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Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). Cheirurgia nova... de narium, aurium, labiorum`que defectu, per insitionem cutis ex humero, arte, hactenus omnibus ignota, serviendo..., Frankfurt: Johannes Saurius, 1598, title in red and black and with engraved vignette, twenty-two full-page woodcuts, some spotting and browning throughout, minor hair-line worming to outer margins of signatures D-F touching occasional letters without loss of sense, some old ink marginalia, scattered underscoring and notes to front endpapers, faint library stamp to title (dust-soiled), front free endpaper slightly frayed, contemporary limp vellum, soiled and upper joint split, 8vo (164 x 105mm) Durling 4312; Waller 9451; Wellcome 621. First published in a folio edition the previous year under the title: De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem (G-M 5734). (1)

Tanner (John). The Hidden Treasures of the Art of Physick, Fully Discovered, in Four Books..., 2nd edition, with Additions, 1667, lacks initial blank, browning throughout, faint library stamp and somesoling to title and final leaf verso, library cloth, 8vo, together with Vicary (Thomas), The English-Mans Treasure.... 9th edition, 1641, defective at front and rear,browning, old dampstaining and ink annotations throughout, occasional worm tracings, library cloth, small 4to. Tanner, a licentiate of the College of Physicians, was a London practitioner. Tanner first published this compendium of the medical arts in 1659 and intended it for the medical student, layperson, and housewife who had occasion to tend the sick. Tanner discusses anatomy, a wide variety of diseases and their therapy, surgical problems such as fractures, wounds, tumors, and ulcers, and the nature, operation, and preparation of compound medicines` (Heirs of Hippocrates 601: 3rd edition, 1672). Wing T137 & V334. (2)

Trallianus (Alexander). Alexander Tralliani medici lib. XII. Rhazae de pestilentia libellus ex Syrorum lingua in Graecam translatus. Jacobi Goupyli in eosdem castigationes. ex bibliotheca regia, 1st edition, Paris: R. Estienne, 1548, title and final leaf with Estienne device, text in Greek and Latin, occasional light marginal dampstains, 19th c. boards, slightly rubbed, folio. First edition of the complete Greek text. Although mainly a compiler, Alexander of Tralles (A.D. 525-605) produced some original work, most famously his original description of worms and vermifuges make him the first parasitologist. G-M 34-35. (1)

Trotter (Thomas). Medicina Nautica: An Essay on the Diseases of Seamen, Comprehending the History of Health in His Majesty`s Fleet, under the Command of Richard Earl Howe, Admiral, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1797-1803, half-title to volume 2, engraved frontispiece to volume 3 (offset to title), lacks portrait frontispiece to volume 1 and 4 pp. ads. at rear of volume 2, volume 3 bound with An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, on Drunkenness, and its Effects on the Human Body, 1st edition, 1804, half-title, publisher`s ads. to final leaf verso, some spotting, library stamps to titles and plate, (volumes 1 and 2 with presentation bookplates to the BMI from Dr Blackall pasted to front endpapers), modern cloth (volume 3 non-matching) with red leather labels to spines, rubbed, 8vo (215 x 133mm) 1) G-M 215 & 2071.1; Norman 2097 & 2098. 2) The first medical treatise on alcoholism, Hunter & Macalpine pp. 587-91. (3)

Tulp (Nicolaus). Observationes medicae, editio nova, libro quarto auctior, et sparsim multis in locis emendatior, Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1652, engraved title-page, faint library stamp and two marginal repairs to edge of plate impression, eighteen engraved plates (including the first depiction of an orang-outang), pencil marginalia throughout (partly trimmed), some spotting and old dampstaining throughout, old ownership signature of William (?)Turton to front free endpaper, white library cloth with leather label to spine, soiled, 8vo (143 x 95mm) First printed in 1641 this is Tulp`s only printed work. This enlarged second edition contains the first description of beri-beri and diphtheria. G-M 3737; Heirs of Hippocrates 464; Norman 2115; Waller 9716; Willems 1155. (1)

Tyson (Edward). The Anatomy of a Pygmy Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man. With an Essay Concerning the Pygmies, &c. of the Antients... to which is added, the anatomy and description of a rattle-snake: also of the musk-hog, with a discourse upon the jointed and round-worm, 2nd edition, 1751, initial imprimatur leaf and part-title to second part, third part with separate pagination and register, sixteen engraved plates including some part folding, first two plates torn with slightly loss at inner margin folds, library stamps to title and plates, some heavy spotting and light browning, small paper flaw(?) to C1 affecting two words of second line, small closed tear to K2 without loss of text, lacks final advert leaf, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to. A reissue of the 1st edition of 1699, titled Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris..., and with the addition of The anatomy... of a rattle-snake`. (1)

Underwood (Michael). A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, with General Directions for the Management of Infants from Birth, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1795, half-titles, folding table, a few light spots, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo. Underwood laid the foundation of modern paediatrics. His work was superior to anything that had previously appeared and remained the most important book on the subject for sixty years, passing through many editions. Includes the first description of sclerema neonatorum (Underwood`s disease); the second edition (1789) contains a description of congenital heart disease in children, being the first paediatric treatise to do so` (G-M 6326); Norman 2122. (1789 edition). (2)

