An interesting vintage book lot to include OUR SOUTH AFRICAN FLORA/ONS SUID-AFRIKAANSE PLANTEGROEI edited by RH Compton filled with 100 cigarette cards plus a cased book about MAYNARD DIXON and his work plus a Scottish poetry anthology, A Gathering, edited by ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH

THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE. And the death of Sir Richard Grenville. (A.D. 1591) Related by Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Hawkins, Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Lord Bacon, and Sir W. Monson. Together with the most honorable tragedie of Sir Richard Grinuile, knight. By Gervase Markham (1595) to which is added Sir R. Grenville's Farewell. (circà 1543.). This edition published privately in Edinburgh in 1886 and limited to 275 small-paper and 75 larger-paper copies. This small paper copy (18x12cm) with hand-cut pages was owned by PERCY JAMES WINSER (famous for his involvement in the perfection of Lever's Sunlight Soap). Blue board cover in good overall condition

A FIRST EDITION publication of Vet in a Spin by JAMES HERRIOT signed by the author and inscribed to 'Joan with best wishes from James Herriot' with dust jacket, very good condition

A first edition copy of Burns A to Z - The Complete Word Finder: Concordance of the Complete Works of Robert Burns by JAMES A MACKAY, subscriber's edition (160/500)

Three first edition volumes of BEST OF IKEBANA, plus COLOUR IN THE GARDEN by ME Stebbings with illustrations by Minnie Walters Anson, copy 1391of the limited edition of The ART OF FLOWER ARRANGING signed by Marion Aaronson, FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS and their settings signed by GEORGE W SMITH, FLOWER ARRANGING by JOYCE ROGERS,

First edition hardback copy of Raising Steam by TERRY PRATCHETT, a signed first edition hardback copy of Coromandel Sea Change by RUMER GODDEN, a signed first edition copy of Late Youth edited by SUSANNA JOHNSTON, plus various non-fiction works including a first edition copy of Silver and Gold by NORMAN HARTNELL, The Autobiography of the Rev Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, plus a signed copy of Good Game by VICTORIA JARDINE-PATERSON and COLIN McKELVIE etc

A large collection of OOR WULLIE, THE BROONS, BEANO and DANDY annuals to include 10 Oor Wullies, 11 of The Broons, a special facsimile edition of the Oor Wullie 1940 annual, 5 hardback Broons and Oor Wullie specials, plus a Dandy Beano first 50 years special, the Dandy Book 1989, Beano and Dandy celebrate Dennis the Menace plus the LAST EVER ISSUE of the DANDY

SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM by TE LAWRENCE, privately printed 1926, first published for general circulation 1935 by Jonathan Cape, brown buckram cloth with gilt lettering, 672 hand-cut pages, 53 plates, 4 maps, measures 26x20x5cm, some slight foxing to a few pages

THE IMPERIAL FAMILY BIBLE containing The Old and New Testaments, according to the authorized version with notes, original and selected references, readings, chronological tables and indexes lavishly illustrated with plates and engravings, published by Blackie & Sons of Glasgow, register to front of volume with birth, marriage and death entries dating from 1852; the volume is bound in leather with copious gold gilt decoration, some wear to leather of spine and some foxing of pages but generally in good condition (39x29x12cm approx)

A large collection of mid-20th century books published by THE REPRINT SOCIETY to include H E Bates, Nevil Shute, Daphne du Maurier, Hemingway, Somerset Maugham etc