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Polar Exploration.Amundsen (Roald) and Ellsworth (Lincoln), The First Flight Across the Polar Sea. Hutchinson, no date, portrait frontis, plates as called for, folding chart at rear, gutter gaping in places, original cloth with some wear to spine;Amundsen (Roald). My Polar Flight.Hutchinson, no date, frontis, plates as called for, worn original cloth;'Scout Marr', Into the Frozen South ... of the Quest Expedition.Cassell, 1923, first edition, frontis and plates as called for, original cloth;With seven others on polar exploration. (10)

An original Perspex-framed poster from The Victoria & Albert museum sell-out exhibition of the late British fashion designer ALEXANDER MCQUEEN. Entitled "Savage Beauty" (14 March - 2nd August 2015) This is a first edition poster bought at the time of the exhibition and not a reprint.Condition Report: Poster in excellent condition frame a little flimsy.

Rockwell, Norman (Illust.). A collection of books, some first editions, featuring illustrations by Norman Rockwell. To include The Trail of the Hawk, by Sinclair Lewis, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915; The Boy's Camp Book, by Edward Cave, New York: Doubleday, 1914; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, New York: Heritage Press & Heritage Club, 1936 & 1937 (standard edition & special edition); nine Scout Handbooks, and others, in one carton, condition varied, collection sold with all faults

Kipling, Rudyard. Collection of seven books comprising: Kim, London: Macmillan, reprinted November 1901; Just So Stories, Macmillan, reprinted 1902; The Jungle Book (x2), Macmillan, 1899 & 1910; The Second Jungle Book, Macmillan, 1908; Captain Courageous, Macmillan, 1908; Kipling's Verse, Inclusive Edition, fourth edition, Hodder & Stoughton, 1929, all in publisher's cloth. Together with How Green was my Valley, by Richard Llewellyn, first edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1939. Condition varied, sold as found with all faults

Tolkien, J. R. R. A collection of 11 books by or about Tolkien, to include The Father Christmas Letters, first edition, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1976, hardcover, plus The Silmarillion, by Christopher Tolkien, second impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977, octavo, publisher's blue cloth, folding map at rear, price-clipped dust-jacket. Together with Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan and Wendy, illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell, five copies, various editions, earliest c. 1928, and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 12th impression, 1948, London: Hodder & Stoughton. Condition varied, sold with all faults (18)

FOOTBALL MISCELLANY Includes 2 complete Topical Times small panel portraits of Football Stars and Stars of Today, The Cup 1883 - 1932 first edition, Football Weekly Book of 100 Famous Football Clubs and a programme for the Silver Jubilee Appeal, The Glasgow F.A. Select v The Football League at Hampden Park 17/5/1977. Generally good

First edition of l'Antique Rome ou Description Historique et Pittoresque written by Grasset Saint-Sauveur. Contains 50 plates engraved by Labrousse. Printed at Deroy, in Paris in the year 1796, year IV of the French Republic. Text in French.

First edition of the work Abecedari català per a nens. Precedit d'unes paraules de Pompeu Fabra, de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans de Xavier Nogués. It contains 29 sheets with the letters of the alphabet and drawings by Xavier Nogués and a sheet with a prologue by Pompeu Fabra. Rustic binding with jacket and flap. Edited by the Catalan National Library and printed by Salvat-Papasseit in Barcelona in 1920.

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny Potter (Beatrix) Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1st edition, London: F. Warne & Co, 1904. Original grey boards with inset pictorial panel to front cover. First or second printing, with 'muffetees' on and italic 'we' on p15)

Suckling (Sir John) The Goblins. A Comedy. Presented at the Private House in Black-Fryers, by His Majesties servants, first separate edition, B1 with tear to lower margin running into text, small rust hole to B8 affecting 1 or 2 letters of text, final f. rather soiled with fore margin chipped, Wigan Public Library blindstamp on title and bookplate to front pastedown, 20th century roan, joints rubbed, [Wing S6129], 8vo, for Humphrey Moseley, 1646.⁂ Rare, also issued the same year as part of Fragmenta Aurea.

Quarles (Francis) The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain Eglogues, first edition, third issue, engraved additional title by William Marshall, occasional light worming to inner margin, occasional light marking, 20th century antique-style calf, spine faded, [Wing Q115B], small 4to, M.F. for John and Richard Marriot, 1646.⁂ The address to the reader sometimes attributed to Izaak Walton. "The poem includes satirical attacks on the radical fringe of the anti-episcopal "Root and Branch" party, also allegorical portraits of his friend, Phineas Fletcher, and an Arminian "Master Shepheard" who is severely criticized and must be Archbishop Laud." - ODNB.

