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A quantity of lady's handbags, and evening examples including a gentleman's folio case etc

Early 20th century scrap album to include drawings, poems, etc, a school book 'A Geographical Survey of the Guiseley District', bound documentation of 'The Letters of John Younie 1893-94 to Indian Silver Service 1916-1942, 'The 53 Stages of Tokaidoihiroshige' in a blue folio, 'A Trip on the Thames - from Black Friars to the Nore' small obl 8vo. ten col plates loose from the booklet, plates from Gould's Birds and others, sm 8vo, 14, a Russian cartoon book, folio with limp covers etc.

Country Life Magazine, vols I no 1 January 8th 1897 through Vol IV December 1898, and one other vol Oct - Dec 1899. All bound full green cloth with gilt titles and decs. Images of a bygone country life in the British Isles. Elephant folio ( ex library) (5)

Quantity of Flying Saucer Review circa 1960's, a folio 'Kleine Parade Beruhmter Veteranen 100 Jahre Opel', a commemorative album 'Coins of Great Britain' and a collectors album 'Medals and Decorations of the British Commonwealth of Nation Collectors'

Sugden, Alan Victor and Edmondson, John Ludlam "The History of English Wallpaper 1509-1914", Batsford (1925), colour plates on card, library stamps top right hand corner of the plates, black and white plates, library lending plate, barcode, rebound blue library cloth, small folio Townsend, W G Paulson "Modern Decorative Art in England...", vol 1 "Woven and Printed Fabrics, Wallpapers, Lace and Embroidery", Batsford (1922), colour frontis, colour and black and white plates, library plates and barcode, original blue decorative cloth, folio (2)

Cotman, John Sell "Architectural Antiquities of Normandy accompanied by historical and descriptive notices by Dawson Turner Esq", printed for John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill and J S Cotman, Yarmouth 1822, numerous engraved plates, rather foxed throughout, elephant folio, library bkpl inside fb, no library stamps, marbled ep, contemporary marbled bds, half leather but very bumped and worn with a leather pastedown to fb being the gift of Grace Isabella Buchanan (to the library)

Adam, Robert and James "The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam Esqs", vols 1 and 2, publ by Emile Thezard, reprinted from the original 1900, text in English and French, limited edition no 315/500 copies signed by the publisher, numerous engraved plates, disbound, all within original folder with ribbon ties, the backstrip is separating, library barcode inside front board, appears to be free of library stamps on the plates and throughout, elephant folio Bolton, Arthur T "The Architecture of Robert and James Adam (1758-1794)", publ at the offices of Country Life 1922, 2 vols, library stamps on tp and random through book, numerous photographic and other ills, original green cloth with gilt decorated boards and gilt titles, corners on both vols rather bumped and rubbed (3)

Ravilious, Eric "The Wood Engravings of Eric Ravilious", Lion and Unicorn Press 1972, introduction by J M Richards, elephant folio, no.56 of (500)limited edition, small library stamp on tp and library stamp reverse of tp, the book is clear of any other library stamps, pictorial hessian boards within its original slip case

Ebbetts, D J "Examples of Decorative Wrought Ironwork of the 17th and 18th Century", Batsford 1879, library bkpl, detached pages, decorated boards Tijou, John "A New Booke of Drawings... sold by the author in London 1693", Batsford 1896, plates, library bkpl inside front board, pictorial board, worn and bumped Shnid, C H (ed) "Ferronnerie de Style Moderne... Motifs Executes en France et a l'Etranger", plates, photographic and other, library bkpl, ties, quarter leather but backstrip missing, titles on front board, folio "Die Schmiedekunst Nach Originalen des XV Bis XVIII Jahrhunderts", Berlin 1887, plates, some foxing, library bkpl and barcode, pictorial cloth with armorial crest, backstrip detaching, folio (4)

Budge, E A Wallis "The Book of the Dead, facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemet...", printed by Order of the Trustees, The British Museum 1899, elephant folio, colour plates and other, rebound library cloth, red library cloth with one library bkpl inside front board with gilt titles

