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DIAMOND ETERNITY RINGSet throughout with brilliant-cut diamonds, diamonds approx. 2.00cts total, ring size approx. K½For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DIAMOND RINGSet with an emerald-cut diamond, weighing 4.82 carats, between tapered baguettes, ring size very approx. KFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two 22ct gold band rings,: both with hallmarks for Birmingham, one, 1984, ring size L; the other, 1849, ring size K, total weight ca. 4.9gms.

A group of jewellery and a lady's wristwatch,: including a pair of imitation pearl earrings, stamped 'SILVER', length ca. 2.3cms; a banded agate and marcasite ring, ring size K; a shell cameo brooch depicting a lady in profile, length ca. 3cm; a silver bracelet with five charms, length ca. 18.5cm, total weight ca. 31.5gms, a marcasite ring, ring size N1/2, and a lady's wristwatch the case of 9ct gold, the bracelet of gilt metal.

An 18ct gold, old-cut diamond, three-stone ring,: total estimated diamond weight ca. 0.20ct, I-J colour, SI1-2 clarity, with partial hallmarks, length of ring head 1.6cm, ring size K, total weight ca. 4.4gms.

Three rings,: a 15ct gold garnet and seed pearl ring, with hallmarks for Birmingham, length of ring head ca. 1.8cm, ring size O1/2, weight ca. 2.6gms; a 9ct gold onyx ring, with hallmarks for Birmingham, length of ring head ca. 1cm, ring size N1/2; a blue zircon ring, stamped '9CT', length of ring head ca. 1cm, ring size K, weight of these two rings ca. 5.3gms.

A synthetic sapphire five stone ring and a synthetic ruby and single-cut diamond ring,: total estimated diamond weight ca. 0.10cts, ring size K-R, length of ring head ca. 1.5-1.8cms, total weight ca. 5.7gms. (2)

A round, brilliant and single-cut diamond ring in a figure of eight design,: estimated weight of principal diamonds ca. 0.25cts, J-K colour, SI1-2 clarity, estimated weight of remaining diamonds ca. 0.15cts, ring size L, total weight ca. 3.4gms.

A round, brilliant and single-cut diamond ring,: estimated weight of principal diamond, ca. 1ct, K-L colour, VS1-2 clarity, stamped 'PLAT', length of ring head ca. 1.8cm, ring size O, total weight ca. 3.2gms.

An 18ct gold, old-cut diamond, single stone ring,: estimated diamond weight ca. 1.60cts, J-K colour, VVS2-VS1 clarity, with hallmarks for Birmingham, ring size O, total weight ca. 4.7gms.

An 18 carat gold and platinum diamond ring,: the brilliant cut diamond set into the polished band, stamped 750 with London hallmarks for 2000, stamped Plat, ring size K 1/2.

A round, brilliant-cut diamond, half-eternity ring,: total diamond weight 1.24ct according to engraving, G-H colour, VS1-2 clarity, stamped '750', length of ring head ca. 1.9cm, ring size K, total weight ca. 4.1gms.

A round, brilliant-cut diamond half-eternity ring,: total estimated diamond weight ca. 0.85cts, J-K colour, SI1-2 clarity, stamped '18CT', ring size M1/2, length of ring head 2cm, total weight ca. 4.2gms.

A sapphire and old-cut diamond three-stone ring,: estimated total diamond weight ca. 0.35cts, J-K colour, SI2-P1, length of ring head ca. 1.4cm, ring size J, total weight ca. 4.6gms.

An old and single-cut diamond ring,: estimated weight of old-cut diamonds ca. 1.30cts, I-K colour, SI2-P1 clarity, estimated weight of remaining diamonds ca. 0.05cts, stamped '18ct', ring size Q, length of ring head ca. 1.7cm, total weight ca. 4.9gms.

An 18ct gold, round, brilliant-cut diamond single-stone ring,: estimated diamond weight ca. 1.65cts, J-K colour, P1-2, with hallmarks for Birmingham, 1971, ring size Q1/2, length of ring head ca. 1.5cm, total weight ca. 10.9gms.

The Birds of Africa by Leslie H. Brown, Emil K. Urban, Kenneth Newman, C. Hilary Fry and Stuart Keith, illustrated by Martin Woodcock, Peter Hayman and Ian Willis, published Academic Press & Christopher Helm 1983-2004 in 7 volumes with many coloured plates and text illustrations in gilt lettered cloth and dust-wrappers (7)    

George III (1760-1820), Bank of England, Dollar, 1804, types C/2b, leaf to centre of e in dei, incuse inverted k on rev. (ESC 1941; S 3768). Cleaned, some light scratches, otherwise good very fine, scarce; traces of undertype visible £240-£300

George III (1760-1820), Bank of England, A uniface bronze striking of the obv. for a Pattern Dollar, laureate bust left with five berries in wreath, two mullets on truncation, edge plain, 20.19g (ESC obv. K). Weak in parts, very fine, rare £200-£260

Marriage of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza, 1662, a heart-shaped silver locket, crowned bust of Charles left, engraved C R at sides, rev. bust of Catherine left with long hair and wearing a crown mounted at the back of her head, engraved K R at sides, 26 x 21mm. Very fine, complete with loop £300-£400

GERMANY, Flight of the Airship LZ 3 over Munich, 1909, a silver medal by K. Goetz, bust of Ferdinand von Zeppelin facing three-quarters right within wreath, rev. airship over cityscape, 35mm (K 46; Kaiser 310.4). About extremely fine, rare £240-£300 --- Provenance: Meister & Sonntag Auction 5 (Stuttgart), 19 September 2007, lot 2231; A Collection of Medals Relating to Aviation, the Property of a Gentleman, DNW Auction 156, 20-21 February 2019, lot 1432

