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London.- Hunter (Rev. Henry) The History of London, and its Environs, 2 vol., first edition in book form, lacking list of subscribers and list of plates in vol.1, with 28 engraved plates and plans (one aquatint), 5 folding county maps, folding map of the Thames and large map of environs of London in 4 folding sections, without the large folding aquatint panorama & key and Stockdale's large plan of London (as often), some foxing and offsetting, handsome contemporary half green calf, by Lubbock of Newcastle with his ticket, spines gilt in compartments with red roan labels, rubbed, corners a little worn, upper joint of vol.1 cracked, vol.2 repaired, 4to, 1811.

Scott (William Bell) Gems of Modern Belgian [& German] Art: A Series of Carbon-Photographs, together 2 vol., both inscribed by the author to his mistress Alice Boyd "To AB affectionately from WSB..." on front endpaper, bookplate of Spencer Boyd of Penkill, original decorated cloth, gilt, g.e., vol.2 broken and loose, 1872 § Rossetti (William Michael, editor) Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism. Papers 1854 to 1862, number 123 of 250 copies on handmade paper, frontispiece after D.G.Rossetti, original buckram-backed decorated cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, a little soiled, 1899 § Bell (Malcolm) Edward Burne-Jones, some spotting, original buckram, 1892 § Ford (Julia Ellsworth) Simeon Solomon: An Appreciation, original cloth, New York, 1908 § Young (Rev. Edward) Pre-Raffaellitism, first edition, pencil signature of E.T.Cook (biographer of Ruskin on front free endpaper), original pink decorated cloth, spine browned, crease to lower cover, 1857 § Madox-Brown (Oliver) The Dwale Bluth..., edited by W.M.Rossetti and F.Hueffer, 2 vol., first edition, etched frontispieces by Ford Madox Brown, contemporary half morocco, gilt, t.e.g., 1876, plates, all a little rubbed, some soiled; and 2 others, v.s. (10) ⁂ Oliver Madox-Brown was the son of Ford Madox Brown and brother-in-law of both William Michael Rosssetti and Francis Hueffer. He was a promising artist and writer but died of blood-poisoning aged 19. Alice Boyd - See also previous lot

Derome binding.- Liturgy, Greek.- Leitourgiai tōn hagiōn paterōn [graece], 2 parts in 1, collation: *2, A-P6; a-b4, A-F6, G-Z4; [4], 179, [1]; [16], 212 (i.e. 208) pp., woodcut device on both titles, wooduct decorated initials, head- and tail-pieces, lower margin of first two leaves water-stained and browned, foxing in places, later engraved portrait of the editor Claude de Sainctes tipped in to verso of front flyleaf, 18th-century red morocco, ascribed to Nicolas-Denis Derôme, covers framed in triple gilt fillet, spine with five raised bands, gilt title and imprint on double green lettering-pieces, compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, covers slightly scratched, a little rubbed, head of spine nicked, but overall a handsome copy, folio (289 x 189mm.), Paris, Guillaume Morel, 1560. ⁂ A splendid and rare edition of the Greek Liturgy, finely issued by the Royal printer Guillaume Morel, and edited by Claude Sainctes (1525-1591), whose name is mentioned in the preface appended to the second part of this Parisian publication. The Greek text is supplemented, in the second part, with its Latin translation, introduced by the title Liturgiae siue missae sanctorum patrum. In addition the work contains writings by the Greek Fathers Basilius Magnus, Ioannes Chrysostomus, and Saint Jacobus. The book is rightly considered one of the masterpieces published by the Typographia Graeca founded by King of France, François I. This copy is in a fine gilt-tooled red morocco binding, executed by the leading 18th century Parisian binder Nicolas-Denis Derôme (1731-1790). Provenance: early ownership inscription on the title-page, erased in ink; 'Ecole Sainte Genevieve' (stamp on the title-page); 'J. M. De Chateaugiron', 'Skinos' (both ex-libris on the front pastedown). Literature: Adams L842.

London.- Banks (J.H.) A Cosmoramic View of London, a bird's-eye panorama, looking north from above Elephant and Castle, from Vauxhall Bridge to St Katherine's Dock, etching and aquatint, with early hand-colouring, 470 x 1065 mm. (18 1/2 x 41 7/8 in), dissected and mounted on linen, varnished with discolouration, minor surface dirt, handling creases with occasional minor surface wear, folding with brown cloth endpapers, without slipcase, E. Wallis and J.H. Banks, 1843. ⁂ This is the first edition of this view, re-issued slightly later in 1845 as 'A Panoramic View'. The composition is similar to that found in cosmorama rooms as public attractions, but this version has been adapted for a smaller scale environment, such as libraries and coffee houses.

[Brontë (Emily)] Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By the author of "Jane Eyre", first American edition, light foxing, Cavendish Circulating Library label to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine slightly darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped with small chip to head of spine, some light rubbing but a sharp and excellent copy overall, [Smith 3 pp.74-75], New York, Harper & Brothers, 1848. ⁂ The first American edition and second overall, published only five months after the true first edition, rare in the original cloth and in such good condition. The misattribution on the title (an issue that would plague the sisters until Charlotte revealed their true identities in her preface to the second edition of Wuthering Heights) was partly the result of a deliberate attempt by Thomas Newby to confuse the authorship in order to extract more money from the American publishers.

Eliot (T.S.) The Waste Land and Other Poems, first edition, signed by the author on title with printed name crossed through, occasional spotting, paperclip rust mark to head of half-title and front free endpaper, endpapers a little browned, original boards, a little bumped and spotted, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some light staining to panels, [Gallup A35x], 1940; and a reprint of the same edition, 8vo (2) ⁂ Rare signed.

Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) Poems, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed "To Miss Boyd from her friend D.G.Rossetti April 1870" on half-title, imprint on otherwise blank final leaf, 2 advertisement leaves and 8 further blank leaves at end, original dark green decorated cloth, gilt, designed by Rossetti, uncut, floral endpapers, slight cockling and mottling to upper cover but still a good bright copy, 8vo, F.S.Ellis, 1870. ⁂ Rossetti's first published collection of poems. Alice Boyd (1825-97) was a Pre-Raphaelite painter and the laird of Penkill Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland. She was a pupil of William Bell Scott and became his mistress in 1860, living with him and his wife until he died in 1890. She knew and entertained many of the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists and poets including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his sister Christina and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Rossetti drew her portrait and wrote some of the poems included in this collection while staying at Penkill. See also following lot

Hardy (Thomas) The Return of the Native, 3 vol., first edition in book form, first issue without quotation mark after 'A Pair of Blue Eyes on title, [one of 1000 copies], half-titles, with map frontispiece by Hardy in vol.1, advertisement leaf at end of vol.2, some foxing, mostly at beginnings and ends, some hinges weak, bookplate of Nigel Ronald, original brown cloth blocked in black on upper cover and with 2-rule border in blind on lower (primary binding), spines gilt, cream endpapers, a little rubbed and marked, slightly cocked, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Purdy p.24], 8vo, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. ⁂ First published in monthly instalments from January to December 1878 in Belgravia but issued in book form with several alterations, particularly in Book III Chapter 8 and Book IV Chapter 1. Despite now being regarded as one of his most important novels, with its brooding setting of the menacing Egdon Heath, it was poorly reviewed, probably because of its controversial themes, and was later remaindered.

China.- Fortune (Robert) A Residence among the Chinese..., first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece, 4 plates, and illustrations, light browning and soiling, a few plates frayed at edges, modern half calf, 8vo, 1857. ⁂ Fortune was a Scottish botanist sent to China by the Royal Horticultural Society in search of plants, particularly tea for cultivation in India.

Bacon (Sir Francis) Scripta In Naturalis et Universali Philosophia, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title with woodcut ornament, folding letter-press table, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, occasional foxing or spotting, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, lightly spotted, [Gibson 223; Willems 1157], Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1653; and the 1648 Leiden edition of Sylva Sylvarum (Gibson 185b), 12mo (2) ⁂ First edition of what Gibson considers 'An important collection of Bacon's minor writings'.

Egyptology.- Champollion (Jean François) Grammaire Égyptienne, ou Principes Généraux de l'Écriture Sacrée Égyptienne..., first edition, half-title, lithographed hieroglyphs throughout, some printed in red, a few hand-coloured (causing light offsetting), occasional foxing or soiling, pp.11/12 torn affecting text but no loss, rather brittle and chipped at edges, ex-library copy with unobtrusive blind-stamp to title, modern calf, uncut, folio, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1836 [-41]. ⁂ Champollion's monumental work, published posthumously and edited by his brother Jacques-Joseph Champollion.

Wales.- [Pennant (Thomas)] The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell, 2 parts in 1, first edition, large paper copy, 2 engraved vignette titles, head-piece and 22 plates, one folding, very wide margins, some foxing and offsetting, one plate with marginal water-staining, 2G2 in second part torn across text but no loss, contemporary marbled boards, uncut, rubbed, rebacked in calf, large 4to, B. & J.White, 1796.

[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], "Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell". Poems, first edition, first issue, lacking errata slip, Westleys & Co. binders label to rear pastedown, light abrasion mark to upper hinge, original green ribbed cloth with harp design covers, spine lettered in gilt, spine slightly faded, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, some light marking to covers but an excellent example overall, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box (spine a little faded), 8vo, [Smith 1 pp.5-6 & 12], [John Hasler, for] Aylott and Jones, 1846. ⁂ An excellent example of the scarce first issue of the Brontë poems in the rare intermediate state, Smith mentions only 7 copies with the Aylott and Jones imprint and the harp binding. Following the successes of the Brontë sisters in their publications of 1847 and 1848, Aylott and Jones wrote to Charlotte Brontë to ask her how they should proceed with regards to the unsold copies of Poems still in their possession. Charlotte in turn wrote to her current publishers, Smith and Elder, ostensibly to ask for their advice, but hinting that they might succeed in the sale of the volumes where Aylott and Jones had not. Smith and Elder decided to reissue the work under their own name and purchased the remaining 961 copies to be reoffered with a new title page and rebound in the green harp binding. Copies such as this one in the 1848 binding but with the Aylott and Jones title page likely exist because the binder either neglected or ran out of the new Smith and Elder title page. Provenance: H.Bradley Martin (auction ticket loosely inserted; sold his sale, lot 2658, Sotheby's New York, 30th April, 1990).

London.- Chamberlain (Henry) A New and Compleat History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps and 65 engraved plates, list of subscribers at end, subscriber's copy with ink inscription of Anthony Heasel [of Walthamstow] 1770 to front pastedown, with a duplicate plate of Dr. Shaw preaching, and with additional hand-coloured mezzotint portrait of John Wilkes, Lord Mayor of London by Carington Bowles and folding letterpress broadside of Wilkes's speech to the House of Commons concerning American taxation bills bound in towards end (portrait trimmed at head and with short tear to imprint, broadside torn and repaired), a few contemporary ink annotations, occasional soiling, plate of View from Greenwich Park soiled and frayed at head with loss to heading, folding map with repaired tears to edge, contemporary calf, red morocco label, rather worn and stained, joints split, folio, for J. Cooke, [?1770].

New Zealand.- Barraud (Charles Decimus) and W.T.L.Travers. New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive, first edition, additional lithographed decorative title with mounted oval chromolithographed vignette, list of subscribers, map, 24 mounted chromolithographed plates after Barraud, 6 plates of tinted lithographs, wood-engraved illustrations, very occasional marginal spotting or soiling, gutta percha perished so broken and loose, some leaves a little frayed or chipped at edges, original half morocco over pictorial gilt cloth, rubbed, folio, 1877. ⁂ Including scenes of Wellington, Auckland, Tarawera Lake, the geothermal terraces of Rotomahana, and Mount Cook.

[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], "Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell". Poems, first edition, second issue, errata slip, advertisement f., Westleys & Co. binders label to rear pastedown, original ribbed green cloth with harp design to covers, light fading to spine and margins of covers, but an excellent, sharp example overall, preserved in custom slip-case, [Smith 1 pp.6-14], 8vo, Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [but 1848]. ⁂ A superb example of the second issue, scarce in such immaculate condition.