Vesalius (Andreas). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1555], woodcut title, portrait of the author on a6 verso, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout (including seventeen full-page anatomical illustrations), two folding tables with woodcut diagrams (one on unsigned leaf between bb5 and bb6, short marginal split to inner margin), historiated woodcut initials, lacks final leaf (blank with printer`s device to verso), library stamp to title, dedication, portrait and table leaves, frequent BGH library stamps, mostly to blank lower outer corners, skilful old and small neat paper repairs to three leaves (cc5/6 & dd1) with facsimile` manuscript insertions to a few words and one illustration, some occasional old light dampstaining to inner margins, a few minor marginal splits and worm holes (sig. K) not affecting text, near-contemporary ownership signature of Guilielmus de Mesa (dated 20-4-1596) to upper margin of final leaf verso (printer`s colophon), plus ownership signature of C. Kendall (dated 1729) to front free endpaper, engraved armorial bookplate of the Johnstone family to front pastedown, above and partly on which is written a presentation inscription in 1834 from John Johnstone (1768-1836, physician & biographer) to his nephew James Johnstone (1806-1869, physician, first president of the British Medical Association and founding benefactor of the Birmingham Medical Institute Library), with a brief signed note by the latter to a second free endpaper verso, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over pasteboards with central arabesque to each cover, lacks ties, crude vellum repairs to spine ends and tape repair to upper joint, partly sprung, folio (408 x 272mm), contained in a purpose-made cloth clamshell book box. Second folio edition of the most important anatomical treatise of the sixteenth century and a watershed work in the history of anatomical illustration. Adams V605; Choulant-Frank pp.181-182; Cushing, Vesalius VI.A.-3; G-M 377; Durling 4579; Norman 2139; Osler 568; PMM 71 (describing the 1543 first folio edition); Waller 9901; Wellcome 6562. Heirs of Hippocrates 283: In 1552, a small `pocket` edition of the Fabrica was pirated in Lyons but, as it had no illustrations, it was neither popular nor profitable. For that matter, neither the first nor the second splendid folio edition was profitable, either, and the printer, Oporinus, suffered losses on both. By the time of this second folio edition, the plates from the first edition had been copied in England and throughout Europe, and the prospect for sale of a new edition must have been considerably lessened. Even so, the new edition was even more lavish than the first, with heavier paper and larger type, necessitating an entire recutting of the initial letters. Corrections were made in the text by Vesalius with some rearrangement of both the text and the illustrations. The woodcut title-page has always created much interest. It carries considerable dramatic impact and probably fairly represents, with some theatrical touches, an `anatomy` of the sixteenth century. The block for the second edition was entirely recut and, although it closely resembles that of the first edition, there are a few changes. The unclothed man of the first edition, observing from his perch at the left, is clothed in the second edition, `for no other reason that one can see,` comments Cushing, `unless to save the nun`s embarrassment by clothing the naked figure` (Cushing Vesalius, p. 90). The wood blocks were cut in Venice and transported by mule across the Alps to Basel, where Oporinus - artist, printer, and friend of Vesalius - received them with detailed instructions from the author.` Provenance note: An identically dated ownership signature of Guilielmus (Guilielmi) de Mesa appears in the National Library of Medicine`s copy of Estienne`s De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (1545). (1)

Vesalius (Andreas). Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica, 2 volumes, edited by Hermann Boerhaave & Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Leiden: Joannem du Vivie and J. & H. Verbeek, 1725, half-title, fine additional engraved title of a crowded anatomy theatre, engraved portrait of Vesalius, titles printed in red & black, 77 engraved plates only (of 79), lacking plates 74 & 75, faint library stamps to titles and plates, modern library half morocco, folio. The first collected edition of Vesalius`s works with superb engraved plates by Jan Wandelaer (1690-1759). Heirs of Hippocrates 287; Lindeboom 554; Osler 579; Waller 9917. (2)

Vicq D`Azyr (Felix). Traite d`anatomie et de physiologie, avec des planches coloriees representant au naturel les divers organes de l`homme et des animaux, volume 1 [all published], 1st edition, Paris, 1786, 69 plates, consisting of 34 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 34 number-keyed line engraved plates and a single engraved plate (no. XVIII), by and after Alexandre Briceau, bound without half-title and allegorical frontispiece, some occasional marginal light spotting and dampstains, modern green morocco-backed boards, folio. The most accurate neuroanatomical work produced before the advent of microscopic staining techniques. Vicq d`Azyr identified accurately for the first time many cerebral convolutions, along with various internal structures of the brain. This was the first volume of an ambitious study of anatomy and physiology which remained unfinished at Vicq d`Azyr`s premature death.` (G-M 401.2). Felix Vic d`Azyr (1746-94) was the last physician to Marie-Antionette and Perpetual Secretary of the Societe Royale de Medecine. As an anatomist he pioneered the use of alcohol in brain dissection and described the band of Vicq d`Azyr in the cerebral cortex and the mammillothalamic bundle. The aquatint plates `created a sensation at the time` according to Brunet, the work unfinished due to Vicq d`Azyr`s death in 1794 during the Terror. Brunet V, 1176; Norman 2150; Waller 9953. (1)

