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SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. "The Whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poetts, in his Iliads, and Odysses Translated according to the Greeke by George Chapman." 5 Vols complete, limited edition of 450, wood engravings by John Farleigh comp, original 1/2 Morocco, uncut, sm folio, 1930-31 vg set (some spines slightly faded).

ERNEST NISTER MOVEABLE. "The Land of Long Ago. A Visit to Fairyland with Humpty Dumpty." by L. L. Weedon. 6 pop-up tableaux complete, orig cl-backed col pict bds, oblong folio, Nister number 263, vg condition (small piece missing 1st tableaux and one small segment missing from Little Red Ridinghood).

ROBERTI BELLARMINI. "Disputationes De Controversiis Christianae Fidei." 1590 edition, prefix and indexes etc complete, 2194 pages complete, woodcut headings and initials, reverse calf, folio, Ingolstad, v g condition.

Two Folio style volumes, The Bradman Albums, selections from Sir Donald Bradman's official collection 1925-1949, with a vintage Gunn & Moore and Slazenger cricket bat

FOLIO SOCIETY COLLECTION OF JANE AUSTEN NOVELS IN SLIP-CASE

FOUR BOXES OF BOOKS, including Charles Dickens novels, Shakespeare, bibles and a Folio Society Anthony Trollope's The Warden, in a slip case (four boxes)

A Folio edition of the Times newspaper for July 1974

Three boxes containing numerous Folio Society books and others including a run of Aldous Huxley

A folio of interesting ephemera

Forty Folio Society books

[BOOKS]. ART Clauss, Carl. Meisterwerke der Gemalde-Gallerie in Dresden [Gems of the Picture-Gallery in Dresden], Arnold, Dresden, no date, full embossed panelled crimson leather with inset oval engraved portrait centrepiece (upper joint partially split; upper hinge tender), parallel German / French / English text, thirty tissue-guarded engraved plate illustrations, folio.

Agnes Martin (1912-2004)Paintings and Drawings 1974-1990 (suite of 10)The complete set of 10 lithographs printed in colours, 1991, from the edition of 2500, on vellum transparency paper, printed by Lecturis, Eindhoven and published by Nemela & Lenzen GmbH, Monchengladback and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, housed within the original grey card portfolio, each sheet 298 x 298mm (11 3/4 x 11 3/4in) (folio) (10)This set was published to celebrate the artist's 1991 retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

C SAXTON DORSETSHIRE MAP," Described by C. Saxton, Corrected and Amended with many Additions as Roads & c by P Lea", 60cm x 48.5cm including the margins, together with one other map "Plan of the County of Dorset, Divided into Divisions..." dated "1803", 65cm x 54cm, edges stuck down, and handwritten " Dorsetshire plan of Arrangement, Entered into for the Defence of the County", listing various Captains, all contained in a modern folio

BIBLE [GENEVA VERSION] THE BIBLE. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO THE EBREW AND GREEKE and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. London: Christopher Barker, 1583. Large Folio, text in two columns, Black Letter, woodcut illustrations in the text, boards, backstrip worn, lacking the general titlepage and prelims., other titles present, single wormhole through some signatures, tear in f. 137 of the New Testament, no loss Note: ESTC S42: USTC 500658. Often referred to as the 'Breeches Bible' where, Genesis Chapter III Verse 7 reads: "Then the eies of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches." In the King James Version of 1611, "breeches" was changed to "aprons"

A folio of signed prints, watercolours and other pictures

FOLIO SOCIETY HANS ANDERSENS FAIRY TALES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W HEATH ROBINSON

Folio Society books etc (13)

The Arguments of the New Testaments by Rev Mr Ostervald, Translated by John Chamberlayne, Vol III, Third Edition, revised, corrected and very much enlarged from the Folio Edition printed at Neufchatel in 1744; Book printed for B Dod, 'Bookseller to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, at the Bible & Key, at Ave Mary Lane, near Station Hall, London, 1749'; original brown leather binding, good condition for age

Unopened Book - 'Frescos From the 13th to 18th Century', Folio size edition - Scala, ISBN 978-88-6637-137-3

Choice Collection of Woodcut Proofs by Thomas and John Bewick in a Folio sized album, on India Paper, with fifty engravings - Walter Brown, Gt.Portland St, London, 1882; loose boards and spine; 15 inches x 11

British Salmonidae by Sir W Jardine. Bart, this Jumbo Folio Edition is Limited to 500 copies of which this one is No309; with 12 large coloured plates of salmon; 19 inches x 25; with outer green slip case

Napoleon, The 1812 Russian Campaign, brown cloth boards, folio, French text, 51 colour plates, Pub. Lapina, Paris

Horse Racing - Great Moments in the History Of - exclusive Danbury Mint leather bound edition, folio, black gilt leather boards, containing newspaper reprints from 1904 onwards

[ANTIQUES & COLLECTING]. FURNITURE Macquoid, Percy, & Edwards, Ralph. The Dictionary of English Furniture, from the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period, three volumes, Country Life, London, 1924-27, original green cloth gilt, top edges gilt, colour and black and white plate and text illustrations, folio (covers with some scuffing).

[MISCELLANEOUS]. DICTIONARY Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese: A Dictionary, Italian and English, first compiled by John Florio... , whereunto is added, A Dictionary, English and Italian, with several proverbs and instructions for speedy attaining the Italian Tongue by Gio. Torriano, now reprinted, revised and corrected by J.D., by R. Holt and W. Horton for R. Chiswell et al., London, 1688, nineteenth century hall calf, folio (the first 8 pp. of the dictionary and final p. in exceptionally neat replacement hand-written form, a manuscript note to the title verso stating 'The first Eight pages / of this Book & the last / page were restored in / writing by Iohn Thomasen / School Master of Tarvin / in Cheshire about the / Year 1726'; title trimmed and laid-down; upper joint with split ends; spine, corners and edges scuffed).

