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Lot 642

DYKES (W R) THE GENUS IRIS folio, colour plts with tissues guards, half title, quarter calf, teg, Cambridge 1913, slip case

Lot 637

A LATE REGENCY WALNUT FOLIO STAND, the lattice work and turned spindle sides, one being adjustable above curved supports and turned stretcher base, approximate size height 105cm, width 102cm, depth 80cm

Lot 193

Ouless, Philip John Scenic Beauties of the Island of Jersey... to Which Are Added Descriptive, Topographical, and Historical Explanations, by the Rev. Edward Durell, pub. No.8 Royal Square, St. Helier, 1840, 22 lithographed plates, one double-page panorama view of St. Aubin's Bay and two additional plates by Ouless, some foxing, contemporary quarter red morocco with marbled boards and gilt title plate, folio.

Lot 197

Hartshorne, Albert 'Old English Glasses. An account of glass drinking vessels in England from early times to the end of the eighteenth century', pub. Edward Arnold, publisher to the India Office, 1897, 493 pp with Index and Illustrations, folio, ¾ parchment with blue silk boards.

Lot 547

A VICTORIAN FOLIO OF PRINTS containing photographic prints of classical sculptures (grand tour era) and prints of various paintings (qty). CONDITION: Material covered boards deteriorated, staining and yellowing to prints, viewing advised.

Lot 86

Avro Motor Car - A folio of early 20th century & later ephemera c1920: including photographs, press-cuttings, draft Marque-history original manuscript by David Thirlby written in blue ink on foolscap sheets, an early photo-illustrated manufacturer’s paste-up show-card & related sundry items, together with the author’s original Avro Certificate of Apprenticeship from 1947 to 1952, signed and dated as “Completing Aeronautical & Engineering Apprenticeship Course”, dated December 23rd 1952

Lot 203

Aviation Ephemera, An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia brochure, another for the EMB 145, unopened press packs for the Gulfstream IV -SP and V, a flight deck and systems briefing folio for the Airbus Industries A320/A331, a colour print of the Andover E3 Guy Devas XS 603 of 115 Squadron flight checkers, a collection of press cuttings relating to Mollison, Cobham and othes in a folder, a 1994 War Birds Special Edition calendar, five large format colour prints of 1930s De Havilland aircraft and items of similar interest (A Lot)

Lot 207

Avro, A miscellaneous collection of associated publications and associated literature including Thr Vulcan Story, Avro the History of an Aircraft Company, an others of similar interest, together with copies of Avro Apprentice, a quantity of letters (original and /or copies) from Charles Gibbs-Smith to Verdon-Roe, a Vulcan BMk1 folio marked SECRET dated 9 April 1953, miscellaneous research division correspondence, photographs on Avro Lancaster 50th Anniversary brochure and dinner menu card, a collection of The Putnam Aeronautical Review Nos 1-8 and other items (A Lot)

Lot 73

Motoring Maps and Tourist Guides c1900s-1960s: A large collection of maps and guides including Bartholomews, Ordnance Survey, Johnstons, Esso and others various updated edtions through the century, together with early AA Tourist Guides and Journey Planners including route-maps & Charts in folio-folders and related ephemera (carton)

Lot 205

Crociera Nord Atlantica, A 50th Annivesary celebration folio of the momentus Orbetello - Chicago - New York - Rome flight of Twenty-four Savoia S55 flying boats led by Marshall Italo Balbo, nine flown covers, together with five flown covers for the 40th aniversary, several other flown covers and three cards. Additionally a collection of associated philatelic literature (A Lot)

Lot 194

Leonard Bridgman (1895-1980) A Folio-file Scrapbook of Personal Correspondence & Ephemera c1930s-1970s variously including letters, telegrams & cables, press-cuttings from and relating to leading personalities, friends & acquaintances in Civil & Military Aviation throughout his long career as an Aviation historian & illustrator, including Test-pilots, Journalists, RAF & Naval Personnel and fellow-historians etc, many relating to his career in publishing & editing “Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft” and “Flight” magazine inter-alia

