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Bindings. The Family Expositor, or a Paraphrase and Version of the New Testament. Wih Critical Notes, and a Practical Improvement of each Section by Philip Doddridge, 4 vols., new ed., 1808, eng. port. to vol. 1 and addn. eng. title to each vol., two hand-col. eng. maps and one eng. plt., near contemp. calf with elaborate gilt and blind decoration, upper joint of vol. 4 slightly cracked at foot, 4to (4)

David (Jan). Paradisus Sponsi et Sponsae: in quo Messis myrrhae et aromatum, ex instrumentis ac mysteriis Passionis Christi colligenda, ut ei commoriamur. Et Pancarpium Marianum, Septemplici Titulorum serie distinctum ..., Antwerp, Plantin, 1618, engraved frontis. by Theodore Galle, eng. title, fifty fine single-page engraved plates, woodcut initials, colophon leaf at end, marbled edges, early 19th c. blind-dec. calf, rubbed, later reback, incorporating old label, with bookplate of St. Augustine's Monastery, Ramsgate, to front pastedown, 8vo, together with Cisano (Giovanni), Tesoro di Concetti Poetici: scelti da'piu illustri Poeti Toscani, part one only (of 2), bound in 2 vols., Venice, 1610, 72 + 1200 pp., single title with eng. vign., later vellum, some wear to spines, 12mo (the second part contains a further 1072 pages of poetry). The second edition of an attractive emblem book with engravings by Philippe Galle. (3)

Dore (Edmund). The Dore Gallery: Containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings... with Memoir of Dore, Critical Essay, and Descriptive Letterpress, by Edmund Ollier, n.d., c. 1870s, num. full-page wood-engs., a.e.g., contemp. blind-panelled and gilt dec. crimson morocco, rubbed and some wear to extrems., thick 4to, together with La Sainte Bible, traduction nouvelle selon la bulgate par Mm. J.J. Bourasse et P. Janvier, 2 vols., Tours, 1866, num. wood-engs. by Gustave Dore, orig. gilt dec. cloth, both backstrips detached, large folio, plus Milton's Paradise Lost, edited, with Notes and a Life of Milton, by Robert Vaughan, n.d., c. 1870, num. wood-engs. by Gustave Dore, a.e.g., contemp. crimson half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, folio, and five others with illusts. by Dore (9)

Gilio (Giovanni Andrea). Le persecutioni della Chiesa descritte in cinque libri..., Vinegia, 1573, woodcut device to title, few woodcut illusts. and dec. initials, some slight damp staining, first & last few pages slightly frayed to edges, contemp. limp vellum, worn with some loss of spine, covers near detached, 4to, together with De Azpilcueta (Martino), De Regularibus Commentarii Quatuor..., Rome, 1584,title with some early signatures and library ink stamp, some worming and browning, contemp. limp vellum, browned and slight wear, 4to, with Samarinus (Franciscus), Sacerdotale siue Sacerdotum Thesaurus Juxta Consuetuinem s. Romanae Ecclesiae..., Venice, 1583, title printed in red & black with early inscription to lower margin, woodcut illusts., some damp staining, contemp. limp vellum, upper joint split, marked & soiled, 4to, plus Stapleton (Thomas), Thomae Stapletoni, Angli, S. Theologiae Doctoris, et Professoris Regii Lovanii, Promptuarium Catholicum..., pub. Cologne, 1594, contemp. blind stamped pig skin over wooden boards, spine split and lacks clasps, thick 8vo. From the Library of Prinknash Abbey. (4)

Platina (Bartolomeo de Sacchi). Le vite di Tutti i Pontefici da S. Piero in qua, Ridotte in Epitome da Tomaso Costo Napoletano, & Accademico Fiorentino, Secondo la Descrizzione del Platina Corretta dal Panvinio..., Appresso Bernardo Basa, & Barezzo Barezzi, Venice, 1692, pp.[40],320, woodcut device to title, numerous woodcut port. illusts., 19th c. panelled sheep, boards near detached, rubbed, 8vo, Breviary, Breviarium Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis a Mendis Exacte Repurgatum, pub. George Lombart, Paris, 1600, title with hand-col. woodcut armorial, woodcut illust. and full-page woodcut illust. to final leaf, text printed in red & black throughout, 8pp. early manuscript notes bound-in at front and 25pp. manuscript notes at rear, contemp. blind stamped calf, recased, 8vo (2)

Plautus (Titus Maccius). M. Acci Plauti Comoediae Viginti. Variae Lectiones ac notae, ex D. Lamini Alioumque Doctissimoru Viroru Commentariis, suo Quaeque loco Adscriptae..., Jacobus Stoer, [Geneva], 1587, title with woodcut border, contemp. vellum, joints cracked and slight wear, small 8vo, together with, Cogmannus (Henricus), R. P. Fr. Lodovici Granatensis Flores, ex Omnibus Spiritualibus eius Opusculis Hispanice Conscriptis Studiose Italica Lingua Excerpti. Nunc vero ex Italica in Latinam Translati a Dn. Henrico Cogmanno..., Cologne, 1585, woodcut illusts., early inscriptions to front pastedown, contemp. blind panelled limp vellum with initials & date 'FSE 1586' to upper board, 12mo, plus eight other 17th c. vellum bound antiquarian vols. From the library of Prinknash Abbey. (10)

Erhlich (Paul & Hata, S.). The Experimental Chemotherapy of Spirilloses (Syphilis, Relapsing Fever, Spirillosis of Fowls, Framboesia)... , trans. A. Newbold, and revised by Robert W. Felkin, 1911, three folding tables and five plts., some spotting, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, (Garrison Morten 2403-1st edition in German), together with Ricord (Philippe), Lectures of Chancre... , trans. C.F. Maunder, 1st English ed., 1859, ink lib. stamps to title verso and final page, contemp. half calf, some wear, rebacked, plus Lopez de Villalobos (Francisco), The Medical Works, now first translated, with Commentary and Biography by George Gaskoyn, 1870, lib. blind-stamp to title, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, all 8vo, plus ten others on syphilis, mostly 19th-century (14)

