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Philostratus. De vita Apollonii Tyanei a P. Beroaldo castigatus, woodcut decorative initials, early ink notes and marginalia (extensive to first and last ff.), some worming within text to last few ff., a few repairs to last f., some light staining, antique style blind-stamped calf, metal clasps, rubbed, [Adams P1068], folio, [Venice], [Bernardino de Vitali], 1502.

Rome.- Bartoli (Pietro Santi) Le Pitture Antiche del Sepolcro de Nasoni nella Via Flaminia, second edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, 35 engraved plates, 1 folding, patterned endpapers, contemporary mottled calf, gilt arms to covers, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, a little rubbed, folio, Rome, Antonio de Rossi, 1702.⁂ A very good copy of the second edition of this important work on the frescoes of the tomb of Quintus Nasonius Ambrosius, originally discovered in 1674 and thought to be the tomb of Ovid.

Cruikshank (George) Phrenological Illustrations, or an Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim, first issue, title with engraved vignette, six hand-coloured etchings, each on Whatman wove paper, dated '1826' with tissue guards dated '1823', each sheet approx. 280 x 380 mm. (11 x 15 in), some foxing and light browning, original printed wrappers, with price '8s', [Cohn 178], oblong folio, worn, in red cloth presentation portfolio, gilt, J. Robins, 1826.

Folio Society Books including Pax Britaninica, The Story of the Middle Ages, In Flanders Fields, etc in slips, 15vols Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

'The Temple of Flora' essay and descriptions by Robert John Thornton, published by TASCHEN together with folio of plates, boxed, 1vol Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

WALTER WHALL BATTISS (1906 - 1982), PORTFOLIO OF TWELVE PHOTOLITHOGRAPHS, on paper, published by Murry Schoonraad, compiled and edited by Art Folio Johannesburg 1973, 21 by 29.5cm.

A folio of reproduction lithographs of 'At The Circus' by Toulouse-Lautrec, 1967.

Milton (John) The Poetical Works, 12 engraved plates to Paradise Lost, some browning and light water-staining, lacking portrait frontispiece, contemporary vellum, rebacked in cloth, some wear to extremities, folio, for Jacob Tonson, 1695.

NO RESERVE British Isles.- Camden (William) Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English with Large Additions and Improvements... by Edmund Gibson, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, 7 engraved plates of coins only (of 8, lacking plate VII) and 12 double-page and/or folding maps by Robert Morden only (of 50, lacking most of the county maps), the 3 general maps (Britannia Romana, Britannia Saxonica and England) and map of Rutland all with outline hand-colouring), engraved and woodcut illustrations, one or two full-page, title with pencil signature of M.A.Cook, plate IV of coins with contemporary manuscript "A Correct Table of ?Areas of Circles for Ale and Beer" in ink on verso, occasional light soiling or browning but generally very clean, plate IV of coins with small tear repaired, one or two other small tears or marginal defects, contemporary calf ruled in blind, rebacked, corners repaired, rubbed, [Wing C359], folio, by F. Collins for A.Swale...and A & J Churchill, 1695; sold not subject to return⁂ First edition of Gibson's translation and the first with Morden's maps

NO RESERVE England.- Prout (Samuel) A New Drawing Book, in the Manner of Chalk, containing Twelve Views in the West of England, first edition, 11 soft-ground etched plates only (of 12, lacking Dartmoor), some spotting and soiling, original buff printed wrappers, uncut, a little soiled and frayed at edges, oblong folio, R.Ackermann, 1819 § Wilkinson (Robert, publisher) [Londina] Theatrum Illustrata, Graphic and Historic Memorials of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Schools , 2 vol., engraved vignette title and 79 engraved plates only (of 205), 3 double-page, some foxing or soiling, mostly marginal, old ink stamp of John Brymer at head of title and list of plates in second volume, later half morocco, spines gilt, 1825, oblong folio & 4to; sold not subject to return (3)

NO RESERVE Antiquities.- Windus (Thomas) A New Elucidation of the...Portland Vase..., 10 lithographed plates, 4 of the vase printed in black and blue, illustrations, water-staining, hinges weak, original pictorial cloth, gilt, worn and stained, spine defective, folio, 1845⁂ A manuscript note on the front free endpaper records that No.5 of the first 50 copies of the vase by Wedgwood sold at Christie's in 1877 for £273.

