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Douglas (Sir Howard). A Treatise on Naval Gunnery, published with the Approbation and Permission of the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty, 1st edition, John Murray, 1820, 5 folding letterpress tables, 5 engraved folding plates, title page spotted and plates slightly spotted and browned, a few light spots and stains to text, one folding table (21) slightly torn in upper margin, contemporary ownership inscription 'Wm Vane' to title page, annotations in a similar hand to pp. 183 and 220, contemporary half calf, rebacked, rubbed, corners worn, 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm) Scarce first edition. The work went through five editions by 1861 and remained the basis of study until the 1840s, when Douglas fell out with the captain of training ship HMS Excellent over the significance of the new shell-firing guns: 'unlike members of the liberal school, Douglas considered shells unreliable and inaccurate. War experience would prove him largely correct' (ODNB). (1)

Eliot (George, i.e. Marian Evans). Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life, 4 volumes, 1st edition, William Blackwood, 1871-1872, first volume with errata slip present, bound without half-titles, occasional light spotting mostly at front and rear, front free blank endpapers with signature S.M. Socendy(?), hinges split, contemporary dark green half morocco gilt (with ink stamp to endpapers 'Mudies Select Library"), extremities rubbed, 8vo Sadleir 815; Wolff 2059a. (4)

Hakewill (George). An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World..., 2nd edition, revised, Oxford: Printed by William Turner, 1630, Argument leaf at front, additional engraved title (library ink stamp to verso) and errata leaf present at end, first and last few leaves strengthened to margins, some browning to fore-edge margins with occasional repairs, dampstains and toning, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked and corners repaired, folio, together with Stillingfleet (Edward), A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion: being a Vindication of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's Relation of a Conference, etc. from the pretended answer by T.C., 1st edition, 1665, verso of imprimatur leaf with inscription "Ex Libris Tho: Tomlins 1684", ink stamp to front pastedown, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, joints cracked, folio, plus a 2nd edition of the same work published 1681 (3)

Hardyng (John). [The Chronicle of Ihon Hardying in metre ... from the first begynnyng of Englande, unto Edwarde ye fourth ... with a continuacion of the storie in prose to this our tyme, now first emprinted, gathered out of diverse autors of substanciall credit, yt either in Latin orels in our mother toungue], 1st edition, [Richard Grafton, January 1543], 2 parts in 1 volume, text in black letter, woodcut cribl‚ initials, lacking **1-5 (including title page), a7-e4, g1-5, 2A1 (divisional title page) and 2S8-2V8, **1 (title page) and 2S8-2T1 supplied in 18th-century manuscript, occasional soiling and damp-staining, headlines and foliation often shaved, quires D-E with early marginalia and probably supplied from another copy, 2K7 lower outer corner restored, marginal repair to 2P3, bibliographical annotations and tipped catalogue descriptions to front front free endpaper and manuscript title page, 17th-century reversed calf, rebacked and recorned, gilt arms of Ralph Sheldon (1623-84) to sides, 8vo (18.6 x 11.8 cm) Provenance: binding with gilt arms of Ralph Sheldon (1623-1684), antiquary, collector and royalist, who 'created a fine library at Weston [his Warwickshire seat], catalogued by Anthony Wood' (ODNB); Sheldon's family were one of the wealthiest in the region but were restricted socially owing to their Catholicism. ESTC S103772; STC 12766.7; Hanham, 'The Two Editions of Grafton's Chronicle of John Harding', Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand III (1979) pp. 17-23 for the priority of this edition, First edition, with vertical chain-lines throughout, and leaf 2O4 beginning 'whiche' with lines 10-11 erroneously stating that Henry VII made 'Edwarde his eldest sonne duke of Buckingham'. In the second edition (STC 12767) the Continuation was revised, omitting most of the account of Henry VIII (quire 2V), which is also absent from some copies of the first issue. STC notes that the Harvard copy 'lacks Tt-Vv8 (last leaf of Hen. VII and all of Hen. VIII), and it is just possible that its text was originally abbreviated in a fashion similar to 12767', and that the Peterborough Cathedral copy 'also ends Ss8, completed by a few lines in MS'. (1)

[Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo. De claris mulieribus, edited Albertus de Placentia and Augustinus de Casali Maiori, Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis, de Valentia, 29 April 1497], 175 (of 176) leaves, lacks A1 (xylographic title-page with full-page woodcut to verso, photocopies supplied), 45 lines and headline in Gothic type, printed marginalia, a1v full-page woodcut depicting eight scenes from the life of the Virgin within architectural border, a second border framing first text page (a2r), 172 woodcut portraits, including 116 repeats, printed from 52 blocks, ornamental capitals, printer's device at end, A2 variant with 'Prologus' centred on fourth line and signed 'A', A4 bound after a1, scattered old ink marginalia and annotations to several woodcut portraits, occasional spots or light browning, s2 soiled on recto and with two small archival paper repairs with slight loss of lettering affecting first four lines of recto and verso, the robes in woodcut portrait to recto and corner of woodcut initial and a few letters of lines 9-10 to verso, all edges gilt, modern blind-stamped brown morocco with four raised bands, folio (300 x 200mm) BMC VI, 613 (IB. 25752); Goff J-204; HC *2813; Hin, History of the Woodcut, pp. 510-12; Ink-120; ISTC ij00204000; Lippmann, Wood-Engraving in Italy 153; Oates 2246; Polain (B) 1497; Proctor 5762; Sander 915. Collation: A4[-A1] a-e8 f6 g-p8 q6 r8 s6 t8 v6 x8 y-z6. First edition of one of the finest and most beautiful early Italian illustrated books and the first to attempt life-like portraits. An Augustinian monk, Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo (1434-1520) draws here from Boccaccio's own 'De claris mulieribus', but develops a different approach, choosing lesser-known female figures to 'rediscover' them for posterity. The women portrayed include numerous saints and historical figures such as Joan of Arc, Margaret Queen of England and Mary Queen of Scots. The final seven portraits were contemporaries of the author and are of recognisable likenesses. Unlike other woodcuts in the book, those used for them were not repeated. Five of the seven have been identified as Bianca Maria Sforza, Catherina Countess of Forli and Imola, Leonora of Aragon, wife of Ercole d'Este, Danisella Trivulzia, and Cassandra Fidelis. The artist of these fine woodcuts has not been identified, but several engravers probably contributed to the illustrations. (1)

Nodes (O., & J. Bowcher). A Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, adapted to the Various Metres now in use in all Churhces, Chapels, and Dissenting Congregations throughout Great-Britain, the whole carefully figureed for the Organ, Piano-Forte, etc., 1st edition, printed for the editors, by W. Smith, 1803, 10 pp. preliminary text including title page, introduction, list of subscribers, and index, 152 pp. of engraved music score, 80 pp. (paginated 153-232) of contemporary manuscript music score to rear, initial blank loose, title page chipped at corner, final leaf of introduction torn and repaired, contemporary calf-backed boards, worn, vertical median cracks to boards, oblong 4to, together with Ashworth (Caleb), A Collection of Tunes, Part I. Consisting of Psalms Tunes ... with an Introduction to the Art of Singing and Plain Composition, 4th edition, enlarged, J. Buckland, 1775, 28 pp. preliminary text, 80 pp. engraved music score, 14 pp. contemporary manuscript music score to rear, some minor worming, pagination occasionally shaved, contemporary sheep (probably original, the title page with 'Price, bound in Sheep and rolled, Three Shillings' at foot), worn, oblong 4to, and Engraved music. [Primer and hymn book], 72 leaves of engraved music score including scales, exercises and hymns, printed rectos only and foliated 1-72, possibly lacking the title page, erratically interleaved with blanks filled with contemporary manuscript music score, 20 further leaves of manuscript music score to rear, 18th-century ownership inscriptions to pastedowns, contemporary calf, worn, oblong 8vo, and 3 similar ESTC N28000 for Ashworth (tracing two copies only, Newberry and Pittsburgh); the second part did not appear until 1782 and ESTC traces only the British Library copy. For the first work (Nodes and Bowcher) OCLC traces four copies in libraries (British Library, King's College London, and two US institutions). (6)

