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NO RESERVE [Micanzio (Fulgentio)] The Life of the most Learned Father Paul [Sarpi], of the Order of the Servie..., translated out of the Italian by [John Saint-Amard], first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements at rear, tear to M2 running through text, upper hinge broken, contemporary sheep, rubbed, [Wing M1959], 8vo, Humphrey Moseley & Richard Marryat, 1651.⁂ Scarce biography of Paolo Sarpi by his friend and secretary Micanzio. Sarpi (1552-1623), a Venetian scientist, historian and statesman who corresponded with Francis Bacon and William Harvey. He was a friend and patron of Gelileo Gelilei who is mentioned in the present work.

NO RESERVE Voyages.- Dampier (William) A New Voyage Round the World, first edition, 5 engraved maps (4 folding), folding frontispiece wormed at lower margin, some marginal foxing or light soiling, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, early reback, splitting to head of upper joint, extremities a little worn, [Wing D161], 8vo, for James Knapton, 1697.⁂ Provenance: Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; his ink inscription).

NO RESERVE Gardening.- Rapin (Rene) Of Gardens, four Books ... now made English by J[OHN] E[velyn, the Younger], first edition in English, first issue, engraved arms of Lord Arlington on title and at head of dedication, table misbound after dedication, C1 with tear to lower margin, not affecting text, some light marginal browning, in ownership inscription to head of dedication and ink price to title, 20th century calf, spine a little faded, light rubbing to spin ends and corners, [Keynes 181; Wing R269], 8vo, by T[homas]. R[atcliffe]. & N[athaniel]. T[hompson]. for Thomas Collins and John Ford at the Middle-Temple Gate, and Benjamin Tooks [sic] at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1672.⁂ John Evelyn the Younger's first book, rare first issue with title dated 1672. We can trace no example of this issue at auction and only 6 copies listed on ESTC. Keynes states seeing the table in only the ULC copy. Provenance: Tho Boston Alnwick 1770 (ink inscription).

Robert Southey's copy.- Gratianus. Decreti huius plenissimu argumentum..., [edited by Bertholdus Rembolt], Robert Southey's copy with his ink inscription "Robert Southey. Bristol. August 3, 1811" to foot of title and trimmed bookplate laid below colophon, gothic letter, printed in red and black, large woodcut device on title-page, title within a woodcut border of foliage and grotesques, large woodcut illustrations in text of Gratian in his study with popes and cardinals, surrounded by border of figures of prophets, of Trees of Consanguinity and Affinity, title a little soiled and with ink ownership inscriptions to head, worming to first and last few gatherings, final gathering with marginal tearing and fraying, occasionally affecting text or headlines, 1 or 2 margins strengthened, 20th century brown morocco, a little rubbed, folio, Paris, Berthold Rembolt, 1518.⁂ Rare, attractively-printed edition with a good provenance, we can trace no copy at auction since 1971.Provenance: W. Phillips; Robert Southey (1774-1843, Romantic poet and Poet laureate); Cuthbert Hamilton Turner (1860-1930, ecclesiastical historian and Biblical scholar); Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; ink inscriptions).

NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol, reading edition, scattered spotting, original printed wrappers, some splitting to joints, chipping to spine ends, 1868; The Cricket on the Hearth, first edition, engraved frontispiece and additional title, illustrations, ink inscription to endpaper, original pictorial cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine slightly dulled, light bumping to spine ends and corners, 1846; and 3 others, first editions of The Battle for Life and Haunted Man and a reading edition of Poor Traveller, 8vo (5)

NO RESERVE Thackeray (William Makepeace) Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, first edition, first issue with the suppressed woodcut of Marquis of Steyne on p. 336 and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on p. 453, etched frontispiece, additional vignette title-page, and 38 plates, wood-engraved vignettes throughout, lacking initial advertisement f., some light surface soiling to engraved title, but a remarkably clean copy otherwise, bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary green half calf, spine gilt in compartments, extremities a little rubbed, 1848; and 10 others by the same and Charles Lever, 8vo (11)

NO RESERVE Presentation copy.- Baxter (Richard) The Catechizing of Families: a Teacher of Housholders how to Teach their Housholds. Useful also to School-Masters and Tutors of Youth, first edition, presentation copy from the author with ink inscription "T. Foley ex Dono Authoris" to blank leaf facing title, engraved portrait frontispiece, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, later endpapers, rubbed, wear to extremities, [Wing B1205], 8vo, T. Parkhurst and B. Simmons, 1683.⁂ A presentation copy from the author to his friend and supporter. Thomas Foley (1617-77) was an industrialist who inherited his father's business in the iron industry. He built Whitley Court in Worcestorshire and founded Old Swinford Hospital (a school at Stourbridge). Foley acquired church patronage around Kidderminster and through this link became acquainted with Baxter. Baxter referred to Foley as "a truly honest man ... who from almost nothing did get about 5,000l. per ann. or more by ironworks, and that with so just and blameless dealing that ever he had to do with that ever I heard of magnified his great integrity and honesty, which was questioned by none."Provenance: Thomas Foley (1617-77, presentation inscription); "Foley" armorial bookplate.