GERMANY, The Munich Agreement, 1938, a silver medal by K. Goetz, conjoined busts of Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain and Daladier right, rev. façade of the Führerbau, 36mm (K 549). Good very fine £200-£260

GERMANY, Return of Danzig to Germany, 1939, a silver medal by K. Goetz, ship, arms below, rev. soldier greeting city goddess, 36mm (K 561). Extremely fine, scarce £200-£260 --- Provenance: J. Phillimore Collection; DNW Auction 150, 3 October 2018, lot 3177

THRACE, Byzantion, Hemidrachm, 400-330, rev. trident, 1.88g (SNG BM 12); MYSIA, Kyzikos, Obol, c. 450-400, forepart of boar left, rev. lion head left, k to upper left, 0.84g/3h (SNG BN 380ff; BMC 121ff) [2]. Very fine, first struck off-centre on obverse £80-£100

A black Panasonic compact 20 Watt stereo system (SC-HC195EB-K).

A hallmarked 9ct white gold solitaire ring set with a brilliant cut diamond, approx. 0.30ct, with diamond report I-1 clarity, colour E, (K.5).

A 9ct white gold (stamped 9k) solitaire ring set with a brilliant cut diamond and diamond set shoulders, (K.5).

A continental early 20thC cast iron cold meat dish, modeled as a recumbent bull, stamped W K M 2, 30cm wide.

A 9ct gold wedding band, with cross and beaded outer border, ring size K, 3.3g.

Two dress rings, comprising a dolphin twist ring, yellow metal stamped 585, ring size K, and a 9ct gold wishbone ring set with tiny diamonds, ring size N½, 4g all in. (2)

Inert British No 36 Grenadebrown lacquered fragmentation body with maker "K".  Pressed steel top lever and safety ring.  Alloy base plug stamped "No 36M" dated "4/40".  Clean condition.   PAYMENT BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

17th- and 18th-century English books Collection of works including: Goodwin, Thomas. Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta ... for the use of Abingdon Schoole. Newly revised and inlarged by the Author. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield for Henry Crypps, 1638. [Bound with:] Idem. Moses and Aaron. Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, used by the Ancient Hebrewes. London: by John Haviland, 1634. Fifth edition. [And:] Rous, Francis. Archaeologiae Atticae libri tres. Three Bookes of the Attick Antiquities. London: for John Williams, 1645. Second edition. 3 works in 1 volume, 4to (18.2 x 14.2cm), contemporary calf, binding worn, no endpapers, final few signatures loosening [ESTC S103289, R28817, S103224; STC 11964 (Goodwin, Romanae historiae), 11955 (Goodwin, Moses and Aaron); Wing R2032 (Rous)]; [Walker, Clement]. Relations and Observations, Historical and Politick, upon the Parliament begun Anno Dom. 1640 [Part 2: Anarchia Anglicana or the History of Independency. The Second Part]. [London]: printed in the year 1648 [i.e. 1660?] [Part 2: printed in the Year, M. DC. XL, IX., i.e. 1660?]. [Bound with:] Idem. The High Court of Justice, of Cromwels New Slaughter-House in England. [London]: printed Anno Domini 1660. 2 works in 1 volume (the first work in 2 parts), 4to (18.6 x 13.5cm), 18th-century sprinkled tan calf gilt, engraved folding plate to Anarchia bound as frontispiece to Relations, light worming to lower margins and gutter from front of Relations to quire S just touching foot image in plate [ESTC R33535, R200419, R17922; Wing W335, W318, W326B]; [State letters]. Cabala, Mysteries of State, in Letters of the Great Ministers of K. James and J. Charles. London: for M. M. G. Bedell, and T. Collins, 1654 [i.e. 1653]. First edition, 4to (19 x 14cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, initial blank, bookplate (Joseph Berens, Lincoln's Inn, recorded as a director of the Hudson's Bay Company), bound without advertisements, worm-track in gutter of first quire, closed tear to foot of F8, bound with a copy of James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, 1645 (without engraved title) [ESTC R13349; Wing C183]; Segar, Simon. Honores Anglicani: or, Titles of Honour the Temporal Nobility of the English Nation ... have had. London: John Baker, 1712. First edition. [Bound with:] Hotoman, François. Franco-Gallia: or, an Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and most other Parts of Europe, before the Loss of their Liberties. London: Edward Valentine, 1721. Second edition in English. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo (19.2 x 11cm), contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, Mainsforth Library label to front pastedown, Hotoman with half-title, 6 pp. advertisements [ESTC T114134, T115191]; Shelton, Maurice. An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil; from the First Ages of the World, thro the Jewish, Grecian, Roman Commonwealths, etc., down to this Present Time. London: C. Rivington, 1718. First edition, 8vo (18.8 x 11.4cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, contemporary ownership inscription (Henry Bradshawe) to title-page [ESTC T89512: 12 UK copies]; Whitelocke, Richard. Miscellaneous Essays. Viz. I. Of Company and Conversation ... V. Of Women [etc.]. London: Jonas Browne, 1715. First edition, 8vo (18.4 x 11.9cm), contemporary mottled calf, advertisement leaf, front joint cracking, light browning [ESTC T144050]; Burton, John, fellow of Eton College. The Genuineness of Ld Clarendon's History of the Rebellion printed at Oxford vindicated. Oxford: at the theatre, 1744. First edition, 8vo (18.7 x 11.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, leather split along joints, browning, F8 torn affecting a word either side, bound without advertisement leaf [ESTC T144783]; and 9 others (these not collated), all 8vo, contemporary bindings: Peter Barwick, The Life of John Barwick, 1724 (first edition, 2 engraved portraits); John Oldmixon, Clarendon and Whitlock Compar'd, 1727 (first edition, front joint cracked); Laurence Echard, The History of the Revolution, and the Establishment of England in the Year 1688, 1725 (first edition); Roger L'Estrange, A Brief History of the Times, 1687-8 (3 parts in 1 volume, first edition); Benjamin Hoadly, The Original and Institution of Civil Government, 1710 (second edition); Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Remarks on the History of England, c.1780 (new edition, relined); Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, 1740 (third edition, bookplate of W. Wynne with motto in Welsh); idem, An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion, 1724 (apparent first edition, W. Wynne bookplate); George Buchanan, History of Scotland ... Second Edition, revised and corrected from the Latin Original, by Mr. Bond, 1722 (2 volumes, spines worn, joints cracked); David Lloyd, State-Worthies, 1766 (2 volumes) (19)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

