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PHOTOGRAPHS. Two albums containing an impressive collection of approximately 443 cartes-de-visite photographs and 4 cabinet cards, many of politicians, royalty, other prominent persons, family groups, children and views, as well as military, sport and overseas interest, including the American presidents: George Washington, Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, Rutherford Bichard Hayes and James Abram Garfield; American Civil War figures: Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, George Gordon Meade, Philip Henry Sheridan and Fitz Henry Warren; as well as Napoleon III, John Baldwin Buckstone, Sir Robert Peel, Otto von Bismarck, Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, Dr Elisha Kane, Otto later King of Greece, Franz Joseph I, Ira D. Sankey, Dwight Lyman Moody, Wilhelm I, Sir Eswin Landseer, Charles Kingsley, Abdulaziz 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, The Daoguang Emperor, Empress Xiaoquancheng, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Dom Pedro II, Henry Stanley, Alfred Tennyson, Florence Nightingale, Sir Richard Owen, Sir William Gull, Tom Thumb and 'The Two Headed Nightingale'.

SCOTT, Peter. Observations of Wildlife. Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. Limited edition, this being number 126 of 200 signed copies, 4to (279 x 210mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. Original green morocco-backed cloth, slipcase. - And a further signed volume by Peter Scott ('Wild Chorus', 1938, 4to). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (2).

CHAPMAN, Abel. Savage Sudan, Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First edition, 8vo (228 x 145mm.) 30 plates. (Minor spotting verso the frontispiece.) Original green cloth with a gilt warthog to upper cover and gilt outline of a buffalo to lower cover (lightly bumped spine ends). - And a further sixteen volumes relating to hunting and natural history (including 'Snaffles's [Robert Dunkin] 'In the Land of the Bora', 1897, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (17).

BINDINGS. - [Robert Smith SURTEES.] [Sporting Novels.] London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [N.d. circa 1888.] 6 vols., 8vo (87 hand-coloured plates by John Leech. (Toning, some spotting to plate margins in 'Handley Cross'.) Contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt vignettes to spine, t.e.g. (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: William Holloway (bookplates to front pastedowns). - And a further twenty-four volumes of leather-bound books (including Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols., 1819, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (30).

PLATH, Sylvia. Ariel. London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First edition, 8vo (217 x 133mm.) (Toning.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust-jacket (faint stain to upper panel, nicks to spine ends). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren.

CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First edition, 8vo (215 x 130mm.) 3 photographic plates. (Toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (slight bumping to top of spine). - And a further four first edition novels by Bruce Chatwin (including a signed American first of 'The Viceroy of Ouidah', 1980, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (5).

FERMOR, Patrick Leigh. A Time to Keep Silence. London: Queen Anne Press, 1953. Limited edition, this being number 184 of 500 copies, 8vo (227 x 139mm.) Frontispiece and 3 vignettes in colour by John Craxton. (Minor spotting to pastedowns and endpapers, also to fore-edge.) Original black buckrum, red spine label with gilt lettering (slight fading to spine). Note: the trade edition was not published until 1957. - And a with a further five volumes by Patrick Leigh Fermor (including a first edition of 'Roumeli', 1966, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (6).

POETRY. - Harold ACTON and Ch'en SHIH-HSIANG (translators). Modern Chinese Poetry. London: Duckworth, 1936. First edition, 8vo (198 x 136mm.) (Spotting to front and rear leaves.) Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover (some fading to covers). - And a further sixteen volumes of poetry (including a signed copy of Alice Oswald's 'Memorial', 2011, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (17).

HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition, 8vo (199 x 118mm.) (Toning, minor spotting to front and rear leaves.) Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine (crease to spine, some rubbing to spine ends). - And a further twenty-two volumes by Aldous Huxley (including a signed, limited edition copy of 'Proper Studies', 1927, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (23).

JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Hamburg: Odyssey Press, 1932. 2 vols., 8vo (175 x 102mm.) (Toning.) Contemporary black half morocco over green cloth-covered boards (light rubbing to extremities). - And a further thirty-seven volumes of 20th century literature (including a first edition of Peter Benchley's 'Jaws', 1974, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (39).

