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French Artists. Quelques Bois originaux et inedits de Marval & Lewitska, Eug. Corneaux, R. Duffy, Gabriel Fournier, Othon-Friesz, A. Favory, R. de la Fresnaye, J. E. Laboureur, A. Lhote, J. Marchand, A. Mare, Marcel-Gaillard, L. Mainssieux & Vallotton, Paris, La Belle Edition, 1918, complete set of 12 leaves of original woodcuts, including 2 double-page (Othon-Friesz and Marval), and 3 with 2 woodcuts per page (Marchand & Dufy, Fournier and Maré, Mainssieux and Marcel-Gaillard), 4 pages of printed colophon and title page at front, original printed wrappers, a little rubbed and lightly soiled, slim folio (33 x 23 cm, 13 x 9 ins) (Qty: 1)Limited edition of 341 copies, this being number 130 of 300 copies on papier a la forme. Vallotton & Goerg 198 for the full-page woodcut by Felix Vallotton entitled L'Emotion.

Gibbings (Robert John, 1889-1958). Fourteen Wood Engravings by Robert Gibbings from Drawings made on Orient Line Cruises, Golden Cockerel Press, [1932], fourteen wood engravings, printed presentation slip from Orient Line Cruises loosely inserted, dated October 1932, original yellow printed wrappers, stitched as issued, some minor marks to extremities, slim folio (Qty: 1)

Photography - Topography and Architecture, a late Victorian green calf and inlaid leather photograph album, applied with b/w and sepia photographs of British topography and architecture, including Scotland, Ireland, the Lake District, Oxford and its colleges, Blenheim Palace, London, Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, annotated, some dated 1883, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, crown folio; another, similar, Scotland, an album of 29 views, including Glasgow docks by the Clyde (2) further Glaswegian architectural facades, Balmoral Castle, lochs, etc., contemporary blind panelled calf, all edges gilt, watered endpapers, small folio; 59 b/w and sepia loose photographs, of British Medieval ecclesiastical and monastic architecture and ruins, various sizes, [3]

William Nicholson (1872-1949), by, a folio of eleven London Types: Drum-Major, Wimbledon Common; Barmaid, Any Bar; Guardsman, Horseguards Parade; Bluecoat Boy, Newgate Street; Lady, Rotten Row; Policeman, Constitution Hill; Coster, Hammersmith; Beefeater, Tower of London; Sandwich Man, Trafalgar Square; News Boy, the City; Hawker, Kensington; [William Heinemann, London 1898], lithographs, red-stained foredges, 32.3cm x 27.9cm, [11] Condition Report: no portfolio present, these seem to have some age, please refer to additional images for details

Ephemera - Thespian, a late Victorian/early Edwardian theatre scrap album, compiled with various clippings relating to the history of the English stage and its actors, contemporary quarter-calf and cloth, gilt spine, small folio; a large Victorian and later scrap album, applied with clipped colour scraps, ephemera and postcards, including humour and topography, red cloth, crown folio; another similar, partially-filled, pictorial cloth, large 4to; Postcards, an Edwardian album of British Medieval cathedrals and churches, architectural exteriors and some interiors, contemporary green cloth, oblong 8vo; etc, [5] Condition Report: Scrap albums 1 x 26 30 x 25cm1 x 24 32 x 26.5cmothers blank1 x 80 38 x 28cmothers blank

A New Royal and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: or, Complete System of Human Knowledge [...], Embellifhed (sic) with upwards of One Hundred Copper-Plates [...], Printed for J. Cooke. London 1770, engraved frontispiece and further full-page plates, contemporary panelled reverse calf, lettered piece to spine's second compartment, crown folio

Archaeology - Anon, A Brief Description of the Ancient Vessel Found Near Sandefjord in Norway, to Accompany the Model of the Ship Sent to the International Ship-Model Exhibition in London 1882, Printed by B.M. Bentzen & Son, Christiania, pp: [1]-14, [i], original wrapper as issued, 12mo, Not listed on Copac; six loose b/w photographs of ancient longboats, one the prow in detail, various sizes and dates; Photographs of Trondheim Excavations 1971, a lever folder of 41 b/w photographs, each mounted on a card page and annotated in English with pencil, showing unearthed wooden structures and settlement foundations, skeletal remains, Christian coffins and a vast graveyard, epigraphy and archaeological finds, etc, buckram boards, small folio, [2]

Augustus Pugin - Gothic Ornaments, Selected from Various Ancient Buildings, Both in England and France, During the Years 1828, 1829, and 1830 [...], Henry G. Bohn, London 1844, full-page plates after drawing on stone by James Duffield Hardy (1798-1863), 19th century calf spine and green cloth boards (disbound), recto pastedown with Alexander W. Mills, J.P. bequest bookplate and the recipient Manchester Society of Architects' bookplate, small folio; Examples of Gothic Architecture [...], Accompanied by Historical and Descriptive Accounts [...], part I only, Printed for the Author, London 1831, engraved title-page and further full-page plates, contemporary green moiré boards, fragmentary spine with leather gilt lettering piece, 4to; Specimens of Gothic Architecture, selected from various Ancient Edifices in England, volume II only, M.A. Nattali, London [n.d., c. 1822], engraved title-page, full-page plates - mostly with tissue-guards, 19th century calf spine and olive cloth boards (worn, split with losses to spine), Institute of British Art History library stamp in places throughout, small folio; Belcher (Margaret), A.W.N. Pugin: An annotated critical bibliography, Mansell Publishing Limited, London 1987, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Germann (Georg), Gothic Revival in Europe and Britain: Sources, Influences and Ideas, Lund Humphries [...], London 1972, p/b, 4to, [5]

Children's and Juvenile Books, Illustrators - Fables de La Fontaine, Illustrations de Vimar, Alfred Mame et Fils, Tours 1897, full-page chromolithographs and other b/w plates, further vignettes, contemporary pictorial blue cloth, all edges gilt, small folio; Reynard the Fox: A Poem in Twelve Cantos, Translated from the German by E.W. Holloway, with Thirty-Seven Engravings on Steel, after Designs by H. Leutmann, Published for the Proprietors by A.H. Payne, Dresden and Leipzing, [&] W. French, London, [n.d., 1852], full-page plates, contemporary green quarter-roan and cloth, top edge gilt, 4to; Hoffmann (Dr. Heinrich), The English Struwwelpeter, 44th edition?, early 20th edition, pp: 24, pictorial boards, 4to; Three Hundred Illustrations with Scripture Texts, For Family Reading, W.H. Broom & Rouse, London 1886, contemporary oxblood gilt, 8vo; Edmund Dulac: Picture-Book for the French Red Cross, Published for the Daily Telegraph by Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d., 1914/15], tipped-in colour plates, contemporary pictorial boards (disbound), 4to; Fairy-Book: Fairy Tales of Allied Nations, Hodder & Stoughton, London [n.d., 1916], tipped-in colour plates, pictorial grey cloth, 4to; Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald [...], Hodder and Stoughton, London [n.d., c. 1919], tipped-in colour plates, pictorial mauve cloth gilt (partially-disbound), 4to, [7]