Theocritus. Idyllia, collation: a-k8; 77, [1] ff., Greek text, woodcut device on title and at end, woodcut initials, that on a4 with contemporary hand-colouring, contemporary vellum, small tear to spine, soiled, lacking ties, yapp edges, 8vo (166 x 110mm.), Florence, Benedetto Giunta, 1540. ⁂ This rare Juntine edition also includes the famous 'figure poems', typographically arranged in the shape of the objects they describe, e.g. the Pan flute and the double axe. This 1540 edition is a substantial reprint (except for the dedicatory epistle to Filippo Pandolfini, not included) of the first Theocritus issued from the Florentine printing house, which appeared in January 1515 and was edited for Filippo Giunta by Eufrosino Bonini. This copy once belonged to the great Italian bibliophile Giacomo Manzoni, whose outstanding library was sold in 1893. Provenance: "Thoma Iacobi Iacominii Tebaldutii" (ownership inscription on title, dated 1562 and annotations on first leaves in his hand); Count Giacomo Manzoni (1816-1889: ownership inscription on front pastedown). Literature: Adams T463; Camerini 237; Renouard 50.132.

Venice.- Audebert (Germain) Venetiae Ad Sereniss. Ac. Sapientiss. Venetiarum Principem Nicolaum Deponte..., collation: A-M8 N4, mostly italic type, woodcut portrait device of Aldus to title, woodcut, head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, N4 blank, some light foxing and browning, contemporary limp vellum, later ink ms. author name / title to upper cover, lightly soiled, small 4to (202 x 145mm.), Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1583. ⁂ First edition of this poem in praise of Venice, handsomely, and aptly, printed by Aldus Manutius the Younger in Venice. Audebert also wrote poems in praise of the cities of Rome and Naples. Provenance: Landau-Finaly copy (bookplate). Literature: Adams A2122; Ahmanson-Murphy 955; Renouard, Alde, 233:6.

Yorkshire.- Gent (Thomas) The Antient and Modern History of the Loyal Town of Rippon, first edition, title with typographic ornamental border, folding woodcut plan, numerous woodcut head-pieces, initials and illustrations, 5pp. advertisements and list of subscribers at end, plan torn and repaired, extensive later manuscript notes to front endpapers, handsome contemporary calf, spine gilt with morocco label, slightly rubbed, short split to upper joint, 8vo, York, 1733. ⁂ Including a poem on Studley Park by Peter Aram, and the 73pp. Journey into some Parts of Yorkshire, particularly, to Pontefract, Wakefield, and Leeds.

Trollope (Anthony) Lord Palmerston, from ''English Political Leaders' series, first edition, first issue with title dated 1882, light spotting at beginning and end, original brown cloth lettered in black, a little rubbed, small stain to lower edge of upper cover, Wm. Isbister, 1882; Thackeray, from 'English Men of Letters' series edited by John Morley, first edition, first issue with advertisement leaf at end listing 9 titles as "Ready" and Spenser as "In the Press", half-title, light staining to upper margins of pp.116-117, hinges cracked, original red cloth lettered in black, rubbed, spine browned and slightly worn at head, Macmillan & Co., 1879; An Autobiography, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, mounted photogravure portrait frontispiece (lightly foxed), 4pp. advertisements and 24pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vol.2, damp-staining to endpapers, original red cloth, rubbed, spines faded, one corner bumped, 1883, [Sadleir 63, 54 & 67]; and 3 others by the same including 2 "yellowbacks", 8vo (7) ⁂ The first is scarce. It was one of only three titles issued in the English Political Leaders series, Isbister's imitation of Macmillan's English Men of Letters series.

Ellis (Frederick Startridge, bookseller and author, friend of the Pre-Raphaelites, 1830-1901) [Fairy Tales in Verse from Grimm Brothers], autograph manuscript signed, 143pp., written on rectos only, numerous crossings out and corrections, autograph manuscript poem: "To Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1892 For the Shelley Centenary" loosely inserted and initialled "E.", browned, original cloth, remains of paper label on spine, sm. 4to, F.S. Ellis, Chelston, Torquay, 8th October 1894. ⁂ Unpublished. "For many years Ellis was official buyer for the British Museum, which brought him into rivalry with trade opponents in the auction rooms. He was also commissioned to edit the catalogue of Henry Huth's famous library, which was printed in 1880 in five volumes. Ellis was a publisher on a limited scale, and brought out the works of William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whom he was on terms of close friendship. Among other friends were A. C. Swinburne, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and John Ruskin, whose Stray Letters to a London Bibliopole were addressed to Ellis and republished by him in 1892. Ruskin called him Papa Ellis (E. T. Cook, Life of John Ruskin, 1911, 1.371). It was in 1864 that William Morris was first introduced by Swinburne to Ellis, who later took over from Dante Gabriel Rossetti the joint tenancy, with Morris, of Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire. They shared an enthusiasm for fishing. Ellis advised Morris on his purchases of manuscripts. In Morris's last illness in 1896 he was with him every day, discussing a projected edition of the Border Ballads, and Ellis was one of the poet's executors (J. W. Mackail, Life of W. Morris, 1899, 1.193)." - Oxford DNB.

London.- Newcourt (Richard) Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense; An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London , 2 vol., first edition, vol.1 with engraved portrait, 4 plates (2 folding) and folding map, errata leaf at end, vol.2 with half-title, some browning particularly in vol.2, old ink inscriptions of M.Wood on front pastedown and note on front free endpaper of vol.1, contemporary panelled calf, red morocco labels, a little worn, joints split, folio, by Benj. Motte..., 1708-10. ⁂ The second volume covers Essex.

Pausanias. Graeciae descriptio accurata, 2 parts in 1, collation: a-c4, A6, B-Z4, Aa-Zzzzz4 Aaaaaa-Tttttt2; [26], 898 pp., 899-943 numbered as columns, [76] pp., title in red and black with engraved printer's device, double column text in Greek and Latin, handsome contemporary Dutch vellum prize binding, covers within gilt frames, central gilt arms of the city of Amsterdam, lacking ties, joints cracked, folio (332 x 212mm.), Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1696. ⁂ Monumental edition of this celebrated work, edited by Joachim Kühn, and supplemented with the Latin translation by the humanist Romolo Quirino Amaseo, which first appeared in Rome in 1547. The editio princeps had been published in 1516 by Aldus's heirs. "Since its rediscovery in the Renaissance Pausanias' work has been recognised as a valuable source for ancient Greece, a mine of antiquarian, historical and topographical information on various purposes. [...] From the seventeenth century onward visitors to Greece found Pausanias' work an excellent resource for the reconstruction of the country's ancient topography. Its usefulness for this purpose was easy to recognise, and by the early nineteenth century [...] Pausanias' Periegesis not only served as a travel guide but it was also used systematically to discover and identify ancient remains" (M. Pretzler, Pausanias. Travel Writing in Ancient Greece, London 2007, pp. 11-12). This copy is a fine example of a 'prize binding'. Provenance: a printed leaf bound before the half-title states that this copy was given as a gift to Jan Vreelant 'ob spectatos in Graecis literis progressus', by the Rector of the Amsterdam Gymnasium in October 1734. Literature: Brunet IV, 455; Schweiger I, 224: Dibdin II, 272 ( "emphatically and justly called the 'ed. opt. of Pausanias'").

