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1933 London Underground H C Beck diagrammatic, card POCKET MAP from the first-year series titled 'Underground Railways of London'. This is the edition with no print-code, issued c. August 1933. Refers to re-naming of Dover St station to Green Park and the merger of Holborn and British Museum stations, all in September that year. A lightly-used copy with some age-foxing at one fold but overall still a very good example. [1]

[Updated] 1839 Bradshaw's RAILWAY COMPANION, the 1st edition so titled. This is the version dated '10th Mo 25th, 1839 (No 3)' and is probably the 1889 reprint by Bradshaw to celebrate their half-century. Pocket-sized, hard covers with gold-leaf title label. Contains timetables, town plans, area maps, "hackney coach" fares etc. Some age-foxing in places, the front cover is detached at the first page (but otherwise still attached) but a very good example of this scarce issue. [1]

1933 London Underground H C Beck diagrammatic, card POCKET MAP from the first-year series titled 'Underground Railways of London'. This is the edition with no print-code, issued c. August 1933. Refers to re-naming of Dover St station to Green Park and the merger of Holborn and British Museum stations, all in September that year. A superb example, very close to mint, firm and crisp, with no marks or stains. [1]

1933 first edition of the H.C. Beck London Underground diagrammatic card POCKET MAP with the famous cover slogan "A new design for an old map." A used example with some small staining and wear at the folds and edges. [1]

Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice, 1985, limited first edition, signed by the author, specially bound and numbered 155/250, Chatto and Windus, London

Thomas Hardy, A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper and Other Tales, concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid, 1913 first edition, Macmillan and Co, limited, together with The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall, 1923 first edition, F Outwin Saxelby, a Thomas Hardy dictionary, 1911 first edition, George Routledge and Sons, limited

GRAHAM CLARKE (born 1941) British (AR), First & Last, limited edition coloured etching, signed, titled and numbered 211/400 in pencil to margin, framed and glazed. 38 x 30.5 cm.

England 1966 World Cup Winners Limited Edition First Day Cover Signed By 10 Geoff Hurst, Bobby Charlton, Nobby Stiles, Gordon Banks, Roger Hunt, Jack Charlton, Alan Ball, George Cohen, Martin Peters & Ray Wilson. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.

A Royal Doulton figure "Sir Winston Churchill" HN3057, another "First Smile", limited edition 5455/7500, "Ballet Shoes" HN3434 and a character jug "The Gardener" D6630 (5)

Local Interest - Two prints of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the first a limited edition 8/600 reissued by the Alexander Gallery Bristol, 30cm x 44cm, in wash-lined card mount and gilt frame under glass, the second of similar size (2)

Coalport Characters Wallace and Gromit First Edition Ornament - A Close Shave, Wool Shop Encounter

Boxed Coalport Character First Edition Wallace and Gromit Ornament - Oh, What a Mess

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW; approximately seventy-five volumes, volumes 1-22 continuous, 24-39, 41-72 and volume 77, fourth edition, published John Murray, London, first 1812 and last 1846, in marbled and calf boards with gilt tooled spines.Additional InformationAll in worn condition with losses to calf, fading to gilt etc, foxing to interior to varying extent, volume three with tear to spine.

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Blampied, Edmund (illus.), Travels with a Donkey, pub. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931, original black cloth gilt; together with three other volumes illustrated by Blampied, comprising Dell, Ethel M., The Way of an Eagle, pub. J. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 34th Impr. (Fine Edition), 1916; Priestley, J. B., Albert Goes Through, pub. William Heinemann Ltd., 1933, first ed.; and Fairless, Michael, The Roadmender, pub. Duckworth & Company, new ed. pub. Oct 1924. (4)

Saunders, A. C.; Le Quesne, C. T. (intro.) - Jersey, Before and After the Norman Conquest of England, pub. J. T. Bigwood, Jersey, 1935 first Edition, 15 b & w plates, orig. burgundy calf with gilt title and crest, signed by author, no. 37 from an edition of 200, 8vo.

Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)On (Corlett 32)Etching, 1962, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 60 in pencil, on wove paper, as included in the portfolio 'The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde, Vol. 5, America Discovered', published by Galleria Schwarz, Milan, with wide margins, sheet 253 x 187mm (10 x 7 3/8in) (unframed)The present lot is the first true Pop Art print by Roy Lichtenstein, it is based on a painting of the same title from 1961.

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)Untitled (Messenger approaching Cadaques)Pen and black ink on a fly-leaf from 'Macbeth', 1947, signed, dated and inscribed 'Pour Paul Eluard, avec l'amitie de tujours pour la vie' in black ink, the full sheet, bound, sheet 227 x 150mm (9 x 5 7/8in); the book with 12 black and white illustrations, from the first edition, bound in printed boards, within the original illustrated card slipcase, printed at The Country Life Press, New York, published by Doubleday & Company Inc., New York, overall 245 x 162mm (9 5/8 x 6 3/8in) (vol)

WARNOCK 2nd Lt. ROBERT, 6th/7th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers (died 12 Aug.1916).  Turnbull Robert (Ed.) Robert Warnock, Scout & Soldier. A collection of edited transcripts of Robert Warnock's letters, written while based in the Philippines (1911-1915) & serving in France (1915-1916), many illus., Glasgow, 1917; also Buchan John, The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (1678-1918), first edition, 1925 (passing ref. to Lieut. R. Warnock on page 357); Warnock family maroon photo album c.1901/1902 showing young Robert, mainly Glasgow/Scottish interest, last few pages show many scenes of 1901 International Exhibition in Glasgow (eg Russian Pavilion) & hardback notebook part filled with newspaper cuttings re. Robert Warnock's life (incl. his contribution to the Boy Scout movement) & death in service.  (4).2nd Lieutenant Robert Warnock M.C., Royal Scots Fusiliers was killed in action in France in August 1916. He was educated at Glasgow High School where he was a member of the Cadet Corps, from which he passed on to the 1st Lanark Volunteers. When war broke out Lieutenant Warnock was in business in Manila with Messrs. Smith, Bell & Co. but at once proceeded to Hong Kong & enlisted. Being posted to the Royal Scots Fusiliers he came home to join his regiment early in 1915 & in the following October went to France, where for his gallant & distinguished services as machine gun officer of his battalion he was awarded the Military Cross. He was a remarkably good shot & often figured in the Bisley Prize Lists, more than once being well in the running for the King's Prize.

Steiff - a limited edition Betsy Ross 666940 teddy bear, North American exclusive, blonde mohair, with lace bonnet and collar, cameo with picture of Betsy Ross holding the first American Flag, white tag and button, 00661/1776, with original bag

Stephens (John). Essayes and Characters, Ironicall, and Instructive. The second impression. With a new Satyre in defence of Common Law and Lawyers: Mixt with reproofe against their common enemy. With many new characters, & divers other things added; & everything amended, by John Stephens the yonger, of Lincolnes Inne Gent., printed by E: Allde for Phillip Knight, and are to be solde at his shop in Chancery lane over against the Rowles, 1615, A-Y8, Aa-Dd8, Ee1-4, 19 unnumbered preliminary pages & 434 pages of main text, neat contemporary ownership signature of ROB: Gord: to title, with price paid to top margin, contemporary limp vellum, hand-title in brown ink to spine 'Steephens Essayes', ties lacking, rubbed and some marks, small 8vo (Qty: 1)STC 23250; Pforzheimer 989; Gwendolen Murphy, English Character Books, pp. 29-31 (and p. 19 for the sixth edition of Overbury's Characters containing the attack on Stephens for calling actors 'rogues'). Published in the same year as the first edition, this collection of Theophrastian characters is the principal work by John Stephens, although he was also the author of a play entitled Cynthia's Revenge, or Menander's Extasy , which was published surreptitiously in 1639 with commendatory verses by Ben Jonson. This second impression or edition includes for the first time the 'Satyr In Defence of Common Law and Lawyers', and a riposte to the sixth and enlarged edition of Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters... together with... The Wife , itself issued in 1615 with a new piece entitled 'An Excellent Actor', in which the writer attacks John Stephens' literary abilities: 'the imitating Characterist is extreame idle in calling them Rogues... I would let his malicious ignorance understand, that Rogues are not to be imploide as maine ornaments to his Maiesties Reuels; but the itch of bestriding the Presse, or getting vp on the wodden Pacolet, hath defiled more innocent paper the ever did Laxative Physicke'. This additional piece, as well as 31 other additions is widely attributed to the playwright John Webster. In Stephens's Characters, besides the coxcomb, gamester, begging scholar, gaoler, informer, mercenary poet, huntsman, falconer, farmer, hostess, tapster, lawyer's clerk, scrivener and witch, is the 'common player' which derides the professional actor: 'a common player is a slow payer, seldom a purchaser, never a puritan. The Statute hath done wisely to acknowledg him a Rogue errant, for his chiefe essence is, A daily Counterfeit... When he doth hold conference upon the stage; and should looke directly in his fellows face; hee turnes about his voice into the assembly for applause-sake, like a Trumpeter in the fields, that shifts places to get an eccho' (pages 295-97). This second edition is also significant for the addition of the 'Essay the fourth entituled Reproofe. Or a defence for common Law & Lawyers...', which is a poetical reply to George Ruggle's play Ignoramus, acted twice before King James in March and May of that year, much to the annoyance of the legal profession, who were the subject of the play's ridicule.

