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HAZARDS de la ROUTE' - HUMOROUS STORYBOARD PRINTS c1920s A good group of thirteen French pochoir hand-coloured lithograph prints by J.C. Bellaigue, depicting pitfalls of early motoring: a story in pictures with printed humorous captions; original unbound sheets from a Paris printing workshop: contained in folio-folder, suitable for framing

Two shelves of folio edition books, to include Edward Gibbons

Three shelves of folio edition books, to include Charles Dickens and Jane Austen novels

9 Folio Society boxed books To include history titles. Comprising: More Pick Of Punch, At The Court Of Borgia, The Trial of John Bunyan, Rides Around Britain, In The Search of England, The First Colonists, The Kings of England, William Dampier and 1066 an

A collection of Folio Society books including The Reign of Henry VII, Homage to Catalonia, Tom Jones, the Life of Michael Angelo, The Tempest etc

A George IV mahogany folio stand, attributed to Gillows, circa 1825, the hinged slatted uprights on ratcheted adjustable stands, above rectangular tapering supports incorporating moulded roundel terminals, on rectangular bases and reeded scroll feet terminating in concealed castors, 103cm high, 61cm wide, 74cm deep  Provenance: Fortgranite, Baltinglass, County Wicklow Folio stands were widely adopted in country house libraries to store and support large books. One such design by Gillows for Ferguson & Co. dated 1828 is illustrated in Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. II, p. 99, pls. 645 and 646. This print/portfolio-stand, with Grecian plinth-supported pilasters, was the type of furniture described by J. C. Loudon as useful in both drawing rooms and libraries (The Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833, no. 1969).For a very similar example, see Christie's, Important English Furniture, 30th November 2000, Lot 255, £8.225.Condition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches and abrasions commensurate with age and use. Some old chips and splits. The hinges to one of the slatted uprights have moved position leaving plugged holes and sections of replacement veneer to the undersides (see images). This is only visible upon close inspection. Sections of replacement timber adjacent to the hinges of the other slatted upright (see images). Old nail repair to lower slat of one upright. Very small section if replacement timber used to disguise chip to one side of base. Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

Y A George IV rosewood pedestal table or stand, almost certainly by Gillows, circa 1825, the dished and shaped top with carved beaded edge, the stem incorporating fluted, lappet carved detail, on triple downswept cabriole legs carved with acanthus leaves and terminating in cabochon carved feet, 74.5cm high, the top 35.5 x 26.5cmThe design of the current stand is an elaborate version of a model first shown in 1822 (Estimate Sketch Books folio 3170). The 1822 sketch is notable for being the first early 19th century Gillows design clearly based on a mid-18th century tripod table.For a pair of virtually identical 'stands' also referred to by Gillows as 'flower stands' see Christie's, Style & Spirit, 16th September 2014, Lot 192 (£6.875). A pair of the present model sold Important English Furniture, Sotheby's, New York, 16 October 2008, lot 178 ($20,000).Condition Report: Marks, knocks, scratches and abrasions commensurate with age and use. Some old splits and chips. Minor fading to top. Old repairs. One screw to block underneath top lacking. Block to underside of top is simulated rosewood. Remnants of small paper label to underside of top. Neat old repairs to bottom of stem, with small nail used to help secure and filler used in places. Three neat repairs to beaded edge of top. Slight movement within the join at the centre of the stem. Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition. Condition Report Disclaimer

A Victorian oak adjustable folio stand, circa 1870, in the manner of J.G Crace, the trellis panels decorated with carved patera terminals, above twin trestle uprights and a turned pole stretcher, on scroll and lappet carved cabriole shaped tapering legs and casters, 131cm high, 90cm wide, 62cm deep

A selection of Joseph Conrad hardback novels printed by the Folio Society (1996) including Lord Jim, An Outcast of the Islands, The Rover and Typhoon & other Tales (8)

Folio of 20 Pictures Including Two British Rail Travel Posters

Thorburn (Archibald). Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1923, 30 colour plates, some spotting to endpapers, contemporary previous owner inscription, top edge gilt, original red cloth, spine a little faded with small wormhole, a few light stains, folioQty: (1)NOTESWith an original pencil sketch of a grouse in flight by Archibald Thorburn (unsigned) pasted at head of half title, 11.5 x 16 cm (4.5 x 6.25 in).

Arlequin Press. One Pair of Eyes. Donald Watson, 1st edition, deluxe issue, Chelmsford: Arlequin Press, 1994, colour illustrations, original half morocco, slipcase, oblong folio, number 37 of 60 leather-bound copies signed by the author, publisher's prospectus and original print laid in, together with: Fuller (Errol). The Great Auk, 1st edition, Southborough: Errol Fuller, 1999, mounted colour frontispiece, photographic illustrations throughout, original green half leatherette, slipcase, 4to, number 185 of 400 copies signed by the author, without the accompanying print by Raymond Ching, Meinertzhagen (Richard). Pirates and Predators. The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1959, all plates as called for, bookplate of Robert 'Bob' Spencer (1923-1994), ornithologist, top edge gilt, recent red crushed half morocco, 4to [Plesch Library]. The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung für Botanik, Vaduz, Lichtenstein, collected by the late Arpad Plesch, Part 1 [-3], 3 volumes in 1, London: Sotheby & Co., 1976, list of prices and purchasers bound in, posthumous Plesch bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary green half morocco, 4to, [Godman Collection]. The Godman Collection of Watercolours for John Gould's 'The Birds of Great Britain'. The Property of Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Gordon Tregear, London: Christie's, 1994, all edges gilt, contemporary black crushed morocco gilt, 4to, and 3 others, 20th-century ornithology, half morocco bindings (Rogerson & Tunnicliffe, Our Bird Book, 1947; Rickman, Sketches and Notes from a Bird Painter's Journal, 1949; Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950)Qty: (8)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II

Monro (Robert). Monro. His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (Called Mac-Keyes Regiment) levied in August 1626 by Sr. Donald Mac-Key Lord Rhees, Colonell for his Majesties service of Denmark, and reduced after the Battle of Nerling, to one Company in September 1634 at Wormes in the Paltz, 1st edition, London: William Jones, 1637, woodcut headpiece and initial, lacking final blank, 2M2 misbound after 2M3, small burnhole to 2I1, light soiling to title, occasional light marginal water stain, previous owner signature of Hugh W. Young, bookplate of Sir Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone (1766-1848, Lieutenant-Colonel, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards), near contemporary sprinkled calf, spine label chipped, a little rubbed with joints split at ends, corners repaired, folioQty: (1)NOTESCockle 138; ESTC S114933; STC (2nd edition) 18022. "This book has several things to recommend it; it is the first regimental history, it contains a store of information, and it is highly readable." (Cockle). Robert Monro (died 1680) enlisted as Lieutenant in Donald Mackay's Scottish Regiment in 1626, which fought in Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus's army during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and recounts his experiences here during various campaigns. He later commanded the Scottish Covenanters during the Irish Confederate Wars of the 1640's.

Booth (Edward Thomas). Rough Notes on the Birds Observed during Twenty-Five Years' Shooting and Collecting in the British Islands, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1881-7, 114 hand-coloured lithographic plates after E. Neale, 2 hand-coloured lithographic maps, list of plates to each volume, errata leaf to volume 1, light spotting to last few text-leaves of volume 1, title-page of volume 2 and the 3 eider duck plates and relevant text in volume 3, faint spot in image of fulmar plate, Breydon Mudflats map bound to face volume 3 title-page (and with small marginal spot), marbled endpapers, green cloth inner hinges, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary black crushed half morocco, spine compartments panelled in gilt, joints rubbed, wear to corners, large folio (43 x 33 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Anker 51 ('beautiful plates'); Fine Bird Books p. 79; Freeman 399; Mullens & Swann p. 84; Nissen IVB 121; Wood p. 249; Zimmer pp. 79-81. 'A series of well-written field notes accompanied by good plates' (Zimmer), focusing on specimens collected in Scotland and the Norfolk Broads.

