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Heywood, Thomas (d. 1641) Gynaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History Concerninge Women. London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1624. First edition, small folio, engraved title; later half calf and marbled boards, 10 3/4 x 7 in. Playwright and Shakespeare contemporary, Heywood's work is a study of women real and mythic and gives interesting insight into western culture's perception about females and femininity. During Heywood's lifetime two very different queens ruled England while several others were imprisoned and executed. Each of the nine books is named after a muse, and takes her attributes as its inspiration to extrapolate. The fourth book, Melpomene, describes "Women incestuous, adulteresses, and such as have come by strange deaths"; Terpsichore, the fifth book, is about "Amazons, and other women famous either for valour or beautie"; Urania, the eighth book, is concerned with poetesses and witches; and the final chapter, Calliope, shows the punishments given to the "vitious" and the rewards reaped by the virtuous. A2-6, B-Z6, Aa-Rr6 (first and last leaf are blank & lacking in this copy). http://estc.bl.uk/S119701 Estimate $2,500-3,500 The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.

Balcanquhall, Walter (1586?-1645) A Large Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland. London: by Robert Young, His Majesties Printer for Scotland, 1639. First edition, small folio, fine engraved portrait of Charles I bound opposite title, very good contemporary binding, lightly speckled calf ruled in blind, with contemporary morocco label, unsophisticated, with some contemporary marginal notes, 10 3/4 x 7 in. [pi]2, B-Z4, Aa-Dd4, Ee6, Fff-Zz4, Aaa-Ggg4, Hhh6. http://estc.bl.uk/S116832 Estimate $1,500-2,500 The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.

Higden, Ranulphus (d. 1364) Polycronicon. Translated by John Trevisa, with the 1357-1460 Continuation by William Caxton. Southwark: Peter Treveris for John Reyne, 1527. Folio, title printed in red and black with woodcut bust of Henry VIII, half-page woodcut of St. George and the dragon, Reyne's device, numerous woodcut initials, six small woodcut illustrations, one full-page woodcut illustration of a battle scene, historiated woodcut frame surrounding colophon, final quire possibly supplied from another copy; inscriptions to title, contemporary and later; collation: aa8, bb-hh6 (hh6 blank & present), a-y8, z6, A-S8, T6, U8; bound in later full calf, good, early ownership inscription of Robert Church, with inscriptions in Greek on title and later ownership inscriptions of the Hervey family, 11 x 7 1/2 in. aa8, bb-hh6 (hh6 blank & present), a-y8, z6, A-S8, T6, U8. http://estc.bl.uk/S119426 Estimate $15,000-25,000 The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.

Higden, Ranulphus (d. 1364) Polycronicon. Translated by John Trevisa, with the 1357-1460 Continuation by William Caxton. Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 13 April 1495. Folio, 382 of 398 leaves, lacking aa8, bb6 (fourteen leaves, consisting of the title page, Proheme, and part of the table), colophon X8, and the blank leaf hh6; collation: a-y8, z6, A-S8, T6, V-X8, cc-gg6, hh5; title page supplied in very good facsimile, printed on both sides; colophon likely in facsimile, some leaves repaired and remargined, most extensive repairs to the colophon leaf, table bound at end; contemporary notes throughout, the word "Pope" struck out by hand throughout the text; ex libris Robert Barclay (1751-1830) of Bury Hill, with his bookplate; ex libris Ross Winans (1796-1877), American inventor and one of its earliest multi-millionaires, later full calf, rebacked, front board detached, a.e.g., 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Rare at auction, the last copy was offered for sale in 1976. 382 of 398 leaves, lacking aa8, bb6 (fourteen leaves, consisting of the title page, Proheme, and part of the table), X8 colophon, and the blank leaf hh6; collation: a-y8, z6, A-S8, T6, V-X8, cc-gg6, hh5. http://estc.bl.uk/S106488 Estimate $40,000-50,000 The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.

Holinshed, Raphael (d. 1580?) A Fragment of the Chronicles: Gerald of Wales's The Irish Historie. [London: at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587]. Folio, title page printed within ornate woodcut compartment, bound in later full calf, rebacked, contents good (some spotting), text printed in black letter, two columns, with historiated woodcut initials, 14 1/2 x 9 in. Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-c. 1223) traveled on an expedition to Ireland with King Henry II's son John in 1185. This trip was the basis for his Irish History. A-Q6, R2. http://estc.bl.uk/S122178 Estimate $2,000-3,000 The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.

Jonstonus, Joannes (1603-1675) The Idea of Practical Physick in Twelve Books. London: Printed by Peter Cole, Printer and Book=seller, at the Sign of the Printing=Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1657. First edition, folio, rare, four U.S. copies listed in ESTC, bound in later half, extensive notes (some contemporary) on free endleaves at back, bound in modern half leather, rubbed, 11 x 7 in. [pi]1, B2, C3, **2, ***2, C2-4, D-E4, F3, r-z4, aa-cc4, dd1, C-E2, F-Z4, Aa-Kk4, Ll2. http://estc.bl.uk/R8913 Estimate $1,000-1,500 The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.

