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(Droit) - JUSTINIEN.- Iuris enucleati ex omni vetere iure collecti Digestorum seu Pandectarum libri quinquaginta [...]. Antverpiae, ex officina Christophori Plantini, architypographi Regii, 1575. 7 parts in 1 vol. in-f° : [36]-805-[2], 494-[1], 246-[2 blanks], 138-[2], 1/66-[2 blanks], 73/126 [i.e. 122]-[1], 59-[86] pp. (somes lvs slightly browned, foxing, some marginal tears or holes, some marginal dampstains, some handwritten notes or underlinings). Contemporary binding : full parchment, ribbed spine with title with pen (turn ins renewed, some small defects, corners dulled). Est. : 250/ 300 € Second edition (1st ed. : 1567) of the Corpus Iuris Civilis edited by Plantin and given by Louis Le Caron (1534-1613), French lawyer, poet and philosopher. Imposing copy with text in 2 columns, somes parts with parallel text (Greek-Latin) or in Greek typography, containing : "Digestorum seu Pandectarum", "Codicis Justiniani repetitae praelectionis lib. XII" followed by a chronicle of Ancient History until the Persian Empire and the "Fasti consulares", both compiled by Antoine Le Conte, "Authenticae seu novellae constitutiones" (2 parts), "Edicta item Justini, Tiberii, ac Leonis, alliorumque imperatorum constitutiones", "Institutionum [iuris] libri IIII". With handwritten "Index titulorum", totalising 18 leaves, interfoliated in the 3 first parts. no. Voet 1035 III.15; no. Adams P-521, P-597, P-616, P-651, P-689 and P-690; no. Machiels P-292 (Codicis), P-301 (Authenticae seu novellae), P-302 (Novellarum Constitutionum) and P-307 (Edicta). ¶ Seconde édition du Corpus Iuris Civilis publié par Plantin et donné par le juriste français Louis Le Caron. Texte sur 2 col. avec certaines parties en grec ou juxtalinéaires (grec-latin). Plein parchemin de l`ép. (qqs déch. marg., qqs ff. lég. brunis, qqs mouill. marg., coiffes renouvelées).

(Moeurs) - HÖNIGER, Nicolaus.- Propugnaculum castitatis, ac pudicitiae, fortitudunis constantiae `que, tam virginum, quam uxorum, quae, ad evitandam impudicitiae notam, omnia persequutionum genera vel spontè, vel coactè subierunt [...]. Basileae, per Sebastianum Henricpetri, (anno 1575 mense Martio). In-8° : [48]-751-[1] pp. (handwritten note on title-page, small marginal wormholes in the beginning and in the end, some light foxing, some light marginal dampstains). Hybrid binding : contemporary calf sides on wooden boards, modern ribbed spine, red edges (clasps lacking, lower board slightly rubbed, some lacks of leather, corners and edges dulled, handwritten notes and stamp on the inside of upper board and upper fly lf.). Est. : 120/ 150 € Second edition (1st ed. : 1554) of this work about the defense of chastity and pudor for young girls and wives and the punishment to virtue attempts and scandalous life by Höniger, German philologue of the 16th Century. It is composed of extracts of ancient authors` works and deals with "Amazonum origo, et earum fortia facta", "Assyriorum mos in virginibus collocandis", "Virginitati infidiator mactatur, digna scortatorum poena", "Punica foeminae prostitutae", " Sodomitae et Gomorrhei crudeliter puniti ob libidinem", etc. Copy illustrated with some ornamental initial letters and printer`s mark on the back of last leaf. no. Adams H-645; no. Bibl. Gay-Lemmonyer III-878; no. Biogr. univ. XIX-587; no. not in Machiels nor in Soltész. Bound with (together 2 works in 1 vol.) : PÉRION, J.- De Vitis rebusque gestis prophetarum Dei ac sanctarum mulierum Veteris Testamenti [...]. Lutetiae, in officina Federici Morelli, 1565, [16]-255 pp. First edition of the biographies of prophetes and holy women in the Ancien Testament by the French philologue Périon (1498/1499-1559); no. Machiels P-200, no. not in Adams. ¶ Seconde édition de cet ouvrage sur la défense de la chasteté et de la pudeur chez les jeunes filles et épouses mais aussi sur les châtiments à donner aux débauchés et aux actes portant atteintes à la vertu. Relié avec un ouvrage biographique sur les prophètes et femmes saintes de l`Ancien Testament. Demi-veau hybride (dos refait, trous ou gal. de vers au début et à la fin, fermoirs manquants).

(Numismatique) - GOLTZIUS, Hubert.- Sicilia et Magna Graecia sive Historiae urbium et populorum graeciae ex antiquis numismatibus restitutae [...]. Brugis Flandrorum, (excudebat Aegidius Radaeus [Gillis van den Rade] [for] Huberto Goltzio) (apud Hubertum Goltzium, mense aprili), mense aprili), 1576. 2 parts in 1 vol. in-f° : [28]-28 (i.e. 328)-[56] pp.; ill. (light to dark browned leaves, map reinforced at the edges, spots...). Contemporary emblazoned binding : calf, coat of arms on the upper board, ribbed spine, sprinkled edges (very rubbed copy, split joints with some lacks, damaged turn ins and corners...). Est. : 250/ 300 € First edition of this important book on the history of Sicily and the Greek colonies in Italy, based on numismatic and epigraphic evidence and one of the oldest book related to town medals, a neglected subject until then. Illustrated with a portrait of Goltzius after Antonio Moro, 39 full engraved pages of coins, and 2 maps (Sicily and Italy) on double page. Reprint in 1618 and 1620 but rare edition because of the small impression of this book. The second part with an particular title : Siciliae historia posterior sive Eorum, quae post pacem sub Augusto terra marique partam usque ad hoc saeculum gesta sunt, compendios narratio". 1576, 73-[15] pp.; portrait of profile of Goltzius by Melchior Lorichius included in the collation and printer`s device the title-page and the last page (some browned leaves, dark foxing +/- scattered). no. BB III-249/251(G-389); no. BT 1297-1298; no. Funck 323; no. Adams G-836; no. STCDutch p. 87; no. Dekesel, Bibl. nummaria G-56; no. not in Machiels. ▲ Provenance : count de Lalaing (palimpsest handwritten inscription "sum Comitis de Lalaing"); Louis Phélypeaux de la Vrillière, 1598-1681 (coats of arms on the upper board. no. Olivier 2258). ¶ Édition originale tirée à petit nombre de cet ouvrage de numismatique citadine illustré du portrait de Goltzius, 39 pages de monnaies et 2 cartes. Relié avec une Histoire de la Sicile illustrée d`un portrait de Goltzius. De la bibliothèque du comte de Lalaing et de Phélypeaux de la Vrillière (rel. armoriée fort usée).

