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Holinshed (Raphael). The Description of Scotland, written at the first by Hector Boetius in Latine, and afterward translated into the Scotish speech by John Bellenden, Archdeacon of Murrey... whereupon is inferred the historie of Scotland, 2 parts in one, 1585 [1587], titles within woodcut strapwork border, black letter text in double column, lacking leaf 2h1 (i.e. pp. 325-6), replaced with blank leaf, first title with small repair to outer margin, a few small stains, modern calf gilt, folio, together with Sleidanus (Johannes). [A Famouse Cronicle of oure time, called Sledanes Commentaries, concerning the state of Religion and common wealth, during the raigne of Emperour Charles Fift... translated by John Daus, 1st edition in English, 1560], main text in black letter, woodcut historiated initials, Epistle leaf present (repaired) but lacking title and all before A4, lacking leaves 3C1-3C4, leaves from 3L6 onwards repaired at lower corners with some loss of text, lacking part of and all after letter 'T' in Table at end, occasional light water stains, a few early annotations, signature of Sam. Stepney at foot of Epistle, later calf, rebacked with most of original spine relaid, label renewed, a little rubbed, folio QTY: (2)NOTE:First work is part of volume II of the second edition of Holinshed's Chronicles, 1587, relating to Scotland only; the second work (STC 19848), and chronicles the reign of Charles V and the Reformation.Sold with all faults not subject to return.

Blaeu (Johannes). The Third Centenary Edition of Johan Blaeu Le Grand Atlas ou Cosmographie Blaviane, Amsterdam 1663, 12 volumes, Facsimile Edition, Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., 1967-68, titles and preliminaries, hemispheral map of the world, printed in colour and 598 uncoloured maps and plates, text in French (a reprint of the first French edition of 1663), library stamps to edges of text block at head and foot, publisher's decorative gilt leatherette (faux vellum), with contrasting blue gilt labels to the spines (one label frayed), slightly bumped, some dust soiling, folioQTY: (12)NOTE:Limited edition 212/1000.

Livy (Titus [and] Sigonius, Carolus). Historiarum ab Urbe Condita [with] Scholia, 2 parts in 1, 1st edition thus, Venice: Paulus Manutius, 1555, (iv) 478 + 98 (xl), divisional titles, Roman letter, index and epitomes in Italic, large historiated initials, printer’s anchor and dolphin device within oval frame of fruits and leaves on both titles, ownership inscription of Hieronymus Comes, Abbot of St Gregory’s 7th March 1558 beneath each, ownership inscription of Gilbert Boucher (1800) on first, light mostly marginal water-staining to final gathering, a few minor marginal marks, contemporary vellum over boards, a little worn, upper joint cracked at head and tail, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:BM STC It. p.390; Brunet III 1106; Renouard 166:15. 'Belle édition bien imprimée, sur bon papier, et peut-être de toutes celles de cet histoire, la plus amie de l’oeil et la plus facile à lire…celle-ci, de 1555, est fort rare et ne se trouve presque jamais qu’en très mauvaise condition'. (Renouard)Sigonius’ edition is the first in which scholarly criticism is applied to the chronology of Roman history. Sigonius was professor of literature at Venice and produced a number of works for the Aldine press. He later became chair of eloquence at Padua in 1560.

Dodoens (Rembert). A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: wherin is contayned the whole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of Herbes and Plantes: their diuers [and] sundry kindes: their straunge Figures, Fashions, and Shapes: their Names, Natures, Operations, and Vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly vsed in Physicke..., and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer, 1st English edition, At London [i.e. Antwerp: Printed by Henry Loë, sold] by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, 1578, title within woodcut border with woodcut armorial to verso (detached, frayed to margins and with small hole), woodcut portrait, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations and decorative initials, lacks leaves 2M5-2N3 (5 leaves, pages 417-426) and leaf 3T6 (pages 771-772), also lacking 18 pages of index at rear of volume (only 7 pages of index present, with final leaf of index torn with loss), front free endpaper with early ownership inscription 'Mary Cuthbert Her Book' and 20th-century ownership signature L.R. Wagner 1962, textblock sewing broken and gatherings detached, some fraying to margins and occasional damp-staining, light toning and some dust-soiling, contemporary vellum, lacking spine and boards detached, folio (29.5 x 19 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Henrey 110; Nissen BBI 516; STC 6984.Dodoens's herbal was first published in Dutch in 1554 by Jan van der Loë, with woodcuts based on those in Fuchs's masterpiece. The translator, Henry Lyte of Somerset, had travelled across the Continent in his youth and filled his Somerset estate on his return with a large variety of plants. The French and English translations were printed in Antwerp by van der Loe so they could use the same woodblocks.

[Higgins, John]. The First parte of the Mirour for Magistrates, contayning the falles of the first infortunate Princes of this lande: From the comming of Brute to the incarnation of our saviour and redeemer Jesu Christe, London: Imprinted at London by Thomas Marshe, 1575, [6], 81 leaves, printed in black letter, first four leaves supplied in photographic facsimile, final 9 leaves (K1-8 and L1) shorter (possibly supplied from another copy), without final blank (L2), some old annotations in brown ink to margins, somewhat browned and soiled throughout, several minor marginal repairs, modern maroon full niger with three blind-stamped circular medallions to front cover, and four smaller blindstamped medallions to corners of both covers, spine lettered in gilt Io. Higgins, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 13444; ESTC S104059; Pforzheimer 735.Second edition of John Higgins' The First Parte of the Mirror for Magistrates, a sequel or continuation of the original version by William Baldwin, The Mirror for Magistrates, first published in 1559 with an expanded edition in 1563. Higgins' 1574 text ends with Nennius, whereas this second edition has the addition of The Tragoedie of Irenglas.

Fougasses (Thomas de). The Generall Historie of the Magnificent State of Venice. From the first foundation thereof untill this present, translated by W. Shute, 2 parts in one, 1st English edition, London: printed by G. Eld and W. Stansby, 1612, title with woodcut map of Venice (title with red ink stamp and laid down with tears and marginal losses), woodcut portraits of Venetian Doges, lacking leaf B2 (i.e pp. 3-4), occasional toning and light spotting, a few leaves frayed at outer margins, early ownership signatures of Edward Emerson, John Touch and Mariona & Anna Mack front and rear, modern calf-backed marbled boards, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S121332; STC 11207. Sold with all faults not subject to return.

Abul-Pharajio (Gregorio). Historia Compendiosa Dynastiarum authore Gregorio Abul-Pharajio, Malatiensi Medico, Historiam complectens universalem, à mundo condito, usque ad Tempora Authoris, res Orientalium accuratissime describens. Arabice edita & Latine versa ab Edvardo Pocockio, 3 volumes in 2, 1st edition in English, Oxford: H.Hall, 1663, divisional titles (2 with vignettes cut away), woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, a few light spots, edges stained red, attractive late 17th-century or early 18th century mottled full calf, gilt-decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, very lightly rubbed, small 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:Wing G2024; Madan, Oxford Books 2629.Orientalist Edward Pococke (1604-1691) arrived in Aleppo on the 17th October 1630 as Chaplain of the Levant Company, where for five years he studied the languages and culture of the region and began to collect Arabic manuscripts, returning to England in 1636 to take up the Chair of Arabic at Oxford. One of the manuscripts brought back by Pococke was the al-Mukhtasar fî'l-Duwal (History of the Dynasties) of Abu'l-Faraj (1226-1286). Pococke was a Royalist and thus out of favour during the Protectate, but with the Restoration he returned to Oxford where he began work on the complete Historia Compendiosa Dynastiarum. In 1663, almost thirty years after Pococke had returned from Aleppo with the manuscript, the ground-breaking Historia was first published."A revolution in Arabic studies, being Pococke's attempt to show that far from being a mere ancillary to biblical exegesis, Arabic literature (in the widest sense) was worthy of study in its own right" (ODNB).

