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Three `Millers and a Lyle`s` Antiques price guide, Antique dealers pocket guide and two other Antique Collectors books - Book on Art nouveau by K.J. Sembach and Understanding Antiques

Nider (Johannes) Formicarius 192 ff. the first and last blank 33 lines and head-line Gothic letter capital spaces with guide-letters paragraph-marks initial-strokes and underlining in red occasional early marginalia mostly in red a few small worm holes affecting a part of a few letters on most ff. but with no loss of sense of text some marginal staining or water-staining heavier to some ff. towards end occasionally touching a head-line or text antique style polished calf by G. Huser spine faded [BMC II 351; Goff N-176; Hain 11832] folio Augsburg Anton Sorg [c.1484]. *** Here Nider gathers together stories from classical and contemporary authors about all types of witches ghosts revenants devils and divination. Book 5 was one of the sources for Institoris and Sprenger`s Malleus Maleficarum. Nider had attended the Council of Basel in 1431 at which he was given the task of converting the Hussites of Bohemia.

William James Blacklock (1816-1858), an oil on canvas, "Blea Tarn and The Langdale Pikes". 17.5 ins x 23.25 ins, signed and dated 1854. . William James Blacklock 1816-1858THE LANGDALE PIKES ABOVE BLEA TARN1854It is no exaggeration to say that William James Blacklock is one of the great landscape painters of the nineteenth century, and perhaps the most remarkable of all of those who devoted themselves to the representation of the Lake District. He is less well known than he should be – the modern ‘rediscovery’ of the artist commenced in 1974 with an insightful article in Country Life by the late Geoffrey Grigson (‘A Painter of the Real Lakeland’, 4 July 1974, pp. 24-26), and was carried forward in a ground-breaking exhibition at Abbott Hall in Kendal, organised by Mary Burkett in 1981 – but on other occasions he has been omitted from landscape surveys, perhaps because of the very individuality of his work which makes them difficult immediately to characterise or readily to place in conjunction with those of his contemporaries. Nonetheless, Blacklock is a most fascinating and rewarding artist, who in the last half-decade or so of his tragically short life painted a small handful of masterpieces which serve as a testament to his deep love and knowledge of Cumberland and the English Lakes.The Blacklock family had been long established in the neighbourhood of Cumwhitton, to the south west of Carlisle, farming there at least since the 1500s. W.J. Blacklock’s father was in fact living in London, where he made his living as a bookseller and publisher, at the time of the painter’s birth, but returned to Cumberland in 1818. The younger Blacklock’s career as an artist commenced when he was apprenticed to the Carlisle engraver and lithographer Charles Thurnham, with whom he later collaborated on a series of prints showing the railway line between Newcastle and Carlisle. W.J. Blacklock enrolled for a period at the Carlisle Academy of Arts, prior to its closure in 1833, working under Matthew Ellis Nutter. In 1836 he returned to London, then aged twenty, living there for the following fourteen years. How he occupied himself at this stage is not known, nor is it clear whether he could rely on the sale of works for a livelihood. Works by him – generally showing north-country landscapes – were exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution. Clearly he gained some reputation on the metropolitan artistic scene, as his landscape paintings were commented upon enthusiastically by J.M.W. Turner, David Roberts and John Ruskin. Much concerning Blacklock’s career, and especially the question of his contact with other artists, is a matter of speculation. His name is largely absent from the diaries, correspondence and memoirs of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, the members of which were in any case much younger than him, but Blacklock would certainly have seen early works exhibited by members of the group and their associates. We know that he was in contact with William Bell Scott, headmaster of the Government School of Design in Newcastle, and who was in turn a close friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It was almost certainly by Scott’s introduction or recommendation that Blacklock built up a circle of patrons in the North East. Scott and Rossetti may have hoped to meet Blacklock on the occasion of a walking tour they made together from Newcastle to Carlisle in June 1853. Scott, who like Rossetti was a poet as well as a painter, seems to have recorded a vain attempt to visit the painter in a poem entitled ‘An Artist’s Birthplace’, published in 1854. The verse describes the arrival of two men at the cottage home of a painter who may clearly be recognised as Blacklock: A fit place for an artist to be reared;Not a great Master whose vast unshared toils,Add to the riches of the world, rebuildGod’s house, and clothe with Prophets walls and roof,Defending cities as a pastime – suchWe have not! but the homelier heartier handThat gives us English landscapes year by year.There is his small ancestral home, so gay,With rosery and green wicket. We last metIn London: I’ve heard since he had returnedHomeward less sound in health than when he reached That athlete’s theatre, well termed the graveOf little reputations. Fresh againLet’s hope to find him.The verse corroborates what sparse biographical information we have for the painter (and which derives principally from an article in the Glasgow Evening News, 25 July 1900, entitled ‘An Artist’s Career’ and contributed by Edward Pennington presumably on the basis of information received from the artist’s family, despite forty-two years having passed since his death): the painter had returned to Cumberland because his health was deteriorating, probably as a result of syphilis, but also – according to Scott’s account – because of the professional frustrations and commercial pressures that went with trying to work as an artist in London. In 1850 Blacklock seems to have engaged in a last determined bout of activity as a landscape artist, perhaps fearing that he had not many years remaining to him and wanting to put together a group of works in which his particular artistic principles were to be defined. This small corpus – consisting of views in the Lakes and countryside around Cumwhitton, and all made in a period of about four years – serve as his lasting memorial. Paintings such as Devock Water (Abbott Hall, Kendal), of 1853, and Catsbells and Causey Pike (Tullie House Art Gallery, Carlisle), of 1854, represent timeless images of particular places which speak of the painter’s love for the landscape that he was representing. The present view is of the Langdale Pikes, seen beyond Blea Tarn, and therefore from a vantage-point looking towards the north west, and with the direction of afternoon light from behind the artist’s left shoulder. A shoreline of purple heather and strewn boulders forms the foreground, with a brown-coated fisherman on the left side. E. Lynn Linton, in his book The Lake Country (1864), used an engraving of the same view by W.J. Linton to head his chapter ‘Langdale and the Stake’, describing in his text the mountains seen from this vantage-point at ‘the back of Blea Tarn’: ‘the highest to the right is Harrison Stickle, that to the left Pike o’ Stickle, and the long sweep to the right of Harrison Stickle is Pavey Ark, in the cup or lip of which lies Stickle Tarn’. Harriet Martineau in her 1855 Complete Guide to the English Lakes invoked the place as the scene of one of Wordsworth’s Excursions to dwell upon the Solitary, and also described the remoteness of the location and the ‘very rough road [that] scrambles up from Langdale, by Wall End, to the upland vale where the single farmhouse is, and the tarn’.The atmospheric effect of the painting is beautifully observed, with the forms of the mountain partly suffused in shadow but with other areas brightly lit as cloud shadows sweep over, and with clefts and exposed rock faces recorded with painstaking attention. Blacklock’s particular mastery in the treatment of mountain landscapes depended