The Library Auction - Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Prints & Photographs

Lot 49

Dikenmann, R. Swiss Views. A 19th-century album of 24 vibrant, hand-coloured aquatint views bearing stamps verso for R. Dikenmann, Peintre, Zurich, each measuring approx. 6 x 9.5cm (though the mount windows are slightly smaller), most appearing well-preserved & bright, some with marks, the album pages/mounts marked & worn, carved Black Forest style boards with worn morocco spine and brass clasp

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Lot 50

Pennant, Thomas. The History and Antiquities of London, A New Edition, London: Edward Jeffery, 1814. Title, 2pp. preface, illustrated with 30 plates, pp. 381, [i]. Quarto, worn calf with detached boards, sold as a collection of plates with all faults

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Lot 51

Automobile Year, Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9, 1957-62, five in worn dust-jackets; Annual Automobile Review, 1955 & 1956 Edition, in worn jackets; Auto-Parade, Vol. II [1958], in worn jacket (9)

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Lot 52

Dickens, Charles. Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. Octavo, contemporary half crushed morocco, illustrated with 40 plates (including frontispiece and vignette title), pp. xiv, 624, no errata, pictorial title with '100£'. Contents generally good, a couple of leaves repaired with loss, some plates heavily discoloured & spotted, some better & brighter, sold with all faults

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Lot 53

Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol, fifth edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. Octavo, four hand-coloured plates by John Leech (including frontispiece), four wood-engravings within the text, half-title in blue, title in red & blue, pp. [viii], 166, half-morocco lettered in gilt with marbled boards. Contents generally good & bright, some folded corners, some pale spotting in places (heavier at endleaves), marginal wear to "third visitor" plate, slight gutter wear to frontis., contemporary owne

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Lot 54

Heraldry. Dithmar, Justus Christoph. Commentatio De Honoratissimo Ordine Militari de Balneo [Commentary on the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath], first edition, two parts in one, text in English & Latin, Frankfurt: J. G. Conrad, 1729. Folio, pp. [viii], 89, [i], [iii], 4-8, [i], 2-40, [vi]. Main title in red & black with engraved vignette, plus vignette title for the second part [Statutes of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath], frontispiece portrait of Prince William, illustrated wi

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Lot 55

[May, Robert. The Accomplisht Cook, or The Art and Mystery of Cookery], lacking all before p.53, numerous woodcut illustrations within the text, octavo, full calf; The History & Antiquities of Syon Monastery, the Parish of Isleworth, and the Chapelry of Hounslow, by George James Aungier, London: J. B. Nichols & Son, 1840; Cobbett's Two-Penny Trash; or Politics for the Poor, No. 1, Vol. II, London: Printed for the Author [William Cobbett], 1831; The Guardian, Volume the Second, London: Tonson & D

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Lot 56

Bible in Hebrew, Frankfurt an der Oder: Johann and Friedrich Hartmann, 1620. Quarto, worn calf, rebacked, separate title pages with woodcut borders for the various divisions, the first page of the Book of Job provided in manuscript, contents generally good & bright, creasing & wear to first and final leaves, sold with all faults

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Lot 57

Hind, John Russell. The Illustrated London Astronomy, first edition, London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853. Octavo, publisher's blind-embossed green cloth lettered in gilt, pp. [viii], 99, plus 4pp. adverts at rear. Internally very good, a few faint marks in places, bearing two neat owner inscriptions for Robert Bateson, Preston, 1869, binding tight & square, lightly bumped at corners, some surface marks to cloth. Scarce

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Lot 58

Cary, John. Cary's Traveller's Companion, or, A Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales, London: Printed for John Cary, 1 January 1791. Calligraphic engraved title, advertisement, list of contents, 43 engraved maps (as called for) with outline colour, Yorkshire folding, 6pp. list of markets, 2pp. publisher's advertisements. The maps are good with toning & light handling marks, two short tears to Yorkshire, marks & inscriptions to endleaves, binding worn with detached boards, sold

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Lot 59

Masonic Interest. A collection of three books comprising: A Pocket Companion for Free-Masons, by [William Smith], London: E. Rider, 1735, engraved allegorical frontispiece, pp. [vi], 116, plus 3pp advertisements dated 12 December 1734, full worn morocco; The Spirit of Masonry, by William Hutchinson, fifth edition, Carlisle: F. Jollie, 1814, engraved vignette title, engraved plate facing The Sanction, pp. vi, 316, worn calf; A Ritual and Illustrations of Freemasonry, London: W. Reeves, n.d., gilt

