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Local Interest - Sale Catalogue - Humbert & Flint:~ The Drayton Manor Estate, Warwickshire and Staffordshire: Key Plan, By Order of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., with the assent of the Trustees, second edition, October 1909, comprising the first and second portions, pull-out chromolithographic estate and land maps, printed paper covers, floppy medium folios; another, second portion, [3]

Vaillant (Clément). De la commodité de l'appanage ou panage de messieurs les enfans puisnez de la royale maison de France, prouvant laquelle plusieurs belles choses, estans de long temps en obscurité sont à present mises en lumiere, 1st edition, Paris: Guillaume Linocier, 1585, woodcut title vignette, initial figure, front free endpaper repaired, date added to head of title in black ink, old inked marginalia to dedication, browning, rebound circa 1900 in pink paper boards, rubbed, front joint cracked but firm, small 8vo in half-sheets Not in Adams. The first published work by the French jurist, dedicated to Henri III, one institutional copy traced in the United Kingdom (British Library), seven world-wide. (1)

Watson (William). Experiments and Observations Tending to Illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity, 1st edition, Printed by Jacob Ilive for the Author, 1745, 55pp, last leaf detached, together with A Sequel to the Experiments... wherein it is presumed... that the source of the electrical power, and its manner of acting are demonstrated, 1st edition, 1746, [2], 80pp, lacks folding engraved plate, final leaf detached and a little frayed at inner margin, plus An Account of the Experiments Made... in order to discover whether the electrical power would be sensible at great distances, 1st edition, 1748, [2], 90pp, occasional spotting and dust-soiling, particularly at front and rear of each, old stab stitch marks, disbound, 8vo The first two items constitute Watson's principal work, the first part being the rare first edition published by the author. Watson was the first to observe the flash of light attending the discharge of a Leyden jar. He also provided the first demonstration of the passage of electricity through a vacuum, and the plus and minus of electricity. (3)

Wedderburn (David). Vocabula cum aliis nonnullis Latinae linguae subsidiis, Edinburgh: John Reid, 1682, collates A8 B4 C8, woodcut border and vignette to title page, bookplate removed from rear pastedown, 20th-century calf, title gilt to spine, small 8vo, together with Erasmus (Desiderius, commentator), Dicta sapientum e Graecis D. Erasmo Roterod interprete, Edinburgh: John Reid, 1682, single gathering of 4 leaves (13.8 x 8.5 cm), woodcut headpieces, 20th-century calf, title gilt to front board, and 1 other Neither in Wing but cf. Wing 1243A et seq. for later editions of Wedderburn (1685 and after) and STC 10478 for the first edition thus of Erasmus (1580). Wedderburn's Vocabula is noted for containing early descriptions of football and golf. Most secondary sources describe the first edition as appearing in 1636, with some giving a date of 1633; ESTC records one copy of a 1673 edition at Edinburgh Central Library, possibly an erroneously dated copy of the 1685 edition, which is otherwise the earliest we trace in libraries. The Dicta sapientum e Graecis 'includes "Sayings of the Seven Sages of Greece" with commentary by Erasmus (usually found as part of his "Disticha de moribus"); and the "Carmen de moribus" (otherwise known as the "Qui mihi") excerpted from the Grammar of William Lily' (ESTC record for the first edition, S118123). (3)

Freud (Sigmund). The Interpretation of Dreams. Authorised Translation of Third Edition with Introduction by A.A. Brill, 1st London edition, George Allen, 1913, occasional pencil marks, scattered spotting or soiling, small tear with loss to lower blank margin of Q1, seven circular purple ink library stamps to front pastedown, title-page, Introductory Remarks, Contents pages, plus at head of chapters 1, 6 and on final page of Index, further library labels and marks to half-title, title-page verso and final page, withdrawn stamp to front pastedown, contemporary cloth, soiling and wear, spine rubbed and faded, 8vo This is the scarce first English edition, the majority of the first edition sheets were bound with a Macmillan cancel title-page for issue in America. No longer present is the publisher's tipped-in label directing that the sale of the book is 'limited to Members of the Medical, Scholastic, Legal, and Clerical professions'. (1)

Pernety (Antoine-Joseph). The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bougainville, in order to form a Settlement there; and of two Voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with an account of the Patagonians: Translated from Dom Pernety's Historical Journal written in French, 1st edition in English, 1771, 16 engraved maps, plates and charts, several folding (one or two small repairs to verso), wormtrack just extending into image of frontispiece map (and to title margin), some light spotting and offsetting, previous owner inscription of Henry White, 1802 to front pastedown, contemporary sheep, rubbed and scuffed, 4to Hill 1328; Sabin 6870. First English edition of Louis de Bougainville's voyage by Pernety (Bougainville's secretary) and a primary source on the Falkland Islands. (1)

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 1st edition, 1906, 50 tipped-in colour plates, some light spotting to first few leaves, and contents leaves with some edge-fraying, original cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, recased with original spine laid down, with some consequent discolouration, 4to, together with Awdry (Reverend W.), The Railway Series, numbers 14-20, 22, 24 & 25, all 1st edition, 1959-70, colour plates, all original cloth, 7 in frayed dust wrappers, together with Railway Map of the Island of Sodor, circa 1960, original printed wrappers, frayed and some wear to edges, and 12 reprint editions from the same series, all oblong small 8vo (24)

Raleigh (Sir Walter). The History of the World, in Five Books ... whereunto is added, in this Edition, the Life of Tryal of the Author, printed for Tho. Basset [and others], 1687, 6 double-page maps, 2 double-page battle plans, 3 woodcut genealogies to the letterpress, engraved portrait bound as frontispiece, lacking the engraved title and 'The Mind of the Front' leaf, water-staining in top margins of plates and a few text gatherings, frontispiece, title page and first text-leaf frayed with marginal browning, closed tear touching frame of Syria map (facing page 236), Sicily map (facing page 548) with repaired closed tear in gutter, signature 2I2 torn, small hole in 2R2, a few spots and marks, contemporary ownership inscription to title page, modern calf, folio PMM 117 for the first edition; Wing R168. (1)

Boccalini (Traiano). Iragguagli di Parnasso: or, Advertisements from Parnassus... with the Politick Touchstone, written originally in Italian... put into English by Henry Earl of Monmouth, 3rd edition, corrected, 1674, early signature to title, lacking portrait frontispiece, some marginal dampstaining and toning, contemporary calf, rebacked, board edges worn, small folio, together with Smith (Richard, Bishop of Chalcedon), Florum Historiae Ecclesiasticae gentis Anglorum, libri septem, ex quibus dulcissimum mel Catholcae Religionis..., Paris: Federicum Leonard, 1654, title in red & black, occasional light dampstaining and few marks, contemporary calf, rebacked, board edges worn, folio, with [Pope, Alexander], The Dunciad, Variorum. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus, 1729, engraved illustration to title, with early signature to upper blank margin and removed ink stamp to lower outer corner (with abrasion & thinning of paper), some dust-soiling and marks, lacking free endpapers, contemporary calf, joints cracked, worn, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian and disbound pamphlets etc., including a disbound & incomplete General Index to the First Twenty Volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine..., [by Samuel Johnson], [1753] (a carton)