Aesop. Esopi appologi sive mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant, collation: a8, b-p8.6, q-s6; A-B8, C6, D-I6.8, K6, L4, M6 (lacking final blank M6), 2 parts in 1, woodcut portrait of Aesop to verso of first title, woodcut illustrations and initials, small portrait to verso of A1 in part 2, repairs to some leaves with occasional loss to text or image, a few leaves remargined, C4 with hole affecting woodcut to recto and text to verso, with the blank leaf s6 present at end of part 1, a few leaves with ink annotations, underlining or scoring out of text, a couple of leaves misbound, some light browning, good margins and apart from the faults and repairs mentioned generally a clean copy, 19th century dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., folio (297 x 201mm.), Basel, Jacob Wolff de Pfortzheim, 1501. ⁂ A handsome copy of the first edition with Brant's new section of 140 fables. The woodcuts which accompany Brant's part are richer and more sophisticated than the rather naïve illustrations to the first part, which were based on Zainer's cuts for the first illustrated edition (printed in Ulm, c.1476). Literature: Adams A291; Fairfax Murray German, 20

Numismatics.- Budé (Guillaume) Libri V de Asse, collation: aa8, bb4, a-t8,u6, A-N8; [12], 262 [i.e. 260] ff., Aldine device on title and at end, blank space for capitals with printed guide letters, gutter and lower margin water-stained and spotted throughout, heavier at beginning and end, repairs to lower blank margin of title and final leaf, early shelfmark 'I.II.21' in ink on title, contemporary Venetian binding executed by Andrea di Lorenzo (the Mendoza Binder) of brown morocco over pasteboards, covers within blind and gilt fillet border, small Aldine leaves and rosettes at corners, central gilt panel of single fillet with cornerpieces and three tools in knotwork pattern, titled in gilt 'Guil. Budaei De Ass' at top, rebacked preserving original spine with three double raised bands alternating with three single bands, tooled in gilt, gilt gauffered edges, pastedowns and endpapers renewed, 4to (214x130 mm), Venice, Aldus Manutius's heirs and Andrea Torresano, September 1522. ⁂ The Aldine edition of the pioneering treatise by the antiquarian, and Royal secretary Guillaume Budé (1468-1540) in a fine contemporary binding by the Mendoza Binder. This is one of the earliest works devoted to the study of ancient coins and measures, and more generally to the economics of antiquity. The first edition of De Asse (the 'as' or pound is a Roman bronze coin) was published in March 1515 by Josse Bade in Paris, and the publication achieved a wide success, as evinced by its numerous editions and translations. This copy is in a strictly contemporary morocco binding executed by Andrea di Lorenzo, called the 'Mendoza Binder'. There was a close relationship between this Venetian binder and the Manutius-Torresano partnership. Until c.1525 Andrea di Lorenzo seems to have mainly worked for the Anchor and Dolphin bookshop near the Rialto Bridge, decorating the bindings with characteristic features such as rectangular frames of fillets, rosettes, arabesque leaves, fleurons, and lozenges. For distinguished customers he added, at the head of the upper cover, the author and title in gilt lettering, or their names at the foot of the same cover. Literature: Renouard, 94.3; Ahmanson-Murphy 212.

Isocrates. Orationes tres, collation: A4, βb-νn4; 51, [1] ff., text in Greek and Latin, woodcut device on title and at end, woodcut animated initial on verso of title, blank spaces for capitals with printed guide letters, minor soiling, a few water-stains, numerous marginal and interlinear annotations, contemporary blind-tooled calf, covers within fillets and frame decorated with dots and small floral tools, floral cornerpieces, central panel divided into compartments and decorated in knotwork pattern, traces of ties, spine with two raised bands, 2 corners worn, some worming to covers, preserved in suede-lined drop-back box, 8vo (148 x 100mm.), Venice, Heirs of Pietro Ravani, 1555. ⁂ The first bilingual edition of Isocrates' Orationes to be printed. The Greek texts of the three orations is supplemented with their Latin translation, and the edition was widely used as a schoolbook, as declared on the title-page ('ad discentium utilitatem'). The publishing initiative of Ravani's heirs had an immediate success, and was imitated by other printers, such as Giovanni Varisco in Venice and Orazio Salviani in Naples. Provenance: 'Nicolai Iani' (early ownership inscription on title); Carlo Chiassa (ex-libris on front flyleaf). Literature: G. Rosa, La fortuna di Isocrate, no. 117; Traduzioni umanistiche, p. 803, no. 2

Hume (David) Political Discourses, second edition, with Contents and advertisement leaves following title, contemporary ink note on title "with Ms observations of Mr Hampton, translator of Polybius" and annotations by him throughout, worming to inner margin of first two essays affecting a few letters, D4 defective at head and U3 with tear, neither affecting text, engraved bookplate of William Graves with name of Rev. H.Strangways pasted over, contemporary calf, a little worn, rebacked preserving old red roan label, 12mo, Edinburgh, R.Fleming, for A.Kincaid and A.Donaldson, 1752. ⁂ Most of the essays concern economics. James Hampton (1721-1778), argumentative English cleric, writer and translator of the Greek historian Polybius. On his death he left his property to William Graves of the Inner Temple.

Italy.- Merigot (James) A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its vicinity, 2 parts in 1, first edition, aquatint pictorial additional title and 61 plates, good dark impressions, light marginal foxing to plates, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rubbed at edges, rebacked, [cf. Abbey, Travel 178, large paper coloured issue], 4to, 1797-99.

Caesar's military tactics.- Ramus (Petrus) Liber de Cæsaris militia, collation: à a-o8 P4, Roman type, title with woodcut printer's device, final errata f., à4 and P4 blank, some staining and light foxing, 17th century calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (157 x 97mm.), Paris, Andreas Wechel, 1559. ⁂ First edition of this treatise on Caesar's military tactics., which is rare at auction. Literature: Adams R102.