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Lot 60

Tennyson, Alfred Lord. In Memoriam, limited edition numbered 648/2000 on Van Gelder paper, printed by Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press to the design of Francis Meynell, London: Nonesuch Press, 1933. Royal octavo, 29.5cm, block-printed paper covered boards in black & gold with paper title label, bookseller's ticket on front pastedown (Alan Hancox, Cheltenham), deckle edges, uncut pages, pp. xxii, [ii], [i] 2-145, [ii]. Internally very good, clean & bright, some very faint spots in places, some

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Lot 61

Masonic Interest. Anderson, James. The Constitutions of the Antient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, revised & enlarged by John Entick, London: J. Scott, 1756. Small quarto, full calf, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black, pp. [iv], 339, plus one page of publisher's adverts. Internally very good, faint staining to upper section, marginal loss in a few places but not affecting text, otherwise very good & bright, contemporary gift & owner inscriptions dated 1763, calf

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Lot 62

The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year..., a collection of 17 miscellaneous volumes covering various years from 1766 to 1791, mixed editions, London: J. Dodsley, 1780s-90s. Octavo, contemporary half-calf, internally the books appear good, bindings worn, some more so than others, sold as one collection with all faults (17)

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Lot 63

Bingham, Frederick. A Celebrated Old Playhouse: The History of Richmond Theatre (Surrey), from 1765 to 1884, London & Richmond-on-Thames: Henry Vickers, R. W. Simpson & Storey, 1886. Octavo, printed paper wrappers, pp. 42, wrappers a little worn, scarce

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Lot 64

Angling. A collection of four works comprising: The Art of Fishing on the Principle of Avoiding Cruelty, by Rev. Oliver Raymond, London: Longmans, 1866; The Angler's Magazine, by a Lover of that innocent and healthful Diversion [George Smith], London: W. Owen, 1754; The Adventures of a Salmon in the River Dee, by A Friend of the Family [William Ayrton], London: William Pickering, 1853; The Life of Izaak Walton, London: James Burns, 1842, Condition varied, sold as found with all faults (4)

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Lot 65

Megaw, Elektra (Illust.). Wild Flowers of Cyprus, limited edition numbered 25/200, signed by the artist, the author and the publisher, specially bound in green quarter crushed morocco lettered in gilt with marbled boards, top edge gilt, London: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., 1973. Folio, internally very good, clean & bright, binding tight & square, lower corners of boards worn with loss, tape residue/marks to endpapers

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Lot 66

Sterne, Laurence. The Works, in six volumes, London: Samuel Richards, 1823. 12mo., 14.5cm, contemporary half-calf, bearing bookplates for Irene Lorch. Together with odd volumes & part-sets of The Sermons of Yorick, The Spectator, Gil Blas, and The Collegians. Condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (11)

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Lot 67

Canby, Sheila R. The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp: The Persian Book of Kings, first edition, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Folio, hardback, publisher's gilt blue cloth, bold & bright dust-jacket, one neat score through front, else near-fine. Scarce

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Lot 68

Turton, William. A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands, first edition, London: John Booth, 1819, illustrated with 28 hand-coloured plates. Together with Rudiments of Conchology, by [Mary Anne Venning], London: Darton & Harvey, 1837, illustrated with numerous hand-coloured plates, bound with Rudiments of Mineralogy, by the same author, 1830, lacking covers, sold with all faults (2)

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Lot 69

Children's & Illustrated. A miscellaneous collection comprising: Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll, People's Edition, London: Macmillan, 1896; Jabberwocky Re-Versed and Other Guinness Versions, 1935; Fables in Slang, by George Ade, Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone, 1901; The Golden Ass, retold by W. H. D. Rouse, London: John Murray, 1940; Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d.; The Baby's Bouquet, by Walter

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Lot 70

Churchill, Winston. The People's Rights, first edition in yellow paper wrappers, first state with p. 71 mis-numbered '1', London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910], lacking final leaf (pp. 151/152) and rear cover, usual toning to cheap paper, wear in places, otherwise a respectable copy of this fragile and scarce collection of early speeches