NO RESERVE Cave (William) Primitive Christianity: Or, the Religion of the Ancient Christians in the First Ages of the Gospel, 3 parts in 1 vol., first edition, with initial imprimatur f. and additional engraved title, lacking the 3 index ff. at end with with the 4 advertisement ff., contemporary calf, upper cover detached, rubbed and worn, [Wing C1598], by J.M., 1673 § Tucker (Josiah) Seventeen Sermons..., first edition, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, contemporary calf, spine gilt, rubbed, some wear to corners, Gloucester, R. Raikes, 1776; and 10 others, similar, 8vo (12)

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***NO RESERVE Florio (John) A Worlde of Wordes, or, Most copious, and exact dictionarie in Italian and English, first edition, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials and tail-piece, lacking initial and final blanks and K3&4, title a little soiled and with ink ownership inscription to head, first gathering with repair and restoration to lower corner, b1 with tear to corner running into text, light damp-staining, worming to lower margin, ink names to endpapers, 19th century half calf, covers mottled, extremities a little rubbed, [STC 11098], small folio, by Arnold Hatfield for Edward Blount, 1598.⁂ The first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary, notable for containing one of the earliest printed references to cricket. On p. 370, 'Sgrillare' is explained as "to make a noise as a cricket, to play cricket-a-wicket, and be merry".Provenance: John Bayman; Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; ink inscriptions).

NO RESERVE Ashmole (Elias) and WIlliam Lilly. The Lives of those Eminent Antiquaries, Elias Ashmole... and Mr William Lilly, Written by Themselves, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, light offsetting, armorial bookplate of Sir Edmund Antorbus to front pastedown, contemporary calf, joints cracked, rubbed and worn, T. Davies, 1774 § Fell (John) The Life of the most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dr H. Hammond, second edition, upper margin of title cut away, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, new endpapers, [WIng F618], J. Flesher, 1662; and 33 others, biographies and similar, v.s. (35)

NO RESERVE Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Lost World, first edition, plates, some scatter spotting, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine a little darkened and with vertical crease, light marking to covers, extremities a little rubbed, [1912]; and 5 others by Robert Louis Stevenson, 8vo (6)

NO RESERVE Luther (Martin) Dris Martini Lutheri colloquia mensalia: or, Dr Martin Luther's divine discourses at his table, &c. Which in his life time hee held with divers learned men, first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece (trimmed and laid down with some loss to extremities), title in red and black and with small woodcut device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, title a little soiled and laid down, internal tears to 2Q5 and 2Y1, final f. creased, torn and repaired with loss to a few letters of text, occasional light staining or soiling, later calf-backed vellum, joints cracked, a little soiled, [Wing L3510], folio, Printed by William Du-Gard, 1652

NO RESERVE Arnold (Sir Edwin) The Feast of Belshazzar. A Prize Poem, first edition, short tear and patch of toning to foot of title, original wrappers, short tear and chip to upper wrapper, light surface soiling, Oxford, 1852; The Light of Asia or the Great Renunciation, frontispiece, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, spine darkened, rubbing and surface soiling, 1885; and another by the same, 8vo (3)

NO RESERVE Royal Society.- Glanvill (Joseph) Plus Ultra: or, the Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the days of Aristotle, first edition, imprimatur leaf at beginning and advertisement leaf at end, repaired tears to head of E2 and F2, light marginal toning, 20th century half calf, [Wing G820], 8vo, for James Collins, 1668.⁂ In his argument in favour of the Royal Society, the recently-elected Glanvill says that the Society has done more to advance useful knowledge in a few years ''than all the Philosophers of the Notional way, since Aristotle opened his shop in Greece''.

