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Gentleman (David). Bridges on the Backs, A Series of Drawings, introduced by Peter Eden, 1st edition, Cambridge: printed for his friends by the University printer, 1961, 9 folding plates, pictorial endpapers, small spot to contents and adjacent leaves, origianl green cloth wallet-binding, landscape folio, together with: Keynes (Florence Ada), By-Ways of Cambridge History, 2nd edition, expanded, Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1956, plates, front free endpaper signed by the author 'F. A. Keynes, Dec. 1956', original cloth, dust jacket (front panel slightly rumpled and nicked at head), 8vo; Attwater (Aubrey), Pembroke College Cambridge: A Short History, 1st edition, Cambridge: at the University Press, 1936, light spotting, plates, original cloth, dust jacket (slightly spotted), 8vo; Gray (Arthur), Jesus College [series title: University of Cambridge College Histories], 1st edition, F. E. Robinson & Co., 1902, frontispiece (slightly offset) and other plates, library plate, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original blue cloth gilt, slightly marked, 8vo Ex libris Christopher Hogwood CBE (1941-2014). (4)

Esmerian (Raphael). Bibliotheque Raphael Esmerian, 5 parts in 6 volumes, Georges Blaizot & Claude Guerin, Paris, 1972-74, colour and black & white plates including some tipped in, original cloth gilt, spines faded, 4to, together with Christies Catalogues, The Estelle Doheny Collection, 6 parts & index, New York, 1987-1989, colour and black & white illustrations, original red cloth gilt, folio (13)

Fletcher (William Younger). English Bookbindings in the British Museum, 1895, sixty-six chromolithograph plates, few tissue guards adhered to plates (some guards torn), occasional minor spotting, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt, a little rubbed to extremities and slightly faded, folio, together with Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum, 1896, sixty-five chromolithograph plates, few tissue guards adhered to plates (some guards torn), decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt, lightly rubbed & frayed to extremities, slightly faded, folio Each limited to 500 copies, 369/500 & 193/500 respectively. (2)

Wallis (Alfred). Examples of the Book-Binders' Art of the XVI. and XVII. Centuries selected chiefly from the Royal Continental Libraries. With Descriptions and an Introduction, Exeter and London, privately printed, 1890, half-title, title in red & black, 40 photogravure plates, some spotting mostly to first and last few leaves, front blank with library label, lacking marbled free endpapers, library bookplates and labels to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary half morocco, neatly rebacked, calf title label to spine, folio Limited edition 55/100. (1)

Bolton (Arthur T.). The Architecture of Robert & James Adam, 2 volumes, 1922, numerous black and white illustrations, plus one colour frontispiece, uniform original gilt decorated green cloth, spines lightly rubbed to head and foot, folio, together with Lenygon (Francis), Decoration in England from 1640 to 1760, 2nd edition, 1927, numerous black and white illustrations, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards marked, spine lightly faded, folio, and Butler (A.S.G.), The Domestic Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1989, numerous black and white illustrations and plans, original blue cloth in dust jacket, folio, plus other early 20th century and modern architecture reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (27)

Elwood Jr. (P.H., editor). American Landscape Architecture, 1st edition, USA, 1924, numerous black and white illustrations, guttering slightly cracked, original gilt decorated brown cloth, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, folio, together with Soros (Susan Weber, editor), James "Athenian" Stuart 1713-1788, The Rediscovery of Antiquity, 2007, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, and Downes (Kerry), English Baroque Architecture, Zwemmer, 1966, numerous black and white illustrations, original gilt decorated red cloth in slipcase, spine lightly faded, large 4to, plus other garden design and architecture reference, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG (40)

Haupt (A., editor). Renaissance Palaces of Northern Italy & Tuscany, 3 volumes, New York, 1931, numerous black and white illustrations, some minor toning, uniform original gilt decorated green cloth, folio, together with Hibbard (Howard), Carlo Maderno and Roman Architecture 1580-1630, Zwemmer, 1971, numerous black and white illustrations, original gilt decorated blue cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly chipped to head and foot, large 4to, and Pearce (Susan, editor), Visions of Antiquity, The Society of Antiquaries of London 1707-2007, 2007, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other Italian architecture reference and related, including Le Piante Di Roma, 3 volumes, by Amato Pietro Frutaz, 1962, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (51)

W.W. Norton & Company (publisher). The First Folio of Shakespeare, 2nd edition, 1996, numerous black and white facsimiles, original gilt-decorated red quarter leatherette morocco in slipcase, folio, together with Hughes-Stanton (Penelope), The Wood-engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton, Private Libraries Association, 1991, numerous black & white illustrations, original gilt-decorated blue quarter morocco in slipcase, spine slightly faded, large 8vo, (limited edition of 1,750), plus Folio Society, 25 volumes, including Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke, 2010, The Shooting Party, by Anton Chekhov, 2006, Tallyrand, by Duff Cooper, 2010, all original cloth in slipcases, 8vo, plus four similar volumes (31)

