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Folio Society. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner, The Folio Society, 2012, text printed in several colours, top edge gilt, original red quarter goatskin, with commentary volume, both contained within original publisher's slipcase, 8vo Numbered 516 from an edition of 1480. (1)

Folio Society. Alice's Adventures under Ground, by Lewis Carroll, The Folio Society, 2008, facsimile edition, all edges gilt, full goatskin by Lachenmaier, with original commentary volume, 8vo, contained within original publisher's decorated box Numbered 309 from an edition of 3750. (1)

Folio Society. Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, translated by Norman Denny, Folio Society, Folio Society, 2008, black and white frontispiece, few black and white illustrations, top edge gilt, original blocked goatskin by Lachenmaier, with slim commentary volume, both contained within original publisher's solander box, thick 8vo Numbered 299 from an edition of 1750. (1)

Folio Society. Virgil's The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles, The Folio Society, 2010, colour frontispiece, sixteen colour plates, map endpapers, original decorated goatskin by Lachenmaier, contained within original publisher's solander box, 8vo Numbered 61 from an edition of 1750. (1)

Folio Society. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the Astronomer Poet of Persia, Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, 2009, single etched plate signed and numbered in pencil by Niroot Puttapipat, mounted colour plates throughout by Puttapipat, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, decorative endpapers, orig. vellum spine and corner tips with foil blocked Merina paper sides by The Fine Book Bindery, contained in dark-blue cloth solander box with paper spine label, folio Numbered 215 from an edition of 1000. (1)

Folio Society. The Toilers of the Sea, by Victor Hugo, The Folio Society, 2014, colour frontispiece, twenty-six colour plates (including two double page), plus illustrations to text, original goatskin backed pictorial boards, contained within original publisher's solander box, folio Numbered 35 from an edition of 1250. (1)

Folio Society. Moby-Dick or The Whale, by Herman Melville, illustrations by Rockwell Kent, Folio Society, 2009, black and white illustrations throughout, original publisher's blocked goatskin, with original commentary volume, both contained within original publisher's slipcase Numbered 200 from an edition of 1750. (1)

Folio Society. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and three other peoms by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, illustrated by Harry Brockway, Folio Society, 2010, original engraving by Harry Brockway tipped into preliminary leaves, numbered 931 and signed in pencil by the artist, sixteen tipped in colour illustrations, edges untrimmed, original publisher's vellum backed foil blocked boards, vellum corners, contained within original publisher's cloth covered solander box, folio Numbered 931 from an edition of 1000. (1)

Blagdon (Francis William & Edward Orme). Orme's Graphic History of the Life, Exploits, and Death of Horatio Nelson... Embellished With a Series of Engravings, Illustrative of his Heroic Achievements, [1806], engraved portrait frontispiece (watermarked 'J. Whatman 1825'), six hand-coloured aquatint plates (four double-page, one headpiece at end), four engraved headpieces, facsimile plate of Nelson's handwriting, offsetting to title from portrait, occasional minor soiling and a few spots, one or two old fold marks, waterstain to front endpaper, bookplate of James McBryde, contemporary burgundy half morocco, paper label to upper cover (chipped), a little rubbed with some edgewear, folio Abbey Life 327. Corresponds with the first undated Abbey copy; although the portrait leaf is watermarked 1825, other plates and leaves are variously watermarked 1801 & 1803-04. (1)

Urwick (William). Indian Pictures, The Religious Tract Society, circa 1887, black and white frontispiece with original tissue guard, numerous black and white plates and illustrations to text throughout, occasional spotting, bookplate to front free endpaper, decorative endpapers, all edges gilt, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed and slightly scuffed, 4to, together with Rousselet (Louis), India and its Native Princes, Travels in Central India and in the Presidencies of Bombay and Bengal, Bickers and Son, 1878, black and white frontispiece with original tissue guard, title printed in red and black, numerous black and white plates and illustrations to text, some scattered spotting, few first leaves loose, occasional library stamp of G. Stansfield Broun, bookplate to front free endpaper, original publisher's decorative cloth, rubbed and scuffed, joints cracked, slight loss to corners and spine, thick folio, plus other India travel titles, including Fergusson's History of Indian Architecture, 2 volumes, Menpes' The Durbar, and Historical Record of the Imperial Visit to India, 1911, all original cloth (6)

