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Lot 196

FOLIO PRESS 1991 - Oscar Wilde - "De Profundis", Walter De La Mare - "Motley and other Poems", lithographs by Ian Archie Beck, and Rudyard Kipling - "Barrack-Room Ballads", illustrations by Ian Ribbons (3)

Lot 197

FOLIO PRESS 1991 - "WOMAN IN WHITE Poems By Emily Dickinson" selected, edited and with an introduction by J. D. McClatchy, printed in Centaur type on Magnani mould-made paper at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, Italy

Lot 198

FOLIO PRESS 1989 - ALEXANDER POPE - "THE RAPE OF THE LOCK", illustrated by lithography by Peter Forster, together with William Barnes - "Dorset Poems", engravings by William Barnes, both on Mohawk Superfine acid-free paper, bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd. in Feincanvas cloth with Moiré silk sides and hand-marbled endpapers from Mitchell & Malik (2)

Lot 199

FOLIO PRESS 1989 - WILFRED OWEN - "POEMS OF WAR" on Mohawk Superfine acid-free paper, bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd. in Feincanvas cloth with Moiré silk sides and hand-marbled endpapers from Mitchell & Malik

Lot 200

FOLIO PRESS 1989 - THOMAS DEKKER - "THE WONDERFUL YEAR 1603", introduction by A. L. Rowse, on Mohawk Superfine acid-free paper, bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd. in Feincanvas cloth with Moiré silk sides and hand-marbled endpapers from Mitchell & Malik

Lot 201

THREE BOXES OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS, miscellaneous titles (60+)

Lot 202

FOLIO PRESS - JOHN MILTON - "ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY & Other Poems" 1987, together with "Poems by Charlotte, Emily Jane & Anne Bronte" 1987, W. B. Yeats - "The Tower" 1987, and James Hogg - "A Memoir of Sir Walter Scott" 1987, all printed on Zerkall Rough Antique laid, acid-free, mould made paper and bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd., Edinburgh, with sides of Rackenmarmor Swedish hand-marbled paper and buckram spine and label. Also Izaak Walton - "The Life of Dr John Donne" 1988, on Van Gelder Old Dutch laid acid-free, mould made paper, bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh with moiré silk spine and hand-marbled paper sides by Mitchell and Malik (5)

Lot 203

FOLIO PRESS - EDWARD THOMAS - "THESE THINGS ALSO ARE SPRING'S" 1988, wood engravings by James Bostock on Van Gelder Antique Wove acid-free, mould-made paper, bound by Hunter & foulis Ltd, Edinburgh with moiré silk spine and hand-marbled paper sides from Mitchell & Malik

Lot 204

FOLIO PRESS - KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND (Translated and intoduced by) - "THE ANGLO-SAXON ELEGIES" 1988, with engravings by Hannah Firmin, together with Thomas Babington Macaulay - "Lays of Ancient Rome", both on Van Gelder Old Dutch Mould-made acid-free , antique laid paper, bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh with moiré silk spine and hand-marbled paper sides from Mitchell & Malik (2)

Lot 208

FOLIO SOCIETY - CHARLES DICKENS 16 VOLUME SET, 1980s, each volume in individual slipcaseCondition Report:  In very good condition over all. Minor scuffs on back of slipcase bottom on some, the odd very tiny scratch on a few slipcases, hardly noticeable. There are differences in tone to the colour of the spines - maybe very slight light fading due to position on bookcase? Oliver Twist is in a different colour much lighter slip case than all the others.  However, nothing major, inside they are in pristine condition.

Lot 209

FOLIO SOCIETY - J. R. R. TOLKIEN - "The Lord of the Rings" 3 volume cased set 1977, another 3 volume cased set 1990 (re-issue of 1977 edition), "The Hobbit" De Luxe edition 1976 George Allen & Unwin for The Folio Society and "The Hobbit" 1979 (8 volumes in 4 slipcases

Lot 292

MARIES STOPES - A FOLIO OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK OF AND BY HER FAMILY, to include works by Charlotte Carmichael (Marie's mother) and by James Ferrier Carmichael (Charlotte's father, Marie's Grandfather). Works include:Three portraits of Charlotte Carmichael by her father, to include a drawing of her aged 7, another pencil drawing A/F and an oil painting on canvas together with a pencil sketch thought to be done around 1850, all have a description in Marie Stope's handwriting. A watercolour with the name Charlotte B. Carmichael on the back. Seven unsigned and unattributed watercolours, one with the date 1840 pencilled on the back. Several pencil architectural sketches signed Charlotte Carmichael and topographical pencil drawings dating to the mid 1800s signed or attributed to H. S. Carmichael E. S. Carmichael and Ellen Carmichael.A delightful 18th Century page of watercolour flower studies which says at the top "1st Drawings and Paintings from nature 1786", pencilled at the bottom is Ann Durward? (Ann Durward was James Ferrier Carmichael's mother).A charcoal sketch that appears to be by Marie Stopes herself ("Marie Stopes Lime Sketch 1¼ hrs")A sampler by Charlotte Brown 1801

Lot 316

M. C. BLOXHAM - A FOLIO OF ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS BY MARY CAROLINE BLOXHAM, AUNT OF MOLLY BLOXHAM WHO WAS WIFE OF SIR BARNES WALLIS, landscapes and botanical studies dated from 1880 - 1910, some have college labels and assessments, together with a folio of certificates and awards

Lot 105

Box: three folio Bibles, 1701, 1709 and 1716 + A S HERBERT: HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTED EDITIONS OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE 1525-1961, London, The British & Foreign Bible Society, New York, The American Bible Society, 1968, 1st edition

Lot 185

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

Lot 255

Two shelves of folio edition books, to include Edward Gibbons

Lot 257

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

Lot 1291

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

Lot 429

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

Lot 213

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

Lot 232

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

Lot 267

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

Lot 483

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)

Lot 360

Folio of 20 Pictures Including Two British Rail Travel Posters

Lot 115

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).

Lot 124

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

Lot 13

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.

Lot 130

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.

Lot 135

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).

Lot 136

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).

Lot 141

[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.

Lot 142

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).

Lot 149

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.).

Lot 16

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.

Lot 163

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

Lot 22

[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.

Lot 235

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)

Lot 3

[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.

Lot 333

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)

Lot 337

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)

Lot 374

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.

Lot 376

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.

Lot 377

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.

Lot 38

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.'

Lot 384

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.

Lot 39

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)

Lot 404

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.

Lot 408

[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).

Lot 415

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)

Lot 417

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.

Lot 44

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)

Lot 452

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)

Lot 453

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)

Lot 464

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.

Lot 482

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]

Lot 484

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.

Lot 485

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.

Lot 493

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.

Lot 511

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)

Lot 515

* 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)

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