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The Folio Society - History & Biography including The Jubilee Years, Bestiary, Nelson & Emma, Revolt in the Desert, Siege of Delhi, The Pastons, The Black Death etc in slip cases (14) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

The Folio Society - Classics of Early Travel & Art including Travels Through France & Italy, Captain Cooks's Voyages, The Source of the Nile, The Life of the Bee,etc in slip cases (12) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

The Folio Society - Literature & Classics including Wide Sargasso Sea, Huckleberry Finn, I Claudius, The Second Jungle Book, Melmoth the Wanderer, etc in slip cases (16) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

The Folio Society - Literature & Classics including Nostromo, Scoop, The Hobbit, Rumpole, Lord Jim, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Rainbow, etc in slip cases (15) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Framed memorial sampler bearing a date 1850, embroidered with a map of Yorkshire, another of the Coronation, six 19th century alphabet samplers (four unframed), framed sampler by Mary Green with verse, two others (a.f.), reproduction folio map of Huddersfield, prints etc (qty)

A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON HULL: HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, ANTIQUITIES, JOURNALISM, PERSONALITIES Hadley (George, Compiler) A New and Complete History of the Town and County of Kingston-upon-Hull, 1788, Hull, thick 4to, plates etc.; Sheahan (James Joseph) History of the Town and Port of Kingston-upon-Hull, [1866], Beverley, John Green, Second Edittion, folding maps, plates etc. Illustrated guides, 8vo: The Stanger's Guide; or Hand Book to Hull, 1852, green cloth; Craggs' New Guide to Hull, 1834; The New Hull Guide and Visitor's Hand-Book, [1860s], Peck & Son, orig. cloth (all three printed in Hull); Greenwood's Picture of Hull, with seventy illustrations, 1835, London Hunt (William) HistoricaL Notices of Hull, No.I., 1883 [&] Then and Now; or Fifty Years of Newspaper Work, 1887; Sheppard (T.) The Correct Arms of Kingston-upon-Hull, [1880s], Hull; White (Thomas) Enquiry into Hospitals, Alms-Houses, and other Charities, 1833, Hull; Blashill (Thomas) Evidences relating to the Eastern Part of...Hull, 1903; Dove's Life of Andrew Marvell, 1832; Kendall's Life of the Rev. W. Sanderson, 1875; Report of an Inquiry into the Existing State of the Corporation of Hull, 1834 Periodicals: bound issues of The Hull Portfolio for 1831, 1832 (some facsimile replacement leaves), and for 1887; The Hull Quarterly 1884-85, preserving original wraps; Symons (John) Kingstoniana, 1889, Hull Eastern Morning News; Wildridge (T. Tindall) Holderness and Hullshire Historic Gleanings, 1886, The Hull Press, (extra?) illustrated [&] Old and New Hull, 1884, Peck & Sons, illustrations [&] The Hull Letters, 1884 [plus:] Sheppard (Thomas, Curator) Quarterly Record of Additions to the Hull Museum, Reprinted from The Eastern Morning News Aug 1902 - 1927, in 6 vols; Poulson (George) The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness...compiled from records...of the Rev. William Dade..., 1840, Hull, Robert Brown, 2 folio vols. in original brown cloth, numerous plates and maps etc (some folding) [with:] Neale (J.P.) Views of the Most Interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain, London, 1824, 2 vols., 8vo, plates, contemp. marbled boards Lot includes a boxed set of photographic glass plates of church architecture: 'Ilford Ordinary Plates'. Some scarce local imprints from a research library, mixed condition (26 in two boxes)

[Miller (Joseph) Botanicum officinale: or a compendious herbal...], [1722], London, E. Bell etc., 8vo, original blind-tooled calf (rubbed and scuffed), lacking titlepage, very weak upper hinge [&] Bell (John, Publisher) The Poetical Works of John Milton, four 18mo volumes, 1779, Edinburgh at the Apollo Press [for Bell], each vol. with engraved frontis (Vol I with portrait of Milton), in tatty full calf, spines with varying damage, from The Poets of Great Britain series [with] Two musical scores: Jefferys (Charles, Publisher) A Book of Beauty for the Queen's Boudoir, A Musical Annual for 1846, folio, two chromolithographic plates illuminated in gilt, morocco-backed rubbed pictorial boards, contents loose [&] Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart [c.1890], Leipzig, C.F. Peters, large 4to facsimile reprint in dark morocco boards (4)

A Folio case and contents including 30 large competition Photographs of steam locomotives, shipping, landscapes, etc.