Folio Society. The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the Authorized Version of King James I with Decorations by Eric Gill, facsimile edition, 2007, printed on laid paper, numerous black and white illustrations, all edges gilt, original black goatskin by G. Lachenmaier, blocked decoration in gilt, contained with companion volume in black cloth solander box, folio Numbered 2740 from the edition of 2775. (1)

Folio Society. Sonnets & Poems [by William Shakespeare], edited by Colin Burrow, The Folio Society, 2009, edges untrimmed, original half goatskin, with original commentary companion volume, both contained within original publisher's solander box, folio Numbered 1431 from an edition of 1980. (1)

Folio Society. Ovid's Metamorphoses, with illustrations from Titian, Folio Society, 2008, sixteen tipped in colour plates, publisher's brown morocco gilt, original solander case, folio Numbered 240 from the edition of 2750. (1)

Folio Society (pub.). Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, [by Jonathan Swift], in four parts, Folio Society, 2011, original etching by Peter Suart, numbered 553 and signed in pencil by the artist, tipped in to preliminary leaves, seveteen tipped-in colour illustrations, decorative endpapers, t.e.g., quarter vellum, vellum tipped corners, upper board with illustration in colour and gilt, gilt lettered spine, contained in original publisher's clamshell box, folio Limited edition 553/1000. (1)

Gregynog Press. Shaw Gives Himself Away. An Autobiographical Miscellany, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1939, woodcut portrait frontipiece by John Farleigh, printed on pale green paper, rough trimmed, original dark green morocco with abstract designs of George Bernard Shaw's initials onlaid in orange morocco to upper and lower covers, by the Gregynog Bindery after Paul Nash, spine with raised band and onlay and lettered in orange, rubbed, cracked at head of joints and a little frayed at head of spine, small folio Limited edition, 107/300. (1)

Gregynog Press. On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton, 1937, one wood engraved plate by Alison Mckenzie, edges untrimmed, original printed wrappers, slim folio, (limited edition 75/250), together with League of Nations Union, Welsh National Council Advisory Education Committee, An Order of Service to be used at Gregynog, November 24, 1935, November 22, 1936 and November 21, 1937, and In Memory of Gwendolone Elizabeth Davies..., An Order of Service to be used at Gregynog on Friday 7 September 1951, together four Order of Service booklets, each in original printed wrappers, slim folio, and Jones (T. Gwynn), Detholiad o Ganiadau, Gregynog Press, 1926, black & white illustrations, ink library stamps throughout, contemporary library buckram with paper label and stamp, spine faded, 8vo, (limited edition 490/500), plus Williams (William), Private Presses with Special Reference to Wales, with Examples of Woodcuts Produced by the Gregynog Press, London: London School of Printing, 1938, wood engraved illustrations, original printed wrappers, slim folio (7)

Nonesuch Press. The Works of Shakespeare. The text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings: edited by Herbert Farjeon..., 7 volumes, New York, 1929-33, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. terracotta morocco gilt, spines slightly faded, large 8vo Numbered 839 from an edition of 1600. (7)

Nonesuch Press. La divina commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri... translated by H. F. Cary, 1928, double-page plates from drawings by Sandro Botticelli, manuscript note on Nonesuch Press headed paper loosely inserted, top edge gilt remainder untrimmed, original vellum stained orange, gilt, spine faded, dust-soiled and rubbed, folio Numbered 615 from an edition of 1475. (1)

Nonesuch Press. La divina commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri... translated by H. F. Cary, 1928, double-page plates from drawings by Sandro Botticelli, top edge gilt remainder untrimmed, original vellum stained orange, gilt, very slightly bumped and barely rubbed, folio Limited edition 858/1475. (1)

James (M.R., 1862-1936). Les Manuscrits a Peintures des Bibliotheques de Londres, Paris, 1914-20, together with Souvenir de l' Exposition de Manuscrits Francais a Peintures... , Etude concernant les 65 manuscrits exposes par Eric G. Millar, Paris, 1933, both with numerous collotype reproductions, the first contemporary cloth, small snag at foot of spine, the second loosely contained in printed boards portfolio as issued, cloth tie, folio Both inscribed for M.R. James from Eric Millar, the first signed and dated September 1931, the second using initials of recipient and signer only, dated 11 September 1933. (2)

