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[THE GREAT EXHIBITION] ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS VOL 19 JULY TO DEC. 1851London, William Little, 1851. Folio, a half-yearly volume including supplements, containing much information on the Great Exhibition, with numerous illustrations, folding woodcut plates, etc. A good copy internally, bound in half brown calf with marbled boards, some wear

SANDYS, GEORGE[SANDYS TRAVELLS, CONTAINING AN HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL AND PRESENT STATE OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE... ]...their laws, government, policy, military force, courts of justice, and commerce: the Mahometan religion and ceremonies: a description of Constantinople..[etc.].[London, 1670]. Sixth edition, folio, additional engraved (detached) title 'A Relation of a Iourney begun An Dom: 1610' with imprint 'London Printed for Philip Chetwin 1670', lacking printed title, double page folding map is present with tears and small loss along fold, engravings throughout, the folding plate 'Prospect of the Grand Signiors Seraglio from Galata' is present (often lacking), some worming primarily through sigs M-O and affecting a few words of the text. The main body of the text is complete. Bound in 17th century brown calf, worn, with some areas of loss to spine, top inner hinge cracked and binding somewhat loose. Sold w.a.f.

BEAUJOYEULX, BALTASAR DE BALET COMIQVE DE LA ROYNE, Faict avx Nopces de Monsieur le Duc de Ioyeuse & madamoyselle de Vaudemont sa soeur. Par Baltasar de Beavioyevlx, Valet de Chambre dv Roy, et de la Royne sa mere.A Paris, Par Adrian le Roy, Robert Ballard, & Mamert Patisson, Imprimeurs du Roy. M. D. LXXXII. [1582]. First edition, 4to, [xvi] + 75 numbered folios, + 'Extrait du priuilege' leaf at the rear, with 27 engraved illustrations, as called for. Bound in later (probably 18th century) worn blue paper wrappers, manuscript label to spine, some creasing to corners, hairline worm-track to very inner margin of first few leaves (barely noticeable and not affecting text), folio 18 with short marginal tear not affecting text, folio 40 with closed tear along plate margin, folio 41 with m/s writing to outer margin, faint waterstain from folio 41 onwards. Rare. The 'Balet Comique de la Royne' is considered to be the first ballet, performed in 1581 at the French court of Catherine de Medici as part of the wedding celebrations for the Duke de Joyeuse and Marguerite de Vaudemont. The ballet was choreographed by Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx and was the first piece to combine poetry, music, design and dance, using as a theme the witchcraft of the goddess Circe. It is also the first ballet of which there is a printed account (libretto), published in 1582. Beaujoyeulx's volume, with printed music and superb illustrations by Jacques Patin, was highly successful and influenced the courts of Europe. Rare. This copy has not been seen on the market for over 100 years, and comes with various letters to/from the British Library as well as enquiries to Sotheby's and Christie's. A manuscript note dated Dec 12th 1911 records that the book was "valued by Mr Quaritch at

BANKING HISTORY - MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL DISTRICT BANKING COMPANY LIMITEDA LATE 19TH TO EARLY 20TH CENTURY MINUTE-BOOK/LEDGER Recording communications with and transactions of a wide range of businesses and private individuals from 1899-1929, with numerous manuscript entries and tipped-in copies of typed letters primarily concerning debts and overdrafts, all contained in a folio book bound in the original brown morocco leather. An interesting example of how early bankers managed debt - particularly through the period of the First World War and the years directly following

[ LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH CENTURY HUNTING SCRAPBOOK ]A most unusual large oblong folio album, circa 169 pages, with hundreds of cut-out illustrations pasted-in of hunting scenes and animals, including big-game hunting in Africa and India, fox-hunting, fowl shooting, etc. Bound in contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards

'ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ANNALS OF RAJPOOTANA' An large folio-sized album, so-titled on the upper board, containing approx 95 loose fine proof engravings by E Finden after 'Captain Waugh' and 'Major Denham', the plates published by John Murray and dated 1826, with wide margins (the leaves measure 44 x 30 cms). Engravings of landscapes, ethnic peoples and cultural antiquities/artefacts including weapons etc, relating to India's Rajputana/Rajasthan region. The engraved images are, in the main, in very good condition - several of the plates have varying degrees of damp-stain confined to the blank margin, a much smaller number of plates has damp-stain extending into the engraved area and approx half a dozen of these heavily so. Loosely held in an early 19th century folder of half-leather with ties, the upper board with a gilt red leather album title label. There is no indication of the source work for these plates - perhaps James Tod's "Annals and Antiquities of Rajas'than" (?) though there appears to be more plates here than were issued in that work alone. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return

ANNUAL REPORT (VOL II ONLY) OF THE SO-CALLED 'COMICAL CLUB' FOR 1821-1822A 319-page small folio bound manuscript consisting of meeting reports written by the Secretary of the 'Comical Club', which met at various venues in London on the first Wednesday of every calendar month. The manuscript is in brown ink in a clear and legible hand. Bound in contemporary diced calf with double black labels to spine, rubbed and some wear, with a modern armorial added in gilt to centre of upper board