China - Macartney ([George], The Earl of) and Staunton (Sir George, Baronet), An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [...], first edition, volumes I & II only: lacking plate folio, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, London 1797, pp: [ii], xxxiv, 518; xx, 626, lacking engraved frontispieces, full-page botanical engraved plate at 614/615: Camellia Sesanqua, engraved tailpiece vignettes as called for, contemporary crimson straight-grained morocco gilt, the covers with a triple-fillet border enclosing rolled foliate field, the six-compartment spines lettered in the second and numbered in fifth compartments, alternated with foliate bosses, diaper and scrolls, raised bands, gilt edges, Adamesque paterae dentelles, the text blocks reinforced and strengthened with slightly later crimson calf strips, Plain Armorial bookplates to each pastedown: John Deakin Heaton, M.D., (1817-1880, First Chairman of Leeds Council, (1874-1880)), 4to

Comic, Töpffer [(Rodolphe)], Histoire de Mr Jabot, first edition, Genève 1833, illustrated with 52 full-page caricatures, title-page printed on yellow card that has been subsequently relaid, later 19th/early 20th century yellow cloth preserving earlier marbled endpapers, Plain Armorial bookplate: Michael Pepper, Bigods, Essex; Pictorial bookplate: Casilda Ince Anderton, corresponding earlier pencil inscription: Casilda Ince Anderston rom W.H. Colville, September 12, 1877, oblong 8vo; Pictures from Punch, six-volume set, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., London 1894-1896, pictorial cloth as issued, 4to, (6); Burns (Robert), The Soldier's Return, Illustrated by John Faed, R.S.A., For the Members of the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1837, full-page plates, contemporary red cloth (wear, losses to spine), crown folio; Tyrrell (Henry), The Royal History of England [...], Embellished with a Series of Steel Engravings [...], J.G. Murdoch, London 1877, gilt pictorial leather binding as issued, 4to; Paris Commune 1871, [10]

Cumming (The Revd. J.G., M.A., F.G.S.), The Runic and Other Monumental Remains of the Isle of Man, first edition, Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick Press [for] Bell and Daldy, London [n.d., 1857], pp: ix, errata slip, 44, [4], 15 full-page lithographic plates, contemporary printed boards and fragmentary gilt lettered calf spine, 4to; Waring (J.B.), Stone Monuments, Tumuli and Ornament of Remote Ages; with Remarks on the Early Architecture of Ireland and Scotland, Printed and Published by John B. Day, London 1870, pp: x, 85, [1], 108 full-page lithographic plates, 87-96, early 20th century quarter green roan and cloth, gilt lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers, crown folio; Stephens (Dr George, F.S.A.), Handbook of the Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, Now First Collected and Deciphered, Williams and Norgate [&] H.H.J. Lynge, London 1884, b/w antiquarian line engravings throughout, 20th century red cloth enclosing original drab paper wrappers, repeated ink MS ownership inscription and dated 1908 to inside paper cover and half-title, small folio, [3]

Early English and Medieval Manuscripts, Chronicles and Records - The Auchinleck Manuscript [...], with an Introduction by Derek Pearsall & I.C. Cunningham, The Scholar Press, London 1979, full-page facsimile of the manuscript, green cloth, slipcased, small folio; Autography Poetry in the English Language [...], Compiled and Edited [...] by P.J. Croft, two-volume set, Cassell, London 1973, h/b, d/j, slipcased, small folios, (2); Owen (George, Lord of Kemeys), The Taylors Cussion (sic): Being a Facsimile Reproduction by Photo-Lithography [...], Blades, East & Blades, London 1906, original cloth, small folio; Le procès de condamnation de Jeanne d'Arc, Reproduction en Fac-Similé [...], Plon, Paris 1955, paper and card imitating vellum, slipcased, small folio; Early English Text Society: The Winchester Malory: A Facsimile, 1976, brown cloth as issued, small folio; others, including Pecock (Bishop Reginald), The Folewer to the Donet [...], 1924, 8vo; Homilies of Ælfric: A Supplementary Collection [...], two-volume set, 1967-1968, 8vo, (2); The Owl and the Nightingale [...], 1963, 8vo; further EETS facsimiles and translations 19th century and later, original wrappers or brown cloth bindings, as issued, various; The Index of Middle English Prose, miscellaneous volumes, h/b, some d/j, 4to, (8); Anglo-Saxon, including studies of Beowulf; King Arthur; Domesday Book; qty

Ecclesiastical Architecture, Medieval Antiquities and Archaeology - Bury (T. Talbot), Remains of Ecclesiastical Woodwork, John Weale, London 1847, engraved title-page and 20 full-page plates, contemporary partial gilt lettered spine, green cloth boards, small folio; A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, enlarged fourth edition, three-volume set, John Henry Parker [...], Oxord 1845-1846, woodcut engraved plates and vignettes, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (3); Storer (James), History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, Illustrated with a Series of Highly-Finished Engravings [...], volumes I & II only, Published by Rivingtons [...], London 1814-1817, later black calf backs and blue cloth boards, 8vo, (2); Winkles [Henry & Benjamin], Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, three-volume set, Tilt and Bogue, London 1836-1842, steel engraved title-page and full-page plates, relaid moiré boards and spine, ex-lib copy, 4to, (3); Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales [...], edited by Prof. T.G. Bonney [...], Cassell, London [n.d., c. 1890], contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, 4to; The Universal Decorator, Houlston & Wright, London [n.d., 1858], lithographed title-page, full-page plates and further vignettes, contemporary cloth boards, rebacked, 4to; Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, with an Introduction by F[rancis] Paley, John van Voorst, London 1844, illustrated with line and wood engravings, contemporary cloth (split, worn), 8vo; further works by Francis Paley, various sizes; Fergusson (James): History of the Modern Style of Architecture, John Murray, London 1862, 8vo, (2), &, History of Indian and Eastern Architecture [...], John Murray, London 1899, 8vo, (1), [3]; Street (George Edmund), Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, second edition, John Murray, London 1869, 8vo; Lacroix (Paul), Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period, Illustrated with Fifteen Chromolithographic Prints by F. Kellerhoven, and Upwards of Four Hundred Engravings on Wood, Chapman and Hall, London 1874, contemporary pictorial covers, lacking spine, 4to; James (G.P.R.), The History of Chivalry, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, London 1830, publisher's boards, 12mo; Millington (Ellen J.), Heraldry in History, Poetry, and Romance, Chapman and Hall, London 1858, contemporary pictorial cloth, gilt and blind, 12mo; various 19th century pocket books; etc