in great part on his understanding of the constantly fluctuating quality of light, and here especially the scale and structure of the distant ranges are given volumetric expression by the graduated fall of light. Thus the mountain range seems both massive and distant, but at the same times almost tangible and lending itself to close and detailed scrutiny. Martineau commented on a similar optical ambiguity whereby ‘the Langdale Pikes, and their surrounding mountains seem, in some states of the atmosphere, to approach and overshadow the waters [of Windermere]; and in others to retire, and shroud themselves in cloud land’.Blacklock did not work directly from the motif but instead drew landscape sketches in watercolour which later formed the basis of his studio compositions, or perhaps worked largely from memory. He may in addition have used photographs – probably daguerreotypes which in the 1850s were beginning to be made available by commercial photographers – to remind himself of the broad outlines of his chosen subjects (as may be suggested by the way he treats shadows in his paintings, which sometimes seems reminiscent of photographic images). He did not seek the kind of literal transcription of the forms of the landscape that artists influenced by Ruskin attempted in the period, but sought a quintessential representation of topographical type which might be recognised as a timeless record of a hallowed place, treated with an extraordinary intensity of vision. The Langdale Pikes seem to have had a particular hold on the artist’s imagination, as he painted the range on a number of occasions and from different vantage-points. An earlier work showing Blea Tarn and the Langdale Pikes of 1852 is in the collection of a descendant of the artist, while a painting entitled Esthwaite Water and the Langdale Pikes (although in fact showing Elter Water) was commissioned by William Armstrong [later Lord Armstrong, the Newcastle industrialist and arms manufacturer whose house Cragside near Rothbury was built by the architect Richard Norman Shaw] in 1855. Clearly the Lakeland landscape was enormously important to Blacklock. All his exhibited works were of northern settings, and we may be sure that even during the years that he spent in London he will have made frequent visits to Cumberland, and that he believed himself to have as his essential purpose the representation of a beloved North. Analogy may be made between Blacklock and other European artists who like him felt it was their mission to explore and describe a landscape setting which they had known from earliest childhood, feeling such close personal identity with those places as to amount to obsession. His near contemporary Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) never tired of painting landscape and country life subjects set in Ornans in the Jura Mountains of eastern France, and created an extraordinary and indelible imagery of that region. Likewise, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) painted series of views of the Mont Sainte-Victoire in his native Provence so as to capture the essential identity of a topography that was to him living and imbued with vital and personal associations. These were all painters for whom the intimate knowledge and long contemplation of a specific locality was a vital requirement for an art to be vital and true, and who found themselves in the representation of places with which they had long association, as if the landscape forms, light and air, which were the object of their art, retained some kind of subliminal resonance of the pattern of their own lives.Blacklock’s last extraordinary surge of creativity was sadly short lived. By the time the present work was painted, he was seriously afflicted by symptoms of the disease that would kill him. In the first place, he suffered from an inflammation of the eyes that would in due course make him partially blind. In November 1855, having become increasingly erratic in his patterns of behaviour, he was placed in the Crichton Royal Mental Institution in Dumfries, and where he died on 12 March 1858 as a result of ‘monomania of ambition and general paralysis’. Interestingly, the Crichton hospital, under the direction of Dr William Browne, had recently introduced therapies to attempt to aid their deranged inmates including drawing, as happened also at the Royal Bethlehem Hospital for the Insane in London during the time that Richard Dadd was incarcerated there, so Blacklock was able intermittently to continue at least to draw to the end of his life. A number of landscape sketches made at the Crichton are reproduced in Maureen Park’s book Art in Madness – Dr W.A.F. Browne’s Collection of Patient Art at Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries, Dumfries, 2010.The Langdale Pikes above Blea Tarn was painted for the artists’ colourman Charles Roberson, probably to a commission and as a pendant to another work of 1854, The Miller’s Homestead (private collection). Whatever professional difficulties Blacklock may have faced in the years that he lived in London, in the 1850s, after his return to Cumwhitton he began to find himself sought after by a small but discriminating circle of patrons. Roberson himself was a significant figure in the establishment of a progressive school of painting in the middle years of the century, because he supplied artists with a range of new and stronger pigments, often derived in their manufacture from industrial processes, and thus aided the move towards more brightly coloured works which was a characteristic of English painting in the period. A degree of rivalry seems to have come about between Blacklock’s would-be patrons, chronicled in the letters that the artist wrote to the Gateshead metallurgist James Leathart (now held as part of the Leathart Papers, University of British Columbia). Roberson’s two paintings are referred to in a letter to Leathart of 2 June 1854, ‘one the same lake as I am going to do for Mr Armstrong – the other a Millers Homestead – the mill looking over a moor & distant hills they are for Mr Roberson the artists colourman’. In September 1855, just weeks before his final incarceration, Blacklock sent off the Lakeland views that he had made for Armstrong and Leathart, and in doing effectively concluded his professional career.Blacklock is an important and intriguing figure who may be regarded both as a pivot between the early nineteenth-century landscape school and the achievements of Romanticism, and the earnest and obsessive innovations of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape school. Perhaps a vital factor in our understanding and appreciation of the particular character of Blacklock’s art is his knowledge of historic schools of painting. Living in London in the late 1830s and 40s he would have had the opportunity to study the works in the National Gallery. It has been suggested that it was the unveiling of works long concealed under layers of discoloured varnish as a result of Charles Eastlake’s cleaning programme of in the mid-1840s that prompted Blacklock to adopt brighter and more luminous colours. A further possibility is that he made a European tour at some point, seeing for himself works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and also perhaps making contact with working artists in France or Italy. Only the slightest indication survives of Blacklock’s interest in the work of the Old Masters – in a letter to Leathart of 20 September 1854 he looks forward to hearing about the works of art that the latter had seen in the course of a Continental tour. Nonetheless, broad stylistic analogies may be drawn between the landscape paintings of Blacklock and those of other British artists who had visited Europe in their formative years. William Dyce, for example, who had visited Italy in 1825-26 and there made contact with the German Nazarene painters in Rome. Something of the clarity of light and simplicity of expression, along with a particular feeling for colour effects which are peaceful and never strident, that characterises Dyce’s pure landscapes, is also infused into the less well known works of Blacklock, and may perhaps likewise be indebted to a knowledge of European schools of painting.Christopher Newall

