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Ernest Gimson His Life & Work, Stratford-upon-Avon at the Shakespeare Head Press, London Ernest Benn Limited, Basil Blackwell 1924 first edition limited to 500 copies on handmade paper with collotype plates printed by Emery Walker with 60 plates and text drawings bound in canvas backed boards with printed title label spine (spare label rear) 

The History of Dover Castle by The Rev'd Wm. Darell Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth Illustrated with 10 Views and a Plan of the Castle [complete] printed for Hooper & Wigstead 1797 first edition bound in leather backed boards with gilt title. A Short Historical Sketch of The Town of Dover, and the Neighbourhood; containing a concise History of the Town and Castle 1823 fifth edition illustrated with 2 plates in boards with printed label (worn) TOGETHER WITH 12 mounted photographic views of Dover by F. Deakin (c.1890s) with printed captions on card sheets and 4 other photographs including one titled The First Locomotive Engine on the Prince of Wales Pier    

[Dulac] Stories from Hans Andersen with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac, published Hodder & Stoughton 1911 first edition with 28 mounted colour plates, each with printed guard, bound in gilt cloth with patterned endpapers   

[Rackham] Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving with drawings by Arthur Rackham, published William Heinemann 1905 first edition second impression containing 50 mounted coloured plates with lettered guards bound in gilt lettered cloth with illustrated cover  

William Rickatson Dykes Notes On Tulip Species edited & illustrated by E. Katherine Dykes and introduction by Sir A. Daniel Hall published Herbert Jenkins 1930 first edition folio containing 54 full-page colour plates bound in gilt lettered cloth  

Gravetye Manor or Twenty Years' Work round an Old Manor House being an Abstract from the Tree and Garden Book of Gravetye Manor Sussex, kept by the owner William Robinson, published John Murray 1911 first edition folio with etched frontispiece and other illustrations. Bound in full limp vellum with gilt title and ties   

William Rickatson Dykes The Genus Iris with 47 coloured drawings by F.H. Round, one coloured plate of seeds by Miss R.M. Cardew and 30 line drawings by C.W. Johnson, published Cambridge: at the University Press 1913 first edition folio, coloured plates all with protective guards in Morocco backed cloth boards with gilt titles   

[Signed Searle] The Predatory Bite of the Steel Nib The Scrapbook Drawings of Ronald Searle with a foreword by the artist and afterword by Wendy Coates-Smith, published Predatory Parrot Press 2005 first edition limited to 296 copies (copy 135) on Zerkall paper SIGNED by Searle & Coates-Smith, fully illustrated and bound in wrappers with printed sketch drawings   

A Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent with some Chronological Historicall, and other matters touching the same: And the several Parishes and Places therein by Richard Kilburne of Hawkherst, printed by Thomas Mabb 1659 first edition with engraved portrait bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt lettered label (dated name top title page with covers worn and loose board). A Treatise of Gavelkind both Name and Thing shewing The True Etymologie and Derivation of the One, the Nature, Antiquary and Original of the Other with Observations of Kentish-men etc etc by William Somner with A Life of the Author printed for F. Gyles, J. Woodman, D. Lyon and C. Davis 1726 2nd Corrected Edition with engraved frontispiece in leather boards (worn & front board detached). An Epitome of County History, wherein the Most Remarkable Object, Persons and Events are briefly treated of etc Vol.1 KENT by C. Greenwood illustrated with a map [present] published 1838 bound in paper backed boards (worn) (3)

[Pottinger] Travels In Beloochistan and Sinde; Accompanied by A Geographical and Historical Account of Those Countries with A Map [Lacking] by Lieutenant Henry Pottinger printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown 1816 first edition with hand-coloured frontispiece bound in half leather (worn and lacking map)   

The Princess Nobody A Tale of Fairyland by Andrew Lang after the Drawings by Richard Doyle printed in colours by Edmund Evans, published Longman, Green & Co. (1884) first edition illustrated in colour and sepia throughout, cloth backed colour illustrated glazed boards and illustrated endpapers   

[SIGNED] W.B. Yeats The Trembling of the Veil privately printed for subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd 1922 first edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies (copy 944) on handmade paper signed by Yeats on limitation page, frontispiece portrait by Charles Shannon, bound in parchment backed boards with printed title label spine in original dustwrapper and label  

[Parry] Journal Of A Voyage For The Discovery Of A North-West Passage From The Atlantic To The Pacific; Performed in the Years 1819-20 in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper under the orders of William Edward Parry with an Appendix containing the Scientific and other observations, published John Murray 1821 first edition containing 20 plates (complete) including folding charts bound with The North Georgis Gazette 1821 in half leather boards (worn and lacking spine cover)

The Record of The House of Gournay [Normandy] compiled from Original Documents by Daniel Gurney printed for Private Distribution by John Bower Nichols and John Gough Nichols 1848 first edition with additional tinted engraved title, maps (including 2 hand-coloured), plans, portraits and other engravings, finely bound in full gilt tooled leather with raised bands and decorated panels, gilt turn-ins and page edges [Letter dated 1890 from Edward Hicks Publisher - offering the book at a price of £30)    - Withrow from the sale and returned to MR Joseph Buxton 

Animal Farm A Fairy Story by George Orwell published Secker & Warburg 1945 first edition (printed May 1945), in original cloth in colour dust-wrapper with blue searchlight advert on reverse. Wrapper with loss on spine, edge repairs and old library label on inside wrapper. Included with the lot is a letter from the publishers and from Peter Davison (editor of Orwell’s works) concerning publication date of this book and news cuttings

After Ray Goldsbough GMA. Some Rookie, after five podium finishes in his first five Formula 1 races, Lewis Hamilton drove an impeccable race to win the Canadian Grand Prix circuit Montreal 10th June 2007, limited edition number 286/295, 42cm x 65cm, framed and glazed.

Ortelius, Abraham Islandia [Iceland] [Antwerp, c.1590 or later]. Hand-coloured engraved map (platemark 33.5 x 48.5cm, sheet size 43.5 x 55.5cm), incorporating sea-monsters, polar bears and Hekla volcano, title, dedication and scale each within separate strapwork cartouche, Latin text on verso, slightly toned overall, sometime tipped to old card mount at one corner only (now detached), faint central crease as usual, another faint crease across lower left-hand corner, damp-staining to lower margins, small stain within image near left-hand edge of platemarkNote: Ortelius's path-breaking and richly imaginative map of Iceland first appeared in the 1587 French edition of the Typis orbis terrarum. It was drawn by Danish priest and historian Anders Sorenson Vedel or Velleius (1542-1616) using the work of Icelandic bishop Gudbrandur Thorlaksson (1547-1621), and dedicated by Ortelius to Frederick II of Denmark.

Sowerby, James The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain Or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of those Remains of Testaceous Animals or Shells, which have been preserved at Various Times and Depths in the Earth. London: Benjamin Meredith [and others], 1812-29. First edition, 6 volumes, 8vo (23 x 14cm), later half morocco by Riviere & Son for Henry Sotheran, engraved portrait frontispiece, 611 hand-coloured engraved plates (numbered 1-609: including 33 and 184 bis; 22 folding; plate 231 misnumbered 131), index at rear of each volume, volume 6 with Systematic, Stratigraphical, and Alphabetical Indexes to the First Six Volumes ... To which is added a Short Account of the Life of the Author (with separate title-page dated 1834) at rear, the stratigraphical indexes apparently each headed 'Supplementary Index' and bound separately into the relevant volumes, volume 2 with addenda leaf ('Additional Localities to Shells Described in Vols. I. and II', volumes 4-6 each with corrigenda leaf, volumes 5-6 without the 'Supplementary Index' or the 'Life of the Author' (these not found in other copies examined), spines sunned and marked, consistent light offsetting, occasional spotting (generally light), volume 1 pp. 45/6 with section reattached [Nissen ZBI 3917; Ward & Carozzi 2093] (6)Note: Sets of the first six volumes with all the plates as here are notably rare. A seventh volume, containing 39 plates and never completed, appeared much later, in 1846. Provenance: 1) Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scottish-American industrialist and benefactor (bookplates). 2) Sir Alexander Stone (1907-1998), Scottish financier and benefactor.