Bernard of Clairvaux (Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153). Opus egregiu[m] divi Bernardi super Cantica Canticoru[m] Salomonis : tam co[n]templative q[uam] active vite cultorib[us] precipue vero p[rae]dicatoribus accommodatissimum feliciter incipit. Multa diligentia castigatum ac emendatum per Magistru[m] Johannem Rouauld sacre theologie doctorem, Paris: [Georg Wolf], 24 November 1494, 121 (of 122) unnumbered leaves, a-o8, p10, lacking the final blank p10, gothic black letter type in double column, 54 lines per folio, neat mid-17th-century marginal annotations in brown ink to many leaves (with occasional underlining), scored-through ownership inscription at head of a2, small wormhole to outer blank margin of first two gatherings, title repaired and relaid (some repairs partly affecting title text), a few faint spots to margins, endpapers renewed, modern limp vellum, 4to in 8's (leaf size 22 x 14.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Goff B-429; Rhodes 324; Copinger 962; GW 3936; Hain-Copinger 2858; ISTC (RLIN) ib00429000; Pellechet 2097.A new edition edited by Jean Rouauld of Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs.Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), known as the 'honey-tongued doctor', was the dominant theological personality of the first half of the twelfth century. As abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux, which he founded, he was heavily involved in the political, religious, and philosophical issues of his time, including the expansion of the Cistercian order through the establishment of monasteries, and the adjudication of the papal schism in 1130. In his Sermons on the Song of Songs, one of the most important texts of the Bible for early medieval monastic commentary, Bernard integrates the traditional allegorical method of scriptural exegesis with the Cistercian ethos, giving a profound and insightful reading of the text and its imagery.'Expressed in the text are emotions of desire together with images and language of a sexual disposition. Modern scholarship has tended to see the Song of Songs as a celebration of human physical love. It may seem surprising that such a text became a favoured subject of ascetic and monastic exegesis, but the fact remains that a long line of Christian theologians interpreted the Song of Songs as a hymn of spiritual, mystical love'. (Neil M. Mancor, Tradition in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons On The Song of Songs, University of Reading, online).

Aristophanes. Comoediae Novem, EDITIO PRINCEPS, Venice: Apud Aldum, 1498, 346 leaves (of 348), lacking two blanks, text in Aldus' large Greek type 146, 41-42 lines of commentary and headline in smaller Greek type 114, Aldus' preface in Roman type, woodcut strapwork initials in two sizes, headpieces, initial spaces with guide-letters, early brown ink annotations in Greek, mainly to the first quarter of the volume, title and final leaf neatly strengthened at gutter, final text leaf with a few marginal repairs and some soiling to verso, a few small marginal tears or repairs, occasional light spotting or soiling, contents generally in very good, clean condition, edges speckled, 19th century manuscript bibliographical notes to front pastedown, and bookplate of Walter Hirst, with Sir Thomas Phillips' pencilled shelfmark below, rear pastedown with early ink lettering, and Quaritch pencil note, later 17th or 18th-century mottled vellum, gilt-decorated spine with thistle motifs and red morocco labels, thin red paint mark to lower cover, folio (314 x 204 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), Middle Hill library, Broadway, Worcestershire (Middle Hill pencilled shelfmark to front pastedown; his sale, Sotheby's, 28th November 1977, lot 5172); Walter Hirst (bookplate); earlier ink numbering and a Quaritch pencilled note to rear pastedown.BMC V 559. GW, 2333. Goff, A-958. Sander I 580. Essling I 2,2 1163.First printed edition of Aristophanes, comprising Plutus, Nebulae, Ranae, Equites, Acharnes, Vespae, Pax and Contionantes in the recension of the fourteenth-century Byzantine scholar Demetrios Triklinios, and one of the most important productions of the Aldine Press. Aldus was the first to found his career on the publication of Greek texts, printing more of the editiones principes of the major Greek classics than any other printer. The editor was the Greek humanist Marcus Musurus who also wrote the preface on the reasons for studying Greek and the stylistic beauty of Aristophanes. Aldus' dedication to Daniele Clario, teacher of classical languages in Ragusa, commends the plays of Aristophanes as necessary for pupils to immerse themselves in pure Greek, in the way that Terence serves for Latin.One of the greatest English book and manuscript collectors, Sir Thomas Philipps began collecting while still at Rugby School and continued at Oxford. According to A. N. L. Munby he acquired about 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts, arguably the largest collection created by a single individual.

Harry (George Owen). The Genealogy of the High and Mighty Monarch, James, by the grace of God. King of Great Brittayne, &c. with his linneall descent from Noah, by divers direct lynes to Brutus, first Inhabiter of this Iie of Brittayne; and from him to Cadwalader, the last King of Brittish bloud; and from thence..., together with a brief Cronologie of the memorable Acts of the famous men touched in this Genealogy, and what time they were. Where also is handled the worthy descent of his Maiesties ancestour Owen Tudyr, and his affinity with most of the greatest Princes of Christendome..., Gathered by George Owen Harry, Parson of Whitchurch in Kemeis, at the request of M. Robert Holland, London: Imprinted by Simon Stafford, for Thomas Salisbury, 1604, [2], 40, 49-67, [1] pp., eight engraved genealogical tables only (of 9, plates present are numbered 42-48, and 73 with fore-margins repaired, lacking plate numbered 70), early ownership inscription of William Jeffery on first table and title, some damp-staining throughout, upper pastedown with defective bookplate of Tho. Edw. Winnington and red morocco armorial bookplate of W. A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey, late 19th/early 20th-century half vellum, some spotting to vellum, head of upper joint worn, slim 4to, together with:[Thornborough, John]. A Discourse plainely proving the evident utilitie and urgent necessitie of the desired happie Union of the two famous Kingdomes of England and Scotland: by way of answer to certain obiections against the same, 1st edition, London: Printed by Richard Field for Thomas Chard, 1604, [10], 35, [1] pp., printer's woodcut device to title, final leaf lined to verso, fraying and damp mottling to fore-margins throughout volume with loss to lower blank corners, dust-soiling throughout, 20th-century calf-backed marbled boards, small slim 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:STC 12872 and 24035.

Verien (Nicolas). Livre curieux et utile pour les Scavans, et Artistes. Composé de trois Alphabets de Chiffres Simples, doubles & triples, fleuronnez et au premier trait. Accompagné d'un tres grand nombre de Devises, Emblemes, Médailles et autres figures Hieroglyfiques. Ensemble de plusieurs Supports et Cimiers pour les ornemens des Armes, 3 parts in one, 1st edition, Paris: Sur le Quay des Orfèvres, au coin de la rue de Harlay, aux Armes de Mademoiselle, [1685], engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (by Edelinck), engraved main title with engraved plate to verso, engraved leaf of preface , first part: engraved title and 63 engraved plates with descriptive text to verso (of emblems and devices), second part: engraved title, 154 engraved plates of monograms and medallions (numbered 1-20, 20bis, 21-153), first plate with closed vertical tear without loss, third part: engraved title and 17 engraved plates of armorial designs, numbered 1-17, printed back to back, some marks and light soiling, occasional toning, engraved bookplate to front pastedown 'Ex libris G. H. F. C. Comitis de Lepell et amicorum', with further smaller bookplate of Patricia Milne-Henderson below, edges stained red, later 19th century quarter brown calf, spine with raised bands, very lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand Karl Graf von Lepel (1755-1826), diplomat, lawyer, art historian and collector, and Prussian envoy to the Swedish court in Stockholm; Patricia Milne-Henderson (1935-2018), art historian. ?Rare complete first edition of Verien's collection of emblems, monograms and armorials designed for the use of engravers, painters and sculptors, goldsmiths, bookbinders, embroiderers and others.

Celestial Charts. Twelve Plans and Charts of Celestial Phenomena, Astronomie Populaire en Tableaux Transparents (title printed on upper siding). First French edition, Librairie de W. Nitzschke à Hall, Württemberg, Brussels: Kiessling & Comp, 1862, twelve engraved charts with contemporary hand-colouring including six 'hold to light' with coloured tissue backing, each printed on card, eight cards with holes and fraying to the corners (possible damage from old drawing pins), each card 295 x 240 mm, contained in a contemporary blind-stamped cloth portfolio with silk ties, bumped and with very slight staining, overall size 310 x 250 mmQTY: (1)

James I. A Remonstrance of the most gratious King James I. King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. for the Right of Kings, and the independence of their Crownes. Against an oration of the most illustrious Card. of Perron pronounced in the Chamber of the third Estate. Ian. 15, 1615. Translated out of his Maiesties French copie, 1st edition, Cambridge: Cantrell Legge, 1616, woodcut royal armorial to verso of C3, light damp-stain to fore-margin of leaves 2L1-2P4, modern calf with morocco title label to spine, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 14369.The first edition of the treatise in which King James turns against the theory propounded by the Church of Rome and especially in an address of the Cardinal Duperron to the French Assembly of the Third Estate on Jan. 15, 1615, that the Pope may depose kings and secular princes. A passage in the preface has been supposed to refer to Shakespeare "... it was no Decorum to enter the Stage with a Pericles in his mouth ... nor should he have marshalled the passage of a Royal poet...".