Sandrart (Joachim von). Der Teutschen Academie, Zweyten Haupt-Theils, Dritter Theil: welcher zuvorderst der Edlen Mahler-Kunst..., Nuremberg, Christian Siegismund Frobergern, 1679, additional engraved title by Richard Collin after Sandrart, double-column text in gothic script, 37 copper engraved plates of antiquities and portrait medallions, bound with P. Ovidii Nas. Metamorphosis, oder: Des verblumten Sinns der Ovidianischen Wandlungs-Gedichte grundliche auslegung: aus dem Niederlandischen Carls von Mander..., Nuremberg, Froberger, 1679, title with engraved vignette, and several engraved head- or tail-pieces, near-contemporary full calf gilt (stamped 'volume 6' to spine), rubbed and some wear to joints and edges, folio (1)

Tilson (Joe). Alchera. Notes for Country Works (Wiltshire and Tuscany) 1970-1974, Kelpra Editions, 1976, suite of 17 full-page and 8 double-page colour screenprints by Joe Tilson, printed on both sides of folded sheets, with title page, text and justification, loose as issued in original half cloth portfolio in slipcase, rubbed and marked with a little fraying to extremities, large folio Signed limited edition, 48/50 copies. The double-page prints in this copy are not initialled by the artist as found in some copies. (1)

Williams (John). The Illustrated Beatus, 5 volumes, 1994-2003, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly toned, large 8vo, together with Guidobaldi (Maria Paola & Esposito, Domenico), Herculaneum, art of a buried city, 1st US edition, New York, 2013, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket and slipcase, large 4to, and Kroke (Antonella Fenech, editor), The History of Florence in Painting, 1st US edition, New York, 2013, numerous colour illustrations, original gilt decorated red cloth in slipcase, folio, plus other Renaissance & Byzantium art reference and related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (36)

Wyatt (Matthew Digby). Metal-Work and its Artistic Design Dedicated, by Express Permission, to the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, 1st edition, Day & Son, 1852, 50 chromolithograph and tinted lithograph plates (including additional Chromolithograph title), library ink stamp to verso of plates and few leaves of text, occasional light spotting, contemporary quarter morocco gilt, gilt library number at foot of spine, spine torn at head & foot, rubbed & some wear, folio (1)

Boccaccio (Giovanni). Das Dekameron, Insel Verlag, Leipzig, 1912, text in double column, woodcut illustrations, one or two light spots front and rear, previous owner inscription and small booklabels at front, original half vellum, light soiling to spine, folio Limited edition 649/825. (1)

Folio Society. Notable Historical Trials, 4 volumes, edited by Justin Lovill, 1999, The French Revolution, a history, 3 volumes, by Thomas Carlyle, 1989, The English Language, by Robert Burchfield, 2006, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2 volumes, by James Boswell, 1968, The Amateur Emigrant & The Silverado Squatters, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1991, together with 68 further volumes of Folio Society, all original cloth in slipcases, (except 10 volumes without slipcases), G/VG, 8vo/4to (89)

Folio Society. The Second World War, 6 volumes, by Winston S. Churchill, 2000, The Second World War, 2 volumes by Martin Gilbert, 2011, The Great War and Modern Memory, by Paul Fussell, 2014, Napoleon & Wellington, by Andrew Roberts, 2015, Memoirs of a Fighting Captain, by Admiral Lord Cochrane, 2005, Stasiland, Stories from behind the Berlin Wall, by Ama Funder, 2016, together with 15 further Folio Society volumes, all military history, all original cloth in slipcases, VG, 8vo (41)

Folio Society. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2015, The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch, 2009, The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2007, The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov, 2010, The Arabian Nights, Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, illustrated by E.J. Detmold, 2011, together with 41 further volumes of Folio Society, all fiction, including Ernest Hemingway, Arthur C. Clarke, Josephine Tey, James Joyce, John Buchan, all original cloth in slipcase, G/VG, 8vo (46)

Folio Society. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, 4 volumes, by Winston S. Churchill, 2003, The Campaign of Wellington, 3 volumes, edited by Ian Fletcher, 2007, Memoirs of a Fighting Captain, by Admiral Lord Cochrane, 2008, The Face of Battle, by John Keegan, 2008, Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain, 2006, together with 71 further volumes of Folio Society, all original cloth in slipcases, (except 2 volumes without slipcases), G/VG, 8vo/4to (83)

