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John Ruskin (1819-1900), an autographed draft manuscript lecture entitled 'Unused Arundel', expressing his distaste for contemporary art and its market, leading to a request for the Arundel Society to hire copyists to recreate the Italian Old Masters rather than relying on printing, (...Do you think that, if a group of figures by Perugino, or Luini, as beautiful in many respects as the original - would not be a better decoration for your drawing room than an oil painting - such as you are likely now to get of them - of an old gentleman with his family late at a party - or a drowned child and a starving dog tied to a mast!...), 7 pages, within a red folio, dated 1878, andan autographed letter to Mrs Elizabeth Salt, revealing the subtlety of his own sensibilities while instructing her in the art of drawing, and proposing, since there is 'no wholesome elementary book on drawing', that she wait for the third volume of 'Modern Painters' which will tell her better what she wants to know than anything else she could get ('...It seems very egotistic, but it is the truth, & I cannot help saying it...'), with the original autograph envelope, postmarked 30 August 1855 (3)

Folio Society: A cased limited edition (877/1000) leatherbound copy of 'Tractatus de Herbis' together with a commentary book by Minta Collins, cased H. 40cm.

Folio Society: Four volumes of 'The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night', volume H. 25.5cm.

[Shakespeare] Works of Shakspere Imperial Edition edited by Charles Knight, illustrated with steel engravings, published Virtue (c.1870s) in 2 folio volumes, recently bound in full half leather with raised bands and gilt decorated spines. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe with upwards of 100 wood engravings published Cassell (c.1870s), in half leather. Farrar’s Life of Christ with coloured map and original illustrations (c.1880), in half leather. The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe illustrated (c.1880s). Bunyan’s Pilgrim's Progress illustrated by H.C. Selous and M. Paolo Priolo (c.1880s). A Collection Of Novels By Charles Dickens, published by Chapman & Hall (c.1870s), bound in three half leather volumes and Pictures From Punch volume IV bound in modern half leather

[Bible] A Practical And Explanatory Commentary on The Old Testament by The Rev. Robert Jamieson, with illustrative engravings on steel, published James S. Virtue (c.1870s) with many full page plates and coloured map together with engraved pages for births and deaths records, thick folio volume bound in full contemporary leather with diamond patterned tooled covers within gilt decorated borders, gilt decorated panels, bands and lettering on spine and with decorated edge gilding to text block. The Holy Bible containing the Old And New Testaments printed by George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode 1846, folio bound in blind stamped decorated Morocco with raised bands and gilt lettered spine. The Life of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ by The Rev. John Fleetwood, published J. & F. Tallis (1840s) illustrated with full-page steel engravings, folio bound in full gilt leather with lettered title label spine together with The London Journal volume XLIII for 1866 and copy of Jerrolds’ Farmers’ Labour Account Book 36th edition with entries from 1877-78, in leather backed boards (5)

Prout (Samuel) Prout's Microcosm: The Artist's Sketch-Book of Groups of Figures, Shipping..., 24 tinted lithographed plates, some guards, plates loose and working loose, original cloth, gilt, [1841]; and another, Motte-Fouque's Undine, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, folio & 4to (2).

Patten, William (editor); THE BOOK OF SPORT; New York; J F Taylor; 1901; very tall folio hard boards with 411 pages; the grande deluxe edition 1/450 copies. Showing the history of the various sports played at premier East Coast sports club in the USA. Besides chapters on sports such as Golf and Yachting, there are six chapters with 53 pages on Court Tennis, and four chapters with 43 pages on Lawn Tennis, as well as Racquets content, illustrated with large black and white photographs of personalities.

Two Vintage Articles: De Werkenevan; AMOR UT PILA VICES EXIGIT (Love Requires the Ball to Change); 1695; page 497 taken from a large folio volume showing a couple playing an early form of Battledore and Shuttlecock, a predecessor of Badminton. Diderot, Denis et Jean Le Rond dAlembert; PAUMIER; extracted from the Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire Raisonee des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers; Paris; 1767; the 1st edition in folio size with 9 plates and two pages of text. Taken from the 1767 book, the 9 plates are of the court, the Paumiers, how they hand-make the implements, the rackets, the stringing, and the balls. The techniques of ball manufacture remain unchanged to this day. (In portfolio). Provenance: This lot is part of Mr Alan Chalmers Collection.

Nash (Thomas) Collections for the History of Worcestershire, London: for John White, 1799, second edition, tall folio, two volumes, rebound retaining part of original boards with attractive modern gilt calf spine with title and volume labels, fold out map, portrait frontispiece, vignette titles, various text vignettes, 81 plates and multiple fold out genealogies, scattered later added pages relating to the locations described; together with Amphlett (John) An Index to Dr Nash’s Collections for a History of Worcestershire, Oxford: James Parker for the Worcestershire Historical Society, 1894-1895, Parts I and II, large folio, original boards with pasted paper titles to front board (4)A Gloucestershire book collector

Photography & Erotica to include Hedgecoe (John) Possessions, London: Mitchell Beazley, 1978, folio; Basch (Peter) Photographs Female Beauty, Whitestone Book 43, 1963; Whitestone Book 40, 1962; Whitestone Book 44, 1963; Fawcett Book 537, 1963, and other volumes on Erotica and photography (qty)

The Folio Society : A History of England, five volume book set, together with six further Anthony Trollope.

Follower of Anthony van Dyck (Flemish 1599–1641) or Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (Jonson) (Dutch 1593-1661): 'Portrait of Sir John Suckling as Hamlet' Holding a Shakespeare Folio, 17th/18th century oil on canvas extensively inscribed verso 55cm x 34cmNotes: This painting represents the cavalier poet and dramatist Sir John Suckling (1608–1641) depicted in the theatrical guise of Hamlet, with a folio volume labeled 'Shakespeare' cradled in his arm. The costume echoes Royalist fashion, directly opposing the Puritan sensibilities of his day. The work may be a copy of a lost original by Anthony van Dyck, or by Cornelius Johnson (Sanders), a noted portraitist of the Stuart court. Annotations on the reverse suggest the portrait passed through the family of Lady Southcote, Suckling’s sister, and her husband Sir Thomas Lee.Transcription verso (with illegible aspects removed) reads: .. the work of Cornelius Sanders. Sir John is depicted here... leaving his life as a player. With a folio book in hand, a paper between the leaves bears the title “Shakespeare.” He has achieved hair — and wears it in the flowing style so offensive to the roundheads of his day. He is dressed in close vestments, with a blue mantle fastened over the right shoulder by a gold button, and he wears calf boots of tanned leather — in the murkin fashion. The scene is nicely coloured and not overpoweringly dark as was too common in that day.This fashion may possibly be over... Noted in his life among eminent men. In the house of Lady Southcote, wife of Suckling, the local tradition holds it to be what it was thought — a portrait in the character of Hamlet. A memento? The marriage of the Davies? Or his sister... with Sir Thomas Lee?Sir John Suckling was born 1608 and died 1641. A delightful writer of what was once called “occidental verse.” He is rarely coarse, and his well-known “Ballad Upon a Wedding” has long been admired for its graphic description and bold expression. This lively effort in affectation was occasioned by the marriage of Lord Brockhill with the daughter of the Earl of Suffolk — perhaps alluded to in this portrayal.

Robert Southey's copy.- Camerarius (Philipp) The Living Librarie, or, Meditations and Observations Historical, Natural, Moral, Political, and Poetical, first edition in English, translated by John Molle, title within ornate woodcut border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial and final blanks, Robert Southey's copy with his wood-engraved bookplate, final f. with early ownership name "Eliza: Cecill", F6 tear into text without loss, the odd rust-spot, some light foxing and browning, contemporary calf, rebacked, covers with central gilt-tooled lozenge surrounded by initials ‘E-L-E’, corners worn, covers rubbed, [STC 4529], folio, Adam Islip, 1621. *** A translation of a French version by Simon Goulart of book 1 of Operae horarum subcisivarum. A variant has "The walking librarie" on the title-page.

