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A Noah’s Ark. Printed... by Paul Kershaw, Skye), of 185 copies) printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper exhibiting majority displayed two to a page, the engravings and text in two the other and backed to blue cloth and boards, with a further 2 large twice and pasted to the back board, between the two books, [Book 11 leaves of engravings, [8](text), [Book Two]: pp. [iv](blanks), [8](text and colophon), oblong narrow 8vo., orig. qtr. mid blue and brown boards, book housed in its orig.mid blue cloth fine £190.00 TWO BY TWO .

Songs of Innocence and of Experience. (Bibliographical

by Geoffrey Keynes). (for the William Blake Trust). 1955, 121/240 copies) printed on Arches pure rag paper, 55 plates (including that of 1863) reproduced by the collotype and stencil process, orange, occasional light foxing, 55 (plates), [4] leaves of text), morocco, backstrip gilt lettered, backstrip sunned and covers a trifle slipcase, good £150.00 (Mark) Letterpress, Printer’s Types and Decorations. Five Articles. the Whittington Press Annual Publication Matrix between 1987 993, 82/110 COPIES signed by the author, 3 folding broadsides of type papers, a 4-page type specimen insert printed in black and red, a further 5 tipped in illustrations, 4 printed in colours, together with also tipped in, pp. [viii], 48, imp.8vo., orig. qtr. maroon cloth, on backstrip and front cover, patterned pink boards, very good £50.00

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Adams (George) An Essay on Electricity, explaining the Theory and Practice of that useful Science; and the Mode of applying it to medical Purposes. With an Essay on Magnetism. The Second Edition. Corrected and considerably enlarged. At the Logographic Press for the Author.

785, folding engraved frontispiece showing experiments (tightly bound), engraved title vignette, and 7 folding plates at the end, ownership signatures of Benjamin and Charles (?) Starbuck on the title, 5pp. catalogue of scientific instruments at the end, occasional light browning, pp. [ii], ii, v-x, 476, [ 6], 8vo., mottled calf antique, the backstrip ruled in gilt and with maroon and black labels with gilt lettering, good (Wellcome II, p. 3; Mottley pp. 280- ; Wheeler Gift 5 9b; ESTC T884 ) £750.00 After George Adams Senior’s death the family Fleet Street business, makers of scientific instruments and globes, was continued in all its aspects, initially by his widow, Ann, and then George Adams Junior ( 750– 795), the author of the this book. He had been apprenticed to his father in 765, became free of the Grocers’ Company in November 772, and a liveryman in 773. The ordnance appointment was lost to Jeremiah Sisson on the elder George’s death, but the appointment to the king continued, and in 787 George Junior became optician to the prince of Wales (the future George IV) as well. Before then, about 780, he began to receive ordnance orders as a result of Jeremiah Sisson’s bankruptcy. A substantial ordnance trade developed in the build-up to the Napoleonic wars but, unlike his father, George Junior did not have a monopoly in this area. Between 785 and 792 he supplied numerous instruments to Martinus van Marum for Teyler’s Foundation at Haarlem in the Netherlands, most of which survive, and other continental institutions including the University of Coimbra, in Portugal ( ODNB ).

Essay on Electricity was first published in 784 and proved to be both popular and informative, running into five editions before 800. This enlarged edition contains additional plates. It contains experiments on all aspects of electricity and illustrations of the relevant equipment. For more on the Logographic Press, see item 85 below.

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Adams (Thomas) Englands Sicknes [sic], comparatively conferred with Israels. Divided into two Sermons. Imprinted by E.G. for Iohn Budge, and Ralph Mab. 6 5, title with vignette of typographical ornament and with the ruled borders inked in, woodcut headpieces, tail-piece and initials, H2 with tear repaired on verso, lower edge of K2 scorched, some uniform browning and dampstaining, pp. [4], 0 , sm.4to., modern qtr. calf, gilt lettered red leather label, blue marbled £350.00 boards ( STC 4; ESTC S 004 ; McAlpin I, 277) Acclaimed in the nineteenth century as the ‘prose Shakespeare of Puritan theologians,’ Thomas Adams was one of the most popular preachers in London during the first quarter of the seventeenth century. In this work man’s soul is seen as a ‘beauteous damsel.’

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(Africa.) BURTON ([Captain] Sir Richard Francis) The Memorial Edition of the Works ... 7 Vols.

Tylston and Edwards. 893/94, colour lithographed and wood-engraved plates, 8vo., orig, black cloth, backstrips gilt lettered direct, occasional slight rubbing to heads, gilt blocked vignette of Arab figure and short Koranic inscription on upper boards, black chalked endpapers, t.e.r., good £1,300.00 Four works, all that were published, are included in this edition. They are: Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah (2 vols.); A Mission to Gelele King of Dahome (2 vols.); Vikram and the Vampire ; and First Footsteps in East Africa (2 vols.).

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(Alps. Mountaineering. ) TYNDALL (John) The glaciers of the Alps, being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers, and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related. New edition. Longmans, Green, et al. 896, engraved frontispiece of the Mer de Glace (with tissue-guard), 5 plates and numerous text illustrations (over 50), pp.xxvi, (2), 8vo., orig. burgundy sand-grain cloth, gilt lettered, backstrip (faded), floral border design stamped in blind on sides, very good (Neate 836) £140.00 A reissue with minor textual corrections and an improved index. Neate notes that Tyndall started ‘from a scientific beginning’ and ‘took more and more to mountaineering, his greatest climb being the first ascent of the Weisshorn (he was also a contender for the first ascent of the Matterhorn).’

Tyndall had first published an account of his observations of glacier movement in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions , a later bookform first edition of the present work appeared in 860.

This second edition, published three years after the author’s death, contains a prefatory note by Mrs Tyndall.

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(America.) HALL (Captain Basil, R.N.) Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 827 and 828. Edinburgh: Cadell ... 829, FIRST EDITION , folding hand-coloured frontispiece map (short closed handling tear at gutter margin), 20 plates (each with 2 images) with accompanying letterpress leaf printed on one side of leaf only, describing plates, ff. [iii, 20], (plates), 4to., contemp. half dark calf, rebacked, corners lightly worn, smooth backstrip longitudinally gilt lettered direct, marbled sides, endpaper hinges strengthened, bookplate of R. La Touche jnr., good (Sabin 2972 ) £280.00 Hall is best remembered for his Fragments of Voyages and Travels , a three-volume work which was also concerned with the author’s explorations of North America, and also contains numerous interesting accounts of the state of the British navy in the first half of the nineteenth century. The present work precedes Fragments by some two years, and was perhaps issued to measure the public interest in works on this subject. Hall also wrote a number of other books and papers; the latter printed in leading scientific publications. As well as his fellowship of the Royal Society, he was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical, Royal Geographical, and Geological societies.

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(America. Native Americans.) M’KENNEY (Thomas L[orraine]) Memoirs, official and personal: with sketches of travels among the northern and southern Indians; embracing a war excursion, and descriptions of scenes along the western borders ... Two volumes in one. Second edition.

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New York: Paine and Burgess. 846, lithographed portrait frontispiece vol.i, colour lithographed frontispiece vol.ii, facsimile letter, wood engraved plates (i.e. extra to plate list) and fullpage illustration on letterpress (included in plate list), foxed, pp. xi, [3], [ 5]-340; ix, [ ], [9]- 36, 8vo., mid-twentieth century half black morocco, backstrip with dot roll decorated raised bands, gilt panelled compartments, lettered direct in second and third compartments, and at foot, grey cloth sides, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., good (Sabin 43403) £220.00 M’Kenney was U.S. Government Superintendent of Indian Trade from 8 6-22. An advocate of the American Indian ‘civilisation’ programme, M’Kenney was to become an avid supporter of Indian removal west of the Mississippi River. The Graff Collection catalogue calls for thirteen illustrations; Howes says ‘ 3 pls.[one coloured], facs’; and Clark seems to call for fifteen illustrations in addition to a frontispiece portrait and a facsimile. There are in fact fifteen plates: a frontispiece portrait of the author in vol. i, and one (colored) of Pocahontas in vol. ii; a facsimile of a letter from Dolley Madison to the author; and twelve illustrations by F.O.C. Darley. Not in Wagner-Camp.

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(Angling.) OLIVER (Stephen) Scenes and recollections of fly-fishing, in Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland. Chapman and Hall. 834, wood engraved vignettes on titlepage and elsewhere on letterpress, pp. [iv], 2 2, 2mo., orig. sand-grain brown calf, wear to head of backstrip, gilt lettered direct, bookplate of William M. Maude, overlaid with irregular piece of paper bearing name of later owner (illegible), good (Westwood and Satchell p. 62) £100.00 Chivalric chapbook (Anonymous.) L’HISTOIRE des Quatre Fils d’Aymon, revue et corrigée de nouveau et augmentée de plusiers figures. Limoges: chez F. Chapoulaud. [c. 800?] large woodcut vignette of charging knights on the title-page, and 24 woodcuts in the text, the title soiled and a little browned, pp.

26, 8vo., modern half calf, smooth backstrip with longitudinally gilt lettered red leather label, and gilt ornaments at head and foot, paste paper boards, cream endpapers, bookplate of Mary Herbert, Styche, good £180.00 A scarce large chapbook, with an interesting regional imprint, and striking woodcut illustrations (only one copy listed in COPAC ). Heroes of a chivalric legendary romance, the four brothers, Renaud de Montauband (the principal figure), Guiscard, Alard, and Richard, sons of Aymon, Count of Dordogne, were Paladins at the court of Charlemagne. Their legend was the inspiration for many writers (Tasso, for example, used ‘Rinaldo’ as the subject of his first epic poem), and appeared in many different versions.

An ownership inscription on the front free endpaper reads: ‘This book was given to me by old Brydges: the bookseller at Cambridge: Henry.’

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(Antarctic. ‘Terra Australis.’) SHACKLETON (Ernest Henry) The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 907- 909. With an introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. An account of the first journey to the south magnetic pole by Professor T.W.Edgeworth David, F.R.S. 2 vols. William Heinemann. 909, FIRST EDITION , 2 frontispieces and 2 colour plates (with printed tissue guards), 94 plates, diagrams on letterpress, 3 maps and 2 panoramas in pocket at end of vol.ii, errata slip vol.ii, pp. xlviii, 37 , [ ]; xv, [i], 4 8, [ ], roy.8vo., handsomely bound in modern half dark blue morocco, backstrips with raised bands between blind rules, gilt rules at head and foot, gilt lettered white vellum label in second compartments, vol. numbers lettered direct in third compartments, blue canvas sides, hand-made endpapers, t.e.g., remainder roughtrimmed, very good £800.00 Although Shackleton had contributed articles and papers to numerous periodicals since his early expeditions around the turn-of-the-century, The Heart of the Antarctic was his first book. His team’s attempt to reach the south pole is often eclipsed by Scott’s 9 2 expedition, but his four-man shore party did reach the south magnetic pole, and got to within 97 nautical miles of the true pole. Other achievements included the world’s first ascent of Mount Erebus ( 2,448 ft) on Ross Island. Throughout

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the expedition, team members had produced copies of Aurora Australis (a printing press had been shipped from England). An exceedingly rare book, the first to be printed on the continent of Antarctica, it was bound in the boards from packing cases and contained accounts of Antarctic life, short stories, and humorous essays. On his journey home from New Zealand by ocean liner, Shackleton was able to draw on Aurora Australis, and, with the help of literary assistant Edward Saunders, had made ready for publication his own two-volume account of events. The Heart of the Antarctic went to press in October 909 and was immediately praised by its many readers. A classic of the genre.

‘No person who has not spent a period of his life in those “stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole” will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man.’

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[Apperley (Charles James)] ‘Nimrod’. Hunting Reminiscences: comprising memoirs of masters of hounds; notices of the crack riders; and characteristics of the hunting countries of England.

Rudolph Ackermann. 843, FIRST EDITION , additional engraved title with vignette, 9 maps of hunting territory, 5 plates and 7 illustrations, pp. x, 332, 8vo., green crushed half morocco, the backstrip with gilt hunting emblems and lettering, marbled boards and endapers, a.e.g., by Morrell, very good £150.00 The maps are of the Quorn and several other major hunts.

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[Apperley (Charles James)] ‘Nimrod’. Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq.re of Halston, Shropshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury ... with Notices of his Hunting, Shooting Driving, Racing, eccentric and extravagant Exploits by Nimrod. Second Edition. Reprinted (with considerable Additions). Rudolph Ackermann. 837, additional engraved title with vignette, 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates by H. Alken, some tissue guards present and foxed, one plate and adjacent text with faint dampstaining, pp. ix, [i], [ii], 206, 8vo., slightly later polished calf, the backstrip panelled in gilt with hunting emblems and morocco labels with gilt lettering, the upper cover with a crest and the motto ‘Audacter et Sincere’, ochre endpapers, good (Abbey: Life 385; Tooley 67) £450.00 The second enlarged edition with eighteen (instead of twelve in the first) plates. Issue points for four of the plates indicate this copy is a later variant.

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the first printing of the Greek text Appian (of Alexandria) Romanorum historiarum Celtica, Libyca, vel Carthaginensis, Illyrica, Syriaca, Parthica, Mithridatica, Civilis, quinque libris distincta. Paris: Typis Regiis, cura ac diligentia Caroli Stephani. 55 , unobtrusive school library-stamp on title, two early owner’s signatures at head of title-page (Marcus Anthony Morgan; ‘ex libris A. Hurault’), a little early underlining on a few pages, pp. 393, [3], folio, late eighteenth century red morocco by Henry Walther with his ticket on free endpaper, backstrip with fine gilt rope roll decorated double raised bands between gilt rules, with dot roll between, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, widely spaced triple fillet border on sides, single gilt fillet on board edges, open pentaglyph and metope gilt roll on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, extremities a touch rubbed, backstrip slightly dulled, arms gilt blocked on each side with ‘Newstead Abbey’ tooled below, upper side also with ‘Hinc tibi copia’ and initials ‘ E.D.C.’ lettered in gilt, bookplate of L.A. Burd, two classical quotations in a 9th-century hand on binder’s preliminary blank, a.e.g., very good (Adams 340; Brunet I 64; Moss I 73-4; Renouard p. 02; Dibdin I 279) £2,950.00 Robert Estienne, having been made printer to the King of France in 539, acquired two advantages which are reflected in the annals of printing history: access to the King’s library and royal funds for buying type. With the latter he purchased the ‘Grecs du Roi’ cut by Claude Garamond, and with the former uncovered manuscripts of previously-unpublished Greek texts. Starting with Eusebius in 544 Estienne produced a string of Greek editiones principes from these manuscripts using the type, including Dio Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. When he fled Paris for Geneva in 55 , his brother Dr Charles Estienne took over the press with Robert’s unfinished projects and completed this, the editio princeps of the Greek text of Appian, the 2nd-century CE historian from Alexandria, whose work is particularly valuable for its account of the civil wars.

This copy bears the arms of Wildman with the label of Newstead Abbey, the ancestral home of Lord Byron. Put on the market to help with Byron’s debts, Newstead Abbey was purchased by Colonel Thomas Wildman, a rich West Indian sugar plantations owner and friend of Byron’s from Harrow, in 8 7. Byron had sold a portion of the library in 8 6, and the rest was sold after his death in 827.

Neither sale catalogue explicitly mentions a folio Appian, although the lot descriptions are far from comprehensive. An earlier owner of the volume is being optimistic when he writes on a loosely inserted card that the book was ‘originally in Lord Byron’s collection’. More definite former owners include the historian Laurence Arthur Burd and Marcus-Anthony Morgan, 8th-century MP.

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Archimedes. Archimedis Opera: Apollonii Pergæ Conicorum Libri IIII. Theodosii Sphærica: Methodo nova illustrata, & succinctè demonstrata. [Edited by Isaac Barrow.] Guil. Godbid, apud Rob. Scott, 675, 3 separately paginated parts, 29 folding plates of mathematical diagrams, with leaf bearing glossary of mathematical symbols inserted before A3 as required, third part title bound before second part, later ink notes on endpapers (incl. several ownership records), minor browning and some spotting, first few leaves with edges slightly chipped, pp. [x], 44, 245-285, [3], [viii], 04, 38, sm. 4to., contemp. calf, rebacked and polished, backstrip with five raised bands and red morocco label with gilt lettering, engraved bookplate of William Carmichael to £1,500.00 front pastedown, good (Wing A362 ; ESTC R6704) The first edition printed in England of the surviving works of Archimedes (complete except for the texts only rediscovered in the Archimedes Palimpsest in 906). Two other important works of ancient geometry, the Conics of Apollonius and the Spherics of Theodosius, are included. The editor and translator was Isaac Barrow, the first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge (in which position he was succeeded by his student, Isaac Newton). Barrow seems to have been indifferent to publication – he completed this book in the 650s and only grudgingly agreed to have it published twenty years later, refusing to revise the text or check the proofs.

Barrow, one of the last proper Renaissance scholars – equally distinguished in mathematics, classical studies, and theology – was a good fit for Archimedes, one of the greatest minds of antiquity, who made important discoveries in geometry, statics, hydrostatics and mechanics. He considered his work on the volumes of the spheres and cylinders above to be among his finest achievement and asked that it be recorded on his tombstone.

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(Asia Minor.) CHANDLER (Richard) Travels in Asia Minor: and Greece. ... 2 vols. To which is added an introductory Account of the Author by Ralph Churton. ... With corrections and Remarks by Nicholas Revett. Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press. 775, 825, NEW EDITION , 6 engraved folding maps, minor offsetting, pp. xxxvi, 352, [8]; [2], xiii, 370, [ 0], 8vo., contemp. calf, the spines panelled in gilt within raised bands, red morocco labels, neatly rebacked preserving original spines, bookplate of Stoneleigh Abbey, good (Blackmer 32 ; Blackmer Sale 476; Lowndes p.408; Cox I p.232) £550.00 Chandler was commissioned in 764 by the Society of Dilettanti to undertake a tour of exploration at its expense in Asia Minor and Greece. He was already known for his Marmora Oxoniensia . Nicholas Revett, the architect who had worked with ‘Athenian’ Stuart on his Ruins of Athens , accompanied him. Chandler and Revett were instructed to make Smyrna their headquarters and from there to make excursions in the neighbourhood to make plans and accurate drawings of the bas-reliefs, ornaments, and inscriptions, and to keep diaries. The final advertisement announces that ‘Speedily will be published’ the second part of Chandler’s tour, the Travels in Greece. This posthumously published collected edition is the first to contain notes by Revett.

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(Astronomy. Meteors.) CAVINA (Pietro Maria) Fax, seu lampas volans, magnum meteoron visum post occasum Solis diei 3 . Martii 676. Epistola dissertatio. Iterum edita. [Bound after:] Facis, seu lampadis volantis; post diem 3 . Martii 676. Conspecte iter, et causae ulterius inquisitae. Epistolica dissertatio secunda apologetica.

Faenza: Ex Typographia Zarafallii. 677, SOLE EDITIONS , several woodcut diagrams, lower corner dampmarked, faint foxing, pp. , [ ], 2, folio, early twentiethcentury half vellum with marbled boards, red morocco label to spine, slightly dustsoiled, label lightly rubbed, £1,000.00 good A meteor, claimed to be as big as the moon and showing a blue-yellow tail, streaked across the sky of Western Europe just after sunset on March 3 , 676, exciting a firestorm of scientific controversy to match its flaming celestial path.

Pietro Maria Cavina, a professor in Faenza, published a report asserting that the fireball had been caused by an earthquake. He was soon answered from Bologna by Montanari, who argued for the necessarily celestial nature of the event, and Cavina responded in kind before Montanari’s pupil Guglielmini published a decisive counterblow in the form of 5 inarguable theses in 677. These two tracts are Cavina’s side of the argument. All publications from the controversy are uncommon, but Cavina’s contributions seem to be especially so – COPAC suggests that UK holdings are limited to both parts in the British Library, one part in the Bodleian, and a listing in the Register of Preservation Surrogates. Worldcat adds three libraries in Germany, only one of which holds more than one part.

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(Athens.) MEURSIUS (Ioannis) [i.e. Johann van Meurs] Cecropia sive de Athenarum arce, & ejusdem antiquitatibus, liber singularis. Leiden: ex Officina Elzevirana. 622, FIRST EDITION , publisher’s device on slightly dusty title-page, 2 floriated initials, text in Latin with Greek quotations, a few tiny spots, faint dampmark to lower margin, pp. [viii], 93, [ 4], 4to., contemp. £125.00 limp vellum, re-sewn, ruckled, good (Rahir 68; Willems 20 ) Named for the mythical first king of Athens, Cecrops, this is in fact a study of the buildings and antiquities of Athens, mostly in the format of interpretations of quotations from ancient sources.

Johann van Meurs was a Dutch classicist who wrote prolifically on Greece, especially Athens, covering so much of its history and antiquities that it was ‘manifest that all later learning must have been built upon his foundations’ (Hallam, Intr. Lit. Eur.).

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Atherstone (Edwin) A Midsummer Day’s Dream. A Poem. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. 824, engraved frontispiece and two other plates, edges untrimmed, pages lightly toned and spotted, title washed and bound before frontis. and half-title, with a tape mark at gutter and some dust-soiling, errata slip torn away, pp. [ii], 73, [ ], 8vo., modern quarter mid-brown calf, marbled (old) paper boards with long edges covered in vellum, backstrip with five raised bands between single gilt rules, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest with small central gilt clover stamp, label and tail of spine just a bit chipped, good £125.00 The second publication of the poet Edwin Atherstone ( 788- 872), with plates by G. Cooke after drawings by the painter John Martin ( 789- 854), a key figure in the development of the Romantic sublime and a close friend of Atherstone.

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From Confectionery to Chilbains [Atkyns (Arabella), pseudonym] The Family Magazine: in two Parts. Part I. Containing useful directions in all the Branches of House-keeping and Cookery. Particularly shewing how to buy-in all the best of all sorts of Provisions ... With several hundred Receipts ... Together with the Art of making English Wines, &c. Part II. Containing, a compendious Body of Physick; explaining the Virtues and Properties of all Sorts of Meats, Drinks, Herbs, Plants, Roots, Seeds, &c. used either as Food or Physick. And succinctly Treating of all the Diseases and Accidents ... With practical Rules and Directions for the Preserving and Restoring of Health and Prolonging of Life. As also how to make all Kinds of Balsams, Salves, Ointments, Elixirs, Cordials, Diet-drinks, Syrups, Electuaries, Powders, &c. ... Third Edition, revised, corrected and greatly enlarged. To which is prefixed, a brief account of the Efficacy of Tar-water ... J. Osborn. 747, a few simple woodcuts of place settings in the text, pp. [viii], iii-xiv, 26 [4], [ii], 305 [7], 8vo., contemp. calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, good (ESTC N8298; Bitting, p.550; Maclean, p.49) £800.00 A good example of a mid-eighteenth century household book. First published in 74 , with a revised edition in 743. This third edition in fact consists of sheets of the second edition, with the six-page section on tar water inserted after the title page. This copy preserves the second edition title page to Part II. It has been slit for cancellation, but was inadvertently left in place (and now neatly repaired).

This edition is uncommon; ESTC lists six copies.

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Augustine (Saint) Les Confession de S. Avgvstin. Traduites en François, par Monsievr Arnavld d’Andilly. Paris: chez la Veuue Iean Camvsat et Pierre le Petit. 649, additional engraved title

by P. Champaigne showing the conversion of Saint Augustine with the Latin motto ‘Tolle Lege’ (take up and read), with half-title, printed title with engraved printer’s device and a manuscript ownership inscription presumably from the Ursuline Convent in Beauvais: ‘A Sainte ursule De Beauvais D 3[?]’ pp. [xx], 600, [ 6], 8vo., contemp. vellum, the flat backstrip with title in ink, a little soiled, later hooks, one wanting £300.00 A popular and respected edition of St. Augustine’s Confessions , which was reprinted well into the nineteenth century. Robert Arnauld D’Andilly, ( 588- 674), the translator, contributed to the evolution of French prose style in the seventeenth century and produced much-admired translations of both Augustine and Josephus. After retiring permanently to Port-Royal, he defended both it and the cause of Jansenism, not least in direct and indirect correspondence with Mazarin.

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(Australasia.) COATS (Joseph) Notes on sea and land: Diary of a journey to New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon and Egypt (October 897, till April 898) Glasgow: Printed for private circulation at the University Press. 898, SOLE EDITION , half-title, title-page vignette, 9 illustrations from photographs, pp. xi, 345, sm.8vo., orig. blue cloth, gilt, minor spotting to upper joint, front free endpaper neatly removed, very good (Ferguson 8393) £140.00 Seemingly rare. Not in Hocken. Ferguson points out that ‘Experiences in Australia are described in pp. 43- 82. He records his views upon Australian Federation, pp. 77-82.’ COPAC records copies in Glasgow, Cambridge, Nat. Lib. Scotland, and the British Library only.

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Chromolithographed designs by Owen Jones Bacon (M.A.) Flowers and their Kindred Thoughts, Drawn on Stone by C. I. Bateman. Longman & Co. 848, chromolithographed title with lettering blocked in gold and intertwining foliage, 6 fully chromolithographed leaves, the text all in gold, each page with an accompanying floral bouquet captioned in gold with the associated quality the flowers represent by Own Jones, minor light staining and occasional minor spotting, pp. [34], 8vo., contemp. morocco-backed cloth, spine panelled in gilt with gilt lettering and five raised bands, a little faded and stained, inner hinges strengthened, minimal repairs to the spine (McLean p.32; Ball p. 45 and 52) £200.00 Delightful floral ‘tributes’ designed by Owen Jones including Primrose, Snowdrop, Violets, Rose, Honeysuckle, Fuchsia and Pansy.

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Beattie (James) The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius. With some other poems. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne. 803, engraved frontispiece portrait, first two and last 20 leaves browned, a little light foxing elsewhere, small dampmark in corner of first few leaves and gutter of last few, pp. xiv, [2], 47, 4to., modern half biscuit calf with marbled boards, backstrip with five raised bands between gilt fillets, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest with small central clover stamps, boards very slightly bowed, good £150.00 One of the few early editions of the Scottish philosopher James Beattie’s poems to have been printed in Scotland (first published in 77 -4) – in fact, the earliest such edition we have traced in COPAC (most prior editions were printed in London for publishers there and in Edinburgh). This edition was produced in the year of Beattie’s death and was followed by several others in the subsequent few years.

Beattie’s long poem, influenced by the death of his young sons, was praised by Johnson and since his death its popularity has outgrown that of his noted philosophical work.

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(Beckford.) RUTTER (John) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey. Published by the Author, Shaftesbury ... 823, FIRST EDITION , with an original pencil drawing of Fonthill tipped in, signed ‘Cath[erin]e W.’ surname illegible, on the free endpaper, additional hand-coloured aquatint title within architectural frame and 2 other coloured aquatint plates , folding lithographed folding map, 9 engraved plates, title with large engraved coat of arms, 2 other engraved vignettes, one or two plates with imprints at lower edges shaved, half-title present, folding table, pp. xxvi, 2, [ ], (table), 9- 27, 4to., half calf antique, backstrip with four raised bands ruled in gilt, marbled boards, good (Abbey Scenery 4 8; Archer 463. ) £1,100.00 ‘Rutter offered this work as a major improvement over his Description of Fonthill Abbey, published one year earlier. He expanded the text considerably ... [devoting] 59 pages to detailed description of individual chambers, galleries, and other rooms, followed by a description of the exterior from several viewpoints ... The most impressive feature of the book is the complement of plates some elegantly coloured.’ (Archer)

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Bentham (Jeremy) Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism examined: preceded by strictures on the exclusionary system as pursued in the national society’s schools ... Effingham Wilson.

Printed, 8 7, published, 8 8, FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION , half-title present, pp. xlii, [ii], [v]-lv, 248, 456, 8vo., contemp. tan calf, upper joint split but firm, lower joint split at head and foot, extremities rubbed, backstrip with dot roll decorated raised bands between gilt rules; single gilt £550.00 fillet border on sides, bookplate of Richard Davey, good (Goldsmiths’ 22278) A review of the relationship between church and state. Bentham drew on a number of his earlier writings on the church, but fearing prosecution the book was privately printed and at first circulated anonymously. When a prosecution failed to materialise Bentham published the book under his own name.

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Bertram (Bonaventure Corneille) Comparatio Grammaticae Hebraicae & Aramicae. Geneva: Apud Eustathium Vignon. 574, SOLE EDITION , woodcut device to title page and verso of errata leaf, printed in italic, roman, and hebrew characters throughout, pages numbered right-to-left, a little light browning and spotting, tiny dampmark to corner of first three leaves, early marginal notes in Latin and Hebrew (some cropped) and underlining, old ownership inscription to title, pp. [xxiv], 440, 4to., late nineteenth-century mid-brown panelled calf divided by gilt fillets, the central panel with a blind frame and central cross-hatching, recently rebacked, backstrip with four gilt-tooled raised bands between double gilt and blind fillets, black morocco label in second compartment, the rest plain, hinges relined, a touch rubbed at extremities, Chatsworth £800.00 shelfmark bookplate, good (Adams B823) An early comparative grammar of Hebrew and Aramaic by Bonaventure Corneille Bertram ( 53 594), professor of Oriental languages at Geneva. Bertram, a protestant who had studied under Turnebus and Canini, fled persecution in France in 567, establishing himself in Geneva. Bertram’s other works included an oft-reprinted study of Hebrew history and a polyglot bible. This work is a forerunner of the studies in Semitic grammar that would begin in earnest in the next century with books such as Hottinger’s 659 comparison of Hebrew, Chaldaic, Syriac, and Arabic.

This copy bears the bookplate of one of the several libraries of Chatsworth House, seat of the Duke of Devonshire.

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(Bible. Old Testament. Greek.) Vetus Testamentum ex versione Septuaginta interpretum, secundum exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum, denuo recognitum. [edited by David Mill.]

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis. 725, title pages printed in red and black, one page with a half-page engraving of manuscript facsimile (from the Codex Colberto Sarravianus), a little faint spotting, one very light dampmark appearing in a few places in vol. ii, inscription of J. Booth to titles, pp. [cxxxviii], 24, 903; [ii], 928, sm. 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, backstrips divided by 5

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raised bands, red morocco labels in second compartments and dark green labels in third, the rest with central gilt tools, all bordered in a triple gilt line (the centre dotted, the others a fillet), just a little marked, a short split at the head of vol. i front joint, very good (D&M 4736) £450.00 The Amsterdam issue (another virtually identical issue appeared in Utrecht in the same year) of David Mill’s edition of the Septuagint. He bases the edition on the ‘Sixtine’ text, which reproduces almost exclusively the Codex Vaticanus, then the oldest and most accurate known manuscript of the Septuagint Greek Old Testament. Variant readings are given from a collation of the 4th-5th century Codex Colberto-Sarravianus, held in Leiden, which is an important witness of Origen’s revision of the Septuagint. Darlow & Moule describe the manuscript source simply as ‘Cod. G’, and the overlap between Rahlfs and Gregory-Aland codes (D&M refer to the former) has led to the suggestion that the readings are from the Codex Boernerianus, which had recently arrived in Holland at the time of this edition – however, that manuscript contains no part of the Old Testament.

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(Binding.) Bible, Latin. Biblia Sacra Vvlgatæ editionis Sixti V. & Clementis VIII. Pont. Max. auctoritate recognita.

Editio nova, notis chronolicis et historicis illvstrata. Paris: Excudebat Antonius Vitré, Regis & Cleri Gallicani Typographus. 666, woodcut printer’s device on the title and initials, printed in two columns with sidenotes, pp. [viii], xx, 624, 5 2, 32, [8], 35, [ ], 38, 4to., finely bound in eighteenth century red morocco, the backstrip with five raised bands decorated with gilt rope tooling, the panels filled with repeated flower and trailing leaf tools, black morocco label with gilt lettering, the sides with triple gilt fillet borders, floral cornerpieces and large central gilt crosses filled with repeated flame tool and surrounded by radiating lines, a.e.g., morocco gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, small scuff to lower cover, very good £1,000.00 A handsome copy of the Vulgate edition printed by Vitré, who was the authorised printer for the French Church. It is a reprint of the folio 662 edition edited by Claude Lancelot and with historical notes by D. I. B. [ie. Jacobus Bonfrerius?], though it is not recorded in Darlow & Moule. The 662 edition had sufficient stature for it to be reprinted several times well into the eighteenth century.

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(Binding.) BUTLER (Rev. William Archer) Letters on Romanism, in Reply to Mr Newman’s Essay on Development. Edited by the Very Rev. Thomas Woodward. Second edition. Revised by the Rev. Charles Hardwick. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. 858, some light age-toning, pp. xxxii, 400, 8vo., finely bound in contemp. two-tone mottled polished calf, the backstrips in the lighter calf, with elaborately gilt panelled spines, five raised bands, black morocco label in second compartment, the sides darker calf with attractive lighter calf mottling, gilt borders and central gilt arms of the Hulme bequest ‘Munificentia Hulmiana’, marbled edges and endpapers, very good £80.00

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(Binding.) COMYN (Robert) The History of the Western Empire; from its restoration by Charlemagne to the accession of Charles V. In two volumes. Wm. H. Allen & Co. 84 , 5 genealogical tables in vol. ii (some folding), gift inscription to initial blanks, pp. xxxii, 547; xix, 38 , [66], 8vo., contemp. tan calf, boards with a double gilt fillet border outside a blind dotted

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border, backstrips with five milled raised bands, red morocco labels in second compartments and green in third, the rest gilt elaborately panelled with spade and other tools, marbled edges and endpapers, joints lightly rubbed, £100.00 The first English edition (originally published in 837 in Madras, where it had been written) of Comyn’s well-regarded sole historical work, which earned him praise in the Monthly Review for his ‘industry, enlargement of views, correct and very often vivid colouring,—condensation, grasp, and a statesmanlike eloquence’ ( 84 , no. iii, p.566).

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(Binding.) ELLICOTT (Charles J., trans.) St Paul’s Epistles to the Galatians: with a critical and grammatical commentary, and a revised translation. The third edition. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. 863, a few light fox-spots, pp. xxx, 68, 8vo., [bound with] Ellicott (Charles J., trans.) St Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians. The third edition. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green. 864, pp. xvi, 90, 8vo., contemp. tan calf, boards with a double gilt fillet border outside a blind dotted border and central stamp of the Hulme Bequest (‘Munificentia Hulmiana’), backstrip with five milled raised bands, black morocco label in second compartment, the rest elaborately gilt panelled, marbled edges and endpapers, corners of boards dampmarked, good £20.00

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(Binding.) ELLICOTT (Charles J., trans) St Paul’s Epistles to the Philippians, the Colossians, and Philemon: with a critical and grammatical commentary, and a revised translation. The third edition. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. 865, a few light fox-spots, pp. xx, 278, 8vo., contemp. tan calf, boards with a double gilt fillet border outside a blind dotted border and central stamp of the Hulme Bequest (‘Munificentia Hulmiana’), backstrip with five milled raised bands, black morocco label in second compartment, the rest elaborately gilt panelled, marbled edges and endpapers, very good £40.00

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(Binding.) ELLICOTT (Charles J., trans) St Paul’s Epistles to the Thessalonians: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green. 866, endpapers lightly foxed, contemp. handwritten note pasted to initial blank, pp. xvi, 67, 8vo., [bound with] Ellicott (Charles J., trans) The Pastoral Epistles of St Paul. The third edition. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green. 864, pp. xx, 263, 8vo., contemp. tan calf, boards with a double gilt fillet border outside a blind dotted border and central stamp of the Hulme Bequest (‘Munificentia Hulmiana’), backstrip with five milled raised bands, black morocco label in second compartment, the rest elaborately gilt panelled, marbled edges and endpapers, very £40.00 good

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(Binding.) JACKSON (Thomas) The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. A new edition, in twelve volumes, with a copious index. Oxford: at the University Press. 844, light foxing to first and last leaves, 8vo., contemp. tan calf, boards with double gilt fillet border and central stamp of the Hulme Bequest (‘Munificentia Hulmiana’), backstrips with five low milled raised bands, red morocco labels in second compartments and green labels in third, the rest gilt-panelled with repeated tools, marbled edges and endpapers, tiny chips to a few spine ends, very good £400.00 Thomas Jackson ( 578- 640), dean of Peterborough, and author of a controversial series of commentaries on the apostles’ creed.

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(Binding.) LAMB (Charles) The Letters ... newly arranged with additions. Edited, with introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger. [Two volumes]. Macmillan. 897, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, pp. xiii, 343; xiv, 377, small 8vo., contemp. crimson calf, the backstrips

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elaborately panelled in gilt, black morocco labels, the sides with double gilt fillets and the gilt arms of Haileybury College on the upper covers, marbled edges and endpapers, school prize bookplates, fine £140.00 Includes previously unpublished letters.

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(Binding.) PROCTER (Francis) A History of the Book of Common Prayer, with a rationale of its offices. Sixth edition revised. Macmillan and Co. 864, a touch of light foxing in places, pp. xvi, 464, 8vo., contemp. tan calf, boards with a double gilt fillet and single blind dotted border, central stamp of the Hulme Bequest (‘Munificentia Hulmiana’), backstrip with five gilt-rolled raised bands, dark green morocco label in second compartment, the rest with gilt central thistle tools and corner volutés, a touch scratched, very good £50.00

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(Binding.) SCOTT (Sir Walter) The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell. [c. 845] letterpress title discarded, engraved frontispiece (portrait of Dryden, dated 834) by Horsburgh after J.M.W. Turner, engraved title with vignette and 8 steel-engraved plates (variously dated 834 and 835), light foxing to plates, pp. [iii]-iv, 852, lge 8vo., contemp. polished calf, the backstrip elaborately gilt with infilled panels, gilt fillets and various borders, the sides with large gilt cornerpieces of volutés and gilt central arms of Victoria College, Jersey, £50.00 in gilt, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, slightly rubbed, good Scott’s miscellanous prose works were published by Cadell in 28 small octavo volumes beginning in the 830s, and in three much larger octavo volumes in the 840s; the present volume is the main collection from the latter, containing the biographical memoirs, essays, and letters, while the others had one longer work each (the Life of Napoleon and Tales of a Grandfather ). The attractive binding is a prize from Victoria College on the island of Jersey, given to F. Snell in June 864 for proficiency in Classwork.

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(Binding.) TENNYSON (Alfred, Lord) The Works ... Macmillan. 905, frontispiece portrait of the author after Stodart, pp. viii, 900, [2], 8vo., contemp. full vellum, the backstrip decorated with gilt floral sprays and blue flowers, green morocco label, double gilt fillet borders on sides, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, the backstrip slightly soiled, faint mark to upper cover, good £80.00

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(Binding.) TENNYSON (Alfred, Lord) The Works … Macmillan. 905, full red crushed morocco, the spine panelled in gilt and elaborately decorated with repeated tools, gilt lettering, the sides with wide gilt borders of volutés, fleurons, etc. within triple gilt fillet borders, two light scrapes on the lower cover, a.e.g., by Morrell, near fine £200.00

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(Binding.) The Book of Common Prayer, and the Administration of the Sacraments ...

Oxford: W. Dawson, T. Bensley and J. Cooke. 800, ownership signature of ‘Mary Richards Coomberamleigh, April 5, 803’, on the endpapers, others erased, no pagination, 2mo., contemp. polished red morocco, the flat backstrip with repeated gilt tooling and fleurons, the sides with large gilt centerpieces of swirling feathers and gilt outer borders, a.e.g., brass clasps, £350.00 marbled endpapers with the binder’s ticket of Trewman & Sons, Exeter, very good

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Blackstone’s great ‘popularisation’ of the law as first edited by Burn Blackstone (William) Commentaries on the Laws of England. In four books. ... The ninth edition, with the last corrections of the author; and continued to the present time, by Ri. Burn, LL.D. W. Strahan; T. Cadell. 783, engraved frontispiece portrait after Gainsborough, small ink marks on the title of vol iii, pp. [xvi], 485; [viii], 520, xix, [i]; [viii], 455, [ ], xxvii, [ ]; [viii], 443, [ ], vii, [ ], [50], 8vo., contemp. tree calf, the backstrips elaborately gilt with panels enclosing central urn tool with foliate swags and dividing borders of bar and flower tools, red morocco labels with gilt lettering in the second and black numeral roundels in the fourth compartments, the backstrips of vols. iii and iv slightly faded, headcap of vol. iv with small chip, good ( ESTC T57764) £2,200.00

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A beautifully bound set of the first edition of Blackstone edited by Richard Burn: the tenth and eleventh editions swiftly followed, both also Burn’s works. No doubt the success of these editions was in part due to Burns talents of logic and explication. Indeed Blackstone had already noted Burn’s talents by adding a note to the Commentaries to the effect that Burn’s Justice of the Peace contained ‘every thing relative to this subject, both in ancient and modern practice, collected with great care and accuracy, and disposed in a most clear and judicious method’. Burn matriculated at Queens, Oxford in 729 and was subsequently awarded an Honorary Doctorate.

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Blackstone (William) Commentaries on the Laws of England. In four books. The fifteenth edition, with the last corrections of the author; and with notes and additions by Edward Christian, esq. Printed by A. Strahan. 809, engraved frontispiece portrait in vol. i, two tables in vol. ii (one folding), vol. i half-title discarded, lightly foxed and spotted (esp. frontispiece), pp. xvi, 485; viii, 520, xix; vii, 455, xxxiv; vii, 443, vii, [7 ], 8vo., old half calf over marbled boards, later rebacked, backstrips divided by blind chain rules and double fillets, red morocco labels in second compartments, vol. numbers stamped in black to third, black labels in fourth, the rest with blind decoration, new endpapers, a bit scuffed, corners lightly worn, backstrips a touch sunned, good £600.00 The last edition of Blackstone produced by Edward Christian ( 758- 823), elder brother of the mutineer Fletcher Christian and an important, though not always appreciated, legal scholar.

‘Christian was editor of the important twelfth edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England ( 793-5), which edition provided the foundation for his own thirteenth to fifteenth editions ( 800-09), for the French translation ( 822-3), and for most editions during the following century’ ( ODNB ).

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[Bodenham (John)] England’s Helicon. A Collection of Pastoral and Lyric Poems, first published at the close of the reign of Q. Elizabeth. The Third Edition. Printed by T. Bensley. 8 2, ONE OF 20 COPIES , lightly toned, a little spotting, especially to endpapers, pp. [xx], xl, 248, 4to., nineteenthcentury half green roan with marbled paper boards by Hayday, backstrip with five raised bands, second compartment gilt lettered direct, rubbed, spine a bit darkened, tiny chip at head of rear joint, rear hinge cracking slightly, bookplate of Jacob Clements to front pastedown, good (Lowndes 226) £125.00 On account of the extreme rarity of the first two editions (printed in 600 and 6 4) of England’s Helicon, Sir Egerton Brydges and J. Haslewood arranged to reprint the text from the few surviving copies, including all the material from both earlier editions. The text appeared in the third issue of the ‘British Bibliographer’, but 20 additional copies (of which this is one) were produced in grand quarto format for separate sale. The Helicon includes poems from authors such as Shakespeare, Sydney, Spenser, and others.

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(Booksellers’ Catalogue.) LONGMAN, REES, ORME, AND BROWNE . Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica; or, a descriptive catalogue of a rare and rich collection of early English poetry ... Printed by Thomas Davison, for the proprietors of the collection. 8 5, wood engraved frontispiece, illustration on title-page, and portraits on the letterpress, half-title present, pp. viii, 48 ,[ ], imp.8vo., contemp. half dark maroon morocco, extremities rubbed, backstrip with raised bands between double gilt rules, gilt lettered direct, marbled boards, red polished edges, marbled endpapers, good £150.00 The collection had been formed by Thomas Park, although this isn’t stated, and the catalogue compiled by A.F. Griffith. The booksellers set themselves a deadline of 7th June 8 5 for the sale of the collection as a whole, after which they proposed selling the items individually from Monday 9th onwards. Orders received before the deadline date went into a ballot. In fact the collection did not sell as a whole and was slow to sell individually. Longmans’ speculation being unsuccessful, the library was auctioned early in 8 8 (see above). Many of the books were bought for the Britwell library.

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Defending Rousseau Boothby (Sir Brooke) Observations on the Appeal from the new to the old Whigs, and on Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man. John Stockdale. 792, a few, mostly marginal, foxmarks, pp. [viii], 283, 8vo., contemp. half calf, backstrip with five raised bands, slightly rubbed, marbled boards, £280.00 Fasque bookplate, good ( ESTC T4 766) Boothby retired from the army on half pay in 772 and settled in his house in Lichfield. He joined the literary circle at Lichfield to which Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, and the Edgeworths belonged, and was a member of a botanical society which Erasmus Darwin started there. He travelled extensively in Europe in 775 and called on Jean-Jacques Rousseau to renew a friendship that had begun when the latter had stayed at Wootton Hall, near Ashbourne, between 766 and 767. The Observations is a rebuttal of Paine’s philosophy and in effect, an earnest defence of Rousseau.

The bookplate is that of Gladstone’s house, where he lived until his marriage in 839 and visited regularly afterward, until his father’s death in 85 .

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(Bowyer.) NICHOLS (John) Biographical and literary anecdotes of William Bowyer, Printer F.S.A. And of many of his learned friends ... Printed by and for the Author. 782, FIRST EDITION , portrait frontispiece, early owner’s signature at head of title-page (see note), pp. viii, 666, 4to., contemp. qtr. russia, smooth backstrip worn at head, wear to extremities, joints cracked but firm, divided by double gilt rules, gilt lettered red leather label, marbled sides (rubbed), y.e., good £200.00 The signature of the Scottish judge and historian, Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, is at the head of the title-page. Lord Cockburn, in Memorials of his own time, observed that although Tytler was a person of ‘correct taste’, there was ‘no kindness in insinuating he was a man of genius’.

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Brightman (Thomas) The Revelation of St Iohn Illustrated with an Analysis & Scholions.

