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Lot 1

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential novels of the 20th century. A scarce "Press Copy" for Arthur Symons (1865-1945), featuring a loosely-inserted photograph of Joyce, signed & inscribed to Symons, the verso of photograph stamped by Shakespeare & Company. First English edition [one of 2,000 copies, but this being an unnumbered press review copy], London: Published for The Egoist Press by John Rodker, Paris, 1922. Quarto, delicate paper covers in the

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Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake, signed first edition, limited edition numbered 147/425, signed in turquoise ink by the author, London: Faber & Faber Limited, New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Large octavo, publisher's red-brick buckram, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, pp. [viii], [1-3], 4-628, near fine, one small blemish to cloth, housed in original yellow cloth slipcase. Experimental novel and final work of James Joyce

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Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Octavo, publisher's black cloth with unclipped dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping (priced 16s.). Contents very good, clean, bright, a few small spots to edges of text-block, binding good with slight shelf-lean, d.j. good with general discolouration and nicks to edges, ghost impression of handwriting to rear

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Fleming, Ian. Thunderball, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Octavo, publisher's cloth with embossed skeletal hand, facsimile dust-jacket, internally good & bright, light spotting to endpapers, cloth splitting at joints

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Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Octavo, publisher's cloth, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, internally very good & bright, one folded corner, dust-jacket good & bold with scratch to spine

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Lot 6

Fleming, Ian. Octopussy & The Living Daylights, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Octavo, publisher's cloth, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, internally very good, clean & bright, jacket bold & bright, surface wear to price sticker. Together with For Special Services, by John Gardner, first edition, London: Cape & Hodder, 1982, octavo, unclipped d.j., good & bright, lightly bumped to corners, some wear to d.j. (2)

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Lot 7

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter. Deluxe Editions. A complete set of first deluxe editions, first impressions, comprising: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The first three books include the full number line, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1", and the last four are s

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Lot 8

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, eighth issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback with unclipped dust-jacket. Contents very good, well-preserved with usual toning to edges, neat owner inscription on front pastedown, a few incredibly faint spots, binding very good, boards bright & bold, slight shelf-lean, jacket well-preserved with slight discolouration at spine. Together with a Harry Potter "Liquorice Wand", unopened/sealed, produced for Warner Bros and giv

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Lot 9

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter Collection. SIGNED. Comprising: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, fourth issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback with dust-jacket; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, seventh issue, signed by the author, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback with dust-jacket [these first two novels housed in The Harry Potter Gift Set slipcase]; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, 20th issue, signed by

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Lot 10

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, second state [without the dropped line of text error on p.7], London: Bloomsbury, 1999. Octavo, hardback with unclipped dust-jacket, some shelf-lean, contents generally good & bright with pale spotting in places

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Lot 11

Harry Potter. An important archive of original material & movie memorabilia acquired during the filming of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, at Durham Cathedral, comprising: the original set of antique keys to the "Restricted Section" of the Library, used by Argus Filch [David Bradley], together with a copy of the return note from Warner Bros attesting to their use in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (seen on screen), dated 3 May 2001;

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Lot 12

Flint, Sir William Russell. Catalogue Raisonné, Collector's Edition in two folio volumes, limited editions [Vol. I: 1488/1500; Vol. II: 275/1500], half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, Bristol: Michael Stewart Associates, 1986 & 1994. In fine, unread condition, housed in slipcases (2)

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Bradman, Don. Don Bradman's Book, signed first edition, London: Hutchinson, [1930], signed by the author in black ink beneath foreword. Octavo, publisher's green cloth, contents generally good & bright with pale spotting in places, owner inscriptions on pastedown/ffep, tear to signed foreword page (not affecting autograph), some discolouration/marks to cloth

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Lot 14

Bates, H. E. Flowers and Faces, illustrated by John Nash, limited edition numbered 210/325, signed by the author, Golden Cockerel Press, 1935, small quarto, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in quarter crushed morocco lettered in gilt with marbled boards, top edge gilt (remainder untrimmed), pp. [iv], 5-53, [i], contents very good, clean & bright, some very faint spotting to endpapers, binding good, tight & square, bumping to lower corners, very slight discolouration and surface wear to spine