Suckling (Sir John) Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces, first edition, engraved portrait by William Marshall, 17th and 18th ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary calf, upper joint cracked, some staining to covers, corners a little worn, [Pforzheimer 995; Wing S6126B], 8vo, for Humphrey Moseley, 1646.⁂ Third state of the general title-page with the first line set in capital and lower case letters, but with the first state of "Churchyard" with an unbroken "d" and with a rule under the date, with the corresponding second state of page [vi] with "allowred" corrected to "allowed."

[Shirley (James)] Wits Labyrinth. Or, A briefe and compendious abstract of most witty, ingenious, wise, and learned sentences and phrases, first edition, lacking H1 and final blank ff., D2 with chip to foot affecting catchword, H3 with loss to lower half, affecting imprint, staining, bookplates of Joseph Copley and Fairfax of Cameron, later calf, joints rubbed, 1648 § Denham (Sir John) Poems and Translations, with the Sophy, first edition, errata f., G3 with paper flaw affecting text, occasional browning, book label of William Orde of Nunnykirk to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed, [Pforzheimer 285; Wing D1005], for H. Herringman, 1668; and 4 others, 17th century poetry, 4to & 8vo (6)

Cartwright (William) Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title trimmed at fore-edge just touching a few letters, leaf b2 with part of fore-margin cut away and the rest folded in, some soiling and staining, bookplate of Bibliotheca Piscatoria Lynniana, contemporary sheep, repaired, rubbed, [Wing C709], Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1651; and another 17th century poetry, 8vo (2)⁂ The numerous laudatory verses at the beginning of the first work include one by Izaak Walton entitled "On the Death of my dear Friend Mr William Cartwright, relating to the fore-going Elegies" - hence its inclusion in the important angling library of J.C. Lynn.

Howell (James) A German Diet: or, the Balance of Europe, first English edition, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black with woodcut device, stain to upper corner of first few leaves with loss of corner of title (not affecting text), some light water-staining, modern half calf over marbled boards, [Wing H3079], folio, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1653.⁂ Provenance: George Kenny (ink name on title).

Women poets.- Cavendish (Margaret, Countess of Newcastle) Poems and Fancies, first edition, title with engraved vignette, A8 in facsimile, lacks engraved portrait frontispiece, marginal worming occasionally affecting sidenotes, contemporary calf, rebacked, [Wing N869], Printed by T. R. for J. Martin and J. Allestrye, 1653 § Philips (Katherine) Poems..., engraved portrait frontispiece, first few leaves frayed at lower edge, worming, mostly marginal but occasionally slightly affecting text, A1 small hole with slight loss of text, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, [Wing P2035], Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1678, folio (2)⁂ Provenance: First work, Anne Weckerlin and susequently by her second marriage Anne Delawne (ink inscription on title and front free endpaper respectively). Her first husband Georg Rudolph Weckerlin was an Undersecretary of State to Charles I and later was appointed by Parliament to assist John Milton when his eyesight began to fail. Second work, Noel Lawson (ink inscription to front free endpaper); Ann Adcock (ink inscription beneath the former, dated 1722); Ge? Burnaby (ink inscription beneath both the previous); John York (ink inscription on rear free endpaper).

Digges (Sir Dudley) The Compleat Ambassador: or Two Treaties of the Intended Marriages of Qu. Elizabeth, first edition, fine additional engraved title depicting Elizabeth flanked by Burleigh and Walsingham, title in red and black, final blank leaf present, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked preserving original spine, new label, corners worn, [Wing D1453], folio, Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, 1655.⁂ Provenance: Thomas Foley of Great Witley Court, Worcs. (ink inscription dated 1660 on front free endpaper and bookplate to verso of title).

E[lys] (E[dmund]) Divine Poems. With a short description of Christian magnanimity, first edition, ink inscriptions to title verso along with library stamps of Bolland Collection and British Library of Political and Economic Science, modern half calf, [Wing E668], 8vo, Oxford, by H. Hall, 1658.⁂ A rare collection of poems by the renowned eccentric Elys. ESTC only the BL and Bodleian copies in the UK and 4 other copies in the US.

Quakers.- Fox (George) The Great Mystery of the Great Whore Unfolded, first edition, I2 and 3 misbound, foxed and browned, ink underling and a few annotations, later blind-stamped calf, rebacked, rubbed, [Wing F1832], Printed for Tho. Simmons, 1659 § P[helpes] (C[harles]) A Caveat against Drunkenness, trimmed close, occasionally affecting headline and catchword or signature, foxing, old library blind-stamp to final leaf, later panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed, upper cover corner broken, [Wing P1975], by Tho. Parkhurst, 1676, folio and 8vo (2)

First English Poetess.- Philips (Katherine) Poems By the most deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips the Matchless Orinda, first authorised edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, small hole to Xx2 with loss of catchword on verso, tears to 3A1 and 4A1, with final blank leaf 4M2, near contemporary calf, a little scuffed, [Wing P2033; Grolier 669], folio, Printed 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.Provenance: Eliza Gray (ink name on title and inscription on front pastedown)

