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Gill (Eric).- The Four Gospels, from an edition limited to 600 copies, wood-engraved illustrations, by Eric Gill, mainly pictorial headlines and initials, black cloth with morocco label to spine, slipcase, a few spots to cloth, Christopher Skelton at The September Press, Wellingborough, 1987; The Engravings of Eric Gill, from an edition of 1350 limited to copies, illustrations by Eric Gill, some in colour or folding, original blind-stamped cloth, slipcase, Christopher Skelton, Wellingborough, 1983, folio, (2)⁂ The Gospels is a reproduction version of that originally printed by The Golden Cockrell Press in 1931.

Golden Cockerel Press.- Bannet (Ivor) The Amazons, one of 80 specially-bound copies signed by the author and artist, from an edition limited to 500, engravings by Clifford Webb, original pictorial brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutclife, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, original slip-case, small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.

Golden Cockerel Press.- Chair (Somerset de) The Story of a Lifetime, number 21 of 100 copies for subscribers, from an edition limited to 110 signed by the author, engravings by Clifford Webb, original pictorial white morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly yellowed, cloth slip-case, small folio, 1954.

NO RESERVE Elrod (Jeff) ESP, one of 300 copies, Berlin, 2015; Figment, St. Moritz, 2016; Jeff Elrod, 2014, § Garth Weiser: Paintings, 2008-2017, Austin, 2017 § Simmons (Gary) Paradise, Bologna, 2012; Gary Simmons, Chicago, 2002, illustrations, some colour, some folding, original cloth or boards; and c.95 others, Elrod, Weiser and Simmonds, mostly duplicates, some still sealed in shrink-wrapping, folio & 4to (3 boxes)

NO RESERVE Goldsworthy (Andy) Stein, Frankfurt, 1994 § Sudjic (Deyan) Ron Arad, 1999 § Kate MccGwire, 2021 § Moore (Henry) Back to a Land: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, 2015 § Kapoor (Anish) Turning the World Upside Down, 2010 § Whiteread (Rachel) House, original pictorial wrappers, 1995 § Beers (Kurt) 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, 2019, illustrations, many colour, all but the sixth original cloth or boards, the first three with dust-jackets; and c.45 others on modern & contemporary sculpture, mostly British, folio & 4to (2 boxes)

NO RESERVE Veilhan (Xavier) Xavier Veilhan at Hatfield, signed and inscribed by the artist on upper cover, original pictorial wrappers with clear green acetate dust-jacket, 2012 § Mimran (Patrick) Recent Works and Old Obsessions, Rome, 2007 § Peng (Lü) & others. Dimitri Kosiré: Paintings 20004-2014, Croatia, 2015 § Lucien Billy: Das Bildnerische Werk, vol.1, Rolandseck, 1983 § Firman (Daniel) Switch Up, n.d., illustrations, many colour, all but the first original cloth or boards, the last two with dust-jackets, a little rubbed; and c.25 others on French contemporary art, folio & 4to (c.30)

Architecture.- Wood (John) The Origin of Building: Or, The Plagiarism of the Heathens Detected, 5 parts in 1 vol., first edition, 25 engraved plates, most folding, some marginal soiling, original boards, rebacked and recornered, boards scuffed, folio, Bath, by S. and F. Farley, 1741.

NO RESERVE Churches.- Johns (J. W.) The Anglican Cathedral Church of Saint James, Mount Zion, Jerusalem, 6 colour plates including vignette title, damp-staining and light spotting, loose in wrappers, cloth-backed wrappers, damp-stained, rubbed, folio, 1842.⁂ Rare in commerce and in institutions.

NO RESERVE Kelen (Emery) Indian Round-Table Conference, one of 200 copies signed by the artist, 35 colour plates, loose in folder as issued, slip-case (lightly marked), folio, [1930].⁂ Coloured caricatures of the participants of the 1930 Indian Conference, which was held in relation to India's demand for Dominion status.

