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Farrer (Rev. Ed.) Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), lg. 4to L. (B. Quaritch) 1908. Lim. Edn. No. 112 of 400 Copies, illus. uncut; Adam (P.W.) Interior Paintings, lg. 4to Glasgow 1920. Signed Lim. Edn. No. 152 of 300 Copies, illus. vellum backed; Temple (A.G.) The Art of Printing in The Queen's Reign, lg. 4to L. 1897. First Edn., illus. cloth; Williamson (Dr. G.C.) English Conversation Pictures of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Folio L. (Batsford) 1931. Lim. Edn. No. 1010 of 350 Copies, cloth, stained. (4)

Signed by the KnightFitzgerald (D.) The Knight of Glin & Peill (James) Irish Furniture Woodwork and Carving in Ireland from the Earliest Time to the Act of Union, sm. folio, New Haven (Yale University Press) 2007, Signed on t.p., illus., cloth and d.j. Clean Copy. (1)

Illustrated Volume: Schmitt (S.) & Cremiere (C.) All the World's Birds, Buffons Illustrated Natural History General and Particular of Birds, folio N.Y. (Rizzoli) 2008, cold. plts., green cloth, gilt lettered spine, decorative d.j. Clean Copy. (1)

Batenham (G. & W.) & Musgrove (J.) Ancient Chester: A Series of Illustrations of the Streets of this Old City,... Lg. folio L. & Manchester 1880. Lim. Edn. (300), red & bl. title, & 29 engd. full page plts. (include. plan), title & first 4 leaves loose, orig. cloth, joints cracked. (1)

Illustrated Volume: Caxton (William) The History and Fables of Aesop 1484, sm. folio, L. (The Scolar Press) 1976 (Reprint) Ltd. Edn., 268 (500) copies, illustrated, oatmeal cloth, leather label. Clean Copy. (1)

Stewart (Basil) Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints, folio Lond. 1922. First Edn., cold. plts. & numerous illus., orig. cloth backed boards. (1)

Pamphlet: [Blunt (Charles)] An Appeal from the Country to the City For the Preservation of His Majesties Person, Liberty, Property and The Protestant Religion, Folio L. 1679. First Edn., 8pp (pp 2 & 3 somewhat shaved), disbound. Scarce. (1)

Very Rare First EditionColgan (Fr. John) Acta Sanctorum Veteris et Maioris Scotiae seu Hiberniae Sanctorum Insulae ... Tomus Primus. Folio Louvain 1645. First Edn., hf. title, title & first four leaves in fine facsimile, otherwise an exceptionally good copy, 906pp, in recent antique hf. calf, marble sides, blind tooled line decoration, raised bands, mor. label. An extremely good copy. (1)* Shane Leslie - '.. the desire of every Irish Collector.'

Robinson (Rev. Stanford F.H.) Celtic Illuminative Art, sm. folio, D. (Hodges, Figgis & Co.) 1908, frontis & illus. plts., cloth. (1)

Japanese Textiles: Nomaci (Katsutoshi) Japanese Textiles, folio Leigh-on-Sea 1958. First Edn., illus. d.w.; a large folio late 19th Century Sample Book of Original Japanese Textiles, & 2 others sim. As a lot, w.a.f. (4)

With Attractive Coloured PlatesSex (Susan) & Sayers (Brendan) Ireland's Wild Orchids, folio Belfast (Nicholson & Bass) 2004, Signed Ltd. Edn., No. 99 (700) copies, illus., hf. green mor. mor. label gilt lettering, slip case. Clean Copy. (1)

