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Tranter, Nigel A collection of 14 unique publishers presentation first editions, all signed by the author on title, in include: Lion let loose. London, 1967. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Black Douglas. London, 1968. First edition, 8vo; Ibid Robert the Bruce, The Bruce trilogy. London, 1969-1971. First editions, 8vo, 3 volumes, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid The young Montrose. London, 1972. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Montrose: The Captain General. London, 1974. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid The wisest fool. London, 1974. First edition, 8vo; Ibid The Wallace. London, 1975. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Lords of misrule. London, 1976. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid A folly of princes. London, 1977. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid The captive crown. London, 1977. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Macbeth the King. London, 1978. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Margaret the Queen. London, 1979. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; all bound in half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (14)

Tranter, Nigel A collection of 14 unique publishers presentation first editions, 13 copies signed by the author on title, in include; David the Prince. London, 1980. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid True Thomas. London, 1981. First edition, 8vo. card signed by directors inserted; Ibid The patriot. London, 1982. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Lord of the Isles. London, 1983. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Unicorn rampant. London, 1984. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid The Riven realm. London, 1984. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid James, by the grace of God. London, 1985. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Rough wooing. London, 1986. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Flowers of chivalry. London, 1987. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Mail royal. London, 1989. First edition, 8vo; Ibid Warden of the Queen's march. London, 1989. First edition, 8vo; Ibid Kenneth. London, 1990. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Crusader. London, 1991. First edition, 8vo, card signed by directors inserted; Ibid Children of the mist. London, 1992. First edition, 8vo, not signed by the author; all bound in half red morocco gilt (14)

Tranter, Nigel Envoy extraordinary. London, 1999. First edition, 8vo, a unique presentation copy for the author's last work for his 90th birthday, signed by the publishers and other guests on front endpaper, copy of the menu from the birthday party inserted, full red morocco gilt, morocco slipcase, a fine copy

Walpole, Hugh, signed copies The wooden horse, 1909; The prelude to adventure, 1912; Fortitude, 1913, dust-jacket frayed; Jeremy and Hamlet, 1913; The Duchess of Wrexe, 1914; The green mirror, 1918; Jeremy, 1919, lacks front free endpaper; The captives, 1920; The young enchanted, 1921; The cathedral, 1922; The old ladies, 1924; Portrait of a man with red hair, 1925; The silver thorn, 1928; another copy, one of 175 large paper copies signed, with signed inscription; Wintersmoon, 1928; Hans Frost, 1929, dust-jacket slightly frayed; Rogue Herries, 1930, dust-jacket split and torn; Judith Paris, 1931, dust-jacket; Above the dark circus, 1931; The fortress, 1932, dust-jacket; The Waverley pageant, 1932; Captain Nicholas, 1932, dust-jacket frayed; Vanessa, 1933, dust-jacket; The Inquisitor, 1935, dust-jacket; A prayer for my son, 1936, dust-jacket; The joyful Delaneys, 1938, dust-jacket; John Cornelius, 1937, dust-jacket; Joseph Conrad, [no date]; all presentation copies to Robert McLellan signed by the author; Bates, H.E. The spring son and In view of the fact that. E. Archer, 1927, 4to, number 38 of 100 copies signed by the author, original wrappers; Masefield, John Odtaa, 1926, first edition, 8vo, inscribed O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, Spring in my heart again, John Masefield (written out for Robert McLellan, Nov. 1933), original cloth; Dunsany, Lord The travel tales of Mr Joseph Jorkens, dust-jacket frayed with slight loss; Priestley, J.B. Angel pavement, 1930, number 698 of 1025 copies signed by the author, original buckram, t.e.g., uncut; Stevenson, R.L. Catriona, 1893, blue morocco, slightly rubbed (33)

Wells, H.G. The first men in the moon. London: G. Newnes, 1901. First edition, first issue with dark blue cloth and gilt lettering, 8vo, plates, original cloth

Zarlino, Gioseffo Dimostrationi harmoniche: nelle quali realmente si trattano le cose della musica ... opera. Venice: Francesco dei Franceschi, 1571. First edition, folio, mostly italic letter, some Roman, occasional Greek, printer's allegorical device of 'Peace' on title-page, woodcut initials and decorations, diagrams throughout, modern vellum, all edges blue, marbled slipcase, light discoluration, occasional browning, a few leaves oxidized, several pages misnumbered [Zarlino himself apologises for this and gives an 'errata corrige' on p. vii] Note: BM STC Italian Books. p. 742; Adams Z 67; Brunet V p. 1528; Graesse VI p. 508; New York Public Library, Catalogue of the Music Collection Vol. 45 p. 553. Gaetano Gaspari, Catalogo della biblioteca del liceo musicale di Bologna (Bologna 1890) Vol. I pp. 267-68. Pietro Lichtental, Dizionario e bibliografia della Musica' (Milano, 1826) Vol. 4 pp. 276-87. See also Printing and the Mind of Man 81. First edition of Zarlino's second main treatise of music theory. The first was Le institutioni harmoniche (Venice 1558), a landmark in the history of music theory (New Grove). Dimostrationi harmoniche is of a highly speculative and scientific nature. It is in the form of a dialogue between Zarlino himself; three well-known musicians of the times (Franceso Viola, Choir Master of Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara; Claudio Merulo, organist of St. Mark's in Venice; and Adrian Willaert, Choir Master of the Venetian Republic and Zarlino's teacher); and a fourth, probably fictional, character, the philosopher Desiderio from Pavia. 1519-1590), Zarlino, theorist and composer, typifies the Venetian intellectual world of the 16th century. Ordained in 1541, he had a wide linguistic, philosophical, scientific and artistic culture. The publication of his first music treatise Le institutioni harmoniche earned him high praises and, in 1565, appointment as Choir Master of St. Mark's. Not a prolific composer (his only practical work is the learned and polished 'Modulationes VI Vocum' 1566), he was however the leading counterpoint theorist of the 16th century.

Beroladus, Philippus Declamatio philosophi medici oratoris. De optimo statu et principe. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1497. First edition, 4to., 38 unnumbered ll., *2 A-D8 E4, Roman letter, modern boards, minor marginal water stains and inkspots to some leaves, small contemporary drawing beneath colophon Note: BML VI 844; Goff B473; Brunet I p. 809; Klebs 182.1; Wellcome 810. This edition not in Adams, Graesse, Osler or Durling. First edition of these two pamphlets by the humanist Filippo Beroaldo. The first one contains a dispute between three brothers - a philosopher, a physician and an orator - whose father has bequeathed his patrimony to the one whose profession is the most useful to society, but it is of course the orator who gets the inheritance because, even though his profession is probably least useful, he is best at defending it (this was a literary device Beroaldus used to good effect in different works on a number of occasions). The second pamphlet is an early treastise on statecraft treatise. Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505) opened a school in his home town Bologna when he was only nineteen. Later he became Professor of Letters at the University, a job he held until his death.