Tipping (H. Avray) English Homes, 9 vol., vol. 1,3,5,7-9 first printings, others second editions or second impressions, illustrations, some full-page, vol.8 ex-library copy with stamps to title recto & verso, original cloth, faded, spine ends bumped and frayed, vol.8 with library number to spine, some with dust-jackets, frayed and marked, one with hole to back panel, folio, 1921-1937.⁂ Rare complete set.By the early 1920s, the photographic archives of Country Life magazine offered an outstanding range of images of the exteriors and interiors of many of the most important houses in England. Drawing on this resource, Tipping gives a history of most of the architecturally important homes and includes over 4,600 illustrations. This record is particularly valuable as a large number of photographic images of furnished interiors are given of houses that have since been demolished.

NO RESERVE Gardening.- [Hale (Thomas)] Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening, first edition, compiled by Sir John Hill, engraved plates, contemporary ownership name to title, damp-staining, offsetting, lacking frontispiece, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, rather worn, [Henrey 776], folio, for T. Osborne, 1757. sold not subject to return.

Houghton (Rev. William) British Fresh-Water Fishes, 41 wood-engraved plates after A.F. Lydon printed in colours, wood-engraved vignettes and illustrations, lacking half-title, title soiled and repaired at gutter, a few tiny marginal tears, occasional light spotting and soiling, some marginal damp-staining to text and plates at beginning and end, hinges repaired with cloth, contemporary cloth, rebacked in modern navy morocco, spine titled in gilt, corners bumped, covers rubbed, t.e.g., [Nissen ZBI 2009], [1879]; and the 6 vol. fourth edition of Morris' A History of British Birds, with hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, large 8vo & folio (7)

NO RESERVE Miller (Philip) The Gardener's Dictionary, seventh edition, frontispiece laid down, 19 engraved plates, some offsetting, some damp-staining, heavier towards the end, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, lightly rubbed, but an attractive copy overall, folio, printed for the Author; and sold by J. Rivington [&c.], 1759.

17th century prophet.- Sadler (John, political theorist and reformer, 1615-74) A Prophesie related by Mr John Sadlor Warinell [Warmwell] in the County of Dorsett..., manuscript, 1½pp., in light brown ink, folds, browned, watermark of a cross on a shield surmounted by a crown, folio, n.d. [c. 1695].⁂ Sadler was a polymath, at one time master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, town clerk of London and author of the political work, Rights of the Kingdom. "Sadler's religious experience in 1661 when he prophesied the great plague, the fire of London, three Dutch wars, and a dramatic event in 1688.

NO RESERVE Britain.- Dollman (F. T.) & J. R. Jobbins. An Analysis of Ancient Domestic Architecture, 2 vol., plates, many double-page, spotting, vol. 1 title with short tear, occasional short marginal chipping, bookplate, contemporary half-morocco, upper covers becoming detached, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, c.1861 § Hitchin (W. E.) Surrey: At the Opening of the Twentieth Century, frontispiece, illustrations, original decorative morocco, gilt, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, Brighton, 1908; and others, 3 others, Britain, folio & 4to (6)

NO RESERVE Kent.- Dart (John) The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, title in red and black, 9pp. engraved arms of subscribers, 41 engraved plates, 4 folding, engraved illustrations, toning and light damp-staining to edges, contemporary panelled calf, worn, rebacked, new endpapers, folio, by J. Cole, Hoddle, et al., 1726.

NO RESERVE Indonesia.- Sultanate of Deli.- Naudin ten Cate (Albert William) Deli in woord en beeld, photographic illustrations, original decorative cloth, corners frayed, a little faded, otherwise excellent, oblong folio, Amsterdam, J. H. Bussy, 1905.⁂ Rare Dutch publication with an interesting collection illustrations with captions about the cultures in the Sultanate of Deli.

British soldier in France.- Pearson (John, sergeant, of 43rd Regiment (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) of Infantry) Long Autograph Letter signed to his sister Betsy Phillips in Plymouth, 3pp. and address panel, folio, Valenciennes, France, 30th November 1817, on the allied occupation of France after the downfall of Napoleon, "a General Court Martial that has been held on a man of ours for Deserting and Inlisting into the French Service I believe he will be shot, the Man and Woman I mentioned... for starving the Children have been tried, the Man was Sentenced to Imprisonment for Life & the Woman be burnt", remains of black wax seal, small tears along folds, browned; and 2 others (3).

