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A COLLECTION OF HARRY POTTER RELATED MEMORABILIA AND COLLECTABLES, to include boxed Noble Collection wand with illuminating tip, boxed Mattel Hogwarts School playset, No.50703, boxed Mattel Quidditch Championship Game, No.B8504, boxed Mattel Rescue at Hogwarts Game, No.C5555, contents of sets not checked but appear largely complete, all look to have been opened and resealed, First Edition Hardback copies of The Half Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows, boxed Enesco mini figurines with Story Scope, boxed Enesco wall plaques boxed mugs etc., all appear in good condition, minor damage and wear to some boxes

THIRTEEN FOLDERS OF UK GIFT CARDS, to include Disney Club, Dorothy Perkins, Debenhams, Decathlon, Deichmann, BooHoo, Boots, Build A Bear, AA Driving Lessons, All saints, Amazon, American Apparel, Apple, Game, Game Station, Gant, Gap etc

A SELECTION OF BOXED ORNAMENTS AND GIFT WARES ETC, to include Minton Stacre vase, globular lidded box and photo frame, Oakleaf water jug, Victoria Strawberry quartz clock, double tray and oval covered box, reproduction Game Pie Dish, Wedgwood Chelsea Garden cabbage pot and condiment set, a Wedgwood Millenium twin cup and saucer set, Mirabelle trinket boxes, ginger jar and vase, a napkin ring set, etc, Condition Report: no obvious damage

A painted wood greyhound racing game and three wooden dice, 19cm wide

11 Queen / Freddie Mercury LPs including: Greatest Hits II, The Works, Sheer Heart Attack, Barcelona, II, Live Killers, Night At The Opera, The Game, Live Magic, Kind Of Magic, etc.

A Chinese reverse painting on glass, depicting a courtesan and attendant playing a game within an interior, 44 x 31cm.

Two vintage Pelham Standard Puppets, SS Mitzi and SS Fritzi, both boxed and with paper instructions along with Murrays Sales & Service Co Mother Hubbards Cupboard containing various small books, wooden chicken game and two full sized Childrens Volumes

A collection of mixed Toys including Burago 1:18 scale plastic kit, Ferrari Testa Rossa Le Mans 1957 unmade in original box, Fisher Fastest Gun game, Chad Valley Riders of the Range game, vintage Marbles, German Walt Disney Mickey Mouse bedside Clock etc

A box of vintage Card Games including Crime Club, Car Game, Militaire, Snow White, Sorry etc

A collection of Amiga & PC Game Discs including Future Bike Simulator, Robocop 2, Operation Thunderbolt, 3D Pool, etc along with copy games on discs, most loose in a couple of game boxes along with reference books etc

A CDL Nintendo 1982 Game & Watch Donkey Kong JR electronic game, model no DJ-101

The New Subbuteo International Table Soccer vintage board game, including scale self balancing teams, goals, balls and playing pitch.

A vintage Subbuteo Table Rugby game, to include twenty-five boxes of player figures, two model nets, four balls, two model trophies and other various accessories, with International Addition Subbuteo Rugby set, boxed.

CLARE PAULINE ABBOTT (British/South African b.1921), 'Roland Wards Game Animals of Africa', a set of eight lithographs, signed in pencil and numbered 117/250. (8)

A collection of 18th & 19th century British Acts of Parliaments, many relating to Scotland, comprising in date order; An Act for Enlarging the Time to Determine Claims on Forfeited Estates, printed by John Baskett 1719; An Act for sale of such of the forfeited Estates in that part of Great Britain called Scotland..., printed by John Baskett 1727; and it's amendments printed 1728 and 1729; An Act for better Regulation of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, printed by John Baskett 1727; An Act for the better preservation of the Game in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, printed by Thomas Baskett 1751; An Act to alter and amend an Act... for annexing certain forfeited estates in Scotland to the Crown unalienable..., printed by Charles Eyre & William Straham 1774; An Act... for staying Proceedings against any Governor or other Persons concerned in imposing and levying Duties in New South Wales..., printed by George Eyre & Andrew Straham 1820, and it's reissue of 1821; and An Act for granting certain Powers and Authorities to a Company to be incorporated by Charter to be called "The Australian Agriculatural Company" for the Cultivation and Improvement of Waste Lands in the Colony of New South Wales, printed by George Eyre & Andrew Strahan 1824 (10)

Buchan, John: The Adventures Of Richard Hannay, five volumes in slip-case to include The Thirty-Nine Steps, Green-Mantel, Mr Stand-Fast and Island Of Sheep, London, Folio Society 2003, together with Highsmith, Patricia: Ripley, three volumes in slip case to include The Talented Mr Ripley, Ripley Under Ground and Ripley's Game, London, Folio Society 2011. (2)

Coppard, Alfred Edgar: Yokohama Garland and other Poems, Vignettes by Wharton Esherick, The edition of this, the third book of the Centaur Press is limited to five hundred copies for America and Great Britain made by the Pynson Printers of New York in the year nineteen-twenty-six, This is number 157, signed by the artist and author, yellow bukram spine over blue boards, quartto, together with Rummy That Noble Game Expounded In Prose, Poetry, Diagram And Engraved By A.E. Coppard And Robert Gibbings With An Account Of Certain Diversions Into The Mountain Fastness Of Cork And Kerry, This book was printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings, assisted by George Churchill, at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, and completed on the 25th day of October, 1932. Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. This first edition consists of 250 numbered copies on hand made paper signed by the author and artist, and 1,000 unsigned copies on machine made paper. God Save Ireland! Number 22, bound in quarter green morocco over decorative cloth boards with yellow dust jacket, 8vo. (2)

