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This comprehensive grouping features a storage trunk finished in an animal skin style, boasting an all-black design with gold-toned metal hardware. Complete with wheels and a retractable handle for easy transport. Additionally included is a glass bottle marked The Devil's Keep, a salesman's sample from The Craft Irish Distilling Co., along with three Erimon tasting glasses, a pipette, two snapback hats, two cigar cutters, and a tasting journal, all featuring The Craft Irish Whiskey Co. logo. Also included are two boxes of 3 Srixon golf balls and a promotional poster. Truck measures. 19.5"L x 15"W x 24.75"H. Condition: Age related wear. Some writing in the journal.

This set features a collectible bottle marked The Brollach with its topper, accompanied by four Finn whiskey tasting glasses and a pipette for spring water. Additionally, it includes two elegant cigar cutters, two logoed snapback hats, and a metal coaster with The Whiskey Co. official seal. Furthermore, it contains items to commemorate the tasting held at the famous Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, such as a tasting journal, a couple of menus from that event, a notepad, and a pair of Faberge white gloves for handling your fine collectibles. Largest piece is the bottle with stopper which measures 6"L x 2.75"W x 9.75"H. Condition: Age related wear. The journal has some writing in it.

Fine Bindings - Zaehnsdorf binding - Gardiner, Samuel Rawson "Oliver Cromwell" Goupil & Co.1899, plates and ills with lettered tissue guards, slight foxing, superb forest green crushed morocco, with gilt decs, rules and dentelles, compartments with raised bands, gilt titles and date to backstrip, t.e.g.with Drew, Barnard  "The Fire Office being the history of the Essex and Suffolk Equitable Insurance Society Limited 1802-1952" Printed for the Society at the Curwen Press 1952, bound in green crushed morocco by Sangorski & Surcliffe, London, with name blind stamped in gilt inside front board, top edge, de la Cases, The Count "Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena" Henry Colburn and Co. 1823. four vols, folding maps and plates, bound in full green calf with gilt rules, red paste down with gilt titles and decorations to backstrips, marbled endpapers and all edges, book plate inside front boards, t.e.g., and three more volumes - Abbott a Beckett, Gilbert , Leech, John ( ills.) " The Comic History of Rome..."  Bradbury, Evans and Co.  11 Bouverie Street, coloured plates, rebound half leather over marbled boards, marbled end papers, t.e.g. " Poems by Byron" , half crushed morocco, gilt rules, gilt titles and decorations to back strip , t.e.g. (9)

Architectural Interest - Daubeny, Ulric "Ancient Cotswold Churches" Cheltenham Ed.J. Burrow & Co. Ltd., numbered 315 (of 500) signed by the author/artist, plates, book plate for Frances Lady Daresbury inside front board, deckle edges, brown cloth with black titles, "The Architectural Journal being the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Vol XVIII Third Series 1911" photographic ills, slight foxing, book plate on ffep, light brown cloth with gilt rules and titles, shelfwear and other related vols (1 box)

The THAMES, Taunt, H W: A new map of the River Thames from Oxford to London. No date, 5th. Edn. With a photographic frontis, 2 plates, a folding table, plus 33 double page maps with 101 Albumen photos. 215pp. Original brown pictorial cloth gilt, re-backed preserving most of the spine; Plus: Old Houses in Edinburgh - First and Second Series. 1905 & 1907. Each series with 27 tipped-in plates, the two series in one folder - loose, as issued, Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia. John Murray, 1822, 1st edn. 16 lithographic plates and plans, 2 folding engraved maps. Cont. half leather, rubbed. Damp stain to the two folding maps and one with edges frayed. Scattered spotting (3)

So realistic. Beautifully crafted Hexagon shaped miniature is alive with vibrant colors, gold accents and unbelievable details including the depiction of Mickey Mouse on one of the sides. Sweet bow hinged closure opens revealing a journal. Elda Creation Limoges France Peint Main back stamp with initials RMC Artist: RMCIssued: 20th c.Dimensions: 2.5"Dia. x 3"HManufacturer: EldaCountry of Origin: FranceCondition: Age related wear.

The Geographical Journal Magazines 1930's and Later, large quantity:- Four Boxes.

Bulgakov (Mikhail) Sobach'e serdtse [Heart of a Dog], samizdat typescript, light staining to inner margin of final few leaves, original printed stapled wrappers, staples slightly rusted, a few faint stains, spine rubbed and little chipped, small 4to, 'Odessa', 'P. Chaadaev', 1976. *** A well preserved copy of Bulgakov's banned novella Heart of a Dog (1925) with spurious imprint on the inside lower wrapper, secretly printed and distributed by hand in a process known as samizdat. Presumably intended to mislead the inexperienced as much as serve as an inside joke, the imprint claims that the text was printed in 10,000 copies at the P. Chaadaev publishing house in Odessa (the name a pun on an anti-government 19th century Russian philosopher). The publishing house never existed, but the dissemination of this copy is likely connected to the now famous Odessa samizdat library, which produced and circulated hundreds of self-published titles from 1967-1982. Heart of a Dog was first published in Frankfurt and London in 1968, finally appearing in an official Soviet journal Znamia in 1987. Due to their great popularity, samizdat copies of Bulgakov's cult classics are very rare, especially in good condition. 