Lot 184

“The London Aerodrome Hendon First Annual Dinner 1914”: A rare original celebration signed Menu for the First Annual Dinner March 2nd 1914, folio-format, covers with tipped-in polychrome plate illustration by Cyrus Cuneo depicting the Aerial Derby frontis, and with autographed signatures of dignitaries, and personalities including Lord Lonsdale, W. Joynson-Hicks, Claude Grahame-White, Edward Stonor, Julian W. Orde, G. St.G Thomas, Arthur duCros, E.A. Seymour, H.C.L. Holden, R.A.S. Paget, Thomas Willey, H. G. Wells Esq inter alia, photo-illustrated with aerodrome & course-map and further colour-plate illustration by C. Cuneo, cord-bound card covers

Lot 290

Quantity of Folio Society books, the majority in slip-cases, to include nine novels by Charlotte and Anne Bronte, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the Ring, sixty-one other Folio Society books mainly of historical and literature interest together with three vols of The Oxford Library of English Poetry and The Oxford Library of Words and Phrases, both boxed

Lot 293

Quantity of books relating to history, to include some folio society

Lot 230

Quantity of Folio Society books, the majority in slip cases, to include Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters, and books relating to history etc

Lot 266

Collection of 18th century and later books to include; The Political State of Great Britain containing the months of January, February, March, April, May and June, 1738, full calf; The Political State of Great Britain containing the months of July, August, September, October, November and December, 1738, full calf; The Political State of Great Britain, volume LVIII containing the months of July, Auguft, September, October, November, and December, 1739, full calf; Charles Mayo, A Chronological History of the European States, with their Discoveries and Settlements, from the Treaty of Nimeguen in 1678 to the Clofe of the Year 1792 pub. Bath, 1793, large folio; Calenders of the Proceedings in Chancery, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth from the Originals in the Tower, Vol III only pub. 1832, large folio; and Ducatus Lancastriae Pars Quarta, Calender to the Pleadings from the Fourteenth Year to the Reign of Queen Elizabeth pub. 1834, large folio (6)

Lot 223

Three books of Domesday interest to include; The Somerset Domesday each pub. by Alecto Historical Editions, London, 1989 together with The Somerset Domesday - Folio and Maps, Somerset: Folios 86-99 pub. 1988 and Domesday Books - Studies pub. 1987, each large folio, uniformally bound (3)

Lot 227

Mr Rapin de Thoyras, The History of England pub. London, 1732 - 1733, second edition, large folio

Lot 260

H. Avray Tipping., three vols of English Homes covering the Early Tudor 1485-1558; Late Stuart 1649-1714 and the Late Tudor & Early Stuart 1559-1649, each large folio together with a quantity of other books on vartious subjects to include Rivers of Great Britain, Rivers of the South and West Coasts pub. Cassell & Co, 1902, and topography books etc

Lot 768

A 19th Century folio chest of seven long drawers with locking pilasters, on a plinth base, 120cm wide/see illustration

Lot 949

A 19th Century oak folio stand, with adjustable ratchet mechanism on bun feet with castors, 67cm wide/see illustration

Lot 1097

Folio of Victorian and later etchings, engravings and other works - mostly shipping subjects, some signed

Lot 1264

Folio containing set twelve stipple engravings by E. Jackson Stodart, after William Hogarth - The Rake's Progress, published by The Museum Galleries, together with another folio containing three engravings after Jan Steen, Gabriel Metsu and Gustav Courbet

Lot 285

A collection of books to include 'The Folio Society', works of Anthony Trollope, 'The Best of the Raconteurs', and 'The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston'

Lot 309

A box containing a GWR Timetable inscribed "Timetables of the Great Western Railway 1902 January, February, March & April", published by Wyman & Sons Ltd., 63 Carter Lane, London EC, together with two GWR Swindon Refreshment Department teacups, saucers and tea plates, and one volume "Bourne's Great Western Railway, a reproduction of the history and description of the Great Western Railway ...", published by David & Charles, Newton Abbot, London, limited edition No'd 108/500, published to celebrate David & Charles' 21st Birthday April 1981, folio edition, tooled and gilded binding, together with various reproduction black and white photographs of Lechlade, assorted cigarette cards, etc.