English Civil War Collection of biographies, memoirs and letters, 17th-18th century including: [Baron, William]. A Just Defence of the Royal Martyr K. Charles I. From the many False and Malicious Aspersions in Ludlow's Memoirs, and some Other Virulent Libels of that Kind. London: for A. Roper, R. Bassett, W. Turner, 1699. First edition, 8vo (17.9 x 10.5cm), 19th-century half calf, gilt spine, backstrip gilt-lettered 'Parish Library Castleton' along front board, browning, a few damp-stains, marginal spill-burn in ³N4 [ESTC R13963; Wing B897]; Warwick, Sir Philip. Memoires of the Reigne of King Charles I. With a Continuation to the Happy Restauration of King Charles II. London: Ri. Chiswell, 1701. First edition. [Bound with:] Idem. A Discourse of Government. London: for Mat. Wotton [and others], 1701. Second edition. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo (19 x 11.2cm), contemporary panelled calf, Memoires half-title with engraved portrait verso, Earl of Rosebery bookplate [ESTC T63889 & T61708; 7 UK copies for A Discourse]; [Kimber, Isaac]. The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: for J. Brother and T. Cox, 1724. First edition, 8vo (19.6 x 12cm), contemporary panelled calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement leaf, book-label (John Rutherfurd, Esq, of Edgerston, possibly the member of parliament for Roxburghshire, noted as a soldier and councillor in New York, 1712-1754), head of front joint worn, frontispiece damp-stained, pale damp-staining elsewhere, a2 (index) torn with loss of text [ESTC T134562]; Noble, Mark. The Lives of the English Regicides. London: John Stockdale, 1798. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.2 x 12.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, 4 pp. advertisements, bookplates of Montagu Burgoyne (1758-1836), politician and writer, numbering-pieces perished; Baillie, Robert. Letters and Journals, written by the deceased ... Principal of the University of Glasgow ... Containing an Impartial Account of Public Transactions ... both in England and Scotland, from 1637 to 1662. Edinburgh: W. Gray, 1775. First edition, second issue, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.3 x 12.3cm), contemporary tan calf, twin morocco labels; and 7 others (these not fully collated): Sir John Dalrymple, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Dissolution of the Last Parliament of Charles II, 1795 (new edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt); William Harris, An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Charles the Second, 1766 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, bookplates of Robert Shafto of Benwell, spines worn); Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, A Collection of the State Letters, Dublin, 1743 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, volume 1 title-page with marginal loss); Thomas Carte, A Collection of Original Letters and Papers concerning the Affairs of England, from the Year 1641 to 1660, found among the Duke of Ormond's Papers, 1739 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, bookplates of John Campbell of Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire, joints cracking); [Thomas Birch], An Inquiry into the Share, which King Charles I. had in the Transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan, 1756 (second edition), 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, front joint cracked at head and foot); Thomas Skinner, The Life of General Monk, 1723 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked, inner hinges strengthened); Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks, 1727 (fourth edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked) (23)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Harrington, James The Oceana of James Harrington and his Other Works; some wherof are now first publish'd from his Manuscripts. The whole collected, methodiz'd, and review'd, with an Exact Account of his Life prefix'd, by John Toland. London: to be sold by the booksellers, 1700. First collected edition, folio (30.8 x 19.4cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, engraved frontispiece, portrait after Sir Peter Lely, plate ('The Manner and Use of the Ballot'), advertisement leaf, variable light spotting and browning [ESTC R9111; Wing H816]; Brady, Robert. An Introduction to the Old English History, comprehended in three several Tracts. London: by Tho. Newcomb, for Samuel Lowndes, 1684. First edition, folio (31 x 19.2cm), 20th-century quarter sheep, marbled sides to style, browning, 2N3 slit for cancellation (the cancel also present)[ESTC R34414; Wing B4194]; Thomas May. The History of the Parliament of England: which began November the Third, M. DC. XL. With a Short and Necessary View of some Precedent Years. London: by Moses Bell, for George Thomason, 1647. First edition, folio (28.8 x 17.6cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, imprimatur leaf, title-page in red and black, light damp-staining to lower fore corners [ESTC R8147; Wing M1410]; Walker, Edward. Historical Discourses upon Several Occasions: viz. I. The Happy Progress and Succes of the Arms of K. Charles I [...]. London: by W. N. for Sam. Keble, 1705. First edition, folio (34.2 x 21.2cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, engraved headpieces and initial, full-page engraved portrait of Charles I, engraved folding plate, bookplate (Thomas Bagnall, St Edmund Hall, Oxford) to title-page verso, variable spotting and browning; Hakewill, George. An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World. Oxford: William Turner, 1635. Third edition ('revised ... besides the addition of two entire bookes not formerly published'), folio (27.8 x 18.5cm), modern half calf, engraved additional title-page, letterpress explanation leaf ('The argument of the front and of the worke'), retaining medial blanks 3E4 and 4A4, contemporary ownership inscription ('Ex libris Thomas Wadland') to letterpress title-page, occasional light browning, a few marks [ESTC S120609; STC 12613]; and 3 others (these not collated): Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State in the Reigns of Queen Mary [to] Oliver's Usurpation, 1746 (first edition, 2 volumes, large folio, modern quarter morocco, engraved frontispieces, all edges untrimmed, possibly a large-paper copy); William Howell, An Institution of General History, or the History of the World, 1680 (second edition, folio, modern cloth); Edmund Sawyer, Memorials of the Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly from the Original Papers of ... Ralph Winwood, 1725 (first edition, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and relined, without portrait) (11)Note: John Toland's influential edition of the works of James Harrington was an important component in his project to introduce republican ideas to an 18th-century audience, and 'provided a foundation for the whig intellectual tradition that influenced Maximilien Robespierre, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine' (ODNB). Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Sarpi, Paolo The Historie of the Councel of Trent London: by Robert Barker, and John Bill, 1620. First edition in English, folio (33.5 x 21cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, colophon leaf present, blanks and endpapers discarded, inner hinges strengthened, quires 2M-N transposed, C3 with short closed tear at foot [ESTC S116698; STC 21761]; Fuller, Thomas. The Church-History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ, to the Year M. DC. XLVIII. London: for John Williams, [1655]. First edition, folio (33 x 21.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved folding map of Cambridge, 4 engraved plates (one double-page), rear board detached, loss to lower fore corners of first 2 leaves to partial loss of imprint in title-page, occasional browning, a few damp-stains and other marks, folding map laid down, old repair and early annotations to final leaf verso [ESTC R14493; Wing F2416]; [Adams, John]. Index Villaris: or, an Exact Register, alphabetically digested, of all the Cities, Market-Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or other Division of each County, London: for T. Sawbridge, 1690. Second edition, large folio (37 x 22cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked at an early date, no pp. 265-8 but text continuous, closed tear to foot of E2, light worming in gutter towards rear [ESTC R4927; Wing A480]; [Commonwealth of England]. Original Letters and Papers of State, addressed to Oliver Cromwell ... Found among the Political Collections of Mr. John Milton. London: by William Bowyer, and sold by John Whiston, 1743. Folio (35.5 x 21.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, contemporary bookplate (Lt. Colonel Pechell), Castle Goring book-label, heavy craquelure to sides, variable browning [ESTC T56123]; and 8 others, 17th and 18th century folios (these not collated): [John Stow, The Annales, or Generall Chronicle of England, 1615] (first edition, contemporary calf, lacking all before [par.]7 and all after 4Q2, ex library, covers near-detached); John Walker, An Attempt towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy ... in the late Times of the Grand Rebellion, 1714 (contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Tracts, being a Collection of Several Treatises relating to the Government. Privately Printed in the Reign of K. Charles II, 1693 (contemporary mottled calf, front board detached); [John Oldmixon], The History of England during the Reign of the Royal House of Stuart, 1730 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Sir Robert Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1643 (first edition, 19th-century tan half calf, engraved portrait frontispiece and title-page, both laid down, early text-leaves remargined, browning); Peter Heylyn, The Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, 1681 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, worn lacking frontispiece); idem, Ecclesia Restuarata: The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 1674 (third edition, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recornered); Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy, 1683 (contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, browning, worming) (12)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Africa Photograph album relating to the Four Power Commission on ex-Italian colonies, 1946-7 Oblong folio album (32 x 50cm), reversed calf binding, lettered 'Middle-East & East Africa 1946-1947' on front cover in blind, containing 195 gelatin silver print photographs (nearly all 9 x 14cm), slit-mounted on paper leaves, a few with typescript captions verso, and 52 studio photographs or real-photo postcards (many signed A. Parodi on reverse, printed on matt cream card stock with deckle edges), similarly mounted, depicting urban, rural, village and desert scenes mainly apparently in Eritrea (Keren, Asmara, Agordat, etc.), Libya (Tripoli) and Egypt (the Nile, Muqattam Hills with Sultan Hassan Mosque in foreground), European officials and local figures and ethnographic 'types', and similar, together with an additional 130 loose photographs (various dimensions), many with mounted typescript captions in Italian and depicting rallies and troops of the 'Lega Mussulmana dell'Eritrea' (Independent Moslem League), and a small selection of passes and related documents belonging to one K. D. Heath of the British delegation