(Religion, Bible) - Biblia Sacra Hebraice, Chaldaice, Graece, & Latine. Antverpiae, Christoph. Plantinus excud., [1568 [- 1573]]. 40 parts in 8 vol. in-f° : [95 engraved title and 2 front. incl.]-[1 bl.]-743-[1 bl.], [10 front. incl.]-720 [i.e. 743]-[1], 213-[2]-[1 bl.], [2]-1/83-[1 bl.], [28], 73/679-[1 bl.], 130-[2 bl.], [4 front. incl.]-919-[1 bl.], 141-[1]-[2 bl.], [16 front incl.]-499 [i.e. 501]-[3 bl.], 566-[1]-[1 bl.], [2]-24, 382-[2], 54/1 [printed according to Oriental tradition]-[1]-[1 bl.], [2]-59/1 [id.]-[1], [4]-12/1 [id.], 197/1 [id.]-[1]-[2 bl.], [24/1 id.], 141/1 [printed according to Hebrew tradition]-[3], [8]-191-[1 bl.], [8]-147/1 [id.]-[1 bl.], 186/1 [id.]-[2 bl.], 114/1 [id.]-[1]-[1 bl.], 166/1 [id.]-[1]-[1 bl.], 24, 122-[6], 26-[2], 19-[1 bl.], 13-[3], 7-[1], 10-[6], 16, 7-[1 ill.], 8, 22-[1]-[1 bl.], [60], 31/1 [printed according to Oriental tradition]-[1], [8], [12],11-[1 bl.], 33-[2]-[1 bl.] pp.; 15 plates (some lvs or plates yellowed or browned, some weakened due to exhibiting, dampstains mostly in the margins, some marginal tears without loss, some marginal holes, some corners lacking, multiple errors in pagination, some mould spots, rare handwritten notes, last quire of the preliminary lvs [i.e. pp. 97-108] missing in vol. I, half-title remounted, marginal tears in first lvs repaired, first lvs of quire "i" unbound and break after quire "h" [1 lf. unbound] in vol. I, break after quire "Aa" [p. 565 partly unbound] in vol. IV, title-page of vol. VII underlaid with tears repaired, 1 tear without loss in its design to the browned world map browned, "Candido lectori" in vol. VIII missing). Modern binding : full natural pigskin blind stamped with Renaissance-like pattern, boards with frames of fillets forming lozenges and fleurons in the crossings, ribbed spine with fillets, gilt edges (some joints partly split, spine of vol. I and vol. IV partly broken, turns ins and edges slighlty damaged or faded, some small traces of use, tear at the upper fly leaf in vol. V, traces of tape on the boards of vol. VIII). Est. : 30.000/ 40.000 € First edition of Plantin`s Polyglot known as the Antwerp or the Royal Polyglot. The text of the Old (vol. I-IV) and of the New Testament (vol. V) is disposed as follows : on the left pages the text in Hebrew with the Latin Vulgata translation by Saint Hieronymus and underneath the Chaldaic (i.e. Aramaic) paraphrase in Hebrew type, on the right pages the text in Greek with the Latin translation and underneath the Latin translation of the Chaldaic paraphrase. Vol. VI-VIII consist in the "Apparatus" which is a series of treatises, dictionaries (Greek, Hebrew, Syriac), grammars and text-editions. Our "Apparatus", with a mix of versions A and B of the treatises (cfr Voet), contain some variants compared to the "Ordo librorum" bound in volume I : the "Hebraicorum bibliorum Veteris Testamenti Latina interpretatione" and the "Novum Testamentum Graece" are inverted in vol. VII,- the "Communes et familiares Hebraicae linguae idiotismi" is not bound at the end of vol. VII but at the beginning of vol. VIII,- the "Candido lectori. Guid. Fabr. Bod. in titulorum totius Novi Testamenti Syriaci" is missing but as Voet says "in some copies a treatise may even have been dropped". Our copy, with wide margins and entirely ruled, is illustrated with : vol. I : the engraved title by Petrus A. Merica or Van der Heyden, the allegory of the "Pietas Regia" (i.e. Philip II) also by the same at the back of the engraved title and the "Allegory of the Authority of the Pentateuch".— Vol. II : the frontispiece by Jean Wiericx figuring the crossing of the Jordan by the people of Israel.— Vol. IV : the frontispiece of the workers in the vineyard of the Lord.— Vol. V : the frontispiece with the "Baptism of the Christ".— Vol. VIII (15 illustrations instead of 16 as our copy has the version B of the "Tubalcain" in which the representation of a "sicla" has been dropped) : the world map on double page in version B (without the typographical text "Orbis tabula. Ben Aria Montano auctor" on the recto of the world map), the map of Chanaan, the map of the "Terra Israel", the "Arca Noe", 5 plates of the Tabernacle, one plate figuring the camp of Israel, one of the ground-plan of the Temple Jerusalem and 2 other plates representing parts of it, the full-page figuring a Hebrew Great-Priest and the plan of Jerusalem on double pages. Furthermore, there are four typographical titles in an architectural frame comprised in the pagination ("Pentateuch", "Prophetae", "Hagiographoi Sancti" and "Prophetae posteriores"). Plantin`s Polyglot Bible in five languages (Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic or Aramaic and Syriac) "may considered to be the largest typographical enterprise of the 16th Century" (cfr Voet) and is a fantastic technical, philological, scientific and exegatical prouesse. Plantin took as a model the "Complutesian" or "Ximenes" Polyglot of Alcalá de Henares (1514-1517, 6 vol.) but "with many corrections, addition of the Syriac text and numerous treatises in the "Apparatus" (cfr idem). Benedictus Arias Montanus (1527-1598), one of the most learned Oriental scholars who accompanied the Bishop of Segovia to the Council of Trent and chaplain of Philip II, "was the leading force of the gigantesc enterprise" (cfr idem). He was assisted by Plantin`s son-in-law, Franciscus Raphelengius and by Guido and Nicolaus Fabricius Boderianus. Most of the treatises in the "Apparatus" are written by Arias Montanus, R. Raphelengius and G. Boderianus but the scholars Andreas Masius, Guilelmus Canterus and the Cardinal Sirlet made also contributions. Plantin`s proof-readers Cornelis Kilianus, Theodoor Kemp and Antoon Spitaels as well as the theologians of Leuven University Augustinus Hunnaeus, Joannes Harlemius and Cornelius Reyneri Goudanus supported this major project printed at 1.213 copies, financed and encouraged by Philip II. no. Voet I-644; no. Darlow & Moule 1422; no. Shirley 125. ▲ Provenance : Seminary of Rouen (handwritten mention). ¶ Édition originale de la Bible Polyglotte de Plantin, patronée par Philippe II et menée sous la direction de son chapelain, Benito Arias Montanus. Ex. à grandes marges, entièrement serti de filets à la plume d`encre rouge, illustré d`un titre gravé au volume I, de plusieurs frontispices, de 15 pl. dont la célèbre mappemonde, d`une pleine page figurant un Grand-Prêtre juif et de titres dans des décors architecturaux. Gigantesque prouesse technique, philologique, exégétique and scientifique pour son époque. Pleine peau de truie naturelle moderne avec un décor dans le style Renaissance (dernier cahier des ff. prélim. du vol. I et "Candide lectori" au vol. VIII manquants, qqs pp. ou pl. lég. brunies ou jaunies -certaines rel. plus fortement-, qqs déch., le plus souvent marginales, parfois restaurées, déch. dans la carte du monde sans manque, qqs lég. us. aux dos...).