Hope (Sir William). The Compleat Fencing-Master: In which is fully described the whole Guards, Parades and Lessons belonging to the Small-Sword; as also the best rules for playing against either artists or others, with blunts or sharps. Together with directions how to behave in single combat on horse-back: illustrated with figures engraven on copper-plates, representing the most necessary postures, 3rd edition, printed for Hugh Newman, 1697, 12 folding engraved plates, p. 167 misnumbered 197, cancel title detaching, some light toning and soiling, bookplate of William Herver of Clapham, contemporary speckled sheep, spine repaired, edges a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC R202450; Wing H2712A. A re-issue of the 1692 second edition, with cancel title leaf, of the first edition of 1687, originally published as The Scots fencing-master . William Hope authored several works on fencing, the first to be published in Britain on the subject.

Collier (Jeremy). A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage: together with the Sense of Antiquity upon this Argument, 2nd edition, for S. Keble, R. Sace, and H. Hindmarch, 1698, bound with: Settle (Elkanah), A Defence of Dramatick Poetry: being a Review of Mr. Collier's View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the Stage, 1st edition, for Eliz. Whitlock, 1698, 2 works in 1 volume, front free endpaper loosening, Collier's work signature L1 with marginal paper-flaw obscuring a side-note, Settle's work with half-title, light marginal spotting towards rear, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed and calf, spine-label renewed, small section of restoration to front board, 8vo (18.6 x 11.8 cm ) (Qty: 1)Arnott & Robinson 285 & 304; ESTC R10121 & R16098; Wing C5264 & S2675bA; cf. Pforzheimer 189 (Collier, first edition). True second edition of Collier's famous polemic, entirely reset, with the catch-word 'thought' on A2 recto. There was another 'second edition', really a re-issue of the first edition with a cancel title-page, in which the catch-word is 'It'. For Sir John Vanbrugh's riposte to Collier see the following lot.

Huygens (Christian). The Celestial Worlds discover'd: or, Conjectures concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets, 1st edition in English, for Timothy Childe, 1698, A3 B1-L8, 5 engraved plates (4 folding), a few minor spots, later panelled calf, spine a little rubbed with neat repairs, 8vo (Qty: 1)Provenance: William Wilberforce (1759-1833), abolitionist (his bookplate). ESTC R5990; Wing H3859. First published in Latin under the title Cosmotheoros earlier the same year. Huygens was one of the first scientists to speculate on the possibility of extraterrestrial life on other planets in the solar system, concluding that the flora and fana of other planets would be similar to those of the earth and that the presence of liquid water was essential for life.

(Haudicquer de Blancourt, Jean). The Art of Glass. Shewing How to make all Sorts of Glass, Crystal and Enamel. Likewise the Making of Pearls, Precious Stones, China and Looking-Glasses. To which is added, The Method of Painting on Glass and Enameling. Also how to Extract the Colours from Minerals, Metals, Herbs and Flowers. A Work containing many Secrets and Curiosities never before Discovered. Illustrated with Proper Sculptures. Written Originally in French... With an Appendix, containing Exact Instructions for making Glass-Eyes of all Colours, 1st edition in English, printed for Dan. Brown, 1699, half-title present, 9 engraved plates (2 browned), verso of title-page with stain and abrasion to lower margin where strip of adhesive tape removed (showing through to recto), A6-8 and Aa3 with marginal soiling, N4 with lower outer blank corner torn away, upper hinge split between half-title and title, hinges reinforced, front endpapers with armorial bookplates, that to front free endpaper bearing the name Charles Dymoke Willaume, red sprinkled edges, contemporary Cambridge pane calf, sometime rebacked, rubbed, some wear to extremities (slight loss at head of spine, and adjacent portion of front joint splitting), 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC R16918; Wing H1150. First English translation of this important early treatise on glass-making, first published under the title De l'Art de la Verrie in 1697.

['D. S.']. England's Happiness Improved: or, an Infalliable Way to get Riches, Encrease Plenty, and promote Pleasure. Containing The Art of making Wine of English Grapes, and other Fruit, equal to that of France and Spain ... The whole Art and Mistery of Distilling Brandy ... To make all Sorts of Plain and Purging Ales, Cyder, Mead, Matheglin, Rum, Rack, and many other useful Liquors. To Gather, Order, and Keep Fruit ... The Art and Mistery of Pickling Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Buds, Roots, Fish, Flesh ... The whole Art and Mistery of Confectioner ... The Compleat Market-man, or Woman ... Particular Rules for good and frugal House-keeping, 2nd edition, printed for Roger Clavill, and sold by T. Leigh and D. Midwinter, 1699, spotting and browning, leaf A4 closely trimmed in lower margin shaving catch-word and signature mark, contemporary mottled sheep ruled in blind, remnants of old paper spine-label, 8vo (13.7 x 8.6 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: engraved bookplate of Ambrose Isted (c.1718-1780/1), of Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire. ESTC R229812; Wing E2977A; cf. Gable G19820 (first edtion, 1697) & G42433 (third edition, 1700; Gable with the erroneous date 1672); not in Bitting, Cagle, Oxford or Vicaire. Very rare: ESTC traces two copies in libraries world-wide. 'This is one of the earliest books in English that describes the planting and culture of vines in England, and the making of wine from grapes grown in England' (Gable). It was first published in 1697, and a third edition appeared in 1700 with the title Vinetum angliae and the author identified by the initials 'D. S'.

Thumb Bible. Verbum Sempiternum, [by John Taylor], The Third Edition, with Amendments, 2 parts in one, printed for Tho James, [1700?], title-page preceded by imprimatur leaf dated October 6 1693 (often lacking), half-title, and engraved portrait frontispiece depicting 'His Illustrious Highness William Duke of Glocester', New Testament half-title preceding title to second part (former with small nick in fore-edge), blank at rear with inscription on verso 'Tryphena Russell Her Book 1708/9', preliminary blank with inscription on recto 'Philip Doddridge his Book given him by Miss Russell ye:4th:of May 1709', and further inscription dated 1802 on verso, also relating to the Doddridge family, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, original black morocco, slightly rubbed, tiny hole at head of spine, foot of spine a trifle bumped, raised bands, compartments gilt panelled, with quatrefoil tool in centre and roundels at corners, covers with border of gilt dotted roll between single fillets, enclosing a double fillet panel with central quatrefoil device surrounded by thistle and wheel tools, volute cornerpieces, brass clasp, 55 x 50 mm (2.25 x 2 ins) (Qty: 1)Philip Doddridge (1702-1751) was an English nonconformist minister, author and hymn writer who did much to advance the education of the poor. Tryphena Russell was the daughter of Lord James Russell, son of the first Duke of Bedford, and Elizabeth Lloyd. In 1725 she married British politician Thomas Scawen (d.1774) who in 1722 had inherited the property of an uncle, which included Carshalton Park in Sutton. Their daughter Tryphena married Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst. There are several references to Lady Russell in The Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge , edited by his great grandson John Doddridge Humphreys and published between 1829 and 1831. Doddridge refers to Lady Russell as a valuable friend, makes mention of a certain mysterious pecuniary embarrassment surrounding her, and describes her sudden death at Reading, on the road from Bath, on 1st September 1736. ESTC R184925; Wing T527; see Bondy, pp. 13-15. A rare early thumb Bible.

'C. K.' Art's Master-Piece: or, A Companion for the Ingenious of either Sex. In Two Parts. I. The Art of Limning and Painting in Oil..., II. The Art of making Glass of Chrystal, of all sorts and Colours, and to prepare the Materials ... 2nd edition, printed for G. Conyers and J. Sprint, [1701?], engraved frontispiece, publisher's advertisement leaf at rear, some corners curled (one tip torn away), final page and endpapers browned, late 19th century brown half calf, 12mo (Qty: 1)ESTC N16286; Wing lists the first, third and fourth editions only. First published in 1697, all editions are scarce. A fragile little publication, intended as a working book, our copy survives in remarkably good condition. It contains all manner of useful information: painting in oils, drawing, colouring mezzotints, japanning, dyeing, making perfumes and soap, making inks, enamelling, gilding, making wax flowers, soldering metals, making glass, etc.