[HISTORY]. THE GREAT WAR Raemaekers, Louis. The Great War, A Neutral's Indictment, limited edition of 1050, The Fine Art Society Ltd, London, 1916, half ivory buckram, the spine ruled in gilt with maroon labels, top edges gilt, one hundred mounted colour plate illustrations (including frontispiece, as called for), black and white photographic portrait of the artist SIGNED BY THE ARTIST in pencil on p.xiv, folio (spine labels torn, with loss; frontispiece with 2cm lower edge tear, without loss, and creased paper guard; covers with some splash marking and soiling, and with rubbing to blocked signature).

[HISTORY] Wilson, Henry. A Compleat Universal History of the Several Dominions Throughout the Known World... , London, 1738, full leather, three engraved folding maps (two of them detached, including China, Japan, Tonquin, Cochin-China and Siam), folio (title page detached; spine torn at base; each joint with one split end; maps closely cropped and with chipped margins, that still attached with browning and holes; final six pages of index with hole of increasing size, affecting text). Note: This lot sold with all faults, not subject to return.

[HISTORY] Vries, S. De. Omstandigh Vervolgh op Joh. Lodew. Gottfried's Historische Kronyck: op Algemeene Historische Gedenk-Boeken der Voormaemste, Uytgeleesenste Weereldlycke en Kercklycke Geschiedenissen... , three volumes, Pieter vander Aa, Leyden, 1698-1700, quarter leather, engraved frontispiece, engraved title page, double-column Dutch text, engraved full-page and text illustrations, folio (covers worn).

[HISTORY] Thoyras, Rapin de. The History of England, third edition, two volumes, for Knapton, London, 1743, full panelled leather, title page printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece, further engraved illustrations and maps (some folding), folio (covers worn but bindings tight).

[RELIGION & THEOLOGY] Basnage, Jacques. The History of the Jews, from Jesus Christ to the Present Time, containing their Antiquities, their Religion, their Rites, the Dispersion of the Ten Tribes in the East, and the Persecutions this Nation has suffer'd in the West, being a Supplement and Continuation of the History of Josephus, translated into English by Tho[mas] Taylor, for J. Beavor and B. Lintot et al., London, 1708, full panelled leather, the spine with gilt blocked title label, title page printed in red and black, one table (opposite p.189), one engraved plate illustration (opposite p.195), folio (joints cracked; spine ends, corners and edges worn; spine lacking tailband).

[RELIGION & THEOLOGY] Berulle, Cardinal de. Les Oeuvres, second edition, Paris, 1657, quarter leather (small losses at spine ends), title page printed in red and black, double-column French text, folio (loss to lower fore edge corner of pp. Ai-xxiv, not affecting main text; some lower and fore-edge staining).

Dran (French 1979-), 'Dessin Du Jour (Drawing Of The Day)', 2018, a complete folio of 20 screen prints on wove paper, numbered in pen from an edition of 50, singed and numbered in pen to the original presentation box; sheet: 19 x 19cm each (20) ARR

Bookmarks, National Savings (18 types, cat, children, owl, camels, seaside, flowers, harvest etc.), Folio Society (25 types) together with 100+ assorted modern bookmarks (gd) (qty.)

A Regency ormolu and patinated bronze figural mantel timepieceUnsigned but probably by Baetens, London, circa 1825The circular four columnar pillar eight-day single chain fusee movement with anchor escapement regulated by a lenticular bob pendulum, the 3.5 inch circular white enamel Roman numeral dial with Arabic fifteen minutes to the outer minute track and steel moon hands within a gilt serpent scale milled bezel, the case with surmount cast as an eagle perched on a ball and ribbon-tied oak leaf crest draped over the apex of the drum housing the movement, cradled on honeysuckle decorated scroll supports applied to a relief floral garland decorated upstand flanked by a pair of figures each cast as recumbent Classical females reading a folio, the base applied with Satyr masks flanked by conforming floral swags, raised on engine-turned toupe feet, 32cm (30.5ins) high. Several models of this timepiece sharing the same castings, form and specification are known signed either by Joseph van Baetens, F.Baetens or just Beatens who were a family firm of bronziers who also produced timepieces. Working in a similar vain to the Vulliamy family they were based at 23 Gerard Street, Soho, and according to Baillie, G.H. (in Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World) were active around 1832. An identical timepiece was sold in these rooms on Tuesday 2nd October 2019 (lot 163) for £1,900 hammer.Condition Report: Movement is in working condition and appears all-original however a clean and overhaul is advised. There is a non-original pendulum with the clock which is lacking its suspension spring. The dial appears to be in fine condition however on close examination (particularly from an angle allowing light to reflect off the surface) very light surface cracks and undulations in the surface can be seen indicating that the enamel has been restored. The hands are in good condition. The case appears to be in fine original condition retaining original gilding with only light edge rubbing and patchy discolouration in places most noticeably around a join in the casting of the floral drape mount over the dial. There are also signs to the rear of the same of steady pins being soldered to each side at the 10 and 2 o'clock positions.Timepiece has a pendulum and winding key. Condition Report Disclaimer

Reproduction Imperial War Museum posters, mixed botanical and Avian prints, prints of Church studies and others, all housed in a folio folder

