Baring-Gould (Sabine) Margery of Quether and Other Stories, first edition, browning and ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, gilt, spine faded, light rubbing and bumping to spine and and corners, light rubbing to joints, but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1891.⁂ A rare short story collection including the early vampire story Margery of Quether. Published six years before Dracula, Baring-Gould's story tells of a vampiric witch that sucks the blood and drains the vitality of the narrator.
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Blackwood (Algernon) A Prisoner in Fairyland, first edition, initialed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, 10pp. advertisements, browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, spine dulled, light rubbing, dust-jacket, spine slightly browned and lacking lower 1/3, head of spine and corners chipped, light scattered spotting to panels, creasing to head and foot, 8vo, 1913.⁂ Rare fantasy novel by Blackwood, we can trace no other copy in a jacket and inscribed. A Prisoner in Fairyland was adapted into a 1915 children's play with original music composed by Sir Edward Elgar. Louis Napoleon Parker (1852-1944) English dramatist, composer, translator and a dedicatee of Blackwood's Dudley and Guilderoy.
Movables.- English School (19th century) Three pull tab movable animated cards, including a seated lady stroking a cat, a gentleman taking snuff, and a fortune teller holding cards with inscription below that reads 'Let me spa?e your ?weat my pretty Miss, and I'll tell 'e who's to be your Husband', watercolours, pen and ink, over traces of pencil, the last mentioned signed with initials 'A.P.', various sizes between 140 x 150 mm. (5 1/2 x 5 7/8 in) and 175 x 180 mm. (6 7/8 x 7 1/8 in), all parts working and moving smoothly, the lady with the cat is lacking the upper part of her head, otherwise some surface dirt and light browning, unframed, [19th century] (3).
Fitzgerald (F. Scott) The Great Gatsby, first edition, first issue with 'northern' to p.119, 'it's' to p.165, 'chatter' to p.60, 'sick in tired' to p.205, and 'Union Street station' to p.211, signed presentation inscription from the author dated 'Paris, 1929' to tipped-in endpaper, original cloth, light discolouration and small gouge mark to spine, some light rubbing and minor bumping to tips of spine and corners, but an excellent example overall, 8vo, New York, 1925.Saleroom notice; This was published in 1925 and not 1935 as originally stated
Sueyro (Emanuel) Annales de Flandes, 2 vol. in 1, vol.1 half-title and engraved allegorical title, vol.2 printed title with large woodcut vignette, full-page engraved portrait by Pieter de Jode with repair, light browning, contemporary Dutch vellum, gilt, yapp edges, [Salva 3192; Palau 324882], folio, Antwerp, Pedro & Juan Beleros, 1624.⁂ Handsome copy in contemporary binding of this chronicle of Flanders from 407 to 1477, ie until the death of Charles the Bold.Provenance: C. Amberes (ink inscription dated 1624 on front endpaper); Joaquin Abavrre (bookplate); Messenger family (bookplate).
Aldus.- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) [De institutione oratoria], first Aldine edition, collation: *4, a-z A-E8, F6, (lacking blank *4), title with woodcut printer's device, ink marginalia largely faded and illegible, some light water-staining towards end, slight worming affecting text towards end, later panelled calf, spine repaired, 8vo (201 x 120mm.), Venice, [House of Aldus & Andrea Torresani], 1514.⁂ Scarce and important first Aldine edition of this work on oratory. Provenance: Charles Bernard (inscription on title - surgeon, died 1710, sale, Black Boy coffeehouse, London, 1711, lot 534); William Forster Smithe (inscription on title and front pastedown); A.J. Canham (bookplate); William O'Brien and Milltown Park Library (booklabels) Literature: EDIT 16 CNCE 54150; Renouard 68:5; Adams Q52; Ahmanson-Murphy 124.
Wodehouse (P.G.) Love Among the Chickens, first edition, first issue without date to copyright p., frontispiece and 3 plates by H.M.Brock (1 loose), some pulling to gatherings, occasional light foxing, small ink name to endpaper, original pictorial cloth, spine browned, spine ends and corners with minor bumping and fraying splitting to joints but holding firm, light rubbing, [McIlvaine A7a], 8vo, [1906].⁂ Wodehouse's first adult novel, rare.
