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Lloyd (Llewelyn). The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an Account of the Seals and Salt-Water Fishes of those Countries, 1st edition, London: Day and Son Limited, 1867, 48 chromolithographic and 4 wood-engraved plates, lithographic folding map in end-pocket (supplied from another copy: pencilled note to front pastedown records map as missing), occasional spotting, half-title discarded, inner hinges strengthened, all edges gilt, original green pictorial cloth gilt, spine-ends consolidated, large 8vo, together with: ibid. The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway ... London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1867, half-title, 48 chromolithographic and 4 wood-engraved plates, lithographic folding map in end-pocket, closed tear in Q5, light nibbling to lower fore corners of index leaves, top edge gilt, original green pictorial cloth elaborately gilt, original publisher's name 'Day and Son' to spine, recased, tips slightly bumped and worn, large 8vo, Seebohm (Henry). The Birds of Siberia. A Record of a Naturalist's Visits to the Valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei, 1st collected edition, London: John Murray, 1901, half-title, folding map, light spotting, original pictorial cloth, very light fraying to spine-ends, 8vo, Harvie-Brown (J. A.). Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe. Norway, 1871. Archangel, 1872. Petchora, 1875, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905, half-titles, 23 halftone plates including frontispieces, 2 coloured plates, 4 maps (of which 3 folding), volume 2 signed by the author on the title-page, bookplates of Thomas Parkin (volume 1) and Oliver H. Wild (volume 2), top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original cloth, 8vo, and 2 similar worksQty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Anker 312 (Lloyd, first edition); Nissen IVB 569 (Lloyd, both editions); Wood p. 439 (Lloyd, first edition), 561 (Seebohm), 379 (Harvie-Brown); Zimmer p. 403 (Lloyd, second edition), 292-3 (Harvie-Brown). The second edition of Lloyd's work is understood to have been published by Frederick Warne in 1867, the same year as the first edition (by Day), but such copies appear to contain an edition statement on the title-page; our copy has no edition statement and is in a more elaborate binding than usually encountered, which also has the name of the original publisher Day and Son on the spine: this may suggest a remboitage or some kind of prize issue. Seebohm's The Birds of Siberia is a collected edition of his Siberia in Europe (1880) and Siberia in Asia (1882).

Meyer (Henry Leonard). Illustrations of British Birds, 4 volumes, London: Longman and Co, c.1835-44, lithographic title-pages (first issue, retaining the diaresis above 'Meyer', though one point missing in volume 2), 339 hand-coloured lithographic plates (of which 16 of eggs), one uncoloured lithographic plate, tissue-guards throughout, bound without the list of illustrations in each volume, occasional light spotting, volumes 1-2 title-page creased, Solan gannet plate in volume 4 either a poor contemporary impression or later good-quality facsimile (caption blurred), engraved armorial bookplates (with boar's heads couped and motto 'Nil desperandum'), all edges gilt, contemporary green half morocco by Oldfield, spines gilt with avian motifs, sides rubbed, possible recolouring and consolidation to joints and extremities, folio (36.4 x 26 cm), together with a set of the octavo edition, 7 volumes in 4, London: G. W. Nickisson [-Simpkin, Marshall and Co.], 1842-50, containing text only, with same bookplates as the folio edition, matching contemporary green half morocco gilt by OldfieldQty: (8)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Provenance (folio and octavo editions): 1) J. Ingram Travers the younger (1820-1866), director of Joseph Travers & Sons, London wholesale grocers (ownership inscriptions); 2) Gladys M. Towsey (gift inscription). Fine Bird Books p. 123; Freeman 2563; Mullens & Swann pp. 401-3; Nissen IVB 627; Wood p. 462 ('this truly magnificent work') 'One of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology, in fact before the publication of Lord Lilford's Birds of the British Islands it stood sui generis ' (Mullens & Swann). The first edition was published between 1835 and 1841, with 313 plates. According to Mullens and Swann, the second issue (published in 1837-44) 'is identical in appearance but is printed on stouter paper, and has a number of plates containing figures of eggs in the lower corners which are not in the first issue', while the second edition (1838-44) contains 317 plates, many redrawn to face left instead of right. However, the concurrence of the different issues and editions means that plates were often interchanged or duplicated, and Meyer often produced extra plates for friends and associates, meaning that 'hardly any two copies ... [are] alike' (ibid.).

Meyer (Henry Leonard). Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs, 7 volumes, mixed editions, London: G. W. Nickisson [George Willis ... Simpkin, Marshall & Co. ... Willis and Sotheran], 1842-57, 427 hand-coloured lithographic plates (of which 322 of birds, 105 of eggs), 8 uncoloured lithographic plates, errata leaf, tissue-guards, occasional spotting, etched bookplates of H. G. Stephenson to volumes 2 and 4-6 and earlier bookplate of John Cleminson to volume 7, top edges gilt, volumes 1-2 and 4-7 in contemporary green half morocco with gilt spines incorporating avian motifs, volume 3 in modern green half morocco to match, spines sunned (volume 3 spine deliberately coloured thus), rubbed, 8vo (21.7 x 13.5 cm)Qty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Fine Bird Books p. 123; Freeman 2563; Mullens & Swann pp. 403-4; Nissen IVB 628; Wood p. 462; Zimmer p. 433 (a mixed set). The first octavo edition of Meyer's Illustrations of British Birds (1835-41) was first published in 1842-50, and another edition appeared in 1853-7. The imprints of this mixed set are: volume I, G. W. Nickisson, 1842; II, George Willis, 1853); III Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1846; IV, G. Willis, 1855; V, G. Willis, 1855; VI, Willis & Sotheran, no date; VII, Willis & Sotheran, 1857. According to Wood, the 1853-7 edition has one extra egg plate, but lacks the two uncoloured bird plates found in the second volume of the 1842-50 edition. Such changes make it difficult and perhaps undesirable to ascertain an ideal collation for a mixed set, and there is disagreement even on the collation of unmixed sets. Our set appears nevertheless to contain the maximal number of plates available. For the 1842-50 edition Nissen cites 432 plates of which 102 are of eggs, all being coloured, and 435 plates for the 1853-7 edition, including 105 eggs and 8 uncoloured plates. Wood cites a total of 432 plates for the 1842-50 edition, comprising 330 birds and 102 eggs, while noting that this differs from the Mullens and Swann collation of '432 plates, mostly coloured (322 of birds and 110 of eggs)'; his collation for the 1853-7 edition, by contrast, cites 431 plates, of which 328 are birds and 103 are eggs.

Millais (John Guille). The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, half-titles, limitation leaves, title-pages in red and black, 243 photogravure, colour, chromolithographic or halftone plates after Millais , Thorburn, and others or from photographs, tissue-guards, very occasional light spotting, a few chromolithographic plates with light paper residue from tissue-guards, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, top edges gilt, contemporary green crushed half morocco gilt by Morrell, spines sunned to tan, a couple of small tears to morocco on backstrip of volume 2, large 4to (34.2 x 30.2 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Nissen ZBI 2819; Wood p. 464 ('Truly beautiful reproductions of the artist's best work'). First edition, number 548 of 1,025 copies only, this copy with two autograph letters signed from Millais, dated 3 March and 22 June, with pencil annotations by David Wilson dating the letters specifically to 1905 and identifying the recipient as naturalist Charles Oldham (1868-1942); there is also an envelope annotated by Wilson, 'Two autographed letters by author to Charles Oldham, from Oldham's copy bought by Anthony Cheke from Wheldon & Wesley'. In the first letter Millais responds to Oldham's criticism of his description of voles (see volume 2, pp. 234-5); in the second he solicits further advice on voles and acknowledges his use of Oldham's 'excellent notes on the noctule [bat]' (see volume 1 pp. 61-75).

New Naturalists. The Natural History of Orkney. R J. Berry [and:] British Warblers. Eric Simms, 2 volumes, London: Collins, 1985, British Warblers with faint indentation to foot of first few leaves including title-page, each with spotting to top edges, each bound in original green buckram and with dust jacket retaining clear Duraseal protector, 8voQty: (2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Berhnard & Loe NN70A & 71A. First edition, first state of each work, numbers 70 and 71 and the two rarest titles in the New Naturalist series; 725 copies of each were printed. The Natural History of Orkney is signed by the author on the front free endpaper, and contains a laid-in typed letter signed from the author to David Wilson dated 7 November 1984. British Warblers is signed by jacket designer Robert Gillmor and illustrator Ian Wallace on the dust jacket front flap.

New Naturalists. The Soil; British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails; Caves and Cave Life; Wild & Garden Plants; Ladybirds; The New Naturalists [2 copies], 7 volumes, 1st editions, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992-5, each in original green buckram with dust jacket, The Soil, British Larks, Wild & Garden Plants and Ladybirds each also with duplicate first-edition dust jacket, one The New Naturalists jacket faded, the other signed by jacket designer Robert Gillmor on the front flap, 8voQty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Bernhard & Loe NN77A-82AA. Numbers 77 to 82 in the New Naturalist series.