Whole Duty of a Woman. The Whole Duty of a Woman: or a Guide to the Female Sex. From the Age of Sixteen to Sixty, etc. Being Directions, How Women of all Qualities and Conditions, ought to Behave themselves in the various Circumstances of this Life, for their Obtaining not only Present, but Future Happiness. I. Directions how to Obtain the Divine and Moral Vertues of Piety, Meekness. Modesty, Chastity, Humility, Compassion, Temperance and Affability, with their Advantages, and how to avoid the opposite Vices. II. The Duty of Virgins, Directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoid, for gaining all the Accomplishments required in that State. With the Whole Art of Love, &c. 3. The Whole Duty of a Wife. 4. The Whole Duty of Widow &c. Also Choice Receipts in Physick, and Chirurgery. With the Whole Art of Cookery, Preserving, Candying, Beautifying, &c. Written by a Lady, 3rd edition, London: J. Guillim, 1701, [6], 184pp., manuscript date at head of title 'Dec ye 17 1705', early ownership inscription of Joanna Whitmore Brackley to page 64 (D8 verso, in section relating to love, passion & the wedding day), some toning and light dampstaining mostly towards rear, later endpapers with blind stamp to front free endpaper, later speckled calf, recent black morocco title label, 12mo (Qty: 1)ESTC T63975; Maclean, p. 150; Oxford, p. 46; cf. Cagle 1052 for the first edition, 1695. Only three UK institutional locations found (British Library, Bodleian and National Library of Scotland). The work includes the observation that 'The sexes are made of different tempers, that the defects may be the better supplied, by mutual assistance. Our sex wants the others reason for our conduct, and their strength for our protection. Theirs want our gentleness to soften and entertain them, our looks have more strength than their laws; there is more power in our tears, than in their arguments; and therefore things prudently managed, will by degrees, bring over a husband to see his errors; and by acknowledging his failings, take care for the future, to amend them; but then the wifes gentleness and vertue, must be the mirror, wherein he must see the deformity of his irregularities'.

Remmelin (Johann, & Michael Spaher of Tyrol). A Survey of the Microcosme: or, The Anatomy of the Bodies of Man and Woman. Wherein the skin, veins, arteries, nerves, muscles, viscera, bones and ligaments thereof are accurately delineated, and so disposed by pasting, as that all aparts of the said bodies, both internal and external, are exactly represented in their proper site. Useful for all physicians, chyrurgeons, statuaries, painters, &c., corrected by Clopton Havers, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Society, 2nd edition, printed for Dan. Midwinter, and Tho. Leigh at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's-Church-Yard, 1702, printed title, engraved plate of the human body showing the skin and veins, 3 engraved plates or 'visio', with moveable parts, and 4 pages of description for the plates, generally in good condition, and understood to be complete with all hinged overlays, some light soiling to margins, first leaf of descriptive text with short closed tear to lower blank margin, without loss, not affecting text, contemporary marbled boards, heavily rubbed and marked, slim square folio (sheet size 42 x 32 cm/16.5 x 12.5 ins) (Qty: 1)ESTC T147736. Russell 697. A translation of the Catoptrum Microcosmici of 1613, and revised by Clopton Havers, the present work is one of the most elaborate large-scale early books with moveable parts, allowing the reader to learn human anatomy interactively with their own hands and eyes. The 'Microcosme' refers to the classical notion of the human body as a microcosm of the universe. The plates employ an ingenious system of overlays to reveal the successive anatomical features of the human body.

Lemery (Louis). A Treatise of Foods, in General: First, The Difference and Choice which ought to be made of each Sort in particular. Secondly, The Good and Ill Effects produced by them. Thirdly, The Principles wherein they abound. And, Fourthly, The Time, Age and Constitution they suit with. To which are added, Remarks upon each Chapter; wherein their Nature and Uses are explained, according to the Principles of Chymistry and Mechanism, 1st edition in English, John Taylor, 1704, two leaves of publisher's adverts at rear, browning throughout, spotting and occasional stains, upper hinge split, contemporary speckled calf, upper joint slightly cracked, 8vo (Qty: 1)Axford, p. 397; Cagle 821; Maclean, p. 89; Oxford, p. 48; Vicaire 514. Originally published in French under the title Traité des aliments , Paris, 1702 (Cagle 276).

[Defoe, Daniel]. The Consolidator: or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. Translated from the Lunar Language, by the author of the True-born English Man, 1st edition, Benjamin Bragg, 1705, half-title, worm-track repaired at foot of first few leaves, small piece of front endpaper torn away, some spotting and light toning, contemporary mottled calf, spine repaired at ends, a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)Rothschild 737.

Dyeing. The Whole Art of Dying. In Two Parts. The First being an Experimental Discovery of all the most useful Secrets in Dying Silk, Wool, Linnen and the Manufactures thereof, as Practised in England, France, Spain, Holland and Germany… Written Originally in the German Language. The Second Part is a General Instruction for the Dying of Wools and Woollen Manufactures of all Colours; for the Culture of the Drugs used in the Tinctorial Art, as also for the Dying of Hats; Published by the especial Command of the present French King in that Language… Both which are Faithfully rendred into English from their Respective Originals, 1st edition, printed by William Pearson, for J. Sprint, Dan. Midwinter, G. Conyers, and Tho. Ballard, 1705, [20], 356pp., occasional spotting, minor pinprick worming and worm-tracing to upper outer corners of signatures K & L, lower blank outer corner of final leaf torn with loss, deleted early ink ownership inscription of Elias Newcomen to title-page, contemporary polished calf, rebacked with original spine and spine label relaid, rubbed, some edge and corner wear, 8vo (18.5 x 11.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: The work appears to have been owned by Elias Newcomen (1706-1765), the second son of Thomas Newcomen (1664-1729), inventor of the eponymous Newcomen steam engine in 1712. Elias followed his father’s interest in directing the erection of steam machinery. ESTC T80696; M. Ron, Bibliotheca Tinctoria, p. 36. 1. A very nice copy of a work of great rarity, the first comprehensive work on the subject to be published in English. ESTC locates five copies in the UK and four copies in North America. The original German book that made up part I of The Whole Art of Dying was the 1703 edition of a book originally published in 1685, Ars Tinctoria Experimentalis, oder curieuse Wollkommene Endecken der Faerbe-kunst . The second part is a translation of the 1683 German work Ars Tinctoria Fundamentalis, oder Gründliche Anweisung zur Färbenkunst , which was itself a translation of Colbert's 1669 work, Instruction genérale pour la teinture des laines et manufacture de laine de toutes couleurs et pour la culture des drogues ou ingrediens qu'on y emploie . It was this work which established ‘a standard for the French (later also for other European nations) dye industry. It gave both practical instructions and legal regulations on sizes, quality, and practices, together with a law, promulgated in 1669’.

Dunton (John). Athenian Sport: or, Two Thousand Paradoxes Merrily Argued, To Amuse and Divert the Age … With Improvements from the Honourable Mr. Boyle, Lock, Norris, Collier, Cowley, Dryden, Garth, Addison, and other Illustrious Wits. By a member of the Athenian Society, 1 st edition, printed for B. Bragg, 1707, half-title, text in double column, 18 th century engraved bookplate of Edmondstoune of Newton to front pastedown, with related ink note above ‘Newtoun Decr 4 th 1751’, contemporary blind panelled calf, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Athenianism: or, The New Projects of Mr. John Dunton, Author of the Essay entitl'd, The Hazard of a Death-Bed-Repentance being, Six Hundred distinct Treatises (in Prose and Verse) written with his own hand; and is an entire collection of all his writings, both in manuscript, and such as were formerly printed. To which is added, Dunton's Fare Wel to Printing, Vol. I [all published], printed by Tho. Darrack... and are to be sold by John Morphew, 1710, engraved portrait frontispiece of John Dunton by Van der Gucht after E. Knight, [2], xiv, [16], 224, 360 pages, minor spotting and light soiling to title and a few preliminary leaves, modern antique-style blind-panelled full calf, with gilt morocco label to spine, 8vo (Qty: 2)Provenance (for the first work): James Edmondstoune of Newton in Perthshire. Parks 339 & 362. The first work is a collection in prose and verse, compiled by the eccentric writer and bookseller John Dunton (1659-1732). Subjects vary from the whimsical to the scatological, but focus chiefly on human foibles and ignorance, and the relationship of the sexes. The second, and scarcer title, Athenianism , complete with the only surviving portrait of the author (and often missing) consists of 24 'projects', or Satires on literature, history, religion, autobiography and science, much of which is in verse, including a poem on male prostitution entitled 'The He-Strumpets'.

