1. Batey, Mavis / Woudstra, Jan.

The story of the Privy Garden at Hampton Court.

London, Barn Elms Publishing, 1996. 21 cm x 21 cm. 56 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

2. Christie’s.

South Kensington Fine Photographs Friday 5 May 2000 at 10.30 am and 2.00 pm.

London, Christie’s, 2000. 21 cm x 27 cm. 190 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the library and personal archive of irish photographer John Minihan.

3. [Commonwealth & Colonial History & Law] – Luke, Sir Harry [Lukach, Harry] – ‘the most unwasted life of any man I have known’ – (Sir Ronald Storrs on Sir Harry Luke)

Very Large Archive / Collection of British Colonial Official & Lieutenant-Governor of Malta, Sir Harry Luke. The Archive is Sir Harry Luke’s very personal and one might say, confidential collection of original autographed letters, correspondence and books he surrounded himself with at the end of his life. The Archive includes important and meaningful personal and official letters from important historical figures in the Arena of the Middle East and especially Palestine with for example interesting legal insights into the Jewish-Arab conflicts of the 1920s, as well as working-copies of books which Luke wrote himself at every location he was posted to during his career. In order to understand the vastness of the Archive you need to visit our website and see the nineteen (19) chapters of Material we synchronised chronologically with Sir Harry Luke’s life [Search for “Library & Collections” and find 19 chapters at the bottom of that page]. The Archive contains an unbelievable and impressive array of several highly interesting letters and correspondence regarding key historical events as disparate as the Mudros/Gallipoli-Campaign under Rosslyn Wemyss, the Jaffa Riots, the Western Wall Riots of Jerusalem in 1929 as well as information on diplomatic activity prior to the Suez Crisis, descriptions of locations like Guadalcanal prior to the War in the Pacific, detailed information on personell at Gardner Island / Phoenix Islands during the vanishing of Amelia Earhart, to only name a few bizarre coincidences. The books contain manuscript annotations and preparatory notes for later editions as well as many letters written to Luke regarding the many postings he served at during his long career in the Colonial Service. The Archive includes several hundred pages of correspondence between Luke and other officials within the Colonial Office, often in multi-page letters. Also included is proof of Luke’s connections to the Ecclesiastical World of the Vatican and Lambeth Palace, his diplomatic abilities are praised in letters from friends and officials alike. Luke received cordial letters from Queens (Queen Salote) as well as polarizing letters from Politicians. Included are manuscript notepads as well as confidential reports from other diplomats on locations where Luke was soon to be taking office, e.g. British Western Pacific Islands. The Archive is unique in its form because it represents not only the correspondence between Luke as an official but also allows us a view into the life of a Career Diplomat of the last days of the Colonial British Empire who develops a deep connection with everyone he served with and under. Luke did not only keep correspondence with famous friends like Ronald Storrs but also emotional letters from those who served under him and respectfully stay in touch beyond the termination of Luke’s service. Many letters to family colleagues in the Colonial Office, Politicians, Priests with political functions, are preserved with Luke’s original typescript-answer or initial letter. The official and often explosive and historically meaningful content with striking relevance for reinterpreting Mediterranean, Middle Eastern Conflicts etc. makes this archive a must for research and posterity. This is not just any diplomat’s archive. The majority of these letters are unpublished but are waiting to be discovered (see for example the long letter by Sir Kenneth Roberts-Wray on the Palestine Commission. Also included his Luke’s very valuable, handwritten manuscript-notebook of colonial postings-recipe-collections together with his working copy of the very special cookery book “The Tenth Muse”. The majority of the collection is now catalogued and visible on our website. A collection of c. 89 letters and 43 items of Ephemera has not been catalogued yet.

England / Palestine / Israel / Malta / Cyprus, Fiji / Sierra Leone etc., 1898 – 1968. Octavo / Quarto / Folio. c.15000 pages (books) / Collection of hundreds of Letters (see images) / Photographs and ephemera etc. Original Hardcover / Softover – Bindings (also private interim-bindings), often with the rare dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar, some without dustjackets. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Please check our website under “Libraries & Collections” and see detailed listings of books and letters, all categorized.

