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Michael Rand and David Hillman for The Sunday Times,'Six Masters of the Poster of Eighteen-Nineties',limited edition lithographic folio, 487/2000,containing two of the set of posters,Louis Anquetin: Marguerite Dufay dans son Repertoire,J. & W. Beggarstaff (James Pryde & William Nicholson): Don Quixote,together with two unassociated reproduction posters

FOLIO SOCIETY: SWIFT (Jonathan): 'Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, newly illustrated by Peter Suart..': Folio Society, 2011, limited to 1000 copies each with an orignal etching, signed and numbered by the artist, this numbered 5, decorative endpapers, teg, quarter vellum and corners, upper board with illustration in colour and gilt, spine gilt lettered, contained in original publishers clam shell box, folio. (1)

BERTHOLD'S POLITICAL HANDKERCHIEF: London, Monday, September 5 1831 (No.1): folio broadsheet newspaper, folded down into four pages, printed on calico cloth: some browning, creasing and dustmarking, otherwise good. (1)

FOLIO SOCIETY: SPENSER (Edmund): 'Spenser's Faerie Queene..', London, Folio Society, 2011: No.397/1000 numbered copies: illustrations by Walter Crane: 3 vols, large 4to, full white goatskin blocked in gold, teg, in original slipcase: slipcase with some wear and marking, vol 1 with coffee splash to top outer corner of boards and block, otherwise VG. (1)

FOLIO SOCIETY: THE HOLKHAM BIBLE: Folio Society, 2007, limited edition No.5/1750 numbered copies, numerous colour facsimiles, pub original gilt dec blue half morocco over cloth boards, with commentary volume, contained in original book box, VG: TOGETHER WITH the Folio Society edition of 'Liber Bestiarum', one vol only (of 2) in original book box. (2)

FOLIO SOCIETY: KIPLING (Rudyard): 'Just So Stories': London, 2012: illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat, limited to 1000 copies, with original etching signed and numbered by the artist: folio, publishers vellum backed boards and corner tips, contained in original brown buckram slipcase, VG. (1)

SCRAPBOOK: 19thc scrapbook of chromolithographic & hand-coloured scraps mounted on cloth leaves, folio, worn half leather with spine deficient, some leaves partially excised. (1)

FOLIO SOCIETY: 'The Getty Apocalypse': limited edition No.5 of 1000 copies, bookplate of Felix Dennis, numerous colour facsimiles, publishers original gilt-decorated maroon quarter morocco over illustrated boards, commentary volume by Nigel J Morgan, contained in original gilt-dec maroon cloth book box, folio, VG. (1)

FOLIO SOCIETY: 'Japan, described and illustrated by the Japanese..', London, 2012: limited edition of 1000 copies, 2 vols, folio, alternate red and black cloth gilt in slipcases, numerous illustrations, many full-page, VG. (2)

SHAHN (Ben): 'Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher..', Paris, Trianon Press, 1967. Folio, original pub full green morocco plus cloth backed folio of illustrations, contained in publishers calf-backed box, the latter a bit scuffed to spine, else VG: No.IV of XIV copies 'Hors Commerce'. (1)

CLEMENTE (Francesco): 'Pastels 1980', London, Anthony d'Offay, 1986: folio, cloth backed embossed metallic boards, this No.538 of 1000 copies, signed in pencil by the artist(1)

DYLAN (Bob): 'The Drawn Blank Series..', Halcyon Gallery, 2008: folio, publishers boards in dustjacket, minor marking else VG: TOGETHER WITH 'Lyrics, 1962-1985 by Bob Dylan': 4to, original boards, spine a little sunned. (2)

MOORE (Henry): 'Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings..', London, Humphries, 1949: third edition: sm. folio, pub. brown cloth, spine a little sunned: TOGETHER WITH 3 other volumes relating to Moore, two of them inscribed by him to the title pages. (4)

CHAPMAN (Jake & Dinos): 'Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights': First Edition, 2012: folio, original boards: inscribed 'To Barry & Rita I don't want to meet yer, love..Jake & Dinos Chapman xxx'. (1)

EMIN (Tracey): 'Tracey Emin.. Works 1963-2006': New York, Rizzoli, 2006: folio, publishers boards in dustjacket, VG: inscribed and dated by Emin to upper free endpaper, in black ballpoint pen: TOGETHER WITH 4 others, modern art. (5)

STEADMAN (Ralph): 'Proud to be Weirrd': Ammo Books, 2013: large folio, publishers red boards lettered in black: boldly inscribed and with drawing 'For Felix Dennis..my friend and friend of trees..love Ralph Steadman..PS it must have taken at least 3 trees to make this one xxx, 2013', bookplate of Dennis to upper flyleaf verso, VG. (1)

