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Percyvall (Richard). A Dictionarie in Spanish and English, first published into the English tongue by Ric. Percivale Gent. Now enlarged and amplified with many thousand words, as by this mark * to each of them prefixed may appeere; together with the accenting of every word throughout the whole Dictionarie, for the true pronunciation of the language and also for the divers signification of one and the self same word: and for the learners ease and furtherance, the declining of all hard and irregular verbs; and for the same cause the former order of the Alphabet is altered, divers hard and uncouth phrases and speeches out of sundry of the best Authors explaned, with divers necessarie notes and especiall directions for all such as shall be desirest to attaine the perfection of the Spanish tongue.... , 1st edition, London: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, 1599, 4 preliminary leaves, 391pp. (1-391), bookplate of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, dated 1701 pasted to title verso, blank fore-margin of title a little trimmed, bound with A Spanish Grammar, firts collected and published by Richard Percivale Gent. Now augmented and increased with the declining of all the Irregular and hard verbes in that toong, with divers other especiall Rules and necessarie Notes for all such as shall be desirous to attain the perfection of the Spanish tongue. Done by John Minshue Professor of Languages in London. Hereunto for the yoong beginners learning and ease, are annexed Speeches, Phrases, and Proverbes, expounded out of divers Authors, setting downe the line and the leafe wherein the same bookes they shall find them..., London: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, 1599, two parts in one, 4 preliminary leaves, 84pp.; 2 preliminary leaves, 68pp., printer's woodcut devise to each title, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle to front pastedown, late 17th-century English panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt arms on sides of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, rebacked with original spine preserved, and label renewed, head and foot of spine a trifle worn, corners repaired, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex (binding and armorial bookplate, dated 1701); Christie's London, The Library of William Foyle, Wednesday 12 July 2000, lot 383 (part).STC 19620 & 19622.First edition of one of the earliest Spanish-English dictionaries and grammars, which Minsheu based on Richard Percival's Bibliotheca Hispanica of 1591. The two works were issued together; within the Spanish Grammar is a section of Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues with a separate title page.

Beckford (William). Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal. By the author of 'Vathek.', second edition, revised, 2 volumes, London: Richard Bentley, 1834, half-title to each volume, top edge gilt, printed bookplate of Mary Hunter to front pastedown, and maroon morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front endpaper of each volume, gilt-ruled turn-ins, early 20th century brown crushed full morocco gilt by Cedric Chivers, Bath (signed to rear turn-in of second volume), gilt decorated spines in compartments between five raised bands, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: Mary Hunter, Hill Hall, Theydon Mount; Sir Hugh Walpole (first volume inscribed in pencil to verso of front endpaper 'from Sir Hugh Walpole Library, July/45'; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Attractive copy.

Rushworth (John). Historical Collections Private Passages of State. Of Weighty Matters in Law. Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments. Beginning the Sixteenth Year of King James, Anno 1618. And ending the Fifth Year of King Charls, Anno 1629. Digested in Order of Time, 1st edition, London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 1659, linen-backed double-page engraved historical map frontispiece depicting scenes from the Civil War (slightly cropped to margins and repair to central fold), 2 engraved portrait plates (plate of James I torn to lower outer blank corner), with two-eaf dedication to Richard Lord Protector at front (sometimes lacking) and advert leaf at rear, leaf 4N1 torn to fore-margin slightly affecting marginal note to p. 654, endpapers renewed retaining 18th-century armorial bookplate of Thomas Fountayne (1713-1739) with elephant crest, and late 19th/early 20th-century bookplate of Frederick J[ames] O[sbaldeston] Montagu, (1878-1957), contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in light brown morocco with gilt decoration to spine and red morocco title label, corners refurbished, folio, together with:Wilson (Arthur). The History of Great Britain, being The Life and Reign of King James the First relating to what passed from his first access to the Crown, till his Death, London: Richard Lownds, 1653, lacking portrait frontispiece, short worm trail to initial leaves, some light dust-soiling, top edge gilt, red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, 20th-century red half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, lightly faded to spine, small folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: 1. Thomas Fountayne (bookplate); Frederick J. O. Montagu (bookplate); 2. W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).1. STC R2316; Lowndes vol. IV p.2153; Abbot 1023.2. ESTC R38664; Wing W2888; Gibson, 651b. With a different setting from the edition with 'Iames' and 'accesse' in title and 'dore' in imprint (see ESTC R200950; Gibson, 651a).Rushworth’s Historical Collections narrates a turbulent period: the years leading up to the English Civil War. Throughout his narrative, Rushworth shows a partiality towards the side of Parliament. His narrative also issues a warning of the potential chaos and destruction that these might lead to. The important folding map, untitled but attributed to Wenceslas Hollar (Baynton-Williams, New Worlds, 83), juxtaposes a map of the British Isles with a view of the Battle of Prague – thus comparing the Thirty Years’ War that was devastating Europe with the Civil War that was engulfing England, and providing a warning to the English of the consequences of civil disorder.

[Smollett, Tobias]. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. By the Author of Roderick Random, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: printed by W. Johnston and B. Collins, 1771, half-title to each volume, title to volume 1 misdated 1671, volumes 1 and 2 both with final blank (M6) present, first volume with minor worm track to lower outer blank corner of final few leaves, 18th century engraved bookplate of Duncan Frazer of Auchnagarn Esqr. to front pastedown of each volume (a shield divided into four parts with six crowns and six flowers below a helmet with stag crest and motto ‘Pace et Bello Paratus’ above), and 20th century green morocco gilt label of Sylvan Lawrence Froelich to front endpaper of each volume, and single 20th century green morocco gilt label of Doris Louise Benz to rear endpaper of first volume only, contemporary full polished calf with red morocco tltle label to spine of each volume, slightly rubbed, 12moQTY: (3)NOTE:Rothschild 1925.'Humphry Clinker is one of the great pictures of eighteenth-century England...It stands with Tom Jones, Tristram Shandy...and The Vicar of Wakefield; and the reader who has enjoyed them will enjoy Humphry Clinker the better' (Laurence Brander, Tobias Smollett, 1965).

Egan (Pierce). Pierce Egan's Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their Pursuits through Life in and out of London, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: printed by G. Baynes for G. Virtue, 1830, first issue with wood-engravings to pp. 7, 40 & 42, 36 hand-coloured engraved plates, all bar two by Robert Cruikshank, bound without half-title, additional title shaved at foot just affecting imprint, some light offsetting and toning, crimson morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, top edge gilt, later fine burgundy full morocco by Riviere & Son, covers with triple fillet borders in gilt, spine lettered in gilt with champagne bottle, dice, cards and dancer tools in compartments, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle (bookplate).Tooley 197.

Churchill (Winston S.) The Sinews of Peace. Post-War Speeches by Winston S. Churchill, edited by Randolph S. Churchill, 1st edition, London: Cassell and Co., 1948, half title, together with Europe Unite. Speeches 1947 and 1948, edited by Randolph S. Churchill, 1st edition, London: Cassell and Co., 1950, half title, plus three other first editions of Post-War Speeches by Churchill: In the Balance. Speeches 1949 and 1950 (1951), Stemming the Tide. Speeches 1951 and 1952 (1953), and The Unwritten Alliance. Speeches 1953 to 1959 (1961), all edges gilt, later uniformly navy morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf, upper cover with facsimile signature in gilt, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt, 8vo, QTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Woods A124; A128; A130; A137 & A142 respectively.

[Defoe, Daniel]. A Treatise concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: T. Warner, 1727, woodcut headpieces and initials, red morocco bookplate of W.A. Foyle to front free endpaper recto, armorial bookplate of Benjamin Chandler Junior to front pastedown, old printed bookseller's description mounted to front pastedown, damp-stained to lower margins throughout (heavier to first and last leaves), contemporary Cambridge panelled full calf, later black morocco title label lettered in gilt, upper joint cracked, worn, boards stained at foot, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Moore 489; Rothschild 781.The scarce second issue of Defoe's Conjugal Lewdness: or, Matrimonial Whoredom, first published in January 1727, with this second issue appearing in June the same year. The first issue caused an outcry but despite toning down the provocative title Defoe kept the same text, maintaining that marriage should be a state of equality and companionship, criticising those who marry for money or position, and attacking contraception or "the diabolical practice of attempting to prevent childbearing by physical preparations".

James I. Basilikon d?ron. Or His Maiesties Instructions to his Dearest Sonne, Henry the Prince, London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Iohn Norton, according to the copie printed at Edenburgh, 1603, [38], 128, 149-154, [2] pp., without initial blank, blank leaves )(8 and L4 present, first two words of title in Greek characters, woodcut armorial to title (McKerrow 273[beta]), occasional light damp staining to margins (mostly to initial leaves), minor worm-tracing to foremargins of a few leaves, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, early 19th-century calf, rebacked with blind decorated spine, lacking title label, spine rubbed, board corners worn, 8vo, together with: [Weldon, Anthony]. The Court and Character of King James. Written and taken by Sir A: W: being an eye, and eare witnesses, London: Printed by R.I. and are to be sold by John Wright, 1650, [8], 197, [1] pp., without portrait frontispiece, browning and spotting, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, upper hinge split, contemporary sheep, rebacked and repaired to upper edge of front board, some wear, small 8vo,[Sparke, Michael]. Truth brought to Light: or, The History of the first 14 years of King James I. In four parts..., London: Richard Baldwin, 1692, additional engraved title, without initial explanation leaf of additional title and portrait, each part with separate dated title page and pagination, browning and spotting, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, lower free endpaper laid down and lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf, upper joint repaired, worn, 8vo [Dalrymple, David, editor]. Memorials and Letters relating to the History of Britain in the Reign of James the First. Published from the Originals, Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University, 1762, browning to margins of first and last leaves, armorial bookplate of Edward Shipperdson to upper pastedown and burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine, without title label, rubbed, small 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey.1. ESTC S107536; STC 14350.This famous work was originally printed privately in Edinburgh in 1599 (seven copies only). The first public edition, also published in Edinburgh, and simultaneously with the accession of King James to the throne of England, was used as the basis for this 1603 London issue. James I here instructs his son on various matters including marriage, God, and unacceptable pastimes, such as football, tennis and archery.'For albeit I graunt it to bee most requisite for a King to exercise his engine, which surely with idlenesse will rust and become blunt; yet certainlie bodily exercises and games are verie commendable, as well for banishing of idlenesse (the mother of all vice) as for making his bodie able and durable for travel, which is verie neccessarie for a King, But from this count I debarre al rough and violent exercises, as the foot-ball; meeter for laming, then making able the users thereof: as likewise such tumbling trickes as onely serve for Comedians and Balladines, to winner their bread with. But the exercises that I would have you to use (although but moderatlie, not for making a craft of them) are running, leaping, wrestling, fencing, dancing, and playing at the caitch or tennis, archerie, palle maillé, and such like other faire and pleasant field games. And the honourablest and most commendable games that yee can use, are on horseback: for it becommeth a Prince best of anie man, to be fair and good horseman...' (pp. 121-22).2. ESTC R209127; Thomason E.1338[1]; Wing W1273.3. ESTC R34585; Goldsmiths’ 2954; Wing S4818C (3rd part of volume referenced as Wing A148A).4. ESTC T67789; Gaskell 405.