Hills (Henry, junior, printer). Sammelband of 30 poetry pamphlets, all but one Henry Hills pirate editions, 1708-10, including: Addison (Joseph), A Letter from Italy to the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Halifax, 1709, [ Dryden, John], The Medal. A Satyr against Sedition, 1709, [ ibid.], Lucretius ... With an Ode in Memory of ... Mrs. Ann Killigrew, 1709, ibid., Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem, 1709, [Gay, John], Wine. A Poem. To which is added, Old England's New Triumph: Or, the Battle of Audenard. A Song, 1709, [Gould, Robert], Love given over: or, a Satyr against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy, etc., of Woman. With Sylvia's Revenge, 1710, [Swift, Jonathan], Baucis and Philemon ... Together with Mrs. Harris's Earnest Petition: and an Admirable Recipe. As also an Ode upon Solitude: by the Earl of Roscommon, 1710, and 23 others, by John Philips, William Plaxton, Edward Ward, and other authors, variable browning, pagination shaved in a few leaves, price effaced from The Medal title-page, the paper worn through, one work (Philips's Pastorals, 1710) a little chipped in lower margins and with a long closed tear in leaf A7, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and relined, 8vo (17.8 x 10.6 cm) (Qty: 1)Foxon A40, D460, D458, D455, G92, G231, S803; Rothschild 2006-7 and Teerink 522 for Swift. 'Hills's notoriety stemmed from his activities during 1708–9 when he pirated a multitude of short literary works (including pieces by Dryden, Rochester, Congreve, Defoe, and Swift) and sermons—all sold very cheaply and claiming to be published for the benefit of the poor' (ODNB). He died in 1712, and in 1717 a number of his remainders were re-issued as A Collection of the Best English Poetry (1717). Wine was John Gay's first publication. The first edition, printed in 1708 by William Keble, in folio format, is famously rare.

Nourse (Timothy). The Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd. Containing several New and Advantageous Ways of Tillage, Sowing, Planting, Manureing and Improving of all sorts of Meadows, Pasture, Corn-land, Woods, Gardens, Orchards, and also of Fruit for Cyder and Perry... , the third edition, to which is added, The Compleat Collier: or, An Account how to Find and Work Coal, and Coal-Mines, the like never before printed, George Conyers, 1708, engraved frontispiece (a little frayed at foot of gutter margin), title-page of 'The Compleat Collier' to general title-page verso, 'An Analytical Account of the Argument' and Contents leaf following title with A2 as a stub, 6 pp. publisher's ads before 'The Compleat Collier' at rear, some spotting, browning and old damp-staining throughout, engraved armorial bookplate of 'Hugh Rose of Kilraick, 1709', hinges cracked, contemporary calf with remains of manuscript paper spine labels, rubbed, chipped at foot of upper joint, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC T131546, giving two British and two North American locations only. This is a re-issue of the 1700 edition of Nourse's Campania Foelix , with the original title-page, with a change of title and the edition of 'The Compleat Collier', with separate pagination (22 pp.) bound at the rear: this is the first book on coal mining and was reprinted separately in the same year with the title of The Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd , by Timothy Nourse to verso.

'A Person of Quality'. Serious and Comical Essays, viz. On the Town, The Art of Pleasing in Women ... Swearing and Profane Jesting ... etc. With Ingenious Letters Amorous and Gallant. Occasional Thoughts and Reflections on Men and Manners. Also the English Epigrammatist, and the Instructive Library. To which is added, Satyrical and Panegyrical Characters. Fitted to the Humours of the Time, 2nd edition, J. King, 1710, spotting and browning, contemporary verse inscription signed Mary Palmer to rear blank, c.1900 maroon morocco gilt, joints and tips slightly rubbed, 8vo (18.5 x 10.9 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: John Webster Forbes and Ellert Webster Forbes (engraved bookplate). ESTC T131734. Rare: ESTC traces four copies in libraries world-wide. There was a first edition in 1707, of comparable scarcity.

Du Noyer (Anne Marguerite Petite). Letters from a Lady at Paris to a Lady at Avignon. Containing a Particular Account of the City, the Politicks, Intrigues, Gallantry, and Secret History of the First Quality in France, 2 volumes, 1st edition in English, for W. Mears and J. Browne, 1716-17, woodcut title-devices and head- and tailpieces, bound pink silk page-markers, contemporary panelled calf, richly gilt spines, twin red and green morocco labels, lion device gilt to sides, 8vo (Qty: 2)Provenance: Francis Longe of Spixworth Park, Norfolk (engraved bookplates by Hixon; armorial binding). ESTC N19972 (volume 1, calling for eight preliminary pages: probably ) & T141329 (volume 2). Rare first edition in English of this epistolary novel which gratified a taste for 'travels, scandals, and pseudo-histories' (Shipley, Dictionary of World Literature ) and influenced figures as diverse as Richard Steele and the Marquis de Sade. Rare: ESTC identifies four and six copies for each of the respective volumes; o ne copy, of the third edition (1716), traced in auction records.

Carpenter (Nathanael). Geography delineated forth in Two Bookes. Containing the Sphaericall and Topicall Parts thereof, 1st edition, Oxford: printed by John Lichfield and William Turner, printers to the famous University, for Henry Cripps, 1625, with the initial blank [par.]1, blank interleaf *1 before the second book, errata leaf 2N*3, and the final blank 2N*4, 4 folding letterpress tables, numerous woodcut diagrams in the text, browning, long closed tear to first table, fragments from a Latin incunable with 2 hand-painted initials used as endpapers, contemporary reversed calf, spine refurbished, 4to (18.6 x 13.6 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: 'Thomas Gore', calligraphic contemporary ownership inscription dated 1629 to initial blank; 'This Booke pertayne now to Frances Martin of Nantes', contemporary ownership inscription to the same, above a six-line inscription in French in a different contemporary hand; 'Francoys Martin de Nantes', contemporary ownership inscription to title-page. ESTC S107662; Sabin 10999; STC 4676. Especially uncommon complete with the four folding tables. Carpenter's primer for Oxford students contains a cautious discussion of 'a Spanish Chart taken by the Hollanders' showing California as an island; the recent North-West Passage expeditions undertaken by Henry Hudson (1610-11) and Thomas Button (1612-13) are cited as grounds for the author's scepticism. It also contains an early definition of geography as a discipline. 'Unable himself fully to accept the Copernican system, Carpenter presented his readers with a faithful account of it and encouraged them to weigh the evidence for themselves' (ODNB).

Desaguliers (John Theophilus). A System of Experimental Philosophy, Prov'd by Mechanicks. Wherein the Principles and Laws of Physicks, Mechanicks, Hydrostaticks, and Opticks, are Demonstrated and Explained at Large, by a Great Number of Curious Experiments: with a full Description of the Air-Pump, and the several Experiments thereon: as also of the Different Species of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hydrometers; as shewn in the Publick Lectures in a Course of Mechanical and Experimental Philosophy, to which is added, Sir Isaac Newton's Colours: the Description of the Condensing Engine, with its Apparatus: and Roley's Horary; a Machine Representing the Motion of the Moon about the Earth; Venus and Mercury about the Sun, According to the Copernican System, printed for B. Creake and J. Sackfield, 1719, [20], 201, [5]pp., 10 partly-folding engraved plates, a few diagrams to text, publisher's advert leaf before half-title with advert for Boerhaave's Method of Studying Physick to verso and 3 pp. adverts at rear, contemporary ink ownership signature of 'Geo. Martin, 1734' to title and later signatures of C.D. Nevinson (to front endpapers) and W. Strachey (half-title recto), engraved armorial bookplate of John Stokes MA, MD, early ink errata corrections, some occasional light browning, soiling and old marginal damp staining, contemporary blind-panelled calf, rubbed, joints split, some wear to extremities, old neat repair to lower outer corner of upper board, 4to (19.5 x 16.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: 1) Dr George Martine or Martin (1702-1741) of St Andrews, author of Essays and Observations on the Construction and Graduation of Thermometers, and on the Heating and Cooling of Bodies (later published in volume one in 1780) and an advocate of the mercury thermometer. He also published An Examination of the Newtonian Argument for the Emptiness of Space, and of the Resistance of Subtile Fluid (1740). 2) Charles Dalston Nevinson, MD (1773-1846). ESTC T135774 (with signature 'b' under the gap after 'PAUL'); Wellcome II, p. 451. This is an unauthorised edition, edited by Paul Dawson, and without 'All Carefully Examined and Corrected by Mr Desaguliers' on the title-page. When Desagulier became aware of the book he approached the booksellers but found that two-thirds of the imprint had already been sold. They promised to insert into all remaining copies a preface that Desagulier would write, together with a substantial errata. This copy appears to have all the errata corrected in the text. Primarily of interest as a textbook on Newtonian physics, the first issue appeared with the title A System of Experimental Philosophy .