Hume, David Political Discourses. Edinburgh: R. Fleming for A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1752, 8vo, second edition, advertisement leaf after title, gathering S loose, contemporary calf, a little light dampstaining, mainly marginal Note: Although called a 'second edition', this is actually a reimpression of the first edition, revised and then reimposed in the new format; the first edition was an octavo (in fours).

[Kempis, Thomas, A] De imitatione Christi [with] Gerson John. De meditatione cordis. Venice: Petrus de Quarengiis and Giovanni Maria di Occimiano, 23rd April 1493. 8vo. 88 unnumbered leaves, Gothic letter, double column, 35 lines and headline, rubricated throughout, 19th century panelled plum morocco, gilt dentelles and spine, a.e.g., very light paper discolouration, a couple of small and faint oil spots, recto of first and recto and verso of last blank extensively annotated in Latin, brown ink, in a fine contemporary italic hand Note: BMC V p. 511; Goff I 28. Hain 9107; Not in Brunet or Graesse. An early edition which still assigns the Imitatio to Gerson rather than à Kempis, and which bears extensive contemporary scholarly annotations on the first and last leaves. They deal with after-life justice and eternal torments, quote Pope Gregory on laying down one's arms and doing good, and discuss Baptism and absolution from sin. The hand is large, clear and legible. Almost all the early editions of the Imitatio are rare, as it was a popular devotional text read and reread to extinction. Provenance: From the library of Estelle Doheny, with her label on pastedown.

Montaigne, Michel de Les essais. Lyon: Gabriel La Grange, 1593, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo., including final blank, (FFF2 and FFF8 inverted.), pagination as in Sayce and Maskel, Roman and italic letter, both titles with woodcut ornament, (reproduced Sayce & Maskel and Tchemerzine), decorative woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, English 17th century calf, rebacked to match, title slightly dusty, mounted upper margin restored, some spotting and browning Note: BM STC French Books p. 317; Sayce and Maskel no. 5 p. 18; Tchemerzine IV p.874; Adams M 1621; Brunet III 1835; Baudrier V 355; Not in the collection of Dr Pottiée-Sperry. The very rare fifth edition of the Essays of Montaigne, the second with the complete text including the third book, and the FIRST with the Tables des Matières, one for books I-II, one for book III. The text is taken exactly from the fourth edition of Abel L'Angelier of 1588, which was the last produced before Montaigne's death in 1592, and the first containing the third book and the famous preface, not reproduced in any other edition until 1617. Provenance: Autograph of Mary Cracroft 1761 in top margin of second fol, printed ex-libris on front pastedown.

Pomis, David De Tzemach David. Venice: Giovanni di Gara, 1587. First edition, folio, the first two leaves mounted, the second at least probably contemporaneously as pagination and signatures (A3 signed 'A2') suggest this blank leaf with 'avertimento' on verso was added after initial printing, Roman, italic and Hebrew letter, woodcut arms of Sixtus V on A3 recto crossed through with a contemporary ink signed monogram 'S V', woodcut heraldic emblem of De Pomis on A6 verso, 2nd to 6th leaves (prefatory and dedicatory) with woodcut initials and decorations, modern quarter calf, title-page lightly browned, repaired at bottom, light waterstaining towards beginning and end and occasional ink or lamp oil stains, final few leaves with a wormhole in top outer corner (crudely repaired) Note: BM STC Italian Books p. 532; Adams P 1823; Vinograd, Venice 717; Habermann, di Gara 97a. First edition of De Pomis' famous Italian, Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic Dittionario Novo Hebraico. This work was new in two ways, as an original digest of its major predecessors, and as a source (according to the author) of largely unknown new terms, mainly historical and scientific. The dictionary uses as its major sources the Shoroshim of David Kimchi (?1160-?1235), a philological dictionary printed before 1480; the Tishbi of the philologist, grammarian and lexicographer Elijah Levita (1468/9-1549), whose work was first published at Isny in 1541 and the Aruch of Nathan Ben Yechiel (1035-c.1110), a lexicon of the Talmud and Midrashim, published in Rome in 1462-1472, whose author according to one legend was a member of the De Pomis family. The author dedicated the work to Sixtus V, who had revoked a ban on Jewish doctors treating Christian patients, which had been put in place by his predecessor Pius V. This had been a major infringement on the life of De Pomis, who was by profession a physician, and who furthermore argued in a treatise in 1588 that it was the duty of Jewish doctors to treat Christians.

Annan, Thomas Photographs of Glasgow College. [Glasgow, c. 1865], oblong folio, 20 mounted albumen prints, various sizes [average approx 13cm wide by 18cm high if vertical, 18cm wide by 14cm high if horizontal], a few show some edge fading, contemporary green cloth gilt, some rubbing to corners, bookplate, ink stamp to first leaf, front endpaper creased Note: A beautiful album showing early photographs of the original Glasgow University, buildings which were systematically demolished after 1870 when the university moved to its present location at Kelvingrove. This appears to be the earlier edition of this volume as the features in plate two show, the presence of the pissoir on the left of the entrance and the shades of the camera tripod to the right. The pissoir was removed in the later edition.

Fale,Thomas Horologiographia: the art of dialling: teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of dials … London: by Felix Kyngston, 1627, 4to., Black letter, woodcut illustrations of a dial on title, floreated initials throughout, woodcut scientific diagrams and illustrations by Hondius on virtually every page, contemporary limp vellum, later arms on covers, 17th century ex libris and early 19th century armorial stamp on fly, small worm trail in final table, mostly interlinear, general light paper discolouration Note: STC 10680 (3 copies only in USA, including this one, another imperfect, 5 elsewhere). Houzeau and Lancaster 11390. Honeyman had 1633 edition only. Taylor, Math. Practitioners no. 82. Third edition (first printed in 1593) of the earliest English work devoted to the subject of dials and the author's only known publication. The table of sines which occupies the final unnumbered ll. is probably the earliest specimen (after the first edition.) of a trigonometrical table printed in England. The work includes also instructions for the manufacture and use of other instruments whereby the houre of the day and night is knowne, e.g. quadrants, of special use and delight not only for students of the Arts Mechanical, but also for diverse Artificers, Architects, Surveyors of buildings, free-Masons and others.

