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Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being a new set of County Maps from actual surveys. Exhibiting all the Direct & Principal Cross Roads, Cities, Towns and most considerable Villages, Parks, Rivers, Navigable Canals &c. L, J. Cary, 1793, second edition. With 2 General Maps (Hand coloured) Plus 46 county Maps (partially hand coloured in outline); 48 Maps in all, as called for. 4to., Later half leather over marbled boards and a slipcase. The first general map repaired and the second little trimmed. Plus: A facsimile edition of Speed’s 1614 edition of: Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine.. Privately printed, no date. Bound by Peter Woodhead, Hertford. Folio, full leather gilt, with slipcase; very good. (2)

(4 works in one volume): Iobi Ludolfi (Ludolf, Hiob (1624-1704)): HISTORIA AETHIOPICA, SIVE BREVIS ET SUCCINTA DESCRIPTIO REGNI HABESSINORUM, QUOD VULGO MALE PRESBYTERI IOHANNIS VOCATUR. Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1681. PP: (336). complete. Folio; Title-Page printed in red and black. ILLUSTRATIONS: On large engraved folding Map, 8 Engraved Plates (7 folding), plus 2 double-page Tables;Ibid. Ad Suam Historiam Aethiopicam Antehac editam Commentarius in quo multa Breviter dicta fusius narrantur. Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1691. pp: (vi), 30, (ii), 632. complete. Title-page and calendar printed in red and black. ILLUSTRATIONS: 3 Portraits, 9 engraved plates and plans (4 double-page, 3 single page, and 2 half plates); plus a text illustration;Ibid. Appendix ad Historiam Aethiopicam. Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1693. pp: 32. ILLUSTRATIONS: Vignette to title-page, plus One text illustration;Ibid. Appendix secunda ad Historiam Aethiopicam continens dissertationem de locustis. Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1694. pp: (viii), 88. ILLUSTRATIONS: Vignette to title-page, plus 3 engraved text illustrations (one full-page).The four works are bound in one later full vellum volume. Very good copy.

JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph, Baron von: SELECTARUM STIRPIUM AMERICANARUM HISTORIA, IN QUA AD LINNAEANUM SYSTEMA DETERMINATAE DESCRIPTAEQUE SISTUNUTUR PLANTAE ILLAE, QUAS IN INSULIS MARTINICA, JAMAICA, DOMINGO, ALIISQUE, ET IN VICINAE CONTINENTIS PARTE, OBSERVAVIT RARIORES. Vindobonae [Vienna], ex officina Krausiana, 1763, First edition. Folio, PP: (x), vii, (v), 284, (xiv)Index, etc., Plus emblematic frontispiece to plate-section and the Plates. ILLUSTRATIONS: engraved vignette of two ships approaching a New World island on title-page, 2 engraved scenic headpieces, numerous woodcut tailpieces, engraved emblematic frontispiece to plate-section depicting Native Americans holding up a banner-map of the West Indies surrounded by Caribbean flora and fauna, Plus 184 engraved full-page plates (numbered I-XXXVII, XXXVII*, XXXVIII-CLXXXIII [also numbered lower right 1-37, 37*, 38-183]; 6 folding) after Jacquin by Jacob Wangner. Leather backed boards; covers worn and front detached; Otherwise a very good and clean copy.

A Folio Containing Mounted but Unframed Chalk Studies of Buildings, Water Colours, Portraits Etc

ENTERTAINMENT: A folio scrapbook containing 28 vintage signed clipped pieces, postcard photographs and slightly larger, a few 8 x 10s etc., by various film actors, actresses and entertainers etc., most neatly laid down to pages and a few loose, including Chico Marx, Betty Hutton, Diana Churchill, Barry K. Barnes, Ivor Novello, Richard Attenborough, Peggy Ryan, Bill Johnson, John Mills, Rex Harrison, Hugh Williams, Graham Payn (3; life partner of Noel Coward) etc., the scrapbook also featuring a number of photographs bearing facsimile signatures, subjects include Judy Garland, Peter Lawford, Margaret Lockwood, Robert Taylor, Joseph Cotten, Danny Kaye etc. Some light overall age wear, FR to G

Colonel Lionel Grimston Fawkes (1849-1931), original pencil sketch attributed to the artist "Returning from Col. Crozier's Garden Party" unsigned (18cm x 21m), together with a folio of prints of the artist's work also a 1979 Exhibition programme of "Thrice Happy Isles! an exhibition of drawings of the West Indies by Lionel Grimston Fawkes".