Guest (Lady Charlotte). The Mabinogion from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest, and other ancient Welsh manuscripts, with an English Translation and Notes, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Llandovery, W. Rees, 1849, half-title to each volume, facsimile plates, including one folding frontispiece to first volume, light spotting to preliminary leaves, lacking pp. 9-12 in volume 3, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with maroon morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front endpaper of each volume, fine later 19th century dark green half morocco by Antoine Chatelin (signed to front turn-in of each volume), gilt decorated spines in compartments between raised bands, with four Welsh harp motifs in gilt, in excellent condition, large 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Fine copy. The Mabinogion are a collection of twelve Middle Welsh tales, translated into English by Lady Charlotte Guest, who was born in Lincolnshire but became interested in the literature and traditions of Wales after marrying Sir Josiah John Guest, master of the Dowlais ironworks. Eleven of the tales are taken from the Red Book of Hergest, one of the most important mediaeval Welsh manuscripts. They consist of the four branches of the Mabinogi, namely Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed, Branwen ferch Ll?r, Manawydan fabLl?r, and Math fab Mathonwy, as well as three Arthurian romances and four independent tales.The French bookbinder Antoine Chatelin relocated to England around 1852. Examples of his work appeared in the Exposition Universelle of 1862 alongside exhibits from fellow binders Bedford and Rivière.  

Major (John). Historia Maioris Britanniae, tam Angli[a]e q[uam] Scoti[a]e, 1st edition, [Paris], Vendundatur Iodoco Badio Ascensio [Colophon], Ex Officina Ascensiana ad Idus Aprilis, 1521, title with the Ascensius printing-house woodcut device, woodcut arms of Scotland to title verso (title re-margined at gutter and lower margin, presumably supplied from another copy), woodcut criblé initials, g5 with repaired marginal tears affecting shoulder note to verso, some light toning to signature i, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, Bernard Quaritch description tipped-in at front, all edges gilt, late 19th-century brown full morocco gilt by Cape, ruled in blind, covers with central arabesque in gilt and floral corner-pieces, joints and edges a little rubbed, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: The Morris-Yates Thompson copy. Book label of Wiliam Morris, Kelmscott House (Peterson D10.1); bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson, inscribed '195, n.e.e. Quaritch, c. 1901'; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate); The Library of William Foyle, Part III, Christie's, 12 July 2000, lot 371.Adams M-228; Renouard Ascensius III, p. 62; Shaaber M-31.First edition of Major's celebrated history of Greater Britain, in which the separate histories of England and Scotland are brought together, suggesting that Scotland would have much to gain from a union with England. He provides an important early eulogy of the legend of Robin Hood and Little John, and one of the earliest recorded mentions of Stonehenge. According to Anthony a Wood, 'Written in a Sorbonic and barbarous style, yet very truly and with great liberty of spirit ...' (Athenae Oxonienses). John Major, or Mair (1469-1550) was born in Haddington, near Edinburgh but moved to Paris where, after receiving his degree in 1494, he built his reputation as a theological scholar and teacher. Amongst his contemporaries in Paris at this time were Erasmus, Francois Rabelais, and Reginald Pole, and he was well enough known to be mentioned ironically in Rabelais's Gargantua as the author of a treatise on black puddings. In 1518 he returned to Scotland to become Principal of the University of Glasgow, and in 1533 was made Provost of St Salvator's College in the University of St Andrews, where his students included George Buchanan and John Knox.

Barnes (Joshua). The History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward IIId. King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland. And First Founder of the Most Noble Order of the Garter: Being a Full and Exact Account of the said King, Together with that of His Mosr Renowned Son Edward, Prince of Wales and of Aquatain Sirnamed the Black-Prince. Faithfully and carefully collected from the best and most antient authors domestick and foreign, printed books, manuscripts and records, 1st edition, Cambridge, 1688, engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved plates, lacking the engraved portrait of the author by R. White, title printed in red and black, 4 pp. dedicatory poem, dated 1690 by Thomas Heyrick bound after contents leaves, a few small burnholes and small marginal wormtracks, a little minor spotting, early ownership signatures of William Tryon and erased signature of Ch. Delafay at head of title, endpapers renewed later panelled calf, rubbed with some worming and losses to lower margins of covers, folio, together with Fuller (Thomas). The History of the Worthies of England, who for parts and learning have been eminent in the several counties. Together with an historical narrative of the native commodities and rarities in each county, 1st edition, London: printed by J. G. W. L. and W. G. for Thomas Williams, 1662, engraved portrait frontispiece by David Loggan, bound with a nineteenth century 'An Alphabetical Index to Fuller's Worthies of England at rear, a little minor spotting at front, early 20th century bookplate of the Earl of Cromer and crimson morocco gilt bookplate W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, all edges gilt, later dark purple morocco, covers panelled in gilt with volute corner pieces, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges slightly rubbed, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance (second work): Evelyn Baring (1841-1917), Earl of Cromer (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate for Fuller)First work ESTC R7544; Wing B871; second work ESTC R37357; Wing F2440

Boswell (James). The Life of Samuel Johnson, edited by Clement Shorter, 10 volumes, Temple Bar edition, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company for Gabriel Wells, 1922, half-titles, frontispiece to each, titles printed in red and black, illustrations, top edge gilt, contemporary green half morocco, spines with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt (spines faded to brown, joints and spine ends a little rubbed), 8vo, limited edition 425/785, together with 2 others: Letters of James Boswell, addressed to the Rev. W. J. Temple, now first published from the original mss., 1st edition, 1857, and Boswell's London Journal; 1762-1763 together with Journal of my Jaunt Harvest 1762, prepared for the press, with an introduction and notes by Frederick A. Pottle, 1951, De luxe edition 311/1050QTY: (12)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.

[Bunbury, Henry William]. An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling and Tumbling... by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Riding Master, Master of the Horse, and Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice, 3rd edition, London: printed by W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808, 12 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by W. Dickinson after Henry Bunbury, plate opposite p. 21 lower corner repaired, bound with Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents, both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Author of the Academy for Grown Horsemen; Together with most instructive remarks thereon, and answers thereto, by that accomplished genius, and now first published by the editor of the Academy for Grown Horsemen, London: W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808, 17 stipple-engraved plates after H. Bunbury, plate opposite p. 67 close-trimmed and laid down on later paper, occasional light offsetting and a few minor spots, faded previous owner inscription of Sir Percival Marling (3rd Baronet, VC, CB, DL, 1861-1936) to first work title, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, top edge gilt, later fine crimson full straight-grained morocco by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, covers with border rolls in gilt and blind, spine lettered with horseriding tools in gilt to compartments, folio, 34.5 x 26 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Sir Percival Marling (3rd baronet, VC, CB, DL, 1861-1936), Stanley Park, Gloucestershire (inscription to first title); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).

Latham (Simon). Latham's Faulconry, or the Faulcons Lure and Cure: In Two Books. The first concerning the ordering and training up of all Hawks in generall; especially the Haggard Faulcon-Gentle. The second, teaching approved Medicines for the cure of all Diseases in them. Gathered by long practise and experience, and published for the delight of noble mindes, and instruction of young faulconers in things pertaining to this princely art, 2 parts in one, London: R. Hodgkinsonne for Th. Rooks, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Lamb, at the east end of St. Pauls Church, 1658, [34], 176, [2]; [22], 144, [6]p. (a-b8 A-L8; A? [A1 signed 'M'], )(4, B-K8, L3, blank leaf L4 at end not present), full-page woodcut frontispiece to first part, and the exceptionally rare additional engraved frontispiece (Latham's Faulconry... Newly Revised and Amended. The 4th Edition) facing first title, woodcut illustrations to text, early 19th-century ownership inscription in brown ink to verso of frontispiece 'N. F. Bonham, Capt of 10th Hussars Glasgow, the gift of his friend Captain Robert E. Giffard, 10th Hussars who died in Jany. 1836', additionally signed by Bonham to second part (p. 43 and margin of p. 72), minor paper flaw to pp. 39/40 and 47/48 of first part, short closed tear to head of pp. 87/88, and minor brown stain to upper blank margin of pp. 90-102, of the second part, none of which affect the text, Beeleigh Abbey bookplate to front pastedown, 20th-century full calf gilt, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Captain Robert Giffard, 10th Hussars (died 1836); Henry Frederick Bonham (1808-1856), officer in the 10th Hussars, who rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel (gift inscription). W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC R202683; Wing L568 & L569; Bibliotheca Accipitraria II, 335.04; Harting 19 and 20 (note); Schwerdt I, p. 302.Fine copy. The fourth edition of Latham's classic work on falconry 'appears to be the rarest of all editions up to this date' (Bibliotheca Accipitraria). This copy with the very scarce additional engraved title-page which is not recorded in Bibliotheca Accipitraria or included in the collation of the Folger copy given on ESTC; nor is it recorded in other copies listed in auction records.The two works were first published separately in 1614 and 1618. The frontispiece to the first part shows the Haggard falcon surrounded by various falconer's tools; the woodcut vignette on the title-page of the second work shows a falconer on horseback carrying his falcon on his arm.

[Thornton, Alfred]. The Adventures of a Post Captain: by a Naval Officer, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: J. Johnston, [1817], 2nd issue with rule each side of 'By a Naval Officer' to title, and printed W. Lewis instead of J. and T. Agg, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional title and 23 plates, some offsetting and light spotting, crimson morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, top edge gilt, later burgundy full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, covers with double fillet border in gilt, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, 8vo, together with [Mitford, John]. My Cousin in the Army: or, Johnny Newcome on the Peace Establishment. A Poem. By a Staff Officer, London: printed by and for Hodgson & Co., [circa 1822], 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates, pp. 193-196 with repaired tears, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, all edges gilt, later crimson half morocco gilt, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplates).Abbey Life 349 & 370; Tooley 485 & 166 respectively.The first issue of John Mitford's My Cousin in the Army was published by J. Johnston in 1822, as per the Abbey & Tooley copies, this present edition published by Hodgson & Co is more unusual.