Rycaut (Paul). The Present State of the Ottoman Empire ... 2nd edition, 1668, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved plates and numerous vignettes to the letterpress, all depicting Turkish costume, frontispiece and title page browned, and frayed and soiled in margins, general mild soiling, a few chips or tears in lower margins, old repair to fore margin of C4, contemporary ownership inscription of one Jonathan Grundy to frontispiece verso and title, recent panelled calf to style, folio, together with Hill (Aaron), A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire in all its Branches, 3rd edition, 1733, 6 engraved plates, variable light browning and soiling, contemporary sheep, covers detached, worn, folio Blackmer 1463, Cox I p. 210 and Wing R2413 for Rycaut; Cox I p. 220 for Hill; neither edition in Atabey but cf. 1067 for the third edition of Rycaut (1670) and 580 for the first edition of Hill (1709). First practically obtainable edition of Rycaut: 'the first edition, 1666/7, was almost wholly destroyed in the Great Fire (according to Pepys)' (Blackmer). This third edition of Hill's work appears to be highly uncommon: ESTC locates four copies only; Atabey erroneously cites a later, 1740 edition as the third edition. Provenance: Christopher Hogwood CBE (1941-2014). (2)

Sandys (George). Sandys Travels, containing an History of the Original and Present State of the Turkish Empire ... the Mahometan Religion and Ceremonies ... a Description of Constantinople, the Grand Signior's Seraglio ... also, of Greece ... Aegypt ... Armenia, Grand Cairo, Rhodes, the Pyramides, Colossus ... Alexandria ... the Holy Land ... lastly, Italy described, and the Islands adjoining ... the seventh edition, 1673, engraved additional title, folding map, folding view of Constantinople, numerous engraved vignettes in the letterpress, woodcut headpieces and initials, mild spotting and soiling, occasional light browning, a few leaves faintly creased at lower outer corners, some bleeding of ink in the 2 folding plates, small tear to bottom edge of N4, contemporary ownership inscriptions of one John Arden to initial blank and title page, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, blind panels to sides, slightly rubbed, some restoration, folio Atabey 1087, Cox I p. 206 (giving the date 1672), Wing S680; Blackmer 1484 for the second edition. 'Sandys' work first appeared in 1615; it was one of the most frequently reprinted of English travel books, probably because it was so lavishly illustrated. This is the last edition of this work' (Atabey). Provenance: Christopher Hogwood CBE (1941-2014; book-label to front pastedown). (1)

Sarmiento de Gamboa (Pedro). Viage al Estrecho de Magallanes por el Capitan Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa en los anos de 1579 y 1580. Y Noticia de la Expedicion que despues hizo para poblarle, 1st edition, Madrid: Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1768, three folding engraved plates at rear (first plate a little marked), erased and washed out ink stamp to verso of title with consequent small hole, occasional light spotting mostly to margins, marbled endpapers with crude cloth hinge repairs, contemporary marbled sheep, cloth reback with remains of spine relaid, area of leather loss to lower board and infilled with marbled paper, 4to Sabin 77094; Borba de Moraes, page II:777; Hill 1526; Palau 302364. The first edition of an important narrative of early naval adventure and exploration, published from a manuscript found at the University of Madrid after almost two centuries. Sarmiento de Gamboa was a Spanish naval commander who set off from Peru in pursuit of Sir Francis Drake in 1579. He never caught Drake, but did undertake an early passage through the Straits of Magellan, then made visits to the Azores and the African coast. Appended is Tomé Hernandez's account of Sarmiento's later disastrous Patagonia colony at 'Port Famine' (Puerto Hambre). (1)

Seller (John). Atlas Coelestis Containing the Systems and Theoryes of the Planets, The Constellations of the Starrs, and other Phenomina's of the Heavens, with Necessary Tables Relateing thereto Collected, no imprint or date, 1st edition, [1677], engraved title-page, 28 engraved plates only, including 22 double-page (17 celestial maps and stars), small closed tear repair to verso of two maps without loss, old ownership names of John Preston, C. Preston (dated 1806), Joseph Bland and Eliz. Bland to front endpapers, title-page and first plate verso, 18th-century manuscript notes to margins of plate following p. 28, to plate verso opposite p. 30, at foot of pp. 38 and 40 and to rear flyleaf, two of the full-page inscriptions describing the comets of 1618 and April 1681, one shorter note regarding fixed star motion, 'Sir Isaac Newton demonstrates how this many not arise from any motion of the Fermament itself but from the Sphaeroidal Figure of the Earth', contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine, rubbed, split at foot of lower joint, 12mo in 4s, (136 x 85mm) Wing S2463. First edition of the first British celestial atlas. The plate count varies in descriptions because not all of the plates are counted as double, and in this copy at least six almanacs and tables are printed in facing pairs from single-page copperplates. Nonetheless, this copy, which appears to be as complete as when originally issued, has far fewer plates than most other copies, some of which can hold over 50 plates. Sold not subject to return. (1)

Lever (Charles) The Novels, edited by his Daughter, 37 volumes, Downey and Co., Limited, 1897-9, profusely illustrated with etchings by Phiz and others, as plates and to the text, frontispieces and additional vignette titles to most volumes, laid-in tissue guards, half titles, title pages printed in red and black, mild spotting to half titles, a few plates very faintly offset, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, a few volumes partly unopened, contemporary green half morocco, gilt spines sunned to tan and slightly rubbed, scattered light markings to sides, together with Meredith (George), The Works, 39 volumes, Archibald Constable and Co. [-Constable and Company Ltd], 1896-1912, 2 photogravure frontispieces, portfolio of 58 photogravures (of 60) and 4 collotype manuscript facsimiles, light spotting to endpapers and to a few plates in the portfolio, top edges gilt, otherse untrimmed, original pink linen, cream cloth backstrips, slightly marked or faded in places, porfolio worn, plus Dickens (Charles, editor), All the Year Round, New Series, 22 volumes, Chapman & Hall, 1869-79, maroon half roan, rubbed, and Household Words, A Weekly Journal, 12 volumes, 1850-6, contemporary cloth, extremities worn, volume 1 spine defective, and Garnett (Richard, editor), The International Library of Famous Literature, 20 volumes, issued by The Standard, 1900, numerous colour plates, original cloth, some minor wear, all 8vo Copyright Edition of Lever, limited to 1,000 sets, and Memorial Edition of Meredith, number 158 of 1,025 initially by the author's son William on the limitation leaf of each of the first 31 volumes as issued; the final three volumes of Meredith, comprising The Letters in two volumes, and the porfolio of illustrations, are often absent. (7 shelves)

Sturt (Captain Charles). Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, During the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: With Observations on the Soil, Climate and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1833, half titles, 13 engraved plates, of which four hand-coloured, folding engraved map, single-page map, a few scattered spots, armorial bookplates of Wrest Park, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, spines with red and green labels and gilt decoration, 8vo Ferguson 1704. Sturt's expeditions to explore the river systems of New South Wales, the first of which was drought-affected and resulted in the discovery and naming of the Darling River. The second expedition was to trace the Murrumbidgee River, which flowed into another river, named the Murray by Sturt (unaware that it was in fact the Hume River, discovered earlier by Hume and Hovell). Sturt and his party had to row for nearly 1000 miles, against the current, to Sydney after a relief vessel failed to materialise on the south coast. (2)

