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A folio of artists figure sketches, largely being female nudes, pencil and graphite, mid to late 20th century

Bacon G. : New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles [including Ireland]. With Plans of Towns, Copious Letterpress Descriptions, Alphabetical Indexes and Census Tables. Edited and Published by George W.Bacon. Nd. C. 1885. Folio Hb. Qtr. Binding, gilt, aeg. Contents include : Index, Introduction and thorough listing of content. 102 double-paged maps in colour. Historical Introduction, Political Divisions, History and Geology of England, Scotland, Ireland, Description of Principal Towns, Historical Census , Alphabetical Index to Towns - With Populations, Maps, alphabetically arranged: Index Maps (2) County Maps - including Scotland Wales and Ireland (61), Plans of Towns (27): Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford, Chatham, Cheltenham, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hastings, Hull, London (NW,NE,SW,SE), Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford and Cambridge, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Southampton, Tunbridge Wells, Environs of Towns (13): Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London (Railway Map), Liverpool, Manchester, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Channel Islands, Orkney and Shetland Isles, Lakes of Killarney/. Scarce. CONDITION REPORT: Binding very worn and somewhat soiled but generally intact and holding. Some initial leaves loose. There are some small ink drawings and writing on the blank versos of 3 maps - these are not visible or apparent from the recto,

Walton M. : Idyll, Nd. C.1995. Folio Hb. with faux vellum,binding, gilt with a silk register. Philosophical and poetic reflections utilising historiated initials and coloured text on substantial paper. Scarce. CONDITION REPORT: Faux vellum binding beginning to deteriorate.

The Times Survey Atlas of the World, 1922. Large folio Hb. Qtr. binding, gilt, aeg. 'Selfridge Edition'. Coloured double page maps and Gazetteer. CONDITION REPORT: Upper board becoming detached with some prelims o/w the maps etc are vg.

F1 Through the Eyes of Damon Hill - Inside the World of Formula, 1998. Landscape, Folio Hb + Dj. Signed by Damon Hill on the fep. Text and photographic illustrations. CONDITION REPORT: Vg/Nf

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, 1973. Folio Society, 3rd. Imp. Royal 8vo. Full red morocco, gilt titling & decoration, slip case. Trans. by Mardus & Mathers. Engraved illus. by Frank Martin & Eric Fraser. CONDITION REPORT: Fine set

A Varied Collection of Educative or Recreational Illustrated Titles in French with Decorative Folio Bindings, most with aeg : Le Tour Du Monde en Famille Voyage De La Famille Brassey Dans Son Yacht Le Sunbeam, 1887; Clarettie L. : Linette - Memoirs D'Une Enfant De Paris, C.1927; Anfossi M. : Une Heroine de Quatorze Ans, C.1899; Poinsot M. : Sur le Gouffe, C.1890; Brown A. : Perdus Dans Les Sables, C.1885; Picard A. : La Terre Des Fleurs, C.1890; Figuier L. : Le Savant Du Foyer Notions Scientifiques, 1880.

Folio Society : A substantial collection of 70+ titles in a variety of formats, most with a slip case. Some duplicates. CONDITION REPORT: Generally vg.

La Ronde du Bon Bock Musique Libre, Nd. C. 1890?. Landscape Folio, red cloth, blind-stamped & gilt. Variety of monochrome illustrative plates & sketches with an accompanying text in a printed manuscript style. Scarce. CONDITION REPORT: Text block becoming loose.

Proust M. : 'In Search of Lost Time' Folio Society - set of 6 volumes in two slip cases. Together with a similar set published by Penguin/Allen Lane - 6 volumes in one slip case. CONDITION REPORT: VG / NF

Anthony Trollope : Full set of 48 titles published by the Folio Society, all with slip cases. CONDITION REPORT: Vg

Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magna Britannia, Francia & Hibernia, two volumes, 1735 & 1753. Folio, Full calf. Decorative heraldic devices on the various title pages, gothic text and historiated initials. Featuring a number of statutes including : Duties on Malt, Perry & Cider; Raising and Keeping a Standing Army; Repairing and repairing Highways in the County of Stafford; Relief of imprisoned Debtors; Inconvenience and dangers that may arise from methods of digging gravel, sand, stone etc; Laws against persons who shall steal or detain shipwrecked goods etc etc. ( Anything new under the sun?! ). CONDITION REPORT: Bindings poor and in need of repair, Text blocks generally tight, clean and bright.

