London, David Mallet, 1754 (first collected octavo edition). Each volume contains the armorial bookplate of A.R. Downer, Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer (1910-1981), politician and diplomat. He was the Minister for Immigration under Menzies from 1958, and the Australian High Commissioner in London from 1963 to 1972. Henry St John... More about The Philosophical Works of the late Right Honorable Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, in...

London, John Murray, respectively 1854 (seventh edition), 1856 (eleventh edition), and 1854 (fourth edition). A handsome set of the principal works of Henry Hallam in nine volumes, with the armorial bookplates of Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer KBE (1910-1981) and Sergius Henry d'Avigdor in each volume. More about The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II...

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864. Ex libris Sir John and Sir Alick Downer; each volume bears Sir Alick's armorial bookplate on each front pastedown, and the plain bookplate of 'J.W. Downer' overlaying the bookplate in the first volume. More about The History of England from the Accession of James II

London, John Murray, 1875. With the ownership signature of James Richard Fowler (1865-1939), of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty; the pencilling is his. More about The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland; with a View of the Primary...

London, Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd., 1924. Number 240 of 1500 sets. Read on only if you need enlightenment: 'Somadeva, (flourished 1070), Kashmiri Brahman of the Saiva sect and Sanskrit writer who preserved much of India's ancient folklore in the form of a series of... More about The Ocean of Story. Being C.H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara (or Ocean of...

London, Bradbury, Agnew and Co., [undated later editions, circa 1890s]. Each volume bears the impressive armorial bookplate of English banker Frank Cyril Tiarks (1874-1952), sometime director of the Bank of England (1912-1945) and High Sheriff of Kent (1927). [6 items]. More about Six volumes uniformly bound in three-quarter red morocco by Bumpus. Titles are 'Ask Mama';...

Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth Earl of Orford, English author, letter-writer, politician, collector, architectural innovator ... but 'above all, a wit, a virtuoso, and a man of quality' (Dictionary of National Biography). More about A uniformly bound collection of works by or relating to Horace Walpole, comprising seven...