Wherein the sense is opened by the Scripture & the & the event of things fore-told shewed by Histories. The fourth Edition. Samuel Cartwright. 644, the issue without a letterpress title page (cf. ESTC ), with a portrait frontispiece (added from another work) and engraved title, browned and spotted, early ownership inscription of John Griffith in a few places, bookplate of Thomas Taylor Griffith to inside of front board, pp. [viii], 96, 99- 088 (text continuous), 4to., contemp. blind-ruled calf, backstrip with four raised bands, small MS paper label in second compartment, owner’s initial stamp to boards, rubbed, hinges cracked and pastedowns free, joints cracking but £200.00 sound, loss to leather at tail of spine, sound ( ESTC R23 68 ; Wing B4693) An English translation of Brightman’s eschatological ‘masterpiece,’ Apocalypsis Apocalypseos , first published in Latin in 609; Brightman was the ‘only presbyterian of the time to frame theology on a grand scale’ ( ODNB ). Thomas Taylor Griffith ( 795- 876) was a surgeon in Wrexham and the owner of a valuable library, especially rich in Welsh manuscripts, including the 5th-century ‘Llyfr du Basing’.

That manuscript and likely this book as well were initially acquired by the antiquary John Griffith ( 678- 763), Thomas Taylor’s great-great grandfather. ESTC records a number of issues with varying imprints on a letterpress title, as well as this issue without a letterpress title.

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‘No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession’ [Brontë (Charlotte)] The Professor, a Tale. By Currer Bell. In Two Volumes. Smith, Elder & Co. 857, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE , with 2pp. of adverts at the end of vol i and 6pp. of adverts at the end of vol. ii dated June, 857, with half-titles, pp. viii, 294, 2; iv, 258, [2], 8, 6, 8vo., original embossed damson cloth, the backstrips with gilt lettering, faded, recased with new front pastedowns and small repairs to the heads and feet of both volumes and strenghtening to the joints, slipcase, sound (Smith 7; Parrish p. 96; Wise 8) £800.00 Charlotte Brontë completed her first novel, The Professor, on 27 June 846, transforming the experience she had had teaching in Brussels into an exploration of a happier teacher–pupil relationship. It had been a time of personal and professional growth, which had furnished her with significant material. It was on 8 February 842 that Charlotte and Emily, accompanied by their father,

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had set out for Brussels. The sisters enrolled at the Pensionnat Heger, 32 rue d’Isabelle, Brussels, initially for six months, but they were subsequently invited to stay on, Charlotte to teach English and Emily music in lieu of fees. The Hegers were impressed by the Brontës’ application and remarkable progress. Charlotte was inspired by Constantin Heger’s innovative teaching of French literature, and by his lessons in composition and literary analysis, which taught her to exercise control over her material and style. She became devoted to this fascinating master, cultured yet choleric, autocratic yet kind. Yet it was to end in disappointment as she became increasingly emotionally dependent upon him, and a marked coolness entered her relations with Madame Heger. Charlotte’s stay in Brussels was terminated by the funeral of her aunt, and she returned home to allieviate her depression through writing. The Professor was the fruit of the experience.

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(Brontë.) GASKELL (E.C.) The life of Charlotte Brontë ... In two volumes. Smith, Elder. 857, FIRST

EDITION , 2 frontispieces, tissue-guards and half-titles present, plate of facsimile manuscript,

pp. viii, 352; viii, 327, 2mo., modern green morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, with gilt wavy line decorated raised bands between gilt rules, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., modern green cloth slipcase, very good (Sanders 90; Wise A Brontë library VI (2); Yablon & Turner 95) £550.00 Mrs. Gaskell was heavily criticised for certain statements in her biography with the result that the text was extensively revised for the third edition.

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Burn (Richard) Ecclesiastical law. In two volumes. H. Woodfall and W. Strahan ... 763-65, FIRST

EDITION , pp.[vi], xxii, [xvi] (subscribers), [ii] (errata), 685; [ii], 784, 4to., contemp. mid-brown

calf, splits at head and foot of joints, slight loss from foot of upper joint to vol.ii, backstrips with raised bands, vol.i with red leather title and blue leather vol. labels worn and chipped, missing from vol.ii, endpaper hinges split but firm, bookplates of David Rochfort (engraved by E. Lyons), £250.00 mod. owner’s signature on upper free endpaper of vol.i, sound Burn was the author of a number of important codifying texts, of which the most important were his Justice of the Peace and the present work. Ecclesiastical Law was the result of exhaustive research, and this, and his judicious selection of materials, resulted in what amounts to a complete treatise on the subject. It went through many editions.

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[Butler (Samuel)] Hudibras, in three parts; written in the time of the late wars: corrected and amended. With large annotations, and a preface by Zachary Grey ... The third edition. 2 vols. C. Bathurst ... 772, engraved portrait frontispiece and 5 plates (5 folding), pp. xxxvi, 424, [ 6]; 446, [24], 8vo., half calf, mid-nineteenth century marbled boards, corners rubbed, ink mark on fore-edge vol.i, later tan backstrips divided by raised bands between blind rules, gilt lettered red morocco labels, marbled endpapers, y.e., good £80.00

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(Byron.) DALLAS (Robert Charles) Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron, from the Year 808 to the end of 8 4; his early Character and Opinions, detailing the Progress of his literary Career, and including various unpublished Passages of his Works. Taken from authentic Documents, in the possession of the Author... To which is prefixed, an Account of the Circumstances leading to the Suppression of Lord Byron’s Correspondence with the Author and his Letters to his Mother, lately announced for Publication. Charles Knight. 824, FIRST EDITION , frontispiece facsimile of Byron’s handwriting, half-title discarded, pp.[x], xcvii, [iii], 344, 8vo., nineteenth century half calf, spine decorated in gilt and blind, green morocco labels, marbled boards, edges and £250.00 endpapers, slightly rubbed, good (Chew pp.209- ; Wise II, p.85) Dallas was distantly related to Byron, and served for a time as a kind of literary agent for the poet.

Byron’s literary executors, Hobhouse and Hanson, had intiially blocked Dallas’s proposed publication of a volume of letters. The present volume, which appeared shortly after Dallas’ death, preserves certain letters of which the originals are lost.

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(Byron.) FINDEN’S ILLUSTRATIONS of the life and works of Lord Byron. With original and selected information on the subjects of the engravings by W. Brockedon ...3 vols. John Murray. 833 834, 3 steel engraved vignette title-pages, frontispiece portrait in vol.iii, and 23 plates of views and portraits, tissue guards, unpaginated, demy 4to., contemp. dark red roan, some slight rubbing to joints, smooth backstrips gilt titled direct within cartouche frame; sides with blind fillet borders, cream chalked endpapers, bookplates neatly removed, red silk markers, a.e.g., £450.00 good (Wise Vol.II, p.97)

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Byron (George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A romaunt. The second edition (see below). 2 vols. London: John Murray. 8 2- 6, FIRST EDITION of cantos three and four, folding plate of Romaic extracts, half-title vol.i [i.e. cantos i and ii] and for canto iii present, not called for in canto iv, inserted advertisements discarded, ‘Ballygarth House’ in ms. at head of B2 in both third and fourth cantos, pp. xii, [ii] (‘errors in the inscription etc.’), 300; [iv], 79, [ ]; xiv, [ii], 257, [ ], 8vo., contemp. purple/brown calf, extremities lightly rubbed, backstrips with gilt ruled raised bands, gilt lettered black leather labels in second and fourth compartments, remainder gilt panelled; sides with gilt and blind fillets border, narrow gilt roll on fore-edges of boards, and on turn-ins, marbled endpapers and edges, very good (Wise Byron pp.52, 54) £400.00 As is not uncommon this is a mixed edition, with the first two cantos (published together) in second edition, and the third and fourth (published separately but here bound together) in first. Almost certainly these volumes have been together from a very early period.

The single leaf ‘Note on the errors in the inscriptions at Orchomenus’ appeared in the second edition of the first and second canto, and is present in this copy. In later editions the information was incorporated in a concluding paragraph to the Appendix. The third canto not unusually has a mixture of Wise’s first, second, and third issue points. The fourth canto conforms to Wise’s first edition, second issue.

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Carroll (Lewis [i.e. C. L. Dodgson]) Symbolic Logic. Part I Elementary [all published].

Second edition. [With the separate card and counters to be used with the book]. Macmillan.

896, half-title, frontispiece showing the working out of a syllogism, title with the publisher’s blindstamp ‘presentation copy’ at the foot, publishers’ catalogue at the end, p. xxxi, 92, [3]: card (measuring 78 x 95 mm.) and 4 circular counters, 8vo., original russet cloth, the title and author’s name in black lettering within double black rules on the upper cover, flat spine, edges lightly rubbed, light soiling: the accompanying card and counters in the original envelope with the title and details printed on one side, the upper and lower edges light stained, and the upper extremity frayed where it stands proud of the book, good (Williams, Madan & Green 270a and 27 ) £1,000.00 Dodgson attached ‘special value’ to Symbolic Logic ( Letters ) because he hoped it would lead to clearer judgements and, and, at the time, there was considerable vogue for the book. With it were issued a card, a pamphlet and nine counters, four red/pink and five grey. It is remarkable that in this case there is actually an excess: seven pink and seven grey counters. The bibliography (op.cit) describes all the latter as rare. It seems in fact that the accompanying pamphlet of eight pages (not present) is even rarer, possibly because it was so slight.

Originally intended to consist of three parts, Symbolic Logic , in which Dodgson sought to popularize Formal Logic and accuracy, was only published in Part I. The second edition has some corrections and a new Preface dated May 896.

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(Carroll. Playing Cards.) THE NEW AND DIVERTING GAME of “Alice in Wonderland”. consisting of forty-eight pictorial cards, depicting the most famous characters and scenes ... Adapted, drawn in fac-simile, and elaborately rendered in colours, from Sir John Tenniel’s original designs by Miss E. Gertrude Thomson. Thomas de la Rue. [n.d.], includes printed title-card and 2 advertising

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cards, the colour lithographed playing cards printed on glazed card, with rounded edges, 62x90mm., in orig. white card inner sleeve, within red printed and colour lithographed outer slipcase, short splits at corners of opening, good £200.00 E. Gertrude Thomson, of course, redrew and coloured Tenniel’s illustrations for The Nursery ‘Alice’ published in 889. This pack of cards is not mentioned in Madan, and is difficult to date. We think it likely that it was produced after the date of first publication of The Nursery ‘Alice’ but before the end of Victoria’s reign since De La Rue bill themselves as ‘Manufacturers to Her Majesty’ on the side of the box.

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(Chapbook. Banbury.) THE RENOWNED HISTORY of Dame Trot and her cat. Banbury: J.G. Rusher. [c. 830], title on outer leaf, with small woodcut, full page wood cut on lower side, 9 other woodcuts, folded but uncut, browned, pp. 6, (60x90mm.), without wrappers as issued, title on upper side, good £60.00

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(Chapbook. York.) HISTORY OF SAM , the Sportsman, and his Gun, also, of his wife Joan.

Embellished with woodcuts. J. Kendrew. [c. 825], woodcuts, pp. 6 (inc. wrappers), 6mo., printed yellow wrappers, very good £65.00

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Chapman (George) A treatise on education. In two parts. With the author’s method of instruction while he taught the School of Dumfries. And a view of other books on education.

The fourth edition, considerably enlarged. Printed for the author ... 790, half-title present, pp. xii, 242, 37, 8vo., modern mottled qtr. calf, backstrip with raised bands between gilt rolls, gilt lettered dark red leather label, marbled boards using old paper, vellum tips, red sprinkled edges, very good (Alston X, 267; see also Craigie p.95) £240.00 ‘Education,’ Chapman writes, ‘is acknowledged to have a powerful influence on human happiness.

Yet the methods which are generally pursued in conducting it, need to be reformed, or may be improved. To promote this important purpose is the chief design of the following sheets.’ He was joint master, and eventually headmaster, of the grammar school at Dumfries, for over twenty years until 774. He wrote on both professional and practical matters – school management, qualifications and duties of teachers, salaries, the education of women, methods in various subjects, discipline, physical exercise, and included ‘The Author’s Method of Instruction while he Taught the Grammar-School of Dumfries’.

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(Chaucer.) GODWIN (William) The life of Geoffrey Chaucer ... including memoirs of his near friend and kinsman John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: with sketches of the manners, opinions, arts and literature of England in the fourteenth century. In two volumes. Richard Phillips. 803, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, engraved portrait frontispiece in each vol., unexceptionable foxing, pp. xxxvi, 489, [2] (blank), [ ] (corrections); vii, [i], 642, [32], 4to., contemp. polished dark blue morocco, smooth backstrips divided into compartments by triple gilt fillets, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, triple gilt fillet border on sides, open twist roll on board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Sir Thomas Hesketh of Rufford Hall, press label of Easton Neston Library, dark green silk markers, a.e.g., very good £500.00

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(Church of England. Books of Homilies.) Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches in the time of Queen Elizabeth of Famous Memory: and now thought fit to be Reprinted by Authority from the Kings most Excellent Majesty. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre;

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and are to be sold by Thomas Guy. 683, a couple of tiny wormholes in lower inner corner of first half (not affecting legibility), a touch of spotting and dustsoiling elsewhere, pp. [vi], 90, 95-388, [4], folio, early sprinkled calf, boards with a blind triple fillet frame with cornerpieces, rebacked, corners renewed, new endpapers, backstrip with six raised bands between double blind fillets, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, old leather a bit scratched, the remains of a library £150.00 sticker to front pastedown and recto of initial blank, good ( ESTC R27838) One of the numerous 683 issues of the Elizabethan homilies, initially published in the sixteenth century and first collected in one volume in 623. The jump in pagination happens over the break between the two original books, and pages ‘9 ’-‘94’ might have contained a sectional title & table of contents as in the 623 edition – however, as the gap matches the copies collated for the ESTC (see ESTC R23 439 for a query on this matter) and filmed for EEBO , it seems likely that in this edition those pages were either meant to be cancelled or were never printed. The last four pages contain the 39 Articles.

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Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Dialogo di M. Tullio Cicerone d’intorno alle partitioni oratorie: con la spositione di M. Rocco Cataneo. Venice: per Curtio Troiano de i Navo. 545, FIRST EDITION , a little light spotting, occasional marginal annotations (some lightly washed), ff. 0 , [ ], 2mo., seventeenth-century dark blue morocco, boards with a thick gilt-rolled frame, backstrip with five raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest with large gilt fleurs-de-lys, just a tiny bit rubbed on joints, three-colour floral endpapers, bookplate of the Earl of Lisburne to front pastedown, very good (Adams C 72 ; CNCE 2263) £600.00 The first translation into Italian of Cicero’s ‘De Partitionibus Oratoriae’, a dialogue concerning the divisions between types of oratory and rhetoric. The translation is by Rocco Cataneo, then canon of Pula and an inquisitional auditor. A second edition of this translation would appear in 547. The bookplate is of Wilmot Vaughan, Earl of Lisburne in the Peerage of Ireland, probably the first earl ( 730- 800), who held more than one parliamentary seat and was for twelve years a Lord of the Admiralty, rather than his son of the same name ( 755- 820).

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Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Familiarium epistolarum Libri XVI . Cum Hubertini Crescentinatis, Martini Philetici [et al.] Venice: apud Haeredes Ioannis Mariae Bonelli. 575, large woodcut device to title, title and following leaf spotted and creased with lower (blank) margin of title torn, early ink signature, occasional early ink marginalia, some spotting, stitching strained after first gathering with one leaf loosening, ff. [iv], 257, folio, early 20th-century boards covered in Japon vellum paper, backstrip titled in ink, the covering paper cracked at joint ends and along upper joint (with some loss), sound ( CNCE 2434) £250.00 This is a rare edition outside Italy: EDIT 6 lists 9 libraries in Italy holding copies of this edition, but it does not appear in Adams or Schweiger, and we have not been able to locate any copies in COPAC or Worldcat. The same printer had produced another edition in 556-7, which we have been able to trace only in one copy in the UK (National Library of Scotland) and four further copies outside Italy (three in Germany, one in the USA ).

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Cicero (Marcus Tullius) On the Complete Orator, in three Books or Dialogues, inscribed to his brother Quintus, Translated into English, with Notes and Illustrations. By George Barnes, barrister of the Inner Temple. Printed for the Author. 762, FIRST EDITION , errata leaf discarded, lightly toned and offset in places, pp. 497, [ ], 8vo., contemp. sprinked calf, boards with double gilt fillet border, backstrip with five gilt-ruled raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest plain, a touch scuffed at extremities, hinges cracking, good ( ESTC T 38386; Schweiger I 230) £350.00 ‘Mr. Barnes’s version was made with great care, and, though less known than Guthrie’s, was far superior to it’ (J.S. Watson, Cicero on Oratory and Orators , 89 ).

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(Cicero.) MIDDLETON (Conyers) The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero. In two volumes.

Dublin: Printed for John Smith, and Abraham Bradley. 74 , FIRST DUBLIN EDITION , a few minor spots, ownership inscription of Thomas Taylor ( 756) to titles, pp. xliii, 548, [24]; 664, 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, backstrips with five raised bands, red morocco labels in second compartments, the rest plain, a little rubbed, Taylor’s descendant’s armorial bookplates (as Marquess of Headfort) to pastedowns, very good ( ESTC T 25499) £450.00 The controversialist Conyers Middleton was a fellow of Trinity College and an opponent of Bentley; his Life of Cicero, financed by Thomas Townshend, proved enormously popular and brought him considerable emolument. This Dublin edition appeared in the same year as the first, London edition.

Thomas Taylor ( 724- 795), st Earl of Bective, was a founding member of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick. His son, Thomas Taylour ( 757- 829), was created Marquess of Headfort in 800.

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(Cicero.) MIDDLETON (Conyers) The Life of M. Tullius Cicero. ... In two volumes. For J. Cuthell, J.Nunn; Longman, Hurst, Rees [etc.]. 824, engraved frontispiece portrait, pp. xiii, [i], 484; [ii], 534, [22], 8vo., contemp. green straight-grain morocco, the backstrips panelled in gilt and blind with black morocco title and numeral labels with gilt lettering, divided by foliate borders and with gilt cyphers in the lowest compartments, the sides with central gilt wreath enclosing the name ‘Blackheath Proprietary School’, an image of the School and the motto beneath and outer gilt fillet borders, the backstrips slightly sunned, very good £280.00 An attractive copy of this popular life of Cicero. The decoration on the binding relates to the Blackheath Proprietary School, which was established in 83 to provide education to the sons of Blackheath’s new residents, who arrived during the expansion of the 820s.

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Cipriani (Giovanni Battista) Scelta di ornati antichi e moderni. Rome: Con Permesso. 80 , engraved title and each leaf an engraving, foxed (mostly lightly), first and last leaves spotted, ff.

[62], 4to., modern half mottled calf with marbled boards, backstrip with four gilt-rolled raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, good £350.00 Giovanni Battista Cipriani ( 766- 839) was a Sienese architect and engraver; this book contains engravings of a wide variety of decorative borders, each one both shaded and in outline. This Cipriani is not the painter and draughstman of the same name who was active in London in the second half of the 8th century.

COPAC and Worldcat appear to list two separate versions, one measuring 3 cm. with ‘ XXX’ plates and the other measuring 27 cm. with 62 unnumbered plates; this latter version is recorded only in four libraries in the USA (Huntington, Columbia, NYU, and Redwood) and none in the UK .

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Educational reform writ large Clarke (John) An Essay upon the Education of Youth in Grammar-Schools. In which the vulgar method of Teaching is examined, and a new one proposed, for the more easy and speedy training up of youth to the knowledge of the learned Languages; together with History, Chronology, Geography, &c. John Wyat. 720, FIRST EDITION , signed ‘Edward Filmer’ with a note of that the book cost ‘Is 3d’, and with a contemp. manuscript index covering both sides of the front free endpaper and marginal notes to the text, fore-edge of endpaper a little chipped, pp. 32, 2mo., contemp. sheep, neatly and skillfully repaired, good ( ESTC T65380) £1,200.00 An outspoken critic of the traditional style of teaching classics, Clarke argued that it appeared to be ‘contrived in opposition to all the rules of good method’ so as ‘to render the learning of the languages more tedious than it needs to be.’ He particularly cited the drudgery of elementary memorization of rules and the absence of adequate English translations as flaws which led to the waste of ‘three of the four first years boys spend at school’. His new method was designed to teach the classics more efficiently, in order to allow time for studying new or additional subjects, such as history, geography, and chronology ( ODNB ). This was Clarke’s first serious English work on education (having done two

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classical translations previously), published in the same year as his appointment as headmaster to Hull Grammar School. He was to undertake an ambitious survey of the education shortcomings of the system and advocated what were seen as novel teaching methods.

The signature of Edward Filmer is intriguing. There has been some discussion as to when the dramatist of that name died. But it now appears certain that he lived until 703. It is most likely that the owner of this copy was his son, who served in the War of Spanish Succession. It is very clear that the annotator of the work had both read the text very closely and thoroughly and used it for regularly for educational purposes.

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Claudianus (Claudius) Opera. [Edited by Thaddaeus Ugoletus.] Venice: Joannes Tacuinus de Tridino. 495, 40 lines, Roman type, 5-line woodcut initials, woodcut printer’s device on last leaf, a little light soiling in places, last gathering with a faint dampmark, a short, neatly repaired wormtrail in blank margin of 0 leaves, several early corrections and annotations, inscription lightly washed from first leaf, ff. [ 28], 4to., late 8th-century vellum boards, backstrip with five raised bands, orange morocco label in second compartment, the remains of a small sticker in top compartment and of a bookplate to front pastedown, just a little dust-soiled, very good ( BMC V 529; Goff C703; GW 706 ; HC 5372) £4,000.00 The third printed edition of the works of Claudian, and the second to be edited by Thaddaeus Ugoletus [Taddeo Ugoletti], following the editio princeps (albeit without the epigrams) of 482 and the first Ugoletti edition of 493. This is largely a reprint of that 493 Parma edition, which Moss calls ‘rare, and...more intrinsically valuable than the Ed. Pr.’; it would be reprinted again in 500. It is recorded (in Dibdin and elsewhere) that Ugoletti meant to expand the text with the works of another Claudian, an early Christian author of epigrams, but was called away from this project by his appointment as Royal Librarian to the Raven King, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. However, he did have time to improve on the editio princeps , which had printed the text of a single source, by collating several additional manuscripts, including one of notable antiquity which, he reports, was sent to him from Germany.

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Clery (M.) A journal of occurrences at the Temple, during the confinement of Louis XVI, King of France ... Translated from the original manuscript by R.C. Dallas, Esq.... Printed by Baylis ... and sold by the Author. 798, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION , the plate and plan present, half-title, foxed, pp. [iv], 255, [ ], 8vo., contemp. half dark blue roan, extremities rubbed, smooth backstrip divided into compartments by gilt Greek key roll between narrow rope rolls, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, small ornament in centre of remainder, drab boards, joints a little rubbed, endpapers lightly foxed, circular armorial bookplate [of Hicks-Beach?], pencilled signature of Roger Senhouse, sound £120.00

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Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) The Friend: a Series of Essays, in three volumes. To aid in the Formation of fixed Principles in Politics, Morals and Religion, with literary Amusements interspersed. New [i.e. Second] edition. Rest Fenner. 8 8, half-titles, inscribed ‘From my beloved Caroline, June 5, 837’ on the endpaper in vol. , spotting to a few leaves in vol.3, pp. ix, [iii], 356; [iv], 336; [iv], 375, 8vo., later nineteenth century polished calf, double gilt fillet borders on sides, spines gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, by Clarke and Bedford, bookplate of Catherine Nicholson, fine £400.00 ‘This edition ... differs so greatly from the first and contains moreover so large a quantity of new matter, that it may fairly lay claim to rank as a Coleridge Princeps’ (Wise, Two Lake Poets , p. 72). Originally published in 28 issues, including some important contributions by Wordsworth, this new edition, six years later, saw further changes and significant additions by Coleridge.

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Roman Law Colombet (Claude) Clarissimi viri Cl. Colombet Juris-Consulti et in Principe Galliarum Senatoris in quinquaginta libros Pandectarum seu Digestorum Paratitla. Editio nova prioribus emendatior & auctior. Paris: Apud Viduam Joannis Pocquet. 682, additional engraved title by J. Jollain after J. Pocquet, inkstain to upper margin, ink initials on dedication leaf and small ink spots on printed title, pp. [xlii], 520, 2mo., contemp. sprinkled calf, spine panelled in gilt with five raised bands, the head and foot of the spine rubbed with the headbands exposed, nick to lower joint, the edges slightly rubbed, sound £180.00 A highly rated summary of the Digest and Justinian’s Code, which condenses into short axioms and gives good, clear definitions.

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A significant contribution by the consumate journalist and feminist Harriet Martineau Comte (Auguste) The positive philosophy of Auguste Comte. Freely translated and condensed

by Harriet Martineau. In two volumes. John Chapman. 853, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH , half-titles discarded, pp. xxxvi, 480; xvi, 56 [ ], 8vo., contemp. half calf, backstrips panelled in gilt, green and tan morocco labels with gilt lettering, marbled edges and endpapers, backstrips sunned, good (cf. PMM 295) £400.00 Martineau saw Comte’s philiosophy as a ‘guide to the right mode of thought for the nineteenth century’. His mode of thought had begun to attract attention in England in the early 850’s. Harriet Martineau received a gift of £500 from a gentleman in Norfolk to attempt a translation (£300 was used to defray the cost of publication), and she further agreed to divide all profits from the book with the publisher Chapman. The result was one of her most important books. Comte himself was very pleased with the way his work had been abridged, and he placed it among the books to be read by his disciples, in place of his original version.

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‘The earliest manual of Household Management’ (Cookery.) RUNDELL (Maria Eliza) A New System of Domestic Cookery: founded upon Principles of Economy; and adapted to the Use of Private Families. ... Augmented and improved by the Addition of more than nine hundred new Recipts, suited to the present State of the Art of Cookery by Miss Emma Roberts. John Murray. 845, engraved frontispiece showing a kitchen

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and provender and 9 plates, corners of frontispiece touched by damp, one gathering loose, pp. xliv, 57 , 8vo., orig. dark green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt title to the front cover, inner hinges cracking, yellow endpapers, sound £70.00 ‘Mrs Rundell began collecting recipes and household tips for her daughters. She sent the manuscript to the publisher John Murray, of whose family she was an old friend, and it was published in 806 under the title of Domestic Cookery. The book had an immediate success, 5,000- 0,000 copies were printed annually, and succeeding editions were enlarged and embellished by engravings. It became one of Murray’s most valuable properties and in 8 2, when he bought the lease of his premises in Albemarle Street, the copyright of Domestic Cookery formed part of the surety. As the earliest manual of household management with any pretensions to completeness, it called forth many imitations’ ( ODNB ).

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(Cornwall.) VIVIAN (John Lambrick), editor. The Visitations of Cornwall, comprising the Heralds’ Visitations of 530, 573 & 620. Exeter: William Pollard. 887, a few foxmarks at the beginning, pp. iv, [ii], 672, thick 4to., contemp. plum pebble-grain half roan, the backstrip panelled and decorated in gilt, with gilt lettering, marbled edges and endpapers, good £250.00 Comprises extensive pedigrees from the Heralds’ Visitations reproduced from drafts in the Harleian Collection preserved by the British Museum, the College of Arms, etc.

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Cowper (William) Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq., New edition, in two volumes. Printed for J. Johnson. 800, with the manuscript signature of Margaret Maugham on the titles and the front free endpaper of vol. 2 (dated 824), minor and uniform browning to a few leaves at the end of vol.2, pp. x, [2], 332; iv, [4], 364, cr. 8vo., contemp. mottled calf, the sides with later gilt panels and central medallion-shapes of tree calf, the spines gilt in six panels with central gilt lyres and morocco labels, bookplate, good £120.00

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Crabbe (George) Tales. J. Hatchard. 8 2, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the half-title ‘The very Reverend The Dean of Lincoln with Respects from the Author’, also signed on the front free endpaper ‘Isabella Staunton 848’, pp. [xxiv], 398, [2], (publishers’ catalogue), 8vo., contemp. mottled calf, binder’s ticket of Johnston, Lincoln, neatly rebacked, backstrip with five flat bands with gilt Greek-key-style rolls, black morocco label in second compartment, the rest with central blind tools, corners neatly restored, marbled endpapers, hinges neatly relined, very good £400.00 Crabbe, although trained in medicine, had decided to take up writing seriously. In 780, he went to London, where he had little success, but eventually made an impression on Edmund Burke, who helped him have his poem, ‘The Library’, published in 78 . In the meantime, Crabbe’s religious nature had made itself felt, and he was ordained a clergyman and became chaplain to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire. In 8 4, he became Rector of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, where he remained. By the time of his death, he was well-regarded and a friend of William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott and other major literary figures of the time.

This copy was presented to the Dean of Lincoln, almost certainly George Gordon, who held that position between 8 0 and his death in 845. The Gentleman’s Magazine records that the ‘Dean was distinguished all his life by a zealous and careful preservation of things as they were’ ( 847, no. xxiv, pp.3 7-8).

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Crabbe (George) Tales of the Hall John Murray. 8 9, FIRST EDITION , half-titles discarded, ownership signature of A. Webb and initials ‘P. W.’ on the front free endpaper, pp. iii-xxiv, 326; iii-viii, 353, [2], (publisher’s advert), 8vo., contemp. polished calf, backstrips with darker banding, panels in gilt, central gilt palmettes,and gilt lettering, the sides with triple gilt fillet and blind borders, gauffered edges, upper joint of vol. i just starting to crack but still strong, ex libris of R. W. Chapman, good £180.00

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After rather a checkered career in other fields Crabbe’s poetry found a distinct audience. John Murray became Crabbe’s publisher and on 8 December 8 8 Murray agreed to pay Crabbe £3,000 for all of his copyrights and his new manuscript Tales of the Hall, published on 3 July 8 9. These twenty-two tales are organized around the frame device of two brothers reunited at the hall of the elder brother after many years of separation. They act as the narrators throughout a poignant collection of poems dealing with love and marriage among characters drawn from the gentry. A new element in the development of Crabbe’s verse tales is the interaction between George and Richard, the two narrators, and the situations and characters in the poems, causing the brothers to gain insight into each other and themselves. Crabbe became a member of the Literary Society in 8 9 and was admitted to the Athenaeum in 824 ( ODNB ).

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(Crimea.) MILNER (The Rev. Thomas) The Crimea, its ancient and modern history: the Khans, the Sultans, and the Czars. With notes of its scenery and population. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 855, 3 folding engraved maps, inscription on the front free endpaper to Henry Kirby on his leaving Eton, pp. xiv, [ii], 368, 8vo., contemp. polished calf, the backstrip panelled in gilt and with black morocco label with gilt lettering, gilt fillet borders on sides, marbled edges and endpapers, good £100.00 The Crimean War is sometimes considered to be the first ‘modern’ conflict and introduced technical changes which affected the future course of warfare.

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Curtius Rufus (Quintus) De’ Fatti D’Alessandro Magno, Re de’ Macedoni. [Translated by Tomaso Porcacchi.] In Vinegia [Venice]: Appresso Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari. 559, the second issue, with ‘MDLVIIII’ on title and ‘MDLVIII’ in colophon, large woodcut device to title and colophon, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, several old ink marginal figures, a few spots of light foxing, two wormholes to bottom of first four leaves (affecting imprint date on title), blank lower corner of A8, E4, and L6 torn, pp. [lxxii], 249, [3], 8vo., late nineteenth-cent. qtr. green roan, marbled boards, vellum tips, backstrip divided by a quadruple gilt fillet, second compartment lettered direct, bookplates of Alexander scholar & collector Julio Berzunza and the Florentine publishing house Leo S. Olschki, 9th-cent. ink ownership note and catalogue entry pasted to free endpaper, slightly rubbed, paper board edges worn, good ( CNCE 3886; Schweiger II 329) £950.00 The second translation of Curtius Rufus’s history of Alexander the Great into Italian, and the first to be based on an edited, printed text. Tomaso Porcacchi (d. 585) most likely worked from a 545 Basel edition of the text – which survives only imperfectly – thus benefitting from the efforts of at least half a dozen editors since the editio princeps. See the article by Julio Berzunza (who likely worked from this, his own copy) ‘Preliminary Notes on the Three Italian Versions of Quintus Curtius Rufus’ Historiae Alexandri Magni’, Italica , vol. 8 no. 3 (Sept. 94 ), which concludes: ‘As a working edition of Quintus Curtius in a modern language, we feel safe in stating that Porcacchi’s Fatti d’Alessandro Magno has not yet been superseded by any other version.’

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Curtius Rufus (Quintus) De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni libri decem. Paris: Typis J. Barbou.

757, engraved frontispiece, three further quarter-page engraved illustrations, woodcut title vignette and head- and tail-pieces, a few minor spots, pp. xv, 557, [3], 2mo., contemp. marbled calf, boards with a triple gilt fillet border, backstrip panelled with a double gilt filet, red morocco label in second compartment, central and corner floral stamps to others, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., a little rubbed at extremities, one small spot of wear to head of spine, good (Schweiger II 324) £120.00 From Barbou’s elegant, Elzevir-imitating series of classics. The supplement of Johann Freinsheim, an attempt to recreate the non-extant books, is included.

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Darwin (Charles) The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are fertilised by Insects. Second Edition Revised. Fourth Thousand. John Murray. 885, first and last two leaves lightly foxed, newspaper clipping pasted to initial blank, one leaf of contents from The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants accidentally bound in after prelims, pp. xvi, [2] (extra leaf), 300, 32 (ads.), 8vo., orig. leaf-green cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt on the backstrip, bookplate of Thomas R. Taylor, near fine (Freeman 806) £400.00 ‘The first of the volumes of supporting evidence’ for natural selection, ‘much praised by botanists’ (Freeman). The second edition contains additional material produced for the French translation.

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De Lolme (Jean Louis) The Constitution of England; or, an account of the English Government; in which it is compared both with the Republican form of Government, and the other monarchies in Europe.

A New Edition. Printed for Baldwn and Co. 8 7, engraved frontispiece portrait (foxed), a few spots elsewhere, ownership inscription of John Gladstone to title and gift inscription to him (from A.M.G. , Dec. 24th, 823) on initial blank, pp. xxii, 525, [ 9], 8vo., contemp. calf, backstrip with five raised bands, tan morocco label in second compartment, the rest with central rosette tools, boards with a double border of decorative blind rolls, marbled edges and endpapers, joints rubbed, spine slightly darkened, a little scuffing at extremities, Fasque bookplate, good £100.00 The classic study by Swiss-born Jean-Louis de Lolme, sometimes called ‘The English Montesquieu’.

It was first published in 77 , in the Netherlands, in French, and various complications delayed the English translation for several years. It nonetheless proved very popular, reaching a fourth edition by 784 and unspecified further ‘new editions’ by 807. This is Sir John Gladstone’s copy, given to him most likely as a Christmas present by his wife, Anne Mackenzie Gladstone, in 823. At the time they were living in Seaforth House, which Gladstone had built in 8 3, and when the family moved in 833 the volume joined the library at Fasque House, where William Ewart frequently stayed until his father’s death.

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De Tocqueville (Alexis) Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve. Second edition. In two volumes. Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. 836, coloured folding frontispiece map in vol. i (short closed tear and old reinforcement at top of mount), light foxing to first and last leaves, vol. ii half-title dampmarked and title lightly soiled, otherwise very clean, pp. xliv, 333; viii, 462, 8vo., modern half chocolate calf with yellow marbled boards, backstrips with five blind-milled raised bands between gilt fillets, black morocco labels in second compartments, fourth gilt-lettered direct, the rest plain, very good £700.00 De Tocqueville wrote this, his most famous work, after a trip to America to study the prison system.

He did write his penal report, but his nine months of travel also gave him the material for this wideranging and classic analysis of the success of representative democracy in America.

The first part of Democracy in America , which deals with the civil changes wrought by democracy, was first published in French in 835, and almost immediately translated into English by Henry Reeve. This second English edition followed in 836, with the first American printing coming two years later. In 840 De Tocqueville published a second part which was similarly speedily translated; it focused on the political changes, and De Tocqueville thought of it as the complement to this first part. Nonetheless, the early editions of the two parts have distinctly separate publication histories.

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De Vise (Paul) Depositio Cornuti ... [William Blades. 885], ONE OF 50 COPIES , facsimile plate mounted on preliminary blank, light foxing and dustsoiling, pp. [ 8], 4to., orig. marbled wrappers, printed label on front wrapper, bound complete into contemp. qtr. vellum, soiled,

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horizontally gilt lettered direct on spine, marbled boards, endpapers browned, bookplate of William Blyth Gerish, roughtrimmed, good £115.00 ‘The following pages which are a literal transcript from a unique copy in the Royal Library, Berlin, were originally intended to form part of a book upon the “Deposito Cornuti Typographici,” just published

by Trübner & Co.’ (Preamble).

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[Defoe (Daniel)] The Whole Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. [Two volumes.] Printed at the Logographic Press. 785, engraved frontispieces, a little minor spotting, pp. [iv], 485; [iv], 452, 8vo., contemp. biscuit calf, smooth backstrip divided by gilt fillets, red morocco label in second compartments, green gilt-tooled morocco labels in fifth, a few marks on boards, vol. ii headcap rubbed, booklabels of Herbert R. Cooper, very good ( ESTC T72288) £950.00 An unusual and surprisingly uncommon edition of Robinson Crusoe, in an attractive contemporary binding. ESTC lists copies in only four places: two academic libraries (the British Library & the Bodleian) and two institutions (the Soane Museum & the St Bride’s Printing Library).

The Logographic Press was founded in 784 by John Walter, who hoped to apply an idea used for printing lottery blanks to the production of books – in essence, founts were produced of entire words, instead of single letters, with the goal of speeding composition and reducing errors. One of his first projects was a newspaper, the Daily Universal Register, which in 789 adopted its current name, The Times. By 792 the ‘logographic’ idea appears to have been dropped, but before then the press had produced a number of books, including this one, as well as pamphlets and official customs office publications.

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Locke’s intimate friend Denham (John) Coopers Hill. Written in the yeare 640. Now printed from a perfect Copy; and a corrected Impression. For Humphrey Moseley. 655, FIRST AUTHORIZED EDITION , James Tyrell’s copy, signed on the original blank leaf at the end and with his annotations, minor paper flaw to the margin of the title, pp. [iv], 8, small 4to., modern pebble grain dark blue morocco and pebblegrain cloth boards, the backstrip lettered vertically in gilt, fine (Wing D996; Hayward 07; £4,500.00 Grolier 257; ESTC R29709) This poem has long been celebrated as the first specimen of topographical verse and the origin of a genre highly popular for two centuries to follow. Denham’s innovation was much admired by such writers as Herrick, Dryden, Pope, and Johnson.

‘Coopers Hill’ was first printed in 642, with further printings in 642, 650 and 653; these are all traditionally termed piracies, and at the very least they present a text which was later much altered. According to Spence, Pope compared the early and late versions, and was much impressed by the ‘admirable judgement’ of Denham’s revisions. Dryden singled out the famous apostrophe to the Thames, which is printed for the first time.

This is a particularly interesting copy, signed at the end: ‘ex libris Jacobi Tyrrell. A.D. 662’.Tyrrell was at the time a student of twenty at Queen’s College, Oxford, where he received his MA in the following year. Tyrrell was one of the closest friends of the philosopher John Locke. They met at Oxford in 658.

Sixty-seven letters between them survive, from 677 to 704; in these, Tyrrell took the nickname Musidore and Locke Carmelin. Tyrrell went on to become a historian of note. His fine library remained intact at the family home, Shotover House, until 855. He has made a fair number of significant notes

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to this copy, including some original emendations, a few textual changes apparently based on the collected edition of 668, and a number of general comments and identifications. There are also a few notes in the same vein in another hand.

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Dickens (Charles) Dombey and Son. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. Bradbury and Evans, , Bouverie Street. 848, FIRST EDITION , bound from the parts, with ‘Capatin’ on p. 324 and ‘if’ omitted on p. 426 (but p. 43 number present), half-title discarded, the 8-line errata leaf bound after other prelims, 40 plates by ‘Phiz’ (8 are the second-issue lithographs), some spotting in text and offsetting from plates, plate paper foxed, two leaves with blank corners chipped, pp. [v]-xvi, [2], 624, 8vo., orig. blind-stamped fine-diaper olive-green cloth (matching Smith’s variant), stabholes visible, scuffed and a bit cocked, backstrip lightly sunned, ends bumped, corners slightly worn, front hinge strained, bookplate of Arthur Stephen Moriarty, sound (Smith I 8; Eckel p. 74; Gimbel A 02-3) £650.00 An unsophisticated copy of the first edition, bound from the parts in the publisher’s cloth. Eckel reports that intense demand required Phiz to re-etch the plates as more durable but less fine lithographs as time went on, though this started early enough that some of these new plates made it into the first edition parts; in this copy 8 plates are the later lithograph impressions (not including the famous first published example of a ‘dark plate’ at p. 547, here still the first issue). However, the majority of Smith’s listed text errors are present.

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Dickens (Charles) Dombey and Son. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. Bradbury and Evans, , Bouverie Street. 848, FIRST EDITION , bound from the parts, with ‘Captain’ on p. 324 but with ‘if’ omitted on p.426 (p. 43 number present), half-title discarded, the rarer 2-line errata leaf and 2-line errata slip present, 40 plates by Phiz (no more than 0 being the second-issue lithographs), small stain to edges of a few leaves, clean tear in p. 39- 40, pp. [v]-xvi, 624, 8vo., contemp. half calf, backstrip ruled in gilt, green morocco label with gilt lettering, marbled sides, buff endpapers, one or two scuffmarks, slightly rubbed, corners knocked, good (Eckel pp.74-76; Gimbel A 02-3) £350.00 The plates in this copy are remarkably free of the usual foxing.

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An immensely well-respected lawyer Doddridge (John) The English Lawyer. Describing a Method for the managing of the Lawes of this Land. And expressing the best qulaities requisite in the Student Practizer Judges and Fathers of the same. [Printed by Miles Flesher for] the Assignes of I. Moore. 63 , FIRST EDITION , a few contemp. manuscript notes on the front pastedown, pp. [viii], 27 , [ ], small 4to., contemp. sheep, neatly rebacked, the backstrip with four raised bands, the covers with blind central arms comprising a large and four smaller crosses, rubbed, the surface a little crackled, corners neatly repaired, good ( STC 698 ; ESTC S 09764) £1,500.00 Doddridge ( 555- 628) was an eminent judge and as the ODNB points out immensely well respected: ‘He was known as the “Sleeping Judge,” not because of any shortcoming on his part, but because of his habit of concentrating on legal argument with eyes firmly closed. Recommending him for appointment as a serjeant-at-law in 603, Cecil described him as “a very great learned man” and about the same time Francis Bacon is said to have described him as “shooting a fair arrow”. Doddridge got to the heart of matters very quickly, and his arguments – as advocate, as judge, and as parliamentarian – had a compelling lucidity. His writings show the same quality: his reading on advowsons, published in 630 as The Compleat Parson, is marked by its clarity of structure; and The English Lawyer is a worthy attempt to impose some order on the depressingly haphazard common law of his day.’

Doddridge graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 577, and worked his way from Middle Temple to the Bar, and Solicitor General in 604, preceding Francis Bacon in that post. His scholarship reached far beyond that of most contemporary lawyers and the above is remarkable for its many references to civilian works; nor was his learning limited to the law. ‘He was a member of the fledgeling

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Society of Antiquaries – tradition has him as one of its founders – and he is known to have given papers to it on a variety of subjects’ ( ODNB ). He was interested too in the early settling of the American colonies, serving as a member of the king’s council for Virginia in 606.

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Indispensable to students of history and literature of the Middle Ages Du Cange (Charles Du Fresne) Glossarium ad scriptores mediæ et infimæ Latinitatis, in quo latina vocabula novatæ significationis, aut usus rarioris, barbara & exotica explicantur ... E libris editis, ineditis, alliisque monumentis cùm publicis, tum privatis. 3 vols. Paris: Typis Gabrielis Martini, Prostat apud L. Billaine, Bibliopolam Parisiensem. 678, FIRST EDITION , frontispiece engravings, half-titles on letterpress, engraved additional title-page (in vol.i), letterpress woodcut vignettes on title-pages, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, marginal notes (in the præfatorio), main text printed in double columns, seventeen copper-plate engravings in vols. ii & iii, pp.

[8], lxxUj [i.e.lxxvi], lxxviij-cxcviij (in columns), [ ], ( - 0 2), ( 3- 20), ( 02 - 372) (in columns); [4], ( -808) (in columns); [4] , ( - 560) (in columns) [iv], ( -72), folio, near contemp. dark speckled calf, backstrips divided into seven compartments by gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third, remainder with gilt floral device in centre and gilt volute cornerpieces surrounded by double gilt fillet borders, gilt fillet roll on board edges, corners lightly bumped, joints gently rubbed, mod. bookplate of Richard & Rachel Fletcher, red speckled edges, good (Brunet II 85 ; Ebert 7908; Graesse II 439) £750.00 Charles du Fresne du Cange ( 6 0- 688) was a distinguished linguist of that group of great 7th Century French critics and scholars who ultimately laid the foundations of modern historical criticism.

The present work is a glossarium of medieval Latin and become Du Cange’s most famous publication along with its companion work on Greek: Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae graecitatis (Lyon, 688). Three supplementary volumes were added by the Benedictines of St. Maur (Paris, 733 736), plus a further addition of four volumes by the Benedictine Pierre Carpentier (Paris, 766). In his History of Classical Scholarship from 300- 850 (Oxford, 976), Rudolf Pfeiffer comments that ‘these dictionaries, which were anything but mechanical productions, were reprinted and supplemenmted through three centuries and are still unsurpassed.’ The work offered for sale here, issued during Du Cange’s own lifetime, is the first issue in a long line of successful editions of the book. Brunet said of the work: ‘livre très-recherché, et devenu peu commun.’

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(Economics.) KEYNES (John Maynard) A Revision of the Treaty being a sequel to the economic consequences of the Peace. Macmillan, 922, FIRST EDITION , endpapers browned as usual, pp. viii, 223, [ ], 6, 8vo., orig. dark blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, head and tailcap rubbed with small tear at the head of and split to the front joint, sound £110.00 (Economics.) KEYNES (John Maynard) A Tract on Monetary Reform. Macmillan and Co. 923,

FIRST EDITION , pp. viii, 209, [3], cr. 8vo., orig. blue cloth, slightly darkened backstrip gilt-lettered

and banded, a little rubbed at extremities, two ownership inscriptions on front pastedown, triangular label residue on rear pastedown, good £300.00

Keynes’ first significant original contribution to the field of economics, arguing ‘for a managed currency in place of the gold standard, which he dismissed as “a barbarous relic”’ ( ODNB ).

