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[Boyle, Eleanor Vere, illustrator]. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen... newly translated by H.L.D. Ward and Augusta Plesner, Samson Lowe, Marston, Lowe, and Searle, 1872, 12 full-page chromolithograph plates by Leighton Bros. after E.V. Boyle, one plate loose (text block a little shaken), all edges gilt, single publisher's advert leaf at end, half-title with gift inscription dated 1876, original gilt-decorated blue publisher's cloth, rubbed and some marks, folio De Beaumont 15a. (1)

Folio Society. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted, 2008, illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones, initial letters throughout, some titles and headings printed in red, afterword by William S. Peterson, top edge gilt, original gilt-decorated rust-brown cloth, with slipcase, large folio, VG A fine facsimile edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer. (1)

Folio Society. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, by Isabella L. Bird, 1988, Memoirs of a Seafaring Life, The Narrative of William Spavens, edited by N.A.M. Rodger, 2000, Nelson and Emma, edited by Roger Hudson, 1994, The Worlds of John Aubrey, 1988, together with 81 further Folio Society volumes, all original cloth in slipcases, G/VG, 8vo (85)

Folio Society. The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2 volumes, by James Boswell, 1968, British Myths and Legends, 3 volumes, edited by Richard Barber, 1998, Chekhov: A Life in Letters, edited by Gordon McVay, 1994, English Eccentrics, by Edith Sitwell, 1994, together with 64 further Folio Society volumes, all original cloth in slipcases (except 6 volumes without slipcases), some duplicates, G/VG, 8vo/4to (71)

Benson (Robert & Hatcher, Henry). Old and New Sarum, or Salisbury (from Sir Richard Colt Hoare's History of Modern Wiltshire), printed by and for John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1843, etched portrait frontispiece, engraved and lithographed plates, some light spotting to preliminary leaves, old dark blue half calf, with some wear, rebacked with original spine laid down, large folio, together with [Ledwich, Edward], Antiquitates Sarisburienses: containing, I. A Dissertation on the Antient Coins, found at Old Sarum. II. The Salisbury Ballad. III. The History of Old Sarum... IV. Historical Memoirs, relative to the city of New Sarum..., Salisbury, printed and sold by E. Easton, 1771, two folding engraved plates, half-title not present, later half calf, rubbed and scuffed to spine, 8vo, plus [John, Britton], The Beauties of Wiltshire, displayed in Statistical, Historical, and Descriptive Sketches: interspersed with anecdotes of the arts, 3 volumes, 1801-25, additional engraved title, and 13 engraved plates only (some plates and the folding map missing), contemporary calf, modern matching reback with morocco title and volume labels, 8vo, and three others related (Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, Wiltshire, Extracted from Domesday Book, Salisbury, 1788, William Henry Jones, Domesday for Wiltshire, Bath, 1865, & Rev. A.C. Smith, Guide to the British and Roman Antiquities of the North Wiltshire Downs, 1884), all ex-library copies, with all faults (8)

Folio Society. History of the Conquest of Mexico..., by William H. Prescott, 1994, The Source of the Nile, by John Hanning Speke, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, by Richard F. Burton, 1993, William Russell, Special Correspondent of The Times, by Max Hastings, 1995, London Characters and Crooks, by Henry Mayhew, 1996, Pax Britannica, by James Morris, 3 volumes, revised edition, 1992, together with 19 further Folio Society volumes, all original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4o (26)

Folio Society. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, 2000, The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows, by Joseph Conrad, 2003, The Works of Anthony Trollope, 19 volumes (of 44), circa 1990s, together with 20 further Folio Society volumes, all original cloth in slipcases, G/VG, plus The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, 4 volumes, by Powys Mathers, reprinted, Routledge, 1982, original cloth in slipcase, all 8vo (45)

Heylyn (Peter). Aerius Redivivus: or, The History of the Presbyterians, Oxford, 1670, some marks and marginal spotting, title darkened to edges, contemporary ownership signature of Roger Bradshaugh to title, contemporary calf, rubbed and some minor wear, modern reback, together with Burnet (Gilbert), The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 3 volumes, 1679-1715, titles printed in red and black, contemporary sprinkled calf/panelled calf gilt, rubbed and some wear with joints cracked, plus Barclay (Robert), Truth Triumphant Through the Spiritual Warfare, Christian Labours and Writings of... Robert Barclay, 1692, contemporary calf, modern reback, and Strype (John), Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer, sometime late Archbishop of Canterbury, 1694, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf, rubbed and some wear with later reback, plus others related: The Historie of the Councel of Trent, 1640, H. Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon all the Books of the New Testament, 1681, Samuel Cook, Divine Characters, 1658 (lacking title) & Kennett, A Register and Chronicle, Ecclesiastical and Civil, volume 1, 1728, all folio (10)

Leighton (Clare). The Farmer's Year. A Calendar of English Husbandry, 1st edition, 1933, 12 full page wood-engravings, original green cloth gilt (some fading to extremities), dust jacket, price-clipped, s few short closed tears, oblong folio, together with Country Matters, 1937, wood-engravings, original cloth, dust jacket, a few teatrs to rear panel, 4to, plus Under the Greenwood Tree or Mellstock Quire, by Thomas Hardy, 1940, wood-engravings, original cloth, light partial offsetting to endpapers, dust jacket, head of spine chipped, light toning, 4to, with 13 others illustrated by Clare Leighton inlcuding The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, 1929 (limited signed edition of 1500), Four Hedges. A FGardener's Chronicle, 1935, Southern Harvest, 1943 and Where Land Meets Sea. The Tide Line of Cape Cod, 1954 (16)