Gustave Doré - Milton's Paradise Lost, Illustrated by Gustave Doré, Edited, with Notes and a Life of Milton by Robert Vaughan, D.D., Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, London 1882, illustrated with full-page line engravings, contemporary black roan gilt, gilt dentelles and edges, small folio; Hood (Thomas), Select Poems, with Illustrations by Gustave Doré, Ward, Lock, & Co., London [n.d., c. 1880], full-page engravings, contemporary half-calf and cloth binding, marbled endpapers, small folio; Cassell's Doré Gallery: Containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings [...], [n.d., c. 1870], contemporary quarter-calf and buckram (disbound), small folio, [3]

Local Provincial Imprint, The Holy Bible, with a Complete Commentary Entirely Selected from the Writings of Matthew Henry, Brown, Doddridge, and Other Eminent Commentators, Embellished With Elegant Engravings & Maps from the Great Mafters (sic): Ancient & Modern, Printed & Published by R. Dowson, for the Proprietors, Nottingham 1811, engraved allegorical title-page and full-page Biblical plates by Buterworth Livesey & Co, Leeds, frontispiece later tipped-in on a mauve card leaf, contemporary dark marbled calf binding, six-compartment spine, gilt scarlet morocco lettering piece to the second compartment and entitled: Family Bible, raised bands and scrolling gilt borders, marbled endpapers, medium folio

Miscellaneous - Gessner [Salomon], La Mort d'Abel, Poême en cinq Chants, Chez Tournachon-Molin, Libraire, Lyon 1809/10, pp: [v], [iii], iv-xii, [1], 14-274, [ii], double-engraved allegorical title-page by Jean-César Macret (1768-1813), contemporary mottled calf, covers with blind fillet, gilt spine, lettered in the second compartment with a morocco piece, gilt bosses to further compartments, marbled endpapers, recto pastedown with a slightly later ink MS prize bookplate dated 1818 and stamped with the royal Bourbon arms, 12mo; Dufour (J-M), De L'Ancien Poitou, et de sa Capitale [...], Mmes Loriot, Poitiers 1826, two-fold architectural and epigraphical antiquarian lithographic plates, contemporary calf spine and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Japanese Art, Strange (Edward F.), The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige, With 52 Plates including 16 in Colour, Cassell, London 1925, contemporary cloth, 4to; A Week's Preparation [...] Lord's Supper [...] Holy Communion, fifty-second edition, Printed by Affignment (sic) from Sam Keeble [...], London 1757, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf (worn, rubbed), contemporary ink MS inscription to pastedown, 16mo; The Methodist Magazine for the Year 1815 [...], volume XXXVIII only, engraved frontispiece, ink MS inscriptions, partial-contemporary quarter-calf binding, 8vo; Zweig (Arnold), The Case of Sergeant Grischa, Martin Secker, London 1928, contemporary quarter-leather and buckram, 12mo; bibliography; Folio Society; etc

Miscellaneous - Jewitt (Llwellynn, F.S.A.), The Ceramics Art of Great Britain [...], Illustrated with Nearly Two Thousand Engravings, first edition, two-volume set, Virtue and Co., London 1878, contemporary pictorial gilt blue cloth, 4to, (2); The Paris Exhibition 1900, The Art Journal Office, London 1901, illustrated, contemporary cloth, small folio; Chambers Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities [...], two-volume set, W. & R. Chambers, London [1869], wood engraved vignettes, contemporary stained green half-calf gilt and cloth boards, marbled edges, 4to, (2); Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland, three-volume set, Adam & Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne [n.d., c. 1880], contemporary black roan gilt, cloth boards, 4to, (3); 19th century leather and part-leather bound copies of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, various imprints and sizes; The Land We Live In: A Pictorial and Literary Sketch-Book of the British Empire, three-volume set, Charles Knight, London [n.d., c. 1845], 4to, (3); Holy Land and Christ, various plate books; etc

The Tudor Facsimile Texts: Heywood (John), John John the husband, Tyb his wife, and Sir John the priest and The Pardoner and the frere (sic), the curate and the neybour (sic) Pratte, two volumes, [edited by] John S. Farmer, 1909 reproductions of the 1533 editions, Printed for Subscribers Only, cloth spines and drab marbled boards, slim 4to, (2); Medicine, [Gersdorff (Hans von)], Feldbuch der Wundarzney, 1979 reproduction of the Strasbourg edition of 1517, half-calf and marbled boards, slipcase en suite, 4to; further facsimiles of earlier printed texts, including Gregg International Publishers: Magnus (Olaus), Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus [...], 1971 reproduction of the Rome edition of 1555, black pebble buckram, 4to; [Pez (Bernhard)], Bibliotheca Ascetica: Antiquo-Nova, Books I-XII bound as three volumes, 1967 reproductions of the Ratisbon editions of 1723-40, red cloth, small folios, (3); Mabillon (Jean), Vetera Analecta [...], 1967 reproductions of the Paris edition of 1723, red cloth, crown folio; Astorga (Pedro d'Alva y), Monumenta Italo-Gallica Ex Tribus Auctoribus, Materna Lingua Scribentibus Pro Immaculata Virginis Mariæ Conceptione, two-volume set, 1967 reproductions of the 1666 editions, Impression Anastaltique: Culture et Civilisation, Brussels, pebble orange cloth, 8vo, (2); Torquemada (Juan de), Tractatus de Veritate Conceptionis Beatissimæ Virginis [...], Impression Anastaltique: Culture et Civilisation, Brussels 1966, pebble orange cloth, 8vo; The Works of William Bullokar: Volume I, A Short Introduction or Guiding, 1580-1581, Volume II, Pamphlet for Grammar, 1586, Volume IV, Aesops Fablz (sic), 1585, The University of Leeds, 1966-1980, green paper covers, 8vo, (3); etc, [15]

The Wesleyan Methodist Atlas of England and Wales, Containing Fifteen Plates, Carefully Designed and Arranged by the Rev. Edwin H. Tindal, Bemrose & Sons, London and Derby, [n.d., c. 1890], pp: [1-9], 10-46, [blank], 15 two-page maps of the church districts, contemporary quarter calf and cloth boards (perished and disbound), gilt lettered title-label to upper-cover, atlas folio (61cm x 46cm) Condition Report: The front board/cover has split away from the binding, the frontispiece has a tear to the bottom left corner; a number of the pages/plates have light foxing to front and back of the page

