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Prince (John), Danmonii orientales illustres: or, The Worthies of Devon [...], first edition, Exeter: Printed by Sam. Farley, for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Paternoster-Row, London; and Charles Yeo and Philip Bishop in Exon, 1701, black-ruled title-page, erroneous pagination, lacking signatures 7B² only, in-text illustrations of coats of arms, occasional marginal glosses and heraldic corrections in a contemporary hand, the odd ink stain and stable marginal tear, original recto and verso blanks annotated in a slightly later 18th c hand, later Regency russia boards, armorial covers rolled in blind and enclosed within a double-line gilt fillet, rebacked, later gilt-lettered morocco piece, contemporary gilt edges and green endpapers, the former with Regency binder's ticket, folio (38.5 x 25.5cm) Provenance: 1) Ar: Chichester, recto blank and title-page with contemporary ink MS ownership inscription, the glosses and corrections almost certainly by the same hand. 2) Sir Richard Borough, 1st Baronet (1756-1837), of Ham Common, Surrey, and later Coolock Park, Co. Dublin; his armorial supralibros to each cover.

Natural History. [Ornithology]: Buffon (Georges-Louis Le Clerc, Comte de) & Martinet (François-Nicolas), All the World's Birds, New York: Rizzoli, 2008, colour illustrations, pictorial dj, hb, folio (38.5 x 30.5cm), Audubon's Aviary, trade edition, New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, dj, hb, slipcase and box en suite, folio (33.5 x 28cm), Audubon's Birds of America, sixth printing, New York & London: Abbeville Press Publishers, n.d., dj, hb, slipcase en suite, folio (38.5 x 30.5cm), [Botany] Cameron (Elizabeth, illustrator), A Book of Rhododendrons, signed and numbered, copy no. 101/500, Allangrange Prints, 2005, colour plates, original cloth over pictorial papered boards, slipcase en suite, folio (43 x 31cm), & The Grand Medieval Bestiary, 2012, dj, hb, slipcase en suite, folio (38.5 x 26.5cm), (5) All with cosmetic signs of former damp, the books and their illustrations good. All of the slipcases with varying degrees of wear. The spines faded to various extents. The dustjackets and boards with degrees of marking, most of which should clean off.

Folio Society. Rabelais (François), Screech (M.A., translator), & Doré (Gustave, illustrator), Gargantua and Pantagruel, two-volume set, copy no. 72/500, 2019, printed in Bulmer type on Abbey Pure paper by Graphicom of Vicenza, monochrome plates after wood engravings, in-text illustrations, original red goatskin gilt over cloth, top edges gilt, slipcase en suite, the slightest of wear, folio (36 x 27cm), (2)

An early 20th c family photograph album, n.d., including 21 mixed process depictions of Egypt, including natives, a caravan of camels, a Nile crocodile and sailing boat, tents and interiors, domestic British snapshots of family life and larks, a relation serving as an officer in World War One, another as a nurse, beagling, dogs and pets, some houses and interiors, typical topography, etc., contemporary calf over boards, split and some wear, oblong folio (27.5 x 38cm), another album, later, fewer contents, but including some tipped-in ephemera, cloth over papered boards, oblong 4to (26 x 30.5cm), (2)

Folio Society. Ellis (Alice, illustrator), Bull (Edith, illustrator), Hogg (Robert, editor), & Bull (Henry Graves, editor), The Herefordshire Pomona: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of the most Esteemed Kinds of Apples and Pears, two-volume set, copy no. 94/980, 2014, printed by Gruppo Pigini Tecnostampa of Ancona on Tatami paper,  colour plates, plate volume bound in original gilt-lettered green morocco over pictorial cloth, text volume in green pictorial cloth over boards, green buckram Solander box, the latter with former damp residue, the books clean, folio (38.2 x 30cm), (2)

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington KG, et al.,  (1769-1852). English School, mid-19th c - A Reminiscence of the 18th of November, [the Duke's horse is lead in the funeral procession], proof state, indistinctly monogrammed within the plate, proof state, lithograph, 34 x 45cm, others, similar, Lying in State of the Duke of Wellington at Chelsea Hospital, London: Published by Read & Co., Nov:r 20th, 1852, lithograph, 33.5 x 43cm, & Funeral-Car of the Duke of Wellington, London: Published by Day & Son, et al., lithograph, 29.5 x 44.5cm, as well as the Wellington Supplement to The Illustrated London News, mixed numbers, 1852, some folding plates, unexamined, contemporary cloth over marbled boards, folio (42 x 29cm) Mixed condition.