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared & revised, by His Majesties Command. Appointed to be read in Churches, bound in 2 volumes, Oxford: At the Theater, 1679, engraved general title, letterpress title to New Testament (NT in second volume), first leaf of Genesis torn mostly to margins (with text loss to upper outer corner) and repaired, bound without Apocrypha, extra-illustrated with 152 engraved plates (final plate at end of first volume with reduced margin at fore-edge and at head and lined to verso, very few plates with light ink marks), few strengthening repairs to fore-edge of some initial leaves in first volume, small hole to P1 with slight loss to few letters of text, second volume bound with at front Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments ... with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1679, engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles II, 13 engraved plates (one with repaired closed tear), bound with at rear Book of Psalms. The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew..., Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1679, titles and all borders ruled in red throughout both volumes, all marbled endpapers with hinges repaired to first volume, ownership signature Frances Travell 1723 to front blank free endpaper of second volume and with following blank bearing early 19th-century genealogical entries relating to Francis Edward Witts, his wife Margaret and their children, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt panelled and decorated brown morocco, 4to (19.7 x 14.5 cm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 586; Herbert 745.The second edition printed at Oxford, the first being in 1675. This is perhaps the earliest edition of the English Bible which has dates added in the margins. Job is dated 2400 and the Nativity 4000 years after the Creation. Three varieties occur of this edition and this particular Bible appears to conform closely to variant B (Darlow & Moule 586; Herbert 745). The leaves before sheet F are printed in the same type as the rest of the Old Testament and the New Testament, but with a fuller page, containing 63 lines to the column. Marginal matter with dates is present. The letterpress New Testament title in this example has a repeating ornamental device forming a triangle shape and the imprint 'Printed at the Theater in Oxford, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the Angel... , Peter Parker at the Leg and Star..., Thomas Guy at the Corner..., and William Leak at the Crown..., London. Anno 1679'. However, Darlow and Moule and Herbert suggest the New Testament title bears the device of three crowns and an open book inscribed Dominus Illuminatio Mea, within a circle of light (not seen in this example). This example of the Bible agrees with Darlow and Moule and Herbert as it doesn't contain the dedication, list of books or engraved New Testament title; possibly thus issued.

Purchas (Samuel). Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in al[l] Ages and Places Discovered, from the Creation unto this Present. In Foure Parts..., 3rd edition, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henry Fetherstone, 1617, woodcut headpieces and initials, old ink stamps of Birmingham Library to title, first leaf of dedication and few other leaves, few short worm trails to some margins, penultimate leaf of index tables at rear torn to upper outer corner, final leaf torn with some text loss and strengthened to fore-margin, light toning throughout, occasional spotting and few light damp-stains, 20th-century cloth with old gilt library stamp and number to spine, folio (28.2 x 17.8 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 20507; Sabin 66681. 'The eighth and ninth books, pp. 893-1102, relate to America' (Sabin).

Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene, Disposed into XII. Bookes, Fashioning twelve Morall Vertues, 1st folio edition, London: Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, 1609, large woodcut printer's device to main title and title to the second part, as well as final leaf verso, decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces, wormhole to upper blank corner continuing from the title to page 268, generally not affecting text, smaller unobtrusive wormholes to lower blank margins beginning at the title to the second part and continuing to page 308, final 16 leaves (2F6 onwards) with paper repairs to lower outer edges, final leaf with repairs, 2I2 (i.e pp. 361-2) with wormtracks in text and subsequent small loss of text, occasional toning and small damp stains, mainly in second part, some dust-soiling to title and a few leaves, occasional underlining and early annotations, bookplate of William Fair of Langlee, later tree calf gilt, loer cover detached, spine and covers rubbed, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Pforzheimer 971; STC 23083. The first folio edition (first published in 1590) and the first to include the Two Cantos of Mutabilitie not published in the first edition.

[De Lolme, Jean-Louis]. The History of the Flagellants, or the Advantages of Discipline; Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbe Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne, Canon of the Holy Chapel, &c. By somebody who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne, 1st edition in English, London: printed for Fielding and Walker, 1777, half-title, title with engraved vignette, 4 engraved plates, 3 engraved head-and- tail pieces, scattered spotting, contemporary speckled calf, gilt-decorated spine with red morocco title label, rubbed, upper cover detached, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Brunet I 22386; ESTC T143818; Lowndes II p. 625.Originally first published in 1700 in Paris by Jacques Boileau, a Doctor of Theology at the Sorbonne, and his controversial treatise was condemned by the Jesuits as heretical. De Lolme's translation includes his own commentary and attempts to allow readers to regard the work in a moral and philosophical light.

Palladio (Andrea). The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books. Containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observations concerning all sorts of building... revis'd, design'd, and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian, Architect to His Most Serene Highness, the late Elector Palatine. Translated from the Italian original, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, corrected, London: A. Ward, S. Birt, D. Browne, C. Davis, T. Osborne & A. Millar, 1742, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I by Bernard Picart, volume I title printed in red and black, 230 engraved plates on 207 sheets by John Harris, Bernard Picart, J. Cole and M. Vanderguchi, a few double-page, bound without the allegorical frontispiece to volume I, one or two short closed marginal tears, occasional light offsetting, some spotting and a few small water stains to text, endpapers renewed, contemporary diced calf gilt, rebacked, original spine relaid with later labels, gilt arms of Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda to covers, a little rubbed with a few stains, some edge wear, folio, 57 x 29 cm QTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda (1730-1822). He was MP for St. Canice (Irishtown) in Ireland, from 1756-58, Governor of County Meath from 1759 and MP for Horsham from 1776-80, and created Knight of St. Patrick in 1783.Harris 685. The third edition (first published in 1715) and the first edition to contain the notes by Inigo Jones and Andrea Palladio's Antiquities of Rome and a Discourse of the Fires of Rome of the Ancients.

Lambard (William). A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre. Collected and Written (for the most part) in the year 1570 by William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne Gent. and now increased by the addition of some things which the Authour him selfe hath observed since that time..., 1st edition, Imprinted at London [by Henry Middleton] for Ralphe Newberie, 1576, title within woodcut border with early signature Benj.(?) Taylor and marginal annotation dated Oct 4th 1692 (blank margin at head and foot of title cropped), hand-coloured engraved map 'Angliae Heptarchia' laid down to verso of final leaf of preliminaries ([par.]4) and border at head and fore-edge cropped, woodcut decorative initials, signature of Benj. Taylor at head of A1, occasional early annotations mostly to margins, last two leaves in duplicate with annotation to verso of final leaf, front pastedown bearing the signature John Francis Howell and armorial bookplate of Charles Spooner bearing the motto 'Imitari quem colis', contemporary calf with blind arabesque to centre of each board, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, lacking ties to boards, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 15175.The first edition of the first English county history, containing a list of the nobility and gentry from the Herald's Visitation in 1574, which was omitted from later editions. This work is considered to have formed a model of topographical writing which William Camden adopted.

Denon (Dominique Vivant). Planches du voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, atlas volume only, Paris: Henri Gaugain & Chaillou, 1829, 143 engraved plates (including 20 bis & 54 bis), a few plates at front with faint old damp-stain to lower outer margin (occasionally touching plate), light intermittent spotting and minor dust-soiling to margins, contemporary brown quarter morocco gilt, some light wear to extremities, foot of upper joint split, elephant folio (60 x 41 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Atabey 338 (for 3rd edition); Blackmer 471 (for 2nd edition).'Denon's work has been justly praised. As a member of the Commission des Sciences et Arts which accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt, he remained in Egypt for thirteen months, working continuously to record the Egyptian monuments. He was the first to reveal the richness of Egyptian art to Europe'. (Atabey).

Hippocrates. Hippocratis coi medicorum omnium longe principis, Opera quae ad nos extant omnia, Basel: Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1546, [12], 695, [18] pp., title and final leaf with printer's woodcut device, contemporary brown ink marginalia to title (a few struck-through), preliminary gatherings with old paper repair to lower corner (wormed), old damp-staining to blank margins of many gatherings (occasionally touching text), 17th-century calf, worn, lacking spine label, folio (leaf size 33 x 21 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Adams H569. First edition of the Latin translation of the collected works of Hippocrates which became the standard text for a long period.

