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America.- Gold rush.- Hazlitt (William Carew) The Great Gold Fields of Cariboo; With an Authentic Description... of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, first edition, folding map frontispiece, additional folding map hand-coloured in outline tipped onto title verso, light marginal toning to text, lacing advertisements, final f. with loss to lower corner affecting a few words with these supplied in facsimile, book-label to title, modern cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover, [Sabin 31126], 12mo, 1862.⁂ Scarce guide to the gold fields of Columbia. The additional map is taken from Conrwallis' The New El Dorado, 1858 and is titled "Map of British Columbia and Vancouver Island Denoting the Gold and Coal Districts".

America.- Keith (Sir William) A Collection of Papers and other Tracts, Written occasionally; containing... VI. A Discourse on the present State of the British Plantations in America, with Respect to the Interest of Great-Britain. VII. A Report to the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations in the Year 1718, second edition, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, modern morocco-backed boards, spine gilt, [cf. Sabin 37239 (first edition)], Jacob Loyseau, 1749.⁂ Scarce account of the American colonies by the former governor of Pennsylvania in which he outlines Britain's economic interests for American colonial dependency, warns against French encroachment on British colonial territory and proposes a stamp tax on colonists in order to finance standing armies.

Canada.- Du Calvet (Pierre) Appel à la justice de l'ètat; ou recueil de lettres, au Roi, au Prince de Galles, et aux ministres; avec une lettre à messieurs les Canadiens,. . . Une lettre au General Haldiman lui-meme, enfin une derniere lettre a Milord Sidney..., first and only edition, half-title, slightly browned, disbound, [Sabin 21044; Lande 197], 8vo, London, 1784.⁂ Du Calvet, Canadian trader and campaigner. He emigrated to Canada in 1758 and settled at Quebec, where he became a successful trader and administrator. His place as Justice of the Peace was terminated by the Quebec Act of 1774. In 1780 he was arrested on suspicion of treason, and imprisoned for more than two years, by the Governor, Sir Frederick Haldimand. Upon his release, he went to England in order to obtain justice from the governor, but was drowned in a shipwreck on his voyage to London.

Central Asia.- Ides (E. Ysbrants) Three Years Travel from Moscow over-land to China, first English edition, engraved additional title, folding engraved map (small hole at fold, tear at fold and another tear with paper repair to verso, all affecting but no loss; soiling to verso), 30 engraved plates, many folding, armorial bookplate, D1 lower fore-edge corner with small defect (not affecting text), some light spotting and browning, mainly to text pages, contemporary mottled calf, gilt arms to covers, spine gilt with red morocco label, joints cracked but firm, extremities rubbed, 4to, W. Freeman et al., 1706⁂ Evert Ysbrants Ides (1657-1708), a Dane who served as ambassador to China under Peter the Great of Russia, travelled with a journal, the entries into which are the basis of this account and include passages on Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary, The Great Wall, and Peking specifically. Ides' expedition also included the Dutch artist Cornelis de Bruyn and Adam Brand as Secretary to the Embassy. Provenance: Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle (armorial bookplate; gilt arms to covers).

Egypt.- Description de l'Egypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, 38 vol. (24 text vol. in 26 and 12 plate vol.), second edition, 1 plate vol. with hand-coloured frontispiece, another with engraved title and portrait of Louis XVIII, 967 engraved plates, many folding or double page, a few folding with small tears at central folds, some foxing to plate margins but generally outside plate mark, contemporary quarter morocco, some wear to spines including small tears and chips at ends, [c.f. for first edition; Atabey 343; Blackmer 476; Hilmy I, pp 239-245] 8vo and elephant folio (670 x 540mm.), Paris, C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1821-30.⁂ The rare "Panckoucke" edition, complete with all plates. This monumental work was the fruit of the scholarly enterprise envisioned by Napoleon during his invasion into Egypt in the late 1790s. Over 160 scholars and scientists, known as the "savants", accompanied the French army - including figures like Monge, Berthollet, Fourier, Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Redoute, and Savigny - their aim being to produce the first ever scientific survey of Egyptian antiquities, culture, language, natural history, geography, ethnography etc. Defeated by the British and forced to relinquish the expedition's physical bounty, famously including the Rosetta stone, the French nonetheless negotiated to retain their scholarly notes. More than a decade later of careful collaboration, these notes emerged as this landmark collection. Not only arguably one of the most beautiful plate books of the nineteenth century, Le Description de l'Egypte established a new academic discipline, becoming the foundational work of Egyptology, and similarly sparked the vibrant wave of Egyptomania across Europe. The first edition appeared beginning in 1809, and this second edition, produced by the Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke, was begun nearly before the first was completed, reproducing the plates of the first in full, without the hand colouring. This copy includes the hand-coloured frontispiece often missing.The plate volumes comprise: (i) Antiquities, 5 vol. [hand-coloured frontispiece, 3 additional engraved plates ("Medailles trouvees en Syrie," "Tableau synoptique des constellations" Plate A, "Produits de la machine a graver"), 16 numbered engraved plates of the Rosetta Stone (on 8 sheets), 419 numbered engraved plates, plate 103 of Etat Moderne (misbound)]; (ii) Etat Moderne, 2 vol. [1 additional engraved plate ("Canevas trigonometrique du Kaire/d'Alexandrie"), 169 numbered engraved plates (see above, plate 103 bound in Antiquities V)]; (iii) Histoire Naturelle, 3 vol. [244 engraved numbered or lettered plates]; (iv) Atlas Geographique (spine title) [52 engraved maps and plates]; (v) Grande Atlas [engraved title, featuring portrait of Louis XVIII, 63 oversized plates].

Middle East.- Hamilton (James) Sinai, the Hedjaz, and Soudan: Wanderings around the Birth-Place of the Prophet, and across the Aethiopian Desert, from Sawakin to Chartum, first edition, half-title, 2 folding maps, very occasional scattered spotting but a very clean copy generally, unopened, original purple cloth, spine rubbed and darkened, covers rubbed and faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1857.⁂ A good copy of this scarce work, recording Hamilton's journey through the Arabian peninsula including lively accounts of Jeddah and Taif.