Person (David) Varieties, or a Surveigh of Rare and Excellent Matters, Necessary and Delectable for All Sorts of Persons, wherein the Principall Heads of Diverse Sciences are illustrated, Rare Secrets of Naturall Things unfoulded, etc., 1st edition, printed by Richard Badger, for Thomas Alchorn, 1635, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, repairs to iinitial leaf (blank but for signature within woodcut border),G1 and K3, contents tanned, occasional moderate staining, contemporary and later ownership- and other inscriptions, bookplate of clergyman Abel John Ram (d. 1920), contemporary sprinkled sheep, rebacked and recornered, 4to, together with Perkins (William), A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft, 2nd edition, [Cambridge:] Cantrel Legge, 1610, marginal repairs to slightly soiled title page and [par.]2, leaf P8 repaired with text intact, occasional damp-staining, 18th-century half calf, spine worn and repaired, small 8vo, plus Albin (Eleazar), A Natural History of English Insects, 1st edition, printed for the author, 1720, 88 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 100: lacking plates 8, 9, 11, 16, 49, 59, 60, 65, 66, 69, 80, and 84, and accompanying letterpress), light offsetting, occasional spotting and browning to text-block, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 4to, and Bossuet (Jacques-Bénigne), Discours sur l'histoire universelle ... pour l'éducation de Monseigneur le Dauphin, Paris: Didot l'aîné, 1736 mild spotting and browning, 18th-century red morocco gilt by Nicolas-Denis Derome (1731-1790, his ticket to initial blank), scuffed and marked, gilt edges, blue silk doublures and endpapers, large 4to (30 x 22 cm), and approximately 40 others, 17th-19th century, English and French literature and general antiquarian, various formats, including Knolles (Richard), The Generall Historie of the Turkes, 3rd edition, Adam Islip, 1621, engraved text portraits, lacking dedication leaf, repairs to first gathering (including engraved title) and final leaf (to loss of text), contemporary panelled calf, minor wear, and Leybourn (William), Dialing: Plain, Concave, Convex, Projective, Reflective, Refractive, 1st edition thus, Awnsham Churchill, 1682, engraved frontispiece, 23 plates (many folding), occasional soiling, one or two repairs, lacking final blank, early 19th-century quarter calf, worn, folio STC 19781 (Person), 19698 (Perkins), 15053 (Knolles); Wing L1912 (Leybourn). (5 shelves)

Thicknesse (Philip). A Year's Journey through the Paix Bâs and Austrian Netherlands, Volume I [all published], 1st edition, 1784, engraved folding frontispiece, half-title, list of subscribers, frontispiece slightly browned and frayed, half-title slightly soiled, signatures 2G2-3 misbound after 2F1, small perforation to 2L2, quire 2T spotted, contemporary quarter sheep, red morocco spine label, vellum tips, a few small worm-holes to foot of spine, 8vo, together with [La Combe de Vrigny], Travels through Denmark and some Parts of Germany: by Way of Journal in the Retinue of the English Envoy, in 1702 ... 1st edition in English, 1707, engraved folding map, contemporary calf, old paper spine label, slightly rubbed, 8vo Cox I pp. 154 & 181. Thicknesse's account of a 'rather quarrel-ridden tour' (ODNB) is notably scarce in first edition: the list of subscribers records 115 printed, with six copies located by ESTC. (2)

Vega (Garcilasso de la). The Royal Commentaries of Peru, in Two Parts. The First Part. Treating of the Original of their Incas or Kings... The Second Part. Describing the manner by which that new World was conquered by the Spaniards... rendered into English by Sir Paul Rycaut, 1st edition in English, 1688, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 10 engraved plates, some light spotting and soiling, small burnhole to pages 327 and 455, bookplates front and rear, contemporary calf, rebacked, red label to spine, folio Sabin 98760; Wing G216. (1)

Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa Proceedings ... 1st edition, printed by C. Macrae, printer to the Association, 1790, half title, engraved folding map as frontispiece, list of members, light soiling to pages 106-7, last few leaves spotted, contemporary tan half sheep, pink paper sides, rubbed, spine faded, extremities worn, paper lifting, 4to (28.5 x 22.5 cm) Cox I p. 388. This first iteration of the proceedings of the African Association concerns the ill-fated dual expedition of William Lucas and John Ledyard. The foundation of the African Association in 1788, under the auspices of Sir Joseph Banks, marked 'the beginning of African exploration in a systematic way' (Cox). (1)

Browne (William George). Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798, 1st edition, printed for T. Cadell Junior and W. Davies, 1799, half title, engraved frontispiece after Luigi Mayer, 2 folding maps (1 with Browne's route in colour), 1 plan, frontispiece slightly frayed and spotted, short closed tears to folding maps stubs (just touching frames), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco spine label, vellum tips, joints rubbed, cracked at feet (repaired), corners bumped, 4to Blackmer 219; Atabey 156 for the first edition in French. (1)

Schweitzer (Georg). Emin Pasha, his Life and Work, frontispiece, folding map, endpapers browned, Baron Llangattock bookplates, edges untrimmed, original blue cloth, spines very slightly faded, a few small marks, a bright copy, 8vo, together with Mounteney-Jephson (A. J.), Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator, 1st edition, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890, photogravure portrait frontispiece, folding colour map, folding facsimile of the Mahdi's letter (in Arabic), 21 plates, illustrations to the text, very mild occasional spotting, original pictorial red cloth, extremities very slightly rubbed and bumped, faint discolouration to rear board, 8vo, plus Jameson (James S.) The Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, authorized edition, New York: United States Book Company, [1890], frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, 2 folding maps (1 repaired), original pictorial green cloth, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo, and Wauters (A. J.), Stanley's Emin Pasha Expedition, 1st edition, John C. Nimmo, 1890, frontispiece, 33 plates, folding map, occasional spotting, short closed tear to map, original green cloth gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, spine rolled, 8vo, and 6 others including first-hand Rear Column accounts, all original cloth, 8vo (12)

Speke (John Hanning). What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, 1st edition, Edinburgh and London, 1864, wood-engraved frontispiece, two maps (one folding, the other double page), publisher's catalogue at end, occasional light spotting, bookplate, original teracotta cloth, spine a little darkened with small light stains and very small abrasion near foot, 8vo Czech page 151. Speke's account of his first expedition, accompanied by Richard Burton to discover the source of the Nile in 1856-59. After both reached Lake Tanganyika, Speke continued on to discover Lake Victoria and claimed it as the source, which Burton disputed, leading to the bitter feud between the two men. (1)

Tucker (Alfred R.). Eighteen Years in Uganda & East Africa, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1908, photogravure frontispiece to volume 1, 60 plates from watercolours (4 in colour), folding colour map, 16-page publisher's catalogue, mild spotting to prelims, photogravure, map and page-edges, original blue cloth gilt, extremities very lightly bumped and rubbed, a few trivial marks, volume 2 spine rolled, 8vo, together with Wolseley (Garnet, 1st Viscount), The Story of a Soldier's Life, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1903, photogravure frontispieces, 3 plans (2 folding), title pages in red and black, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original green cloth gilt, extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, 8vo, plus Alexander (Boyd), From the Niger to the Nile, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1907, half-tone frontispieces, 42 similar plates, numerous text illustrations, 2 folding maps, light spotting, contemporary newspaper cutting mounted to volume 1 front free endpaper and offset to half-title, a few marginal nicks to volume 1 frontispiece, plate facing p. 2 volume 2 chipped to no loss of image, original red cloth gilt, spines faded, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, spine-ends nicked, 4to, and Mecklenburg (Adolf Friedrich, Duke of, & others), From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile, an Account of the German Central African Expedition of 1910-1911, 2 volumes, 1st edition in English, Duckworth & Co., 1913, numerous photographic and other plates, folding map, text-block spotted, bookplates of Ernest E. Testi, endpapers browned, top edges dyed red, original red cloth, a few pale marks, 8vo, and 1 other Wolseley's Story is inscribed on the half-title of the first volume 'Dudley Alexander, with best wishes for the new year, from A J Mounteney Jephson, New Year 1904', with the engraved bookplate of the recipient, Major Dudley Alexander CMG (1863-1931) to front pastedown. Mounteney-Jephson (1859-1908) was a member of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. (10)