Harrison, J E and MacColl, D S "Greek Vase Paintings", T Fisher Unwin, London 1894, plates throughout, some foxing, library bkpl inside front board, barcode, original pictorial cloth, elephant folio, chips to the top and bottom of the backstrip and all rubbed and bumpedRedoute, Pierre-Joseph "Roses", The Aerial Press 1954, colour plates, rebound, library cloth, library bkpl, barcode, library stamp reverse of half title "Roses 2", The Aerial Press 1956, library stamp inside reverse half title, rebound Dore, Gustav (ills) "The Story of Elaine...", E Moxon Son & Co 1871, elephant folio, sepia plates, some foxing, ep detached, library bkpls, front board detached and backstrip missing, original binding, red blindstamp cloth with gilt titles (4)

Green, William "78 Studies from Nature, engraved by William Green from drawings made by himself", Messrs Longman, Hurst, Reece & Orme 1809, title page repaired and laid down, plates, with library stamp top right hand corner, oblong folio, rebound red library cloth with library bkpl and barcode Prout, Samuel "Facsimiles of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany and Drawn on Stone by Samuel Prout...", C Bullman Del's Lithography, nd, list of subscribers, engraved plates, some foxing, elephant folio, bkpl, barcode, rebound in blue library cloth (2)

Brooke, Arthur de Capell "Winter Sketches in Lapland or Illustrations of a Journey from Alten on the Shores of the Polar Sea... through Norwegian, Russian and Swedish Lapland to Tornea...", John Murray 1826, plates, folio, drawn on stone by J D Harding from a sketch by Captain Brooke, vignette of a reindeer drawing a sledge on the front board, the plates are dated John Murray 1825, the whole is loose with many pages chipped and damaged but not affecting the plates, front board detached, back board missing, two inscriptions, one inside front board 'Presented to the Mechanical Institution by Sir Arthur De Capell Brooke, December 4th 1840' and another inscription on the tp 'Presented to the Library of the Northampton Mechanics Institute by Sir Arthur de Capell Broke Bt', bought as seen, all within a slip case

Kipling, Rudyard "Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling", Hodder & Stoughton 1912, small folio, velum covers with silk ribbon ties. This edition deluxe printed on England handmade paper limited to 500 copies of which this is no 336, signed Hodder & Stoughton and an indistinct signature (not Kipling)Nightingale, Madeline "Boggarty Ballads", Basil Blackwell 1923, woodcuts by Charles T Nightingale, pictorial clothWodehouse, P G"Jeeves in the Offing" 1960, red cloth, dj not price clipped, inscription on ffep"Schiller's Verke" Berlin 1891, four vols, bkpl Ohne Hastohnerast and various other vols (13)

Andrees, Allgemeiner "Handatlas... Dr Ernst Ambrosius", Lypzig 1928, book worm damage to title page, large folio, double page maps, decorated ep, blue cloth, gilt decoration and titles, backstrip missing

Colman, Sir Jeremiah "The Noble Game of Cricket", illustrated and described from pictures, drawings and prints in the collection of ...", Batsford Limited 1941, colour plates tipped in and other plates, with an accompanying letter of presentation dated 27/10/41, green cloth, gilt titles, card dj, speckled edges slightly foxed, teg, small folio

"Picturesque Europe with illustrations on steel on wood by the most eminent artists", Cassell, Petter & Galpin & Co, nd, ills throughout and engraved plates with tissue guards, 5 vols, pictorial cloth, gilt titles, small folio (5)