A collection of twenty hat pins, including Charles Horner, hat pin doll, hat pin holder and an illustrated hat pin value guide book.

A quantity of children`s books to include one volume Japanese Fairytale Series -Saru Kani Kassen "Battle of the Monkey and the Crab", one volume "A book of days for little ones" by Clare Bridgeman, one volume "Tens and Elevens" by Fred E Weatherly, "The Cake Shop" published Blackie and Sons, "The Book of Ducks and Dutchies", one volume "A Good Little Goose", published Henry Frowde & Hodder & Stoughton, one volume "Goody Wooden Shoes" and one volume "The Child`s Guide to Knowledge"

A collection of cookery books to include one volume "A Plain Cookery book for the Working Classes", by Charles Elne Francatelli, one volume "The Guide to Service, The Cook, Plain and Practical Directions for Cooking and Housekeeping" published Charles Knight & Co. 1892, one volume "Warne`s Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book" by Mary Jewry published Fred Warne & Co. 1868, one volume "Modern Cookery in all its Branches" by Eliza Acton, a late 19th Century hand-written recipe book, mostly for biscuits, buns and cakes, dated February 6th /90

G A Cooke; "Topographical Description of the County of York" complete with eight plates and three maps etc. in marbled boards, Martineau; "A Complete Guide to the English Lakes", illustrated, (a.e.g.), in tooled leather boards, Thomas Sheppard (Ed); "A Yorkshire By Pen & Picture" and a Daily Express Road Book and Gazetteer of Great Britain. (5).

