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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista: Della magnificenza d'architettura de' Romani Della magnificenza d'architettura de' Romani. 15 (von 39) Radierungen, lose Blatt. Folio. (1761). Focillon 933, 936, 937, 942, 944, 945, 947, 950, 952, 955, 956, 957, 959, 960, Wilton-Ely 761, 764, 765, 770, 772, 773, 775, 781, 783, 786, 787, 788, 791, 792. Wz. Taubenschlag. Ganz ausgezeichnete Druck mit Rand. Etwas angestaubt, leicht stockfleckig, oben und unten teils Wasserränder, am linken Rand vereinzelt Spuren einer alten Fadenheftung, teils kleine Randläsuren, die äußeren weißen Ränder minimal gebräunt, sonst einheitlich schön. Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.

TRAVEL & ILLUSTRATED: Morris: Cassell's Picturesque Australia, 4 Volumes. With original illustrations. 1889-90. 4to. cloth; Jane's Fighting Ships , 1939. Oblong folio. Original covers; VG; Arthur Rackham (ill): The Ring of the Niblung. Heinemann, 1939, first edn. 4to. Part of dust jacket still present; Bicknell: Scripture Natural History. Vol. 1 only Numerous colour plates. Plus one other volume. (8)

1- Goethe, Wolfgang von: Reineke Fuchs. Gotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart, 1846, 1st. Edn. Folio, with extra ill. title plus 36 plates. Cont. full leather, rubbed; occasional foxing. 2- Ritchie, Leitch: Turners Annual Tour Wanderings by the Seine, for 1834 & 1835, 2 vols. Longman.. 1834-35. Each volume with title vignette. + 19 plates. Cont. full leather; rubbed; foxing to plates; 3- Palgrave: A Personal Narrative of A Years Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63). 1877, 9th. Thousand. All maps present. Cont. full morocco; cover torn off and detached; 4- Hildesheimer, Wolfgang: In Erwartung der Nacht. Suhrkamp, 1986, SIGNED limited edn #783/1000. Fine in slipcase; 5- Lenau, Nikolaus: Der trübe Wanderer (Lieder an die Natur). Karl König, 1922, Limited edn. #236/800. (6)

THOMSON, James: The Seasons. Illustrated with Engravings by F. Bartolozzi and P. W. Tomkins from Original Pictures painted for the Work by W. Hamilton. London P.W. Tomkins, 1797. Imperial Folio, PP: Half title, title, engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication leaf, subscribers list (5 pp), list of engravings (1 p.), 244. With 6 full page plates (including frontis), ten head-and-tail pieces and five vignettes. Half leather, rubbed; upper cover and up to list of subscribers detached; half title and frontis torn off at top corner and edges frayed, creased & dust soiled.

Photograph Album: 1910-1911. British, Belgium and French. Oblong folio; half leather, covers detached

The Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland. From the Eleventh Year of King James the First. Dublin, Abraham Bradley, 1763; Plus another title page: From the Tenth year of King George second. 2nd. edn. PP: (2 title pages), 1-812, plus only xiv pages of index (some missing at the end). Folio, cont. full calf; rubbed.

Modern Folio Society books, comprising eight singles and two pairs, all in cases, including 'Enigma'; 'The Deceivers'; 'A Christmas Carol'Condition report: All new and unused

Berry, W: County Genealogies: 1- Berkshire, Buckinghamshire And Surrey. 3 volumes in 1. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1837. Folio, cloth; spine faded; 2- Pedigrees of Hertfordshire Families. J Russell, no date. Original cloth backed boards. 256pp + index. (2)

Gasch, Walther: Yggdrasil. Welt:Allmythos „Yggdrasil. Weltallmythos": Welt=Schöpfung in Sinn=Bildern. Die Geburt des Lichtes und der Finsternis[...]. 8 nicht numerierte Blatt bestehend aus 6 farbigen kalligraphischen Blättern sowie zwei beidseitig beschriebenen Textblättern. Folio. Geheftet in Pappumschlag der Zeit. Auf der ersten Seite monogrammiert und datiert sowie mit dem handschriftl. Zusatz „Der Schlüssel zu meinem gesamten Lebenswerk". 1924. In der nordisch-germanischen Mythologie ist Yggdrasil die immergrüne Weltenesche, die das komplette Universum abbildet. Zahlreiche Kulturen griffen bei ihren Mythen und Sagen auf Bäume zurück und verwendeten sie symbolisch für ihre Vorstellungen. Der symbolistische, in der Tradition Jacob Böhmes stehende Künstler Walther Gasch hat sich über Jahrzehnte hinweg intensiv mit dem Schöpfungsmythos befasst. Das Ergebnis liegt in diesem hochkomplexen Manuskript des mystischen Weltkonzepts vor, das der Künstler auf der ersten Seite als „Der Schlüssel zu meinem gesamten Lebenswerk" bezeichnet. Besonders dekorativ ist das Blatt mit der „Ur=Kampf=Nacht" mit neun außergewöhnlichen, in der Tradition spätmittelalterlicher Handschriften stehenden Fleuronné-Initialen. Die beiden Textblätter mit einer detaillierten Schilderung vom Weltalter des Ur-Mythos in mehreren Stufen bis zum Neuen Weltalter mit zahlreichen eigenh. Korrekturen und Anmerkungen in Bleistift. Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.

Teschner, Richard: Bildnis Hermy Ohara Bildnis Hermy Ottawa. Schwarze und farbige Kreiden auf Velin. 63,8 x 49,4 cm. Monogrammiert und datiert "RT 29". Beigegeben neun weitere Zeichnungen im Folio-Format von Richard Teschner mit Bildnissen von Hermy Ottawa, Alexandra Ankwicz-Kleehoven und Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven. Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.