Persia.- Sanson (Nicolas) The Present State of Persia, first English edition, engraved frontispiece, 5 engraved plates (1 folding), contemporary ink ownership inscription front endpaper, title browned with minor instance of soiling, spotting and off-setting, contemporary calf, rebacked, spine gilt with red morocco label, 12mo, [Wing S687], for M. Gilliflower et al., 1695.

Turkey.- Ottoman Empire.- Gomez (Madame de) The Life of Osman the Great, Emperor of the Turks, 2 vol., first English edition, translated by John Williams, woodcut head-pieces and initials, some very light browning, spotting, heavier to vol. 1, contemporary calf with red morocco label to spine, upper joints cracked, rubbed, [Atabey 968 (French edition); not in Blackmer], 12mo, for J. Hazard, et al., 1735.⁂ Rare; not seen at auction for 50 years. First published in French in Amsterdam, 1734. Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez (1684-1770) was a French author and playwright of some contemporary acclaim, with other of her novels also being translated from the French. She turned to writing to help find financial security in the face of her Spanish nobleman husband's debts.

Mountaineering.- Hunt (Sir John) The Ascent of Everest, first edition, signed by the author, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, George Lowe, George Band, Tom Bourdillon, Michael Westamcott and Michael Ward on title, colour frontispiece, photographic plates, two plates loose, ticket for the 1963 "Challenge of Everest" event loosely inserted, bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth, spine sunned, light fading to covers, corners a little bumped, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, short closed tear to head of upper joint, chip to head of lower panel, light creasing to head and foot, 8vo, 1953.⁂ Rare signed by so many members of the team, especially Tenzing Norgay.

Britain.- Pyne (William Henry) The History of the Royal Residences, 3 vol., first edition, 100 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, one gathering in vol.2 lightly foxed, otherwise an excellent clean and bright copy, bookplate of Doris L. Benz, handsome red straight-grain morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, g.e., [Abbey, Scenery 396], 4to, 1819.⁂ William Henry Pyne (1770-1843) was an artist and printmaker who commissioned the artists and engravers of these plates to show an exact record of the interiors of royal residences. The illustrations have been consulted by art historians, curators and archivists at the Royal Collection to research interior schemes and decorative fashions, even down to such details as the arrangements of hanging pictures.

Cambridge.- Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher) A History of the University of Cambridge, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, list of subscribers, engraved portrait of the Duke of Gloucester, 95 plates including the 16 portraits of Founders, all fine hand-coloured aquatints or stipple-engravings by Stadler, Havell, Agar, Bluck, Hill and Reeve after Pugin, Westall, Mackenzie, Uwins and Pyne, plates bright and clean but offset, very occasional spotting and finger marking, contemporary diced russia, gilt, lightly rubbed, vol. 1 upper cover detached, vol. 2 with covers detached, g.e., both housed in a cloth slip-case, [Abbey, Scenery 80; Tooley 4], 4to, 1815.⁂ Provenance: Cyril Sturla (bookplate).

London.- Ackermann (Rudolph) Microcosm of London, 3 vol., first edition, wood-engraved titles, engraved dedication leaves, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson and Pugin, some light offsetting, vol.1 lacks half-title, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., rebacked, some rubbing to extremities, but a very good set generally, [Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7], 4to [1808-10].⁂ An early issue bound from the parts, watermarked 1807-09 with all but one of the 13 errata uncorrected. "One of the great colour-plate books" (Tooley).

London.- Maitland (William) The History of London, 2 vol., first edition, list of subscribers, extra-illustrated by the insertion of numerous portraits, views, plans and other pieces 18th-20th century (many window-mounted), including 3 hand-coloured vues d'optique and a large folding engraved ticket to the Lord Mayor's dinner at Guildhall in 1825 printed in blue, some foxing, later blind-stamped calf, joints worn, 2 covers detached, folio, Printed by Samuel Richardson, 1739.

London.- Papworth (John Buonarotti) Select Views of London, first edition, 76 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates (lacking plate 47 but with a duplicate of plate 48 in its place), some light offsetting, uncut in original boards, rebacked, cloth chemise and morocco-backed cloth slip-case, [Abbey Scenery 217; Tooley 361; Bobins II 698], 4to, R. Ackermann, 1816.⁂ "Copies carrying Papworth's name (on the title-page [as here]) are somewhat scarcer than those without" (Abbey).

Norfolk.- Blomefield (Francis) An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, 5 vol., first edition, original subscriber's copy, numerous engraved plates and maps, that of Norwich in vol.2 on two sheets and coloured by hand, extra-illustrated by the insertion of various manuscript sheets with lists of names relating to individual hundreds, some engravings and printed ephemera, a few plates lacking, vol.2 lacks dedication leaf, some tears and defects to plates and some leaves of text including title to vol.3, lists of subscribers, contemporary calf joints and extremities worn and with some old repairs, Fersfield, Norwich & Lynn, 1739-75; and Winter's Selection of Illustrations of Norfolk and Norwich Antiquities, 1885-6, folio (6)⁂ A good set of this important county history with provenance back to one of the original subscribers - Sir William Jerningham, Bart. of Cossey, enhanced with additional material relating to the county.

Oxford.- Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher) A History of the University of Oxford, 2 vol., first edition, list of subscribers, engraved portrait of the Chancellor Lord Grenville, 81 hand-coloured plates comprising 64 aquatint views by Buck, Stadler, Hill & others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall & others and 17 stipple-engraved plates of academic costumes, plus the 33 hand-coloured portraits of the Founders, lacking half-titles, small catalogue description pasted to front free endpaper, plates bright and clean but offset, occasional light spotting, later half red morocco, spines gilt, rubbed, [Abbey, Scenery 280; Tooley 5], 4to, 1814.⁂ First issue of plates 1, 50 and 78, 3 of the 8 key plates described by Abbey. Provenance: Christopher William Beaumont Pease, John Hely-Hutchinson (bookplates).