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(Economics.) KEYNES (John Maynard) A Treatise on Money. In two volumes. Macmillan and Co. 930, FIRST EDITION , pp. xvii, 363; viii, 424, cr. 8vo., orig. blue cloth, backstrips gilt lettered and banded (somewhat bruised at head and tail), both vols. slightly cocked, a touch rubbed at extremities, small ink ownership inscription on front pastedowns, vol. ii backstrip and part of front board lightly sunned, good £300.00

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(Economics.) MARSHALL (Alfred) Official Papers. [Edited by J. M. Keynes]. For the Royal Economic Society by Macmillan. 926, FIRST EDITION , ownership signature on the front endpaper, pp. [viii], 428, 8vo., orig. green buckram, slightly sunned, good £170.00

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Alfred Marshall ( 842- 924) is considered to be one of the most influential economists of his time, largely shaping mainstream economic thought for the next fifty years. He popularized the use of supply and demand functions as tools of price determination. This collection of five papers concern money and banking, India, poverty, taxation, and international trade. The work is edited, with a preface, by Marshall’s eminent pupil John Maynard Keynes.

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Edgeworth (Maria) Tales and Novels. In Eighteen Volumes. Baldwin and Cradock [etc.].

832/33, engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page present in each volume, one or two of them slightly foxed, 8vo., contemp. dark blue calf, the backstrips with four low raised bands with gilt fillets and decoration, gilt lettering, sides with single gilt fillets, buff endpapers, good (Sadleir 785; Slade 29B) £600.00 Called the second collected edition by Slade and Sadleir, though there was also an American collection, published in Boston between 822 and 825, which is decidedly rare. The Boston edition was unauthorized; the London first collected edition shows ‘only very casual editing.... The second... edition was much revised and corrected by the author, with all prefaces to the later editions added.’

(Slade) An early imitator of Cadell’s ‘magnum opus’ edition of Scott’s Waverley Novels (48 vols., 829-33), in terms of format, illustrations, series issuance and price (similarly published in monthly volumes at 5/- each), and authorial revisions. This edition was reprinted several times in the nineteenth century, and has never been superseded.

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Edgeworth (Maria and R.L.) Essay on Irish Bulls ... J. Johnson. 802, FIRST EDITION , engraved head- and tail-piece, upper blank corners at the end waterstained, pp.[iv],3 6, 8vo., contemp. marbled calf, rebacked in pale calf, smooth backstrip with gilt lettered red leather label, owner’s modern small book ticket, sound (Slade 9A) £130.00 The earliest design came from Miss Edgeworth’s father who wished to show the English public the talent and wit of the lower Irish classes. The head and tail pieces ‘were designed by Mrs. Elizabeth Edgeworth from a gem’ (Slade).

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Edgeworth (Maria and R.L.) Practical education ... The second edition, in three volumes.

J. Johnson. 80 , half-titles present, engraved table in vol.i, 2 folding plates in vol.iii, some unexceptionable waterstaining, pp. xiv, [ii], 4 2; [iv], 386; [iv], 387, 8vo., contemp. marbled calf, joints splitting but firm, smooth backstrips divide into compartments by floral rolls (rubbed), gilt lettered black leather labels, small book ticket of Elizabeth Mavor in each vol., sound £140.00

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(Education.) CARLISLE (Nicholas) A concise description of the endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales; ornamented with engravings. [Two volumes]. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy. 8 8, half titles, engraved illustrations of the seals of each school, subscribers’ list, endpapers foxed, pp. xliv, [vi], 858; [iv], 983, thick 8vo., slightly later half calf, the backstrips with five raised bands, gilt fillets, red and black morocco labels with gilt lettering, marbled sides, good £380.00 Described as ‘a useful [book], for which he compiled the material by questionnaire’ by the ODNB , this work surveys some 475 schools giving information supplied from circulars which were sent out.

The author, son of Thomas Carlisle, became Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries in 807. Between 808- 8 3 he produced topographical dictionaries of England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland.

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(Education.) HAMILTON (Elizabeth) Letters on Education. Bath: Cruttwell ... 80 , FIRST EDITION,

LARGE PAPER , paper fault in c2, pp. [viii], 4 3, 8vo., contemp. tree calf (leather patch on fore-edge

of upper side applied before marbling), smooth backstrip divided into compartments by gilt double rules between fine dot rolls, gilt lettered dark green leather label in second compartment, pheasant and pitcher tool in centre of remainder, gilt ball and dart roll at tail of backstrip, roll on board edges, blue sprinkled edges, mod. owner’s pencilled signature on upper free endpaper, £250.00 very good ( CBEL p. 7 7)

Elizabeth Hamilton interspersed her satirical fiction with a number of influential works on education.

The present work was the best known and went through a number of editions. One of her major concerns was that mothers should give their male and female children equal opportunities in education as in all else.

00. (Egypt.) [POOLE (Sophia)] The Englishwoman in Egypt: letters from Cairo, written during a residence there in 842, 3 & 4. With E.W. Lane ... By his sister. In two volumes [in one]. Charles Knight. 844, 20 wood-engraved plates, one plan, illustrations, half-titles discarded, pp. iii-xi [i], 3-232; iii-viii, 9-240, 8vo., contemp. half calf, the backstrip with infilled gilt panels and black morocco label with gilt lettering, marbled boards and endpapers, slightly rubbed at the edges, good £450.00 Sophia Poole lived in Cairo for seven years ‘and obtained a considerable knowledge of domestic life in Mohammedan society, as yet but slightly modified by western influences...[her] book supplies a true and simple picture of the life of the women in Egypt’ ( ODNB ).

0 . Eliot (George) Adam Bede. Fifth Edition. In Two Volumes. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. 859, from Lord Lansdowne’s library, half-titles, publisher’s adverts discarded, pp. viii, 43 ; viii, 3-382, 8vo., orig. wave grain orange brown cloth, backstrips ruled and lettered in gilt, the sides with blind decorated panels and the paper labels of Lord Lansdowne with his cypher on the front covers, slightly rubbed at the extremities, the joints of vol.i skillfully repaired, good £180.00 ‘Adam Bede at once placed its author in the front rank of contemporary literature. The fact that ... [it] would be the most formidable rival to any later productions induced her to spare no pains in the effort to maintain her standard’ ( ODNB ).

02. (England.) TAYLOR (Tom) Birket Foster’s pictures of English landscape engraved by the brothers Dalziell. With pictures in words ... India proofs. George Routledge and Sons. [ 88 ,] 2 7/ ,000 COPIES , 30 wood-engraved plates, with accompanying letterpress leaf, India proofs laid down, unpaginated, ff. [vi], (plates/text leaves), [3] (advertisements and publisher’s device), folio, orig. white bevel-edged vellum, some soiling, smooth backstrip longitudinally gilt lettered direct; sides with oblong panels, filled with gilt oak and ivy leaves, asymmetrically placed between rules at head and foot, upper side gilt and black titled in centre, book ticket of David Graham, roughtrimmed, good £150.00 First published in 863. This edition was printed from the original blocks on a hand press. The series of drawings was larger than his usual style and intended ‘to be thoroughly representative of rustic English scenery’. After this he produced few drawings for wood blocks. ‘Many other books were issued ... containing wood-engravings after drawings by Birket Foster, but in nearly every case they were old blocks which had been used in previous publications.’ (H.M. Cundall. ‘Birket Foster R.W.S.’ [ 906])

03. (Erasmus.) GISELINUS (Victor) Epitomes adagiorum omnium, quae hodie ab Erasmo, Iunio, et aliis collecta exstant, pars altera, Vict. Giselini opera nunc primum edita, & duplici indice illustrata ... Antwerp: ex officina Christophori Plantini. 566, title-page with wood engraved publisher’s device, page, contemp. manuscript monogram ‘AD’ at head, and school’s oval ink stamp at foot,

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some floriated initial letters, occasional dust soiling, pp. [xvi], 340, [77], 8vo., modern vellum, smooth backstrip manuscript lettered, extensive manuscript note (dated 574) on orig.(?) binder’s preliminary blank, good (Adams G743) £400.00 04. (Erotica.) ROSE (Alfred) Register of Erotic Books. 2 Vols. New York: Jack Russell. 965, pp.[iv], £80.00 208: [ii]; 209-398, 4to., original blue buckram, red title labels, fine According to Deakin in ‘Catalogi Librorum Eroticorum’ 964: ‘The most complete general erotic bibliography yet published.’ It contains 5,06 entries, with references to library pressmarks. It was first published in 936 under the anagrammatic pseudonym Rolf S. Reade.

05. (Europe.) FROISSART (Jean) Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward II. to the coronation of Henry IV. Translated from the French editions, with variations and additions from many celebrated mss. by Thomas Johnes, Esq. ... In two volumes. Henry G. Bohn. 857, colour lithographed additional titlepage, wood engraved illustrations in text (stereotypically reproduced from an earlier edition), paper lightly toned, pp. xlvii (i.e. xlix), [i], 768; xiv, 733, lge. 8vo., contemp. olive-green calf, boards bordered with a double gilt fillet, central gilt stamp of Dulwich College Upper School on front boards, sometime rebacked in brown morocco, backstrip divided by double gilt rules, green morroco label in second compartment and red in fourth, the rest with central gilt stamps of armour, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., some old scrapes and marks, corners renewed, sound £100.00 Johnes remains the only man to have undertaken the formidable task of translating the Chronicles in their entirety, and the appearance of subsequent editions (until 906) testifies to their worth. Masson notes that ‘in point of style and brilliant colouring, Shakespeare alone can be placed on the same line as Froissart.’

06. Ferguson (Adam) The history of the progress and termination of the Roman republic. In three volumes. Dublin: Price [et al.] 783, some light foxing, pp. [x], 492; [viii], 606; [viii], 600, 8vo., early nineteenth-century half calf, a little rubbed, smooth backstrips divided by gilt rules, gilt lettered dark brown morocco labels in second and fourth compartments (slightly chipped); marbled paper sides, bookplate of Barlborough Hall, good ( ESTC T 30949) £150.00 Adam Ferguson ( 723- 8 6) showed a flair for classics at University before turning to social philosophy and becoming a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. This, his only major non-philosophical work, ‘did more than any of Ferguson’s books to determine its author’s image as latter-day Roman, a worthy, if somewhat quaint, lover of virtue and liberty in their classical republican sense’ ( ODNB ). This Dublin edition appeared in the same year as the London (first) edition.

07. Ferguson (James) Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics ... The eighth edition. J.F. and C. Rivington [et al.] 790, folding frontispiece (fore-edge soiled), 7 folding plates, tables on letterpress, pp. [viii], 503, [ ] (blank), [ 6], 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, rebacked to match, corners repaired, backstrip divided by double gilt rules, gilt lettered red leather label, bookplate of Ashurst of Waterstock, good £450.00 ‘probably the most popular and most enduring fruit book ever in the English language’ 08. Forsyth (William) A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees; in which a new Method of Pruning and Training is fully described. To which is added, a new and improved Edition of ‘Observations on the Diseases, Defects, and Injuries, in all Kinds of Fruit and Forest Trees:’ with an Account of a particular Method of Cure . . . Third Edition, with Additions. T.N.

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Longman and O. Rees. 803, 3 plates ( folding), half title present, light foxing throughout, pp. xx, 535, 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, the backstrip fully panelled in gilt with a variety of tools, green morocco label, gilt star borders on sides, small chip to edge of upper cover, armorial bookplate of E.Wyatt Edgell, good (Fussell p. 50) £300.00 Forsyth, who had been a student of Philip Miller at the Chelsea Physic Garden, had a distinguished career as a gardener, becoming Royal gardener at Kensington and St. James in 784. At Kensington he found the fruit-trees in an old worn-out state and began a system of renovation, including the development of a ‘plaister’, or paste, which caused new wood to grow and bind to the old. He was a successful and significant figure in horticultural affairs, and received a Parliamentary reward for discovering the ingredients of this composition with which he covered the wounds. His Treatise reached seven editions.

09. [Foster (Sir Michael)] A Report of some proceedings on the commission of oyer and terminer and goal delivery for the trial of the rebels in the year 746 in the county of Surry, and of other crown cases. To which are added discourses upon a few branches of the crown law. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press. 762, FIRST EDITION , errata slip discarded, the later-printed 4pp.

‘Advertisement’ not present, just a little light spotting, pp. [ii], VIII , 4 2, [20], folio, contemp. tan sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked, corners renewed, backstrip with six raised bands between double gilt fillets, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest plain, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Oswald of Dunnikier, hinges neatly relined, the old leather a bit scraped, very good ( ESTC T 458 ) £350.00 The ‘greatest work’ of the legal writer and judge Sir Michael Foster ( 689- 763). In it ‘he aimed to elucidate principle and eradicate inconsistency and excess in the law, success in which gained his work high authority, and led Blackstone to describe him as “a very great master of the crown law”’ ( ODNB ).

The phrase ‘goal delivery’ in the title is a printing error for ‘gaol delivery’.

0. (France and India.) RITCHIE (Leith) The Romance of History. France. In three volumes. Bull and Churton. 834, additional titles with engraved vignettes, 8 engraved plates after T. Landseer, half-titles, leaving Eton gift ownership inscription on the front free endpaper of vol. i, pp. [iv], 326, [2]; [iv], 350, [2]; [iv], 346, 6mo., [with]: Caunter (Hobart) The Romance of History. India. In three volumes. Edward Churton. 836, pp. x, 3 0; [iv], 344; [iv], 3 5, half-title discarded, the sets uniformly bound in contemp. pebblegrain roan, the first in damson, the second in dark green, the backstrips decorated with gilt voluts, gilt lettering, the sides with gilt fillet double and single borders and centrepieces, a.e.g., yellow endpapers, good £300.00 A classic of outdoor literature . (France.) STEVENSON (Robert Louis) Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes. Kegan, Paul. 879, FIRST EDITION , frontispiece by Walter Crane, tissue-guard present, pp. xii, 227, f’cap.8vo., orig. dark green bevel-edged cloth, sunned backstrip gilt lettered and with designs by Crane gilt blocked on the backstrip and front cover, single broad black rule at head and double broad black rule at tail of covers, publisher’s device blocked in black at centre of rear cover, bookplate of Oliver Nowell Chadwyck-Healey, head edges roughtrimmed, good £500.00 In August 878 a young Robert Louis Stevenson set out on his famous walking tour. Stevenson was in love with the American Fanny Osbourne and had spent most of the previous year in Paris with her.

The author was no stranger to the Continent having published his first work An Inland Voyage (which recounts a canoeing trip in Belgium made in 876) in May of the same year. He wanted to capitalise on the modest success of his first book and raise money to be with Fanny who had returned to America in August. Stevenson based the book on a travel diary which he kept during his 2-day, 20-mile solo journey through the wild Cévennes mountains in south-central France. His only companion during the trip was a stubborn donkey that went by the name of Modestine.

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The author’s first work - with hand-coloured aquatints 2. (France.) STOTHARD (Mrs. Charles [Kempe, Anna Eliza]) Letters written during a tour through Normandy, Britanny, and other parts of France, including local and historical descriptions; with remarks on the manners and character of the people.With numerous engravings, after drawings

by Charles Stothard, F.S.A. Longman [et al.]. 820, FIRST EDITION , frontispiece and 2 aquatint plates (5 beautifully hand coloured), hand coloured line engraving, all after drawings by Charles Stothard, some offsetting and slight foxing to text, small internal hole in RR2, pp. [iv], 322, 4to., modern half tan calf, backstrip with raised bands between gilt rules, gilt lettered dark red leather label, brown cloth sides, new cream endpapers, bookplate of Reginald James Mure, good (Abbey Travel 88; Prideaux p.353) £350.00 Charles Stothard, the antiquarian, married Anna Eliza Kempe in 8 8. The young couple travelled to France that same year where Anna wrote letters to her family describing the beauties and antiquities of the countryside through which they were passing. These letters were collected in the present work, their first publication, with illustrations provided by her husband. Tragedy was to befall the family however: whilst sketching the ceiling of a village church in Devon in 82 , Charles Stothard slipped from the ladder high in the roof and fell, fatally striking his head on a pew below.

3. (France.) THORNTON (Colonel Thomas) A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France in the Year 802: including a concise description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting, and other field-amusements, as practised in that country. With general observations on the arts, sciences, agriculture, husbandry, and commerce ... 2 Vols. Longman, Hurst, Reese and Orme, and C. Chapple. 806, FIRST EDITION , 2 engraved frontispieces and title pages, 55 uncoloured aquatint illustrations [ folding], engraved head and tail pieces, pp. lxvi, 68,[6]; xii,260,[8], 4to., two vols. bound together in a somewhat later half burgundy morocco, backstrip gilt lettered direct, gilt decorated raised bands, lightly rubbed marbled boards, light wear to head and tail, good (Abbey Travel 84; Prideaux pp. 286-7; Schwerdt II, pp.259-6 ) £400.00 London-born sportsman Colonel Thomas Thornton made numerous journeys to the more remote parts of the British Isles (including the Scottish Highlands in 786, which resulted in a ghostwritten volume on the subject). He also travelled extensively on the Continent at the turn of the century; an expedition to France (on which the present work is based) resulted in a much-exaggerated meeting with Napoléon Bonaparte. Ever the eccentric, Thornton eventually purchased a dilapidated chateau and became a self-styled ‘marquis de Pont’ and ‘Prince’, before his death in March 823.

4. Gellius (Aulus) Noctium Atticarum Libri undeviginti. Venice: in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri. 5 5, FIRST ALDINE EDITION , second issue with the corrected spelling ‘duernionem’ on the last leaf, large Aldine printer’s device on the title, and at the foot the ownership inscription ‘Di (?) Gio. Leonardo Canyo 65 ’, title lightly soiled, some lower margins with light dampstaining, the last 28 leaves washed, Aldine device on the last leaf, ff. [xxxii] (last blank), 289, [5 ], 8vo., 20th-century vellum, recently recased using old endpapers, hinges neatly relined, boards panelled in gilt, smooth backstrip divided by gilt rolls, red morocco label, all edges showing early gilt and gauffering, good (Adams G344; Renouard 5 5 / 9; Simon BG 743; Dibdin I 339; Moss I 202) £1,800.00 The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, a wide-ranging compilation, is notable as a source of quoted fragments and of stories, and also is one of the two ancient sources (with Suetonius) for Aldus’s own motto, festina lente. It was a saying of which Augustus was particularly fond, and it appears in its Greek form ( speude bradeos ) in Book X, chapter xi.

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The editor of this edition, which contains a copious double index, was Giambattista Egnazio, one of the leading figures in the circle of scholars and editors around Aldus Manutius; he stood as executor to Aldus’s will in the same year as this volume was published. It appeared six months after Aldus’s death and was perhaps the last of Aldus’s books to have his personal involvement.

Already in Dibdin’s time, fine copies of this edition were ‘becoming very scarce’, and by May 9 0 George D. Smith’s catalogue description records the following description: ‘Excessively rare and valuable. Beckford’s copy sold £ 6, Sykes’s copy £28, Syston Park copy £42’. However, it is only in the last few years that another resurgence of interest in the author has led to publication of the ‘first collection of essays in any language on Aulus Gellius’, along with books by L. Holford-Strevens and E. Gunderson.

5. (Germany) CLUVERIUS (Philippus) Germaniae Antiquae libri tres. ... Editio secunda, aucta et recognita. Leiden: Ex officina Elzeviriana. 63 , engraved frontis. and title, double-page maps and 26 engraved plates (of which 4 are double-page), two small wormholes in lower corner of text area through first 5 leaves (rarely affecting legibility), a dampstain in lower corner appearing intermittently, some light toning with a few leaves browned, occasional spotting, small library stamp to margin of title, pp. [xxxvi], 748, [ 6], folio, contemp. blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, two brass catches on front board and hinge stubs on rear board, scratched and somewhat soiled, small crack to pigskin on backstrip, a little worming around hinge mounts on rear board, gilt circular library stamp to front board, still overall a good copy (Willems 345; Rahir 32 ) £1,500.00 The second and enlarged edition (first 6 6) of the Germania Antiqua of Philip Clüver ( 580- 622), a study of the ancient geography, peoples, culture, history, and language of Germany which took much material from Tacitus and Diodorus Siculus, among other ancient literary sources. Clüver, who was born in Gdansk and had studied under Scaliger at Leiden, practically founded the field of historical geography with his books on Germany, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, and Italy, as well as a posthumously published Introductio in Universam Geographiam which became a standard text for many years. It was an innovation of his to combine reference to texts with actual visits to the countries in question, mostly financed by his mother after his father disowned him for marrying a poor woman against his wishes. The plates include a number of maps, portraits of ancient German ‘barbarians’, and scenes from their supposed domestic and ordinary life.

6. Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. New Edition. In Eight Volumes. For T. Cadell: Longman, Orme [etc.] 838, engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 folding engraved maps, the 2 large ones with closed tears at the folds, foxing to the frontispiece, a little scattered foxing, mostly to maps, upper corner of frontispiece touched with damp, pp. lii, 509; xii, 488; xii, 57 ; xii, 533; xvi, 555; xi, 50 ; xi, [i], 555; xi, [i], 545, 8vo., contemp. diced calf, the backstrips panelled in gilt with repeated fleurons, black and tan morocco labels with gilt lettering, vol.i with one label chipped, a little light rubbing, good £550.00 A handsome set. ‘This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works. Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day.’ ( PMM 222).

7. Giphanius (Hubert) Commentarii in Politicorum opus Aristotelis: post sat bene longam suppressionem, iam, boni publici gratia, primum in lucem editi. Frankfurt: Impensis Lazari Zetzneri. 608, woodcut device to title, paper slightly age-toned, small chip to edge of title, pp. [xvi], 952, [46], 8vo., later vellum, backstrip with green morocco label, yapp edges, front flyleaf removed, two small holes punched in front board, a little soiled and worn, sound ( VD 7 39: 32050L) £250.00 The posthumously published commentary of Giphanius (i.e. Hubert van Giffen, c. 535- 604) on the Politics of Aristotle, and an uncommon volume: COPAC locates only five copies in the UK , two in the

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Bodleian, one in the British Library, and two more in cathedral libraries. Less well-remembered than some of his contemporaries, Giphanius nonetheless was outstanding in his time for philology and legal studies, though some controversy attached to his supposed use of other scholar’s material; he edited and translated Homer in 572, was one of the first to question Christian interpolations in Josephus, and served as professor of philosophy or law in Strassburg, Altdorf, and Ingolstadt.

Eighteenth Century Jesuit Scandal 8. Girard (Jean-Baptiste) Mémoire Instructif pour le Père Jean-Baptiste Girard, Jesuite, Recteur du College Royal de la Marine de la Ville de Toulon. Contre Marie-Catherine Cadière; et encore Monsieur le Procurer Générale Du Roy, Querellant. The Hague: chez Henri Scheurleer; Paris: chez Gissey & Bordelet. 73 , printer’s device on title, pp.284, cr.8vo., modern grey boards, spine £180.00 printed in black, very good (Rose 99 ) Girard, a Jesuit, was cited as the archetype for the corruption of the clergy. The scandal was sensational and it rocked Paris. Under Girard’s tutelage Catherine Cadière had begun to have visions and bore marks of the stigmata. Whilst in her ecstatic state the Jesuit abused her and she became pregnant. The charges were sorcery and carnal relations.

9. Godwin (William) Thoughts on Man, his Nature, Productions, and Discoveries. Interspersed with some particulars reflecting the author. Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. 83 , FIRST EDITION , faint foxing, pp. vi, [2], 47 , [ ], 8vo., contemp. French quarter biscuit calf, corners tipped in vellum, marbled boards, edges, and endpapers, smooth backstrip divided by groups of five gilt fillets, black label in second compartment, the rest with central tools, front joint just cracking minimally at head, very good £500.00 The last philosophical work by William Godwin ( 756- 836), author of An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and father of Mary Shelley. Having most recently written on philosophy more than 30 years previously (the Enquirer of 797), Godwin was perhaps pushed back into productivity by his financial situation after a falling out with Percy Shelley, who had been covering his debts. In the last 5 years of his life he published, among other works, two novels, a four-volume history of the Commonwealth, and this book, ‘the product of deeper study and closer observation than The Inquirer,’ though a reviewer in the Gentleman’s Magazine called it ‘full as irreverent and almost equally as noxious, like the serpent venemous but enticing’ (Brown, Life ).

20. (Great Britain.) CARY (John) New Map of England & Wales, with part of Scotland. On which are carefully laid down all the direct and principal Cross Roads, the Course of Rivers and navigable Canals ... J. Cary.

794, FIRST EDITION , engraved title, dedication leaf, explanation leaf and scale, hand coloured engraved general map and 76 maps of Great Britain, second issue of the index dated 804, pp. [8 plates], 4, 88, 4to., contemp. half calf, the backstrip with five raised bands with gilt fillets, green morocco label with gilt lettering, marbled boards, extremities a little rubbed, corners knocked, good (Fordham Cary pp.45-6) £700.00 This a fully detailed map of England and Wales which gives special prominence to roads, and extends north to include Edinburgh, Stirling, and Glasgow. It would appear to be the first map drawn on the meridian of Greenwich (where earlier surveys had been drawn on St. Paul’s). It was engraved with borders so that it could be bound as an atlas, or with the borders

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cut off, as a single map. The plate numbers were incorporated in the border with the numbers of adjoining sheets to indicate the arrangement of the complete map. The scale is five miles to one inch.

2 . (Great Britain.) [STORER (James S.)] Ancient Reliques; or, Delinations of monastic, castellated & domestic Architecture ... [In two volumes]. For the Proprietors by W. Clarkes, J. Carpenter , C. Chapple [etc.]. 8 2, half-titles, 03 engraved plates by John Grieg showing buildings and views with tissue guards, engraved vignettes at the end of the text, scattered foxing, pp. [viii], [208]; [viii], [208], 8vo., contemp. half russia, the backstrips panelled in gilt with Greek key pattern and crosshatched tooling, marbled boards, small nick to the head of the upper joint of vol i, good £150.00 Clark’s companion’s copy 22. (Greece.) CLARK (William George) Peloponnesus: Notes on Study and Travel. John W. Parker.

858, FIRST (AND ONLY) EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, 5 maps and plans, one folding, a little offsetting from and a few foxmarks to the first map, pp.xiv,[2],344, 8vo., original blue cloth, spine divided by blind-ruled bands, gilt lettering, sides with blind stamped ruled borders, headbands knocked, 8vo., (Blackmer 36 ) £450.00 Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to: “The Rev. the Master of Trinity College with the author’s kind regards.” An important association copy since it was with W.H. Thompson, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, that Clark made his tour to gather information for this study of the Peloponnese in 856. Clark was determined to view what he saw afresh without following the conclusion of authorities. ‘He has produced an interesting work, intermingling his ideas concerning the cultural and religious history of the Greeks with archaeological observations and comments on modern Greek life’ (Blackmer).

23. (Greek Drama.) DONALDSON (John William) The Theatre of the Greeks, a series of papers relating to the history and criticism of the Greek Drama. Fourth edition. With a new introduction and other alterations. Cambridge: Printed at the Pitt Press, by John Smith. 836, folding frontispiece plan, folding table, one or two marks and pencil spots, pp. vii, 598, 8vo., contemp. half green calf with marbled boards, backstrip with five raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest elaborately decorated in gilt with central floral stamps and corner volutés, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate of Thomas Sebastian Bazley, very good £175.00 The fourth edition of this popular companion to Greek theatre, edited by Donaldson, at the time a fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, from a work originally produced by P.W. Buckham.

The first part is a series of chapters on aspects of Greek theatre, while the second prints translated excerpts from older authorities, namely Aristotle, Bentley, and Schlegel. The bookplate is of T.S. Bazley ( 829- 9 9), 2nd Baronet, who took his MA from Trinity – and so may have been acquainted with Donaldson.

24. Gronow (Rees Howell, ‘Captain’) The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow, being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs, and society 8 0- 860. [2 volumes.] John C. Nimmo.

889, 859/870 NUMBERED COPIES with 2 impressions of each plate, one proof on plate paper and the other hand-coloured on Whatman paper, 50 engraved plates in total (of 25 scenes), most with tissue guards, title pages in red and black, prospectus for a recent reprint edition loosely inserted, a few foxspots (mostly to endpapers), a little pencil underlining and marginalia, pp. xxviii, 35 ; xii, 343, large 8vo., orig. brown cloth, backstrips lettered direct in gilt, front boards with armorial blocked in gilt, silver, and red, backstrips darkened, corners and spine ends a little frayed, ownership inscriptions of Horace Blackley to endpapers, good £150.00 The celebrated reminiscences of Rees Howell Gronow, officer and dandy, collected in two volumes.

‘Take a Gronow anecdote after lunch, two before dinner, and, say, five or six at bed-time’ (from the inserted prospectus).

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25. Grotius (Hugo) De Jure Belli ac Pacis libri tres ... Cum annotatis auctoris, ejusdemque dissertatione de Mari Libero, ac libello ... de aequitate, indulgentia et facilitate; necnon J. F. Gronovii ... notis in totum opus de Jure belli ac pacis. Ex altera recensione J. Barbeyracii ... cum notulis ejusdem nunc auctioribus, etc. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergios. 735, engraved frontispiece portrait of Grotius, engraved title-page, typographic title-page, occasional early ink and pencil marginalia, pp. [22], xxxix, [5], 534; [2], 539- 040, 43, [85] (as called for), 8vo. contemp. vellum, sprung, darkened backstrip manuscript lettered over traces of an earlier ms. title, small library’s small stamp to front pastedowns, faint ink ownership inscriptions on rectos of front free endpapers, red sprinkled and polished edges, good (Brunet 765) £400.00 The second Latin edition of Grotius’s classic treatise of international law as edited by the jurist Jean Barbeyrac (the first Barbeyrac edition was in 720), who had also translated the work into French in 724.

26. Grotius (Hugo, Editor) ... Dissertationes de studiis instituendis. H. Grotii et aliorum dissertationes de studiis instituendis. Amsterdam: apud Ludovicum Elzevirium. 645, FIRST EDITION , lightly browned engraved title-page with faint ink name in contemp. hand, woodcut initials, pp.[vi], 688, 2mo., near contemp. overlapping vellum, backstrip with blind rule at head and tail, ms. lettered title, ownership initials (?) stamped on upper board, lower board stamped ‘ANNO 647’, contemp. ink trials and notes on rear free endpaper and pastedown, very good (Graesse III 63; Willems 028; Rahir 027) £400.00 Printed by the celebrated Dutch printing family, the work is in essence a guide to the learning of different scholarly subjects, such as mathematics, medicine, philosophy, literature, etc. The small volume contains twenty-four treatises on the various different aspects of academic study, several in the form of letters to other contemporary scholars. Contributors include Gabriel Naudé, Thomas Campanella, Johannes Heurnius, entries on the study of mathematics by M. Hortensius and Caspar Schioppius, Jan Albert Ban’s ‘De compendiosa et facili linguam Ebraeam et Chaldaeam condiscendi ratione’ and numerous other sections on music, language, and theology. Willems mentions a second differently paginated 645 edition of 687 pp. alongside his description of this the true first edition.

27. [Gruner (Lewis)], illuminator. The Good Shunammite. Brown, Green and Longmans. [ 847], the text in black and gold entirely surrounded by medieval style chromolithographed borders and with illuminated initials by Gruner, heightened with gold pp. 2 , small 8vo., original publishers’ black papier-maché binding intricately worked to a relievo design, with twirling vines, medallion portraits and the title in the centre, original embossed black leaher spine with the title vertically, two corners knocked, the lower one wanting the tip, the covers slightly bowed, a.e.g., marbled £400.00 endpapers, a few small staines to the fore-edges, good (McLean p.52; Ball p. 44) This work has been attributed to Owen Jones’ establishment.

28. Hale (Matthew) History of the Common Law of England. Divided into Twelve Chapters. [With:] The Analysis of the Law: Being a Scheme, or Abstract, of the several Titles and Partitions of the Law of England, Digested into Method. The third edition, corrected. In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for T. Waller. 739, engraved chart, early ownership inscription of R. de Rawle ( 763) and later stamp of Peter Glubb ( 820) to front flyleaf, later engraved portrait pasted to front pastedown, a couple of marginal ink notes, pp. [viii], 26 , [ ], [xvi], 48, [28], 8vo., contemp. blind-ruled calf, backstrip with five raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, a bit scuffed, one corner worn, very good ( ESTC T 0503, T 0502) £500.00 The third and, as a note on the title-page adds, the best edition of Sir Matthew Hale’s History and Analysis of the common law, his only finished major work. Only published posthumously, they together form a major part of his influence on legal history. The History ‘is notable for a Burkean account of the wisdom of a customary law, and for a temperate

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defence of the system’s continuity across the Norman conquest. The Analysis at its conclusion is a complete taxonomy of matters handled by the common law; it was borrowed by William Blackstone with minimal modification and therefore provides the structure of Blackstone’s Commentaries ( ODNB ).

29. Hale (Thomas) A Compleat Body of Husbandry. Containing Rules for performing, in the most profitable Manner, the whole Business of the Farmer, and Country Gentleman, in cultivating, planting and stocking of Land; In judging ... Seeds, and of Manures ... in breeding and preserving Cattle ... To which is annexed the whole Management of the Orchard, the Brewhouse and the Dairy ... [Bound with] A Continuation of the Compleat Body of Husbandry T. Osborne and J. Shipton [etc]. 756 - 759 FIRST EDITION , 2 works in one vol., engraved allegorical frontispiece showing Ceres at her work, 2 engraved plates in the first work, one folding, one large engraved illustration, printed in two columns, one or two edges shaved, a few upper margins touched by damp, small stain to title, one engraved plate in the ‘Continuation’, the last 3 leaves of the latter mounted on guards, pp. iv, ii, [viii], 3-7 9 [ ]; [iv], 00, [6], folio, contemp. calf, the backstrip with six raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco label with gilt lettering, corners knocked, good (Fussell p. 37; Perkins 737 and 738; ESTC T 4976 ) £600.00 An extensive encyclopedic work on all aspects of cultivation and farming to equip the country gentleman. The plates include farming implements, plants, plans, buildings and even a dung pit. Most have several figures. This first edition has a greater number of plates than the subsequent editions.

The Continuation was separately published, and it is unusal to find them both together.

30. Hampson (Robert T.) Medii Ævi Kalendarium or Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages, with Kalendars from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century; and an alphabetical Digest of obsolete Names of Days: forming a Glossary of the Dates of the Middle Ages, with Tables and other Aids for ascertaining Dates. In two volumes. Henry Kent Causton. 84 , FIRST EDITION , chromolithographed frontispieces, each of early manuscript leaves, half-titles, titles printed in red and black, pp. [ii], vi, 492; [iv], 430, 8vo., slightly later polished calf, the backstrips panelled in gilt with repeated tooling, tan and black morocco labels with gilt lettering, the sides with triple gilt fillet borders and central crested motto ‘Non Eget Arcu’ and the initial ‘M’ beneath, marbled edges and endpapers, the hinges of vol.ii just starting to crack, but still strong, good £300.00 A useful and scholarly aid which has been reprinted ever since it was first published.

3 . Harris (Frank) My Life & Loves. [Four volumes bound as three.] Privately Printed. 922-27, FIRST EDITIONS OF VOLS. I-II , the other two in an early American piracy, vol. i with title printed in red and black, two red-tinted plates, several illustrations in text, photographic frontispiece portraits tipped in to vols. iii and iv, errata slip tipped in to vol. ii, overall paper age-toned, vol. i gutter cracking in a few places, vol. ii with faint ownership inscriptions, vol. i with usual ‘Printed in Germany’ stamp on title, pp. xviii, 336, 4; xvii, 433, [5]; xxii, 42, , 43- 6, 2-25, 7- 9 , 2638, [5]; [iv], 92-274, 39-53, 275-3 , 54-82, 3 2-354, 83- 03, 355-376, 8vo., quarter pale cloth with green boards, vol. i the original binding with red blocked spine label, gilt title and nude torso (of Praxiteles’ Aphrodite) to front board, somewhat faded and marked, endpapers renewed, the other vols. bound later in imitation with plain green boards, each vol. with slightly different spine cloth texture and label details, all slightly rubbed, sound £120.00 A mixed set, containing the first edition of the first volume in the original binding, the first edition of the second volume in a later binding to a similar style, and the third and fourth volumes (bound together) in one of the numerous American piracies.

Harris’s notorious memoir was banned in a number of countries for its sexual content, which of course led to a market in pirated editions. The third and fourth volumes here can be identified as American piracies by the typography, the presence of the Frank Harris Publishing Company, Inc.’s address on the verso of the title, and the fact that the chapters containing graphic sexual descriptions have a separate run of page numbers, presumably to allow them to be found more easily.

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32. Heinsius (Daniel) Poemata emendata locis infintis et aucta. Indicem singulorum auersa indicat pagina. Editio quarta. Leiden: apud Joh. Orlers et Ioha. Maire. [ 6 3,] engraved title-page (creased), printer’s device on colophon leaf, waterstained, pp. [xxxii], 62 , [2], 8vo., contemp. vellum, overlapping fore-edges, faded manuscript title on spine, modern paper manuscript label, modern upper endpaper, red sprinkled edges, good £250.00 Daniel Heinsius was one of the most famous of Dutch Renaissance scholars. He edited many Latin works and composed fine Latin poetry. Poemata was first published in 605. His Latin orations have been criticised for being pompous, but on the other hand his elegaic poems are thought to be elegant.

Heinsius’s editorial work was important beyond Dutch borders. His edition of Aristotle’s treatise on poetry, published in 6 , is the ‘only considerable contribution to the criticism and elucidation of the work that was ever produced in the Netherlands’ (Sandys). The influence of his work on Aristotle extended, among others, to Chapelain, Racine, and Corneille in France, Opitz in Germany, and Jonson in England. Jonson’s Discoveries ( 64 ) borrows much from Heinsius without attribution, as he also does from Heinsius’ criticisms on Plautus and Terence.

33. Herodotus. Historiarum libri IX. Musarum nominibus inscripti Gr. et Lat. ex Lavr. Vallae interpretatione, cum adnotationibus Thomae Galei et Iacobi Gronovii ... Amsterdam: sumptibus Petri Schoutenii. 763, engraved folding plate and additional title-page, half-title present, title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette, text in facing columns of Greek and Latin, small library stamps on title and half-title, a little minor spotting and browning, one or two marginal pencil notes, pp.[xxiv], 868, 77, [67], folio, later eighteenthcentury straight-grain red morocco, sometime expertly rebacked with orig. backstrip relaid, with fine rope roll decorated double raised bands, with open twist blind roll between, gilt lettered direct in second compartment and at foot, remaining compartments filled with rococo decoration; triple gilt fillet and blind arch and fleur de lys roll border on sides, a.e.g., Repton School arms on upper side, gilt gift stamp on lower, a few small surface scrapes, good (Dibdin II 23; Moss I 458; Schweiger I 39) £750.00 ‘This is the celebrated and magnificent edition of Herodotus, which contains the notes of Wesseling, Gale, and Gronovius, [...] it is justly called the editio optima, in [p]reference to any edition of Herodotus previously published. [...] This splendid and truly desirable edition has now become scarce, and a good copy cannot be obtained under a considerable sum’ (Dibdin). ‘The merits of all the preceding editions are eclipsed by this very elegant and excellent one’ (Moss). Dibdin also mentions a copy in an elegant red morocco binding, like this one, that fetched twice the price of a normal copy.

34. (Hertfordshire.) NEWCOME (Peter) The History of the ancient and Royal Foundation called the Abbey of St. Alban, in the County of Hertford, from the Founding thereof in 793, to its Dissolution in 539. Exhibiting the Life of each Abbot, and the principal Events relating to the Monastery, during his Rule and Government. Extracted from the most faithful Authorities and Records, both printed and manuscript. With plates, and a new Map of the County.

[Second edition]. For the Author, by J. Nichols, Messrs. White, T. Payne [etc.]. 795, engraved frontispiece, large hand-coloured engraved map, and 2 large engraved folding plans, errata leaf at the end, frontispiece a little foxed, minor offsetting, pp. [ii], xiii, [i], 547, [ ], [4], 4to., early 9th cenury half calf, rebacked, the original backstrip preserved and panelled in gilt, the first panel restored, red morocco label with gilt lettering, marbled boards, new endpapers, good ( ESTC T53399) £250.00 Newcome is best known for The History of the … Abbey of St. Alban, the first part of which considers the history of the abbey from its Anglo-Saxon origins to the reign of Edward III, and the second part the period from c. 340 until the Reformation. In this history, which draws heavily on the medieval chronicles of Matthew Paris and Thomas Walsingham, Newcome gave the first comprehensive account of the lives of the abbots of St Albans and the history of its dependent cells – work that helped to underpin the first detailed architectural descriptions of the church.

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35. Hoffmann (Louis), pseud. of Angelo John Lewis. Conjurer Dick: or, the Adventures of a young Wizard. Frederick Warne. [ 886?] frontispiece showing ‘Dick’s first show’, numerous illustrations, ownership inscriptions on the endpapers, pp. viii, 256, [8], 8vo., original decorated brown cloth, the backstrip lettered in gilt and showing a conjurer blocked in gilt, the upper cover also showing the ‘young wizard’ in action on the stage in gilt, blue and black, spine extremities £90.00 bumped, good 36. Hogarth (William) The Works of Mr Hogarth moralized, J. Goodwin. [c. 830], engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved title with ornate border and vignette, 3 engraved vignettes to the Preface, and 72 engravings by Dent, the text within ornamental frames, minor spotting to title, pp. xv, 277, 4to., contemp. green half morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, a little rubbed, small nick at foot of upper joint, good £150.00 The Reverend Trusler’s edition of Hogarth’s works.

37. Hood (Thomas) Poems ... Moxon. 872, LARGE PAPER , frontispiece and 2 steel engraved vignette plates after Birket Foster, tissue guards, letterpress lightly foxed, pp.vii,[i], 80,[4], 4to., orig. sand-grain dark green cloth, elaborately gilt, by Leighton Son & Hodge, smooth backstrip gilt blocked with title in geometric panel, upper side filled with large gilt blocked asymmetric panel, with title, illustrator, publisher, and date on ‘ribbon’ running through decoration, bevelled edges, lower side with blind fillet border and publisher’s gilt monogram in centre, cream chalked endpapers, a.e.g., very good £120.00 First published in 87 . See Ruari Maclean, Victorian Publishers’ Book-bindings ( 974) p. 29.

38. Hope (John) Thoughts in prose and verse, started, in his walks. Stockton: by R. Christopher and sold by W. Goldsmith [etc]. 780, FIRST EDITION , half-title discarded, pp. xvi, 349, [ ], 8vo., contemp. tree calf, skillfully rebacked with gilt in six compartments and repeated lyre tool, contemp. red morocco label, Greek key-pattern borders on sides, minor rubbing, marbled endpapers, good £450.00 A lively provincial miscellany by a London man of business. Hope served a brief term in Parliament, but lost his seat, probably for having sided with John Wilkes in the question of the Middlesex election.

The poems are for the most part occasional. Included is one on the death of Laurence Sterne, whose influence is often clearly evident in the essays, particularly two on ‘the nature and mutability of stilts’, which deal in part with Samuel Johnson and his Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland ( 775). There are also essays on painting, architecture, music and dancing. John Hope had an interest in military affairs, and his book is dedicated to the officers of the Northamptonshire militia. The text includes a fair number of passages relating to the American Revolution.

39. [Horace] Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Opera. Ad optimas editiones collata ... Biponti [Zweibrücken]: ex Typographia Societatis. 783, engraved circular portrait medallion on titlepage, foxed, pp. [ii], c, 333, [2], 8vo.

[Bound with] Phaedrus. Fabulae Aesopiae. Novissime recognitae et emendatae ... Biponti: ex Typographia Societatis. 784, engraved oval medallion on title-page, foxed, pp. [ii], xlviii, 232, 8vo. early nineteenth-century dark green morocco backed rose paste paper boards, smooth backstrip divided by Greek-key between dotted rolls, lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, sunburst, urn and flower spray ornaments in remainder, corners vellum tipped, endpapers foxed, red sprinkled and polished edges, good (Schweiger II 4 2, 74 ) £120.00 Horace and Phaedrus in the Bipont editions; like the Delphin classics before and the Valpy classics afterward, the Bipont classics were a major project to produce texts of every classical author with comprehensive notes sufficient to make previous editions obsolete.

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40. Howard (Robert) Four new Plays, viz: The Surprisal, The Committee, Comedies. The IndianQueen, The Vestal-Virgin, Tragedies. As they were acted by His Majesties Servants at the Theatre-Royal. For Henry Herringham. 665, each play with a printed title, small piece chipped from the upper blank margin of the title, A with a repair, again to the blank margin, rust-hole to T4 touching one or two letters of text, scattered foxing and browning, pp. [xii], 242, [ ], folio, contemp. panelled sheep, rebacked, gilt lettering to the flat backstrip, the sides with surface abrasions and some restoration, sound (Wing H2995; ESTC R2 4 3; Stratman 2436; Macdonald 68a) £900.00 Robert Howard ( 626- 698), playwright and politician, was of privileged stock; his father an Earl, and his mother the daughter of William Cecil. Little is known of his early life, but that he was at Magdalen College, Oxford around 64 and was knighted for gallantry in action at the battle of Cropredy Bridge, on 29 June 644. He became a wealthy man and prominent in the government. In the first decade of the Restoration, Howard combined his political career with that of a successful dramatist and critic. Howard, Thomas Killigrew, and a group of eight actors became shareholders in the Theatre Royal, Bridges Street. In addition to being the scene designer for this theatre in 663, Howard became the literary collaborator, and subsequent opponent, of John Dryden, who married Howard’s sister Elizabeth in December 663. ‘The Indian Queen’, a rhymed heroic play co-authored with Dryden and first performed in January 664, provided one of the topics in the literary quarrel between the two men, the effect of rhyme in drama. Howard developed the arguments against rhyme in the preface to ‘Four New Plays’ ( ODNB ). The play was not included in the editions of Dryden’s works until 7 7.