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Lot 15

Tiraboschi, Girolamo. Storia Della Litteratura Italiana [History of Italian Literature], eight volumes only, 1-5 & 8-10, Napoli: Giovanni Muccis, 1777. Quarto, worn calf, bearing armorial bookplate of Lord Dinerben, sold with all faults (8)

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Lot 16

Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Peru, in two volumes, London: Routledge, 1875. Octavo, half-calf (2)

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Lot 17

Bewick, Thomas. A History of British Birds, two parts bound as one, Newcastle: Walker, 1809. Octavo, full contemporary calf, illustrated with Bewick's distinctive wood engravings, pp. [xlii], 43-327, [xviii], 19-360, binding worn & restored, contents with pale spotting

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Lot 18

Erasmus, Desiderio [Erasmus of Rotterdam]. In Novum Testamentum ab eodem denuo recognitum, annotations, ingenti nuper accessione per autorum locupletatae, Basel: Johann Froben, 18 February 1522 [possibly a third edition]. Folio, pp. 682, colophon dates to 1522, lacking title, contents worn & watermarked, rebound with later calf spine over earlier leather boards, up to p. 530 the leaves are uniformly watermarked, not heavily but on most of the page, lots of scholarly marginalia & inscriptions in

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Lot 19

Tolkien, J. R. R. Lord of the Rings trilogy, second editions, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966-69. Octavo, publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jackets, internally very good & bright, folding maps at rear, surface wear to cloth, jackets worn (3)

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Lot 20

Walkley, Thomas. A New Catalogue of The Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, Barons of England, Scotland and Ireland, London: Printed for Thomas Walkley, 1652, 148pp., plus 29pp. addendum dated to January 1641, lacks endpapers, worn calf with loss at spine, and six other antiquarian books (7)

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Lot 21

[Bronte, Emily]. Wuthering Heights, copyright edition, novel complete in one volume but would've been accompanied by Agnes Grey in a second volume [half-titles & titles present for both volumes, but evidently bound to be a single novel as per collation below], by Ellis Bell, revised with preface by Currer Bell [Charlotte Bronte], Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1851. Octavo, contemporary half-leather with marbled boards, bound by Burgis & Colbourne, Leamington, pp. [v], 6-336, [vii], 6-56. Internal

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Lot 22

Michelet, Jules. A collection of four books, large octavo in publisher's gilt illustrated cloth, comprising: The Insect, 1875; The Mountain, 1872; Nature, 1872; The Bird, 1872. Illustrated by Giacomelli and Percival Skelton. London: T. Neslon & Sons. Together with The Bird World, by W. H. Davenport Adams, illustrated by Giacomelli, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1885, large octavo, gilt cloth. Condition varied, some spotting, sold with all faults. Natural History Interest (5)

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Lot 23

Malton, T. Views of Oxford, comprising title and six line-engraved topographical & architectural views, slim folio, contemporary blue paper covered boards with remnants of title label at spine, covers worn, some dampstaining internally but mostly confined to margins, sold as found with all faults

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Lot 24

Baddam, [Benjamin]. Memoirs of the Royal Society, Vol. III only, scarce, illustrated with 14 engraved plates, 9 of which are folding, London: G. Smith, 1739. Octavo, full contemporary calf, pp. [iii], 4-516, [iv]. Internally very good, some light handling marks & contemporary owner inscription on title, slight loss to one of the margins of plate 7 but not affecting engraved area, binding worn but intact. Together with Elliot's Medical Pocket-Book, Dublin: Gilbert & Hodges, 1801, bearing owner in

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Lot 25

Derbyshire History, Risley School. A Victorian scrapbook of 26 pencil sketches, 1877-1906, some signed with initials, 'C.W.G.' (C.W. Groves, schoolmaster at Risley), including an album print photographic group portrait of the pupils at Risley School, March 1883, with a M.S. Key providing names, together with three oak framed photographs, two being C. W. Groves. The pencil sketches include arch / topo views in Risley, Matlock, Repton, Brighton, Coniston Water, Isle of Man