A folio containing 25 various watercolour studies of exotic birds, mainly 1930's, together with a small quantity of various other sketches and prints CONDITION REPORTS There are approximately 25 bird pictures, together with a selection of assorted modern prints

New Zealand.- Barraud (Charles Decimus) and W.T.L.Travers. New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive, first edition, additional lithographed decorative title with mounted oval chromolithographed vignette, list of subscribers, map, 24 mounted chromolithographed plates after Barraud, 6 plates of tinted lithographs, wood-engraved illustrations, occasional marginal spotting or staining, inner margin of final plate torn and repaired, text with light offsetting from plates and a few marginal chips or tears, dedication becoming loose, original half morocco over pictorial gilt cloth, rubbed, folio, 1877.⁂ Including scenes of Wellington, Auckland, Tarawera Lake, the geothermal terraces of Rotomahana, and Mount Cook.

England.- Fuller (Thomas) The History of the Worthies of England, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, bookseller's note tipped-in to front pastedown, ink inscription to title, browning and spotting, occasional tiny rust-holes, small marginal tear (2E4), later calf, gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing F2440, Pforzheimer 391], folio, J.G.W.L. and W.G., 1662.

Ireland.- Camden (William) Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Islands, 2 vol., translated into English by Edmund Gibson, engraved portrait frontispiece, 10 plates, 51 engraved double-page maps by Robert Morden, wood-cut illustrations, several full-page, occasional faint spotting and off-setting, contemporary calf, upper board detached (vol. 1), both boards detached (vol. 2), rubbed and worn, small loss to corners and spine extremities (vol. 2), folio, 1772.

Plinius Secundus (Gaius) Epistolarum lib. X. Eiusdem Panegyricus Traiano dictus, commentary by I. Maria Catanaeus, collation: à8 a-z A-F8, title and woodcut printer's device within woodcut architectural border, woodcut decorative initials, occasional early ink marginalia, several ff. loose, upper hinge cracked, contemporary limp vellum with later ruling and tooling in black, some staining, folio (317 x 219mm.), [Paris], Badius Ascensius & Jean Roigny, [January, 1533].⁂ Literature: Adams P1543.

Smart (Christopher).- Gratulatio Academiæ Cantabrigiensis de reditu serenissimi regis Georgii II [and] Gratulatio Academiæ Cantabrigiensis auspicatissimas Georgii III, 2 vol., engraved title vignettes, some very minor damps-staining to extreme head of a few ff., but a clean, wide-margined copy generally, contemporary calf, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, Cambridge, J. Bentham, 1748-61; Poems on Several Occasions, first edition, engraved frontispiece and plate, list of subscribers, minor spotting, bookplates of Thomas Merriman and Graham Pollard, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, skilfully rebacked, rubbed, for the Author, 1752; folio & 4to (3) ⁂ The first is a two volume miscellany of congratulatory poems addressed to George II & III including the first edition of Smart's first separate publication his Carmen CL. Alexandri Pope In S Caecilium (a rendering of Pope's Ode to St Cecilia) and other poems by Cambridge professors, students and fellows.

South Africa & Africa.- Edwards (T.A., traveller, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, fl. 1911) Travel Journal to South Africa & Africa, autograph manuscript, c. 200pp., passport made out to Helena Yonge loosely inserted, original cloth-backed printed boards, corners and edges rubbed, folio, 1911 § Morgan (Brig.-Gen. Sir Hill Godfrey, KBE, soldier, Army Service Corps, 1862-1923) Album of letters, ephemera and newspaper cuttings relating to Morgan's service in the Boer War and the Mahdist wars in Egypt and Sudan, including: letter signed by Kitchener, several copies of letters by Sir Redvers Buller, cut signature of Lord Milner, manuscript Field Officer note with pen and ink illustrations, 1 watercolour, photograph of his daughter's wedding, together c. 140pp., some loosely inserted, many laid down, some affected by some damp, original cloth worn and defective, v.s., v.d. in a 4to album, 1875-1913.⁂ The diary of a travelling salesman from England to South Africa. Edwards travelled on RMS Walmer Castle and noted that Marie Lloyd (1870-1922), music-hall entertainer ("Col. Wythe CB rather amusing when no one is about he sits with Marie Lloyd in a corner - during the day he entertains Miss Gladstone"), was on board with her lover and future husband, Bernard Dillon (c.1888-1941), the jockey who rode Lemberg to Derby victory in 1910.On board they played games, had a fancy dress ball, and "noticed phosphoresence on the wake". Edwards lands in Cape Town (Table Mountain) and from there travels to Bloemfontein, "Miss Ada Reeve is staying here - much more ladylike than Marie Lloyd", Johannesburg, "Holdcroft... drove me all round Parktown to the zoo", and visits the theatre, Benoni (production of loaves for the mines), on SS German to Mossel Bay, East London, Durban, Pretoria, Salisbury, Umtali, SS Admiral to Dar es Salaam, Mombassa, Nairobi ("Indian Bazaar... the white people held a meeting recently suggested to move the plague they would buy out the bazaar - The Indians (who were there first) promptly responded by offering to buy out the whites", Kisumu, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Naples Bay, Corsica etc.

Taylor (Jeremy) and William Cave Antiquitates Christianæ: or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus, additional engraved title, trimmed and laid down, title in red and black, engraved portrait and 2 double-page plates, tears to folds, illustrations, occasional soiling, faint dampstaining to foredges, occasional marginal tears (one repaired), lacking final 2 leaves, 2 leaves with loss to lower corners (affecting text), later half calf, rubbed and worn, [Wing T287], R. Norton, for R. Royston, 1675 § Blackmore (Richard) A Paraphrase on the Book of Job, occasional spotting, ink signatures to front pastedown and initial blank, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, Awnsham and John Churchill, 1700 § Strype (John) The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker ..., engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, folding engraved table, lacking 1 plate, browning and spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, rubbed, John Wyat, 1711; and 2 others, similar, folio (5)

Pontis (Louis, Sieur de) Memoirs of the Sieur de Pontis; Who Served in the Army Six and Fifty Years, browning, several small marginal tears, tears and small loss to final leaf (repaired), new endpapers, later calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Wing P2807], folio, F. Leach, for James Knapton, 1694.

