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Larsen (Sofus & Kyster, Anker). Danish Eighteenth Century Bindings 1730-1780, Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1930, 102 colour and black and white plates, original cloth spine to marbled boards, lightly rubbed, large 4to, together with Tuer (Andrew W.), History of the Horn-Book, 2 volumes, Amsterdam, 1971, numerous black and white illustrations, and folding plates, 7 reproduction horn-books in volume 2, uniform original yellow cloth, boards slightly rubbed and marked, 8vo, and Henry (Blanche), British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, 3 volumes, OUP, 1975, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, uniform original cloth in slipcase, 8vo, plus other bibliography and literature reference, including Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society, 19 volumes, circa 1980-90s, all original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves + 2 cartons)

Dart (John). The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, and the Once-Adjoining Monastery, 1st edition, 1726, title in red & black, with signature to upper blank margin, nine engraved plates of armorial bearings on five leaves, 41 engraved plates including four double-page, engraved illustrations to text, worm trail at foot of several leaves (affecting few plates), contemporary gilt panelled mottled calf, gilt decorated spine, joints cracked and worn at head & foot os pine, folio, together with Philipott (Thomas), Villare Cantianum; or, Kent Surveyed and Illustrated..., 2nd edition, Lynn: W. Whittingham [&c.], 1776, folding engraved frontispiece, light toning and spotting, upper hinge repaired, contemporary half calf, rebacked, small folio, with Woolnoth (William), A Graphical Illustration of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury..., and Historical Notices of the Celebrated Convent of Christchurch..., 1816, engraved frontispiece and numerous plates, some toning and spotting, armorial bookplate of George Becher Blomfield, contemporary gilt decorated calf, upper board detached, lower joint cracked, loss to upper panel of spine, extremities worn, 4to, and Ferrey (Benjamin & Wedlake Brayley, Edward), The Antiquities of the Priory of Christ-Church, Hants..., 1834, numerous engraved plates and plans, top edge gilt, contemporary half morocco, rubbed and some wear to extremities, 4to, plus Gostling (William), A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury, with many Observations not to be found in any Description hitherto Published, Canterbury: William Blackley, 1825, engraved portrait frontispiece (offset to title), folding engraved plan, numerous plates including some folding, occasional light marginal dampstaining, modern quarter calf gilt, 8vo (5)

Viollet-Le-Duc (E.). Dictionnaire Raisonn‚ de l'architecture Francaise Du Xie au XVIe Si‚cle, 10 volumes, Paris, circa 1920, numerous black and white illustrations, ex libris bookplates to front endpapers, some minor toning, uniform contemporary blue quarter morocco, boards lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with De Lasteyrie (R.), L'architecture religieuse en France a l'epoque gothique, 3 volumes, Paris, 1926-29, numerous black and white illustrations, some minor toning, ex libris bookplates to front pastedowns, uniform gilt decorated blue quarter morocco to vellum boards, spines slightly rubbed, large 8vo, and Pevsner (Nikolaus, editor), The Pelican History of Art, 40 volumes, circa 1950s, numerous black and white illustrations, uniform original red cloth, spines lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other mostly mid 20th century art and architecture reference, mostly original cloth, some leather bindings, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Lawson (Cecil C.P.). A History of the Uniforms of the British Army, 5 volumes, mixed editions, 1941-70, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, some minor toning, original cloth in dust jackets, covers slightly marked and rubbed to head and foot, 4to, together with Robinson (R.E.R.), The Bloody Eleventh, history of the Devonshire Regiment, 2 volums, 1988-94, numerous black and white illustrations, original red cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly faded and rubbed to head and foot, 4to, and Farrelly (M.J.), The Settlement after the War in South Africa, 1900, some spotting, original red cloth, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other early 20th century and modern military reference, including publications by Pen & Sword, Greenhill, Sutton, Ian Allan, Arms and Armour, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves + a carton)

Hoare (Sir Richard Colt). The History of Modern Wiltshire, Hundred of Chalk, by Charles Bowles, 1833, Hundred of South Damerham, by William Henry Black & Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 1835; Hundred of Downton, by George Matcham, 1834; & Hundred of Cawden, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 1835, together 4 parts in one, hand-colour engraved maps, numerous engraved plates, occasional scattered spotting and dampstains, bookplate of Coker Court, top edge gilt, near contemporary red half morocco gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, folio, together with Cotelerius (Johannes Baptista, editor), Ss Patrum, qui Temporibus Apostolicis Floruerunt; Barnabae, Clementis, Hermae, Ignatii, Polycarpi; Opera Edita et Inedita, volume 2 only (of 2), Paris, 1672, Greek and Latin texts in double column, contemporary calf, rebacked, folio (2)

Art Reference. A large collection of modern art reference, including auction catalogues from Sotheby's, many original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)

Thiers (M.A.). Histoire de la Revolution Francaise, 2 volumes, Brussels, 1845, some spotting, contemporary half roan gilt, rubbed and slight wear to spines, small folio, together with Reid (T. Wemyss), Life of the Right Honourable William Edward Forster, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, 1888, portrait frontispieces, some spotting, original cloth gilt, rubbed and slightly damp stained, large 8vo, plus other history, literature and biography (6 shelves)

Manuscript  -  Yorkshire.  Catalogue  of  16th-  and 17th-century legal documents relating mainly to towns and villages in the West and North Ridings, circa  1750,manuscript in black ink on laid paper, written in a neat clerical hand,  248  numbered  pages  and  initial  3-page index (unnumbered), numerous blanks to rear, various watermarks including cipher 'G R' surmounted by crown, browning,   occasional   marginalia   dated   between   1757  and  1771, a few ink-splashes  and  other  marks,  edges  untrimmed,  contemporary  calf-backed marbled  boards,  worn, folio (33 x 20.5 cm)Manuscript catalogue of documents including  indentures,  title deeds, wills, marriage articles and settlements, chancery  proceedings,  and  other  legal transactions, bearing on land use in locations  including  Temple  Newsam, Swillington, Altofts, Wakefield, Sheriff Hutton,  Leeds,  Birdsall,  Halifax,  and the lost village of Thorp Stapleton. Many  of  the  documents  relate  to  notorious  landowner  Sir  Arthur Ingram (1565-1642).(1)

