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Bamford (John). Illustrations of the Field Movements of Cavalry; in a Series of Copper Plate Engravings, 1st edition, London: for the author, 1824, [6] 18 [12] pp., half-title, 15 engraved plates numbered 1-13 (including unnumbered frontispiece and 'Table of Reference' plate; plates 1-6 double-page, plate 7 single-page, plates 8-9, 10-11 and 12-13 each on either side of one sheet), printed index slip tipped to 'Table of Reference' plate, frontispiece nicked along bottom edge, a little light spotting and offsetting, faint blind-stamps of the Royal United Services Institution to title-page, plate 7 and facing text-leaf, bookplate of the Cavalry Club, top edge gilt, early-20th-century half calf for Hatchards, spine defective (boards soundly held by linen supports to inner hinges), rubbed, tips worn, large folio (53.4 x 37.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESHuth p. 99. Presentation copy of this rare work, inscribed 'from the author' on the half-title. One other copy traced in auction records, in 1978; six copies on Library Hub. The author is described on the title-page as 'adjutant to the Light Horse Volunteers; formerly adjutant to the Eighteenth Light Dragoons'.

Folio Society. 1984, 5th printing, 2007, Animal Farm, 15th printing, 2002, by George Orwell, The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, 4th printing, 2007, Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story, by Max Beerbohm, 2008, The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2007, Legends of King Arthur, 3 volumes, edited by Richard Barber, 2000, together with 79 further volumes of Folio Society publications, all fiction, all original cloth, 82 volumes in slipcases & 5 without, G/VG, 8voQty: (87)

Jones (Owen, & Henry Warren, illustrators). The History of Joseph and his Brethren. Genesis Chaprs XXXVII. XXXVIII. XL., 1st edition, London: Day and Son, [1865], [52] pp., chromolithographed throughout, heightened in gilt, leaf [5] loose, light spotting to margins and outer leaves, stronger spotting to initial blank, gilt edges, original decorative cloth gilt, spine and tips worn, 4to, together with: Greenaway (Kate). Queen Victoria's Jubilee Garland. Engraved and Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans, 1st edition, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1887, wire-stitched in original pictorial wrappers, stitching rusted, tied with later yellow silk ribbon, narrow oblong 8vo, Rampant Lions Press. Areopagitica. A Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England, Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1973, original cloth, folio, number 9 of 25 copies out of series specially bound for presentation (this copy with presentation plate dated 1988 mounted to limitation leaf), Martin (Helena Faucit, Lady). On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885, 3 engraved plates, largely unopened, untrimmed, original japon, slightly soiled, 4to, Barrie (J. M.). Theatre Royal, Haymarket, The Little Minister, Souvenir of the 200th Performance, May 7th 1898 [cover title], 18 plates from photographs or from caricatures after Phil May, loose as issued in original textured porfolio (collation unknown; silk tie split), folio, and 9 others (including: Lécuyer, Histoire de la Photographie, Paris, 1945, photographic illustrations throughout in various media, with 3D-glasses in pocket as issued, original leatherette, folio; and Lucius Rossi, illustrator, The School for Scandal, [1891], front joint weak, original cloth, folio)Qty: (14)

Quality Chess. Build Up Your Chess, 3 volumes, reprinted, 2011-12, Boost Your Chess, 3 volumes, mixed editions, 2011-12, Chess Evolution, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 2011-13, by Artur Yusupov, Judit Polgar Teaches Chess, 3 volumes, by Judit Polgar, 1st edition, 2012-14, Soviet Outcast, The Lufe and Games of Grigory Levenfish, by Grigory Levenfish, 1st English edition, 2019, Karpov's Strategic Wins, 2 volumes, by Tibor Karolyi, 1st edition, 2011, original wrappers, together with 63 further volumes of Quality Chess publications, 24 in original boards, 39 paperbacks in original wrappers, 8vo/folioQty: (78)

Hobbes (Thomas). Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Printed for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1651, engraved allegorical title by Abraham Bosse (short repaired closed tear to left-hand of image, cropped to fore-edge of image), letterpress title with woodcut "head" ornament, 1 folding letterpress table, worm trail to inner margins of leaves NN2-3D4, close-trimmed at fore-edge, few minor ink marks, light dust-soiling, occasional spotting and minor dampstains etc., front free endpaper detached, near contemporary calf, old reback with gilt decorated spine, worm trails to board leather, head & foot of spine and corners worn, folio (26.7 x 17 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Reputedly rescued from the cellar of Wickham Court, West Wickham, Kent, in 1946/47, during the time the property was requisitioned for use as Army offices and accommodation. Macdonald & Hargreaves 42; Pforzheimer 491; PMM 138; Wing H2246. Hobbes' masterpiece of political theory formed on the experience of the English Civil War, in which the State is seen as an artificial monster to which individuals submit for their own survival. "This book produced a fermentation in English thought not surpassed until the advent of Darwinism. Its importance may be gauged by the long list of assailants it aroused. It was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum 7 May 1703, though all Hobbes's works had previously been condemned in toto, and it still remains a model of vigorous exposition, unsurpassed in the language" (Pforzheimer).

Lee (Jungjin). Unnamed Road, 1st edition, MAC, 2014, black & white plates from photographs including some double-page, bound concertina-style in original pictorial boards, a little toning, small 4to, together with: Rankin, Breeding. A Study of Sexual Ambiguity. Works in Progress I, 1st edition, Dazed, 2002, black & white reproductions of photographs, original pictorial boards in publisher's pink protective cardboard carton, slightly bumped, small folio, Bonnefoy (Yves), Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer, Thames & Hudson, new edition, 1992, reproductions of black & white photographs, original cloth in dust jacket, oblong 4to, Moore (Henry & Hedgecoe, John), Henry Moore, 1st edition, 1968, black & white illustrations from photographs throughout, original cloth in slipcase, slightly rubbed, small folio, plus other photographer monographs and relatedQty: (20)

Folio Society. The Works of Charles Dickens, 16 volumes, circa 1985, My Early Times, 1988, all by Charles Dickens, The Dickens Encyclopaedia, by Arthur L. Hayward, 1989, Dicken's London, by Rosalind Vallance, 11th impression, 2011, The Novels of Anthony Trollope, 22 volumes, by Anthony Trollope, circa 1993, The Novels of Thomas Hardy, 9 volumes, circa 1990, all original cloth, 49 volumes in slipcases & 1 without, G/VG, 8voQty: (50)

Wylly (Colonel H.C.). XVth (The King's) Hussars, 1759 to 1913, 1st edition, London: Caxton Publishing Company, 1914, 31 colour and black & white plates, 3 maps (one folding with short split to fold), some spotting to text, top edge gilt, original black morocco gilt, a trifle rubbed with some wear to extremities, joints strengthened, spine somewhat faded and marked, large 8vo, (limited edition, one of 250 copies), together with: Barrett (C. R. B., editor), The 85th King's Light Infantry ..., by "One of Them", 1st edition, London: Spottiswoode & Co., 1913, colour frontispiece and 41 colour and black & white plates, numerous monochrome letterpress illustrations and maps, some spotting (mainly to edges and at rear), original black half morocco gilt, rubbed with a little wear to extremities, spine somewhat faded, 4to, plus: Wheater (W., compiler), Historial Record of the Seventh or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Leeds: Printed for Private Circulation, 1875, title with ink manuscript presentation inscription (to 'Kildare Street CLub') at head, 2 leaves at front with blind embossed stamp 'Kildare Street Club' to upper corner, first few leaves spotted, original embossed blue cloth gilt, rubbed and worn with some stains, folio, and a defective copy of The Historical Records of the Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers... by Walter Temple Willcox, 1908Qty: (4)