NO RESERVE Restoration Dean & family.- Turner (Rev Thomas, dean of Canterbury, bap. 1592, d. 1672), his wife Margaret Turner, daughter of Sir Francis Windebank, 1607/8-92, Rev Francis Turner, bishop of Ely, 1637-1700, Richard Goulston, of Wyddiall, Herts., d. 1686 and his wife Margaret Goulston. Letters... copied from the originals preserved in the Bodleian Library, manuscript, title and c. 366pp., original half morocco, gilt spine, slightly rubbed, edges uncut, folio, [c. 1850].⁂ Extracts from the Rawlinson MSS.

[Savile (Henry)] Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Post Bedam Praecipui ..., first edition, printers device to title, partial ink ownership inscription in early hand, divisional titles within woodcut architectural borders, woodcut initials and head-pieces, a few pencil notes to margins in later hand, bookplates to front pastedown and endpaper, title and following leaf with paper restoration at inner and fore-edge margins, browning to scattered leaves, contemporary calf, rebacked, small chip to upper cover, otherwise a little rubbed, [STC 21783], G. Bishop, R. Nuberie & R. Barker, 1596 § [Twysden (Roger)] Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X..., ?1 vol. bound in 2, title in red and black, bookplate to front pastedown, g1 of vol. 1 mis-bound before 2N4 (final leaf) at end of vol. 2, some light spotting, heavier to a few leaves, eighteenth century mottled calf with unidentified ?ducal arms in gilt to covers, early reback, vol. 2 lacking spine labels, joints cracking, extremities rubbed, [Wing H2094], Jacob Flesher & Cornelius Bee, 1652; and another similar 17th century, folio (5)⁂ The second edition (of the first mentioned) was published in Frankfurt in 1601.

Roman history.- Livius (Titus) Opus, edited by Josse Badius, Roman type, title within woodcut historiated border, woodcut illustrations in text, historiated or decorative initials, and printer's devices (including to final verso), title torn at foot (with some loss) and silked, a8 of index at end misbound before a1, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, modern marbled endpapers, upper corners of text block little singed, antique style mottled vellum, spine in compartments and with burgundy leather label, [cf. Renouard, Badius Ascensius, III, 14:6], folio, [Paris], Jean Petit, Pierre Gaudoul, & Pierre Vidoué, 1533.⁂ A rare edition of this history of Rome, with seemingly no institutional copies recorded by the usual sources.

[Montaigne (Michel de)] [The Essayes vvritten in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne], translated by John Florio, woodcut headpieces, lacks title, 4pp. at end and final blank, A2 torn with some loss, some waterstaining, a few wormholes mostly in margins, slightly browned, bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale on front pastedown, ink inscription at head of dedication: "Heneretta: maria: de gratia angli ffrancet hibne", other various inscriptions and with signatures of Jeferay Baylie, and Robert Carleton, contemporary calf, worn with some loss, lacks tail of spine, [STC 18042], folio, [by Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret], 1613; sold not subject to return.

Dugdale (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum, 3 vol., first editions, additional engraved architectural title to vol. 1, titles printed in red & black, 100 engraved plates only by Wenceslaus Hollar (of 120), some reinforced at hinges, occasional contemporary manuscript side-notes, some finger-soiling, modern half calf, corners rubbed, spines gilt with black morocco labels, [Wing D2483-5-6], folio, Richard Hodgkinsonne, 1655-61-73; sold not subject to return.⁂ The Monasticon Anglicanum revealed the importance of charters as sources for the study of medieval history, and 'established for the first time since the Reformation the importance of monasteries and the scale of their territorial possessions' (ODNB).

NO RESERVE [North (Dudley, 3rd Baron)] A forest promiscuous of several seasons productions, second edition, first f. blank, lacking L2 (supplied in typescript), 4 preliminary ff. misbound between pp.330 and 331, little loss to inner gutter of title and B1, 3B3 small burn hole within text with loss of a few letters, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners repaired, covers rubbed and scuffed, [Wing N1284], small folio, Printed by Daniel Pakeman, 1659.⁂ Rare at auction, with the last copy we can trace being in 1984. This collection of prose and verse first appeared in 1645 as A forest of varieties. Provenance: Joseph Knight (portrait bookplate to front pastedown).