Moffat, Harold Charles "Old Oxford Plate", Archibald Constable & Co 1906, numerous photographic plates, with tissue guards, library stamps to reverse, library stamp on title page, rebound library cloth Evans, J T "The Church Plate of Radnorshire", Stow on the Wold, James Auden The Square 1910, original black cloth with gilt titles to front board, library stamps back of plates, library stamp on title page"The Church Plate of Breconshire" 1912"Evans Church Plate of Oxfordshire""Evans Church Plate of Gowerland" 1921"Evans Church Plate of Pembrokeshire", 1905, all in original cloth but with library stamps and library bkplsCaldicott, J W "The Values of Old English Silver and Sheffield Plate from the XVth to XIXth Centuries", Bemrose & Sons Limited 1906, numerous plates with library stamps, library bkpls, rebound library cloth and other related volumes"The Collector" bound in library cloth, Old English Furniture, vols 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 Hepplewhite, A "The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide; or Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture...", reprinted and pub by B T Batsford 1997, rebound library cloth, half titles missing, plates some foxing, no library stamps, large folio and other related volumes (2 boxes)

Three folio vols "Proceedings of the Commission of the Peace" bound in, 1682-1699, 1700-1714 and 1715-1729, full brown leather, gilt titles (3)

Foxe, John "Actes and Monuments of Matters... wherein is set forth... with then bloody times, horrible troubles and great persecutions against the true Martyrs of Christ... now againe as it was recognised, perused and recommended to the studious reader by the author Master John Foxe: the Sixth time newly inprinted with certain additions... anno 1610, printed for the Company of Stationers at London, vol 2 the Ecclesiasticall Historie... from the time of King Henry VIII unto Queen Elizabeth our Gracious Late Soveraigne of Blessed Memory, new recognised and enlarged by the author John Foxe, anno domino 1610", woodcut tp, vol 2 is missing two folding plates and in vol 2 the tp has a cut corner and has been laid down, full vellum with marbled ep (later), elephant folio with gilt Prince of Wales feathers and gilt rules, backstrip showing a gilt portcullis with crown over pastedown titles, red speckled edges (2)

A Rectangular Folio, 91x64cm

Folio containing a watercolour landscape, a sketch book and a quantity of engravings and prints

[Les Fresques de Touenhouang - Thun-Huang]. Dun Huang Bi Hua Xuan. Volume OneCheng Chen-to; Dun Huang Wen Wu Yan Jiu SuoPublié par Peking: Jung Pao Chai Studio; Rong Bao Zhai Xin Ji, 1952, 1952, 1ère édition, 1er tirage. Jung Pao Chai Hsin Chi, "Les fresques de Thun-Huang".12 illustrations libres en xylogravure.Texte d'introduction en français et en chinoisIn-folio, 44x32.5 cm.Arts d'AsieAsian ArtAsiaticaLivresBooks Bücher

Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Scène d'intérieur.Tirage de tête Futuropolis 1982, signé et numéroté 308/150.In-folio en feuilles: 8 planches en couleurs érotiques et 2 p. (préface et justificatif de tirage)37x29 cm.EroticaLivresBooks Bücher

Léandre Vaillat, La Savoie, Chambéry, la Maurienne, la Tarentaise, dessins de André Jacques, Librairie Atar, Corraterie, Genève 1913.In-folio, couverture papier. Condition: mouillures et dos fendu.LivresBooks Bücher

ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER: (1900-2002) Queen Consort of King George VI. D.S., Elizabeth R, one page, folio, Court of St. James's, London, 31st December 1981. The document being the appointment of Vivien Clifford to be a Member of the Fifth Class of the Royal Victorian Order. Signed by the Queen Mother to the foot and countersigned by Charles Maclean, and further bearing the facsimile signature of Queen Elizabeth to the upper left corner. With the blind embossed seal of the Royal Victorian order to the upper right corner. Accompanied by the original envelope. VG

Franz von Bayros (Austrian, 1866-1924), 'Die Grenouillère', a folio of 15 unframed erotic prints, 1907, 22 x 21cm

A folio of 32 antiquarian prints

Black Beauty illustrated by Cecil Aldin and two folio books

A Volume, 12 Lakeland Poets, holograph poems each individually signed, with an introduction by Norman Nicholson, folio folder, worn, contents produced as loose sheets

Solon, L. M. 'The Art of the Old English Potter'. London: Bemrose & Sons. 1883. With 50 etchings by the author. Elephant Folio. Publisher's half morocco, worn.