One of the first to proposals that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined 4 . Humboldt (Alexandre de) A Geognostical Essay on the Superposition of Rocks, in both Hemispheres. Translated from the original French. Longman, Hurst [etc.] 823, First English edition, half-title discarded, pp. viii, [ii], 482, 8vo., slightly later half calf, the backstrip panelled in gilt with double gilt ruling and red morocco label with gilt lettering, marbled sides and endpapers, red edges, good (Sabin 337 2; Wellcome III, 3 4) £300.00 Humboldt made a close comparison of the rocks of the old world with those of the Cordillera of the Andes.

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‘Illuminated’ by Noel Humphreys 42. [Humphreys (Henry Noel), illuminator]. The Parables of Our Lord. Longman & Co., 847, chromolithographed throughout to resemble an illusionist illuminated manuscript with elaborate borders heightened in gold, pp. [32], small 4to., orig. black morocco over wooden boards, the backstrip with blind decorated raised bands, the sides with an all-over maze-like design with central gilt medallions with the title and Apostles’ names, a.e.g., bevelled edges, by Hayday with their stamp inside the front cover, good (Ball p. 44) £400.00 ‘Noel Humphreys has captured some of the medieval Flemish illuminators’ spirit but has added to it an inventiveness and artistry of his own, based on an artist’s feeling for the strange intricacies of flower and leaf, backed by a naturalist’s knowledge.’ (McLean, Victorian Book Design, p. 00). Ball clarifies that this work was issued in two different bindings: black papier maché (McLean p.5 ) and morocco by Hayday (as above).

43. Inman (Thomas) Ancient Faiths embodied in Ancient Names: or an attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations. By an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs. [2 volumes.]

Printed for the Author. 868-9, PRESENTATION COPY, title-pages inscribed ‘The Liverpool Philomathic Society from the author’, lithograph frontispieces (just a touch foxed), 4 further plates in vol. i, 8 in vol. ii, numerous figures in the letterpress, a little dustsoiling in places, purple stamp of the Philomathic Society to titles, tissue guards, and a number of leaves, their bylaws pasted to front endpapers and a slip recording purchase from the Society in March 925, signed by the secretary, pasted to flyleaf, pp. [viii], 789; l, 028, 8vo., orig. brown cloth by Hanbury & Simpson, boards with frames blocked in blind containg gilt figures blocked in gilt on the front, backstrips with gilt figures and titles, just slightly rubbed and darkened at extremities, backstrip ends bumped, hinges almost invisibly reinforced, good £375.00 An unusual work on pre-Christian religions, privately printed for Thomas Inman ( 820- 876), physician to the Royal Infirmary of Liverpool and an amateur of early worship. This copy was presented to the Liverpool Philomathic Society, which had been founded in 825 with similar culturedeveloping intentions to the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, of which Inman was a regular member. In 925, due to financial straits, the Philomathic Society’s reference library was sold off to members.

44. Irenaeus (Saint) S. Irenaei, Episcopi Lugdunensis, Contra omnes haereses libri quinque.

Textus Graeci partem haud exiguam restituit; latinam versionem antiquissimam e quatuor MSS codicibus emendavit; fragmenta aliorum tractatuum deperditorum subjunxit; omnia notis variorum & suis illustravit Joannes Ernestus Grabe ... Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 702, FIRST GRABE EDITION , lavish copper engraved frontispiece by Michael Burghers, title page with engraving of Sheldonian etc., engraved head and tail pieces, neat ink ownership inscription dated 836 of Rev’d Charles Thorpe (Rector of Ryton, Durham) on the lightly creased binder’s blank leaves at front, with his dated ink name repeated at head of title page, light pencil marginalia and underlining throughout (possibly by Burch - see below), printed in double columns, pp. xii, xx, 3, [iii], 3-283, 300-385, 390-472, xvi-xxx, 3 , [xli], 3 (text continuous), folio, contemp. tan Cambridge calf, backstrip with raised bands between blind rules, gilt lettered red morocco label, owner’s crest in fifth compartment, small defect to spine tail; sides with blind fillet borders, rubbed, foot of upper joint cracked, red sprinkled and polished edges, front pastedown lifted, library’s small stamps to endpaper with ms. name of theologian Henry Vacher Burch of Liverpool Cathedral, good ( ESTC T 39640; Carter 702 / 7; Brunet 457; Graesse 429) £400.00 Edited with dedication by Joannes Ernestus Grabe (latterly of Oxford), and containing also Jean de Croix’s Specimem [sic] conjecturarum and a Greek and Latin Glossarium. This edition adds a number of Greek fragments (as only Latin versions survive completely), and is the first edition to make use of the Arundel Manuscript.

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45. (Italy.) LEAR (Edward) Journals of a landscape painter in southern Calabria, &c. Richard Bentley.

852, FIRST EDITION , 2 maps, 20 tinted lithographs (5 somewhat foxed, remainder with foxing to edges), half-title present, preliminary and final leaves foxed, pp. xx, [iv], 284, [4], lge. 8vo., orig. morocco-grain blue cloth by Edmonds & Remnants (ticket on rear pastedown), expertly repaired at head and foot of backstrip, backstrip gilt blocked, titled, and decorated, sides blind-panelled, yellow chalked endpapers, hinges strengthened, inscription on upper free endpaper (see note), light manuscript annotation on rear pastedown, very good £700.00 Inscribed to the historian ‘George Macaulay Trevelyan from Thomas Abbey February 7th, 9 0’ on upper free endpaper. A short letter is also loosely inserted addressed to ‘Dear George’ [presumably Trevelyan] thanking him for the loan of the book, from H.F. Newall.

Lear produced a number of similar albums from the 850s onwards, the item here described being the second in a series that included works on Greece, Corsica, Albania, and the Ionian Islands, the last issued in 870. The albums were sold on a subscription basis, but though his style seems marvellously fresh and expressive by anyone’s standards, Lear could not make a livelihood from his art.

He graduated to oils (with the encouragement of Holman Hunt) but subsequently moved on to other projects.

46. Jefferies (Richard) Wood Magic; a fable ... 2 Vols. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co ... 88 , FIRST EDITION , half-titles present, 8pp. inserted advertisements in each vol. dated (in code) May 88 , pp.[viii], 235, [ ], 8; [vi], 263, [ ], 8, 8vo., orig. blue/green fine diagonally-ribbed cloth, extremities trivially rubbed, backstrips gilt lettered direct, with wide gilt and fine black rules, and black stamped fir branch below title and grasses at foot; sides with black stamped fine line at head and foot, and fir branch at top left and bird in centre, brown chalked endpapers, contemp armorial bookplate of John Platt, very good (Miller and Matthews B 4. ) £300.00 Miller and Matthews’ printing and make-up variant (a). They estimate the edition size to have been 500 copies. P.4 of the advertisements in both volumes is unnumbered.

Watt’s copy?

47. [Jenyns (Soame)] A Free Inquiry into the Nature ond Origin of Evil. In Six Letters to ---. The second edition. Printed for R. and J. Dodsley. 757, engraved title-page vignette, some soiling, five leaves stained in upper corner, two ownership inscriptions to half-title, short ink note to front pastedown, and one signature to rear pastedown (with pasted catalogue note; see below), pp. [vi], 93, [ ], 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, backstrip with five raised bands between double rules, red morocco label in second compartment (darkened), a little scuffed, joints beginning to crack but neatly reinforced at head and tail, sound ( ESTC N8 67) £300.00 Soame Jenyns ( 704- 787) ‘possessed a graceful prose style reminiscent of Addison’, but this anonymously-printed ‘rationalist theodicy typical of eighteenth-century optimism’, while popular ( ESTC lists 6 editions between 757 and 773), was so harshly criticised by Samuel Johnson that Jenyns was dissuaded from revisiting the subject ( ODNB ). This second edition appeared the same year as the first.

This copy bears the signature of James Watt on the rear pastedown, which both an ink note on the front pastedown and a catalogue entry on the rear attribute to the ‘celebrated engineer’ and inventor of the steam engine ( 736- 8 9), and circumstantial evidence supports this: the next inscription (of Cecilia Taylor) is dated 26th March 820, a few months after Watt’s death and appropriately timed to have been purchased from his estate. By 873 it was in the possession of James Robb of Haddington, a gas engineer.

48. Johnson (Samuel) The Beauties of Johnson: consisting of Maxims and Observations, moral, critical and miscellaneous. [Two volumes in one]. G. Kearlsey, 782, sepia engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, pp. x, [ii], 209; x, [ii], 204, 8vo., contemporary sprinkled calf, single gilt

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fillet borders on sides, neatly rebacked, spine gilt, a little rubbed, corners knocked, original red morocco label preserved, good ( ESTC T 63 5, T64463; Fleeman, pp. ,542/43 and ,545/46; Chapman & Hazen, pp. 60/6 ) £400.00 Fourth edition of the first volume and the scarce first edition of the second. The portrait is in each part when found separately. With two pages of advertisements at the end of the second volume; the second half-title has not been preserved.

‘The style throughout is peculiarly good Johnsonian, modulated to a march never monotonous’ 49. Johnson (Samuel) The Lives of the most eminent English Poets, with critical Observations on their Works. ... A new edition, corrected. In three Volumes. For Nichols and Son: F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.]. 8 6, engraved frontispiece portrait by W. Evans, lightly offset on to title, a few spots to the preliminaries, inscribed ‘the Chevalier Thinnfeld from his affectionate Friend Gili’ on the front free endpaper, pp. viii, 460; [iv], 408; [iv], 39 , 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, the backstrips panelled in gilt with double gilt fillets, red morocco labels with gilt lettering in the second compartments, and a black morocco numbering roundel to the fourth, hinges slightly weakened, bookplates of Franz Pollack-Parnau, fine (Fleeman 79.4LP/26; Courtney 44) £800.00 This is a fine, elegant set of the famous work, described as ‘the richest, most beautiful, and indeed most perfect, production of Johnson’s pen’ (Boswell Life of Johnson ). The Lives is rich in personal recollections, anecdote and criticism and is seen as one of Johnson’s greatest works.

According to Fleeman five hundred copies were printed. Chalmers added notes by Malone to this edition. The inscription in this copy is possibly for Ferdinand de Thinnfeld who was a curator of the Musée de Graz circa 8 0.

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50. Johnson (Samuel) Lives of the most eminent English Poets, with critical Observations on their Works. ... With Notes corrective and explanatory by Peter Cunningham. In three Volumes. John Murray. 854, half-titles, scattered foxmarks, mostly to the endpapers, pp. xxxii, 395; vii. 444; xii, 456, 8vo., slighty later half calf, the backstrips panelled in gilt and with green morocco labels with gilt lettering, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, upper joint of vol. iii just cracking at the head, good (Fleeman 79.4LP/6 a; Courtney 45-6) £180.00 ‘By far the best edition which had yet appeared’ (Courtney). This appears to be Murray’s first printing of the Lives as one of their British Classics Series.

5 . (Jones.) TENNYSON (Alfred) A welcome to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales from the Poet Laureate. Owen Jones illuminator. Day & Son lithographer to the Queen. 863, lithographed in colour and gilt throughout, with text set within flower and foliage borders, printed on one side of heavyweight leaves, foxed, fol. [8], 4to., orig. morocco-grain russet cloth,

by Day & Son, with their binding ticket on the lower pastedown, extremities rubbed, spine longitudinally gilt lettered direct, bevel edged panelled sides with gilt fillet outer border, and wide white on gilt Celtic strapwork inner border (rubbed), titled gilt on white on two oblong panels within border above and below large white on gilt strapwork device, fine diagonally ribbed white endpapers, a.e.g., sound £180.00 Seemingly, very scarce. The trite ‘official’ verse is occasionally hidden in over-elaborate letters, against a background of confusing undergrowth. This version was published in the same year as the Moxon first edition, presumably as the nineteenth-century equivalent of a more or less simultaneously published ‘special’.

52. Justinus (Marcus Junianus) Historiae Philippicae. Curante Abrahamo Gronovio. Editio secunda.

[2 volumes.] Leiden: Apud Samuel et Joannem Luchtmans. 760, each vol. with added engraved title, regular title printed in red and black, divisional half-title in vol. ii, some faint foxing and browning, pp. [xlvi], XLII, 528; [ii], 529, 034, [ 72], 8vo., nineteenth-century half calf with blue mottled paper boards, smooth backstrips divided by gilt rolls, gilt lettered direct in second compartments, patterned endpapers, bookplate of Julio Berzunza to upper pastedowns, old leather flaked, extremities rubbed, vol. i head of spine chipped, corners a bit worn, good (Dibdin II 40; Schweiger II 493; Ebert 57; Moss II 33) £150.00 The second edition of Justinus edited by Abraham Gronovius ( 695- 775), following one of 7 9.

‘These are very accurate and elegant editions, and greatly superior to all that preceded them. The latter is the more valuable...’ (Dibdin). Gronovius was only 24 when he first edited Justinus, and so this edition benefits from many corrections, additional notes, and forty-one years of accumulated editorial erudition; it was the standard edition for some time. This copy is from the library of Julio Berzunza, the scholar and collector of Alexandriana.

53. Juvenal; Persius. Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and Aulus Persius Flaccus Translated [in verse] and Illustrated, As well with Sculpture as Notes. By Barten Holyday, D.D. and late Arch-Deacon of Oxon. Oxford, Printed by W. Downing, for F. Oxlad Senior, J. Adams, and F. Oxlad Junior. 673, FIRST EDITION of the Juvenal, title-page in red and black, separate title-page to Persius section, 3 folding plates, 48 text engravings including a portrait of Juvenal, many by David Loggan, the title slightly creased from the adhesion of the bookplate on the verso, a little spotting elsewhere, lower edge of the last plate dustsoiled and slightly rumpled, pp. [xii], 34 , folio, contemp. panelled calf, rebacked, new backstrip with 5 raised bands between blind rules, black morocco label, bookplates of William Bromley (title verso) and Sir John Trollope (front pastedown), good (Morgan 496d; Wing 276: Madan 2979: Moss II 70; ESTC R 2290; Schweiger II 5 5) £500.00 Holyday’s translation of Persius, the first of that author into English, was originally published in 6 6 and went through several editions. His translation of Juvenal appears for the first time here, in this posthumous edition edited by his son-in-law William Dewey. Dewey has added illustrations in the form of both ‘learned and discursive’ notes (Madan) and engravings.

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Poetically, Holyday’s translation of Juvenal would be eclipsed shortly afterwards, with the appearance of Dryden’s versions in 693 – Dryden famously criticised Holyday’s fidelity to sense, saying ‘If rendering the exact sense of these authors, almost line for line, had been our business, Barten Holyday had done it already’ and adding ‘Holyday seized the meaning of Juvenal, but the poetry has always escaped him.’ But the importance of his translations in the history of these authors remained undimmed, as did skill and erudition with which they were rendered and annotated.

Holyday had been a student at Christ Church, Oxford, and the book is dedicated to the dean and canons of that institution; an early owner of this copy, William Bromley of Abberley, Worcestershire, also attended Christ Church and went on to be MP for Oxford University and Speaker of the House of Commons; later it belonged to Sir John Trollope, Bt, probably the younger ( st Baron Kesteven and MP for Lincolnshire), who may have also matriculated at Christ Church like his brother Edward.

54. Juvenal; Persius. Satirae. Les Satires de Juvenal et de Perse, avec des Remarques, en Latin & en François. Paris: Chez Guillaume de Luyne. 658, additional engraved title, each printed title and half-title repeated in Latin and French, text in facing pages of Latin and French, browned, some small stains, ff. [viii], 272, pp. 273-458, [20], 8vo., later sprinkled sheep, neatly rebacked preserving nineteenth-century red and black morocco labels, corners renewed, old leather chipped, sound (Morgan 538a; Schweiger II 5 7) £300.00 The second edition of this French translation of Juvenal and Persius by Michel de Marolles ( 600 68 ); the engraved title page (and indeed the spine label as well) retains the date of the first, 653.

55. Juvenal; Persius. Satyrae. [Edited by M. Maittaire]. Jacob Tonson & John Watts. 7 6, title page in red and black with woodcut device, engraved frontispiece, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, light age-toning, pp. [xlvi], 25, [ 54], 2mo., contemp. calf, backstrip with four raised bands, label lost from second compartment, sides with double blind rule and a blind roll at back, joints cracking slightly, good (Morgan 320; ESTC T92 79; Lowndes 248) £100.00 ‘A correct edition, with various readings and a good index’ (Lowndes).

56. (Juvenile. Brock.) BELL’S NEW FRENCH PICTURE CARDS . Illustrations by H.M. Brock, R.I. Text

by Marc Ceppi. Set I: elementary. I. La Salle de bain [etc.] [c. 930], 6 colour printed cards, 40x90mm., contained in orig. blue letterpress printed grey paper slipcase (minor rubbing), very good £100.00 57. (Juvenile.) CROWQUILL (Alfred, i.e. Alfred Henry Forrester) The interesting history of Cinderella or the little glass slipper. Illustrated ... (Brother Sunshine’s Series.) [Catalogued from wrapper.]

Dean. [c. 850], handcoloured wood-engravings on letterpress, 4pp. publisher’s ads. printed on pink paper bound in, text printed on one side of leaf only, ff. 8, 4to., orig. printed yellow wrappers stiffened by being pasted to outer leaves of text, dustsoiled, title and vignette on upper side, ads on lower, good £180.00 58. (Juvenile.) GRANDMA EASY’S new story about old Daddy Long-Legs. (Catalogued from wrapper.)

[The comical courtship and sad fate of old Daddy Longlegs. (Drop-title.)] Dean. [c. 850,] hand coloured illustrations on letterpress, faint water-stain in fore-edge, text printed on one side of leaf only, ff. [8], ( 70x245mm.), orig. printed pale pink wrappers, dust-soiled, title-and vignettes within frame on upper wrappers, advertisements on lower, good £250.00 59. (Juvenile.) KERNAHAN (Mary) Nothing but Nonsense. Preface by Coulson Kernahan. Illustrated

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decorated with white figures on a red ground, white cloth spine, slightly rubbed at extremities and faintly soiled, good £250.00 A collection of pleasant nonsense verse by Mary Kernahan, introduced by her brother, also a writer (most notably of the serial novel A Dead Man’s Diary), and illustrated by the young – just 6 at the time of publication – Anthony Ludovici. Ludovici began his career producing charming book illustrations, as here; later in life he would be better known for writing about and promoting fascism, racial segregation, anti-Semitism, female subordination, and eugenics, which themes were luckily combined with a complete lack of influence on either public opinion or political policy.

60. (Juvenile. Moveable.) BRAINE (Sheila E.) Moving animals. A novel book for children with verses ... Ernest Nister. [c. 900,] 6 colour lithographed illustrations of animals, each of which moves within a cage when the tab is pulled, letterpress brown printed, pp. [ 6], oblong 4to., orig. glazed boards, red cloth spine, upper side colour lithographed with title and illustration, front hinge a £300.00 little weak, early owner’s inscription on upper free endpaper, good 6 . (Juvenile. Moveable.) LOWE (Constance M.) Pictures everywhere ... Pen and ink illustrations by.

T. Cromwell Lawrence. Ernest Nister ... [c. 900,] 6 colour lithographed plates (each ‘transforms’ by means of single flap into different scene), letterpress printed in dark brown, pp. [ 6], sm.4to., orig. red cloth backed glazed boards, upper side with colour lithographed title and illustration, lower side pale cream, very good £320.00 62. (Juvenile.) THE DOLLS’ HOUSE . Ernest Nister. [c. 890], SOLE EDITION , lithographed illustrations throughout, nearly all in colour, pp. [ 4], sm.4to., orig. chromolithographed stapled card covers, pasted to outer leaves as issued, covers and leaves in the shape of a dolls’ house, with the facade of a dolls’ house printed on the front cover, some slight wear at corners, good £350.00 A rare book of verse in remarkably good condition. Not traced in NUC , or in the British and Bodleian Libraries online. Not in Osborne or Gumuchian.

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63. (Juvenile.) VERY LITTLE TALES for Very Little Children. In single syllables of three and four letters.

First series. The Fourth Edition. Edinburgh: Published by Fraser & Co. 835, woodcut frontispiece and several woodcuts in text, some faint browning, pp. 83, [ ], 24mo., orig. wave-grained green cloth, title in frame blocked in gilt on front board, extremities a little worn, front hinge just a little cracked, ticket of John Lindsay, Booksellers, Edinburgh to front pastedown, good £75.00 The first in a series of tales for young children, told in words of increasing length – the second series had four- and five-letter words, and a subsequent volume of Progressive Tales went all the way to six-, seven-, and eight-letter words.

64. Klopstock (Friedrich Gottlieb) The Messiah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Klopstock.

To which is prefixed his Introduction on Divine Poetry. [Translated by Mary and Joseph Collyer.

Two volumes bound as one.] Printed for R. and J. Dodsley. 763, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION , first and last few leaves foxed, just a little spotting otherwise, pp. xlviii, 232, [8], 299, 2mo., contemp. mottled sheep, backstrip divided by gilt rules, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest with central gilt urn tools surrounded by dots and leaf-spears, gilt chain roll along joints, marbled endpapers, lightly rubbed, front joint just cracking at head, tiny gouge at base of front board, one small shallow wormhole at lower joint, good ( ESTC T92280) £300.00 The first appearance in English of the masterwork of Klopstock, the most celebrated German poet of the late 8th century (and a favourite of Goethe). Klopstock published the first books of his religious epic Der Messias in the 740s. This prose translation in ten books was begun by Mary Collyer, and completed after her death in 762 by her husband Joseph. It was immediately popular, and ESTC records further editions of 764, 766, 769, and 77 . In 773 Klopstock rather suddenly published a final section of the poem (he had written little but elegies since the death of his wife fifteen years earlier), which was not translated into English by the Collyers and which was naturally not included in any of the numerous editions prior to that year.

65. Knight (R. P.) The Landscape, a Didactic Poem. In Three Books. Addressed to Uvedale Price, Esq., W. Bulmer. 794, FIRST EDITION , 2 folding etched plates by Pouncy after Thomas Hearne showing the newly landscaped grounds of Knight’s estate at Downton, another plate of an Etruscan brass cup, pp. [iv], 77, 4to., modern half tan calf, smooth backstrip divided into compartments by gilt bands with floral device in each, gilt lettered polished red leather label; orig. blue boards (lightly marked), orig. endpapers, early owner’s bookplate, and bookseller’s ticket on pastedown recent £850.00 owner’s book ticket on upper free endpaper, fine ( ESTC T3753 ) A spirited protest against the methods of Capability Brown and Repton. Knight argues for an alternative to the landscapers’ ‘dull, vapid, smooth, and tranquil scene’, and offers practical advice for rescuing the landscape from ‘.... th’ improver’s desolating hand.’

66. Knox (Hugh) The Moral and Religious Miscellany; or sixty-one aphoretical essays, on some of the most important Christian doctrines and virtues. New-York: Printed by Hodge and Shober.

775, FIRST EDITION , soiled, browned in places, a few leaves with edges a bit frayed, pp. viii, [9]-360, 8vo., early sheep, backstrip with five raised bands between gilt rules, neatly rebacked preserving old backstrip, new red morocco label in second compartment, one corner renewed, new endpapers, old leather scratched, showing one small surface hole on rear board, sound ( ESTC W20778; Grolier Club William Bradford 65) £250.00 The first edition of these essays by the Presbyterian minister Hugh Knox. Knox, originally from Northern Ireland, was a minister in the Caribbean islands. It was on St. Croix that he would achieve his most lasting legacy, in the form of his influence on the young Alexander Hamilton, who was working as a merchant’s clerk when Knox arrived on the island. Knox saw Hamilton’s potential, encouraged his education through tutoring and book-lending, and even arranged a subscription to send Hamilton to the mainland for a formal education. Hamilton enrolled at King’s College – now Columbia – in New York City in 774, where he almost immediately became involved in politics, the rest being, of course, history.

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67. La Beaume (Michael) Observations on the Properties of the Air-Pump Vapour Bath, in the cure of Gout, Rheumatism, Palsy, &c. with occasional remarks on the efficacy of Galvanism, in disorders of the Stomach, Liver, and Bowels, with some new and remarkable cases.

Second edition greatly enlarged. Printed by F. Warr. 8 9, PRESENTATION COPY, verso of front flyleaf inscribed ‘Lord Selsey from the author’, half-title discarded, just a touch of faint browning, pp. 0, [2], xii, [ 3]-275, 2mo., contemp. straight-grained blue roan, boards with a wide frame of blind fillets surrounded by a triple gilt fillet, backstrip with four wide raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest with filled with elaborate gilt tools, marbled edges and endpapers, the joints and corners slightly rubbed, very good (Wellcome III p. 423) £300.00 An attractively-bound presentation copy of the ‘medical galvanist’ Michael La Beaume’s enlarged account of two somewhat ‘alternative’ medical treatments: the air-pump vapour-bath, which combined vacuum cupping with a steam bath, and Galvanism, in which the affected part was submerged in a water-bath imbued with a mild electrical current. La Beaume records the efficacy of these methods for a wide variety of afflictions, and was sufficiently successful at either treatment or self-promotion (or both) that in 83 he was appointed Medical Galvinist and Electrician in Ordinary to the King. The Lord Selsey to whom the book was presented was Henry John Peachey, 3rd Baron Selsey ( 787- 838), a Captain in the Royal Navy.

68. [La Rochefoucauld (François, duc de)] Memoires de la Minorité de Louis XIV. [Edited by Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye.] Villefranche: Chez Jean de Paul. 688, FIRST AMELOT EDITION , title printed in red and black, a dampmark to corner of last few leaves, just a little browned elsewhere, pp. [viii], 342, [2], 2mo., contemp. marbled paper boards, recently rebacked to style in mid-brown calf, backstrip with five raised bands between double blind fillets, red morocco label in second compartment, old paper rubbed, good (Tchemerzine VII 48) £300.00 The first edition of La Rochefoucauld’s ‘memoirs’ as edited by Amelot de la Houssaye ( 634- 706). La Rochefoucauld denied authorship of the memoirs attributed to him in his lifetime, and inded it seems the text, especially as published in the seventeenth century, was a salmagundi of various political memoirs only parts of which were his. Despite his protests, it was popular and frequently reprinted, and in 688 this new and unusual edition was produced by Amelot de la Houssaye.

Amelot had recently translated and edited Machiavelli’s The Prince, taking the unusual step of providing frequent parallel passages from ancient historians, particularly Tacitus. These parallels bolstered the authority of the modern writer, and also suggested a particular Tacitean interpretation.

Amelot did the same in this edition of La Rochefoucauld, adding nearly 350 footnoted passages of classical parallels, of which all but a few refer to Tacitus. Like the standard edition, it was very popular, being republished in the same year in two volumes and again in 689 and 690.

69. Lamb (Charles and Mary) Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the use of young persons.

Embellished with copper plates. In two volumes. Printed for Thomas Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Library. 807, FIRST EDITION , first issue, printer’s imprint on p. 235 verso, ads with Hanway-Street address, twenty engraved plates, just a little faint spotting in a few places, one leaf with a very small neat repair to blank area, pp. ix, [3], 235; [iv], 26 , [3], 2mo., finely bound in brick-red

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crushed morocco by Riviere, backstrips with five giltmilled raised bands, second and third compartments gilt lettered direct, the rest with gilt decoration including acorn and leaf tools, boards with a triple gilt fillet border, turn-ins richly gilt, marbled endpapers, edges untrimmed, red cloth slipcase, near fine (Thomson XIX; Roff p.60) £1,400.00 The first edition of Charles and Mary Lamb’s popular and lasting prose adaptations of selected Shakespeare plays, published under Charles’s name (though Mary, as is well known, wrote half the preface and adapted the comedies, which make up the majority of the work), in a fine binding

by Riviere & Son. The plates are sometimes said to be after William Mulready and sometimes said to be engraved by William Blake, though neither attribution has been firmly established.

70. (Latin Prosody.) SMET (Henrich) Prosodia ... promptissima, quae syllabarum positione & diphthongis carentium, quantitates sola veterum poetarum autorite, adductis exemplis, demonstrat. Ab autore reformata ... Editio prioribus multo correctior ... Cum appendice ...

Typis T.R. pro Societate Stationariorum. 668, lightly browned and spotted, title-page soiled, ink trials on verso of last leaf, pp. [xxxii], 544, 8vo., contemp. dark blind-ruled calf, rebacked and recornered, backstrip with raised bands between double blind rules, second and fifth compartments gilt-lettered direct, the old calf a bit chipped, hinges neatly reinforced, front free endpaper torn short, the stub with Repton School stamps on it, various ink trials on both endpapers, printed Latin book label of Repton School, sound ( ESTC R42824) £150.00 For some time the major reference work of Latin prosody, first printed in 599 and reprinted more than 50 times by the 8th century. Smet (or Smetius), physician and professor of medicine at Heidelberg, lists Latin words and proper names alphabetically with indications of vowel length, and for each one provides an example line of poetry to indicate the source of the quantities. He ‘appears to have been the first to determine, systematically and ex professo, the quantity of names, both common and proper, by metrical quotations’ ( C of E Quart. Rev. , vol. xx, 846, p. 502).

The First Folio Edition of the Leibnitz-Clarke Correspondence 7 . (Leibniz.) CLARKE (Samuel) The works of Samuel Clarke, D.D. late Rector of St. James’s Westminster. In four volumes ... containing sermons on several subjects: with a preface, giving some account of the life, writings, and character of the author: by Benjamin, now Bishop of Winchester. 4 Vols. Printed for John and Paul Knapton in Ludgate-Street. 738, FIRST EDITION , additional title-page to each volume, waterstain at head of preliminary and final leaves in vols. -3, marginal notes on letterpress, pp. [viii], xxiv, 728; [xii], 758, [30]; [xii], 926; [xii], xiv, 740, folio, contemp. full dark calf, backstrips divided into seven compartments by raised bands between double gilt rules, gilt lettered morocco labels (missing on vol.2) in second compartments, paper labels gilt lettered and decorated in third (missing from vol. 3), remainder empty, rubbed sides with double gilt fillet border, some cracking of joints at head and tail of backstrips with wear to board extremities, red sprinkled and polished edges, engraved armorial bookplates of the Eardley family, sound ( ESTC T 450 4; Graesse II p. 92; Lowndes I p.473)

£595.00 Samuel Clarke ( 675- 729) was one of the leading figures in eighteenth century Britain. After a Cambridge education, where be became a friend and disciple of Isaac Newton, Clarke took holy orders and was quick to establish his reputation as a preacher. His aim was to reconstruct religion and ethics on the basis of Newtonian science and the power of human reason. Through his publications and lectures (very often from the pulpit), he ultimately became the main representative of the Rationalist wing of English philosophy in the early eighteenth century. Clarke was considered the greatest

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metaphysician in England when Locke died in 704, and he was subsequently called upon to deliver the Boyle lectures in 704 and 705 (both series are included in this set) during which he mounted what is considered one of the most powerful versions of the cosmological argument for the existence of God ever attempted.

This posthumously published work was edited by Clarke’s younger brother John Clarke, dean of Salisbury and mathematician in his own right. Included is a preface by Bishop Benjamin Hoadly of Winchester and a dedication to the Queen by Clarke’s widow Catherine. The edition also contains Clarke’s very extensive and important correspondence with Leibniz, a letter to Hoadly, numerous sermons, tracts and other essays on baptism, confirmation, and repentance; his correspondence with the free-thinker Anthony Collins ( 676- 729), plus Clarke’s review of Collins’ 707 book on determinism and free will. Included too, are Clarke’s writings on moral philosophy in which he argues that moral principles can be known by reason alone to be as certain as the propositions of mathematics.

72. Lewis (Matthew Gregory) Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies. John Murray. 845, one or two light spots, pp. viii, 84, 8vo., contemp. half mid-brown calf, marbled boards (the paper worn at board edges), stitching slightly strained at title, covers a little bit marked, early ownership inscription to front flyleaf, good £50.00 An account of visits to his inherited Jamaican slave plantations by Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis, author of the famous Gothic novel. This version is abridged from the journals first published by Murray in 834 (posthumously – Lewis died aboard ship returning from one such visit); the abridgement cuts out more general travel commentary and some of Lewis’s poems, in order to focus on the people he met and stayed with, including his slaves and other inhabitants.

73. Lingard (John) The History of England, from the first Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of William and Mary in 688. The sixth edition, revised and considerably enlarged. In ten volumes [bound in five]. Charles Dolman. 855, frontispieces and numerous plates, pp. x, 278; xii, 3 4; ix, [i], 269; xii, 299; viii, 272; ix, [i], 368; viii, 326; x, [xxxviii], 278; xii, 3 4, 8vo., contemp. red half pebblegrain roan, the backstrips panelled in gilt and with gilt lettering, marbled edges and endpapers, the boards a little marked, good £120.00 74. Lloyd (Nathaniel) A History of the English House from primitive times to the Victorian period.

Architectural Press. [ 949], numerous illustrations from photographs, ownership signature on front pastedown, pp.vii, [ii], 487 orig. green buckram, the backstrip and front cover lettered in gilt, backstirp and lower cover sunned, hinges split, sound £140.00 The corrected edition of this classic work on the English house by the architectural historian and owner of Great Dixter. Lloyd laid out the famous garden and commissioned Edwin Lutyens to make alterations to the house. He also wrote on English Brickwork.

75. Locker (Frederick) Patchwork. Smith, Elder, & Co. 879, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, printed presentation leaf inscribed to F.S. Ellis and signed by Locker, with ‘who was never a’ added by hand before printed ‘Member of the Philobiblon Society’, portrait postcard of Locker pasted to verso of front flyleaf and autograph letter (on black-bordered stationery) by Locker tipped in, bookplate of Holbrook Jackson loosely inserted, pp. [ii], viii, 3, 234, [2], 8vo., contemp. brown cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, boards with a frame of blind fillets and a central blind lozenge, edges untrimmed, rear hinge cracking, bumped, a touch worn at extremities, covers dampmarked, sound £40.00 A presentation copy which links two and possibly three bookmen: Locker compiled this commonplace book from his connections in literary society (he was friendly with Trollope, Thackeray, Tennyson, Dickens, the Brownings, et al.) and his notable library, which was catalogued after this death by his

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son-in-law Augustine Birrell. He presented this copy to Frederick Startridge Ellis, a bookseller and bibliographer, for many years the official buyer for the British Museum. It may later have come into the possession of Holbrook Jackson, bibliophile and author of The Anatomy of Bibliomania .

76. Longinus. The Works of Dionysius Longinus, on the Sublime: or, a Treatise concerning the Sovereign Perfection of Writing.

Translated from the Greek. With some Remarks on the English Poets. By Mr. Welsted. Sam Briscoe; sold by John Graves and Owen Lloyd. 7 2, FIRST EDITION of this translation, a few minor foxspots, pp. xiv, [ 0], 92, 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, double gilt fillet borders on sides, backstrip with five raised bands, brown morocco label in second compartment, the rest plain, minor crack at the foot of the upper joint, bookplate of Viscount Lymington, very good ( ESTC N2589 : Alston VI 23; Moss II 230) £850.00 One of the first published works of the poet Leonard Welsted (like a number of his contemporaries, now chiefly remembered for being satirised by Pope), a prose version of the treatise on the sublime attributed to Longinus (the actual author is unknown). The treatise was rediscovered by aesthetic critics and philosophers in the seventeenth century, and Boileau’s 674 French translation, likely consulted by Welsted, brought it new recognition in Europe. William Smith’s English version, published 739, is often given credit for doing the same in Britain, but this edition has priority, and appeared the same year as Addison, in the Spectator, effectively defined the sublime in nature, marking the beginning of an era in landscape painting.

At the end of this translation is an original essay by Welsted on the sublime as applied to English poets, particularly Shakespeare and Milton but also Dryden, Cowley, and Fletcher.

A Numismatic Novelty 77. Lowndes (William) A Report Containing an Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coins.

Printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb... 695, FIRST EDITION , some restoration of page corners, mainly to the slightly foxed preliminary and end leaves, light browning throughout page block; letterpress title-page with woodcut of the Royal Coat of Arms, woodcut initial letters in floral designs, marginal notes, pp. 59, [ ], 8vo., contemp. black morocco, expertly rebacked, backstrip with raised bands gilt lettered direct in second compartment, remainder with floral gilt design; sides with double gilt fillet border, central panel gilt fillet bordered with gilt floral design and elaborate gilt fleuron cornerpieces, corner tips replaced, marbled endpapers, rehinged with matching marbled paper repair work on pastedowns, a.e.g., very good ( ESTC R3908 ; Wing L3323; Einaudi 3526; Goldsmiths’ 3 3 ; Kress 908; Lowndes 406) £900.00 Given the elaborate nature of the binding, this report was perhaps bound for presentation to a member of society to whom the work was important, possibly even a member of parliament. The author (Treasury official William Lowndes, 652- 724) became Secretary to the Treasury in 695 and is remembered for his involvement, in the mid 690s, in one of the United Kingdom’s early financial crises. By the end of the seventeenth century, the practice of clipping silver coinage had become widespread. ‘Clippers’ would scrape away small portions of silver from the edges of coins and illicitly pocket the proceeds before passing the coins back into circulation. The financial crisis deepened as Britain became embroiled in the Nine Years War against France, hammered silver coinage dwindled to 50% of its issued weight and people attempted to hoard what little gold coinage they were able to acquire instead. Even the introduction of mechanization to produce milled edge coinage could not halt the decline, and the task of resolving the problem was left to Lowndes and his Treasury. This book was the result: Lowndes proposed to raise the value of all silver coin by 25% (much to the dismay of John Locke), and his published investigation was then circulated to both Houses of Parliament.

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78. Ludlow (Edmund) Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq: Lieutenant General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, one of the Council of State, and a Member of the Parliament which began on November 3, 640. In two volumes. [with] ... The third and last Part.

With a Collection of original Papers, serving to confirm and illustrate many important passages of this and the preceeding volumes. To which is added a Table of the whole work. Switzerland, printed at Vivay. 698/9, FIRST EDITION , engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, vols. i and ii are paged continuously, vol. ii with divisional half-title at the beginning as required, some foxing, pp. viii, 430; [ii], 435-878; viii, [ii], 402, [56], 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked, backstrips with five raised bands, red morocco labels and numeral roundels with gilt lettering, the sides panelled in blind, good (Wing L3460; ESTC R 476) £480.00 Ludlow, army officer and regicide, matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, in 634 and was one of the most extreme critics of the crown. To him the parliamentary cause was God’s cause, to be understood in providentialist and apocalyptic terms. He believed in the almost total separation of church and state. Convinced of the danger of a treaty with the king he urged Ireton and Fairfax to put an end to the proposed negotiation by force, and was one of the chief promoters of Pride’s Purge in December 648.

He was appointed one of the king’s judges, was present at eleven meetings of the court, and his name is the fortieth in the list of those who signed the king’s death warrant. Charles’s execution was to Ludlow a righteous use of the sword, demanded by biblical injunction, to punish tyranny and bloodguilt. The recall of the Long Parliament (7 May 659) and the re-establishment of the Commonwealth made Ludlow a man of great importance.

The third part was published separately and therefore is not always found with the first two volumes.

79. Martial (Marcus Valerius) Epigrammata [edited by Michael Mattaire]. Jacob Tonson, & John Watts. 7 6, title page in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, engraved frontispiece, faint browning at beginning and end, pp. [xiv], 288, [52], 2mo., contemp. calf, backstrip with four raised bands, label lost from second compartment, sides with double blind rule and blind roll at back, a little marked, lower joint just cracking at foot, spine darkened, good ( ESTC T94263; Schweiger II 599; Lowndes 488) £120.00 ‘A neat and correct edition, with a valuable index’ (Lowndes).

80. Mayhew (Henry) London Labour and the London Poor; [...] Those That Will Not Work.

Comprising Prostitutes, Thieves, Swindlers, Beggars. [The ‘Extra Volume’ only.] Griffin, Bohn, and Company, 862, FIRST EDITION of this part, frontispiece and 5 other engraved plates, one gathering toned, just a little spotting otherwise, pp. xl, 504, 8vo., orig. purple cloth, boards blocked in blind with a frame patter, central gilt title to front board, spine blocked in gilt with a lamppost vignette and title in frame, neatly rebacked with original backstrip preserved, hinges relined, lightly sunned, extremities just scuffed, bookplate of Christopher Knox, good £150.00 In 85 Mayhew published the first two volumes of his masterwork in 85 , after which it was ‘suspended, in consequence, as Mr. Mayhew states, of its having been thrown into the Court of Chancery, owing to the claims of contending parties arising from matters over which the author had no control’ ( Knight’s English Cyclopaedia ). It was reprinted with the addition of a third volume in 86 , and in 862 this volume, blocked on the spine as the ‘Extra Volume’, finally completed the work. The first volumes take as their subject ‘The Street-Folk’, while this volume is complete in itself, covering the third portion of the subtitle, ‘those that will not work’.

A capable and popular physician 8 . (Medicine.) FULLER (Thomas) Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea: or, a Body of Medicines, containing a Thousand select Prescripts, answering most intentions of Cure. To which are added ... a catalogue of Remedies and copious Index, for the Assistance of young Physicians. The second Edition, with large Additions. William Innys. 7 4, pp. [xviii], 3, [ ], 5 2, [32], 8vo., contemp.

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Cambridge pane calf with sprinkled and plain panels, the backstrip with five raised bands and remnant of a paper label, the head cap weak, fine ( ESTC T 2 458) £350.00 Dr Fuller’s collections of prescriptions and remedies proved both useful and popular. Extemporanea was subsequently translated into French and German and published in Venice, Lausanne, Louvain, Amsterdam, and Paris.

In February 679 Fuller had been admitted as an extra-licenciate of the Royal College of Physicians.

He then established himself at Sevenoaks in Kent. Ten years after his arrival he bought the Red House, a new brick building set back from the high street; he remained there for the rest of his life, his practice drawn from the town itself and from wealthy invalids visiting Tunbridge Wells. The Red House features as an engraving, dated 7 9, in John Harris’s History of Kent .

82. (Medicine.) GENATHIUS (Joannes Jacobus, editor) Decas I[-VII]. Disputationum Medicarum Select. [7 parts in volume.] Basel: [J.J. Genathius] 6 8-3 , bound without Disp. V in Decas II (8 pp.), woodcut devices to section titles, two small wormholes in margin of first 50 leaves (once or twice touching a character), just a little minor staining and spotting, pp. [ 84], [ 84], [ 56], [ 60], [ 68], [ 92], [2 6], 4to., contemp. vellum, yapp edges, vellum tabs at each section, all edges blue, bowed and a bit soiled, sound ( VD 7 23:632535Y) £800.00 A substantially complete collection of this rare series of dissertations from the medical faculty at Basel between 60 and 629, grouped in seven parts with 0- 2 dissertations per part. The dissertations cover a wide range of topics, including scurvy, melancholy, kidney stones, arthritis, gout, epilepsy, female sterility, tumors, haemorrhoids, typhus (the ‘Hungarian disease’), bloody sputum, and venereal disease. This copy seems to have been bound without one dissertation in part II, on jaundice, but is otherwise complete.

We are aware of only 3 institutions holding all 7 parts: the British Library, Herzog August Bibliothek, and University Library Basel. COPAC locates 3 other partial copies in the UK (4 parts in the Bodleian, incomplete part in New College Oxford, 5 parts in Nat. Lib. Scot.); VD 7 lists two other libraries, in Göttingen and Dresden, with 6 and 4 parts; Worldcat adds only the National Library of Medicine in Maryland, with 6 parts. We have been unable to trace any further listings in the Swiss union catalogues RERO or NEBIS .

83. (Medicine.) MONTMAHOU (E. de) Manuel médico-légal des Poisons, précédé de considérations sur l’Empoisonnement; des moyens de le constater; du résultat d’expériences faites sur l’acétate de morphine et les autres alcalis végétaux. Suivi d’une Méthode de traiter les Morsures des Animaux ... Paris: chez Compère Jeune. 824, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates the majority of poisonous plants but including a rabid dog, snake, and 5 of mushrooms, half-title with ownership signature, a little dampstaining towards the end, endpapers slightly browned, pp. xv, 376, 6mo., contemp. half calf, flat backstrip with gilt fillets and black morocco label with gilt lettering, sound £180.00 A useful manual on poisons including properties and treatments.

84. (Medicine.) QUINCY (John) Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea: or, a complete English Dispensatory, in two Parts. Theoretical and Practical. Part I ... Book I. Of ... Pharmacy.

Book II. Of the ... Medicinal Virtues, &c. of Simples. Part II. In Five Books. Book I. ... Simples.

Book II. Of Saline Preparations. Book III. Of Metalline Preparations. Book IV. Of Official Compositions; containing all the Prescriptions of the London ... Pharmacopoeias ... Book V. Of Extemporanaeous Prescriptions. The Thirteenth Edition, much enlarged and corrected. T. Longman. 76 , with the ownership cypher of Lieut. Col. Pepper inside the front cover, pp. [ii], xxiii, 704, [64], 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, the backstrip with five raised bands ruled with double gilt fillets, russet morocco label with gilt lettering, one or two small scuffs, fine ( ESTC T 26862) £350.00

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Quincy’s English Dispensatory was the key reference tool for several decades, being a complete account of the materia medica and of therapeutics. Indeed many of the prescriptions contained in it had long-lasting popularity. It is remarkable that such a book of daily and repeated use should have survived in such good condition.

A Manual on Surgery 85. (Medicine. Surgery) MIHLES (Samuel) The Elements of Surgery. In which are contained all the essential and necessary Principles of the Art; with an Account of the Nature and Treatment of Chirurgical Disorders, and a Description of Operations, Bandages, Instruments, and Dressings, according to the modern and most approved Practice. ... The Second Edition, altered and considerably augmented with several of the latest Improvements in Practice and Operations by Alexander Reid. For Robert Horsfield. 764, 8 folding engraved plates shaowing surgical equipment, bandages and leg amputation, with contemp. ownership inscription inside the front cover by ‘T. Baker Junr. 768’, listing another medical work, and with his neat ink stamp at the foot of the title, and one manuscript annotation in the same hand on p. 35, an occasional scattering of foxmarks, pp. [xiii], 368, [8], (index), 4, 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked in style, the backstrip panelled with gilt fillets, maroon morocco label with gilt lettering, the sides with single gilt fillet borders, good ( ESTC N9 44; Wellcome IV, 33) £600.00 A practical and useful guide to treatments and surgery arranged by subject in a series of questions and answers, for example ‘How do you treat a disclocation of the Femur?’. At the end is an early, four-page proposal relating to Smallpox: ‘Proposals for a Subscription to support a plan for inoculating persons in private apartments, at a moderate expense’ put forward by Alexander Reid, who was Assistant Surgeon to Chelsea Hospital.

