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Chattock pedigree.- - Pedigree and Descent of the Chattock Family of Castle Bromwich Pedigree and Descent of the Chattock Family of Castle Bromwich, manuscript pedigree, 13pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, some slight foxing, original half morocco, gilt, rubbed, upper cover detached, folio, [ late 19th century].

Camden (William) - Brittania: or, a Chorographical Description, of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Irenald , translated by Richard Gough, 4 vol., second edition, portrait frontispiece, 76 engraved maps (many of these hand-coloured and double-page or folding), 85 plates and plans (many folding), some scattered spotting, some plates oxidised, small closed tears to outer margins of some leaves, contemporary half morocco, extremities rather rubbed, spined faded and scuffed, folio, John Stockdale, 1806.

Commissioners - for the Improvement of the Metropolis . Appendix to Report on... for the Improvement of the Metropolis . Appendix to Report on Thames Embankment , 62 folding lithograph maps, plans, , many hand-coloured, a few frayed or creased at fore-edges, the first loose, few small tears, without title, or most of text, folding tables, some browning or marking, library bookplate, stamp on fly-leaf and first map, contemporary cloth, worn, front hinge broken, front cover partly loose, folio, 1844, sold not subject to return.

Smith (John Thomas) - Vagabondiana; or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, title printed in red and black, 32 engraved plates, 2 addition plates tipped-in, some plates with marginal damp-staining to head of margin, 1817, bound after Ancient Topography of London, additional hand-coloured engraved title, 32 engraved plates, 1815, together 2 works bound in 1 vol., light scattered foxing, bookplate, contemporary half morocco, some light splitting and wear to joints, a little rubbed, folio.

Westminster Abbey.- - Dart Westmonasterium, or the History and Antiquities of the Abbey... Dart ( Rev. John) Westmonasterium, or the History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St.Peters Westminster, engraved frontispiece, titles, 7 plates of coats-of-arms and 147 plates (3 double-page), list of subscribers, slightly foxed and browned, bookplates on front pastedowns, later endpapers, modern panelled calf, folio, James Cole, [c.1723].

Allen - The Wind on the Downs, manuscript fair copy in a calligraphic hand (Marian, poet, born in Australia and lived in Oxford, 1892-1953) The Wind on the Downs, manuscript fair copy in a calligraphic hand, title and 53pp., original vellum, lettered direct on upper cover, original ties, vellum yellowed, covers splayed, folio, [c. 1920]. Marian Allen is best remembered for a sequence of sonnets known popularly as 'The Wind on the Downs', after the title of the small 63 page book of poems she published in 1918. The book (published by I.A. Richards) also contained the poem 'The Raiders' which describes early war-time aviation, and was written just a few days before she received news that her fiancé had been shot down and killed on a bombing raid in 1917.

Frohawk (F.W.) - Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 vol., colour plates, original blue cloth, light marking, folio, [c.1914].

Jekyll (Gertrude) and Christopher Hussey. - Garden Ornament, second edition, 1927 § Weaver (Lawrence) Houses & Gardens by Sir Edwin Lutyens, third impression, 1925, plates, original cloth, faded, especially spines, folio (2)

Whitgift - The Defense of the Aunswere to the Admonition against the Replie... (John, Archbishop of Canterbury ) The Defense of the Aunswere to the Admonition against the Replie of T[homas]. C[artwright], title within woodcut ornamental border, printed in partial black letter, slightly browned, case number on front pastedown, 18th century panelled reversed calf, rubbed and marked, gilt morocco label on spine, [STC 25430.5; this edition A1r has catchword: fense and an ornament on b8r], a good copy, folio, Henry Binneman for Humfrey Toye, 1574. "The nub of the controversy [between Whitgift and Cartwright] was the question of scripture, whether in all circumstances and conditions it was binding ." - Oxford DNB.

[Diderot (Denis)] - A suite of unbound ff. comprising the Index and c A suite of unbound ff. comprising the Index and c.100 engraved plates from one vol. of Diderot's Encyclopédie , some soiling and spotting, offsetting to reverse of several plates, in modern cardboard box, folio, [Paris], c.1770. Subjects comprise geometry, trigonometry, algebra, conic sections, mathematical analysis, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, physics, navigation, dialling, astronomical observation, optics, instrument making, surveying, engineering, and perspective drawing.

