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HAIR T. H.  Views of the Collieries in the Counties of Northumberland & Durham. Plates. Folio. Orig. brds. in d.w. 1987 reprint of the 1844 ed. 

FORSHAW J. M. & GILBERT A. E.  Trogons. Col. plates & illus. Folio. Orig. green cloth in d.w's. 2009; also Hunt & Grierson, The Country Life Book of Orchids, col. plates & other illus., large quarto, orig. cloth in slip case, 1978.  (2).

WEAVER LAWRENCE (Ed).  Houses & Gardens by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Many illus. Folio. Orig. qtr. maroon cloth. 1925; also Arthur Stratton, The English Interior, col. & other illus., folio, qtr. cream cloth (some splitting), Batsford, n.d.  (2).

MURPHY BAILEY SCOTT.  English & Scottish Wrought Ironwork. Plates & illus. after photographs. Large folio. Orig. dark cloth gilt, some soiling & wear. Bookplate of Sir James Miller of Manderston. Edinburgh, 1904.

COUNTRY LIFE (Pubs).  Gardens Old & New. Many illus. Folio. Stylish orig. green cloth. N.d. but early 20th cent.

PEPYS SAMUEL.  The Diary. 11 vols. Ltd. ed. 841/1000. Illus. Qtr. dark Nigerian goatskin, marbled brds. Folio Society, 2003.

Antiquities & Remains.  Bundle of mainly folio eng. plates & disbound text from Vetusta Monumenta, 1796 & others similar.

FOLIO SOCIETY.  The Arabian Nights. 6 vols. in two slip cases; also 5 others in slip cases.

The Bookman.  Vol. 12. Includes contributions by W. B. Yeats. Illus. & adverts. Folio. Orig. brds. April/September 1897; also a carton of mainly early 20th cent. booksellers' catalogues.

VOGEL J. PH.  The Journal of Indian Art & Industry. Vol. XIV, nos. 115, 116 & 118, Tile-mosaics of The Lahore Fort. Col. & other plates. Folio. Rebound dark half cloth with orig. wrappers bound in. 1911/1912.

CAMDEN WILLIAM.  Britannia or A Chorographical Description of Great Britain & Ireland. 2 vols. No maps. Folio. Well worn calf. Gibson's Edition, n.d. but c.1722; also 3 other vols.  (5).

Books Augustus John. Fifty-two Drawings with an Introduction by Lord David Cecil. London: George Rainbird, 1957. Folio, together with Augustus John Drawings by Lillian Browse (2) Provenance: Long Court, Randwick, Glos

Books Montorgueil, Georges Bonaparte illustrated folio 2 volumes (2) Provenance: Long Court, Randwick, Glos

Standard Dictionary of the English Language, in two volumes, New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1898, folio, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and page edges. Together with two volumes [of four] of A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, 1835; Notts & Derby Contemporary Biographies, 1901; Banners and Standards, 1904; King Arthur, by Charles Walter Berry, 1922; Birds Ashore and Aforeshore, by Patrick R. Chalmers, 1935; Seventy Momentous Years of King George V, 1936, all as found, in one carton

Leda and the Swan signed 'Nolan' (lower right); numbered 64/125 lithograph 44.5 x 58cmFootnote: Provenance With Folio Fine Art Ltd., where acquired in 1971

A Victorian folio scrap album containing scraps of children, regimental officers and a small album containing ballet cards. (2)

Graham Sutherland O.M. (British, 1903-1980)Study for Thorn Structure II gouache, pastel and pencil on paper; with lithograph printed in colours, heightened with gouache and pastel (on the reverse)69.5 x 49.5cm (27 3/8 x 19 1/2in).(unframed)Painted circa 1970Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Artist, by whom gifted to the family of the present owner, and thence by descentPrivate Collection, FranceThorn Structure II is an edition of 75, posthumously produced in 1982, for L'Ultimo Paesaggio folio, Teodorani Editore, Milano. The present work is thought to be a study for this edition, with a working trial proof to the reverse.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An antiquarian map of Cornwall, a quantity of laminated publicity photos of various Jazz players, mixed prints and an oil and a folio of Tobis publicity prints of Charlie Chaplin

Juvenalia - various jigsaws including Waddingtons folio edition puzzles - Woburn Abbey, Arundel Castle and Capesthorne Hall; a Chad Valley GWR jigsaw of King George V locomotive; other jigsaws; various card games, domino sets, marbles, etc