Avedon (Richard). An Autobiography, 2nd impression, Random House & Eastman Kodak Company, 1993, black & white illustrations from photographs, signed by the photographer, 'Avedon 1993' in black felt tip to front free endpaper as part of longer ballpoint pen inscription, 'For David with love from Catherine, Simon and Avedon 1993, New York/London Oct 93', original cloth lettered in red, glassine dust jacket, folio, together with: Carlos Clarke (Bob), Shooting Sex, 1st UK edition, 2002, colour and black & white illustrations from photographs, signed floridly in black felt tip by the photographer to half-title, original pictorial laminated boards, 4to, Clarke (Bob Clarke), The Dark Summer, 1st edition, Quartet Books, 1985, colour and black & white illustrations from photographs, signed by the photographer in black felt tip to half-title, original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, plus 4 other photobooks by Avedon, Edward Burtynsky, Sarah, the Duchess of York and Paula Rae Gibson, the last 3 signed copies, original cloth in dust jackets, VGQty: (7)

* Pole (Reginald, 1500-1558). Letter Signed, ‘Reg Carlus. Polus’, Carpentras, 16 April 1539, to ’Your Holiness’, Pole states that he received the letter from his correspondent ‘through which I learnt that the letters which I wrote from Toledo on the 22nd February only arrived on the 7th April, which I find astonishing’ and continues ‘I don’t know what could have caused such delay. Through no fault of my own, I must appear negligent towards Your Holiness in this extremely important matter, about which I am most anxious and solicitous, as I should be in any case. This will have some bearing on my letters….and then, in relation to the Abbot, who left here on the 8th, and very much hoped to be reunited with Your Holiness before my letters arrive, concerning everything that has been deduced from their two Majesties, regarding the English negotiation.’ The Cardinal further comments ‘As for me, I needed to record this material. Nothing else has happened, except that I am waiting here for the opinion of His Holiness on my loyalty and obedience. Moreover, I am struggling hard to elect what I must do for the service of God, and to gain his benediction’, with integral address leaf bearing the original paper seal, some minor staining, otherwise a bold, attractively penned and clean letter, one page, folio (31 x 21.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESPole was an English Cardinal of the Catholic Church, the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury 1556-58 during the Counter-Reformation. At the time of writing this letter Pole had been attainted in absentia following his disagreement with King Henry VIII, to whom he had not offered his support in his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, despite the King’s offer of the Archbishopric of York or the Diocese of Winchester.

De Boodt (Anselm). Symbola Varia Diversorum Principum, cum facili isagoge D. Ansemi de Boodt Brugensis, tomus tertius, Prague, 1603, engraved allegorical title, full-page engraved coat-of-arms of Marino Grimano, and 48 engraved emblematic plates, by Aegidius Sadeler, title with slight loss of paper to upper blank margin, some waterstaining and rodent damage to upper inner margins towards rear of volume, occasionally touching a few words (generally not encroaching on plate marks), contemporary limp vellum, soiled and some wear with loss to head of spine, folio, together with: Gargiulo (Raffaele). Raccolta de Monumenti piu interessanti del Rl. Museo Borbonico e di varie collezioni private, Naples, 1825, numerous line engraved plates of antiquities, occasional light spotting (heavier to front blank and title), bookplate of Thomas Worsley D.D., Master of Downing, to front pastedown, 19th century half vellum, some light soiling, 4to, plus Pennazzi (Andrea). Vita del Glorioso S. Eustizio Sacerdote, e Martire Il di cui Santo Corpo riposa nel Territorio di Soriano,..., Montefiascone, 1721, black & white engraved frontispiece by Louis Gormier, later inscription to the title page, folding plates to pp. 92 & 166, ex-library copy with associated bookplates & stamps to front endpapers, contemporary gilt decorated mottled full calf, front board & spine partially detached, boards & spine rubbed with minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, and Cennini (Cennino), Treatise On Painting written by Cennino Cennini in the year 1437;..., Edward Lumley, 1844, ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown 'From the Library of William Morris Kelmscott House Hammersmith', loose binding, front gutters cracked, spine partially detached, all edges gilt, publishers original gilt decorated white cloth, boards & spine toned & rubbed with some minor tears & loss, 8vo, and Lalanne (Maxime), Traité de La Gravure, Cadart et Luquet, Paris, 1866, 8 black & white plates etched by the author, some light spotting throughout, contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards & spine rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other 19th & 20th century miscellaneous art reference and literature, including The Royal Natural History, 6 volumes, edited by Richard Lydekker, Frederick Warne & Co., 1893-94, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves)

Sibbald (Robert). Scotia illustrata sive prodromus historiae naturalis, 1st edition, Edinburgh: ex officina typographica Jacobi Kniblo, Josua Solingensis et Johannes Colmarii, 1684, pp. [10] 15 [15] 102 [12] 114 [12] 37 [7] 41-56 [4], initial engraved heraldic plate, 22 engraved natural history plates on 20 sheets, woodcut headpieces and initials, variable browning, small chip to lower fore corner of title-page, plates with contemporary manuscript captions in images, a few other marks, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked retaining original label, covers scuffed, tips restored, folio (37.4 x 22.4 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Anker 471; ESTC R9747; Mullens & Swann pp. 534-5; Nissen ZBI 3847. Scotia illustrata is Sibbald's 'most elaborate work ... an essay on Scotland's natural history in the widest sense, from natural phenomena, through the plant and animal kingdoms, to human disease' (ODNB).

Meyrick (Samuel Rush). A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II, with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages, 3 volumes, London: printed by G. Schulze for Robert Jennings, 1824, half-titles, additional engraved titles, 80 engraved plates (70 hand-coloured), 27 hand-coloured initials, occasional offsetting from plates, some spotting throughout, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, early 20th century red half calf by Bayntun of Bath, gilt decorated spines, cloth sides, joints repaired, heavily rubbed & worn mostly to extremities, folioQty: (3)

Golden Cockerel Press. Matthew Flinders' Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis: 1798, Preceded and Followed by Notes on Flinders, Bass, the Wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c, by Geoffrey Rawson, Golden Cockerel Press, 1946, wood-engravings by John Buckland Wright, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, folio, limited edition, 365/750, together with The First Crusade, the Deeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalemites... translated into English for the first time by Somerset de Chair, Golden Cockerel Press, 1945, wood-engravings by Clifford Webb, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, one or two marks, folio, limited edition, 194/500, plus One Hundred and Eleven Poems by Robert Herrick, Golden Cockerel Press, 1955, illustrations by William Russell Flint, loose prospectus, original parchment-backed boards, extremities a little faded, 4to, limited edition, 548/550, with other mainly Golden Cockerel Press limited editions including Thomas More's Utopia, 1929 (492/500), The Hundredth Story of A.E. Coppard, 1930 (487/1000), Crotty Shinkwin and The Beauty Spot, by A.E. Coppard, 1932, (41/500) and Le Morte DArthur, 3 volumes, Limited Editions Club, New York, 1936, (407/1500)Qty: (11)