Lloyd (Trevor, binder).- Chambers (Sir William) A Treatise on Civil Architecture, first edition, list of subscribers (bound after preface), 50 engraved plates, very light soiling to title, some light foxing and browning, occasional faint damp-staining to lower margin (including to title), exquisitely bound in full red goatskin, by Trevor Lloyd, covers with central lozenge and corner-pieces of inlaid white paper, elaborately tooled in gilt and edged in black goatskin strapwork, the background lavishly tooled in gilt all over with a variety of tools all specially made by Stewart Field and incorporating four large circles of detailed featherwork, spine tooled in gilt in compartments with seven raised bands, second compartment with black goatskin label lettered in gilt, spine with "Bound by Trevor Lloyd MBE for David Nathan Maister" lettered in gilt to foot, turn-ins with gilt floral tools, comb-marbled endpapers, g.e., housed in a goatskin-backed drop-back box, [Fowler p.70; Harris 122; Millard, British 13], folio (535 x 375mm.), Printed for the Author, by J. Haberkorn, 1759. *** Bound in the style of one of the legendary Irish Parliamentary bindings tragically destroyed in the explosion at the Dublin Public Record Office in 1922. Described by the late G.D. Hobson as "probably the most majestic series of bound volumes in the world", the 149 large folio volumes containing the manuscript Journals of the Irish Lords and Commons had been stored, unnoticed, in the Dublin Public Records Office since the Acts of Union in 1800.The magnificent collection, nominally the work of the King's Stationers in Ireland, was shown to book collector and amateur binder Sir Edward Sullivan in the last decade of the 19th century. Sullivan made rubbings of all 149 unique volumes (now in the National Library of Ireland) and photographed 20, publishing his findings in Country Life magazine in September 1908 and Decorative Book-Binding in Ireland in 1914. The Dublin Public Record Office, with nearly all its contents including the bindings, perished during the siege of the Four Courts just a few years later.In 1990, Philip Maddock, a Boston-based book collector, started to build up a visual database of Irish hand tools with a view to making a digital reproduction of one of the lost volumes, inspired by images displayed in Maurice Craig’s Irish Book Bindings 1600-1800. This digital reproduction of Commons Journal 1757 was finally produced in 2006. Edward Bayntun-Coward, who carried out a review of this digital reproduction, introduced Maddock to Trevor Lloyd, the renowned bookbinder and restorer. The team of Maddock, Lloyd and toolmaker Stewart Field then collaborated over the next decade to make exact facsimile reproductions of 14 of the original (and now lost) bindings, a project that culminated in the exhibition 'Burning Books' at Dublin Castle in April 2017.

Potter (Beatrix).- Weatherly (Frederic E.) A Happy Pair, first and only edition, 6 chromolithographed illustrations, each monogrammed H.B.P., original wrappers with upper cover illustration by Beatrix Potter and lower cover initialled H.I.M., original silk cord and tassels (one detached but present), slight wear to spine, patch of soiling to lower cover, continuing on to facing leaf, a near-fine copy, 16mo, London, Hildesheimer & Faulkner, and New York, Geo. C.Whitney, [1890].*** A superb example of first book illustrated throughout by Beatrix Potter, rare in such condition. Potter utilisied some of the card designs she had sent to Hildesheimer & Faulkner for which she was paid £6 with a request for more sketches. Faulkner himself failed to impress Beatrix Potter, who noted in her journal "he did not strike me as being a person with much taste"; it was however the commencement of her professional career and she went on to regularly provide Hildesheimer & Faulkner with further card designs.

Second World War Prisoner of War interest: a fascinating and scarce archive of original documents, medals, and secondary ephemera preserved by the late Lieutenant Ernest Boyes Lee, Royal Army Service Corps, who worked on escape maps and intelligence while a P.O.W. and was awarded the France & Germany Star in spite of having been captured by the Germans before the Dunkirk evacuation.Medals: 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal (Territorial), Elizabeth II, with second award bar (6792074 PTE. E. B. LEE. R.A.S.C.), mounted for wearing, good very fine, [4]Documents and Epehmera: a large collection including escape maps, correspondence, an article written for the Bank of England's staff journal describing some of the recipient's activities in Oflag VII C Prison Camp, authority for the France and Germany Star (scarce to men taken prisoner prior to D-Day); together with a small number of badges and other personal effects. Round medal 36mm diameter Ernest Boyes Lee served with the British Expeditionary Force in France and was captured by the Germans on the 22nd May 1940. As prisoner number 319 he was interned at Oflag VII C, where from early 1941 he began to receive letters from a friend giving news of the War in coded form, which he was able to disseminate to the other prisoners. The content of the letters appeared harmless to censors, concerned with social matters and trivial seeming news from home; but the writer included allusions to unknown persons and inexplicable events and Lee soon perceived that these were cryptic references to the progress of the war. As Lee himself explains in "Gepruft", a 1951 article for the staff journal of the Bank of England:"T. continued to write regularly. Letter by letter he built up a framework...the key to many of the clues was beyond the reach of all except T's intimate friends...others were simple anagrams or in the form of crossword clues."Examples included imaginary racehorses: "Pike Cave, a filly lacking pace" (Kiev); and "my boy-friend has dumped any amount of luggage personelly [sic] at my home" (an encouraging reference to the build-up of U.S. forces prior to the allied invasion of Europe).Lee was transferred to Oflag VII B late in the same year, where a smuggled radio provided news of the outside world, augmented by ongoing letters. He also took part in the production of escape maps, of which a number are included with this lot. In 1945, with the Allies closing in, the Germans began forced marches of prisoners of war to try and keep them out of the hands of the liberating forces. It is at this point that Lee's story coincides with that of Lieutenant Colonel William Douglas Baird Thompson, D.S.O., M.C.Lt. Col. Thompson, who had been commissioned from the ranks into the Durham Light Infantry in 1915, was decorated for gallantry in action at Arras in 1917 (M.C.) and during the German offensive of March 1918. He was furthermore awarded the French Croix de Guerre for participating in the capture of 85 German soldiers at Cuitron in July 1918. Like Ernest Boyes Lee he was captured by the Germans before the Dunkirk evacuations.On the 14th April 1945 the Germans attempted to march a large party of Allied prisoners from Oflag VII B to Berchtesgaden, where it was intended that they be held as hostages. This failed when the column was mistakenly attacked by American P-47 Thunderbolts, killing 12 and injuring 40. Thompson initiated a retreat to the camp, and his orders were confirmed by the Germans. On the evening of the 15th the prisoners set off on a second march that led, by the night of the 23rd, to Stalag VII A at Moosburg in Bavaria. The following day Thompson was confirmed in command of the British forces, which he put on an operational footing, freeing Russian prisoners from the cells at Moosburg, and securing a bridge for the use of the advancing U.S. forces. Although many senior Germans, including the camp commandant and the mayor of Moosburg, were keen to capitulate peacefully, other elements, such as the S.S Division Charlemagne, were not; and in the confused situation that followed the surrender of the Commandant, there was fighting in the vicinity of the camp. Thompson stated that on the 29th April "First tanks of the 14 Am Div US Army broke through the Kommandantur, certain amounts of firing within the camp, Able to arm guards and piquets."It was in recognition of these operational services that the prisoners who served under Thompson's command, Ernest Boyes Lee among them, were deemed eligible for the France and Germany Star.