Geology--Penn, Granville A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies. London: Ogle, Duncan, 1822-23, first edition, 2 parts [including Supplement] in one volume, 8vo, contemporary calf, title and [a2] loose and dust-soiled, spine worn, covers detached; Villefosse, H. de. De la Richesse Minerale. Paris, 1810, 3 volumes, 4to, lacking plate volume, folding map and tables, contemporary half calf, worn, lacking two backstrips; Phillips, J. Manual of Geology, 1855, 8vo, some spotting, publisher's cloth; [Campbell, J.F.] Frost and Fire, Edinburgh, 1865, 2 volumes, 8vo, folding plates, publisher's cloth, rubbed, two joints split; Richardson, G.F. Geology for Beginners, 1842, 12mo, frontispiece, half calf, covers detached, lacking backstrip; Page, D. Chips and Chapters, 1869, 8vo, publisher's cloth, soiled; The Past and Present Life of the Globe, 1861, 8vo, publisher's cloth, slightly rubbed; Spurzheim, J.G. A View of the Elementary Principles of Education, founded on the Study of the Nature of Man. Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1821, half-title, 12mo, contemporary calf, rubbed, upper cover detached and 6 others (17)

[Gregory, John] Observations on the duties and offices of a physician... London: printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1770. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 182, modern calf, red morocco label

Africa - Selous, Frederick C. A hunter's wanderings in Africa. London, 1895, fourth edition, 8vo, illustrated, original green cloth gilt, very slight rubbing at edges, bookplate; Ibid Sunshine and storm in Rhodesia. London, 1896. First edition, plates and folding map, original cloth, backstrip discoloured, bookplate; Ibid Travel and adventure in South-East Africa. London, 1893, third edition, 8vo, illustrated, folding map, original cloth gilt, a very clean copy, bookplate; Millais, J.G. Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O. London, 1919, second edition, 8vo, illustrated, original blue cloth gilt, rubbed at edges (4)

British Sports and Sportsmen Racing, Coursing and Steeplechasing. London, 1911, folio, two volumes, number 15 of 1000 copies, 109 photogravure plates, contemporary green and beige cloth gilt, bevelled boards, t.e.g., small section of wear to head of backstrip, interior clean; Shooting. Shooting and Deerstalking. London, 1913, folio, number 401 of 1000 copies, 105 photogravure plates, contemporary green and beige cloth gilt, bevelled boards, t.e.g., interior clean; Country Sports The Sportsman's Dictionary or, the Gentleman's Companion for Town and Country. London: Printed for Fielding and Walker, 1778, 4to, frontispiece, 15 engraved plates, half title, contemporary calf gilt, marble endpapers, heavily rubbed, hinges splitting, interior clean; Colquhoun, John Rocks and Rivers or Highland Wanderings. London: Murray, 1849, first edition, 8vo, 16pp. publisher's advertisements at end, publisher's blindstamped green cloth, spine faded and worn at head and tail; Salmon Casts and Stray Shots. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1857, first edition, 8vo, 16pp. publisher's advertisements at end, publisher's blindstamped blue cloth, rubbed; Younger, John. River Angling for Salmon and Trout. Kelso: Rutherford, 1864, 12mo, engraved frontispiece, publisher's blindstamped cloth blocked in gold, slightly rubbed; Liddell, Robert. The Lay of the Last Angler. Kelso: Rutherford, 1888, first edition, 8vo, photographic frontispiece, plates, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt; Stewart, W.C. The Practical Angler. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1857, second edition, 8vo, half-title, illustrations in text, bookplates of Thomas Burton Gabriel and Hon. John Wayland Leslie, some spotting and slight soiling, extremities rubbed; Parker, Maude. Fisherman's Map of Salmon Pools on the River Tweed, 1930, first edition, 8vo, folding lithographed map, publisher's cloth, paper label on upper cover; Stoddart, T.T. An Angler's Rambles and Angler's Songs, 1866; Lauder, T.D. Scottish Rivers, 1874; Roberts, R. The River's Side, 1866; Gill, E.M. Practical Dry-Fly Fishing, 1912; Armistead, W.H. Trout Waters Management, 1908; Ransome, A. Rod and Line, 1929; [Cox, I.E.B.] Facts and Useful Hints relating to Fishing and Shooting, 1867, lower hinge broken; Brown, W.S. Secrets of Border Angling, 1907; Woolley, R. Modern Trout Fly Dressing, 1939; Sheringham, H.T. Elements of Angling, 1908; Bernard, J. Fly-Dressing, 1932; Aflalo, F.G. Fishermen's Weather, 1906; Grey, E. Fly Fishing, 1899; Coston, H.E.T. Speckled Nomads, 1938, dust-jacket; Aston, G. Letters to Young Fly-fishers, 1926, dust-jacket; Durand, E. Wanderings with a Fly-Rod,1938; Sharp, A. An Angler's Corner, 1930; Lawrie, W.H. Border River Angling, 1939; plates, publisher's cloth, a few slightly spotted or binding slightly discoloured; and 16 others (46)

Golf - Robbie, J. Cameron The chronicle of the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh 1735-1935. Edinburgh, 1936, 8vo, signed by the society captain, treasurer, chaplain, green ranger and others on verso of frontispiece, original blue morocco gilt, a fine copy; Pottinger, George Muirfield and the honourable company. Edinburgh, 1972. First edition, 8vo, number 1 of 12 copies privately handbound by Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh, original red morocco gilt, a fine copy (2)

Johnson, T.B. The Shooter's Preceptor. London: T & M Johnson, 1838. First edition, 8vo, 3 plates, later cloth, original paper label, chipped at edges, some foxing, bookplate of the Schwerdt Library; Harting, James Hints on Shore Shooting. London, 1871, 8vo, frontispiece, errata slip, original cloth gilt, sunned, interior clean; North, Roger A Treatise on Fish and Fish-Ponds. London: J. Goodwin, [c.1824], folio, 17 (of 18) uncoloured engraved plates by Eleazar, Elizabeth and Fortin Albin, later cloth, lacking plate of The Carp, several plates and leaves loose, one plate margin trimmed, one leaf creased, worn and faded; Thomas, B. The Shooter's Guide, 1814, frontispiece and plates, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, a little dust-soiling; The Shooter's Companion, 1819, etched plates, publisher's boards, uncut, joints cracked; Johnson, T.B. The Sportsman and Gamekeeper's Directory, [n.d.], publisher's cloth-backed boards, upper hinge weak, The Gamekeeper's Directory, 1851, second edition, engraved frontispiece, quarter cloth, lacks rear endpaper; Mayer, John. The Sportsman's Directory, 1823, fourth edition, engraved frontispiece, publisher's pictorial boards, uncut, head and base of spine chipped, covers slightly soiled; Watt. W. Remarks on Shooting, 1839, presentation copy from the author, publisher's cloth, worn, upper hinge broken; Blakey, R. Shooting, 1854, frontispiece, contemporary half cloth; 8vo or 12mo (10) Provenance: Bookplate from the Schwerdt library in Johnson's The Shooter's Preceptor.