Folio Society. Pathfinders of the American West, the Journals of Lewis & Clark, edited by Frank Bergon, 2000, The Great Game, On Secret Service in High Asia, by Peter Hopkirk, 2010, The Raj, an eye-witness history of the British in India, edited by Roger Hudson, 1999, The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, an essay, by Jacob Burckhardt, 2004, From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present, 500 Years of Western Culture, 2 volumes, by Jacques Barzun, 2015, together with 62 further volumes of Folio Society, all history reference, all original cloth in slipcases, VG, v8o/4to (68)

Folio Society. The Collected Stories, 3 volumes, by Leo Tolstoy, 2007, The Complete Entertainments, 6 volumes, by Graham Greene, 2004, The Raj Quartet, 4 volumes, by Paul Scott, 2009, as new in original plastic wrap, Collected Short Stories, 4 volumes, by W. Somerset Maugham, 1998, together with 55 further volumes of Folio Society, all fiction, including 20 volumes by P.G. Wodehouse, all original cloth in slipcases, VG, 8vo (73)

Folio Society. The Sun King, by Nancy Mitford, 2011, The Cretan Runner, his story of the German occupation, by George Psychoundakis, 2009, Ten Days That Shook The World, by John Reed, 2006, The Spice Route, by John Keay, 2005, In Trouble Again, a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon, by Redmond O'Hanlon, 2005, together with 68 further volumes of Folio Society, all original cloth in slipcases, some as new in original wrappers, G/VG, 8vo/4to (73)

Folio Society. Catriona, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1988, Hours in a Library, 3 volumes, by Leslie Stephen, 1991, An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti, from the Journal of George Robertson..., edited by Oliver Warner, 1992, The Quest for Corvo, by A.J.A. Symons, 1992, Five Novelettes, by Charlotte Brontë, 1971, together with a further 117 volumes of Folio Society, all original cloth in slipcases, plus 43 without slipcases, G/VG, 8vo/4to (166)

Folio Society. The Works of Charles Dickens, 16 volumes, circa 1983, numerous black and white illustrations, uniform original cloth in slipcases, some spines lightly faded, 8vo, The Dickens Encyclopaedia, by Arthur L. Hayward, 1989, My Early Times, by Charles Dickens, 1988, both original cloth in slipcase, 8vo (17)

Gill (Eric, illustrator). The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the Authorized Version of King James I..., Printed and Published at the Golden Cockerel Press MCMXXXI, facsimile edition, Wellingborough: The September Press, 1988, illustrations and decorations throughout, top edge gilt, original black cloth, tan morocco title label to spine, minor fading to spine, folio, contained in original slipcase One of 600 copies printed. (1)

Incline Press. A Paper Snowstorm. Toni Savage and the Leicester Broadsheets, by Derek Deadman and Rigby Graham, Incline Press, 2005, tipped-in broadsheets, colour illustrations by Rigby Graham, separate portfolio containing 12 loose broadsheets, plus three loose letters from Toni Savage, 1975-76 to booksellers Alan and Joan Tucker, with some additional loose broadsheets etc, all contained in original decorative slipcase, folio Limited edition of 200, pencil signed by artist and author and inscribed to the Tuckers. (1)

Menpes (Mortimer). Japan, a Record in Colour, 1st edition, deluxe issue, Adam and Charles Black, 1901, numerous colour plates with tissue-guards, endpapers browned, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original patterned cloth over bevelled boards, slightly rubbed and marked, 4to, number 532 of 600 copies signed by the author, together with: Héricault (Charles d'), La Révolution 1789-1882, 1st edition, Paris: D. Dumoulin, 1883, plates, gilt edges, original red quarter morocco, red cloth sides, richly gilt overall, corners bumped, folio; Pogany (Willy, illustrator), Faust by Goethe, translated by Abraham Hayward, 1st edition, trade issue, Hutchinson & Co., 1908, colour plates, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original red cloth, spine faded and rolled, 4to; and numerous others, mainly 19th- and 20th-century English literature, including first editions of George Du Maurier, Cecil Day Lewis, C. S. Lewis, Muriel Spark, and contemporary and near-contemporary reprints, various bindings and formats (7 shelves)

Old Stile Press. The More Angels Shall I Paint. A Selection from the Sketchbooks, Writings and Commonplace books of Robin Tanner, Old Stile Press, 1991, illustrations, original olive morocco-backed boards (spine slightly faded), slipcase, 8vo, limited edition 51/275, numbered and signed by Heather Tanner, together with Robin Tanner & The Old Stile Press. Being printed examples of twenty original patterned paper designs, with a personal memoir by Nicolas McDowall, Old Stile Press, 1994, 20 tipped-in paper designs, original cloth-backed boards, cloth slipcase (one fold peeling, a few damp marks), folio, limited signed edition 13/195, with others related including, Wiltshire Village, 1939, Robin Tanner. The Etchings, 1988 and Woodland Plants, 3rd edition, 1982 (25)