Frohawk (Frederick William). The Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1925], 60 coloured and 5 uncoloured plates, errata slip tipped to volume 1 front free endpaper, original blue cloth, printed dust jackets, a bright copy, folio, together with: Thomson (David Croal). The Life and Works of Thomas Bewick being Account of his Career and Achievements in Art with a Notice of the Works of John Bewick, 1st edition, London: "The Art Journal" Office, 1882, engraved frontispiece, numerous vignettes and plates (wood-engraved, or electrotypes or facsimiles of wood-engravings), all on india paper, mounted, original patterned cloth gilt, rubbed, folio, number 13 of 75 copies, initialled by the author, ibid. The Water-Colour Drawings of Thomas Bewick, 1st edition, London: Barbizon House, 1930, tipped-in colour plates, laid in tissue-guards, original pattern cloth, rear cover marked, 4to, number 75 of 325 copies, from the total edition of 525, McAlpine (Daniel). The Botanical Atlas. A Guide to the Practical Study of Plants. Containing Representatives of the Leading Forms of Plant Life. Volume I. Phanerograms [Volume II. Cryptograms], 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, 1883, chromolithographic frontispieces, 52 colour-printed engraved plates, folding table, volume 1 inner hinges partially cracked, original green pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed, large 4to, and 14 others, 20th-century ornithology reference, including another copy of Thomson, Life and Works of Thomas Bewick, number 32 of 75 copies, all 4to or folioQty: (20)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Freeman 2383 (McAlpine); Nissen ZBI 1452 (Frohawk).

Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, London: published by the author, 1862-73, 367 hand-coloured lithographic plates, many heightened in gum arabic, pp. [12] cxl [2] [68], [4] [152], [4] [140], [4] [170], [4] [172], the occasional marginal spot, a few oblong plates somewhat tightly bound with captions partly obscured, volume 5 initial blank creased and repaired and text-leaves for plates 76-7 transposed, yellow surface-paper endpapers, broad turn-ins tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, contemporary purple-brown morocco, spines richly gilt in compartments separated by twin raised bands, broad gilt borders to covers incorporating palmette and foliate rolls, imperial folio (54 x 36 cm)Qty: (5)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Provenance: William Nelson (engraved armorial bookplates with motto 'Virtute et votis'), probably the publisher and philanthropist (1816-1887; see Lyell, Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian Library , p. 16). Fine Bird Books (1990) pp. 40 & 102; Mullens & Swann pp. 240-2; Nissen IVB 372; Wood p. 365 ('A magnificent work'); Zimmer p. 261. A superb set. 'The most popular of [Gould's] works is always likely to be Birds of Great Britain ... There are lovely pictures of the homeliest of British birds; while fantasy and accuracy working hand in hand have full play in the fresh-water grebes and mergansers' (Fine Bird Books). 'Gould will always be remembered by the magnificent series of folio works bearing his name (one of which incidentally is the most sumptuous and costly of the British bird books), which are excelled in extent and beauty by the work of no one other ornithologist, past or present' (Mullens & Swann).

[Hooker, William]. [Pomona Londinensis, 1st edition, London: Hooker, 1813-18], 35 hand-coloured aquatint plates only (of 49: without plates 36-49), lacking all preliminary text including title-page, and text-leaf for plate 8, repairs to plates 1, 2 and 7, text-leaf for plate 1 with extensive repairs, text-leaves untrimmed, modern blue quarter morocco, 4to (35 x 24 cm), together with: Willughby (Francis, & John Ray). The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the County of Warwick Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. In Three Books ... Translated into English, and enlarged with many Additions throughout the whole Work. To which are added three considerable discourses, I. Of the Art of Fowling ... II. Of the Ordering of Singing Birds. III. Of Falconry, by John Ray, London: by A. C. for John Martyn, 1678, title-page in red and black, 76 engraved plates (of 80: lacking plates 1 and 9 and the 2 unnumbered plates, these last supplied in facsimile), toning, lacking at least text-leaves E2, H1, L1, 2A2-3, 2G4, 2Q3 and 3L3-4 (all supplied in facsimile on toned paper, laid in), tear with loss to plate 11 and 72, plates 73-77 frayed, fraying and repairs to a few other plates, 20th-century quarter calf, folio (35 x 22 cm), [MacGillivray, William, & Georges Cuvier]. The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History and the Physical Sciences [...] The Animal Kingdom, 1835-7, an incomplete run, 21 monthly numbers (only) in one volume, 84 + 84 pp., the sections from each number containing The Animal Kingdom bound in sequence at rear, 34 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 130), later half morocco with original part-title mounted to front board, folio (34.6 x 23.2 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Nissen BBI 913 (Hooker); Nissen IVB 991 (Willughby & Ray); Nissen ZBI 4619 (MacGillivray). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

Howard (H. Eliot). The British Warblers. A History, with Problems of their Lives, 10 original parts as issued (1-9, 9*), 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1907-15, 86 chromolithographic or photogravure plates after Grönvold, 12 colour maps, publisher's tipped-in slips to parts 2, 3, 4 and 9*, temporary general title-page and list of contents to part 4, part 8 with cancel leaf for part 7 pp. 25/6 and relevant slip, later tissue-guards laid in, a few abrasions to pastedowns from removal of adhesive material, original grey cloth-backed printed boards, housed in 2 custom green quarter morocco solander boxes, folio (29 x 20 cm), together with another copy, in modern green half morocco giltQty: (4)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Anker p. 231; Mullens & Swann pp. 298-9; Nissen IVB 454; Wood p. 392; Zimmer pp. 308-9. 'An elaborate and costly [work], of which only a limited number of copies have been printed' (Mullens & Swann). 'The coloured plates ... are excellent, and the same applies to the photogravures' (Anker).

Meyer (Henry Leonard). Illustrations of British Birds, 4 volumes, London: Longman and Co, c.1835-44, lithographic title-pages (first issue, retaining the diaresis above 'Meyer', though one point missing in volume 2), 339 hand-coloured lithographic plates (of which 16 of eggs), one uncoloured lithographic plate, tissue-guards throughout, bound without the list of illustrations in each volume, occasional light spotting, volumes 1-2 title-page creased, Solan gannet plate in volume 4 either a poor contemporary impression or later good-quality facsimile (caption blurred), engraved armorial bookplates (with boar's heads couped and motto 'Nil desperandum'), all edges gilt, contemporary green half morocco by Oldfield, spines gilt with avian motifs, sides rubbed, possible recolouring and consolidation to joints and extremities, folio (36.4 x 26 cm), together with a set of the octavo edition, 7 volumes in 4, London: G. W. Nickisson [-Simpkin, Marshall and Co.], 1842-50, containing text only, with same bookplates as the folio edition, matching contemporary green half morocco gilt by OldfieldQty: (8)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Provenance (folio and octavo editions): 1) J. Ingram Travers the younger (1820-1866), director of Joseph Travers & Sons, London wholesale grocers (ownership inscriptions); 2) Gladys M. Towsey (gift inscription). Fine Bird Books p. 123; Freeman 2563; Mullens & Swann pp. 401-3; Nissen IVB 627; Wood p. 462 ('this truly magnificent work') 'One of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology, in fact before the publication of Lord Lilford's Birds of the British Islands it stood sui generis ' (Mullens & Swann). The first edition was published between 1835 and 1841, with 313 plates. According to Mullens and Swann, the second issue (published in 1837-44) 'is identical in appearance but is printed on stouter paper, and has a number of plates containing figures of eggs in the lower corners which are not in the first issue', while the second edition (1838-44) contains 317 plates, many redrawn to face left instead of right. However, the concurrence of the different issues and editions means that plates were often interchanged or duplicated, and Meyer often produced extra plates for friends and associates, meaning that 'hardly any two copies ... [are] alike' (ibid.).