Poultry and Game management, a collection of fifteen volumes to include Brown, J.T. (ed): The Encyclopaedia Of Poultry, vols I & II, London, The Waverley Book Co, N/D, Hicks, J. Stephen: The Encyclopaedia Of Poultry, vol I, London:, N/D, Brett, Walter: Poultry-Keeping To-Day, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, 1941, Madge, Steve, McGowan, Phil and Kirwan, Guy M.: Pheasants, Partridges And Grouse, London: 2002, Punnet, R.C.: The SexLinked Method In Poultry Breeding, London, 1926, Horne, George: Pheasant Keeping For Amatuers, London: N/D, Robbins, G.E.S.: Quail Their Breeding And Management, 1984, Perkins, Harold: Poultry Keeping For All, N/D, Draper, Rev. H. Mudie: Twenty-First Annual Register, 1936, Parker, Eric (ed): Pheasants Their Natural History and Practical Management, N/D, Johnstone, E.B.: The A B C of Poultry, 1919, Cook, William: Practical Poultry Breeder And Feeder, Ninth Edition, Boswell, Peter: The Poultry-Yard, London: 1841 and Brown, Edward: The Poultry-Keeper's Vade-Mecum, London Stanley Paul & Co. N/D. (15)

19th century circular occasional table, with parquetry inlaid game board type design, on associated turned support and tripod base, 71cm high x 50cm diameter

Collection of football memorabilia to include a selection of Arsenal related programmes including 1972 challenge cup Arsenal vs Leeds United programme, some late 1960s / 1970s division one game programmes, 1980 challenge cup Arsenal Vs West Ham final programme, 1970 world cup coin collection etc.

A collection of toys and games including puzzles, Planet of the Apes game, Magicshot, etc. **PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR POSTING AND PACKING**

Boxed vintage Chad Valley Escalado G11 horse racing game. Made in England. Complete with minimal wear to one corner of the box. Above average.

A collection of early plating cards and games together with a quantity of UK coinage, a treen cricket bat, draughts game and a money box tin. In good original vintage condition.

Country interest to include a near pair of horn / antler handled hoof knives, one by Graham Oxley trade tools, with country books to include The Pig Farmers Vetinary Book, The Art of Shooting, Small Game Shooting and the Dairy Farmer's Vetinary book (6).

Quantity of 4 brass and copper 19th century hunting powder flasks to include flask with dogs and fowl relief to both sides, one fluted example, another with scenes depicting game birds on both sides and further copper powder flask plain flattened oval form (a/f – multiple dents)

A canvas Barbour game/fishing bag made by Liddesdale of Newcastleton Roxburghshire Scotland with rubberised removable interior together with further canvas and leather carrying holdall fishing bag. (2)

Box of books to contain shooting, countryside poaching and game keeping interest.

Box of books to contain shooting, countryside and game keeping interest.

A mixed lot comprising a set of Bridge books, a set of word play party game booklets, and several guilloche decorated Art Deco items (stamp purses, vesta, notepad etc...) (7)

England v Argentina, a signed replica shirt commemorating the game held at Wembley 23rd February 2000, signed by various members of the England squad to include David Beckham and Alan Shearer, framed and glazed, 96 x 75cm

Queen, a collection of fifteen LP's to include The Game, Flash Gordon, Greatest Hits I & II (II x2), A Night At The Opera, News Of The World, Jazz x2, Innuendo, The Miracle, Live Magic, A Kind Of Magic, The Works and Hot Space, together with two Classic Rock double sided prints of the band, each 29.5 x 21cm. (17)

A folding Victorian mahogany cased bar billiards game

A 1950s bagatelle game, 'Corinthian' with cue and balls, 75cm long.

Early 20th century and later tinplate toys, comprising of a mechanical wind up 'jumping frog' stamped D.R.G.M Germany, with key, a 1930s mechanical wind up racing car, with key, a Woodbines tinplate football game ITC 8560A - c.1933, a Schuco mechanical wind up mouse 8cm long, and a Yone (made in Japan) 'Circus Plane'. (5)

Nintendo Game Boy x2, Originally issued in 1989, model DMG-01, Serial numbers G38178003 & G37552893 Sold on behalf of Monkey World, Dorset.

