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Folio Society books, to include Winston Churchill's the second world war, Anthony Trollope etc. (qty)

A HARDWOOD LIBRARY CHART OR FOLIO STAND on brass casters, 94cm long x 41cm deep x 62.5cm high

Talwin Morris (1865-1911), A collection of Art Nouveau Bindings, circa 1900 folio/4to - Quantity (22)The World of Today, 1906, complete 6 vols; William Ewart Gladstone and his contemporaries, 1898, complete 4 vols.; Thompson's Gardener's Assistant, 1884, complete 6 vols; King Edward VII His Life & Reign, 1910, complete 6 vols

Wood Engravings by Frank Martin for Stendhal's 'Scarlet and Black', a series of 13 engravings produced for the Folio Society edition, 75 sets of signed artist's proofs were printed, each engraving signed in pencil to lower right, in a folio, 18 x 12cm each

Antiquarian. Anderson, George William - A NEW, AUTHENTIC, AND COMPLETE COLLECTION OF VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD, UNDERTAKEN AND PERFORMED BY ROYAL AUTHORITY. CONTAINING A NEW, AUTHENTIC, ENTERTAINING, INSTRUCTIVE, FULL AND COMPLETE HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CAPTAIN COOK'S FIRST, SECOND, THIRD AND LAST VOYAGES. London: Printed for Alex Hogg. Presumed 1784, tail edge of title has been cropped, however the preface confirms this is the first single volume edition. Collated complete. Folio. iv, 656pp plus list of subscribers. PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE AND 156 PLATES AND MAPS. Original calf, well worn, would require some restoration/repair. (1)

C. 1660 Japanese shinto tanto by Sukesada with scabbard. Tanto Sukasada bound brown grip with round fudu Menuki pierced onate tsuba. 32 cm long, straight blade shows a very good hamon pattern to edge, with harimoni Buddhist carvings. Blade has been Japanese polished, being in superb/fine condition. Wooden scabbard shows fine lacquered features, showing unique ‘shell’ finish, with insert Kasashi, retaining cotton-bound belt. A very good maker of swords, Sukesada 2 is shown to tang – Bishu Osafune Ju/Yokoyama Kozuke (No Daijo Fujiwarra Suke Sada). Comes with full folio of photos and research. Overall measures 54cm.

A large collection of assorted books including Butler’s Lives of the Saints, six volume set, The Decameron two volume set, The War in the Peninsula, The Reign of Henry VII, plus many others, most Folio Society books, (two boxes)

Charles Knight's Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, 1847, illustrated with 4000 wood engravings, volumes one and two in the same volume, published London Printing Co, folio, including Mammalia and Birds, with Reptiles, Fishes, Molluscs and Insects, newly rebound with marbled boards and a green leather spine.

Van Ostade.- Rovinsky (Dimitry) L'Oeuvre grave d'Adrien van Ostade. Reproduction des planches originales dans leurs etats successifs. 221 phototypies sans retouches, lacking text vol., scattered spotting, half calf, marbled boards, rubbed and very worn, folio, St Petersburg, 1912.

Caxton (William).- Higden (Ranulphus) Polychronicon, single f. from Liber Tercius, f. CXLVIII, 40 lines, rubricated in red, ink annotations in an early hand with ink marks touching text to verso, window mounted, framed and glazed, small folio, [Westminster, William Caxton, after 2nd July 1482].

NO RESERVE Birds.- Parrots.- Lear (Edward) Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidæ or Parrots, limited edition numbered 21 of 530, 42 colour plates, list of subscriber's, An Essay ... by Brian Reade loosely inserted, original half morocco, a little rubbed, folio, 1978.

Scotland.- Mure [Muir] (Sir John) Order to Jas. Loch Treasurer to pay Two Hundred Marks for the repair of North Berwick Harbour, manuscript, 1p., folds, creased, slightly browned, folio, 1633; and 5 others, Scottish documents, variously dated, 1633, 1636, 1638 & 1644, v.s., v.d. (6 pieces).

Greece.- Athens.- Stuart (James) and Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Delineated, 4 vol., new edition, half-titles, engraved frontispiece portraits of the author, 187 (of 191) engraved plates, maps and plans, some spotting and water-staining, original cloth-backed boards, worn, folio, 1825-1830. sold not subject to return.

Royal Navy.- Letter-book from HMS Royal William, manuscript, 177pp. excluding blanks, extensively damp-stained, some ff. working loose, browned, original panelled reversed calf, worn, head and tail of spine chipped, folio, 1812.⁂ Correspondence in answer to orders issued. "Royal William 23 March 1812. Sir/ The men named in the Margin being all Danish subjects having applied to me to be sent to Prison rather than serve in the Royal Navy... ."