WALKER, (GEORGE) AND E HAILSTONE (EDITOR),  THE COSTUME OF YORKSHIRE ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF FORTY ENGRAVINGS BEING FAC-SIMILIES OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, Leeds: R Jackson, 1885 association copy, forty one whole page chromo. plates by E Kaufmann, Baden, Biographical Notice by Edward Hailstone, descriptions in English and French, folio (44 x 32cm), 29 of 600 numbered copies, two photographs of E Hailstone FSA and an envelope addressed to him (postmarked 15.10.1890) pasted to endpaper, original gilt lettered maroon cloth, half calf with red label, gilt dentelles Leeds: R Jackson, 1885Provenancce: Edward Hailstone (1818-1890) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield

[BINDING] THE HOLY BIBLE… WITH NOTES & PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS BY THE REVD ISAAC SAUNDERS  London, R Edwards, 1811, folio, engraved f/p and additional engraved title, printed title bound before p717, maps and other engraved plates, in fine Regency-period binding of straight-grained red morocco, boards attractively gilt, original gilt spine re-laid and repaired to upper compartment

MACKLIN, THOMAS [PUBLISHER] THE HOLY BIBLE London, printed for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley, 1800, 6 volumes, elephant folio, engraved vignettes, lacking all full-page steel-engraved plates,full brown morocco, boards elaborately gilt, very worn, boards detached, sold waf (6)

FOX-DAVIES, ARTHUR CHARLES  THE ART OF HERALDRY AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ARMORYLondon, Jack, 1904, folio, heraldic plates and illustrations in text throughout, several plates printed in colours, original publisher?s decorative pictorial cream cloth binding highlighted in gilt, top edge gilt, a handsome copy and Conway, Sir Martin,  Great Masters 1400?1800 London, Heinemann, 1903, atlas folio, fine photogravure plates, half red morocco, upper joint with some cracking, spine labelled ?vol 1? (but appears all published?) (2)

PALGRAVE, FRANCIS [EDITOR] THE PARLIAMENTARY WRITS AND WRITS OF MILITARY SUMMONS   printed by command of His Majesty King George IV, 1830, vol 2 (Divisions 1 & 2) bound in two volumes, first edition, folio, a fresh clean copy  in later library half morocco, rubbed and worn, bookplate and gilt stamp to spines of King's College, London, vol I was published in 1827 (2)

JOHNSON, SAMUEL A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE London, J and P Knapton [and others], 1755, first edition, 2 volumes, large folio, titles in red and black, additional portrait of Johnson after Sir Joshua Reynolds added (not called for) dated 1787, first title damaged and repaired with loss, prefix leaves somewhat creased, prelims to vol 1 with small wormtrack repaired in parts and mainly marginal but occasionally touching a few letters, second title with small closed and repaired tear not affecting text, occasional faint spotting, but in general this is a good clean and fresh copy of a work that is often quite heavily foxed and well-used, bound in full contemporary calf, spines rubbed with wear to top and bottom of spines and volume labels, boards worn at extremities, the copy of Robert John Verney (1809-1862), 17th Baron Willoughby de Broke, with his bookplates, the first edition of Johnson's dictionary was limited to just 2,000 copies, which immediately sold out Unsurprisingly, good copies of the first edition, such as this, are increasingly difficult to find, the first printing of "The most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography" [Ref: Printing and the Mind of Man] (2)

POPE, ALEXANDER LETTERS OF MR. ALEXANDER POPE, AND SEVERAL OF HIS FRIENDS London, J Wright, 1737, first edition, 4to, title in red and black with engraved vignette portrait of Pope after Richardson, half-title present, contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, first 7 or so leaves with faint water  stain to top blank margin, together with Fuller, Thomas The History of the Worthies of England London, 1662, first edition, folio, lacking portrait as often, title page laid down, a few leaves with marginal repairs, usual erratic pagination with some manuscript corrections of page numbers, full contemporary calf, re-backed (2)

STOTHARD, CHARLES ALFRED  THE MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES OF GREAT BRITAINLondon, Chatto and Windus, 1876, large folio, full-page engraved plates, some occasional light foxing otherwise good, bound in 19th c three-quarter brown pebble-grained morocco, rubbed at joints and extremities and  2 other folio volumes including volume 5 of Biographia Britannica, London, John Nicholls, 1793 (3)

DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAM MONASTICON ANGLICANUM; A HISTORY OF THE ABBEYS AND OTHER MONASTERIES [ETC]  London, James Bohn, 1846, 6 vols bound in 7, folio, numerous engravings throughout, bindings poor and not uniform very,  worn some boards detached (7)

BIGLAND, RALPH HISTORICAL, MONUMENTAL AND GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS RELATIVE TO THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER   London, John Nichols for Richard Bigland, 1786 and 1792, two vols bound in one, folio engraved plates,scarce,  spine missing and boards detached, sold waf, and two others folio and 4to (3)

DOUGLAS, ROBERT  THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND, CONTAINING AN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE NOBILITY OF THAT KINGDOMEdinburgh, R Fleming, 1764, 1st edition, folio, 10 engraved armorial plates (complete), 18th C half brown calf and two others, 18th C, English peerage, both odd volumes (3)

THOROTON, ROBERT  THE ANTIQUITIES OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRELondon, Robert White for Henry Mortlock, 1677. 1st edition, folio, title in red and black (laid down and strengthened inner margin), plates and maps, some folding, several leaves with text and/or marginal repairs, modern brown morocco, and Throsby, John, The History and Antiquities of .... Nottingham, Nottingham, Burgage and Stretton, 1795,  4to, plates, later half calf, and a City of Nottingham Mayor?s Visitors Book 1924-25, 4to, containing numerous autographs including some dignitaries, a few leaves torn away and with a child?s scribbles to some leaves, all sold waf (3)

COPINGER, WALTER ARTHUR  HISTORY AND RECORDS OF THE SMITH-CARINGTON FAMILY, FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE PRESENT TIME?London, Henry Sotheran, 1907, large folio, plates, folding maps, etc, lacking the large folding pedigree which was issued in a separate box,  a very good copy in original half vellum

SWARBRECK, SAMUEL D  SKETCHES IN SCOTLANDLondon, published by the author, 1845,  atlas folio, title plus 24 other lithographic plates (complete), dedication and explanation of the plates, some spotting and staining to plate margins, original quarter morocco and soiled cloth boards, corners and extremities very worn

WHITE, T P  ARCHAEOLOGICAL SKETCHES IN SCOTLAND, DISTRICT OF KINTYRE [TOGETHER WITH] DISTRICT OF KNAPDALE AND GIGHA Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood, 1873 and 1875, two separate works, 1st editions, folio, black and white plates, a few coloured, original publisher's brown cloth, gilt, rubbed, some slight wear, and  Lynam, C C - The Log of The Blue Dragon 1892, 1904, London, Bullen, 1907, 8vo, plates and maps, publisher's cloth, lacks front free endpaper (3)

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (1769-1821) DOCUMENT SIGNED (BONAPARTE)  folio, bifolium,  3p, (34 x 22.8cm), Cairo, 27 Fructidor An6 [13 September 1789] a report on the French administration of Egypt, transportation of Egyptian produce and other matters, and, at the foot in another's hand, Napoleon's order to Poussielgue [Administrator-General of Finances] to report on the means by which the cargo referred to maybe procured An important document prepared for Napoleon a month after Nelson's victory in the Battle of the Nile Short tear upper right corner, lower right corner clipped of both p

FOLIO ALBUM OF ENGRAVED PORTRAITSan atlas folio album of several hundred engraved portraits pasted on card, 18th/19th century, the engravings primarily 8vo and smaller, some staining and foxing, 19th C half black leather, very worn and joints cracked and weak