A Victorian bound Folio of the Ancient Mariner, illustrated by Noel Paton by Art-Union of London 1863

The Bird Painting of Henry Jones, Folio Fine Editions 1976, ltd. edition of 500, in outer slip case

4 volume folio edition RHS Dictionary of Gardening

THE STANLEY KUBRICK ARCHIVESedited by Alison Castle, published by Taschen, 2005, large folio, black cloth and rings with red morocco covered boards, stored in original publisher's carrying case; including Hal 9000 filmstrip and CD interview, etc

A FOLIO CONTAINING A GOOD SELECTION OF 11 UNFRAMED COLOUR PRINTS, the majority signed and limited editions, to include; John Ward RA, Sir Hugh Casson and others

AFTER JOHN PIPER & OTHERS A FOLIO CONTAINING A GOOD SELECTION OF 12 COLOUR PRINTS, the majority signed and limited editions, to include; John Piper, John Ward RA, Sir Hugh Casson and others

Myths and Legends of India published by The Folio Society

The Legends of King Arthur in three vols published by Folio Society

Eleven various Folio Society Books

Seven Folio Society illustrated childrens books

The Icelandic Sagas by Magnus Magnusson published by Folio Society

The Doomsday Book in three vols by The Folio Society

Scenes of Medieval Life - three vols and Medieval Women - both published Folio Society

Domesday Book: in relation to the county of Sussex, folio, 1886.

A folio of book illustrations, to include examples by George Tuckwell; Pat Mynot; Phillips; and a sketch by Stanley Roy Badmin.

Folio of old school wall charts, from the Harvey Nature series

Folio of small watercolours, and two frames watercolours by R. Castle

BARTOLI (P S) Gli Antichi Sepolcri, ovvero Mausolei Romani ed Etruschi, Rome 1768, folio, woodcut to title, 106 plates (lacking nos 65-70), title and latter plates slightly toned, rebacked.

Large box Folio Society publications principally of famous novels including 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' by Thomas Hardy, 'Pilgrims Progress' by John Bunion, 'Moll Flanders by Defoe, all in original slip cases

THE HOOD FAMILY (19TH CENTURY) A FOLIO OF LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOURS including views of the Alps, Capri, South Coast, Lowestoft, and Navirino Bay, some copies of other artists including after Callow and Robertson, watercolour various sizes (29)

•MYLES TONKS, RI, RBA (1890-1960) A FOLIO OF PASTELS OF COASTAL SCENES including holiday makers bathing on a beach, sailing boats by a Continental port, views of the Scottish coast and other subjects, pastel various sizes (5) Provenance The artist's studio, by direct descent to the present owner

A folio of figure drawings including Frank Carter by Bernard Sickert, a double-sided life drawing dedicated to Winifred Kinghts, seated male nude by Sir Charles Holroyd, study of a seated soldier, a pair of head studies by Colin Gill (mounted as one) (7) Provenance (Knights): The estate of Sir Thomas Monnington; with Liss fine art.