Camden (William). Camden's Britannia..., 1695, portrait frontispiece, title page with ink library stamps, lacking maps, hinges cracked and weak, 19th century blind stamped calf, worn and frayed, folio, with another twenty atlases and gazetteers, mostly late 19th and early 20th century, mixed bindings, various sizes and condition Sold as a collection of maps and prints, not subject to return. (21)

Strada (Famianus). De Bello Belgico. The History of the Low-Countrey Warres, translated by Robert Stapylton, 1650, engraved portrait frontispiece, and other engraved portraits, contemporary calf, modern reback, together with Daniel (Samuel), The Collection of the History of England, 4th edition revised, 1650, contemporary calf, modern reback, plus Howel (William), An Institution of General History, or The History of the World, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, with large additions, 1680, title printed in red and black, bookplate of Sir William Wheler Bart to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed and some wear with joints cracked, and others similar, including The Journal of Monsr. de Saint Amour, containing... the five famous propositions contraverted between the Jansenists and the Molinists, 1664, Charles Cotton, The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon, The Great Favourite of France, 1670, John Rushworth, Historical Collections of Private Passages of State... beginning the Sixteenth Year of King James, and ending the Fifth Year of King Charls, Anno 1629, 1659, Henry Spelmann, Glossarium Archaiologicum, 1687, etc., all bound in contemporary calf (except Cotton bound in 20th century blue half morocco, and Thomas Gale, Historiae Britannicae (1691) bound in 20th century quarter vellum), all folio (11)

Whistler (Rex). Engravings by Rex Whistler, for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, printed from the original plates, introduction by Anthony Rota, title with engraved vignette, 25 engraved plates, several with hand-colouring, loose as issued in original green half morocco gilt, folio, together with The Story of Mr. Korah, told by Christabel Aberconway, illustrated by Rex Whistler, 1st edition, Michael Joseph, 1954, tipped-in colour plates, monochrome illustrations to text, original cloth gilt in price-clipped dust wrapper, a few minor marks, large 8vo (2)

Brewhouse Press. The Casquets... the most dangerous Channel Islands, by Rigby Graham, Brewhouse Press, 1972, colour and monochrome illustrations, some photographic, original morocco-backed green cloth, upper cover with inset illustration on metal, slipcase, folio Limited edition 20/30 signed by Rigby and six others. (1)

Cocteau (Jean). Tempest of Stars, Selected Poems, translated by Jeremy Reed with Drawings by David Austen, Enitharmon Press, 1992 complete with all prelims, text bifolia and 26 offset colour lithographs (one plate, number 133, very slightly foxed in margin), all loose as issued in the original cream cloth solander box, very mild spotting to front panel, folio, edition "A", number 5 of 15 copies signed by the author and the illustrator and with a signed original etching, from a total edition of 87, together with another copy of the same, complete as above, housed in the original red cloth solander box, folio, edition "C", number 5 of 15 copies signed by the author and illustrator, with a signed original etching, plus Raine, (Kathleen), Six Dreams and Other Poems, Enitharmon Press, 1968, frontispiece, tipped-in wood engraving by Juliet Standing, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, very slightly marked, 4to, number 99 of 100 specially bound copies signed by the author, from a total edition of 450 copies, and Richards, (Ceri), Drawings to Poems by Dylan Thomas, with an Introduction by Richard Burns, Enitharmon Press, 1980, illustrated throughout, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, housed in the original pictorial slipcase, 8vo, number 173 of 180 copies, numbered on the publisher's laid-in limitation slip as issued, and Borges, (Jorge Luis), The Congress, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni in Collaboration with the Author, Enitharmon Press, 1974, tipped-in frontispiece portrait, original tan cloth, with the dust jacket, discreetly tape-repaired verso, 4to, number 206 of 250 copies, from a total edition of 300 (5)

*Cox (Morris, 1903-1998). Colourprints, Gogmagog Private Press, 1975, 12 colour lithographs, each numbered, titled, signed and dated by Cox in pencil in the lower margin in pencil, illustrated title, tissue guards, all loose as issued in original morocco-backed cork-lined solander box, folio Limited edition number 11 of 20 sets only, of which five were broken up and sold as separate prints. 'Among the very finest essays in colour printing produced during this century' (Chambers 26). (1)

Complete Collection of State Trials, and Proceedings for High Treason.London: C. Bathurst [&c.], 1776. Volumes 1-11 in 6 volumes, large folio, contemporary diced calf, gilt arms of Sir Simon R.B. Taylor Bart., slight dampstain in inner margin of volume 1, some spotting, worn, all covers detachedProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Coste, PascalMonuments Modernes de la Perse. Paris: A. Morel, 1867. First edition, folio, 71 plates and plans on 56 sheets (8 coloured), some double-page and numbered as 2, contemporary red quarter morocco, some spotting throughout and occasional finger soiling, slightly worn and scuffed, corner of p.13 torn away,Provenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Customs & ExciseInstructions for the Collectors and Other Officers Employ'd in Her Majesties Customs, &c. Edinburgh: printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1707. Folio, 9 folding tables, contemporary panelled calf, bookplates of 'Rollo' and J. Robertson, manuscript notes to front free-endpaper, a little soiling throughout, some rubbing and soiling to covers

Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway Plan - and Act of ParliamentAn Act for making and maintaining a Railway from Edinburgh to the South Side of the River North Esk, near Dalkeith and Newbattle, with Branches therefrom. 26 May 1826, pp. 2625-2691, folding engraved Plan of the Proposed Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway and of the Branches to it from Cowpits Fisherrow Harbour and Edinburgh. Surveyed under the direction of James Jardine Civil Engineer, 1825. Folio, contemporary red half morocco, rubbedProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Daniell, WilliamA Voyage Round the North and North-West Coast of Scotland... London: W. Lewis, [1818-1820]. Folio, 40 (of 42) hand-coloured plates (lacking two plates), later green half morocco, J. Robertson bookplate, a little offsetting, occasional slight dust-soiling and some minor foxing; [Idem] A Voyage Round Great Britain...volume v. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. Folio, 6 plates only (with title-page, dedication and 34pp. of corresponding text), all showing Orkney scenes, hand-coloured, contemporary panelled calf gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, bookplates of Jas. R. Hoffmann and J. Robertson, a little offsetting and light foxing, becoming slightly heavier towards rear (2)

Italy - LipariDie Liparischen Inseln. Prague: Heinrich Mercy, 1893-95. Folio, volumes 1-5 and 8 only, plates, illustrations, original red half cloth, bindings slightly discolouredProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Miscellaneous books, a quantity, includingScott, F.E. Shall the New Foreign Office be Gothic or Classic ? 1860, presentation copy, lacks wrappers; Harper, Robert G. Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France. Dublin: P. Byrne, 1798, original wrappers frayed, uncut; Holland, L.G. A Descriptive & Historical Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Hatfield House. Privately Printed, 1891. 4to, original cloth, t.e.g.; Granville, A.B. The Spas of Germany. 1839, folding map, plates, original brown embossed cloth; Gosse, P.H. The Ocean. 1845; original cloth; Erskine, T. A View of the Causes and Consequences of the present War with France. 1798, lacks wrappers, uncut; D'Aumont, J.B. A Narrative of the Proceedings relating to the Suspension of the King of the French. Manchester, 1792, lacks wrappers, uncut; Phillippart, J. Memoirs &c &c of General Moreau. 1814, original boards, uncut, lacks spine; De Cahumereix, M. Narrative of M. de Chaumereix who escaped from the Massacres. 1795, lacks wrappers, uncut; Dundas, Mr First Report from the Committee of Secrecy. 1794, lacks wrappers, uncut; The Second Report from the Committee of Secrecy. 1794. Fourth edition, lacks wrappers, uncut; Londonderry, Marquis of Substance of a Second Speech. 1822, lacks wrappers, uncut, 2 copies; Forbes, James Hortus Woburnensis. A Descriptive Catalogue of upwards of Six Thousand Ornamental Plants. 1833, engraved title and plates, lithographed frontispiece, contemporary calf gilt, one joint partly split; [Shebbeare, John] A Letter to the People of England. 1755, Second edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, worn; Wright, E.M. The Life of Joseph Wright. 1932, 2 vol., dust-jackets, Newbattle Abbey College stamp to title-pages; Shakespeare, W. The Works, edited by Charles Knight. London: Virtue & Co., [c.1880], 2 volumes, folio, 2 sets, both contemporary half calf, worn; [Borneo] Views of British North Borneo. 1899. Oblong 4to, original red cloth gilt, slightly soiledProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Miscellaneous books, a quantity, including Harris, William CornwallisThe Wild Sports of Southern Africa. 1852. Fifth edition, 8vo, folding map and 34 (of 36) hand-coloured lithographed plates, virutally disbound, lower board only, title page dust-soiled and with stamp at head, occasional light soiling but plates mostly very clean; Egbert, D.D. The Tickhill Psalter and Related Manuscripts. New York, 1940. Folio, Newbattle Abbey College stamp to title and endpaper, original cloth, dustwrapper torn; Skrine, F.H. Life of Sir William Wilson Hunter. 1901., original cloth, stamp to title-page; [Oxford] An Account of the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent and their Imperial and Royal Majesties the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia, to the University of Oxford. Oxford, 1815. Folio, folding sheet & 2 uncoloured plates, lacks the frontispiece, original boards, uncut, worn, cover detached; Maxwell, M. Stalking Big Game with a Camera. 1925. 4to, original cloth, worn, upper hinge broken; sold not subject to return (quantity)Provenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Miscellaneous volumes, a large quantity, including Rumford, CountExperimental Essays, VI and VII only. 1797, 2 parts only, original wrappers, uncut; Tennent, J. Emerson The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing it and Taming it in Ceylon. 1867, original pictorial cloth gilt; MacDonald, D.G.F. Cattle, Sheep and Deer. 1872, original pictorial green cloth gilt; Jones, O. Grammar of Ornament. 1986, 4to; Hack, Maria Geological Sketches and Glimpses of the Ancient Earth. 1822, original cloth; [Buonarroti.] Statues of John Graham Lough. 1828, original wrappers; Breton, A. What is Surrealism ? Criterion Miscellany no. 43. 1936, original wrappers, discoloured; Pouchet, F.A. The Universe. 