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Gardens.- Langley (Batty) New Principles of Gardening: Or The Laying Out and Planting [of] Parterres, Groves, Widernesses, Labyrinths, Avenues, Parks, &c., first edition, title in red & black, 26 folding or double-page plates and plans only (of 28, lacking plates 16 & 17), contemporary ink signature "Mr Mayor" to head of title with plates numbered in contemporary manuscript on verso, several creased or torn, some repairs, occasional soiling, bookplates of John Rowden Freme, Francis Gray Smart and John Harris, contemporary calf, rubbed, old reback, covers detached, [Berlin Kat. 3414; Harris 462; Henrey 927], 4to, for A. Bettesworth and J. Batley [&c.], 1728 [1727].⁂ Langley disliked formality in garden design and favoured planting in what appeared a natural manner. He is particularly known for his labyrinths and this work includes many plans of mazes, also much on kitchen and physic gardens. In this issue, there is an 'Advertisement to the nobility and gentry of Great Britain' printed on the verso of the title, and there are four contents leaves inserted after the introduction. Pages iv and v in the preliminaries are mis-numbered xi and x.

Heraldry & Genealogy.- Chevillard (Jacques) Dictionnaire Heraldique..., second edition, engraved throughout including 194pp. of coats-of-arms (9 to a page), a few ink annotations to text and blank leaves at end including a few coats-of-arms in pen, ink & watercolour to verso of 'Avertissement', marginal water-staining, mostly to first few leaves, contemporary calf, rubbed and stained, spine worn, lacking label, Paris, chez l'Auteur, 1723 § Imhof (J.G.) Recherches Historiques et Genealogiques des Grand Espagnes, first edition, title in red & black, folding engraved map, 20 engraved plates of coats-of-arms, 2 folding genealogical tables (1 with short tear), advertisement leaf at end detached with tipped-in leaves of contemporary manuscript index, notes also to front free endpaper, small hole to D12 with loss of a few letters, some spotting, ex-College of Arms copy with stamps and 2 labels regarding provenance from the libraries of various heralds including Sir Isaac Heard, Garter Principal King of Arms and James Pulman, Clarenceux King of Arms 1860, contemporary sheep, worn, Amsterdam, Zacharie Chastelain le fils, 1707; and a stained and defective copy of Freschot's Li pregi della Nobilta Veneta with engraved plates, 8vo et infra (3)

17th century Inquisition.- Nottingham (Charles Howard, second Earl of Nottingham, 1579-1642) Copy of an Inquisition into the goods and chattels of Charles Earl of Nottingham by Charles Cockayne executor of the last will and testament of Mary Countess of Nottingham, manuscript, 3½pp., folds, slightly browned, folio, 1st February 1652.⁂ Charles Cockayne (1602-61), of Cockayne House, Broad Street, London and Rushton Hall, Northants.

America.- Colony of Virginia.- Andros (Sir Edmund, colonial governor, 1637-1714) A certificate issued at the request of Robert Paine of Essex County of of William Moseley's and Henry Dyer's deposition taken in the General Court, D.s. "Andros", "Will: Moseley" & "H Dyer", manuscript on paper, 3pp., impressed paper seal, folds, creased and browned, 195 x 315mm., 29th April 1695.

Galway (Henri de Massue, second Marquis de Ruvigny, Earl of, Huguenot soldier and diplomat, influential in the English service in the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1648-1720) Commission appointing Simon Parry a captain "in the Regiment of Dragoons", D.s. "Gallway", manuscript on vellum, blind-stamped paper seal, folds, some slight surface wear affecting a few words, yellowed, 265 x 315mm., Lisbon, 24th August 1709.

American Revolution.- Repeal of the Stamp Act.- Pitt (William, first Earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder], prime minister, 1708-78) The Speech of Mr P[it]t... [on the Repeal of the Stamp Act], manuscript, 17pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, some ff. loose, original calf, gilt, corners and edges rubbed, upper cover detached, g.e., 8vo, [1765].⁂ "It is my opinion that this Kingdom has no Right to lay a Tax on the C[o]l[onie]s at the same time I assirt the Authority of this Kingdom over the C[o]l[onie]s to be Sovereign and supreme... ." - Pitt.

NO RESERVE French Botany.- Cours de Botanique, manuscript in French, c. 375pp., a few additional notes loosely inserted, receipt for intermittent fever tipped in at rear and a note dated 1801 tipped in at front, 1f. large tear, a few marginal tears, browned, original vellum, lettered direct on upper cover, yellowed and marked, sm. 4to, 1785-97.⁂ Student's manuscript notebook of chemistry and botany, beginning with notes on chemistry and related, possibly for a course given by Monsieur Mitouer in 1785 and slightly later, then largely notes from a course on botany. Botany includes: Stolonifera, Anemone, corals, Bermudienne (blue eyed grass), asparagus etc.

Victorian Poetry.- [Volume of Poetry], manuscript, 86pp., 1f. loose, browned, original cloth-backed marbled wrappers, rubbed, corners worn, spine split, sm. 4to, n.d. [c. 1860].⁂ Poems by Tennyson, Henry Glassford Bell, a hymn and some original poetry.

Birkenhead Corn Merchant.- [Ireland] (George Hooton, Corn Merchant, of 14 Eaton Road, Birkenhead, son of John Ireland, clergyman, fl. 1861-1907) [Diary], autograph manuscript, 233pp. excluding blanks, upper joint broken, original morocco, rubbed and repaired, remains of brass catch on upper cover, 8vo, 10th May 1872 - 26th January 1907.⁂ A detailed diary combining business and personal life. Ireland, a corn merchant in Birkenhead records numerous visits to his office, entering into a partnership with his sons and listing his financial assets. Much of the diary concerns his family, including his wife, children including some deaths, members of his extended family, such as his cousin Rev. John Chorley Reade (1826-95), and his uncle Rev. Henry Pinder. Also includes wider news including the relief of Ladysmith, the death of Queen Victoria etc.

NO RESERVE Grand Tour.- [Journal of a European Grand Tour by Railway], manuscript, 20pp. excluding blanks, numerous drawings (both pen and ink and pencil), engravings, railway maps and newspaper cuttings, some ff. loose, a few tears affecting text, some edges chipped, original half morocco, gilt, rubbed, manuscript label on upper cover, gilt spine, rubbed, lacks head and tail of spine, some edges chipped, folio, 1876-78.⁂ Journeys to Antwerp, The Rhine, Munich, Venice, Rome, Naples, Pompeii and Verona.