[Böhme (Jakob)] - [Mysterium Magnum: Or An exposition of the first book of Moses called Genesis ], first edition in English , engraved plate printed on both sides bound as frontispiece, lacking title but with title to part 3 (3R2) bound as main title, contemporary ink annotations throughout, plate, title and first leaf of 'To the Reader' trimmed, scorch holes to Q1 & 2 and 3Y4 & 3Z1 with loss, 3E3 & 4 torn and repaired with loss of a few letters, with 'The Life of Jacob Behmen' by Durand Hotham and Böhme's 'Four Tables of Divine Revelation' bound in at end, the latter lacking K1 and with K2 defective, very soiled and stained, later half calf, worn, covers detached, [Wing B3411], folio, [by M.Simmons for H. Blunden], [1654]; sold not subject to return. Rare first edition of a mystical interpretation of Genesis, by the greatest mystical mind of the Rosicrucian period (1610-1625).

Trial.- - The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Macclesfield… for High Crimes and... The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Macclesfield for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, licene f. opposite title, title and licence slightly creased, Sam. Buckley 1725, bound with The accompts of the several Masters of the High Court of Chancery, 1725, browned, engraved bookplate of the Rev. J. Withers (1748) on front pastedown, front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, worn, covers detached, folio.

Byng - .- The Trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng, at a Court Martial (John, naval officer, bap. 1704, d. 1757).- The Trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng, at a Court Martial, as taken by Mr. Charles Fearne, Judge-Advocate of his Majesty's Fleet , title slightly soiled, browned, contemporary half calf, worn, joints breaking, folio, for R. Manby and others, 1757.

Hogarth (William) - The Works of William Hogarth, from the original plates restored by... The Works of William Hogarth, from the original plates restored by James Heath with the addition of many subjects by John Nichols, 151 engravings on 116 sheets (including portrait frontispiece), frontispiece and front endpapers loose, title soiled and foxed, some foxing throughout, contemporary half morocco, gilt, rubbed, upper cover detached, g.e., large folio, printed for Baldwin & Cradock, by G. Woodfall, [c. 1835-40].

Haurisius (Benno Casper) - Scriptores Historiae Romanae Latini Veteres, 3 vol., 3 frontispieces, 3 engraved title vignettes, 196 of 199 plates, with plates 12,13,18 missing from vol. 1, but addendum slip loosely inserted that they were not bound in, plate 17 misbound in vol. 2, two different plate 44's in vol. 2, contemporary calf, wear to joints, corners bumped, folio, J.J. Haener, Heidelberg, 1743/1748.

Hole (William) - Quasi Cursores, limited edition, no. 80 of 100 folio copies, 46 etched portraits, original cloth, Edinburgh, 1884 § Fuchs (Eduard) Illustrierte Sittengeschichte, 2 vol., vol.1 original reversed calf, vol.2 original cloth, gilt, Munich, 1909 § Magrath (John Richard) The Obituary Book of Queen's College, Oxford, contemporary limp vellum, Oxford , 1910 (binding dated 1911) § Middleton ( Sir Arthur E.) Sir Gilbert De Middleton, ink inscription to front free endpaper, original morocco backed cloth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1918 § Heineman (James H.) & Donald R. Bensen, editors . P.G. Wodehouse , original cloth, dust-jacket, 1981; and a quantity of others, Literature, History, and Biography, 4to & folio (c.20)

Poggius Florentinus. - Historia Florentina, translated by Jacobus Poggius, first edition of this translation , 113 ff. (of 116, lacking n1, 7 & 8, the last blank), 41 lines, Roman type, initials in blue, a couple with red maiblumen decoration, early ink marginalia, first and last ff. lightly soiled, some staining and spotting, disbound, [BMV V, 215; Goff P873; HC 13172], folio, [Venice], [Jacobus Rubeus], [8th March, 1476]. Covers Florentine history in the period 1350-1455.

Maps. A mixed collection of approximately fifty maps, 18th & 19th century, engraved maps, many with contemporary hand colouring, with examples by Bowles, Thomson, Cary and Wyld, some duplicates, mostly double page folio (approx.50)

D'Anville (Jean Baptiste Bourguignon). A Complete Body of Ancient Geography, published Robert Laurie and James Whittle, 1795, printed title and thirteen engraved maps including 12 double page, (complete as list), all with contemporary outline colouring, upper hinge and joint weak, contemporary half calf, marbled sidings, some wear, bumped at extremities, slim folio (1)

