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Original hardcover folio book Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 by Sacheverell Sitwell. This original edition is bound in half orange buckram over marbled boards and includes 38 full-page plates, 16 of which are in color. Publisher: Collins & Van Nostrand London & New York. Issued: 1953Dimensions: 14"L x 1.50"W x 19.50"HCountry of Origin: England & United StatesCondition: Age related wear. Minor foxing on first page.

The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio: Audubon's Birds of America. A massive moss-green leather bound book with a tan bookmark ribbon, featuring two owls in gilded-leaf on the cover. A perfect book for the ornithophile. Beautiful naturalistic illustrations of birds of various types. From waterfowl, to gamebirds, to songsters, to birds of prey, and more. Artist: Roger Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie PetersonIssued: 1981Dimensions: 12.25"L x 3"W x 15.5"HManufacturer: The Easton PressCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition: Age related wear. As is. Stains on pages.

THE FOLIO SOCIETY, HANSEL AND GRETEL, in turquoise sleeveCondition of book is generally good. outer slip with indent to gilt tooling, and some wear to corners.

THE FOLIO SOCIETY, KING HENRY'S PRAYER BOOK, Henry VIII praying, detail from the black book of Garter c.1534-41 (By permission of the Dean and Canons of Windsor), dated 2009, with protective sleeveIn overall fair condition. Small areas of creasing to a couple of pages. Age related wear. Additional images now available.

THE FOLIO SOCIETY, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, in fitted red boxCondition generally good. Book well kept. Slip cover with some creasing and wear, though nothing of major note.

Pre-Raphaelite interest - Marsh, Jan " Pre-Raphaelite Women...."Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995, col plates anmd ills throughout, pictorial endpapers, grey boards, dust wrapper, folio,  Rose, Andrea " Pre-Raphaelite Portraits", the Oxford Illustrated Press, 1981, b/w ills throughout, dark grey boards, dust wrapper, Fredeman, William E. ( ed.) " Rosettie Cabinet...A Portfolio of Drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hitherto Unpublished ......" Ian Hodgkins & Co. Ltd., Stroud 1991, b/w ills throughout, compliment slip dedicated and signed by the editor (?), dustwrapper, dark blue boards with gilt titles and glassine cover, Hawksley , Lucinda " Lizzie Siddal - "The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel"  Andre Deutsch 2004, col and b/w photographic plates, teal coloured boards, dustwrapper, Bryson, John " Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Jane Morris - Their Correspondance..."  Clarendoon Press 1946, b/w ills throughout, red boards, dustwrapper, Parshall, Peter ( and others) " The Darker Side of Light - Arts of Privacy, 1850 -1900", National Gallery of Washington in association with Lund Humphries , ills throughout , pictroial endpapers, pale grey boards, dustwrapper with glassine cover, Hobson, Anthony " J.W. Waterhouse" Phaidon - Christie's Oxon, col plates throughout, book plate inside front board, black boards, dustwrapper,  Mucha, Jiri " Alphonse Maria Mucha, His Life and Art" Academy Editions 1989, ills throughout, dustwrapper ( 8)

Sitwell, Sacheverell and Maydol, Roger "Album De Redoute with 25 facsimile plates in the edition of 1824", Collins 1954, this is no.5 of 250 numbered copies signed by both the authors and contains the original Redoute plate of 'Dracaena Terminalis', there are some stains on the lower part of the plate (please see images), this book is specially bound by Hiscox, watered silk ep, half vellum with gilt and cream toile de jouy style boards, elephant folio, a.e.g., glassine protective cover 

Folio Society [Thornton, Robert] "The Temple of Flora", Harris, Stephen "Author of the commentary", full size facsimile limited to 1,980 hand numbered copies with two limited edition facsimile prints which were free at the time of purchase of the book, both are framed, quarter goat skin with pictorial and gilt front board in clamshell fitted box, the commentary fitted in below (3) 

An extensive collection of paper Victorian ephemera relating to Christmas and other Greetings Cards, postcards and photographs, a folio of art works (some original, some prints), faux book boxes, cigarette cards etc

ILLUSTRATED: James, Grace: Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales. Macmillan, 1910, 1st. Edn. With 40 tipped-in colour plates. Gilt pictorial boards, little rubbed, VG; SIGNED LIMITED Edn: Donald McKay (ill): Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Random House, 1930, Limited edn. #21 of 2000 copies, Signed by McKay. Leather backed pictorial boards and slipcase. Vg; Sporting Pictures at Lavington Park - The Rt Hon Lord Woolavington. Privately Printed, 1927. Full vellum, with a typed letter, Signed from Lord Woolavington, dated March 12, 1928 and tipped-in to the front pastedown. PLUS: A typed letter, Signed from John Macdonald-Buchanan to Roy Heron, dated 23 Sept, 1997 (loosely inserted); newspaper cutting concerning Captain John Macdonald-Buchanan; etc; Stratton, Helen (ill); The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Blackie, no date (1906) School prize label to front blank, dated. Folio, Pictorial boards; Phil May's Sketch-Book. 1895, 1st. Folio. Covers rubbed; Phil May's ABC. 1897, 1st. Folio. Pictorial boards, little rubbed; Gibson, C D: Our Neighbours. New York, 1905, 1st. Edn. Oblong folio. Original pictorial boards, tear and damp stain, o/w Good+; Yeats, John: N. W. 1: The Camden Town artists, a social history. 2007, Inscribed & Signed to Roy Heron. Wrappers, Fine; Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross. Hodder & Stoughton, (1915). 20 tipped-in plates (19 coloured). 4to. (2 copies); PLUS: Coloured mounted plate by Frank Adams; + Cecil Aldin: 20 colour plates from his: Zoo Babies. (Qty)

Quality editions of the classics published by the Folio Society, including: Perrault's Fairy Tales, 1998._ Wonder Book for Girls & Boys, Illus. by Walter Crane, 2008._ Vanity Fair, 1996._ The Arabian Nights, 2000._ Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales, 1998._ The Fable's of Aesop, 1998._ Legends of King Arthur, 2000._ Bestiary, 1992._ Condition: books are largely as new, slip-cases may have shelf marks in places (9)   

MANWOOD, John (d.1610). A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest ... The Third Edition, London, 1665, 8vo, printed in black letter (mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning), contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed). With 2 defective books. (3)MANWOOD, John (d.1610).  A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest, Wherein is declaered not onely those Laws, as they are now in force, but also the Original and beginning of Forests; and what a Forest is in its own proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a Chase, a Park, or a Warren ... Also a Treatise of the Pourallee, declaring what a Pourallee is, how the same first began, what a Pourallee-man may do, how he may hunt and use his own Pourallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his own Chase; together with the limits and bounds, as well of the Forest, as the Pourallee ... The Third Edition Corrected, and much Inlarged. London: "Printed for the Company of Stationers," 1665. 8vo (178 x135mm). Printed in black letter, woodcut headpieces and initials (lacks a1 [?blank], i.e. all before title, title spotted and shaved at foot, variable mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning throughout). Contemporary full calf (rebacked, quite heavily rubbed and scuffed, a few old repairs, new endpapers). Provenance: some later mainly pencil annotation. Cf. Goldsmiths' 284; Kress 207; Schwerdt II, p.7; Wing M554. See DNB for a list of the various editions of "this excellent work", including the first which was printed for private circulation in 1592. The author is described in the same reference work as "... a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, gamekeeper of Waltham Forest, and justice of the New Forest." With 2 other books, namely Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland ... Written first in Latine by William Camden ... Translated newly into English by Philemon Holland ... Finally, revised, amended, and enlarged with sundry Additions by the said Author (London, "Impensis Georgii Bishop", 1610, folio, lacks all the maps, defective, contemporary reverse calf) and The Book of Common-Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments (London, 1662, folio, fine engraved architectural title, black letter, elaborate woodcut initials and decorations, prayers for "Gunpowder. Treason" at the end, many repairs, with some sections supplied in manuscript, later annotation, modern old-style half calf. The lot sold not subject to return. (3)