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Lot 26

Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, first edition, London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1911 [date at front of title], 12mo, publisher's brown boards with inset pictorial panel, 27 colour illustrations including frontispiece, darkened tape repair across p.15 but contents otherwise good & bright, erased inscription and gutter wear to verso of frontis., binding worn around corners/spine, together with The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, early but not first edition, sold with all faults (2)

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Lot 27

Dickens, Charles. Bentley’s Miscellany [containing the first appearance of Oliver Twist, serialised for the first time here in volumes 1-5], in nine volumes, London: Richard Bentley, 1837-41. Octavo, half-calf with morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Oliver Twist, Or The Parish Boys Progress, illustrated with plates by George Cruikshank, including the final plate, 'Rose and Maylie'. These volumes also contain Jack Sheppard & Guy Fawkes, by W. Harrison Ainsworth, as well as other contributions

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Lot 28

Hornby, Nick. Three first editions: Fever Pitch, 1992; High Fidelity, 1995; About a Boy, 1998. First edition hardbacks with unclipped dust-jackets, London: Victor Gollancz, 1992-98 (3)

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Lot 29

Larsson, Stieg. Millennium Trilogy. Sealed & unopened boxed set, publisher's cloth bindings lettered in gilt, London: Maclehose Press [2010], publisher's sticker worn, else fine

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Lot 30

Holy Bible. The Old & New Testament, London: Robert Barker, 1608. Octavo, bound in eights, 21.5cm, early panelled calf with blind-embossed royal or armorial device ['Honi soit qui mal y pense' in a belt surmounted by a crown], remnants of clasps, sympathetically rebacked with raised bands, separate title pages present for Old and New Testaments as well as The Booke of Psalmes, contents good, only discoloured from age & handling, some marginal wear & loss in a few places, the final two leaves (wi

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Taylor, George; Andrew Skinner. Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777, first edition, London & Dublin: Printed for the Authors and Sold by G. Nicol, I. Murray, & W. Wilson, 14 November 1778. Tall octavo, finely rebound in full crushed morocco with raised bands, attractive gilt pictorial design, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Folding map of Ireland frontispiece, engraved vignette title, pp. [xvi], 288pp. engraved maps, 16pp. list of subscribers. Contents very well-pr

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Lot 32

Wood, Ellen. "Mrs. Henry Wood" or Ellen Price. Johnny Ludlow, signed copy, inscribed by the author in black ink on verso of ffep, 'Mary George, with very kind regards, E. W. June 1885.' Sixth edition, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1880. Octavo, publisher's gilt blue cloth, covers pulling from text-block at spine, sold with all faults. A very scarce example of a book signed by Ellen Wood, an English novelist who was popular in the United States and Australia during the nineteenth century

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Raleigh, Sir Walter. The History of the World, in Five Books, Whereunto is added in this Edition, the Life and Tryal of the Author, London: Printed for Basset, Chiswell, Tooke, et al., 1687. Folio, full contemporary panelled calf, engraved allegorical frontispiece, red & black title page, 'The Mind of the Front', 32pp. preface, 24pp. contents, title page & 41pp. Tryal, main text in 813pp., a note to reader & table/contents in 44pp., illustrated with six double-page maps and two double-page battl

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Lot 34

[Birac; Lamont; Valière]. The New Art of War, London; E. Midwinter, 1726. Octavo, pp. [xii], 296, [iv], five engraved plates (one folding), nothing before title, four leaves with section torn/detached but would piece back with archival tape, folding plate with some tears, binding worn, rebacked

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Lot 35

A miscellaneous collection of books to include A Book of Lettering, by Reynolds Stone, first edition, London: A. & C. Black Ltd., 1935; an association copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet, bearing the owner inscription of a young Thomas Rice Henn [Irish literary critic], Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911; The Idler, in two volumes, London: T. Davies, 1767, detached boards bearing armorial bookplates for Sir James Langham, Baronet of Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire; The Funeral: Or, Grief A-La-Mode, A Comedy,

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Lot 36

A collection of nine books to include The Best of Beardsley, collected & edited by R. A. Walker, London: Spring Books, n.d., and eight works on British cartoonists of the 1940s to 1960s, including Low, Searle, Vicky (9)