Americana.- Vespucci (Amerigo) S'ensuyt le Nouveau Monde et navigations faictes par Emeric de Vespuce, Florentin des pays et isles nouvellement trouvez, auparavant a nous incongne uz tant on l'Ethiopie que Arrabie, Calichut et aultres plusieurs régions estranges. Translaté de italien. [Paris, ?Jean Trepperel, c. 1516-1525]; bound after Hetoum (Prince) S'ensuyuent les fleurs des histoires de la terre d'Orient... Paris, Philippe le Noir, [c. 1530]; bound with Ferrieres (Henry de) S'ensuyt le livre du roy Modus et de la royne Racio qui parle du déduit de la chasse a toutes bestes sauvaiges, comme cerfz, biches, daims, chevreulx, liévres... Paris, Jean Trepperel Imprimeur, [c. 1530], 3 works in 1, I. (bound second) collation: a-d4, e8, f-l4, m8, n-s4, t8; CXC [i.e. 89] ff., text complete but lacking title and first three prefatory leaves, II. (bound first) collation: A-C4, D8, E-Q4, R6; [3] (of [4] ff., lacking A4 with index and portrait on verso], lxx ff., title in red and black, large printer's device on verso of final leaf, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, III. collation: A-V4, AA-BB4, CC6. xciiii leaves, lacking title, unnumbered preliminary leaves and E4, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, but those on fols. C4, D1 and M1 cut away, causing loss of text on each verso, some water-staining, last work with some fore-margins slightly frayed, contemporary limp vellum, title inked on the spine and bottom edge, hole in spine/lower joint, corners worn, remains of leather ties, 4to (180 x 126mm.) ⁂ A remarkable composite volume, which contains three unrelated works probably printed in Paris between c.1520 and 1530, all of the greatest rarity and which seldom appear on the market. I. The first work is one of the earliest reports in French of the travels and discoveries made by the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci in America. The first edition had been published in 1516/17 by Galliou Dupré, who was granted the Royal privilege to print Le Nouveau Monde. Despite this privilege, the work was immediately pirated, and some editions appeared on the market without privilege or imprint, all exceendingly rare, and recorded nowadays only in two or three copies. The present edition was in all likelihood issued by the Parisian Jean Trepperel, somewhere between 1516 and 1525. II. Very rare edition of the Histoires de la terre d'Orient by the Prince Hetoum, printed by Philippe le Noir. This copy is seemingly of a different issue from the one in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (coll. Rés. O2R 18 B), with slight variations to the title-page. II. The third work is an early and lavisly illustrated edition of the first hunting book to be printed in France. It was issued by Jean Trepperel, and is datable between 1525 and 1529. Of this edition two different issues are recorded. The present copy belongs to the first issue, with printer's device printed in black on the colophon leaf. Despite their individual defects, this is an outstanding sammelband of truly rare works. Literature: Thiébaud, 396-399.

Hardy (Thomas) The Hand of Ethelberta. A Comedy in Chapters, 2 vol., first edition in book form, [one of 1000 copies], half-titles, wood-engraved frontispieces and 9 plates by George du Maurier, vol.1 with *B4 & *F1 cancels, advertisement leaf at end of each vol., X1 in vol.1 with short tear to fore-edge, O2 in vol.2 torn across text and rather crudely repaired, foxed (particularly vol.1), vol.2 with light water-staining to lower edge of a couple of plates and with central portion (signatures I-S) quite severely damp-stained (mostly to margins), original red-brown cloth, upper covers and spines blocked in gold and black (primary binding), rubbed (particularly vol.2, ?mixed set), slight traces of labels to upper covers, corners and spine ends worn, recased, new endpapers (with later ownership signature), preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Purdy p.20], 8vo, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1876. ⁂ One of Hardy's scarcest titles, first issued in monthly instalments in the Cornhill Magazine, from July 1875 to May 1876.

Austen (Jane) [Novels], 6 vol., 'Series of English Idylls', colour frontispieces, decorative titles and plates by Charles E.Brock, original grey cloth, upper covers with central design of basket of flowers in gilt, spines gilt, t.e.g., decorative endpapers printed in green (a little browned), very slightly soiled, [Gilson E114, 116, 120, 124, 127 & 129], 8vo, London, J.M.Dent & Co.; New York, E.P.Dutton & Co., 1907-09. ⁂ Brock originally illustrated Pride and Prejudice for Macmillan in 1895, with black and white line drawings, and again with his brother H.M.Brock in an Austen set for Dent in 1898. He was commissioned by Dent again in 1907 to illustrate all the novels in colour, as here. Emma retains the dedication to the Prince Regent from the first edition, omitted in many of the intervening editions.

Galenus (Claudius) [Opera], 5 vol., pagination: I. [4], 24, 181, [1 blank] ll.; 108 ff., II. [3], [1 blank], 184 ff.; 106 ff., Greek and Roman type, woodcut Aldine device on title and on verso of final leaf. III. [4], 106 ff.; 155, [1] ff., IV. [4], 113, [1 blank] ff.; 74, 6, 57, [1] ff., V. [4], 346, [6] ff., final quire AAA bound between quires Τττ and Υυυ, Greek and Roman type, woodcut Aldine device on title and on verso of final leaf of all volumes (Fletcher f4; A3c), capital spaces, all blank leaves present, vol.2 stain at top of a2 and a3, repair to b1 and in blank gutter of n1, wormhole through last several leaves slightly affecting text, 20th-century brown morocco blind-tooled in period style by Bernard Middleton, folio (314-318 x 218-224mm.), Venice, Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, April-August 1525. ⁂ Editio princeps of Galen of Pergamum, one of the 'biggest' books printed by the Aldine Press, directed by Aldus's father-in-law Andrea Torresano. It is one of the rarest of all Aldine editions, "only two or three complete sets have been sold during the past 30 years [...] It is so rare and consequentely so expensive because of the limited number of originally printed copies. Being an exceptional case for Aldus- editions, the initial print run remained the only one." (L. Perrilli, A Risky Enterprise. The Aldine Edition of Galen, p. 447). The works of Galen appeared for the first time in Latin translation in 1490 (Goff G, 37), and only a few of his writings were available in Greek, e.g. the Περὶ φιλοσόφου ἱστορίας, printed in the second volume of the Aldine Aristotle Corpus, and the Θεραπευτικά published in Venice by Zacharias Kallierges and Nicolaos Vlastos (Goff G, 38). The delay was due to the partial disappearance of the written heritage of Greek medicine, and the great difficulty in finding Greek medical manuscripts, "and then there was a gap of a generation until the Aldine firm put out a series of medical authors, Galen in 1525, Hippocrates in 1526, Paul of Aegina, and the first half (only) of Aetius in 1534" (V. Nutton, Greek Science in Sixteenth Century, p. 20). Literature: Adams G, 32; STC Italian 285; Renouard Alde, pp. 101-102; Ahmanson-Murphy, 231-233, 235-236; Cataldi Palau, 95; Finazzi, 51; PMM 33; Wellcome I, 2507; Durling 1748; Grolier-Norman, n. 5B; Hoffmann II, 122; V. Nutton, John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen, Cambridge 1987, pp. 39-42; Ead., Greek Science in the Sixteenth-century Renaissance, in Renaissance and Revolution, ed. J.V. Field-F.A.A.J. James, Cambridge 1993, pp. 20-24; P. Potter, The editiones principes of Galen and Hippocrates and their Relationship, in Text and Tradition. Studies in Ancient Medicine and its Transmission, ed. K.D. Fischer-D. Nickel-P. Potter, Leiden 1998, pp. 243-261; V. Nutton, Ancient Medicine, London 2004, pp. 230-247.