Witchcraft.- Glanvill (Joseph) A Blow at Modern Sadducism In some Philosophical Considerations about Witchcraft, fourth edition, with final advertisement f., light browning to title margin, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn, new endpapers, [Wing G800], 8vo, Printed by E. Cotes for James Collins, 1668.⁂ First published in 1666 but much of the edition lost in the Great Fire and then reprinted in 1667 and twice in 1668. The second and third parts concern the case of the Drummer of Tedworth, who was supposed to be a vagabond who had been turned out of the house and avenged himself by causing drumming noises and other strange phenomena. These parts are first issued here. Glanvill (1636-80) was a philosopher, chaplain in ordinary to Charles II and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Greville (Fulke, Baron Brooke) The Remains... being Poems of Monarchy and Religion, first edition, with initial imprimatur and final blank ff., small patch of browning occasionally to upper margin, the odd leaf shaved at head, contemporary sheep, spine chipped at head, [Pforzheimer 438; Wing B4900], 8vo, T. N. for Henry Herringman, 1670.⁂ Contains the poems upon which Greville's literary reputation principally rests. Greville was a lifelong friend and biographer of Philip Sydney and became and elderly patron of D'Avenant.

[Ellis (Clement)] The Vanity of Scoffing: or a Letter to a Witty Gentleman, Evidently Shewing the Great Weakness and Unreasonableness of Scoffing at the Christian's Faith, first edition, British Library ink stamp to final p. with faint duplicate stamp to title verso, Wigan Public Library blindstamps, title a little soiled, some light marking, modern half calf, [Wing E575], 8vo, by R. Royston, 1674.⁂ Rare early work by Ellis, likely addressed to the Duke of Devonshire.

Shakespeare (William).- Beaumont (Francis) and John Fletcher. Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, second collected edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall after J. Berkenhead, small burn-hole to Ss4 with loss to a couple of letters, lacking final blank, modern panelled calf, [Wing B1582; Pforzheimer 54], folio, Printed by J. Macock, for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, 1679.⁂ This edition includes the first folio publication of The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. The play was first published in quarto format in 1634 but not included in any of the of the folio editions of Shakespeare's works or in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's works (1647). This second edition includes eighteen additional plays which did not appear in the first folio edition.

Rawlet (John) Poetick Miscellanies, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece (some creasing and fraying to margins), damp-staining, contemporary sheep, rebacked, surface abrasion to covers, front free endpaper renewed, [Wing R358], 8vo, Printed for Samuel Tidmarsh, 1687.⁂ Scarce. Rawlet (1642-86) was a curate in Wigan, Lancashire before holding the lectureship at St. Nicholas's in Newcastle.

Milton (John) Paradise Lost [&] Paradise Regain'd [&] Samson Agonistes, first illustrated edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, 12 engraved plates by Michael Burghers, Peter Paul Bouche and others, upper corner of title cut away and repaired with loss to printed ruled border, water-stained throughout, marginal worming to first few ff., some foxing, modern half calf over marbled boards, [Wing M2146; Shawcross 345; Turnbull 93c; Pforzheimer 720; Wither to Prior II, 607], folio, Printed by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob Tonson, 1688.

Philips (John) Cyder. A poem. In two books, first edition, large paper issue, presentation copy with ink inscription "1708 Given by ye Author" to head of title, engraved frontispiece, title a little foxed and soiled, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, wear to corners, [Foxon P238; Rothschild 1534], 8vo, for Jacob Tonson, 1708.⁂ This issue with the errors p.47 for 74 and "distitute" on p.44. Presentation copies of this work usually appear on the large paper issue.

Finch (Anne, Countess of Winchelsea) Poems on Several Occasions, title browned with ink inscription to head, a good, clean copy otherwise, contemporary calf, corners and head of spine worn, rubbed, [Foxon pp.274-5], 8vo, Printed by J. B. and sold by W. Taylor, 1714.⁂ Scarce reissue of the first edition of 1713 with a cancel title. The author was a lady of the bedchamber to the Duchess of York and included Pope and Rowe in her literary circle. Wordsworth regarded her as the greatest published English female poet prior to the 19th century.

Hutchinson (Francis) An Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft, first edition, half-title, final advertisement leaf, contemporary panelled calf, spine ends chipped, slightly rubbed, new spine label, [Howes 848; Sabin 34063], 8vo, Printed for R. Knaplock...and D. Midwinter, 1718.⁂ Chapter V is entitled "The Witchcrafts at Salem, Boston, and Andover in New-England" and includes details of various trials and an attack on Cotton Mather.