Labbé, Émile Charles: Blumen- und Pflanzenstudien Blumen- und Pflanzenstudien. Ca. 28 Blatt Bleistiftzeichnungen, Aquarelle und einige Ölskizzen. 4to-folio. Charles Labbé begann seine künstlerische Laufbahn als Landschafter und bevorzugte Motive aus den Wäldern von Compiègne und Fontainebleau, sowie aus der Normandie. 1836 debütierte er als Blumenmaler auf dem Pariser Salon und tat sich dort bis in die 1870er Jahre auch als Landschafts- und Tiermaler hervor. Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.

Dietrich, Christian Wilhelm Ernst: Ca. 40 Radierungen aus dem graphischen Œuvre des Künstlers Ca. 40 Radierungen aus dem graphischen Œuvre des Künstlers. 16mo-Folio. Diverse Landschafts-, Vieh-, und Hirtenstücke, Genredarstellungen sowie mythologische und biblische Szenen in ausgezeichneten bis prachtvollen Drucken, überwiegend mit Rand bzw. feinem Rändchen, teils passepartouriert und mit ausführlichen Angaben versehen. Darunter in frühen Zuständen die folgenden Einzelblätter: "Die Taufe des Eunuchen" (Linck 31), "Die zum Tor herauskommende Herde" (Linck 134), "Der Fluss zwischen hohen Felsenufern" (Linck 148), "Die Fischerhütte am Wasser" (Linck 154) und "Die Felsenschlucht" (Linck 158, vor der Schrift). Wir bitten darum, Zustandsberichte zu den Losen zu erfragen, da der Erhaltungszustand nur in Ausnahmefällen im Katalog angegeben ist. Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalogue.

Dia Azzawi (Iraq, born 1939)The Seven Golden Odes (The Mu'allaqat) silkscreen print in eight parts in original folio and caseeach print signed 'Dia Azzawi', titled and dated '1978' in Arabic, each print numbered 46/60, executed in 1978Each print: 103 x 72 cm (8)Footnotes:A HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER AND INTACT FULL SET OF DIA AZZAWI'S MU'ALLAQAT Provenance:Property from the collection of Alecto Editions1. Introduction2. Mu'allaqat Imru Al Qayess3. Mu'allaqat Lubid Ibn Rabia4. Mu'allaqat Tarafa Ibn Al Abd5. Zuhair Bin Abi Sulma6. Mu'allaqat Antarra Ibn Shaddad7. Mu'allaqat Amr Ibn Kalthoum8. Mu'allaqat Al Hareth ben Halza'Oh you long night! Will you not yield to the dawn?Though daylight, like the night.. bears its share of worriesWhat an interminable night you are! As if the stars were bound to the mountains by the tightest of chords... or as though the Pleiades were hung, unmoving in their place by ropes tied to solid rock'- Muallaqat ISpectacularly detailed, rich and intricately worked, Bonhams presents a rare, intact and unopened full set of Dia Azzawi's famed Muallaqat prints; a homage to a group of seven long Arabic poems that are considered some of the defining literary works of the pre-Islamic era. The name means The Suspended Odes or The Hanging Poems, the traditional explanation being that these poems were hung on or in the Ka'ba at Mecca. The name Mu'allaqāt has also been explained figuratively, as if the poems 'hang' in the reader's mind.The Hanging OdesIn the eighth century, Hammad al-Rawiya—Iraq's last reciter of tribal poetry—compiled these timeless Hanging Odes. Hammad al-Rawiya, last of the true rawis or reciters of tribal poetry, was renowned among the newly urbanized Arabs of Damascus and Baghdad for declaiming poems he had heard recited by the Bedouin of the Arabian heartland. In the latter half of the eighth century he put together a collection of seven remarkable poems known collectively as the Mu'allaqat, or Hanging Odes.The Hanging Odes have always been shrouded in mystery. Legend tells that in the sixth century, some years before the rise of Islam, the poems were transcribed in letters of gold on the finest Egyptian linen and suspended from the Ka'ba in Mecca as trophies during the Sacred Months of Peace, when the Bedouin laid down their arms and went on their annual pilgrimage to the fairgrounds of 'Ukaz, near Mecca. Rival clans mingled in the marketplace, and, when not feasting or buying and selling wares, gathered round as the rawis swayed and pitched their lines to the rapt audience.The image of pagan poetry hung from the holy shrine of the Ka'ba serves to bind the ancient world of desert lore to Islam, and the poets themselves — Imru al-Qays ('the Vagabond Prince'), Tarafa ('the One the Gods Loved'), Zuhair ('the Moralist'), Labid ('the Man with the Crooked Staff'), Antara ('the Black Knight'), Amr Ibn Kulthum ('the Regicide'), and Harith ('the Leper') — have passed into legend, each lapped in a vast oral tradition.The Mu'allaqat are the most famous — and among the earliest — examples of the qasida (commonly translated as 'ode'), a form that frequently runs to some hundred and twenty lines. The term may derive from the root qasada, meaning 'to aim' or 'go forward,' or else from qasar, 'to break,' in reference to the mandatory division of the line into two rhythmically equal halves — a binary thrust and parry not unlike the alliterative line in Anglo-Saxon verse.The seven Mu'allaqat, and also the poems appended to them cover a vast array of topics. Tarafa's long, for example, anatomically exact description of his camel was a charming representation of the importance of this domesticated beast in the daily life of the Bedouins. In the Mu'allaqat of 'Amr and Harith we can read the haughty spirit of the powerful chieftains, boastfully celebrating the splendors of their tribe. The other poems are fairly typical examples of the customary qasida, the long poem of ancient Arabia, and bring before us the various phases of Bedouin life. In the Mu'allaqat of 'Antara, whose heroic temperament had overcome the scorn with which the son of a black slave-mother was regarded by the Bedouins.Azzawi's illustrated depiction of the Muallaqat is one of the most vibrant and richly composed examples of the artist's fascination with Iraq and the Arab world's pre-Islamic history and its influence on contemporary visual culture.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Yamaha MG166C USB mixing console, a Spirit Folio channel mixer and an M8U XL 8x8 USB midi interface (3).