Lomazzo (Giovanni Paolo) A Tracte containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge & Buildinge, first edition in English, translated by Richard Haydocke, engraved title and 13 full-page illustrations, some after Dürer, woodcut initials and numerous fine typographical ornaments, lacking final leaf (colophon), embossed ownership stamp of Derek Gibson to front free endpaper, title with contemporary inscription at head (shaved) and rather soiled and frayed at edges with slight loss to outer corners (neatly supplied in ink and laid down), small stains to A2-3, B5 & D6, some other staining towards end particularly 2O1 & 2, a few leaves shaved at head at end, 2I1 defective at foot with slight loss to ornament and 3 lines of text on verso, a remboitage in later crimson straight-grain morocco elaborately tooled in gilt with wheel design, spine gilt in compartments, later paste-paper endpapers, rubbed, spine faded, [Harris 519; STC 16698; cf.Berlin Kat 4612 & Fowler 186, earlier Milan editions], small folio (c.250 x 180mm.), [Oxford, by Joseph Barnes for Richard Haydocke], [1598]. *** Lomazzo's influential Mannerist treatise was the first treatise on art to be published in England. It was dedicated to Thomas Bodley and was one of the first works to be presented to the Bodleian Library. "It was the first book on the arts to be translated and the reason for its choice must have been its thorough treatment of painting...". Harris p. 297.

Reptiles.- Topsell (Edward) The History of Serpents, woodcut title vignette of a child being swallowed by a boa, woodcut illustrations, reinforced at inner edge and with manuscript alteration pasted over part of title, some light soiling or browning, a few stains, small hole to Nnn4 with loss of a couple of letters and affecting woodcut of crocodile, Ttt4 with small portion lacking from upper margin with loss to head-line, a few minor marginal tears and repairs, old ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, modern half calf, [Nissen 4147; Wing G624], folio, E. Cotes, 1658. *** The second part only (of 3, pp.591-818) of Topsell's The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents of 1658 (second edition), with its own separate title but amended in manuscript to read "...Or, The Book of living Creatures" instead of "...Or, The second book of living Creatures". It covers bees & wasps, chameleons, crocodiles, dragons, frogs & toads, lizards, scorpions, spiders, and tortoises as well as snakes.

Lemnius (Levinus) The Secret Miracles of Nature, first edition in English, title fore-margin extended, printed side-notes shaved to K4v, V1&3 small spill-burns affecting few letters, 3E1 small paper-flaw hole affecting few letters, occasional spotting, light browning, slightly heavier at points, 19th century navy half calf, rubbed, backstrip peeled away from upper joint and nearly loose, upper cover detached, housed in a custom modern morocco-backed slipcase, [Wing L1044], small folio, Jo. Streater, 1658. *** Scarce first edition in English of this popular book of 'secrets', a mixture of medical lore combined with occultism, astrology and religious belief.Provenance: Rev. Thomas Bird, The Rectory, St. Fagans (bookplate and red morocco book-label "Thos. Bird"); bookseller's ticket of Bradshaw & Blacklock of Manchester. 

Italy.- Schottus (Franciscus) Italy, in its Original Glory, Ruine and Revival, first edition in English, translated by Edmund Warcupp, additional engraved title, 2 folding engraved plans, woodcut initials and head-pieces, Table bound after preliminaries, small stain to title (mostly to fore-margin), 4M1 hole affecting typographic border and few words, some small and minor damp-staining to upper margin, some light foxing, a good copy, contemporary calf, later spine label, repairs to spine and upper joint, [Wing S891], folio, S. Griffin, for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring and I. Place, 1660. *** Provenance: Porkington Library (book-label). 

Huth copy.- Lydgate (John) The Life and Death of Hector, title within woodcut border incorporating female embodiments of wisdom and science, shields for each of the four continents, the royal arms of James I and a scholar at his desk, with final blank but lacking initial blank, title 3mm. short at head (?supplied), G3 small hole affecting few letters, few neat and subtle marginal repairs, some light marginal creases possibly pressed, the odd spot or minor surface soiling, else very good, handsomely bound in full crushed brown morocco by Bedford, gilt, covers with gilt panels with acorn device to corners, few light and small marks to lower cover, some very light rubbing to joints and corners, g.e., [STC 5581.5], small folio, Thomas Purfoot, 1614. *** First edition under this title. A modernised verse paraphrase of the 'Troy Book' of John Lydgate, which was in turn a very much amplified version of the prose 'Latin Historia Destructionis Troiae' of Guido delle Colonne, in turn a condensed version of the 'Roman de Troie' of Benoît de Sainte More.Provenance: "Ex Musaeo Huthii" (gilt morocco book-label); Kalbfleisch collection (gilt book-label); Kenneth Rapoport (book-label). 

AN ILLUSTRATED LOOSE FOLIO WITH A SCHOLAR AND HIS PUPILS PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN COLLECTION Possibly Eastern Mediterranean, ex-Byzantine Provinces, or the Levant, 14th - 15th century or laterOpaque pigments, black and red inks on paper, the square-format text illustration depicting a learned seated figure on a throne-like high chair, holding a book, possibly educating or discoursing with two figures in colourful garments standing in front of him, one of them bearing fans or leafy branches, set within a simple black and yellow ruled border, with 2ll. of black and red Eastern Christian or Greek script in an unidentified hand above the image, the overall composition bearing stylistic traits consistent with Eastern Christian or Levantine manuscript traditions, including flattened perspective, decorative stylisation of garments, and manuscript rubrication, reminiscent as well of early Arabic painting examples such as al-Hariri's Maqamat illustrated by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti (ca. 1237) in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.The folio 15.8cm x 18cm, 34cm x 36.5cm including the mount The folio 15.8cm x 18cm, 34cm x 36.5cm including the mount Qty: 1

TWO ARCHAISTIC PORTRAITS OF PERSIAN SAFAVID LADIES IN A GARDEN SETTING PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN COLLECTION Qajar Iran, late 19th - early 20th centuryOpaque pigments, ink and gold on paper, each portrait presented as an illustrated loose album folio featuring Safavid-revival, archaistic figures in the Reza 'Abbasi Isfahan School style, each with a high-rank lady seated beneath a flowering tree in a garden setting, one reading a book, the latter writing on a piece of paper, both immersed in poetic or literary contemplation and acting as visual metaphors of classical Persian literature topoi, one portrait accompanied by four hemistichs of a Persian love poem in black ink nasta'liq script reading "The radiance of your face is like the dawn, each glance of yours brings both pain and balm alike", each portrait set within richly illuminated borders with wild animals and elaborate floral cartouches with arabesques and meanders, the overall composition paying tribute to the elegance, lyricism and courtly refinement of the Safavid visual tradition. 28.3cm x 20.8cm and 26.5cm x 16.8cm respectively 28.3cm x 20.8cm and 26.5cm x 16.8cm respectively Qty: 2

Tern Press. Sir Orfeo, Tern Press, June 1980, eight coloured woodcuts by Nicholas Parry, with extensive colouring by the artist, untrimmed, marbled endpapers, original dark brown full calf, light damp-marking to covers, tall folio, limited signed edition of 95 copies, this being the 1st of three copies on RWS paper, signed, together with The Gospel according to Saint Mark, as translated into English in 1380 by John Purvey, Tern Press, 1980, wood engraved illustrations by Nicholas Parry, extensivley coloured by hand by the artist, light water satin to upper blank margins of some leaves, untrimmed, marbled endpapers, original publisher's brown full calf, tall folio, limited signed edition of 150 copies, this copy numbered 2, signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry, plus The Taill of the Paddok & the Mous, from The Morall Fabilillis of Esope, by Robert Henrisone, Tern Press, 1986, four full-page original watercolour with pen and ink illustrations by Nicholas Parry, untrimmed, original olive green cloth with mounted pen, ink, and watercolour illustration by Nicholas Parry to upper cover, contained in original publisher's drop-over bookbox, large 4to, limited signed edition of 100 copies, this being number 4 of ten copies with original watercolour illustrations by Nicholas Parry, and four others similar all Tern Press publications: The Poems of Taliesin, translated by Meirion Pennar, 1989, illustrated by Nicholas Parry, limited signed edition 63/90, large folio, The Riddles from the Exeter Book, edited and translated by John Porter, 1978, woodcuts by Nicholas Parry, limited edition 42/80, signed by John Porter, 4to, The Taill of the Paddok and the Mous, 1986, limited signed edition, 19/100, 4to, and Trees, edited by Eric Robinson, 1989, linocut illustrations by Nicholas Parry, limited signed edition 44/100, folioQTY: (7)