First and only Aldine edition 86. Mela (Pomponius, et al.) Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor de regionibus urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de Situ orbis. Prisciano Interprete. Venice: in Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri. 5 8, FIRST ALDINE EDITION , final blank leaf (G3) discarded (though q8 – blank – and G4 – blank except for anchor device – both present), some faint foxing, title and last leaf a bit dusty, first three leaves with a small repair in blank area, last two leaves with with gutters neatly reinforced, ff. 233, [2], 8vo., eighteenth-century speckled calf, backstrip with five raised bands, red morocco labels (slightly damaged) in second and third compartments, edges mottled red, marbled endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown covered with old paper, rebacked with orig. backstrip (slightly chipped) laid down, a little rubbed, small repair to one corner, good (Adams M 053; Renouard 5 8.6; Goldsmid 52; Dibdin II 355) £1,750.00 The sole Aldine edition of these geographical works, edited by Francesco Asolano and comprising: The Cosmographia, sive de situ orbis of Pomponius Mela (c. 43 AD ), the earliest surviving Latin treatise on geography; The Polyhistor of Julius Solinus (c. 350 AD ), mostly adapted from Mela and Pliny’s Natural History ; The second printed edition of the Antonine Itinerary (probably c. 300 AD ), a valuable register of distances between locations in the empire; An alphabetical list of place-names in Roman poetry attributed to Vibius Sequester (4th or 5th century AD ); The editio princeps of ‘Publius Victor’, most likely a 5th-century literary forgery giving a topographical description of Rome; A Latin translation of the Periegesis of Dionysius Afer, a st-century AD Greek world geography.

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87. (Meteorology.) BARTHOLOMEW (J.G.) Atlas of Meteorology. A Series of over Four Hundred Maps.

Edinburgh: The Royal Geographical Society. 899, FIRST EDITION , coloured frontispiece and 34 double-page plates, each with multiple maps, a few minor spots, pp. [viii], 40, [2], xiv, folio, orig. half dark blue textured cloth, lighter blue cloth boards, front board and spine gilt-lettered direct, very good £225.00 Although the half-title and spine lettering declares this to be ‘Vol. III’ of the Physical Atlas , that was an ill-fated project and the present volume was the first of only two completed volumes. (The other was Vol. V, Zoogeography, twelve years later.) Bartholomew, part of a dynasty of cartographers (starting with his grandfather and continuing to his grandson, all named ‘John Bartholomew’), was the top cartographer of his time, holder of a royal warrant, and the introducer of the coloured contour layer map. This volume features a large number of delicately coloured meteorological maps and, by virtue of collecting all the recent developments in the field during a time of great discovery, played a large part in the development of meteorology into a modern science.

88. (Midlands.) MARSHALL (William) The rural Economy of the Midland Counties; including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs: together with Minutes on Agriculture and Planting in the District of the Midland Station. [Two volumes in one]. Dublin: J. Moore. 793, FIRST IRISH EDITION , pp. [viii], 280; [viii] 287, [ ], 8, 8vo., contemp. tree calf, backstrip ruled in gilt, red morocco label with gilt lettering, headcap weak, corners knocked, nick to lower joint, good ( ESTC T207325; Fussell II, p. 8; cf. Perkins 5 ) £375.00 The fourth of six ambitious works in which Marshall single-handedly attempted an agricultural survey of the whole of England. It was in these volumes that Marshall first proposed the establishment of a Board of Agriculture, a plan that was carried out the year this Dublin edition was printed. The Dublin edition of this title is rare, ESTC records five copies in the UK .

The most popular Gardener’s Calendar of the eighteenth century.

89. Miller (Philip) The Gardener’s Kalendar; directing what Works are necessary to be performed every month in the Kitchen, Fruit and Pleasure-Gardens, and also in the Conservatory and Nursery: shewing . The particular Seasons for Propagating ... II. The proper Seasons fro Transplanting all sorts of Trees, Shrubs and Plants ... The Fourteenth Edition. For the Author,

by John Rivington [etc.] 765, engraved frontispiece showing helpful spirits in the garden and 5 folding plates showing the growth of vegetables and various plants, pp. xv, [i], 50, 376, [22], 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, the backstrip with five raised bands ruled in gilt, double gilt fillet borders on sides, fine (cf. Hunt 5 3) £200.00 Originally published in 732, the Gardener’s Kalender was translated into German in 750 and Dutch in 772. The author was Gardener at The Chelsea Physick Gardens.

90. Millington (John) An epitome of the elementary principles of natural and experimental philosophy. Part the first. Comprehending the general properties of matter, mechanics, pneumatics, acoustics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, and a copious account of the invention, progress, and present state of the steam engine. Printed for and sold by the author; 823, FIRST EDITION , hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, thirteen folding lithographed plates, scant foxing of final leaves, pp. vii, 358, 8vo. half tan calf by Carrs & Coy, Glasgow, backstrip divided by gilt low bands into six compartments, gilt lettered morocco label in second, remainder with centrally placed gilt thistle tool and tulip cornerpieces, linen texture cloth sides with gilt stamped motif of Glasgow High School on upper board, marbled edges and endpapers, Glasgow High School bookplate, binders small ticket on verso of front free endpaper, good £250.00 By the time John Millington ( 779- 868) published the present work in 823, he had already jointly edited the Quarterly Journal of Science , written papers on street illumination and hydraulic rams, obtained a patent for a ship’s propeller, and established the Hammersmith Iron Works. Millington had proposed a second volume, but when he emigrated to the United States in 829, the project was

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shelved. Instead, the engineer worked on his eight-volume Elements of Civil Engineering (published 839) which helped establish him as a key figure in the history of American engineering.

9 . Milton (John) The Poetical Works. With Notes of Various Authors. To which are added illustrations, and some Account of the Writings of John Milton. ... The Second Edition, with considerable Additions and with a verbal Index to the whole of Milton’s Poetry. In Seven Volumes. For J. Johnson, R. Baldwin [etc.]. 809, engraved portrait frontispiece in vol.i by J. Collyer and 2 plates, occasional light foxing, 8vo., contemp. tree calf, neatly rebacked, the backstrips attractively gilt in compartments with repeated tooling and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, bookplates of M. Harris, good £700.00 Rev. Todd’s edition of Milton’s poetical works ‘is a most admirable one, both in the biographical part of it and where he appears in the character of editor and annotator’ (Allibone, 300). This is the only edition to contain Todd’s Concordance and also includes extensive notes and critical essays by Addison and Dr. Johnson.

Montaigne’s Essays 92. Montaigne (Michel de) Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne. Edition nouvelle enrichie d’annotations en marge; corrigée, & augmentée d’un tiers outre les precedentes impressions.

Auec une table tres-ample des noms & matieres remarquables & signalées. Plus la vie de l’autheur extraite de ses propres escrits. Paris: avec privilege du Roy ... chez Michel Nivelle. 6 , engraved title-page mounted on a stub (contemp. ink ownership inscriptions at head and tail of title), woodcut headpieces, woodcut initial letters, engraved frontispiece portrait of Montaigne, marginal notes on letterpress, minor ms. ink underlining throughout in contemp.hand, pp. [ 2], 29 [i.e.

087], [37], 8vo., late nineteenth century dark green crushed morocco by J. Kauffmann, backstrip (faded to brown) divided into five compartments by low double raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, remainder empty, some fading to brown of sides (extremities lightly rubbed), double gilt fillet on board edges, turn-ins with alternating gilt quatrefoil-style ornaments and blackstamped foliate design, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled with later gilt overlay, ribbon marker, ink notes on preliminary blank leaf, very good £835.00 This edition was issued under several imprints, all scarce, including those of Nivelle, Rigaud, Petitpas, and Sevestre; COPAC locates only copy of any imprint in the UK , the Rigaud ( BL ); Worldcat adds seven further copies: a Petit-pas in the UK ( KCL ), two Nivelles in Germany, two Sevestres in the USA , one Rigaud in Canada, and an unspecified imprint in Sweden. Both Brunet and Graesse mention a Michel Nivelle-published 608 edition, however this reprint of the ‘Edition Nouvelle’ from 6 is not noted.

Montaigne first published his Essais in 580. He continued to revise and extend the work up until his death in 592. The tasks of editorship and publication then passed to the writer Marie de Jars de Gournay ( 565- 645), to whom Montaigne was mentor. She worked on the posthumous editions of the Essais and edited numerous editions of the work between 598 and 6 . She is mentioned in the book as Montaigne’s ‘fille d’alliance’. Seemingly in keeping with earlier editions, the book contains various errors in paging, most notable are pp. 606-736 wrongly numbered 608-738 and pp. 737- 087 wrongly numbered 779- 29.

93. Montanus (Benedictus Arias) Thvbal-cain, sive, de mesuris sacris. Liber voluminibus ditincus.

De Cvbito. De Satho. De Siclo. Antwerp: excudebat Christophorus Plantinus. 572, Plantin’s large woodcut device on the title, scattered rustmarks on the second leaf, two single wormholes through upper blank corners, rectangular engraving of seals etc. on the last leaf signed ‘Philipp.

Gal.’ pp. 23 [i.e. 9], folio, modern marbled boards, cream backstrip, good (Adams M 663: cf.

Darlow & Moule 422 ) £750.00 Benedictus Arias ( 527-98), called Montanus, from his birthplace Frexenal de la Sierra, was general editor of the Plantin Polyglot Bible of 569-72, and one of the most learned oriental scholars of his time.

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to the Council of Trent. From his retirement in Aracena he was summoned by the King to edit the Polyglot Bible, and, as a result, produced the work above. It is a study of biblical weights and measures extracted from the Antwerp Polyglot, once more printed by the famous Antwerp printer, Plantin.

94. Morris (William) Signs of Change. Seven lectures delivered on various occasions. Reeves and Turner. 888, FIRST EDITION , one leaf of undated ads at front and another at rear, a few foxspots and marginal pencil ticks, portrait of Morris from a newspaper pasted to verso of half-title, another image tipped to verso of contents leaf, pp. [ii], viii, [ii], 202, [2], 8vo., orig. dark red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, boards with a single blind fillet border, booklabel and ownership inscription of Holbrook Jackson to front endpapers, slightly bumped and scuffed at extremities, good (Buxton Foreman 04; Scott p. 26) £120.00 Seven essays by William Morris, two of which appear in print for the first time here. The copy of author and bibliophile Holbrook Jackson, who wrote several books about Morris.

95. (Mountaineering.) BALL (John) & Edward Shirley Kennedy, editors. Peaks, Passes and Glaciers. A series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. ... [First and] Second Series.

[In three volumes]. Longman, Brown, Green [etc.]. 859 - 862, FIRST EDITIONS , the First Series with title vignette, 8 coloured plates and 9 maps; the Second with title vignette, plates and 4 maps, half-titles, pp. xvi, 5 6, 2, 24; xiv, 4 5; viii, 54 , 8vo., orig. brown diaper grain cloth, the backstrips lettered in gilt, the front covers with mountaineering scenes in gilt, minor wear, extremities bumped, one or two nicks, the First Series neatly repaired at head, foot and joints, the £650.00 Second Series with hinges cracked but still strong, sound (Neate A34) ‘One of the most famous titles in mountaineering literature’. Ball was the first president of the Alpine Club and his traveler’s guide to the Alps was the standard work for many years (Cox, Classics in the Literature of Mountaineering and Mountain Travel ). A Third Series was published in 932.

96. Nares (Robert) A Glossary; or a collection of words, phrases, names and allusions to customs, proverbs, &c. which have been thought to require illustration in the works of English authors particularly Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Robert Triphook. 822, FIRST EDITION , text printed in double columns, library’s small stamps to preliminary leaves, minor foxing particularly to preliminary and final leaves, pp.viii, 583,[2], 4to. near contemp. half tan calf, backstrip gilt ruled between blind roll with gilt morocco label, (one missing), lightly rubbed marbled sides, red sprinkled and polished edges, good (Lowndes 650; Cambridge New Bib. of Eng. Lit. 66 ) £180.00 The author’s principal work and perhaps the culmination of a lifetime of scholarly research into English literature and philology, published some years prior to Nares’ death in 829. Halliwell and Wright described their edited edition of 859 as ‘indispensible to readers of Elizabethan Literature’.

97. (New Zealand. Mountaineering.) HARPER (Arthur P.) Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand.

A record of the first exploration of the chief glaciers and ranges of the Southern Alps. T. Fisher Unwin. 896, FIRST EDITION , half-title, frontispiece (with tissue-guard), colour printed folding map (minor handling tear), 39 black and white photographic plates, pp.xvi, 336, 8vo., orig. blue buckram, faded gilt lettered backstrip chipped at head and tail, gilt lettered vellum title insert within gilt border on front board, blue black endpapers (faint bookplate removal scar on front pastedown), hinges strained, ownership inscription of A.E. Western dated 900 on verso of front free endpaper, dust dimmed foredge, t.e.g., sound (Neate 3; Hocken p.434) £120.00 Hocken notes: ‘Extending from 889 to 895, in the Tasman district of the Southern Alps, with the valleys and glaciers of the West Coast. Full of observation, adventure, and advice as to the best means of contending with the exigencies of such exploration.’ Harper was a member of the Alpine Club and Vice President of the New Zealand Alpine Club. He participated in many of the first explorations of these parts.

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Steam Trains 98. Nister (Ernest), publisher. The Train Scrap Book. London: Ernest Nister and New York: E. P. Dutton. [c. 899?], lithographed title, 39 full-page illustrations of trains, 30 of them chromolithographed, one double-page, a little light-staining to the edges, tiny rustmarks around hinges and one or two small tears to edges, stitching weak, ff. [20], oblong 4to., orig. clothbacked pictorial boards, with a chromolithographed train and the title on the front cover, slightly rubbed, corners knocked, good £400.00 A delightful, and scarce, children’s picture book on trains. COPAC lists only three copies: British Library, Bodleian (Opie) and the National Library of Scotland. It includes chromolithographs of New York Central Railway, Hudson River Railway, Canadian Pacific and an Australian train.

Ernest Nister was one of the most notable publishers of movable picture books and chromolithographed childrens’ books. Although based in Germany, where he was influenced by the high standards of chromolithographed printing there, he set up an office in London and provided many designs for a variety of novelties, including pop-up panoramas and revolving pictures.

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99. Ogilvie (John) Rona, A Poem, ... Rona, A Poem, in Seven Books, illustrated with a Correct Map of the Hebrides, and Elegant Engravings. John Murray, ... T. Bensley, et al. 777, FIRST EDITION , copper-engraved frontispiece by W. Hamilton, engraving above letterpress text on dedication page, the poem is divided into seven ‘books’ each with engraved frontispiece (two by Isaac Taylor) and letterpress half-title, all lightly offset, folding map of the Hebrides by Armstrong, xv, [ ], 2 9, [ ] (advert.), 4to. ( ESTC T2707) [Bound with] Mason (William) The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy translated into English verse ... with annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds. York: A. Ward. 783, FIRST EDITION , index and

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appendices, errata, printed marginal notes, pp. xix, [ ], 2 3, [2], 4to. ( ESTC T2246 ; CBEL 670; Hilles 290, Rothschild 40 ) [and] Huddesford (George) Salmagundi; a Miscellaneous Combination of Original Poetry : consisting of Illusions of Fancy; Amatory, Elegaic, Lyrical, Epigrammatical, and other palatable ingredients. T. Bensley, 79 , pp. [viii], 5 , [2], 4to. ( ESTC T47038; Lowndes 33; CBEL 660) contemp. half-bound tan calf, marbled boards lightly rubbed (less so on front board), wear to corner tips, gilt lettered and decorated red morocco label, backstrip gilt ruled between raised bands, gilt numeral ‘5’ in third compartment, engraved bookplate of J. Comyns Wood, good £550.00 Ogilvie’s earliest works were published in 753, these were brief in length and included odes, elegies and prose. By 777 Ogilvie’s style had changed dramatically and now focused on epic scenarios. The art of painting ( De arte graphica ) was originally written in Latin by the French painter Du Fresnoy in around 640. It was later translated into French, and subsequently into English verse by Dryden.

This version by Mason followed, to which is added notes by Reynolds, and an additional note by Mason. Salmagundi contains odes, elegies, songs and ballads: Huddesford was editor and ‘principal contributor’ to the book.

200. [Ovid] Ovidius Naso (Publius) Quae hoc volumine continentur. Annotationes in omnia Ovidii opera. Index fabularum, & caeterorum, quae insunt hoc libro secundum ordinem alphabeti.

Ovidii Metamorphoseon Libri XV. Venice: in aedibus haeredum Aldi, et Andreae Soceri. 533, Aldine device to title and final (otherwise blank) leaf, a little minor browning near end and a few spots elsewhere, struck-through old inscription and Italian library stamp to title, other stamps to front endpaper, ff. [3 ], 204, [ ], 8vo., early limp vellum, lower cover sometime expertly re-covered, title inked on backstrip, the remains of three ties present, somewhat soiled, a touch worn with small loss at base of backstrip, good (Renouard p. 09 #8; Adams O489; Goldsmid 233; Dibdin II 263; CNCE 27209) £950.00 The third Aldine edition of the works of Ovid was produced between 533 and 534 in three volumes, often found independently. This, the first volume, contains the entire Metamorphoses with an index, and a collection of notes to all of Ovid’s works.

20 . (Oxford. University.) ANONYMOUS . Microcosm of Oxford. Whittock and Hyde. [c. 830], ornate title-page and 3 views of Oxford Colleges, on continuous folding strip, each view woodengraved within decorative frame (except for one mounted steel engraved vignette), each view 20x95mm., pasted inside lower cover of orig. horizontally-ribbed red cloth folder, with blind stamped volute border on sides, gilt titled in centre of upper side ‘A Present from Oxford’ within a cartouche, very good £150.00 Rare. Not traced in Cordeaux & Merry, Clary, or the Claremont Colleges collection online. COPAC locates one copy in UK institutions, whilst OCLC reveals only one more copy in USA libraries. The suggestion made by Online Computer Library Centre is that the present work was published in 830.

Other sources state that the item is an 860s reworking of Nathaniel Whittock’s slightly larger thirtynine plate work (of c. 830) of the same title. The conclusion drawn from all of this is that there were probably two issues in 830, each of a slightly different format.

202. (Oxfordshire.) BLAEU (Willem & Jan) Oxonium Comitatus, vulgo Oxfordshire. [Amsterdam] [c. 663], hand-coloured engraved map, showing woodland, hills, and rivers, with the Royal arms at the head and 6 fully-hand coloured shields of College arms at the sides, decorative cartouche at the foot surrounded by two scholars from the City, French text on verso, 390 x 5 0mm, framed and glazed, good £600.00 An attractive map of Oxfordshire by the famous Dutch cartographers.

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203. (Oxfordshire.) LONGMATE (L., engraver) New Map of the City of Oxford [from Anthony á Wood’s ‘The ancient and present state of the City of Oxford, 773, engraved map, numbered key with 54 entries to indicate the Colleges, churches and other places of interest, 380 x 450 mm., framed and glazed, good £850.00 Shows the city of the period in town-plan style detailing streets and individual buildings.

204. (Oxfordshire.) WOOD (Antony a) [et al.] Oxfordshire monumental inscriptions, from the mss. of Antony a Wood, Dr. Hutton, and Mr. Hinton. Evesham: [Middle Hill Press.] 825, FIRST EDITION, [ONE OF 50 COPIES] , title-page in proof form as a singleton loosely inserted, pp. [ii], [iv], [3]-98, folio, orig. grey boards, joints cracked but firm, minimal loss of paper, slight wear to edges, good (Cordeaux and Merry Oxfordshire 272; Holzenberg 2 6; Martin p.449; Horblit 2 6) £200.00 Scarce. Adderbury to Eynsham only. All published. The title was printed later than the text and is customarily found loosely inserted, when, that is, it is found at all. The title-page is in fact something of a rarity. Horblit says ‘that the ‘work is apparently found without the t.-p., and is referred to under the caption title in both Martin and in Lowndes.’ The text is preceded by two leaves of Oxfordshire pedigrees.

205. (Pacific Voyage.) [COPPINGER (R.W.) et al., Editors] Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’ 88 -2. Printed by Order of the Trustees [of the British Museum]. 884, 54 lithographed plates (2 with some colour, 8 folding), library’s unobtrusive blind embossed stamp on title-page, pp. xxiii, [i], 684, 8vo., orig. moroccograin navy blue cloth, backstrip slightly frayed at head, gilt lettered direct, blind stamped triple line border on sides, library bookplate, good £480.00

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‘With the exception of the ‘Challenger’ Expedition, none of the recent voyages has contributed so much to our knowledge of the Littoral Invertebrate Fauna of the Indo-Pacific Ocean as that of the ‘Alert.’ Irrespective of a number of specimens set aside as duplicates, not less than 3700, referable to 300 species, were incorporated in the National Collection ...’ (Preface). Richard Coppinger, an Irishman, and a naval surgeon and considerable naturalist, was appointed surgeon to Alert in 875 when she left on a voyage of exploration to the Arctic. He served with her again on her four year voyage exploring Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene waters between 878 and 882. This report stands as testimony to his knowledge and skill. Every aspect of preserving, labelling, cataloguing, and packing the specimens was his work, and was, as Albert Gunther, the Keeper of the Department of Zoology, observed, ‘done in the leisure hours which Dr. Coppinger could spare from his strictly official duties.’

206. Papworth (John B.) Select Views of London; with historical and descriptive sketches ... R. Ackermann. 8 6, 75 of 76 hand-coloured aquatint plates, lacking the plate depicting the interior of Bullock’s London Museum, the issue with Papworth’s name on the title, several plates and text leaves bound out of order, text-leaves toned, some offsetting from plates, a few leaves partly sprung, but the plates all clean and bright, pp. [viii], 59, 8vo., contemp. tree calf, rebacked with sheep, somewhat rubbed, bookplate of Wilhelm Graf Hardenberg, sound (Abbey Scenery 2 7; Tooley 36 ) £500.00 According to Abbey the issue with Papworth’s name is ‘somewhat scarcer’ than that without.

207. [Paris (Matthew)] Flores Historiarum per Matthaeum Westmonasteriensem collecti, praecipue de rebus Britannicis ab exordio mundi usque ad Annum Domini. 307. Ex officina Thomae Marshii. 570, final blank discarded, gathering 3T with extra leaf present but bound out of order, one small wormhole to first few leaves (not affecting legibility) and a rusthole to gutter of two leaves in Nnn (one line number affected), some spotting, pp. [x], 440, 466 (i.e. 468), [20], sm. folio, early nineteenth-century russia, blind dentelle within double gilt fillet border, marbled edges and endpapers, recently rebacked, backstrip with four raised bands between double gilt fillets, red label, hinges relined with buckram, armorial bookplate, good ( ESTC S94 47; STC 7653a) £950.00 The second printed edition of this historical chronicle, after the first of 567. It was long attributed to an otherwise unknown ‘Matthew of Westminster’, who is now accepted to be Matthew Paris, and this edition prints the text as edited by Matthew Parker. Medieval chronicles are usually a hodgepodge of copying, abridgement, and misattribution, and so those that remain historically valuable are those like this one with contemporary (i.e. 3th-century) history added to the chapters borrowed or adapted from earlier sources.

The bookplate is of Edward Herbert, Viscount Clive, which dates the plate (and probably the binding) to between 807, when Edward Clive adopted his uncle’s surname, and 839, when his father died and he became 2nd Earl of Powis. Herbert died at the family seat, Powis Castle, after being accidentally shot by one of his sons.

208. [Patterson (Mrs.)] Flower Lore. The Teachings of Flowers, historical, legendary, poetical & symbolical. Belfast: McCaw, Stevenson & Orr. [ 874], title within elaborate border, illustrations, red headlines and capitals, pp. [viii], 233, [2], 8vo., contemp. tan crushed half morocco, the backstrip with gilt ruled raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled boards, t.e.g., bookplate, good £75.00 This work has also been attributed to Miss Carruthers.

209. [Peacock (Thomas Love)] Rhododaphne: or The Thessalian Spell. A Poem. T. Hookham...and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. 8 8, FIRST EDITION , half-title present, pp. xi, 8 , [i], 8vo., early nineteenth century lightly worn blue boards (see note), spine and back-label a little darkened

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with small loss at head, front hinge cracked at foot but firm, corner tips rubbed, early twentieth century catalogue cuttings tipped to front pastedown (lightly offset to front free endpaper) with author’s name above, additional cuttings laid in, roughtrimmed, top edge dust-dulled, good £200.00 (Ashley Library III/p.202: Wolff 5482; CBEL III, 70 ) Thomas Love Peacock ( 785- 866) was already a well-established author by the time this small volume was published in February 8 8; the author had discovered his talent for satiric fiction at this time, and this period became the most productive of his literary career with the publication of Headlong Hall in 8 5, Melincourt , an overtly political three-volume satire published in 8 7, The Round Table (a children’s book) published later that year, and Rhododaphne completed by November 8 7. This was most ambitious of Peacock’s poems, and was immediately described by Shelley in a review for The Examiner (which was never published) as ‘the transfused essence of Lucian, Petronius and Apuleius,’ and later by Edgar Allan Poe as a ‘brimful of music’ after he had arranged a reprint in The Southern Literary Messenger in 843.

This copy bears a spine label with a seven shilling price marked; this and the style of the boards suggests a slightly later binding of perhaps the 830s, and therefore it is possible this was a remainder copy.

2 0. Pechey (John) The Compleat Herbal of physical Plants.

Containing all such English and foreign Herbs, Shrubs, as are used in Physick and Surgery. And to the Virtues of those that are now in use ... The Doses or Quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-Physicians ... Also Directions for making CompoundWaters, Syrups ... Pills, Powders and other Sorts of Medicines.

Moreover, the Gums, Balsams ... and the like, which are sold by Apothecaries and Druggists ... their Virtues and Uses described.

Henry Bonwicke. 694, FIRST EDITION , Edward Schunck’s copy with his signature and the date 848 on the endpaper, the endpapers with early notes of remedies, printed in two columns, final blank discarded, a little dampstaining to edges, pp. [viii], 349, [33], 8vo., contemp. sheep, the joints and headcaps skillfully repaired, bookplate of Edward Schunck, very good (Wing P 02 ; ESTC R 9033: Henrey I, p.92) £1,300.00 The first edition of this useful herbal with the entries for the plants arranged in alphabetical order, including many details as to the habits and forms of plants and seeds, and of the remedies derived from them and their effects. The author acknowledges his debt to John Ray, but produced a significant synthesis of contemporary practice. John Pechey ( 654- 7 7) was educated at New Inn Hall, Oxford.

He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 675 and MA in 678. In 684 he was admitted as a Licentiate of the College of Physicians and practiced in the City of London.

The bookplate is that of Dr. Henry Edward Schunck ( 820- 903), a well-known chemist, who undertook important research on natural dyestuffs. He engaged in a long investigation into the colouring properties of the madder plant. Madder was one of the most commercially important dyestuffs of the nineteenth century, but the process of dyeing with madder was not properly understood before Schunck’s work.

2 . Persius Flaccus (Aulus) ... Satyrae sex. Cum posthumis commentariis, Ioannis Bond. Excudebat Felix Kingstonius impensis Gulielmi Aspley, & Natanielis Butterii. 6 4, FIRST BOND EDITION & FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING IN ENGLAND, a few spots, one or two running heads shaved, eighteenthcentury owner’s name excised from head margin of title-page (and from upper free endpaper) although associated date 7 9 survives, first gathering blanks (A and A8) discarded, pp. [xii], 35, f’cap 8vo., early eighteenth century panelled sheep, slightly chipped, corners worn, rebacked with unlettered sprinkled backstrip with raised bands, endpapers stained by turn-ins, good (Morgan 242; STC 9777; ESTC S 042 5; Schweiger II 7 ) £400.00

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John Bond (c. 550- 6 2) was a schoolteacher, physician, MP, and scholar, perhaps best-known in his lifetime for the first three, but with his lasting reputation formed by his editions of Horace (first published 606) and Persius (posthumously seen through the press by his son-in-law Roger Prowse).

Persius’s works, comprising only 6 difficult satires, are often found together with Juvenal’s (almost like an afterthought); Bond’s edition was the first separate edition printed in England, and, like his Horace, was soon and often reprinted on the Continent.

2 2. (Petrarch). DOBSON (Susanna) The Life of Petrarch. Collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch. Third Edition. In two volumes. T. Bensley. 797, 8 engraved plates by Ridley after Kirk, manuscript poem on the front endpaper, a few foxmarks to the plates, half-titles discarded, pp. xviii, 388, [ 2]; [ii], 4 0, [8], 8vo., nineteenth century vellum over boards, the backstrips ruled in gilt and with brown morocco labels with gilt lettering, boards sprung, marbled endpapers and edges, bookplates of Michael Pepper, good ( ESTC T 4438 ) £180.00 This is Susannah Dobson’s first work, an abridged translation in two volumes of Memoires pour la vie de Francois Petrarque by Jacques Francois Paul Aldonce, Abbe de Sade. It proved to be a controversial work as de Sade claimed to prove the true identity of Petrarch’s Laura and identified her with the Laura de Noves, wife of Hugues de Sade, on the basis of a sonnet found in her tomb in the De la Croix Chapel in Avignon.

The translation was praised: Dobson’s reviewer in the Gentleman’s Magazine praised Dobson’s translation for maintaining ‘that pathos and spirit of the original’.

2 3. Plato. Omnia Divini Platonis Opera tralatione Marsilii Ficini. Lyon: Apud Antonium Vincentium. 548, woodcut printer’s device to title, light foxing and browning, intermittently a bit heavier, some creasing to title, light dampmarking to gutter of final leaves, pp. [xl], 646, folio, seventeenth-century sheep, boards panelled in blind, neatly rebacked with parts of original spine and label preserved, some significant but expert repairs to corners and board edges, old leather scratched, hinges cracked (showing manuscript binder’s waste) but sound, good (Schweiger I 248; Graesse V 320) £1,100.00 This edition not in Adams. It reprints the 532 Basel edition by Froben, containing the revision of Ficino by Simon Grynaeus ( 493- 54 ). Ficino’s translation, the first complete translation of Plato’s works into Latin, was first published in 483-4, and Grynaeus, professor of Greek at Heidelberg and Basel, produced the first edited version of that translation, collating it against the Aldine Greek text and revising the Latin in accordance with his own preference for a more classical style. Grynaeus’s edition was reprinted by Froben twice before this edition appeared in Lyon, and would be reprinted nearly 0 more times in Lyon, Basel, and Venice before the end of the 6th century.

2 4. Plato; Jowett (Benjamin) and Lewis Campbell, editors. Plato’s Republic. The Greek Text.

Three volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 894, FIRST EDITION , folding facsimile manuscript frontispiece, one or two minor spots, pp. xv, [i], 490; [vi], xxxiv, [iv], 356; [vi], 5 2, 8vo., contemp. tan calf prize bindings, double fillet gilt border to boards, backstrips with five gilt-ruled raised bands, red morocco labels in second compartments and green morocco labels in third, the rest with gilt central floral tools and corner volutés, gilt crest of the Merchant Taylors’ School to front board, marbled edges and endpapers, prize bookplate to front pastedown of vol. I, very good £400.00 Jowett, master of Balliol College, is perhaps now better known by students of Greek for his translations of Plato, which remain in print, but this Greek text of the Republi’ was in his mind the more important: ‘the edition of the Republic , which had been in a sense the foundation and starting point of all his work as an editor and translator of the Greek classics, was still unfinished at his death and was completed and published by his friend and biographer Lewis Campbell. For thirty years the work had occupied the chief place among his interests’ ( ODNB ).

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2 5. (Plautus.) PAREUS (Johann Philipp) Lexicon Plautinum in quo elegantiae omnium simplicium vocabulorum antique linguae Romanae ... Frankfurt: apud Nicolaum Hoffmannum, sumptibus Ionae Rosae. 6 4, FIRST EDITION , printed in double column, uniformly browned, ff. [278] (including blanks (?)8 and Ll6), 8vo., contemp vellum, smooth backstrip titled in ink, yapp edges, a bit soiled, small crack to upper joint, good ( VD 7 3:609063W) £200.00 The first edition of Pareus’s important lexicon of Plautus, following on from his edition and commentary of 6 0. Pareus produced the first accurate collation of the Palatine mss., and ‘did permanent service to the study of Plautus by the publication of his Lexicon’ (Sandys II p.362).

2 6. Plautus (Titus Macchius) Comoediae Quae Supersunt. [3 volumes.] Paris: Typis J. Barbou.

759, half-titles and engraved frontispiece in each volume, woodcut head- and tailpieces, a little light foxing in places, frontispieces faintly offset onto half-titles, pp. [iv], 8, 548; [iv], 564, [iv], 558, 2mo., contemp. French red morocco, sides bordered with triple gilt fillet, backstrips divided by double gilt fillet, green and yellow morocco labels in second and third compartments, the rest with central and corner fleurons and side tassel tools, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., gilt booklabels of James Hartmann to front endpapers, very good (Schweiger II 767; Brunet IV 709; Graesse V 329) £900.00 An elegantly printed edition in a lovely binding. Joseph Barbou was a member of a family of printers and booksellers who took on his uncle’s printing office in 750. His best productions were his classical texts, which were the resumption of an earlier project by M. Lenglet Dufresnoy to create a series that would rival the Elzevirs in accuracy and elegance. These books were somewhat larger than their models but did not disappoint in their correctness and simple typographical beauty. This Plautus, the eighth book to be produced in the series, is ‘une des plus jolies édit. de la collection de Barbou’ (Brunet). The editor was J. Capperonier, who worked primarily from earlier printed editions (a list of which is included at the end).

2 7. (Playbill. Jersey. St. Helier.) THEATRE ROYAL . Jersey Volunteer Fire Brigade. Grand soirée dramatique, by the Fire Brigade, in aid of their equipment fund, on Tuesday, November 28, 87 ... Printed by C. Le Feuvre ... 87 , printed on pink silk, with tasselled edges, 85x320mm., folded four ties, very good £120.00 Under the patronage of the Major-General P.M.N. Guy, the Lieuteneant-Governor, Lord Suffield, and Colonel T.H. Pakenham, Colonel of the 30th Regiment whose band performed at the soirée. Two plays were performed by the brigade.

Harlequin 2 8. (Playbill.) THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE . By His Majesty’s Company at the Theatre Royal, in Drury Lane, this present Tuesday, Dec. 26. 786, George Barnwell. George Barnwell by Mr. Bannister, Jun. Trueman by Mr. Barrymore ... To which will be added (not acted these five years) the pantomime entertainment of Harlequin’s Invasion. With alterations, and restorations, particularly the admired shades and transparencies, representing the amusements of Harlequin ... Tomorrow, Shakespeare’s Tempest. [The Theatre Royal.] 786, browned, edges frayed, 45x235mm., mounted, framed and glazed, good £500.00 Not located in ESTC , COPAC , or Worldcat.

2 9. Pope (Alexander) One thousand seven hundred and thirty eight. A dialogue something like Horace. ... Dialogue II. [Two volumes] T. Cooper. [ 738,] FIRST EDITION , half-title present in vol. i (expert paper repair at head), pages at some time folded laterally once, D2 in vol. i an advertisement leaf (6 titles), ownership signatures at the foot of one leaf, pp.[iv], 0,[ ], folio

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[Together with] --------. --------. Dialogue II. R. Dodsley. 738, FIRST EDITION , half-title not called for, title-page slightly soiled, pages at some time folded laterally once, pp. 6, folio modern brown half morocco, spines longitudinally gilt lettered direct, unmatched marbled boards, good (Griffith 484 and 494: Rothschild 642-3: Foxon P932 and P938) £240.00 The first volume is Griffith’s ‘Edition A, variant a’.

220. Priestley (Joseph) A free discussion of the doctrines of materialism, and Philosophical Necessity, In a Correspondence between Dr. Price, and Dr. Priestley. Printed for J. Johnson. 778, FIRST EDITION , lightly toned and dustsoiled, a few foxmarks and marginal pencil marks, pp. [viii], xliv, [4], 428, [4], 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, smartly rebacked with backstrip with five raised bands between double gilt fillets, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest plain, later marbled endpapers, light dampmark to lower board, corners renewed, good ( ESTC T40 75) £700.00 Priestley, although most famous for his natural philosophy and scientific discoveries, was equally interested in theological and spiritual philosophy. Two of his metaphysical works, taking positions in favour of monism and mechanistic determinism, both published in 777, ‘started a flood of criticism which Priestley attempted to answer’ in this book ( ODNB ). The book takes the form of letters between Priestley, arguing for materialism, and his friend Richard Price, adopting a more libertarian point of view.

22 . Prior (Matthew) Poems on Several Occasions. London: Jacob Tonson. 7 8, FIRST EDITION THUS , engraved frontispiece (one corner repaired), some light toning, a few leaves moderately browned, pp. [xl], 506, [6], folio, contemp. dark brown calf, scratched and somewhat dried out, corners worn, recently rebacked, backstrip with seven raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, good ( ESTC T75639) £650.00 After Prior’s release from political custody in 7 6, having been held for more than a year, he planned a subscriber’s edition of his poems to restore his finances. He took careful pains over the edition and made great demands (he was disappointed at not being able to produce the run on vellum); the result was this enormous volume, more than 8 inches tall (and this is a regular subscriber’s copy – a few were on larger paper) elegantly printed, and a resounding success: some stories have him raising 4000 guineas from subscriptions, enough to keep him in comfort for the rest of his life. It prints for the first time his long poems ‘Alma, or the Progress of the Mind’ and ‘Solomon’, as well as the poems in his earlier books (the 707 piracy, 709, 7 , etc.) with the same general title, revised and reordered.

Bound by Anthony Gardner, O.B.E. 222. (Proctor Types.) THE FOUR GOSPELS in the Original Greek. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 932, printed using Robert Proctor’s Greek ‘Otter’ type, the text printed in black with the title and running-heads printed in red, pp. [iv], 307, [3], sm. folio, finely bound by Anthony Gardner in full crushed maroon Niger morocco, the backstrip panelled in blind and enclosing gilt lettering and small single gilt flower heads between raised bands with single gilt rules; threequarter single gilt rule border to sides encompassing single indented blind rule border with gilt dots at indentations, the head of both covers having decorative blind tooling incorporating semi-circles and dots, inner inverted blind tooled shield and gilt dots surrounding (on front cover) within a gilt circle, a turquoise morocco inlay on which is tooled a pair of praying hands, after Dürer, the hands surrounded by a scolloped blind-tooled circle and partly surrounded by a further gilt circle, rear cover with a small central gilt Maltese cross and blind dots, pale grey endpapers, printed label from orig. binding pasted to front pastedown, top edges pale yellow, others untrimmed, fine £1,250.00 Anthony Gardner’s traditional binder’s note is present, written in a calligraphic hand in red ink in the shape of a spiral on a final blank leaf. Gardner numbered all of his bindings, and this is his ,0 9th and final work, completed in October 973. A handwritten note from the first owner is loosely inserted,

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explaining that the book was collected from Gardner on October 29th, 973, and that Gardner suffered a heart attack the next day and ‘died peacefully at home, aged 86, early on November th, 973. This was therefore the last piece of work he completed.’ Gardner began binding professionally at the age of 66, after a full career in the Ministry of Works, and was notable for his use of colour, inlays, and free-drawn lines – all displayed to advantage on this binding – as well as his preservation of an Arts and Crafts-like belief in simple, lasting craftsmanship.

Proctor based his type on the Greek face used in the Complutensian Polyglot, which was stylistically opposite to the calligraphic type of the Aldine editions. Scholderer regarded it as ‘the finest Greek face ever cut.’ This is the third and final book to use these types to their full advantage, following the Oresteia of 904 and the Odyssey of 909. Sadly, Proctor never saw the finished version of any of these, as he died in a climbing accident in 903.

223. Rabelais (François) The works of Francis Rabelais, M. D. Now carefully revised, and compared throughout with the late new Edition of M. Le Du Chat, by Mr. Ozell. Who has likewise added at the bottom of the pages, a translation of the notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, of the said M. du Chat, and others: in which notes, never before printed in English, the text is not only explained, but, in multitudes of places, amended, and made conformable to the st and best editions of this learned and facetious author. Adorned with 5 very neat copper-plates. 5 vols.

Printed by J. Hughs (not named in the imprint of vols. iii-v) ... for J. Brindley, et al. 737, titlepages in red and black, wood-engraved head and tailpieces, pictorial initial letters, 4 copper engraved plates (missing a plate entitled “Hearsay”, which occurs in some copies opposite p. 48 in vol.v, but which was in this copy perhaps never bound in) some of which folding (minor handling tears to two plates), vol. v bears inobtrusive hole in title-page with front and rear free endpapers discarded (vol. iii lacks rear free endpaper), pp.[i-iv], v-xxii, iii-viii,[i], ii-cxxxiv, [ 35]-384; [i]-x, [ ]-25 ; [i-iv], v-xx, [i], 22, 3-367, [i-v](ads.); [i-v], vi-xc, [ ], 2-28 ,[iviii](contents), [i-iv](ads.); lxiv, [ ]-267,[i-v](contents), 2mo., orig. brown calf, backstrips divided into six compartments by gilt raised bands, gilt lettered red morocco labels in second, gilt vol. numerals in third, remainder with decorative gilt floral devices surrounded by foliate gilt cornerpieces within a quadruple gilt fillet border, minor rubbing to external joints (but firm), sides with double gilt fillet as border (minor stains commensurate with age to some vols.), board edges decoratively stamped in blind, front pastedowns with anonymous mid-nineteenth century bookplates (depicting a vase design) and auctioneer’s ticket (?), vols. i, iii, and iv with near contemp. ownership inscription of John Brakenbury, red speckled edges, good ( ESTC T 3265) £300.00 Sir Thomas Urquhart’s famous part-translation forms the basis for this revised edition. Translations of books I, II, and a portion of the third had been completed at the time of Urquhart’s death in c. 660.

Responsibility for the remaining books then fell to Peter Anthony Motteux, whereupon they were duly issued in 693-4. Thirty years after first publication, translator John Ozell revised and re-edited the text; his work was later to gain the approval of the historian Alexander Fraser Tytler who noted in his Essay on the Principles of Translation (of 79 ) that ‘The English version of Rabelais thus improved may be considered, in its present form, as one of the most perfect specimens of the art of translation. The best critics in both languages have borne testimony to its faithful translation of the sense and happy imitation of the style of the original; and every English reader will acknowledge that it possesses all the ease of the original translation.’

224. [Radcliffe (Ann)] The Italian, or the confessional of the black penitents. A romance ... In three volumes. The second edition. T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies ... 797, half-titles not present, pp.380; [ii],360; 444, 2mo., contemp. qtr. red roan, extremities rubbed, smooth backstrips divided by single gilt rules, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, marbled sides, edges rubbed, good (Summers Gothic Bibliography p.370; see also Rothschild 703 and Tinker 704 [first editions]) £300.00 The second edition is entirely reset. The title-page is A in volume one, and those in volumes two and three are singletons.

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225. [Radcliffe (Ann)] A Sicilian romance. By the authoress of the castles of Athlin and Dunbayne. In two volumes. The second edition ... Hookham and Carpenter. 792, preliminary and final leaves foxed, half-titles discarded(?), small piece missing from bottom outer corner first three leaves vol. ii, pp. [ii], 239; [ii], 2 6, 2mo., late nineteenth century half mottled calf, slightly the worse for wear, joints cracked but firm, smooth backstrips gilt lettered direct, loss at head and foot of both vols., green silk markers, t.e.g., sound £250.00 Rare in any early state.

226. (Radicalism.) THE BIRMINGHAM INSPECTOR ; a periodical work published in the year 8 7. No. , Jan. 4th, 8 7 - No. 6, Saturday, August 23, 8 7 [All published.] Birmingham: printed and published by W. Hawkes Smith. [ 8 7], foxed, pp. iv, 344, 8vo.

[Bound with] Edmonds (George) Address to the payers of levies in the parish of Birmingham, on the subject of Mr. Spry’s claims. Birmingham: J. Osborne. [ 8 9,] SOLE EDITION , pp. 60, 8vo. [and] --------. The Saturday register. Vol. , Saturday 22, 820 [- Nos.2, 4, 5, 7 Saturday, April 5, 820.]

(Catalogued from drop-title.), [Birmingham: Edmonds. 820,] foxed, 8vo. [and] [--------.] The Manchester meeting, An account of the dreadful attack of the military, upon the reformers ... [Drop-title. Birmigham: Edmonds. 8 9,] pp. 6, 8vo. [and] [--------.] A particular account of the Smithfield meeting [Drop-title. Birmingham: Edmonds.

8 9,] pp. 6. 8vo. [and] (Wright.) REPORT of the trial of Mrs. Susannah Wright, for publishing, in his shop, the writings of R. Carlile ... Monday, July 8, 822. Indictment at the instance of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. R. Carlile. 822, pp. 59, [5], 8vo. contemp. half tan calf, smooth backstrip creased, divided into compartments by double gilt rules, gilt lettered direct in second compartment; marbled sides, good (Kress 373 6) £700.00 This volume contains a complete run of The Birmingham Inspector, which was issued as a bi-monthly periodical and includes a wealth of detail on what was relevant to the city then, including items on poor relief, American letters and panoramic painting. In addition there is similar contemporary material, all but the last report published in Birmingham.

227. (Railways.) [GRAY (Thomas)] Observations on a general iron Rail-way: (with plates and maps illustrative of the plan), showing its great superiority, by the general introduction of mechanic power, over all the present methods of conveyance ... Fourth edition, considerably improved.

Balwin, Cradock and Joy. 823, 4 engraved plates, including one folding and one of a steam engine, occasional spotting, one or two small marks on the half-title, pp. xii, 3 , 8vo., orig. grey boards, rebacked, edges worn, sound (Ottley, Bibliography of British Railway History, 256; Goldsmith 23898) £280.00 Gray was a promoter of railways, and son of an engineer. In this work he envisaged that horses would be entirely superseded by steam traction. He also suggested the desirability of making a railway between Liverpool and Manchester. The treatise went through four editions in two years. In 822 he added a diagram showing a number of suggested lines of railway connecting the principal towns of England, and another suggesting links between the leading Irish centres.