A folio of mixed media artworks and skecthbooks, the work of John Weston Gough. Together with the artists folding easel and other related artists tools.Comprising a prolific amount of studies and finished landscapes, the pine early 20th century travelling easel: 167 x 87cm (65 3/4 x 34 1/4in).(qty)Footnotes:John W Gough was a prolific artist with a particular talent for landscapes, painting in watercolour, gouache and oil. His love for the local area is evident by the quantity of works included in this lot of local landmarks, although his back catalogue is by no means limited to the subject of Shropshire, which includes many examples of another love, Venice.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lots denoted with a 'TP' will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[BOOKS]. HISTORY Some Stirring Relics of English History, no date, faux vellum covers, containing nine tipped-in reproduction historical documents (as called for), after manuscript originals by Lady Jane Grey, Sir Philip Sidney, Guy Fawkes, Charles I, Cromwell, John Churchill, Nelson, Wellington and Napoleon, cloth-tape bound, folio (32cm x 24cm).

BOX OF BOOKS, MAINLY PUBLISHED BY THE FOLIO SOCIETY INCLUDING AGATHA CHRISTIE THE COMPLETE MISS MARPLE SHORT STORIES, HISTORY OF KINGS OF BRITAIN, TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD BY HARPER LEE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPER AND PEREGRINATIONS OF A PARIAH BY FLORA TRISTAN ETC

Peter Collins (1923-2001) folio of unframed life studies including 'three girl' nudes from 1970, together with pen and ink studies from 1972

Circa 1980s Louis Vuitton Photograph Album, mounted with LV monogrammed canvas leather, with internal plastic pockets, 11.5cm by 15cm; A Similar Louis Vuitton Folio Photograph Album, mounted in LV monogrammed canvas leather, brown silk taffeta lining and internal plastic pockets, 14.5cm by 20cm (2)

Circa 1980s Louis Vuitton Photograph Album, mounted with LV monogrammed canvas leather, with internal plastic pockets, 11.5cm by 15cm; A Similar Louis Vuitton Folio Photograph Album, mounted in LV monogrammed canvas leather, brown silk taffeta lining and internal plastic pockets, 14.5cm by 20cm (2)

A folio of Frederick William Elwell prints, 7 prints, with Atkinson Grimshaw folio of prints. Condition ReportPrint size in full including border. 58 w x 43.5cms, tissue between. 

French Fabric Sample Album, circa 1930's Of printed and woven chiffons and silks, in a yellow and black mottled ledger, titled 140 Nouveautes, J B & C 8cm by 49.5cm by 8cm Assorted Fabric Samples, 19th century and later In unbound albums, part albums or loose, including silks, wools, brocades, folio of pansy designs including an original watercolour dated 1900, letter from Edouard Defretin, Paris dated 1934, and handwritten note titled Bianchini Férier and other items etc (qty)

French Silk Ribbon Samples, early 20th century Enclosing decorative woven ribbons mainly in a chinoserie style in a variety of vibrant colours 33cm by 46cm by 6cm 79 double sided pages including 901 samples of varying sizes, approximately 11% are missing In a card folio inscribed with Rubans

French Fabric Sample Book, late 19th century Enclosing printed cottons and silks, stripes, checks, wool stripes and checks 40cm by 53cm by 10cm 114 double sided pages, 1,981 samples and 62% missing overall Spine missing, pages very scuffed to the edges, tears, some of the pages loose, has one front board (may not be original) Smaller Folio of Printed Cotton Fabric Samples, mid 19th century Titled Echantillons, Coton 1850 36cm by 46cm 9 card double sided pages, printed cottons in green, brown, pink, blue and red in floral and other designs, each sample 8cm x 5cm, 24 per page, all with handwritten code, 430 samples, 6% are missing overall Album covered in brown paper (2)

French Fabric Sample Book, mid 19th century Including cottons and fine wool printed in vibrant colours with floral, plants, checked, striped, boteh and abstract design 27cm by 34cm by 10cm 161 double sided pages, 13 black pages, 3 samples per page approximately 14cm by 9cm in size, each page number and sample has handwritten details in black ink, with two headings at the top of each page Dessin a Couleurs, Meme que ei Contre and colours are all listed in English, 534 samples with approximately 55% missing In a leather bound and card mounted ledger, dated 1853 to the spine, bears a modern sticker to the inside cover The Archive Collection New York and in blue felt tip 1853 Modern Black Folio Enclosing 19th Century French Fabric Samples Including printed cottons in floral, spotty, checked, striped and abstract designs in a variety of colours Comprising 10 double sided plastic envelope wallets, the samples are assorted in size, majority bearing a sticker with a handwritten code, 172 samples, 100% complete, folio size 35cm by 44cm Another Similar Including printed cottons in paisley, floral, striped, checked and woven brocades in a variety of colours, 8 double sided plastic envelopes, samples area assorted sizes, some bearing a label with handwritten code, 114 samples, approximately 5% missing, 35cm by 44cm (3). 19th century fabric ledger - some pages ripped and small holes, front boards are split.

