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DANTON GEORGES: (1759-1794) French Politician, one of the leading figures in the early stages of the French Revolution. Danton served as the first president of the Committee of Public Safety and has been described by historians as 'the chief force in the overthrow of the French monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic'. Guillotined at the age of 34. A good, large D.S., Danton, at the foot, one page, oblong folio, Paris, 11th September 1792. The partially printed document, in French, is issued by the Department of Public Contributions in the name of the Executive Provisional Council and relates to a pension to be granted to Jean Gerard for merit, giving details of the amount he will receive and also recording the date of his birth and baptism in Paris etc. Rare. Some very light, minor overall age wear and a few small, neat tears at the edges of the folds, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG

HINDENBURG PAUL VON: (1847-1934) Prussian-German Field Marshal and Statesman, President of Germany 1925-34. D.S., von Hindenburg (a fine, typically bold and large example), two pages, folio, Berlin, 1st May 1929, in German. The partially printed document, completed in typescript, promotes various German army officers to different ranks, with effect from the 1st May 1929, listing the individual officers including von Platen, Strauss, Bulius, Haeseler, Long etc., and their new ranks within their regiments. Signed by Hindenburg alongside a blind embossed circular seal and countersigned by Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939) German Soldier and Politician, Reich Minister of Defence in the Weimar Republic 1928-32 and Wilhelm Heye (1869-1947) German Soldier, Chief of the German Army Command 1926-30. One very small, minor tear to the lower edge, not affecting the text or signatures, VG

HUSSEIN BIN TALAL: (1935-1999) King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 1952-99. A good vintage signed postcard photograph of the youthful King in a head and shoulders pose wearing a military uniform. Signed ('Hussein Talal') in bold blue fountain pen ink to a clear area of the background and dated 11th November 1953 in another hand to the lower white border. Neatly laid down to the centre of a folded folio page bearing a brief ink annotation in an unidentified hand. Together with an A.L.S., Kemal, by a member of the King's staff, one page, 8vo, Royal Palace, Amman, 11th November 1953, to Brenda Howe at the House of Citizenship in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, thanking her for her letter and apologising for the delay in replying, continuing 'I am enclosing herewith a signed photograph for H.M. King Hussein. I hope it will arrive in time for the thesis'. Accompanied by the original envelope bearing a gold embossed crown to the verso. About VG, 2

ASTRONAUTS: A signed printed folio poster for the 15th Space Congress "Meet The Astronauts", 1978, with an image of the Space Shuttle lifting off on the recto and to the verso biographical information for members of the 'Meet the Astronauts panel', comprised of Lee Scherer, Deke Slayton, John Young, Fred Haise and Vance Brand. Signed by Deke Slayton (one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts) and Fred Haise (Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo XIII), individually, in bold black and blue inks with their names alone to clear areas of the page, Fred Haise signing his name across his printed biography. A few folds and some light overall creasing, otherwise G

ASTRONAUTS: A signed printed folio poster for the 15th Space Congress "Meet The Astronauts", 1978, with an image of the Space Shuttle lifting off on the recto and to the verso biographical information for members of the 'Meet the Astronauts panel', comprised of Lee Scherer, Deke Slayton, John Young, Fred Haise and Vance Brand. Signed by Deke Slayton (one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts), John Young (ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo XVI) and Fred Haise (Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo XIII), individually, in bold black or blue inks with their names alone to clear areas of the page, Fred Haise signing his name across his printed biography. A few folds and some light overall creasing, otherwise G

MUSSOLINI BENITO: (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator of World War II. D.S., Mussolini, one page, folio, San Rossore, 23rd October 1927, in Italian. The partially printed document, completed in manuscript, is untranslated although appears to relate to a decree associated with the military tribunal for Corporal d’Armata of Verona. Boldly signed by Mussolini at the conclusion and countersigned by Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947) King of Italy 1900-46. Some extremely light, very minor age wear, VG