THE SPEAKING PICTURE BOOK. AN UNUSUAL LATE VICTORIAN CHROMO ILLUSTRATED AUDIO BOOK WITH BELLOWS MECHANISM, LONDON: H GREVEL AND CO, POOR CONDITION AND MISCELLANEOUS OTHER PRINTS AND BOOKS, INCLUDING THE PORTFOLIO 1893, THE WEDDING AT WINDSOR, FOLIO, INCOMPLETE, A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE JANUARY 1900 AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY ILLUSTRATED THEATRE PROGRAMMES, THE QUEEN, BOUND VOLUME, AN ALBUM OF POSTCARDS AND SOCIETE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE DE LILLE ALBUM DU SALON DE 1896, PORTFOLIO OF SEPIA REPRODUCTIONS OF FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHS, ORIGINAL MARBLED BOARDS Mixed condition, some items fine

[CAUSSIN (NICHOLAS)] - THE HOLY COURT TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY S[I]R T.H., TWO VOLS IN ONE, BOUND WITH MAXIMES OF THE HOLY COURT AND THE WORKS OF ... DR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE LATE LORD BISHOP OF AT ASAPH, SECOND EDITION, FOLIO, VOLUME ONE (ONLY) OF TWO, FINE ENGRAVED FOLDING PORTRAIT, CONTEMPORARY PANELLED CALF, 1729 (2) First title defective, several early ownership signatures, losses and repairs, later black cloth

DECORATIVE ARTS. MODERNE MOEBEL AND INNEN-RAEUME, B. III [ONLY] FOLIO, ILLUSTRATED, DARMSTADT, 1899 AND FOUR OTHERS, SIMILAR, PROFUSE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR, ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE AND DECORATION, 1894 AND 1899-1901, ALL EX LIBRARIES (5)(5) Ex institutional library books, basically complete, not collated, sold not subject to return

ANDERSON (WILLIAM) - THE PICTORIAL ARTS OF JAPAN, FOLIO, PLATES, MANY CHROMO, BAMBOO PATTERNED PICTORIAL GREEN CLOTH LETTERED IN RED AND GILT, AEG, 1886

BELCHER (J) AND M. E. MACARTNEY - LATER RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND, 6 FOLIOS, PLATES AND TEXT, CLOTH BACKED BOARDS 1898-1901 AND ANOTHER FOLIO, ALSO ARCHITECTURE (7)

Box of Folio books to include 'Brideshead Revisited', 'Completer Nonsense', 'Wind in the Willows', 5 volumes 'A History of England' etc.

Eight volumes, Folio Society 'Shakespeare', five volumes of 'Sherlock Holmes' and 'The Complete Works of Raymond Chandler'

[Book-collecting]. Manuscript library catalogue, c.1775-95, 34 leaves + blanks (Britannia watermark with crowned 'GR' royal monogram countermark), 41 lines to the page, ruled in pencil, work listed in alphabetical order (variously by author or title, and by first letter only), shelfmarks in right-hand column, original catalogue apparently written on rectos c.1775, versos with subsequent additions in various hands including books printed as late as 1795, a few titles scored through but easily legible, a few stains, first 4 leaves partially detached, contemporary half calf, spine defective, extensive loss to marbled paper sides, lower cornerpieces perished, folio (32.8 x 20.4 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Joseph Pickford, Esqr (contemporary engraved armorial bookplate incorporating crest of spaniel's head erased), possibly either the English architect (1734-1782), or the squire of Royton Hall, Lancashire (1744-1819) who in 1795 took the surname Radcliffe (thereby assuming the Radcliffe arms, with the crest of a bull's head erased) and was created a baronet 1813. Several entries in the catalogue are accompanied by a note recording the gift of the book in question to 'J. Pickford Junr' or 'J. P. Junr' on various dates in 1785: both Joseph Pickfords had a son named Joseph (with respective dates 1772-1844 and 1766-1804) A fascinating insight into late-eighteenth-century tastes, the library is notably rich in travel and voyages, such as 'Linschoten's Voyages to ye East & West Indies' and 'Smith's Voyage for ye discovery of a North West Passage, 2 vols, 1748', with other highlights including 'Polychronycon, Printed by Wm Caxton, very valuable, 1482'.