A carton, miscellaneous books. Including, 'The Complete Angler' London: John Major, 1823; 'The Land o' Cakes and Brither Scots or Scotland and Things Scottish' Paisley: 1897, presentation copy; Folio Society; Rudyard Kipling, etc. (25)

Jacques Villon (French, 1875-1963) Les Travaux et les Jours, 1962. Complete folio, 23 etchings including four with aquatint. Dimensions are: 15 3/4" X 12". All measurements are approximate. Condition: Wear to binding. Lithographs excellent. Provenance: From a West Virginia collection.

A large folio of Watercolours, Engravings and Prints, etc

MONTORGUEIL (Georges). La Cantiniere France son Histoire, Imagee par Job, Paris, Charaway, Mantoux, Martin, n.d., c. 1898, folio, colour illustrations throughout, including three double-page, front free endpaper detached, inner hinges split, browned throughout, original pictorial boards, extremites rubbed, some soiling, some wear to head and foot of spine

Advertising - an important set of four Victorian folio albums, enclosing printed samples of cotton labels, for various Chinese, Indian and domestic haberdashery and sewing tapes, the labels predominantly in colour and some pictorial, etc., some inscribed manuscript to some endpapers, late 19th century/early 20th century, [4]

A folio of assorted watercolours and sketches, largely being modern examples

A folio of oils and watercolours

A box of assorted mainly Folio Society books, to include H E Morton - In Search of England, The Travels of Marco Polo, The Greek Myths I and II etc

Various photographers, Hong Kong, Macau and Japan; 1860-80sAn album containing 66 albumen prints and three early gelatin silver prints, pasted on each side of cards, all but 10 hand-tinted (Hong Kong and Macau), contemporary half morocco, upper cover detached, oblong folio, Each approximately: 22 x 27cm (8 5/8 x 10 33/8in); album: 30.5 x 47cm (12 x 18 1/2in)Views of Hong Kong (8) including the tramway, Kow Loon Wharf, the Cricket ground, the Peak, Glenealy and the public gardens; Macau (2); Nikko (13); Nagasaki (4); Kyoto Rapids (5); Tokio (10); Awajishima (4); Kobe (2); Yokohama (2).Photographers include Kusakabe Kimbei (27); Raymond Von Stillfried (2); Kuichi Uchida (1); Farsari (1)

Kate Simon and Eric Clapton (b.1950s & b.1945) Rebel Music, Bob Marley and Roots Reggae, 2004The complete portfolio, comprising a first edition, deluxe brown leather copy of 'Rebel Music, Bob Marley and Roots Reggae', signed and numbered from the edition of 350 in black ink by Clapton, and a gelatin silver print signed in black ink by Kate Simon, published by Genesis, Guildford, housed within the original wooden box, folio,overall size 39 x 28 x 5.5cm (15 3/8 x 11 x 2 1/8in)

"CLOCKS AND WATCHES - A DESIGN FOLIO PREPARED BY THE COUNCIL OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN", together with "BITS OF OLD EDINBURGH" by John Reid, published by Bank & Co., 1900, both illustrated (2)

WOLVES Large Wolves folio scrapbook 16" x 12" from 1948 to present with plentiful good early content of the 1949 and 1960 Cup Finals including 1960 Cup Final programme , plus a package including programme and songsheet relating to Billy Wrights 100th England cap v Scotland 1959..1949 items include Sunday Pictorial 1/5/49 covering the Final. Some signed items with signatures including Bert Williams, Pritchard, Wright, Crooks, Swinbourne, Pye, Westcott and a set of 16 caricatures of Wolves players by Hep 1947 is laid down. Generally good