Medical. [Gabelkover (Oswald)], The Boock of Physicke (sic), [...] Most of them selected, and approved remedyes (sic), for all corporall (sic) diseases, and sicknesses [...], first English edition of Nützlich artzneybuch für alle des menschlichen leibes anliegen und gebrechen, Dorte (i.e. Dordrecht): Imprinted by Isaack Caen, 1599, signatures [π1] (i.e. title-page), F1, Y2 & [Y5] supplied in facsimile, lacking the index, otherwise textually complete, however, the last four leaves are tattier than the rest of the text block, with some loss of letters, the final leaf [Kk5] repaired and with more developed losses, the remaining original text block, though perfectly legible, is affected by varying levels of brown toning, former staining and former damp, additionally signatures [Z6] has two burnt holes, one just touching text and both off-setting on the corresponding leaf, and [Bb6] with a tatty, chipped fore-margin, contemporary English minor and infrequent manuscript notation, later 20th c pastiche calf, rubbed and worn, the upper-cover split and just holding, folio (27.5 x 20cm), [NLM/Durling 1737; Wellcome I, 2488; STC 11513]

Folio Society. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, facsimile of the 1896 edition from William Morris's Kelmscott Press, 2008, printed at Cambridge University Press on Oxenford twin-wire laid paper, original brown buckram gilt, designed by David Pearson, top edge gilt, others uncut, worn slipcase en suite, folio (42.5 x 30cm) The binding with cosmetic signs of former damp, however its boards are not bowed and the book is in good condition. Its slipcase with worn faults.

Geology. Kurr (Dr. J.G. Kurr, Professor of Natural History to the Polytechnic Institution of Stuttgart), The Mineral Kingdom, with Coloured Illustrations of the Most Important Minerals, Rocks, and Petrifications, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1859, double-column, [4], iii, 70pp, illustrated with 24 lithograph plates, Plates A-B mostly monochrome, Plates I-XXII mostly hand-coloured, lettered explanatory tissue-guards with some off-setting, later institutional cloth binding, but no ex-library markings within the text, folio (35.4 x 24.5cm)

Folio Society. Lang (Andrew, editor), The Blue, Pink, Red, Yellow, Green, Violet, Brown, Crimson, Lilac, Olive, Grey, & Orange Fairy Books, twelve volumes, all first impressions of the first editions thus, but for Blue (2004) which is a third impression, 2004-13, colour plates and b/w illustrations after various illustrators, original pictorial cloth, polychrome-stained top-edges, slipcases en suite, 8vo, (12) 

Laking (Sir Guy Francis, Bart., GB, MVO, FSA), A Record of European Armour and Arms through Seven Centuries, four volumes only (of 5), first edition, London: G. Bell and Sons, 1921-21, plates and in-text illustrations, original publisher's cloth, somewhat mottled, crimson morocco lettering pieces, top-edges gilt, others uncut, 4to, Foster (Joseph), Some Feudal Coats of Arms, Oxford and London: James Parker & Co., 1902, illustrated with 2,000 zinco etchings, original publisher's blue cloth, pictorial gilt, 4to, Fox-Davies (Arthur Charles), Armorial Families, two-volume set, fourth edition, Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1902, original cloth, split and worn, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 4to, another work on heraldry, & [numismatics] Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland, Plates I-IX, London: Printed by Order of the Trustees [&] Sold at the British Museum, 1904, original papered boards, folio, (9) Ex-school library stock and with their typical stamps and/or labels. Sold with all - if any - faults and as such not subject to return.