CHEN CHI-MAO 陳其茂 (Taiwan, 1923-2005) three limited edition linocuts - all titled 'Journal of a Tour of Europe', Castle, Sheep on a hillside, Mediterranean street scene wtih figures, signed, dated 1977, and numbered (2/30, 4/30, 2/30) in pencil, 30 x 30cms (3)Provenance: consigned on behalf of a charity.Comments: unframed, minor tinting. 

Kerry and its borders Misc: Kenmare Journal, 1985; large scale folding map of Kenmare; Days of the Blackthorn; Coleman, Journeys into Muskerry, c1950; signed offprint on the Derrynablaha, ‘Shield, 1971; The Diocese of Kerry, pic coves, 4to, 2005; an early Bryan MacMahon The Red Petticoat, 1955; Smith and Hickey, John B, Mercier, 8vo, h/b 2002 with real photo of John B pasted on front end paper and bio note opposite. (8)

The Art Journal 1876; The World’s Famous Pictures, 2 Volumes, numerous plates; Les Editions Du Chene, 3 volumes, Paris, frameable coloured prints Modigliani, Manet and Picasso (blue and rose period).

Journal – Dublin Historical Record – collection of this journal with volumes from the 1940/41/42/43/44 a total of 13. All very clean copies, suitable for the collector - either trying to complete a set - or perhaps trying start one;

Journal -The Dublin Magazine was an Irish literary journal founded and edited by the poet Seumas O'Sullivan, From August 1923 to August 1925 it was published monthly. 5 issues including Vol 1, No 1 (2 issues) August/September/October/November 1923

North Munster Antiquarian Journal. Thomond Archaeological Society. Volume 1, number 1, 1936 on including 15 very scarce early issues; plus 16 issues 1946 to 1966, plus 14 issues 1967 to 1990. Approximately 45 issues of one of the most important historical journals in Ireland which seldom appears for sale

Nationalism Ireland: French quarto journal with cover illustration of French police finding Fenian explosive material destined for use in the Fenian London Bombing campaig

Patrick Kavanagh. The Green Fool and P. Kavanagh.Tarry Flynn. And West 47. Galway Literary journal with 2 original first editions of Kavanagh's poems. (3)

Journal The Bell June 1943- Summer 1953 11 issues not consecutive

Galvia. Irisleabhar Cumann Seandaluiochta is Staire na Gaillimhe. 1954-1960, The first 7 volumes of scarce Irish journal relating to the history of Galway with some illustrations in good condition. (7)

History Ireland. 1993-2004. Large format with a wealth of historical articles in Ireland’s premier historical journal, profusely illustrated. bound in bound in 4 special bindings

The Other Clare. Produced by the Shannon Archaeological and Historical Society. 21 issues including the rare first and second issues. County Clare’s leading historical research journal founded in 1977 . All in excellent condition

Ecclesiastical History – History of the Diocese of Ardagh (McNamee, 1954); Eight issues of the Journal of the Ardagh & Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Society (1932, 1935, 1937, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1951)

Journal of the Galway Archaeological & Historical Society. 1937/1950. 5 illustrated editions.

Grainge (Ernest L.) and Claire Hudson (Rev. J.). Lincolnshire Notes and Queries, a quarterly journal, twenty four vols, together with abstracts of Lincolnshire wills, published by W K Morton, Horncastle,1889-1936.

A quantity of Art books comprising Bartolozzi, Royal Scottish Academy, Pallas and Soho Prints, Art Journal, Fine Art Reproductions, and Les Chefs-D'oeuvre de la Peinture Italiene by Paul Mantz

A collection of reference works on bookplates to include The Bookplate Society Newsletter, 1972-1990; The Bookplate Journal, 1983-1990; The Journal of the Ex-Libris Society, 1891-1899; Engraved Bookplates, by Mark Severin & Anthony Reid, 1972; British Bookplates, by Brian North Lee, 1979; The Golden Era of American Bookplate Design: 1890-1940, by William E. Butler & Darlene J. Butler, 1986, and others, including works on the bookplate designs of Austin Osman Spare, Philip Hagreen, Franz von Bayros, J. A. C. Harrison, the whole in two small cartons (2)

Wine.- Barron (Archibald F.) Vines & Vine-Culture: being a treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine, first edition, 30 wood-engraved plates of grape varieties, wood-engraved illustrations, a few full-page, including a 'View of Interior of Great Grape Conservatory at Chiswick', original brown pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, [Gabler G12110; Simon Vinaria p.51], Journal of Horticulture Office, 1833; and a first edition of Thomson on the grape vine in original cloth, and a defective work by Maior on the Douro region, v.s. (3)

Scotland.- Boswell (James) The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., first edition, with I5, Q7 & U6 all in second state, lacking half-title but with errata leaf at end, contemporary ink signature at head of title, bookplate removed from front pastedown, modern half calf over old marbled boards, red roan label, [Rothschild 456], by Henry Baldwin, 1785 § Abercrombie (Charles) & Bryce Macquiston. Reports respecting a New Line of Road, from Hamilton to Elvanfoot, first edition, folding engraved plan with routes supplied by hand (lightly offset and frayed at edges with slight loss, repaired), modern cloth, Glasgow, 1813 § M'Nayr (James) A Guide from Glasgow, to some of the most remarkable Scenes in the Highlands of Scotland..., first edition, half-title, wood-engraved bookplate of Sir John Smith, Bart., contemporary half calf, rubbed, spine chipped at head, Glasgow, 1797 § Paisley Magazine (The); or Literary and Antiquarian Miscellany, No.1-13 [all published], engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title (lightly offset), modern half calf, spine gilt, uncut, Paisley, David Dick, January - December 1828; and another on Orkney and Zetland (Shetland), 8vo & 4to (5)