Larmessin (Nicolas de) "Costumes grotesques", fantastic figures composed of the tools or attributes of their trades, 19 plates from the series, copper engravings with etching, trimmed to the outer borderlines and below titles, each c. 270 x 183 mm.(10 3/4 x 7 1/4 in), mounted, occasional slight spotting and other minor defects, several short repaired tears and a few small losses in blank corners of titles, 2 plates with rubbed spots on faces, 3 plates with more extensive repaired tears, nineteenth century cloth-backed patterned boards, rubbed, folio (365 x 263 mm.), [Paris, c. 1710]⁂ These celebrated prints by the Larmessin family have a complex bibliography. Nicolas I de Larmessin (or L'Armessin) (1632-1694) engraved and published approximately 62 plates in his lifetime. His widow Marie Bertrand added 14 plates from his designs and his younger brother Nicolas II (c.1645-1725) engraved a further 22 plates from 1695. The present plates are from the slightly later issue which omitted background details.The following trades are represented: Cook, Furrier, Ploughman, Tailor, Perfume maker, Playing card maker, Hosier, Winegrower, Hatter, Coffee dealer, Coin maker, Upholsterer, Baker, Butcher, Ivory-turner, Mason, Comb maker, Locksmith and Basket maker. The last five listed are those with more significant defects.

Architecture.- Dietterlin (Wendel) Architectura von Ausstheiling, Symmetria und Proportion der Fünff Seülen, 5 parts in 1, first collected and enlarged edition, 5 etched and engraved titles, 196 plates (3 folding), illustrations, colophon (trimmed and mounted), occasional very faint spotting, occasional faint marginal water-staining, early eighteenth century mottled calf by Amsterdam's 'Elite Bindery', gilt, red morocco spine label, rebacked with original spine laid down, a little rubbed, [Brunet II 706, Berlin Katalog 1942, Fowler 105], folio, Nuremberg, Balthazar Caymox, 1598. ⁂ The Strassburg painter and decorator Wendel Ditterlin (1550-1599) provided a rich source of models for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, and cabinetmakers. His work was instrumental in disseminating Renaissance decorative and architectural forms in Germany. Some of the plates, with their plunging views and simultaneous perspectives, prefigure the impossible realities of the twentieth-century Dutch artist M. C. Escher. This is a composite copy, assembled in the early eighteenth century by a Dutch owner, from two separate copies, one of the first issue and one of the second issue. Provenance: Effaced inscription at head of title. The empty tombstone on plate 170 inscribed and dated 1880 ?Henriette Jentine, Geraldine Feltzer.Please note: Several of the leaves have been expertly window-mounted.

Voyages.- Ramusio (Giovanni Battista) Delle Navigationi et Viaggi, 3 vol., collation: vol.1. a4, b-d8, e10, a-v8, x10, y-z, aa-zz, aaa-bbb8, ccc10 ; vol.2. 1-26, 34, 46, 54, A-Z, AA-II8, A-X4, Y6 ; vol.3. *6, B-D8, E-F6, A-Z, Aa-Vv8, Xx4, Yy-Zz, Aaa-Eee8, Fff10, mixed edition (as usual), titles with woodcut printer's device (also on final leaf of vol.2 & 3), vol.1 with final blank, 3 double-page engraved maps of Africa, India and Indochina (bound so that superimposed when open) in vol.1, 7 folding and 2 full-page woodcut maps in vol.3, woodcut initials and text-illustrations of indigenous people, fauna, flora etc. of , some full-page, some foxing and browning, mostly light but more severe to a few leaves, one or two minor marginal defects (paper flaw hole to c6 in vol.1, slight worming to lower outer corner at beginning of vol.2, Mm3 in vol.3 lacking small portion to outer margin), later vellum with traces of ties, rubbed and slightly stained, rebacked and recornered in vellum, calf labels, a good copy, [vol.3 Adams R139], folio, Venice, Giunti, 1613-1583-1606.⁂ One of the most important collections of early voyages and travels.The first volume is mainly concerned with Africa and southern Asia, the second with Central Asia, Russia, and the Northern Seas, while the third volume is entirely devoted to America, and includes accounts of Peter Martyr, Oviedo, Cortes, Cabeza de Vaca, Guzman, Ulloa, Coronado, Fray Marcos di Niza, Xerez, Verrazano and Cartier. The double-page maps are of Cuzco in Peru, La Nuova Francia (Newfoundland, second separate map of Northeast America), Brazil, Sumatra (first map of any island in S.E.Asia), Parte de Lafrica, La Terra Hochelaga nella Nova Francia (Montreal, earliest printed plan of a settlement in North America) and Universale della Nuovamente Parte del Mondo Ritrovata (world map of the Western Hemisphere, one of the most complete of its time). There are also full-page maps of Isola Spagnuola (Hispaniola) and the city of Temistitan in Mexico.