Lot 863

A Parker Duofold black fountain pen, assorted other fountain pens and propelling pencils, a folio of 19th century sketches and drawings, and Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, 1961 (qty)

Lot 1137

An early 18th century bureau bookcase, veneered in walnut, the moulded cornice above a pair of doors inset mirrored panels, enclosing a fitted interior with folio divisions, pigeon holes and drawers, above a pair of candle slides, and having a pair of carrying handles to the sides, the bureau section with feather crossbanding, having a fall front revealing a fitted interior and a well, above two short and two graduated long drawers, on bracket feet, with carrying handles to the sides, 103 cm wide See back cover colour illustration

Lot 1178

A late 19th century Arts & Crafts style oak folio type table, 128 cm wide See illustration Condition report Report by GH Generally very solid. No makers marks. No sign of old or new wood worm. Chips, scratches and gouges commensurate with age. The right front leg has two large splinters at the bottom and the front left leg also has a small splinter. Some scratches and dents to the top surface and some fading and marks. Structurally very good and joints very solid.

Lot 117

Suppression of agitation.- - [Command from the government of George I to Nathaniel Crew [Command from the government of George I to Nathaniel Crew, third Baron Crew, bishop of Durham on procedures to be adopted in dealings with papists, non jurors and persons dangerous to His Majesty's Government], Ds.s "Nottingham P" [ Daniel Finch, second earl of Nottingham and seventh earl of Winchilsea (1647-1730) ], "Sunderland C.P.S." [ Charles Spencer, third earl of Sunderland (1675-1722) ] , "Bolton" [ Charles Paulet [Powlett], second duke of Bolton (c.1661-1722) ], "Devonshire" [ William Cavendish, second duke of Devonshire (1670/71-1729) ] , "Orford" [ Edward Russell, earl of Orford (1652-1727) ], "James Stanhope", [ James Stanhope, first Earl Stanhope (1673-1721) ], manuscript, 2pp., tears along folds and where opened, browned, folio, 8th November 1715; and a small quantity of others, v.s., v.d. ( sm. qty).

Lot 120

Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818).- - George IV Acknowledgement of Friedrich Ferdinand replacing Ludwig... George IV ( King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1762-1830) Acknowledgement of Friedrich Ferdinand replacing Ludwig II as Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, "to a Convention concluded at Aix la-Chapelle for the Evacuation of the French Territory by the Allied Troops signed at Bernbourg", manuscript in English and French, 1p. with conjugate blank, on vellum, yellowed and slightly soiled, folio, Bernbourg, 20th December 1818; and a small quantity of others, including: a small scap album (with 3 photographs of Kenilworth Castle, drawings etc.), engravings, 2 books etc., v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).

Lot 126

Victorian schoolmistress.- - Mann [Autobiography], autograph manuscript signed, 16pp Mann (Eunice, schoolmistress, of Southampton, Cowes and elsewhere, fl. 1846-74) [Autobiography], autograph manuscript signed, 16pp., folds, unbound, folio, 25th April 1874. Mann's detailed account of her early life in Southampton (scalded as a very young child; holdidays with grandparents on the Isle of Wight), and then in Stockbridge where her father moved his business. Several members of the Mann family were nonconformist ministers and Mann spent her childhood in and around Southampton and Cowes, before becoming a schoolmistress, eventually taking up the position of headmistress of the school of the Rev. John Riddell of Harrietsham, Kent.