A Discovery of Major ImportanceAN CLÓ-CHUMANN Ltd A strongly bound hf. morocco folio ledger containing the original manuscript Minutes of meetings of the board of Directors, 322 numbered pages, 1903-09, some countersigned by Eoin MacNeill, including full details of the company's business and financial situation over half a decade; also the company's letter-book, containing carbon copies of outgoing mail, 1903-07, manuscript and typescript, 998 numbered pages, in a worn calf-backed ledger, including copy letters to various writers, printers, publishers,suppliers etc. Includes five copy letters to Pearse, pp. 436, 763, 823, 934, 963, copy letters to Hyde and many others(see index at front), e.g. copy letter on p. 634 to P. Kelly complaining about late arrival of copy for 'An Claidheamh Soluis'; copy letter p. 494 to (the writer) Mícheál Breathnach about proofs; copy letter p. 495 to the secretary of the typographical union denying a complaint about apprentices; estimates p. 713 to P. Ó Dálaigh for printing Gaelic League Ardfheis reports; p. 681, reply to Ms. O'Farrelly about supply of books; etc. An absolute treasure-house of information about the printing and publishing scene in Gaelic Dublin in the first decade of the last century.An Cló-Chumann was set up by a group associated with Conradh na Gaeilge as an independent concern, to print for commercial customers as well as Conradh. It printed work by authors including Pearse and many others, before it eventually failed essentially for financial reasons. Little has been known about its business in detail, but the two present volumes will for the first time allow a full history to be written. A discovery of major importance.The letter-book is very fragile (India-paper pages), and patrons are requested to view with great care.

Audsley (W. & G.) Polychromatic Decoration, as Applied to Mediaeval Styles. Folio L. (Henry Sotheran & Co.) 1882. Decor. title & 36 full page colour plates, loose at spine from orig. cloth, spine dam. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (1)

Architecture: Lathan (Chas.) English Homes, The Internal Character, Furniture, Adornments of some of the Most Notable Houses of England. 3 vols. folio L. 1902, Second Edn: also Tipping (H. Avray) English Homes, Period II Vol. I, Early Tudor; Period III, Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart; and Period IV Vol. I, Late Stuart and Period IV Vol. II, The Work of Sir John Vanbrugh and His School, together 7 vols. folio Lond. c. 1902 - 1929, all illus., cloth, some damp stains, as a coll., w.a.f. (7)

Griffith (Richard) General Valuations of Rateable Property in Ireland - County of Cork,1. Unions of Cork and Kinsale (Barony of Kerrycurrihy) 1850,2. Unions of Mallow and Cork (Barony of Barretts) 18513. Unions of Bandon & Kinsale (Barony of Kinalea) 18514. Unons of Kanturk, Kilmallock, and Mallow (Barony of Orrery and Kilmore) 18515. Union of Cork (Barony of Cork) 1852Together 5 vols. folio D. 1850-1852, orig. ptd. wrappers. As a lot, w.a.f. (5)

The Stones of the City[Dublin Corporation] Proceedings of Paving Committee, 16 July - 31 December 1912. Large folio hf reversed calf, morocco title label, stout cloth boards, titled 'Paving Committee' on upper board, cloth hinges, a.e.m., custom-made by Sealy Bryers & Walker, left hand pages with printed title 'Subjects for Consideration', right hand pages 'How Disposed Of ' Circa 300 pp, brief manuscript entries and comments. Subjects include new buildings, alterations, places recommended to be taken in charge, supply of materials, wages, disciplinary matters, applications for employment, applications by employees, claims for compensation, etc. etc. (1)

Signed by ArtistRolls Royce - Twenty Silver Ghosts - Rolls Royce, The Incomparable Pre-World War I Motorcar 1907 - 1914. Lg. oblong folio N. York (McGraw - Hill Book Company)1971. Illustrations by Melbourne Brindle, and Signed by Artist, orig. cloth. (1)

Hayward (Richard) In the Kingdom of Kerry, 8vo, Dundalk (W. Tempest)1976, illus., cloth; Mason (T.H.) The Islands of Ireland, Their Scenery, People, Life and Antiquities, 8vo L. (B.T. Batsford) 1950, Third, illus., cloth, custom made leather cover; Larner (Jim)ed. Killarney History and Heritage, sm. folio, Cork (The Collins Press) 2004, illus., leather back green cloth, gilt lettering in cloth slipcase. (3)

Holmes (Richard R.) Queen Victoria, folio L. & P. (Boussod, Valadon & Co.) 1897, cold. frontis, text illus., photogravures, Ltd. Edn. of 350 Copies, hf. calf, gilt monogrammed cloth. Good copy. (1) * The book was published by the Queen's Librarian at Windsor Castle, during his lifetime.