[Foster (Sir Michael)] A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746 in the County of Surry ..., small loss to initial blank, occasional faint spotting, contemporary calf, spine head repaired, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Oxford, 1762 § The Tryals of Sir George Wakeman, Barronet. William Marshall, William Rumley, and James Corker, for High Treason, for Conspiring the Death of the King ..., lacking initial blank, occasional pencil annotations, disbound, [Wing T2259], H. Hills, T. Parkhurst, J. Starkey, D. Newman, T. Cockeril, and T. Simmons, 1679 § The Tryals and Condemnation of Thomas White, alias Whitebread, Provincial of the Jesuits in England ..., lacking initial blank, occasional faint spotting, disbound, [Wing T2247], H. Hills, T. Parkhurst, J. Starkey, D. Newman, T. Cockeril, and T. Simmons, 1679; and another, similar, folio & 8vo (4)

Grigson (Geoffrey) and Handasyde Buchanan, editors. Thornton's Temple of Flora, plates, some colour, tissue guards, light foxing to endpapers, original half cloth, dust-jacket, edges torn and rubbed, folio, 1951.

Hunter (William) Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabuli illustrata . . . The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus exhibited in Figures, 34 lithographed plates, 8 double-page, some scattered spotting and occasional soiling, a few plates strengthened at margins, occasional minor damp-staining to margins, contemporary cloth, sympathetically rebacked in antique-style morocco, folio, Sydenham Society, 1851

Lizars (John) A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, engraved title and 101 plates, most hand-coloured, some colour-printed, plate-guards, occasional foxing or browning, some light soiling, bookplate, modern antique-style half calf over contemporary cloth, folio, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars and S. Highley, [?1835];

WOOP STUDIOS: AN A-Z OF COLLECTIVE NOUNS, twenty six individual limited edition prints, beginning with 'an Aurora of Polar Bears' and culminating in 'a Zeal of Zebras', each numbered 1/11 in pencil to the margin, in presentation folio case

A first edition copy of Alonso Carranza's 'El aiustamie[n]to i proporcion de las monedas de oro, plata, i cobre', Folio, with 19th century continental marbled half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with unidentified monograms and red morocco labelPublished by Francisco Martinez, 1629

Dennis Hopper Photographs 1961-1967, cased folio, Taschen books

Folio Society: Gibbon, Edwards: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in eight volumes complete with slip cases

Walter, James. 'Shakespeare's True Life', London: For Strictly Private Circulation, 1890. Folio, quarter leather & pictorial cloth. Together with 'An Historical Account of the New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon', James D. Halliwell, London: 1864; 'Stratford-upon-Avon', Sidney L. Lee, illustrated by Edward Hull, 1885; 'Stratford-on-Avon Corporation Records', no date but owner inscription for Councillor Eaves, 1886, and 'Shakespeare Memorial Theatre', Jellicoe, 1933. (5)

Two large folio bound volumes of The Times, containing January to March 1858 in one volume, and July to September 1872 in the other, half-leather bindings (worn), contents good and bright. Together with approx. 20 loose copies of the Times, most dating from 1870s, a couple of London Late Editions from 1936.

Collection of 39 Folio Society books, classics and modern classics, 1960s, with slipcases, in two boxes. (2)

A painted Edwardian tile top deep/folio chest, 90 x 110 x 67cm

BEATON (Cecil) Quail in Aspic, 1st edition 1962, inscribed by the author to 'John'; also - Near East, Batsford 1943; CHAMBERLAIN (Basil Hall), Things Japanese, 1927 reprint, green cloth; GILBERT and GEORGE. More Horny Pictures, a signed exhibition programme 2001, and SONTAG (Susan) Cuba - Art of Revolution, 1970, soft covers, folio (5)

Children's Books - Johns (Captain W.E.), Biggles and the Menace from Space, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1981, pictorial paper covers, 4to; Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus, edited by Terry Nation, Artus Books, London 1976, h/b, d/j, small folio; mid-20th century Enid Blyton, some first editions, a few with dustjackets, all h/b, various; Star Trek; Beatrix Potter; etc (1 box)

Rolls-Royce - an archive collection, Modern Aircraft Fitted with Rolls-Royce Engines [...], Rolls-Royce Limited, London 1932, card covers as issued, crown folio; further factory issued pamphlets and publications on the firm's aviation work, including jet engines; apprentice aimed publications; monogrammed playing cards, With the Compliments of Rolls-Royce Aero Engine Division; Rolls-Royce Conversion Tables: Factors, Basic Units and Definitions, sixth and ninth editions, contemporary bindings as issued, floppy 18mo, (2); Nockolds (Harold), The Magic of a Name [...], G.T. Foulis & Co., Ltd., London 1966, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Harvey-Bailey (Alec), Rolls-Royce - Hives, The Quiet Tiger, Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation, Paulespray 1985, 8vo; further ephemera and books; etc