Marcellus, Empiricus. De medicamentis empiricis, physicis, ac rationalibus liber ante mille ac ducentos plus minus annos scriptus...., Item Claudii Galeni libri novem..., Basel: Hieronymus Froben, 1536, first part (Marcellus) only, short worm hole to title foremargin, old ink inscriptions at foot of title, subsequently deleted and with resultant paper loss from ink acid burns, noit affecting text but marks to following two leaves, bound with Manardo (Giovanni, 1462-1536), Epistolarum Medicinalium libri duodeuiginti, Basel: [Johann Bebel], 1535, bound with Constantine, the African, Opera, conquisita undique magno studio..., [vol. 1 of 2], Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1536[-39], each with printer's woodcut device to title and last two with device to final page, woodcut initials, some spotting throughout and scattered old marginalia, third work lacks signature O (six leaves), contemp. blind-stamped vellum over wood boards with Roman figure, cherub and floral designs, initials HC to upper cover, heavily rubbed, sl. wear and lacking clasps, folio. Adams M522 (both parts), M315 and C2549 (vol. 1) respec. Constantine: Garrison Morton 46 (both vols.). (1)

Scudamore (Charles). A Treatise on the Nature and Cure of Gout and Rheumatism... , 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged, printed for the author, 1817, lacks half-title, scattered pen and pencil markings, a little soiling, contemp. half calf, rebacked with orig. spine relaid, rubbed, lib. blind-stamp at head of spine, together with Balfour (William), Observations, with Cases Illustrative of a New, Simple, and Expeditious Mode, of Curing Rheumatism and Sprains, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1816, half-title, ink lib. stamps to title, contemp. half calf, rubbed, rebacked, plus Morris (Henry), The Anatomy of the Joints of Man, 1st ed., 1879, folding frontis. and forty-three litho. plts., incl. some col. or tinted, upper margin of title cut away, not affecting text, contemp. half calf, rubbed and damp-marked, all 8vo, plus nine related incl. offprints and extracts (18)

Shakespeare (Edward O.). Reports on Cholera in Europe and India, 1st ed., Washington, 1890, forty-five plts., tables and maps, many folding and some partly col., occn. spotting, ink lib. stamp to title, orig. cloth, rebacked with orig. spine relaid, rubbed and marked, thick 4to, together with Woodworth (J.M. & others), The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States, 1st ed., Washington, 1875, twenty-six maps and plts., incl. some folding, bibliography at rear, a few lib. blind-stamps, orig. cloth, rebacked with remains of orig. spine relaid, library markings at foot of spine, thick 8vo, plus MacNamara (C.), A Treatise on Asiatic Cholrea, 1st ed., 1870, three folding charts and three maps, ink lib. stamps to title, orig. cloth, rebacked with remains of orig. spine relaid, corners worn, 8vo, plus other 19th c. cholera interest, incl. eight pamphlets in a modern cloth book box (10)

[Vivisection]. Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendix, HMSO, 1876, xxiii + 388 pp., lib. blind-stamp to title, modern library buckram, rubbed, folio. The inadequacy of Martin's Act of 1822 for the protection of animals and Miss Cobbe's anti-vivisection crusade led to a call for new legislation and resulted in the Royal Commission of Enquiry. The subsequent vivisection act 1876 gave protection to experimental workers and was an important landmark in the history of British pathology and physiology and led to the formation of the Physiological Society. The six Commissioners included T.H. Huxley and Sir John Erichson, fifty-nine mostly medical men gave evidence, including Charles Darwin (Freeman 1275), David Ferrier, Michael Foster and Joseph Lister. (1)

Briggs (Richard). The English Art Of Cookery, According to the Present Practice; being a Complete Guide to all Housekeepers, on a Plan Entirely New; consisting of thirty-eight chapters ... With Bills of Fare for Every Month in the Year, 1st ed., 1788, twelve engraved plates of bills of fare, title-page re-margined at gutter and with a little edge-fraying, first and final leaves browned, recent blind-panelled calf, label on spine, 8vo. Richard Briggs was 'many years cook at the Globe Tavern, Fleet-Street, the White Hart Tavern, Holborn, and now at the Temple Coffee-House'. Bitting, p.60; Cagle 577; Maclean, p.15; Oxford, pp.115/6; Vicaire p.116. (1)

Nott (John). The Cook and Confectioners Dictionary: or, the Accomplish'd Housewives Companion..., 2nd ed., with Additions, Rivington, 1724, lacking eng. frontis. (photocopy supplied), title-page printed in red and black, woodcut head and tail-pices and initial letters, some browning, Aa5 with short closed tear to upper margin, hinges split, contemp. blind-panelled calf, rubbed, with sl. loss at head of spine, 8vo. Bitting, p.346; Cagle 904; Oxford, p.57(in a note); Maclean, p.107. (1)

A carved mahogany rectangular side table, the inset green marble top to a leaf and shell carved edge above a pierced frieze of lattice work, stars and florets to a blind fret apron on conforming square chamfered legs with pierced and carved leafage brackets, the base 18th century probably reduced, the top 19th century, 32.5in (82.5cm) h, 48in (122cm) w, 21.25in (54cm) d.

After Gunter Huniat b.1939- 'Blick uach Juney'; screenprint in colours, signed, titled and numbered 103/200 in pencil, bears blind stamp, 35.5x35cm: Lesbia Thorpe b.1919- 'The Sea Bed'; linocut printed in colours, signed, titled and numbered 3/9 in pencil and with stamped initials: L Binder late 20th Century- Abstract form; etching, signed, dated 89 and titled, numbered 103/200: together with six other late 20th Century screen prints, etchings and lithographs by various hands, (9) (unframed)

Claude Francis Barry RBA 1883-1970- ''St Marks, Venice''; etching, signed and titled in pencil, 73x64cm: After Helen Bradley 1900-1979- 'Hot Pies, Now Ready', published by the Adam Collection 1975; reproduction printed in colours, with blind stamp for the Fine Art Trade Guild, signed in pencil: A Fawcett late 20th Century- 'Haze Liegh Post Box'; aquatint, artist's proof, signed, titled and dated 87 in pencil, (3) (part unframed)

Patrick Procktor RWS RE RA 1936-2003- Figures in the park; aquatint printed in colours, signed and numbered 35/50 in pencil, bears blind stamps, 39x30cm: European School mid 20th century- Still life of fruit; oil on board, signed and dated 1930: together with six other 19/20th century watercolour and print studies by and after various hands to include examples by J W Oddie, Edward Emerson, M E Barnard, S Walton and others, (8)

Manner of Charles Conder NEA 1868-1909- Portrait of a lady standing full-length on steps in a garden; watercolour, bears signature, bears blind stamp, 28x21cm. J Herdman 19/20th century- Shepherd boy; watercolour, signed and dated 1871, 29x22.5cm., (2)