PELLEW (EDWARD) AN IMPORTANT GROUP OF RELICS OF ADMIRAL LORD VISCOUNT PELLEW, RN, 1ST VISCOUNT EXMOUTH (1757-1833) comprisingGEORGE III BRASS BOUND MAHOGANY SEA CAPTAIN'S WRITING BOX  the centre of the three brass bands to the lid engraved Captn Pellew, Royal Navy,  having fitted interior with two brass capped glass inkwells, two steel deck bolts and bow key, three concealed drawers and two further drawers beneath false bottom, the lid containing twelve concealed bone coin canisters and covers (6 each for guineas and half guineas), brass three bolt and two peg lock stamped TURNER PATENT, 27 x 50.5cm, original key and iron spikeTHE LOCKER CORRESPONDENCE OF PELLEW'S LETTERS TO HIS SECRETARY 29 AUGUST 1809-32 all ALS, bifolia , to Edward Hawke Locker,  several "Most Confidential", HMS "Caledonian", off Toulon, Genoa, Gibraltar, London, Plymouth (and elsewhere), all entires with address, seals and manuscript or hand-stamped post marks,  indexed and several annotated by Locker, other letters  respecting Lord Exmouth's public services by Lady Pellew and  members of his family, the Earl Spencer, Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, other officers, etc, 1821-1834, Locker's MS memoir of Pellew, a group portrait drawing of Pellew, Locker and five others by Locker and engravings, tipped into an album (26 x 21cm), original half morocco over marbled boards, scuffed, two cuttings from bookseller's catalogues (? William H Robinson Ltd, early 20th c) describing the present album pasted in,  engraved bookplate of Frederick Locker and a further document signed by Pellew and Lord William Cavendish Bentinck with related TLS from Lionel Robinson presenting the document to H B Vander Poel, 9 March 1938AFTER NICHOLAS POCOCK THE WRECK OF THE EAST INDIAMAN "DUTTON" IN PLYMOUTH SOUND, 26 JANUARY 1796 watercolour, 39.5 x 90cmSHEFFIELD PLATE CHEESE TOASTER, 1816-C1820  with water compartment, detachable lid - reflector and turned pearwood handle, engraved with coronet (viscount's) and ship inscribed DUTTON, 20cm lGEORGE III SILVER TESTIMONIAL TEA CADDY AND COVER engraved with arms and inscriptions or ships at the Bombardment of Algiers,  in scroll and leaf borders with paterae, ring handle, 10cm h; 8 x 12cm, fully marked, by John Edward Terrey, London 1817, 15ozsThe sides are engraved as follows:full achievement of arms of Pellew and In testimony of the  Courage & Honour of  ADMIRAL  LORD EXMOUTH on the Bombardment & Capture of ALGIER September 1816  Presented this Day of our Lord 17th May 1817(left side) Scene of Royal Navy Ships (described on right side - see below)(back) list of the SHIPS and COMMANDERS QUEEN CHARLOTTEAdm Lord Exmouth GCB, Capt James Brisbane CBIMPREGNABLER-Adm David Milne, Capt Edward Brace,  CBSUPERBCapt Charles EkinsMINDENCapt William PatersonALBIONCapt John CoodeLEANDERCapt Edward Chetham, CBSEVERNCapt Hon. Frederick William AylmerGLASGOWCapt Hon. Anthony MaitlandGRANICUS Capt William Furlong WiseHEBRUSCapt Edmund Palmer, CBHERONCom. George BenthamMUTINECom. James MouldPROMETHEUS Com. William Bateman DashwoodBRITOMARTCom. Robert RiddellCORDELIACom. William SargentBEELZEBUB Bomb Com. William KempthornFURY BombCom. Constantine Richard MoorsonHECLA Bomb Com. William PophamINFERNAL BombCom. Hon. George James Percival(right side) A Transport, A Despatch vessel, Gun vessels etc with Royal Sappers & Miners & Royal Rocket CorpsMELANPUS V.Ad. Baron Theod Fred van Capellen, Capt A W De ManFREDERICACapt J A van ser StaatenDIANACapt Petrus ZiervogelAMSTELCapt W A Van Der HartDAGERAADCapt J M PoldersEENDRACHTCapt J F C WardenbergBOMBARDMENT OF ALGIERS 1816 COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL BY L BRENET/GERARD FROM MUDIE'S SERIES COMMEMORATING BRITISH VICTORIES, 1820 obv bust facing right ADMIRAL LORD EXMOUTH, rev Neptune subduing  a seahorse, bronze, 41mm, VF or better [Eimer 1085]PELLEW'S PRAYER BOOK.  THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER...[together with] a new version of the Psalms of David... by N Brady, D.D. and N Tate, unpaginated  title inscribed "Presented by Lady Pellew on Christmas Day 1809" and on blank reverse "Sent to Lord Exmouth's Niece Constantina Thompson on the Death of Lady Exmouth October 29th 1837, Teignmouth Novr 6th (signed) GP [? George Pellew, Dean of Norwich] with his love,  pencil annotation probably in Pellew's hand "this Psalm was chosen " before psalm 51, marbled endpapers with gilt tooled scarlet morocco label lettered VICE ADMIRAL SIR EDWARD PELLEW BT 1809  at front and pasted newspaper report of his death at end, straight grained panelled gilt scarlet morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, worn, aeg, London 1802 (Psalms 1808), Griffiths 1 (1802), p 216: NSTC L 1852 MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS including  L'Amiral Edward Pellew Viscount Exmouth from the series  Histoire Generale les Hommes de Guerre, folio, lithographed portrait and arms, contemporary half scarlet morocco with gilt title label and inscribed in purple ink on the pastedown [Augusta]" Lady Castletown from Lord Exmouth's grand daughter-Florence May 20th 1877", A Salamé,  A Narrative of the Expedition to Algiers in the Year 1816 Under the Command of the Rt Hon Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth,  folding plts, one hand coloured, contemporary calf, upper board detached, 1819, M F Tytler,  The Wooden Walls of Old England: Or The Lives of Celebrated Admirals 1847, E Osler, The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth, rebacked, 1935, a silhouette of Pellew, Pownoll Bastard Pellew, 2nd Viscount Exmouth, ?Private? autograph letter signed, 1812, [newspaper], The Times, December 26th 1793 and July 9th 1804 (both referring to Pellew) and genealogical and other papers found in the boxProvenance: (Locker Correspondence) Edward Hawker Locker, FRS, FSA (1777-1849); his son the bibliophile and poet Frederick Locker, afterwards Locker-Lampson (1821-1895); (possibly) William H Robinson Ltd by which sold to Halstead B Vander Poel (1911-2003); Christie's, Sale of the Halstead B Vander Poel Collection of English Literature, 3 March 2004, lot 347, to the present vendor(Cheese Toaster)The crest and motto with Viscount's coronet above is that of Pellew for Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB (1757-1833)(Tea Caddy) Presented to Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth on 17 May 1817; anon sale ("Property of a Private Collection") Christie's, 29 November 2007, lot 596, to the present vendorNelson's near contemporary, being one year his senior Admiral Pellew (1757-1833)  was also born into a family of, in the phrase of the time "The Middling Sort", in Pellew's case a packet captain of Cornish stock.His naval career, which began in 1770 owed much to several of the exceptional personal qualities that so often characterised Royal Navy officers of Nelson's day, fearless, quick witted and lucky.An excellent swimmer, in a feat of extraordinary presence of mind and not a little  éclat he rescued those on board the  East Indiaman "Dutton" when the vessel and its 400 troops and many others were doomed after the ship ran aground in a storm off Plymouth Hoe on 13th April 1796.  For this he earned an almost immediate Baronetcy.Earlier, at the Action of the 18th June 1793, Pellew captured the French frigate 'Cleopatre' and seized the French naval code of secret signals, for this Pellew was rewarded by a knighthood.His greatest achievement was in the successful Bombardment of Algiers, 1816 (for which amongst other testimonials he was presented with the silver box in this sale) thereby directly resulting in the release of twelve hundred enslaved christians. Please email for further information