Betjeman (John & Harte, Glyn Boyd). Metro-Land. Verses by Sir John Betjeman and Lithographs by Glynn Boyd Harte, 1st edition, London: Warren Editions, 1977, 16 colour lithographs, each with a tissue-guard with printed red captions, a little spotting to endpapers, original white cloth with pictorial paper label to upper cover, small oblong folio (17.5 x 24 cm), housed in the original red cloth folding book box with repeating London Underground motif patterned interiorQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: From the library of John Arlott.Limited edition, 55/220 copies, signed by both Betjeman and Harte. ‘These verses are taken from the commentary written by Sir John Betjeman for Edward Mirzoeff’s BBC documentary, Metro-land, which was first shown in 1973’ (explanatory note, p. 7).Peterson A46.

Hale (Kathleen). Orlando, The Marmalade Cat, A Trip Abroad, London: Country Life, 1939, colour illustrations throughout, decorative endpapers, presentation inscription dated 1942 to free front endpaper, original pictorial boards, some marks to rear cover and rubbing to extremities, folio, together with two other hardback folios: Orlando Keeps a Dog, [1949]; and Orlando A Seaside Holiday, 1952, both published by Country Life, in original pictorial boards, folio, some rubbing to extremities, and nine others comprising: Orlando's Evening Out (Puffin Picture Book No. 14), previous ownership inscription to upper cover, [1941]; Orlando's Home Life, published by Harlequin, [1946]; Orlando's Zoo, [1954]; Orlando The Judge, [1950]; Orlando and the Three Graces (with dust jacket), 1965; Orlando's Evening Out (with dust jacket), 1962; Orlando, The Frisky Housewife, 1956; Orlando and the Water Cats, 1972; and Henrietta, The Faithful Hen, 1943, all in original pictorial cloth or boards, generally in good condition, some rubbing to extremities, 4to/8vo QTY: (12)NOTE:Kathleen Hale was first and foremost an artist, and much of Orlando's success was a result of her extravagant illustrations for the series.

Eminent Georgians and Victorians Autograph and scrap album of Mary Webster (1794-1883) Folio (43 x 31cm), contemporary straight-grain dark red morocco richly decorated in gilt and blind, pictorial watercolour title-page ‘The Scrap Book of Mary Webster’, dated Edinburgh 1831, approx. 70 album leaves with material pasted to rectos and versos, including: Watercolours, approx. 50, mainly Scottish scenes, also including: ‘Taj Mahal’ (18 x 22.5cm), ‘View of a Kaium or Monastery at Prome in the Kingdom of Ava’ (15.5 x 24.5cm), ‘View of the fire in the High Street Edinburgh, 16th November 1824’ (9 x 13.5cm), ‘Dangerous situation of the Indiana - aground on the James & Mary’s, River Houghly' (17 x 26cm, pen-and-ink with grisaille watercolour), ‘Waterfall, Guzerat, Bombay', (35.5 x 25cm), 'Fort near town of Ferozepore, India' (33 x 21cm); Autographs, approx. 180 in total, including complete letters, clipped signatures or sentiments, signed covers and free fronts;i) Complete letters: David Wilkie, Thomas Chalmers (Scottish churchman and political economist, 2 letters, one written in third person), Mary Somerville (scientist and polymath; an invitation to dinner), Anne Grant (Scottish author, on a gift of salmon), Fanny Burney (unsigned autograph note to ‘My dearest Susan’ requesting she intervene to prevent the publication of a poem, annotated at head ‘Madame D’Arblay), Robert Hooper (physician), Sir John Ross (arctic explorer; a letter of recommendation for his nephew Andrew Ross, addressed to Dr Webster), Allan Cunningham (writer and poet), David Brewster (scientist, to Mrs Webster, declining an invitation), Edwin Landseer, and numerous others; ii) Clipped signatures and sentiments: Robert Walpole, large cutting from manuscript document, probably a treasury warrant, dated 10 October 1727, signed by Walpole ('R. Walpole'), countersigned by George Bubb Dodington, William Clayton, George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax; Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Halifax, autograph signature ‘Godolphin’ on fragment of printed treasury warrant, 1709; cutting from a treasury warrant with the autograph signatures of George Lyttelton, George Bubb Dodington, Henry Fox and Richard Arundell; clipped signatures of George III (dated 1783, on vellum), George IV, William Wilberforce, Thomas Campbell (Scottish sculptor), Maria Edgeworth, peers including Burlington, Exmouth, Redesdale, etc.; iii) Signed covers and free fronts: Thomas Babington Macaulay, peers including Minto, Maryborough, Bessborough, Melbourne, Brougham, Egremont etc.; iv) George II, document signed (military commission on vellum, 1740, loosely inserted).Miscellaneous material: James Robertson (1813-1888), [View of Sebastopol, Crimea], c.1856, photographic salt print, 22.5 x 29.8cm, signed ‘Robertson’ in the negative, with Mary Webster's manuscript caption to mount ('Sebastapol [sic], from the Admiralty Creek with Forts Paul and Constantine etc., sent me from the Crimea by T. Hunter, Surgeon, March 1856'; printed invitation from Lord Eglinton to the Eglinton Tournament, 1839, addressed to Charles Webster; albumen print portrait photograph presumably of Mary Webster; a letter from a ?J. Stewart, Grenada, 1779, to a William Fraser of Kulbokee (Culbokie), Inverness, on commercial opportunities in the West Indies (letter loose), etc. By descent to the vendor. Mary Webster was the eldest of 11 children born to John Webster, minister at Inverarity, near Dundee, and his wife, also Mary. On John's death in 1807 the family moved to nearby Carmyllie and subsequently to London. Her brother was the eminent physician John Webster MD FRCP FRS (1794-1876), who ‘devoted much time and labour to the examination of lunatic asylums, prisons, and medical institutions at home and abroad’ (Royal College of Physicians, online). A collection of Mary's watercolours is held by Edinburgh Libraries, who remark that ‘the census records indicate that Mary was a lady of independent means, single, living in a household with her mother and grown-up siblings with servants. This would support the evidence that she was able to travel widely and pursue her painting pastime. She was described in her family as a woman who was talented, travelled widely, wrote and painted "en plein air"'. For a collection of Mary's watercolours in this sale see lot 76. 