Herbert (Thomas). Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. Describing more particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous Kingdoms in the Oriental India, with the Isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them, 4th edition, London: R. Everingham for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright and R. Chiswell, 1677, 3 engraved plates (including 1 folding), 48 engraved illustrations and 6 engraved maps in text, lacking the vertical half-title and additional engraved title, p. 385 with repaired tear, one or two small holes in text, occasional light toning, hinges reinforced, contemporary calf, modern reback with morocco labels, some wear to upper corners, covers a little rubbed with some scorch marks, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Cox I, p. 248; ESTC R771, Sabin 31471; Wing H1536.'Herbert's narrative "is of considerable importance from an historical point of view, as giving us the only detailed account available of the first English Embassy to Persia, to say nothing of the information afforded concerning the redoubtable Shah Abbas and his chief servants." - from Sir William Foster's Introduction [Thomas Herbert, Travels in Persia, 1627-1629, abridged and edited by Sir William Foster with an introduction and notes (The Broadway Travellers series), London : Routledge, 1928]. He commenced his travels in 1626/7 and returned to England in December 1629. He went out to Persia in the train of Sir Dodmore Cotton, accredited as Ambassador to the Shah of Persia. He also visited the Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, and Surat, and coasted the eastern shores of North America on his return to England. His account of these travels is written in a lively and agreeable style. To prove that the Welshman Madocap Owen discovered America, he quotes the Welsh bards in evidence. It is amusing that he points to the name Cape Breton as a proof that his countrymen were there in the ninth century.' (Cox).First published in 1634, this fourth edition is the most complete.

After William Combe. The Adventures of Doctor Comicus or the Frolicks of Fortune. A Comic Satirical Poem for the Squeamish & the Queer, in Twelve Cantos, by a Modern Syntax, 1st edition, London: printed for B. Blake, [1815], hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional title and 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates (several signed 'Illman sculp'), printed title with small marginal closed tear repaired, light offsetting to additional title, all edges gilt, modern green half morocco gilt, spine slight fading to spine, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Abbey, Life 254; Tooley 431; Prideaux, p. 334; Hardie, p. 317.The first of many imitations of William Combe and Thomas Rowlandson's Dr. Syntax trilogy according to Tooley. The success of Dr. Syntax "produced a host of parodies and spurious imitations. Among them the best perhaps is the Tour of Dr. Syntax through London...Others were Dr. Comicus, or the Frolics of Fortune, in 1815, with fifteen plates [reprinted in 1820 with only twelve plates]...It looks as if Com-icus were a pun on Combe's name, to add insult to injury" (Hardie).

Sturt (John). The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches, London: John Baskett, 1717, 18 pages of preliminaries only (bound without list of subscribers, pages XIX-XXII) including portraits of George I and a double portrait of the Prince and Princess of Wales, list of subscribers and volvelle (reattached), 166 pages of text engraved by John Sturt with illustrations, vignettes, ornate initials and ornamental borders, some light toning and minor dust-soiling, near-contemporary inscription to front free blank endpaper 'C. A. Janry. 25 1766 The gift of Mrs Ellis', marbled endpapers with bookplate of Earl of Normanton to front pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco, gilt-decorated spine and border decoration to boards, spine slightly faded, extremities a little rubbed, 8vo (206 x 123 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:First edition of this ornate version of the Book of Common Prayer. There was also a quarto edition and variants of the octavo edition with the pages ruled in red.

Fielding (Henry). Amelia, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: printed for A, Millar, 1752, advertisement leaf at end of volume II, some spotting and light toning, small oval bookplates of Beverly Chew (offset to front endpaper), contemporary calf gilt, joints slightly rubbed, contained in two modern morocco-backed solander boxes, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Rothschild 853: "There were two impressions of the first edition, one in December 1751, the second in January 1752, no distinguishing characteristics have been recorded." Millar ordered William Strahan to print the work on two of his printing presses in order to produce a total of 5000 copies for the first run of the work. Rothschild claims that there were two impressions, one in December 1751, the second in January 1752, but this seems to be confused with the second edition of 3000 copies which Millar ordered to follow the first but subsequently cancelled."Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances... but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night", Samuel Johnson pp. 221-222 in Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, 1786. Johnson's concern seems to have been noted for Fielding's second edition of Amelia did see the addition of a scene in which the heroine's nose is reset.Provenance: Beverly Chew (1850-1924), American collector of English Literature before 1800. His library was sold in New York in 1924.

Braithwait (Richard). Barnabae Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal; with a life of the author, a bibliographical introduction to the itinerary, and a catalogue of his works. Edited from the first edition, by Joseph Haslewood, London: R.& A. Taylor, Printers, 1820, half-title to each volume, 5 full-page illustrations, first volume with presentation inscription in ink to front blank 'Charles Whibley from A. Knatchbull-Hughson. Xmas 1910', burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown of each volume, further printed ownership ticket to head of front pastedown of each volume of Charles Whibley (Sum Caroli Whibley), inner gilt dentels, late or early 20th-century full calf gilt by Roger de Coverly & Sons (signed to front endpaper of each volume), the binding with marbled colouring in red and black over brown calf, gilt ruling to borders and spine, two gilt-lettered morocco labels to spine of each volume, in fine condition, 16mo QTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: Charles Whibley (1859-1930), English author and journalist; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.

Belknap (Jeremy). The History of New-Hampshire, comprehending the events of one complete century from the discovery of the River Pascataqua, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Boston: for the author by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews & Belknap and Young, 1791-1792 (volume I, 2nd edition 1792, as often), folding engraved map to volume II, small worm holes and track to lower margin of volume II (just touching a few letters), inkstamps of the Library of the Board of Trade and H.M. Stationery Office to titles, bookplates of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh House, modern brown calf, spines with burgundy and green labels and gilt decoration, edges a little rubbed, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: The Library of William Foyle, Part III, Christie's, 13 July 2000, lot 772 (part).Sabin 4434; Howes B323.The first extensive history of New Hampshire, and 'one of the most important eighteenth-century American histories' (Streeter). The Reverend Jeremy Bleknap (1744-1798), patriot and founder of the first American historical association, the Massachusetts Historical Society, provides a detailed history of the state, from its early frontier life and the wars against the Indians to the American Revolution, and in the third and final volume a miscellany of topographical, meteorolgical, botanical, zoological and agricultural information.

Bradbury (John). Travels in the interior of America, in the years 1809, 1810, and 1811; including a description of Upper Louisiana, together with the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, with the Illinois and Western Territories, and containing remarks and observations useful to persons emigrating to those countries, 1st edition, Liverpool: Smith and Galway, 1817, xii, [9]-364 pp., a few minor spots, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Ruthven Deane to front pastedown, later black full morocco, gilt decorated spine, lightly rubbed, generally a fine copy, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Buck 89; Graff 383; Howes B695; Sabin 7207; Wagner-Camp 14.The Scottish naturalist John Bradbury travelled up the Missouri River to the Arikara and Mandan villages, before returning down river to St. Louis. The appendix includes an account of the Stuart overland trip, an Osage vocabulary, information about the Mississippi Valley, and an account of the captivity of John Colter. There is also a "Catalogue of some of the more rare or valuable plants discovered in the neighborhood of St. Louis and on the Missouri." Bradbury's account "deserves to be classed as one of the most accurate and pleasingly written travel accounts of this period of American history" (Clark). Bradbury was accompanied on this trip by naturalist Thomas Nuttall. This account is also notable for providing one of the only first-hand accounts of the New Madrid earthquake, which he witnessed on the banks of the Mississippi only a few miles from the epicenter. He was also almost alone in speculating that the lands bordering the Missouri River would become a great agricultural resource, just before the public began to think of the Great Plains as the "Great American Desert."

Brooke (Ralph). A Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, and Viscounts of this Realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to this present yeere 1622. Together with their Armes, Wiues and Children; the times of their Deaths and Burials, with many of their memorable actions. Collected by Ralph Brooke, Esquire, Yorke-Herauld, and by him inlarged, with amendment of diuers faults, committed by the printer, in the time of its authors sickness, [London: William Stansby], 1622, title within elaborate architectural woodcut border, numerous woodcut coats of arms, woodcut initials, contemporary annotations by Thomas Delay and possibly others, his ownership signature in several places, occasional light toning, further later ownership name of W. Sharpe to lower margin of title, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey (offset to endpaper), all edges gilt, later calf, covers with centre foliate design in blind, morocco label to spine, edges a little rubbed and scuffed, small folio QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S126175; STC (2nd edition) 3833. The first edition was published in 1619 bearing 'to this present yeere 1619' on the title.

Juan (Don George & Don Antonio de Ulloa). A Voyage to South America: Describing at large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces &c. on that Extensive Continent: undertaken by command of the King of Spain by Don George Juan, and Don Antonio de Ulloa, Captains of the Spanish Navy, Fellows of the Royal Society of London, Members of the Royal Academy at Paris &c., translated from the original Spanish; with notes and observations, and an account of the Brazils, by John Adams, Esq. of Waltham Abbey; who resided several years in those parts, 2 volumes, 5th edition, London: printed for John Stockdale & others, 1807, folding map frontispiece to volume I, 4 folding maps and plans, 2 folding plates, some offsetting from plates, contemporary tree calf, spines with red morocco labels and decorated in gilt, slightly rubbed at ends, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Borba de Moraes p. 783; Cox II, p. 275; Sabin 36813.'Juan & Ulloa's Travels may be selected as the most entertaining and satisfactory work of its kind; they are the acknowledged source of much that has been published in other forms.' (Sabin).'This voyage arose out of the desire of the French Government (through the Academy of Sciences at Paris) to send certain members of the Academy of Sciences to measure a degree of longitude in the equinoctial countries of Peru... This request was not only accorded in the most courteous manner, but the King of Spain conceived the idea of sharing the honor of a scheme devoted to the advancement of knowledge, and sent two of the most scientific officers in the Spanish navy to accompany the expedition. This party carried on a series of operations of unexampled difficulty and encountered hardships and sufferings which demanded the strength of the strongest constitutions and the energy of minds stimulated by a love of science. Much information was collected and published, which has been reproduced in other works on South America.' (Hill).First published in English in Dublin in 1758, the original first edition in Spanish was published in Madrid in 1748.

Defoe (Daniel). The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Who lived eight and twenty years all alone on an uninhabited island on the Coast of America near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely deliverd by pyrates. Written by himself, 2 volumes, London: John Stockdale, 1790, engraved frontispieces, title vignettes, 13 engraved plates by Thomas Medland after Thomas Stothard, including a portrait of Daniel Defoe, extra-illustrated with 13 original contemporary pen, ink and watercolours (a couple with small marginal repaired tears to margins of blank leaves), subscribers list to volume I, publisher's list at end of volume II, some offsetting and light spotting, black armorial ink stamps of William John Church to front endpaper versos, hinges reinforced in brown calf, contemporary brown diced calf, covers with central fan-shaped wheel decoration in gilt, fan-shaped corner pieces, rebacked in later calf gilt, slightly rubbed, tall 8vo QTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.ESTC T72291. The first edition illustrated by Thomas Stothard, with the biography of Daniel Defoe by George Chalmers bound in volume II, this copy with 13 fine contemporary watercolour illustrations by an unidentified hand.

