The catalogue from R. F. G. Hollett and Son contains many different categories ranging from Archaeology & Architecture to Literature, Social Sciences and Travel.  Europaische Stammetafeln (European Genealogies) by Detlev Schwennicke volume 2 covers almost all the European royal families except Germany – which was covered in volume 1 – including the origins of Spanish royal houses.  Although little known by English speaking genealogists this work is a standard reference tool for historians researching the medieval noble, royal and imperial families of Europe.  The volume is priced at £120.

A book from a limited facsimile edition of 450 copies is Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire.  The sixteen plates are facsimiles of those printed in 1739 for Sarah Bridgeman the widow of Charles Bridgeman.  This edition has a new title-page, list of subscribers and an account of the original publication and descriptive notes to each of the plates by George B. Clarke.  In 1733-4 Rigaud and Baron were commissioned to prepare sumptuous views of Stowe which were published by Sarah Bridgeman a year after her husband’s death.  This book, no. 220, is valued at £750.

Priced at £180 is Naturgeschichte des Mineralreichs by Adolf Kenngot and Friedrich Rolle.  There are 41 coloured plates.  The full-page plates are of mineral and rocks and the double plates are of fossils.  The pagination is erratic but the work appears to be complete – a pencilled note states that the leaf (p37-38) was replaced by a view in the last edition.

William Woodville’s Medical Botany which contains systematic and general descriptions with plates of all the medicinal plants both indigenous and exotic.  For sale at £2,500 the volumes were for many years the standard work illustrating the plants in the British Pharmacopoeia.  In three volumes there is a great deal of detail of the medicinal effects of plants and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed.

Hutton’s Farmer’s Companion and Complete Ready Reckoner is priced at £85. The book, published in 1888, contains tables showing the various weights by which produce is sold in all the chief agricultural market towns in England, together with their equivalents.  As well as the various weights and measures such as bushels and trusses there are also accurate tables showing any quantity of goods.

A Naval Log Book from January 15th 1903 to October 31st 1904 is available priced at £450.  The Log Book is from the vessel ‘H.M.S. Drake’.  This vessel was an 18-gun twin screw 14,100-ton armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy.  ‘Drake’ served in WW1 and was torpedoed by U-79 on 2nd October 1917 in Rathlin Sound.