Baker (Sir Richard, Knight), A Chronicle of the Kings of England, From the time of the Romans Government Unto the Death of King Jmaes [...] Whereunto is now added in this Third Edition,. The Reign of King Charles I [...], Printed by E. Cotes, [...], London 1650, engraved full-page title-piece by and after William Marshall (fl. 1617 - 1649), 17th/18th century book owner's stamp: I&S*Fawceitt, calf covered boards, later tacked calf spine, folio; a later edition, volume II only, [London 1684], reigns of Henry VIII to James I, lacking prelims, contemporary embossed calf boards (front detached, spine bare and lacking, crown folio, [2]

Bemrose (William), The Life and Works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., Commonly Called "Wright of Derby", With a Preface by Cosmo Monkhouse, Illustrated with Two Etchings by Mr F. Seymour Haden, and Other Plates and Woodcuts, large paper edition of 16/100, Bemrose & Sons, London and Derby, 1885, contemporary calf spine and buckram boards, slipcased en suite as issued, medium folio

Blome on The Bible, The History of the Old and New Testament; Extracted out of Sacred Scripture, and Writings of the Fathers, To which are Added The Lives, Travels and Sufferings of the Apostles; with Large and Exact Hiftorical Chronology of all the Affairs and Actions related in the Bible, The Whole illuftrated (sic) with Two hundred and forty Sculptures, And Five Scriptural Maps, Delineated and Engraved by Good Artifts (sic), Tranflated (sic) from the Sieur de Royaumont, by feveral (sic) Hands: Supervifed (sic) and Recommended by Dr. Horneck and other Orthodox Divines, second edition, Printed for R. Blome, S. and J. Sprint, John Nicholfon (sic), and John Pero, at the Bell, the King's-Arms, and the Swan in Little-Britain, Affigns (sic) of the faid (sic) R. Blome, London 1701, erroneous pagination but apparently complete, fragmentary contemporary calf boards and spine recently well-laid, contemporaneous with 21st century endpapers, the spine with gilt lettered red morocco title label, medium folio

British Travel and Topography - Hakewill (James), The History of Windsor; and Its Neighbourhood, Edmund Lloyd, London 1813, full-page engraved plates, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards (boards loose and spine heavily rubbed), small folio; Seyer (The Revd. Samuel), Memoirs Historical and Topographical of Bristol and It's (sic) Neighbourhood, From the Earliest Period Down to the Present Time, Printed for the Author by John Matthew Gutch, Bristol 1821 - 1823, two-volume set, full-page architectural, topographical and antiquarian engravings, slightly later 19th century quarter-calf and marbled boards, large 4to; Walpoole (George Augustus), The New Britifh (sic) Traveller; Or, A Complete Modern Univerfal (sic) Difplay (sic) of Great-Britian and Ireland, Alexander Hogg, London 1784, lacks title-page, engraved allegorical frontispiece, fold-out map, full-page plates and some vignettes, contemporary calf spine (repaired), papered boards, 18th century and later MS ownership inscriptions, crown folio; Association Copy, The Harbours of England, Engraved by Thomas Lupton, from Original Drawings Made Expressly for the Work by J.M.W. Turner R.A., with Illustrative Text by J[ohn] Ruskin, E. Gambart and Co., London 1856, full-page steel engravings, blue buckram as issued (disbound), dedication inscription in MS ink to endpaper: From the Author's Father [...] With Kindest regards 30 Decr. 1857, crown folio, [5]

British Travel and Topography - Shalder's Birmingham Directory 1854, Issued Annually, Wrightson and Bell, Birmingham [1854], line engravings and advertisements throughout, contemporary green buckram as issued, 12mo; The Illustrated Exhibitor, A Tribute to the World's Industrial Jubilee; Comprising Sketches, By Pen and Pencil, of The Principal Objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations 1851, John Casell, London [1851], fold-out and one-page line engravings, further vignettes within text, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, 4to; The Pictorial Gallery of Arts, Comprising nearly four Thousand Illustrations on Wood, and a Series of beautiful Steel engravings, The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, London [n.d., c. 1855], buckram boards, later leather spine, crown folio; Marshall's Select Views In Great Britain, &c. &c., two-volume set, W. Marshall, London [c. 1825], full-page topographical copperplate engravings, papered pink boards as issued, 18mo; Dr Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia: Useful Arts, A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the Silk Manufacture, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London 1831, contemporary buckram as issued, 12mo; etc, [7]

Camden's Britannia, Newly Tranflated (sic) into Englifh (sic): With Large Additions and Improvements, Publifh'd (sic) by Edmund Gibson [...], Printed by F. Collins, A. Swalle (sic), at the Unicorn at the Weft-end (sic) of St. Paul's Church-yard (sic); and A. & J. Churchil (sic), at the Black Swan in Pater-nofter (sic) Row, London 1695, the text apparently complete, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author wearing herald's tabard within a feigned oval centred by his coat of arms by Robert White (1645 - 1703), further illustrated with 49 hand-coloured engraved historical and county maps, some by Robert Morden (c. 1650 - 1703), 9 full-page numismatic engravings of coins and further antiquarian line engravings within the text throughout, relayed contemporary speckled calf boards, raised bands to spine with gilt lettered red morocco title label, 19th century ink MS ownership inscriptions to pastedown, crown folio