(Religion) - AZPILCUETA, Martin de.- Enchiridion sive Manuale confessariorum et poenitentium [...]. Antverpiae, ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575. In-4° : [16]-827-[43] pp. (used, last blank lf. lacking, margins of title-page cut off and repaired with thicker paper, copy +/- browned, stains, dampstains...). Contemporary binding : marbled sheepskin, gilt ribbed spine, red edges (joints partly split, lacks at the turn ins, scratches, lower joint faded, edges and corners dulled, label stuck on the inside of upper board, stamps and handwritten note on the upper fly leaf). Est. : 150/ 200 € First Plantinian edition of this manual for confessors and confessants by Azpilcueta (1491-1586) or "Doctor Navarrus", important Spanish canonist and theologian, professor of canon law in Cahors, Toulouse and later in Salamanque. He is also an early economist, precusor of the monaterist theory (the gouvernements have a role in controlling the amount of money in circulation). Our work, which places Azpilcueta as one of the creators of modern casuistry, was first published in Portuguese in 1549 by "a Portuguese Franciscan friar (identified either as Rodrigo de Porto or Antonio de Curara), revised and adapted by Azpilcueta" (cfr Voet). Azpilcueta made a Spanish version in 1553 and supervised the first Latin translation in 1557. no. Voet I-616; no. BT 229; no. not in Adams, Machiels, Soltész. ¶ Première édition plantinienne de ce manuel pour les confesseurs et pénitents par Azpilcueta, un des plus importants théologiens espagnols. Pleine basane marbrée de l`ép. (us., +/- bruni, marges du titres découpées et restaurées avec du papier plus fort, mors part. fendus...).

(Religion) - Sanctus PROSPER Aquitanius Tiro.- Opera [...]. Lovanii, ex officina typographica Joannis Bogardi, 1565. In-4° : [4]-326-[15] lvs (copy slightly browned, marginal dampstains in the beginning, rare foxing, some handwritten notes and underlinings in quire K, tears repaired on title-page and with loss of text at lf. 101, lvs inverted in quire Xx). Contemporary binding : calf on wooden boards, decorated boards with blind fillets and roll stamps, ribbed spine (rubbed, clasps lacking, turn ins lacking, some lacks of leather, edges dulled, corners lacking, handwritten notes and catalogue notice on the inside of upper board, wormholes on the lower fly lvs). Est. : 150/ 200 € Very rare third edition (1st ed. : Lyon, 1539) which contains the main operum of Prosper "Contra Cassiani [...], de gratia Dei & libero arbitrio" on the necessity of Grace (God wishes all men to be saved), reply to the "Collationes patrum in Scithico eremo commorantium" of the French monk Cassian (360/365-433/435),- letters to saint Augustine on the same subject,- maxims ("Sententiarum ex operibus D. Augustini [...]") and epigrams ("Ex ijsdem sententijs Epigrammaton [...]") to be a guide for Christians, etc. Prosper (c. 390-c. 455), French Christian writer, was the first continuator of Jerome`s Universal Chronicle and even if he was a layman he threw himself with ardour into the religion controversies defending Augustine`s doctrine. As he was a disciple of the Church Father (354-430), the majority of his works relay his thoughts. no. not in Adams, Machiels, Soltész, BB. ¶ Très rare troisième édition des ouvrage du disciple de saint Augustin relayant et défendant la pensée de ce Père de l`Église. Plein veau sur ais de bois de l`ép. (ex. lég. bruni, rel. frottée avec qqs manques).