Dürer (Albrecht). Opera Alberti Dureri. Das ist, Alle Bücher des weitberühmbten und künstreichen Mathematici und Mahlers Albrechten Durers von Nürenberg, so viel deren von ihm selbst in An. 1525. und 1528. kurtz vor und gleich nach seinem todt in truck gehen, 3 parts in one, Arnhem: bey Johan Jansen, 1604-03, title to each part, Dürer's woodcut monogram on main title and first two part-titles, woodcut intials and numerous woodcut illustrations to text, many full-page, double-page or folding, first part with two printed woodcut folding overslips on P4 verso and Q1 recto, and complete with final blank Q4, second part complete with final blank Z6, and illustration of the female body on R3 hand-tinted in contemporary light blue wash, third part title with large woodcut coat of arms of Ferdinand I, intermittent light browning, 20th-century circular ink stamp of the Furstlicher Waldburg Kupferstichkabinett to lower inner margin of main title, and two further 20th-century ink stamps to verso, including the Hermann Göring Meisterschule für Malerei Kronenburg, late 17th- or 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown, and red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, contemporary limp vellum with old calf backstrip, lightly rubbed, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Bruckner 3, with main title in variant ß; Meder XXVI, XXVIII and XXIX. A good copy.First complete edition of Dürer's collected works in German. It brings together his three major treatises: on measurement, symmetry, perspective and construction of the letters of the alphabet; on the proportions of the human body; and the design of fortification systems. The edition is illustrated with numerous woodcuts by Dürer taken from the original blocks of the editions of 1525-1528, and includes overslips and double-page or folding leaves.

America. James II. Treaty of Peace, Good Correspondence & Neutrality in America, between the most Serene and Mighty Prince James II ... and the most Serene and Mighty Prince Lewis XIV. The Most Christian King: concluded the 6/16th Day of Novemb. 1686, 1st edition, London: printed by Thomas Newcomb in the Savoy, 1686, 19, [1] pp. (A-B4, C2), title within double-ruled border, woodcut initial, title and last leaf with very light soiling, untrimmed, 20th century blind-ruled ful calf with gilt morocco label to spine, slim 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Sabin 96532; Wing J393. European Americana 686/73; ESTC R477000. The rarer of the two imprints with the date in Arabic numerals.First edition of the Whitehall Treaty, and the first treaty to be issued by James II, indicative of his conciliatory attitude towards the French. This treaty states that although France and England might be at war in Europe, there should be peace and neutrality in the American colonies. It provided for unmolested fishing rights, fur and Indian trading in each others territories, and forbade the aiding of pirates, and of Indian tribes ("barbarous or wild Indians") in dispute with subjects of the other nation. The treaty was of particular importance for the West Indies and for the Hudson Bay area.

Dickens (Charles). Oliver Twist, 1846; David Copperfield, 1850; Dombey and Son, 1848; Bleak House, 1853; Nicholas Nickleby, 1839; Sketches By Boz, 1839, half-title to Sketches By Boz, engraved plates throughout (complete), armorial bookplates of Daniel Drew of Lower House to front pastedowns, Dombey And Son bound without list of plates, a few light spots, plates browned to margins (but overall clean internally), all edges gilt, 20th-century brown half morocco gilt over marbled boards by Tout (signed to head of front free endpaper verso to some volumes), 8vo QTY: (6)NOTE:An elegant set uniformly bound. All first edition copies other than Oliver Twist and Sketches By Boz which are 'New Editions'.

Johnes (Thomas). The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, a gentleman formerly resident at Cambray in Cambresis; containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France as well as in other countries. A history of fair example and of great profit to the French, beginning at the year MCCCC where that of Sir John Froissart finishes and ending at the year MCCCLXVII and continued by others to the year MDXVI, translated by Thomas Johnes, 5 volumes, Hafod: At the Hafod Press, by James Henderson, 1809, copper engraved vignette to each title by Britton and Angus 51 line engraved plates bound in the final volume, including one double-page engraving, together withGrafton (Richard). Grafton's Chronicle; or, History of England. Too which is added his table of the bailiffs, sheriffs, and mayors, of the City of London. From the year 1189 to 1558, inclusive, 2 volumes, London: printed for J. Johnson; F. C. and J. Rivington; T Payne; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orm; Cadell and Davies; and J. Mawman, 1809, plusFroissart (Sir John). Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; translated from the original French, at the Command of King Henry Eighth, by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. Reprinted from Pynson's edition of 1523, and 1525; with the names of places and persons carefully corrected. To which are added, a memoir of the translator, and a copious index to the work, 2 volumes, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; T Payne; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orm, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Murray: R H Evans; J. Mawman; and R. Baldwin, 1812, and five other similar reprints fo early chronicles: Hall's Chronicle; containing the history of England, during the reign of Henry Fourth, and the succeeding monarchs, to the end of the reign of Henry Eighth...carefully collated the editions of 1548 and 1550, London: printed for J. Johnson... 1809, The Customs of London, otherwise called Arnold's Chronicle; containing, among divers others matters, the original of the celebrated poem of The Nut-Brown maid, reprinted from the first edition, with the additions included in second, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1811, The Pastime of People, or the chronicles of divers realms; and most especially of the realm of England. Briefly compiled, and imprinted in Cheapside, by John Rastell, [A. D. 1529], now first reprinted, and systematically arranged, with facsimile wood-cuts of the portraits of Popes, Emperors, & c., and the Kings of England, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1811, The New Chronicles of England and France, in two parts; by Robert Fabyan. Named by himself the Concordance of Histories. Reprinted from Pyson's edition of 1516, the first part collated with the editions of 1533, 1542, and 1559; and the second with a manuscript of the author's own time, as well as the subsequent editions: including the different continuations, to which are added biographical and literary preface, and an index, by Henry Ellis, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1811, and The Chronicle of John Hardyng containing an account for public transactions for the earliest period of English history to the beginning of the reign of King Edward Fourth. Together with the continuation by Richard Grafton, to the thirty-fourth year of King Henry Eighth, the former part collated with two manuscripts of the author's own time; the last with Grafton's duplicate edition, to which are added a biographical and literary preface, and an index by Henry Ellis, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1812, wide margins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, fine contemporary near-uniform full polished speckled calf gilt, inside dentels gilt, covers with floral and crown corner ornaments, spines elaborately gilt-decorated in compartments between five raised bands, light brown title labels, the first nine volumes with additional volume spine label in dark brown morocco, a few minor marks (generally in excellent condition), large 4to (binding measures 30.5 x 24 cm, 12 x 9 1/2 ins)QTY: (14)NOTE:Londes III, p. 1586; Cave, private press, pp 67-68 (monstrelet); Coxiii p. 380; Londes II, p. 924 (Grafton); Cox iii p. 375; Londes II, p. 843 (Froissart); Cox 3, p. 378; Londes II p.984 (Hall); Cox, 3 p. 374; Londes I, p. 72 (Arnold); Cox 3, p. 377; Londes IV, p. 2051 (Rastell); Cox3, p. 375; Londes II, pp. 773-774 (Fabyan); Cox 3, p. 378; Londes II, p. 994 (Hardyng).

Barrie (J. M.) The Little Minister, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Cassell & Company, 1891, 1st issue with half-titles and 16 pp. advertisements at end of volume I, with code '5G.9.91', original cloth covers and spine bound-in at rear, bookplates of Alexander Stone, all edges gilt, finely bound in later tan full calf by Bayntun, Bath, covers with double fillet gilt borders, spines with black and olive morocco labels and gilt decoration (slight partial fading to covers), 8vo, together with J. M. Barrie and his Books. Biographical and Critical Studies, by J. A. Hammerton, 1st edition, 1900, rebound in later tan half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.First work Sadleir 167.

Nelson (Robert). The Life of Dr. George Bull, Late Lord Bishop of St. David's. With the history of those controversies in which he was engaged: and an abstract of those fundamental doctrines which he maintained and defended in the Latin tongue, 1st edition, London: Printed for Richard Smith at the sign of Bishop Beveridge's Head in pater-noster-Row near Cheapside and in Exeter-Change in the Strand, 1713, engraved portrait frontispiece by Van der Gucht, woodcut initials and head-pieces, ruled in red throughout, marbled endpapers, with bookplate of Richard Palmer Esqr. to front pastedown, small additional early 20th-century bookplate label below with motto 'Victoria concordia crescit' (possibly a member of the Amherst family?), verso of front free endpaper also with a differing 20th-century armorial bookplate bearing the same motto, maroon morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front marbled endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary elaborately gilt-decorated red full morocco bound by Albert & Chapman for Queen Anne, with 'cottage roof' gilt decoration to boards bearing the gilt royal arms of Queen Anne (1665-1714) to centre, upper hinge and foot of spine repaired, lower board detached and head of spine worn, spine darkened and with wear, edges rubbed, 8vo, contained in 19th-century plum morocco slipcase, title to spine and the words 'Queen Anne's copy from the Masham Library' in gilt, a little marked, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Anne, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (1665-1714), armorial binding; Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham (1678/79-1758) and his wife Lady Abigail Masham (c. 1670-1734); Richard Palmer of Otes, Essex; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham (1678/79-1758), was a courtier in the court of Queen Anne, and the husband of her favourite Lady Abigail Masham. Masham was born 1678/79, the eighth son of Sir Francis Masham, 3rd Baronet, and Mary Scott, in Otes in High Laver, Essex (the same house where John Locke spent his final years as a paying guest to Francis). He was introduced to the Royal Household as page to Prince George of Denmark, the husband of the future Queen Anne. In 1701, he was promoted to the position of equerry. He met his future wife, Abigail Hill, in about 1704, when she was appointed Lady of the Bedchamber to Anne, who was now Queen. After Queen Anne's death in 1714, Abigail retired into private life, but Samuel Masham became King's Remembrancer in 1716. His son Samuel (1712-1776) was Lord of the Bedchamber to George II and Auditor General of the Household of George, Prince of Wales. On Samuel’s first marriage in 1736 to Henrietta Winnington his father settled the family estate on him. On the 1st Baron’s death in 1758, his son inherited the title, becoming the 2nd Baron Masham of Otes. At the time of his marriage to his second wife Charlotte Dive he sold much of his family library to a bookseller (including books bequeathed by John Locke). Lord Masham and his wife were extravagant and borrowed money on a grand scale which led to the eventual loss of the Estate. Much of the money lent had been provided by his estate manager Robert Palmer who later acquired the estate. His son Richard Palmer inherited the estate from his father and disposed of it at auction in 1801.

Bury (T. T.) Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with plates of the coaches, machines, &c. From drawings made on the spot by Mr. T. T. Bury. With descriptive particulars serving as a guide to travellers on the railway, 1st edition, London: R. Ackermann, 1831, 14 hand-coloured aquatint plates by H. Pyall & S. G. Hughes after T. T. Bury, including one extra folding colour aquatint plate by S. G. Hughes after I. Shaw 'A Train of Waggons with Goods &c &c' (splitting at head of fold), a few small light stains, hinges reinforced, contemporary previous owner inscription to front pastedown, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, morocco label to upper cover, boards somewhat rubbed, 4to, 34 x 27.5 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Tooley 120: 'Copies occur with 2 extra folding coloured aquatint plates by I. Shaw. engraved by S. G. Hughes viz. "A Train of First and Second Class Carriages with the Mail" and "Train of Waggons and Goods, Cattle &c" '.