Medical books - Byrom Bramwell the author's own copies comprising: The Diseases of the Spinal Cord. Edinburgh, 1882. First edition, 8vo, plates, some coloured, the author's interleaved copy with his notes in ink, contemporary quarter morocco, bookplate of Edwin Bramwell (the author's son), head and base of spine worn; Idem. Studies in Clinical Medicine. Edinburgh, 1890, volume 1 only, the author's copy, plates, original quarter morocco, with several manuscript letters to Bramwell relating to specific medical cases tipped in; Idem. Practical Medicine and Medical Diagnosis. Edinburgh, 1887. First edition, presentation copy to Dr Galley, illustrations, original green cloth, bookplate of Edwin Bramwell; Idem. The Treatment of Pleurisy and Empyema. Edinburgh, 1889. First edition, author's copy with his penciled annotations, bookplate of Edwin Bramwell, original cloth; Idem. Diseases of the Heart and Thoracic Aorta. Edinburgh, 1884. First edition, 8vo, illustrations, plates, bookplate of Edwin Bramwell, original green cloth; Idem. Anaemia and some of the Diseases of the Blood-Forming Organs and Ductless Glands. Edinburgh, 1899. First edition, presentation copy to D.J. Ferguson from the author, bookplate of Edwin Bramwell, original cloth; Idem. Post-graduate Demonstrations on Nervous Diseases. Edinburgh, 1915, 8vo, bookplate of Edwin Bramwell, illustrations, original cloth; Cunningham, David J. Text-book of Anatomy. Edinburgh, 1902, inscribed 'J. Cunningham, 15 Grosvenor Crescent [and] My mother's father' on endpaper, illustrations, some corrigenda marked in pencil, original cloth, rubbed; Idem. Text-book of Anatomy. Edinburgh, 1902. First edition, inscribed 'Professor D.J. Cunningham F.R.S, with the publisher's kind regards and best thanks July 15th 1902', also inscribed 'J. Cunningham, Lieut J.M.S.' and 'my Uncle & J. Cunningham's father', illustrations, original quarter morocco, rebacked retaining original spine, some staining to advertisement leaves at end, dampstain to extreme outer margin of some leaves towards end, binding covers somewhat dampstained; Philip, Sir Robert W. Collected Papers on Tuberculosis. 1937. First edition, presentation copy from the author to Byron Bramwell, with letter pasted in and presentation inscription; Wilson, S.A. Kinnier. Neurology, edited by A. Ninian Bruce. 1940, 2 volumes, 8vo, presentation copy to Edwin Bramwell, son of Byron Bramwell, from the editor, with his letter tipped in at beginning, signature and bookplate of Edwin Bramwell, [the book is dedicated to the memory of Sir Byrom Bramwell and Dr. A. Bruce]; and 2 non-medical books that belonged to Byrom Bramwell as a child (Prescott, History of Philip the Second; Burbridge. Manual of Holy Communion) and a wooden and metal shield emblazoned Second Allied Tactical Air Force, with note on back to W.G CDR E.C.B. Bramwell with best wishes from all HQ TWOTATAF OFFICERS Logan Turner, A. Story of a Great Hospital. The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 1729-1929. Edinburgh, 1937, original cloth (15 books, 1 wooden shield)

Mercuriale, Girolamo De arte gymnastica libri sex Editio novissima, aucta, emendata, et figuris authenticis Christophori Coriolani exornata. Amsterdam: Andreas Frisius, 1672. 4to (23.7 x 16.7cm), 20th-century panelled calf, pp. [8] 387 [41], engraved additional title-page, 6 engraved plates (5 folding; 1 double-page), woodcuts throughout (many full-page), toning, ink-stamps of South Shields Public Library to title-page, several text-leaves and versos of plates, folding plates with neat repairs to inner folds verso, title-page with old ink-stain and 18th-century ownership inscription ('Henry Tonge Junr') [Cicognara 1713]Note: First published in 1569, this is '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 p. 310, for the first edition). The 1672 edition is 'the most highly valued, because in addition to the woodcuts of the previous editions there are [plates] which make it fully illustrated' (Cicognara).

Newton, Isaac Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica Perpetuis commentariis illustrata, comi studio, PP. Thomae Le Seur et Francisci Jacquier ... editio altera longe accuriator et emendatior. Geneva: Cl[aude] and Ant[oine] Philibert. 1760. 3 volumes, 4to (25 x 19.5cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, gilt arms and earl's coronet to sides, pp. xxxi 548, viii 442, [8] xxviii 376 [1] 376-536 [2] v-viii 537-703, volume 1 with half-title, title-page printed in red and black, woodcut headpieces, diagrams throughout, covers rubbed, tips restored, occasional light spotting and browning, tape-repairs to volume 3 front free endpaper [Babson 31] (3)Note: Second 'Jesuit' edition, first published in 1739-42, much valued for its extensive commentary and textual apparatus. Provenance: Professor Richard G. West FRS FGS (1926-2020), British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist, though unmarked as such.

Gandhi, Mahatma Two works Economics of Khadi. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Press, 1941. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, dustwrapper, dustwrapper very slightly faded and very slightly rubbed at head of spine; Idem. An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Press, May 1920. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, plates, binding a little marked, spine lightly faded (2)

Marx, Karl Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Translated from the Third German Edition, by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. And Edited by Frederick Engels. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., 1887. Volume 1 only (of 2), 8vo, original dark red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blind panels to covers, pp. xxxi [1] 363, half-title, brown coated endpapers, entirely unopened except for the last gathering (Z), a few trivial marks to covers, spotting to top edge of text-blockNote: First edition in English of Das Kapital; 500 copies were printed.

Smith, Adam An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1789. First American edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, [viii], 9-412; [vi], 7-430; [vi], 7-387, [53]; early ownership inscription 'Joseph Hall's 1793' at head of titles, volume 3 title also with the early inscription 'N.Hamilton', contemporary sheep, repair to inner margin of volume 2 title-page, cloth repair to inner margin of final 2 pages of volume 2, not affecting text, 4 boards and volume 2 title detached, some spotting, lacking one of the morocco lettering pieces (3)

[Bailey, Samuel] A Critical Dissertation on the Nature, Measures and Causes of Value chiefly in reference to the writings of Mr Ricardo and his followers. London: R. Hunter, 1825. First edition, 8vo, [xxviii], 255; bound with [Bailey, Samuel] Letter to a Political Economist, occasioned by an article in the Westminster Review on the Subject of Value. London: R. Hunter, 1826. 8vo, [iv], 101; 2 works in one volume, contemporary half calf, stamp on first title and bookplate on front endpaper of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland, covers detached, wornNote: 'Samuel Bailey 1791-1870. English proto-marginalist economist and critic of the Classical Ricardian School. Bailey's reputation rests chiefly on his anonymous 1825 treatise, A Critical Dissertation, etc., which was written in response to de Quincey's Templars' Dialogue. Bailey pointed out the logical difficulties of both the labor theory of value and Ricardo's "invariable measure". Bailey also called for the generalization of the Ricardian theory of rent to wages. As a result, Bailey promoted a "cost of production" theory of value, which incorporated capital as well as labor. He might also be credited with the introduction of the notion of time-preference, arguing that "we generally prefer a present pleasure or enjoyment to a distant one, not superior to it in other respects." (Bailey, 1825). In response to a critical article in the Westminster Review, Bailey published his 1826 Letter restating his views' (History of Economic Thought, online, accessed 16th May 2022).

H., E. Decus & Tutamen, or, Our new Money as now Coined in Full Weight and Fineness... to which is added, an Essay to preserve our New Money from being Hoarded, Melted down, Transported or Counterfeited. London: [no publisher] Printed and are to be sold by most booksellers, 1696. First edition, 12mo, [viii]. 64; early 19th century half calf, head of spine worn, joints splitting, lower corner of title torn away and replaced (no loss of text), stamp and bookplate to front endpapers of The Institute of Bankers in Scotland, upper hinges slightly weak, [ESTC R23358, 7 copies UK, 6 N. America]

Harris, Joseph An Essay upon Money and Coins London: G. Hawkins, 1757-58. First edition, parts 1 and 2 in one volume, 8vo, [viii], 128; [xiv], 130, contemporary calf, gilt border to covers, slightly rubbed [ESTC T58105 and T58106]Note: Joseph Harris (1704-64) was equally distinguished as an astronomer and as an expert on coinage. From a humble background, he came to the attention of Edmond Halley, the Astronomer Royal. He spent some time making astronomical observations in South America and the West Indies, and familiarised himself with marine navigational practice, proposing improvements to measuring equipment and publishing a very popular instructional work on the uses of globes and orreries. He later observed the 1761 transit of Venus from Wales. Harris entered the Royal Mint in 1736, and became the King's Assay Master in 1749. This influential 1757 work, considered by the Victorian economist J. R. McCulloch as 'one of the best and most valuable treatises on the subject of money that has ever seen the light', argues that it is vital to a country's economy that the value of precious metal in its coinage remains constant.

Law, John Money and Trade Considered with a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money. Edinburgh: Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1705. First edition, small 4to, 120pp. [A2 misnumbered as '1' instead of '3'], stamps of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland to A2, ornament on the title page of eagle and vines, errata printed at foot of p. 120, early inscription on title 'By Mr John Law Gent.', contemporary calf, rebacked, early inscription on endpaper of 'Wat Paterson' and bookplate of the Library of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland, corners slightly rubbed [ESTC T097650 - 20 copies UK, 14 N. America; JISC 10 copies UK; Kress 2463]Note: First edition of John Law’s seminal work on banking and monetary theory; rare, with only one copy traced at auction since 1975 (Sotheby's June 30, 1983, lot 604). Published anonymously in Edinburgh after Law’s return from exile on the continent (he had been sentenced to death at the Old Bailey in 1694 for killing a man in a duel), the work’s chief argument is that ‘an expansion in the money supply would produce an expansion in output, which [Law] considered erroneously would lead to an export surplus’ (ODNB). In the same year as Money and Trade Law unsuccessfully presented his idea of a land bank to the Scottish parliament; he eventually found approval for the idea in France, where a general bank was established at his prompting in 1716. The following year he oversaw the establishment of the Compagnie d’Occident, known to posterity as the Mississippi Company. The collapse of the resulting bubble in 1720 led to Law’s resignation and disgrace, and he died in poverty in Venice in 1729. Adam Smith presented the Mississippi Bubble as a lesson in the perils inherent in Law’s advocacy of the unlimited expansion of paper money. Modern authorities from Schumpeter onward have emphasised the originality and importance of Law’s contributions to monetary theory. A major recent study of John Law concluded that: ‘Money and Trade is a majestic work towering over the contemporary writings of the early eighteenth century … Law … produced a highly innovating approach to macroeconomic theorizing embracing such new discoveries as: 1) The money-in-advance requirement. 2) The circular flow of income. 3) The further analysis of international inflation in a money supply and money demand framework. 4) The formulation of the law of one price for a small open economy. These are all major theoretical contributions which … entitle Law to consideration as an exceptional monetary theorist’ (Murphy, John Law: Economic Theorist and Policy-Maker, 1997, p. 77).