Thesaurus - Thesaurus Geographicus. A New Body of Geography, folio, calf, covers detached, spine ragged, lacking maps, many pages loose, London 1695

Hasted, Edward - The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 4 vols, folio, half calf, lacking numerous plates, Canterbury 1778-90

Blacks General Atlas, folio, 1846, Longman's New Atlas, folio, 1889, Ordnance Maps of The British Isles and two other atlases (disbound) (5)

A quantity of Durer Society Folio Prints 1905 and others, approx thirty + plates

[Annan, Thomas] - The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow. Engraved by Annan from Photographs taken for the City of Glasgow Improvement Trust, with an Introduction by William Young, R.S.W., Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons, Publishers to the University, 1900, folio, fifty photogravure plates after photographs by Thomas Annan, thirty-eight of the plates are dated 1868, one dated 1885, eight are dated 1897, and four are dated 1899, some spotting to end papers, some light off-setting, original bevel-edged rose buckram, with gilt armorials in centre of each board, the front armorial with 'Let Glasgow Flourish', corner bumped, extremites lightly rubbed, spine gilt, t.e.g. Note: Thomas Annan's photographs are amongst the earliest taken specifically as a record of housing conditions prior to urban renewal. Thomas Annan was commissioned to record the buildings of the slums of the City Parish after the city passed the Glasgow City Improvements Act in 1866 which envisaged the demolition of the unhealthy 'wynds' and 'closes' at the heart of the city. Literature: "The third edition of 50 photogravures, was published in 1900 in two versions. One version, 100 copies, was published by Annan for the Corporation. The other version, 150 copies, The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow, published by Maclehose were the only copies for sale." Enclyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography.

British Ferns - Nature Printed, by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London, elephant folio size with 50 plates, ex-library copy

A collection of unframed maps and prints, together with a folio of unframed prints

A folio of assorted pencil sketches

A large collection of Folio Society publications. (six shelves)

A large collection of Folio Society publications. (six shelves)

A large collection of Folio Society publications. (six shelves)

A quantity of Folio Society publications. (three shelves)

Books: nineteen Folio Society Publications.

China and Japan. Personal photograph album, c. 1895-6, 199 albumen prints mounted rectos and versos to stiff card leaves, generally measuring approx. 8 x 10 cm (occasionally cut and mounted into patterns), slightly later pencilled captions, school prize inscription to front free endpaper ('To ?Cellie Van de Velde, for General Proficiencey, S. H. Nicholls, Pract. School, Hurlstone, Xmas 1895'), a further 17 photographs loosely inserted, together with an autograph letter in French from Louis-Elis‚ Fatiguet of the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Kiangsi to an unnamed recipient, dated 1 February 1896 and thanking him/her for sending a collection of 'photographies ... trŠs bien r‚ussies', contemporary black skiver album, spine perished, the leaves remaining wire-stitched in linen-hinged bifolia, folioContains images of Hong Kong, Canton, Nanking, Tientsin, Peking, Chekiang, Macao, and junks on the Peiho River; there are also photographs of Nikko, Yumoto, Tokyo, Kobe, Nagasaki, and Yokohama. The compiler appears to have had access to French diplomatic circles as there are photographs of Jules Harmand, French ambassador to Japan (1894-1905), and of the embassy grounds. (1)

*Pictorialism. A collection of 21 pictorialist studies, 1940s, approximately 28 x 21.5 cm and smaller, including gelatin silver prints, carbon prints and gum bromoil prints, tipped onto card or paper mounts, signed in pencil by the photographers, and contained in a purpose-made contemporary half morocco gilt folio case The collection was presented to John MacSymon by the members of the Postal Camera Club in 1947. Their signed presentation bookplate and accompanying letter is included with the lot. (1)

Ponting (Herbert, 1870-1935). An album of photographs of Japan, compiled by Herbert Ponting, c. 1906-10, a total of approximately 200 gelatin silver prints, printed on thin photographic paper and neatly pasted in the album on rectos and versos throughout, numbers in the range 300 to 755 inscribed besides most of the photos (relating to an overall numbering system used by Ponting from 1907 or earlier), subjects include Mount Fuji and other Japanese volcanoes, palaces, temples, natural beauty spots, and people, including craftsmen at work and in less formal, unnumbered photographs, friends and acquaintances Ponting met on his travels, images 17.5 x 12.5 cm or smaller, contemporary cloth, rubbed, oblong folio The photographs were taken between 1901 and 1906, while Ponting was based in America and travelling regularly to Japan and other countries in Asia. Many were published during his lifetime as stereoviews or in books (including his own Fuji-San, Japanese Studies, and In Lotus Land, Japan) and magazines in Britain, America and Europe. Large-scale prints of many of the photographs in the album were also exhibited in London before Ponting left for Antarctica in 1910. Notable amongst the photogrpahs of craftsmen are several of renowned Cloisonn‚ maker Y Namikawa of Kyoto and his studio workers. Provenance: Acquired from or following an exhibition and sale of Ponting's effects held in his London flat after his death in February 1935, and now being sold by successors of the original acquirer. (1)