NO RESERVE Monet (Claude).- Wildenstein (Daniel) Claude Monet: Biographie et Catalogue Raisonné, vol.2-4 only (of 5: Peintures 1882-1926, lacking vol.1 1840-81 and supplement), [limited edition], illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, slightly rubbed and frayed at edges, folio, Lausanne & Paris, 1979-85.

NO RESERVE Cluny Abbey.- Saint Odilo of Cluny, fifth Abbot of Cluny, c. 962-1049).- Jotsaldus (Cluniac monk) The Life of St Odilo Abbot of Cluny. By Lotsaldus or Jotsaldus Monk, manuscript, 85pp., slightly browned, original roan-backed boards, slightly rubbed, folio, n.d. [c. 1850].⁂ An unpublished translation of Jotsaldus's Life of St Odilo.

Browsholme Hall, near Clitheroe, Lancashire.- [Account Book relating to the Parker family of Browsholme Hall & Inventory of Browshole Hall], manuscript in several hands, 39pp. excluding blanks, further 9pp. loosely inserted, together 48pp., ruled in red, 2ff. with small tear, slightly browned, 11 linen labels of various rooms in Browsholme Hall loosely inserted, original vellum, soiled, lettered direct on upper cover "The Posting Book 1760 to 1761", worn, spine torn with some loss, ledger folio, 21st March 1778 - 25th November 1790 [& c. 1830s].⁂ A full inventory of an English country house. Rooms including: "Large Drawing Room"; "Engavings"; "Furniture Blue Room"; "Oak Drawing Room" etc.

Rembrandt.- Blanc (Charles) L'Oeuvre de Rembrandt... Catalogue Raisonné de toutes les estampes ..., 2 vol., with over 60 heliogravure plates after Rembrandt, scattered spotting and surface dirt, rebacked in modern blue cloth with red labels, folio, A. Levy, Paris, 1873.

Plato. Opera, translated by Marsilio Ficino and edited by Simon Grynaeus, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut historiated initials, 2 small paper repairs to title, water-stained at foot, some foxing and staining, lightly browned, 17th century panelled calf, spine in compartments, upper joint split, but holding, rather worn, [not in Adams; VD 16 P 3279], a scarce work, folio, Basel, [Froben], 1551.

NO RESERVE Spanish Moors.- Viardot (Louis) Essai sur l'Histoire des Arabes et des Mores d'Espagne, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 4pp. advertisements, some spotting and foxing, contemporary boards, spine gilt and with black morocco labels, rubbed, Paris, 1833; and a bound vol. of c.30 hand-coloured engraved costume plates by Grasset de Saint Sauveur, 8vo & folio (3)

Rembrandt.- Dutuit (Eugène) L'Oeuvre Complet de Rembrandt, from an edition of 500 numbered copies, 3 vol., including supplementary vol., with over 360 facsimile heliogravures after Rembrandt, rebacked in modern blue cloth with red labels, folio, A. Levy, Paris, 1883.

Arnobius, of Sicca. Disputationum adversus gentes libri octo, Roman type, initial spaces with guide-letters, &2 bound after a4 as often, occasional spotting or light foxing, engraved armorial bookplate of William Morehead, 17th century calf, arms of Signet Library to covers, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams A1994; EDIT 16 CNCE 3083], folio, Rome, Francesco Priscianese, 1542.⁂ A well-margined first edition of this work composed in response to Diocletian's persecution of the Christians. It is one of very few books from this Roman press.

Europe.- Breval (John Durant) Remarks on Several Parts of Europe: Relating chiefly to the History, Antiquities and Geography of those Countries, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispieces, double-page engraved map, 43 plates, 12 folding or double-page, subscriber's list, one or two short marginal tears, occasional faint off-setting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down, a little rubbed, folio, Bernard Lintot, 1726.

France, Agenais, or Agenois.- Official papers relating to the Grand Seneschal and Lieutenant General of Agenais, Ds.s., manuscripts in French, c. 100pp., folds, slightly browned, folio et infra, 1752-57.

NO RESERVE Villon (Jacques).- Ginestet (Colette de) & Catherine Pouillon. Jacques Villon: Les Estampes et les Illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, small split at joint, folio, Paris, 1979.

Rembrandt.- Rovinsky (Dimitry) L'Oeuvre Grave de Rembrandt, Reproduction des Planches Originales dans tous leurs Etats successifs, 4 vol., including text vol. in modern blue cloth, 4to, with 1001 phototype reproductions of Rembrandt's etchings, and their varied states, with original paper wrappers, torn and split, the phototypes laid on card as issued, presented in blue cloth portfolio boxes, rubbed and worn, folio, 1890; together with supplementary vol. L'Oeuvre gravé des Élèves de Rembrandt, text and an additional 478 reproductions of works by the school of Rembrandt, phototypes laid on card as issued, presented in blue cloth portfolio boxes, rubbed and worn, folio, 1894; and with Suppplément à l'édition de Mr. D. Rovinski: L'Oeuvre Gravé de Rembrandt, with 94 phototypes, modern blue cloth, 1914.