[Charles II, King of England]. All the Letters, Memorials, and Considerations, Concerning the offered Alliance of the Kings of England and France, to the High and Mighty Lords, the States of the United Neatherlands, according to the several times when they were delivered: With considerations on the said Alliance, and also reflections on the said considerations, faithfully translated from the Dutch copies printed at Haerlem by Barent Jansen, Hoog Euys, 1680, London: printed for Robert Harford, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1680, 18 pp., first two leaves detached, title with small marginal portion excised, some light spotting, folio (Wing A943), together with: The Lady Gray Vindicated: Being an Answer to a Popish Pamphler, entitled A True Relation , of a Strange Apparition that Appeared to the Lady Gray, commanding her to deliver a Message to his Grace the Duke of Monmouth, London: Printed in the Year 1681, single sheet broadside, printed to both sides in double column, light water stains, stab holes to left margin, untrimmed, 30 x 19.5 cm (11.75 x 7.75 in) (Wing L165) The Humble Address of the Presbyterians, Presented to the King by Mr. Hurst, Mr. Chester, Mr. Slater, Mr. Cox... With His Majesties Gracious Answer, printed for J.W. And Re-printed at Edinburgh by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, Anno Dom, 1687, broadside in two sheets, printed to rectos, docket to verso of second sheet, rather fragile and frayed with creases but text complete,30 x 20 cm (11.75 x 8 in) (Wing A2913), with four others: 1. A True Copy of the Papers Delivered by Sir John Freind, and Sir William Parkyns, to the Sherrifs of London and Middlesex, at Tyburn, the Place of Execution, April the 3rd. 1696, London: Printed for William Rogers, 1696, single sheet broadside printed to both sides, 30 x 19 cm (11.75 x 7.5 in) (Wing F2212 variant); 2. The Famous Tryal in B.R. Between Thomas Neale, Esq; and the Late LadyTheadosia Ivy, the 4th of June, 1684. Before the Right Honourable the Late Lord Jeffreys, Lord Chief Justice of England, for part of Shadwell in the County of Middlesex. As Also the Title of the Creditors of Sir Anthony Bateman, and the Heirs of Whichcott, compared with that of the Lady Ivy to certain Lands in Wapping. Togeher with a Pamphlet heretofore writ and set out by Sir Thomas Ivy (her Husband) Himself, and here Reprinted again, Printed in the Year, 1696, 3 parts, [4], 55, [3], 9, [1], 24 pp., two folding engraved plans with outline colour, damp stain to lower right of first few leaves, some light spoting and toning, disbound, folio, 29.5 x 19 cm (11.5 x 7.5 in), (Wing F386), 3. Some Reflections upon His Highness the Prince of Oranges Declaration, [1688], single sheet broadside, printed in double column, shaved head and foot with loss of imprint and some lines of text, small wormtrack, folds, 36 x 24 cm (14 x 9.5 in) (ESTC R215543), 4. A Particular and Exact Account of the Trial of Mary Compton, the Bloody and most Cruel Midwife of Poplar: As also of her Maid, Mary Compton the Younger; who were both Arraigned in one Indictment for Felony and Murder, in Destroying, Starving to Death, and Famishing several Poor Infant Babes: As also Ann Davis as Accessary, [1693], single sheet broadside, printed in double column to both sides, shaved with loss of imprint and line of text, a little frayed with small tears and holes to left margin, 30 x 20 cm (11.75 x 8 in), (ESTC R181482; Wing P588A) (Qty: 7)NOTESThe Alliance was the result of the Treaties of Nijmegen, signed in the Dutch city between August 1678 and December 1679, which ended the Franco-Dutch War (1672-78). The Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-74) was part of the wider Franco-Dutch War in which England along with Sweden had supported France. After Charles II's niece Mary had married William of Orange in 1677, England agreed an alliance with the Dutch in 1678 and the settlement agreed at Nijmegen more or less established modern France's northern border.

Clarendon (Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of). The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England begun in the year 1641, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Oxford, 1702-04, half-title and engraved portrait frontispiece to each, upper outer blank corner of each title cut off where ownership signature excised, light toning and occasional spotting, later endpapers, contemporary blind panelled mottled calf, rebacked, contrasting morocco labels, board edges and corners worn, large folio (46 x 29 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESLarge-paper copy.

Gregory the Great (Saint, 540-604). Moralia, omni eruditione sacrarum scripturarum refertissima: cum gemina tabula quarum una alphabetica serie materias singulas conplectitur: altera passus sacre scripture extra Job allegatos declaratorsque continet, Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 31 October 1495, 381 leaves (of 382: final blank 2b6 discarded, but retaining medial blank T10), 51 lines and headline, double column, gothic type, printed manicules in margins, decorated throughout with initials in red around printed guide letters, paragraph markings in red, and capital strokes in yellow, lacking front free endpaper, occasional light staining to margins from bleeding of dye used on edges, tiny worm-track to lower margin of first few leaves, title-leaf (a1) tipped to front pastedown, slightly soiled and with two tears of which one crudely repaired recto, leaves C3-4 transposed, a2 with light soiling to fore margin, small marginal stain to S7, final quire (2b) browned, final extant leaf (2b5) slightly spotted, with light worming to margins and short closed tear to fore margin, concomitant worming to rear free endpaper and pastedown, early ink annotations to a1 recto (title-page), a2 recto and T9 verso (last page of main text), printer's device on 2b5 verso embellished with 4 pen-and-ink sketches of winged angel's heads. Later binding (late 16th/early 17th century) of mottled sheep over wooden boards, heavily rubbed, wear and cracking to joint-ends, a few superficial worm-tracks to covers, corners showing through, folio in 8s (28.2 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESGoff G-431; GW 11433; Hain-Copinger 7932*; ISTC ig00431000. First Paris edition, and the sixth overall, of one of the most important texts in western medieval Christianity; the first edition is probably that printed in Nuremberg in 1471. The Moralia was unprecedented in its scope and remained the dominant commentary on the Book of Job until the thirteenth century. 'Gregory began writing the commentary around 583, before he became pope in 590, and he completed it within the first year of his papacy. It was a tumultuous time in Rome. Italy was reeling from the wars of Justinian, the Lombards had occupied northern Italy, and floods, plagues, and famines had devastated the country … Clearly the sufferings of that period prompted a desperate need for the exposition of Job by those charged with teaching the Christian faith in such difficult times' (Seow, Job 1-21: Interpretation and Commentary (2013), p. 193).