CHINA, TURKEY AND THE LEVANT - A sammelband consisting of 207 fine original watercolours of Turkish and Levantine figures, and 3 related 17th- and 18th-century printed works, including fine hand-coloured Chinese costume plates, folio, contemporary calf.CHINA, TURKEY AND THE LEVANT - A sammelband consisting of 207 fine original watercolours and 3 printed works, comprising: 207 FINE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS OF MAINLY TURKISH AND LEVANTINE FIGURES, many heightened in gold, consisting of 1) 160 watercolours, trimmed and laid down, four to a page, captioned in early French manuscript, each c.130 x c.85mm, 18th - early-19th-century; and 2) 47 watercolours in a different hand, including 2 folding, trimmed and laid down, four to a page, captioned in early French manuscript, each c.170 x c.110mm, 18th-early 19th-century;[With:] [Jacques LE HAY (c.1645-c.1713) & Charles de FERRIOL (1652-1722).  Recueil de Cent Estampes Representant Differentes Nations du Levant Peintes d' aprés Nature en Mil Sept Cens Sept, & Mil Sept Cens Huit, par les Ordres de M. de Ferriol, Ambassadeur du Roy a la Porte, et Gravées en 1712 & 1713 par les Soins de Mr. Le Hay. Paris: Le Hay & Duchange, 1714]. 100 fine engraved plates by P. Simmoneau, G. Scotin, J. Haussard, C. N. Cochin, C. du Bose, B. Baron, J. De Franssieres and P. Rochefort after Jean-Baptiste Van Mour, one plate double-page and captioned "Mariage Turc" (lacks the letterpress title [but supplied in neat early manuscript] and without the text leaves, also lacking the 2 later unnumbered double-page plates and the leaf of engraved music found in some copies [see Brunet, note], the blank corner of plate 85 torn away, without loss) Atabey 430; Blackmer 591: "This publication certainly contained the most popular and influential illustrations of Turkish dress to date. Its use as a source book was widespread"; Brunet III, 85: "Ce recueil parut d'abord, en 1714, composé de 100 pl. seulement, sans explication. En 1715 on y ajouta l'explication impr. et deux nouvelles planches ... On y joignit en même temps une pl. de musique. Ces 3 dernières pl. manquent souvent [as here]"; Cohen-de Ricci 392l; Colas 1819-20; Koç 105a; Lewine pp.184-185 (citing the 1714-15 edition); Lipperheide 413.[And:] Georges de LA CHAPELLE (d.1655).  Receul [sic] de Divers Portraits des Principales Dames de la Porte du Grand Turc, Tirée au naturel sur les lieux. Paris: "chez le Blond," [c.1648]. Elaborate engraved figural title incorporating portraits of Sultan Hebrain and Sultan Amurat and smaller scenes of executions and punishments in the lower border, 12 fine engraved plates of Turkish costumes by Georges de la Chapelle, trimmed and laid down, two to a page (some marginal soiling to the title, some very light marginal staining to the plates, without the text leaves). Atabey 648; Blackmer 935; Colas 1697. [And:] [Joachim BOUVET (1656-1730) & Pierre GIFFART (c.1631-1723, engraver).  L' Estat Present de la Chine. Paris: Pierre Giffart, 1697]. 59 fine engraved plates only, comprising plates 1 - 43, all of which HAND-COLOURED and heightened in gold, and plates 45 - 56 and 59 - 62, all uncoloured, depicting Chinese costumes, trades, punishments, etc. (i.e. lacking plates numbered 44 and 57 - 58, but including all the hand-coloured plates as called for in Brunet, without the title and text leaves). Bobins I, 169; Brunet I, 440: "Volume contenant 43 pl. color"; Colas 417; Cordier III, 1858; Vinet 2354. Please see the link below for additional illustrations of the hand-coloured plates of Chinese costumes.AN EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ORIGINAL COSTUME WATERCOLOURS AND ENGRAVED COSTUME PLATES, SOME HAND-COLOURED, OF CHINA, TURKEY AND THE LEVANT, MOST 17TH-18TH CENTURY, the whole bound in one volume, large folio (490 x 330mm). Contemporary calf, marbled endpapers (worn, joints and spine split). Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.For more images of this lot please click here:

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611). Histoire de la Navigation ... Aux Indes Orientales, Amsterdam, 1638, 3 parts in one volume, folio, 3 engraved titles, portrait, 6 maps, 33 plates (?only of 36), contemporary calf (re-backed). Third French edition.LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611).  Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois: Aux Indes Orientales. Contenant diverses Descriptions des lieux iusques à present descouverts par les Portugais: Observations des Coustumes & singulaitez de del, & autres declarations. Avec annotations de B. Paludanus, Docteur en Medecine sur la matiere des Plantes & Especeries: Item quelques Cartes Geographiques, & autres Figures. Troixiesme edition, augmentee. Amsterdam: "Chez Evert Cloppenburgh, Marchand libraire, demeurant sur le Water a la Bible Doree," 1638. 3 parts in one volume, folio (297 x 192mm). Elaborate engraved allegorical title incorporating two baroque cartouches, with 2 further engraved part-titles, namely, "Le Grand Routier de Mer" and "Description de l' Amerique & des parties d' icelle, comme de la Nouvelle France, Floride, des Antilles, Iucaya, Cuba, Jamaica, &c.", engraved three-quarter length portrait of the author within baroque cartouche on the verso of the "index" leaf, large folding twin-hemisphere map of the world by Petrus Plancius ("Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus") dated 1595 [Shirley 187] and 5 other folding maps, 33 engraved plates (?only, of 36), of which 30 double-page and three folding (small stain on the first engraved title, two maps torn and repaired with slight loss, some plates and maps mounted on later hinges, some leaves lightly stained or browned with some minor mainly marginal worming, some darker spots, final text leaf of last part torn and neatly repaired affecting a few letters). Contemporary speckled calf gilt (re-backed in old-style with 5 raised bands and preserving the original red morocco lettering-piece, some rubbing and repairs at edges of boards, inner hinges inconspicuously reinforced). Provenance: Earl of Roden (armorial bookplate and old label); "Biblioteca de Agustin Edwards" (library label); "3 plates are missing but it possesses two which are not listed" (later pencil inscription on the front free endpaper, seemingly erroneous). THE THIRD FRENCH EDITION of this highly influential work - the most comprehensive illustrated travelogue of its time - containing all the knowledge and learning relating to the East and West Indies at the beginning of the 17th-century, in addition to describing, in the second part of this edition, the navigation of the coasts of West Africa around the Cape of Good Hope to Arabia, and, in the third, the coasts of Florida, the Caribbean and Brazil. Through its various editions, the book served as a direct stimulus to the building of the English and Dutch trading empires, and it was so highly esteemed as a functional navigational aid that a copy was given to each ship sailing for the Indies, a fact that accounts for the generally poor condition of many copies, unlike the present one, which is remarkably well preserved. The work has a complicated publishing history. It was first published in a Dutch edition in 1595, followed by Latin and English translations in 1598. The first French edition appeared in 1610, but with plates which were reduced versions based on those of De Bry. The second French edition, of 1619, and the present third one of 1638 - with commentaries by the physician and collector Bernard Paludanus (1550-1663) - returned to the original folio-sized plates of the Dutch edition, and, for this reason, are considered the most desirable. These last two French editions also include, for the first time, the two additional parts described above. The present copy comprises a total of three engraved titles, an engraved portrait, six folding maps and 33 double-page or folding plates. All of the plates are in the first part. Three of the six folding maps are in the first part and three in the second part. The third part contains no plates or maps, only its engraved title. The list of plates calls for a total of 36, suggesting that the present copy is lacking three. However, plate and map counts vary in other copies, and collating the work against its own list of plates has its own pitfalls since the plates are unnumbered and are rarely placed at the page numbers indicated. In addition, the titles of the plates in the list usually bear little relation to the captions on the plates themselves, or are open to interpretation: this is not helped by the fact that the titles in the index are in French, whereas the captions beneath the plates themselves are in Latin and Dutch. It seems quite possible that some of the plates are counted as two or more, since they have two or more subjects. On the list of plates, plate numerals 18 - 22 are omitted, although their plate titles remain, unnumbered, in sequence [see illustration]: it is unclear what this signifies, if anything, but it could suggest that the subjects are compressed onto fewer separate sheets, which would then reduce the overall apparent plate count when counting the sheets alone rather than relying on the numbering. The list also calls for only five maps, and not six, as are included here. Please see further illustrations of the lot provided in the link below. Alden 638.67; Borba I, 490; Brunet III, 139: "Cette traduction [française] [included in the 1610, 1619 and 1638 editions] est plus recherchée que l' édition latine"; Palau 138584; Penrose Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance 1420-1620 p.311; Sabin 41373; Tiele 686-88.For more images of this lot please click here