Orme (Edward, publisher). Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes of personal valour, bravery, and particular incidents which occurred to the armies of Great Britain and her allies, in the last long-contested war, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo, London: Edward Orme, 1819, 40 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, list of subscribers, some text and plates bound out of sequence, a few short closed marginal tears, a little minor spotting and offsetting, previous owner signature of W. Raleigh Plowden to title, his bookplate, hinges a little tender, all edges gilt, contemporary red blindstamped calf gilt, some wear at spine ends and corners, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio, 460 x 210 mm (18 x 8.25 in)Qty: (1)NOTESAbbey Life 376; Tooley 353. Early state with the title dated, without the rules beneath 'Battle of Waterloo' on title and two text leaves unpaginated (i.e. 'Corporal Logan Killing a French Colonel' and 'The Allies Before Dantzic in Winter'). 'According to Tooley the undated issue carries text paged to '98', and the dated only to page '94'. This is incorrect, all 98 pages being present in complete copies, but it should be noted that pages 95 to 98 are without pagination in the dated issue.' (Abbey Life). Probably a proof copy with 'Edward Orme' completed in manuscript to blank portion of title and plate imprints.

Rhodes (Ebenezer). Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire: made Chiefly for the Purpose of Picturesque Observations, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: for the author, 1818-23, pp. [8] 106 [2], [8] 126 [1], [8] 121, [8] 136, half-titles, 29 engraved plates after F. Chantrey and others, extra-illustrated throughout with 19th-century engravings, lithographs, aquatints, pencil sketches and watercolours (mainly mounted on interleaves), original plates spotted, book-labels of Cecil H. Wilson, Sheffield, later 19th-century red half calf, 4to (27.6 x 21.5 cm), together with: Bawden (William). Dom Boc. A Translation of the Record called Domesday so far as relates to the County of York, including also Amounderness, Lonsdale, and Furness, in Lancashire; and such parts of Westmoreland and Cumberland as are contained in the Survey. Also the Counties of Derby, Nottingham, Rutland, and Lincoln, 1st edition, Doncaster: printed by W. Sheardown, 1809, advertisement leaf, occasional spotting, partly unopened, edges untrimmed, modern sprinkled half calf, 4to (28 x 21.5 cm), Miller (Samuel H., & Sydney B. J. Skertchly). The Fenland Past and Present, 1st edition, Wisbech: Leach and Son, 1878, half-title, all plates as called for, including mounted chromolithographic frontispiece, folding map (with closed tear), 2 folding tables top edge gilt, contemporary half morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, folio (33.6 x 21 cm), Enault (Louis). Angleterre, Ecosse, Irlande. Voyage pittoresque, 1st edition, Paris: Morizot, 1859, half-title, 20 engraved plates (including 4 hand-coloured costume plates, the rest views), gilt edges, contemporary blue quarter morocco, large 8vo (25.8 x 16.5 cm)Qty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II

[Smith, John]. Select Views in Italy, with Topographical and Historical Descriptions in English and French, London: by W. Bulmer and Co., for J. Smith, W. Byrne, and J. Edwards, 1796 [i.e. c.1817], 72 engraved plates on india paper, mounted, letterpress title-page, list of plates, and 'Introduction', each plate with leaf of descriptive text (except plates 2, 6, 23, 24: each with 2 leaves), bound without engraved dedication, occasional offsetting, plate 25 repaired in margin, plate 42 browned in one corner, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain dark red morocco gilt, large arabesque centrepieces in blind to covers, 4to (28.6 x 20.6 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: James Lewis (contemporary engraved bookplate, motto 'in est clementia forti'). Cf. ESTC T147454 for the first edition, which was in oblong folio.

Map Reference. A collection of approximately 75 volumes, 20th century, map reference and facsimile atlases, including examples by Manasek, Lister, Swift, Blake, Potter and Baynton-Williams, including Wallis (Helen, editor). The Maps and Text of the Boke of Idrography presented by Jean Rotz to Henry VIII, facsimile edition, published Oxford for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club, 1981, numerous colour plates, publisher's half morocco gilt, slight wear to extremities, large folio, together with two cartons of map related periodicals including broken runs of The Map Collector, The Imcos Journal, Imago Mundi and Mercators World, various sizes and conditionQty: (approx. 75 and 2 cartons)

[Clay, Arthur Lloyd]. Leaves from a Diary in Lower Bengal, by C.S. (Retired), 1st edition, Macmillan, 1896, two colour maps including one folding (marginal creasing), 44 uncoloured plates including 10 etchings, some scattered minor spotting, 'From the author' bookplate detached from front free endpaper, old library bookplate to front pastedown, original two-tone cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, rubbed and soiled, small folioQty: (1)NOTESCzech, Asia, p. 41.

Hogarth (William). The Works of William Hogarth, from the Orginal Plates restored by James Heath, with the addition of many subjects not before collected: To which are prefixed, a biographical essay on the genius and productions of Hogarth and explanations of the subjects of the plates, by John Nichols, London: Baldwin and Cradock, circa 1822, 111 of 116 engraved sheets only, lacking 5 plates, i.e. 26 (Southwark Fair), 39 (The Sleeping Congregation), 49 (The Enraged Musician), 51 (Taste in High Life), and 57 (plate IV in Marriage à la Mode), one or two closed marginal tears, a little light spotting, title (with light offsetting from portrait frontispiece) and a few text leaves a little frayed with vertical crease, all edges gilt, contemporary red half morocco gilt, lower joint splitting, rubbed with some edge wear, folio, 63.5 x 48 cm (25 x 18.75 in)Qty: (1)

London. A Victorian scrapbook, relating to London, compiled around pages 1-114 & 145-180 (from volume 3) of London or Interesting Memorials of its Rise, Progress and Present State by Sholta and Reuben Percy, 1824 (excised and window mounted throughout), with a quantity of associated items mounted, tipped-in or loosely inserted alongside the relevant pages, items include: numerous (mainly engraved) plates of subjects such as Sir Francis Drake engaging the Cacafuego a rich Spanish ship, View of the East India House, The Shipping Entrance London Docks, The Atmospheric Pile-Driving Machine, General Post Office: Letter Carriers Room arranged for dispatch of newspapers, Bombay on the Malabar Coast belonging to the East India Company of England, The New Mint Tower Hill, Coins of William and Mary, Bank of England: Five Pound Note Office, Riots in Broad Street, The Auction Marte Bartholomew Lane, Smithfield Market, Vaux Hall Gardens, The Christmas Waits, Licensed Victuellers Asylum, View of the Small-Pox Hospital near St Pancras, 'Progress of a Bill - the Acceptor Goes to Prison', an engraved hand-coloured plate depicting an elephant in a cage being shot by soldiers (probably the shooting of Rajah at Liverpool Zoo in 1848, and a few caricatures or cartoons, etc.; 6 maps or plans including Plan of the Commercial Docks at Rotherhithe, 1848 (folding and hand-coloured), The Isle of Dogs (folding and hand-coloured, some offsetting and minor spotting), Plan of the West India Docks &c. 1802; newspaper clippings relating to subjects discussed in the Percy Histories, for example commerce, shipping and trade, the East India Company, South Sea Company bubbles, coinage, banking, music, hospitals, markets, asylums, schools etc.; numerous other ephemera including: a memorial card to the 'Loss of above 700 lives by the sinking of the Princess Alice ... 1878', a dock pass for one 'lad' to enter and leave St Katherine docks 183?, broadside ballad 'The Gas Lamp Lighters Address' (folded), 'Specimen of Postage Charges in 1839' - a large folded 'example letter' printed as propaganda to illustrate the need for postal reform, with comments on the anomalies of the postal system (torn), invatations and notices to various Anniversary Dinners (such as The London Joint Stock Bank 1838, Royal Humane Society 1832, Society for Providing an Asylum and Relief for Aged and Infirm Fishmongers and Poulterers 1846), 2 pamphlets regarding the small pox and vaccination hospital, an engraved invatation to a ball (the reverse with ink manuscript), 'Vauxhall Gardens a Catalogue of the whole of the moveable property ...sold at auction ... 1841, 'Foundling Hospital instructions to the Mothers of such children' (on blue paper, single large fold), 'London Orphan Asylum rules for children seeing their friends', 'The New Wonderful Magazine' no.35 loosely inserted booklet in original printed pink wrappers, 'A Garland of New Songs' an early 19th century chapbook (uncut), etc., occasional dust-soiling and edge-fraying, some offsetting or toning, several leaves detached, sewing broken, contemporary half morocco, worn, boards detached, spine deficient, thick folioQty: (1)