James I. An Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance: First set forth without a name, and now acknowledged by the Author, the right High and Mightie Prince, James by the grace of God, King of great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Together, with a premonition of his Maiesties to all most mightie Monarches, Kings, free Princes and States of Christendome, 2 parts in one, London: Robert Barker, 1609, royal armorial woodcut to verso of each title (first title with small rust hole to fore-margin), bookplate to verso of front free blank 'This book belonged to the library of Anson Phelps Stokes, Esq. 1838-1913 of New York City and on his death became the property of Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes', modern calf, red morocco title label to spine, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 14401.The first edition was published anonymously in 1605.

Newton (Isaac). Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflectons, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. The Second Edition, with Additions, London: W. and J. Innys, Printers to the Royal Society, 1718, 10 (of 12) folding engraved plates, lacks Book I, Part I, Plate I and Book III, Plate I, also lacks advert leaf at rear, heavy old dampstaining, browning and dust-soiling throughout, ink ownership signature of C. W. Boyce at head of first page of text (and pencil inscription of Carrington William Boyce, 1834, to front pastedown), contemporary calf, covers detached and some wear to spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Babson 134; Wallis 176.The second issue of the second edition with the four title and preliminary leaves reprinted from the very rare first issue of 1717, with the plates newly engraved, ‘and the number of Queries at the end increased from 16 to 31, including the celebrated Query No. 28 on the nature of light’ (Babson). The present edition also contains Query 31, which is Newton's only chemical treatise.

Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron). Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, 7 volumes, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1885-1897, photogravure portrait frontispiece to first volume, 421 chromolithograph plates after Foster, Lodge, Keulemans and Thorburn, all leaves and plates mounted on linen guards, occasional light toning, marbled endpapers with evidence of bookplate removal from upper pastedowns (with some consequent paper skinning), top edges gilt, near contemporary dark green half morocco by Bickers & Son, each volume neatly rebacked preserving original spines, large 8voQTY: (7)

Medina (Pedro de). L'art de naviguer de M. Pierre de Medine, Espagnol. Contenant toutes les reigles, secrets, & enseignemens necessaires a la bonne navigation, traduict de castillan en françois, avec augmentations et illustration de plusieurs figures et annotations, par Nicolas de Nicolai, Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1569, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout including full-page illustration of the celestial spheres, world map (after Appian) with cherubic windheads to C3 verso, without the folding map frontispiece of the North Atlantic and 4 text-leaves (*4, K4, F1, F4), title-page laid down and with old ink inscriptions and marginal repairs, modern limp vellum, 4to (24.1 x 17 cm), housed in modern custom-made green cloth book boxQTY: (1)NOTE:Polak 6581; Sabin 47345; Brunet III, 1573.Medina's work is seen as the first practical treatise on navigation. First printed in Spanish in Vallodid, all early editions are rare, this being the second edition in French. A copy of the first French edition of 1554 was one of three books on navigation carried by Drake during his circumnavigation of the world in 1577-80. A cleric and librarian to the Duke of Medina-Sidonia, Medina had first-hand knowledge of the New World, having travelled there with Hernan Cortes. He was asked to prepare charts and other navigational aides by Emperor Charles V, and after the first publication of the work was named Cosmografo de honor.

Epistolae Graecae. Epistolae diversorum philosophorum, 2 volumes in 1, Editio Princeps, Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1499, part 2 bound before part 1, 138 unnumbered leaves, (lacking blank 6 2); 266 unnumbered leaves (lacking blank 8), Greek letter, some Roman, capital spaces with guide-letters, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica on front pastedown, all edges gilt and richly gauffered, early 19th-century ‘Romantic’ straight-grain purple morocco by Brooks (his printed ticket on flyleaf), bound for George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, covers blind and gilt-ruled to a panel design, outer panel with blind dentelle border, middle panel with blind fleurons to corners and sides, large blind-tooled finely worked lozenge at centre, the arms of the 1st Duke of Sutherland gilt on upper cover, spine with blind and gilt-ruled double raised bands, blind tooled in compartments, gilt tooled at head and tail, inner dentelles and turn-ins gilt, 4to (leaf size 20.5 x 13.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833), (bookplate).BMC V-560; GKW 9367; Goff E-6; Brunet 2, 1021; Renouard 18:1; "Cette édition est rare". Hain-Copinger, 6659.A fine, crisp copy of a rare Aldine incunable edited by Marcus Musurus. From 1493, Musurus was associated with Aldus Manutius and belonged to the Aldine Academy of Hellenists, a society founded by Manutius and other learned men for the promotion of Greek studies. Many of the Aldine classics were published under Musurus’ supervision, and he is credited with the first editions of the scholia of Aristophanes (1498), Athenaeus (1514), Hesychius of Alexandria (1514) and Pausanias (1516). Musuros’ handwriting reportedly formed the model of Aldus’ Greek type. Musurus here brings together 26 Greek authors including letters by Plato and the first printing of any of his writings in the original Greek as well Isocrates, Aeschines, Synesius, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, St. Basil, Phalaridis Tyranni, Bruti Romani, Apollonius of Tyana, and Julian Apostate. The Aldine Epistolae Graecae ‘was not replaced by an equally useful collection until 1873, the date of R. Hercher’s Epistolographi graeci’ (Wilson, Byzantium to Italy, p.150).The book is printed in Aldus’s second and better Greek type (2:114), designed by Francesco Griffo da Bologna. Letter-writing was an art and study allied to rhetoric which formed part of a humanistic education, and compendia of letters circulated as model precedents. The letters published in this volume however are of interest far beyond mere examples of letter-writing. An example is Plato’s seventh letter, the longest and most important. It is addressed to the associates and companions of Dion, most likely after his assassination in 353 BCE, in the form of an open letter, and contains a defence of Plato’s political activities in Syracuse as well as a long digression concerning the nature of philosophy, the theory of the forms, and the problems inherent to teaching. Toward the end of the letter he gives an explanation of the perfect circle as an existing, unchanging, and eternal form, and explains how any reproduction of a circle is impossible. He suggests that the form of a perfect circle cannot even be discussed, because language and definition are inadequate. This important edition was hightly influential; Copernicus taught himself Greek using this work with the help of a Greek-Latin dictionary; the manuscript of his De Revolutionibus contains a suppressed passage from Lysis’s letter to Hipparchus found in this collection. Introducing the text of the letter Copernicus mentions 'Philolaus believed in the earth’s motion.. (and) Aristarchus of Samos too held the same view'.

Bacon (Francis). Instauratio Magna [Novum Organum], 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: [Bill Norton and] John Bill, 1620, engraved title after Simon van de Passe, second issue with e3 cancelled (as usual) and e4r adding errata and omitting the name of Bill Norton from the colophon, initial blank (Pi1) bound before A1, woodcut headpieces and historiated initials, a few leaves with small blank paper loss to outer top and bottom corners, bound with an incomplete copy of Bacon's Baronis de Verulamio (1638) bound before and after the Instauratio Magna, late 17th-century/early 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of R. L. B. D. F. to front pastedown, with contemporary ownership inscription in Latin in brown ink of 'Juliani le Tac Rothomagensis' to head of front pastedown, with a further accompanying neat ownership to head of title of the second work (Baronis de Verulamio, also with small library stamp), contemporary full calf, gilt double-rule border to covers, spine separated into 7 compartments by thick raised bands, 6 compartments with gilt motif incorporated by double-rule border, some wear with tailcap showing, head of upper joint with small split, thick small 4to (leaf size 29.5 x 17.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Gibson 103b; Grolier / Horblit 8B; Pforzheimer pp. XIX-XXI; PMM 119; STC 1163.First edition of one the most important works of the 17th century, an unsophisticated copy in an unrestored contemporary binding. A 'landmark in the advancement of human learning' (Pforzheimer). 'Bacon conceived a massive plan for the reorganisation of scientific method and gave purposeful thought to the relation of science to public and social life' and 'his insistence on making science experimental and factual, rather than speculative and philosophical, had powerful consequences' (PMM).