Swatch, Pop, a wristwatch in Orb design by Vivienne Westwood (1993), on leather and black suedette strap, in original plastic `jewelled` orb case and outer cardboard box (see Frank Edwards, Swatch, a Guide for Connoisseurs and Collectors, 1998, page 65); a faux tortoiseshell sunglasses; a tartan design covered small book (Marmion by Sir Walter Scott); a mini razor, in its box; and a smoker`s hat

AFRICA ORIENTALE ITALIANA, Milan 1938, Guide Book, orig cl

JAMES LUKIN: TOY MAKING FOR AMATEURS, L, L Upcott Gill, nd, cat of advts at end dated 1891, orig cl gt recased + W M OAKWOOD: CARPENTRY AND CABINET-MAKING, 1905, 1st edn, orig pict cl + ROYAL BLUE BOOK COURT AND PARLIAMENTARY GUIDE 1935, [1934], fdg map, orig cl worn and soiled + PETER CROOL: POITIERS A HISTORY AND GUIDE, [1920], 1st edn, orig cl (4)

Victorian/Edwardian scrap book featuring a page of cut outs of early Boy Scout and Girl Guide uniforms in full colour

REEL: An ex rare Allcock`s Double Ventilated Aerial model 7950-T7 (1923-34) 4.5" diameter (rare size), 6 spoke with tension regulator, 12 large holes plus 12 small holes per flange, twin crazed handles, backplate ratchet button on internal v check spring, makers round and straight line logo to backplate, fine condition with lead finish. Illus. * See ref book The Allcock Aerial A Collectors Guide, B. Singleton, p 68 notes the 12 double hole reel in 4.5" diam. is a 5 star rated rare example for collectors.

REEL: Allcock`s Aerial model 7950-T5 (1916-1925) rare 3" size alloy wide drum centre pin reel, 8 large hole ventilations, twin ivorine handles, 6 spoke with tension adjuster, BP alloy factory line `guide, ratchet button to backplate, V spring internal check, Allcock`s round logo to backplate, retains virtually all original finish, spins well. Illus. See ref book The Allcock Aerial A Collectors Guide, B. Singleton, p 64 notes the 3" diam wide drum is a 5 star rated rare example for collectors.

REEL: An rare Hardy Longstone 1921 Model, 4" alloy casting reel with black ebonised stained wood drum with incised rings, with alloy rear flange, twin bulbous horn handles to brass eye plates, knurled nickel drag adjuster, side lever check to internal mechanism, German silver line guide, correct brass foot, maker`s details stamped to backplate, very minor filing to foot toe. Illus. For ref see JOHN DREWETT book. HARDY BROTHERS, THE MASTERS THE MEN AND THEIR REELS, pages 438 on.

TACKLE REFERENCE BOOK: "Fishing Tackle The Ultimate Collector`s Guide" by Graham Turner, leather limited edition No.31/50 with COA, 730 pages gilt edged, full black leather volume with gilt text and matching hard outer slipcase, unused.

REEL: A rare Allcock`s 3.5" Double Ventilated Aerial alloy 6 spoke trotting reel, rarely seen in this small size with single row of 12 large ventilations to each drum flange, twin ivorine handles, spoke tensioner, correct brass foot, backplate check button to internal V spring check, Red Design and Allcock`s round logo impressed to backplate, fine honest condition. Illus. See ref book The Allcock Aerial, the Collectors Guide Bob Singleton pages 107/8. Bob comments as his was the only reel seen at time it may have been modified, but now appears to be production.

CATALOGUE & BOOKS: Hardy 1960 Angler`s Guide c/w price list, fine, 6 x "How To Catch Them Series", 2 x Tope 1st. edition, 1x Salmon 3rd. edition, 1xRiver Fly Fishing 1st. edition, 1x The Fixed Spool 1st. edition, 1x Loch Fishing 1st. edition and The Observer Book of Fly Fishing by Peter Wheat, all with D/Js. (8)

CATALOGUES: Allcock`s Angler`s Guide 1938-39, good, Ogden Smith Fishing Tackle c1930, H/B, good, Ogden Smith Fly Fishers Illustrated reference book, S/B, fine, 3x Alex Martin catalogues 1937, 53 and 1 other lacking cover. (6)

Maxtone-Graham, J Ðsigned Ð "The Best of Hardy`s` Angler`s Guides" 1st ed 1982, S/B, good, Hardy`s Book of Fishing 1st ed 1971, H/B, D/J, fine and Hardy 2002 Angler`s Guide with supplement and price list.