STEADMAN (Ralph): 'Extinct Boids': Bloomsbury, 2012: sm. folio, pub. orange cloth in dustjacket, minor wear: boldly inscribed and with drawing from Steadman to Felix Dennis on third page, together with loosely inserted postcard from Steadman to the same dated 14 March 2013...'my dear Felix..good to hear from you, ole sport! I STILL SMOKE by the way - but I never inhale..' , bookplate of Felix Dennis to upper flyleaf verso. (1)

BUCH (Boudewijn): 'Een Hol Kinderhoffd In De Leegte..' Leyden, 1973. Square folio, loose-leaf contents: 20 numbered and signed etchings (only of 21), together with loosely inserted gallery advertisement (?), comprising 2 etchings on one small folded sheet, pencil signed and numbered 180/400 lower right. (1)

Examples of French Art By Temple, A G Published by Blades, East and Blades (1898) Thirty examples of the then most notable French artists with a brief biography of each, limited edition of 125, no. 88, 60pp.,30 monochrome plates, hand laid paper, subscribers list First edition, limited , covers a little marked, book in good condition , blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine , Folio 30x41 cm Hardback SIGNED by publishers on limitation page

An Edwardian Alligator Skin And Silver Mounted Travel Folio Antique correspondence portfolio in exotic skin with silver corners, by Percival & William Southworth, hallmarked,London ,1909. Complete with original leather buckled closure, internal document wallets and matching coin purse. Very good condition, 13 x 9 inches.

United States Mint Proof Sets, 1999, 2013 United States mint state quarters proof set 2003 (Illionois, Alabama, Maine, Missouri, Arkansas), A Danbury mint The Kennedy's commemorative folio including The 2015 Kennedy half dollar and four U.S. stamps.

After Robert Thornton (1799-1807) British. "The White Lily with Variegated Leaves", Printed on Modigliani Paper by Beacon Press for the Folio Society in 2008, Limited Edition of 1980 copies, Framed, 17.75" x 14", together with another twenty eight by the same hand all unframed, in a Presentation Box, (29).

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Africa. Collection of 35 official British government reports and memoranda relating to East, West, South and Central Africa, bound in 3 volumes, HMSO and others, 1885-93, volume 1 includes Correspondence respecting Suppression of the Slave Trade in East African Waters, 4 pages, 1888, Reports on Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa, 87 pages, 1887-88, Treaty between Her Majesty and His Majesty the King of Italy for Suppression of the African Slave Trade, 6 pages, 1890, Correspondence respecting the Expedition for the Relief of Emin Pasha, 25 pages, 1886-87, Correspondence respecting Mr. Stanley's Expedition for the Relief of Emin Pasha, 17 pages, 1890; volume 2 includes Correspondence respecting the Action of Portugal in Mashonaland and in the Districts of the Shire and Lake Nyassa, 231 pages, 1890, Papers relating to the Anglo-Portuguese Convention Signed at Lisbon, 5 pages, 1891, Declaration between Great Britain and Zanzibar relative to the Exercise of Judicial Powers in Zanzibar, 1 page, 1891, Correspondence respecting the Punitive Expedition against Witu of November, 24 pages, 1890; volume 3 includes Further Papers relating to Uganda, 102 pages, 1893, Papers relating to the Mombasa Railway Survey and Uganda, 147 pages, 2 maps, 1892, Papers relating to the Supression of Slave-Raiding in Nyassaland, 38 pages, 1892, Treaty between Her Majesty and His Majesty the King of Portugal defining their Respective Spheres of Influence in Africa, 9 pages, 1891, some occasional toning and light spotting, loose typescript list of contents, contemporary red half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed, folio (3)

Cassell (Petter & Galpin, publishers). [Cassell's General Atlas Consisting of Sixty-two Beautifully Engraved folio Maps of the Countries of the World], circa 1870, lacking title page, fifty-maps of countries of the world, two sheet map of the British Isles, seventy British county maps and town plans, fourteen railway maps and a four sheet map of the environs of London (only), all uncoloured, slight staining and spotting, near contemporary boards, heavily stained and worn, folio, together with Philip (George, publisher), Untitled atlas, circa 1860, lacking title and preliminaries, forty (only) double page engraved maps with contemporary colouring and two comparison plates, lacking boards and the majority of the spine, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (2)