Kent.- [Ridout (Evelyn Mary, daughter of Rev. George Ridout, 1820-1908, rector of Sandhurst, Kent, 1862-1921)] Diary, autograph manuscript, 100pp., mostly in pencil, original morocco wallet, 120 x 95mm., 1902; and 10 other manuscript, v.s., v.d. (11).

NO RESERVE Heraldry & Genealogy.- Pearce Serocold Family.- Collection of watercolour coats of arms, manuscript and typescript notes etc. relating to the Pearce Serocold family, watercolours, manuscript and typed pedigree notes, photographs and newspaper cuttings etc., some bound, most unbound, v.s., v.d., [c. 1920s - 50s] (qty).

Second World War Diaries.- MacPherson (J.S., Lt. - Comm., Royal Naval Gunnery School at Chatham) Collins Scribbling Diary [&] The Leader Diary, manuscripts, together 155pp. excluding blanks, printed with manuscript insertions, original cloth-backed wrappers, slightly rubbed and creased, folio & 4to, 1944-45 (2).

Ireland & Wales.- Ten Days in Dublin [&] Denbigh North Wales, manuscript in two hands, 18pp. excluding blanks, numerous pen and ink illustrations, original half calf, gilt, oblong 4to, 1945 & 1946.

NO RESERVE Heraldry.- Milles (Thomas) The Catalogue of Honor, lacking A1-B6, title provided in manuscript, engraved illustrations, woodcut armorials and initials throughout, some inked in, lacking 2V8 (blank), C1-6 strengthened at edges and recornered, lacking F1 (provided in manuscript) and G6, 3S4 mutilated as usual, neatly restored and provided in manuscript, occasional ink annotations, trimmed, affecting some headlines, browning, spotting, later half morocco, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and spine extremities, William Jaggard, 1610; sold not subject to return⁂ The errata is in the earlier, three column, setting.

NO RESERVE [Pittis (William)] Memoirs of the life of Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. from his first entrance upon the stage of action, under the Lord Piercy, till his decease. Wherein are inserted, many Curious Incidents and Passages not mention'd in the Great Earl of Clarendon's History, printed for John Sackfield, in Lincoln's-Inn-Square, and sold by J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1717 bound with Eyre (Richard) A sermon preach'd at the funeral of the Honourable Sir Stephen Fox, Knight, November 7. 1716. at Farly in Wilts, variant without advertisements, title in mourning border, printed by H. Clark, for Jonah Bowyer, at the Rose in Ludgate-Street, 1716, together 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, ms. additions bound in at start (see below), occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip (worn at spine ends), 8vo ⁂ Fox was Paymaster of the Forces to King Charles II and a politician. The volume includes two manuscript notes; one (5pp.) 'Mr. Ferguson's Memorandum concerning Sir Stephen Fox', Edinburgh, 1787, claims that Fox was a Scot, originally named Stephen Tod, and was an employee of Charles II in exile, and later 'a domestick' of the Duke of Lauderdale. Ferguson claims to have had this on authority from acquaintances and later confirmed by his friend George Turnbull, writer to the signet (d. 1760). Ferguson was able to examine Fox's correspondence, and used it to construct a 'genealogical tree' of the family to 'prove' his assertion. The other note (2pp.) explains that George Turnbull was distantly related to Fox through his wife.

[Umphelby (Fanny)] 262 Questions & Answers, or the Children's Guide to Knowledge, first edition, printing flaw to p.61 slightly affecting text, large tears to p.25 & 39 with loss of text, letter, newspaper cutting and manuscript notes to front, personal library label to rear pastedown, Thetford, by Samuel Mills, 1825 § Natural History of Quadrupeds, for Children..., engraved plates, contemporary presentation inscription to pastedown, some light browning or offsetting, for Harvey and Darton, 1824, contemporary morocco-backed boards, joints cracking, lightly rubbed, 8vo (2)⁂ The first is scarce, with Library Hub recording just two other copies.

Egypt & Assyria.- Wood (Frederick Augustus, compiler & ?author) An archive of printed and manuscript material relating to Egypt and Assyria, including 'Memoranda on the History of Ancient Egypt & Assyria', folding maps, numerous hieroglyphic illustrations, occasional spotting, contemporary red half morocco, gilt, corners worn, rubbed, n.d.; Belzoni (Giovanni Battista) Description of the Egyptian tomb discovered by G. Belzoni, folding lithographed frontispiece map, wood-engraved illustrations, light foxing, original printed wrappers, lightly foxed, 1821, bound in an album of various articles etc.; Hincks (Rev. Edward) On the Khorsabad Inscriptions, extract, drop-head title, inter-leaved with notes and diagrams, endpapers foxed, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed and scuffed, 1849; and 7 other printed works (some inter-leaved) or compilations albums, together 10 vol., 4to et infra [c.1820-c.1900] (10)⁂ A fascination archive. Wood, of Chew Magna, Somerset, had authored Collections for a parochial history of Chew Magna, Bristol, 1903. He was a successful local businessman and president of the Northern Branch of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society.

Voyages.- Turnbull (John) A Voyage Round the World ... in which the Author visited the Principal Islands in the Pacific Ocean, 3 vol., manuscript note about author tipped-in after title, vol. 1 title torn and laid down, A2 vol. 1 loss to head neatly replaced, occasional marginal tears (repaired), occasional spotting and staining, vol. 1 & 2 contemporary calf backed boards, a little rubbed, vol. 3 modern calf backed boards, 8vo, 1805.

Rutland.- Wright (James) The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland, first edition, title in red and black, double page map, small hole, small tear (neatly repaired), engraved illustrations, [Wing 3696], for Bennet Griffin ..., 1684, bound before Additions to the History and Antiquities of Rutlandshire, engraved frontispiece ([A1]), engraved illustrations, [Wing W3691],for the author by Edw. Jones, 1687, one or two words scored out, manuscript note dated 1687 loosely inserted, bookplate, occasional faint spotting, later calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, folio

WORDSWORTH MARY ANN.  Watercolour & Drawing Book. Poor bdg. but with 21 drawings, 13 watercolours, 15 aquatints of Lake District scenes, 21 hand coloured natural illustrations & 11 steel engravings. Also some verse & manuscript. Includes finally detailed pencil drawing of Ambleside & some good watercolours, some by different hands, some signed. Quarto. Poor bdgs. Commenced c.1840.

LAING DAVID (Ed).  Facsimile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript Emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay of The Mount. Crown folio ltd. ed. 241/251. Col. title & plates (title tending loose at hinge). Orig. cloth gilt, soiled. 1878.