Miscellaneous books including travel Collection of works Paine, Thomas. Common Sense: addressed to the Inhabitants of America … A New Edition, with several Additions … to which is added … an Address to the People called Quakers. The New Edition here given increases the Work upwards of One Third. London: printed and sold by all the booksellers, 1792. 12mo in half-sheets, 58 pp., modern quarter calf, inked annotations to blanks; [French Revolutionary Wars]. A Letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Warwick … in consequence of the Speeches of his Lordship … in Opposition of the Motions of the Earls of Oxford and Suffolk, to address His Majesty for Peace, and for the Dismissal of the Right Honorable Pitt. Likewise some Observations upon the Conduct of the French Directory during the Late Negotiations for Peace. With a Recommendation for British Subjects to unite, as the most certain Means for promoting Happiness amongst themselves, and bid Defiance to the dark Machinations of their Enemies. By a Loyal Subject. [?London]: printed for the author, 1798. First and apparently only edition, small 8vo in half-sheets, 128 pp., contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt, coronet and monogram ‘Y’ gilt to covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt red morocco book-label of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, ink-stamp of Alexander Gardyne dated 1883 to verso of title-page; Sassoon, Siegfried. The Heart's Journey. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927. One of 500 copies, signed by the author on the title-page, 4to, finely bound in tan crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Southesk, James Carnegie, 9th Earl of. Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1874. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, 7 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, 5 lithographic plates (counted as 2), 2 folding maps on glazed linen, inner hinges neatly reinforced; War Office. Historical Record of the Thirty-Fourth, or, the Cumberland Regiment of Foot. London: Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, 1844. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, engraved general title-page (spotted), 5 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates (3 listed); Cannon, Richard. Historical Record of the Twenty-First Regiment, or the Royal North British Fusiliers. London: Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1849. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, engraved general title-page, 3 hand-coloured lithographic plates, dent to rear board; and 10 others (including Joseph Skelton, Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour … after the Drawings, and with the Descriptions of Dr. Meyrick, 1830, 2 volumes, folio, engraved plates) (18) Southesk's work Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains is notably uncommon in good condition in the original cloth.

William McCance (1894-1970) and Agnes Miller Parker (1895-1980) Woodblock, lithograph and linocut Christmas cards, designed/sent by artist friends, 1930s-1950s PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE NO CARDS BY GERTRUDE HERMES IN THIS LOT 75+ cards received by the artists William McCance and Agnes Miller Parker, designed/sent by artist friends, many of whom associated with Gregynog Press and Golden Cockerel Press (and others). All between 9 x 13cm and 24 x 15cm (laid flat), largely with typographic messages or signed by the artist:Leonard Beaumont (1891-1986). ‘In the hope of a more peaceful and Dictatorless year from Francis and Vera Meynell 1937’ - Sir Francis Meynell (1891-1975) founded the Pelican Press and Nonesuch Press;Dorothea Braby (1909-1987). 2 Christmas/New Year cards;Lawrence Bradshaw (1899-1978). Monochrome lithograph of mother and child, signed to reverse with inscription, 1929;Cynthia Burnley (1900-1964). 4 x wood engraving cards, sent by the artist, 1930s;Edmund Dulac (1882-1953). 3 cards, monoprints;Eric Gill (1882-1940). Wood engraving of two figures.Judith Hughes-Stanton (b. 1927, daughter of Gertrude Hermes and Blair Hughes-Stanton). 3 cards from Dick and Naomi Mitchison (MP and author respectively);Margaret K. Macadam (1902-1991). Christmas card with dachshund, printed by Raven;George Mackley (1900-1983). 4 wood engraving cards with printed messages, 2 being signed and editioned in pencil by the artist;John Mansbridge (1901-1981). 3 x coloured screen print cards, 1 x monochrome print;Albert A. Mason (n.d). 7 cards, 3 featuring cats;Robert Maynard (1888-1966).  Quantity of colour wood engraving (and other) Christmas cards, many sent by the artist; Maynard was the original Controller of Gregynog Press, until McCance took over in 1930;John Nash (1893-1977). 'Above Cadsdean', colour reproduction for The Soho Gallery Ltd, signed ‘Philip’ [Nash was a friend of McCance and Parker];John O'Connor (1913-2004). 2 cards, 1 featuring a cockerel and signed from Christopher Sandford (1902-1983, owner of Golden Cockerel Press and a founding director of the Folio Society) and Lettice Sandford (1902-1993, artist); also:Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). Wood engraving of a train and aeroplane, printed for Golden Cockerel Press and signed ‘The Old Cockerel’ and Christopher Sandford, and asking for a suggestion for ‘the perfect book for Agnes Miller Parker’, presumably to commission illustrations; idem. green and black lithograph [The Grape House], with printed Christmas message from Sir Stephen and Lady Tallents of St John's Jerusalem;Mark Severin (1906-1987). 4 tri-colour lithograph prints;Leon Underwood (1890-1975). Print attached to cartridge paper with calligraphic message, and 1949/50 card with ink inscription from Leon and Mary with drawing of cat and mouse;together with a quantity of cards received from former pupils of McCance from his time teaching at Reading University (approximately 150 in total) From the Estate of William McCance. Agnes Miller Parker illustrated a number of private press books, including several for Golden Cockerel Press and Gregynog Press.  William McCance was Controller of Gregynog between 1930 and 1933. He taught typography and book production at the University of Reading between 1943 and 1957 and a number of the cards in this collection are by those students.

Plain Wrapper Press Cantata de Bomarzo A Libretto by Manuel Mujica Lainez. Seven Etchings by Luciano De Vita. Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, 1981. One of 83 copies signed by author and artist, folio, original quarter morocco, patterned paper sides, edges untrimmed, matching slipcase, together with a copy of the Italian translation (one of 130 copies, 4to, original wrappers); Dropmore Press. The Holkham Bible Picture Book. London: Dropmore Press, 1954. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 100 specially bound copies signed by the editor, folio, original red full morocco lettered in gilt and stamped in blind, top edge gilt, others untrimmed; Paulinus Press. To the Cross. A Sequence of Dramatic Poems for Holy Week. Marlborough: Paulinus Press, 1984. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 25 specially bound copies with a portfolio signed and numbered wood-engravings, 8vo, original quarter morocco, vellum sides, with 19 wood-engravings on polished rag paper, each numbered and signed in pencil by the artist Simon Brett housed in purple cloth portfolio, with matching purple cloth slipcase; MacDougall, W. B. (illustrator). Isabella or the Pot of Basil by John Keats. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ltd., 1898. First edition thus, 4to, original green cloth, woodcut or line-block illustrations throughout including broad Kelmscott-style floral borders (4)

Natural History, including photography, art, literature and collecting Blossfeldt, Karl Art forms in nature: examples from the plant world photographed direct from nature by Professor Karl Blossfeldt; with an introduction by Karl Nieren Dorf. London: A. Zwemmer, 1929. First English edition, 4to,120 photogravure plates, original green cloth;Gilpin, W.S. Practical Hints upon Landscape Gardening. London: Cadell, 1835. Second edition, 8vo, 16 lithographed plates, original cloth, some spotting, slightly soiled;Kappel, A.W. and W. Egmont Kirby. British and European Butterflies and Moths. London: Ernest Nister, [n.d.] 4to, original pictorial red cloth with gilt butterfly design;Sowerby, James Edward. English Botany… London, 1840. 8vo, volume 7 only, 259 hand-coloured plates, original purple cloth;Timmns, Samuel. Popular Country Houses: A History of Warwickshire. London: Elliot Stock, 1889. 8vo, contemporary black quarter morocco gilt, one of 50 copies on large paper;Maggs Bros. A Selection of Books, Manuscripts, Engravings and Autograph Letters… being the five hundredth catalogue issued by Maggs Bros. London: Maggs Bros, 1928. Folio, original paper wrappers;Life and Work of Feodora Gleichen, sculptor. London, 1934. 8vo, original quarter vellum over blue cloth boards;Rouam, J. Gauthiez, Pierre. Les Artistes Célèbres. Prud'Hon. Paris: Librairie de l'Art J. Rouam, [n.d.] 8vo, brown quarter morocco gilt;Kipling, Rudyard. If. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1916. Small pamphlet with additional copy of the poem on card loosely inserted, original wrappers, early ownership signature to upper cover;and 7 others, including T.S. Eliot (16) Blossfeldt's work is a pioneering photographic book devoted to plant architecture, containing 120 richly gravured plates.