Triggs (H. Inigo) Formal Gardens in England and Scotland, Lg. atlas folio L. 1902. First Edn., list of subscribers, approx. 122 full page plts. cont. hf. mor. damp dam at spine. S.N.S.R. (1)

Creeny (Rev. W.F.) A Book of Facsimiles of Monumental Brasses on the Continent of Europe, Lg. atlas folio L. 1884. Decor. title & 53 full page bl. & white plts. cont. hf. calf, worn & dam. As a coll. of plts. (1)

Original Photographs: Naya (G.) photographer, Venice, Ricordo di Venezia, lg. oblong folio Venice c. 1880 - 90. With 20 full page orig. photos approx. 10 1/4" x 14" (26cms x 36cms) in orig. cloth gilt. (1)

Very Fine Set Radnor (Helen Matilda, Countess of Radnor) & Barclay Squire (Wm.) Catalogue of the Pictures in the Collection of the Earl of Radnor, 2 vols. folio L (Chiswick Press) 1909. Privately Printed Limited Edition No. 58 of 200 Copies Only. Full page plts., uncut, very fine hf. crushed green mor. by Hatchards. (2)

Greatest Berkeley Scholar of the 20th CenturyLuce (A.A.) Two folio volumes of Notes by A.A. Luce, TCD, on the Common Place Book of Bishop Berkeley (BL MS 39305).Arthur Aston Luce (1882-1977) was Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and was Vice-Provost from 1946 to 1952; his 65-year fellowship from 1912 until his death is the longest in the history of the college. He was also Precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral. He became a world-renowned authority on Bishop Berkeley, co-authoring the nine-volume edition of Berkeley's works (1948-57) and publishing (among other works) monographs on Berkeley's philosophical commentaries (1944) and life (1949) - in addition to Fishing and Thinking (1959) and A History of the Dublin Chess Club (1967). He discovered new sources and better ways of interpreting the existing sources, and in general brought about a major reassessment of Berkeley both as a philosopher and as a person.These volumes contain his transcription and notes on Berkeley's commonplace book, which has been described as "one of the most interesting documents in the history of philosophy: it reveals the struggles of a youthful, earnest and energetic mind with the growth of skepticism and shows Berkeley's approach to the doctrine of idealism." As a manuscript, w.a.f. (1)

[Bailey (David) interviewer] Andy Warhol Transcript, sm. folio L. (Bailey Litchfield / Mathew Miller Dunbar) 1972, First Edn., illus., ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1)

THREE SHELVES OF BOOKS, MISCELLANEOUS GENERAL SHELF STOCK, INCLUDING FOLIO SOCIETY

A collection of Folio Society books in slip cases, "The Somme", "Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine, "The Florentine Renaissance", "Travels and Discovery in Renaissance", "The Renaissance in Europe", "Red Coats and Rebels" by Christopher Hibbert, etc. (16)

A collection of Folio Society books in slip cases, "The Hittites" by O.R. Gurney, "The Persians" by J.M Cook, "The Egyptians" by Alan Gardiner, "Cover Her Face" by P.D. James, "The Spanish Inquisition", etc. (13)

A collection of First and Second World War publications, "From The Australian Front Christmas 1917", "More Fragments from France" by Bruce Bairnsfather, "An Air Ministry Account of the Battle of Britain", "By Air to Battle, The Official Account of the British Air Borne Division", identity card, certificate of transfer to the Army Reserves, etc., and a Folio Society book "The Somme" in original slip case.