After Margaret Chapman b.1940- Figures Gathered around a motorcar; reproduction printed in colours, signed in pencil, bears blind stamp for the Fine Art Trade Guild, 48x60cm

After Michael Carlo b.1945- 'Flatford Mill'; lithograph and mixed technique on paper, signed and titled, numbered 111/250 in pencil, bears blind stamp for Christie's Fine Art, 30x45cm: together with one other aquatint printed in colours of a coastal view, signed and numbered 178/350 in pencil, bears blind stamp for Christie's Fine Art by a different hand, (2)

James Alphege Brewer act.1909-1938- 'Amiens Cathedral' published Sept 2nd 1918, Alfred Bell & Co., Old Bond St London; etching with aquatint, signed and titled in pencil, bears blind stamp, 65x46cm: together with one other etching with aquatint by the same hand titled 'The North Transept Rheims Cathedral', published Jan 1st 1918, Alfred Bell & Co., signed and titled in pencil, bears blind stamp, (2)

After Arthur Elsley. Blind Man's Buff. Photogravure 58cm x 68cm. (see illustration on our website)

RICHARD GRIFFITHS, DENBIGH (1791-1840), AN EARLY 19th CENTURY WELSH LONGCASE CLOCK, the honey oak and mahogany crossbanded case with long trunk door, the hood with blind fretwork frieze, 33cm square white dial, signed, with subsidiary seconds and date crescent, 4 pillar 8-day falseplate movement with rack strike and anchor escapement, (the seat board has been extended and the wooden dial surround recently renewed). 2.05m

A ROYAL WORCESTER PAIR OF BLIND EARL PATTERN LEAF DISHES, a small tureen cover and stand and a vase, each copying the 1770 original

HYMAN SEGAL Blind beggar, Agadir. Drawing. Signed and inscribed. 9 x 7ins.

Louis XIII and XIV Lettre de cachet, asking the President of the Parlement at Navarre to assist the duc de Grammont at the assemblies of the States General of Navarre and Bearn, 27 March 1673, one leaf signed on behalf of King Louis XIV by Arnauld, blind-stamped paper seal attached, St. Germain en Laye, 37 x 25cm; Lettre clos to the Presidents and Treasurers General of the Bureau des Finances at Lyon, informing them of the appointment of the Marquis d'Effiat as superintendent of the royal finances, 17 June 1626, one page; Lettres clos to the Presidents and Treasurers General of the Bureau des Finances at Lyon regarding the edict of Jan. 1625 awarding the provosts of the marshals a rise in wages, one page, 9 October 1631, signed by King Louis XIII, [Charles] De Beauclerc and Phelypeaux, some spotting and dust-soiling, signature of the last frayed; Fouché, Joseph One page A.L.S on paper headed Le Ministre de la Police générale de la République, to Monsieur Jackson, Ministre plénipotentiaire de sa Majesté Britannique à Paris, 4to, 28 Ventose, an 10 de la République (4)

Gardening & Forests - Maxwell, Sir Herbert Scottish gardens. London, 1908, 8vo, 32 colour plates, illustrated by Mary Wilson, original decorative cloth gilt, bookplate, ink inscription to front endpaper; Hooker, W. Jackson An introduction to the study of botany. London, 1833, 8vo, seventh edition, original blind stamped cloth gilt, some foxing, ink inscription to title; Thompson, Harold S. Alpine plants of Europe. London, 1911, 8vo, colour plates, original green cloth gilt, ink inscription to front endpaper, some foxing to edges; Maxwell, Sir H. Trees, a woodland notebook. Glasgow, 1915, 8vo. illustrated, original cloth gilt, rubbed; Ackers, C.P. Practical British forestry. London, 1947, second edition, 8vo, original cloth gilt, sunned; Kent, A. Veitch's manual of the coniferae. London, 1900, 8vo, original brown cloth gilt; Samples A box of pressed flower and herb samples, c.1840's, approx 80 samples all labelled, half calf gilt; and 8 others on forestry and gardening (15)

Roman Catholic Church. Congregation of Rites. Decreta [with] Regula qua utuntur examinatores ad interrogandum episcopos promovendos ad episcopalem dignitatem. [Rome]: 10 June 1606-6 February, 1630. 10 June 1606-6 February 1630. Ms. on paper, large 4to, 27.5 x 21 cm, [496] leaves. numbered: Decreta: 148 pp. + [311] ll. + [20] blank ll. + Regula: 63 ll. + [1] blank l. + [26] leaves, c. 20 lines in Latin, dark brown ink, wide margins, in different Italic hands, some very flourished (particularly on the first 80 pp.), some particularly neat, all perfectly legible, remains of contemporary vellum over carta rustica, front joint detached, edges untrimmed, missing ties, title-page a little dusty, occasional very light browning to text due to the ink, light foxing in places, a couple of minor ink spots and burns, tiny marginal wormtrail at the end (no loss), round blind stamp of the Novitiate of the Order of the Conventual Franciscans, on title-page and elsewhere Note: A substantial record of the decrees issued by the Congregation of Rites during the first three decades of the 17th century (including four referring to Goa, Lima, Tlaxcala - now in Mexico - and Mexia - now in Texas), followed by a detailed explanation of the rules governing the nomination of bishops, and forty-four pages on topics ranging from heretics and abortion to papal bulls.

Alchemy--McLean, A. A commentary on the mutus liber. Magnum Opus Hermitic Sourceworks, 1982, one of 250 copies signed by the author, calf; Culpeper, N. Culpeper's English physician and complete herbal. London, [no date], 4to, frontispiece, lacking all plates, lacking blanks, contemporary calf, worn; and a rebacked 1835 copy; Alchemy Remarks upon alchemy and the alchemists. Boston, 1857, 8vo, original cloth, blind stamp on title; Job, Johann Anleitung zu denen curiösen mantia, Astrologia, etc... Frankfurt, 1737, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, 31 plates, contemporary vellum [Wellcome p.356]; Williams, D. The stone of the philosophers, 1964, one of 200 copies, cloth-backed boards; Rattansi, P. Alchemy and chemistry in the 16th and 17th centuries, 1994; Atwood, M.A. A suggestive inquiry into the hermetic mystery, 1920, cloth, spine faded; De Jong, H.M.E. Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens, 1969; Brann, N.L. The abbot Trithemius (1452-1516), 1981; Tiedemann, D. Disputatio de quaestione quae fuerit artium magicarum origo. Marburg, 1787, 4to, half morocco, title dust-soiled, worn; Broek, R. van den Corpus hermeticum, Amsterdam, 1996, dust-jacket; Quispel, G. Asclepius, Amsterdam, 1996, dust-jacket; Waite, A.E. The hermetic museum. New York, 1974, 2 volumes, dustwrappers and another set the same; Thompson, C.J.S. The mystic mandrake. London, 1934, illustrated, original cloth; Redgrove, H.S. Bygone beliefs. London, 1920, original cloth; and a quantity on alchemy, including a number of typescript and photocopied tracts bound in wooden boards and marked Ambix and Hermetic Journal (qty)