Theology & Philosophy - Howel (Laurence), Synopsis Canonum S.S. Apoftolorum et Conciliorum Œcumenicorum & Provincialium, ab Ecclefia Græca receptorum [...], [William Sayes], London 1708, pp: [xxiv], 124, [ii], 158, 69, [xvii], tiel printed in red and black, half-titles black only, contemporary panelled calf, blind tooled, six-compartment spine titled in the second compartment with a lettering piece, raised bands, contemporary ink MS ownership to endpaper: Tho: Foulkes, small folio; Locke (John), Essay Concerning Human Understanding, two-volume set, Printed for C. and J. Rivington [...], London 1824, contemporary Regency diced calf, the spines gilt and blind tooled with anthemions, contemporary engraved monogrammed bookplates, 8vo, (2); Alley (The Rev. Jerome), [...], A Comparative Estimate of the Genius and Temper of The Greek, The Roman, The Hindu, The Mahometan, and the Christian Religions, T. Cadell, London 1826, contemporary grey calf, 8vo; Southey (Robert), The Book of the Church, fourth edition, John Murray, London 1837, contemporary diced calf gilt, 8vo; Butler (Charles), The Book of the Roman-Catholic Church [...], second edition, John Murray, London 1825, half-calf, 8vo; Palmer (Rev. William), Origines Liturgicæ [...], fourth edition, two-volume set, Francis & John Rivington, London 1845, contemporary calf, 8vo, (2); Butler (Rev. Alban), The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints [...], five-volume set, Virtue & Company Limited, [n.d., 1961], green buckram gilt, 4to, (5); Jenkin (Robert), The Reasonableness and Certainty of Chriftian (sic) Religion, second edition, volume II only, Printed by W.B. for Richard Sare [...], London 1708, cotemporary panelled calf boards, rebacked spine, 8vo; Whichcote (Benjamin), Several Discourses [...], volume III only, London 1703, disbound, 8vo; MacGown (The Rev. John), Infernal Conference; or Dialogue of Devils [...], Printed for Thomas Kelly, London [n.d., 1816], engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary marbled calf (faults), 8vo; Parker (Samuel), The Ecclefiaftical (sic) Hiftories (sic) of Socrates, Sozomen, & Theodorit [...], volume II only, Printed for George Sawbridge [...], London 1712, engraved frontispiece, calf spine only, 12mo; Provincial Imprint, A New Family Bible [...], Selected from the Exposition of The Rev. Matthew Henry by the Rev. E. Blomfield, Embellished with Fifty Beautiful Engravings, volume II only, Printed and Published by C. Brightly, Bungay 1808, contemporary mottled calf, raised bands to spine, 4to; Binding, Missale Romanum [...], P.J. Hanicq [...], [Mechelen] 1846, printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, wooduct vignettes, oxblood morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 12mo; Hutter (Leonhard), Compendium Locorum Theologicorum [...], Caroli Ludovici Jacobi, Leiden 1747, engraved portrait frontispiece, 20th century red cloth, 12mo; Miraculum Miraculorum [...], Joan[nis] Andr[eae] de la Haye, Ingolsadt 1726, one calf board only, 18mo; 19th century and later prayer books and devotionals; bindings; etc

William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto: A Facsimile Edition of Copies Primarily from the Henry E. Huntington Library [...], University of California Press, 1981, ochre cloth, slipcased en suite, oblong 4to; Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: A facsimile edition prepared by Helge Kökeritz [...], Yale University Press, 1954, h/b, d/j, 4to; Wells (Stanley) and Taylor (Gary), William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1987, h/b, d/j, 4to; Facsimiles of the First Folio Text: King Lear and Julius Caesar [...], Printed at the Chiswick Press and published by Faber & Gwyer, London, [n.d., c. 1920], h/b, Caesar d/j only, 4to, (2); Shakespeare's Hamlet: The First Quarto 1603, Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library, Harvard University Press, 1931, panelled brown cloth, 8vo; further Shakespearean facsimile reprints, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1602 [...], Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Sonnets 1609, Scolar Press Limited, 1968, p/b, 12mo; Hamlet, Second Quarto, 1605, Scolar Press Limited, 1969, red cloth, 8vo; The Elizabethan Underworld: A collection of Tudor and early Stuart tracts and ballds [...], [edited] by A.V. Judges, With 20 Illustrations, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., London 1930, blue cloth, 4to; etc

George Houghton, folio of 6 golf prints, signed in pencil

Churches. An artist's sketchbook, circa 1860s , containing a variety of pen and ink, watercolour and pencil sketches and details of church organs, churches and architectural details on 27 pages, some with brief captions and notes, churches include Amiens, Sens, Great Bowden, Leicestershire, Rhenen, St Bertrand de Comminge, near Luchon, Metz, and Chartres, a few leaves detached, versos blank, a related albumen print photograph loosely inserted, hinges partly broken, contemporary roan-backed boads, worn, oblong folio (Qty: 1)

Mid-19th Century Folio -The World's Fair in Water Colors by C. Graham, Monroe Book Co. Publishers & Jobbers. Denver- Colo. 21 Lithograph Prints all in it's original blue portfolio, a title page listing all the illustrations. Illustrations of good colour, complete.

FOUR SETS OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS, TO INCLUDE "THE ICELANDIC SAGAS"

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JOHN SPEED (1551-1629)Wales, engraved map, coloured, with printed title 'performed by John Speed and are to be sold by John Sudbury and George Humble in Pope's Head Allye-Cum Privilegio, 1610' Pl. 15 x 20 in (38.2 x 50.8cm)Sold together with collection of ten other engraved maps all of Welsh Interest:comprising- Montgomeryshire - Christopher Saxton; Glamorga Comitatus - Christopher Saxton; The Countye of Monmouth - John Speed; Merionethshire Described - John Speed; Breknokeshire Both Shyre and Towne described - John Speed; The Countie of Radnor described - Christopher Saxton; Cardigan Shyre Described - John Speed; Glamorgan Shyre with the situautions of the cheife (sic) town Cardiff with ancient Landaffe described - John Speed; Denbighshire - John Speed; Flintshire - John Speed;all engraved, many coloured, varying sizes, but the majority circa Pl. 15 x 20 in; eleven (11) In 1611 the cartographer John Speed published his 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain'. This was the earliest English attempt at producing an atlas on a large scale. The 2nd of this work's four volumes covered Wales and included 'A map of Wales' along with individual maps of the thirteen Welsh Counties. Speed's Theatre was extremely successful and its maps became the basis for folio atlases produced up to the mid 18th Century.

Stuart (Sir Charles, 1779-1845) . Three autograph letters from a Lisbon official, Jonathan Jeffery, to his Excellency Sir Charles Stuart, KB, British Minister at Lisbon, all Lisbon, April 1811, in brown ink in a clear hand on rectos of three bifolia with integral blanks (watermarked Molineux & Johnston), each signed ‘Jno. Jeffery’, folio (Qty: 3)The letters, which Jeffery wishes to be communicated to Marquis Wellesley, (Foreign Secretary in London and Lord Wellington’s older brother), concern rising prices for provisions, permission for the cutter Pearl to make passage to England, and remuneration for a clergyman.