Dorset.- Hinton St. Mary, near Sturminster... Estate... Hinton Manor House... 150 Acres of capital Land... Sold by Auction, by Mr. W.H. Hewitt, 7pp., large hand-coloured folding lithographed map of Hinton loosely inserted, folio, 1852; and 8 other sale particulars of properties in Dorset, folio (9).

NO RESERVE Insects.- Merian (Maria Sibylla) Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, limited edition numbered 12 of 990, colour plates, original green morocco, 1980 § Rücker (Elisabeth) & William T. Stern, Maria Sibylla Merian in Surinam: Commentary to the Facsimile edition of Metamorphosis ..., colour frontispiece, plates, some colour, illustrations, original half morocco, 1982; folio (2)

Christopher Columbus.- Giovio (Paolo) Elogia Virorium Bellica Virtute Illustrium Veris Imaginibus Supposita, title with woodcut Medici device, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, 2pp. ms. index in an early hand at end, occasional small areas of staining and spotting, final f. with some ceasing, late 17th / early 18th century calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, covers with triple gilt filet borders, joints splitting, corners worn, rubbed, [Adams G639; Mortimer, Italian, 213; European Americana 551 / 23], a wide-margined copy, folio, Florence, Laurentius Torrentinus, 1551.⁂ Handsomely printed first edition of this collection of biographies of the subjects of portraits in the author's private collection. Of particular note was that of Christopher Columbus; the only known authentic likeness of the discoverer of the New World, with his biography on pp.171-174.

NO RESERVE Monet (Claude).- Wildenstein (Daniel) Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism [including Catalogue Raisonné], 4 vol., illustrations, some colour, original cloth, together in slip-case, Cologne & Lausanne, 1996; and c.20 others on Monet, 4to & folio (24)

War of the Spanish Succession.- A Short State of the War and the Peace, The Fourth Edition, with Additions, drophead title, 6pp., edges creased and torn, last f. tear repaired, browned, unbound, [ESTC lists 5 copies only; not in BL], folio, [London, 1715].⁂ Drawn up by Erasmus Lewis under the Earl of Oxford's direction.

Sadeler (Joannes I & Raphael I) Solitudo sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum, 1 part only, engraved title and 25 plates after Maarten de Vos, contemporary wrappers, spine broken, plates and covers loose, oblong folio, n.p., [c.1600].

NO RESERVE Oxford Estate Agents.- Buckell & Ballard.- 7 account books, manuscripts, numerous pp., slightly browned, a few ff. foxed, original cloth and original leather-backed or half-leather, rubbed, folio et infra, 1928, 1930-31, 1934-36.⁂ Sir Robert Buckell (1841-1925), Mayor of Oxford 1885-86, 1890-91, 1896-97, 1904, 1916-17, and 1918-19; auctioneer, surveyor, and valuer, In the early years of the 20th century, Buckell went into partnership to form the Buckell & Ballard estate agency that survived into the twenty-first century.

Birds.- Falcons.- Schlegel (Hermann) Traité de Fauconnerie, limited edition numbered 3 of 270 copies, facsimilie colour title and 16 plates. tissue-guards, introduction pamphlet by Gavin Bridson loosely inserted, original half-morocco by A. W. Lumsden, large folio, 1979

Theatre playbills.- 7 printed playbills of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and the National Theatre, including performances of The Knight of Snowdoun... Mr. C. Kemble... Harlequin & Asmodeus... Mr. Grimaldi... Harlequin Gulliver, the Flying Island etc., some trimmed at head or foot, some corners repaired, folds, some slight creasing, folio, [London], 1805-18; and another (8 pieces).

India. Griffin (Lepel). Famous Monuments of Central India. Illustrated by a series of eighty-nine photographs in permanent autotype, 1st edition, The Autotype Company & Henry Sotheran & Co., [1886], 89 full-page autotypes, 23 x 28 cm and similar, each with tissue-guard with numbered printed caption, a few tissue-guards a little frayed or soiled at edges, slightly finger-soiled and ink library stamps to verso, library labels to (later) front free endpaper, 20th-century leather-backed cloth with gilt accession number at foot of spine, rubbed, oblong folio (Qty: 1)

India. A souvenir of the Shannon River Show, held in March 1902, in connection with Lady Northcote's fancy fête in aid of the Lady Dufferin fund, published under the patronage of h.E. for Her Excellency Lady Northcote by the Indian Textile Journal Company, Limited, Bombay, [1902], 24 pp. with numerous photographs by Bourne & Shepherd reproduced as red-brown and black and white colotypes, a little spotting and soiling, original printed wrappers with cloth spine tie, some damp stains and marginal fraying, a little splitting and wear to spine, slim oblong folio (22 x 28 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe show was held in Bombay in the vast grounds opposite the High Super Court, visible in one of the photographs. Among the major attractions were a canal with tunnels and boats named Shannon River. There was also a monorail, mandolin band, elephant rides, food stalls (including one for Hindus) and much else to be found at a typical British fete. It appears from the photographs and the text that numerous Parsis and Gujratis were also involved in the organisation and running of the show. Lady Northcote was the wife of the then Bombay Chief and Governor. The Lady Dufferin Fund had been set up in aid of the women of India by the Vicereine in the 1880s. A rare survival of an important Bombary charity event, reproducing photographs of the leading photographers Bourne and Shepherd.