Lucretius Carus (Titus). De Rerum Natura, libri VI. A Dion Lambino Monstroliensi, litterarum Graecarum in urbe Lutetia doctore Regio, olim locis innumerabilibus ex auctoritate quinque codicum manuscriptorum emendati, ac fere redintegrati, & praeterea brevibus, ac perquam utilibus commentariis illustrati; nunc ab eodem recogniti, & longe meliores facti, planeque iam in suam pristinam integritatem restituti: cum iisdem commentariis, plus quarta parte auctis. Accesserunt haec praeterea, Vita Lucretii, eodem Lambino auctore, Paris: Jean Bienné, 1570, 22 unnumbered leaves, 627 pp., 68 unnumbered leaves (a-e4, f2, A-Z4, a-z4, Aa-Zz4, AA-ZZ4, AAA-CCC4, D2), title with printer's woodcut device of a Baselisk, occasional neat early marginal annotations in brown ink [most likely by Charles Mason, see provenance note], front endpaper with portion to extreme top margin removed (with later repair), intermittent light waterstaining to lower margins, BBB2 with minor loss to outer blank fore-edge, old ownership inscription to front endpaper in brown ink 'Car: Mason: Trin: Coll. Cant. Soc: 1732', and another early French owner's name below in brown ink 'Ex Libris Sr Cousteul' (repeated to title), 19th century ink signature to title 'Th Bryan', contemporary full calf, marked and some wear to outer corners, modern good-quality reback, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Charles Mason (1699-1771), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1725, Woodwardian Professor of Geology, 1734-62, Vicar of Barrington, Cambridgeshire, 1742, and Rector of Orwell, Cambridgeshire 1762-1771.Adams L1666; Renouard III, 640; Schweiger II, 574: "Best and most complete edition of Lambin, in which the commentary is corrected and enlarged many times."The third and definitive edition of Denys Lambin's commentary, first printed in 1563, and the first important critical edition of Lucretius's work. French humanist and philologist Denys Lambin (1516-1572), one of the great classical editors of his time, was appointed Royal Professor of Latin and Literature at the Collège Royal in 1561, becoming Professor of Greek the same year. The printer Jean Bienné first collaborated with Lambin in 1566, publishing his Oratio de rationis principatu, and continued to publish Lambin’s works until 1578, including Appendicula commentariorum in Aemilium Probum, sive Cornelium Nepotem (1569), as well as the two major editions of Demosthenes, De?mosthenous logoi (1570) and Lucretius, De rerum natura (1570).Lambin's "editorial work expresses a deep sympathy for his subject and the prefaces and notes are a monument of erudition and fine vigorous Latinity" (PMM 87 for the 1563 edition).

Virgil. [Opera Virgiliana, cum decem commentis, docte et familiariter exposita, docte quidem Bucolica, & Georgica à Seruio, Donato, Mancinello & Probo nuper addito : cu[m] adnotationibus Beroaldinis. Aeneis uerò ab iisdem pr[a]eter Mancinellum & Probum, & ab Augustino Datho in eius principio: opusculorum præterea quædam ab Domitio Calderino. Familiariter uerò omnia tam opera q[ue] opuscula ab Iodoco Badio Asce[n]sio. Addidimus præterea opusculum aliud, in priapi lusum, quod in antea impressis minime reperitur, edited by J. Badius Ascensius, 3 parts in one, Lyon: Jean Crespin, 1529], lacking first title, second title with woodcut fleur-de-lys, circa 200 fine large woodcut illustrations, numerous metalcut criblé initials of various sizes (many historiated), lacking signature Ff2 (i.e. pp. LXXXIII-LXXXIIII) in the second part and signature X3 (pp. CCCXXI-CCCXXII) in the third part, and final leaf at the end of the book, early manuscript annotation to rear endpaper, signature MIII in first part with medium closed tear, one or two small marginal repairs, occasional light water stains (heavier to last few leaves) and light soiling, near-contemporary panelled calf, lacking part of spine, some worming and wear to covers, folio (31 x 21 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Adams V-474. The superb woodcuts are by the Late Master of the Gruninger Workshop, first published by Johann Grüninger at Strasbourg in 1502. Grüninger's Virgil woodblocks, the production of which was supervised by Sebastian Brant, had a long afterlife and passed to Lyon for use in Jacques Sacon's 1517 edition and then to Jean Crespin (for the present edition), before moving to Crespin's associates in Venice, the Giunta family.Sold with all faults not subject to return.

Grotius (Hugo). Annotationes in libros Evangeliorum. Cum tribus tractatibus et appendice eo spectantibus, Amsterdam: Joh. & Cornelium Blaeu, 1641, title in red and black with woodcut device, ink stamp to upper outer corner of title, occasional ink underscoring to few leaves, some toning and scattered spotting, first and last leaves slightly frayed to margins, contemporary vellum bearing the initials E G and date 1655 in blind to upper board, boards detached, lacks spine, worn, folio, together with other mostly 18th-19th century miscellaneous antiquarian including Walter Scott, Waverley Novels, 25 volumes, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841-43, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, wood engraved illustration to titles, contemporary green half morocco gilt, lightly rubbed, small 8vo, with an early 18th-century edition of Aesop's Fables lacking title and some preliminary and last leaves, and Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal..., new edition, London: Thomas Kelly, 1835, engraved portrait frontispiece and numerous hand-coloured plates, some dust and finger-soiling, endpapers renewed, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, 4to, Oeuvres de J. B. Poquelin de Moliere, 8 volumes, Edition Stereotype, Paris: Pierre Didot & Firmin Didot, 1813, bookplate of Frederick H. H. Glasse to upper pastedowns, contemporary green half calf, gilt decorated spines with morocco labels, 12mo, etc.QTY: (approx. 85)

Darwin (Charles). Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various Countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.M. from 1832 to 1836, 1st edition, 3rd issue, London: Henry Colburn, 1840, half-title, folding charts at p. xiv and p. 538, closed tear to second chart, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue (dated August 1839) bound at rear, some spotting, untrimmed, pale yellow endpapers, inner hinges cracked, original blue cloth, gilt-titled backstrip detached but present with a little fraying and some loss at foot affecting imprint, covers rubbed, large 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Freeman 12. The third issue was the second appearance of the work in its own right, the first issue appearing in 1839 which is otherwise identical except for the cancelled title.

Walton (Isaac). The Compleat Angler the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish Ponds, Fish and Fishing. To which is added the Laws of Angling: with a new Table of the Particulars in this Book, 3rd edition, much enlarged, London: Printed by J. G. for Rich. Marriot, at his shop in St. Dunstans Church-yard, Fleet Street, 1661, engraved cartouche to title, 10 engraved vignette illustrations of fish to text, two pages of music for the 'Anglers Song' for two voices on pages 214 and 215 with the later printed upside down, some very light toning, all edges gilt, late 19th/early 20th-century full green crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, elaborate gilt decoration to spine (spine leather lightly faded to olive brown) and triple-line gilt border to boards, gilt dentelles to turn-ins (offset with consequent browning to margins of free endpapers), small 8vo (14.3 x 8.8 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Coigney 3.There are two misnumbered pages, 78 for 87, and 233 for 223. 'The Lawes of Angling' have been added for the first time and are printed in black letter. Chapter XVII is still misnumbered XVI as in the previous edition. Except for a few minor changes the third edition is almost identical to the second edition.

Lamb (Charles). The Works of Charles Lamb, 12 volumes, London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1903, colour and monochrome photogravure plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original vellum-backed blue cloth, gilt-blocked decoration to spines in bright condition, 8voQTY: (12)NOTE:Large Paper edition limited to 200 sets for sale in England, 100 for sale in America. This is No. 61 of the English Edition, with the limitation to the first volume signed by the editor William Macdonald.

Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books. Written by John Locke, Gent. The Second Edition, with large Additions, London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1694, engraved portrait frontispiece by P. Vanderbanck after Sylvester Brounower (some soiling, with central horizontal crease and closed tear repaired to fore-margin without loss), 20 leaves, 407 pp., 6 leaves of index, title and following leaf with small closed tears repaired to lower blank margins, occasional marks and light soiling, final leaves (from Aaa1 onwards, page 361) with stain to centre of blank fore-margins, Hhh1 with long vertical closed tear repaired at inner margin, Ccc4 (page 383/384) torn with loss to lower outer corner, just touching a few letters, old half calf over marbled boards, heavily marked and some discolouration, some wear to head and foot of spine and edges, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC R21459; Pforzheimer 601; PMM 164 (first edition); Wing L2740; Attig 229.The expanded second edition of Locke's famous philosophical essay, and the foundation of classical British empiricism. Part of the new material in this edition arose out of Locke's exchange with the young Irish scientist, William Molyneux, with whom he corresponded in the late 1680's and 1690's. This included the celebrated problem originally proposed by Molyneux in a letter to Locke in 1688 (first published by Locke here in Book 2): if someone born blind had learned to distinguish a globe and a cube by touch alone, and was then given sight, would that person be able to determine purely by sight which one was which? Both Locke and Molyneux thought that he or she would not. Further changes included the entire recasting of the section 'Of Power' dealing with freedom, and the addition of a new chapter 'Of Identity and Diversity', in which Locke equated personal identity with continuity of consciousness, and not with continuity of any spiritual substance.This is the second issue, with Awnsham as the printer (the first issue 'Printed for Thomas Dring...').