Gibbon (Edward). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 volumes, 1st edition (except volume one, 2nd edition), London: printed for W Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1776, 1781 & 1788, half-title to each volume, engraved portrait frontispiece to second volume, folding engraved map to second volume (A Map of the Eastern Part of the Roman Empire), and single-page engraved map (Map of the Parts of Europe and Asia, adjacent to Constantinople), folding engraved map to third volume (A Map of the Western Part of the Roman Empire), each volume with contemporary ink signature of D. Gell to title or adjacent leaf, and late 18th century bookplate of Philip Gell Hopton to front pastedown and title verso of first volume, all volumes untrimmed (wide margins), a few leaves with minor marginal spotting or other marks (generally in clean condition), errata leaf at rear of second, third and sixth volumes, as called for, contemporary near-uniform plain boards (volumes one to three in grey boards, volume four to six in pale blue boards), spines titled in manuscript in brown ink, rubbed, first three volumes with repairs to head and foot of spines, large 4to QTY: (6)

Goldsmith (Oliver). The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, residing in London, to his Friends in the East, 1st edition, 2 volumes, London: J. Newbery, 1762, title to first volume with closed tear neatly repaired, without final blank leaves as usual at end of each volume (N12 and M8 respectively), Beeleigh Abbey bookplate to front pastedown of each volume, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, fine early 20th-century gilt-decorated red full morocco (without binder's name), in excellent condition, 12mo (169 x 92mm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Rothschild 1021; I. A. Williams, p. 123. SCOTT, pp. 71-4; ESTC T146035. First collected edition.Fine copy of the first edition. As usual, page vii in the first volume is numbered 'v'. The 'i' in the catchword in volume II, page 11 is out of alignment, not dropped. Goldsmith's letters appeared anonymously in The Public Ledger beginning in late January of 1760, and concluded in August of the following year. Their considerable popularity, and their publication in book form, were significant elements in Goldsmith's early ascent from Grub Street to what Scott describes as "the freedom of the precincts of the inner sanctuary of letters."

James I. The True Lawe of Free Monarchies. Or the Reciprock and mutuall dutie betwixt a free King, and his naturall Subjects, [2nd edition], London: Printed by T. C. [Thomas Creede] according to the copie printed at Edenburgh, 1603, without A1 (blank), A4(-A1) B-D8, E4, woodcut coat of arms of James I to title (a little soiling, and minimal loss to extreme inner and outer lower blank corners), light water stains to lower portion of leaves at front and rear, old inscription in brown ink to front pastedown 'Horace 2nd-21', burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, late 17th or early 18th-century sprinkled full calf, with spine lettered in gilt at head 'HOR.2-21', and upper cover stamped in gilt, 'Traquair House', water stain to lower left corner of upper cover, housed in modern dark brown quarter morocco drop-over bookbox, 12moQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Traquair House, home of the Stewart family. Originally a hunting lodge for the kings and queens of Scotland, the property was gifted by the Earl of Buchan, a half uncle to James III, to his second son James Stewart. James became the first Lord of Traquair in 1491 after James IV had succeeded to the throne; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). STC 14410; ESTC S119321. Rare.The True Lawe of Free Monarchies was first published in Edinburgh as a small octavo pamphlet in 1598, when James was King of Scotland. This octavo edition was published in London in the year James was crowned King of England. The True Lawe embodies a political theory that kindled dissension in England throughout the seventeenth century. James was not the first king to believe in his own Divine Right - Henry VIII took it for granted when he made himself Supreme Head of the English Church - but was the first to elaborate the theological case for his convictions, and to thrust them upon his subjects in print.

Churchill (Winston S.) India. Speeches and an Introduction, 1st paperback edition, London: Thornton Butterworth, 1931, original orange upper wrapper priced at 1/- bound in at front, all edges gilt, later navy morocco gilt by Sangorski, upper cover with facsimile signature in gilt, spine with raised bands and lettered and gilt, 8vo, together with Great Contemporaries, 1st edition, London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937, half title, 21 half-tone portraits, all edges gilt, uniform navy morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf as above, 8vo, with four other 1st editions uniformly bound: Arms and the Covenant. Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, compiled by Randolph S. Churchill, 1938, Step by Step 1936-1939, 1938, Painting as a Pastime, 1948, and A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill, by Frederick Woods, 2nd revised edition reissued, St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1979 QTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Woods A38; A43(a); A44(a); A45 and A125 for first five titles respectively.

Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management, first edition in book form, first issue, London: S. O. Beeton, 1861, colour-printed wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 12 plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, lacking leaves 2R4 & 2R5 (pp. 615-618), some discreet archival tissue strengthening to margins mostly at front of volume, modern dark green cloth gilt, thick 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Axford p. 38; Bitting p. 32; Cagle 561; Simon BG 186.This highly popular work was originally published in 24 monthly parts, 1859-1861. The example here is the first edition in book form, first printing, with Cox and Wyman as the printers and with the first line of the errata referring to p. 57, not p. 657.

Campbell (Patrick). Travels in the interior inhabited parts of North America. In the Years 1791 and 1792. In which is given an account of the manners and customs of the Indians, and the present war between them and the Federal States, the mode of life and system of farming among the new settlers of both Canadas, New York, New England, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia; interspersed with anecdotes of people, observations on the soil, natural productions, and political situation of these countries, 1st edition, Edinburgh: printed for the author, 1793, half title, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (partly hand-coloured), two engraved plates (one folding), folding table, some light spotting and toning, all edges gilt, later elaborate straight-grained maroon morocco, covers panelled in blind with central arabesque and corner foliated pieces in gilt, border roll in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (joints slighlly rubbed), contained in cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.ESTC N13837; Howes C101; Sabin 10264.'A curious and entertaining book' (Sabin) containing much first-hand information on Canada's First Nations. A Scottish farmer and merchant, Campbell claims to have sailed from Greenock in July 1791 with the intention of exploring for its own sake. Landing at St. John's, he travelled on through New Brunswick, Frederick Town, Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Niagara, Grand River, Genesee County, the Mowhawk River, Albany, New York and New Jersey.

Johnson (Samuel). The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale, 2 volumes bound in one, 1st edition, London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Johnston, 1759, titlepage to each volume, "Contents of the Second Volume" on A2r of volume 2, and "indiscerpible" spelling on page 161, blank M4 at end of second volume not present, bookplate of Lady Frances Scott to front pastedown, contemporary speckled calf gilt, rubbed and some wear to edges, rebacked with original spine and red morocco title label retained, upper joint partly cracked, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Lady Frances Scott, later Lady Douglas (1750-1817). In 1783, Frances married Archibald Douglas, with whom she had six children, including the novelist Caroline Lucy Scott. In their home at Bothwell Castle she entertained poets and authors including 'Monk' Lewis, the belle-lettriste Mary Berry (author of Social Life in England and France from the French Revolution (1831), and Sir Walter Scott.Courtney & Smith pp. 85-87; Tinker 1314; Rothschild 1242; Fleeman 59.4R/1.First edition. According to Boswell, “None of [Johnson's] writings has been so extensively diffused over Europe; for it has been translated into most, if not all, of the modern languages." Johnson began writing Rasselas (as the present work is better known) in January 1759 after his mother's death as a way to pay for her burial and discharge her debt. He finished it in a week and "this rapidity of execution is said to have been due to the fact all his life long he had been pondering over its chief topics" (Courtney & Smith). Two variant states of the first edition exist, although the traditional distinction between first and second issues no longer appears correct: Fleeman argues persuasively that the distribution of variants in different copies bears only on the production of Rasselas and not its publication.

Parkinson (John). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause used with us, and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge planting & preserving of them and their uses & vertues, collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, 1st edition, London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629, [12], 612, [16] pp., woodcut title (relaid), woodcut portrait of Parkinson to **6 verso, full-page woodcut of garden design, 109 full-page botanical woodcuts, a few smaller woodcut illustrations to text, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown a few preliminary leaves damp-mottled, final text leaf with lower and outer margin reinforced to verso, occasional light scattered spotting, 19th-century tree calf gilt, red morocco title label, covers with gilt foliate roll border, rubbed, folio (320 x 205 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen 1489; STC 19300.First edition of 'the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England' (Henrey).

Churchill (Winston S.) Winston S. Churchill, by Randolph S. Churchill, continued by Martin Gilbert, 8 volumes, 1st edition, London: Heinemann, 1966-88, half titles, colour frontispiece to volume VIII, maps and half-tone illustrations, all edges gilt, later uniform navy morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf, upper cover with facsimile signature in gilt, spines with raised bands and lettered in gilt, 8vo QTY: (8)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Woods p. 390.A complete set of the Life of Winston Churchill, the first two volumes by Randolph S. Churchill, continued after his death in 1968 by Martin Gilbert, a researcher for Randolph Churchill who was then appointed official biographer. A further five supplementary companions to the text, issued in 13 volumes, were published between 1967 and 1981.

Howell (James). Londinopolis: An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain: whereunto is added another of the City of Westminster, with the Courts of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging, 1st edition, London: Printed by J. Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring and John Place, 1657, etched portrait frontispiece by Abraham Bosse after Claude Melan (5th state, with added coat of arms), title printed in red and black, double-page etched panorama of London by Wenceslaus Hollar, near-contemporary ownership inscription in brown ink to head of dedication leaf 'Henry Bishop November ye 20th 1682', and similar marginal annotations to the 'Parallel of London with other great Cities of the World', erratic pagination and signatures, some browning, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, early 20th-century brown half calf gilt (endpapers renewed), lightly rubbed with minor fading to upper portion of upper cover, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Probably Henry Bishopp (1605–1691), also spelt Bishop and Bisshopp, of Henfield, West Sussex, Postmaster General of England and inventor of the first postmark used on mail (inscription); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC R13420; Grolier, Wither to Prior, 487; Pforzheimer 515; Wing H3091.James Howell (c. 1594-1666), historian and writer, gained a secretaryship of the Privy Council on the eve of the English Civil War (according to one eminent critic 'very close to the type of appointment that he had sought for 20 years'), though due to the change in political circumstances he never took up the position. Instead he became the first writer to earn his living solely from writing in the English language. He was the first English writer of an epistolary novel (Familiar Letters). His Lexicon Tetragloton was a dictionary not in four languages, but in six; a dictionary of Latin vernacular (Romance language) proverbs. His New English Grammar is also considered the first work of foreign language teaching in English.

Powell (Thomas). Direction for Search of Records remaining in the Chancerie, Tower, Exchequer, with the Limnes thereof : viz. The Kings Remembrancer. Lord Treasurers Remembrancer. Clarke of the Extreats. Pipe. Auditors. The First Fruits. Augmentation of the Reuenue. Kings Bench. Common Pleas. Records of Courts Christian. For the clearing of all such titles, and questions, as the same may concerne. With the accustomed fees of search: and diuerse necessarie obseruations, London: B[ernard] A[lsop] for Paul Man, 1622, 78 pp., lacks first and last blanks, manuscript contents leaf inserted at rear (soiled), some spotting and slight staining at rear, minor worm tracing to upper outer corners of initial leaves away from text, old ownership name inscriptions of John Hughes (to title), Joseph Green, rector of Welford, Gloucestershire, and John Hughes to four additional note leaves tipped in at front, inscribed in pencil 'Hopkins 1847' [by Thomas Phillipps] above Green's name and inscription, contemporary gilt-panelled limp vellum, heavily rubbed and soiled, lacking ties, slim 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: John Hughes, Joseph Green [Thomas Phillipps] and John Hughes (inscriptions).STC 20166. Only edition. Thomas Powell was a notable poet, man of letters and legal antiquarian. In this work, the author offers guidance to lawyers concerning the location and use of records, an important aspect of early English legal education.