Gay (John). The Shepherd's Week. In Six Pastorals, fourth edition, Jacob Thompson, 1721, frontispiece (near-detached) and six plates, lacks half-title, bound with Two Epistles; One, to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington; the other, to a Lady, first edition, Bernard Lintot, [1717], half-title, separate title to second poem (marked 'fifth edition'), without leaves of adverts at rear, (Foxon G88) bound with The What d'Ye Call It: A Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce, first edition, Bernard Lintott, [1715], engraved frontispiece, bound with Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London, first edition, Bernard Lintott, [1716], engraved vignette title, advertisement leaf torn with loss to foremargin affecting first letter of first line verso, some soiling at front and rear, bound with Ramsay (Allan) , Wealth, or the Woody: A Poem on the South-Sea... , second edition, T. Jauncy, 1720, a little soiling to first and last leaf, (Foxon R107), bound with Amhurst (Nicholas) , An Epistle (with a Petition in it) to Sir John Blunt, Bart., one of the Directors of the South-Sea Company, second edition, R. Francklin, 1720, half-title, one advertisement leaf (of three) present at rear, (Foxon A197), bound with Ramsay (Allan) , Patie and Roger: A Pastoral, in the Scots Dialect..., printed for J. Pemberton, 1720, (Foxon R77), bound with [Bockett, Elias] , Yea and Nay Stock-Jobbers, or the 'Change-Alley Quakers Anatomiz'd. In a Burlesque Epistle to a Friend at Sea, printed for J. Roberts, A. Dodd & J. Billingsly, 1720, half-title, (Foxon B308), bound with [Centlivre, Susanna] , A Woman's Case: in a Epistle to Charles Joye, Esq., Deputy-Governor of the South-Sea, by Mrs Cent-Livre, printed for E. Curll, 1720, half-title and a final advertisement leaf (some heavy spotting towards rear, (Foxon C97), a total of nine works in one volume, rear endpaper detached, ownership signature of Robert Warner dated 1727 and engraved bookplate of Nathaniel Thorn, 'Bookseller in St Peter's Churchyard, Exon' to front pastedown, contemporary panelled calf with leather spine label, rubbed, a little cracked along upper joint, 8vo (Qty: 1)

[Playford, William]. The Dancing-Master: Or, Directions for Dancing Country Dances, with the Tunes to each Dance, for the Treble-Violin. 17th [and 4th] edition, containing 358 of the Choicest Old and New Tunes now used at Court, and other Publick Places. The whole Work Revised and done on the New-Ty'd-Note, and much more correct than any former Editions, 2 volumes in one, printed by W. Pearson, 1721, title-pages with large engraved vignette by W. Hollar showing a putto bowing a stringed instrument be for e a crowded court (slightly dust-soiled, and with some short edge-tears expertly repaired; that to first volume re-guarded), type-set musical notation throughout, with choreography beneath, lightly toned, occasional annotations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, hinges splitting, two 20th-century bookplates on front pastedown, mid-19th-century speckled calf by F. Bedford, signed on front turn-in, spine slightly chipped at head, lower joint splitting and upper joint cracked (latter sometime repaired with adhesive), gilt rope roll decorated raised bands, gilt lettered red leather label in second and third compartments, remainder with gilt quatrefoil tool, covers with gilt double fillet border, oblong 12mo in 6s (Qty: 1)First published in 1651, William Playford's work was the first printing of English country dance tunes. All early editions are scarce and when copies do appear on the market they are often incomplete by virtue of being used as manuals on the dance floor. The titles include: 'Captain's Maggot'; 'Cuckolds all arow'; 'Punk's Delight, the new way'; 'Rub her down with Straw'; 'The Gossips Frolick'; 'The new Fagary'; 'A Trip to Marrow-Bone'; 'Noint the Teazer'; 'Jigg it E Foot'; 'I mun be marry'd a Tuesday'; 'Old Hob: Or, the Mouse Trap'; and 'White heart Cabbages: Or, Easter Tuesday'.

Wood (William). A Survey of Trade. In Four Parts. I. The Great Advantages of Trade in General, and the Particular Influence of it on Great-Britain. II. The Marks of Beneficial Trade ... III. The Great Advantages of our Colonies and Plantations to Great-Britain ... IV. Some Considerations on the Disadvantages of our Trade at Present Labours Under ... Together with Considerations on our Money and Bullion, 2nd edition, John Walthoe, 1722, single advertisement leaves at front and rear, lacks A8 [?errata leaf], turn-ins browned, contemporary calf gilt with manuscript paper spine label, a little cracked along upper joint and corners slightly bruised, 8vo (Qty: 1)Goldsmiths' 6096; Kress 3498. A re-issue of the 1718 first edition, with a different title-page and an initial leaf of advertisements. According to ESTC T146690, (which does not record the second advert leaf), some copies of the book do not have the errata leaf.

Markham (Gervase). A Way To Get Wealth: Containing sixe Principall Vocations or Callings, in which every good Husband or House-wife may lawfully imploy themselves… The first five Bookes gathered by G. M. The last by Master W[illiam] L[awson] for the benefit of Greate Britaine. The sixt time corrected and augmented by the Authour, printed by E. G. for John Harison, 1638, [28],188, [8], 118, [12, including intregal blank], 252, [4], 24 (preliminary leaves incorrectly bound after page 16), [12], 158, [8], 133 pp., woodcut illustrations, main title with some small brown stains, occasional marks and minor stains to extreme blank margins, final five leaves with larger brown stain across the page, contemporary ownership inscription in ink to front endpaper dated May 26 1641: Mr. William Priore of the ..of Hereford Meer is the true owner of this book parchased him 7/8', with additional signature directly below, and a further inscription by the same person to verso: 'Mr. William Price is my nam if you me find Restor this sam..., 1646' , 20th century bookplates of the Bibliotheca Piscatoria Tiliana to front pastedown, and small discreet inkstamp of the same to verso of title for Cheape and Good Husbandry, contemporary blind-ruled full calf, rubbed and some wear, restored to head and foot of spine, small 4to (Qty: 1)ESTC S112152; Kress 688; STC 17397. The six works here brought together are: Cheape and good husbandry for the well-Ordering of all Beasts and Fowles, and for the generall Cure of their Diseases. 6th ed. 1631, Country contentments ... 5th ed. 1633, The English House-Wife. 5th ed. 1637, The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent ... revised, inlarged, and corrected, 1636, Markhams Farewell to Husbandry ... fourth time, revised, 1638, A New Orchard and Garden ... third time corrected and much enlarged, by William Lawson, 1638, The Country House-Wives Garden... together with the Husbandry of Bees..., 1637, First published in 1631 and reaching its seventh edition in 1648.

Macintosh (William, or Richard Bradley). A Treatise concerning the Manner of Fallowing of Ground, raising of Grass-Seeds, and Training of Lint and Hemp, for the Increase and Improvement of the Linnen-Manufactories in Scotland, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Robert Fleming, 1724, 7 engraved plates of looms and tools, (some folding), marginal paper-flaw to A2, closed marginal tear to final leaf L7, contemporary speckled sheep, rebacked to style, 8vo (18.4 x 11.6 cm), together with: Economist and General Adviser. The Economist and General Adviser, containing Important Papers on the Following Subjects: the Markets, Marketing, Drunkenness, Gardening, Cookery, Travelling, Housekeeping, Management of Income, Distilling, Baking, Brewing, Agriculture, Public Abuses, Shops and Shopping, House Taking, Benefit Societies, Annals of Gulling, Amusements, Useful Recipes, Domestic Medicine, Etc., 2 volumes in 1 [all published], 1st edition, Knight and Lacey, 1824-5, containing 64 weekly numbers, title-page to each volume (both dated 1825), wood-engraved vignettes in text, engraved plate, outer leaves browned, occasional spotting elsewhere, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, occasional marginalia, manuscript quotation from the Cook's Oracle to rear blank, contemporary half calf, orange morocco labels to spine, rubbed, 8vo (19.4 x 11.7 cm), and Kennett (White), The Case of Impropriations, and of the Augmentation of Vicarages and Other Insufficient Cures, stated by History and Law, from the First Usurpation of the Popes and Monks, to Her Majesty's Royal Bounty lately extended to the Poorer Clergy of the Church of England, 1st edition, for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704, 2A2 torn affecting pagination, variable light browning, intermittent tide-mark in top margins, effaced ownership inscription to title-page, various contemporary ownership inscriptions to front endpapers, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine-ends consolidated, 8vo (19.1 x 10.8 cm) (Qty: 3)Kress 3560 (Macintosh), C.1235 (Economist).

[Bluett, John or Thomas]. An Enquiry whether a general practice of virtue tends to the wealth or poverty, benefit or disadvantage of a people? In which the pleas offered by the author of the Fable of the Bees, or private vices publick benefits, for the usefulness of vice and roguery are considered. With some thoughts concerning a toleration of publick stews, 1st edition, 1725, 218 pp., bound with: [Delany, Patrick], Reflections upon Polygamy, and the encouragement given to that practice in the scriptures of the Old Testament, by Phileleutherus Dubliniensis, 1st edition, 1737, half-title, 188 pp., a little light soiling, contemporary calf, lightly rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC T77709 & T145796 ; Kress 3587 for the first work (erroneously giving the author name as George Bluett).