'True Bugs'The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands. A descriptiveaccount of the families, genera, and species indigenous to GreatBritain and Ireland, with notes as to localities, habitats, etc, byEdward Saunders. pub. L. Reeve & co. 1892. Quarto. The large paperedition. 350pp. 32 plates (31 coloured, 1 uncoloured.) Half-leather,wine-red patterned cloth with gilt stylings. Gilt titles to spine (raisedbands) with gilt tooling. The spine slightly darkened. Some areas ofrubbing, and a small patch of colour loss to the front of the book, but ahandsome copy of this large-paper edition of Saunders' work.WithThe Hemiptera-Homoptera (Cicadina and Psyllina) of the BritishIslands, A descriptive account of the families, genera, and speciesindigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, with notes as to localities,habitats, etc. by James Edwards. Pub. L. Reeve and Co. 1896. Largepaper edition (so stated in a pencil note to the pastedown). Quarto.271pp. 30 plates (28 coloured). Half leather. Marbled edges to the textblock. Gilt titles to spine, raised bands. Green cloth, the leather of thespine faded. A handsome copy of this large-paper edition of Edwards'work.WithA Biology of the British Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Edward A. Butler,pub. H.F. & G. Witherby 1923. Quarto. 682 pp. VII plates, somecoloured. Brown cloth with vignette gilt illustration to the front panel.Pencil note to pastedown. 'This work is a necessary supplement to thebooks on Hemiptera-Heteroptera by Saunders....' Manuscript copy of areview of the book in Nature has been loosely inserted. A solid copy.(3)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

Several books and a folder of MSS notes made by George Westrelating to Microscopes and including several catalogues formicroscopes from instrument makers including catalogues of W.Watson & Sons for 1900 and others for 1910-11,1928 and 1936-37(4). The catalogues are in generally good condition. Amongst thebooks is a copy of Dallinger's The Microscope and its Revelations(seventh edition) George West's notes are entitled A Plead (sic) forRecreative Nature Study by Aid of the Binocular Microscope.The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

An exceptionally rare Scottish work on fossil fish.Dura Den, A Monograph of the Yellow Sandstone and its RemarkableFossil Remains, with illustrations, by John Anderson D.D. F.G.SE.P.S. etc. 96 pp. Illustrated with plates, some coloured (all present),and woodcuts. Publisher, Thomas Constable, Edinburgh, HamiltonAdams and Co. London. 1859. Original cloth decorated in blind. Gilttitle to spine. Slight wear at the top and bottom of the spine, but anexcellent copy of this rare title. A former ownership name to front freeendpaper 'A.P. Stevenson' in pencil, and underneath George West haswritten a neat note in ink identifying Stevenson as a naturalist and a'most excellent bookbinder of Dundee. I bought this book from him.'West was a lecturer in Botany at the University of Dundee from c.1906 to 1926. West has also tipped into the title page a pen and inksketch which he has signed of the area where Anderson found thefossils. On p. 37 in response to the Reverend author's praise of 'wiseProvidence' West has tipped in a poem of his own satiricallysuggesting 'Providence' is not so wise as all that. West held somestrong anti-clerical views.The first and only edition of this important monograph on thefossilized fish specimens discovered by the Church of Scotlandminister, John Anderson of Newburgh at Dura Den, a wooded gorgenear the village of Cupar in North Eastern Fife.Hand stamp of George West to the pastedown.(1)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

A small selection of titles on Bees:The Honey-Bee, It's Natural History, Habits and Anatomy andMicroscopical Beauties, James Samuelson, Pub. Van Voorst, 1860First edition. 166 pp. 8 tinted plates including the frontispiece.Original publisher's patterned cloth. Gilt title to front board 'Samuelson's Humble Creatures' in gilt to spine. The frontispiece isloose else this is an excellent copy of this very scarce title. An oldextract from a bookseller's catalogue has been pasted to the front freeendpaper. Handstamp of George West to pastedown.With;Structure of the Bee, Shown in Model, Gresham Publishing Company.No date, c 1900. Landscape octavo. 2pp with an illustration of beeswith lifting flaps to reveal internal organs. The explanatory key is onthe opposite page. Soft crease and uneven fading to covers. A rareitem.With;British Bees, An Introduction to the Study of the Natural History andEconomy of the Bees Indigenous to the British Isles. by W.E.Shuckard, pub. Lovell Reeve, 1866 first ed. 371pp 16 coloured plates.Publisher's purple cloth with gilt bee to front board. Faded to thespine, with a short split at the top. A solid copy of this classic title.WithCatalogue of British Hymenoptera in the British Museum secondedition Part I Andrenidae and Apidae.Subtitle Catalogue of British Bees in the British Museum, byFrederick Smith, New Issue. pub. Printed by order of the Trustees.1891. Brown patterned cloth in good order, slight softening of cloth attop of the spine. Gilt titles to spine and small paper label. 236pp. 11uncoloured plates at the rear. A Vg copy.(4)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