Scotland and North Wales . An album of 42 mounted photographs, c. 1880, albumen prints, including 14 views of the Orkney and Shetland Islands, mostly by George Washington Wilson with initials, negative numbers and captions in the negative, mostly 13.5 x 20.5cm and similar sizes, mounted back to back on stiff card leaves plus two paper leaves loosely inserted, inner hinges cracked, contemporary half morocco, spine worn, oblong folio (Qty: 1)

India. [Photographic biographies of Indian rulers], c.1880, 2 parts in 1 volume, approximate pagination [6] 7-96 pp., 3-40 73-6 41-72 [77]-144 147-246 251-4, lithographic Urdu text without hand-coloured oval cartouches, 74 albumen print portrait photographs (9 x 5 cm) mounted to card leaves with Urdu captions (either in manuscript or on mounted lithographic slips), mounts on stubs throughout, 1 similar portrait (uncaptioned but evidently from the same series) laid in, both parts lacking the title-page and apparently the first leaf of text, one card mount (Moinuddin Mohammed Farrukhsiyar) with caption but lacking photograph, part 1 text-leaves and mounts brittle and browned, fore margins chipped and extensively consolidated with tissue-paper, similar repairs to a few leaves extending into text, a few card mounts detached or detaching from stubs (Babur, Humayun, Jahangir/Akbar, the latter both mounted either side of the same sheet), part 2 with water-damage to pp. 133-44 and 3 intervening plates, stabilised with tissue-paper, the repair just touching one corner of 2 photographs (Nawabs of Juagadh and Balasinor), the third (Maharaja of Travancore) repaired with loss, 1 other photograph (Nawab of Palanpur) with extensive loss and attempted repair, card mounts in part 2 otherwise only with variable and generally minor water-staining to fore margins (lower outer corners sometimes discreetly consolidated with tissue), contemporary red morocco binding with broad roll-tool borders gilt, rebacked with red fabric, folio (29.5 x 19 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: From the collection of photo-historian Brij Sharma. An apparently near-complete copy of an extremely rare Indian publication. We trace a fragment containing six photographic portraits and their associated biographies only, catalogued as being part of a larger work titled Muraqqa' Jahan Numa ('World-Mirror Album') by Munshi Bulaqi Das, printed at Delhi's Mayur Press circa 1880. The first part contains 25 albumen prints from miniatures of Mughal rulers and their antecedents, from Timur to Bahadur Shah Zafar. The second part concerns the rulers of the Princely States and associated potentates including the sultans of Muscat and Zanzibar. It contains 50 albumen prints (including the loose, uncaptioned image), of which 39 are from life, and consequently provides original likenesses of numerous princes not otherwise well-represented in the photographic record. The quality of the paper and the adverse climate of the Subcontinent appear to have assured the work's rarity in any condition. A full list list of the figures depicted is available on request.

Great Britain. A group of five private photograph albums of a family's summer seaside holidays in Whitby and Runswick Bay, North Yorkshire, 1928-30 & 1936-37, a total of approximately 500 good amateur snapshots of postcard size and smaller, mounted singly and as multiples to rectos and versos of five neatly composed annual albums with careful ink captions and minor pen decorations to mounts, the large family often photographed in groups and in deliberate line formations on the sandy beaches, all with neat presentation dedication inscriptions from the Golders Green family present to their companion Biddy Craven, inscribed at front of each album, mixed bindings, a little rubbed, oblong small folio (Qty: 5)

Thomson (John). Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, with Letterpress Descriptions of the Places and People Represented, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Sampson Low, Marston Low, and Searle, 1873-74, 96 plates of photographic illustrations, interleaved with descriptive letterpress text and guards, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated maroon cloth, slight wear to spine ends and corners, a few small nicks to joints, volume 1 partly split and frayed along both joints, folio (470 x 345mm) (Qty: 4)NOTESWestern Travellers in China 91: 'John Thomson (1837-1921) was the first known photographer to document the people and landscape of China for publication and dissemination to the Western world. Between 1868 and 1872 he travelled over 6,500 kilometres with his compass and camera and equipment, dark room and chemicals capturing all aspects of Chinese life. The photographs in these four volumes show the many sides of China: sweeping landscapes, royalty and ruling classes, merchants and economic activity, everyday life, and the faces of men, women and children. In a time when knowledge was derived from observation and classification it should seem odd that Thomson desired a recognition not from the quality of his photographs, but from his contributions to general knowledge'. 'My design in the accompanying work is to present a series of pictures of China and its people, such as shall convey an accurate impression of the country I traversed as well as the arts, usages, and manners which prevail in different provinces of the Empire. With this intention I made the camera a constant companion of my wandering, and to it I am indebted for the faithful representation of the scenes I visited and the types of races I came into contact' (Introduction).