Agriculture.- W[orlidge] (J[ohn]) Systema Agriculturae; the Mystery of Husbandry Discovered, fourth edition, advertisement leaf at beginning, without the engraved title and plate found in some copies, slight worming, mostly to lower margin but just touching a few catchwords, Hopetoun bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, lower joint split, corners and spine ends worn, by Nath. Rolls, 1697 § Bréhaut (Rev. T.Collings) Cordon Training of Fruit Trees, first edition, frontispiece and 8 plates, original blind-stamped cloth, rubbed, 1860, folio & 12mo (2)

Mercantile Law.- Beawes (Wyndham) Lex Mercatoria Rediviva: or, the Merchant's Directory, fourth edition, imprimatur leaf at beginning, folding letterpress table of currencies, some spotting or soiling, contemporary calf, rubbed and slightly stained, joints split, corners and spine ends worn, for J.Rivington..., 1783; and another, mercantile, folio & 12mo (2) ⁂ Including information on wrecks & salvage, ports & harbours, pirates etc.

Sir Henry Maximilian 'Max' Beerbohm (1872 - 1956), an extensive folio of caricatures, off-set prints laid on woven paper, early 20th century (collection)

After Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528), The Adoration of the Shepherds, from the Life of the Virgin, foreground masonry slab with monogrammed AD device, 17th/18th century woodcut on woven paper folio leaf, 51.5cm x 33.5cm

Irish School (early 19th century), a two-fold caricature, One Heavy Son of Mars, Gainst (sic) Seven Light Hussars, Published by M* Cleowy, 39 Nassau Street, Dublin [c. 1820], hand-coloured etching, 28cm x 44cm; 18th century and later engravings, etchings and lithographs of Derbyshire topography, including Medieval church interiors, various sizes; Movie-Land covers: No. 1, Volume 1, Jan 3rd 1921 & No. 2, Volume 1, Jan 10th 1921; etc (folio)

Johann Hoffmann (Nuremberg, 17th century), by and after (?), [King of Tartary], etched engraving, 34cm x 24.5cm, 19th century collector's ink MS collection number to verso N13554; Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838), by, a set of three, Hunting A Zebra, Hunting A Panther and Kamtschaktka Bear Hunting, Published by Edward Orme, London 1813, hand-coloured aquatints, 23cm x 32.5cm, another similar, Shooting Anecdote, India 2, hand-coloured aquatint, 23cm x 32.5cm, all four from Orme's Oriental Field Sports, 1813, (4); [William Henry Pyne] (1769 - 1843), [Brick Maker] (untitled, trimmed?), [Fishermen], No. 4, [Butcher], No. 58 and [Female Shrimper], No. 59, Published by William Miller, London, January 1805, for The Costume of Great Britain, 25cm x 36cm, (4); English School (late 19th century), George Cruickshank, Published by H.A. Rogers, Manchester Square, [London] 1882, etching, 22cm x 14cm; P. Devel, by, La Maison de Ville d'Amsterdam par Derriere, 18th century architectural elevation, engraving, 15.5cm x 21.5cm; Royal Opera House, Convent Garden, programme, Aida by Verdi, Friday, July 17th 1914, Evening Performance, four-page enclosing a calendar for the operatic season, printed with advertisements; 19th century and later etchings, some signed in pencil by the artist; others, etchings, engravings, etc (folio)

A 19th century antiquary's folio, composed of various Medieval brass engravings, some engravings and other prints, quarter-morocco and marbled boards, disbound, crown folio

A mid-20th century 'folio' map of Derby and its environs, 1 : 1250 or 50. 688 inches to 1 Mile, each page 53cm x 50cm, Printed and published by the Ordnance Survey Office, 1947, hinged wooden boards, 57.5cm x 54cm overall