Obstetrics.- Roesslin (Eucharius) The birth of man-kinde; othervvise named, The womans booke. Set forth in English by Thomas Raynald physitian, and by him corrected and augmented, black letter, title within woodcut decorative border, including personifications of faith and humility and mythical creatures, 9 full-page woodcuts, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, some light browning, title with short repaired tear and a few other minor repairs, water-stained, occasional staining, modern calf, cloth slip-case, [STC 21164; Krivatsy 908; Waller 8102; cf. Heirs of Hippocrates (1604 edition) 115], small 4to in 8s, Printed [by Robert Barker, Bernard Alsop, and Thomas Fawcet] for A. H[ebb] and are to be sold by Iohn Morret, at the two Tuns in little Britaine, 1634.⁂ A rare English edition of the first practical handbook for midwives. This translation by the physician Thomas Raynalde is based on Richard Jonas' translation of a Latin edition of Roesslin's Der swagern Frauwen und hebammen Rosegarten, 1513.
Italy.- Brescia.- Rossi (Ottavio) Le memorie bresciane opera istorica et simbolica, edited and enlarged by Fortunato Vinaccesi, engraved additional pictorial title and portrait, woodcut folding plate, numerous woodcuts within text, some foxing and light browning, contemporary vellum, 4to, Brescia, Domenico Gromi, 1693.⁂ Second enlarged edition of this important book on Brescia. Includes the origins and history of Brescia, and discussion of the architecture of the city.
Florence.- Ruggieri (Ferdinando) Scelta di Architetture Antiche e Moderne della Citta di Firenze, 5 parts in 4 vol., 3 additional engraved titles (?of 4), printed titles in red and black with engraved vignette, folding plan, 3 portraits and 279 plates, some double-page, a few engraved head-pieces and initials, occasional light staining and foxing, mostly marginal, but generally an excellent copy on fine paper, vol.1 upper hinge detached, contemporary vellum, some wear to corners and leather spine labels, soiled, [Berlin Kat. 2690], folio, Florence, Appresso l'Editore, 1755.⁂ An excellent, unsophisticated copy of the second (expanded) edition of the most beautiful and important work on Florentine architecture of the 18th century. Provenance: Bookplates of Holland House and Sir A.E. Richardson.
Le Carré (John) [The Karla Trilogy], 3 vol., compising Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, bookplate signed by Alec Guinness facing title, jacket spine faded, short closed tear to head of lower panel, 1974; The Honourable Schoolboy, 1977; Smiley's People, 1980, first editions, bookplates signed by the author to titles, original boards, dust-jackets, some light rubbing and minor chipping to spine ends and corners, but excellent or near-fine overall; and first editions of A Small Town in Germany and The Naive and Sentimental Lover with signed bookplates, 8vo (5)
Awdry (Rev. W.) The Three Railway Engines, first edition, first printing without advert for Thomas the Tank Engine, original boards, rebacked, light soiling to cover, dust-jacket, repairs and restorations to head and foot with portion of restoration to upper panel, oblong 8vo, [1946].⁂ The first book in the celebrated Railway Series, rare, especially so in the jacket.
Africa.- Burchell (William J.) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol., first edition, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, some folding, wood-engraved illustrations, folding hand-coloured engraved map linen-backed and preserved separately, some foxing and light offsetting, lacking half-titles and errata slip, without the "Hints to immigration" sometimes found at end of vol.1, contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards, spines gilt, slightly rubbed and repaired, cloth slip-case, map in separate modern half morocco drop-back box, [Abbey, Travel 327; Tooley 116; Mendelssohn 1:224], 4to, 1822. (3)⁂ "The most valuable and accurate work on South Africa published up to the first quarter of the nineteenth century...the illustrations are characterized by great beauty and accuracy." (Mendelssohn)
Vonnegut (Kurt) Slaughterhouse-Five; or, the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, second printing, signed presentation inscription from the author to Tom Maschler to half-title, original cloth, light fading to head, first state dust-jacket with 0369 code to rear flap, browning, chip to foot of spine and light creasing to head, a very good copy overall, 8vo, 1969.⁂ Tom Maschler (b.1933), publisher and author.
Eliot (T.S.) Four Quartets, first collected edition, first printing, ink ownership inscription and bookplate, 50¢ ink stamp to pastedown, original cloth, light rubbing to foot, first issue dust-jacket priced at $2.00 and listing 9 titles on the rear panel, lightly tanned, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, very short closed tear to head of lower joint, very minor creasing to head but an excellent, sharp example overall, preserved in folding chemise and slip-case, [Gallup A43a], 8vo, New York, 1943.⁂ Scarce. While 4,165 copies were printed for the first impression, 3,777 were destroyed because of the inferior quality of the printing (unskilled wartime labour was used and resulted in the margins being incorrectly set). The remaining 788 examples were used for review copies and to preserve copyright.