Beltrami (Giacomo Costantino). A Pilgrimage in Europe and America, leading to the Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River; with a Description of the whole course of the former, and of the Ohio, 2 volumes, 1st edition in English, London: Hunt and Clarke, 1828, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, 3 folding engraved maps and plans, 3 engraved plates of Indian ornaments, some spotting to plates and light offsetting to text, crimson gilt morocco bookplates of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (volume I front pastedown with abrasion from label removal), contemporary tan calf, covers panelled in gilt, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, edges lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: The Library of William Foyle, Part III, Christie's, 2000, part lot 772; 'B. M. Lundy (?) from his friend John Bastard, April 1835', presentation inscription at front of volume I.Howes B-338; Sabin 4605.First published in France in 1824. Beltrami, an Italian adventurer, joined Major Stephen Long's expedition to explore the up[per reaches of the Mississippi River. Becoming obsessed with discovering the source of the river and after falling out with Long, he struck out on his own, discovering Lake Julia (or Giulia), which he claimed was the source, before returning down the river to Fort Saint Anthony, collecting native American artefacts along the way. The first edition in French was severely criticised, especially by Long, and in the present edition he responds to the attacks in the preface and with two letters.

Jonson (Ben). Works, 1st collected edition, 3 volumes: The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, London: Imprinted at London by Will Stansby, 1616, The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, London: Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in St. Paules Church-yard, 1640, & The Workes of Benjamin Johnson, The second Volume. Containing these playes, viz. 1 Bartholomew Fayre. 2 The Staple of Newes. 3 The Divell is an Asse. London: Printed for Richard Meighen, 1631– 1640 [i.e., 1641], The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, London: Printed by Richard Bishop, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in St. Paules Church-yard, 1640, volume 1: [12], 1015 pp. (¶6, A-Pppp6, Qqqq4), engraved allegorical title by William Hole (a good strong impression), with engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Newdigate of Arbery in the County of Warwick Baronet (dated 1709) pasted to verso, woodcut title for Every Man out of his Humour at page 73 in first state, woodcut initials, E6 (page 59-60) thinned with small vertical hairline tears without loss, Xx6 (page 527-528) with minor loss to lower outer blank corner, not affecting text, Yy2 (page 531-532) with loss to lower outer blank corner, not affecting text, contemporary marginal annotation in brown ink to Mmm4 (page 692) and numerous early marginal marks in brown ink (some in pencil) between pages 683 and 760 (the text of Catiline), front and rear pastedowns from an Latin incunable text, contemporary ink ownership signature of John Newdigate to front endpaper, with annotation adjacent 'Trin Coll' and numeral '359,6', engraved armorial bokplate of Sr Roger Newdigate Bart to front pastedown, and adjacent later printed bookplate of Lillian Barbour Bennett, all edges red with manuscript library shelfmark to fore-edge 'B : I : PL : 359', contemporary blind-panelled and blind-decorated full calf, with remains of original ties, rubbed and some wear to edges, volume 2: general printed title with woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 339), the individual plays each with separate printed title, except Christmas His Masque with drop-title, the printed titles to three plays listed on the main title (Bartholomew Fayre, The Staple of Newes, The Divell is an Asse) with woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 374), woodcut initials and headpieces, a few minor marks, front endpaper loose, early (late 17th or early 18th century) ownership signature to front pastedown 'J Perfect's Book', volume 3: engraved portrait of the author [A1], engraved titlepage bearing the imprint of Richard Bishop and Andrew Crooke, a few marks and minor dampstains, volumes 2 and 3 bound in matching late 17th or early 18th century blind-panelled full calf, rubbed and some wear to edges, outer corners renewed, all three volumes with later (20th century) antique-style uniform calf gilt reback, folio QTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance (volume one): John Newdigate (1600 – 29 November 1642), English politician and poet, second child and eldest son of Sir John Newdigate of Arbury Hall, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire and his wife Anne. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 6 November 1618, aged 18 and was a student of Gray's Inn and of the Inner Temple in 1620 (ownership signature to first volume); Sir Richard Newdigate (1644-1710), of Arbery in the county of Warwick, 2nd Baronet (engraved bookplate dated 1709 to verso of title to first volume); Sir Roger Newdigate (1719-1806), 5th baronet of Harefield (in Middlesex) and Arbury (in Warwickshire), English antiquary, and founder of the Newdigate Prize at Oxford University (bookplate to front pastedown of first volume).STC 14751 & 14754; ESTC S126501 & S111824; Greg III, pp. 1070 & 1076; Grolier/English 35; Pforzheimer 559 & 560.The first collected edition of Jonson's plays, masques, entertainments and non-dramatic poetry, second in importance only to Shakespeare’s folios in 17th century English drama. The publication of a collected "Workes" in folio, its title-page adorned with classical motifs, was a typically audacious move by Jonson, especially because he included in it nine plays written for the commercial theatre. In his first folio Jonson presents his stage plays as serious works of literature, a crucial step in establishing the literary credentials of the public theatre, often dismissed as ephemeral at the time; one contemporary responded to the publication with a distich: "Pray tell me Ben, where does the mystery lurk/What others call a play, you call a work?" Jonson's 1616 folio stood as a precedent for other play collections that followed—notably the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623, and the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio in 1647. When Heminges and Condell came to prepare the Shakespeare First Folio, Jonson himself provided commendatory verses. Shakespeare's name appears twice in Jonson's folio, listed among the principal players for Every Man in his Humour and Sejanus.Two further folio collections of Jonson's works were issued in 1640-41. The first, printed by Richard Bishop for Andrew Crooke, was a 1640 reprint of the 1616 folio with corrections and emendations; it has thus sometimes been termed the second edition of the first folio. The second volume was edited by Jonson's literary executor Sir Kenelm Digby, and published by Richard Meighen, in co-operation with Chetwinde. That volume contained later works, most of them unpublished or uncollected previously—seven plays (including the three printed in 1631), two of them incomplete, and fifteen masques, plus miscellaneous pieces. In the Digby/Meighen volume—identified on its title page as the 'Second Volume' of Jonson's works—the varying dates (1631, 1640, 1641) in some of the texts, and what has been called "irregularity in contents and arrangement in different copies," have caused significant confusion.

Leonardus de Utino. Sermones quadragesimales de legibus fratris Leonardi de Utino sacre theologie doctoris ordinis predicatorum, Vicenza: Impensa [et] diligentia maxima Stephani koblinger de Vienna impressum hoc op[us] p[re]clarissimu[m] Vince[n]tie octauo cale[n]d[as] decembris. MCCCCLXXViiii [24 November 1479], 403 (of 404) leaves, a2-10, b-s10, t8, v-y10, 1-2 8, 3-19 10, lacking the first leaf (a1), which is blank to recto but has a Table to verso, text printed in Koblinger's types 2:150G and 3:74G, in double column, 52 lines per column, capital spaces, rubricated throughout, larger red initials and numerous small initials in red, primary initial on a2 recto unrealised, burgundy morocco gilt book plate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, scattered contemporary marginal annotations in brown ink, light soiling to recto of first leaf, a5 with some creasing to blank fore-margin, a few minor marginal stains and small repairs (small repairs, not affecting text, minor paper repair to head of inner margin of a5-6, s8-10 with stain to lower outer blank margin, z4 with small paper repairs to lower blank margin, 7 9-10, and 8 1-2 with small paper repairs and associated stain to lower outer margins, light water stain to lower outer corners at rear of volume), early 20th-century Italian limp full vellum, lettered by hand to spine (endpapers renewed), thick Chancery folio (290 x 195 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).GW M17926; Goff L148; BN 15th century VII 1043 (IB.31825); BSB-INK L124; Bod-inc L077.Rare: only two auction records of this edition located (Catawiki, 2021 and Christies New York, The Knakles Collection of Incunabula, 17 April 2000, lot 151.The collected sermons of the famous Dominican Friar Leonardo Mateo da Udine (died 1469). Leonardo delivered sermons across Italy, including Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and served as professor of Theology and rector of the Dominican school at Bologna before he became prior of the Convent of St Dominic, also in Bologna.The second of four books printed at Vicenza by the prototypographer of Vienna. This edition of the Udine Dominican Leonardo's popular sermons is a page-for-page reprint of the first edition, printed in 1473 at Venice by Franciscus Renner and Nicolaus de Frankfordia. Koblinger probably trained in Renner's office, since the material and texts of all three of Koblinger's signed Vicenza editions show connections with Renner, including the unusual method of signing using the alphabet (a-y) followed by arabic numerals. The two gothic founts used in both this and Koblinger's 1480 edition of Utino's Sermones de sanctis vary only slightly from types of the same size used by Renner up until 1477-1478. Koblinger presumably acquired the punches and/or types after the dissolution of the Renner-Frankfordia partnership in 1477. By 1481 Koblinger had returned to his native Vienna, where he was almost certainly responsible for the production of a German-Italian vocabulary and 7 or 8 other unsigned tracts, printed in 1482 and 1485.Koblinger printed only a handful of books including the first ever issued in Vienna. The sermones is the second of just four known works printed by Koblinger in Vicenza, before he returned to Vienna in 1481. There he published the Vocabolista Italico-Tedesco, the first book to be published in Vienna.

Anderson (Aeneas). A Narrative of the British Embassy to China, in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794; containing the various circumstances of the Embassy, with accounts of the customs and manners of the Chinese; and a description of the country, towns, cities &c., 1st edition, London: printed for J. Debrett, 1795, half title, closed tears to the two glossary leaves at end, some light spotting, contemporary signature of Samuel Plant to front endpapers, front hinge tender, original boards, spine rubbed with tear and loss at foot, water stain to lower cover, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Cordier 2386; Cox I, p. 344; ESTC T96963.The first printed account of George Macartney’s British Embassy to Peking in 1792-1794. As Macartney’s personal livery servant Anderson was able to record the events at first-hand, as well as a 'list of the gentlemen who composed the retinue of Earl Macartney', an appendix containing 'an account of the transactions of the squadron during the absence of the embassy, till their return on board his Majesty’s ship the Lion at Wampoa' and a glossary of Chinese words.