Churchill (Awnsham & John, publishers). A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some now first Printed from Original Manuscripts. Others Translated out of Foreign Languages, and now first Publish'd in English, [volume 3 only], 1st edition, 1704, 3 parts in 1 volume as issued (see note), each with own section title dated 1703 in addition to main volume title, pagination and register continuous, the third part (Baldaeus) with engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title page, 33 engraved folding plates including maps, plans, views and orthographical tables of the Tamil language, numerous engraved vignettes in the text, several full-page, volume title chipped and browned in upper outer corner, first section title (Ovalle) slightly marked, faint damp-staining in quires [pi]-B, contents otherwise clean and fresh, contemporary French mottled calf, richly gilt spine, mild wear to extremities, folio (31 x 19.5 cm Cox I p. 10 for the collection and p. 263 for Baldaeus; Sabin 13015 (specifying Ovalle and Monson); Borba de Moraes I p. 158 for the 1744 edition. This third volume of Awnsham and John Churchill's important collection of voyages contains three texts: 1) Alonso de Ovalle, An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile, printed at Rome by Francisco Cavallo, 1649, Translated out of Spanish into English; 2) Sir William Monson, Naval Tracts: in Six Books ... The Whole from the Original Manuscript, Never Before Published; and 3) Philippus Baldaeus, A True and Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, as also of the Isle of Ceylon ... translated from the High-Dutch printed at Amsterdam, 1672. (1)

Colton (George W.). Colton's Atlas of the World illustrating Physical and Political Geography..., Volume 1 - North and South America etc., 1856, additional decorative title, fifty-four (only) engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, slight marginal fraying and dust soiling, text block broken with some leaves loose, endpapers and pastedowns with insect damage, publisher's cloth gilt, heavily worn and frayed, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)

Colton (George W.). General Atlas of the World, circa 1865, lacking title, index and frontispiece of national flags with long closed tears, double page comparison plate, seventy-two (only of 113) engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, including some double page, slight dust soiling, later endpapers, 20th century,half morocco, stained, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)

Middlesex. Blaeu (Johannes), Middle-sexia, published Amsterdam, circa 1648, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, some creasing, slight overall toning, several marginal tears, repaired on verso, 390 x 410 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Morden (Robert), Midlesex, [1722], uncoloured engraved map, bound with pages of descriptive text, later endpapers, 19th century marbled boards, with green cloth gilt spine, slim folio, with another unbound copy, plus Rocque (John), Middlesex, [1746], uncoloured engraved map, 160 x 200 mm, with another approximately fifty regional, county and ward maps, including examples by Cary, Seller/Grose, Moule, Bowen & Owen, Archer, Harris, Van den Keere, Cole, Pigot, Cole & Roper, Phillips, Paterson, Bowen, Neele and Fullarton, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.55)

Dheulland (Guillaume). Th‚ƒtre de la guerre en Italie, ou Carte nouvelle des principaut‚s de Pi‚mond, R‚publique des Gˆnes, duch‚s de Milan, Plaisance, et confins, 1st edition, Paris: Dheulland, Martin and Jullien, 1748, engraved title, 25 maps and 2 letterpress leaves, all folding and mounted on guards, nearly all the maps hand-coloured in outline, damp-staining to endpapers and title page, and to gutter and margins of letterpress leaves and first few maps, then receding to two small tide-marks to either end of the gutter, shallow splits to ends of folds, longer splits to folds of title page, general map (unnumbered) and maps 1 and 4, contemporary French marbled sheep, rubbed, front joint split at ends, corners worn, narrow folio (25.5 x 11 cm) (1)

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Complete atlas of modern, classical and celestial maps together with plans of the principal cities of the world..., published Thomas Letts, 1877, printed title, ninety-eight engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, most maps affected by a library blind stamp to lower right, last map (Japan) heavily dust soiled, all edges gilt, lacking boards and spine, last few leaves loose, folio, together with another volume from circa 1840 containing fifty-five engraved maps, twenty-five town plans and six celestial charts (only), several closed tears, some dust soiling throughout, a few maps trimmed to margins, lacking boards and spine, partially disbound, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (2)

Weller (Edward). Dispatch Atlas [1863], lacking titles and preliminaries, approximately 130 (only) engraved map sheets with contemporary outline colouring, some marginal fraying and closed tears with occasional loss, some dust soiling, several maps detached, contemporary half calf, lacking spine, boards detached, rubbed and worn, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)

Artists' Sketchbooks. A group of seven albums of watercolours by B. Foley, circa 1880s, including views, buildings and coastal scenes in Wales, Sussex, Guernsey, etc., a total of over 200 watercolour drawings and pen and pencil sketches, some back to back, one larger album with ownership inscription of H. Ethelston Nightingale, dated 23 August, 1887, containing approximately 60 (mostly monochrome) watercolours and drawings including two of Sydney, Australia, sizes approximately 24 x 30 cm and smaller, some drawings loosely inserted, the remaining six albums all approximately 12 x 20 cm, all with some wear, oblong 8vo/oblong folio, plus a small album of window-mounted snapshots of London, etc., plus Illustrations by H.C. Selous of Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley, Art-Union of London, 1870, plus a small group of reproduction prints (a carton)