Diodorus Siculus The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, in Fifteen Books. The First Five, contain the Antiquities of Egypt, Asia, Africa, Greece, the Islands, and Europe, the Last Ten, an Historical Account of the Affairs of the Persians, Grecians, Macedonians, and other Parts of the world ... made English, by G. Booth, 1st edition, 1710, 3 maps of which 2 folding ('Antient Sicele according to the Description of Philip Cluevius'; 'The Map of Antient Greece expressing especially the places mentioned in Thucydides by Tho. Hobbes'; 'Asia, veteribus cognitae tabula'), bookplate neatly removed from front pastedown, main title browned, marked and chipped, variable spotting and browning, Sicily map spotted, short closed tear to inner margin of Greece map, 'The Last Ten Books' divisional title misbound after 4X2, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, sides slightly worn, folio in fours, together with a copy of the 'second edition', 1721, title page printed in red and black, engraved bookplate, small tide-mark to bottom edge of Sicily map, map of Greece substantially torn away, Asia map clean, contemporary calf, rubbed, extremities worn, joints cracked and held by cords, folio in fours Wing D1512; the accompanying 'second edition', published in 1721, is really 'a reissue of the 1700 edition with a cancel title page' (ESTC). Booth's translation was the first complete edition in English of the Bibliotheke, which is an important source for the Middle East in antiquity. (2)

Leland (John). The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary..., The Second Edition: Collated and Improved from the Original MS. With the Addition Also of a General Index, 9 volumes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, for James Fletcher & Joseph Pote, 1745, engraved vignette to general title of volume 1, each volume with its own title page dated 1744, some volumes with dampstaining, bookplate of Francis Frederick Fox to upper pastedowns of each, recent ownership ink stamp to front free endpaper of volume 1, some joints cracked and upper board of volume 1 near detached, some title labels lacking, slim 8vo Upcott xxxv, ESTC T135478. Leland's notes found their way into the Bodleian and, recognising their importance, sub-librarian Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) arranged for their printing in 1710-12. Only 120 copies of the first edition were printed and only 350 copies of this second edition were printed after Hearne's death. (9)

Willis (Robert). The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge, and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton edited with large additions, and brought up to the present time by John Wilis Clark, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1886, numerous illustrations as plates and to the text, most on india paper, mounted, the fourth volume comprising 29 plans, nearly all folding and in colour, light spotting, stronger to endpapers and edges, one plate in volume 2 loose, bookplates of zoologist Brunsdon Yapp (1909-1990), original vellum-backed boards, spotted, minor wear to extremities, 4to, together with Desgodets (Antoine), [Volume of plates from Les Edefices anciens de Rome, first published 1682], 59 engraved plates by Marshall after Desgodets, moderate soiling, one plate stained, modern blue full morocco, large folio (46.5 x 31.5 cm), together with Scott (David, illustrator), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Alexander Hill, & London: Ackermann, 1827, 25 etched plates, spotting, water-staining, recent blue full morocco, large folio Willis's work is number 116 of 120 large-paper copies. (6)

Wood (John). Choir Gaure, vulgarly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, described, restored, and explained; in a letter to the Right Honorable Edward late Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer, 1st edition, Oxford, 1747, engraved frontispiece by Baron after W. Hoare depicting Bladud, small neat classification number in blue ink to verso of title, 5 folding engraved plates (complete), light waterstain to lower outer corner (mainly to first and last few leaves), bookplate of Wiltshire County Libraries to front pastedown, stamped 'withdrawn', and 18th century bookplate of George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham to front pastedown (the latter partly covered), contemporary calf, spine lettered by hand, classification number in white ink to lower left corner of upper cover, rubbed and upper joint slightly split at head, 8vo Upcott 1322-23. (1)

Forster (Walter & Wohlfahrt, Theodor A.). Die Schmetterlinge Mitteleuropas, 5 volumes, 1st editions (except first volume 2nd edition), 1955-81, original cloth gilt, the 1st, 4th and 5th volumes in dust wrappers, 2nd and 3rd volumes a little faded to spines, together with Culot (Jules), Noctuelles et Geometres d'Europe, 4 volumes, facsimle reprint, Apollo Books, Svendborg, 1986, colour plates, original uniform blue cloth, spine slightly faded, 8vo, plus others related, including Frantisek Slamka Pyraloidea of Europe, 2 volumes, Bratislava, 2006-08, Microlepidoptera of Europe, 6 volumes, Apollo Books, 1996-2010, The Geometrid Moths of Europe, volumes 1-2 & 4, Apollo Books, 2001-2003, Peder Skou, Nordens Ugler, Apollo Books, 1991 & The Geometroid Moths of North Europe, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1986, Eivind Palm, Nordeuropas Prydvinger, Copenhagen, 1989, and Skat Hoffmeyer, De Danske Ugler, & De Danske Maalere, both published Aarhus University Press, 1949-52 respectively, all original cloth, 8vo Ex libris Paul Sokoloff (1948-2012), with his bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. (25)

Tull (Jethro). The Horse-Hoing Husbandry, 2nd edition, A. Miller, 1743, initial licence leaf, 7 engraved plates (6 folding), occasional mild spotting and soiling to text-block, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, folio Goldsmiths'-Kress 7065; PMM 188 refers. This is the first illustrated edition. (1)

Gronovius (Jan Frederik). Flora Virginica exhibens plantas, quas Johannes Claytonus, in Virginia crescents observavit, collegit et obtulit, 2nd edition, Leiden, 1762, engraved folding map of Virginia, contemporary marginalia, a few pressed flowers loosely inserted, edges untrimmed, original wrappers bound in, contemporary calligraphic ownership inscription of one M. Davies to front panel verso, offset partially onto title, variable light spotting (the map clean), small marginal hole in sig. R2, 19th-century black quarter cloth, marbled sides, slightly rubbed, tips worn, 4to The first edition to contain the important map of Virginia, "one of the earliest botanical maps of any region of the world" (Stephenson and McKee, Virginia in Maps, p. 106). The work was "the first flora of Virginia" (Sowerby), and Jefferson used this second edition for his Notes on the State of Virginia, referring to Clayton as "our great botanist". Hunt 571; Sabin 28294; Sowerby, Library of Thomas Jefferson 1075. (1)

Knolles (Richard). [The Generall Historie of the Turkes, from the First Beginning of tha Nation to the Rising of the Othoman Familie ... untill this Present Yeare 1603], 1st edition, Adam Islip, 1603, 28 engraved portraits and 1 battle scene to the letterpress, all by Laurence Johnson, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, lacking the initial blank, engraved title, signature 3D6 and final errata leaf, divisional title page of 'The Lives of the Othoman Kings and Emperors' (signature M5) with woodcut wreath bound as main title, general old staining and finger-soiling, a few marginal chips or closed tears (costing a few letters in H3), repaired closed tears to title page and A3 fore margins, 2Z2 frayed along fore edge, 4A6 with long closed tear in gutter, 5H7 (index leaf) corner restored with loss of a few words, damp-staining in quire 2M and from 4Y to end, 2Y3-4 tranposed, contemporary calf, rebacked in the 19th century, covers scuffed and scraped, restoration to extremities, folio Blackmer 919; Cox I p. 204; ESTC S112893; STC 15051. 'The greatest of English works of the Renaissance period dealing with Turkey' (Chew, cited after Blackmer). 'Knolles's was the first major work on the subject to appear in English, and was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of narrative synthesis' (ODNB). This copy with numerous contemporary inscriptions in black or brown ink, including verse inscription in margin of page 236 relating to Tamerlane (his portrait adjacent) and similar inscription in the same hand to 5H7 verso; caricature of Musa Celebi adjacent to his portrait on page 245; draft oath or similar to page 918, dated 1652 and signed Jonathan Harrison; and various further ownership inscriptions. (1)