Ovidius Naso (Publius). Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G[eorge] S[andys], Imprinted at London: [by William Stansby], 1626, engraved title by T. Cecill (with few ink scribbles) and full-page engraved portrait by William Marshall, lacking initial leaf ("The minde of the frontispeece"), woodcut device to final leaf with early ink inscriptions to verso and rear endpaper (some tearing to free endpapers), some dust-soiling and few marks, modern gilt panelled calf, small folio STC 18964 & Sabin 76456. This first edition of 1626 with the translation was composed by Sandys in part during his 1621-25 stay in Virginia, where he served as treasurer of the colony. (1)

Rider (John). [Riders dictionarie, corrected and augmented with the addition of many hundreds of words both out of the law, and out of the Latine, French, and other languages ... whereunto is joyned a dictionarie etymologicall ... now newly corrected and much augmented by Francis Holy-Oke, printed by Felix Kingston, for Andrew Crooke, 1649], 2 parts in 1 volume, woodcut headpieces and initials, toning, occasional contemporary marginalia, pen-trials and ink-staining, light intermittent damp-staining, part 1 title page and leaves, quires 2D (i.e. part of index) lacking, A2 torn in lower margin, final leaf (5M4) frayed, contemporary vellum, soiled, 4to in 8s (22.2 x 16.4 cm) Wing 1441A for the second part; there were four variant imprints of the first part (Wing 1442-1442C) with identical collations and distinguishable only by the title page. The work is 'an edition of Rider's Bibliotheca scholastica, a double dictionarie, first published in 1589 ... Holyoake's revision was first published in 1606' (ESTC). (1)

Rudd (Thomas). Practicall Geometry, in Two Parts: The first, shewing how to perform the four Species of Arithmeticke ... The second, containing A Hundred Geometricall Questions, 1st edition, by J[ohn] G[rismond] for Robert Boydell, 1650, 2 parts in 1 volume, woodcut diagrams, head- and tailpieces and initials, closely trimmed throughout, cropping pagination, signatures and catch-words in part 1, just shaving several headlines in part 2, minor soiling to 2A2 verso (probaby a printing-shop accident), contemporary manuscript calculations to part 2 p. 121, blind-stamp of the earls of Macclesfield to title page and first 2 text-leaves, title page also with the cropped ownership inscription of William Jones (1675-1749), mathematician and tutor to the earls of Macclesfield, South Library bookplate to front pastedown, later calf, rebacked to style, 4to (17 x 11.5 cm) Wing R2107A. Provenance: Library of the Earls of the Macclesfield, Part IV, 4 November 2004, lot 862. (1)

Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). The Ballad of Beau Brocade and other Poems of the XVIIIth Century, by Austin Dobson, 1892, numerous wood engraved illustrations, generally spotted and toned, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated cloth, spine ends slightly rubbed, toned dust jacket, a few chips and minor losses (previously repaired on verso), one affecting 2 letters on spine, 8vo, together with Lever (Charles), Our Mess, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Dublin: Curry, 1843-1844, bound from the parts, portrait frontispiece (toned and offset), numerous engraved plates by Phiz (offset to text), plates with variable spotting and toning, each front pastedown with mark of removed bookplate, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed with some wear to extremities, 8vo, plus Roland Cashel, 1st edition, Chapman and Hall, 1850, additional etched title (toned), numerous etched plates by Phiz, a few plates with some spotting or toning, ink ownership inscription to verso of additional title, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed in places, 8vo, with eight others, including another 1st edition copy of Roland Cashel, and Adam Bede, by Geroge Eliot, 2 volumes in one, Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1859 First item is a scarce find in the dust jacket. (13)

Belot (Jean). Les Oeuvres, Contenent la Chiromance Physionomie, l'Art de Memoire de Raymond Lulle..., 3 parts in 1 volume, 2nd edition, Lyon: Claude la Riviere, 1654, woodcut portrait, folding woodcut plate of hands, two full-page engraved plates and illustrations to text, lacks the large engraved plate, some spotting, slight browning at rear, preliminary leaves detached, engraved bookplate, contemporary sheet, worn and upper cover detached, 8vo, together with [Rampalle, Jean Antoine], La Chyromantie Naturelle de Ronphyle, Paris: Baptiste Loyson, 1665, woodcut device to title, six full-page engraved illustrations of the hand, some browning and old damp staining, biopredation at head of title-page with paper loss affecting first word and second letter of second word, later plain wrappers, rubbed and soiled, a little loss to edges, small 8vo, plus a defective copy of Jean Taisnier's La Science Curieuse ou Traite de la Chyromancie, Paris, 1665, with title-page and G2 in pen facsimile, 80 (of 90) engraved plates, lacking plates 34-36 and 84-90, signatures S-Y misbound after plate 19, some soiling, browning and damp staining, sometimes heavy, a few marginal repairs with slight loss, contemporary calf, worn with leather loss, covers near detached, 4to 1) Caillet 934; Fitzherbert 437; Sabattini 24. 3) Caillet 10053. (3)

Fyers (Peter, 1769-1846). Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, the Trosachs etc., illustrated by a series of Lithographic Sketches, 1st edition, Edinburgh: R. H. Nimmo, [between 1827 and 1829], title page, introductory text leaf, 12 lithographic plates each with accompanying text leaf (all text leaves lithographic), front free endpaper inscribed 'Miss Burrough, with the affection regards of her old friend F. Fyers, June 20th 1850', contemporary roan-backed cloth, title gilt to front board, spine worn, boards rubbed, oblong 4to (16 x 24 cm), together with: Besley (Henry, publisher), H. Besley's Views in Devonshire [cover-title], Exeter: Henry Besley, [circa 1850], 12 steel-engraved plates by G. Townsend, tissue-guards, stab-stitched in original cloth-backed printed card wrappers, oblong 8vo, and Newman and Co., publisher, Twelve Views in Hastings [cover-title], 12 steel-engraved plates, original cloth over limp boards, plates detached from binding (but remaining stitched together), oblong 8vo The first work is a rare suite of lithographic Scottish views, not in Abbey, five copies traces in libraries world-wide (British Library, Edinburgh University, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Sweden, and Smith College). The author is named on the title page as 'Colonel Fyers, C.B., Royal Artillery'; this copy appears to be inscribed by a family member. (3)

Cheiro (pseudonym, i.e. Count Louis Hamon). Cheiro's Language of the Hand, 14th edition, London, Chicago and New York, 1910, black & white plates and illustrations, signed 'Cheiro' by author beneath portrait frontispiece and on recto inscribed and signed 'To Kathleen, with the author's best wishes that she may read a glorious future before her, Louis Hamon, Christmas Day, 1912', original cloth-backed decorative boards, rubbed, together with a 4th edition of the same work, 1895, inner hinges broken and front endpaper detached, original cloth-backed decorative boards, rubbed and spine ends frayed, both 4to, plus Cheiro's Memoirs, the Reminiscences of a Society Palmist, 1st edition, 1912, portrait frontispiece, signed by the author in blue ink as Cheiro and dated 7 August 1912, a little spotting, bookplate of Dowager Lady Head, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and small split at foot of spine, 8vo, plus Cheiro's Book of the Hand, 1st edition, The Record Press, [1892], author's first palmistry book, portrait frontispiece and two plates, half-title and frontispiece detached, 8 pp. publisher's adverts at rear, adverts to pastedowns and rear endpaper, original yellow cloth, lettered in black, dust-soiled, plus a 2nd edition of the same work, circa 1899, two plates, adverts at rear, original yellow cloth, lettered in black, rubbed and soiled, laminated, both small 8vo (5)

Cocles (Bartolommeo della Rocca). La Physionomie Naturelle et la Chiromance... o— par les traits & les signes du visage & par les marques & les lineamens de la main, on peut conn“itre les moeurs, les complexions, le naturel & l'interieur de toutes personnes, Rouen, 1698, numerous woodcut illustrations, F1 & F2 with tear and insect damage (with resultant small loss of text), short closed tears to B6 & B7, a little light spotting, modern morocco-backed boards, 12mo Caillet 2413. Second edition in French, first published in 1679 by Bolognese scholar Bartolomeo Della Rocca, also known as 'Cocles' (1467-1504) on physiognomy and chiromancy. (1)

Desbarrolles (Adolphe). Mysteres de la Main. Revelations Completes, Paris, [1874], wood-engraved illustrations throughout, spotting, occasionally heavy, a few minor marginal splits and tears, author's stamped signature to half-title verso, copy letter from the author to Edward Heron-Allen, and covering letter from George Petilleau in the same hand tipped vertically along half-title inner margin with resultant embrowning to inner margins of first few leaves, Heron-Allen's bookplate to front pastedown and autograph note signed to front free endpaper, concerning the work, dated October 1934, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco gilt, rubbed, together with two other contemporary copies of the same work and a later edition of 1927, all with spotting and browning, the first two with ink stamp signature of the author to half-title verso, the last copy with early leaves somewhat browned and brittled with a few repairs with slight loss, various bindings, all large 8vo (4)

