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90th Anniversary of the Formation of the R.A.F. Sheet No 2 1939 1945, Limited and First Edition Stamp Sheet featuring The Royal Air Force with 10 x 1st Class Stamps number 0824 of 1918 good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

5 x Limited Edition Mercury Coin Covers / Medal First Day Covers on Album Pages includes World Cup 1966, (Large Mercury Cover) The Life and Times of The Queen Mother , Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 101st Birthday Coin Cover, The Queen's Golden Jubilee, Prince William's 21st Birthday, good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

90th Anniversary of the Formation of the R.A.F. Sheet No 3 Post War, Limited and First Edition Stamp Sheet featuring The Royal Air Force with 10 x 1st Class Stamps number 0824 of 1918 good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

9 x Large Benham Covers FDCs includes 2 x 40th Anniversary of the First Manned Moon Landing (Borders Printed with 22 Carat Gold) different Stamps and FDI Postmarks, 40th Anniversary England's Historic Win (Limited Edition 100), Last ever Flight of Concorde 10th Anniversary (Limited Edition 100), The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, Star Wars (Limited Edition 100), 90th Anniversary of R.A.F. (Includes 90th Anniversary and Stamps from Isle of Man and Gibraltar) (Limited Edition 100), Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 90th Birthday, HRH The Prince of Wales 65th Birthday, good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

Author and Illustrator Signed First Edition of Lets Pretend by Ernest H. Shepherd No.141 Bound Volume on Hand Made Paper, Published by J. Saddle & Co. 1927

Pablo Curatella Manes (Argentinian, 1891-1962): A bronze plaque depicting 'Lancelot and Guinevere'the stylised figure of Guinevere with long flowing hair embracing the kneeling figure of Lancelot, signed Manes to the top left hand corner, the side with Valsuani Paris, foundry mark to one corner, dark brown patination, 28.4cm x 20cmFootnotes:Provenance:Collection of Michael Black, sculptor (British, 1928-2019), thence by descent. Amongst many commissions, Black sculpted the Oxford Sheldonian Emperors' heads, the bronze busts of former prime ministers Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Sir Harold Macmillan, as well as portrait subjects in the National Portrait Gallery and private collections.A larger terracotta plaque measuring 65cm x 43cm of the same subject, possibly from the estate of Manes and recorded as being executed by the sculptor in 1925 was sold Christies New York, Latin American Sale, sale 1841, 1st June 2007, lot 191 ($19,200 including buyers premium). The present lot is a bronze reduction of this same subject, cast by the prestigious Valsuani foundry in Paris, presumably as a limited edition in the late 1920s or early 1930s. The inspiration for the subject of Lancelot and Guinevere presumably comes from the French origins of the Arthurian legends and texts, which were derived from the medieval writer Chretien de Troyes who penned the quintessential romance 'Le Chevalier au lion'.Pablo Curatella ManesBorn in Buenos Aire, Manes' interest in sculpture was most likely fired as a child by frequent visits with his mentor Arturo Dresco to the then newly opened La Plata Fine Arts Museum. Enrolling at the National Fine Arts School in 1907 he was subsequently expelled due to bad behaviour but still managed to secure an apprenticeship in 1908 under Lucio Correa Morales. Manes later travelled extensively in Europe, spending time in Florence and Rome before having his first exhibition in Buenos Aires in 1912. He returned to Europe, settling in Paris before the outbreak of the First World War, but was forced to return to Argentina. However in 1917 he secured a scholarship in Paris under Maillol, Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier. A second scholarship in 1920 allowed him to permanently settle in the city where he studied under Henri Laurens, Juan Gris, Constantin Brâncuși and Le Corbusier. It was during this period that Manes explored Cubism and his sculptures became noticeably more 'avant-garde'. Manes married the French painter Germaine Derbecqre in 1922 and in 1926 took up a post at the Argentine Embassy. He was subsequently commissioned to create wall reliefs for the Argentine Pavilion in the 1937 Paris Exhibition and his monumental 'Tierra Argentina' and 'Los Dos Hemisferios' ('Argentina' and 'The Two Hemispheres') won him a place on the Paris Exhibition's sculpture jury. After this he was made an Officer of the Légion d'honneur. During Manes' diplomatic tenure he re-instated the Salon des Indépendants, which had been banned under the Vichy regime. In 1949 he was transferred from Paris to the Embassy in Athens before finally returning to Buenos Aires, where he died in 1962, aged 70.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Baikie (William Balfour). Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwo'ra and Bi'nue (commonly known as the Niger and Tsadda) in 1854, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1856, frontispiece, title vignette, folding lithograph plate, folding map, partly unopened, light stains to endpapers, original cloth, spine faded, some dampstaining to covers, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:An account of the first successful Niger expedition of 1854, funded by the Liverpool entrepreneur Macgregor Laird, aimed at opening up West Africa to trade by steamships able to navigate the key rivers into the interior. A scottish naval surgeon and naturalist, William Balfour Baikie (1825-1864) took command of the expedition after the death of the ship's captain, and was the first to successfully trial the use of quinine on board quinine; not one of the Europeans on board the Pleiad died of fever.

South East England. Ordnance Survey (publishers), Nine map sheets, numbered 1 - 9, 1st edition of the 'Old series', 1805 - 22, nine uncoloured engraved Ordnance Survey maps, sectionalised and laid on linen, covering Sussex, Kent, Surrey and Middlesex, on a scale of 1inch to the mile, each sheet approximately 640 x 930 mmQTY: (9)NOTE:When the Ordnance Survey decided to publish its maps itself, rather than having them published by a separate commercial business, it started to print its newly mapped sheets as they were surveyed and engraved. This was the original 1-inch 'Old Series' which would eventually cover the whole country. The so-called 'Mudge' map of Kent was published as a county map by William Faden in 1801. After that, the county format was abandoned in favour of a complete map of the area surveyed, irrespective of county boundaries. From then on the sheets were published as soon as they were ready, starting with four sheets covering Essex (all dated 1805). From then on, as the maps carried the date of publication e.g. 'Published April 18th 1805 by Lt.Col.Mudge, Tower. This collection is of the consecutive nine sheets of the South-East of the country which represent 9 of the first 11 sheets of the Old Series published. Thus, the publication dates vary, sheet 1 1805, sheet 2 1805, sheet 3 1819, sheet 4 1816, sheet 5 1813, sheet 6 1819, sheet 7 1822, sheet 8 1816 and sheet 9 1813.

* Incunable Leaf. An single folio printed leaf from Ptolemy's Cosmographia, Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 1482, fine double-column printed text in elegant roman type, two woodcut initials with contemporary hand-colouring, folio, sheet size 32.5 x 21.5 cm, framed & glazedQTY: (1)NOTE:Fine royal folio leaf from the famous 1482 edition of Ptolemy’s Geography, printed at Ulm, the most sought-after of all the Ptolemaic atlases. It is the first atlas to be printed outside Italy, and the first Ptolemaic atlas to include a corpus of modern maps.

Valerius Maximus. Noviter recognitus cum commentario historico videlicet ac litterato Oliverii Arzignanensis: & familiari admodum ac succincto Jodoci Badii Ascensii: qui quattuor & viginti exempla aldino auspicio nuper inventa simili commentatione declaravit: & totum opus gemina tabella: altera titulorum: altera litteraum ordine illustravit. Additis Theophili lucubrationibus. Nec non pene vius imaginibus: quae priscorum gesta referre videntur, Venice: Augustinu de Zanis de Portesio, 1518, 271 ff.,title in red & black with woodcut illustration, woodcut illustrations, criblé initials, title torn with loss, bound with Orphei Argonautica Latina, [1519], half title, signatures A-C6, [cross] 6, front endpapers repaired and spotted some worming and damp fraying, mainly at lower margin, nineteenth-century calf, spine worn, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:First work a Venetian edition of Valerius Maximus' 'Memorable Deeds and Sayings', with commentaries by Josse Bade, Oliviero d'Arzignano and Theophylus Chalcondyles.The second work Orphei Argonautica Latina is added by Giovanni Battista Pio to his commentary on Valerius Flaccus's cum codicis poetae emendatione ex antiquo examplari Dacico additis libris tribus, 1519, with half title and collation as above, Pio and Valerius Flaccus both known as being 'creative' editors, and PIo here adds Orphhei Argonautica for the sake of completeness of the tale, telling the story of Jason from the perspective of mythical hero Orpheus.