NO RESERVE Gray (Thomas) Designs by Mr. Bentley for Six Poems, first edition, first issue with "Drawings, &c." on half-title, printed on rectos only, engraved title-vignette, 6 plates, head- & tail-pieces and initials by Grignion and Muller after Bentley, 4pp. 'Explanation of the Prints' by Horace Walpole bound at end, 19th century ink ownership inscription of G.H. Gilchrist to title head, pencil note in the same hand to front endpaper "this copy belonged to Lord Kirkwall", occasional very faint damp-staining or minor dust-soiling, but overall a very good clean copy, hinges repaired with cloth, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked and with corners repaired, some wear to old covers, housed in a cloth drop-back box, [Hazen 42; Rothschild 1061], folio, for R. Dodsley, 1753.

Blank paper.- An album of c.180 sheets, sheet size 360 x 230mm, some finger-soiling marks, heavier to one or two leaves, contemporary boards, worn, lacking spine, folio, 18th century. ⁂ The watermark is of a shell, and the countermark with the initials 'F.G.'

Arabian Nights.- Daniell (William, engraver and publisher) Seventeen folio illustrations to the Arabian Nights after Robert Smirke, etchings and aquatint with hand-colouring, on wove paper, each platemark approx. 345 x 280 mm. (13 1/2 x 11 in), some surface dirt and minor browning, hinged into mounts, unframed, 1814.⁂ The present group of illustrations are independent from those also by Smirke in Edward Forster's translation of 'The Arabian Nights', published by William Miller in 1802.

NO RESERVE Bell (Major James) A View of Universal History, Literature, and the Several Schools of Painting, fifth edition, title in red and black, tables with hand-colouring, many double-page, some staining to gutter near start, some light spotting and offsetting, original half calf, gilt, spine and corners worn, spine with a few small portions of loss, covers a little rubbed and soiled, upper joint split but holding, 1842; and 2 others similar, including a volume containing chronological tables by Lavoisne, folio (3)

Luxuspapiere - - Brokatpapier. Sammlung von 35 Bl., darunter 3 volle Bögen sowie seltene, teils große und patronierte Bogenfragmente. Deutschland, 18. - frühes 19. Jahrhundert. 19 x 12 - 33 x 42 cm (überwiegend Quart- und Klein-Folio-Formate).Schöne, repräsentative Sammlung. Die vollen Bögen mit dichtem Rankwerk auf rot gestrichenem Grund (unsigniert), mit 28 Heiligenfiguren auf Weiß von Renner & Abel in Nürnberg, sowie mit 8 großen Heiligen auf Gelb (unsigniert). Enthalten ferner Halbbogen mit seltener Prägung von Blütenranken und Vögeln in Schwarz auf Grau, zahlreiche Blätter mit mehrfarbig patroniertem Rank- oder Ornamentwerk (1 auf grauem Grund mit Silberprägung), Halbbogen mit großem Rankwerk in Gold auf Schwarz, einige farbige Papiere mit tiefgeprägtem Goldgrund etc. - Teils als Einbandmaterial verwendet und mit Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt jedoch gut erhalten.

Luxuspapiere - - Bronzefirnispapier. 2 Bögen und 6 Fragmente von 7 verschiedenen Motiven. Deutschland, 18. Jahrhundert. 21 x 16 - 35 x 43 cm.Seltene Sorten, darunter: Unbeschnittener Bogen mit floralem Rankwerk auf Orange (das größte Blatt der Sammlung). - Bogen mit Netz aus verschiedenen Blüten, Kreuzen und Punkten auf Schwarz, für einen Umschlag beschnitten, aber noch mit Rand. - Netz aus Rauten und vierblättrigen Fliederblüten auf Rot, als Umschlag für ein Folio-Heft verwendet. - Etwa halber Bogen (ehemals Quart-Umschlag) mit Blütenmuster in Gold über schwarzen und braunroten Blüten auf ockerfarbenem Grund. - Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt aber gut erhalten.

FOLIO SOCIETY: Evelyn Waugh, 'The Sword of Honour Trilogy' boxed set; with 'Brideshead Revisited' and two other FS books. (Six in total.)

FOLIO SOCIETY: nine vols: travel, topography, history etc. A miscellany.

FOLIO SOCIETY: P.G.Wodehouse, boxed set of Jeeves and Wooster (six vols.) & other humorous Folio items: Wodehouse, Coward, Mitford etc. (eleven in total).