*Besler (Basilius). Colutea Vesicaria..., Helichryson Creticum..., Caryophyllus sylvestris... & Nepetella, [from Hortus Eystettensis, 1613], together 4 large folio hand-coloured botanical copper engravings on laid paper, with watermark of a pine cone within an armorial shield, printed without text to verso, each titled in Latin below the image, with contemporary manuscript translations into German below each caption, in brown ink, with margins, generally in good condition, the Caryophyllus with some offset text to the image, sheet size 55 x 41 cm (21.6 x 16.1 ins) or very similar The Colutea Tree, Cretan Daisy, Carnation and Catmint from Beslar's Hortus Eystettensis, or Garden of Eichstatt, first published in 1613. The watermark of a pine cone within an armorial shield present on these sheets may represent the arms of Augsburg, which suggests that production of these plates was undertaken in the workshop of Wolfgang Kilian in Augsburg (see David Paisey, Review of Nicholas Barker's Hortus Eystettensis, The Library, 6th series, volume 17, pages 365-368). (4)

Egypt, Cyprus & Sudan. Album of original watercolours and pencil sketches, 1885, 15 watercolours and 55 pencil sketches on thick wove paper, mounted rectos and versos to 19 light card leaves, portrait and landscape, various dimensions (approximate ranges 6 x 12.5 to 29 x 22 cm), most of the watercolours heightened with bodycolour, a few en grisaille, nearly all images with pencilled captions on the mounts, many dated, and including detailed views and street scenes in Alexandria, Cairo, Giza, Ismailia, Suakin, 'Ramleh' (Ramallah in Palestine) and various locations in the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus, marginal soiling and fraying only to occasional and minor effect on images, one sketch loose, contemporary black morocco, spine perished and leaves loose, boards worn, oblong folio (35.5 x 47.5 cm) The artist may have produced this album while serving on the 1885 Suakin Expedition with the Scots Guards: one of the pencil sketches in Cyprus, dated 1885, depicts the Scots Guards' camp in the Troodos Mountains; the caption to a sketch of a dahabiyah on the Nile refers to previous service with the Ceylon Rifles. (1)

Fortavion (G. C. de). La guerre de Chine, grand panorama illustr‚, historique et anecdotique, 1st edition, Paris: Gu‚rin-Muller, 1862, 16 lithographic plates with accompanying text leaf, title page repaired along gutter and top edge, and creased and marked, some mild spotting and finger-soiling to text leaves and plate margins, only a handful of faint spots in images, short nick in top margin of first Tche-Fou plate, Combat du pont de Pa-Li-Kia-O plate slightly marked and facing text leaf repaired along top edge, inner hinges reinforced, original lithographic boards, front board hand-coloured as issued, cloth spine renewed, boards soiled, extremities worn, oblong folio Cordier Sinica 4146. (1)

Hailey (William Malcolm, Baron). African Administration Reports 1940-41 [spine title], circa 1941, 11 works in one volume, 10 of these mimeographs or carbon copies of typescript reports, one (the fifth-bound work, see below) on tipped-in printed leaves, contents leaf to each work (some tipped in), blank interleaves throughout, occasional annotations, spotting, contemporary tan half sheep, slightly rubbed, spine marked, folio, together with Armstrong W. D., 'Sunrise on the Congo, A Record of the Earlier Years of the Congo Balolo Mission', circa 1934, 5 preliminary and 283 numbered leaves of carbon typescript, rectos only, title page creased, presentation ink-stamp to front free endpaper, contemporary blue cloth, slightly rubbed, 4to Hailey (1872-1969), widely regarded as 'the twentieth century's most distinguished Indian civil servant' (ODNB), turned to Africa after his retirement from India in 1934 and became director of the African Survey. His reports, all marked confidential, comprise: 1) Native Administration and African Political Development, 1941; 2) The Gold Coast, September 1941; 3) Kenya, April 1940; 4) Nigeria; 5) Note on the Bearing of Native Policy on the Proposed Amalgamation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland; 6) Nyasaland; 7) Northern Rhodesia; 8) Southern Rhodesia; 9) Sierra Leone; 10) Tanganyika Territory; 11) Uganda, April 1940. Provenance (Hailey): ownership inscription of Juxon Barton, dated Nyasaland, 1942, to front free endpaper; Barton (1891-1980) was a British colonial administrator who served as high commissioner for the Western Pacific before retiring as chief secretary to Nyasaland in 1945. Armstrong's report is unpublished but referred to frequently in modern scholarly literature; we trace two additional typescript copies in institutions (University of Wisconsin and Western Michigan University). (2)