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Lot 37

Beza, Theo. Biblia Sacra sive Testementum Vetus, Amsterdam: J. Jacob & Schipper, 1669. 12mo, detached calf boards, sold with all faults

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Lot 38

Scott, Peter. The Swans, first edition, signed by the author and nine members of the Wildfowl Trust including Janet Kear and Malcolm Alexander Ogilvie, London: Michael Joseph, 1972, hardback with unclipped dust-jacket, loosely-inserted compliments slip from The Zoological Society of London (signed again by Janet Kear); Observations of Wildlife, signed first edition, Oxford: Phaidon, 1980, hb with unclipped d.j.; Wild Chorus, London: Country Life, 1941, hb, unclipped d.j., and The Snow Goose, by

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Lot 39

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, fifth Hawkins edition, London: J. F. and C. Rivington, 1791. Octavo, full calf rebacked, etched frontispiece plus further plates and illustrations of fish within the text, internally very good & bright with pale staining to top corner in parts [Coigney 14]

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Plato. Opera Omnia. Translated/edited by Marcilio Ficino, in Greek & Latin, Lugduni [Lyon]: Gullemus Laemarius, 1590, pp. [viii], 849, plus 28pp. index, copper-engraved vignette title, full calf, very worn, lacks ffepp, folio (but bound in sixes), sold as found with all faults

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Lot 41

Baddeley, J. B. & Ward, C. S. Thorough Guide to Ireland, parts 1 & 2, London: Dulau & Co., 1901-02, red cloth, folding colour maps, and four others (6)

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Lot 42

Dulac, Edmund (Illust.). Fairies I Have Met, by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell, scarce first edition, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1907]. Octavo, publisher's pictorial cloth, illustrated with eight colour plates including frontispiece as called for, 6pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, good & bright with pale spotting in places, slight wear to cloth at corners/edges. Together with The Tempest, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1908], quarto, publisher's g

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Lot 43

Kipling, Rudyard. The Works, in 27 volumes, London: Macmillan, 1890-1938. Octavo, uniformly bound in publisher's gilt red cloth, top edge gilt, internally good & bright, bindings varied, sold with all faults (27)

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Cresse, Jr. Major Wadsworth. US Army Standing Operating Procedure No. 10, signed presentation copy inscribed by the author, 'To Edna Selwyn, who shared the labour pains of the author, W. Cresse, London, 26 April 1944', together with wartime correspondence to Edna Selwyn from Colonel Clifford D. Morgan and Major Wadsworth Cresse, Jr (six letters, some typed & signed, some handwritten)

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Typography & Printing Interest. Printing Types, Stephenson, Blake & Co. Ltd., Sheffield: The Letter Foundry, 1924. Quarto, publisher's olive green cloth lettered in gilt, pp. [xvii], 702. Main body of text good & bright, pale staining through prelims, binding tight & square with some marks and light bumps

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Lot 46

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, London: Methuen, 1928. Octavo, publisher's gilt pink cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers, gift inscription with a small hole & mark from the pen, internally very good, clean & bright, binding very good, cloth discoloured

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Lot 47

Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit, first edition from the parts with characteristic stab-holes to gutters [pp. 467-474 uncorrected, i.e. 'Rigaud' instead of 'Blandois', mentioned in the book's errata], London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. Octavo, half-calf lettered in gilt, illustrated with steel-engraved plates by H. K. Browne, “Phiz”, including frontispiece & pictorial title, pp. 625, internally clean, plates foxed as usual

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Robinson, Kim Stanley. Three first editions: Red Mars, 1992; Green Mars, 1993; Blue Mars, 1996. First edition hardbacks with dust-jackets, London: Harper Collins, 1992-96 (3)

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Fleming, Ian. Thunderball, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Octavo, publisher's cloth with embossed skeletal hand, facsimile dust-jacket, internally good & bright, light spotting to endpapers, cloth splitting at joints

Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Octavo, publisher's cloth, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, internally very good & bright, one folded corner, dust-jacket good & bold with scratch to spine