BURTON, Richard (translator). Tales From Gulistan, or Rose-Garden of the Sheikh Sa’di of Shiraz. London: Philip Allan & Co. Ltd., 1928. Limited edition, this being number 3 of 100 large paper copies, 4to (262 x 187mm.) 9 plates by John Kettelwell. (Toning.) Original blue cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper labels to upper cover and spine. Note: the limitation number written in manuscript by the artist, John Kettelwell. – And a further eleven illustrated volumes (including Ashley Gibson and Justin Pieris’ ‘The Death of the Lion’, limited edition, being one of only 275 copies, 1935, 4to, and The Folio Society publication of ‘The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night’, 4 vols., 1959, 8vo, and Stella Benson’s ‘Hope Against Hope, and Other Stories’, limited edition, being one of 670 copies, 1931, 4to) (12).

MOVABLE BOOK. – Edward CALVERT (illustrator). Dean’s New Book of Dissolving Views. London: Dean & Son, [1860.] Small folio (267 x 184mm.) 6 wood-engraved hand-coloured illustrations by Edward Calvert, each with sliding slats and operated by a tab to reveal an alternative view, publisher’s advertorial endpapers. (Spotting on the backing leaves and to front blank, minor marginal loss to front-free endpaper and front blank.) Original cloth-backed boards with mounted paper illustration to upper cover (light rubbing, faint pencil marks to lower cover). Note: all illustrations and tabs in original working order. Provenance: Mary Done (gift inscribed to verso the front-free endpaper).

POP-UP BOOK. – L.L. WEEDON and E. Stuart HARDY. The Land of Long Ago, A Visit to Fairyland with Humpty Dumpty. London & New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton, [1898.] Oblong 4to (262 x 313mm.) 6 chromolithographed full-page pop-up scenes, illustrations in the text. (Browned to margins.) Original red cloth-backed pictorial boards (lightly rubbed, some staining and scratches to lower cover). Note: all pop-ups in original working order. Provenance: Theodore Fairfax Crowther (gift inscribed to in ink on the front-free endpaper). – And a further pop-up book (Clifton Bingham’s ‘The Soldier Panorama Book, a Novel Colour Book for Children’, with double-page pop-up panoramas [all in original working order], [1907], small folio) (2).

POP-UP BOOK. Peeps into Fairyland, A Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories. London & New York: Ernest Nister & E.P. Dutton, [1896.] Oblong folio (267 x 342mm.) Introduction by F.E. Weatherly, 6 chromolithographed pop-up plates, illustrations in the text. (Toning.) Original green cloth-backed pictorial boards (extremities rubbed). Note: all pop-ups in original working order.

KENT. – Thomas PHILIPOTT. Villare Cantianum: or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated. Being an exact Description of all the Parishes, Burroughs, Villages, and other respective Mannors Included in the County of Kent. London: William Godbid, 1659. First edition, folio signed in 4s (288 x 179mm.) Engraved initial and engraved illustrations in the text, a long near contemporary ink inscription on the second blank relating to authorship of the book. (Lacking map, marginal tear to B3 and minor soiling to G2, browning and damp-staining throughout, occasional ink annotation and underlining, first and rear blanks replaced.) Contemporary speckled calf, later red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked and tips repaired, endpapers replaced). Note: the ink inscription on the second blank is a quote from White Kennet, being pp.37-38 of his ‘Life of William Somner’ that was published in Somner’s ‘Treatise of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent’, 1693, where he established that Thomas Philipott’s father, John, was the author of ‘Villare Cantianum’. Provenance: J. Marsh (ink name on second blank); ‘E.B.’ (ink initials on title).

MOVABLE BOOK. – Lothar MEGGENDORFER. Lutiges Automaten Theater. Stuttgart: J.F. Schreiber, [circa 1890.] First German edition, folio (349 x 257mm.) 8 chromolithograph plates with movable parts operated by card tabs, ‘Preface’, text leaves opposite plates, 1p. publisher’s advertisements verso last plate. (Browning, some spotting to text leaves, first and last plate loosening, one tab replaced.) Original red cloth-backed pictorial boards (browned, spine ends rubbed). Note: all parts in original working order but for the mandolin player’s right hand. Lothar Meggendorfer is considered the most accomplished creator of movable books of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Folio Society books, comprising The Folio Christmas Book, American, French, English, Irish and Russian Short Stories, and Barnard (John, Ed.) John Keats, The Complete Poets, in four slipcases. (7)

Twenty Folio Society General Interest Titles, including 'Mapping The World', 'The Complete Savoy Operas of Gilbert & Sullivan', 'A Book of Travellers Tales', etc:- One Box

The Folio Society 'British Myths and Legends', three volumes, in slipcase, The Freaks of Mayfair, The Book of Common Prayer, Memoirs From Beyond the Tomb, etc:- One Box

Yorkshire Farming.- Wage Books relating to labour at Laxton and Saltmarshe farms [East Riding], 3 vol., printed volumes with manuscript insertions, together c. 320pp. excluding blanks, original straight-grained morocco-backed boards, printed labels "Taylor's Improved Farmer's Account Book" on each covers, folio, 1857-60. *** Details given include workmen's names (also female labour) rates of pay and amounts earned, types of job, deductions for living in, extra for attending cattle on Sundays etc. Men average 2/3 per day increasing to 4/- during threshing (less 7/6 per week for board); women about 10d per day, increasing to 1/- during potato picking.  