PENMANSHIP. MR LINLEY'S COMMERCIAL & MATHEMATICAL ACADEMY LOW ASH HALL SHEFFIELD three oblong folio exercise books of copper plate handwriting, the engraved title incorporating three vignettes by Bean Stationer Leeds, embossed colour printed boards, richly gilt with red cloth spine, two inscribed with pupil's name to title (Master J S Greaves 1876), unusual in this condition

BARTHOLOMEW ( J G) ROYAL ATLAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES REDUCED FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY, GEORGE NEWENS LTD, C1900 folio lithographed maps and plans in colour, half calf, worn and frayed, frontispiece with tape repair, waf

BLACK, ADAM & CHARLES BLACK'S GENERAL ATLAS Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1841. Large folio, 54 engraved map plates (as called for) with hand-colouring in outline, a good copy, bound in contemporary half morocco, cloth boards, rubbed at extremities

[OCCULT, MAGIC, SORCERY, ALCHEMY] HALL, MANLEY PAN ENCYCLOPEDIC OUTLINE OF MASONIC, HERMETIC, QABBALISTIC AND ROSICRUCIAN SYMBOLICAL PHILOSOPHY.Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings concealed within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of all Ages.Los Angeles, Philosophical Research Society Press, 1936. Sixth edition, folio, black and white plates and other illustrations, a good copy in the original publisher's three-quarter cloth with marbled boards, scratch to lower board. "A gorgeous, dream-like book of mysterious symbols, concise essays and colourful renderings of mythical beasts rising out of the sea, and angelic beings with lions' heads presiding over somber initiation rites in torch-lit temples of ancestral civilizations that had mastered latent powers beyond the reach of modern man." [L. Sahagun: Master of the Mysteries: The Life of Manly Palmer Hall]

FOLIO SOCIETY, A GOOD COLLECTION Approximately 49 volumes published by the Folio Society, all in very good to very fine condition, and all (except for one) in original slipcases (circa 49)

FOLIO SOCIETY, A GOOD COLLECTION Approximately 49 volumes published by the Folio Society, all in very good to very fine condition, and all (except for one) in original slipcases (circa 49)

[ITALIAN POET UGO FOSCOLO ASSOCIATION COPY] PETRARCA, FRANCESCO[IL PETRARCHA CON L'ESPOSITIONE DI M. GIO. ANDREA GESUALDO...] [Venice], Iacomo Vidali, 1574. Small 4to in 8s, a defective copy lacking title, 1 prelim leaf, and leaf Xx1 (title to the 'Trionfi'), text ends on folio 414 (of 419), full-page woodcut map present, 6 woodcuts present to the 'Trionfi'. Bound in full vellum, worn at the extremities. This copy has an interesting provenance - on the front free-endpaper there is an inscription in ink by the Italian writer and poet Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) which ends "I salute you Fazakirley with this little note in the book". According to another note by Fazakerley/Fazakirley, written above, he loaned the book to Foscolo (whilst in London, sometime between 1817 and his death)

FLINT, WILLIAM RUSSELL DRAWINGSLondon, Collins, 1950. First edition, folio, signed by Russell Flint to half-title, profusely illustrated, publisher's blue cloth, a fine copy; plus another Russell Flint interest (2)

FLINT, WILLIAM RUSSELL DRAWINGSLondon, Collins, 1950. First edition, folio, limited edition number 262 of 500 copies, signed by Russell Flint, bound in half buckram with paper boards bearing repeated 'WRF' initials, contained in original card slipcase with an additional signed print loose in envelope. A good copy of the book, though the slipcase is worn and has been repaired with sellotape along the edges

ROBERTS, DAVIDTHE HOLY LAND; EGYPT AND NUBIA; THE LIFE, WORKS AND TRAVELSNew York, Rizzoli, 2000. A fine three-volume folio boxed set, quality colour reproductions of Roberts' paintings, fine condition in original publisher's cloth bindings and slipcase with coloured pictorial boards

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAMTHE WORKS OF SHAKSPEARE. IMPERIAL EDITION, EDITED BY CHARLES KNIGHTLondon, Virtue, circa 1870. Two volumes, large folio, numerous engraved plates, 19th C half morocco, worn, joints split/detaching. Plus: SMITH, GEORGE BARNETT - THE LIFE OF... WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE. London, Cassell, circa 1880. Two volumes (complete), thick 4to, plates (some colour-tinted), 19th C black half calf, red labels, joints splitting. Plus: THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S DOMESTIC MAGAZINE [1867]. 4to, hand-coloured fashion plates, one leaf of text missing bottom half, plates are good, publisher's green cloth. Plus: TYTLER, SARAH - THE LIFE OF... QUEEN VICTORIA. London, Virtue, [1901], Three volumes bound in six, folio, plates and other illustrations, original publisher's decorative grey cloth. Plus approx 26 other volumes primarily 19th/early 20th C, w.a.f. (circa 37)