The Illustrated Family Bunyan including : The Pilgrim's Progress, Holy War and Grace Abounding. Nd. C. 1870. Folio, Qtr. binding, gilt, marbled edges & eps. Chromo -lithograph, tinted and engraved plates together with engraved vignettes in the text. A less common and attractive edition. Together with : The Holy Bible, Nd. C.1800. Vol. 1 only. Folio, full tree-calf,gilt, aeg, marbled eps. Engraved title page, frontis and other engraved plates. Published by Heptinstall. Scarce.

Folio Society : A substantial collection of 30+ volumes also including sets (Culloden, Mediterranean, Campaigns of Napoleon ), in a range of formats all with slip cases and generally in vg or nf condition. Together with two other publishers boxed sets of Tolkien and Milne.

Robinson C. : Navy & Army Illustrated, 1895 - 1899, Vols. 1 - 9. Six large folio volumes, dark red cloth, gilt. Profusely illustrated. CONDITION REPORT: Vg.

Janes All The World's Aircraft - 5 volumes : 1942, 45/46, 48, 49/50 & 54/59. Folio Hb. Blue cloth, gilt. Monochrome photo illustrations, contemporary advertisements. CONDITION REPORT: Generally vg.

Wilson H. : With the Flag to Pretoria, 1900. Vols. I & II. Folio Hb with matching maroon leather spines and textured cloth, gilt titling, decorative motifs & illustrations. Folding map, text and profuse photographic illustrations. Near fine set.

Bunyan's Choice Works : Pilgrim's Progress, Holy War, Barren Fig Tree, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and Heart's Ease in Heart Trouble, Nd. C.1880. Folio, full leather binding with gilt decorative and illustrative panels, aeg. Chromolithographic plates. CONDITION REPORT: This copy has been professionally re-backed with new end papers with the original bevelled boards detained. Some minor sporadic foxing

Folio sized dedicated Album with the title 'War Cuttings' on the upper board together with a decorative flag and field gun illustration. The album contains 90+ pages with a mounted collection wide ranging miscellaneous, illustrative material including : Post cards featuring condensed Regimental histories with a coloured illustration; smaller cards with colour illustrations of various campaign medals; Silks with Regimental Badges & flags; Postcards showing colour & monochrome pictures of WWI Battleships together with their Heraldic Crests; Silks featuring UK Colonial & other National Flags. Overall a fascinating and perhaps unique collection. CONDITION REPORT: The binding of the album is quite sound. The pages are becoming a little frayed around the edges and a little browned but this has not affected the mounted items.

PAIR OF JAPANESE PRINTSdepicting armour; along with a Robert Edie print and a French brass bound folio

A floral gilt triple aspect mirror together with a small beech folio stand

VINCENT WING, 'THE ALMANAC', THREE 18TH CENTURY RED AND BLACK ENGRAVINGS Folio broadside size dating from 1754, 1736 and 1739, each printed by James Roberts for the Company of Stationers, together with an advertising poster from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Circa 1860, featuring a pantomime by Peter Wilkins and the flying woman. (approx 40cm x 49cm)

Grand Tour Sketchbook. An album compiled by an unidentified traveller, circa 1879-82, approximately 80 sketches with numerous notes on approximately 100 paper sheets of mostly smaller sizes, mostly mounted to rectos and some versos of 28 album leaves, the sketches mostly in pencil plus some in watercolour or ink, largely copies of drawings, paintings and sculptures in Italian Collections, many with additional historical pencil notes, some spotting throughout, contemporary half morocco over boards, folio (39 x 28 cm) (1)

*Watercolour album. An album of English and Continental views, late 19th century, twenty-two mounted watercolours, mostly British and European buildings and views, but also a couple of still life pictures, most identified in pencil to album leaf, including Munich, Venice, Bournemouth, Hastings, and Plas Power, 33 x 47.5cm (13 x 18.5ins) and smaller, original gilt decorated cloth, somewhat rubbed and soiled, extremities worn, with spine partially detached and frayed, oblong folio (1)