[Defoe (Daniel)] The Life, And Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner...Written by Himself, fifth edition, engraved frontispiece, folding map of the world, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end, 1720; The Father Adventures...Being the Second and Last Part, second edition, lacking map, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end, 1719; Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures...with his vision of the Angelick World, first edition, engraved folding plan of the island (substantial portion cut away and replaced with later paper), 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end, with catchword "The" on p.270, 1720, woodcut title vignettes, initials, head- and tail-pieces, book-label or ink ownership inscriptions to pastedowns, some light foxing or staining, contemporary panelled calf, vol. 1 & 2 uniform but vol. 3 differing slightly, worn at spine ends and corners (repaired in vol. 3), rubbed, [Moore 412; 417 & 436], 8vo, Printed for W. Taylor (3)⁂ A complete set of Defoe's classic tale of shipwreck and survival, often hailed as the first novel in the English language.

[Swift (Jonathan)] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver..., 4 parts in 2 vol., The Second Edition [vol. 2, second edition, corrected], 5 titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of Gulliver, 5 maps and 1 plate, advertisement leaf preceding title to vol. 2, *1-2 (fifth preliminary poem) misbound after title rather than b4, 2 plates trimmed at fore-edge with slight loss, some light spotting or browning but overall a crisp set, armorial bookplate of Samuel Wall Armiger, contemporary calf-backed boards, rebacked with original spine laid-down, rubbed, [Teerink 293], 8vo, Benj[amin] Motte, 1727.⁂ The first Motte edition, with the the 24-page setting of the Verses (which include the additional fifth poem 'The Words of the King of Brobdingnag', now ascribed to Pope).

[Carter (Elizabeth)] Poems on Several Occasions, first edition, errata f., ink inscription to title and endpapers, contemporary boards, sympathetic calf reback, some wear to corners, [Foxon p.109], 8vo, for John Rivington, 1762.⁂ Collection of poetry by the famous Blue Stocking and friend of Samuel Johnson, Emma Hamilton, Edmund Burke and Horace Walpole.

Peacock (Thomas Love) Palmyra, first edition, engraved frontispiece, some offsetting, contemporary marbled calf, gilt, T. Bensley, 1806; The Genius of the Thames, Palmyra and other Poems, second edition, engraved frontispiece, uncut and unopened in original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label rubbed, 1812, 8vo (2)

Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, first edition, errata leaf, William Harrison Ainsworth's copy with his ink inscriptions on half-title and title, both dated 1823, some light scattered spotting or soiling, bookplate of A. A. Tilley, later half green morocco over marbled boards, gilt, spine a little sunned, lightly rubbed, endpapers renewed, [Wise, Coleridge 45; Ashley vol.1 p.206], 8vo, 1817.⁂ The first publication to contain the final version of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], "Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell". Poems, first edition, second issue, lacking advertisement slip at beginning, errata slip, final blank and publisher's catalogue at end, ink ownership inscription to front endpaper, Ronald Fuller's Rex Whistler designed bookplate to front pastedown, a few small spots to contents page, end papers lightly spotted, later half vellum, spine gilt with black morocco label, t.e.g, [Smith 1 pp.6-14], 8vo, Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [but 1848].

[Brontë (Emily and Anne)], "Ellis and Acton Bell". Wuthering Heights; Agnes Grey, 1 vol. as issued, second English edition, first issue with title dated 1850, half-title, 1f. advertisements at front, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue dated April 1851 at rear, light marginal spotting, original cloth, recased, spine sunned, corners scuffed, [Smith 3, pp.63-69], 8vo, Smith, Elder and Co., 1850.⁂ Around September 1850 Smith, Elder & Co. wrote to Charlotte to suggest that they take over publication of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey from Thomas Cautley Newby. Charlotte agreed and included a biographical preface regarding Ellis and Acton Bell in order both to clear up the confusions surrounding the authorship of the Brontë novels as well as to reveal the true identity of the Bells.

[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Villette, 3 vol. first edition, lacking publisher's catalogue at end of vol. 1, light browning to corners of titles, vol. 1 title with small abrasions (?previous ownership inscription rubbed), occasional light finger soiling, a few small isolated spots, later half calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels, light sunning to spines, [Sadleir 342; Smith 6 pp.138-142; Wolff 828], Smith, Elder & Co., 1853; The Professor, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, advertisement leaf at end of vol. 1, 8pp. and 16 pp. advertisements dated November 1858 at end vol. 2, ink ownership inscription to title vol. 1, a few spots and light browning to title vol. 1, occasional light finger soiling, later half morocco, spines gilt, [Smith 7, pp.162-166], 1857, 8vo (5)