Seebohm (Henry). A History of British Birds, with Notes on their Classification and Geographical Distribution, 2nd edition, London: John C. Nimmo, 1896, 68 chromolithographic plates of eggs, edges untrimmed, original green cloth, extremities rubbed and bumped, tear to volume 4 headcap, large 8vo, together with: ibid. Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds, 1st edition, Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 60 chromolithographic plates of eggs numbered 1-59, original red cloth gilt, a bright copy, large 8vo, Yarrell (William). A History of British Birds, 3 volumes, 1st edition, large-paper issue, London: John van Voorst, 1839-43, volumes 1 and 2 with half-titles, title-pages and additional text-leaves 268/9, 316/17, 420/1 and 232/3 bound in at rear of volume 3 but with original temporary title-pages (without engraved vignettes) to front and Temporary Index to rear (all as issued), volume 3 with half-title (no temporary title-page issued) and xxxii pp. index, 4 pp. advertisements to volume 1 and 8 pp. advertisements with original wrappers to volume 3, wood-engraved vignettes throughout, engraved armorial bookplates (William Martin), edges untrimmed, original diaper cloth, printed paper spine-labels, large 8vo, ibid. A History of British Birds, 4 volumes, 4th edition ('revised and enlarged by Alfred Newton [-Howard Saunders]'), London: John van Voorst, 1871-85, half-titles to volumes 2-4, errata slips to volumes 1, 3 and 4, wood-engravings throughout, pencilled ownership inscriptions of E. W. H. Blagg dated 1889 to front free endpapers, bookplates of Thomas William Daltry (1832-1904), clergyman and amateur naturalist to front pastedowns ('The Daltry Library, Stoke on Trent 1904'), original wavy-grain blue cloth, spines sunned, headcaps slightly nicked and frayed, 8vo, Gurney (John Henry, junior). The Gannet. A Bird with a History, 1st edition, London: Witherby & Co., 1913, map frontispiece, 4 plates (sometimes counted as 5: one plate is double-sided), illustrations throughout (many full-page but counted in pagination), all edges gilt, original green cloth gilt, 8voQty: (10)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Anker 456-7 (Seebohm, both works); Mullens & Swann pp. 517-18 (Seebohm, both works), 671 (Yarrell); Nissen IVB 851 (Seebohm, History ), 849 (Seebohm, Coloured Figures ), 1029 (Yarrell), 401 (Gurney); Wood pp. 561 (Seebohm, both works), 639 (Yarrell), 372 (Gurney). This second edition of Seebohm's History comprises a re-issue of the text of the first edition (1883-5), with the plates newly printed in Paris; the work has 'no connection' with his Coloured Figures (Mullens & Swann).

Smythies (Bertram E.) . Birds of Burma, 1st edition, Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press, 1940, 31 colour plates after A. M. Hughes including frontispiece, captioned tissue-guards, folding map to rear, corrigenda leaf, without errata slip, shallow marginal loss to plate 5 and pp. 3-10, 95-115, 403-433 and 531-589 (David Wilson's pencilled note 'Nibbled edges attributed to the Marquis of Exeter's parrots' to front free endpaper), finely bound in green crushed half morocco gilt, marbled sides, 8vo (23 x 15 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Nissen IVB 882. According to Smythies's introduction to the second edition (Edinburgh, 1953) the first was printed in a run of 1,000 copies, most of which were 'bought by Europeans living in Burma, and left behind by them when they evacuated before the Japanese invasion in 1942 ... The Japanese collected as many as they could and shipped them off to Tokyo, where they housed them in the library of the Royal Veterinary College, later destroyed in an air raid'.

Yarrell (William). A History of British Fishes [ ... Supplement ... Second Supplement ... edited by Sir John Richardson], 3 volumes, 1st editions, London: John van Voorst, 1836-39-60, half-titles to volumes 1-2, volume 3 (containing the two supplements) with additional title-page ('for the convenience of those who may have already bound the First Edition in 2 vols.'), engraved portrait and 'Notice to the Binder', wood-engravings throughout, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary tan calf gilt by Charles Cooper of Birmingham, 8vo (21.5 x 13 cm), together with: A History of British Birds, 3 volumes, 2nd edition [and:] Second Supplement. Being also a First Supplement to the Second Edition, 1st edition, London: John van Voorst, 1845 & 1856, wood-engravings throughout, half-titles discarded, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary tan calf gilt by Hayday uniform with the previous work, scuffing to spines and covers, 8vo (21.6 x 13.2 cm)Qty: (7)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Provenance: Hanbury Barclay (1836-1909; engraved bookplates, his bishop's mitre and dove devices gilt to spines, gift inscription 'Hanbury Barclay, from Francis Hoare, Oct 18 1852' to Birds , volume one initial blank). Anker p. 58 (Birds); Freeman 4176 & 4177; Mullens & Swann p. 671 (Birds); Nissen IVB 1029 (Birds); Nissen ZBI 4488 (Fishes); Wood pp. 638 & 639; cf. Zimmer p. 698 (Birds).

[Smith, John]. Select Views in Italy, with Topographical and Historical Descriptions in English and French, London: by W. Bulmer and Co., for J. Smith, W. Byrne, and J. Edwards, 1796 [i.e. c.1817], 72 engraved plates on india paper, mounted, letterpress title-page, list of plates, and 'Introduction', each plate with leaf of descriptive text (except plates 2, 6, 23, 24: each with 2 leaves), bound without engraved dedication, occasional offsetting, plate 25 repaired in margin, plate 42 browned in one corner, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain dark red morocco gilt, large arabesque centrepieces in blind to covers, 4to (28.6 x 20.6 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: James Lewis (contemporary engraved bookplate, motto 'in est clementia forti'). Cf. ESTC T147454 for the first edition, which was in oblong folio.

[Stamp Act]. Group of pamphlets, 1766, comprising: 1. [Pitt, William, the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham]. The Celebrate Speech of a Celebrated Commoner, London: for Stephen Austin, 1766, [2] 18 pp., without half-title, 2. The Answer at Large to Mr P--tt's Speech, 1st edition, London: for W. Nicoll, 1766, 22 pp., 3. The Rights of Parliament Vindicated, on Occasion of the late Stamp-Act. In which is exposed the Conduct of the American Colonists. Addressed to all the People of Great Britain, London: for J. Almon, 1766, 44 pp., 4. A Parallel; drawn between the Administration in the Four last Years of Queen Anne, and the Four First of George the Third. By a Country Gentleman, London: J. Almon, 1766, 3-35 pp., without half-title and advertisement leaf, 5. [Cotes, Humphrey]. An Enquiry into the Conduct of a Late Right Honourable Commoner. The Second Impression, London: for J. Almon, 1766, 2-72 pp., without half-title, (and 1 other America-related pamphlet: A Testimony of the Monthly Meeting of Friends at Pyrmont in Westphalia, Germany, concerning John Pemberton, of Philadelphia in North America, London: reprinted by James Phillips & Son, 1798, 36 pp.), all disbound, occasional toning and soiling, manuscript numbering to title-pages, 8voQty: (6)NOTESESTC T28971 (nine UK copies), T108355 (five UK copies), N13027 (one UK copy: Manchester), T43633 (six UK copies), T64631 (four copies world-wide); Sabin 63066, 63083, 71374, 58540, 17027.

London. Greenwood (C. & J.), Map of London from an Actual Survey made in the years 1824, 1825 & 1826..., Published by the Proprietors, Greenwood Pringle & Co., 1st edition, August 21, 1827, uncoloured map engraved by James & Josiah Neele in 36 sections, laid on later card in six parts, calligraphic cartouche and table of explanation, dedication to George IV, inset views of St Pauls and Westminster Abbey, damp staining around the title has caused discolouration and fraying with some loss to the printed surface, other small areas of loss where old folds cross, overall size 1240 x 1825 mmQty: (1)NOTESHowgego, Printed Maps of London 1553 - 1850, 309, state 1. The Greenwood brothers Christopher and John spent three years preparing this remarkable new survey of London, prepared on the lavish scale of 8 inches to a mile, illustrating for the first time the planned development of Belgravia by Thomas Cubitt, the completion of the Grand Surrey Canal and Regent's Park one year before it was completed in 1828.

Kottenkamp (Franz). History of Chivalry and Ancient Armour ... Translated from the German by the Rev A. Löwy, 1st edition in English, London: Willis & Sotheran, 1857, [4] pp., 110 columns, [5] pp., 62 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened with metallic paints, of which many folding, occasional spotting and offsetting mainly to folding plates, plates 6 and 30 loose, plate 6 also nicked, plate 30 evidently sometime bound as frontispiece (offset onto title-page) and with contemporary gift inscription to reverse, a few creases and other marks, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, spine defective, front board detached, oblong 4toQty: (1)NOTESColas 2525 & Lipperheide 2096 for the first edition, published at Stuttgart in 1842 as Der Rittersaal . Sold as a collection of prints.