Coronation of Haile Selassie I. Emperor of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa , 2 November 1930, a personal photographically-illustrated scrap album of the occasion compiled by Major E.O. Springfield, a member of the delegation sent to accompany the Duke of Gloucester at the coronation, containing a total of 32 gelatin silver print photographs, 35 leaves of news cuttings and related, a manuscript pass, menu, seat ticket and seating plan, three ambassadorial letters, an invitation card to the ceremony and one for the dinner, plus an 11-page typescript account of the occasion as recalled by Springfield, Springfield's ownership signature and address, 'The Palace, Khartoum, Sudan' to front pastedown, original cloth-backed boards with lithographically-printed title to upper cover, some rubbing and soiling, slight edge and joint wear and a little loss of cloth to top and bottom of lower joint, folio (38 x 31cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: From the great-nephew of E.O. Springfield. The first photograph in the album shows the Duke of Gloucester and the rest of the British delegation standing on the steps of the British Legation in Addis Ababa. Captain Springfield was comptroller to the Governor General of Sudan and is seen second from the left in the second row from the back. Standing next to him on his left in a top hat is the young explorer Wilfred Thesiger, who had been given a personal invitation to the coronation by Haile Selassie. This photograph measures 19 x 24cm, the majority of other photographs being postcard-size and similar of western and African officials in respective ceremonial dress. However there are further larger images including one of African chiefs demonstrating a machine gun.

Fenton (Roger, 1819-1869). Photographic Art Treasures; or, Nature and Art Illustrated by Art and Nature, Part I, published by the Patent Photo-Galvano-Graphic Company, November 1856, containing four photo-galvanographs, each with printed title and letterpress credits on india paper, each image approximately 21.5 x 18cm, sheet size 56 x 38cm, loosely contained as issued in original printed wrappers with pictorial vignette to upper cover, minor dust-soiling and small neat repair at foot of spine, large slim folio (Qty: 1)NOTESPart I contains images of York Minster, Cedars, Monmouthshire, Raglan Castle (The Porch) and Raglan Castle (The Watergate). A second part was issued with four further photo-galvanographs, of which two more were by Roger Fenton. Roger Fenton was named partner and photographer of the company, the patent inventor being Paul Pretsch. These are considered the first serious commercial attempts to print directly from a photo-sensitised plate using the photo-chemical process. Rare. No copies have been traced on Library Hub Discover, but a copy of Part I is held by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Print Room).

China & Japan. A large scrap album containing photographs and prints including China and Japan interest, late 19th and early 20th century, a total of 24 photographs, 15 pencil drawings, sketches and watercolours, and 50 prints and items of printed ephemera, the largest photograph (22 x 29 cm) being a toned gelatin silver print, circa 1910, showing a Peking merchant seated in his business reception area with banners and drapes, flowers and chairs, plus five further gelatin silver print cabinet cards and a larger group portrait, studio names on mounts being Sze-Uen-Ming, Shanghai (2), Ho Kom Tong, Hong Kong (2), and Tse Chin Loh, two detached and one showing an unidentified building, 12 hand-tinted Japanese albumen prints, late 19th century, 20.5 x 26.5 cm, the remaining seven photographs including a Ceylon palm tree scene and a young woman by Skeen, circa 1880s, the whole collection mounted to rectos and versos of 30 stiff card leaves, contemporary half morocco, soiling and wear, large folio (53 x 38 cm) (Qty: 1)

* Hong Kong, China and Southern Japan - Postcards . A collection of 278 corner-mounted postcards, early to mid 20th century, mostly colour views, contained in four black lacquer albums with pictorial upper covers, rubbed and some wear, oblong folio (Qty: 4)NOTESP15,16,21

China & India. A scrap album with photographs relating to the Dods family in the Far East, c. 1860-1880s, including a total of approximately 30 albumen prints (c.1860s), various sizes but mostly smaller format, subjects include group portraits, P&O Steamer Benares at the Wharf, Hong Kong, 'Loo Chung Qwong, Viceroy of The Kwangs', circa 1862 (by Milton Miller, 188 x 145 mm), Summer evening at the Tai Ping Hong Konam, 1862, several of the Dods family, plus Chinese women, Canton mandarins and other figures, a few small photographs in Calcutta, plus various cuttings and other ephemera, some loosely inserted, outer margins damp-frayed with some occasional loss, contemporary half leather, rubbed and soiled, folio, (37 x 29 cm), together with a sketchbook of G. Dods dated at Canton 1862-64, comprising a total of approximately 30 mostly pencil and a few watercolour sketches of Chinese and maritime subjects, etc., contemporary half roan, rubbed, oblong small folio (17 x 23 cm), plus a slightly later partially completed family scrap book with rough sketches, poems and inserted ephemera, contemporary cloth, soiled and worn, 4to, plus an untitled contemporary lithographically book of Chinese subjects for art students, original stitched wrappers, slightly soiled and frayed, oblong slim folio (Qty: 4)NOTESProvenance: see lot 38.