Suffolk.- Gage (John) The History and Antiquities of Suffolk. Thingoe Hundred, first edition, large paper copy, engraved map with outline hand-colouring, engraved plates and illustrations, occasional light offsetting, errata slip tipped in, later calf, gilt arms to upper cover, spine and upper cover a little sunned, 1838 § Suckling (Rev. Alfred) The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, 2 vol., first edition, plates including tinted lithographs and some hand-coloured, some foxing, later calf, gilt arms to upper covers, uniform with first mentioned but without the morocco spine labels, a little rubbed and scratched, Printed for the Author, 1846-48; and 2 others, Suffolk, folio (5)

Botany.- Grew (Nehemiah) The Anatomy of Plants, first collected edition, initial imprimatur leaf signed by Christopher Wren, 83 engraved plates, 5 folding, woodcut initials and head-pieces, small paper flaw hole to outer margin of Kk2 and another to Qq1 touching one letter, one or two plates with light staining but generally an excellent clean copy, David Bellamy's copy with his signed bookplate, modern panelled sprinkled calf with borders in blind, blind-stamped spine in compartments with morocco label, some slight fading and a few minor scuffs to lower cover, lower corners bumped, [Wing G1945; Henrey 162; Hunt 362; Nissen BBI 758], folio (c.310 x 195mm.), by W. Rawlins, for the Author, 1682.⁂ The birth of the microscopic anatomy of plants. Grew, and his contemporary Malpighi in Italy, were the founders of the science of plant anatomy. Grew was the first to observe the sexual nature of plants and ascribe the male functions to the stamens. David Bellamy (1933-2019), botanist, ecologist, conservationist, and television presenter.

Botany.- Hill (John) The Construction of Timber, from its Early Growth; Explained by the Microscope, first octavo edition, 46 engraved plates (numbered 1-43, with an additional unlisted plate 33 and additional partly hand-coloured duplicates of plates 13 & 14), one folding, very occasional light browning, David Bellamy's copy with his bookplate, original marbled boards, manuscript paper label, rubbed, joints worn, tear to foot of spine, [Henrey 802; Nissen BBI 877], for the Author, 1770.⁂ Containing important contributions to our knowledge of the microscopic structure of plants. "The most important work to be published on the subject during the eighteenth century". (Henrey). First issued the same year in folio format this is the second issue. David Bellamy (1933-2019), botanist, ecologist, conservationist, and television presenter.

Darwin (Charles) On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, first American edition, half-title, bookplate, two small contemporary press-clippings laid down to front pastedown (2 others loosely inserted), pp.123-142 coming loose (as gathering), light foxing and browning, front endpaper with tear at upper edge, original cloth, spine head chipped with small tear to upper joint head, foot slightly bumped, small tear to lower spine, 8vo, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1860.

Klein (Jacob Theodor) Naturalis dispositio echinodermatum, first edition, title in red & black with engraved vignette featuring a string of sea urchins, errata leaf, 36 engraved plates by I.W.Stör and G.W.Knorr, a few shaved at fore-edge affecting border but not image, Gdansk, T.J.Schreiber, 1734; Descriptiones tubulorum marinorum..., first edition, printed on thick paper, 10 engraved plates by Uhlich & C.Fritzsch de Hamb, two folding, light foxing to first few leaves, Knoch, 1731 § Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob) Sciagraphia lithologica curiosa, seu lapidum figuratorum nomenclator, edited by J.T.Klein, title in red & black, engraved plate, errata leaf at end, T.J.Schreiber, 1740, together 3 works in 1 vol. (the first mentioned bound after the second), woodcut initials and ornaments, the second with contemporary ink inscription to foot of title "To H.Williams from Dr.Fothergill's library" and with note in same hand tipped to foot of following leaf, another later ink inscription to front free endpaper, later half calf, rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 2205, 2203 & 3664; the last Wellcome V, 46], 4to, Gdansk⁂ Interesting sammelband of works on sea urchins, taxonomy and fossils. The first is one of the earliest monographs on sea urchins, by J.T.Klein who developed a system of classification based entirely on external characteristics. The last is by the founder of paleobotany and noted collector of fossils, J.J.Scheuchzer, edited and published posthumously by Klein.

Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob) Physique Sacree, ou Histoire Naturelle de la Bible, 8 vol., first edition in French, half-titles to all but vol.3 and 6, titles in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece (to vol.3), 2 portraits (one mezzotint), engraved head-piece at beginning of each volume, 756 plates (?of 758), a couple double-page and a couple folding, one partially hand-coloured, a few text leaves lightly browned, but generally a clean, crisp copy, contemporary russia, gilt, occasionally slightly rubbed or scuffed, vol.1 and 2 with lower cover slightly stained, traces of worming to spines and small patch on lower cover of vol.2, a couple of spine ends slightly chipped, folio, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk & Pierre Mortier, 1732-37.⁂ A superb copy of this monumental work on natural history as it relates to the Bible, covering fossils, insects, birds, reptiles (particularly snakes), plants, diseases, the sky, storms, plagues and constellations all juxtaposed with passages in both testaments.

Songbirds.- Hervieux de Chanteloup (J.C.) A New Treatise of Canary-Birds. Containing the manner of Breeding and Coupling them..., first English edition, 2 woodcut plates (one of cages, the other musical notation), half-title, 5pp. advertisements at end, pp. 11 & 12 outer margins shaved slightly affecting text, slightly browned, contemporary calf, rubbed, corners repaired, rebacked in modern calf, red morocco label on spine, spine a little worn, 12mo, for Bernard Lintot..., 1718.⁂ Rare; ESTC lists only 6 copies in the UK and 10 in America.

Belidor (Bernard Forest de) Architecture Hydraulique, ou l'Art de Conduire, d'Elever, et de Menager les Eaux pour les Differens Besoins de la Vie, 4 vol., first edition, titles in red & black, half-title and engraved portrait in vol.3, 2 engraved frontispieces and 219 folding plates & plans, engraved vignettes as chapter headings, woodcut ornaments and initials, some light browning to text but plates very clean, a good copy in contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, a little worn at corners and edges, rebacked preserving old gilt spines, [Bibliotheca Mechanica p.29], 4to, Paris, Charles-Antoine-Jombert, 1737-53.⁂ A study of enormous value to 18th century engineers. Belidor's was the first work of its kind to apply integral calculus to practical problems. It concentrates on civil engineering including transport, shipbuilding, canals, lighthouses, fountains, windmills etc., providing an important survey on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.