THE BARONAGE OF SCOTLAND, FOLIO, LACKS TITLE, MANUSCRIPT INDEX AT END, HALF CALF, CIRCA LATE 18TH CENTURY, A COLLECTION OF LOOSE PLATES OF THE COSTUMES OF SWEDEN, HAND COLOURED AQUATINTS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, NICHOLSON (W), THE ENGLISH, SCOTCH AND IRISH HISTORICAL LIBRARIES... THIRD EDITION, FOLIO, LATER BOARDS 1736 WAF AND GUTCH [JOHN], THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COLLEGES AND HALLS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BY ANTONY WOOD MA... WITH A CONTINUATION TO THE PRESENT TIME, LATER BOARDS, OXFORD 1786

Camden (William). Britannia: or a chorographical description of the flourishing kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland and the Islands adjacent..., enlarged by the latest discoveries by Richard Gough, 3 volumes, published John Nichols, 1789, engraved portrait frontispiece, title to each volume, additional half title, fifty-seven uncoloured engraved maps by John Cary (including fifty-one double page and folding) and ninety-eight engraved plates (including seven double page and folding), later endpapers, book plate of Arthur G. Franklin, contemporary diced calf, rebacked and repaired along board edges, folio (3)

Royal Military College. Twelve Sketches from Nature, Selected from the Sketch Books (1849) of the Gentlemen Cadets of the Royal Military College [Sandhurst], printed by F.H. Delamotte, [1849], tinted pictorial title-page and 12 tinted lithographic plates, armorial bookplate of General Sir John Alexander Ewart to front pastedown, with a later bookplate of Edward J. Law, original cloth-backed gilt-lettered cream boards, heavily rubbed and slightly soiled, a little nicked at head and foot of spine, oblong folio Rare; only one copy located at Aberdeen University. The third plate of the Royal Military College features a cricket match being played in front of the College. (1)

Franks (Augustus Wollaston). A Book of Ornamental Glazing Quarries, Collected and Arranged from Ancient Examples, 1849, 112 colour-tinted lithographic plates, a little spotting, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Humphreys (Henry Noel), The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing..., 1853, 28 lithographic plates including some coloured, original cloth gilt, rubbed and a little frayed at extremities, small folio, plus Guest (Montague & Boulton, William B.), The Royal Yacht Squadron..., 1903, black and white plates including photogravure frontispiece, some spotting, hinges cracked, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, a little frayed to extremities, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous books including book history, silver, illustrated, etc. (3 shelves)

Rossi (Domenico). Rossi (Domenico), Raccolta di Statue Antiche E Moderne data in Luce sotto I gloriosi Auspicj della Santita di N.S. Papa Clementhe XI..., published Rome, 1704, letterpress title, additional decorative dedication, 162 uncoloured engravings, occasional spotting, bookplate of Alexander Thomson, contemporary sheep with gilt decorated spine, worn and frayed, folio (1)

Birch (Thomas). The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, engraved by Mr. Houbraken and Mr. Vertue, With their Lives and Characters, A New Edition, 1813, title-page vignette engraved by Gravelot, 108 full-page copper engraved plates including frontispiece, water stain mostly affecting lower blank margins of plates and some lower corners, extending further across last few plates, title with closed tear of approximately 2.5ins along lower edge of plate impression, a few text leaves with short closed tears to blank margins (some repaired), on two occasions tear extends a few mm into text, some light offsetting from plates, scattered spotting and toning, verso of front free endpaper with early ink ownership inscription, marbled endpapers, contemporary half morocco with gilt decorated spine, front board detached, rubbed and extremities worn with some loss of marbled paper on boards, large folio (1)

Vogel (F.C.). Panorama des Rheins oder Ansichten des rechten und linken Rheinufers von Mainz bis Coblenz, Frankfurt am Main, circa 1833, a pair of uncoloured lithographic panoramas of the Rhine, by A. Fay after J.F. Dielmann (Right Bank) and J. Becker (Left Bank), each linen-backed, and folded concertina-style, some light soiling and spotting, and overall discolouration, Right Bank with worming to centre of several sections, final section detached, single title page printed in green (a little frayed and with one or two closed marginal tears), Right Bank approximately 12.8 x 2146 cm, Left Bank approximately 12.8 x 2136.5 cm, loose in publisher's original calf-backed portfolio boards, with large printed title to upper cover, oblong folio (29.5 x 51.5 cm) (1)