Lyndwood (William). Constitutiones provinciales ecclesiae Anglica[na]e, Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 15 April 1499, signatures A-S8, 142 leaves (of 144: lacking K1 and S8, the latter blank except for printer's device verso) , black letter, 21 lines and headline, woodcut of a bishop to a1 recto, occasional light soiling and damp-staining, a1 more strongly marked and dust-soiled, and with restored loss to fore corners touching a few letters of title recto and headline and initial capital verso, frequent contemporary marginalia and corrections in black ink (often trimmed), later ink annotations to title and colophon, later vellum, small square 8vo (12.9 x 8.9 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) St Mary's Seminary, Oscott, Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom, without library markings, but deaccessioned sometime in the 1960s-70s and acquired by John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller, who traded (as E. M. Lawson) in Sutton Coldfield until 1968. St Mary's sold about a quarter of their rare-book collection the 1960s-70s, and these books have no library markings; in the late 1980s and early 1990s St Mary's sold off further books from their collections, and these usually are marked. The lot is sold with the express permission of St Mary's Seminary. 2) Thence by descent. Beale T402; Bod-Inc-L208; Duff 280 (citing this copy); ESTC S104884; Goff L-415; ISTC il00415000; STC 17104. Second Wynkyn de Worde edition, an English incunable, one of seven copies known. The remaining copies are held by Lambeth Palace, Corpus Christi (Oxford), the Bodleian Library and the John Rylands Library in the United Kingdom, and the Folger Library and the Grolier Glub in the United States. Written between 1422 and 1432, the Provinciale is the classic account of English canon law, collecting the most important ecclesiastical degrees enacted by the archbishops of Canterbury between the Council of Oxford in 1222 and the archiepiscopate of Henry Chichele, at whose encouragement the book was written. 'The Reformation did not curtail its currency in England. Because the scope of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England was not fundamentally changed during the sixteenth century, ecclesiastical lawyers continued to use the Provinciale . Its influence has been quite long-lasting. Edmund Gibson testified to its influence upon later generations in his Codex juris ecclesiastici Anglicani (1713), and in the twentieth century it was used in the draft revision of English canon law of 1947 produced by the Vaisey Commission . The relevance of its treatment of English ecclesiastical practice recommended it even to English common lawyers. Their citation of the glosses of the Provinciale when questions of ecclesiastical law arose in the royal courts is a continuing feature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reports' (R. H. Helmholz in ODNB ). In the nineteenth century it was the subject of a now legendary debate between F. W. Maitland and William Stubbs on the authority of provincial versus papal legislation in the medieval period. The work was first printed at Oxford in 1483 by Theodoric Rood, and by Wynkyn in 1496. A copy of the 1496 edition was sold at Sotheby's in 1987 (23 October); four copies of Rood's edition (all imperfect) were sold there between 1913 and 1947. Wynkyn's 1499 edition is noteworthy as one of the last books he printed before leaving his Westminster premises for London in 1500/01, a move which has been identified with a new publishing policy by which Wynkyn 'turned away from the courtly material favoured by Caxton , which had led him to settle at Westminster, to religious, popular, and educational books, which were better distributed from London' (N. F. Blake in ODNB ). We trace no copy of the 1499 edition in auction records.

Sabundus (Raimundus). Theologia naturalis, sive liber creaturarum specialiter de homine et de natura eius inquantum homo. Et de his quae sunt ei necessaria ad conoscendum seipsum et deum, et omne debitum ad quod homo tenetur et obligatur tam deo quam primo, Strassburg: Martin Flach, 7 February 1501, 162 leaves, signatures [pi]6 a8 b-y6 z8 zeta6 antisigma8, text in double column, 50 lines and headline, gothic types, printed guide letters, contents toned, small intercolumnar worm-track throughout, frequently touching text to loss of a letter from quire h, similar worm-tracks in right-hand column of leaves pi1-3 and quires z-antisigma and in fore margins from signature s5 occasionally touching side-notes, tide-marks to head of gutter in quire f, upper fore corners of quires i-l and t, and fore margin of quire antisigma (with shallow area of loss to final leaf not affecting text), tide-mark touching text in signature antisigma 1, contemporary marginalia to t1 verso, t3 and x5 recto, and y4 recto and verso, free endpapers excised, contemporary manuscript catch-title to top edge, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin, top spine compartment restored in vellum, folio (28.2 x 20 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Adam Haussman (ownership inscriptions dated 1516 to front pastedowns); Couvent Notre-Dame de Nazareth des pénitents réformés du tiers-ordre de Saint-François, Paris (ink-stamp 'Conv. Nazar' and inscriptions to title-page and second leaf) VD16 R 173; this edition not in Adams (Koberger's 1502 edition being the earliest there listed). Rare post-incunable edition of the first work of natural theology to be named as such, first printed c.1484/5 (see Blum, Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism , p. 92). An important elaboration of the 'book of nature' metaphor, the work was an influence on Montaigne, whose French translation appeared in 1569. Raimundus Sabundus, also Ramon Sibiuda (d.1436), was a Catalan Franciscan scholar who taught medicine, philosophy and theology at the university of Toulouse, where during the 1430s he held the position of rector.

Nider (Johannes). Consolatorium timorate conscientie, [Paris]: Jean Petit, c.1503-18, [104] leaves, signatures a-n8, gothic letter, 32 lines and headline, printer's large woodcut device to title-page, old manuscript foliation, toning, leaves a1-2 slightly soiled and with early inscriptions, a few other light marks, early vellum manuscript waste used as initial and terminal blanks, modern limp vellum, yapp edges, front cover sprung, square 8vo (13.9 x 9 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller; 2) By descent. Not in Adams (the earliest edition there cited being 1532). Jean Petit printed three editions, circa 1503, 1509, and 1518, distinguishable by the state of his device on the title-page (see Moreau, Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle , I 111:104, I 332:145 and II 495:1908). Johannes Nider (c.1380-1438), was a German theologian and an important early writer on witchcraft. His Consolatorium timorate conscientie was first printed c.1470 in Cologne.

[Abravanel, Judah]. Dialoghi di amore, di Leone Hebreo medico. Di nuovo corretti; et ristampati, Venice: Domenico Giglio, 1558, worming in gutter (affecting text in quires B, E-F, I-K and 2H), 2H7-8 blank, manuscript catch-title to bottom edge, contemporary limp vellum, ties perished, soiled, 8vo (15.4 x 10.2 cm), together with: [Branteghem, Willem van]. Jesu Christi vita, juxta quatuor Evangelistarum enarrationes, artificio graphices perquam eleganter picta, una com totius anni Evangeliis ac Epistolis, 2nd edition, Antwerp: Matthew Crom, 1541, woodcut title border, half-page woodcut vignettes throughout the text, light browning, fore edges of front free endpaper, A1-2 and G3 repaired or strengthened, spine guarded with contemporary vellum manuscript fragments, contemporary limp vellum, ties perished, 8vo (15.6 x 9.5 cm), Staphylus (Friedrich). Theologiae Lutheranae trimembris epitome, 1st edition, Antwerp: Jan Verwithagen, 1558, woodcut title device, old ownership inscription 'J. F. Vandevelde, Lovanii', bookplate to front pastedown, 20th-century collector's ink-stamps to front pastedown and free endpaper, c.1700 marbled calf, rebacked, worn, 8vo (13.7 x 8.3 cm), Irenaeus (Saint). Contra haereses, Paris: Vivant Gaultherot, 1545, worming (often affecting text), front inner hinge cracked, contemporary blind-tooled ?deerskin, 8vo (16.6 x 10.6 cm)Qty: (4)NOTESAdams A63, B1825, S1641, I152. Abravanel's Dialoghi di Amore is considered a key work in the transition from medieval to Renaissance Jewish philosophy; first published at Rome in 1535 (in Italian), it was widely translated and read throughout Europe.

Hierocles of Alexandria. [Greek title] Commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina. Joan. Curterio interprete, Paris: at the shop of Nicolas Nivelle [... by Stéphane Prévosteau], 1583, parallel Greek and Latin text, toning, marginal damp-staining to quires M-N, early monogram ownership inscription and light staining to title-page, old vellum over flexible boards, ties perished, 12mo (14.4 x 8.5 cm), together with: Theocritus. [Greek title] Idyllia et epigrammata cum mss. Palat. collata. Moschi, Bionis, Simmii opera quae exstant. Josephi Scaligeri et Isaaci Casauboni emendationes seorsim dabuntur, [Heidelberg]: Hieronymus Commelin, 1596, bound with: ibid. Scholia euriskomena eis ta Theokritou Eidyllia [graece], [Heidelberg]: Commelin, 1601, 2 works in 1 volume, first work in 3 parts and with parallel Greek and Latin text, second work in Greek throughout and with woodcut title border, light browning, tightly bound, modern half calf, 8vo (16.2 x 9.2 cm), Isocrates. Scripta, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia, Graecolatina, postremo recognita: Hieronymo Wolfio interprete, Basel: ex officina Oporiniana, 1571, retaining colophon leaf 2F8, title-leaf frayed in gutter and fore margin, laid down and with early ink inscriptions, clipped imprint from an English book pasted to margins of title-page and index leaf 2F7 verso, mid-20th-century half sheep, 8vo (17.5 x 10.9 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESAdams P2313 (Hierocles), T474 (Theocritus, 1596 edition, Adams's collation omitting part 2, 'Josephi Scaligeri ... emendationes', signatures [superscript 2]A-B8), I216 (Isocrates); VD17 39:138585W (Theocritus, 1601 edition).