Turrecremata (Johannes de). Glosa psalterij Joha?nis de turrecremata, Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus i.e. Georg Husner], 1487, 92 leaves (including final blank), text in double-column, light dust-soiling mostly to first & last leaves, occasional minor spotting, endpapers renewed and endbands recently resewn, later vellum (18th century?), blank paper label at foot of spine, small folio (269 x 205 mm)Qty: (1)NOTESGoff T532; Hain/Copinger 15707; Polain 3862.

Sabundus (Raimundus). Theologia naturalis, sive liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura eius inquantum homo. Et de his quae sunt ei necessaria ad conoscendum seipsum et deum, et omne debitum ad quod homo tenetur et obligatur tam deo quam primo, Strassburg: Martin Flach, 7 February 1501, 162 leaves, signatures [pi]6 a8 b-y6 z8 zeta6 antisigma8, text in double column, 50 lines and headline, gothic types, printed guide letters, contents toned, small intercolumnar worm-track throughout, frequently touching text to loss of a letter from quire h, similar worm-tracks in right-hand column of leaves pi1-3 and quires z-antisigma and in fore margins from signature s5 occasionally touching side-notes, tide-marks to head of gutter in quire f, upper fore corners of quires i-l and t, and fore margin of quire antisigma (with shallow area of loss to final leaf not affecting text), tide-mark touching text in signature antisigma 1, contemporary marginalia to t1 verso, t3 and x5 recto, and y4 recto and verso, free endpapers excised, contemporary manuscript catch-title to top edge, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, top spine compartment restored in vellum, folio (28.2 x 20 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Adam Haussman (ownership inscriptions dated 1516 to front pastedowns); Couvent Notre-Dame de Nazareth des pénitents réformés du tiers-ordre de Saint-François, Paris (ink-stamp 'Conv. Nazar' and inscriptions to title-page and second leaf) VD16 R 173; this edition not in Adams (Koberger's 1502 edition being the earliest there listed). Rare post-incunable edition of the first work of natural theology to be named as such, first printed c.1484/5 (see Blum, Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism , p. 92). An important elaboration of the 'book of nature' metaphor, the work was an influence on Montaigne, whose French translation appeared in 1569. Raimundus Sabundus, also Ramon Sibiuda (d.1436), was a Catalan Franciscan scholar who taught medicine, philosophy and theology at the university of Toulouse, where during the 1430s he held the position of rector.

Duns Scotus (John). Primus [-Quartus] scripti Oxoniensis super sententias [-Questiones quolibetales], 5 parts in 2 volumes, Venice: Andrea Torresani for Simone da Lovere, 28 July, 1506, signatures a-x8, 2a-2m8 2n2, 3a-3i8 3k2, 4a-4x8 4y6, A-G8 H-I6 (I6=blank) only, gothic letter, text in double column, 66 lines and headline, woodcut initials and diagrams, variable toning, occasional spotting and browning, a few old marks and stains, a few contemporary underlines and marginalia including polychromatic inscription to a2v and detailed annotaions to 4k5 and 4t8, marginal worming to outer leaves (affecting text in mm8-nn2 only) and head of gutter in quire C, part 3 title-leaf (3a1) loose, closed tears in 4r1 and 4v6 extending into text (attempted repair to the first), vellum manuscript leaves used as pastedowns, contemporary Italian blind-tooled ?sheep over wooden boards, rebacked in vellum at an early date, retaining 2 single brass clasps and one catch with corresponding clasp, worn, folio (31.2 x 21.8 cm)Qty: (2)NOTESProvenance: 1) Franciscans of San Nicola, Sulmona, Italy (old inscriptions to a3 and 3a2). 2) Acquired by the English Franciscans in 1923. 3) Sotheby's, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Continental and Russian Books, 3 July 2018, lot 120 (sold as 'Property of the Order of Friars Minor Charitable Trust'). Adams D1112 ( Questiones quolibetales ) & D1121 ( Super sententias ). Questiones quolibetales is complete, but the four parts of Super sententias are each bound with the main text and table only, and the remaining text (presumably the commentary, by Irish theologian Maurice O'Fihely) discarded, apparently as often. The printer, Andrea Torresani, was the father-in-law of Aldus Manutius.

Daniell (William). A Voyage Round the North and North-West Coast of Scotland, and the Adjacent Islands. With a Series of Views, Illustrative of their Character and most Prominent Features, London: W. Lewis, circa 1820, 42 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates (complete), some offsetting to text, bookplate of Thomas Anson Thornby, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt, spine and edges rubbed, head of spine repaired, folio (37 x 26 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESAlthough this is a separate publication, the plates appear in William Daniell's monumental A Voyage round Great Britain , 1814-25, described by Tooley as 'a magnificent series of plates, almost all of equal quality. The most important colour plate book on British topography.'

Aquinas (Thomas, Saint). In libros Aristotelis De Coelo, et Mundo commentaria, Venice: Giunta, 1572, [8] 95 leaves, printer's woodcut device to title-page and colophon, woodcut initials and diagrams throughout, variable browning, old ownership inscription to title-page, 20th-century quarter vellum, folio (29.8 x 19.8 cm), together with: In duodecim Metaphysicorum libros Aristotelis, commentaria celeberrima. Cum duplici textus tralatione antique et nova Bessarionis cardinalis, Venice: Girolamo Scoto heirs, 1588, woodcut portrait to title-page, diagrams in the text, printer's device to colophon leaf (E6), variable spotting and browning, small worm-track in final quire (E) touching a few letters, free endpapers renewed, contemporary limp vellum, a few stains, loss to head of spine and extremities, ties perished, folio (32.2 x 21 cm)Qty: (2)NOTESProvenance (second work): 1) Jacob (Iago?) Marsal, rector of the monastery of San Pedro de Roda, Catalonia (old ink inscription to title-page, together with two similar inscriptions); 2) Vincent Floyd Russell (bookplate to colophon leaf verso). Second work: Adams A1463 and BM STC Italian p. 47.

Doré (Gustave). London. A Pilgrimage, by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold, London: Grant & Co., 1872, wood engraved additional title, frontispiece, plates and numerous illustrations, tissue guards with printed captions, all edges gilt, publisher's dark green morocco with gilt blocked decoration and titles to covers, extremities rubbed and some wear, large folioQty: (1)

Lyndwood (William). Provinciale, (seu Constitutiones Angliae,)... Cui adjiciuntur Constitutiones Legatinae D. Othonis, et D. Othoboni, Cardinalium & sedis Apostolicae in Anglia Legatorum... 2 parts in one, Oxford: H. Hall, 1679, text in double column, G3 in second part torn with small loss (piece retained), small burnhole to E3 of first part, occasional underlining and marginalia, manuscript shelf number to title, some light spotting and soiling, engraved allegorical bookplate of King George I by John Pine to front pastedown, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, some worming and edge wear, folioQty: (1)NOTESWing L3565.