Cartography - The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World [...], Compiled and Engraved [...by] W.G. Blackie [...], Blackie & Son, London 1882, 20th century institutional blue buckram, lettered spine, crown folio; The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer, 500 Maps and Diagram in Colour, with Commercial Statistics and Gazetteer Index of 105,000 Names, Carmelite House, London [n.d., c. 1920], blue quarter-morocco and buckram boards, lettered spine, crown folio; Atlas Cenedlaethol Cymru - National Atlas of Wales, edited by Emeritus Professor H. Carter, University of Wales Pres, 1989, portfolio, slipcased en suite, royal folio; R.G.S. Reproductions of Early Maps VIII: The Sources of the Nile: Explorers' Maps A.D. 1856 - 1891, From the Society's collections with notes by G.R. Crone, Royal Geographic Society, London 1964, green buckram clad portfolio, printed paper title label to front board, elephant folio; Ogilby's Road Maps of England and Wales from Ogilby's 'Britannia', 1675, reprint, Osprey, Reading 1971, red buckram as issued, crown folio; Tooley (R.V.) and Bricker (Charles), Landmarks of Mapmaking: An Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmakers, Phaidon, Oxford 1976, h/b, d/j, boxed, crown folio, [6]

Egypt: Heliogravures After Original Views, With a Preface by C.G. Rawlinson, edited by R.M. Junghaendel, Thos. Cook & Son Special Edition, Cosmos: Art Publishing Co. Ltd., Berlin [n.d., 1893], 25 heliogravures with accompanying book of descriptions, teal card wrap, the pictorial olive buckram portfolio centred by a vulture with its wings stretched out after the Ancient Egyptian to recto, cloth spine, marbled pastedowns, elephant folio

Keble (Joseph, of Grays-Inn, Efquire (sic)), The Statutes at Large in Paragraphs and Sections or Numbers, From Magna Charta Until this Time, (Carefully Examined by the Rolls of Parliament; With the Titles of fuch (sic) Statutes as are Expired, Repealed, Altered, or out of Ufe (sic)), Together with the Heads of Pulton's or Raftal's (sic) Abridgements in the Margin and the Addition of above a Thoufand (sic) New References from other Books of Law: And A New Table, Printed by the Affigns (sic) of John Bill deceas'd: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings moft (sic) Excellent Majefty (sic), The Affigns (sic) of Richard Atkins, and Edward Atkins, Efquires (sic), London 1684, early 20th century calf, gilt lettered spine with raised bands, crown folio; Bacon (John, Esq., Receiver of the First Fruits), With an Appendix, Containing Proper Directions and Precedents relating to Presentation, Institutions, Inductions, Dispensations, &c., and a complete Alphabetical Index, John Nichols, London 1786, loose facsimile title-page, 20th century blue buckram, thick 4to, [2]

Leigh (Charles, Doctor of Phyfick (sic)), The Natural History of Lancafhire, Chefhire, and the Peak, in Derbyfhire (sic, Lancashire, Cheshire & Derbyshire): With an Account of the Britifh (sic), Phœnician, Armenian, Gr[eek] and Rom[an] Antiquities in those Parts, Printed for the Author [...], Oxford 1700, pp: First Book: [xxviii], 2 full-page plates of coats of arms, facsimile map, 164pp, errata leaf [i], 10 full-page engraved plates and one facsimile, [xxviii], author's vindication [ii], Second Book: 97pp, errata leaf [i], full-page plate, Third Book: 88 (complete but erroneous pagination to latter pages), postscript leaf [i], errata leaf [i], [30], 16 full-page plates, [2], [36], contemporary calf boards, 20th century in-keeping spine with gilt lettered label, crown folio

Local Interest - Derbyshire - Glover (Stephen), The History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Derby [...], edited by Thomas Noble, Henry Mozley and Son, Derby 1829, 20th century black buckram, 8vo; Glover (Stephen), The Peak Guide [...], edited by Thomas Noble, Henry Mozley and Son, Derby 1830, contemporary buckram, front board with original printed paper title label, 8vo; Derby Illustrated: Its Art, Trade and Commerce, Robinson, Son & Pike, Publishers, London [c. 1890], early 20th century boards and spine, 4to; Chantrey's Peak Scenery; or Views in Derbyshire Engraved by W.B. and George Cooke After Drawings by Sir Francis L. Chantrey, R.A., With Historical and Topographical Descriptions by James Croston, F.S.A., Re-Issue edition, Stanesby & Co., London 1889, original boards (disbound, lettered spine strip detached but present), small folio; Pilkington (James), A View of the Present State of Derbyshire [...], two-volume set, J. Drewry, Derby 1789, 8vo, (disbound, faults); Bagshaw (Samuel), History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire, with the Town of Burton-upon-Trent [...], Printed for the Author, By William Saxton, Sheffield 1846, later 19th century full leather binding, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Adam (W.), The Gem of the Peak [...], fourth edition, Longman & Co., London 1845, fold-out map to title-page, full page sepia lithographs, contemporary grey buckram, 12mo; Croston (James), On Foot Through The Peak, or A Summer Saunter Among the Hills and Dales of Derbyshire, Whittaker & Co., London 1862, fold-put map of the county, green buckram as issued, 12mo; Memorials of Old Derbyushire, edited by Rev. J. Charles Cox, Bemrose and Sons Limited, London 1907; Hackett (Richard R.), Wirksworth and Five Miles Round: An Historical Sketch of the Principal Events of Interest Connected with the District, with Brief Notices of its Remarkable Personages, J. Buckley, Wirksworth [1899], floppy terracotta buckram, 12mo; Lock guides (3); Haddon Hall guide; Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Volume XVII, January 1895, 20th century blue buckram, Norwich Castle Museum book label; etc