FOLIO SOCIETY: Fourteen vols. by Anthony Trollope. All in excellent condition with slipcases.

The Dorothy L Sayers Crime Collection, The Folio Society five titles in slip case - fine

A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chiakin, The Folio Society, two volumes in slip case - fine

A box of various Folio books

A MAIDEN AT A WINDOW, RAJASTHAN, PROBABLY KOTAH, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY gouache with gold and gesso on paper, inscription in devanagari at the top, 35.5 x 24.5cm (folio)Provenance: Bonhams, London, 5 July 2006, lot 231.

‡ HINDOL RAGA, MALPURA, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1756-7 gouache with gold on paper, a panel of four lines of devanagari script on black ground at the top, surrounded by floral border on red ground, the outer margin with '25' written in the top left corner, 24.5 x 18cm (image), 40 x 28cm approx. folioProvenance: Private collection, USA. Thought to have been presented as a gift by a colleague of the vendor's late father in England in the early 1970s.This painting is from a ragamala series that was commissioned by Raiji Moti Ram of Malpura, a thikana near Jaipur. dated 1756-57 and illustrated by the painter Jai Kishan. Other folios can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum (IS.156-1963), the San Diego Museum of Art and the Fogg Art Museum (See Ebeling 1973, no.93, p.212 & C22, p.69), Binney 1968, no.36).

FOUR INDIAN PAINTINGS, 19TH CENTURY including a manuscript folio, possibly from an edition of the Mahabharata, a visit to a Saivite ascetic and a Jain scene, 35 x 25.5cm and smaller

TWO SCENES FROM THE RAMAYANA, MEWAR, UDAIPUR, CIRCA 1720 gouache with ink and gold on paper, one depicting the gods returning to heaven after granting King Visvamitra the status of a rishi, the other depicting Menaka with Visvamitra, each with inscription in devanagari script in a yellow panel at the top, bordered with a yellow band and red margin, framed, 27 x 40 approx. each (folio)Provenance: Private collection, London

A RELIGIOUS TEACHER WITH DEVOTEES, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY gouache with gold on paper, the group seated in a verdant landscape, with a river teaming with fish in the background, distant hills, a rural gathering and towns on the horizon, red margin, 22 x 30.8cm (image), 25 x 33.3cm (folio)Provenance: Private collection, London. Acquired by the vendor's mother at Bonhams London, 14 June 1983, lot 19.

A YOUNG MAIDEN WITH HER DUENNA, KISHANGARH, RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1780 gouache with gold on paper, laid on a gold flecked album page with design of repeated tulips, the young woman seated and listening intently to her elder in the darkness of night, surrounded by gold painted floral border, the reverse with 17 lines of black devanagari script and seal of Maharaja Ramraj Maharaja [..] Bahadur dated AH 1257, framed, 8.5 x 7.2cm (image); 34.5 x 26cm (folio)Provenance: Private collection, London, acquired Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, 2014. Christie's South Kensington, 11 October 2013, lot 545

A YOUNG PRINCE WATCHING AN ANIMAL FIGHT, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY gouache on paper, the boy seated on a terrace with his companions watching sparring pairs of antelopes and rams shepherded by attendants, framed by a black line and red outer margin, framed, 26.5 x 15.5cm (image); 29.5 x 18.8cm (folio)Provenance: Private collection, London

THREE NOBLEMEN ON HORSEBACK, PROBABLY BUNDI, RAJASTHAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY gouache on paper, narrow red margin, the young rider at the front holding a parakeet, two diminutive attendants below, one holding two parakeets, a short line of devanagari script on the reverse, 22 x 42cm (folio)Provenance: Private collection, London. Acquired at auction in the 1980s.

A FOLIO FROM A BARAMASA SERIES, BUNDI, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, 17TH/18TH CENTURY gouache with gold and black ink on paper, depicting the month of Magha (January-February), Krishna and Radha on a richly decorated raised palace terrace, flanked by female attendants, with verdant forest teeming with birds in the background, a further scene with Krishna and Radha in the palace garden with musicians below, four lines of devanagari script in yellow panel at the top, the whole surrounded by a plain red margin, framed, 22 x 17cm (image); 30 x 22cm (folio)Provenance: Private collection, London, acquired Prahlad Bubbar, LondonFor seven other Baramasa paintings from the same series in the British Museum, see inv. no. 1999,1202,0.5.2-8

A GILT-LACQUER MANUSCRIPT IN BOX (KAMAWA-SA), BURMA (MYANMAR), 20TH CENTURY the fourteen folios inscribed with applied brown lacquer in stylised Burmese script on sgraffito decorated gilt on red lacquer ground, each with piercing for binding, enclosed by a pair of lacquered wood covers (kyan) decorated with mythical figures and animals, 16.3 x 60.3cm (each folio)

MONVEMENTA; Folio Society of Antiquaries of London, contained in folio.

