British topography, history and literature. A large collection of British topographical and other books, 19th-20th century, including: 1) Wilson (James, editor). The Victoria History of the County of Cumberland, 1st edition, London: Archibald Constable and Company Limited, 1901-5. 2 volumes, folio, volume 1 in original cloth, volume 2 in recent red half morocco gilt, 2) Bone (Muirhead). Glasgow. Fifty Drawings, 1st edition, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1911. 4to, original cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure plates, 3) Scruton (William). Pen and Pencil Pictures of Old Bradford, 1st edition, Bradford: Thomas Brear & Co., Limited, 1889. 4to, contemporary cloth, one spine label renewed, wood-engraved plates, 4) Speight (H.). The Craven and North-West Yorkshire Highlands, London: Elliot Stock, 1892. 4to, original quarter roan (recased), pencil annotation 'large paper copy' to front free endpaper, together with numerous others, includging Cassell's History of England, c.1880, 8 volumes, 4to, half morocco, a large quantity of English literature in original cloth bindings, and miscellaneous books including The Elements of Euclid ... edited, in the Symbolical Form, by R. Blakelock, London, 1831, oblong 8vo (qty: 20 boxes) Provenance: John Harold Fawcett CMG (1929-2019), British diplomat, many works containing his armorial bookplate, with the motto 'Non nobis solum sed patriae' ('Not for ourselves alone but for our country') . Fawcett served as ambassador to North Vietnam, 1974-1975, counsellor and head of chancery, Poland, 1975-1978, deputy high commissioner, New Zealand, 1978-1986, and ambassador to Bulgaria, 1986-1989 (twenty boxes) The lot sold as seen, not subject to return.