*Russia and Ukraine. Photographic archive compiled by a British dental surgeon serving at the Anglo-Russian Hospital and on the Eastern Front, 1916, Oblong Russian-purchase brown morocco album (24 x 16 cm), containing 219 gelatin silver prints, mostly original snapshots measuring between 4 x 6 cm and 6 x 8 cm, all tipped rectos and versos to stiff card leaves, including street scenes and views in Petrograd, Moscow and Kiev, staff and inspections at the Anglo-Russian Hospital (one captioned 'Tzar at review'), operations at Rojitche, Lutsk and 'Icherookov' (probably Cherykaw in modern Belarus), these including numerous images of artillery pieces, trenches, troop inspections, bomb damage and similar, inked manuscript captions throughout, large group photograph with mid-size photographed tipped verso loosely inserted, together with: string-bound elephant folio scrapbook containing approximately 30 further original photographs (most of them 14.5 x 9 cm) depicting the Anglo-Russian Hospital, Lutsk and Dubno, and including a few possible portraits of the compiler, in addition to approximately 100 photographic postcards sent by him from various locations including Russia, some minor wear; wrappered souvenir exhbition catalogue titled The Anglo Russian Hospitals with the Russian Army, a Series of Twelve Views reproduced in Photogravure, inscribed 'Presented to W. Harrison by Lady Muriel Paget, May 16, 1917'; 4 additional medium size-photographs of ARH staff and visitors including the Tsarina, creased and frayed; and a collection of the compiler's personal documents including passport British dental surgeon Walter Harold Harrison is recored as graduating LDS from Guy's Hospital in 1910. He travelled to Russia to work at the Anglo-Russian Hospital, in Petrograd, founded in 1915 by Lady Muriel Paget and Lady Sybil Grey. In 1916 he appears to have accompanied the Russian advance through Volhynia. The following year he published an article in the British Dental Journal entitled A Dental Surgeon in Russia. (1 carton)

St. Peter's, Clapham. A scrap album of photographs apparently compiled by John Palmer, vicar of St. Peter's, Clapham, mid-1930s, with his name at front and first page headed 'Southwark, 1933-1937', photographs of varying sizes pasted on 50 leaves and back-to-back, with additional newscuttings, and scattered ephemera, photographs showing the vicar in a range of activities, including visits, clubs, camps, schools, etc., contemporary half roan, slight wear to extremities, folio (1)

World War I - France. An album of 260 gelatin silver print photographs of Northern France, c. 1920, photographed by a British person taking in the battlefields and sights, with evidence of ruins and destruction, abandoned tanks, graves, etc., images 8 x 10 cm, neat small ink captions to lower thin margins, places identified include Monchy, Cambrai, Ancre, Arras, Armentieres, etc., mounted four-to-a-page, and back-to-back on stiff card mounts throughout, an additional 30 miliary photographs pasted in at rear, a few leaves detached, contemporary cloth, soiling and some wear, oblong folio (1)

Coronation Durbar, Delhi. A complete set of 96 gelatin silver print photographs of the Durbar by G.W. Lawrie & Co., Lucknow, 1903, images 115 x 90mm, window-mounted two to a page with photographers' printed broadside listing of the 96 photographs loosely inserted, contemporary half roan, backstrip deficient, small folio (1)

*Delamotte (Philip Henry, after). Queen Victoria presiding at the ceremony for the opening of the re-erected Crystal Palace in Sydenham, 1854, later printing, 20 x 15cm, original card mount, together with The Crystal Palace Scrapbook [so titled on upper cover], early 1850s, 12 mounted albumen print photographs of the New Crystal Palace at Sydenham, 15 x 22cm, versos blank, some spotting, original morocco gilt, heavily rubbed and repaired at head and foot of spine, oblong small folio, plus an oval albumen print photograph of Queen Victoria and children mourning Prince Albert, 1862, 15.5 x 13cm, original mount (3)