Krusinski (Judas Thaddaeus). The History of the Revolution of Persia, done into English, from the Original ... by Father du Cerceau, who has prefix'd a Map of Persia; and a Short History of the Sophies; with Curious Remarks on the Accounts given by Tavernier, Sir John Chardin, and Other Writers ... to which is added, a Short View of the Antient History of Persia ... not in the London Edition, 1st Dublin edition, printed by S. Powell, 1729, 2 volumes in 1, engraved folding map, woodcut head- and tailpieces, a few spots and marks, title page and first few gatherings damp-stained, modern calf, 8vo, together with Claustre (André de), The Compleat History of Thamas Kouli Kan, (Afterwards Shah Nadir), Late Sovereign of Persia ... written in French, and rendered into English, with Improvements, printed for J. Brindley [and others], [1750], engraved folding map coloured in outline, lacking portrait frontispiece, mild soiling, contemporary verse inscription to blank verso of final leaf, modern quarter calf, 12mo, plus Prideaux (Humphrey), The True Nature of Imposture fully display'd in the Life of Mahomet, 4th edition, corrected, 1708, final advertisement leaf, bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo ESTC N7925, T77914, T138494. (3)

Le Gentil de la Galaisière (Guillaume). Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde, fait par ordre du roi, à l'occasion du passage de Vénus sur le disque du soleil le 6 juin 1761, et le 3 du même mois 1769, 5 volumes, 2nd edition, Switzerland: libraires associés, 1780-1, 6 engraved plates (1 folding), woodcut title vignettes and headpieces, spotting and browning, to volumes 1 and 2, plates, tide-marks to corners of plates (affecting images in volume 1 only), volume 5 possibly lacking title page, ink-stamps of Guillaume, comte de Ludolf, to other title pages, his bookplate and shelf-mark labels to front pastedowns, contemporary cat's-paw sheep, richly gilt spines, some labels perished, some mild stripping to covers, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo Not in Cohen-de Ricci. This is the first octavo edition; the first edition was published at Paris in two quarto volumes between 1779 and 1781. (5)

Linschoten (Jan Huygen van). Navigatio ac itinerarium in orientalem sive Lusitanorum Indiam ... [volume 2:] Descriptio totius Guineae tractus, Congi, Angolae, et Monomotapae, 2 volumes in 1, 1st edition, The Hague, 1599, 2 engraved vignette titles, portrait of the author to verso of preface leaf, 1 plate bearing the engraved arms of the landgrave of Hesse, 31 double-page plates (of 35: lacking Urbs Goa, Insula S. Helenae, Insula Ascenscionis, and Urbs Angra), lacking the 7 maps, 3 Italian gift or institutional ownership inscriptions to first title, and a small area of repair not affecting vignette, frequent near-contemporary inked marginalia in Italian throughout (a note on volume 2 page 45 dated 1640), contents washed, occasional residual toning, small repaired hole to volume 2 signature Aa6 obscuring a few letters either side, otherwise a few trivial marks, edges untrimmed, contemporary vellum, sometime recased and relined with spine repaired at head and foot, yapp edges, covers slightly soiled, ties gone, folio Adams L735, Borba de Moraes I p. 488, Sabin 41366. First published in Dutch in 1596 as Itinerarium. (1)

Malayalam printing Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum, 1st edition, Rome: Sacra Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1772, printer's woodcut device to title, dedication leaf, 1 folding woodcut plate of manuscript facsimile, 8 folding tables, light spotting, paper flaw to signature D1, 20th-century red-brown library cloth, small 8vo Graesse I p. 85. The first work to contain a complete type specimen of Malayalam; the text was edited by Giovanni Amaduzzi (1740-1792) using types prepared by Clemente Peani (1731-1782). Provenance: presentation plate to Warrington Museum and Library from John Gordon McMinnies (1817-1890), industrialist and Liberal politician, dated 1885. (1)

Accum (Friedrich). A Treatise on the Art of Making Wine from Native Fruits; exhibiting the Chemical Principles upon which the Art of Wine Making depends; the Fruits best adapted for Home made Wines, and the Method of preparing them, 1st edition, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820, hand-coloured engraved vignette to title page, half title, 24-page publisher's catalogue to rear, contemporary ownership inscription 'Geo. Constable' to front free endpaper, pencilled annotation to rear pastedown, edges untrimmed, original boards, spine ends chipped, some loss to printed paper label, joints superficially split at ends, front board marked, corners bumped and worn, 12mo Cagle 536; Bitting p. 2 and Vicaire p. 4 for the first edition in French (1825). The owner of this copy was possibly Arundel brewer, collector and artist George Constable (1792-1878). (1)

Arabian Nights. Arabian Nights Entertainments: consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, told by the Sultaness of the Indies, ... Translated into French from the Arabian MSS. by M. Galland, ... and now done into English, from the last Paris edition, 12 volumes in six, mixed editions, 1754-1763, upper margins of first titles to each volume with signature of Mary Shirley Feb ye 11th 1765, some browning, bookplate of Evelyn J. Shirley of Eatington Park, Warwickshire, contemporary calf, joints cracked, upper board of first volume loose, rubbed and worn, 12mo, together with Terentius (Publius), Comoediae Sex..., Juxta Editionem Novissimam Parisiensem, London, 1731, title in red & black with excised signature to upper margin, contemporary calf, joints cracked and some wear, 8vo, with Fleetwood (William), Chronicon Preciosum: or, an Account of English Gold and Silver Money; the Price of Corn and Other Commodities......., 1745, 12 engraved plates, contemporary calf, joints cracked and some wear, 8vo, and Sharpe (Gregory), An Introduction to Universal History. Translated from the Latin of Baron Holberg..., 1755, armorial bookplates of William Lee of Hartwell, Buckinghamshire and other members of the family, contemporary speckled calf, joints cracked, rubbed, 8vo, and Rousseau (Jean-Jacques), La nouvelle Heloise, ou, Lettres de deux amants habitants d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes, 4 volumes, Rouen: Chez la veuve de Pierre Dumesnil l'an 3e de la Republique Francoise [1794/1795], contemporary sheep, gilt decorated spines, rubbed and light wear, 8vo, plus other 18th & 19th century antiquarian (34)