Sandford (Francis) The History of the Coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II... and His Royal Consort Queen Mary, first edition, imprimatur f. signed Norfolke & Marshall, title in red and black with engraved coat-of-arms, engraved head-pieces, initials, text illustrations and 30 engraved plates by William Sherwin and others, all but one double-page and mounted on stubs, the first foxed at edges, occasional light off-setting or foxing, contemporary mottled calf, gilt with central arms to covers within ruled border, rebacked, rubbed, g.e., [Wing S652], folio, by Thomas Newcomb, 1687.*** Magnificent record of James II's lavish coronation which set the model for subsequent coronations.Provenance: from the Bridgeman family, Baronets of Great Lever [engraved arms stuck down to title verso; arms to covers]. This book presumably belonged to Sir John Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet (1631-1710) whose father Sir Orlando, 1st Baronet (1606-74) had been a supporter of the Royalist cause in the Civil War and was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal from 1667-72. 

Rackham (Arthur).- Ingoldsby (Thomas) The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels, frontispiece, 23 tipped-in coloured plates, and other illustrations all by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue-guards, light foxing, gilt, t.g.e., others uncut, 1907; The Compleat Angler, frontispiece, 11 tipped-in coloured plates, other illustrations, captioned tissue-guards, ink ownership to half-title, gilt, 1931; The Ring of the Niblung, coloured plates, some light staining to inner margin, ink ownership to endpaper and title, 1939 § Irving (Constance and W. Noel) A Child's Book of Hours, coloured plates and illustrations by the authors, very light and occasional foxing, dustjacket, chipping to spine, Oxford, Humphrey Milford, [c.1920], original cloth or boards; and 3 other children's books, 4to & folio (7)

Homer. Homer his Odysses, Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations by John Ogilby, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, engraved portrait of Charles II (laid down to sheet) and 2ff. dedicatory letter inserted before A2, engraved portrait of author (laid down to sheet), 24 engraved plates, woodcut head-pieces and initials, extra illustrated with (most of) a series of etchings by Francis Cleyn, these laid-down to cover woodcut head-pieces for 18 of 24 chapters, scattered ink and blind library stamps (including to title), bookplates, a few small paper repairs to edges, light marginal browning and occasional soiling, modern drab cloth, [Wing H2555], folio, James Flesher, 1669.*** The etchings by Francis Cleyn present in this copy are from a series referred to by Anthony Griffiths in his book 'The Print in Stuart England', where he describes a 'possibly unique set in Paris' (p.118).  The title page to the set that Griffiths describes is at p.289 in this volume. German-born artist Francis Cleyn (c.1582-1658) lived and worked in England, a noted early English print maker.

Ten assorted Folio Society titles, including Paul Brickhill 'The Dam Busters', [nd], c.2015, original pictorial cloth, slipcase, in original shrink wrap; Ford Madox Ford 'The Good Soldier', [nd], c.2008, orig. pictorial cloth, slipcase, in orig. shrink wrap; Graham & Hugh Greene 'The Spy's Bedside Book', [nd], c.2006, orig. pictorial cloth, slipcase, in orig. shrink wrap; plus others including Moss 'Ill Met by Moonlight', Cowburn 'No Cloak, No Dagger', Jack London 'The Call of the Wild', etc (10)

Feliks Topolski: 'Confessions of a Congress Delegate', London, 1949, 1st edition, b/w illustrations throughout, 4to, original printed wraps, Arthur Wragg: 'Seven Words', London, William Heinemann, 1939, 1st edition, 20pp + 7 black and white plates complete, oblong folio, original cloth, Rathna Ramanathan (illustrated); Gita Wolf & Sirish Rao: 'In the Dark', Tara Publishing, 2002, coloured woodcut illustrations throughout, original paper covered boards, orig. slipcase/bag, Pierre Louys: 'Sanguines', London, the Willy-Nilly Press, 1932, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (by Quentin Bell), plus 5 others similar including Nonesuch Press, Ernst Toller, book design and printing etc (9)

Folio Society, a collection of 14 assorted volumes, including Mardrus & Mathers: 'The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night', 1973, 3rd impression, woodcut illustrations by Eric Fraser and Frank Martin, uniform original quarter Japanese vellum gilt, patterned paper covered boards, original slipcase, Charles Darwin 'On the Origin of Species' anbd 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals', each 2008, each original pictorial cloth gilt, plus 8 others including Pre-Raphaelites, Silk Road etc (14)

The Durham Gospels.Verey (Christopher D., editor) and Others, The Durham Gospels: Together with Fragments of a Gospel Book in Uncial. Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A. II. 17.Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1980, folio, facsimile of the Durham Gospels with plates as called for, quarter leather, patterned boards, a few spots to leather and extremities a little rubbed.

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, book printed by The Folio Society Golden Cockerel Press, illustrations by Eric Gill, 2010. Limited to 1,980 copies. Bound in Nigerian goatskin leather, 768pp, 12 1/2" x 7 3/4", 24ct gilt details. With a solander box and commentary essay book.

Wright (Thomas) Universal Architecture, Book 1. Six Original Designs of Arbours, vol.1 only (of 2), first edition, title in red and black with engraved vignette, list of subscribers also with engraved vignette, 11 engraved plates only (of 12; missing the plan for F), some nicks and tears, title with small repaired loss to upper right corner, some toning and surface dirt, all leaves loose, presented in modern green cloth oblong folio slipcase, 1755 *** One of the great rarities of the literature of English eighteenth-century garden architecture. Thomas Wright (1711-1786) had had an initial career as a writer of books on astronomy, but had begun by the late 1740s to design garden buildings and to remodel country houses for a network of aristocratic English patrons. He announced in 1753 his intention to publish a volume of his designs for garden architecture, to be issued in three instalments covering “arbours, grottos and alcoves”, but the publication was dependent on his securing sufficient subscribers and it was not until 1755 that the present Book I, on arbours, appeared in print. The imaginative designs include a domed temple, an arbour “of the parasol kind”, an aviary, a hermitage and a platform for open air entertainment. Sadly he was unable to attract the required number of subscribers and although Book II, on grottos, followed in 1758, Book III, on alcoves, was never published."There are no other pattern-books of grottos, rustic buildings and ruined follies, nor at that time were there any books of architectural design so attractively presented in complete landscape settings." (Eileen Harris)

The Folio Society books and sleeves including A Nervous Splendour; The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes; The Life of Muhammad; The Genius of James Thurber; The Wars of the Roses; Montailiou; The Devil's Dictionary; Mapping the World; Civilisation; Cities and Civilisation; The Folio Book of Days; Mapping the World; Ovid The Art of Love; Myths and Legends of India; The Folio Christmas Book; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Dream Day;  Morris, James, The Pax Britannica Trilogy: Heaven's Command; Pax Britannica; Farewell the Trumpets, publ. The Folio Society, London, 1992, 8vo (19)

The Folio Society books including Shakespeare's Life and World; The Folio Anthology of Poetry; The Face of Battle; Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life; Letter from America; Travels in West Africa; The Back of the Northwind; The Habsburgs; Josephus Life of Herod; The Folio Book of Humorous Verse; Crusader Castles; The Best of the Ranconteur and the Best After Dinner Stories (13)

Box containing a collection of eight volumes, ' The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ' by Folio Society and another, ' Chartres, The Making of a Miracle ', together with a box containing a quantity of various books including ' Local History Book of Surrey ' by Brayley & Walford