Petrarca (Francesco). Il Petrarca con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello e con piu utili cose in diuersi luoghi di quella nouissimamente da lui agguinte et ristampate, Venice: Giouann'Antonio di Nicolini da Sabio, 1541, text with accompanying commentary (both in roman type), faint contemporary inscription in Latin to lower margin of title, lacking final blank, contemporary vellum gilt, a few manuscript notations to backstrip and front board, some wear, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Not in Adams.Alessandro Vellutello first published his widely-circulated edition of Petrarch’s works with a commentary in 1525. It was reprinted 29 times, this being the 5th.

Hall (Edward). The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke beeying long in continual discension for the crowne of this noble realme, with all the actes done in bothe the tymes of the princes, bothe of the one linage and of the other, beginnying at the tyme of Kyng Henry the fowerth, the first aucthor of this deuision, and so succesffiuely proceadyng to the reign of the high and prudent prince Kyng Henry the eight, the vndubitate flower and very heire of both the sayd linages, London: Richard Grafton, 1548, facsimile title, dedication, preface and 3 other preliminary leaves all in facsimile, main text printed in black letter and commences on A1 (folio I) and ends on 3U5 (folio CCLVII), woodcut initials, final leaf with tear and small loss of text, the same leaf repeated in facsimile and then facsimile leaves thereafter to the end, lacking leaves 2E2-5 & 2I2-5 in Richard III, and 2R8 blank? at end of Edward IV, leaf 3I1 in Henry VII partly supplied in facsimile, leaf 2K5 in Richard III with loss of headline from insect predation, lacking leaf 2K6 in Richard III (blank?), first leaf A1 with wormtrack and resultant loss of text, 3G6 with repaired tear, occasional early marginalia and annotations including a cartoon of a figure with tethered animal (partly shaved to verso of 3E4 in Henry VII), occasional light damp stains and soling, a few small marginal wormholes, bookplate of Graham Hirth, 20th-century half calf over marbled boards, folio, 267 x 185 mm QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S121062; STC 12722. Rare in any condition. Provenance: nineteenth-century manuscript note at front copies the title, followed by a price 4.4.0. Grafton 1550, then "The above (copied from Jacksons catalogue for 1831) is the title of this book and the price of a perfect copy - for this which I bought of Cryer of Wakefield I gave £1.1.0 - but it must be worth 3.0.0 - M. Seatcherd". There is a portrait print of a Morrison Seatcherd, by Henry Adlard in the British Museum. Modern pencil note to front pastedown states the facsimile leaves were from the British Museum copy. Complicated collation, copies vary in components but seems to conform to signatures from the 1548 first edition.Important source for Shakespeare's conventional history plays. Due to the work's Protestant leanings Queen Mary issued a proclamation in 1555 calling for the book to be destroyed, which most likely explains the scarcity of early editions. Sold with all faults not subject to return.

Holinshed (Raphael). The Historie of Scotlande, conteyning the beginning, increase, proceedings, continuance, actes and gouernemente of the Scottish nation, from the originall thereof unto the yeare 1571. Gathered and written in the English tongue by R.H., volume I [Scotland part only], London: George Bishop, 1577, title within woodcut border, woodcut arms to verso, woodcut initials and illustrations, black letter text in double column, leaves L1, P2, U4, 2A6 & 2B3 trimmed with repairs and supplied from another copy, occasional early and eighteenth-century marginalia, including ownership signature of Richard Tidmarsh to p. 60 a few small tears and repairs, occasional light toning and water stains, one or two burnholes, bookplates of Andrew J. Kirkpatrick (of the Clan Kirkpatrick), and G.R. Airth, later half calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S93012; STC 13568. The full text of Holinshed's Chronicles was first published in two volumes in 1577 and contained three parts, England, Scotland and Ireland; this present work is the Scotland part only. One of 4 imprint variants of this edition, this one has George Bishop as the publisher, one of the group of collaborators who paid for the work to be published, the others including Lucas Harrison and John Hunne.Holinshed's Chronicles is the greatest of the Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's plays, in this part including Macbeth.

Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, 1st Speight edition, London: Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton, 1598, black letter, text double column, title within elaborate woodcut architectural border, 3 other divisional titles with woodcut borders, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, near-contemporary ownership inscription 'Gilbert Digley' to title lower margin with another inscription in the same ink partially rubbed out to lower margin right-hand corner, early ownership inscription 'Dunfland Devon' to title upper margin, lacking engraved portrait (one from a 17th-century copy supplied, remargined and trimmed to margins), lacking first and final blanks, and leaves C4-6, engraved portrait relaid with loss to margins, a few gatherings damp-stained (more heavily to final leaves), final leaf with some staining and a few indistinct early annotations in Latin, small marginal repairs to a few leaves, light occasional toning, late 17th-century calf, rebacked (endpapers renewed), red morocco title label lettered in gilt, worn, folio (305 x 190 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Pforzheimer 177 (different imprint); STC (2nd ed) 5077. 'From the form of imprints it would seem that Bishop, Norton, and Wight commissioned Islip to print this edition, and judging from the frequency with which copies with their imprints occur it is probable that Bishop took the largest share and Norton the next' (Pforzheimer).

[Wirsung, Christoph. Praxis medicinae uniuersalis; or A generall practise of physicke: Wherein are conteined all inward and outward parts of the body, with all the accidents and infirmities that are incident unto them..., Compiled and written by the most famous and learne doctour Christopher Wirtzung, in the Germane tongue, and now translated into English, in divers places corrected, and with many additions illustrated and augmented, by Jacob Mosan Germane, Doctor in the same facultie, Imprinted at London by Edmund Bollifant, 1598], lacks all before C1, also lacks C2, C7, C8 and all after 3H6, text in black letter with some roman and italic, numerous decorative woodcut initials, few additional leaves from another edition or variant loosely inserted or tipped in, occasional marginal dampstaining and few tears, marks and some old annotations etc., contemporary boards, old leather back strip, lower board near detached, worn, folio (29.2 x 19.1 cm), contained in modern book boxQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC 25862; Wellcome I, 6758.The first edition in English of Ein new Artzney Buch, first published in Heidelberg in 1568. This present edition translated by Jacob Mosan gives numerous botanical remedies in the form of pills, powders, and syrups. Ailments are divided up into chapters. The treatments recommended are mostly botanical, although non-botanical remedies such as enemas, baths, bloodletting, and plasters are included as are dietary and lifestyle advice. Another variant of this work was also printed in the same year, with the imprint Londoni: Impensis Georg. Bishop, 1598. Given the missing leaves, it is difficult to ascertain the variant, however, the collation appears to be the same as the Bollifant variant.Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

Livius (Titus). The Romane Historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a Chronologie to the whole Historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke, 1st edition in English, London: Adam Islip, 1600, [10], 1403, [41]p., woodcut allegorical device to title, woodcut portrait of Elizabeth I on title verso, woodcut portrait of the author, small contemporary ownership inscription 'Ro: Gregge' to upper right-hand corner of title, armorial bookplate of Sir Joseph Radcliffe 2nd Baronet to front pastedown, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, lacking front and rear blanks, a few leaves with marginal damp stains (not affecting text), contemporary calf gilt, emblem with initials W.R.B. to front board and W.L.B. to rear board, brass clasps with foliate embellishments, rebacked (endpapers renewed), green morocco title label lettered in gilt, rubbed, folio (325 x 220 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Possibly Robert Gregge (circa 1596-1662), Collector of the Excise for Cheshire, and Examiner in the Exchequer Court of Chester; Sir Joseph Radcliffe, 2nd Baronet (1799–1872).Pforzheimer 495; STC 16613 (2nd edition).First edition in English of Livy's Roman History, and the first of Philemon Holland's renowned translations. 'This was the first of that stately array of folio translations of the classics which issued from the pens of the 'translator generall in his age' - the whole of the present he claims to have written with one pen. The topographical portion is translated from the work of J. Bartholomew Marlian of Milan' (Pforzheimer).

