Lot: 5
H. E. Wingfield An Introduction to the Study of Hypnotism, 1920, 2nd Edn; Hulten Building Modern Sweden, Penguin, 1951; Ministry of Health Housing Manual 1949, HMS0, plus Supplement; Planning Our New Homes, HMSO, Edinburgh, 1948; Thorn Lighting Ltd Comprehensive Lighting Catalogue 1971/72, many illustrations; and other books & pamphlets, mostly construction and electrical. (71)
Lot: 46
Walter Bell Fleet Street in Seven Centuries, Pitman, 1912, gilt cloth; Burton At the Sign of the Bible and Anchor, London Press, [1932], one of 250; Cloake Cottages and Common Fields of Richmond and Kew, 2001, in d/jkt; Sheppard Memorials of St. James's Palace, Longmans, 1894, 2 vols, gilt cloth; John Taylor Our Lady of Battersey, George White, 1925; and another. All with fine b/w plates. (7)
Lot: 49
John Thomas Smith An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London, Richard Bentley, 1846, 2 vols, orig. cloth, gilt, cracking to front inner hinge of Vol.1 but still holding. Good clean text.
Lot: 50
London topography & history including Charles Gordon Old Time Aldwych, The Kingsway and Neighbourhood, 1903, maps & plates; Passingham London's Markets, [1935]; Baedeker's London and its Environs, 1898, with all maps; Hugh Phillips The Thames About 1750, Collins, 1951, in d/jkt, and Mid-Georgian London, Collins, 1964, in d/jkt; and various others. (11)
Lot: 52
E. Beresford Chancellor The History of the Squares of London, 1907, gilt cloth, 36 tissue-guarded plates; and two others by Chancellor comprising The XVIIIth Century in London, 1920, in chipped d/jkt, b/w plates, and London Recalled, 1937, colour & b/w plates after Alister Macdonald. (3)
Lot: 65
An Old York Church. All Hallows in North Street, York, 1908, folio, gilt cloth, No.218 of 500, many plates; Caine The Martial Annals of the City of York, 1898, gilt cloth, 60 illustrations; Widdrington Analecta Eboracensia – Some Remaynes of the Ancient City of York, C.J. Clark, 1897, gilt cloth, No.27 of 265, twenty-six plates; Memoirs illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York, John Murray, 1847-48, two vols., with plates, title pages foxed; and York Bridgemasters' Accounts, York Archaeological Trust, 2002, 497pp, damage to foot of the spiral binding. (6)
Lot: 66
York History, a selection of publications by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (5), the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, and English Heritage. All in fine d/jkts; one with ownership inscription. (7)
Lot: 67
A.P. Purey-Cust The Heraldry of York Minster, Richard Jackson, 1896, [Vol.2, first volume issued 1890], No.145 of 300, full leather, gilt, backstrip re-laid, colour tissue-guarded plates; John Browne Fabric Rolls and Documents of York Minster, York, 1863, ‘New Edition', two copies, one rebound, the other with annotations; Hugh the Chanter: The History of the Church of York 1066-1127, Oxford, 1990, in d/jkt; and others, York Minster related. (8)
Lot: 68
Benson & Jefferson Picturesque York, 1886, gilt cloth, sepia plates; and other York illustrated works including Hugh Murray Doctor Evelyn's York, 1983; Wilson & Mee The Fairest Arch in England: Old Ouse Bridge, York, 2002; and Smith Hob Moor: Historic Stray and Local Nature Reserve. Benson's Picturesque York with some discolouration to the boards. (19)
Lot: 73
York History, Architecture and Biography, including Cooper The History of the Castle of York, 1911, gilt cloth, b/w plates; Twyford York and York Castle, 1883, gilt cloth; Purey-Cust Picturesque Old York, 1909, gilt cloth, No.8 of 100, thirty-four tissue-guarded plates; three works concerning the Rowntree family; and various others, many in d/jkts. (18)
Lot: 82
The Assassination of Spencer Perceval, 1812, comprising a hand-coloured etching by Dennes Dighton of the assassin John Bellingham at the Old Bailey, and an Act of Parliament to provide for the widow & children of Spencer Perceval. Also four other Acts including an 1842 Act for establishing a Prison at Pentonville, and two concerning Prisons at Millbank and Perth. The print 29 x 21cm, with some browning and manuscript annotations. (6)
Lot: 102
Charles Welch History of the Tower Bridge, and other bridges over the Thames, London, 1894, extra-illustrated with additional plates tipped in, few newscuttings laid down on final two leaves, half-leather, gilt; Dasent Piccadilly in Three Centuries with some account of Berkeley Square and The Haymarket, Macmillan, 1920, in chipped d/jkt; and other London titles. (12)
Lot: 106
Journal of Architectural Conservation (USA), from Vol.1, No.1, 1995-2000, 18 issues; Architectural History Vol.1 to Vol.15, 1958-72, 12 issues; and Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA), 1967-78, 14 issues, plus an off-print. Two of the third title with abrasions to front cover o/w fine. (45)
Lot: 107
Vernacular Architecture: various softback publications with many journals, plus reports, monographs etc. Country-wide, some emphasis on Scotland. 1970s/2000s (71)
Lot: 134
Architectural works, mostly large format & illustrated, including Brandwood The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, 2012, signed by the author; Nussbaum German Gothic Church Architecture, 2000; Cresti & Rendina Palazzi of Rome, 1998, and similar; together with G.H. West Gothic Architecture in England and France, 1927, revised edition; and a related softback. (9)
Lot: 137
Post-War Building Studies: The Lighting of Buildings, HMSO, 1944, printed wraps, 164pp plus 8 plates; and six related pamphlets, 1944-45., two with library stamps. (7)