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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter. Deluxe Editions. A complete set of first deluxe editions, first impressions, comprising: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The first three books include the full number line, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1", and the last four are stated "First Edition". Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1999-2007. Large octavo, publisher's gilt cloth, all edges gilt. In fine or near-fine unread condition, no cellophane wrappers (7)

Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit, first edition from the parts with characteristic stab-holes to gutters [pp. 467-474 uncorrected, i.e. 'Rigaud' instead of 'Blandois', mentioned in the book's errata], London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. Octavo, half-calf lettered in gilt, illustrated with steel-engraved plates by H. K. Browne, “Phiz”, including frontispiece & pictorial title, pp. 625, internally clean, plates foxed as usual

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential novels of the 20th century. A scarce "Press Copy" for Arthur Symons (1865-1945), featuring a loosely-inserted photograph of Joyce, signed & inscribed to Symons, the verso of photograph stamped by Shakespeare & Company. First English edition [one of 2,000 copies, but this being an unnumbered press review copy], London: Published for The Egoist Press by John Rodker, Paris, 1922. Quarto, delicate paper covers in the distinctive blue chosen by Joyce, pp. [x], [iii], 4-732, [i]. Housed in a blue solander box crafted by George Bayntun in 1947, the invoice still present and loosely inserted. 2,000 copies of the first English edition were printed, hundreds of which were smuggled to the UK & USA, intercepted and destroyed. It's reported that the U.S. Post Office burned around 500 copies. This unnumbered press copy is scarcer still, being 'one of six' according to an accompanying typed note. Ulysses was banned in the US until 1934, and the UK until 1936. Together with Imaging Ulysses, by Richard Hamilton, inscribed for the vendor by Stephen Coppel [curator of the exhibition at British Museum], 'For Yvonne & Dennis. A Souvenir of your visit to the BM exhibition & in memory of your showing me Joyce in 1980! With warmest wishes, Stephen, 7 Feb 2002', plus folded exhibition poster, flyer and programmeArthur William Symons (1865-1945) was an English poet and critic who played an important role in the development of Joyce's career. Symons's own work was featured in the famous March 1918 issue of The Little Review, in which Ulysses made its debut appearance

Leonardo da Vinci. A Treatise on Painting, first edition in English, London: J. Senex & W. Taylor, 1721. Engraved frontispiece, title page printed in red & black, 35 engraved plates, five of which are folding, pp. [xviii], 189, 16pp. index, 3pp. publisher's advertisements. Octavo, worn panelled calf, ffep featuring mounted grisaille watercolour portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, captioned as 'a camera sketch from a large & authentic Print', the verso with manuscript notes, a 'Remark, on Pictures at Osmaston'. Contents very well-preserved & bright, a few folded corners and small marks in places, contemporary owner inscriptions and handling marks on title, binding worn with upper board detachedThe first edition in English of the influential Trattato della pittura, compiled from numerous manuscripts after Leonardo's death

Philippe Melancthon [Philipp Schwartzerd]. Comentaire sur le livre des Revelations du Prophete Daniel, Item les Explications de Martin Luther sur le Mesme Prophete, first edition, Paris: Jean Crespin, 1555. pp. 421, plus 9pp. index. Condition poor, disbound, badly worn boards, some old worming noted, sold as found with all faults. Philip Melanchthon was a reformer, theologian, and shaper of Protestantism who collaborated with Martin Luther

Culpeper, Nicholas (ed.); Francis Glisson. A Treatise of The Rickets, Being a Disease Common Among Children, Wherein is Shewed (Among many Things) The Essence, The Causes, The Signs, The Remedies. Enlarged, Corrected and Amended Throughout, translated into English from the Latin, first English edition, London: P.Cole, 1651. Small octavo, pp. 373, plus 2pp. index and four advertisement leaves before title, several woodcuts in the text, pages browned, new endpapers, later half-calf, small oval cachet rubber stamps for “Medical Library, Bath” on base of preface and final index leaf

Erasmus, Desiderio [Erasmus of Rotterdam]. In Novum Testamentum ab eodem denuo recognitum, annotations, ingenti nuper accessione per autorum locupletatae, Basel: Johann Froben, 18 February 1522 [possibly a third edition]. Folio, pp. 682, colophon dates to 1522, lacking title, contents worn & watermarked, rebound with later calf spine over earlier leather boards, up to p. 530 the leaves are uniformly watermarked, not heavily but on most of the page, lots of scholarly marginalia & inscriptions in a contemporary hand in Latin, woodcut devices to chapter headings, later endpapers, sold as found with all faults. The first collected edition of Erasmus of Rotterdam’s annotations to his Greek New Testament was in 1519 and had 576 pages; the second improved edition was published in 1520 and was corrected and enlarged, this copy appears to have the extended text

