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Lot 3490
A late 18th/early 19th century Islamic manuscript Kitab al-Buyu (or, Book of Sales), compiled in Arabic script by Mulla Mizra, concerning canons of Mohammedan Law with regards to buying and selling, Jihad and further matters, the paper pages 21.2cm x 165cm, folding calf covers tooled in relief with foliage and Middle Eastern motifs, 21cm x 17cm overall, 4to, Provenance: With and subsequently sold in the early 20th century by Arthur Probsthain, Oriental Bookseller & Publisher, 41 Great Russell Street, London W.C.1, annotated notepaper; collection of scholar, annotated card
Lot 3547
Ornithology - The British Bird Book: An Account of All The Birds, Nests and Eggs Found in The British Isles, first edition, edited by F.B. Kirkman, Illustrated By Two Hundred Coloured Drawings and Numerous Photographs, T.C. & E.C. Jack, London 1911-1913, four-volume set, original beige cloth as issued, 4to
![Medical History - Bilz (F.E.), The Natural Method of Healing: A New and Complete Guide to Health, F.E. Bilz, Leipzig [1901],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cad49de9-6db1-48fa-aec7-a678008ce726/06e8fd72-f4dc-4cb1-a331-0a88553c68b6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3541
Medical History - Bilz (F.E.), The Natural Method of Healing: A New and Complete Guide to Health, F.E. Bilz, Leipzig [1901], two-volume set, iv + 2074pp [over the two parts], pull-out folding anatomical chromolithographic plates throughout, conforming two-page sanatorium advertisement to volume I, period buckram boards tooled as issued with title, author and his sanatorium at Radebeul nr. Dresden, 8voFriedrich Eduard Bilz (1842-1922) became interested in naturopathic medicine while trading as Kolonialwarenladen merchant in his native Arnsdorf. Eventually his erudite interest manifested itself in print with Das Neue Naturheilverfahren (The New Natural Healing) in 1888; a book that became very popular and was translated into twelve lanaguages - of which this lot is the second English edition. By 1895 a health spa was founded at Radebul - soon to become a large sanitarium and colloquially known as Bilzbad - to which was added a wave machine/pool in 1912 after its display at the Dresden International Hygiene Exhibition the previous year. Bliz has sunk into obscurity in recent times, along with his soft-drink Bliz-Brause.
Lot 3518
Country House Sales and Auction Catalogues - Sotheby Parke Bernet: The Hever Castle Collection: The Property of The Lord Astor of Hever, Volume I: Arms and Armour, May 1983; Sotheby Parke Bernet: Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, Volume V: General Contents of the House, Sold on behalf of the Executors of the 6th Earl of Rosebery and his family, May 1977; Sotheby's: Wherwell Priory, Near Andover, Hampshire, By direction of the Executors of The Late Countess of Brecknock, D.B.E., May 1990; Sotheby's: Tyninghame, East Lothian, Scotland, By Direction of the Earl of Haddington and the Trustees of the Mellerstain Trust, September 1987; Sotheby's: The Contents of Harewood House, Outwood, Surrey, Sold by direction of Col. P. O'Connor and Miss J. O'Connell, July 1985; Sotheby's: The Remaining Contents of Mount Juliet, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, October 1987; Sotheby's: The Heywood Manor Collection, London, October 1984; Sotheby's: The Contents of The Manor House, Ware, Hertfordshire, Sold by direction of The Hon Sir Stephen Chapman, June 1985; Sotheby's: The Contents of Sissinghurst Court, Sissinghurst, Kent, By direction of the Kent Trust for Nature Conservation, July 1985; Sotheby's: The Contents of Somerhill, Tonbridge, Kent, Sold by direction of Lady d'Avigdor-Goldsmid and Mr. & Mrs. James Teacher, June 1981; Sotheby's Chester: A Series of Specialist Sales [including Eccles Hall, Chinley, Derbyshire], July 1984; Sotheby's: Crossrigg Hall, Penrith, Cumbria, September 1994; Bloomsbury Book Auctions, January 1992 and April 1994, including the Art Reference Library of the late Sir David Piper, F.S.A., F.R.S.L. [2]; Mellors & Kirk: Antiques and Works of Art, December 2005, April 2006 and June 2007 [3]; etc
![[Illustrated] - a quantity of illustrated books to include, Bateman, H. M - More Drawings, second edition, and three more boo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a50682ea-e1e4-42d3-bc92-a67800fd7ce2/8c50e742-fe72-44b2-bc47-7fa186c1d295/468x382.jpg)
Lot 376