HITLER ADOLF: (1889-1945) Fuhrer of the Third Reich 1934-45. D.S., A Hitler, one page, folio, Berlin, 2nd October 1940, in German. The partially printed document awards Reichsstatthalter Gauleiter Albert Forster the War Merit Cross, 1st Class, with Swords. Countersigned at the foot by Otto Meissner (1880-1953) head of the Office of the President of Germany. With blind embossed seal featuring the Nazi Eagle & Swastika. Loosely inserted within a folio presentation folder, featuring a large gold embossed Nazi swastika and eagle. With signs of former mounting to the verso, a minor tear to the central right edge, creasing to the top left corner and light age wear. GAlbert Forster (1902-1952) Nazi German Politician, Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia during the Second World War. In the spring of 1933, Forster spearheaded the Nazi take-over of Danzig, further trying and failing to take control of neighbouring Freie Stadt Danzig during the ensuing power struggle with Himmler. With these territories annexed after the Invasion of Poland, and becoming Reichsgau Danzig, they fell under Forster's direct command, so giving him a free reign in the implementation of Hitler's 'Germanisation' programme.The War Merit Cross with Swords was the last award received by Forester, and was in part, recognition from the Fuhrer for loyally carrying out the instruction to 'Germanise' Danzig-West Prussia. Hitler promising Forster that, 'There would be no questions asked' about how the process was accomplished.

GARLAND JUDY: (1922-1969) American Actress and Singer, famous for her portrayal of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Academy Award winner. A vintage signed folio printed souvenir brochure issued for one of Garland's cabaret performances in New York during the 1950s, signed in fountain pen ink with her name alone to a clear area of the back cover which features an image of Garland seated in a full length pose in a clown's costume. Accompanied by an original unsigned 5 x 7 photograph of Garland seated in a three quarter length pose in a dressing room signing the present programme. Some very light, minor age wear and a few stains, otherwise VG, 2

Edward Wolfe, folio, Song of Songs, set of 12 prints, untouched in original folio, together with a second set, many of which are framed and now discoloured 36 x 27cm

Defoe, Daniel - A Tour Thro' London About The Year 1725, being letter V and parts of letter VI of 'A Tour Thro' The Whole Island of Great Britain ...' reprinted from the text of the original edition (1724-1726), edited and annotated by Sir Mayson M. Beeton and E. Beresford Chancellor, numerous plates and maps (produced for this limited edition of 350 copies); publisher's mottled gilt calf, panelled spine with red label, gilt top, slipcase, folio, 1929

Mania Row. A folio of assorted artwork produced by the artist when a student largest 78 x 58cm.

Yosl Bergner; Walls folio, 52/100

A FINE WILLIAM IV INLAID WALNUT FOLIO CABINET, in the manner of Richard Bridgens, the carved moulded frieze above twin panel doors, each side with blind fretwork panels, and hinged door, raised on canted bracket feet

**REOFFER ETWALL JAN £20/£30**Two bound Folio of Prints of watercolours, published by the Studio Library, both in 8 parts (2)

Holy Bible 1787, large folio with full suede leather binding and engraved plates, an 1814 leather bound Bible with Welsh text, Harmsworth 'Universal Atlas' 1904 and three other books Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

A folio of unframed watercolours, W. Knowles, river landscape, watercolour, plaque and a large Manchester Guardian book dated 1905 July - Sept

An Asprey of London pig skin double photograph frame, the travelling folio opening to reveal two photograph inserts, the cover impressed 'Benny, From Lelia, Feb 20th 1930', 32cm x 27cm closed

CARR (MRS C), NORTH ITALLIAN FOLD, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, with hand coloured plates, London, Chatto and Windus, 1878; CRUICKSHANK (G), SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, oblong folio, 3/4 leather, LEECH (J), FOLLIES OF THE YEAR, 1844-1864, with hand coloured illustrations, oblong, Bradbury Evans & Co; THE HISTORY OF THE BALLANTYNE PRESS, 1871; AYTOUN (W), LAYS OF THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS, 3/4 leather, William Blackwood, 1863; TRANSACTIONS OF THE LITERARY AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF PERTH, Vol 1, engraved frontis, Perth, Morison, 1827; STEWART (W), AN ABSTRACT OF THE EVIDENCE, adduced to prove that Sir William Stewart, of Jedworth, the paternal ancestor of the present Earl of Galloway, was the second son of Sir Alexander Stewart of Danley, rebound, London, 1801 (7) (as found)