De La Fond (John Francis). A New System of Music, both Theorical and Practical, and yet not Mathematical, 1st edition, printed for the autor [sic], 1725, woodcut headpieces and initials, 10 folding quarto leaves to rear containing engraved music and letterpress, including title 'The Truth of the Twelve Notes' to first leaf recto, browning, spotting to title-page, occasionally to margins, and to plates, short splits to folds of a few plates, contemporary annotations to title-page below imprint ('Tom's Coffee house, Cornhill or The Rainbow, Charing Cross') and to verso of first quarto leaf, contemporary calf, rebacked, scuffed, craquelure along joints, 8vo (20 x 11.6 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC T155115. No other copies traced at auction; seven copies in UK libraries. The work sets out at length proposed reforms to music notation similar to those advanced by Thomas Salmon, ‘in which clefs would be abandoned and the convention established to “call the Note upon the second line G (as it is now call’d in the Trebles) not only in the Treble, but likewise in the Tenor, and in the Bass"' (Wardnaugh, ed., Thomas Salmon, Writings on Music, I p. 30). The engraved music score consists mainly of examples from Corelli.

Helmin (Margaretha). Kunst-und Fleiss-übende Nadel-Ergötzungen; oder, neu-erfundenes Neh-und Stick-Buch. Worin dem, solche schöne wissenschafftliebendem, Frauenzimmer, allerhand, zu vielen Sachen anständige, Muster und Risse, nach der neuesten Façon, zu deren nützlichen bedienung, [with Part II. Fortgesetzter... & Part III. Continuantio...], 3 parts in one, 1st edition, Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel, circa 1725, 156 copper engraved plates, 59 folding, three engraved titles within floral wreath frame, the first with armorial bookplate on verso, each part with two letterpress leaves, occasional minor toning, spotting, and edge-creasing, numerous tears and repairs, some plates trimmed and re-guarded, page block 19.5 x 31cm, modern brown half calf, gilt decorated spine with raised bands, oblong folio (Qty: 1)Margaretha Helmin (1659-1742), also known as Margaretha Helm, was a German embroiderer, teacher and skilled copper plate engraver working in Nurembuerg, who created plates of her many embroidery designs. This substantial work contains a plethora of beautiful designs, to be worked in varying techniques, for household linen and clothing, e.g. fans, shoes and slippers, gloves, stomachers, borders, night caps, jackets, neckerchiefs, muffs, neck linen, gown hems, hats, bags, aprons, tassels, saddle cloths, and book covers. This volume was purchased by Martin Orskey at Sotheby's in 1968, apart from which no other copy has been seen at auction. The V&A has a copy of the work in its collections.

Poetical miscellany. The Altar of Love. Consisting of Poems, and other Miscellanies. By the most Eminent Hands. Now first collected into a Volume, 1st edition, printed for H. Curll, 1727, 2 engraved plates, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue to rear, engraved book-stamp ('James Smyth's Book' below unicorn rampant) to initial blank, contemporary panelled calf, 8vo, together with: ibid., A New Miscellany of Original Poems, on Several Occasions. Written by the E. of D. Sir Charles Sidley, Sir Fleetw. Shepheard, Mr. Wolesly, Mr. Granvill, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Stepney, Mr. Rowe. And several other Eminent Hands. Never before Printed, 1st edition, for Peter Buck and George Strahan, 1701, t itle-page in red and black, final advertisement leaf, contemporary panelled calf, 8vo, and ibid., Poems and Translations. By Several Hands. To which is added, The Hospital of Fools; a Dialogue; By the Late William Walsh, 1st edition, printed for J. Pemberton, 1714, half-title, final advertisement leaf, browning, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and refurbished, 8vo (Qty: 3)Case 340, 223b, 277; ESTC N16485, T96800, T63452. Poems and Translations was edited by John Oldmixon. The Altar of Love is uncommon. ESTC identifies four separate collations for the 1727 edition, and records only seven copies world-wide for our issue, of which one in the UK (National Library of Scotland).

Auction Catalogue. A Catalogue of the Library, Antiquities, &c. of the Late Learned Dr. Woodward, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society; and Professor of Physick in Gresham-College. Which will begin to be Sold by Auction, at Mr. Cooper's, in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 11th Day of November, 1728... By Mr. Christopher Bateman, Bookseller; and Mr. John Cooper... , [printed by Henry Woodfall, 1728], engraved initial letters and head and tail-pieces, toned and some staining to last few leaves, title-page dusty, contemporary ink prices to margins, bound with [Woodward, John] , Remarks Upon the Antient and present State of London, Occasion'd by some Roman Urns, Coins, and other Antiquities, Lately discover'd..., The Third Edition, Printed for A. Bettesworth and W. Taylor, 1723, advertisement leaf at rear, title-page with contemporary manuscript numerals to lower margin (dusty and slightly torn at foot of gutter), binder's blank at front with ink inscription dated 1848, and that at rear with later manuscript notes, marbled endpapers, front pastedown with book ticket 'The Collection of Frank Marcham 1899', top edges gilt, early 20th century black half morocco, gilt decorated spine rubbed and with slight loss at head, 8vo in 4s (Qty: 1)ESTC T61373 & T145805. The first title is rare: the last copy we have found sold at auction was at Sotheby's in 1965. This copy belonged to London bookseller and collector Frank Marcham (circa 1880-1941).

[Boutet, Claude]. The Art of Painting in Miniature: teaching the speedy and perfect Acquisition of that Art without a Master. Done from the Original French, 1st English edition, printed for G. Smith, 1729, vignette title-page, woodcut initials, and head and tail-pieces, one letterpress illustration, advertisements on verso of final leaf, a few leaves lightly toned, final few leaves a little creased (two with nick in fore-margin), contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, some wear to extremities (slight loss to spine ends, upper joint splitting, and corners showing), 8vo (Qty: 1)N29989. Uncommon first edition in English of Claude Boutet's Traité de la Peinture en Mignature (1673). Includes detailed instructions for the preparation of colours and the painting of portraits, landscapes and draperies, with a large section devoted to the painting of flowers. The index contains such titles as: 'How to manage your Colours when dry on the Pallet or in Shells'; 'To wave a Stuff, or make it like a water'd Tabby'; 'How to dot and finish the Lights of the Eyes'; 'Of the Siclamen or Sow-bread'.

Malcolm (Alexander). A Treatise of Musick, Speculative, Practical and Historical. Containing an Explication of the Philosophical and Rational Grounds and Principles thereof; the Nature and Office of the Scale of Musick; the whole Art of Writing Notes; and the General Rules of Composition. With a particular Account of the Antient Musick, and a comparison thereof with the Modern, printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, F. Fayrem, and E. Symon, 1730, contemporary ownership signature of Jo: Clephane to head of title, 608 pages, 6 engraved plates on 8 folding sheets at end, engraved bookplate of Hugh Rose Young of Kilraick [Kilravock] to front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled full calf gilt, rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)Gregory p. 163; RISM B/VI/2, p. 530. A re-issue of the first edition of 1721, with a cancel title, and the dedication to the Royal Academy of Music removed. Alexander Malcolm (1685-1763) was born in Edinburgh, and taught mathematics, emigrating to New York in 1734. The present work was described by Sir John Hawkins as 'A learned and valuable work ... replete with musical eruditon'.

[ Desfontaines , Pierre- François Guyot ]. The Travels of Mr. John Gulliver, Son to Capt. Lemuel Gulliver, Translated from the French, by J. Lockman, 2 volumes, 1st edition in English, printed for Sam. Harding, 1731, volume 1 with engraved frontispiece by Van der Gucht after Hogarth (with a few ink spots), title-page to first volume and reverse of frontispiece with some ink trials, generally toned, some spotting and marks, title to second volume dusty, hinges split or splitting, red sprinkled edges, late 19th century marbled half calf gilt, rubbed, head of spines chipped, 8vo (Qty: 2)ESTC N13920; Teerink 1238. The first English translation of Desfontaine's Le Nouveau Gulliver, published in 1730.