Dickens, Charles. Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition [reversed '£' on engraved title], London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. Octavo, half-calf, illustrated with 40 engraved plates by H. K. Browne, "Phiz", plates discoloured and browned, bearing owner inscription of 'Lady Henry Paulet 1844' on front pastedown

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, second state [without the dropped line of text error on p.7], London: Bloomsbury, 1999. Octavo, hardback with unclipped dust-jacket, some shelf-lean, contents generally good & bright with pale spotting in places

Taylor, George; Andrew Skinner. Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777, first edition, London & Dublin: Printed for the Authors and Sold by G. Nicol, I. Murray, & W. Wilson, 14 November 1778. Tall octavo, finely rebound in full crushed morocco with raised bands, attractive gilt pictorial design, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Folding map of Ireland frontispiece, engraved vignette title, pp. [xvi], 288pp. engraved maps, 16pp. list of subscribers. Contents very well-preserved, clean & bright, only the folding frontispiece with one tear, endpapers marked, handsome binding, tight & square, light bumping to corners and some splitting to upper joint

Symonds, John. The Only Thing That Matters, first edition, a signed & inscribed presentation copy, author's correction to inner flap of dust-jacket, London: The Unicorn Press, 1960. Octavo, publisher's black cloth, unclipped dust-jacket, housed in protective mylar covers, good & bright, some very faint spotting to endleaves & fore-edge. Together with The Healing Touch, by Philip Gibbs, first edition, a signed & inscribed presentation copy, London: Hutchinson, 1957, octavo, publisher's cloth with unclipped d.j., good with some spotting to endleaves/title, d.j. with some discolouration & slight wear (2)

Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh, first edition, London: Methuen, 1926. Octavo, publisher's gilt green cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers, gift inscription dated 1926. Contents very good, clean & bright, a few very pale spots, binding very good, slight shelf-lean, light bumping to corners

Scott, Peter. The Swans, first edition, signed by the author and nine members of the Wildfowl Trust including Janet Kear and Malcolm Alexander Ogilvie, London: Michael Joseph, 1972, hardback with unclipped dust-jacket, loosely-inserted compliments slip from The Zoological Society of London (signed again by Janet Kear); Observations of Wildlife, signed first edition, Oxford: Phaidon, 1980, hb with unclipped d.j.; Wild Chorus, London: Country Life, 1941, hb, unclipped d.j., and The Snow Goose, by Paul Gallico, illustrated by Peter Scott, first illustrated edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1946, worn but unclipped d.j. Together with Both Sides of the Road, 1st ed., 1949, Our Bird Book, 2nd ed., 1947, both illustrated by Sidney Rogerson & Charles Tunnicliffe, and The Way of Birds, by R. B. Talbot Kelly, 1st ed., 1937 (7)Provenance: Kilcolman Wildfowl Refuge. A publication edited by the original owner of these books is included (The Natural History of Kilcolman, 1990)

Backhouse, E.; J. O. P. Bland. Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking, first edition, London: William Heinemann, 1914. Small quarto, publisher's cloth, illustrated with plates, internally good & bright, pale spotting to endleaves & in places, gift inscription for Xmas 1920, cloth marked & bumped at corners. Together with The Duab of Turkestan, by W. Rickmer Rickmers, first edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1913, illustrated, folding map at rear, quarto, publisher's cloth, internally clean & bright, binding discoloured & worn at edges of spine (2)

[Bronte, Emily]. Wuthering Heights, copyright edition, novel complete in one volume but would've been accompanied by Agnes Grey in a second volume [half-titles & titles present for both volumes, but evidently bound to be a single novel as per collation below], by Ellis Bell, revised with preface by Currer Bell [Charlotte Bronte], Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1851. Octavo, contemporary half-leather with marbled boards, bound by Burgis & Colbourne, Leamington, pp. [v], 6-336, [vii], 6-56. Internally good with faint spotting & marks in places, lacking ffep, stitched at gutter of first title, tape reinforcement to rear gutter, binding worn and becoming loose, sold with all faults

Dickens, Charles. The Battle of Life, first edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Octavo, publisher's blind-embossed red pebble cloth lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, bearing armorial bookplate for T. Tileston-Wells, pp. [xii], 175, 2pp. publisher's advertisements. Contents good with marks in places, some edges worn, endpapers marked with wear to gutters, cloth good with wear to corners/edges 

Cockeram, Henry. The English Dictionarie Or Interpreter of Hard English Words, fifth edition, revised & enlarged, London: Printed by I. H. for Thomas Weaver, 1637. Three parts in one, including The Treating of Gods and Goddesses, Men & Women, Boyes and Maids, Giants and Devils, Birds & beasts, Monsters and Serpents, Wells and Rivers. 12mo, worn vellum with silk ties, pp. 327, loss to outer edges with slight textual loss, contents showing gutters. This was the first Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1623. The Library of Congress holds a seventh edition dated 1639, though their copy appears incomplete