Floris (Frans, 1519/20-1570). Moses showing the tablet of the Ten Commandments, with scenes in the background of Moses receiving the commandments, the dance round the Golden Calf, and Moses breaking the tablets, pen, brown ink, and grey wash on pale cream laid paper, indistinct watermark (similar to Briquet 1054 and 1379), sheet size 184 x 287 mm (7.25 x 11.3 ins), tipped onto old blue backing paper, and contained in a mid-19th century album containing early prints and engravings on the subject of idols, idolatry, and idol worship, with extensive handwritten notes on the subject of idolatry, all mounted in the album, a few prints loose, original dark green cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear, with upper cover detached, bookplate of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe to front pastedown, folio (349 x 265 mm, 13.75 x 10.5 ins) Provenance: Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (1858-1945), Liberal politican, statesman and writer. Aside from the drawing by Floris, the album contains 120 engravings and etchings, mostly dating from the 17th, 18th and early 19th century, and includes 7 etchings by Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), several by Pierre Lombart after Francis Cleyn (taken from Ogilby's Virgil of 1654), Jan Luyken (1649-1712), Jean Jacques Lagrenée (1739-1821) Sacrifice to Pan, Pietro Bartoli (1635-1700) Apollini Sacrum, & Dianae Sacrum, Jakob Gottlieb Thelot (1708-1760), etc. (1)

Hogarth (William). The Original Works of William Hogarth, John and Josiah Boydell, 1790, letterpress title and list of plates, 110 engravings on eighty-eight sheets, portrait frontispiece with printed publication date 'June 4 1795', plates 56-60 and 80-81 mounted to wove sheets, plate 71 torn without loss, some old damp-staining to lower and outer margins throughout, sometimes affecting plate impressions, evidence of library stamp removal to lower outer corner of title with resultant paper thinning, title spotted, a little occasional finger soiling, contemporary calf with later antique-style morocco gilt reback to match, scratched and rubbed, a little wear, folio (645 x 490 mm) (1)

*Bryden (Robert, 1865-1939). Some Woodcuts of Men of Letters of the 19th Century, 1899, woodcut title page printed in red and black, and 12 large woodcut portraits of Rudyard Kipling, John Ruskin, Robert Browning, William Morris, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Count Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Carlyle, Victor Hugo, Heinrick Ibsen and Robert Louis Stevenson, each with captioned tissue-guard, a few minor marks to extreme sheet edges, loosely contained in original cloth portfolio, with paper label to upper cover, stained and some soiling and wear, ties lacking, atlas folio (635 x 455 mm, 25 x 18 ins) (1)

Raverat (Gwen, 1885-1957). An album of 208 wood engravings by Gwen Raverat, 1909-1932, compiled by the artist as a personal record with the artist's handwritten index in ink on 2 leaves at the front of the volume, together with an early printed Catalogue of Woodcuts by Gwendoline Raverat, bound in at front, containing 208 wood engravings, of which 89 are signed or initialled, many additionally titled in pencil, various sizes, the largest measuring 23 x 33 cm (9 x 13 ins), the smallest 4 x 4 cm (1.5 x 1.5 ins), with titles additionally provided in pencil to each leaf, bound in original cream cloth, rubbed and some marks and minor stains, lettered in gilt to spine WOODCUTS G.R. 1, folio (33.5 x 27 cm) A highly important album of original wood engravings by Gwen Raverat, providing a record of her output between 1909 and 1932, including rare early proofs, and many wood engravings not previously seen on the market. The album includes her first attempt at engraving, The Knight of the Burning Pestle of 1909, and many other early works relating to English ballads and folk tales, works influenced by Eric Gill, many bathers, the town scenes in France, and the numerous illustrations provided by Raverat for the Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children, executed in 1932. (1)

Kokoschka (Oskar, 1886-1980). Shakespeare, King Lear, with lithographs by Oskar Kokoschka, Ganymed Original Editions, 1963, 16 monochrome lithographs, printed on handmade crisbrook paper, printed by J.E. Wolfensberger, Zurich, printed title and text in Fell type by Oxford University Press, published by Ganymed Original Editions, and distributed by Marlborough Fine Art, issued in a limited edition of 275 copies, this copy numbered 127, signed by the artist in pencil to front of volume, untrimmed, original full vellum, lettered in gilt to spine, with grey cloth slipcase, large folio (473 x 375 mm, 18.6 x 14.75 ins) (1)

A quantity of 'Bristol Savages pictures in a folio,' David Reed, David Blake, Palmer, loose unframed

A folio of prints, hand coloured, to include circus scenes and natural history, some with titles 'Affen', 'Wilde Thiere' and 'Hausvogel', unframed (af)