1871, original green cloth gilt, g.e.; Ruskin, John Arena Chapel, Padua. A Series of Wood engravings from the Frescoes of Giotto. Arundel Society, 1860. Large oblong folio, 38 plates, contemporary half red morocco, title page torn and laid down without loss, rubbed; and a quantity of miscellaneous books including a set of Thomas CarlyleProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Restif de la Bretonne, Nicholas EdmeMonument du Costume Physique et Moral de la fin du Dix-Huitieme Siecle, ou Tableaux de la Vie, ornés de figures dessinées & gravées par M. Moreau le Jeune. Neuwied sur le Rhin: Chez la Société Typographique, 1789. First edition, folio, 26 engraved plates by Moreau le Jeune & Freudeberg, contemporary half calf, worn, (20 text leaves including title), light scattered spotting, upper board almost detachedProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Scottish Antiquities, Angus - Chalmers, Patrick, editorThe Ancient Sculptured Monuments of the County of Angus, including those at Meigle in Perthshire and one at Fordoun in the Mearns. Edinburgh [Bannatyne Club], 1848. First edition, large folio (76 x 54cm.), errata slip, 24 lithographed plates (last two unnumbered), contemporary maroon half morocco, some spotting. RareProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Scottish history and manuscripts, 14 Quarto and folio volumes, comprising Chalmers, GeorgeCaledonia, or a Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain. Paisley: A. Gardner, 1887. 7 volumes, 4to, folding map, plates, original quarter maroon morocco gilt, t.e.g., uncut, spine of volume 1 worn; Billings, R.W. The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland. Edinburgh, [1845-52], 4 volumes, 4to., plates, contemporary maroon half morocco gilt, some spotting, slightly rubbed; James, Henry Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland. Southampton, 1867. 3 volumes, large folio, coloured vignettes, original quarter blue morocco, 2 spines worn (14)Provenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Scottish History and Topography, a quantity, including Walker, J.R.Pre-Reformation Churches in Fife and the Lothians. 1888. Folio, plates, quarter morocco, pictorial boards, worn, lacks spine; MacDonald, J. An Account of the Roman Stones in the Hunterian Museum. Glasgow, 1897. 4to, plates, original buckram; Colston, James The Edinburgh and District Water Supply. Edinburgh: Printed for Private Circulation, 1890. Large 8vo, etched plates, blue half morocco, t.e.g., rubbed; Skene, W.F. Celtic Scotland. 1876, 2 vol., original green cloth gilt; Tancred of Weens, G. The Annals of a Border Club. Jedburgh, 1899. 2 copies, Newbattle Abbey Library stamps, original cloth gilt; Laidlaw, Walter Poetry and Prose. Jedburgh, 1904. Second edition, presentation copy from the author, original cloth, frontispiece loose; Groome, F.H. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland. [c.1880]. 7 vol., 8vo, plates, maps, original blue cloth gilt; Colston, James Trinity College and Trinity Hospital. Edinburgh: printed for the Magistrates & Town Council, 1896. 2 vol., 4to., presentation copy from the author, plates, contemporary green half morocco, t.e.g., rubbed; Lindesay of Pitscottie, Robert The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland. Scottish Text Society, 1899. 2 vol., quarter purple morocco, rubbed; Seton, Sir Bruce G. The Prisoners of the '45. 1928, 3 vol., original green cloth gilt; Spalding, John The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland. Aberdeen, 1792. 2 vol., 12mo, later half morocco, titles remounted with loss of a couple of letters, Paisley Free Library bookplate and stamps, some dust-soiling, rubbed; Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland Catalogue of Stock, Edinburgh Show, 1899. 8vo, photograph frontispiece, later half calf gilt; Essays and Observations Physical and Literary. Edinbrugh, 1754. volume 1 only, 8vo, original boards, folding plates, worn, upper cover virtually deached; and a quantity of miscellaneous works on Scotland; sold not subject to returnProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Spilsbury, Francis B.Picturesque Scenery in the Holy Land and Syria. London: E. Orme, 1803. Folio, incomplete, with mezzotint portrait and 6 (of 19) hand-coloured plates, also lacking pp. 23-30, contemporary boards, contents detached, title creased & torn with some loss of inner margin, 1 plate margin very frayed, binding worn, covers detachedProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Thomson, JohnThe Atlas of Scotland, containing Maps of Each County. Edinburgh: J. Thomson, 1832. Large folio, index map, hand-coloured double page panoramas of Principal Mountains & Principal Rivers, 58 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps, contemporary half morocco, occasional light spotting, worn, lacks spineProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust

Art Reference & Bibliography, 24 booksMaclehose, James, printer Pictures Exhibited in the Royal Reception Rooms in the Art Galleries of the Glasgow International Exhibition 1901. Glasgow, 1902. 4to, two bookplates designed by D.Y. Cameron belonging to J. Craig Annan and Lessing and Edith Rosenwald (loose), original boards with blue morocco gilt labels; "Bromley, Henry" A Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: T. Payne..., 1793. 4to, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, bookplate; Almack, Edward A Bibliography of the King's Book or Eikon Basilike. London: Blades, East & Blades, 1896. Folio, original black cloth gilt, bookplate; Partridge, Frank Ralph Wood Pottery, Mr. Frank Partridge's Collection. London: [n.d.] 4to, original blue cloth gilt; Menpes, Mortimer Whistler as I knew Him. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. 4to, original cloth gilt; Huth, Henry A Catalogue of Woodcuts and Engravings in the Huth Library. London: Chiswick Press, 1910. 4to, contemporary quarter morocco, bookplate; Gebelin, François Les Chateaux de la Renaissance. Paris, [1927]. Folio, original cloth; Blanc, Charles Grammaire des Arts Décoratifs. Paris, 1882. 4to, contemporary quarter morocco gilt; Trusler, John The Works of William Hogarth. London: Jones and Co., 1833. 4to, contemporary half calf; Field, George A Grammar of Colouring... London: Crosby Lockwood & Co., 1877. 12mo, original cloth; and 14 others, sold not subject to return (24)