SASSOON, Siegfried. Sherston's Progress. London: Faber and Faber, 1936. First edition, 8vo (184 x 118mm.) (Toning.) Original blue cloth (slight spine lean), dust-jacket (chipping and some creasing at extremities), with the original 'Evening Standard Book of the Month' paper wraparound. - And a further six literary volumes (including Siegfried Sassoon's 'The Old Century', 1938, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren. (7).

ANGLING. - Martin E. MOSELY. The Dry-Fly Fisherman's Entomology…being a Supplement to Frederic M. Halford's The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1921. 16mo (165 x 98mm.) Photogravure frontispiece of Halford, 16 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, 3pp. facsimile letter from Halford to Mosely. (Toning.) Original green cloth in wallet-style covers, gilt lettering (light rubbing). - And a further eleven volumes relating to fish and fishing (including Francis Francis's 'A Book on Angling', 1876, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (12).

SHOOTING. - Ralph PAYNE-GALLWEY. The Book of Duck Decoys, their Construction, Management and History. London: John van Voorst, 1886. First edition, 4to (252 x 180mm.) 13 colour plates, including 1 folding and 1 double-paged. (Toning, some uncut leaves.) Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (minor staining to upper cover). Provenance: Bolton Public Library (small stamp to last text leaf). - And a further three volumes by the same author ('Letters to Young Shooters', 1896-1914, 3 vols., 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (4).

BINDING. - P. HAWKER. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme et al., 1824. Third edition, 8vo (249 x 148mm.) 10 plates, including 4 in colour. (Minor spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves.) 20th century red diced morocco, double fillet gilt ruled, lettering to the second and fourth compartment with four gilt hunting vignettes to the rest, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g. (mark to upper cover). - And four further volumes (including another copy of the same book, the second edition, 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen', 1816, 8vo, and 'The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker', 2 vols., 1893, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (5).

BANNERMAN, David Armitage. The Birds of the British Isles. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953-1963. 12 vols., 8vo (265 x 187mm.) Numerous colour plates by George E. Lodge with captioned tissue-guards. (Toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jackets (slight spotting to some inner flaps and rear panels, small mark to spine panel of volume 4). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (12).

SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays… printed from the text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, and Isaac Reed. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. 12 vols., 8vo (192 x 113mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, vignette headpieces at start of each play. (Toning, occasional browning, minor spotting to margins of headpieces.) Near contemporary black morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (lacking the lettering pieces, rubbing to all extremities, mark to spine of volume 10). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (12).

BINDING. - John KEATS. The Poetical Works and Other Writings… edited with notes and appendices by H. Buxton Forman. London: Reeves & Turner, 1889. 4 vols., third edition, 8vo (219 x 130mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard to volume 1, 8 plates, including a silhouette of Fanny Brawne, 2 folding facsimiles from Benjamin Robert Haydon's journal. (Mild toning, light browning to preliminaries.) Near contemporary maroon morocco bound by Henry Sotherans, elaborate gilt turn-ins, t.e.g. (sunning to spines and to lower cover of volume 1). Provenance: Marcus Henry Milner (bookplates to the front pastedowns). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (4).

BINDING. - Percy Bysshe SHELLEY. The Poetical Works… edited with a memoir by H. Buxton Forman. London: George Bell & Sons, 1892. 5 vols., limited edition, this being number 65 of 150 copies of the large paper edition, 8vo (188 x 116mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1. (Light spotting to preliminaries of volume 1 and 5.) 20th century brown polished calf bound by Henry Sotherans, double fillet borders, red and green morocco lettering pieces to the second and third compartments of the spine, volute tooling to the rest, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g. (a few marks to lower cover of volume 1). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (5).

DE QUINCEY, Thomas. The Works… including all his contributions to periodical literature. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1880. 16 vols., 8vo (185 x 118mm.) Portrait frontispiece, numerous plates. (Occasional spotting to fore-edge and preliminaries.) Contemporary red half morocco over marble paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spines, t.e.g. (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: from the estate of the late Frank Warren (16).