Embley Park, childhood home of Florence Nightingale. An album of 136 albumen print photographs, c. 1870s, pasted onto rectos and versos of a total of 32 leaves, with approximately 20 blank leaves at rear, the majority of photographs 11 x 15.5cm with arched tops and mounted three to a page, the remaining photographs mostly carte-de-visite sizes and smaller but including five slightly larger, bold pencil block capital captions to mounts throughout, an additional five photographs of artworks at rear, oblong folio, ink provenance inscription to front pastedown, hinges weak, contemporary half roan, rubbed and some edge wear, lacks spine, oblong folio (32.5 x 43.5cm) The album was compiled by a member of Florence Nightingale's family while living at Embley Park during the seven years following the death in 1874 of Florence Nightingale's father, when the house passed to his wife's brother, Samuel Smith. The album contains numerous views of the house, its grounds, members of the family, the servants at Embley Park, Embley Farm, the local church, St Margaret of Antioch, and its churchyard where Florence Nightingale was later buried. Of particular interest are three good views showing the interior of the house as Florence Nightingale would have known it. Members of the family represented in the album include: Mary ('Mai') Smith, Beatrice Lushington, Blanche Clough, Mary Urith Coltman and her brother Arthur Francis Coltman (the five members of the family at the house on the night of the 1881 census); Florence Nightingale's uncle Samuel Smith (Mai's husband who died in 1880); Florence Nightingale's cousin Bertha Coltman, her husband William Bacheler Coltman and their four children. The album also includes a previous unknown outdoor portrait of Parthenope Nightingale and her husband Sir Harry Verney with Parthenope and Florence's father, William Edward Nightingale. Two photographs show an outside lunch given for the children of the local school. According to the Hampshire Advertiser (27 September 1879): ' SCHOOL TREAT - On Monday, the 15th inst., Mr and Mrs Samuel Smith, of Embley Park, gave their usual treat to the children of Wellow School, 140 of whom attended. Some visitors and several of the mothers of the children were kindly invited to join, making the party 170. A beautiful day added to the enjoyment of all. Some very good photographic views were taken of the happy group by Mr Galton, of West Wellow. After enjoying various games and again partaking of refreshment, the majority of the children were started In a conveyance provided for the purpose, and left the grounds with cheers and merry singing.' This 'Mr Galton' is in fact John Thomas Gaulton of West Wellow. He appears as a 'Photographer' living in West Wellow on both the 1871 and 1881 censuses. Towards the back of the album, there are several photographic reproductions of paintings of the family, including the 1828 watercolour of Frances Nightingale with her two daughters. There is also an albumen print portrait of Florence Nightingale by Henry Hering, a larger version of a photograph usually only seen in carte-de-visite format. Inscriptions on the inside front cover indicate that the album was compiled by Mary Urith Coltman, the young daughter of Florence Nightingale's first cousin, Bertha Coltman. On the death of Mary Coltman's grandmother Mary ('Mai') Smith in 1881, the house passed to William Shore Smith and Mary Coltman went to live elsewhere, but before her departure she gave the album she had compiled to her friend Caroline Long, daughter of local woodsman George Long of Thorpwood Cottage in East Willow. According to the 1881 census, Caroline was a 'charwoman,' so it seems likely that the girls' friendship came about through Caroline's employment at Embley Park. On 12 February 1893 Caroline married Albert George Harris, a 'Labourer,' at All Saints Church in Upper Norwood. The 1911 census shows Caroline and husband Albert Harris, now a 'Bricklayer,' living in Upper Norwood with their seven children. The first few pages of the album present various views of Combe Hurst at Kingston-upon-Thames, the Coltman residence in Surrey where Mary Coltman lived before she came to Embley Park in 1874. These have been misidentified by Caroline Long as Embley Park. (1)

*Saudek (Jan, born 1935). David boy 1973, together with David, the same boy, 1983, gelatin silver print contact prints, printed c. 1983, both signed and titled lower right and right margins, 20 x 15cm, together with an accompanying letter from Saudek, written in ink and signed Jan with a pen and pencil and colour felt tip sketch at head, one page, folio, plus the original postmarked envelope with hand-painted addressee design by Saudek (4)

*Saudek (Jan, born 1935). Two vintage gelatin silver prints, 1980s, the first titled 'The Kiss Off #218' to left margin, 14 x 20cm, the second titled 'The 1st Kiss to a Little Brother, 1983' in the photographer's hand to verso, 9 x 13cm, together with an accompanying letter from Saudek to Colin, written in neat pencil and signed Hans, pen and ink sketch at head ('Portrait of my Lost Girl #217'), one page, folio (3)

Annan (Thomas, photographer). Illustrations of Mary Queen of Scots: a Poem by Henry Glassford Bell..., being Photographs from Pictures painted for the Art-Union of Glasgow, by Robert Herdman, R.S.A., Glasgow: Art-Union of Glasgow, [1868], four mounted albumen print photographs, each approximately 31 x 23.5cm (12 x 9ins), title printed in red & black, occasional spotting and soiling, contents detached from cover, original gilt and blind-stamped cloth, lightly marked, spine worn with front joint splitting, folio Gernsheim Incunabula, 407. (1)

Europe. A group of seven photograph albums, mostly late 19th century, albumen prints plus some gelatin silver prints, including views in Britain, Italy, Norway, plus some Middle East interest, various bindings, some wear, 4to/folio (7)

[Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869]. An album of later copies of photographs of Queen Victoria and the royal family by Roger Fenton, 27 gelatin silver print photographs mounted to stiff card leaves on rectos only, neat ink captions to mounts beneath, images mostly 15 x 11cm and similar with two copy letters to on behalf of the king, and a related gelatin silver print copy of a signed photograph of King Edward VII pasted at rear of album, length typed note of provenance pasted to front pastedown, dated June 1905, original quarter roan over pimpled cloth with gilt royal coat of arms to upper cover, upper joint split and a little wear to spine, oblong small folio (19 x 27cm) As explained in the typed note of provenance the copies were produced by Vernon Kirk Armitage, Fenton's brother-in-law, as a Coronation gift to King Edward VII. In addition to the copy gifted to the king, six copies were distributed to members of the Armitage and Fenton families, of which this is one. (1)

