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Lot 79

Boccaccio (Giovanni) - The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation, [The Decameron], 2 vol. in 1, vol.1 second edition in English, vol. 2 first edition in English, woodcut titles and illustrations, vol.1 lacks initial blank, vol.2 several leaves of The Table at beginning misbound, a couple of burn-holes in text with slight loss, one marginal tear, some water-staining at end, old calf, rebacked, rubbed and repaired, spine labeled "First English edition", [Pforzheimer 72 and 71; STC 3173 and 3172], folio, by Isaac Jaggard, 1625-20 .

Lot 82

Ovid. - Metamorphosis. Englished, Mythologiz'd and Represented in Figures by G[oerge] S[andys], engraved additional pictorial title, portrait and 15 plates, foxed, some staining, 20th century red half morocco, spine faded, spotted, [STC 18968], a scarce edition, folio, printed by J[ohn] L[egat] for Andrew Hebb, 1640.

Lot 84

Plot (Robert) - The Natural History of Oxford-shire..., first edition , imprimatur leaf, engraved title-vignette, large folding engraved map with border of coats-of-arms, 16 engraved plates, with errata leaf and final blank, a little browned, map foxed and soiled with short tear, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, [Wing P2585; Nissen 3192], folio, Oxford, at the Theater, [1677].

Lot 584

after Michel A. Richecoeur (British, b.1946) 'Guernsey 1982', folio of twelve tinted etchings, each 7 x 13½in. (17.75 x 34.25cm.), signed, inscribed and numbered 45/100 to each etching and frontispiece, bound in original green leather box case.

Lot 589

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 475

Clare College 1326-1926, Clare Hall 1346-1856 1930 two volumes Cambridge University press black cloth folio, also Debretts Peerage 1913

Lot 487

Architecture of the Renaissance in England, J. Alfred Gotch 1894, two volumes, large folio

Lot 732

White Star Line - 'The Ismay Testimonial Plate, Presentation to the Managers, September 16th 1885', [no publication date], 'The Service of Plate presented to Thomas Henry Ismay by the Shareholders of the White Star Line .... Designed to illustrate the Progress of the Art of Navigation from the earliest times to the Present Day, its Means and Objects', folio, 19 mounted photograph plates, this copy presented to Mr Alexander Bruce, with inscribed bookplate. Note: The recipient may well be the father of W.J. Willett Bruce, who for many years occupied chief and superintendent Engineering positions for the company.

Lot 245

Black folio album containing assorted images, stills, Gallipoli campaign photographs from Sudan, Egypt and Rome in the period January to April 1930.

Lot 413

Two boxes of assorted books to include 'Journal of the Plague Year'; 'The Grand Quarrel'; 'Nelson and Emma'; 'The Berlin Diaries'; Jane Austen Folio Society various volumes, other Folio Society books etc. (2)

Lot 461

A large folio of mounted, black and white exhibition photographs by W. A. Stewart-Jones, A.R.P.S. of Mumbles, Swansea. Portraits, landscapes and other studies.

Lot 462

A folio of industrial drawings, portraits and sketches by Clarence Woodburn, 1940s and '50s, pencil, watercolours etc. together with the Cementation Company Ltd. brochures with illustrations by the same artist.

Lot 95

Captain W E Johns, 'Biggles' Pioneer Air Fighter, published by Dean & Sons Ltd, together with a slip cased folio edition of The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan (2)

Lot 501

A bound folio of 43 facsimile Goya prints of bullfighting issued by Dr. Pallmann, Director of the Royal Graphics Collection, Munich, Dolphin Press, Munich, 1911. Plate size approx 35x24cm.

Lot 208

British Sports and Sportsmen, Racing, folio, red morocco gilt, g.e., portrait, plates & illustrations, copy no. 843 of 1000, 1920.

Lot 209

British Sports and Sportsmen, 2 (of 16) vols (containing Golf, Athletics, Tennis [etc.], and Modern Commerce, Transport, Motoring & Aviation), folio, red morocco gilt, plates and illustrations, no. 368 of 1000 copies, [n.d.].

Lot 215

Illustration of Peterborough Cathedral, seven engravings from drawings by R.D. Harraden, Cambridge, obl. folio, original printed covers, Cambridge, 1831; Jones' Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles, Etc., In England, Wales, Scotland & Ireland, 2 vols, folio, original printed paper covers, 1829; Henry Boswell's Elegant Picturesque Views Of The Antiquities Of England & Wales, folio, original printed paper covers; and sundry unframed engravings. (5)

Lot 216

Atkinson (J.) Incidents Of British Bravery During The Late Campaigns On The Continent, No. 2, lithographs in original folio paper covs., published by R. Ackermann, 1817; A Description of the Colosseum As Re-Opened in MDCCCXLV and Panorama of London, illus. by Dobbs, Bailey & Co., London, 1845; and London Before The Great Fire, a series of engravings, folio, original printed paper covs., published by Boydell & Co., Cheapside, London 1818. (3)

Lot 239

Raine (James) The History & Antiquities Of North Durham, folio, half morocco, illus. with engravings, 1852.