Johannes de Gaddesden Rosa anglica practica medicinae a capite ad pedes. Pavia, (F. Girardengus &) J. A. Birreta, 24. Jan. 1492. • Erstes gedrucktes medizinisches Buch eines englischen Schriftstellers • Mit einem Antidotarium, das Einblicke in die englische Volksmedizin bietet • Seltene erste und einzige Ausgabe des 15. Jahrhunderts 'First printed medical book of an Englishman. John of Gaddesden was a prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral and physician to Edward II' (Fielding Garrison und Leslie Morton) Der englische Mediziner John of Gaddesden (um 1280-1361), war der erste Leibarzt, der am englischen Hof angestellt war. Er verfaßte die Rosa Anglica zwischen 1305 und 1307. Das Kompendium der praktischen Medizin ist nach Krankheiten geordnet und behandelt Fieber, Krankheiten und Verletzungen und speziell Krankheiten des Kopfes (darunter Augen, Ohren, Mund - mit interessanten Kapiteln zur Zahnmedizin). Bedeutend ist das Antidotarium (Abhandlung über Heilmittel) am Ende der Schrift. Es enthält einige Anmerkungen zum Kochen und unzählige Rezepte, von denen viele auf Aberglauben beruhen, während andere handfeste Heilmittel sind. Die Rosa Anglica bietet daher einen Einblick in die englische Volksmedizin und auch in den Aberglauben zu Beginn des 14. Jahrhunderts. Zudem enthält sie viele Zitate aus Galen, Pedanius Dioskurides, Rufus von Ephesus, Haliabbas, Serapion, Al Rhazis, Avicenna, Averroes, Johannes von Damaskus, Isaak, Masawaiyh, Gilbertus Anglicus und aus dem Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum. 'Übrigens stand die Rosa anglica zu jener Zeit in so hohem Ansehen, daß Chaucer ihren Verfasser unter den ausgezeichnetsten medizinischen Gelehrten gepriesen hat. Das Buch .. voll von Aberglauben; doch findet sich in ihm eine interessante Stelle über 'Rotlicht-Behandlung' der Pocken' (Hirsch/Hüb.). Teils wird vermutet, daß Gaddesden das Vorbild für Chaucers Doktor der Physik gewesen sei, und sowohl er als auch Bernardus de Gordonio gehören zu den medizinischen Autoritäten, die im Prolog der Canterbury Tales zitiert werden. EINBAND: Halbpergamentband des 19. Jahrhunderts. Folio. 29 : 20 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit Holzschnitt-Druckermarke am Ende und eingemalten roten Initialen. - KOLLATION: 4 nn., 173 num. Bll. (o. d. l. w.). 2 Spalten. Gotische Type. - PROVENIENZ: Bl. y4 verso im Fußsteg mit kl. blau kolor. Besitzer-Wappen. - Titel mit Besitzeintrag des US-amerikanischen Chemikers und Mediziners John Redman Coxe (1773-1864), dat. 1826. - Hint. flieg. Vorsatz mit Blindprägestempel Peter Doyle, Bookseller, Philadelphia. -Seit 1997 in süddeutschem Privatbesitz. LITERATUR: GW M13622. - Hain/Cop. 1108. - Goff J 326. - BSB I-394. - Garrison/M. 2191. - Waller 83. - Wellcome I, 2485. - Hirsch/Hüb. II, 651. - First edition of the first printed medical book by an English writer. John of Gaddesden (c. 1280-1361) was court physician to Edward II and was supposedly the inspiration for Chaucer's 'Doctour of Phisik' in The Canterbury Tales. With woodcut printer’s device at end and red painted initials. 19th cent. half vellum. 29 : 20 cm. - Occasionally slightly browned and stained (mostly in the margins), some minor worming at the beginning, title recto and verso with extensive contemp. entries and in the lower margin with a pale illegible old stamp, short and clean marginalia by an old hand (a few trimmed), including 2 larger drawings of funnel-shaped medical instruments by early hand. - Leaf y4 verso with small blue colored owner's coat of arms at lower margin. - Title with ownership entry of the American chemist and physician John Redman Coxe (1773-1864), dated 1826. - White endpaper with blind embossed stamp Peter Doyle, Bookseller, Philadelphia (later 19th cent.). Paper cover rubbed. Vollständige Beschreibung und Zustandsbericht https://www.ketterer-rarebooks.de/kunst/kd/details.php?detail=1&anummer=559&obnr=424000523 Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten. Complete description and condition report https://www.ketterer-rarebooks.com/details-e.php?detail=1&anummer=559&obnr=424000523 This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Eisenberg Wohleingerichtete Reitschule, Oder Beschreibung der allerneusten Reitkunst, in ihrer Vollkommenheit, durch nöthige Schulen erkläret, und in richtigen Figuren vorgestellet. Zürich und Basel, D. Herrliberger und D. Eckstein 1748. Prachtvolles Pferdebuch, die Tafeln zeigen Rassen vor landschaftlicher Staffage und Dressur-Darstellungen. Deutsche Ausgabe von Eisenbergs zuerst 1727 erschienener Description du manège moderne . Mit dem Vorwort von Herrliberger zu seiner Edition, datiert Zürich, den 7. März 1739, den französischen Kupfertiteln und dem Wörterbuch in dreispaltigem Druck. EINBAND: Halbpergamentband der Zeit mit neuem Rückenschild. 26 : 37 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit 3 gestochenen französischen Titeln und 55 Kupfertafeln von David Herrliberger nach Bernard Picart. - KOLLATION: 2 Bll., 55 S., 63 S. - PROVENIENZ: Innendeckel mit gest. Exlibris, altem Namenseintrag und blindgeprägtem gekröntem Wappenstempel. LITERATUR: Mennessier de la Lance I, p. 438. - Lipperheide Tc43 (gibt irrtümlich Oktav- statt Quer-folio-Format an). Magnificent horse book, the plates show breeds in front of landscape scenery and dressage depictions. With 3 engr. titles and 55 copperplates Half vellum with new label on spine. - Here and there stained, the first 3 leaves with creases, front joint amateurishly glued. - Engr. exlibris, old name entry and blind-tooled crowned coat of arms stamp. Vollständige Beschreibung und Zustandsbericht https://www.ketterer-rarebooks.de/kunst/kd/details.php?detail=1&anummer=559&obnr=424000668 Dieses Objekt wird regelbesteuert angeboten (R). Complete description and condition report https://www.ketterer-rarebooks.com/details-e.php?detail=1&anummer=559&obnr=424000668 This lot can only be purchased subject to regular taxation (R).

Adolph Occo Pharmacopoeia, sev medicamentarium pro Rep. Augustana .. nunc denuo recognita. (Augsburg, M. Manger 1574). Seltene frühe Ausgabe des erfolgreichsten deutschen Arzneibuches, der sogenannten Pharmakopoeia Augustana, zugleich die zweitälteste deutsche Pharmakopöe überhaupt. Dritte Ausgabe, erstmals 1564 unter dem Titel Enchiridion sive ut vulgo vocant dispensatorium erschienen. Die zweite Ausgabe 1573, jetzt betitelt Pharmacopoeia wurde im ungewöhnlichen Schmal-Folio-Format herausgeben, die vorliegende dritte wieder im Duodez-Format, zahlreiche weitere Auflagen in unterschiedlichen Formaten folgten. 'One of the earliest pharmacopoeias, and one which extended a great influence on later pharmacopoeias. Several new editions followed the first, and that of 1613 was adopted as the official pharmacopoeia of Augsburg, the famous Pharmacopoeia Augustana ' (Garrison/M. S 282). - Adolph Occo (1524-1606), der dritte dieses Namens einer bekannten Familie von Medizinern, war Stadtphysikus von Augsburg und ab 1582 Dekan des neugegründeten medizinischen Kollegs in Augsburg. EINBAND: Blindgeprägter Schweinslederband der Zeit. 12mo. 14,5 : 9 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit kl. Titelholzschnitt (Augsburger Stadtwappen). - KOLLATION: 1 Bl., 686 (st. 702) S. - PROVENIENZ: Österreichische Privatsammlung. LITERATUR: VD 16, O 184. - Durling 3616. - Neu 3156. - Zachert/Zeidler III, 1213. - Schelenz S. 416f. (ausführl.). - Vgl. BM STC, German Books S. 658 und Garrison/M. 1816 (and. Ausg.). Third edition of the famous and early German pharmacopoeia. With small woodcut on title (coat of arms of the City of Augsburg). Contemp. pigskin with blind stamp and roll decoration. - Lacking the pp. 687-702 and the last 15 leaves with index; pp. 679-686 damaged by mice (with significant loss of text). Partly with small waterstaining, title slightly soiled and with old ms. entry and libr. stamp, flying endpapers removed. Pigskin cover partly removed from book block, movable parts of the 2 clasps lacking. Vollständige Beschreibung und Zustandsbericht https://www.ketterer-rarebooks.de/kunst/kd/details.php?detail=1&anummer=559&obnr=424000591 Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten. Complete description and condition report https://www.ketterer-rarebooks.com/details-e.php?detail=1&anummer=559&obnr=424000591 This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation.