Wiltshire. Andrews (John & Dury Andrew), A Topographical Map of Wiltshire on a Scale of 2 inches to a mile from an Actual Survey by John Andrews & Andrew Dury in the year 1773, 1st edition, published 1773, large scale engraved map on eighteen sheets (complete) all with contemporary outline colouring, large uncoloured cartouche, some marginal dust and finger soiling, slight staining and creasing, sheet 18 torn with slight loss to lower margin but not affecting engraved surface, bound with the index map, 'A Map of Wiltshire (Taken from and Actual Survey) being the Index to the large one', the index map has some creasing and dust soiling and is frayed along the lower margin, manuscript ownership to verso of index map of Keary Stokes & Goldney (Chippenham based insurance agents), contemporary half sheep, upper board detached, manuscript dated title to upper siding, heavily worn and frayed, folio Brian Kentish. A Catalogue of County Atlases of England and Wales 1607 - 1864 and large scale maps. Item 89. (1)

Accounts Books. A group of 6 unrelated accounts books, 19th/20th century, including one concerning rents in Welton, Northamptonshire, 1823, another of similar date of unidentified location, noting details of wheat sent to the mill plus purchases and sales of numerous sundry items, a pre-printed Gamekeeper's and Game-Preserver's account book and diary, manuscript insertions for payment, correspondence loosely inserted, addressed to the Berkeley family, another unrelated accounts book of similar date, plus two later accounts books, one concerning outlays ordered per general purposes committee, 1911-14, the final accounts book/scrapbook relating to hop picking and production, circa 1890-1950, mostly seeming to relate to hop picking for C.H.C. Partridge, Lambswick, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, various bindings, some wear, folio/4to (6)

Battle of Arnhem. Photographic souvenir album of operations at Arnhem by the 1st Airborne Division, September 1944, 36 laminated leaves of reproduced photographs showing aerial views, maps, parachute landings, soldiers in action, casualties, prisoners, aftermath and clearing up, with short text by Fieldmarshal Montgomery at front dated 28 September 1944, original laminated photographic covers, spirally bound, rubbed and some minor wear, folio An unusual contemporary printed folio containing reproductions of eye-witness photographs of the Battle of Arnhem. (1)

*WWII - Royal Navy. A small archive relating to Petty Officer W. Dargan of HMS Barham, including a photographically illustrated scrapbook of 'The Cruise of HMS Barham' and on board HMS Malaya, circa 1930, his log of events during the war on board HMS Terrible, 1914/15, both contemporary boards, some soiling and wear, folio/4to, plus a group of approximately 70 contemporary press photos of mostly naval activities, mostly 20 x 25cm and similar sizes with printed captions to versos, plus a typed humorous skit titled 'Last Will of Adolf Hitler', folio (approx. 75)

*Charles II - Ordnance. Rules, Orders & Instructions for the Future Government of the Office of the Ordnance, [1681], official manuscript copy issued on behalf of King Charles II to George Legge, Lord Dartmouth, 64 unnumbered leaves, a further 16 leaves in the same early 18th-century hand including 'An Establishment of the annual payments upon the Quarter Bookes' and 'Addicional Instructions', the last-reference date in the text being 30 June 1702, neatly written on rectos and versos throughout with calligraphic title and headings, United Services Club bookplate to front pastedown, modern cloth gilt, small 8vo, together with three further unrelated manuscripts, a late 18th-century 'Epitome of Smollet's History of England', 79 unnumbered leaves, written in a large clear hand, remaining leaves mostly blank but beginning with several leaves of arithmetic and the ownership name of Miss Harnick Junior dated 1756, contemporary vellum, stained green, marked, 4to, plus a manuscript(?) copy account of English Counties, circa 1800, 82 pp. in a neat italic hand with calligraphic flourishes, contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, spine defective, folio, plus an 18th-century disbound commonplace book/receipts book fragment, 10 leaves, some rodent damage with loss of text affecting first 5 leaves, 12mo (6)

Horse Racing. Presentation album of photographs of Foxhill House stables, Wanborough, Wiltshire, circa 1920, specially produced album containing 33 black & white mounted photographs by the photographer Clarence Hailey of Newmarket, comprising exterior views of the house, yard, portraits of the horses with trainers & stable hands etc., and portraits of horses from paintings, majority with printed captions to mount, all edges gilt, original black morocco with 'Foxhill' applied in gilt to upper board, oblong folio (image sizes approximately 19 x 24cm & slightly smaller), binding 30.8 x 38cm (12 x 15ins) Foxhill House formed part of the neighbouring King Edwards Place, a well known racing yard at the turn of the last century. Sir Gordon Richards (1904-1986) started his famous racing career here as a stable boy in 1919 (pictured on Kings Pirate in the album). In the same year that the yard's Ivanhoe (pictured in album) won the Cesarewitch race at Newmarket. Sir Gordon Richards was born in Shropshire and had 4,870 victories during his horse racing career. The most famous and well known horse from the Foxhill yard was Irish Elegance who won numerous races. (1)