Acts of Parliament. A collection of late 17th - mid 19th century Acts of Parliament, including: 1. Anno Regni Caroli II... At Parliament begun at Westminster, the Five and twentieth day of April, An. Dom. 1660..., An Act for the speedy Disbanding of the Army, and Garrisons of this Kingdome, London: printed by John Bill & Christopher Barker, 1660, 2. Anno Regni Caroli II... At Parliament begun at Westminster, the Eighth day of May, Anno Dom. 1661..., and there continued until Tuesday the 30th of July 1661..., London: printed by John Bill & Christopher Barker, 1662, containing 15 Acts, disbound folio, 3. An Act for reforming of Abuses committed in the Weight and false Packing of Butter, London: printed by John Bill & Christopher Barker, 1662, disbound folio, 4. An Act for the better regulating of the Manufacture of Broad Woollen Cloath, within the West-Riding of the County of York, London: printed by John Bill & Christopher Barker, 1662, disbound folio, 5. An Additional Act concerning matters of Assurance used amongst Merchants, London: printed by John Bill & Christopher Barker, 1662, disbound folio, 6. An Act for Raising Money by a Poll and otherwise, towards the Reducing of Ireland, London: printed by Charles Bill & Thomas Newcomb, 1689, disbound folio, and with other Acts of Parliament, including approximately fifty 18th century Acts relating to America, all disbound folio, and a quantity of 18th & 19th century Acts of Parliament published in Dublin, all disbound folioQty: (2 cartons)

Langton (Robert). The Childhood And Youth of Charles Dickens, Édition de Luxe, Hutchinson & Co., 1891, signed by the author to the limitation page, 82 pasted down black & white illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, some light toning, bound with Charles Dickens and Rochester, by Robert Langton, Manchester, 1880, to the rear, top edge gilt, publishers original gilt decorated brown full morocco, 8vo, 186/300, together with Daniel (W. B.), Rural Sports, 3 volumes, Bunny & Gold, 1801, numerous black & white plates, some water marks to volume 1, some light toning throughout, bookplates to front pastedowns, uniform contemporary gilt decorated calf retaining original calf spines, spines slightly rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, and Glasgow Institue Of The Fine Arts, The Memorial Catalogue of the Old Glasgow Exhibition, 1894, numerous black & white illustrations, some minor toning throughout, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed & toned, large 4to, limited edition 38/400, plus other mostly 19th century literature & reference, including The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais..., 2 volumes, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, Grant Richards, 1904, The Cabinet of Irish Literature, 4 volumes, by Charles A. Read, Blackie & Son, 1880, a collection of bound & disbound London Magazine, circa 1740s, some leather bindings, many in original cloth, overall condition is good/very good, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves)

Purcell (Henry). Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of all the Choicest Songs, for One, Two, and Three Voices, compos'd by Mr. Henry Purcell. Together, with such Symphonies for Violins or Flutes, as were by him design'd for any of them: and a Through-Bass to each Song; Figur'd for the Organ, Harpsichord, or Theorbo-Lute, 2 volumes in one, 2nd edition with large additions, printed by William Pearson, for S.H. and sold by John Young, 1706-12, portrait frontispiece by R. White after Closterman (trimmed and relaid to later paper), some marks and damage, title to each part printed in red and black, with first title relaid, with some soiling and slight paper loss, some minor marks to first and last few leaves (contents generally in good condition), all edges gilt, contemporary diced full calf, old reback with original spine laid down, now worn with loss, and upper cover detached, folioQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), English novelist and illustrator. With ownership inscription to verso of front endpaper: 'Lucy E. Broadwood from Mr. & Mrs. Richmond Ritchie (after singing Dido's dying song from Purcell's opera). This book is from W.M. Thackeray's library, & was bought by him. Given back to me by Lucy Broadwood and given to Catherine Norman Butler by her grandfather W.T.D. Ritchie Xmas 1953'. Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (1858-1929), singer, musician and pioneer in the revival of English folk song, was a member of the Purcell Society, editor of the journal of the Folk Song Society, and friend of Grainger, Holst and Vaughan Williams. Her book English Traditional Songs and Carols was published in 1908.

McParland (Edward). Public Architecture in Ireland 1680-1760, 1st edition, Yale University Press, 2001, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, together with; Evans (Joan), Monastic Architecture in France, from the Renaissance to the Revolution, 1st edition, Cambridge University Press, 1964, numerous black & white illustrations, minor toning & spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed with minor loss to head, 8vo, and Porphyrios (Demetri), Porphyrios Associates, the Allure of the Classical, 1st edition, Rizzoli, 2016, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, includes a handwritten letter on headed notepaper by the author to 'Kenneth', plus other modern architecture & decor reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves & a carton)NOTESFrom the library of Gavin Stamp, architectural historian and critic.

Brown (Christopher & Hans Vlieghe), Van Dyck 1599-1641, Royal Academy Publicaions, 1999, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, together with; Spicer (Joaneath A. & Lynn Federle Orr), Masters of Light, Dutch painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age, Yale University Press, 1998, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly marked, spine slightly faded, large 4to, and Campbell (Mungo & Nathan Flis), William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum, Yale University Press, 2018, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other 19th century art reference & related, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (5 shelves)

E. and J. L. Milner. The Churches, Castles, and Ancient Halls of North Lancashire, volume 1, Lancaster, 1880, 29 black & white illustrations, some light spotting throughout, all edges gilt, publishers original gilt decorated blue full calf, boards & spine rubbed, front hinges cracked to head, 8vo, together with; Bogg (Edmund), Two Thousand Miles of Wandering in the Border Country, Lakeland and Ribblesdale, Edmund Bogg, Leeds, 1898, numerous black & white illustrations, blind stamp to front endpaper, some minor marginal toning, later red morocco spine retaining original red cloth boards, lightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, and Parkinson (Richard), The Old Church Clock, 5th edition, Abel Heywood & Son, Manchester, 1880, 24 black & white illustrations, frontispiece lacking tissue guard, some light toning & marks, later endpapers, rebound in modern gilt decorated half calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed,4to, plus other 19th & 20th century north of England history, topography & reference, including The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, 5 volumes, by Edward Baines, new enlarged edition, John Heywood, 1888, Manchester, some leather binding, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves)

Laroon (Marcellus). The Cryes of the City of London drawne after the Life. Les cris de la ville de Londre dessignez apres la nature. L'arti comuni che vanno a Londra fatte dal naturale, [London]: P. Tempest excudit, c.1688-1733, 73 engraved plates (of 74: without plate 73, 'A nonconformist minister'), including 2 title-pages, of which 12 numbered (see note), not bound in order, first title-page re-margined in gutter and slightly soiled (ownership inscription to head: 'G. Frere'), some 12 plates with closed handling tears to lower margins, sometimes extending into plate-mark but never image, repaired verso in most cases ('Sow Gelder' also with similar repaired tear to upper inner corner; 'Four for Six pence Mackerell' with more extensive closed tear in top margin, touching frame but not image; 'The merry Milk Maid' with closed tear in lower margin extending into 'Mauron delin.' and frame), 'Troope every one one' plate browned, variable toning or lighter browning elsewhere, a few spots and marks, extra-illustrated with 15 leaves bound in at rear containing 60 engravings by Jean Mariette, all depicting French costume, c.1700 (imprint: A Paris, chez J. Mariette rue S. Jacques, aux colonnes d'Hercules avec Privilege du Roi'), 20th-century tan sheep retaining front board of contemporary marbled calf (scuffed), folio (34.2 x 20.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESCf. Beall, Kaufrufe und Strassenhandler – Cries and Itinerant Trades, E10 (Overton edition, dated to c.1711), Colas 1793-5 (various editions), Lipperheide 1019 (c.1711 edition, incomplete, with 21 plates only). Further reading: Shesgreen, 'The Editions, Imitations, and the Influence of Marcellus Laroon's "Cryes of the City of London"', Studies in Bibliography Vol. 35 (1982), pp. 258-271. The 61 plates without numerals, including with the title-page, are from one of the editions by original publisher Pierce Tempest, who according to the Term Catalogues first issued a work titled ‘The Crys of London … engraved upon forty Copper-Plates’ in Michaelmas 1687. It was quickly expanded: a notice in the Term Catalogues for Michaelmas 1688 announces ‘There is now completely Finished, the Cryes and Habits of London … upon seventy-two Copper-plates’; by Trinity 1689 the work is advertised as containing ‘74 Copper-Plates’. The last known edition of Laroon’s Cryes to be published by Pierce Tempest appeared in 1709 (Shesgreen, p. 261). The plates then passed from Tempest to Henry Overton the elder (1676-1751). The date of Overton’s edition is unknown but has been conjectured as 1711 (Beall), or as late as 1731 or 1733. Overton added numerals the lower right corner of each plate, and added his imprint and the phrase ‘In 74 Copper Plates’ to the title-page. In c.1760 the plates passed to Robert Sayer. His plates are completely reworked from the Tempest/Overton versions, with the costumes updated, numerals moved to the upper corners, and ‘Mauron delin./pinx.’ and ‘P. Tempest exc.’ removed.

