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A SET OF 24 LITHOGRAPHS AFTER GUSTAV KLIMT (AUSTRIAN 1862-1918) comprising 24 lithographs, each measuring 59.5 x 40.5 cm (23 3/8 x 16 in.) overall, most stamped with Gustav Klimt Nachlass, housed in printed elephant folio (600 x 405 mm)

NASIR AL-DIN AL-TUSI (D. AH 672/1274 AD): ZIJ-I ILKHANI NASIR AL-DIN AL-TUSI (D. AH 672/1274 AD): ZIJ-I ILKHANI,The astronomical tables prepared for Hulegu, Persian manuscript on pale buff paper, titles in large script or in blue, many tables in red and black, the first few pages with important words picked out in red and inserted tables, the margins of double red rules, the latter section of the manuscript composed primarily of tables in blue, red and black with titles in larger script.Folio 22.8 x 18 cm (9 x 7 1/8 in.) PROVENANCEFamily Collection of the Descendants of Umar bin Awadh al Qu'aiti, sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of YemenAcquired by the present owner from the familyFor more images of this book, including images of several pages taken in consecutive order from sections in the beginning, middle, and ending sections, as indicated by the filenames, please CLICK HERE

[KLUTSIS] IN REMEMBRANCE OF FALLEN LEADERS, 1927 GUSTAV KLUTSIS (LATVIAN 1895-1938), cover design by, FELIKS KON (POLISH 1864-1941), editor, et al. PAMYATI POGIBSHIH VOZHDEY [In Remembrance of Fallen Leaders] (Moscow: Moskovsky rabochiy, 1927). Folio (350 x 270 mm). 88 pp. Text in Russian. The commemorative album illustrated with 23 portraits of communist revolutionary leaders. With original Constructivist covers designed by Gustav Klutsis (Latvian 1895-1938).

A collection of twenty seven Egyptian photographic prints, Published by Cosmos, Berlin, Cairo, etc., Printed in Germany, Copyright by Cosmos 1893, 32 x 39cms, all framed, with folio of titles

A folio of nude life drawings, various artists, 1940's onwards

A folio of prints, The Vatican Frescoes of Michelangelo

An interesting folio of black and white photographs, various subjects including a group of Alpine and mountaineering subject matters, many mounted to board and with various exhibition labels verso

After Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Italian, An antique marble vase from the Earle collection; Engraving, 53cm by 38cm together with twelve further etchings after Piranesi, ''Helmets and bas-reliefs taken from Trajan's column'', ''Cart or Chariot of Ancient Etruscan Metal used in Circus Games'' and others, five unframed within a folio, various sizes (13) . The four larger prints with scattered foxing and creases, the four prints of columns are of a more recent date and appear in good overall condition. The three loose sheets in the folio have creases and time staining to edges, one with damp staining. The two mounted prints in the folio with some creases otherwise in good condition.

Vintage salesman sampler Japanese shell buttons a total of approximately 100 samples of shell base buttons, in presentation folio, (worn), as manufactured by T. Nawata & Co, Osaka, Japan; together with a Limoges hand painted ceramic plaque, in decorative brass frame, (12cm X 12cm approx, total); and a cased 'Record' revolution counter.

COLLECTION OF FOLIO SOCIETY AND OTHER HARDBACK BOOKS, including Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe and Dickens

CESCINSKY (Herbert): 'English Furniture of the 18th Century...', London, Waverley Book Company: 3 vols, folio, contemporary half-morocco, gilt lettered, some wear else a good set (3)

A folio containing a quantity of Stead McAlpine watercolour designs for printed fabric, including two for Liberty of London

Pope (Alexander) Of the Characters of Women: an Epistle to a Lady, first edition, half-title, faint spotting, advertisement leaf at end, later half calf, [Rothschild 1625], J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1735; The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, first edition, ink number to title, later half calf, [Rothschild 1608], L.G. and sold by A. Dodd, 1733, folio (2)

NO RESERVE Parliamentary Petition.- Thames Coal Porters.- The Coal-Heavers Case, bifolium, docket title to verso of last f., folds, a very little browning and soiling, edges uncut, as issued, folio, ?1764.⁂3 copies traced, in the British Library, the Guildhall Library, and the National Library of Scotland respectively.The petition concerns the formal registration and protection of Thames coal porters and the provision to be made for their families.

NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles).- Archer (Thomas) Charles Dickens, A Gossip about his Life, Works and Characters, photogravure frontispiece and 17 plates by Frederick Barnard, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, occasional spotting, marginal damp-staining to one or two plates, contemporary half morocco, gilt, a little rubbed, folio, c.1894.

World.- La Mottraye (Aubrey de) Travels through Europe, Asia, and into Part of Africa ..., 2 vol. only (of 3), 1 engraved double-page map only (of 4), loosely inserted, 30 engraved plates only (of 44), some double-page or folding, large tear to fold of one plate, subscriber's list, occasional pencil annotations, light spotting, bookplate of John Nicoll, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, gilt, corners a little worn, folio, for the Author, 1723; sold not subject to return.⁂ Several plates for this edition are by William Hogarth. The third volume was not published until 1732.

World.- Malte-Brun (M.) Atlas Supplémentaire du Précis de la Géographie Universelle, 51 engraved maps, partially hand-coloured, 2 double-page, occasional spotting, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed and worn, Paris, 1812 § Lafond (Gabriele) Viaggio in Cina Pell'Atlantico il Mare delle Indie ..., 2 maps, 5 lithographed plates, 1 chromolithograph, illustrations, occasional spotting, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, Prato, 1842; folio & 8vo (2)

NO RESERVE Worcestershire.- Nash (Treadway Russell) Collections for the History of Worcestershire, 2 vol., folding engraved map frontispiece, additional engraved title, engraved plates, illustrations, pedigree tables (many folding), spotting, occasional manuscript annotations, 14pp. facsimile bound at end of vol. 2, modern half calf, folio, 1781-82.