Scottish banking 5 volumes comprising: Scotland, Royal Bank of. Warrants of the Charter erecting, confirming and granting New Privileges to the Royal Bank of Scotland. Edinburgh: D. Ramsay, 1789. 8vo, 19th century cloth, bookplate of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland; [Attwood, Thomas]. The Scotch Banker. London: J. Ridgway, 1828. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf, slight staining to some inner margins, stamp on title and bookplate to endpaper of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland, later half calf, worn; [Scott, Sir Walter]. A Letter [Second Letter; Third Letter] to the Editor of the Edinburgh Weekly Journal, from Malachi Malgrowther, Esq. on the Proposed Change of Currency. Edinburgh, 1826, 3 volumes in one, 8vo, original boards, rebacked with cloth, worn, stamp on titles and bookplate to endpaper of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland; [Milne, of Dundee, David]. On Circulating Credit, with Hints for Improving the Banking System of Britain... by a Scottish Banker. Edinburgh, W. Tait, 1832. 8vo, original cloth, 4pp. adverts at beginning, upper hinge broken, rubbed; Newmarch, William. The New Supplies of Gold. London, 1853. 8vo, original boards, lettering piece to upper wrapper, rubbed, upper cover detached (5)

Vernon, Christopher Considerations for regulating the Exchequer in the more timely answering, better husbanding, and more orderly and safe conduct of the Revenues of the Crown into his Majesties Coffers, as hath been heretofore used by Sheriffes. London: Thomas Harper, to be sold by Matth. Walbanke, Lau. Chapman, Wil. Cooke and Ric. Best, 1642. First edition, 12mo, [viii], 118, [ii], errata leaf at end laid down with loss of corners (no loss of text), late 18th or early 19th century calf, library stamp on title and bookplate on endpaper of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland, rubbed, upper cover detached, early ownership inscription 'John Dunston' on verso of title, a few early annotations in the margin [ESTC R5970, 21 copies UK, 12 N. America, 1 France, 1 Australia]

Locke, John Some Thoughts concerning Education London: for A. and J. Churchill, 1693. First edition, issue with 'patronage' spelt correctly on A3 verso, 8vo, [viii], 262. [2], contemporary panelled calf, head of spine worn, foot of spine neatly repaired, bookplate of Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) as bishop of Salisbury pasted to verso of title-page, inscribed on front free endpaper 'R. Binning, this book was given me by Gilbert Burnet at Barnet 1721' (Bishop Burnet's son was also called Gilbert, his dates 1690-1726), slight stain to imprint on title-pageNote: A major association copy of Locke's treatise on educational theory, with the bookplate of Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), historian and bishop of Salisbury, and a later inscription recording the book's subsequent presentation by Gilbert Burnet the younger, himself a writer of note on religious and moral subjects. Burnet's writings on Latitudinarianism were an influence on Locke in his writings on toleration. His Discourse of the Pastoral Care is favourably mentioned in Locke's Third Letter for Toleration, where Burnet himself is described as 'a very knowing bishop of our church'. There may be a connection between the eventual recipient of the work and Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning (1697-1732), son of the sixth earl of Haddington, who lived at East Barnet.

Methodism 18th century works comprising: Wesley, John. A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists. London: J. Paramore, 1780. First edition, 12mo (16.2 x 9.4cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt fleurons to spine, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, head of spine chipped [ESTC T28513]; Idem. Sermons on Several Occasions: in Three Volumes. Bristol: printed by William Pine, c.1770. Second edition, volume 3 only, 12mo (16.8 x 9.8cm), contemporary calf, half-title, worn, contemporary bookplate and annotations to front free endpaper, [ESTC N37142 for volume 3 only, 2 copies in libraries world-wide; ESTC lists volume 1 separately and contains no record of volume 2]; Idem. A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or a Compendium of Natural Philosophy. In Two Volumes. Bristol: William Pine, 1763. First edition, volume 2 only, 12mo (16.2 x 9.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, covers detached, errata leaf, two lines of contemporary annotations on slip mounted to front free endpaper ('True cause of gravity & of all motion - 81.19. Ligthening hurts not a person when wet. 114', ascribed in a pencilled note to John Wesley [ESTC T16609: 7 copies in UK libraries]; Wesley, Charles. Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. London: by G. Paramore, and sold by G. Whitfield, 1794-6. Third edition, 2 volumes, 12mo (17.2 x 10cm), contemporary sheep, 350, 360 pp., rubbed, front covers detached, volume 2 lacking spine-label, slightly browned, and with ink-stamps of the Allan Library (i.e. Thomas Robinson Allan, 1799-1886, barrister and Methodist) to title-page and final page, related presentation plate to front pastedown [ESTC T53201]; Wesley, John & Charles. Hymns and Sacred Poems. Bristol: Felix Farley, 1743. Fourth edition, 12mo (16.4 x 9.6cm), disbound, lacking leaf 2C2 and the 2 advertisement leaves at rear, occasional soiling, last few leaves chipped [ESTC N17359: 6 copies in UK libraries]; Cennick, John. Sacred Hymns for the Use of Religious Societies. Generally compos'd in Dialogues. Part II. Bristol: Felix Farley, 1743. First edition, small square 8vo in 4s (12.8 x 8.6cm), old half calf, rubbed, front joint cracked, final leaf repaired [ESTC T73575]; [Wesleyan Methodist Church]. Minutes of Several Conversations, between the Rev. John Wesley, A. M. and the Preachers in Connection with him. Containing the Form of Discipline established among the Preachers and People in the Methodist Societies. London: for G. Whitfield, 1779 [1797]. 12mo, 19th-century half calf, lacking front cover, first few leaves detached [ESTC T17943], bound with 4 others similar (Minutes of Several Conversations at the Sixty-Seventh [Sixty-Eighth ... Sixty-Ninth ... Seventieth] Annual Conference ... 1810-13); Purdy, Victory, 'the Kingswood Collier'. Poetical Miscellanies. Bristol: John Wansbrough, 1825. First edition, 8vo, original roan-backed boards, engraved frontispiece (manuscript facsimile), spine cracked, front cover detached, with approx. 25 pp. manuscript notes in envelope annotated 'Autograph M. S. of Victory Purdy', comprising hymns and notes on the Wesleyan conference, 1744; together with 3 other books (not collated, not Methodism-related including Robert Traill, Eleven Sermons, 1778, lacking cover, and Histoire entiere et veritable du procez de Charles Stuart, roy d'Angleterre, London: J. G., 1650, front cover detached), and ephemera including 6 autograph letters from Wesleyan ministers, manuscript note in envelope annotated 'J Wesley's autograph', 17 Wesleyan Methodist Society quarterly tickets, and manuscript will and testament of Samuel Williams, coalminer, of Oldland, Gloucestershire (12 volumes and 1 folder)Note: A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists is notably rare, no other copies traced in action records.