Lot 244

Surtees (Robert) The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, 4 vols, folio, half morocco gilt by Andrews of Durham, g.e., engraved plates, a few mss notes and photographs loosely inserted, London and Durham, 1816-40.

Lot 245

Raine (James) The History and Antiquities of North Durham, folio, half morocco gilt by Andrews of Durham, g.e., engraved portrait and plates, London and Durham, 1852. See illustration

Lot 262

Horsley (John) Britannia Romana, or the Roman Antiquities of Britain, folio, blue cloth gilt, facsimile reprint of London, 1732 edition, copy no. 249 of 700, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1974.

Lot 283

MacLauchlan (Henry) The Roman Wall... From original Surveys made by Direction of the Duke of Northumberland, 1857; bound with: The Watling Street, plates, [n.d.], 2 works in one vol, folio, plates, outlined in colour, inscribed to the R.H. Earl Grosvenor, M.P.; Memoir written during a Survey of the Roman Wall, 1858: bound with: Memoir written during a Survey of the Watling Street, from the Tees to the Scotch Border, 1852, 2 works in 1 vol, 8vo, inscribed to Edward Hawkins, 24 November 1858; Eastern Branch of the Watling Street... From a Survey, folio, plates, outlined in colour, 1864; Memoir written during a Survey of Eastern Branch of the Watling Street, 8vo, 1864, inscribed to the R.H. Spencer Walpole, M.P., December 1865, together 6 parts in 4 vols, uniform green half morocco, bookplate of John Vessey Gregory. A fine complete set, presentation copies from the Duke of Northumberland.

Lot 296

Surtees (Robert) The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, 4 vols, folio, plates, 1816-40; Raine (J.) The History and Antiquities of North Durham, folio, portrait, map, plates, 1852, uniform contemporary calf gilt, g.e. (5)

Lot 298

Richardson (William) The Monastries of Yorkshire...with historical descriptions by Edward Churton, 2 vols in 1, large folio, half morocco, lithographed title-pages and plates, map, dedication leaf, historiated initials in red and blue, York, 1843. See illustration

Lot 334

Original early 19th Century tax manuscript ledgers showing tax collected from income, land tax, windows tax, stamp duty, servants, carriages, dogs, etc., in County Durham for the years 1806 and 1810; in folio marbled boards.

Lot 335

Josephus (Flavius) The Famous and Memorable Works... Faithfully Translated out of the Latin and French by Tho. Lodge, folio, contemporary calf, [ESTC R179043], London, J.L. for Richard Tomlins, 1655.

Lot 562

A vintage pine chest of squared form bearing the label G Insall to the interior containing a contemporary hard wood multi-divisional paper tidy, a vintage leather folio with locking clasp and multi-divisional interior, a printed tin together with a further Victorian pine chest containing a quantity of large timber bun feet, a vintage iron bladed hatchet, a small panelled multi-sectional painting on oval ground depicting a lady playing a harp in 17th century dress, a box of rectangular form containing a wax doll (AF), etc

Lot 810

A collection of books including History of the Indians of the United States, Folio Society publications, books on medieval women, History of Stratford upon Avon by Sydney Lee, A New Naturalists Mushrooms and Toadstools No 7, etc, 70 volumes approx

Lot 441

After Thomas Sydney Cooper (1803-1902) - Folio of nineteen lithographs - "Groups of cattle, from nature, after T.S. Cooper", each approximately 11ins x 16ins, printed and published by G. Rowney & Co, Oxford Street, London between October 1881 and September 1882, together with six sepia studies, printed and published by G. Rowney, August 1884, and various other loose lithographs

Lot 708

Japanese School - Collection of woodblock prints, various subjects and sizes and mounted in cloth covered folio album, and one other similar album containing Japanese prints and English engravings, various

Lot 178

Matthew G Prater (fl 1930-1992), A folio of watercolours, pencil sketches and various forms of prints, (qty).

Lot 1286

A FOLIO OF MID 20TH CENTURY LITHOGRAPHIC POSTERS OF FLORA AND FAUNA, a set of 60 in total

Lot 1562

A folio containing 7 Indian watercolour drawings portraits and Indian live

Lot 933

A mid-Victorian carved oak music stand, having a ratchet mechanism and raised on leaf carved hipped supports, h.85cm, w.50cm Condition Report / Extra Information Structurally sound. No apparent breaks. Mechanism good. Folio with numerous marks, scuffs and scratches etc.