Vigo (Giovanni da). The Whole Workes of That Famous Chirurgion Maister Iohn Vigo: Newly Corrected, by Men Skilfull in that Arte, Wherevnto are annexed certain works, compiled and published by Thomas Gale, Maister in Chirurgerie, 3 parts in one volume, Thomas East, 1586, black letter, woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces, part one and two title-pages within border of printer`s ornaments, the first slightly browned and soiled and with one horizontal closed tear affecting imprint details, relaid and rehinged, double-page table at end of part two with vertical heading of first leaf recto trimmed and supplied in old manuscript (A profitable table of ulcers`), printer`s woodcut device to colophon on final leaf verso, some scattered old marginalia, lacks blank at end of part two and title-page to third part, occasional soiling and old dampstaining, a little worming to lower margins occasionally touching letterpress towards rear of second part and first half of third part but without loss of sense, hinges broken, library cloth, some fraying to head of joints and spine, 4to (184 x 140mm) A later edition of one of the most important surgical works of the Renaissance, which appeared in over forty editions in six languages for more than a century after its initial publication in 1514. Vigo was the first to discuss syphilis: he identified its primary and secondary stages and recommended a mercury ointment as a treatment. STC 24723; Wellcome 6623. (1)

White (Charles). A Treatise on the Management of Pregnant and Lying-In Women, and the Means of Curing, but more Especially of Preventing the Principal Disorders to which they are Liable. Together with some New Directions Concerning the Delivery of the Child and Placenta in Natural Births. Illustrated with Cases, 1st edition, 1773, two engraved plates, p.145 with small tear in text, some offsetting and spotting, library stamps, library cloth, upper joint split, 8vo, together with the 3rd edition (1785) and 5th edition (1791) of the same work. White was the first to state clearly in a text on midwifery the necessity of absolute cleanliness in the lying-in chamber, the isolation of infected patients, and adequate ventilation. He instituted the principle of uterine drainage, placing his patients in a sitting position shortly after delivery using a special bed and chair. White was also the first after Hippocrates to make any substantial contributions towards the solution of the aetiology and management of puerperal fever` (G-M 6270). He co-founded the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1752 (along with local industrialist Joseph Bancroft) and was a firm believer in polgenism. Waller 10268. (3)

William of Ockham. Summule in lib. physicorum [Aristotelis], edited by Agostino da Fivizzano, Venice: Lazzaro Soardi, 17 August 1506, 34 leaves, 58 lines and headline, double column, Roman letter, woodcuts of a teacher with pupils to title-page and a smaller cut of the Virgin and Child presenting rosaries to title verso, 10-line woodcut black-on-white historiated initial on Alr, 8-line and 5-line Lombard and white-on-black initials on 2-3 and Alr, initial spaces with guide letters elsewhere, imprint from colophon to final leaf recto, the verso contains two poems addressed to the editor, Marcus de Benevento, above the printer`s woodcut device, faint library stamp to title and additional light oval ink stamps of Birmingham Library to title and several leaves touching text, old St. Augustine quotation to title lower margin signed(?) R. Bateman, twenty blank leaves inserted at front and rear, many with 18th and 19th-century notes in more than one hand, first and last leaves somewhat soiled and slightly frayed, Birmingham Library bookplate and ownership name of H. White dated 1806 to front pastedown, old limp vellum, lacks ties, soiled, 4to (215 x 160 mm) The second edition, a reprint, with minor changes, of the text of the edition princeps (Bologna, 1494 [Goff O-22]). Collation: pi2, A-D8. Rare; WorldCat locates just eight copies, six in the UK, one in Spain and one in Canada. Adams O-42; Essling 1513. (1)

Willis (Thomas). Cerebri anatome: cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus, 1st edition, Ja. Flesher for Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, 1664, fifteen engraved plates including 11 folding [draen by Sir Christopher Wren and Richard Lower], lacks imprimatur with portrait of author to verso, title heavily dust-soiled and some lighter soiling to first and final leaves, library stamp to title and plates, some spotting and browning from a dampstain affecting upper and lower margins and some plates esepecially towards rear, late19th-century library cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, 4to (185 x 152mm) The most complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared, and the work that coined the term `neurology` (Garrison-Morton). Willis, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University, was dissatisfied with existing accounts of the brain, and so conducted brain dissections himself, with the aid of his students Christopher Wren, Richard Lower and Thomas Millington (an early recorded instance of collaborative scientific research). G-M 1378; Heirs of Hippocrates 538; Krivatsy 13009; Norman 2243; Russell 866; Waller 10315; Wing W2824. (1)

Willis (Thomas). Pathologiae cerebri, et Nervosi Generis Specimen, 1st edition, Oxford, 1667, engraved portrait frontispiece (closed tear into image from lower margin with repair to verso), divisional half-title to Tractatus secundus de scorbuto`, tear with loss to leaf T2 affecting text to inner margin of last six lines of both pages, occasional light browning, old dampstain to outer margins of early leaves, faint library stamp to title and frontispiece, old ownership signature of J. Clerk to title, late 19th-c. cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to (194 x 155mm) Madan 2793; Wing W2841; G-M 1378. Not in Norman or Heirs of Hippocrates. Willis gave one of the most extensive accounts of the whole field of mental illness which had appeared up to that time. He attributed `melancholy` or affective psychosis to `passions of the heart`; and `madness` or psychosis accompanied by thought disorder, delusions or hallucinations - that is schizophrenia - to `vice or fault of the Brain`. He recognised the difference between the symptoms of gross brain disease and those of mental illness in which he accounted for the absence of pathological findings by postulating a disturbance of the brain and nerves in terms of disordered `Animal Spirits`. For this reason he is often credited with having first equated mind disease with brain disease` (Hunter & Macalpine, p. 188). (1)