Imperial Airways.  Fascinating archive of orig. photographs re. Imperial Airways & other commercial lines of the time incl. operational images & images of individual aeroplanes & flying boats. Mainly plate & half plate size with some later copies but many orig. press agency & PR photographs with typescript & manuscript annotations (some in French), agency, manufacturers & airline back stamps, etc.Approx. 87 photographs in total. 62 with age.25 copies on later modern photographic paper, stamped Flight International, British Airways Group Photographic Services etc.Slight brown staining and handwritten notes to the back. 

Joseph Lionel WILLIAMS (c.1815-1877)'The Story of the Battle'Watercolour29 x 37cmSigned with monogramme and dated 1872 and an old manuscript inscription to the back

A Persian illuminated double-sided manuscript page, with illustration of figures on horseback playing a game, 26.5cm by 16cm together with a gilt painted stand

POPE, ALEXANDER LETTERS OF MR. ALEXANDER POPE, AND SEVERAL OF HIS FRIENDS London, J Wright, 1737, first edition, 4to, title in red and black with engraved vignette portrait of Pope after Richardson, half-title present, contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, first 7 or so leaves with faint water  stain to top blank margin, together with Fuller, Thomas The History of the Worthies of England London, 1662, first edition, folio, lacking portrait as often, title page laid down, a few leaves with marginal repairs, usual erratic pagination with some manuscript corrections of page numbers, full contemporary calf, re-backed (2)

MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA.  AUTOGRAPH ALBUM OF SIGNATURES OF PRESIDENTS, ABOLITIONISTS, POETS, AUTHORS AND OTHER EMINENT AMERICANS OF THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION ERA, COLLECTED IN 1865-67  all signed in ink, mainly two to a page including James Abram Garfield, Ulysses S Grant ("Yours Truly U S Grant Covington June 19th 1866"), Frederick Douglass, Theodore Tilton ("I am in favour of the equal Civil and Political Right of all American Citizens without distinction of color or sex"), Anna Elizabeth Dickinson ("Above all things liberty!"), George Washington Julien, Wendell Philip ("Peace, if possible Justice at any rate"), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Grace Greenwood (pseud. of Sara Jane Lippincott, nee Clarke), Henry Wilson, Alexander Ramsey, Edgar Cowan, Henry Smith Lane, Ira Harris, William Morris Stewart, James Alexander McDougall, Waitman Thomas Willey, Thomas Andrews Hendricks, William Saulsbury Snr, James Guthrie, Richard Yates, Samuel Clark Pomeroy, Peter Godwin van Winkle, Daniel Sheldon Norton, Garretth Davis, James Warren Nye, Jacob Merritt Howard, William Sprague IV, James Willis Nesmith, Lyman Trumbull, Charles Rollin Buckalew, Reverdy Johnson (2), John Sherman, Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, John Conness, Zachariah Chandler, Henry Bowen Anthony, Lafayette Sabine Foster, George Henry Williams, William Sessenden, James William Grimes, Benjamin Gratz Brown, Daniel Clark, Benjamin Franklin Wade, Lot Myrick Morrill, John Brooks Henderson, Edwin Denison Morgan, John Andrew Jackson Creswell, James Rood Doolittle, George Read Riddle, Luke Potter Poland, George S Harris (land commissioner, Hannibal and St Joseph Railroad), Schuyler Colfax Jnr, Andrew Jackson Rogers, John Armor Bingham, Green Clay Smith, Roscoe Conkling, Nathaniel Prentice Banks, James Falconer Wilson, Samuel Shellabarger, John Wentworth, Elihu Benjamin Washburne, George Sewall Boutwell, Samuel Hooper, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Horace Greeley, James Edward Murdoch (quoting Shakespeare) and Alphonse de Kodolich (Colonel and c-in-c of the foreign troops in Mexico on board 'City of London' 23 August 1867)  gilt title 'J P Lippincott & Co Philadelphia' tooled black leather gilt (12.5 x 19cm) J Griffith's calling card on pastedown, aegProvenance: John Griffith (pseud. 'y Gohebydd') (1821-1877) London correspondent of the Welsh  newspaper Baner ac Amerau cymruThe first professional Welsh language journalist, John Griffith shared the radical libertarian views of the twice weekly newspaper's nonconformist founder the Rev'd Thomas Gee (1815-1898).  Griffith embarked for America even before the American North's Victory was sealed.   On arrival and armed with a hastily acquired autograph album, he seems to have lost no time in meeting as many leading American citizens worth hearing as possible, in so short a space of time.  Almost without exception, these number prominent whigs and radical republicans, including political generals, philosophers and reformers.  It is possible thatGriffith took with him letters of introduction, or perhaps attended meetings or larger political gatherings, such as the Southern Loyalist Convention which took place over three days in August 1866 in Philadelphia.  Returning on the ship "City of London" almost exactly a year later, a fellow passenger was the Austrian Colonel Alfonso von Kodolitsch (1831-1893) who had recently distinguished himself in the unsuccessful campaign to shore up the short lived reign of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico,  After  his,  the only signatures in the album are those of the ship's master, and presumably obtained back in Wales, that of the by then very elderly congregational minister David Williams of Llanwrtyd

METHODISM.  JOHN WESLEY (1703-1791) UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO THOMAS CURSHAM  bifolium, conjugate blank, Derby, July 12, 1788 "I am glad you sent your sermon and the conditions ['proposal' crossed out] of your School Something of the kind was much wanted among us.  Persons are frequently inquiring of me for what school they can send their children I judge they may very safely intrust them with you.  I wish you good success by your undertaking and I am, Dear Sir your affectionate Brother J Wesley', addressed in Wesley's hand To The Rev'd Mr Cursham, 20 x 30cm, loss where sealed and opened, separating where folded and partly laid down, John Wesley, A Short Account of the Life and Death of the Rev John Fletcher, Thomas Cursham's copy, signed, dated 1800 and extensively inscribed by him with Fletcher's attributes, further signed on the fore edge Rev:Tho Cursham, contemporary calf, upper board detached, 1786, Melvill Horne, Curate of Madeley, Posthumous Pieces of the late Rev John William de la Flechere [John Fletcher], Thomas Cursham's copy, signed, half calf and manuscript sermons by a later member of the Cursham family, 15p (4)Provenance: The recipient, Thomas Cursham; thence by descent to the present ownersThomas Cursham (1750-1805) Vicar of Annesley, was an evangelical Nottinghamshire clergyman who established a school at Sutton in Ashfield in 1777.  The prospectus for it announced "Young gentlemen are genteelly boarded, and carefully taught the English, Latin and Greek languages; Writing in all its various Hands, Arithmetic, Merchant's Accounts, the Use of the Globes, Algebra, etc for 14 Guineas  a Year and a Guinea Entrance".  John Wesley wrote to Cursham on at least one other occasion (see Letters of John Wesley 1931, No 368)