[Illustrated] - a quantity of illustrated books to include, Bateman, H. M - More Drawings, second edition, and three more books with Bateman illustrations; A Mixture, second edition; A Book of Drawings, fifth edition and Draw at a Venture, first edition, together with others, various illustrators, to include Leslie Brooke, Caldecott, Ernest Shepherd etc
![[Cookery] - a quantity of early 20th century and later cookery books to include, Mrs A. B. Marshall's Cookery Book together w](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a50682ea-e1e4-42d3-bc92-a67800fd7ce2/2563a64c-b71c-426a-dba9-50687d34ff89/468x382.jpg)
Lot 387
[Cookery] - a quantity of early 20th century and later cookery books to include, Mrs A. B. Marshall's Cookery Book together with Mrs A. B. Marshall's Larger Cookery Book of Extra Recipies; Pratical Cookery; Cook and Hostess; Radiation Cookery Book; Homely Hints on Diet and Cookery and Mrs Beeton's Hors d'Oeuvres & Savouries (7)
![[Architecture & Design] - The Architectural Association Sketch Book, New Series, Vols VII & VIII, bound in one volume, togeth](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a50682ea-e1e4-42d3-bc92-a67800fd7ce2/052afff5-65a3-421d-9bcc-c143df856798/468x382.jpg)
![[Architecture & Design] - RICHARDS, Raymond - Old Cheshire Churches, Batsford, 1947, together with twenty-nine other book rel](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a50682ea-e1e4-42d3-bc92-a67800fd7ce2/6b760c06-8213-47eb-e740-546d5ce96a15/468x382.jpg)
![[Religion] - The Book of Common Prayer, London, 1709, full calf, together with another, Book of Common Prayer, Cambridge, 181](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a50682ea-e1e4-42d3-bc92-a67800fd7ce2/a9a7f60c-c783-4e9f-ad06-670fd19fcdad/468x382.jpg)
![[Architecture & Design] - WEAVER, Lawrence - Houses and Gardens, 1914, together with twenty-nine other book of design and arc](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a50682ea-e1e4-42d3-bc92-a67800fd7ce2/2578ca67-c31d-43ab-d72c-ea61fcaf1aa7/468x382.jpg)
![[Decorative Bindings] - a quantity of books with decorative bindings, various subjects, to include children's, literature etc](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a50682ea-e1e4-42d3-bc92-a67800fd7ce2/2ef2462a-585b-4aba-bade-7e9d9a1892fe/468x382.jpg)
![[Rupert Annuals] - three softback books to include, The New Rupert Book, 1946; More Adventures of Rupert, 1947 and Rupert, 19](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a50682ea-e1e4-42d3-bc92-a67800fd7ce2/fb262298-7ef7-46d2-953f-2e2a5a6d3438/468x382.jpg)
![[Breeches Bible] - Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a50682ea-e1e4-42d3-bc92-a67800fd7ce2/92b4755f-9a3e-416e-e133-35d3c68a15e3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3498
Local Interest - Breweriana - a late 19th century oblong accounts/stock book, from the James Hole & Company Limited of Castle Brewery (formerly Caparn Hankey & Co), Albert Street, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, with tabulations in ink ms. from January 7th, 1886 to October 4th, 1894 recording Barrels Sold and Brewed Week ending Thursday, oblong quarter-leather and marbled boards, the front board titled with a contemporaneous ink ms. label; a late Victorian rectangular copper advertising printing plate, for James Hole & Co Limited's memorandum, 8cm x 20.5cm, sleeved en suite; another, similar (3)
Lot 3358
Medals, WW2 and Palestine, 1939-1945 star, Africa Star (1st Army clasp), Italy Star, 1939-1945 Defence Star, 1939-1945, Palestine 1945-48 with clasp, awarded to 959706 Bdr Ash Harold [29.4.18-25.4.89], 67th Field Reg Royal Artillery, cased with inscribed cartouche; with Soldier's Release Book Class "A", Soldier's Service and Pay Book, Record of Service, regimental history, newspaper clippings
Lot 3509
American Topography - Beebe (Lucius), Boston and the Boston Legend, Illustrations by E.H. Suydam, D. Appleton-Century Company, New York 1936, xv + 372pp, book review and notice of the author pasted to endpapers, original cloth, armorial bookplate of Warren Hezekiah Blaisdell II, 8vo; Johnson (Matthew), America: Pictorially Described, James B. Knapp, London [c.1890], 144pp, period cloth; Huntly McCarthy (Justin), A Short History of The United States, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1898, xii + 321 + adverts [ii], period green cloth; Forbes (Allan), Towns of New England and Old England, Ireland and Scotland, Tudor Publishing Company, New York 1936, Parts I & II in one volume, slipcased (4)
Lot 866