Local Interest - Illustrations of Haddon Hall: From Sketches Made Upon the Spot, By that Eminent Painter, George Cattermole, Esq., Containing Forty-One Highly Finished Prints, With Supplement, of this Most Interesting Building, Robert Moseley, Derby 1839, contemporary green faux 'morocco' buckram, crown folio; Croston (James, F.S.A.), Chantrey's Peak Scenery; or, Views in Derbyshire, Engraved by W.B. and George Cooke after Drawings by Sir Francis L. Chantrey, R.A., With Historical and Topographical Descriptions, large paper edition of 50/50, Frank Murray, Derby 1886, contemporary green morocco spine and blue buckram boards, the front pictorial and titled in gilt, crown folio; The Derbyshire Domesday, three-volume set, Alecto Historical Editions, London 1987 - 1990, cream buckram and speckled brown paper boards as issued, slipcased as one en suite, crown folios, [3]

Miscellaneous - The New, Complete, and Universal History, Description, and Survey of The Cities of London and Weftminfter (sic), The Borough of Southwark, And the Parts adjacent, Including Not only all the Parishes within the Bills of Mortality, But Likewise the Towns, Villages, Palaces, Seats, and Country, To the Extent of above Twenty Miles round; With all the late Improvements and Alterations, Written and Complied from Authentic Records and other genuine Information, By a Society of Gentlemen, The Whole Revised, Corrected, and Improved, by William Thornton, Esq [...], Alex. Hogg, London [n.d., 1784], lacking plates, 19th century boards and calf spine (disbound), crown folio; An Essay on Ornamental Art; containing A Historical Sketch of the Decorative Arts, with Some Inquiry into the Theory of Ornament, Illustrated with Twenty-One Figures, [presumably London, c. 1845], full-page lithographic plates, contemporary buckram boards (disbound), crown folio, [2], (both catalogued with faults)

Philately - Wilson (Sir John, Bt, Keeper [...]), The Royal Philatelic Collection, edited by Clarence Winchester, Published by The Viscount Kemsley at The Dropmore Press Ltd, London [1952], plates of stamps and postal history, full raspberry crushed morocco binding, raised banding to spine, drab Tudor Rose endpapers, crown folio

Picturesque Palestine: Sinai and Egypt, edited by Sir Charles Wilson, R.E., K.C.B., F.R.S., Assisted by the Most Eminent Palestine Explorers, With Numerous Engravings on Steel and Wood, four-volume set, J.S. Virtue and Co., London [n.d., c. 1880], contemporary tan buckram as issued, small folios; Lane-Poole (Stanley), Social Life in Egypt: A Description of the Country and Its People, With Illustrations on Steel and Wood, A Supplement to "Picturesque Palestine", J.S. Virtue and Co., London [n.d., c. 1880], bound en suite to the latter, small folio, [5]

Scott (David), The Engineer and Machinist's Assistant: Being A Series of Plans, Sections, and Elevations of Steam Engines, Spinning Machines, Mills for Grinding, Tools, &c. & c., Taken from Machines of the most approved Construction at present in operation, with Descriptions and Instructions for Drawing Machinery, Black and Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London, [n.d., 1849], apparently complete, 122 full-page illustrative plates, allegorical title-page by T. Watt after Joseph Martin Kronheim (1810-1896), 20th century black leather spine and red morocco lettered title label, crown folio

The Imperial Family Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments [...], Illustrated by a Superb Series of Engravings from the Most Admired Productions of Ancient and Modern Art, Blackie and Son, Glasgow 1847, full-page engraved plates, full contemporary gilt-embossed leather binding, titled and dated to spine, raised bands with foliate compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, thick crown folio

Theology - Lapide (Cornelius a), Commentaria In Quatuor Prophetas Maiores [...], Aonii Pillehotte, Leiden 1622, title-page with engraved vignette, 19th century quarter-green morocco and marbled boards, Jesuit institutions' library stamps, folio; Krisper (Crescentius), Philosophia Scholæ Scotisticæ [...], Matthiæ Wolff, Augustæ Vindelicorum [Augsburg] 1735, contemporary calf, lettered spine and ink MS paper shelf label to tail within raised bands, further contemporary ink MS shelf numbering to pastedown, title-page with library stamp: Bibliotheca PP. Franciscanórum, Conventus Quinque-Ecclesiensis, crown folio; Sánchez (Tomás), Disputationes de sancti matrimonii sacramento, Book III only, Lugduni [Lyon] 1739, contemporary calf boards with later 20th century calf spine and yellow endpapers, monogrammed Plain Armorial bookplate to pastedown, frontis page with contemporary ink MS inscription: Gilbert Long, crown folio, [3]