Somner (William). The Antiquities of Canterbury. In Two Parts. I. The Antiquities or a Survey of that Ancient City... Also Mr. Somner's discourse caled Chartham News. II. Cantuaria Sacra: or the Antiquities of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church..., 2nd edition, revised, 1703, 20 engraved plates & plans (including nine folding), contemporary panelled calf, joints slightly cracked at head & foot of spine, chipped at headcap, folio Upcott I, 388-390. (1)

Thoresby (Ralph). Ducatus Leodiensis: or, The Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leeds ... the Second Edition, with Notes and Additions, by Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Leeds & Wakefield: printed by B. Dewhirst, for Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, and John Hurst, 1816, half-title, engraved vignette on india paper to title page, 11 engraved plates, 13 folding pedigrees, engraved initials and arms to text, offsetting, tide-mark in lower margins of a few plates, ink-stamps of the Office of Woods to endpapers and occasionally to text, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, circa 1900 green half morocco, slightly rubbed, folio (44 x 27.5 cm), together with: 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, 1st edition, Leeds & Wakefield: printed by T. Davison, for Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, and John Hurst, 1816, half-title, engraved vignette on india paper to title page, 46 engraved plates (of 47: lacking the View of Gledhow as usual, which was issued with the separately-published appendix), 1 hand-coloured lithographic plate, 1 hand-coloured aquatint, 16 pedigrees (14 folding), engraved initials and arms to text, occasional offsetting and spotting, ink-stamps of the Office of Woods, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, bound uniform with the above work, folio; Hunter (Joseph), Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York, 1st edition, for the author, 1819, 9 engraved plates, tissue guards, 7 vignettes, engraved arms to dedication leaf, light spotting to plate margins, all edges gilt, contemporary tan calf, rebacked, gilt arms to sides, scuffed, folio (35.5 x 24.5 cm); Prince (John), Danmonii Orientales Illustres: or, The Worthies of Devon, 1st edition, Exeter: by Sam Farley for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1701, woodcut coats-of-arms to text, early ownership inscriptions and pen-trials to initial blanks and title page, initial gathering starting, occasional mild soiling, engraved bookplate, contemporary panelled sheep, loss to head and foot of spine, wear to extremities, folio Upcott pp. 1384-1390 for Thoresby and Whitaker, considered volumes one and two of what is commonly called 'The History of Leeds'; the second edition of Thoresby was published together with the first edition of Whitaker, so in this form they are considered the first complete edition. (4)

Bloch (Marcus Elieser). Ichthyologie, ou Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere des Poissons. Avec des figures enluminees, dessinees d'apres nature, parts 1-6 (of 12), in 3 volumes, 1st edition, Berlin: chez l'Auteur, & chez Francois de la Garde, 1785-1788, half-titles, engraved vignette to titles, 216 fine and highly finished hand-coloured engraved plates of fish, letterpress in French, marbled endpapers with bookplates sometime removed, hinges neatly repaired, contemporary Russia calf with greek key gilt border decoration around board edges, modern rebacks with gilt decorated spines, folio Nissen ZBI 416; Dance, p.56. A fine wide margined example of this highly important work, described as "possibly the most beautiful book on fishes ever published" (Dance). The volumes contain finely coloured plates produced by various artists and engravers. Many of which are heightened with silver to reflect the glistening metallic affect of fish scales. The drawings for the work were taken from Bloch's own extensive collection of approximately 1500 fish, which at the time was one of the largest collections. Bloch created his collection from purchases made at home and from returning travellers and missionaries from around the world. (3)

*Manuscript. Five Little Pigs, circa 1883, 21pp. calligraphic manuscript in sepia ink, with six full-page pen, ink and watercolour illustrations, and numerous sepia line drawings, some full-page, watermarked Whatman 1883, sheet size approximately 22 x 28cm (8.75 x 11.25ins), together with a watercolour sketch for one of the illustrations loosely inserted, loosely contained in original wrappers with watercolour illustration on front cover, edge-frayed, spotted and slightly dusty, oblong 4to, together with The Legend of the Black Forest, late 19th century, calligraphic title-page and 7ff. calligraphic manuscript mounted on thick card leaves, with a number of blank leaves following, each leaf with decorative initials and border, some illuminated, in the style of a grotesque medieval manuscript, featuring bizarre creatures with elements of both the human and animal, some spotting and marks, image size approximately 21 x 13.5cm (8.25 x 5.25ins), leaf size 29 x 21.5cm (11.5 x 8.5ins), cream moirÚ endpapers (marked), upper hinge split, original gilt decorated dark green morocco, titled on upper cover, extremities rubbed, joints slightly splitting at ends, small folio, plus another late 19th century manuscript entitled The Orvieto Potsherds, A Legend of Urbs Vetus, 1891, comprising 37pp., written in a neat hand in black ink, rough-trimmed, stitching broken and page block loose in original wrappers, with watercolour title and vignettes on upper cover, some soiling and edge-wear, slim 4to (3)

Jardine (Sir William). British Salmonidae, facsimile edition, Decimus, 1979, twelve colour plates, introductory booklet loosely inserted, marble endpapers, original half morocco contained in cloth slipcase, large folio Limited edition 493/500. (1)

Guinness Christmas Books. Seven Guinness advertising booklets, circa 1930s-50s, comprising Songs of Our Grandfathers illustrated by Rex Whistler, Happy New Lear, illustrated by John Nash (2 copies), Game Pie, a Guinness indoor sport folio, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, Hobbyhorses with Riders by Guinness, illustrated by Rowland Emmett, Raining Cats & Dogs, a Guinness Book of Pets, illustrated by Hoffnung & My Goodness! My Gilbert & Sullivan!, illustrated by Antony Groves-Raines, all with colour illustrations throughout, original colour pictorial printed wrappers to each, stapled as issued, slim 8vo, generally VG, together with 9 Ariel Poems, published by Faber & Faber, including Popular Song by Edith Sitwell, illustrated by Edward Bawden, Moss and Feather, by W.H. Davies, illustrated by William Nicholson, The Early Whistler by Wilfrid Gibson, illustrated by John Nash, Christmas Eve, by C. Day Lewis, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, Mountains by W.H. Auden, illustrated by Edward Bawden, etc., plus other various modern printing and illustration interest, including 5 issues of The Chap Book, numbers 31, 32, 35, 37 & 38, with cover designs by Albert Rutherston, Paul Nash, and Terence Prentis, stitched as issued, advertising brochures for Golden Cockerel Press, Nonesuch Press, Whittington Press, J. Selwyn Dunn, Sing We The Trees, a book about trees and life, illustrated with wood-engravings and lino-cuts by J. Selwyn Dunn, Kelmscott Studio, Haslemere, 1944, etc. (approx. 100)

