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Anthony Trollope: 'Works…', Folio Society, 48 volume complete set, plus one duplicate volume (49)

Eric Gill (illustrated): 'The Four Gospels...', The Folio Society, 2007 facsimile reprint of the original 1931 Golden Cockerel Press edition, limited edition numbered (1,930/2,750), folio, original full black goatskin leather with pictorial gilt design, all edges gilt, housed together with the essays volume (folio, original quarter black cloth), sample page, publisher's prospectus and other relevant material in original solander box

A quantity of Folio Society titles on World War Two, Holocaust etc., including Primo Levi: 'If this is a Man - The Truce'; Ernst Junger: 'Storm of Steel'; Richard Evans: 'The Third Reich…', 3 volumes; Masterman: 'The Double Cross System' etc (16)

A quantity of Folio Society titles, 19th and 20th Century fiction, including Thomas Hardy (18 volumes); E.M. Forster (6 volumes); John Galsworthy (3 volumes); Henry Rider Haggard (3 volumes) etc., (30)

Nikolaus Pevsner: 'The Buildings of England' series, 16 volumes, + 3 volumes Folio Society (19)

Edward Seago, ten biographies and similar titles, including John Gregory: 'Days with Ted', 1995, limited edition (200), out of series, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Hawcroft: 'Edward Seago a Review of the Years 1953-1964', Collins, 1965, 1st edition, published by subscription, original cloth, dust wrapper; Horace Shipp: 'Edward Seago, Painter in the English Tradition', Collins, 1952, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (both generally VGC); Jean Goodman: 'Edward Seago, the other side of the canvas', 1978, 1st edition in dust wrapper; 'The Antarctic Paintings of Edward Seago', 2006, oblong folio, original pictorial boards, plus 5 others similar (10)

Japanese art, three volumes comprising E. Strange: "The Colour Prints of Hiroshige", 1925, first edition, 16 coloured plates, 4to, original cloth, Basil Stewart: "Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour - Prints", London, Kegan Paul, 1922, 22 coloured plates, folio, original quarter cloth: Yu Fei-an: Bird and Flower Paintings", 1959, in Japanese numerous coloured and black and white plates, folio original cloth, dust wrapper (3)

Owen Jones: "The Grammar of Ornament", London, Bernard Quaritch, 1868, 111 (of 112) chromolitho plates, folio, original decorative cloth gilt, lacks backstrip / spine, leaves loose (a/f)

Joesph Pennell: 'Pen drawing and pen Draughtsmen', London and New York, 1889, 1st edition, 15 photogravore plates and numerous illustrations as called for, folio orignial printed paper covered boards

John Bottiger: 'Konstsamlingarna å de svenska kungliga slotten', 1897-1900, 2 volumes highly illustrative works, folio, finely bound contemporary half calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt (2)

Christopher Fry: 'Root and Sky, Poetry from the Plays of Christopher Fry', illustrated Charles Wadsworth, Cambridge, Rampant Lions Press, 1975, limited edition (220 copies), signed by Fry and Wadsworth, 12 collagraph-intaglio plates as called for, folio, original quarter cloth gilt, marbled paper covered boards

W. Heath Robinson: 'Some 'Frightful' War Pictures', London, Duckworth & Co, 1915, 1st edition, 24 plates as called for, folio, original cloth backed pictorial boards, illustrated pastedowns/E.P.'s (VGC)

Four Folio Society titles, 'Andersen's Fairy Tales - illustrated W.Heath Robinson', + 'Grimm's Fairy Tales - illustrated Arthur Rackham', + Lewis Carroll: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There', 2 volumes, all in slipcases (4)

James Stark & J.W. Robberds: 'Scenery of the Rivers of Norfolk, Comprising The Yare, The Waveney and The Bure', Norwich and London, John Stacy et al, 1834, added engraved vignette title page, 24 engraved plates + 11 vignettes as called for, ex lib (discreet markings verso title page and small ticket front pastedown, else no other markings), folio, lavishly bound in full Levant Morocco decorated and tooled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt

Francis Stone: 'Picturesque Views of all the Bridges Belonging to the County of Norfolk in a Series of Eighty-Four Prints in Lithography', [1830] 1st edition, lithograph title + 84 lithograph plates by Engelman after Francis Stone as called for, oblong folio, old half morocco gilt,