Local Interest - Geology, Mineralogy and Mining - an early 19th century vellum accounts book, inscribed and tabulated in ink manuscript with [...] the General Mineral Account Current of Anthy. Alsop [of Wensley, Derbyshire] with his Grace the Duke of Devonshire [William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, aka 'The Bachelor Duke'], 32 pages of the book with accounts from 31st December 1820 to 31st December 1830, [4] unassociated further inscribed pages, the accounts pertaining to tithes, salaries, rates, bills and charges pertaining to Winster, Taddington, Ashford, Moniash (sic, Monyash), Hassop, etc., 8vo; [Mander (James)], Steward of the 'Great [Baronial] Courts for the Duke of Rutland, Author of the Derbyshire Miners Glossary 1854', a George III ink manuscript accounts ledger and working anthology of legal rights, including a titled '[...] plan of Some Lead Mines in Derbyshire' and illustrated with a full-page hand-scrivened and hand-coloured plan of strata and seams (pages 291 - 293), the whole bound and inscribed with 17th century and later 18th century titles, deed, rights, customs, etc., highlighting Derbyshire and Peak District locations, each page numbered with Arabic numerals, the endpaper signed and dated J. Mander, 1790, floppy vellum crown folio, [2]

Art History - A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art, Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January - March 1930, edited by Lord Balniel and Kenneth Clark, In Consultation With Ettore Modigliani, two-volume set: text & plates, Oxford University Press, London 1931, gilt-embossed green buckram, terracotta dustjackets, crown folio

Art History - British, French and Italian - Badt (Kurt), Die Kunst des Nicolas Poussin, two-volume set, Dumont, Cologne 1969, h/b, d/j, 4to; Wright (Christopher), Poussin Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, Harlequin Books Limited, London 1985, h/b, d/j, square 4to; Schröder (Klaus Albrecht) and Widauer (Heinz), Peter Paul Rubens, [Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2007], paper covers, large square 4to; Rowlands (John), Rubens: Drawings and Sketches, Catalogue of an exhibition at the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, London 1977, h/b, d/j, 4to; further Rubens publications; Van Dyck; Cunningham (Allan), The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Annotated and Continued to the Present Time by Mrs. Charles Heaton, three-volume set, George Bell and Sons, London 1879, oxblood buckram, 12mo; Gilchrist (Alexander), The Life of William Blake [...], second edition, John Lane, London 1906, gilt-embossed red cloth as issued, 8vo; Roberts (W.), Sir William Beechey, R.A., Duckworth and Co., London 1907, red buckram, 12mo; Phaidon: Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds and Rowlandson, h/b, d/j; Rump (Gerhard Charles), George Romney (1734 - 1802), two-volume set, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1974, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Sir Thomas Lawrence; George Stubbs, various; Royal Academy of Arts Bicentenary Exhibition, 1768 - 1968, two-volume set; Goldscheider (Ludwig), Roman Portraits, Phaidon Press Ltd, Oxford & London 1945, h/b, d/j (faults), folio; further Roman art; Classicism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism; further Italian and French Baroque, including Caravaggio; etc

Art History - Italian Medieval & Renaissance - Freedberg (S.J.), Painting of the High Renaissance in Rome and Florence, two-volume set, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1961, h/b, d/j, 4to; Beck (James), Jacopo della Quercia, two-volume set, Columbia University Press, New York, 1991, h/b, d/j, 4to; Fischel (Oskar), Raphael, Translated from the German by Bernard Rackham, two-volume set, Kegan Paul, London 1948, h/b, d/j, 4to; further Raphael monographs and folios, various; Fremantle (Richard), Florentine Gothic Painters, From Giotto to Masaccio: A Guide to Painting in and near Florence 1300 to 1450, Martin Secker and Warburg, London 1975, h/b, d/j, crown folio; Fiocco (Giuseppe), The Frescoes of Mantegna in the Eremitani Church, Padua, With An Introduction by Terisio Pignatti, Phaidon, Oxford 1978, h/b, d/j, crown folio; Meiss (Millard), The Great Age of Fresco: Discoveries, Recoveries and Survivals, Phaidon Press, London, 1970, h/b, d/j, crown folio; other Phaidon folios, various; Boskovits (Miklós), The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Early Italian painting 1290 - 1470 [...], Sotheby's Publications, London 1990, h/b, d/j, small square folio; Seymour (Charles, Jr), Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery: A Catalogue, Yale University Press, New Haven 1970, h/b, d/j, 4to; Hills (Paul), The Light of Early Italian Painting, Yale University Press, New Haven 1987, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Molmenti (Pompeo) and Ludwig (Gustav, The Late), The Life and Works of Vittorio Carpaccio, Translated by Robert H. Hobart Cust, John Murray, London 1907, gilt-embossed green buckram as issued, small folio; Bronzino, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bernard Berenson (7); exhibition catalogues; etc