China.- Guignes (Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de) Voyages à Peking, Manille et L'Ile de France faits dans l'Intervalle des Années 1784 à1801, Atlas vol. only, first edition, 60 fine engraved plates and 6 maps or plans, 4 folding, some spotting or light foxing, mostly marginal, contemporary marbled boards, lacking backstrip, corners worn, rubbed and marked, [Cordier Sinica 2351-2352; Hill 2004, 733; Lust 336], folio, Paris, De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.⁂ Guignes was Consul in Canton in 1784, and from 1794-95 he was an interpreter with the Dutch Embassy to Peking, spending some 17 years in total in China. The majority of plates relate to China, and include a map of the Philippines, and a plan of the bay of Manilla.

Hanbury (Frederick Janson) An Illustrated Monograph of the British Hieracia, 8 original parts [all published],24 hand-coloured lithgoraphed plates after Miss G.Lister and Mrs. Frederick Hanbury, no signature E (pp.33-36) as usual but complete with continuous text, first leaf of each signature a little browned, plates generally very clean, original printed wrappers, torn and frayed, some slightly defective, small ink stamp to first wrapper, loose with wrappers in modern cloth drop-back box, [Nissen BBI 781], [1889-98]; and another bound copy of parts 1-6 only with 18 hand-coloured plates, folio (2)

Trees.- Evelyn (John) Sylva, or A discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesties dominions. As it was deliver'd in the Royal Society the xvth of October, MDCLXII, second edition, initial imprimatur f., engraved arms to title, engraved illustrations, final errata f., some spotting, lightly browned, modern calf-backed cloth, covers stained, [Henrey 133; Keynes 41; Wing E3517], folio, printed by Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, 1670.⁂ Includes sections on cider and vegetables and salads.

Juvenalis (Decimus Junius) and Aulus Persius Flaccus [Satires], translated by Barten Holyday, title in red and black, small loss to upper corner neatly restored, engraved map and 3 folding plates, 1 with small tears, repaired (lightly browned), illustrations, one or two small ink stains, occasional faint water-staining to foredges, lacks final leaf with vertical half title, later half calf, upper joints cracked, small loss to spine extremities, rubbed, [Wing J1276], Oxford, W. Downing for F.Oxlad Senior, J. Adams, and F. Oxlad Junior, 1673 § Montaigne (Michel de) Les Essais ... avec des notes, & de nouvelles Tables des Matieres, edited by Pierre Coste, 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, titles in red and black, marginal manuscript annotations throughout occasional spotting, bookplate, ink-stamp to preliminary blank, small marginal tear (2C1, vol. 1), contemporary calf, cracked joint, upper cover of vol. 3 detached, rubbed and worn, Paris, 1725; folio & 4to (4)⁂ The ink-stamp in the second reads "This books is part of the old Grimké and Drayton Library at South Bay House So. Ca., which was sent over to T. Drayton Grimké, of Golborns Hall, Lancashire, England, in the Autumn of 1889."

Orr (Monro S.). Twelve Drawings of Familiar Characters in Fiction and Romance, Dent, 1903, twelve tipped-in col. plts. with captioned tissue guards, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, sl. rubbed and marked, folio. Characters illustrated: John Silver, Mrs Gamp, Jos. Sedley, Dominie Sampson, Mrs Malaprop, Mr Micawber, Decimus Saxon, Meg Merrilies, Bailie Nicol Jarvie, Mr Pecksniff, the Three Musketeers and Tony Lumpkin

* Hodgson (J.E.). The History of Aeronautics in Great Britain from the Earliest Times to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century, first edition, Oxford University Press, 1924, colour and black & white plates, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, rubbed, small folio, (one of 1,000 copies), together with La Guerre Aérienne Illustrée , 5 volumes, November 1916-May 1919, monochrome plates and illustrations throughout, original cloth gilt with paper portrait medallion onlays to upper covers (largely torn away from volume 1), rubbed and a little frayed at spine ends, volume 5 faded and slightly soiled on spine, plus Flight , An Illustrated Weekly Journal, volume 7 & 9, each bound in 2 volumes, 1915 & 1917, plus volume 12 (July-December) 1920, volume 7 lacking pp. 861/862 & 1053/1054 plus numbers 467 & 468, black & white illustrations throughout, contemporary cloth, rubbed and soiled, a little frayed on spines, all 4to, plus other mostly English and French language aviation interest, various bindings and sizes (Qty: 32)

Woods (Nicholas Augustus). The Past Campaign: a Sketch of the War in the East, from the Departure of Lord Raglan to the Capture of Sevastopol, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, half-titles, contemporary blue half calf by E. Paul of Southampton (with his ticket), gilt spines, red morocco labels, sides slightly rubbed, 8vo (18.6 x 11.4 cm) , together with: Simpson (William, illustrator) , The Campaign in the Crimea: an Historical Sketch by George Brackenbury, 2 volumes in 1, 1st octavo edition, Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co., 1855-6, half-title to volume 1, 81 tinted lithographic plates including additional vignette title-pages, heavy spotting to preliminaries, occasional generally light spotting elsewhere, marginal repairs to a few plates, later blue cloth, large 8vo (23.2 x 15.6 cm) , Hamley (Edward Bruce), The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855, 9 chromolithographic or tinted lithographic plates (some folding), folding sketch map, variable spotting, marginal damp-staining to a few plates, bookplate of Reginald Hildyard (1876-1965, British army officer), contemporary red half morocco gilt, 8vo (21.7 x 13.5 cm), Russell (William Howard), The British Expedition to the Crimea, revised edition, with numerous emendations and additions, G. Routledge & Co., 1858, half-title, 4 engraved plates including frontispiece, 10 folding maps and plans (linen-backed), contemporary red calf, gilt spine, 8vo (21.2 x 13.4 cm), and [Calthorpe, Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe, 7th baron), Letters from Head-Quarters: or, the Realities of the War in the Crimea, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, John Murray, 1857, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding plans, frontispiece damp-stained, contemporary red half calf, gilt spines, 8vo (19.2 x 11.7 cm) (Qty: 7)Abbey Travel 236 (Hamley); Atabey 1348 (Woods), 146 (Simpson; under Brackenbury); cf. Abbey Travel 237 for the first edition of Brackenbury's work, which was published in folio format the same year. Provenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.