Art, Architecture & Clocks, 22 volumesMillais, John Guille The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais. London: Methuen & Co., 1902. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt with floral tooling to spine; MacQuoid, Percy & Ralph Edwards The Dictionary of English Furniture. London: Country Life, 1924. 3 volumes, folio, original green cloth gilt; MacGibbon, David & Thomas Ross The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland... Edinburgh, 1990. 5 volumes, 8vo, green cloth; M. Harris and Sons A Catalogue and Index of Old Furniture and Works of Decorative Art, [n.d.] 3 volumes, 4to; Symonds, R.W. English Furniture from Charles II to George II. London: The Conoisseur, 1929. Folio, original cloth gilt; Cescinsky, Herbert The Old English Master Clockmakers. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1938. 8vo, black cloth, spine detaching; and 7 others, sold not subject t return (22)

Audsley, George Ashdown & Maurice AshdownThe Practical Decorator and Ornamentist... London: Blackie & Son, Limited, [n.d. but 1892?] Folio, 102 chromolithographed plates, contemporary maroon half morocco, blindstamps of Wigan Public Library, joints split; Bossert, H. Th. Ornament. Two thousand motifs in colour... London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1924. Folio, 115 (of 120) plates only (lacking plates 46, 53, 78, 109 & 110), blue cloth gilt, bookplate and blindstamps of Wigan Public Library, occasional light soiling (2)

China - Art Reference, a collection of 13 volumes, including Waley, ArthurAn Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting. 1923. First edition, 4to., plates, original buckram, dust-jacket; Binyon, Laurence Painting in the Far East. 1934. Fourth edition, revised throughout. 4to., plates, original cloth, t.e.g., dust-jacket repaired on verso; Akiyama, Terukazu & Others Arts of China. Neolithic Cultures to the T'ang Dynasty. Recent Discoveries. Tokyo & Palo Alto, 1968. Folio, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, slipcase; Yonezawa, Yoshiho Arts of China. Paintings in Chinese Museums. New Collections. 1970. First edition, folio, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, slipcase; Herberts, K. Oriental Lacquer. Art and Technique, translated by Brian Morgan. 1962. Thick large 4to., plates, original cloth, dust-jacket; Honey, William B. The Ceramic Art of China and other countries of the Far East. 1945. First edition, 4to, plates, original cloth, t.e.g.; Willetts, William Foundations of Chinese Art. 1965. 4to., original cloth, dust-jacket; Prodan, Mario The Art of the T'ang Potter. 1960. 4to, plates, original cloth, text slightly discoloured; Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka Song Ceramics. 1999, 4to, soft covers; Sickman, L. & A. Soper. The Art and Architecture of China. 1968, original cloth, dustwrapper, slipcase; Stevens, Bob C. The Collector's Book of Snuff Bottles. New York, 1976. First edition, 4to, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, slipcase; Perry, Lilla S. Chinese Snuff Bottles. Rutland, 1960. Oblong 4to, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket; Hermann, A. An Historical Atlas of China. 1966. 4to, original cloth, spine faded (13)

Cust, LionelAnthony van Dyck, an historical study. London: George Bell and Sons, 1900. Folio, frontispiece, full morocco gilt by Birdsall & Son, inlaid initials of Sir J.H.B. Noble to upper board, silk endpapers, t.e.g., fading to backstrip, very slight rubbing to covers, interior clean; Silver - Burlington Fine Arts Club.Exhibition of a Collection of Silversmiths' Work of European Origin. London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1901. Folio, 120 plates, uncut, original cloth gilt, some fading to backstrip, some light foxing to endpapers (2)

Jones, OwenThe Grammar of Ornament. London: Day and Son, Limited, [n.d. but 1868?] 4to, chromolithographic title-page and 111 plates, original red cloth gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, some foxing; MacQuoid, Percy A History of English Furniture. London: Lawrence & Bullen, Limited, 1904. 4 volumes, folio, blue cloth gilt (5)

Racinet, A.Polychromatic Ornament. London: Henry Southeran and Co., 1877. Folio, 100 chromolithographed plates, contemporary red half morocco, bookplate and blindstamps of the Free Public Library, Wigan; Le Décor Floral. [Paris:] Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1904. Folio, lithographed title-page, 50 plates printed from tinted photographs of artistically arranged plants and flowers, contemporary green half morocco, bookplate and blindstamps of the Free Public Library, Wigan, some rubbing (2)

Brunhoff, Jean deLes Vacances de Zéphir. Paris: Hachette, 1936. First edition, folio, colour printed illustrations, original pale yellow cloth-backed pictorial boards, edges of boards lightly rubbed, corners rubbed; Saint Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de. The Studies of Nature, to which are added the Indian Cottage, and Paul and Virginia. With a memoir of the author... by the Rev. E. Clarke. London: Published by W. Emans, 1836. 3 volumes, 8vo, 2 engraved title-pages and 4 engraved plates, original cloth-backed boards, occasional light foxing, corners bumped, spines slightly marked, labels slightly chipped; Taylor, Ann. The Family Mansion, a Tale. London: for Taylor and Hessey, 1819. First edition, 12mo., engraved frontispiece, half-title, contemporary polished calf gilt, frontispiece foxed and offset, spine a trifle faded; Pilkington, Mary S. Marmontel's Tales, Selected and Abridged, for the Instruction and Amusement of Youth. London: Vernor and Hood, 1799. First edition, 12mo, engraved frontispiece, woodcuts in text, contemporary sheep, slightly spotted, rubbed, joints splitting, [ESTC T90961]; and 2 others (6)