NO RESERVE World.- Heylyn (Peter) Mikrokosmos [graece]. A Little Description of the Great World, third edition, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, folding table, table (2¶1-2*2) misbound at end, title creased, ink names to rear endpapers, contemporary calf, chip to lower joint, light marking, a very good, clean copy, [STC 13278; Sabin 31636], small 4to, Oxford, 1627.⁂ One of many quarto and folio editions of this popular early geography, the most commonly used source of information about the rest of the world used in England at the time. Heylyn (1600-62) , a "bluster-master" according to his enemy John Hacket, annoyed King James I by saying in the first edition of this work that 'France is the greater and more famous Kingdom than England'; 'is' was a misprint for 'was' he claimed, and the passage referred to the time of Edward III, but he wisely removed it from later editions.Provenance: William ?Prime; William James Canter (ink inscriptions).

NO RESERVE Pope (Walter) The life of the Right Reverend Father in God seth, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, first edition, with 2pp. advertisements at end, lacking errata slip, light soiling to title, some light marginal staining, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, retaining original backstrip, later endpapers, [Wing P2911], 8vo, for William Keblewhite, 1697.

NO RESERVE Economics.- Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vol., fourth edition, occasional scattered foxing and light browning, contemporary speckled calf, early reback, spine rubbed, corners a little worn, later endpapers, [Goldsmiths' 13148; Kress B1129], 8vo, for A.Strahan and T.Cadell, 1786.⁂ "The Wealth of Nations is not a system, but as a provisional analysis it is completely convincing. The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" - PMM.

NO RESERVE Baxter (Richard) A Christian Directory: or, a Summ of Practical Theologie, and Cases of Conscience, 4 parts in 1 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional title, first few gatherings with repairs to upper margin, gatherings 3N & 3O with restored hole to text, lettered supplied in manuscript, the odd small rust-hole or short marginal tear, occasional light damp-staining, ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers, 18th century calf, upper cover detached, spine chipped and worn, corners worn, rubbed, [WIng B1219], folio, by Richard White, 1673.⁂ Provenance: John Fowell Jones (1792-1877, Oxford alumnus and ecclesiastic); Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; ink inscriptions).

NO RESERVE Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) A Lay Sermon Addressed to the Higher and Middle Classes on the Existing Distresses and Discontents, first edition, half-title, spotting, internal tearing to title and first leaf of introduction, later plain wrappers, house in custom chemise, [Ashley I, p.204; Tinker 696; Wise 37], 1817; and 10 others, Coleridge, 8vo & 12mo (11)

NO RESERVE Coleridge (Samuel Taylor).- [Chatterton (Thomas)] Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley...in the Fifteenth Century, engraved additional title, 1 plate, spotting to engraved title, very occasional light browning, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, 19th century half calf, spine ends and corners chipped and bumped, rubbed, [Rothschild 590], 8vo, Cambridge, B.Flower, for the editor, 1794.⁂ First Cambridge edition of this notorious Chatterton hoax. This edition was the first to contain Coleridge's Monody on the Death of Chatterton, his second appearance in print.

NO RESERVE Europe.- Barclay (John) The Mirrour of Mindes, or Barclay's Icon Animorum, translated by Thomas May, first edition in English, with initial and final blanks and blank P6, 2E3 with tear running into text, occasional light browning, a few ff. shaved at head, affecting headlines, some light marginal damp-staining, ink ownership inscriptions to initial blank and endpapers, 19th century vellum, [STC 1399], 12mo, by John Norton, 1631.⁂ Scarce. Discusses the people of the principal nations of Europe: their merits, failings, habits and customs of thought and behaviour.Provenance: Will. Frankland (early ink ownership inscription); Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; his ink ownership inscription).

NO RESERVE Theatre.- Collier (Jeremy) A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage, first edition, title with portion restored at head, spotting and light browning, etched bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary black morocco, gilt, possibly a remboitage, extremities a little rubbed, g.e., [Pforzheimer 189; WIng C5263], 8vo, for S. Keble &c., 1698.⁂ Collier's famous attack on the English stage that began a small pamphlet war with John Vanbrugh. This copy includes a poem in an 18th century hand to the rear endpaper:John Dryden enemies had three;Sr. Dick, Old Nick & Jeremy.Agt. the first he kept the Field,And made the Doctor soon to yield.And, had's Life been holier,He'd beat the Devil and ye. Collier.

NO RESERVE London.- Ackermann (Rudolph) The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, 2 vol., first edition, 81 hand-coloured aquatint plates including additional vignette title, engraved plan and portrait, some faint offsetting and occasional light browning, some light finger-soiling, light browning to endpapers, contemporary polished calf, gilt, joints cracked, rubbed, 4to, R. Ackermann, 1812.