* Hague (Louis). The Royal Yacht lying in Barn Pool, Her Majesty returning from her visit to Mount Edgecombe [and] The Departure of the Royal Yacht, passing between Drake's Island and the Hoe, Ackermann & Co., [1843], pair of hand-coloured lithographs after N. M. Condy, slight spotting and marginal chipping and staining, old adhesion scars on verso, each approximately 200 x 250 mm, mounted, together with Newman & Co. (lithographers). Falmouth Harbour and Flushing [and] Falmouth Docks, Railway Terminus, Lighthouse &c. from Trefusis, E. S. Tregoning, Bookseller, Falmouth, circa 1850, pair of lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, some marginal mount staining and soiling, each approximately 275 x 355 mm, with Rowe (G., lithographer). Cheltenham from Leckhampton Hill, circa 1860, hand coloured lithograph, 245 x 340 mm, plus Spreat (W., lithographer). Torquay from Park Hill looking East, W. Spreat, Exeter, circa 1840, hand-coloured lithograph, 275 x 390 mm, and Rock & Co. (lithographers). Wadebridge, Cornwall from Dunveth, M. Knapp, Bookseller, Wadebridge, Cornwall, 1853, hand coloured lithograph slight fraying to margins, 225 x 315 mm, together with Newman & Co., (lithographers). Torquay from Waldon Hill, Croydon's Royal Library & Reading Rooms (opposite Royal Hotel, Torquay), circa 1840, hand coloured lithograph, 255 x 365 mm, with Hawkins (G.). The Avon & Severn from Clifton Down, T. H. Weston, Bristol, circa 1835, hand coloured lithograph after S. C. Jones, one long crease affecting image, slight marginal fraying and soiling, 255 x 315 mm, with another approximately 50 engravings and lithographs, primarily of Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, including examples by or after Turner, Finden, Picken, Westhall, Townsend, Bartlett, Mutlow and Watts, mostly hand-coloured, various sizes and condition, plus Dinsdale (George), Lithographic Impressions of Sketches from Nature near Cheltenham, Rodwell & Martin, 1822, six uncoloured lithographs, some spotting, dust-soiling and marginal closed tears, stitch bound in publisher's paper wrappers with decorative title to upper cover, slim folio, overall size, 340 x 445 mm, and View Book. Views of Jersey, Rock & Co. 1866, 24 hand-coloured engraved oval vignettes, some marginal finger soiling, text block is broken with contents shaken and loose, publisher's blue cloth gilt, stained, creased and worn, oblong 8vo, overall size 140 x 220, and Six Views in Teignmouth, Nicholson, Teignmouth, circa 1880, 6 uncoloured photolithographic oval vignettes, publisher's printed card wrappers, oblong 12mo, overall size 105 x 185 mmQty: (approx. 62)

Hale (Matthew). Historia Placitorum Coronæ. The History of the Pleas of the Crown ... now first published from his Lordship's Original Manuscript, and the several References to the Records examined by the Originals, with large notes, by Sollom Emlyn ... To which is added a table of the principal matters, 2 volumes, In the Savoy [London]: printed by E. & R. Nutt and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edward Sayer) for F. Gyles, T. Woodward, & C. Davis, 1736, lacking portrait frontispiece, ownership signature to title, some browning, 20th century buckram, skiver title label to spines, covers dust-soiled, folio, together with a large collection of Freemasonry related reference including: Hamill (John & Gilbert, Robert), Freemasonry, A Celebration of the Craft, 1st edition, London: Greenwich Editions, 1998, colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust-jacket, large 4to, Curl (James Stevens), The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry, an Introductory Study, 1st edition, London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1991, monochrome illustrations, gift inscription to front free endpaper, original boards in price-clipped dust-jacket, 4to, Yates (Martin), Freemasonry in the Province of Somerset from 1733, 1st edition, Wedmore, Somerset: Provincial Grand Lodge of Somerset, 2010, colour and monochrome illustrations, gift inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial boards in price-clipped dust-jacket, 4to, and other similar Freemasonry related referenceQty: (2 cartons)

Giles (Herbert A.). Chinese Poetry in English Verse, Bernard Quaritch, 1898, slight toning to endpapers & title page, publishers original yellow cloth, boards & spine slightly toned & marked, 8vo, together with; Carroll (Lewis), Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Folio Society, 2008, 92 colour facsimile pages, all edges gilt, publishers original gilt decorated full blue morocco, with companion volume The Original Alice, by Sally Brown, 2008, in original gilt decorated presentation box, 8vo, limited edition 296/3750, and Trovillion (Ciolet & Hal. W), Christmas at Thatchcot, Trovillion Private Press, Illinois, 1947, signed by Violet Trovillion to the limitation page, publishers original black cloth spine to printed boards, 8vo, limited edition 459/1947, plus other 19th & 20th century literature, poetry & private press, including The Flower Plates from Robert Thornton's The Temple of Flora, Folio Society, 2008, some leather binding, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (3 shelves )

Olorenshaw (J. R.). Notes On The History of The Church and Parish of Rattlesden, in the County of Suffolk, [self-published], 1900, period inscription by the author to the front pastedown, 32 monochrome illustrations, bookplates to front endpapers, front gutters partially cracked, some minor toning & spotting, publishers original green cloth, boards slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, limited edition 116/200, together with; Taylor (John George), Our Lady of Batersey, the story of the Battersea Church and Parish told from original sources, George White, Chelsea, 1925, black & white illustrations, later inscription to front endpaper, cracked gutters, some light spotting & toning throughout, publishers original blue cloth, boards & spine marked & rubbed to head & foot, 4to, and Rock (Daniel), The Church of Our Father as seen in St. Osmund's Rite for the Cathedral of Salisbury, 4 volumes, new edition, John Hodges, 1903, black & white illustrates, bookplates to front endpapers, some minor toning, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spines slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other 19th & 20th century church history & architecture reference, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves & a large folio)

Scharf (Aaron). Art and Photography, 1st edition, 1968, illustrated throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, a little chipped and soiled, small folio, together with: Gernsheim (Helmut), The Origins of Photography, 1st edition, 1982, illustrations throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, rubbed and slightly soiled, 4to, Lannoy (Richard), Benares seen from Within, 1st edition, Bath, 1999, colour and black and white illustrations throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, small folio, Cameron (Nigel & Goodrich, L. Carrington), The Face of China, as seen by Photographers & Travelers, 1860-1912, 1st edition, Aperture, 1978, sepia illustrations from photographs, original cloth in dust jacket, oblong folio, plus other photography history and reference including India interest and a few duplicatesQty: (approx. 55)

Leycester (Peter). Historical Antiquities, in Two Books. The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland. The Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire......., Whereunto is annexed a Transcript of Doomsday-Book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the Original Record, London: W. L. for Robert Clavell, 1673, title in red & black, folding uncoloured engraved map of Cheshire by John Speed (Roger Rea published), several woodcut heraldic crests to text throughout, occasional light dust-soiling and few minor marks, later endpapers, contemporary sheep, rebacked, maroon morocco title label preserved, folioQty: (1)NOTESUpcott pp.64-66.