Agricola (Georgius) De re metallica libri XII, fourth Latin edition, woodcut title-vignette, 2 folding plates and c.270 illustrations attributed to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch and Blasius Weffring, many full-page, title torn at inner margin through corner of vignette (repaired) and a little frayed at edges, light browning and occasional offsetting, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, staining to lower cover, folio, [Wellcome II, p.18; cf.PMM 79, first edition], Basel, Emanuelis König, 1657.⁂ "The first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times" (PMM). First published in 1556 this became the standard work on the subject for several generations of miners. The extraordinary quality and number of woodcuts give a wonderful graphic account of industrial activity in the mid-sixteenth century, eg. the use of waterpower, furnaces etc., and include a very early depiction of a railway.

West (Theodore) [An Outline of the Growth of the Locomotive Engine], 14 lithographed sheets of drawings of British and American locomotives, each sheet with multiple images and vignettes at foot, all mounted on linen, some pencil annotations, a little soiled, first plate with tear, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, large oblong folio, Darlington, Harrison Penney, 1885-86.⁂ Complete set of these sheets giving the profiles of locomotive engines from the earliest days up to the 1880s. Drawn by the Chief Draughtsman of the N.E.R. Darlington works, they are very accurate, and at the foot of each sheet there are charming if slightly whimsical vignettes eg. "railway dogs" etc. Complete sets are very rare and a facsimile edition was produced in 1900.

England & Wales.- Blaeu (Willem Janszoon) and Johannes Blaeu. Le Theatre du Monde, ou Nouvel Atlas, Mis en lumiere par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Quatriesme Partie, first French issue of Blaeu's atlas of England and Wales, illustrated title-page with title label carefully pasted on as usual, 58 engraved maps with early, probably contemporary hand-colouring, 56 double-page, some heightened with gold and white, many with marginal printers' creases, a few expert repairs to marginal tears and splits, some pigments slightly discoloured due to age with mottling, occasional faint marginal damp-staining, surface dirt and browning, particularly to the latter half in upper right corner, and lower right centre margins, otherwise occasional spotting and surface dirt, endpapers and title-page with signature and monogram of William Doull, publisher's gilt-tooled vellum covers with panel design featuring large arabesque in the centre and strapwork designs in the inner corners, spine inscribed 'Angleterre/ Tome IV', spine bumped with minor splitting to ends, lacking silk ties, slightly worn with some staining and knocks, notably to lower cover, folio, Johannes Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1645⁂ A good example of Blaeu's atlas of England and Wales, dedicated to Charles I's queen, Henrietta Maria, at a time when the English Civil War was going badly for the Royalists. The text is based on William Camden's 'Britannia'; and the maps on the surveys used by John Speed, but with more up-to-date styling. At the front of the volume (endpapers and title-page) are the signatures and monogram of William Doull, a Scottish medical doctor who taught rhetoric at the protestant academy at Saumur, the main training centre for protestant pastors in Northern France. Founded in 1599, it was abolished by Louis XIV in 1685, and the library dispersed c. 1688. Doull was professor of rhetoric 1645-1671, and died in 1677. He married Jeanne Amirault, a member of a distinguished Huguenot family.

Greece.- Baud-Bovy (Daniel) and Frederic Boissonnas. En Grece par Monts et par Vaux, printed in black and bisque, heliogravure plates and illustrations, decorative gold endpapers, a few spots but generally a superb clean copy, original decorative cream cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, folio, Geneva & Athens, 1910.

Japan.- Brinkley (Captain Francis) Japan. Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, 12 vol., Mikado Special Edition numbered 20 of 25, mounted frontispieces (2 painted on silk or brocade), mounted plates comprising; colour collotypes of flower studies, hand-coloured plates, albumen plates and, stencil plates printed in different colours, one or two mounts broken (not affecting plates), profusely illustrated, original publisher's Japanese-style decorative cloth, spines a little discoloured, light surface soiling to covers, edges and corners of vol. 12 frayed and becoming loose, folio, Boston, 1897-1901.

Low Countries.- Guicciardini (Lodovico) Descrittione...di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore, half-title with engraved frontispiece verso, engraved pictorial title with arms of the regions of the Low Countries verso, portrait of Philip II with woodcut arms of Guicciardini verso, and 52 (of 55) double-page maps and plans by Adam De Bruyn after Crispin Van der Broecke, lack quires ll and mm, water-stained, some browning and spotting, 18th century blue and plain carta rustica, rubbed and stained, folio, Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1581.⁂ The much augmented second edition in Italian.

NO RESERVE Mediterranean.- Willyams (Cooper) A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure, first edition, large paper copy, engraved dedication, sepia aquatint map of the Mediterranean, plan of the Battle of the Nile and 40 plates, ex-library copy with ink numbers to verso of title and dedication and blind-stamps (inoffensive), mostly marginal but within image of around 18 plates, else generally clean with some occasional spotting or light staining, small repair to inner margin of title, modern half calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with earlier morocco label, [Abbey, Travel, 196; Blackmer 1813], folio (475 x 323mm.), Printed by T. Bensley for J. White, 1802.⁂ In 1798 Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure, a ship in the squadron under the command of Nelson. He was present at the Battle of the Nile and according to DNB his is 'the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle'. Includes views of Sicily, Egypt and Gibraltar. Provenance: Col. Samuel Barrett Miles, presented by his wife to Bath Public Library, 1920 (bookplate). Miles was a British Army officer, diplomat, and author of The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf, and several papers published by the RGS.