[Hale, Thomas]. Mill’d Lead. Demonstrated to be a better and more Durable Covering for Buildings, &c. and above 20 per Cent. cheaper than Cast-Lead can be; supposing that to be 16s. and this but 13s a Hundred.. And also for Seating Ships against Worm, better, and above Cent. per Cent. cheaper than the ordinariest Wood Sheathing can be, 1st edition, London, 1695, 4pp. (2 separated sheets), caption title, few early manuscript annotations, colophon ‘London: Printed November 20, 1695’, some browning and spotting, close-trimmed at head, inside blank margin trimmed for folding, disbound folio,Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. Wing H265B; ESTC R233603. Three UK locations (British Library, Cambridge University Library & Senate House, London).

Tryal of Skill. The Tryal of Skill between 'squire Walsingham and mother Osborne. An Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil’s Palaemon. To which are added, Horace to Fannius, and an Apology for Printing a certain Nobleman’s Epistle to Dr. S-w-n., London: sold by J. Huggonson, 1734, 25,[1]pp., light scattered spotting, disbound folio (ESTC 51993; Foxon T474), together with: The Lady and Gentleman's Polite Jester . For 1802. Being a choice selection of such Jests, Bon Mots, Anecdotes, &c. &c. as are calculated to enliven the Company of Both Sexes; including several never before published. To which are prefixed, The Laws of Laughing, [London]: Sommers Town: printed and published by A. Neil, [1802], 64pp., engraved frontispiece by Grignion after Hogarth, contemporary signature to upper blank margin of title, pages 44-48 bound upside down and back to front, some corners frayed, original printed wrappers lined to verso and spine repaired, slim 12mo (Copac locates a single copy, at the British Library), The Sincere Chistian's [sic] Devout Companion , or, How to Live One Day to God. Set forth in a large Collection of Spiritual Songs and Ejaculations; proper to be had in all Christian Families, [London?], 1796, 8pp., two woodcut images to title, uncut, toned, 12mo (ESTC T48295), Tennyson (Alfred) , A Welcome, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Edward Moxon, 1863, (2 copies), 4pp. leaflet, 17 x 11 cm, (2nd issue identified by an open diamond in the line ornament beneath the title), and other miscellaneous 18th & 19th century disbound pamphlets, short works, etc., all disboundQty: (15)

Sibbald (Robert). A Collection of Several Treatises in Folio, Concerning Scotland, as it was of old and also in later times. Viz. I. Historical Inquiries concerning the Roman Monuments and Antiquities... II. The History, Ancient and Modern, of the Sheriffdoms of Fife and Kinross... III. Conjectures concerning Roman Ports... IV. The History and Description of the Sheffifdoms of Linlithgow and Stirling...V. The Description of the Isles of Orknay and Zetand... VI. An Account of the Writers ancient and modern..., 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1739, general title, 6 parts, each with separate title pages and register, 14 engraved maps and plates, most folding, bound with Tractatus Varii ad Scotiae Antiquae & Modernae Historiam Facientes: in Unum collecti, & jam primum editi. Cum Tabulis Aeneis. Viz. Introductio ad Historiam rerum a Romanis gestarum... Specimen Glossarii... Commentarius in Julii Agricolae Expeditiones, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Series rerum ab aliis Praefectis Romanis... Miscellanea quaedam eruditae Antuitatis... Vindiciae Scotiae illustratae...Edinburgh, 1711, general title, 4 parts, each with separate title pages and register folding engraved map, advertisement leaf at end, one or two small repairs, occasional light spotting and toning, previous owner inscription, 1844 to front endpaper, bookplate, all edges gilt, later blue morocco gilt, joints and spine bands a little rubbed, small folioQty: (1)NOTESESTC T131329 & T131328 respectively. A handsome copy.

Hofland (Barbara Hoole). A Descriptive Account of the Mansion and Gardens of White-Knights, a Seat of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, London: Printed for His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, by W. Wilson, [1819], half-title, 23 etched and aquatint plates on india paper by T.C. Hofland, some scattered spotting to plates and occasional dampstains to plate margins at foot, text leaves with watermark of J. Whatman 1818, wide margined copy with edges untrimmed, ownership label of G.H. Wyatt to upper pastedown, near contemporary[?] half vellum, morocco title label to spine, folio (43.5 x 33 cm)Qty: (1)

Acts of Parliament. - Ports, Harbours, roads & property, 18th & early 19th century, including: 1. An Act for the better Regulation and Encouragement of Pilots for the conducting of Ships and Vessels into and out of the Port of Liverpool, 6th June 1797, 2. An Act to alter and amend an Act, passed in the Fortieth Year ... for making Wet Docks, Basons, Cuts, and other Works, for the greater Accommodation and Security of Shipping, Commerce, and Revenue, within the Port of London; and for extending the Powers and Provisions of the said Act, 27th June 1805, 3. An Act for the improving and completing the Harbour of Holyhead, in the Isle of Anglesea, 15th June 1810, 4. An Act for improving the Port and Harbour of Boston, in the County of Lincoln; and for fixing the Wharfage of Goods landed within the said Port and Harbour; and for better maintaining the Buoys, Beacons, and Sea Marks, belonging thereto, 20 May 1812, 5. An Act for amending and enlarging the Powers of an Act, passed in the Twenty-eighth Year ... for taking down and rebuilding the Gaol of the Castle of Chester..., 25th July 1807, 6. An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Act passed in the Twentieth Year ... for Repairing the High Road leading from the Town of Stockton upon Tees to Darlington, and from thence through Winston to Barnard Castle in the same County, and for the effectual amending of the same, 1749 7. An Act for authorizing the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to purchase certain Quays within the Port of London, 6th April 1810, 8. An Act for raising an addition Sum of Money for carrying into Execution several Acts for widening the Entrance into the City of London, near Temple Bar; for making a more commodious Street at Snow Hill; and for raising, on the Credit of the Orphans Fund, certain Sum of Money for those Purposes..., 3rd May 1804, 9. An Act for further amending and enlarging the Powers of an Act of the Forty-sixth Year ... for consolidating and rendering more effectual the several Acts for the Purchase of Buildings, and further Improvement of the Streets and Places near to Westminster Hall and the Two Houses of Parliament, 21st June 1810, 10. An Act for rebuilding the Parish Church of Saint Paul, Covent Garden ..., 26th April 1796 11. An Act ... for repairing, enlarging, and preserving, the Harbour of Swansea, in the County of Glamorgan; and for making Improvements in the Lights at the Mumbles, 14th May 1796, and others similar, some side stitched as issued, disbound, folioQty: (approx. 45)

Acts of Parliament. Collection of British Acts relating to property & land, 18th & 19th century, including: 1. An Act to amend and enlarge the Powers of an Act, passed in the last Session ... An Act for repairing the Church of the Parish of Saint Paul Covent Garden, in the County of Middlesex; for repairing and improving the Gates and Avenues leading to the said Church; and for removing the present Watch-house, and providing another for the use of the said Parish, [1789], 2. An Act for providing an additional Burial Ground for the Parish of Saint James, Westminster, and erecting a Chapel adjoining thereto, and also a House for the Residence of a Clergyman to officiate in burying the Dead, [1789], 3. An Act for ratifying the Purchase of the Impropriate Rectory of Saint Mary-le-bone in the County of Middlesex, 10th July 1817, 4. An Act for establishing and confirming and Exchange of a certain piece of inclosed Land in the Parish of East Barnet, in the County of Hertford, and Diocese of London, for other inclosed Land, Parcel of the Glebe of the said Parish ... Agreement made between Benjamin Underwood Clerk ... Rector of the said Parish of East Barnet, and John Pybus Esquire, [1771], 5. An Act for Dividing, Allotting, and Inclosing the Open Common Arable Field, Commons, and Waste Lands, within the Parish and Manor of West Horsley, in the County of Surrey, [1802], 6. An Act of Inclosing Lands in the Parish of Horsham, in the County of Sussex, 1812, and others similar, some side stitched as issued, disbound folioQty: (approx. 40)