4. [Cumberbatch, Benedict] Cumberbatch, Henry Arnold / Rees, Helen / Basil Benwell Rees / William Benwell Rees / Etheldreda Blanche Barker / [Sir Winston Churchill / Sir Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne [Private Secretary to Sir Winston Churchill]].

Large Family Archive of the Benwell Rees – Family, including William Benwell Rees (brother to actor Benedict Cumberbatch’s grandmother Helen Rees, by marriage to British Diplomat Henry Arnold Cumberbatch, who was Consul in Romania, Turkey and Lebanon ). The archive includes at least one manuscript letter by Henry Arnold Cumberbatch and around one thousand documents chronicling the lives of the ex-patriate Benwell Rees family from 1890-1970 in Alexandria and Monaco, including William Benwell Rees, whose marriage to Etheldreda Blanche Barker cemented the family’s role in the highest circles of Alexandria life. The archive also charts their son Basil Rees’ decade in Monaco under Princess Grace and Prince Rainer III where he served as President of the British Association in the 1950’s-‘60s and solicited a letter written by Sir Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne, on Winston Churchill’s behalf on Chartwell headed paper in which the former Prime Minister declined to attend an event in Monaco [signed by Montague Browne]. The archive is held in five heavy volumes, bursting with a plethora of amazing and wonderful historical letters, ephemera, emotional messages and telegrams, old images, theatre-programmes, and especially also includes programmes of plays in which ancestors of Benedict played (J.M.Barrie, Shakespeare etc.). The original letters and documents paint an interesting picture of Benedict Cumberbatch’s grandmother’s side of the family history in the Levant, their service in the Middle East and their social lives. The five volumes are bound in bespoke red morocco over textured paper-covered-boards and they contain at least one reference to Helen Rees next to a newspaper-clipping and dozens of wonderful handwritten letters and cards. Each volume about four inches across spine with title in gilt to upper cover and around 100 leaves in each with documents mounted recto and verso throughout, with photographs, invitations, business materials and clippings that chart the family’s life in their service for the British Colonial Office. The five Volumes include for example: Volume 1: The Benwell Rees’: begins with Egyptian Gazette, 1890 and a programme for a performance c1900 at the Port Theatre, Marina, Alexandria of Rumpelstilkskin; visiting cards and contemporary reports of the marriage of W B Rees and Etheldreda Blanche Barker in Alexandria, February 1901; Windsor Hotels prospectus and flyer (a WBR enterprise); 1913 Casino de Monte Carlo ticket for Ethel Rees; Kings School Canterbury ephemera and St Johns’ College, Cambridge for Basil Rees from 1920’s, graduated June 1924. Volume 2: The Benwell Rees’ Vol II, 1920’s-1990’s: includes J M Barrie, Quality Street programme for English Girls’ School, Alexandria, 1941; invitations from Princess Grace of Monaco etc Volume 3: Basil Rees Vol III, cover nearly detached, 1953- Basil Rees living at 2 Rue Origene, Alexandria, and covering period of move to Palais Majestic, Monaco after which he served as President of the British Association and his sudden death in 1967. Invitations to dinner and place settings with the Prince and Princess of Monaco. Birthday greetings; international stamp collecting societies. Photographic ‘Permis de Sejour’ for William Benwell Rees in Monaco, October 1918. Volume 4: Basil Rees Vol. IV Begins with telegram from Rees to the Queen; mostly very extensive formal correspondence concerned with Rees’ Presidency of he British Association in Monaco; invitations, notes, printed volume of Statutes of association from 1950, royal correspondence with Monaco and Britain. Volume 5: Basil Rees 4-5 1902 Vol II; William Basil Benwell Rees; Royal Navy ID card, British Forces, September 1943 – other material relating to Rees’ work as Duty Defence Officer at the Royal Navy Defence Base in Alexandria, HMS Nice. Volume begins in 1902 and includes Alexandria Dog Show, W B B Rees at Jesus College, Cambridge; Egypt NAAFI permits; lock of Basil Rees’ hair, aged 2 etc.