Twelve volumes of 'The Art Journal', 1856-1866, to include 'The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition 1862', and the eleven volumes from the years 1856-1866, published by James S. Virtue, London and New York, densely illustrated throughout with plates and engravings, bound in half calf with marbled boards (a/f) (12 books)

* Pioneer Aviation. The Thomas William Moy 'Aerial Steamer' archive, Moy was the first person credited with achieving a short 'hop' flight at Crystal Palace which was with an unmanned, tethered craft called the 'Aerial Steamer', comprising, fall of a weight by gravitation..calculations on a single piece of graph paper, 'Mechanical Flight' which is a 6-page ink handwritten piece which appeared in the Aeronautical Journal and was read out to members in his absence due to his illness, ' Angle of Planes' on graph paper, single page, graph paper design of part of a steam engine, Moy was a patentee of several light steam engines, two pieces, one on graph paper and one on tracing paper of bird flight action which were probably used for the Aeronautical Journal to support the Mechanical Flight speech, as the diagrams are identical to those published, one page document of hand written notes with calculations of Indicated steam power, Rise and fall of mass and Pressure on a kite surface, six page hand written ink document with the same title, marked 'Final Spec' QTY: (1)NOTE:Thomas William Moy (1893-1910) was the first person credited with achieving a short 'hop' flight at Crystal Palace which was with an unmanned, tethered craft called the 'Aerial Steamer'. This was years before the Wright brothers eventually won the race to achieve a piloted 'heavier than air' flight.There is a brief summary of his life and achievements on Wikipedia and numerous entries in publications to be found in the 'Internet Archive'. One of these is the New York Times in January 1910, in an article on the evolution of the flying machine. It lists and illustrates Moy's 'Aerial Steamer' as one of 15 contributing designs.In one of the earliest books on flight, written by Octave Chanute in 1894, 'Progress in Flying Machines', Thomas Moy is mentioned 19 times.He is also credited with being the accidental inventor of the hydrofoil when he tested his planes for lift in the Surrey Canal.He wrote for several magazines of the day and presented his ideas and patents to both the Institution of Naval Architects and the Aeronautical Society; he was an early member of both.In his latter years, he turned his attention to experimenting with an ornithopter (flapping wing machine), which was still considered a credible option to achieve flight in 1904.

Early Ballooning. A collection of newspapers including Bell's Weekly Messenger, number 810, 13th October 1811, 4 p., detailing 'Mr. Sadler's Balloon' at Birmingham and 'Arrival of Mr. Sadler at Birmingham', a few spots, disbound, folio (39.5 x 27 cm), together with: The Daily Advertiser, number 17408, 16th September 1784, 2 p., detailing 'Yesterday, Mr. Lunardi made his experiment of ascending into the air, from the Artillery Ground, Moorfields, my means of an air balloon', lightly spotted, disbound, folio (48.5 x 31 cm), with Salopian Journal, number 1594, 18th August 1824, 2 p., with woodcut advert for 'Mr. Green's Aerial Voyage', disbound, folio (50 x 38 cm), with 11 other newspaper extracts detailing airship events, including The Edinburgh Evening Courant, 4th August 1784 (The Duke of Chartres and the Robert Brothers), 21st September 1785 (advert for balloon rides in Lunardi's balloon) and 3rd October 1785 (classified advert for Lunardi's flight from Herriot's Gardens)QTY: (14)

Flight. First Aero Weekly in the World, A Journal Devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport, volumes 1-5 in 9 parts, London: F. King & Co., January 1909 - December 1913, printed general volume title and index bound in to rear of volume 1 and 2 part 2, volumes 3 and 5 lacking general title and index, numerous monochrome illustrations & diagrams (many from photos), library stamp to front endpaper and rear pastedown of volume 1, gutters split to volumes 1,2 and 4, later brown cloth lacking original wrappers bound in, volume 4 in original publisher's light grey cloth, covers slightly rubbed and spine ends a little frayed, 4toQTY: (9)

* Marx (Enid). Bulgy, the Barrage Balloon, & Nelson, The Kite of the King's Navy, 2 volumes, both 1st editions, London: Oxford University Press, 1941, & Chatto & Windus, [1942], lithograph illustrations printed in blue and black to each, original pictorial printed wrappers, generally in good condition (second title with some marks, fraying, and discolouration to edges), large slim 8vo, together with Wadsworth (Wallace). The Stubborn Dirigible and other stories, Pictures by Ruth Eger, Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1935, full-page colour printed plates and other monochrome illustrations to text, early ownership inscription to front pastedown dated 1938, original pictorial boards, rubbed and some marks, large 4to, plus Hints for Flight Sub-Lieutenants, Royal Naval Air Service, London: Forster Groom & Co., 1916, colour plates, advertisements at front and rear, contemporary signature to front endpaper of F. S. Russell, dated 1916, original blue cloth lettered in gilt and red, a little rubbed and some light damp marking, 12mo, and Warne (Frederick, publisher). Flying Days (Aunt Louisa's Home Toy Books-Series III), London: Frederick Warne & Co., circa 1910, four chromolithograph full-page plates, monochrome illustrations, some light marginal soiling and spotting, original pictorial chromolithograph boards, rubbed and some soiling and partial loss to blank spine, large slim 8vo, plus others ballooning titles, including E. F. Herbert and Philip Zec, Blossom the Brave Balloon, 1941, The Book of Airships, Ernest Nister, circa 1900, Florence K. Upton, The Golliwogg's Air-Ship, circa 1890 (covers damp marked), Raphael Tuck, Boo-Boo The Barrage Balloon, Raphael Tuck, [1943], Georgette Heyer, A Balloon Incident from Frederica, London: Bodley Head, 1965 (limited edition of 200 copies), Aviation Book, McLoughlin Brothers Inc., Springfield, Massachusetts, 1932, Blanchard, Journal of my Forty-Fifth Ascension, Oakham Bindery, Massachusetts, 1976 (miniature book limited edition 360/500), etc.QTY: (13)