Plutarch. The Philosophie commonlie called, The Morals, 1st edition in English, London: Arnold Hatfield, 1603, [8], 1363, [64]p., contemporary ownership inscription 'Francis Finch owner of this booke' to outer margin of first text leaf, contemporary marginal annotations and underlining in the same hand, woodcut initials, head and tailpieces, endpapers renewed, some gatherings damp-stained, occasional spotting and browning, title browned and repaired to upper right-hand corner (affecting woodcut headpiece), '3' in publication date to title written over in pen, early 20th-century calf gilt, red morocco title label, slightly rubbed, folio (305 x 215 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Possibly Francis Finch (born circa 1585),English lawyer and politician, son of Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet of Eastwell, Kent and his wife Elizabeth Heneage, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Heneage. He matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on 12 June 1601, aged 15, and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1614. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Eye for the Happy Parliament, and was re-elected MP for Eye in 1625, 1626 and 1628 and sat until 1629 (when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years).STC 20063 (2nd edition). A first edition in English of Plutarch's Moralia, translated by Philemon Holland, 'the translator generall in his age' (Pforzheimer 495).

Augustine (of Hippo, Saint). Of The Citie of God: with the learned comments of Jo. Lodovicus Vives, Englished first by J.H. and now in this second Edition compared with the Latine Originall, and in very many places corrected and amended, 2nd edition in English, London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620, [20], 861 [i.e. 860], [4]pp., woodcut vignette to title, inscription to title upper margin 'Jno Poley de Boxted 1711', contemporary neat annotation to front blank (a short biography of Augustine), occasional dust-soiling, lacking rear endpaper, front free endpaper wormed and soiled to margins, front hinge cracked, near-contemporary speckled calf, blindstamped initials 'W.P.' to front board, some light wear, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 917. First published in 1610, this is the second edition of John Healey's translation of Augustine's City of God. Fine copy in contemporary binding.

[Shakespeare, William. Comedies, Histories and Tragedies; Published according to the true Originall Copies. Second Impression, London, 1632], woodcut head-pieces and initials, roman and italic type, text in double column, 66 lines, headlines and catchwords, pages box-ruled, 423 (of 454) leaves, 31 leaves supplied in facsimile on thicker, modern wove paper, including 3 preliminary leaves: 'To the Reader', title-page with portrait and 'Commendatory Verses' ([pi]A1, A2 & A5), plus 28 text leaves 2c4 (Coriolanus), 2i1-5 (Romeo & Juliet), 2o-2p6 (Macbeth 15pp. & Hamlet 9pp.), and the final 10 leaves, 3c1-6, 3d1-4 (Cymbeline), some spotting and old damp-staining throughout, closed tear repairs to D1, b3, 2h3, 2l6, a few other corner and marginal tears without loss of text, tears with loss to V2 (lower outer corner affecting 3 lines), heavier brown staining to upper half of r4r, some further closed tear repairs, marginal fraying and tears to lower outer corners with occasional small text loss to final 42 original leaves (7 signatures, 2t-3b: King Lear, Anthony & Cleopatra, Cymbeline), including larger tears to outer margins of 2v4 (affecting approximately 32 lines of text) and 3a1 (affecting approximately 43 lines of text), old ink ownership name (trimmed) of (?)J. Courtenay to upper margin of first main text leaf recto, armorial bookplate of Mary L'Estrange retained and applied to front pastedown, modern blind-stamped calf with five raised bands and morocco title label, folio (310 x 210 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Mary L'Estrange (née Carleton, of Rossfad, near Enniskillen, born 1736) who married Henry Peisley L'Estrange of Moystown House, and latterly of Hunstanton, King's County, Ireland. By family descent this copy passed down directly through seven generations to Merlin L'Estrange Meakin (born 1942); information gathered from 2 sheets of notes loosely inserted into the volume.Collation: [pi]A6 [-1,2,5, all supplied in facsimile] *4, A-2B6 2C2, a-y6, 2a-3c6 [2c4: Coriolanus; 2i1-5: Romeo & Juliet; 2o-2p6: Macbeth 15pp. & Hamlet 9pp.; 3c1-6, 3d1-4: Cymbeline, all supplied in facsimile].Gregg III, pp. 1113-1116; Pforzheimer 906; STC 22274 or one of 22274b, c, d or e; Todd, 'The Issues and States of the Second Folio and Milton's Epitaph', in Studies in Bibliography, volume V (1952-53), pp. 81-108.The Second Folio edition of the most important work in English literature. Without these large format Folio editions as many as 18 of Shakespeare's plays may never have survived. There are five variants of the Second Folio as identified by the imprint on the title-page; the text and colophon being identical in all variants. Without the original title-page and the 'Effigies' leaf (with the 17-line epitaph by John Milton) it is not possible to establish which issue this copy belongs to. It is estimated that no more than 1000 copies of the Second Folio were printed, and it is believed fewer than 200 copies are still in existence today, many of which, as this copy, are incomplete or defective.

New Testament [Greek]. He Kaine Diatheke, 'Mazarin edition', Paris: Royal Printers, 1642, half-title, large engraved title by Claude Mellan, large engraved cul-de-lampe on verso of final text leaf with the arms of King Louis XIII, engraved initials, head and tailpieces, contemporary ownership inscription 'H Bornius' to half-title verso, small damp-stain to lower inner corners of many gatherings (a few larger damp-stains to final few leaves), lacking final blank, some occasional light dust-soiling, endpapers renewed, modern dark brown calf gilt, black morocco title label, folio (365 x 275 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow & Moule 4687.'This magnificent folio is sometimes known as the 'Mazarin edition' since it appeared under the auspices of the great Cardinal' (Darlow & Moule).The first printing of the New Testament in Greek by the Imprimerie Royale, founded by Louis XIII in 1640.

[Charleton, Walter]. The Ephesian Matron, 1st edition, London: printed for Henry Herringman, 1659, 124 pp., final leaf repaired with small library stamp at foot (and to title verso), blank interleaves throughout, a little minor soiling, modern half calf, edges a little rubbed, 12moQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC R210048; Wing C3671.Rare and curious work by the writer and philosopher Walter Charleton (1619-1707), fellow of the Royal Society, who also wrote Chorea Gigantium (1655), an attempt to demonstrate that Stonehenge was a Danish coronation site, prompting one of John Dryden's finest early poems, ‘To my Honoured Friend, Dr Charleton’ (1663).The Ephesian Matron is based on a story in Petronius’s Satyricon, 111-12. A woman from Ephesus renowned for her chastity is suddenly widowed. Grief-stricken, she determines to starve herself to death and stays for several days in her husband’s tomb with her maid. Some thieves are crucified near the tomb and a soldier is sent to ensure that they do not obtain a proper burial. The soldier finds the widow and tries to offer consolation; the widow initially resists, but accepts first some food, then the soldier’s amorous advances. Charleton developed an interest in Epicurus in the 1650s and turned to this story in order to present the widow as an Epicurean counter-example to the ideal of Platonic love fashionable at the time.

[Donne John. The Poems... with Elegies on the Author's Death. To Which is Added Divers Copies Under his Own Hand, Never Before Printed, 5th edition, T.N. for Henry Herringham, 1669], lacks title-page and the 2 blanks at front and rear (A1 and 2D8), first leaf (A3, dedication) with contemporary ink ownership inscription (dated 1687) erased to upper margin with some additional fraying and paper loss, but without loss of text, crude vertical tear repair close to inner margin of recto of the same leaf, and with a later ink ownership inscription of William Henry Tyrrell below head-piece, closely trimmed at head with loss of many running heads and page numbers throughout and occasionally shaving letters of first line of text, signatures and catch-words of signature G trimmed, occasional spotting, modern ownership signature of Peter Scupham to front paste-down, modern vellum-backed patterned boards with old leather spine label retained, 8vo (152 x 100 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Keynes 84; Wing D1871. The most complete of the 17th-century editions of Donne, with the addition of five new poems, including 'To His Mistress Going to Bed'.