Ayerve de Ayora ( Antonius ) . Tractatus de partitionibus, bonorum communium inter conjuges, parentes, et liberos, eorumque haeredes, in quatuor partes distinctus, recognitus & locupletatus, 4th edition, Lyon: Joannis-Antonii Huguetan,1677, [8], 160, [16] pp., title in red and black with large woodcut device, parallel Latin and Spanish text in double columns, old ownership inscription on half-title verso partially overwritten, contemporary vellum, lettered on spine, small folio (38 x 24.5 cm), together with: Castejon (Gil de). Alphabetum juridicum, canonicum, civile, theoricum, practicum, morale atque politicum..., 2 volumes in one, 2nd edition, Lyon: Petri Borde, Joannis, & Petri Arnaud, 1683, woodcut device to titles and woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, outer margin of title defective but without loss of text, staining to inner margin of first three leaves and bottom right of last 35 leaves, trimmed close at upper margin of pp. 1-37, small perforation to Nn1-3, 19th-century calf gilt, some wear to extremities, 4toQty: (2)NOTES1) Palau 20 789. Legal treatise on hereditary distribution of family property, first published in Granada in 1586. 2) Legal dictionary of subjects in alphabetical order, first published in 1678.

Papeles Varios . A pair of sammelbands of 32 papers (28 manuscript and 4 printed) relating to the Philippines and China, bound as 2 volumes, c. 1775-1832, contemporary vellum, lettered on spines, 8voQty: (2)NOTESA full short-title list is available on request. The collection includes: Volume I: 1. (J.M.G.) Carta que el habitador del desierto dirige al Abate Monti, encargado por el Gobierno Frances para escribir la historia de Napoleon 1º, Cadiz, c. 1808, 11 pp., small stain to lower outer corners A pamphlet critical of Napoleon: 'Hecho el abominable contrato entre Bonaparte y Godoy, se principaron á suavizar los resortes que habian de poner en movimiento esta maquina infernal.' 2. Carta de Manuel Delgado sobre la Libranza de la plata, 1775, 1 folio 3. Carta de Manuel Delgado (written vertically over the page for economy of space) pleading for funds after being detained in Manila, no date, 1 folio 4. Carta de Manuel Delgado, 1775, 1 folio [concerning a further request for funds after 43 days of detention] 5. Carta de Josef Villanueva from Macao, 1784, 4 ff. [on Chinese matters] 9. Carta de Fr. Gaspar de S. Agustin [author of Compendio de la Arte de la Lengua Tagala , 1787] á un amigo suyo en España, quenta el natural, y genio de los Indios Naturales de las Islas Philipinas, no date, 50 ff. Includes: Descripcion en Copla de las Indias Philipinas, y de los naturales por el Padre Sr. Ascarate del Orden de Predicadores, a su Amigo Sr. Julian Dias. 10. Del modo de curar la Colera, no date, c. 1820, 22 ff. 11. Panusuc qño colinipan a pami asal à tulidnang pacayngaton ning tan palagyuan Consejoz…, no date, 22 ff. [on religious instruction in Tagalog] 19. Arte de la Lengua que vulgarmente se llama Mandarin compuesto por el R.P. Fr. Juan Rodrigues del Orden de N.P. S. Augustin, no date, 62 ff. 20. Breve Metodo de oir Confesiones en lengua Mandarina, 40 ff., [parallel text in Spanish and phonetical Mandarin] Items 19 & 20 have minor worm damage with loss of some letters. 21. Experimentos sobre la conservación de las Carnes. Por el Dr. Don José de Flores Médico del Reyno de Guatemala, Cadiz: Imprenta Tormentaria, 1811, 25 pp. Note: 19-25 advise that this pamphlet was also published in Manila for general use there and that the instructions call for the use of an 'Areometro, ó pesa-licor' not commonly available in the Philippines. Rare. The CCPBE records only one copy, lacking pp. 19-25. Vol ume II : 23. Relacion un Franciscano de la Persecucion de China, no date, 12 ff. 25. Confesion en Lengua China... incompleto, 11 ff. [Chinese in phonetical text over the Spanish] 26. Yurami (Antonio Miguel). Demostracion de las Falsedades y Calumnias con que pretende desacreditar las religiones el Autor del Papel intitulado Sevilla Libre. Reimpreso en Manila: En la Imprenta de Manuel Memije, 1815, 44 pp. First published in Sevilla in 1801 this Manila edition is rare; the CCPBE records only one copy and WorldCat 3 copies. 27. Tres Sermones en Chino del Rv.P. Villanueva, 6 ff. [Chinese text is written phonetically] 29. Ars Linguae Mandarina de Fr. Joanne Rodriguez Ordinis S.Agustini, 20 ff., one page of musical notation, small traces of worm damage, [Chinese text, where used, is written phonetically] 30. Diccion[ario] Portuguese-Chino, incompleto con otras obras pertenecientes a China, no date, 68 ff., small tear with some text loss affecting first two leaves, [Chinese translation in phonetical text]

Solorzano Pereira (Juan de) . Obras Varias Posthumas. Contenen una recopilación de diversos Tratados, Memoriales, Papeles eruditos, y algunos Escritos en causas Fiscales, y todos llenos de mucha enseñanza y erudición. Corregidas y Enmendadas en esta edición por el Licencdo. D. Fransisco María Vallarna, Madrid: En la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1776, [26], 339 pp., Latin text in double columns and later in Spanish, tinted edges, contemporary calf gilt with floral motifs and gilt dentelles, folio (36 x 24 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESPalau 318 970. Represents Vol I (of VI) of Obras Varias . This volume deals with Política Indiana.

Solorzano Pereira (Juan de) . Emblemata centum, regio politica, Madrid: In Typographia Regia, vulgò de la Gazeta, 1779, [20], 602, 61 pp., 100 woodcut emblems in text, light marginal stains to first and last leaves, tinted edges, contemporary calf gilt with floral motifs, rubbed, folio (37 x 24 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESPalau 318 997. The fine copper engravings of the 1653 edition (see above) have been replaced by woodcuts of a cruder delineation with expanded decorative surrounds.

Pareceres & Dictamenes. An extraordinary collection of manuscript Judgements and Decrees relating to the administration of Spanish territories in South America, Central America, Mexico, West Indies and Philippines, 7 volumes, 1790-94, neatly written in a large and well-spaced legible hand, two years with separate Index volumes, contemporary vellum, lettered on spines and with ownership 'Del S ñ r Aparici ’ at foot of each, some rubbing and soiling, lower cover of final volume defective, folioQty: (7)NOTESFrom the collection of Pedro de Aparicio, an Oficial de la Secretaria de Estado y del Despacho Universal de Indias. Volume 1: 1790. 177 judgements with an Index by subject arranged alphabetically. Includes 2 folding tables of statistics: ‘Estado General de la distribucion de los valores que han Vendido las Rentas Reales del Reyno de Nueva España’. Volume 2: 1791. 480 judgements. Includes 3 folding statistical tables: ‘La Real Hacienda en comun de Guatemala á la Tesoria General del Reyno de Nueva España. Debe-Haber’; ‘Estado de Valores de la Renta de Naypes por el año de 1790’; ‘Estado de la Renta de Polvora or el Año de 1790. Signed by Joseph Manuel Barela. In Mexico 1791’. Volume 3: 1791. Alphabetical index to the above volume for 1791. Volume 4: 1792. 470 judgements. Volume 5: 1792. Alphabetical index to the above volume for 1792. Volume 6: 1793. 501 judgements. Volume 7: 1794. 438 judgements.