A collection of Folio Society books, "The Incas" by Nigel Davies, "The Aztecs", "The Mayans", "The Minoans" by J. Lesley Fitton, etc. (11)

A collection of Folio Society books in sleeves, 8 volume set of Edward Gibbons "The History of The Decline & Fall of The Roman Empire", "The Celts" by Nora Chadwick, "The Phoenicians" by Glenn E Markoe, "Empires of The Nile" by Welsby & Phillipson, etc. (16)

Auguste Lançon (French 1836-1885), etchings from Franco-Prussian War dated August 1870-January 1871, titled and signed in the plate, a folio with 32 sheets in total, sheet sizes 40 x 55 cm, various sized plates 14 x 18 cm, 22 x 34 cm and 18 x 25 cm. (32)Auguste Lançon was a French artist known for his etchings of military scenes and animals. During the Franco-Prussian war 1870-1871 he was a sargeant of a batallion and was captured, spending six months as a prisoner of war. He created a series of 70 etchings based on his experience of the conflict and exposing the horrors of armed conflict.

Various Folio Edition Military books etc.

ALBUM - A substantial folio album (450 x 300mm) containing c. 600 autograph letters, envelopes, clipped signatures, clippings, mostly 18th- and 19th-centuries, including letters by Harriet Martineau (3-pages, undated, to an unknown recipient, concluding, "... Pray ask me as many questions as you please, either in person, or through the post. My mother and I shall always be happy to assist you in any way, Yours very truly, H. Martineau"), Humphry Davy (one-page, undated, sense largely irrecoverable, but including, "... I think been instrumental to what may be called a National triumph ...") and many other items including autograph letters by Lord Brougham, Lord Palmerston and Julia Pardoe, and others; clipped signatures of Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Gladstone, Robert Peel, Samuel Rogers, and others. Provenance: The album was compiled by Joseph Mazzinghi (1765-1844), an English composer of Corsican origin. He was the eldest son of Tommaso Mazzinghi, a London wine merchant and violinist who led the orchestra at Marylebone Gardens, published Six Solos for the Violin in 1763 and died in November 1771. John Mazzinghi, probably an uncle, made a number of English translations of librettos for the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, including several by Da Ponte. Felice Mazzinghi (possibly another uncle) published a keyboard sonata in 1765, and five other manuscript sonatas by him are in the British Library. Joseph Mazzinghi himself was very prolific, composing many operas, between seventy and eighty pianoforte sonatas, upwards of two hundred airs for pianoforte, and as many for harp and other instruments; thirty-five or more vocal trios, of which 'The Wreath' is still remembered; and a number of songs. Many of the letters and envelopes in the album are addressed to him, or to his wife.

BINDINGS - Walter SCOTT (1771-1832). The Poetical Works ... Complete in One Volume. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1876. Small folio (248 x 170mm). Engraved frontispiece, plates and vignettes, folding fascimile letter. FINELY BOUND in contemporary prize tan calf gilt by Bickers & Son, covers with wide floral borders, spine gilt in compartments with dark green morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges (very lightly rubbed and scuffed). With 47 other poetical works, including Robert Louis Stephenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1902, "second edition on Van Gelder paper", ONE OF 925 COPIES) and John Donne's Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (New York, THE NONESUCH PRESS, 1929, NUMBER 296 OF 675 COPIES), all bound in calf or morocco gilt. (48)

CEYLON - Ceylon. Archaeological Survey of Ceylon. Plans and Plates for Annual Report, 1892[-93-94] ... By H. C. P. Bell. Colombo: Printed by H. C. Cottle, 1914. Eighth - Thirteenth Reports bound in one, folio (333 x 200mm). Numerous lithographed plates, many folding, some printed in colours (a few torn). Contemporary black library buckram. Sold not subject to return.