NO RESERVE Aristotle. The Great, and Eudemian, Ethics, the Politics and Economics, translated by Thomas Taylor, first edition in English, [one of 50 copies], light spotting, ink inscription to head of title, later half calf, extremities a little rubbed, 4to, for the translator, 1811.⁂ Part of Taylor's remarkable translation of the works of Aristotle, much of which was published in English for the first time. Taylor's translations would have a substantial impact on 19th century thought, influencing Blake, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth in the UK and many of the transcendentalists including Emerson and Blavatsky in the US. Provenance: Samuel Beverly Jones (haberdasher, married Taylor's eldest daughter Mary Meredith Taylor; his ink signature to head of title with later gift inscription above "George Tunstall from").

NO RESERVE Glanvill (Joseph) A Praefatory Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe... in his Animadversions on Plus Ultra, first edition, advertisement and errata leaves at end, ink inscriptions to endpaper, contemporary sheep, scuffed and a little worn, [Wing G821], 8vo, A. Clark for J. Collins, 1671.⁂ Glanvill's reply to Stubbe's Specimen of some animadversions in which he lays out the philosophic principles underpinning the work of the English natural philosophers.

NO RESERVE Montaigne (Michel de) Journal du voyage... en Italie, par la Suisse & l'Allemagne, en 1580 & 1581, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, vol. 2 with some marginal worming, advertisement of Fauvel, Libraire to endpaper and pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, some rubbing and chipping to spines with loss to vol. 1 spine label, 8vo, Rome & Paris, Le Jay, 1774.⁂ Published in the same year as the quarto first edition.

NO RESERVE Hume (David) The History of England, Under the House of Tudor, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, occasional light finger-soiling, contemporary calf, rubbed and scuffed, for A. Millar, 1759; and c.40 others, similar, v.s. (c.45)

NO RESERVE Evelyn (John) A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, Relating to the Culture and Improvement of it for Vegetation, and the Propagation of Plants, first edition, with initial imprimatur and final blank ff., a good, clean copy, bookplate to front pastedown, 19th century calf, gilt, upper joint cracked, extremities rubbed, [Keynes 93; Wing E3507], 8vo, for John Martyn, 1676.⁂ Evelyn's discussion of the properties of soil. Scarce. Provenance: J.R.P. Forrest, Edinburgh (possibly Sir James Forrest, 1st Baronet of Comiston, 1780-1860; bookplate).

NO RESERVE English Civil War.- Bibliotheca regia, or, The Royal Library, containing a collection of such of the papers of His late Maiesty King Charls, the second monarch of Great Britain, as have escaped the wrack and ruines of these times, 2 parts in 1 vol., with penultimate errata f., lacking engraved plates and final blank f., title a little soiled, light marginal toning, ink inscriptions to endpapers and occasionally to margins, B5 with loss to margin affecting a few letters of text, G3 with tear to foot running into text, 2 or 3 other leaves with marginal loss or tearing, contemporary calf, rebacked, upper cover detached, [Wing C2151], for Henry Seile, 1659 § Poyer (John) The declaration of Col. Poyer, and Col. Povvel, and the officers and soldiers under their command, which they desired to be published to the whole kingdome, bookplate to front pastedown, later calf-backed boards, [Wing P3122], 1648 § [Perrinchief (Richard)] The Royal Martyr: or, the Life and Death of King Charles I, first edition, lacking engraved frontispiece, N1 creased, bookplate and ink inscriptions to pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, [WIng P1601], by J. M., 1676; and 4 others, similar, 8vo (8)

NO RESERVE Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de) Letters Concerning the English Nation, first edition in English, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut tail-pieces, light foxing, ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, contemporary calf, joints cracked, rubbed and scuffed, spine ends and label chipped, 8vo, for C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733.⁂ Regarded as an important early philosophical work and published prior to the French edition, which was published in 1734 but condemned and burnt forcing Voltaire to flee France a second time.Provenance: Frederick York Powell (1850-1904, historian and scholar; his ink ownership inscription).

NO RESERVE Boyle (Robert).- Burnet (Gilbert) A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Honourable Robert Boyle, at St Martins in the Fields, first edition, title within thick black mourning borders, lacking half-title, title trimmed to border and laid down, occasional light foxing or soiling, shaved at head, affecting some headlines, modern cloth, [Wing B5899; Fulton 300], 8vo, Richard Chiswell and John Taylor, 1692.⁂ Scarce.