Europe. A group of four photograph albums, late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, including views, architecture, sculpture, etc., in Italy, Morocco, Spain, France, various sizes, some captioning to mounts, contemporary morocco/half morocco, all somewhat worn, folio/large 4to (4)

India. Two large-format albums of albumen prints by John Edward Sach‚ and others, c. 1870, 230 albumen prints mounted rectos only to thick card leaves, comprising 162 full-size images measuring approximately 29 x 23.5 cm, the majority of these signed in the negative by Sach‚ with his catalogue number, 10 linen-backed folding panoramas in 2, 3 and 4 parts, the remaining 58 prints in various sizes and orientations, most mounted landscape and measuring 16 x 20 cmm, others measuring up to 27 x 18.5 cm, nearly all photographs captioned in the mounts, linen hinges, gilt edges, armorial bookplate to front pastedowns signed 'J. W. S. Mackenzie', prints variably toned as usual, mounts foxed, a few of the panoramas creased, bound in matching contemporary maroon half morocco, 'Photographic views of India' gilt-stamped to front boards, front boards and spines detached from album blocks but intact, rubbed and worn overall, water-damage to boards of volume 2, large folio Sach‚'s large-format photographs are generally arranged to include extensive runs of between ten and twenty views of cities and regions including Calcutta, Lucknow, Agra (including the Taj Mahal), Fatehpur Sikri, Bombay, Ootacamund, Kashmir, Nainatal, Simla, Bombay, and elsewhere. Many of the smaller photographs are similar in composition and content and are possibly also by Sach‚; the final 40 or so photographs in the second album are apparently from a variety of sources and seem intended to depict the homeward journey of the compiler, probably a soldier in the 105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry). They include 15 photographs of Aden and Al Houta (of which five are folding panoramas) and several images of the Suez Canal at Port Said and Suez, including the house of Ferdiand de Lesseps. (2)

*India. A group of four photograph albums, c. 1927-34, gelatin silver print photographs of mostly European people engaged in various pursuits including shooting, riding, etc., one album titled 'Jind Week, 4th Annual Championship Field Trial, Coursing, etc., 1927', another Lunch at Mastung..., 1928, photos by Ganesh Das Mullick, Frontier Studio, Quetta, another titled 'Sibi Week 1930, by the Baluchi Studio', and the last one of Dhil Nadi Camp, 1934, photographs mostly postcard size and slightly smaller, sparsely captioned, various bindings, oblong 8vo/folio, together with a small quantity of related loose photographs (a small carton)

*Cartes de visite. A group of four albums of window-mounted cartes de visite, c. 1860s, including one volume of British views, with an image of baling machines, plus assorted portraits and views, plus cartes de visite of artworks, various embossed bindings, small 4to/folio, together with a small quantity of loose cartes de visite including a deathbed portrait cartes de visite of a child drowned in a local pond by G. Forsyth of Hull, late 1860s, a portrait of Thomas Carlyle by Elliott & Fry, a group of four rare advertising cartes de visite of sewing machines manufactured by Bradbury & Company of Oldham and a collection of 59 cartes de visite of European architecture by Ponti, Brogi and others (a small carton)

*India. An album containing 44 mounted albumen print views, c. 1880, including Agra, Srinagar, Rawal Pindi House, Murree, 1st Punjab Volunteers, etc., a few signed in the negative identitying Baker & Burke, 22 x 28 cm, mounted back to back on stiff card leaves, some faint pencil captions to mounts, contemporary half morocco, some wear, oblong folio, together with a later album of India interest, circa 1899, containing 41 corner-mounted printing out paper prints, including buildings, scenes and a few of groups and types, images 10.5 x 15 cm, uncaptioned, contemporary cloth, slightly damp marked, small oblong folio, plus a framed early negative of an Indian group, 24 x 29 cm and 4 early albumen prints of Indian princes on horseback, circa 1860s, 13.5 x 10 cm (7)

Iraq. A group of three photograph albums of Iraq, mid 1930s, possibly by L. Wells of the RAF Medical Service, including views, people and scenes, some aviation interest, hospitals, wildlife and genre scenes, a total of approximately 350 corner-mounted gelatin silver prints, 20 x 25cm and smaller, the majority with neat white china ink captions to mounts, hinges weak, contemporary cloth/boards with spine ties, rubbed, oblong folio (3)

Japan. An album of 32 tinted albumen prints, late 19th century, mostly by Tamamura, including views, temples and people, many captioned in the negative, 20 x 25cm, mounted back to back on stiff card leaves, contemporary lacquered boards with pictorial scenes, lacks spine, oblong folio (1)