Isidorus Hispalensis Etymologiae. Daran: De summo bono. 2 Teile in 1 Band. Venedig, Peter Löslein 1483. • Inkunabelausgabe der berühmten Enzyklopädie • Von immenser Bedeutung für alle Zweige der Wissenschaft, eine Art Arche Noah für das Wissen der Antike • Mit der berühmten T-O-Weltkarte, der ersten gedruckten Weltkarte 'The chief authority of the Middle Ages, and the presence of his book in every monastic, cathedral, and college library was a main factor in perpetuating the state of knowledge and the modes of thought of the late-Roman world' (PMM). Die Etymologiae bot den Gelehrten des Mittelalters und der Renaissance eine unschätzbare Quelle für spätantike wissenschaftliche Kenntnisse und Lexikografie. Die vorliegende Ausgabe ist eine von nur drei bekannten unabhängigen Drucken aus der Offizin von Peter Löslein, der zuvor mit Bernard Maler und Erhard Ratdolt zusammengearbeitet hatte. - Auf Bl. 68 verso die T-förmige Weltkarte im Rund (vgl. Shirley 1), die in der 1472 erschienenen Erstausgabe der Etymologiae erstmals gedruck wurde. Der blattgroße Holzschnitt auf Bl. 48 verso zeigt einen arbor consanguinitatis . EINBAND: Zeitgenössischer Holzdeckelband mit Lederrücken und Messing-Schließresten. Folio. 32,5 : 22 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: Mit zahlreichen schematischen Textholzschnitten, darunter eine T-O-Weltkarte und ein blattgroßer Stammbaum. - KOLLATION: 130 (st. 136) Bll. Got. Typen. 2 Spalten mit Kolumnentitel. 58 Zeilen. - PROVENIENZ: Erstes und letztes Textbl. mit altem klösterlichen Besitzvermerk. LITERATUR: Hain/Cop. 9279. - GW M15272. - Goff I 184. - BMC V, 379. - BSB I-630. - Klebs 536.4. - Essling 303. - Sander 3526. - Vgl. PMM 9 und Stillwell, Science, II.180, IV.665 und VI.850 (EA 1472). -  Fundamental encyclopedia (first publ. 1472), with Pliny the most influential in the Middle Ages. Of immense importance for all branches of science. With the famous T-O world map, the first printed map of the world (cf. Shirley 1), and a full-page tree of consanguinity. Further with numerous woodcut diagrams. 2 parts in 1 volume. Fourth edition. - Contemp. monastic binding, half brown calf on wooden boards with rests of brass remnants on rear cover. 32,5 : 22 cm. 130 (of 136 leaves), lacking leaves B3-8 in the second part, instead are present (and double) the leaves A3-8 of the first part, evidently for an original mistake of the bookbinder. - Occasional light foxing or faint waterstaining (mostly in the outer margins), first and last leaves with small marginal fraying, leaf 69 in the first part with tear, leaves 9-12 in the second part with brown stain. Binding with some worm damage to edges at side, front cover with old repair, spine with defects. Otherwise a good and wide-margined copy in contemporary wooden binding. Vollständige Beschreibung und Zustandsbericht https://www.ketterer-rarebooks.de/kunst/kd/details.php?detail=1&anummer=559&obnr=424000547 Dieses Objekt wird regelbesteuert angeboten (R). Complete description and condition report https://www.ketterer-rarebooks.com/details-e.php?detail=1&anummer=559&obnr=424000547 This lot can only be purchased subject to regular taxation (R).

THE FOLIO SOCIETY, Twenty-six Historical titles comprising Hodgkin; Thomas, The Barbarian Invasions Of The Roman Empire in eight volumes, i) The Visigothic Invasions, ii) The Huns And The Vandals, iii) The Ostrogoths, iv) The Imperial Restoration, v) The Lombard Invasion, vi) The Lombard Kingdom, vii) The Frankish Invasion, viii) The Frankish Empire, Keay; John, India: A History in two volumes, Kinross; The Ottoman Empire, The Folio History Of Ancient Greece in four volumes, i) The Lyric Age, ii) The Persian Wars, 111) The Classical Age, iv) The Hellenistic Age, Gernet; Jacques, A History Of Chinese Civilization in two volumes, Braudel; Fernand, The Mediterranean And The Mediterranean World In The Age Of Philip II in two volumes, Lawrence; T.E. Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, Finley; M.I. The World Of Odysseus, The Folio Book Of Days, Whitfield; Peter, Mapping The World, Hibbert; Christopher, Cities And Civilization and The Folio Society Book Of The 100 Greatest Paintings, all titles in original slipcases, slight scuffing, books vgc

A selection of Hornby, Bachmann Railway Modeller and other train relate books along with 3 x Folio Society Books (Great Expectations, David Copperfield and The English Language) with 4 x Engraved hand tools for Gold Leaf Animals for Leather Book Binding.

Martin (John) Paradise Lost: By John Milton, first edition, five parts only (of 12), Imperial Quarto issue containing the larger set of mezzotint plates, with only 10 of the 24 plates (2 to each part) as issued, platemarks each c. 355 x 255 mm (14 x 10 in), sheets c. 385 x 276 mm (15 1/4 x 10 7/8 in), tissue-guards, some damp-staining and spotting, surface dirt and browning, original roan-backed grey-blue wrappers, some general soiling and browning to covers, dampspines splitting, owner's ink inscriptions to inside front free endpapers of some, untrimmed and partially unopened, folio, Septimus Prowett, 1825-26; together with The Paradise Lost of Milton, with Illustrations by John Martin, 24 mezzotint plates, original morocco, gilt, 4to, Henry Washbourne, 1849 (6) *** Rare in the original parts. The engravings were greeted with outstanding critical acclaim, prompting the release of 4 further editions by the end of 1827. The critic for The Literary Gazette proclaimed: "we know no artist, whose genius so perfectly fitted him being the illustrator of the mighty Milton; and in what we have seen of his conceptions he has more than realised the highest of our hopes. There is a wildness, a grandeur, and a mystery about his designs which are indescribably fine:- the painter is also a poet." [The Literary Gazette, April 2nd 1825]. Provenance: Robert H. & Donna L. Jackson (book-label to inside of drop-back box). Literature: Campbell & Wees, 1992, nos. 26-49.