SARTRE (JEAN PAUL) MANUSCRIPT  WORKING DIALOGUE BETWEEN JOHANNA AND WERNER FROM SARTRE'S PLAY LES SEQUESTRE D'ALTONA  black ink on graph paper (28 x 22cm) [c1958] Light age toning, faint single horizontal crease where folded but good overall condition

PELLEW (EDWARD) AN IMPORTANT GROUP OF RELICS OF ADMIRAL LORD VISCOUNT PELLEW, RN, 1ST VISCOUNT EXMOUTH (1757-1833) comprisingGEORGE III BRASS BOUND MAHOGANY SEA CAPTAIN'S WRITING BOX  the centre of the three brass bands to the lid engraved Captn Pellew, Royal Navy,  having fitted interior with two brass capped glass inkwells, two steel deck bolts and bow key, three concealed drawers and two further drawers beneath false bottom, the lid containing twelve concealed bone coin canisters and covers (6 each for guineas and half guineas), brass three bolt and two peg lock stamped TURNER PATENT, 27 x 50.5cm, original key and iron spikeTHE LOCKER CORRESPONDENCE OF PELLEW'S LETTERS TO HIS SECRETARY 29 AUGUST 1809-32 all ALS, bifolia , to Edward Hawke Locker,  several "Most Confidential", HMS "Caledonian", off Toulon, Genoa, Gibraltar, London, Plymouth (and elsewhere), all entires with address, seals and manuscript or hand-stamped post marks,  indexed and several annotated by Locker, other letters  respecting Lord Exmouth's public services by Lady Pellew and  members of his family, the Earl Spencer, Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, other officers, etc, 1821-1834, Locker's MS memoir of Pellew, a group portrait drawing of Pellew, Locker and five others by Locker and engravings, tipped into an album (26 x 21cm), original half morocco over marbled boards, scuffed, two cuttings from bookseller's catalogues (? William H Robinson Ltd, early 20th c) describing the present album pasted in,  engraved bookplate of Frederick Locker and a further document signed by Pellew and Lord William Cavendish Bentinck with related TLS from Lionel Robinson presenting the document to H B Vander Poel, 9 March 1938AFTER NICHOLAS POCOCK THE WRECK OF THE EAST INDIAMAN "DUTTON" IN PLYMOUTH SOUND, 26 JANUARY 1796 watercolour, 39.5 x 90cmSHEFFIELD PLATE CHEESE TOASTER, 1816-C1820  with water compartment, detachable lid - reflector and turned pearwood handle, engraved with coronet (viscount's) and ship inscribed DUTTON, 20cm lGEORGE III SILVER TESTIMONIAL TEA CADDY AND COVER engraved with arms and inscriptions or ships at the Bombardment of Algiers,  in scroll and leaf borders with paterae, ring handle, 10cm h; 8 x 12cm, fully marked, by John Edward Terrey, London 1817, 15ozsThe sides are engraved as follows:full achievement of arms of Pellew and In testimony of the  Courage & Honour of  ADMIRAL  LORD EXMOUTH on the Bombardment & Capture of ALGIER September 1816  Presented this Day of our Lord 17th May 1817(left side) Scene of Royal Navy Ships (described on right side - see below)(back) list of the SHIPS and COMMANDERS QUEEN CHARLOTTEAdm Lord Exmouth GCB, Capt James Brisbane CBIMPREGNABLER-Adm David Milne, Capt Edward Brace,  CBSUPERBCapt Charles EkinsMINDENCapt William PatersonALBIONCapt John CoodeLEANDERCapt Edward Chetham, CBSEVERNCapt Hon. Frederick William AylmerGLASGOWCapt Hon. Anthony MaitlandGRANICUS Capt William Furlong WiseHEBRUSCapt Edmund Palmer, CBHERONCom. George BenthamMUTINECom. James MouldPROMETHEUS Com. William Bateman DashwoodBRITOMARTCom. Robert RiddellCORDELIACom. William SargentBEELZEBUB Bomb Com. William KempthornFURY BombCom. Constantine Richard MoorsonHECLA Bomb Com. William PophamINFERNAL BombCom. Hon. George James Percival(right side) A Transport, A Despatch vessel, Gun vessels etc with Royal Sappers & Miners & Royal Rocket CorpsMELANPUS V.Ad. Baron Theod Fred van Capellen, Capt A W De ManFREDERICACapt J A van ser StaatenDIANACapt Petrus ZiervogelAMSTELCapt W A Van Der HartDAGERAADCapt J M PoldersEENDRACHTCapt J F C WardenbergBOMBARDMENT OF ALGIERS 1816 COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL BY L BRENET/GERARD FROM MUDIE'S SERIES COMMEMORATING BRITISH VICTORIES, 1820 obv bust facing right ADMIRAL LORD EXMOUTH, rev Neptune subduing  a seahorse, bronze, 41mm, VF or better [Eimer 1085]PELLEW'S PRAYER BOOK.  THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER...[together with] a new version of the Psalms of David... by N Brady, D.D. and N Tate, unpaginated  title inscribed "Presented by Lady Pellew on Christmas Day 1809" and on blank reverse "Sent to Lord Exmouth's Niece Constantina Thompson on the Death of Lady Exmouth October 29th 1837, Teignmouth Novr 6th (signed) GP [? George Pellew, Dean of Norwich] with his love,  pencil annotation probably in Pellew's hand "this Psalm was chosen " before psalm 51, marbled endpapers with gilt tooled scarlet morocco label lettered VICE ADMIRAL SIR EDWARD PELLEW BT 1809  at front and pasted newspaper report of his death at end, straight grained panelled gilt scarlet morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, worn, aeg, London 1802 (Psalms 1808), Griffiths 1 (1802), p 216: NSTC L 1852 MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS including  L'Amiral Edward Pellew Viscount Exmouth from the series  Histoire Generale les Hommes de Guerre, folio, lithographed portrait and arms, contemporary half scarlet morocco with gilt title label and inscribed in purple ink on the pastedown [Augusta]" Lady Castletown from Lord Exmouth's grand daughter-Florence May 20th 1877", A Salamé,  A Narrative of the Expedition to Algiers in the Year 1816 Under the Command of the Rt Hon Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth,  folding plts, one hand coloured, contemporary calf, upper board detached, 1819, M F Tytler,  The Wooden Walls of Old England: Or The Lives of Celebrated Admirals 1847, E Osler, The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth, rebacked, 1935, a silhouette of Pellew, Pownoll Bastard Pellew, 2nd Viscount Exmouth, ?Private? autograph letter signed, 1812, [newspaper], The Times, December 26th 1793 and July 9th 1804 (both referring to Pellew) and genealogical and other papers found in the boxProvenance: (Locker Correspondence) Edward Hawker Locker, FRS, FSA (1777-1849); his son the bibliophile and poet Frederick Locker, afterwards Locker-Lampson (1821-1895); (possibly) William H Robinson Ltd by which sold to Halstead B Vander Poel (1911-2003); Christie's, Sale of the Halstead B Vander Poel Collection of English Literature, 3 March 2004, lot 347, to the present vendor(Cheese Toaster)The crest and motto with Viscount's coronet above is that of Pellew for Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB (1757-1833)(Tea Caddy) Presented to Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth on 17 May 1817; anon sale ("Property of a Private Collection") Christie's, 29 November 2007, lot 596, to the present vendorNelson's near contemporary, being one year his senior Admiral Pellew (1757-1833)  was also born into a family of, in the phrase of the time "The Middling Sort", in Pellew's case a packet captain of Cornish stock.His naval career, which began in 1770 owed much to several of the exceptional personal qualities that so often characterised Royal Navy officers of Nelson's day, fearless, quick witted and lucky.An excellent swimmer, in a feat of extraordinary presence of mind and not a little  éclat he rescued those on board the  East Indiaman "Dutton" when the vessel and its 400 troops and many others were doomed after the ship ran aground in a storm off Plymouth Hoe on 13th April 1796.  For this he earned an almost immediate Baronetcy.Earlier, at the Action of the 18th June 1793, Pellew captured the French frigate 'Cleopatre' and seized the French naval code of secret signals, for this Pellew was rewarded by a knighthood.His greatest achievement was in the successful Bombardment of Algiers, 1816 (for which amongst other testimonials he was presented with the silver box in this sale) thereby directly resulting in the release of twelve hundred enslaved christians. Please email for further information

MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK.  AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY COLLECTION OF 246 MEDICAL AND CULINARY RECIPES COMPILED BY MARY WELBY,  DATED 1712 the remedies and recipes including a Sovereign Medicine against ye Plague, a worm glister, How to make a Wig,  a curious means by which to "scare crows" (pitch brimstone and gunpowder with grease in a bag tied to a stick), Mrs Palmer's Elixir, several for 'a canser' and 'fitts', for a broken belly, chalybiat (sic) powder, poctorall drink, salves, wines and cordial, pies, pickles, preserves, oyster Loaves and other buns and cakes, written in ink in a fine clear hand on 151 of 250 numbered pp, index at end, a few entries in later 18th and 19th c hands, folio (31 x 20cm), contemporary vellum with double filletsProvenance: Mary Welby (1685-1760) of Denton Manor near Grantham.  The daughter and heiress of Thomas Towers of Haddenam, Cambridge, she married in 1706 Richard Welby (1658-1713) of Denton Manor with whom  she was to have six children, including twin boys.  A year after his death she erected a magnificent memorial to his memory in Denton Church.  It features a bold, free standing life size statue of Welby below which she listed his many virtues, calling him "Ye Best of Husbands".  He died according to Mary, "after a tedious sickness which he bore with exemplary patience", perhaps aided by his wife's recourse to  the remedies in this book

MANUSCRIPT. FOUR TRAVEL JOURNALS OF THE 5TH EARL OF MORNINGTON, 1835-1837 comprising Tour in Scotland and Ireland 1835, Journey from England to Stuttgart by the Rhine and thence to Mariebad on the border of Bohemia back again to Stuttgart thence to Strasburgh, Baden, Carlsruhe to arrival at Frankfurt [and other places in Germany and Belgium] two vols, August-September 1836 and Freiberg 1837, one vol signed with initials W*W on the foredge, in excess of five hundred pages written in black ink occasionally interleaved with innkeeper's bills and other printed ephemera in four pocket books (9.5 x 11.5cm and c), contemporary calf (one half calf) or maroon morocco, worn (4)Provenance: By descent in the Wellesley family to the present owner.Travelling by stagecoach ('diligence') the entries are in the form of discursive essays with commentary, statistics and analysis on the topography, history, governance, population and characteristics, trade, roads and canals, religion, art and architecture, inns and hotels.  Unsurprisingly,  Waterloo 20 years after the Battle merits a lengthy notice, "Nov 11th to Waterloo Made a bargain with a voiture a deux chevaux to take me there for 20 francs", monuments and memorable places on the field, Napoleon and his marshalls, English tourists and rapacious locals.  An encounter at Wiesbaden is characteristic, "conversation with the man in the  Coach, a German, a protestant but a free thinker, I fear many are such..."Provenance: William Richard William Arthur Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley (1813-1863) succeeded his father Viscount Wellesley (nephew of the Iron Duke) in 1857 becoming the 5th Earl of Mornington.  He died in Paris in 1863 leaving everything to his cousin Earl Cowley (son of the Iron Duke's younger brother, Henry) who was ambassador in Paris at the time. The ottoman sabre with which he was presented in 1843 was sold in these 'rooms 27 June 2019, lot 605

MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK.  AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY JOURNAL OF 239 RECIPES FOR MEAT DISHES, PIES, SAUCES, JELLIES, PUDDINGS, WINES, CAKES AND BISCUITS  including Yellow Flummery, Damson Cheese, Hunting Pudding, Queen's Drops, King's Judges, Savoy and York Biscuits, Woodhouse Lane Pudding, Robin Hood's Pudding, Fairy Butter, Half Pay Pudding and Temperance Cake, preceded by a Nottingham  lawyer's Journal entries dated March 1820-November 1826 and followed by medical and other remedies, written in ink in a generally clear hand with index at beginning, folio (37 x 23cm), contemporary diced calf worn