Sicily & Malta.- Smyth (Admiral William Henry) [The Hydrography of Sicily, Malta, and the adjacent islands; surveyed in 1814, 1815, and 1816], letterpress title and contents leaf, 23 engraved charts on 21 sheets, including one double-page chart showing Sicily, and with 6 sheets of engraved views only, heavily used with handling creases, surface dirt and damp-staining throughout, tears and loss to many sheets, two chart sheets heavily trimmed, many nicks and losses to extremities, often affecting charts, the last sheet showing mountain height comparisons with substantial losses and tears, stitched but without covers, some sheets loose, folio, Printed in the Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty, 1823; sold not subject to return.

Turkey.- Knolles (Richard) The Generall Historie of the Turkes from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman Familie, third edition, engraved title, 32 engraved illustrations in text (31 portraits and 1 battle scene), woodcut initials, lacking A1 (blank), Table misbound at beginning, scattered manuscript corrections or underlining, contemporary manuscript quote to final leaf verso, 7pp manuscript notes loosely inserted, occasional tiny marginal worming (G1-M6; 2O4-2V6; 3X1-4D6), ink stain affecting text (R4), short marginal tear (3Q6), short tear affecting text (K6), occasional faint spotting, one or two tiny rust holes, bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [STC 15053], folio, Adam Islip, 1621.

Turkey.- Knolles (Richard) The Generall Historie of the Turkes, from the First beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman Familie ..., fourth edition, engraved title, laid down, 31 engraved portraits and 1 engraved illustration in the text, lacking A1 (blank) as usual, water-staining, R4 misbound before R3, one or two small rust holes, small hole in text (6B2), occasional marginal tears and loss affecting the odd letter, trimmed, occasionally affecting printed side-notes, modern half-morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, small folio, Adam Islip, 1631.

Turkey.- Rycaut (Paul) The History of the Turkish Empire, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, 3 other engraved portraits and one full-page illustration of "A Turkish Pageant", occasional light browning, a few marginal stains, contemporary ownership signature of Godf. Copley 1683 on recto of frontispiece and his engraved bookplate, modern blind-ruled calf, [Wing R2406; Atabey 1074], folio, by J.M. for John Starkey, 1680.

Voyages.- Cook (Captain James) A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, 3 text vol. only, first edition, 24 engraved plates and maps, some folding, a couple in vol. 3 proud at fore-edge and slightly frayed, folding table, slight marginal worming towards end of vol.1, some foxing, offsetting and light browning, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rebacked and vol.1 & 2 recornered, vol.3 corners worn, old lot number sticker to upper cover of vol.3, 4to, by W. and A. Strahan, 1784.⁂ First edition of the official account of Cook's third and final voyage. The third volume was written by Capt. James King. Without the accompanying folio atlas.

Voyages.- Ramusio (Giovanni Battista) Delle nauigationi et viaggi , 3 vol., vol.1 & 2 third edition, vol.3 second edition, lacking 3 double-page maps in vol.1 and the 7 double-page maps and plans in vol.3, all vol. lacking final blanks, vol.1 title with marginal restoration and some staining, vol.2 I3 with crude marginal repair, all vol. occasional spotting or light staining, 18th century blue and plain carta rustica, rubbed and scuffed, some staining, [Sabin 67732, 67738, 67741; cf. Church 99 (1554, 1559, 1556); Hill (2004) cf.1419 (1554), cf.1420 (1559), 1421; cf. Harrisse 304; EDIT 16 CNCE 27274; 36412 & 27293], folio, Venice, Giunti, 1563-1583-1565.⁂ 'His is one of the earliest and the most important collection of voyages and travels of the sixteenth century; the third volume being entirely devoted to America...the editions of 1563, 1583 and 1565 are considered to be the best' (Church). Vol. 1 relates to Africa and includes accounts of Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco da Gama, Magellan and Leo Africanus; vol.2 to Asia and contains Ramusio's biography of Marco Polo and an edition of his writings; and vol.3 on the Americas includes accounts by and about Cortés, Coronado, Pizarro and Orellana.

World.- [Photograph Albums], 4 vol., together c.400 albumen prints, c. 227x 280 mm, 165 x 225 mm and 190 x 105 mm., colour, black and white, and sepia, either printed captions (gilt or white) or manuscript titles, one or two with faint spotting, one vol. with bookplate, contemporary highly decorative vellum, morocco borders, gilt, upper joint just beginning to split (one vol. only), slight bumping to corners and extremities, ob. folio, c.1900.⁂ A beautifully bound example of photographic prints collected during a Grand Tour; taking in France, Great Britain, Turkey, Syria, pre-revolutionary Russia and Greece. Including images from the 'Exposition de Universelle de 1900' in Paris, and Tsar Nicholas II's coronation in 1896.The name 'Florence L. De Pauw' is in gilt to the spine foot of 3 vol. Presumably Florence collected the prints whilst touring Europe and commissioned the extravagant bindings to house her collection.

Birds.- Mayer (Henry Leonard) Illustrations of British Birds, 4 vol. in 3, first edition, 320 hand-coloured plates, including egg plates, tissue-guards, occasional marginal spotting, bookplate, near contemporary morocco, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, folio, [1835-41].⁂ The publisher's name 'Longman & Co' does not feature a full-stop as is usual for the first issue of this work. Wood states that not only did Mayer execute and add additional plates for friends, but that "there were certainly two, possibly three issues of the first edition of the folio, and that the later ones were being published before the first was complete, the plates often being interchanged or duplicated." This means that there are rarely two copies alike.