Latimer (Hugh). Fruitfull Sermons ... newly imprinted with others not heeretofore set in print, London: [by W. Jaggard] for the Company of Stationers, 1607, text in black letter, woodcut title-device, tailpiece and initials, tide-mark throughout, soiling to quire 2X, marginal worming to quires 3G-3I, last few headlines shaved, ownership inscription 'W Harte' to title, gilt edges, 19th-century calf, gilt spine, joints worn, 4to in 8s (18.5 x 13.1 cm), together with: Herodian. His History of Twenty Roman Caesars and Emperors (of his Time.) Relating the strange Conjunctures and Accidents of State, that hapned in Europe, Asia, and Afrike, in the Revolution of Seenty Yeeres ... interpreted out of the Greeke Originall, 2nd edition in English, London: for Hugh Perry, 1629, toning and damp-staining, quires b-c misbound between quires 2K and 3A, title-page heavily soiled and with marginal repairs, further marginal repairs to D2 and 2O1-2, side-notes on 2K4 shaved, 3D4 lower fore corner extended, modern panelled leather, gilt spine, 4to (18 x 12.2 cm), Luther (Martin). A Commentarie upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians ... now out of Latine faithfully translated into English for the unlearned [bound with:] A Commentarie upon the Fifteene Psalmes, called Psalmi Graduum, that is, Psalmes of Degrees ... translated out of Latine into English by Henry Bull, 2 works in 1 volume, London: by Richard Field, 1616-15, both works in black letter, variable browning, the first with occasional light damp-staining, old repairs to front free endpaper and head of title-page verso, minor paper-disruption to foot of F5-6 partly obscuring one word, the second retaining final blank, early ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and title-page, contemporary calf, rebacked and restored, Gregory (John). The Works. In two Parts: the First containing Notes and Observations upon several Passages in Scripture; the second his Posthuma, being divers Learned Tracts upon various Subjects, 4th edition ('corrected'), London: by M. Clark for Rich. Royston, Benj. Tooke and Tho. Sawbridge, 1684, Hebrew and Arabic types, woodcut illustrations, damp-staining to initial leaves, contemporary calf, worn, later spine-label, 4to (19.6 x 15.2 cm), Hussey (Joseph). A Warning from the Winds. A Sermon preach'd upon Wednesday, January XIX, 1703/4, being the day of Publick Humiliation, for the late Terrible, and Awakning [sic] Storm of Wind, sent in Great Rebuke upon this Kingdom. November xxvi, xxvii. 1703, [bound with:] The Stroke of Divine Soveraignty: or, a Sermon on the Death of Mrs. Mary Hussey, my late dear Wife, who sweetly slept in Jesus, January 29. 1703/4, 2 works in 1 volume, 1st editions, London: for William and Joseph Marshall, 1704, each work with printer's slip pasted to title-page verso, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked, 4to (20.8 x 15.5 cm), and 1 other (Gauden, Eikon Basilike, 1649, with portrait, not collated, Madan number unknown)Qty: (6)NOTESESTC T9652 (Hussey, Warning , nine copies world-wide), T69848 (Hussey, Stroke , eleven copies world-wide); STC 15282 (Latimer), 13222 (Herodian), 16973 (Luther, Galathians ), 16976 (Luther, Fifteene Psalmes ); Wing G1915 (Gregory). Herodian's work was first printed in English c.1556; this 1629 edition is a different translation.

Aleman (Mateo). Primera y Segunda Parte de Guzman de Alfarache, Burgos: Iuan Bautista Varesio, 1619, title with typographical borders and central ornaments, woodcut initials, a little damage with loss to imprint on title and somewhat soiled and detached, 7 further preliminary leaves torn away with very minor loss of text, some staining and spotting throughout, occasional worm tracks including one longer running worm track affecting lower lines of final three signatures, contemporary vellum soiled 4to (19.5 x 14 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESPalau I, 6699. A slightly defective copy of this rare early edition of Aleman's famous picaresque romance, and one of the few 17th-century editions in quarto. The first English translation appeared in 1622.

Fale (Thomas). Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: teaching, an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of Dials upon any plaine plat howsoever placed. With the drawing of the twelve Signes, and houres unequall in them all. Whereunto is annexed the making and use of other Dials and Instruments, whereby the houre of the day and night is knowne: of speciall use and delight, not only for Students of the Arts Mathematicall, but also for divers Artificers, Architects, Surveyours of buildings, free-Masons and others, London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1633, [4], 60 [16] leaves, foliated, woodcut illustration of a dial to title page, woodcut initials, and numerous large woodcut diagrams and illustrations throughout (by Jodocus Hondius), pale browning to upper blank margins of title and several preliminary leaves, extensive near-contemporary manuscript notes and diagrams in brown ink to front endpaper, verso of final leaf of text, rear endpaper and inside covers, contemporary limp vellum, some soiling and darkening to spine and outer edges, with indistinct manuscript annotations to upper cover, and ownership initials 'IG' to centre of upper cover, with upper portion of the upper cover now missing (probably rodent-gnawed), small 4toQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: C. E. Kenney, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.I.C.S.; his sale, Sotheby's Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection, The Property of C. E. Kenney, Third Portion, Science and Surveying A to G, Monday 28th March, 1966, to Thorpe; John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. STC 10681 (3 copies in the U.S. and 5 elsewhere). Fourth edition of the earliest English treatise on dialling, or the design of sundials, and the author's only known publication. First published in 1593, it was reissued by Felix Kyngston in 1626, 1627, 1633 and 1652. The last 16 leaves comprise a table of sines, and was the first trigonometrical table to be printed in England. The author identifies Hondius as the engraver of the diagrams in his dedication to Thomas Osborne 'one M. Iod Hondius, who hath shewed himselfe an excellent workeman in the great Globes set forth by M. Mullineux, and the Maps of England for M. Camdens booke'. The extensive and highly technical annotations at the front and rear of the volume provide examples of how to make a variety of sundials, as well as a description of a visit to a clock maker in Bankside, London, on August 6th 1657: "Aug. 6th 1657 was at Mr Ahasuerus Foremantle at ye Bankside, & saw an exelent clock that he bin studying and making, at tymes tweenty yeers and stood him in 200 LL,: & it went with springs: & turned upon a spindle like a windmill it was about 13 inches square & 30 inches high: one the foreface it had a hand to point the houer going round in 12 houres & upon the same center went another hand about in one hower shewing the minuts. and right under the center of the hand was a motion that went about once a yeer rasing the 12 signes with a litle pointer fixed to the center of the hand; which shewed in what sine & deg the [sun] was in each day in the yeer...". A pencil transcription of this text (on the rear inside cover) accompanies the volume.

Carew (Thomas). Poems, with a Maske ... The third edition revised and enlarged [ ... Coelum Britannicum. A Maske], London: printed for H[umphrey] M[oseley] and are to be sold by J. Martin, 1651, in 2 parts, with separate dated title-page to Coelum Britannicum, bound with: Davenant (Sir William) . Gondibert: an Heroick Poem, London: printed for John Holden, and are to be sold at his shop, 1651, woodcut title-device, type-ornament headpieces, 2 works in 1 volume, comb-marbled pastedowns, all edges gilt, contemporary mottled calf for John Evelyn, spine with red morocco label to second compartment, alternate compartments gilt with gryphon passant motif or Evelyn's wreathed cipher, covers gilt with concentric French fillets enclosing Evelyn's cipher to corners and gryphon motif to centre, spine expertly consolidated at head and foot, partial loss to cipher in bottom compartment through action of mottling acid (now stabilised), front joint superficially cracked but firm, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) John Evelyn (1620-1706) (armorial binding; inked manuscript press-marks 'Euterpe 17' and 'L. 51' to initial binder's blank, both lightly deleted). 2) The Evelyn Library Part I, Christie, Manson & Woods, 23 June 1977, lot 300 ('JE' monogram bookplate to front pastedown); sold to Bernard Quaritch for £900. 3) Robert S. Pirie (1934-2015), acquired from Quaritch in 1982; his sale, Sotheby's New York, 2-4 December 2015, lot 364 (bookplate to front free endpaper). 4) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. 5) Thence by descent. ESTC R21803 & R15933; Grolier Wither to Prior 143 & 246 ; Pforzheimer 129 (Carew); Wing C565 & D326; cf. Pforzheimer 232 for the first edition of Davenant's work. The third edition of Carew's work is noted for containing 'the first appearance of the three poems added, apparently at the last moment, at the end' (Pforzheimer): 'To his Mistris', 'In Praise of his Mistris', and 'To Celia, upon Love's Ubiquity'. This copy is of the second issue, with a cancel title-page containing Martin's name in the imprint; Pforzheimer had not seen a copy of the first issue. This is the second edition of Gondibert , which was first printed in quarto earlier the same year.

Fale (Thomas). Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: Teaching, an Easie and Perfect way to make all kindes of Dials upon any plain plat howsoever placed..., London: Printed by Felix Kingstone, 1652, [4], 90 [i.e. 60], [10] leaves, title cropped at head and to fore-edge margin, lacking final 6 leaves, dust-soiled and some fraying, disbound 4to (Wing F310; ESTC R16336), together with: [Puget de la Serre, Jean] , Le secretaire du cabinet, ou la manière d'écrire que l'on pratique a la Cour...derniere edition, Paris: Nicolas Le Gras, 1693, woodcut device and early ink inscription on title, last leaf of table torn to fore-edge margin, closed tear to leaf I7, some spotting, wormhole in upper margin, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, worn, 8vo, and with a selection of defective & incomplete 17th century works, fragments and odd leaves of letterpress, etc., including The Common-Wealths Great Ship, commonly called the Soveraigne of the Seas, built in the yeare, 1637. With a true and exact dimension of her bulk and burden..., London: printed by M. Simmons, for Tho: Jenner, 1653, leaves torn with loss, disbound 4to; The Queens Closet Opened 2 parts in one, [including: A Queens Delight: or, the Art of Preserving, Conserving. amd Candying], by W.M., London: Nathaniel Brook, 1656, first part torn and incomplete, second part 'A Queens Delight' complete, disbound 12moQty: (A carton)NOTESSold with all faults, not subject to return.