Theology and Philosophy - The Beehiuve (sic) Of the Romifh (sic) Church, [London, probably 1632], lacking prelims and incomplete text, traces of calf spine, 12mo (faults); Swan (John), Speculum Mundi: Or A Glasse (sic) Representing the Face of the World; Shewing (sic) both it did begin and muft (sic) alfo (sic) end: The manner How, and time When, being largely examined, Wherunto is Joyned (sic) an Hexameron, or a ferious (sic) difcourfe (sic) of the caufes (sic), continuance, and qualities of things in Nature; occafioned (sic) as matter pertinent to the work done in the fix (sic) days of the Worlds (sic) creation, second edition, Roger Daniel, Printer to the Univerfitie (sic) of Cambridge, 1643, incomplete, contemporary calf, 18th century and later ink MS ownership inscriptions, inset 19th century MS account of incomplete collation to verso, square 12mo; another copy, incomplete, similar faults, 12mo; Perkins (William), A Commentarie or Exposition Upon the Five First Chapters of The Epistle to The Galatians [...], Now publifhed (sic) for the benefite (sic) of the Church, and continued with a Supplement upon the fixt (sic) Chapter, by R[alph] Cudworth, John Legate, Cambridge 1609, tear to lower-half of title-page and text incomplete, disbound, 4to; Hammond (H[enry], D.D.), A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon all the Books of the New Teftament (sic), Briefly explaining all the difficult places thereof, second edition, Printed by J. Flefher (sic) for Richard Royfton (sic) at the Angel in Ivie-lane (sic), London 1659, engraved vignette to title-page, pencil inscription to upper recto pastedown: Collated & correct, full contemporary calf binding, raised bands to spine, upper title-page with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription, Heir-Loom John Brymer No. 1284 stamp, Plain Armorial bookplate: William Thomas Parr Brymer: FAS, crown folio; Hammond (H[enry], D.D.), A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon the Books of the Psalms, Briefly explaining the Difficulties thereof, Printed by R. Norton, for Richard Royfton (sic), at the Angel in Ivy-Lane (sic), London 1659, engraved vignette to title-page, full contemporary calf (front cover loose), Chippendale Armorial Ferrers bookplate to front pastedown, small folio; The Book of Common Prayer: and Administration of The Sacraments: and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, With the Pfaler (sic) or Pfalmes (sic) of David, Printed by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings (sic) moft (sic) Excellent Majefty (sic): And by the Affignes (sic) of John Bill, London 1641, early 20th century papered boards, 8vo; Wilson (Tho[mas]), A Christian Dictionary, Opening The fignifications (sic) of the chiefe (sic) Words difperfed generally through Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Teftament (sic), tending to increafe (sic) Chriftian (sic) Knowledge, fifth edition, Printed by Richard Cotes, and are to be fold (sic) by William Hope, at the figne (sic) of the Unicorne (sic) in Cornhill neer (sic) the Royall (sic) Exchange, London 1648, contemporary vellum over boards, 4to; 1682 Book of Common Prayer, contemporary calf, folio, (faults); etc

Walpole (Horace), Memoires (sic) of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second, [...], From the Original MSS., two-volume set, John Murray, London 1823, engraved full-page title-pieces, contemporary tree calf, the boards with foliate gilt fillet, folios; Coxe (William), Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole, Selected from His Correspondence and Papers, and Connected with The History of the Times, From 1678 to 1757, Illustrated with Portraots, second edition: corrected and enlarges, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, London 1808, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, Provenance: Hobhouse baronets' bookplates, book labels and other family MS ownership inscriptions, 8vo; Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, At Westminster, In the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Years of the Reign of his Late Majesty, King George the Second, During Which Time the Late Lord Chief Juftice (sic) Lord Hardwicke Presided in that Court, [...], W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, London 1770, full contemporary calf, folio, [5]

Yorkshire Topography - Whitaker (Thomas Dunham), Loidis and Elmete; or, An Attempt to Illustrate the Districts Described in those Words by Bede; and Supposed to Embrace the Lower Portions of Aredale and Wharfdale, together with the Entire Vale of Calder, in the County of York, Printed by T. Davison for Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, Leeds 1816, illustrated with full-page antiquarian and topographical engravings, 20th century oxblood red-morocco on contemporary marbled paper boards, gilt lettered spine, Plain Armorial bookplate to front pastedown: William Rayner Wood, Singleton Lodge [near Manchester], medium folio; Hunter (Joseph, F.S.A.), Hallamshire: The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York, with Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton, and Whitson, and of the Chaperly of Bradfield, A New Edition, with Additions by The Rev. Alfred Gatty, D.D., Virtue and Company, London 1875, 20th century oxblood half-morocco on contemporary marbled paper boards, gilt lettered spine with raised banding, crown folio, [2]

Architectural Water-Colours & Etchings of W. Walcot, With an Introduction by Sir Reginald Blomfield, R.A., H.C. Dickins, London 1919, buff cloth boards as issued, small folio

Sport - The Book of Cricket: A Gallery of Famous Players, edited by C.B. Fry, George Newnes, Limited, London [n.d., c. 1899], b/w illustrations throughout, quarter straight-grained calf and green buckram boards, crown folio

Coaching Days of England: containing An Account of whatever was most remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance and Curiosity in the time of the Coaches of England, comprehending the years 1750 - 1850, Together with an Historical Commentary by Anthony Burgess, And in addition decorated and illustrated with a great Number of drawings, prints and Views in Perspective gathered on purpose for this Work, Paul Elek, London 1966, h/b, d/j, oblong royal folio; Arlott (John) and Daley (Arthur), Pageantry of Sport, from The Age of Chivalry to The Age of Victoria [...], Illustrated with 16 colour plates and 144 contemporary drawings, engravings and paintings, Paul Elek Productions, London 1968, h/b, oblong crown folio, [2]

Cotswolds Topography - Anon [Griffith (Samuel Young)], New Historical Description of Cheltenham And its Vicinity [...], Embellished with Copperplate Engravings And Maps of the Town and Vicinity, From the latest Surveys, Also a Plan of Pittville, volume I only, S.Y. Grffith & Co., Cheltenham 1826, xii, 124pp, illustrated with full-page engraved plates and advertisements, pull-out map of the homonymous town, contemporary boards with traces of maroon morocco spine and angles (split), 8vo; Griffith (Samuel Young), New Historical Description of Cheltenham and Its Vicinity [...], Printed by S.Y. Griffith, Cheltenham [...], Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, London 1826, xiv, 289pp, illustrated throughout with full-page engravings, contemporary printed boards (disbound), folio; the third edition, 1838, contemporary quarter-calf and green buckram boards (disbound), folio; Barnard (E.A.B.), Stanton and Snowshill, Gloucestershire, University Press, Cambridge 1927, h/b, d/j (torn), inserted printed presentation slip: With All Good Wishes for Christmas and the New Year from Sir Philip & Lady Stott, Stanton Court, Broadway, Worcs[estershire], 12mo; Gibbs (J. Arthur), A Cotswold Village: Or Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire, sixth impression, third edition, John Murray, London 1909, 8vo, [5]