Joseph Foster Wood (1855-1917) architect A travelling sketch book, various watercolours and drawings to include 'Asbolt 1888', 'Aberdovey 1886', a folio of looses sketches and watercolours, to include 'Bude', 'Stowe Hill', seaside scenes, etc (32 loose approx in folio.), various sizes and a quantity of loose unframed prints (qty)

RENÉE SINTENIS, TIERE, A folio of twelve signed lithograph/etchings

Ephemera, a fine collection of marbled book end papers, 45+ different, 1661-1890, including classic patterns such as Antique spot, veined marble, snail & Nonpareil, many in pairs & mostly dated, 8vo to folio (gd)

Photography - Military - an early 20th century army officer's photograph album, belonging to and composed by Captain Humphrey Watts, 3rd VB Cheshire Regiment, containing formal portraits of the regimental officer corps at military manoeuvres throughout the region, interiors and exteriors of various Oxford colleges, etc., quarter black pebbled leather, conforming buckram, the front board monogrammed in gilt, dated 1901 and onwards, oblong folio

Cartography/Maps - Geographic Map of the Southern Hijaz Quadrangle Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by Glen F. Brown and Roy O. Jackson, Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington D.C. 1958, manilla sleeve stamped and signed R.M.G. Varley; U.S. Department of Commerce, Civil Aeronautics Administrations, Aircraft Powerplant Handbook, January 1949, C.A.A. Technical Manual No. 107; Air Ministry Meteorological Office, Geophysical Memoirs No. 105, Upper Winds Over the World, Part III; monthly Station News-Sheet for Royal Air Force, Yatesbury - September 1956-February 1957 (6); another manual; Koninklijk Magnetisch en Meteorologisch Observatorium te Batavia [...] No. 14 [...] Regenval In Nederlandsch-Indie (Rainfall In The Netherlands Indies), 1925, Volume II only; other Dutch maps of Colonial Java, various; Bali; Carte Taride de l'Algérie, card sleeve; board folio of astronomical/celestial charts, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, USSR 1957; Ordnance Survey, coloured, including Dundee & St. Andrews [...] War Revision 1940 (2); Pratts Road Atlas of England and Wales 1929; a set of ten facsimile plates of John Weale's Cornish Pumping Engine, sleeve folders and binder; typed notes on scientific equipment; further ephemera (qty)

Jean Audran (1667-1756) after Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Henri IV délibére sur son futur marriage [...], drawn and published by Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766), Paris [c.1740], 55cm x 39cm, the margins with collector's pencil inscriptions; Catherine Elizabeth Lempereur (1726-1780) after Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789), Le Calme, Dédié Monsieur Watelet de Valogny, Maréchal des Camps [...] Armées du Roy, [Paris c.1770], engraving, 32.5cm x 47cm; Jean-Baptise Patas (1741-18178) after Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), La Mort D'Adonis, [from] De la Galerie S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc de Orléans, [Paris c.1770], engraving, 22.5cm x 16.5cm, MS numbered collector's mount; after William Hogarth (1697-1764), The Company of Undertakers, restrike, etching, 30cm x 21.5cm; after George Cruikshank (1792-1878), The Examination, of a Young Surgeon, restrike, etching, 23cm x 42cm; other restrikes; 18th century View of Chelsea, hand-coloured engraving; etc (folio)

Naval History -a Victorian vellum shipman's annual logbook, kept by William Williams, of HMS Swiftsure (1870), the Mediterranean tour commencing in Malta on 1st January 1873 and the remarks terminating in Barcelona on 31st December 1873, 108pp of ink MS containing Remarks, calendar and notes on current location within drawn tables, inserted with a loose watercolour presumably of the said ship with her officers and crew on parade before the vessel and embarking from port, fly leaf inscribed Malta and Devenport, marbled endpapers, inscribed front board, thin folio HMS Swiftsure, leading ship of the Swiftsure class, was built in 1870 and was sister to the later HMS Triumph. Initially commissioned at Devenport in 1871 for the Channel Fleet. Found to be almost unbeatable as a performer under sail, she later relieved HMS Defence in the Dardanelles in 1872, and remained in the Mediterranean until 1878. Later in her career, after a modernizing refit - which included being fitted with torpedo capacity, in the annual manoeuvres of 1893, Swiftsure asked permission from the Admiral to spread sail, as her engines were inadequate to generate the power required to produce the speed ordered. This was the last occasion in which a British battleship spread sail while travelling in company with a fleet at sea.