Antoninus [Forciglioni], Saint, Archbishop of Florence Quarta pars summe maioris Antonini archipsulis florentini. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1487]. Folio, 40.5 x 27 cm, 252 of 256 leaves (lacking 4 leaves of table], Black Letter, text in two columns, capitals supplied in red and black, rubricated throughout, contemporary blind stamped calf over wooden boards, heavily restored, margin of table of chapters water stained, small library stamp at foot of page of first leaf, capital cut out from folio 1 of text (9.5 x 9 cm), two patches of worming in the inner margins, a number of single worm holes (particularly through last few signatures) Note: GSW 2189; Hain 1246; Proctor 2052 Volume 4 of the Summa theologica moralis, partibus IV distincta, the principal work of the Dominican Archbishop of Florence composed shortly befoe his death in 1479. It marked a new and very considerable development in moral theology. Fifteen editions of the work appeared in the first fifty years after its first appearance in print and it continued to be reprinted into the 19th century.

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint Summa totius theologiae … Antwerp: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1585. 5 parts in 1 volume, folio, printer's compass device on the titlepage and divisional titles, contemporary calf , arms in blind on the boards, rebacked, wear to head and tail of spine, endpapers renewed, some paper discolouration throughout [ Adams 1440]; Gonet, Joannes Baptista. Clypeus theologiae Thomistiace. Lyons: apud Anissonios, & Joan. Poosuel, 1681. 5 volumes, folio, modern calf. Library stamps on titles, some spotting throughout (6)

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint Super epistolas Sancti Pauli co[m]mentaria. Venice, Philippus Pincius for Giunta de Giuntis, 7 March 1510, folio, [12], 261, [1] leaves, double column, woodcut initials, woodcut device on Registrum leaf at end, ruled in red throughout, 3 ownership inscriptions, one dated 1515, on title-page, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, some damp-staining in lower margin not affecting text, remains of clasps, worm-holes on upper cover Note: Adams A1484 Provenance: Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart. of Rufford Hall, bookplate

Aristotle Petri Victorii commentarii in tres libros Aristotleis De arte dicendi … [with the Greek text]. Florence: in officina Bernardi Iunctae, 1548. Folio, device on verso of the last leaf, modern full blind tooled calf, title-page and verso of last leaf a little dusty, blind library stamp on the title-page. [ Adams A1941; Riley 216] Petri Victorii commentarii in VIII libros Aristotelis De optimo statu civitatis …. Iisdem, ad verbum Latine expressis … [with the Greek text and translation by Vettori]. Florence: apud Iuntas, [in fine: apud haeredes Bernardi Iuntae], 1576. Folio, device on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf, modern vellum, with the signature of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun on the title-page. [ Adams A1913; Riley 190] Petri Victorii commentarii … in tres libros Aristotleis De arte dicendi, nunc primum in Germania editu … [with the Greek text].Basle:[ex officina Ioannis Oporini, 1549]. [bound with] Francisci Robortelli … in librum Aristototelis De arte poetica … Basle: per Ioannemm Hervagium, 1555. Folio, first work with device on the title-page, the second with device on the titlepage and oon the verso of the last leaf, text of the first work in two columns, 18th century half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, title-page of the first work a little dusty and with early ownership inscriptions, second work with marginalia in an ealy hand, water staining through roughly half the work. [First work: Adams V672; Riley 217; the second work: Adams A1904. Not in Riley]. Aristotelis … omnia quae extant opera … Averrois Corubensis in ea opera omnes qui a nos pervenere commentarii … Venice: apud Iuntas, 1550-1553. Volumes 1, 4, 7 & 8 only of 11volumes, volumes 7 & 8 bound together, printer's devices on the title-pages and on the verso of the last leaves, the general title which prefaces volume 1 printed in red with coat of arms printed in red and yellow heightened in gold, woodcut diagrams, volumes 1, 7 & 8 in contemporary vellum, volume 4 in 18th century half calf, marbled boards, spine of volume 7 & 8 worn and chipped, library stamps on the general title-page, device cut from the title-page of volume 4, ownership inscriptions on the titles of volumes 1 and 7, first couple of leaves of volume 4 stained. [Adams A1745; Riley 21 with volume 3 only] (6)

Aristotle De generatione et corruptione libri duo Francisco Vatablo interprete. Lyons: apud |Theobaldum Paganum, 1554. [bound with] Meteorlogicorum Aristotelis libri quatuor: Francisco Vatablo interprete. Lyons: apud Theobaldum Paganum, 1554. [bound with] De anima libri tres: Ioanne Argyropylo … interprete. Lyons: apud Theobaldum Paganum, 1554. [bound with] Aristotelis …Sensu & sensile, Memoria & reminscentia, Somno & vigilia …. Francisco Vatablo interprete. Lyons: apud Theobaldum Paganum, 1554. [bound with] Physicorum Aristotelis, seu, De naturali auscultatione, libri octo Ioanne Argyropylo … & Francisco Vatablo interpretibus. Lyons: apus Guilielmum Rovillium, 1554.[bound with] Aristotelis de coelo libri quatuor Ioanne Argryopylo … interprete. Lyons: apud Theobaldum Paganum, 1554. 6 works bound in 1 volume, small 8vo., printers' devices on the title-page of each volume, contemporary limp vellum, some title-page inscriptions and marginalia (chiefly in the De anima), lacking the front pastedown and free endpapers, edges of last few leaves a little frayed and with light water staining [Greek title] De moribus ad Nicomachum libri X … Basil, ex officina Oporiana, [1573]. Small 8vo., device on the title-page, text in two columns of Latin and Greek, contemporary blind stamped vellum with an overall deign of interlacing strapwork enclosing a central oval filled with a coat of arms surrounded by the motto Manet in aeternum verbum domini, lacking front free endpaper, small tear to the title-page, title-page with early ownership inscriptions, some uniform paper discolouration throughout, worm hole and marginal staining through the last couple of signatures Note: Riley 93; Index Aureliensis 108.851. Not in Adams. Translated and edited by Adrien Turnebe and Guillaume Morel. Ammonius, Hermeas [Greek title] In librum Aristotelis De interpretatione commentaria. Venice: [per Ioan. Ant. & Petrum fraters de Nicolinis de Sabio sumptu Melchioris Sessae, 1545]. Small 8vo., printer's device on the title-page, later half vellum, marbled boards, tear to lower margin of f.3, worm hole through ff. 14-40 (touching some letters of text) Note: Adams A990; Index Aureliensis 104.905. Not in Riley. (3)

