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Lot 43

BUECHNER, Thomas S:Norman Rockwell (artist and illustrator),New York, Harry N Abrams, 1970, deluxe folio, leather bound limited edn. of 1100 copies signed by the author and the illustrator; a signed collotype was included with each book. As usual, this copy is lacking the collotype; most of them were taken out and framed. Full padded blue leather and with a slipcase. VG+/Fine

Lot 60

C PLINII CAECILII SECUNDI:Nouocomens, Epistolarum Lib. X. Ejusdem Panegyricus Traiano dictus,Paris, Veneunt Iodoco Badio & Ioanni Roigny (Josse Bade, Jean de Roigny), 1533. Folio, PP: engraved title-page, (xvi)including tp and index, ccxxxi(leaves) with colophon to last page. Contemporary full calf. Note: A beautifully printed edition of Pliny the Younger’s letters, edited by Badius, and followed at the end by the Panegyricus Traiano. It is the only Badius edn. and it follows earlier edns. with the commentaries of Giovanni Maria Cataneo. It is adorned with many ornamental woodcut initials including numerous large ones. Rebacked with original spine; light damp stain to inner margin of the preliminary pages; sporadic ink underlining; o/w G

Lot 65

LAW:1. Coke, Sir Edward: Thomas Littleton: The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, a Commentary Upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law It Selfe. London: Printed by the assignees of John More, 1629. 4to. PP395 leaves, and table (with title page, 1629). Full leather, rebacked with new spine. Covers worn; title page frayed at edges (with small loss) and loose with the next four leaves; folding table torn (without loss); the odd stain. No frontis or portrait;2. Keble, J: An Assistance to Justices of Peace, For the Easier Performance of Their Duty. L, W Rawlins Et for Samuel Keble, 1683, 1st edn. Folio, PP(viii), 719, (i)blank, (vii). Half vellum with gilt emblem to front cover. VG copy;3. Fortescue, Sir John: De Laudibus Legum Angliae. Hereto Are Added to the Two Sums of Sir Ralph De Hengham. With notes both on Fortescue and Hengham, by John Selden L, J Streater. 1672. PP:title-page, (xii), 3-132 leaves, (v)table; 1-51 (notes)

Lot 70

ILLUSTRATED:1. Sowerby J: British Wild Flowers. With supplement. L, John van Voorst, 1863. Illustrated with 90 colour plates and 2 black and white. Half leather and marbled boards, aeg. VG+;2. Forget-Me-Not for 1824. Illustrated with 12 plates (as called for). Full leather, gilt and aeg. VG+;3. Audsley, W & G: Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Mediaeval Styles. L, Henry Sotheran, 1882, 1st edn. Folio, with 36 plates. Original cloth, gilt. Pages loose (as often); o/w G;4. Butler, S: Hudibras. In three parts. L, D Midwinter, 1739. Illustrated with plates by Hogarth (some folding). Covers worn and detached; volume split in two (4)

Lot 71

ANTIQUARIAN:1. Abbt, Thomas; Sallustius: Von der Zusammenrottung des Catilina. Stadthagen, 1767, 1st edn. of this translation. Full mottled leather. G+;2. Adriani, Henricum: Catholycke Sermoonen. Antwerp, H. Verdussen, 1620. Folio, with many illustrations throughout; contemporary full leather with brass decorations. Rebacked with new spine; lacking the clasps; title-page repaired; light damp stain to last few pages;3. Ten Brink, J: Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Letterkunde. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1897. With chromolithograph facsimile with numerous plates. Three quarter leather, teg. VG+;4. Plus one other (4)

Lot 80

FOLIO SOCIETY:Approximately sixty volumes, mostly with slipcases. VG (qty)

Lot 85

TIPPING, H Avray:English Homes,Country Life, 1924; eight volumes out of a total of nine published (but each is complete by itself). Folio, original cloth. Spines faded; o/w VG. Plus: English Homes Early Renaissance,.., Country Life, nd, c.1910; folio. VG (9)