Miller (Philip). The Gardeners Dictionary, containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the Kitchen, Fruit, Flower garden and Nursery..., including the management of vineyards, with the methods of making and preserving the wine..., Seventh Edition, revised and altered according to the latest system of botany, printed for the Author, 1759, engraved frontispiece and 19 plates, engraved head-piece to dedication, woodcut illustrations, neat contemporary marginal ink annotations throughout, minor stain to extreme fore-edge of the frontispiece, plate of Polygala torn and repaired, 7C1 with tear to lower margin (repaired), light dampstaining to lower edges towards rear of volume, contemporary mottled calf gilt, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, corners repaired, folio The 18th century annotations relate to the owner's experiences of growing plants such as Egyptian Acacia and Amaryllis, refer to articles in the Philosophical Transactions, and provide other individual observations, including a note on the Bishop of London's garden in Fulham in the late 17th century which contained many exotic plants and trees "but left to the management of Ignorant persons" (note attached to Celtis). (1)

Valoch (Jiri). Optical Poems, Writers Forum Folder number three, November, 1967, nine loose sheets (with slight rippling) contained in original manila envelope with optical poem in red pasted to recto, signed at foot by the poet (light soiling), folio, together with Six Sound Poems, by Bob Cobbing, Writers Forum number four, 3rd edition, March 1970, six loose sheets, contained in original envelope, with title on green sheet pasted to recto, 4to, plus James Fenton's Manila Envelope, 1989, limited signed edition 481/1000 (3)

Sanford (Martin & Fisk, Richard). A Flora of Suffolk, published D.K. & M.N. Sanford, 2010, colour illustrations throughout, mostly from photographs, original pictorial laminated boards, small folio, together with Preston (C.D. & others, editors), New Atlas of the British & Irish Flora, 1st edition, Oxford University Press, 2002, colour distribution maps throughout, map overlay acetate loosely inserted, original cloth in dust jacket, rubbed, 4to, plus Hodgson (William), Flora of Cumberland, Containing a Full List of the Flowering Plants and Ferns to be found in the County, According to the Latest and most Reliable Authorities, with an Introductory Chapter on the Soils of Cumberland, by J.G. Goodchild, 1st edition, Carlisle, 1898, folding coloured map frontispiece, engraved plan, a little spotting, bookplate and early ownership name to front flyleaf, hinges slightly cracked, original cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus other county floras, including modern publications (40)

Camden (William). [Britannia] Britain, or a Chorographicall description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotlnad, and Ireland, and the Islands adjoining, out of the depth of Antiquitie..., Translated newly into English by Philemon Holland Doctour in Physick: finally, revised, amended, and enlarged with sundry additions by the said author, [3rd edition], London: Printed by F.K.R.Y. and I.L. for George Latham, 1637, lacking additional engraved title, all maps also lacking, letterpress title with woodcut headpiece and armorial, few woodcut illustrations, letterpress title and following leaf lined to verso and repaired, one other leaf of preliminaries repaired at foot without loss of text, occasional dampstains and spotting, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, old spine repair preserving original, upper joint splitting, folio, together with Winchester Gaol, County of Southampton. Rules, Orders, and Regulations, for the Government of the Gaol, and Bridewell or House of Correction, at Winchester, in and for the said County: Made at the Easter Sessions 1822, and allowed and confirmed by his Majesty's Judges at the Summer Assizes following, Winchester: Printed by James Robbins, 1822, 67pp., half-title present, index at rear laid down to lower board, some toning and spotting mostly at rear, original publisher's boards, spine torn at foot, some dampstaining and few marks, slim 8vo, with Manuscript exercise book, manuscript volume of practice calculations for trade and business, written in a neat copper plate hand throughout with ownership of Henry Way, February 8th, 1831 to first leaf, occasional light dampstains etc., contemporary half sheep, worn and some loss to marbled sidings, slim 4to, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian etc. (a carton)

Godden (Geoffrey). Staffordshire Porcelain, Granada Publishing Ltd., 1983, additional half title, numerous black & white and colour illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket with slight fraying at extremities, folio, together with Wilstead (John O. & Morris Bernard), Thomas Baxter. The Swansea Years, 1816 - 1819, Gomer Press, 1997, additional half title, numerous colour illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, 4to, with Godden (Geoffrey A.), An Illustated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain, Herbert Jenkins, 1966, additional half title, numerous uncoloured illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, spine faded, 4to, plus Adams (Elizabeth), Chelsea Porcelain, published The British Museum Press, 2001, additional half title, numerous colour and black & white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, oblong 4to, with another twenty-three books and pamphlets similar, various sizes and condition (a carton)