Palmer (Samuel, illustrator). The Shorter Poems of John Milton, 1889, 12 etched plates, scattered spotting and finger soiling, pages browned at extremities, uncut, original vellum gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, folio, (limited large-paper edition, no. 25 of 135 copies), together with Parkinson (John), Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, [facsimile reprint], 1904, black and white illustrations, uncut and partly unopened, inner hinges cracked, original cloth-backed boards with printed paper label to spine, rubbed and soiled, spine label chipped, folio, plus King (Jessie M.), The Little White Town of Never-Weary, [1917], 4 mounted colour plates, black and white plates and illustrations to text, edges of one plate frayed, some spotting throughout, original pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, 4to, plus 5 others literature and related (8)

Whetenhall (Thomas). A Discourse of the Abuses now in Question in the Churches of Christ, of their Creeping in, Growing up, and flowrishing in the Babilonish Church of Rome, how they are spoken against not only by the scriptures, but also by the ancient Fathers as long as there remayned any face of a true Church maintained by publique authority, and likewise by the lights of the Gospell, and blessed martyrs of late in the middest of the Antichristian darknes, [England]: Imprinted [at William Jones's secret press], 1606, [8],143,142-192,[2]pp., modern half calf gilt, slim 4to, (STC 25332), together with Dugdale (William), Monasticon anglicanum, or, The history of the ancient abbies, and other monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, in England and Wales. With divers French, Irish, and Scotch monasteries formerly relating to England. Collected, and published in Latin..., and now Epitomized in English..., 1693, title in red & black (torn to outer blank margins & lined to verso), fifteen engraved plates, some staining & fraying to margins, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine, corners repaired, folio, with, Quarles (Francis), Job Militant: with Meditations Divine and Morall, London: Printed by Felix Kyngston for George Winder, 1624, lacking initial blank (A1), close-trimmed throughout with some cropping mostly to printed marginal notes, modern calf, slim 4to, with Balzac (Jean-Louis Guez de), The Choyce Letters of Monsieur de Balzac. Written to severall Grand and Eminent Persons in France..., Never before in English, 1658, engraved portrait frontispiece, bound with Balzac's Remaines, or, his last Letters. Written to severall Grand and Eminent Persons in France. Whereunto are annexed the Familiar Letters of Monsieur de Balzac to his Friend Monsieur Chapelain. Never before in English, 1658, title in red & black, toning & occasional spotting throughout, recent endpapers, 18th century calf, rebacked, 8vo, plus [Freind, John], An Account of the Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain, Chiefly since the raising the Siege of Barcelona, 1706. To which is added the Capagne of Valencia with Original Papers, 1st edtion, 1707, half-title with contemporary signature, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, patch repair to lower board at head, corners repaired, extremities rubbed, 8vo, plus eight other 17th-19th century antiquarian, including defective & odd volumes (16)

Drake (Francis). Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York, from its Original to the Present Times, Together with the History of the Cathedral Church, and the Lives of the Archbishops of that See, 2 parts in one, London: William Bowyer, 1736, sixty engraved plates and maps (complete including title to part 2, some plates and maps folding or double-page), plate 249 (A south west view of the City of York) torn and frayed with slight loss, engraved illustrations to text (some full-page), one plate (p.57) with sparse later hand-colouring, occasional marginal tears, scattered pencil annotations to blank margins, list of subscribers present, later endpapers, front free endpaper torn with adhesive tape repairs, two armorial bookplates, one to front free endpaper 'Dr. Jan Hindmarch', the other to front pastedown 'W.R. Crompton Stansfield', sprinkled edges, contemporary calf with 19th century reback, rubbed and worn with some loss to extremities, folio Upcott pp.1357-1364. (1)