George Christopher Davies: 'The Scenery of the Broads and Rivers of Norfolk & Suffolk', Jarrold & Sons, [1883], first and second series, 1st edition, 33 (of 48) photogravure plates by Annan taken from Davies' photographs, various images including Beccles, Lowestoft, Norwich, Coltishall, Horning, Waveney, Bure, Ant, Wensum etc etc, plus one duplicate (Burgh Castle), the two original quarter cloth portfolio bindings and the folio leaves of plates all housed loose in two modern folders, the leaves of plates each with loose modern card mounts included, together with Jamie Campbell & Cliff Middleton: 'The Man who found The Broads, A biography of George Christopher Davies', 1999, 1st edition, original pictorial wraps, large part of book devoted to reproducing all 48 plates from the aformentioned work with their number, title and a short description beneath (3)

Jamie Campbell, 2 titles: 'Norwich Angling Club Menus 1883-2008', 2008, 1st edition, limited (105/500), signed and numbered, profusely illustrated throughout, folio, original cloth gilt; 'A history of The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club', 2009, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper

James Stark & J.W. Robberds: 'Scenery of the Rivers of Norfolk, Comprising The Yare, The Waveney and The Bure', Norwich and London, John Stacy et al, 1834, large paper copy, added engraved vignette title page, 24 engraved plates + 11 vignettes as called for, list of subscribers, folio, old half green morocco gilt (slightly worn), top edge gilt

Manwaring Shurlock: 'Tiles from Chertsey Abbey Surry representing early Romance subjects', London, W.Griggs, 1885, 41 chromolithograph plates as called for, 33pp, folio, original printed paper covered boards, rebacked, new endpapers

C. A. Stothard: 'The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain', London, J. McCreery, 1817, 149 plates (collated), of which some hand coloured, five un-numbered, + 9 text vignettes, folio, contemporary half calf gilt (worn)

Aaron Arrowsmith: 'Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Noti. A Comparative Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography, from original Authorities, and upon a New Plan, for the use of Eton School', London, published by the author, 1828, 53 engraved maps hand coloured in outline as called for, folio, contemporary half calf (worn, top board detached but present), printed paper label to top board

'The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer' circa 1900, maps and plates collated complete, folio, contemporary half calf, plus J.G. Bartholomew: 'The Survery Atlas of England and Wales', 1903, 84 double page coloured maps as called for, elephant folio, original cloth gilt (worn and soiled) (2)

C.M. Middleton: 'A new system of geography', 1779, 2 volumes, volume I with the engraved port frontis but else lacking all other plates, folio, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked (2)

A Victorian photograph album circa 1880's containing approximately 75 mounted albumen print photographs, views include Toledo; Algiers including "The Arab Town"; Oran port and le djebel Mourdjadje; Saint Andre de Mers al-Kebir; four portrait photographs of Arab girls; Biarritz; Bruges; Yorkshire coast including Flamborough Head; Stonehenge; Cromer; Overstrand Church; Sidmouth; Falmouth; Bournemouth; Venice; Florence; Milan; Vitznau; large image of Rome depicting Pont and Castel Sant'Angelo and River Tiber, Vatican in background (27 x 39cm) etc etc, folio, contemporary half calf gilt

E. Somerville: 'Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting', London, Longmans, 1903, 1st edition, 20 tinted coloured plates as called for, square folio, original pictorial cloth (worn), inner joint split, plus Whyte-Melville, 2 titles, comprising 'Riding Recollections', 1898 & 'Hunting Poems', 1911, each 1st editions in original cloth gilt (3)

Richard Lydekker, & W.Kuhnert (illustrator): 'Animal Portraiture', London, Warne, [1912], 1st edition, 50 mounted coloured plates as called for, folio, original pictorial cloth gilt

Charles Stonham: 'The Birds of The British Islands', Grant Richards, 1906-1911, 20 original parts, numerous plates (plates in volume I overpainted in watercolour), each original printed wraps, (nb some later parts, particularly pts 17-20 a/f defective commensurate with life in a tropical climate i.e. staining/soiling to some leaves, some wraps disintegrated, some leaves missing etc), plus 'Birds of the African Waterside', 1979, 1st edition, folio, in dust wrapper (21)