The Natural History of British Insects, by E[dward]Donovan. 16volumes in eight. Pub. for the author and F.C. and J. Rivington 1813(but 1792. See note below). Separate title pages for each volume. Halftitle is present in the first volume. Scattered, occasional foxing /offsetting to a few text pages. The 576 plates (complete as issued)remain in good, clean condition, with only occasional toning or spotsof foxing. The set is bound in polished calf with gilt ruling anddecorations in blind to the margins and with only a few, insignificant,small blemishes to the boards. Spines in six compartments withmorocco labels and uniform, repeated, gilt insect motif. Althoughshowing evidence of rubbing, the spines present well. Rubbed toexterior joints with very slight breaks between spine and boards to firstand last volumes but all bindings remain strong and secure. Marbledendpapers. A small, unobtrusive label bearing the number of plates toeach volume has been added, I presume by the owner, George West tothe foot of the spines. A very handsome set of this important work bythe Irish-born Donovan.Two old extracts from booksellers' catalogues listing similar sets havebeen tipped in at the front of volume one. Also at the front of the firstvolume is a helpful, handwritten note by West (signed with his initials)stating that 'The title page of Vol. 1 is dated 1813. This volume,however, was issued in 1792, and the title page was evidently printedin 1813 when the 16 volumes had been finished. Different copies of thecomplete work bear various dates on the title page.....The "NewEdition" on the title of Vol 1 probably refers to complete sets sold afterthe issue of the work in parts as there was no second edition properlyso called.'His note is borne out by the dating of the subsequent volumes. Thetitle page to volume two is dated 1793, to volume three, 1794 &c.A prospectus for 'The Naturalist's Repository or Monthly Miscellanyof Exotic Natural History by E. Donovan' is tipped onto the frontendpaper. Each volume is indexed with a general index to all 16volumes to the rear of the final volume.Throughout, West has added neat pencil annotations to text pagescross-referencing the text with other authorities. Occasionally, theannotations stray into his own experiences such as on p. 22 of volume5 where writes about his experiences in SW Scotland, the victim of thestinging fly, known as 'clegs' which left him 'almost blind for 3...days'.(8)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

A selection of books on Beetles.The British Coleoptera Delineated, ed. W.E. Shuckard, drawn inoutline by W. Spry. Pub. Henry G. Bohn, York St Covent Garden.1861. Half leather, brown cloth, spine in six compartments with gilttitles. 83 text pages and 94 hand-coloured plates, complete. A pencilnote written by West to the pastedown states 'This work as issued wasbound together by Hancock's rubber solution, this substancedisintegrating the pages fell apart. The plates are now on guards andsewn.' It would appear, therefore that West had this copy rebound(rather nicely as it happens). The book presents well and the rebind isvery solid.WithA Manual of British Coleoptera, James Francis Stephens, pub.Longman, Orme Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1839. Half leather,green marbled, paper-covered boards. Octavo. 443pp. Touches of edgewear/rubbing, but a very solid, pleasing copy of this scarce title. Mildfoxing to front and rear endpapers. Occasional pencil annotationthroughout. The author, Stephens address is noted in pencil on p. vii.WithThe Naturalist's Library, The Natural History of Beetles, JamesDuncan. Pub. (Edinburgh) W.H. Lizars; S. Highley, 32 Fleet Street,London; and W. Curry, Jun. and co. Dublin. `1835. 269 pp. 30 hand-coloured plates. Frontispiece portrait of John Ray. Half leather,marbled, paper-covered boards. Some rubbing, furring to corners, andtop of spine leather peeling away from the back strip. Original titles onthe spine faded, and an old, paper label has been added.WithBritish Beetles, E. C. Rye, pub. Lovell Reeve & co. 1866. 280 pp. 16coloured plates, 15 bound to the rear. The first plate is bound as thefrontispiece. Brown cloth with large, gilt (rather scary) beetle to frontboard. Bookplate to pastedown. A good, solid copy.WithThe Young Beetle-Collectors Handbook, Dr. E. Hofmann. Pub. SwanSonnenschein 1908. 178pp. 20 coloured plates. Red cloth, slight fadeto spine. Gilt bettle illustration to cover. An attractive, solid copy.WithA Handbook of the Coleoptera or Beetles of Great Britain and Ireland,Herbert E. Cox pub. E.W. Janson 1874. Two matching volumes. 527pp and 366 pp. Original publisher's brown cloth. Vignette decorationin blind to front covers. Gilt titles to slightly faded spines. Slightseparation of signatures between pp 32 / 33 of volume with subsequentvery slight weakening of binding, but the book is still very solidlybound.(7)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

An Introduction to the Study of Mineralogy or The Student's PocketCompanion, J.R. Bakewell F.G.S C.E. Pub. Sherwood, Gilbert &Piper 1829. Octavo. First edition. 120pp including index. errata slip.8pp publisher's catalogue dated 'November 1829'. 2 hand-colouredplates as called for, the first serving as a frontispiece and showing aview at Cap D'Or, Nova Scotia (source of the purest copper) and thetransverse section of a copper mine. A second, hand-coloured plate tothe rear shows a longitudinal section of a copper mine. Original paper-covered boards, spine perished but boards still attached, though slack.Manuscript notes to front and endpapers and a couple of fragments ofrecipes tipped in. Internally showing occasional spots of foxing andgrubbiness. The book is usually attributed to the geologist, RobertBakewell, [1768-1843], who also, confusingly wrote 'An Introductionto Mineralogy' in 1819, a more substantial work. However, RobertBakewell was never a member of the Geological Society and so wouldnot have been styled 'F.G.S.' on the title page. His son, J R Bakewell[1790-1875]was a member. 6 UK libraries hold copies. Rare.WithA Geological Section shewing the Order of Superposition andApproximate Maximum Thickness of Sedimentary Strata in the BritishIslands, by James B. Jordan, pub Edward Stanford 1879. Quarto.Paper wrappers with cloth spine. Large, coloured fold-out in sixsections measuring approximately 100 cm unfolded. The sections areeach strengthened verso with linen tape. Previous ownership name'G[eorge] West' to front cover and inside. Occasional, smallannotations, presumably in West's hand. Paper wrappers with mildgrubbiness. Overall good condition for such an ephemeral item. Rare.WithGeology of Weymouth, Robert Damon, New edition 1884. Foldingmap frontispiece. The rear hinge is cracked, and the board is loose.(3)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