Birds.- Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of British Game Birds, number 21 of 550 copies, colour frontispiece, 35 photogravure or offset-lithographed plates, tissue-guards, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, original cloth, faded spine as usual, 1909; Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches, first edition, frontispiece, 34 plates, illustrations, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, original half-morocco, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1892, folio (2)

Birds.- Millais (John Guille) British Diving Ducks, 2 vol., number 50 of 450 copies, 74 plates (39 colour), tissue-guards, occasional faint spotting, original buckram, faded spines as usual, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1913; The Natural History of British Surface-Feeding Ducks, limited edition, additional vignette title, 65 plates of which 6 photogravure and 41 colour, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1902, folio & large 4to (3)

Buchoz (Pierre Joseph) Histoire universelle de règne végétale, 9 vol. in 3 only, first edition, half-titles, engraved frontispiece and 899 (of 900) plates, vol.1-6 (bound in 2) water-stained to varying degrees, all vol. some browning and spotting, hinges cracked, contemporary half calf, spines gilt and with green and orange morocco labels, 1 label missing from first vol., some corners worn, a few small worm holes, rubbed and scuffed, [Nissen 287; Pritzel 1325], folio, Paris, Brunet, 1773-1775.Saleroom notice:  the plates for these 9 volumes are complete: description should read “engraved frontispiece and 899 plates”⁂ A rare very good run of volumes from this work, based on 'Les Vélins du Roi', housed in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.

Anatomy.- Salvage (Jean-Galbert) Anatomie du Gladiateur combattant, applicable aux beaux arts, first edition, deluxe copy on special thick paper with counterproof plates, half-title, engraved plate entitled "L'art s'illustre par la science", one preliminary leaf misbound, 16 superb engraved plates printed in black and sepia, each accompanied by the corresponding counterproof plates bound opposite, 5 engraved plates printed solely in black, likewise with corresponding counterproofs bound opposite, printed on fine paper, some plates with Salvage's own oval ink stamp in lower corner (monogram JGSE above D.MDne, Lugt 4565), occasional marginal soiling, a few leaves with minor marginal tears/repairs, modern red morocco-backed marbled boards by Albert Valat of Montpellier, spine gilt, g.e., folio (544 x 376mm.), Paris, chez l'Auteur, de l'Imprimerie de Mame, 1812.⁂ A magnificent deluxe copy in exceptional condition. "The year 1812 saw the publication of one of the more remarkable illustrated books ever to appear in France. Titled 'Anatomie du gladiateur combattant,' it was inspired by contemporary rhetoric celebrating the role of the arts in the new post-revolutionary society. At the same time, it was a magnificent display of hard-won knowledge of human anatomy and a tribute to medical science" (Jean-Galbert Salvage and His Anatomie du gladiateur combattant: Art and Patronage inPost-Revolutionary France, Raymond Lifchez in: Metropolitan Museum Journal 44, 2009, p. 163). Salvage (1772-1813) was an army surgeon, anatomist, and skilled draftsman. He created three monumental écorchés, i.e. casts of human bodies represented without skin. He used the bodies of soldiers "in their prime" who were killed in duels, rather than patients who died as a result of illness. Salvage arranged his cadavers in the same pose as the Borghese Gladiator sculpture and meticulously worked out the skeletal and muscular anatomy. Salvage's écorchés are preserved at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. This copy is enhanced by the inclusion of the counterproof plates, which show an important stage between Salvage's original drawings and the finished engraving. A counterproof is a proof of a proof - the artist takes an impression from the engraved plate and while it is still wet lays another piece of paper over it and runs it through the press, creating a counterproof. Because the original proof is the mirror image of the plate, the counterproof is the mirror image of a mirror image, so that the image is aligned the same way it is on the plate. The artist can draw on the counterproof and work from that to the plate without having to reverse the image. The counterproofs here do not show the titles or captions, which were added later.

Clichtoveus (Judocus) Opus insigne beate patris Cyrilli Alexandrini in Evangelium Joannis, translated by Georgio Trapezontio, collation: a-x8 y10 z8 &8 A-H8 I6, Paris, George Hopyl, 1520; bound with Comentarii in Leviticum, collation: A-H8, Paris, Wolfgang Hopyl, 1521; bound with Preclarum...Thesaur. nuncupass., collation: A4 A-K8 L6, Paris, Wolfgang Hopyl, 1521, together 3 works in 1 vol., each work with similar woodcut title, second and third works with same full-page woodcut illustration on verso of final leaf, first work with final blank leaf present, numerous woodcut illustrations, single worm-hole to inner margin at beginning, some light marginal water-staining, first title with lower edge trimmed and with small oval ?bookplate in lower margin, a few ink annotations, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps, soiled, small folio (281 x 200mm.)⁂ Josse van Clichtove was a Flemish humanist theologian, priest and librarian of the Sorbonne. He was a great adversary of Luther, against whom he wrote extensively.

Painted bindings.- Theodoretus (Bishop of Cyrus) Opera omnia, 5 vol., contemporary vellum with each cover fully painted with a scene from the life of Christ probably in the 19th century, spines gilt with raised bands, brown and black morocco lettering pieces, a couple slightly chipped, some rubbing to paintings, especially vol.2 and 4, vol.3 joints repaired, some corners bumped, folio (binding 365 x 240mm.), Paris, Sebastian Cramoisy, 1642-84.⁂ A striking and unusual set of Theodoretus' works. The first four volumes were edited by J. Sirmond and were published in 1642. The fifth volume, not published until 1684, was completed by Sirmond's fellow Jesuit Garnier and contains an auctarium, comprising fragments of commentaries and sermons and some additional letters, together with Garnier's five learned but most one-sided dissertations on Theodoretus and his writings. The bindings are decorated with a series of 10 paintings after old masters, one on each cover, which show scenes from the life of Christ.Provenance: E.F.W. Hudson (signature on titles); St. Germain de Pres, monastic library (inscription on title in vol. 5 dated 1689); with J. Motley Stark, London (ticket on pastedown); purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 3 July 1962. The History of the Book: The Cornelius J. Hauck Collection, Christie's 27/6/2006 ($6,500)

Agricola (Georgius) De re metallica, translated by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, illustrations throughout, original vellum, spine lettered in black, uncut, very slightly soiled, folio, The Mining Magazine, 1912.⁂ An excellent copy. Hoover had made a fortune in gold mining and lavished some of it on this impressively produced translation, which he made with his wife Lou. It is touchingly dedicated to their old Professor at Stanford, where the couple met.