*Errol Flynn film ephemera. A good group of printed film publicity ephemera, circa 1950s, including press books for 12 Errol Flynn films including Dodge City, The Prince and the Pauper, Too Much Too Soon, Istanbul, Escape Me Never, Santa Fe Trail (all US editions), Kim, Another Dawn, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Objective Burma, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex and The New Adventures of Don Juan (all UK editions), all illustrated, various paginations, occasional soiling and fraying but generally in good condition, folio sizes, together with a group of 12 sets of UK lobby cards for Errol Flynn films, including Dodge City, Silver River, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Night in Havana, Too Much Too Soon, Mara Maru, Adventures of Captain Fabian, San Antonio, Northern Pursuit, Objective Burma, Rocky Mountain and Desperate Journey, each set with 12 cards, plus a group of approximately 150 further UK lobby cards for Errol Flynn films as odds and incomplete sets, plus 20 US lobby cards for Flynn films, and other mostly Errol Flynn ephemera, including a US one-sheet poster for The Master of Ballantrae, 1953, an Argentinian one-sheet poster for That Forsyte Woman, some reproduction Belgian posters, etc., some items framed (2 cartons)

Ship's Log Book - Sulivan. A manuscript logbook for the Sulivan, 5th Voyage, 1794, approximately 100 pages (and a number of blank leaves), mostly ruled in red, written in several neat copperplate hands, giving details of trademen's bills, including mention of: Taylor & Bail[e]y of Little Tower Street, London; work carrried out in Greenland Dock for Robert Williams Esqr & Owners of the Ship by Joseph Haycraft & Co. of Deptford; John & James Mangles, Ship-Chandlers, Oil-men & Manufacturers of Painters Colours, near Wappin New Stairs, London, who Sell Guns, Gunpowder & Shots; J. Cadley & Co. Leathermen; Curtis & Clarke Bakers; Joynes, Becket & Co. Brewers; Richard Joseph Peuterer; Richard Hill & Son Wax Lights; Richard Knight Grocer; Martin Brander Gun Maker; Pigou & Andrews Gunpowder; Ben Wood & Co Irish Provisions; Thomas Bird Distiller; Henry Slaney Pilot; Huffam & Son Riggers; Ann Oram Plumber; John Rixon Cooper; Robert Todd & Co Mastmakers; P. & J. Dolland Opticians; Ben Steinmetz Tallow Chandler; Batten & Glover Carvers; John Burr Boatbuilder; Hadley & Son Engine Makers; J. Pouncy Druggist, plus lists of wages paid for Commander, Midshipmen, Carpenters, Armourers, Butchers, Poulterer, Cooper, Boatswain, etc., occasional toning, sheet size 38 x 24cm, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges, contemporary blind-panelled vellum, some light soiling and marks, gilt lettered red morocco label on spine, with manuscript date 1794 above, folio A fascinating ledger, listing materials for work carried out (Boltrings, Cold Chisels, Iron Cheeks for head, Deck Nails, Port Shackle, Black Oakum, etc.) and repairs made (Repairing the Large Ship Bell Claper, 2 new speaking Trumpets, Taking to Pieces the Large Ship Jack, Turning 10 Pillars, Tarring the Tops and Tar, etc.). The Sulivan (or Sullivan) was launched in 1782 as an East Indiaman. She made five voyages for the British East India Company, and on two occasions provided transport for military expeditions. In 1794 her commander, Captain Pouncy, died, and Captain Sampson Hall was appointed Commander of the ship. War with France had broken out in 1793 and the preparations to the ship documented in this log were presumably in reponse to government orders to join 38 other Indiamen as transports for an attack on Mauritius. In the event this did not come about, and Captain Hall sailed from Portsmouth on 2nd May 1794, bound for China, arriving at Whampoa on 13th October. (1)

Knolles (Richard). The Generall Histories of the Turkes ... together with The Lives and Conquests of the Othoman Kings and Emperours ... untill this Present Yeare 1603, 1st edition, Adam Islip, 1603, engraved architectonic title page, 28 engraved medallion portraits and 1 engraved battle scene in the letterpress, all by Laurence Johnson, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, woodcut wreath border to The Lives and Conquests section title; intermittent pale tide-mark extending from bottom edges into text, quires A and 5F-H chipped in margins with engraved title (A2) largely torn away (but retaining most of the text) and partial loss of floral headpiece in the errata (5H8), repairs in leaves V4, 2N3, 3R6 and 5F3, small closed chip in X5 (portrait verso), small hole in 3A6 and spill-burn in 4B6 to minor loss of text and running head respectively, marginal worming from 4M to end, 17th- and 18th-century ownership inscriptions and pen-trials to initial blank and engraved title, occasional contemporary marginalia, contemporary calf, worn, front board detached, folio in 6s (31.5 x 22.5 cm) Blackmer 919; Cobham-Jeffery p. 31; Cox I p. 204; STC 15051. First edition of 'the greatest of English works of the Renaissance period dealing with Turkey' (Chew, cited after Blackmer). (1)