Hooper (Jacob). An Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, 1st edition, London: printed, and sold by all the booksellers in town and country, 1738, 27 engraved plates including frontispiece, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, rubbed, rear joint cracked, folio (29.1 x 16.7 cm), together with: Burnet (Gilbert), The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, etc. In which an Account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland, 1st edition, London: J. Grover for R. Royston, 1677, engraved portrait frontispiece (with half-title recto), engraved portrait plate between quires V and X, vignette portrait to p. 380, full-page portrait to p. 416, without the 'Addenda' leaf inserted between a5 and a6 noted in ESTC, occasional spotting, 19th-century book-label (Rev. John Besley), 18th-century tan calf, rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, scuffed and marked, tips worn, folio (31.6 x 18.9 cm), Harris (William), An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Charles the Second, King Great Britain, after the Manner of Mr. Bayle, 2 volumes, 1st editions, London: for A. Millar, 1766, pp. viii 414 [2], viii 400, marginal worming to quires 2A-2C of volume 2, engraved armorial bookplates (John Bond, Grange), contemporary sprinkled calf, modern morocco labels, gilt frames to sides, 8vo (20.6 x 12.2 cm), Welwood (James), Memoirs of the most Material Transactions in England, for the Last Hundred Years, preceding the Revolution in 1688, 2nd edition ('corrected'), London: for Tim. Goodwin, 1700, occasional marginal worming, affecting text in quires D and E, B6 torn at corner with loss of pagination, contemporary panelled calf, 8vo (19.2 x 11.2 cm), Warburton (Eliot), Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1849, 10 engraved plates, extra-illustrated with numerous plates, portraits and maps from other 19th-century works (mainly engraved, some maps hand-coloured), variable spotting and marginal damp-staining to plates, top edges gilt, 20th-century red-brown half morocco, spines sunned, 8vo (21.8 x 13.5 cm), and 3 others, not collated: 1) The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon ... written by Himself, 5 volumes, Basel, 1798, 2) Some Memorials of John Hampden ... by Lord Nugent, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1832, 3) A Survey of Englands Champions ... by Josiah Ricraft, 1647 [=c.1850], front board detached (Qty: 16)NOTESProvenance (Hooper): Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton (1857-1942), politician (Lyme Park bookplate dated 1904; armorial crest gilt to foot of spine). ESTC T73385 (Hooper), R15331 (Burnet), T146265 (Harris: 750 copies printed), R730 (Welwood); Wing B5832 (Burnet), W1307 (Welwood). ESTC calls for 16 unnumbered pages at the rear of Burnet's work, whereas other records call for 12 only, as in the present copy.

Jonson (Ben). The Works. Which were formerly printed in two volumes, are now reprinted in one. To which is added a Comedy, called the New Inn. With Additions never before published, London: printed by Thomas Hodgkin, for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R. Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, 1692, portrait frontispiece lacking (A1), damp-staining in fore margins, concomitant variable softening to fore edges, A2-6 and final 3 leaves (5B4 and chi1-2) consequently strengthened or extended along fore margins and outer corners, quires B-D and 4Y-5B slightly frayed along fore edges, H1 with marginal loss, small worm-track in fore margins from quire 3A onward and light worming to lower outer corners from quire 4M onward, gradually ramifying in both cases, in the latter occasionally touching text or catchword but never affecting legibility, early ownership inscriptions to title-page and p. 1, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn, folio (36 x 22.2 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESESTC R15282; Pforzheimer 561; Wing J1006. First complete collected edition, the first one-volume edition, and the final folio edition.

London Water-Supply. Four bills and broadsides, 1720-5, comprising: 1. A Bill for Incorporating several Undertakers, for the better Accommodating the Inhabitants in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Parts adjacent, with Water, [London, 1720], 11 [1] pp., type-ornament headpiece, woodcut initial, docket-title to final page, slightly damp-stained, folio (31.5 x 20.4 cm), 2. The Case of the New Project for Bringing Water to London and Westminster, Considered, [London, 1725], single half-sheet, text on both sides, docket-title verso, slightly toned, a few faint spots, 31.5 x 20.4 cm, 3. Observations upon the Bill now depending, for supplying the Cities of London and Westminster, and Places Adjacent, with Water, [London, 1725], single half-sheet, text on both sides, docket-title verso (shaved), 31.5 x 20.4 cm, 4. Reasons against the Navigable-Scheme, [London, 1725], single half-sheet printed recto only, contemporary manuscript correction in brown ink, retaining deckled fore edge, 29.8 x 20 cm all disbound with stab-holes visible in gutter and pencilled annotations to head (Qty: 4)NOTESESTC T17255 ('not enacted'; six copies, all but one in the British Library), T17406 (five copies), T17422 (six copies), T17409 (four copies); Hanson 2878, 3546, 3547, 3551. Items 2-4 all relate to the proposal by John Theophlius Desaguliers (1683-1744) to divert Cowley Stream in Uxbridge to Marylebone Fields, probably on behalf of the New River Company. ‘There would, it was claimed, be improved navigation on the Thames, a doubled supply to Hampton Court, more work for the millers and more water in their meadows. However, despite all the calculations made to persuade all parties of the advantages … there is no evidence that it ever happened’ (Carpenter, John Theophilus Desaguliers: A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England (2011), p. 137).

Marine Insurance; South Sea Bubble. Six broadsides, [1720], comprising: 1. Reasons humbly offer'd by the Insurers of Ships and Merchandize, at Sea, single half-sheet, docket-title, closely trimmed along top edge, 2. A Letter to a Member of Parliament. By a Merchant ... T. S., single half-sheet, docket-title, marginal excision to lower inner corner shaving a few letters recto, 3. A Second Letter to a Member of Parliament. By a Merchant ...T. S., single half-sheet, docket-title, 4. A Letter to the Chairman of the Committee. By a Merchant ... T. B., single half-sheet, docket-title, square brackets around pagination verso just shaved, 5. Reasons humbly offer'd by the Societies of the Mines-Royal, etc. who insure Ships and Merchandize, with the Security of a Deposited Joint-Stock, 3 [1] pp., docket-title, damp-stained, 6. Reasons humbly offer'd against giving the Benefit of Lending Money on Bottomree, to the Societies for Insuring Ships and Merchandize, single half-sheet, docket-title, damp-stained, all toned, disbound with stab-holes visible in gutter, pencil annotations to head, folio (approx. 31 x 20 cm, except item 1, 33.3 x 20.5 cm) (Qty: 6)NOTESESTC T17279 (five copies), T17264 (five copies), T17265 (five copies), T17263 (five copies), T17284 (ten copies), T17294 (nine copies); Hanson 2838, 2839, 2840, 2843, 2835, 2841. Item 1 presents the arguments for private marine insurers, items 2-3 the opposing arguments in favour of marine insurance societies; item 3 also answers 'the only objection that remains against one ... at present distinguished by the odious Names of Bubbles'; item 4 is addressed to the chairman of the relevant parliamentary committee by a subscriber to a marine insurance society established 'at the Marine Coffee-house, in Birchin Lane, for 2,000,000 l.'