Africa - Baker, Sir Samuel The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia. London, 1867. First edition, 8vo, double portrait frontispiece, 2 maps, 23 plates, original blue decorative cloth gilt, gilt stamp of elephant chase on upper board, some rubbing to edges, bumping to corners, interior very clean; Selous, Percy. & Bryden, H.A. Travel and big game. London, 1897, 8vo, 6 plates, original cloth, a very clean copy, bookplate; Chaillu, Paul B. Du Explorations and adventures in Equatorial Africa. London, 1861, 8vo, folding frontispiece, folding map torn, original decorative cloth gilt, some rubbing to edges, interior clean; Livingstone, David Missionary travels and researches in South East Africa. London, 1857, 8vo, folding frontispiece, original cloth gilt, backstrip faded, inner hinges splitting (4)

[Alison, Sir Archibald & Tytler, Alexander Fraser] Travels in France during the years 1814-15. London: printed for Longman, etal, 1815. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, later speckled calf gilt, black and red labels, foxing (2)

India--Calcutta. Calcutta, a poem, with notes. London: J.J. Stockdale, 1811. First edition, 8vo, half-title, double-page hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, original printed boards, uncut, binding lightly soiled; Hibberd, S. and F.E. Hulme. Familiar garden flowers, 5 volumes in 2; Familiar wild flowers, 6 volumes in 3, 8vo, coloured plates, uniform contemporary half calf, spines gilt (6)

India - Russell, William Howard My diary in India in the year 1858-9. London, 1860, 8vo, 2 volumes, folding map, 12 plates, volume one with Als from author dated July 21, '59 bound in and photograph of author pasted to verso of frontispiece, signed below, volume two with Als from author [dated May 2, '60] pasted to prelim, contemporary half calf gilt, red labels, foxing throughout; Murphy, Ray Edward Lear's Indian journal. London, 1953. First edition, 8vo, 9 colour plates, later half morocco gilt by Hatchards, a very clean copy; Brown, H. (ed.) The Sahibs. London, 1948, 8vo, later half morocco gilt by Hatchards, very clean; Kincaid, Dennis British social life in India 1608-1937. London, 1938, 8vo, illustrated, later half morocco gilt by Henry Sotheran; Aberigh-Mackay, George Twenty-one days in India. London, 1910, eighth edition, 8vo, frontispiece, later half calf gilt by Henry Sotheran, some light spotting (6)

Millais, J.G. Newfoundland and its untrodden ways. London, 1907. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, original red cloth gilt, some slight rubbing to edges, bookplate, ink inscription on front pastedown; Ibid. Far away up the Nile. London, 1924. First edition, 8vo, illustrated, original red cloth gilt, backstrip faded; Ibid. Wanderings and memories. London, 1919, second impression, 8vo, illustrated, original red cloth gilt, sunned (3)

Accademia del cimento Saggi di naturali experienze fatte nell'accademia del cimento. Florence: Gio. Filippo Cecchi, 1691, second edition, folio, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, half title, engraved portrait and 75 full-page engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum, small crack at head of upper joints Note: Second edition of the publication of the first European academy of science. A fine copy.

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henricus Cornelius De occulta philosophia libri tres. [Cologne: Johannes Soter?] (July 1533), first edition, folio, woodcut portrait of Agrippa on title-page, woodcut initials and illustrations, with the final blank leaf, early inscription on title; Plutarch Opera moralia. Basle: M. Isingrinius, 1541, folio, woodcut initials, owners name deleted from title creating small hole, repaired on verso not affecting text, 2 works in one volume, eigheenth century vellum stamped 1723 on upper board, spine worn, new endpapers Footnote: First edition of this celebrated work. Agrippa von Nettesheim's writings brought him into conflict with the Inquisition and he was charged with heresy. De occulta philosophia is a defence of magic, by means of which men may come to a knowledge of nature and of God, and contains Agrippa's idea of the universe with its three worlds or spheres. Caillet 93; Adams A386, suggesting Basle imprint.

Antoninus [Forciglioni], Saint, Archbishop of Florence Chronicon. [Basle: Nicolaus Kessler, 1502]. 3 volumes, folio,[xiv], 215, [v]; [xiv], 240, [v], 1 blank; [xii], 256, [iv], Black Letter, text in two columns, initials added in red, printer's device following the colophon in volume 3, modern vellum, brown morocco lettering pieces, some patches of worming (mostly in 1 & 3) touching letters of text, a few leaves with some light water staining, titlepage to volume 1 with repair to upper margin, some early marginalia, but generally a good and clean copy (3) Note: Adams A1207. This edition not in the British Library catalogue. Intended as a general history of the world to show the workings of divine providence (Catholic Encyclopedia,) the work is more valuable when the author turns to contemporary events with which, from his frequent embassies on the part of the Republic of Florence, his correspondence with Popes and others, his close links to the Medici family, he was closely connected. Born in 1389, he entered the Dominican order and was the founder of the famous Covent of San Marco at Florence. The Chronicon was first published at Venice 1474-79, as part of his Opera omnia.

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint Prima [prima secunda, secunda secundae, tertia pars] operum [i.e. the Summa theological]. Lyons: [excudebat Joannes Crispinus, 1540-41]. 4 volumes, folio, titlepages in red and black within woodcut borders, woodcut portrait of the angelic doctor as a vignette, woodcut initials, Black Letter, text in two columns surrounded by commentary, later mottled calf, red morocco lettering pieces, heads, tails and edges rubbed, some scuff marks, some marginalia in an early hand, paper generally slightly discoloured and with some water staining, repair to lower margin of f. 87 in the Prima secunda, dedication to Pope Adrian VI mounted on the verso of the title to the tertia pars (4) Note: Not in Adams or the BL. With the commentaries of Cardinal Tommaso de Vio Gaetani Cajetan (1469-1534). In theology Cajetan is justly ranked as one of the foremost defenders and exponents of the Thomistic school. His commentaries on the Summa Theologica, the first in that extensive field, begun in 1507 and finished in 1522, are his greatest work and were speedily recognized as a classic in Scholastic literature. The work is primarily a defence of St. Thomas against the attacks of Scotus. In the third part it reviews the aberrations of the Reformers, especially Luther. The important relation between Cajetan and the Angelic Doctor was emphasized by Leo XIII, when by his Pontifical Letters of 15 October, 1879, he ordered the former's commentaries and those of Ferrariensis to be incorporated with the text of the Summa in the official Leonine edition of the complete works of St. Thomas. (Cath. Encyc.)

Aristotle [The works of Aristotle, translated from the Greek: with copious elucidations from the best of his Greek commentators… by Thomas Taylor] London: for the translator, 1807-12. First edition, 8 volumes of 9, 4to., 2 folding. plates (one at the end of the Metaphysics, the other at the end of the Heavens, etc. original vellum, red morocco lettering pieces, fore-edges uncut, bindings a little spotted and dusty, some titles, the folding plates and other leaves foxed, with Taylor's signature at the end of five volumes. [and] The metaphysics. London: for the author, 1801. First edition, 4to., later paper boards, quarter cloth, fore-edges uncut, slight paper discolouration Note: Lowndes 68: Schwab 417, Raine & Mills Taylor, p. 526. Present of The Works are: The organon, 1807: On the heavens, 1807, On the soul, etc., 1808; History of animals, 1809; Parts & progressive motions of animals, etc., 1810; Ethics, 1811; Rhetoric, 1811; Metaphysics, 1812 and not including the Disseration on the philosophy sometimes found. Publication was limited to fifty sets. The 1801 edition of the Metaphysics contains material not reprinted in the collected works. Plato The works of Plato, viz his fifty-five dialogues, and twelve epistles, tanslated from the Greek; nine of the dialogues by the late Flower Sydenham, and the remainder by Thomas Taylor. London: printed for Thomas Taylor, 1804. First edition, 5 volumes, 4to., with half titles, 1 plate in volume 1, original cloth, a little rubbed, inner joints of volume 1 splitting, a little foxing but chielfly of half titles Note: Lownders 1877; Raine & Mills Taylor, p. 525 The first complete translations of the works of Aristotle and Plato into English, they are two of the most influential works of Thomas Taylor (1750-1835), who, by these and by making available in translation a vast body of Neo-Platonic metaphysical works, exerted a considerable influence on the mystical philosophical tendencies of the Romantic Movement. He marks the break with the Augustan age. Indebtedness to his works has been discerned in Coleridge, Shelly, Peacock, Worsworth, Samuel Palmer, Flaxman and Southey, and it has also been argued that Taylor constitutes one of the most important sources of the transcendtal stream in America as represented by Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Thomas M. Johnson, the Plato Club and the American Akademe of Jacksonville. But of all the poets and artists of the Romantic Movement, it has been suggested that Taylor most strongly influenced William Blake, where considerable claims for the relationship have been put forward by the works of Kathleen Raine and George Mills Harper. Certainly they knew each other, had friends in common and Taylor is recorded as having given Blake lessons in mathematics. Ther are also many instances of linguistic and philosophical parallels that could be attributed to a knowledge of Taylor's works by Blake (14)