Lot 86

GARDENS:1. Leyland, John and Tipping, H Avray: Gardens Old and New, The country House and its Garden Environment. In three volumes. Country Life, date etc?; folio, original cloth. Spine faded;2. Jekyll, Gertrude and Hussey, Christopher: Garden Ornament. Country Life, 1927, 2nd edn. Folio, original cloth. Spine faded;3. Tipping, H Avray: English Gardens. Country Life, 1925, 1st edn. Folio, original cloth, aeg. Spine faded (5)

Lot 88

BACON, Francis:Derrière Le Miroir,Maeght Éditeur, 1966, 1st edn. Deluxe edn. limited to 150 copies on Vélin de Rives, # H.C; with 5 single sheet colour lithographs and one three sheet fold-out colour lithograph. Folio, lithographed wrappers; board chemise and slipcase. VG++

Lot 89

PICASSO:Leiris, Michele: Picasso and the Human Comedy,A Suite of 180 drawings by Picasso. November 28, 1953 - February 3, 1954. Preface by Teriade. With an appreciation by Rebecca West. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1954, 1st American edn. dw($25). Published as the Double Number 29/30 of Verve in the French Edition. Printed in France. Folio, with 180 drawings including 16 colour lithographs. Light wear to dw and a couple of the brown tissue guards with small tear; o/w VG

Lot 91

1. HALL, S C: The Baronial Halls, And Picturesque Edifices Of England. In two volumes. Willis & Sotheran, 1858. With 71 tinted lithographs. Folio, half leather. Covers worn; a few plates loose; occasional foxing;2. MORRIS, Rev. F O: A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. Four volumes only of six. Mackenzie, nd. Covers detached; poor copy (6)

Lot 92

ENGLISH FURNITURE:1. Macquoid, Percy: A History of English Furniture. Four volume set: The Age of Oak (1904); Walnut (1905); Mahogany (1906); Satinwood (1908). Folio; original publisher’s cloth. VG;2. Macquoid, Percy and Edwards, Ralph: The Dictionary of English Furniture: From the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period. Three volume set: Country Life, 1924-27. Folio; original publisher’s cloth. VG (7)

Lot 98

BECKFORD, William: MADDOX, Willes (illustrator):Views of the Lansdown Tower, Bath,The favourite edifice of the late William Beckford. Bath: Edmund English, Junior; and London: Thomas McLean, 1844. 1st edn., large paper copy (large folio). Mounted chromolithographic title with hand-coloured vignette, lithographic dedication, 13 hand-coloured lithographic plates mounted on 12 card leaves, 6 tinted lithographs in text, by C J Richardson after Maddox; subscribers list and the slip present at p10. Half leather (scuffed); most pages and plates loose; occasional foxing and the odd small tear; o/w G

Lot 99

1. PERATE, André: Georges Hoentschel. Collections Georges Hoentschel acquired by M J Pierpont Morgan and offered to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, five volumes. Paris, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1908. Folio, loose in folders and ties (as issued). Occasional light foxing; o/w VG;2. HESSLING, E: Le Luminaire. Documents de Style Empire. Paris, E Hessling, nd; c.1900. Folio, loose in folder (as issued). Lacking ties; occasional light foxing; o/w VG (6)

Lot 69

Gilt framed autograph of Harold MacMillan and another of Harold Wilson housed in a single frame, together with a folio ' Lyric Theatre, An Artist's Model ' with Mr George Edwards compliments

Lot 1520

Folio containing a group of six prints of molluscs, frogs, birds, basket of fruit, crabs and fishes (four unmounted)

Lot 1616

Folio bound volume, ' The Seat of War in the East ' by William Simpson, First Edition, published London 1855 by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co.

Lot 112

Folio containing a quantity of ballet and music hall related ephemera

Lot 1382

Folio bound volume, ' Works of Hogarth ' (a/f)

Lot 507

D. NAPIER & SON LTD - A publicity book containing a brief description of the construction and achievements of Napier Aero Engines, text in English, French and Spanish, including twenty-five sepia photographs with interleaves of Napier powered aircraft, manufacturers include Avro, Blackburn, Fainey, Fokker, Handley-Page and others, three illustrations of the Napier `Lion` and `Cub`, letters of appreciation and similar documentation of interest, 24pp plus plates in card-bound landscape folio. c.1925, with colour illustration to cover.