* Van Heemskerck (Maarten). Seven allegorical engravings of Processions, from the series 'Circulus Vicissitudines rerum Humanorum' (The Vicissitudes of Human Life...,), Omnibus amissis post mille Pericula rebus..., Sustinet Impositum veluti virtute Camelus..., Invidia Bellimater occupant rhedam..., Auriga Mundi tempus..., Impia facta Fratrum macra Invidia..., David magnanimus fortem virtute Leonem..., [and] En pietate virum insignem virtute decorum Clemente Stephan?..., Coornhert, originally published in 1564 but these examples circa 1601, hand-coloured engravings with etching on laid after H. Cock, large margins, each approximately 210 x 255 mm, together with Halma (Francois). Naumachiae, Id Est Navalis Pugnae, Lucus Onuphrii Panvinii, Veronensis..., Rome 1699, uncoloured engraving, old folds, some water staining, 335 x 445 mmQTY: (8)NOTE:Maerten van Heemskerck or Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel and adopted his teacher's Italian-influenced style. He spent the years 1532–6 in Italy. He produced many designs which were subsequently engraved and is especially known for his depictions of the Wonders of the World. The second item depicts the re-enactment of a naval battle at the Colosseum, showing numerous ships and galleys engaged in mock combat. A 'Naumachiae' was a simulated naval engagement, often representing a classical Greek battle which inaugurated large festivals and tournaments at the Colosseum. This engraving was published in Francois Halma's De Aaloudheden van Rome. . ., an illustrated work on the ecclesiastical history of Rome. It was first published in 1699, but there is also a 1704 edition which has the page number 435 removed from the upper right corner.

Spadling (Elizabeth Edwards). The First Cold Warrior, Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism, 1st edition, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, together with:Haynes (John Earl & Harvey Klehr), Venona, Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, plusHornblum (Allen M.), The Invisible Harry Gold, the man who gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers very lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other modern espionage, spy, & Cold War reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8voQTY: (6 shelves)

Eliot (T. S.). Poetry and Drama / The Confidential Clerk / The Elder Statesman, all 1st editions, London: Faber & Faber, 1950, 1954 & 1958, review copies with Times Literary Supplement slips loosely inserted, the first two addressed to A. V. Cookman and the first with Cookman's 6-page manuscript leader review in blue ink also enclosed, bookplate of Ivor Samuel to flyleaf of first book, original cloth in dust jackets, spines toned and a little chipped at heads, 8vo, together with 32 others including Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot, 1944 one volume edition, the Headswoman, by Kenneth Grahame, 1st illustrated edition, 1921, Cider With Rosie, by Laurie Lee, 1959, Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl, 1st US edition, 1959, The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass, 1st UK edition, 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1st UK edition, 1963, The Owl Service, by Alan Garner, 1967, 4.50 From Paddington, by Agatha Christie, 1957, and Death of an Expert Witness, by P. D. James, 1977QTY: (35)

Pliny the Elder. Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII. Quos interpretatione et notis illustravit Joannes Harduinus e Societate Jesu, jussu Regis Christianissimi Ludovici Magni, in usum Serenissimi Delphini. Editio nova emendatior & auctior, 2 volumes bound in 3, Paris: Impensis Societatis, 1741, folding engraved map ('flumina quatuor paradisi terrestris'), 11 plates, occasionally lightly toned, edges stained red, contemporary full vellum, manuscript titles to spine, folio QTY: (2)NOTE:First published thus in 1685, this edition of Pliny was produced by the Jesuit scholar Jean Hardouin (1646-1729), who made use of the evidence of Roman coins to verify parts of the text. This is considered the last commentary on the entirety of the text of Pliny. Hardouin was a controversial figure who believed nearly all ancient classics (Pliny's Natural History being one of the exceptions) were 13th-century forgeries by monks under the direction of Severus Archontius.

Fitz Gerald (E. A. ). The Highest Andes a Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys, 1st edition, London: Methuen & co., 1899, previous owners bookplates to front pastedown and endpaper, with 2 maps, 51 illustrations and a panorama, spotting throughout, minor tear to both maps at the hinge, ink stamp to the reverse, quarter green morocco with marbled boards, top edge gilt, spine and covers rubbed and worn, 8vo, together with: Hudson (Charles & Edward Shirley Kennedy), Where there’s a will there’s a way: An Ascent of Mont Blanc by a new route and without guides, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856, folding map, with tape repair to first portion, facsimile frontispiece, rebacked to retain the original spine and embossed boards, spine and covers lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Whymper (Edward), Travels Amongst The Great Andes of the Equator, second edition, London: John Murray, 1892, with maps and numerous illustrations, ex library bookplate to front pastedown, front gutter split, publishers original gilt decorated cloth, spine faded and rubbed, large 8vo, and other 19th century alpine and mountaineering reference and related including The Building of the Alps by T. G. Bonney, On Foot Through Tyrol by Walter White, Through the High Pyrenees by Harold Spender, mostly original cloth some original wrappers, large 8vo/8vo, GQTY: (3 shelves )

Ogilby (John, translator). The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, 2nd [3rd] edition, [bound with:] Aesopic’s: Or a Second Collection of Fables, Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations. London: Printed by Thomas Roycroft for the Author, 1668, titles printed in red and black, 148 engraved plates by Wenceslaus Hollar and Dirck Stoop, lacks frontispieces and one other plate, old dampstaining throughout affecting text and plates, occasional tears and crude paper repairs, a few with some loss of text or images, contemporary ownership inscription of Alex Thomas to front free endpaper and later ownership inscription to first title verso, contemporary calf, dampsstained and worn, folio (41 x 26 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Wing A697 & A698. Sold with all faults not subject to return.

Snape (Andrew). The Anatomy of an Horse, 1st edition, London: M. Flesher, for the Author, 1683, engraved portrait frontispiece, 49 engraved plates, occasional minor spotting and soiling, armorial ink stamp of Henry Drax to title verso with some see-through, old name inscription at head of title erased with some resultant paper loss outside of double-rule border, lacks initial blank, contemporary calf, rabacked with spine relaid and some minor restoration, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Nissen ZBI 3587; Wing S4832. First edition of the of first book on equine anatomy in English.

Montagu (George). Testacea Britannica or Natural History of British Shells, Marine, Land, and Fresh-Water, Part 1 (of 2) and Supplement only in 2 volumes, 1st edition, printed Romsey: J. S. Hollis & Exeter: S. Woolmer, 1803 & 1808, engraved additional titles (both heavily browned with some offsetting to following leaf, ownership names partly erased), first volume with hand-coloured vignette, 30 hand-coloured engraved plates by Elizabeth Dorville at end of Supplement, some foxing, bookplate of Henry Blands (detached but present in first volume), contemporary half calf, some wear, backstrips deficient and covers near detached, 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:Nissen ZBI 2875.

Philoponus (Joannes). Ioannu Grammatikou tou Philoponou Ypomnema eis ta Peri psyches biblia Aristototelus... Ioannis Grammatici Philoponi Comentaria in libros de Anima Aristotelis, Venice: in aedibus Bartholomaei Zanetti Casterzagensis, aere vero & diligentia Ioannis Trincaveli, 1535, title with fine large woodcut device of a putto standing by a tree stump, the same woodcut repeated to verso of blank leaf at end, 145 printed leaves of Greek text, A1 with headpiece and large initial printed in red, other woodcut headpieces and initials, title with repaired tear at lower margin, short closed marginal tear at foot of M3, a little light toning to title, occasional small mainly marginal water stains, seventeenth-century full vellum, manuscript title to spine and shelf number at foot, spine darkened, some dust soiling to covers, folio, 29.5 x 20 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Adams P1049. Provenance: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716), Scottish writer, politician and owner of the finest private library in Scotland, his signature to rear endpaper.Philoponus, otherwise known as John the Grammarian, born in Alexandria circa 490 AD, was a theologian, philologist and philosopher who authored many works, including commentaries on Aristotle, as here with De Anima (On the Soul). This edition is edited by the Venetian Vettore Trincavello (1496-1568) who edited some of the first editions of Greek classical works.