Aristotle [Greek title] De poetica liber textum recensuit … Thomas Tyrwhitt. Oxford, 1794. First edition thus, large 4to., contemporary polished calf, joints splitting, a large paper copy; Treatise on poetry translated … by Thomas Twining. London, 1789. 4to., later half morocco, marbled boards; Aristotle's ethics and politics … translated from the Greek … by John Gillies. London, 1797. vol. 1 only of 2, 4to., contemporary half calf, marbled boards; Ethics and politics … translated.. by John Gillies … London, 1804. 2nd edition, 2 volumes, contemporary tree calf, worn and rubbed; The Politics of Aristotle with an introduction, two prefatory essays and notes critical and explantory by W.L. Newman. Oxford, 1887. 4 volumes, contemporary red calf, lacking some lettering pieces; Bridgman, William The paraphrase of an anonymous Greek writer (hitherto published under the name of Andronicus Rhodus) on the Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle; translated from the Greek by William Bridgman. London, 1807. 4to., contemporary half calf, marbled boards, with a presentation inscription from the author; Reid, Thomas Analysis of Aristotle. 2nd edition. Edinburgh, 1806. 12mo., original paper boards, uncut; Anderson, Walter The philosophy of ancient Greece … Edinburgh, 1791. 4to., contemporary calf, edges rubbed (12)

Aristotle Parva naturalia. De sensu & sensile [etc.] … Omnia in latinum conversa & antiquorum more explicata a N. Leonico Thomaeo. [ Venice: Iacobus Fabrianus, 1546]. Folio, title-page in red and black within an elaborate woodcut border, woodcut initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, later calf, floral endpapers, title-page with early ownership inscription erased, first few signatures with some marginalia in an early hand, light water staining of the lower margins of the last couple of signatures Note: Not in Adams or Riley. A reprint of the edition by Bernardino and Matheo Vitali, Rome, 1523. The border is described by Essling 2202.

Bacon, Roger Opus majus ad Clementem quartum, pontificem Romanum. Ex MS Codice Dubliniensi, cum aliis quibusdam collato, nunc primum edidit S.Jebb. London: typis Gulielmi Bowyer, 1733. First edition, folio, titlepage in red and black, folding table and two plates, contemporary mottled, rebacked, joints split, edges rubbed, titlepage and last leaf a little dusty, marginal tear in p. 123 (no loss), some internal stains Note: Dibner 76; Norman 99; Thorndike II, pp. 616-691 The first appearance in print of Bacon's principal scientific work, and one of the most important works of medieval science, written in 1266-1267. Jebb published the manuscript at Trinity College the most complete then known, containing six parts - a seventh part was later discovered but not published until 1860.

Bacon, Roger Speculum mathematica: in qua de specieum multiplicatione, earundemque in inferioribus virtute agitur. Liber omnium scientiarum studiosis apprime utilis, editus opera & studio Iohannis Combachii … Frankfurt: Wolffgang Richter for Antonius Hummius, 1614. First edition, woodcut diagrams in the text, contemporary sheep, rebacked, edges rubbed, loss of imprint from the titlepage, two early ownership inscriptions on the titlepage, paper discoloured throughout and with some marginal water stains, early MS notes at the end Note: Poggendorff I 468, BM, STC 17th Century German Books B52 First edition of one of the most important scientific works by the mediaeval natural philosopher and mathematician Roger Bacon (ca. 1220-ca. 1292). It forms a part of his Opus maius, the great encyclopaedia and organon of the 13th century, and at the time was the only part of it to be published. Part IV contains an elaborate treatise on mathematics, the alphabet of philosophy, maintaining that all the sciences rest ultimately on mathematics, and progress only when their facts can be subsumed under mathematical principles. This fruitful thought he illustrates by showing how geometry is applied to the action of natural bodies, and demonstrating by geometrical figures certain laws of physical forces. (Enc. Brit.) The German editor, Johann Combach (1585-1651), was professor at the University of Marbach..

Bede, the venerable The historie of the church of England. St. Omers: John Heigham, 1622, second edition in English, 8vo, translated by Thomas Stapleton, contemporary calf, title slightly dusty, some light damp-staining of preliminary leaves, sidenotes on G2-3 shaved, corners repaired, rebacked Note:Second edition of the first translation into English, and the only English version until the 18th century. Stapleton originally published the book at Antwerp in 1565 with a dedication to Queen Elizabeth in the hope that if she read it she would return to the Roman Catholic faith. This second edition has a dedication to James I. Based on written sources and verbal communications Bede's History is the primary source for British history from 597 to 731. STC 1779

Berkeley, George Alciphron, or the minute philosopher, 1732, first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, head of one spine very slightly rubbed; Ibid. another copy, 1732, 2 volumes, 8vo,, contemporary calf (not matching) Ibid. Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions, 1744, second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, head and tail of spine rubbed; Priestley, Joseph Hartley's theory of the human mind, 1785, first edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, uncut, neatly rebacked; [Burke, E.] A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful, 1761, third edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, a few leaves lightly damp-stained in upper margin, worn, one board detached; Knight, Richard P. An analytical inquiry into the principles of taste, 1805, first edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, some spotting, two letters erased from title, binding worn and split; Harris, James Philosophical arrangements, 1775, frontispiece portrait, old calf, worn; and 3 others (12)

Berkeley, George Alciphron, or the minute philosopher in seven dialogues. London: printed for J. Tonson, 1732. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, vignette titles, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed, interiors clean; Broughton, John Psychologia, or an account of the nature of the rational soul. London: T. Bennet, 1703, 8vo, modern panelled calf (3)

Bodin, Jean De magorum daemonomania, seu detestando lamiarum ac magorum cum Satana commercio... accessit eiusdem opinionum Ioannis Wiere confutatio. Frankfurt: Nicolai Bassaei, 1590, 8vo, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, contemporary vellum, slightly damp-stained Note: First published in Paris in 1580. Bodin's view of witchcraft was diametrically opposed to that of Johann Weyer, who ascribed its casues to mental illness. Bodin considered witchcraft punishable by law. Cf. Caillet 1274 (1603 edition); Adams B2221 Provenance: Jesuit library, name erased from title.