CRAWFURD, GEORGE A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE ROYAL AND ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY OF THE STEWARTSEdinburgh, James Watson, 1710. First Edition, folio, two parts in one, lacking the final 'alphabetical index' leaf otherwise complete, full contemporary blind-panelled calf, re-backed. The copy of Colonel John Ferrier Hamilton of Cairnhill, Scotland, with his bookplate and signature. There are also early 18th century unidentified signatures of a member of the Stewart family; CRAWFURD, GEORGE - THE LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF THE OFFICERS OF THE CROWN AND OF THE STATE IN SCOTLAND: from the Beginning of the Reign of King David I. to the Union of the Two Kingdoms. Edinburgh, Robert Fleming, 1726. First edition, folio, full contemporary blind-panelled calf, rubbed, wear to extremities, some internal damp-staining to top margin. The title states this is 'Vol I', however, a second volume was never written nor published, the author having decided against this, which he acknowledges at the end of the Preface. Complete; [JACOBITE INTEREST] - A NARRATIVE OF CHARLES PRINCE OF WALES' EXPEDITION TO SCOTLAND IN THE YEAR 1745 By James Maxwell of Kirkconnnell. Edinburgh, [The Maitland Club], 1841. First edition thus, small 4to, a fine copy, later quarter calf with marbled boards. Contemporary presentation inscription from Alexander Macdonald, a member of the Maitland Club, to Charles K[irkpatrick] Sharpe, the Scottish antiquary and artist. The Maitland Club was a Scottish historical and literary society, founded in 1828 to edit and publish early Scottish texts. Since the distribution of publications was usually limited to members, a typical print run consisted of between 70 and 100 copies - so this example is now rare (3)

DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAM THE ANTIQUITIES OF WARWICKSHIRE Coventry, John Jones, 1765. Folio, folding engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, full-page and folding engraved plates, maps and plans, small single-track marginal worming to first few leaves and last (unobtrusive impact to one map and printed title border), occasional ink library stamps. Bound in 18th century brown calf, attractively re-backed, spine fully gilt in compartments. This work was published in 72 numbered parts, and the preliminary leaves included in bound copies varies. Ours has the dedication leaf by Dugdale followed by the preface, but the dedications/directions to binder leaves by Jones are not present. ESTC T145133

[MEDIEVAL ENGLAND] TESTA DE NEVILL SIVE LIBER FEODORUM IN CURIA SCACCARII. TEMP. HEN. III. & EDW. I.[London], Printed by Command of His Majesty King George III, 1807. Large folio, preliminary leaves in English, main text in Latin, engraved plate with facsimile writing, an unusually good clean and fresh copy bound in contemporary 1/4 calf, lightly rubbed, cloth boards with some light spotting/soiling. This is the Liber Feodorum or 'Book of Fees', first compiled in c1302 but from even earlier records, for use by the English Exchequer. A handsome copy of a scarce book

BURNET, GILBERTTHE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLANDLondon, Richard Chiswell, 1681, 1681, 1715. 3 volumes, folio, volumes 1 & 2 being the 1681 second edition, volume 3 being the supplement published later in 1715, complete with engraved titles to vol 1 & 2, engraved frontispiece to vol 3, and other engraved plates. Bound in full brown calf, worn, some boards detached/joints repaired with tape, internally good (3)++as described

HOWARD, GEORGE SELBYTHE NEW ROYAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA...DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES...A NEW EDITIONLondon, Alex Hogg, [circa 1790]. 3 volumes as called for, folio, plates mostly missing, contemporary calf with boards detached, sold w.a.f. (3)++sold with all faults not subject to return

A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ETCHINGSLondon, Printed by J. Kay, 1826. First Kay edition, tall folio, 200 plates (after Rembrandt, Claude, Barriere, Hollar, and others) mounted on card leaves, some foxing/browning, bound in contemporary full red straight-grained morocco, boards with elaborate gilt borders, rubbed and worn at extremities, all edges gilt. Scarce++some foxing/browning, bound in contemporary full red straight-grained morocco, boards with elaborate gilt borders, rubbed and worn at extremities

MAITLAND, WILLIAMTHE HISTORY OF LONDONLondon, 1756 and London, 1772. Mixed edition set, vol 1 being the 1756 (3rd) edition, and vol 2 the later 1772 edition. Two volumes, folio, frontispiece to vol 1, vol 1 with only 6 of the 3rd edition plates remaining, browning and foxing, some leaves with dampstain to upper section, p148/9 with marginal loss, p268 with black smudge obliterating 2 or 3 words. 19th century half leather, joints worn, upper board of vol 1 cracked and starting to detach, short crack to upper joint vol 2. Sold with all faults (2)