Frank T. Morris: 'Robins & Wrens of Australia', Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1979, limited edition (190/500), signed and numbered, 20 coloured plates as called for, elephant folio, original quarter calf gilt; 'Pencil Drawings 1969-78', Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1978, limted edition (66/500), signed and numbered, 100 black and white plates as called for, elephant folio, original pictorial calf gilt (2)

Philippa Nikulinsky: 'Flowering Plants of the Eastern Goldefields of Western Australia', Perth, Carr-Boyd Minerals, 1983, signed and numbered limited edition (235/1000), with four coloured plates loosely inserted, and 50 tipped in coloured plates as called for, elephant folio, original leather gilt, original buckram solander box gilt

The Folio Society. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales with illustrations after Eric Gill, 2010

The Folio Society. The Four Gospel of The Lord Jesus Christ with illustrations after Eric Gill 2007

The Folio Society. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, illustrated by Harry Brockway 2010. No. 62/1000

The Folio Society. Four boxed volumes. William Shakespeare, Macbeth; Hamlet; Othello and King Lear. 2007

15 Folio Society volumes and other books

The Folio Society. Samuel Pepys Diary in 11 sleeved volumes including Index and Diary Companion. Pub. 2003

•PETER BIEGEL (1913-1988) 'Jackie Pallas' A study of a racehorse named after professional wrestler Jackie 'Mr TV' Pallo, signed and dated '73 lower right, oil on canvas board, 35cm x 45cm Sold with a folio of photographs of the horse and the Wrestler it was named after.

Mendham (Edith).- Hood (Thomas) Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, manuscript calligraphic text and 33 original watercolour illustrations artistically incorporating the text, 1p. with light soiling, the odd spot, 20th century crushed brown morocco, gilt, by Roger de Coverly, spine richly gilt in compartments, light rubbing to joints, g.e., oblong folio, [c.1890].⁂ A handsome turn of the century manuscript work, richly illustrated with original watercolour drawings, by the little known late Victorian female artist, Edith Mendham (fl. 1888-1911). Few works by Mendham are known but the present album suggests she was a highly competent and skilled illustrator. Provenance: Christie's sale, 29th January 1979, lot 36 (lot slip loosely inserted).

East India Company & African Company.- Keate (Sir Jonathan, first Baronet, of The Hoo, Kimpton, Herts, 1633-1700) Account of Receipts and Disbursm.ts of the Personall Estate of his Testator George Keate Esqr. besides the Stockes of his m the Eat India and Affrican Company, manuscript, title and 8pp., 1f. blank at end, folds, browned, title soiled, stitched, unbound, large folio, 25th February 1695.⁂ Keate served as an assessment commissioner in 1648; he fined for alderman in 1650. As a merchant he chartered ships to the Commonwealth and Protectorate. He also became a merchant, and during the Interregnum imported sugar from Barbados. He retired from business after his wife inherited the Hoo estate, rebuilt the mansion there, and later acquired two adjacent manors.

Richardson (George) A Book of Ceilings, composed in the style of the Antique Grotesque, first edition, title and text in English and French, engraved dedication, list of subscribers, 48 engraved plates, one double-page, most with small areas or details picked out in watercolour or coloured pencil, the latter very faint, a few with Richardson's name and dimensions supplied in ink within plate-mark, spotting to text, light marginal soiling to plates, small portion cut away from title (repaired), stamp removed from edge of first few plates, contemporary boards, rubbed, rebacked and recornered in calf, spine a little faded, [Harris 735], folio, for the Author, 1776.⁂ Richardson was employed by the Adam Brothers for eighteen years and this work was his unsuccessful attempt to launch his own architectural practice. The list of subscribers includes Joseph Banks, William Chambers, John Carr of York, George Dance, Joseph Pickford at Derby, Thomas Sandby and many country house owners such as the Marquis of Rockingham.