Metalsmithing & Currency. Three broadsides, 1720-7, comprising: 1. The Case of the Working Goldsmiths, in Relation to a Bill now depending in the Honourable House of Commons, for reducing the Standard of Wrought Silver Plate, and laying Duty thereon, [London, 1720], single half-sheet, text on recto, woodcut factotum, docket-title verso, damp-stained, first word of title shaved, 31.4 x 20.4 cm, 2. Reasons Humbly Offered, to Prohibit English Broad-Pieces and all Forreign Gold from passing Payment by Tale, unless they are taken in all the Publick Revenues, [London, 1724], single half-sheet, text on recto, docket-title verso, 30.4 x 19.9 cm, 3. Reasons against Passing the Bill now depending in the Honourable House of Commons, to prevent Frauds and Abuses in the working up of Goods and Wares made of Copper and Brass, within that Part of Great Britain called England: Humbly offered to the Consideration of that Honourable House, [London, 1727], 3 [1] pp., woodcut headpiece, docket-title to final page, faint marginal spotting and dust-soiling, folio (32.4 x 20.4 cm), each disbound with stab-holes visible in gutter, faintly creased from folding and with pencilled annotations at head (Qty: 3)NOTESESTC T17306 (seven copies), T17404 (two copies: British Library and Senate House), T16411 (six copies); Hanson 2620, 3329, 3693.

Racine (Jean). Theatre de Jean Racine orné de cinquante-sept estampes d'apres les dessins de MM. Prud'hon, Gerard, Girodet, Chaudet, Serangeli et Peyron, peintres et statuaires, 1st edition, Paris, Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Ainé, 1813, stereotype text printed in triple column, and 57 copper engraved plates by Simonet, Lavallé, Marais, Massard, Girardet, Duval, and others after French neo-classical artist Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823), Francois Gerard (1770-1837), Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824), Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763-1810), Giuseppe Serangeli (1768-1852) and Jean-Francois Pierre Peyron (1744-1814), all full sheets, untrimmed (the illustrations printed on larger paper than the text leaves), waterstain to lower outer corners at front of volume, contemporary calf, heavily rubbed and some wear, modern reback, with endpapers renewed, large folio (50.5 x 34.5 cm, 20 x 13.5 ins) (Qty: 1)NOTESSold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

Australian Military Forces. Military Orders, Melbourne: Army Head-Quarters, 1924-47, a large but incomplete set of Orders, the volumes for 1924-38 stitched and bound by year (1933-36 and 1937-38 bound as two), together with Index for 1921-31, all cloth-backed boards, 8vo; approximately 250 (of around 500?) issues for 1939-47 loose in plain cloth annual folders, occasional stamps and markings, folio, together with approximately 150 related loose issues for Appointments, Promotions, etc., 1942/46 (Qty: 2 cartons )

Tacitus. Opera quae exstant a Justo Lipsio postremum recensita, eiusque auctis emendatisque commentariis illustrata: item C. Velleius Paterculus cum eisudem Justi Lipsi auctioribus notis, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1648, signatures *8 A-Z6 a- z6 Aa6 Bb8 2A-2C6 3A-3G6 3H8, title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, colophon leaf, final blank (3H8) apparently original, variable light browning, faint tide-mark to head of gutter in quires S-U, marginal paper-flaw to K2, tears at at lower outer corners of h1 and v1, bookplate effaced from front pastedown, a few other trivial marks and spill-burns, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, 'mandorla' centrepieces in blind to sides, slightly marked, small paint-mark to foot of spine, original green cloth ties largely extant, folio (39 x 24.5 cm) (Qty: 1)

Textiles. Six broadsides, 1720-7, comprising: 1. The Case of the Poor Straw-Hat-Makers, in the Counties of Hartford, Bedford, Buckingham, etc., [1720], single half-sheet, docket-title verso, contemporary manuscript correction, browned, 2. Reasons for encouraging the Manufacture of British Sail-Duck, and the Growth of Hemp and Flax in Great Britain, [1720], single half-sheet, docket-title verso, slightly damp-stained, 3. An Act for preventing Journeymen Shoemakers selling, exchanging, or pawning Boots, Shoes, Slippers, Cut Leather, or other Materials for making Boots, Shoes, or Slippers; and for better regulating the said Journeymen, c.1723, 3 [1] pp., woodcut headpiece and factotum, docket-title, sheet separated along central fold, 4. An Act to prevent several Frauds and Abuses in the Dying Trade, [1727], 3 [1] pp., woodcut headpiece and factotum, docket-title, 5. A Bill for the Effectual Preventing the Importation of Foreign Thrown Silk, which shall be coarser than those known by the Names of Third Bolognia, and Second Orsoy, and all Trams into this Kingdom, from Italy, Naples, and Sicily, for better employing the Poor, and preserving the Silk-Throwing Trade in this Kingdom, [1727], 3 [1] pp., woodcut head- and tailpieces and factotum, docket-title, 6. Reasons humbly offered by the Weavers of London, against a Bill now depending in Parliament, entitled, a Bill for the more Effectual Preventing the Importation of Foreign Thrown-Silk, etc., [1727], single half-sheet, woodcut factotum, docket-title, browned along edges, all disbound with stab-holes visible in gutter, pencilled annotations to head, folio (32.5 x 20.5 cm) (Qty: 6)NOTESESTC T18224 (four copies), T17275 (six copies), N/A, T16387 (three copies), T16381 (three copies), T16414 (seven copies); Hanson 2624, 2616, N/A, N/A, 3696, 3697. The first item calls for restrictions on imports from Holland and Livorno ('Leghorn'). The second item cites a possible war with Russia or Holland as a reason for increasing the manufacture of sail-duck.