Lalau (Maurice, illustrator). Grandmother's Fairy Tales, from the French of Charles Robert Dumas, by Pia Hewlett, 1st edition, 1915, nine colour plates, including frontispiece, each with captioned tissue-guard, numerous black & white illustrations, endpapers toned, free front endpaper with ink inscription dated 1919, original cloth gilt, extremities very lightly rubbed, dust jacket, with frontispiece repeated on front panel, some chips to ends of spine and folds, a little wear to one fold, 8vo, together with Hale (Kathleen), Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) Keeps a Dog, 1st edition, London & New York: Country Life & Transatlantic Arts, [1949], colour illustrations throughout, patterned endpapers, lightly spotted, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some minor marks, price-clipped dust jacket, a few short edge tears, rear flap fold chipped at head, slim folio, plus three others similar, including Ponsonby and His Friends, by A.G. Herbertson, 1st edition, 1934, with dust jacket (5)

Le Cain (Errol, illustrator). The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Arcadia Press, 1972, 10 colour plates, calligraphy by David Howells on hand-made 'Seaweed' paper, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, slipcase, folio Limited edition 22/110, signed by artist, calligrapher and paper maker. (1)

Le Cain (Errol, illustrator). Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride. An Absolutely Amazing Christmas Story by Leslie Bricusse, Faber & Faber, 1987, 12 mounted colour plates, watered silk endpapers, green morocco doublures, all edges gilt, original ochre morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, morocco-edged slipcase, folio Limited edition 13/100, signed by author and illustrator. (1)

Seuss (Dr.). Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, New York: Random House, 1st edition, 1958, numerous colour illustrations, colour illustrated endpapers, pale toning to upper parts of free endpapers, original pictorial boards, extremities lightly rubbed, dust jacket, a little dust-soiled in places, spine ends and corners a little rubbed, folio, together with Werner (Jane), The Tall Book of Make-Believe, Pictures by Garth Williams, 1st edition, New York, London: Harper and Brothers, 1950, half-title, pictorial title, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, some poems with small pencilling either above or below title, one page with light pencilling across text, pictorial endpapers, front hinge split, original pictorial boards, some minor marks, both joints split and frayed, spine lifting at ends (creased and fragile at head), tall 8vo, with seven other Dr. Seuss titles, later printings, and five others similar First item: first edition points include 'Copyright, 1950, 1951, 1958' on imprint page, and 14 titles listed on final page (ending with 'Mulberry Street', dust jacket with '295/295' price on front flap, and 14 books displayed on rear panel. (14)

Ashendene Press. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at The Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV, 1935, printed in red, blue and black, numerous illustrations, specimen pages, photogravures, collotypes etc, initial letters by Graily Hewitt, errata slip tipped-in, additional errata slip loosely inserted, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original rust-red polished sheep, rubbed and marked in places, gilt printer's device on front cover, spine with light cracking of leather surface and some superficial losses, slipcase with wear to extremities, folio Limited edition, 235/390 copies, signed by the printer C.H. St J. Hornby. Hornby 40. (1)

Ashendene Press. The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach Commonly Called Ecclesiasticus, Ashendene Press, 1932, printed in red and black, hand-coloured green and blue initials supplied by Graily Hewitt and assistants, original orange limp vellum, cloth ties, spine lettered in gilt (a little faded), slipcase, folio Limited edition of 328 copies. (1)

Bodoni Press. The Holy Gospel According to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Editiones Officinae Bodoni, Verona, 1962, woodcut title by Reynolds Stone, woodcut illustrations, top edge gilt, original red morocco gilt, slipcase, folio Limited edition LXVII/320. (1)

Schwiebert (Ernest). Salmon of the World, New York: Winchester Press, 1970, 30 colour plates in front pocket, black & white illustrations to text, original cloth-backed boards, folio, contained in original slipcase, includes original corrugated card packaging Limited edition 344/750 signed by Schwiebett. (1)

Fanfrolico Press. Women in Parliament by Aristophanes, Done into English by Jack Lindsay, with Illustrations by Norman Lindsay..., 1929, illustrated title, four full-page engraved plates, illustrations, top edge gilt, original blue half morocco gilt, some marks and wear, spine faded, folio, together with Marchetti (Ludovic, illustrator), Othello, the Moor of Venice, a Tragedy, by William Shakespeare, [1893], half-title, additional pictorial title, colour and black & white illustrations, variable spotting, especially to title, all edges gilt, quarter morocco gilt, rebacked, a few minor marks, some wear to corners, folio First item: limited edition, 260/500 copies signed by the translator. (2)

Golden Cockerel Press. Songs and Poems of John Dryden, chosen and introduced by Gwyn Jones, Golden Cockerel Press, 1957, colour and monochrome illustrations by Lavinia Blythe, top edge gilt, original burgundy and green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, extra suite of 16 plates contained in envelope and both housed in cloth slipcase, folio Limited edition 34/100 specialy bound copies, from a total edition of 500. (1)

Jonson (Ben). The Masque of Queenes, with the Designs of Inigo Jones, limited edition, The King's Printers, 1930, 8 sepia plates, 40 pages of manuscript facsimile, endpapers toned, trace of bookplate to front pastedown, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original red vellum gilt, extremities very slightly rubbed, folio, number 21 of 188 copies for sale in the British Empire, together with Old School Press, Palladio's Homes, limited edition, [Bath:] Old School Press, 2009, coloured linocut frontispiece and text illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, cloth porfolio, folio, number 53 of 170 copies signed by the illustrator and editors, plus Golden Cockerel Press, Maxims and Considerations of Chamfort, translated, with an Introduction, by E. Powys Mathers, 2 volumes, limited edition, Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926, vignette title devices, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, original japon-backed boards, volume 2 front board partially sunned, 8vo, number 341 of 550 copies, and Nonesuch Press, Memoires for my Grand-son by John Evelyn, transcribed and furnished with a Preface and Notes by Geoffrey Keynes, Oxford: Nonesuch Press, 1926, largely unopened, original limp vellum, 12mo, number 578 of 1250 copies Ex libris Christopher Hogwood CBE (1941-2014). (5)