A large number of titles largely on entomological subjects includingFarm Insects, by John Curtis; The Cockroach, by Miall and Denny;The Harlequin Fly, by Miall and Hammond; The Solitary Wasps,Bulletin of the Wisconsin Survey; Entomology for Medical Officers,Alcock &etc. (approx. 80)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

The Author's copyThe Practical Principles of Photo-Micrography, George West, printedfor the author by Campbell, Sons & co. Dundee. Quarto. The stiff,paper covers have come away from the text block consequentlyseveral of the signatures of the block are separated, though stillattached.Six letters are included here to West from his namesake GeorgeStephen West [1876-1919] Professor of Botany at the University ofBirmingham University and author of several books including 'ATreatise on the British Freshwater Algae' (Cambridge University Press1904)The letters are variously dated between 1907 and 1916 and are usuallyon his work and publications, thanking West for specimens, discussingpossible collaborations and publications of other authors, etc. At onepoint he writes 'Your remarks concerning Dundee do not encourageme to visit the town.' Despite this, he provisionally accepts aninvitation to stay with his correspondent in the city. A constant themeis the workload he is under to get work to the publisher. In September1915 he refers to a prolonged illness, the influenza, the legacy ofwhich will sadly lead to his death from double pneumonia just a fewyears later. In the final letter of May 1916, he expresses his anxietythat he might be called up for military service.Also included are several old examination papers in Botany for theM.A. degree at the University of St Andrews, which West has used tomake notes on verso. An offprint from the Journal of Micrography,being an article by West.(1)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

Spiders:British Spiders, an introduction to the study of the Araneide of GreatBritain and Ireland, E. F Stavely, pub. Lovell Reeve & co. 1866 1stedition. Octavo. 280pp. 16 coloured plates. Publisher's catalogue torear. Blue cloth with a gilt illustration of a spider on the front panel.The spine is slightly darkened. A very good, solid copy of this classicwork by Eliza Fanny Staveley [1831-1903]. Pencil annotations by thebook's owner, West including a handwritten page tipped in at the frontlisting other works which reference the spider.WithBritish Insects, A familiar description of the form, structure, habits,and transformations of insects, E. F. Stavely. pub. L. Reeve and Co.no date [c. 1871]. Octavo. 392pp. 16 coloured plates (15 to the rearof the book, plate I is the frontispiece). Bookseller's catalogue to rear.Blue cloth with gilt illustration of an ancient Greek fellow, possiblytrying to think up a word to describe the study of insects. Pencilannotations by the book's owner, West including a handwritten pagetipped-in at front used as a key to the frontispiece.WithHarvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders, Notes on their Habits andDwellings, by J. Traherne Moggridge, FLS. Pub. L. Reeve & co. 1873.Bound with Supplement to Harvesting Ants and Trap Door Spiderswith separate title page, dated 1874. Publisher's catalogue to rear. 304pp 20 plates of which four are double page coloured plates. Pencilannotations. Large octavo. Blue cloth. gilt vignette monogram to frontpanel. Abrasion with loss of cloth at foot of spine. Mottling and loss ofcolour from cloth to bottom of the front panel, spine and rear panel.Despite the (cosmetic) damage to the boards, the book remains a solidexample of this work.(3)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

Friend of Charles Darwin, Henry Denny (1803-1871)Monographia Psephalidarum et Scydmaenidarum Brittaniae, HenryDenny, pub. Norwich S Wilkin, Upper Haymarket, sold also by Burksand Kinnebrook; Matchett and Stevenson; J. Parsons, and John Stacy,Norwich: and in London by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, PaternosterRow and W. Wood 428 Strand. 1825 First edition. Octavo, publisher'stextured cloth, few small marks, nothing egregious. Paper label tospine. 74 pp. 2pp subscribers' list, slightly loose but still attached totext block. 14 hand-coloured plates. One or two pencil annotations. AVG copy in the original publisher's cloth of this scarce title on beetles.WithMonographia Anoplurorum Britanniae, or An Essay on the BritishSpecies of Parasitic Insects belonging to the Order Anoplura of Leach.by Henry Denny, pub. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden.1842. 262 pp. 26 coloured plates to rear. Publisher's catalogue.Original cloth decorated in blind. Small patch abraded to the frontboard. Spine ruled in gilt with gilt title. Couple of abrasions to thespine cloth with wear at the top and bottom. The back strip isdetaching but still in place. West's pencil annotations to the frontinclude a note where he chastises Denny writing 'The author of thisbook would have greatly increased its value had he reserved his piousoutbursts for a more suitable publication....'Hand stamp of George West to pastedowns of both titles.(2)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

