1. [Bell, Charles] Simons, Phillida Brooke.

The Life and Work of Charles Bell. Including The Art of Charles Bell: An Appraisal by Michael Godby.

Vlaeberg South Africa, Fernwood Press, no year (c.1998). 28 cm x 24.5 cm. Frontispiece, 176 pages. Numerous coloured and monchrome illustrations. Hardcover / publisher’s original half leather with slate gray boards. Gilt lettering on spine with raised bands. Gilt pictoral on front board. Housed in grey cloth-covered book case with coloured vignette on front board. Fine, absolutely excellent condition throughout. Interior in excellent condition. Hand-numbered 21 of a collectors’ special edition of only 100 copies. Signed by author on the certification page. Presentation inscription in calligraphy to Christopher Robin White. Front endpaper beautifully embossed. Superbly produced work.

2. Britain – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Aberdeen – With Vignettes of North Church, King Street, Old Don Bridge, Castle Street, Naval Vessel, and City Panorama.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrated and Engraved by H. Winkles. London & New York, John Tallis & Company, 1851. Plate Size: 33 cm x 26 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.5 cm. In very good condition. Very faint traces of light browning to outer margin and paper imperfections to top edge.

3. Britain and Ireland – [Anonymous].

Views of Picturesque Locations in the British and Irish Isles – The Giant’s Causeway, Pistyll Rhaeadr, Staffa’s Fingal’s Cave and the Bullers of Buchan

Original engraving. Gentleman’s Magazine, and others, 1750. Plate Size: 13.5 x 9.5 cm – 15 cm x 21.5 cm. Sheet Size: 20 cm x 11.7 cm – 19.5 cm x 24.3 cm. Original engravings. In good- condition. Some browning evident. One sheet has significant tear with section of margin missing.

4. [Bumpus Bookshop – Binding] Foster, J.J.

The Stuarts: Being Outlines of the Personal History of the Family. Illustrated from Portraits, Miniatures &c. in the Most celebrated Collections.

London, Dickinsons, 1907. 4°. Frontispiece, (10), 250 pages with 34 full-page plates (Portraits). Edges gilt. Hardcover / Excellent full morocco – binding on five raised bands for Bumpus Ltd. Oxford St, probably bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. With gilt lettering on ornaments on spine and coat of arms on front board. The image shown is identical with our edition. Front board slightly weakened. Otherwise in near Fine condition with only minor signs of wear. Bookplate to pastedown. Spine darkened. Bookplate of John Henry Hervey Vincent Lane (Kings Bromley / Staffordshire) to pastedown.

5. [Connemara] Anonymus [Bowden-Smith, Richard].

Fly Fishing in Salt & Fresh Water. With Six Plates, representing artificial Flies, etc. [Handcoloured]. [With a special chapter on Flyfishing in Connemara – Fly-Fishing Lough Ina, near Clifden, in Bertraghboy Bay, at the Skyard Rocks, at Deer Island and off the Isle of Mweenish and the Isle of Arran].

First and only edition. London, John van Voorst, 1851. Octavo. VIII, 74, (1) pages plus VI plates (including the frontispiece) of which V plates are beautifully handcoloured. Hardcover / Original publisher’s blindstamped cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With some fraying to two pages. Unbelievably rare edition with the excellent handcoloured plates in fresh colours and overall excellent condition.

6. Daiches, David.

Edinburgh: A Travellers’ Companion. Selected and introduced by David Daiches.

London, Constable and Company Limited, 1986. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 246 pages. With many illustrations. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine fading. [The Travellers’ Companion Series].

7. Darling, F. Fraser.

A Herd of Red Deer – A Study in Animal Behaviour.

London / Oxford, Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1941. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece (black and white photograph: Red Stags in ‘Velvet’), VIII, 215 pages. Several black and white drawings, diagrams, charts and photographs throughout. One fold out black and white map at back of book (Map of parts of the Forests of Dundonnell, Gruinard and Letterewe, Wester Ross, Scotland). Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled bottom edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing to endpapers and map. Internal pages clean and bright.

8. Douglas, Sir George.

A History of The Border Counties – Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles.

Edinburgh / London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1899. 8°. XVII, 482 pages. Original Hardcover (red blind-stamped-cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front-board). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Including the often missing maps (3 large, folded maps in pockets attached to the inner boards of the binding). Map I: Teviotia Vulgo Tivedail – (Map by Joan Blaeu of Teviotdale,Tweedale& Liddsdale) / Map II: Tvedia cum vicecomitatu Etterico Forestae etiam Selkirkae dictus (Twee-dail with the Sherifdome of Ettrick-Forrest called also Selkirk) by Joan Blaeu / Map III: Ordnance Survey Map of “The Counties of Roxburgh, Peebles and Selkirk”. The Blaeu – Maps with very minor damages only. [The County Histories of Scotland]

9. England – Seutter, Matthaus. (1678-1757).

Britanniae sive Angliae Regnum, tam secundum prisca Anglo-Saxnum Imperia.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Augsburg, Seutter, [c.1740]. Plate Size: 48.6 cm x 56.7 cm. Sheet Size: 54 cm x 62.1 cm. Original map. In very good condition. Some minor browning evident with the slightest traces of staining to outer margins. Tape repairs to reinforced reverse.

10. [English History Collection] – Morton, H.V.

In Search Of England / In Search Of Scotland / In Search Of Wales / In Scotland Again.

Four volumes. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929 / 1929 / 1936 / 1934. 13 x 19.5cm. 232 / 288 / 273 / 415 pages, with illustrations and maps. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Very good condition with only minor signs of shelf wear and some stronger signs of foxing to edges. Wonderful set. [From the series “The Search Books”].