Thomson (John). Views on the North River, 1st edition, Hongkong: Noronha & Sons, Printers, 1870, printed title and two leaves of Introduction, printed to rectos only, 14 mounted albumen prints, each with printed red rule border and caption beneath, accompanying leaf of descriptive letterpress to each plate, some fading to images and one spotted, mounts with old damp staining to inner and outer margins, ownership name inscriptions of G. Dods, 1875, and W.K. Dods and C.M. Normand to front free endpaper, stitching now largely broken and contents generally loose in original cloth-backed printed boards with decorative design to upper and lower covers, rubbed and soiled, a little paper surface loss, oblong folio (32.5 x 43 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe photographs are captioned and measure as follows: 1) Road to the Village of Wong Tong, 173 x 232mm; 2) The Ts'ing Yune Pagoda, 154 x 232mm; 3) The Fi-Lai-Sz Monastery, 179 x 237mm; 4) The Fi-Lai-Sz Monastery, 152 x 236mm; 5) In the Ts'ing Yune Pass, 159 x 236mm; 6) View from the 'Lien Chow Kwong' Villages, 140 x 238mm; 7) An Up-Country Bridge, 178 x 232mm; 8) The Mang-Tsz Pass, 158 x 237mm; 9) Rapids, 161 x 232mm; 10) Looking North from the Pau-Lo-Hang Temple, 168 x 240mm; 11) Kwan Yin Cave, 160 x 219mm; 12) Fishing Boats, 158 x 228mm; 13) View from the Kwan Yin Cave, 143 x 226mm; 14) An Up-Country Farm, 138 x 238mm. Provenance: George Dods (1836-1909) MD LRCS Ed. 1859, was born and died in Edinburgh. He worked as Acting Colonial Surgeon in Hong Kong. He wrote at least one medical paper, ‘Tropical Malaria and Its Sequelae’, published in Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh , 1888, 7: 186-198. His only son, William Kane Dods, was born in Hong Kong Kong in 1866, shortly after his marriage to Margaret Crabbe. William Kane Dods (1866-1948) worked as an agent for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and served as treasurer and honorary secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and on the Committee of the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta. The co-owner of the book was Charles M. Normand (?1834-1912), a direct contemporary of Dods senior, who also served in the Far East as an assistant surgeon. By family descent. See also following lots 39-43. A very good copy of this notorious rarity, here in the original printed covers and with family provenance dating back to within five years of publication. It was the first of Thomson’s photographically illustrated books on China, and describes a trip two hundred miles up the North, though the photographs focus on only a few places, for which Thomson gives Chinese characters and English spellings. Like his earlier work, Visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh … to Hong Kong in 1869 , the first photographically-illustrated book published in China, it was published in Hong Kong by the Portuguese printers Noronha and Sons (The Government Printers). ’Mr. Thomson has just published a volume of admirable photographs of scenes on the North River, entered about 40 miles above Canton through the Fatshan creek. The views, which are beautifully executed, are accompanied by a short description of the places which they respectively represent, and will thus form a most pleasing illustration of a part of China little known to the generality of Europeans. In the details of foliage and other foreground these photographs will compare favourably with the best works at home, though they fail somewhat in a distant effects by being too dark in tone, a circumstance to which Mr. Thomson alludes in the introduction, where he states that, with a few exceptions, his efforts to obtain bright photographs of distant objects were baffled by a continuance of bad weather, casting a veil of mist over the distance. Bearing this in mind, the results must be considered wonderfully successful, and the views will be no less acceptable as an interesting memento for residents in China to take home with them, or as a pleasing gift to send to their friends’, Hong Kong Daily Press, 31 October 1870. ‘Views on the North River would have been expensive to produce and the print run was probably small. It is the rarest of Thomson’s books on China. There is a copy in the National Library of Scotland, another in Hong Kong University Library; a third is in the Wason Collection at Cornell University ( NUC , vol. 592, p. 256). In 1980 one was recorded in the collection of Mr and Mrs Lewis Lehr, New York (Lucien Goldschmidt and Weston J. Naef, The Truthful Lens, 1980, p. 167, fig. 157 and pp. 224-5)’, Terry Bennett, History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861-1879, Quaritch, 2010, p. 227. ‘ Views on the North River … can be seen as the first attempt to present Thomson’s experience of China as a visual document. The book form is being used to recreate the experience of seeing his images in a sequence predetermined by the photographer, and to that extent he was able to retain control over the order and arrangement in which his own photographs were presented ... Yet despite the success of Views on the North River as a photographically illustrated book, its circulation among the western, English-speaking communities of Hong Kong and the Treaty ports was somewhat limited, and its impact in Britain, if it had any at all, has left no trace in the contemporary reviewing journals’, Richard Ovenden, John Thomson 1837-1921 (Photographer) , National Library of Scotland, 1997, pp. 178-9.