Michaux (Henri) . Misérable Miracle (La Mescaline), limited edition number 420, 1956, Éditions Du Richer, numerous black & white illustrations, slight marginal toning, original wrappers, 4to, together with Edmond (Charles) , Voyage Dans les Mers du Nord..., 1857, Paris, 12 black & white engraved plates, cracked gutters, slight spotting throughout, contemporary gilt decorated brown morocco, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 4to, and other 19th & early 20th century French literature & periodicals, mostly contemporary gilt decorated red morocco, some original cloth, condition is generally good/very good, 4to/folio. (Qty: 3 shelves)48 volumes

Burnaby (Frederick). A Ride to Khiva, 1st edition, Cassell Petter & Galpin, [1876], 3 folding maps (2 in end-pockets, one as frontispiece), 4 pp. advertisements to rear, map frontispiece and title-page slightly spotted, front inner hinge tender, original red pictorial cloth gilt, slightly marked, wear to spine-ends and corners, 8vo, together with: Bruce (Charles Granville). Twenty Years in the Himalaya, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1910, half-title, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 29 halftone photographic plates including folding panorama, folding lithographic map, occasional light spotting to text, plates faintly toned, closed tear to folding map not affecting image, original green pictorial cloth gilt, pale mottling, wear to spine-ends, tips bumped and slightly worn, 8vo, Hunter (William Wilson), Atlas of India, 1st edition, Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, 1894, 16 double-page lithographic colour maps, original blue cloth, slightly marked, folio, and 6 others, Indian travel, various formats (Qty: 8)Neate B199 (Bruce).

Whymper (Edward) . Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, fourth thousand, 1871, 105 black & white illustrations plus 5 maps, book plate to front paste down, minor toning, original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Davy (John) , The Angler in the Lake District;..., 1st edition, 1857, hole in front endpaper, some light toning, original green cloth, spine slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo and Dixan (William Scarth) , In the North Countree: annals & anecdotes of horse, hound & herd, 1889, 8 black & white illustrations, 4 folding plates, minor toning, original plum cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other late 19th century & modern mountaineering, sporting & sports reference, including The Badminton Library, 11 volumes, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio. (Qty: 6 shelves)

Hogarth, William, & others. An Account of what seemed most Remarkable in the Five Days Peregrination of the Five following Persons, Viz. Messieurs Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill, and Forrest. Begun on Saturday, May 27th, 1732, and finished on the 31st of the same Month, 1st edition, for R. Livesay, 1782, title page, 4 text leaves, 9 uncoloured aquatints by Livesay, of which 6 after Hogarth, 2 after Scott, and 1 after both Hogarth and Scott, all disbound and loose in clear plastic jackets within double-sided window mounts, variable spotting (mainly to text), leaves nicked along edges, small sections of staining in corners, text leaves browned, title page and final text leaf chipped and with repaired closed tears, closed marginal tear in Rochester Bridge and Breakfasting plates (repaired and just touching frame in the latter), marginal loss to Embarkation plate, 20th-century orange niger-backed cloth, oblong folio (48 x 30 cm) (Qty: 1)Abbey Life 307. Uncommon: ESTC traces four copies; Abbey mentions only a coloured issue. The text is by Ebenezer Forrest.

Yorkshire. A collection of ten folding maps, 18th & 19th century, including Darton (William & Son). The County of York, divided into its Ridings with their Subdivisions..., [1835], engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, large uncoloured vignette of the South East View of York, slight overall toning, 595 x 715 mm, map maker's advertisement to front pastedown, bound in publisher's cloth gilt boards with gilt title to upper siding, slight wear to extremities, together with Hall (S.). Yorkshire [1842], engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight dust soiling, 255 x 370 mm, bound in contemporary cloth gilt, with another copy similar, plus Morden (Robert). The West Riding of Yorkshire, circa 1695, uncoloured engraved map, sectionalised and laid on linen, marbled endpapers with manuscript label to upper cover, with Camden (William). [Britannia.., published William Gough, 1806], the section of text and maps on Yorkshire, containing four uncoloured folding engraved maps by John Cary and seven engraved plates, index bound at rear, ink annotations to verso of front endpaper, 19th century quarter morocco gilt, slight wear to extremities, slim folio, with another five folding maps similar, including examples by Ordnance Survey, Newton, Collins, Bartholomew and Cameron & James, various sizes and condition (Qty: 10)

Fleece Press. Gwen Raverat wood engraver, by Joanna Selborne and Lindsay Newman, Fleece Press, 1996, colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, folio (Qty: 1)Limited edition, one of 260 copies

Tasso (Torquato). La Gierusalemme Liberata, Geneva, Girolamo Bartoli, 1590, engraved title, 20 full-page engraved illustrations by Giacomo Franco and Agostino Carracci after Bernardo Castello, woodcut cartouches and ornaments, a few burn marks, occasional light spotting and toning, bookplate of Sir William Burrell (1732-1796, 2nd baronet) pasted to title verso, hinges breaking, all edges green, early 18th century red morocco gilt, lower cover detached, joints cracked, spine and edges rubbed, small folio (Qty: 1)Adams T243; Cicognara 1112. First illustrated edition of Tasso's epic Siege of Jerusalem poem.

Nelson (Horatio, 1758-1805, Viscount). A signed memorandum to the Masters of the Victory, Royal Sovereign and Seahorse, from 'Victory at Sea', 20 August 1804, ordering them to report on the condition of a cask of pork said to be partly eaten by rats, 'and the remainder Rotten Stinking, unfit for Men to Eat and a nuisance in the Ship', signed 'Nelson & Bronte', some spotting, light browning and dust-soiling, worn at folds, two pages, folio (32 x 20.5cm), in a purpose-made clear sleeve and gilt-titled blue cloth folder (Qty: 1)The text of the letter is in the hand of Nelson's official secretary, Alexander John Scott and additionally signed by him at end. Scott served as Nelson's personal chaplain at the Battle of Trafalgar, and was with him as he died onboard HMS Victory.

Hase (Johann Matthias). Regni Davidici et Salmonaei descriptio geographica et historica ... juncta est huic operi consideratio urbium maximarum veterum et recentiorum, ac operum quorundam apud antiquos celebrium, 1st edition, Nuremberg: Homann, 1739, title-page printed in red and black, 6 engraved folding maps hand-coloured in outline, 13 engraved plates (of 14), all but one hand-coloured, title-page soiled and repaired, repaired closed tear to one plate, modern vellum, folio (34.8 x 21.6 cm) (Qty: 1)Contains six historical maps of Egypt, Syria and the wider Middle East. The plates contain depictions of historical monuments and comparative plans of cities including Tokyo, Peking, London, Amsterdam, Constantinople, and others.