Sell (Peter & Murrell, Gina). Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, volumes 4 & 5, Cambridge University Press, 2006 & 1996 respectively, originally pictorial laminated boards, large 8vo, together with Lees (Edwin), The Botany of Worcestershire, or the Distribution of the Indigenous & Naturalized Plants of that County..., Worcester, 1867, hand-coloured map frontispiece, some spotting at front and rear, contemporary ownership inscription to front flyleaf, original cloth gilt, rubbed at head and foot of spine, 8vo, plus Boon (Christopher R. & Outen, Alan R.), Flora of Bedfordshire, published Bedfordshire Natural History Society, 2011, colour illustrations including many from photographs, original pictorial laminated boards, small folio, plus other county floras and natural history, including some supplements and booklets (48)

Elphinston (James). The Epigrams of M. Val. Martial, in twelve books..., printed by Baker and Galabin, 1782, black & white portrait frontispiece, period inscription to head of title-page, some light offsetting and toning, later endpapers, later gilt-decorated calf spine retaining contemporary boards, rubbed with some minor loss, large 4to, together with Transtagano (Anthony Vreyra), A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English languages..., 2 volumes, printed J. Nourse, 1773, period inscription to front endpaper, some light toning and marks, modern gilt-decorated calf spines retaining contemporary boards, slightly rubbed with minor loss, large 4to, and Rushworth (John), Historical Collections. The Second Volume of the Second Part..., printed for M. Wotton, 1686, ex-libris stamps to front endpaper and head of title-page, some light toning and marks, later gilt-decorative calf spine retaining contemporary boards, rubbed with minor loss, large 8vo, plus other mostly 18th-century history and ecclesiastical reference and related, all leather bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (47 volumes) (3 shelves)

Boissard (Jean-Jacques, & others). Topographia Romae, 2nd edition, Frankfurt, 1627-8, parts 1-3 only (of 6), in 1 volume, engraved title to volumes 2-3, lacking in volume 1, 4 portraits in text, folding map of Italy, 148 plates of which 7 folding, occasional damp-staining in lower margins, part 2 browned, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, slightly soiled, front joint partially split, folio, together with Vroom (Henricus de; also known as Henricus Sedulius), Historia Seraphica, vitae Francisci Assisiatis, illustriumque virorum et feminarum, qui ex tribus eius Ordinibus relati sunt inter sanctos, 1st edition, Antwerp: Martinus Nutius heirs, 1613, title page with engraved border containing portraits of Franciscan saints, mild toning, a few trivial marks, bequest plate to the Bishopric of Cornwall dated 1883 to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, tawed ties, soiled, spine slightly defective, folio, plus Benitez de Lugo (Cajetano), Concursus Dei praevius, et efficax necessario cohaerens cum libero arbitrio humano à necessitate libero, 1st edition, Rome: Rochi Bernabo, 1730, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, toning, marginal spotting and browning, ink-stamps of St. Joseph's College, Mill Hill, contemporary vellum, rebacked to style, soiled, folio, and Plutarch, Comoediae, ex recognitione Francisci Guieti Andini, opera et studio Michaelis de Marolles, cum eiusdem Interpretatione Gallica, Paris: Pierre l'Amy, 1658, 1st edition, engraved title page to each volume, contemporary and later ownership inscription to front free endpapers and engraved and letterpress titles, mild damp-staining to first few leaves in volumes 1 and 3, contemporary vellum, contemporary manuscript spine-titles, 8vo, and others, classical texts and devotional Catholic works, 17th-19th centuries, all vellum-bound, various formats (3 shelves)

Simpson (James Young). Side-lights on Siberia..., 1898, numerous black & white illustrations, ex-libris stamp to front endpaper, some light spotting, later endpapers, rebound retaining original green cloth boards and spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with King (J.W.), The Pilot's Handbook for the English Channel..., 2 volumes, 1889 (1st edition), 1898 (13th edition), 42 black & white plates, some worming and spotting, uniform original gilt-decorated blue cloth, boards and spines rubbed with some loss, 8vo, plus Spence (Lewis), The Gods of Mexico, 1st edition, 1923, numerous black & white illustrations, period inscription to front endpaper, some minor toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly chipped to head, spine lightly faded, 8vo, plus other mostly modern travel reference and related, including Baedeker's travel guides, 50 volumes, mixed editions, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Martin (A.C.). The Durban Light Infantry, 2 volumes, 1st editions, 1969, colour frontispiece, plus numerous black and white illustrations, period inscriptions to front endpapers by the author, some minor spotting, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly toned and rubbed with minor loss to head and foot, 4to, together with Raikes (G.A.), Historical Records of the First Regiment of Militia, or, Third West York Light Infantry, 1876, 8 colour and black and white illustrations, some minor toning and spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Hinsley (F.H., et al), British Intelligence in the Second World War, its influence on strategy and operations, 5 volumes in 6, all 1st editions, H.M.S.O., 1979-1990, colour and black and white illustrations and maps, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines slightly faded and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other mostly modern military and history reference, including publications by Folio Society, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)