Bernoulli (Johann) Opera Omnia, 4 vol., first edition, titles in red and black, title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces and 91 folding engraved plates, lacking 2 portraits, bookplates removed from pastedowns, vol.2 lacking half-title and title, A-B² defective from damp with substantial loss to text, some damp-staining and spotting, some plates with fore-edge browned and creased, 4to, Lausanne and Geneva, M.M. Bousquet, 1742.⁂ The collected writings of Johann Bernoulli (1667-1748), who along with his brother Jacob, was a major figure in the development of mathematics, particularly calculus and probability theory in the eighteenth century.

Dalton (John) A New System of Chemical Philosophy, 2 vol. in 3 (Vol.1 Parts I & II and Vol.2 Part I), first edition, 8 engraved plates, vol.2 part I with half-title and 2pp. advertisements at end, some foxing and soiling, light staining to vol.2 part I, leaves a little brittle and a few chipped at edges, old ink library stamp to titles and some leaves and plates of vol.1, vol.1 Parts I & II contemporary diced russia, gilt, a little rubbed, rebacked, vol.2 near uniform modern calf, gilt, all spines gilt with black morocco labels, preserved together in modern drop-back box, [PMM261], 8vo, Manchester, vol.1 for R.Bickerstaff; vol.2 for G.Wilson, 1808-10-27.⁂ Seminal work on the atomic theory of matter.

Dalton (John) Experimental Essays on the Constitution of mixed Gases; on the Force of Steam and Vapour from Water...; on Evaporation; and on the Expansion of Gases by Heat...Read Oct.2, 16 and 30, 1801, extract from 'Memoirs of the Literary & Philosophical Society' vol.V pp.535-652 (Dalton paper pp.535-602), first edition, folding engraved plate, first leaf browned, disbound and becoming loose, preserved in modern cloth folder and red morocco-backed cloth slip-case, 8vo, Manchester, 1802.⁂ The first formal enunciation of the law of gaseous partial pressures. The importance of these essays was recognised immediately and the discoveries helped to establish meteorology as a science. Also containing William Henry's 'Review of some Experiments...to Disprove the Materiality of Heat' and John Gough's 'Investigation of the Method whereby Men judge, by the Ear, of the Position of Sonorous Bodies...' with another engraved plate.

Engineering.- Ship salvage.- Zusto (Giovanni) Descrizione istorica dell'estrazione della pubblica nave la Fenice dal canale Spignon, first edition, initial blank f., fine engraved frontispiece by Giuseppe Daniotto and 7 large folding plates by Giuseppe Daniotto after Giuseppe Cason, errata f., water-stained, final plate with a few purple spots, occasional light spotting elsewhere, contemporary marbled limp boards, spine and corners little worn, but holding firm, rubbed, [Ricardi I, 407 'opera interessantissima per gli studiosi della meccanica applicata alla nautica'; Morazzoni, 263; Cicognara, 1485; Phillips p.651], 4to, Venice, Sons of Antonio Pinelli, 1789.⁂ 'the most beautiful of all books on ship salvage and the first record of the salvage of such a large vessel' (Nigel Phillips, Diving and underwater technology). In 1783 the man-of-war La Fenice sank in the narrow Spignon channel at the entrance of the Venetian lagoon, making it difficult for other large vessels to pass. In 1785 it was decided to raise her. This handsomely illustrated work describes that feat of engineering.

Harbin (George).- Clare (Martin) The Motion of Fluids, Natural and Artificial; In particular that of the Air and Water, first edition, George Harbin's copy with his surname inscribed on front free endpaper, 9 engraved plates, contemporary calf, gilt, some surface wear, 8vo, Edward Symon, 1735.⁂ Covers the theoretical side of fluid motion, including an engine and pump for raising water, air pressure, circulation of the blood, meteorology, speaking trumpet etc.Clare (d. 1731), schoolmaster, running an "Academy" in Soho Square. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Freemason, and in the 1746 edition of Anderson's History and Constitutions of the freemasons is associated with Thomas Thynne, second Viscount Weymouth to whom this book is dedicated. Harbin (c. 1665-1744), nonjuror and historical writer was librarian to Viscount Weymouth.

Hooke (Robert) Philosophical Experiments and Observations..., edited by William Derham, first edition, 4 engraved plates, 2 folding, woodcut illustrations and ornaments, advertisement leaf at end, a little soiled and stained, ex-library copy with stamp and ink accession number to title, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, corners repaired, rubbed, [Keynes 36], 8vo, by W. & J.Innys, 1726; and Numbers 2, 3 & 4 of Hooke's Cutlerian Lectures (Animadversions, 1674; Helioscopes, 1676; Lampas, 1677) but lacking plates, 8vo & 4to (4)⁂ After Richard Waller's death William Derham took over the editing of Hooke's papers. This volume contains material omitted from Waller's edition of Hooke's Posthumous Works of 1705. It is an eclectic mix of scientific experiments, observations, inventions etc. concerning barometers, giant hailstones which fell in London in 1680, windmills, carriages, gems, maritime pendulum clocks, telescopes and microscopes, the Nautilus shellfish, the properties of amber etc.

Maupertuis (Pierre-Louis Moreau de) Dissertation Physique a l'Occasion du Negre Blanc, first edition, half-title, occasional foxing, modern bookplate of A.L.McLaughlin to rear pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, a little rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, corners repaired, 8vo, Leiden, n.p., 1744.⁂ Early work on human genetics and heredity prompted by the sight of an albino negro in Paris, and anticipating many of the later ideas of Darwin and Mendel.

[Newton (Isaac)] Arithmetica universalis: sive de compositione et resolutione arithmetica liber, [edited by William Whiston], second edition, woodcut diagrams throughout, U6 cancel, half-title with list of books on verso and ink name of Newton, slightly browned, ink inscription identifying Newton as author and another Whiston as editor, ink signature of Robert Andrews on front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, corners and edges rubbed, joints splitting, spine rubbed, [Babson 200; Wallis 278], 8vo, Benjamin & Samuel Tooke, 1722.⁂ First published in 1707, and reprinted in 1722 with revisions. "This edition was the last issued during Newton's lifetime and is almost as rare as the first." - Babson.