Lot 765

A FOLIO OF VARIOUS ANTIQUE HAND COLOURED DECORATIVE PRINTS, some of botanical subjects

Lot 2

JAMES PATERSON RSA PRSW RWS (SCOTTISH 1854 - 1932), NITHSDALE: A PORTFOLIO OF PHOTGRAVURES BY T. & R. ANNAN, GLASGOW 1893 complete folio containing nineteen plates signed in pencil, with thirty-three plates in total.

Lot 244

A folio containing a quantity of large black and white photographs of Palestine, each on card, together with a quantity of student artwork. Condition Report: There are 15 photographs.

Lot 643

Folio and contents of assorted prints and engravings to include entomology, topographical other examples including some early photographs

Lot 156

Gibbings (Robert John, 1889-1958). Fourteen Wood Engravings by Robert Gibbings from Drawings made on Orient Line Cruises, Golden Cockerel Press, [1932], fourteen wood engravings, printed presentation slip from Orient Line Cruises loosely inserted, dated October 1932, original yellow printed wrappers, stitched as issued, some minor marks to extremities, slim folio (1)

Lot 161

Ravilious (Eric, 1903-42). The Wood Engravings of Eric Ravilious, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1972, numerous illustrations, original cloth, large folio Printed in an edition of 500 copies. This copy numbered II/50. (1)

Lot 261

EARLY 20TH CENTURY PERIOD DESIGN FOLIO stamped 'Birkenhead', inside a collection of pull out guides to period design and fabric choices, covering 16th to 20th century interiors, 34cm long

Lot 243

Sutton - Golf Courses, Design, Contruction and Upkeep, second edition, plates (Martin A., editor ) Golf Courses, Design, Contruction and Upkeep, second edition, plates, ink ownership inscription, original cloth, 1950 § Crossman (E.C.) Military & Sporting Rifle Shooting, illustrations, ink onwership inscriptions, upper hinge a little weak, Onslow COunty, NC, 1932 § Caffyn (William) Seventy-One Not Out, the Reminiscences Edited by "Mid-On", first edition , Blackwoods' Colonial Library issue, frontispiece, 30 plates, name at head of title, original decorated cloth, faded & rubbed, 1899; and 3 others, sports and pastimes, 8vo & folio (6)

Lot 275

Kao - M odern C hinese P ainting and Calligraphy from the Collection of... (Mayching, editor ) M odern C hinese P ainting and Calligraphy from the Collection of the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art , full-page colour illustrations, original boards, very slightly soiled, slip-case (a little browned), folio, Hong Kong, 1987.

Lot 276

Moore (Henry) - Heads Figures and Ideas, with a comment by Geoffrey Grigson, with original colour auto-lithograph tipped in at beginning, illustrations, hinges splitting, but holding firm, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine ends little frayed, corners worn, a few abrasion marks, folio, printed at the Curwen Press , 1958.

Lot 283

Rouart (Denis) and Daniel Wildenstein. - Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonne, 2 vol., (vol.1 Peintures, vol.2 Pastels, Aquarelles et Dessins), plates, original cloth, dust-jackets, folio, 1975.

Lot 287

Blair Hughes-Stanton.- Ida Graves. - Epithalamion, number 278 of 330 copies signed by Hughes-Stanton (but actually one of 150 copies issued later) , 23 full-page wood-engraved illustrations, bound in paper over boards, edged in brown morocco at top and bottom, morocco title label, spine a little faded, with accompanying booklet in original wrappers, together in board slip-case, spine and upper edges splitting a little, all bindings by Paul Collet and David Sellars, folio, The Basilisk Press, 1980 § Crane (Walter) Mrs Mundi at Home: Lines and Outlines, second edition, fore-edges soiled, offsetting, rebound in later cloth preserving original covers, g.e., a little rubbed, London & Belfast, [n.d.]. The first mentioned was published in 1980 from sheets printed by Hughes-Stanton in 1934; 330 copies were to be published in 1934 by his Gemini Press. Only 300 were printed, of which only 150 sold. In 1970 Hughes-Stanton gave the remaining sheets to the Basilisk Press.