Willis (Thomas). Pharmaceutice rationalis, sive diatriba de medicamentorum..., 2 parts in one volume, `3rd edition`, Oxford, 1679-78, engraved printer`s device to title (detached), separate title to second part dated 1678, fourteen folding engraved plates (of 16?, lacking plates 7 & 8 of second part), one plate relined and one with repairs to fold verso, library stamps to title and several plates, occasional marginal soiling or dampstaining, library cloth, 8vo (183 x 113mm) Wing W2847; Madan 3239. First published in Oxford in 1674 this was One of the great books of seventeenth-century English medicine, this is the first scientific work on pharmacology as well as a valuable epitome of the materia medica of the time` (Heirs of Hippocrates 537). (1)

Wintringham (Clifton). An Experimental Inquiry on Some Parts of the Animal Structure, 1st edition, J. Walthowe, 1740, half-title with publisher`s advertisements to verso, errata at foot of final page of index, bound after De morbis quibusdam commentarii, [volume 1 of 2 only], 1st edition, T. Cadell, 1782, library stamps to both half- and full-title-pages and occasionally elsewhere to lower margins, some minor spotting and soiling, library cloth, 8vo. ESTC (N71634) only cites 6 copies of the first work, all in North American libraries. Russell 893, a second volume of the second work was published in 1791, this first volume giving no indication that another volume was to follow. (1)

Wiseman (Richard). Severall Chirurgical Treatises, 1st edition, 1676, half-title, 3R2 with marginal hole, one or two burn holes, occasional light marginal water stain and a few spots, library cloth, edges a little rubbed, folio. Wiseman ranks in surgery as high as does Sydenham in medicine. He made many valuable contributions to the subject; he was the first to describe tuberculosis of the joints (`tumour albus`) and he gave a good account of gunshot wounds. Wiseman became surgeon to Charles II in 1672` (G-M 5573). Norman 2253. (1)

Wiseman (Richard). Eight Chirurgical Treatises, on these Following Heads, Viz. I. Of Tumours. II. Of Ulcers. III. Of Diseases of the Anus. IV. Of the Kings-Evil. V. Of Wounds. VI. Of Gun-shot Wounds. VII. Of Fractures and Luxations. VIII. Of the Lues Venerea, 3rd edition, 1696, half-title, library stamps to title, worming to fore-margin of first portion of text with some subsequent paper repairs, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetic modern reback with red morocco spine label, folio, together with Ranby (John). The Method of Treating Gunshot Wounds, 1st edition, 1744, contemporary owner`s name and faint library stamp to title, bound with Baynton (Thomas), Descriptive Account of a New Method of Treating Old Ulcers of the Legs, 2nd edition, Bristol, 1799, lacking title leaf, library cloth, 8vo, together with Underwood (Michael), Surgical Tracts, containing a Treatise upon Ulcers of the Legs...to which are now added, Observations on the More Common Disorders of the Eye, and on Gangrene, 2nd edition, 1788, light library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, and Home (Everard), Practical Observations on the Treatment of Ulcers on the Legs, considered as a Branch of Military Surgery, 1797, bound with Spender (J.C.), Observations on the Causes and Treatment of Ulcerous Diseases of the Leg, 1835, library cloth, 8vo, plus Bell (Benjamin), A Treatise on the Theory and Management of Ulcers, 3rd edition, 1784, half-title present, engraved plate, 19th century library cloth, together with two later editions of the same work dated 1787 and 1798. 1) Wing 3106. The second named work is a scarce account of some of the surgical cases which came under Ranby`s care when he served under Lord Stair in the War of the Austrian Succession. (7)

Withering (William). An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses, with Practical Remarks on Dropsy, and Other Diseases, 1st edition, Birmingham, 1785, uncoloured engraved folding frontispiece (second state, with artist`s name and with lower leaves pointing to the left), two small splits on folds, upper margin of title excised leaving manuscript inscription beneath, [?from] the Author` but not seemingly in the Withering`s holograph, faint library stamp to title and three stamps to frontispiece (one touching lower right leaf), lacks first leaf before half-title (plain except for two rules and signed a` to recto with verso blank), unnumbered leaf after preliminaries with explanation of plate, bookseller ads. to final leaf verso, bound with [Darwin, Charles, 1758-1778], Experiments establishing a Criterion between Mucilaginous and Pugulent Matter. And An Account of the Retrograde Motions of the Absorbent Vessels of Animal Bodies in some Diseases.,[Edited, with a life of the author, by Erasmus Darwin, the Elder], 1st edition, Lichfield, 1780, final unnumbered leaf with an epitaph of Charles Darwin, bound with Ferriar (John), Tentamen medicum inaugurale, de variola..., Edinburgh, 1781, 30pp., lacks final blank, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (203 x 125mm) 1) Containing the results of ten years clinical trials which demonstrated his discovery of the efficacy of digitalis in heart diseases. It is one of the first modern clinical studies of a drug and one of the great medical works to be first published in Birmingham. G-M 1836; Hunt 676; Norman 2255; Henrey 1505; Hunt 676; Heirs of Hippocrates 1039; Osler 426. 2) Charles Darwin was the eldest son of Dr Erasmus Darwin and before his untimely death and for this work he won the first medal by the Aesculapian Society of Edinburgh in March 1778. The foxglove has been given to dropsical patients in this country with considerable success: the following cases are related...`, p. 103. Both works are rare. (1)