Embroidery pattern book. Dessins pour coins de mouchoirs, pour manchettes, et pour cols [manuscript cover title], [France or Belgium], c. 1860, a manuscript album in 3 parts of 50, 66 and 24 numbered thin paper leaves, comprising a total of 243 designs on rectos and versos of 140 leaves, leaves not numbered consecutively and some inverted but overall complete, each design being shown both in black India ink and in coloured inks of up to 12 colours, some occasional minor spotting, creasing and marginal fraying, title repaired at margins and with following leaf of designs partly adhered at inner margins, 4 numbered leaves with closed tears (65, 1, 11 & 7), original paper wrappers with ink title in block capitals to upper cover, browned, torn and repaired with modern paper backstrip, folio (31 x 21 cm)Qty: (1)

* Heraldry. A collection of fine handpainted heraldic armorials, early 18th century, comprising 47 fine pen, ink & watercolour armorials, trimmed and laid-down together on 6 folio leaves, family names include Rouwenoort, Wisch, Brienen, Broeckhuisen, Frederica Margareta van Lintelo, Heeckeren, Lineto, Castel, Haarsolte, Rechteren, Raesrelt, Valck, Bremt, Schade, Middachten, Kreijnck, Budde, Torck, Van der Borgh, Coeverden, Van der Borgh, Raesvelt, Viermund, Appelthorn, Hoeve, Laer, Keppel, Intersum, Hoemen, Cronman, Villates, Wartensleben, Westerholt, Ohr, & Van der Schuren, etc., some overlapping each other slightly, two armorials torn, each armorial approximately 10.5 x 11cm, some dust-soiling and occasional marks, folio leaves approximately 45 x 28.5 cm, some closed tears (not affecting armorials) and one excised, together with a miscellaneous assortment of leaves of engraved continental armorials, early 18th century, including 35 folio (part volume, one with closed tear) and 9 large double-page, including Namen en Wapen der Edd: Actbare Heeren Raden in de Vroedschap..., engraved by Casper Specht of Utrecht, 1702, & Namen en Wapens der Heren Edelen ende Ridderschappe..., engraved by Casper Specht of Utrecht, 1708, etc., occasional dust-soilingQty: (a folder)

* Napoleonic Wars. Autograph letter signed William Boultbee of Killeen, N. Ireland, written to James Nisbett, merchant of London and Ships Chandler, commenting on the cowardice of Spanish soldiers in the Peninsular War, Feb 12 1810, 3 pages, integral address page with postmarks, letter partly relating to business and supply of sheep, including comment on a conversation with a soldier who told him of corwardice of Spanish soldiers in the Peninsular War, he mentions that when at Lord Bridgewater's he met a fellow who had commanded a regiment in Spain, so he examined him, and he heard that in the action mentioned the French outnumbered the English 3 to 1, had superior artillery and better ground, so Wellesley considered it foolish to challenge and said that the Spanish officers were traitors and the soldiers cowards, who ran away at the approach of danger and even tore off their clothes so they could run faster, old folds, folio, together with: H.M.S. Prosperine , An unpublished song on the loss of H.M.S. Prosperine, circa 1810, manuscript song titled "The Loss of H.M. Ship Prosperine by the crew Feby 5th 1798", 2 pages, written in a neat hand, with integral blank leaf, folded, 8vo, Pode (John Spurrell) , Autograph letter signed to an unkown gentleman in which he responds to a request to send the writer the names and rank of the Officers serving in the Ermington Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, Slade [near Plymouth], May 3, 1804, single page written in a neat hand, John Spurrell Pode of Slade Devonshire lists himself as "Captain Commandent" and includes the names of six other officers serving in the Ermington Yeomanry Cavalry at the time of the threatened invasion by Napoleon, some old folds, 4to, Prince Edward Augustus (Duke of Kent and Strathearn, 1767-1820) , Invoice for supplies to Fort Edward in Nova Scotia, Dec 24, 1797, single sheet written to both sides, authorised and signed to verso by Edward, Duke of Kent (Queen Victoria's father), as Lt. General, Commanding His Majesty's Forces in Nova Scotia and its dependancies, old folds, oblong 8voQty: (4)

* Vellum Deeds. A group of 34 vellum deeds, 17th/19th century, mostly folding and many relating to land agreements in Lancashire, etc., including 10 x 17th century (generally soiled and wrinkled) and 10 x 18th century, plus a quantity of manuscript paper documents, 17th-19th century, including originals and contemporary copies of wills, warrants, apprenticeship agreements, obligations, accounts and invoices etc., many of Lancashire interest, plus a ledger, circa 1830s, of accounts with minimal details, contemporary calf with strapwork design, rubbed, folio, plus a small quantity of plans including some manuscripts, mostly early 20th centuryQty: (a carton)

Arnett (John Andrews). Bibliopegia; or the Art of Bookbinding in all its Branches, New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1980, monochrome plates, introduction by Bernard Middleton, ink stamp to verso of title with some show-through, ink stamp to front free-endpaper, bookplate removed with skinning of front pastedown, original cloth, small 8vo, together with: Tidcombe (Marianne) , The Doves Bindery, 1st edition, London: The British Library; Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1991, colour frontispiece, monochrome plates and illustrations, original cloth, 4to, Tenschert (Heribert, publisher) , Horae B.M.V., 365 gedruckte Stundenbucher der Sammlung Bibermuhle 1487-1586, volumes 7-9, Ramsen (Switzerland) : Heribert Tenschert, 2015, colour & monochrome illustrations, original printed boards, oblong folio, contained together in original slipcase, Chubb (Thomas) , The Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland, A Bibliography, 1579-1870, London: Homeland Association Ltd., 1927, monochrome frontispiece and few plates, original cloth, 4to, Marks (P.J.M.) , Beautiful Bookbindings, A Thousand Years of the Bookbinder's Art, London: The British Library; Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 2011, colour frontispiece and illustrations, original cloth in dust-jacket, 4to, and other bookbinding and printing history etc., including a continuous run of the Bibliographical Society Transactions, 'The Library', 7th series, volumes 14-20, Oxford, 2014-2019, parts loosely contained in original binders, 8vo, and 16 DVDs of the Harcourt Bindery, Boston, USA, entitled 'Nineteenth Century Bookbinding Techniques' and 'Bookbinding at the Harcourt Bindery', narrated & presented by Sam Ellenport, 2006Qty: (2 cartons)

Ayrton (Michael, illustrator). Femmes/Hombres, by Paul Verlaine, Douglas Cleverdon for the Arcadia Press, 1972, 15 erotic etchings by Michael Ayrton, bookplate of bibliographer Ann Ridler (1935-2018), top edge gilt, original green morocco-backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe slipcase, oblong folioQty: (1)NOTESLimited signed edition 24/85, from a total edition of 132.

Bayardi (Ottavio Antonio, & Pasquale Carcani, editors). [Le antichità di Ercolano esposte], volume 5 only, [Naples: nella Regeria stamperia, 1779], iii-x, 407 pp., 84 engraved plates after Giovanni Elia Morghen, Vincenzo Campana and others (counted in pagination), engraved head- and tailpieces and initials throughout, lacking preliminary leaves pi1-2 and a1, first two extant leaves loose and frayed, a few subsequent early leaves working loose, occasional toning, offsetting and marginal spotting, contemporary mottled calf, covers detached and worn, large folio (47 x 35 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESBerlin Katalog 3947; Blackmer 37; Cicognara 2645. Volume five of the five volumes on 'Le pitture' from 'the first attempt at a systematic record of all the discoveries made during the excavations at Herculaneum carried out under the aegis of the King of the Two Sicilies, Charles III' (Blackmer). A total of eight volumes were published, including two on bronzes and one on lamps and candelabra. The present volume was in fact published seventh in the series, following the two volumes on bronzes.