Mennie (Donald) , The Pageant of Peking, first edition, no.893 of 1000 copies, 66 mounted photogravures, original blue silk, folio, Shanghai, 1920.

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)'Twelve views of mount Fuji by Hiroshige' paper folio of Japanese woodblock prints, comprising: 'No 16, Perspective of Fuji river from Iwase Rise at Kambara', 36cm x 24cm, 'No 8, Ferry over Umabito River and Mount Oyama', 36cm x 24cm, 'No 7, Pine-grove with Fuji on the left', 36cm x 24cm, 'Clear weather after snow, Mount Fuji and Mount Ashigara, Numazu', 36cm x 24cm, 'Ferry at Arai', 36cm x 24cm, 'Satta Peak, the coast of Oya-Shirazu, the fifty-three stations, no 17', 36cm x 24cm, 'No. 6, Mount Fuji from the hill road', 36cm x 24cm, 'No 15, Swamps around Mount Fuji, Views of famous places of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō Road', 36cm x 24cm, 'No 36, Mount Fuji from Goyu', 36cm x 24cm, 'No 14, Mount Fuji at Hara, Views of famous places of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō Road', 36cm x 24cm, 'No 3, River and village', 36cm x 24cm, 'No 19, Tako-no-ura, the pine groves of Miho', 36cm x 24cm, all unframed (12)Provenance:- from the estate of private collectors. All unframed, some holes and small tears to the folio, weak on folds. Some creases and fold marks to the unframed prints. Slight time/colour fade. Foxing throughout.

Collection of books on Chinese Art to include William Watson's Dynastic China, a folio-sized issue covering many aspects associated with the numerous fields of Chinese Art and exceptionally illustrated with 184 full-page illustrations in colour and followed by pages carrying smaller-sized monochrome illustrations of Chinese bronzes and mixed works of art filling the pages and illustrations of archaeological sites published by Harry N. Abrahams, Inc., New York 1981 and a cardboard cased two-volume issue The Horizon History of the Arts of China by the editors of the Horizon Magazine edited by Norman Kotker and author C.P. Fitzgerald, published by American Heritage Publishing CO. Inc., New York (9) At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot, this in no way indicates a good condition, please contact the saleroom for a condition report.

Collection of books on Chinese Art to include a folio size 495 page Royal Academy of Arts catalogue, edited by Evelyn S Rawski and Jessica Rawsonm entitled CHINA 'The Three Emperors' 1662-1795, well illustrated in colours with a wide range of Chinese Art and descriptionsAnthology of Chinese Art, and exhibition book on Arts of Asia held regularly by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1985, covering painting and calligraphy on scrolls and fans etc, ceramics from Han to Qianlong Period and metal, hard stones and enamels etcR. Soame Jenyns, assisted by William Watson F.S.A on Chinese Art, 'The Minor Arts II' covering textiles, glass and painting on glass, carvings on ivory and rhinoceros horn, hardstone snuff bottles, ink stones and cakes, printed in Switzerland Office du Livre, Fribourg 1965a large format book on Chinese Art, The Palace Museum Peking, 'Treasures of the Forbidden City' by Wan-Go Weng / Yang Boda Publishers New York 1982and a mint condition two-cased volume issue by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture from Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Art Media Resources, Ltd., 1990 (10) At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot, this in no way indicates a good condition, please contact the saleroom for a condition report.