THOYRAS, M. RAPIN DETHE HISTORY OF ENGLANDLondon, Knapton, 1732. Second edition complete in two volumes, folio, engraved portrait frontispiece, titles in red and black, plates maps and other illustrations, a fresh copy internally. 19th century half calf, joints cracked, vol 1 missing leather from top compartment of spine and the upper board is detached. Sold w.a.f. (2)

MURDIN, WILLIAM A COLLECTION OF STATE PAPERS RELATING TO AFFAIRS IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, FROM THE YEAR 1571 TO 1596 Transcribed from Original Papers and other Authentic Memorials never before published, left by William Cecill Lord Burghley, and Reposited in the Library at Hatfield House. London, W Bowyer, 1759. First edition, folio, prelims + 813pp, a good fresh copy rebound in 19th century half red morocco, gilt spine, a little rubbed and some wear at joints, upper joint cracking but firm; BAKER, SIR RICHARD - A CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND. London, George Sawbridge, 1674. Folio, additional engraved title and printed title present, lacking portrait of Charles II, generally a fresh copy, cropped a little close at the margins but not touching text or marginal notes, rebound in full 19th century brown calf, gilt spine (2)

THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEWLondon (but probably Amsterdam), no printer, 1708. Folio, additional engraved title, OT title dated 1708, NT title dated 1707, 6 folding maps only, pagination erratic, printed on thin paper with resulting browning/spotting, corner of H3 torn away but not affecting text, contemporary red morocco gilt, boards scuffed and wear to joints and extremities. Sold with all faults++see description, w.a.f.

OTTLEY, WILLIAM YOUNG ENGRAVINGS OF THE MOST NOBLE MARQUIS OF STAFFORD'S COLLECTION OF PICTURESLondon, Bensley & Son, 1818. First edition, 4 large folio volumes bound in 2, hundreds of engravings (all present as per lists of plates), some damp-stain and discolouration to lower right-hand corner in vol 1 (not affecting text or engraved areas). Bound in early 19th century quarter green leather, marbled boards worn with paper missing in parts, leather spines rubbed and worn (2)

LANDSEER, SIR EDWINTHE WORKSLondon, Virtue and Company, [circa 1879-80]. 4 volumes, folio, 40 (of 44) fine engraved plates plus 10 'Example' plates, engraved title to vol 1, printed title/contents/plate list incorrectly bound at rear of vol 4, original publisher's cloth, the upper pictorial boards beautifully embossed in gold and black, new spines. Ex-lib with blind-stamps to plate margins, library labels to front free endpapers. An attractive looking set (4)

LARREY, ISAAC DE HISTOIRE D'ANGLETERRE, D'ECOSSE, ET D'IRLANDERotterdam, Leers, 1708, 1697, 1698, and Bohm, 1713. Mixed editions set, 4 vols, thick folio, comprising: Vol I 'Premiere Partie (1708); Vol II 'Tome Premiere' (1697); Vol III 'Tome Seconde' (1698); Vol IV 'Tome Quatrieme (1713). 67 (only) fine engraved portraits. A handsome set in 18th century tan calf, spines fully gilt with double labels, a couple of joints cracked, some corner wear. Provenance: from the library of the Chateau de Loyat, Bretagne, France. Sold w.a.f.

[BINDING] THE HOLY BIBLE CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLELondon, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [circa 1860]. Thick folio, over 900 engravings, family register with manuscript entries recording the births and deaths of members of the Gumley family of Leicester throughout the 19th century, a few leaves with some light browning, but a good profusely-illustrated copy bound in the original 19th century black calf, boards diced in blind within an outer gilt panel, lightly rubbed, short unobtrusive split to upper joint, all edges gilt

Royal Mint United Kingdom Fifty Pence Coin Presentation Packs (4), celebrating Beatrix Potter and Her Little Tales, Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten,Benjamin Bunny, Mr Jeremy Fisher, A Danbury Mint 'The Kennedy's' commemorative Folio No 2598 of 5000.

Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). The Second World War, 6 volumes written out in manuscript longhand into 2 large day books and a ledger, by an unidentified hand, circa 1950s, a right-sloping neat hand in mostly blue or black fountain pen inks with occasional red highlights, etc., seemingly an unabridged and full transcription (except some quoted sources typed up on separate loose sheets in a folder), written on both sides of approximately 800 leaves of 3 ledgers/day books, volumes 1 and 2 of the magnum opus written into one day book, volume 3 into a ledger (damp-frayed at lower margins), volumes 4-6 written into a second day book matching the first (with printed columns for rooms, wines, accounts, etc.), this final volume following straight on with full-length transcriptions of 4 other of Churchill's works in the same hand, 'My Early Life', 'Thoughts and Adventures', 'Great Contemporaries' and 'Step by Step', approximately 150 blank leaves at rear of volume 3, contemporary quarter leather, some soiling and wear, volumes 1 & 3 with printed stationer's labels of Arthur Wrigley, Leeds, at front, large 4to (49 x 41 cm), volume 2 folio (47 x 30 cm), together with a folder of related typed leaves supplying many of the quoted sources for which coded references are left in the manuscript(Qty: 3)A truly bizarre Churchill archive, this three-volume manuscript raises unanswerable questions of authorship and appropriation. The Second World War alone totals over 1.5 million words and what person would voluntarily, (or otherwise), attempt to rewrite all this verbatim in longhand defies all logic and explanation. The handwriting is not Churchill's, nor any of his known secretaries, according to the Churchill Archives, Cambridge. Besides which Churchill's modus operandi for writing was dictation to typists in the first instance, which was then hand corrected by Churchill, retyped and corrected once more. Even with the large team of researchers involved in the preparation of The Second World War there would have been no call for such a manuscript. The inclusion of full transcriptions of four further and earlier works by Churchill adds to the bafflement. The ledgers were acquired around 20 years ago from a large house clearance near York. There are two clues as to who the author may be, both possibly in the same hand as the manuscript itself: The name 'Philip H. [?]Richings' appears on the front free endpaper of the second day book, and a three-page manuscript poem ('An Ode to Sir Barnes [Wallis]'), included with the folder of typed quoted sources, is initialled 'P.H.R.' at the end.

* George III. A signed manuscript document for discharge of accounts for Lieutenant Colonel Henry Edward Bunbury, Deputy Quartermaster-General in the Mediterranean, dated 27th November 1807, manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, handwritten to recto only, and signed George R at head, addressed to the Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts, and signed by several of them at foot, with a date of 15 July 1808, instructing the commissioners to discharge Lieutenant Colonel Bunbury for the sum of £370 15 ¼ shillings 'being the amount of his three abstracts of Contingent Disbursements of his Department between the 14th October 1805 and the 24th December 1806, inclusive', some marks and short tears to edges, generally without loss, sheet size 35.5 x 24 cm (14 x 9.5 ins), together with four other various military documents: an officer's commission on vellum to Thomas Edgcombe, Ensign of the Devon Company of Foot under Colonel Henry Trenchard, dated 19th May 1715, and signed by Sir William Courtenay, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Devon, a signed manuscript document on paper issued by the Office of Ordnance, dated 29th January 1744 addressed to the Right Honourable Thomas Winnington, Paymaster General of the Guards & Garrisons, being an account for damage done to Barrack bedding in the Savoy by the Second Regiment of Foot Guards quartered there from 25th October 1743 to 25th October 1744, for £13 8 shillings 9d and for bedding lost or embezzelled by General Guizes Regiment in garrison there..., signed by George Wade, Thomas Lascelles, George Gregory, William R. Earle and Andrew Wilkinson, single folded sheet, 31.5 x 20 cm (12.4 x 7.8 ins), a partly handwritten account of allow charges for the 1st West York Regiment of Militia, from 25th December 1797 to 24th December 1798, signed by Palmerston, and dated War-Office 2nd June 1817, and a bound folio volume containing 178 pages of neat handwritten manuscript petition, accounts and inventory relating to the estate of Captain Frederick Campbell, late of the 94th Regiment of Foot, and Agartent of the Argyll and Bute Militia, dated 1829-58, and including legal notes, an inventory of property, with valuations, and of accounts paid to the Campbelltown Auctioneer John Dunlop, etc., contemporary half calf, rubbed and scuffed, folio (Qty: 5)

* Whitbread & Inns. A collection of cigarette and trade cards, circa 1930s and later, including sets of Wills Old Inns, (1936 & 1939 series), 40 cards each, Whitbread's Inn Signs (1949-1951 series), each with 50 cards, plus various regional History of Whitbread Inn Signs series including Bournemouth (24 of 25, lacks no. 23), Devon & Somerset (25), Isle of Wight (24 of 25, lacks no. 7), Kent (23 of 25, lacks nos. 3 & 4), London (7 of 10), London (14 of 15, lacks no. 3), Maritime (25), Marlow (24 of 25, lacks no. 14), Portsmouth (25), Stratford-upon-Avon (25), West Pennines (25), plus Whitbread's Inn Signs special issue of Four (4), and five further odds, all VG and arranged in cigarette card sleeves in a modern ring binder with case, oblong small folio (Qty: 455)

* Carte-de-Visite Albums. Six various albums of carte-de-visite portrait photographs, circa 1870s-90s, including Renaissance Album by M. & Co., containing 25 card leaves decorated with renaissance ornaments in gold and colours, with only 8 photographs inserted, The British Army Album by J.G.M. & Co. Ltd., containing chromolithograph title, and 18 card leaves of which 11 are chromolithographically decorated after designs by Captain Bunnett, containing 69 various carte-de-visite portrait photographs, a Mikado album, containing title and 18 chromo-decorated card leaves, and 24 carte-de-visite portrait photographs, original padded red velvet with onlaid decoration in ivorine or similar material to upper cover, another similar album bound in padded floral velvet binding, a St. Andrew Album by C.R. & Co., containing title, index leaf, and 18 colour lithographed leaves and 67 carte-de-visite portrait photographs, and one other similar album entitled 'Memorial of England's Glories' with 21 colour lithographed card leaves and approximately 60 carte-de-visite portrait photographs, each album with all edges gilt, and in original publisher's bindings, 4 with working clasps (2 defective), plus 2 other photograph albums: one containing approximately 50 mounted photographs of English scenery, circa 1890s, including Whitby, Durham, Furness Abbey, Rievaulx Abbey, and York, oblong folio, and one smaller album of photographs of Mongolia and China, circa 1930, containing 48 views, street scenes, traders and other subjects, all modern reprints from the original negatives, contained in period green mock leather album, oblong 8vo (Qty: 8)