NO RESERVE Defoe (Daniel) A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-man, first authorised edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, some light foxing, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed, 1703 § Ellis (George) Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, 3 vol., first edition, occasional light browning, ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers, contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., rubbed, 1805; and c. 35 others, literature, v.s. (c.40)

NO RESERVE Aristotle.- Taylor (Thomas) A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, first edition, [one of 50 copies, light spotting, ink inscription to head of title, later half calf, extremities a little rubbed, 4to, for the translator, 1811.⁂ Part of Taylor's remarkable translation of the works of Aristotle, much of which was published in English for the first time. Taylor's translations would have a substantial impact on 19th century thought, influencing Blake, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth in the UK and many of the transcendentalists including Emerson and Blavatsky in the US. Provenance: Samuel Beverly Jones (haberdasher, married Taylor's eldest daughter Mary Meredith Taylor; his ink signature to head of title with later gift inscription above "George Tunstall from").

NO RESERVE Witchcraft.- Glanvill (Joseph) Sadducismus Triumphatus: or, a Full and Plain Evidence, Concerning Witches and Apparitions. In Two Parts, The First Treating of their Possibility. The Second of their Real Existence, 2 parts in 1 vol., fourth edition, title in red and black, engraved frontispieces and 1 plate, 2ff. advertisements, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces and illustrations, light foxing, contemporary calf, rebacked, extremities worn, later endpapers, 8vo, A. Bettesworth, 1726.⁂ One of the most important English works on witches, ghosts, demons and other paranormal happenings.

NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles) American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vol., first edition, first issue with uncorrected page xvi at Contents volume I, half-titles, 1p. advertisements at start of vol.1 and 6pp. at end of vol.2, spotting, bookplate to front pastedowns, original cloth, shelf lean, spines a little faded, vol. 1 with splitting to joints, spine ends and corners bumped and a little worn, covers rubbed and marked, [Eckel pp. 108-9; Smith II, 3], 1842; and 3 others, Dickens, 8vo & 12mo (5)⁂ Dickens' first travel book, notable for its condemnation of the institution of slavery along with a number of American practices and customs.⁂ Provenance: George Layton (armorial bookplate).

NO RESERVE English constitution.- Fortescue Aland (Sir John) The Difference Between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy, first edition, title in red and black, engraved and woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, a few ink marks to title, repaired worming to fore-margin towards end, occasional light browning, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, joints and spine ends repaired, 8vo, for E. Parker, 1714.⁂ Often cited as the printed first work on English constitutional history.Provenance: armorial bookplate with motto "Sub Libertate Quietem".

NO RESERVE Italy.- Raymond (John) An Itinerary contayning a Voyage, made through Italy, in the yeare 1646, and 1647, first edition, engraved additional title by T.Cross and illustrations in text, title and text within rule borders, with final errata/imprimatur but lacking initial and final blanks, occasional light spotting and soiling, 19th century roan-backed boards, extremities rubbed, [Wing R415], 12mo, for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1648.⁂ Early English guidebook to Italy.

NO RESERVE Dentistry.- Hoffman (Friderick) A Treatise on the Teeth; their Disorders and Cure. In Which the Several Operations on the Teeth, and Such Things as Are Found Destructive to Them, are Particularly Considered, first edition, E1 with tear to text with loss to 2 or 3 letters, stab-holes and occasional tearing to inner margin, some light foxing, [not in Wellcome], Lockyer Davis, 1753 bound with [Spence (Joseph)], "Sir Harry Beaumont". Crito: Or a Dialogue on Beauty, first edition, title vignette cut out of title, some light marginal soiling, R. Dodsley, 1752 and 3 others works, together 5 works in 1 vol., occasional light foxing or browning, upper hinge weak, bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary boards, spine darkened, extremities worn, rubbed, 8vo.⁂ The first a rare early work on dentistry. ESTC lists only one copy of this edition in the UK (National Library of Wales). Provenance: Revd. John Parker (armorial bookplate).

NO RESERVE Gravesend.- Pocock (Robert) The History of Gravesend and Milton, first edition, frontispiece and 4 engraved plates, light browning to plates, frontispiece neatly mounted, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut decorations, a good, clean copy, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, later polished tree calf, gilt, spine and corners rubbed, small 4to, Gravesend, R. Pocock, 1797.⁂ Scarce first history of Gravesend. Provenance: J. Smith (ink inscription).