Aristotle Compendio de los metheoros del principe de los filosofos griegos latinos Aristoteles. En losquales se tratan curiosas, y varias questiones … sacadas a luz por el licenciado Muscia de la Llana … Madrid: por Iuan de la Cuesta, 1615. 4to., woodcut coat of arms on the title-page, text in two columns, woodcut diagrams in the text, contemporary limp vellum, repair to outer margin of title-page (no loss), uniform slight paper discolouration throughout. [Note: A summary of the Meteorlogica, it is in the BM, but not in Riley]. Physicorum Aristotelis libri, argumenta in singulos libros, ex optimis graecorum commentariis conversa iam recens adiecimus … Lyons: apud Ioan. Tournaesium et Gul. Gazeium, 1559. Small 8vo., woodcut diagrams, contemporary calf, blind stamped oval central panel, lacks frontispiece, title-page dusty and a little water-stained. [Note: Not in Adam or Riley, Index Aureliensis 108.381] (2)

Aristotle Ethicorum Nicomachiorum libri decem ex Dion. Lambini interpretatione graecolatine. Theod. Zvingeri Argumentis atque scholiis … Theophrasti … Morum characters, interprete Cl. Auberio … Pythagoreorum … Fragmenta ethica, a. G.V.L. …emendata … Basle: Eusebii Episcopii opera ac impensa, 1582, folio, printer's device on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf, woodcut initials, the text of the Ethica and the Charcters of Theophrastus, etc. in two columns of Latin and Greek, contemporary blind tooled and stamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked, edges worn, title-page with couple of early ownership inscriptions, water staining at the inner corner of first few signatures, outer margins of the first couple of signatures frayed, some discolouration and spotting, couple of single worm holes in the second half of the work, margins of last few signatures stained Note: Adams A1812; Index Aureliensis 108.654. Not in Riley

Aristotle [Greek title-page]. Historia de animalibus, Iulio Caesare Scaligero interprete, cum eiusdem commentariis … [Greek and Latin text; edited by Philippe Jacques de Maussac]. Tolouse: apud Domincum & Petrum Bosc, 1619. Folio, large vignette on the title-page, title-page in red and black, modern blind tooled calf, endpapers renewed, library blind stamp on the title-page and cancellation stamp on the verso, unifor paper discolouration throughout, spotting, repair to margin of last leaf (no loss) Note: Riley 117

Aristotle Simplicii …commentaria in octos libros Aristotelis de physico auditu; nunquam antea excusa, Lucillo Philaltheo interprete. Paris: apud Ioannem Roigny, [in fine: excudebat Io. Lodicus Tiletanus]1544. Folio, device of a printer press on the titlepage, crible initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled pigskin over wooden boards, head and edges rubbed, titlepage a little dusty, some marginalia in an early hand, some lines neatly ruled through Note: Adams A1898. Not in BL, Riley or Schwab For the printer's device, see Davies no 247. The large decorated initials are probably designed by Geofrey Tory and are illustrated and described by Johnson Decorative initials no 53.

Baronius, Cardinal Caesar Annales ecclesiastici ex XII tomis...in epitomen redacti.... Paris: Dionysius de la None, 1613, folio, engraved title, lacking portrait, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked using original backstrip, repairs to corners, staining along upper edge; Bacon, Francis Opera omnia. Frankfurt: J. Baptistae Schonwetteri, 1665, folio, portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, paper covers, title page repaired along bottom edge [repair full width by 4cm high], public library stamp, pages heavily browned and weak at edges; Savile, Sir Henry Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam praecipui. Frankfurt, 1601, folio, woodcut headpieces and initials, marginalia, 19th century morroco gilt, a.e.g., rebacked, inner hinges strengthened, some foxing; Lessius, Leonardo De ivstitia et ivre caeterisque virtutibus cardinalibus libri IV. Lovanii, 1605, folio, engraved title, contemporary vellum, discoloured, worn, title browned, wear to page edges, foxing; Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius Opera ad vetustissimorum exemplarium... Paris: J. du Puis, 1666, folio, title in red and black, later calf gilt, worn, hinges splitting, heavy foxing; Bona, Giovanni, Cardinal Opera omnia. Antwerp: Henry & Cornelius Verdussen, et al., 1694, folio, title in red and black, woodcut initials, later vellum gilt, rubbed, title repaired, bookplates; [Catholic church] Nova collectio conciliorum... Paris: Francis Muguet, 1683, folio, volume I [all published], vignette headpiece, engraved initials, later calf , rubbed, hinges cracking, bookplate; Hittorp, Melchior De divinis catholicae ecclesiae officiis et mysteriis. Paris, 1610, folio, title printed in red and black with large woodcut device, contemporary panelled calf, bookplate of George R. Adam and J.B.Lowder, Tolhurst, title slightly dusty, rebacked, worn; Gumpenberg, Wilhelm Atlas Marianus. Munich: J. Iaecklin, 1672, folio, additional engraved title, contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled pigskin over wooden boards, lacking one clasp; Marraccy, Hippolyte Polyanthea Mariana. Cologne: P. Ketteler, 1683, folio, additional engraved title, browned; Tirinus, Jacobus In s. scripturam commntarius. Antwerp: J.B. Verdussen, 1719, folio, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, folding map of Holy Land (torn without loss), folding tables, contemporary calf, foot of spine rubbed; and a defective volume (12)

Basil, Saint, Archbishop of Caeserea in Cappaodicia, called the Great Omnia quae in hunc diem latino sermone donata sunt opera… [edited by Joannes Gillootius]. Paris: apud Ioannem de Roigny, 1566. Folio, text in two columns, contemporary panelled calf the panels formed by two borders of roll tools and blind fillets, the spine decorated gilt in compartments, later (?) gilt crest and corner ornaments to the inner panels on both covers, covers both with scuff marks, a few instances of light marginal water staining, two library stamps on the titlepage Note: Not in Adams, BM or STC French Books. Index Aureliensis 114.545. Provenance: Parish of St Quentin, Rheims (?), the library of the Cannons of Rheims, the Orleans Cathedral Library and hence to St Hugh's Charterhouse at Parkminster.