Dante (Alighieri). Dante con L'Espositioni di Christoforo Landino, et D'Alessandro Vellutello..., Con Tauole, Argomenti, & Allegorie; & riformato, riueduto, & ridotto alla sua vera Lettura, per Francesco Sansovino Fiorentino, Venice: Appresso Gio. Battista, & Gio. Bernardo Sessa, fratelli, 1596, woodcut portrait to title (creased & few small holes repaired to verso) and printer's device to final leaf, woodcut illustrations and initials, some early underscoring, leaf I7 provided in photocopy facsimile, dust-soiling and few marks to title and final leaf, ink spots to 2Z4 & 2Z5, short worm trails to lower blank margins at rear of volume, some light dampstaining throughout and occasional spotting, hinges repaired, early 18th calf, neatly rebacked and two corners repaired, morocco title label preserved, folio (Qty: 1)Adams D111.

Poullain (Antoine). Collection de cent-vingt estampes, grave?e d'apre?s les tableaux & dessins qui composoient le cabinet de m. Poullain..., pre?ce?de?e d'un abre?ge? historique de la vie des auteurs qui la composent... Cette suite a e?te? exe?cute?e sous la direction du sieur Fr. Basan... par de jeunes artistes des deux sexes, dont les talens se font connoi?tre & accroissent de jour en jour. Le sr. Moitte... en avoit fait les dessins, d'apre?s les tableaux, Paris: Se vend chez Basan et Poignant, 1781, 120 plates on 116 leaves, letterpress title and text bound at verso, occasional scattered spotting, ownership book label of Alfred Strang to upper pastedown, 19th century half sheep, lacking spine, upper board detached and lower board loose, worn, 4to, together with Cham , A la Guerre Comme a la Guerre variantes lithographiques, sur le theme bien connu: Ah! quel plaisir d'etre Soldat, Paris: Aubert & Cie, circa 1840s, hand-coloured lithograph title and 28 plates (of 30), few plates with surface skinning & consequent image loss, original printed boards detached and lacking spine, worn, oblong folio (Qty: 2)

Simpson (William). The Seat of War in the East, First [-2nd Series], 2 parts in one, 1855-56, tinted lithograph titles, engraved dedication, 79 tinted lithograph plates, plates 5 of First Series with marginal reinforcement to verso, some spotting and mainly marginal water stains, bookplate of William Frederic Lawrence (1844-1935, politician), all edges gilt, publisher's red half morocco gilt, joints and edges rubbed, some damp stains to covers, folio (Qty: 1)Abbey Travel 237: 'These plates are indeed an impressive piece of work, not only artistically and technically, but also as pictorial reporting.'

Lewis (John & Griselda) . Pratt Ware, English and Scottish relief decorated and underglazed coloured earthenware 1789-1840, 1st edition, 1984, Antique Collectors' Club, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, together with Pope (John Alexander) , Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, 2nd edition, 1981, Sotheby Parke Bernet, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly faded & rubbed to foot, 4to, and MacQuoid (Percy) , A History of English Furniture..., 1988, Bracken Books, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, plus other modern art & antique reference & related, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio. (Qty: 5 shelves )

[Lear, Edward]. The Owl and the Pussy Cat and Other Nonsense Songs, illustrated by Lord Ralph Kerr, published Cundall and Co., 1872, additional pictorial title and 11 plates, all mounted albumen prints reproducing printed text within pictorial borders by Kerr, ballpoint pen shelf mark inscription to front pastedown, a little spotting and some slight damp staining to mounts, gutta-percha perished and contents loose in original green cloth gilt, rubbed, a little wear at head and foot of spine, oblong folio (Qty: 1)The book is thought to have been published in a smaller edition at the artist's expense. The other Nonsense Songs are 'The Duck and the Kangaroo' and 'How the Beasts got into the Ark'.

Lycophron Chalcidensis . Alexandra, cum graecis Isaacii Tzetzis commentariis , 2 parts in one, Oxford, 1697, engraved portrait frontispiece with short closed tear to upper blank margin, vignette title with ownership inscription to upper blank margin, title and text in Greek & Latin, contemporary calf, lacking upper board, worn, folio, together with Flavell (John) , The Fountain of Life Opened: or, a Display of Christ in his Essential and Mediatorial Glory, 1673, engraved portrait frontispiece cropped to image and lined to verso, toning and dust-soiling throughout, late 18th/early 19th century half calf, joints slightly cracked and some wear, 4to, with Hall (Joseph) , Divers Treatises, Written upon severall Occasions, the Third Tome, now first collected into one volume..., 1662, engraved portrait frontispiece, decorative woodcut border to title, light toning and dust-soiing, contemporary mottled calf, spine tord at head with loss, some wear, folio, and Whitelock (Bulstrode) , Memorials of the English Affairs: or, An Historical Account of what passed from the Beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First, to King Charles the Second His Happy Restauration..., new edition, 1732, signature to title, bookplate of Lady Isabella Anne Brydges to upper pastedown, contemporary diced calf, blind decorated spine and gilt & blind panel decoration to boards, joints cracked and slight wear, folio, plus a wormed and worn copy of Life Eternall or, A Treatise of the knowledge of the Divine Essence and Attributes. Delivered in XVIII Sermons..., by John Preston, 1631 (Qty: 5)

Radclyffe (James, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, 1689-1716 ). A Report from the Committee to whom all the Books, Instruments, and Papers, relating to the Sale of the Estate of James late Earl of Derwentwater were referred. With an Appendix. Reported on the Twenty-second of March, 1731, by Lord Gage, [1731], pp.351-362, disbound folio, together with An Act for vesting the several Estates of James Earl of Derwentwater, and Charles Radcliffe, deceased, comprized in several Settlements therein mentioned, in Trustees, for an absolute Estate of Inheritance for the Benefit of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich; and for raising certain Sums of Money out of Part of the said Estates, for the Relief of the Children of the said Charles Radcliffe, [1749], pp.3-62, without general title, light damp staining, disbound small folio, with Blenheim & Woodstock , An Act for Settling of the Honours and Dignities of John Duke of Marlborough upon his Posterity, and Annexing the Honour and Manor of Woodstock, and House of Blenheim, to go along with the said Honours, [together with] An Act for Settling upon John Duke of Marlborough and his Posterity, a Pension of Five thousand Pounds per Annum, for the more Honourable Support of their Dignities, in like manner as his Honours and Dignities, and the Honour and Manor of Woodstock, and House of Blenheim, are already Limited and Settled, [1706], pp.55-60 & 63-72 respectively, disbound small folio, with Acts of Parliament , An Act for Recognizing His Majesties Title to the Throne of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Dublin: Andrew Crooke, 1716, [2], 9-14pp., disbound small folio, plus An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries, and Tenures in Capite, and by Knights-Service, and Purveyance, and for settling a Revenue upon His Majesty in Lieu thereof, 1660, [2], 28pp., light dampstain, disbound small folio, plus An Act for further supplying and explaining certain defects in an Act, Intituled, An Act for the speedy provision of money for disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdom, both by Land and Sea, 1660, [2], 47-64pp., disbound slim folio, plus An Act for the Licencing and Regulating Hackney-Coaches and Stage-Coaches, 1694, [2], 419-434pp., ink stamp to first leaf of text, disbound slim folio, plus other late 17th-19th century Acts of Parliament, including highways, public roads, turnpike roads, duties upon carriages & coaches, rates & duties upon windows or lights, and fisheries etc., some relating to the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, all disbound small folio (Qty: approx. 35)