Indagine (Johannes ab). Chiromantia. 1. Physiognomia, ex aspectu membrorum hominis. 2. Periaxiomata, de faciebus signorum. 3. Canones astrologici, de iudiciis aegritudinum. 4. Astrologia naturalis. 5. Complexionum noticia, iuxia dominium planetarum, Strasbourg, J. Schott 1534, title with large woodcut portrait of the author, final leaf recto with full-page woodcut arms, both by Hans Baldung Grien, 82 woodcuts in text, title with two small repaired marginal tears, occasional early annotations, marginalia and underlining, 17th century missal leaf vellum covers with modern vellum spine (light soiling to covers), folio Sabattini 293. Third Latin edition, first published in 1522, the first English translation by Fabian Withers appeared in 1558. (1)

Indagine (Johannes ab). Chiromance & Physiognomie par le regard des membres de lhomme, translated by Antoine du Moulin, 1st edition in French, Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1549, title with woodcut device, woodcut illustrations of palms, gods and godesses of the seven planets associated with palmistry, physiognomie and diagrams, attributed to Bernard Salomon, C3 lower corner repaired, final leaf corners repaired, occasional pencil Arabic marginalia, some light water stains and slight marginal fraying to a few leaves, modern burgundy calf by Bayntun, Bath, joints and spine ends a little rubbed, 8voCaillet 5387; Sabattini 296. First published in Latin in 1531. (1)

Indagine (Johannes ab). The Book of Palmestry and Physiognomy. Being brief introductions, both natural, pleasant and delectable, unto the art of chiromancy, or manual divination and physiognomy: with circumstances upon the faces of the signes. Also, canons or rules upon diseases or sicknesses. Whereunto is also annexed as well the artificial as natural astrologie, with the nature of the planets, translated by Fabian Withers, 1st edition, 1651, woodcut frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, printed in black letter, a few leaves close-trimmed shaving headlines, H4 with small marginal insect damage, occasional slight soiling, contemporary calf, modern reback, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo Wing I141. First edition of this version, originally translated into English by Withers from Idagine's Chiromancy, as Briefe Introductions, both naturall, pleasaunte and also delectable unto the arte of Chiromancy, in 1558. (1)

Indagine (Johannes ab). La Chiromance et Phisionomie, par le regard des membres de l'Homme, revised edition, Paris: Gabriel Quinet, [1662], numerous woodcuts to text, some spotting and old dampstaining, title-page soiled and with date trimmed away from imprint at foot, a few scattered minor marginal wormholes, 19th-century half calf, rubbed, 12mo, together with May (Philipp von), La Chiromancie Medicinale..., The Hague: Levijn van Dyck, [1665], signed by author at end of dedication, 30 (of 32) engraved plates, lacking plates 5 & 6 of Physiognomy, some spotting and slight soiling, single wormhole to centre of first forty pages, old ink stain at foot of title-page partially obscuring imprint details, contemporary sheep, rubbed and some wear at extremities, small 8vo, plus Rampalle (Jean Antoine), La Chyromantie Naturelle de Ronphyle, 4th edition, Paris: Pierre le Monnier, 1671, woodcut on title, six full-page engraved plates of the hand showing lines and mounts, lacks final blank, some spotting and soiling, contemporary calf, heavily rubbed and slight wear to extremities, small 8vo 1) Sabattini 302. 2) Caillet 7782; Fitzherbert 477; Sabattini 383. 3) Caillet 9576; Fitzherbert 492; Sabattini 468. (3)

Indagine (Johannes ab). Introductiones apotelesmatice elegantes, in chyromantiam, physionomiam, astrologiam naturalem, complexiones hominum, naturas planetarum, Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1556, woodcut portrait on title, woodcut initials and illustrations throughout, title dust-soiled and a little frayed with loss to outer corners, old ink date inscribed below imprint, a little occasional light browning and marginal damp-staining, lower blank outer corner of b3 torn with loss, lacks m1 (pp. 177-78) and final three blanks, 19th-century morocco-backed marbled boards, rubbed and a little wear to extremities, 8vo (165 x 105mm) Cartier 333; Durling 2533; Sabattini 284; not in Adams or Wellcome. First Latin edition by de Tournes. (1)

Rothmann (Johann). Keipomantia: Or, the Art of Divining by the Lines and Signatures engraven in the Hand of Man, by the Hand of Nature, Theorically, Practically. Wherein you have the Secret Concordance and Harmony betwixt it, and Astrology made evident in 19 Genitures. Together with a Philosophicall Discourse of the Souls of the World, and the Universal Spirit thereof, translated by George Wharton, 1st edition in English, Nathaniel Brooke, 1652, engraved frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, occasional small wormstracks affecting text and illustrations, light spotting and soiling, contemporary presentation inscription to frontispiece verso: "To his much loved cozni Mr. William Forth, is wished in this world: hialth/in a better: happiness, by Hugh Forth, London 12 8b:r 1653" (show-through to verso), contemporary sheep, upper cover detached, spine defective, rubbed, 8vo Sabattini 474; Wing R2001. First published in Latin in 1595 as Chiromantia Theorica Pratica, the work is an attempt to unify chiromancy and astrology in that the mounts of the hand are ruled by the planets and as everyone has a planet in their birthchart, signs and characters will be appear in the hand corresponding to that planet. Thus examining the hand should give the horoscope and examining the birthchart will describe the hand. (1)

Saunders (Richard). Palmistry, The Secrets thereof Disclosed; or a Familiar Easy, and New Method, whereby to Judge of the most General Accidents of Mans Life from the Lines of the Hand, withal its Dimensions and Significations, 2nd enlarged edition, G. Sawbridge, 1664, title within ornamental typographic border (soiled, a little shaved at foot, closed tear to foremargin), woodcut illustrations, some spotting and browning, closely cut at upper margins occasionally touching rules, foremargins of pp. 534-41 shaved with lettering loss to table data, lacks frontispiece, armorial bookplate (of Torrington family), contemporary blind-stamped sheep, some corner wear, calf reback, 12mo (135 x 80mm), together with [Indagine, Joannes. The Book of Palmestry and Physiognomy, 1651 or later], black letter, woodcut illustrations, highly defective, lacking frontispiece and approximately 50 leaves (A-E8, F2,7, K1,8, M1,8, N2,4,5,7,8), final leaf O8 with catchword 'The', a little spotting and damp-staining, old ink juvenile annotations to first two pages, contents largely loose in old plain boards, small 8vo Saunders' work was first published the year before, and is a pocket-size adaptation of the author's 1653 folio on the same subject. Wing S752; ESTC locates only the British Library and Bodleian Library copies. (2)

Taisnier (Jean). Opus Mathematicum Octo Libros Complectens, innumeris propemodum figuris idealibus manuum et physiognomiae, altiisque adornatum, quorum sex priores libri absolutissimae cheiromantiae theoricam, praxim, doctrinam, artem, & experientiam verissimam continent..., 2nd edition, Cologne, 1583, title with woodcut device, woodcut portrait of the author to verso (repeated to final leaf verso), numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations, four leaves (4h1-4h4) supplied in facsimile, occasional mainly light toning and spotting, bookplate, later blindstamped calf, a little rubbed, folio Adams T70; Sabattini 513. Second edition (first published in 1562) of Taisnier's work on palmistry and astrology. (1)

Beasley (Henry Mountiford). London Bridge and How it is Played, 1st edition, William Heinemann, 1905, spotting to outer leaves, book label to front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, 16mo, together with: Contract bridge, The Laws of Bridge and a Guide to the Game by "Boaz" and How to Play Bridge by "Badsworth", 6th edition, Thos De La Rue & Co. Ltd., 1899, decorative title page, a few minor spots, original cloth gilt, 12mo, Coburn (Frederick Simpson, illustrator), The Last Ride Together, by Robert Browning, 1st edition, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 6 sepia gravure plates including frontispiece, colour vignettes in text, all edges gilt, original green cloth gilt after a design by Margaret Armstrong, extremities very slightly rubbed, 8vo, Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910, colour plates with tissue guards, contemporary red half morocco, slightly rubbed, 4to London Bridge was the first book by Henry Beasley, an Indian Army officer and a leading player of contract bridge during its formative period; four copies in UK libraries (British Library, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland, and Oxford), and one world-wide (State Library of Victoria, Australia). (4)