(Religion) - VAN LANGHECRUYS, Jan.- De vita et honestate canonicorum, et aliorum ecclesiasticorum speculum [...]. Duaci [Douai], ex officina Joannis Bogardi, 1587. In-8° : [2]-xlii-[12]-914-[65] pp. (handwritten notes and stamp on title-page, mark of ▲ Provenance cut off on title-page and tear repaired, some underlinings, rare foxing or small stains, small marginal dampstains on last lvs). 17th Century binding : calf, gilt ribbed spine, sprinkled edges (slightly rubbed, lower joint partly split, rest of stamp stuck on the spine, some scratches, some edges and corners dulled, stamp and handwritten notes on the upper fly lf.). Est. : 120/ 150 € First edition of this work dealing with the duties of the clergymen and the right behaviour they have to look for and adopt, supported by extracts of church Fathers, Concile Decrets, philosophers, popes, etc. Van Langhecruys or Joannes Langhecrucius (+ 1604) was professor of Latin and philosophy at the Pedagogy of the Pork in Leuven University and provost of the Church Saint Pieter of Cassel in France. Because he had been very affected by the Religion Wars and the iconoclasts who had destroyed his church, he decided to write this work to encourage the clerics to observe scrupulously the religion precepts and to give good example to catholics. no. Adams L-142; no. NNBW V-308/309; no. not in Machiels, Soltész, STC French. ▲ Provenance : Charles-Louis Van Bavière (1765-1815), General Secretary of the Law faculty of Brussels (ex-libris); P.C. Wouters (handwritten mention). Joint (together 2 works in 3 vol. in-8°) : PERAULT, Gui.- Summa virtotum ac vitiorum [...]. Lugduni, apud Gulielmum Rovillium, 1571, 2 vol. full 17th Cent. sprinkled calf (title-page of vol. I lacking, pp. 179-286 of vol. I lacking and replaced by handwritten lvs, slightly browned, foxing, rubbed spines). Treaty on human vices and sins for the use of confessors and preachers by the French theologian Perault (c. 1190-c. 1270). ¶ Édition originale de cet ouvrage portant sur le juste comportement et les devoirs des ecclésiastiques par un professeur de Louvain et prévôt de la collégiale Saint-Pierre à Cassel (pet. défauts, rel. lég. frottée, plat inf. part. fendu, qqs griffes). Ouvr. de Guillaume Perault sur les vices et péchés humains joint (2 vol.).

(Science, Botanique) - DODOENS, Rembert.- Trium priorum de stirpium historia commentariorum imagines ad viuum expressae [...]. Antverpiae, ex officina Joannis Loei, 1553. In-8° : [46]-[2 blanks]-439-[6] pp. (vol. II lacking, copy very slightly browned, some foxing and stains, small marginal tear reinforced at p. 209, marginal tear at p. 327). Contemporary binding : calf, decorated boards with blind fillets, blind decorated ribbed spine (binding replaced ?, lack of leather at the lower board, edges and corners dulled, slightly trimmed). Est. : 1.800/ 2.200 € First edition of the first volume of this excerpt edited when the "Cruydt-Boeck" was half finished. The second volume was edited in 1554. Abridged edition containing only the names of the plants in Latin, Greek, Dutch, German and French with 439 woodcuts. By publishing it, Dodoens wanted to spare the buying of his more expensive herbarium to students in medicine and botany. With full-page portrait of Dodoens at the beginning and the printer`s mark at the end of the volume. Copy amply annoted in Latin by a contemporary hand. no. Adams D-723; no. BB II-201/203 (D 105); no. BT I-963; no. Nissen 507; no. not in Machiels, Pritzel, Soltész. ▲ Provenance : count Félix Goblet d`Alviella (1884-1957), Court of Appeal lawyer in Brussels, specialist in forestry (emblazoned ex-libris; no. de Jonghe d`Ardoye 734). ¶ Édition originale de l`extrait du "Cruydt-Boeck" de Dodoens illustré du portrait à pleine page de l`auteur, de 439 bois in texto et de la marque de l`imprimeur à pleine page in fine. Incomplet du t. II, ex. amplement annoté par une main de l`époque. Plein veau de l`époque (très lég. bruni, rel. rémboîtée ?, manque de cuir au plat inf.).

(Science, Botanique) - [ESTIENNE, Charles].- Sylva. Frutetum. Collis. Parisiis, Franciscum Stephanum, 1538. In-8° : 56-[8] lvs (copy very slightly browned). Contemporary binding : calf, gilt decorated ribbed spine, red edges (upper board detached, dampstains, rubbed on the extreme parts, edges and corners very dulled, handwritten notes on the upper fly leaf). Est. : 150/ 200 € Rare first edition of one of the first works written by the French doctor and printer Charles Estienne (1504-1564), third son of Henri Estienne, on forest, fruit and moutain trees published 6 years before the "De Historia stirpium" of Leonhart Fuchs and 16 years before the "Cruydt-boek" of Rembert Dodoens. Followed by 2 indexes : one in Latin and one in French. With the Estienne`s mark figuring a vign stock and grapes on title-page. no. Renouard, Annales de l`imprimerie des Estienne, p. 97; no. Barbier IV-1385; no. not in Adams, Machiels, Pritzel, Nissen, Mortimer. ▲ Provenance : Lord Cyril Flower (1843-1907), first baron of Battersea, British liberal politician (emblazoned ex-libris). ¶ Édition originale d`un des premiers ouvrages d`Estienne sur les arbres forestiers, fruitiers et des montagnes. Plein veau de l`ép. (plat sup. dérelié, mouill. sur la rel.).