Aesop. Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflections, by Sir Roger L'Estrange, 2nd edition, corrected and amended, 1694, engraved frontispiece, without portrait and leaf A1 of preface also lacking, frontispiece and title repaired and strengthened to verso, some toning, occasional spotting and marginal dust-soiling, modern half calf, maroon morocco title label to spine, folio Wing A707. (1)

Cavendish (William, 1st Duke of Newcastle). Neu-er”ffnete Reit-Bahn, 1st edition in German, Nuremberg: Johann Zieger and Georg Lehmann, 1700, half-title, letterpress title in red and black, engraved arms, 5 text vignettes, 82 engraved plates including additional title, nearly all double-page, several also folding, engraved coat of arms; modern tape-repair in margins of letterpress title and text-leaves *2-3, a few folding plates (1-5, 10-11 and 60) with old repairs or modern tape-repairs mainly along versos of lower edges, plate 14 longitudinally repaired through image, plate 15 spotted, plate 69 restored in margin, modern marbled sheep, folio in 4s (32.5 x 20 cm) Nissen ZBI 852 (erroneously counting the engraved arms as a plate). First published in 1658 as La m‚thode nouvelle et Invention extraordinaire de dresser les chevaux. (1)NB: Revised estimate : Now £1200-1800

Chillingworth (William). The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation. Or, an Answer to a Booke entitled Mercy and Truth, or, Charity maintain'd by Catholiques, which pretends to prove the contrary, Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1638, without final blank leaf 3F4, front free endpaper with early inscription 'Fra: Langley ex dono Christop: Eachard', hinges repaired, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine, morocco title label, joints rubbed and upper joint slightly cracked, lower outer board corners repaired, folio STC 5138.2. (1)

Edmondson (Joseph). A Complete Body of Heraldry, 2 volumes, 1st edition, for the author by T. Spilsbury, 1780, engraved portrait frontispiece, 24 plates, worming towards front of volume 1 and rear of volume 2, partially affecting one word in title page imprint and images a few plates, intermittent marginal damp-staining, bookplates of Sir John Smith, Bart. of Sydling House, Dorset, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with original richly gilt spines laid down, gilt arms to sides, rubbed and scuffed, corners restored, folio, together with: Parker (Matthew), De antiquitate Britannicae ecclesiae et privilegis ecclesiae Cantuarensis cum archiepiscopis ejusdem LXX, William Bowyer, 1729, engraved frontispiece, 28 plates, engraved text vignettes, frontispiece torn and laid down (image intact) and wormed in margin, water-staining in fore margins, fore edges towards front and rear chipped and softened, modern half sheep, folio; Wood (Anthony …), Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the most Antient and Famous University of Oxford, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, for Knaplock, D. Midwinter, and J. Tonson, 1721, title pages printed in red and black, volume 1 prelims slightly frayed at edges, title page spotted and ink-stained, occasional light spotting and soiling elsewhere, edges untrimmed, recent quarter calf, folio; Carew (Thomas), An Historical Account of the Rights of Elections of the several Counties, Cities, and Boroughs of Great Britain, 1st edition, printed for John Nourse, 1755, spotting to endpapers, title page and final text leaf, occasional light spotting elsewhere, shelf-mark label to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, scuffed, gilt arms of the Society of Writers to the Signet to sides, folio; and 1 other (8)