Lot 131

Theroux - Walking in Fjordland, second chapter from (Paul Edward, American travel writer and novelist, b. 1941) Walking in Fjordland , second chapter from 'The Happy Isles of Oceania' published in an amended form as 'Sloshing Around in South Island', autograph manuscript , title and 20pp., original note book, folio, April 1988. An account of a walking trip by Theroux in New Zealand in 1988.

Lot 135

Bacon - The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, first edition ( Sir Francis) The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, first edition, first issue , all seven errata are uncorrected, engraved portrait frontispiece and title, some spotting and marginal browning, contents loose, contemporary calf with gilt crest to covers, spine perished and covers detached, worn, [Gibson 116b; STC1159], small folio, W.Stansby for Matthew Lownes, 1622.

Lot 136

[Perkins (William) - Works] vol. 1 only, of 3, 12 parts in one vol., lacks general title and 3 other preliminary ff., 6 ff. of tables, the first and last two defective, torn and creased, A1, 2O3, 3V4 & 3X6 torn with some loss, some other lesser tears, corners frayed & creased, name of Richard Phillpots, several times repeated, with date 1653 on front pastedown, name of John Preece, 1800, on first title, with scribbles and calculations on verso, name of James Preece, Credenhill near Hereford, Novenmber 4th 1804, with 16-line poem, on 2G5 verso, few other names and occasional notes, staining and marking, contemporary calf, gilt central ornament on covers, badly worn, front cover loose, [STC 19654], folio , John Legatt, 1635; sold not subject to return.

Lot 139

Browne - Pseudodoxia Epidemica , second edition, lacks last f ( Sir Thomas) Pseudodoxia Epidemica , second edition, lacks last f. of Index, margins browned and frayed, especially at beginning and end, worming throughout, some marking, contemporary name 'Thomas Hals 1681' at head of title, occasional notes and scribbles, including passages of verse on pp. 219 & 233, contemporary calf, worn, spine and lower cover defective, [Wing B5160; Keynes 74], folio, by A.Millar for Edw.Dod and Nath.Ekins , 1650.

Lot 14

Englefield - A Description of the Principal Picturesque Beauties…and... ( Sir Henry Charles) A Description of the Principal Picturesque Beauties and Geological Phoenomena of The Isle of Wight, first edition, 47 engraved plates (8 folding) and 3 folding engraved maps (1 hand-coloured), bound in 20th century straight-grained morocco, corners rubbed, gilt spine, slightly faded, t.e.g., others uncut, by Riviere & Son, a good copy, [Abbey, Scenery 346], folio, 1816.

Lot 140

Taylor (Jeremy) - Ductor Dubitantium, or, the Rule of Conscience, 2 parts in 1, first edition , engraved portrait frontispiece, errata and advertisment f. at end, titles ruled in red, the second with engraved vignette, lacks additional engraved title, second title little frayed, some marking and spotting, contemporary calf, ruled in blind, rubbed, rebacked in brown morocco, corners repaired, hibges taped, [Wing T234], folio, J. Flesher for R. Royston , 1660.

Lot 143

Churchill (Sir Winston) - Divi Britannici : being a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings... ( Sir Winston) Divi Britannici : being a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle , first edition , title in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut ornaments and initials, engraved coats-of-arms, with final Index leaf, title lightly soiled, old ink and crayon inscriptions on pastedown, contemporary calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, [Wing C4275], folio, by Tho.Roycroft, 1775. By the father of the 1st Duke of Marlborough and ancestor of his namesake the Prime Minister. A loosely inserted T.L.s. dated 8th June 1950 from Edmund Oddy (Hon. Secretary to Winston Churchill) to Rev. Lambert Foxell thanks the recipient for his kind offer to send Churchill his copy of the book, " but he does not wish to deprive you of such an interesting treasure ".