Joyce (James). Chamber Music, 1st edition, 1st issue, Elkin Mathews, 1907, title within woodcut border, scattered light spotting, small book label of C.U. Trani, Trieste to front pastedown, original green cloth gilt, spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends, 8vo Slocum and Cahoon A3. First variant issue, with thick laid endpapers and poems in signature C well centered. 509 copies printed of Joyce's first regularly published book. (1)

Park (William, Junior). The Game of Golf, 1st edition, 1896, illustrations, light spotting, originalgreen pictorial cloth, spine darkened and rubbed at ends, rubbed patches and a few stains to covers, 8vo Donovan and Murdoch 3690. The first book golf book written by a playing professional. (1)

Robinson (W. Heath). Railway Ribaldry, Being 96 Pages of Railway Humour, London: Great Western Railway, 1935, numerous black & white illustrations, many full-page, illustrated half-title, very slight spotting, mainly to first and last few leaves, original pictorial stiff wrappers, spine and top edge of front cover lightly toned, edges a little creased and rubbed in places, 4to, together with Moveable, Here and There, A Book of Transformation Pictures, with verses by Fred. E. Weatherly, 1st edition, Nister, [1894], six working chromolithographed slatted transformation pictures, two with creased tabs, one with broken tab, black & white illustrations to text, generally somewhat toned (not affecting chromolithographs), most leaves with one or more tears around tab area, loose within original cloth-backed pictorial boards, most of spine deficient, covers a little marked, some wear to corners, 4to, plus Kipling (Rudyard), Six Songs from the Jungle Book, music by Dora Bright, No. 2 for High Voice, 1903, 16 pages of printed music, two pages of publisher's advertisemtnes at rear, original printed wrappers, some spotting to margins, front cover with duotone illustration, ink ownership signature to top margin of front cover, 4to, and approximately 83 others similar, including: The Little Grey Man, by 'BB', illustrated by D.J. Watkins Pitchford, 1942, in dust jacket; Fourteen Songs from When We Were Very Young, by A.A. Milne, and four others from the series (one duplicate), mixed editions; Ameliaranne Keeps School, 1940, in dust jacket; various other authors such as Alison Uttley, John Betjeman, Edward Ardizzone and Quentin Blake (illustrators) (approx 86)

Jersey. The Queen of the Isles; or, a New Guide to the Privileged Island of Jersey ... by a Twenty Years' Resident, 1st edition, Jersey: P. Payn, British Press Office, [circa 1841], 112 pp. + 14 pp. advertisements, folding map frontispiece dated 1841, folding steam chart on pink paper, engraved folding plate, engraved folding advertisement slip tipped to first advertisement leaf, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth-backed printed boards, damp-staining and minor wear to binding, 12mo (17.7 x 10 cm), together with: [Bullar, John], A Companion in a Tour Round Southampton ... and a Tour of the Isle of Wight, 1st edition, Southampton: T. Baker, 1799, edges untrimmed, contemporary paper-backed boards, spine worn, front board detached, large 12mo (18.5 x 11.2 cm), Bruce (John Collingwood), The Roman Wall, A Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive Account of the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus, extending from the Tyne to the Solway, 1st edition, John Russell Smith, 1851, tinted lithographic frontispiece, large folding plan coloured in outline (offset), 33 plates including plans (2 foldings) and tinted lithographic views, marginal damp-staining to lithographic plates, origin red cloth, rebacked in calf, gilt vignettes to sides, 8vo, and 2 others The handbook to Jersey is rare, with only the British Library copy traced in institutions. (5)

Shaw (George Bernard). Shaw Gives Himself Away, 1939, limited edition 236/300, black and white frontispiece, some minor toning to edges, publisher's original black and red full morocco, boards and spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Francis (Dick), Nerve, 1st edition, 1964, some minor toning, original green cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly marked, spine slightly faded, 8vo, and Wright (Thomas), Songs and Ballads, with other short poems, chiefly of the reign of Philip and Mary, 1860, some minor spotting, contemporary brown quarter morocco, boards and spine lightly rubbed, 4to, and other mostly 20th century fiction, first editions and literature, including The Works of Bernard Shaw, 33 volumes, 1930-38, uniform cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)

Hinman (Charlton). The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare, 2 volumes, 1st edition, OUP, 1963, black and white illustrations, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines slightly rubbed to head and foot, 4to, together with Elton (William R.), King Lear and the Gods, 2nd printing, USA, 1968, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Hutton (James), Themes of Peace in Renaissance Poetry, 1st edition, Cornell University Press, 1984, black and white frontispiece, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plus other English literature, scholarly reference and related, including publications by Oxford, Routledge, Cambridge, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to Provenance: From the Library of Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017). (3 shelves)

Lewis (William, publisher). Lewis's New Traveller's Guide, or a pocket edition of the English counties, containing all the direct & cross roads in England & Wales, [1819], hand coloured engraved frontispiece of a map of England & Wales, calligraphic title page with a black & white engraved vignette of a coach and postillions, preface (dated 1819), contents list, list of mail coaches and cost of postage, forty-two (complete as list) engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, including one folding (Yorkshire), each map with a page of descriptive text, upper hinge and joint broken and spine detached, rear hinge cracked, contemporary quarter morocco gilt, heavily worn and frayed, 12mo, together with Hall (Sidney), A travelling county atlas: with all the coach and rail roads accurately laid down and coloured..., Chapman and Hall, 1845, title and contents, forty-six (complete as list) double page engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, including four folding (Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Yorkshire), some spotting and dust soiling throughout, text block and hinges cracked, contemporary ownership signature to front endpaper, contemporary morocco 'envelope style' binding, gilt title to upper cover, some fraying with slight loss to spine, 8vo, with another copy similar but with text block split and contents shaken and loose, and binding heavily worn with spine lacking, 8vo, plus Stanford (Edward, publisher), Stanford's Geological Atlas of Great Britian, 1904, colour lithographic geological map of the Birtish Isles, folding geological table, thirty-three double page colour lithographic geological maps and thirty-two uncoloured lithographic plates of fossils, publisher's blue cloth gilt, some wear to extremities, 8vo, and a 1903 map volume of the Encylopedia Britannica containing numerous photolithographic British & foreign maps, contemporary half morocco, slight wear to extremities, folio The first described item:- Chubb CCCLXIV. The title page is undated but the preface has the date Oct. 16 1819. (5)

[Brindley, James]. The History of Inland Navigations. Particularly those of the Duke of Bridgwater, in Lancashire and Cheshire; and the intended one promoted by Earl Gower and other Persons of Distinction in Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire..., 1st edition, T. Lowndes, 1766, two folding engraved maps, first map neatly strengthened to folds at verso and close trimmed to ruled border at head, without half-title, gilt embossed morocco bookplate of Edward Hailstone to upper pastedown, early 19th century marbled boards with moderen maroon morocco spine, board edges rubbed, slim 8vo (1)

Fulton (Robert). A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation; Exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from Small Canals. And Boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen. With a description of the Machinery for facilitating Conveyance by Water through the most Mountainous Countries, independent of Locks and Aqueducts: including Observations on the great Importance of Water Communications, with thoughts on, and designs for, Aqueducts and Bridges of iron and wood, 1st edition, London: I. and J. Taylor, 1796, xvi,144pp., 17 engraved plates, without advertisement leaf at rear, oval ink library stamp, perforated stamp and manuscript number to title (strengthened at fore-edge), ink stamp at foot of first contents leaf and oval ink stamp mostly to lower outer corners of plates, some spotting and browning, modern half calf, green morocco title label to spine, 4to Sabin 26201. (1)