Blunden (Edmund, 1896-1974). Thomson's Winter. A Poem, 1726, printed by John Johnson at the University Press Oxford, 1929, facsimile reprint of the 1st edition, 16 pp., a little spotting to half-title, front endpaper signed by Edmund Blunden and with an 8-line [unpublished?] poem for Siegfried Sassoon written by Blunden beneath and dated 13 January 1930, 'Sicilian roselight, Siegfried, fills your hours, And yet your heart returns to northern farms/Where the brown stacks drip sleet, and under cowers/The wanderer; flood and tempest have such charms? And true it is, these taloned branches weave/A bower for you that you will never leave, These nights of sounding firmamental strife/Are the kind ministrants of your far-conscious life', original marbled wrappers with printed paper label to upper cover, spine defective, folio One of 350 copies. Siegfried Sassoon was an early supporter of Blunden's literary efforts in the 1920s, becoming a lifelong friend. (1)

Brettingham (Matthew). The Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the Seat of the Late Earl of Leicester, 1st ed., 1761, 23 sepia-engraved plates and plans only (of 28), lacking dedication and preface leaves, folding plate with small marginal loss and reinforcements, some scattered spotting, near contemporary half sheep, rubbed, folio, (Harris 46. Provenance: The Earl of Leicester, presentation inscription (and later inscription) to title),together with Ainsworth (William), Researches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldaea; Forming Part of the Labours of the Euphrates Expedition, 1st ed., 1838, tinted lithographed frontispiece (with blindstamp), title with wood-engraved vignette, folding map, three hand-coloured folding geological sections at end, publisher's catalogue, scattered light spotting, endpapers renewed, original green blindstamped cloth, spine darkened and re-adhered with old shelf numbers, small splits and chips, 8vo, plus Macdonald (Capt. R.J.), The History of the Dress of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1625-1897, Sotheran, 1899,25 colour plates, scattered light spotting, original cloth-backed boards, edges a little rubbed, a few light marks, 4to Limited edition, 67/300 signed by the author. (3)

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, printed titles with small near contemporary ownership signature, fifty-eight uncoloured engraved maps by John Cary (including fifty-three folding) and ninety-four engraved plates (including seven folding) and one folding table, some spotting and offsetting thoughout, some maps trimmed to neatline with occasional slight loss, old library labels to front pastedowns, contemporary calf, rebacked but retaining contemporary morocco gilt labels, bumped and worn at extremities, folio (3)

Camden (William). Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English with large Additions and Improvements, 1st edition of Gibson's translation, 1695, engraved portrait frontispiece, three general maps of the British Isles and forty-seven (complete) double page uncoloured engraved county maps by Robert Morden, slight worming to some maps, slight creasing, occasional spotting and staining, 'Britannia Romana' torn with slight loss to one corner, Durham bound upside down, Ireland disbound, contemporary blind stamped panelled calf, some wear and old repiars, rebacked, folio (1)

Graves (Robert). Ten Poems More, Hours Press, Paris, 1930, scattered lighht spotting, original cloth-backed boards, glassine wrappers, small folio, limited edition, 88/200 signed by the author, together with To Whom Else?, Seizin Press, Deya, Majorca, 1931, original cloth-backed boards by Len Lye, a little stained, 4to, signed limited edition, 131/200, plus Love Respelt, 1965, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, d.j., small 4to, signed limited edition, 46/250, with seven others including Love Respelt Again, Doubleday, New York, 1969 (signed limited edition, 893/1000), Seventeen Poems Missing from Love Respelt, 1966 (signed limited edition, 31/330, lacking clear wrappers), Colophon to Love Respelt, 1967 (signed limited edition, 23/350), and Beyond Giving, 1969 (signed limited edition, 192/536) (10)