* Egypt. A group of 18 photographs of temples and ruins, circa 1870s, albumen prints, each approximately 12 x 18.5cm, plus 10 larger albumen prints (all but two of European views), plus an 1890s' photograph album containing buildings and views in Italy and UK, mostly postcard-size but some larger, mounted back to back on stiff card album leaves with sporadic ink captions to mounts, some spotting, contemporary vellum gilt, rubbed and slightly soiled, split on upper joint, oblong small folio, plus a second late 19th-century photograph album of British and European views and architecture, a total of approximately 60 mounted albumen prints, various sizes, contemporary half morocco, covers detached and backstrip deficient, oblong folio (Qty: 2 albums & a folder)

Europe & Russia. An album containing approximately 250 mostly albumen print views, circa 1870s/1880, including views of Oxford, Eton, Venice, the Alps, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, and a group of 10 photographs of St Petersburg mounted on four pages, mostly postcard-size and smaller, plus a few of mountaineering groups including the album compiler H.G. Willink, a photograph of the Princess of Wales with children, etc., mostly mounted as multiples and back to back on 44 paper leaves with ink captions to mounts, ownership inscription dated 1873 to front pastedown, contemporary cloth with leather corners, rubbed, folio (Qty: 1)

Europe & West Indies. A pair of photograph albums, 1890s, containing a total of approximately 250 albumen prints, mostly views in UK and Europe, including some with studio names of Frith Series, George Washington Wilson and James Valentine in the negatives, plus photographs of people including one of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a carte-de-visite portrait of Ludwig II of Bavaria, one album with 13 somewhat faded photographs of the West Indies including a view of Martinique harbour (1886), St Lucia, Cathedral at St John's, Antigua, Fig tree church, Nevis, six photographs of St Kitts, a view on the island of St Bartholomew and two local types, images 18.5 x 22cm and smaller), one album captioned in English, the second album captioned in English or German, contemporary padded morocco, rubbed, folio and contemporary diced calf gilt, covers detached, 4to (Qty: 2)

Europe. A group of five photograph albums, circa 1860s/1880s, the earliest containing approximately 80 albumen print views of England and Wales including Brecon and the Wye, Yorkshire, Devon and Cornwall, various sizes, mostly captioned on mounts, contemporary cloth gilt, soiling and wear, 4to, plus three later albums containing approximately 200 albumen prints of UK and Europe including many of Italy and some of the Rhine, various sizes, all partly broken with covers detached or deficient, folio (Qty: 4)

India. An album of 43 mounted photographs, circa 1860s, albumen print views of Benares, Lucknow, Delhi, Akhbar and Agra, etc., all somewhat faded with some spotting, annotated in bold red ink to lower right corners of images, approximately 22 x 27cm and similar sizes, mounted mostly back to back on stiff card album leaves in a broken and disbound album, together with another album of later India photographs, circa 1908, a total of approximately 57 gelatin silver prints including small snapshots, some captioned in the negative including photographs of the Amir at Peshawar, Peshawar Mall, Lord Kitchener and staff, Amir's visit to Peshawar, plus photographs of polo, processions, military groups and functions, etc., largely uncaptioned, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed and soiled, both oblong folio (Qty: 2)

Naval Album. A photograph album compiled mostly in the 1860s, containing 11 larger albumen prints including views of Malta harbour, Pompeii, Jerusalem, Patras, Jaffa, Naples (a little damaged) and four photographs of the crew on deck of HMS Hector, circa 1866, images circa 19 x 26cm and similar, together with 20 further smaller-format albumen print views, including views of Pompeii, St Helena (Longwood and The Square), plus approximately 60 carte-de-visite-size portraits and smaller of mostly naval officers and crew from HMS Hector, HMS Warrior, HMS Lord Clyde and HMS Conqueror, plus various small vignette photographs after drawings and engravings of shipping and views, the photographs neatly arranged singly and as multiples on rectos of stiff paper albums, many of the views and people neatly captioned in red ink on the mounts, some additional rough pencil captions including identification of HMS Hector personnel on deck, one further leaf with various autographs and one large pencil drawing of Kew Park House, signed F.J. Goater(?), dated 1876, the name 'Durrant' written in pencil at front, contemporary blind-stamped morocco, heavily rubbed, oblong folio (24 x 35cm)Likely compiled by a naval officer serving on HMS Hector and other ships mentioned in the album. HMS Hector was assigned to the Channel Fleet upon completion in 1864, and was paid off in 1867 to refit and be re-armed. The four photographs of the personnel show various ranks and include one photograph of the sailors gathered round a cannon.(Qty: 1)