Brassington (W. Salt). A History of the Art of Bookbinding, with some account of the Book of the Ancients, 1894, colour frontispiece and plates, monochrome plates & illustrations, modern cloth, with dampstain, 4to, contained in purpose-made book-box, together with: Mitchell (John) , The Craftsman's Guide Series. An introduction to Gold Finishing, 1st edition, Five Oaks, Sussex: Standing Press Ltd., 1995, monochrome illustrations, author's signature at head of title-page and his inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth with pictorial upper board, small folio, Crane (W.J.E.) , Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being descriptions of the various tools and appliances required and minute instructions for their effective use, London: L. Upcott Gill, [1900?], wood engraved illustrations, upper hinge split, original cloth, blocked decoration in gilt & black, 8vo, Lindsay (Jen) , Fine Bookbinding a Technical Guide, 1st edition, London: The British Library; Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 2009, monochrome illustrations, title inscribed by the author, original printed stiff wrappers, 4to, Cockerell (Douglas) , Some Notes on Bookbinding, Oxford University Press, 1929, monochrome frontispiece and illustrations, near contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, 8vo, and other bookbinding related referenceQty: (a carton)

Chamberlaine (John). Original Designs of the Most Celebrated Masters of the Bolognese, Roman, Florentine, and Venetian Schools; comprising some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci, The Caracci, Claude Lorrain, Raphael, Michael Angelo, The Poussins, and others, in His Majesty's Collection..., printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare-Press, 1812, 66 fine etchings with aquatint, and soft ground etchings, by Bartolozzi, F.C. Lewis, P.W. Tomkins, Schiavonetti and others, printed in black, red and brown, occasional minor handling marks and light spotting (one or two plates more heavily spotted), generally in good condition, all edges gilt, contemporary red half morocco, heavily rubbed and scuffed and faded, recased with original spine laid down, some wear to edges, folio (52 x 38 cm, 20.5 x 15 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESBrunet I, 1761. Graesse II, 102. This 1812 reissue retains the original 1796 and 1797 title pages as part titles.

de Santillana (Anna Venini Diaz) . Venini Catalogue raisonné 1921-1986, Skira, France, 2000, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, together with; Mouillefarine (Laurence & Évelyne Possémé) , Art Deco Jewelry, Modernist Masterworks and their Makers, Thames & Hudson, 2009, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and Varney (Carelton) , In The Pink, Dorothy Draper: America's most fabulous decorator, Pointed Leaf Press, LLC., New York, 2006, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, square 4to, plus Benaïm (Laurence) , Jacques Helleu & Chanel, 1st edition, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2005, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original boards in slipcase, folio, and other modern 20th century design reference & related, including Ensembles Mobiliers, 18 volumes (in 17), Bibliothèque de L'Image, Paris, 2005, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, VG, 8vo/folioQty: (36)

Flint (Sir William Russell). Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969, A Comparative Review of the Artist's Signed Limited Edition Prints, by Keith S Gardner and Nigel D Clarke, De Luxe Edition, Bristol, 1986, numerous colour and black & white reproductions, all edges gilt, original blue morocco gilt, lightly sunned spine a trifle rubbed in places, in original slipcase, folio, (limited edition 423/500 deluxe copies from a total edition of 1500), together with: In Pursuit: An Autobiography, Medici Society, 1970, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, top edge gilt, original red quarter morocco gilt, spine somewhat rubbed with a little wear in places, prospectus loosely inserted, slipcase, folio, (limited edition, 922/1050 total copies signed by Francis Russell Flint)Qty: (2)

Greenwood (Jeremy). The Graphic Work of Edward Wadsworth, Wood Lea Press, 2002, colour and monochrome illustrations, printed in an edition of 450 copies, original patterned boards, with slipcase, folio, together with: Grice (Elizabeth) , Norman Janes, Wood Engravings & The Man, with a foreword by Simon Brett, Evergreen Press, 2014, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, including many tipped-in, original green crushed morocco-backed patterned boards, folio, limited edition 63/150, with original invoice from the publisher to Alan Tucker loosely insertedQty: (2)NOTESFrom the Collection of Alan and Joan Tucker, Stroud.

Leibovitz (Annie) . A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005, 1st edition, Random House, New York, 2006, signed by the author to the half-title, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, together with; Milligan (Max) , The Lebanon, Byblos, Lebanon, 2010, signed by the author to the half-title , numerous colour illustrations, publishers original boards in slipcase, oblong folio, and Yarrow (David) , Nowhere, 1st edition, 2007, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket & slipcase, spine lightly faded, oblong 4to, plus Flick (Robbert) , Trajectories, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, U.S.A., 2004, numerous monochrome & colour illustrations publishers original black cloth, large 8vo, and other modern photography reference, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (28)

Richter (George Martin) . Giorgio da Castelfranco, called Giorgione, 1st edition, University of Chicago Press, 1937, 68 monochrome plates, bookplate to front pastedown, ex-library copy with associated stamps, publisher's original blue cloth, spine lightly faded, large 8vo, together with Wright (Christopher) , Poussin, Paintings, A Catalogue Raisonné, Harlequin Books, 1985, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, plus Dunkerton (Jill et al) , Giotto to Dürer, Early Renaissance painting in the National Gallery, Yale University Press, 1991, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to head, large 4to, Lopez-Rey (Jose & Odile Delenda) , Velazquez, The Complete Works, Taschen, 2020, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket in book box, as new in glassine wrap, folio, Caracciolo (Maria Teresa et al, editors ) , The History of Rome in Painting, 1st edition, Abbeville Press, 2011, numerous colour illustrations, original red cloth in slipcase, folio, and other Old Master/Renaissance art reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, including Abbeville Press publications, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (46)

Russell (Judith). The Wood-Engravings of Gertrude Hermes, edited and with an introduction by Judith Russell, Essays by Simon Brett and Bryan Robertson, 1st edition, Scholar Press, 1993, numerous monochrome illustrations, original black cloth gilt in dust wrapper, a little rubbed, minor fraying to upper margins of dust wrapper, tall folio, together with: Empson (Patience). The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, with some recollections by the artist, 1st edition, 1959, monochrome illustrations, original black cloth in glassine dust wrapper, 4to, plus: Morse (Peter). John Sloan's Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1st edition, Yale University Press, 1969, red cloth gilt in slightly frayed dust wrapper, with a little loss to lower right corner of the upper wrapper, large 4to, and others on mostly 20th century artists and print making, including Richard S. Schneiderman, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1983, Lauris Mason, The Lithographs of George Bellows, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1977, Alex A. Hurst, Arthur Briscoe - Marine Artist, His Life and Work, 1974, Robin Tanner, The Etchings, Garton & Co., 1988, Jonathan Black, C.R.W. Nevinson, The Complete Prints, 2014, Antony Griffiths, The Print in Stuart Britain 1603-1689, British Museum Press, 1998, Christopher Skelton, Eric Gill, The Engravings, 1990, etc., many original cloth in dust wrappers, some paperbound editions, mostly 4toQty: (Approximately 50)

Everett (Sir Henry). The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1685-1914, 1st edition, 1934, maps and illustrations, some spotting, top edge gilt, original half morocco gilt, 4to, together with Wyrall (Everard). The Gloucestershire Regiment in the War 1914-1918, 1st edition, 1931, portrait frontispiece, folding maps, a few minor spots, original cloth (covers a little bowed), dust jacket (spine faded, a few stains), 8vo, plus A Pictorial Souvenir of the Duke of Edinburgh's 2nd Battalion 4th Wiltshire Regiment and History of the 62nd and 99th Foot, now the 1st and 2nd Battalions. Poona, India, 1915, British Historical and Art Publishing, circa 1915, photographic illustrations, a little light spotting, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded, oblong folio, with others including Everard Wyrall's The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1914-1919, 1927 (in damp stained binding), W.S. Shepherd's The 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (99th). A Record of their Fighting in the Great War, 1914-1918, 1927 and V.H.B. Majendie's A History of the 1st Battalion the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) July 1st. 1916 to the end of the War, Taunton, 1921Qty: (20)NOTESFrom the Library of Lt. Col. R.J. Wyatt MBE TD (1931-2019), Part III.