Aldin (Cecil), The Romance of The Road, first edition, Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, London 1928, the front with inset tipped-in [...] Map of London [...in] 1828, further tipped-in plates by and after Aldin (10), maps after Cary (6), wood engravings throughout, titled black boards as issued, folio

Antiquarianism, Derbyshire and Midlands History and Topography - Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities, edited by Charles Knight, two-volume set, James Sangster and Co, London [1860], period quarter-morocco and buckram boards, folio; The Court Guide and County Blue Book of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, and Northamptonshire: A Fashionable Record, Professional Register, and General Survey, Charles William Deacon & Co., London [1908]; Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. XIV, 1892; Midland History, volumes VI to VIII, 1981-1983 (3); Thornton Society Records Series, The Sherwood Forest Book, edited by Helen E. Boulton, Vol. XXIII, 1964; another, Nottinghamshire Miscellany, No. 4, Vol. XXIV, 1965; The Monumental Brasses of Devonshire; Heraldry In Leicestershire Churches, eight-volume set; Heraldry In Rutland Churches; further regional heraldry, various; The Leicestershire Historian, various; Cornish Nonconformist Registers; qty

Literature - Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote [...] edited by J.W. Clark [....] Biographical Notice of Cervantes by T. Teignmouth Shore [...] Illustrated by Gustave Doré, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London [c.1900], xxviii, 737pp, black quarter-leather and buckram boards, marbled pastedown and text block, folio; Defoe (Daniel), The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Embellished With Engravings From Designs by Thomas Stothard, T. Caddell and W. Davies, London 1820, two-volume set, period brown calf embossed with acanthus and tooled in gilt, 8vo, [3]

Local Interest - Keys (John, of Derby), Sketches of Old Derby and Neighbourhood, edited by George Frederick Gadd, Bemrose and Sons, Limited, London 1895, green buckram as issued, short folio

Local Interest - The Castle of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, With an Introduction by Kenneth Hillier, Kenneth and Marjorie Hampson, [Leicestershire?] 1988, limited edition 83/101, hb, dj, ex-lib, pictorial bookplate to title-page, oblong folio; Country Houses Around Ashby-de-la-Zouch: A Selection of Prints and Paintings 1730-1989, With an Introduction and Notes by Kenneth Hillier, Kenneth and Marjorie Hampson, [Leicestershire?] 1989, limited edition 71/150, hb, dj, armorail bookplate to pastedown, oblong folio [2]

Musical Sammelband - an arrangement of 19th century sheet music, comprising The Star Spangled Banner, National American Song, Sung by Mr. White, In His Lectures on American Minstrelsy, Written by J.F. Key, Esqr of Washington, The Symphonies & Accompaniments, Composed by E.J. Loder, Dalmaine & Co., London [c.1855]; Up With The Standard of England, Words by Edward Farmer, Music by George Simpson, [London c.1855]; The Englishman, A National Song, Written by Eliza Cook, Composed by John Blockley, Chappell, London; Old Towler: A favourite Hunting Song, Sung with universal applause by Mr. Incledon, At the New Theatre Royal Covent Garden &c [...], Composed by Mr. Shield, Written by J.O. Keefe Esqr., Goulding Phipps, D'Almaine & Co., London [c.1780]; "What Will They Say In England?" Song, Written by the Revd. J.S.B. Monsell, In Honor of the Victory of the Alma, Composed by J.W. Hobbs, Chappell, London [1854]; England & Victory, Song, Sung by Mr. Sims Reeves, By Frank Mori, Cramer, Beale & Co., London [c.1860]; Britania, The Pride of the Ocean!, (The Red, White & Blue), Sung by Mr E.L. Davenport, At All The Principal Theatres, in the Drama of Black-Eyed Susan, Musical Bouquet Office, London [c.1855]; Favourite Songs For The Piano Forte, Composed by J.R. Thomas, The Cottage by The Sea, Musical Bouquet Office, London [c.1860]; Christy's Minstrels' Popular Songs For The Piano-Forte, With Choruses, The Love Knot, Composed S. Massett, Musical Bouquet Office, London [c.1860]; The Gipsy's Life Is A Joyous Life [...] Poetry Written by Stuart Farquharson Esqr. D.C.L., The Music Composed & Dedicated to Mrs. Kenyon by Edwin Flood, Robert Cocks & Co., London [c.1860]; Shells of Ocean or I Wander'd On the Sea Beat Shore [...] Written and Inscribed to P. Fraser Esqr. by J.W. Lake, The Music Composed by J.W. Cherry, T. Holloway, London [c.1860]; The Cavalier [..] Sung by Miss Poole, Written by W.H. Bellamy, Composed by Chas. W. Glover, R. Addison & Co., London [c.1860]; The Maids of Merry England, Ballad, Sung by Mrs S.W. New, Written by Richard Wynne Esqr., Composed and Dedicated to Mifs (sic) Mary Ann Travis by James Perring, Z.T. Purday, London [c.1860]; Bonny Jean, As Sung by Mr Sims Reeves, To whom it is dedicated by G. Linley, Chappell & Co., London [c.1860], others, 266pp paginated in ink MS, corresponding owner's contents page, owner's inscription and stamp for Mr James Earp, Grocer of High Street, Melbourne, Derbyshire, quarter-leather and marbled boards, folio