Charleton (Walter). Two Discourses. I. Concerning the Different Wits of Men: written at the Request of a Gentleman Eminent in Vertue, Learning, Fortune. II. The Mysterie of Vintners, or a Discourse concenring the Various Sicknesses of Wines, and their Respective Remedies at this Day commonly used. Delivered to the Royal Society, assembled in Gresham-Colledge, 1st edition, London: printed by R. W. for William Whitwood, 1669, frequent contemporary marginalia between pp. 173 and 229, without intial blank A1 but retaining final blank Q4 (neither listed in ESTC), 20th-century panelled calf, 8vo (16.8 x 10.8 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESCagle 597; ESTC R201006 (three copies world-wide); Hunter & McAlpine pp. 193-5; Wing C3694; cf. Bitting p. 83 (later editions), Gabler G15600 (providing the title of the re-issue). First edition, first issue; the re-issue, with an abbreviated cancel title-page ('Two discourses. I. Concerning the different wits of men. II. Of the mysterie of vintners'), is more usually encountered. The first part, 'Concerning the Different Wits of Men', is said to have been consulted by John Locke. The second part 'contains wine recipes, and advice on how to "help wine with an ill flavour," and other wine related advice ... all sorts of concoctions are suggested to revive sour and ill tasting wines' (Gabler).

[Ferguson, Robert]. A Just and Modest Vindication of the Scots Design, for the having Established a Colony at Darien. With a Brief Display, how much it is their Interest, to apply themselves to Trade, and particularly to that which is Foreign, 1st edition, [Edinburgh?: s.n.], Printed in the Year, 1699, first & last blank leaves present, browning and light spotting, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, morocco title label, 8voQty: (1)NOTESESTC R21931; Wing F742; Goldsmiths’ 3583; Sabin 32340.

Keach (Benjamin). Instructions for Children: or, the Child's and Youth's Delight, teaching an Easier Way to Spell and Read True English. Directing Parents in a Right and Spiritual Manner, to Educate their Children. With a Scripture Catechism, wherein all the Chief Principles of True Christianity, are clearly opened. Together, with many other Things, both Pleasant and Useful, for the Education of Children. Recommended to the Use of all Parents and School-Masters, by H. Knowls. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, London: printed by T. Mead for Eliz. Harris, 1699, signatures A-H9 [sic] I12, pp. [4] 164, engraved frontispiece, browning, occasional soiling, signatures C5-6 torn with loss, a few nicks and closed tears in quire I, contemporary sheep, rebacked and restored, 12mo (12 x 6.3 cm), and 1 other (Hieroglyphick Bible, 1792, defective)Qty: (2)NOTESNot in ESTC or Wing; no other copy traced. First published in 1664 as The Child's Instructor, Keach's primer attacked child baptism, advocated lay preaching and 'expressed explicitly millenarian sentiments' (ODNB); the work was intercepted by a local Anglican rector, Keach was pilloried for his troubles and the entire edition of 1,500 copies was burnt. The earliest extant edition with an ascertainable date was printed at New York in 1695, and survives in one known copy. ESTC cites a third edition which it dates to 1704 on internal evidence, and which survives in two copies only, but is presumably earlier than the present edition. The work went to a thirtieth edition by 1763, and was widely printed in Pennsylvania, but only a handful of editions and copies appear to have survived. It is not the same work as The Protestant Tutor (1679), which is by Benjamin Harris, and not Keach as sometimes stated.

Addison (Joseph & Richard Steele, editors). The Spectator, 8 volumes, mixed editions, 1712-15, comprising first collected edition of volumes 1 & 4-8 (1712-15) and volumes 2 & 3 2nd editions (1714 & 1713), some light spotting and toning, contemporary panelled calf gilt, rebacked, a little rubbed with some edge wear, 8voQty: (8)

Berkeley (George). A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge ... First printed in the Year 1710. To which are added Three Dialogues between Hylas Philonous, in Opposition to Scepticks and Atheists. First printed in the Year 1713, London: Jacob Tonson, 1734, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, toning, contemporary calf, rebacked at an early date, 8vo (19.7 x 11.2 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller; 2) By descent. ESTC T73934; Keynes 6. First collected edition.

Skelton (John). Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: C. Davis, 1736, xiv, 294,[2]pp., with the terminal advertisement but without the first unnumbered black leaf (as usual), bookplates of H.W.G. Kenrick & Robert Hall to front endpaper, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, 12moQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller; 2) By descent. ESTC T147425. The second edition under this title, taken from the first edition of 1568. This was the most complete of the early editions of Skelton, a poet almost completely neglected in the 17th century. This second edition is essentially the earliest obtainable edition of Skelton as the first is scarce.

Galilei (Galileo). Opere ... divise in quattro tomi in questa nuova edizione accresciute di molte cose inedite, 4 volumes, Padua: Giovanni Manfrè, 1744, printer's woodcut device to titles, first title in red and black, folding engraved plate in volume 1 torn out and with closed tear, table in volume 2, numerous woodcut diagrams, woodcut initials and head-pieces, lacking portrait plate, titles of volumes 1, 2 & 4 and verso of contents leaf in volume 3 with scribbled out ink inscriptions to verso with show-through to recto, initial 15 leaves at front of volume 1 with worm trail and worm hole, dampstaining to volume 2, title to volume 3 also with manuscript imprint date written in magenta/pink ink, initial 4 leaves in volume 3 also with slight worm trail and hole, Contemporary vellum, 4toQty: (4)NOTESCinti 176; Riccardi I, 522. Second 18th-century edition containing, as stated on the title, several hitherto unpublished works, including his Trattato del modo di misurare con la vista (pp.592-602 in volume one).

Strawberry Hill Press. Odes by Mr. [Thomas] Gray, 1st edition, 1st issue, Strawberry-Hill: for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1757, 21 pp., half title, title with engraved vignette by C. Grignion after R. Bentley, a little light spotting, bookplates of T.D.C. Graham and bibliographer Ann Ridler (1935-2018), 1920's note and bookseller description tipped-in at front endpaper, all edges gilt, later polished calf by Maclehose, Glasgow, red label to spine, joints very slightly rubbed, 4toQty: (1)NOTESESTC T42023; Rothschild 1067. First issue copy with 'Illissus', page 8 misspelt and no comma after 'Swarm', page 16. 2000 copies printed of the first book published at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press.

Strawberry Hill Press. An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710. By Charles, Lord Whitworth, [Twickenham]: printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758, engraved vignette of Strawberry Hill to title-page, errata leaf, toning, faint mark to title-page vignette, light staining to signatures M4-N2, all edges gilt, c.1900 red morocco, richly gilt spine, French fillet frame gilt to sides, 8vo (18.1 x 10.5 cm), together with: [Walpole, Horace]. Jeffery's Edition of the Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto ... A New Edition, London: printed by Cooper and Graham, and sold by the publisher, 1796, 7 stipple-engraved plates printed in colours within gilt border, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain citron morocco, joints rubbed, mottling to sides, tips bumped, 8vo (20 x 12 cm)Qty: (2)NOTESProvenance (first item): 1) F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930), lawyer and politician, and 'soulmate' of Winston Churchill (ODNB) (engraved bookplate with style 'Viscount Birkenhead'). 2) Muriel Beckett (bookplate). ESTC T138827 & T63197; Hazen Strawberry Hill 5 & Horace Walpole p. 65.

Mortimer (Thomas). Every Man his own Broker: or, a Guide to Exchange-Alley ... Ninth Edition, revised and enlarged, London: for G. Robinson, 1782, woodcut headpiece, advertisement leaf, contemporary tan calf, smooth spine with gilt helical rules and green morocco label, 12mo (17.1 x 9.6 cm), together with: Aurelius (Marcus). The Emperor Marcus Antoninus. His Conversation with himself. Translated into English ... by Jeremy Collier, the Third Edition, corrected, London: for J. Darby [and others], 1726, engraved portrait frontispiece, ink-stamped library label of Tortworth Rectory to front pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, some wear, 8vo (19.6 x 11.7 cm), [Scott, Walter]. The Antiquary, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Co., 1816, half-titles, spotting to outer leaves, top edges gilt, later straight-grain blue half roan, joints rubbed, 12mo (18.2 x 10.5 cm), and 7 others, 19th-century antiquarian, including Scott, Guy Mannering, 3rd edition, 1815, Grose's Dictionary of British Slang, 1811, and similar, not collatedQty: (14)NOTESESTC T87038 (Mortimer), N6240 (Aurelius); Kress B488 (Mortimer); Todd & Bowden 94a (Scott). Mortimer's work was first published in 1761, and all editions are uncommon.

Robinson (Mary). Vancenza, or, the Dangers of Credulity, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, Printed for the authoress and sold by Mr. Bell, 1792, 3rd edition, Printed for the authoress and sold by Mr. Bell, 1792, half-titles, hand-cut contemporary silhouette [of German-Baltic poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, 1751-1792] pasted to second flyleaf verso of volume 2 and slightly offset to facing half-title, 2 pages of advertisements at rear of volume 2 but lacking final blank, old manuscript book tickets to both front pastedowns, contemporary calf gilt with Etruscan-style panels and red spine labels, rubbed and slightly stained, 8voQty: (2)NOTESMary Robinson was the first public mistress of King George IV when he was Prince of Wales, but equally recognised as an actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and champion of the rights of women. The 'gothic' novel Vancenza was an instant sensation, the first edition of 1792 selling out within a day, the ensuing two editions also selling out within the same month.