Bible, German Biblia, Das is Die gantze heilige Schrift altes und neues Testaments deutsch D. Martin Luthers … Nuremberg: Christoph Endter, 1670. Large folio, engraved title-page by Johann Durr after Christian Richter, printed title-page in red and black, engraved portrait of Ernst, Herzog zu Sachsen by Jacob Sandrart after Rudolph Werenfels, with 15 further preliminary plates of a full page coat of arms of the dedicatee, 12 portrait plates, and 2 double-page plates of a plan of Jerusalem and ariel view, 15 engraved plates (including divisional title-pages) and 7 double page plates (including maps and the Diet of Augsburg), contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled pigskin over wooden boards, engraved brass corner bosses and clasps, wear at head and tail, split across leather on lower board, front free endpapers spotted, lower free endpapers water stained, first front free endpaper copiously annotated, occasional marginalia in a contemporary hand, tear in p. 563 (no loss) Note: BM; STC 17th Century German Books B1034.

Boverio, Zaccaria Annalium seu sacrarum historiarum ordinis minorum S. Francisci qui Capucini nuncupantur. Lyons: heirs of G. Boissat & L. Anisson, 1639, volume 2 only, folio, titles within engraved borders, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps, single wormhole in volume 2 from title to T4, some light spotting; Lapide, C.C. a Commentarii in IV evangelia. Lyons: G. Boissant, 1638, folio, 2 volumes in one, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, clasps, some spotting and occasional slight browning; Freher, Marquard Tractatus de fama publica. Frankfurt-am-Main, 1588, 4to, 2 parts in one volume, woodcut device on titles, eighteenth-century half calf, [this edition not in Adams] ex libris Francisi Adlophi Würschmitt on title, minor worming in lower margin & affecting lower line of text (3)

Brangwyn, Frank The historical paintings in the Great Hall in London of the worshipful company of Skinners... London: Caradoc Press, 1909, folio, number 5 of 300 copies, original vellum, ties; Law, Ernest Pictures by Holbein & Vandyck at Windsor Castle. London, 1902, folio, 40 plates [all with library blind stamps], original quarter vellum gilt, rubbed, gutter percha perished, library bookplate; Holbein, Hans Oeuvre. Basel, 1780, folio, part one only [Le triomphe de la mort], 12 plates, modern fold over box (3)

Canon law--Gregory IX, Pope Decretales. Rome: aedibus Populi Romani, 1582, folio, woodcut device on title, chapter headings & headlines printed in red, contemporary vellum, first two gatherings slightly frayed, dampstained, binding very worn; Delectus actorum ecclesiae universalis. Lyon: J. Certe, 1706, folio, volume 2 only, contemporary calf; Gratianus, the Canonist Decretum Gratiani emendatum, et notationibus illustratum. Lyons: heirs of Guillaume Rouille, 1606, folio, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut initials and ornaments, contemporary vellum with central gilt lozenge on sides, raised bands, slight marginal dampstaining at beginning, binding slightly soiled; Freisleben, Christoph H. Corpus juris canonici academicum. Basel: J.R. Thurnisius, 1746, 4to, 2 volumes in one, with markers, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps; Zallwein, Gregorius Collectiones juris ecclesiastici. Salzburg: J.J. Mayr, 1760, 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt; Magnum bullarium romanum. Luxembourg: A. Chevalier, 1727, volumes 3, 5 and 7 only, folio, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, contemporary roll-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, clasps, two lacking, slight dampstaining to volume 3 (8)

Charpentier, Jean Platonis cum Aristotle in universa philosophia compartio: quae hoc commentario, in Alcinoi institutionem ad eiusdem Platonis doctrinam explicatur. Paris: ex officina Iacobi du Puys, 1573. First edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to., early vellum, blind stamped central arabesque ornaments on covers, some lines of text neatly ruled through, lacking the titlepage to the second part, paper discoloured throughout and some water staining Note: Adams C.759: British Museum S.T.C. of French Books p. 9; Cioranescu 6108 Charpentier (1524-1574), a convinced Aristotelean, is reported to have participated in the death of Pierre Ramus, the avowed opponent of the Greek philosopher, during the Massacare of St. Bartholomew.

Council of Trent Catechismus ex decreto Concilii Tridentini, ad parochos Pii V Pont. Max iussu editus … Wurtzburg: apud Henrcum Aquensem, 1581. 8vo., printer's device on the titlepage, contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasps present, inscription and neat library stamp of on the titlepage, repair to upper inner corner of the titlepage and to preliminary few leaves (affecting some sections of text, some water staining and discolouration throughout [Note: Not in Adams, BM or STC German Books]; Humbertus, de Romanis, General of the Dominic Order De eruditione religiosurum. Ingolstadt: excudebat David Sartorius, 1591. 8vo., vignette on titlepage, contemporary vellum, part of vellum missing at foot of spine, titlepage detached [Note: Not in Adams, BM or STC German Books]; Casselina, sive compendiolum de brevibus et longis syllabis dacrae scripturae … Venice: apud haereded Melchiorem Sessam, 1568. 12mo., contemporary limp vellum, a few leaves with worm hole, lower section lightly water stained; Luis, de Granada Memorialis vitae christinae adiunctum II …per Michaelem ab Isselt nunc in Latinum ex Italico conversum. Cologne: apud Gervinum Calenium & haeredes Ioannis Quentelii. 12mo., contemporary vellum, early signature on titlepage; Savonarolae, Girolamo Expositio orationis dominice, sive in eam lectio, meditatio, oratio, contemplatio et eiusdem sermo in vigiliam nativitatis Domini. [bound with] Meditationes in psalmos misere, In te domine speravi, et Qui regis Israel. Leyden: ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1633. 2 volumes in 1,12mo., contemporary vellum, overlapping fore-edges, ownership inscription on the titlepage; Charles [Borromeo], Saint, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan Pastorum instructions ad concionandum confessionisque & eucharisatae sacarmana ministrandum utilissima... Douai: ex officina Petri Borremans, 1616. 12mo., contemporary vellum, over-lapping fore-edges, inner upper joint split, ownership inscription on the titlepage (6)

