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Lot 1

ALDIN, Cecil. A SPORTING GARLAND Sands and Co., {1902]. First edition. Oblong folio with green cloth spine and hard paper covered boards. Some light rubbing to extremities and a very tiny stain in one corner. Endpapers foxed. 23 full page colour plates and verses with line drawings and decorated initials. Contents clean The illustrations cover Hunting, Shooting and Fishing. Estimates £120.00 - £160.00

Lot 2

[ARCHITECTURE]. VILLA AND COTTAGE ARCHITECTURE: SELECT EXAMPLES OF COUNTRY AND SUBURBAN RESIDENCES RECENTLY ERECTED.Blackie, London, 1868. Folio. Text and eighty plates. Some light foxing, otherwise a clean copy of this important and influential work. Bound in half calf with brown morocco-finish cloth sides, with a little wear to the spine extremities and corners. With Harding's Principles and Practice of Art and Gilbert Scott's An Essay on English Church Architecture (3) Estimates £120.00 - £180.00

Lot 3

[ART HISTORY] KUNST DES MITTELALTERS IN SACHSEN. FESTSCHRIFT WOLF SCHUBERT. Hermann Boehlaus Nachfolger, 1967. 4to. First edition. Fully illustrated with full-page plates, text illustrations and folding plans, in a repaired dustwrapper. With four other volumes. (5) Estimates £60.00 - £80.00

Lot 4

[ART] - GREEN, David. GRINLING GIBBONS. HIS WORK AS CARVER AND STATUARY. Country Life Ltd, London 1964. First edition. 4to. Dustwrapper chipped at head and foot of spine. B/w photographic illustrations. YARWOOD, Doreen. THE ENGLISH HOME. A THOUSAND YEARS OF FURNITURE AND DECORATION. B.T. Batsford Ltd, London 1969. Fourth impression. Large 8vo. Dustwrapper creased. Numerous b/w photographic and text illustrations. LAVER, James. FRENCH PAINTING AND THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. B.T. Batsford Ltd, London 1937. First edition. 4to. Red cloth. Colour and b/w plates. Plus 28 other volumes, similar. (31) Estimates £60.00 - £80.00

Lot 5

ASHLEY, William, Sir. THE BREAD OF OUR FOREFATHERS. AN INQUIRY IN ECONOMIC HISTORY. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1928. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Cancelled library stamp to the front free endpaper, otherwise a clean copy in the publisher's dark-blue cloth. HORDER, Lord [et al] BREAD. THE CHEMISTRY AND NUTRITION OF FLOUR AND BREAD.... Constable, London, 1954. 8vo. First edition, first printing. A clean copy in dustwrapper. SWIFT, John. HISTORY OF THE DUBLIN BAKERS AND OTHERS. Irish Bakers, Confectionery and Allied Workers Union, [Dublin], 1948. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Former owner's name, etc. to the front free endpaper, otherwise a clean copy in dustwrapper. With a second copy without dustwrapper. ( Estimates £40.00 - £60.00

Lot 6

BAGEHOT, Walter. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WALTER BAGEHOT. The Economist, London, 1965-1986. First edition thus. 15 volumes. Large 8vo. Edited by Norman St John-Stevas. A fine set of the definitive edition in the original dark-blue publisher's cloth, lettered gilt on the spine (vols 6-15 are in dustwrapper). (15) £200-300 Estimates £200.00 - £300.00

Lot 7

BAILLON, H. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. L. Reeve, London, 1871-1888. 4to. Eight volumes. Translated from the French by Marcus M. Hartog. With line illustrations in the text. A good set in the original publisher's dark green decorated cloth, lettered gilt. Some splitting to joints in some volumes, some paper residue from small library spine labels. With the armorial bookplate of Albert J. Chalmers and a presentation bookplate from Chalmers to the Royal Society of Medicine. (8) Estimates £120.00 - £180.00

Lot 8

BALWHIDDER, Rev. Micah. ANNALS OF THE PARISH; OR THE CHRONICLE OF DALMAILING… William Blackwood, Edinburgh; T. Cadell, London, 1822. Second edition. Former owner's name to the front pastedown, otherwise a clean bright copy in contemporary half calf with marbled sides which are slightly rubbed. With The Book of the Horace Club, 1898-1901, B.H. Blackwell, 1901. (2) Estimates £30.00 - £50.00

Lot 9

BANNERMAN, David Armitage [and] LODGE, George E., illus. THE BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1953-1963. 12 volumes. Quarto. A very clean bright set in the original green cloth with top edges stained green. All in dustwrappers, some with small tears and nicks, one (volume one) archivally reinforcedon the verso. The definitive work: an authoritative text illustrated with superb tissue-guarded full-page colour plates. (12) Estimates £120.00 - £180.00

Lot 10

BANNERMAN, David Armitage and LODGE, George E. THE BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1953-1963. 4to. First edition. Twelve volumes. A fine set in dustwrappers some of which show just a touch of wear.(12) Estimates £180.00 - £240.00

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