Lot 288

Book of Posters (A), printed at Whittington, with an Introduction by John Randle, number 43 of 50 special copies (Edition A) with an additional portfolio of posters, from an edition limited to 125, wood-engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn, 35 tipped-in posters, many printed in colours, some folding, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, portfolio with 10 assorted posters loosely inserted (some folded) in original cloth-backed board folder, together in cloth drop-back box, morocco label on spine, with the publisher's original packaging, folio, [Lower Marston], Whittington Press, 1996.

Lot 294

Nonesuch Press.- - Holy Bible (The) 5 vol. including Apocrypha, vol.1-4 one of 1000 copies, vol.5 one of 1250 copies, printed in Monotype Plantin, copper-engraved pictorial titles and head- & tail-pieces by Stephen Gooden, tissue guards, original decorated boards, gilt, uncut, light browning, especially to spines, spine ends and corners a little bumped, some light surface soiling, [Dreyfus 20 & 21; Herbert 2226], small folio, Nonesuch Press, 1924-27.

Lot 296

Verdet (André) - Pour un Nouveau Printemps de Pablo Picasso, number 68 of 79 copies, lacking the signed colour lithograph by Picasso and Verdet's photograph of Picasso but inscribed by Verdet with watercolour design dated 1963 , colour from design slightly seeped onto title, loose as issued in original raffia-covered boards with leather straps and cut-out shapes mounted on upper cover, uncut, spine a little worn, folio, Nice, 1963; sold not subject to return

Lot 297

Whittington Press.- - Matrix: a Review for Printers & Bibliophiles, nos. 5, 10 & 12, plates, illustrations and specimens, some folding, some tipped in, some colour, original wrappers or boards with dust-jackets, uncut, Andoversford and Risbury , 1985, 1990, 1992 ; A Miscellany of Type, printed in yellow, brown and black, tipped-in samples, illustrations, many wood-engraved, few specimen sheets inserted, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, uncut, slip-case, folio , Andoversford, 1990, limited editions, 4to (4)

Lot 30

Maspero (Gaston) - The Passing of the Empires..., 1900; Egyptian Art, blind-stamped 'presentation copy' on the title , 1913, first English editions , plates, illustrations, original cloth § Cordier (Henri) Bibliographie des Å“uvres de Gaston Maspero, original printed wrappers, worn at foot of spine, Paris , 1922; and 10 others, Maspero, 8vo & folio (13)

Lot 323

Origenes, - Adamantius. Operum Tomi duo priores [tertius et quartus tomi], 4 vol Adamantius. Operum Tomi duo priores [tertius et quartus tomi] , 4 vol. in 2, double column, 2 woodcut architectural titles in red and black with large printer's device of Jean Petit at centre, woodcut criblé initials, early ink marginalia, lacking S2 & 7, 4A1 (?divisional title or blank) and blank 2X8, vol.3 first c.20 ff. torn and repaired at inner upper corner with loss of text reducing in severity in the later ff., some wormholes, affecting a few letters on several ff., mostly at end of vol.2, occasional water-staining, heavier to end of vol.2, occasional spotting or staining, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, rebacked in 20th century lighter vellum,[Adams O279; Renouard, Ascensius, III, 94-96], folio, Paris, Josse Badius for himself and Jean Petit, 1512-1519. sold not subject to return.

Lot 329

Bible, - German . Biblia, das ist die gantze heylige Schrifft Teutsch German . Biblia, das ist die gantze heylige Schrifft Teutsch , translated by Martin Luther, 3 parts in 1 vol ., titles in woodcut borders, the first hand-coloured, portrait, woodcuts in the text, first title laid down with loss to text and border, next few ff. frayed and holed, holes to N.T. A6, X4 & 5, lacks final ?blank) f., several margins frayed or chipped, browned and marked, notes on front paste-down & verso of portrait, booplates at end of the Berkshire Athenaeum and Brooklyn Public Library, ink number at foot of portrait, sold in our rooms April 1986, contemporary blind-stamped callf over wooden boards, worn, rebacked, remains of clasps, folio, Frankfurt, E. Kempffern, 1616.