(Science, Botanique) - FUCHS, Leonhart.- De Historia stirpium [...]. Lugduni [Lyon], apud Joan. Tornaesium, et Guill. Gazeim, 1555. In-16° : [48]-979-[12] pp. (slightly browned, some foxing, marginal tear at p. 417, underlining at p. 517). Contemporary emblazoned binding : pigskin, boards with blind tooled fillets and roll-stamp (with portraits in medallion), angular fleurons and central blazon heightened with brown ink, ribbed spine, red sprinkled edges (rubbed spine, edges and corners dulled). Est. : 600/ 800 € One of the first Lyon-edition, after Basel (1st ed. : Isingrin, 1542), Paris and Antwerp. In 1547, Guillaume Gazeau edited an in-16° non illustrated Latin edition and reissued it in 1555 with his father-in-law Jacques de Tournes, the famous editor who published the same year the most beautiful illustrated books of his career. In 1549, the first illustrated Lyon-edition of the "De Historia stirpium" was published by Arnoullet. no. Ariane Lepilliet, "Le De Historia Stirpium de Leonhart Fuchs : histoire d`un succès éditorial (1542-1560)" in Master Cultures de l`Écrit et de l`Image, Mémoire de master 1, juin 2012, pp. 63 (http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/document-60360); no. Adams F-1104; no. not in Baudrier, Nissen, Pritzel, Machiels. ▲ Provenance : Landgrave Philip I of Hesse, 1504-1567, nicknamed the "Magnanimous", leading champion of the Protestant Reformation and one of the most important of the early Protestant rulers in Germany (handwritten mention); Joseph Lautenbach, author of some medicine books in the late 16th Century (id.).

(Science, Histoire naturelle) - BELON, Pierre.- L`Histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, & naïfs portraicts retirez du naturel : escrite en sept livres. Paris, Gilles Corrozet, (impr. Paris, Benoist Prevost), 1555. Gr. in-f° : [28]-381-[1] pp. (qqs rouss., qqs ff. brunis, qqs mouill., complet du f. bl. entre les pp. 274-[277]). Rel. armoriée moderne : plein vélin, filet doré cernant les armoiries, dos à nerfs sertis de filets dorés et étiq. de cuir rouge, tr. dorées de l`époque (mention d`app. ms. datée 1582 sur le titre, garde bl. inf. part. déreliée). Est. : 4.500/ 6.000 € Édition originale co-éditée par Corrozet et Guillaume Cavellat (seuls les titres et marques typographiques changent) illustrée de 167 bois aquarellés (aplats de couleurs parfois assez sommaires) : 6 marques typographiques de Corrozet (1 grande et 6 petites), portrait de l`auteur, 2 représentations de squelette (homme et oiseau, non coloriés), 158 représentations d`oiseaux (aigles, hiboux, canards, oiseaux d`eau, perroquet, autruche, cygne, hirondelle, martin-pêcheur, corbeau... et aussi, erronément, la chauve-souris) exécutés par divers artistes d`après les dessins du peintre parisien Pierre Gourdelle. Orné en plus de nombreuses et belles lettrines ornées. Chaque livre avec titre daté propre et vignette de titre mais pagination continue pour l`ensemble. Contient aussi une table des oiseaux. Belon (1517-1564) est un des précurseurs des sciences naturelles et l`auteur de nombreux ouvrages dont un traité de botanique, un des premiers traités sur les animaux marins et un récit de ses observations sur l`histoire naturelle, la faune et les moeurs des habitants prises lors de son voyage au Levant entre 1546 et 1549. no. Mortimer French 50; no. Nissen, IV, 86; no. Ankar pp. 9-10; no. Adams B-558; no. Machiels; no. pas dans Nissen ZBI. ▲ Provenance : count Félix Goblet d`Alviella (1884-1957), Court of Appeal lawyer in Brussels, specialist in forestry (supra libros; no. de Jonghe d`Ardoye 734). ¶ First edition illustrated with 158 woodcuts of birds (incl. some exotic as parrot or ostrich) an written by one of the founders of the renewed study of birds. Modern emblazoned vellum.

(Science, Techniques) - AGRICOLA, Georgius.- De re metallica libri XII [...]. Basileae, (apud Hieron. Frobenium et Nicolaum Episcopium, mense Martio.) 1556. In-f° : [10]-[2 blanks]-538 [i.e. 502]-[74] pp.; 2 plates (copy very slightly browned, tears repaired on 2 pages whom on title-page, some foxing, rare marginal tears, rare marginal handwritten notes). 18th Century emblazoned binding : full bordeaux morocco, ribbed spine with gilt fleurons in the rectangular designs and in the last but one a coat of arms surmounted by a crown figuring a raised lion (ink stains, handwritten note on the upper fly lf.). Est. : 10.000/ 12.000 € First edition posthumous of this famous workon the mining, refining and smelting metals which were alchimy prerogatives, written by Agricola (1494-1595), German physician of the mining centre of Joachimsthal in Bohemia. "De Re Metallica embraces everything connected with the mining industry and metalurgical processes, including administration, prospecting, the duties of officials and compagnies, the manufacture of glass, sulphur and alum" (cfr PMM). Illustrated with 2 plates (one folding) and more than 280 woodcuts in the text attributed to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (1525-1572), some very larges, figuring the different stages of the extraction and transformation of metals. Followed by "De animantibus subterraneis", published in 1549. Copy in a neat typography entirely ruled with red ink, larges ornamental initials and mark of Froben on title-page and on the back of last leaf. The spine presents the mentions "Opera omnia. Tom. I", probably added by the owner in the 18th Century to create a set of Agricola`s works in his library as there is no "Opera omnia" edition of Agricola. no. Adams A-349; no. Soltész A-80; no. Printing and the Mind of Man n° 79; no. van Lennep, Alchimie, Bruxelles, 1984, p. 21; no. not in Machiels ▲ Provenance : count Félix Goblet d`Alviella (1884-1957), Court of Appeal lawyer in Brussels, specialist in forestry (emblazoned ex-libris; no. de Jonghe d`Ardoye 734). ¶ Édition originale posthume de ce célèbre ouvrage du physicien allemand Agricola sur les mines, le raffinage et la fusion des métaux (aspects étudiés jusque là par l`alchimie) illustré de 2 h.-t. (1 dépl.) et de plus de 280 bois in texto. Ex. avec texte entièrement serti d`un filet tracé à la main à l`encre rouge. Plein maroq. armorié du 18e s. (très lég. bruni, qqs rouss., qqs taches d`encres à la rel.).