Einstein (Albert) Relativity. The Special & General Theory, translated by Robert W.Lawson, first edition in English, half-title, portrait frontispiece, diagrams and equations in text, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, very light spotting to head of first few leaves, browning to endpapers, original red cloth, light fading to spine, a couple of small marks to upper cover, corners very slightly bumped, a good copy preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [cf. PMM 408, first edition], 8vo, 1920.⁂ The first English edition of one of the most influential scientific works of the 20th century. First published in Germany in 1916, this translation is of the third German edition of 1918 but contains an additional section: Appendix III 'The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity'."The theory of relativity has transformed astrophysics, and indeed the whole scientific outlook." PMM.

General theory of relativity.- Eddington (A. S.) Report on the Relativity Theory of Gravitation, first edition, blind-stamp to second f., some light finger-soiling, final f. laid down with portion of upper wrapper pasted to lower margin, modern cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, 8vo, Fleetway Press, 1918.⁂ First edition of Eddington's landmark account of Einstein's General Theory, the first introduction of the theory to the English-speaking world.

Gall (Franz Joseph) & Johann Caspar Spurzheim. Anatomie et Physiologie du Système Nerveux en Général et du Cerveau en Particulier, 5 vol. including Atlas, only edition, text with half-titles, errata leaf at end of vol.2, foxing, Atlas with 100 engraved plates by Bouquet after Prêtre, some stipple-engraved, one double-page, lightly water-stained, some spotting, uniform modern half calf over marbled boards, very slight rubbing to edges, [Wellcome III, 84], 4to & folio, Paris, 1810-19.⁂ The theory of localisation of cerebral function, including the first attempt to map the central cortex. From their work on the brain Gall and his pupil Spurzheim developed their theories on phrenology.

Immunology.- Metchnikoff (Elie) Lecons sur la Pathologie Comparee de l'Inflammation, first edition in French, presentation copy to Paul Ehrlich [with whom he later shared the Nobel Prize], half-title, 3 chromolithograph plates at end, illustrations, library cloth-backed boards with library tape marks to spine and covers, 8vo, Paris, G. Masson, 1892.⁂ A fine association copy. Metchnikoff and Ehrlich shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the major types and functions of phagocytes and the types of blood leukocytes respectively. Their work led to discovering how to generate and use antibodies to protect against bacterial toxins. We have been unable to trace any other works inscribed by either to the other. The inscription here reads: "Herrn Professor, Dr Ehrlich, hochachtungsvoll in freundlicher Erinnerung des Verfassers."

Laennec (René Théophile Hyacinthe) Traité de l'Auscultation Médiate et des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur, 2 vol., second edition, half-titles, 4 double-page engraved plates, vol.2 with final blank, plates with numbers shaved and light offsetting, occasional foxing and slight browning to text, light water-staining at beginning and end, mostly marginal but affecting lower outer corner of plates, old ink stamp to titles, contemporary ink signature of Dr.H.Goudet to front free endpapers, original half green cloth, very slightly rubbed, [cf.PMM 280, first edition of 1819], 8vo, Paris, 1826.⁂ A classic of medical history, containing the first description of Laennec's ground-breaking invention of the stethoscope. This was the greatest advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger's percussion and Roentgen's discovery of X-rays. Laennec used his new tool to study the sounds made by the movements of the heart and lungs, and from this work stems our modern knowledge of diseases of the chest. This second edition, the last edited by Laennec himself, is considerably altered and enlarged from the first edition of 1819 with each disease described in detail, making it "the most important treatise on diseases of the thoracic organs ever written" (Garrison, History of Medicine, p. 412).

Lizars (John) A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, second edition, engraved vignette title and 103 hand-coloured plates (numbered 1-101 and 9 & 32 bis plates), tissue guards, occasional spotting or marginal soiling but mostly to guards, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine, [cf.Wellcome III, 531, first edition of 1824], folio, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars...S.Highley...W.Curry, [c.1839].

Mercuriale (Girolamo) De arte gymnastica libri sex, second edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, 2 full-page plans and 21 illustrations, all but one full-page, slight worming and some light soiling and staining, all mostly marginal, colophon leaf torn (repaired), modern vellum, [Adams M1320; EDIT 16 46968; G & M 1986.1; Mortimer/Harvard Italian 302], 4to, Venice, Giunta, 1573.⁂ The first illustrated edition of this important work on exercise and health, first published in 1569. "One of the earliest books to discuss the therapeutic value of gymnastics and sports generally for the cure of disease and disability, and an important study of gymnastics in the ancient world". (Garrison-Morton)

Swammerdam (Jan) Disputatio medica inauguralis, continens selectas de respiratione positiones, 4pp., only edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initial and tail-piece, light spotting, unbound (spine reinforced with strip of marbled paper), preserved in modern cloth portfolio with gilt-stamped roan label to upper cover, [Not in Wellcome], 4to, Leiden, Elzevier, 1667.⁂ Swammerdam's rare inaugural dissertation on respiration and his first published work. Based largely on research carried out in 1663 it predates his Tractatus physico-anatomico-medicus de respiratione usuque pulmonum issued later in 1667 which is generally regarded as his first work on respiration.Library Hub records only 4 UK copies, WorldCat adds 2 in Germany and the Netherlands.

Tuson (Edward William) Myology..., 2 vol. including Supplement, mixed set, vol.1 second edition, with 8 hand-coloured lithographed plates with multiple flaps, each with explanatory leaf of text, with prospectus for Supplement tipped to title and flyer for Tuson's lecture course mounted on front pastedown, plate 6 lacking flaps A & B, light water-staining at end affecting loose final plate, original cloth-backed boards with paper label to upper cover, rubbed and stained, spine torn and frayed, Supplement first edition, with 9 hand-coloured lithographed plates with multiple flaps, each with explanatory leaf of text, plate 2 with one flap torn, one small flap detached and tipped in at beginning, first two plates with short tear to fore-edge, the first affecting image, ink inscription to front pastedown, contemporary half calf (slightly smaller), rubbed, spine torn and chipped, both rather soiled internally with a few spots or small stains, one or two flaps detached, large folio, 1828.⁂ Complex teaching atlas with superb plates printed by Hullmandel, some with numerous flaps to simulate dissection. Tuson was a protégé of Astley Cooper and succeeded Charles Bell as surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital.