A book - The Historical Guide To The Island Of Malta And Its Dependencies dedicated to Mr Henry Ponsonby by Giuseppe Pericciuoli Borzesi of Siena 1830.

Twenty boxes of various books to include two volumes Ward Lock & Co. "Illustrated Guide to Torquay & South Devon" and "Oxford", one volume "Black`s Guide Book to East Kent", one volume "The New Cyclopaedia of Illustrative Anecdote", published London 1872, "The Illustrated London News Record of The Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901)", numerous novels and hardback titles

Hall Appleton`s...United States & Canada folding maps New York 1867 § The Englishman`s Illustrated Guide Book to the United States and Canada folding coloured map illustrations g.e. 1874 § Godfrey (Edward K.) The Island of Nantucket maps Boston 1882; and two other United States and Canada Guides 8vo(5)

Robertson A Hand-Book...Peak of Derbyshire first edition wood-engraved frontispiece and 2 folding maps original limp cloth gilt rubbed at extremities 1854 § Vicinity of Leamington (The); A Guide to the Neighbouring Towns of Warwick Coventry Stratford Kenilworth engraved frontispiece plate and large folding map original cloth gilt faded Leamington n.d.; and 2 other 19th century guides 8vo(4)

Miles (W.J.). Modern Practical Farriery; A Complete Guide to all that Relates to the Horse... , n.d., c. 1885, col. litho. plts. and num. b & w illusts., orig. half morocco, gilt-dec. spine, rubbed, 4to, together with Wilson (John), British Farming. A Description of the Mixed Husbandry of Great Britain, 1st ed., 1862, wood-engs. to text, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, with others of agricultural interest, including several bound volumes of the Gloucestershire Old Spots Herd Book, etc. (6 shelves)

Box: Freemasonry including Bernard E. Jones, Book of Royal Arch, Guide and Compendium, The Origins of Freemasonry and many other titles (Box)

SALMON FISHING. A FINE SILVER- MOUNTED SOUTH GERMAN CARVED STAGHORN SNUFF MULL the front and lid carved in cameo with a hunting scene or hound in a hilly landscape, the reverse applied with an engraved silver shield shaped tablet, 14cm h, unmarked, c1847 The engraved inscription reads: SIR JOHN M MACKENZIE BART. TO ANDREW YOUNG INVERSHIN 1847. Provenance: A name held in considerable esteem by 19th c anglers, Andrew Young of Invershin (d 1865) to whom the box was presented, was for many years Tracksman and Manager of the Duke of Sutherland`s celebrated salmon fishery at Invershin, Sutherlandshire. An expert on the Salmon, he wrote, or contributed to several early books on the subject, including The Book of the Salmon (1850) and The Angler and Tourists` Guide ....(1857) Of fine quality and in fine condition

A Collection of Postcards and Guide Books of Overseas Interest, together with cards featuring seaside resorts, actresses, book post, cigarette cards and card games, in two boxes

2003 Rugby World Cup Programmes & Book - complete set of World Cup Rugby programmes to include all the group matches, quarter finals ,semi finals, play-offs and the finals together with the official guide -and all boxed hence (VG) plus a signed copy of "World Cup 2003 - The Official Account of England`s World Cup Triumph" C/W DJ and signed to the title page by Andy Gomarsall and Steve Abbott (2) England played Australia in the final winning 20-17 with Jonny Wilkinson scoring a drop goal in extra time achieving England`s first World Cup championship.

2003 Rugby World Cup Programmes & Book- complete set of World Cup Rugby programmes to include all the group matches, quarter finals ,semi finals, play-offs and the finals together with the official guide -and all boxed hence (VG) plus a signed copy of "World Cup 2003 - The Official Account of England`s World Cup Triumph" C/W DJ and signed to the title page by Andy Gomarsall and Steve Abbott (2) England played Australia in the final winning 20-17 with Jonny Wilkinson scoring a drop goal in extra time achieving England`s first World Cup championship.

Buller (Fred and Falkus, Hugh). Freshwater Fishing. A Book of Tackles and Techniques, with Some Notes on Various Fish, Fish Recipes, Fish Safety and Sundry other Matters, reprinted, 1988, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. laminated boards in matching d.j., 4to, together with Falkus (Hugh), Salmon Fishing. A Practical Guide, reprinted, 1986, num. illusts., some coloured, orig. boards in d.j., 8vo, with others of fishing interest, mostly VG (64)

MORECAMBE ERIC: (1926-1984) & WISE ERNIE: (1925-1999) British Comedians. Eric Morecambe T.L.S., E Morecambe, one page, 8vo, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, 22nd June 1971, to Mr. B. D. Burggy, thanking him for a copy of Guide to England and commenting `It really is a most interesting and useful book, and will give us all much pleasure`.; Ernie Wise Brief A.L.S., Ernie Wise, one page, 8vo, London, 22nd June 1971, to Mr. B. D. Burggy, thanking him for an interesting book. Both letters are accompanied by the original envelopes. VG, 2 Morecambe and Wise had both been sent copies of the Shell Guide to Great Britain, largely in response to their running gag in the Morecambe and Wise show based on the Shell `Economy` brand television commercial advertising of 1971.