Architecture.- Scamozzi (Vincenzo) L'Idea della Architettura Universale, 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved titles, illustrations, woodcut head and tail-pieces, bookplate, blind-stamp to title and label to title verso, lacking Registro leaf, contemporary calf, gilt, morocco spine label, a little rubbed, housed in a protective slipcase,[Fowler 292, Cicognara 651, Millard Italian 123], folio, Venice, Giorgio Valentino, 1615.⁂ This was called the "bulkiest architectural treatise written in Italy" (Wittkower) and next to the Quattro Libri of his teacher Palladio, it was the most influential architectural work of the early seventeenth century. Provenance: Bookplate of Nicholas Joseph Foucault (1643-1721), first Marquis de Magny, archaeologist, and royal administrator in the reign of Louis XIV. His library was in part dispersed before his death, several copies acquired by the Earls of Macclesfield. With Foucault's large engraved ex-libris to the front pastedown, and the Earls of Macclesfield's blind-stamp and South Library Macclesfield bookplate to title and title verso. Sold as part of the Macclesfield Library, Sotheby's, October 25, 2005.

Holbein (Hans) Imitations of Original Drawings ... in the Collection of His Majesty ..., 84 colour-printed stipple engraved plates on 83 leaves, 66 on pink paper, occasional faint spotting, bookplate, ink inscription, contemporary calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Abbey Life 205, Lowndes I 405], folio, 1792-1800.⁂ The originals, in chalk heightened with pen and metal-point, were made by Holbein during his two sojourns to England. They constitute preliminary studies for several of his most famous oil paintings. The drawings were originally in a volume now preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, called the Great Booke. Provenance: H. C. M. Porter with his ex-libris.

Botany.- Stanton (F. M.) [Album of Watercolour Botanical Drawings], 20 watercolour paintings of flowers on thick wove paper, each mounted in an album, manuscript list of contents tipped in, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, preserved in a drop-back box, folio, c.1818-28.⁂ The flowers include roses, dahlias, peonies, the Aztec lily, Persian pearl tulip and the Camellia Japonica.

America.- Bry (Johann Theodor de) and Jacques Le Moyne. Brevis Narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae Provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt, part 2 only, engraved title, portrait vignette and 22 plates with letter press text only (of 42), lacking folding map, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, engraved title neatly repaired, occasional browning, modern calf-backed boards, [Sabin 8784], folio, Frankfurt, Joannis Wechel, 1591; and another, on the same; sold not subject to return (2)

Atlases.- Lizars (Daniel) Lizars' Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas, 68 double-page engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, 2 double-page Tables of Mountain Chains, all mounted on stubs, some very light offsetting, occasional light soiling to margins, bookplate, contemporary half morocco, gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio, [1842].⁂ Including the two rare maps depicting the Republic of Texas between its secession from Mexico in 1836 and its annexation in 1845.