Italy.- Saint-Non (Jean Claude Richard, l'Abbé de) Voyage Pittoresque ou Description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, 4 vol. in 5, first edition, half-titles, titles with engraved vignette, engraved head- and tail-pieces (25 in vol.2 hand-coloured), 303 engraved maps and plates, some folding or double-page, plus full-page engraved illustration and engraved dedication in vol.1, a very good, clean copy, contemporary calf, gilt, spines gilt with triple morocco labels (a few slightly chipped, one largely detched but loosely inserted, extremities worn, joints starting, folio, Paris, 1781-86.*** A handsome copy of "One of the monuments of French eighteenth-century book production" (Blackmer).

Russia.- Orthodox Old Believer Service Book, manuscript in Church Slavonic, c.235pp. excluding blanks, 12 lines of text per page in black ink with musical notation above (words separated into syllabic motifs to match music), key to value of musical notes in red and black, one full-page illustration of St Luke in his scriptorium, 9 head-pieces and 16 decorative initials in red, blue, yellow and green gouache, some with gold, each section headed with one line of decorative interlocking script in red ink, headings, initials and articulation marks also in red, small printed label "Restauriert von Vera Creola 3006 Bern" to rear pastedown, first and last few leaves reinforced at gutter, few small wormholes at beginning and end, one within text of first c.20 leaves, the occasional marginal defect, some browning, soiling, some staining, generally light, original calf over wooden boards, blind-stamped in ornate panelled design, sympathetically rebacked preserving much of original backstrip, recornered and repairs to fore-edge, 2 brass claps ?leather renewed, 4 brass studs to lower cover, few small wormholes, some wear to covers, folio (each leaf 354 x 260mm.), [Tsarist Russia], [18th-early 19th century].  *** An usually richly decorated Orthodox service book, made by hand because the sect of the OId Believers were forbidden by the Tsarist government to use the printing presses. The paper has no watermarks, possibly suggesting manufacture in a remote territory or among the exiled Old Believers in Turkey.

Proto-Surrealism.- Grévin (Alfred) Mono-Organorama: fantaisies burlesques par A. Grévin, title, with 19 full page lithographs of fantastical grotesques by Vayron, after Grévin, each sheet approx. 330 x 250 mm (13 x 9 3/4 in), even toning and surface dirt throughout, original boards with title image repeated on the upper cover, title printed with gold, lacking spine with covers present but detached, leaves held together just by remnants of binding string, covers worn, bumped, with some small losses, folio, [circa 1860]; together with a copy of 'Turlupinades Contrariétés et Autres Amusemens Négatifs, par Cham', original pictorial boards, folio, [circa 1850] (2)*** Fantastical collection of Dali-esque grotesques and surreal images. WorldCat records only one copy worldwide, not held by the BnF. One other copy has appeared in the New York book trade. 

Mediavilla (Richardus de) Commentum super quarto libro Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, collation: aa8 bb10 cc10 a-z10 ɿ10 ͻ10 ψ10 A10 B-D8, double column, 320ff., 50 lines, gothic type, a single 27 line initial in blue and red on a1, as well as 2-5 line initials and paragraph marks in red and blue throughout, manuscript chapter numbering and pagination in black ink to upper margins, a few scattered leaves lightly browned, and a few scattered instances of faint marginal damp-stains or finger-soiling, but overall clean and bright, in contemporary vellum, spine with manuscript title lettering in ink and later paper label at foot, spine head chipped and bumped, while foot and upper joint with some signs of wear, ink lettering to top and bottom edge, folio (c.265 x 183mm.), Venice, Christophorus Arnoldus, [not after 1477].*** First edition of a Franciscan commentary which addresses economic theory. Teaching at Paris university, Mediavilla was an active participant in the debate over 'poverty' which subsumed the Franciscan Order for much of the 13th century and eventually led to the breaking-away of the heretical Fraticelli sect in 1296. In his commentary on the fourth book of Lombard's Sentences, Mediavilla expounds some interesting comments on the ethics of contracts and annuities against those who viewed them as usurious, and draws out more elaborate arguments about wider economic systems.  Literature: BMC V 206; Goff M-423; HC(+Add) 10984*; GW M22509; BSB-Ink R-170; ISTC im00423000.

Middle East.- Trietsch (David) Palästina-Wirtschafts-Atlas, 30 colour-printed maps and charts only, of which 4 folding, largest approx. 745 x 380 mm (29 1/4 x 15 in), some occasional spotting and browning, minor surface dirt, folding into modern book-style portfolio, folio, Berlin, Orient-Verlag, 1926*** Showing statistical cartography for Jewish populations, with the maps and charts illustrating Jewish land ownership in Palestine, as well as Jewish populations in the USA and under the British Empire.

Blake (William) William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job [including Colour Versions...], edited by David Bindman, 6 vol. in 2 large slip-cases, number 62 of 250 copies, from an edition limited to 387, vol.1 with text and loose plates in several states, original tan morocco-backed marbled boards and similar drop-back box, together in morocco and cloth slip-case, vol.2 'Colour Versions...' with text and 3 folders of loose hand-coloured plates of different colour versions from the circle of John Linnell (the New Zealand set, the Collins set, the Fitzwilliam plates), original tan morocco-backed marbled boards or board folders, together in original tan morocco-backed marbled board drop-back box, morocco labels to upper covers, morocco and cloth slip-case, a fine copy with the prospectuses loosely inserted, folio, Trianon Press, 1987.*** Magnificent facsimile of Blake's work, considered by many to be the crowning achievement of the Trianon Press. The two slip-cases were issued both separately and together, as here. 

Middle East.- Weiss (Franz von) Carte der europaeischen Türkey nebst einem Theile von Kleinasien, large wall map of Türkiye in 21 numbered sections presented across 11 sheets, title and vignette to upper section, engravings, some outline hand-colouring in red, sheets of various irregular sizes, if joined approx. total size 3000 x 1900 mm (118 x 74 3/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, edged with blue silk, some sheets with minor off-setting and browning, light surface dirt, but overall a clean copy, contemporary glazed card chemise with key plate fixed to upper cover, presented in contemporary diced calf gilt book box, very worn with losses, folio, 1829*** Turkey in Europe, from Fiume (Rijeka) in Croatia in the north west across to Odessa in the north east, and south to include Greece and Crete and to the west to include Constantinople and Rhodes, with a vignette view of Constantinople.

Norfolk, Hainford, Frettenham & Spixworth.- [Court Leet book of the Manors of Haynford, Frettenham & Spixworth], manuscript in Latin and English, 168pp. excluding blanks, in several hands, 2ff. loose and a few others working loose, a few edges frayed slightly affecting some text, slightly browned, original vellum, lettered direct on lower cover, slightly soiled and creased, lacks head of spine, Pot watermark, folio (310 x 203mm.), 1645-63, sold subject to the Manorial Documents Rules, this manuscript may not be removed from England and Wales. *** Hainford, Frettenham and Spixworth, approximately 5 miles north of Norwich.

German Expressionist School,  Early 20th century,Six Illustrations of Palmström (a book by Christian Morgenstern), c.1910;six woodcuts on wove,  each inscribed in pencil, contained within a folio with wraps,  each image approx.: 15 x 16.5 cm,  (unframed) (6)

An interesting folio of sketches, watercolours, and other works on paper, including Charles Whitaker (English School, 20th century), book sleeve designs for Hodder & Stoughton, etc (qty)

Pouncy (John). Dorsetshire Photographically Illustrated, Parts 1-4 in 2, [all published], 1st edition, London and Dorchester, [1857], lithographed title, 78 tinted photolithographed views including one double-page, lacks text leaf for Corfe Castle at end of volume 1 and one missing plate supplied in crude facsimile, some heavy spotting and old dampstaining affecting plates throughout, some marginal splits to text leaves and lower blank outer corner of first leaf of Introduction torn with loss, modern buckram with original gilt-titled cloth covers relaid, oblong folioQTY: (2)NOTE:The first book illustrated by photolithography, where photographs were transferred onto lithographic stones which were then enhanced with figures, animals and other details by drawing. A further two parts were proposed but never issued. 'As far as we know Pouncy's rare book was not only the first but remained the only attempt in book form to reproduce photographic views from nature by photolithography', Gernsheim, History of Photography, p. 546. 'Pouncy's important work was a transitional stage between drawing and unretouched photography in book illustration', McLean, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, p. 128.