Literature. A large collection of miscellaneous literature including fiction, biography, music and art reference, some foreign language, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Springtide of Life, Poems of Childhood, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1918, 8 colour plates plus 58 black and white illustrations, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, boards and spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, Thomson (Hugh, illustrator), The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, circa 1920, 25 tipped in colour plates, period inscription to front endpaper, front endpaper and title page detached, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated purple cloth, spine lightly faded and rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, and Lowes (Tony), The Mikey Joe Stories, limited edition of 2000 copies, 1984, signed by the author and illustrator to front endpaper, black and white illustrations, original gilt decorated green quarter calf to marbled boards, 8vo, plus other early 20th century and modern juvenile and illustrated literature, including J.M. Brock, Charles Robinson, Folio Society, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Roskill (S.W.). The War At Sea, 1939-1945, 3 parts in 4 volumes, all 1st editions, 1954-61, numerous black and white folding maps and illustrations, uniform original green cloth, spines lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Mack (James Logan), The Border Line..., 1924, 116 black and white illustrations, some minor toning, original blue cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head and foot, 4to, and Jordan (Roger), The World's Merchant Fleets 1939, the particulars and wartime fates of 6,000 ships, 2006, numerous black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly faded, 4to, plus other modern naval and maritime reference and related, including publications by Seaforth, Conway, Pen & Sword, Sutton, Greenhill Books, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Folio Society. Ulysses, by James Joyce, 2017, The Duke's Children, by Anthony Trollope, limited edition 1087/1980, 2015, The Green Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang, 2012, The Sun King, by Nancy Mitford, 2011, The Complete Greek Tragedies, 5 volumes, by Aeschylus, 2011, together with other Folio Society publications, all original cloth lacking slipcases, G/VG, 8vo/4to (approximately 160 volumes) (6 shelves)

Carlo (Agustin Millares). Corpus de códice visigoticos, 2 volumes, Tenerife, 1999, uniform original green cloth in slipcase, large 8vo, together with Mateu Ibars (Josefina & Dolores), Colectanea Paleografica De La Corona De Aragon, Siglos IX-XVII, University of Barcelona, Spain, 1980, numerous black and white facsimiles, contained loose in original cloth book box, some light marks, large 8vo, and Williams (John & Shailor, Barbara A.), A Spanish Apocalypse, The Morgan Beatus Manuscript, New York, 1991, numerous colour facsimiles, original red cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly faded, folio, plus other modern Spain reference and related, many Spanish language, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Dückers (Rob & Roelofs, Pieter). The Limbourg Brothers, Nijmegan Masters at the French Court 1400-1416, Netherlands, 2005, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, together with Rowe (Colin & Satkowski, Leon), Italian Architecture of the 16th Century, New York, 2002, numerous black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and Cogeval (Guy), Edouard Vuillard, Canada, 2003, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other art and antique reference and related, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves + a carton)

Harley (J.B. & Woodward, David, editors). The History of Cartography, 3 volumes in 6, 1987-2007, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, together with Alai (Cyrus), General Maps of Persia 1477-1925, USA, 2005, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, and Blaeu (Joan), Atlas Maior of 1665, Taschen, 2005, numerous colour illustrations including folding maps and plates, original cloth in dust jacket, in original cardboard box, spine lightly rubbed with a small tear to the head, folio, plus other modern map reference and related, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (5 shelves)

Folio Society. Paradise Lost, a poem in twelve books, by John Milton, 1991, illustrations by Ian Pollack, folio, Of Gods and Men, by Frederic Raphael, 1992, The Lord of the Rings, 3 volumes by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1977, A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, 1992, together with other Folio Society publications, mostly original cloth in slipcases, G/VG, 8vo/folio (approximately 190 volumes) (6 shelves)

Bindings. The New and Complete History of The Life of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by Paul Wright, new edition, circa 1795, black and white illustrations, period inscription to verso of frontispiece, some toning and light marks, modern endpapers, modern half morocco, folio, together with other mostly 20th history reference and miscellaneous reference, all in modern monogrammed amateur morocco bindings, condition is good/very good, 8vo/folio (77 volumes) (3 shelves)

Literature. A large collection of late 19th and early 20th century poetry, literature and miscellaneous reference & biographies, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred Tennyson, John Masefield, all original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/oblong folio (6 shelves)

Booth (William). In Darkest England and the Way Out, 1st edition, International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, [1890], folding lithographic colour frontispiece, bookplate and ink-stamp of the Stroud Green Baptist Chapel to endpapers, some light soiling, original cloth, rubbed, wear to spine-ends, 8vo, together with Cocceius (Johannes), [Opera omnia], Amsterdam: Someren, 1673, 2 volumes of 8, lacking volume 1 title page, some damp-staining, later half calf, worn, folio, plus Scott (Thomas), Theological Works, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Peter Brown, 1831, engraved portrait frontispiece, edges uncut, original green cloth, worn, 8vo, and Lewin (Thomas), The Life and Epistles of Saint Paul, 2 volumes, 5th edition, George Bell and Sons, 1890, wood-engraved plates and text illustrations, lithographic maps, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, 4to, and numerous others, mainly 19th-century English theology, religious history and scriptural archaeology in the original cloth, various formats (6 shelves)