17th- and 18th-century English books Collection of works including: Goodwin, Thomas. Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta ... for the use of Abingdon Schoole. Newly revised and inlarged by the Author. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield for Henry Crypps, 1638. [Bound with:] Idem. Moses and Aaron. Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, used by the Ancient Hebrewes. London: by John Haviland, 1634. Fifth edition. [And:] Rous, Francis. Archaeologiae Atticae libri tres. Three Bookes of the Attick Antiquities. London: for John Williams, 1645. Second edition. 3 works in 1 volume, 4to (18.2 x 14.2cm), contemporary calf, binding worn, no endpapers, final few signatures loosening [ESTC S103289, R28817, S103224; STC 11964 (Goodwin, Romanae historiae), 11955 (Goodwin, Moses and Aaron); Wing R2032 (Rous)]; [Walker, Clement]. Relations and Observations, Historical and Politick, upon the Parliament begun Anno Dom. 1640 [Part 2: Anarchia Anglicana or the History of Independency. The Second Part]. [London]: printed in the year 1648 [i.e. 1660?] [Part 2: printed in the Year, M. DC. XL, IX., i.e. 1660?]. [Bound with:] Idem. The High Court of Justice, of Cromwels New Slaughter-House in England. [London]: printed Anno Domini 1660. 2 works in 1 volume (the first work in 2 parts), 4to (18.6 x 13.5cm), 18th-century sprinkled tan calf gilt, engraved folding plate to Anarchia bound as frontispiece to Relations, light worming to lower margins and gutter from front of Relations to quire S just touching foot image in plate [ESTC R33535, R200419, R17922; Wing W335, W318, W326B]; [State letters]. Cabala, Mysteries of State, in Letters of the Great Ministers of K. James and J. Charles. London: for M. M. G. Bedell, and T. Collins, 1654 [i.e. 1653]. First edition, 4to (19 x 14cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, initial blank, bookplate (Joseph Berens, Lincoln's Inn, recorded as a director of the Hudson's Bay Company), bound without advertisements, worm-track in gutter of first quire, closed tear to foot of F8, bound with a copy of James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, 1645 (without engraved title) [ESTC R13349; Wing C183]; Segar, Simon. Honores Anglicani: or, Titles of Honour the Temporal Nobility of the English Nation ... have had. London: John Baker, 1712. First edition. [Bound with:] Hotoman, François. Franco-Gallia: or, an Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and most other Parts of Europe, before the Loss of their Liberties. London: Edward Valentine, 1721. Second edition in English. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo (19.2 x 11cm), contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, Mainsforth Library label to front pastedown, Hotoman with half-title, 6 pp. advertisements [ESTC T114134, T115191]; Shelton, Maurice. An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil; from the First Ages of the World, thro the Jewish, Grecian, Roman Commonwealths, etc., down to this Present Time. London: C. Rivington, 1718. First edition, 8vo (18.8 x 11.4cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, contemporary ownership inscription (Henry Bradshawe) to title-page [ESTC T89512: 12 UK copies]; Whitelocke, Richard. Miscellaneous Essays. Viz. I. Of Company and Conversation ... V. Of Women [etc.]. London: Jonas Browne, 1715. First edition, 8vo (18.4 x 11.9cm), contemporary mottled calf, advertisement leaf, front joint cracking, light browning [ESTC T144050]; Burton, John, fellow of Eton College. The Genuineness of Ld Clarendon's History of the Rebellion printed at Oxford vindicated. Oxford: at the theatre, 1744. First edition, 8vo (18.7 x 11.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, leather split along joints, browning, F8 torn affecting a word either side, bound without advertisement leaf [ESTC T144783]; and 9 others (these not collated), all 8vo, contemporary bindings: Peter Barwick, The Life of John Barwick, 1724 (first edition, 2 engraved portraits); John Oldmixon, Clarendon and Whitlock Compar'd, 1727 (first edition, front joint cracked); Laurence Echard, The History of the Revolution, and the Establishment of England in the Year 1688, 1725 (first edition); Roger L'Estrange, A Brief History of the Times, 1687-8 (3 parts in 1 volume, first edition); Benjamin Hoadly, The Original and Institution of Civil Government, 1710 (second edition); Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Remarks on the History of England, c.1780 (new edition, relined); Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, 1740 (third edition, bookplate of W. Wynne with motto in Welsh); idem, An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion, 1724 (apparent first edition, W. Wynne bookplate); George Buchanan, History of Scotland ... Second Edition, revised and corrected from the Latin Original, by Mr. Bond, 1722 (2 volumes, spines worn, joints cracked); David Lloyd, State-Worthies, 1766 (2 volumes) (19)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

17th-century biography Collection of works comprising: Clarke, Samuel. The Lives of Sundry Eminent persons in this Later Age. In Two Parts, I. Of Divines. II. Of Nobility and Gentry of both Sexes. London: Thomas Simmons, 1683. First edition, folio (31.7 x 19cm), contemporary sheep, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, engraved armorial plate, 10 engraved portraits in the text, binding worn, small worm-track in text from front to sig. X (never affecting more than a letter), a few sporadic worm-tracks in margins elsewhere, spill-burn in K4 affecting a word either side [ESTC R5310; Sabin 13466; Wing C4538]; Laud, William. The History of the Troubles and Tryal of the most Reverend Father in God, and Blessed Martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Written by himself, during his Imprisonment in the Tower. London: Ri. Chiswell, 1695. First edition, folio (31.5 x 19.8cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece, title-page in red and black, advertisement leaf, light damp-stain in gutter at front [ESTC R354; Wing L586]; Hacket, John. Scrinia Reserata: a Memorial offer'd to the Great Deservings of John Williams, D.D. Who some time held the Places of Ld Keeper of the Great Seal of England, Ld Bishop of Lincoln, and Ld Archbishop of York. London: Edw. Jones for Samuel Lowndes, 1693. First edition, folio (37.7 x 22.8cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece, errata leaf, advertisement leaf, extra-illustrated with a contemporary engraved portrait of Williams from another work (mounted to title-page verso), front joint cracking, a few spots and marks [ESTC R9469; Wing H171]; Heylyn, Peter. Cyprianus Anglicus: or, the History of the Life and Death, of ... William [Laud] ... Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Dublin: James Carson, for John Hyde, and Robert Owen, 1719. First Dublin edition (third overall), folio (30.2 x 19cm), contemporary panelled calf, wear to binding, small worm-track in lower margin [ESTC T107058]; and 6 others (these not collated): Thomas Carte, An History of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde, 1736 (first edition, 3 volumes, folio, non-uniform bindings, ex libris the Conservative Club); William Camden, The History of ... Princess Elizabeth, c.1680 (folio, contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, title-page supplied in facsimile, edition unknown); William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her Son and Successor James, 1656 (first edition, folio, 18th-century mottled tan calf gilt, engraved portrait of James, lacking portrait of Mary); idem, A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, 1658 (first edition, folio, contemporary calf, portrait of the author, lacking portrait of Charles); Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs, 1771 (4to, contemporary calf); David Lloyd, Memoires of ... those ... that suffered ... for the Protestant Religion, 1668 (folio, modern cloth, frontispiece laid down, title-page margins extended) (12)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Brereton, Henry Newes of the Present Miseries of Rushia: occasioned by the Late Warre in that London: for John Bache, 1614. First edition, 8vo (18.4 x 11.5cm), modern quarter leather, [4] 56 pp., woodcut title-device, headpiece and initials, text mainly in black letter, loss to head of title-page partly affecting words 'Newes of', lower margins extended throughout with loss of all catch-words and signature-marks and frequently obscuring at least part of last line of text [ESTC S114176; STC 3609]; Molesworth, Robert, Viscount Molesworth. An Account of Denmark, as it was in the Year 1692. London: printed in the year 1694. First edition, 8vo (18 x 11cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, browning [ESTC R29546; Wing 2832A]; Vertot, René-Aubert. The History of the Revolutions in Portugal. Translated from the French. London: Sam. Buckley, 1712. First edition in English, 8vo (18.8 x 11.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, G1-3 fore margins extended at an early date [ESTC T81951]; Idem. The History of the Revolution in Sweden. London: for James and John Knapton [and others], 1729. Sixth edition in English, 8vo (19.5 x 11.8cm), contemporary panelled calf, B2 with extensive closed tear and marginal repairs, light damp-staining towards rear, marginal loss to final leaf [ESTC 006352494]; Burnet, Gilbert. Some Letters containing an Account of what seem'd most Remarkable in travelling thro' Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, etc. In the Years 1685 and 1686. London: J. Lacy, 1724. 8vo (19.4 x 12cm), contemporary calf, rubbed, front joint cracked [ESTC T144978]; Lyell, Charles. Travels in North America; with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. London: John Murray, 1845. First edition, 2 volumes, large 12mo (19.3 x 11.5cm), contemporary green half calf, 7 lithographic or engraved plates and maps (3 hand-coloured), advertisements discarded [Ward & Carozzi 1431]; [Gleig, George Robert]. A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans. London: John Murray, 1826. Second edition, 8vo (21.2 x 12.5cm), contemporary half vellum, ex libris Matthew Aylmer Whitworth, 5th Baron Aylmer (1775-1850), British soldier and colonial governor in North America, with his bookplate and ownership inscription ('Aylmer 1827') (8)Note: Brereton's work, an account of the Polish-Russian war of 1609-18, is rare, ESTC tracing eight copies only in libraries world-wide, and no copies found in auction records. Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Camden, William Britannia, enlarged... by Richard Gough London: John Stockdale, 1806. Second edition, volumes 1-3 only (of 4), folio (43 x 25.5cm), contemporary diced russia, rebacked to style, 49 engraved maps (most folding), numerous engraved plates, bookplates of ornithologist and bibliographer W. H. Mullens (1866-1946) and of Thomas William Evans, surface-wear to bindings; Drake, Francis. Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the County of York. London: by William Bowyer for the author, 1736. First edition, folio (37.5 x 23.5cm), modern quarter morocco, 60 engraved plates, plate 15 with closed tear to foot of central fold, plates 58-9 damp-stained [ESTC T65433]; Hutchins, John. The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1774. First edition, 2 volumes, folio (37 x 24cm), modern blue half morocco, engravings in text (including the Cerne Abbas giant, vol. 2 p. 293), folding tables, bound without the plates and map, damp-staining [ESTC T99476]; Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. London: for R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter, and J. Tonson, 1721. Second edition ('corrected and enlarged'), 2 volumes, folio (39.5 x 24cm), modern quarter morocco, browning [ESTC T59423]; and 5 others: Letters from Roundhead Officers written from Scotland and Chiefly Addressed to Captain Adam Baynes, Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1856 (first edition, 4to, original cloth, presentation inscription); William Hamper (editor), The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale, 1827 (first edition, 4to, contemporary quarter cloth, spine torn at head); Charles James Fox, A History of the Early Part of the Reign of the James the Second, 1808 (first edition, 4to, contemporary quarter cloth); White Kennet, Parochial Antiquities attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and Other Adjacent Parts in the Counties of Oxford and Bucks, 1818 (new edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half cloth, front inner hinges gone); Sir John Temple, The Irish Rebellion, 1812 (4to, contemporary cloth, front joint cracked, spine defective); the lot sold as seen (14)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Chillingworth, William The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield, and are to be sold by John Clarke, 1638. First edition, folio (26.3 x 17.8cm), contemporary calf, endpapers and final blank discarded, spill-burn in O1, worm-track in text from quire 2M [ESTC S107216; STC 5138]; Heylyn, Peter. Aerius Redivivus: or the History of the Presbyterians. London: by Robert Battersby for Christopher Wilkinson [and others], 1672. Second edition, folio (29.5 x 18.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked, small hole in 3N3 [ESTC R6051; Wing H1682]; Stillingfleet, Edward. A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion. London: for H. Mortlock, 1681. Second edition, folio (31.5 x 19cm), contemporary mottled calf ruled in blind, imprimatur leaf [ESTC R10821; Wing S5625]; Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. The Works. Edinburgh: James Watson, 1711. First collected edition, folio (33 x 20cm), contemporary calf, 2 engraved portraits (one as frontispiece, both of Drummond, without the plate of the 'Five James's' occasionally noted but almost always absent), title-page frayed in fore margin, closed tear in 2Q1-2 [ESTC T125750]; Nicolson, William. The English, Scotch and Irish Historical Libraries. Giving a Short View of the Character of most of our Historians, either in Print or Manuscript. London: for G. Strahan [and others], 1736. 'Third edition, corrected and augmented' (first collected edition), folio (34.5 x 22cm), contemporary panelled calf, drawer-handle cornerpieces to covers in blind, joints superficially cracked [ESTC T60243]; and 3 others (these not collated): James Usher, A Body of Divinitie, 1653 (fourth edition, folio, early mottled sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece, stripping to leather, browning, marginal worming to rear); Gilbert Burnet, The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, 1677 (first edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, 2 engraved portraits, binding worn, joints cracked); Bulstrode Whitelocke, Memorials of the English Affairs, 1682 (first edition, folio, contemporary sprinkled calf, worn, joints cracked) (8)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