Manuscript Receipts Book. A manuscript book containing cookery and medical receipts, etc., late 18th & early 19th century, compiled in more than one hand, a total of [98] pages plus 4 pages of index after intervening blanks, receipts include mead, Dr. Willis’s Syrop of Sulphur, to pickle tongues, to pickle pigeons, tiblett pye, for scotch collops, gripes in horses, to clean cast ribbons, to whiten the teeth, for spots occasioned by small pox, to cure the most inveterate canker, the best buttlers ale, an excellent remedy for all wounds, Dr. Mead’s cure for the bite of a mad dog, yeast – as used in the Isle of Mann, to roast a hare, to make ink, compositions for lights, artificial snow, transparent paintings, the relevant mechanical effects of the human body laboring in various postures – by Robertson Buchanan engineer from the Repertory of 1801, Dr. George Fordyce’s method of assaying copper ores, for cleansing silk, to frost etc., a few pen and ink diagrams, some spotting, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, folio (31 x 21 cm)QTY: (1)

Seltener dreiflammiger gotischer Leuchter (Dreikönigsleuchter), Nürnberg, 2. Hälfte 15. Jhdt. Messing mit schöner Alterspatina. Zweiteilig gefertigter Leuchter aus gegossenem, abgedrehtem und poliertem Messing. Runder Standfuß mit erhabenem Rand. Der leicht konische Schaft mit Scheibennodus. Der verbördelte Aufsatz mit zentraler Aufnahme für eine Öllampe, umlaufend drei kurze Arme, die achtkantigen Tüllen mit leicht verstärkten Lippen. Standfuß am unteren Rand teils bestoßen, ein kleiner Ausbruch. Höhe 21,5 cm.Extrem seltene dreiflammige Ausführung dieses ikonischen Nürnberger Leuchtertypus, dessen häufigere zweiflammige Version bereits 1458 im Hausbuch der mendelschen Zwölfbrüderstiftung abgebildet wird (Amb. 317.2° Folio 79 verso, Mendel I).Ein fast identischer Leuchter befindet sich in der Sammlung des Germanischen Nationalmuseums in Nürnberg (Inv. Nr. HG1092), abgebildet bei Mende, Die mittelalterlichen Bronzen im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 2013, Nr. 91.Ein ebenfalls dreiflammiges Nürnberger Exemplar erzielte im Jahr 2008 bei Van Ham in Köln ein Ergebnis von 33.540 Euro. A rare Gothic three-armed brass candelabra, Nuremberg, 2nd half of the 15th century A rare Gothic three-armed brass candelabra, Nuremberg, 2nd half of the 15th century Brass with a beautiful age patina. The candelabra made in two pieces in cast, twisted and polished brass. Circular stand with a raised edge. The slightly conical shaft with a disc node. The turned attachment with a central recess for an oil lamp, three short arms arranged around it, the octagonal spouts with slightly reinforced rims. The base partially knocked on the lower edge, one small chip. Height 21.5 cm. Extremely rare, three-armed construction of this iconic Nuremberg candelabra type, the more frequently found two-armed version of which was illustrated in the house book of the Mendelian Twelve Brothers Foundation in 1458 (Amb. 317.2° Folio 79 verso, Mendel I). An almost identical candelabra can be found in the collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg (inv. no. HG1092), illustrated in Mende, Die mittelalterlichen Bronzen im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 2013, no. 91. Another three-armed Nuremberg candelabra sold for 33,540 euros at Van Ham in Cologne in 2008. Condition: II -

REFERENCE BOOKS ON FURNITURE, INTERIORS, ART (qty)REFERENCE BOOKS ON FURNITURE, INTERIORS, ART, ETC - A collection of reference books including William Bliss Sanders' Examples of Carved Oak Woodwork in the Houses and Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries (London, 1883, folio, illustrations, cloth), J. Munro Bell's Chippendale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite Furniture Designs (London, 1900, 4to, illustrations, cloth), Thomas Arthur Strange's An Historical Guide to French Interiors, Furniture, Decoration, Woodwork & Allied Arts (London, [1900], illustrations, cloth), Fairbairn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland ... Fourth edition (London, [c.1900], 2 vols., 4to, illustrations, original cloth), Francis Lenygon's Decoration in England from 1660 to 1770 (London, 1920, folio, illustrations, cloth, dust-jacket, second impression), Arthur Stratton's The English Interior. A Review of the Decoration of English Homes from Tudor Times to the XIXth Century (London, [1920], folio, illustrations, original buckram-backed cloth gilt), M. Jourdain's English Decoration and Furniture of the Later XVIIIth Century (London, [1922], folio, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, jacket tatty), A. D. Dubuisson's Richard Parkes Bonington. His Life and Work (London, 1924, 4to, illustrations, original buckram-backed boards, NO. 371 OF 1,000 COPIES), Algernon Tudor-Craig's Armorial Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1925, 4to, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, NO. 453 OF 1,000 COPIES), Arthur L. Humphreys' Old Decorative Maps and Charts (London, 1926, 4to, tipped-in coloured plates, original red buckram gilt, NO. 342 OF 1,500 COPIES), Flemish & Belgian Art 1300-1900 (London, 1927, folio, illustrations, some staining, original reverse calf, NO. 102 OF 1,000 COPIES), A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art Held in the Galleries of the The Royal Academy ... Plates (London, 1931, ?plate vol. only, 4to, illustrations, original green buckram gilt) and Christopher Claxton Stevens & Stewart Whittington's 18th Century English Furniture. The Norman Adams Collection (London, 1983, 4to, illustrations, contemporary quarter tan morocco gilt, NO. 7 OF 50 COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF for Kenneth King). Sold as a collection of books, not subject to return. (qty)

Folio Society - many sealed, Benjamin Cowburn " No Cloak no Dagger " Dashiell Hammet " The Maltese Falcon" , Graham Greene " The Quiet American", Victoria Finlay " Colour", Kenneth Clarke " The Nude" , Howard Hibbard " Michelangelo ", Daniel Defoe " A Whole Tour of the Island of Great Britain"  William Daniell " A Voyage Around the Coast of Great Britain" , Rudyard Kipling " The Second Jungle Book", Anthony Trollope, Henry James, H G Wells " Brave New World", George Eliot, many other vols ( 4 boxes)

Andres, Hunisak and Turner "The Art of Florence" published by Artabra, 2 vols in slip case, elephant folio, Duby , George and Lobrichon, Guy, " The History of Venice in Painting" Abbeville Press , large folio within fitted case, " Venice" published by Flammarion, sealed, and Surez and Woudhuwsen , 2 vols " The Oxford Companion to the Book" Oxford University Press within a slipcase ( 4 sets)

Quantity of Folio Society book sets to include Leo Tolstoy "The Collected Stories", Simon Shama "Citizens", Samuel Pepys diary (Three volumes), history volumes etc.