The Architectural Review: For the Artist & Craftsman, 43 volumes, a broken run, volumes I-IV, January 1897-December 1898, volumes XLVII-LI, January 1920-December 1922, volume LV, January-December 1924, volumes LXVII-LXXXVI, January 1930-December 1939, & volumes XCVIII-XCIX, November 1945-December 1956, numerous monochrome and some colour illustrations, advertisements, etc., 14 volumes bound in original publisher's cloth gilt, remainder in contemporary or later cloth, rubbed and some marks, together with 4 additional volumes of The Architectural Review (On Modern English Interior Decoration, May 1930, Interior Design, December 1937, Recent English Domestic Architecture, December 1928, & Interior House Equipment, December 1935), all bound in modern cloth, with original printed wrappers bound in, rubbed and some marks, folio (43)

Berlepsch-Valendas (Hans von). Bauernhaus und Arbeiterwohnung in England. Eine Reisestudie, Stuttgart, [1907], 20 plates, occasional light marginal spotting, loose as issued in original cloth-backed pictorial boards, cloth ties, some light spots, folio (1)

Butler (A.S.G.). The Lutyens Memorial, The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 3 volumes, Country Life, 1st edition, 1950, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations, original green cloth gilt in dust jackets, very slightly frayed to extremities, large folio, together with Hussey (Christopher), The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1st edition, Country Life, 1950, monochrome plates and illustrations, original green cloth gilt in dust jacket, large 8vo, all generally VG (4)

Dufrene (Maurice). Ensembles Mobiliers, Exposition Internationale de 1937, volume 1 only, 32 collotype plates, together with Hautecoeur (Louis), Sculpture Decorative (Exposition Internationale de 1937), Paris, 1937, 32 collotype plates, contents loose in original cloth-backed printed boards, with cloth ties, rubbed and some minor marks, large folio, plus Modern French Decorative Art, Second Series, circa 1937 (3)

Grimme (Karl Maria). Peter Behrens, und seine Wiener Akademische Meisterschule..., Leipzig, Vienna & Berlin: Adolf Luser, 1930, monochrome illustrations and diagrams, title inscribed to the architect Erich Mendelsohn by Peter Behrens dated 18th August 1930, original pictorial wrappers, light wear to spine, with later glassine wrapper, slim folio Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) was a Jewish German architect, best known for his expressionist architecture of the 1920s. Mendelsohn was a pioneer of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architecture, including his 1921 Mossehaus office block at Schützenstrasse in Berlin, Einstein Tower in Potsdam and De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea. (1)

Harte (Glynn Boyd, 1948-2003 ). Temples of Power, Lithographs by Glynn Boyd Harte, with an introduction and architectural notes by Gavin Stamp and a foreword by Sir John Betjeman, The Cygnet Press, 1979, colour lithographs by Glynn Boyd Harte, original patterned boards with blue cloth backstrip, oblong folio, limited edition 91/250, signed by Glynn Boyd Harte and Gavin Stamp (1)

Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret. Oeuvres completes, 8 volumes, mixed editions, Zurich & London, 1960/99, black and white illustrations from photographs and diagrams throughout, all original cloth, volumes 1, & 5-8 in dust jackets, a little fraying, plus 1 related, all oblong small folio (9)

Mawson (Thomas H.). The Art & Craft of Garden Making, 2nd edition, 1901, black & white frontispiece, illustrations and diagrams including many from photographs, light spotting to title, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original green cloth gilt, slightly faded & few marks, folio, together with a 5th edition of the same work, few colour plates, numerous black & white plates & illustrations, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, minor fraying at head & foot of spine, folio, plus The Life and Work of an English Landscape Architect, An Autobiography by Thomas H. Mawson, London: Richards Press, [1927], black & white plates and illustrations, many from photographs, pictorial endpapers, original cloth gilt, 4to (3)

Prout (John Skinner). The Castles and Abbeys of Monmouthshire, 1838, tinted lithograph title, lithograph dedication and 29 tinted lithograph plates, spotting throughout (particularly to title), contemporary red half morocco gilt, spine and extremities rubbed, damp mottling to lower board, large folio, (56.7 x 38cm), together with a folding engraved map of Gloucestershire by Saxton Kip [c.1637] with relevant text leaves from Camden's Britannia, repair to central fold with slight loss, few closed tears and fraying, engraved map of Monmouthshire by Pigot & Co. (hand-coloured in outline) Abbey Scenery 538. (1)