WORLD WAR TWO AFC GROUP OF FOUR Air Force Cross, reverse officially dated 1945, case of issue, Defence Medal, War Medal and Air Efficiency Award FG OFF K E BRYCESON RAFVR, Pilot's Flying Log Book certified by 742280 SJT K[ENNETH] E BRYCESON from 18 May 1939 - 11 September 1942, a black and white full length caricature of "Bry" by Pat Rooney, signed and dated 1943, a portrait of the recipient, bust length in RAF uniform by Phyllis Morgans, signed, oil on canvas and related photographs of interest, in particular relating to Flt Leiut Bryceson's involvement in No 1 Course Helicopter Flight at RAF Andover, April 1945 Provenance: The recipient, thence by descent to the present vendor.
Lot 831
JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815) HERO'S RECRUITING AT KELSEY'S (BM 9068) etching, hand coloured trimmed to within platemark, 1797 or later, 36 x 25.5cm, four others, comprising I R Cruikshank, The French Bugabo 9BM9005) Buonaparte at Rome (BM 8997) A Cure for the Heart Ache (BM 8983) and Patriot's deciding a Point of Honor! (BM 10725) the first unframed and Hill (Draper) Mr Gillray The Caricaturist, 1965 (6) ++Some faults, book fine
Lot 117
Kent. Faden (William, publisher), General Survey of England and Wales. An entirely new and accurate Survey of the County of Kent with part of the County of Essex, Done by the Surveying Draughtsmen ofHis Majesty's Board of Ordnance..., under the Direction of Capt. W. Mudge of the Royal Artillery F.R.S., 1801, large map, engraved by Thomas Foot, sparse near contemporary colouring highlighting the roads, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight dust soiling and staining, 1185 x 1765 mm, publisher's label to rear of upper siding, contained in a contemporary morocco book box with the gilt arms of Ordnance Survey, scuffed and worn The first map published by Ordnance Survey. (1)
Lot 3
Back (Sir George). Narrative of an Expedition in H.M.S. Terror, Undertaken with a View to Geographical Discovery on the Arctic Shores, in the Years 1836-7, 1st edition, John Murray, 1838, twelve tinted lithographed plates, some spotting, frontispiece with small water-stain to lower outer corner, folding engraved map at rear, one or two short closed tears and some offsetting, contemporary tan diced calf, some minor rubbing and marks, new gilt lettered spine label, 8vo Sabin 2617. A scarce Arctic travel book. George Back was sent by the Admiralty to gain knowledge of the coastline between Prince Regent Inlet and Turnagain Point. However, HMS Terror became stuck in the ice near Frozen Strait, suffering considerable structural damage, and eventually limping back to Ireland. Although failing in his main aim, Back was able to make many detailed observations on conditions and surroundings, including ice floes, the terrain of Southampton Island, trading with Baffin Island Eskimos, the weather and privations endured. (1)
Lot 90
East India. Imray (James & Son, publishers), East India Archipelago [Western Route to China. Chart No.5], 1880, uncoloured engraved 'blue backed' chart, very slight spotting, 1245 x 1015 mm A large blue-backed chart of Vietnam, Hainan Island and southwest China, showing two potential routes to Hong Kong during the monsoon. There are inset maps of ports along the South China Sea coasts, including Hong Kong, Touron Bay (now known as Da Nang) and Ganlong Bay (now known as HaLong Bay), and some coastal views to the upper left. This is the fifth in a set of six maps which illustrate the route to China via the Pacific.James Imray (1803-1870), worked originally in the stationery and account book publishing business. In 1836 Imray joined with Michael Blachford. The partnership flourished and soon began to compete with the larger firm of Norie and Wilson. In 1846 Imray bought out Blachford, and the company survived, led by his descendants, into the twentieth century, when it merged with Norie. (1)
Lot 504