MACLURE, MACDONALD & CO, PHOTOGRAPHERS, GLASGOW CITY CHAMBERS large folio, thirty albumen prints on linen hinged card mounts, all captioned, armorial embossed black calf gilt, aeg [c1888]

MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK.  AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY COLLECTION OF 246 MEDICAL AND CULINARY RECIPES COMPILED BY MARY WELBY,  DATED 1712 the remedies and recipes including a Sovereign Medicine against ye Plague, a worm glister, How to make a Wig,  a curious means by which to "scare crows" (pitch brimstone and gunpowder with grease in a bag tied to a stick), Mrs Palmer's Elixir, several for 'a canser' and 'fitts', for a broken belly, chalybiat (sic) powder, poctorall drink, salves, wines and cordial, pies, pickles, preserves, oyster Loaves and other buns and cakes, written in ink in a fine clear hand on 151 of 250 numbered pp, index at end, a few entries in later 18th and 19th c hands, folio (31 x 20cm), contemporary vellum with double filletsProvenance: Mary Welby (1685-1760) of Denton Manor near Grantham.  The daughter and heiress of Thomas Towers of Haddenam, Cambridge, she married in 1706 Richard Welby (1658-1713) of Denton Manor with whom  she was to have six children, including twin boys.  A year after his death she erected a magnificent memorial to his memory in Denton Church.  It features a bold, free standing life size statue of Welby below which she listed his many virtues, calling him "Ye Best of Husbands".  He died according to Mary, "after a tedious sickness which he bore with exemplary patience", perhaps aided by his wife's recourse to  the remedies in this book

MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK.  AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY JOURNAL OF 239 RECIPES FOR MEAT DISHES, PIES, SAUCES, JELLIES, PUDDINGS, WINES, CAKES AND BISCUITS  including Yellow Flummery, Damson Cheese, Hunting Pudding, Queen's Drops, King's Judges, Savoy and York Biscuits, Woodhouse Lane Pudding, Robin Hood's Pudding, Fairy Butter, Half Pay Pudding and Temperance Cake, preceded by a Nottingham  lawyer's Journal entries dated March 1820-November 1826 and followed by medical and other remedies, written in ink in a generally clear hand with index at beginning, folio (37 x 23cm), contemporary diced calf worn

FLINT, WILLIAM RUSSELL IN PURSUIT  five copies, London, The Medici Society Ltd, 1969, first editions, numbered 34, 46, 122, 124 of 150 copies, bound in full blue leather by Mansell, signed, by Francis Russell Flint, colour and other plates and illustrations, fine copies, housed in original blue cloth slipcase and 232 of 850 copies, bound in quarter red leather, all in blue cloth slipcases and Breakfast in Perigord, London 1968, first editions, number 16 and 17 of 25 copies, bound in full lue morocco, signed by Russell Flint, illustrated throughout, in original maroon or marbled slipcase with loose prospectus (2) and Drawings, London, Collins 1950 first edition, folio, signed by Russell Flint to half title, profusely illustrated, publishers blue cloth, a fine copy, plus another Russell Flint interest and Drawings, London, Collins, 1950, first edition folio, limited edition 262 of 500, signed, bound in buckram with paper boards, in original card slipcase with an additional signed print

A Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S Beagle ( London Folio Society 1977 ) with slip cover

Two boxes of various books including various Folio Society volumes, childrens' books, etc

Three folio cases containing 20 assorted prints to include "The British Queen, On Her First Voyage to New York...."

Shelf of Folio Society books. Not available for in-house P&P

Two shelves of Folio Society books. Not available for in-house P&PCondition Report: All in good order.

Folio of Ephemera to include - Early 20thC Post-card albums with approx 85 postcards, small stamp album, 2 1954 "The practical Motorist" magazines & another album of ephemera

Folio of 10 medium sized 20thC oil paintings by differing artists, some framedAll are in good condition overall

A box of Charles Dickens Folio Society books, titles to include: Edwin Drood; David Copperfield; Pickwick Papers; and others.

A box of Charles Dickens Folio Society books, titles to include: Nicholas Nickelby; Our Mutual Friend; Oliver Twist; and others.

Two boxes of Folio Society books, mainly Charles DIckens, titles to include: A Christmas Carol; Dickens London; Historic Speeches; and others.

Alfred Tennyson - 'Vivien' - Illustrated by Gustave Dore, Published by Edward Moxon and Co. 1867 - A Folio Edition

Percy Goddard Stone - 'The Architectural Antiquities of the Isle of Wight' - Published 1891 in two Folio Volumes (rebound) CONDITION REPORTWe have attached a number of additional images to showcase the lot in further detail.

Four Lawrence Durrell folio edition volumes - 'The Alexandria Quartet', together with a folio edition of 'Rebecca' by Daphne Du Maurier

Seven Bronte Folio Society novels in green silk covers, contained in case

ACCADEMIA DEL CIMENTO - Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento. Florence: Giuseppe Cocchini, 1666. Folio (345 x 240mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with engraved alchemical device of the Academy, engraved portrait of Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany by Lotaringus after Francois Spierre dated 1659, 4-pages of the dedication from the 1667 second issue inserted, 75 full-page engraved illustrations by Modiana after [?]Stefano della Bella, engraved head- and tail-pieces, large woodcut historiated initials (some browning to the dedication leaves and elsewhere, small wormholes, marginal wormtracks restored throughout, c.20 leaves faintly waterstained at fore-edge). Old vellum (some light staining). FIRST EDITION, first issue, of the only publication of the world's earliest scientific society. Although short-lived, the Accademia del Cimento was highly active in the ten years of its existence from 1657 to 1667 and was hugely influential through its experiments and discoveries. The work contains a description of the first true thermometer, the first hygrometer and an improved barometer, and also gives the results of experiments on air pressure, sound velocity, radiant heat, phosphorescence and the expansion of water on freezing. The Academy was so exclusive that it consisted of only ten members. Dibner 82; Krivatsy 25; Norman 486: "a very beautiful and expensively produced work"; Riccardi I, 407.