Empress Marie Louise Bindings. Charles Millevoye. Charlemagne, ou la défaite des Lombards, poème heroique en dix chants, & Charlemagne à Pavie, poème en six chants, 2 volumes, Paris: Didot, [1812], & Chez Firmin Didot, 1814 respectively, first volume with half-title, engraved title, manuscript note in pencil by Arthur Jaffé to half-title, second volume with wood-engraved device to title, all edges gilt, uniformly bound in contemporary crimson full morocco gilt, covers stamped with large gilt armorial of the Empress Marie-Louise (1791-1847), fine copies in excellent condition, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Arthur Jaffé OBE (1880–1954), thence by descent. 'This volume and an earlier edition given to Arthur Jaffé. Part of Napoleon's Library purchased by John Jaffé in 1933. The main portion given to the Musée Malmaison and a set of English poets and maps of the Russian Campaign to the Royal Library Windsor Castle, Arthur Jaffé' (pencil note in Arthur Jaffé's hand at front of the first volume).Following the pencil note of provenance, it is possible that these two volumes came from the sale of the Napoleonic Collection of the Earl of Rosebery, which was sold at auction by Sotheby & Co., London in 1933: Catalogue of the well-known and very valuable library formed at Durdans, Epsom, by the late Rt. Hon.ble. the Earl of Rosebery, KG, KT, sold by order of his daughter Lady Sybil Grant, and (in the case of heirlooms) with the consent of the court. The third and final portion: the Napoleonic collection, Sotheby & Co., London, 24-25 July 1933, or shortly thereafter.Empress Marie-Louise (1791-1847), Duchess of Parma, daughter of Francis II of Austria, and second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (until his death in 1821). Marie Louise married Napoleon in 1810, and was Empress of France until his abdication in 1814

Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed. In this impression you shall find these additions: 1 His portraiture and progenie shewed. 2 His life collected. 3 Arguments to euery booke gathered. 4 Old and obscure words explaned. 5 Authors by him cited, declared. 6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two bookes of his neuer before printed, 1st Speght edition, London: Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton, 1598, black letter text in double column, engraved portrait of the author by John Speed (torn with losses) title within elaborate woodcut architectural border (some light dust-soiling and margins a little frayed), 3 other divisional titles with woodcut borders, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, occasional small marginal worming obscuring a few letters of catchwords, occasional light toning and small damp stains, later calf, rebacked, some wear to corners, folio, 31 x 21 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Pforzheimer 177 (different imprint); STC (2nd ed.) 5078; Grolier 43 English.'From the form of imprints it would seem that Bishop, Norton, and Wight commissioned Islip to print this edition, and judging from the frequency with which copies with their imprints occur it is probable that Bishop took the largest share and Norton the next' (Pforzheimer).First edition of Thomas Speght’s definitive edition of the complete works of Chaucer and the first to contain an engraved portrait of the author. this copy the Islip and Norton issue. Speght, a somewhat obscure schoolmaster, was assisted in its production by the chronicler John Stow, Francis Thynne, Francis Beaumont (father of the dramatist of the same name), and Robert Glover.

Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall tongues..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1612], general title lacking, New Testament title present within decorative woodcut border, Apocrypha present, verso of fore-margin preliminary leaf A6 bearing early signature William Doble, text printed in roman type, few ruled borders to upper margin and occasional running titles lightly shaved, short closed tear to fore-edge of leaves 2A3-2B2, tear to fore-margin of 2B3, small tear to leaf 2T4 with loss of few letters of text, occasional light toning and some light damp-staining, bound with an incomplete Book of Common Prayer at front (lacking all before E3), also bound with at front [Speed, John]. The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, According to every Family and Tribe. With the Line of our Saviour Jesus Christ observed from Adam to the blessed Virgin Mary, [London, c.1612], woodcut genealogies with hand-coloured woodcut of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with double-page woodcut map of Canaan, bound with at rear an incomplete The Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English Meetre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others..., London: Companie of Stationers, 1612, lacking all after H2, free endpapers discarded, late 17th-century dark brown gilt panelled morocco, centre of each board with the initials M E in gilt, joints split with front board attachment weakening, head of spine worn with loss, lacks ties to fore-edge of boards, 4to (21.4 x 16.3 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 242; Herbert 313; STC 2219.The first quarto edition of King James' version; printed in roman type. With Gen. x. 16, Emorite; Ruth iii. 15, hee.

Lewis (C. S.). Broadcast Talks, reprinted with some alterations from two series of Broadcast Talks given in 194 and 1942, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1942, original white cloth lettered in red, dust jacket, chipped with some loss to extremities, lightly spotted, 8vo, together with:Christian Behaviour, a further series of Broadcast Talks, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1943, original orange cloth, dust jacket, extremities lightly frayed, 8vo, plusAdams (Richard). Watership Down, illustrated by John Lawrence, Harmondsworth: Prnguin and Kestrel Books, 1976, full-page illustrations (some in colour), original brown cloth-backed boards, dust jacket, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, contained in original pictorial slipcase, with 2 others first editions by C. S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms & The Four LovesQTY: (5)

Faujas de Saint-Fond (Barthelemy). Description des Experiences de la Machine Aerostatique de MM. de Montgolfier, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: chez Cuchet, 1783-84, 14 engraved plates, a few with light water stains, occasional light spotting, small ink stamp and shelf number to front pastedowns, later full morocco, spines a little faded, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:PMM 229. 'The first serious treatise on aerostation as a practical possibilty'. 'Faujas de Saint-Fond, an eminent French scientist, was at once the sponsor of the Montgolfiers and their chronicler. He set on foot a subscription to repeat an experiment conducted by them in June 1783 when 'a cloud enclosed in a bag', in fact a linen globe of 105 feet circumference in which the air was heated by a straw fire, made a successful ascent at Amonay... in November when, after some tethered experiments, Pilatre de Rozier, accompanied by the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first aerial voyage in history. They ascended from the Chateau de la Muette in the Bois de Boulogne, sustained their flight for five-and-a-half miles across Paris and descended after twenty-five minutes on the outskirts of the city.' (PMM). The work is the earliest record of the flight.

[Gentillet, Innocent]. A Discourse upon the Meanes of Wel[l] Governing and Maintaining in Good Peace, A Kingdome, or other Principalitie ... Against Nicholas Machiavel the Florentine. Translated by Simon Patericke, London: Adam Islip, 1608, title with woodcut printer's device and bearing early signature H. Brooke, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, B3 & B4 bound in wrong order (as seen in other examples), occasional light dust-soiling, endpaper hinges repaired, contemporary calf with oval foliate gilt decoration to centre of each board, joints and head of spine neatly repaired, modern calf title label, corner repaired and upper edge of lower board repaired, ties skilfully replaced, folio (28.4 x 18.6 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 11744. The second edition in English of Gentillet's famous condemnation of Machiavelli's The Prince, first published in English in 1602.

Cook (James). A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, In the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. In which is included Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777, engraved portrait frontispiece, 63 engraved maps and plates (some folding), a few folding plates strengthened at folds, a few plates closely trimmed at foot touching publisher's imprint, closed tear to one folding map affecting image, a few leaves loose (including volume 2 title), lightly dust-soiled, some marginal old damp-staining, contemporary mottled tree calf, gilt decorated spines with bird and foliate tools, contrasting morocco spine labels, joints cracked with upper joints repaired, lower cover of volume 2 detached, some wear, 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:Sabin 16245; Hill p.61.A first edition of the official account of Cook's second voyage, in which he was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle and definitively prove that there was no 'Terra Australis'.