SHAKESPEARE (W), KING LEAR, edited by Stanley Wells, limited edition, No 1686/3750, 2 vols, the larger in 3/4 goat skin with marbled boards, the smaller in full cloth, Folio Society, 2007, in original case (3)

A LARGE GROUP OF FOLIO PRINTS, DRAWINGS ETC (A LOT) Condition Report:

The Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England Now first collected and deciphered by Dr. George Stephens, Vol.III, large folio, 1884 and Stone Monuments, Tumuli and Ornament of Remote Ages by J.B. Waring, 1870 (2) Condition Report:

A collection of thirty-six Folio editions; together with various novels including Jack Higgins and Alistair Maclean (qty, in three boaxes)

Thomas Dunham Whitaker - 'History of Richmondshire in the North Riding of the County of York', 2 vols published 1823 in full calf, large folio Condition Report & Further Details Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

The Holy Bible, containing The Old Testament and The New ... Appointed To Be Read in Churches, Charles Bill, London 1703, bound-in and preceded by the Book of Common Prayer, and followed by the whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, engraved plates, red-lined throughout, old calf, small folio.

Macfall [Haldane]: The Splendid Wayfaring, London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1913, first edition, with numerous vignette illustrations, gilt tooled red cloth, with presentation inscription "Presented to the Sheffield City Libraries by Mrs H.B. Gallimore from the library of her late husband Henry Burrows Gallimore, Jan 1935"; Salaman and Absal, an Allegory, translated by Edwin Fitzgerals, illus. E.A. Cox, pub. F.Lewis Ltd, Leigh-on-Sea, 1946, limited edition of 1000 copies on Barcham Green handmade paper, gilt toole red cloth; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1970 Folio Society, in slipcase and a further, earlier copy of the same

Folio Society - JRR Tolkein Richard Dawkins, Philip Pullman and Mervin Peake trilogies, Canterbury classics, Barnes & Noble eastern press and other books.

Folio Society Twenty Nine Books, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Alice's Adventures under ground, Wizard of Oz, Wind in the Willows, The Wit of Oscar Wilde, JRR Tolkein etc:- Two Boxes

Two boxes of Folio Society volumes

Clare Turlay Newberry, folio of prints, cats, published 1943

Folio loose paintings, prints etc

J. C. Masterman The Double-Cross System. Unsigned. A hard back book in very good condition with a book sleeve to match. Folio society book. 213 pages. Est.

Colonel Bailey Mission to Tashkent. Unsigned. A hard back book in very good condition with a book sleeve to match. Folio society book. 269 pages. Est.

NO RESERVE Scrap albums.- English School (19th century) An album with over 60 original watercolours by various hands, including landscapes, maritime studies, natural history interest, caricatures, and others, many with ink attributions, including to Mary Hamilton, F. Hardy, Lady Medlycott, Miss Barter, W.H. Turner, and many initialled 'E.B.', watercolours, pencil, pen and ink, various sizes, neatly tipped onto album leaves, half marbled boards, gilt, small folio, worn, [circa 1840-1850]; together with two further scrap albums of over 300 late 19th century engravings, and a further mixed group of loose engravings, lithographs and drawings, including a small group of botanical studies bay various hands [19th century] (qty.).

Playing card ephemera.- A comprehensive scrap album of over 160 adverts, card designs, uncut sheets of playing cards, pack designs, and other items related to Faustino Solesio of Genoa, all neatly tipped onto album leaves, some annotations in Italian, occasional tears and loss, surface dirt and wear, lacking upper and lower covers, oblong folio, [19th and 20th century].

Commonwealth.- Warriner (Edward, yeoman, of Above Park, Selside, near Kendal, Westmorland) Deed of transfer to his son John Warriner "my Costimary Teniment at Above Park", Document with seal and mark, manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, folds, browned, folio, 10th December 1655.