Typography.- Fry (Edmund) Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world, first edition, list of subscribers, wood-engraved title vignette and tail-pieces, light spotting at beginning and end, modern half calf, 8vo, 1799.

China.- Davis (Sir John Francis) Chinese Novels, translated from the Originals...Observations on the Language and Literature of China, first edition, half-title, spotting to a few leaves, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine and roan labels, [Lust 1097; Cordier 1770], 8vo, 1822. ⁂ Including proverbs and maxims, and the novels 'The Shadow in the Water', 'The Twin Sisters' and 'The Three Dedicated Chambers'.

Themistocles. Epistolae ex Vetusto Codice Bibliothecae Vaticanae, woodcut arms of Pope Urban VIII on title, some light foxing and browning, some minor worming, mostly marginal, modern vellum, 4to, [Hoffmann III, 472; Schweiger I, 308], Rome, Lodovico Grignani, 1626. ⁂ First edition of the collected Epistolae by the brilliant Athenian general and controversial politician Themistocles, the hero of the battle of Salamis in 480, edited by Giovanni Matteo Cariofilo or Cariophyllis from Crete.

[Evans (Arthur Benoni)] The Cutter, in Five Lectures upon the Art and Practice of Cutting Friends, Acquaintances, and Relations, first edition, with initial imprint (otherwise blank) leaf, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 5 folding aquatint plates by and after John Augustus Atkinson, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some light soiling and browning, modern calf-backed marbled boards, roan label (original paper label mounted on front pastedown), uncut, joints a little rubbed, 8vo, for J.Carpenter, 1808.

Hughes (Ted) Crow, from the Life and Songs of the Crow, second edition, number 384 of 400 copies signed by the author and artist, plates by Leonard Baskin, original buckram-backed cloth, uncut, board slip-case (very slightly rubbed), 4to, 1973. ⁂ Contains some poems not in the first edition.

Brontë (Charlotte) Jane Eyre ou les Mémoires d'une Institutrice, translated by Mme. Lesbazeilles-Souvestre, 2 vol., first French edition, half-titles, light foxing, contemporary morocco-backed boards, spines gilt, a little rubbed, Paris, D. Giraud, 1854; and 2 others, French editions of Wuthering Heights, 8vo (3)

Brontë (Rev. Patrick) Cottage Poems, first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to J. E. Greenwood on front free endpaper, half-title, some light marginal browning, very occasional spotting, original printed boards, spine worn but holding firm, upper joint a little weak, light marking and surface soiling to covers, extremities rubbed, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, Halifax, P.K.Holden, for the Author, 1811. ⁂ Scarce, this appears to be the only known presentation copy in commerce. Patrick Brontë's first collection of poems, these were chiefly intended to be read by his parishioners and reflect the author's somewhat austere outlook. The identity of the recipient here is difficult to confirm, however it is tempting to speculate that it was Joseph Greenwood (1786-1856), chairman of the Church trustees at Haworth and a friend of the author.Saleroom Notice: The presentation inscription is not in Patrick Bronte’s hand, but probably in that of the recipient J.E. Greenwood

[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". The Professor, first American edition, 1p. advertisements at front, 6pp. advertisements at rear, light foxing, original cloth, spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, a little rubbed and marked, still very good overall, [Smith 7 pp.172-173], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1857.

[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Shirley. A Tale, first American edition, 2pp. advertisements at front, 13pp. advertisements at rear, foxing, original second state wrappers with 135 titles listed on inside lower cover, covers and spine creased and with some toning, spine ends chipped, rubbed, still a very good copy of a fragile book, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop back box, [Smith 5 pp.125-128], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1850 [but 1849]. ⁂ This copy with the rare additional lines on p. 206 mentioned by Smith p.125 n.6. Smith can trace no other edition with these lines.

Mendoza Binder.- Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Rhetoricorum..., collation: *8, **8, a-k8, l4, m-z8, A-G8, H10; [16], 245, [1] ff., complete with blank leaf **8 blank, Aldine device on title and at end, blank spaces for capitals with printed guide letters, some light foxing, title slightly water-stained, early Latin and Greek marginalia, contemporary Venetian binding by Andrea di Lorenzo, known as the Mendoza Binder, of brown morocco over pasteboards, covers within multiple blind and gilt fillets, rosettes at each corner, central gilt corner-pieces and large fleuron, upper cover lettered in gilt 'm.t.c. rhetoricor.', spine with three double raised bands alternated with four single bands underlined by dotted fillet in gilt (widely restored), compartments decorated with blind-tooled floral frieze, 19th-century endpapers and pastedowns, blue edges, 4to (212 x 123mm.), Venice, Aldus Manutius's heirs and Andrea Torresano, October 1521. ⁂ The second Aldine edition of the rhetorical writings of Cicero, in a copy with a distinguished provenance, and marvellously bound by one the best and most sought after Venetian binders, Andrea di Lorenzo, known as the 'Mendoza Binder' after his principal client Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. He was active in Venice between 1518 and 1555, and his decorative patterns and innovative style were very influential, inspiring generations of binders in France and Germany. The binding can be dated back to the Mendoza Binder's first years of activity and the decoration is identical to another copy of the Aldine Cicero of 1521, now preserved in the John Rylands Library in Manchester. This is a binding with a decorative scheme used by the Mendoza Binder almost exclusively for editions issued by the Aldine press between 1518 and 1526, "made either for display and sale in the bookshop employing him or to be ordered through it" (A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting, p. 99), most of them commissioned by Jean Grolier, the 'Prince of Bibliophiles'. "The commonest pattern [...] consists of a gilt rectangular frame, rosettes and leaves at the corners, often a smaller leaf in silver at the outer corners, with the title gilt at the headcap of the upper cover. Customers might have their name or initials added at the foot of the same cover. Other stock patterns involved massed arabesque leaves, fleurons, bud-tools, large open fleurons, or a circle containing a title. Of the fifty-two recorded instances of these stock bindings on books printed before 1526, all but five, or over 90 per cent, are on Aldine Press books, mostly printed by Aldus Manutius' successor" (ibid.). Literature: Renouard 93.13; Ahmanson-Murphy 207; A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting. Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings, Cambridge 1999, pl. 48 (for an identical binding). Provenance: Joaquim Gomez de la Cortina, Marquis de Morante (1808-1868; Hans Fürstenberg (1890-1982), Charles Filippi (ex-libris of each on recto of front endpaper).