Bradley (Richard). The Country Housewife and Lady's Director, in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm. Containing Instructions for managing the Brew-House, and Malt-Liquors in the Cellar; the making of Wines of all sorts. Directions for the Dairy, in the Improvement of Butter and Cheese upon the worst of Soils; the feeding and making of Brawn; the ordering of Fish, Fowl, Herbs ... Practical Observations concerning Distilling; with the best Method of making Ketchup, and many other curious and durable Sauces. The whole distributed in their proper Months, from the Beginning to the End of the Year. With particular Remarks relating to the Drying or Kilning of Saffron, 2 parts in one, 6th edition, with additions, London: D. Browne & T. Woodman, 1732, engraved frontispiece showing the various activities of a farm and home, with early signature of Elizabeth Hamner to verso, separate title to second part, woodcut illustrations at rear, some dust-soiling and light spotting mostly to first and last few leaves, all edges gilt, modern 18th century style blind decorated calf, 8vo (Qty: 1)Bitting, pp. 55-6; ESTC T213501; Oxford, pp. 58-9;

[Tyssot de Patot, Simon]. The Travels and Adventures of James Massey, Translated from the French [by Stephen Whatley], 1st edition in English, John Watson, 1733, engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, some light browning, armorial bookplates of Docket Hall and Panshanger, browning from turn-ins, front free endpaper near detached, contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine with morocco spine label, rubbed, some slight wear and bruising at head and foot of spine, 12mo (Qty: 1)First published in French in The Hague circa 1714-17 with a false imprint dated 1710, this is the rare and influential first English edition of this celebrated imaginary voyage. The Huguenot free thinker author gives an account of the voyage of Jacques Masse, a French surgeon, who is shipwrecked on an island in the South Sea with 85 survivors. As much a work of libertine philosophy as an imaginary or utopian voyage, Tyssot de Patot describes how the survivors set about establishing an encampment and building a raft, giving also an account of the island and its natural productions. When exploring the interior Masse and a companion encounter an advanced civilisation in a land of plenty. The dangerously free thinking, anti-clerical nature of much of the discussion that then takes place between the hero and his hosts partly explains the false imprints on the several early editions of the book, which continued to be read, reprinted, and translated well into the century.

[Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de]. The Skimmer: or the History of Tanzai and Neadarne, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition in English, printed for F. Galicke, 1735, engraved allegorical frontispiece, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, frontispiece offset, 20th-century bookplate monogrammed 'G N', contemporary panelled calf, head of spine chipped, joints superficially split but firm, 12mo (15 x 8.3 cm) (Qty: 1)Block p. 51; ESTC T97240. Crébillon's second novel, first published in 1734 as L'Ecumoire and allegedly a translation of a Japanese fairytale, is a 'cheeky satire on French sexual mores, current fiction (especially the fad for Oriental tales), and religious politics' (Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 , unpaginated). ESTC locates eight copies world-wide; no other traced at auction since 1935.

Bailey (Nathan). Dictionarium Domesticum, Being a New and Compleat Household Dictionary. For the use both of City and Country, Shewing I. The Whole Arts of Brewing, Baking ... II. The Management of the Kitchen, Pantry ... III. The Herdsman ... IV. The English Vineyard ... V. The Apiary ... VI. The Family Physician and Herbalist, 1st edition, C. Hitch, C. Davis & S. Austen, 1736, engraved frontispiece showing domestic scenes with early manuscript inscriptions to verso, frontispiece, title and first leaf of preface repaired to lower inner corner, some dust-soiling, light dampstains and few marks, later free endpapers, contemporary sheep, insect damage to joints and extremities, old repairs to joints, , 8vo, together with: Salmon (William). The Family-Dictionary; Or, Houshold Companion: Containing in an Alphabetical Method, I. Directions for Cookery ... II. Making all sorts of Pastry Ware ... III. Making of Conserves ... IV. The Making all kinds of Potable Liquors ... V. The Making of all sorts of Rare Perfumes ... VI. The Virtues and Uses of the most usual Herbs and Plants ... VII. The Preparations of several choice Medicines, 2nd edition ('corrected and much enlarged'), London: H. Rhodes, 1696, upper outer corner of title torn with slight loss to corner of ruled border, browning and scattered spotting, contemporary reversed calf, worn paper labels to spine, joints cracked, 8vo (Qty: 2)Bailey: Cagle 555; Bitting p. 24. Salmon: Cagle 981 (for the first edition of 1695); Oxford, p. 45; Wing S429.

Johnson (Charles). A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, &c. from the famous Sir John Falstaff in the Reign of K. Henry IV, 1399 to 1733. To which is added a Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the most Notorious Pyrates. Interspersed with diverting Tales, and pleasant Songs, printed for and sold by Olive Payne, 1736, A-6K2: title, single leaf of introduction, 3-484, unnumbered index leaf at end, 26 engraved plates (including frontispiece) by Basire, Bowles, Toms, Pritchard and Atkins after Joseph Nicholls and William Jett, title printed in red and black, wide-margined copy, sheet size 37.5 x 24.5 cm (14.75 x 9.6 ins), occasional light spot to margins (generally a very good, clean copy), all edges gilt, gilt ruling to inside covers, gilt-decoration to edges of covers, fine early-19th-century full straight-grained brown morocco gilt by Fairbairn & Armstrong, with binder’s stamp to gutter of inside front cover, oval coat-of-arms of George Agar Ellis to centre of each cover, additional bookplates of Theodore Williams, Charles George Milnes Gaskell and Cortlandt F. Bishop to front pastedown and front endpaper, and engraved bookplate of Ellis & Smith Print Sellers, Romney House, 16B Grafton Street, London to front endpaper, some light spotting to covers, joints rubbed and with some light wear (upper joint tender and cracking at foot), folio (Qty: 1)Provenance: Reverend Theodore Williams (1785-1826). His ‘Splendid and Valuable Library’ was sold over 15 days in April 1827 by Stewart, Wheatley & Adlard. Honourable George Agar Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (1797–1833). Charles George Milnes Gaskell (1842–1919), English lawyer and Liberal Party politician. Cortlandt Field Bishop (1870–1935), American pioneer aviator and book collector. ESTC T112552; NMM IV 275; Sabin 36195. Nothing is known of the author Captain Charles Johnson, whose name is thus generally regarded as a pseudonym. The work has been attributed to Daniel Defoe, although this was rejected most recently by P. N. Furbank & W. R. Owens (Defoe De-Attributions, 1995, 458). Arne Bialuschewski argues that there is significant evidence that A General History was written by Nathaniel Mist, a sailor, printer and journalist of the early eighteenth century, who also employed Defoe to work on the publication of his Weekly Journal: or, Saturday’s Post. The 1724 first edition was registered with the Stationers Company on 24 June ‘for Nathaniel Mist’.(See Daniel Defoe, Nathaniel Mist, and the General History of the Pyrates, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America ,volume 98, number 1, March 2004, pp. 21-38). Adapted from two earlier collections, Alexander Smith’s History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highwaymen (1714), and Charles Johnson’s own General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (1724), the present work provides the best information on the lives and careers of some of the most famous pirates of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, including Jonathan Wild, Jack Sheppard, Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach, Anne Bonny, and Calico Jack, and displays an accurate knowledge of both sea language and the pirate code. Attractive gilt extra binding by Fairbairn & Armstrong, who dissolved their bookbinding business in 1824.