India & Burma. An album of 43 mounted photographs, late 19th and early 20th century, including six gelatin silver prints of the Himalayas, Khyber Pass and Peshawar by Randolph Bezzant Holmes, 21 x 28.5 cm, seven gelatin silver prints of Mandalay, Rangoon, etc., one titled on the mount 'Assault on Kyaung Kuintaung Stockade, Wuntho, by Devonshire Regiment, Captain Davies & Lieutenants Holman and Logan', each 21 x 29 cm and similar, plus 29 smaller photographs of Agra, plus Burmese and Indian people and scenes, mounted to rectos of 25 stiff card leaves, neat ink captions to mount, contemporary half skiver, covers partly faded, slight wear to extremities, oblong folio (Qty: 1)

China. A photograph album relating to British China Station, 1930s, containing approximately 165 corner-mounted gelatin silver prints on rectos and versos of 20 paper leaves, including people and scenes in Wei Hai Wei, Dairen, Tsingtao, Hong Kong, Philippines, Kobe, Saigon and Jesselton, images 7 x 9.5cm, most with white china ink captions and mounted four or five to a page, contemporary plain cloth with spine tie, slight edge wear, oblong folio (Qty: 1)

* New Zealand. A pair of group portrait photographs of miners posing near mine entrances, 1890s, albumen prints, 10.5 x 14.5 cm, together with a larger albumen print photograph of gold mines, circa 1880s, inscribed 'Thames Gold Fields N.3' to verso, 15.5 x 20.5 cm, plus a group of 24 albumen prints pasted as pairs on to rectos of 12 stiff card album leaves, circa 1890s, showing scenes of the Puketui and Kauaeranga Valleys, the Coromandel Peninsular, showing bush huts, power station, mine tunnels, etc., 11 x 15 cm and similar, plus copies of two printed works, Report of the Department of Mines on the Goldfields of New Zealand for the Year 1899-1900, by John Hayes, Wellington, 1900, folding plans, original printed wrappers, soiled and frayed with loss, folio; the New Zealand Mines Record, Vol. 1, No. 2, Wellington, 16 September 1897, stapled as issued, original printed wrappers, frayed and detached, slim 4to (Qty: 29)NOTESThe Thames Gold Field is located on the southern shores of the Hauraki Gulf, the bonanza years following the first major discovery of gold there in 1867.

Salgado (Sebastião). Sahel, L'Homme en Detresse, 1st edition, Prisma Presse, pour Médecins sans Frontières, 1986, numerous monochrome illustrations from photographs, original pictorial card covers, slim folio, together with Les Enfants de L'Exode, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, 2000, numerous monochrome illustrations from photographs, original cloth, dust jacket, slim folio (Qty: 2)

Maxim Gun Catalogue. A photographic catalogue of Maxim guns and parts, circa 1900, a total of 47 gelatin silver prints mounted to stiff paper verso, with ink number to lower mount and accompanying typed catalogue description on interleaved tissue paper, images mostly 14 x 21 cm and similar sizes, some dust soiling throughout, inner hinges broken, modern plain cloth, rubbed and soiled, oblong small folio (24 x 29 cm) (Qty: 1)

Italy. An album of 56 mounted albumen print views of Rome, c. 1870, including temples, buildings, ruins and sculptures, mostly 18 x 25.5cm and similar sizes, the majority mounted singly to rectos of 48 stiff card leaves, brief pencil captions in English to lower mounts, original gilt-decorated vellum with small ink stamp of the photographer at foot of spine, 'H. Andersen Roma' in original limp red morocco dust jacket, rubbed with some edge wear and small split to lower panel, 4to, together with another album of 63 mounted albumen print views of Italy, circa 1870s, including views, buildings and interiors in Venice, Verona, Siena, Milan, etc., 19.5 x 25cm, some with printed captions in the negative to lower margins, mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with neat English ink captions beneath, some spotting, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed, cracked on joints, some edge wear, folio (Qty: 2)NOTESH. Andersen may be Hermann Andersen who joined the firm of Stillfried & Andersen, operating in Yokohama, Japan between 1876 and 1885.