Vittori (Leonello) De aegritudinibus infantium tractatus..., first edition, large woodcut device to verso of Aa8, with final blank, extensive contemporary ink manuscript annotations to title and numerous leaves, slight worming to inner margin of signatures D & E affecting a few letters, small repair to inner margin of final two leaves at foot, ink library stamp to verso of title and final leaf of text, modern mottled calf with decorative border in blind, red calf label, [Durling 4668; VD16 V 1768; Not in Adams], 8vo, Ingolstadt, A.Weissenhorn, 1544.⁂ Scarce 16th century Italian handbook of paediatric treatment, including advice on diarrhoea, constipation, earache, and disturbed sleep, and this copy with the addition of many contemporary notes. We have been unable to trace any other copies at auction except for this one, sold in America in 2017. Library Hub cites 5 UK copies.

Smellie (William) A sett of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery, first edition, 39 engraved plates by Grignion after Jan van Rymsdyk, Pieter Camper and the author, each plate with accompanying leaf of text, a little browned, some spotting and light offsetting, endpapers brittle and frayed, contemporary ink inscriptions to front pastedown, also bookplates of doctors Henry Marshall and Chas.S.Fisher Jr., old boards rebacked and recornered in calf, red morocco label, gilt spine, [Norman 1955; Wellcome V, 127], folio, 1754.⁂ Possibly one of only 100 copies printed. "Smellie was the leading forceps practitioner in London, and several of the plates illustrate the use of this instrument in various presentations of the foetus. These engravings are the first accurate anatomical illustrations of the foetus in utero." (Norman).

Vesalius (Andreas).- Geminus (Thomas) Anatomes totius, aere insculpta delineatio..., edited by Jacques Grévin, first Continental edition, title with woodcut printer's device and full-page large woodcut coat-of-arms to verso, 36 engraved plates by Geminus after Vesalius only (of 40, lacking Adam & Eve plate and 3 others), some soiling and water-staining, slight worming passing through most of text and plates but mostly minor and unobtrusive (in many cases reduced to single small hole), some plates sharp but several rather flat and dull, ink stain to D5 slightly affecting following plate, nineteenth century ink inscription of W.A.R.Braybrooke of Wokingham, Berks. to front pastedown, contemporary calf ruled in blind, rubbed and stained, a few wormholes, upper joint split, spine ends and corners repaired, [Adams V599; Cushing VI.C.5], folio, Paris, André Wechel, 1564; sold not subject to return⁂ The first edition of Vesalius to be published in France, with plates by Geminus pirated from Vesalius.

Pantaleon (Heinrich) Prosopographiae herorum atque illustrium virorum totius Germaniæ, 3 parts in 1, first edition, collation: ()6 a-z6 A8 †6; a4 A-Z Aa-Nn6 Oo8 *6; A6 AA-ZZ AAa-ZZz Aaa6 a6, titles with woodcut printer's device recto and small woodcut portrait of the author verso, numerous woodcut portraits in text, part 1 colophon f., part 2 errata f. at end, part 3 final f. blank, occasional spotting and staining (for latter see in particular part 3 CCc6 and DDd1&2), lightly browned in places, Basel, Nicolaus Brylinger, 1565-1566 bound with Pantaleon (Heinrich) Chronographia ecclesiae Christi, in qua dilucide patrum et doctorum praecipvorum ordo, collation: A-V4, title with woodcut printer's device, first few ff. (including title) little frayed, occasional light spotting or staining, Basel, Heirs of Nicolaus Brylinger, 1568, together 2 works in 1 vol., attractive ornately blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, including small portraits of Erasmus, amongst others, lacking clasps, lower corners and edges worn, lightly soiled, rubbed, folio (312 x 192mm.)⁂ A solid wide-margined copy of this biographical dictionary, which is rarely found complete. Entries include an early biography and portrait of the anatomist Vesalius; also Erasmus (a lengthy entry); the printer Froben and Luther. Provenance: Paul Anton Wickart (engraved bookplate and ink inscription dated 1802 to final verso). Literature: I: Adams P179; VD16 P 228, P 229 & P 230. II: Adams P175; VD16 P 218.

More (Sir Thomas) A dyaloge of Syr Thomas More knyghte...Wherin be treatyd dyvers maters as of the veneration of Worshyp of ymagys & relyques, prayng to sayntys, & goyng on pylgrymage, first edition, printed in black letter, double column, woodcut colophon at end, woodcut initials, errata leaf [Z]1 (slightly torn at inner margin) present, but lacking final blank, some early ink annotations, some light water-staining, wide margins, [STC 18084], Enpryntyd...[by] Johannes Rastell, 1529; bound after Omnia...Latina Opera, first collected edition, printed in roman and italic, double column, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and decorations, ink name cut out from top left corner of title not affecting text, occasional soiling, reasonable margins, Louvain, Apud Joannem Bogardum, 1565, together 2 works in 1, later vellum, gilt, endpapers detached and binding becoming detached, morocco spine labels chipped, folio (269 x 180mm.)⁂ The first item is the rare first edition of which ESTC locates only 8 copies (4 each in British Isles and N. America). The second includes Utopia (contrary to Lowndes and Brunet) and the first printing of the original Latin version of Historia Richardi Tertii. Later issues have the date 1566 and copies are also known with either Bogard or Zangre (who jointly produced the work) or both, in the imprint. Provenance: Rob. Tetlow (ownership inscription on title of first work, dated 1617); 'Bass' (ink inscription on title of second work); Gavin Hastings Wheler (ink inscription at head of title of second work and bookplate, dated 1725)