[Gaskell (Elizabeth C.)], "By the Author of 'Mary Barton', 'Ruth', &c.". Cranford, Chapman & Hall, 1853; Ruth, 3 vol., 33pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vol. 1, 1853; The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 2 vol., portrait frontispiece and 2 plates, book-label to front pastedown, foxing to titles, plates and endpapers, contemporary half calf, with red and black morocco labels to spines, small tear vol. 2 spine head, Smith, Elder and Co., 1857, all three first editions, the first two works uniformly bound in contemporary tree calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels, t.e.g., and with original cloth covers and spines bound-in at end of each vol.; and an first American edition of the first, 8vo (7)

Bible, English .- A Leaf from the First Edition of the First Complete Bible in English The Coverdale Bible 1535, one of 425 copies, with an original leaf tipped-in, reproductions of pages from the 1535 edition, 1 folding, original leaf water-stained and lightly browned, original red and black pictorial cloth, a few small stains, folio, San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1974. ⁂ The original leaf has the end of Chronicles recto and the beginning of Second Chronicles verso.

Fabyan (Robert) The Chronicle of Fabian, whiche he nameth the concordaunce of histories, newly perused. And continued from the beginnyng of Kyng Henry the seuenth, to thende of Queene Mary, 2 vol. in 1, double column, black letter, titles within woodcut historiated architectural borders, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, occasional contemporary ink marginalia, vol.1 lacking C1, vol.2 lacking 3B3-6 (the last blank), vol.1 title cropped (with loss of upper vignette and first word 'The' and part of first two letters of 'Chronicle'), soiled and laid down, extensive marginal repairs to first 20 and last 13 ff., or so, occasional marginal repairs elsewhere, a few tears, water-stained, some spotting or staining (including ink to vol.1 i5&6), lightly browned, new endpapers, 17th century mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments and with burgundy morocco label, head of spine and corners worn, rubbed and marked, [STC 10663], folio, John Kingston, 1559.⁂ The most complete edition of Fabyan's celebrated chronicle. Provenance: Robert Sockett (17th century ink name to lower margin of 2d4r).

[Ruscelli (Girolamo), attributed to.] The Secretes of the reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount: contayning excellent remedies agaynste divers dyseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make dystillations, parfumes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions, and meltings...Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certayne places which wanted in the first edition. Translated out of French into Englishe, by William Warde, B4 tear within text at head, without loss, Q5-7 piece of lower blank corner torn away, not near text, Henry Bynneman, for John Wight, 1568; Second Parte..., lacking A8 (f.8), Henry Bynneman, for John Wyght, [?1568], together 2 vol. in 1, woodcut printers device to titles, ornaments and initials, contemporary ink inscriptions to first title, a little soiled and stained, contemporary calf, lacking ties, rebacked, new endpapers, rubbed, a few scratches and worn patches, split to upper joint, [STC 297 & 302], small 4to ⁂ Translation of a French version of Alessio's famous collection of medical and pharmaceutical recipes.

Bilson (Thomas) The True Difference Betweene Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion, first edition, partly black letter, title with small woodcut typographical ornament, woodcut decorative initials, a4 blank, lacking contents ff. 3H3&4 at end, title with 20th century book sale report mounted verso, causing some staining recto, water-stained, some ink staining, spotting, lightly browned throughout, contemporary blind-ruled and -stamped calf, spine and upper outer edge worn, with considerable loss of leather to spine, but holding firm, rubbed and scuffed, [Madan I, p.14; STC 3071], small 4to, Oxford, Printed by Ioseph Barnes printer to the Vniuersitie, 1585.⁂ A response to William Allen's A true sincere and modest defence of English Catholiques, 1584. Thomas Bilson (1547-1616) Archbishop of Worcester and Bishop of Winchester, overseer of the final edit and printing of the King James Bible.Provenance: John Morris (contemporary ink signature to title); John Last (19th century ink signature to head of title).

Shakespeare source book.- Torquemada (Antonio de) The Spanish Mandeuile of miracles. Or The garden of curious flowers. VVherin are handled sundry points of humanity, philosophy, diuinitie, and geography, beautified with many strange and pleasant histories, [translated by Sir Lewis Leweknor], first edition in English, title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut initials, lacking initial blank with signature mark, A4, [par.]1&2 (ESTC erroneously calling for 4 ff. in this sig.), K2&3 (provided in facsimile), 2S1 (provided in facsimile), and 2S3&4 (contents ff.), title window mounted, with loss to border, extensive marginal repairs to A3, 2S2 outer margin repaired, a few small marginal repairs elsewhere, stained, lightly browned, modern calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments and with red leather label, [Pforzheimer 1011; STC 24135], small 4to, Printed by I[ames]. R[oberts]. for Edmund Matts, and are to be solde at his shop, at the signe of the hand and Plow in Fleet-streete, 1600. sold not subject to return.⁂ Rare copy at auction of this work on the curiosities and wonders of the world, with only four copies traced since 1903; the last being in 1964. Lewkenor (c.1560-1627) was an English courtier, M.P., soldier, and judge, who served as Master of the Ceremonies to King James I. In 1600 he escorted the Moroccan ambassador Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, suggested as the inspiration for Shakespeare's Othello. It has further been suggested that the character of Puck may have been drawn from Shakespeare's reading of the manuscript of the present work.