Lot 410

GURAUD Jane Elizabeth, the Flowers of Shakespeare, London 1846, Sm folio, original cloth, re-backed, coloured title and 29 hand-coloured plates (1)

Lot 422

DRUMMOND James, Old Edinburgh, Edinburgh 1879, large folio, edition limited to 500, complete with all guarded litho-plates (1)

Lot 738

Lutyens (Sir Edwin RA) House and Gardens, 1925, third impression folio together with three volumes titled The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens (4)

Lot 662

A set of five Folio Society volumes relating to the middle ages and four other Folio Society volumes.

Lot 729

Sydney Temple " The New Complete Story of England..." J. Cooke ( 1774), title page chipped and worn, final number date missing, numerous ills, folio, contemporary boards, " Royal tour of India 1905-1906", and Coronation books George V and Edward VIII" (3)

Lot 308

SET OF FIFTEEN 1930s EDUCATIONAL PRINTS in a folio

Lot 293

GOOD COLLECTION OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS including Hugh Sebag-Montefiore 'Enigma' 2005, 'The Best of the Marx Brothers' 2007, 'The Twelve Caesars' 2006, John Ruskin 'The Stones of Venice' 2001, 'Shakespeare's Life and World' 2004, Alexander Thayer 'Life of Beethoven' 2001 and Chiari Frugoni 'Inventions of the Middle Ages' 2007, all with slip cases, viewing recommended

Lot 294

GOOD COLLECTION OF FOLIO SOCIETY NOVELS AND STORIES including Nathaniel Hawthorne 'Tanglewood Tales' 2002 and 'A Wonder Book for Boys & Girls' 2008 (two volumes), W.B.Yeats 'Irish Fairy and Folk Tales' 2007, Raymond Chandler 'Trouble is my Business' 2006, 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' by Edgar Allan Poe 1999, Roald Dahl 'Complete Tales of the Unexpected' 2001, Muriel Spark 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' 1998, 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Old Tales from the North' 2000 and Robert Graves 'Count Belisarius' 2010, all with slip cases, viewing recommended

Lot 201

Two early 20th Century postcard albums containing assorted topographical postcards, together with various Christmas and Birthday postcards, a folio of assorted franked stamps on addressed envelopes, to include the 1966 World Cup stamped "England Winners", a 1922 edition of The Golden Book for Boys and a box of assorted commemorative and other china

Lot 203

"The Imperial Map of England and Wales according to The Ordnance Survey with the latest additions showing clearly every feature of the country, railways and their stations, roads, canals", on the scale of 4 miles:1 inch, by John Bartholomew, FRGS, published by A Fullarton & Co. London and Edinburgh, folio size, cloth board bound with tooled and gilded leather spine CONDITION REPORTS Exterior very damaged and mouldy and warped. Pages have some wear, dirt yellowing, and some foxing and stains. Map plates appear to be complete. The atlas is not dated. Size is approx 56 x 40cm when closed.

Lot 239

J LUSSENBURG "Country Path", oil on panel, fabric label to back, together with one other by the same hand, together with assorted prints and a folio CONDITION REPORTS The two Lussenburg pictures - some wear and scuffs and dirt, frames separating, sizes approx 22.5 x 32cm, and 34 x 27cm. Street scene has wear dirt and discolouration, and image size is approx 9.5 x 15.5cm. All other items with various wear, damage and losses.

Lot 260

AFTER J EVANS "Views of Cirencester", a set of five assorted etchings, together with a folio "Olde Cicester" to include letters and newsletters

Lot 151

TWO FOLIOS FROM TWO DISPERSED MANUSCRIPTS India, 16th/17th century comprising an illuminated folio from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, Bijapur, c.1610, 25 lines to the page written in four columns of elegant nasta'liq in black ink, heading written in thuluth script in red on a gold ground, inner margins ruled in gold, outer borders of coloured paper; and an illuminated folio from a manuscript of Persian poetry, on gold-sprinkled paper, text written horizontally and diagonally in elegant nasta'liq script in black ink, illuminated corner pieces in colours and gold 200 x 120mm, 183 x 113mm (2) The page from Firdausi's Shahnama (Book of Kings) is from the same dispersed manuscript as four illuminated folios in the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: Opulence and Fantasy, which runs until 26th July 2015. The inventory numbers of the folios in the museum collection are: 1982.476.3, 1985.404.1, 1983.354.1, 1985.405.1

Lot 201

A FOLIO FROM A JAIN SUTRA Gujarat, Western India, 15th century gouache and ink on paper, of horizontal form, the two columns comprising on the left, thirteen lines of devanagari script, with extra lines of annotation and significant words in red, the right column with two illustrations, the reverse similarly inscribed with text only 107 x 255mm approx.

