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Paris: de l'imprimerie de P. Didot L'Ainé. 1813.Five volumes. 8vo. 215x135mm. pp. xxiii [i bl], 325, [3]; 369, [3]; 370, [2]; 416; 325, [7]. Red half morocco, orange morocco covered boards. Raised bands, compartments decorated with a single gilt flower motif, second and fourth compartment lettered and numbered in gilt. Some marking to boards and rubbing and wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers. Internally very good but with some foxing. Some pages unopened. Front pastedown of each volume has the armorial bookplate of Charles Bowyer Adderley, Hams Hall, Warwickshire and the label of Hams Hall Library.

Le Club Francais du Livre. 1960.210x137mm. pp. [iv], xxxvi, 780, [2]. Number 2470 of 9000. Frontispiece portrait of Poe. Text printed in double columns. Collection Les Portiques 65. Full dark green morocco, lettered in gilt to covers and spine. Bumping and chipping to head of spine but otherwise the binding is in very good condition. Internally very good although the front pastedown and the rear free end paper have some damage where labels have been removed and the final leaf has a small hole, not affecting the text.

A Translation in Prose and Verse from the Old French together with Amabel and Amoris London Chatto and Windus. 1925.Chatto & Windus, London, 1925. New edition of the 13th Century tale of Aucassin and Nicolette, forbidden to marry but, overcoming various hazards, eventually do so. Octavo. 106 pages. Limited edition: Number 41 of 160 printed on Batchelor's hand-made paper signed by the author and the artist. With frontispiece, drawings, initials and decorations by Paul Woodroffe engraved on the wood by Clemence Housman. Blue/grey boards, with linen spine and paper label. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press.

Wherein, among other things, the sadducism of these times, in denying spirits, witches, and supernatural operations, by pregnant instances, and evidences, is fully confuted: Epicurus his cause, discussed, and the jugling and false dealing, lately used, to bring him, and atheism, into credit, clearly discovered: the use and necessity of ancient learning, against the innovating humour, all along proved, and asserted.London: Printed for T. Garthwait.. 1668. "Unadvised belief". First edition. 8vo. 175x110mm. pp. [16], 316, [4]. Complete with imprimatur and errata leaves. Contemporary calf, boards ruled and decorated in blind. 35mm split to upper joint and some slight cracking.

London: William Pickering. 1851.8vo. 218x145mm. pp. xiv, 248. Maroon morocco, decorated in blind on upper and lower covers. Spine with five raised bands and decorated with leaf motif and lettered in gilt. Gauffered edges, marbled endpapers.

Zurich: Scalo. 1995. 1st ed, folio. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in B&W. Near-Fine in wine-red cloth with silver-stamped 'KL' to the upper board and silver-stamped titles in indigo panels to the spine. No DJ as issued - one small pale mark to the loward the lower edge of the upper board. A series of exquisite photographic essays in style by the enigmatic Mr.

London: Spicer Brothers & W. Clowes & Sons. 1851.Five volumes. First edition. 280x175mm. Vol. I: pp. cxcii, 478, 465*-476*; Vol. II: pp. [6], 480-1002; Vol. III: pp. [4], 1003-1462. Vol. IV: pp. xxviii, [2], [1471]-1532. First report of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851. liv, 211 [1]; Second report: [2], 76; 15pp press reports of the Exhibition, [8pp adverts]. Vol. V. Report of the Juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the exhibition was divided. pp[8], cxx, 867 [1], 16pp press reports of the Exhibition. (lacking 8 leaves of the index.

S. Pii V Pontificis Maximi jussu editum, et Urbani VIII. Auctoritate recognitum. Con l'Uffizio de'Morti, Sette Salmi ed altre diverse Orazioni. Venetiis: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana. 1758.8vo. (180x106mm) pp. [8], 405, [3]. Six engraved plates, one signed M. Heylbrouck and an engraved vignette to title page. Text in Latin and Italian. Contemporary Italian sheep, covers with elaborately tooled gilt borders, fan sprays at the inner corners. Centre of the boards have leaf motifs and two gilt oval frames with green morocco onlays bearing initials "G.P" (upper cover) and "A.P" (lower cover).

Paris: Gabriel Aubert. 1830-1835.Lithograph with hand colouring (255x190mm) by Eugene Forest. The image, from the satirical journal "La Caricature" shows a young woman with a roast bird on a plate about to open a door. A poor man is holding out his hand asking for food. She is clearly saying "On ne peut pas vous donner". The door opens to reveal a red-faced, rotund old woman sitting half asleep at a table with an open bottle of wine next to her.

London: Published by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars. 1856.First edition. 278x215mm. pp. [6], 30. Three engraved plates of specimen bank notes for a ten pound and a hundred pound banknotes. Publisher's printed wrappers with a new lower cover and spine. Tear to top right corner of upper cover with minor loss, chipping to fore-edge and some small marginal holes in the final leaf (not affecting the text) but overall a very good copy of a commercially rare work, only two copies appearing in the auction records.

A pencil drawing of a circus ringmaster and a trapeze artist hanging upside down on her trapeze. The drawing measures 275x192mm, mounted on white card and framed in black wood (406x327mm). A few spots of foxing but otherwise in excellent condition. Laura Knight was fascinated by the circus and produced many drawings on the subject. This drawing was clearly important for her as she gave it a title and it was (in 1988, long after her death) the title given to a collection of her drawings at David Messum's Gallery.