The Lawrence Lande Collection of Canadiana in the Redpath Library of McGill University - A Bibliography collected, arranged and annotated by Lawrence Lande with an introduction by Edgar Andrew Collard. 1965. A limited edition of 950 signed copies, this being No. 73. Folio. This copy is one of the first 75 ( only ) which have been hand bound in full leather by Vianney Belanger at his bindery in Montreal, it features a geometric design utilising a two colour theme on the upper board together with gilt titling, emblems and inner dentelles. The text paper was made to specification by L. Guarro Casas ( Barcelona ). The book features many inset illustrations, some tinted,others fold-out which are printed on a variety of hand-made papers produced by J.Barcham Green, England and Cartiera, Milano. A fine copy and a 'Work of Art'. CONDITION REPORT: The book is in fine condition. It is accompanied by the original slip case which does require repair

GRAHAM CLARKE, SIGNED IN PENCIL TO MARGIN, LIMITED EDITION (208/400) COLOURED ETCHING, “Paris – First Stop”, 5” x 4”; together with GRAHAM CLARKE, SIGNED IN PENCIL TO MARGIN, COLOURED ARTIST’S PROOF ETCHING, Inscribed “Pilchard Practise”, 5 ½” x 7” (2)

ANTHONY TROLLOPE - MARION FAY FIRST EDITION, 3 VOLS, CLOTH 1882

A hand modelled limited edition terracotta figure of a potter, he sits throwing a pot deep in concentration, this series thought to be a very limited edition of only 12 of which this figure is No 7, the models were conceived and designed and then precisely hand modelled by Peggy Davis, bearing inscribed signature, 19cm (7 1/2in). Note: This figure is thought to represent a young Josiah Wedgwood at his first wheel

Brickhill, Paul, Reach for the Sky, The Story of Douglas Bader DSO DFC, signed by Bader on the front free end paper, dust jacket, first edition, Collins 1954

Chiang Yee, The Silent Traveller in Dublin, inscribed and dedicated by the author on front free end paper, dust jacket, first edition, Methuen 1953, together with The Silent Traveller in Paris, also inscribed and dedicated by the author, dust jacket, first edition, Methuen 1956, and nine others by the same author, all in dust jackets, some first editions (11)

Kauffman, Henry J, The Pennsylvania-Kentucky Rifle, The Stackpole Company, Harrisburg PA, first edition, 1960, illustrated, together with miscellaneous books including American interest

Beswick first edition Aberdeen Angus Bull

Books - Images of Elvis published 2006, Michael Jackson A Tribute to the King of Pop, collection of first edition and other books in one box

Collection of South Africa Springbok Rugby Tour Books from 1952 onwards – to include ‘The Fourth Springboks 1951/52’ by R K Stent, ‘Green and Gold’ first edition by R K Stent, ‘Springbok and Silver fern, the great tests since 1921’ by R Sweet, other titles include ‘Now is the hour, the 1965 Bok’s in Australia and New Zealand’, ‘The Bok Busters’, ‘The Sixth Springboks in Britain’, ‘ Springbok in Wales’, ‘The Springboks 1891-1970’, and ‘The Springbok Saga, a pictorial history from 1891’, 7 x with DJ’s (9)

Collection of English Rugby Club History Books – including a scarce ‘Football Records of Rugby School 1823-1929’, ‘Fifty Years of Rosslyn Park’ first edition 1929, 2 x ‘The Harlequin Story’, the sportsman’s book club edition 1957, ‘Oxford Versus Cambridge’ first edition 1951, ‘Barbarian Football Club’ complete record 1890-1955, ‘The Barbarians official history’ by Nigel Starmer - Smith and ‘The History of The Laws of Rugby Football’ printed in 1949 by Percy Royds, overall condition mixed (8)

Collection of Australian Rugby Books and Almanacs – including 2 x Rugby Almanacs for 1959 and 1968, t/w ‘Australian Rugby Union, The Game And The Players’, 1st ed 1984 by J Pollard, being the first complete work ever published in Australia, detailing careers of every player, match results et al c/w DJ, well used some stains internally hence only (F), t/w signed copy ‘Wallabies Walkabout’ first edition 1976 signed by the author J B G Thomas (4)

Numismatics Grierson (Philip), Byzantine Coins, 1982, Methuen, first edition, dust wrapper; Spink & Son, Catalogue, with numerous illustrations, of a Collection of Milled English Coins, dating from the Reign of George I to that of her Present Majesty, and including Patterns and Proofs of Coins of that Period in Gold, Silver and Bronze, &c., formed by H. Montagu, 1891, original cloth gilt; Whitting (P.D.), Byzantine Coins, 1973, first edition, dust wrapper; Sutherland (C.H.V.), Roman Coins, 1974, first edition, dust wrapper (4)

Fitzgerald (Edward) transl. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1922, John Lane The Bodley Head, first edition thus, 19 plates and title vignette after `Fish` as called for, original cloth-backed boards (binding worn)

Milne (A.A.) Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926, first edition, t.e.g., original cloth; idem, Now We Are Six, 1927, first edition, t.e.g., original cloth; idem, When We Were Very Young, 1926, 13th edition, t.e.g., original cloth (3)

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, 1909, first edition, notice board to page 14, name to pastedown, original brown boards (spine worn); idem, The Tale of Mr Tod, 1912, first edition, front endpapers worn with loss, original buff boards [Linder p. 428/9] (2)