Thompson (Pishey). The History and Antiquities of Boston, and the Villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of Lincoln, including also a history of East, West, and Wildmore Fens... Archaisms and Provincial Words, Local Dialect..., 1st edition, Boston, John Noble, Jun., 1856, numerous wood-engraved plates and illustrations, a few occasional light spots, wide margins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (with bookplate of the Surveyors' Institution, dated November 1884 to front pastedown), inside gilt dentelles, later 19th century full pale red crushed morocco gilt (by F. Bedford), neatly recased with original spine retained, a little rubbed and scuffed, spine lightly sunned, folio (34.5 x 22 cm) Large paper copy. (1)

Foxe (John). The Second volume of the Ecclesiasticall History, contayning the Actes & Monumentes of Martyrs, with a generall discourse of these latter persecutions, horrible troubles and tumultes, stirred up by Roman Prelates in the Church, with divers other thinges incident, especially to this Realme of England and Scotlande, as partly also to all other forreine nations apperteining, from the tyme of K. Henry the viii to Queene Elizabeth our gracious Lady now raigning, Newly recognised and inlarged by the Author, London: Printed by John Daye, 1576, title within woodcut border, two woodcut plates (comprising one double-page plate of Windsor Castle, trimmed to border & detached, and the other a folding plate of the Burning of Byshop Ridley and Father Latimer at Oxford, frayed at fore-edge), numerous woodcut illustrations to text, final leaf of index torn to lower outer corner with loss, some toning, dust-soiling and few marks, 20th century blind panelled mottled calf gilt, morocco title label to spine, lightly scuffed, folio STC 11224, ESTC S121348. (1)NB. Lacks final colophon leaf at rear.

Jerrard (Paul). The Humming Bird Keepsake Book of Bird Beauty. The Birds Painted among Nests and Flowers by Paul Jerrard, The Poems by F W N Bayley, London: Paul Jerrard, [1852], decorative title and leaves of text in gilt, twelve fine hand coloured lithograph full page illustrations with text in gilt to verso, tissue guards, decorative printed endpapers in gilt, recent hinges in red buckram, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated red morocco, joints and extremities rubbed, slim folio This work comprises volume iv of Gems for the Drawing Room. (1)

O'Meara (Barry E.). Napoleon In Exile, or A Voice from St. Helena..., volumes 1 & 2, 2nd edition, 1822, 2 black and white frontispieces, bookplates to front pastedowns, some light spotting, uniform contemporary half vellum parchment, boards rubbed, spine rubbed with some loss, 8vo, together with Franklin (Benjamin), Mackintosh's Collection of Gaelic Proverbs, and Familiar Phrases, Englished A-New, Edinburgh, 1819, bookplate to front pastedown, worming to head of front endpapers to page 70, some light spotting, light worming to rear endpaper, contemporary full morocco, boards and spine rubbed with minor loss to head and foot, hinges cracked, 8vo, and Ithel (John Williams Ab), Y Gododin, A Poem on the Battle of Cattraeth, by Aneurin, a Welsh Bard of the Sixth Century..., 1852, Llandovery, bookplates to front endpapers, some minor spotting, contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards and spine slightly marked and rubbed, 8vo, plus other 18th and 19th century literature and ecclesiastical reference and related, including The Classical Journal, 14 volumes, 1810-1816, Novum Testamentum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi... Adnotationibus Henrici Hammond, 1698, Amstedlami, all leather bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)

Fordyce (William). A History of Coal, Coke, Coal Fields, Progress of Coal Mining, the Winning and Working of Collieries, Household, Steam, Gas, Coking, and Other Coals, Duration of the Great Northern Coal Field..., Iron, its Ores, and Processes of Manufacture, More Particularly with Reference to the Recently-Discovered Iron Ores of the Cleveland District and of the Blast Furnaces Erected in the North of England. Including Estimates of the Capital Required..., London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1860, folding lithograph map frontispiece, thirty-three engraved plates (including 1 double-page), dampstaining to lower outer corners of some plates, front endpaper dampstained, contemporary cloth covered boards with modern calf spine and corners, folio (1)