Wright (John Michael). An Account of His Excellence Roger Earl of Castlemaine's Embassy, from His Sacred Majesty James the IId. King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. To His Holiness Innocent XI, 1st edition in English, London: Thomas Snowden for the author, 1688, engraved frontispiece (laid down with small marginal loss and red was seal), engraved portrait of Queen Mary by Robert White, engraved dedication illustration and 15 engraved plates by Arnold van Westerhout, including a large folding plate of a banquet (laid down with losses to upper part of last right fold and margins), a few small closed marginal tears, occasional light soiling and small stains, bookplate of Sir Edward O'Brien (1705-1765, 2nd Baronet and Irish politician), hinges reinforced, contemporary panelled calf gilt, rebacked and repaired, a little rubbed, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Wing W3702; Lipperheide 2751 (for the Italian first edition).John Michael Wright (1617-1694) was a British portrait artist appointed steward to Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine by the newly crowned King James II in 1685. The following year the Earl was sent on an embassy to Pope Innocent XI to present the King's catholic credentials and offer English support on the Roman Catholic side in forthcoming conflicts. Wright produced the elaborate processional coaches, costumes and centrepieces depicted in the engravings above and arranged the banquet for 1000 guests at the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome. The Italian edition of the account of the embassy was published in 1687, dedicated to the Duchess of Modena; the English edition (as here) dedicated to the Duchess's daughter Mary, wife of James II.

Heidegger (John James). Heydegger's Letter to the Bishop of London, 1st edition, London : Printed for N. Cox in Story's-Passage, going out of St. James's Park, 1724, 8 pages, some light browning and spotting, contemporary manuscript additions in ink to title 'upon his Ld Ships Sermon agt masquerades', and with 'Aprill' added at foot after the date of publication, together with Anonymous. The Masquerade. A Poem, 1st edition, London: printed for, and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1724, 10 pages, contemporary manuscript addition in ink 'May' at foot after the date of publication, very light browning to title (a good clean copy), both bound in early 20th century half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Foxon H169 & ESTC T125131; Foxon M131 & ESTC T66737 respectively.A well-known figure in 18th century London, dubbed the 'Swiss Count', Johann Jakob Heidegger introduced masquerade balls at the Haymarket Theatre, which became highly popular, especially with young George III. Hogarth satirised the subject in his 1724 print Masquerades and Operas. By then masquerades were denounced (by such as the Bishop of London) as occasions for vice and immorality, not least due to the high numbers of women of pleasure who also attended. The first work is Heidegger's poetical reply to the Bishop of London's sermon against Masquerades; the second an anonymous poetical satire.

Newton (Isaac). Philosophie Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 3rd edition, London: William & John Innys, 1726, half title, privilege leaf, title printed in red and black, numerous woodcut diagrams, lacks the engraved portrait frontispiece and final advertisement leaf, 2I2 with closed marginal tear, occasional minor spotting, manuscript prize label in Latin to George Burnett for physics from the Academia Jacobi VI Edinburgh, 1813? pasted at front, 19th-century vellum, arms of the Academia Jacobi VI Edinburgh stamped in gilt to covers, morocco label top spine, some light dust-soiling, 4to (240 x 185 mm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Babson 13; ESTC T98375; PMM 161; Wallis 9. First published in 1687 "The Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying universal laws. The Principia provided the great synthesis of the cosmos, proving finally its physical unity. Newton showed that the important and dramatic aspects of nature that were subject to the universal law of gravitation could be explained, in mathematical terms, within a single physical theory." (PMM).The third edition, edited by Henry Pemberton with a new preface by Newton (dated January 12, 1726), the last edition to be published in Newton's lifetime, and the basis for all subsequent editions.

Swift (Jonathan). Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, 2nd edition (4th octavo edition), 2 volumes, London: Benjamin Motte, 1727, portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (2nd state, 1st issue), 4 engraved maps, 2 engraved plans, bookplates of Ellen James to front pastedowns, woodcut head and tailpieces, volume 2 lacking preliminary advertisement leaf, first few gatherings of volume 2 heavily damp-stained, scattered spotting, 19th-century speckled calf gilt, red morocco title labels, boards bordered in gilt, rubbed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Teerink 293.

[Fielding, Sarah]. The Governess; or, Little Female Academy. Being the History of Mrs. Teachum, and her Nine Girls. With their Nine Days Amusement. Calculated for the Entertainment and Instruction of Young Ladies in their Education, by the author of David Simple, 1st edition, London: printed for the author and sold by A. Millar, 1749, 245 pp., 5 pp. Millar advertisements at end, small ink stains to pp.166-67, some light toning to title, hinges reinforced, ownership inscription to front pastedown 'B.H. Bath, March 13, 1748/9', erasure of another signature, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked, covers a little rubbed and bowed, 8vo, together with Ann Murry's the Sequel to Mentoria; or the Young Ladies Instructor, 1799QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC T134317; Osborne I, p. 254 (for the 6th edition of 1781). Rare. The Governess or Little Female Academy is regarded as the first novel in English specifically written for children, by Sarah Fielding, sister of novelist Henry. "First published in 1749 with a second edition also in 1749. An account of nine days at Mrs. Teachum's school where stories, including some fairy tales, are told to her pupils. Sarah Fielding shared some of her brother Henry's gifts of skillful character drawing." (Osborne). The fairy stories include the evil giant Barbarico and his slave dwarf Mignon, the good giant Benefico, the Princess Hebe, and the Assembly of the Birds, as well as other stories involving young girls. 'Mrs Teachum' appears at the end of each story and explains the lessons to be learnt in order to educate her young pupils to live a happy life.

[Hancarville, Pierre Francois Hugues d']. Monumens de la Vie Privée des Douze Césars, d'après une suite de pierres gravées sous leur règne, A Caprées, Chez Sabellus [Nancy, Leclerc], 1st edition, 1780, & Monumens du Culte Secret des Dames Romaines, pour servir de suite aux Monumens de la Vie Privée des XII Césars, 1st edition, A Caprée: Chez Sabellus [Nancy, Leclerc], 1784, engraved frontispiece to each volume, title vignette to second work, and 100 (50 in each volume) erotic engraved plates in the form of cameos or medals, occasional light spotting, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary uniform brown and dark green mottled calf gilt, rubbed and some marks, second volume with minor split at head of spine, 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:Pia 883; Cohen-De Ricci 474-475. Attractive copy.First edition of both volumes of Pierre-Francois d'Hancarville's famous study of Roman debauchery and erotic history, here in a contemporary uniform binding. The engravings were supposedly after genuine antique gems but, as Cohen states, they are largely the inventions of the author. Pascal Pia notes "à vrai dire, qu'il ait ou non eu pour modèles d'authentiques pièces de collection, il n'a rien imaginé que les Anciens n'eussent connu". An historian and art dealer, Hancarville (1719-1805) acted on behalf of the collector Sir William Hamilton (ambassador at Naples from 1764 to 1800), in his search for antique works of art, introducing him to the Porcinari family, whose collection of antiquities he purchased in 1766, and later sold to the British Museum. Hancarville also produced a fine illustrated catalogue of Hamilton's own collection in four folio volumes, entitled Antiquités étrusques, grecques et romaines, first published in Naples by Morelli in 1766 and 1767, and later reissued in five quarto volumes between 1785 and 1788.