Hibbard (John). Hibbard's Essay of the Great Utility and Interest that might arise from a Circular & other Collateral, &c. Canal Navigation and Drainage, with the Great Interest, Advantage and Improvement locally arising therefrom to the Improvement of Agriculture and Cattle, Manufactures, Commerce, and Fisheries of Britain and Ireland. With Statements, at small expences, attending such being executed from the North to South Coasts, in proportion to its Magnitude of more than Two Thousand Miles. Also the present reducement of the prices of Grain. And further Improvement attending the Growth of Wheat, and use of Oats in Bread..., London: Printed for the Author, [1804], [2],43,[1],4pp., initial leaf facing title with few closed tear and lined to verso, last two lines of purchase information at foot of title crossed through, some dust-soiling and few marks, modern boards, slim 8vo The first edition was originally published in 1800. ESTC refers to an 1800 example with the presence of an illustration/manuscript map (ESTC N478108). The later edition in this lot includes a four page appendix 'The Author having published his thoughts....'. (1)

Bradshaw (Thomas). Views in Mauritius, or Isle of France, drawn from Nature ... with a Memoir of the Island, a Description of Each View, 1st edition, for the proprietor by James Carpenter and Son, 1832, title page, dedication leaf, list of plates, 8 pp. introduction, 40 hand-coloured lithographic plates on india paper, mounted, tissue-guards, each plate with leaf of descriptive text, these variably toned and with occasional mild offsetting versos from plates, plates 27 and 17 transposed, tissue-guards to plates 1, 17 and 39 torn, minor soiling to mount of plate 40, the plates themselves clean and fresh, contemporary ownership inscription 'Walter Minto Farquhar, Rydal, Feby 9th 1835' to title page (see note), all edges gilt, contemporary green morocco stamped in gilt and blind, rubbed, short cracks to joint-ends, loss to foot of spine, folio (35.5 x 24.5 cm) Abbey Travel 295. One of 28 proof copies with hand-coloured plates on india paper, from a total of 123 copies issued to 117 subscribers including King William IV; in the other copies the plates appear to have been uncoloured and printed direct. Provenance: with the highly apposite ownership inscription of Sir Walter Townsend-Farquhar (1809-1866), 2nd Baronet of Mauritius and heir of Sir Robert Townsend-Farquhar (1776-1830), who was the first British governor of Mauritius from 1810 to 1823; the list of subscribers records Lady Townsend-Farquhar, namely Sir Robert's wife Maria Frances (d. 1875), as a recipient of one of the proof copies. After Sir Robert's death Lady Townsend-Farquhar lived at Dale Lodge in Grasmere, where she befriended William Wordsworth, who lived in nearby Rydal, the place identified in Sir Walter's ownership inscription. (1)

[Cox, Nicholas]. The Gentleman's Recreation: in Four Parts. Viz, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing ... the Fourth Edition, to which is now added, A Perfect Abstract of all the Forest-Laws ... printed by J. Dawks, for N. Rolls, 1697, additional engraved title page, 4 engraved folding plates by William Dolle, preliminary advertisement leaf, dedication leaf (A3r) in uncancelled state with Norris's title as baron of Ricot, divisional title page to each part, 'A Perfect Abstract' printed in black letter, engraved title slightly soiled, and stained in gutter, first folding plate with discreet old repairs verso, second folding plate consolidated with japanese tissue along bottom edge, divisional title to part 2 mended and laid down, final leaf repaired, trimmed and mounted, early-20th-century half calf, 8vo (18.5 x 11 cm) Westwood & Satchell pp. 68-9, Wing C6707. One of three variant imprints published the same year. The fifth part, 'A Perfect Abstract of all the Forest-Laws', is an abridgment by Cox of John Manwood's Treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest, first published in 1598. (1)

Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, fifth edition, with additions and corrections (Tenth thousand), John Murray, 1869, folding lithographed plate, without any adverts as frequently issued, a few scattered spots, puncture marks and indentations to lower outer margins of pp. 207-242 and resultant diagonal tears with some blank paper loss and affected lettering of last two lines of pp. 207-212, pp. 7-10 partly unstitched, old book label of Andrew Schofield to front pastedown, embossed stamp of W.H. Smith & Son to front free endpaper and Edmonds & Remnants ticket to rear pastedown, upper hinges cracked, original green cloth gilt, rubbed and marked with some staining at foot of lower board, spine slightly darkened and a little frayed at head and foot, cloth loss to corners, 8vo Freeman 387, binding variant c. 'The fifth edition of 1869 was 2,000 copies and was again much revised. It is in this one that Darwin used the expression "survival of the fittest"... for the first time' (Freeman). (1)

A Coalport Characters The Snowman figure, Dressing Up, 14cm high, first edition, and Dancing With Teddy, printed marks beneath. (2)

A Coalport Characters The Snowman And Father Christmas Collectors Choice Special Edition figure group, The Special Gift, first edition, gilt coloured printed marks beneath, 14cm high.

Browne (Patrick). The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. In Three Parts. Containing, I. An Accurate Description of that Island... II. A History of the Natural Productions... III. An Account of the Nature of Climates..., 1st edition, 1756, half title (laid down), two folding engraved maps (one with small marginal hole, the other reinforced to verso), 49 engraved plates after G.D. Ehret and others, a few close-trimmed to outer margin shaving a few imprints, page 501 index leaf torn with loss of text at foot, title and dedication leaves repaired (loss to headline and first word of dedication leaf verso), final index leaf with small marginal repair, some spotting and toning, modern calf gilt, some fading to upper cover, folio Great Flower Books, page 52; Nissen ZBI 225; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 842. Browne, an Irish physician and botanist corresponded with Carl Linnaeus and was the first English-speaker to use the Linnaean system of classification. The plates are after the famous botanical illustrator and Linnaeus collaborator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1780). (1)

Jerrard (Paul). Gatherings from the Orchard, 1st edition, Paul Jerrard, c.1852, 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates with text rectos and versos printed in gold, title page and advertisement leaf printed in gold, a little light soiling, a few marginal nicks to first plate, gutta percha perished as usual and leaves loose in original cream cloth binding, chromolithographic pictorial onlay to front board with small chip in inner edge, slightly soiled, imperial 4to (36.5 x 27 cm) (1)

Morris (Beverley R.). British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 1st edition, Groombridge and Sons, 1855, 50 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates (of 60), tissue-guards, closed marginal tear in plate facing p.15 (Caipercaillie), front inner hinge slightly tender, a few spots to initial blank, title page and first few text leaves, all edges gilt, a few spots to edges occasionally just encroaching on margins, original red half morocco, cloth sides with gilt vignettes, joints and tips rubbed, 4to (31.3 x 24 cm) Nissen IVB 644. (1)

Yarrell (William). A History of British Birds, 5 volumes (including the 2 supplements) in 3, 1st edition, John van Voorst, [1837]-56, half-titles, numerous wood-engravings in the text, autograph letter signed from Yarrell to Lambert Blackwell Larking (single bifolium, dated 23 June 1843, creased where folded) tipped to volume 1 initial blank, frequent contemporary marginalia in at least 2 different hands, including lengthy notes probably by Larking to volume 1 pp. 149 (dated 1851), 204-5 (dated 1862), and 276 (dated 1861), a lengthy note signed JWL to volume 1 p. 383 (see below), and numerous cross-references to illustrations, indexes added to rear blanks and free endpapers in a contemporary calligraphic hand, bookplates of John Wingfield Larking to front pastedowns, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, near-contemporary tan calf, richly gilt spines, twin morocco labels, spines slightly faded, extremities slightly rubbed, light mottling to sides, 8vo (21.9 x 13.7 cm) Freeman 4177; Nissen IVB 1049. With an autograph letter signed from Yarrell presenting the first three volumes to Lambert Blackwell Larking (1797-1868), vicar of Ryarsh in Kent (the two supplements were published later). Yarrell advises Larking 'not to have them permanently bound for a twelvemonth, by which time the impressions [of the wood-engravings] will have become hard', and acknowledges receipt of some shell specimens. Larking is mentioned at volume 3 p. 132 as the source of a 'Polish Swan' which Yarrell exhibited at the Zoological Society. The first volume contains what appear to be Larking's annotations describing various bird sightings, including one (pp. 204-5) at 'the Roughets', a woodland in his village of Ryarsh. Another annotation describing a sighting in Sicily is signed 'JWL', that is, Larking's son John Wingfield Ryarsh (1801-1891), sometime British consul in Alexandria. (3)