Egypt.- Description de l'Égypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée Française., one atlas vol. only, comprising 43 engraved plates and 6 maps or plans, some folding, a few plates of inscriptions hand-coloured, some spotting, a few marginal tears (mostly short), bound in contemporary bounds, little worn, large folio (plate size c.1079 x 689mm.), Paris, 1809-1822. sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

France.- Taylor (Baron Isidore), Charles Nodier and Alphonse de Cailleux. Voyages Pittoresques et Romantiques dans l'Ancienne France, Ancienne Normandie, 2 vol., 4 half-titles, 3 pictorial titles, 242 lithograph plates including 3 bis plates and 7 croquis (variant states) by Taylor, 37 large vignettes in the text, tissue guards, the great majority on chine appliqué, many printed with tint stone, by Horace Vernet, V. Adam, Daguerre, Ciceri, Fragonard, Villeneuve and others, a few by Gericault and Isabey and five by Richard Parkes Bonington, tear to blank lower margin of pp 105/106 in vol.2, bookplates of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, an unusually clean and tall copy, edges untrimmed, contemporary red morocco-backed boards, edges slightly rubbed, [Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 106], large folio, Paris, P. Didot l'aîné, 1820-25.⁂ The earliest, and arguably the finest, volumes of Baron Taylor's ambitious series planned to cover all of France, described by Ray as "... the greatest of all publications illustrated with lithographs." In the event, only nineteen or twenty volumes on nine regions eventually appeared including a final volume on Basse-Normandie in 1878. Both Ray and Twyman (Lithography, 1970, pp 226-253) extol the quality of Bonington's lithographs which include "two designs which are among the masterpieces of all lithography" (Ray). These are Rue du Gros Horloge, Rouen (pl.173, Curtis 16) and Evreux, Tour du Gros Horloge (pl. 226, Curtis 19).

Holy Land.- Roberts (David), After. [The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia ...], vignette title to vol. I, and 42 plates only, from the Royal Subscriber's edition, lithographs with fine original hand-colouring, mounted onto card as issued, each with ruled black 'mourning' border, 22 full folio plates approx. 490 x 340 mm. (19 1/4 x 13 1/2 in), or the reverse, the others half folio approx. 250 x 330 mm. (9 7/8 x 13 in), or the reverse, title page with ink signature of 'Lady Georgina Codrington', occasional light spotting and browning, loose, unframed, F.G. Moon, 1842-1849 (43).Provenance:Lady Georgina Codrington (wife of Sir C.B. Codrington, listed as a subscriber)Literature:Abbey Travel 385 ⁂ "One of the most important and elaborate ventures of the nineteenth century". Plates include [Abbey nos.] 2-15, 17-20, 26, 46-47, 84-87, 89-105; predominantly views of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Petra. The black borders featured on all the plates in this group were applied by the publisher following the death of Sir C.B. Codrington, a subscriber who passed away during the final stages of the work being published. The title vignette bears the name of Codrington's wife, Lady Georgina Codrington, who would have received the completed work featuring the unique black borders, a token of sympathy from the publisher.

Herbal.- Grete Herball (The), 111 leaves only, seemingly lacking 3 preliminary leaves and A1, 2, 5 & 6, B6, D4, H2, I4 & 5, K2 & 6, L1, M5&6, N1-6, O1, P4 & 6, Q1, 3 & 5, R2 & 4, S 1& 2, T2, U1, 2 & 5, X1 & 2, Aa2, 3 & 6, B1-6 and all after Cc3, first edition with 43 lines on C1v col.1 and S3r col.2, black letter, double column, numerous woodcut illustrations, one or two contemporary ink marginalia, trimmed at fore-edge with slight loss, a little soiled and stained, first leaf reinforced at lower margin, ex-library copy but unstamped, later morocco-backed marbled boards, some wear to morocco, [Henrey 168; Hunt 25; Nissen BBI 2296; STC13176], folio, [Southwark, P. Treveris], [1526]; sold not subject to return⁂ First edition of the first illustrated English herbal, sadly somewhat depleted but rare in any condition.

Italy.- Nuova Raccolta di Costumi di Roma e Adiacenze..., hand-coloured pictorial title captioned 'Costumi Popolari' and 23 fine hand-coloured plates by Liberali, Morelli, Marroni, Cottafavi & others, tissue guards, some light marginal soiling, one or two plates slightly smudged but generally bright, becoming loose, contemporary calf elaborately blocked in gilt with title in Spanish on upper cover and central crest and border on both covers, spine gilt, rubbed, folio, Rome, Oggetti di Belle Arti, [1840].