Ormerod (George). The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester..., 3 volumes in 6, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, double-page hand-coloured engraved county map, engraved plates, wood-engraved vignettes and armorials, Michael Cecil de Courcy Peele bookplate to each front pastedown, occasional spotting, each with original green ribbon book markers, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco over green cloth boards with gilt decoration, rubbed with some minor loss, gilt decorated spines with morocco labels, rubbed, folio,QTY: (6)

Willoughby (Lady Maria, illustrator). Gray's Elegy, The Borders designed and Illuminated by Lady Willoughby, London: Printed and published by Day & Son, Ltd, [1866], 12 chromolithographed plates on card, in gold and colours, plain tissue-guard to each leaf, contemporary presentation inscription to front pastedown 'Hannah Mylne, From her affectionate children Robert Scott Milne and Jessy Louisa Milne, June 17th 1869', all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated and blind-decorated blue cloth, rubbed and some marks, one or two small splashes, lightly rubbed, folio (36 x 28 cm), together with other similar illustrated works including The Book of Song, published by Chappell, 50 New Bond St., circa 1848, chromolithograph title, and printed music index leaf at front inscribed 'Miriam from C. J. July 30th 1849', original cloth-backed decorative boards, rubbed and marked, folio, Vorlagen Textil-Arbeite, vorwiegend nach entwürfen der hervorragendsten meister der neuzeit insbesondere von Hansen, Hatzinger, Laufberger, Lieb, Quentell, Rigler, Ritter, Storck..., Vienna: Verlag von R. v. Waldheim, [1880], title printed in red and black, 42 woodcut and chromolithographed plates, two plates with some spotting, front pastedown with bookplate of Rousdon, Devon, contemporary half morocco, rubbed and some marks, folio, George Barnard, Elementary Studies of Trees, London: Rowney & Co., & Thos. McLean, 1844, and a 19th-century bound folio album containing numerous 20th-century watercolour and gouache studies of faces and figures in a modernist manner, unsigned, binding somewhat worn, folioQTY: (5)

Earlom (Richard). Liber Veritatis, or, a Collection of Two Hundred Prints after the original designs of Claude Le Lorrain, in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, executed by Richard Earlom..., volumes 1 & 2 only, London: John Boydell, 1777, printed title page and index to both volumes, volume 1 with a dedication to the Duke of Devonshire and a mezzotint portrait of Claude Le Lorrain, 2 leaves on the 'Life of Claude Lorrain' and an advertisement, 200 mezzotints on laid paper, printed in sepia and black, slight spotting and staining, bookplate of Sir Edmund Antrobus to front pastedowns, contemporary speckled calf with gilt decorated spines, boards detached, folio, binding size 430 x 280 mmQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: Sir Edmund Antrobus, second Baronet (1792-1870).Abbey, Life in England, 200. The third volume was not published until 1819."This capital work, a landmark in the history of the reproduction of master drawings, is ... an important forerunner of later publications in this section. It contains 300 reproductions of drawings by Claude Lorrain, pastoral, mythological, and biblical subjects, and was called Liber Veritatis [Book of Truth] for the purpose of identifying Claude's genuine works from forgeries, or from drawings wrongly attributed to the master. They are all printed in a warm bistre colour to aid the resemblance..., This is the first complete edition with the engravings in the best and final state..., The catalogues in each volume give a comprehensive description of each drawing, indicating also for whom they were executed, which pictures were painted from them, and the ownership at the date of publication of the book—in short, a real catalogue raisonné" (Abbey).

Villon Society. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, 9 volumes, by John Payne, London, 1882, signed limited edition, The Decameron Of Boccaccio, 3 volumes, by John Payne, London, 1886, signed authors copy, The Political works of John Payne, 2 volumes, London, 1902, The Decameron Of Boccaccio, 3 volumes, by John Payne, London, 1886, inscribed by the author, Tales from the Arabic, 3 volumes, by John Payne, London, 1884, together with further Villon Society and Folio Society publication, VGQTY: (3 shelves )

Government Blue Books. Royal Commission on Opium. Proceedings, vol. V. Appendices; together with Correspondence on the subject of Opium with the Straits Settlements and China, &c., London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1894, 376pp., original blue printed wrappers, worn with some loss to head and foot of spine and chipped to edges, upper wrapper detached, folio, together with other government blue books: Report from the Select Committee on the Police of the Metropolis, Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 17 June 1822, 140pp., later stitched paper wrappers, with original blue printed upper and lower wrapper laid down, Report from the Select Committee on the Police of the Metropolis, 13 August 1834, 450pp. plus 46pp index, modern dark blue cloth, Sixth Report of the Commissioners... Improving the Metropolis, 1847, modern blue cloth, Report from the Select Committee on Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement, 1881, xii, 345pp. with five folding plates at rear, original blue wrappers, frayed and worn with some losses, and Cost of Living of the Working Classes. Report of an Enquiry by the Board of Trade into Working Class Rents, Housing and Retail Prices..., 1908, 616pp., later maroon cloth, occasional library marks, all folio, plus other mostly 19th century antiquarian interest, including a quantity of Mechanic's Magazine, several volumes of Feilden's Magazine, The Magazine of Science and School of Arts, volumes VI-IX bound in two volumes, circa 1850, The History of India, by The Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1841, in original publisher's cloth, The Russian Year-Book for 1913, compiled and edited by Howard P. Kennard, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, circa 1912, Russia, by D. Mackenzie Wallace, 2 volumes, 1877, The Chinese Empire, by M. Huc, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1855, etc.QTY: (6 shelves)

Cookery Manuscript. A folio manuscript cookery book entitled Book of receipts Sept: ye 30th 1695, compiled by Alice Phelipps (and her descendants), circa 1695-1840, 268 pages in total, including 250 numbered pages, plus 4 unnumbered leaves (including title and names of the contributors to front endpaper), and 18 unnumbered leaves at end, the majority containing manuscript cookery receipts and some medical remedies, compiled by Alice Phelipps and her descendants Elizabeth Phelipps, Maria Phelips, A. H. E. Phelips, Mary Phelips, and Mary Anne Phelips (names given in manuscipt to the first page), with contents supplied to verso: 'from Page ye first to Page ye 83 is all sortes of preserves, conserves, syrups, jelly of calves feet', 'from Page ye 83 to Page ye 163 is all sortes cookery, cakes, wines, watters, pickles and jelly of heart horn and hued pippins', 'from Page ye 163 is all sorte phisickall recaipts to ye end and casava cakes', some numbered leaves unused (pages 27-71, 73-75, 77, 121-127, 134, 137, 141-155, 157, 161-162, 178-201, 203-207, and 224-262), the other numbered leaves with neat legible manuscript cookery recipes and physical receipts in brown ink throughout, including 'cherys to lay in jelly', 'Dry aprycoks', ' Marmalet of Quince Lady Cleeveland', 'Almond genger bread', 'To Preserve Walnuts Phisically', 'Excellent Black Puddiings', 'To Make Hogs Puddings Mrs Avents Way', 'Lord Westmorland's Receipt for Dressing a Turtle: 1765', 'Lady Pouletts receipt to Stew Lampreys', 'to Make Mackroons', 'Mrs Stantons Ffriters', 'Mrs Singars Seed Cake', 'To Make Saucidges without Skins', 'To Pott Fish Mrs Morttons way', 'To Make Bacon after the way Whestphaleham', 'A Quaking Puding', 'Mrs Burchards ginger bread', 'Doctr: Goweys Milk watter from his one Daughter given me by Mrs Box', 'To make an unparallel Balsam', 'For the Mange in a Dogg', 'Mrs Harveys Receipt for The Rheumatism', 'Mr. Sawbells Salve for any wound fresh or ulcerous', 'Lilla or Indian Pickle', 'To Make Walnut Catchup An excellent Fish Sauce', 'A Receit Sr. William Stephen Fox Father to Lord Ilcheter who could hardly see to read with spectacles at 60 years of age...', signed Rach Auston, 'For influmation in the Eyes or Decay of Sight'... this receit gave to my Aunt Lockett by Lady Auston', 'some directions proper to be served by persons inoculated for the Small Pox partly taken from Dr: Tipot, Dr. Buchen, Sutton, and from Observations and Experience', etc., written in several good clear hands, several tipped-in manuscript directions, including a note from Dr. Dumaresq to Mrs Elizabeth Phelips, regarding small pox, dated Yeovilton Friday morning June 21, and another similar tipped-in manuscript note form Dr. Dumaresq, dated Yeovilton July 29th 1782, some light soiling, contemporary plain full vellum, rubbed and some marks to covers, remains of ties, lettered in manuscript to spine 'Recipes 1695 Alice Phelips', large folio (36.5 x 23 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Attractive and copiously filled late 17th, 18th and early 19th century folio cookery manuscript. According to a later handwritten note (probably by an early 20th century family descendant) tipped-in at the rear of the volume, 'This Book belonged to Alice Molyneux who married John, 6th son of Edward Phelipps of Montacute co. Somerset, Elizabeth Phelipps, who as his second wife married Edward Phelipps of Montacute, Maria Wright, who married Edward Phelipps of Montacute, Anna Aletheia Elizabeth Paget, who married the Revd. William Phelipps of Montacute, Anne daughter of the Revd. Charles Phelipps, who married John Phelipps of Montacute'.