Medieval Architecture. William Burgess (1754/5-1813) & Hikiah Burgess (1775-1868) - Views of Churches, Published as the Act directs, by W. & H. Burgess, Fleet, near Holbeach, Lincolnshire, 1800-01, 12 engraved plates and 1 letterpress leaf of subscribers, damp-stained margins, sometimes affecting within the plate-mark, original marbled wrappers, slightly chipped and bumped, publisher's printed lettered label to upper cover, calf spine perished, oblong folio (33.5 x 48cm)

Folio Society. Twenty-two volumes of ancient civilizations and later history, mixed dates, including Howard Carter's The Tomb of Tutankhamun, further Egyptology, John Julius Norwich's Byzantium, etc., mixed original bindings, slipcases en suite, 8vo, (22)

Herbert (Edward, Lord of Cherbury), The Life and Raigne (sic) of King Henry the Eighth, first edition, London: Printed by E.G for Thomas Whitaker, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Kings Arms in Pauls Church-yard, 1649, cut-out engraved portrait from frontispiece and later tipped-on a new leaf, black-ruled red and black title-page, black-ruled contents, decorative woodcut headers, foliate initials and tail-pieces, pp collating: A⁵, B-R⁴, S-X⁶, Y⁸, Z¹⁰, 2A-N⁴, 2O-Y⁶, 2Z⁴, 3A-Z⁴, 4A-C⁴, 4D⁵, 20th c quarter tan morocco, preserving fragments of contemporary speckled calf and 18th c marbled boards and gilt-lettered red morocco piece, contemporary red-speckled edges, reinforced recto and verso pastedown gutters, folio (28 x 19.5cm), [Wing H1504], Fiddes (Richard, DD), The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, first edition, London: Printed for John Barber, 1724, black-ruled title-page with woodcut vignette, 7 full-page plates as called for, of which the portrait frontispiece engraved by George Vertue is repaired, and extra-illustrated? with a folding prospect of Christ Church, Oxon, engraved by Paul Fourdrinier, now repaired, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, reinforced recto and verso pastedown gutters, refreshed endpapers, folio (35.5 x 24cm), [&] Hall (Edward), Henry VIII, copy no. 99/500, London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1904, frontispieces, original publisher's cloth, sunned spines, top-edges gilt, others uncut, 4to, (4)  Provenance: 1st: 1) [...] Ex dono Geo: Mason, partial 17th c ownership inscription on title-page. 2) R.H. Shuttleworth, late 18th c ownership inscription on later 'frontis' leaf, presumably the commissioner of the initial repair/rebind. 2nd: Reverend Wolley Jolland (1745-1831), the 'Lincolnshire Hermit' and Vicar of Louth (1780-1831); his ink manuscript ownership inscription to title, above another later and indistinct.

Reformation. Fox (Rev. John) & Gregory (Rev. W., editor), The Book of Martyrs; or, the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church [...], London: Printed by W. Lewis, et al., 1815, repaired engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page creased, double-column, numerous full-page plates, typical sporadic foxing, later 19th c quarter-morocco over cloth, rubbed, upper-cover detached, all edges gilt, folio (43 x 28cm)

Caricatures. Kapp (Edmond X., illustrator), Personalities, association copy belonging to one of those portrayed, numbered copy 108/500, London: Martin Secker, Printed [for] at the Pelican Press, 1919, 24 tissue-guarded tipped-in plates with their corresponding letterpress leaves, original publisher's papered grey boards, worn with slight loss, ffep with indistinct gift inscription dated Xmas 1919, small folio (33 x 26cm) Provenance: Alfred, 1st Viscount Milner, KG (1854-1925), British statesman and colonial administrator; book label to recto pastedown. Kapp caricatured Milner on this book, see plate 20.