English Civil War Collection of biographies, memoirs and letters, 17th-18th century including: [Baron, William]. A Just Defence of the Royal Martyr K. Charles I. From the many False and Malicious Aspersions in Ludlow's Memoirs, and some Other Virulent Libels of that Kind. London: for A. Roper, R. Bassett, W. Turner, 1699. First edition, 8vo (17.9 x 10.5cm), 19th-century half calf, gilt spine, backstrip gilt-lettered 'Parish Library Castleton' along front board, browning, a few damp-stains, marginal spill-burn in ³N4 [ESTC R13963; Wing B897]; Warwick, Sir Philip. Memoires of the Reigne of King Charles I. With a Continuation to the Happy Restauration of King Charles II. London: Ri. Chiswell, 1701. First edition. [Bound with:] Idem. A Discourse of Government. London: for Mat. Wotton [and others], 1701. Second edition. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo (19 x 11.2cm), contemporary panelled calf, Memoires half-title with engraved portrait verso, Earl of Rosebery bookplate [ESTC T63889 & T61708; 7 UK copies for A Discourse]; [Kimber, Isaac]. The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: for J. Brother and T. Cox, 1724. First edition, 8vo (19.6 x 12cm), contemporary panelled calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement leaf, book-label (John Rutherfurd, Esq, of Edgerston, possibly the member of parliament for Roxburghshire, noted as a soldier and councillor in New York, 1712-1754), head of front joint worn, frontispiece damp-stained, pale damp-staining elsewhere, a2 (index) torn with loss of text [ESTC T134562]; Noble, Mark. The Lives of the English Regicides. London: John Stockdale, 1798. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.2 x 12.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, 4 pp. advertisements, bookplates of Montagu Burgoyne (1758-1836), politician and writer, numbering-pieces perished; Baillie, Robert. Letters and Journals, written by the deceased ... Principal of the University of Glasgow ... Containing an Impartial Account of Public Transactions ... both in England and Scotland, from 1637 to 1662. Edinburgh: W. Gray, 1775. First edition, second issue, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.3 x 12.3cm), contemporary tan calf, twin morocco labels; and 7 others (these not fully collated): Sir John Dalrymple, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Dissolution of the Last Parliament of Charles II, 1795 (new edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt); William Harris, An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Charles the Second, 1766 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, bookplates of Robert Shafto of Benwell, spines worn); Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, A Collection of the State Letters, Dublin, 1743 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, volume 1 title-page with marginal loss); Thomas Carte, A Collection of Original Letters and Papers concerning the Affairs of England, from the Year 1641 to 1660, found among the Duke of Ormond's Papers, 1739 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, bookplates of John Campbell of Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire, joints cracking); [Thomas Birch], An Inquiry into the Share, which King Charles I. had in the Transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan, 1756 (second edition), 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, front joint cracked at head and foot); Thomas Skinner, The Life of General Monk, 1723 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked, inner hinges strengthened); Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks, 1727 (fourth edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked) (23)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