Art History - Old Master Drawings - Tolnay (Charles de), History and Technique of Old Master Drawings: A Handbook, Hacker Art Books, New York 1972, h/b, small folio; Goldner (George R.), European Drawings: 1, Catalogue of the Collections, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1988, h/b, d/j, small folio; Old Master Drawings From the Collection of John and Alice Steiner, edited by Alfred Moir, Santa Barbara Museum o Art, 1986, card covers, 4to; Flemish Paintings & Drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7: Addenda, Shenval Press, London 1969, card covers, 4to; other collection catalogues; Gere (John), I Disegni Dei Maestri: Il Manierismo A Roma, Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan 1971, h/b, small folio; further volumes from the same series, numbers: 1, 9, 12 & 14, h/b, d/j, (4); etc

Art History - Prints & Engravings - The Panorama of London circa 1544 by Anthonius van den Wyngaerde, Edited by Howard Colvin and Susan Foister, London Topographical Society in association with The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Publication No. 151, London Topographical Society, 1996, gilt-embossed green buckram, oblong crown folio; Le Beau Style (1520 - 1620): Gravures Maniéristes de la Collection George Baselitz, edited by Nathalie Strasser [...], Cabinet des estampes du Musée d'art et d'histoire, [Geneva 2002], h/b, d/j, crown folio; Titian and the Venetian Woodcut, Introduction and Catalogue by David Rosand and Michelangelo Muraro, A Loan Exhibition Organized and Circulated by International Exhibitions Foundation 1976 - 1977, paper covers, oblong 8vo; Print Quarterly, run, March 1984, Volume I, Number I - December 1986, Volume III, Number 4 (12); Godfrey (Richard T.), Printmaking In Britain: A General History From Its Beginnings To The Present Day, Phaidon, Oxford 1978, h/b, d/j, 4to; Taylor (Basil), The Prints of George Stubbs, The Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, London 1969, oblong 8vo; etc

Beerbohm (Max), A Book of Caricatures, first edition, Methuen & Co., London 1907, coloured photogravure frontispiece, forty-eight monochrome photogravure plates of political and literary figures, publisher's quarter tan buckram with red spine with gilt-embossed title, the front board with printed cream paper label, crown folio

Botany - Alpine Plants: Figures and Descriptions of Some of the Most Striking and Beautiful of The Alpine Flowers, edited by David Wooster, F.R.H.S., second edition, two-volume set, George Bell & Sons, London 1874, illustrated throughout with full-page botanical chromolithographic plates, contemporary blue buckram as issued, 4to; Pratt (Anne), Wild Flowers, Published [...by the] Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, London [c. 1853], each page accompanied by two chromolithographs of each botanical specimen, embossed green cloth as issued, crown folio, [3]

Botany - Stewart Miner (Harriet), Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants, With Illustrations from Nature, John Slark, London 1885, 90pp, 24 chromolithographic full-page plates of the flowers to accompany the text, contemporary embossed pictorial cloth binding, crown folio

Botany & Gardening - early 19th century folio, composed of 58 hand-coloured engravings of flowers by F. Sansom (fl. c.1797 - 1810), after paintings by Sydenham Teast Edwards (1768 - 1819), presumably from the New Botanic Garden, Published by G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, London 1805 - 1806, accompanied by 13 monochrome architectural engravings of garden buildings, conservatories, hot houses, ice house, stoves, walls, plans and diagrams, engraved by John Barlow (1759/60 - 1810) and/or C. Blunt (fl. 1805), Published by G. Kearlsey, Fleet Street, London 1805 - 1806, each of the 71 full-page engravings 26cm x 20cm or 26cm x 20cm, later 20th century red morocco spine and brown cloth boards, the spine preserving an early 19th century black leather label with gilt-embossed title Plates, 4to

Engineering - Modern Power Generators: Steam, Electric and Internal-Combustion and their Application to Present-Day Requirements, With Many Diagrams and Pictorial Illustrations and a Series of Composite Sectional Models, Prepared Under the Editorship of James Weir French, B.Sc., two-volume set, The Gresham Publishing Company, London 1908, volume I: xix, 201pp, vol II: xiv, 203pp, illustrated throughout with fold-out chromolithographic sectional plans and keys, monochrome plans and designs, further illustrations, green cloth Secessionist binding as issued, crown folio Provenance: Harry 'Sft' John Swift, OBE, of Thorpe House, Littleover, Derby, former Overall General Manager of Rolls-Royce.