Ornithology - Coles (Charles), Game Birds, Illustrated by Maurice Pledger, signed by the author and illustrator, limited edition numbered 66/250 in ink, Collins, London 1981, 117pp, 24 tipped-in colour plates after M.J. Pledger, monochrome vignettes en text, dark green quarter-morocco and buckram, folio, buckram slipcase, card box

Theology - Blome On The Bible - The History of the Old and New Testament, Extracted out of Sacred Scripture, And Writings of the Fathers, To which are Added The Lives, Travels and Sufferings of the Apostles; with a Large and Exact Hiftorical (sic) Chronology of all the Affairs and Actions related in the Bible, The Whole illuftrated (sic) with Two hundred and forty Sculptures, And Five Scriptural Maps, Delineated and Engraved by Good Artifts (sic), Tranflated (sic) from the Sieur De Royaumont, by feveral (sic) Hands: Supervifed (sic) and Recommended by Dr. Horneck and other Orthodox Divines, second edition, R. Blome. S. and J. Sprint, John Nicholfon (sic), and John Pero, at the Bell, the King's-Arms, and the Swan in Little-Britain, Affigns (sic) of the faid (sic) R. Blome, London 1701, two-volumes bound as one (volume II title-page erroneously dates print at 1700!), [vi], subscribers list and advertisement [iv], 212pp (erroneously numbered from pages 105-116, & 175, but complete), [xi], 84pp, appendix [127pp], complete with etched engravings after G. Freman and maps, full near contemporary calf, red leather title label to spine in between raised and gilded bands, the boards with embossed tendrils (front board detached), folio

Books - Folio Society - history, literature, topography, etc., all hb and slipcased (qty)

HERDMAN W G; 'Pictorial Relics of Ancient Liverpool', two folio-sized volumes, cloth and leather bound, ex libris, published for Brown, Barnes & Bell by Walmsley of Liverpool. CONDITION REPORT 'In two volumes', volume one and volume two.

Kinloch (Alexander A.A., Brig-Gen). Large Game Shooting in Thibet. The Himalayas, Northern and Central India, third edition, 36 plates, folding linen-backed map, fine red crushed half morocco over cloth, t.e.g., folio, Calcutta, 1892.

Russow (K.E.). Bruno Liljefors An Appreciation ONE OF 1000, photogravure plates throughtout, original wrapper bound-in, fine red crushed half morocco over patterned boards, spine gilt, t.e.g., folio, Stockholm, 1929.

Big Game Trophies - Moyer (John W.) Trophy Heads, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, New York, 1962; Hines (Simon) Trophy Rooms Around the World 3 vol., 1995; - Great Hunters; Their Trophy Rooms and Collections, 3 vol., 1997-2001, publisher's cloth and boards, dust-jackets, folio (7)

James Penrith et al. The Kill, Wildlife Encounters, folio, limited edition 312/1250, published by John Richardson, signed, The Directors' Collection Ltd, Botswana 1989.