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Lot 71

Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. Octavo, publisher's imitation cloth with unclipped dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping (priced 16s.). Internally good, clean & bright, neat owner inscription on front pastedown, binding shaken with gutters pulling at title, dust-jacket worn

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Lot 72

Barnum, P. T. Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections, London: Sampson Low, 1870. Octavo, publisher's colour illustrated boards, frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout, pp. viii, 392, 16pp publisher's advertisements. Internally good & bright, some offsetting/spotting to endleaves, binding tight & square, general discolouration & wear to extremities, lower corner of upper board cracked and reinforced with old paper on front pastedown. P. T. Barnum was an A

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Lot 73

Marcello, Benedetto. Estro Poetico-Armonico, volume two only [of eight], Venice: Domenico Louisa, 1724. Folio, rebacked half-calf, engraved frontispiece, half-title, red & black vignette title, pp. 22, 148, [i]. Internally well-preserved & bright, loss to upper quarter of one leaf (pp. 13/14). Together with Marcello's Adagio & Allegro, transcript by P. Bazelaire, Paris: Maurice Senart, [c. 1920] (2)

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Lot 74

Zappata, Francesco. Prediche Quaresimali [Lenten Sermons], Milan: Carlo Giuseppe Quinto, 1691. Square octavo, contemporary vellum with manuscript title at spine, pp. [viii], 262, [viii], plus blanks front & rear, well-preserved, scarce

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Lot 75

Marchantius, Jacobus. Flandria Commentariorum Lib. IIII, first edition, Antwerp: Plantin Press, 1596. Octavo, C18 speckled calf lettered in gilt, title page with woodcut printer's device

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Lot 76

Mascardi, Agostino. Silvarum Libri IV, first edition, Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana [Plantin Press], 1622. Small quarto, 21cm, engraved allegorical title page after Rubens, pp. [xvi], 202, [iv], plus blanks at front & rear, the front bearing a neat contemporary owner inscription dated 1648, printer's woodcut device at rear. Contents remarkably well-preserved, clean & bright

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Lot 77

Tacitus, Cornelius. Annales [Annals], with commentary by Justus Lipsius, Antwerp: Plantin Press, 1581. Octavo, woodcut printer's device to title, pp. [xvi], 481, [xxvii], folding lineage table, worn calf, lacking upper board, sold with all faults

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Lot 78

[Henniker-Major, John]. Two Letters on the Origin, Antiquity, and History of Norman Tiles, Stained with Armorial Bearings, presentation copy, signed & inscribed by the author to Sir George Allanson-Winn, London: John Bell, 1794. Octavo, full contemporary calf, pp. [viii], 114, illustrated with three aquatint etched plates. Internally well-preserved & bright, some pale offsetting/marks in places, calf worn

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Lot 79

Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience, first thus, London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1866. Small octavo but gathered in fours, contemporary cloth with remnants of paper title label, pp. xii, 108, contents loose from binding, otherwise bright

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Lot 80

Byron, George Gordon Noel. Miscellaneous Poems on His Domestic and Other Circumstances, London: Hodgson & Co., 1823, paper covers, pp. 48. Together with Conrad and Medora; Or, The Pirate Isle; A Pathetic Narrative from "The Corsair" of Lord Byron, by Robert Edgar, London: Dean & Munday, [1815], pp. 29; The Grave, by Robert Blair, to which is added Gray's Elegy in a Country Church Yard, London: John Fielding, [c. 1786], engraved frontispiece & vignette title, pp. 40; Poems on Several Occasions, b

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Lot 81

Sakai, Atsuharu. Japan in a Nutshell, in two volumes, Yokohama: Yamagata Printing Co., 1949-52. Octavo, illustrated cloth covers, block-printed wrap-around sleeves, very well-preserved (2)

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Lot 82

Rackham, Arthur (Illust.). Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, first edition; The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, second impression; A Midsummer Night's Dream, third impression, London: Heinemann, 1910-12. Quarto, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, complete with all tipped-in colour plates as called for, captioned tissue-guards, very good & bright with faint spotting in places, bindings good, a few marks to the spine of Shakespeare, each volume bearing a gift inscription from Gresham Copeland to Wini