Thucydides. The hystory, writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan, of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, translated oute of Frenche into the Englysh language by Thomas Nicolls, first edition in English, black letter, title within elaborate historiated woodcut border, woodcut initials, without errata f. (as often), occasional light marginal browning or finger-soiling, ink markings to title in an early hand, title strengthened at inner margins, bookplate and ink stamp to title verso, handsome 19th century hard vellum, spine darkened, minor wear, an attractive copy, [STC 24056], folio, [William Tylle], 1550.⁂ One of the earliest translations of Greek literature. Thucydides recounts the 5th-century B.C. war between Athens and Sparta and analyses the political and moral policies that fueled the combat.

Chasseaud (Peter) Kings Cross, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 50 copies, half-tone photographic illustrations on folding sheets, some double-page, map endpapers, original cloth with printed map and label mounted on upper cover, small spot at foot, uncut, folio, Lewes, Altazimuth Press, 2004.⁂ Photographic record of the Kings Cross and St.Pancras area prior to development and the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Eurostar Terminus.

Brooke (Ralph) A Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, first edition, title within elaborated woodcut border (closely shaved at outer margin), woodcut initials, head-pieces and numerous coats of arms, all coloured in a contemporary hand, occasional ink notes and annotations in a contemporary hand with a few additional coats of arms added by hand, 10ff. with repaired tears, not affecting text, 4¶3 with tear running into text, pagination and collation erratic but seemingly all present, occasional light browning or soiling, bookplate of Thomas Weld of Lulworth Castle to pastedown, 18th century mottled calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, spine rubbed, [STC 3832], folio, by William Jaggard, and sold at his house in Barbican, 1619.

Regicide.- Norton (Sir Gregory, first Baronet, politician and regicide, c. 1603-52).- To the right honourable the Comittee of Parliament to whome the bill of attainting of Oliver Cromwell & others..., manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank and docket mostly in a 19th century hand, folds, browned, folio, [c. 1660].⁂ A petition for mercy made at the Restoration, to parliament on behalf of Lady Norton, daughter-in-law of Sir Gregory Norton, whose husband had been imprisoned because of his father's attainder as one of the regicides of Charles I. Norton's estate, which included the royal manor of Richmond, was forfeited to the crown. Norton's son Henry, had been disinherited by his father as an "unnaturally disobedient son".

Atlases.- Martin (Robert Montgomery) The Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial, and Statistical, engraved frontispiece of the Great Exhibition, additional pictorial title, 2 engraved comparative plates of rivers and mountains in the eastern and western hemispheres and 81 engraved maps with vignette illustration, hand-coloured in outline, 1 text f. torn without loss, some staining (mostly marginal) or spotting, morocco bookplate to front pastedown 'George Rhodes, 1862', contemporary half calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red leather label, rather worn, but holding firm, small folio, 1851.

Franciscan Poverty.- [Bartolus de Saxoferrato (continental jurist of Medieval Roman Law, 1313-57)] [Tractatus minoricarum], manuscript in Latin, on paper, 19½pp., c. 43 lines, in brown ink, in a cursive continental bookhand, ruled in brown ink, foliated in a later hand in red ink, inner margins repaired, slightly browned, later endpapers, 19 century boards, folio, edges uncut, [?Germany], [c. 1450].⁂ Tractatus Minoricarum, a treatise on the legal aspects of Franciscan poverty.

Military.- [Smith (Charles Hamilton)] Costume of the Army of The British Empire. According to the Last Regulations, 1814, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 40 hand-coloured plates only (of 60), faint spotting and soiling to first 4 plates, 4 additional unrelated hand-coloured plates loosely inserted, lacking dedication, bookplates, cracked upper hinge, contemporary boards, crudely rebacked, red morocco label to upper cover, rubbed and worn, folio, 1815.