Alexandria / Monaco / etc., c. 1902 – 1967. Octavo. Half Morocco. Bindings stronger rubbed and slightly damaged.

5. De Mare, Eric.

Wren’s London.

London, The Folio Society Limited, 1975. 19.1 cm x 25.3 cm. Colour Frontispiece. 128 pages. Colour and black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to page edges. Corners lightly rubbed.

6. Edwards, Neville.

The Transvaal in War and Peace. With Numerous Illustrations.

First Edition. London, H. Virtue and Company, 1900. 221.5 cm x 27.5 cm. 384 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine. Large gilt lettering and image of mounted trooper on front board. All edges gilt. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Corner boards only slightly bumped. Interior bright and clean. Prize bookplate of Tonbridge Castle School (dated April 1900) on front pastedown.

7. [English History Collection] – Hardman, Sir William.

A Mid-Victorian Pepys – The Letters and Memoirs of Sir William Hardman. Annotated and Edited by S.M. Ellis.

First Edition. London, Cecil Palmer, 1923. 22.7cm x 14.5cm. XI, 316 pages. With 13 historic illustrations. Hardcover. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Good condition with external signs of wear.

8. [English History Collection] – Impey, Edward / Parnell, Geoffrey.

The Tower of London – The Official Illustrated History.

London / New York, Merrell / Historic Royal Palaces. 2006. 23 cm x 28.5 cm. Frontispieces (Traitors Gate / Detail of painting of a Fire of the Tower of London / Den Tower Van London), 128 pages. Several hundred colour as well as black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Full colour gatefold plan of the tower inside front cover and painting of tower to rear cover gatefold.

9. [English History Collection] – Jasper, A.S. / Boswell, James (drawings)

A Hoxton Childhood.

London, Centerprise Publications, 1969. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 128 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

10. [English History Collection] – Jenkins, Simon.

England’s Thousand Best Churches.

London etc., Allen Lane, 1999. 16 cm x 24 cm. XLIX, 822 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

11. [English History Collection] – Melling, John Kennedy.

Discovering London’s Guilds and Liveries.

Aylesbury, Shire Publications, 1973. 11.5 cm x 17.8 cm. 88 pages. Original Softcover. Cover is worn with age and starting to come loose from rest of book. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

12. [English History Collection] – Mitchell, R.J. and Leys, M.D.R.

A History of London Life.

Harmondsworth, Pelican, 1963. 11.2 cm x 18 cm. 348 pages. Original Softcover. Back cover is creased and page edges have yellowed with age. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

13. [English History Collection] – Muir, Richard.

Portraits of the Past: The British Landscape Through the Ages.

London, Michael Joseph, 1989. 19.5cm x 25cm. IV, 185 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

14. [English History Collection] – Palmer, Marilyn / Neaverson, Peter.

Industrial Archaeology: Principles and Practice.

London, Routledge, 1998. 17.5 cm x 24.5 cm. XII, 180 pages including many photographs and illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscription by preowner.

15. [English History Collection] – Picard, Liza.

Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, From Medicine to Magic, From Slang to Sex, From Wallpaper to Women’s Rights.

First US Edition. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1998. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXI, 330 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

16. [English History Collection] – Weiss, David A. / Papin, Joseph (drawings).

The Great Fire of London.

New York, Cumberland Enterprises, 1968. 15 cm x 23 cm. 159 pages including multiple illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

17. Felix, Ernest J. / Bosanquet, Lieut. Henry T.A.

How to enter the Royal Navy. With an article by Lieut. Henry T.A. Bosanquet, R.N. Cover Specially designed by H.M.Livett.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., no year (c.1898). Small Octavo. Frontispiece, (8 unnumbered pages), 102 pages plus 22 unnumbered pages of Advertising. With five (5) photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover (decorative blue publisher’s cloth). Poor but firm condition of the binding and some repair to Frontispiece and titlepage with stronger signs of wear. Smaller damage to rear pastedown. Complete with all photographs. One of the rarer titles on the Royal Navy and its recruiting techniques at the end of the Victorian Age. Name of preowner on pastedown: “P.W.Newenham, Coolmore, Carrigaline, County Cork”.