Darby (Henry D'Esterre, 1750-1823). Archive of signal and instruction books from naval service in the French Revolutionary Wars, mainly 1795-1800, comprising: 'Signals of Vice Admiral Sir James Wallace Kn, 12th August 1795' [cover-title], manuscript on paper, 18 pp., flags added in watercolour to 3 pp., final page inscribed 'Jas. Wallace, To H. D. Darby Esqr, Captain of His Majesty's Ship Adamant, By Command of the Admiral [signed:] J. Hill', stab-stitched in sheet of contemporary printer's waste, manuscript title to front cover, rear cover chipped, 2 annotated slips laid in (one headed 'Additional Signals made by day on board the Adamant' and signed 'H. D. Darby' with flourished underline), folio 'Instructions for the Conduct of the Ships of War, Explanatory of, and Relative to the Signal-Book' [cover-title], [probably 1795], 40 pp., accomplished, manuscript diagram, laid-in printed title-label 'Instructions for the Ships of War, etc. 1795' with 'Adamant' added in manuscript, original plain paper wrappers, printed title-label to front cover, folio 'Signal-Book for the Ships of War. 1796' [cover-title]. 83 pp., undated title on p. 1, original half calf, marbled boards, printed title-label to front, 4to Instructions for the Conduct of the Ships of War, Explanatory of, and relative to the Signals contained in the Signal-Book herewith delivered, [1796], 48 pp., undated title on p. 1, accomplished throughout, pp. 24-5 heavily annotated, p. 45 inscribed 'Given under my hand on board His Majesty's Ship St. Albans at Spithead 9 April 1796, Geo Vandeput, To Henry D'E Darby Esq. Captain of His Majesty's Ship Adamant, By command of the Vice Admiral John Stephen', water-stained, fraying to outer leaves, original marbled boards, spine and portions of paper covering perished, front board held by upper cord, rear board by upper two cords, 4to 'Instructions for the Conduct of Ships of War. 1796' [cover-title], d ated title-page + xii index + 3-64 pp., accomplished throughout, manuscript index tabs along top edge, presentation leaf (p. 64) completed in manuscript and reading 'Given on board His Majesty's Ship the Lively in Gibraltar Bay the 19th Day of November 1795 [read 1796], To Henry D. Darby Esq. Captain of His Majesty's Ship the Bellerophon, By Command of the Admiral [signed:] Geo. Purvis', original half calf, marbled boards, printed title-label to front, folio Ibid. 48 pp., undated title on p. 1, original half calf, marbled sides, printed title-label to front, 4to 'Additional instructions. 1796' [cover-title]. 2 8 pp, undated title on p. 1, original half calf, marbled boards, printed title-label to front, 4to Appendix to the Signal Book, [no date], undated title-page + 16 pp. + iv pp. index + unpaginated blanks, accomplished in pencil and ink, flags added in watercolour, title-page annotated 'Spencer, Rec[eived] off Ushant the 1st Novr 1800 from Adml Sir Hyde Parker', p. iv of index annotated 'Number of the Desireè [sic] on the List of the Navy, 223' and 'To H. de E. Darby Esq., Captain of His Majesty's Ship Spencer', stitched in original marbled paper wrappers, 4to, Signal Book for the Ships of War, [no date], title-page + 125 pp. (numerous blanks), typographic flag templates in text, original marbled boards, folio Signal Book for the Ships of War, [no date], title-page + vii + 60 pp., accomplished throughout, flags added in watercolour to index tabs along fore margins, water-staining, concomitant fraying to lower outer corners of outer leaves, original limp marbled boards, paper lifting or perished through water-damage, folio Instructions for the Conduct of the Ships of War, [no date], 43 pp., woodcut diagrams in text, original marbled boards, folio Instructions and Standing Orders for the Central Government and Discipline of the Ships of War, [no date], 15 pp., unbound, folio [Naval accounts book], 1782, approx. 22 pp. + numerous blanks, allocating proceeds from the capture of the French ships Duc de Chartres and the Trois Amis and the Spanish ship Santa Leocadia by George Darby (c.1720-1790, Henry D'Esterre's uncle), during the Siege of Gibraltar 'H D Darby's Acts of Parliament' [manuscript cover-title], 6 works in 1 volume, printed by C. Eyre and executors of William Strahan [-George Eyre and Andrew Strahan], 1792-6, stitched in sheet of contemporary printer's waste, folio (2 additional Acts of Parliament laid in, 4to) [Scrapbook of military and naval crests], mostly trimmed and mounted, bookplate of John Darby of Markly, Sussex, contemporary green half roan, 4to (Qty: 15)Significant and extensive collection of rare signal and instruction books used by Henry D'Esterre Darby (1749-1823), captain of HMS Bellerophon at the Battle of the Nile (1798), together with additional material with provenance to Darby, and several further signal books without indication of ownership but all similarly unsophisticated in their original bindings, including one accomplished throughout with flags in watercolour, and evidently used in maritime conditions (item 10). Darby was captain of HMS Adamant from 1794 to 1796, escorting shipping to West Indies and Mediterranean. He was appointed captain of the Bellerophon during the summer of 1796 and led her in the blockade of Cadiz before the confrontation with Napoleon's forces in the Bay of Abu Qir. The Bellerophon suffered heavy casualties and Darby was himself wounded. John Marshall, in his Royal Naval Biography (1823), declared that 'The undaunted magnanimity with which Captain Darby placed her alongside her mighty antagonist [l'Orient], excited at the moment the highest admiration, and must ever be the theme of eulogium'. In 1801 Darby captained the newly-built Spencer in the Algeciras campaign and returned to England in 1802 with the rank of commodore, with subsequent promotions up to full admiral by 1819, and a knighthood the following year. All such signal books and their accompanying instructions are highly uncommon, with officers enjoined to ensure their timely destruction 'so that they may not fall into the Hands of the Enemy, by the Capture or Loss of their Ships' (item 3, explanatory instructions, article X). Of the dated items numbers 2 and 4-8 in our listing are untraced in libraries. The National Maritime Museum and the Navy Department Library each has a different set of instructions for 1795 but neither collates with our copy (item 2). A single copy of item 3 is held by the Navy Department Library in Washington, D. C; ESTC (T136497) locates two copies of another set of signals for 1796 with a different collation, containing day and fog signals only, whereas our copy also contains night signals. ESTC (N41002) traces one copy only of a 1798 issue of item 5. Further manuscripts and papers from Darby's career are now found at Cambridge, the British Library, Brown University, and Boston Public Library (USA). Provenance: acquired by the vendor from Francis Edwards in the 1980s.