Athanasius (Saint). Opera quae reperiuntur omnia, editio nova, Cologne, Weidmann, 1686, half-title to first volume, etched full-length portrait of Athanasius by J.C. Bocklin before title, both titles printed in red and black, with printer's engraved vignette to each by Bocklin, double-column text in Greek and Latin, some browning throughout, contemporary full vellum, rubbed and some marks, second volume torn to foot of spine without loss, folio, together with Lucian. The Works of Lucian, from the Greek by Thomas Francklin, 2 volumes, printed for T. Cadell, 1780, engraved vignette to each title, engraved bookplate of William Downes (1752-1826) to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary sprinkled full calf, gilt decorated spines, rubbed and some marks, with joints partly cracked, 4to, plus Caesar (Julius), C. Julius Caesar's Commentaries of His Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey..., adorn'd with sculptures from the design of the famous Palladio, translated by Martin Bladen, 1705, folding engraved maps and plans, etc., wormtrack to lower blank margins at centre of volume (not affecting text), 20th century cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, and others related, mostly 18th and 19th century classical literature, including The Commentaries of Caesar, translated by William Duncan, 2 volumes, 1755, bound in contemporary calf, 8vo, another edition of Caesar's works with commentaries, edited by Oudendorp, 2 volumes, 1737, 4to, Odes of Anacreon, translated into English verse, with notes by Thomas Moore, printed for John Stockdale, 1800, Lucratius De Rerum Natura, in Aedibus Ricardi Taylor et socii, 1813, etc., all leather bound, 8vo/4to (28)

Mann (David Dickenson). The Present Picture of New South Wales..., 1st edition, 1811, folding hand-coloured engraved plan (light browning, a few marginal splits, one fold repaired to verso with a little damage to imprint lettering at foot), small oval institutional ink stamp to title and at end of text, some light dust-soiling, uncut, disbound without covers, 4to Without the porfolio containing the four rare aquatint views. 'The first substantial historical work published by a convict'. Ferguson 518. (1)

Benedict XIV (Pope). De servorum Dei beatificatione et beatorum canonizatione, editio secudna locupletior, Padua: Manfrè, 1743, engraved portrait after Pierre Subleyras, title pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes after Francesco Zucchi, engraved headpiece and initial to each volume also after Zucchi, woodcut initials throughout, occasional mild soiling to upper margins, pale intermittent damp-staining to lower outer corners in volume 4, edges sprinkled blue, contemporary vellum, slightly marked, folio, together with Scalaboni (Lorenzo), Marianum decus, sive epithetorum, laudum, et encomiorum, quibus Sancti Patres, ecclesiaeque Catholice Doctores Deiparam Virginem Mariam honestarunt, enarratio, et explicatio, 1st edition, Ravenna, 1640, half title (with faint ink-stamp), woodcut title vignette, spotting and browning, edges dyed blue, contemporary vellum, slightly marked, folio, plus Elzevier (Isaac, printer), Acta synodi nationalis ... Dd. ordinum generalium foederati Belgii provinciarum Dordrechti habitae anno 1618 et 1619, 1st edition, Leiden: Isaac Elzevier, 1620, 2 parts in 1 volume (bound without part 3, 'Iucidica theologorum provincialium'), ink-stamp and contemporary ownership inscription to title page, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, soiled, ties gone, folio, and Cerda (Jose de la), Maria effigies, revelatioque Trinitatis, et attributorum Dei ... nunc secundum in Galliis prodit, Lyon: Laurent Anisson, 1662, half title, title page printed in red and black with large woodcut vignette, spotting and browning, damp-stain to first gathering, contemporary vellum, slightly marked, front joint partially split, folio Bibliotheca Augustinia p. 808 for Scalabonio's text, which appears to be very rare, with no copies otherwise traced in libraries; Willems 167 for the Acta synodi nationalis, which relates to the Synod of Dort. (7)

Bible [Persian; Old Testament] Kitab al-Muqaddas wa-huwa kutub al-'ahd al-'atiq [Arabic title], London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1856, original full sheep by Watkin, binder to the Society (his ticket to rear pastedown), gilt spine-title, elaborate arabesque panelling to sides, joints tender, head of spine chipped, octavo Third edition of the pioneering translation by Scottish missionary William Glen (1779-1849) and his assistant Mirza Mohammad Ja'far, first published in 1845. (1)

Bradberry (Robert). The Principles of Perspective, explained in a Genuine Theory, and applied in an Extensive Practice; with the Construction and uses of all such Instruments as are Subservient to the Purposes of this Science, Edinburgh: J. Ainslie, 1790, 83pp., three engraved plates, disbound 8vo, together with Child (Samuel), Every Man His Own Brewer. A Practical Treatise, Explaining the Art and Mystery of Brewing Porter, Ale, Twopenny, and Table-Beer..., 6th edition, corrected and enlarged, 1798, 29,[3]pp., disbound 8vo, with Priestley (Joseph), Dr. Priestley's Letters to the Candidates for Orders in both Universities on Subscription to Articles of Religion, with an Address to Conforming Arians, &c. first printed in 1735. Reprinted for the use of the Junior and Senior Students, (Cambridge?), [1790], [4],57,[1]pp., ink number to upper blank margin of title, some marginal toning, edge untrimmed, disbound 8vo, plus other mostly 18th & 19th century pamphlets etc., majority disbound, including The Court of Justice: or the Tryals of King Charles's Judges. Being an Account of the Arraignment and Condemnation of Twenty nine of those Barbarous Traytors, that cut off the head of King Charles the First..., London: printed by J. Bradford, [1705?] (approx. 40)

Burke (Edmund). Reflections on the Revolution in France, 2nd edition, 2nd impression, J. Dodsley, 1790, spotting to endpapers and a few text-leaves, all edges untrimmed, original blue-grey paper wrappers, mild soiling and fraying, one corner of rear wrapper chipped, 8vo Todd 53 c; Printing and the Mind of Man 239 for the first edition. The second impression has the misspelling 'ascertainmennt' on page 223, line 223. (1)

Camden (William). The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England..., Fourth Edition, printed by M. Flesher, for R. Bentley, 1688, engraved frontispiece by R. White, title printed in red and black, some light spotting, contemporary mottled full calf, gilt decorated spine, joints partly cracked with minor wear to head and foot of spine, folio (attractive copy), together with Rushworth (John), Historical Collections, of Private Passages of State, Weighty Matters in Law, Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments..., 2 volumes, 1682/1686, occasional minor marks, and small circular ink stamps of the Royal Historical Society, contemporary full calf, rubbed and some wear, later rebacks, joints cracked and upper cover to second volume detached, folio, together with another edition of the same work in 8 volumes, published in 1721, all contemporary calf, with similar rebacks, joints cracked, folio, plus Burnet (Gilbert), The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 3 volumes, 1681-1751, half-title and additional engraved title to first and second volumes, contemporary calf, with old rebacks, folio, plus other similar folio history: Edward Coke, The First Part of the Institute's of the Laws of England, 7th edition, carefully corrected, 1670, Henry Hammond, Works, 4 volumes, mixed editions, 1681-84, a worn and slightly defective copy of Dryden's Works of Virgil, 1697, with numerous engraved plates by Lombart and Hollar, and History of the Government of France, under the administration of the great Armand Du Plessis, Cardinall and Duke of Richlieu, 1657, all (except the final title) bound in leather, folio (21)

[Caraccioli, Louis Antoine de]. Le Livre de Quatre Couleurs, Ridendo, dicere, verum, quid vetat? 1st edition, [Paris: Duchesne, 1757], bound with Le Livre a la Mode, Nouvelle Edition, [Paris, 1760] and Le Livre a la Mode, 1st edition, [Paris, 1759], all printed in yellow, blue, brown and red, half-title to first work and title with engraved vignette in black, inner hinges cracked, contemporary polished sheep, rubbed and some leather loss to spine, 12mo Collation: [4], xxiv, 114pp [the second edition has 110pp]; xx, 79pp; xxxvi, 79pp. (1)