Cockerell (Douglas, 1870-1945). Gravestones of Acadie and other Essays on Local History, Genealogy and Parish Records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, by William Inglis Morse, London: A. Smith & Co., 1929, monochrome plates from photographs throughout with tissue guards, author's calling card laid onto title page inscribed '''Gravestones of Acadie'' Compliments of the Author to James McConnell July '31', verso of title-page with copyright line blocked out with purple pen (some show through), some minor spotting to front and rear blanks, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, early 20th-century green morocco with fine gilt and black geometric decoration by Douglas Cockerell, signed with blind embossed stamp D.C. & Son 1930 to rear turn-in, decorated gilt spine with title, author and date, slightly darkened, folio, housed in slip case with dark green morocco covered edges and Cockerell marbled paper covered sidesQTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition of 500 copies, this copy numbered 49.The main print run was bound by the binding firm of Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London in quarter brown morocco. An unknown number of the 500 were bound in commissioned full leather fine bindings by Douglas Cockerell and encased in slipcases of wooden boards covered with Cockerell marbled paper and lined with white felt. Copies with Cockerell fine bindings are located at Acadia University, Dalhousie University and Harvard University.William Inglis Morse (1874-1952), born in Paradise, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia was an Episcopalian minister and prolific chronicler of early Nova-Scotian history, particularly that of the French and Acadian populations, as well as an enthusiastic bibliophile whose book collections were gifted to Harvard, as well as to Acadia University, Dalhousie University and University of King's College.

Brown (Cornelius). A History on Newark-On-Trent, being the life story of an ancient town., 2 volumes, 1st edition, Newark: S. Whiles, 1904, previous owner ink inscription to front endpaper, some occasional light spotting to preliminary leaves, numerous monochrome illustrations, original gilt decorated green cloth, bindings slightly loose, text block slightly spotted, spines slightly rubbed and worn, large 4to, together with; Walkerdine (H. & A. S. Buxton), Old Churches of the Mansfield Deanery, reprint, Mansfield: Mansfield Reporter, 1907, previous owner ink inscription to tile page, numerous monochrome illustrations, small tear to lower of title page, half brown Morocco, covers lightly rubbed and marked with some loss to morocco spine to the rear, 4to, plus Hicklin (John), The History of Nottingham Castle from the Danish Invasion to its Destruction by Rioters in 1831, 1st edition, London: Hamilton Adams and co, 1836, 9 illustrations, some occasional minor light spotting, ex library bookplate to front pastedown, endpaper renewed, rebound in quarter green morocco with marbled boards, custom book box, 8vo and other 19th and early 20th century topography reference and related mostly original cloth some in dust jackets, folio/8vo, GQTY: (3 shelves )

Folio Society. comprising Rulers of The Ancient World, five volumes, together with Mardrus and Mathers, The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night, volumes 1-4.

Folio Society. To include Domesday Book, volumes 1-3, and Babington Macaulay (Thomas) The History of England, volumes 1-5.

SUN YAT-SEN: (1866-1925) Chinese Revolutionary & Political Leader, a Statesman regarded as the founding father of Republican China. Sun Yat-Sen was a Physician and a political Philosopher who served as the first provisional President of the Republic of China and as the first leader of the Kuomintang. An extremely rare D.S., in Chinese characters, one page, large oblong folio (20 x 17), 15th October 1917, in Chinese. The attractive and colourful document being the appointment of Sun Guang Ming, as a member of the fund raising committee in Hong Kong. Signed by Sun Yat-sen in his capacity as Supreme Commander of the Chinese armed forces. Also bearing to the recto the red ink seal of the Supreme Commander to the left border. Sun Wen seal alongside the Grand Admiral seal. Documents signed by Sun Yat-Sen in Chinese are of extraordinary rarity and seldom appear at auction. Some minor age wear and staining, otherwise G American Book Prices Current only record five letters, and no documents, signed by Sun Yat-sen as having appeared at auction since 1976.

RABIN YITZHAK: (1922-1995) Israeli Prime Minister 1974-77, 1992-95. Assassinated. A signed printed copy of a press release issued by the Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, eight pages, folio, n.p. (Washington D.C.), 13th September 1993, entitled Remarks by President Clinton, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, PLO Executive Council Member Mr. Mahmud Abbas, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Foreign Minister Kozyrev, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Chairman Yasser Arafat, in ceremony for the signing of The Israeli-Palestinian Agreement, the text commencing with an opening statement by Clinton, ´On behalf of the United States and Russia, cosponors of the Middle East peace process, welcome to this great occasion of history and hope. Today, we bear witness to an extraordinary act in one of history´s defining dramas, a drama that began in the time of our ancestors when the word went forth from a sliver of land between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. That hallowed piece of earth, that land of light and revelation is the home to the memories and dreams of Jews, Muslims and Christians throughout the world. As we all know, devotion to that land has also been the source of conflict and bloodshed for too long. Throughout this century, bitterness between the Palestinian and Jewish people has robbed the entire region of its resources, its potential, and too many of its sons and daughters. The land has been so drenched in warfare and hatred, the conflicting claims of history etched so deeply in the souls of the combatants there, that many believe the past would always have the upper hand. Then, 14 years ago, the past began to give way when, at this place and upon this desk, three men of great vision signed their names to the Camp David Accords. Today we honor the memories of Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat....And we salute the wise leadership of President Jimmy Carter....Now the efforts of all who have labored before us bring us to this moment -- a moment when we dare to pledge what for so long seemed difficult even to imagine: that the security of the Israeli people will be reconciled with the hopes of the Palestinian people and there will be more security and more hope for all´, which was followed by contributions from Shimon Peres, Mahmud Abbas, Warren Christopher,Foreign Minister Kozyrev, and Yitzhak Rabin, ´This signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principle here today, it´s not so easy - - neither for myself, as a soldier in Israel´s war, nor for the people of Israel, not to the Jewish people in the diaspora, who are watching us now with great hope mixed with apprehension. It is certainly not easy for the families of the victims of the wars, violence, terror whose pain will never heal, for the many thousands who defended our lives in their own, and have even sacrificed their lives for our own. For them, this ceremony has come too late. Today, on the eve of an opportunity -- opportunity for peace -- and perhaps end of violence and wars, we remember each and every one of them with everlasting love.....We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people. People who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men, we are today giving peace a chance.....and saying again to you: Enough. Let us pray that a day will come when we will all say farewell to the arms. We wish to open a new chapter in the sad book of our lives together, a chapter of mutual recognition, of good neighborliness, of mutual respect, of understanding. We hope to embark on a new era in the history of the Middle East´, before Yasser Arafat also spoke, and Clinton closed by urging all to ´Go in peace. Go as peacemakers´. Signed by Rabin in black ink with his name alone to a clear area of the first page. VG

QUASIMODO SALVATORE: (1901-1968) Italian Novelist and Poet. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959. The Sicilian writer is widely considered one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century. A good A.L.S., `Quasimodo´, one page, folio, Milan, 11th February 1943, to Bonetti, in Italian. A cleanly written letter, Quasimodo stating `Dear Bonetti, thank you. A book about my work will soon be issued, edited by Cedam from Padova; the author is Mario Stefanilo. A useful volume for consultation for your work is Lirici nuovi by Luciano Anceschi…´, further and before concluding states `For 1943 I do not prepare anything.´ With a small partial trace of a purple ink stamp at the base, not affecting the text or signature. VG Luciano Anceschi (1911-1995) Italian literary Critic and Essayist.