1974.A original painted glass panel depicting Onan designed by Alan Rose for National Lampoon's December 1974 Issue, Vol. 1, No. 57, entitled "The Judeo-Christian Tradition. The Joy of Sects". 483x358mm. The panel, which is painted to look like traditional church stained glass, shows the figure of a man surrounded by a gothic niche which itself is placed inside a pointed arch. Beneath the human figure is the word "Onan" which identifies the man and explains the leery grimace on his face and the white splashes that surround him.

London: Jonathan Cape. 2010 Square 8vo, 688pp, illustrated throughout with colour & B&W photographs, bound in yellow silk bookmark. Near fine in grey cloth with black-stamped titles to top board and spine. In near-fine illustrated slipcase.

an account of the rites and mysteries connected with the origin, rise, and development of Serpent Worship in various parts of the world, enriched with interesting traditions, and a full description of the celebrated Serpent Mounds and Temples, the whole froming an exposition of one of the phases of Phallic, or Sex Worship.n.p. Privately printed. 1889. Phallism First edition. 8vo. 194x122mm. pp. 103 [1bl]. Original cream paper covered boards, decorated with a red caduceus and lettered in red. Bevelled edges. Some slight soiling to boards, spine darkened and corners bumped. Internally very good. Edges uncut, offsetting to endpapers.

Sorbonne: 1430 [1930].Subscriber's copy. Number 29. Tome 1 and 2 bound together in a single volume. 190x140mm. pp. 258, [6], [4], 259-577, [10]. Thirty seven coloured erotic illustrations. Original wrappers bound in. Smartly bound in green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.

2012.Signed acrylic painting on paper of a silhouette figure of a naked man (290x225mm) in a white mount and framed in black (438x342 in the frame). The image is a simple one but typical of Gormley's exploration of and interest in the basic outline form of the human figure. It is painted in black with a lowering sky at the top of the paper so that the whole of the figure apart from the top of his head is set against a white background.

contenant les offices de tous les Dimanches et des principales Fetes de l'annee en Latin et en Francais extrait de Breviaire et du missel de Rome augmente du Commun des Saints approve par Monseigneur ‘Archeveque de Paris. Paris: Morizot, Libraire-Editeur. n.d. [1860s].Small 8vo. 140x90mm. pp. [iv], 668. Chromolithography frontispiece and twelve engraved plates. Beautifully bound by Charles Francois Capé in blue morocco, lavishly decorated in gilt with the monogram "A.M." at each corner of the covers, spine with five raised bands, compartments richly decorated and second compartment lettered in gilt, cream silk endpapers, all edges gilt.

London: Rider & Co.. 1937. In the rare dust jacket. First edition. Large 8vo. 230x145mm. pp.323 [1bl], 16pp adverts. With twelve illustrations. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Original dust jacket. Toning to spine and edges of jacket. Internally excellent. A near fine copy in the scarce dust jacket. Mary Neff (1877-1948) was born in Akron, Ohio where she became a teacher. She joined the Theosophical Society in 1908 and three years later went to work for the Theosophical Publishing House at Adyar where she was also the private secretary to Charles Leadbeater.

n.d. [pre-1775].Original drawing of classical capitals and urns with lines of perspective. Pen and brown and black ink, pencil and grey wash on laid paper without visible watermark, ruled border in brown ink. Sheet 302x218mm, window mount 350x275mm. Very slight soiling and foxing but overall in excellent condition. A very good, and rare, example of a study for an important book on perspective. In 1775 Thomas Malton the Elder (1726-1801) published A Compleat Treatise On Perspective, In Theory and Practice; on the True Principles Of Dr. Brook Taylor.

London: The Psychic Press and Bookshop.. n.d. [1927]. "Love, not fear, must reign in each heart". First edition. Published at the same time as the George H. Doran edition in blue cloth. 186x125mm. pp. 216 [1, 3pp adverts]. Publisher's pale blue wrappers. Spine toned and some soiling to wrappers. Slight chipping to, and small tears to joints at head and foot of spine. A little foxed and browned but otherwise a very good copy. Pheneas was a communicating entity who became the principal spirit guide of Conan Doyle and his family.

London: Printed for John Stockdale, Charles Dilly and William Creech. 1787.First edition of the English translation. 8vo (210x125mm). pp. xx, 298, [2] advertisements. Engraved frontispiece by Charles Shervin. Early manuscript inscription of ownership on second free endpaper. Full tree-calf, decorated with gilt edges, spine with gilt bands and burgundy morocco label with gilt lettering. Extremities slightly rubbed, but otherwise a fine crisp copy. Bonnet’s philosophical defence of Christianity was originally articulated in his “La palingénésie philosophique, ou idées sur l’état passé et sur l’état futur des êtres vivans” (1769) and “Recherches philosophique sur les preuves du christianisme” (1770).

London. 1866.A photograph album containing thirteen heavy card leaves into which are inserted (on each side of the leaf) four small 'carte de visite' photographs. There is a total of 104 photographs. Leaves measure 282x200mm and the photographs in their frames 84x50mm. On a blank preliminary is written in coloured ink with gold highlights: "Presented to Mr B.B.Toussaint by the Teachers & Friends of Holloway Ragged Schools with much esteem & regret at parting. Nov 1866". In a heavy green morocco binding decorated with relief patterns, with brass clasps. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers.

c1918.Black and white photograph (238x189mm) of Charlie Chaplin and Harry Lauder signed by both of them. Light creasing and some rubbing. Chaplin and Lauder were the leading comic performers of their day. They only appeared together in one short 1918 film (which is probably when this photograph was taken). Signed photographs of the two together seem to be extremely rare and we have been unable to trace another one. Sold with this photograph is another photograph of Lauder inscribed by him to "Margo" and a postcard with a printed sketch of Lauder.