Cooper (Thomas). [Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae, 1st edition, for Henry Wykes, 1565,] original title page replaced with 'faked' leaf from STC 5689, corresponding facsimile substituted for final text leaf ([superscript 2]R5), lacking 5 leaves of the initial gathering (*6) and the final blank ([superscript 2]R6), text otherwise collates A-6S6 [superscript 2]A-[superscript 2]R5 (6S6 not blank verso as in ESTC), first text leaf (*?) torn without loss of text, marginal spill-burn to quire A, final quire frayed, [superscript]2R4 torn with loss, and tipped in, some other stains and marks, inner hinges strengthened, ownership inscription of F. Leveson Gower to title page, 18th-century panelled calf, rubbed and scuffed, loss to spine ends, joints cracked but firm, corners restored, folio, together with Nizzoli (Mario), Thesaurus Ciceronianus, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1595, publisher's woodcut device to title page and colophon leaf, binder's blank loose, marginal damp-staining to first and last few leaves, very occasional minor worming to margins, bookplate of English clergyman and University of Cambridge vice-chancellor Edward Henry Perowne (1826-1906), front free endpaper with his gift-inscription, a further inscription relating to clothing ('jerkyns' etc.) in a 17th-century English hand, and an 18th-century ownership inscription, contemporary English speckled calf, rubbed, wear to spine-ends and to corners of boards with loss, front joint partially cracked, folio, plus Castell (Edmund), Lexicon Heptaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, Aethiopicum, Arabicum, conjunctim; et Persium, separatim, 1st edition, Thomas Roycroft, 1669, 2 volumes in 1, title page printed in red and black, bound without portrait and volume 2 title, light browning, title page frayed and laid down, a few marks, modern cloth, large folio, and Theocritus, [Opera] quae supersunt ... edidit Thomas Warton, 2 volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1770, mild spotting, gilt edges, contemporary red-brown calf, gilt arms of John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor (1790-1860) to front boards, spines darkened and dried, a few scuffs and marks to sides, 4to, and 3 others, various formats STC 5686 for Cooper; Wing 1225 for Castell; Nizzoli not in Adams. The 'faked' title page in this copy of Cooper was apparently printed in London after 1705, dated 1584, and issued with the mixed sheets of the second and third editions (STC 5687 and 5688); STC makes no mention of this leaf's being issued with sheets of the first edition, nor of a corresponding facsimile of the final leaf, present here. (8)

d'Ewes (Sir Simonds). The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, both of the House of Lords and House of Commons, revised and published by Paul Bowes, 1st edition, John Starkey, 1682, engraved frontispiece of Elizabeth in parliament, trimmed and mounted with no loss of image or text, marginal soiling, occasional fraying along fore-edge, tissue-repaired in first gathering, 18th-century bookplate of Sir William Strickland, contemporary calf, rebacked and restored, folio, together with Fuller (Thomas), The Church-History of Britain; from the Birth of Jesus Christ, until the Year M. DC. XLVIII, 1st edition, printed for John Williams, 1655, 5 engraved plates (2 folding, including large plan of Cambridge), title page and divisional titles with woodcut devices, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces throughout, mild marginal worming, bookplates of Christopher Henry Oldham Scaife (academic and poet, 1900-1988) and one J. Comyns, 18th-century marbled boards, diced russia backstrip, vellum tips, joints and spine superficially cracked but firm, headcap chipped, folio, plus Chesne (André du), Histoire générale d'Angleterre, d'Escosse, et d'Irlande, 1st edition, Paris, 1614, title page in modern facsimile, spotting and browning, bookplate of the Marquis de Bertier-Pinsaguel, contemporary French sheep, rebacked and restored, laurel wreath in blind to sides, scuffed, folio, plus Burnet (Gilbert), Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1724-34, manuscript annotation to volume 2 title verso as issued, contemporary near-uniform calf, rebacked, richly gilt spines, gilt frames to sides, joints partially cracked but firm, rubbed, extremities worn, folio, and 2 similar works Wing D1250 for d'Ewes and F2416 for Fuller. (7)

Dickens (Charles). A Christmas Carol, in Prose, being A Ghost Story of Christmas... with illustrations by John Leech, 1st edition, Chapman & Hall, 1843, title-page printed in blue and red, half-title and verso of title-page printed in blue, 'Stave I' at head of first chapter, eight engraved illustrations by John Leech including four hand-coloured plates (all but frontispiece offset to text), publisher's advertisement leaf at rear, occasional marks and spotting (including to title), stitching slightly strained, pale green endpapers, upper hinge splitting, front pastedown with bookplate of Katherine Sandys, and signature 'K. Sandys' on front free endpaper, all edges gilt, original light reddish-brown vertically-ribbed cloth, stamped in blind and lettered and decorated in gilt, cocked, faded and mottled, spine with loss at ends (just clipping gilt decoration at head), small 8vo, together with The Battle of Life, 1st edition, Bradbury & Evans, 1846, engraved frontispiece and additional title-page (4th issue, without imprint), letterpress engravings, advertisement leaf at rear, hinges split, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated red cloth, spine faded and frayed (with some minor loss), small 8vo, plus two other later edition Christmas books by Dickens (The Chimes, 2nd edition, 1845, and The Cricket on the Hearth, 21st edition, 1846) Smith II:4. (4)

Dickens (Charles). Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by "Boz.", 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1838, half-titles present, engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 etched plates by George Cruikshank, volume 2 with 36 page publisher's catalogue at rear, spotted throughout and some offsetting from plates, original cloth with blindstamped floral design, gilt decorated spines faded and slightly frayed at head, lower joint of volume 1 splitting, some marks and dust-soiling, 8vo Cohn 237; Eckel, p.140. First issue, without the "grotesque" border to the final plate. (2)

Mariana (Juan de). The General History of Spain, from the first peopling of it by Tubal, till the Death of King Ferdinand ... translated from the Spanish by John Stevens, 1st edition in English, printed for Richard Sare, 1699, spotting and browning, small worm-track in lower margin, engraved armorial bookplate of John Pinney (possibly the Bristol merchant and slave owner, 1740-1818, or a relation), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, sides scuffed, folio Sabin 44553. 'Book XXVI. relates to the discoveries and conquests of the Spaniards in the West Indies, etc.' (1)

Galenus (Claudius). Terrapeutica. Claudii Geleni Pergameni methodus medendi, id est, de morbis curandis, libri quatuordecim, translated from Greek into Latin by Thomas Linacre, Venice, Aloysius de Tortis, 1538, occasional woodcut initials, few marks and minor stains, title and following few leaves with a little damp-fraying to fore-edges (generally not affecting text), later plain vellum, thick 16mo Wellcome 2639. Norman 852. The seventh or eighth edition of Linacre's translation of Galen's Methodus Medendi, first published in 1519. (1)

Gambado (Geoffrey). An Academy for Grown Horsemen; containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling..., 3rd edition, 1808, stipple engraved sepia frontispiece and 12 plates, bound with Annals of Horsemanship: containing accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents, both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated by Various Correspondents..., together with most instructive remarks thereon, and answers thereto, by that accomplished genius. And now First Published, by the Editor of the Academy for Grown Horsemen, 1808, stipple engraved sepia frontispiece (torn to fore-edge blank margin) and 16 plates, closed tears to few text leaves and plate margins, some spotting, edges untrimmed, original publisher's boards, remnants of original letterpress title label to upper board, lower board loose and upper boatrd detached, lacking spine, worn, folio (1)