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Opera omnia … Praetera iam accesserunt, Ioannis Murmelii in v. lib. De consolatione philosophiae commentaria….Praeter reliquos … Henricus Loritus Glareanus, arithmeticum & musicam demonstrationibus & firgiris auctiorem redittam, sio pristine nitori restituit … Et Martianus Rota, opus de tota differndi ratione … illustravit … Basil: ex officina Henricpetrina, [1570]. Folio, printer's device on the titlepage and on the verso of the last leaf, later calf, rebacked, titlepage and last leaf a little dusty, occasional paper discolouration Note: Adams B 2280; Index. Aureliensis 121.127. Follows the first Basil edition of 1546, but with the addition of the first edition of the commentaries on Boethius's De Trinitate, by Gilbert de la Porrée (or Gilbert of Poitiers) (c.1070-1154). Commentaries on the De Consolatione Philosophiae by Johann Murmellius (1480-1517) and Rudolph Agricola (?1443-1485), taken from previous publications, are added to the present edition. The works on arithmetic, music and Boethius' translation of Euclid are all copiously illustrated with woodcut diagrams and tables. Provenance: With the bookplate of the antiquary Edward Rowe Mores (1731-1778) whose library was sold in the year following his death. A note at the front to say that it was brought at Payne's sale. Subsequently by the Royal Institution whose small disposal stamp is on the front free end paper.

Bower, Archibald The history of the popes from the foundation of the see of Rome to the present time. London: printed for the author, 1758-1766. First edition, 4to, 7 volumes, contemporary speckled calf gilt, red labels, marbled endpapers, hinges cracking, some chipping to tails of backstrips, corners bumped, volume labels lacking from volume III & V, interiors clean, bookplates; Burnet, Gilbert History of his own time. London, 1724-34. First edition, folio, 2 volumes, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, some worming to volume II, browning of title, volume I lacking front endpaper, library markings, bookplate; Tanner, Rev. Thomas Notitia monastica or an account of all the abbies, priories and houses of friers... London, 1744, folio, portrait frontispiece, 3 plates, contemporary calf gilt, worn at edges, lacking label, staining to first few leaves, library markings, bookplates; North, Roger Examen: or an enquiry into the credit and veracity of a pretended complete history. London, 1740, 4to, portrait frontispiece, modern half calf gilt, interior clean; Maynard, George H. The whole genuine and complete works of Flavius Josephus. London, [c.1800], folio, 3 maps [inc. folding], 58 plates, quarter morocco, worn, lacking front endpaper, title creased, foxing throughout; Twysden, Roger, Sir Historiae Anglicanae scriptores X... London, 1652, folio, 2 volumes, half title, contemporary calf gilt, worn, hinges split, lacking label on volume I, occasional browning [Wing H2094]; Strype, John The history of the life and acts of the most reverend father in God, Edmund Grindal. London, 1710, folio, portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, contemporary calf, worn, upper board loose, front endpaper and frontispiece loose (15)

Camper, Petrus The works... on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the arts of drawing, 1794, 4to, engraved portrait and 24 folding plates (17 called for on title), nineteenth-century half calf, some spotting, upper joint cracking, base of spine rubbed; Du Fresnoy, C.A. The art of painting, 1716, second edition of Dryden's translation, 8vo, nineteenth-century half calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt, morocco label; Cellini, Benvenuto The life, translated by T. Nugent, 1771, first English edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, spines gilt, morocco labels; Hogarth, W. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, 1794-99, 2 volumes, 8vo, engraved plates, modern half morocco, spotting and offsetting to plates; Smith, J.T. Nollekens and his times, 1895. contemporary calf, spine gilt, t.e.g. (7)

Charpentier, Jean Platonis cum Aristotle in universa philosophia compartio: quae hoc commentario, in Alcinoi institutionem ad eiusdem Platonis doctrinam explicatur. Paris: ex officina Iacobi du Puys, 1573. First edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to., early vellum, blind stamped central arabesque ornaments on covers, some lines of text neatly ruled through, lacking the titlepage to the second part, paper discoloured throughout and some water staining Note: Adams C.759: British Museum S.T.C. of French Books p. 9; Cioranescu 6108 Charpentier (1524-1574), a convinced Aristotelean, is reported to have participated in the death of Pierre Ramus, the avowed opponent of the Greek philosopher, during the Massacare of St. Bartholomew.

[Combe, William] & Rowlandson, Thomas The English dance of death. London: R. Ackermann, 1815-16. First edition in book form, 8vo, 2 volumes, hand-coloured engraved title, 72 hand-coloured plates by Thomas Rowlandson, late 19th century red morocco gilt extra, a.e.g., some light rubbing to hinges, occasional spotting and offsetting; Ibid. The dance of life, a poem. London: R. Ackermann, 1817. First edition in book form, 8vo, hand coloured engraved title, 24 hand coloured plates, uniform red morocco with previous volume, some light rubbing to head, tail and hinges, some offsetting from plates (3) Note: Abbey, Life, 263; Tooley 411.

Crowley, Aleister The spirit of solitude, the confessions of Aleister Crowley. London: The Mandrake Press, 1929. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, illustrated, with original receipts from Mandrake Press, original cloth gilt, interiors clean; Archer, Ethel The whirlpool. London, 1911, 8vo, original illustrated boards; Crowley, Aleister The rites of Eleusis. London: Chiswick Press, [1910], 8vo, 2 plates, original wrappers, loose, torn at hinge; Stephensen, P.R. The legend of Aleister Crowley. London: Mandrake Press, 1930, 8vo, original paper covers, sunned; Simon Necronomicon. USA, 1981, third edition, 8vo, number 3003 of 3333 copies, decorative morocco gilt, silvered edges; Memorial Aleister Crowley, The last ritual. [No place], 1987, facsimile of book issued to mourners at his memorial service in 1947, number 151 of 200 copies, original paper covers; Crowley, Aleister The Equinox. New York, 1974, 8vo, 10 volumes [volume I, number 1-10], original decorative cloth, rubbed, some foxing to page edges; and 7 others on or by Crowley (24)

Descartes, Réné Tractatus de homine et de formatione foetus. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1686, 4to, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, woodcuts in text, [76], 239, some damp-staining, mainly marginal, early ink inscriptions on title of Josamis Szexenty, Stephani Miskolizi and Andres Marbosahi, two deleted; Forge, Ludovico de la Tractatus de mente humana, ejus facultatibus & functionibus. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1688, 4to, woodcut device on title page, woodcuts in the text, [22], 241, [7], lacking a preliminary (?blank) leaf, some early scoring and underlining, somewhat damp-stained Gilbert, William, the younger De mundo nostro sublunari philosophia nova. Amsterdam: Ludovico Elzevir, 1651, first edition, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, folding map, woodcuts in the text, worming to G3, H3, I3, K3, L3, M3, N3, P3, Q3, R3, S3 &c affecting a few letters, lacking OO1, somewhat damp-stained, 3 works in one volume, contemporary Dutch blind-stamped vellum, upper joint split, tear to spine, lacking marbled free endpapers Note: Descarte's Tractatus is really a physiological appendix to his Discourse on Method. The first section of Gilbert's De mundo nostro contains an extension of the cosmological ideas Gilbert introduced into the last section of de Magnete. Goldsmid, p.23 [Descartes] and p.55 [Gilbert]