English Civil War Collection of pamphlets comprising: Englands Third Alarm to Warre: stirring up the Whole Land as One Man, to help the Lord, and His Servant David (all the Faithfull in the World) against most Bloudy Adversaries, Mighty Hunters before the Lord. London: Thomas Underhill, 1643. First edition, 4to (17.9 x 13.2cm), modern cloth, light browning, marginal damp-stains [ESTC R9479, 11 copies world-wide; Wing E3058]; An Agreement of the People for a Firme and present Peace, upon Grounds of Common-Right and Freedome; as it was proposed by the Agents of the Five Regiments of Horse. [London: no printer], 1647. First edition, 4to (18.2 x 12.4cm), modern quarter leather, [2] 14 pp. [ESTC R204468, 7 UK copies; Wing A780]; Mercy in her Exaltation. Or, a Soveraigne Antidote against Fear of the Second Death. In a Sermon preached at the Funeral of Daniel Taylor Esq; in Stephens Coleman Street London. [By John Goodwin]. London: F. Macock for H. Eversden, 1655. First edition, 4to (17.8 x 13.4cm), modern cloth, woodcut mourning border to title-page, browning [ESTC R202308, 9 UK copies; Wing G1181]; His Highnesse the Lord Protector's Speeches to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber, the one on Munday the 4th of September; the other on Tuesday the 12. of September 1654. London: for G. Sawbridge, 1654. First edition, 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to (18.8 x 13.4cm), modern calf, browning, part 1 with closed marginal tear in C3 and marginal spill-burn in E3 [ESTC R207635; Wing C7175]; The Royalists Defence: vindicating the King's Proceedings in the Late Warre made against him. [By Charles Dallison]. [London: no printer], 1648. First edition, 4to (18 x 13.2cm), modern cloth, errata leaf, browning [ESTC R5148; Wing D138]; The Case of the Kingdom stated, according to the Proper Interests of the severall Parties Ingaged. [By Marchamont Nedham]. London: [no printer], 1647. Third edition ('with Addition by the Author') 4to (18.8 x 13cm), modern quarter leather, [2] 6 9-16 pp., browning, title-page slightly chipped along fore edge, quire B shaved at foot [ESTC R40043; Wing N380]; Killing No Murder: briefly discoursed in Three Questions. By Col. Titus, alias William Allen. London: Reprinted in the Year 1689. 8vo (18.8 x 11.2cm), modern quarter leather, browning, A2 bound after A4 [ESTC R214304 (third variant); Wing T1312]; and 2 others, one defective, the other later (George Wilson, Bribes no Perquisites: or, the Case of the Earl of Macclesfield, 1726) (9)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Harrington, James The Oceana of James Harrington and his Other Works; some wherof are now first publish'd from his Manuscripts. The whole collected, methodiz'd, and review'd, with an Exact Account of his Life prefix'd, by John Toland. London: to be sold by the booksellers, 1700. First collected edition, folio (30.8 x 19.4cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, engraved frontispiece, portrait after Sir Peter Lely, plate ('The Manner and Use of the Ballot'), advertisement leaf, variable light spotting and browning [ESTC R9111; Wing H816]; Brady, Robert. An Introduction to the Old English History, comprehended in three several Tracts. London: by Tho. Newcomb, for Samuel Lowndes, 1684. First edition, folio (31 x 19.2cm), 20th-century quarter sheep, marbled sides to style, browning, 2N3 slit for cancellation (the cancel also present)[ESTC R34414; Wing B4194]; Thomas May. The History of the Parliament of England: which began November the Third, M. DC. XL. With a Short and Necessary View of some Precedent Years. London: by Moses Bell, for George Thomason, 1647. First edition, folio (28.8 x 17.6cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, imprimatur leaf, title-page in red and black, light damp-staining to lower fore corners [ESTC R8147; Wing M1410]; Walker, Edward. Historical Discourses upon Several Occasions: viz. I. The Happy Progress and Succes of the Arms of K. Charles I [...]. London: by W. N. for Sam. Keble, 1705. First edition, folio (34.2 x 21.2cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, engraved headpieces and initial, full-page engraved portrait of Charles I, engraved folding plate, bookplate (Thomas Bagnall, St Edmund Hall, Oxford) to title-page verso, variable spotting and browning; Hakewill, George. An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World. Oxford: William Turner, 1635. Third edition ('revised ... besides the addition of two entire bookes not formerly published'), folio (27.8 x 18.5cm), modern half calf, engraved additional title-page, letterpress explanation leaf ('The argument of the front and of the worke'), retaining medial blanks 3E4 and 4A4, contemporary ownership inscription ('Ex libris Thomas Wadland') to letterpress title-page, occasional light browning, a few marks [ESTC S120609; STC 12613]; and 3 others (these not collated): Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State in the Reigns of Queen Mary [to] Oliver's Usurpation, 1746 (first edition, 2 volumes, large folio, modern quarter morocco, engraved frontispieces, all edges untrimmed, possibly a large-paper copy); William Howell, An Institution of General History, or the History of the World, 1680 (second edition, folio, modern cloth); Edmund Sawyer, Memorials of the Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly from the Original Papers of ... Ralph Winwood, 1725 (first edition, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and relined, without portrait) (11)Note: John Toland's influential edition of the works of James Harrington was an important component in his project to introduce republican ideas to an 18th-century audience, and 'provided a foundation for the whig intellectual tradition that influenced Maximilien Robespierre, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine' (ODNB). Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Law Group of English legal treatises, 17th-18th century comprising: Wiseman, Sir Robert. The Law of Laws: or, the Excellency of the Civil Law, above all other Humane Laws whatsoever. London: by F. G. for R. Royston, 1657 [i.e. 1658]. First edition, 4to (18.3 x 14cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, large armorial devices gilt to covers, title-page in red and black [ESTC R204077; Wing W3113]; Swinburne, Henry. A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes. London: for the Companie of Stationers, 1611. Second edition ('Newly corrected and augmented with Sundry Principall Additions'), 4to (17.8 x 13.2cm), 18th-century sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, initial blank apparently original, terminal errata leaf, old ink inscription ('Norton Place') to front pastedown, front joint cracked, A8, 2G8 and 2X8-2Y1 stained, a few side-notes in quire A just shaved [ESTC S118063; STC 23548]; Foley, Robert. Laws relating to the Poor, from the Forty-third of Queen Elizabeth to the Third of King George II. London: for T. Woodward, 1739. First edition, 8vo (20 x 11.5cm), contemporary calf, advertisement leaf, contemporary bookplate (James Nelthorpe), rubbed, joints superficially cracked [ESTC T113188: 6 copies in UK libraries); Dalrymple, John. An Essay towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain. London: A. Millar, 1757. First edition, 8vo (19.8 x 12.2cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, worm-track to foot of first few leaves not affecting text, corner of title-page excised [ESTC N9414]; Hale, Sir Matthew. The Original Institution, Power and Jurisdiction of Parliaments. London: Jacob Tonson [and others], 1707. First edition, 8vo (19.6 x 11.7cm), contemporary calf, rebacked, browning; Selden, John. The Historie of Tithes. [London: no printer], 1618. First edition, 4to (19 x 14cm), contemporary limp vellum, title-page in red and black, bookplate (Angus MacDonald, M.D.), lacking final leaf (f4) and free endpapers, damp-staining to front and rear, closed tear in P2 [ESTC S117046; Pforzheimer 857; STC 22172.3]; and 6 others: Richard Brathwait, The English Gentleman, 1630 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked, damp-staining, lacking additional engraved title-page and 'Draught of the Frontispiece' leaf, also without final part 'Three Choices of Marriage' as in the variant noted by ESTC); Richard Bradley, The Country Gentleman and Farmer's Monthly Director, 1732 (sixth edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, bound after a defective copy of The Country Lady's Director, lacking prelims); [John Godolphin, Repertorium canonicum, 1680] (4to, contemporary calf, lacking at least the title-page); [Remigio Nannini, Civill Considerations upon many and sundrie Histories, 1601] (4to, contemporary calf, numerous leaves including title-page supplied in modern manuscript); Richard Burn, The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Office, 1762 (seventh edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, small worm-track to front of volume 1 touching imprint in title-page, set not collated); and William Leybourn, Panarithmologia: or, the Trader's Sure Guide, 1727 (fourth edition, 8vo, browning and damp-staining) (14)Note: One other copy of The Law of Laws traced at auction, in 1965; the work is an argument for the revival of Roman law and for the recourse to civil law 'where our own law fails'. 'Unlike other contemporary reformers [Wiseman] also argued for the legalization of torture to extract confessions' (ODNB). Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Abbott, Henry Antiquities of Rome London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820. First edition, large folio (57.6 x 41.6cm), contemporary half calf (front board gilt-lettered 'Charleton' and with gilt calf title-label 'Rome' to centre), letterpress title-page, etched panorama of Rome on 4 folding sheets, 24 sepia aquatint plates, descriptive text-leaf to each plate, tissue-guards, backstrip perished, panorama with faint spotting and offsetting in places and first sheet with faint crease across one corner, plates faintly offset onto text-leaves through tissue-guards [Abbey Travel 179]Note: Rare. The work seems often to have been broken up for its spectacular plates, here all present and in excellent condition. Provenance: Charleton House, Fife.