Newcourt (Richard). Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical and Parochial History of the Diocese of London, 2 volumes, 1st edition, by Benjamin Motte for Christopher Bateman [and others], 1708-10, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 engraved plates of churches (3 folding), folding map, half-title to volume 2, occasional browning in volume 2, bibliographical annotations and ownership inscriptions to volume 1 front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked and recornered, scuffed and rubbed, folio, together with Peck (Francis), Desiderata Curiosa, 2 volumes, 1st edition, [no publisher], 1722-5, engraved portrait frontispiece, 9 plates, title vignettes, headpieces and initials, bookplates of the Dashwood family of West Wycombe Park, contemporary speckled calf, gilt spines, tan morocco labels, joints worn but firm, extremities rubbed, folio, plus Lisle (Edward), Observations in Husbandry, 1st edition, by J. Hughs for C. Hitch [and others], 1757, engraved portrait frontispiece (offset), errata leaf, spotting to endpapers and outer leaves, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, 4to, and others, 18th-century English imprints, mainly history, contemporary bindings, various formats (3 shelves)

Dallaway (James). Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of the Science of Heraldry in England, with Explanatory Observations on Armorial Ensigns, 1st edition , Gloucester: for B. & J. White, 1793, etched title vignette, engraved arms to dedication, etched section title, 3 etched or engraved tailpieces, 1 engraved vignette to text, 25 plates (8 hand-coloured, 1 printed in colour), damp-staining to last 5 plates, faint spotting to title, contemporary diced calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, 4to, together with Wodrow (Robert), The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, from the Restauration to the Revolution, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: James Watson, 1721-2, title pages printed in red and black, spotting and browning, volume 2 front free endpaper detached, contemporary calf, worn, joints split but firm, folio, plus [Napier, Sir George], A Collection of the Coats of Arms borne by the Nobility and Gentry of the County of Glocester, 1st edition, J. Good, 1792, engraved title, 62 engraved plates, moderate spotting, text-leaves browned, contemporary diced-Russia backing marbled boards, green vellum tips, rubbed, 4to, and others, 18th-century British imprints, mainly history and theology, contemporary bindings, many rebacked, various formats (3 shelves)

Furet (Francois & Ozouf, Mona). Dictionnaire critique de la revolution Francaise, 1st edition, Paris, 1988, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed, small folio, together with Hudspeth (Robert N., editor), The Letters of Margaret Fuller, volume 4: 1845-47, Cornell University Press, 1987, original cloth in dust jacket, a little rubbed, plus Allen (Walter, editor), Transatlantic Crossing, American Visitors to Britain and British Visitors to America in the Nineteenth Century, 1st edition, 1971, original cloth in slightly rubbed and soiled dust jacket, both 8vo, plus other mostly cloth-bound history and related (6 shelves)

Pococke (Richard). A Description of the East, and some other Countries, volume I only (of 2), Observations on Egypt, 1743, title with engraved vignette, engraved map of Egypt, 76 engraved plates and plans (plate 33 not issued), occasional light spotting and soiling, text block breaking, some leaves detached, ecclesiastical bookplate, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, spine and edges worn, folio Atabey 965; Blackmer 1323. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return. (1)

Map reference. Shirley (R. W.), The Mapping of the World, Holland Press, 1983, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, folio, together with Harley (J. B. & Woodward David, & others), The History of Cartography, three volumes, bound in 6, published The University of Chicago, 1987 - 2007, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jackets, folio, with Shirley (R. W.), Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 - 1650 [and] Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750, published Holland Press 1980 & 1988 respectively, two volumes containing numerous illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jackets, 4to, plus Beresiner (Yasha), British county maps. Reference and price guide, published Antique Collectors' Club, 1983, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, folio, and Saxton (Christopher), An Atlas of England and Wales, 1579, facsimile edition, 1979, colour illustrations throughout, limited edition 98/500, signed by R. V. Tooley, modern quarter calf gilt, contained in slipcase, folio, with another approximately 125 map reference books and facsimile atlases, various sizes and condition (approx.130)

Sa'di. Gulistan, India, 19th century, Persian manuscript in black ink on burnished and sized laid paper, 331 leaves + 6 blanks, nasta'liq script, 7 lines to the page, interlinear Hindustani translation in red, text framed in red and black, illuminated headpiece to first page, marginal worming, paper-repairs and damp-staining throughout, a few small worm-holes in text of earlier leaves, damp-staining encroaching on bottom line of text towards rear, contemporary annotations in Persian to blanks, contemporary sheep, rebacked to style, corners restored, folio, and 1 other (2)