Descartes, Réné An entire body of philosophy according to the principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes. London: R. Blome [&c.], 1694, folio, first English edition, period style modern panelled calf, frontispiece and title torn with loss to margins, affecting surface & restored; 2 leaves of the engraved figures & coats-of-arms with portions excised & replaced with blank paper; other defects; sold not subject to return

Dugdale, William & Dodsworth, Roger Monastici Anglicanum. London: C. Wilkinson, T. Dring & C. Harper, 1682, [London: R. Scott, 1673], [Savoy: T. Newcomb, A. Roper, J. Martin & H. Herringman, 1673], second edition of volume 1, first edition of volumes 1 and 3, 4to, 3 volumes, additional engraved title in volume 1, numerous engraved plates, some by Hollar, folding plates neatly mounted on stubs, titles printed in red and black, contemporary calf, two plates torn without loss, occasional light discolouration or spotting, volume 1 upper board loose, volume 2 neatly rebacked retaining original spine, corners repaired, volume 3 hinges splitting; Stevens, John. The history of the ancient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals... being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, 1722, 2 volumes, folio, engraved plates, some folding, contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked, corners repaired, new endpapers, one joint cracking (5) Note: Wing D2485; D2483a; D2483; Provenance: Sir George Cooke of the Inner Temple, bookplates reinserted onto new endpapers

Duppa, R. The life and literary works of Michel Angelo Buonarroti. London, 1806. First edition, 4to, portrait frontispiece, folding plate, 26 [of 48] plates, modern calf gilt, foxing; Hassell, J. Memoirs of the life of the late George Morland... London: James Cundee, 1806, 4to, engraved title, frontispiece, 7 plates, full green morocco gilt extra by Zaehnsdorf, some rubbing to hinges, some light foxing, bookplate; Burnet, John An essay on the eduaction of the eye with reference to painting. London, 1837, 4to, 7 plates, modern half calf gilt, slipcase, some foxing [mainly to plates]; Mason, William The art of painting of Charles Alphonse de Fresnoy. York: printed by A. Ward, 1783, 4to, half title, contemporary calf gilt, some rubbing to hinges, worn at corners, marble endpapers, bookplate of C. Mallord Turner; Opie, John Lectures on painting. London, 1809, 4to, frontispiece, plates, ex-library [stamps throughout], contemporary half red morocco gilt, worn; Fuseli, H. Lectures on painting. London, 1820, 4to, frontispiece, vignette title, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed, ex-library with bookplate and stamps throughout; Ralph, Benjamin The school of Raphael. London, [no date], plates, later cloth, rubbed, foxing; Canova, A. Works... London, 1876, 4to, portrait frontispiece, plates, contemporary decorative cloth gilt, rebacked, rubbing, some foxing; and 5 others on art (12)

Durand, David La vie et les sentiments de Lucilio Vanini. Rotterdam: Gaspar Fritch, 1717, first edition, 8vo, engraved vignette on title-page, title in red and black, four line autograph dedication by the author to Mons. l'Apotre(?) on title and numerous manuscript corrections in the author's hand, early ninteeenth century citron morocco, crest of Baron Northwick on upper cover, a little light spotting Note: The margins contain numerous corrections and additions, and in the autograph dedication Durand requests Je prie Mons. l'Apotre(?) d'accepter cet exemplaire de mon Vanini corrigé de ma main et augmenté en divers endroits comme une marque de mon estime et une preuve de ma part Reconnaissance D. Durand. On the flyleaf is a manuscript list of six periodicals of 1717-18 which mention this work. The work is dedicated to William North, sixth Baron North (1678-1734). Caillet 3430 Provenance: Spencer-Churchill library, armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick on upper cover, and J.S. on lower cover; Jack Wallis, bookplate.

Emblems - Hugo, Hermannus Pia desideria emblematis elegiis... Antwerp: Henrici Aertssenii, 1628, 16mo, woodcut title, 48 woodcuts in text, contemporary vellum, worn, ink underscoring and marginalia, dampstain to lower inner margin of first few leaves [Caillet 5305]; Quarles, Francis Divine fancies digested into epigrams, meditations and observations. London, 1722, ninth edition, 12mo, modern calf gilt, browning to title; Emblems Emblems for the entertainment and improvement of youth. London, [c.1750], 8vo, frontispiece, 62 plates, 20pp adverts at rear, modern quarter calf, interior clean; Wither, George A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne. London, 1635, folio, 3 [of 4] parts in 1, lacking third part, panelled calf, rebacked, heavily torn and repaired [loss to text in several places]; Quarles, Francis Emblems divine and moral. London, 1823, 12mo, portrait frontispiece, plates, contemporary half calf gilt, hinges cracking, title page repaired, spotting at page edges; and 3 other works on emblems (8)

Enfield, William The history of philosophy from the earliest times to the beginning of the present century, drawn from Brucker's Historia critica philosophiae. London: Johnson, 1791. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, engraved folding table as frontispiece to volume 1, contemporary calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, red and green lettering pices, neatly rebacked; Volusenus, Florentius De animi tranquillitate dialogus. Edinburgh: Hamilton, Balfour & Neill, 1751, 8vo, errata leaf, contemporary calf, extremities slightly rubbed; Blackey, Robert History of the philosophy of mind: embracing the opinions of all the writers on mental sciences from the earliest to the present time. London: Longman, etc., 1850. First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo., original cloth, spines faded, library stamps; Ueberweg, Dr. F. A history of philosophy from Thales to the present time. London, 1875, second edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, contemporary calf gilt, some rubbing; and 3 others (12)

Eschuid, Joannes Summa astrologiæ iudicialis de accidentibus mundi quæ anglicana uulgo nuncupatur Ioannis Eshcuidi niri [sic] anglici peritissimi scietiæ astrologiæ foelici sidere inchoat. Imprint: Venice: Ioannis Lucilii Sanctiter ... : Impensis ... Fracisci Bolani ..., 1489 nonis Iulii. Folio, ff. [ii], 306=219 (numerous mispaginations), signature n lacking n6 as usual, text in two columns, woodcut map of the world on f.44, other woodcut diagrams, woodcut initials, others left bank with guide letters, later polished calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed, first two leaves supplied in facsimile, corners of first signature repaired, affecting some letters of text, worming at upper inner margin from signatures g to m (extending to some letters of text), some instances of marginal water staining, damp staining of last signature, slight damage to verso of 112 and facing leaf (affecting some letters of text) Note: Goff E-0109; GW 9329; Hain*6685 (with 222 leaves); Thorndike III chapter XXXI The first and only 15th century edition of this famous treatise on astrological prediction by the 14th century English astrologer John of Eschenden or John Estwood (fl. 1350). The work is of interest not only for the insight it provides into the world of mediaeval astrology, but also for astronomical, cosmographical and meteorological as well as medical information it contains. Having survived the Plague - which he predicted - he provides one of the earliest surviving accounts of the epidemic and remedies against it. The woodcut diagrams include a woodcut map of the world and a full page diagram of the world in which the globe is divided into sections each of which is particularly subject to the influence of a certain planet. The numerous woodcut initials are partly printed from blocks first used by Ratdolt.