Mendelsohn (Erich). Amerika, Bilderbuch eines Architekten, 6th revised and enlarged edition, Berlin, Rudolf Mosse, 1928, 222 [+5] pages, 100 photographs of modern buildings in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo, light waterstain to extreme lower outer corners, original dark blue cloth-backed printed boards, very slightly rubbed, folio Presentation inscription to front endpaper to the architect Marius Schreiner, dated 12th December 1927. (1)

Mendelsohn (Erich). Russland. Europa. Amerika, Ein Architektonischer Querschnitt, 1st edition, Berlin, Rudolf Mosse, 1929, 100 monochrome illustrations after photographs, original blue cloth-backed boards, upper cover printed in red and blue, spine lightly faded (generally in very good condition), folio (1)

Mendelsohn (Erich). Bauten und Skizzen, [Berlin, 1924], 66 pages, including numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs, original printed boards, slightly rubbed and minor wear to spine, slim folio Presentation copy from Erich Mendolsohn to the civil engineer Dr. Rudolf Herzfeld, signed and inscribed, and dated 1924 to title page. Originally published in Wasmuths Monatshefte fur Baukunst, Year 8, 1924, pages 5-66, and here issued as a separate offprint. Provenance: Purchased by Robert Hornung from Rudolf Herzfeld's son in 2001. (1)

Mendelsohn (Erich). Amerika, Bilderbuch eines Architekten, 1st edition, Berlin, Rudolf Mosse, 1926, 77 full-page monochrome illustrations after photographs of buildings in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo, original black cloth-backed printed yellow boards (with design by Mendelsohn), some minor marks and light discolouration, small tear to head of upper joint, folio Parr/Badger 76. (1)

Muthesius (Hermann). Das Englische Haus, 3 volumes, Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1904-1905, half-titles, titles printed in red and black, numerous black and white illustrations to text, edges rough trimmed, contemporary cloth, original printed wrappers bound in, folio, together with the first complete English edition of The English House, edited by Dennis Sharp, published by Frances Lincoln, 2007, 3 volumes, original publisher's cloth in d.j., contained within original publisher's slipcase, plus one volume of Die Englische Baukunst der Gegenwart, inlcuding plates 1 - 26 only, original portfolio, rubbed and worn (5)

Buchon (Jean Alexandre). Nouvelles Recherches Historiques sur la Principaut‚ Francaise de Moree et ses hautes Baronnies..., 2 volumes (volume one part one, & volume two part one, bound as one), Paris, 1843, half-title, four tables (including two folding), near contemporary half calf, Signet Library gilt stamp to upper board, upper board detached, thick 8vo Blackmer 231. This copy collates with the Blackmer copy, also without the undated folio atlas. (1)

The Studio Year Book of Decorative Art, 53 volumes, a complete run, 1906-1963, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, advertisements, etc., all original cloth (except first volume in original printed wrappers, and 6 other volumes rebound, 14 volumes in dust jackets, some a little frayed and chipped to extremities), folio (53)

Wagner (Otto). Das Ehrenjahr Otto Wagner's an der K.K. Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Wien. Arbeiten seimer schuler, projekte studien u. skizzen, Vienna, Eduard Kosmack [1912], tipped-in colour plates, monochrome illustrations, original cloth-backed boards printed in gold, frayed to spine with some tears, slim folio, together with Lux (Josef August), Otto Wagner, Eine Monographie, Munich, Delphin-Verlag, 1914, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations, original printed boards, lightly rubbed and a few minor marks, 4to (2)

Wattjes (J.G.). Constructie en Architectuur van Winkelpuien, Amsterdam, Kosmos, [1926], monochrome plates after photographs of modern shop fronts, loosely contained in original yellow and blue cloth portfolio, rubbed and some wear to edges and extremities, large folio, together with Moderne Architectuur in Noorwegan, Zweden, Finland, Denemarken... , Amsterdam, Kosmos, 1927, numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs, original brown cloth gilt in bright condition, in pictorial dust jacket, rubbed and some marks and minor fraying to extremities, folio, plus Retera (W.), Het Moderne Interieur, Amsterdam, Kosmos, circa 1937, numerous monochrome illustrations, including many after photographs, original cloth in dust jacket, very slightly frayed to extremities, folio, and 6 others similar, all printed in Dutch, folio/4to (9)