NO RESERVE France.- Heylyn (Peter) A Full Relation of two Journeys : the one into the Mainland of France. The other, into some of the adjacent Hand, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, woodcut initials and head-pieces, light foxing and ink ownership inscription to title, 1 or 2 leaves with loss to margin, not affecting text, contemporary sheep, cracking to joints, spine ends chipped, [Wing H1712], small 4to, E. Cotes for Henry Seile, 1656.⁂ The rare first edition of Heylyn's account of his travels in France and the Channel Islands. Includes references to Cervantes, Sir Philip Sidney, Francis Bacon and Edmund Spenser. The work was also issued in an unauthorised edition in the same year titled A Survey of the Estate of France. We can trace only one example of this edition at auction in the last 50 years.Provenance: Robert Revell (ink ownership inscription).

NO RESERVE Jesuits.- [Nouet (Jacques) and others.] An Answer to the Provinciall Letters published by the Jansenists, Under the Name of Lewis Montalt, Against the Doctrine of the Jesuits and School-Divines: Made by Some Fathers of the Society in France, first English edition, light soiling to title and a few other ff., 19th century binder's label to J. Winstanley, Manchester to front free endpaper, 19th century calf, joints cracket and broken with spine working loose, rubbed, wear to extremities, [Wing N1414], 12mo, Paris, 1659.⁂ Scarce.

NO RESERVE Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) Marlborough: His Life and Times, 4 vol., first edition, vol. 1 second impression, the rest first impressions, maps, plates and illustrations, Churchill pamphlet "Here is the Course We Steer" loosely inserted, original cloth, dust-jackets, spines a little darkened, some chipping and fraying to spine ends and corners (especially to vol. 1), some light marking and surface soiling, vol. 3 with 2 internal tears to upper panel, [Woods A40a], 1933-38.

NO RESERVE [Evans (Mary Ann)], "George Eliot". Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life, 4 vol., first edition in book form, each book with divisional half-title, vol. 1-3 with general title and half-title, without errata (as often), a very good, clean copy, attractive contemporary half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, light rubbing to spine tips, [Baker & Ross A10.1.a2], 8vo, 1871-72.

NO RESERVE Lloyd (David) Memoires, or the Lives, Actions, Sufferings & Deaths, of those Noble, Reverend and Excellent Personages that suffered... for the Protestant Religion, first edition, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (with ink annotations), woodcut initials and headpieces, table with black border, contemporary calf, rebacked later endpapers, rubbed, wear to some corners, [Wing L2642],folio, for Samuel Speed, 1668.

Mediterranean.- Willyams (Rev. Cooper) A Selection of Views in Egypt, Palestine, Rhodes, Italy, Minorca and Gibraltar, second edition, first issue, 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates (watermarked 1822), occasional finger-soiling to margins and the odd marginal spot but a clean copy generally, contemporary green half morocco, upper cover detached, rubbed, extremities worn, [Abbey Travel 198 (second issue); Atabey 1339; Blackmer 1814], folio, John Hearne, 1821.⁂ The rare first issue with the title dated 1821. The plate list of the first issue only lists 32 plates however all 36 that were included in the second issue are found here.

NO RESERVE Witchcraft.- Filmer (Sir Robert) The Free-holders Grand Inquest, Touching...the King and his Parliament, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece (becoming detached), with final blank, occasional light browning, contemporary calf, lacking upper cover, lower cover and spine rubbed and worn, [Wing F914], 1679.⁂ Includes "An Advertisement to the Jury-Men of England Touching Witches" in which the author attempts to differentiate between English and Hebrew witches, as well as observations on Aristotle, Hobbes' Leviathan, and Milton.

NO RESERVE Dictionary.- Minsheu (John) Emendatio... The Guide into the Tongues. With their agreement and consent one with another, as also their etymologies, that is, the reasons and derivations of all or the most part of words, in these nine languages, viz. 1. English. 2. Low Dutch. 3. High Dutch. 4. French. 5. Italian. 6. Spanish. 7. Latine. 8. Greeke. 9. Hebrew, second edition, double-column, title within typographic border, woodcut intials and head-pieces, N6 with marginal loss affecting a few letters of text, the odd marginal tear or light patch of staining, a few leaves shaved at head, occasional light browning, some marginal staining to first gathering, ink names to title, 20th century calf, extremities rubbed, [STC 17947], folio, John Haviland, 1627.⁂ The first etymological dictionary in the English language and also possibly the first book published by subscription. Minsheu's work is now invaluable as a dictionary of the English language at the beginning of the 17th century. Provenance: Edward Pate; Sarah Hixson; Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; ink inscriptions).