[Powel, David. The historie of Cambria, now called Wales, translated into English by H. Lhoyd, 1584]. A first edition of the first printed history of Wales. Illustrated with numerous woodcut portraits and including nice, early marginalia. Octavo, worn calf with later morocco title label lettered in gilt, lacking title and other pages sporadically within text, sold with all faults. The first page present in this copy, a dedication to Sir Philip Sydney, clearly matches the same dedicatory page in the rebound first edition held by the National Library of Wales

Lewis, C. S. The Chronicles of Narnia, a complete set of first editions, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950-56, comprising: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, 1st edition, 1950, colour frontispiece, pp. 173, octavo, publisher's cloth, internally very good, clean & bright, ffep with some pale spotting and one neat owner inscription, shelf-lean, cloth discoloured & spotted with some bumping to corners and bottom edge; Prince Caspian, 1st edition, 1951, colour frontispiece, illustrated map endpapers, pp. 195, octavo, publisher's cloth, internally good & bright with some creased corners and faint spotting in places, more pronounced spotting at colophon & rear endpapers, slight discolouration/marks to cloth, corners bumped, shelf-lean; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, 1st edition, 1952, b&w frontispiece, illustrated map endpapers, pp. 223, octavo, publisher's cloth, internally very good & bright, a few tiny spots in places, cloth discoloured at spine with slight bumping to corners, slight shelf-lean; The Silver Chair, 1st edition, 1953, b&w frontispiece, illustrated map endpapers, pp. 217, octavo, publisher's cloth, internally good & bright but with a closed tear through p.11 and a few marks in places, pale spotting to endleaves & fore-edge, a few light marks to cloth, corners lightly bumped, shelf-lean; The Horse and His Boy, 1st edition, 1954, b&w frontispiece, illustrated map endpapers, pp. 199, octavo, publisher's cloth, internally very good & bright with some pale spotting to endpapers/fore-edge, discolouration to cloth, corners lightly bumped, slight shelf-lean; The Magician's Nephew, 1st edition, Bodley Head, 1955, pp. 183, octavo, publisher's cloth, internally good & bright with a few marks in places, spotting to first and final leaves including half-title & title, light marking to cloth, corners lightly bumped, shelf-lean; The Last Battle, 1st edition, Bodley Head, 1956, pp. 184, octavo, publisher's cloth, internally good & bright with occasional faint spotting, more pronounced spotting at endpapers, discolouration to cloth, corners bumped, very slight shelf-lean, including a loosely-inserted 11pp. booklet, Shall We Lose God in Outer Space?, by C. S. Lewis, London: S.P.C.K., 1959, paper covers (7)

Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, first edition, London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1911 [date at front of title], 12mo, publisher's brown boards with inset pictorial panel, 27 colour illustrations including frontispiece, darkened tape repair across p.15 but contents otherwise good & bright, erased inscription and gutter wear to verso of frontis., binding worn around corners/spine, together with The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, early but not first edition, sold with all faults (2)

Robinson, Kim Stanley. Three first editions: Red Mars, 1992; Green Mars, 1993; Blue Mars, 1996. First edition hardbacks with dust-jackets, London: Harper Collins, 1992-96 (3)

Dickens, Charles. Master Humphrey’s Clock, three volumes bound in two, first edition, illustrated with wood-engravings by G. Cattermole & H. K. Browne, London: Chapman & Hall, 1840-41, tall octavo,  half-calf, rubbed, no title to part two [bound with part one]. Together with The Pickwick Papers, first edition from the parts, 'Weller' on title, London: Chapman & Hall, 1837, the plates discoloured as usual, octavo, full calf (3)

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, London: Methuen, 1928; Winnie-the-Pooh, eighth edition, London: Methuen, 1929, and five later editions (7)

Hornby, Nick. Three first editions: Fever Pitch, 1992; High Fidelity, 1995; About a Boy, 1998. First edition hardbacks with unclipped dust-jackets, London: Victor Gollancz, 1992-98 (3)

Dickens, Charles. A Tale Of Two Cities, first edition, first issue [p. 213 mispaginated as 113, signature 'b' on list of plates], illustrated with 16 plates by H. K. Browne including frontispiece & pictorial title, as called for, London: Chapman & Hall, 1859. Octavo, half-calf, pp. [x], 254. Contents & plates very good & bright, a couple of plates with offsetting, one with a pale splash mark, some spotting to frontis/title/endpapers, binding rubbed and worn at corners/edges