* Gebrüder Aurnhammer . Third Reich Kriegsmarine Sample Book, Uniform-Effekten-Fabrik und Fabrik Leonsischer-Waren Metall-Draht-Werk, Weissenburg in Bayern, circa 1938/1939, sample uniform insignia of the supply firm Gebrüder Aurnhammer, comprising a total of 89 naval career special training fabric badges of the Kriegsmarine, mounted on rectos of 13 stiff card leaves, each neatly numbered and titled in ink, mostly arranged in groups of nine, two badges removed (Schiffstaucher and Torpedotaucher), original cloth boards titled in gilt to upper cover, cloth spine tie, rubbed and some edge wear, folio (50 x 34cm) (Qty: 1)This rare collection of badges are on white or navy blue cotton base cloth with machine-woven appliqués in gold, blue, red and white.

* RMS 'Niagara'. A photograph album, compiled by a female passenger onboard RMS 'Niagara', 1937-38, a total of 75 corner-mounted mostly snapshot photographs including photographs of three of the ship's pursers, 'Crossing the line, Monday May 24th 1937', a snapshot of Al Blatch (lightweight boxing champion of Australia), Mr Ashdon, views in the Rocky Mountains while travelling on the Canadian Pacific Railway, photographs in Toronto and at Niagara Falls, plus photographs at St Andrews, two larger-format group portraits of the American and British Walker Cup golf teams, June 1938, scenes in London, etc., mostly 5 x 8cm and some larger, ink captions to mounts, contemporary reversed calf with hand-painted picture of RMS Niagara to upper cover, skilfully rebacked and refurbished with new decorative endpapers, leather spine tie, oblong small folio (Qty: 1)RMS Niagara was launched in 1912 and owned by the Union Steamship Company intended for the Austria-Vancouver, Canada service. She was nicknamed 'the Titanic of the Pacific', but after the sinking of the RMS TItanic this was dropped in favour of 'Queen of the Pacific'. On 19 June 1940 she had just left Auckland when she struck a mine laid by the German auxiliary cruiser Orion . She sank with a large consignment of gold from the Bank of England in her strong room. Most of the gold was recovered during salvage operations in the 1940s and 1950s.

* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke, 1769-1852). An autograph letter on three sides of a folded sheet of folio paper to C Stuart, Esq, signed Wellington, dated Gouvea, September 14th 1810 (Qty: 1)An interesting dispatch which gives details of the treatment of prisoners, and the current state of the French army. Wellington refers to 'a person who is in the British service by the name of Le Court, whom the Government have decided to send out of Portugal... It will be very inconvenient to the army to do so... Mr. Le Court was employed by me to take care of the French prisoners going home from Oporto last year ', and he continues 'I have heard that the Mob of Lisbon attacked Colonel Pavetti who I lately sent down to Lisbon as a Prisoner & one of our Officers who was in charge of him... they ended by attacking Sir John Cradock's House, and I believe Villiers' Servants were insulted '. The letter finishes with an update 'I think that the French have got a reinforcement, not only from Nantes but from a corps which was at Versailles. I find three battalions, which were at Nantes in June, now in Junot's corps, and one battalion which was at Versailles, in Ney’s .' Gurwood, Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, 1838, Volume VI, pages 440-441.

* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke, 1769-1852). An autograph letter on eight sides of two folded folio sheets to C Stuart, Esq, signed Wellington, dated Cartaxo, Jany. 3 rd 1811 (Qty: 1)This dispatch to the Envoy in Lisbon describes Wellington’s plans for billeting officers of the British Army in Portuguese households at Lisbon. He insists that the Portuguese 'should also be encouraged to complain of any Officer who treats them ill, or who requires more from his landlord than the General Order entitles him to... ' Wellington expresses the need to respect the dignity of local magistrates, and in short needs the Army to recognise that they are not occupying enemy territory but living alongside an ally. Wellington goes on to give a lengthy opinion on the unreliability of the Portuguese: ‘I never entertained a doubt that Dom Miguel Forjaz would make the best arrangement, and give all the necessary orders for the performance of any service: but there exists in the people of Portugal an unconquerable love of their ease, which is superior even to their fear and detestation of the enemy… Thus every arrangement is defeated, and every order disobeyed with impunity…’. Gurwood, Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, 1838, Volume VII, pages 101-103.

* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke, 1769-1852). An autograph letter on six sides of two folded sheets of folio paper watermarked Phipps & Son 1808 to C Stuart, Esq, signed Wellington, dated Viseu March 3 rd 1810 (Qty: 1)A letter raising a frequent complaint that the home government is not providing sufficient funds to support the war, particularly in respect of paying the Portuguese Militias on which Wellington was quite dependent. 'The militia, which are a most important branch of the military of the country for which the Govt. are now sending out arms, by which the northern provinces are to be exclusively defended , & which are to occupy many important posts in the country, are to continue under the regie of the Portuguese Government' . Wellington goes on to say that since assuming control of the Portuguese Army he also is responsible for the Militia but the British Government is not paying the same sort of amounts as were previously supplied by the Portuguese Government. Gurwood, Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, 1838, Volume V, pages 554-555.

* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke, 1769-1852). A four page letter autograph letter to Sir Charles Stuart, signed Wellington, dated August 31 st 1810, wri t ten on a single folded page folio sheet of paper watermarked Buttshaw 1808 (Qty: 1)Wellington recounts the dramatic events at the siege at Almeida in the summer of 1810: 'The Colonel reports that the explosion of the magazine destroyed the whole town, made a breach in the place, blew all the guns, excepting three, into the ditch, destroyed all the ammunition, excepting ten or twelve barrels of power, and killed or wounded the greater part of the artillery men... the whole of the 24th regiment, with the exception of the Major and of the English Officers, have gone into the French Service. It is said that their objective is to have an opportunity of deserting from it, which is well enough for the Private Soldiers, but is highly disgraceful to the character of the Officers' . French forces under Marshal Ney laid siege on July 25th 1810 to Almeida, which was defended by Brigadier-General William Cox, with his Anglo-Portuguese garrison. On the 26th, at around 7pm, a French shell landed in the courtyard of the castle, igniting a trail into the magazine. The massive explosion killed 600, and wounded 300. Cox was forced to capitulate on the 27th. This siege forms the memorable climax to Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Gold. Gurwood, Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, 1838, Volume VI, pages 396-397.

* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke, 1769-1852). Autograph letter on three sides of a folded folio sheet to C Stuart Esq, signed Wellington, dated Cartaxo Nov 28 th 1810 (Qty: 1)Wellington recommends that the Ambassador should send Colonel Bathurst home to England to recover from his “derangement”. 'My opinion is that he is not in a state to remain with the Army, ... & that his best chance of recovery is to return to his family in England... You will be the best hope of the expediency of writing to his friends on his state. I enclose a letter which I have written to Lord Bathurst; & if he should go home, and should be still deranged, I request you to send it. If not I beg you to return it '. This letter not published in Gurwood's Dispatches of Lord Wellington. Colonel James Bathurst was military secretary to Wellington, until the 28th November 1810 (the date of the present letter), when a memorandum was sent from Wellington's headquarters at Cartaxo that 'all letters and applications, hitherto addressed to the Military Secretary, must in future be addressed to Lord Fitzroy Somerset' (John Sweetman, Raglan, 2010, page 31).

American Civil Aviation. Photograph album, 1936-1937, containing 108 original vintage gelatin silver print photographs of 30 different kinds of mostly grounded aeroplanes, mostly 10.5 x 6.5cm and similar sizes, all corner-mounted and mostly as multiples of two, three or four to album leaf rectos, many with names and places identified to mounts, including Halifax M.S., Lockheed Sirus, Douglas, Sikorski, Pan American Airport Miami, Arrow Sport, Stinson Reliant, Ocean City, Bellanca, Beechcraft C17, Fairchild, Waco, etc., contemporary limp cloth boards with cloth spine tie, manuscript caption and label by the unidentified compiler to upper cover, slightly rubbed, oblong small folio (Qty: 1)

After William P Sherlock (fl. 1759-1806) after David Cox Kenilworth Castle Etching 18 x 24.5cm Together with a large quantity of assorted prints and drawings, presented in a paper folio (approx. 38)

The District of Menteith - a boxed folio by R.B. Cunninghame Graham Containing an original etching by Sir D.Y. Cameron, R.A., LL.D., entitled 'Lake of Menteith', signed in pencil, 11 x 17.5cm, and ten reproductions of wash drawings A limited edition work, numbered 24 of 250 copies, signed by both author and illustrator Printed by The Observer Press, Scotland, 1930

Brook & River Trouting, Edmonds & Lee Limited book in sleeve, 669/1000, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, Folio Society (2)

SAFAVID PRAYER BOOKPERSIA, 17TH CENTURY black ink and gold on cream paper, with illuminated heading, seven leaves with text divided into six registers in black and gold scriptfolio 23cm x 13.8cmProvenance:From a London collection.

OTTOMAN PRAYER BOOKTURKEY, 19TH CENTURY black ink and gold on cream paper, with illuminated heading decorated in the Ottoman Rococo-style, 24 pages, 11 lines to the page written in naskh script with gold and polychrome roundels separating text, occasional inscriptions outside margin, each inscription panel within a double gilt margin, leather-boundfolio 15.5cm x 9.8cm; panel 10.5cm x 5.2cmProvenance:From a London collection.

AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF 'TAFADDAL BIN MARUF'TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY black ink and gold on cream paper, illuminated and polychrome heading decorated with floral and geometric designs, nine leaves, fourteen lines to the page written in naskh script illuminated with elegant cloud scrolls, gold and polychrome roundels separating text, each page within a single gold margin, in a palace gilt leather binding with tughra of Abdul Hamid IIfolio 22.5cm x 15cmProvenance:From a London collection; commissioned by the Grand Vizier Galip Pasha under Sultan Abdul Hamid II (r. 1876-1909).

Primo Levi, The Periodic Table, 1st English Edition, 1985 and a selection of Folio Society books including Dylan Thomas, Aldous Huxley etc

An Interesting folio of original Ladybird Book type illustrations, including; Nature illustrations, scenes from Greek and Roman history and legend, native americans, rural life, eductional etc; one signed Robinson, (quantity)

An Interesting folio of original Ladybird Book type illustrations, including; scenes of rural life, geography, history, etc, one illustration for 'Adventure Ahead, Lester Rides Again' by G Ransom, (quantity)

Violin 14'' two piece back, cased with bow and a folio of vintage piano sheet music

A COLLECTION OF UNFRAMED PICTURES AND PRINTS, INCLUDING OIL AND WATERCOLOUR LANDSCAPES, ETC, 19TH C AND LATER, SOLD IN FOLIO

[China]. Timkovski (Egor Fedorovich). Voyage à Péking, à travers la Mongolie, en 1820 et 1821. Traduit du russe par M. N******, revu par J.-B. Eyriès; publié, avec des corrections et des notes, par M. J. Klaproth, 1st edition in French, 3 volumes (2 text volumes, 1 atlas), Paris: Librairie orientale de Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1827, text volumes with half-titles, contents toned, spotting to preliminaries of volume 1 and occasionally elsewhere, volume 2 partly unopened, atlas volume with original lithographic wrappers bound in, additional vignette title-page, folding map, 2 double-page plans of the Forbidden City and the Russian embassy, 8 plates of costume and genre scenes, all lithographic, marginal damp-stain to lower margin of vignette title, plan of the Forbidden City and one other plate, folding map with 10 cm closed tear, bookplates, modern 20th-century tan calf-backed marbled boards by Laurenchet of Paris, text volumes 8vo (20.7 x 12.7 cm), atlas volume folio (33.1 x 24.8 cm) (Qty: 3)Cordier Sinica 2473-4; Western Travellers in China 64 (this copy; exhibited at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels, October 2009-January 2010).

Grindlay (Robert Melville). Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India, 1892, 36 chromolithographic plates, initial leaf with imprint statement 'reprinted from the original plates, 1892' verso present, lower section of title-page containing chromolithographic vignette excised (text retained), marginal chipping to outer text-leaves, small indented section and concomitant rumpling to top edge of a few leaves (text and images not at all affected), of disbound, folio (41.6 x 32 cm) (Qty: 1)Scarce facsimile edition, and the second edition overall, of one of the finest colour plate books on India, first published 1826-30 (for which see Abbey Travel 442). Copac traces one copy in British and Irish institutional libraries, at the University of Cambridge.

Heylyn (Peter). Cosmographie in foure Books, Contayning the Corographie & Historie of the whole World and all the Principall Kingdomes Provinces, Seas and Isles Thereof, 5th Edition Corrected & Inlarged by the Author, printed for Anne Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet streete, 1669, 4 parts in one, imprimatur leaf before title, additional engraved title page by John Fillian, trimmed and relaid, with a little loss to top margin, and lower outer corners, printed title in red and black, separate printed title to each part, 4 folding engraved maps of Europe, Asia, Africa and America (all by Robert Vaughan, except Asia by John Goddard), the first 2 maps of Europe and Asia with small repair to folds, without loss (generally in good condition), bookplate of William Constable Esqr. F.R.S. & F.A.S. to fronst pastedown, contemporary mottled full calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, outer corners repaired, thick folio (sheet size 34 x 22.5 cm, 13.4 x 8.8 ins) (Qty: 1)Tooley, California as an Island, 12

Werner (Carl). Nile-Sketches Painted from Nature During his Travels through Egypt... with accompanying Text by Dr A.E. Brehm and Dr Johannes Dümichen, first edition, Hildesheimer & Faulkner, [1875], half-title and lithographed map frontispiece, 24 chromolithographed plates, each with a captioned tissue guard, some spotting throughout, occasionally heavy, damp-staining throughout affecting blank lower and outer margins, partly broken with some leaves detached and a little frayed at fore-edges, all edges gilt, original decorative cloth with morocco gilt onlays, soiled and worn, folio (Qty: 1)Blackmer 1947.

Cuitt (George). Wanderings and Pencillings amongst Ruins of the Olden Time, 1st edition, 1848, 73 etched plates including frontispiece and vignettes, correct as list, title inscribed 'John Pascoe Fawkner, May 1858, Willis & Sotheran' and similar inscription to verso of frontispiece and final plate (& signature also to B1), manuscript initials J.P.F. to verso of majority of plates, some spotting, all edge gilt, contemporary half morocco, gilt decorated spine, rubbed & worn, folio (Qty: 1)John Pascoe Fawkner (1792-1869) was born in Cripplegate, London and become an early pioneer settler, businessman and politician of Melbourne, Australia. Fawkner travelled to Australia in 1803 as an eleven year old, living with his convict father in a colony established near present day Sorrento. When the colony was abandoned in 1804 due to lack of wood and fresh water, the Fawkners moved to Hobart in Tasmania. Fawkner worked in his fathers bakery, timber business and brewery. In 1819 Fawkner moved to Launceston with transported convict Eliza Cobb. They later married in 1822, with a permit from Governor George Arthur. In Launceston they set up a hotel, bakery, timber business, bookshop, nursery, orchard and a newspaper The Launceston Advertiser in 1829. In 1835 he financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania), to sail to the mainland in his ship, Enterprize. Fawkner's party sailed to Port Phillip and up the Yarra River to found a settlement which became the city of Melbourne. Fawkner played a key role in the establishment of Melbourne and Victoria as a separate state. It would appear that this volume was purchased from and supplied by the booksellers Willis & Sotheran.