NO RESERVE London Burial Register.- [Burial Register], manuscript, 83pp. numerous other pages of register, all obscured under newspaper cuttings, last f. of manuscript loose and edges chipped, numerous other edges chipped, original vellum, soiled and stained, lettered direct on spine "Burial... Janry 1781 to Oct 1788", folio, 1785-88.⁂ "Wm. Cogan St. Bot. Aldgate Gravel 46... ."

NO RESERVE Cambridge.- Colnaghi & Co. (publisher) Number 1. Dresses and Customs of the University of Cambridge with Perspective Views of the Colleges, &c. and An Historical Description of the University, 4 pp. of text with 4 plates, including vignettes of Peterhouse College, Senate House Public Library, and two portraits after William Miller by Luigi Schiavonetti and Anthony Cardon, in original blue paper wrappers, upper cover detached with printed title and border, the letterpress by T. Bensley, folio, 1796.⁂ ESTC lists one copy (BL), with the British Museum holding a single copy of each of the two portraits.

Birds.- Audubon (After John James) The Birds of America, a reprint portfolio with ten full-size facsimile plates, colour collotypes on thick wove paper, each sheet approx. 670 x 970 mm. (26 1/4 x 38 1/4 in), or the reverse, loose, in cream portfolio with printed label, cotton ties, elephant folio, Edition Leipzig, 1984.

FLAXMANS ANATOMICAL STUDIES 1833 AND FOUR OTHER FOLIO VOLUMES

Militaria, comprising:- a Princess Mary 1914 Christmas tin with greetings card and bullet pencil; a brass Maxim gun cartridge engraved ''THIS CARTRIDGE CASE WAS FIRED FROM A MAXIM GUN BY HRH THE PRINCESS OF WALES AT THE TERMINATION OF THE WIMBLEDON MEETING, 1888''; a ring bound folio book Sandhurst Sketches by General Sir Cecil Blacker, with illustrations by Joan Wanklyn, 1991; three part Army Lists for October 1829, June 1836 and August 1856; the Bombay Register for 1836; a copy of General Orders issued from the Adjutant General's Office, Madras 1811 (8)

More (Thomas). The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by John Lindley, nature-printed by Henry Bradbury, published by Bradbury and Evans, 1857, 51 nature-printed plates, all printed in colours by Bradbury & Evans, a little occasional spotting and slight offsetting to tissue-guards, occasional marginal fraying and dust-soiling, marginal repairs to half-title, contemporary half morocco, with gilt-lettered cloth panel on upper cover, rebacked with original spine relaid, rubbed and slight wear, folio (55 x 37 cm) This issue has the date 1857 on the title-page, but otherwise is the same as the edition dated 1856. Nissen BBI 1400; Pritzel 6405. (1)

Parkinson (John). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a Kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause used with us, and an Orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing Trees and shrubbes fit for our Land together with the right orderinge planting & preserving of them and their uses & vertues, Collected by John PArkinson Apothecary of London, 1st edition, London: [Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young], 1629, imprint from colophon, woodcut title close-trimmed and lined to verso (some cropping to ruled border at head & foot), numerous woodcut illustrations, 35 leaves (**2-E6) at front of volume torn to fore-edge with some loss and repaired (mostly affecting blank margins), *6 possibly from another copy, lower outer corner of 2Y4 repaired, 3G1 & 3G2 at rear of volume also torn to blank margins and repaired, some dust-soiling, occasional dampstaining and few marks, endpapers renewed, contemporary sheep, rebacked and corners repaired, small folio in 6s Henrey 282; Nissen 1489; Hunt 215; STC 19300. First edition of "the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England" (Henrey). A1r line 4 of heading ends "amend" in this example. A variant also occurs with the quire reset, with A1r line 4 of heading ending "amend the". (1)

Rea (John). Flora: Scu De Florum Cultura. Or, A Complete Florilege, Furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist. In III Books, 1st edition, Richard Marriott, 1665, additional engraved title by D. Loggan following 'The Mind of the Front' leaf, printed title in red and black, 16 engraved plans of formal gardens on eight plates, woodcut initials throughout, separate dated title-page to 'Pomona. The Third Book', errata at foot of final page of Index, a few old ink marginal words and marks, occasional browning or staining to Book I, ownership signature of Nicholas Saers, dated 1702, to rear endpaper, another early ownership name scratched away from front endpaper, contemporary calf with good quality calf gilt reback, a little edge and corner wear, folio (295 x 190mm) Henrey 325; Hunt 301; Wing R421. (1)