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Lot 83

Bishop, John (Transl.). Notice of Anthony Stradivari, the Celebrated Violin-Maker, Known by the Name of Stradivarius, by F. J. Fetis, first edition, London: William Reeves, [1864]. Octavo, pp. [xiv], 132, facsimile of a letter facing p. 1, professionally rebound in quarter-calf lettered in gilt, internally good & bright with a few very pale stains. Together with De Fidiculis Bibliographia: Being an Attempt Towards a Bibliography of the Violin, by Edward Heron-Allen, Vol. I., London: Griffith Far

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Lot 84

[Peace of Utrecht / War of the Spanish Succession]. The Offers of France Explain'd, London: A. Baldwin, 1712. A very scarce pamphlet criticising offers made by French representatives during the peace talks that would lead to the Treaty of Utrecht and the end of the War of the Spanish Succession. Octavo, pp. [ii], 26. Very well-preserved, faint spotting in places, bound in black cloth lettered in gilt

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Lot 85

Pamphlets. The Rights and Interests of the Two British Monarchies, by [James Hodges], London: Anonymous, 1703, and Popery Reviving, Or an Account Of the Growth of Popery and the Insolence of Papists and Jacobites in Scotland, [anonymous], Edinburgh: John Martine, 1714, pp. 56 (2)

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Lot 86

European Literature. A miscellaneous collection comprising: Mirabeau aux Champs-Elisees, Comedie en un Acte et en Prose, by Olympe de Gouges [author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen], Paris: Garnery, [1791], pp. [xxiv], 30; Elemens de Metaphisique, by Claude Buffier, Paris: Pierre Francois Giffart, 1725, pp. [viii], 348, octavo, full speckled calf with morocco title label lettered in gilt, bearing armorial bookplate for Robert Cunliffe; Erstes Lesebuch, Bremen:

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Lot 87

Lovett, Richard. [The author's personal copy of] The English Bible in the John Rylands Library 1525 to 1640, extra illustrated edition, i.e. unique, featuring an autograph letter signed by Enriqueta Rylands to Richard Lovett, thanking him for his services to the John Rylands Library, dated 18 January 1900, illustrated with 99 leaves of plates - some of these leaves containing more than one mounted print [the work only calls for 18 plates] - including many genuine antique prints (woodcuts, etchin

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Lot 88

A miscellaneous collection of antiquarian books comprising: Sallustius & Florus. [Works], Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1774, octavo, contemporary calf, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate for Fletcher Fleming of Rayrigg, pp. [ii], 275; The Historian's Guide: Or, Englands Remembrancer, by [Samuel Clarke], London: W. Crook, 1679, pp. [iv], 120, bound with blank leaves separating each page, lacking upper board; A Journey to London, by William Hutton, second edition, London: J. Nichols, 1818, con

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Lot 89

A miscellaneous collection of books to include Lord Randolph Churchill, by Winston Spencer Churchill, in two volumes, London: Macmillan, 1906; The Chartered Surveyor, with a foreword by Winston Churchill, London: Chartered Surveyors' Institution, [1932]; The Story of the Gadsbys, by Rudyard Kipling, Indian Railway Library, Allahabad: Wheeler & Co., n.d., and others, condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (20)

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Lot 90

Rackham, Arthur (Illust.). The Ingoldsby Legends, first trade edition, London & New York: Dent & Dutton, 1907. Quarto, publisher's gilt cloth, top edge gilt, complete with all tipped-in colour plates and captioned tissue-guards as called for. Internally good & bright, some offsetting & pale spotting to frontispiece's tissue-guard/title, binding tight & square, a few marks & small chips to cloth

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Lot 91

Folio Society. A collection of popular literature (classics & modern), plus a small range of history, natural history and biography. 79 books in total, including Complete Novels of Jane Austen, in seven volumes, 1975; Sherlock Holmes Complete Stories, in five volumes, 1993; Complete Plays of William Shakespeare, in six volumes, 1990; The Greek Myths, bound in quarter leather, 1996; The Golden Treasury, bound in quarter leather, 1997; The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1996; The Consolation o

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Lot 92

Dulac, Edmund (Illust.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, first edition thus, printed from Macmillan's second edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [c. 1909]. Quarto, publisher's gilt red cloth, illustrated with 20 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. Generally good & bright with pale spotting & slight wear in places. Together with another edition of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1909 (2)