Weaver (Lawrence). Houses and Gardens by E.L. Lutyens, published Country Life, 1913, numerous half-tone illustrations, original buckram-backed boards, some light fading and stains, folio, together with Weaver (Sir Lawrence), Lutyens Houses and Gardens, Country Life, 1921, illustrations, a little light soiling, original green buckram-backed boards, a couple of light stains, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to Mabel Lamb by Lutyens, signed in initials 'E.L.', 6 March 1922, with others on Lutyens including Sir Edward Lutyens. An Appreciation in Perspective, by his Son, 1942 and Robert Irving's Indian Summer. Lutyens, Baker and Imperial Delhi, 1981 (10)

Weaver (Sir Lawrence). Small Country Houses of To-Day, 3 volumes, mixed editions, 1922-25, numerous monochrome illustrations after photographs, original green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, together with The House and Its Equipment, Country Life, circa 1913, monochrome illustrations, original cloth gilt in good condition, plus Adams (Maurice B.), Modern Cottage Architecture illustrated from works of well-known architects, 1st edition, Batsford, 1904, monochrome illustrations, original green cloth gilt, rubbed and some light soiling, folio, and others similar, including C.H.B. Quennell, Modern Suburban Houses, Batsford, 1906, R.A. Briggs, Bungalows and Country Residences, Batsford, 1891, Ernest Newton, A Book of Country Houses, Batsford, 1903, R.A. Briggs, Homes for the Country, Batsford, 1904, Gertrude Jekyll & Lawrence Weaver, Gardens for Small Country Houses, Country Life, circa 1910, Lawrence Weaver, Small Country Houses, their repair and enlargement, Country Life, 1914 (in dust jacket), etc., mostly 4to (20)

Wingler (Hans M.). The Bauhaus, MIT Press, Massachusetts, 2nd printing, November 1969, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original cloth, slipcase, folio (1)

Wiltshire - Property Sale Particulars. A collection of sale particulars relating to properties, estates and land in Wiltshire, circa mid 19th- mid 20th centuries, including Particulars of the Capital Farms... in the Parishes of Chippenham, Melksham, and Poulshot, and Tything of Chittoe, 1858, The Outlying portions of The Leighton Estate, Westbury, 1911, The Rood Ashton Estate, 1930, Corsley House Estate, 1889, Lands at Bratton (outlying portions of Longleat Estate), 1939, The Hurdcott House Estate, 1960, some with folding plans and black & white illustrations, original printed wrappers, some wear, slim folio and smaller, includes some duplicates, together with a mixed selection of early-mid 19th century advertisement broadsides relating to auctions of properties in the Marlborough, Lockeridge, Pewsey, Bishopstone, and Warminster areas, plus two broadsides for strayed sheep at the Wilton Fair, 1817 and notices for Foot & Mouth Disease and Swine Fever in Malmesbury & Marlborough areas, 1879 & 1887 (a carton)

Conder (Josiah). Landscape Gardening in Japan, 2 volumes, including supplement, Tokyo, 1893, tinted lithographed plates and illustrations, collotype plates in supplement, some spotting, original green cloth gilt, spines slightly rubbed, folio, together with Sargent (Charles Sprague), Forest Flora of Japan, Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan, with Japanese supplement, reprint edition, 2 volumes, Shokobutsu Bunken Kanko-Kai, 1939, numerous monochrome plates, modern cloth in slipcase, 4to (4)

Grew (Nehemiah). The Anatomy of Plants, with an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants... , 1st edition, 1682, imprimatur leaf before title, 82 (of 83) engraved plates including 5 double-page, lacks plate 81, upper margin to imprimatur leaf and title-page repaired not affecting text, incision mark to title and evidence of old ink ownership name removal, neither affecting text, some spotting and old marginal dampstaining, modern calf, folio Ex libris Denis Gibbs. Henrey 162; Nissen 758; Wing G1945. (1)

Hetley (Mrs. Charles). The Native Flowers of New Zealand, Illustrated in Colours, 3 original parts (complete), 1st edition, 1887-88, 36 full-page chromolithograph plates with tissue guards, original boards, wear and tear, especially to volume 1, with some loss, folio (3)