North American literature Collection of works, 19th-20th century including: [Irving, Washington]. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. No. I [-VII.]. New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1819-20. First editions, early printings, 7 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (20.6 x 13cm), contemporary maroon calf, parts 1-2 continuously paginated, remaining parts separately paginated, penciled annotation 'Bound from the parts [...] 2nd printing' to front free endpaper, contemporary gift inscriptions to title-pages, bindings sunned and rubbed; [Early Canadian printing]. The Rising Village, with Other Poems. By Oliver Goldsmith. A Descendant of the Author of "The Deserted Village". Saint John, New Brunswick: published for the author by John McMillan, 1834. 12mo, contemporary cloth, 144 pp., bookplate (Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave), light wear to spine; [Ball, Charles]. Fifty Years in Chains; or, The Life of an American Slave. New York: H. Dayton, 1860. 8vo, original blue cloth, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, binding rubbed, spine rolled, pp. 265-8 repaired; Faulkner, William. Salmagundi. And a Poem by Ernest M. Hemingway. Milwaukee: Casanova Press, 1932. One of 525 copies only, large 8vo, original wrappers, light splitting to front joint; Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, wood-engraved additional vignette title-pages, front free endpapers with ownership inscriptions 'Benjamin W. Crowninshield', either the US politician (1772-1851) or his grandson (1837–1892), spines sunned; and 12 others, including Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mother Carey's Chickens, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c.1911 (inscribed by the author), Robert Wilson, Poems, Boston, 1856 (first edition, with secretarial presentation inscription), Hermann Scheffauer, Looms of Life, New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1908 (first edition, inscribed by the author), Richard Eberhart, Thirty One Sonnets, New York: Eakins Press, 1967 (first edition, inscribed by the author), Liam O'Flaherty, The Fairy Goose and Two Other Stories, New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927 (first edition, signed by the author, additionally inscribed by British composer Kaikhosru Sorabji, 1892-1988 'To my dear friend Frank Holliday very affectionately ... K. 30/9/43'), Sir Woodbine Parish, Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, 1852 (second edition, original cloth), and similar (19)

Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? London: Rapp & Whiting, 1969. First UK edition, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, label of library suppliers A & B Cox to front pastedown, each cover attached to dust jacket by strip of self-adhesive tape over top and bottom edge, jacket with resulting stain to top edge of front and rear panel, rubbing along extremities, and a couple of nicks, together with The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988-90 (5 volumes, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, similar condition) (6)Note: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was the basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner.

Dowson, Ernest Decorations: in Verse and Prose, London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899 First edition, one of 300 copies, 4to (19 x 13.7cm), contemporary half morocco gilt, half-title, colophon leaf, edges untrimmed, original vellum front cover bound in at rear. Together with 26 others, poetry, 19th and early 20th century, including: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta and Calydon, London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1865 (first edition, 4to, original cream cloth gilt to a design by D. G. Rossetti, bevelled boards, bookplate of T. M. Bruce Gardyne, covers marked, first two quires shaken); Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, London: Leonard Smithers, 1899 (pirate edition?, 8vo original cloth); Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal, Paris: Louis Conard, 1922 (8vo, contemporary half morocco, inscribed by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988), British composer, 'You ought to possess a good copy of this remarkable poet's work, bless you, yours ever, K' on initial blank); J. E. Flecker, The Letters of J. E. Flecker to Frank Savery, London: Beaumont Press, 1926 (one of 80 copies printed on japon and signed by editor, artist and publisher, 8vo, original half vellum); [Lady Margaret Sackville], Bertrud and Other Dramatic Poems, Edinburgh: William Brown, 1911 (first edition, out-of-series copy from the total edition of 200, 8vo, original limp vellum, tawed deerskin ties, printed on Van Gelder paper, partly unopened, photogravure frontispiece offset); Robert Eyres Landor, Selections from his Poetry and Prose ... by Eric Partridge, London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927 (one of 155 copies on handmade paper, signed); [Australiana], The Explorer and Other Poems, by M. C., Melbourne: George Robertson, 1874 (first edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, largely unopened); and similar, many signed by the author (27)

Lawrence, D. H., Joseph Conrad, Norman Douglas and others Collection of works comprising: Lawrence, D.H. Pansies. London: P. R. Stephensen, 1929. 'Definitive edition' (Roberts), one of 500 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original wrappers, glassine dust jacket (slightly chipped at spine ends) [Roberts A47c]; Idem. The Story of Doctor Manente, being the Tenth and Last Story from the Suppers of A. F. Grazzini called Il Lasca. Translation and Introduction by D. H. Lawrence, Florence: G. Orioli, 1912. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 200 'special copies ... on Binda hand-made paper' signed by the author, 8vo, original simulated vellum with matching slipcase, slipcase slightly distressed [Roberts A45a]; Idem. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence: privately printed [verso of title: by the Tipografia Giuntina], 1928. 'Second edition, limited to 200 copies' (i.e. first edition, cheap-paper issue), square 8vo, contemporary black cloth, [4] 365 pp., original wrappers bound in, browning (stronger in margins), pencilled marginalia and underlining, a few closed marginal tears, pp. 207/8 loose [Roberts A42b]; Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent. A Drama in Three Acts. London: privately printed for subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1923. First edition thus, one of 1000 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original blue boards, white paper backstrip, dust jacket, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, largely unopened, duplicate spine-label tipped to rear blank; Idem. Three Plays. Laughing Anne, One Day More and The Secret Agent. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1934. First edition thus, 8vo, original red cloth, dust jacket, inscribed 'To Harold and Ada, affectionately from their friend Jessie Conrad, 1934' on the front free endpaper, spotting to edges and outer leaves; Douglas, Norman. How About Europe? Some Footnotes on East and West. Florence: privately printed, 1929. First edition, one of 550 copies numbered and signed by the author, 8vo, original patterned boards, inscribed 'To my great ... generous and dearly loved friend Frank (Frank Holliday), from ... K (Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji), June 10 MCMLIII, Corfu [...]' on the front free endpaper; and 6 others, comprising: Joseph Conrad, The Rover, 1923 (first edition, later blue calf gilt by Bayntun); Norman Douglas, Together, 1923 (large-paper issue, one of 250 copies signed by Douglas); idem, Summer Islands, 1931 (one of 550 copies signed by Douglas); W. Somerset Maugham, The Vagrant Mood, 1952 (one of 500 copies, signed); T. E. Lawrence, The Mint, 1955 (one of 2000 copies, 4to, original quarter morocco, slipcase); and a gelatin silver print photograph of Jo Davidson's bust of D. H. Lawrence inscribed on verso of mount 'This photograph belongs to Martin Secker' (12)Note: Harold Goodburn (1891-1966), recipient of this copy of Conrad's Three Plays, was tutor to Conrad's son John (1906-1982) at the King's School, Canterbury.