Fuller (Thomas). The History of the Worthies of England, 1st edition, 1st issue, printed by J. G. W. L. and W. G., 1662, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials, 9 pp. index bound in at rear (see Pforzheimer), bound without the initial blank; mild browning, occasional spotting and staining, small chip in upper inner corner of frontispiece, ownership inscription to title page 'Robert Newton, 1772'), near-contemporary ink annotations to pp. 242-3, closed tears in signatures P3 and [superscript 3]3R1, small hole in I4 affecting a few letters recto, endpapers renewed, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with early gilt spine laid down, rubbed overall, board-corners worn, folio, together with: Felltham (Owen), Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, with several new additions both in Prose and Verse, not extant in the former Impressions. In this Eleventh Edition, References are made to the Poetical Citations, heretofore much wanted, printed by M. Clark, for Charles Harper, 1696, with initial 'The Face of the Book Unmasked' leaf, additional engraved title page, letterpress title printed in red and black, occasional browning, 18th-century bookplate of one Richard Law to front pastedown, his ownership inscription and lengthy autograph poem titled 'To Mr Felltham on his Booke of Resolves' to front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, folio; Ashburton (Charles Alfred), New and Complete History of England, from the First Settlement of Brutus, upwards of One Thousand Years before Julius Caesar, to the Year 1795, printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford, [1795], engraved frontispiece, 45 plates (of 80), chip to lower margin of frontispiece, contemporary calligraphic ownership inscription to initial blank, contemporary reversed calf, wear to extremities, short tear to foot of spine, folio; Bible [English], An Illustration of the Holy Bible, containing the Sacred Texts of the Old Testament and the New, together with the Apocrypha, Birmingham: printed by Brown and [Bentley], 1789, first few leaves ragged and creased affecting imprint, possibly lacking an index leaf at rear, contemporary reversed calf, worn, folio; and 1 other Pforzheimer 391, Lowndes p. 847, Wing F2440 for Fuller; Wing F658 for Felltham; cf. Darlow & Moule 892 for An Illustration of the Holy Bible. The index in this copy of Fuller does not conform to either of those noted by Pforzheimer, lacking a decorative headpiece on the first page. Ashburton's work is 'a reissue of the 1791-94 edition with the last two gatherings of the text reset and updated to 1795' (ESTC). (5)

G”bler (Justin). Chronica und Historien der Braunschweigischen Frsten, 1st edition, Frankfurt: heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1566, title with xylographic text and woodcut portrait, browning and damp-staining throughout, old paper repairs in margins from leaf G1 to end, and within text in quire I, additional modern tape-repair to I5-6 versos, extensive loss of text in I6 (not part of main text), old half sheep, worn, folio in 6s Not in Adams. No copies in UK libraries. (1)

Musculus (Wolfgang). Common places of Christian Religion, gathered by Wolfgangus Musculus, for the use of suche as desire the knowledge of Godly truthe. Translated out of Latine into Englishe. Hereunto are added two other treatises, made by the same Author, one of Othes, and an other of Usurye. With a moste perfecte and plentifull Table, London: [printed by Reginalde Wolfe], 1563, title in red and black and with printer's woodcut device (strengthened to width of gutter margin and manuscript note to lower right corner), woodcut armorial to verso of title, main body of text in black letter, few decorative woodcut initials, occasional early marginalia, some light dampstaining mostly at foot of leaves, rust holes to final three leaves, final leaf (d6) torn with loss of text and repaired, some peppered worm holes mostly towards rear of volume, later endpapers with old adhesive tape strengthening to hinges, later 18th century half calf, morocco title label to spine, joints split and covers worn, folio STC 18308. Variant 1 with first colophon, 4D2v, "Imprinted at London by Reginalde Wolfe. Anno Domini. 1563.". Colophon, b9v, "Imprinted at London by Reginalde Wolfe. Anno Domini. 1563.". This edition is a translation of "Loci communes sacrae theologiae". The additions are translated excerpts from his: In Davidis Psalterium sacrosanctum commentarii. (1)

Photios I. Myriobiblon e Bibliotheke [Greek title] ... Graece edidit David Hoeschelius ... Latine vero redidit et scholiis auxit Andreas Schottus, [Geneva:] Paul Estienne, 1612, title page printed in red and black, large woodcut title device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, Greek and Latin text in double column, faint browning to margins, light spotting to a handful of quires, ownership inscription 'Ed. Reynolds do. Braunston, 1643' to title page (see note) contemporary sprinkled calf, spine relaid, label renewed, covers scuffed and scored, corners worn, small section of front board and corners of rear board sympathetically restored, folio in 6s (34.5 x 20.5 cm) Renouard 197.21 (also noting copies dated 1611; further copies traced dated 1613). First bilingual edition of the Myriobiblon, with the ownership inscription of English clergyman Edward Reynolds (1599-1676), dated 'Braunston, 1643' to the title page: Reynolds was rector of Braunston in Northamptonshire from 1631 until his appointment as bishop of Norwich thirty years later. The Myriobiblon is valued for preserving several classical texts otherwise lost. (1)