Yonge (James). Wounds of the Brain Proved Curable, Not only by the Opinion and Experience of many (the best) Authors, but the remarkable History of a Child four Years old cured of two very large Depressions, with the loss of a great part of the Skull, a Portion of the Brain also issuing thorough a penetrating Wound of the Dura and Pia Mater, Published for the Encouragement of Young Chirurgeons, and Vindication of the Author, 1st edition, 1682, three small woodcut illustrations of text, old ownership name excised from title and repaired to verso without loss of text, some spotting at front and rear, late 18th-century cloth, a little rubbed and dust soiled, 8vo (154 x 95mm) Probably the first monograph in English on surgery of the head, which besides describing in detail the operation referred to in the title, includes extracts and references from earlier authors. Wing Y43. (1)

Zinn (Johann Gottfried). Descriptio anatomica oculi humani iconibus illustrata, new revised and enlarged edition, Gottingen: Abrami Van den Hoeck, 1780, seven folding engraved plates at rear, library stamp to title and plates, some spotting, old ownership signature of H. Donly to title, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed and some edge wear, rebacked with original spine relaid, 4to (215 x 171mm) The first complete study of the anatomy of the eye, including the first description of the `Zonule of Zinn`, and the `Annulus of Zinn` (G-M 1484, citing first edition, 1755). (1)

2 1930s Children`s Books: Golliwog Island by Draycot M Dell with illustrations from H Folkard published by A & C Black limited first edition 1930. Discolouration to cover and some foxing to pages together with Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie issued by the crime club London staining to cover some foxing to pages.

India – Storia do Mogor or Mogul India 1653-1708 by Niccolao Manucci. Translated with Introduction and Notes by William Irvine. Edited under the supervision of the Royal Asiatic Society and published for the Government of India 1907 1st edition. Three volumes (of 4) pp.lxxxix [1] 386 13 plates; xi [1] 471 14 plates; 3 in colour; xiv 605 15 plates large folding table folding map in rear pocket. First English translation of an eye-witness account of the court of Aurangzeb. Niccolao Manucci a Venetian who reached Surat in 1656. Manucci continued to Delhi where he met Dara Shukoh eldest son of Shahjahan and enlisted as an artilleryman in his service. He fought with his master at Lahore Multan and Bhakkar but declined to enter Aurangzeb’s service and made an expedition to Patna Dacca and the Sundarbans returning to Agra to study medicine Manucci practiced as a physician in Lahore for seven years (1670-76) before returning to Delhi where he was appointed to Shah Alam’s court. In 1682 he fled to Goa and in 1686 to Madras and Pondicherry. The first part of Manucci’s “Storia” consists of two sections an account of his journey from Venice to Delhi and a chronicle of the Moghul rulers from Timur to the accession of Aurangzeb. Part two deals with the reign of Aurangzeb interspersed with the author’s journeys and adventures 1658-1700. The original manuscripts on which this the first full translation is based are in Italian French and Portuguese and have themselves a colourful history. Part were taken to France and deposited with the Jesuits before being sold and passing through various hands including Sir Thomas Phillips perhaps the greatest of all collectors or the written word. These are now in Berlin. The remainder were rediscovered by the translator in Venice where they remain. A very good set in original decorated cloth. Minor wear to head and tail of spine of first volume. Vols 1 & 2 in original decorative cloth vol 4 in later green cloth.

India – The Sikhs by John Archer A first edition of The Sikhs – in relation to Hindus Moslems Christians and Ahmadiyyas. A study in Comparative Religion by John Clark Archer 1946. Ex-Libris with bookplate orig binding. A great in-depth study of the Sikh religion 353p. Chapters include – The Central Homeland of the Sikhs – A heritage of Swords – The Khalsa of Guru Gobind Singh – Nanak – and much more. The book also has 12 great illustrations including : The Golden Temple Armed Akali The Akal Takht The Darbar Sahib Worshippers at Tarn Tarn The Arjun Deva Mela The treasury of the Golden Temple etc. A rare early study by a European.

Miscellaneous badges and first day cover edition stamps - mostly RNLI. (A lot),20,30

Murder off Miami, A Murder Mystery, pub. by Hutchison & Co for the Crime-Book Society, 1936 First Edition

John Pinches, The Kings and Queens of England, First Edition silver proof set of forty three medals in attractive presentation folder, each medal approx 1.27ozt, approx 54.6ozt total

Folder of First Day Covers, folder of Stanley Gibbons 60th Birthday of QEII, limited edition No 430 and a folder of 20th century Maltese stamps

Baker (Sir Samuel W.) ISMAILIA A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AFRICA FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE ORGANISED BY ISMAIL, KHADIVE OF EGYPT, FIRST EDITION 2 vol., 2 maps, hand coloured in outline, one with severe loss, engraved plates throughout, upper hinges split, original pictorial cloth, wear to extremities, spine ends worn, 8vo, 1874.