Dufy (Raoul). Mon Docteur le Vin, aquarelles de Raoul Dufy, published Draeger FrŠres, Paris, 1936, nineteen colour illustrations after Dufy, publisher's limp card boards with glassine wrapper, 4to, together with King (Moses, publisher), Kings Views, New York 1908 - 1909, numerous illustrations of New York including several double page panoramas, publisher's decorative cloth, slight wear to extremities, tall 4to, with Morgan (William), Ogilby's and Morgan's Pocket-Book of the Roads with their Computed and Measured Distances and the Distinction of Market and Post-Towns..., 7th edition, 1732, title with near contemporary ownership signature, advertisement, explanation and tables of roads, lacking map, hinges and joints weak and cracked, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, 16mo, plus Hassall (John, illustrator), Ye Berlyn Tapestrie: Wilhelm's Invasion of Flanders, printed Edmund Evans, circa 1916, colour printed caricature of the German aggression of the First World War published 'concertina style' on thirty pages, publisher's printed paper wrappers, a little frayed at extremities, oblong 8vo, with Morand (Paul), Route de Paris a la M‚diterran‚e, published Paris, 1931, numerous black & white illustrations, publisher's printed card boards, a little chipped and worn, 8vo, with two other volumes similar (7)
Lot 157
Sea charts. Van Keulen (Johannes), Wassende Grade Kaart van de Noordys Zee Behelsende de kutsen n Finmarken, Lapland, Rusland, Nova Zemla en Spitsbergen door [with] Wassende Graade Kaart van de Noord Oceaan van Terra Nova en de Straat Davids en Hudsons tot Hidland en de Westkust van Scotland en Engeland en Bretagne begrypende ook Yrland en Ysland, published Amsterdam, circa 1720, two uncoloured engraved sea charts bound 'back to back' in the remains of an untitled chart-book, some staining and dust soiling, occasional marginal closed tears, the first chart torn with slight loss to lower left corner, each approximately 525 x 600 mm, bound with 'Wasende Graade kaart van't Noordelyckste deel der Noord Zee Tussen Schotland, Ysland Noorwegen en Finmarken', uncoloured engraved chart with marginal closed tears with slight loss but lacking left hand portion of chart, 525 x 300 mm (1)
Lot 116
Kent. Greenwood (C. & G.), Map of the County of Kent, from an actual survey made in the years 1819 & 1820, published G.Pringle junr., 1821, large engraved map, sectionalised and laid on linen, bright contemporary hand colouring, calligraphic cartouche, table of explanation and reference to the hundreds, slight dust soiling and off-setting, 1140 x 1750 mm, marbled endpapers, contained in a contemporary calf book box, spine partially re-backed with later red gilt morocco label, worn at extremities (1)
Lot 300
Book of Common Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the Use of the Church of England together with the Psalter of Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches, John Baskett, 1717, engraved portrait of George I, double engraved portrait of the Prince and Princess of Wales, advertisement leaf at end, list of subscribers, volvelle reattached in middle, engraved throughout by John Sturt with numerous portraits and vignettes, each page within a different ornamental border, light marginal toning, all edges gilt, modern russet morocco, slight fading to spine, 8vo ESTC T141242. (1)
![Boethius (Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus). De [con]solatio[n]e phylosophie liber cu[m] optimo [com]me[n]to beati Thome C](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/97730585-3d9d-4238-afe7-a67500ac3e34/5e3b1bc0-0685-4870-a24f-15050f657435/468x382.jpg)
Lot 361
Boethius (Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus). De [con]solatio[n]e phylosophie liber cu[m] optimo [com]me[n]to beati Thome Colonia, Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 31 December 1497, 192 leaves, gothic letter, 46 lines, capital spaces, text surrounded by commentary, with 'Accipies' woodcut on title (showing, on the left, a master at a lectern with a book and a rod and, on the right, four scholars), outer border of title cut away, just affecting text, repair to lower corner of two following leaves affecting some letters, corners of last four leaves repaired, a little spotting and soiling, contemporary ownership inscription Petrus Gladbach to title and [?]his numerous neat ink annotations and marginalia throughout (slightly shaved at foremargins), copious notes in the same hand to final leaf verso and additional leaf before title (both repaired with some loss of handwritten material), bookplate of Ken Tomkinson (detached but present) and Bernard Henry Newdigate to front pastedown, modern brown morocco gilt, 4to (205 x 138mm) The commentary, formerly ascribed to Thomas Aquinas, is now attributed to Thomas Wallensis or to William of Wheatley. Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 17 May 1966, lot 484. Goff B802; GW 4563; Hain 3390. (1)
Lot 478