Beethoven (Ludwig van). [Symphony no. 2 in D Major, Op. 36, issued as:] A Compleat Collection of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven's Symphonies, in Score, most respectfully dedicated, by Permission, to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, No. XXV, London: Cianchellini and Sperati, [between 1807 and 1809], [2] 88 pp., engraved throughout including decorative title, erroneous caption-title 'Beethoven's Symphony No. I' to p. 1, slightly browned, a few early leaves working loose, a few damp-stained, occasional annotations in ink or blue pencil, title-page with old annotated self-adhesive label and minor paper-disruption to gutter, contemporary marbled boards with printed paper label to front cover, rebacked, 4to (25.2 x 17.7 cm), together with an original printed playbill for a performance of Fidelio at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, c.1851-3 (mounted, framed and glazed, browned, mount aperture 32 x 21 cm) and John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, 1777, with engraved music score, contemporary calf, 4to, ESTC T13790, 5 copies in UK librariesQty: (3)NOTESFirst edition of the full score of Beethoven's second symphony.

Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus [ ... The Ghost-Seer! From the German of Schiller. In two volumes. vol. I], 2 parts in 1 volume, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, pp. [5] vi-xii, 202; [4] 3-163, series-title (with 'Standard Novels. No IX') to front, separate title-page to each part, half-title to second part (Schiller), engraved frontispiece and engraved additional title-page to first part (Shelley), advertisements discarded, tide-mark to foot of frontispiece and additional title, browning to series-title and part 1 letterpress title, part 1 quire I held by one cord only, part 2 signature D8 loose, a few other blemishes and marks, yellow surface-paper endpapers, contemporary green pebble-grain cloth, loss to headcap, 8vo (16.4 x 10 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESSadleir 3734a.9; Wolff 6280a. First Bentley edition of Frankenstein , extensively revised by the author, the third edition overall. Published as the ninth volume in Bentley's Standard Novels series (the volume also containing the first part only of Schiller's The Ghost-Seer ), it was also the first illustrated edition, and the first in one volume. Frankenstein was first published in 1818, the second edition appearing in 1823.

Fore-edge paintings. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. VI. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1835; The Enchanted Plants, Fables in Verse. Inscribed to Miss Montolieu, and Miss Julia Montolieu, Second Edition, London: Thomas Bensley, 1801; Marmion, a Tale of Flodden Field, London: Wm S. Orr, 1838, 3 works, each with gilt edges, with fore-edge paintings respectively depicting Hampton Court Palace, Lincoln from the Fens, and the Royal Border Bridge at Berwick-upon-Tweed, the first bound in contemporary calf gilt, the others in contemporary morocco gilt, not collated and sold as fore-edge paintings, 8vo and 12mo, together with Owen Jones, The Sermon on the Mount, 1st edition, 1844, chromolithographed throughout, original morocco, 8voQty: (4)NOTESProvenance (Enchanted Plants): Lady Gomm, Victorian philanthropist (book-label).

Bernal de Luco ( Juan ) . Constituciones Synodales del obispado de Calahorra y la Calçada…, Lyon, 1555, [12], cxxviii, [42], lxiii pp., large woodcut device to title, woodcut initials, lacks first 3 leaves of Index, some staining to early leaves, frayed at edges, contemporary vellum, lettered on spine, 4to (30 x 21.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThis edition is not in Copac, which records others of 1521, 1602 & 1621. This title would have been included in the Albizu Collection because of the owner's Basque connections.

Gutierrez (Juan) . Consilia clarissimi iurisconsulti, 2nd edition, Salamanca: Petrus Lassus, 1595, [2], 150, [15] ff., some spotting and browning, inner hinges broken and text detached, contemporary vellum, lettered on spine, 4to (28 x 19.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESPalau (111 383) alludes to this title under Opera Omnia Vol. IV. Ruiz Fidalgo, La Imprenta en Salamanca , 1402. First published in 1587. Both editions are scarce.

Peña Montenegro ( Alonso de la ) . Itinerario Para Parochos de Indios, en que se tratan las materias mas particulares, tocantes a ellos, para su buena adminis-tracion, 1st edition, Madrid: Por Joseph Fernandez de Buendia, 1668, [2], [28] ff., 563 pp., 39 ff., woodcut end-pieces, some staining to bottom outer margin of preliminary and end leaves, lacks rear endpapers, gilt embossed edges, contemporary calf gilt with fan (Abanico) design to both covers, rubbed and worn at extremities, minor worming and rodent damage to base of spine, some small holes to both covers, 4to (31 x 21 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESPalau 217 532. This edition not in CCPBE or COPAC. Not in Porrua. An important ABANICO (fan) binding on this rare first edition of a work of great importance for the guidance given to Jesuits on the treatment of the indigenous populations of the Americas. Alfonso de la Peña Montenegro (1596-1687) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Quito from 1653 until his death. 'Ouvrage trés important et d'un usage trés frequent aux Indes’, Leclerc, Biblioteca Americana . 'Documents perspectives of native cultures in Mexico held by those who had arrived in order to exploit native populations, while destroying traditional cultural systems through the spread of western beliefs. Written by a prelate of the Catholic Church, it contains much praise of Catholicism, and also provides valuable insight into the perspective of the Spanish State and Clergy a century after the Spanish conquest of Mexico.' Among the many matters discussed are: De la Embriaguez (es vicio tan ordinario en los Indios), (p. 202); De la Fe que han de tener los Indios, y la Doctrina que han de saber, (p. 212); De los Mineros, y sus obligaciones. Si es licito obligar al los Indios a que trabajen en las minas, (p. 259); Del Matrimonio de Infieles, (p. 389); De los Preceptos de la Iglesia, y la Ley natural, que deben guardar los Indios, (p. 416). For Abanico bindings see Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Ocho Siglos de Encuadernación Española , 1985, No. 25; Biblioteca Nacional, Encuadernaciónes Españolas en la Biblioteca Nacional, 1992, Nos. 92-96 (pp. 111-115).

Ayerve de Ayora ( Antonius ) . Tractatus de partitionibus, bonorum communium inter conjuges, parentes, et liberos, eorumque haeredes, in quatuor partes distinctus, recognitus & locupletatus, 4th edition, Lyon: Joannis-Antonii Huguetan,1677, [8], 160, [16] pp., title in red and black with large woodcut device, parallel Latin and Spanish text in double columns, old ownership inscription on half-title verso partially overwritten, contemporary vellum, lettered on spine, small folio (38 x 24.5 cm), together with: Castejon (Gil de). Alphabetum juridicum, canonicum, civile, theoricum, practicum, morale atque politicum..., 2 volumes in one, 2nd edition, Lyon: Petri Borde, Joannis, & Petri Arnaud, 1683, woodcut device to titles and woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, outer margin of title defective but without loss of text, staining to inner margin of first three leaves and bottom right of last 35 leaves, trimmed close at upper margin of pp. 1-37, small perforation to Nn1-3, 19th-century calf gilt, some wear to extremities, 4toQty: (2)NOTES1) Palau 20 789. Legal treatise on hereditary distribution of family property, first published in Granada in 1586. 2) Legal dictionary of subjects in alphabetical order, first published in 1678.

Alvarez de Abreu ( Antonio Joseph ) . Victima Real Legal Discurso Unico Juridico-Historico-Politico sobre que las Vacantes Mayores y Menores de las Iglesias e las Indias Orientales pertenecen à la Corona de Castilla y Leon con pleno y absoluto Dominio, 2nd edition, Madrid: Por Andres Ortega, 1769, [36], 374, [38] pp., contemporary sprinkled calf, with leather spine label, rubbed, some wear to extremities, 4to (30.5 x 21 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESPalau after 9444. First published in 1726 this influential Spanish work addresses the relationship between Church and State, and argues that rents and monies accruing to vacant positions in the churches of the Spanish Empire belong to the King, a concept known as Regalism.