Poetry. Sammelband of 42 separately published poetry items and related, 1738-40, including: [Swift, Jonathan], Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift. Written by Himself: Nov. 1731, 1st edition, for C. Bathurst, 1739, [2],18pp., vignette with cockerel on title, publisher’s advert at foot of final page, bound with The Jew’s Complaint , or, The Christian Whore, for W. Lloyd, 1738, 10pp., bound with Hill (John), Orpheus: an English Opera, for John Clarke, 1740, 7,[1],16,[2]pp., lower outer blank corners of final four leaves including advert leaf torn with loss, final page dust-soiled, bound with ‘Translation of the Latin Epitaph, published in Old Common Sense, Feb. 3 1738’, [London? 1738?], 2 copies, single sheet broadside, double column parallel translation, verso blank, bound with 37 other poetry publications, all published 1738-40, many anonymous and many published by Thomas Cooper or Charles Bathurst, contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine with six raised bands, rubbed, slight wear to extremities, lacks spine label (titled ‘Collection of Poems’), folio (33.5 x 21 cm) (Qty: 1)Full list in bound order: 1) [Delany, Patrick], Longford’s-Glyn, or the Willow and the Brook; a True History, Faithfully Translated from the Irish Original, 2nd edition, for Charles Bathurst, 1739, [4],11,[1]pp. Foxon D201. 2) [Pilkington, Laetitia], The Statues: or, the Trial of Constancy. A Tale for the Ladies, for T. Cooper, 1739, 18pp., lacks final blank. Foxon P279; Rothschild 223. 3) The Year of Wonders, Being a Literal and Poetical Translation of an Old Latin Prophecy, Found near Merlin’s Cave, by S[tephe]n D[uc]k, Printed and Sold by J. Johnson, 1737, 6pp, lacks final blank, small tear with loss to upper blank outer corner of final leaf, uncut. Foxon Y14. 4) Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-nine. Or, the Modern P——S, a Satire, for T. Reynolds, 1739, 8pp . Foxon S354; Rothschild 221-2. 5) [Swift, Jonathan], Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift. Written by Himself: Nov. 1731, 1st edition, for C. Bathurst, 1739, [2],18pp., vignette with cockerel on title, publisher’s advert at foot of final page. Foxon S290; Rothschild 2166-8; Teerink 771. 6) Whitehead (Paul), Manners: A Satire, [reimpression], for R. Dodsley, 1739, [ 2],17,[1]pp., no type flowers between title and text on p. 3. Foxon W418. 7) Meredith (James), Manners Decypher’d. A Reply to Mr. Whitehead, on his Satire Call’d Manners, for T. Cooper, [1739], [2],12pp., lacks final advert leaf. Foxon M189. 8) Characters: An Epistle to Alexander Pope Esq; and Mr. Whitehead, for T. Cooper, 1739. 15,[1]pp. Foxon C129. 9) Epidemical Madness: A Poem in Imitation of Horace, for J. Brindley, 1739, 16pp. Foxon E345. 10) Solitude. An Irregular Ode, Inscribed to a Friend, for L. Gilliver and J. Clark, 1738, 15,[1]pp. Foxon S552. 11 & 42) ‘Translation of the Latin Epitaph, published in Old Common Sense, Feb. 3 1738’, [London? 1738?], single sheet broadside, double column parallel translation, verso blank. ESTC 51588. 12) L[or]d B[olingbro]ke’s Speech upon the Convention, for Jacob Littleton, 1739, 7,[1]pp., uncut. Foxon L80. 13) The Green-Cloth: or, the Verge of the Court. An Epistle to a Friend, by Mr. W——d [probably Paul Whitehead], for F. Noble and J. Boydel, 1739, 18pp. Foxon G276. 14) The Tit-Bit. A Tale, for T. Cooper, 1738, 8pp . Foxon T320. 15) A Congratulatory Poem: Humbly Inscribed to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, on the Conclusion of the Convention between their Majesties of Great-Britain and Spain, for J. Brett, 1739, 8pp . Foxon C349. 16) Meredith (James), An Essay on the Divine Attributes…, for J. Hawkins, 1738, 18,[2]pp., two lines manuscript errata at foot of final page, advert leaf at rear (verso blank). Foxon M188. 17) A Hopeful Convention Agreed Upon, and Design’d for the Benefit of Trade. An Inconceivable Curious Medley, for M. Watson, [1739], [5],8-18pp. Foxon H306. 18) E[dinburg]h’s Instructions to their Member, for Patrick Ramsay, 1739, 7,[1]pp. Foxon E24. 19) Achilles to Chiron. By the Right Honourable Lady **** Occasion’d by Reading a Poem, call’d Chiron to Achilles, for Jacob Robinson, 1738, iv,[1],4-8pp. Foxon A16. 20) [Cooke, Thomas], A Rhapsody on Virtue and Pleasure. To the Right Honourable James Reynolds Esq; Late Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, for T. Cooper, 1738, 1 6pp., ‘Price one shilling’ on title. Foxon C422; Rothschild 216. 21) Drake (James), The Lover. A Poem, for T. Cooper, W. Shropshire and T. Gardner, 1739, 15,[1]pp.,. Foxon D424. 22) The Satirists: A Satire. Humbly Inscrib’d to his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, for C. Corbett, [1739], 16pp., no watermark. Foxon S83. 23) A Poetical Essay on Physick. Inscribed to Dr. Pellet, President of the College of Physicians and F.R.S., for T. Cooper, [1740], 16pp . Foxon P703. 24) [D’Urfey, Thomas], The Progress of Honesty: or, A View of the Court and City, for J. Brett, 1739, 18pp . Foxon D551. 25) Sir R[obert Godschall] Triumphant. A Song Addressed to his Friends. To the Tune of To all you Ladies now at Land, for J. Cooper, 1739, 12pp., uncut. Foxon S473. 26) [Newcomb, Thomas], Vindicta Britannica: An Ode, to the Real Patriot, Occasioned by the Declaration of War against Spain, for C. Corbett, 1740, 12pp., no watermark. Foxon N280. 27) Tickell (Thomas), The Horn-Book, a Poem, by Thomas Tickle, [reissue], for Charles Corbet, [1739], 8pp., with an additional poem ‘Thersites’ on pp. 7-8, uncut. Foxon T302. 28) [Boyd, Elizabeth], Admiral Haddock: or, The Progress of Spain. A Poem, Printed and Sold by J. Applebee, C. Corbett, E. Nutt, E. Cook and M. Bartlett, 1739, [4]3-14pp., advert to half-title verso. Foxon B338. 29) Wharton (Philip), The Fear of Death. An Ode, for John Brett, 1739, [5],2-4pp. Foxon W379. 30) The Popular Convention. A Poem, by the Dutchess of Puddledock, for T. Cooper, 1739, 8pp., uncut. Foxon P997. 31) [West, Gilbert], A Canto of the Fairy Queen. Written by Spenser, Never before Published, for G. Hawkins, 1739, [2],12pp., uncut. Foxon W357. 32) The Church Yard: A Satirical Poem, for T. Cooper, 1739, 19,[1]pp. Foxon C184. 33) [Hay, William, attributed to], Apigrams in Distich, for J. Stagg, 1740, 20pp . Foxon I, p. 239. 34) The Jew’s Complaint, or, The Christian Whore, for W. Lloyd, 1738, 10pp. [not in verse]. ESTC N31599 (locating 2 copies only at the British Library and University of California, Los Angeles); WorldCat locates the British Library copy and two further copies at the National Library of Israel and the Hebrew Union College-JIR, Cincinnati. 35) [Gilbert, Thomas], The First Satire of Juvenal Imitated, for H. Goreham, 1740, 20pp . Foxon G141. 36) Hill (John), Orpheus: an English Opera, for John Clarke, 1740, 7,[1],16,[2]pp., lower outer blank corners of final four leaves including advert leaf torn with loss, final page dust-soiled. 37) Duck (Stephen), Alrick and Isabel: or, The Unhappy Marriage. A Poem, for J. Roberts, 1740, iii,[1],16pp. Foxon D467. 38) [Savage, Richard, attributed to], The Triumph of Beauty: or, The Prude Metamorphos’d, for C. Corbett, 1740, 20pp . Foxon T499. 39) A New Ballad on the Taking of Porto-Bello, by Admiral Vernon, for R. Dodsley, 1740, 7,[1]pp., uncut. Foxon N81. 40) [Lorleach, Mr.], A Satirical Epistle to Mr. Pope, for the Author, 1740, 8pp . Foxon L269. 41) The Convention. An Excellent New Ballad. To which is added, The King of Spain’s Protest, and a New Epitaph, for T. Reynolds, 1739, 5,[1], lacks final leaf (New Epitaph, verso blank), uncut. Foxon C402. 42) duplicate of 12.

Barba (Alvaro Alonso and others). A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Treatises, upon Metals, Mines, and Minerals. Containing, I. Curious observations on Mines ... II. The Art of Melting … VI. The Art of Dyalling, ... Being, a translation from the learned Albaro Alonso Barba, ... and the observations of several ingenuous persons of our own country, 1st edition, 2nd issue, printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on London Bridge, 1739, [12], 170, [10], 173-215, [5], 66, [2]pp., continuous register, includes advertisement leaf at rear, one engraved illustration and one letterpress diagram, a few minor spots and light old dampstaining to lower margins, contemporary calf, rubbed, slightly cracked at head and foot of joints, 12mo (Qty: 1)ESTC N28044. A reissue of the first edition of 1738. In addition to Barba's Art of Metals as translated by the Earl of Sandwich, this volume contains Gabriel Plattes’ 'Discovery of Subterranean Treasure' and Thomas Houghton's 'Rara Avis in Terris' (with separate pagination).

Grassineau (James). A Musical Dictionary; being a Collection of Terms and Characters, as well Ancient as Modern; including the Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Parts of Music: as also, an Explanation of Some Parts of the Doctrine of the Antients... and curious Observations on the Phœnomena of Sound Mathematically considered..., 1st edition, printed for J. Wilcox, 1740, 4 engraved plates, 3 folding (one with 15mm tear at fold edge), half-title present, contemporary ownership name of Jane Joye at head of title-page, title with first word above the 'D' of Dictionary as opposed to over the 'i' (no priority established), musical notation in text, publisher's list to verso of final leaf, some light toning, red sprinkled edges, contemporary speckled calf gilt, sometime rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo in 4s (Qty: 1)ESTC T135521. Ascribed by ESTC to Sébastien de Brossard, this work does derive much of its content from Brossard's Dictionnaire de Musique, published in Paris in 1703 . However, it also draws information from other sources, such as Chambers's Cyclopaedia , as well as including some original material. According to Grove's Dictionary Grassineau's work ' contains much of interest and ranks as the first work of its kind in English'. Jane Joye died in 1801 aged 84, and is buried with her sister, Elizabeth, at Westminster Abbey. They were the daughters of James Joye, son of Peter Joye (1636-1721), merchant and founder of the free school in St. Anne's Blackfriars in London and benefactor of Sion College. Both sisters died spinsters, Elizabeth first, in 1790, leaving a large fortune to her sister Jane, who was apparently imensely rich at the time of her own death.