NO RESERVE [Leti (Gregorio)] The New Pope: or, a true Account of the Ceremonies and Proceedings in the Conclave at Rome, upon the Pope's Death, translated by John Davies, folding table, woodcut diagrams, ink ownership inscription to head of title, contemporary sheep, rebacked, upper cover detached, [Wing L1334C], 1677 § Sparke (Edward) Thysiastcrion [graece]: vel, Scintilla altaris. Primitive devotion in the feasts and fasts of the Church of England, fifth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and illustrations, title and frontispiece ruled in red, title shaved at head, frontispiece laid down, occasional light soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, [Wing S4811A], by R. B., 1673 § Paterson (James) Pietas Londinensis, or, the Present Ecclesiastical State of London; containing an Account of all the Churches, and Chapels of Ease, in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, first edition, with 2 advertisement ff. at end, ink ownership inscriptions to title, following f. and endpapers, contemporary sheep, joints cracked, upper cover becoming detached, by Joseph Downing, 1714; and 9 others, similar, 8vo (12)

Architecture.- Evelyn (John).- Fréart de Chambray (Roland) A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern, translated by John Evelyn, first English edition, engraved additoinal title and 40 full-page illustrations, engraved vignette illustrations, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, a few marginal chips and tears, those on N3&4 straying into image, some creasing and light marginal fraying, the odd light patch of soiling, ink ownership inscription and bookplates to pastedown, contemporary speckled calf, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, extremities rubbed, [BAL 1133; Fowler 128; Harris 230; Keynes 74; Wing C1923]; folio, by Tho. Roycroft, 1664.⁂ "Evelyn's most splendid book" - Keynes.Provenance: John Peyto Verney, Ld. Willoughby de Broke; Robert John Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke (armorial bookplates); Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; his ink inscription).

NO RESERVE Scott (Sir Walter) Ivanhoe, 3 vol., first edition, first issue with pp.159-306 in vol. 1 misnumbered 151-298, half-titles, portion removed from head of half-titles or advertisement ff., scattered foxing, 20th century half roan, Edinburgh, for Archibald Constable, 1820; Rob Roy, first edition, first issue with signature H2 mis-signed 2H, half-titles, light foxing, bookplates to endpapers and front pastedown, contemporary half calf, rebacked, rubbed, Edinburgh, by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable, 1818; and 20 others by the same, 8vo & 4to (26)

NO RESERVE Worcestershire.- Nash (Treadway Russell) Collections for the History of Worcestershire, 2 vol., first edition, engraved folding map frontispiece to vol.1, engraved vignette title to each volume, 74 engraved plates & plans, 13 leaves of Domesday Book printed in red & black, 2 engraved dedication ff., numerous folding pedigrees, occasional light offsetting or browning, but a very good, clean copy generally, attractive contemporary russia, gilt, spines gilt in compartments with green morocco labels, g.e., folio, John Nicholls, 1781-82.

NO RESERVE Pascal (Blaise) Les provinciales: or, the Mysterie of Jesuitisme, discover'd in certain Letters, written upon occasion of the present differences at Sorbonne, between the Jansenists and Molinists, first edition, engraved additional title (fore-margin shaved), with final advertisement f. (partly detached with tearing), occasional worming to lower margin, ink notes and names to endpapers, contemporary sheep lacking upper cover, lower cover becoming detached, [PMM 140; Wing P643], 12mo, by J.G. for R. Royston, 1657.⁂ "Pascal's counter-attack took the form of a brilliant exposure of the casuistical methods of argument employed by the Jesuits. . . after which the Jesuits never recovered their former position in France. . . a noble defence of thought in religious faith" - PMM.Provenance: Joseph ?Squier; Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; ink inscriptions).

NO RESERVE Erasmus (Desiderius) The Colloquies, or Familiar Discourses, first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece (shaved at foot within platemark), with final 2pp. advertisements but lacking longitudinal half-title f., light soiling to title, some light marginal browning, contemporary calf, rebacked, wear to spine ends and corners, rubbed, [Wing E3190], 8vo, E.T and R.H. for H.Brome, 1671.