Madagascar. A large album containing over 300 gelatin silver prints of engineering and other work in Madagascar, c. 1930s to 1950s, some captioned in the negatives, various sizes, but many 17 x 12.5 cm, corner-mounted on to 32 album leaves and back-to-back throughout, eight further leaves with other photographs at rear, some related photographs loosely inserted, contemporary half leather, some wear, oblong folio (40 x 57 cm) (1)

*Malta. A collection of 53 views, c. 1880s, albumen print photographs, a total of 53 photographs including seven two-part panoramas, images approximately 21 x 28cm and similar, generally yellowed and occasional soiling and fraying, original card mounts with descriptive letterpress pasted to many versos but relating to images on different mounts, mounts spotted and some corners chipped with loss, oblong folio (1)

Middle East. Large-format album of albumen prints by Pascal S‚bah, the Bonfils studio, Antonio Beato and others, depicting Egypt, the Holy Land, Istanbul, and parts of Europe, c. 1880 100 albumen prints mounted rectos and versos within gilt frames to thick card gilt-edged leaves, 23 of the images full-size (265 x 350 mm), of which 7 depict Middle Eastern subjects and 16 European (including 1 not from life), the remaining 77 measuring approximately 260 mm x 200 (or reverse), some slightly larger or smaller, all with calligraphic captions in English to mounts, 6 photographs signed 'P. S‚bah' in the negative, with catalogue numbers and captions, 2 further photographs unsigned but with S‚bah's identifiable caption in the negative, and 1 captioned on the mount 'Camels in S‚bah's yard', 6 photographs signed 'Bonfils' in the negative, with catalogue numbers and captions, and 3 unsigned but also with his catalogue number in the negative, and 12 photographs with Beato's signature in the negative, foxing and soiling to mounts, faint spotting visible in a handful of images, bound in a contemporary black half morocco album, gilt monogram to front board, oblong folio S‚bah's photographs include Cairo street scenes, a view of the Great Pyramid of Giza dn the Sphinx, Istanbul views and a portrait ('Dame turque voil‚e'); Beato's depict the antiquities at Karnak, Luxor and Philaa; Bonfils's comprise city views of Beirut and Damascus, and street scenes and architectural subjects in Jerusalem. The first 64 photographs are Middle Eastern and the remaining 36 comprise architectural subjects and objets d'art in Italy, Germany and Prague. (1)

*Middle East. An album of 59 mounted albumen prints, c. 1880s, mostly large-format views and some of types, photographers include Antonio Beato, Adelphoi Zangaki, Hippolyte Arnoux and others, 35 x 25cm and smaller, all but five mounted one to a page and back to back with ink captions to mounts, contemporary half calf with gilt monogram HM and date 1890 to upper cover, some wear, split along upper joint, oblong folio, together with Garnett (Robert & Mary), Sketches and Letters of Egypt and Palestine, with Sketches in other Countries, 1st edition, Warrington, 1904, black & white illustrations, presentation inscription to Mr and Mrs Marsden 'My fellow travellers on the Nile' to front pastedown, contemporary cloth gilt, a little rubbed, large 8vo, plus two matted albumen prints of Venice, by Carlo Ponti and Carlo Naya, mid-1860s, and a group of 19 unmounted half plate prints of Pompeii From the collection of John Hannavy. Illustrated in Hannavy, The Victorian and Edwardian Tourist, pp. 104-114. (23)

*Photograph albums. A group of eight photograph albums and related, late 19th century, containing British and European views and scenes, plus snapshots, some military and naval interest, plus portraits of Indian princes, etc., albums all partly broken with many leaves detached, various bindings, 4to/folio (8)

Photograph albums. A group of ten photograph albums, late 19th and early 20th century, including travel, landscape, portraits, genre subjects, albumen prints and gelatin silver prints, various bindings, mostly 4to/folio (10)

Tasmania & New Zealand. An album of 32 mounted albumen print photographs, c. 1890, including 17 photographs of Tasmania and 15 of New Zealand, some of the photographs captioned in the negative, several photographs by Morris and one by J. Martin, 23 x 28cm and slightly smaller, mounted mostly one to a leaf to stiff card leaf rectos with neat ink captions to most mounts, contemporary half morocco, some wear, oblong folio (1)

*West Sussex - Bosham. A group of fourteen photographs of Bosham and environs, c. 1890, all but one mounted singly to rectos of paper album leaves (numbered in pencil 251-277), a total of nine albumen print photographs and five cyanotypes, including two grey-toned, including views of the centre of Bosham featuring The Crown Inn, boat studies, bracken and thistles, many with brief pencil captions and initials JT to mounts beneath, the first photograph of two women with dogs in a garden identified as Miss Rose Ellicot and Mrs Travers in the garden at St. Ives, Ringwood, [Hampshire], images mostly approximately 15 x 21 cm, disbound, folio The photographer may be Major John Amory Travers (1847-1915) of St. Ives, Ringwood, Hampshire. (1)