Calepino (Ambrogio). Dictionarium, quanta maxima fide ac diligentia fieri potuit accurate emendatum, multisque partibus cumulatum, Lyons: Filippo Tinghi, 1578, large printer's woodcut device to title, double column, first and last leaves slightly dust-soiled and creased, old dampstaining throughout, sometimes touching text, old ownership signature at foot of title and later signature of John Loudon (of Loudon Castle, Ayrshire), dated 1703, to front free endpaper (partly detached), contemporary calf, rubbed and some corner wear, crude leather repairs at head and foot of spine, thick folio First printed in 1502, this popular work went through over 200 editions by 1779. This polyglot edition is in Latin, Hebrew, Greek, French, Italian, German and Spanish. (1)

[Burnet, Thomas]. An Answer to the Late Exceptions made by Mr Erasmus Warren Against the Theory of the Earth, 1st edition, R. Norton for Walter Kettilby, 1690, 85 pages, publisher's list to last leaf verso, some soiling and ink splashes, marginal wormtrack towards end, later half morocco, upper cover a little frayed at top edge, small folio, together with The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of all the General Changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the Consummation of all things. The Two first Books Concerning the Deluge, and Concerning Paradise, 3rd edition, review'd by the author, 1697, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, two folding plates, rear endpaper torn, a little light soiling, contemporary panelled calf, spine and edges rubbed, folio Wing B5942; B5953. (2)

Literature. A large collection of modern fiction, author reference and miscellaneous historical and biographical literature, including Jane Austen, Norman Mailer, Angus Wilson, James Lees-Milne, Folio Society, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves + 2 cartons)

Circle Press. William Shakespeare, Macbeth, original screen images by Ronald King, Circle Press, 1970, 10 colour screenprints by Ronald King, each titled and initialled in pencil by the artist, text printed on Barcham Green mould-made paper, published in an edition of 150, signed by the artist at rear, this copy numbered 73, unsewn as issued in original publisher's cloth folder, with slipcase, large folio (535 x 390 mm, 21 x 15.3 ins) (1)

The Suez Conflict of 1956. A group of 4 top secret operation orders and reports relating to Operation Musketeer, 6th October to 21st December 1956, all cyclostyled and with some manuscript amendments, the first numbered '003 First Draft', Operation Order no. 2, 6 October 1956, copy no. 9, the second Administrative Order no. 3, 28 October 1956, copy no. 24, the third Operation Order no. 3, 1 November 1956, the fourth titled Operation Musketeer Report, 21 December 1956, copy no. 43, all in original card folders, plus a fifth partly in manuscript and partly typed 14 page document giving a retrospective account of Operation Musketeer, loosely inserted into the folder of a printed restricted document titled Notes on Atomic Warfare: Distribution-Scale a (including T A), War Office, November 1954, a few maps and other inserts, all folio These reports and orders produced for 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines appear to have belonged to Captain Alexander Higson, whose name appears in two of the items. The Suez Crisis was an invasion of Egypt by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. Its aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser from power. After the fighting had begun, political pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Nations led to a withdrawal by the three invaders. The Suez Canal was closed from October 1956 until March 1957. As a result of the conflict, the British prime minister Anthony Eden resigned. (5)

King (Ronald, illustrator). Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue from the Canterbury Tales, original screen images printed by Ronald King, Editions Alecto, 1967, colour screenprint vignette to title, and 14 full-page colour screenprints by Ronald King, each initialled and titled in pencil, loose in publisher's blue cloth chemise, lightly faded to spine, with slipcase, some spotting and light discolouration, published in an edition of 125, additionally signed by the artist, this copy numbered 28, folio (535 x 370 mm, 21 x 14.5 ins) (1)

