, c.470 x 155mm., section of c.160mm. split away from foot, [c.1791]; Broadside.- The Will of Louis the Sixteenth, late King of France, written by himself, double column, trimmed, rare with ESTC recording only one copy (Bodleian), no printer, [1793]; and a quantity of others, most cuttings from periodicals, all items mounted, occasional spotting or staining, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, worn, folio, [c.1770-1800].⁂ A fascinating album containing a snapshot of life in the late 18th century, with references to leading questions and events of the day, including Slavery and the French Revolution. With cuttings from the Bath and St. James Chronicles on such diverse subjects as hermits, alchemists, rats, crime, suicides, trade and poverty, as well as a few engravings of well-known characters of the time, including 'Old Scaleits, the celebrated Sexton of Peterborough' and the obese Edward Bright of Essex. Other pieces of note are 'The Eccentric Will of the late Henry Trigg, of Stevenage' and 'Orme's New Puzzle of Portraits'.

Law.- Blackstone (Sir William) Reports of cases determined in the several courts of Westminster-Hall, from 1746 to 1779, 2 vol., first edition, occasional spotting and light browning, contemporary calf, spines in compartments and with red morocco labels and ink numbers, vol.2 head of spine chipped, rubbed, a very good set, folio, printed by His Majesty's Law Printers; for W. Strahan; T. Cadell; and D. Prince and Co. at Oxford, 1781.

NO RESERVE Mental health.- A group of 15 acts of parliament relating to the treatment of mental health and asylums &c., woodcut royal arms at head, disbound, folio, 1816-1884.

Shakespeare (William).- [2 facsimile engraved copies of the Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare for the First Folio], 1 sheet with small piece torn away from edge, [19th century]; [2 facsimile copies of Ben Jonson's verse "To the Reader" bound opposite the Droeshout portrait], 1 sheet with a few pencil marks, [19th century], all soiled and browned, edges chipped; and another a 17th century title page, folio (5).

NO RESERVE Treaty of Versailles.- Conditions de Paix / Conditions of Peace, 3 (of 4) large folding lithographed maps, some spotting, lightly browned, original printed wrappers, upper joint splitting, some staining and spotting, folio, no place, 1919. sold not subject to return.

Diderot & D'Alembert. Encyclopédie, 18 vol., "Franco Maria Ricci" edition, facsimile reprint, plates, many folding, original boards, gilt, uncut, very minor occasional scuffing to raised bands on spine, else a fine set, folio, Milan, 1978.

NO RESERVE Moore (Brian) Lies of Silence, 1990 § Tremain (Rose) Sacred Country, 1992 § Mo (Timothy) The Redundancy of Courage, 1991, first editions, all one of 150 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, fine copies; and 39 others, special or limited editions, including a second edition of Norton's facsimile edition of Shakespeare's First Folio, v.s. (42)

Palmer (Samuel).- Milton (John) The Shorter Poems, number 94 of 135 large paper copies, 12 photogravure plates after etchings by Samuel Palmer, tissue guards, some foxing (mostly to guards), Northbrook bookplate, original pictorial vellum, gilt, uncut, a little rubbed and soiled, folio, 1889.

Flaxman (John), After. Album of 48 tracings after original drawings by Flaxman, with manuscript half-title page that reads 'A Selection/ from Flaxman's Designs/ from Hesiod', with further later title in the same hand that reads 'Designs omitted/ in the Iliad, Odyssey, & Aeschylus', pencil on tracing paper, each bearing a number and with inscription below, neatly presented on album leaves with Whatman watermarks and indistinct date but probably '1833', various sizes, some scattered spotting and minor handling creases, 19th century calf with marbled boards, spine gilt and inscribed 'Flaxman', corners bumped, spine splitting at head and foot, slightly worn, folio, [1833 or earlier]Provenance:David Twopeny, StockburyEdward Twopeny [inscription to front pastedown]

NO RESERVE Kafka.- Fronius (Hans) Kafka - Mappe. Zeichnungen zu den Werken Franz Kafkas. Mit einer Parabel von Franz Kafka und einem Vorwort von Otto Mauer, 10 lithographed plates by Fronius, loose in original cloth-backed printed boards, stained, folio, Vienna, Amandus - Edition, 1946.

NO RESERVE Graves (Robert).- Shakespeare (William) The Sonnets, number 56 of 300 copies signed by Robert Graves, Edward Burrett, and Clarke Hutton, illustrations by Hutton, original calf, gilt, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine very lightly faded, original slip-case (a little rubbed and scuffed), folio, Swallow Press, 1975.

French agricultural architecture.- Petit (Armand, architect) Projet de Ferme, 5 original architectural designs, including a general plan of the farm, pen and ink over pencil with watercolour on Whatman wove paper, one sheet with watermark date '1838', each sheet signed by the architect, manuscript captions and accompanying text, title loose, some light foxing and browning, original cloth, extremities and joints worn, Seine-et-Oise, folio, 1849.

Gélis-Didot (P.) & H. Laiffillée. La Peinture Décorative en France, 2 vol., half-titles, 120 chromolithographs, one or two short marginal tears, one with tape repair, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary half-morocco, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, folio, c.1875.

Lobkowitz (Juan Caramuel) Architectura civil recta y obliqua: Considerada y Dibuzada en el Templo de Jerusalen, 113 plates only, lacking all text, 2 engraved title pages, endpapers and a plate detached, soiling and damp-staining, emprenta oblipa por Camillo Corrado, later half morocco, rubbed, folio, 1678.⁂ Plates from the most important Spanish architectural treatise up to date, where the author argues the superiority of oblique architecture to straight Vitruvian architecture, and famously censures Bernini's designs for the colonnade around St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. Printed at the author's private press.