Raleigh, Sir Walter. The History of the World, in Five Books, Whereunto is added in this Edition, the Life and Tryal of the Author, London: Printed for Basset, Chiswell, Tooke, et al., 1687. Folio, full contemporary panelled calf, engraved allegorical frontispiece, red & black title page, 'The Mind of the Front', 32pp. preface, 24pp. contents, title page & 41pp. Tryal, main text in 813pp., a note to reader & table/contents in 44pp., illustrated with six double-page maps and two double-page battle plans, bearing armorial bookplate & owner inscription of Rev. Edmund Lovell, beginning with a 2pp. manuscript copy of 'Sir Walter Raleigh's letter to his wife The night before his Death was expected after his Condemnation at Winchester' [presumably in Lovell's hand], an engraved portrait of Raleigh pasted onto verso of frontispiece, c. 1650. Contents generally good, the folding maps & battle plans very well-preserved & bright, some worm to upper corners of beginning, the final two leaves of table/contents creased & detached, the first few leaves backed with laid paper, binding heavily worn and boards detached

Mickey Mouse Movie Stories, Story and Illustrations by Staff of Walt Disney Studio, first edition, Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1931, very well-preserved, clean & bright, housed in protective mylar covers. Together with The Water Babies, with "Come to Life" Panorama, by Charles Kingsley, London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., [c. 1920], internally bright with pale spotting in places, pop-up in good order, gift inscription dated 1938, covers good, protective mylar jacket, and Peter Pan & Wendy, by J. M. Barrie, Retold by May Byron, illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [c. 1938], internally bright with pale spotting in a few places, tipped-in colour plates, owner inscription dated 1938, covers good (3)

Aldine Press. Leone Hebreo (Judah Leon Abravanel). Dialogi De Amore. composti per Leonone Medico, di Natione Hebreo, Et Di Poi Fatto Christiano, Vinegia [Venice]: Printed by Aldus Manitus, 1541. Octavo, full vellum, remains of vellum ties, yapp edges, pp. 262, plus colophon leaf. The three Dialogues of Love was first published in Italy in 1535, this Aldine Press edition is the first printed in Venice. This particular copy has a space between the first word on the title page, “Dialo gi”, which appears to have been corrected in other examples noted

Rowling, J. K. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, first edition, London: Children's High Level Group, December, 2008, full crushed morocco with metal clasps and decorations to upper board, protective red velvet bag bearing embroidered signature, ten prints in original envelope, the whole housed within a solander box in the form of a leather-bound book lettered in gilt with raised bands. Complete with white card slipcase, 'This Side Up'

Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit, first edition [pp. 467-474 uncorrected, i.e. 'Rigaud' instead of 'Blandois', noted in the book's errata], London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857, bearing bookplate & owner inscription of Harman Grisewood, Daylesford House; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition, later issue [states 'sister' not 'visitor' on p.123], London: Chapman & Hall, 1839; Dombey and Son, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1848. Octavo, contemporary half-calf, contents of Dombey and Dorrit very good & bright, occasional pale spots in places, some wear from uncut edges in places, Nickleby internally good & bright but plates discoloured/spotted, bindings rubbed & worn, 1839-1857 (3)

Vaughan, Henry. Flores Solitudinis. Certaine Rare and Elegant Pieces, first edition, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1654. 12mo, finely bound in full 19th-century crushed morocco lettered in gilt with marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, pp. [xx], 191, 165, including four separate titles, each dated 1654, bearing armorial bookplate for Gwenllian E. F. Morgan, Brecknock [an antiquary and the first woman in Wales to hold the office of Mayor], later Ex Libris label for Christopher Bentley, pencil inscription at rear, ‘lacks the last leaf which was blank, otherwise perfect. B Quaritch.’ Contents very well-preserved, clean and bright, a few very faint little marks/stains, pale spotting to endpapers, binding tight & square, some light surface wear & bumping to corners. An excellent example of a scarce work

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake, signed first edition, limited edition numbered 147/425, signed in turquoise ink by the author, London: Faber & Faber Limited, New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Large octavo, publisher's red-brick buckram, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, pp. [viii], [1-3], 4-628, near fine, one small blemish to cloth, housed in original yellow cloth slipcase. Experimental novel and final work of James Joyce

Beaton, Cecil. Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook, first edition, London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1937. Quarto, publisher's yellow cloth, unclipped dust-jacket, internally very good, clean & bright, a few pale spots, cloth with general discolouration & wear at headcaps, dust-jacket worn with loss around spine/corners

Milne, A. A. By Way of Introduction, signed first edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929. Octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, signed by the author in black ink on title. Contents generally very good & bright with marginal pale spots in places, some pale spotting to half-title, untrimmed edges, binding tight & square with bumps to edges of boards, general discolouration & marks to spine