Photography Patents. A group of 105 photography patents, 1859-72, including John Henry Pepper, Apparatus for showing stereoscopic pictures, 1859; Enrico Angelo Ludovico Negretti & Joseph Warren Zambra, Stereoscopes, 1859; Charles Cowper and John Henry Pein, Photographing on uneven surfaces; Apparatus for that purpose; 1859; Thomas Sutton, An improved camera for taking photographic portraits and instantaneous pictures, 1861; Edgar Cox, Portable dark chambers or tents for the purpose of photographic manipulation in the field, 1866; John Henry Dallmeyer, Compound lenses suitable for photographic uses, 1866; Walter Bentley Woodbury, Producing designs upon wood and other materials, 1866; Oliver Sarony, Improvements in photographs to give them artistic effect and to produce enlarged and permanent pictures from small negatives, 1869; all disbound but retaining original printed upper blue wrapper, small folio (Qty: 105)

Arlaud (Georges Louis, 1869-1944). Vingt Etudes de Nu en Plein Air, Preface de Saint Pol Roux, Paris, circa 1920, 20 photogravure plates of female nudes, images approximately 21.5 x 16cm and similar sizes, four text leaves including titles at front and index leaf at rear, contemporary half morocco with original wrappers retained, heavily rubbed and worn on spine, folio (Qty: 1)

Art et Medicine. Revue Mensuelle, 54 issues including 13 duplicates, 1931/1939, all with articles photographically-illustrated with sepia reproductions of photographers including Man Ray, Kertesz, Nadar, Krull, Lebrun, Steiner, et al, original wrappers, some slightly frayed on spines, slim folio, together with Photography Year Book, volumes 1 & 2, 1935-37 and volume 14 of Photo-Gazette, 1903-04 (Qty: 57)

* Beken of Cowes. A group of 12 photographs of small racing yachts, 1940s/1950s, gelatin silver prints, all but two with details in white china ink to lower margin, many now partly indistinct, approximately 28 x 23cm and similar, all loosely contained with a related smaller-format photograph of a yacht in a contemporary album, stiff card wrappers, oblong folio, together with a related book of Beken photographs (Qty: 14)

Guillot ( Laure Albin ). Splendeur de Paris, Preface de Maurice Garçon, Paris, 1945, 4 pp. preface and 10 (of 20) photogravure plates, 39.5 x 29.5cm, each signed in pencil by the photographer, title a little spotted, original card book box, soiled and worn, folio, together with Jourdain (Francis) , L'Ile Saint Louis et ses Fantômes Photographies de Remy Duval, Mulhouse-Dornach, 1946, 21 photogravure plates, some yellowing at front and rear, affecting lower part of text leaves and corners of plates, original boards in dust jacket, rubbed and soiled with old repairs, folioLimited edition, 376/700 copies, this copy signed and inscribed by Guillot for Roger Fonteyn, dated 29 April 1946; limited edition, 79/750 copies.(Qty: 2)

* India. A photographic archive relating to the Honourable Colonel and Mrs St John in India, circa 1920s, including an album beginning with their arrival at Quetta on 3 November 1927 to take over the charge of 'The Baluchistan Agency', containing approximately 70 mounted gelatin silver prints of officials and functions, etc., some captioning in white china ink throughout, photographs 10 x 16cm and smaller, some damp-staining, contemporary limp cloth, together with a second album containing a further 45 related uncaptioned gelatin silver prints, mostly small format but including two larger photographs, 23 x 29cm, contemporary boards, both oblong folio, plus approximately 50 further related photographs including 12 earlier albumen prints of India, 19 x 23cm, mounted back to back on brittle paper leaves, and seven larger gelatin silver prints, approximately 23.5 x 28.5cm, relating to the official work of Mr and Mrs St John in the local community and including one studio portrait of four Indian children in traditional dress, inscribed 'Pat', 'Bubbles', Mickey' and 'Joey' to lower part of image, 22 x 28.5cm, plus two photographic portraits (one not from life) in Asprey leather gilt desk frames (Qty: a carton)

USA & Europe. A group of three family photograph albums covering the period circa 1890-1930, containing approximately 750 snapshots of an unidentified but wealthy family in California, including street scenes, Santa Barbara, Lake Tahoe, Sacramento, with street scenes, sailing, music, trains, cars, etc., the family going on holiday to London and the Paris World Fair of 1900, plus later photographs of Rome, Venice and Egypt from the 1920s, the second album with snapshots of Wyoming in 1918 including mountainous scenes and ranches with horses and riders and the family name of Eaton, the third album including Middle Eastern and European snapshots from circa 1930, all arranged as multiples on album leaves and pasted back to back throughout, sporadic ink captions, contemporary cloth, rubbed, oblong folio, plus two further albums of family snapshots, circa 1910, contemporary wrappers, some wear, folio (Qty: 5)