Camerarius (Joachim) The Liuing librarie, or, Meditations and obseruations historical, natural, moral, political, and poetical, translated by John Molle, first edition in English, title within ornate engraved architectural border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, final f. blank, lacking initial blank, short tear to upper inner margin of title, 2B4 tear at foot within text, with minor loss, but not to sense, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments and with morocco label, corners worn, rubbed, [STC 4529], small folio, Printed by Adam Islip, 1621. ⁂ 'A translation of a French version by Simon Goulart of book 1 of: Operae horarum subcisivarum' (ESTC). Provenance: Ink presentation inscription from Robert Hakewill to Hugo Losse dated 1663 to title.

Ancient naval history.- Ryves (Sir Thomas) Historia naualis antiqua, libris quatuor, second edition, folding woodcut plate, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, errata to penultimate verso, final f. blank, library blind-stamp to title and first and last few ff., C8 repaired vertical tear the whole length of f., with loss of a few letters, but with no loss of sense, closely trimmed at head, very occasionally just touching a headline, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, antique style calf, spine in compartments and with green morocco label, [STC 21475], 8vo, Robert Barker, 1633.⁂ Rare at auction. The second edition, extending its coverage to the creation of the Roman Empire. Ryves, who was from a prominent Dorset family, became a lawyer who specialised in Admiralty and Ecclesiastical law. In 1636 he became the Admiralty judge for Dover, and later judge for the Cinque Ports.

Hall (Joseph) The Balme of Gilead: or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine, first edition, title within woodcut architectural border, R1 with chip to margin affecting printed sidenote, light marginal staining, [Wing H365], by M. Flesher, for Nat Buttler, 1646 bound with Christ Mysticall: or, The Blessed Union of Christ with His Members, first edition, with initial blank, some light spotting, [Wing H374], for M. Flesher, 1647, together 2 works in 1 vol., ink name to front free endpaper, bookplate of Basil G. Wood to front pastedown, contemporary calf, chipping to spine, gouge to front cover, a little rubbed, 12mo.⁂ A rare pair of devotional works by Hall, we can trace no examples of the first and only one example of the second at auction in the last 50 years.

Drainage.- Dugdale (Sir William) The History of Imbanking and Drayning of Divers Fenns and Marshes, both in Foreign Parts and in this Kingdom, first edition, title in red and black, 11 double-page or folding maps, one slightly defective, title repaired with reinforced paper verso, light foxing or spotting, later red morocco with tooled gilt border, spine and extremities rubbed, [Wing D2481], folio, Alice Warren, 1662.⁂ The scarcest of Dugdale's works, many of the copies were allegedly destroyed in the Great Fire of London.

Marvell (Andrew) Miscellaneous Poems, first edition, edited by Mary Marvell, engraved portrait frontispiece, later 'fanfare' binding of olive green morocco, gilt, by Riviere, with inlays of green purple and tan morocco to a design of ribbons and floral sprays from a central gilt-lettered red morocco title panel, g.e., spine very slightly discoloured, [Wing M872; Grolier, Wither to Prior 536; Pforzheimer 671; Hayward 126], folio, for Robert Boulter, 1681.⁂ A sumptuous copy of the first and only early edition of Marvell's poems, complete with portrait and with a distinguished provenance. Every poem appears here in print for the first time, making this work arguably one of the greatest original single-volume collections of English verse of all time. Without, as usual, leaves R2-T1 and U2-T4 (suppressed poems on Cromwell), missing in all known copies save one in the BL.Provenance: Roderick Terry (bookplate); Abel Berland (bookplate).

Cyrano de Bergerac (Savinien) The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and Sun, translated by A. Lovell, first English edition, engraved frontispiece by F.H. van Hove, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine, a little rubbed, modern cloth drop-back box, [Barron 1-12; Wing C7717], 8vo, Printed for Henry Rhodes, 1687.⁂ Important precursor to the science-fiction genre. Cyrano was influenced by the revolutionary ideas of Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler. He created utopian societies to illustrate the satirical points of his political treatise. Several of these fantasy societies were to influence Swift fifty years later. One of the more remarkable passages in the book appears on pages 121-122 of Part One, in which Cyrano describes a machine which seems virtually identical to an iPod: "It was a Book, indeed; but a Strange and Wonderful Book, that had neither Leaves nor Letters: In fine, it was a Book, made wholly for the Ears, and not the Eyes. So that when any Body has a mind to read in it, he winds up that Machine, with a great many little Springs; then he turns the Hand to the Chapter which he desires to hear, and straight, as from the Mouth of a Man, or a musical Instrument, proceed all the distinct and different Sounds." Provenance: Tho. Chapman (ink inscription to front endpaper); Coker Court [Somerset] (bookplate).