A Country Artists Figure, First Ice of Winter, designed by Keith Sherwin, model no.CA649, limited edition 195.3500, wooden plinth, certificate in easel frame

[Jesuits]. Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, ecrites des Missions Etrangeres, 26 vols., nouvelle edition, Toulouse, Noel-Etienne Sens & Auguste Gaude, 1810-1811, together with Nouvelles Lettres Edifiantes des Missions de la Chine et des Indes Orientales, 6 (of 8) vols., Paris, 1818-1821, sixty-eight engraved maps and plates (comprising fifty-two folding and sixteen single page), contemp. uniform half calf gilt, rubbed and marked, with occ. wear (first and last volume of the main series, and the final volume of the Nouvelles Lettres with some wear), 8vo. Sabin 40699 for the main series. See Corier Sinica 927-930. “The most valuable eighteenth century source on Jesuit activities in frontier regions throughout the world” (Hill). Includes the important map of California by Eusebio Francois Kino. The main series consists of five volumes on the Levant, four volumes on the Americas, 6 volumes on india, and eleven volumes on China. The supplementary Nouvelles Lettres contain reports from China and Cochinchina. . (32)

Repton (Humphry). Observations on The Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening Including some Remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, first published in 1803, facsimile ed. pub. Phaidon, 1980, portrait frontis, addn. half title, numerous colour and b & w plts. throughout, each with tissue guard, t.e.g., pubs. orig. qtr. calf gilt, contained in orig. slip case, 4to. Limited edition of 153/445. (1)

Gerard (John). The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes.. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1633, engraved title, numerous woodcut illustrations, lacking front and rear blanks, lacking the Table of Vertues and errata leaves at end of vol. II, one index leaf repaired, some marginal tears, occasional annotation, one illustration hand-coloured, a few minor spots, bookplates, later boards with vellum corners, rebacked, folio (330 x 215 mm). First published in 1597, this second edition was much corrected and expanded by Johnson. Hunt 223; Nissen 698. (2)

Thornton (Robert John). Temple of Flora, Or Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter and Philosopher, 1st ed., 1812, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, two engraved titles, 28 hand-finished colour mixed media plates, two uncoloured plates, mostly after Peter Henderson and Philip Reinagle, Stapelias plate with repaired marginal tear, one or two other leaves with repaired tear, occasional light spotting and stains, contemporary maroon morocco-backed boards, edges lightly rubbed, 4to. One of the greatest botanical books and the first separate quarto edition. Originally published as part of Thornton’s New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus (1799-1807). Although few of the plates are of scientific interest, the stylised depictions with accompanying romantic, historical and allegorical text by Thornton achieved his aim of producing an unsurpassed botanical work, although financially ruinious due to the cost of the plates. Dunthorne 302; Great Flower Book p.77. (1)

Miller (Philip). The Gardeners Dictionary: containing the methods of cultivating and improving the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Garden, as also the Physick Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory, and Vineyard. Abridg’d from the Folio Edition, 2 vols., printed for the author, 1735, engraved frontis. by B. Cole to first vol., one single-page engraved plate to second vol., together with The Gardeners Kalendar; Directing what Works are Necessary to be performed Every Month, in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, as also in the Conservatory and Nursery ..., 14th ed., with a list of the medicinal plants which may be gathered for use each month, 1765, eng. frontis., five folding eng. plts. at rear, contemp. armorial bookplate of Jolliffee to front pastedown, contemp. uniform full calf gilt, rubbed and some marks to spine and wear to joints, both 8vo. (3)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Olde Testament and the Newe. Authorised and Appointed to be Read in Churches..., Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1591, mounted incomplete general title with woodcut dec. border (lower half portion present only, with adhered printed paper label ‘William Ingham and Richard Weles bought this booke’ to lower margin), New Testament title present with dec. woodcut border, woodcut dec. initials throughout, large woodcut illust. of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden (torn with slight loss & repaired), Apocrypha present, black letter text throughout, Almanack/Kalendar leaves torn with some loss (repaired and misbound?), 3pp. of manuscript tables for ‘proper lessons to be read at Morning and Evening Prayers’ bound-in at front, first leaf of Genesis torn with slight loss and repaired, first & last few leaves frayed, few leaves torn with slight loss & occ. closed tears & repairs etc., few leaves affected by worming to inner and lower margins, some dust-soiling, occ. marginal dampstaining and few marks etc., front free-endpaper with manuscript ownership of John Smeeton dated 1675 and entries for other family members, following blank with printed ownership “John Smeeton, In the Savoy: August 20. 1675”, late 18th c. calf, rebacked and board edges repaired, folio (leaf size 368 x 255mm). Herbert 209. This edition is known as the Bishop’s Bible with the preface by Thomas Cranmer. (1)

Burke (John). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom, for M.D.CCC.XXVI, 1st edition, Henry Colburn, 1826, 80 engraved plates of armorials printed back to back, untrimmed, original cloth, octagonal paper label to upper cover bearing engraved royal arms, printed paper label to spine, hinges split and some wear to head and foot of spine, 8vo. The first ever edition of Burke’s Peerage, a scarce book. (1)