228. (Railways.) MEASOM (George S.) The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall Railways. Including the most important Manufactories in the Towns on the Lines. ...Embellished with 280 engravings and Map. Griffin and Co. [ 864], frontispiece of Windsor Castle, folding map (minimally repaired at edges),

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engraved head- and tail-pieces, hundreds of illustrations in the text, ownership inscription on the recto of the frontispiece and the title, advertisements, pp.lii, 475, [i], 64, 8vo., orig. wrappers, printed an red and black with an elaborate front cover, the backstrip titled vertically in black, the £220.00 foot neatly repaired, some rubbing, small abrasion to front cover, sound A revision of Measom’s first Official Railway Guide issued in 852. He was a skilled engraver and the guide contains hundreds of examples of his work, these range from attractive views of Oxford architecture to examples of the latest technology (such as Samuelson’s Patent Britannia MeadowMowing Machine). The preface bears a date of June 864.

229. (Railways.) TREDGOLD (Thomas) A practical Treatise on Rail-roads and Carriages, shewing the Principles of Estimating their Strength, Proportions, Expense and annual Produce, and the Conditions which render them effective, economical and durable; Josiah Taylor. 825, FIRST EDITION , 4 engraved plates, including one folding of rolling stock, ownership signature of Peter Crompton at the head of the title, 20-page publisher’s catalogue at the end, pp. xi, [i], 84, 8vo., orig. grey boards, neatly rebacked, ex-libris Anthony Tredgold, good (Ottley, Bibliography of British Railway History, 293) £480.00 Tredgold was an engineer of extraordinary application, so much so that it imperilled his health in his youth. His fascination with engineering construction led him to publish, amongst other works, on the properties of timber and the strength of metals, and provide the first serious attempt in England to determine practically and scientifically the data of resistance, rather than relying on formulae calculated in the previous century. The above work shows Tredgold’s preoccupation with the engineering issues associated with the construction of railways, steam locomotives and rolling-stock, but it also comprises a useful survey of the railways at the time.

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Field Botany 230. Ray (John) Methodus Plantarum nova, brevitatis & perspicuitatis cause Synoptice in Tabulis exhibita; cum notis Generum ... & Indice Copisoso. Impensis Henrici Faithorne & Joannis Kersey. 682, FIRST EDITION , additional engraved title as frontispiece of an allegorical design showing the Goddess of Fertlility in a formal garden, slightly chipped at the edges and with tiny repair to margin, engraved plate illustrating the germination of seeds, first blank discarded, pp. [xxiv], 66, [34], small 8vo., polished speckled calf antique, backstrip with three raised bands and gilt lettering, good (Wing R396; ESTC R33770; Keynes 40; Henrey 3 5; Pritzel 7435) £800.00 John Ray, 627- 705, naturalist theologian and philologist, was the first great field botanist. He laid the foundations of scientific botanical classification, on which basis Linnaeus was later to build. In this work he rejects classification based on localities and properties in favour of that depending on structure, and for the first time lays down the division between dicotyledons and monocotyledons. It was reprinted in Amsterdam in the same year, and subsequently in 703.

23 . (Roman Catholic Church. Liturgy.) MISSALE ROMANUM , ex decreto sacro-sancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pii V. Pont Max. iussu editum, et Clementis VIII auctoritate recognitum ...

Paris: ex officina Joannem Henault. 635, title-page with engraved papal arms (soiled), printed double column and red and black throughout, dividional title to ‘Canon Missae’ with engraved crucifixion on verso, 6 other full-page engraved illustrations, woodcut floriated initial, sold paper repairs to few fore-margins, some browning, pp. [lxiv], 695, [ ], cxiii, [iii], 44, 4to. in 8’s, modern mid-brown calf, backstrip with gilt roll decorated flattened raised bands between blind rules, gilt lettered dark red leather label in second compartment, remainder blind panelled, with gilt rose head tool in centre; narrow gilt roll between blind fillets border on sides, blind rolls on £650.00 board edges and turn-ins, mod. endpapers, a.e.g., good 570 saw the publication of the first edition of the Tridentine Missal as reformed by the Council of Trent. It was based on the Missal’s first printed edition ( 474) and John Burchard’s detailed revision of 502. The mass was originally derived from ‘the Curial Missal as adopted by the Franciscans and imposed on the Diocese of Rome by Nicolas III in 277’ ( NCE ). It was in essence the mass as used by St. Gregory the Great and many of his predecessors which, with minor changes, remained the official rite for most of the Western Church until the imposition of the Novus Ordo Missae in 970. There were many editions of the Tridentine Missal in the 400 years it was in full force, and is still printed today.

232. (Russo-Turkish War.) SUTHERLAND (Capt. [David]) A Tour up the Straits, from Gibraltar to Constantinople, with the leading events in the present war between the Austrians, Russians, and the Turks, to the Commencement of the Year 789. Printed for the Author. 790, FIRST EDITION , ink highlights to list of subscribers, corners of b -3 lightly creased (with minor dust-soiling a result), pp. xlvii, [i] (blank), 372, 8vo., contemp. straight-grain dark red morocco, extremities rubbed, smooth backstrip divided by gilt open twist, arabesque, and flower and lozenge rolls, author’s name lettered direct in second compartment, large ornaments in remainder, sides with wide swag roll border between double fillets, single fillet on board edges, open twist roll on turnins, marbled endpapers (a little rubbed), ink stamped stag’s head on verso of front free endpaper, ownership inscription on blank preceding title, a.e.g., very good (Blackmer 623; Blackmer Sale 032; Cox I, p.236; Francis Edwards’ Military Catalogue 907-8, item 290 , p.289; Pine Coffin 787.4) £400.00 From the library of Lord Hesketh.

Captain Sutherland served with the 25th (Sussex) Regt. of Foot stationed at Gibraltar from 782 to ’93. His highly readable account of events, places, and people encountered during the tour, presented in letter form, warranted not only a second edition, but also a translation into German. This copy bears the ownership mark of Henry Ramus, perhaps a relative of the L. Ramus mentioned in the list of subscribers.

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17th-century French prize binding 233. [Sallust] Sallustius Crispus (Gaius) Opera, quae extant, omnia: cum selectissimus variorum observationibus, et accurata recensione Antonii Thysii. Leiden: Apud Franciscum Hackium.

649, title page engraved, some minor spotting, contemp. inscriptions in title margin, pp. [xxxii], 556, [52], 8vo., contemp. brown morocco, backstrip with four raised bands with gilt dentelle rolls, compartments bordered with a double gilt fillet, central gilt lozenges and corner volutés, the boards with a thick border comprising double gilt dentelle rolls enclosing a double gilt fillet, the inside corners filled with vine tools, at the centre a gilt wreath incorporating a crown and an ‘L’ and surrounding ‘ EX DONO D. ANTONII DRUOT 654’, the arms of France above the wreath and the arms of Chalon-sur-Saône below, the remaining space with scattered lozenge and fleur-de-lys tools, a.e.g., later marbled endpapers, very slightly rubbed at extremities, very good (Schweiger II 878; Dibdin II 385) £1,650.00 A fine prize binding on the first of the best variorum editions of Sallust, ‘enriched with the excellent notes of Gronovius’ (quot. in Dibdin); there would be half a dozen further printings of Sallust in this line in Leiden within the seventeenth century.

Antoine Druot, sommelier to Louis XIV and capitaine de Germoles, donated land to the Collège de Chalon-sur-Saône, in Burgundy, the income from which established a professorship and also a fund for books. The books purchased in this way were often given as prizes (as per Foyle sale, pt.

II lot 2 9), although it appears that some were held in the library of the College; all, however, were each given elaborate bindings that record Druot’s name and the year in the gilt decoration, as well as incorporating the arms of France and of Chalon-sur-Saône.

Other examples of Druot’s sponsorship can currently be found in the British Library and Lyon, while a few remain in Chalon-sur-Saône itself. Similar bindings also appear on books sponsored by other donors, including Claude Tapin and Claude Tisserand – cf. Gumuchian 82, 84 – though the distribution of the surviving books suggests that Druot was the more generous benefactor.

234. Savioli (Lodovico Vittorio) Amori. Crisopoli [Parma]: Co’tipi Bodoniani. 795, fine stippleengraved medallion portrait on title, just a touch of faint dustsoiling, pp. [viii], 33, [3], 4to., contemp. mottled paper boards backed wth mottled sheep, backstrip divided by triple gilt fillets, brown label in second compartment, the rest with central gilt portrait tools, marbled pastedowns, stitching strained after title, a bit scuffed in places, bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley, £400.00 Bt., good (Brooks 597) Poems in imitation of Ovid by the Italian historian and poet Lodovico Savioli ( 729- 804), which were first published completely in 765 (selections had circulated earlier). This edition was elegantly printed by Giambattista Bodoni, using an italic type with script capitals for the preface and a roman for the main text, and this copy is from the library of Sir Gore Ouseley, first baronet, English ambassador to Persia and Russia and the recipient of honours from all three nations, who was also an amateur of (mostly Oriental) languages and literatures.

235. (Scotland.) [HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND] Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland. To which is prefixed, an account of the Institution and principal Proceedings of the Society. [Two volumes]. Edinburgh: by C. Stewart for T. Cadell [etc.]. 799, FIRST EDITION , 3 engraved folding plates, including one with details of building a ship, and 2 plans of villages, pp. [ii], ii, [ii], cxxi ( ), (6), 394; [viii], xxix, [3], 478, 47, 8vo., contemp. half calf, backstrips panelled in gilt, with red morocco labels and gilt lettering, marbled sides, armorial bookplates, upper joint of vol. ii cracking but still strong, good (cf. Perkins 797, the later series only) £300.00

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The first two volumes in what was to become a long series of agricultural essays. The first volume here includes essays on kelp, linen manufacture, inclosures, pastures, meadows, fisheries, canal navigation, crops suitable for the Highlands, etc. In volume two are articles on peat, black cattle, corn, the plan of an inland village, herring fisheries, salmon and potatoes. Of particular note are the long prefatory contributions by Henry Mackenzie, a man of many interests and abilities who is now best remembered for his novels, particularly The Man of Feeling , published in 77 , when he was 26.

These earliest volumes are very uncommon.

Chancellor George Cornwall Lewis’ copy 236. (Scotland.) JAMIESON (John) An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language: illustrating the words in their different significations by example from Ancient and Modern Writers; shewing their affinity to those of other languages, and especially the northern; explaining many terms which though now obsolete in England were formerly common to both countries; and elucidating National Rites, Customs and Institutions and their Analogy to those of other nations; to which is prefixed a Dissertation on the Origin of the Scottish Language. The second edition, carefully revised and collated, with all the additional words in the supplement incorporated ...

4 vols. Edinburgh: William Tait. 840, printed in double column, preliminary and final leaves lightly foxed, library’s round stamp on verso of title-pages, 4to., contemp. mid-brown calf, rubbed, backstrips with raised bands between gilt rules, gilt lettered red leather author/title label and blue vol. label in second and fourth compartments respectively, single gilt fillet border on sides, grey endpapers, lightly foxed, library’s small stamp on binder’s blanks, bookplate of the British statesman and philologist George Cornewall Lewis (modest foxing), a sound set (Cordell Collection J-2 ; Kennedy 227; Lowndes II 90) £300.00 The Scots language, a northern variety of English and the national language of modern Scotland, can boast an historical pedigree as ancient as its southern cousin. Jamieson brought his knowledge of this to a wider audience in the early 9th century through the publication of his much-praised dictionary.

Lowndes considered it ‘a truly excellent work.’ Jamieson’s ground-breaking work was improved upon by subsequent editors after it first appeared in 808 (an important supplement followed in 825). Here, volumes three and four consist of the sheets of the 825 supplement re-issued with Tait’s 840 general title-page.

It is well-known that the former owner of this book, George Cornewall Lewis (later Bart.), had an extensive knowledge of philology. Before leaving Christ Church, Oxford, he had published observations on Whately’s doctrine of the predictables, he then assisted Thirlwall and Hare in the founding of the Philological Museum. He is best remembered as Chancellor of the Exchequer and latterly Home Secretary under Lord Palmerston in the 850s.

237. (Scotland. Parliamentary Acts.) MACKENZIE (George, editor) The laws and acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread sovereign James VII. [and 5 other similar titles, from James VII to Queen Anne.] Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Freebairn and Company. 73 , each section with its own title page, browned and soiled, a few rust-spots obscuring one or two characters, some headlines (and one page’s final line of text) shaved, one leaf with a marginal closed tear (no loss), ink table of contents on initial blank leaf, pp. 875, [ ], 2mo., modern midbrown calf, backstrip with five raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest with central gilt lozenges, one corner just a touch chipped, sound ( ESTC T 34395) £75.00 A collection of acts from Parliaments under James VII, William and Mary, and Queen Anne, between 685 and 705.

238. Shakespeare (William) The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare. Edited by Charles Knight. [In eight volumes]. [Bound with]: Concordance by Mrs Cowden Clarke. [Nine volumes in all]. Charles Knight. [Preface dated 839], with wood-engraved titlepages, vignettes, and numerous illustrations after W. Harvey, T. Creswick and others, printed in two columns, 8vo.,

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nineteenth century polished calf, the backstrips panelled in gilt with volutés and maroon and black morocco labels with gilt lettering, the sides with double gilt fillet borders, marbled edges and endpapers, vol. i of The Histories and both vols. of The Comedies with the upper hinge cracked, £500.00 Comprises: The Histories , 2 vols.; The Comedies , 2 vols.; The Tragedies , 2 vols.; Doubtful Plays ; Biography by Charles Knight, 843; and Mrs. Cowden Clarke’s Complete Concordance to Shakespeare, 845.

239. Shakespeare (William) [Volume of 5 plays.] [The Booksellers.] 734-86, 4 engraved frontispieces, that of Two Gentlemen lacking, pp.72; 7 ; 48; 9 ,[5]; 72, 2mo., early nineteenth century half calf, extremities rubbed, marbled boards, good (See Jaggard p.483) £400.00 Includes Julius Caesar ( 786); The Two Gentlemen of Verona ( 734); The Winter’s Tale ( 785); Othello ( 784); Measure for Measure ( 784).

The second play is noticeably earlier than the others, and until this edition, and that of Tonson’s rival Robert Walker in the same year, no earlier separate edition of Two Gentlemen is known. It contains the Chetwood’s piracy notice against Walker.

He declared that Moses could not be the author of much in the writings attributed to him

240. Simon (Richard) The Critical History of the Religions and Customs of Eastern Nations ... now done into English by A. Lovell. J. Heptinstall for Henry Fairthorne and John Kersey. 685, First Edition in English, contemporary ownership signature of Dan[iel] Fleming and a few of his markings to the text, small paper flaw hole to the sidenote of F2, publisher’s advertisement leaf at the end, pp. [viii], 90, [2], 8vo., contemp. mottled sheep, paper label to the backstrip, bookplate of Bent Juel-Jensen, good (Wing S3797; ESTC R39548; cf. Blackmer 543) £600.00

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‘Simon’s work was of great importance in transmitting to the West the correct tenets of the Eastern churches. Simon points out that these beliefs were either not known or else were distorted by missionaries in order to make their work more important’(Blackmer). He expressed an interest in the oriental from an early age and prepared a catalogue of oriental books for the College of the Fathers of the Oratory in Paris. This early work on the religions and rites of the Levant was first published in French in 684. Simon ( 638- 7 2), an eminent French theologian, was at the object of vilification for his first published work Histoire Antique du Vieux Testament and the book was suppressed. The Protestants felt their stronghold, an infallible Bible, was assailed by the doubts which Simon raised against the integrity of the Hebrew text. His writings are characterised by great scholarship and original speculation.

This copy was that of the antiquary and bookcollector Daniel Fleming ( 633- 70 ), who studied at Queen’s College, Oxford.

24 . Smith (Matthew) Memoirs of Secret Service. Printed for A. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms. 699, FIRST EDITION , endpapers toned, a few spots, pp. 60, 24, 8vo., early sprinkled calf, backstrip with five raised bands, the impression of a lost label in second compartment, front joint cracked with the board held by cords, a touch rubbed at extremities with small loss to headcap, bookplate of Henry Massingberd of Gunby ( 78 ), sound ( ESTC R 0305; Wing S4 3 ) £550.00 The ‘memoirs’ of Matthew Smith, who served as a spy on the Jacobites for the duke of Shrewsbury and was involved in a number of intrigues and squabbles between Shrewsbury and the earl of Monmouth.

The book, partly intended as leverage to obtain more work or at least a payoff for Smith, ‘set[s] his correspondence with Shrewsbury and Vernon, fairly faithfully reproduced, in a framework of falsified “minutes” of their meetings and distorted commentary’ ( ODNB ). Although accusations of treason and other threats were thrown about, Smith seems to not have been a particularly effective spy or blackmailer, causing no significant disruption on either side. Nevertheless the book was reprinted twice and sparked a brief battle by pamphlet with Richard Kingston, another former spy.

242. Smith (Thomas) An Attempt to define some of the First Principles of Political Economy. J. M. Richardson. 82 , PRESENTATION COPY, FIRST EDITION , inscribed by the author ‘Robert Auld Esqr with best respects & warmest regards of the Author’ in a slightly shaky hand, pp. xi, [ ], 222, 8vo., contemp. polished tree calf, flat backstrip with gilt rules and red and black morocco labels with gilt lettering, a little rubbed and stained, upper joint cracked, bookplate of ‘Mr Auld’, sound (Goldsmiths’ 23 42; Kress 23 42) £700.00 Thomas Smith, an accountant by profession, set out a mode of ascertaining and measuring value in this uncommon work ( COPAC records the British Library copy only). Smith is notable for publishing a response to Ricardo’s ideas, writing on money and exchange, the bullion question and new coinage.

He believed in an imaginary true standard of value represented by metals.

243. Solleysel (Jacques de) The compleat horseman: or, perfect farrier. In two parts ... Written in French by the Sieur de Solleysell ... Abridged from the folio done into English by Sir William Hope. With the addition of several excellent receipts, by our best farriers: and directions to the buyers and sellers of horses ... Printed for H. Bonwicke [et al.] 702, folding engraved additional title-page and 6 plates (5 folding), some with closed tears on folds, some misfolded, pp. [xvi], 376, [ 6], 8vo., contemp. ‘Cambridge-pane’ calf, backstrip unlettered, repaired at head and foot, corners repaired, extremities rubbed; sides panelled, upper free endpaper creased, hinges £750.00 strengthened, red sprinkled edges, good ( ESTC T 02426) 244. Spelman (Henry) Reliquiae Spelmannianae. The posthumous works of Sir Henry Spelman Kt. relating to the Laws and Antiquities of England. Oxford: Printed at the Theater for Awnsham and John Churchill. 698, FIRST EDITION , engraved frontispiece portrait and large title-page vignette, two folding tables, title dusty, light browning elsewhere, final two leaves of text transposed, pp.

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[xxxii], 2 4, [ 2], folio, later calf, boards with a double gilt fillet border, neatly rebacked with spine with five raised bands between blind fillets, red morocco label in second compartment, old leather flaked, corners renewed, good ( ESTC R226 7; Wing S4930) £350.00 Posthumously published works by the historian and antiquary Sir Henry Spelman ( 563/4- 64 ), who wrote prolifically but published relatively little in his lifetime. This collection, which includes important papers on the feudal system and English legal history, was produced by Edmund Gibson from five bundles of papers he acquired in 694, along with selections from papers preserved by Spelman’s descendants.

245. St. John (Bayle) The Louvre, or, a biography of a Museum. Chapman and Hall. 855, FIRST EDITION , 2 plans of the Museum, pp. xxiii, 366, 8vo., original wave grain brown cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, covers embossed in blind, yellow endpapers, fine £120.00 A detailed account, intended for a wide readership, of the history of the great Paris Museum, with extensive descriptions of its contents, and thoughts on the role and management of Museums.

246. Stains (V.D. de) Phonography; or the writing of sounds. In two parts, viz. Logography, or universal writing of speech; and musicography, or symbolical writing of music; with a short hand for both. Second edition ... Effingham Wilson. 842, 9 plates (8 folding), pp. [viii], 208, 8vo., orig. blind stamped green cloth, backstrip gilt lettered direct, cream endpapers, bookseller’s ticket, good £150.00 247. [Stretton (Hesba, i.e. Sarah Smith)] Bede’s Charity. The Religious Tract Society. [ 872,] engraved frontispiece and 6 other plates, plates lightly toned, some finger-soiling elsewhere and a few minor creases, ownership inscription to initial blank (dated 873), pp. vi, 228, 8vo., later half olive-brown calf with purple cloth boards, backstrip with five raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, the rest with central gilt fleuron stamps, somewhat rubbed, good £30.00 248. (Surrey.) JEKYLL (Gertrude) Old West Surrey, some Notes and Memories. Longmans, Green.

904, upwards of 320 illustrations from photographs, ownership signature to half-title, occasional light spotting, pp. xx, 320, 8vo., orig. green buckram, the backstrip with gilt floral sprays and lettering, gilt tile to front cover within gilt wreath, slightly loose and shaken, a few £160.00 light marks and a little rubbing, good Gertrude Jekyll’s rich portrait of the area in which she grew up, with many details of local crafts and artefacts, architecture and customs.

249. (Switzerland.) BONNEY (Thomas G.) The Alpine Regions of Switzerland and the neighbouring Countries; a pedestrian’s Notes on their physical Features, Scenery, and Natural History.

Cambridge: Deighton Bell; London: Bell and Daldy. 868, FIRST EDITION , 5 plates and 5 illustrations, the plates and 9 vignettes afetr E. Whymper, half-title, errata leaf, pp. xvi, 35 , 8vo., orig. green cloth, the backstrip lettered in gilt and stamped with the image of a climber at the foot, the upper cover with a central gilt panel of two climbers on the ascent, the hinges and £200.00 extremities of the backstirp neatly repaired, good (Neate B 36) Bonney was an important Alpine climber, geologist & President of the Alpine Club 88 -3.

250. Symson (Andrew) Lexicon Anglo-Græco-Latinum Novi Testamenti. Or, a complete alphabetical concordance of all the words contained in the New Testament, both English, Greek, and Latine ... Together with the several significations, etymons, derivation, force and emphasis ... Printed by

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W. Godbid for J. Clark [et al.] 658, title-page printed in red and black (browned and frayed at corners, Signet Library’s small oval stamp), generally browned, printed in double column (table at end printed in three columns), pp. [ii], [xvi], 334, [50], [8], [2] (blank), folio, [with (as issued)] --------. HGHS KAINHS DIAQHKHS SUMFWNIA : or an alphabetical concordance of all the Greek words contained in the New Testament ... I. Clark [et al.]. 658, printed in double column, browned, pp. [viii], 266, folio, modern mid brown calf., backstrip with raised bands between gilt rules, gilt lettered black leather label in second compartment, gilt fleuron in centre of remainder; sides with dark brown reversed calf (with nap worn right down) from earlier binding laid down, new endpapers, sound ( ESTC R22 4; Wing S6367, S6368) £600.00 25 . Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) Cornelius Tacitus exacta cura recognitus, et emendatus. Copiosus index rerum, locorum, et personarum, de quibus in his libris agitur. Vario lectio, in calce operis impressa. [Venice: in aedibus haeredum Aldi Manutii ... Mense Novembri.] 534, SOLE ALDINE EDITION , some light spotting, title slightly dusty, a few early marginal notes, washed, two small paper repairs to blank areas of final leaf, leaves n2 and n3 bound out of order, ff. [xii], 260, 8vo., late eighteenth century straight-grain tan roan, backstrip with dot roll decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, remainder gilt decorated with large dot roll quatrefoils containing fleurons and semé dots; sides with foliage and berry sprays in corners, blind and gilt pelmet rolls on turn-ins and roan hinges, slightly rubbed at extremities, drab doublures and free endpapers, armorial bookplate of John Wyndham Bruce, a.e.g., good (Adams T25; Goldsmid 245; Renouard 534.8; CNCE 27227; Ebert 224 3; Dibdin II 450) £2,000.00 Although this book is criticised by some bibliographies for only reproducing the 533 Basel edition (‘a mere reprint’, Dibdin sniffs), which was edited by Rhenanus and based on Beroaldus’s text, one may suspect them of quibbling. Rhenanus’s edition had ‘justly assumed its place as the standard text’ (Robinson, Germania 935), and the fact that the Aldine ‘sells at a considerable price; while the Basil [sic] edition may be obtained at a price little above that of waste paper’ (Dibdin) probably had more to do with its relative scarcity and elegance of printing, qualities which under other circumstances Dibdin and Renouard find pleasing. The unexceptional text aside, this is still the only Aldine edition of a major Roman author, and specifically an amply-margined and attractively bound copy.

252. Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) The Works of Tacitus; Volume I: containing the Annals. To which are prefixed, political discourses upon that author. Volume II: Containing his five books of History, his Treatise of Germany, and Life of Agricola. [by Thomas Gordon.] Tho. Woodward.

728-3 , FIRST EDITION , woodcut vignette to vol. i title, woodcut initials, one small wormhole in gutter of second half of vol. ii (clear of text), a few minor spots elsewhere, very clean and bright, pp. [xii], 24, 479 [i.e. 49 ], [ ]; [xx], 45, [ ], 39 [i.e. 40 ], [4 ], folio, contemp. Cambridgestyle panelled calf, rebacked in a slightly lighter calf, backstrips with six raised bands, red morocco labels in second and fourth compartments (a bit faded), corners and endpapers renewed, a few small repairs elsewhere, very good ( ESTC T96042; Schweiger II 023; Lowndes 669) £700.00 The first edition of this translation of Tacitus with political essays by Thomas Gordon (d. 750), a notable Whig author and founder, with John Trenchard, of The Independent Whig . His work was to influence leading members of the American Revolutionary movement, who saw that ‘Gordon used the history provided by Tacitus to write about the dangers of factions, the evils of tyranny, the natural right of liberty, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the power of the people, among other subjects that further defined Radical Whig thought and would eventually define the American Revolution’ (Bregman, ‘Reading Under the Folds’, 2008 UPenn Hons. Thesis).

The translation itself would of course be superseded, but as Lowndes tells us, quoting the Quarterly Review : ‘Gordon’s “translation is not inferior to Murphy’s: its latinisms even give it a peculiarity which represents the strong mannerism of the original better than can be done by mere idiomatic English.”’

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253. Tasso (Torquato) Le Lettere .. disposte per Ordine di Tempo ed illustrate da Cesare Guasti. [Five volumes]. Florence: Felice le Monnier. 852/55, Harvard University Library copy with stamps to the titles, includng the withdrawn stamp on the versos, blind stamps to the first leaves, 8vo., contemp. vellum, backstrips decorated in gilt, black morocco labels, sprung, the upper joints just cracking but still strong, bookplate of the Henry Ware Wales Bequest and the Lamont Library (again with withdrawn stamp), traces of labels on back pastedowns, speckled edges, stamped, sound £100.00 A working set of Tasso edited by the well-known translator and editor Cesare Guasti who was archivist at the Cathedral in Prato. Henry Ware Wales, who bequeathed a large collection to his alma mater, Harvard, was the basis for a character in Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn.

254. Taylor (Arthur) The glory of regality: an historical treatise of the anointing and crowning of the Kings and Queens of England. R. and A. Taylor. 820, FIRST EDITION , wood engraved illustration on title-page, other woodcuts on the letterpress, pp. xvi, 424, 8vo., contemp. half tan calf, extremities rubbed, backstrip with raised bands between wide gilt rules, gilt lettered black leather label, horizontally fine-ribbed brown cloth sides, Marquess’s garter bookplate (‘T’), good £200.00 John Drinkwater’s copy 255. Tennyson (Alfred) Poems ... In two volumes. Edward Moxon. 842, FIRST EDITION , integral advertisement leaf vol. i discarded, pp. vii, [i] (blank), 233; vii, [i], 23 , [ ], 8vo., late nineteenth century tan calf, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, backstrips with fine rope roll decorated raised bands between gilt rules, gilt lettered dark red leather title and dark green vol. labels in second and third compartments respectively, narrow dark red leather imprint labels at foot of each vol., remaining compartments with floral spray border and central fleuron; sides with triple fillet border, double fillet on board edges, wide fleuron roll on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, small gilt on dark green leather book label of John Drinkwater in both vols., t.e.g., near fine (Ashley Library VII, pp. -2; Sterling 9 6; Tinker 2064; Wise 2) £550.00 Signed and dated by ‘John Drinkwater 9 9’ on both half-titles.

Eight hundred sets printed (Wise). Volume one reprints the Poems, Chiefly Lyrical ( 830), and Poems ( 833), with important revisions; volume two contains some of Morte d’Arthur ( 842), often with revisions or additions, in addition to several poems published for the first time.

256. [Terence] Terentius Afer (Publius) Comoediae. [edited by Charles Old Goodford.] [Excudebat Carolus Whittingham.] 854, title and colophon with printer’s device, woodcut head- and tailpieces, some light spotting, pp. [iv], 463, [ ], 4to., modern half brown calf over marbled boards, backstrip with five raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, central gilt lozenge in others, a.e.g., very good £150.00 Goodford ( 8 2- 884) became headmaster of Eton in 853, and in 854 he produced this edition of Terence, chiefly in order to present it as a leaving gift to his sixth-form students. It includes a printed presentation leaf with a blank space for a student’s name; this copy was given to Robert Lowther Bridger (who went on to New College, Oxford) in 859. Goodford wisely employed Charles Whittingham, ‘the finest English commercial printer of the nineteenth century’ ( ODNB ), who was known for his work with William Pickering, and the result is simply but elegantly laid out and printed to Whittingham’s usual high standard.

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257. [Terence] Terentius (Publius Afer) [Camus (Nicolas), ed.] Comoediae sex. Interpretatione & notis illustravis Nicolaus Camus, [...] Juxta editionem novissimam Parisiensem. Typis Mariae Clark: Prostant apud R. Clavell, 700, a little spotting, rear free endpaper torn, old ink notes to pastedowns, contemporary ownership inscription to title, pp. [x], clxii, 288, [88], 8vo., contemp.

Cambridge-style panelled calf, with plain and speckled panels, backstrip with five raised bands, compartments entirely gilt with repeated drawer-handle tools and volutés, red label in second compartment, hinges cracked and joints splitting at head and tail but still strong, boards slightly bowed, modern bookplates to front endpapers, sound ( ESTC R339 ; Wing T746; Schweiger II 066; Lowndes 2605) £175.00 A reprint of the 688 London version of Terence’s comedies from the Delphin series, edited by Nicolas Camus ( 6 0- 677) and originally published in 675.

258. [Terence] Terentius (Publius Afer); Hoole (Charles, translator) Comeodiae sex Anglo-Latinae.

Six Comedies [...] in English and Latin. Printed by E.F. for the Company of Stationers. 676, facing pages of English and Latin, first and last leaves dusty with slight rumpling to edges, a few small stains to title, some light soiling elsewhere, one leaf with a small rusthole (touching a character but not affecting legibility), early ownership inscription (William Robinson, 7 7) to final leaf and initials to title, pp. [iv], 395, [ ], 8vo., contemp. blind-ruled calf, floral blind stamps at corners, backstrip with four blind-ruled raised bands, new red gilt label, joints and two corners repaired, hinges re-lined, later endpapers, old leather somewhat scratched and cracked, sound ( ESTC R37883; Wing T74 ) £500.00 The third edition listed in ESTC of schoolmaster Charles Hoole’s edition of Terence in Latin and English ‘for the use of young scholars, that they may the more readily attain the purity of the Latine Tongue for common discourse’ (title).

259. Thucydides. The History of the Grecian War: in Eight Books. Faithfully translated from the original by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury, with maps describing the country. The third edition, corrected and amended. In two volumes. Printed by B. Motte; for D. Brown [et al.]

723, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Clark, 5 engraved maps/diagrams (4 folding), gathering Cc bound before Bb, final blank discarded, foxed in places and browned (mostly lightly), one leaf with marginal paper flaws (not affecting text), pp. [c], 403, [ ]; [ii], [ ], 406-732, [22], 8vo., contemp. Cambridge-style panelled calf, backstrips with five gilt-ruled raised bands, red morocco labels in second compartments, gilt numbering in third, central gilt lozenges to others, extremities lightly rubbed, front joints tender, bookplates of the North Library of Shirburn Castle and the embossment of the Earls of Macclesfield, sound (MacDonald & Hargreaves 5; ESTC T 30569; Moss II 699; Foster p. 7; Schweiger I 329; Brüggemann I 23; Lowndes 2680) £1,750.00 This third edition was the first produced after Hobbes’ death and the first in octavo form. ‘Blount, Schurzfleisch, and others highly extol this translation; Smith blames his obscure brevity, finds fault with the old English, calls Hobbes very learned, and at last does not appear to know what he has said’ (Moss). ‘Read him in the famous speeches...and Jowett seems a nerveless paraphrase’ (Phillimore, quo. in Seymour Smith).

260. Tommaseo (Nicolo) and Bernardo Bellini. Dizionario della Lingua Italiana. [4 vols. bound in 8.] Torino: dalla Societa l’unione tipografico-editrice. 865-79 [pref. dated 86 ,] FIRST EDITION , light foxing, a few leaves creased, pp. XI, [ ], 824; [iv], 825- 877; [ii], 978; [iv], 979- 924; [iv], 702; [iv], 402; 336; [iv], XIII-LII, 337-2052, 4to., contemp. Italian quarter calf, marbled boards, backstrips with five raised bands, gilt-lettered direct in second and fifth compartments, marbled endpapers, somewhat rubbed at extremities, backstrips a bit chipped in places, bookplates, good £400.00

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The most important Italian dictionary from the time of Unification. It is instructive to compare the Dizionario with the fifth edition of the Academia della Crusca’s Vocabolario : the latter, based in Florence and intended to ‘purify’ the Italian language, was begun in 8 3, saw its first full volume in 863, and was halted, still incomplete after 0 years of effort, in 923. Tommaseo and Bellini’s dictionary, a project of Turin (still a centre of lexicography) that gave an inclusive picture of current usage - even citing recent authors like Leopaldi and Foscolo - easily outstripped the Academia’s troubled efforts and remains an important reference of the Italian language, seeing an issue on CD-ROM in 2004.

26 . (Trinity House.) [JAMES II , King of England) The royal charter of confirmation granted by his most excellent Majesty King James II. To the Trinity-House of Deptford-strond; for the government and increase of the navigation of England, and the relief of poor mariners, their widows, and orphans, &c. London: printed in the year 763, title printed within double rule border, pp. [iv], 78, [ ], 8vo., contemp. ‘Cambridge-pane’ calf, backstrip with raised bands and panelled in gilt enclosing repeated star tool, gilt lettered red morocco label, a little rubbed, foot of upper joint and corners repaired, sides of dark mottled calf (pitted), gilt roll border rubbed, tan central panel outlined with narrow gilt open roll, onlayed at the centre are the gilt arms of Trinity House on red morocco to form a circular centrepiece (apparently removed from earlier binding), red polished and sprinkled edges, hinges strengthened, sound (Wing J38 ; ESTC T 45826; Goldsmiths’ 99 4) £550.00 Trinity House’s involvement with pilotage stretched back to 5 3 when Henry VIII granted it powers to regulate pilots on the Thames. In 687 the Corporation was also given permission to test these pilots after Samuel Pepys’ visit to Spain. Pepys’ involvement with the Admiralty had won him the position of Younger Brother in 662. He later became Master of Trinity House in 685. In the previous year, Pepys had gone to Spain to study the Spanish system of examination. Aspiring pilots were questioned on their knowledge of navigation and sea management. Only the best would achieve a certificate of competence and become pilots. Pepys’ report was accepted by James II who acknowledged it in a new Charter in 685.

This is the enlarged edition of the Royal Charter relating to Trinity House which includes charters, grants, and acts pertaining to Trinity House from 5 2- 687, and a list of Elder-Brethren of Trinity House in 763.

‘I regard this as the best novel I have written’ 262. Trollope (Anthony) The last Chronicle of Barset. Smith, Elder. 867, FIRST EDITION , second issue, 32 plates by George H. Thomas, occasional light browning, pp. [iv], 384; [iv], 384, 8vo., contemp. dark blue straight-grained half roan, the backstrips with gilt lettering, rubbed, marbled £600.00 sides, bookplates of Stanley Blow, sound (Sadleir, Trollope 26; Wolff 6784) The last of the six chronicles of fictional Barsetshire, this work severed his working relationship with Millais, who was rejected in favour of George Smith as illustrator. It is most famous for the surprising death of Mrs. Proudie, a literary coup de grace that Trollope later claimed to regret, despite its enormous impact on readers.

Errors put right 263. Urquhart (George) The experienced Solicitor in Proceedings under the appellant Jurisdiction of ... the House of Lords on Appeals and Writs in Error, and the Jurisdiction exercised by the House in Matters of Peerage. W. Strahan and M. Woodfall [etc.]. 773, Large Paper copy, pp. [xiv], 55, [ ], folio, contemp. mottled calf, the backstrip lettered vertically in gilt on a red morocco label, gilt borders on sides, the upper joint just starting to crack but still strong, marbled endpapers, good ( ESTC T 38228) £500.00 A scarce work by George Urquhart who describes himself as ‘of Gray’s Inn’. An historical record of writs of error until 698 had been published in that year, and another similar in 74 , but nothing ‘full and satisfactory for practice on the

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subject ... it conatins all the material rules, forms and precedents in practice, that ought or could with propriety be exhibited to the public on this subject’ (preface).

264. [Vanbrugh (Sir John)] A short vindication of the Relapse and the Provok’d Wife, from immorality and prophaneness Printed for H. Walwyn ... 698, FIRST EDITION , title-page printed within double line border, slightly soiled, early owners’ names at head and centre, halftitle present, pp. [iv], 79, 8vo., later drab wrappers, good (Arnott and Robinson 3 9; Grolier 895) £200.00 Written in answer to Jeremy Collier’s A short view of the immorality, and profaneness of the English stage. Collier had singled out these two Vanbrugh comedies, which he regarded as specially indecent, for particular censure.

265. Vergil (Polydore) Anglicae Historiae Libri Vigintiseptem. Ab ipso autore postremum iam recogniti. Basel: Apud Mich. Isingrinium. 555, FIRST EDITION THUS , third edition overall, title reinforced at gutter, title and last leaf dustsoiled, a little soiling and a few small stains elsewhere, a little early marginalia (often shaved), two early ownership inscriptions struck through at foot of title, bookplate of the Earl of Essex on title verso (dated 70 ), pp. [ii], 69 , [39], folio, later dark brown calf, rebacked and recornered, backstrip with six plain raised bands, second and third compartments gilt lettered direct, the rest plain, marbled edges, old leather flaked but since £900.00 polished, hinges relined, good ( VD 6 V7 ; Adams V448) The third printed edition of Polydore Vergil’s history of England, begun in the early 6th century with the encouragement of Henry VII, and the first edition to include the final part, which extends the time covered to include the reign of Henry VIII up to 537. It was also the last edition revised by Vergil himself, who died in the year of its publication. ‘Vergil’s treatment of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, at least, remained authoritative down to the nineteenth century.... Surprisingly, the Anglica historia still awaits a complete critical edition and modern translation’ ( ODNB ).

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This copy belonged to Algernon Capell ( 654- 7 0), the second Earl of Essex in that title’s ninth creation. There are short marginal notes in a hand which may be his, as well as a few in a different hand. The majority of the notes mark passages concerning English colleges and their foundations, mostly those of Oxford, including Magdalene, Balliol, and New College. It does not appear to be recorded where Capell was educated.

266. Vergil (Polydore) De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Eiusdem in dominicam precem commentariolum. Basel: apud Isingrinium. 546, final blank discarded, dampmarking to lower outer corner and upper inner corner appearing intermittently, small neat repair to blank area of title, a little faint browning elsewhere, pp. [xliv], 524, 2mo., eighteenth-century mottled sheep, rebacked, backstrip with five riased bands between double gilt fillets, red morocco label in second compartment, joints and bands rubbed, an area of surface abrasion on lower cover, marbled endpapers, a.e.r., sound (Adams V432) £650.00 The famous ‘De inventoribus rerum’, a humanist encyclopaedia so popular it saw more than thirty Latin editions in the author’s lifetime (of which this is one) - including vernacular translations would more than treble the total. Michael Isingrin produced a number of those editions, averaging nearly one new edition every two years between 540 and 560. Polydore Vergil ( 470- 555) is also known for his History of England , first published in 534 (see above), but it is this encyclopaedia, themed on the origins of scientific and cultural knowledge and rituals, that is a defining text of his age.

267. Vinnius (Arnold) Selectarum juris quaestionum libri duo. Additae sunt Simonis Vinii, arn. fil. orationes ... Editio quarta priori emendatior. Rotterdam: ex offocina Arnoldi Leers. 672, title-page printed in red and black, with woodcut printer’s device, lightly dust soiled, pp. [xvi], 556, 2mo., contemp. vellum, slightly warped, small loss at bottom of backstrip, ms. lettered direct, nineteenth century owner’s dated signature on upper pastedown, blue sprinkled edges, good £180.00 268. Viollet-le-Duc (Eugene) Lectures on Architecture. Translated from the French ... by Benjamin Bucknall, Architect. [Two Volumes]. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle [etc.]. 877/8 . FIRST ENGLISH EDITION , 36 double-page plates, 2 tinted, one or two with captions shaved, pp. viii, 487; viii, 468, roy. 8vo., contemp. half calf, the backstrips elaborately panelled in gilt, brown morocco labels with gilt lettering, slightly sunned, marbled sides and endpapers, near fine £400.00 French architect and theorist, famous for his ‘restorations’ of medieval buildings, Viollet-le-Duc was as central a figure in the Gothic Revival in France as he was in the public discourse on ‘honesty’ in architecture, which eventually transcended all revival styles, to inform the emerging spirit of Modernism.

An early history of mathematics 269. Vossius (Gerardus Johannis) De quatuor artibus popularibus, de philologia, et scientiis mathematicis, cui operi subjungitur, chronologia mathematicorum, libri tres. [Edited by François Du Jon.]. [3 parts in one vol.] Amsterdam: ex typographeio Joannis Blaeu. 650, general and divisional title-pages with printer’s woodcut device, some neat underlining, browned, 3 works separately collated and paginated, errata leaf present at end first and second works, pp. [xvi], 94, [ 3], [viii], 83, [ 3], [xvi], 467, [35], sm. 4to., modern brown morocco, by Hales, backstrip with gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, remainder gilt and blind panelled with quatrefoil design; single fillet border on sides, marbled endpapers, green morocco edged marbled slipcase, good £650.00 One of the first histories of mathematics by the Dutch scholar and theologian, Vossius, who also distinguishes pure and applied mathematics. Vossius established a great reputation as a scholar, not only in the Netherlands, but also in France and England, where he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford.

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270. (Wales.) [NICHOLSON (George)] The Cambrian Traveller’s Guide in every Direction; Containing Remarks made during many Excursions, in the Principality of Wales, and bordering Districts, augmented by Extracts from the best Writers. ... , Second edition, augmented and considerably enlarged. Stourport: printed by the editor, and published by Longman [etc.] 8 3, hand-coloured folding engraved map of Wales as frontispiece, short tear at inner fold, offsetting, engraved title vignette, printed in two columns, front endpapers spotted, pp. xix, 468 (columns), [2] (blank), 8vo., contemp. half calf, recently rebacked preserving original spine, and corners repaired, speckled edges, good £150.00 An authoritative and useful guide with a wealth of factual and historical information, including notes on Welsh pronunciation and a glossary of words frequently used in place names.

27 . (Wales.) [PENNANT (Thomas)] The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell. B. and J. White. 796, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, engraved titlepage with vignette of Bychton (spotted), 22 plates, offsetting, pp. [viii], 72, 85-328, 4to., contemp. polished diced russia, the backstrip with eight raised bands in pairs separated by Greek key-pattern borders, rope tools and single fillets, the panels infilled with fleurons, lettering in gilt in the second compartment, the sides with wide gilt borders of arabesques, and inner blind borders of scallops, marbled edges £500.00 and endpapers, good (Lowndes p. 824; Rowlands 796.2) A beautifully bound copy of Pennant’s work on the place of his birth, Whitford in Flintshire. The vignettes on the title page shows the long-standing family home and the work offers a detailed local history and genealogical information on the Pennant family. Of particular interest are the descriptions of eighteenth century works and mills.

272. (Wales.) WIGSTEAD (Henry) Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales, in the year 797 ...

With plates from Rowlandson, Pugh, Howitt, &c. Printed and Published by W. Wigstead. 799, 800, SOLE EDITION , 22 hand-coloured aquatint plates, aquatinted by I. Hill, additional engraved titlepage dated ‘ 800’, with the half-title but without the printed title, a little soiling, the plates tightly bound obscuring occasional captions, offsetting on to the text, pp. vii, 69, [i], [ii] (ads.), 8vo., modern straight-grained green morocco, the backstrip with raised bands and red morocco label lettered in gilt, the lower cover light-stained, edges untrimmed, bookplate of Fitz Eugene Dixon, sound (Abbey Scenery 5 6; Rowlands p.727) £550.00 Wigstead left London in August 797, with the artist Thomas Rowlandson, intending to view the ‘romantic and picturesque scenery of North and South Wales’ (Preface). This work was the fruit of that journey, accompanied by Rowlandson’s evocative plates.

273. [Wallace (Robert)] A Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind in Antient and Modern Times: in which the superior Populousness of Antiquity is maintained. Edinburgh: Printed for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour. 753, FIRST EDITION , a little light page-toning, pp. iv, 33 , [ ], 8vo., contemp. sprinkled sheep, boards with a double gilt fillet border, a bit rubbed, rebacked, backstrip with five blind-milled raised bands between double gilt fillets, black label in second compartment, very good ( ESTC T 45322; Goldsmiths’ 8782; Kress 53 8) £1,100.00 Robert Wallace ( 697- 77 ), a Presbytarian minister, took to more scholarly pursuits as he found himself ideologically isolated from developments in church politics. His researches into historical population growth led to this book, which he showed while in progress to his fellow Philosophical Society member David Hume. Hume’s disagreeing response to Wallace’s ideas appeared in his Political Discourses, in 752, with thanks to Wallace’s inspiration; the essay is reprinted as an appendix here in Wallace’s work, which saw print a year later. Wallace’s ideas would be an important influence on Malthus, and a second edition of this book was produced in 806 after Malthus rekindled interest in it.