Illustrations of British Entomology or, A Synopsis of IndigenousInsects: containing their generic and specific distinctions; with anaccount of their metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food,and economy, as far as practicable. Embellished with coloured figuresof the rarer and more interesting species by James Francis StephensF.L.S. Printed for the author; published by Baldwin and Cradock; soldby J. Churchill, Saville-House, Leicester Square, and by allbooksellers. 1828-1835 (Supplement dated 1846)12 volumes including supplement, complete with 95 hand-colouredplates as called for (though occasionally eccentrically numbered andone or two misplaced, but all the plates are present)A note from West to the pastedown states that 'The Supplement dated1846 is the original. The one dated 1867 is a reprint having the platesbadly coloured.' The Supplement volume here, as West states, is the1846 first.Large octavo (250mm x 160mm). Half-leather, marbled paper-coveredboards. Rubbed, but still in good order. The spines faded to a uniformdull brown. Titles in gilt-ruled compartments are still bright enough.Occasional wear to the spine leather, some small abrasions, fraying atheads. The leather of volume six is peeling from the spine but withoutloss and is still attached. A very decent set of this importantpublication which was in competition with Curtis' 'British Entomology'published around the same time.The publication is notable for the first appearance in print of the nameof Charles Darwin. Darwin was at Cambridge in 1828, where he wasintroduced to entomology by his second cousin, William Darwin Fox.Darwin collected several species of beetles and these are recorded inStephen's work. There are about 30 mentions of Darwin's name acrossStephens' work and he took great pride in seeing his name in print'No poet ever felt more delighted at seeing his first poem publishedthan I did at seeing, in Stephens’ Illustrations of British Insects, themagic words, “captured by C. Darwin, Esq.”’(Life and letters, 1887,pp.50-51).(12)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects, by J.O.Westwood, pub. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, intwo volumes. Volume I 1839, 462 pp figures within the text, 1 hand-coloured plate; Volume II, 1840, 587 pp, figures within text. At therear is a 'Synopsis of the Genera of British Insects' 158 pp. A pencilnote to the pastedown of vol. I testifies to the esteem this work washeld in by West. 'This book seems to me the best written as a mainstayfor the general naturalist'.Both volumes are bound in uniform green, half leather with green,marbled, paper-covered boards. The endpapers are in matchingmarbled paper. The spines are darkened, the exterior joints rubbed, butthe books present as a solidly bound, handsome set.WithPopular British Entomology, Maria Catlow, pub. Reeve and Co. 1852(second edition). Octavo. 280pp 16 coloured plates some numberedout of sequence. (Plate no. 16 is the frontispiece). Publisher's browncloth decorated in blind. Gilt butterfly within gilt roundel to frontcover, the motif repeated in blind on rear cover. Spine cloth peelingbut still attached (a simple flaw to rectify). Slight wear at the top of thespine, else a rather good copy of this work by Maria Catlow [active c.1840-1874] worked closely with her sister, Agnes on her works ofnatural history.WithThe Entomologist's Text Book, J.O.Westwood, pub. Wm. S. Orr 1838.Octavo. 432pp. Five coloured plates. Original publisher's, green clothdecorated in blind, fade to spine. Internally clean. A good, solid copy.Bookplate to pastedown of Thomas Chapman showing a horned owl.Probably, Thomas Chapman [1842-1921] a Scottish entomologist.WithA Popular History of British Sea-Weeds, Rev. D. Landsborough, pubReeve and Benham 1851 (second edition). Octavo. 400pp pluspublisher's catalogue. Twenty coloured plates and two platesuncoloured. Original publisher's purple cloth, some fading, especiallyto the spine. Gilt vignette to front cover repeated in blind to rear cover.A strip at the top of the title page has been excised and replaced withold paper tape to make up for the loss. The front hinge is cracked withsubsequent loosening to the front board but still solidly enough bound.Extracts from old booksellers' catalogues tipped into pastedown andfront free endpaper. A good copy of this scarce title which wasproduced to serve the Victorian seaweed hunters.WithAn Introduction to Entomology, William Kirby and William Spence,sixth edition, pub. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843.Two volumes. Octavo. Vol. 1 pp 435. Three coloured plates. Vol II426pp, two coloured plates. Original publisher's green cloth. Giltvignette beetle to the front of both volumes with motif repeated inblind on the rear cover. Publisher's catalogue to the rear of volumeone. A few pencil annotations. To the front of volume one, a slip ofpaper has been pasted in with West's comments on the sixth edition;'The text has been slightly improved in places, but the most importantadditions are the detailed tables of contents.'Attractive, solid copies of the sixth edition.(5)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

A good collection of offprints and manuscript notes with someletters from Edward Milles Nelson, a former President of theRoyal Microscopical SocietyAmongst the offprints are Descriptions of some Nondescript Insectsfrom Assam, William Griffith, 1840 (with large coloured plate); AHandbook of British Mosquitoes', by William Dickson Lang, 1920;The Ectoparasites of the Red Grouse, A E Shipley, 1909; Directionsfor Preserving Insects, Nathan Banks, 1909; Report of InjuriousInsects and Common Farm Pests during the year 1899, Eleanor A.Ormerod, 1900, (a presentation copy from the author); TheOrthoptera of Nova Scotia, Harry Piers, 1917 &etc including one ortwo on 'the Age of the Earth'.Amongst West's notes are several pages on Navicula Rhomboides(microalgae), where he discusses observing them under themicroscope. Three autograph letters from Edward Milles Nelson[1851-1938] described in his obituary as a 'pioneer of modernmicroscopical observational technique' to George West go into sometechnical detail with small sketches on the same issue. The letters(4pp, ip, and 3pp) are all closely dated, March 1913 and come fromhis home in Beckington near Bath. Nelson was involved for someyears in a controversy with Ernst Abbe [1840-1905] A Germanphysicist and optical scientist, over technical issues in the workings ofthe microscope.From 1902 to 1926, Edward Milles Nelson [1858-1938] was theowner of Beckington Castle, in the village of Beckington in Somerset.Nelson was President of the Royal Microscopical Society from 1897-99 and author of 'The Cult of Circle Builders'.(Quantity. Approx 20 offprints plus MSS notes made by George Weston various subjects)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