Descartes, Réné Tractatus de homine et de formatione foetus. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1686, 4to, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, woodcuts in text, [76], 239, some damp-staining, mainly marginal, early ink inscriptions on title of Josamis Szexenty, Stephani Miskolizi and Andres Marbosahi, two deleted; Forge, Ludovico de la Tractatus de mente humana, ejus facultatibus & functionibus. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1688, 4to, woodcut device on title page, woodcuts in the text, [22], 241, [7], lacking a preliminary (?blank) leaf, some early scoring and underlining, somewhat damp-stained Gilbert, William, the younger De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova. Amsterdam: Ludovico Elzevir, 1651, first edition, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, folding map, woodcuts in the text, worming to G3, H3, I3, K3, L3, M3, N3, P3, Q3, R3, S3 &c affecting a few letters, lacking OO1, somewhat damp-stained, 3 works in one volume, contemporary Dutch blind-stamped vellum, upper joint split, tear to spine, lacking marbled free endpapers Note: Descarte's Tractatus is really a physiological appendix to his Discourse on Method. The first section of Gilbert's De mundo nostro contains an extension of the cosmological ideas Gilbert introduced into the last section of de Magnete. Goldsmid, p.23 [Descartes] and p.55 [Gilbert]

Erasmus, Desiderius In Novum Testamentum annotations, ex postrema ipsius authoris recognita. Basle: [in fine: per Hieronymum Frobenium & Nicolaum Episcopium,1555. Folio, Froben's device on the titlepage and on the verso of the last leaf, historiated initials, contemporary roll-tooled pigskin with initials M.B.M.L. & dated 1594, with arms of the Holy Roman Empire, rubbed, corners worn, titlepage a little dusty, gauffered in blind Note: Adams E896 Provenance: Inscription from George Clarke MD to Lord Charles Harvey, March 13, 1845.

German theology--Brunner, Johannes Rudimenta hebraicae linguae. Freiburg, 1585, 4to, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, clasps; [Rosa da Sta. Maria] Kurtzer Begriff dess wunderbarlichen Lebens, vilwerthen Todts der seligen Schwester Rosae von S. Maria. Augsburg: S. Buschneider, 1670, 12mo, contemporary vellum, spine worn; Caulet, F. de Tractatus generalis de regalia, 1689, 4to, contemporary calf, spine gilt, head of spine slightly rubbed; Segneri, Paolo Homo christianus in sua lege institutus. Augsburg & Dilingen, 1702, 3 volumes in one, 4to, contemporary blindstamped vellum over wooden boards, clasps, browning; Blochinger, F. Puteus aquarum viventium. Cologne: J. Widenfelds, 1696, 4to, engraved title, contemporary vellum, library stamps; Ibid. Geistliche Stein-Grub, Cologne: J. Weidenfeldt, 1690, 4to, engraved frontispiece (laid down), contemporary vellum, library stamps; Thauler, J. Sermones. Cologne: A. Quentel, 1695, 4to, contemporary vellum, browned; Leigh, E. Critica sacra. Frankfurt & Leipzig: A. Boetius, 1696, 2 volumes in one, 4to, engraved frontispiece, contemporary vellum; Origen. Dialogus contra Marcionitas. Basle: J. Bertschius, 1673, 4to, contemporary vellum; Puente, L. Dux spiritualis. Cologne: J. Kinckius, 1613, 8vo, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards; Machiavelli, N. Princeps. Frankfurt: L. Zetzner, 1622; [Languet, H.] Vindicae contra tyrannos. Frankfurt: L. Zetzner, 1622, 2 works in one volume, contemporary vellum, first work wormed with loss, mainly to index, both slightly browned; and other seventeenth-century German theology; sold not subject to return (quantity) Provenance: Many with bookplate or stamp of the Bibliotheka Monasterii Einsidlensis

Guevara, Antonio di Libro di Marco Aurelio con l'horologio de' prencipi. Venice: Fabio & Agostino Zoppini fratelli, 1581, 8vo, 4 volumes in one, titles with woodcut devices, seventeeth-century Dutch blind-stamped vellum, a few leaves slightly dampstained in margins at ends, wormhole to last two leaves repaired affecting a few letters, spine worn at head and at lower hinge; Drexel, J. Il foriefo dell'eternita... parte terza dell'eternita. Rome: Mascardi, 1642, 12mo, additional engraved title, contemporary vellum, some browning and worming affecting text (2)

Hogarth, William The analysis of beauty, written with the view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste. London: printed by J. Reeves, 1753, 4to, 2 folding plates at rear [plate I with tape repair], contemporary calf, worn, hinges split, small ink inscription to title; and another new edition, 1810, 8vo (2) Provenance: Blind-stamp on front endpaper The library of Richard B. Allen.

Josephus, Flavius Opera omnia. Amsterdam, Lyon & Utrecht: R. & G. Wetstein; S. Luchtmans & J. Broedelet, 1726, folio, 2 volumes, engraved title page, extensive notes by John Hudson and indices by Sigebert Havercamp, Greek and Latin text in parallel columns, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, rebacked, hinges splitting; Optatus,Saint, Bishop of Mela De schismate donatistarum libri septem: Paris: Andreas Pralard, 1700, folio, contemporary roll-tooled vellum over wooden boards, brass clasps intact, library stamp to title, ink inscription on title, bookplate; Forbes, John Opera omnia. Amsterdam, 1703, folio, engraved title, title in red and black, contemporary calf, worn, bookplate of Henry David Forbes of Balgownie; Marechal, Bernard Concordantia sanctorum patrum ecclesiae graecae. Augsburg: Rieger, 1769, folio, 2 parts in 1, title in red and black, later half calf, rubbed, staining and foxing; Guyet, Charles Heortologia, sive de festis propriis locorum & ecclesiarum. Venice, 1729, folio, title in red and black, contemporary vellum, rebacked, library stamp on title, bookplate; Damiani, Petrus Opera omnia. Paris: Josephum Corona, 1743, folio, 4 volumes in 2, frontispiece, later vellum, red labels, library markings; Barbosa, Agostino Summa apostolicarum decisionum. Lyon, 1722, folio, contemporary calf gilt, worn at edges, tear on upper board, foxing throughout; Cabassut, Jean Notitia ecclesiastica historiarum conciliorum & canonum invicem collatorum. Bamberg: Martin Göbhard, 1754, folio, title in red and black, contemporary roll-tooled vellum on wooden boards, brass clasps, ink notes on endpaper and half title, foxing; Muratori, Ludovico Antonio Liturgia Romana vetus tria sacramentaria complectens. Venice: J. Baptistae Pasquali, 1748, folio, 2 volumes, title in red and black, contemporary half calf gilt, worn, hinges split, backstrip cracked, some foxing; Martene, Edmund De antiquis ecclesiae ritibus libri tre. Venice: J. Baptista Novelli, 1783, folio, 4 volumes in 2, illustrated, 19th Century half morocco gilt, worn, boards loose, stained, bookplates; Pfeiffersberg, Karl Columnae militantis ecclesiae sive sancti et illustres viri. Nuremburg, 1725, folio, engraved title, portraits, contemporary vellum, darkened, foxing; [Concordance] The Cambridge concordance to the Holy Scriptures, 1720, folio, contemporary calf, rubbed, joints splitting; Burkitt, William Expository notes, with practical observations on the New Testament, 1734, folio, portrait, contemporary calf, dampstained, rubbed, upper cover detached; and 3 others. Sold not subject to return (20)