PAOLOZZI, Eduardo (1924-2005). General Dynamic F.U.N. Volume II of Moonstrips Empire News. [Volume B.] London: Alecto Editions, 1970. Folio (381 x 254mm). Title, introduction by J. G. Ballard, 47 screenprints and photolithographs printed by Richard Davis after Eduardo Paolozzi only (of 50), each stamped on the verso with the number, title and a facsimile of the artist's signature, unbound as issued in original acrylic resin box. TITLE AND 5 PLATES (only) SIGNED IN PENCIL AND NUMBERED 116/350 BY THE ARTIST. The signed and numbered "plates" are as follows: "708. Why children commit suicide ... read next month's issue"; "709. An Empire of Silly Statistics ... A Fake War for Public Relations"; "714. Inside Down Under ... What are the building blocks of structuralism?"; "718. Totems and Taboos of the Nine-to-Five Day"; and "727. Jesus colour by numbers." Despite being numbered, the plates are not intended to be placed in any particular order. "Early in 1965, Eduardo Paolozzi began work on a massive project to create from his eclectic and unique collection of twentieth century ephemera a definitive statement of modern man and his dilemma, in the form of a 500 page book. The first volume of this project, 'Moonstrips Empire News', comprising 100 pages of images and text, was screenprinted at Kelpra Studios, London, and published by Editions Alecto in 1967. In the second volume, 'General Dynamic F.U.N.', Eduardo Paolozzi has broken still further away from accepted fine art printing techniques by brilliantly exploiting the potential of photolithography as well as screenprinting" (from the general introduction). "... Here the familiar materials of our everyday lives, the jostling iconographies of mass advertising and consumer goods, are manipulated to reveal their true identities. For those who can read its pages, 'General Dynamic F.U.N.' is a unique guidebook to the electric garden of our minds" (from J. G. Ballard's introduction).

PETTUS, John (1613-90). Fodinae Regales. Or the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and the English Pale in Ireland. As also of the Mint and Mony. With a Clavis Explaining some difficult Words relating to Mines, &c. London: Printed by H. L. and R. B. for Thomas Basset, 1670. Small folio (292 x 190mm). Engraved portrait of the author in the second state signed "W. Sherwin sculpsit", initials, headpieces, engraved illustrations of the "The Arms of the Society of the Mines Royal" and "The Arms of the Society for the Mineral and Battery Works", the first with an explanatory note pasted beneath [as usual], 2 engraved plates titled "Comsumlock Hill" and "The Roman Works", each with letterpress "key" on versos, "Corrigenda" leaf at end (a few very short marginal tears without loss, some light mainly marginal staining and spotting, [?]printer's ink stain at upper margin of M1, not affecting letters). Contemporary calf (quite heavily rubbed, joints splitting). Provenance: old monogram [?]"J.R." on front blanks; J. C. Owen, Wrexham (modern incription in blue pencil at upper margin of title, with a note in the same hand beneath the author's name and some faint underlining to passages of the text). FIRST EDITION of a work that was undertaken at the request of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland. The author was deputy governor of the royal mines in England and Wales, serving both Charles I and II. RARE. Duveen p. 468; Goldsmiths' 1930; Hoover 634; Kress 1270.

RAOUL-ROCHETTE, Désiré (1789-1854). Monumens inédits d' Antiquité Figurée, Grecque, Étrusque et Romaine ... Première Partie, Cycle Héroïque. [All published]. Paris: A L' Imprimerie Royale, 1833. Folio (533 x 355mm). Lithographed printer's armorial device on title, armorial on title, 93 engraved and lithographed plates, some folding, a few printed in red, one hand-coloured, illustrations, 2 hand-coloured (one plate detached, variable mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with 5 raised bands, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities rubbed). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of what was to have been a monumental work, impressive in scope and scale even in its unfinished state, on Greek mythology in art, treating of Achilles, Odysseus, and Orestes respectively. Brunet IV, 24: "Le prospectus de ce recueil promettait 200 pl. en 12 livrais., mais il n' a paru que le premier vol. en six livrais., avec 80 planches, dont plusieurs doubles ..."; Lipperheide Bc14.