Santini (Giuseppe, Italian military engineer and amateur draughtsman, fl. 1630-1663) Libbro di Figure diverse fatte nel 1663/ In Livorno/ Libbro Terzo, folio album of 25 drawings of academic nudes and studies after old masters, with decorative title-page featuring ornamental coat of arms trimmed and pasted to album leaf, of the drawings six are executed in red chalk, 8 in black chalks, 8 in red chalk on red-coloured prepared paper, and 3 in black chalk on blue-coloured prepared paper, some heightened with white, all signed with monogram in ligature, four drawings affixed onto all album leaves, the rest executed directly on album leaves themselves, various 17th century Italian watermarks throughout, all pages with ruled double border and page number, with leaves 8 and 9 missing, each leaf approx. 400 x 270 mm. (15 3/4 x 10 5/8 in), some scattered finger-soiling and surface dirt, one or two marginal nicks and areas of marginal loss, printers' creases and rough corners, bound in contemporary vellum, over pasteboards, inked title on spine, very worn, folio, circa 1663⁂ An important and recent addition to the body of work by the little known amateur artist and collector, Giuseppe Santini. While Santini's landscape drawings have appeared on the art market in recent years, there appears to be little precedent for figurative works executed in chalk such as those in the present album. A native of Pisa, Santini was a pupil of the sculptor and engineer to the Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando Tacca. He is also said to have been a follower of Stefano della Bella. [1] From 1670 onwards he worked in Pisa as an engineer with the rank of captain, and was responsible for the restoration of palaces, castles, churches and the Medici armory in Pisa; his surviving maps from this period show his ability both as a geographer and as a draftsman. The landscape drawings by Santini that have surfaced on art market highlight the influence of the Tuscan School; specifically the drawings of Giulio Parigi, Remigio Cantagallina, and Ercole Bazzicaluva et al. His known collecting habits also point to his interest in the drawings of his Florentine contemporaries such as Baldassare Franceschini Volterrano. [2] Other albums produced by Santini are known, and include an album once held in The Fondazione Longhi collection, which was broken and sold in 1982, and comprised fifty-four sheets depicting landscapes, single figures of hunters, peasants, armored knights, and anatomical studies. The Uffizi likewise owns a surviving title-page by Santini and four of his drawings with subjects relating to Florence, all from another one of his albums, 'Disegni e capricci diversi copiati dal natural in diversi luoghi Libro Nono'.[1] M. Privitera, "Il capitano e ingegnere Giuseppe Santini, collezzionista di disegni e disegnatore", Paragone, Arte, 60 (2009)[2] cf. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, specifically the provenance for Baldassare Franceschini Volterrano's 'Devils Dragging Damned Souls into Hell'.

Britain.- Jansson (Jan) Novus atlas, sive theatrum orbis terrarum, vol.4 only [Britain and Ireland], engraved architectural title and 56 double-page maps, all mounted on stubs, illustrations, 5 engraved, the rest woodcut, some foxing and browning, title with some surface abrasion causing slight loss to lettering, map of Britannia Anglo-Saxonum with short tear to inner fold (repaired, with small worn spot where previously adhered to facing leaf), contemporary blind-stamped vellum, old ties (all but one lacking), rubbed and soiled, some wear to spine ends and corners, splits to joints and spine torn at foot, folio, Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1659.

Hogarth (William) The Works...from the Original Plates restored by James Heath...and explanations...by John Nichols, 2 engraved portraits and 154 images on 114 sheets, some spotting, mostly marginal, frontispiece portrait partly torn along plate-mark, a few plates with tears at edges occasionally extending into image, contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt, g.e., rubbed, folio, Baldwin & Cradock, [c.1835].

Italy.- Venice.- Zompini (Gaetano) Le arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia, third edition, engraved title, frontispiece, 60 plates and index f., without the letterpress Life of the Author (as often), plates captioned in Italian with English translations on slips pasted below, frontispiece and title repaired and restored at foot, frontispiece with tear to lower margin, plate 6 with neatly repaired tear running into image, occasional spotting, mostly marginal, early 20th century calf-backed boards, joints cracked, extremities a little rubbed, uncut, folio, Venice, 1785 [but London, 1787].⁂ The third edition (and the first to be printed outside Italy) of this engaging depiction of Venetian citizens and tradespeople.