Australia. [Garran (Hon. Andrew, editor)], Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, volumes I & II only (of 3), Melbourne & London: The Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company, 1886, double-column, each lacking title-page, 12 two-page state and other chromolithographed maps, further full-page plates, plans and maps, in-text illustrations, bound by Craig & Brandt of Melbourne, stamped, contemporary black quarter-morocco over cloth, rubbed and split, but holding, folio (45 x 35.5cm), (2) Sold as a collection of plates and as such note subject to return.

[Hughes (John, editor)], A Complete History of England: with the Lives of all the Kings and Queens thereof [...], two volumes only (of 3), London: Printed for Brab. Aylmer, et al., 1706, volume I with engraved portrait frontispiece of Queen Anne, chipped and creased, black-ruled title-page printed in black and red, double-column, engraved plates, a few quires with uneven fore-edges, infrequent marginal water stains in places, however mostly a bright and fresh copy, contemporary two-tone panelled calf, volume II upper-cover just holding, some wear to bindings, including slight losses in places and scuffs, but OK, red-speckled edges, excised contemporaneous armorial bookplates to each pastedown, folio (39.5 x 25.5cm), (2)

Antique Buying and Collecting. [Catalogue] S. Richards' Catalogues No. 1-60/Objects of Art, and Curiosities: On Sale, Nottingham, 15th November, 1884 - 16th December, 1888, lithograph printed, [60]ff, in-text illustrations after pen-and-ink originals by Richards, [31]ff with horizontal tear, some of the latter leaves creased, occasional foxed spot here and there, enclosed within original pictorial card wrappers from catalogue nos. 23 & 28, later 20th c half-cloth over marbled boards, folio (46.5 x 31cm)

Folio Society. [Ornithology] Sharpe (R. Bowdler), Monograph of the Paradiseidœ, or Birds of Paradise and Ptilonorhynchidœ, or Bower-Birds, two-volume set, copy no. 343/1000, 2011, the plate volume printed by Appl of Wemding on Modigliani paper, illustrated in colour, and bound in original gilt-lettered green goatskin over pictorial cloth, the boards of which have signs of slight former damp - but not affecting the interior of the book, top edge gilt, the text volume in buckram, each with slipcases en suite, folio (55 x 38cm) & 8vo, (2)

An 18th c vellum ledger, c. 1775, supplied by Henry Frome, Stationer, No. 25 Bishopsgate Street within, London, pastedown with his engraved oval trade ticket, approx. [200]ff, red-ruled and blank, however the first 31pp are paginated in contemporary MS, recto blank torn prelims tabbed E-X only, one gathering lacking, a few leaves with clipped portions, but still mostly blank and fresh, marbled endpapers, red speckled edges, folio (38 x 26.5cm)

Art & Design. Schmidt (Georg), Klee, Basle: Holbein Publishing Company Co. Ltd., 1946, tipped-in colour plates, loose gathering in original boards as issued, glassine wrapper, folio (39 x 30cm), [China] Painting Collection of Wang Jiafang, Published by the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, n.d. [2012?], English and Chinese prelims, illustrated in colour, original cloth, slipcase en suite, folio (43 x 29.5cm), Varia (Radu), Brancusi, Paris, 1989, dj, hb, slipcase en suite, 4to, Aragon, Apologie de luxe: Henri Matisse, Genève: Éditions d'art Albert Skirma, [1946], tipped-in colour plates, loose gatherings in original boards as issued, glassine wrapper, folio (39 x 29cm), The Poster 1899-1900, defective, some colour plates, b/w in-text illustrations, contemporary cloth, split, 4to, Viennese Silver 1780-1918, dj, hb, folio Ehon: The Artist and Book in Japan, 2006, dj, hb, 4to, etc., (8)