Mason (Finch). Humours of the Hunting Field, published Messrs. Fores, 1886, decorative title, sixteen (complete) wood engraved cartoons, publisher's advertisement bound at rear, contemporary half cloth with colour printed pictorial upper siding, a little worn at extremities, oblong folio, together with, The Bits of the Turf, published Messrs. Fores, 1887, decorative title, sixteen (complete) wood engraved cartoons, publisher's advertisement bound at rear, contemporary half cloth with colour printed pictorial upper siding, worn and bumped at extremities, oblong folio (2)

Merian (Maria Sibylla). Leningrad Watercolours, 2 volumes (text/plates), New York & London, 1974, folding colour plates in text volume, 50 colour facsimile plates of originals in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, each with numbered text wrapper, vellum-backed boards and foldover case, folio Limited edition, 312/1750. (2)

Merian (Maria Sibylla). The Surinam Album, Folio Society, 2006, ninety-one colour plates tipped in, original green goatskin backed decorative boards, commentary volume present, three additional colour plates loosely inserted, contained within publisher's solander box, large folio Limited edition, 97/1000. (1)

Plumier (Charles). Plantarum Americanarum fasciculus primus [-Decimus], continens plantas, quas olim Carolus Plumierius, Botanicorum Princeps detexit, eruitque, atque in Insulis Antillis ipse depinxit. Has primum in lucem edidit, concinnis descriptionibus, & observationibus, aeneisque tabulis illustravit Joannes Burmannus, 1st edition, Amsterdam, Sumtibus Auctoris, 1755, 10 parts bound in one volume, title printed in red and black, lacking the engraved portrait frontispiece, 262 full-page copper engraved plates, including one with later hand-colouring, contemporary quarter calf, rubbed and a little wear with joints partly cracked, large folio (44 x 27 cm) Nissen BBI 1547. Sabin 63459. Sitwell, Great Flower Books 70. Hut 554. The French botanist Charles Plumier (1646-1704) undertook three botanical expeditions to the West Indies, the last two as the French King, Louis XIV's appointed botanist. He was one of the first to describe the native plants of America, the present work being a selection by the Dutch botanist Johannes Burmann, Professor of Botany at Amsterdam. (1)

Stearn (William T.). The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer, Introduction by Wilfrid Blunt, Basilisk Press, 1976, 25 mounted colour reproductions, original quarter dark green morocco with marbled boards, contained in original drop-over cloth book box, some staining to book box, atlas folio, limited edition 460/515, together with Walford (James F.), A Book of Orchid Paintings, published Orchid Books, 1972, 24 colour plates, original vellum-backed cloth gilt with some spotting in slightly frayed and stained slipcase, tall folio (signed limited edition 176/525), with inscription for Mr & Mrs G.J. Sandy (2)

Stones (Margaret). The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, Botanical and Ecological Text by Winifred Curtis, 6 volumes, Ariel Press, 1967-68, numerous colour plates, all original cloth gilt in dust jackets, folio, plus 5 others similar including Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 by Sacheverell Sitwell, 1953, Hortus Eystettensis by Nicolas Barker, 1994 (11)

Thorburn (Archibald). British Birds, 4 volumes, 2nd edition, 1916, additional half titles, numerous colour plates throughout, t.e.g., publisher's gilt cloth, spines faded, folio Supplied with the supplement containing an additional two plates. (5)

Thornton (Robert & Steven Harris). The Temple of Flora, The Folio Society, 2008, facsimile edition, colour plates, original publisher's goatskin backed decorative boards, together with commentary volume as issued, both contained within original publisher's solander box, large folio Numbered 12 from an edition of 600. (1)

Roman Waher, b.1961WINES OF SOUTH AFRICAA set of eight folio prints, pencil signed and dated 1961, framed

LATHAM, C: English Homes. Three volumes. Country Life,1904, 1908 and 1909; volumes 1 and 3 1st edns. Folios, original cloth; FOLEY, E: Book of Decorative Furniture. Two volumes. Jack, nd, (1924); original cloth; gilt. VG; CESCINSKY, H and GRIBBLE, E: Early English Furniture and Woodwork. Two volumes, bound in one. Routledge, 1922, 1st edn. Folio, original cloth. Spine blotched; o/w VG; Plus a quantity of other related books