Ogilby (John) The Relation of His Majestie's Entertainment passing through the City of London, to his Coronation: with a description of the Triumphal Arches, and Solemnity, first edition, second state without dedication and final list of committee members, with initial licence leaf, lightly damp-stained, stitched, first and last leaves soiled, first with title in contemporary manuscript, [Wing O181], by Tho. Roycroft, for Rich. Marriott, 1661 § Digges (Thomas) Englands Defence. A Treatise concerning Invasion..., light damp-staining, stab-holes, loose, [Wing D1471], for F.Haley, 1680 § Grimalkin, or, the Rebel-Cat: a Novel. Representing the Unwearied Attempts of the Beasts of his Faction against Sovereignty and Succession since the Death of the Lyons in the Tower, first edition, state A, [Wing G2026], for the Author, 1681 § Tell-Truth (Robert) Advice to the Nobility, Gentry, & Commonalty of this Nation in the Qualifications and Election of their Knights and Burgesses, their Representatives in Parliament, 4pp., drop-head title, [Wing A660], n.p., [1679] § Charles II, King of England. His Majesties Gracious Speech...to both Houses of Parliament, on Thursday the 23d of May, 1678, title with woodcut royal arms, [Wing C3085], by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1678 § Officers Address (The) to the Ladies. To their Brightnesses the Ladies of Great-Britain..., 4pp., drop-head title, water-stained, by A.Baldwin, [1710], some a little browned or soiled, all but the first disbound; and 4 others, similar, folio (10)⁂ The third mentioned, Grimalkin, is a satire on the intrigues of the Earl of Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth to alter the succession; the last refers to the Sacheverell trial, ESTC lists only 2 copies (BL & Trinity College Dublin).

Americas.- Mitchell, Jr. (S.Augustus) Mitchell's New General Atlas..., 84 hand-coloured lithographed maps & plans on 52 sheets, many relating to America, 4 double-page, all sheets within ornate floral border, no maps numbered 22 & 23 (Vicinities of Philadelphia and Baltimore) but listed as small inset maps and seemingly covered by other maps, with hand-coloured table of time differences on verso of world map, letterpress list of U.S. post offices at end, some light marginal soiling, broken with some sheets becoming loose, original half morocco, a little worn, folio, Philadelphia, 1865.⁂ Including full-page city plans of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, New Orleans, and Cincinnati.

Binding.- Missale Romanum, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title and text in red and black, full-page engraved illustrations, woodcut decorative initials, ink stamps erased from title, end of sig. M and beginning of sig.N with tears and repairs, occasional spotting or staining, handsome contemporary armorial red morocco, richly gilt, covers with central overlaid arms within a black morocco strapwork design, in-filled with numerous tools, including stars, flowers, spirals, laurel sprays, spine in compartments and similarly decorated, chip to upper left-hand corner of upper cover, corners bumped and worn, rubbed, folio (binding 373 x 265mm.), Venice, Bartholomaeus Bruni, 1673. sold as a binding and not subject to return.

Agriculture.- Cato (Marcus Porcius), Varro, Columella and Palladius. Scriptores rei rusticae, edited by Philippus Beroaldus after Georgius Merula and Franciscus Colucia, collation: aa a6 b-i8 k4 l-y8 z4 &6 [con] [rum]8 A-K6 L4 M6, 271 ff. (of 272, lacking first f. with title and dedication), 41 lines and headline, Roman type, woodcut decorative initials, woodcut printer's device to foot M6r, p8 extensive ink marginalia in an old hand, first 11 ff. repaired in upper outer margin, aa5 and final f. loose, some wormholes within text, stained, some marginal foxing, later vellum, yapp edges, ink number 17 to upper cover, rubbed, folio (307 x 201mm.), Reggio Emilia, Dionysius Bertochus, 18 September, 1496⁂ Fourth edition of these classical Roman texts on agriculture. This is the first book printed at Reggio Emilia by the Bolognese printer Dionysius Bertochus. Includes the cultivation of vines and olives, beekeeping and husbandryLiterature: BMC VII 1090; Bod-Inc S-125; Goff S-349; HC 14569*; GW M41055.

Jones (Owen) Examples of Chinese Ornament, first edition, 100 fine chromolithograph plates (including additional title), printed title in red and black, last 2 plates loose, occasional finger-soiling and the odd spot, mostly marginal, original decorated cloth, gilt, corners and spine ends and little bumped, joints reinforced, neatly rebacked, preserving original backstrip, rubbed, folio, 1867.⁂ One of the great works of chromolithographic printing and oriental design. A notoriously fragile book, the condition of this copy is decidedly above average.