Grotius (Hugo). Opera Omnia Theologica, 3 volumes bound in 4, Amsterdam, Joannis Blaeu, 1679, titles printed in red and black, with woodcut publisher's vignette, text printed in double column, contemporary blindstamped uniform full vellum, rubbed and some soiling, upper joint to first volume partly cracked, folio, together with other theology, mostly 17th, 18th and 19th century, all ex libris St. John's Seminary, Wonersh, with usual library marks, mainly bound in vellum and calf, all folio (approximately 60 volumes) (Qty: x shelves)

Anderson (George William). A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages round the World, undertaken and performed by Royal Authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full and complete history of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, undertaken by order of His Present Majesty, for making discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy &c. in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres and successfully performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771-72, 1773, 1774, 1775-1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, Alex Hogg, [1784-86], engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved map, 155 engraved maps, plates and charts, subscribers list at end, some light spotting and offsetting, contemporary presentation inscription at front, front endpapers with marginal repairs, recent panelled calf, spine with red label and gilt decorations, folio (Qty: 1)Hill p. 5: 'An important compilation of English Voyages ... Anderson sometimes gives the original accounts, others are edited or abridged versions, and frequently additional materials, from other sources, are added to give scope and depth to the narrative'.

Six Sonatas, for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte: With an Accompagnament for a Violin, Humbly Dedicated to the Right Honble Lady Mellbourne, and Composed by John Cristian Bach, Music Master to Her Majesty, Opera X, printed and sold by J. Welcker, No. 10 in the Hay Market, circa 1778-80, stipple-engraved illustration to partly-folding title (small split to lower inner margin without loss), [3], 37, [1]pp., engraved throughout, bound with Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Piano-Forte, with an Accompaniment for a German-Flute or Violin, Dedicated to Miss Greenlands... , Opera XVI, printed for the proprietor by John Welcker, No. 80 Hay Market, circa 1780-84, [3], 37, [1]pp., engraved throughout, title-page soiled, bound with Webbe (Samuel), Six Sonatas for the Forte Piano or Harpsichord, printed by Welcker in Gerrard Street, St Ann's, Soho, circa 1780, [3], 22pp., engraved throughout, bound with eight other miscellaneous short musical pieces mostly for harpsichord or piano forte, engraved throughout, without title-pages, pieces include 'Royal Shepherd', 'Royal Merchant' and 'The New Overture to the Fairy Prince', ownership signature of D. Coates to front free endpaper, contemporary plain boards with remains of leather backstrip, hinges cracked, worn, oblong folio (Qty: 1)

Adimari (Alessandro). La Polinnia, overo Cinquanta sonetti fondata sopra Sentezne di G. Cor. Tacito, 1st edition, Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1628, half-title, engraved title-page, quire K misbound, inner hinges cracked (held by endbands), monogram ink-stamps to half-title, contemporary limp vellum, spine worn, later shelfmark label to front cover, 4to (21.8 x 15.8 cm), together with: Platina (Bartolomeo). De Vitis ac Gestis summorum pontificum ad sua usque tempora, Cologne: Jaspar van Gennep, 1551, woodcut title device, woodcut historiated initials, bound without final blank (I6), title-page water-stained, ink-stamp verso, first quire loosening, small hole in g1 costing a few letters, early annotations to front pastedown and free endpaper, front inner hinge reinforced, contemporary blind-tooled calf, rebacked, craquelure, a few repairs, folio (31.2 x 18.4 cm) (Qty: 2)Adams P1419 (Platina). Copac traces seven copies of Adimari's work in UK libraries. The author (1579-1649) was a Florentine patrician, poet and dramatist; this work is a collection of sonnets based on Tacitus.

Dugdale (William). Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries and Cathedral and Colliegiate Churches, with their dependencies in England and Wales..., a new edition by John Caley, Henry Ellis and Bulkeley Bandinel, 6 volumes in 8, 1817-30, half titles, additional engraved titles, titles printed in red and black, approximately 240 engraved plates and plans, several double page, occasional light spotting to plates, library ink stamps to printed title versos, shelf number stickers at foot of titles, modern black cloth, red labels to spines, thick folio (Qty: 8)Ther new edition, much expanded from William Dugdale's first edition of 1655 includes many plates of cathedrals, monasteries, priories and other religious buildings as well; as costumes and seals.

Worm (Ole). Danicorum Monumentorum libri sex: e spissis antiquitatum tenebris et in Dania ac Norvegia extantibus ruderibus eruti, 1st edition, Copenhagen, 1643, engraved allegorical title, folding engraved plate, woodcut illustrations, 2Y4 with hole in text, bound with Regum Daniae series duplex, Copenhagen, 1642, title with woodcut device, a few leaves printed in red and black, lacking rear endpaper, some overall light toning and light marginal water stains, rear hinge breaking, contemporary sheep gilt, rubbed, some wear at spine ends, folio (Qty: 1)The earliest printed account of the rune stones of Denmark and Norway, and surviving source of runic inscriptions, some of which are now lost.

Merry (Tom). St. Stephens Review. A collection of caricatures, mostly 1880's & 1890's, including approximately sixty-five colour and monotone lithographic caricatures and portraits, including 'The Travelling Quack', 'Knocked Out - Hansard Union' and Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany', some marginal fraying and closed tears, a few plates torn with loss, together with a volume of approximately fifty-three colour and monotone lithographic Tom Merry caricatures, each cartoon being partially laid on to an album leaf, occasional marginal closed tears, contemporary half morocco gilt, lacking spine, boards detached and partially disbound, folio, with Circus Poster. Bros. Trapnell, circa 1890, black and white advertising poster for a circus illustrated with eight vignettes of circus performers (clowns, acrobats, stilt walkers and strong men) with two oval portraits (presumably of the Trapnell Brothers) to lower centre, four ink stamps of a French theatrical agency affecting image, laid on modern hessian, 765 x 450 mm (Qty: approx. 120)

Privateer Letter of Attorney. A pre-printed Admiralty document with manuscript insertions, 28 January 1758, that 'William Higson Marriner lately belonging to the Defiance Private Ship of Warr... constitute my Friend Samuel Tapscott of Cliffords Inn London Gentleman my true and lawfull attorney', signed by William Higson, Samuel Tapscott and Charles Asgill (Lord Mayor of London), embossed revenue stamp upper left corner and remains of small red wax seal adjacent to Higson's signature, a little soiling and minor fraying, one page with integral blank, folio (31 x 20cm) (Qty: 1)The Defiance was a Bristol Privateer, effectively an officially sanctioned pirate ship. This document relates to a prize taken by the Defiance during the Seven Years' War against France. The letter of attorney would have been sent from the officers of the victorious ship to the Court specifying who they had chosen to represent them as their prize agent. The court then stated that the ship must be delivered into the hands of the nominated prize agent for the use of the ship's officers. The prize agent would then arrange for the sale of the ship and the distribution of the money to the crew.