[Furber, Robert]. Flora, oracuriouscollection of ye most Beautiful Flowers as they appear in their greatest perfection each Month of the Year, London: Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, circa 1750, engraved title and 12 engraved plates of vases of flowers by Parr, T. Bowles and J. Clark, on cream laid paper, all with fine attractive contemporary hand-colouring, each plate printed with a numbered list of the names of the various flowers at foot, plate size 35 x 24.5 cm, sheet size 43.5 x 28.8 cm, bound with Wilkes (Benjamin). Twelve New Designs of English Butterflies, [London]: Published by Benjn. Wilkes, June ye 15, 1742, engraved title and 12 engraved plates by H. Roberts on cream laid paper with watermark of a shield and fleur-de-lys with initials L V G, depicting various butterflies arranged in geometric patterns, plates of each work numbered to upper right corner from 17 to 41 in a contemporary hand in brown ink, plate size 35 x 28.5 cm, sheet size 43.5 x 28.8 cm, title and several plates close-cropped to left margin just touching platemark, very light soiling or handling marks to tltle of each work and some plates (generally in clean condition), contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards, some light wear and marks with upper joint cracked and lower joint starting at head, oblong folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Furber: Nissen BBI 678; Dunthorne 116. Wilkes: Freeman 3997; Lisney 181. Scarce. According to Lisney "It is unlikely that this work was distributed bound as a volume, but the plates were probably set out on Wilkes's stall for sale either singly or in sets of twelve".The first work extremely rare, if not unique: only one other (incomplete) copy of this edition of Furber's flower plates offered for sale at auction (Jeschske van Vliet, 15 April 2010, lot 243). This edition is a new version by John Bowles of Furber's Twelve Months of Flowers, after designs by Peter Casteels, first published in London in 1730. The plates are slightly smaller, in reverse, and have an engraved border.Furber was a nurseryman with gardens near Hyde Park Gate, in Kensington, and a churchwarden at St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington for many years. The Twelve Months of Flowers were originally issued as a luxurious catalogue for his stock: over 400 flowers are illustrated, and each is identified in the key below the picture, so that customers could easily order their requirements. Furber employed artists Pieter Casteels and Henry Fletcher to create the depictions of flowers. The work was reprinted several times in the eighteenth century, with later editions coloured (as here), partly to obscure the catalogue’s original intention while at the same time enhancing the decorative appeal of the plates.Wilkes' Twelve New Designs of English Butterflies, dedicated according to the title to 'the Worthy Members of the Aurelian Society...' is also scarce. "It is unlikely that this work was distributed bound as a volume, but the plates were probably set out on Wilkes's stall for sale either singly or in sets of twelve" (Lisney).

Walpole (Horace). The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story, Translated by William Marshal, from the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto, 6th edition, Parma: printed at Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London, 1791, half title, 2 engraved frontispieces, ruled in red throughout, a little light spotting, bookplate of Ellen James, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco gilt, spine ends slightly rubbed, royal 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Hazen 17. The first Parma edition. One of 300 copies, handsomely bound, of what is considered to be the first gothic novel.

Walpole (Horace). Il Castello di Otranto. Storia Gotica, translated by Jean Sivrac, 1st edition in Italian, London: Presso Molini, Polidori, Molini & Co., 1795, half title, engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, B6 a cancel, occasional minor spotting, bookplate of Ellen James, all edges gilt, later handsome tan calf gilt, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Colonel Thomas Stanley (1749-1816), Whig politician and Colonel of the 1st Royal Lancashire Militia, and an avid book collector. Presentation inscription at front "Harriette Matilda Parkinson(?), from her godfather Colonel Stanley, July 11th, 1812". His Bibliotheca Stanleiana sale of 1813 attracted much interest and was one of the largest libraries sold in the lifetime of an owner.ESTC T99857.The Castle of Otranto, considered the first gothic novel was first published in 1764, purportedly translated by "William Marshal" from the original Italian manuscript by "Onuphrio Muralto" both of which were inventions of the author.

Burney (Frances, 'Fanny'). Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth, 5 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. Payne...and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1796, volume 1 with list of subscribers (including 'Miss J. Austen, Steventon'), and advertisement leaf at end, volume 3 with paper repair to E6 (page 83-84), using blank paper which obscures some text (apparently without loss), volume 5 with closed tear to N9-10 (pages 281-284) without loss, intermittent mostly light spotting, early 19th-century bookplate of Ellen James to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary or near-contemporary uniform full calf, spines gilt-ruled with black roan labels, rubbed and some marks, first volume with joints cracked, 12moQTY: (5)NOTE:Rothschild 550.The list of subscribers includes a young (and then unknown) Jane Austen, aged 20. Other subscribers include Sir Joseph Banks, Edmund Burke, Sir William Chambers, Maria Edgeworth, Warren Hastings (godfather to Austen's first cousin and sister-in-law Eliza de Feuillide), Rev. Thomas Leigh of Adlestrop (cousin of Austen's mother), Hannah More, Mrs. Piozzi, Mrs. Radcliffe, Humphry Repton and Mrs. Siddons.Austen was an admirer of Fanny Burney's novels and, following the issue of Camilla in 1796, was spurred on in October of that year to begin a novel titled False Impressions, later to become Pride and Prejudice, a title possibly taken from a quotation in Burney's Cecilia.

Clare (John). The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Taylor & Hessey; Stamford: E. Drury, 1821, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece by E. Scriven after W. Hilton to volume 1 and engraved frontispiece of Clare's Cottage to volume 2, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at rear of second volume, offsetting to titles, scattered spotting mostly at front and rear, rough-trimmed, front free endpapers discarded, original horizontally-ribbed brown cloth with printed paper title labels to spines, spines faded, light wear to extremities, 12moQTY: (2)NOTE:Tinker 637. This binding not recorded in Carter, Binding Variants, p.104. Scarce in the original publisher's binding, John Clare's second publication is composed of three sections: the long, semi-autobiographical poem which gives the work its title; 'Poems', comprising 71 songs, ballads, and poems, which make up the rest of the first volume and part of the second; and 'Sonnets', which contains 60 pieces of writing.Biographer Sir Jonathan Bate describes John Clare as "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced."

Dickens (Charles). Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress, by "Boz", 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Richard Bentley, 1838, half titles for volumes 1-2 (none called for in volume 3), etched frontispiece to each, 21 etched plates by George Cruikshank, 4 pp. Bentley advertisements at end of volume I, occasional light spotting and toning, top edge gilt, modern handsome green half calf by Root & Son, spines with tan labels and gilt decoration, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Eckel pp. 59-62. First issue with "Boz" as the author to titles, and the 'Fireside' plate in volume III (suppressed in the second issue).

Bronte (Charlotte, "Currer Bell"). Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, 4th edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1850, 16 pp. catalogue at end dated January 1851, occasional minor spotting, original brown blindstamped cloth, spine and extremities faded, small chip at foot of spine, joints splitting, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:First single volume edition, variant issue. The usual fourth edition of 1850 has 8 pages of the publisher's catalogue at rear and dated May 1850. The Brotherton Library copy at Leeds has identical pagination but their copy has the catalogue dated March 1854, the present copy is therefore an unrecorded variant issue. First published in 3 volumes in 1847.

Dickens (Charles). David Copperfield, 1st edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 etched plates by H.K. Browne, wrappers to original parts bound to rear (missing parts 9, 18 & 19/20), late 19th-century ownership inscription to front blank, together with Little Dorrit, 1st edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 etched plates by H. K. Browne, wrappers to original parts bound to rear (missing parts 1, 4, 5, 6 & 17), late 19th-century ownership inscription to front blank, plus Dealing with the firm of Dombey and Son, 1st edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 etched plates by H. K. Browne, wrappers to original parts bound to rear (missing parts 3, 4 & 10), late 19th-century ownership inscription and pasted newspaper cutting to front blank, spotting and toning to all volumes, (heavier to plates as usual), plus first editions of Martin Chuzzlewit and Bleak House, all bound uniformly with top edges gilt in attractive late 19th-century green half morocco gilt by Tout, spines with 5 raised bands and two red morocco labels, Bleak House with wrappers bound to rear (lacking wrappers to parts 1, 2, 9 & 14), 8voQTY: (5)

Collins (Wilkie). After Dark, 2 volumes,1st edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1856, half-titles, advertisements to rear of both volumes, bookplates of Elinor Elnes and bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, occasional spotting, a few gatherings faintly damp-stained, hinges of volume one cracked, original blindstamped green cloth, backstrips detaching, some water-staining to boards of volume 1, worn, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Rare. The first edition of the author's first collection of short stories.