*Pierrepoint (Albert, 1905-1992). Memorandum of Conditions to which and Person acting as Executioner is required to conform, printed single-sided memorandum on 9/52 paper stock, giving the conditions as given by the High Sheriff, inserted typed figure of 0 for remuneration 'for the performance of the duty required of him' and typed insertion of £5 as additional remuneration 'if his conduct and behaviour have been satisfactory', typed agreement footer dated November 1953 with unused space for Pierrepoint's signature, minor marks to right margin, 21 x 16.5cm, together with a related document, a typed letter signed from Under-Sheriff M. Richmond Fox of Munby & Scott, Solicitors, 3 Blake Street, York, 14 July 1953, to Albert Pierrepoint, 303 Manchester Road, Hollinwood, near Manchester, concerning the sentence of death for Philip Henry, 'I shall be glad if you will attend the execution of the above-named on Thursday 30th July 1953 at Armley Gaol, Leeds, at the usual time. Would you kindly let me know as soon as possible that you can arrange this?', 1 page, oblong 4to, plus original typed envelope, postmarked the same day, plus a stapled contemporary photocopy bond appointing Albert Pierrepoint to act in the capacity of Executioner or Assistant Executioner, originally dated 11 January 1934, some old marginal damp stains, 3 single-sided leaves, folio Philip Henry was executed by hanging by Pierrepoint at Armley Gaol, Leeds, on 30 July 1953. He had been found guilty of the rape and murder of Flora Jane Gilligan of York in March 1953. (4)

*Transportation - Australia. A group of 48 disbound Acts of Parliament relating to Transportation, 1778/1857, including 11 from the reign of King George III (plus 9 duplicates), 14 from the reign of King George IV (plus 7 duplicates), 1 from the reign of King William IV and 6 from the reign of Queen Victoria including 1 duplicate, all extracts with stitch marks visible at inner margins, scattered light browning, folio (48)

World Zionist Organization. Statement of the Zionist Organisation regarding Palestine, Strictly Confidential, Paris: Paul Dupont, 1919, 14 pp., stitched printed wrappers as issued, manuscript(?) library number to upper wrapper, horizontal crease where folded, final page dust-soiled, slim folio Very rare Zionist Organization Statement on Palestine presented at the Paris Peace Conference on 3 February 1919. The printed names of the signatories to the proposal found at the end of the document include Nahum Sokolow and Chaim Weizmann. WorldCat locates only four copies, one each in UK, France, Germany and Israel. (1)

*Bible [Manuscript fragment]. A vellum Manuscript fragment from a folio Bible leaf, probably (North-) East France, or West Germany, 1st half 12th century, comprising approximately seven lines of Latin text in double-column to both sides, written in brown ink with few letters heightened or underlined in red (indicating commencement of each verse), one column to each side with slight loss to edge of text, dust-soiling and slight dampstain, few small holes where previously sewn into binding, approximately 5 x 30.5cm Recto of the fragment comprises text from Book of Acts chapter 5. Of cathedral or monastic provenance. (1)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testament. Newly translated out of the Originall tongues and with former translations diligently compared and revised by his Majesties speciall command..., [Amsterdam]: Printed in the Year 1672, additional engraved title (detached & frayed to edges), four double page engraved maps including double hemisphere map of the world showing California as an island (the map is sometimes attributed to Cornelius Danckerts or Jacob Savry and bears similarities to various maps issued by Visscher) and maps of the Holy Land, Extra Illustrated with 113 contemporary double-page engraved plates by Visscher after Bloemaert, d'Hondecoeter, de Vos, Rubens, van Heemskerck, de Brun, de Bruyn, van Winghe etc. (few torn mostly to central fold), engraved plate of Christ on the cross to upper pastedown (wormed & some manuscript inscription, each leaf of text neatly guarded to extended gutter margin, some closed tears and marginal fraying, some browning & spotting, few worm holes, near contemporary blind stamped calf, decorative brass corner pieces, lacking clasps, rebacked, boards rubbed and scuffed, folio Herbert 708 & Darlow & Moule 557, which calls for map of the World and two other maps (by Jacob Savry). (1)