Children's Books, a large collection, includingAesop's Fables. London: George G. Harrap & Company, Ltd., [n.d.] 8vo, original boards; Wood, J.G. The Zoo. London, [n.d.] 8vo, original blue boards; Giradin, J. Nous Deux. Paris, [n.d.] 8vo, original boards; Brunhoff, Jean de Le Voyage de Babar. Paris, 1932. Folio, original boards, free-endpaper torn away; [Idem] Babar at Home. London, 1938. Folio, original boards, free-endpaper torn away; Lemaitre, Jules ABC... Paris, [n.d.] 4to, original boards; Hart, Frank, illustrator Dolly's Society Book. London, [1903?] 4to, original boards; Mates, Rudolf, illustrator The Cock and the Hen. New York, 1925. Second edition, original pictorial boards, torn glassine wrapper, slip-case; Marie, Reine de Roumanie Kildine, Histoire d'une Méchante Petite Princesse. Tours, [1921?] Folio, original blue cloth; and a quantity of others, sold not subject to return (quantity)

Grimm, the Brothers - Hilde Langen - moving picture bookSleeping Beauty. Stuttgart: Waldorfschule-Spielzeug & Verlag, [1929]. Oblong folio, 8 colour lithographed images, most with movable parts controlled by strings, lithographed text pages, original boards with upper cover lithographed, a few small losses affecting movable parts, one part detached but present, small tear to one image, a little rubbed and bumped

Livy. [Titus Livius Patavinus]Ex XIIII T. Livii Decadibus Prima, Tertia, Quarta... Duplex Epitome. Venice: in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, 1520. First folio Aldine edition, (302 x 204mm.), 4 volumes (of 5) bound in one, 369 Folios numbered: [xiv], 106; [x], 102; [x], 127, large woodcut Aldine device on title and on recto of Index Tertiae Decadis (* of 2nd section), panelled calf gilt by Henderson & Bissett, g.e, lacking volume 5 - the "Polybii Libri VI de rebus Romanis" (Venice, Aldus, 1521) mentioned on the title page, minor worm damage especially to the last few pages, the first repaired, the second professionally repaired but with loss to a couple of letters, the last with damage to a couple of words, occasional waterstains and some early professional repairs, a few small repairs to title-page, extensive early [C16th ?] annotations and marginalia, especially in the first Decade, inscribed in pencil on front endpaper by William Graham (1855-1922), [USTC 838282]Provenance: William Graham, JP, FRSAS (1855-1922), Banker, Author of "The One Pound Note", Antiquary & Book Collector Note: Inscribed in pencil by William Graham (1855-1922) on front free endpaper "This edition, the first Folio of Livy by Aldus - 1502/21 "Very Rare. See Renouard's Annales de l'Imprimerie des Aldes and Goldsmid's Biographical Sketch of the Aldine Press & Catalogue, Edinburgh, 1877, p.17, No. 170 (The first edition was 8vo 1518-1523). It will have been known to William Graham that amongst John Urquhart's prize-winning work at St Andrews was a translation of Livy.

Classics, 5 volumes, comprising HerodotusHistoriarum Libri IX, edited by H. Estienne. London: E. Horton & J. Grover, 1679. Folio, text in Greek and Latin, folding map, contemporary russia gilt, g.e., bookplate of Syston Park, g.e., title and following leaf dampstained in inner margin, rebacked; Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius Pristino nitori restituti, accedunt fragmenta Cornelio Gallo inscripta. Leiden, 1743, 8vo, frontispiece, modern morocco gilt, g.e.; Plinius, Caecilius Secundus Caius Epistolarum libri X. Leiden: Officina Elzeviriorum, 1640. 12mo, contemporary vellum, some spotting; Pliny The Letters of Pliny the Younger.. by John Earl of Orrery. London: P. Vaillant, 1751. 2 volumes, 4to, half-titles, contemporary calf, worn (5)

Virgilius Maro, PubliusAntiquissimi Virgiliani Codicis Fragmenta et Picturae ex Bibliotheca Vaticana. Ad priscas Imaginum formas A Petro Sancte Bartholi Incisae. Rome: ex Chalcographia R.C.A. apud Pedem Marmoreum, 1741. Folio, [2], xxii, 225, [1]; engraved title, numerous large engraved illustrations by Pietro Santi Bartoli, contemporary speckled calf, green morocco lettering piece, joints splitting, head and tail of spine rubbed, bookplates of Sir John Cope Bart. and C.E. De M.K., wide margins

Virgilius Maro, PubliusAnglicae historiae libri vigintisex. Basle: Michael Insigrin, 1546. Folio, [2], 618, [36], woodcut device on title and verso of final leaf, a2 and a3 with woodcut borders, extensively annotated in an early hand in the margins, verso of title and final leaf, inscription on title dated 1552, early medicinal prescription "To take away ache" on title verso, ?18th century calf, rebacked, corners worn, bookplates of Sam. Wegg Esq. & C.E.De M.K., [USTC 684706]

Caesar, Gaius Julius - [Andrea Mantegna][Opera] quae extant … accesserunt annotations Samuelis Clarke. London: Jacob Tonson, 1712]. Volume 2 only [Commentariorum de Bello civili.], (pp. 225-556, + 4pp. index), edited by Samuel Clark, large folio (465 x 293mm.), ruled in red throughout, 3 double-page engraved maps by Filippo Cluverio and 24 double page plates by C. Huijberts and others after Andrea Mantegna & others, 1 single-page plate, (numbered 60-87) contemporary calf, spine gilt with initials "L.N."; wihtout the bison plate, rubbedNote:The two volumes together should have 87 engraved plates including the engraved additional title.