Saunders (Edward). The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands... , 1st edition, L. Reeve, 1892, 32 colour and plain plates, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed and slightly faded, large 8vo, together with Lowe (E.J.), Our Native Ferns; or a History of the British Species and their Varieties, 2 volumes, 1874-80, 79 colour plates, numerous illustrations to text, some spotting, contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt, spines browned and heavily rubbed, 8vo, plus Strutt (Jacob George), Sylva Britannica; or, Portraits of Forest Trees, Distinguished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty, published for the Author, [1830], additional engraved vignette title and plates on india paper, some old damp-staining to lower outer corners of early leaves, original cloth with leather label to spine, rebacked with remains of original spine relaid, some soiling and wear, small folio, plus other natural history, etc., including some leather bound (2 shelves)

Sowerby (James). Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms, 3 volumes [without Supplement], 1st edition, 1797-1803, 440 hand-coloured plates on 436 leaves, most figures with neat later pencil captions beneath plate impressions, occasional minor spotting, text leaves of volume 3 at front somewhat browned and heavily spotted, two large ink library stamps to front free endpaper of volume 3, armorial bookplate (motto 'haud muto factum') to front pastedowns, modern half calf gilt with contrasting leather labels to spines, folio (3)

Tod (George). Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, an Aquarium, Conservatories, &c., Recently Built in Different Parts of England, for Various Noblemen and Gentlemen, including a Hot-House and Green-House in Her Late Majesty's Gardens at Frogmore, 1st edition, J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1823, 27 hand-coloured aquatint plates including one double-page, title-page somewhat dust-soiled and with early ink inscription at upper margin now somewhat faint and indistinct, some old dampstaining to foremargins of a few early leaves including plate 1*, plate 2 dust-soiled and frayed at extremities with marginal repairs to verso not affecting plate impression, publisher's eight-page printed catalogue tipped in at rear (closed tear repair to final leaf), modern blue half morocco, folio (38 x 27.5cm) Abbey, Life 77; Tooley 491. (1)

Guignes (Chr‚tien-Louis-Joseph de). Voyages … Peking, Manille et l'Ile de Francem faits dans l'intervalle des ann‚es 1784 … 1801, Atlas [only], 1st edition, Paris: Imprimerie imp‚riale, 1808, 60 engraved plates containing 92 discrete images, 6 maps of which 4 folding, 2 additional engraved plates after Guignes not called for in list of plates bound in, entitled 'Pagode Chinoise situ‚e … l'entr‚e du Port de Macao' and 'Vue de la Porte occidentale de la Ville Tartare … Peking', light to moderate spotting, occasional marginal damp-staining just encroaching on edges of final few plates and maps, ink-stamp to title page, bookplate, all edges untrimmed, contemporary pink paper boards, worn, front board detached, folio (43 x 26.5 cm) Cordier Sinica 2351-2. (1)

Gallagher (Michael & Woodcock, Martin W.). The Birds of Oman, 1st edition, Quartet Books, 1980, colour frontispiece and 120 tipped-in colour plates, four colour maps, original green leather gilt, folio (43 x 30 cm) Limited edition, 15/500 copies, signed by both author and artist, and with colour print of Sooty Falcon assigned and numbered by Woodcock loosely inserted. Martin Woodcock's copy with his bookplate and some loose correspondence loosely inserted. (1)

Gyldenstolpe (Nils). Zoological Results of the Swedish Expedition to Central Africa 1921, Vertebrata I. Birds, Stockholm, 1924, folding map, two coloured plates, illustrations to text, recent half morocco gilt, small folio, together with Bannerman (David Armitage), The Birds of Tropical West Africa..., 8 volumes, 1st edition, 1930-51, numerous chromolithographed and black & white plates, top edges gilt, modern buckram gilt, 4to, plus Chapin (James P.), The Birds of the Belgian Congo, 4 parts in 4 volumes, (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History), New York, 1932-54, black & white plates and illustrations, modern quarter morocco gilt, 8vo, plus other 20th-century African ornithology interest in English and French, various bindings and sizes (26)