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Lot 93

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit, second edition, 13th impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1961. Octavo, publisher's green cloth, unclipped 14th impression dust-jacket, colour frontispiece. Internally good & bright, some spotting to opening leaves & title, owner inscription on front blank, spotting to edges of text-block, binding tight & square, chipping & slight loss to jacket with tape repairs verso. Together with a 10th impression of the same in a third edition dust-jacket (2)

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Lot 94

Derbyshire History & Topography. A miscellaneous collection of books to include Wirksworth and Five Miles Round, by R. R. Hackett, large paper edition numbered 18/75, Wirksworth: F. W. Brooks, 1899, small quarto, publisher's gilt cloth, illustrated with real photographic plates; A New Historical and Descriptive View of Derbyshire, by Rev. D. P. Davies, Belper: S. Mason, 1811, illustrated with five plates (three folding), including hand-coloured map frontispiece, bearing armorial bookplate for Th

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Lot 95

Dulac, Edmund (Illust.). Stories from Hans Andersen, first edition thus, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. Quarto, publisher's gilt green cloth, illustrated with 28 tipped-in colour plates. Internally very good, clean & bright, a few faint spots in places, binding tight & square, light surface wear to boards, cloth worn at extremities

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Lot 96

Shakespeare Head Press. Ernest Gimson: His Life & Work, limited edition numbered 351/500, Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1924. Quarto, quarter-cloth with blue paper-covered boards, untrimmed edges, errata slip, illustrated with nine wood-engravings and 60 collotype plates, list of subscribers at rear. Internally very good, clean & bright, lacking dust-jacket, cloth spine untidy & worn

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Hampton Court, London

Banbury, Oxfordshire

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Pennant, Thomas. The History and Antiquities of London, A New Edition, London: Edward Jeffery, 1814. Title, 2pp. preface, illustrated with 30 plates, pp. 381, [i]. Quarto, worn calf with detached boards, sold as a collection of plates with all faults

Automobile Year, Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9, 1957-62, five in worn dust-jackets; Annual Automobile Review, 1955 & 1956 Edition, in worn jackets; Auto-Parade, Vol. II [1958], in worn jacket (9)

Bingham, Frederick. A Celebrated Old Playhouse: The History of Richmond Theatre (Surrey), from 1765 to 1884, London & Richmond-on-Thames: Henry Vickers, R. W. Simpson & Storey, 1886. Octavo, printed paper wrappers, pp. 42, wrappers a little worn, scarce

Canby, Sheila R. The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp: The Persian Book of Kings, first edition, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Folio, hardback, publisher's gilt blue cloth, bold & bright dust-jacket, one neat score through front, else near-fine. Scarce

Zappata, Francesco. Prediche Quaresimali [Lenten Sermons], Milan: Carlo Giuseppe Quinto, 1691. Square octavo, contemporary vellum with manuscript title at spine, pp. [viii], 262, [viii], plus blanks front & rear, well-preserved, scarce

Marchantius, Jacobus. Flandria Commentariorum Lib. IIII, first edition, Antwerp: Plantin Press, 1596. Octavo, C18 speckled calf lettered in gilt, title page with woodcut printer's device

Tacitus, Cornelius. Annales [Annals], with commentary by Justus Lipsius, Antwerp: Plantin Press, 1581. Octavo, woodcut printer's device to title, pp. [xvi], 481, [xxvii], folding lineage table, worn calf, lacking upper board, sold with all faults

Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience, first thus, London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1866. Small octavo but gathered in fours, contemporary cloth with remnants of paper title label, pp. xii, 108, contents loose from binding, otherwise bright

Sakai, Atsuharu. Japan in a Nutshell, in two volumes, Yokohama: Yamagata Printing Co., 1949-52. Octavo, illustrated cloth covers, block-printed wrap-around sleeves, very well-preserved (2)

Pamphlets. The Rights and Interests of the Two British Monarchies, by [James Hodges], London: Anonymous, 1703, and Popery Reviving, Or an Account Of the Growth of Popery and the Insolence of Papists and Jacobites in Scotland, [anonymous], Edinburgh: John Martine, 1714, pp. 56 (2)