*Aquila (Pietro, 1650-1692). Imagines Farnesiani cubiculi cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis, Romae in aedibus sereniss. ducis parmensis ab Annibale Carraccio aeternitati pictae ; a Petro Aquila delineatae incisae, Rome, Giovanni Giacomo Rossi, circa 1690, double-page engraved title and 12 double-page engraved plates, some waterstaining and minor marks to margins, contemporary vellum, soiled and some wear to spine, folio (42 x 30.5 cm) (1)

*De Morgan (Evelyn, 1855-1919). An album of Italian watercolours, fifty watercolour sketches and one pencil sketch on card, mostly mounted on rectos of album leaves (between one and several to a page), but a number loosely inserted, some album leaves excised or partly excised, mainly depicting landscapes and buildings, but also two studies of trees, one of blossom, and two details after Italian Old Master paintings, including: a drawing of one of the Arsenale watchtowers in Venice; a view of a range of hills with sea in the distance annotated in pencil on verso 'On the [...?] Hills looking North'; a loose sheet with watercolour landscape on recto and rough pencil sketch after a painting on verso; a couple of drawings indistinctly annotated in pencil with artistic notes; and a pencil drawing of drapery over a female bust dated 1875 in pencil (with several small holes), some dust-soiling, 22 x 33.5cm (8.5 x 13.25ins) and smaller, original half morocco, scuffed and soiled, folio Evelyn De Morgan was a frequent visitor to Italy, making her first trip to the country as a young artist in 1875 when she visited Rome, Perugia and Assisi. She subsequently visited Venice as well as Florence, where her maternal uncle John Rodham Spencer-Stanhope owned the Villa Nuti, and the De Morgans themselves eventually bought an apartment. This album likely dates from the artist's earliest travels during the mid to late 1870s, at a time when she was coming to the end of her studies at the Slade School of Art and beginning to exhibit and sell her works. (1)

*Rembrandt (Harmensz. van Rijn, 1606-1669). St. Jerome in a dark chamber, 1642 (Bartsch 105; Hollstein 201), etching on laid paper, without watermark, probably a 19th century impression from the original plate, by Henri Louis Basan or Auguste Bernard, some light overall browning, plate size 15 x 17.3 cm (6 x 6.8 ins), sheet size 16 x 18.2 cm (6.35 x 7.2 ins), mounted, together with a collection of 95 various Old Master etchings and engravings by Rembrandt, Durer, Claude, Frans van Bloemen, Jan van Kessel, Israel, Silvestre, Karel Dujardin, Stefano della Bella [the majority apparently from Kay's reissue of 1826, entitled Collection of Original Etchings by Kay of Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London], and including 12 etchings of Italian scenery by Farington, Gandon, E. Rooker, M. Rooker and W. Hodges after Richard Wilson, published by John Boydell in 1776, the majority mounted on album leaves and bound in an early 19th century gilt-decorated morocco binding, worn, and one other worn and broken gilt-decorated red morocco binding, both folio (96)

Finlay (Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006). Headlines: Eavelines, for Eve Furnival, Openings Press from Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, Wiltshire, circa 1970, portfolio of 13 colour screenprints by Ann Stevenson, Christopher Lumgair, Susan Hudson, Simon Lord, Jonathon Willcocks, Virginia Robinson, David Mitchinson, Deborah Fulford, Ann Hildred, Angela Wellard, Paul Ansell, Simon Farrell and Elizabeth Kelly, numbered 9 from the edition of 50, light spotting to title leaf, sheet size 46.5 x 46.5 cm (18.25 x 18.25 ins), loose as issued in original cloth-backed portfolio, slight edgewear, square folio (1)

Herkomer (Hubert von, 1849-1914 ). An album of drawings and sketches by Herkomer, circa 1888-89, consisting of an etched invitation to a private view of Herkomer's pictures at 22b Ebury Street, Belgravia, April 6th, 7th & 8 to Miss C. Swan, an unfinished oil sketch on canvas of a head-and-shoulders figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a pencil sketch of an underwater warrior on horseback, indistinctly signed Kenneth, a handwritten invitation to a party from Professor Herkomer & Miss Griffiths to Miss Swan, dated April 13 1889, on paper headed Dyreham, Bushey, Herts., a photographic Christmas card from the Herkomers dated Xmas 1888, a library sketch of a soldier on horseback (probably by Herkomer), a printed bookplate for Alfred Marks, designed by H.S. Marks, a pen, brown ink and wash Christmas card entitled Lead Melting, signed with initials A.L.H., a profile study of a young woman in pencil, apparently by Herkomer, another small scale pencil study of a boy, ditto, a watercolour study of a dancing faun child, printed programme for the Sorceress, a romantic musical fragment composed by Hubert Herkomer, and a printed Christmas card from the Herkomers for 1889, all mounted on brown album leaves, various sizes (the illustration above measuring 16.5 x 12.7 cm (6.5 x 5 ins), all mounted on brown paper in the form of an album, folio (1)