WEDGWOOD JOSIAH: (1730-1795) English potter, entrepreneur and prominent slavery abolitionist. A rare L.S., Josiah Wedgwood, Chairman (of the General Chamber of Manufacturers of Great Britain), one page, folio, Great George Street (London), 6th June 1785, to James Hebden. Wedgwood writes, in full, ´I take the liberty of inclosing a copy of the Reolutions printed so as to shew what is omitted of the original ten Resolutions, and what has been added to them, & how they now stand in the House of Lords. From the first days debate in the house of Lords upon these Resolutions we may, according to appearances, promise ourselves a more impartial hearing than we have hitherto met with; and that their L[ordshi]ps will if applied to, modify some of the resolutions, which certainly bear too hard at present upon the British manufacturer. Indeed it is too evident, that whatever may be the object wished for by government in this treaty, the manufacturing interest is to be the sacrifice and price for that object. The committee will be glad to know if you wish them to continue their communications to you upon any future occasions. They will be glad to receive your instructions in this respect, as they would avoid being either troublesome or expensive where their correspondence may not be acceptable´. Accompanied by the (now detached) address leaf, incorporating a postscript to the verso by Wedgwood, and signed by him in the third person, ´Be so good to present this to Mr. Clapham with Mr. Wedgwood´s compliments´, and also dated at Great George Street, 6th June 1785, in his hand. The address panel to the recto appears to be in the hand of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, and signed (´Free, Wm. Eden´) by him to the lower left corner of the panel. Some light age wear and minor staining, most evident to the address leaf which also has a small area of paper loss caused by the original breaking of the seal. About VGIn January 1785 Thomas Walker, a cotton merchant and political radical, and one of his associates were brought before the Committee on Trade and Foreign Plantations and questioned concerning Irish relations, in an effort to secure from them, without their knowledge of the object of the questioning, statements which would commit them to the policy later presented to the public in the form of the Irish Resolutions. Walker and his associate were later repeatedly confronted with quotations from their statements, and cross-examined, and treated in a manner which was characterised by a member of parliament as ´most scandalous´. By such methods the government defeated its own ends with respect to the Irish Resolutions as well as the cotton tax. Manchester manufacturers were needlessly embittered, and were forced to associate the government´s fiscal policy at home with its commercial policy toward Ireland. The Irish question, ever a thorn in the side, was rendered acutely piercing in the case of William Pitt´s government (1783-85). Pitt, recognising Ireland´s newly acquired legislative independence, was at once confronted with the problem of economic reorganisation. His policy, formulated in the so-called Irish Resolutions or Propositions, came from the Irish parliament for consideration in the English House of Commons in February 1785. According to Pitt´s own interpretation, his policy embraced two ´capital points´, namely, the admission of Ireland to participation in England´s colonial and foreign trade (with certain restrictions) and the mutual reduction of tariffs on manufactured goods to the rate in that kingdom where existing duties were the lower. The Irish Resolutions, like the cotton tax, encountered the fierce hostility of the newer manufacturers. Pitt himself, in his private letter of 6th January 1785, to the Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, quite frankly admitted the probability of the shifting to Ireland of certain English industries in consequence of the Resolutions. The most important of the various arguments urged against the Irish Resolutions by the manufacturers was the contrast in the tax policies of the two kingdoms. Pitt himself admitted the force of the argument, first in private, and at length in consenting to the modification of the cotton tax. The vital connection between the Irish Resolutions and the question of taxation, particularly the excise laws, was set forth in the resolutions of Manchester manufacturers on 11th April 1785. Out of this situation, which gave to the manufacturers a feeling of common interest, arose the General Chamber of Manufacturers of Great Britain. This organisation was not limited to the new capitalistic manufacturers, but the initiative and the moving force were with them. The new capitalistic industries consisted in the main of three groups: Wedgwood´s Staffordshire potteries; the iron foundries and plants about Birmingham; and the manufacturing and printing of cotton centering at Manchester. The part played by Josiah Wedgwood seems to have been the result of his hostility to the Irish Resolutions. On 21st February 1785, he wrote to Matthew Boulton, saying that he intended to recommend the organisation of ´a Committee of Delegates from all the manufacturing places of England and Scotland to meet and sit in London all the time the Irish commercial affairs are pending´ and he was not without hope that such a body would be useful ´upon others as well as the present occasion´. Results were soon manifest. On 12th March, it was reported that ´manufacturers are assembling´ at London from various parts of the kingdom. A meeting had already been held in London, at the London Tavern, on 7th March. During the succeeding week, a committee was appointed, with Wedgwood as chairman. On 12th March this committee met and issued a call for another general meeting for 14th March. At the meeting convened on the 14th, there was organised a definite body to be called the Chamber of Manufacturers of Great Britain, and to consist of ´each member of a commercial committee, being a manufacturer´. It was resolved unanimously that the society ´do not cease with the present business´. At the various meetings of the Chamber, the chairmanship was held by different men. The chairman of the meeting of 14th March was Wedgwood, who, though not a member of the aristocracy, was nevertheless invested with a respectability denied to the more ´vulgar´ and less artistic textile manufacturers. The committee recommended that the Chamber promote, by means of circular letters and in other ways, the organisation of local bodies of manufacturers, whose common interests should find expression in the central body. To distinguish the local chambers from the national organisation, it was recommended that the word ´general´ be prefixed to the title of the Chamber (extracts from The Rise of the Great Manufacturers in England 1760-1790 by Witt Bowden, 1919).Provenance: Formerly part of the collection of Ray Rawlins, author of The Guinness Book of World Autographs (1977) and bearing his small circular Collection label neatly affixed to the lower corner of the address leaf. Indeed, the signature on the present letter was used as a facsimile in The Guinness Book of World Autographs. The letter was also offered by Sotheby´s in their sale of the Rawlins Collection on 2nd, 3rd & 4th June 1980 (lot 873)OWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT CAN NOT BE DISPLAYED - PLEASE CONTACT IAA EUROPE DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

The Child's Picture Book of Domestic Animals, undated, George Routledge, oblong folio with ten [of twelve] coloured illustrations, together with two Frederick Warne, 'Aunt Louisa London Toy' books, Childhoods' Happy Hours and The Robin's Christmas Eve, togther with by the same publisher, A Apple Pie and other Nursery Tales, with twenty-four coloured plates [as called for], Little Lord Fauntleroy and Picturesque Scotland, published by Sangsters and Co , and other books

Kent.- Harris (John) The History of Kent, vol. 1 (all published), first edition, subscriber's copy, engraved portrait frontispiece (laid down to sheet), list of subscribers, engraved folding map (worn through at one fold with some loss), 42 engraved double-page and folding plates, some intermittent browning and foxing to text leaves but plates generally clean apart from occasional stains, endpapers renewed, contemporary paneled calf, gilt, rebacked, and with repairs to some edges and corners, folio, printed and sold by D. Midwinter, 1719.*** A detailed illustrated history of Kent, with large fine birds-eye-view plates of towns and the great Kentish houses, complete with gardens and surrounding country. This volume published posthumously, the total work unfinished in Harris' lifetime. Provenance: Sir Thomas Roberts of Glastenbury [Glassenbury] Kent, Baronet. The Roberts baronetcy was created in 1620 for Thomas Roberts then High Sheriff of Kent. The Sir Thomas, subscriber and owner of this book, likely the 5th Baronet (1689-1730) [engraved bookplate].  