Hopkins (Ezekiel). The Works of the Right Reverend and Learned Ezekiel Hopkins, Late Lord Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland, Collected into one Volume..., 3rd edition, 1710, title in red & black, front free endpaper creased and torn at gutter, contemporary panelled calf, joints split at head & foot, folio (Qty: 1)

Evelyn (John). Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions, as it was delivered in the Royal Society... upon occasion of crertain quaeries propounded to that illustrious assembly, by the Honorable the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy. To Which is Annexed, Pomona; or, An Appendix Concerning the Fruit-Trees in Relation to Cider..., also Kalendarium Hortense, 1st edition, printed by JO. Martyn, and JA. Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society, 1664, 3 parts in one, with separate title pages to Pomona and Kalendarium, first title printed in red and black, with engraved vignette arms of the Royal Society, licence leaf before main title not present, Animadversion leaf bound in after C4, Sir Paul Neile's second paper leaf bound in after G4 (title page to Kalendarium), a few woodcut illustrations, a few minor marks, contemporary mottled calf, modern reback, outer corners worn, folio (Qty: 1)Wing E3516; Henrey 132; Keynes 40; Hunt 296.

Thorburn (Archibald). Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1923 , 30 colour plates, each with guard, half title, intermittent spotting, top edge gilt, modern red cloth gilt, folio, together with British Mammals, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1920-1921, large paper edition, 50 mounted colour plates, each with guard, half titles, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, modern red cloth gilt, large 4to (Qty: 3)British Mammals: limited edition 52/155 copies.

Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827). An autograph letter signed, ‘Frederick’, Windsor, 14 June 1795, written in brown ink in a clear hand on laid paper (watermarked Budgen 1794), 2 pages with integral blank, folio (Qty: 1)The letter, to an unnamed recipient, (probably Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War), concerns arranging a meeting and the Prince’s intention of speaking to the Prince of Orange.

Fisher (Son & Co., publisher) . Fisher's County Atlas of England and Wales compiled from Authentic surveys and corrected to the present time..., [1842 - 1845], frontispiece of a folding map of England & Wales, title and preface, forty-seven (complete) engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, including two double page (Lincolnshire and Devon), occasional spotting, map of Northamptonshire detached with frayed and dust soiled foredge, contemporary half calf, crudely repaired with black tape to spine and corners, folio, together with J. Pigot & Co., (publisher). Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory for 1828 - 1829, lacking preliminaries, title page with old library stamp, thirteen (only) uncoloured engraved folding county maps, maps with some marginal fraying, offsetting and browning, text block broken with contents shaken and loose, boards and spine detached, later black cloth, worn and rubbed, 8vo, with Encyclopedia Britannica, 10th edition, volume 34, Maps, 1903, numerous colour lithographic maps, top edge gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt, worn and rubbed, 4to l (Qty: 3)Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.

Sandford (Francis). A Genealogical History of the Kings of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, etc., from the Conquest, Anno 1066. to the Year, 1677, 1st edition, Thomas Newcomb, for the author, 1677, title-page in red and black, 5 engraved folding plates, 57 full-page engravings (including 2 lettered A and B, the rest counted in the pagination) and numerous engraved headpieces and vignettes in the text, large floral woodcut initials, a few leaves with a short slit in lower margin (just encroaching on image at p. 281), contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, rubbed overall, joints cracked at ends, corners worn, folio (36.2 x 22 cm), together with: Guillim (John), A Display of Heraldry, the Sixth Edition, improv'd with Large Additions of many hundred Coats of Arms, printed by T. W. for R. and J. Bonwick [and others], 1724, engraved frontsipiece with the royal arms, title-page printed in red and black, woodcut arms in the text, 16 engraved portrait plates (of 17), 43 engraved plates of arms (of 47), frontispiece and the woodcut arms in the first 190 pages hand-coloured at a later date, intermittent minor worming in gutter, browning to a few sections of text, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, rubbed, skilful restoration to boards, folio (38.2 x 23.6 cm), and Rous (John). This rol was laburd & finishd by Master John Rows of Warrewyk, 1st edition, William Pickering [-Henry G. Bohn], 1845-59, lithographic title-page, 33 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened in silver and gold including frontispiece, top edge gilt, contemporary red quarter sheep, cloth sides, spine sunned and rubbed, 4to (29.9 x 21.9 cm) (Qty: 3)Provenance (Sandford): 'Geo. Raynsford 1680, May 28, e Musaeo Patr. mei[?] ...' (ownership inscription to front pastedown); George Kenyon (1666-1728), of Peel Hall, Lancashire, and influential Lancashire Tory and vice-chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, 1706-15 (engraved bookplate). ESTC R8565 (Sandford) & T140947 (Guillim); Wing S651 (Sandford). The engravings in Sandford's work, which are by Richard Gaywood, Francis Barlow, and Wenceslaus Hollar, depict seals and funerary monuments, and the elaborate headpieces incorporate medallion portraits. 'A handsome, well-printed folio, a great part of which is taken up with the natural children of royal fathers, which may have been elegant flattery of the reigning monarch' (Pennington, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677, p. xlvii). ESTC calls for five plates, as here; some commercial records mention an additional, non-folding plate, which may refer to the engraving at page 234, which has no text verso. The third item (Rous) is one of reputedly 100 copies of this attractive edition of the English (Yorkist) version of the Rous Roll, a 15th-century armorial chronicle held at the British Library (Add MS 48976). One other copy seen at auction in the last 50 years.

Thorburn (Archibald). British Mammals, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1920-1921, half title to each volume, 50 colour plates, black & white illustrations to text, some spotting and dust-soiling to text (mainly at head), lightly affecting a few plates, top edge gilt, modern red cloth gilt, folio, together with British Birds, 4 volumes, volumes 1 & 2: 4th edition, volumes 3 & 4: 3rd edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1918 , half title to each volume, 82 colour plates (as called for), spotting and toning to text, volume 1 plates lightly creased to upper outer corners, top edge gilt, publisher's red cloth gilt, rubbed and faded with some marks, spine ends worn, folio (Qty: 6)