Lot 145

Burnet (Gilbert) - The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, The Second Part, only, of 2, half-title, with licence on verso, margin defective at foot, engraved additional title, soiled and frayed, engraved portraits, 3 torn, 2 with more or less serious loss, title in red and black, marginal wormhole toward end, little marking, early name 'Arthur Squier' on title, contemporary calf, worn, lacking front cover, replaced by a contemporary loose half calf cover, with a couple of preliminary ff from a Bible attached, folio, T.H. for Richard Chiswell , 1683.

Lot 161

Thomson (James) - The Seasons, 21 stipple engravings by Bartolozzi and Tomkins after... The Seasons, 21 stipple engravings by Bartolozzi and Tomkins after Hamilton (7 plates and 14 vignettes and illustrations in text), engraved dedication, list of subscribers, half-title, slight browning, later endpapers, 19th century half calf, rubbed, spine gilt, head and tail of spine chipped, large folio, T. Bensley, 1797.

Lot 186

Bible, English - The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments, According to the Authorised Version with Illustrations by Gustave Dore, 2 vol., light foxing, contemporary gilt blocked morocco, rubbed, joints cracking, folio, Cassell Petter, and Galpin, [c.1875]

Lot 187

Pamphlets.- Gladstone (W.E.) - The Berlin Treaty and the Anglo-Turkish Convention The Berlin Treaty and the Anglo-Turkish Convention. Speech , small hole in title, title soiled, 1878; and 13 other pamphlet, together 14 pamphlets, including 4 other pamphlets by Gladstone, slightly browned, contemporary half calf, worn, covers detached, spine defective, 8vo ; and 2 others, 8vo & folio (3).

Lot 19

Meon Valley.- - Wright Survey and Valuation of the Parish of Droxford in the... Wright (H.C., surveyor and valuer, fl. 1832) Survey and Valuation of the Parish of Droxford in the County of Hants: Descriptive of the Farms, Owners and Occupiers thereof together with the Woods, Mansions, Tenements and Tithes for the purpose of Equalizing the Parochial Assessments, manuscript, 126pp., ruled in red, new endpapers, modern half calf, old gilt morocco label on upper cover, folio, 1832.

Lot 193

Percy (Thomas) - The Percy Folio of Old English Ballads and Romances, 4 vol., number 27 of 320, vol.I additional engraved title, ex libris plate of Mary Eason to front pastedown of vol.I, original cloth-backed boards, t.e.g., uncut, a little rubbed and soiled, The De la More Press, 1905-10 § Pope (Alexander) The Odyssey, 1881; The Iliad, 1886, edited by Rev. J.S. Watson, frontispieces and plates, a little spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed ; and 5 others, Literature, v.s. (11)

Lot 195

Graves (Robert, editor) - The Owl, 2 vol., No. 1 - May 1919; No. 2 - October 1919, first in original printed wrappers, chipped, split length of spine, second in matching boards, chipped with loss to spine, folio, contributers include Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Eric Kennington, John Nash, William Nicholson, etc., Martin Secker, 1919.

Lot 197

Lee - Tercentenary of the Publication of The First Folio of Shakespeare ( Sir Sidney) Tercentenary of the Publication of The First Folio of Shakespeare's Works: The Prefatory Pages of the First Folio 1623-1923, signed presentation copy from Sir Sidney Lee to John Drinkwater with ink inscription on upper wrapper, plate, original printed wrappers, [1923] § De La Mare (Walter) Poems for Children, TLs from the author tipped-in on front pastedown, original cloth, gilt, dust-jacket slightly soiled, edges chipped , [1930]; and 10 others, various, 8vo (11).