Somerset Sermons. A manuscript volume of sermons written and preached by an unidentified person, circa 1675-87, mostly written to rectos only in a neat hand from front and back of book, a total of approximately 200 leaves, many of the sermons with manuscript place and dates when sermons given, places include Merriott, Lopen, Chillington, Banwell, St Nicholas, Bristol, Haselbere, South Petherton, also at the funeral of John Wills, Lopen, 17 February 1681, etc., some blank leaves, a manuscript note by the owner that the blank book was bought in 1675, contemporary morocco gilt, some wear and split at head of lower joint, 8vo (1)
Lot 8
Buckingham (James Silk). Travels in Mesopotamia including a journey from Aleppo to Bagdad by the route of Beer, Orfah, Diarbekr, Mardin & Mousul; with researches on the Ruins of Nineveh, Babylon and other ancient cities, 2 volumes, 1st. edition, published Henry Colburn, 1827, lacking half title, numerous wood engraved illustrations to text, one folding engraved map (with slight spotting), and two folding lithographic plates (all complete as lists), ink library stamp to title pages, book plates to front pastedowns and front endpaper, later endpapers, early 20th century quarter calf (bound in Baghdad), gilt morocco labels to spines, lacking 'vol.2' label, 8vo Atabey 163. (2)
Lot 382
Warner (George F.). Miniatures and Borders from the Book of Hours of Bona Sforza, Duchess of Milan in the British Museum, [London]: Published by the Trustees, 1894, 65 collotype plates, bookplate of Ken Tomkinson to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary brown morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, with blind blocked decoration and armorials to covers, 4to (1)
![[Browne, William]. Britannia's Pastorals, 2 parts, Geo. Norton, [1613] & Thomas Snodham for George Norton, 1616, engraved ti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/97730585-3d9d-4238-afe7-a67500ac3e34/cb11cb4d-8d86-49d3-da98-95a2416acea3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 397
[Browne, William]. Britannia's Pastorals, 2 parts, Geo. Norton, [1613] & Thomas Snodham for George Norton, 1616, engraved title to first part by William Hole (some marks and light waterstains, and closed horizontal tear repaired without loss near inner margin, printed title to second part, 2 engraved plates for first part (pages 60-61), M1 in first part torn with loss to lower outer corner, not affecting text, later bookplate of Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx to front pastedown, and bookplate of Christopher Rowe to front endpaper, modern antique-style blind ruled maroon full morocco, gilt spine, folio ESTC S107097. Hayward 60. Grolier 27. A6, B-O4, P2, title, & A6, B-S4. Second edition of Book 1, with errata corrected, and first edition of Book 2. Provenance: Formerly in the library of Professor James A. Riddell. Often regarded as a companion work to Drayton's Poly-Olbion, William Browne's 2 volumes were described by Walter Greg as "the longest and most ambitious poem ever composed on a pastoral theme" (Greg, Pastoral Poetry, 1906, 131). The text includes commendatory verses by John Selden, Michael Drayton, Edward Heyward, Christopher Brook, Thomas Gardiner, George Wither, Ben Jonson, and others. (1)
Lot 427
Evelyn (John, translator). An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus de Rerum Natura. Interpreted and made English Verse by J. Evelyn, 1st edition, printed for Gabriel Bedle and Thomas Collins, 1656, engraved frontispiece by Hollar after Mary Evelyn (trimmed with some loss at fore edge), title printed in red and black, text in Latin and English on facing pages, errata leaf and publisher's list at end, a few leaves close-trimmed at top margin, just affecting a few headlines, occasional light spotting and soiling, bookplates of Bridgewater Library and William S. Stone, hinges reinforced, contemporary sheep, rebacked and repaired, 8vo Grolier, Wither to Prior 343; Wing L3446. The first English translation of Lucretius in verse. (1)
Lot 422
Donne (John). Paradoxes, Problemes, Essayes, Characters... To which is Added a Book of Epigrams: Written in Latin by the same author, translated into English by J. Maine, as also Ignatius his Conclave, a Satyr, 3rd edition, 2nd issue, printed for T.N. for Humphrey Moseley, 1652, title within typographical woodcut border, blanks L3-L4 at end (L4 with short closed tears), 2nd title with marginal tears at foot, a few leaves close-trimmed at top margin, bound with Essayes in Divinity; by the Late Dr Donne, Dean of S Paul's. Being Several Disquisitions, Interwoven with Meditations and Prayers: Before he Entered Holy Orders. Now made Publick by his son J.D. Dr of the Civil Law, 1st edition, printed by T.M. for Richard Marriot, 1651, title within typographical border (with closed tear affecting one letter), bound without cancelled leaves A3-7 (the dedication to Sir Harry Vane junior) as usual, bound without the 8 page Moseley catalogue at end, occasional light toning, bookplates of George Macdonald, Abel E. Berland and Bent Juel-Jensen, contemporary calf, rebacked and refurbished, 12mo First work Grolier, Wither to Prior 297; Wing D1866, 2nd work Grolier, Wither to Prior 295; Wing D1861. See Bonhams sale, lot 286, March 2009. (1)