Papeles Varios . A pair of sammelbands of 32 papers (28 manuscript and 4 printed) relating to the Philippines and China, bound as 2 volumes, c. 1775-1832, contemporary vellum, lettered on spines, 8voQty: (2)NOTESA full short-title list is available on request. The collection includes: Volume I: 1. (J.M.G.) Carta que el habitador del desierto dirige al Abate Monti, encargado por el Gobierno Frances para escribir la historia de Napoleon 1º, Cadiz, c. 1808, 11 pp., small stain to lower outer corners A pamphlet critical of Napoleon: 'Hecho el abominable contrato entre Bonaparte y Godoy, se principaron á suavizar los resortes que habian de poner en movimiento esta maquina infernal.' 2. Carta de Manuel Delgado sobre la Libranza de la plata, 1775, 1 folio 3. Carta de Manuel Delgado (written vertically over the page for economy of space) pleading for funds after being detained in Manila, no date, 1 folio 4. Carta de Manuel Delgado, 1775, 1 folio [concerning a further request for funds after 43 days of detention] 5. Carta de Josef Villanueva from Macao, 1784, 4 ff. [on Chinese matters] 9. Carta de Fr. Gaspar de S. Agustin [author of Compendio de la Arte de la Lengua Tagala , 1787] á un amigo suyo en España, quenta el natural, y genio de los Indios Naturales de las Islas Philipinas, no date, 50 ff. Includes: Descripcion en Copla de las Indias Philipinas, y de los naturales por el Padre Sr. Ascarate del Orden de Predicadores, a su Amigo Sr. Julian Dias. 10. Del modo de curar la Colera, no date, c. 1820, 22 ff. 11. Panusuc qño colinipan a pami asal à tulidnang pacayngaton ning tan palagyuan Consejoz…, no date, 22 ff. [on religious instruction in Tagalog] 19. Arte de la Lengua que vulgarmente se llama Mandarin compuesto por el R.P. Fr. Juan Rodrigues del Orden de N.P. S. Augustin, no date, 62 ff. 20. Breve Metodo de oir Confesiones en lengua Mandarina, 40 ff., [parallel text in Spanish and phonetical Mandarin] Items 19 & 20 have minor worm damage with loss of some letters. 21. Experimentos sobre la conservación de las Carnes. Por el Dr. Don José de Flores Médico del Reyno de Guatemala, Cadiz: Imprenta Tormentaria, 1811, 25 pp. Note: 19-25 advise that this pamphlet was also published in Manila for general use there and that the instructions call for the use of an 'Areometro, ó pesa-licor' not commonly available in the Philippines. Rare. The CCPBE records only one copy, lacking pp. 19-25. Vol ume II : 23. Relacion un Franciscano de la Persecucion de China, no date, 12 ff. 25. Confesion en Lengua China... incompleto, 11 ff. [Chinese in phonetical text over the Spanish] 26. Yurami (Antonio Miguel). Demostracion de las Falsedades y Calumnias con que pretende desacreditar las religiones el Autor del Papel intitulado Sevilla Libre. Reimpreso en Manila: En la Imprenta de Manuel Memije, 1815, 44 pp. First published in Sevilla in 1801 this Manila edition is rare; the CCPBE records only one copy and WorldCat 3 copies. 27. Tres Sermones en Chino del Rv.P. Villanueva, 6 ff. [Chinese text is written phonetically] 29. Ars Linguae Mandarina de Fr. Joanne Rodriguez Ordinis S.Agustini, 20 ff., one page of musical notation, small traces of worm damage, [Chinese text, where used, is written phonetically] 30. Diccion[ario] Portuguese-Chino, incompleto con otras obras pertenecientes a China, no date, 68 ff., small tear with some text loss affecting first two leaves, [Chinese translation in phonetical text]

Solorzano Pereira (Juan de) . Emblemata centum, regio politica, Madrid: In Typographia Regia, vulgò de la Gazeta, 1779, [20], 602, 61 pp., 100 woodcut emblems in text, light marginal stains to first and last leaves, tinted edges, contemporary calf gilt with floral motifs, rubbed, folio (37 x 24 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESPalau 318 997. The fine copper engravings of the 1653 edition (see above) have been replaced by woodcuts of a cruder delineation with expanded decorative surrounds.

Alfaro ( Francisci de ) . Fiscalis quondam procuratoris in cancellaria Argentina Regnorum Pirù ... Tractatus de Officio Fiscalis, deque Fiscalibus Privilegiis, Madrid: Ex Typographia Regia, vulgò de la Gazeta, 1780, [8], 352, [56] pp., double columns, contemporary vellum, lettered on spine, 4to (30.5 x 22 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESPalau 6985. On the fiscal administration of Latin America. First published in Valladolid in 1606, a second edition in Madrid in 1639.

Man (John). The History and Antiquities, Ancient and Modern, of the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks, 1st edition, Reading: Snare and Man, 1816, folding engraved frontispiece plan of Reading, 12 plates only (21) including engraved 2 folding plans and several uncoloured aquatint views, with 2 additional 19th century pen & ink plans of Reading after Speed's county map, manuscript annotation at foot of title-page and few annotations throughout, interleaved with several blank leaves with manuscript notes and additional manuscript index at rear, light toning, 20th century half calf, marbled sides, 4to, together with: Coates (Charles) , The History and Antiquities of Reading, London: Printed for the Author, by J. Nichols and Son, 1802, folding engraved map frontispiece, 6 uncoloured aquatint plates (1 folding) and one plan, together with A Supplement to the History and Antiquities of Reading, with Corrections and Additions by the Author, Reading: Printed by Snare & Man, 1810, folding uncoloured aquatint frontispiece, some toning and spotting, ink stamp at foot of title-page, uniform early 20th century half morocco, gilt armorial at foot of first volume (History and Antiquities of Reading, 1802), joints rubbed, 4toQty: (3)NOTESAbbey Scenery 293; Upcott p.583.

Ortiz de Salcedo (Francisco). Curia eclesiastica para secretarios de prelados, jueces eclesiásticos, ordinarios y apostolicos, y visitadores y notarios ordinarios apostolicos y de visita. con una relacion de los arzobispados, y obispados de España è Indias. Madrid: A costa de D. Pedro Alonso y Padill, 1749, [8], 438, [18] pp., some mostly marginal spotting and browning, endpapers supplied from another Latin text in gothic script, contemporary vellum, lettered on spine, covers stained, lower cover heavily worm-damaged not affecting the text, 8vo, together with: Bravo (Bartholomaeo), Thesaurus Hispano-Latinus, utriusque linguae verbis, et phrasibus abundans, 6th edition, Barcelona: Mariae Angelae Martí Viduae, in Plateâ D. Jacobi, 1757, [8], 520 pp., large woodcut head-piece, Spanish and Latin text in double columns, Latin annotations and old ink scribbling to endpapers, contemporary vellum, lettered on spine, covers stained and worn, 8vo, Rodriguez (Manuel), Tercero y qvarto tomo de la svma y obras morales. con vna tabla general de la materia contenida en ellos. Dirigido a Don Fray Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoça Arçobispo de Granada, Zaragoza: Juan de la Naja y Quartanet, 1615, text in double columns, title soiled, some browning, Zzz1 torn with loss, tear to lower right corner of last two leaves without loss, lacking endpapers, old manuscript inscription to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, lettered on spine, covers stained and bowed, upper joint partly split, plus 5 further 17th & 18th-century Latin law books, authors include Dionysius Gothofredus, 1662; Johannes Borcholtn, 1663; Tertullian, 1675; Andreas Vallensis, 1744; and Giulio Lorenzo Selvaggio, 1794; all contemporary vellum, 8voQty: (8)NOTES1)An indispensable manual used by upper echelons of the clergy, first published in 1610. It details the hierarchy of the church and deals with many issues of ecclesiastical law. Due to constant use, copies are often found in poor condition. 2) Palau, after 34 653. 3) Includes chapters on the legal status of slaves.

Manuscript Atlas , [England], 1800, a manuscript English county atlas with a partial world atlas, with 40 full-page pen and ink and wash and/or watercolour county maps, plus North Wales, South Wales and two key maps, each county map with accompanying text on facing page (verso of previous map), the world atlas with 20 maps of Europe and western parts of Asia only, all but one with accompanying text, all very neatly written and drawn with some calligraphic titling (some see-through in Europe and Asia section) on laid paper with George III period watermark, some blank leaves present between parts and at end, light browning and closed tear to introductory text leaf, contemporary marbled boards with antique-style calf reback and corners, original title label preserved ('Maps / J.R.'), 4to (230 x 175 mm)Qty: (1)NOTESThe county atlas is based on Badeslade & Tom's Chorographia Britanniae (probably the first edition of 1742, in which the maps had a limited number of names within each county), while the model(s) for the European and Asian maps has not been identified .

Owen (John & Bowen Emanuel). Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd; being a Correct Coppy of Mr Ogilby's Actual Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England & Wales..., printed and sold by Thomas Bowles, 1720, engraved title, four pages of tables of roads, 273 uncoloured engraved strip road and county maps, printed back-to-back, with an advertisement for 'A catalogue of some Prints & Maps printed for & sold by Thomas Bowles...,' bound at rear, 19th century blind-stamped reverse calf with contrasting morocco gilt label to spine, upper hinge slightly cracked, slight wear, 8voQty: (1)NOTESChubb CXLVII. The first, second and third editions are all dated 1720, but this copy has the 'King of Spain' imprint on the title which Chubb indicates is the first edition. A clean and bright copy.

Smith (John). The Art of Painting in Oyl. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery. Containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working of oyl-colours, 2nd edition, with some alterations, and many useful additions, London: Samuel Crouch, 1687, [12],100pp., early signature 'Nic. Wallis' to title and B1, F7, G4 (verso), lower outer blank corner of G3 torn, occasional light dust-soiling, early inscription to rear free endpaper, rear board inner inscribed 'Daniell Floresher his Book Ann. Dom. 1691 cost 12', contemporary sheep, paper label to spine, light wear at head & foot of spine, 12moQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller; 2) By descent. ESTC 40616; Wing S4100. The first edition was published in 1676; all editions are rare. Smith (1647/8–1727) was also a noted maker of clocks and dials.

Smith (John). The Art of Painting in Oyl ... the Fourth Impression, with some Alterations, and many Matters added, which are not to be found in the Three former Editions, London: for Samuel Crouch, 1705, retaining the 2 final advertisement leaves, variable spotting and browning, a few headlines trimmed, spill-burns to foot of E3 and in text of E7 (touching a few letters either side of the latter), contemporary mottled sheep, loss to spine, small 8vo (14.6 x 8.4 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Dalton Haskoll Serrell (d.1901), English solicitor, of Haddon Lodge, Dorset (book-label to front pastedown). ESTC T98430 (three copies in UK libraries). The first edition was published in 1676; all editions are rare. Smith (1647/8–1727) was also a noted maker of clocks and dials.