Kuroda (Nagamichi). Birds of the Island of Java, 2 volumes, 1st edition, published by the author, Tokyo, 1933-36, 34 colour plates, two folding maps, a little mostly fore-edge spotting, original half cloth, a little rubbed, folio One of 200 copies. (2)

Millais (John Guille). The Natural History of British Game Birds, 1st edition, 1909, 36 plates including 18 colour, after Thorburn and Millais, additional specimen plates of the ptarmigan (colour) and partridges in flight, loosely inserted (both a little creased and dust soiled with marginal splits), bookplate of Honorable Arthur Joicey, top edge gilt, original buckram-backed cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, spine faded and a little frayed at foot, folio Limited edition, 59/550 copies. (1)

Schouteden (Henri). De Vogels van Belgisch Congo en van Ruanda-Urundi (Les Oiseaux du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi), 7 parts in 4 volumes (Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, Tervuren, 1948-60, black and white illustrations throughout, some from photographs, modern cloth gilt, folio (4)

Forshaw (Joseph M.). Parrots of the World, Illustrated by William T. Cooper, 1st edition, Melbourne, 1973, contents partly sprung, original cloth in dust jacket, together with The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds, 1st edition, Melbourne, 1977, original cloth in dust jacket, plus Fleming (C.A.), George Edward Lodge, Unpublished Bird Paintings, 1st edition, 1983, all with colour plates, original cloth in dust jackets, folio, plus Keulemans (Tony & Coldewey, Jan), Feathers to Brush, The Victorian Bird Artist John Gerrard Keulemans 1842-1912, 1st edition, Melbourne, 1982, colour plates, original half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, folio, (limited edition, 206/500 copies, signed by both authors), plus other large-format bird books and bibliography (17)

Seebohm (Henry). A History of British Birds, with Coloured Illustrations of their Eggs, 4 volumes, 1st edition, 1883-85, 68 colour plates, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed, large 8vo, together with Irby (L. Howard L.), The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, R.H. Porter, 1895, 14 plates including colour lithograph frontispiece after Thorburn, partly uncut, original cloth gilt, spine a little faded, small folio, plus Harvie-Brown (J.A.), Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe... , 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1905, maps and plates as listed, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed, large 8vo, plus other miscellaneous ornithology and natural history interest (3 shelves)

Ireland (Samuel). A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant and part of France; made in the autumn of 1789..., 2 volumes, printed by T. & I. Egerton, 1795, additional sepia aquatint vignette half title to each volume. forty-six sepia aquatint plates and two uncoloured etched plates, a few illustrations to text, occasional scattered spotting, marbled endpapers, book plate of Alexander Macalister to front pastedown and book plate of Henry J. B. Clements to front endpaper, upper hinges cracked, contemporary calf with faint dicing, gilt decoration to spine and boards, sidings with the gilt armorial crests of Sir Simon R. B. Taylor Bart., rebacked but retaining original spine, some wear to extremities, bumped and frayed at corners, small folio in 4s Large paper copy. Sir Simon Richard Brissett Taylor, second Bart, (1783 - 1815) of Lysson Hall, was a second generation sugar tycoon based in Jamaica. (2)

Lapie (Alexander Emile & Pierre). [Atlas Universal de G‚ographie ancienne et Moderne], circa 1854, lacking title and preliminaries, thirty-seven (only of fifty) double page maps and plans, the maps all with contemporary outline colouring, a few maps with frayed margins, contents shaken and loose, slight spotting throughout, a few maps with old library stamps to verso and recto, upper hinge broken, contemporary half morocco gilt, worn and frayed, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)