Euclid The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the English toung, by H. Billingsley... with a very fruitfull preface made by M.I. Dee. [London: John Daye, 1570], folio, title-page within decorative border, printer's device on final verso, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, woodcut diagrams, contemporary calf, lacking a1 of Preface, half of the folding Groundplat leaf, overslips to Booke XI (issued as a set of 60 on 12 leaves) and final blank leaf EEE4, title, portrait and some initials crudely hand-coloured, title soiled, repaired and torn with loss of imprint and woodcut at foot, two leaves of Translator to the Reader soiled and repaired, last two leaves repaired with loss of text and woodcut frame of Dee's portrait, waterstained and soiled throughout, heavily at beginning and end, two single wormholes occasionally affecting sidenotes, rebacked, sides worn, manuscript poem on title verso Note: First edition of the first English translation of Euclid. STC 10560; Steck III.79; Thomas-Stanford, Euclid's Elements, 41 Provenance: J. Belchier, 18th century inscription on title;

Forbes, Sir William An account of the life and writings of James Beattie. Edinburgh, 1806. First edition, 4to, 2 volumes, portrait frontispiece after Reynolds, 8 plates of facsimile manuscript and music, contemporary polished tree-calf gilt, joints cracked, offsetting to title, some foxing and browning; Beattie, James An essay on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism. Edinburgh, 1771, second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, front free endpapers removed, some browning to edges of title, contemporary ink inscription of William Duff on title; copy of the fourth edition [1773], contemporary calf gilt, upper board loose, endpapers lacking, staining throughout; a copy of the eighth edition [1812], contemporary calf gilt, foxing (5)

Gale, Theophilus The court of the gentiles, or a discourse touching the original of human literature, both philologie and philosophy. Oxford: for T. Gilbert, 1672 [London: T. Cockeril, 1677], 4 parts in 2 volumes, 4to, second edition of parts 1-2, first edition of parts 3-4, contemporary calf, slight wear to extremities, head of one spine repaired Note: Gale traces every European language to the Hebrew, and all the theologies, sciences, politics and literature of pagan antiquity to a Hebrew tradition. Wing G136 & G149; Madan 2830 & 2887

Gregory I, Saint, Pope Epistolae. [Augsburg: Gunther Zainer, not after 1476], large folio (403 x 279mm.), 163 leaves of 164 (without 5/7), 59 lines and headline, double column, headings and colophons printed in red, lavishly rubricated with red filling to small capitals and printed paragraph signs, red capital strokes and underlines, various flourishes and ornaments, nineteenth century half mottled sheep, marbled sides, 6/12 and 11/5.6 supplied from a shorter copy, 14/7 rehinged, reinforcements to inner margins of 17/4-6, tear to 17/5 repaired without loss of text, several wormholes to blank margins, some with old repairs, rebacked and repaired with spine laid down Note: First and only incunable edition of the letters of Pope Gregory the Great. The edition is dated from a rubricator's inscription in a Munich copy. Zainer was the first printer of Augsburg (1468), the first after the R printer (Adolf Rusch) of Strassburg to use Roman type in Germany, and the first to introduce woodcut capitals as a regular feature of book production. Goff G-415 (9 copies); Hain 7991* Provenance: rubricated in 1477 by someone who signed V on 1/10r, C.W.E.G. on 6/8v, W.S.D.L. A.M.S. on 6/9r, and W.S.D.L. A.S.M.S. on 17/8r; two versions of the same coat of arms, coloured, on 2/1r, in outline on 17/8r; dated on 5/6r, 6/8v, 17/8r; John Hadmar Sticht, bookplate dated 1947

Guarini, Giambattista Il segretario. Venice: Roberto Megietti, 1594, first edition, 4to, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and ornaments, with final blank Aa2, contemporary vellum, marginal repair to last leaf, tear to vellum repaired Note:Guarini's literary reputation is almost entirely based upon his Pastor Fido (The Faithful Shepherd), a Iyrical pastoral drama written to rival the Aminta of his friend and contemporary, Tasso. Adams G1432

Haslam, John Observations on madness and melancholy. London: J. Callow, 1809, second edition, 8vo, black half morocco, raised bands, morocco label, a little light spotting Note: From the library of Middlesex Hospital with stamp on dedication leaf and preface. A number of marginal notes reflect first-hand experience: symptoms of depression evident and proved so beyond doubt by examination of several cases in this hospital after death, here the symptoms were violent yet the appearances were not such as to mark such increased action G. & M. 4794

Hutcheson, Francis An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue... second edition, corrected and enlarg'd. London: J. Darey, A. Bettesworth [&c.], 1726, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf Note: Hutcheson sets out to demonstrate against Hobbes and Mandeville that altruism cannot ultimately be for the pleasure the benevolent person derives from seeing others happy, since such pleasure presupposes a prior desire that they be happy, hence the disinterestedness of benevolence. The first edition was published the previous year. A fine copy. Provenance: Sir C. Macdonald Lockhart, early inscription on endpaper

John, Damascene, Saint Contenta. Theologia Damasceni. I. De ineffabili divinitate. [Paris: Henricus Stephanus, 1507], 4to, imprint on colophon, early annotations on verso of colophon leaf, later boards, hinges broken, slight spotting, small dampstain in a few margins Note: Adams J277. Henry Estienne, the founder of the Stephanus Press, printed his first book in 1502 and his hundredth and last book in 1520. This edition, pirnted in a fine large Roman letter, reminiscent of fifteenth and early sixteenth century Italian printing, was printed just six years after the press was founded.

Kabalah--Elijah Phinehas ben Meir. Sefer haBerit. Brno [Brunn]: 1797, first edition, 2 parts in one volume, 4to (225 x 180mm.), square and rabbinic letter, approbation (Zensur) leaf at beginning dated from Prague 1799, nineteenth-century half sheep, slightly browned, spine worn and detached Note: This first edition of this work, which is in 2 parts, the first dealing with (albeit outmoded) scientific subjects and the second with ethics and the Kabalah, was published anonymously, although the author's name appears in an acrostich before the preface. 'The work enjoyed a relatively wide circulation, and was particularly well received in Haskalah circles in Galicia and Berlin' (Enc. Jud. 6, 639b). The second and third editions were published under the author's name. References: Steinschneider 6753 (note; the Bodleian has the 1807 ed.); Zedner p. 636