A miscellaneous collection of 18th- & 19th-century books to include Peter Schlemihl: From the German of Lamotte Fouque, second edition, London: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1824, illustrated with eight etched plates by George Cruikshank (including frontispiece), octavo, half-calf; Kisses: A Poetical Translation of the Basia of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius, London: Printed by John Crowder for J. Bew, 1790, engraved frontispiece and vignette title, octavo, worn calf; Catullus Tibullus et Propertius, by C. Gallo, Paris: J. Barbou, 1754, octavo, worn calf; Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations; Intended to Illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables, by Thomas Martyn, London: J. White, 1799, illustrated with 31 [of 38] hand-coloured botanical plates, octavo, defective binding; A Report of all the Cases Determined by Sir John Holt, Savoy: E. & R. Nutt, 1738, folio, worn calf, together with three damaged books by A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh, first edition, 1926; Now We Are Six, first edition, 1927; When We Were Very Young, third edition, 1924), and three others, condition varied, sold with all faults (11)

Vonnegut, Kurt. The Sirens of Titan, first UK edition, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1962. Octavo, publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped vibrant yellow Gollancz SF dust-jacket, housed in protective mylar covers. An excellent, well-preserved example, slight shelf-lean, a few tiny chips to extremities of jacket, slight discolouration & very faint spotting to spine of jacket, otherwise near-fine. Scarce

Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh, first edition, illustrated by E. H. Shepard, London: Methuen, 1926. Octavo, publisher's green cloth, illustrated endpapers, some handling marks, head of spine worn, brown spot on title near spine

A miscellaneous collection of books to include The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands, by Robert Mudie, third edition in two volumes, illustrated with beautifully hand-coloured plates, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1841, octavo, publisher's pebble cloth lettered in gilt, spine lifting on first volume; Jack the Giant Killer, by Richard Doyle, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1842, quarto, publisher's illustrated cloth, internally bright, binding worn; Robin Hood: A Collection of All The Ancient Poems, Songs and Ballads Now Extant, by Joseph Ritson, limited edition numbered 135/300, illustrations after Thomas Bewick plus nine etchings after A. H. Tourrier, London: John C. Nimmo, 1885, half parchment & cloth boards, head of spine worn; Master Humphrey’s Clock, by Charles Dickens, in three volumes, illustrated by G. Cattermole and H. K. Browne, original cloth, worn; Bradshaw’s Railway Map of Great Britain & Ireland, sectional & linen-backed, c. 1895, and others, condition varied, sold with all faults (10)

Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, London: John Murray, 1857. Octavo, publisher's embossed cloth lettered in gilt, complete with all illustrations, plates & maps, as called for. ix, 687pp., 4pp. publisher's advertisements dated 1 November 1857, 8pp. other advertisements. The book includes a quantity of loosely-inserted newspaper clippings, 1869-72, reporting on the disappearance, safety, and death of Livingstone, with one article stating that he has been murdered, and another claiming he 'has been killed and burnt by the natives'. There is also a letter dated 1864 regarding an order of wool, recipient unknown, which has presumably been used as a bookmark with notes referring to the text, and a later inscription on ffep stating that the book was 'rescued from an unoccupied house in Helgoland, via a requisitioned German warship'. Contents generally good, but the text-block detached from its worn cloth binding, the map in rear wallet is very well-preserved, sold as found with all faults

Forde, Emanuel. Parsimus. The Renowmed [sic] Prince of Bohemia. His Most Famous, delectable and pleasant Historie. Containing His Noble Battailes Fought Against the Persians, His Love to Laurana, The Kings Daughter of Thessally and His Strange Adventures in the Desolate Island, two parts in one, London: Thomas Creed [or Creede], 1604-05. Small quarto, full vellum with repairs & old vellum re-laid, pp. 224 [part one], 254 [part two], the second part with some damaged leaves and slight loss to top edges, part two ends abruptly with the final word “Parsimus” [a later edition of 1649 has 287pp. in the second part, but we’re unable to locate this 1604-05 edition to ascertain if anything is lacking], thus sold as found with all faults. Thomas Creede was an Elizabethan and Jacobean London printer, publishing works in c. 1593 to 1617 from Thames Street and The Eagle and Child in Exchange Street, London. Considered the best printer of his time, he was the printer of five first editions of Shakespeare, as well as Greene’s “Groat’s Worth of Wit”. This title and edition of this “Court” romance isn’t listed in the printer’s bibliography. The 1598 first and a 1608 edition are both held in parts by the British Library, but no copies with this date were located at time of cataloguing

Forensic Medicine.- The Hertford Letter: containing Several Brief Observations on a late Printed Tryal Concerning the Murder of Mrs. Sarah Stout, first edition, browned, [Wing D75], Printed, and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1699; bound with A Reply to the Hertford Letter..., penultimate leaf shaved at foot with loss of catchword to recto and last line of text to verso, browned, [Wing R1074], Printed for, and sold by M. Fabian...and J. Nutt, 1699, together 2 works in 1, modern cloth, upper cover creased, 4to⁂ An early work on forensic medicine, the trial hinging on whether the woman was already dead when she entered the water. Numerous expert witnesses were called to testify concerning death from drowning, including for the defence Sir Hans Sloane, Dr. Samuel garth and the surgeon William Cowper. There is a reference on p.12 of the first work to slaves who have died being thrown overboard "without any weight to their feet, and these Float immediately." The trial started with damning circumstantial evidence against Spencer Cowper but he was ultimately acquitted.Provenance: Thomas Foley of Great Witley Court, Worcester (armorial bookplate to verso of first title).