Binding. The Art-Journal, new series volume 3, George Virtue, 1851, engraved frontispiece and title, numerous engraved plates (including one or two in colour), black and white illustrations to text, embossed paper endpapers, painted edges, full calf by H. Spooner, Port of Spain, signed by him to turn-in, morocco panel to each board filled with gilt trident tool, central oval to both boards, black morocco labels inset to spine, elaborate turn-ins with fish-scale gilt tool, folio (1)

Bourne (Immanuel). A Light from Christ leading unto Christ by the Star of his Word, or, The rich Jewel of Christian Divinity..., 1646, light dampstaining, recent endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine, 8vo, together with Burton (Robert), The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Severall Cures of it ..., 8th edition, 1676, engraved title strengthened to margins, occasional light dampstaining and spotting, later endpapers with ink stamps, contemporary calf, rebacked and corners repaired, rubbed, folio, with Baskerville Press, Paradisise Lost [& Paradise Regain'd], 2 vols., Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1760, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. 1, subscribers list present, some light spotting and toning, with The Life of John Milton by Charles Symmonds, 2nd edition, 1810, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding plate of facsimile writing, each volume with recent endpapers, uniform calf with rebacked spines, 8vo, plus six others (11)

Costumes. Costumes of British Ladies from the time of William 1st to the Reign of Queen Victoria, published Dickinson & Son, circa 1840, hand-coloured lithographed title, and forty-nine hand-coloured lithographed plates of historical costumes, each mounted onto backing leaf, with printed descriptive leaf of text to each, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed and scuffed, folio (1)

Dugdale (William). The Baronage of England, or an Historical Account of the Lives and most Memorable Actions of Our English Nobility..., 2 vols. in one, 1675-76, titles in red & black, some toning & occasional spotting, all edges gilt, 19th century marbled endpapers, 18th century diced calf, old reback, joints and extremities worn, folio (1)

Forbes (James). Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During a Seventeen Year Residence in India: Including Observation on Parts of Africa and South America, and a Narrative of Occurrencies in Four India Voyages, 3 volumes (of four) only, 1813, half-titles present, engraved portrait to volume one, eighty-five plates (including twenty-four with fine contemporary hand colouring), some scattered spotting and damp staining (especially to volume two), lacking some initial and final blanks, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, boards detached, 4to Abbey, Travel 436. James Forbes (1749-1819) spent the better part of twenty years in India: he is said to have filled 152 folio volumes, containing a total of 52,000 pages, with notes for this work. The small group of lithographs are among the incunabula of lithography in this country (see plates 11, 12, 92, 93, 94, 97 & 100, as listed in Abbey). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (3)

Howard (George Selby). The New Royal Cyclopaedia, and Encyclopaedia; or, Complete Modern and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. On an entire new and improved plan, and including all the modern improvements and latest discoveries on the various subjects, 3 vols., printed for Alex. Hogg, [1780?], engraved frontispiece to each volume, numerous engraved plates of machinery, shipping, astronomy, natural history, etc., occasional spotting and some staining mostly to margins, modern calf gilt, folio (3)

Mortier (Pieter, pub.). Historie des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, 2 volumes, 1700, half titles, engraved frontispieces, title vignettes, two-hundred and thirteen (of 214) engraved plates and five engraved folding maps, lacking one text leaf to volume one, a litte dust soiling and offsetting, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked, folio (2)

Ovid. Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide, traduites en prose Francoise, et de nouveau soigneusement reueves, corrigees en infinis endroits, et enrichies de figures a chacune fable, Paris: Augustin Courbe, 1651, engraved title, engraved portrait, one-hundred and thirty black and white engravings to text, decorative initials and culs-de-lampe, occasional minor spotting, one or two marginal repairs (including title), modern antique-style calf, folio (1)