* Svoboda (Jan, 1934-1990). Fotografie/Photographs, Exhibition commemorating the late photographer's Sixtieth Birthday, Moravian Gallery in Brno, 1994, exhibition catalogue in Czech and English, plates from photographs, gutter percha perished and many leaves detached, original printed wrappers with small contact print (6 x 8cm) to upper cover, some soiling, folio, together with related ephemera including five original negatives by Svoboda, various sizes, the largest 17.5 x 12.5cm (Qty: 10)

* Tanner (Godfrey Dickson ,1876-1964). An album containing approximately 490 gelatin silver bromide prints of India and Sussex, circa 1910-15, including approximately 270 photographs of India, plus 220 of Sussex scenes, photographs approximately 9.5 x 7.5 cm and similar small format sizes, mounted as multiples on 32 stiff card leaves, contemporary cloth, slightly rubbed and dampstained, oblong folio, together with a group of approximately 200 loose gelatin silver bromide prints by Tanner of Europe, Africa, Middle East, etc., mostly landscapes, natural history, etc., many on mounts, various sizes (Qty: approx. 200)

Uganda and Kenya. 'Mit Leica und Agfa-Kino in Afrika. Tagebuch (12. Juli 1933 bis 16. März 1934) von Hellmut Schumacher. Band III', 172 gelatin silver prints (various dimensions, most 8.5 x 11.5 cm, several 12.5 x 17.5 cm) mounted rectos and versos to black card leaves, depicting views, big game, village scenes, and numerous local peoples including warriors, hunters, women and children variously identified as 'Suk' (i.e. Pokot), Kavirondo, Nandi, Turkana or Kikuyu, manuscript numbering (350-521) and German captions to mounts in white ink, 30 double-sided typescript text-leaves bound in, comprising 6 preliminary leaves (title-page and list of contents) to front, and 24 leaves (paginated 109-158) transcribing the photographer's journal interleaved throughout, contemporary broad-weave cream cloth binding, large gelatin silver print of giraffes under an acacia tree inset under transparent plastic to front board above manuscript title 'Uganda and Kenya', slipcase, folio (28 x 21 cm)A thorough visual record contextualised by the photographer's interleaved typescript journal, in which the entries are tabulated throughout with reference to the numbering accompanying the images.(Qty: 1)

Chinese export school. Album of fine pith paintings, mid-19th century, 5 watercolours on pith paper (19 x 31 cm) mounted versos only to paper leaves, one depicting a pair of mandarin ducks (male and female), the others depicting trades and professions, each with red silk border, a few minor chips and cracks, contemporary patterned red silk binding, worn, oblong folio (25 x 37 cm) (Qty: 1)

A Franklin Mint folio 'The Art Treasures of Ancient Greece' containing a full set of 24k gold on bronze coins together with a collection of ceramic miniatures.

20th Century School Figure with GuitarOffset lithograph 56.5 x 45cm Together with further works, including a fabric folio by Polly Hope (1933-2013) and three signed screenprints by Hope (qty)

A collection of folio society books to include eight volumes of ' The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ' by edward Gibbon, published in 1998, ' The Fall of Constantinople ' Steven Runciman published in 2013 and ' The Rise and Fall of the British Empire ' by Lawrence James published in 2005. 

A folio of Vatican sheets of stamps.

A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY LIBRARY CABINETS of tall narrow proportions, the glazed doors enclosing adjustable interior shelves surmounted by a plain frieze and moulded pediment, the lower section with a glazed central door flanked by folio cupboards, on block feet, 26" x 14" x 85"

A FINE GEORGE I BURR WALNUT BUREAU BOOKCASE IN THE MANNER OF PETER MILLER the upper section with shaped arched cornice and mirrored doors, within herringbone veneered borders, opening to a central cupboard, folio divisions and drawers, with twin candleslides to the lower section, the bombé-shaped base with a crossbanded fall front opening to a fitted concave interior with central cupboard, drawers and pigeonholes above an arrangement of two frieze drawers and three long graduated drawers below, with engraved brass key escutcheons and handles, the angles with pierced foliate gilt brass mounts, the sides with carrying handles, on carved gilt paw feet, 46½" wide x 88½" high x 25" deep The maker of this exemplary piece remains unidentified, but the exacting details of the construction, and the quality of the timber, is indicative of a maker such as Peter Miller. A signed cabinet by him bearing the date 1724 is of similarly refined form (see A. Bowett, "English Furniture 1715-1740", published Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2002, page 67, plate 2:31). In Christopher Gilbert's "Marked London Furniture 1700-1840," published by the Furniture History Society in 1996, it is suggested that the rather Germanic character of Miller's oeuvre raises the possibility that Miller was a German emigré and his surname an anglicised version of the surname Muller.