18. Fendall, C.P.

The East African Force 1915-1919. An Unofficial Record of its Creation and Fighting Career; Together with some account of the Civil and Military Administrative Conditions in East Africa before and during that Period.

London, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1921. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, 288 pages. 21 illustrations, including frontispiece. Fold-out sketch map near front showing East African campaign area. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and pictorial on spine. Blind tooling to front board. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor spotting. Some untrimmed pages. Minor closed tear to fold-out sketch map. Open tear to contents page. Interior otherwise bright and clean. Binding firm and strong and square. Preowner’s name on front endpaper.

19. Fergusson, Gordon.

The Green Collars – The Tarporley Hunt Club and Cheshire Hunting History. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales. Includes Hunting Songs by R.E. Egerton Warburton and a Miscellany of Sporting Verse by Cheshire Authors.

London, Quiller Press, 1993. 29cm x 21.4cm. XX, 491 pages. With historic and modern illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

20. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles.

A Complete Guide to Heraldry. [With a chapter: “The Status and the Meaning of a Coat of Arms in Great Britain”]. Illustrated by Nearly 800 Designs, Mainly from Drawings by Graham Johnston, Herald Painter to the Lyon Court.

Revised Edition. London and Edinburgh, T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd. / T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd., no year [c.1925]. 18 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 647 pages. With 779 illustrations and 9 plates including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original tanned cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Large heraldic device on front board. With rare illustrated dustjacket in protective mylar. Deckled fore and tail-edges. Gilt top edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjacket chipped and torn. Some minor foxing to endpapers and edges. Some untrimmed pages. Unmarked interior.

21.

General Act of the Brussels Conference Relative to the African Slave Trade. Signed at Brussels, July 2, 1890. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. February 1892.

London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1892. 15.3 cm x 24.3 cm. 82 pages. Softcover / Publisher’s original blue printed wrapper. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small tears to front cover near spine. Binding still strong and firm. [Treaty Series, No.7]

22. Godfrey, Walter H.

The English Almshouse – with some account of its predecessor, the Medieval Hospital.

London, Faber & Faber Limited, 1955. 8°. 95 pages plus an appendix with 48 illustrations (photographs) and 60 beautiful text-illustrations in addition to the photographs. Original cloth. Very good condition of this wonderful publication.

23. Hill, M.F.

The Dual Policy in Kenya. Being a collection of articles, published in the Kenya Weekly News, between July, 1943, and March, 1944, on the past, the present, and the future of Kenya Colony.

Nakuru, The Kenya Weekly News, no year (c.1944). 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 276 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth]. Poor condition with stronger signs of external wear. Boards are faded. Corners bumped. Boards show smudges and fading. Tears to gutter between pastedowns and endpapers. Binding somewhat shaky but book block intact. Internally clean and bright with sharp corners.

24. Hillaby, John.

Journey Through Britain.

London, Paladin, 1971. 11 cm x 19.5 cm. 238 pages. Several black and white photographs in centre of book and maps throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing and discolouration to the edges and endpapers only.

25. Howarth, Patrick.

The Year is 1851.

London, Collins, 1951. 17 cm x 22.5 cm. 256 pages. Several black and white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ex-library copy with stamp (The Times Library, London) plus some related numbering in pencil all to rear pastedown. Pages clean.

26. Jardine, Lisa.

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measued London.

London, Harper Collins, 2003. 16 cm x 24 cm. IX, 422 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s – Mylar. Excellent condition.

27. Johnson, Steven.

The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World.

New York, Riverhead Books, 2006. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 299 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar covering. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

28. [Johnston, Harry Hamilton ] Casada, James A.

Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston. A Bio-Bibliographical Study.