Local Interest. [Infanticide and Crime & Punishment] A Genuine Account of the Life and Trial of William Andrew Horne, Esq; Of Butterley-Hall, in the County of Derby; Who was convicted at Nottingham Assizes, August 10, 1759, for the Murder of a Child in the Year 1724, and executed there on the 11th Decmber, 1759. To which is prefixed, A particular Detail of all Circumstances tending to the Discovery of his long conceal'd Murder., second edition, Nottingham: Printed by S. Creswell, in the Exchange, 1759, 28pp, further bound with an uncalled for engraved frontispiece and [4]pp account of the crime, all inlaid to size, occasional loss of leaf Arabic numbering, double-line borders ruled in pen and ink, some toning and lightly soiled margins in places, loosely-inserted compliments slip: Messrs. Thurgood, Martin & Eve, Lonsdale Chambers, 27 Chancery Lane, London W.C.2., 20th c marbled papered boards, all edges gilt, 8vo now inlaid to folio (40.1 x 27.6cm)

Atlas. John Bartholomew FRGS (1831-1893) - The Imperial Map of England & Wales according to the Ordnance Survey [...], On the Scale of 4 Miles to an Inch, London & Edinburgh: J. Fullarton & Co., n.d. [1866], 16 double-page chromolithographed maps, of which sheet 16 is divided into 3 separate maps, [2]ff (index), some foxing, original quarter-calf over cloth by W. Loxley of Melton, his ticket, upper-cover lettered in gilt, split, chipped and rubbed, but holding, folio (56 x 40.5cm), & Archer (Thomas) & Barnard (Frederick, illustrator), Charles Dickens: A Gossip about his Life, Works, and Characters, London: Cassell & Company, Limited, n.d. [1894], full-page photogravures and in-text illustrations, contemporary quarter-morocco over cloth, pictorial gilt, worn, folio (45.5 x 36cm), (2)

The Enlightenment. Hall (William Henry), The New Royal Encyclopædia; or, Complete Modern Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences [...], three-volume set, first edition?, London: Printed for C. Cooke (the sole proprietor), et al., n.d. [1788/89], double-column, engraved plates, further in-text illustrations, uniform reverse calf, blind-panelled covers, rubbed, some further wear and minor chips, but holding, gilt-lettered morocco pieces, marbled endpapers, folio (40 x 25cm), (3)

Shropshire. Auctioneers: Messrs. Lane, Saville & Co., London, W.1., & Messrs. Barber & Son, The Buildwas Park Estate, Ironbridge, Shropshire. Particulars, Plans & Conditions of Sale of the Remaining Portions of the Buildwas Estate, Freehold Residential, Agricultural and Sporting Property [...] for Sale by Auction in Lots (unless previously sold by private treaty) [...] at the Town Hall, Wellington, Salop, On 21st February, 1929 [...], frontispiece of the country house, 24, [1]pp, rear plan envelope with folding chromolithographed map of the estate, surveyed by Barber & Son and printed by Martin, Hood & Larkin, [London], 88 x 112cm, original wrappers, though soiled and split, folio (32 x 25.5cm)

Military. [Third Reich/Nazi Germany] Goebells (Dr Joseph), Vom Kaiserhof zur Reichskanzlei, first edition, München: Zentralverlag der N.S.D.A.P., 1934, original red cloth, lettered in white, discreet ex-lib markings, 8vo, [British Army] Groves (J. Percy) & Payne (Harry & Arthur, illustrators), On and Off Duty, London: Raphael Tuck and Sons, n.d. [c. 1891], printed in chromolithography, original pictorial papered cloth boards, chipped and slightly worn, holding, folio (33 x 24cm), Napier's History of the War in the Peninsular [...], six-volume set, London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d., illustrated with 55 maps and plans, original publisher's red cloth, 8vo, Galloway (Peter), The Order of the Thistle, London: Spink, 2009, scuffed dj, green cloth, folio, RAF World War Two poetry, regimental histories, etc., (14)

British India and the Raj. An album, [30]ff illustrated with albumen and further photographic prints, late 19th and early 20th c, including two sepia photographs of Calcutta, one of which is a view along Chitpore Road, further images, most of which are named within the plate, Bengal, corpses and scenes of famine, three b/w and sepia photographs of domestic real life, etc., each pasted onto card leaves, and two loosely-inserted sepia depictions of the Reisdency and Bailey Gate, Lucknow, black cloth binding c 1930, oblong folio (37 x 46cm)