Insecta Britannica, Lepidoptera, Tineina, by H. T. Stainton. PubLovell Reeve 1854. Octavo. 313pp. 10 uncoloured plates. Black clothdecorated in blind, small paper label to spine under gilt titles. A fewsmall marks, but a very good, solid copy of this title. Theadvertisement for Insecta Britannica has been stuck to the pastedown.Originally intended to be five volumes, a pencil note from Westindicates that volume IV was never published thus this volume and thethree volumes of Diptera in this lot constitute the entire run of InsectaBritannica.Insecta Britannica, Diptera, by Francis Walker, pub. Lovell Reeve,1851, 1853, 1856. Three volumes in original publisher's cloth. Vol. I,313 pp plus errata page. 10 uncoloured plates; Vol. II, 297pp pluserrata page. 10 uncoloured plates (numbered consecutively fromvolume I); Vol. III 352pp. 10 uncoloured plates (numberedconsecutively from volume II). All in original publisher's black clothdecorated in blind with gilt titles to spine. Wear to exterior joints ofspines, especially volume one but all still solidly bound. Vol I and IIhave the original prospectus tipped into the front. Manuscript notesmade by West loosely inserted with neat pen and ink drawings to Vol I.Touchingly, West has inserted a poem (signed with initials) 'To theFuture Owners of this book' (see introduction)(4)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

The Entomologist's Useful Companion, by George Samouelle, pub.Thomas Boys. 1819 First edition. 496 pp. 12 plates coloured and aduplicate set of plates uncoloured to the rear of the book with somemild offsetting from the coloured to the uncoloured plates. Halfleather, green cloth. Titles in gilt to the spine. Raised bands. Mildrubbing to the exterior joints, but overall a pleasing, solid copy of thisrare work. Old ownership name to title page. Samouelle [1790-1846]was a curator at the British Museum but seems to have had somethingof a drink (or personality?) problem as he was let go in 1840.WithEssay on the Indigenous Fossorial Hymenoptera; comprising Adescription of all the British species of Burrowing Sand Wasps, W.E.Shuckard, pub. The Author, 31 Robert Street, Chelsea sold also byRichter and Co. 30 Soho Square. 1837. 259pp. 4 plates of insectwings, one with outline colour. Original brown cloth with decorationsin blind. Some abrasions to the spine with loss top and bottom. Pencilannotations and an extra two pages tipped in after the preface notedhere in pencil as being from an additional copy in West's possession. Avery scarce title.WithBritish Dragonflies, W. Lucas, pub. L. Upcott Gill. 1900 First edition.Brown cloth with black decorations and gilt highlights to the frontpanel and spine. Large octavo. 356 pp including the list of subscribers.Illustrated with coloured plates and b/w drawings. 27 coloured platescomplete. Occasional pencil annotation. A fresh copy of this classicwork.WithInsecta, From the Cyclopaedia of Anatomy of Physiology, by GeorgeNewport. Pub. Marchant, Printer Ingram-Court 1839. Offprint fromRobert Bentley Todd's Cyclopaedia of Anatomy of Physiology, 1839.128pp illustrated with woodcuts. Contents page in manuscript. Green,faded discoloured cloth with 'Newport's Insecta in gilt to the spine.Spine cloth with abrasions, and separating from the book, though stillattached. Newport [1803-1854] was a prominent entomologist.Presumably, this publication of the section he contributed to Todd'sCyclopaedia, he had bound up for himself or to give away tocolleagues and friends.WithBritish Vegetable Galls, An Introduction to their Study, Edward T.Connold, pub. Hutchinson & co. 1901. Quarto. 312pp. 130photographic plates. Green cloth boards are quite heavily mottled.Internally good.Includes a letter from the author, Connold asking his correspondent forblossoms and referring to a photographic print from which 'you willsee how I propose to illustrate the work on wild fruits I am now busyupon'. Also tipped in is an advertisement for a German work, DiePflanzengallen by Dr. H. Ross.(5)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