* British Prime Ministers. A collection of 35 clipped signatures, signed and addressed envelopes, and free fronts of British Prime Ministers and Politicians, circa 1800-1850, including Prime Ministers Charles Grey (1764-1845), George Smith-Stanley (1799-1869), Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester (1776-1834), Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827), Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh-Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914), James Duff, 4th Earl of Fife (1776-1857), Lieutenant-General Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington (1807-1884), General John Fayne, Lord Burghersh (1784-1859), Sir Henry William Bayntun (1766-1840), Henry 'Orator' Hunt (1773-1835), John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869), Thomas Attwood (1783-1856), John Bright (1811-1889), Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), Isaac Butt (1813-1879), Joseph Gillis Biggar (1828-1890), Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns (1819-1885), Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800-1885), Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812-1862), John Lubbock (1834-1913), Lord George Bentinck (1802-1848), Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney (1744-1811) and Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam (1786-1857), all contained in modern black plastic album, with printed sheet of historical notes for each figure accompanying each signature, folioQty: (1)

Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, volumes 1-4 only, mixed editions, 1923-27, monochrome illustrations, original dark blue cloth gilt, first volume with some marks and fraying to head and foot of spine, 8vo, together with: Normandy Landings. The Administrative History of the Operations of 21 Army Group on the Continent of Europe, 6 June 1944-8 May 1945, Germany, November 1945, numerous coloured maps and charts, original cloth gilt, rubbed and some discolouration, folio, plus other Churchill interest, including many duplicate volumes of Randolph S. Churchill's Winston S. Churchill, volumes 1 & 2 only, Winston Churchill's Marlborough His Life and Times, volumes 1 & 2 only and Companion Volumes to Randolph S. Churchill's Winston S. Churchill, volumes I and II only, all original cloth, many in dust wrappers, mainly 8vo (approximately 150 volumes)Qty: (6 shelves)

Folio Society. A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain, by William Daniell, 2008, Lives of the Engineers, by Samuel Smiles, 2006, The History of the Kings of Britain, by Geoffrey of Monmouth, 2010, The Making of the English Landscape, by W. G. Hoskins, 2005, Domesday Book, 3 volumes, edited by Ann Williams & G. H. Martin, 2003, together with 54 further volumes of Folio Society publications, all British history reference, all original cloth in slipcases, G/VG, 8v0Qty: (61)

Brassington (W. Salt). A History of the Art of Bookbinding, with some account of the Books of the Ancients, London: Elliot Stock, 1894, half-title, colour frontispiece and plates, monochrome plates and illustrations, title in red & black, slight toning, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original brown cloth with blocked hunting scene in black to boards, light fraying at head & foot of spine, 4to, together with: Seligman (G. Saville & Hughes, Talbot), Domestic Needlework, its Origins and Customs throughout the Centuries, London: Country Life, [1926], half-title, colour frontispiece and monochrome plates, original cloth in dust-jacket, dust-jacket strengthened to verso at spine and edges, folio (limited edition 377/500), Hobson (G.D.), English Binding before 1500, Cambridge: University Press, 1929, half-title, monochrome plates, illustrations, top edge gilt, original cloth, skiver title label to spine, spine faded, folio, Crane (W.J.E.), Bookbinding for Amateurs, London: L. Upcott Gill, 1885, wood engraved illustrations, original green cloth, blocked decoration in black and gilt, spine slightly faded, 8vo, Craig (Maurice), Irish Bookbindings 1600-1800, London: Cassell & Co Ltd., 1954, chromolithograph frontispiece and monochrome plates, top edge gilt, original cloth, folio, Hobson (Anthony), Humanists and Bookbinders, the Origins and Diffusion of the Humanistic Bookbinding 1459-1559, reprinted, Cambridge: University Press, 1992, colour frontispiece, colour plates & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust-jacket, light oil stain to front of dust-jacket, dust-jacket strengthened to verso at spine and edges, small folio, Needham (Paul), Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings 400-1600, New York & London: Pierpont Morgan Library & Oxford University Press, 1979, mounted colour frontispiece, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket, dust-jacket strengthened to verso at spine and edges, small folio,Qty: (7)

* George II (1683-1760), King of Great Britain and Ireland 1727-60. Letter Signed, ‘George R’, as King, dictated at Hampton Court Palace ('our Empire inside the other Empire'), 20 August 1728, to an unidentified Prince, in German, the King informs his correspondent that yesterday 'we received the sad letter which has informed us that our kind and beloved uncle the most serene and honourable Prince Ernst August, Duke of York and Albany, of Brunswick and Luneburg, Prince-Bishop of Osnabruck passed away after eight days of illness at his residence in Osnabruck on 14th August’, and continues to remark, 'This unexpected death takes us to the heart, and we are sure that you sympathise and mourn with us and our House. I would therefore like to express my sympathy to you’, annotation at the head of the first page indicates that the letter was received at Marienburg on 14 September 1728, some light age wear and a tear to the left margin, neat closed tear repair to inner margin and only very slightly affecting a few words of text without loss, signed with holograph subscription (’Your Cousin and Friend'), 2 pages with the upper half of the blank integral leaf present and featuring a black wax seal, folioQty: (1)NOTESErnest Augustus (1674-1728) Duke of York and Albany, the younger brother of King George I. The Duke served as a soldier with some distinction under Emperor Leopold I during the Nine Years' War and the War of Spanish Succession. He died at Osnabruck on 14 August 1728 where, a year earlier, his brother King George I had also died.

Mackenzie (Murdoch). Orcades: or, a Geographic and Hydrographic Survey of the Orkney and Lewis Islands, in Eight Maps ... The third edition, with additional soundings, and some corrections, London: printed for the author, by M. Say, and sold by K. Mackenzie, 1776, [2] 6 pp., 8 engraved large folding maps by Emanuel Bowen after Murdoch Mackenzie (various dimensions: see note) each with title and dedication within separate rococo cartouches (map 1 title within figural cartouche), bar scales, and inset coastal profiles, text and maps all mounted on stubs, title-page with lower margin excised (removing an old inscription, the printed text unaffected), soiling, and short closed tear at lower inner corner, the maps with contemporary manuscript captions in black ink rectos (inside and outside plate-marks) and versos, variable light dust-soiling, browning, and offsetting, early paper-reinforcement along folds verso, maps 1-3 and 7 closely trimmed along at least one edge (to neat line in cases, cropping top neat-line in map 7), map 1 with shallow chip to left-hand edge affecting plate-mark but not neat line and with short closed tear to lower margin, short closed tear to lower inner corner of maps 2 and 6 affecting frame only, map 5 with outer section reattached at an early date with concomitant darkening and disruption to image, map 7 with short (3cm) split to foot of one old fold and a little fraying along close-trimmed top edge, minor paper-disruption and soiling along one fold of map 8 (the fold with old paper-reinforcement verso as noted), a few other marks, nicks and chips, modern red-brown half morocco binding, atlas folio (binding dimensions 62.2 x 42.2 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Very rare: not in ESTC, which cites only the first edition of 1750, for which six copies are traced. 'Mackenzie set new standards for hydrographic surveying in Britain' (ODNB). The maps are dated 1750 at the foot, indicating that the original plates were used; most are signed by Emanuel Bowen. Some of them bear interesting dedications: map 5 is dedicated to 'Alexander Mackenzie of Hampton in Virginia', map 7 to the governor and adventurers of the Hudson's Bay Company. Titles and dimensions are as follows: 1) The Orkney Islands (57.8 x 78 cm). 2) The South Isles of Orkney (60.2 x 67 cm). 3) Pomona or Main-Land (55.5 x 78 cm). 4) The North East Coast of Orkney (68 x 55.2 cm). 5) The North West Coast of Orkney (52.7 x 57 cm). 6) The Lewis, or North Part of Long-Island (58.7 x 65 cm). 7) The North Part of the Lewis (60 x 85 cm). 8) The South East Coast of the Lewis (63 x 60 cm).