Caesar (Gaius Julius) The Commentaries..., of his Wars in Gallia; and the Civil Wars Betwixt him and Pompey... also the Art of our Modern Training by Clement Edmonds, engraved frontispiece and 14 plates, several folding, letterpress title in red and black, light damp-staining throughout, frontispiece neatly backed with tissue on recto and with some restoration to margins, some chipping to upper margin of title and first few ff., modern calf, [Wing C201], folio, Edward Jones for Mathew Gillyflower, 1695.⁂ A scarce edition.

Shadwell (Thomas) The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater, first edition, margins of title trimmed, preliminaries with water-staining at head, foxed, lightly browned, 19th century half calf, rather worn, upper cover detached, [Wing S2846; Pforzheimer 917], small 4to, Printed by J[ohn] M[acock] for Henry Herringman, 1678.⁂ In this setting the licensing date on the title reads "1678/7" and leaf A4v is blank. Another setting has licensing date "1677/8" and leaf A4v bears 'Persons names'.

MIlitary.- Dallington (Sir Robert) Aphorismes ciuill and militarie: amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine, 2 parts in 1, first edition, titles with woodcut printer's device, first title first word is xylographic and with engraved portrait of dedicatee Prince Charles verso, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, with initial but lacking final blank, ink ownership inscription to head of title, contemporary calf, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, rubbed, corners repaired, [STC 6197], folio, [R. Field] for Edward Blount, 1613.⁂ In 1609 Dallington presented Prince Henry with a manuscript Aphorismes civill and militarie, comprising pieces selected from the Italian historian Guicciardini. Following the prince's death in 1612 Dallington reworked these, which were published in 1613 with a new dedication to Prince Charles, later King Charles I.

Medicine.- Edwards (Edward) The Cure of all sorts of Fevers, both generall, and particular, with their Definition, Kindes, Differences, Causes, Signes, Prognostication, and Manner of Cure, first edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut decorations, final imprimatur leaf present, some fore-margins trimmed close with occasional loss of text, modern mottled half calf over marbled boards, [STC 7512], 4to, Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by William Sheeres, 1638.⁂ The main text is set out in tabular form rather than prose. The preface condemns the quacks "an inundant deluge of over-whelming make-shifts or smoothing sychophants, fit to be unmasked, and repressed, worthy punishment, being a rabble of idle droans...practising Physick and Chyrurgerie, making it a sanctuarie of idlenesse to the dishonour of God, and great hurt to the people..."

Langford (Thomas) Plain and Full Instructions to Raise all sorts of Fruit-Trees that Prosper in England, second edition, 2 engraved plates, 1 with key opposite, 6pp. advertisements, worming to lower margin, plate 2 with small section of outer margin torn away, lightly browned, a few spots, British Museum duplicate stamp to verso of title, Royal Agricultural Society of England bookplate to front pastedown, 20th century half calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, [Henrey 216; Wing L389], 8vo, Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St.Paul's Church-Yard, 1696. ⁂ John Evelyn praises this work in a one-page letter printed after the 'To the Reader', in which he states that he knows 'of nothing extant which exceeds it'. The second edition adds for the first time a section headed 'Of Greens and green-houses in general' and 'A Catalogue of Choice Fruits...greens and blossoming shrubs: to be had at Brompton Park, near Kensington'. Includes the making of cider, perry and liquors.

Dryden (John).- Revolter (The). A Trage-Comedy Acted between the Hind and Panther, and Religio Laici, &c., first edition, final blank leaf present, a few leaves with headlines shaved, some foxing, later calf-backed boards, [Wing R1206], 4to, 1687.⁂ One of two variants - the other, presumably earlier, has "Revoltex" in line 2 of the title. The work is an anonymous satire on the work of John Dryden, written in verse and with extracts from his poetry. Scarce at auction.

Calvin (John) Sermons of Master Iohn Calvin, upon the Booke of Iob, ?first edition in English, translated by Arthur Golding, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut decorative initials, colophon to verso of final text f. with woodcut device, a few instances of early ink marginalia, with a few ink scribbles to foot of 2*6v, 2H6 & 2K7 with portion of fore-margin torn away, touching printed side-note to 2H6, a few very short marginal tears, including to head of title, water-staining, mostly marginal and concentrated at beginning and end, scattered foxing, the odd leaf lightly browned, modern polished calf, rubbed, [STC 4444], folio, by [Henrie Binneman] for Lucas Harison and George Bishop, [1574].⁂ One of two variants published in the same year, with identical imprint.