Lot 199

Churchill - The British Gazette, Issues 1-8 [complete run] ( Sir Winston Spencer, editor ) The British Gazette , Issues 1-8 [ complete run ], 8 double-sided broadsheets chronicling the 1926 General Strike (browned and silked) , signed by Winston S. Churchill, Stanley Baldwin and J.C.C. Davidson on front free endpaper , original ms. ink notice captioned as "Original notice to the press of the General Strike May 12 1926. It was sent from 10 Downing Street to be reproduced on the Secretaries Typewriters and was handed by Mr Churchill to the British Gazette in place of a typewritten copy", mounted on rear free endpaper, printed letter to Vice Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall signed by the members of staff from the Morning Post and original T.L.s May 12 1926 relaying a message from Sir Andrew Caird to the Morning Post regarding the printing of an advertisement in the British Gazette announcing the new issue of the Morning Post for one penny signed by the Morning Post's editior H.A. Gwynne (both loosely inserted), original drawing by Leonard Raven-Hill ( mounted on rear free endpaper) and two contemporary prints of the same, attractive modern red half morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, folio , 1926.

Lot 216

Folio Society.- - Fielding [Works], 4 vol., illustrations, original pictorial cloth Fielding (Henry) [Works], 4 vol., illustrations, original pictorial cloth, slip-case, 1995; and c. 30 others, Folio Society, 8vo (c. 30).

Lot 217

Plautus (Titus Maccius) - Comoediae Viginti, title in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut illustrations and decorative initials, small device at end, lacks final blank f., fore-edge margins of first c.110 and last c 70 ff. very defective, with loss to side-notes at end, some worming, mostly marginal, but sometimes affecting text or side-notes, some staining, mostly marginal, early name at foot of title, bookplate of Horace Woolaston Moncton, 18th century vellum-backed patterned paper boards, morocco spine-label, chipped, lettering on lower edge, worn and stained, covers defective at fore-edges, perhaps chewed, paper on lower cover partly missing, revealing manuscript fragment beneath, in modern cloth case, colour facsimile of title on upper cover, [Adams P1485], folio, Venice, M. Sessa & P. de Ravani , 1518

Lot 218

Gregory - Historiarum praecipue gallicaru[m] lib. X ( Saint, Bishop of Tours ) Historiarum praecipue gallicaru[m] lib. X. , first edition , Jean Petit issue, with his woodcut device to title, title within fine woodcut architectural border, fine woodcut historiated or decorative criblé initials, a few large, 3 short marginal tears at foot, not affecting text, a few small stains, occasional spotting or finger-marking, some light marginal water-staining, 19th century glazed paper boards, worn, [Adams G1128; Renouard II, 477:1, Mortimer 255 (with Badius device)], small folio, Badius Ascensius for himself and Jean Petit, [Paris], [1522]. Rare history of the Franks, which is handsomely printed by Badius.

Lot 225

Giovio - Vitae Illustrium Virorum , 2 vol, in 1, first title in woodcut... (Paolo, Bishop of Nocera ) Vitae Illustrium Virorum , 2 vol, in 1, first title in woodcut border, 29 large woodcut portraits in borders, first title margins defective & mounted, next 2 ff. lower corner of margins defective, tear to y3, I5 holed with loss of half-a-dozen words, 2M5-2O4 defective, with substantial loss of text, and restored, some other minor marginal restoration, staining and marking, early ownership entry on title, twentieth-century half vellum, marbled boards, bookplate removed from free endpaper, [Adams G5667; Atabey 503; Blackmer 691], folio, Basle, P. Perna & H. Petri , 1578 [vol. I colophon 1576; vol II title 1577] The fourth collected edition, the second issue of vol I (the first is dated 1576), but the first with the appendix containing the lives and portraits of 11 Turkish Sultans, these apparently based on a collection of portraits given by the Turkish admiral Barbarossa to Virginio Orsini, which eventually passed into Giovio's possession.

Lot 228

French monarchy.- - C. Abbrege de l'Histoire Francoise, auec les Effigies des Roys C. (H.) Abbrege de l'Histoire Francoise, auec les Effigies des Roys, depuis Pharamond iusques au Roy Henry IIII , fourth edition, woodcut arms of Henry IV on title-page, title printed in red and black within ornamental woodcut border which is printed throughout the volume, incorporating 65 woodcut medallion-portraits, lacks I4 (text) & K2 (blank at end), browned, slightly creased, later engraved portrait of Lewis VII bound opposite title, several engraved portraits on endpapers at end, bookplate of Alfred Mellor Watkin on front pastedown, later endpapers, hinges splitting, 19th century half straight-grained morocco, gilt, rubbed, head of spine lifting, folio Paris, Jean le Clerc, 1599; sold not subject to return.