INDIAN MUTINY, 1857.  THE REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF HARRIETT BRUNDELL OF FREQUENTLY DESCRIPTIVE AND LENGTHY ENTRIES FOR EVERY DAY OF THE PERIOD, INCLUDING THE DRAMATIC EVENTS OF HER PERILOUS FLIGHT TO CALCUTTA (KOLKATA), SUBSEQUENT REUNION WITH HER HUSBAND AND RETURN TO THEIR BUNGALOW OUTSIDE MIRZAPORE (MIRZAPUR)  inscribed on the endpaper Harriett W Brundell Oojlah [Bridge] near Mirzapore, N.W.P., Bengal, April 21st 1859, the entries written in black ink in a clear hand in a pocket book (17.5 x 20cm), straight grained maroon morocco worn, rebacked, April 21  1857-December 31, 1857A young Englishwoman of 25, Harriett Whisler Hopkins (1832-1902) arrived in India in late 1856.  She married at Calcutta Richard Shaw Brundell (1830-1903) an engineer engaged on the construction of the East India Railway.  She soon entered into the social life of H.E.I.C. wives, one or more of the couple's new British friends in the district - Thomsons, Howards and Burneys amongst others - featuring in the diary almost daily.  So does her horse "Sheik" and her love of early morning gallops and walks, with her husband or alone.  She seldom complains, finding only the unaccustomed heat and humidity trying.  Nor was she bored or disinterested,  her days occupied with music, reading, translating, exploring and shopping.Acutely aware of the worsening situation and having already made plans on the 22nd April to find refuge in a safe house, taking with them their "Silver rupees, two guns and my dressing case in the buggy", by June 5th intending to spend the day with the Howards and hearing that a steamer was preparing to evacuate the remaining European ladies to Calcutta, "My husband decided (much against my will for I would far rather have taken my chance of living or dying with him) that I should do the same.  When the vessel eventually got underway they endured a terrifying voyage.  At night the Captain, fearing an imminent attack disembarked the passengers and treasure that had also to be taken out of harms way, into the jolly boat which was rowed to a flat in the river.  When the rebels discovered the feint, the passengers facing an imminent assault were compelled to make a hasty departure in the boat, which was rowed by eight lascaRs as fast as possible, with rebels in pursuit whilst being fired upon from both sides of the river.  "We committed ourselves to God's care and once or twice.... Captain Gordon said there is no chance for  us ladies, we can only pray..."  Later, passing the vessel of a ranee attended by four hundred sepoys in boats, they sought and obtained protection but "We felt confident that her sepoys would murder us during the night and saw nothing but death before us. Imagine then our delight at 5am on perceiving the steamer coming to our assistance".The party arrived at Calcutta on the 28th June, where she was to remain for four months, being reunited with her husband at the end of July.  Her observations of Calcutta life included encountering the Governor General's wife Lady Canning on horseback, "She has rather a ladylike appearance and is interesting looking, but not pretty,"  observing the solar eclipse on the 11th August and learning of the fall of Delhi and [first] Relief of Lucknow.  In early December a leisurely return voyage on the "Madras" passed pleasantly with frequent stops and plenty of observations  en route, especially of Benares.  When they eventually got home their bungalow looked "deserted and miserable".  Christmas Day was spent at the Thomsons where the "capital dinner" consisted of "soup and fish, roast beef and boiled roast turkey and ham, roast fowls and ducks, oyster pates, sausages and game....."Although no mention of it is made in the diary, she was by then two months pregnant. The first of the couple's seven children, a girl, was born at Bindachull near Mirzapur in July, 1858

METHODISM. CHARLES WESLEY (1707-1788) MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HYMNS WRITTEN IN SHORTHAND OR ENGLISH  in ink on laid paper leaves including 'Come Let us Join our Friends Above' and 'For Those in the Wilderness', one dated 1757, preceded by a list of contents, a stanza 'Friendship! Ever Valued Name' jottings and 'doodles' of flowers possibly by others  and, at the end, a list of 'Dr Byrom's Subscribers', handwritten laudatory latin inscription by Edward Spencer dated 1791 and note of provenance signed by A  St J Wellesley tipped in, marbled endpapers, contemporary calf  gilt with double fillets worn, raised bands,  (10.5 x 8.5cm), several leaves crudely excised, wafProvenance: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) by whom presented to Edward Spencer (1739-1819) in about 1770 (according to Spencer's handwritten inscription); his daughter Christina Spencer (Mrs Joseph White Niblock); her daughter the Hon Amelia St John Wellesley; her daughter Emily Grace Calthrop; thence by descent to the present ownerThe Rev'd Edward Spencer, an evangelical member of the established church and schoolmaster, was the incumbent of St Mary's Church, Wingfield, Wiltshire for 43 years.  One of his pupils was Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859).Edwin Sidney, in his biography of Rowland Hill, AM, describes Spencer as being "brought up at the feet of Whitefield and was acquainted with Wesley...He was made the means of numerous conversions while curate at Bradford [on-Avon] and on his retirement to Winfield formed a school upon evangelical principals, in which several of our zealous clergy received their first religious impressions... Much as he admired Whitefield and Wesley, Spencer foresaw the dangers of moving with their rapid and eccentric evolutions and the evils that would be entailed... by the divisions of their parties

Acta Eruditorum. Anno M DC LXXXVIII [-M DC LXXXXI], edited by Otto Mencke. Leipzig: Prostant apud J. Grossium & J. F. Gleditschium, Excusa typis Christophori Guntheri, 1688-91. 4 volumes bound in 2 (only), 4to (204 x 165mm). Text in Latin, 52 engraved plates, many folding (some plates bound out of sequence, but all present, one plate cropped at fore-margin, some mainly marginal worming to the 1691 vol., occasional very light spotting and staining, a few darker spots). [?]18th-century paper boards, green spine labels with manuscript titles and library shelf numbers. Acta Eruditorum was the first scientific journal of the German-speaking world. Founded in 1682 in Leipzig by Otto Mencke, it was published by Johann Friedrich Gleditsch with sponsorship from the Duke of Saxony, and was modelled on the French Journal des Savants and the Italian Giornale de' letterati. The journal was published monthly, in Latin, and contained articles principally on the natural sciences, mathematics and philosophy. Brunet I, 15: "Collection curieuse, mais rarement complète ..."; cf. Heralds 109; Norman 1326. (2)

BORELLI, Giovanni (1608-79). De motu animalium ... Editio nova Neapolitana, a plurimis mendis repurgata, ac dissertationibus physico-mechanicis de motu musculorum, et de effervescentia, et fermentatione, clarrisimi viri. Naples: Typis Felicis Mosca, 1734. 4to (231 x 178mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with large woodcut device, 19 folding engraved plates (plate XVIII misbound, variable spotting, staining and browning, a few darker spots, a few leaves more heavily browned). Contemporary vellum with title in old manuscript on spine (lightly stained). Provenance: old inscription in Latin at foot of title. "Borelli's treatise presented the application of mechanics to the motion of the limbs of animals based largely on Galileo's mechanics. He began with the center of motion, the muscle, and then applied its forces to the linkage of bones with the same exactness as forces applied to levers. This analysis evolved into a system describing an animal's entire mobility covering the motions of walking, running, jumping, weight-lifting, bird flight, fish motion and insect creeping. He held that nerve stimulation was related to the contraction and swelling of a muscle and that some chemical process was associated with it. He also believed that the heartbeat was a simple muscular contraction and that the circulatory system was hydraulic in principle" (Dibner). Dibner 190; Heirs of Hippocrates 496; Horblit 13; Garrison & Morton 762; Krivatsy 1578; Nissen ZBI 465; Norman 270; Poggendorff I, 240; Wellcome I, 204 (most references citing the first edition of Rome, 1680-81).