Macquoid (Percy). A History of English Furniture, 4 volumes (The Age of Oak, The Age of Walnut, The Age of Mahogany, The Age of Satinwood), Lawrence & Bullen, 1904-08, numerous colour plates & black & white illustrations, some light spotting & toning, uniform publishers original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spines slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, folio, together with; Sparrow (Walter Shaw), Prints & drawings by Frank Brangwyn with some other phases of his art, John Lane, 1919, colour plates & numerous black & white illustrations, some light spotting & toning, publishers original cloth, boards & spine slightly spotted & rubbed, split to head of the spine, 4to, and other art & furniture reference, mostly original cloth, overall condition is fair/good, 8vo/folioQty: (3 shelves)

Acts of Parliament. A large collection of 19th century Acts of Parliament, some side stitched as issued, all disbound, folioQty: (10 cartons)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, Edinburgh: printed by James Watson, Printed to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1722, general title in red & black and with woodcut royal armorial device, New Testament title with genealogical entries for members of the Bonnar family (entries dating from 1760s-70s), some browning, dust-soiling and spotting, bound with at rear The Psalms of David in Meter (caption title) with margins widened, browning, dust-soiling and spotting throughout, without front free endpaper, rear free endpaper detached and torn & frayed to margins (with two Bonnar family entries in manuscript), contemporary blind panelled calf, boards detached, worn, folio (445 x 280 mm)Qty: (1)NOTESESTC T90370; Herbert 959. The General Assembly of 1717 had instructed the Commission to take steps 'to get printing, vending, and importing of the incorrect copies of the Holy Scriptures stopped and prevented.' This edition is specially commended for its accuracy by Lee (Memorial, pp. 188–191); it contains, however, a misprint in Ps. liii l, 'on God for no God' (Herbert).

* Gottwald (Klement, 1896-1953), Czechoslovak Communist Politician, Chairman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 1929-53. Typed Letter Signed, ‘Gottwald’, Prague, 14 January 1949, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Czech, confirming the appointment of Karla Hoyera on a third scale salary 'in the personal, state of officials and administrative services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' with effect from 1 April 1948, countersigned by Vladimir Clementis, embossed letterhead, a few very light creases, 1 page, folioQty: (1)NOTESA rare official letter from Gottwald, who served as Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia 1946-48 and as President of Czechoslovakia 1948-53. Vladimir Clementis (1902-1952), Slovak Politician, a prominent member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia 1948-50.

Pennell (Joseph). Etchers and Etchings, Chapters in the history of the arts together with technical explanations of modern artists, 1st edition, T. Fisher Unwin, 1920, 8 original unsigned etchings by Pennell, numerous reproductions, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original publisher's brown morocco-backed boards gilt, rubbed and some marks, folio, limited signed edition 97/105, together with: Dodgson (Campbell). A Catalogue of Etchings by Augustus John 1901-1914, 1st edition, Charles Chenil and Co., Ltd., 1920, monochrome illustrations, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original white cloth-backed boards gilt, rubbed and some soiling, large 4to, limited edition 129/325, plus others related on etching and print making, including Frank L. Emanuel, Etching and Etchings, 1930, Frank Rinder, Etchings of D.Y. Cameron and a Catalogue of His Etched Work, Otto Schulze, 1908 (2 copies), W. Shaw Burrow, A Book of British Etchings, 1926, John Buckland-Wright, Etchings and Engravings, Techniques and the Modern Trend, 1st edition, 1953 (ex-library copy), Roberto Sanesi, The Graphic Work of Ceri Richards, 1973, Clare Leighton, Wood-engraving and Woodcuts, Studio 'How To Do It' series, no. 2, reprinted 1944 (covers damp marked), etc.Qty: (17)

Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, with a Preface by George Saintsbury, 1894, black & white frontispiece and numerous illustrations, frontispiece tissue guard browned (lightly affecting adjacent pages), hinges cracked, all edges gilt, original blue-green cloth, with elaborate peacock design in gilt, slightly cocked & dulled spine, with long frayed tear, some soiling at head, and a trifle frayed at foot, 8vo, together with: Titanic, The Daily Graphic Titanic In Memoriam Number, April 20 1912, 20pp. newspaper supplement, edges lightly toned and a little frayed in places, slim folio, and one otherQty: (3)

Bauwens (M., et al.). Les Affiches Etrangeres Les Affiches Etrangères Illustrées, 1st edition, Paris, 1897, 62 colour lithographic plates after Beardsley, Toulouse-Lautrec, Orlik Meunier, Rassenfosse, Penfield, Van Rysselberghe, and others, 150 monochrome illustrations, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco gilt, rubbed and a little scuffed with some marks and minor stains, folio Limited edition of 1050 copies, this being one of 1000 copies on papier vélim.Qty: (1)

Cheshire. Greenwood (C.), Map of the County Palatine of Chester from an actual survey made in the year 1819, Wm. Fowler Wakefield & C. Greenwood, London, June 15th 1819, uncoloured large scale map on four sheets, calligraphic cartouche and dedication, compass rose and table of explanation, each sheet approximately 580 x 755 mm, bound in modern quarter cloth over marbled boards with printed label to upper cover, slim upright folio, binding size 640 x 405 mmQty: (1)NOTESA clean example with no perceived faults.

Walton (Izaak & Charles Cotton). The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation..., 2 volumes, The Winchester Edition, Freemantle & Company, 1902, 30 black & white etchings plus other illustrations, some light spotting & toning, top edge gilt, uniform publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed & marked, 8vo, together with; Shannon (Kevin), The Lion and The Rose, the 4th Battalion and the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 2015-17, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, and The Caughley Society, Caughley Blue & White Patterns, 1st edition, 2012, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, limited edition, 5/500 plus other 19th century & modern miscellaneous reference, including military, fishing, art, sports, music, & a bound volume of handwritten correspondence, letters &c. by & to Lord Burghersh, 1815-16, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves & a carton)

* Newcastle (Duke of, 1693-1768), British Prime Minister 1754-56, 1757-62; AND North (Lord, 1732-1792), British Prime Minister 1770-82. Document Signed by both the Duke of Newcastle (‘Holles Newcastle’) and Lord North (‘North’), Whitehall Treasury Chambers, 29 June 1759, manuscript document addressed to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs in Scotland approving the application of John Taylor, a Landwaiter and Searcher at Port Glasgow, to be absent from his duty for three months, also directing ‘that no deduction shall be made from the salary of the said John Taylor on account of his absence during that time provided you have no objection thereto’, also countersigned at the foot by Robert Nugent, some very light age wear and a small closed tear at the centre, neatly repaired to the verso and not affecting any of the signatures. 1 page, folioQty: (1)NOTESLord North led Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence. Robert Nugent (1709-1788), 1st Earl Nugent, Irish Politician & Poet, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1754-59.