Penn (William). A Collection of the Works of William Penn, To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life. With Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published, 2 vols., 1726, contemporary inscription to title 'Penketh Meeting', 4 pages of publisher's adverts at rear of volume 2 (one leaf detached), some spotting and light dust-soiling, contemporary calf, lacking spine labels, joints & covers rubbed, extremities worn, folio, together with Goldsmith (Oliver), Retaliation: A Poem... including Epitaphs on the most distinguished Wits of this Metropolis, 4th edition, corrected, printed for G. Kearsly, 1774, [iv],22pp., title with engraved portrait vignette, some light soiling and waterstains to lower margins, with consequent minor repair to title, bound with [Beattie, James], The Minstral; or, The Progress of Genius, [1774], lacks all before b1 (advertisement), 32pp. of main text, some minor marks, bound with [Glover, Richard], Medea. A Tragedy, 1st edition, printed by H. Woodhall, 1761, 6pp. preliminary leaves (title, dedication leaf and prologue), and 98 pp. of text, final leaf torn with some loss to inner blank margin (repaired), bound with [Pope, Alexander], The New Dunciad: as it was found in the year MDCCXLI. With the Illustrations of Scriblerus, and Notes Variorum, [2nd edition], printed for T. Cooper, 1742, 8pp. preliminary leaves (half-title, title, To the Reader and Argument), and 44pp. of text, early 19th century polished full calf gilt, upper board detached, rubbed and some marks, 4to, with Cowley (Abraham), The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley..., 5th edition, 1678, engraved portrait frontispiece with repaired closed tear and margins and contemporary signature & inscription to verso 'John Earle' and 'The 12th March 1680, Mr_. Mary Giffard', dust-soiling throughout, later endpapers with torn hinges, contemporary calf, crude reback and corner repairs, worn with board edges frayed and showing, folio (4)

Piccolomini (Aeneas Sylvius, Pope Pius II). Opera quae extant omnia, Basel: Henricus Petri, 1551, [112], 1034, [32] pages, lacks final blank, printer's woodcut device to title, 19 woodcut maps (from Munster's Cosmographia), some spotting and browning (heaviest in signatures G/H), armorial bookplate to front pastedown and Hirsel Library ticket above, contemporary mottled calf gilt, some edge wear, antique-style calf gilt reback, folio (310 x 210 mm) A good copy of the first collected edition. (1)

Sanderson (Robert). Twenty Sermons viz. XVI. AD. Aulam. III. AD. Magistratum. I. AD. Populum, 2nd impression, revised, 1660, title in red & black, near contemporary speckled panelled calf, joints cracked, folio, together with Holland (Philip), A Sermon Delivered at Pudsey in Yorkshire, Sept. 25, 1782..., and a Charge, by the Rev. William Turner, sen. Published at the Request of the Congregation of Protestant Dissenters, in Hanover Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Wakefield: Printed by Thomas Waller, for Joseph Johnson, 1782, 118pp., errata slip pasted to final leaf, armorial bookplate of Fenton Scott to verso of initial blank, 19th century half calf, upper joint cracked, slim 8vo, with Davis (Joseph), A Digest of Legislative Enactments, Relating to the Society of Friends, Commonly Called Quakers, in England; with Occasional Observations, Bristol: Printed by Wansbrough and Saunders, 1820, contemporary ownership signature of Joseph Foster, Bramley, Middlesex to front free endpaper, edges untrimmed, original boards, lacking spine and paper to boards torn, 8vo, with Coleridge (James Duke, vicar of Kenwyn and Kea, Cornwall), Observations of a Parish Priest, on Scenes of Sickness and Death, Published with a View to the Temporal as well as Spiritual Comfort of his Parishioners in such Seasons, Truro: Printed and sold by E. Heard, [1825], some spotting, book stamp to front free endpaper, edges untrimmed, original boards, rebacked with original printed label relaid, 12mo in 6s, plus other 18th/19th century theology related, including Some Account of the Life, and Religious Labours of Samuel Neale, Dublin: Printed by Robert Napper for John Gough, 1805, and The Three Witnesses, and The Threefold Cord..., by Edward Greswell, 1862, with loosely inserted two page manuscript letter from the author dated 22 April 1863 (17)

[Settle, Elkanah]. The Character of a Popish Successour and what England may expect from such a one, humbly offered to the Consideration of Both Houses of Parliament, appointed to meet at Oxford, on the one and twentieth of March, 1681, printed for T. Davies, 1681, title and 22pp., a little dust-soiled, later limp paper wrappers, folio, together with A Narrative Written by E. Settle, printed by Thomas Graves for the Author, 1683, title and 31pp., dust-soiling, few marginal chips, later half morroco, folio, plus two broadsides (4)

Shakespeare (William). The National Shakespeare, a Fac-simile of the Text of the First Folio of 1623, illustrated by Sir J. Noel Paton, 3 vols., London: William Mackenzie, [1888-89], black & white photogravure plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original publisher's uniform blind and gilt decorated full dark green morocco, folio

[Shower, Bartholomew]. Cases in Parliament Resolved and Adjudged, upon Petitions, and Writs of Error, 1st ed., 1698, 224 pp., occasional marginalia and annotation at front, some light toning, later penelled calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, folio, together with Claim and Case Evidence in the Service of George Lord Bishop of Winchester, as Nearest Heir-Male in General of Sir Thomas Pretyman of Greensfarme, Baronet of Nova Scotia, and Retour of the Service, 1823, 47 pp., folding pedigree at end, some spotting front and rear, bookplate, contemporary half calf, rebacked, folio, plus J. Ingram's The Saxon Chronicle, with an English Translation, 1823 (3)