World War I writers Collection of works by Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and others comprising: Thomas, Edward. Rose Acre Papers. London: Lanthorn Press, 1904. First edition, small 8vo, original blue quarter cloth: Idem. The Woodland Life. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1897. 4to, original cloth (second state of binding, slightly marked); Idem. These Things the Poets Said. Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1935. First edition, one of 150 copies, 8vo, original quarter cloth, glassine dust jacket, woodcut title-page, initials and head- and tailpieces in colours, unopened, dust jacket chipped at head of spine, endpapers browned; Idem. Poems. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1917. First edition, 8vo, original boards, photogravure portrait frontispiece; Idem. A Literary Pilgrim in England. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1917. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, with the rare dust jacket (the statement 'second edition' on front flap apparently referring to Thomas's work Maurice Maeterlinck, advertised below), all plates as called for; Brooke, Rupert. 1914 and other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1915. First edition, third impression, 8vo, original cloth, bookplate of Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999), B. H. Blackwell compliments slip inscribed 'sent by instruction of Mr G. R. Mitchison' mounted to front free endpaper; and 17 others, all in original cloth or boards unless stated, including: 5 by Edward Thomas (e.g. The Life of the Duke of Marlborough, 1915, first edition, with the rare dust jacket, chipped); Rupert Brooke, 1914 and other Poems, 1915 (first edition, first impression, front free endpaper excised); Wilfred Owen, Poems, 1921 (first edition, second impression); Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack, 1918 (first edition, contemporary cloth); 'Restalrig', War Blasts and Other Poems, Edinburgh: Leith Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., 1915 (2 copies, both inscribed by the author); Vignettes of War from the Notebook of a Journalist in Arms, by the Late Lieutenant Hugh G. Garland, Adelaide: W. K. Thomas & Co., c.1920; If I Goes West! By a Tommy, 1918 (review copy blind stamp); Ballads of Battle, by Lance-Corporal Joseph Lee 1st/4th Battalion Black Watch, 1916 (dust jacket); and similar (23)

Baker, Sir Samuel W.  Ismailia A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, portrait frontispieces, 2 maps (one folding), 51 wood-engraved plates, 55 pp. advertisements, contemporary ownership inscriptions, later ownership inscription to volume 1, wear to extremities, front inner hinges cracking, spotting to endpapers and frontispieces, folding map spotted and with old repairs verso, damp-staining to last few plates in volume 2; Idem. The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, steel-engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 maps (one folding), 22 wood-engraved plates (23 listed; the Coor and Bayard illustrations are one plate), ink-stamp (Baron de Worms, Milton Park, Egham) to title-page, bookplate (motto 'vinctus non victus'), wear to extremities, spotting to prelims, inner hinges slightly cracked; Speke, John Hanning. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition, 8vo (21.4 x 13cm), modern sheep, all plates and maps as called for; Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo, later half roan, all plates and maps as called for; Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; with Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and the Present Colony of New South Wales. London: T. & W. Boone, 1839. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.6 x 13.5cm), modern green half morocco, xxi [3] 355, ix [3] 415 pp., engraved vignette title-pages (unsigned), 50 plates (of 51: lacking plate 27, 'Chaeropus ecaudatus'), nearly all lithographic, several hand-coloured or folding, 4 pp. advertisements, original front free endpaper with contemporary gift inscription 'Emmeline Sophia Mackenzie ... from her brother Donald Hume Macleod 10th September 1840' bound in after title-page (Macleod was a British army officer and early settler in western Australia), ink-stamps 'F. A. Dundas, essayez' to p. 1 of each volume, volume 1 lacking text-leaf O1, plates spotted, a few damp-stained, marginal consolidation to plates 13 and 15; and 11 others: Sir Samuel W. Baker, The Albert N'yanza, London, 1866 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, recased, lacking route map); [Egypt], A History of the Operations of the French and British Armies in Egypt, from the Landing of Bonaparte to the Restoration of the Ottoman Power ... By Several Gentlemen, Members of the Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle: K. Anderson, 1809-10 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, 2 folding plates, folding plan, woodcut tailpieces by Bewick, map of Egypt absent, browning and damp-staining, repair to one plate); Henry M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa, New York, 1890 (first US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, lacking 'Map of the Great Forest Region' in volume 1 end-pocket); idem, How I Found Livingstone, 1872 (first edition, 8vo, 20th-century cloth with section from original cloth binding laid onto front board, incomplete, lacking 2 maps); A. M. , Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda, London, 1890 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding map); C. G. Schillings, In Wildest Africa, New York, 1907 (large 8vo, original cloth); Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix, London, 1932 (first edition, original cloth, half-title and frontispiece working loose); Adolphus Slade, Turkey, Greece and Malta, London, 1837 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, lacking frontispieces); Dufferin, A Yacht Voyage, Toronto, 1873, original cloth, inscribed by the author; and 2 unrelated (Thomas Bewick, A History of British Birds, 1832, contemporary tree calf, rebacked; P. Hawker, Instructions to Young Sportsmen, 1824, third edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates) (22)

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, very slight rubbing to extremities, laminate just lifting at corners and along fore edge of front wrapper, faint creases to head of front and rear wrappers, text-block toned as usual, small marginal hole in pp. 35/6 [Errington A1 (aa)]Note: First edition, first impression, paperback issue, one of 5,150 copies, with all the requisite points: the copyright page dated 1997, credited to 'Joanne Rowling', with no space between 'Thomas Taylor', and with the number line descending from 10 to 1; page 53 with '1 wand' repeated; and retaining the misprint 'Philospher's' on the rear wrapper. Provenance: Purchased new by the current vendor in 1997.