Messrs. Knight, Frank & Rutley:~ The Quenby Estate, Leicestershire [...], Including Quenby Hall, A perfect specimen of Jacobean Architecture, circa 1610 - 1620, By direction of The Lady Henry Grosvenor, To be Offered by Auction, in Three Lots [...] Friday, June 27th [1913], 2 o'clock, (Unless previously disposed of by Private Treaty), 43pp, illustrated throughout with reproduced photographic reproductions of the exterior of the house, its elevation and grounds, and also its interior complete with house contents, printed card covers as issued, floppy crown folio; loosely inserted related ephemera, including, after Robert Morden (c. 1650 - 1703), a two-page map, Leicestershire, from Camden's Britannia 1722, monochrome copperplate engraving, 39cm x 44cm, the front pastedown pasted with a map of Leicestershire/Rutland highlighting the circumference of the estate, carbon copies and letters relating to the Ashby of Quenby pedigree and their South Carolina branch, an early 19th century engraving of the front elevation from the Gentleman's Magazine, August 1814; b/w postcards of the house and its elevations (4); newspaper and magazine clippings, etc

Miscellaneous Antiquarianism - Harleian Society: Allegations for Marriage Licenses Issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, [1600 - 1694], edited by George J. Armytage, F.S.A., four-volume set, oxblood cloth, 4to; another, 1520 - 1610, one volume only; other society publications (2); British Record Society: Index of the Probate Records of the Court of the Archdeacon of Berkshire, No. 87, Volume II: 1653 - 1710, Compiled by Jasmine S. Howse, 1975, ownership inscription of Anthony R. Wagner [noted herald of the College of Arms], another owner's armorial bookplate, red buckram, 4to; others, Testamentary Records in the Commissary Court of London, No. 102, Volume IV: 1626 - 1649 & 1661 - 1700 and Index of Bedfordshire Probate Records 1484 - 1858, No. 104, Part I: A - Kimnot, (3); The Cambridge Library of Ornamental Art: Renaissance Ornament, from the 15th to the 17th century, Wordsworth Editions, Ware 1991, h/b, d/j, crown folio; another, Arabian Ornament, from the 12th to the 18th century, conforming, [12]

Music - a set of three late Victorian folio sammelbands of sheet and song music, each volume prefixed by an ink manuscript contents page, some with chromolithographic title-piece, bound by Alfred Tacey, Leicester, contemporary quarter-green or quarter-blue leather and buckram board bindings, marbled endpapers, the spines titled and gilt-embossed: Music or Songs, each en suite with the other, crown folios, [c. 1900], (3); Haydn's Oratorio: The Creation [...], In Vocal Score, With A Separate Accompaniment For The Organ or Pianoforte, Arranged by Vincent Novello, Novello, Ewer and Co., London [c. 1870], contemporary quarter-leather and watered buckram boards, the spine embossed with lyres, small 4to; The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular, Volume XX, Novello, Ewer & Co., London 1879, contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards, 4to; The Strand Musical, [London c. 1890], contemporary quarter-leather and purple buckram, 4to; de Béranger, contemporary calf spines and marbled boards, (3), [9]