Alexander (J.J.G.). Illuminated Manuscripts, 6th to the 9th Century (Survey of Manuscripts series, volume 1), 1978, together with Temple (Elzbieta), Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066 (Survey of Manuscripts series, volume 2), 1976, plus Kauffmann (C.M.), Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190 (Survey of Manuscripts series, volume 3), 1975, colour and monochrome plates to each volume, all original brown cloth gilt in dust wrappers, a few volumes with some fading to spines, folio, together with Parkes (M.B.), The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College, Oxford, Scholar Press, 1979, several colour plates and numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust wrapper, a few marks and lightly faded to spine and head of upper wrapper, 4to, plus Gameson (Richard), The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral, Manuscripts and Fragments to c. 1200, Bibliographical Society, 2008, colour plates, original blue cloth gilt in dust wrapper, 8vo, VG, and others on illuminated and medieval manuscripts, including J. Armitage Robinson and M.R. James, The Manuscripts of Westminster Abbey, 1909, Christopher D. Cook, Incunabula in the Westminster Abbey and Westminster School Libraries, Bibliographical Society, 2013, Patricia Basing, Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts, British Library, 1990, etc. Ex libris Howard M. Nixon (1909-1983), British librarian and bookbinding historian. (25)

Coleridge-Taylor (Samuel, 1875-1912). Ethiopia Saluting the Colours, Concert March for Orchestra, Op. 51, 1903, arrangement for organ by Edmondstoune Duncan, 16 pages of printed muscial notation, original printed wrappers, stitched as issued, some marks and light soiling to front and rear wrapper, author's presentation inscription to front cover 'To William Gosling [?] Esqr. with kind regards from S. Coleridge-Taylor June 1903', slim obling folio Samuel Coleridge-Taylor afro-English composer, was born on in a London slum near Fetter Lane in 1875 but remarkably won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where he studied composition with Charles Villiers Stanford, one of the major figures behind the Renaissance of English Music in the late 19th and early 20th century. Known as the Black Mahler, Coleridge-Taylor achieved major success early in his career with Hiawatha's Wedding Feast of 1898, a work which had received 200 performances by 1904. Possibly due to overwork, he collapsed on 1st September 1912, and died a few days later of pneumonia, at the age of 37. (1)

Leard (John). Leard's Pilot for Jamaica and the Windward Passages, surveyed by order of Vice Admiral Affleck and published by permission of the Right Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty, Mount and Davidson, circa 1793, title on printed label to upper board, title and front pastedown with slightly later manuscript ownership signature of Auguste Booquet Capn. au Long-cours, dated 1827, 14 (of fifteen) uncoloured engraved charts, including five double page and/or folding, slight spotting and water staining throughout, one map with short closed tear, hinges and joints cracked and weak, contemporary marbled boards, with large printed label to upper cover, some soiling and staining, and wear to edges, joints partly cracked, large slim folio (590 x 330 mm) Very rare pilot book. The last copy we can find recorded for sale in an auction was 1937. No institutional copies found, although the Library of Congress holds a pilot of fifteen maps with a different title. Examples of a few of the maps contained in this volume are held by the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid and the British National Archives but no complete example appears to exist. Admiral Philip Affleck was Rear Admiral of the White and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's naval contingent in Jamaica and Bermuda between 1789 and 1792. During his time in command Affleck undertook a comprehensive marine survey of Jamaica and its surroundings. He was assisted by John Leard and William Buller. Affleck did produce a very rare 115 page nautical guide titled 'Sailing directions for the island of Jamaica and St. Domingue, or Hispaniola, and the windward passages; to be used with the charts and plans that are published from surveys and observations, made by orderof Philip Affleck .... in part of the years 1789, 1790, 1791, and part of 1792 ... prepared with the assistance of Leard in 1792'. Two examples appear to survive: one in the collection of the American Philosophical Society and the other in the National Archives of Australia. This pilot may be part of that larger work. Provenance: French 'Long-Cours' Captain Auguste Booquet belonged to the elite master mariners of the sailing world, who undertook the long course or long haul route around Cape Horn in pursuance of their trade. The title was not introduced until 1825. It is possible that this pilot was acquired by a French man of war during the Napoleonic wars. (1)

[Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth]. The Golden Legend, Illustrated in Eighteen Designs by V.H.D., published by Dickinson Brothers, 1853, lithographed title and 18 plates on India paper, some heavy spotting and marginal dampstaining, contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards, rubbed and a little wear to extremities, folio, together with Child's Play. Seventeen Drawings by E.V.B. [Eleanor Vere Boyle], printed at Appel's Anastatic Press, [1887], lithographically printed to rectos throughout, contemporary presentation inscription to title, some spotting, author's signed sentiment loosely inserted, all edges gilt, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed, large 8vo, plus [Doyle, Richard], The Foreign Tour of the Misses Brown, Jones and Robinson, being the History of what they Saw & Did at Biarritz & in the Pyrenees, by Miss Brown, Ipswich, no date, circa 1855, lithographically printed and illustrated to rectos throughout, leaf 20 frayed at edges with loss and relaid, some spotting and marginal dampstaining throughout, later cloth, some wear to leather corners, 4to, plus other Victorian literature and juvenilia with examples of anastatic printing, including some multiple copies, various sizes and condition (approx. 90)

Ramsey (L.G.G.). Montague Dawson, The Greatest Sea Painter in the World, limited edition 63/65, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, publisher's original gilt decorated red morocco, all edges gilt, 4to, together with Garsen (Peter, et al), Pierre Molinier, Comme Je Voudrais Etre, Cabinet Gallery, 1993, limited edition 46/100, original disbound leaves with fold out poster and black and white postcard, contained in original black cloth book box, large 8vo, and other modern art and antique reference, plus miscellaneous literature, including fiction, non-fiction, bibliography reference, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (5 shelves + a carton)

Folio Society. The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling, 1992, illustrated by Maurice and Edward Detmold, Great Stories of Crime Fiction, volumes 1-4, 2002, Eyewitness to History, volumes 1-4, edited by Robert Fox, 2008, A History of England, volumes 1-5, by Peter Hunter Blair et al, 1996-97, together with a further 27 volumes, all original cloth in slipcases, plus 42 volumes, all without slipcases, G/VG, 8vo (84)

Dreyfus (John). A Typographical Masterpiece, an account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings in producing the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 'The Four Gospels' in 1931, San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1990, monochrome illustrations, original cloth gilt in plain glassine wrapper, author's presentation copy to Enid Nixon to half-title, dated 21st January 1991, folio, together with Italic Quartet, a record of the collaboration between Harry Kessler, Edward Johnston, Emery Walker and Edward Prince in making the Cranach Press Italic, 1966, monochrome illustrations, original patterned cloth in matching slipcase, 8vo, printed in an edition of 500 copies, plus Gentleman (David), Bridges on the Backs, a series of drawings by David Gentleman, Cambridge, Christmas 1961, colour and tinted lithographs, original green cloth gilt, 4to, printed in an edition of 500 copies, and others related on 20th century book design and typography, private press, including John Dreyfus, A History of the Nonesuch Press, 1981, John Lewis, Printed Ephemera, 1962, Edgar Mansfield, Modern Design in Bookbinding, 1966, Nicolas Barker, Stanley Morison, 1972, Howard M. Nixon and Mirjam M. Foot, The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England, 1992, etc Ex libris Howard M. Nixon (1909-1983), British librarian and bookbinding historian. (16)

Jones (Glyn & Morgan, T.J.). The Story of Heledd, edited by Jenny Rowland, with a Modernized Welsh Version of the Original Text, Engravings by Harry Brockway, Gwasg Gregynog, 1994, tinted plates and illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slim folio Limited edition, 220/400 copies. (1)

Bowyer (R., publisher). An Illustrated Record of the Important Events in the Annals of Europe, which occured during the last Campaigns on the Continent..., 1820, printed title and thirty-two pages of explanatory text, two uncoloured engraved maps, one of the retreat of the French army from Moscow to Paris and one of the Battle of Waterloo, engraved plate of facsimile signatures and twelve (only) aquatint plates with contemporary hand colouring (including two folding), the folding plates with some staining, cracking and wear to old folds, some creasing to endpapers, contemporary half morocco , rubbed and worn, folio (1)