A mid-19th c autograph collector's album, blank leaves only, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, folio (32 x 27.5cm), another, similar, slightly later, red quarter-roan gilt over cloth, 4to, & approx. 20 stock sheets of mid-20th c World, Empire and Commonwealth stamps, mostly franked, other sheets blank

Henry IV of France (1553-1610), an album of approx. 60 Old Master and other prints, 17th c and later, including two copies of Pierre-Etienne Moitte (1722-1780) after Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1735-1784), Henri IV, the portrait in two states, one unlettered and presumably proof, etching and engraving, 26.5 x 18.5cm and 26.5 x 19cm, Pierre Duflos (1742-1816) after Jacques Louis Touzé (1747-1807), Henri IV, Roi de France et de Navare; Tiré du Ceremonial de l'Ordre du St. Esprit, s.l., s.n., n.d. [1780], copperplate engraving, contemporaneous watercolour and gouache hand-colouring, picked-out in gilt, 28 x 20.5cm, other portraits and profiles of the monarch, some medallic, three or four with images of other contemporary Bourbons, mixed medium and sizes, all mounted on wove paper leaves, 20th c limp calf wrapper, worn and stained, uncut edges, folio (34 x 25cm) The prints are in mixed condition, but generally good. The album binding worn.

Folio Society. Dante & Cary (Henry Francis, translator), The Divine Comedy, three-volume set: Blake (William, illustrator), Inferno, 1998; Dalí Salvador, illustrator), Purgatorio, 2007; & Paolo (Giovanni di, illustrator), Paradiso, 2009, colour plates, original publisher's lettered morocco over polychrome moiré silk boards, stained top-edges, worn slipcases en suite, folio, Blake (William), Jerusalem, 2007, illustrated, original morocco over moiré silk, spine slightly rubbed, stained top-edge, worn slipcase en suite, 4to, & Milton (John) & Blake (William, illustrator), Paradise Lost, 2003, illustrated, some marginal soiling, original morocco over moiré silk, spine slightly worn, but OK-good, worn slipcase en suite, folio, (5)

Tourism and Topography in Georgian England. Seven gentleman-tourist's manuscript travel narratives, dated 1771-1783, ink manuscript on foolscap paper, contemporaneously paginated in four sections, 1) 1771 tour to Scotland, 111pp; 2) 1778 trip from London, presumably where the author is based, to Portsmouth, pp 1-42, 1780 Scotland pp 43-54, 1781 London to Chichester pp 95-113; 3) 1777 journey to Scotland; 4) 1783 London to Devon pp 1-18, & n.d. extract of a journey from London, incomplete, but including passages on Peterborough, pp 19-28, each travel narrative in the manner of a letter, yet without any indication of recipient or author, and with typical topographical and antiquarian observation, some remarks on the various country seats and houses, when mentioned, and their owners, occasional tit-bits of gossip, etc., one loosely-inserted [2]ff quite in a conforming hand and not absent from the sense of previous accounts, slightly later quarter-calf over papered boards, almost certainly early 19th c, split and loose covers, some losses of calf spine, text block with movement but holding, folio (33.9 x 21.6cm)

Steinlen (Theophile Alexandre) Steinlen and his Art -Twenty-Four Cartoons, London: Chatto & Windus, 1911, Tall Folio, publisher's cloth, 24 tipped in plates

Greenaway (Kate) Kate Greenaway Pictures ... with an appreciation by H M Cundall, London: Frederick Warne, 1921, Folio, publisher's green cloth with cream spine, portrait frontispiece and 20 tipped in plates with printed tissue guards, deckled page edges

European School, 19th CenturyCollection of watercolours, pencil drawings, and other works on papermainly comprising studies of wildlife and architecture47cm x 30cm (folio) The loose individual sheets show varying signs of wear, including creasing to the edges, as well as general foxing and small areas of loss. Please contact us for further information and condition reports on the individual artworks that comprise the lot.