Music - an early 19th century sammelband of sheet music, comprising 16 pieces: 1) Herz (Henri), Variations Brillantes pour le Piano Forte sur la dernièr Valse de C.M. de Weber dédiés à Mademoiselle Caroline Hartmann, J. Meissonnieu, Paris [1830]; 2) Herz (Henri), Air Suisse Avec Variations et Introduction Pour le Piano-Forte Dédié à Georgiana Marsham, H. Lemoine, Paris [c. 1830]; 3) Herz (Henri), Trois Rondeaux Caractéristiques Pour le Piano Forte Composés et Dédies à Madlle. Georgina Ellen Smith, Goulding & D'Almaine, London [c. 1830]; 4) Greek March, in the Opera of The Siege of Corinth, Composed by Sigr. G. Rossini, Arranged For the Piano Forte by H. Hertz (sic), I. Willis, London [c. 1826], Royal Musical Repository stamp; 5) Hünten (François), Deux Rondeaux Sur l'Orgie de Caraffa Composée pour le Piano Forte, Goulding & D'Almaine, London [n.d.]; 6) Caprice Brilliant on the Popular Ballad The Maid of Llanwellyn Composed by Chas. H. Purday, Arranged for the Piano Forte and Dedicated to Mifs (sic) Thistlewayte by Charles Chaulieu, Z.T. Purday, London [c. 1827?]; 7) Hérold (F[erdinand]), Rondo Militaire Brillant pour le Piano Forte sur l'ais de la Dame Blanche [...], Janet and Cotelle, Paris [c. 1820]; 8) An Introduction and Rondo for the Piano Forte Composed By C. Mavius Jun [presumably Junior], second edition, Preston London [c. 1825]; 9, 10, 11 & 12) Chaulieu (Ch[arles]), Les Thernoises Contredanses Variées Pour le Piano Forte [...], four-sets, R. Cocks & Co., London [c. 1820]; 13) Herz (Henri), La Mode: The 3rd Set of Contredanses Variées for the Piano Forte Composed & Dedicated to Mrs. Anderson, (Pianiste (sic) to her Majesty), Goulding & D'Almaine, London [c. 1830]; 14) Weippert's 50th Set of Quadrilles, Selected from Rofsini's (sic) celebrated Grand Opera Guillaume Tell [...] To which is added An Admired Walttz [...] Dedicated [...to] The Duke of Devonshire, Goulding & D'Almaine, London [c. 1830]; 15 & 16) Hart (Joseph), Third & Second Sets [...] Grand Balls, Leoni Lee, London [c. 1830], [16], contemporary calf spine and angles, marbled boards (disbound), crown folio

Provincial Imprint, The Self-Interpreting Bible, Containing The Old and New Testaments, With References and Illustrations; An Exact Summary of the Several Books; A Paraphrase; On The Important Parts; An Analysis of The Contents of Each Chapter; To Which Are Annexed An Extensive Introduction, Explanatory Notes, Evangelical Reflections, &c., by The Late Rev. John Brown, Embellished With Forty Beautiful Engravings, Printed and Published by Brightly and Child, Bungay [Suffolk]1814, inset MS note inscribed The Hagyard Family Bible (L*****bro, East Yorskhire), Given Jan. 8.9.79 on visit to Ramsgill [...] Father, full contemporary mottled tree calf, the restrained boards with singular fillett, the spine with red leather title label and gilt-embossed filletts flanking raised banding, medium folio

Roman Art and Architecture - Wilpert (Joseph), Die Malereien Der Katakomben Roms [The Paintings of The Catacombs of Rome], volume II only, Herdersche Verlagshandlung, Breisgau 1903, 267 coloured and monochrome full-page photographic prints of the Roman catacombs and their frescoes, quarter-buckram and printed yellow board as issued, crown folio

Strickland's Lithographic Drawing of the Ancient Painted Ceiling In the Nave of Peterborough Cathedral, Together With Descriptive Letterpress, Published by the Author, W. Strickland, [...] Peterborough [...], [c. 1849], 12pp, seven-fold chromolithograph panorama of the aforementioned ceiling, gilt-embossed green cloth covers as issued, contemporaneous trade label for A. Tarrant, Binder, 190 1/2 High Holborn, crown folio

The Book of Cricket: A Gallery of Famous Players, Edited by C. B. Fry, George Newnes, Limited, London [c.1899], quarter-calf green buckram boards, crown folio

The Costume of The Netherlands, Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings After Drawings from Nature by Mifs (sic) Semple; with Descriptions in English and French, Published at Ackermann's Repository of Arts, London 1817, complete: [ii], 30pp accompanied by 30 hand-coloured aquatints of Dutch natives in traditional dress, title-page with conforming coastal vignette, half-title with contemporary ink MS ownership inscription Charlotte Curry, late 20th century full red pebble morocco binding, gilt title label to front board, crown folio