Tracts.- Wright (Leonard) The Hunting of Antichrist. With a caveat to the contentious, first edition, woodcut device on title, largely printed in black letter, upper edge cropped affecting first line of title and headlines/pagination throughout, A2 torn, leaves at end frayed with some loss of text, [STC 26031], Imprinted by John Wolfe, 1589; bound with History (The) of the Damnable Life, and deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, title and first leaf supplied in pen and ink facsimile, lacking at least one leaf at end, [?Printed by C. Brown for M. Hotham, 1700]; bound with [Warner (John)] The Devilish Conspiracy, Hellish Treason, Heathenish Condemnation, and Damnable Murder, Committed and executed by the Jewes..., ?first edition, A3 with short tear, water-stained, [Wing W902], 1648 [ie 1649]; bound with Alarme to England (An): or A Warning-Piece to the Inhabitants of Great Britain, 8pp., caption title, soiled, [Wing A828], Printed for W. Ley, 1647; bound with At a meeting in Amounderness, in the County of Lancaster..., 6pp., lacks title, [c.1643], together 5 works in 1, later half calf, rubbed, head of spine torn, 4to⁂ A curious assembly of tracts, mostly of a religious flavour. Wright (fl. 1591) was a religious controversialist who advocated the cause of prelacy in this work, subtitled "A briefe description of the Church of Rome from the time of Antichrist until our present age." The Faust legend was first published in English around 1590 and was so popular that numerous subsequent editions appeared. Warner (1581-1666), bishop of Rochester and chaplain to Charles I, was a staunch adherent of established church and monarchy against puritans and parliamentarians. This sermon was preached and published anonymously within a week of the execution of the king and inveighs against the regicides, treating the king as a personification of Christ. The "Alarme" is a call to repentance. The final pamphlet, apparently not in Wing, describes a meeting to assess the rates for the payment of troops and to appoint commissioners for each of the hundreds in the district round Lancashire.

Cosmetics.- Jeamson (Thomas) Artificiall Embellishments. Or Arts Best Directions How to Preserve Beauty or Procure it, first edition, marginal worming, paper flaw in L3 with loss of one letter, corner of L8 torn away but not quite affecting text block, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, head of spine worn, rubbed, [Wing J503; Madan III, 2705], 8vo, Oxford, Printed by William Hall, 1665.⁂ ''A manual of cosmetics, interspersed with highfalutin' talk...There is a modicum of scientific practical medicine, and much humbug, such as a recipe to get plump (p.67), namely to take twelve or thirteen 'lizards or neuts', boil them &c., feed a hen with them, then 'kil her and eat her'. All this was written for ladies by a fellow of Wadham, who tried in vain to conceal the authorship, and was much laughed at...'' (Madan). Provenance: Archibald Spark (ink inscription and Latin verse, dated 1666 on front free endpaper); John Lloyd (ink inscription dated 1706 on another front free endpaper); Catherine Lloyd (ink inscription on rear free endpaper).

Sustainability.- T[aylor] (S[ilvanus]) Common-Good: or, the Improvement of Commons, Forrests, and Chases, by Inclosure, first edition, lower corner/edge of last 6ff. repaired with some loss of text, upper edge trimmed with occasional loss to pagination, water-staining, modern cloth-backed boards, [Wing T552; Goldsmiths 1248; Kress 860], 4to, Printed for Francis Tyton, 1652.⁂ With condition issues but nevertheless a rare book with the Rothamsted copy (sold in these rooms in 2018 and then subsequently re-appearing at Bonhams three years later) the only copy at auction for over 50 years. Even 350 years ago the author recognised the dangers of deforestation and argues for a huge programme of planting trees in England.Provenance: Royal Agricultural Society of England (bookplate in memory of Raymond Wheatley-Hubbard).

[Mayne (Jasper)] The Amorous Warre. A Tragi-Comoedy, first edition, lacks final blank, water-staining (heavy on C2) and foxing, slight worming to corner of several leaves, title edges slightly frayed, disbound, [Wing M1463], 4to, 1648.⁂ A 1922 Quaritch catalogue describes this scarce work as "a play of much merit, marred however by licentiousness. It contains an extremely pretty lyric, beginning, "Time is a feather'd Thing," which was noticed by F. T. Palgrave and reprinted by Professor Henry Morley in The King and the Commons (1868)."