* The Wing. Journal of the RNAS, Felixtowe, 36 issues, November 1915-December 1917, numbers 2, 4 & 6-39, illustrations and advertisements, some light toning and staple rusr, 2 issues with upper wrappers detached (but present), 8vo (numbers 2 & 4 folio with light folds and small marginal tears), together with other WW1 aviation periodicals including Squad 20 Gazette, 2 duplicate issues of No. 7, May 1916, Royal Naval Air Service Gazette, No. 2, July 1916, The Pom-Pom, January 1916, The Eagle, 2 issues, December 1917 & January 1918, Flighty. The Premier Air Service Journal, 2 issues, 1917, The Chingflier, 20 issues, 1917, Pulham Patrol, 6 issues, 1917-18, The Piloteer, 2 issues, 1917-18, The Prop, 9 issues, 1918, Roosters and Fledglings, 7 issues, 1918 QTY: (approximately 60)

(Typography, Printing, Illustration, Early Ian Fleming in Print.), 'Alphabet & Image', Shenval Press, 1946-1948, Issues One to Eight (all published, complete set), content/illustrations including Edward Bawden, Type Designs of Eric Gill, Stanley Morison, Barnett Freedman, Lynton Lamb, Reynolds Stone, Claude Lovat Fraser, Golden Cockerel Press, Robert Gibbings, John Farleigh, Ruari McLean, Mervyn Peake, Rex Whistler, Hugh Casson, Edward Wadsworth etc, original wraps (first four issues plastic spiral bound as issued). Three loose inserts (Ian Fleming interest, Stop Press notices, one each in Numbers Five, Seven and Eight); coloured order form, unused, in Number One; used order form - torn-off half - in Number Six. Ian Fleming proposed the terms of the first competition to be run by this journal, to design the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet. Terms were detailed in Stop Press No.1, a four-page insert to Magazine No 5. "All submissions to be received by 15th November 1947, with Mr. Fleming to be the sole judge. The prize is a book token of five guineas". A very early literary endeavour by the future James Bond novelist. (8)

(Japan, History, Art, Travel.) Engelbert Kaempfer: 'The History of Japan. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690-92', Glasgow, 1906, 3 volumes, portrait frontis + 162 illustrations (including large folding map at end of vol. III) as called for, uniform original cloth gilt; S. Bing: 'Artistic Japan: A Monthly Illustrated Journal of Arts and Industries', London, Sampson Low, May 1888-February 1891, 12 assorted issues, comprising No.'s 1, 3, 5, 6, 8-12, 25, 26 & 33, numerous colour plates and b/w ills. throughout, each folio (34 x 25cm), original pictorial wraps (several with wraps detached but present, chipped/worn at edges), housed in original blue cloth portfolio, large mounted colour illustration to front cover, ribbon ties; Henri L. Joly: 'Legend in Japanese Art', London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1908, 16 colour plates + numerous b/w plates as called for, large 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt; Douglas Sladen: 'Queer Things about Japan', L, Anthony Treherne, 1904, 2nd impression, colour frontis + 6 pages of colour plates + 30 b/w plates + pictorial end papers as called for, all after Hokusai, orig. cloth gilt (rubbed), top edge gilt; F. Hadland Davis; Evelyn Paul (ill.): 'Myths & Legends of Japan', L, Harrap, 1912, 32 colour plates by Evelyn Paul as called for, orig. decorative leather gilt, top edge gilt; D.C. Angus: 'Japan: The Eastern Wonderland', Cassell, 1910, 4 colour plates + numerous b/w plates as called for, orig. pictorial cloth gilt; Gaston Cerfberr: 'Contes Japonais', Paris, 1893, b/w ills. throughout, orig. pictorial wraps, glassine d/w; R.M. Knutsen: 'Japanese Polearms', 1963, 1st edition, b/w ills. throughout, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; plus 8 others similar including the floating world/ukiyo-e etc (18)

(Ballooning, Aviation, Montgolfier Brothers etc.) Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond: 'Description des Expériences de la Machine Aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier', Paris & Brussels, B. Le Francq, 1784, 3rd edition, 9 engraved plates as called for, folding table, xxix, 204pp, contemporary paper wraps, printed paper label to spine; J. Glaisher, Camille Flammarion, W. de Fonvieille & Gaston Tissandier: 'Voyages Aériens', Paris, Hachette, 1870, 1st edition, 6 colour lithograph plates + 117 wood engraved plates as called for, pp383-400 with slight damage at lower margin not affecting text/plates, original quarter calf gilt, all edges gilt, Camille Flammarion: 'Mes Voyages Aériens Impressions at études Journal de Bord de Douze Voyages Scientifiques en Ballon', Paris, C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1883, 3rd edition, signed & inscribed by the author on half title "A mon chez ami Bernard. Petit souvenir de voyageur aérien. Camille Flammarion 12 Mars 1884", 390pp, contemporary quarter calf gilt, bookplate of Bernard Barbery to front pastedown, Griffith Brewer and Patrick Y. Alexander: 'Aeronautics: An Abridgment of Aeronautical Specifications Filed at the Patent Office from A.D. 1815 to A.D. 1891', London, Taylor and Francis, 1893, 1st edition, b/w engraved ills. of balloons, early flying machines etc. throughout, 160pp + [16]pp blank leaves at end with printed heading "Aeronautical Notes", original cloth gilt, Lanchester: 'The Flying Machine from an Engineering Standpoint', L, Constable, 1916, contemporary Cinque Port Flying Club pass for access to Lympne airport, Kent, signed by the Director, loosely inserted, ownership signatures/inscriptions at front "J.C. Bottrell. Wheeler. A.G.C. 022414 118 Cpy...September 15/17 Abbeville France", viii,135,[3]pp, diagrams including 1 folding, original cloth; plus 4 others early aviation (9)