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, nd [1918], first edition, `Londo` imprint, some pencil scribbles, original boards (worn); Milne (A.A.), The Christopher Robin Birthday Book, 1930, first edition, several manuscript entries, dust wrapper (worn); with eight other Potter and Milne books together with a collection of Andrew Lang books, some firsts, including Orange, Crimson and Brown Fairy books, but generally tired, worn and some with colouring or scribbles, personal inspection essential (qty)

Milne (A.A.) Winnie-The-Pooh, 1926, Methuen, first edition, t.e.g., original cloth; idem, Now We Are Six, 1927, Methuen, first edition, t.e.g., original cloth; idem, The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, Methuen, first edition, t.e.g., original cloth; idem, When We Were Very Young 1924, fourth edition, t.e.g., original cloth (4)

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1904, first edition, `muffatees` misprint, original grey boards (rubbed, lacking backstrip, lacking frontis); idem, The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1907, first edition, original grey-green boards; idem, The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1913, first edition, original green-grey boards; idem, The Pie and the Patty Pan, nd., not first printing, inscription dated 1907, original blue-grey boards [Linder p 424-9] (4)

Milne (A.A.) The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, first edition, a.e.g., publisher`s deluxe leather binding, original card presentation box with printed label (ownership inscription to half title, box worn with edge loss)

Montgomery (Gen. Sir Bernard) Poems from The Desert, Verses by Members of the Eighth Army, 1944, numbered limited edition of 110, signed by Montgomery, frontis (signed by the artist Stephen G???), t.e.g., quarter morocco by Leighton-Straker; Milne (A.A.), Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926, Methuen, first edition, t.e.g., original cloth (spine slanted); Anderson (James), The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer .., 1791, 3 vols., frontis to each, title to vols. 1 & 2, plates, cloth; with five others (10)

Thomas (R.S.) The Stones of the Field, 1946, Druid Press, first edition, dust wrapper (chipped with tape repairs, price-clipped); Ishiguro (Kazuo), When We Were Orphans, 2000, Faber, first edition, signed by author on title page, dust wrapper; Robinson (Peter), In a Dry Season, 2000, Macmillan first edition, signed by author on title page, dust wrapper; Lewis (Ted), Plender, 1971, Michael Joseph, first edition, dust wrapper (4)

Salinger (J.D.) The Catcher in the Rye, 1951, London; Hamish Hamilton, first UK edition, dust wrapper priced 10s.6d. (wrapper worn, owner`s name to front endpaper)

Joyce (James) Ulysses, 1927, Basel, 3 vols., numbered limited edition of 1000 copies, first edition in German, translated by Georg Goyert, original quarter morocco

Thatcher (Margaret) The Downing Street Years, 1993, HarperCollins, first edition, signed by the author on blank after half title, dust wrapper; idem, The Path to Power, 1995, HarperCollins, first edition, signed by the author on title page, dust wrapper; idem, Statecraft, Strategies for a Changing World, 2002, HarperCollins, first edition, signed by the author on title page, dust wrapper; Heath (Edward), The Course Of My Life, 1998, Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, signed by the author on title page, dust wrapper; Major (John), The Autobiography, 1999, HarperCollins, first edition, signed by the author on blank after half title, dust wrapper (5)

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, 1976, George Allen & Unwin, first impression of this De Luxe edition, colour plates, original illustrated cloth gilt, original box with printed paper label; idem, The Lord of the Rings, 1976, George Allen & Unwin, fifth impression of this De Luxe edition, folding map, original illustrated cloth gilt, original box with printed paper label; idem, The History of Middle Earth, vols 1 - 7, edited by Christopher Tolkien, 1983-89, first editions, dust wrappers; with seven others (16)

Thatcher (Margaret) The Downing Street Years, 1993, Harper Collins, deluxe edition, signed by the author on title page, original cloth, slipcase; idem, The Downing Street Years, 1993, Harper Collins, first US edition, signed by the author on title page, dust wrapper; idem, The Path to Power, 1995, Harper Collins, deluxe edition, signed by the author on bookplate depicting the House of Commons (laid down on half title), original cloth, slipcase; idem, The Path to Power, 1995, Harper Collins, first edition, signed by the author on title page, dust wrapper; McMillan (James), From Finchley to The World, 1989, folio, signed by Margaret Thatcher on title page, dust wrapper (5)

Maugham (W. Somerset) Liza of Lambeth, 1947, number 2 of a limited edition of 1000, signed by the author, original quarter vellum; idem, On A Chinese Screen, 1935, presentation copy to Liza, signed by the author, original cloth; idem, Catalina, A Romance, 1948, first edition, inscribed by the author, `For Liza on her wedding day, from her affectionate father, this First Copy`, original cloth; with two others and; [Beaton (Cecil)], A pencil sketch of Lady Glendevon [Liza], nd., unsigned, mounted framed and glazed; Glendevon (Lord), Untitled still life of a vase of flowers, 1993, pastel, mounted, framed and glazed; de la Mare (Laura), Blue Anenomes, [1990], watercolour, framed and glazed (8) [`Liza` or Mary Elizabeth Maugham was the author`s only child. Her second marriage was to Lord John Hope who became Baron Glendevon. Maugham attempted to disinherit Lady Glendevon in a very expensive and lengthy court case.]