Mazzinghi (Joseph). Admiral Lord Nelson's Victory. A Sonata for the Piano Forte, composed by J. Mazzinghi: in commemoration of the glorious 1st of August 1798, printed by Goulding, Phipps & D'Almaine: Music Sellers to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, [1798], engraved title with large vignette depicting the Battle of the Nile, single-page catalogue of Mazzinghi's works, and 10 pages of music (numbered 2-11), page 7/8 with closed horizontal tear repaired, without loss, bound without covers, together with: Dibdin (Thomas John). The Death of Nelson, on the Twenty first of October, sung by Mr. Incledon, in the Interlude of Nelson's Glory, at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, printed & sold by Preston, at his Wholesale Warehouses, 97, Strand, [1805], engraved bifolium (numbered 2-3), several short closed tears to margins (prepared with blank paper to versos), disbound without covers, plus: Dibdin (Thomas John). Nelson and The Navy, written & composed by Mr. Dibdin, and sung by him in his New Entertainment, called A Tour to the Land's End, printed & sold by the Author, at his Music Warehouse, Leicester Place, Leicester Square, [1798], 4 pages of engraved music (numbered [1]-4), disbound without covers, plus Smart (George Thomas, 1776-1867). An Acrostic Elegy on the much lamented Lord Viscount Horatio Nelson written by A.P. Esqr., the music composed by G.T. Smart, printed for G.T. Smart, 91 Great Portland Street, by Preston, 97, Strand, [1805], engraved title (some light overall browning), and five pages of engraved music (numbered 1-5), bound in modern marbled boards with handwritten title label to spine and upper cover, slim folioQty: (4)

Arrowsmith (Aaron). Memoir relative to the Construction of the Map of Scotland published by Aaron Arrowsmith in the Year 1807, 1st edition, London: A. Arrowsmith, [1809?], 45 pp., 3 engraved maps ('Map of the Island of St Kilda, Borrera, etc. etc., Taken Aug. 1799'; a Ptolemaic map of Britain after Richard of Cirencester, folding; and 'A Part of the N. E. Coast of the Shetland Isles surveyed in Jan[uar]y 1785 by Lieut. Columbine', dated 1807, folding, opening to 108 x 62.5 cm), staining to first few text-leaves with concomitant paper-disruption to title-page, St Kilda map spotted, 'A Part of the N. E. Coast of the Shetland Isles ...' map with recoverable paper-disruption to intersections of a few folds, front free endpaper excised, edges untrimmed, original boards, cloth backstrip, wear to corners, 4to (31.5 x 25.5 cm), together with: Loch (James). Memoir of George Granville, late Duke of Sutherland, 1st edition, London: 'not published', 1834, 83 pp., engraved frontispiece, lithographic plate (both spotted), inscribed 'John Horton Esq, Priors Lee, from the Duchess Countess of Sutherland' on the front free endpaper, original cloth, 4to, Barnard (Frank). Picturesque Life in Shetland, 1st edition, Edinburgh: George Waterston & Sons, 1890, collotype or halftone plates from paintings by Barnard, adhesive staining to endpapers, original roan-backed boards, some wear to spine, oblong folio, number 230 of 300 copies only, Lewis (Samuel). A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland ... Supplementary Volume: Map of Scotland, London: S. Lewis and Co., 1846, lithographic map hand-coloured in outline, divided into 6 folding sheets mounted on stubs (individually opening to 71 x 67 cm, each with short recoverable split at central intersection of folds), original cloth, 4to, Crawfurd (George). A General Description of the Shire of Renfrew ... continued to the Present Period by George Robertson, Paisley: J. Neilson, 1818, 3 engraved plates including frontispiece, 2 hand-coloured engraved folding maps, engraved folding facsimile, frontispiece spotted and damp-stained, one map with repairs verso, text not collated, original moiré cloth, paper spine-label, wear to spine, 4to, and 7 others including a large Ordnance Survey map of the parish of Newbattle (1854; linen-backed and finely bound in contemporary maroon morocco with patterned endpapers), another copy of Loch, another copy of Lewis (dated 1851), and similarQty: (12)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS

Drummond de Melfort (Louis Hector, comte de). [Traité sur la cavalerie, atlas volume only, 1st edition, Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1776], 34 engraved folding plates on thick laid paper, nearly all after Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe by Aveline le jeune, Duponchelle, Giraud and others (two unnumbered, the rest numbered 1-32), all printed on two conjoined sheets mounted on stubs, opening to 64 x 95 cm (except plate 25, opening to 64 x 130 cm), plates 3-6, 10-11 and 16-18 all transversely or longitudinally bisected and the resulting two sections separately bound, variable paper-disruption to central intersections of folds in non-bisected plates (generally without loss), more extensive in plates 1, 2, 7-9, 12, 25, and 32, frequent closed tears, repairs verso, second unnumbered plate rumpled and nicked along fore edges, plate 25 creased and a few marginal damp-stains and other marks, bookplate of the Cavalry Club, contemporary calf, rebacked and inner hinges reinforced, worn, oblong folio (33 x 49.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESHuth p. 47; cf. Cohen-de Ricci 326-7 (the atlas volume replaced by the version published by Nyon and Didot, titled Marches et Evolutions de Cavalerie). There was a reprint published at Dresden in 1786, with the engravings 'reduced and inferior to those of the original edition' (Huth).

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Bookes of the Old & New Testament, Cambridge: John Field, [1659], engraved title (frayed to edges with loss and lined to verso), letterpress New Testament title, Apocrypha present, colophon dated 1659, dedication leaf after general title lined to verso with tissue, extra-illustrated with 213 engraved plates from Bybelsche Tafereelen, published by Pierre Mortier (1661-1711) Amsterdam, 1700 bound throughout volume, some browning and spotting (mostly to text), occasional closed tears to edges with some repairs, stain to lower margins of some leaves, all edges gilt, modern maroon rexine, large folio (42 x 28 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESHerbert 666.

Folio Society. The Essential Darwin, 4 volumes, by Charles Darwin, 1990, Seeds of Change, six plants that transformed mankind, by Henry Hobhouse, 2007, Talleyrand, by Duff Cooper, 2010, HIstory of Western Philosophy..., by Bertrand Russell, 3rd printing, 2005, original gilt decorated brown morocco, top edge gilt, History of Western Science 1543-2001, by John Gribbin, original gilt decorated quarter blue morocco, top edge gilt, together with 50 further volumes of Folio Society publications, all history reference, all original cloth, 53 in slipcases & 5 without, G/VG, 8voQty: (58)