Lewis (Samuel) [Topographical Dictionary], Atlas volume only, circa 1840, lacking titles and preliminaries, three folding engraved maps of England and Wales, Yorkshire and of London sectionalised and laid on linen, with forty-three uncoloured engraved county maps (including twelve folding), some staining and spotting throughout, contemporary cloth, heavily stained and frayed, 4to, together with, Cary (John), A map of Warwickshire from the best authorities, published John Stockdale, 1805, uncoloured engraved folding map, and pages 443 - 467 from William Camden's 'Britannia', text block detached, contemporary quarter cloth, frayed and worn, slim folio, with, Bartholomew (John), The Library Reference Atlas of the World, published Macmillan and Co., 1890, printed title and eighty-four colour lithographic maps, index bound at rear, text block detached, all edges gilt, boards detached, spine partially lacking, heavily worn and frayed, folio (Qty: 3)

Surtees (Robert). The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham , 4 volumes, 1st edition, 1816-40, 82 engraved plates including one not in list ('Raby Castle' after J. M. W. Turner, bound in volume II), some spotting to plates (generally light), four plates in volume IV with worm trail (image affected on three plates), remaining plates in volume IV with minor worm holes, intermittent dampstaining to some blank margins, scarce early ink annotations, volume II with original ink manuscript sales receipt loosely inserted, volume III with front free endpaper and following three leaves nearly detached, several hinges cracked, rough-trimmed, original publisher's boards, worn, volume III both boards detached, volume IV joints splitting (but board attachment secure), all spine ends plus tail section of volume III spine lacking, folio (Qty: 4)

Artis (Edmund Tyrell). The Durobrivae of Antoninus identified and illustrated in a series of plates, exhibiting the excavated remains of that Roman station, in the vicinity of Castor, Northamptonshire, including the mosaic pavements, inscriptions, paintings in fresco, baths, iron and glass furnaces, potters' kilns, implements for coining..., discovered by E.T. Artis, printed for the author, 1828, 7 pages of text, including title, 60 lithographed and engraved plates, some folding, and some with hand-colouring, by G. Scharf after E.T. Artis, printed by Hullmandel, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, 19th century straight-grained dark green half morocco (by Birdsall & Son, Northampton), rubbed and scuffed to joints and edges, large folio (sheet size 44.5 x 28 cm, 17.5 x 11 ins) (Qty: 1)

Bartoli (Pietro Santi & Bellori , Giovanni Pietro). Columna Cochlis M. Aurelio Antonino Augusto Dicata..., Rome: Dominici de Rubeis, 1704, engraved title, full-page engraved dedication leaf, and 72 etched plates (of 80), lacking plates 4, 5, 40, and 73-77, five plates detached (one creased and frayed to fore-edge, the others cut down), plate 69 with pencil sketch of men and horse to lower blank margin, final plate (Tab.III) with some loss to blank fore-margin and laid down to rear free endpaper, some dust-soiling and marks (especially to title-page), occasional light creasing and marginal tears, lacking front free endpaper, stitching partially broken, contemporary calf, heavily worn and with spine lacking, large oblong folio . (Qty: 1)Brunet I, 758.

[Bruce, J. Collingwood]. A Descriptive Catalogue of Antiquities, chiefly British, at Alnwick Castle, printed for private distribution, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1880, chromolithographed and monochrome plates, some double-page, letterpress illustrations, occasional light marginal spotting, a few plates with water-stain to upper blank margin, marbled endpapers, hinges split, all edges gilt, contemporary brown morocco, rubbed and some wear with joints cracked, square folio, together with Mortimer (J.R.) , Forty Years' Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire..., 1st edition, 1905, colour and black & white plates, letterpress illustrations, folding table, frontispiece and title spotted, front pastedown with signature of Graham Webster (as well as his bookplate), original cloth, marked, spine faded and slightly frayed to extremities in places, 4to, plus Smith (Charles Roach & Elliott, James) , Report on Excavations Made on the Site of the Roman Castrum at Lyme, in Kent, in 1850... With Notes on the Original Plan of the Castrum, and on the Ancient State of the Romney Marshes, printed for the subscribers to the excavations, 1852, folding etched frontispiece (spotted), nine plates, one hand-coloured, letterpress illustrations, title-page toned, original printed wrappers, dust-soiled, spine titled in early manuscript and frayed at ends, upper cover with early manuscript name and small circular label, small 4to, plus 16 others related, including: Excavations on Rockbourne Down, Hampshire, 1914, and Excavations at East Grimstead, Wiltshire, 1924, both by Heywood Summer; Warrington's Roman Remains, by Thomas May, 1904; and The History of Nettleham, by Florence L. Baker, 1957, with autograph letter signed from the author to Mr. Webster loosely inserted (Qty: 19)Some volumes with the bookplate of Graham Webster.