Speed (John). The History of Great Britaine Under the Conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their Originals, Manners, Warres, Coines & Seales: with ye Successions, Lives, acts & Issues of the English Monarchs from Julius Caesar, to our most gracious Soueraigne King James, 1st edition, London: John Sudbury & Georg Humble, 1611, 151-801pp., engraved decorative title (verso of fore-edge margin strengthened), numerous woodcut illustrations of seals and coins etc., text reguarded throughout, repairs to verso of final leaf, some light toning and spotting, 20th century half morocco with 19th century calf spine relaid, large folio STC 23045. The pagination is continued from "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine" (STC23041). (1)

St. Paul's Cathedral. Anno Regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Octavo & Nono... An Act for the Compleating the Building and Adorning the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, and for Repairing the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster..., printed for Charles Bill, 1697, pp. 231-238, title with woodcut royal arms, woodcut ornament and initial, printed in black letter, a few light spots, reguarded, bookplate, modern buckram-backed boards, slim folio ESTC R222868. (1)

State Trials. A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings for High-Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours; from the Reign of King Richard II to the End of the Reign of King George I, 6 vols., 2nd edition, with great additions, 1730, titles printed in red & black, contemporary mottled calf, spines rubbed and lacking some labels, some cracking to joints, worn, folio (6)

Virgil (translated by John Ogilby). The Works of Publius Virgilius Marto, translated, adorned with Sculpture and illustrated with Annotations, 2nd edition, Printed by Thomas Roycroft for the Author, 1668, engraved frontispiece (repaired), title in red and black, 101 engraved plates, occasional scattered spotting, one or two short closed handling tears to margins, 19th century calf, modern red morocco label to spine, folio (1)

Helwig (Christoph). The Historical and Chronological Theatre of Christopher Helvicus, Distributed into equal Intervals of Tens, Fifties and Hundreds: with an Assignation of Empires, Kingdoms... Kings... Princes, Roman Popes, Turkish Emperours, and other Famous and Illustrious Men... Faithfully done into English according to the two best Editions, viz. that of Francofurt, and that of Oxford..., 1687, title in red & black, with early ink inscription, modern quarter calf, folio, together with [Wollaston, William], The Religion of Nature Delineated, 1726, printer's woodcut device to title, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, modern reback and corner repairs, 4to, plus four other 17th/18th century theology related (some defective) (6)

Hill (Aaron). A Full and Just Account of the Present State of The Ottoman Empire in all its Branches: with the Government, and Way of Living of the Turks, in General..., 2nd edition, 1710, seven engraved plates with explanatory letterpress leaves, list of subscribers, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, some toning to plates, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and repaired, folio Hill was 24 years old when he published his account of the Ottoman Empire. He had gone to Constantinople as a youth while Lord Paget, a relative of his mother, was ambassador there. (1)

Purmann (Matthaeus Gottfried). Chirurgia Curiosa: Or, the Newest and Most Curious Observations and Operations in the Whole Art of Chirurgery. Regularly Methodized, Explained and Rendred Intelligible and Easie to Every Practioner: Whether Relating to Manual Operations, or the Choice and Application of Proper Remedies... To Which is Added Natural Morborum Medicatrix: Or, Nature Cures Diseases, 1st edition in English, 1706, 5 folding copper-engraved plates, errata leaf, imprimatur leaf supplied in facsimile, Wellcome Library withdrawn inkstamp to title verso with some see through, some heavy spotting and browning throughout, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed and a little edge wear, folio Ex libris Denis Gibbs. (1)

Allinson (K.L.). In Step with Bunzl, circa 1990, original book mock up relating to the photographer George Bunzl using original gelatin silver prints and pasted-in text, spiral-bound wrappers, folio, plus 4 other photography interest (5)