Carmichael (J.W.) and J.Blackmore. Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, first edition, large paper copy with plates in proof state, additional engraved vignette title and 23 plates after J.W.Carmichael, all proofs before letters printed on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, some light marginal foxing, modern half dark maroon morocco, t.e.g., fading to spine and head of upper cover, folio, Newcastle, Carlisle & London, 1839.⁂ Good copy of a work originally published in parts from 1836-38. The Newcastle and Carlisle was the first railway across England and opened in 1839 although its gestation had begun in 1825. The plates illustrate the major engineering works on the line including the Scotswood and Warden bridges with their stone piers and timber superstructures designed by Blackmore, who wrote the descriptions of the plates. Carmichael was a local topographical artist.

Opera.- Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus) [Don Giovanni] Don Juan oder der Steinerne Gast, 2 vol., first edition of the orchestral score, vol.1 with additional engraved vignette title by Bolt after Kinninger (foxed), printed title and 2 following pp. of text, engraved musical score pp.6-292, vol.2 with printed title and engraved musical score pp.294-590, with separate printed divisional title "Anhang von spaeter eingelegten Stuecken", some light foxing and water-staining, some leaves trimmed at upper edge with loss to pagination in vol.2, modern diced calf, upper covers lettered in gilt, oblong folio, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Haertel, [1800 or 1801].⁂ Don Giovanni was the first of Mozart's operas to be published in full score. The 14-page German libretto by Rochlitz, not included with this copy, seems to have been printed separately and is therefore often not present. Haberkamp notes no differences between those scores that contain it and those that do not.

Clark (Daniel Kinnear) Railway Machinery: A Treatise on the Mechanical Engineering of Railways: embracing the Principles and Construction of Rolling and Fixed Plant, 2 vol., first edition, 70 double-page engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations, occasional spotting to text, plates foxed, one frayed at lower edge, contemporary half calf, rubbed, plate vol. broken and loose, folio, Glasgow..., 1855.⁂ Clark was an engineering consultant having worked on lines throughout Scotland and this work was considered the authoritative text of its day. The plates, many of which are to a large scale, give side and end elevations, transverse sections, plans & details of many different kinds of rolling stock and the locomotives include designs by Fairbairn & Sons, Kitson, Daniel Gooch, T. R. Crampton, Robert Stephenson & Co., & others.

Clayton (Alfred B.) Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Part I [all published], first edition, title with decorative Greek key border, 3 lithographed plates by F.Nicholson after Clayton and printed by Englemann, all with later but sympathetic hand-colouring, each with leaf of explanatory text, title with small tear and slight loss to fore-edge (repaired), plates laid down on thin card with tissue guard, modern black morocco with borders in blind and title in gilt to upper cover, [Not in Abbey], oblong folio, Liverpool, J.F.Cannell, [c.1831].⁂ Very rare work eclipsed by Bury's similar publication. It was offered on both india paper and plain, as here.

Heraldry, Law & Parliament.- The Statutes and Ordinances of the most noble order of Sainte George named the Garter..., opening lines of manuscript, Pot watermark, [c. 1680] bound with Touching the Jurisdiction of the Court of Constable and Marshall..., [17th century] bound with Parliament Anno 4 Edw 3 Apud Winton, [17 century] bound with The most Excellent and notable Instructions of Cardll Sermonetta to his Cousin the Lord Pedro Caicvano att his first goeinge into Flanders to serve the Kinge of Spaine under the Duke of Parma, "Now firsyt printed", [17th century], together 6 works in 1, 6 manuscripts in different cursive hands, together 145pp. excluding blanks, bound in differing order, central folds, a few small stains in margins, a few ink stains, slightly browned, new endpapers, modern calf-backed boards, Phillipps no. 8877, sm. folio, [17th century].

Fortification.- Vauban (Sebastien le Prestre de), Blaise Francois de Pagan, Comte de Merveilles and Antoine Deville, after. Traite de Fortifications, manuscript on paper, 122pp., with 49 fine full-page pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings of fortifications, a few neat repairs to margins, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, preserving majority of original backstrip, folio, France, [c.1714].⁂ A handsome treatise providing information about the general principles of fortification, including the geometry and mathematical foundations of their construction. Following this is a five-page dictionary of the principal terms of fortification. The majority of the skilled watercolour illustrations face a textual description of the various methods described. Vauban, the primary author featured, was the greatest fortification expert of the second half of the 17th century, and his design principles of fortification were the dominant model for almost a century. Vauban himself was actively involved in training military engineers. This copy was possibly used as an instruction manual at a military academy, and the text is very probably unpublished and unique. This attractive treatise is distinguished for the quality and large number of its illustrations.

Collecting a theological library.- Domjan (Samuel, Hungarian theologian) Exhibet generalis Observationes de Libris colligendis et legendis, manuscript in Latin, in brown ink, 173pp. & 23pp. of index at end, several ff. excised at end, browned, new endpapers, modern half calf, gilt spine, sm. 4to, [Satu Mare, Hungary, now Romania], 19th November 1780.⁂ A manual on how to gather together a theological library. The author, Samuel Domjan, was a Hungarian theologian, probably from Komarom, recorded as a student at Heidelberg. The catalogue itemises the works by author and title, specifying the format of available editions (e.g., 'in folio et in 8vo'), followed by a brief summary of the content. Domjan also added short comments on the quality of most works, taken from 17th- or 18th-century reference books on theology, for examplee, Polensdorf's Syntagma theologiae.