Baillet (Adrien) The Life of Monsieur Des Cartes, Containing the History of his Philosophy and Works, first edition in English, translated by S.R., final advertisement leaf, foxed, modern calf, [Wing B451A], 8vo, Printed for R. Simpson, 1693.⁂ Quite rare at auction with only the Macclesfield copy (2008, with another book on Descartes in the lot) and a copy in 1896 (!) listed on RBH.Provenance: Richard Towneley, of Towneley in Lancashire (engraved bookplate on title verso dated 1702)

French (John) The Art of Distillation: or, a Treatise of the Choicest Spagiricall Preparations...to which is added, The London-Distiller, second edition, title in red and black, woodcut illustrations, lacking M4, A3 headline shaved and final leaf with 'Finis' trimmed, a little water-staining and occasional foxing, modern blind-stamped calf, spine slightly faded, [Wing F2170; Duveen, p. 231; Ferguson, I, p. 293; Wellcome III, p. 67; ], 4to, Printed by E. Cotes, for Thomas Williams, 1653.⁂ First published in 1651, includes much on the principals of distillation as well as numerous medical receipts, recipes for raspberry and other flavoured wines and "A new invention for bathers" (essentially a small, personal sauna).

Africa.- Ludolf (Hiob) A New History of Ethiopia, being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia, first English edition, 8 engraved plates, of which 7 folding, one bound upside down, engraved ethtiopic alphabet plate, folding letterpress table, H1 & 2Z2 with short marginal tear, 2Y3 with small hole affecting odd letter, spotting, previous owner's ink marking to title, bookplates, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, [WingL3468], folio, for Samuel Smith, 1682.⁂ Provenance: engraved bookplate of Walter Charles James. Bookplate of Lawrence Strangman, and bookplate of David Crampton Winfield (1929-2013).

First English Poetess.- Philips (Katherine) Poems by the most deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips the Matchless Orinda, first authorised edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, b1 & 3C1 with small marginal loss not affecting text, R2 with short marginal tear, 2E2 with small rust-hole affecting odd letter, 4M1 strengthened at margins, lacking final blank, scattered spotting, occasional marginal ink mark, bookplate with early inscription below, ex-Harvard College Library with usual label, discreet blind-stamp and ink-stamp to title verso, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, [Wing P2033], folio, by J. M. for H. Herringman, 1667.⁂ The daughter of a London merchant, Katherine Philips was probably the first English female poet to have her work published. She was best known by her pseudonym 'Orinda.' This is the first authorised edition of this work, following a 1664 pirated edition. This is perhaps the most famous English collection of poems by a woman prior to 1700.

Recusant Printing.- Estella (Diego de) The Contempte of the World, and the vanite thereof, title with large woodcut Jesuit device, woodcut of the nativity to title verso, woodcut of Madonna and Child to final f. verso (a8), woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking A3, final f. defective with lower portion torn away and consequent chip to woodcut, some staining and spotting, lightly browned, nineteenth century calf, rubbed, [STC 10541], 12mo, [Rouen], [printed at Fr. Parson's press], [1584].⁂ The scarce first edition in English, printed in Rouen, at the press established by exiled Robert Parsons SJ during his sojourn there in the early 1580s.

Medicine.- Pomarius (Petrus) Enchiridion Medicum: containing an Epitome of the Whole Course of Physicke, 2 parts in 1, 'the second impression', some staining, especially towards end, upper edge trimmed occasionally affecting headlines or pagination, modern calf 'antique style', [STC 24578; Wellcome I, 5149], 4to, Printed by N[icholas] O[kes and Thomas Snodham] for John Royston, and William Bladon, 1612.⁂ Uncommon at auction. Snodham printed 2A-2Y; Okes printed the rest (STC). "The examination of a chyrurgion .. by S[tephen]. H[obbes]." has separate dated title-page; "A particular practise of phisicke" (caption title) begins new pagination on 2A1. The first edition appeared in 1609.

Rycaut (Paul) The History of the Turkish Empire, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 plates only (of 4), also lacking 2ff. (dedication to the King and 'To the Reader'), title lower edge reinforced, c1 with slight tear just encroaching into text, small rust hole in X3 slightly affecting text, occasional foxing and soiling, later mottled sheep, upper cover scuffed, lower cover worn, rebacked, [Atabey 1074; Wing R2406. Not in Blackmer], Printed by J.M. for John Starkey, 1680; and another by Rycaut, also defective, folio (2)⁂ Provenance: James H. Williams (ink name on title); Colonel H.H. Fane (bookplate); Malin and Constantine Sorsbie (bookplate).

Herbert of Cherbury (Edward, Lord) The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, engraved initials and head-pieces, occasional marginal ink annotations in an early hand, E4 with small rust-hole affecting odd letter, 3R1 & 3R2 with small marginal rust-holes, 4D5 with marginal tears, lacking final blank, previous owner's ink signatures to front free endpaper, later half-calf, a little rubbed, [Wing H1504], folio, by E.G. for Thomas Whitaker, 1649.