Basel, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1977. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. 120 pages. Softcover / publisher’s original wrappers. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very bright and clean. [Mitteilungen Der Basler Afrika Bibliographien – Communications From the Basel Africa Bibliography – Volume 18].

29. Jones, H. Kay.

Butterworths: History of a Publishing House.

First edition. London, Butterworths, 1980. 17 x 25.5cm. (10), 285 pages, with black and white photographs throughout. Original embossed hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Illustrated endpapers and indigo stained top edges. Excellent condition, as new. Dedication handwritten by author on half-title page. Includes invitation card to book launch and a clipping of newspaper publicity.

30. Jones, Stephen.

A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing a brief account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons and remarkable characters in every age and nation.

Fourth edition (corrected). London, Robinson / Longman and Rees / Wallis, 1802. 8.5 x 13.5cm. Unpaginated. Hardcover / Contemporary, full morocco with gilt lettering on spine and gilt tooling on board edges. Marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Very minor signs of wear to spine and corners, otherwise excellent condition. Binding solid and text clear and bright. Previous owner’s name on title page: “Susan Courteney, died 10 June 1808”.

31. MacDonald, J.R.L. / [Provenance: Edmund Heathcote Thruston].

Soldiering and Surveying in British East Africa, 1891-1894. With Maps and Illustrations.

First Edition. London and New York, Edward Arnold, 1897. 15 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 333 pages. 12 illustrations, including frontispiece. 8 maps, including fold-out colour map at rear showing “Major MacDonald’s work in British East Africa.” Hardcover [publisher’s original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled edges. Good- condition. Large yellow ’‘Mudie Select Library”– label on front board. Rear board bears remnant of removed label. Minor staining and rubbing to boards. Tears at gutters between pastedowns and endpapers with exposed cloth front and rear. Binding is shaky but bookblock still solid. Front endpaper partially loose. Armorial bookplate of Edmund Heathcote Thruston with latin inscription (Esse Quam Videri) on front pastedown. Names of two previous owners on half-title page. Occassional annotations throughout the book. Occasional foxing throughout. Rare !

32. Morris, Donald, R.

The Washing of the Spears. A History of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879.

New York, Simon and Schuster, no year (c.1965). 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 735 pages. Numerous illustrations and 5 maps within text. Hardcover [publisher’s original tanned cloth] with gilt lettering on title label on spine. Mapped pastedowns and endpapers. Deckled with orange text block trim at top. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding good and square. Internally, corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression.

33. Morrison, G.R.

Mixed Farming in East Africa. With a foreword by Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Francis Scott.

London, East Africa, 1935. 15 cm x 22 cm. 159 pages, X pages of colonial advertising / ads at rear (Kenya Coffee, Advertisement targeting Farmers and Settlers in East Africa etc.). Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with lettering on spine. With the very rare, original dust-jacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very occasional foxing. Interior bright and clean. Binding firm and strong and square. The jacket in excellent condition !

34. Nicolson, Nigel.

Sissinghurst Castle.

London, The National Trust, 1981. 18 cm x 22.5 cm. 47 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

35. Norris-Newman, Charles L.

With the Boers in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State in 1880-1 / With A New Map of the South African Republic and Text of the Convention of 1884. [Including an extensive Appendix with a Glossary of Local Terms used in South Africa – The Transvaal Volksraad – Convention Between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the South African Republic – Notices of the Boer Leaders etc.].

Second Edition. London, Abbott, Jones & Co., Limited, (1881). 15 cm x 22.5 cm. XVI, 392 pages. Fold-out map near front showing South African Republic. Hardcover [publisher’s original khaki cloth] with gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Blind ruling on boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Appendix unopened (uncut). Binding firm and strong. Interior is bright and clean with sharp corners. Preowner’s name on half-title: “Miss McCracken – 19th Dec.1899”.

36. Oman, Carola.

Britain Against Napoleon.

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1942. 13.5 cm x 20.7 cm. 372 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing and discolouration to edges. Deckled edges. Cover and spine slightly faded. Pencil markings to rear pastedown. Contains Exlibris of ‘R.G. Nares’ on front pastedown.