Senegal.- [Account of a mission to Senegal], manuscript in French, 20pp., browned, unbound, folio, [1820].⁂ A detailed description of a mission to Senegal to assess the state of hostilities there, including threats to peace from tribal factions, and meeting Julien-Desiree Schaltz, the French governor of Senegal who was in his last year as governor.

West Indies.- Malcolm (George John, Rear-Admiral, Royal Navy, 1830-84) Letter book as Captain of HMS Barracouta deployed at the West Indies and North American Stations, autograph manuscript, 122pp. excluding blanks, 9 manuscript insert pages (8 being returns of officers, men and boys on HMS Barracouta), original half roan, rubbed, manuscript paper label on upper cover, spine slightly rubbed, folio, 1863.⁂ Includes "List of Vessels cleared at Nassau for the purpose of Running the Blockade" (a reference to the American Civil War and the blockade by the North against the South), letters including: "Nassau, 11 May 1863... I have received orders from Vice Admiral Sir A. Milne... at Bermuda... directing me to transfer the duties of Senior Officers at Nassau and to furnish you with... the state of the Conqueror wreck, and then to proceed to Bermuda." - Malcolm.Malcolm was the eldest son of Sir Charles Malcolm (1782-1851), naval officer. He followed in his father's footsteps, serving in the Royal Navy for his entire career and becoming Rear Admiral in 1882. His long naval career took him to North and South America, the West Indies, the Baltic, the English Channel, Egypt, and the East Coast of Africa. After he retired from active service in 1873, he entered the Turkish services as Pasha and was employed at Constantinople as Director General of the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Judge of the Slave Courts.

Anglo-Zanzibar War.- Hardinge (J.S., Royal Navy, midshipman) Log Book on HMS Raleigh, HMS St George and HMS Wanderer, 2 vol., autograph manuscript, titles and c. 330pp. excluding blanks, a few pen and ink maps (Simon's Town - South Africa, James Town - St Helena etc.), some ff. cut down, a few ff. loose, others working loose, slightly browned, hessian covered original boards, ink and water-stains on hessian, folio, 1894-96.⁂ An eyewitness account of the bombardment of the Sultan's Palace at Zanzibar, "A small ship called the Chureka the[n] approached the Racoon but was immediately sunk by the Thrush & Sparrow. After this the shells at the Palace started taking visible effect & soon the whole of the old wing was seen to be on fire. The Glasgow [the Sultan's yacht] hauled her flag down now & the flag at the Palace was shot away." - J.S. Hardinge.

Australia.- South Australia Railways. Three addresses to Joseph Henry Smith, one address on his appointment as Chairman of the Commissioners of the South Australian Railways, and two addresses on his leaving, illuminated manuscripts with numerous signatures (1 on vellum, two on paper), together 9pp. excluding blanks, watercolour decoration in numerous colours, 1 vol. ff. loose, first vol. original gilt pictorial calf, rubbed, lacks spine, second and third vol. silk doublures in original morocco, gilt, corners rubbed, folio, first vol. signed Waterlow & Sons., London, other vol. signed Joyner, first vol., n.p., n.d. [?1888] & Adelaide 31st May & 4th June 1895 (3).

English Incunable leaf.- Jerome (Saint) Vitas patrum, translated by William Caxton, single leaf title-page with large woodcut depicting St. Jerome reading a book, his lion beside him, a crowd of onlookers and a landscape background with church and castle, within a double-arch frame, beneath the large white-on-black lettering of the title, leaf signed Aa1, on fine laid paper with watermark of scales [very similar to papers produced circa 1470-1510, cf. Briquet 2494, 2540 etc.], with signs of expert repairs to thinning and minor loss, possibly with fine paper support to edges on verso, a few worm holes restored, [Hodnett 800; Duff 235], small folio (246 x 180mm.), Westminster, Wynkyn de Worde, 1495.⁂ One of Wynkyn's earliest woodcuts and an early example of his pioneering use of a large illustration on a title-page. This example with verso blank; other copies have Caxton's device on verso - Duff states "There are curious variations in certain copies...in the presence or absence of the woodcut and device on the first leaf."

Bible, English. The Holy Byble, conteining the Olde Testament and the Newe, Authorised and Appointed to be read in Churches, [Bishops' Version], double column, black letter, 58 lines, General title, almanack and calendar printed in red and black, divisional titles for Psalter, New Testament and Apocrypha all within woodcut borders, numerous genealogical diagrams, 2 woodcut maps (one full-page), full-page woodcut of Adam and Eve in Eden at the beginning of Genesis, woodcut initials, tailpieces, and printer's device, lacks blanks at beginning and end, General title faded and mounted with some loss to margins, some worming on title and all to OT T1 and NTT2 to end, A1-3 margins repaired, lower inside corners of preliminary ff. slightly stained, NT top margins of Z1-5 repaired, Z5 additionally reinforced along bottom margins, some occasional ff. slightly creased, margins slightly browned, ink signatures of William Hanbury on title and preface, Skyrme family records at end of OT and ink signatures of Jeremiah Bosley on verso of last page of NT, 19th century panelled calf, rebacked, [STC 2143; Herbert 188], folio, Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, 1585.⁂ A complete and fundamentally fine copy of a scarce and beautiful Bible. With a preface by Thomas Cranmer and the only edition after 1572 containing the Psalter of the Bishops' version.