Herbert Cescinsky and Malcomb R. Webster English domestic Clocks Folio, half leather with green cloth boards and gilt tooled lettering to spine, corners lightly bumped, label and stamps for W. Brendon Watch & Clock Repair, profusely illustrated, The Waverly Book Company, London, [c.1910].

After Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967) (Snaffles Interest)'Being a selection of his hunting and racing prints', limited edition book or folio, number 217/750 with a signed accompanying foreword from Princess Anne, in original case and packaging At present, there is no condition report prepared for this lot, this in no way indicates a good condition, please contact the saleroom for a condition report.

Book sets to include The Folio Society 

C.V. Wedgwood 'The English Civil War' 3 book box set published by The Folio Society, new and sealed 

AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A DISPERSED MANUSCRIPT OF FIRDAUSI'S SHAHNAMEH: RUSTAM SAVES BIZHAN FROM A WELL CENTRAL ASIA, BOKHARA, CIRCA 1670 ink, gouache heightened with gold on paper, the image set within four columns of nasta'liq text with gold rules, two lines above, and three lines below, the text continues on the reverse, within a mountainous landscape under a moonlit and starlit sky, Rustam is wearing his characteristic tiger-striped tunic and holding the lid of a well up high in his left hand with a look of triumph, three soldiers are peering in the well, whilst three figures on the right are standing, one holding a spear looking impressed, mounted, glazed and framed 25.1cm x 16.8cm  Formerly, the collection of Octave Homberg (French, 1876-1941).Sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Collection de Octave Homberg, 3-5 June, 1931, no. 103. The Shahnameh or Persian Book of Kings, an epic that recounts both the mystical and real history of Persia, contains many tales of the hero Rustam in which he meets a series of challenges and fights a variety of demons and monsters. Here he is taking the lid off a well to save Bizhan, who has been imprisoned within it. Bizhan was the son of Giv, a friend of Rustam’s. The princess Manizha had drugged her lover Bizhan and taken him to her palace. This annoyed her father Afrasyab, who put Bizhan in chains and threw him into a well. Later Manizha was able to lead Rustam and his followers to the pit. The extremely heavy rock covering the well had belonged to the div (demon) Akvan whom Rustam had killed. Rustam mustered the strength to lift it and hurl it back to China and the lovers were reunited.This miniature comes from a manuscript that was offered for sale in Paris in 1931 as part of the collection of Octave Homberg, the pages of which have since been dispersed. This manuscript was described in the catalogue as a collection of “Epopees du Cycle Saitanais”. The manuscript took the very rare form of extracts from the main epics of Persian history, the Shahnameh of Firdausi; the Faramouznameh; the Bahman Nameh and the Nariman Nameh. The manuscript originally had a frontispiece decorated with eighty-five paintings, the main ones signed by Mohammed Moqim and Mohammad Salim. Some other miniatures from this manuscript reappeared at auctions in Paris and London. Other paintings by the two principal artists of this Homberg manuscript can be seen in a manuscript illustrating the lyric poems of Nizami, copied and illuminated in Bokhara in 1670 for the library of Sultan ‘Abd-al Aziz Bahadur Khan (1945-1680), now in the collection of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin.For a recent study on the painters of Bokhara, see Y. Porter, Farhad the Painter, in connection with the painting workshops of Bukhara in the time of ‘Abd-al Aziz Khan, 1645-1680, in The Timurid Heritage: Iran, Central Asia, India, XVth-XVIIth centuries, Cahier d’Asie Central, IFEAC, 3-4, 1977, p. 267.

AN ALBUM OF TWENTY-FOUR WATERCOLOURS OF HIGH-RANKING OFFICIALS, COURTIERS AND OTHER FIGURES OTTOMAN TURKEY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY bound album, watercolour on paper, each numbered in ink, inscribed in pencil in English and on verso in French with their identifying position including a Judge, a city magistrate and members of the janissary army Book cover 31.7cm x 20.7cm; folio 31.7cm x 19.7cm An accompanying letter implies that it was gifted to the Archibald family in circa 1814; thence by descent.

THREE BOOKS - "FLY FISHING" BY J.C. MOTTRAM, "THE BEST OF SAKI" INTRODUCED BY A.N. WILSON WITH ILLUSTRATONS AND THE FOLIO BOOK OF HUMOROUS ANECDOTES

FOUR BOOKS TO INCLUDE ARCHAIC GREECE FOLIO BOOK PLUS THREE FURTHER ARCHAEOLOGY BOOKS

ERNEST F HILL RBSA (act.1897-1940)A folio dedicated to the work of Ernest Hill with examples of his design for Bournville School of Arts and Crafts and photographs of exhibitions and events in his career. There are numerous Christmas card designs including one for Dame Elizabeth Cadbury, press cuttings and a large quantity of original pen and ink portraits (stamped ESK, Examined South Kensington). Also included are two landscape pastels of Mousehole and a quantity of watercolours of Cornish fisherman painted circa 1900, together with a red leather presentation book presented to Ernest Hill on his retirement as Headmaster at Bournville School of Arts and Crafts in 1939 (Quantity) (Est. plus 24% premium inc. VAT)Condition Report: Good condition

Herbert Henry Asquith and Sir John French signed 'The First World War 1914-1916'. David Lloyd George and Douglas Haig signed 'The First World War 1917-1919'. 2 Book Set by Martin Gilbert published by the Folio Society. Grey Box Sleeve included hardback books.

Books. One shelf of general stock, 19th c and later, mostly art history reference, a few antiquarian, including Antique Collectors' Club imprints, Victorian and other painters; George Baxter; Sir Alfred Munnings; The London Illustrated News, 1844, folio; The Engineer and Machinist's Drawing Book, 1868, folio; etc

Large Folio by Maurice and Edward Detmold Illustrations to Rudyard Kiplings Jungle Book 1903, 545mm by 395mm. 16 famous large scale illustrations, mounted coloured plates each plate with and accompaying caption leaf. Some foxing to the outer edges put pictures are all good, outer folder showing signs of age.

Two Folio Society books plus a three book set The Complete Oxford Shakespeare.

Two boxes of books, Detective Book Club etc  and Folio Society books in slip cases including Vanity Fair and Gulliver's Travels

Art books. 2009 Helmut Newton. Taschen edition, revised & edited by June Newton. Including booklet of The Making of Sumo & with perspex stand in orig. box. Lavishly illustrated with black and white & colou rexamples of Newton's photographs throughout. Stand never having been assembled, booklet with minor wear, book hardback in dust wrapper with just the lightest general wear. An excellent example of the 20th anniversary edition of Newton's important photography book Sumo. Folio. (1)From the Greg Harrowing collection of modern first editions. Collected over four decades and seen to the auction market for the first time, Greg's collection demonstrates a broad & insatiable love and thirst for all manner of the contemporary printed word, covering every corner of literature and non-fiction. From the traditional modern collector's works - John le Carre, Quentin Blake, Hilary Mantel and numerous other Booker Prize winners - to the less commonly seen collections of contemporary Japanese and Korean fiction, Harrowing's collection was collected over four decades, and his care of the collection extended so far as to have beautiful leather slipcases custom made to house his favourite pieces.

Blake, Sir Quentin (b. 1932). Two signed limited editions. Comprising Beyond the Page, limited edition produced by the Tate Gallery, red cloth housed in green slipcase, unopened & mint in shrink wrap; 2008 The Birthday Book in aid of The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts, signed by Blake & Morpurgo, limited edition produced for Hatchards and housed in custom slipcase with inset illustration to cover. Folio. (2)From the Greg Harrowing collection of modern first editions. Collected over four decades and seen to the auction market for the first time, Greg's collection demonstrates a broad & insatiable love and thirst for all manner of the contemporary printed word, covering every corner of literature and non-fiction. From the traditional modern collector's works - John le Carre, Quentin Blake, Hilary Mantel and numerous other Booker Prize winners - to the less commonly seen collections of contemporary Japanese and Korean fiction, Harrowing's collection was collected over four decades, and his care of the collection extended so far as to have beautiful leather slipcases custom made to house his favourite pieces.