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Wallace, perhaps presciently, argues that the population of the modern world is not reaching its potential, largely because of developments in industry and cultural tastes for luxury. Farming-based societies have simple needs and people marry young and produce large numbers of children, while in modern industrial societies the economy and tastes shift towards luxuries, marriage is delayed, and the average number of children decreases.

274. Wallis (John) ... Grammatica linguæ Anglicanæ. Cui præfigitur, de loquela sive Sonorum Formatione, tractatus grammatico-physicus. Et (nunc primum) subjungitur, praxis grammatica.

Editio Quarta ... Oxon: Leon. Lichfield. 674, wood cut head- and tail-pieces to Præfatio, Index and Errata; endpapers; preliminary and final leaves stained by turn-ins, rather browned, pp. [xix], [i], 90, 8vo., contemp. sprinkled calf, rebacked, backstrip gilt panelled and decorated in gilt between raised bands, maroon morocco title label with gilt lettering in the second compartment, r.e., early owner’s(?) ms. press or ownership code on front pastedown, good ( ESTC R347 ; Wing W586; Madan III, 3028) £495.00 John Wallis ( 6 6- 703) is recognised primarily as a mathematician, academic, and by some as the Father of modern calculus. This book on etymology and grammar (first published in 653) describes the English language, its forms and origin. It includes a short tract entitled ‘De Loquela’, which describes in detail the various methods of producing articulate sounds. This essay led Wallis to devise a method for teaching the deaf to speak, tested successfully on two patients. His Grammatica represented an important shift away from Latin based grammar. Between 643 and 689 he served Parliament as chief cryptographer, intercepting and decoding numerous Royalist ciphers during the Civil War.

275. [Ward (Robert Plummer)] Illustrations of Human Life by the author of “Tremaine” and “De Vere” ... Atticus St. Lawrence. In three volumes. Henry Colburn. 837, FIRST EDITION , pp. viii, 359; viii, 324; [iv], 30 , 8vo., contemp. dark green half morocco, the backstrips panelled with gilt fillets and repeated leafy and drawer-handle tools, marbled boards, slithly rubbed, a.e.g., bookplates of Thomas Smith, good (Sadleir 3299; Wolff 70290) £300.00 War was educated at Christchurch, Oxford and trained in the law. On the personal recommendation of William Pitt he was offered a seat in the House of Commons for the Lowther pocket borough of Cockermouth in June 802.

‘The most famous novel about the law’ 276. [Warren (Samuel)] Ten Thousand a-year. In three volumes. William Blackwood. 84 , FIRST ENGLISH EDITION , half-titles discarded, pp. [iii-viii], 403; [ii], 39 ; [ii], 429, 8vo., contemp. black pebble grain roan, the backstrips panelled and infilled with gilt tooling, gilt lettering, marbled boards and endpapers, a.e.g., bookplates of Thomas Smith, good (Wolff 7072) £450.00 Ten Thousand A-Year proved extraordinarily popular and became a best-selling Victorian novel, not least because its deals with lawyers and the legal profession. It recounts the tale of a draper’s assistant who comes into a large fortune as a result of documents forged by lawyers, and the rise and fall of fortunes as they are affected by legal corruption. Samuel Warren ( 807-77) was an English novelist and lawyer who gained fame for his arguments against the insanity defense. After studying medicine in Edinburgh, he took up law, becoming a barrister and writing several text-books on the subject.

He became an MP in 856 but resigned on being appointed Master in Lunacy, a position which he is reported to have filled admirably.

277. (Warwickshire.) JAFFRAY (James) Graphic Illustrations of Warwickshire. Birmingham: Thos.

Underwood. 862, FIRST JAFFRAY-EDITED EDITION , wood engraved frontispiece, 3 woodcut engraved plates protected by tissue guards, 3 woodcut vignettes in text, title with a few foxmarks, pp. [viii], 9, 4to., contemp.green half calf, backstrip panelled in gilt with repeated tooling and gitl rules, marbled sides, edges and endpapers, boards a little rubbed, good £280.00

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Printers Beilby, Knott, and Beilby of Birmingham first published a version of this work (in seven parts) from 823- 829. The wood engravings are by the noted engraver William Radclyffe ( 783- 855) after sketches made by D. Cox, J.V. Barber, P. DeWint, and others. They are reissued in this edition; Dr. Blair’s earlier descriptive text was edited and updated by Jaffray.

278. (Warwickshire.) LUCY (Mary Elizabeth) Biography of the Lucy family, of Charlecote Park, in the county of Warwick. Privately printed by Emily Faithfull & Co., Victoria Press, 9, Great Coram Street... 862, SOLE EDITION , engraving of Charlecote as frontispiece (with illustration of Charlecote church tipped to recto), vignette of Lucy family coat of arms on title-page, pp. vii, 208, 4to., [with, tipped to recto of rear endaper] “In the Night of the 6th of May instant, the ancient mansion called Charlecote House .. the residence of Mrs. Lucy was feloniously broken open, and the following, with other property solen, ... etc.” Stratford-upon-Avon: F. & E. Ward. 850, Broadsheet advertising property stolen with an offer for a reward. orig. red crushed morocco by Leighton, backstrip divided by gilt raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, remainder with gilt panelled with floral cornerpieces, gilt dated at foot, front board with circular gilt stamped armorial device within gilt border designs, gilt rule on board edges, gilt floral decorations on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, modern portrait of Lucy(?) on front pastedown, letter from the author tipped to verso of front free endpaper, broadsheet (folding) tipped to recto of rear endpaper, a.e.g., very good £600.00 Copies of this somewhat eccentric privately-printed work vary with regard to plates. Rather than the commonly seen five plates, this particular copy has a number of illustrations tipped to blanks at front and rear, and to the front pastedown. Tipped in is a manuscript letter (dated 874) from Mary Elizabeth Lucy to a Mr Shirley, thanking him for a book he had given her, which she intended to read ‘with much interest.’ It seems entirely possible that the present work was gifted to Shirley from the author. At the rear of the book, a scarce broadsheet is tipped in. Worldcat locates only two examples of this sheet worldwide.

279. Wharton (Edith) & Ogden Codman. The Decoration of Houses. New York: Charles Scribner’s; London: B. T. Batsford. [ 904], 56 plates from photographs, pp. vii, 204, small 4to., orig. maroon cloth, gilt lettering to the backstrip and front cover, the upper cover deorated in blind, the lower cover sunned at the edges, engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Bourchier Wrey of Trebitch, good £400.00 First published in 897, this is Wharton’s second book and her real debut as a writer. It proved an immediate success and was re-published in the following year. The author’s desire for reform in the style of house decoration was very much in keeping with the times, and a revolt against the elaborate taste of the Victorian era. The work was still published in 998.

The bookplate is that of Sir Albany Bourchier Sherard Wrey of Trebitch, 86 - 948. The Baronecy was conferred upon Sir William Wrey of Trebitch, Cornwall in 628.

280. Whatley (Richard) Introductory lectures on political economy ... being part of a course delivered in Easter Term, MDCCCXXXI B. Fellowes, Ludgate Street, 83 , FIRST EDITION , printed by Baxter of Oxford; minimal foxing to preliminary and final leaves, pp.[xv], 238, [ ](ads.), 8vo., orig. grey and blue paper boards, backstrip with defective paper title label, loss at backstrip head and tail, corners and edges of sides worn, engraved bookplate over removal scars of earlier plate, dustdulled rough cut edges, good £200.00 A series of eight lectures, here issued for the first time; written and delivered by the Professor of Political Economy and principal of St. Alban’s Hall, (incorporated with Merton College in 882) and held at the University of Oxford in the year of publication. Richard Whatley ( 787- 863) was a philosopher, educator, theologian, social reformer and economist of the nineteenth century. After

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graduation from Oriel College, Oxford in 808, Whatley embarked on a career in academia. He was elected a fellow of Oriel in 8 , but taught as an unconventional tutor, independent of the University.

His early contemporaries were Edward Copleston, John Henry Newman and John Keble. Whatley later returned to Oxford where Newman was to assist him in the publication of Elements of Logic ( 826), a ground-breaking treatise that defended logic as a field of study: an extremely radical notion in Britain at the time. On the success of this publication, Whatley produced a second similarly important work entitled Elements of Rhetoric. Two years later, in 828, he followed this with Introductory lectures which contains the seeds of a subjective theory of value. Whately would argue later that ‘It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.’ Whately’s time at Oxford ended in 83 when he became (Anglican) Archbishop of Dublin, though he maintained his links with the city and is regarded as the founder of the Oxford-Dublin school of proto-Marginalists; he also established the Whately Chair in Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin. This association copy comes from the library of James Endell Tyler ( 789- 85 ) the Church of England clergyman, and bears his bookplate; Tyler graduated from Oriel in 805 and became dean of the same college in 822, and remained a tutor (during Whately’s tenure) before relinquishing his fellowship in 826.

28 . [Woodrooffe (Anne)] Michael, the married Man; or, a Sequel to the History of Michael Kemp.

[2 parts in one vol.] John Hatchard and Son. 827, FIRST EDITION , engraved frontispiece, tightly bound in hiding the caption, pp. [ii], 579, 8vo., early green embossed cloth, gilt lettering to the spine, slightly rubbed, very good (Wolff 7303; Block, p. 256) £150.00 Mrs Woodroofe was a successful educator. ‘Her prose fiction was remarkable in its day for the lightness of touch and technical skills with which incident and character were developed’ ( ODNB ).

Michael reflects the economic and social problems ensuing from a transition in class. It is also notable for its characterisation of good-hearted but foolish mothers, which may owe something to Jane Austen.

282. (Worcester, Chichester & Lichfield). ABINGDON (Thomas) The Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Worcester ... to which are added the Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Chichester and Lichfield. For E. Curll. 7 7, FIRST EDITION , 3 engraved plates, including 2 folding, of the Cathedrals, pp. [iv], xxxvi, 240, xlvii, 62, [8], 8vo., nineteenth century diced russia, rebacked, the backstrip with five raised bands and gilt lettering, the sides with outer blind Greek key-pattern borders and inner gilt panel, a.e.g., bookplate, good £180.00 This attractive volume provides extensive historical information, including notes on Great Malvern Priory. It was published by the infamous publisher and bookseller Edmund Curll, who antagonised both Swift and Pope with his counterfeit printings.

283. Wordsworth (William) Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 820. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 822, FIRST EDITION , half-title, a few foxmarks, pp. viii, 03, 8vo., later polished calf, double gilt fillet borders on sides, rebacked, spine gilt with black and red morocco labels, good, (Cornell Wordsworth Collection 70; Wise pp.25-26) £750.00 One of Wordsworth’s scarcer titles. The text begins with thirty-five short autobiographical poems, mostly sonnets, followed by two longer poems: ‘To Enterprise’ and ‘Desultry Stanzas’. The work also includes a poem entitled ‘The Eclipse of the Sun 82 ’.

284. Wordsworth (William) The prose works ... for the first time collected, with additions from unpublished manuscripts ... In three volumes. Edward Moxon. 876, FIRST EDITION , pp. xxxviii, [ii], 360; [iv], 347; xii, 5 6, [2], 8vo., orig. green cloth, very light rubbing at ends of backstrips, smooth backstrips gilt lettered direct, sides blind-stamped, chalked cream endpapers, very good (Wise, Two Lake Poets p.39) £250.00

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285. Yarrell (William) A History of British Birds. In three volumes. Second Edition. John Van Voorst.

845, 535 wood-engravings, half-titles, pp. xxxviii, 587: vi, 655: vi, 65 , 8vo., full green morocco, the backstrips panelled in gilt and with gilt lettering, the sides with double gilt fillet borders, £600.00 a.e.g., marbled endpapers, by Leighton of Brewer Street, fine

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Section Two: Modern First Editions and Illustrated Books 286. (Allen Lane.) COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts. Allen Lane. 945, ONE OF 700 COPIES printed on Barcham Green handmade paper, 5 colour plates by Duncan Grant each printed on Arnold handmade paper, title and marginal notes printed in red, pp. [ii], 38, cr.8vo., orig. mid blue morocco lightly rubbed, backstrip lettering and front cover design all gilt blocked, t.e.g, others untrimmed, good £400.00 Signed by Duncan Grant on the title-page beneath his printed signature and inscribed by Allen Lane on the front free endpaper ‘Tom Harrison from Allen Lane Xmas 946’.

287. (Auden.) SPENDER (Stephen) A Memorial Address delivered at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, 973. Privately Printed for Faber. 973, SOLE EDITION , pp. 2, cr.8vo., orig. sewn printed cream wrappers, fine £125.00 Accompanying slip loosely inserted: ‘W.H. Auden. A commemorative stone ...’. Anne Ridler’s copy, with the Ridlers’ embossed address on the title-leaf.

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288. Barnes (Julian) The Pedant in the Kitchen. Atlantic Books. 2003, FIRST EDITION , pp. [viii], 36, f’cap.8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip printed in silver, dustjacket, fine £20.00 289. Bates (H.E.) When the Green Woods Laugh. Joseph. 960, FIRST EDITION , pp. 60, cr.8vo., orig. mid green cloth, lightly faded backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket a touch browned at backstrip panel, very good (Eads A90a) £100.00 The third in the Larkin series and inscribed by H.E. Bates on the front free endpaper, to his publisher’s wife: ‘Anthea [Joseph] with much love, as always H.E. 960’. Bates had an exceptionally good relationship with his publisher, most of his post-war books were published by Josephs.

290. Bawden (Edward) A Book of Cuts. (Introduction by Ruari McLean). Scolar Press. 979, FIRST EDITION , 76 pages illustrating reproductions of Bawden’s woodcuts, pp. [iv], 84, sm.folio, orig. green card wrappers, covers printed in black and pink, including reproductions of work by Bawden, fine £20.00 29 . Bennett (Arnold) The Old Wives’ Tale. Reproduced in Facsimile from the Author’s Manuscript. 2 Vols. Benn: New York Doran. 927, ONE OF 500 SETS printed on japanese paper and with the ‘Note’ for this edition signed by the author on page vi of vol.i, the author’s handwriting is extremely neat and clear and his numerous corrections add a great of interest, facsimile of the title-pages printed in blue and red, the initial letter to each ‘Book’ printed in red, pp. xiv, 52, [ii], 69; [iv], 70, [iii], 55, 4to., orig. qtr. white vellum, backstrips gilt lettered, black linen sides, t.e.g., owner’s small neat initials and date on the front free endpaper of vol.i, bookplates, very good £140.00 292. Brown (George MacKay) The Sixth Station. A Story. Clarion Publishing, Alton, Hampshire. [ 997], FIRST EDITION, 26 /200 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) signed by the artist, 5 full-page illustrations by Adrian Wiszniewski, all printed in blue, pp. 6, f’cap.8vo., orig. printed pale grey sewn wrappers, fine £25.00 293. Brown (George MacKay) The Sixth Station. A Story. Clarion Publishing, Alton, Hampshire. [ 997], FIRST EDITION, 5 / 49 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) signed by the artist, 5 full-page illustrations by Adrian Wiszniewski, all printed in blue, pp. 6, f’cap.8vo., orig. printed pale grey boards, fine £50.00 294. Burns (Christopher) Giacomo’s Juliet. Clarion Publishing, Alton, Hampshire. [ 996], FIRST EDITION, 62/ 49 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) signed by the author and artist and printed in black and blue, 2 illustrations, one full-page, printed in black, blue and brown, by George Mackie, pp. 6, f’cap.8vo., orig. printed mid blue boards, fine £20.00 295. Byron (Robert) Appreciation of Architecture. Adelphi Quarto No. . Wishart. 932, FIRST EDITION , 20 monochrome reproductions of photographs, pp. 64, roy.8vo., orig. black clothbacked cream boards patterned overall in orange, backstrip gilt lettered, corners a little rubbed, free endpapers with four tapestains, good £100.00 296. Byron (Robert) The Byzantine Achievement. An Historical Perspective A.D. 330 - 453.

Routledge. 929, FIRST EDITION , plates, full-page map, printed in black and red, pp. xiv, 346, cr.8vo., orig. mid blue cloth, lettering on backstrip and central front cover design all gilt blocked, near fine £140.00

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297. Byron (Robert) First Russia then Tibet. Murray. 933, FIRST EDITION , colour frontispiece, tissueguard present, 24 plates, pp. xvi, 328, 8vo., orig. dark green cloth, gilt lettered backstrip a little darkened, author’s initials gilt blocked to front cover, rear head outer corner a little bumped, very £150.00 good (Yakushi B3 5) 298. Byron (Robert) How we Celebrate the Coronation. Architectural Press. 937, FIRST EDITION , reproductions of photographs in the text, hinges weak, with the list of telephone numbers, as usual, pp. [vi], 32, [2] (advertisements), f’cap.8vo., orig. pale yellow wrappers faded and a little soiled, the front cover lettered and with a design all in red £150.00 An attack on those intent on the destruction of London’s historic monuments. Published in the same year as his classic work The Road to Oxiana .

299. Byron (Robert) Imperial Pilgrimage. London in Your Pocket Series. London Transport. 937, FIRST EDITION , 7 plates, pp. 72, 6mo., orig. printed tan wrappers, fractured front fold to spine of sunned dustjacket, very good £35.00 ‘No ordinary guide book this, wherein Robert Byron takes the Londoner and visitor on an Imperial Pilgrimage to places little and big connected with figures famous in building up Britain here and overseas’ (blurb).

300. Byron (Robert) Imperial Pilgrimage. London in Your Pocket Series. London Transport. 937, FIRST EDITION , 7 plates, four tapestains to initial and final pages of text, pp. 72, 6mo., orig. printed tan wrappers a little dustsoiled, good £25.00 ‘No ordinary guide book this, wherein Robert Byron takes the Londoner and visitor on an Imperial Pilgrimage to places little and big connected with figures famous in building up Britain here and overseas’ (blurb).

30 . Byron (Robert) The Road to Oxiana. Macmillan. 937, FIRST EDITION , 6 plates, full-page maps, pp. x, 342 [2] (advertisements), cr.8vo., orig. clean bright pale blue cloth, gilt lettered backstrip, faint tape stains to free endpapers, owner’s name on front free endpaper, very good £450.00 A ‘sacred text’ to Bruce Chatwin, a view echoed by many modern travellers.

302. [Byron (Robert) and Christopher Sykes]. Innocence & Design by ‘Richard Waughburton’. Macmillan. 935, FIRST EDITION , 2 full-page maps and other line-drawings in the text, pp. [iv], 3 2, cr.8vo., orig. dark green cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, blind-stamped twig pattern to covers, front cover with a decorative blind-stamped border, very good £200.00 303. Cary (Joyce) A House of Children. Joseph. 94 , FIRST EDITION , pp.287, f’cap.8vo., orig. black cloth, silver lettered backstrip, minor edge foxing, very good (Makinen & Harris A .8) £150.00 Signed by the author on the title-page.

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304. Clarke (Arthur C.) 200 a Space Odyssey. A Novel. Based on the Screenplay by Arthur C. Clarke & Stanley Kubrick. Hutchinson. 968, FIRST EDITION , pp. 224, cr.8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket all but fine, overall near fine £275.00 Signed by the Author 305. Coetzee (J.M.) Life & Times of Michael K. Secker & Warburg. 983, FIRST EDITION , pp. [vi], 350, 8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket with just faint fading to backstrip £265.00 panel, near fine Signed by the author on the title-page.

306. [Creasey (John)] Blue Mask Victorious by ‘Anthony Morton’. Lippincott, Philadelphia, New York. 940, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION , pp. 3 2, cr.8vo., orig. sky blue cloth, backstrip and front cover lettered in orange, dustjacket with backstrip and front panel edges a little frayed, rear panel lightly soiled, good (Hubin p.292) £75.00 Inscribed by the author on the title-page ‘Sincerely, John Creasey as Anthony Morton’. A small paper label on the title-page notes (by Creasey?) ‘English title CALL FOR THE BARON’. The English title is incorrectly printed ‘Send for the Baron’ on the title-page verso, and has been corrected (in ballpoint pen) with the insertion of ‘Call’ beneath the scored through ‘Send’.

Signed by Roald Dahl 307. Dahl (Roald) Two Fables: (The Princess and the Poacher, Princess Mammalia). Viking.

986, FIRST EDITION, 08/300 COPIES signed by the author, coloured photogravure frontispiece, illustrations throughout by Graham Dean, pp. 64, cr.8vo., orig. qtr. bright red sheep, gilt lettered backstrip and front cover, black linen sides, fine £250.00 308. Davie (Donald) Brides of Reason. A Selection of Poems. Fantasy Press, Swinford. 955, FIRST EDITION , pp. [x], 42, f’cap.8vo., orig. printed stapled bright yellow wrappers with very small stain to rear wrapper, spine faded, very good £30.00 The author’s second book of poems.

309. Day Lewis (Cecil) From Feathers to Iron. Hogarth Living Poets No.22. 93 , FIRST EDITION , pp.

60, f’cap.8vo., orig. printed yellow boards a trifle spotted, backstrip somewhat darkened, good (Handley Taylor & d’Arch Smith A4: Woolmer 25 ) £65.00 The press’s file copy, penned ‘ FILE’ in mauve ink between two lines (but not in Virginia Woolf’s hand) across title-page.

3 0. de Bernières (Louis) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. FIRST EDITION , usual faint edge browning to leaves, pp. [x], 438, 8vo., orig. black boards issue, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket, fine £225.00 3 . (de la Mare.) Behold, this Dreamer of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist, and kindred Subjects. [Edited and with a long Introduction by] Walter de la Mare. Faber. 939, FIRST EDITION, 34/50 COPIES signed

by Walter de la Mare and printed on handmade paper, title-vignette and the colourprinted lithographic frontispiece by Barnett Freedman, pp. viii, 702, 8vo., orig. canary-yellow vellum, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt to a design by Freedman, t.e.g., others untrimmed, cloth slipcase, fine (‘ NBL Exhibition Catalogue’ 0b) £600.00

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3 2. de la Mare (Walter) Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe. Faber: New York, Fountain Press.

930, FIRST EDITION, 523/650 COPIES signed by the author, engraved title-page, 2 head-pieces and 2 tail-pieces by Rex Whistler, pp. [vi], 288, roy.8vo., orig. sea-green linen, backstrip (a trifle darkened) and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt to a design by Whistler, endpapers lightly browned, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, very good (‘NBL Exhibition Catalogue’ 78b) £175.00 3 3. de la Mare (Walter) The Lord Fish. [Seven Stories]. Faber. [ 933], 45/60 COPIES signed by the author and printed on handmade paper, with 4 full-page yellow tinted lithographs, a head-piece to each story and with the designs for the dustjacket’s backstrip panel (this latter reproduced on a final fly-leaf), all by Rex Whistler, pp. [ii], 294, cr.8vo., orig. limp mauve vellum with yapped fore-edges, backstrip lettering, incorporated within a design, and with a front cover design of the Lord Fish, also by Rex Whistler, the design of the Lord Fish reproduced on the endpapers in green, faint partial endpaper browning, t.e.g. on the rough, others untrimmed, minor chipping to Whistler designed dustjacket, near fine (‘ NBL Exhibition Catalogue’ 95b) £600.00 3 4. de la Mare (Walter) Stories from the Bible. Faber & Gwyer. 929, FIRST EDITION, 297/300 COPIES printed on English handmade paper and signed by the author, title-vignette, pp. xvi, 400, roy.8vo., orig. qtr. white parchment, soiled backstrip gilt lettered, brown linen sides, untrimmed and partly unopened (‘ NBL Exhibition Catalogue’ 74b) £100.00 3 5. Dexter (Colin) Death is Now My Neighbour. Macmillan. 996, FIRST EDITION , pp. [xi], 349, 8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, blue cotton-marker, dustjacket, fine £30.00 3 6. Dexter (Colin) Death is Now My Neighbour. Macmillan. 996, FIRST EDITION , pp. [xi], 349, 8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, blue cotton-marker, dustjacket, fine £50.00 Signed by the author on the title-page.

3 7. Dexter (Colin) Morse’s Greatest Mystery and other Stories. Macmillan. 993, FIRST EDITION , pp. [viii], 240, 8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, blue cotton-marker, dustjacket, fine £40.00 3 8. Dexter (Colin) The Remorseful Day. Macmillan. 999, FIRST EDITION , pp. [x], 374, 8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket, fine £55.00 Signed by the author at the head of the title-page.

3 9. Dexter (Colin) Service of all the Dead. Macmillan. 979, FIRST EDITION , pp. 256, cr.8vo., orig. pale blue boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket, very good £300.00 320. Dexter (Colin) The Way Through the Woods. Macmillan. 992, FIRST EDITION , full-page map of Blenheim and district and a double-page map of Wytham Woods (situated just to the west of Oxford), margins of poor quality paper with very faint browning, pp. [xv], 296, 8vo., orig. mid green boards, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket, fine £55.00 Signed by the author at the head of the title-page.

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32 . Dexter (Colin) The Wench is Dead. Macmillan. 989, FIRST EDITION , full-page map, pp. [viii], 200, cr.8vo., orig. mid brown boards, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket, fine £100.00 Signed by the author on the title-page.

Life in the Trenches 322. Dos Passos (John) One Man’s Initiation - 9 7. Allen & Unwin. 920, FIRST EDITION , issue with broken type corrected on page 35, faint partial browning to flyleaves from flaps, pp. 28, f’cap.8vo., orig. pale blue cloth, lightly faded backstrip and the front cover printed in black, dustjacket near fine, with backstrip panel a trifle darkened, overall very good £500.00 Precedes the first American edition by two years.

One of the finest accounts, in fictionalised form, of life in the trenches. ‘A vivid impressionist picture of what “one man” saw and felt in the war’ (blurb).

323. Durrell (Lawrence) Deus Loci. (Privately Printed ... handset and printed by Dt Mato Vito for the author... Forio) Ischia. 950, FIRST EDITION, 3/200 COPIES , following the printed statement ‘and was made for’ the author has inscribed ‘Anne & Vivian Ridler by Lawrence Durrell’, pp. [8], 6mo., orig. printed pink stapled wrappers with some fading, good £350.00 324. Eliot (T.S.) An Address to Members of The London Library. On the occasion of his assuming the office of President of the Library. (Printed for The London Library by the Queen Anne Press).

(September 952), FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 500 COPIES (of an edition of 50 copies), pp. [8], cr.8vo., orig. pale blue sewn wrappers with the front cover printed in black and red, covers faintly foxed, good (Gallup A59a) £1,100.00

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Inscribed, tongue in cheek, at the head of the front cover, by T.S. Eliot, ‘to Anne Ridler with the President’s Compliments’. There are also two corrections in his hand on page [4]: ‘survive’ penned in the margin and ‘be preserved’ crossed through on the adjacent line of text, and somewhat below this, ‘as’ penned in the margin and ‘so’ again crossed through on the adjacent line of text.

An F&F Pot Boiler 325. Eliot (T.S.) The Cultivation of Christmas Trees. Ariel Poems (New Series). Faber. 954, FIRST EDITION , 2 illustrations (one colourprinted, full-page), both by David Jones, pp. [4], cr.8vo., orig. printed pale blue sewn wrappers, fine (Gallup A66a) £1,500.00 The title-page inscribed by T.S. Eliot ‘for Anne Ridler an F.& F. pot boiler – the doctrine is better than the verse. T.S. Eliot 954’.

326. Eliot (T.S.) The Dry Salvages. Faber. 94 , FIRST EDITION , pp. 6, 8vo., orig. printed pale blue-grey stapled wrappers, spine faded, untrimmed, good (Gallup A39) £3,500.00 Anne Ridler’s copy, gifted to her by Eliot and inscribed by him on the half-title at the time of publication, ‘to Anne Ridler from T.S. Eliot Sep. 94 ’. Anne Ridler has pencilled through ‘hermit’ (hermit crab) and placed in the margin ‘horse-shoe/’.

Inscribed for Anne Ridler 327. Eliot (T.S.) The Dry Salvages (Drop-Title). The New English Weekly. Feb. 27, 94 , FIRST PRINTING , single folio leaf folded once to form four printed pages, pin-holes where staples have been removed, pp. [4], sm.folio, without cover, as issued, folded twice, faint browning along vertical fold, near fine (Gallup C465) £5,000.00 An insert within The New English Weekly issued prior to the Faber edition of 4th September 94 and, therefore, constituting the first printing of this, the third of The Four Quartets. Eliot presumably received a number of copies, with the stapled insert extracted, for use as presentation copies. This copy is inscribed by him for the poet Anne Ridler ‘for Anne Ridler from T.S. Eliot’ above the title on the first page.

328. Eliot (T.S.) From Poe to Valery. (Privately Printed for Friends of the Author and his Publishers) Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. 948, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ,500 COPIES printed in black and green, pp. 32, f’cap.8vo., orig. black boards, front cover lettered, and with designs to covers in green and white by E. McKnight Kauffer, fine (Gallup A52a) £185.00 Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper at about the time of publication ‘For Hugh for his poetry, for his friendship with affection from Ted. E. McKnight Kauffer. vii.i.49’.

329. Eliot (T.S.) Little Gidding. Faber. 942, FIRST EDITION , pp. 6, 8vo., orig. printed mulberry sewn early issue wrappers, untrimmed, near fine (Gallup A42) £120.00 Anne Ridler’s copy, with the Ridlers’ address embossed in blind on the front flyleaf.

330. Eliot (T.S.) The Music of Poetry. Glasgow, Jackson. 942, FIRST EDITION , faint foxing throughout, pp. 28, cr.8vo., orig. printed brown stapled wrappers, near fine (Gallup A4 ) £50.00 The poet Anne Ridler’s copy, with her penned signature at the head of the title-page and occasional pencilled notation on outer margins in the text.

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33 . Eliot (T.S.) Reunion by Destruction. Reflections on a Scheme for Church Union in South India.

Council for the Defence of Church Principles. 943, FIRST EDITION , pp. 24, f’cap 8vo., orig. stapled tan printed wrappers, fine (Gallup A44) £200.00 Anne Ridler’s copy. Gifted to her by Eliot’s close friend the book collector John Hayward, on the inside front cover, where he has inscribed ‘For Anne Ridler, this rare piece of Elioteana, with love. John Hayward. Christmas 943.’

Design by Manolo Blahnik 332. Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary. Penguin. 2006, ONE OF ,000 NUMBERED COPIES , 8vo., orig. blue cloth, dustjacket with a superb design by Manolo Blahnik of part of the anatomy of Madame Bovary, clear perspex slipcase with limitation label, plastic cellophane seal, orig. white card protective box with limitation label, fine £300.00 One of five titles, selected by Penguin, each with a dustjacket design by a notable modern artist, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin.

333. [Ford] (Ford Madox, i.e. Hueffer) Ladies Whose Bright Eyes. A Romance. Constable. 9 , FIRST EDITION , pp. 364, [ 2](advertisements), cr.8vo., orig. mid brown cloth, head corners a trifle bumped, gilt lettered lightly faded backstrip, front cover with a design overall and incorporating author and title, endpapers foxed, owner’s name on front free endpaper, roughtrimmed, very £200.00 good (Harvey A33a) 334. Forster (E.M.) Passage to India. Arnold. 924, FIRST EDITION, 35/200 COPIES signed by the author, title-page printed in black and red, pp. [iv], 328, 8vo., orig. qtr. mauve cloth a trifle spotted at the backstrip tail, printed label (the spare label tipped-in), pale grey boards a little faded at the head, bookplate of A. brooke Winch, t.e.g., others untrimmed, gilt lettered qtr. red morocco and red £2,000.00 cloth protective box, good (Kirkpatrick A 0a) 335. Fowles (John) Mantissa. Little, Brown, Boston. 982, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION , pp. [x], 98, 8vo., orig. lime-green cloth, gilt lettered backstrip lightly faded, dustjacket, very good £200.00 Inscribed by John Fowles on the front free endpaper to Fay Godwin, whose credited reproduced photograph of John Fowles completely encompasses the rear panel of the dustjacket: ‘Fay Who ‘wrote’ the last page... see back jacket! John’.

336. (Gibbings.) BENNETT (Richard) The Story of Bovril. Bovril Limited. 953, FIRST EDITION , frontispiece and 7 wood-engravings in the text all by Robert Gibbings, with and appendix of 8 reproductions of Bovril posters at the end, pp. 34, [8] (Appendix), 8vo., orig. mid green cloth, backstrip and front cover gilt lettered and with a Gibbings design gilt blocked on the front cover, endpapers foxed, bookplate, dustjacket with repairs and internal tape strengthening, good £70.00 337. (Gibbings.) POWYS (Llewelyn) The Twelve Months. Bodley Head. 936, FIRST EDITION , woodengraved frontispiece and wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by Robert Gibbings, pp. [xiv], 89, roy.8vo., orig. half light blue canvas, faded backstrip gilt lettered, pale green cloth sides with gilt blocked initials in centre of front cover, faintly browned free endpapers, untrimmed, good (Kirkus, Empson & Harris 56(b)) £40.00

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‘Dawn crept over the downs like a sinister white animal’ 338. Gibbons (Stella) Cold Comfort Farm. Longmans. 932, FIRST EDITION , p. xii, 308, cr.8vo., orig. pale blue cloth lightly rubbed at edges, backstrip and front cover printed in white, backstrip faded, gift inscription on the front free endpaper, good £600.00 339. (Gill.) ANAND (Mulk Raj) Ther Lost child and Other Stories. (Printed by Hague & Gill, High Wycombe. Published by Allen.) 934, FIRST EDITION, 05/200 COPIES signed by the author, full-page wood-engraving by Eric Gill, text lightly foxed, pp. [vi], 24, 6mo., orig. stiched wrappers over £60.00 card, untrimmed, good 340. (Gill.) DONNE (John) The Holy Sonnets. Introduction by Hugh I’A. Fausset. Dent for Hague & Gill. 938, FIRST GILL EDITION, ONE OF 550 COPIES printed in Gill’s Bunyan typeface (the first work using this typeface) on Barcham Green handmade paper and signed by Gill using his more typical signature of ‘Eric G’, 4 full-page wood-engravings and a tail-piece (this latter repeated on the front cover) by Eric Gill, pp. xiv, [26], 8vo., orig. black cloth, backstrip and front cover gilt lettered and with a gilt blocked Gill design also on the front cover, endpapers lightly browned in part, bookplate of W.F. Lyle (printed at the Pear Tree Press?), untrimmed, dustjacket with a neatly internally tape repaired tear, near fine (Gill, Corey & MacKenzie 298) £350.00 34 . Gill (Eric) Engravings. Edited by Christopher Skelton. (Preface: Gill the Engraver: a Survey

by Christopher Skelton). Godine, Boston. 990, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION , Preface printed in double-column, contains the entire corpus of Gill’s work, a small number printed in two or more colours, 2 reproductions of photographs (one full-page), pp. 4, 480, lge.4to., orig. lime-green cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, the Gill designed used for the front panel of the dustjacket stamped in blind on the front cover, dustjacket with faded backstrip panel lettering , near fine £50.00 An excellent reference tool, reproducing his all of his recorded work full size.

342. Gill (Eric) First Nudes. With an Introduction by Sir John Rothenstein. Spearman. 954, FIRST EDITION, SPECIAL ISSUE , the limitation stament handwritten: This special edition of my father’s first studies in the nude is limited to one hundred copies. Number 56; signed by Gordian Gill (Eric Gill’s son) and Sir John Rothenstein, 24 plates by Gill, each on a pale grey tinted background, pp. [viii], (24 Plates), roy.8vo., orig. white morocco-grain cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, Gill’s initials blocked in gilt on the front cover, free endpapers browned, near fine £250.00 ‘First Nudes [begun in 926] contains twenty-four original and hitherto unknown sketches... in view of his later development, these first life drawings of men and women are of particular interest’ (blurb).

343. Grahame (Kenneth) Wind in the Willows. Methuen. 908, FIRST EDITION , frontispiece by Graham Robertson, tissueguard present, light foxing to preliminary leaves, pp. [vi], 304, cr.8vo., orig. blue-green cloth in bright clean state, lettering and designs on the backstrip (which has a very small chip to head) and the front cover all gilt blocked, free endpapers lightly browned as usual, t.e.g., others untrimmed, £3,000.00 very good 344. (Grant.) FRY (Roger) Duncan Grant. [Living Painters, Vol. I.] Hogarth Press. 923, FIRST EDITION , 24 plates, each with a monochrome reproduction of Duncan Grant’s work printed on coated paper and with captioned interleaves, pp. xii, (24

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plates with captioned interleaves), roy.8vo., orig. ivory cloth-backed japan vellum boards, the front cover printed in black to a design by Grant, printed label, rear cover a little soiled, owner’s neat embossed address on front free endpaper, good (Woolmer 3 ) £250.00 ,000 copies (400 copies issued thus). The majority of copies were each issued with a cancelled titleleaf and bound in card wrappers.

345. (Grant.) FRY (Roger) Duncan Grant. ‘New Edition.’ [Living Painters, Vol.I.] Hogarth Press.

930, FIRST EDITION , 24 plates, each with a monochrome reproduction of Duncan Grant’s work printed on coated paper and with captioned interleaves, first few leaves of letterpress lightly foxed, pp. xii, (24 plates with captioned interleaves), roy.8vo., orig. stiff card wrappers, the front cover printed in black to a design by Grant, gift inscription on the front flyleaf., good (Woolmer 3 ) £160.00 ,000 copies (400 copies issued in boards). One of the majority of copies, re-issued in 930, using the remaining sheets of the first edition, with a cancel title-leaf listing the book as a ‘new edition’ (it was of course nothing of the sort) and bound in card wrappers.

346. Graves (Robert) The Real David Copperfield. Barker. 933, FIRST EDITION , pp. 424, 8vo., orig. pale blue second issue cloth with the backstrip lettered in black (not the gilt of the initial first issue bind-up), light endpaper foxing, ownership name on front free endpaper, dustjacket lettered in blue, not faded to tan, as often, chipped at head and tail of backstrip panel and with short tear to front panel, good (Higginson & Williams A39a, variant issue) £100.00 Graves’ reworking of David Copperfield , written with a simplicity and directness that Dickens could not afford to exercise in his own treatment of the work.

347. Graves (Robert) To Whom Else? Seizin Press, Deja, Majorca. 93 , FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 NUMBERED COPIES (this ‘out of series’ and unnumbered), pp. [iv] (blanks), 20, sm.folio, orig. qtr. tan cloth darkened, backstrip with rubbed silver lettering, the board sides (rubbed as usual) decorated with a design by Len Lye in silver, grey and blue, untrimmed (Higginson & Williams A37) £400.00 Inscribed by Robert Graves on the front free endpaper to Laura Riding’s father, ‘Nathaniel with love from Robert 93 ’, presumably at the time of publication. Graves had married Nancy Nicholson in 9 8. In 926 Laura Riding moved in and this menage a trois survived until Graves eventually moved away taking Riding with him. They took up residence in Deja, Majorca, where Robert Graves assisted in printing editions of his poetry including the present edition.

348. Greene (Graham) Dear David, Dear Graham, a Bibliographic Correspondence. Alembic Press with Amate Press, Oxford. 989, FIRST EDITION, 2/200 COPIES printed on Arab Foolscap mouldmade paper, 2 tipped-in monochrome reproductions of photographic portraits, pp. 96, 8vo., orig. mid blue cloth, backstrip and front cover gilt lettered, tail edges roughtrimmed, fine £115.00 A most enjoyable and fascinating correspondence between Graham Greene and rare books dealer David Low, friends of fifty years standing. The letters cover the period from 5 January 97 , with the final letter dated 0th October 984.

349. Gross (Philip) Coniunctio. A Spell. Prospero Poets. [Alton, Hampshire.] 995, FIRST EDITION, 54/350 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) printed on Strathmore Grandee paper, 2 two-colour pochoir illustrations by Vance Gerry, pp. [20], f’cap.8vo., orig. stitched white printed wrappers, fine £20.00

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350. Gross (Philip) Coniunctio. A Spell. Prospero Poets. [Alton, Hampshire.] 995, FIRST EDITION, 69/ 49 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) signed by the author and artist and printed on Strathmore Grandee paper, 4 two-colour pochoir illustrations by Vance Gerry, pp. [20], £25.00 f’cap.8vo., orig. white printed boards, fine 35 . Harrison (Tony) Anno Forty Two. Seven New Poems. Scargill Press. 987, FIRST EDITION, 23 /300 COPIES (of an edition of 350 copies) signed by the printer Michael Caine, pp.[ 2], sm.4to, orig. sewn white card wrappers, front cover with red lettering, tail edges roughtrimmed, fine £40.00 352. Heaney (Seamus) Door into the Dark. Faber. 969, FIRST EDITION , pp. 56, cr.8vo., orig. black cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, faint front endpaper foxing, dustjacket with light soiling to rear panel, very good £300.00 353. Heaney (Seamus) A Lough Neagh Sequence. Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, Didsbury. 969, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 950 COPIES (of an edition of ,000 copies), pp. [iii], 3, 6mo., orig. printed white wrappers, fine £200.00 354. Hesse (Hermann) Das Glasperlenspiel. Versuch einer Lebensbeschreibung des Magister Ludi Josef Knecht samt Knechts hinterlassenen Schriften. 2 vols. Zurich: Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag AG. 943, FIRST EDITION , pp. 452; 442, f’cap.8vo., orig. light blue cloth, backstrips lightly faded and gilt lettered on a black background, front covers initialled in gilt, bright clean dustjackets with backstrip panels slightly browned, publisher’s card slipcase, very good £500.00 Still in its Original Shrinkwrap 355. Hirst (Damien) I Want to Spend the Rest of my Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Alway, Forever, Now. (With an Essay by George Burn). Booth-Clibborn. 997, FIRST EDITION , an amazing ‘interactive book’, with a very substantial number of illustrations, comprising popups, pulls, a folding-map and moveable wheels, posters, transparencies of cows and much, much more! lge.4to., orig. red leatherette, gilt and blind-blocked, dustjacket, complete with the original unbroken shrinkwrap enclosure and rare in such state, fine £600.00 With the Wrap-around Band 356. Hughes (Richard) A High Wind in Jamaica. Chatto & Windus. 929, FIRST BOOK-FORM EDITION , pp. [iv], 284, cr.8vo., orig. pale green cloth, foxed backstrip gilt lettered, tail edges roughtrimmed, darkened backstrip panel to dustjacket, torn and chipped wrap-around band present, good £175.00 From the library of Julian Barnes, with the Barnes/Blackwell bookplate.

357. Hughes (Ted) The Cat and The Cuckoo. Sunstone Press. [ 987], FIRST EDITION, 65/250 COPIES signed by author and artist and printed on art paper, 28 full-page colourprinted illustrations by R.J. Lloyd, pp. [vi], 28 leaves, [2], 6mo., orig. blue cloth, front cover gilt lettered, dustjacket, cloth slipcase, fine £130.00 358. Hughes (Ted) Cave Birds. An Alchemical Cave Drama. Faber. 978, FIRST EDITION , frontispiece and the recto of each page with an illustration by Leonard Baskin, pp. 64, oblong imp.8vo., orig. black cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket with publisher’s price-clipping and revised stamped price of £6.25 net, a trifle faded, frayed at tail and with a minor internal tape repair, good (Sagar & Tabor A46.b. ) £100.00

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The front free endpaper is signed ‘Leonard Baskin. 98 ’, the artist whose work has contributed so much to this book. With the inscription beneath: ‘To Mr. and Mrs. Frindley. to remember our first Baskin show ( 00 to follow). -4-8 .’

The text is so revised from the limited edition as to constitute a new work.

359. Hughes (Ted) A Crow Hymn (Cover Title). Sceptre Press, Frensham, Farnham, Surrey. 970, FIRST EDITION, P/26 LETTERED COPIES (of an edition of 00 copies) signed by the author, pp. [ 2], f’cap.8vo., orig. printed white stapled wrappers, thin strip of foxing to the top half of the spine, untrimmed, good (Sagar & Tabor A20) £185.00 360. Hughes (Ted) Henry Williamson. A Tribute... Given at the Service of Thanksgiving at the Royal Parish Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields December 977. (Printed ...at the Rampant Lions Press), Rainbow Press. 979, FIRST EDITION, 39/200 COPIES signed by the author and printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper, tipped in frontispiece portrait of Williamson by Bill Thomson, pp.

[20], 4to., orig. pink printed wrappers, untrimmed, fine (Sagar & Tabor A68) £100.00 36 . Hughes (Ted) Prometheus on His Crag. Rainbow Press. (Printed at the Daedalus Press). 973, FIRST EDITION, / 60 COPIES printed on Italian paper and signed by the author and artist (with Baskin’s signature beneath the frontispiece as usual), the title printed in red, the frontispiece and colophon printed in black, green and red to a design by Leonard Baskin, pp. [vi], 2 , [ 2], sm.4to., orig. purple morocco, gilt lettered backstrip faded, t.e.g. others untrimmed, grey cloth slipcase, near fine (Sagar & Tabor A39) £185.00 362. (Hughes-Stanton.) HUGHES-STANTON (Penelope) Wood-Engravings. Private Libraries Association, Pinner. 99 , FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ,750 COPIES , with a detailed check-list to reproductions of 27 wood-engravings on 95 pages at the end of the book, reproductions of photographs and engravings in the text, some full-page, pp.xii, 84, folio, orig. black cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, fine £165.00 With a wood-engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton, 3.5 x 5.5 inches, (signed in pencil ‘Blair HS’) mounted on dusky pink card and loosely inserted in the book.

363. Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World. Chatto & Windus.

932, FIRST EDITION , pp. [viii], 308, cr.8vo., orig. pale blue cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, tail edges roughtrimmed, extremely light wear to tips of folds of dustjacket, none the less a superb example of the dustjacket, near fine (Eschelbach & Shober 0) £3,750.00 One of the twentieth century’s great works of fiction, the first novel to consider human cloning, and Huxley’s dystopian masterpiece celebrating a utopian future whilst in truth illustrating the horror it delivers. Huxley wrote to Orwell suggesting that the future Brave New World portrayed was more likely than that of Nineteen Eighty Four, ‘an all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude’, but he was later to revise this view.

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364. Isherwood (Christopher) Lions and Shadows. An Education in the Twenties. Hogarth Press.