(Tobacco, Smoking.) Eight scarce C19th and early C20th titles, including Joseph Fume [i.e.William Andrew Chatto]: 'A Paper:- Of Tobacco, Treating of the Rise, progress, pleasures, and advantages of Smoking. With Anecdotes of distinguished smokers, mems. on pipes and tobacco-boxes, and a tritical essay on snuff.', London, Chapman & Hall, 1839, 1st edition, 6 engraved plates by Phiz + b/w ills in text as called for, original pictorial paper covered boards, later rebacked; "Cavendish" [i.e. Samuel Bevan]: 'To All who Smoke! A Few Words in Defence of Tobacco; Or, A Plea for the Pipe. With Practical Observations on the Philosophy and Art of Smoking', L, Baily Brothers, 1857, 1st edition, 96pp, contemporary half calf gilt. Very scarce; Henry Beach Needham: 'Divorcing Lady Nicotine: Getting the Upper Hand of the Smoking Habit', Chicago, Forbes & Company, 1913, 70,[1]pp, original pictorial paper covered boards, later rebacked. Scarce; Walter Hamilton: 'An odd volume for smokers. A lyttel parcell of poems and parodyes in prayse of tobacco, contayning divers conceited ballades, and pithie sayinges, all newly collected and emprinted, by Walter Hamilton', L, Reeves & Turner, 1889, 1st edition, limited edition, one of a total edition of 501 copies only, out of series Presentation copy, one of 151 copies, 180,[4]pp, original pictorial cloth gilt. Very scarce; E.J. Beale (ed.): 'English tobacco culture; being a description of the first English and Irish tobacco crops of 1886. With which is embodied a paper appearing in the Journal of the Bath and West of England and Southern Counties Association.', L, E. Marlborough & Co., 1887, 1st edition, mounted photographic frontis + 22 plates as called for, orig. cloth gilt. Very scarce; Bewlay & Co. Ltd (tobacco firm): 'Tobacco Leaves', c.1888, 2nd edition, 74pp + ads at front and end, original pictorial cloth gilt. Scarce; plus 2 others similar (8)

Charles Darwin: 'Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.', London, T. Nelson & Sons, 1896, later edition, engraved frontispiece + 21 engraved plates (of which 6 double page) as called for, original cloth gilt

(Country Life, Sporting, Stately Homes.) 'Country Life Illustrated: The Journal for all Interested in Country life and Country Pursuits', vols 1-4, No.'s 1-103 consecutive, January 8th 1897-December 24th 1898, consecutive run bound in 8 volumes, folio, uniform old half calf gilt, plus volume 15 No.'s 365-390 consecutive, January 2nd-June 25th 1904, bound together in one volume, folio, contemporary cloth gilt, all profusely illustrated in b/w, content/ills. on country, sporting and social matters, Horses, hunting, shooting, farming, Golf, Fishing, Horse Racing, Falconry, Gardening and Surveys of Stately Homes & Manorial Estates, period adverts etc (9)

(Printing, Typography, Bookbinding & Design.) 'The American Bookmaker: A Journal of Technical Art and Information for Printers, Bookbinders & Publishers', New York, Howard Lockwood & Co, 1895, Vol. 20, No.'s 1-6, January to June 1895, numerous b/w plates & ills. including fine bindings etc, illustrated period adverts of presses, machines, tools etc, old half calf gilt

(Mountaineering), Charles Granville Bruce (1866-1939): 'Twenty Years in the Himalaya', London, Edward Arnold, 1910, 1st edition, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, folding map, folding b/w photographic panoramic plate depicting Eastern Himalaya, 59 b/w. photographic plates, 335pp, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and two Repton inkstamps only, original pictorial cloth gilt. An account of the author's explorations in the Himalayan districts, Bruce travelled extensively in the Himalayas accompanying William Conway, and later led the early Mount Everest 1922 and 1924 Expeditions; together with Adolphus Warburton Moore (1841-1887): 'The Alps in 1864. A Private Journal. edited by Alex B. W. Kennedy', Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1902, 1st trade edition, portrait frontis + 21 photographic plates + 20 chapter head piece photographs & 10 maps of which 2 full page, as called for, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and two Repton inkstamps only, original olive green cloth gilt. Moore's celebrated account of the first ascent of Mont Blanc via the Brenva ice-ridge; together with Sir William Martin Conway: 'The Alps From End to End', Westminster, Archibald Constable, 1895, 1st edition, 100 full-page coloured illustrations by A.D. McCormick as called for, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and inkstamp to FFEP only, original cloth gilt (worn), top edge gilt (3)

Herepath's Railway and Commercial Journal.  Volume XXX. Hardback, ex British Transport Commission Library, vg, 1868.

Five early 20th century photographic view albums. 'Photographic View Album Lands End and Neighbourhood,' original cloth with gilt embossed decorations, rubbed with the tex block loosening, toned title page, nineteen printed b+w photographs to rectos and versos, vg text block, Published by W. Thomas, Penwith House Temperance Hotel, Land's End, Photographed and Printed by Valentine & Sons, Dundee, n.d; Together with albums of St Ives, Newquy and Neighbourhood, Portreath Porth Towan St Agnes & Perran Porth, Truro & District, generally all good to very good. John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Coming from London, he trained as an architect in the meticulous modernist aesthetics of the mid-century Architectural Association. He found Cornwall, moved there and never left. Active in the early years of the Trevithick Society, he was primarily responsible for the introduction of the Society’s Journal in 1973. He left mainstream architecture in the County Architects's department to pursue academic research at the newly-established, Institute of Cornish Studies, establishing himself as a generous, but authoritative lecturer on Cornish industrial archaeology along the way. He used his architectural skills to design Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum, then becoming its first Director in 1975. He moved to the National Maritime Museum in charge of their outstation at Cotehele, with the Tamar sailing barge Shamrock. During his period as President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1984-1986, he had a major hand in the acquisition of the adjacent premises enabling the Royal Cornwall Museum to expand. He co-founded Twelveheads Press in 1978 to publish well-researched books on Cornish and other industrial history. Always generous with both skills and information, he was active in the Cornish Buildings Group for fifty years where he made a substantial contribution to the quality and protection of the built environment of his beloved Cornwall. Latterly he returned to his love of modern design, in the form of research into twentieth century Cornish architecture and architects, and produced as a last collaborative project, a visionary, affordable development in Hayle with impeccable eco credentials, where he made his home.