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, third impression, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, text-block toned as usual, dust jacket spine-panel slightly faded [not in Errington]Note: The third impression was the first to be issued with a dust jacket.

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, first impression, case-bound issue, 8vo, original pictorial boards, dust jacket, spine gently rolled, a hint of rumpling to foot of jacket spine-panel, school prize plate mounted to front free endpaper, an excellent copy [Errington A2(a)]; and 9 others: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, London: Ted Smart, 1998 (first Ted Smart edition, first impression, original boards, spine rolled, loss to spine-ends, tips bumped and worn,text-block toned, closed tear in pp. 163-6, [Errington A1(b)]); Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Illustrations by Mary Grandpré, New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2000 ('American deluxe edition', original green morocco gilt, [Errington A4(d)]; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, London: Bloomsbury, 1999 (2 copies: first edition, second impression, case-bound issue, original boards, dust jacket spine sunned; first edition, first impression, paperback issue); The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix, The Half-Blood Prince, The Deathly Hallows (all first editions, first impressions, original boards, dust jackets); and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, 2008 (first edition, first impression, original boards) (10)

MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] Collection of pamphlets by or relating to Hugh comprising: Trevlyn, Valda (wife of Hugh MacDiarmid). Two Poems. [Verona]: printed for Valda, G[iovanni] M[ardersteig], [Officina Bodoni], 1970. First edition, one of 15 copies only, large 8vo, original wrappers, 5 pp., inscribed by Trevlyn on the title-page 'For Christopher, with all my love, Valda, 25/11/70', presumably to her husband Christopher Murray Grieve (i.e. Hugh MacDiarmid); MacDiarmid, Hugh. Early Lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid recently discovered among Letters to his Schoolmaster and Friend George Ogilvie. Preston: Akros Publications, 1968. First edition, one of 50 copies signed by author and editor from the total edition of 300, 8vo, original, wrappers; Idem. Second Hymn to Lenin. Thakeham: Valda Trevlyn, c.1932. 2 copies, first editions, one being one 100 copies signed by the author and additionally inscribed 'To my good friend Neil M. Gunn [...]' and with laid-in autograph letter signed ('Chris'), the other out-of-series and inscribed by the author 'To Barbara Niven, with gratitude and all comradely feelings [...], 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. Five Bits of Miller. London: for the author, 1934. First edition, one of 40 copies signed by the author, this copy additionally inscribed 'To my friend G. S. Whithorn from Hugh MacDiarmid, London, June 1934', 4to, original wrappers; Idem. The MacDiarmids. A Conversation. Hugh MacDiarmid and Duncan Glen. Recorded at Brownsbank ... 1968. [Preston]: Akros, 1970. 2 copies, first editions, each one of 55 copies signed by MacDiarmid and Glen, 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. The Fire of the Spirit. Glasgow: Duncan Glen, 1965. 2 copies, first editions, 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. A Political Speech. Edinburgh: Reprographia, 1972. 4 copies, first editions, 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. the ugly birds without wings. Edinburgh: Allan Donaldson, 1962. 2 copies, 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. David Hume. Scotland's Greatest Son. Edinburgh: The Paperback, 1961. Oblong 8vo, original wrappers; Idem. Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933. Edinburgh: K. D. Duval, 1963. 4to, original wrappers; Glen, Duncan. The Literary Masks of Hugh MacDiarmid. Glasgow: Drumalban Press, 1964. First edition, one of 55 copies signed and hand-illustrated by the author, 4to, original wrappers; and 12 others including 2 more by Trevlyn (High Death, Falkland: K D Duval, 1970, one of 100 copies only, single sheet of blue hand-made paper folded twice, inscribed 'For William & Mary, Valda Trevlyn'; A Sea-Girl's Cry, 1971, one of 100 copies, signed), and various studies of MacDiarmid (30)Note: Three copies of Two Poems traced in libraries world-wide, all in the USA.

Rowling, J. K., and others One City Edinburgh: Polygon, 2005. 8vo, original orange cloth, spine and covers lettered in white, silhouette of the Edinburgh skyline in blue along foot, patterned endpapers, slipcase, rubbing to cover designNote: First edition, signed limited issue, one of 150 numbered copies signed by J. K. Rowling, author of the introduction, and Irvine Welsh, Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith, each of whom wrote a specially commissioned short story set in Edinburgh; the collection was published to benefit the OneCity Trust. The signed limited issue was not publicly available for sale (private information from the publisher).