938, FIRST EDITION , photographic portrait frontispiece, pp. 3 2, f’cap.8vo., orig. mid blue cloth, backstrip with lettering in black, light browning to trifle frayed grey dustjacket (with a design by Robert Medley printed in brown) at backstrip panel and rear panel at head, very good (Woolmer 43 ) £250.00 365. Jenkins (Alan) Found Among his Papers. A New Poem. (Clarion Publishing, Alton, Hampshire.)

997, FIRST EDITION, 64/ 49 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) signed by the author and artist and printed on Somerset paper, two-colour linocuts of black and green, the great majority full-page,

by John Griffiths, pp. [ 6], f’cap.8vo., orig. slate-blue boards, with designs by Griffiths overall, fine £40.00 366. Jenkins (Alan) Found Among his Papers. A New Poem. (Clarion Publishing, Alton, Hampshire.)

997, FIRST EDITION, 253/350 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) printed on Somerset paper, two-colour linocuts of black and green, the great majority full-page, by John Griffiths, pp. [ 6], £20.00 f’cap.8vo., orig. stitched slate-blue wrappers, with designs by Griffiths overall, fine 367. Johnson (B.S.) and Ghose (Zulfikar) Statement Against Corpses. Short Stories. Constable.

964, FIRST EDITION , pp. 204, cr.8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket with backstrip panel lightly faded, short tear at head of rear panel internally tape repaired, good £60.00 368. Jones (Harold) The Visit to the Farm. Faber. [ 94 ], FIRST EDITION , with delightful 4 doublepage and 4 full-page three colourprinted illustrations and with a head- and tail-piece to each of the other pages of text, all by Harold Jones, pp. [32], 4to., orig. cream boards printed overall in brown to a design by Jones (repeated on dustjacket in green), small area of insect damage to extreme tail of rear hinge, free endpapers lightly browned in part, dustjacket with a few short tears (one internally repaired), good £250.00 369. Kafka (Franz) The Trial. New York, Knopf. 937, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION , orig. tan cloth lightly faded, backstrip and front cover blocked in black and grey, endpapers browned, price-clipped dustjacket a little rubbed, backstrip panel darkened, good £300.00 370. Kay (Jackie) Christian Sanderson, a Poem. Prospero Poets. [Alton, Hampshire.] 996, FIRST EDITION, 65/ 49 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) signed by the author and artist and printed on Hahnemühle paper, with a silkscreen illustration by Peter Arkle to each page, pp. [20], f’cap.8vo., orig. coffee-brown boards with an overall design in white, tail edges untrimmed, fine £40.00 37 . Kay (Jackie) Christian Sanderson, a Poem. Prospero Poets. [Alton, Hampshire.] 996, FIRST EDITION, 54/350 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) printed on Hahnemühle paper, with a silkscreen illustration by Peter Arkle to each page, pp. [20], f’cap.8vo., orig. stitched coffeebrown wrappers, with an overall design in white, tail edges untrimmed, fine £20.00 372. (Keynes.) BIBLIOTHECA Bibliographici. A Catalogue of the Library formed by Geoffrey Keynes [Listing over 4,000 volumes]. Trianon Press. 964, ONE OF 500 COPIES , title-page printed in brown, numerous reproductions of photographs of pages from examples of books in the library, pp. xxiv, 444, imp.8vo., orig. qtr. dark orange cloth, faintly faded backstrip gilt lettered between gilt £135.00 banding, orange linen sides, tail corners a trifle bumped, near fine

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Inscribed by Geoffrey Keynes on the front free endpaper to fellow bibliophile ‘Bent Juel-Jensen from his grateful friend Geoffrey Keynes’ and with a 2-page note from Keynes to Juel-Jensen dated ‘7 Nov 964’ loosely inserted, making reference to his library and own writings.

373. Knox (Ronald A.) The Body in the Silo. Hodder & Stoughton. [ 933], FIRST EDITION , title-vignette and full-page diagrammatic map by Bip Pares, preliminaries, final few leaves and endpapers foxed, front panel of dustjacket (depicting silo and car) by Bip Pares, pasted on front flyleaf, pp.

320, cr.8vo., orig. light blue cloth, faded backstrip and the front cover printed in black, corners and a tiny area at head of front cover lightly bumped, owner’s small rubber-stamped name on front free endpaper, good £150.00 374. Knox (Ronald A.) Double Cross Purposes. Hodder & Stoughton. 937, FIRST EDITION , 2 full-page diagrams, pp.3 4, [4](adverts.), [2] (blank), cr.8vo., orig. pale blue cloth, backstrip and front cover printed in dark blue, covers rubbed and lightly faded, good £100.00 375. Knox (Ronald A.) The Footsteps at the Lock. Methuen. 928, FIRST EDITION , pp. viii, 248, 8(adverts. dated 0.27), cr.8vo., orig. mid blue cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, front cover lettered in blind, rear cover faintly spotted in part, endpaper map, tail edges roughtrimmed, good £50.00 376. Knox (Ronald A.) The Three Taps, a Detective Story without a Moral. Methuen. 927, FIRST EDITION , light foxing, mainly towards beginning and end of letterpress, and to edges, pp. [viii], 248, cr.8vo., orig. orange cloth, darkened backstrip a little cocked, with gilt lettering and small stain, front cover lettered in blind, backstrip head and tail a little rubbed, roughtrimmed £30.00 377. Koestler (Arthur) Darkness at Noon. Translated by Daphne Hardy. With a New Postscript by the Author. Danube Edition. Second Impression. Hutchinson. 976, pp. 276, cr.8vo., orig. black boards, lettering on backstrip and front cover design all blocked in silver, front free endpaper a little darkened, dustjacket, very good £400.00 The front free endpaper with Koestler’s inscription to Fay Godwin the photographer: ‘To Fay Godwin with kind regards Arthur Koestler. London 7. . 979’.

378. Larkin (Philip) The North Ship. Poems. Fortune Press. [ 945], FIRST EDITION , pp. [iv], 36, f’cap.8vo., orig. first-issue black boards, gilt lettering to backstrip, red dustjacket with a long closed tear up front flap fold, a triangular piece 5 cm. wide at base and 3 cm. tall torn from front panel, shorter tears at spine ends with small paper losses, backstrip faded, but the jacket still unprice-clipped and with no later price sticker, good (Bloomfield A (a)) £700.00 The author’s first book.

The poet W. J. Harvey’s copy, with his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper ‘W.J. Harvey.

Chippenham. January 946.’

W. J. Harvey’s poetry was published in the Fortune Press anthologies Poetry from Oxford in Wartime and More Poetry from Oxford , both of which also carried Larkin’s poetry.

379. (Lawrence.) ALDINGTON (Richard) D.H. Lawrence. Chatto & Windus. 930, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 6/260 COPIES printed on Large Paper and signed by the author, pp. [ii], 46, f’cap.8vo., orig. qtr. grey cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, patterned blue and white boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed, near fine (Kershaw 42) £50.00

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Design by Paul Smith 380. Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Penguin. 2006, ONE OF ,000 NUMBERED COPIES printed in purple, pp. xxxvi, 364, 8vo., orig. purple cloth, white cotton dustjacket with an overall sewn design of flowers and lettering by Paul Smith, clear perspex slipcase with limitation label, plastic cellophane seal broken, orig. white card protective box with limitation label, fine £600.00 One of five titles, selected by Penguin, each with a dustjacket design by a notable modern artist, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin.

The Complete 1922 Text 38 . Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. The Complete 922 Text. 4 Vols.

Fordingbridge, (Hampshire), Castle Hill Press. 997, 44/75 SETS (of an edition of 752 sets), numerous plates, a number in colour, and reproductions of photographs, pp. xxii, 434; [x], 435880; [vi], 28(Plates); [2](title leaf), (Plates), 4to., orig. qtr. pale grey cloth, green leather labels, grey boards, (vol.iii in matching limp full cream cloth, with a gilt lettered backstrip), dustjackets, fine [Together with] Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. Illustrations. Fordingbridge, (Hampshire), Castle Hill Press.

997, a folder of 4 plates, the majority colourprinted, 4to., orig. full unlettered pale grey cloth with internal green card pocket, fine £885.00 The text of the 922 edition and a much fuller version of the abridged trade edition. It contains an additional 83,000 words, is about a third longer than the generally known version which contained some significant omissions. Volume three contains the illustrations, including the colourprinted and monochrome illustrations from the ‘Subscriber’s Edition’ and with plates 42- 27 containing reproductions of a large number of photographs. Volume four contains proof pulls of portraits; the penned publisher’s note beneath the limitation statement: ‘One of 75 accompanied by a portfolio of proof portraits.’

382. Lee (Laurie) Cider with Rosie. Hogarth Press. 959, FIRST EDITION , line-drawings, a number full-page, by John Ward, pp. [iv], 284, cr.8vo., orig. mid green boards, tail corners just a trifle bumped, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket with an overall design by Ward, near fine £200.00 The dustjacket in unusually fine state.

383. Levy (Andrea) Small Island. Review. 2004, FIRST EDITION , pp.[vi],442, cr.8vo., orig. dark blue boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket with ‘Orange Prize’ sticker on front panel, fine £50.00 384. Lewis (Wyndham) The Hitler Cult. Dent. 939, FIRST EDITION , preliminaries and final leaf lightly foxed, pp. x, 270, cr.8vo., orig. black cloth, faint waterstaining to rear cover, backstrip with lettering blocked in sliver and blind, good (Morrow & Lafourcade A30; Pound & Grover A30a) £85.00 With the Allen Lane Christmas Card 385. Linklater (Eric) Private Angelo. Privately Printed (Allen Lane Christmas Book). 957, ONE OF 2,000 COPIES printed on India paper, decorated pink and white endpapers from designs by David

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Gentleman, pp. [v], 237, [ ], f’cap. 8vo., orig. cream, pink and pale grey boards, backstrip gilt lettered, very good £35.00 With the Allen Lane Christmas Card loosely inserted and signed by him.

Composed entirely without metal type, this was the first book produced in Britain by photocomposition, on an Intertype Fotosetter.

386. Longley (Michael) Collected Poems. Cape Poetry. 2006, FIRST EDITION , pp. [xx], 348, cr.8vo., orig. brown boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket, fine £70.00 Signed by Michael Longley on the title-page beneath his scored through printed name.

387. McCaughrean (Geraldine) Peter Pan in Scarlet. Oxford UP. 2006, FIRST TRADE EDITION , signed by the author, silhouette illustrations throughout by David Wyatt, pp. [xiii], 276, cr.8vo., orig. scarlet boards, backstrip and front cover with blocking in pink, dustjacket, fine £40.00 The sequel to J.M. Barrie’s book Peter Pan.

388. McEwan (Ian) Saturday. Collins. 2005, FIRST EDITION , pp. viii, 280, 8vo., orig. black boards, £30.00 backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket, fine Signed by the author on the title-page.

389. McGough (Roger) Pen Pals. A New Poem. Prospero Poets (Alton, Hampshire). 994, FIRST EDITION, 46/ 49 COPIES (of an edition of 549 copies) signed by the author and artist, with 9 delightful colourprinted pen drawings by Annie Newnham, some occupying a page, pp. [20], cr.8vo., orig. orig. boards, title printed on front cover, pen-and-ink drawing depicting the £40.00 characters in McGough’s poem striding across the front and rear covers, fine 390. Mackenzie (David) The Cartographer. [A Short Story]. (Clarion Publishing, Alton, Hampshire.)

997, FIRST EDITION, 40/249 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) signed by the author and artist, printed on Colorplan paper, colourprinted double-page illustration, 2 full-page illustrations and a further illustrations in the text, all by George Large, pp. 20, f’cap.8vo., orig. printed orange £40.00 boards, fine 39 . Mackenzie (David) The Cartographer. [A Short Story]. (Clarion Publishing, Alton, Hampshire.)

997, FIRST EDITION, 254/250 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) printed on Colorplan paper, colourprinted double-page illustration, 2 full-page illustrations and a further illustrations in the text, all by George Large, pp. 20, f’cap.8vo., orig. stitched printed orange wrappers, fine £20.00 392. Mackley (George) Wood Engraver. (Foreword by Sir Hugh Casson. Introduction by Monica Poole. A Biography by Elizabeth Romyn.) Gresham Books. 98 , FIRST EDITION , numerous reproductions of Mackley’s wood-engravings, pp. 36, 4to., orig. mid blue cloth a little splayed, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket, near fine £100.00 Inscribed by Ruari McLean on the front free endpaper ‘... Christmas 98 , with love from R’.

393. MacLaren-Ross (J.) Bitten by the Tarantula. A Story of the South of France. Wingate. 945, FIRST EDITION , pp. 08, f’cap.8vo., orig. red cloth, gilt lettering to backstrip, dustjacket (with a design by John Banting) a trifle frayed and with one short tear, very good £110.00

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394. Maugham (W. Somerset) Ashenden or the British Agent. Heinemann. 928, FIRST EDITION , a little light browning to final text page, pp. [viii], 304, f’cap.8vo., orig. mid blue cloth, backstrip and front cover gilt lettered, Maugham symbol blocked in dark blue on the front cover, with the uncommon dustjacket, the backstrip panel lightly faded and just a hint of rubbing at its head, but overall in outstanding condition; gilt lettered qtr. dark blue morocco and blue cloth protective £4,000.00 box, near fine (Toole Stott A37a) Maugham’s tales of a secret agent based loosely on his own First World War experiences on secret service in Switzerland and Russia, and precursor of the genre of espionage novels made famous by Fleming, Le Carré and others.

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395. Maugham (W. Somerset) Cakes and Ale or the Skeleton in the Cupboard. Heinemann. 930, FIRST EDITION , pp. [vi], 270, f’cap.8vo., orig. mid blue cloth, backstrip and front cover gilt lettered, Maugham symbol blocked in dark blue on the front cover, edges foxed, front free endpaper and flyleaf faintly browned in part, dustjacket, very good (Toole Stott A40a) £1,000.00 Inscribed by Somerset Maugham on the front free endpaper ‘For Leon Drucker from W. Somerset Maugham’.

396. Maxwell (Glyn) The World They Mean. A New Poem. Prospero Poems, (Clarion Publishing, Alton, Hampshire.) 997, FIRST EDITION, 254/350 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) printed on Italian Rivoli paper, drawings, including one double-page drawing, by Mary Griffiths, pp. [20], f’cap.8vo., orig. stitched wrappers, illustrated overall, front cover printed in white, fine £25.00 397. Maxwell (Glyn) The World They Mean. A New Poem. Prospero Poems, (Clarion Publishing, Alton, Hampshire.) 997, FIRST EDITION, 69/ 49 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) signed by the author and artist, printed on Italian Rivoli paper, drawings, including one double-page drawing,

by Mary Griffiths, pp. [20], f’cap.8vo., orig. boards, illustrated overall, front cover printed in white, fine £45.00

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398. Meredith (Isabel, i.e. Olivia and Helen Rossetti) A Girl among the Anarchists. (With a Preface

by Morley Roberts). Duckworth. 903, FIRST EDITION , pp. ii, x, 302, cr.8vo., orig. Times Book Club Issue in blue-grey cloth, with title and Times Book Club logo printed in black on the backstrip, single black rule border to front cover, backstrip tail edge rubbed, covers a trifle stained and with two ring stains on front cover, endpapers browned, owner’s name on front £400.00 pastedown and blank A rare and still very popular work. A fictionalised account of the activities of Olivia and Helen Rossetti (daughters of W.M. Rossetti) during their days as notable young British revolutionaries, when their work included founding and editing the anarchist journal The Torch. Olivia Rossetti (born 875) married Antonio Agresti in 897 and subsequently moved with him to Italy. There she met David Lubin and became an enthusiastic supporter of movement for world government.

Editorship of several economic journals in the following years brought her into contact with Ezra Pound and, ultimately, a long correspondence between them, which was subsequently published in part in 998.

399. Moorcock (Michael) The Stealer of Souls. Spearman. 963, FIRST EDITION , pp. [ii], 2 8, f’cap.8vo., orig. lime-green boards with vertical line scratched in front cover, backstrip lettered in black, some faint foxing to endpapers and edges, dustjacket marked by some creasing with short tears to tail and slight rubbing to head of backstrip panel, some slight spotting to back £40.00 panel, good A collection of short stories originally published in Science Fantasy magazine between June 96 and October 962.

Unpublished translation 400. Mussolini (Benito) My War Diary 9 5- 7. Translated by Orlo Williams. Harrap. 930, PROOF COPY, 8 plates listed, but never present, preliminaries lightly foxed, pp. - 4 (preliminaries), 5£125.00 222 (text), cr.8vo., unbound, as issued, three tears to initial leaf (half-title), good Never published in this translation. Letters accompanying the text illustrate that Harrap agreed a British translation with the original German publisher. A problem over rights led to cessation of publication at the proofing stage. According to the text of the letters ‘they [the proof sheets] were retrieved by me from the printer’s warehouse before the type was broken up’. Curiously, the table of Contents lists ‘At Mussolini’s Bedside’ (p.278) as the final chapter, but the text stops at the beginning of p.[222] and would seem to be the extent of printing before the project was halted. His diary was published in America in 925 with a translation by Rita Wellman.

40 . Naipaul (V.S.) Half a Life. Picador. 200 , FIRST EDITION , pp. [viii], 228, cr.8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket, fine £80.00 Signed by the author on the title-page.

402. O’Brien (Edna) Loves Lesson. (Clarion Publishing, Alton, Hampshire.) [ 997], FIRST EDITION, 255/250 COPIES (of an edition of 499 copies) printed on Colorplan paper, 3 illustrations (2 fullpage) by Cozette de Charmoy, each printed in purple, pp. [ii], 8, f’cap.8vo., orig. stitched printed purple wrappers, fine £20.00 403. Orwell (George) The English People. Britain in Pictures Series. Collins. 947, FIRST EDITION , 8 colourprinted plates on 4 leaves and 7 other illustrations, pp. 48, roy.8vo., orig. printed green boards, free endpapers browned in part as usual, backstrip panel to dustjacket a little browned, near fine (Fenwick A a) £50.00

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404. Orwell (George) Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Gollancz. 936, FIRST EDITION , pp. 320, f’cap.8vo., orig. pale blue cloth, darkened backstrip printed in dark blue, four faint free endpaper tapestains, good (Fenwick A.4a) £600.00 The prewar Orwell novels were printed in relatively small numbers (Fenwick tells us that Keep the Aspidistra Flying was published in 2,500 copies, of which 2,256 were sold, and 500 sets of sheets and 2 9 bound copies destroyed during the blitz).

Publication of Keep the Aspidistra Flying initially went well, but closer examination of the text exposed the possibility of a libel, a not at all uncommon situation for Orwell and one he seemed resigned to. It led to changes. Norman Collins at Gollancz saw the need for further changes which Orwell also made, but a still further request, to change the advertising slogans, brought forth a curt, angry wired reply from Orwell: ‘Absolutely Impossible Make Changes Suggested Would Mean Complete Rewriting’. He wrote in late February 936 to Richard Rees ‘...This business of libel is becoming a nightmare – it appears that there now exist firms of crook solicitors who make a regular income by blackmailing publishers.

405. Orwell (George) Why I Write [on pages 5- 0 of] Gangrel. (No.4). Edited by J.B. Pick. Gangrel.

[Summer 945], SOLE EDITION , pp. 54, [2] (advertisements), cr.8vo., orig. printed white stapled wrappers, fine (Fenwick C70 ) £100.00 Other contributors include: Rayner Heppenstall, Neil M. Gunn, Denise Levertoff, James Kirkup and Claude Houghton.

406. Orwell (George) World Affairs - 945 [on pages 79-88 of] Junior (Articles, Stories and Pictures).

Children’s Digest Publications. 945, SOLE EDITION , numerous illustrations and photographic reproductions, pp. 40, 6mo., orig. red boards, backstrip and front cover printed in black, priceclipped dustjacket, near fine (Fenwick B22) £25.00 407. Paolini (Christopher) Eragon. Inheritance Book One. Doubleday. 2004, FIRST EDITION , doublepage map and frontispiece, the map also reproduced on the endpapers, pp. [xiv], 5 4, 8vo., orig. mid blue boards, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket, fine £30.00 408. (Petts.) SMITH (Alison) John Petts and the Caseg Press. Ashgate. 2000, FIRST EDITION , with monochrome reproductions of photographs and numerous reproductions of Petts’ woodengravings, including work produced for the Golden Cockerel Press, pp. 28, 4to., orig. pale blue boards, backstrip printed in black, dustjacket, fine £60.00 409. (Piper.) DUNCAN (Ronald) Judas. Blond. 960, FIRST EDITION , printed on pink paper, 8 plates on white paper by John Piper, pp. [viii],42, sm.4to., orig. sea-green buckram with fore-edge of front cover a little dampstained, front cover lettered and with a design by John Piper, all blocked in gilt, good £50.00 Signed by Ronald Duncan on the front free endpaper.

4 0. Rankin (Ian) Doors Open. Orien Books. 2008, FIRST EDITION , pp. [x], 262, 8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip blocked in silver, dustjacket, fine £25.00 Signed by the author on the title-page.

4 . Rankin (Ian) Resurrection Men. Orion. 200 , FIRST EDITION , pp. [viii], 440, 8vo., orig. red boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket, fine £30.00 Signed by the author on the title-page.

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4 2. Reid (Forrest) Illustrators of the Sixties. Faber. 928, FIRST EDITION , numerous plates of work by the artists of the period, pp. xvi, 296, 4to., orig. apple-green buckram, fading to gilt lettered backstrip, gilt blocked design on the front cover, t.e.g., others untrimmed, endpapers browned, £80.00 bookplate, good The armorial bookplate is that of Percy Lancelot Babington, author of Browning & Calverley, or Poem and Parody.

4 3. Sackville-West (Vita) Andrew Marvell. Poets on the Poets No. . Faber. 929, FIRST EDITION , pp.

64, f’cap.8vo., orig. pale grey boards, backstrip and front cover blocked in blue, free endpapers browned in part, untrimmed and partly unopened, dustjacket with the backstrip panel defective and the front panel detached, very good £300.00 With Vita Sackville-West’s authorial inscription on the front free endpaper ‘From Vita/ Sept. 30 929’.

4 4. Seth (Vikram) Two Lives. Little, Brown. 2005, FIRST EDITION , pp. [viii], 504, 8vo., orig. maroon boards, backstrip and front cover gilt blocked, dustjacket, fine £30.00 Signed by the author on the title-page.

4 5. Smith (Stevie) Harold’s Leap. Chapman & Hall. 950, FIRST EDITION , line-drawings by the author printed in brown, pp. 88, cr.8vo., orig. scarlet cloth, backstrip with tarnished gilt lettering, faded backstrip panel to dustjacket, very good (Barbera, McBrien & Bajan Ia4) £65.00 4 6. Stallworthy (Jon) The Guest from the Future: a Poem Presented to Sir Isiah Berlin OM on his 80th Birthday 6 June 989. Perpetua Press, Oxford. 989, FIRST EDITION, 5/ 20 COPIES printed in black and red on Zerkall mouldmade paper and signed by the author, 2 tipped in reproductions of photographs, pp. 6, [2], imp.8vo., orig. printed pink wrappers over stiff pale blue card, spine faded, bookticket, very good £20.00 4 7. Storey (David) Flight into Camden. Longmans. 960, FIRST EDITION , pp. 220, cr.8o., orig. mid blue boards, backstrip blocked in silver, dustjacket with faint browning to backstrip panel, near fine £100.00 The author’s second book.

4 8. Taylor (G.P.) Shadowmancer. Faber. 2003, FIRST TRADE EDITION , full-page map, pp. [iv], 300, 6mo., orig. printed wrappers, illustrated overall, fine £20.00 4 9. Thomas (R.S.) Destinations. (Printed at the Rampant Lions Press for) The Celandine Press, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire. 985, FIRST EDITION, 247/225 COPIES (of an edition of 300 copies) printed on Hahnemuhle mouldmade paper, 3 tipped-in colour-printed reproductions by Paul Nash, pp. 32, 8vo., orig. qtr. black cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, marbled yellow and green boards, untrimmed, fine £145.00 Inscribed by the author 420. Walker (Alice) The Temple of my Familiar. The Women’s Press. 989, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION , pp. [viii], 408, 8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket with faded backstrip pnael, near fine £135.00 Inscribed by the author to the photographer Fay Godwin on the half-title ‘To Fay, in sisterhood, Alice Walker 9/ 9/89’.

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42 . Walters (Minette) Acid Row. Macmillan. 200 , FIRST EDITION , full-page diagram, pp. [viii], 344, 8vo., orig. black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket, fine £25.00 Signed by the author on the title-page.

422. Waterhouse (Keith) Billy Liar. Joseph. 959, FIRST EDITION , pp. 92, cr.8vo., orig. maroon boards, backstrip gilt lettered, faint partial free endpaper browning, dustjacket in unusually nice condition, recent protective qtr. tan morocco and cloth box with gilt lettering, near fine £400.00 An unusually nice copy.

Compared, upon publication, with Lucky Jim and was published in the same week as MacInnes’ Absolute Beginners. Both books capture the youth culture of the period, shortly before the golden decade of the nineteen sixties.

423. Woolf (Leonard) Co-Operation & the Future of Industry. Allen & Unwin. 9 8, FIRST EDITION , first issue, pp. 4 , [3] (adverts.), f’cap.8vo., orig. grey cloth, backstrip lettering and front cover border all blocked in blue, faint free endpaper browning, near fine (Luedeking & Edmonds A 2a) £50.00 424. Woolf (Virginia) Mrs. Dalloway. Hogarth Press. 925, FIRST EDITION , pp. 296, cr.8vo., orig. maroon cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, free endpapers browned in part, the dustjacket (uncommon in any condition) with a design by Vanessa Bell encompassing the backstrip and front panels, highly professional internal restoration to the jacket at its head and tail edges and with internal reinforcement to folds and backstrip; recent felt-lined protective mid blue cloth box with silver lettering to backstrip, very good (Kirkpatrick A9a; Woolmer 82) £14,000.00 425. Yeats (W.B.) The King of the Great Clock Tower, Commentaries and Poems. Cuala Press, Dublin. 934, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 400 COPIES printed in black with the woodcut title-vignette (by Robert Gregory), Dramatis personae and the Colophon all printed in red, pp. [xvi], 56, cr.8vo., orig. qtr. cream linen, printed label, pale blue boards, author and title printed in black on front cover, faint fore-edge fading, untrimmed, very good (Wade 79) £350.00 The copy of Edward (‘Eddy’) Sackville-West (novelist, music critic and heir to Knole), with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

426. Yeats (W.B.) Last Poems and Two Plays. Cuala Press, Dublin. 939, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 500 COPIES printed in black with the Colophon printed in red, woodcut title-vignette, pp. [viii], 64, cr.8vo., orig. qtr. cream linen, printed label, pale blue boards, author and title printed in black on front cover, untrimmed and unopened, fine (Wade 200) £325.00

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Section Three: Private Presses 427. (Essex House Press.) CEBES . The Picture of Kebes the Theban, being a Translation of the only extant Writing of Kebes, Disciple of Philolaus and Friend of Socrates (Translated by Hugh E. Seebohm). Printed for the Translator at the Essex House Press, Chipping Campden. 906, 46/50 copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper in black with title, sub-title, ‘Note’ and press-mark all printed in red, pp. [iv], 60, f’cap.8vo., orig. grey-green boards, printed labels on the backstrip and front cover, untrimmed, fine £150.00 Pencilled inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper to F.W. Hunt from a member of the translator’s family and dated ‘Feb.6 947’.

428. (Fanfrolico Press.) LINDSAY (Jack) Dionysus. Nietzsche contra Nietzsche, an Essay in Lyrical Philosophy. Foreword by R.L. Hall. [ 928], 23/500 COPIES printed on Arnold handmade paper and signed by the author, 2 collotype plates by several artists, including Norman Lindsay, vignette on title also by Norman Lindsay, title-page printed in black and blue, pp. xii, 243, imp.8vo., orig. mauve patterned cloth, lettering on faded backstrip and Lindsay design on the front cover all gilt blocked, t.e.g., others untrimmed, very good £70.00 429. (Fanfrolico Press.) LINDSAY (Jack) Helen Comes of Age, (Ragnhild, Bussy d’Amboise). Three Plays (in Verse). 927, 57/500 COPIES signed by the author, front hinge a little weak, pp. [viii], 222, 4to., orig. maroon buckram, backstrip gilt lettered, untrimmed, dustjacket soiled chipped and with internal tape repairs, book in fine state, very good £40.00 430. (Flint (W. Russell)) THE BOOK OF TOBIT and the Book of Susanna, Reprinted from the Revised Version of The Apocrypha. With an Introduction by Montague R. James. Haymarket Press. 929, ONE OF 875 NUMBERED COPIES (this out-of-series), 4 colourprinted plates by W. Russell Flint, the title, running-title, large initial letters and ruled borders to each page printed in green, pp. xvi, 47, imp.8vo., orig. white boards a little dustsoiled, backstrip (lightly browned) and the front cover gilt lettered and with double gilt rule border to front cover, green silk-marker, endpapers lightly foxed, good £60.00 43 . (Golden Cockerel Press.) BROWNING (Robert) Pictor Ignotus, Fra Lippo Lippi, Andrea del Sarto.

925, 26/360 COPIES printed in black and red on Arnold’s handmade paper, two large capitals (‘B’ and ‘I’) designed by Eric Gill and printed in red, the letter ‘B’ also repeated at the centre of the front cover, pp. 39, [ ], imp.8vo., orig. qtr. white parchment, lettering on backstrip and ‘B’ at the centre of the front cover of the mid blue boards gilt blocked, top corners lightly bumped and covers a little faded in part, bookplate, untrimmed, good (Chanticleer 26; Gill, Corey & Mackenzie Eric Gill, a Bibliography 322) £85.00 432. (Golden Cockerel Press.) CALDERON (V.G.) The Lottery Ticket. Done into English by Richard Phibbs. [ 945], 2 3/300 COPIES (of an edition of 400 copies) printed on Batchelor handmade paper, 6 wood-engravings, including 5 full-page, by Dorothea Bray, pp. 3, [ ], cr.8vo., orig. yellow buckram, lettering on lightly faded backstrip and Braby design on front cover all gilt blocked, t.e.g., others untrimmed, very good (Cockalorum 64) £90.00 433. (Golden Cockerel Press.) CLAY (Enid) Sonnets and Verses. 925, 359/450 COPIES printed on Kelmscott handmade paper, title-vignette and 7 other wood-engravings by Eric Gill, gilt cockerel

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press-device, pp. [v], 35, [ ], cr.8vo., orig. qtr. fawn linen, printed label lightly chipped at one corner, mid blue boards a little faded as usual, bookplate, untrimmed, good (Chanticleer 25; Gill, Corey & Mackenzie Eric Gill, a Bibliography 274) £300.00 434. (Golden Cockerel Press.) COSMETICS FOR MY LADY and Good Fare for my Lord. Recipes Collected from the Commonplace Book of a West Country Gentlewoman. 934, 95/300 COPIES , orange typographical border repeated to each page, pp. [iv] (blanks), [ii], 77, [5] (blanks), 8vo., orig. qtr. scarlet linen, backstrip gilt lettered, cream cloth sides patterned overall with a repeated design in green of cockerels and trees, edges lightly rubbed, light endpaper foxing, untrimmed, good (Chanticleer 98) £40.00 435. (Golden Cockerel Press.) CYNWAL (Wiliam) In Defence of Woman, a Welsh Poem. Translated

by Gwyn Williams. [ 960], 482/400 COPIES (of an edition of 500 copies) printed on mouldmade paper, 0 colour-printed wood-engravings (including a decorated title-border) by John Petts, pp.

28, tall cr.8vo., orig. dark blue cloth, lettering on backstrip and Petts design on the front cover blocked in gilt, slight stain at the tail of the backstrip and adjacent area of cover, untrimmed, good (Cock-a-Hoop 2 0) £60.00 The first Golden Cockerel to be published by Thomas Yoseloff, although to Christopher Sandford’s design. Yoseloff designed the binding.

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436. (Golden Cockerel Press.) DRYDEN (John) Songs and Poems. Chosen and Introduced by Gwyn Jones. (The Text Prepared by James Kinsley). 957, 97/400 COPIES (of an edition of 500 copies) printed on handmade paper, full-page reproductions of 8 watercolour drawings and other pencil drawings by Lavinia Blythe (i.e. Leslie Blanche), pp. 64, folio, orig. qtr. russet morocco, darkened backstrip gilt lettered, grey canvas sides, t.e.g., russet canvas slipcase with some dampstaining to one side; book very good (Cock-a-Hoop 206) £300.00 437. (Golden Cockerel Press.) EDGEWORTH (Maria) and Letitia BARBAULD. Letters... Selected from the Lushington Papers, and Edited by Walter Sidney Scott. 953, FIRST EDITION, 222/240 COPIES (of an edition of 300 copies) printed on Arnold’s mouldmade paper, 4 pen-and-ink drawings by Lettice Sandford hand coloured in blue and pink, pp. 87, [ ], roy.8vo., orig. pale blue and pink cloths, backstrip (faded) lettering and portraits on the front cover all gilt blocked, very good (Cock-a-Hoop 93) £60.00 Walter Sidney Scott has added short memoirs of the authors of the letters and a short account of the chief events of Stephen Lushington’s life.

438. (Golden Cockerel Press.) GILL (Eric) Art & Prudence, an Essay. 928, FIRST EDITION, 398/500 COPIES printed on Kelmscott handmade paper, 2 full-page copperplate-engravings and a wood-engraved title-vignette by the author, pp. [viii], 9, f’cap.8vo., orig. orange buckram, usual fading to gilt lettered backstrip, also to head of covers, tiny red ink ownership rubber-stamp on front free endpaper, untrimmed, good (Chanticleer 6 ; Gill, Corey & Mackenzie 5) £225.00 439. (Golden Cockerel Press.) HARTNOLL (Phyllis) The Grecian Enchanted. 952, 307/300 COPIES (of an edition of 360 copies) printed on Arnold mouldmade paper, title-page engraving, border and 7 aquatint plates by John Buckland Wright, title printed in pastel pink and green, pp.[i],80, sm.folio, orig. pink and pale grey cloths, backstrip lettering and superb Cockerel design on front cover all gilt blocked, small area of soiling to rear cover, faint free endpaper browning, t.e.g., others untrimmed, good (Cock-a-Hoop 89) £160.00 440. (Golden Cockerel Press.) HUGHES (Richard) Gipsy-Night and other Poems. 922, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 750 COPIES , frontispiece portrait by Pamela Bianco, tissue-guard present, errata-slip tipped in, pp. 69,[ ], 6mo., orig. qtr. mauve cloth, printed label on faded backstrip, pale green boards a £60.00 little sunned, endpapers lightly browned, untrimmed, good (Chanticleer 8) The author’s first book.

It suffered a mauling at the press: some of the formes were accidentally knocked to the floor and in the confusion lines were transposed, etc. The errata Hughes considered a gross understatement, only two errors (of many) were acknowledged.

44 . (Golden Cockerel Press.) LINDSAY (Jack) Storm at Sea. 935, FIRST EDITION, 4/250 COPIES printed on Batchelor handmade paper and signed by the author, 4 wood-engravings by John Farleigh, pp.76, [ ], 8vo., orig. qtr. blue morocco, faded gilt lettered backstrip, green and white patterned boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed, very good (Chanticleer 03) £90.00 442. (Golden Cockerel Press.) MALLARME (Stephane) L’Apres-midi d’un Faune. The Translation

by Aldous Huxley. 956, 28/LESS THAN 00 COPIES (of an edition of 200 copies) printed in dark red on pale green Barcham Green handmade paper, 9 collotypes, including 4 full-page, of wash drawings by John Buckland Wright, printed in mossy green, pp. 2, [ ], sm.folio, orig. qtr. mid green morocco, lettering on backstrip and Buckland Wright design on front cover all

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gilt blocked, t.e.g., fine (Cock-a-Hoop 204: Reid A Check-list of the Book Illustrations of John Buckland Wright A74b) £275.00 443. (Golden Cockerel Press.) MARSTON (John) The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion’s Image. [The Text taken from the Edition of 598]. 926, 46/325 COPIES printed on handmade paper, 2 two-colour printed full-page wood-engravings by Rene Ben Sussan, decorative typographic half-border and a large initial letter printed in brown, pp. [i], 8, [ ], f’cap.8vo., orig. qtr. white canvas, backstrip gilt lettered, orange and brown decorated batik boards, untrimmed, fine (Chanticleer 46) £110.00 444. (Golden Cockerel Press.) STRONG (L.A.G.) The Hansom Cab and the Pigeons, being Random Reflections upon the Silver Jubilee of King George V. 935, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ,000 COPIES (of an edition of ,2 2 copies) printed on machine-made paper, wood-engraved frontispiece and 6 other engravings in the text by Eric Ravilious, with foxing (as usual), here to fore-edges and endpapers, pp. 43, [ ], 8vo., orig. qtr. light blue cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, blue and grey marbled boards, untrimmed, good (Chanticleer 05) £80.00 445. (Golden Cockerel Press.) SUCKLING (John) A Ballad Upon a Wedding. 927, 2/350 COPIES (of an edition of 375 copies) printed on Kelmscott handmade paper, 8 wood-engravings, including one full-page, by Eric Ravilious, pp. [iii], , [ ], f’cap.8vo., orig. qtr. white canvas, backstrip gilt lettered, mauve batik boards, untrimmed, fine (Chanticleer 49) £200.00 446. (Golden Cockerel Press.) SWINBURNE (Algernon Charles) Lucretia Borgia. The Chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldei - Renaissance Period. Commentary and Notes

by Randolph Hughes. 942, 4 /320 COPIES (of an edition of 350 copies) printed on Arnold mouldmade paper, the text printed in double-column, 7 wood-engravings

by Reynolds Stone, pp. 9 , [3], [ ], sm.folio, orig. white canvas with some light handling soiling, lettering on backstrip and Stone design on front cover all gilt blocked, t.e.g., others untrimmed, very good (Pertelote 52) £120.00 447. (Golden Cockerel Press.) THE WISDOM of the Cymry. Translated from the Welsh Triads by Winifred Faraday. [ 939], ONE OF AN UNLIMITED NUMBER , title-page design by Averil MackenzieGrieve, pp. 47, [ ], 6mo., orig. yellow cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, dustjacket with backstrip £80.00 panel faded, very good (‘Pertelote’ 44) There was also a limited issue of 60 copies.

448. (Golden Cockerel Press.) TOUSSAINT (Franz) The Garden of Caresses. Translated from the Arabic: now Rendered into English by Christopher Sandford. Printed for Subscribers. 934, 4 /275 COPIES (of an edition of 275 copies) printed on Millbourn handmade paper, 8 copperplateengraved head-pieces by Gertrude Hermes, title-page printed in black and green, pp. 9 , [ ], cr.8vo., orig. qtr. stiff cream vellum, backstrip gilt lettered, pale blue cloth sides, faint foxing to free endpapers, t.e.g., others untrimmed, very good (Chanticleer 00) £225.00

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449. (Golden Cockerel Press.) WHITFIELD (Christopher) Lady from Yesterday. 939, FIRST EDITION, UNLIMITED ISSUE , title-vignette and 5 full-page wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford, pp. 7 , cr.8vo., orig. dark brown canvas, backstrip gilt lettered, endpapers faintly browned, t.e.g., dustjacket a little £35.00 soiled and chipped at backstrip panel head and tail, good (Pertelote 43) 450. (Incline Press.) GOLDSMITH (Oliver) The Deserted Village. Oldham. 993, 39/ 60 COPIES, double-page line-drawing by Peter Carter, pp. [x], 26, f’cap.8vo., orig. orange cloth-backed orange boards, printed longitudinal label, front cover printed in green, untrimmed, fine £25.00 45 . (Libanus Press.) [HOMER]. The Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Translated by T. Parnell.

Marlborough. 988, 97/ 70 COPIES (of an edition of 200 copies) printed in concertina form, on Saunders mouldmade paper, in English and ancient Greek using the Poliphilus and Antigone typefaces, with excellent hand coloured illustrations by Fiona MacVicar, printed across the centre of each page and thus forming a strip through the entire text, the final page of the concertina tipped to an orange card tab loosely inserted in a pocket on the rear pastedown and thus allowing the entire concertina to be pulled out to over feet in length, p. [32], tall 6mo., orig. dark orange cloth-backed light orange boards, backstrip gilt lettered, card slipcase, fine £150.00 452. (Limited Editions Club.) ARISTOTLE . Politics & Poetics. Translated by Benjamin Jowett and S.H Butcher. With an Introduction by Horace M. Kallen. (Printed at) the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. 964, 682/ ,500 COPIES printed in black and blue and signed by the artist, 20 plates of portraits by Leonard Baskin, each tipped to pale blue paper, pp. xxvi, 334, 4to., orig. white cloth, central horizontal inlayed blue cloth band to covers (faded on backstrip), the backstrip and front cover gilt lettered and with a repeated typographic ornament gilt blocked above and below, £60.00 board slipcase, very good 453. (Nonesuch Press.) DREYFUS (John) A History of the Nonesuch Press. With an Introduction

by Geoffrey Keynes & a Descriptive Catalogue by David McKitterick, Simon Rendall & John Dreyfus. 98 , 498/950 COPIES printed on Dalmore Mill mouldmade paper, numerous reproductions of typographical designs, title-pages, press-devices and illustrations used in Nonesuch Press books printed in monotone with a small number of the illustrations printed in two colours, the ‘Descriptive Catalogue’ printed in double-column, pp. xvi, 322, folio, orig. maroon linen, backstrip lettering and the Nonesuch devices on backstrip and at the centre of the £195.00 front cover all gilt blocked, dustjacket, fine

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454. (Officina Bodoni.) MERCATOR (Gerard) The Treatise of Gerard Mercator. Literarum Latinarum, quas Italicus, cursoriasque vocant, scribendarum ratio. (Antwerp 540). Edited in Facsimile with an Introduction by Jan Denucé and a Note by Stanley Morison. (Printed by the Officina Bodoni for) De Sikkel, Antwerp. The Pegasus Press, Paris. 930, 3 /200 COPIES printed on Fabriano handmade paper, a facsimile of the Treatise on 28 leaves, pp. [ii], [26], [56] (Facsimile), [4], f’cap.8vo., orig. lime-green linen, the backstrip and front cover gilt blocked, endpapers with insignificant foxing, t.e.g., others roughtrimmed, very good (Mardersteig 36) £500.00 A facsimile of a treatise on Latin, italic and cursive writing, for use as a work of instruction, by the great mapmaker Mercator and originally published in 540, when he was otherwise known only for two works of cartography.

455. (Perpetua Press.) RIDLER (Anne) Italian Prospect. Six Poems. Oxford. February 976, 24/75 COPIES printed on Head’s handmade paper in black, with a small block of typographic ornamentation to each page of verse printed in red, pp. [20], 4to., orig. plain white sewn card, untrimmed, £35.00 dustjacket (spine faded) with a printed front cover label, near fine 456. (Saint Dominic’s Press.) SEWELL (Brocard) Three Private Presses: Saint Dominic’s Press, The Press of Edward Walters, Saint Albert’s Press.An Account. Wellingborough, Skelton. 979, 97/250 COPIES printed on St.Cuthbert mouldmade paper and signed by the author, title-page printed in black and red, 9 full-page illustrations, colour printed broadside facsimile loosely inserted in a pocket on the rear pastedown, pp. 54, [i], roy.8vo., orig. qtr. dark green buckram, backstrip and front cover gilt lettered, white board with front cover carrying floral design printed in black, blue, green, red, and yellow, dark red endpapers blocked with 2 wood-engravings in black, t.e.g., orig. £50.00 clear plastic jacket, fine ‘In 976 an exhibition of the work of these presses was held at the National Book League in London, organised by Brocard Sewell. This book is an enlarged and illustrated version of the booklet produced to accompany the exhibition catalogue’ (Foreword).

457. (Shakespeare Head Press.) SHELLEY (Percy Bysshe) Epipsychidion. (Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for) Selwyn & Blount. 92 , ONE OF 500 COPIES printed on handmade paper, title, poem’s title and the initial capital all printed in red, pp. [viii], 24, cr.8vo., orig. limp cream vellum, warped and a little soiled, backstrip and front cover gilt lettered, untrimmed, very good £80.00

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458. (Society of Wood Engravers.) TWO BY TWO. A Noah’s Ark. Printed... by Paul Kershaw, Skye), 2003, 77/ 78 COPIES (of an edition of 85 copies) printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper exhibiting 49 wood-engravings, the great majority displayed two to a page, the engravings and text in two books both attached facing the other and backed to blue cloth and boards, with a further 2 large engravings on a leaf folded twice and pasted to the back board, between the two books, [Book One]: pp. [iv](blanks), [iv](text), leaves of engravings, [8](text), [Book Two]: pp. [iv](blanks), [2]+ 2-22 leaves of engravings, [8](text and colophon), oblong narrow 8vo., orig. qtr. mid blue unlettered cloth, marbled blue and brown boards, book housed in its orig.mid blue cloth portfolio with printed label, fine £190.00 459. (Trianon Press.) BLAKE (William) Songs of Innocence and of Experience. (Bibliographical Statement [as a postscript] by Geoffrey Keynes). (for the William Blake Trust). 955, 2 /240 COPIES (of an edition of 526 copies) printed on Arches pure rag paper, 55 plates (including that reproducing the original inscription of 863) reproduced by the collotype and stencil process, letterpress pages printed in orange, occasional light foxing, 55 (plates), [4] leaves of text), f’cap.8vo., orig. turquoise morocco, backstrip gilt lettered, backstrip sunned and covers a trifle dampspotted, g.e., board slipcase, good £150.00 460. (Workshop Press.) ARMAN (Mark) Letterpress, Printer’s Types and Decorations. Five Articles. . . which were included in the Whittington Press Annual Publication Matrix between 987 & 99 . Thaxted, Essex. 993, 82/ 0 COPIES signed by the author, 3 folding broadsides of type specimens printed on coloured papers, a 4-page type specimen insert printed in black and red, a further inserted page and a further 5 tipped in illustrations, 4 printed in colours, together with a reproduction of a photograph also tipped in, pp. [viii], 48, imp.8vo., orig. qtr. maroon cloth, lightly soiled, printed labels on backstrip and front cover, patterned pink boards, very good

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