British Entomology Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Generaof Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland, Containing ColouredFigures from Nature of the most Rare and Beautiful Species and inmany instances of the Plants upon which they are found, by JohnCurtis. Printed for the author and sold by E. Ellis and Co., 92 GreatRussell Street, Bloomsbury; Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers' Court;and J.B. Bailliere, 219 Regent Street. 1823-1840.Half leather, marbled-paper-covered boards, some rubbing, The leatheron the spines largely dried out and the labels faded. A pencil note tothe front '16 guineas for the 16 volumes in 8' and a tipped-inhandwritten note in the hand of George West states 'This perfectlyclean copy of the British Entomology by John Curtis contains thewhole of the plates in 8 vols arranged numerically, although the titlepages are for the systemic arrangement. All the plates are of theoriginal and best colouring and are vastly superior to the later issues,the text being the same throughout.'The title pages would appear to have been specially printed for thebound-up sets once the issues were complete.A further note reads 'The last plate...is numbered 769 but the 205* aswell as 205 completes the total of 770 plates.'(Plate 205 is, indeed numbered twice and the total plate count is 770as issued. There is a duplicate plate 497 placed instead of plate no.697)Yet another pencil note records Curtis' address in 1825 as Lime Grove.The book has been extensively annotated in pencil throughout by Westciting other authorities and references.WithA Guide to an Arrangement of British Insects Being A Catalogue of allthe Named Species hitherto discovered in Great Britain and Ireland,by John Curtis F.L.S second edition, greatly enlarged. Printed for theauthor published and sold by J. Pigot and Co., 59 Fleet Street;Sherwood and Co., Paternoster Row; Simpkin and Marshall,Stationers' Court. 1837. Octavo. 294 pp 1 page advertisements forCurtis' British Entomology. Marbled paper covered cartonnage withcloth spine decorated in blind. Handwritten paper label to front boardand spine. The spine shows areas of wear with loss to the foot but isstill substantially in place. The book has been annotated in pencil byWest and a handwritten note to the front indicates where an insect isillustrated in Curtis' 'British Entomology'. Curtis' book was co-authored by James Charles Dale, Francis Walker and AlexanderHenry Haliday, whose contributions Curtis notes in the Preface. Thebook was intended by Curtis to act as an index to his 'BritishEntomology',.(9)The following lots of books represent the library of George West.West's biographical details are hard to pin down, his date of birthunknown, (probably around the 1880's) and his death sometime after1945. He is known to have worked as an assistant and then lecturer inBotany at the University of Dundee from 1906. At that time theuniversity was a constituent college of St Andrews University. Westseems to have remained there until around 1926. In his publication'Practical Principles of Plain Photo Micrography' (1916) he describeshimself as a lecturer in Botany. Most of the books in the sale bear thehandstamp, 'George West' to the front pastedowns. Many volumes bearextracts from booksellers' catalogues with prices of the titles,suggesting that West liked to keep up with the current values of hislibrary.The books represent a working library and many are alsoannotated in pencil in his hand, cross-referencing other works andadding his comments. To the front of the first volume of Walker'sDiptera (see lot no.) he has inserted his handwritten poem, 'To theFuture Owners of this book'.Geordie has now turned up his toesAnd gone aloft to seek reposeFrom various varmints nips and stings,Especially those base mankind brings...........He trusts the child who gets this bookWill on the various notes just lookAnd feel that every pencil strokeHelps on the game dear Walker wrote...Although a botanist by profession, his main interest, judging byhis library appears to have been entomology and amongst the booksare some rare titles in that field many dating from the nineteenthcentury, a golden age for the natural sciences. Many of the giants inthe field of Entomology are represented in the books and there aregood sets of Curtis, Donovan and Stephens with many exquisite, hand-coloured illustrations. Geology was another of his interests, as well asmicroscopy.What little is known of George West is largely gleaned from apublication from Hereford Museum published in 2007. West haddonated a large collection of mineralogical specimens to the Museumin 1945. His connection with Hereford, however, appears to betenuous and the man remains something of an enigma.

Joe Davis 24x14 overall size mounted and framed signature piece. Includes a black and white photo and signed album page. Davis OBE (15 April 1901 10 July 1978) was an English professional snooker and English billiards player. He was the dominant figure in snooker from the 1920s to the 1950s and has been credited with inventing aspects of the way the game is now played, such as break building. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

A Yamaha keyboard, electronic drum, leads, game controllers, etc.

This lot contains a sealed 2-Player Start Set. This item was intended to teach people how to play the game. The item is perfectly sealed and in great condition. 

Set of twelve 20th century American white metal napkin rings surmounted with game birds and standing on cast winged mounts, stamped 'STERLING', 7.5cm high, 950g approx

A selection of various card games including some Victorian and Edwardian examples - Spy, Happy Families, Counties of England, Happy Couples, Woodland Happy Families, The Game of Brer Rabbit, Spin and Old Maid, Animal Grab, Hide and Seek with The Kings and Queens of England, The Characters of Charles Dickens, The London Post and various others etc.

A selection of old and vintage card games including Quotations from Dickens, Donkey Game, The Battle of Flowers, Happy Families, Funny Farmyard, The Bookie Card Game, Peter Pan, National Families, The Muddled Menagerie, The Game of Artists and others etc.

Various children's card games including Walt Disney Alice card game, Mickey Mouse and the Beanstalk, Winnie-the-Pooh, The Three Bears, Disney Dominoes and others, etc

Various old card games including The Round Card Game of Happy Families, Blaze, The Charles Dickens Game, ARP Happy Families, Catch the Kaiser, International Football Cards, Cup Reading Fortune Cards, Piatnik & Son Playing Cards, Craven A Playing Cards and others etc.