Guevara (Antonio de). The Dial of Princes compiled by the reverend father in God Don Antony of Guevara, Byshop of Guadir, Preacher, & Chronicler to Charles the fift, late of that name Emperour. Englished out of the French by Thomas North, sonne of Sir Edward North knight L. North of Kirtheling. And nowe newly reuised and corrected by hym, refourmed of faultes escaped in the first edition : with an amplification also of a fourth booke annexed to the same, entituled The fauoured Courtier, never heretofore imprynted in our vulgare tongue. Right necessarie and pleasaunt to all noble and vertuous persons, [London]: Nowe newly imprinted by Richarde Tottill. An. Domini. 1582, [28 (of 30) unnumbered leaves], 476 numbered leaves (folios 1-476), A6 (lacking A7-8), B-C8, A-NNn8, OOo4, woodcut title, woodcut initials, black letter text, a very fine copy with clean wide margins, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, later 19th-century marbled endpapers, with 19th-century bookplate of Henry Cunliffe Armiger to front pastedown, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front endpaper, old bookseller's printed catalogue description tipped-in to front endpaper, fine later 19th century gilt-decorated red-brown full levant morocco by Riviere, with large centre ornament to each side, gilt lettered and decorated spine in compartments between five raised bands, some fading to spine, small 4to[60], 476 [i.e. 752], [1] p. A-C? D? A-3N? 3O?.QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Reverend Henry Cunliffe (1826-1894), Vicar of Shifnal, Shropshire, fourth son of Sir Robert Henry Cunliffe, 4th Baronet (bookplate, and bibliographical notes in Cunliffe's hand to front endpapers). A selection from his library was sold anonymously at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 21 May 1897, with further books from his library sold by Sotheby's, London, 27 and 28 May 1946; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).STC 12429.Rare enlarged edition translated by Thomas North from Guevara's Relox de Príncipes of 1529, a treatise on the education and ideal conduct of princes, and thought to be a source-work for Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Capgrave (John). [Nova legenda Anglie, 1st edition, London: Wynkyn de Worde, 27 February, 1516], black letter text, 44 lines and headline in double column, without catchwords, full-page woodcut of Saints in Glory [Hodnett 237] on the first page, repeated on the verso and the penultimate page, full-page cut of the royal arms on verso of folio A6 of preliminaries, and Caxton's large device on last page, woodcut criblé initials, upper marginal repairs to first 9 leaves including piece torn from top of Ai affecting the woodcut on both pages, narrow worm-track with careful repairs slightly affecting text through first 29 folios, upper corner of A2 (Prologus) neatly replaced with piece from another copy with the large decorative initial 'S' neatly inked en grisaille, following folios A3 & A4 supplied from a slightly smaller copy (peppered wormholes and old ink underscoring), skilful circular repair (from another copy) to second column of folio 171, a few scattered discrete and mostly marginal repairs including to folios 96, 120, 168, 182 and 269, lacks blank ll6 (between folios 192 and 193), scattered old ink marginal marks, some old mostly marginal dampstaining, heavier browning from damp to upper margins of last few leaves, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, 19th-century diced tan russia, blind-stamped decorated spine with gilt lettering, some edge wear, covers detached, folio (280 x 195 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Collation: A, A-X, a-z, &, aa-ll [-blank ll6]; 341 leaves, 6 leaves unnumbered; i-cccxxxiiii, last folio unnumbered.STC 4601; Plomer, Wynkyn de Worde, pp. 82-83.This Catalogus of the lives of 168 saints is based on the work of John of Tynemouth (died 1290?). It was attributed in the middle of the 16th century to John Capgrave (1393-1464) by the antiquaries John Leland and John Bale, but that has since proved to be unfounded (cf. P. J. Lucas, 'John Capgrave and the Nova legenda Anglie: A Survey', The Library, 5th series, XXV, 1970, pp.1-10). None of the manuscripts or early printed editions of the work names an author. Its alphabetical, rather than chronological, arrangement made this one of the most useful books printed by Wynkyn de Worde.Rare. Copies are often found lacking the woodcut illustrations, all of which are present in this copy, as well as the life of Thomas à Becket (folios 283-93), which was suppressed.

Boethius. Arithmetica geometria et Musica Boetii, Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis fratres, 18 August 1492, 68 leaves in double column gothic type (aa-kk6, ll8), 283 woodcut illustrations to text, one contemporary marginal annotation in brown ink to aa2, large printer's woodcut device to verso of final leaf, bound with Boethius. De Consolatione, Venice: Joannes de Forlivio et Gregorium fratres, 26 March 1491, 96 leaves in double column gothic type (aa-kk6, ll8), 283 woodcut illustrations to text, wide clean margins, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, old bookseller's typewritten description tipped-in to front endpaper, 19th century full vellum, gilt-decorated spine with contrasting red and black morocco labels, lightly rubbed and soiled, folio (293 x 202 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).GKW 4511; Goff B767.Printed, foliated, and signed as part of the first collected edition of Boethius' Opera. The number of copies of this part recorded in Goff suggests, however, that it was sold separately. The first printing of De Musica, one of the earliest printed texts on harmony and proportion. A public servant under Theodoric the Great, Boethius would later be imprisoned and executed for conspiracy. His work as translator and commentator played a vital role in the transmission of classical knowledge in the Middle Ages. The treatise he wrote while awaiting execution, De consolatione philosophiae, has stood as a classic of 'prison literature' for over a thousand years.

Collins (John, 1625-1683). The Mariners Plain Scale new plain'd: or, A Treatise shewing the ample Uses of a Circle equally divided, or of a Line of Chords and equal Parts, divided into three books or parts ... To which may also be added a Treatise of the Authors, of Dyalling by a Line of Chords, formerly published. Of great Use to Sea-men, and Students in the Mathematicks, 3 parts in one, 1st edition, London: Thomas Johnson for Francis Cossinet, 1659, full-page engraved illustration on A1 (The Azimuth Compass), one folding engraved plate at end (rehinged), numerous woodcut diagrams in text, including a few full-page, some later 18th-century marginal ink annotations, old ownership inscription to verso of the Navigation title removed and covered with old slip of pasted paper, bound with Geometricall Dyalling: or, Dyalling performed by a Line of Chords onely, or by the Plain Scale. Wherein is contained two several methods of inscribing the Hour-Lines in all Plains, with the Substile, Stile and Meridian, in their proper Coasts and Quantities; being a full explication and demonstration of divers difficulties in the works of learned Mr Samuel Foster, deceased, late Professor of Astronomy in Gresham Colledge; also a collection of divers things from the works of Clavius and others ..., 1st edition, London: Thomas Johnson for Francis Cossinet, 1659, engraved frontispiece (close-trimmed to fore-edge), 20 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations in text, light spotting and browning, 18th-century ownership signature to front endpaper of W. Crakett, bookplate to front pastedown of the Scott Library Collection, Institution of Naval Architects, dated 1930, contemporary calf, later reback with black morocco gilt spine label, small 4to (190 x 136 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Royal Institution of Naval Architects: most likely purchased at the sale of books from the library by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 4/5 December 1974.Mariners Plain Scale: Tomash & Williams C124-126; Adams & Waters 414; Crone Library, 213* (214, 215, 216); ESTC R171445, R207824; Wing C5378 & 5378A.Geometricall Dyalling: Wing C5373. A technical manual of practical trigonometry without the use of a quadrant, with plates engraved by Henry Sutton,The issue with the title of The Mariners Plain Scale new plain'd placed before that of Navigation by the Mariners Plain Scale new plain'd at front of volume, rather than before the second part of the work. The work therefore can appear under either title (see Sotheby's, Macclesfield Library, 30 October 2007, lot 3424).Amendment: Please note that the ink annotations mentioned in the first work are in a later 18th-century hand and are not contemporary.

Sparke (Michael). The Narrative History of King James, for the first fourteen years. In four Parts. I. The State of England at His Majesties entrance, and relation it had to other parts: the lascivious courses at court; with the Lord of Northampton's coming to honour: the division betwixt the Hollander and English, betwixt the Scot and English, betwixt the English and Irish: also the rising of Somerset..., II. The Proceedings touching the divorce betwixt the Lady Frances Howard and Robert Earl of Essex ... Also, the arraignment of Sir Jer. Elvis Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Thomas Monson Knight, Anne Turner, ... touching the murthering and poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury..., III. A Declaration of His Majesties revenue with assignations and defalcations upon the same, and of all monies brought into His Majesties coffers from time to time..., IV. The Commissions and Warrants for the Burning of two Hereticks, both holding part of the same our Ranters do, being old heresies, newly revived..., 1st edition, London: Printed for Michael Sparke, 1651, additional engraved allegorical title with preceding letterpress explanatory leaf ('The Emblematical Title explained'), folding engraved portrait of Robert Earl of Somerset and Lady Frances Howard, engraved portrait of Sir Thomas Overbury, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 11 additional 17th-century portraits and a map of London, without blank V4 (as often), all edges gilt, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, and printed description of this copy from an auction or bookseller's catalogue tipped onto front endpaper (dated 28/3/44), attractive early 20th-century gilt-decorated red full morocco, minimal marks to extremities, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Wing S4818.Fine copy. The extra engraved illustrations are: portrait of King James by Vaughan, folding engraved map of Londinum by Johann Christopher Beer of 1690, based on the earlier map by Rutger Hermannides, published in Das Den-Geharnische Gross-Britannien in 1661 (Howgego, Printed Maps of London, 38), oval coat-of-arms of James I (in reverse), oval portrait of Prince Henry and his parents, oval portrait of Prince Henry on horseback, portrait of Sir William Wade, folding portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh by Simon Pass, portrait of Theodore Beza, portrait of Francis Bacon by Crispin de Pass, portrait of Jacobus VI, and double portrait of Frederick and Elizabeth of Bohemia.

Bulwer (John). Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transform'd: or the Artificiall Changling Historically presented, in the mad and cruell Gallantry, foolish Bravery, ridiculous Beauty, filthy Finenesse, and loathsome Loveliness of most Nations, fashioning and altering their Bodies from the mould intended by Nature; with figures of those transfigurations. To which artificiall and affected Deformations are added, all the Native and Nationall Monstrosities that have appeared to disfigure the Humane Fabrick. With a Vindication of the Regular Beauty and Honesty of Nature. And an Appendix of the Pedigree of the English Gallant, 2nd enlarged edition, London: Printed by William Hunt, 1653, printed explanatory leaf ('The intent of the Frontispiece unfolded'), engraved portrait of the author by Faithorne, allegorical engraved frontispiece, woodcut head-pieces and initials, numerous woodcut illustrations to text, occasional light spots, minor light waterstain to lower outer corners of some leaves towards rear of volume, marbled endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, late 19th-century gilt-decorated red full morocco (by Antoine Chatelin), a few marks and light discolouration, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC R202040; Wing B5461; Osler 2179; Wellcome II, p. 270.The second much enlarged and illustrated edition (first published in 1650 in duodecimo without the extraordinary woodcuts). A remarkable work on the artificial deformations of the human body, as practised by various peoples (thus making the work an early example of comparative cultural anthropology) by the physician and Baconian natural philosopher John Bulwer (1606-1656). In it he examines both physiognomy and body modification, describing the ways in which people from different cultures transformed the human body through tattooing, make-up, castration, circumcision, ear piercing, etc.Amendment: Leaf inserted after S2 is not present in this copy.