South East Asia.- Ferreira (Manuel) Noticias Summarias das perseguicoes da Missam de Cochinchina, principiada, & continuada pelos Padres da Companhia de Jesu, first edition, half-title, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and decorations, some leaves browned,small marginal ink stain to one leaf, 19th century Portuguese mottled calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, [Palau 194164; Cordier, Biblioteca Indosinica 1924], folio, Lisbon, Miguel Manescal, 1700.⁂ First edition of this extremely scarce work on the persecution and martyrdom of Christian missionaries in Cochinchina at the end of the 17th century. This volume is considered one of the most important European works on Cochinchina from that time period. Jesuit priest Manuel Ferreira arrived in Vietnam in 1694, after having served as a missionary elsewhere in the East Indies since 1658. Ferreira provides a description of the region, including history, local customs, geography, and vegetation, before going on to discuss the establishment of the Jesuit missions. Much of the text focuses on the persecution, imprisonment, and often brutal murders of Christian missionaries who refused to renounce their faith, reporting that men were beheaded while women were thrown to the elephants. The last copy we have been able to trace at auction appeared in 1933.Provenance: Prosepero Peragallo (historian, signature dated Lisbon 1875 on title).

Americas.- Jefferys (Thomas) The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, titles in red and black, 18 fine folding engraved maps and plans by and after Jefferys, with the additional leaves pp.129*-138* in part 1 concerning the siege of Quebec, part 2 with errata slip pasted over part of p.80, lightly browned, slight ink-staining to signature R in part 2, book-label of John Clevland, contemporary calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed, joints split, spine ends worn, [Sabin 35964], folio, for Thomas Jefferys, 1760.⁂ The first part covers Canada and Louisiana, including town plans of Quebec, Montreal, Louisburg and New Orleans; the second part the West Indies, including plans of Hispaniola, Guadeloupe & Martinique, and Cayenne.

British Vice-Consul to Trieste.- Bynner (Henry, Vice-Consul, of Birmingham, 1773-1867) Letter Book, manuscript, slightly browned, 2 lithographed circular letters from the Foreign Office loosely inserted (1 signed by Canning), original half calf, worn, paper label on upper cover, 1818-26; Report on the Trade and Navigation of the Port of Trieste, in answer to a Set of Queries proposed by the... Lords of the Committee of His Majesty's Privy-Council for Trade, manuscript, title and 124pp. excluding blanks, pencil inscription on front free endpaper: "from the library of the late W Salt Brassington ex Chief Librarian Stratford upon Avon", original reversed calf, red and gilt morocco label on spine, 1833, folio (2). ⁂ "Trieste 14 October 1819 My Lord, I beg leave to transmit herewith enclosed a Bill of Lading of a Box containing Greek Manuscripts sent me by The Right Honble. The Earl of Guildford St. James's Place, London."

Bible, Latin.- Biblia latina, collation: a-h10 i-l12 m-t10 v14 x-z [et] [con]10 aa-gg10 hh8 ii-ll10 mm12 nn-pp10 qq12 A10 B C12, double column, 455 ff. (of 456, lacking initial blank), final f. blank, first initial in red and blue on a ground of gold, other initials in red or blue, a few in both, chapter-marks in red or blue, initial-strokes in yellow, occasional early ink marginalia and notes to verso of final blank, hole and abrasions within first initial, loss of a few letters verso, p7 margins outer and lower margin trimmed to text, several ff. loose, some marginal repairs, some spotting and staining, a few marginal repairs, loose in 17th century reversed calf, spine ends worn, rubbed and scuffed, with good margins, folio (282 x 202mm.), Venice, Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, 1478.⁂ This handsomely printed edition is rare to the market. Provenance: Earl of Normanton (bookplate). Literature: BMC V, 254; BSB-Ink B-428; Copinger, Incunabula Biblica, 35; Darlow-Moule 910; Goff B-556; HC 3070.