Beeton (Mrs. Isabella). The Book of Household Management..., 1st edition in book form, London: S.O. Beeton, 1861, additional chromolithograph title, tinted wood-engraved frontispiece supplied in facsimile (loose), 12 chromolithograph plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations to text, Rr2 (pages 613-614) supplied in careful facsimile, some minor marks and spotting, 20th-century good quality rust-red half calf, spine letters in gilt, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Cagle 561; Axford p.38; Bitting p. 32; Craig 8; Simon BG 186. This work was originally published in 24 monthly parts, 1859-1861. This example with Cox and Wyman as the printers. It appears not to be the first printing of the first edition in book form because the first line of the errata incorrectly refers to p. 657, not p. 57 (as in the first printing of the first edition in book form).

Barrett (Francis). The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer; being a complete system of occult philosophy, London: printed for Lackington, Allen and Co., 1801 [but 1875], half title, portrait frontispiece, 17 plates, 5 hand-coloured plates of demons, occasional slight toning, one or two small marginal wormtracks, original morocco-backed boards, joints and edges rubbed, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Facsimile of the 1801 first edition.

Purcell (Henry, 1659-1695). A Collection of Ayres, Compos'd For the Theatre, and upon other Occasions. By the late Mr. Henry Purcell, 1st edition, London: Printed by J. Heptinstall for Frances Purcell, 1697, complete set of four parts (violino primo, violino secundo, tennor and bassus), 48, 48, 40 and 40 pages respectively (the pagination of pp. 37-40 of the first volume misnumbered), type-set music and text throughout, woodcut vignettes, title and first two leaves of the first part with loss to lower inner margin (affecting some words of the imprint, last line of the dedication, and part of the last two staves of music, respectively), violino secundo p.31 with 5cm tear from lower margin, spotting and some dust-soiling at front and rear of each, tennor p.40 a trifle stained, some minor marks elsewhere, otherwise generally in clean condition, later black half calf, lightly rubbed, a little wear to extremities (tennor with small loss to foot of spine), folio (each 32.1 x 20.8 cm)QTY: (4)NOTE:RISM P 5977 and PP 5977.Only five copies of this publication at auction in the last fifty years.Purcell composed music for over 40 plays, a fairly representative amount of which was published a year or so after his untimely death at the age of 36 in the present work. Thought to have been edited by his younger brother (or cousin) Daniel Purcell, it comprises thirteen suites of select movements from the plays or semi-operas Dioclesian, King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, The Indian Queen, The Married Beau, The Old Bachelor, Amphytron, The Double Dealer, Distressed Innocence, The Gordian Knot Untied, Abdelazer, Bonduca, and The Virtuous Wife.

Beethoven (Ludwig van). Fidelio, Oper in Zwey Aufzugen nach dem franzosischen bearbeitet von F. Treitschke. In musik gesetzt von Lud. van Beethoven. Clavierauszug, [Op. 72] [vocal score], Bonn: N. Simrock, [1815], lithograph title and cast list, 159 pp., plate number 1136 (lacking on pages 22, 76 and 148; page 154 with plate number 1153), lacking index leaf of contents, small losses to one or two corners, occasional slight soiling, T. Boosey & Co. ink stamp at foot of title, disbound in modern plain green wrappers, a few small tears, oblong folio, sheet size 24.5 x 33.5 cm, together with Quintetto pour 2 Violons, 2 Violes at Violoncelle composée par L. v. Beethoven, Oeuv. 20, 2 parts (numbers 1 & 2), Leipzig: Bureau de Musique de C. F. Peters, [circa 1815], five separate parts, engraved throughout, plates numbered 110 and 111, two engraved titles to the part for 1st violin, light spotting to margins, disbound without covers, slim 4to, plus Siebente Grosse Sinfonie von Ludw. van Beethoven, 92tes Werk. Partitur, Vienna: T. Haslinger, [1831], 2nd engraved edition of the full score, plate number 2560, engraved title, dedication leaf, 180 engraved pages, many with pencil annotations in an unidentified hand, signed presentation inscription in pencil by Felix Weingartner at foot of first page, "Zum Andenken an die Auffuhrung in Prag, 14/1 1926. Felix Weingartner", occasional light marginal spotting, some leaves detaching, original printed wrappers (detached), rubbed and some soiling, with wear to spine, folio (34 x 26.5 cm)QTY: (3)NOTE:First work Hoboken 322. One of the first editions of the third version, which is also the first under the name "Fidelio" (the opera was previously called "Leonore").Paul Felix Weingartner (1863-1942) was an Austrian composer and conductor and the first to record all nine Beethoven symphonies. From 1907 to 1910 he was the Director of the Vienna Hofoper, succeeding Gustav Mahler; he retained the conductorship of the Vienna Philharmonic until 1927.

Morris (Beverley R.). British Game Birds and Wildfowl, Groombridge and Sons, 1st edition, 1855, title and contents list, sixty engraved plates (complete) with contemporary hand-colouring (including frontispiece), each with paper guard, slight spotting, ownership signatures to first front blank, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco gilt, worn, rubbed and bumped at extremities, large 4to QTY: (1)

Lehmann (Liza, 1862-1918). A scrapbook, 1870s-90s, containing approximately 65 pen, pencil, ink, wash, pastel and watercolour studies, self-portraits, landscapes, fairies, interiors, a few captioned and loose, some mounted, various sizes, some light toning and a few stains, all contained in an original morocco scrapbook, lacking spine, covers detached and rubbed, sheet size 28 x 22 cm, together with her book, The Life of Liza Lehmann, by Herself, 1st edition, 1919 QTY: (2)NOTE:Liza Lehmann (1862-1918), an English soprano and composer who composed songs for children and stage, became the first President of the Society of Women Musicians in 1911-12 and a professor of singing at the Guildhall School of Music in 1913.

Fischer von Erlach (Johann Bernhard). Entwurff Einer Historischen Architectur, in Abbildung unterfsciedener beruhmten Gebaude, des Alterthums und fremder Volcker..., 2nd edition, Leipzig, 1725, engraved title, engraved dedication, 5 engraved part titles, double-page map and 85 double-page and folding copper-engraved plates (complete), folding text in French and German, some light spotting and toning, hinges reinforced, contemporary speckled calf gilt, spine rubbed, some edge wear, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Fowler 121 (for the first edition of 1721); Millard 31."This is an interesting work by the great Viennese baroque architect. The first three books show the approach to archaeology that is characteristic of the time, the fourth book treats of the author's own work and is particularly interesting, while the vases shown in the fifth book are all imbued with the baroque feeling, whether antique or modern." (Fowler).