Nonesuch Press. Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville, Nonesuch Press, 1926, colour illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, original red cloth, spine faded, folio, limited edition 1101/1630, together with Topiary, by Cecil Stewart, Golden Cockerel Press, [1954], colour illustrations by Peter Barker-Mill, original decorative boards, 4to, limited edition 403/500, with a loosely inserted postcard from the author to Nigel Temple, plus Cock-A-Hoop, a Sequel to Chanticleer, Pertelote and Cockalorum, Private Libraries [1962], wood-engraved illustrations, top edge gilt, original blue morocco-backed boards (spine faded to green), glassine wrappers (torn), 8vo, limited signed edition 67/300, with three others including Elizabethan Love Songs, Cupid Press, 1955 (limited edition 498/660, signed by John Piper) (6)

Penmiel Press Rivers in the Desert. By John Millican, Drawings by Clarke Hutton, limited edition, Esher: Penmiel Press, 1982, frontispiece, 14 illustrations on 7 folded sheets of varicoloured japanese paper, inscribed by the typographer 'With love to Jackie & Clinton, Edward Burrett, 28:4:88' on front pastedown, bookplate of Clinton E. Geiser (see note), original marbled boards, glassine dust jacket, small folio, number 59 of 60 copies only, signed by Millican, Hutton and Burrett, together with: Full Point. A Typographer Remembers, by Edward Burrett, limited edition, 1976, tipped-in photographic frontispiece, 5 plates, bookplate of Clinton E. Geiser, 'Addendum' (8-page pamphlet) laid in, original cloth, slipcase, 4to, number 30 of 125 copies only, signed by Burrett, plus Kubla Khan. With Drawings by Clarke Hutton, limited edition, 1984, single unsigned gathering of 4 leaves, original transparent plastic inner wrappers and orange paper outer wrappers with windows, number 6 of 75 copies signed by Burrett, and: Tribute to Diana Bloomfield. A Pot-Pourri of her Wood Engravings and Drawings, limited edition, 1985, bookplate of Clinton E. Geiser, prospectus laid in, original cloth gilt, slipcase, number 31 of 150 copies for sale, signed by Burrett; The Seven Deadly Sins. The Drawings, Clarke Hutton, The Verses, Tim Towle, limited edition, 1980, bookplate of Clinton E. Geiser, original black cloth, very slightly marked, number 5 of 60 copies for sale, signed by Hutton, Towle and Burrett, 4to; and approximately 15 others, mainly Penmiel Press prospectuses, specimen pages and other ephemera Provenance: from the collection of Anglo-Swiss financier Clinton E. Geiser (1923-2010), neighbour of Edward Burrett's in New Road, Esher Surrey, where Burrett ran the Penmiel Press; thence by descent to the present owner. (20)

Penmiel Press. The Beatitudes, limited edition, Esher: Penmiel Press, 1985, printed on hand-made paper, text illustrations, original purple sheep by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, vignette gilt to front board, original plain card slipcase (sunned and chipped), 8vo, number 13 of 65 copies only, signed by typographer Edward Burrett, together with Rivers in the Desert. By John Millican, Drawings by Clarke Hutton, limited edition, 1982, frontispiece, 14 illustrations on 7 folded sheets of varicoloured japanese paper, original marbled paper boards by Grays of Wimbledon, original glassine dust jacket, small folio, number 8 of 60 copies only, signed by Millican, Hutton and Burrett, plus A Psalm of David. The Twenty Third Psalm, limited edition, 1974, printed on hand-made paper, woodcut endpapers by Diana Bloomfield, original cloth gilt, original plain card slipcase (sunned), 8vo, number 50 of 50 copies only, signed by Burrett, and The Seven Deadly Sins. The Drawings, Clarke Hutton, The Verses, Tim Towle, limited edition, 1980, printed on varicoloured paper, 7 illustrations, inscribed by the typographer 'With love to Jackie & Clinton, Edward Burrett, 28.4.88' on the front free endpaper, printer's prospectus laid in, original black cloth over bevelled boards by Grays of Wimbledon, original glassine dust jacket (spine-panel chipped), 4to, number 51 of 60 for-sale copies, signed by Hutton, Towle and Burrett on the limitation leaf, all items with the bookplate of Clinton E. Geiser (see note) Provenance: from the collection of Anglo-Swiss financier Clinton E. Geiser (1923-2010), who was a neighbour of Edward Burrett's in New Road, Esher Surrey, where Burrett ran the Penmiel Press; thence by descent to the present owner. (4)

Swallows Press The Sonnets, William Shakespeare, Preface by Robert Graves with Drawings by Clarke Hutton, limited edition, 1975, 20 lithographic plates on varicoloured Glastonbury paper, top edge gilt, bookplate of Clinton E. Geiser (see note) to initial blank, top edge gilt, original brown Niger by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, small mark to spine, original fleece-lined patterned slipcase with slight rubbing to extremities and paper lifting on top panel, publisher's prospectus laid in, folio Number 80 of 260 copies signed by Robert Graves, Clarke Hutton, and typographer Edward Burrett. Provenance: from the collection of Anglo-Swiss financier Clinton E. Geiser (1923-2010), who was a neighbour of Edward Burrett's in New Road, Esher, Surrey, where Burrett ran the Penmiel Press; thence by descent to the present owner. (1)

Whittington Press. A View of the Cotswolds, Photographs by Edwin Smith, Whittington Press, 2005, half-tone illustrations, original cloth, slipcase, folio, limited edition 55/350, together with Poems for Alan Hancox, Whittington Press, 1993, original cloth-backed boards, 4to, limited edition 77/350, plus Edward & Helen Thomas. Personal Letters, selected by R. George Thomas, Whittington Press, 2000, sepia illustrations, original limp boards, 4to, limited edition 24/200, with other private press including Dearest Sydney. Joan Hassall's letters to Sydney Cockerell from Italy & France. April-May 1950, edited by Brian North Lee, Fleece Press, 1991, limited edition of 220, Two Stories by Jan Mark, Inky Parrot Press, 1984, limited signed edition 70/225 and In Suffolk, by Michael Hamburger, Five Seasons Press, 1982, limited signed edition 18/150 (15)

The Amazing Spider-Man, published Marvel, nos. 8, 10, 22, 24-27 & 29-39, January 1964/August 1966, a group of 18 original issues, all cents issues except nos. 8, 10, 29, 32, 36 & 39 pence copies, no. 26 with pence overstamp, original stapled pictorial wrappers, a little scattered rubbing and soiling, upper wrapper of no. 39 with vertical diagonal crease, slim small folio, mostly VG+ (18)

Philip Pullman, 'His Dark Materials', hardback collector's three book box set published by The Folio Society, 2008, illustrated by Peter Bailey.