Lot 236

Nagel (Luca) - Stromata evangelica dominicalia priora..., lacking initial leaf (?blank), title in red and black with engraved device and old embossed library stamp, browned, slight damage to outer margin of last few leaves from rusting clasps, contemporary blind-stamped alum-tawed pigskin with clasps (one lacking), rubbed and soiled, folio, Cologne, Noethen, 1700.

Lot 291

Bonfils (Robert) - La Manière Française, number 260 of 320 copies, pochoir pictorial title and 16 plates & 4 vignettes by Bonfils, coloured by E.Charpentier, title lightly soiled, slight stain to left hand margin of title, the two text leaves and first few plates but barely noticeable on plates, one or two with marginal spotting, loose as issued in original board portfolio with tricolour ties, pochoir illustration on upper cover, rubbed and soiled, upper cover spotted, spine repaired, 4to, Paris, [1919]; and 2 copies of Portfolio VI: Greece published by the Black Sun Press in 1948, 4to & folio (3) A slightly incongruous use of brightly coloured pochoir plates, depicting the course of the First World War.

Lot 30

Sumner (Heywood) - The Book of Gorley, first edition, frontispiece and illustrations The Book of Gorley, first edition, frontispiece and illustrations, original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., others uncut, Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1910; The Ancient Earthworks of the New Forest , number 140 of 200 copies signed by the author, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, 1917; and 4 others, Sumner, folio & 8vo (6).

Lot 309

Le Brun (Charles) - Heads. Representing the various Passions of the Soul; as they are expressed in the Human Countenance, engraved title with text in decorative cartouche, 18 engraved plates only (of 19, lacking plate 7), light soiling, single leaf of text slightly water-stained at lower edge, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, boards rubbed, rebacked and corners renewed, [Wellcome III p.467], folio, for Robt. Sayer, [?1765]. One of several editions. The Wellcome catalogue calls for an engraved title and 19 plates but numbered 3-21, in our copy they are 2-20.

Lot 316

Vanity Fair.- - The Vanity Fair Album, Series 1 - 4 only, forth edition, with 205 caricatures, chromolithographs, by "Spy" and others, loose in original publisher s cloth, worn, folio, 1869-1872.

Lot 323

Frohawk (F,W., et al) - British Birds with their Nests and Eggs, 6 vol., colour and black and white plates, original mustard cloth gilt, marked, folio, [c.1896].

Lot 328

Evelyn (John) - Silva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber, 2 parts in 1, fourth edition, engraved portrait, title in red and black (variant with comma after author on title), a few engraved illustrations, contemporary ink signatures at head of title (one crossed out), portrait browned, S4 with tear to inner margin, ex-library copy with small ink stamps, later calf, worn, covers detached, [Goldsmiths 4287; Henrey 135], folio, for Robert Scott , 1706.

Lot 334

Parkinson (John) - Theatrum Botanicum: the Theater of Plants, 1 vol. in 2, many woodcut botanical illustrations, lacks engraved additional title, 5A1, 5X2-5, 5Z6, and 7I5 & 6, title and next 2 ff margins frayed & restored, tears or fraying to 2D2-4, 5A6, 5Z3, 6A3-4, with some loss, last 7 ff. margins torn and restored with some loss, other minor tears and repairs, mostly marginal, ownership entries on title of Robert Smith, and on 4M4v of Robert Smith and Edw. Manners, initials (or Roman date) in margin of 4Y6, stained and browned, twentieth-century green half morocco, spines faded, little scuffed, [Henrey 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490; Pritzel 7749; STC 19302], folio, Tho. Cotes, 1640.

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