Codrington (Robert). [The Life and Death, of the illustrious Robert Earl of Essex, & c.conatining at large the wars he managed, and the commands he had in Holland, the Palatinate, and in England. Together with some wonderfull observations both of himselfe, and his predecessors, and many most remarkable passages from his infancie, unto the day of his death, London: F. Leach, for L. Chapman, 1646], additional engraved title ('A Mournefull Cloud over vaylinge the face of England for the sorrowfull death of his Exelence Robert Devourux Earle of Essex... Lord General of all the Parlaments forces & c and died ye 24 of September 1646'), lacks A1-2 (printed title and dedication to Walter Devereux), 50 pp. of text (B-G4, H1), lacks final blank (H2), a few leaves close-trimmed to upper or lower margin, occasionally touching page number at head or catch-word at foot, a few contemporary marginal annotations in brown ink, including inscription to verso of engraved title 'To Mr. John Tempest aboard of the marlin friggot', which is repeated and followed by 'Dunkirke, ye Mr Chr. Hutchinson's master of Thomas Hutchinson', disbound without covers, small 4to, together with:[Sibbald, Robert]. The Liberty and Independency of the Kingdom and Church of Scotland, Asserted from Ancient Records. To which is added a Speech at the Proclamation of K. James concerning the Succession to the Crown of England, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Andrew Symson for Henry Knox, David Freebairn and John Vallange, [1702], title and dedication torn with losses and laid down (title partly completed in manuscript), bound with two other related works, the first beginning on A2 with drop-head title 'The true copies of a speache made with F. H. Esquier, the abstract wherof was delivered on Wednesdaie the 30 of March after the Proclamation of the Kings most excellent Majesty in the County of Essex', the second work 'Defence of the Independency of the Church of Scotland, the second Part', Edinburgh, 1703, some soiling and spotting, later marbled boards with calf label to spine, manuscript labels to upper cover, a little rubbed, small 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance (first work): Probably John Tempest of Stella Hall, Blaydon, county Durham, a staunch royalist and Roman Catholic (1623-1697), only son of Sir Thomas Tempest (1594-circa 1652). During the English Civil War, John Tempest commanded a Regiment of Foot in the Marquess of Newcastle's army, and fought at the Battle of Marston Moor. He was Governor of Skipton Castle when it surrendered to Parliament on 21 December 1645. W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).First work: Wing C4877; Thomason E358[7]; second work, first title ESTC T083147.

Montagu (Elizabeth Robinson). An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakspear, compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets. With some remarks upon the misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire, 4th edition. To which are now added, Three Dialogues of the Dead, London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777, title, contents leaf, 20, 316 pp., light spotting to a few leaves, modern half calf gilt over marbled boards, panelled spine with maroon morocco title label, 8vo, together with Hazlitt (W. Carew). Shakespeare Jest-Books; reprints of the early and very rare jest-books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare ... edited, with introduction and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Willis & Sotheran, 1864, light spotting to first and last few leaves of first volume only, top edge gilt, bookplate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, later half brown morocco (by Bayntun, Bath), gilt-decorated spines (date misnumbered 1844 to foot of each), a few very minor marks, generally in excellent condition, 8vo, plus Ingleby (C. M.). Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse; being materials for a History of Opinion on Shakespeare and his Works, culled from writers of the first century after his rise, 1st edition, London : For the Editor: Printed by Josiah Allen, of Birmingham, & published by Tru?bner & Co., 1874, xx, 362 pp., Large Paper copy, corrections pasted to recto of blank leaf at end, bookplate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated red full morocco (by Proudfoot, Euston Square), a little scuffing to board edges, 8voQTY: (5)

Collins (Wilkie). The Moonstone. A Romance, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1st state, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868, 1st state with pp. 10 & 11 transposed in volume I, 'treachesrouly' to p. 129 in volume II, broken bracket at foot of volume III title, half titles, bound without advertisements, W.A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey bookplates, top edge gilt, later maroon half morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, spines lettered, dated and decorated in gilt, 8vo, together with The Moonstone: A Dramatic Story, in Three Acts. Altered from the Novel for Performance on the Stage, London: Charles Dickens & Evans, Crystal Palace Press, 1877, 88 pp., printed to rectos only, a few small marginal spots, original plain light blue wrappers (slight dust-soiling and light diagonal crease mark to lower wrapper, contained in later cloth chemise, W.A. Foyle Beeleigh Abbey bookplate, uniform half morocco by Riviere & Son, slipcase, plus Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A. With Selections from his Journals and Correspondence, by his son W. Wilkie Collins, 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, additional engraved titles, bound without advertisements, bookplates of W.A. Foyle (small abrasion to volume II bookplate), uniform half morocco by Riviere, plus two others by the author: Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall Taken A-Foot, 1st edition, 1851, and A Rogue's Life: from his Birth to his Marriage, 1st edition, 1879, uniformly bound, 8vo QTY: (8)NOTE:Sadleir 598; Wolff 1398 for The Moonstone.The Moonstone was first serialised in the periodical All Year Round from January-August 1868, and according to T.S. Eliot it is "the first, longest, and the best of modern English detective novels in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe", and "probably the very finest detective story ever written" (Dorothy L. Sayers). The book was partly inspired by the case of Constance Kent, who murdered her younger half-brother in 1860, and the Northumberland Street Murder of 1861.The 1877 stage version of The Moonstone, with the statement ['This Play is not published. It is privately printed for the convenience of the author'] to the title and was co-produced with his close friend Charles Dickens and ran from 17 September to 17 November 1877 at the Royal Olympic Theatre. It is very scarce, an extensively annotated copy by the author sold at Sotheby's New York in December 2022, lot 1034.

Randolph (Thomas). Poems with the Muses Looking-Glasse: and Amyntas, 3 parts in one volume, 1st edition, Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Francis Bowman, 1638, separate title to each part, A1 recto to first part reads 'inestimable,' second part 'The Muses Looking-Glasse' with separate dated title-page, register and pagination, third part 'Amyntas' with separate dated title-page and pagination but register continuous with 'The Muses Looking-Glasse', each title with small woodcut printer's device, several woodcut head-pieces, minor marks to verso of final leaf, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, 20th century gilt-decorated red crushed full levant morocco (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe), in fine condition, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 20694; Hayward 74; Greg III, p. 1100-1101; Madan I p. 209; Pforzheimer 828; Wither to Prior 746; ESTC S115618.First edition of this collection of pastoral, erotic and festive verse (followed by two plays) by one of the more significant 'Sons of Ben' (followers of the playwright Ben Jonson), published two years after the premature death of the young author some three months short of his thirtieth birthday. Randolph began his literary career at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was known for his wit and ingenuity. Leaving Cambridge for London in 1632, he engaged with too much enthusiasm in the dissipations of metropolitan literary life, and his ‘immoderate way of living in all probablility shortened his days' (Phillips, Theatrum Poetarum, 1675). Commendatory verses here come from other ‘sons’ including Owen Feltham, and there are several poems addressed to Jonson himself. In The Muses Looking-Glass, two puritan hawkers who are strongly prejudiced against the stage are accosted by a third character, Roscius, who undertakes to convert them. In the play that follows, to a counterpoint of commentary from the puritans, virtues and vices appear in couples or singly and (in accordance with the theory of comedy put forward in the first act) hold up a mirror in which spectators may note their own defects.

Gerard (John). The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes... very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636, engraved title-page, numerous woodcut illustrations, first & last blank leaves present, early signature of Henry Streatfeild (early 18th-century signature?) to upper margin of dedication leaf (with small hole to woodcut headpiece), closed tear to pp. 477/478 (Rr3) without loss and repaired closed tear at foot of pp. 537/538 (Yy3), occasional minor toning and light scattered spotting (generally in good clean condition), 18th-century armorial bookplate bearing of the Streitfield family ('Data Fata Sequutus'), contemporary calf, rebacked and board corners refurbished, few scratches to boards, leather wear to fore-edge of lower board, folio (345 x 235 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 11752; ESTC S122175; Henrey 156; Hunt I, 230; Nissen BBI 698. The second edition of Thomas Johnson's expanded version of 1633, which corrected many of the errors found in Gerard's original edition of 1597.

Ireland (Samuel). A complete set of the Picturesque Views series, 6 works bound in 8 volumes, 1793-1802, comprising: Picturesque Views on the River Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex: with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood, 1st edition, London: T. and J. Egerton, 1793, half-title, additional hand-coloured aquatint title, 28 hand-coloured aquatint plates, including frontispiece, single-page map, woodcut illustrations,Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon, from its source at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury: with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its vicinity, 1st edition, London: R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1795, half-title,32 hand-coloured aquatint and etched plates, including frontispiece, single-page map, woodcut illustrations,A Picturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France; made in the Autumn of 1789, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: printed for T. Egerton and others, 1796, half-title to volume I, additional engraved titles with hand-coloured vignettes, 48 hand-coloured aquatint and etched plates, woodcut illustrations, Picturesque Views on the River Wye, from its sources at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow: with observations on the oublic buildings, and other works of art in its vicinity, 1st edition, London: R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1797, half-title,31 hand-coloured and etched plates, single-page map, woodcut illustrations, plate 27 'Interior of Tintern Abbey' close-trimmed to upper margin, errata slip tipped-in at end, Picturesque Views, with an historical account of the Inns of Court, in London and Westminster, 1st edition, London: C. Clarke for R. Faulder amd J. Egerton, 1800, 21 hand-coloured aquatint plates, woodcut illustrations, bound without half-title, Picturesque Views on the River Thames, from its source in Gloucestershire to the Nore; with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its vicinity, 2 volumes 2nd edition, London: C. Clarke for T. Egerton, 1801-02, half-titles, additional hand-coloured aquatint titles, 52 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 maps, woodcut illustrations, occasional light offsetting, bookplates of George Seton Veitch, all edges gilt, finely bound in later crimson straight-grained morocco by Bayntun, Bath, additional stamps of bookseller Charles E. Lauriat, Boston, covers with geometric design in gilt, spines lettered with repeat geometric design in gilt to compartments, 8vo QTY: (8)NOTE:Provenance: George Seton Veitch (1835-1909); book collector; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Abbey Scenery 428; 427; Abbey Travel 185; Abbey Scenery 544; 207; 430 (for the 1792 first edition) respectively.

Mackay (Charles). Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1841, 5 engraved portraits, some spotting to portraits and occasionally to text, armorial bookplates of Horatio Noble Pym, contemporary navy half calf gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 32512.3.Provenance: Horace N. Pym (or Horatio Noble Pym, 1844-1896), book collector, solicitor and editor of the journal of the Quaker writer Caroline Fox, Memories of Old Friends (1881).First edition of Charles Mackay's influential collection of popular follies and mass mania, an important early work on social psychology. Written in a journalistic style, Mackay's subjects include the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, tulipomania, the Crusades, modern prophecies, witch mania, slow poisoners, haunted houses, alchemy, fortune telling and magnetisers. The work is still in print today.