[Folengo, Teofilo]. Opus Merlini Cocaii Poetae Mantuani Macaronicorum, totum in pristina formam per me Magistrum Acquarium Lodolam optime redactum, in his infra notatis titulis divisum, Venice, Niccolo Bevilacqua, 1564, title with printer’s woodcut device, and twenty-seven woodcut illusts., woodcut initials, title and following leaf with some fraying to edges, with a little loss to lower outer corners, some marks and waterstaining to lower margins throughout, some browning to final leaves, final blank with printer’s woodcut device to verso, frayed with some loss to lower edge, contemp. vellum, rubbed and some soiling, 12mo. Adams F688. Graesse II, 608. Brunet II, 1318. A reprint of the first edition of 1521, using some of the same woodcuts issued in that edition. Teofilo Folengo (1491-1544), a defrocked monk and vagabond poet, gave up monastic life in favour of the company of a young noblewoman called Girolama Dieda. His principle work is the Phantasiae Macaronicon, or Baldo, which recounts the various adventures of a wayward hero, including encounters with pirates, witches and the underworld. The macaronic style, which mingled Latin with Italian dialect, became very popular and influenced Rabelais. (1)

Cochlaeus (Johannes). Commentaria Joannis Cochlaei, De actis et scriptis Martini Lutheri Saxonis, chronographice, Ex ordine ab Anno Domini M.D.XVII. usque ad Annum M.D.XLVI. inclusive, Fideliter conscripta. Adiunctis Duobus Indicibus, & Edicto Vuormaciensi, Mainz, Franz Behem, 1549, title a little soiled, and with several early ink inscriptions, woodcut initials, occasional early ink marginalia in ink, including one extensive annotation to foot of pages 86-87 (H1-2), large printer’s woodcut device to verso of final leaf (with early ink annotations at head), light waterstain to foot of final few leaves, and one or two marks elsewhere (generally in clean condition), marbled endpapers, later mottled calf, rubbed and scuffed, folio. Adams C2252. Johann Dobneck, known as Johannes Cochlaeus (1479-1552) was a German humanist and contraversialist, born at Wendelstein, near Nuremberg. He studied in Italy, taking his doctor’s degree at Ferrara in 1517, and was ordained a priest in Rome. He became Dean of the Liebfrauenkirche at Frankfurt in 1520, and was present at the diets of Worms, Regensburg, Speyer and Augsburg, during which period he established his opposition to Luther. Cochlaeus was responsible in large part for the flight of William Tyndale from Cologne where he had been preparing the first edition in English of the New Testament, to Worms, where he finally succeeded in issuing the work in 1525. One of the principal accounts of this episode is given in Cochlaeus’ biography of Luther in the present work (pages 132-135). (1)

Cricket. Boxall (Thomas). Rules & Instructions for Playing at the Game of Cricket, as Practised by the Most Eminent Players, to which is Subjoined the Laws and Regulations of Cricketters, as Revised by the Cricket Club at Mary-le-bone, printed by Harrild and Billing, 2nd ed., 2nd issue, [1802, p.71 watermarked 1801], title, single leaf dedication to the Mary-le-bone Club, single leaf preface, single leaf A Part of the Subscribers list, pp.7-68 Instructions for Cricketting [sic], Single-wicket Matches in General leaf, blank, pp.71-92 The Laws of Cricket, as Revised by the Cricket Club at Mary-le-Bone. 1800, rear blank (lacking folding frontispiece), erratic pagination (pp.72-77 omitted) and signatures, title detached with closed tear, text block detached, one or two closed marginal tears, occasional minor spotting and fingermarks, stitching broken, contemporary half calf, some wear to spine, 12mo (130 x 89 mm). Scarce copy of the earliest known book on cricket instruction, with the laws of cricket in the second part. Padwick lists three editions: the first of 1801 issued without the frontispiece, two second editions (with frontispieces) and a third edition of 1804 (three issues with printed date on titles). Padwick 373. (1)

* Lear (Edward). Pteroglossus Inscriptus [and] Pteroglossus Regalis [1833 - 55], pair of lithographs with contemp. hand colouring, each approx. 500 x 320 mm, mounted, framed and glazed. Originally published in ‘A Monograph of the Ramphastidae or Family of Toucans’. The first edition was published 1833 - 35, a second edition in 1852 - 54 with a supplement in 1855. (2)

RUSHDIE, Salman, The Moor`s Last Sigh, Cape, 1974, Ltd. edn.177/200. Signed & numbered by author, Tog.with signed first edition in d/w. Plus others by same, inc. signed uncorrected proofs. 9

BRENT-DYER, Chalet School in exile, 1940 first ed, with German officer dust jacket, Carnation of the upper fourth, the undated first edition in red cloth with dust jacket, both books inscribed by the author Elinor Brent-Dyer to Joy Brown in 1940 and 1939 respectively while running her school in Hereford (2)

SPEEDE, John, A coloured facsimilie of the First Edition of Speede`s England, Part 3 and Part 4, in slip cases (2)

POTTER, Beatrix, One first edition and 16 other Beatrix Potter titles (17)

The Farmer, Husbandman and Labourer`s Land Measurer, or Land Measuring made easy to the meanest capacity, pub London, James, 1750, first and only edition, Pp.120 (6) with 15 figures, recent half calf with marbled boards, very good, and WILSON, J., The Farmers Dictionary, 2 vols, 1865, poor binding, contents good (3)

A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of England, from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time, considered with Regard to Type, Legend, Sorts, Rarity, Weight, Fineness and Value, pub London, Simon Higgs, printed to T. Snelling, 1762, first edition, folio, pp 1.55.17 numbered engraved plates of coins with tissue guards, original half leather with marbled boards, Nr, V.G.