Bouzonnet Stella (Antoinette, illust.). [L'entree de l'Empereur Sigismund a Mantoue: grave en vingt cinq feuilles, d'apre`s une longue frise executee en stuc dans le palais du T. de la meme ville, sur un dessin de Jules Romain par Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella, Paris: Au galleries du louure auec priuil. du Roy, 1675], twenty-five engraved plates of the entry of the Emperor Sigismund into Mantua after a stucco frieze by Giulio Romano (including dedication leaf, detached torn & margins frayed), lacking title, bound with Perrier (Francois), Icones et Segmenta Illustrium e Marmore Tabularum quae Romae adhuc Extant a Francisco Perrier. Delineata Incisa et ad Antiquam formam Lapideis Exemplaribus passim Collapsis Restituta, Paris: Chez la veufue de deffunct Monsr. Perier, 1645, engraved title, fifty plate (three torn & frayed to folds at fore-edge with loss), plus 27 plates from Admiranda romanarum antiquitatum ac veteris sculpturae vestigia..., circa 1690, engraved by Petrus Sanctus Bartolus, few torn with loss to margins, bound with ten others similar, some toning & dust-soiling mostly to margins, contemporary reversed calf, boards detached, worn with board edges showing, oblong folio (1)

De Vecchi (Pierluigi). Raphael, Abbeville Press Publishers, 2002, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, original cloth in dust jacket and slipcase, folio, together with Le Men (SegolŠne), Courbet, Abbeville Press Publishers, 2008, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, original cloth in dust jacket and slipcase, folio, plus Pedrocco (Filippo), Titian, The Complete Paintings, Thames & Hudson, 2001, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, plus other Old Master art reference, mostly hardback publications, in original cloth and dust jackets, folio/4to, G/VG (31)

Jones (Owen). The Grammar of Ornament, Day & Son, [1865], title printed in red and black, 112 lithograph plates with original tissue guards (mostly chromolithograph, few in black and white) including additional chromolithograph title (complete as chapter headings), letterpress engravings, some scattered spotting, Z2 torn with significant loss (but without loss of text), first few gathers loose, ex libris plate for Ilfracombe Hotel, North Devon to initial blank, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, small folio (35cm) This is the second edition, expanded from the first of 1856 with additional plates. Often referred to as the ‘large quarto’ edition to distinguish it from the large folio first edition and the small folio published by Quaritch. (1)  

Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, volumes 1-11, standard editions, 1982, numerous colour illustrations, all original cloth in slipcases, spines slightly faded, folio (Tokyo National Museum, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Museum Pusat Jakarta, Iran Bastan Museum Teheran, The British Museum London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art London, Mus‚e Guimet Paris, Museum of Eastern Antiquities Stockholm, The Freer Gallery of Art Washington D.C., Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York) (11)

Ovenden (Graham). Aspects of Lolita, Introduction by Robert Melville, 1st edition, Academy Editions, 1976, black and white illustrations, signed presentation inscription from Graham Ovenden for Marcus Gilbert Adams to title-page, dated 4th September 1979, original gilt-titled red cloth, small folio One of 1500 copies, most copies apparently bound in black cloth. (1)

Van Dyck (Anthony, 1599-1641). Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum, Pictorum Chalcographorum Statuariorum nec non Amatorum Pictoriae Artis numero centum, Antwerp, Gillis Hendricx, 1645-46 [but later], engraved title incorporating self-portrait, and 110 etched or engraved portraits of artists on laid paper, 11 plates by Van Dyck, the remainder etched by Paulus Pontius, Bolswert, Petrus de Jode, Cornelis Galle, Jacobus Neeffs, Lucas Vorsterman, and others, wide margins, some light spotting, mainly to margins, late 19th/early 20th century bookplate of the Chester-Master family of Knowle Park, Bristol, to verso of title page, sheet size 42 x 29 cm (16.5 x 11.25 ins), 19th century half calf, slightly rubbed, folio Cicognara 2127. A re-issue, probably dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, of Van Dyck's famous Iconography, the plates without publisher's address or the initials G.H., only one plate with the publisher's name Jacobus de Man (Joannes Carolus della Faille). Hendricx erased the initials from the plates some time after 1660, allowing other publishers to make use of them, with new issues appearing subsequently from Brussels, Antwerp and Amsterdam. (1)

Folio Society publications, 67 volumes, including Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 5 volumes, 2005, Eyewitnesses to History by Robert Fox, 4 volumes, 2008, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, 2008, plus three other titles by Charles Darwin, with 54 other volumes including titles by Robert Louis Stevenson, P.G. Wodehouse, etc., mostly small sets, all original cloth and slipcases, 4to/8vo, all VG (67)

Folio Society publications, 70 volumes, including Saints and Sinners, A History of the Popes by Eamon Duffy, 2009, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Engravings by Harry Brockway, 2008, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, illustrated by Angela Barrett, 2008, A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich, 2007, plus 66 other volumes including some small sets, all original cloth in slipcases, 4to/8vo, all VG (70)