Mervyn Peake, 'The Gormenghast Trilogy', hardback collectors' three book box set published by The Folio Society, 1992, illustrated by Peter Harding.

TARTAS (Pierre de), 'Les Centaures et les Jeux', with illustrations by Raoul Dufy, loose within a blue fabric folio box, published in 1947, limited edition IXX

Colston (Marianne). Plates Illustrative Of A Journal Of A Tour In France, Switzerland and Italy, from original drawings, taken in Italy, the Alps and the Pyrenees, folio size, published by G & WB Whittaker of Ave Maria Lane, 1822 (not complete)

Sundry prints, mounted contents of folio

A quantity of ephemera, to include prints, Folio etc.

Various Folio Society book sets, to include History of England, Charles Dickens etc.

A quantity of Folio Society editions, various sizes, mainly in dust covers

Folio Society books, mainly literature to Include Lawrence (T.E), Williamson (Henry) etc.

Scottish Military History, a quantity, including Mac Innes, Lt.-Col. JohnThe Brave Sons of Skye. 1899, 4to, original red cloth gilt, slight spotting; Historical Records of the 72nd Highlanders, now 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders. 1886, 8vo, green morocco, neatly rebacked; Clark, James Historical Record and Regimental Memoir of The Royal Scots Fusiliers. 1885, 8vo; Leask, J.C. & H.M. McCance The Regimental Records of The Royal Scots. Dublin, 1915. 4to, original calf, neatly rebacked retaining original spine; Weir, R.W. A History of the Scottish Borders Militia. Dumfries, 1877; ;Cooper, W.S. A History of the Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry. 1881, original cloth; Orr, James History of the Seventh Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers. 1884, worn, repairs; Howie, David History of the 1st Lanark Rifle Volunteers. 1887, 8vo; Dewar, T.F. With the Scottish Yeomanry... South Africa. Arbroath, 1901; A Short History of The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 1725-1907. 1908; Historical Records of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. 1909, 2 volumes, 4to; MacWilliam, H.D. The Official Records of the Mutiny in the Black Watch. 1910., 4to; Scobie, I.H.M. An Old Highland Fencible Corps. 1914, 4to; Moir-Bryce, W. Souvenir of the Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade Royal Scots in 1889. [c.1889], oblong 4to, original red morocco-backed pictorial boards, somewhat worn and soiled; Groves, P. History of the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. 1893. Folio, 4 coloured plates by Harry Payne; Tullibardine, Marchioness of A Military History of Perthshire. 1908, 2 volumes, 4to; Ferguson, J. Record of the 9th [Volunteer] Battalion (Highlanders) The Royal Scots. 1909, 8vo, Edmonstone Brown, A.N. Notes on the Dress of the Seventy-First Regiment,. 1934. Oblong 4to, green half calf, rubbed; Ashdown, C.H. The "Old Albanian" 1899-1902, 8vo; Buchan, John A History of the Great War. 1922. 4 volumes, 8vo; Wylly, H.C. Neill's Blue Caps. Volume 1 only, 4to; Brown, W.S. War Record of 4th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers and Lothians and Border Horse. 1920. 4to, quarter vellum gilt; "Backsight Forethought" The Defence of Duffer's Drift. 1913, 8vo; Clark, J. Historical Record and Regimental Memoir of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. 1885, 8vo, coloured plates; Davies, G. The Early History of the Coldstream Guards. 1924; Petre, F. Loraine The Scots Guards in the Great War. 1925, 8vo; original cloth, except where noted; and a quantity of others on Scottish military history

British MuseumCatalogue of the Books Printed in the XVth Century in the British Museum. London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1963-1971. 12 volumes, folio, including Facsimilies volumes, original boards with cloth spines (12)

Brown, George Mackay, a collection of autograph and typescript items, comprising1) Autograph "Coal", 7pp. story of coal and Brother Julius at Newbattle Abbey, revised in pencil, with autograph note at top "shortened version instead of this"2) Autograph Addendum to STV script by Ian Grimble "The Holy Stones", 3pp., 4to, numerous corrections, additions and deletions, initialled and dated "GMB 18/19 May 1976"3) Autograph Under Brinkies Brae, dated 29-5-80, 2pp., 8vo, black biro, corrections in pencil, also marked "not published GMB" in pencil at head of page 1 [Draft, apparently not published, of one of his weekly contributions to The Orcadian 4) Typescript. Christmas Visitors, a Story, dated 18 Nov. 1982 (struck through), 8pp. including title, 4to, numerous pencil additions and corrections [First published in Christmas Stories, Perpetua Press, 1985]; 5) Typescript. "Dialogue", dated Stromness, 1975. Folio, 12pp., numerous corrections and additions in pencil, annotated "Corrected script" on title leaf; 6) Skatehorn the Tramp, 2pp., large 8vo, 35 lines of poetry, half scored through or deleted, initialled, undated [Possibly an ear early draft of part of The Horse Fair from The Wreck of the Archangel (1989); 7) Typescript. The Living Poet, 5 leaves 4to, partly scared through and with pencil notes [possibly script for broadcast, 1979], with note "In Voyages, 1983"; 8) Autograph Ballad of the Golden Bird. 12 leaves, large 8vo, black biro, undated, each leaf lightly scored through [Published as The Golden Bird: Two Golden Stories, John Murray, 1987; 9) Autograph A Spell for Green Corn - 1 [1961-62] The Maskers (a play), 21 leaves, 8vo, red, blue and black biro, corrected in pencil, note on verso of last leaf "Written 1965 ? 1966 ?", Cancelled (scored through), revised 17 - Dec. 1974" [First published Hogarth Press, 1970]; 10) Autograph Song for the Spring of Equinox. 12pp on 12mo notepaper, autograph manuscript, pencil and biro, signed 1/3/1996; 11) Typescript Keepers of the House, December 1976, 14 leaves, 4to, autograph corrections, note on title page "The Old Stile Press (1986), limited edition, working copy"; 12) Autograph Foreword: The Lordly Ones (Anthology of Stones, ed John Matthews) 1994, 2pp., 8vo, black ink, signed George Mackay Brown; 13) Typescript. The Third Magus. 9pp., 4to, dated October 1978, annotated in pencil including note "Not to be used" and "Working copy", [1st published in Andrina & other Stories, 1982); 14) Autograph Kirkwall: Conservation Area (Foreword), 4pp. 4to, initialled GMB March 1985, some pencil annotations; 15) Autograph Perilous Seas. A Dramatic Biography of John Gow the Pirate (1798-1725) in six parts. Signed and dated October 1954, parts 1 and 4-6 only, 113 pages, 8vo, pencil, red underlining of stage directions; 16) Autograph. 2 pp., 8vo, uncaptioned "Light and sea-noise and soil of Birsay", ink, corrections and additions in pencil; 17) Typescript. Magi I, 3pp., folio, torn in 4 and stapled back together, lacking 1 corner (with text), with photocopy of the poem written out in another hand; 18) Typescript The Third Magus, 9 pp., 4to, dated October 1978 at end, 1st page lightly scored through with pencilled note "Not to be published GMB"; 19) Autograph 2 manuscript leaves, one with notes of The Scotsman review of best books 1994, the 2nd a note on envelope verso: Maeshowe: Poster Poem for National Museum of Scotland, initialled "GMB 5-iii-96"; 20) Typescript "A Christmas Story", pp. 2-7, lacking page 1, pencil revision to last page.