Dillenius (Johann Jakob). Catalogus Plantarum sponte circa Gissam Nascentium. Cum Appendice, qua Plantae post editum Catalogum, circa & extra Gissam observatae recensentur, Johann Maximilian von Sande, Frankfurt, 1719, engraved map frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, a little light toning, contemporary annotations at front, previous owner inscription of John Innys, 1769, Redland Court, Gloucestershire, armorial bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, Gloucestershire County Library ink stamp to front pastedown, contemporary calf gilt, manuscript author name to spine label, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo Nissen BBI 490; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1470. Second edition (first published in Frankfurt in 1718) and the first with the appendix, of Dillenius's flora on the area around Giessen in Germany. Bibliographically confusing with Nissen calling for 18 plates, Stafleu & Cowan calling for 16. Presentation copy, inscribed at foot of title: "Gift of the author to Littleton Brown, M.A., F.R.S.". Brown is mentioned by Dillenius in his Historia Muscorum, and assisted him by gathering specimens in Wales, Herefordshire and Shropshire. Interesting provenance with John Innys (died 1778), a London bookseller, who formed a publishing partnership with his brother William before later moving to Redland Court in Bristol. George Weare Braikenridge (1775-1856) was an English antiquarian, who purchased Broomwell House in Brislington, Bristol in 1823 where he amassed the important Braikenridge Collection of Bristol related history and topography. The collection is mostly now held at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol Central Library and Bristol Archives. (1)

Gardiner (William). Twenty Lessons on British Mosses; or first steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants, 2nd edition, with enlargements, Edinburgh, 1846, 50 pages, some with mounted moss specimens, stitching broken, contents loose, some toning and offsetting, previous owner letter (torn in half) and inscription to title, bookplate, original blindstamped cloth, lacking spine, covers detached, 8vo, together with Twenty Lessons on British Mosses. Second Series, 1849, mounted moss specimens, some offsetting and spotting, contents detached, bookplate, previous owner inscription of Lady Huggins (1848-1915, scientist and astronomer), original cloth, spine defective, covers detached, 8vo, plus Hepaticae Britannicae; or Pocket Herbarium of British Hepaticae; named and arranged according to the most improved system, by William Graham McIvor, 1st edition, New Brentford, 1847, 18 leaves with 132 mounted specimens in 136 spaces, each with printed captions, plus two extra mounted specimens at end in first Appendix leaf, with manuscript caption (copies have varying numbers of specimens according to availability of rare specimens at the time), some light offsetting, original boards, spine faded, light spotting, 8vo Freeman 1300; 1302 & 2048 respectively. (3)

Gerard (John). [The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes..., very much Enlarged snd Amended by Thomas Johnson..., 2nd edition, London: Adam Islip , Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633], without title, also first and last blank leaves lacking, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, occasional spotting and few damp stains, minor worm holes and short worm trails mostly to upper margins of index and tables at rear, leaf 6Z6 of tables torn with loss and with some repairs including manuscript text infill, front and rear free endpapers detached, bookplate of Sir Thomas Gage Saunders Sebright, Bt., contemporary calf, red morocco title label, joints split, worn at head & foot of spine, board corners worn and showing, folio Henrey 155; Nissen BBI 698 & STC 11751. (1)

Cook (Frederick A.). My Attainment of the Pole, being the Record of the Expedition that first reached the Boreal Center 1907-1909, 1st edition, UK issue, New York: Polar Publishing Co., 1911, 32 photographic plates including frontispiece, a few leaves slightly marked, original pictorial cloth, small circular mark and minor fraying to spine, large 8vo, together with: Davis (C. H., editor), Narrative of the North Polar Expedition. U. S. Ship Polar, Captain Charles Francis Hall commanding, 1st edition, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876, 2 steel-engraved frontispieces, 38 wood-engraved plates and vignettes, 2 lithographic colour plates, 6 maps, original cloth, recased and relined, covers marked, large 8vo, and Captain Cook's Third Voyage, A Man of Nootka Sound [and] A Woman of Nootka Sound, [G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784], 2 engravings by W. Sharp after John Webber on laid paper, plate marks 30 x 24 cm, sheet size 42 x 33 cm, pale marginal spotting, separately framed and glazed Arctic Bibliography 3389 ( Frederick A. Cook) & 18382 (Davis). The two engravings are from James Cook, Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (first edition, 1784), plate numbers 38 and 39 respectively. (2 books & 2 framed prints)

Hedwig (Johann). Fundamentum Historiae Naturalis Muscorum Frondosorum concernens Eorum Flores, Fructus, Seminalem Propagationem adiecta Generum Dispositione Methodica Iconibus Illustratis, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, Leipzig, 1782, 20 folding hand-coloured engraved plates by J.S. Capieux after Hedwig, a little minor spotting to one or two plates, some spotting and toning to text, library ink number stamped at head of dedication leaf, library stamp to first title verso, modern half calf, some fading to spine, 4to Nissen BBI 827. (1)

Hedwig (Johann). Species Muscorum Frondosorum... Opus Posthumum editum a Friderico Schwaegrichen, 1st edition, Leipzig, 1801, 77 hand-coloured engraved plates, additional page 353 present, some light spotting and soiling, mainly to text, occasional annotations, bookplate removed from front endpaper, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, a little rubbed and stained, 4to, large paper copy, together with Species Muscorum Frondosorum... Supplementum Primum & Supplementum Secundum, 3 volumes only, Leipzig, 1811-23, 126 hand-coloured engraved plates, light toning to plates in Supplementum Primum volume II, light spotting to text, bookplates of the Earl of Aylesford, contemporary calf first two volumes rebacked, second supplement joints cracking, spine and edges rubbed, 4to Nissen BBI 830 & 831. The complete supplements to Hedwig's Species Muscorum were published from 1811-42 in seven volumes, with a total of 326 plates. (4)

Dalvimart (Octavien). [The Costume of Turkey], 2nd edition, [for William Miller, 1804], 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates after Dalvimart, each with leaf of descriptive text in French and English, English title page lacking, French title page supplied from a copy of the 1st edition (printed by Bensley, 1802), text watermarked 1796, plates watermarked 1804, variable light spotting, soiling and offsetting, stronger in plates 57 and 60, spots affecting images in plates 4 and 6, marginal chip to plate 3, closed marginal tear to plate 18, endpapers renewed, all edges gilt, contemporary diced russia, rebacked and recornered, blind palmette roll and gilt laurel cornerpieces to sides, large 4to (35.4 x 26 cm) Abbey Travel 370 (this copy with watermarks 1818-19); Lipperheide 1422 for the first edition (1802). (1)

Sande Lacoste (Cornelius Marinus van der). Synopsis hepaticarum Javanicarum, adjectic quibusdam speciebus hepaticarum novis extra-Javanicis, 1st edition, Amsterdam: C. G. van der Post, 1856, 22 lithographic plates, modern cloth, 4to, together with: Gottsche (Carl Moritz), De Mexikanske Levermosser, 1st edition, Copenhagen: F. S. Muhle, 1863, 20 engraved plates, spotted, contemporary boards, spotted, some wear, 4to, Kleinhans (Rodolphe), Iconographie des mousses, Paris: F. Savy, 1871, 30 lithographic plates, each with accompanying lithographic description leaf, spotting, tide-mark in fore margins, original clth, slightly marked, folio, and 9 others, all European treatises on mosses Copac traces two copies only of Sander Lacoste's work (and four with the later date of 1857) and four copies of Gottsche's. Kleinhans's work is a re-issue of his Album des mousses, first published 1865-9; Copac traces one copy of the first edition, and one of an 1870 re-issue with the title Iconologie. (12)

Spruce (Richard). Two detailed autograph letters signed concerning mosses to fellow bryologist Robert Braithwaite (1824-1917), dated Coneythorpe, Yorkshire, 9 December 1883 and 18 August 1884, each in pencil and written on 2 sheets (17.5 x 11 cm), rectos only, the first laid in and the second tipped to p. 209 of a copy of Spruce's Hepaticae Amazonicae et Andinae, published as volume 15 of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society (Edinburgh: for the Botanical Society, 1884), together with: an additional autograph letter signed from Braithwaite to bryologist William E. Nicholson (1866-1945), single bifolium written on 2 sides (the volume itself inscribed by Nicholson 'Given to me W. E. Nicholson by the late Dr Braithwaite' on the initial blank); a copy of Spruce (Richard), On Cephalozia (a genus of Hepaticae), its subgenera and some allied genera, 1st edition, Malton, Yorkshire: printed for the author, 1882, 96 pp. + 4 pp. index + errata leaf, spotting, title page repaired and with ownership inscription of W. E. Nicholson, modern cloth, 8vo; (Hbener (Johann Wilhelm Peter), Hepaticologia Germanica, oder Beschreibung der Deutschen Lebermoose, 1st edition, Mannheim: Schwan- und G”tz'sche, 1834, ownership inscription of Richard Spruce to initial blank, contemporary quarter morocco, 8vo, and 6 other works, all 19th-century French or Latin treatises on mosses Two autograph letters and a rare pamphlet by the noted botanist Richard Spruce (1817-1893), whose reputation was assured by Alfred Russell Wallace's posthumous edition of his notebooks with the title Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and the Andes, which appeared in 1908. (9)