APPOLLONIUS PERGAEUS (fl. 2-3rd-century BC). Conicorum Lib. V. VI. VII. ... Nunc primum editi. Additus in calce Archimedis assumptorum liber ex codicibus Arabicus M.SS. Florence: Ex Typographia Josephi Cocchini ad insigne Stellae, 1661. Folio (332 x 230mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with small typographical ornament, headpieces, initials and ornaments, diagrams, correction slips pasted onto pp. 300, 312 and 352, as usual, errata leaf (lacks pp. 275-278 [Mm2-3] and pp. 409-10 [[Fff1], variable spotting, staining and browning, some inconspicuous marginal repairs, errata leaf repaired at gutter with wormhole affecting letters). Old limp paper boards (spine worn, not unsightly stains from adhesive tape on upper wrapper). Provenance: inscription dated 1663 on half title. cf. Brunet I, 129 (citing only an Oxford edition of 1710); Norman 58; Riccardi I, 158: "Bella edizione, ed assai ricercata."

GREW, Nehemiah (1641-1712). The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and several other Lectures, Read before the Royal Society. [Second title, bound after the first dedication, reading:] An Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. Read before the Royal Society, January 8. and January 15. 1672 ... The Second Edition. London: Printed by W. Rawlins, for the Author, 1682. [Imprint of second title reading:] London: Printed by W. Rawlins, 1682. Folio (319 x 202mm). Woodcut head-pieces and initials, sectional titles, 83 engraved plates, of which 5 folding (plate 14 with short tear without loss, [?]paper flaw at margin of plate 45, without loss, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Modern old-style half calf and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt with 5 raised bands. [?]Second edition, but printed in the same year as the first. A printed note before the first title states: "Dr Grew having read several Lectures of the Anatomy of Plants, some whereof have been already printed at divers times, and some are not printed; with several other Lectures of their Colours, Odours, Tasts[sic], and Salts; as also of the Solution of Salts in Water; and of Mixture; all of them to the satisfaction of the said Society: it is therefore Ordered, That He be desired, to cause them to be printed together in one Volume. Chr. [istopher]. Wren. P.R.S." Brunet II, 459; Grolier Science 436: "The birth of microscopic anatomy of plants"; Henrey 162; Hunt 362: "[the author's] chief work which gained him the reputation of being one of the most distinguished scientists of the 17th-century"; Nissen BBI 758; Krivatsy 4988; Norman 946: "[the author] showed that the "cells" first observed by Robert Hooke ... made up the normal structure of the parenchyma, and came very close to recognizing the universal cellular structure of plants"; Pritzel 3557; Wellcome III, p.164.

JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO (c.1195-c.1256). Sphaera mundi, edited by Pedro Ciruelo (1470-[?]1554). Alcala de Henares: Miguel de Eguia, 1526. Folio (265 x 188mm). Title within woodcut architectural border, armillary sphere within border on verso and repeated at the end, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, historiated and pictorial initials, printed in black letter and double column (title repaired at fore-margin but affecting lower corner of woodcut border, lower corner of first quire repaired, some repaired wormtracks, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Later vellum ruled in gilt with floral cornerpieces, gilt edges. Provenance: old illegible signature on title; some old annotation. FIRST SPANISH EDITION [i.e. printed in Spain, but not in the Spanish language] of one of the most popular scientific works of the 15th- and early 16th-centuries. Only 3 copies are recorded as sold at auction in the last 50 years, and there is no copy of this edition in the British Library. cf. Brunet IV, 160l; Palau 284125; Salva 3812; not in Adams.

MALPIGHI, Marcello (1629-94). Anatome plantarum. Cui subjungitur appendix, iteratas & auctas ejusdem authoris de ovo incubato observationes continens. London: Impensis Johannis Martyn, 1675-79. 2 volumes and appendices bound in one, folio (352 x 228mm). 2 elaborate allegorical engraved frontispieces by R. White, titles printed in red and black with engraved coats-of-arms, initials, 100 engraved plates (first frontispiece and title torn at margin without loss, many plates lightly browned, some mainly marginal spotting and staining to text). Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Liechtensteiniaris (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Wing M-345; Brunet III, 248 (calling for 90 plates only); Dibner 22; Garrison & Morton 536; Henrey 239; Horblit 43a; Nissen BBI 1269; Norman 1430.