* Walpole (Robert, 1676-1745), British Prime Minister 1721-42. A very fine, rare Document Signed, ‘R Walpole’, as Prime Minister, Palace at Whitehall, 22 July 1740, manuscript document addressed to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, being a warrant ordering the payment of two thousand one hundred and ten pounds eleven shillings and six pence to be made to Thomas Lowther without account, ‘that is to say, the sum of Two thousand pounds to reimburse the like sum by him Expended to answer a Bill of Exchange drawn from abroad for his Majesty’s Service, and the remaining sum… is to defray the Fees and Charges attending the Receipt thereof…’, countersigned at the foot by William Clayton (1671-1752, 1st Baron Sundon, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury) and Thomas Winnington (1696-1746, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury) and further countersigned at the head by 8 Lord Justices including two later Prime Ministers, some light age wear and a few small, neat splits at edges of some folds, 1 page with integral blank leaf, folio, (37 x 23 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThe eight signatures of the Lord Justices are: Spencer Compton (c.1673-1743, 1st Earl of Wilmington, British Prime Minister 1742-43), Thomas Pelham Holles (1693-1768, 1st Duke of Newcastle, British Prime Minister 1757-62), John Potter (c.1674-1747, Archbishop of Canterbury 1737-47), Philip Yorke (1690-1764, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English Lawyer & Politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 1737-56), Lionel Sackville (1688-1765, 1st Earl of Dorset, English Political Leader, Lord Steward 1725-30, 1737-44), Charles Lennox (1701-1750, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, British Nobleman, Peer & Politician, Master of the Horse 1735-50, remembered for his patronage of cricket), Charles Powlett (1685-1754, 3rd Duke of Bolton, British Politician & Lieutenant General) and John Montagu (1690-1749, 2nd Duke of Montagu, British Peer, Master of the Great Wardrobe 1709-49). Sir Thomas Lowther (1699-1745), English peer and landowner. Documents from this period featuring the signatures of three British Prime Ministers are rare.

Thoroton (Robert). The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, 1st edition, London: printed by Robert White for Henry Mortlock, 1677, title printed in red and black, (title & imprimatur leaf lined to verso), folding engraved county map, eight plates of coats-of-arms on four leaves and engraved slip with eight coats-of-arms, 16 engraved plates and plans (including 13 folding, folding plate of 'South Prospect of the Church of Newarke upon Trent' lined to verso), engraved illustrations to text many by Hollar, hole to blank fore-edge margin of S4, lower outer blank corners of 2U3 & 2U4 repaired, a few tiny burn holes to occasional leaves of text, all edges gilt, 20th century maroon morocco by A. Price of Oxford, elaborate gilt decoration, folioQty: (1)NOTESWing T1063; Upcott pp.1047-1051.

Military. A large collection of mostly modern military history & reference, including The Western Front, 10 parts in 2 volumes, by Muirhead Bone, 1917, & publications by Pen & Sword, Aurum, Conway, Sutton, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves)

Guiccardini (Francesco). L'histoire d'Italie. Translatée d'italien en françois, et presentée à tres vertueuse, tres haute, et trespuissante dame et princesse, Katherine de Medicis, royne de France, par Hierosme Chomedey, Paris: Bernard Turrisan, 1568, signatures a4 A-3Z6 [par.]8, [4] 414 [8] leaves (lacking one leaf: signature H6, i.e. folio 48), text in roman letter, side-notes in italic, large woodcut Aldine device to title-page, woodcut headpieces and initials, red manuscript box-rules throughout, light browning, leaves a1-2 (a1=title-page) with restored loss to fore margins not affecting text, ownership inscription dated 1638 to head of title-page (another effaced), all edges gilt, later pigskin dyed black and tooled in gilt and blind, rebacked, rubbed, head of spine torn, folio (32.5 x 21.2 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThis edition not in Adams (cf. G1524-6 for later editions of Chomedey's translation); cf. PMM 85 for the first edition (published in Italian in 1561). First edition in French of 'the first history of Europe' (PMM).

Symons (A. J. A., Desmond Flower, Francis Meynell). The Nonesuch Century, An Appraisal, a Personal Note and a Bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the Press 1923-1934, The Nonesuch Press, 1936, 99 monochrome tipped-in plates, 'prize' label tipped-in to the front endpaper, some minor marginal toning, publishers original green cloth, boards & spine slightly faded, large 8vo, limited edition 362/750, together with; Morse (Peter), John Sloan's Prints, A Catalogue Rainsonné of the Etchings, Lithographs, and Posters, Yale University Press, 1969, numerous black & white illustrations, publishers original grey cloth in slipcase, folio, limited edition 82/150, and Hope (T. E.), Lexical Borrowing in the Romance Languages, 2 volumes, [Language and Style Series], 1st edition, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1971, publishers original uniform cloth in dust jackets and slipcase, spines lightly faded & marked, 8vo, plus other modern bibliography reference & related, including A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475-1640, 3 volumes, by A. W. Pollard & G. R. Redgrave, 2nd edition, The Bibliography Society, 1986-91, A Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library, 3 volumes, by Allen T. Hazen, Oxford University Press, 1969, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves)

Illustrated London News. Volumes 18 & 19, January - December 1851, numerous wood engraved illustrations, many relating to the Great Exhibition, some contents loose, original cloth gilt, some wear, folio, together with a defective volume of The Graphic Feb - Dec 1884Qty: (3)NOTESSold with all faults, not subject to return.

[Boece, Hector]. Descrittione del regno di Scotia, et delle isole sue adiacenti di Petruccio Ubaldini cittadin Fiorentino. Nella quale si descrivono i confini di ciascuna provincia, ed i luoghi che visono, e le cose piu degne di memoria, che visi trovano tanto naturali, quanto maravigliose, Antwerp [i.e. London: John Wolfe], 1588, [8], 54 pp. (i.e. without initial blank A1), printer's woodcut device to title, decorative initials, head- and tailpieces, light toning and scattered spotting, inner hinges split, late-19th-century diced half russia, gilt decorated spine, folio (27.3 x 18.7 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Provenance: Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903), financier and bibliophile (bookplate with monogram surmounted by baron's coronet and printed shelfmark 4844). ESTC S118915 (ten copies in UK libraries); Pforzheimer 1015; STC 24480. First edition of this free Italian translation by Petruccio Ubaldini of Hector Boece's Scotorum Historiae, 'well printed in a fine italic type' (Pforzheimer). Boece's work was first printed in 1527. Despite the Antwerp imprint 'there can be no doubt that this book was printed in London by John Wolfe. He obtained a license for it 27th November 1587, and his name appears on the title of several other of Ubaldini's books published about this time' (Pfozheimer).

Hutton (Charles). Tables of the Products and Powers of Numbers ... With an Introduction, explaining and illustrating the Use of the Tables. Published by Order of the Commissioners of Longitude, 1st edition, London: printed by William Richardson, 1781, [8] 103 [1] pp., engraved armorial bookplate of Lord Walsingham to front pastedown (reimposed?), contemporary sprinkled half calf, marbled sides renewed, joints rubbed, wear to extremities, folio (42 x 26 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESDSB VI pp. 576-7; ESTC T53102 (seven copies in UK libraries). A scarce work by the autodidact Newcastle colliery worker's son who became professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Hutton's forced resignation from the Royal Society at the request of Joseph Banks provoked widespread criticism of Banks's management of the Society.

Attributed to Francis Nicholson (British, 1753-1844) Travellers on a country road, watercolour, 29cm x 44cm. Provenance: the artist's estate (in folio until 1978)Francis Ward, Art Investment

After Ando Hiroshige folio of six facsimile woodblock prints, to include 'Snowfall at Kambara', 'Sudden Shower at Shono', 'Moon Light by River Tama', 'YUI', 'MARIKO' and 'NIHON-BASHI Bridge', 19 x 29cm, together with two Parisian prints of Champs Elysee and Notre Dame after Herbelot, 22 x 27cm

Attributed to Francis Nicholson (British, 1753-1844) Lakeland landscape with figures, watercolour, 29cm x 44cm. Provenance: the artist's estate (in folio until 1978)Francis Ward, Art Investment

HISTORIC CLASS PICTURES, copyright MacMillan & Company 1958, folio of a prince