French Prophets.- Wharton (Hannah) Some Manifestations and Communications of the Spirit, in a Forty Days Ministration in that place London ..., first edition, ink-mark to to title foot obscuring manuscript signature, final ff. laid down, previous owner's ink signature to verso, scattered spotting and staining, near contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 12mo, Sold by Sam. Noble, 1730.⁂ Scarce. Only 6 on ESTC, with 3 in the UK at the British Library; Congregational Library and; Bodleian Library. Hannah Wharton was a later member of the 'French Prophets' (c.1706-c.1750), an example of religious enthusiasm in British religious history. Their origins were inspired by the French 'Camisard Rising' in the Cévannes mountains of Southern France, and ended with the foundation of the Shakers in the late 1740's. The Shakers were seen to be the French Prophets spiritual successors. The French Prophets presented themselves as a non-sectarian religious movement. They emphasized the religious experience, be it prophecy, glossolalia, thaumaturgy, singing or dancing, over liturgy and rituals. Hannah Wharton was one of the later, new generation of prophets who appeared occasionally around England during the 1720's-30's.

Chess.- Johannes Gallensis Summa collationum, sive communiloquium, ?first edition, collation: [a-z8 A-I8 K6], 262 ff., 27 lines plus headline, gothic type, two- to four-line initials in red, red paraphs, initial strokes and underlining, very good margins with early manuscript sidenotes and copious small lection marks for reading aloud, plus subject headings including 'de ludo schacio exposius', contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards from the bindery of the Kartause Marienburg (Weddern, near Duelmen, Westphalia), 2 clasps and remains of leather straps, rebacked and with new endpapers, corners rubbed, 4to (210 x 138mm.), Cologne, Ulrich Zel, [c.1472].⁂ Generally regarded as the first edition, closely followed by another Cologne edition dated 1472, printed by Arnold Ther Hoernen. This manual for priests and preachers is most notable for being the first printed book to describe, albeit in moral/allegorical terms, the game of Chess. Pars 1, Distich 10, Caput 7 includes the exposition beginning "Mundus iste totus quoddam scaccarium est, cuius unus punctus est albus et alius niger" (the world resembles a chessboard which is chequered white and black) and ending with the caution that if a man falls into sin "in isto scaccio dyabolus dicit eschack" (in this game of chess the devil says Check). The moves of the various pieces are described in symbolic terms: the King can move in all directions because his will is law; the Knight's move consists of a straight move and a sidelong one, to illustrate his legitimate powers and his illegal extortions; the Bishop moves obliquely 'because nearly every bishop misuses his office through cupidity'; and the Queen's move of just one square diagonally (under the medieval rules, before her power and scope were greatly enlarged in the Renaissance) 'is aslant only, because women are so greedy that they will take nothing except by rapine and injustice' (H.J.R. Murray, A History of Chess, 1913, p.530). It is rare at auction, with only two copies (including this in 2017) recorded since 1906. ISTC lists 6 copies in North America, but none of which at Harvard, Yale, Morgan, Huntington, LC, Folger or Newberry.Provenance: Ampleforth Abbey (bookplate and facing ink stamp).Literature: BMC I, 191; Goff J-328; H 7440*; GW M13986; BSB-Ink I-574; ISTC ij00328000.

Swift (Jonathan) Directions to Servants in General, first London edition, final leaf soiled and with short tear affecting text (no loss), [Rothschild 2178; Teerink 785], R.Dodsley, 1745; Three Sermons..., second edition, variant with "Subordination" in final line of p.32, [Rothschild 2176; Teerink 70], R.Dodsley, 1744 bound after Kane (Richard) Campaigns of King William and Queen Anne..., first edition, with folding engraved map but lacking the plates, J.Millan, 1745 and Froissart (John) A Paralel of Times and Events..., first edition, C.Corbett, 1746, together 4 works in 1 vol., occasional soiling, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, 8vo⁂ Sammelband containing two works by Swift, most notably his celebrated satire on the behaviour of servants, published posthumously.

[Wilson (Benjamin)] A Treatise on Electricity, first edition, dedicatee association copy inscribed "Granville Hastings Wheler the gift of Christopher Wilson Esq", 5 folding engraved plates, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, gilt, red morocco spine label ,bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1750.⁂ Benjamin Wilson (1721-88), was a painter and scientist. He opposed Benjamin Franklin's theory of positive and negative electricity. His most well known experimental work was on the electrical properties of tourmaline, which gained him international recognition. Granville Wheler (1701-1770) was a fellow scientist who was the first in England to electrify a live animal. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. Wilson dedicated this work to him.