Lot 330

Rousset de Missy (Jean) - Mémoires sur le Rang et la Préséance entre les Souverains de l'Europe, half-title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, stamp on title, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, label missing, names on front free endpaper, 4to, Amsterdam, F. l'Honoré, 1746 § [Holbach (Paul-Henry Thiri, Baron d ') "M. Mirabaud". Systeme de la Nature, 2 vol., half-titles, spotting, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, morocco labels, rubbed, joints tender, 8vo, 'Londres' [= Amsterdam], 1781 § Ébel (J.G.) Manuel du Voyageur en Suisse, half-tiitle, spotting, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed, 8vo, Paris , 1826 § Struve (Burkhard Gollhelf) Bibliotheca Historica Selecta, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, spotting and browning, contemporary vellum, rubbed and marked, 8vo Jena, C.H.Cuno , 1770, and an odd vol. of a folio Talmud (7)

Lot 335

Tissot (J. James, illustrator) - La Sainte Bible, 2 vol. in 3, limited edition 70/500, foxed, red and black text, colour and black & white illustrations, contemporary morocco by Riviere & Son, folio, M. De Brunoff & Cie., Paris, 1904.

Lot 342

Miscellany.- Nicholson - To the Freemen of Carlisle in Scotch Gate without… Gentlemen The... (William, Bishop of Carlisle, 1655-1727) To the Freemen of Carlisle in Scotch Gate without Gentlemen The time for Election of your new Representatives in Parliament drawing near, I think my self obliged to recommend Mr. Chris.r Musgrave , signed "W Carliol", manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, folds, browned and stained, folio, [c. 1702]; and a small collection of others, mostly manuscripts, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).

Lot 345

Manuscript music.- - ?Cuglori Il Bastardo, manuscript music, lyrics in Italian, 3pp ?Cuglori (Gilde Janardin) Il Bastardo, manuscript music, lyrics in Italian, 3pp., tears along folds, browned, folio, n.d. [19th century].

Lot 346

Scotland.- - [Perth estate book], manuscript, 266pp. excluding blanks [Perth estate book], manuscript, 266pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, inner hinges strengthened, original reversed calf, head and tail of spine chipped, folio, 31st January 1822 - 31st December 1832.

Lot 367

Thomas - The White Hotel, Filmscript, duplicated typescript, title and 82pp (Donald Michael Thomas, "D. M. Thomas", British novelist, poet, playwright and translator, b. 1935) The White Hotel, Filmscript, duplicated typescript, title and 82pp., ink inscription on title: "First draft of first draft" and numerous manuscript corrections in the text, loose in a custom made cloth box, gilt morocco label on upper cover, folio, n.d. [1990s]. A film treatment of Thomas's erotic novel, published in 1981. Many attempts were made to make the novel into a film. These included attempts by Bernardo Bertolucci with Barbra Streisand, by David Lynch with Isabella Rossellini, by Simon Monjack with Brittany Murphy, and by Emir Kusturica with Nicole Kidman and Terrence Malick.

Lot 369

Slatyer (William) - The History of Great Britanie, first edition , parallel text in Latin and English, initial verse explanation of the title page, engraved hand-coloured pictorial title, woodcut arms to O1, initials and head- and tail-pieces, without colophon f. (as often, see ESTC), initial explanation f. torn at inner corner and laid down (without loss of text), occasional spotting, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked in 20th century calf, gilt, upper joint splitting, lower joint starting, corners worn, rubbed, [STC 22634], rare at auction, folio, by W: Stansby, for Rich: Meighen, [1621].