Lloyd (Sir William). Narrative of a Journey from Caunpoor to the Boorendo Pass in the Himalaya Mountains, via Gwalior, Agra, Delhi, and Sirhind. And Captain Alexander Gerard's Account of an Attempt to Penetrate by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara... edited by George Lloyd, 2 volumes, 1st edition, J. Madden & Co., 1840, 3 engraved maps (2 folding), short splits to 1 fold of each folding map, volume 2 folding map with clean tear along part of stub, yellow surface-paper endpapers with contemporary ownership inscriptions 'Louisa Durnford, 1840', volume 1 front inner hinge superficially cracked but firm, original maroon cloth, spines sunned, pale mottling and a few marks to covers, tips bumped, 8vo Yakushi L238. Lloyd (1782-1857) was 'one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain' (Dictionary of Welsh Biography). (2)

*Franklin (John, 1786-1847). Mosses Collected in Capt. Franklin's Expedition to the Arctic Sea [1819-1822], principally named by Professor Schwaeglichen, manuscript title and 70 loose sheets with dried moss specimens mounted, mostly as multiples, to sheet rectos, a little scattered minor loss, title-page and lower mounts inscribed in ink, 'Capt. Franklin's Polar Expedition see his Bot. Appendix 1st edition' or similar, the majority additionally inscribed in another hand with pencil numbers and Latin name identifications to the specimens, some with additional location details for where the specimens were collected (Point Lake, Slave Lake, Camp Lake, Barren Grounds & Woody District, Fort Enterprise, English River, Mississippi River, Grand Rapid, Saskatchewan, Whitefall - October 1819 - Pine Forests, Borrowicks Fall (Set 17, 18, 19)), the title-page title probably in the hand of Sir John Richardson (1787-1865), sheet sizes 23 x 15cm, together with a paper fragment with ink notes in the holograph of Sir John Richardson, 15.5 x 19cm John Richardson, a Scottish naval surgeon and naturalist, travelled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of 1819-1822. Richardson wrote the sections on geology, botany and ichthyology for the official account of the expedition. On this, the first of Franklin's Arctic expeditions, Franklin lost 11 of the 20 men in his party, most dying of starvation, but also at least one murder and suggestions of cannibalism. The survivors were forced to eat lichen and even attempted to eat their own leather boots, gaining Franklin the nickname of 'the man who ate his boots'. Franklin published his 'Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21 and 22' with John Murray in 1823. In the same year John Richardson published 'Botanical Appendix to Captain Franklin's Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea'. The pencil numbers and identification of specimens on these samples matches those in the Appendix, but the published account gives no specific details of locations. In the Preface Richardson writes: 'Professor [Christian Friedrich] Schwaeglichen, when in London, named the Musci, which renders that part of the list of high authority; and Professor Hooker, by undertaking the examination of the Lichenes and Fungi, has stamped a value upon a portion of the catalogue, upon which it was peculiarly desirable to have the opinion and authority of an eminent cryptogamic botanist'. Richardson returned with Franklin to Canada in 1825 but was not involved in the ill-fated third Arctic expedition of 1845. Richardson travelled with John Rae on an unsuccessful search for Franklin in 1848-49, describing it in 'An Arctic Searching Expedition' (1851). (71)

Aristoteles. Trattato dei governi... tradotto di greco in lingua vulgare fiorentina da Bernardo Segni... Firenze, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1549.In-4° (mm 210x130). Segnatura: A-Iii⁴. 420, [20] pagine. Iniziali silografiche. Fioriture, qualche carta brunita. Legatura successiva in pergamena su cartone, titoli in oro su tassello al dorso, contropiatti e sguardie in carta decorata a pettine, tagli gialli. Qualche lieve alone. Timbro della Biblioteca del cardinale Renato Imperiali al frontespizio 'Ex Bibl. Ios. ren. Card Imperialis' e etichetta ex libris 'Tammaro De Marinis' al contropiatto anteriore; antica segnatura al recto della seconda carta di guardia anteriore; lunga nota manoscritta al verso dell'ultima carta. Esemplare di illustre provenienza di questa prima edizione, non comune, della traduzione di Bernardo Segni (1504-1558), dedicata a Cosimo de Medici, del testo aristotelico. Le venti pagine in fine contengono un vasto indice: "tavola delle cose più notabili della politica di Aristotile". Torrentino Annali, 66; Cranz-Schmitt, 52.4° (210x130 mm). Collation: A-Iii⁴. 420, [20] pages. Woodcut initials. Foxing, some brownings. Vellum over pasteboards, gilt title on lettering-piace on the spine, decorated pastedowns and flyleaves. Light stains on the covers. On the title-page stamp of Cardinal Renato Imperiali Library 'Ex Bibl. Ios. ren. Card Imperialis', on the front pastedown ex libris 'Tammaro De Marinis'; early ink shelfmark on recto of the second front flyleaf; manuscript note on verso of the last leaf. Rare first edition of this translation of Aristoteles' work by Bernardo Segni (1504-1558), dedicated to Cosimo de Medici. The last twenty leaves contain a wide index. The copy was property of Cardinal Renato Imperiali (1651-1737) and of bookseller Tammaro De Marinis. Torrentino Annali, 66; Cranz-Schmitt, 52.

Cartari Vincenzo. Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi nelle quali si contengono gl'idoli, riti, ceremonie, & altre cose appartenenti alla religione de gli antichi... Venezia, Francesco Ziletti, 1580.In-4° (mm 207x150). Segnatura: a-c⁴ d⁶ A-Aaaa⁴. [32] (di 36, mancano cc. d3-d4), 566 [i.e. 558], manca c. Aaaa4 bianca. Illustrazioni silografiche a piena pagina, iniziali e testatine incise su legno. Fioriture, primo fascicolo allentato, gore e tracce di sporco sulle carte, c. H2 con piccola menda al margine inferiore bianco. Legatura successiva in pelle, dorso a 5 nervi, tagli scuri. Piatti completamente scrostati e con diffuse mende, piatto anteriore staccato, angoli e bordi danneggiati. Interessante opera in particolare per il vasto apparato illustrativo di oltre 80 silografie a piena pagina di soggetto mitologico. Rispetto alle edizioni del 1556 e del 1571, la presente è ampliata e corretta e servì come base per l'impressione lionese apparsa nel 1581. Manca a Mortimer, Caillet e Cicognara. Annali Marcolini, 112; Bm. STC 152; Adams, C 789; Choix, 4280; Graesse II, 56; Brunet I, 1601.Cartari Vincenzo. Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi nelle quali si contengono gl'idoli, riti, ceremonie, & altre cose appartenenti alla religione de gli antichi... Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1580.4° (207x150 mm). Collation: a-c⁴ d⁶ A-Aaaa⁴. [32] (of 36, lacking ll. d3-d4), 566 [i.e. 558], lacks the blank leaf Aaaa4. Woodcut initials. Full-page woodcuts illustrations. Foxing, first quire loose, some waterstains, leaves somewhat soiled, repair to the blank bottom margin. Later calf binding, spine with five raised bands, dark edges. Front cover detached, covers conspicously damaged.An interesting edition illustrated with more than 80 woodcuts of mythological subject. The present edition is corrected and enlarged from the 1556 and 1571 editions. Not in Mortimer, Caillet e Cicognara. Annali Marcolini, 112; Bm. STC 152; Adams, C 789; Choix, 4280; Graesse II, 56; Brunet I, 1601.