Map Reference. A collection of approximately 40 books, mostly 20th-century, including Shirley (Rodney. W.). The Mapping of the World, Holland Press, 1983, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, presentation copy, signed by the author on the half-title, bookplate of Patrick Filmer-Sankey to the verso of the first front blank, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, folio, together with Burden (Philip). The Mapping of North America, volumes I & II, Raleigh Publications, 1996 & 2007, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jackets, folio, with Skelton (R. A.). County Atlases of the British Isles, Carta Press, 1970, additional half-title, numerous black & white illustrations throughout, limited edition 25/30, signed by the author, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, modern half morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, 4to, plus other volumes similar on maps and scientific instruments, including examples by John Blake, R. A. Skelton, Catherine Delano-Smith, Carole Scott and Peter Barber, various sizes and condition and Kircher (Athanasius). Mundus Subterraneus.., volume 1 only, J. Jannson & J. Waesberge & Sons, Amsterdam, 1678, decorative letterpress title, lacking the two portraits and the double-page maps, numerous engravings, diagrams and maps to the text throughout, some toning and slight staining throughout, upper hinge cracked, contemporary calf with gilt decorated spine, heavily worn and rubbed, folioQTY: (approx. 40)NOTE:Sold as a collection, not subject to return.

Agrippa (Henrie Cornelius). Henrie Cornelius Agrippa, of the Vanitie and Uncertaintie of Artes and Sciences, Englished by JA. SAN. GENT., 1st English edition, London: Imprinted at London, by Henry Wykes dwelling in Fleete Streat, at the signe of the blacke Elephant, 1569, 8 unnumbered leaves, 187 numbered leaves, and 2 unnumbered leaves at end (Faultes escaped in the printinge, and The common places, or Chapiters of the matters intreated in this booke), *4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa4, Bbb4, with final leaf unsigned, (Bbb6 blank), title within decorative woodcut border, large woodcut coat-of-arms of Thomas Duke of Norfolk to verso, woodcut initials, black letter text, some near-contemporary annotations in brown ink to margins and occasional underlining, mostly towards front of volume, some light water staining to outer margins, mostly at front and rear of volume, endpapers renewed, old plain limp vellum, with modern dark blue cloth silk ties, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:STC204; Norman 22.First English edition, translated by James Sandford (or Sanford).'German philosopher and writer on the occult, Agrippa was the first European to respond to the intellectual upheavals of the sixteenth century by adapting the classical skepticism of ancient and Hellenistic Greece, developed in opposition to various dogmatic philosophies, into a means of dealing with a rapidly changing modern world. (Norman).'Although Agrippa was an admirer of Luthor, he understood that the Verbum Dei as a Catholic; in one letter to Melanchton he called Luthor the invincible heratic. Although this aspect of his thought is often neglected, it occupies the key position in his polemic on the arts and sciences, De incertitudine. This work gives emphasis to the tension between the Verbum Dei and human knowledge, without providing any places for the skepticism of which Agrippa has often been accused. Rather, at the beginning of the era of natural science, it was one of the first testimonials to knowledge of the limits of human understanding' (DSB).

Saussure (Horace-Bènedict de). Voyages dans les Alpes, précédés d'un essai sur l'histoire naturelle des enviorns de Geneve, 4 volumes, 1st & 2nd edition, Neuchâtel: Louis Fauche-Borel, 1796-1804, engraved vignettes to titles, 22 plates on 21 engraved sheets, 2 folding engraved maps, contemporary brown ink ownership inscriptions of Louis Gautier to head of titles, mid-19th-century ownership inscriptions of Ludwig Gautier to front free endpapers, bookplates of Norfolk & Norwich library to front pastedowns, contemporary half calf gilt, contrasting morocco spine labels, rubbed, 4toQTY: (4)NOTE:The first two volumes in second edition, the latter two in first edition.Saussure's landmark study of the Alps and Mont Blanc, with an account of the geology of the region, as well as of Geneva and the surrounding area.

[Mazuchelli, Nina Elizabeth]. The Indian Alps and how we crossed them, 1st edition, 1876, folding lithographed map of Sikkim, with very slight foxing and a short closed handling tear, 10 chromolithographed plates, wood-engraved illustrations to text, plates with some foxing mainly to margins, also foxing and toning affecting the adjacent pages, first and last few pages foxed, bookbinder's ticket of Westley's & Co., London at rear, front hinge slightly cracked, all edges gilt, original blind- and gilt-decorated maroon cloth, rear cover stained, front cover with small stain, slight wear to corners, headcap and top of front joint, 4toQTY: (1)

Camden (William). Annales Rerum Anglicarum, et Hibernicarum, regnante Elizabetha, ad annum salutis M. D. LXXXIX, 1st edition, London: William Stansby for Simon Waterson, 1615, [10], 499, [20] pp. (Index), woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, B1 cancel, lacking final errata leaf, contents in very good clean condition, unidentified 19th century armorial bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary full calf, spine in compartments, with morocco spine labels replaced, rubbed and marked to spine, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 4496.The historian William Camden (1551-1623) also wrote a second volume of Annals, which he delibrately delayed publication of until after his own death (it was first published in 1627), because his text dealt with people who were still alive. This first volume includes a description of Drake's voyage around the world in 1577-80, as well as information on Drake's early life, obtained first hand from the man himself.

Donne (John). Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the authors death. To which is added divers Copies under his own hand never before in Print, London: Printed by J. Flesher, and are to be sold by John Sweeting at the Angel in Popeshead-Alley, 1654, [8],392,[24]pp. (A4, B-Z8, Aa8, aa8, bb4, Bb-Cc8), lacking nine leaves (I5, N5-6, R5-6, X5-6, and Bb5-6), lacks engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall, title with early ownership signature at head 'Guil: Lake', additional ink ownership signature of Edmund Gosse to verso of front pastedown, and bookplate of Edmund Gosse to rear endpaper, additional copy of the final leaf of preface (A4) with a different typographic setting loosely inserted at end, contemporary sheep, somewhat worn to spine and outer corners, with loss to lower portion of spine, small 8vo, together with:Cleveland (John). J. Cleaveland Revived: Poems Orations, Epistles, and other of his Genuine and Incomprabable Pieces, never before publisht. With some other Exquisite Remains of the most eminent Wits of both the Universities that were his Contemporaries, 1st edition, London: printed for Nathaniel [Brook, at the Angel in Corn-hill, 1659], [16],127,[9]pp., lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, title with early ownership inscription 'Isaac Howard his book' and with lower outer corner missing (affecting part of the imprint), toning and dust-soiling throughout, browning to margins of initial leaves, contemporary sheep, upper board detached, lacking spine and lower board, worn, small 8vo,Butler (Samuel). Hudibras. The First Part [& The Second Part], 1st authorized edition, London: Printed by J. G. for Richard Marriot, under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1663-64, two parts in one, some light damp-staining, 20th-century blind-panelled and decorated calf, rubbed and some marks, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Donne: Wing D1870; ESTC R5320; Keynes 83.Cleveland: Wing C4674; ESTC R23713Butler: Wing B6300 & B6309.

Brooke (Ralph). A Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marqueffes, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to this present yeare, 1619. Together with their Armes, Wives, and Children: the times of their deaths and burials, with many their memorable Actions..., 2nd edition, London: Printed by William Jaggard, and fold at his house in Barbican, 1619, title within decorative architectural woodcut border (cropped to border edges and lined to verso), previous ownership inscriptions in ink to title-page of Simon Digby, J. Paul Rylands F.S.A., Highfields 1874 and Sir John Oglanders Booke, to top of A3 further ownership inscription in brown ink 'J V Tuillain Oglandr Brook Oct 24 1697', some toning to endpapers, a few small near contemporary ink annotations to margins, J. Paul Rylands bookplate to front pastedown, final three pages with near contemporary handwritten lists of Earls made since King James came to the Crowne, Earles tempore Caroli Regis 1625, and Vicounts, numerous woodcut armorials and decorative initials throughout, erratic pagination (possibly bound without initial blank as lacking A2), some minor soiling, 19th century half red morocco, gilt title to spine, rubbed at extremities, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Collated as STC 3832. Second edition, the first edition was published in 1619 bearing 'to this present yeere 1619' on the title.Sir John Oglander 1585 – 1655) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1625-1629. A keen writer who kept detailed accounts of his household and estate, which survive today. Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet used them to write his book History of the Isle of Wight, published in 1781. An edition was published by William Henry Long in 1888, as The Oglander Memoirs.

Zulu The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 by Saul David first edition paperback book. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

Better Military Modelling hardback book first edition by Donald Featherstone. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

Ian Knight signed Brave Men's Blood The Epic of the Zulu War 1879 first edition hardback book signed by author dated 02. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99