E J DETMOLD (ILL): FABRE’S BOOK OF INSECTS, ill E J Detmold, NY 1936, 4to, orig cl gt + K W HARDE: A FIELD GUIDE IN COLOUR TO BEETLES, Ed P M Hammond, trans M Schierlova, 1984, 1st edn, orig cl gt, d/w + JOHN BURTON: THE OXFORD BOOK OF INSECTS, 1968, 1st edn, orig cl, d/w (3)

F W FROHAWK: THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, 1934, 1st edn, orig cl, v worn, inner jnts split + C HERBERT, S VINTER, REV ARTHUR P WALLER AND REV DR WHITTINGHAM: THE LEPIDOPTERA OF SUFFOLK, [1937], 1st edn, some annots, old hf cf worn + ERIC LAITHWAITE, ALLAN WATSON AND PAUL E S WHALLEY: THE DICTIONARY OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS IN COLOUR, 1973, 1st edn, 4to, orig cl, d/w + L W NEWMAN AND H A LEEDS: TEXTBOOK OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS, St Albans 1913, some annots and newscuttings tipped in, ex A E Mahood collection, orig pict cl + L G HIGGINS AND N D RILEY: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BUTTERFLIES OF BRITAIN AND EUROPE, 1970, 1st edn, orig cl, d/w (5)

A single copy of Tee Emm magazine March 1946; four HMSO booklets including Fleet air Arm; RAF Parade and a pocket book The Soldier`s Guide

A composition Girl Guide doll, with strawberry blond wig, sleeping blue plastic eyes, and a painted mouth, on a jointed composition body, wearing a navy blue bonnet, mid blue shirt with badge detailing, navy blue skirt, white socks and black shoes, 41cm high; together with a book, Sutton, Sydney Ann. Scouting Dolls Through the Years, Collector Books, Paducah circa 2003. Pictorial soft covers, illustrations, quarto, (2).

Two books `Our Bird Friends` and `The Collins Pocket guide to British Birds` and a children`s Book `Animal stories and pictures` by Blackie

Seven Action Man The Ultimate Collectors Guide Books by Alan Hall including three Volume 1 and three Volume 2, each book is Near Mint (fading to spines on some but are unused). (6)

A group of hardback Books to include A Guide to Marx Toys, The Book of Penny Toys, Technofix, Character Toys & Collectables, Schuco plus many others - conditions are generally Excellent to Mint. (10)

Motoring and Motor Sport 1960s-1990s. A good group of motoring books including British Racing Hero Moss-Mansell (Allsop), British Grand Prix 1926-1976 (Nye), A Passion for Motor Sport (Jenkinson) signed limited edition by BRDC president Lord Hesketh, Murray Walker’s F1 Heroes, History of Motor Racing (Boddy) FIA World Championship 1990, Formula 1 Annual 2001,Racing Stewart, Lola T70 (Starkey) Automobile Sport Annual 1981/82, Power & Glory (Rebdall) Guinness Guide to GP Motor Racing, GP Data Book 1997, Supercharged Mercedes (Schrader & Remand), Nardi Racing Cars and Wheels, and many other related titles (a carton)

Wyld (James) Wyld`s Guide to the Grand Junction an folding map [1838]; The London and Southampton Railway Guide maps 1839 § Groombridge (R.) A hand-book for Travellers along the London and Birmingham Railway hand-coloured folding map n.d. § Walker (J & C) Map of Railways in England and Wales linen-backed approx. 410 x 330mm. 1838 § Lizars Scotland with all the Railways folding map linen-backed worn lacking spine approx. 845 x 570mm. 1850; and one similar all original cloth sm.8vo(6)

Whitney (J.D.) Yosemite Guide-Book half-title title printed in red & black 8 lithographed plates illustrations 2 folding maps in pockets at beginning & end original cloth gilt rubbed 8vo by authority of the Legislature 1869.

FOOTBALL GUIDES / ARSENAL Two very unusual hardback books "Spaldings Football Guide", each contains two editions of the Guide, the first 1918-1920 and the second 1921-24. To make it even more unusual, they are produced in the USA and each yearly annual has almost 200 pages, with covers and in very good condition. Book books have a library plate attached stating "Ex Libris Arsenal Football Club, Arsenal Stadium , London. Each Annual has extensive coverage of Soccer in the USA. Very good

Cassell`s Household Guide Volumes 1 to 4; Punch bound volumes; Girls Own Annual; The Wonder Book of Ships etc :- One Box

Th e Dunlop Book (Motorist`s Guide) nd. C. 1935. Large Qto hb. Glasgow and Clydeside, Pictorial memories 1998 Qto hb & dj Richardson J: Islington Past 2000 Qto hb & dj. Together with 30 other local history and topographical volumes mainly paperback.