Lot 383

Homer. - Ilias; Odysseia [graece], edited by J. Moor and G. Muirhead, 4 vol., half-titles, Greek text, without general title, little staining and marking, contemporary calf, gilt, worn and marked, spine labels missing, joints cracked, Odyssey vol. 1 fly-leaf & first gathering loose, folio, Glasgow, R. & A. Foulis , 1756-1758,

Lot 40

Naville (Edouard) - The Temple of Deir el Bahari: Introductory Memoir, frontispiece, 14 plates including folding , 1894; Part I-VI (complete), plates including colour and folding, several vol. with staining to covers , [1895]-1908; The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari, Part I-III (complete), plates including colour, folding and double-page , 1907-13, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed with edge wear, some darkening and marking, 4to & folio, Egypt Exploration Fund (10)

Lot 41

Nubia & Sudan.- Buhen.- Smith (H.S.) - The Fortress of Buhan: The Inscriptions, 1976 § Emery (W.B.), H.S. Smith and A. Millard. The Fortress of Buhen: The Archaeological Report, 1979, dust-jackets, some browning § Caminos (Ricardo A.) The New-Kingdom Temples of Buhen, 2 vol., 1974, plates including folding, original cloth, 4to & folio, Egypt Exploration Society (4)

Lot 426

Mysticism and Witchcraft.- Knight (Gareth) - A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, 2 vol., jackets price-clipped, 1965 § Summers (Montague) The Geography of Witchcraft, jacket spine faded, New York, 1927 § Cavendish (Richard) The Black Arts, New York, 1967 § Waterman (Philip F.) The Story of Superstition, New York, 1929, first editions, original cloth, all but the last with dust-jackets ; and 16 others, similar, 8vo & folio (21)

Lot 43

-. Ward (John) - Our Sudan: Its Pyramids and Progress, folding map, original decorative cloth , 1905 § Smith (G. Eliot) and F. Wood Jones. The Archaeological Survey of Nubia Volume II, 2 vol. (text & plates), original cloth-backed printed boards, edge wear, rubbed and slightly marked, corrigenda slip, some toning, Cairo , 1910 § Crawford (O.G.S.) The Fung Kingdom of Sennar, folding tables, slightly damp-affected, blind-stamp on title, ink stamp on verso, library cloth, Gloucester , 1951 § Chapman (S.E.) and D. Dunham. Decorated Chapels of the Meroitic Pyramids at Meroë and Barkal, original cloth-backed printed boards, a near fine copy, preserved in paper dust-jacket, Boston , 1952 § Wildung (Dietrich) Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile, original boards, dust-jacket, a fine copy, Paris & New York , 1997, plates/illustrations, some folding, some colour ; and c.35 others, mostly Egyptology and Antiquities in relation to Nubia/Sudan, large folio et infra (c.40)

Lot 44

[Book of the Dead] Photographs of the Papyrus of Nebseni in The British Museum [Book of the Dead] Photographs of the Papyrus of Nebseni in The British Museum , 33 plates each mounted on card and loose in contemporary portfolio, title f. and plate edges a little spotted, bookplate to portfolio rear pastedown, portfolio worn, lacking tie, joints splitting , 1876 § Gardiner ( Sir Alan) The Ramesseum Papyri: Plates, 64 chromolithographed plates, illustrations, original cloth, a little rubbed and marked, Oxford , 1955; The Royal Canon of Turin, 9 plates (5 double-page), envelope containing ms. notes mounted to rear pastedown, original cloth, Warminster , 1987 § Thompson ( Sir Herbert, editor ) The Gospel of St John according to the Earliest Coptic Manuscript, plates, fore-edges a little spotted, original half-calf over boards, for The British School of Archaeology in Egypt , 1924; and c.20 others, Papyri, 4to & folio (c.25)

Lot 45

The Book of the Dead: Facsimile of The Papyrus of Ani , second edition The Book of the Dead: Facsimile of The Papyrus of Ani , second edition, 37 double-page chromolithographed plates, 1894 § Budge (E.A. Wallis, editor ) The Book of the Dead: Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher, and Netchemet , 98 plates (20 chromolithographed, 16 double page), 1899, second ink inscription on front free endpaper, a little soiling at fore-edges, first first few text ff. spotted and ink showing through from plates, first contemporary green half morocco over cloth, worn at corners and along spine, joints splitting with a little loss at spine ends, marked, damp-affected with cloth lifting on lower board, second later brown half morocco over cloth, a little rubbed and marked, folio (2)