Marlow (Christopher) The Works of Christopher Marlowe, 1826, 3 vols., first collected edition, t.e.g., half calf (worn); with five others (8)

Kafta (Franz) Ein Landarzt, Kleine Erzahlungen, (1919), Kurt Wolff, ? first edition, original clock-backed boards

Fowles (John) The Collector, 1963, Jonathan Cape, first edition, dustwrapper (priced 18s); Rushdie (Salman), Grimus, A Novel, 1975, Victor Gollancz, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £3.50) (2)

Adams (Richard) Watership Down, 1972, Rex Collings, first edition, folding map, dust wrapper (priced £3.50) (tape stains and evidence of label removal to front end paper, tape stain to rear dust wrapper flap and rear end papers, hinges weak)

Rankin (Ian) Knots & Crosses, 1987, Bodley Head, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £10.95)

Dickinson (Emily) Poems, 1891, Osgoon, McIlvane & Co., first English edition, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson, original cloth (dust marked)

Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol, In Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, 1843, Chapman & Hall, first edition, first issue, red and blue title page, green endpapers, Stave I, uncorrected text, blue half title, four hand-coloured plates after John Leech, a.e.g., tan cloth (a worn and grubby copy, lacking front free endpaper, boards almost detached from text block, back-strip torn) [Eckel p110] with seven Dickens related items including: `Kyd`, Afterwards Being a somewhat unexpected sequel to A Christmas Carol, [1991] numbered ltd. edition of 250, card wraps; Pickwick Bicycle Club, Programme 1888 Dickens National Performance, London Coliseum ticket 1912 (8)

Wells (H.G.) The Invisible Man, 1897, Arthur Pearson, first edition, page 1 numbered `2`, 2 page catalogue to rear, original cloth (spine streaked and a little faded) [Wells 11]

Anon. [Cobbold (Richard)] The History of Margaret Catchpole, A Suffolk Girl, 1845, Henry Colburn, first edition, 3 vols., plates as called for (vol. 3 frontis. bound within text), half roan (some staining of pages, bindings worn)

Betjeman (John) John Betjeman`s Collected Poems 1959, signed by the author on title page, dust wrapper; idem, Collins Guide to English Parish Churches, 1958, first edition, signed by the author on title page, dust wrapper (2)

King (Martin Luther Jr.) Stride Toward Freedom, The Montgomery Story, 1958, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper - `To Sarah ? Harvey, Whose genuine goodwill, broad humanitarian concern, and unswerving devotion to the cause of peace and brotherhood will be an inspiration to all who know her, Martin Luther King Jr,`, dust wrapper; [with] two page typed letter from Martin Luther King to the recipient of the book `dictated by Dr King, but signed in his absence`, November 28, 1961, the letter relates to a proposed donation to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference `... Words are inadequate for me to express my deep appreciation to you for thinking of me and my work ....`

Fothergill (George A.) George A Fothergills Sketch Book, 1903-4, Darlington, oblong 4to., first edition, numbered limited edition of 100 reserved for binding, signed by the author, original quarter cloth

Forshaw (Chas F.) Yorkshire Notes and Queries, Being the Antiquarian History of Yorkshire, 1905-9, 5 vols., original cloth; Whitaker (T.D.), The History and Antiquities of Craven in the West Riding of the County of York, 1878, 2 vols. including volume of linen-backed folding pedigrees, 3rd edition, half morocco; Dawson (W.H.), Loose Leaves of Craven History, nd [1891], first series, original cloth; Morrison (W.), The Second Series of Border Sketches, nd., frontis, original wraps (worn); with a small quantity of others (qty)

Burnaby (Fred) On Horseback through Asia Minor, 1877, Sampson Low .., 2 vols., first edition, portrait frontis, 3 folding maps, errata slip, catalogue dated September 1877, original cloth (several gathers loosening, foxing to edges)

M`Leod (John) Voyage of His Majesty`s Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew .., 1818, portrait frontis, 5 hand-coloured plates, cloth-backed boards (worn); Sale (Lady), A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2, 1843, John Murray, first edition, 2 plans (1 folding), original cloth (spine worn); Chaillu (Paul du), Adventures in the Great Equatorial Africa ..., 1890, signed presentation copy, a.e.g., half morocco; Johnston (Jas), China and Formosa, the Story of the Mission ..., 1897, original cloth; Mill (James) The History of British India, 1826, 6 vols., third edition, 2 folding maps (one hand-coloured), defective bindings, boards detached; Gell (William), Pompeiana: the Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, 1832, 2 vols., plates, cloth; with seven others (19)

Hillyard (Susan) Before The Oil, A Personal Memoir of Abu Dhabi 1954 - 1958, 2002, Ashridge Press, first edition, signed and inscribed by the author, author`s one page ALS loosely inserted, dust wrapper

Halford (Frederick M.) Dry-Fly Entomology .., 1902, second edition, 28 plates including hand-coloured fly patterns, original cloth; idem, Modern Development of the Dry Fly ..., 1923, portrait frontis, 43 colour and sepia plates, original cloth; Skues (G.E.M.), Side-Lines, Side-Lights & Reflections, Fugitive Papers of a Chalk-Stream Angler, nd., Seeley Service, first edition, plates as called for, original cloth; idem, Nymph Fishing for Chalk Stream Trout, 1939, first edition, plates as called for, dust wrapper; idem, The Way of A Trout with a Fly, 1921, first edition, 3 plates, original cloth (some waterstaining); with five others by Skues, later editions (10)

Bewick (Thomas) History of British Birds, 1797-1804, Newcastle, first edition, 2 vols., wood engravings throughout, a.e.g., green morocco by Leighton; idem, A General History of Quadrupeds, 1807, fifth edition, wood engravings throughout, a.e.g., green morocco by Leighton

Ornithology Meinertzhagen (R.), Pirates and Predators, The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds, 1959, first edition, dust wrapper; Ali (Salim) & Ripley (S. Dillon Ripley), Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan ..., 1968-74, 10 vols., dust wrappers; with a quantity of others (qty)

Darwin (Charles) The Origin of Species, By Means of Natural Selection .., 1872, John Murray, 6th edition, twelfth thousand, folding plate, original cloth (spine head pulled); idem, A Naturalist`s Voyage, Journal of Researches .., 1882, John Murray, fifteenth thousand, original cloth; idem, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1894, John Murray, second edition, 31st thousand, original cloth Wallace (Alfred Russel), Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection .., 1870, first edition, original cloth (worn at head of spine); idem, Darwinism, An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection .., 1897, frontis, folding map, original cloth (5)