An eclectic mix of books. SKELTON, Robin. 'John Ruskin: The final Years. A Survey of the Ruskin Correspondence in the John Rylands Library,' flat signed and inscribed 'Nothing less than a full signature is appropriate for such a learned work!' to title page, reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library vol.37, original printed thin card wraps, toning throughout, pp.24 numbered as 562-586, The Librarian, The John Rylands Library, Manchester University Press, 1955; Dr Antonio Pensfiel. 'Etimologias Le Monbres de Lugar,' segunda parte, quarter cloth, some repairs, good, Oficina Tipografica De La Secretaria De Fomento, Mexico, 1897; 'the Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature,' a defunct copy with debound front board and prelims including titlepage, 1000's of steel engravings throughout, Charles Cox, London, n.d; With approx thirty other books including Faberls book of Insects, Two first edition Hugh Loftings, The Journal of Indian Textile History, Lithographs by Henri de Toulson Lautrec, &c, &c. (30+)

'Folk Life. Journal of The Society for Folk Life Studies,' Volume one to ten. All original printed card wraps, some light spotting particularly to the top text edge, plates, generally a very good set, Published by the Folk Life Society, c/o St. Fagans Castle, Cardiff, 1963-1972. (10)An interdisciplinary study of regional cultures and traditions.

1822 Ascanius; or, The Young Adventurer: containing an Impartial History of the Rebellion in Scotland in the year 1745, 1746. In which is Given a Particular Account of the Battle of Prestonpans, and the Death of Colonel Gardiner. With a Journal of the miraculous adventures and escape of the Young Chevalier after the Battle of Culloden. Also, plans of the order of the Battle on Falkirk and on Culloden Moor. Embellished with Engravings. Printed by Khull, Blackie & Co. Glasgow, and A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh. Publisher's original paper covered boards, spine appearing to have been rebacked with paper & original spine label with price. Boards worn & discoloured as to be expected, bumped to extremities. Pastedowns each with a pencil sketch drawing, prior owner's inscription to ffep, edges uncut. A smart copy. 8vo.

1905 The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society, First Series Volume I & Volume II, 1903-1904. Ed. P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton, L. A. Lawrence, W. J. Andrew. Printed for the Society by Harrison and Sons. Publisher's original full buckram binding, red extremities and green boards, gilt logo stamped to centre of boards & titles to spine; smart condition bar light bumping and the odd mark. Illustrated throughout with examples of coins & coinage. 4to.

India:-King (W) and Pope (T.A.) Compilers. 'Gold, Copper and Lead in the Chota Nagpore and adjacent Country with map (large folding) showing the Geology of the Goldfields and approximate Boundaries of the Areas taken up by principal Prospecting and Mining Companies to October 31st 1890'. Thacker, Spink Calcutta 1891. 8vo. brown cloth plus Mundy (Gen. G.C.) 'Journal of A Tour through in India' 'For Railway Readers' 3rd Ed. illustrated 8vo. John Murray, London 1858. Orange cloth, bumped and stained (2)

The Illustrated London News - The French Revolution Supplement. Vol 12. Jan to June 1848. William Little, London, Fo. plus L'Illustration, Journal Universel 1st May 1847 - 8th July 1848. Fo. plus two albums of 19th century French caricature prints (4)

Arctic: Fisher (Alexander) Surgeon R.N. A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Artic Regions in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper in the years 1819/1820. 4th Ed corrected 8vo. Longman et al, London 1821 with folding chart, map and illustrations as per list. Half calf and marbled boards, splits, bumps, spotting throughout

Lady Sale - 'A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan 1841-2'. John Murray, London 1843. gilt decorative red cloth with owners inscription, damp stained plus Eyre (Major-General Sir Vincent ) 'The Kabul Insurrection of 1841-42'. Allen, London 1879 with two maps, one folding, green cloth plus Florian (M) 'Gonsalvo of Corona' 3 vols in one. Morison et al, 1792. full calf plus Loti (Pierre) Les Derniers Jours de Pékin Paris c1900, m/s notes, all in much used condition (4)

Russia:-Granville (A.B.) St Petersbergh. 'A Journal of Travels to and from that Capital: through Flanders, The Rhenish Provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony The Federated States of Germany and France'. 2 vols. 1st Ed. Henry Colburn, London 1828. 37 engraved plates and plans plus vignettes as per listing. 8vo. Half calf, marbled boards, bumps, spine rubbed and near splitting plus Oliphant (Laurence)'The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852...'. 4th Ed. Blackwood. Edinburgh and London 1854. 33 in text vignettes, two maps and frontispiece. 8vo. original blind stamped, brown cloth, edges frayed plus one associated title (4)

Midshipman’s Journal. Manuscript journal kept by J[ames] A[ngus] Douglas-Hamilton (1890-1972), on board H.M.S. King Alfred, Andromeda, Duncan, and Cornwallis, from 1 September 1908 to 15 March 1910, approximately 58 leaves in manuscript and approximately 75 blank leaves, neatly written weather observations, concise diary entries of events and routine whilst at sea and in port, 24 tipped-in hand coloured maps, plans and technical drawings, including Gibraltar, Korea and Japan, Wei-Hai-Wei, Cambodia and Borneo, Approaches to Hong Kong, Amoy, the Suez Canal, engine, hull, stringer plate and bulk-head cross-sections, amateur canvas covers over boards with marbled endpapers, manuscript title to upper cover and partially over spine, 4to (32 x 22 cm) QTY: (1)