Lot 243
Chapbooks. Boxing. The Great Fight, at Gateshead, Between Cumberland Hodge and Brimstone Harry. By Dr. Doublespur, printed and sold by W. & T. Fordyce, Newcastle, circa 1836, 24 pp., woodcut vignette to title, old stitch holes, disbound, 8vo, together with six other early 19th century chapbooks including The Sprightly Songster, 1810, the Duke of York's Garland, The Busy Bee and The New Skylark, together with Thomas Hutchinson's Ballades and Other Rhymes of a Country Bookworm, 1888 (limited signed edition of 140) and Fireside Flittings. A Book of Homely Essays, 1890 (imited signed edition of 140) (9)
Lot 355
Webbe (George). The Practice of Quietness, Directing a Christian how to Live Quietly in this Troublesome World. With the Life of the Author, and Additional Prayers for Peace and Quiet, London: Printed by J. Downing for D. Brown, 1705, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, advertisement leaf at end, some light soiling and a few spots, armorial bookplate of Thomas Legg (born 1711) to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary black morocco, decorative gilt panel to boards and decoration to spine, slightly rubbed, 8vo, (ESTC N20898. First published in 1615), together with [Stillingfleet, Edward], Several Conferences between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England, Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome: Being a full Answer to the late Dialogues of T.G., London: Printed by M.W. for H. Mortlock, 1679, ink stamp to verso of errata & front free endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary black morocco, decorative gilt panel to boards and decoration to spine, slightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo, (ESTC R18131), with Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments..., together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., Oxford: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1758, additional engraved title with ownership signature to upper margin, fifty-eight engraved plates (including frontispiece), bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; Conferred with the Hebrew, London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1765, margins red ruled throughout volume, contemporary ownership inscription to front blank endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt panelled and decorated burgundy morocco, joints lightly rubbed, 8vo (3)
![[Baron, Robert]. Pocula Castalia. The Author's Motto. Fortunes Tennis-Ball.Eliza. Poems. Epigrams &c., 1st edition, printed b](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/97730585-3d9d-4238-afe7-a67500ac3e34/600f3639-e796-4a31-ec7b-6a7357e84a2b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 385
[Baron, Robert]. Pocula Castalia. The Author's Motto. Fortunes Tennis-Ball.Eliza. Poems. Epigrams &c., 1st edition, printed by W.H. for Thomas Dring, 1650, portrait frontispiece (supplied in photo facsimile), four sectional titles, title and final leaf repaired, some water stains and soiling, mainly front and rear, early annotations to title and final leaf verso, one or two headlines shaved, 20th century blindstamped calf, spine faded, 8vo Grolier, Wither to Prior 29; Wing B893. The poem 'Fortune's Tennis-Ball' is one of the earliest tennis references in English. The present work is original, although the poet and dramatist Robert Baron (circa 1630-1650) was discovered by Thomas Warton in the late eighteenth century, to have plagiarised entire passages of John Milton's Poems of 1645 (relatively unknown at the time) for his first book 'The Cyprian Academy' (1648). (1)
Lot 240