Britanny, Normandy and Andalusia. Two large-format photograph albums, 1889, volume 1 containing calligraphic dedication leaf (with date) and 96 platinum or albumen prints, most measuring between 11 x 16 cm and 12 x 18 cm or reverse, depicting landscapes, street scenes and locals in Britanny and Normandy, and a few English locations including Cleeve Prior and Corfe Castle (these with pencilled captions), volume 2 containing 32 large (26 x 20 cm) professional albumen prints of Burgos, Granada, the Alhambra, Toledo, Cordoba, Gibraltar and a market scene probably in Morocco, captioned in the negative; all prints mounted rectos and versos to stiff card leaves, foxing to mounts, contemporary half morocco bindings, worn, volume 1 spine defective, volume 2 rear board detached, folio (2)

York Lodge. An album of 19 platinum prints, c. 1900, mostly of the garden, plus one interior view of the library, photographer's embossed stamp to lower right of images, 'Walton Adams, Reading', 22 x 28.5cm, mounted to stiff card leaf rectos, two at rear loose, contemporary quarter vellum with gilt name stamp of York Lodge to spine and upper cover, somewhat soiled and worn, oblong folio (1)

Catleen (Ellen). Peking Studies, 1st edition, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1934, numerous illustrations after photographs, colour and black & white illustrations by F. H. Schiff, endpapers spotted, photograph of sailing boat (light stain to left side) loosely inserted, original cloth, with mounted illustration to upper cover, and printed red ribbon to upper cover, lightly spotted and dust-soiled, spine splitting and fraying, folio A fascinating photo book, with images of Peking and its inhabitants taken with a Rolliflex. The author also produced a book on Hong Kong in collaboration with the same illustrator. (1)

Civil Engineering. Photographic archive of various engineering projects undertaken by Brims & Co. Ltd: 'NW Quay (Riverside Quay), Tyne Dock' and 'Sutherland Quay, Tyne Dock', 2 volumes, 1939-42; 'London-Yorkshire Motorway, River Trent Bridges', 2 volumes, 1963-4; 'Darlington By-Pass, Bridges', 2 volumes, 1963-4, 'NW Quay, Tyne Dock' and 'Riverside Quay, Tyne Dock' respectively containing 47 and 36 gelatin silver prints (20 x 25.5 cm; image size 15.5 x 21 cm), dated in the negative, blind- and wet stamps of W. H. Elliott of North Shields, each set loose in photographer's original brown cloth-backed portfolio with pencilled titles to front boards and mild wear to extremities, oblong 4to and 4to; 'London-Yorkshire Motorway, River Trent Bridges' and 'Darling By-Pass Bridges' containing in total approximately 380 gelatin silver prints, 6 colour photographs and 2 printed plans, including some 120 in large format (approximately 21 x 16 cm) of which 3 loosely inserted, 250 in small format (12 x 9 cm), and a few of intermediate size, all corner-mounted rectos and versos to black light card leaves, wet stamps and negative numbers of G. Hewson or W. E. Middleton and Sons (both of Nottingham) on versos, neat manuscript captions throughout in white ink, each work ring-bound in 2 snakeskin-effect black cloth albums (4 in total), a few leaves loose and 4 captioned prints lacking in Trent Bridges volume 2, oblong folio Well-preserved visual record of the expansion of the Tyne Dock during the Second World War by Newcastle engineering firm Brims & Co. Ltd, and of their involvement in the construction of the M1 and upgrading of the A1 at Darlington twenty years later. The four albums relating to these last two projects appear to have been compiled as the company's official record of proceedings. Brims & Co. Ltd was wound up in 1993 but recommenced trading in 2006 as Brims Construction Limited, now based in Sunderland. (4)

*Chile. An album of 74 albumen print photographs compiled by European settlers in Valparaiso, Chile, c. 1880s, subjects include portraits and groups, sports and club grounds, horses and Valparaiso Paperchase Club, birds and animals, flowers and plants, some humorous shots, many images approximately 11.5 x 18cm and mounted one to a page on stiff card album leaves and back to back throughout, neat detailed ink captions to mounts, all edges gilt, contemporary padded morocco, some wear, upper cover detached, oblong folio (1)

*Holmes (Randolph Bezzant, 1888-1973). An album of 12 views around Peshawar and Attok Fort, 1930s, gelatin silver print photographs, some signed and some signed in the negative, mounted to rectos only, approx. 230 x 270mm and similar sizes, presentation inscription dated 1938 at rear, contemporary boards with cloth spine tie, slightly rubbed and soiled, oblong folio, together with a group of fifteen further images by Holmes, some with photographer's stamp, many signed and numbered in the negative (16)