Morris (William).- Magnusson (Eirikr) and William Morris, translators. The Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs..., first edition, one of 750 copies, with 1 ½pp. A.L.s. from Philip Webb (who designed the binding) to Charles Canning Winmill tipped in at beginning, half-title, 2 advertisement leaves at end, occasional light soiling, original dark green cloth elaborately decorated with birds and flowers in gilt, designed by Philip Webb, uncut, slightly rubbed at corners and spine ends but a good bright copy, 8vo, 1870. ⁂ Philip Webb (1831-1915), architect, regarded as the father of Arts & Crafts architecture. He was a close friend of William Morris and designed the Red House at Bexleyheath for him in 1859. Webb and Morris were the main founders of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877. Charles Canning Winmill (1865-1945) was an Arts & Crafts architect greatly influenced by Webb.

Soane (Sir John) Designs for Public and Private Buildings, first edition, half-title, engraved title with vignettes and 55 plates, one misbound, list of plates at end, plates foxed, some light damp-staining at beginning affecting lower inner margin of title and first few leaves and plates, modern boards with contemporary morocco spine (repaired), recased, [Fowler 338], folio, 1828.

Japan.- Silk.- Sira-Kawa de Sendai (Osyou) Traité de l'Éducation des Vers a Soie au Japon, translated by Léon de Rosny, 22 lithographed plates, most chromolithographed, some tinted, one with folding flap, light spotting to text, original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened, rubbed and soiled, slightly frayed at edges, 8vo, Paris, 1868. ⁂ Rare work on silk and its production, with attractive plates; the first edition in translation. COPAC lists only 5 copies.

Chess.- Fiske (Willard) Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature, first edition, portrait, illustrations, corrigenda leaf at end, original brown cloth, uncut, a very good copy, 8vo, Florence, Florentine Typographical Society, 1905. ⁂ Also concerning other table games.

[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Villette, 3 vol., first edition, 16pp. advertisements dated March 1854, bookplates to pastedowns, original cloth, vol.1 a little cocked, spines browned, vol.1 & 2 with neat repairs along lower joints, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, rubbed, still in effect an excellent set, [Smith 6 pp.138-142], 8vo, Smith, Elder & Co., 1853. ⁂ Scarce in the original cloth and in such good condition, potentially a late issue with the advertisements dated March 1854. Charlotte began writing Villette in earnest in the spring of 1852, she had begun to dislike the celebrity that the Currer Bell name brought with it however and asked that the novel be published anonymously. George Smith however managed to persuade her that this would harm the novel's chances and lead to a subsequent drop in sales. The novel was ultimately published under the Currer name in January 1853. Provenance: Robert Carter (armorial bookplate).

Austen (Jane) Sense and Sensibility: A Novel...By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice", 3 vol., second edition, half-titles, vol.2 & 3 with final blank but lacking in vol.1, foxing (as usual) and with occasional soiling, two old cataloguing entries mounted on front free endpaper, vol.1 with hinges repaired, Augustine Birrell's copy with his bookplate, near contemporary red-brown cloth, paper labels on spines (chipped), uncut, rubbed and faded (mostly to spines), a few small marks to upper cover of vol.1, vol.3 with nick to upper edge of both boards, spine ends a little worn and frayed, vol.2 chipped at foot, [Gilson A2], 12mo, Printed for the Author, by C.Roworth...Published by T.Egerton, 1813. ⁂ Sense and Sensibility was Austen's first published work, originally issued in 1811 with "By a Lady" on the title-page. By July 1813 it was sold out and the second edition was published in October of that year, with some alterations and revisions, as advertised in The Star on Friday 19th October 1813 along with the second edition of Pride and Prejudice (see next lot). It was again published at the expense of the author, prompting Austen to write to her sister Cassandra on 6th November 1813, "I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable Duty to them, so as they do it". However, it was still being advertised by Egerton in November 1815 and Austen received a royalty payment as late as March 1817. The c.1830 binding is possibly a publisher's remainder binding, suggesting that sheets were still being bound and distributed for several years, almost until it was reissued by Bentley as part of his 'Standard Novels' series in 1832. Augustine Birrell (1850-1933), essayist and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916 when he resigned following the Easter Rising.

Alberti (Leon Battista) The Architecture...Of Painting...Of Statuary, edited by James Leoni and translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli, 3 vol. in 1, second edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece by B.Picart, titles and text in English and Italian with woodcut device, printed in double column, 75 engraved plates, some by Picart, contemporary ink signature at head of title, frontispiece defective at inner edge and laid down with ink hatching filling missing area, ex-library copy with unobtrusive blind stamp at head of title and first leaf of each vol., some light spotting and browning, modern half calf, [Harris 14; Millard, British 5], folio, Thomas Edlin, 1739.

[Brontë (Emily)] Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By the author of "Jane Eyre", 2 vol., first American edition, foxed, occasional creasing and chips to margins, vol.1 first gathering damp-stained at top corner, original printed wrappers, cocked, vol.1 spine chipped and worn with loss to some text and lacking lower cover, vol.3 spine a little worn and chipped at ends, ink ownership inscription to upper cover, light marking to covers, creasing and some wear to extremities, [Smith 3 pp.73-74], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1848. ⁂ By far the scarcer of the two first editions, the wrappered issue appears to have been prepared in haste: vol.1 breaks off mid-sentence and vol.2 was printed without its own title page. Provenance: Philip Wells (ink ownership inscription to upper covers).