Wine. Reasons humbly offered by the Merchants Trading in Wine, for Encouraging and the better Carrying on the said Trade, [London, 1720], single half-sheet, text on recto, docket-title verso, 31.5 x 20.2 cm, together with: ibid., The Case of the Merchants, Importers of Wines into the Port of London, [London, 1720], single half-sheet, text on recto, docket-title verso, first word of title shaved , closely trimmed in gutter shaving two side-notes, 31.4 x 20.8 cm, Gunpowder, A Bill for making more Effectual an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His Majesty's Reign, Intitled, an Act for preventing the Mischiefs which may happen, by keeping too great Quantities of Gunpowder in or near the Cities of London and Westminster, or the Suburbs thereof, [London, 1725], 3 [1] pp., woodcut headpiece and factotum, docket-title to final page, folio (32 x 20.4 cm) , all disbound, faintly creased from folding, pencilled annotations to head (Qty: 3)NOTESESTC T17290 (eight copies), T12674 (three copies), T17339 (one copy only: British Library); Hanson 2677, 3973, 2499. The first item calls for a relief on duty charged on imported wine found to be defective but 'not so bad as to go either to the still, or make vinegar', and for an increase in the time limit for the export of wines, 'by which means we could not only supply our own plantations ... but we might also supply several other places in Europe and Asia with wine, to the great benefit of the British trade'. The second calls for 'equality with the out-ports [Southampton, the Cinque Ports, Chester, etc.] as regards duties' (Hanson).

Album. A large album of watercolours, silhouettes, engravings, and cuttings, 1830s-1920s, approximately 80 leaves (plus some blank), filled with drawings and watercolours, prints and engravings, newspaper cuttings, etc., mounted on rectos and versos (and some loosely inserted), one album leaf with upper half excised, including approximately 40 pen & ink or pencil drawings and watercolours, comprising mostly landscapes, but also portraits, fruit and flowers, animals, some titled, e.g.: 'Mt. Lebanon from Beyroot'; 'Loch Ard'; a Continental figure fencing by Jane Dicky; several competent small drawings by D. Barlee, titled 'Bangor', 'Pass of Llanberis', 'Coventry', 'Bicton Church', 'Berkfield Lodge, Suffolk', 'Crammock Water, Cumberland', 'Priory Gateway, Kenilworth', plus 4 full-length female and 3 head-and-shoulder (1 male, 2 female) scissor cut silhouettes, some with gilt detailing, several small engravings of Welsh costume, and 2 early 20th century large colour-tinted photographs with figures (one of Bruges), original red half morocco, rubbed and worn, with covers detached, folio, together with 2 other albums similar: the first belonging to hymnologist William John Hall (1793-1861), 1830-1850s, containing a variety of manuscript writings and engravings, and some stencilled watercolours of fortresses and lighthouses, original red half morocco, rubbed and extremities worn (with top portion of spine detached), 4to; and the other a large vellum-bound volume, circa 1833-35, containing manuscript writings, engravings (including a worn copy of Isaac Cruikshank's etching 'A Consultation of Doctors on the Case of Sr Toby Bumper!!'), and several original drawings, including a humorous cartoon, folio (Qty: 3)

[Italy]. Three manuscripts, 18-19th century, comprising: 1. 'Memorie antiche, e recenti dell'antica città di Norcia tomo primo ... Diligenza, ricerca, e studio di un minorita. Data in luce sul principio del secolo XVIIII [i.e. 1800]', [6] 531 pp. (a few inconsistencies in pagination), 33 lines to the page, majuscule chapter headings with rubricated capitals and gilt ornaments, rubricated capitals and text in red frames throughout, calligraphic title-page incorporating heraldic emblem and heightened in gilt, 3 heraldic emblems in pen-and-ink and watercolour heightened with gold to p. 5, allegorical tailpiece at p. 37, pp. 360-9 containing copies of memorial inscriptions in roman capitals, 2 printed pamphlets bound in at rear (Lettera apologetico - istorico - critica sopra uno scritto divulgato contro l'antichissima città di Norcia, Norcia, 1788, 35 pp.; Cajetani Bonanni Romani ... Episcopi Nursini ... Epistola Pastralis, Rome: ex Typographia de Romanis, 1821, 16 pp.; both variably spotted and wormed), slightly browned, occasional spots and stains, frequent manuscript corrections on slips pasted over original text, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine and within decorative cartouches to covers, rubbed and soiled, wear to spine-ends, ties renewed, folio (26 x 18.5 cm), 2. 'Apparecchio alla storia di Albano' [volume 2:] 'Notizie istorichi di Albano e suoi contorni' [spine-titles], 2 volumes, c.1800?, approx. 380 + 440 leaves, volume 1 with additional documents and sections from other manuscripts bound in (including 10 folding leaves to rear), volume 2 apparently bound from 3 discrete manuscripts possibly in the same hand (the paper of different dimensions), the final part (approx. 60 leaves) containing ecclesiastical inscriptions transcribed in square capitals with rudimentary diagrams, first few leaves in volume 2 wormed and paper partially corroded in places from ink, a few other marks, contemporary half vellum, gilt spine labels incorporating name of author 'Lorenzo Rè', rubbed, worming and water-damage to foot of volume 2 spine and front board, folio (27 x 19.5 cm), 3. 'Volume in cui si contengono molte copie d'istromenti, e contratti antichi, in tempo de Signori Orsini risguardanti lo stato di m[on]te libretti comprata da Signori Barberini', 1758, [4] 252 leaves, ink corrosion to decorative frame around title and to text on penultimate leaf, worm -track in gutter of leaves 50-70, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, extremities worn, folio (26 x 18.3 cm) (Qty: 4)NOTESProvenance (all items): 1) Thomas Ashby (1874-1931), British archaeologist in Italy and director of the British School at Rome (bookplates; manuscript aquisition notes). 2) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Another copy of the first item is located in the Archivio Diocesano di Norcia (see Cordella & Criniti, 'La Sabina settentrionale: Norcia, Cascia e Valnerina romane', in Ager Veleias 2.06 (2007), p. 16), but the work appears to be unpublished; a laid-in typescript note (possibly Clough's) identifies the author as 'Padre Francesco Antonio Rocci'. The Lorenzo Rè apparently named as the author on the spines of the second work may be the Italian archaeologist who was professor of archaeology at the University of Rome until he was succeeded by his pupil Antonio Nibby in 1820.