[Drummond de Melfort, Guy, Comte de][Traité sur La Cavalerie. Paris: Guillaume Desprez, 1776] Large folio, atlas volume only containing 31 (of 32) numbered double page plates (plate 2 is lacking), 2 unnumbered double page plates and 6 unnumbered single page plates after Ridinger, engraved by Vindel, from his Riding School series: "Ein Pferd wie es mit der Blinden aufgeführet wird..." 1744, "Ein Pferd zwischen den Pillars an die Trömel..." 1744, "Pasagiren auf volte mit der Croupe gegen der Soeule" [n.d.], "Die Anweisung die Zügel..." [n.d.], "Ein Pferd von der freyen hand lauffen zu lasen...", 1776, "Capriole oder das Übersetzen..." 1776, contemporary boards with manuscript label to upper cover reading "Ecole de Cavalerie militaire française", some light dampstaining, plate 5 repaired to lower right corner, a few small repairs including one to plate 29, slight marginal worming to final plate, joints split, some parts of spine detaching

History and Religion, 6 volumes, comprising Isidorus HispalensisOpera Omnia quae extant. Cologne: A. Hierat, 1617. Folio, title with woodcut vignette, 18th century half vellum; Filmer, Sir Robert The Free-holders Grand Inquest. London: R. Royston, 1684. Fourth impression, 8vo, 2 parts in one volume, new calf with old sides laid down, short tear to head of title; Charles I, King of England Eikon Basiliki. The Poutraicture of His Sacred Majesty. London: R. Norton for R. Royston, 1681. 8vo, engraved portrait (frayed with some loss of margin), contemporary calf, some dampstaining and soiling, rebacked, worn; Fox, Charles J. A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second. 1808. 4to, frontispiece, contemporary calf, rebacked; Burnet, Gilbert The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. London: R. Chisell, 1679. 4to, First Part only, additional engraved title, plates, 20th century quarter morocco; Fuller, Thomas The Historie of the Holy Warre. Cambridge: T. Buck, 1640. Second edition, 4to, additional engraved title, declaration leaf before title, 20th century quarter morocco, rather dampstained and soiled, especially title; sold not subject to return (6)

Hyde, Edward, 1st Earl of ClarendonThe Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon. Oxford: Clarendon Printing House, 1759. First edition, folio, [8], 133, [2], 523, [11]; engraved portrait, title with engraved vignette, 19th century maroon half morocco, t.e.g., title slightly browned and offsetting from frontispiece, frontispiece repaired in inner margin, bookplate of Frederic Baron Wolverton, a little rubbed

Nisbet, AlexanderA System of Heraldry... Edinburgh: J. MackEuen, 1722. Folio, 33 plates (one torn, not affecting engraved area), contemporary panelled calf, joints splitting, some spotting and browning; Abercromby, Patrick The Martial Achievements of the Scots Nation. Edinburgh: Robert Freebairn, 1711. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary panelled calf, bookplate of Lord Prestongrange, some wear to joints, some browning; Madox, Thomas Baronia Anglica... London: Francis Gosling, 1741. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked, bookplates (4)

Pliny, the ElderThe Historie of the World: commonly called the naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. London: John Grismond, 1635. Folio, 2 volumes in one, contemporary speckled calf with blind tooled diamond panel to centre of covers, rebacked retaining contemporary gilt tooled spine in parts, lower right edge of V1 torn away with loss to some letters, small tear to Y3 slightly affecting a couple of letters, hole to Y1 (volume 2) with a sizeable portion of text lacking, a few other small tears throughout with no loss to text, a little spotting, some light dampstaining [ESTC S103160]Provenance: Bookplate of The Right Hon. Thomas, Earl of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin, Lord Hay of Kinfauns, with Duppin Castle and a shelfmark written onto the front free endpaper; the signature of G. Wright and the inscription: "Nov. 27. 1723. Collated perfect" to A1 verso; Ownership signature of Robert Clarke "Ex dons Amnissimi Piers..." to title-page

[ROCHESTERIANA] - Female Excellence:or, Woman display'd, in several satyrick Poems. By a Person of Quality … London, Printed for Norman Nelson … 1679. First edition, folio, pp. 8, disbound, a small wormtrack touching three letters, [Wing R1749; ESTC R1389]Note: Erroneously attributed to the Earl of Rochester and to Robert Gould. Of the four poems included, only the second poem, "A satyr upon woman’s usurpation", appears in printed collections of Rochester’s work. [ESTC R1389]