Bible [Latin]. Biblia, ad Vetustissima Exemplaria nunc recens castigata, Romaeque revisa, Venice, 1572, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, some underlining and scoring to a few leaves, occasional light toning and spotting, a few light marginal water stains, title a little soiled with small marginal hole and previous owner inscription, 1705, modern half calf gilt, folio Darlow & Moule 6157. A Venice edition of the Louvain edition of the Vulgate Bible, first printed in 1547. (1)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by his Majesties special command..., [Amsterdam?], 1708/07, engraved general title and letterpress New Testament titles present, without all maps, Apocrypha present, bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer..., with the Psalter or Psalms of David, London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, Deceas'd, 1711, and bound with at rear The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1702, some toning and occasional spotting throughout, contemporary diced blind panelled calf, brass bosses and corner pieces (lacking two corner pieces), clasps lacking, upper joint torn at foot, wear to extremities, folio Herbert 897; Darlow & Moule 700. (1)

[Borlase, Edmund, editor]. The History of the Irish Rebellion, traced from many preceeding Acts, to the Grand Eruption the 23rd of October, 1641; and thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, MDCLXII, 1st edition, Dublin, 1743, folding table (small repair to verso), subscribers list, some light spotting and water stains, hinges reinforced, bookplate, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and repaired, folio ESTC T139783. (1)

Burnet (Gilbert). History of His Own Time, 2 volumes, 1st edition, for Thomas Ward [volume 2: for the editor], 1724-34, woodcut title vignettes, head- and tailpieces and initials, editor's manuscript note to volume 2 title verso, complete with advertisement leaf to volume 1 and list of subscribers to both volumes, title pages slightly marked, edges untrimmed, contemporary half calf, extremities worn, sides rubbed, volume 2 front joint cracked but holding, other joints split but firm, folio (36.5 x 23 cm) An untrimmed copy with wide margins. (2)

Council of Trent. The Historie of the Councel of Trent. In Eight Bookes... written in Italian by Pietro Soave Polano, and faithfully translated into English by Nathanael Brent, 3rd edition, 1640, title trimmed and laid down, lacking A1 front blank, water stains throughout, bookplate, later tree calf, upper cover detached, a little rubbed, folio, together with Critica Sacra in two parts: The first containing Observations on all the Radices or Primitive Hebrew Words of the Old Testament... The Second Philological and Theological Observations upon all the Greek Words of the New Testament, by Edward Leigh, 3rd & 4th editions, 1662, 2 parts in one, engraved portrait frontispiece, part titles and supplement printed in red and black, text in double column, a few early annotations, occasional light soiling, hinges reinforced, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, a little rubbed, folio, plus A Course of Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year, by Jeremy Taylor, 4th edition, enlarged, 1673, engraved portrait frontispiece, main title printed in red and black, some light soiling and spotting, previous owner signatures, hinges reinforced, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, folio, with three others including William Cave's Ecclesiastici: or, the History of the Lives, Acts, Death & Writings of the most Eminent Fathers of the Church, that flourisht in the Fourth Century, 1683 (lacking most of frontispiece) and Paul Rycaut's The Lives of the Popes, from the time of our Savious Jesus Christ. To the Reign of Sistus IV, 1685 (6)

Crinitus (Petrus). Honesta Disciplina libri XXV. De Poetis Latinus eiisdem libri V. Poematum quoq illius libri II., Basel, 1532, title and rear blank verso with woodcut device, woodcut initials, title with small hole just affecting device, imprint erased from foot, some light water stains and toning, a few ink splashes, small marginal wormholes to first few leaves, a few leaves with ink crossings through, previous owner signatures to title and front endpaper (front endpaper dated 1617), contemporary vellum, spine with manuscript title, a little stained with small wormholes and tracks, 8vo, together with Terentius. Comoedia sex, tum ex Donati Commentariis..., R. Stephani, Paris, 1529, Estienne woodcut device to title, lacking leaves b1-b8, r8 and final leaf of index, title and front endpapers detached, a few early annotations a little light spotting and soiling, later half calf, upper cover detached, rubbed with some edge wear, folio (2)

[Dugdale, William]. A Short View of the Late Troubles in England... To which is added a Perfect Narrative of the Treaty of Uxbridge in an. 1644, 1st edition, Oxford, Moses Pitt, 1681, 2 parts in one, engraved portrait frontispiece of King Charles I, title with engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre, woodcut initials, five page advertisements at end, some light spotting and marginal water stains, small contemporary annotations at front, contemporary mottled calf, small splits to joints, spine rubbed with old label, folio Wing D2492. (1)