FABRI, Honoré (1608-88). Dialogi physici in quibus de motu terrae disputatur, marini aestus nova causa proponitur, necnon aquarum & mercurii supra libellam elevatio examinatur. Lyon: Sumptibus Christophori Fourmy, 1665. 4to (219 x 170mm). Engraved device on title, head-pieces and initials, woodcut diagrams (severe worming slowly improving to about H1, affecting letters, some mainly marginal staining, most leaves quite heavily browned). Contemporary limp vellum with title in old manuscript on spine, remnants of ties. Provenance: old inscriptions on title. FIRST EDITION of this 'dialogue' on Galileo and Copernicus by a Jesuit scientist. Carli-Favaro, Bibliografia Galileiana 1568-1895 294; Goldsmith F44.

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolf (c.1604-70). Furni novi philosophici, sive descriptio artis destillatoriae novae; Nec non spirituum, oleorum, florum, aliorumque medicamentorum illius beneficio, animalibus & mineralibus ... Amsterdam: Prostant apud Joannem Janssonium, 1651. 6 parts bound in one [and separately paginated], [Bound with the same author's:] De auri tinctura sive auro potabili vero. Amsterdam, 1651. 8vo (157 x 100mm). Typographical ornaments, 3 folding woodcut plates, woodcut illustrations (one plate torn without loss, some light spotting and browning). Contemporary vellum, title in old manuscript on the spine (part torn away from upper cover, some staining). Provenance: old illegible ownership inscription on front free endpaper. References for first work: Brunet II, 416 (citing only a French edition of 1659); Ferguson I, p.323: "This is certainly one of the most remarkable books on chemistry of the seventeenth century"; Krivatsy 4784; Wellcome III, p.125.

LEDERMULLER, Martin Froben (1719-69). Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung. [Nuremberg:] Gedruckt ben Christian de Launoy, 1760-61. Volumes I - II only (of 3), 4to (228 x 190mm). 2 engraved frontispieces including one of the dedicatee in vol. II, woodcut ornaments on titles, elaborate head-pieces and initials, 100 hand-coloured plates engraved by Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt after Martin Froben Ledermüller (a few plates with plate number cropped in the first vol., some supplied in manuscript, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary marbled boards, spines with black and blue morocco lettering-pieces, red edges (some wear to spines with loss to lettering-pieces, extremities rubbed). Provenance: old illegible signatures on front free endpapers; Leopold Epstein (modern stamps on front free endpapers); inconspicuous old stamps on titles. FIRST EDITION of "one of the most beautiful microscopical works issued during the XVIII. century" (Sotheran). The very scarce third part, published c. 1765, is often lacking. Please see the following lot. Blake S. 261; Graesse IV, 139; Hirsch III, pp.645-646; Nissen BBI 1156; Poggendorf I, 1403; Stafleu & Cowan 4288; Wellcome III, p.472; this work not in Brunet (1843). (2)

MAROLOIS, Samuel ([?]1572-1627). Mathematicorum sui saeculi principis, Opticae, Sive Perspectivae, Pars Prima: continens Praeter regulas ac demonstrationes Opticae perfectissimas, Geometriae, Fortificationis, & praesertim Architecturae figuras accuratas. Amsterdam: Sumptibus ac typis Joannis Janssonii, 1647 [but engraved title dated 1662]. Folio (315 x 200mm). Engraved allegorical title with wording "La Perspective, Contenant tant la Theorie que la Practique et Instruction fondamentale d' icelle", woodcut printer's device on letterpress title, 71 double-page engraved plates, including one un-numbered (only, of 81, lacking plates 41 and 42-60, some mainly marginal spotting, staining and soiling). Contemporary vellum with title in old manuscript on the spine. With Jean Vredeman & Samuel Morolois's Perspectiva Theorie ac Practica. Hoc est, Opus Opticum Absolutissimum (Amsterdam, 1647, defective, lacking many plates, stained, contemporary vellum). The lot sold not subject to return. (2)

[PASSEMENT, Claude Simon (1702-60)]. Construction d' un Telescope par Reflexion, de Mr. Newton, Ayant seize pouces de longueur, & faisant l' effet d' une Lunette de huit pieds. Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier, 1741. Small 8vo (158 x 105mm). Title printed in red and black, headpieces, initials and ornaments, tables, large folding engraved plate (lacks all before title [?half title or blank], text browned throughout, some lighter spotting and staining to plate). Contemporary vellum, title in old manuscript on spine (some wear to foot of spine, lightly stained). Provenance: old ownership inscription on front pastedown and old manuscript shelf numbers on rear pastedown. [?]Second edition of a work that was first published in 1738. Babson 157; Barbier I, 736; not in Brunet; Honeyman 2419; Lalande p. 407; Poggendorff II, 372; Wallis 224.85.

PERRAULT, Claude (1613-88). Recueil de Plusieurs Machines, de Nouvelle Invention. Ouvrage Posthume. Paris: Chez Jean Baptise Coignard, 1700. 4to (238 x 180mm). Large woodcut printer's device on title, engraved illustrations at head of dedication and on A1, initials, woodcut diagram, 11 folding engraved plates (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands (some wear to foot of joints, extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Provenance: old library stamp on verso of title; old manuscript library shelf numbers on front pastedown; some old annotation referring the text to plate numbers. FIRST EDITION. Plate IX depicts the Abaque Rhabdologique (the author's own name for it), a calculating device which can be considered a forerunner of modern calculating and computing devices. Other machines described in this work include a mechanism for anchor cables, for raising a bridge, for rotating a telescope, and a water clock. Cicognara 948; Tomash & Williams, The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing P46.

POLINIERE, Pierre (1671-1734). Experiences de Physique ... Seconde edition, revûë & beaucoup augmentée. Paris: chez Jean de Laulne & Claude Jombert, 1718. 12mo (161 x 98mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut head-piece and initial, 16 folding engraved plates at the end (fore-edges of some plates cropped with very slight loss and soiling, variable mainly marginal spotting and staining, many darker spots). Contemporary calf (spine worn and tatty with a few wormholes, upper joints split, heavily rubbed). Provenance: old manuscript key to plate stubs; remnants of library label to front pastedown. The work contains descriptions of experiments involving magnetism, electricity, galvanism, light, the spectrum, hydrostatics and the properties of air. For this second, and three subsequent editions, the author abandoned the old theory of colour which had been advocated in the first of edition of 1709 and adopted Newton's recent findings in opticks. Gartrell, Electricity, Magnetism and Animal Magnetism: A Checklist of Printed Sources 432; Wheeler Gift 248.