Mary Rose. The Mary Rose. The Excavation and Rising of Henry VIII's Flagship, by Margaret Rule, 2nd edition, 1983, colour and monotone illustrations and diagrams, title inscribed "For Tim [i.e. Robert Hardy], with every good wish - I'm so sorry that our archer is still struggling against all those kilo newtons - perhaps that's why he has a deformed spine! Margaret Rule", original boards in dust jacket, 4to, together with Mary Rose: Your Noblest Shippe, Anatomy of a Tudor Warship, edited by Peter Marsden, 2009; Weapons of Warre: The Armaments of the Mary Rose, edited by Alexzandra Hildred, parts 1 & 2, 2011; Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose, edited by Julie Gardiner with Michael J. Allen, 2005; and For Future Generations, Conservation of a Tudor Maritime Collection, edited by Mark Jones, 2011, together forming volumes 2-5 of the Archaeology of the Mary Rose series, published by Oxbow Books, numerous diagrams and illustrations (some folding), original boards and limp wrappers, folio, together with a duplicate of Weapons of Warfare part 1 and Raising the Dead, The Skeleton Crew of Henry VIII's Great Ship, the Mary Rose, by A.J. Stirland, 2000, monotone diagrams and illustrations, numerous annotations and markings by Robert Hardy, original pictorial boards, 8vo (8)

Shakespeare (William). The First Folio of Shakespeare, Based on Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection (The Norton Facsimile), prepared by Charlton Hinman, 2nd edition, with a new introduction by Peter W.M. Blayney, W.W. Norton & Company, 1996, facsimile text, original quarter maroon faux morocco gilt, with pictorial cloth sidings, folio, together with William Shakespeare, The Complete Plays, 6 volumes, 2nd impression, Folio Society, 1990, original maroon buckram backed printed boards, 8vo, with The Complete Concordance to Shakspeare: being a Verbal Index to all the Passages in the Dramatic Works of the Poet, by Mrs Cowden Clarke, new & revised edition, circa 1850, endpapers replaced, original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, large 8vo, plus other Shakespeare related (11)

Fox-Davies (Arthur Charles). Armorial Families. A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, 2 volumes, 7th edition, 1929, numerous armorial illustrations to text, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cloth, small folio, together with Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons, 2 volumes, 107th edition, 2003, original maroon boards gilt, folio, with Domesday Book Studies, Oxfordshire, 3 volumes (including folding maps), Alecto Historical Editions, 1987-1990, original cloth-backed boards, folio, (limited edition 121/1000), and Crocker (Oliver), All Memoires Great & Small, 1st edition, 2017, colour and monotone plates, title signed by the author, original printed wrappers, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous books including dictionaries, reference, literature, biographies, history, Folio Society publications, plus a carton of 20th century Ordnance Survey and Bartholomew folding maps etc. (6 shelves + carton)

*Album. A folio album of watercolours and drawings, circa 1840s and later, containing 17 views and portraits, including Ruins of Byland Abbey, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire, by Reverend George M. Musgrave, 1845, signed and dated, and inscribed with his address to verso, a small mid-19th century oil on stiffened canvas of a girl with basket of flowers, a wash drawing of a Native Butcher in India, a pencil study of trees by A.R. Ogle, a stormy landscape by A. Achenbach, a pencil portrait of Emma Neusche, by L.V. Martens, 1858, a pencil and coloured chalk portrait of a young woman, by Sophie H. Ogle, dated January 28 1856, and a pencil study titled 'The Squire, Bombay, 1845 (died Ooctacanam, January 1848, aged 33)', etc., all mounted on album leaves, one or two pages loose, contemporary black full morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed and some marks, folio (1)

*Weaver (Thomas (1774-1843)). Portrait of a Gentleman, 1824, oil on canvas, signed and dated centre right, three-quater length, depicting a gentleman in black silk robe and white crevat, with leather folio volumes in the background, relined, 76 x 63.5cm (30 x 25ins), contemporary gilt moulded frame (a little damage) (1)

*De Morgan (Evelyn, 1855-1919). Sketchbook of figure studies, numerous drawings on 24 card leaves, mostly on rectos and versos, all pencil (except for one watercolour), a number heightened with brown wash (mainly drapery), some pages with several small sketches, others with one large carefully worked drawing, including 13 female and two male head studies, 18 small drapery studies, nine small and larger nude studies, 32 drawing of hands and feet in various sizes and degrees of finish, occasional light dust-soiling and marks, leaf size 35.5 x 24.5cm (14 x 9.75ins), stitching almost entirely broken (leaves just holding on a thread), original half Japanese vellum, rubbed and marked, upper cover with 3" split in upper edge, folio Such a large number of drawings by Evelyn De Morgan contained in one album give a wonderful demonstration of the breadth of her preliminary work, and her preoccupation with accurate delineation of the human form. She drew prolifically throughout her life, always endeavouring to achieve the perfect stance of a body, a beautiful fall of drapery, a poetically expressive hand gesture, or a realistic arrangement of feet. Her exploratory drawings are beautiful in their own right, and this album contains some particularly exquisite female head studies. (1)