Scandinavian navigation manuscript, and a ship's account bookNavigations Bok för Eric Pahlson...12. February 1833[?], 93 manuscript pages, with an additional title and dedication pages in black and purple ink, seemingly including various navigational theories and calculations, with two pen and ink drawings of ships, folio, modern brown quarter morocco, a few marginal repairs slightly affecting text, final pages somewhat faded, some browning; Ship's Account Book beginning in Malmö in 1844, heading to Sundsvall, Bergen, Stockholm, Christiania [Oslo], Sunderland, London, Odessa, Newcastle, New York, Dublin, Alexandria, Gibraltar, amongst other places, and finishing in Malmö in 1865, the signature of E. Pählson appears throughout, folio, contemporary half calf with soiled paper label to upper cover (2)

Atlas - Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. 2 volumes, folio, 218 engraved maps and city plans hand-coloured in outline, contemporary half calf, small tear to title of volume 1, spines worn, one board detached

Atlas - Thomson, JohnA New General Atlas. Edinburgh: J. Thomson, 1829. Large folio, folding frontispiece (Mountains), folding plate (Lengths of the Principal Rivers) and maps numbered 1-76 mounted on guards throughout (including 10 pt. 1 & 2 joined, 11 pt. 1 & 2 joined, 12 pt. 1 & 2 joined, 25 pt. 1 & 2 joined, 27 pt. 1 & 2 joined, 27 pt. 3 & 4 joined, 34 parts 1-4 joined as 2, 42 in 2 sheets; 43 "2nd" (Birman empire), occasional slight discolouration, one map (Asia) split at fold without loss, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, joints splitting, rubbed

Atlas - Thomson, JohnA New & Historical Atlas, being a Series of Maps illustrative of the Classical and Historical Authors. Edinburgh: J. Thomson, 1829. First edition, large folio (552 x 394mm.), 49 engraved maps as per list, hand-coloured in outline, some double-page (some 2 or more to a double page sheet), contemporary half calf, bookplate of William Young Herries, spine gilt

Bone, MuirheadWar Drawings. London: Country Life, 1917-18. Folio, one of 50 stamped sets signed by the artist, 60 lithographs signed by the artist, loose as issued in original portfolio, one frayed and spotted, some slightly discoloured or creased, mainly marginal, a few with small stains, two with marginal tear, lacks the original wrappers to the 4 parts, with the title/Contents leaves to the 4 parts, the card portfolio a bit worn and soiled

Johnston, Alexander KeithThe Physical Atlas, a series of maps and notes... Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1848. Folio, 30 double-page maps, many hand-coloured, original half calf, covers and leather on spine detached

Vischer, Nicolaus / Daniel StoopendaalOrbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita per N. Visscher. 315 x 467mm., [Amsterdam, 1728], Dutch text on verso, not laid downNote: 1728 World map drawn by Daniel Stoopendaal for the folio Dutch Bible published by Hendrik and Jacob Keur, based on Visscher's very similar map of 1663.

Caxton, William - Ranulph HigdenA single leaf [sig. 28/4, folio CCXX] from Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden, translated by John Trevisa, printed by William Caxton, Westminster, 1482 , 22.3 x 17.4cm, 40 lines plus headline, black letter (Caxton's type 4), containing the end of chapter 30 and the start of chapter 31 from book four (relating to the Emperor Theodosius), one three-line initial supplied in red with red paraphs and marginal notes added in Caxton's printing shop, framed and glazed to show both sides of leaf, a few small marginal repairs; with a single leaf [sig. &2, folio CLXXXVI] from The Golden Legend, Jacobus de Voragine, published London by Wynkyn de Worde, 1527, probably translated by William Caxton, 24.5 x 18.5cm, containing part of the life of St Peter ad Vincula, mentioning King Herod and Antony and Cleopatra, outer margins trimmed [STC 24880] (2)

Haydn, Franz JosephDr Haydn's VI original Canzonettas, for the Voice with an Accompaniment, for the Piano-Forte. Dedicated to Mrs. John Hunter … [London,] Printed for the Author, & sold by him at No. 1, Bury Street, St. J. Corri, Dussek & Co. Music Sellers to her Majesty, No. 67 Dean Street, Soho, & Bridge Street, Edinburgh. [1794.] [Bound with:] Second Sett of Dr Haydn's VI original Canzonettas, for the Voice with an Accompaniment, for the Piano Forte. Dedicated to the Right Hon.ble Lady Charlotte Bertie … London; Printed & sold for Messrs. Corri Dussek & Co. Music Sellers to her Majesty & their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales & Duchess of York … [1795], Folio, pp. 31, [1]; [2], 23, [1]. First edition of both sets, the first signed by Haydn on the title-page (as usual), ink ownership inscription, "Osborne Wight, 1795", to each title; bound with five other contemporary works, near-contemporary half calf, marbled sides, rebacked and recorneredNote: First edition of both sets of Haydn's English Canzonettas, the first signed by Haydn on the title-page (as usual). This is an early issue of the first set, with the fifth song untitled. Anne Hunter (née Home, 1742-1821), wife of the great surgeon John Hunter, provided Haydn with all the texts for the first set of six songs and selected a further six (Shakespeare, Metastasio, and at least one by herself, 'The Wanderer') for the second. The present copy of the first set is the trade edition (the work also exists without Corri, Dussek & Co. on the title; RISM lists only 6 copies worldwide). RISM H 2656 and 2678; British Union-Catalogue of Early Music, pp. 457 and 458. Provenance: From the library of the Rev. Osborne Wight (d. 1800), Fellow of New College, Oxford, whose bequest laid the foundations for the music manuscript collections at the Bodleian.