[?]PSEUDO-GEBER. Summa perfectionis Magisterii in sua natura; Ex bibliothecae Vaticanae exemplari undecunq; emendatissimo edita, cum vera genuinaq delineatione vasorum & fornacum. Deniq; libri investiationis Magisterii & testamenti ejusdem Gebri, ac Aurei trium verborum libelli, & acutissimi philosophi, mineralium additione castigatissima. "Gedani" [i.e. probably Gdansk]: Apud Brunonem Laurentium Tancken, 1682. 8vo (149 x 90mm). Woodcut initials and ornaments, 9 engraved plates showing methods of distillation ([?]lacking frontispiece [see footnote], rusthole in H7 affecting letters, lightly browned and stained throughout, a few darker spots). [?]18th-century half vellum and boards with a stylised interlacing foliate design incorporating birds and allegorical figures, spine with title in early manuscript (some light staining and rubbing). Provenance: illegible signature dated 1712 on front pastedown. This work on alchemy and distillation is believed to have been attributed to Geber in the middle-ages. A copy of the same edition included in a sale at Sotheby's in 2014 had a frontispiece (not present in our copy) but only 8 plates. Duveen 240; Ferguson I, p.300; cf. Maggs Medicine, Alchemy, Astrology and Natural Sciences, Cat. 520 (1929): 118 (citing a 1542 edition bound with another alchemical work).

RONDELET, Guillaume (1507-66). De ponderibus, sive de iusta quantitate & proportione medicamentorum, Liber, Nunc denuò diligentissimè auctus, & recognitus ab eodem authore. Editio secunda. Lyon: Apud Bartholomaeum Molinaeum, 1563. 8vo (158 x 110mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut headpieces, initials and ornaments (title and Gii repaired at margin without loss, expanding wormtrack at gutter of kvi to end, variable staining and browning throughout). Contemporary vellum, title in early manuscript on spine. Provenance: old Islamic, Greek and Latin annotation to front pastedown; old illegible signature written over manuscript musical stave on front free endpaper. The first edition of this work on medicinal dosage was printed in Antwerp in 1561.

SUAREZ Y NUNEZ, Miguel Gerónimo (d. 1791). Coleccion General de Maquinas, Escogidas entre las que hasta hoy se han publicado en Francia, Inglaterra, Italia, Suecia, y otras partes. Tomo Primero. Madrid: la Imprenta de Don pedro marin, 1783. Volume one only (of 2), 4to (205 x 148mm). Half title, woodcut ornament on title, 65 fine folding engraved plates of machines and new inventions (some spotting and staining). Contemporary vellum, title in old manuscript on spine (lacks ties, textblock very loose, with upper inner hinges broken). Provenance: old inscriptions on front free endpaper, with further faint doodling on covers. RARE. The second volume, not here present, was published in 1784.

TABERNAEMONTANUS, Jacobus Theodorus (1525-90). New Vollkommen Kräuter-Buch. Darinnen Uber 3000 Krauter mit Schönen und Kunstlichen Figuren. Basel: Jacob Werenfels in Verlegung Johann Königs, 1664. Folio (354 x 225mm). Additional elaborate engraved allegorical title, woodcut device on printed title, headpieces and initials, printed in double column, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations (engraved title and a few leaves detached, variable spotting, staining and browning throughout). Contemporary calf, unusual patterned endpapers (very worn, joints split, some damp spots). Provenance: old illegible ownership inscriptions on engraved title; 19th-century manuscript arithmetic on front free endpaper calculating the age of the book from 1841. This work, upon which the author's reputation as the 'father of German botany' rests, was first published in Frankfurt in 1588 and went through many editions in the 17th-century. Brunet IV, 381 (citing a Frankfurt edition of 1613): "Les éditions de Francfort, 1625, et de Bâle, 1664 et 1685, in fol., ont à peu près la même valeur"; Nissen BBI 1931; Pritzel 9093. Sold not subject to return.

THETI or TETI, Carlo (1529-89). Discorsi delle Fortificationi, Del Sig. Carlo Tetti[sic]. Ove diffusamente si dimostra, quali debbano essere i siti delle Fortezze, le forme, i recinti, fossi, baloardi, castelli, & altre cose à loro appartenenti, con le figure di esse. Hora a di nuovo da lui medesimo ricoretti, & ampliati del Secondo libro. Venice: Appresso Bolognino Zaltiero, 1575. 4to (202 x 150mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, head-pieces and initials, 2 folding woodcut plates lettered A & C, only (of 4), woodcut diagrams and illustrations (plates detached). Contemporary vellum with title in old manuscript on spine. Second edition of a work that was first published in Rome in 1569. Cockle 776; Graesse VI, 105; cf. Riccardi II, 517; not in Brunet.

[WORCESTER, Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of (1601-67)]. A Century of the Names and Scantlings of Such Inventions, As at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former Notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the Year 1655 to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice. London: Printed by J. Grismond, 1663. Lacking the supplement [as often, but supplied in manuscript; see footnote]. 12mo (127 x 75mm). Title and dedication within double-rule border, woodcut typographical head-piece and initial (a few spots). Contemporary calf (rebacked some time ago, both covers detached, extremities rubbed). Provenance: illegible old signature on front pastedown; RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY, OXFORD (old stamp on front pastedown and on verso of title); old pencil partial index on front free endpaper; S. T. [?]Rigaud, 1839 (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION of a work in which the author lists and describes 100 of his own inventions, including the hundredth ("A stupendious[sic] Water-work") which he claims, with characteristic modesty, to be "The most stupendious Work in the whole world." Also notable is invention 84: "An Instrument whereby persons ignorant in Arithmetick may perfectly observe Numerations and Subtractions of all Summes and Fractions." (See Tomash & Williams.) Not present in this copy - as often - is the rare 34-page supplement (F1-G6), but, intriguingly, this is supplied in an early manuscript transcription taking the form of 34-page stitched booklet, which opens, "An exact & true Definition of the most Stupendious Water-commanding Engine, invented by the Right Honourable (and deservedly to be praised and admired) Edward Somerset, Lord Marquess of Worcester, and by his Lordship himself presented to his most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second, our most gracious Soveraign." Constructed from the barrel of a cannon, it was a prototype design for what would later become the steam engine. The printed supplement was tantamount to the author's claim of a patent for this invention. ESTC R7944; Norman 1976; Tomash & Williams, The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing S162; Wing W3532.

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