Law Collection of English legal treatises and reports, 17th-18th century comprising: Davies, Sir John. Le Primer Report des Cases et Matters en Ley, Resolves et Adjudges en les Courts del Roy en Ireland. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1628. Second edition, folio (28 x 17.3cm), 20th-century half leather, text mainly in black letter, woodcut title devices and initials, typographic headpieces, initial blank present, early marginalia, ownership inscriptions to title-page ('Robert Wm Osborne, November 1844' and 'Robt Molesworth'), damp-staining to lower margins, occasional browning [ESTC S123364; STC 6362]; Dalton, Michael. Officium Vicecomitum. The Office and Authoritie of Sherifs. London: for the Company of Stationers, 1623. First edition, folio (28 x 18.5cm), contemporary blind-ruled calf, strapwork woodcut border to title-page, damp-staining and concomitant softening and fraying in fore margins (causing slight loss to title-page border, text otherwise unaffected), either free endpapers or initial and final blanks discarded [ESTC S107284; STC 6212]; Sheppard, William. An Epitome of all the Common and Statute Laws of this Nation. London: for W. Lee [and others], 1656. First edition, folio (28.6 x 17.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, endpapers renewed, browning, old ink-stain to 5F1-2 obscuring a few words, [ESTC R10939; Wing S3184]; Blount, Thomas. Nomo-Lexikon [graece]. A Law Dictionary. London: for H. Herringman [and others], 1691. Second edition ('with some corrections, and the addition of above six hundred words'), folio (31 x 18.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, worn, spill-burns in 2R2 and 3O1, closed tear in 3Y2 [ESTC R11153; Wing B3341]; and 7 others (these not collated): Les Reports de Sir William Jones ... un des justices del' Banck le Roy, 1675 (first edition, folio, modern half sheep, browning); Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of the Exchequer ... collected by Sir Thomas Hardres, 1693 (first edition, folio, modern half sheep, imprimatur leaf, contemporary marginalia, browning); The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Macclesfield, 1725 (first edition, large folio, contemporary tan calf, imprimatur leaf, bookplate of Sir John Cope, Bart); Michael Dalton, The Country Justice, 1727 (folio, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked, hole in half-title/advertisement leaf); Giles Jacob, A New Law-Dictionary, 1736 (third edition, folio, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked); John Selden, An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government in England, 1760 (fifth edition, 4to, contemporary calf, bookplate of Thomas Dundas of Upleatham, Yorkshire); Daines Barrington, Observations on the more Ancient Statutes, from Magna Charta to the Twenty-First of James I. Cap. XXVII, 1769 (4to, contemporary quarter calf, front board detached, closed tear in title-page) (11)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Religion in 17th-century England Collection of treatises including: Owen, John. Vindicae Evangelicae or The Mystery of the Gospell vindicated, and Socianisme examined. Oxford: Leon. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1655. First and only edition, 4to (17.8 x 13.2cm), later half sheep, retaining medial blank I4, Hebrew types, worn, joints superficially cracked, quire 4H with tears to lower inner corner costing a few letters [ESTC R203109; Wing O823]; Stillingfleet, Edward. Origines sacrae. Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Christian Faith. London: by R. W. for Henry Mortlock, 1666. Third edition ('corrected and amended'), 4to (18.8 x 13.4cm, contemporary sprinkled calf, title-page in red and black, Hebrew types, spine worn and extremities worn, front joint cracked [ESTC R10486; Wing S5618]; [Allestree, Richard]. The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. London: by R. Norton for Robert Pawlett, 1683. 8vo (18.2 x 11.4cm), contemporary calf, gilt panels to covers, imprimatur leaf, engraved vignette of St Paul's Cathedral in flames to title-page, 2 engraved plates, advertisement leaf, 18th-century bookplate (William Bray, possibly the noted antiquary, 1736-1832), ownership inscriptions to title-page, front cover bowed, rear free endpaper discarded; Lloyd, William. An Historical Account of Church-Government as it was in Great Britain and Ireland, when they first received the Christian Religion. London: by M. Flesher, for Charles Brome, 1684. Second edition, 8vo (18 x 10.5cm), contemporary mottled calf, advertisement leaf, occasional damp-staining [ESTC R36869; Wing L2682]; Perkins, William. The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience. London: by J. L. and are to be sold by Thomas Pierrepont, 1651. 4to (18.2 x 13.5cm), contemporary sprinkled sheep, rebacked (front board near-detached), small tear in P7; and 11 others (these not fully collated), contemporary bindings, including: John Flavel, [The Fountain of Life] Opened: or, a Display of Christ in his Essential and Mediatorial Glory, 1673 (first edition, head of title-page torn away, ESTC R20462: four copies in UK libraries); Richard Allestree, The Whole Duty of Man, 2 copies, 1711 and [1743]; idem, The Gentleman's Calling, 1717 (lacking portrait); John Le Neve, Monumenta Anglicana: being Inscriptions on the Monuments of Several Eminent Persons deceased in or since the Year 1650, to the end of the Year 1679 [-1680, to ... 1699; 1700, to ... 1715], 3 works, 1718-18-17 (first work rear board near-detached); Thomas Gouge, The Works, 1706; Samuel Clarke, A Discourse concerning the Being and Attributes of God, 1732 (eighth edition); Joseph Butler, The Analogy of Religion, 1791; Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth, 1722 (fifth edition, 2 volumes, 9 engraved folding plates only); William Paley, A View of the Evidences of Christianity, 1795 (fourth edition, 2 volumes, front covers detached); [John Goodwin, An Exposition of the Nineth Chapter of ... Romans, 1653] (lacking title-page) (20)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Sarpi, Paolo The Historie of the Councel of Trent London: by Robert Barker, and John Bill, 1620. First edition in English, folio (33.5 x 21cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, colophon leaf present, blanks and endpapers discarded, inner hinges strengthened, quires 2M-N transposed, C3 with short closed tear at foot [ESTC S116698; STC 21761]; Fuller, Thomas. The Church-History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ, to the Year M. DC. XLVIII. London: for John Williams, [1655]. First edition, folio (33 x 21.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved folding map of Cambridge, 4 engraved plates (one double-page), rear board detached, loss to lower fore corners of first 2 leaves to partial loss of imprint in title-page, occasional browning, a few damp-stains and other marks, folding map laid down, old repair and early annotations to final leaf verso [ESTC R14493; Wing F2416]; [Adams, John]. Index Villaris: or, an Exact Register, alphabetically digested, of all the Cities, Market-Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or other Division of each County, London: for T. Sawbridge, 1690. Second edition, large folio (37 x 22cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked at an early date, no pp. 265-8 but text continuous, closed tear to foot of E2, light worming in gutter towards rear [ESTC R4927; Wing A480]; [Commonwealth of England]. Original Letters and Papers of State, addressed to Oliver Cromwell ... Found among the Political Collections of Mr. John Milton. London: by William Bowyer, and sold by John Whiston, 1743. Folio (35.5 x 21.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, contemporary bookplate (Lt. Colonel Pechell), Castle Goring book-label, heavy craquelure to sides, variable browning [ESTC T56123]; and 8 others, 17th and 18th century folios (these not collated): [John Stow, The Annales, or Generall Chronicle of England, 1615] (first edition, contemporary calf, lacking all before [par.]7 and all after 4Q2, ex library, covers near-detached); John Walker, An Attempt towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy ... in the late Times of the Grand Rebellion, 1714 (contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Tracts, being a Collection of Several Treatises relating to the Government. Privately Printed in the Reign of K. Charles II, 1693 (contemporary mottled calf, front board detached); [John Oldmixon], The History of England during the Reign of the Royal House of Stuart, 1730 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Sir Robert Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1643 (first edition, 19th-century tan half calf, engraved portrait frontispiece and title-page, both laid down, early text-leaves remargined, browning); Peter Heylyn, The Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, 1681 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, worn lacking frontispiece); idem, Ecclesia Restuarata: The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 1674 (third edition, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recornered); Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy, 1683 (contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, browning, worming) (12)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Selden, John Titles of Honor London: by William Stansby for Richard Whitaker, 1631. Second edition, folio (27.8 x 18cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined retaining old label, title-page in red and black, frequent Anglo-Saxon, Arabic and Hebrew types, woodcut illustrations throughout, 6 full-page engravings depicting the ceremonial dress of ranks in the English peerage (from baron to the prince of Wales), corners worn, front inner hinge gone, browning, damp-staining to gutter of prelims and occasionally to fore margins later on, title-page with closed tear in gutter, 5Y3 torn (most of text intact), final blank discarded [ESTC S117044; STC 22178]; Willis, Browne. A Survey of the Cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle [etc.]. London: for R. Gosling, 1727. First edition, 4to (24.5 x 19cm), contemporary panelled calf, half-title, 20 engraved plates (all but one folding), engraved armorial bookplate of the Barons Kenyon, 'Peel Library' inscribed above, old reinforcement to inner hinges [ESTC T93608]; Weever, John. Antient Funeral Monuments of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent. London: by W. Tooke, for the editor, 1767. Second edition (first published in 1631), 4to (26.5 x 20cm), contemporary marbled half calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, folding table, woodcuts in text, bookplate of Henry Carington Bowles (1763-1830), publisher and map- seller [ESTC ST28052]; and 5 others (these not collated): John Evelyn, Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees ... With Notes by A. Hunter, 1786 (2 volumes, 4to, modern half leather, engraved plates); Roger North, Examen ... into the Credit and Veracity of a Pretended Complete History, 1740 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, frontispiece, worn, joints cracked); [John Hughes, editor], A Complete History of England, 1719 (second edition, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary panelled calf, engraved portraits, joints cracked); John Tillotson, The Works, 1728 (mixed editions, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved portrait, spines worn); John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities, 1813 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked) (13)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Stafford, Sir Thomas Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced or, an Historie of the Late Warres of Ireland, especially within the Province of Mounster. London: printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes], 1633. First edition, second issue, folio (32.5 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf, 16 engraved plates (of 19: without the 2 portrait frontispieces and 'Map of Mounster'), extant plates comprising views of battles, castles and cities (Limerick, Yougal, Cork), 'A Map of the Siege of Kinsale' folding, 'A Map of Muskrey' single-page, the rest all double-page, title-page laid down, marginal repair to final leaf of prelims, small hole in 2D3, plates sometimes closely trimmed or frayed along edges, marginal damp-staining to pp. 1-50 and approx. 377-391 (end) affecting 3 plates, folding plate with discreet old repairs verso [ESTC S117457; STC 23132a]; Sprigg, Joshua. Anglia Rediviva; Englands Recovery: being the History of the Motions, Actions, and Successes of the Army under the Immediate Conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt. Captain-General of all the Parliaments Forces in England. London: by R. W. for John Partridge, 1647. First edition, folio (28 x 18.2cm), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, armorial woodcut frontispiece, folding engraved portrait, folding letterpress table, extremities worn, lacking plan (Battle of Naseby) and text-leaf L2, damp-staining to title-page and final few leaves, spill-burn in D1, short closed handling tears to folding portrait and table [ESTC R18123; Wing S5070]; [Davies, John]. The Civil Warres of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing an Exact History of their Occasion, Originall, Progress, and Happy End. By an Impartiall Pen. London: by R. W. for Philip Chetwind, 1661. First edition, folio (29 x 18.5cm), contemporary sprinkled sheep ruled in blind, rebacked and relined, front board detached, title-page in red and black, ownership inscription to front pastedown ('A. W. G. Lowther F.S.A., 1957'), browning [ESTC R9924; Wing D393]; and 7 others similar (these not collated): John Nalson, An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I, 1682 (first edition, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, 'Mind of the Frontispiece' leaf present, old repairs to spine-ends); Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, A Collection of Several Tracts, 1727 (first edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The State Letters of Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the Reign of J. James the Second, Oxford, 1763 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary cat's-paw calf, volume 2 rebacked, inscribed 'The gift of the Right Honourable Lord Milton to John Armstrong of Tipperary July 1766' on initial blanks), [William Dugdale], A Short View of the Late Troubles in England, 1681 (folio, contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, portrait discarded); Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafforde, Letters and Dispatches, Dublin, 1740 (2 volumes, folio, contemporary tree calf gilt, worn, endpapers renewed); Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, Dublin, 1801 (first edition, 4to, contemporary marbled calf, 10 engraved folding maps and plans, a few closed tears, binding worn, front board near detached); [Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, editor], Miscellaneous State Papers from 1501 to 1726, 1778 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary tree calf, joints cracked, volume 2 front board detached, frontispiece offset) (14)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Strada, Famiano De bello Belgico The History of the Low-Countrey Warres, Written in Latine. In English by Sr. Rob. Stapylton. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1650. First edition in English, folio (28.8 x 17.3cm), modern leather, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall, 13 further engraved portrait plates, toning, a few marks, frontispiece repaired recto, small worm-track in top margins from front to quire G and in lower margins from quire 3A to end, closed tear in M2, closed marginal tear to plate facing 2H4 [ESTC 24631; Wing S5777]; Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State [-The Profane State]. London: by John Redmayne for John Williams, 1663. Fourth edition, folio (28.2 x 18.5cm), modern half sheep, engraved additional title-page, engraved portraits throughout the text, early ink annotations and underlining, browning, marginal repair to H4, I5 with spill-burn affecting text verso, a few leaves (e.g. H4, N2, Y2, 2B4, 2C1, 2Q5) strengthened in gutter, worming in gutter of 2C-2F, bound after a defective copy of The Holy Warre, third edition, 1647, lacking at least the engraved title-page, retaining the folding map (loose, laid down, closed tear to one fold) [ESTC R15500; Wing F2446]; Idem. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof. London: by J. F. for John Williams, 1650. First edition, folio (33.2 x 22cm), contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 7 double-page engraved plates and plans (only), tear to foot of spine, front joint reinforced, engraved title image shaved along fore edge, quire A also trimmed, frontispiece bound after quire A and repaired in lower margin, shallow chips and some paper-thinning to fore margins of temple plans facing 2Q2 and 2T3, map of Midian facing 3C1 with short closed tear, marginal paper-reinforcement in index [ESTC R18096; Wing F2455]; Ralegh, Sir Walter. The History of the World. London: for G. Conyers [and others], 1736, Eleventh edition, folio (34.6 x 22cm), contemporary marbled sheep, 8 engraved folding maps by Emanuel Bowen, bound without portrait frontispiece, bindings worn along extremities, volume 1 joints cracked, volume 2 rebacked with original spine laid down, one map (facing p. 101) with strip of browning [ESTC T36544]; Whitelocke, Bulstrode. A Journal of the Swedish Ambassy, in the Years M.DC.LIII. and M.D.C.LIV. London: for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1772. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (25.3 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, half-titles, worn, labels perished, spotting to front and rear, early labels of Greenock library to front pastedowns [ESTC T144829]; Davila, Arrigo Caterino. The History of the Civil Wars of France. A New Translation ... by Ellis Farneworth. London: for D. Browne [and others], 1758. First edition thus, 2 volumes, 4to (26.1 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, front joints slightly cracked [ESTC N8421: 7 UK copies; 'Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 copies printed']; and 3 others (these not collated): Paul Rapin de Thoyras, The History of England, 1743 (third edition in English, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary speckled calf, numerous engraved plates and maps, several folding, joints cracked, labels perishing); James Macpherson, An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, 1773 (third edition, 4to, contemporary calf); Vertot, The History of the Knights of Malta, 1728 (first edition in English, volume 2 only, folio, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, engraved portraits) (13)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