Rowntree (Arthur, ed.). The History of Scarborough, 1931, plates and illustrations, extra-illustrated with three illustrations and an original watercolour of a Scarborough harbour scene, signed H. Watson (Harry Watson, 1871-1936, Scarborough-born artist), approx. 17.5 x 12mm, trimmed and adhered to frontispiece recto, lacking final subscriber’s leaf at end, original red cloth, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with The Tindalls of Scarborough. Descendants of Ralph Tyndale, of North Grimston, by Christian Tindall, printed for private circulation by W. Pollard, Exeter, 1927, photographic portraits and plates, with a letter bound in at end from Ella Tindall in appreciation of the book, and press cuttings recording the death of Augusta Tindall in 1945, previous owner inscription, original buckram, 4to, plus Scarborough. A Guide and Souvenir, ed. David Bevan, 1906, numerous coloured and b & w illustrations, with press cuttings pasted-in recording the raid on Scarborough on 16 December 1914 by German cruiser, inscription at front and publisher’s presentation copy, t.e.g., original half vellum, soiled, 8vo, with others on Scarborough including Joseph Baker’s The History of Scarborough, 1882, Some Scarborough Faces (Past and Present), 1901, A Memorial of the Church of St. Mary’s, Scarboro’, 1850 and The German Raid on Scarborough. December 16th, 1914 (18)

Book : "The farmers tour through the East of England", "Elements of the practice of physic", "The planters guide or a practical essay on the best method of giving immediate effect to wood" (all late 18/early 19c. text, 3 ).

AUTOGRAPH (?) PREACHING MANUSCRIPT. [SERMONS] the twenty-one sermons written in ink in a clear and easily legible hybrid secretary-italic hand on 542 leaves, paginated, the contents and textural references listed in "A catalogue of the Sermons contained in this Boke" including The Godlie Mans Guide, The husbands happiness, A Muzzle for ye mouth and Whordoms Wages, each ending with 1p. invocation, catchwords, references and marginalia, several with preaching dates from the 1630s to 1650s, preceded and followed by two p. of prayers (one of those at the front missing) including one for Charles [I] and Prince Charles, the latter`s name struck out presumably during the Commonwealth, and THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES. Collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others, black letter, text in two columns, title within woodcut border, large woodcut initial letter at head of first psalm, some with music, ending with a final MS leaf of "The Psalmes Digested into a breefe Table... accordinge to... Mr Beza", London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1620, two works in one volumne, 8vo (195 x 147mm) contemporary calf centrepiece binding (worn, frayed and wanting spine) tooled in blind with frame and fleurons Provenance: B[arnabas] Pool, Rector of Brailsford (ownership inscription on end pastedown). According to Lichfield Diocesan Registers, Barnabas Pole was given the living of Brailsford, Derbyshire on 18 June 1668, which he held until his death on 6 December 1698. On his monument in the church, his name is spelt Poole and the stone lintel over the door of the early 16th c (former) rectory at Brailsford is inscribed "Restored by/Rev`d J G Croker/1883/Rev`d B Pool/1682". Several of the sermons share titles with those of Immanuel Bourne (1590-1679) whose published sermons appeared between 1617 and the mid 17th c. A preacher at St Christopher`s Church, London, he held the living of the nearby parish of Ashover from 1622 until his pronounced sympathies for the Puritan cause compelled him to return to London on the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. There he was appointed preacher at St Sepulchre`s Church. Whilst it is conceivable that the present lot is Bourne`s own preaching manuscript, Pool could well have obtained it from a scribe, who carefully copied at least some of Bourne`s published sermons. Hardly any manuscript material by Bourne is known to have survived other than two hastily written letters to Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet (1593-1671) of Hopton Hall (Derbyshire Record Office) and his signature on a document dating from the end of his life (British Library).

Hone (William) The Every-Day Book or the Guide to the Year, 2 vol.; The Table Book of Daily Recreation and Information, 2 vol., numorous wood-engraved illustrations, nineteenth-century half morocco, 8vo, William Tegg, [c. 1840] § Chambers ( R. ) The Book of Days, a Miscellany of Popular Antiquities, 2 vol., numerous wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth gilt, rebacked preserving spines, folio, 1864 § Strutt (Joseph) The Sports and Pastimes of the English People, edited by William Hone, coloured frontispiece, illustrations, original pictorial cloth gilt, uncut, 8vo, 1876, 8vo and folio(7) ***The works all contain references to conjuring and other popular entertainments.