* Africa. A collection of 210 photographs, predominantly of West Africa, by Julius Friend (1898-1982), circa 1941, gelatin silver prints, mostly people, scenes, views and some genre subjects in Nigeria and the Gold Coast, but also including photographs of Port Sudan, approximately 120 with Friend's copyright wet stamp or manuscript name to verso, and some with captions, probably in Friend's hand, various sizes but many 21 x 16 cm and similar, together with Major Julius F[rederick] Friend's typescript account of a trip to West Africa titled 'African Journey', early 1940s, [4], 109 leaves typed to rectos only, scattered manuscript corrections, title and preliminary leaves slightly soiled, punch holes with tie, original soiled and worn plain wrappers with manuscript title retained, folio, plus a small group of 14 miscellaneous photographs, various cuttings, featuring Friend's photographs, etc. (Qty: approx. 230)NOTESSee also lots 164, 170 & 171.

Greenhill (Loot-Colonel FW). A pictorial souvenir of the 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment (North Lancashire) Secunderabad, India, 1927, published by the Historical Art Publishing Company, [1927], title-page and 34 mounted gelatin silver prints, mounted singly or in pairs to rectos of stiff card leaves with printed captions beneath, 29 x 21.5cm and smaller, some spotting and soiling at front and rear, hinges weak, original cloth gilt, some wear to spine and edges, lower board marked, oblong folio (Qty: 1)

China. A photograph album compiled by a British officer onboard HMS Cumberland (China Station), 1933-34, a total of approximately 210 gelatin silver prints on rectos and some versos of 28 stiff card leaves, corner-mounted as multiples of usually four or more, images approximately 8 x 11cm and similar small-format sizes, uncaptioned, including photographs from Hong Kong, Amoy, Peking, Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, Malaya and ports of the Yangtse River, evidence of some earlier removals, contemporary cloth with pictorial embossed synthetic onlay of a Chinese scene to upper cover, slight edge wear, oblong folio (Qty: 1)

India. Indigo, [an industrial presentation album] with compliments of Howe, Balch & Co, Boston, New York, Calcutta, 1st edition, New York: NY Photo Gravure Co, 1891, 16 full-page photogravure plates with printed captions, showing the Calcutta office, followed by images of the process of growing, treating and packing Indigo, images 14 x 18.5 cm, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed, oblong folio (24 x 30 cm) (Qty: 1)

Great Britain. Album of platinum prints, circa 1905-14, 24 platinum print photographs and 6 gelatin silver prints (all between 22 x 29 and 26 x 34 cm, except for 2 of the silver prints, 12.5 x 29 cm) , mounted rectos and versos to linen-hinged stiff card leaves, and including university or public school group portraits, formal dining scenes (one captioned in the mount 'Chernocke House Dinner, Winchester), rowing scenes, interiors, a view of Christ Church Oxford, and several military group portraits, some of the latter captioned and dated in the negative ('Abbrooke Camp, 1908', 'Ashwick Camp 1909', and '1st Devon Yeomanry Camp, Lower Down, Bovey Tracey, 1914'), occasional pencil captions to mounts, a few prints spotted, one mount loose and slightly torn, contemporary dark red half roan binding, rubbed and marked, rear joint cracked, oblong folio (30.7 x 37 cm) (Qty: 2)

India. An album containing approximately 56 mounted albumen print views, c. 1870s, including 15 views of Alexandria, Suez, Aden and Port Said (one loose), 18 views of Calcutta including 14 signed by Stretton in the negative, six views of Bombay including one by Bourne & Shepherd of Rampart Row from Watson's Hotel (negative no. 2214) and one of Borah Bazaar Street by Colin Murray, plus further photographs by Bourne & Shepherd of HMS Serapis (Calcutta, Christmas 1875) and the Royal Yacht Osbourne in the Hooghly River, during the Prince of Wales's tour of India, a group portrait photograph of HRH The Prince of Wales, Lord Northbrook and others at Government House, Calcutta, a smaller photograph of the Prince of Wales in a group with a shot tiger, the other Bourne & Shepherd photographs showing a village road scene, Bengal, Ladies in Kashmir, Muslim jewellers in Galle, Ceylon, Maharaja Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal and suite, plus two photographs of polo players, one of Manipuri polo players at Imphal, the matching photograph facing of western polo players, plus seven further photographs of Gibraltar and Bologna by unidentified photographers, the majority of photographs 20 x 27.5cm and similar sizes, mounted to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, mostly with brief pencil captions to mounts, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco gilt with monogram WGBG to upper cover, slightly rubbed, oblong folio (Qty: 1)NOTESThe photographs are generally in very good condition and include 11 identified as being by Bourne & Shepherd.

France. A photograph album containing 50 mounted views of Paris, c. 1880, albumen prints, mostly views of buildings and churches including some interiors, plus the Bois de Boulogne and Versailles, printed captions beneath, 18 x 24 cm, printed captions beneath, mounts spotted, original cloth, covers detached and spine deficient, oblong folio (Qty: 1)