* Austrian Victory Tarot. Sieg-Tarok, Prossnitz, Moravia: Gottfried Fischer, circa 1840, the complete deck of 42 stencil coloured engraved cards, comprising 4 suits of 5 (French suits), each with pip cards ace (red) or 10 (black) and 4 double-ended court cards, ace of hearts and knave of clubs with maker's name, plus 22 trump cards, comprising 21 double-ended trump cards (bearing Roman numerals I-XXI), trumps II-XXI depicting events during the final years of the Napoleonic Wars (1813-1815), trump XIV with maker's initials, and Fool or 'Excusee' card, occasional minor spotting or light toning, a few tiny edge chips, versos mottled red, each card 106 x 55 mm, all corner mounted onto 2 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of display boards), each display board 42 x 59 cm, together with: Austrian Military Tarock, Drei-Kaiserreffen Tarock, Vienna, Austria: Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne, circa 1890, the complete deck of 54 stencil coloured engraved cards, comprising 4 suits of 8 (French suits), each with pip cards ace-4 (red) or 7-10 (black) and 4 double-ended court cards, ace of hearts (spotted) with tax stamp and maker's trademark (flags, helmet, shield), plus 22 trump cards, comprising 21 trumps (bearing double-ended Roman numerals I-XXI), trumps II-XXI depicting captioned military scenes and leaders, and Fool card, cards generally toned and a little bowed, occasional brown marks or spots, king of spades with small area of adhesion (from verso of another card), king of diamonds with tiny corner surface loss, ace of hearts with minor scratches and dent, trump VI with slight corner crease, versos red geometric lozenges pattern, each card 108 x 59 mm, 41 cards corner mounted onto 2 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of display boards), the remainder loosely contained in a clear plastic bag, each display board 54.5 x 40 cmQTY: (2)NOTE:First item: Cary collection, AUS 200 (earlier edition).This deck is the later edition of a pack first issued by Fischer in 1823. Second item: Cary collection, AUS 228 (earlier edition).

* Austrian Vienna Scenic Tarock. Veduten-Tarock, Vienna, Austria: J.G. Uffenheimer, 1839, a shortened deck of 42 (of 54) stencil coloured engraved cards, comprising 4 suits of 5 (French suits), each with pip cards ace(red) or 10 (black) and 4 double-ended court cards, ace of hearts with tax and maker's stamps (both dated), knave of clubs with maker's details, plus 22 trump cards, comprising 21 double-ended trumps (bearing Roman numerals I-XXI), trumps II-XXI depicting buildings and landmarks in and around Vienna, and Fool card, toned and some foxing, 3 court cards (knights of spades & clubs, and queen of spades) & 1 pip card somewhat creased, knave of hearts a little dampstained, versos red dots pattern, each card 103 x 54 mm, together with: Wien Veduten-Tarock, Vienna, Austria: Josef Glanz, circa 1870, the complete deck of 54 stencil coloured engraved cards, comprising 4 suits of 8 (French suits), each with pip cards ace-4 (red) or 7-10 (black) and 4 double-ended court cards, ace of hearts with tax and maker's stamps, knave of clubs with maker's details, plus 22 trump cards, comprising 21 double-ended trumps (bearing Roman numerals I-XXI), trumps II-XXI depicting buildings and landmarks in and around Vienna, and Fool card, few minor spots or marks, knight of spades with pale stain to corner, versos red asterisks and dots pattern, each card 101 x 56 mm, 41 cards from each deck corner mounted onto 4 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of display boards), the remainder loosely contained in 2 clear plastic bags, each display board 55 x 40.5 cmQTY: (2)NOTE:First item: Cary collection, AUS 247; Kaplan, II, p.436 (illustrated p.439).See also Technisches Museum, Wien, #89781-89783 for the earlier edition of 1825 which had the view descriptions printed on a separate leaflet, rather than directly on the cards, as here. See also World Web Playing Cards Museum (WWPCM05572) which lists this pack as having 42 cards.Second item: Cary collection, AUS 203 & 205.Josef Glanz took over the Uffenhiemer's business in 1849 and consequently re-issued many packs of their playing cards under his own name. In this case, the court cards were all slightly altered, and the trumps were either altered or in many cases completely different views have been depicted.

[Austen, Jane]. Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice," &c. &c., 3 volumes, 1st edition, John Murray, 1816, half-titles present including half-title to volume 1 (P6, final leaf) inserted at front, some spotting and browning, occasionally heavy, closed vertical tears to lower margins of I9-10 of volume 2, the first touching four lines of text without loss, ink gift inscription to head of title of volume 1, 'Jeanie Blackley from Aunt Jane, a remembrance [slightly smudged], April/[19]11', a one-page letter tipped in at front of volume 1, 23 Bolton Street, [London], W., 15 March 1864, addressed to Jane and asking her to accept these books and saying, 'I am sorry the set is not more complete, but they will remind you of a friend', signed in a shaky hand, 'Harriet C. Moore', 1 page with blank integral leaf, 8vo, modern bookplates of Chris Viveash to front pastedowns and pencil note of David Gilson at rear of volume 1, mid-19th-century reddish brown half roan gilt over cloth, rubbed, upper joints slightly cracked and upper joint to volume 1 weak, 12mo (166 x 100 mm)QTY: (3)NOTE:Gilson A8. Provenance: David Gilson & Chris Viveash. David Gilson's pencil note at the rear of volume 1 states that this was bought from Francis Edwards, Hay-on-Wye, 28 September 1995, before adding a note about the letter: 'The Harriet C. Moore whose letter is inserted at the front of this volume could be Harriot Moore, mentioned in Jane Austen's letter to Fanny Knight, 13 March 1817 (Letters, ed. Deirdre Le Faye, 1995, p. 333), who was Fanny Knight's cousin, being the daughter of Harriot [Harriet] Mary Moore, née Bridges, 1781-1840, who was sister to Fanny's mother Elizabeth'. However, our research suggests that the eldest daughter of Harriet Mary Moore and her husband Rev. George Moore (1770-1845) was called Harriet Maria Moore (1813-unknown) and the shaky signature suggests it was written at a great age by someone more likely to have been a direct contemporary of Harriet Mary Moore.

[Austen, Jane]. Elizabeth Bennet; or, Pride and Prejudice: A Novel, volume 2 (of 2) only, 1st American edition, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832, heavy spotting throughout, without cancelled first and last blanks, Chris Viveash ownership sticky label at front, closed tear to facing free endpaper, David Gilson's pencil purchase information to rear pastedown, untrimmed, original linen-weave cloth-backed drab plain boards, lacking paper spine label, slightly rubbed and soiled, upper cover detached, 12mo (195 x 118 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Gilson B2. One of only 750 copies printed. 'Copies rarely appear at auction, but all those noted have been in original boards uncut' (Gilson, p. 104). We can find only two copies at auction since the 1970s, both complete in 2 volumes.Provenance: David Gilson & Chris Viveash. Purchased from Toby English, Wallingford, Oxon, in May 1994; with a compliments slip from Toby English offering Dr Gilson the book which he had bought in Pisa, Italy.

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, a novel, 1st illustrated edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, half-title, engraved frontispiece and vignette title, additional printed title, ownership inscription of H.L. Honeyman and bookplate of Chris Viveash to front free endpaper, ownership sticker to front pastedown, lightly spotted, original plum cloth, rear joint cracked, some wear, 8vo, together with:Sense and Sensibility: a novel, 1st illustrated edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, half-title, engraved frontispiece and vignette title, additional printed title, 4 leaves of advertisements to front, bookplate of Chris Viveash and bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, lightly spotted, original plum cloth, some wear, 8vo, withEmma, a novel, 1st illustrated edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, half-title, engraved frontispiece and vignette title, additional printed title, bookplate of Chris Viveash and small library stamp to front pastedown, lightly spotted, a few gatherings with concomitant damp-stain to upper right-hand corner (not affecting text), original plum cloth, rear joint split to base, some wear, 8vo, withNorthanger Abbey, Persuasion, 1st illustrated edition, 2 volumes in 1, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, half-title, engraved frontispiece and vignette title, additional printed title, 12 advertisement leaves to front, bookplate of Sarah Johnson to front pastedown, original plum cloth, backstrip faded, rubbed, 8vo, withMansfield Park, London: Richard Bentley, 1837, half-title, engraved frontispiece and vignette title, additional printed title, two advertisement leaves to rear, bookplate of Chris Viveash to front pastedown, preliminaries spotted, hinges cracked, original plum cloth, rear joint cracked, rubbed, 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Gilson D1, D2, D4, D5 & D7. Provenance: David Gilson & Chris Viveash.A scarce set comprising four of the five first illustrated editions of Austen's novels, rarely found in the original cloth. "No English reissue of JA's novels is known after 1818 until in 1832 Richard Bentley decided to include them in his series of Standard Novels" (Gilson, p. 211).The 1837 reprint of Mansfield Park is also scarce. Gilson comments 'So few of these reprints survive in libraries, and even fewer in original condition, that the following details must be incomplete...' (Gilson p. 225).