Richardson, Charles JamesStudies from Old English Mansions. London: T. McLean, 1841-1848. 4 volumes, folio, 4 lithographed titles, 4 dedications and 133 plates (some double-page), original red quarter morocco gilt over green cloth boards, one double-page plate with closed tear along centre-fold, a little dampstaining and occasional soiling, contemporary ownership signature to free-endpapers, covers and interior of series four a little dampstained and worn (4)Provenance: From a Scottish Country House Library

Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo de - CorreggioPitture di Antonio Allegri detto Il Correggio esistenti in Parma nel Monistero di San Paolo. Parma: Regal Palazzo, MDCCC. Co. Tipi Bodoniani, Giambattista Bodoni, 3 parts in one volume, folio (450 x 295mm.), [4], 8, [2], 27, [4], [4], 14, [2], 43, [6], 11, [2], 33, [2]; engraved title "Pitture del Correggio" & 34 stipple-engraved plates, modern tan morocco-backed patterned boards, preliminary leaves slightly spotted and slightly discoloured, slight spotting to plates, bookplate of C.E. De M.K.Note: Plate [1] is an overview of four sections of the vault, showing the arbour, four ovals, four lunettes and part of the frieze; pl. [2] shows Diana; the sixteen pl. [3-18] show the sixteen ovals, with putti; the sixteen pl. [19-34] show the sixteen lunettes and frieze. All plates except the first are printed in 'sanguine'.

[Maitland, John, 2nd Earl of Lauderdale]Autograph letter, probably to the 2nd Earl of Lauderdale, signed by St. Andrews, the marquis of Atholl, Murray, the Hon. Charles Maitland, Aboyne, Sir James Dalrymple, James Foulis & 3 others "wee could not omitt to represent to your Grace some late passages which have fallen out this week in the Councill.. the kings authorities much countered, and which are mentioned particularlie in the [?furnished] information, with which your Grace may acquaint his Majestie as being thus humblie represented by..", Edinburgh, 6th July 1676, one leaf, folio

Audet y Puig, Andrés - Segui, Miguel - Spanish Art-Nouveau designCarpintería Artística. Barcelona: Centro Editorial Artistico de Miguel Segui, [n.d.] 4to, chromolithographed title-page and 196 (of 200) chromolithographed plates (lacking plates 49, 56, 85 & 91), original decorative folio case, one plate repaired neatly to reverse, a little foxingProvenance: From a Scottish Country House Library

Music, 12 volumesCarmichael, Alexander Carmina Gadelica, hymns and incantations... Edinburgh: printed for the Author by T. and A. Constable, 1900. 2 volumes, 8vo, original white boards with red morocco gilt labels, rubbed, joints split; Dalyell, Sir John Graham Musical Memoirs of Scotland... Edinburgh: Thomas G. Stevenson, 1849. 4to, later green half morocco gilt; Fraser, Simon The Airs and Melodies peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles. Edinburgh: John Gow, 1816. Folio, original printed boards; [Idem] The Airs and Melodies peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles. Inverness: Logan & Company, [n.d.] Folio, original cloth; Campbell, Alexander Albyn's Anthology, or a Select Collection of Melodies and Local Poetry peculiar to Scotland & the Isles. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1816. 2 volumes, folio, modern quarter morocco over boards; Bunting, Edward The Ancient Music of Ireland. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1840. 4to, original brown cloth gilt; and 4 others, sold not subject to return (12)