Winnie-the-Pooh Interest - Signed and Dedicated Presentation Copy, Milne (A.A.), The Christopher Robin Verse: Being 'When We Were Very Young' and 'Now We Are Six', With a Preface for Parents, With Twelve Plates in Colour and Text Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1932, xi, [iii], 211pp, publisher's gilt pictorial blue buckram boards, the front endpaper inscribed in ink MS with two stanzas of eight line verse by A.A Milne, signed and dated October 23rd 1935 by the author, above a later presentation inscription in a different hand: Given to Janet Margaret Whitehead on the first anniversary of her birth, May 27. 1940 by Herbert Masters, short 8vo; When We Were Very Young, second edition, 12mo; Fourteen Songs From "When We Were Very Young", Words by A.A. Milne, Music by H. Fraser-Simson, Decorations by E.H. Shepard, 16th edition, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1938, h/b, d/j, front endpaper with ink MS presentation inscription: To my little friend Janet Whitehead on the 2nd anniversary of her birth, May 27th 1941, With much love from Herbert Masters, small folio, [3]

Hexapla [Bible] in Genefin (sic, Genesis) [& bound with] Exodum (sic, Exodus), [...] That Is A Sixfold Commentarie (sic) Upon Genesis: Wherein fix (sic) feverall (sic) Tranflations (sic), that is, the Septuagint, and the Chalde (sic), two Latine (sic), of Hierome (sic), and Tremelins (sic): two Englifh (sic), the Great Bible, and the Geneva Edition are compared, where they differ, with the Originall (sic), Hebrew, and Pagnine (sic), and Montanus interlinearie (sic) interpretation [...], by Andrew Willet [...], Printed by the Asfignes (sic) of Thomas Man, Paul Man, and Ionah (sic) Man, London 1632 - 1633, apparently complete, Genesis: [xii], 408pp, Exodus: [xii], 742pp, full contemporary calf, the boards outlined to extremities with double-fillet, raised bands to spine, front pastedown with printed book label: Thomas Lister, Bull-Green, Halifax [Yorskhire], the endpaper inscribed in 18th century ink MS: Thos Lister (presumably Thomas Lister Senior (1717 - 1779) and/or Thomas Lister Junior (1745 - 1814), the provincial clock making father and son), some 18th century MS annotations to verso endpaper, folio

The Illustrated London News, volume XLVIII, January to June 1866, George Leighton, London [1866, illustrated throughout with line engravings, full-page and parallel to text, later boards, marbled endpapers, crown folio

Royalty - A Series of Caricatures Illustrating The Attorney General's Charges Against Queen Caroline [...] Originally Published At Five Guineas, Published by G. Humphrey, London 1821, thirty-five monochrome full-page and half-page etched plates by and after George or Robert Cruikshank and Theodore Lane, including the full-page advertising frontispiece of Humphrey's Printseller (sic) & Publisher on St. James Street, original Arabesque paper covers with gilt-printed black paper title label, green buckram spine, folio (faults, incomplete)

Books - Calderini (Emma), Il Costume Popolare In Italia, Sperling & Kupfer, Milan 1950, pictorial buckram, large 4to; Libro de Horas de Luis de Orleans, Barcelona 2002, h/b, d/j, crown folio; MacQueen Pope (W.J.), Theatre Royal: Drury Lane, W.H. Allen, London 1945, pictorial boards, 8vo; Bradley (A.G.), The Avon and Shakespeare's County; Victoria and Albert Museum:~ Charles Dickens: An exhibition to commemorate the centenary of his death, catalogue, London 1970; Princess Mary's Gift Book (2); Queen's Gift Book (2); King Albert's Book (2); Dante; 19th century leather bindings, various; qty

Antiquarian Books - French - 19th century and later Literature and History, including Franklin (Alfred), Les Corporations Ouvrières de Paris du XII au XVIII Siècle: Histoire, Statuts, Armoires [...], Librairie de Firmin-Didot [...], Paris 1884, illustrated with full-page tipped in plates of the guilds' coats of arms, leather spine and marbled boards, crown folio; Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane [...], Vignettes par Jean Gioux, Chez Paulin, Paris 1835, contemporary calf boards, later calf spine en suite, 4to; Enlart (Camille), Manuel d'Archéologie Française [..]: Architecture Religieuse, two-volume set, Auguste Picard, Paris 1919, contemporary blue morocco spines and marbled boards, Armorial bookplate: Sydney Armitage Armitage-Smith C.B., 8vo; de la Sicotière (L), Louis de Frotté et Les Insurrections Normandes, 1793 - 1832, volume I only, Libraire Plon, Paris 1889, blue morocco spine, marbled boards, 8vo; Dussieux (L), Le Château de Versailles: Histoire et Description, two-volume set, L. Bernard, Versailles 1881, quarter-red pebble morocco and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, 8vo; de Bourget, Principes de la Guerre de Montagnes [...] 1775, Imprimerie Nationale, Paris 1888, quarter-morocco and 'watered' cloth boards, marbled endpapers, 4to; Volatire; Pascal; Chauteaubriand; etc