Japan.- Netto (C.) Papier-Schmetterlinge aus Japan, first edition, chromolithographed additional pictorial title, plates and illustrations by Paul Bender, one chromolithographed, 3 etched, light spotting at beginning and end, original half morocco over pictorial boards, g.e., slightly rubbed at edges, with the original dust-jacket printed in gold (a little stained, frayed at edges), 4to, Leipzig, 1888.

Rossetti (Dante Gabriel).- Marillier (H.C.) Dante Gabriel Rossetti..., first edition, plates, original decorated blue cloth, gilt, designed by Laurence Housman, t.e.g., others uncut, with the rare dust-jacket, a little browned and soiled, slightly frayed at edges, 1899 § Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) The Early Italian Poets..., small water-stain to upper outer corner of title and dedication, bookplate of George Livingston Nichols, contemporary vellum, spine gilt, lightly soiled, upper joint cracked, 1861 § Shelley (P.B.) The Poetical Works..., edited by Harry Buxton Forman, 4 vol., frontispieces, original pictorial turquoise cloth, gilt, designed by Rossetti, slightly rubbed, 1876; and a pamphlet by Rossetti, folio & 8vo (7)

Knight (Richard Payne) The Landscape, a Didactic Poem...addressed to Uvedale Price, Esq., second edition, 3 etched plates by B.T.Pouncy after Thomas Hearne, one plate soiled and frayed at edges, some foxing, 1794; The Progress of Civil Society, a Didactic Poem, first edition, half-title, 1796, together 2 works in 1 vol., modern half calf, 4to, W.Bulmer & Co. for G.Nicol

Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Poems and Ballads, first edition, first issue with Moxon imprint, 8pp. reviews at beginning, foxing, original green cloth, slightly rubbed, small ink stain to head of upper cover, preserved in cloth folder and slip-case with pull-off top, spine gilt, rubbed and rather stained, Edward Moxon & Co., 1866; A Channel Passage and other poems, second edition, signed and inscribed by the author on half-title (causing small hole and ink mark on title beyond), contemporary burgundy calf, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed at edges, 1904, 8vo (2)

Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de) A Treatise on Toleration..., translated by Rev. David Williams, 2 parts in 1, title browned and with contemporary ink signature at head, some spotting, H2 of first part torn and repaired, contemporary half sheep, a little worn, rebacked, Fielding and Walker, 1779; La Raison par Alphabet, 2 vol., sixth edition, engraved bookplate of Sir George Shuckburgh Bart., contemporary calf, gilt, spines gilt with red morocco labels, spine ends a little worn, 1769, 8vo (3) ⁂ The second part of the first mentioned contains both The Ignorant Philosopher and A Commentary on the Marquis Becaria's Treatise on Crimes and Punishments.

Austen (Jane) [Novels], introductions by Austin Dobson, 6 vol. in 5, "Peacock Series", frontispieces and full-page illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Charles E.Brock, original red "cloth elegant", upper covers and spines with elaborate floral designs by A.A.Turbayne in gilt, endpapers with peacock design in yellow, g.e., light stain to lower covers of 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Mansfield Park', spines a little faded, [Gilson E79, 82, 86 & 88 & 89], 8vo, Macmillan and Co., 1897-98. ⁂ Macmillan started to issue the Austen novels in 1895 in their 'Illustrated Standard Novels' series, with Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock and the others by Thomson. Apart from Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, which is the first Macmillan edition of 1897 (Gilson 89), the others in the set are all reprints of 1898. From 1896 the volumes were also issued in this "cloth elegant" Turbayne binding with the peacock endpapers, hence known as the 'Peacock Series'.

Wise (Thomas James).- Stevenson (Robert Louis) Familiar Epistle in Verse and Prose, [one of 27 copies], facsimile leaf, Ashley Library device at end, original cream boards, uncut, browned, spine worn and defective, [Todd 286d], privately printed [for T.J.Wise], 1896 § [Evans (Mary Anne)], "George Eliot". Agatha, 16pp., third edition (reprint of the Wise/Forman fake of the rare original, with comma after "behind" but not after "thinking" on page 11), unbound, spine ends slightly frayed, preserved in later cloth folder and morocco-backed cloth slip-case (spine rubbed and faded), [Todd 156c(3)], Trubner & Co., 1869 [New York, ?printed for Max Harzof, c.1935] § Horne (Richard Hengist) Galatea Secunda, an Odaic Cantata, addressed to H.R.H. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, on his first arrival in the Colony of Victoria, 4pp., second issue of title with Virgil quote corrected to "hiems", on Joynson 1873 paper, book-labels of Graham Pollard and J.O.Edwards to upper outer corner of p.2, Melbourne, For Private Circulation, 1868 [Richard Clay, c.1880] § [Austin (Alfred)] Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, 8pp., drophead title, final leaf browned, [COPAC lists BL copy only], Chiswick Press, [c.1893], 8vo & 4to (4)

[Brontë (Charlotte)] Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, first American edition, advertisement f. with Webster's Dictionary to recto and Harper's New Catalogue to verso, occasional foxing or spotting, light damp stain to foot, modern calf-backed boards, [Smith 2 pp.41-45], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1848. ⁂ The rare first American edition, the first of three to be rushed out by separate publishers in the space of a year.

Hoare (Sir Richard Colt).- Giraldus Cambrensis. The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales A.D. MCLXXXVIII, translated and edited by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2 vol., first edition in English, lacking half-titles, with 55 engraved plates and plans, 5 engraved maps hand-coloured or partly so, 2 folding (one large at end of vol.2 with short tear at edge), extra-illustrated with 10 attractive watercolour views bound in, one or two signed by I. or J.Thornton but all apparently by the same hand, most captioned in pencil and/or ink, plus a few additional engravings tipped into blank leaves or loosely inserted, some foxing, mostly at beginning and end of vol.2, frontispiece to vol.2 creased and becoming loose, U1 with short tear to lower margin, large engraved bookplate of Castle Freke Library MDCCCVII, handsome contemporary diced russia with Greek key borders in gilt, spines gilt in compartments, g.e., a little rubbed, joints cracked, 4to, 1806.