BELLMER, Hans (1902-75, illustrator) - Comte de LAUTREAMONT (pseudonym of Isidore DUCASSE (1846-70)). Les Chants de Maldoror. Geneva: Grafik Europa Anstalt, 1971. Folio (383 x 290mm). Half title, printed in "Bodoni corps 14" type, 20 etched plates by Hans Bellmer, small wood-engraved printer's device on colophon leaf, unbound as issued in original black cloth portfolio lettered in gilt, uncut, original black cloth box lettered and illustrated in gilt. LIMITED TO 115 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 64 OF 60 "SUR ARCHES BLANC" SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.

STAUNTON, George Leonard (1737-1801). An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China ... Taken chiefly from the Papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney. London: W. Bulmer and Co.,1797. 2 [text] volumes only [i.e., without the folio volume of plates], 4to (311 x 250mm). 2 engraved portraits, wood-engraved vignettes (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few leaves lightly browned). Contemporary half calf, spines lettered and ruled in gilt (upper section of spine of vol. II detached, but present, joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION. Brunet IV, 342: "Relation très intéressante"; Cordier Sinica 2382; Cox I, 344: "A most interesting account of Chinese manners and customs at the close of the eighteenth century"; Lowendahl 697; Lust 545. (2)

TISSANDIER, Gaston (1843-99). Histoire des Ballons et des Aéronautes célèbres 1783-1800. Paris: Librairie Artistique. H. Launette & Cie., 1887-90. 2 volumes, folio (274 x 192mm). Half titles, etched frontispieces, titles printed in red and black, photogravure, wood-engraved and lithographed plates and illustrations, some coloured or tinted. Contemporary half roan gilt, floral endpapers, red edges (extremities rubbed), original wrappers bound in each with a coloured illustration of a balloon heightened in gilt. Provenance: F. Horn (stamps on front free endpapers). (2)

GOUFFÉ, Jules (1807-77). Le Livre de Cuisine ... comprenant la Cuisine de Ménage et la Grande Cuisine ... Septième Édition. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1888. Small folio (277 x 178mm). Half title, 25 chromolithographed plates, wood-engraved illustrations (some spotting and staining mainly to text). Original black cloth lettered in gilt (worn at lower joints and corners, head of spine torn, inner hinges weak). Provenance: Annie Casella, Xmas 1892 (signature on front free endpaper).

GEGENBAUR, Carl (1826-1903). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Schwimmpolypen (Siphonophoren) ... Mit drei lithographirten Tafeln. Lepizig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1854. Folio (303 x 225mm). 3 folding lithographed plates [as called for] numbered XVI, XVII (bound upside-down) and XVIII (occasional mainly marginal light spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Later library buckram (a few ink spots). Provenance: Zoolog. Institut, Leipzig (library label at foot of spine and stamp on title and at a few margins); 1409 Jubilaumsgabe 1909 Leipziger Verleger [followed by a list of publishers] (elaborate etched bookplate). FIRST EDITION. The author was a German anatomist and academic who demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offered important evidence supporting the theory of evolution.