A 19th century mahogany leather and brass mounted folio stand, 38" wide

A large quantity of books to include Het Binnerhof, a folio of 17 Dutch lithographs, Vitgare HC Susan CH 212, lithographers Lankhout & Co S Hage; Thomas Barker - 'His life and Work' by Frank Bradlow, pub AA Balkerna, Cape Town/Amsterdam 1967, first limited edition 777/1100 and signed by the author; Claude Lorrain - 'Leber Veritatis' by Michael Kitson, pub British Museum Publications 1978; 'The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh' by Monica Poole, pub Gresham Books 1985; 'The Family History of England, Civil, Military, Social, Commercial and Religious' Ed. Rev James Taylor, pub William Mackenzie, London, illustrated with gilt pictorial boards; 'Milton's Paradise Lost' illus Gustave Dore, pub Henry Altemus, Philadelphia; 'The Old Testament in Art' Ed by W Shaw Sparrow, published by Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1905, and 'Philips Systematic Atlas' circa 1899

George Viner Ellis and G H Ford; "Illustrations of Dissections of the Human Body", second edition, published 1876, large folio.

Thoyras (Ripin de). The History of England, two Vols, third edition, engraved frontispieces, plates, and vignettes throughout, folding engraved maps, slight browning to title, frontispiece and title of Vol I laid down, joints repaired with tape, contemporary panelled calf, re-backed, folio, J & P. Knapton, 1743.

DIENES, Andre de - Marilyn : illustrated throughout, pictorial boards, folio, Taschen, 2002. Includes 'Review', facsimile of the photographer's diary, all contained within a 'mock' photograph film box and original posting box.(1)

FLAXMAN, John - Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus : 30 etched plates in outline by Thomas Piroli, cont. half calf, oblong folio, 1795

FRANKAU, Julia - An Eighteenth Century Artist and Engraver John Raphael Smith : 45 ex 50 mezzotints and coloured stipple engravings, in original published portfolio, elephant folio, 1902.* good quality engravings of children, beauties, in the romantic genre.(1)

FREART, Roland - A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern, in a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have Written upon the Five Orders : Engraved portrait frontispiece, 40 eng. plates, full calf rebacked, folio, third ed, 1723.

LENKIEWICZ, R.O - The Mary Notebook : illust, org. buckram in slipcase, folio, White Lane Press, limited ed. of 350 copies, 1998. With - colour print, ' Study of Mary,' limited ed. of 350 copies, signed by the artist.(2)

SMITH, H. Clifford - Buckingham Palace : illust, org. cloth, folio, Country Life Ltd, (1930). With a box of misc. books.(box)

BEATLES : The Yellow Submarine gift book, org. pictorial laminated boards, folio, World Distributors (Manchester) Limited, first ed, 1968.

COWLEY, Abraham - The Works : portrait frontis, calf, folio, 1678. With - Temple, Sir William, The Works, 2 vols, portrait frontis, calf rebacked, folio, 1731.(3)

DONDE, Antoine - Les Figures et L'Abbrege de la Vie, de la Mort, et des Miracles de Saint Francois de Paule : additional engraved title, 24 engraved plates, calf rebacked, folio, Francois Muguet, Paris,1671. With 3 others.(4)

EUSEBIUS PAMPHILUS, (et al) - The History of the Church, From Our Lord's Incarnation. to the Twelfth Year of Emperour Mauricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594 : full calf, folio, Cambridge, 1683.* Elaborate ownership inscription of John Rodes, dated 1691.

FLORY, Susannah Proctor - Fragments of Family History : org. cloth stained, tables, etc, folio, printed for private circulation, 1896. With two art books.(3)