Book of Common Prayer, and Administrations of the Sacraments..., together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches, Oxford: Printed by the University Printers, 1706, additional engraved title, portrait frontispiece and numerous plates by John Sturt, red ruled letterpress title and borders throughout, manuscript short hand to verso of engraved title, portrait and few plates, occasional marks, contents a little shaken, front free endpaper torn, contemporary shagreen, silver metal engraved name & monogram plate to centre of each board 'Sarah Gwynn, May ye 1st 1707', silver metal corner pieces and clasps, upper board detached, leather torn to panels at head & foot of spine, 8vo, together with The Book of Common Prayer..., Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., Oxford: Printed by Thomas Basket, Printer to the University, 1754, bound with A Companion to the Alter..., London: John Beecroft, 1756, engraved frontispiece, all edges gilt, contemporary shagreen, silver metal clasps and edge strips to boards, 8vo (2)
Lot 509
Folio Society. Tractatus de Herbis, [&] Commentary, facsimile edition, British Library, 2002, colour plates, all edges gilt, first mentioned in original dark green morocco for The Folio Society by Smith Settle of Otley, blocked design by David Eccles with leather onlays, second mentioned in original quarter buckram, contained together in original book box, folio & 8vo Limited edition 148/1000. (1)
Lot 293
Baskerville Press. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches, 2nd edition, Cambridge, 1761, typographical border to each leaf, small tear and loss to rear blank, a little light spotting, manuscript prayer at front, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary red full morocco gilt, 'Denham Jephson 1769' stamped in gilt to upper cover, spine a little rubbed and faded, 8vo Gaskell 13. (1)
Lot 359
Beroaldus (Philip, editor). Scriptores rei militaris, 4 parts in 1, Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1495/6, 98 leaves, roman letter, 37 lines, capital spaces with guide letters, printer's woodcut device on FF4 and RR5 below colophons, typographical diagrams depicting tactical formations, register leaf at rear, some old ink marginalia in red ink towards rear, scattered minor spotting, slight staining to blank upper margins of first few leaves, a few minor wormholes to early leaves, monogram book label of Michael Tomkinson to front pastedown, 19th-century blue morocco gilt, gilt crest of a lion and crown to upper cover and monogram JS to lower cover, rubbed, folio (281 x 177 mm) This work contains writings on military matters by four authors: Sextus Julius Frontinus, Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Aelianus and Modestus. Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1922, lot 1892. Goff S-345; Hain 5330; Proctor 6607. (1)
Lot 257
Latimer (Hugh). Fruitfull Sermons: Preached by the right Reverend Father, and constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Master Hugh Latimer, newly imprinted with others not heretofore set forth in print..., London: Thomas Cotes, 1635, title with manuscript notes and annotations to front & rear, engraved portrait with manuscript list to verso, few other early annotations, some leaves cropped at head with loss to running titles, light dust-soiling & few leaves slightly dampstained, some marginal fraying, last two leaves torn to lower outer corners, creased & frayed, 20th century quarter morocco, 4to, together with Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments..., Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., London: Printed by John Baskett, 1735, all edges gilt (rubbed), contemporary gilt decorated red morocco, joints cracked and some rubbing to extremities, 8vo (2)
Lot 495
Walton (Isaak & Cotton, Charles). The Compleat Angler, or the Comtemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, & Fishing. To which is added, the Laws of Angling, with a new Table of the Particulars in this Book, 4th edition, much corrected & enlarged, London: R. Marriot, 1668, engraved vignette to title, engraved illustrations to text, p.215 printed upside down, some light spotting and dust-soiling, browning to some margins, early 20th century bookplate of William Marchbank, lacking rear free endpaper, contemporary sheep, rebacked and corners repaired, 8vo Wing W665; Oliver 5; Westwood & Satchell 219; Pforzheimer 1051. The collation is [16],255,[17]pp. The text includes words and music to "The anglers song" set by Henry Lawes. Page 215, which is the second page of "The anglers song" was printed upside down to facilitate part singing.(1)
Lot 458