Knip, Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline and Temminck, Coenraad JacobLes Pigeons. Paris: Mme Knip & Bellizard, Dufour & Cie., Typographie de Firmin Didot, [1838-43]. Second edition of volume 1, First edition of volume 2, large folio (533 x 348mm.), 2 volumes, [4], 135, 128, 30, [3]; [4], 114, [2]; half-titles, 147 plates printed in colours and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret , tissue guards, contemporary green quarter morocco, spines gilt, lightly rubbed, some plates with slight offsetting, discolouration or light spottingProvenance: Pencil note on rear endpaper "Complete, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, GHB"; The Library of a Country House.Note: A tall complete copy of Knip's masterpiece, with the very rare second volume published in 1838-43, volume II "SAID TO BE PROBABLY THE RAREST ITEM IN THE WHOLE OF ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE" (Wood), containing "AMONG THE FINEST OF ALL BIRD PLATES" (Fine Bird Books). This work contains 2 of the very rare plates "avant lettres" not referred to in the standard bibliographies. Publication of the work had commenced in parts in 1808 under the longer title Histoire naturelle générale des Pigeons but rivalry between the artist, Antoinette Knip (née Courcelles) and the author of the text, Coenraad Temminck, led Madame Knip at the publication of the 9th (of 15) parts to appropriate the work to herself, issuing the work under the revised title Les Pigeons, par Madame Knip, née Pauline de Coucelles, with Temminck's role relegated beneath to "Le text par C.J. Temminck". However the copy she sent Temminck did not have the altered title so by the time the work came out and he saw the altered title it was too late. This publishing history explains the hiatus betwwen p. 13 of the Discours and the first leaf of text, describing plate 1, being numbered as [p.23]. Pauline Knip had powerful friends at court, being a close friend of Marie Louise, husband of Napoleon Bonaparte, and Temminck found it impossible to get justice, his only recourse being to republish the text in 3 octavo volumes in 1813-1815.Antoinette Pauline Knip was an exceptional ornithological artist and in 1805 had provided the beautiful plates for Desmaret's Histoire naturelle des tangaras, des manakins, et des todiers. One of the more famous prints in Les Pigeons is of the Mauritius blue pigeon, now extinct. A copy of this work, quite possibly Temminck's own copy, with the text originally envisaged by Temminck, and with 5 original unsigned watercolours, most probably by Knip, and with additional hand-colouring to the perches, was sold at Christie's, 28 November 2001, lot 58, (£30,000). [Fine Bird Books 86; Nissen IVB 511; Zimmer 356]

Levaillant, FrançoisHistoire Naturelle d'une Partie d'Oiseaux Nouveaux et Rares de l'Amérique et des Indes. Paris: J.E. Gabriel Dufour & Amsterdam, 1801 [-02]. First edition, Volume 1 (all published), large 4to (352 x258mm.), [4], 4, 152; half-title, 49 fine plates printed in colour and finished by hand, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt, uncut, short split at head and base of upper joint, short split at head of lower joint, a little light spotting to some platesProvenance:The Library of a Country House.Note: First edition. Originally published in eight parts, Levaillant's Histoire Naturelle d'une Partie d'Oiseaux Nouveaux et Rares de l'Amérique et des Indes was available in three states: folio, with both coloured and uncoloured plates; large quarto, as here, with coloured plates only; and quarto, with uncoloured plates only. The fine portraits are of birds from the Bucerotidae and the Cotingidae families that Levaillant did not include in his earlier work “Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d’Afrique” (1799-1802). "These plates were printed by Langlois, who did almost all the colour-printing for Levaillant .... French colour-printing of this period ... has never been surpassed" (Fine Bird Books). François Levaillant (1753-1824) was born in Paramaribo, the capital of Dutch Guiana, the son of the French consul. He was sent by Jacob Temminck to South Africa where he collected and sent back over 2000 bird skins, which were studied by Jacob's son, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, and housed in the collection of the Natural History Museum at Leiden. On his return to Paris Levaillant published two best-selling accounts of his voyages in South Africa and the present work, followed by the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique (1796–1808, 6 vols.) with drawings by Jacques Barraband, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis (1801–06), Histoire naturelle des cotingas et des todiers (1804) and Histoire naturelle des calaos (1804). Levaillant was opposed to the systematic nomenclature introduced by Carl Linnaeus and only gave French names to the species that he discovered. When the birds were later given binomial names by other naturalists, quite a few were named after him including Levaillant's barbet (Trachyphonus vaillantii), Levaillant's cisticola, Levaillant's cuckoo, Levaillant's parrot, Levaillant's tchagra and Levaillant's woodpecker (Picus vaillantii). "Levaillant was, until exceeded by Gould (and until now only by him), the producer of the most comprehensive series of works on exotic birds” (Fine Bird Books, p. 118). Ayer/Zimmer 392; Fine Bird Books 90; Nissen, IVB 557

Temminck, Coenraad Jacob and le Baron Guillaume Michel Jérome Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse.Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris: F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg: Même Maison; Amsterdam: Legras Imbert et Comp. [1820]- 1838-[1839]. First edition, 5 volumes, large 4to (353 x 260mm.), half-titles, 597 (of 600) finely hand-coloured engraved plates after Nicolas Hüet and Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, & others, (2 double-page, 3 folding), contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt, some light spotting and some light offsetting, lightly rubbedProvenance:The Library of a Country House.Note: 'UN DES LIVRES LES PLUS BEAUX ET DES PLUS IMPORTANTS QUE L'ON AIT SUR L'ORNITHOLOGIE' (Brunet), complete with Cuvier's rare 'Prospectus'.This fine treatise, with its remarkable coloured plates, was intended as a supplement to Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux (1770-1786). This is a particularly large example of the quarto issue of this massive work, originally published in 102 parts over almost two decades from August 1820 to January 1839. Temminck supplied most of the text, while the key contribution of Baron Laugier de Chartrouse lay in providing specimens for the plates from his collection. Published in both folio and quarto formats, uniform with Buffon's work, the work is found with the text and plates bound either in systematic order, like the present copy, following Buffon's species and plates (as described in the 'Table Méthodique' at the beginning of volume 1), or in order of publication. Temminck, director of the Museum at Leiden, is regarded as one of the foremost ornithologists of his time. Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (1768 – 1849) was a Swiss-French natural history painter who illustrated birds, mammals and reptiles in a large number of books. He was an outstanding ornithological artist and worked first for Empress Josephine's zoo, and then for the Natural History Museum in Paris. He drew the natural history specimens collected on a number of important French geographical and exploratory expeditions including Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe, Freycinet's Voyage autour du Monde, Laplace's Voyage autour du monde and others. Early in his career Prêtre worked closely with Temminck who paid him the compliment of naming the red-spectacled parrot after him (Phaethornis pretrei). A prolific artist, he also illustrated Palisot's Flore d'Oware et de Benin, Tussac's Flore des Antilles, the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles published between 1816 and 1830, and the ornithological works of Lesson, Temminck and Vieillot. The plates are superbly hand-coloured. Anker 503; Fine Bird Books, 1990, p. 147; Nissen IVB 932.