Bible, English. The Most Sacred Bible, Whiche is the holy scripture, conteyning the old and new testament, translated...by Rychard Taverner, printed in black letter, preliminaries single column, text double column, lacking 2 preliminary ff. and blank leaf 3N4 at end of OT, otherwise complete, titles within woodcut architectural borders, OT trimmed to edge of border, mounted on 19th century paper with some surface abrasion causing slight loss, and loose, woodcut initials, several preliminary leaves badly torn, frayed and creased, first c.60 leaves and a few at end with 19th century guards/repairs to inner margins and sometimes elsewhere with some loss to side-notes, other tears to various leaves throughout, some leaves, especially near beginning trimmed at upper edge affecting headline, some staining, particularly at beginning and end, a few early ink annotations, mostly to verso of final leaf with some partially obscured by later paper repair, signature A (first 6 leaves of Genesis misbound after signature B, NT without signature K as in all known copies, 19th century vellum, gilt, black leather spine labels lettered in gilt, one slightly chipped, a little soiled and stained, front cover starting to bow, [Herbert 45], folio (271 x 190mm.), Prynted...by John Bydell, for Thomas Barthlet, 1539.⁂ An almost complete copy of the first edition of Taverner's Bible, a revision of Matthew's Bible of 1537. Despite the poor condition of the preliminary leaves, they are probably for the most part reparable and the vast majority of the text is in generally good condition."Richard Taverner (1505?-1575), the author of this revision, was born in Brisley in Norfolk about 1505. He was a scholar of both Cambridge and Oxford and received his Master's degree of Cambridge in 1530. He had high repute for his Greek scholarship, and was at this time Clerk of the King's Signets, and in the employ of Thomas Cromwell. He lost his position under Queen Mary but under Queen Elizabeth I was appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire. In his corrections of the text, Taverner aims at compression and vividness. He substitutes in many places a Saxon for a Latin word, as spokesman for advocate; and does not hesitate to coin words, as mercystock (1 John i.2). Many marginal notes are omitted, and some new comments added. Taverner's work exercised practically no influence on later revisions (Westcott, History, p. 219), although he introduced parable, passover and a few other terms still in use. There are many peculiarities in the spelling - e.g. peax for peace, hable for able, etc." (Herbert).Only four copies have appeared at auction since 1988 and all have been substantially less complete than this.

Bible, English. [The whole Byble. that is the holy scripture of the Olde and Newe testament faythfully translated into Englysshe by Myles Coverdale], the last reprint of the 1535 Bible issued during the translator's lifetime, black letter, double column, lacking first 10ff. (ie all before A3) and last 3ff. (ie qq2-4), otherwise complete, woodcut initials, many illustrating the Dance of Death, a few tears, repairs and minor defects with occasional loss, trimmed close with some loss to side-notes, headlines and foliation, occasional light soiling and staining, the missing opening leaves replaced with engraved title, preliminaries and opening chapters of Genesis from a c.1630s Cambridge, Thomas and John Buck edition, the end with incomplete The Whole Booke of Psalmes (John Daye, 1579) bound in, later vellum, gilt, spine with gilt-lettered black morocco labels (Holy Bible/ MDLXXIX), [Herbert 84], 4to (214 x 175mm.), [Zurich, C. Froschover,] [1550].⁂ A substantially complete copy of this rare edition and the last Coverdale version issued in his lifetime.Provenance: Thomas Pirsiffall [ie Percival] (ink inscription dated 1581 to verso of final leaf of OT, with other ink annotations ?in his hand on recto); Granville Hastings Wheler (morocco book label dated 1725).

Bible, Latin. Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per Eobanum Hessum, cum annotationibus Viti Theodori Norimbergensis, quæ commentarij vice esse possunt, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, trimmed at outer and top edges, affecting some printed side-notes and headlines, single wormhole to lower inner margin, water-stained, occasional staining or spotting, lightly browned, later sheep, rebacked, corners worn, covers rubbed and scuffed, [STC 2356], 8vo, Thomas Vautrollier, 1575.⁂ First London edition of this Latin verse translation by the German poet and Lutheran humanist Eobanus Hessus. It is rare at auction.

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Thucydides. The Hystory...of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, first English edition, translated by Thomas Nicolls, printed in black letter, fine woodcut title (repaired at head and foot), without the final errata leaf (as often), closed tear to inner margin of C2, affecting a few words but with no loss, some water-staining and occasional soiling but generally a crisp and well-margined copy, old blind-stamped calf, rebacked preserving old label, rubbed and scuffed, [STC 24056], folio, Imprinted [by William Tylle], 1550.⁂ A very good copy of one of the earliest translations of Greek literature. Thucydides recounts the 5th-century B.C. war between Athens and Sparta and analyses the political and moral policies that fueled the combat.Provenance: Henrie Bushell (early ink inscription on final leaf of text); Col. F. Isaac (ink inscription in Stephen Gaselee's hand, from whom acquired in 1935) 

Calvin (John) A Commentarie of Iohn Caluine, vpon the first booke of Moses called Genesis, translated by Thomas Tymme, first edition in English, title within woodcut architectural border, half-page woodcut map to E1, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, final verso with large woodcut printer's device, lacking blanks ¶8 and 3M8, title trimmed and neatly window-mounted on stub, I2-I7 repairs to outer margin, affecting printed side-notes, 2Q8 torn and repaired with loss of text, occasional wormholes / trace to inner gutters, just touching text on the odd f. on sigs. S-U, stained, some spotting, lightly browned, [STC 4393], [By Henry Middleton] for Iohn Harison and George Bishop, 1578 bound with Calvin (John), A commentarie of M. Iohn Caluine, vpon the booke of Iosue, finished a little before his death: Translated out of Latine into Englishe by W.F., translated by ?William Fulke, title and small woodcut ornament within woodcut typographic border, large woodcut historiated initials, worm trace to some inner gutters, some water-staining, mostly marginal, occasional spotting, lightly browned, [STC 4394], [By Thomas Dawson] for George Bishop, 1578, together 2 works in 1 vol., trimmed at head, affecting the odd headline, 19th century half calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, corners little worn, rubbed, small 4to (the first work in 8s)⁂ Provenance: 'Wm. Herbert' (17th century ink inscription to front free endpaper); Wm. Bateman, F.A.S., of Middleton, Derby (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown).