Thomson (James). A Letter to the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, on Protection to Original Designs and Patterns, Printed Upon Woven Fabrics, 1st edition, Clitheroe: H. Whalley, [1840], pp.[vi]+ii+26, 13 (of 16) numbered monochrome plates (lacking plates 7, 10, and 15), frontispiece and first plate both numbered '1' but not identical, half-title browned and with small ink blot below letterpress, sprinkled edges, disbound, 8voQty: (1)NOTESScarce pamphlet . The colour of the plates appears to vary between copies. James Thomson (1779-1850) was an English industrial chemist who became renowned for his technological innovations in the field of calico printing. Born in Lancashire, Thomson acquired the Primrose Works near Clitheroe around 1810, in partnership with two others. The factory operated for over 4 decades, and in its heyday it employed 900 workers, finally closing 4 years after Thomson's death in 1850. Thomson was a close friend of Cornish chemist and inventor Sir Humphrey Davy, and the two of them collaborated on various projects. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.

Waagen (Dr.). Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: being an account of more than forty collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, Mss., &c., &c. visited in 1854 and 1856, and now for the first time described, 4 volumes (including Supplement), London: John Murray, 1854-1857, original cloth gilt, rubbed and some fraying and wear, particularly to first and last volumes, 8vo, together with [Patmore, Peter George], British Galleries of Art, 1st edition, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824, contemporary cloth-backed plain boards, printed paper label to spine, soiled and some wear, 8vo, plus Passavant (M.). Tour of a German Artist in England, with notices of private galleries, and remarks on the state of art, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Saunders and Otley, 1836, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, half-titles present, bookplates of Captain Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson, dated 1904 and Michael Jaffé to front pastedowns, original boards with paper labels to spines, some wear and chipping to joints and edges, 8vo, and [Dallaway, James]. An Account of All the Pictures exhibited in the rooms of the British Institution, from 1813 to 1823, belonging to the nobility and gentry of England: with remarks, critical and explanatory, 1st edition, London: Priestley and Weale, 1824, marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary full calf, with gilt oval coat of arms of George Agar Ellis to centre of each cover, rubbed and some wear with spine partly detached along upper joint, 8vo, plus another copy of the Dallaway's Account of All the Pictures..., 1824 and W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution, 2 volumes, London: R. Ackermann, 1824Qty: (11)NOTESEx libris Michael Jaffé (1923–1997).

Barrow (Lieut.-Colonel T.J. & Major V.A. French). The Story of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (the 16th Regiment of Foot), 2 volumes, Farnham 1986, maps and illustrations, a few colour, one or two light spots, original black cloth, 4to, together with Moorsom (W.S.) Historical Record of the Fifty-Second Regiment (Oxfordshire Light Infantry) from the year 1755 to the year 1858, 1st edition, 1860, colour maps and illustrations, some spotting and small water stains, previous owner signature of John Friers to title, front hinge reinforced, original red cloth gilt, spine ends a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Maurice (Major-General Sir F.) The 16th Foot. A History of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, 1st edition, 1931, map illustrations, small annotations to front pastedown, original cloth gilt, small abrasion to upper cover, dust jacket, spine toned with loss at head, a few stains, previous owner inscription to front flap, 8vo, with others including Sir Henry Newbolt's The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 1915 and Steven Fuller's Soldier Lads - First World War. 1st Bedfordshires. Part One: Mons to the Somme, Part Two Arras to the Armistice, 2 volumes, 2011-2013Qty: (18)NOTESFrom the Library of Lt. Col. R.J. Wyatt MBE TD (1931-2019), Part III.

Ewing (Major John). The Royal Scots 1914-1919, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1925, half-tone illustrations, folding maps, a little minor toning, original blue cloth, dust jackets, slight toning to spines, 8vo, together with Buchan (John). The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, deluxe edition, [1925], deluxe edition with 10 colour plates, maps and illustrations, list of maps leaf a little frayed and reinforced at gutter, a little light spotting, previous owner signature, original cloth-backed boards, red label to spine, some soiling and edge wear, 8vo, plus Ewart (Wilfrid). Scots Guard, 1st edition, 1934, publisher's catalogue at end, a few spots, previous owner stamp to front endpaper, original cloth (spine lettering rubbed at foot), dust jacket, spine a little darkened, a few small chips, 8vo, with 5 others including David Erskine's The Scots Guards 1919-1955, 1956 and Robert H. Paterson's Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard. A History of the First or Royal Regiment of Foot the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), 2 volumes, 2000Qty: (10)NOTESFrom the Library of Lt. Col. R.J. Wyatt MBE TD (1931-2019), Part III.

Plot (Robert). The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of England, 1st edition, Oxford: Printed at the Theater, [1677], imprimatur leaf present, title with engraved illustration of Sheldonian & Bodleain with large armorial bookplate of Charles Earl of Dorset & Middlesex, folding engraved county map (neatly lined to verso with fine support fabric), 16 engraved plates, errata leaf present, light toning, 19th century gilt panelled calf, rebacked preserving gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, extremities lightly rubbed, folioQty: (1)NOTESWing P2585; ESTC R231542; Madan 3130; Gibson 536. Created by the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford, the map is decorated with 172 coats of arms of the county's gentry, Oxford colleges, the city and the four county towns. One of the most decorative maps of Oxfordshire ever produced.

Jourdain (H.F.N. & Fraser, Edward). The Connaught Rangers, 1st Battalion, Formerly 88th Foot, 3 volumes, 1st editions, 1924-28, numerous maps and plates including colour frontispieces to volumes 1 and 2, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and faded, 4to, together with: McCance (S.) , History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2 volumes (1652-1922), Aldershot, 1927, colour frontispieces, folding maps and plans, black & white plates, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to, Whitton (Frederick Ernest) , The History of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)... , 2 volumes, 1st edition, Aldershot [1924], black & white illustrations and maps including some folding, some spotting, original two-tone cloth gilt, a little rubbed and soiled, first volume in chipped and soiled dust jacket, 8voQty: (7)NOTESFrom the Library of Lt. Col. R.J. Wyatt MBE TD (1931-2019), Part III.

Kemp (J.C.). The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers 1919-1959, 1st edition, 1963, original cloth in dust jacket, together with: Muir (Augustus) , The First of Foot. The History of the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1961, Oatts (L.B.) , Proud Heritage. The Story of the Highland Light Infantry, volumes 2-4, 1959-63, colour frontispieces and black & white plates, original cloth, first 2 volumes in slightly chipped and soiled dust jackets, large 8vo, Graham (F.C.C.) , History of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 1st Battalion (Princess Louise's), 1939-1945, 1st edition, 1948, black & white plates and illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, a little chipped and browned, large 8vo, plus others related, mostly original cloth in dust jacketsQty: (32)NOTESFrom the Library of Lt. Col. R.J. Wyatt MBE TD (1931-2019), Part III.

Knight (Captain H.R., C.R. B. Knight & R.S.H. Moody). Historical Records of the Buffs, East Kent Regiment, 3rd Foot, formerly designated the Holland Regiment and Prince George's Regiment, 5 volumes, 1905-1951, comprising volume I, 1572-1704; volume II, 1704-1814 ; volume III, 1814-1914, volume IV, 1914-1919, volume V, 1919-1948, maps and illustrations, some light spotting and toning, volume I in original half calf, upper joint broken, spine and edges rubbed, the others in original cloth (spines a little faded), volume V in dust jacket and with a presentation inscription from the author (a volume VI covering the years 1948-1967 was published in 1967), together with Atkinson (C.T.) The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914-1919, 1st edition, 1924, portrait frontispiece, folding maps, a little minor spotting, original cloth, light edge wear, 8vo, plus Molony (Major C.V.) "Invicta". With the first battalion the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in the Great War, 1st edition, 1923, folding colour general map, illustrations, endpapers toned, original cloth gilt spine a little faded, 8vo, with H.D. Chaplin's The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 3 volumes only (1881-1914; 1920-1950 & 1951-1961), 1954-64 (1st & 2nd volumes inscribed by the author)Qty: (10)NOTESFrom the Library of Lt. Col. R.J. Wyatt MBE TD (1931-2019), Part III.

Ross-of-Bladensburg (John). A History of the Coldstream Guards, from 1815 to 1895, Illustrated by Lieut. Nevile R. Wilkinson, 1st edition, A.D. Innes, 1896, portrait frontispiece, maps and hand-coloured lithographic plates as per list, occasional spotting, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, bookplate and ownership signature of Cuthbert de Hoghton, modern cloth with upper panel from original binding laid down, rubbed, 4to, together with: Hamilton (F.W.) , The Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards, 3 volumes, 1st edition, John Murray, 1874, uncoloured plates and plans including frontispieces and some folding, original cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, some edge wear and spine of volume 3 damp stained, plus: Forbes (Patrick) , The Grenadier Guards in the War of 1939-1945, 2 volumes, Aldershot, 1949, colour and black & white plates including some folding, original cloth in dust jackets, spotted and soiled, a little frayed with small loss, all 8vo, plus others relatedQty: (20)NOTESFrom the Library of Lt. Col. R.J. Wyatt MBE TD (1931-2019), Part III.