MARITIME - H.M.S. VENGEANCE & H.M.S. KING EDWARD VII, SHIP'S LOGS - [Title on spine of the first volume:] "Log of H.M.S. Vengeance. 1906-1908." [& on spine of the second volume:] "Journal of H.M. Ships Vengeance and King Edward VII 1908-1909". [Printed title:] (King's Regulations, Article 291.) Mr. [in manuscript: "C.M.R. Schwerdt, Midshipman, R.N." [printed:] Period: [in manuscript:] "May 15th, 1906 [-July 9th, 1909]." 2 volumes, folio (315 x 202mm). Extensive ship's log printed in red and black. EXCEPTIONALLY FINELY BOUND in brown armorial crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, spines lettered in gilt with 5 raised bands, dentelles, gilt edges. RICHLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. The first volume includes the following original pen-and-ink drawings and watercolours bound in (various sizes, but many full-page): 1) "Fore part of Main Deck ..."; 2) "After part of main deck ..."; 3) double-page chart captioned, "May - July 1906. Chart of Last Period of Manoevres[sic]"; 4) "Belleville boilers"; 5) "... profile showing firearms"; 6) chart of Portland Harbour; 7) ventilation and fan system; 8) "Fore part of Mark IV. R.G.F. Torpedo"; 9) "After part of Mark IV. R.G.F. Torpedo"; 10) "Servomotor"; 11) "Plan of Bantry Bay with Berehaven"; 12) "Sketch of XII inch B.L. gun mark VIII"; 13) "6 inch Mark II steel and wire gun"; 14) "H.M.S. Dreadnought"; 15) "Pontevedra and Vigo Bays"; 16) "Screw propeller"; 17) "Plan of tactical or war manoeuvres ... outside Arosa Bay"; 18) "Controlling ram and recoil cilynder[sic]"; 19) "India rubber disc valve"; 20) "Tactical manoeuvres ... outside Lagos (5 plans)"; 21) "6 inch guns"; 22) "Devonport and Hamoaze"; 23) "Profile ... showing armoured portions"; 24) "Yarmouth Haven"; 25) "Balance chamber R.G.F. Torpedo" (2 drawings); 26) "Plan of lightning conductor H.M.S. Formidable"; 27) "Firth of Forth"; 28) "Cromarty & Inverness Firths"; 29) double-page "Track chart for summer cruise 1907"; 30) "Non return valve"; 31) "Mounting"; 32) "Morning swivel"; 33) "Track chart for November"; 34) "H.M.S. Hero experiments"; 35) 3 watercolours including one of a collision. The second volume includes the following original pen-and-ink drawings and watercolours bound in: 1) pictorial title incorporating H.M.S. Vengeance; 2) "Track chart for January"; 3) "Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour"; 4) "Sketch of Bantry Harbour"; 5) "Chart of Manoeuvres March-April"; 6) "Chart ... 1908"; 7) "Chart of south of Norway and Christiana"; 8) "Track chart ... 1908"; 9) "Track chart ... 1909" (2); 10) "Plan of damaged roller path"; 11) "Roller path of a turret"; 12) "Section of a cable holder"; 13) two electric bells; 14) different types of rigging (2); 15) watercolour of the ship; 16) "Gunlayers targets"; 17) "Christiana harbour"; 18) "Anchorage of blue fleet"; 19) "Rudder"; 20) "Ahead and astern turbine"; 21) "Battle Practice 1908"; 22) "Pulling regatta"; 23) "Diagram showing the effect of six shots from 6" guns"; 24) "Method of towing"; 25) "Coaling arrangements"; 26) "Midship section"; 27) "Attack on the Verne fort 1908"; 28) "New French armoured cruisers 'Diderot' and 'Condoret'"; 29) "Section of warhead"; 30) "Sketch of lower mast head"; 31) "... alongside CI coaling depot"; 32) "Plan of net defence"; 33) "Kingston valve"; 34) "section through gun port"; 35) "Gunlayers-test"; 36) "Picket boat"; 37) "Latest German battleship 'Nassau Class'"; 38) "Ventilation box valve"; 39) autograph booklet titled "Summer manoeuvres 1908", signed by C.M.R. Schwerdt. With a folder containing letters and ephemeral items relating to Schwerdt. (3)

MAYGRIER, Jacques-Philippe (1771-1834). Nouvelles Démonstrations d' Accouchemens, Avec des planches en taille-douce, accompagnées d' un texte raisonné, propre à en faciliter l' explication. Paris: Béchet, 1822 [-26]. Folio (408 x 265mm). 80 stipple-engraved plates by Forestier and Couché fils after Antoine Chazel, one folding and numbered as 2 (XXVII and XVIII) (lacks the portrait of the author [which is often absent and not mentioned in Brunet], occasional mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary green morocco-backed paper boards (rubbed and scuffed, corners rather worn). FIRST EDITION. Brunet III, 331 (citing the second edition of 1840); Heirs of Hippocrates 1261; Waller 6375; Wellcome IV, 91.