Josephus, Flavius Opera omnia. Amsterdam: R. & G. Wetstein, 1726, large folio, 2 volumes, Greek and Latin text, letterpress title printed in red and black, additional engraved title, half-titles, contemporary panelled blind-stamped vellum, H.D. Forbes's copy with his inscription on title

Melancthon, Philip Omnium operum … Pars prima [pars quarta] … Wittemberg: excudebat Iohannes Crato, 1562-64. 4 volumes, folio, woodcut portrait of Melancthon within a border on each title-page, full page woodcut portrait and beautiful woodcut of the Trinity at the end of the index in volume four, woodcut initials, final leaf of the dedicatory leaf supplied in Ms., contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled vellum over wooden boards, lacking clasps, covers rubbed and wormed, inner joints split, a number of single worm holes mostly at the start and end of each volume, some leaves discoloured (4) Note: Adams M1068; BM STC German Books p.608.

Pagninus, Santes [Hebrew title] Thesaurus linguae sanctae ex R. David Kimchi ….Sancte Pagnino Lucensi authore: contractior & emendatior. [Paris]: ex officina Roberti Stephani, [1548]. 4to., bound up to be read from right to left, printer's device on the titlepage, contemporary blind stamped and roll-tooled vellum over wooden boards, lacking ties, split to upper joint, lower corner of the upper cover worn, early ownership inscription at the foot of the titelepage, repeated on the verso of the last leaf Note: Adams P36; Renouard 71.5. Not in BM, STC French Books. Important work by the Italian Santes Pagninus who was born in Lucca about 1470 and died in Lyons in 1541. A member of the Dominican Order, he numbered Savonarola as one of his teachers. His Thesaurus linguae sanctae ranks as one of the most famous and consulted Hebrew works of reference of the High Renaissance and had a long lasting impact on biblical studies and translations. It is known to have been used in connection with the King James version of the Bible. One of several books produced between 1539 and 1549 for which Estienne commissioned a new Hebrew type from the type cutter Jehan Arnoul. Armstrong suggests that this ambitious programme of Hebrew publishing was encouraged by news of the forthcoming appointment of a King's Printer in Hebrew which Estienne subsequently held. (Armstrong: Robert Estienne, p. 120) Provenance: Ownership inscription on the titlepage and at the end of Gregorius Vogytt recording his purchase from Martina Busel in 1563.

Plato Opera a Marsilio Ficino traducta: adiectis ad eius vitae & operum enarrationem Axiocho ab Rodulpho Agricola: & Alcyone ab Augustino Datho tralatis. Paris: venundantur Iodoco Badio, [1522]. Folio, titlepage with an elaborate archetonic border, device of printing press on the titlepage , large crible initials, contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled pigskin over wooden boards, edges worn, remains of clasps, lacking front free endpapers, ownership inscription on the titlepage, titlepage detached and edges a little frayed, library stamps on the verso of the titlepage, small library stamp in the outer corner of f. 1 of text, single worm holes, some marginalia in an early hand, water staining of the upper margin Note: Adams P1444, Renouard III p. 169 no II. Provenance: With an inscription by the 16th century Nurenburg astronomer and doctor Nicolaus Gugler.

Plato Omnia opera cum commentariis Procli in Timaeum & Politica. Basel: Johannes Valverus, 1534, folio, 2 volumes in one including Proclus's Commentary, woodcut initials, seventeenth-century blind-stamped vellum, spine rebacked and repaired, lacks ties, very slightly damp-stained in lower margin at end and in inner margin of preliminaries, a few early marginalia Note: Adams P1437 and P2139 Provenance: Matt. Raper and Alh. Uchtmann, Leiden, 1653, inscriptions on title; H.J.H., Coll. SS. Trin. Cant., 1840

Plato Omnia opera. Basle: Henricus Petrus, [1556], folio, Greek text, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, contemporary blind-stamped vellum with roll-tooled frieze of Faith Hope and Charity, blind-stamped with initials C.K.H., royal portrait and arms, dampstained towards end, mainly in fore-margin, single wormhole in fore-margin at end, title-page slightly dust-soiled, lower boards slightly stained and board rather weak Note: Adams P1438.

Plato Opera omnia a Marsilio Ficino interprete. Nova editio … His accesserunt sex Platonis dialogi, nuper a Sebastiano Conrado tralati … Lyons: apud Antonium Vincentium, [in fine: excudebat Balthazar Arnoletius], 1557. Folio, printer's device on the titlepage, text in two columns, contemporary calf over wooden boards, the covers with blind filets and roll tools of medallions and floral ornamentation, lower joint and foot of spine repaired, lacking front free endpaper, titlepage a little stained and dusty with edges frayed and with deleted early ownership inscription, some marginal water staining, last leaf water stained and dusty Note: This edition not in Adams, the BM or STC French Books.

Plutarch [Opera] Omnium quae exstant operum. Paris, apud societam Graecarum editionum, 1624, 2 volumes, large folio, Greek and Latin text, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 2 engraved plates, woodcut initials and ornaments, contemporary blind-stamped vellum with central arabesque, soundly rebacked with original spines laid down