Holy Bible edited by the Reverend John Eadie, Peter Black and John G Murdoch & Co, chromolithographic frontis and tp with tissue guard, black and white plates with tissue guards, chromolithographic plates with tissue guards, full textured leather with inset title with ornamental brass corners and clasps, the leather rather rubbed  "The Book of Common Prayer ..., according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David ...", printed by Mark Baskett 1766, engraved frontis of St Paul's Cathedral, woodcut headers, tp in red and black, half-vellum, marbled boards, gilt rules, pastedown title and date to backstrip, folio (2) 

Folio Society - quantity to include box set Jane Austen's Works, Short Stories box set Grahame, Kenneth  "The Wind in the Willows", illustrated by paintings by James Lynch, Folio Society London 1995, watered silk boards and decoration, in slip case  Godden, Rumer "The Greengage Summer" Streatfield, Noel  "Ballet Shoes" Verne, Jules  "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" and other volumes (2 boxes) 

Detmold, E. J. ( ills.) "Fabre's Book of Insects, retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos ...", Hodder & Stoughton, tipped in colour plates with lettered tissue guards, pencil annotations on ffep, white buckram with gilt titles and decorations, foxing to the edges, corners bumped  Folio Society Detmold, E. J. (ills.) "The Arabian Nights" Nielsen, K. (ills)  "East of the Sun, West of the Moon", both in red slip cases (3) 

Antiquarian leather bound books, mainly ecclesiastical, to include Fuller, Thomas.  "The Church History of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year 1648"  London printed for John Williams at the Sign of the Crown in St Paul's Churchyard Anno 1656, margins, engraved plates including the armorial crests of "The Knights joined with e/y (sic) Monkes of Ely by Willia  e/y ( sic ) ", folio, full  contemporary leather, worn and rubbed,  Hooker, Richard "The Works of the Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr Richard Hooker in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity..... dedicated to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty Charles I.." printed by R. White...1676, title page red and black, engraved frontis and half title, woodcut headers and letterpress, contemporary leather, worn, elephant folio, " The Works of the Learned and Pious Author of the Whole Duty of Man...." Roger Norton, printed at the Theater in Oxford and London 1695, engraved frontis, and vignette on title page, creased, contemporary leather, elephant folio and numerous other leather bound related volumes (1 box)

Pareus, David. " A Commentary upon the Divine Revelation of the Apostle and Evangelist John...." translated out of the Latine into English by Elias Arnold... Amsterdam 1644, inked name on title page and date 1778, engraved vignette, margins, woodcut letters, engraved title missing and endpapers, contemporary full leather, worn and front board detaching, folio PLease note original pages 303-305 replaced, inked hand writing. Also fragment of another book bound in the back , page been torn see images

The Geneva 'Breeches' Bible 1607 - Imprinted at London by Robert Barker 1607, bound with the Booke of Common and Prayer and Psalms at the front, , engraved title page to the Booke of Common Prayer, wood cut map of the Garden of Eden, and then a map of 'The Description of the Holy Land' facing the title page of the New Testament, title page for 'The Whole Book of Psalms collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others...." Printed for the London Companie of Stationers 1609, woodcut vignette, and music scores..... the book has damp stains, ink marks, the engraved title page is soiled and has a paper reinforcements (not recent), the front and back boards are detached, ink stains on the foredge, folio - Genesis Chapter III, verse 7 " Then the eyes of both of both them were opened and they knew they were naked, and they sewed figge leaves together and made themselves breeches"

Shakespeare, William - Works Bell's Edition, printed for John Bell, British Library, Strand, 9 vols 1785 -1786, all with engraved frontis and vignettes on half title to each play, full calf with pastedown titles, 16mo  Shakespeare Works in 3 vols (vol 1 missing), George Routledge 1859, edited by Howard Staunton and illustrations by John Gilbert, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, full dark green calf with decorated backstrips, pastedown titles, small folio and other related Shakespeare volumes (1 box) 