Edwards (Lionel) - Famous Foxhunters, London 1938, colour plates with tissue guards, red cloth; Nimrods Hunting Tours, New Edition London 1926, colour plates, red cloth; Orde (Richard) - The Sedgefield Country in the Seventies and Eighties with Reminiscences of a First Whipper-In, WM.Dresser, Darlington 1904, 1st Edition black and white illustration with errata slip, original red buckram/brown cloth; Paget (Guy) - Bad `Uns To Beat, Collins 1936, 1st Edition colour illustration frontis after Lionel Edwards, original red cloth, d.Wi; Bowes-Lyon (Sarah) Horsemanship As It Is Today, Dent 1933, colour illustrated buge boards with red decoration to upper board; Eardley - Wilmot (Sir John E.) - Reminiscences of the Late Thomas Assheton Smith Esqu, or the Pursuits of An English Country Gentleman, Second Edition, London 1860. (foxed).(6)

Two Goebel 1975 first edition woodland series plates depicting hares, in boxes.

ROBERT TAYLOR - H.M.S Ark Royal, a signed limited edition print, an assortment of Concord first edition stamps and a signed photograph etc.

LABOUR PARTY. THE STAR ALBUM [OF] 48 POST CARDS [OF] PIONEERS OF BRITISH LABOUR..... ALL BEING MEMBERS OF THE 1906 PARLIAMENT SECOND EDITION, LINEN BACKED RED CARD COVERS, WAF AND MISCELLANEOUS PRINTED EPHEMERA, INCLUDING SEVERAL DAVID LEVINE CALENDARS, EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND BOOKS, ETC ++ Some including the first, scarceThe David Levine Calendar, The New York Review of Books: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 (2), 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 (2), 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009TLS The Times Literary Supplement 2007 calendarThe Star Album containing 48 post cards depicting Pioneers of British LabourMrs Broom`s Suffragette photographs The Kodak Magazine Nov 1930Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank, German photographs of the 1930`sIN `T VERLEDEN LIGT HET HEDENDIE KAISERSTADT BERLIN CHARLOTTENBURG UND POTSDAMThe Tatler and Bystander, Sept 19 1945, Jan 20 1943The Bystander, Oct 5 1938The Adoration of The Soldiers, Emile Cammaerts/Louis RaemaekersBombed London a collection of 38 drawings by Hanslip FletcherScraps and Sketches, Geo CruikshankThe Absent - Minded Beggar by Rudyard KiplingTom Eckersley ephemera: London transport Museum/post cards2 `Giles` Christmas cardsTHE DAY - DER TAGTHE CAUSE OF LABOUR IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD- Christmas cardVanity Fair cartoon: Sovereigns no.1 Sept 4 1869, Sovereigns no.2 Sept 18 1869, Sovereigns no.3 Oct 9 1869, Sovereigns no.4 Oct 16 1869, Sovereigns no.5 Oct 30 1869, Sovereigns no.8 Jan 7 1871Vanity Fair cartoon: Statesmen no.71 Jan 14 1871, Statesmen no.152 Aug 23 1873Supplement to the Spectator, Feb 28 1931 - A self-made man, Sir Oswald MosleyNewspaper double page - THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WARSmall quantity/part book, Fables I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, - Cassell`s MagazineSmall cloth Japanese erotic book

Three books on the theme of war:- Eyewitness by Major General Sir Ernest D Swinton 1932, `The First Seven Divisions` and All Quiet on the Western Front 1929 First edition

"A set of twelve Royal Crown Derby commemorative plates and two bowls, commissioned by Aldeburgh Festival 1973 for Benjamin Britten, each plate commemorating a first performance of his work, limited edition of 500, boxed, 23.5cm diameter plates and 29cm diameter bowls (14) "

Montblanc, Ernest Hemingway, Limited Edition Writer’s Series fountain pen, one of 25000, released 1992, with coral red and brown resin cap and barrel, and fine 18 carat two toned rhodium plated gold nib, together with original packaging and papers Hemingway was first in the Limited Edition Writer’s Series.

ROSSETTI, Christina. Speaking Likenesses, illustrated Arthur Hughes, original pictorial blue gilt cloth, spine slightly worn, 8vo, 1874. With 6 other children`s books including a first edition of the Green Fairy book. (7)

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings, 3 vols, org. cloth in edge torn and slightly soiled and tanned d/w one with a significant portion missing, neat contemporary ownership inscription, 8vo, 1954-55. * first volume second edition; second and third volumes first editions

`General French`, Limited Edition First World War Military Leaders Series D7232, 17.2cm high, 88/100, boxed with certificate.

`Emperor Kaiser`, Limited Edition First World War Military Leaders Series D7233, 19.1cm high, 96/100, boxed with certificate.

`Admiral Jellicoe`, Limited Edition First World War Military Leaders Series D7229, 19.7cm high, 23/100, boxed with certificate.