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first printing, [one of 500 copies], usual light browning to text margins, ex-library copy with ink stamp to front free endpaper, card docket and tape to pastedown, original pictorial boards, sticker to spine, spine ends and corners bumped with wear to corners, covers with laminate peeled and faint scratch marks, extremities rubbed, 8vo, 1997.⁂ The author's first book and the first in the Harry Potter series, a modern cornerstone of children's literature.
Italy.- Saint-Non (Jean Claude Richard, l'Abbé de) Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, l'Imprimerie de Clousier, 4 vol. in 5, first edition, half-titles, engraved title vignettes by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, Pierre-Philippe Choffard and Varin, after Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Duplessi-Berteaux,, dedication f., 305 plates (including the 'phallus' plate in vol.2, which is often lacking), maps and plans by Claude-Augustin Duflos, Le Roy, Prévost, Saint-Non and others after Fragonard, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel, Hubert Robert, Saint-Non, and others, illustrations and head- and tail-pieces (of which c.20 of the latter hand-coloured), a few short repaired tears, some spotting and light browning, vol.2 with some marginal water-staining, 19th century half calf, richly gilt spines in compartments and with red morocco labels, [Blackmer 1473; Berlin Kat. 1904; Cicognara 2708; Cohen-De Ricci 928-930], folio, Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Clousier, 1781-1786.⁂ 'One of the monuments of French eighteenth-century book production.' (Blackmer).Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non went to Italy in 1759 and studied art and architecture in Rome where he met the artists Fragonard and Hubert-Robert, who were among those who contributed drawings for this work. He travelled to Naples with them in the spring of 1760, spending several weeks in Naples itself, as well as visiting Paestum, Pompeii and Herculaneum, where he drew copies of murals and antiquities. On his return to Paris in 1761 preparation of the plates was put in hand under the direction of Jean Benjamin de Laborde, co-author with Zurlauben of the equally monumental Tableau... de la Suisse. However the cost of such a lavish production ruined Saint-Non and hastened his death in 1791.The magnificent engraved plates include views of Naples and its environs, neighbouring towns, Vesuvius, churches, palaces and other buildings, catacombs, temples, tombs, grottos, ancient and Renaissance works of art, and many other architectural and scenic subjects, with the descriptive text by Dominique Vivant-Denon.Provenance: John Wordsworth (1805-1839) lassical scholar and priest, son of Bishop Christopher Wordsworth and nephew of the poet William Wordsworth (ink inscriptions to front endpapers).
Livius (Titus) The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, large woodcut device on title, woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth on title verso and of Livy on verso of A4, lacking initial and final blank leaves, some light water-staining, mostly to lower edge and corner, 2 leaves with small burn-hole causing very slight loss of text, generally a good, crisp copy, contemporary calf, rebacked, joints cracking, rubbed, [STC 16613; Pforzheimer 495], folio, Printed by Adam Islip, 1600.⁂ A very good copy of this important Shakespeare source book, used in particular for Coriolanus.
Blake (William).- Blair (Robert) The Grave. A Poem, subscribers' copy, engraved portrait frontispiece of William Blake by Louis Schiavonetti after T.Phillips and engraved additional title and 11 plates by Schiavonetti after Blake, list of subscribers, some occasional light soiling, but largely a very good, clean copy, bookplate of Sir Henry Wilson to pastedown, original boards with paper label to upper cover, rebacked, corners bumped, rubbed, preserved in folding chemise and slip-case, 4to, 1808.⁂ The first Blake-illustrated edition, Sir Henry Wilson appears on p.3 of the list of subscribers.
Collection of assorted brass light fittings, both for ceiling and wall, including a six branch candelabra, 25" across, a smaller five branch candelabra, 18" across, set of four twin sconce wall fittings, 20" high and a smaller pair of two-sconce wall fittings; also a small assortment of brass door furniture including knobs, handles etc
Fairbairn Sykes 2nd Pattern commando knife by Wilkinson Sword , with leather scabbard, the knife measures 30cm long.Condition report: The cross guard is tight fitting. The dagger blade is generally good with only very light pitting that I would think would clean off. The edge is not sharp and I think the tip has been blunted at some stage. There are minor scuffs and wear to the finish of the grip. I have uploaded images of the above faults to our online catalogues.
Uniform and medals for Major J.R. Thomas 2nd Middlesex Regiment , to include Edward VII Long Service in the Volunteer Force and hallmarked silver Territorial Decoration dated 1907 with miniature, together with Major J.R. Thomas's sons WW2 uniform and medals for 2nd Lieutenant J.R. Thomas Jnr of the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry.

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