Johnston (Alexander Keith). The Physical Atlas. A Series of Maps and Notes illustrating the Geographical Distribution of Natural Phenomena..., published William Blackwood & Sons, 1848, calligraphic title, dedication and preface, thirty (complete) double page engraved maps, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, half morocco gilt, skillfully rebacked preserving original spine, folio The first edition to contain the palaeontologial and geological map of the British Isles. (1)

Knox (Robert). An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in East-Indies: Together, with an account of the detaining in captivity the Author and divers other Englishmen now living there, and of the author's miraculous escape, 2 copies, 1st editions, 1681, both defective copies, first copy with double-page engraved map (inverted) and 14 (of 15) plates, advert leaf at rear, licence leaf and some plates detached and somewhat soiled and frayed at edges, lacks plate opposite page 39, contemporary inscription to front free endpaper (detached) and bookplate of William Brodie to front pastedown, the second copy lacking map and with 6 plates (of 15) only, licence leaf and advert leaf present, additional double-page engraved plate ('The catching of elephants') inserted, near-contemporary inscription to front free endpaper and armorial bookplate of John Skipp to front pastedown, both copies lack portrait frontispiece (as often), both contemporary calf, worn, folio Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (2)

Mafeking Mail. Special Siege Slips, edited by G.N.H. Whales, nos. 1-152 (1 November 1899 to 31 May 1900) bound as 1, with preface leaf dated July 1900, printed on various types of paper including pink and brown, occasional tears without loss, explanation for the unissued number 56 present, Army and Navy Club bookplate to front pastedown, hinges slightly cracked, contemporary quarter morocco, rubbed and soiled, split along lower joints and some loss at foot of spine, folio Mendelssohn 967. (1)

Mickleburgh (Rev. James). Index of the Principal Places in the World, forming a Complete Reference to the Maps published under the Superintendence of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Edward Stanford, circa 1860, printed title and index, seventy two (only) engraved maps, including one double page (Australia) by J & C Walker, all with contemporary outline colouring, later endpapers, later half calf, worn and frayed, folio, together with Black (Adam & Charles Black, publishers), Black's General Atlas: Comprehending Seventy-Two Maps..., Edinburgh, 1853, printed title and index, thirty-six (only) engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, contents shaken and loose, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed, worn and frayed, folio, with Stieler (Adolf), Adolf Stieler's Hand-Atlas..., 1875, double page title, sixty-seven double page engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, a few maps detached, contemporary half diced calf, lacking spine, worn and frayed, folio, plus another six atlases similar, including examples by Bartholomew, Harmsworth, Bacon, Delamarche and 'The Times', various sizes and condition Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (9)

Ogawa (Kazumasa). Scenes from the Chiushingura and the Story of the Forty-Seven Ronin, with Descriptive Text by James Murdoch, [Tokyo], [1893], seventeen colour tinted collotype plates from photographs, light toning affecting some plates, date from Japanese title page at end, in original traditional-style decorative stiff wrappers (extremities lightly rubbed and a diagonal crease across lower back corner), with decorative cloth spine (very slightly worn at ends), recent drop-back box with gilt lettered leather spine, folio (1)

Sams (William). A Tour through Paris, circa 1830, title page with slight offsetting, twenty-one (complete) aquatint plates with bright contemporary hand colouring, bookplate of Sir Denzil Cope, Bart, hinges cracked, near contemporary half morocco with gilt decorated spine, bumped and worn at extremities, folio Abbey Travel 114. (1)

Aguirre (Jose Saenz de). Philosophia moralis ab Aristotele tradita decem libris Ethicorum ad Nicomachum..., Salamanca: Lucam Perez, 1675, woodcut decorative initials, contemporary limp vellum, ties deficient, folio, together with Gutierrez (Juan), Tractatus de Juramento Confirmatorio, et aliis in iure variis Resolutionibus..., Madrid: Joannes de la Cuesta, 1613, woodcut armorial to title, fraying to margins of initial leaves, contemporary limp vellum, upper cover frayed and damp-soiled, folio, with Ricci (Giovanni Luigi), Praxis Rerum fori Ecclesiastici, et variae decisiones, nedum curiae Archiepiscopalis Neopolit. verum etiam aliorum Tribunalium Ecclesiasticorum eiusdem Regni..., Coloniae Allobrogum: Philippum Albertum, 1621, title in red & black, with woodcut crown device, some browning and spotting, contemporary limp vellum, ties deficient, 4to (3)

Athanasius (Saint). Opera Omnia, 2 volumes in 3, Paris, 1698-1704, text in Greek and Latin in double column, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved map of Egypt, four engraved plates, a few small marginal repairs and some light spotting, hinges reinforced, booklabels of Bishop Phillpotts' Library, Truro, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, folio (3)