NO RESERVE [Marana (Giovanni Paolo)] Letters writ by a Turkish Spy, who lived Five and Forty Years, undiscovered, at Paris: giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople, ?first edition in English, 2ff. of advertisements at end, some adhesion tearing to inner margin, [cf.Wing M565BA], by J. Leake, 1687; The Second Volume of Letters..., eleventh edition, for G. Strahan & c., 1741; The Third Volume of Letters..., first edition, engraved frontispiece, [Wing M565CD], by J. Leake, 1691; The Fourth Volume of Letters..., first edition, engraved frontispiece, [Wing M565CH], J.Leake, 1692; The Fifth Volume of Letters..., first edition, frontispiece (repaired with loss), G12 with internal tear to text, lacking I8, [Wing M565CL & M565CK], J. Leake, 1692; The Sixth Volume of Letters..., first edition, lacking engraved frontispiece, final f. with significant loss to text, [Wing M565D], by J. Leake, 1693; The Seventh Volume of Letters..., first edition, engraved frontispiece, B6 & 7 torn with tape repairs, B10, C7, G1&12 with tear running into text, [WIng M565DC], for Henry Rhodes, 1694; The Eighth and Last Volume of Letters..., first edition, engraved frontispiece trimmed at fore-margin, a few ff. with adhesion to inner margins with some tearing, [Wing M565EA], by J. R. for J. Hindmarsh, 1694, occasional light foxing or browning, the odd marginal chip or tear, a few leaves closely shaved, affecting headlines, 19th century half roan, extremities rubbed, [Blackmer 1072; cf. Atabey 407 (French edition)], 12mo.⁂ Early or first editions of this influential work of fiction purporting to be by a Turkish spy that proved to be immensely popular, influencing writers such as Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift. Volume one is known to be by Marana while the authorship of the remaining volumes is unclear though usually attributed to Marana or William Bradshaw and Robert Midgley. All of the 17th century editions are rare, ESTC lists only three copies of the first volume. We can trace no example of another set with so many 17th century editions at auction, even the Blackmer set have volumes 1-3 in a later edition.

NO RESERVE Kipling (Rudyard) Just So Stories, first edition, plates and illustrations by the author, light browning to endpapers, first state pictorial cloth, spine lettering and decoration rubbed away (as often), but the covers unusually bright, light fraying to corners, [Livingstone 267], 4to, 1902.⁂ In the first state binding which was blocked with a white colouring that was highly prone to rubbing. Copies therefore with covers in bright condition are rare.

NO RESERVE Oxford Statutes.- Parecbolae Sive Excerpta e Corpore Statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis, occasional very light foxing but a clean copy generally, contemporary sheep, some light rubbing and surface wear, [Wing O930], 8vo, Oxford, 1674.⁂ Compiled by Thomas Crossfield and first published in 1638 as Statuta selecta è corpore statutorum Universitatis Oxon, the present edition is the second published under the "Parecbolae" title.

Dickens (Charles) Great Expectations, 3 vol., first edition, vol. 1-2 second issue, vol. 3 first issue, 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated May 1861 at end of vol.3, occasional light finger-soiling to margins, original purple cloth, spines dulled, labels removed from upper covers, covers rubbed and soiled, spine ends and corners bumped and a little frayed, [Great Expectations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, Appendix D); Smith 1:14; Sadleir 688; Wolff 1799], 8vo, Chapman and Hallm 1861.

NO RESERVE Holy Land.- Fuller (Thomas) A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof, with the history of the Old and New Testament acted thereon, first edition, engraved additional title (chipped with loss to image, trimmed and laid down), engraved "Lector" plate (tear to lower margin just running into image, bound after "To the Reader" f.), large folding map of the Holy Land (laid down with a few small patches of loss to image) and 27 double-page plates, maps and plans (1 rather frayed, one trimmed and laid down, a few with crude hand-colouring), light marginal soiling, occasional worming to lower margins, modern half roan, [Wing F2455], folio, Printed by J.F. for John Williams at the signe of the Crown in Pauls Church-yard, 1650

Turkey.- [Chassepol (François de)] The History of the Grand Visiers, Mahomet, and Achmet Coprogli, of the Three Last Grand Signiors, their Sultana's and Chief Favourites, translated by John Evelyn Jr., first edition in English, with initial imprimatur f., lacking final blank f., title within double-ruled border, engraved frontispiece by W. Dolle, very light offsetting onto title, the odd small rust-hole but a very good, clean copy generally, bookplate to pastedown, 20th century antique-style calf, [Atabey 224; Blackmer 327; Koç 72a; Wing C3728], 8vo, for H. Brome, at the Gun at the west-end of St. Pauls, 1677.⁂ A translation from Chassepol's work of the previous year, with much on the war between Turkey and Poland of 1672-76.Provenance: A.K. (bookplate).

NO RESERVE India.- Russell (Sir William Howard) My Diary in India, 2 vol., first edition, 12 tinted lithographed plates, folding plan of Lucknow, occasional light finger-soiling to margins, vol. 2 with one gathering working loose, original blind-stamped cloth, spine faded and worn at heads, corners a little bumped, [Abbey, Travel 191], 8vo, 1860.⁂ Account by the war correspondent W. H. Russell of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.