[Mennes, John & Smith, James]. Musarum Deliciae: or, the Muses Recreation, Conteining Severall Pieces of Poetique Wit, by Sir J.M. and Ja:S, 2nd edition, Henry Herringman, 1656, 4 leaves of publisher's advertisements at rear, some spotting and browning throughout, repairs to several edges and loss to G2 (two words supplied by hand), closely trimmed at top edge touching some running heads and page numbers, reader's ink underlining to several poems, lacks one blank leaf within first gathering and final blank, small armorial book ticket of Edward Cheney to front pastedown, later red morocco with Cheney's gilt monogram and motto to both covers, cracked on joints, somewhat rubbed and worn, small 8vo Wing M1711. (1)
Lot 282
Varley (John). A Treatise on Zodiacal Physiognomy; illustrated by Engravings of Heads and Features; and accompanied by Tables of the Time of Rising of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac; and Containing Also New and Astrological Explanations of Some Remarkable Portions of Ancient Mythological History, 1st edition, published by the author... and sold by Longman and Co., 1828, six (of seven) plates engraved by John Linnel, lacking Blake's figure of the constellation Cancer (as British Library copy), but with both Blake's engravings 'Ghost of a Flea', diagrammatical plate trimmed and re-guarded, title-page with closed tears in fore-margin and laid down, I2 with repaired closed tear in blank fore-margin, generally dusty and some staining, page block becoming loose in near contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, soiled and worn, 8vo in 4s Bentley, Blake Books, 501. Rare first and only edition of this curious Blake item. Gilchrist, in his 'Life of Blake' published in 1863, referred to the volume as 'that singular and now very scarce book'. William Blake painted a miniature in tempera of his vision of the ghost of a flea (1819-20, Tate, London). John Varley records how Blake came to depict the strange apparition (pp.54/55): 'This spirit visited his imagination in such a figure as he never anticipated in an insect. As I was anxious to make the most correct investigation in my power, of the truth of these visions, on hearing of this spiritual apparition of a Flea, I asked him if he could draw for me the resemblance of what he saw: he instantly said, "I see him now before me." I therefore gave him paper and a pencil, with which he drew the portrait... I felt convinced by his mode of proceeding, that he had a real image before him, for he left off, and began on another part of the paper, to make a separate drawing of the mouth of the Flea, which the spirit having opened, he was prevented from proceeding with the first sketch, till he had closed it. During the time occupied in completing the drawing, the Flea told him that all fleas were inhabited by the souls of such men, as were by nature blood-thirsty to excess...' (1)
Lot 371
Marriage. The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony. With an Addition of Three Comforts more. Wherein the various Miscarriages of the Wedded State, and the Miserable Consequences of Rash and Inconsiderate Marriage are laid open and detected. To which is added, The Wretched, and Happy Pair, written in Verse; and adapted to every particular Circumstance of all, who have enter'd upon the State of Wedlock, London: Printed for C.S. and J.W. 1721, pp.[8],136, upper outer blank corner of title trimmed and with word 'scarce' in manuscript to upper blank margin, occasional spotting and general toning, cuttings from old book seller's catalogues adhered to front endpaper, 19th century panelled speckled calf, gilt decoration to spine and board edges, morocco title label, extremities lightly rubbed, 12mo A translation of 'Les quinze joies de mariage', attributed to Antoine de la Sale. No location of this edition found. Scarce. (1)
Lot 375
Maurus (Rabanus). De laudibus sanctae crucis opus..., 1st edition, Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, March 1503, printed in red and black, roman letter, 2 woodcuts, one of 2 monks kneeling before the Pope, the other of the author presenting his book to Pope Gregory IV, thirty full-page xylographic and typographic figurative verses, some worming throughout including some short worm trails affecting text, bookplate of Michael Tomkinson to front pastedown, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, wormholes, rubbed, lacks clasps, folio (302 x 210 mm) One of the earliest books printed at Pforzheim and one of the earliest examples of figurative verse. Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1922, lot 1818. Adams R3; Proctor 11747. (1)
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