Godefroy (Jacques). Codex Theodosianus cum perpetuis commentariis ... opus posthumum ... recognitum et ordinatum ad usum Codicis Iustianei, opera et studio Antonii Marvilii, 6 volumes in 3, 1st edition, Lyon: Jean-Antoine Huguetan and Marc-Antoine Ravaud, 1665, title pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, woodcut headpieces and initials, half title to volume 1, occasional spotting, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, manuscript spine titles, spines darkened, mild soiling to boards, corners bumped, folio, together with Holstenius (Lucas), Notae et castigationes in Stephanum Byzantium de urbibus, 1st edition, 2nd issue, Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1692, title page printed in red and black, large engraved folding plate, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, figurative vignettes gilt over existing blind devices on boards, yapp edges, ties perished, folio, plus Suicer (Johann Kaspar), Thesaurus ecclesiasticus, e patribus Graecus, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, corrected and enlarged, Utrecht: Gysbert à Paddenburg [and 3 others], 1746, title pages printed in red and black, half title and engraved frontispiece to volume 1, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, slightly soiled, folio First edition of Godefroy's 'masterly commentary' (Bellomo, The Common Legal Past of Europe, p. 208). (6)

Griffith [alias Alford] (Michael). Fides regia Britannica, sive Annales ecclesiae Britannicae, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Louvain: Hovius, 1663, half titles, title pages printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, additional engraved title to volume 1, intermittent spotting, browning and damp-staining, half titles soiled, deaccession stamps to title versos, bookplates of Charles Vere Dashwood (1745-1821) to volumes 2 and 3, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked but holding, extremities worn, folio, together with Wood (Anthony), Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis, 1st edition, Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1674, engraved additional title, headpieces and initials, folding plan, worm-track to first few leaves, two repaired closed tears to engraved title, title page slightly soiled, plan frayed, old repairs verso, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, sides worn, corners restored, folio, plus Gale (Thomas, editor), Historiae Anglicanae scriptores quinque, ex vetustis codicibus MSS. nunc primum in lucem editi, bound uniformly with Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae, Scriptores XV., ex vetustis codd. MSS. editi, 2 volumes, 1st editions, Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1687-91, engraved title vignettes, half title to Historiae Britannicae, front pastedowns with armorial bookplates of Charles Montague, 1st Duke of Manchester, dated 1704, and Kimbolton Castle shelfmark labels, contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked but holding, extremities slightly worn, folio, and Grätz (Hardwin von; known as Ortwin), Fasciculus rerum expetendarum et fugiendarum ... studio Edwardi Brown, 2 volumes, 1st edition thus, Richard Chiswell, 1690, half title, ecclesiastical bequest plate to front pastedowns, contemporary speckled tan calf, rubbed, extremities worn, volume 1 front board detached, volume 2 front joint cracked, folio Wing W3385 (Wood) G154 (Gale), G1583 (Ortwin). Gale's two books were issued as the second and third volumes of William Fullman's Rerum Anglicarum Scriptorum Veterum, but are together considered a discrete work: the half title of Historiae Britannicae reads 'Historiae Britannicae et Anglicanae Scriptores XX, duobus voluminibus comprehensi'. (9)

Jonson (Ben). The Works, which were formerly printed in Two Volumes, are now reprinted in One, to which is added a Comedy called the New Inn, with Additions never before published, printed for Thomas Hodgkin, 1692, engraved frontispiece portrait, slightly creased with mild disruption to image, small spill-burns to a few leaves, generally affecting one letter if any, leaves 2Z2-3 and 3C1-2 spotted and browned (as usual: see Pforzheimer), occasional mild spotting elsewhere, a few marginal chips or tears, bookplate of the Earl of Minto, contemporary and slightly later inscriptions to endpapers, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original compartments laid down, covers pitted and slightly scuffed, corners worn, folio in 4s Pforzheimer 561; Wing J1006. First complete collected edition, and the final folio edition. (1)

Josephus (Flavius). The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian. Translated from the Original Greek, according to Havercamp's accurate Edition. Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antquities, with the Appendix, or Life of Josephus, written by himself: Seven Books of the Jewish War: and Two Books against Apion..., together with Proper Notes, Observations, Contents, Parallel Texts of Scripture, five compleat Indexes, and the true Chronology of the several Histories adjusted in the Margin..., with an Account of the Jewish Coins, Weights, and Measures. By William Whiston, M.A. some time Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge, London: Printed by W. Bowyer for the Author, 1737, half-title, folding engraved map of Palestine and folding engraved plan of the Temples at Jerusalem, few decorative initials, head- & tail-pieces, occasional minor spotting, endpapers renewed, retaining ownership labels of David Barclay and Hudson Gurney, contemporary calf, morocco label to upper board, neatly rebacked and with morocco title label to spine, corners repaired, folio Large Paper Copy of this important English edition of the works of the first century Jewish historian. (1)

Kempelen (Wolfgang von). Le Mecanisme de la Parole, suivi de la description d'une machine parlante..., 1st French edition, Vienna: B. Bauer for J.V. Degen, 1791, engraved portrait frontispiece and 26 engraved plates, a little scattered spotting, lacks half-title and errata leaf at rear, old cloth, rebacked with original spine relaid, rubbed and soiled, 8vo (18 x 11.5cm) Published in the same year as the first German edition, this rare work gives a description of an automaton and the technique of producing the sound articulation and phonation of European languages. The automaton here described was built in 1778 and the plates show partly the anatomical details of the human speech organs and the construction of the speaking machine. Kempelen is today best-known as the inventor of the infamous hoax automaton chess player, named 'The Turk', with which he toured the courts of Europe. (1)

Lermontov (Mikhail Yurievitch). The Hero of Our Days, from the Russian of Michael Lermontoff, by Theresa Pulszky, 1st edition in English, Thomas Hodgson, [1854], 232 pages (and possibly without half-title at front), some spotting to endpapers, contemporary dark green stained half calf, red morocco gilt spine label, slightly rubbed, small 8vo First edition in English of Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time. (1)

Newcourt (Richard). Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London..., 2 volumes, 1708, engraved portrait frontispiece, four plates (including 3 folding) and one folding map, some toning and occasional spotting, contemporary calf, old reback, contrasting morocco labels, joints cracked and upper board of volume 1 loose, folio, together with Sewel (William), The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers, Intermixed with several Remarkable Occurrences..., now revis'd and publish'd, with some amendments, 1722, ownership inscription at head of title, light worming to lower blank margins at front of volume, dampstaining to first & last few leaves, contemporary calf, worn, folio, plus other 17th & 18th century theology related, including a defective 1609 edition of John Jewel's Works, all folio (7)

[Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich]. Ueber Gesezgebung und Kindermord. Wahrheiten und Träume, Nachforschungen und Bilder, vom Verfasser Lienhardts und Gertrud, 1st edition, Frankfurt & Leipzig: Auf Kosten des Verfassers, [1783], final blank present, some browning to first and last leaves including title, circular German ink library stamp and withdrawn stamp and manuscript shelf numbers to title-page, contemporary half calf gilt, gilt stamp to upper cover with monogram 'U', rubbed, some corner wear, upper joint cracked, 8vo in this influential treatise Pestalozzi considers how young women who commit infanticide should be dealt with. In his analysis Pestalozzi questioned the unjust laws that fostered infanticide, called for the abolition of the law that prohibited the very poor from marrying, demanded the criminal prosecution of deserting fathers, and the help of the state for unmarried women who gave birth. (1)