Disegno/Drawing. Colombina Gaspare. Discorso distinto in quatro capitoli; nel primo de quali si discorre. Del disegno, e modi di essercitarsi in esso. Nel secondo. Della pittura, e qual deve esser il buon pittore. Nel terzo. De' modi di colorire, e sue distintioni. Nel quarto, et ultimo. Con quali lineamenti il dissegnatore, e con quali colori il pittore deve spiegare gli affetti principali, sì naturali, come accidentali nell'huomo, secondo l'arte della fisionomia... Padova, Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1623.In-folio (mm 270x204). [8] (di 9, manca c. A1 contenente il frontespizio) carte, con 21 (di 26) tavole calcografiche numerate incise da Philipp Esengren. Mancanti le tavole 19, 22, 24, 25 e 26. Iniziali, testatine e finalini silografici. Diffuse fioriture e tracce di sporco, qualche macchia e alone, fori di tarlo e strappi sui margini di alcune carte non lesivi del testo o del contenuto delle tavole. Qualche carta con braghette di rinforzo al margine interno. Annotazioni manoscritte sui margini di alcune tavole, schizzi a c. [chi]1r e al verso della tavola 23.Rarissima prima edizione di questo manuale di pittura e disegno, opera del padovano Gaspare Colombina (1580 ca.-1651) e illustrata dall'artista fiammingo Philipp Esengren (1594-1631). "Il volume, erroneamente attribuito dallo Schlosser (1964) nella sua integrità allo Hesengrin, è assai raro: un esemplare, più ampio di quello descritto da C. Bianconi al Comolli (1791) e da ritenere pertanto manipolato con l'inserimento di tavole estrapolate da un'opera autonoma (Il perfetto disegno, s. l. né d.) dell'incisore, proveniente dal monastero benedettino di Praglia, si conserva presso la Bibl. univers. di Padova (Cessi, 1958)." (DBI, sv). L'esemplare Cicognara manca della tavola 10, presente invece nell'esemplare qui offerto, e della tavola 25, ugualmente assente nel nostro. Cicognara, 331.Folio (270x204 mm). [8] (of 9, lacking the title-page fol. A1) leaves; 21 (of 26) copper engraved plates, engraved by Philipp Esengren. Wanting plates 19, 22, 24, 25 and 26. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Foxing, soiled, some spots and stains, wormholes and tears to the margin of some leaves and plates, not affecting the text. Some leaves reinforced to the gutter. Annotations on the margin of some plates, drawings on fol. [chi]1r and on the verso of plate 23.Very rare first edition of this Manual of painting and drawing by the Padoan Gaspare Colombina (1580 ca.-1651), illustrated with plates engraved by the flemish artist Philipp Esengren (1594-1631). The copy described by Cicognara lacks plate 10, present in our copy, and plate 25, wanting in our copy too. Cicognara, 331.

Doni Anton Francesco. I marmi... cioè ragionamenti introdotti à farsi da varie conditioni d'huomini, à luoghi di honesto piacere in Firenze... Diviso in quattro libri... Venezia, Giovanni Battista Bertoni, 1609. Una parte (di 4) in-4° (mm 195x140). [8], 66 pagine. Marca silografica al frontespizio, illustrazioni, capilettera, testatine e finalini tutto inciso su legno. Vignetta silografica entro cornice incisa al verso dell'ultima carta. Gore e tracce di polvere vaste e diffuse sulle carte, alle carte degli ultimi 2 fascicoli restauri integrativi ai margini superiore e inferiore che talvolta toccano i titoli correnti o il testo. Legatura rimontata in pergamena su cartone, timbro in oro al piatto anteriore Inner Temple. Aloni e macchie ai piatti. Timbro di appartenenza 'Inner Temple' ripetuto più volte al frontespizio e varie pagine; timbro 'Shelf List' al recto della carta di guardia anteriore.Solo prima parte di questa seconda edizione della raccolta di Ragionamenti di Anton Francesco Doni (1513-1574), che deve il suo titolo allo svolgersi delle discussioni e dei dialoghi inclusi nell'opera sui gradini in marmo del Duomo di Firenze.One part (of 4), 4° (195x140 mm). [8], 66 pages. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page, woodcut illustrations, initials, head- and tailpieces. Woodcut vignette on the verso of the last leaf. Waterstains, dusted, some restorations to the upper margins of the leaves of the final quires, sometimes affecting the text. Vellum over pasteboards (recased), gilt stamp on the upper cover (Inner Temple). Spots and stains on the covers. Ownership stamp 'Inner Temple' on the title-page and on other leaves; stamp 'Shelf List' on the front flyleaf. Only first part of the second edition of this collection of Ragionamenti by Anton Francesco Doni (1513-1574). The title of the work - I Marmi - is due to the marble step of the Florentine Cathedral where the dialogues take place.

Fascismo. Lotto di 3 opere.Il lotto comprende:Indro Montanelli. Il Buonuomo Mussolini. Milano, Edizioni Riunite, 1947.(mm 220x160). 108, [2] pagine. Leggere bruniture sui margini delle pagine. Brossura editoriale stampata in rosso e nero. Macchie e tracce di polvere ai piatti, bruniture. Prima edizione di questo testo pubblicistico e fortemente polemico di Montanelli, parte della collana Serie Polemica, n. 6. P.N.F. Le origini e lo sviluppo del Fascismo. Dall'intervento alla marcia su Roma. Roma, Libreria del Littorio, 1928. (mm 240x165). XV, 278, [2] pagine. Fioriture. Brossura editoriale stampata in rosso e nero. Fioriture e strappi ai bordi dei piatti, tracce di polvere, lacune al dorso.L'Internazionale ebraica. I "Protocolli dei "Savi Anziani" di Sion. Versione italiana con Appendice e Introduzione. Terza edizione 26°-35° migliaio. Roma, La Vita Italiana, 1938. (mm 225x160). XXX, 233, [3] pagine. Lievi bruniture e qualche fioritura. Brossura editoriale stampata in blu e rosso. Piatti con fioriture e qualche strappo, mende al dorso.Fascism. Lot of 3 works.The lot includes:Indro Montanelli. Il Buonuomo Mussolini. Milano, Edizioni Riunite, 1947.(220x160 mm). 108, [2] pages. Slightly browned. Publisher's wrappers printed in red and black. Some spots and traces of dust to the covers, browning. First edition of this argumentative work by the journalist Indro Montanelli; the book belongs to the book serie Serie Polemica, n. 6. P.N.F. Le origini e lo sviluppo del Fascismo. Dall'intervento alla marcia su Roma. Roma, Libreria del Littorio, 1928. (240x165 mm). XV, 278, [2] pages. Foxing. Publisher's wrappers. Foxing, tears to the covers, slightly dusted, losses to the spine. L'Internazionale ebraica. I "Protocolli dei "Savi Anziani" di Sion. Versione italiana con Appendice e Introduzione. Terza edizione 26°-35° migliaio. Roma, La Vita Italiana, 1938. (225x160 mm). XXX, 233, [3] pages. Light browning and foxing. Publisher's wrappers. Foxing and some tears to the covers, losses to the spine.

NO RESERVE Gozzi Gasparo. Opere in versi e in prosa... Tomo primo [-duodecimo]. Venezia, Carlo Palese, 1794.Dodici volumi in-12° (mm 180x105). [10], XXI, [1], 372, [8], mancante del ritratto dell'Autore; 396, [12]; 414, [6]; 392, [4]; 402, [6]; 436, [4]; 416; 394, [2]; 384, [12]; 370, [2]; 383, [1]; 429, [3] pagine. Vignetta silografica ai frontespizi, frontalini e finalini incisi su legno. Qualche isolata lieve fioritura. Legatura omogenea coeva o appena successiva (restaurata) in pergamena su cartone, titoli in oro su tassello (moderno) ai dorsi a 4 nervi. Lievi abrasioni ai piatti, qualche alone e traccia di polvere. Note manoscritte ai contropiatti del tomo primo.Edizione delle opere di Gozzi curata da Angelo Dalmistro, il cui nome si ricava dalla dedica a c. [*]3r. Twelve volumes, 12° (180x105 mm). [10], XXI, [1], 372, [8] pages, wanting the Author's portrait; 396, [12]; 414, [6]; 392, [4]; 402, [6]; 436, [4]; 416; 394, [2]; 384, [12]; 370, [2]; 383, [1]; 429, [3] pages. Woodcut vignette on the title-pages, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Light foxing. Contemporary (or a bit later) vellum on pasteboards (restored), gilt titles on modern label on the spines with four raised bands. Covers slightly abrased, some spots, slightly dusted. Handwritten notes on the pastedowns of first volume. Gozzi's works edition curated by Angelo Dalmistro, whose name is deduced from the inscription at fol. [*]3r.