Mandelslo (Johann Albrecht von). Voyages celebres et remarquables, faits de Perse aux Indes orientales ... contenant unde description nouvelle et trŠs-curieuse de l'Indostan, de l'Empire du Grand-Mogol, des Œles et presqu'Œles de l'Orient, des royaumes de Siam, du Japon, de la Chine, du Congo, etc. ... mis en ordre et publiez ... par Adam Olearius, traduits de l'original par A. de Wicquefort ... nouvelle edition rev–e et corrig‚e exactement, augment‚e considerablement, Amsterdam: Michel Charles Le CŠne, 1727, half-title to volume 1, title pages printed in red and black, engraved arms to dedication, portrait 20 maps and plans (most of them folding), 16 folding views including panorama of Tokyo, 1 folding plate depicting Hottentots, 7 further plates not mentioned in the 'avis au relieur', 19 vignettes in the text, final privilege leaf, additional engraved title and volume 2 half-title lacking, occasional spotting and browning, later hand-colouring to folding map 'Royaume de Perse' and the views of Gamron (i.e. Bandar Abbas) and Anvers, plan of Goa with small rupture to intersection of folds, map of the Congo with short split along one fold, short closed tear to 'La rade de Batavia' plate not affecting image, mild damp-staining towards rear, near-contemporary calf, gilt spine, joints cracking superficially at ends, folio (31 x 19 cm) Atabey 884 (accompanied by a copy of Olearius's Voyages ... faits en Moscovie, Tartarie, et Perse), Cordier Indosinica 883, Japonica 367-8, Sinica 2077, Cox I pp. 271-2 for other editions. Re-issue of Van der Aa's 1719 Leiden edition, the preferred edition of a work first published in German in 1647. Mandelslo travelled to Persia in 1633 as part of an embassy sent by the Duke of Holstein; the other ambassadors remained in Persia but Mandelslo obtained permission to continue to India, sailing from Hormuz on the Persian Gulf in 1638 and landing at Surat, thence travelling throughout India and returning to London via Ceylon and Madagascar. In addition to the regions visited, the plates and maps depict China, Japan, and various locations in the Dutch East Indies. (1)

Mauritius. Manuscript handbook to the dependencies of Mauritius, circa 1900, approximately 50 leaves + numerous blanks, several leaves written on rectos or versos only, contents leaf headed 'List of Dependencies of Mauritius', 10 manuscript charts and plans (of which 7 on india or other thin paper, mounted), depicting the Aldabra Group and Assumption Island (both part of the Seychelles) and Mal‚ (Maldives), mounted maps stained from adhesive, ownership inscription to front free endpaper dated 'Seychelles 1900', disbound, narrow folio (32 x 15 cm) The dependencies of the crown colony of Mauritius included the Chagos Islands, the Seychelles, and other islands and archipelagos. A note on the leaf following the contents leaf states that the information for the first 15 dependencies is 'derived from a report of the Stipendary Magistrate made in 1880 ... in the possession of Mr Hobbs of the Mauritius C. S. (Survey Dept.); the information for the Aldabra Group is attributed to a report by surveyor S. C. E. Baty dated December 1895. (1)

*Architectural engravings. Fourdrinier (P., Major P. & others), A collection of approximately ninety-five engravings, circa 1760, uncoloured (with a few exceptions) engravings of architectural prospects, elevations, columns and reliefs, mostly folio, a few double page, good condition (approx.95)

Raoul-Rochette (D‚sir‚). Monumens in‚dits d'antiquit‚ figur‚e, grecque, ‚trusque et romaine, premiŠre partie, cycle h‚ro‹que [all published], 1st edition, Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1833, 93 lithographic plates numbered 1-80, several double-page or folding, 5 printed in orange in imitation of antique pottery, 1 hand-coloured, most with tissue guards, 12 engraved or lithographic vignettes, 1 hand-coloured aquatint vignette, spotting, closed tear in plate 45, Dampierre bookplate, later red half morocco, gilt spine, large folio (52 x 34 cm) Not in Atabey or Blackmer but cf. Blackmer 1390-2 for other works by the author. Raoul-Rochette (1789-1854) travelled in Italy and Sicily in 1826-7 and drew on the work of Hittorff for his Monumens in‚dits, which is scarce in commerce. The plates are variously after Arnout, Vauthier, Granger, Francesco Inghirami, Muret and L. Dupr‚. (1)