[American Ornithology] - Wilson, AlexanderAmerican Ornithology; or, The Natural History of The Birds of The United States. New York: Collins & Co.; Philadelphia: Harrison Hall, 1828-29. 3 volumes, 4to (235 x 138mm.), and 1 volume folio, 76 hand-coloured engraved plates, tissue guards, text dark green half morocco, spines gilt, atlas in later matching dark green quarter morocco and black cloth, text volumes slightly darkened, rubbed, fore-margin of plate volume title stained at outer edge, plate 39 & 44 with small nick from fore-margin, small stain to plate 26, otherwise plates bright, upper joint of volume 1 split and fragileNote: The second full edition of Wilson's work, with plates in their most desirable form. This is the most important work on American ornithology before Audubon.

Birds of Paradise - Sharpe, R. BowdlerMonograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower-Birds. London: H. Sotheran, 1891-98. First edition, folio, 8 parts in 2 volumes, folio ( 540 x 358mm.), 79 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened with gum arabic by W. Hart after Hart, J. Gould, and J.G. Keulemans, printed by Mintern Brothers, photographic and engraved illustrations, green panelled morocco gilt, spine gilt, g.e., occasional very slight spotting of the text, one or two plates very slightly spotted (2)Note: "First and only edition of a splendid monograph." (Wood), with magnificent plates in a handsome green morocco binding. Sharpe appealed for subscribers for a monograph on 'the Avifauna of Paupasia' in the preface to Gould's Birds of New Guinea which he brought to completion in 1888, following Gould's death in 1881.Some of the plates are printed from the stones used in the Birds of New Guinea but, as Sharpe's preface states, 'a great number of the species are here figured for the first time'. Although Elliot had published his Birds of Paradise in 1873, many species were still undiscovered, and Bowdler Sharpe's monograph, with double the number of plates, brought the tale of exploration of New Guinea up to the turn of the century, and omitted no more than two or three of the very latest finds. As such it is a much more valuable work than D.G. Elliot's. BM(NH) IV, p. 1910; Fine Bird Books p. 142; Nissen IVB 865; Whittell p. 663; Wood p. 565; Zimmer pp. 581-2 (erroneously calling for 72 text leaves in vols I and II, rather than 48 and 52 respectively). (2)

Herbal - Fuchs, LeonhardDe Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes. Lyon: Balthazar Arnoullet, 1549. Second edition, 8vo, [32 with [bb8] blank, 851; title with woodcut device, woodcut portrait on title verso, 510 small woodcuts in text by Clement Bussy, later [?18th century] boards, lacks 6 leaves of index at end, binding rubbed, [USTC 79176 recording 3 copies in U.K., 2 copies in U.S.A. & 11 copies in continental Europe; Hunt, 61; Nissen 667]Note: This is the first impression of these small woodcuts and the portrait of Fuchs by Clement Bussy; the first edition, in folio, was published in Basel in 1542.

Leigh, CharlesThe Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire and the Peak, in Derbyshire... Oxford: printed for the author; and to be had at Mr. George West's..., 1700. Folio, portrait, map hand-coloured in outline, 24 plates, modern quarter calf, portrait and title-page slightly nibbled [ESTC R20833]

Switzerland, Botany - Candolle, Augustin Pyramus dePlantes Rares du Jardin de Genève. Geneva: Librairie de J. Barbezat & Comp., 1829. First edition, 4to, 4 parts in one volume, folio (360 x 273 mm.), [vi], 92, [i]; half-title, 24 stipple-engraved plates, all printed in colours and some finished by hand, after Heyland (21), Mlle. Car. Chuit (2) and Anspach (1) by Heyland (7), Millenet (11), Anspach (4), Bovet (1) and Bouvier (1), printed by Tattegrain, original printed boards (371 x 290mm.), uncut, rebacked with cloth, boards a little dust-soiled and scuffed at foot, internally mostly very cleanNote: FIRST EDITION, second "consolidated" issue, with the title dated 1829, otherwise identical to the first issue. This rare work was originally published in four fascicules between 1825 and 1826 or 1827.The present rare work was published a few years after the Swiss botanist Candolle settled in Geneva where he became director of the ‘Jardin Botanique’. Candolle's main focus was botany but he also contributed to related fields such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany.Candolle proposed a "natural" method of plant classification as opposed to the artificial Linnaean method, a classification system which he outlined first in his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (Elementary Theory of Botany, 1813), the principle of which was taxa do not fall along a linear scale; they are discrete, not continuous. This work also introduced the concept of "taxonomy". His theory of "Nature's war" - of plant species fighting each other for space and existence - influenced Charles Darwin and was one of the considerations that influenced Darwin's theory of natural selection.The present work describes a number of rare plants of Geneva's famous botanical garden which was founded by Candolle himself in 1817. The remarkably fine stipple-engravings are all beautifully printed in colour and some are finished by hand. Great Flower Books, p.53; Nissen BBI 327; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1000.

Hooker, RichardOf the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie. London: R. Bishop for G. Lathum, [1639], folio, engraved title soiled and frayed with slight loss, 19th century calf, worn; Mason, Francis Of the Consecration of the Bishops in the Church of England. London: R. Barker, 1613. Folio, contemporary vellum, early signature of John Crichton on title, title and 3 following leaves frayed with lossWebster, James Lawful Prejudices against an Incorporating Union with England. Edinburgh, 1707. 4to, black quarter morocco, worn; Fisher, Edward The Marrow of Modern Divinity. Falkirk, 1789. 12mo, old sheep, some spotting, very worn; Wallace, G. The Nature and Descent of Ancient Peerages. 1785. 8vo, original boards, uncut, lower board loose; sold not subject to return (5)

Annan, ThomasGlasgow City Improvement Trust, Old Closes and Streets, a series of photogravures 1868-1899. Glasgow: T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1900. Folio, one of 100 copies, 50 photogravures, original red cloth gilt, occasional slight marginal soiling, some offsetting onto tissue guards, a little fading and rubbing to covers, lacks text and half-title

Annan, ThomasGlasgow City Improvement Trust, The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1900. Folio, 50 photogravures, original red cloth gilt, covers slightly soiled

Blackburne, E.L.Sketches, Graphic and Descriptive for a History of the Decorative Painting applied to English Architecture during the Middle Ages. London: John Williams & Co., 1847. Folio, chromolithographed title and 23 chromolithographed plates, contemporary green half morocco gilt, Stradbroke bookplate, neat repair to one page, some foxingProvenance: From a Scottish Country House Library