Eminent Victorians Autograph album containing approx. 120 letters, clipped signatures and signed sentiments (mainly complete letters), including woman writers (Mary Louisa Molesworth, Beatrice Harraden, Mary Hawker, Sarah Doudney etc.), other authors and artists (Anthony Hope, Israel Zangwill, Edward J. Poynter, Jerome K. Jerome, John Tenniel, etc.), suffragette Helen Blackburn, numerous aristocrats (the 8th and 9th dukes of Argyll, Viscount Castlereagh, etc.), and Indian interest including Gholam Mohumed (1795-1872, son of Tipu Sultan; autograph letter signed, to 'My respected freind [sic]', dated Russpugla [Tollygunge], 1868, 3 pp.) and a letter signed apparently from Krishnaraja Wadiyar III (1794-1868, maharaja of Mysore to L. B. Bowring, commissioner of Mysore, dated Palace, Mysore, 1866, 3 pp.). Together with: a similar album including aristocrats and politicians (e.g. Palmerston, Rosebery, Lauderdale, etc., these mainly clipped signatures), and various others including traveller and author Constance Gordon-Cumming (complete letter, undated, 4 pp.), and banker Thomas Coutts (complete letter on the purchase of navy bills, 1782, 2 pp.), etc., spine defective, lacking front board; and approx. 50 further autographs (mainly complete letters, all loose), including aristocrats and politicians (e.g. Lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India), bishops (e.g. John Colenso, bishop of Natal, 1863), and others (quantity)

Hooker, William Jackson Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809 London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. Second edition ('with additions'), 2 volumes, 8vo (20.8 x 13cm), contemporary cloth, [8] cvi 369, [2] 391 [15] pp., half-titles, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates (2 folding), 3 engraved maps (2 folding; one printed in bistre), letterpress table (facing volume 2 p. 238), inscribed 'To Mrs Dennistoun, with the most respectful compliments of the author, 1826' on half-title of volume 1, spotting and offsetting; Campbell, Walter. The Old Forest Ranger; or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles and on the Plains. London: How and Parsons, 1842. First edition, 8vo, original quarter morocco, 8 tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece and additional vignette title-page, tissue-guards, spine worn, tips bumped and showing through, spotting to endpapers and a few plates, quires I-K working loose [not in Abbey]; and 6 others (not fully collated): John Matheson, England to Delhi, 1870 (first edition, 4to, original red cloth, inscribed 'James M. Hall Esqr, with the author's compliments', front inner hinge cracked; James Young Simpson, Side-Lights on Siberia: Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad, the Prisons and Exile System, 1898 (first edition, 8vo, original green cloth); George Milne Rae, The Syrian Church in India, 1892 (first edition, 8vo, original red cloth); Daniel Bruun, The Cave Dwellers of Southern Tunisia, 1898 (first edition in English, 8vo, original brown cloth); Sir William Andrew, Euphrates Valley Route to India, 1882 (second edition, large 8vo, original orange cloth); and a signal book for the [Royal] Northern Yacht Club, 1829 (8vo, contemporary calf, front board detached, flags added in watercolour) (9)Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.

Stein, Sir Aurel On Alexander's Track to the Indus Personal Narrative of Explorations of the North-West Frontier of India. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all halftone photographic plates as called for, 2 folding maps; Idem. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. First edition, 4to, later quarter leather, gilt roundel from original cloth binding mounted to front board, half-title, all plates and folding panoramas as called for, folding map (with closed tear); Howard-Bury, C. K., C. G. Bruce, and E. F. Norton. [The Everest trilogy:] Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921; The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922; The Fight for Everest: 1924. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922-3-5. First editions, 3 works, 8vo, original vari-coloured cloth, all plates and maps as called for, pale markings to cloth, Mount Everest tips bumped and worn, Assault cloth sunned; and 8 others (these not fully collated): Joseph Dalton Hooker, Himalayan Journals, 1855 ('new edition, carefully revised and condensed', 2 volumes, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, wood-engraved frontispieces, colour plate, volume 2 inner hinges strengthened); Edward Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, 1871 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco); idem, Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 1892 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco); Edmund Candler, The Unveiling of Lhasa, 1905 (fourth impression, 8vo original cloth, inscribed 'Claude Auchinleck, from M. E. A., October 1906', spine strengthened); Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet, 1903 (first edition, Australasian issue, 2 volumes, 8vo, recent red crushed half morocco); Isabella L. Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, recased and relined, rubbed); Robert Byron, First Russian then Tibet, 1933 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Francis Younghusband, India and Tibet, 1910 (2nd impression, 8vo, original cloth) (16)

Simon Bishop (20th/21st Century), "Homage to Maurice K", signed and dated 1972-2013, oil on canvas, pine frame, 91cm x 126cm.

A 19th century 18ct gold ruby and seed pearl lozenge shaped ring, size K, 2g

An 18ct gold diamond solitaire ring, brilliant cut, platinum claw set bezel, each shoulder set with three diamond chips, size K, 2.4g; an 18ct gold illusion set three stone diamond ring, size J/K, 2.3g (2)

An 18ct gold three stone ruby ring, accented with four brilliant cut diamond chips, size M, 4g; an 18ct white and yellow gold diamond set eternity ring, size K, 3.7g (2)

A David Andersen of Norway sterling silver ring, enamelled with five bands of white in the form of a feather, ring size K, marked 925

A Lladro figure, Elegant Promenade, as a fashionable lady in wide brimmed hat walking a pair of dogs, number 5802 J-22 K, 39cm, impressed marks

Collection of pipes to include Meerschaum example, AHE, K & P Peterson, etc (5)

Collection of pipes to include a Meerschaum example, cased example modeled as a bearded gentleman with a eagle on his hat, Meerschaum Jambo, K & P Peterson, three Falcon pipes (7)

K Schall coil with a dry cell housed within a wooden case with carrying handle, 18cm high 13cm deep

BRYANS DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS - VOL I A-K & VOL II L-Z, by Michael Bryan (2)