HIROSHIGE (1797-1858). Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e Prints. Series 6. Hiroshige. Text by Kiyoshi Shibui and Sadao Kikuchi. [Tokyo:] Shueisha Co., Ltd., 1971. Folio (420 x 300mm). 49 coloured plates by Hiroshige, many tipped-in, a few folding. Original cream buckram (localised staining to covers), original cloth portfolio with bone ties.

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. A New Translation by F. L. Lucas. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Small folio (313 x 190mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black with wood-engraved illustration and foliate border, 10 wood-engraved illustrations by Mark Severin, Poliphilus Roman and New Hellenic Greek types, Arnold's mould-made paper. Original vellum-backed boards with Aphrodite [or Venus] in a shell stamped in gilt on the upper cover, uncut. NUMBER 677 OF 750 COPIES. Cockalorum 177.

POMODORO, Giovanni (1550-99). Geometria Prattica. Dichiarasa da Giovanni Scala ... Opera per Generali da guerra, Capitani Architetti Bombardieri e Ingegnieri Cosmografinon che per ordinarii professori di misure. Nuovamente ristampato. Rome: Appresso Giovanni Martinelli, 1603 [but colophon dated 1599]. Folio (314 x 225mm). Fine elaborate engraved baroque title, initials and ornaments, 51 engraved plates, the first 44 by Pomodoro, the last 8 by Scala (small marginal hole in title, some waterstaining affecting about half of the plates, plates VII, XXIX, XXX and XXXXI with marginal repairs, the last touching the engraved frame, some light staining and spotting, a few ink stains). Contemporary limp vellum (stained, some worming, piece torn away from spine). Provenance: old illegible inscription (scribbled out) at lower margin of title; Alberto Lualdi (modern label). FIRST EDITION, second issue, with new engraved title and preliminary leaves, of this famous treatise on applied geometry and land surveying. Cat. Vinciana 1599; Graesse V, p.399; Harvard Italian 394; Honeyman 2513; Olschki 7562; Riccardi II, 201; not in Brunet.

OWEN, David Dale (1807-60). First Report of a Geological Reconnoissance[sic] of the Northern Counties of Arkansas, made During the Years 1857 and 1858. Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, 1858. Folio (251 x 165mm). Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece, 6 tinted lithographed plates, wood-engraved plates, vignettes, diagrams (some text leaves browned, occasional spotting and staining). Contemporary marbled boards, paper spine label with title in manuscript (extremities rubbed). Provenance: not unsightly Basel library stamps to half title, title, plates and to a few text leaves. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 58006.

FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS. Excellent collection of 15 assorted books, to include Folio Society titles: Brave New World, Beowulf, Utopia. Condition generally good.

Folio Society - Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales and The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Folio Society - E B White 'Charlotte's Webb' (sealed) and Tore Jansson 'Finn Family Moomintroll'

Folio Society - The complete Paddington by Michael Bond (12 books) (sealed)

Folio Society - The complete Winnie the Pooh by A  A Milne with decorations by E H Shepard

Sporting print, gilded landscape, artist's easels, folio holder, vintage port & wine cases etc

Frank Lewis Emmanuel (1865-1948)Collection of pencil sketches Country landscape and harbour scenes, some initialled FLE to lower right or F Emmanuel, others unsigned, unframed, various sizes (14) and a folio of reproductions after Henry William Burgess

The Compact Edition of the Dictionary of National Biography in two volumes, in slip caseBeverley Nichols "Book of Old Ballads", illustrated by H M Brock 1934, various folio society editions and reference books including books on railway heritage (2 boxes) 

Folio Society , four boxes,  including a Thomas Hardy box set, an Ava Briggs box set, Charles Dickens titles in slip cases and others (4)  

A Simon Jones artist's folio of pictures