* Clare (John, 1793-1864), English poet. Autograph Manuscript Poem, [Northampton Lunatic Asylum], c. early 1840s, titled ‘Song’ (first line: ‘A Shepherd from the mountain braes’), 32 lines in pencil, in 4 eight-line stanzas, 2 holograph amendments to line 13, unsigned, with a footnote in pencil in another hand, ‘J Clare the peasant poet written in the Asylum’, and with another pencil note beneath, ‘This is in his own hand writing I give it as a curiosity but trust to your own good feeling not to publish it’, signed ‘TOP’ [Thomas Octavius Prichard, Superintendent of the Northampton Asylum, 1842-5], a little creasing and spotting, light browning to upper half of first page and darker vertical brown streak to full length of verso with no legibility affected, 2 pages, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Martha Spriggs (1777-1866).First published from this manuscript in Eric Robinson & David Powell (editors), The Later Poems of John Clare 1837-1864, (Clarendon Press, 1984), I.259-60. Barbara Rosenbaum & Pamela White, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, Vol. IV, 1800-1900. Part I: Arnold-Gissing (Mansell, 1982).Included with the lot is a news cutting about Clare from the Worcester Journal, August 1844, by J[ohn] N[oakes], and a group of eight letters from Eric Robinson (5) and David Powell (3), 1966-81, to Martin Colman, concerning the two manuscript John Clare poems in his possession now offered here. In one letter, dated 1 December 1967, Eric Robinson notes that he owns the copyright for all unpublished John Clare poems, and of this poem writes: ‘The poem comes from the same period as MS.110 in Northampton Public Library … Like many of his Scottish pastiche poems it is not Clare at its best but has a psychological interest. It also represents one of the few Clare poems outside his early period in private hands and therefore has some commercial value.’

* Byron, 6th Baron Byron (George Gordon, 1788-1824), English poet and peer. Letter Signed, ‘Noel Byron’, Missolonghi, [Greece], 31 March 1824, in Italian, a warrant to an unidentified recipient, translating in full as: ‘I the undersigned certify that Mr Quass, a Prussian officer, to whom has been granted a journey without costs as far as Corfu by the Greek Committee of London, together with Messrs Kinderman, Fels and Millingen, has written according to my opinion to be indemnified from the costs which he has incurred in his stay at Malta and in his journey from Malta to Corfu, through the fault of Captain [Robert] Patterson, an Englishman, who has left these gentlemen behind at Malta against the terms of his contract. The costs incurred by Quass amount to 24 [scudi? dollars?]; the Greek Committee of London will have to indemnify him’, laid paper with watermark date of 1822, paper heavily browned with no loss of legibility, endorsed ‘Byron, 31 March 1824’, two old album hinges to left margin, 1 page, oblong 8vo (160 x 190 mm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Martha Spriggs (1777-1866).An unpublished and very late letter written by Byron at Messolonghi, where he was to die of fever less than three weeks later. Byron had arrived at Messolonghi, as the London Greek Committee’s representative, on 5 January 1824. Putting himself at the head of 500 Suliote soldiers Byron prepared his first military operation, the capture of Lepanto. Due to various setbacks the plan was eventually abandoned and Byron spent his time with administrative decision-making while awaiting instructions from the Greek government. His health began to decline in February and in early April he collapsed with a fever while out riding in the rain. He died on 19 April (Greek Easter Monday).The letter (a full Italian transcription available) is possibly in the hand of Byron’s secretary and book-keeper Antonio Lega Zambelli (c. 1770-1847), who accompanied his body from Messolonghi to Zante in May 1824 (London Courier and Evening Gazette, 13 July 1824), perhaps to Samuel Barff (1793-1880) of Zante, who held the funds sent to Greece by the London Committee. For Zambelli, see The Byron Journal 45 (2), 2017.Julius Michael Millingen (1800-1878) was an English physician and writer. He left England for Corfu on 27 August 1823 with letters of introduction to the Greek government and to Lord Byron. He later accompanied Byron to Messolonghi, and attended him in his last illness, which, at the autopsy, Millingen pronounced to be purulent meningitis. He was accused by Francesco Bruno, another of Byron's doctors, with having caused his death by delaying phlebotomy. A modern view is that both doctors were culpable in Byron's death, for their use of bleeding. Lt. Kinderman (fl. 1824) Prussian Philhellene who (along with the Prussian officer Baron Von Quass) traveled to Greece in the Hope, arriving in November 1823; they were both with Byron at Messolonghi until Kinderman decamped in February 1824. The ‘etiquette-soldier’ Kinderman died of disease during the summer, as did the younger Fels, a Saxon, who had come to avenge his brother killed at Peta. He and his twin brother fought at the battle of Peta and afterwards was with Byron at Messolonghi where he died of disease.Sources: Julius Millingen, Memoirs (1831); William St Clair, That Greece Might Still Be Free (1972) 383.

Selection of approx 270 assorted magazines, comics and books to comprise:52 x 2000AD and other select titles (inc Spider-Man).31 x Punisher / Punisher War Journal inc Punisher #1 - 5th August 1990.Approx 194 mostly football comics inc Roy of the Rovers.Other assortments inc an official programme for James Bond - For Your Eyes Only.

Character Options - Doctor Who - A collection of several Doctor Who 5.5" figures from series 2 and 4 including The Doctor, Cyber Controller and Ood Sigma. Also The Doctors Fob Watch and The Journal of Impossible Thing. All items appear to be in mint condition and are still sealed in their original factory sealed blister packs which are in excellent condition. Some storage wear. (This does not constitute a guarantee) RG