Collection of books and auction catalogues on Asian Art to include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Nepalese, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Artto include Sotheby's and Bonhamsincluding National Palace Museum, Ch,in Hsiao Director 'Great National Treasures of China', October 10th 1983; James Cahill, Parting the Shore, Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty 1368-1580; Jessica Rawson, Chinese Ornament: The Lotus and the Dragon monochrome and coloured illustrations 1984, The University of Michigan Ann Arbor by Richard Edwards and contributions by Ling-Yun, Shuh Liu, Steven D. Owyoung and James Robinson, 'The Art of Wen Cheng-ming (1470-1559) United States 1974-1975 and Sam Fogg Rare Books catalogue on an East Asian Books Sale covering China, Japan, Tibet, Burma, Thailand and Java,including Sherman E. Lee, director, of The Cleaveland Museum of Art, 'FAR EASTERN ART' (Revised Edition), with illustrations in colour and monochrome,including a Chinese folio-sized hardback book of paintings by Chi-Pi-Shi commencing with a portrait and introduction in black ink style by the artist followed by details of all the black and coloured paintings illustrated one to a pagea Japanese 362-page book entitled in gold lacquer upon a rounded spine on the subject of early iron and soft metal decorated Tsuba, illustrated two to a page in monochrome with details of artists, schools, and designs, with cardboard case with title on flat spine in blackan all-Japanese standard-sized book on Japanese iron Tsuba with details of artists and history,a Japanese folio-sized issue of Japanese paintings found on furniture, such as screens and rooms by various schools including Kano, Hasegawa, Kaiho, Unkoku, Soga and Tosa 'Monochrome and coloured illustrations and with a list of the individual illustrations in English, printed in Japan 1967a Japanese-printed folio-sized issue of Japanese Works of Art by famous artists including Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ho,ami Koetsu, Ogata Kenzan, Ogata Korin and others, covering subjects on calligraphy, paintings, screens, lacquer work, ceramics, including Raku ware and tea wares and scrolls,a well-illustrated 262-page folio-size book, Decorative Arts of Japan, well illustrated, one item to a page in colour, General Editor Chisaburoh F. Yamada, Associate Editor Eric Sackheim and subject editors Ceramics - Fujio Koyama, Metalwork - Osamu Kurata, Lacquerware - Yuzurus Okada, Textiles - Tomoyuki Yamanobe, Captions translated by Toshizo Imai and Yuko Kobayashi, first edition 1964, published by Kodansha International, with cardboard storage case (11) At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot, this in no way indicates a good condition, please contact the saleroom for a condition report.

Seven Volumes of Oriental Ceramics of the World Great Collections boxed group from an issue of eleven illustrated back and front boxed folio-sized books, finely illustrated, The British Museum London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, Musee Guimet, Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, Tokyo National Museum and Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot, this in no way indicates a good condition, please contact the saleroom for a condition report.

Collection of publications on Asian Artto include guides, handbooks, reports, journals and exhibition cataloguesto include a paperback issue by The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Ostasiatiska Museet) Stockholm 'Bulletin No. 46 Stockholm 1974: A Japanese Illustrated paper backed Exhibition catalogue of Eastern Art celebrating the opening of the Gallery of the Eastern Antiquities Tokyo National Museum 1968 with Japanese and English descriptions, a Japanese paper backed folio sized issue of an exhibition of Japanese and Chinese ceramics under Yamanaka & Co text and inscriptions in Japanese, two issues by The Oriental Ceramic Society Chinese Blue and White porcelain 14th to 19th Century, 16th December 1953 to 23rd January 1954 and The Victoria and Albert Museum, in association with The Oriental Ceramic Society, Chinese translations, No. 1, Important finds of ancient Chinese ceramics since 1949, by Feng Hsien-Ming in Wen Mu 1965 No. 9, pp. 26-56, translated by Mrs Hin-Cheung Lovell, M.A. and six various mixed sized paper backed issues on Oriental Art (12) At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot, this in no way indicates a good condition, please contact the saleroom for a condition report.