Lot 46

Budge (E.A. Wallis) - Facsimile of Egyptian Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum … Facsimile of Egyptian Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum , half-title, 48 chromolithographed plates, hinges strengthened with adhesive tape, plain boards crudely backed , 1910; The Greenfield Papyrus in the British Museum , chromolithographed frontispiece and 120 plates, woodcut illustrations, ex-library copy with label and annotations to front pastedown, original cloth, a little rubbed, lower joint split at head , 1912, folio & 4to (2)

Lot 74

Zoology.- Nicholl (Michael John) - and Col . R. Meinertzhagen Nicoll's Birds of Egypt , 2 vol and Col . R. Meinertzhagen Nicoll's Birds of Egypt , 2 vol., first edition , portrait frontispiece, 3 folding colour maps, 37 plates mounted on stubs, 31 colour after G.E.Lodge, Roland Green and H.Grönvold, illustrations, loosely inserted manuscript letter with ornithological drawings by one A.E. Stevenson stationed in Egypt for the East African Command in 1943, hinges reinforced, original cloth, gilt, some damp-speckling and rubbing , 1930; and 6 others, Egyptian Natural History, 4to & folio (8)

Lot 98

Greece.- Lancaster (Osbert) - Classical Landscape with Figures, first edition , illustrations and map by the author, ink inscription to half-title, 1947 § Hogarth (David G.) Philip and Alexander of Macedon , 7 photographic plates, folding map, hinges pulling, 1897 § Warner (Rex) & Martin Hürlimann. Eternal Greece , photogravure illustrations, 1955 § Kinross ( Lord ) & Dimitri. Portrait of Greece, colour illustrations, 1958 § Hatzopoulos (Militiades B.) & Louisa D. Loukopoulos. Philip of Macedon, illustrations (most colour), Athens, 1980, original cloth, the second with gilt medallion on upper board, a little rubbed, the second spine faded, the first and the last two with dust-jackets, creased and with a few short tears at head and foot ; and c.30 others, Greece, including 3 vol. of the Bollingen Series of archaeological excavation reports, 8vo & folio (c.35)

Lot 10

Dahshur.- Fakhry (Ahmed) - The Monuments of Sneferu at Dahshur, vol.I-II in three as issued, plates including folding, original cloth-backed printed boards, sightly damp-mottled, some rubbing and bumping to edges, folio, Cairo , 1959-61.

Lot 11

Davies (N. de Garis) - Mond Excavations at Thebes I: The Tomb of the Vizier Ramose, colour frontispiece, plates including colour and double-page, original cloth, a fine copy, Egypt Exploration Society , 1941; The Rock Tombs of Sheikh Said, plates including folding and partly printed in colour, original cloth-backed boards, hinges pulling, edge wear, general rubbing , 1901; The Rock Tombs of El Amarna, 6 vol., facsimile reprint, plates including folding, original cloth-backed boards, fine copies , 1979-73, last 2 titles Egypt Exploration Fund; and another, Davies, folio & 4to (10)

Lot 165

Stow (John) - The Survey of London, double column, A1 woodcut coat of arms of... The Survey of London, double column, A1 woodcut coat of arms of the City of London, numerous woodcut arms, woodcut initials and head-pieces, numerous small tears, title and numerous ff. slightly creased, some foxing, browned throughout, ink signature scribbled out at head of title and another signature on front free endpaper, ex-library copy with ink stamps on title and preliminary ff. and bookplate on front pastedown, hinges broken, 18th century calf, worn, [STC 23345], folio, by Elizabeth Purslovv, 1633.

Lot 180

Camus (Aimée Antoinette) - Les Chênes: Monographies du Genre Quercus, 3 vol. in 4 and 3 Atlas vol., together 7 vol., first edition , text with illustrations, ex libris plates of Christian Heuer, original brown printed wrappers, uncut and unopened, each Atlas vol. with descriptive text in original printed wrappers and a total of 619 lithographed plates, loose as issued in modern cloth-backed printed board folders with ties, fore-edges of a few Atlas ff. with short closed tears, [Nissen 2243], 8vo & folio, Paris, 1934-54. Comprising vol.VI-VIII of Encyclopédie Économique de Sylviculture .

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