* Medicinal Leeches. Autograph letter from Sir Everard Home to Dr James Rawlins Johnson, Bristol, Sackville St. [London], July 4, 1817, single page, 'You know I suppose of your election to the R [oya] l Society and that your paper will be published - some of the council proposed as an improvement upon the names to call the Leech Glossopora. I shall be glad to see the drawing of the specimen of the clavicles in your Father's collection when convenient', the whole letter laid down on a backing sheet, with the address portion cut and pasted to top right corner, slight age toning, 4to, together with five other medical-related letters and manuscripts: 1. Sinclair (Sir John, 1754-1835). Autograph letter to a Dr Marniel, whom he will see in Paris during the week, Hotel de Seine, [Paris], circa 1815, and enquiring 'whether the apparatus for broken thighs has been found the answer in the Hospital at Brussels...', single sheet, folds, 8vo 2. Manuscript medical report, The case of James Chapman, aged 36 who had fallen out of a second story window resulting in serious injuries and amputation, Cambridge? April 9, 1857, single sheet, approximately 800 words written in a neat hand to both sides, right margin trimmed, folds, folio 3. Bell (Marion). Autograph letter written by the wife of the late Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842, Scottish physician and discoverer of the distinct function of the nerves) to Mr Elsom, who had helped her with the publication of his letters and had written the preface, 47 Albany Street, [London], March 4, [1870], 4 pp., 'Even in my dreams, the Providential help you gave to the Letters, is before me. The preface is called by my friends The 'exquisite miniature sketch of Sir Charles by Mr Elsom - so true'... it really seemed to me as if the book flew off from nothing, altho' the end was grave. Your magic pen came to my rescue... I am thankful that it is printed, and on record to show what he was', one or two spots, folds, 12mo 4. Burdett (Francis, 1770-1840, reforming policician). Autograph note to Dr Frederic Quin (1799-1879, founder of the British Homeopathic Society) requesting they dine together, October 1, 1832, single sheet, 6 lines, laid down onto stiff backing sheet, slight soiling, 12mo 5. Manuscript Chemist Statement. From Thomas Pitts, chemist, to Sir Lawrence Vansittart Palk, Haldon House, Devon, January 14, 1843-March 2, 1844, single sheet in double column, listing items for treatment and grooming of horses, household items and medicines, the total amounting to £23.6.72, contemporary docket to verso, folds, folio (Qty: 6)NOTESSir Everard Home (1756-1832) was a surgeon and the first to describe Mary Anning's fossil discovery (later the 'Ichthyosaur') in 1814. He submited a paper to the Philosophical Transactions 1817 (page 339) titled "Observations on the Hirudo Complanata and Hirudo Stagnalis, now formed into distinct genus under the name Glossopora" by Dr. Johnson of Bristol of Bristol communicated by Sir Everard Home. Dr. James Rawlins Johnson was the author of 'A Treatise on the Medicinal Leech: including its medical and natural history, with a description of its anatomical structure: also remarks upon the diseases, preservation and management of leeches', 1816.

[Yorkshire]. Group of manuscripts and ephemera, 18th-20th century, comprising: 'Hunting Diary. York & Ainsty. 1911-12 [1912-13]' [cover-title], 2 volumes, 1911-22, fox-hunting diary, printed headings, ruled in red, completed in manuscript on approx. 190 pp. including lengthy remarks, contemporary black skiver over flexible boards, wear to extremities, large 4to (32.6 x 27.2 cm), [Landowner's household ledger], 1738-46, mentioning places chiefly near Wakefield including Little Smeaton, Knottingley, and similar, 258 pp., contemporary vellum, remains of tawed ties, marked, folio (31.6 x 20.4 cm), 'In the Matter of the Revd Edward Frank clerk of unsound mind. The first account of Sir William Bryan Cooke Baronet the receiver ad interim of the estates of the said Edward Frank appointed ... on the 11th day of August 1825 ... As to the rents of the estates in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk [...York]' [caption-title], 1825-35, [362] pp., contemporary vellum, manuscript cover-title, heavily dust-soiled, rubbed, folio (35.5 x 23 cm), and 7 others, including: 1) [Leeds builder's ledger], c.1850, 78 pp., red skiver wallet binding, rubbed, 8vo; 2) [Testimonial photograph album presented to William Roscoe as chairman of governors at Leeds Modern School], 4to; 3) [Minute book of Halifax Art Union], c.1850, spine worn, 4to; 4) 'A Short History of Chapel Allerton, Allerton Gledhow, Allerton Grange, and Moor Allerton. Volume 1. A. E. Sandford, 1960' [cover-title], typescript with mounted gelatin silver print photographs, 4to; 5) Friendship album, 1856-1908, on varicoloured paper, blind-stamped dark blue roan, shaken, worn, 4to (Qty: 11)NOTESThird item: Sir William Bryan Cooke, 8th Baronet (1782-1851), of Wheatley Hall, was sometime mayor of Doncaster.