Collection of books and a report on Chinese Artto include two hardback folio-sized issues with Chinese and English text, Chinese Antiquities from The Brian S. McEleney collection, well illustrated with 174 plates in monochrome and colour, organised by The Hong Kong Museum of Art 1987,and An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, with similar text and illustrations, jointly presented by the Min Chin Society, and the Urban Council, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art 21.10.80 - 21.12.80,a paperbound book compiled by P. Hughes Stanton and Rose Kerr, Kiln Sites of Ancient China, covering recent finds of pottery and Porcelain, an exhibition lent by the Peoples Republic of China, organised in association with The Oriental Ceramic Society, printed and bound in Great Britain by Baldin + Mansell London and Wisbech with monochrome and coloured illustrations;and a book on Chinese ceramics from datable tombs, with mainly monochrome illustrations., by J.M Addis, first published in 1978 for Sotheby Parke Bernet publications, by Philip Wilson publishers, illustrated,together with a titled and coloured illustrated paper-covered folio issued book of 291 pages on Oriental Art, well illustrated in colour, by Maurizio Scapari, 'Splenders of Ancient China', published by Thames and Hudson,Chinese cardboard cased hard backed folio two-volume issue book in Chinese and English script and in excellent condition, on Chinese porcelain from the S.C.KO Tianminlou collection by John Ayres, published by Hong Kong Museum of Art, presented by the Urban Council, Hong Kong, Part 1 illustrated in colour with (blue and white ware 1-65) - (polychrome are 66-119) - (monochrome ware 120-1610, Part 2, covering each illustration with descriptions of their decoration and periods, a paper-backed issue, Freer Gallery of Art, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., by Thomas Lawson Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington. D. C. 1982,A Bluett & Sons Gallery Exhibition paper-backed illustrated catalogue of Ancient Chinese Bronzes of The Late Warring States - early Western Han Periods:and a notebook-size issue, An Examination of Chinese Bronzes by John C. Ferguson from The Smithsonian Report for 1914, pages 587-592 and 14 plates,a folio issue hardback illustrated catalogue of The Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental Studies, University of Durham, by Ireneus Laszlo Legeza, deputy curator with a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Malcolm Macdonald, printed by London University Press, New York, Toronto, 1972,a hardback issue covering various aspects of Chinese Art with one hundred plates in colour introduced by an outline sketch of Chinese by R.L. Hobson, Keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography at the British Museum, published by Earnest Benn Ltd London MCMXXVII (12) At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot, this in no way indicates a good condition, please contact the saleroom for a condition report.

Collection of books/catalogues on Asian Art and Furniture to include Friends of the House, Furniture from China's Towns and Villages, by Nancy Berliner and Sarah Handler, published by Peabody Essex Museum, vol 131, dated 1995, illustrated in monochrome and colour;Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, volume two, number three, Summer Quarter 1992;a notebook-size book, 'Images of Asia', Chinese Classical Furniture by Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1995, illustrated in colour and monochrome, 1st published 1995;a notebook paper back issue, The Chair in China by Louise Hawley Stone, published by Royal Ontario Museum Toronto 1952,a paper covered hard-backed issues, dated Chinese Antiquities 600-1650, 195 illustrations alongside descriptions, by Sheila Riddell, 1979, in Memory of His Majesty King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden 1882 - 1973, first published in 1979 by Faber and Faber,a paper covered issue Selection of Master Works in The Collection of The National Palace Museum, with a preface by Chiang Fu-tsung, 1972, illustrated in colour and monochrome and inscriptions in Chinese and English,Chinese Ceramics from the Museum Yamato Bunkakan Collection, an illustrated catalogue series No. 7 - 1977,a hardback book by Margaret Jourdain and R. Soame Jenyns, Chinese Export Art in the 18th Century, published in 1967, with 144 illustrations, first issued in 1950 by Country Life Ltd,a similar issue, catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition 'Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger', first published in 1981 by the Ashmolean Museum and Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd.,a jacket paper covered hardback folio size issue with 80 pages and 60 coloured illustrations 'Masterpieces of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Mottahedeh Collection in the Virginia Museum by David Howard and John Ayres, published by Philip Wilson for Sotheby Park Bernet publications,a hardback folio issue The Arts of The Ching Dynasty, An Exhibition Organised by The Arts Council of Great Britain and The Oriental Ceramic Society from May 26th to July 1964, covering some ten materials with 144 illustrations,a paper-backed issue, Masterworks in Wood in China and Japan by Donald Jenkins assisted by Robin Sribnick, Portland Art Museum and Asia House Art Gallery,a paper-backed issue, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty (1279-1368) by Sherman E Lee and Wai Kam-Ho, published by The Cleaveland Museum of Art, copyright 1968 (13) At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot, this in no way indicates a good condition, please contact the saleroom for a condition report.