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, 2 volumes, H.G. Clarke and Co., 1844, half-titles, lacks final blank at rear of volume 1 (p. 4) and final 4 advert leaves (Q4) at rear of volume 2, armorial bookplates of Frederick H.H. Glasse to both front pastedowns and ownership ink name inscription of Chris Viveash to facing endpaper, David Gilson's pencil purchase note at rear of volume 1, bound without original illuminated wrappers in later 19th-century half calf gilt over marbled boards with morocco spine labels, a little rubbed, 16mo (126 x 82 mm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Gilson E3. This was part of Clarke's Cabinet series, No. 34. Gilson notes that he had not seen any copies in the original binding and that 'this is the first separate edition of PP to appear after the expiry of the copyright in 1841'. Provenance: David Gilson & Chris Viveash. Purchased from Jarndyce, 22 September 1995.

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, a novel, 2 volumes, London: H.G. Clarke and Co, 1844, half-titles, original blue illuminated wrappers, advertisement leaves to rear of both volumes, bookplates of Chris Viveash to front pastedowns, David Gilson's pencil purchase note at rear of both volumes, contemporary brown panelled morocco gilt, all edges gilt, rebacked with original spines laid on (some loss), some wear, 16moQTY: (2)NOTE:Gilson E3.Provenance: David Gilson & Chris Viveash. Purchased from Bath Book Fair, 19 April 1997.This was part of Clarke's Cabinet series, No. 34. Gilson notes that he had not seen any copies in the original binding and that 'this is the first separate edition of PP to appear after the expiry of the copyright in 1841'.

Austen (Jane). Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion [and] Mansfield Park, 2 volumes, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863, publisher's list of novels by Jane Austen to verso of blank leaf before title of first volume, some spotting or light browning to both, short closed tear to blank lower margin of pp. 9-10 of second volume and blank paper loss to lower outer corner of pp. 189/190 of same volume, non-matching modern bookplates of Chris Viveash to front pastedowns, old ink ownership signature of Julia P. Graves and later ink signature of Chris Viveash to front free endpaper of first volume, small bookseller's printed label of H.F. Monahan of Boston, Massachusetts to front free endpaper of second volume and David Gilson's pencil purchase note at rear, inner hinges cracked, original blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt-titled spines, rubbed, a little frayed with loss at head and foot of spines, a little edge wear, 8vo (195 x 120 mm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Gilson E28 & E29. Published as part of a uniform four-volume edition by Ticknor & Fields in 1863, Gilson notes that he had seen no copy of any of these books in original bindings. Provenance: David Gilson & Chris Viveash. Purchased from Patricia Latkin, Chicago, September 2000.

Walton (Izaak, Charles Cotton & Col. Robert Venables). The Universal Angler, Made so, by Three Books of Fishing... , 3 parts in 1 volume, London: Richard Marriott, 1676, additional engraved title-page at front (slightly offset to main title), 10 small copperplates of fish and 2 pages of music, Part II with engraved cipher on title and Part III with engraved frontispiece and 10 copperplates as in Part I, old ink inscription of Staunton Harold to upper margin of blank verso of third leaf, a little spotting and dust-soiling, lacks blanks at end of first and third works, final 3 leaves (Table) with some marginal edge fraying without loss of text, all edges gilt, recent panelled calf with five raised bands and gilt-titled morocco spine label, small 8vo (147 x 90 mm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Westwood & Satchell, p. 219; Wing W666, C6381 & V1851. Fifth edition of Walton's Compleat Angler and the last to be printed in his lifetime. It is published here with the first edition of Cotton's Compleat Angler, and the fourth edition (the third extant), since the second edition was entirely destroyed in the Fire of 1666 (of Venables' Experienc'd Angler). This is the only time the three authors appeared together in a single volume.

Austen (Jane). Novels, edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson, 10 volumes, 2nd edition, J.M. Dent and Company, 1892, half-titles, monochrome frontispieces and plates by William C. Cooke, decorative titles in red & black, front pastedowns with ownership name of Chris Viveash, front free endpaper of first volume (Sense & Sensibility vol. 1) with gilt inscription from David Gilson to Chris Viveash, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, original light green cloth gilt, occasional light toning and finger soiling, 8voQTY: (10)NOTE:Gilson E75. Provenance: David Gilson & Chris Viveash.

Walton (Izaak & Charles Cotton). The Compleat Angler. Being instructions how to angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear stream, Part II only, 1st edition, London: printed for Richard Marriott and Henry Broome, 1676, imprimatur leaf, title with large printed monogram, small marginal damp stain to first few leaves, previous owner signature of Dick Earle, 1694 to front endpaper, contemporary calf, small splits to joints, rubbed with some worming, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Wing C6381. Westwood & Satchell, p. 66: "This was sold separately, or conjointly with Walton and Venables, under the title of the "Universal angler" ".

Austen (Jane). The Novels, edited by Louise Ross with a new introduction by David Gilson, volumes 1-18 only (of 19), facsimile reprint of 1st editions, London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1994, front free endpaper of first volume (Sense & Sensibility vol. 1) inscribed 'To dear Chris, for his Jane Austen collection this second set of facsimiles from David 11 February 1995', bookplate of Chris Viveash to upper pastedowns of each, original cream cloth-backed boards, paper label to spines, 8voQTY: (18)NOTE:Limited edition 5/75, signed by David Gilson and Louise Ross. This set without the final volume A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh.Provenance: David Gilson & Chris Viveash.

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, 1st peacock edition, London: George Allen, 1894, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, p. 69 with small marginal tear and loss, a little light spotting to first few leaves, rear hinge slightly cracked, all edge gilt, original cloth with peacock design in gilt to upper cover and feathers to spine, upper corner of front cover rubbed, small light stains to rear cover, 8voQTY: (1)

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice: A Novel, 3 volumes, Facsimile of the 1813 first edition, London: British Library, 2004, original maroon boards, printed paper title labels to spines, contained together in slipcase, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Limited edition 114/250. A facsimile reprint of the British Library's copy (BL shelfmark C.131.C.I.).

Military History Press. Napoleon's Finest: Davout and His 3rd Corps Combat Journal of Operations 1805-1807, by Scott Bowden, 1st North American edition, 2006, signed limited edition 935/1400, numerous colour illustrations, folio,Napoleon's Apogee Pascal Bressonnet's Tactical Studies 1806 Saalfeld Jena and Auerstadt, by Scott Bowden, 1st North American edition, 2009, unnumbered copy of 1100, numerous colour illustrations, folio, On Campaign in the Age of Napoleon, by René Chartrand, 1st North American edition, 2006, signed limited edition 552/1200, numerous colour illustrations, folio,The Art of Keith Rocco Waterloo- Napoleon's Last Army, by Paul Lindsay Dawson, 1st North American edition. 2021, numerous colour illustrations, folio,Napoleon's Last Grande Armée, by Alfred Umhey, 1st North American edition, 2006, signed limited edition 677/1000, numerous colour illustrations, folio,Napoleon's First Italian Campaign, by Keith Rocco, 1st North American edition, 2013, signed limited edition 391/1200, numerous colour illustrations, folio, all edges gilt, uniform gilt decorated faux leather, plus The Ancient Art Of Warfare, 2 volumes, 1st edition, by Cresset Press, 1966, numerous colour illustrations, full gilt-decorated red morocco bound by A. Price Oxford, 4toQTY: (8)

Elting (John R.). Napoleonic Uniforms, 4 volumes, 1st edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1993, numerous colour illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed with occasional marks, 4to, together with:Jouineau (Andre), The Imperial Guard of The First Empire, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Heimdal, 2017, numerous colour illustrations, original printed boards, large 8vo, plus,Bukhari (Emir), Napoleon's Cavalry, 1st edition, London: Osprey Publishing, 1979, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, & 4 further volumes of uniforms reference QTY: (12)