Gothic novel.- Robinson (Mary) Hubert de Sevrac, a Romance of the Eighteenth Century, 3 vol., first edition, errata at the end of each vol., advertisement f. at the end of vol. 3, vol. 2 M6 with repaired tear at foot, lacking half-titles, occasional light foxing, armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden to front pastedowns, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments with red and green morocco labels, a handsome set, [Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1796: 77; Summers p.362], 8vo, for the Author by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796.⁂ Rare gothic novel by Robinson set during the French Revolution. In her lifetime Robinson was better known as an actress and lady of fashion as well as for a string of prominent affairs, including with George IV whilst he was still Prince of Wales. Her literary output, though derided at the time, has since been reassessed and Robinson herself now seen as a proto-feminist.

Education.- Darwin (Erasmus) A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece (lightly foxed and offset on title), one or two small marginal stains but a crisp, clean copy in contemporary half roan, spine gilt, rather rubbed and marked, splits to joints, spine chipped at head, 4to, Derby, J.Drewry, for J.Johnson..., 1797.⁂ Important and progressive work on the education of women proposing that they should study natural history and science as well as the more usual accomplishments of music, drawing, needlework etc. The frontispiece depicts the gardens of Ashbourne Hall in Derbyshire, where the Miss Parkers, Darwin's illegitimate daughters, successfully established a girls' boarding school to try out his educational ideas. The work includes a list of suggested books to be read by young ladies and a final leaf with charges which is essentially a prospectus for the school.

Clare (John) Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, first edition, lacking half-title and advertisements, top portion of pp.85/86 provided in facsimile, modern half calf, red morocco spine label, 8vo, 1820.

Clare (John) The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, 2 vol., first edition, 4 pp. publisher's advertisements to vol.2, portrait frontispiece to vol.1 replaced from another copy, contemporary ink ownership inscription to vol.2 pastedown, neat repair to vol.1 hinge, original boards, spine papers and endpapers to vol.1 renewed, 8vo, 1821.

Appianus, Alexandrinus. Historia Romana; De Bellis Civilibus, translated by Petrus Candidus Decembrius, 2 parts in 2 vol. (mixed set), collation: I: a-i10 k-n8 o10; II: a-c10 d12 e-x10, I: 131ff. (of 132, lacking initial blank), II: 211ff. (of 212, lacking initial blank), 31-33 lines and side-notes, Roman type, first title with full woodcut white vine on black border, second title with three-sided white vine on black border, woodcut white on black decorative initials in two sizes, part 1 bookplate or similar removed from lower margin of a2v leaving brown staining, later endpapers, part 2 occasional early ink marginalia, library ink stamp to outer margin of a2 and a couple of other margins, final leaf water-stained, occasional mostly marginal water-staining elsewhere, some foxing, both parts occasional small marginal worm trace or hole, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, part 1 later limp vellum, remains of ties, later ink title to spine, creased, part 2 18th century calf, rebacked, corners restored, marked and rubbed, 4to (I: 270 x 190mm. II: 267 x 185mm.), Venice, Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt & Peter Löslein, 1477.⁂ First complete edition of Appian's Roman history. "To my mind there are few printed books of any age which can be compared with the Appian of 1477, with its splendid black ink, its vellum-like paper, and the finished excellence of its typography". (Redgrave (Gilbert R.) Erhard Ratdolt and his work at Venice, 1894, p.13). Provenance: Manuel Gonzalez Salmon (engraved armorial bookplate to rear endpaper); Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (engraved armorial bookplate with ink ms. numbering). Literature: BMC V, 244; Goff A-928; H 1307*; GW 2290; Bod-inc A-363; BSB-Ink A-651; ISTC ia00928000.

[Dickens (Charles)], "Boz". Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, 3 vol., first edition, second issue with "Boz" on titles and 'Rose Maylie and Oliver' plate, half-titles, 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, advertisements to front and back as called for by Smith, some off-setting, spotting, vol. 1 gutter cracked and hinge weak at half-title, original reddish brown fine-diaper cloth, spines a little toned, rubbing to extremities, [Eckel pp.59-60; Smith I, 4] 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1838.

Dickens (Charles) Hard Times. For These Times, first edition in book form, first issue with p.244 misnumbered 44, Autograph Letter signed from the author to Georgiana Morson alerting her of his order of 1000 marked papers from the printer loosely inserted, half-title reinforced with tape to gutter, small paper repairs to preliminaries and final f., occasional scattered spotting or light marginal finger soiling, modern green morocco with gilt border, spine ruled in gilt, new endpapers, small scuff mark to upper cover, otherwise a very attractive copy, 8vo, 1854.⁂ The letter is addressed to Georgiana Morson, 1817-80, Matron of Urania Cottage, the home for 'fallen women' that he helped to establish with philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts in Shepherd's Bush, in which Dickens took a keen interest often visiting several times a week.