Fine bindings Knight, Charles (ed)  "The Standard Edition of the Pictorial Shakspere", London Charles Knight & Co 1846, full calf, heraldic crest on back and front boards, gilt rules, raised bands, gilt decorations, pastedown titles, marbled boards, all marbled edges, 7 vols, small folio with a note school presentation 'Francis Mount Eton March 29 1850, with the Love and Blessings of his Old Tutor Edward Coleridge' 

Folio Society fairy tales to include:- Hans Christian Andersen complete tales in 2 vols Lang, Andrew (ed)  "The Green Fairy Book", "The Pink Fairy Book", "The Yellow Fairy Book", "The Red Fairy Book", "The Blue Fairy Book" and "The Violet Fairy Book", all within their slip cases Grimms Fairy Tales illustrated by Arthur Rackham A Midsummer Nights Dream illustrated by W Heath Robinson  Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales illustrated by W Heath Robinson The Arabian Nights illustrated by Detmold The Adventures of Robin Hood  "East of the Sun, West of the Moon", illustrated by K Neilson  Perot's Fairy Tales illustrated by Dulac Tanglewood Tales illustrated by Dulac  Fables of Aesop illustrated by Edward J Detmold (16) 

Folio Society  Lewis, C. S.  Complete set of the Tales of Narnia in fitted box with the map of Narnia on either edge, illustrations by Pauline Baynes 

Heath-Robinson, W. ( ills.) Shakespeare's Comedy of A Mid-Summer's Nights Dream" Constable 1914, col. frontis tipped in with lettered tissue guard, all correct plates present, ffep has been cut out, pictorial cloth, glassine cover, slight foxing to the tissue guards, plates not affected, folio

A contemporary chrome and glass folio/reading stand.

A three bar Autoharp featuring rose detail along with original song folio and instruction book.

Two boxes of Folio Society books

BOB DYLAN, The Beaten Path, sealed hardback folio published by Halcyon Gallery with a canvas satchel and original packaging, excellent condition (2)

Fashion. Christie's New York - Dresses from the Collection of Diana, Princess of Wales. 1997. Folio. In dust jacket. With Auction Results letter and blank absentee bid form loosely inserted. A nice bright copy. With the Elton John 'Candle in the Wind 1997' CD and Lyrics book.

Antiquarian. Church Architecture. Charles Wickes - Illustrations of the Spires & Towers of the Medieval Churches of England. Vols. 1, 2 & Supplemental volume, bound together. London: Thompson and Co., 1858-59. With 72 litho plates by Day & Son. Large folio. Original cloth gilt, some rubbing and wear. (1)

Art. Sutherland, William & William George - The Art of Graining & Imitating Woods. No date or publisher given at foot of title page - presumed circa 1892. Folio. 34pp plus 20 chromo plates (not bound in order). Bound in a quarter leather over cloth boards, worn at extremities. (1)

Art. Van Der Burg, P. - School of Painting for the Imitation of Woods And Marbles. London: Crosby Lockwood & Co. 1887, second edition. With 36 full-page plates, comprising engravings and chromolithographs - some in colour. Folio format. Original binding, worn. (1)

Two boxes of various Folio Society books to include DR J.C. MARDRUS & POWYS MATHERS "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night" volumes one to four, "The Trial of Joan of Arc", JONATHAN SWIFT "Gulliver's Travels" etc (2 boxes)

A group of Folio Society books, to comprise Pevsner's 'The Cathedrals of England' and Daniel Defoe's 'A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain'

After John Arthur Malcolm Aldridge (British, 1905–1983): a lithograph of a river landscape, 46 by 61cm, together with a watercolour of Wittering Church by Nelson Dawson, 33 by 54cm, mounted on board, a print of Colonel Aitken, and a watercolour of woodland. (1 folio)

Large Collection of assorted Folio Books to include Anna Karenina, Goodbye Berlin, Shakespeare etc

Qingdai Beijing Huangcheng Xiezhen, Photographs of Palace buildings of Peking, in a silk folio, together with two others (3)

A mixed collectors lot, including a mid century enamel bus stop sign, 23 x 30.5cm, a cased set of horn handled steak knives and forks and two Illustrated London News Coronation folio editions