Dragendorff (H. and Kruger E.), Das Grabmal von Igel (Romische Grabmaler des Mosellandes und der angrenzenden gebiete, volume 1), Trier, 1924, 20 plates at rear of volume, consisting of 19 photogravure illustrations and one colour plate, original half-cloth, rubbed and minor wear to edges, square folio, together with Thomas (Edit B.), Helme, Schilde, Dolche, Studien uber Romisch-Pannonische Waffenfunde, Amsterdam, Verlag Adolf M. Hakkert, 1971, 4 colour plates, numerous m onochrome plates after photographs, original cloth in dust wrapper, slightly rubbed to extremities, 4to, plus Alfoldy (Geza). Die Hilfstruppen der Romischen Provinz Germania Inferior (Epigraphisch Studien, Band 6), Dusseldorf, Rheinland-Verlag, 1968, original maroon cloth gilt in dust wrapper, 4to, and other archaeology interest, all printed in German or French, including Wolfgang Czysz, and others, Romische Keramik aus Bad Wimpfen, 1981, J.H. Holwerda, De Belgische Waar in Nijmegen, 1941, Mordechai Gichon, En Boqeq, Ausgrabungen in einer Oase am Toten Meer, Band I, 1993, H. Brunsting, Archeologie en Historie, 1973, etc., original cloth or printed wrappers, a few volumes rebound or with wear, the remainder generally in good condition, mostly 4to (Qty: 50)

Horsley (John). Britannia Romana: or the Roman Antiquities of Britain: in Three Books..., 1st edition, printed for John Osborn and Thomas Longman, 1732, half-title with neat early manuscript note by George Allan pertaining to this work and its author, 105 engraved plates and maps, including five double-page maps, one plate near-detached, one single page map torn in two and repaired, large engraved head-piece to dedication, numerous early manuscript marginalia and underlinings, and some additional ink drawings and notes bound in or loosely inserted, damp-staining to first half of volume, first and final pages dust-soiled, Z1 with 4" repaired tear in lower margin, inscription on front pastedown 'W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, F.S.A. From William Kell, Esq. F.S.A. 10 May. 1862', 4pp. autograph letter signed from William Kell dated 1859 loosely inserted, bookplates of Graham Webster and Sir Jonathan E. Backhouse, Bart., loosely inserted, contemporary calf, heavily worn, with covers detached and spine deficient, folio (Qty: 1)Inscribed on the half-title by English antiquary, author and attorney George Allan (1736-1800). Allan gives some brief details about John Horsley, and the fate of the plates used in the volume (purchased for the British Museum), going on to say: "Most of the notes in this Copy, I transcribed from those in the hand writing of Dr. Hunter of Durham, which belonged to Tho Gyle Esqr of Durham, G. Allan". Physician and antiquary Dr. Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), apparently assisted John Horsley in compiling his Britannia Romana. The accompanying letter from William Kell thanks the unnamed recipient for "the curious extracts from Horsley's great book" and discusses the etymology of certain place names, saying "Mr. Allan is quite wrong in deriving the name from that of a family. The surnames of persons were taken from the names of places, and not the names of places from those of persons".

Peck (Francis). Academia Tertia Anglicana; or, the Antiquarian Annals of Stanford in Lincoln, Rutland, and Northampton Shires, 1st edition, printed for the author, by James Bettenham, 1727, folding engraved frontispiece bird's-eye view of Stamford by Van der Gucht after P. Tillemans, engraved title vignette by Van der Gucht, list of subscribers, 32 copper-engraved plates (correct as listed in Upcott), in good condition, small waterstain to lower inner margins to first few leaves (generally a good copy), contemporary bookplate of Rt. Hon. the Lord Viscount Lymington to front pastedown, contemporary mottled full calf, gilt decorated spine, with morocco label, some wear to joints and edges (some restoration to joints), large folio (sheet size 39.5 x 24 cm, 15.5 x 9.5 ins) (Qty: 1)Upcott, pages 567-571. Large Paper Subscriber's copy (Right Honorable John, Lord Viscount Lymington listed as a subscriber). Francis Peck took six years to complete this work, during which time he became involved in an ongoing dispute with the local historian Francis Howgrave, who published his own history of Stamford in 1726.

Roy (William). The Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain, 1793, 50 engraved maps and plates only (of 51, lacking plate XXXVII), one or two repairs to verso, list of subscribers at end, some light water stains and spotting, later cloth, a little rubbed with light marks, folio, together with Ancient Wiltshire, by Sir R.C. Hoare, Parts I-III only, Ancient Wiltshire Northern District Part I only & Ancient Wiltshire Roman Aera Part II only, 1810-21, numerous engraved maps and plates, occasional light spotting, original boards, spines lacking, covers detached with some edge wear, folio, plus Daniel & Samuel Lysons's Magna Britannia, volume I only (Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire), 1806 (lacking one Bedfordshire plate XII), and Lapidarium Septentrionale: or a description of the Monuments of Roman Rule in the North of England, published by the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, parts I-V, Newcastle, 1870-75, plus Chronologia in Titi Livii Historiam, 1568, some worming to lower margin, bound in contemporary limp vellum, folio (Qty: 14)

Cunliffe (Barry). Excavations at Portchester Castle, 2 volumes, published by The Society of Antiquaries of London, 1975-76, numerous plates (some folding, some photographic) and illustrations, original cloth in edge-frayed dust jackets, 4to, together with Cunliffe (Barry & Davenport, Peter) , The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath, 3 volumes (including plate volume), 1985-1988, numerous plates (many folding) and illustrations, original pictorial boards, small folio, (limited edition 31/500 copies), plus others similar, including five volumes in the Kent Monograph Series, published CIB, 1968-1991, original boards in dust jackets, and The Archaeology of Canterbury, volumes I, II and VII, Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society, 1982-1983 (Qty: 30)