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, second state [without the dropped line of text error on p.7], London: Bloomsbury, 1999. Octavo, hardback with unclipped dust-jacket, some shelf-lean, contents generally good & bright with pale spotting in places

Flint, Sir William Russell. Catalogue Raisonné, Collector's Edition in two folio volumes, limited editions [Vol. I: 1488/1500; Vol. II: 275/1500], half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, Bristol: Michael Stewart Associates, 1986 & 1994. In fine, unread condition, housed in slipcases (2)

Tiraboschi, Girolamo. Storia Della Litteratura Italiana [History of Italian Literature], eight volumes only, 1-5 & 8-10, Napoli: Giovanni Muccis, 1777. Quarto, worn calf, bearing armorial bookplate of Lord Dinerben, sold with all faults (8)

Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Peru, in two volumes, London: Routledge, 1875. Octavo, half-calf (2)

Bewick, Thomas. A History of British Birds, two parts bound as one, Newcastle: Walker, 1809. Octavo, full contemporary calf, illustrated with Bewick's distinctive wood engravings, pp. [xlii], 43-327, [xviii], 19-360, binding worn & restored, contents with pale spotting

Tolkien, J. R. R. Lord of the Rings trilogy, second editions, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966-69. Octavo, publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jackets, internally very good & bright, folding maps at rear, surface wear to cloth, jackets worn (3)

Walkley, Thomas. A New Catalogue of The Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, Barons of England, Scotland and Ireland, London: Printed for Thomas Walkley, 1652, 148pp., plus 29pp. addendum dated to January 1641, lacks endpapers, worn calf with loss at spine, and six other antiquarian books (7)

Malton, T. Views of Oxford, comprising title and six line-engraved topographical & architectural views, slim folio, contemporary blue paper covered boards with remnants of title label at spine, covers worn, some dampstaining internally but mostly confined to margins, sold as found with all faults

Hornby, Nick. Three first editions: Fever Pitch, 1992; High Fidelity, 1995; About a Boy, 1998. First edition hardbacks with unclipped dust-jackets, London: Victor Gollancz, 1992-98 (3)

Larsson, Stieg. Millennium Trilogy. Sealed & unopened boxed set, publisher's cloth bindings lettered in gilt, London: Maclehose Press [2010], publisher's sticker worn, else fine

[Birac; Lamont; Valière]. The New Art of War, London; E. Midwinter, 1726. Octavo, pp. [xii], 296, [iv], five engraved plates (one folding), nothing before title, four leaves with section torn/detached but would piece back with archival tape, folding plate with some tears, binding worn, rebacked

A collection of nine books to include The Best of Beardsley, collected & edited by R. A. Walker, London: Spring Books, n.d., and eight works on British cartoonists of the 1940s to 1960s, including Low, Searle, Vicky (9)

Beza, Theo. Biblia Sacra sive Testementum Vetus, Amsterdam: J. Jacob & Schipper, 1669. 12mo, detached calf boards, sold with all faults

Plato. Opera Omnia. Translated/edited by Marcilio Ficino, in Greek & Latin, Lugduni [Lyon]: Gullemus Laemarius, 1590, pp. [viii], 849, plus 28pp. index, copper-engraved vignette title, full calf, very worn, lacks ffepp, folio (but bound in sixes), sold as found with all faults

Baddeley, J. B. & Ward, C. S. Thorough Guide to Ireland, parts 1 & 2, London: Dulau & Co., 1901-02, red cloth, folding colour maps, and four others (6)

Kipling, Rudyard. The Works, in 27 volumes, London: Macmillan, 1890-1938. Octavo, uniformly bound in publisher's gilt red cloth, top edge gilt, internally good & bright, bindings varied, sold with all faults (27)

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, London: Methuen, 1928. Octavo, publisher's gilt pink cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers, gift inscription with a small hole & mark from the pen, internally very good, clean & bright, binding very good, cloth discoloured

Robinson, Kim Stanley. Three first editions: Red Mars, 1992; Green Mars, 1993; Blue Mars, 1996. First edition hardbacks with dust-jackets, London: Harper Collins, 1992-96 (3)