Machiavelli (Niccolò) The Florentine Historie, translated by Thomas Bedingfeld, first edition in English, title within woodcut border with printer's device at foot, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacks final blank, title edges torn with small loss to margins, title browned, trimmed and laid down, occasional slight staining in margins, slightly browned, later endpapers, later panelled calf, slightly rubbed, rebacked in modern calf, new morocco label, [STC 17162], sm. folio, Printed [by Thomas Creede] for VVilliam Ponsonby, 1595.⁂ Dedicated to Sir Christopher Hatton.

Ashley (Robert) Almansor. The Learned and Victorious King that conquered Spaine, first edition, title soiled and torn, water-staining, leaves loose, BM stamp and withdrawn stamp on title verso, disbound, [STC 354], 4to, Printed for John Parker, 1627.⁂ A tired copy of a work which rarely appears at auction, the last one traced being in 1966. According to ESTC "Translation of selections of Part 2 of: Aly Abencusian [i.e. Miguel de Luna] Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo." This copy with p.3 line 8 ending "accor-" (another setting has "ac-"); p.74 penultimate line has "bee God" (another setting has "bee the God").

Theatre.- Prynne (William) Histrio-mastix. The players scourge, or, actors tragædie, divided into two parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced...That popular stage-playes...are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions, first edition, state with errata on 3*4v, first leaf and 5N4 blank, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, title trimmed at head, just touching first word, 3A3 very small burn hole at foot, with loss of 3 or 4 letters, without loss of sense, 5X1 short tear at head, without loss, water-stained, some soiling, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century antique style panelled calf, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip in compartments, crackled, rubbed and scuffed, [Pforzheimer 809; STC 20464a], small 4to, Printed by E. A[llde]. [Thomas Cotes, Augustine Mathewes,] and W[illiam]. I[ones]. for Michael Sparke, and are to be sold at the Blue Bible, in Greene Arbour, in little Old Bayly, 1633.⁂ Prynne's vehement attack on the theatre, with his disgraceful epithet on actresses, widely supposed to have been directed at Henrietta Maria, who was at that time taking part in a ballet rehersal. For this Prynne was sentenced to life imprisonment, a fine of £5,000, and to stand in the pillory and lose both of his ears (all commuted).

Warfare.- Du Praissac (Sieur) The Art of Warre, or Militarie Discourses..., translated by J[ohn] C[ruso], 2 parts in 1, first English edition, numerous woodcuts, with the extra leaf after L1 (after p. 156), 2ff. [par] 1 & 2 bound at end instead of beginning, lacks the engraved leaf "The Military Encycle", later ink signature of George Gerbier on front free endpaper, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, spine worn with tears, red morocco label, [STC 7366], 8vo, Cambridge, Printed by Roger Daniel, sold by John Williams, 1639.⁂ First part deals with all subjects, such as levying, marching, building forts, ordnance, fireworks, duties, etc. The second part, A short method for the easie resolving of any military question propounded.Provenance: George Gerbier (fl. 1638-61), soldier and author; probably the son of Sir Balthazar Gerbier, art agent and architect.

Astronomy.- Gassendi (Pierre) Tychonis Brahei, equitis dani, astronomorum coryphaei, vita. Accessit Nicolai Copernici, Georgii Peurbachii, & Joannis Regiomontani, astronomorum celebrium, 2 parts in 1, second edition, first title in red and black, engraved portraits of Brahe and Copernicus, woodcut diagrams of the solar system, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, portrait of Brahe and title lightly browned / soiled, a couple of marginal tears with loss, occasional spotting or staining, later endpapers, later panelled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, upper joint splitting, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, small 4to, The Hague, Adrian Vlacq, 1655.⁂ The Macclesfield copy of these biographies of celebrated astronomers. Includes an account of Tycho Brahe's duel following a mathematical dispute, in which he famously lost his nose, and the story of his pet elk, who died after drinking beer at a banquet and falling down stairs.Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (North Library engraved armorial bookplate) and small armorial blind-stamps.

Pollution.- Evelyn (John) Fumifugium: or the Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoak of London dissipated, first edition, first issue with "Published by His Majesties Command" on title, lacking final blank E2 as often, title and final leaf soiled, modern sprinkled calf, gilt, covers slightly stained, [Keynes 23; Wing E3488], 4to, Printed by W. Godbid for Gabriel Bedel, and Thomas Collins, 1661.⁂ The first English book on pollution with suggestions on how to improve the poor air quality of London, including planting trees and relocating industries such as brewing, dyeing and lime-burning.

Wilkinson (Henry) Characters of a sincere heart, and the comforts thereof, collected out of the Word of God, first edition, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, purple library stamp within text on second A1, D2 and G3, text perfectly legible, F2 short tear, just touching a couple of letters without loss, some staining, including red on A7, [Wing W2229], 8vo, Oxford, Printed by Leonard Lichfield, printer to the University, for Ric. Davis, 1674.⁂ Scarce work by the parliamentarian one-time Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he entertained Cromwell and Fairfax. Provenance: 'Isaack Laysell, servant to Dr. Wilkson...' (contemporary ink signature to final verso).

Murder.- Wright (Thomas) God's Revenge Against Murther and Adultery..., second edition, additional engraved title, 2 engraved plates (1 with edges silked, outside plate margin), single leaf of advertisements at rear, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front endpaper, very occasional spots or instances of finger soiling, endpapers renewed, eighteenth century calf, rebacked, spine gilt with red morocco label, [Wing 3710], 8vo, for B. Crayle, 1688.⁂ Rare. ESTC lists only 5 copies for the US, and a single copy only at the Bodleian Library within the UK, that seemingly without additional engraved title (not in BL). We can trace no copy of this edition at auction, meanwhile the last copy of the first edition (1688) appeared in 1978.

[Walsh (William)] Letters and poems, amorous and gallant, first edition, title in red and black, some worming at head, occasionally touching the odd letter of a headline, foxing, occasional staining, lightly browned, engraved armorial bookplate mounted on verso of title, 18th century speckled calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments and with green leather label, corners worn, [Wing W647], 8vo, Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges-Head in Chancery-lane, near Fleet-street, 1692.⁂ William Walsh (1662-1708) English poet, critic and politician. He was a mentor to the young Alexander Pope, with whom he maintained long friendship. 'Mr Walsh used to tell me that there was one way left of excelling; for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct, and he desired me to make that my study and my aim' (Pope).