Playfair (James). A System of Chronology, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for William Creech, 1784, half-title, 11 plates numbered 1-7, several folding, water-staining to upper outer corners of half-title and title page, very faintly continuing in subsequent leaves, modern calf-backed marbled boards, folio (47 x 28 cm), together with: Sawyer (Edmund), Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly) from the Original Papers of Sir Ralph Winwood, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, for Thomas Osborne, 1727, engraved portrait frontispiece, publisher's advertisement leaf to each volume, variable spotting, browning to prelims and endpapers, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, joints cracked but holding, folio (47 x 28.5 cm); Clarendon (Edward Hyde, earl of), The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 1st edition, Oxford: at the Clarendon printing-house, 1759, engraved portrait frontispiece, head- and tailpieces, and initials, frontispiece offset, bookplate of Robert Smyth of Gaybrook, Westmeath (1801-1878), contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed and worn, joints partially cracked but firm, folio (40 x 24 cm); Allestree (Richard), Works, 3rd edition, Oxford: at the Theater, 1695, engraved frontispiece and title device, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments and neatly repaired, red morocco label, gilt panelling to sides, slightly rubbed, folio (39 x 23.5 cm); Gibson (Edmund), Codex juris ecclesiastici Anglicani ... second edition, revised and improved with large additions, by the author, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1761, 2 volumes in 1, title page tipped in (one letter obscured), endpapers renewed, contemporary buff reversed calf, rebacked to style with new label, worn, repairs, folio (41 x 25.5 cm) Lowndes pp. 1881 (Playfair), 2955 (Sawyer), 468 (Clarendon), 888 (Gibson); Wing A1084 for Allestree. This second edition of Sawyer is notably uncommon, with ESTC tracing four copies; this copy appears to be on large paper, though no large-paper issued is recorded in ESTC. (7)

Vernet (Carle). Tableaux historiques des campagnes d'Italie, depuis l'an IV jusqu'… la bataille de Marengo, 1st edition, Paris: Auber, 1806, half-title, 24 engraved plates including additional title showing Napoleon on horseback, double-page map of Italy coloured to outline, section title with 2 roundel portraits of Napoleon and Josephine, 2 engraved vignettes depicting Napoleon's coronation and the Battle of Abukir, tissue-guards throughout, light spotting mainly to plate margins (stronger on tissue-guards), edges untrimmed, original green printed paper boards, spine defective, joints split, heavily rubbed and worn overall, large folio (57 x 42 cm) Imposing work issued to commemorate Napoleon's campaigns in Italy, Germany and Egypt, rare in the original binding, and this copy with particularly rich impressions of the plates. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS LACKING THE FOLDING PLATE OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ FOUND IN SOME COPIES.(1)

Ogilby (John). Asia, the First Part, being an Accurate Description of Persia, and the Several Provinces thereof. The Vast Empire of the Great Mogol and other Parts of India: and their Several Kingdoms and Regions, 1st edition, printed by the author, 1673, additional engraved title page, letterpress title page in red and black, dedication leaf, 14 engraved folding maps or views, 15 full-page engraved plates (of 17), numerous engraved vignettes in text, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials; bound without leaves 2K4-2M4 (index), toning, variable dust- and finger-soiling, occasional contemporary ink-splashes and other marks, tiny intermittent worm-track in upper outer corners, engraved title trimmed and mounted, old repairs to closed tears in letterpress title, text-leaves B3, B6, T3 and 2K3, and to versos of a few plates in lower margins, 2G1 with a closed tear in gutter and a small spill-burn in text, 2I2 with a repaired chip in fore margin just touching a few letters verso, last few leaves frayed and damp-stained, modern calf-backed marbled boards, folio in 4s (38 x 24 cm) Cox I p. 275 ('Although the title page reads "First Part," this volume is complete in itself'); Wing O166. (1)

Wilkins (John). An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, 1668, imprimatur leaf, title with engraved armorial, two full-page engraved plates, engraved illustrations, two folding tables, occasional light spotting, armorial bookplate of Beilby Thompson of Escrick, eighteenth century calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, small repairs to corners, a little rubbed, folio Wing 2196. John Wilkins (1614-1672) was a founder member of the Royal Society and one of the century's most influential thinkers. The present work, considered his greatest, is an attempt to formulate a universal language. The zoological and botanical tables were compiled with the help of Francis Willughby and John Ray. (1)

Fletcher (W.Y. & others). Bibliographica: Papers on Books, their History and Art, 12 parts in 3 volumes, 1895-97, 65 plates including some coloured, woodcut illustrations to text, top edges gilt, modern brown half morocco by Bayntun, original printed wrappers retained at rear of each volume, small folio, together with Besterman (Theodore), A World Bibliography of Bibliographies and of Bibliographical Catalogues, Calendars, Abstracts, Digests, Indexes, and the like, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, 1947, ink library stamps to front flyleaves and title versos, original buckram gilt, rubbed and soiled, spines faded, small folio (6)