37. Orrin, Geoffrey R. / Cowley, F.G.

A History of All Saints Church Oystermouth.

Oystermouth, All Saints Church, 1990. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. 110 pages. 26 black and white photographs and plates throughout. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

38. Quennell, Peter.

Four Portraits – Studies of the Eighteenth Century.

London, Collins, 1945. 14.7 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 242 pages with 8 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled tail-edge. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Sun-fading to spine. Exlibris / Bookplate of R.G. Nares on front endpapers.

39. [Rhodes, Cecil] Jourdan, Philip.

Cecil Rhodes – His Private Life by his Private Secretary.

London / New York, John Lane The Bodley Head / John Lane Company, 1911. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, 285 pages. 16 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Preowner details on front endpaper.

40. Sackville-West, Vita.

Knole and the Sackvilles.

London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1934. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XV, 231 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition with some signs of wear. Browning of page-edges, spotting of title pages. A few handwritten notes on the endpaper, mostly in pencil.

41. South America / Patagonia – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Falkland Islands and Patagonia – With Vignettes of Jason Islands, Penguins, Sea Eagles, Fugeans, and Christmas Sound, Tierra del Fuego.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Winkles and Engraved by W. Lacey. London & New York, John Tallis & Company, 1851. Plate Size: 25 cm x 35 cm. Sheet Size: 27 cm x 37.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

42. Strong, Roy.

The Renaissance Garden in England.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1988. 19 cm x 25 cm. 240 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

43. Stuart, J.

A History of the Zulu Rebellion 1906, and of Dinuzulu’s arrest, Trial and Expatriation. With Five Maps, Six Plans and Twenty Five Illustrations.

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1913. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 581 pages. Large fold-out map sheet at rear, showing a Key Map of Natal and Area of Operations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to edges and tissue-guards, as usual with this publication. Interior bright and clean besides very minor signs of foxing.

44. Symons, N.V.H.

The Story of Government House [Raj Bhavan].

Bengal, Bengal Government Press, 1935. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece (Lord Wellesley as Govenor General, 1800 from a painting by R. Home), 155 pages, XVII. Some black and white photographic plates and illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. Good condition with obvious signs of external wear. Book block and binding intact although frontipiece is cleanly detached. Message in ink pen to endpaper “With love to Henry from the Staff 29/5/46”. Covers slightly warped.

45. The National Trust.

Knole.

London, The National Trust, 1984. 18.5 cm x 24.5 cm. 60 pages. Original softcover pamphlet. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Faded section on cover.

46. The National Trust.

Knole.

London, National Trust Enterprises, 1993. 18.5 cm x 24 cm. 68 pages. Original softcover pamphlet. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Single striation on front cover.

47. The National Trust.

Sissinghurst Castle Garden.

Hampshire, The National Trust, 1984. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 31 pages. Original softcover pamphlet. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

48. Waterhouse, Ellis.

Painting in Britain 1530-1790.

Middlesex, Penguin Books Ltd., 1953. 18.2 cm x 26.4 cm. XV, 271 pages.192 pages of black & white plates. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. With only very minor foxing to edges, endpapers, half-title and title pages. Pages lightly tanned. Gilt lettering to spine and emblem on front. Minor wear to spine. Binding tight. Clean interior.

49. [Weston, Frank] Smith, H. Maynard.

Frank Bishop of Zanzibar – Life of Frank Weston, D.D., 1871-1924. With Portraits.

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1926. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 326 pages. 9 black-and-white photographs. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very bright and clean with sharp corners. Preowner’s name on front endpaper. Discreet bookseller’s label on front pastedown.

50. Youngs, Susan (Editor).

‘The Work of Angels’ – Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork, 6th-9th Centuries AD. With contributions by Paul T. Craddock, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Raghnall Ó Floinn, Michael Ryan and Leslie Webster.

London, British Museum Publications Ltd., 1990. 22 cm x 27.5 cm. 223 pages. 185 black and white and 56 colour illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.