Japanese School woodblock picture book Settsu Meisho Zue, Osaka, Vol 2 Book 4; Guide to the Famous Sites in Settsu, 10 x 7in.

REEL: Extremely rare Hardy 1894-1897/8 model Combined Fly and Spinning reel in alloy, 3.5" diameter, 1 5/8" wide, correct twin ivory handles to face plate, raised central boss with oil hole, 5 pillar brass annular guide, backplate stamped with Rod in Hand and straight line logos, fitted with optional check button and knurled adjustable spindle brake knob with oil hole, runs straight, retains lead and bronze finish. According to John Drewett`s book Hardy Brothers, The Masters The Men and Their Reels, pages 161-163 this reel dates 1894-1897/8, a much sought after example.

BOOK SELLERS CATALOGUES: A fruit box full of many angling book sellers catalogues perhaps 200 in all, useful guide to any collector, by such famous sellers as Hereward, Coch y Bonddu, Bowman, Scott, Hallam, Furniss etc and a selection of Game fair publications.

FLIES & BOOKS (2): Collection of 20 early Waddington salmon flies, 2.5"-3" long, all with metal eyes and hinged trebles, appear unused in wood box, The Hardy Book Of Flies a 24page vinyl covered S/b pocket reference guide and Oglesby, Arthur Ð "Salmon" revised edition 1974, H/b, D/j, fine.

An interesting World War II collection of documents relating to the short campaign in Sicily regarding the invasion on the 10th July by allied forces. The documents consist of plans for the Barkwest assault by forces and another sheet relates to the assault by groups Joss, Dime and Cent together with a list of shells fired. Together with some research, also in this lot is a coin book entitled `A Guide to the coins of Great Britain and Ireland by the late Colonel W Stewart Thorburn, second edition printed by L Upcott 1888`with a brown spine and gilt decoration

A copy of the "History of Co-Operation in Lincoln 1861-1911", the story of Lincoln by E I Abell and J D Chambers, a Lincolnshire guide book by Mansel Sympson 1913 (3) provenance: Laurence Elvin, local archivist

World Cup 1970 Goal Magazines, Mexico `70 Soccer Stars sticker album (incomplete), David Coleman book, Saudi Arabian(?) Guide for Spain 82, Netherland 1964 International Youth Tournament, other International programmes. (17)

Crichton (A.W.) A naturalist`s ramble to the Orcad tinted frontispiece original green cloth gilt Malcolm Macdonald`s copy with his (posthumous) book label van Voorst 1866 § Dunn (Robert) The ornithologist`s guide to the islands of Orkney and Shetland 2 engraved maps tinted lithograph by Hullmandel (caption trimmed) old cloth rubbed FH Barclay`s copy with bookplate London & Hull 1837; and another Scottish islands 8vo(3)

Benjamin (S. G. W.) The Atlantic Islands... plates and illustrations original pictorial cloth gilt rubbed New York 1878 § Grabham (M. C.) The Garden Interests of Madeira 1926 § Reid (William & Alfred) Madeira: A Guide Book of Useful Information fourth issue plates original cloth soiled n.d. § Nascimento (Joao Cabral do) Estampas Antigas da Madeira illustrations some spotting original printed wrappers spotted and a little rubbed Madeira 1935 § Monteiro (José Leite) Estampes Antigas de Paisagem e Costumes da Madeira illustrations original printed wrappers slightly rubbed Madeira 1951; and c.25 others Madeira v.s.(c.30)

Harcourt A Sketch of Madeira; 1851 first edition half-title wood-engraved frontispiece additional pictorial title 2 folding maps 4 plates and illustrations 32pp. advertisments at end some foxing original cloth spine slightly darkened some light staining slight fraying to spine ends and corners 1851 § [Madeira Printing] Hosmer (Rev. A.H.) A Letter on Episcopal Jurisdiction Particularly with Reference to...Madeira Chaplaincy... first edition modern boards Funchal 1853 § Spice (R.P.) The Hermit of Westminster Wandering About Madeira 1883 first edition presentation copy from the author plates original cloth rubbed privately printed 1883; and 7 others 19th century works on Madeira including an 1891 Reid Guide-book 8vo et infra(10)

British and World fossils; a small collection in a wooden glazed case; together with a fossil field guide book.

Autographs - Red Dwarf. A paperback book, Charles, Craig. The Log: A Dwarfer`s Guide to Everything, Penguin, London 1997, signed by Craig Charles (Lister); a Red Dwarf Official Fan Club programme, DJ2K, signed by Chloe Annett, Chris Barrie, Ed Bye, Hattie Hayridge, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Norman Lovett, Mac McDonald, Doug Naylor, Bill Pearson, Bob and Madge, and John Lenahan; and a signed black and white portrait photograph of Danny John-Jules, (3). Note: Sold in aid of Stepping Stones (Notts), a community-based residential complex for adults with learning difficulties.Best Bid