Lot 611

Walter Dendy Sadler (1854-1923) British. A Glass of Wine, Engraved by William Henry Boucher (1842-1906), Signed in Pencil, Unframed, overall 20” x 15”, together with a Folio, Containing 15 other Prints and Engravings (16).

Lot 105

Thaumaturgus Opticus, first edition, engraved title and 42 engraved plates Thaumaturgus Opticus, first edition, engraved title and 42 engraved plates, half-title, slightly foxed and browned, ink signatures of Bertherand at head and tail of engraved title, new endpapers, later half calf, rubbed, old label on spine, folio, Paris, Langlois, 1646. Niceron was an artist and a Minim friar, with an interest in perspective and optics.

Lot 13

Houses of Parliament. - Report of the Royal Commission on the Blind, the Deaf and Dumb, &c., 4 vol. in 2 (vol.3 bound separately), folding tables, plates of embossed alphabets for the blind, modern cloth, 1889 § Fay (E.A., editor ) Histories of American Schools for the Deaf 1817-1893, 3 vol.., plates and illustrations, some folding, original cloth, Washington, D.C., 1893 § Bébian (A.) Éloge de Charles-Michel de L'Épée, Fondateur de l'Institution des Sourds-Muets, half-title, lithographed portrait, marginal water-staining, original wrappers, uncut, upper cover with ink inscription (partly torn away), Paris, 1819 § Arnold (Thomas) Education for Deaf-Mutes, 2 vol. in 1, calligraphic ink inscription on front free endpaper, plates, contemporary calf, lower cover detached, 1888 § Huxley (Aldous) The Art of Seeing, first edition , original cloth, dust-jacket (soiled and defective), 1943, all but the first rubbed or worn ; and 3 others concerning the blind and deaf, folio & 8vo (11)

Lot 133

Frohawk (F.W.) - Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 vol., 65 plates, all but 5 colour, some foxing, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, otherwise excellent, folio, [1914].

Lot 138

Swaysland (Walter) - Familiar Wild Birds, 4 vol., 160 colour plates, tissue guards, vignettes, by Thorburn & others, advertisements at end of each vol., some scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., spines a little darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1883-[89]; and 6 others, birds, 8vo & folio (10)

Lot 143

MacLlure, MacDonald & Co. (publishers) - Yacht Racing on the Clyde and Belfast Lough. Season 1898, photographic plates, original blind stamped blue cloth gilt, oblong folio, [c.1898].

Lot 149

and Commander E.A. Porcher . History of the Recent Discoveries at Cyrene ( Captain R.) and Commander E.A. Porcher . History of the Recent Discoveries at Cyrene, made during an Expedition to the Cyrenaica in 1860-61, first edition , half-title, errata slip, 23 tinted & 1 chromolithograph views including frontispiece, 14 lithograph maps and plans,, 1 of which chromolithograph, 13 mounted photographs only (of 16, lacking nos. 61, 62 & 72), 10 plates of inscriptions, text-illustrations, paper slightly brittle and occasionally chipped at edges, small marginal tear at pp. 89/90, text lightly browned, little marginal staining, especially to photographs and inscription plates, modern blue half morocco, g.e., folio, Day & Son, 1864. Cyrene was an ancient Greek colony in present-day Libya.

Lot 157

Atlases.- Johnston (A.K.) - The Royal Atlas, 50 double-page maps, original half morocco, covers worn and stained, folio, Edinburgh & London, 1882.

Lot 161

Chinese watercolours.- - Album of 12 watercolours of the parable of the Prodigall Son, pen & ink and watercolour on paper, each leaf mounted in an album, limp cloth, upper cover stained, each 360 x 220mm., folio, [late 19th century]. A handsomely executed series of watercolours interpreting the Christian parable in a "Chinoiserie" style (the son gambles and smokes opium before his return home).

Lot 162

Nieuhoff (Jan) - An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China.... , second edition, translated by John Ogilby, title printed in red and black, additional engraved title, double page engraved map of China and 17 engraved plates (1 double page), numerous engraved vignettes, lacking 8 leaves text (sig Rr and others at end), closed tear to title repaired, closed tears to additional title, 3 plates and some leaves of text, upper margin of sig Ss2 repaired affecting engraved vignettes, some browning and staining, bookplate to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, lacking lower cover and most of backstrip, worn, folio, by the author in White-Friers, 1673; sold not subject to return.

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