Aristotle. Politicorum sive de republica libri octo, translated by Leonardo Aretino, commentary by Thomas Aquinas, collation: ✠8 a-x A-B8 C-D6, double column, woodcut printer's device to title and foot of final verso, woodcut historiated initials, lacking final blank, biro ownership inscription to head of second f., occasional spotting and staining, a few ff. lightly browned, later binding using an old vellum f. over boards, spine with wormholes and worn at foot, rubbed and lightly soiled, folio (317 x 217mm.),Venice, [Heirs of Luca Antonio Giunta], [September], 1558.⁂ Rare copy at auction of this attractively printed edition of the Politics. Literature: Adams A1919; EDIT 16 CNCE 27240.

Quaker Women.- Pocock (Lydia), Frances Dodshon & Hannah Fry. Letter signed to "Dear Friends", 2pp. with conjugate blank, folio, "Womens Meeting", [?Bristol], 30th June 1766, "We are having under our Consideration the very small Number of Women Friends that have of late Attended this Meeting... . Ought we not duly to reflect on the Consequence intailed on those whose Temporary Engagements prevented their coming to the Marriage Supper: Can the remiss in this age expect to reap where they have not sown...", 2 small tears along folds, slightly browned.

Morgan (Mary, daughter of Joseph Gibbs, organist of St. Mary's Tower, Ipswich, 1698-1788, married Rev. Caesar Morgan, Prebendary of Ely Cathedral and Rector of Stretham, 1749-1808) Autograph Letter signed to "Sir" to her publisher's, ?"R Edwards", 2pp. with conjugate blank, folio, Ely, 4th January 1795, referring to the production of her work, A Tour to Milford Haven in the Year 1791, "You cannot but suppose that I was greatly surprized at your account of my prints for on them I had set my heart", and her account of her visit to Mrs Montagu at Sandleford in Berkshire, "I would not for the value of the book have the letters erased that describe Sandleford... . When I wrote those I had not any intention of publishing them, & therefore they can have no reference to the prints, & I might as well destroy my whole book for it chiefly consists of descriptive accounts of the countries I passed through. The account of Sandleford stands exactly as it was first written, & so do many more of the letters particularly those to Mrs. Montagu... I cannot think of having more copies printed than 500", conjugate blank laid down on card, folds, slightly browned.⁂ Publisher derived from Morgan's request in this to her publisher asking for a copy of A Tour through the South of England, Wales and part of Ireland, made during the summer of 179, by Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822), printed at the Minerva Press, for R. Edwards, MDCCXCIII [1793].

Dallington (Sir Robert) Aphorismes ciuill and militarie: amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine, 2 parts in 1, first edition, titles with woodcut printer's device, first title first word is xylographic and with engraved portrait of dedicatee Prince Charles verso, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking blanks, title trimmed and window mounted with portrait verso visible, 2L-2N2 thin worm trace to side-notes column, occasionally just touching part of the odd letter of text, occasional staining to lower margins, contemporary limp vellum, ms. ink title to spine, lacking ties, a little staining, [STC 6197], folio, [R. Field] for Edward Blount, 1613.⁂ In 1609 Dallington presented Prince Henry with a manuscript Aphorismes civill and militarie, comprising pieces selected from the Italian historian Guicciardini. Following the prince's death in 1612 Dallington reworked these, which were published in 1613 with a new dedication to Prince Charles, later King Charles I. Provenance: 'William ?' (two contemporary ink signatures to B1).

Fell (John, Bishop of Oxford, 1625-86), William Jane, Church of England clergyman, bap. 1645, d. 1707) & Henry Compton, Bishop of London, 1631/2-1713) Reference in favour of Robert Farrow, Master of Arts & Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, D.s. "Jo. Oxon", "William Jane" & "H: London", manuscript, slight stain at head and tail, laid down on card, folds, slightly browned, folio, 20th May 1685.⁂ "The rhyme,I do not love thee Dr FellThe reason why I cannot tell;But this I know and know full well,I do not love thee Dr Fell,the result of a mischievous translation of a Martial epigram by a disciplined student, Thomas Brown, stuck in the popular memory longer than the preoccupations of the man to whom it refers. It seems to touch a truth about the energetic, determined, effective, partisan, and sometimes sanctimonious man who made a profound contribution to Restoration Anglicanism and who in many respects was Restoration Oxford." - Oxford DNB.Robert Farrow (1655-93), son of Francis Farrow, of Thingdon, Northants, fellow of Lincoln Coll.