17th-century England and English Civil War Collection of bindings, 19th century including: Lonsdale, John Lowther, Viscount. Memoir of the Reign of James II. York: T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1808. First edition, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, half-title, inscribed 'For Lord Redesdale, with Lord Lonsdale's Comps, Janr 23d 1808', recipient's ownership inscription to title-page, joints cracked); Whitaker, Thomas Dunham. The Life and Original Correspondence of Sir George Radcliffe, Knight, LL.D., the Friend of the Earl of Strafford. London: John Nichols and Son, 1810. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf gilt, marked, Syston Park bookplate; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1836. New edition, 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, Clan Macaulay bookplates; Idem. The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon ... Written by Himself. Oxford: at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1759. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked; Vaughan, Robert, editor. The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, twin morocco labels, Eton leaving inscription; Calamy, Edmund. An Historical Account of My Own Life. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan half calf, merlion device gilt to spines, headcaps worn; [English Civil War]. Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars in England, in the Reign of King Charles the First. London: R. Wilks, 1815. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, bookplates of Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827-1899) re-imposed; and approx. 20 others similar (e.g. Gilbert Burnet, History of his own Time, 1766, third edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, portrait; Godfrey Goodman, The Court of King James the First, 1839, 2 volumes; Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth, 1808; William Lilly's History of his Life and Times, from the Year 1602 to 1681, 1823, contemporary straight-grain green morocco gilt, etc.), the lot sold as bindings, not subject to return (approx. 50 volumes)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

17th-century English books Collection of works on politics, theology, law and literature including: [Gunpowder Plot]. Actio in Henricum Garnetum Societatis Jesuiticae in Anglia ... omnia ex Anglico à G. Camdeno Latinè versa. London: John Norton, 1607. First edition in Latin, 4to (17.8 x 14cm), 18th-century calf, title-page with armorial stamp in red ink and contemporary ink inscription (faded), contemporary marginalia and underlining, 19th-century bookplate (R. M. Beverley), initial and final blanks discarded, light browning, a few spots and marks, rear inner hinge gone [ESTC S102858; STC 11620]; Doddridge, Sir Robert, & others. The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquarian, viz. Mr. Justice Doddridge, Mr. Agar, Francis Tate, WIlliam Canden [sic], and Joseph Holland. Touching the Proceedings of the High-court of Parliament in English. London: William Leake, 1658. First edition, small 8vo (14 x 8cm), contemporary sheep, unidentified earl's crest gilt to spine, retaining initial blank and terminal advertisement leaf, bookplate (baron's coronet, name Sinclair, motto 'fide sed pugna'), spine worn [ESTC R210130]; 'Philanax Misopappas'. Rawleigh Redivivus; or the Life and Death of the Right Honourable Anthony Late Earl of Shaftesbury. London: Thomas Malthus, 1683. First edition, 8vo (17.1 x 10.8cm), early-19th-century tan calf, small hole in F4 affecting a few letters, engraved portrait frontispiece, armorial ink-stamp to title-page, marginal worm-trail from quire I to end (text unaffected) [ESTC R3409]; Forbes, William. Considerationes modestae et pacificae controversarium. London: Thomas Roycroft [and others], 1658. First edition, 8vo (15.8 x 10cm), contemporary blind-panelled sheep, old deaccession ink-stamp to title-page [ESTC R209737]; Baudier, Michel. The History of the Administration of Cardinal Ximenes, Great Minister of State in Spain ... translated into English, by W. Vaughan. London: John Wilkins, 1671. First edition in English, 8vo (16.6 x 10.6cm), contemporary sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece by Cross, binding worn, front inner hinge tender, hole in L8 costing a few letters, lacking either final blank or endpaper, ink-stamps (Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Glasgow) to endpapers, frontispiece recto and final page of text) [ESTC R6814]; and 16 others similar (these not collated), including: Ovid, De arte amandi ... Englished, 1662; Richard Gardiner, Specimen oratorium ... editio quinta, Oxford, 1675; Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum, ex authoritate primum regis Henrici 8. inchoata, 1640 (binding worn); William Lawson, A New Orchard, and Garden ... as also, the Husbandry of Bees, 1652 (lacking several leaves); John Goodman, The Penitent Pardoned ... Second Edition, 1683 (frontispiece and title-page laid down); Peter Heylyn, Mikrocosmos ... sixth edition, 1639 (lacking at least final 2 leaves including blank, retaining woodcut architectonic title-page); Sir Robert Cotton, Cottoni posthuma, 1672 (lacking front board) and others, mainly in contemporary bindings (several bindings defective) (21)Note: The Actio in Henricum Garnetum was first published in English the previous year, as A True and Perfect Relation of the Proceedings at the Severall Arraignments of the Late most Barbarous Traitors.

18th-century English books Collection of works on various subjects including: Povey, Charles. The Virgin in Eden: or, the State of Innocecy. Deliver'd by Way of Image and Description. Presenting a Nobleman, a Student, and Heiress, on their Progress from Sodom to Canaan ... To which are added, Pamela's Letters proved to be Immodest Romances painted in Images of Virtue. London: J. Roberts, 1741. First edition, 8vo (19.2 x 12.2cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, joints cracked, extremities rubbed [ESTC T133871: four copies in UK libraries]; Swift, Jonathan. The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen. London: A. Millar, 1758. First edition, 8vo (20.2 x 12cm), contemporary half calf, spine and boards renewed [ESTC T151042]; Wintringham, Clifton, senior. Commentarium nosologicum orbos epidemicos et aeris variationes in urbe Eboracensi licisque vicinis. London: William Bowyer, 1733. Second edition, 8vo (19.9 x 12.4cm), contemporary inscription '[...] Ex dono Gul. Fordyce Eq' to title-page (possibly referring to noted Scottish physician William Fordyce, 1724-1792), contemporary calf spine, covers lacking, spotting to title-page and occasionally elsewhere, adhesive staining to blank verso of final leaf [ESTC T151042: 500 copies printed]; Xenophon. The Banquet, done from the Greek ... By James Welwood. London: John Barnes; and Andrew Bell, 1710. First edition thus, 8vo (17 x 10cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, joints cracked [ESTC T145158]; and 18 others (these not collated), including: John Keill, Introductio ad ad veram astronomiam, 1721 ('Editio secunda', 8vo, contemporary sprinkled tan calf); Edmund Burke, Two Letters addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, 1796 (8vo, contemporary tree calf, marginal excision from title-page); Colin Maclaurin, A Treatise of Algebra, 1756 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, front cover detached); Jonathan Swift, The Sermons, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1763 (8vo, 20th-century cloth); David Moyses [Moysie], Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1755 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked); The Life and Adventures of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew ... the King of Beggars, 1782 (8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked); A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, 1785 (third edition, 12mo, later green sheep, repairs); and similar (22)Note: Another edition of Wintringham's work, a treatise on diseases in the city of York, appeared in 1727, but at 64 pp. is considerably shorter than the present second edition, which has 168 pp.

19th-century fiction Collection of triple-decker novels comprising: Barrie, J. M. The Little Minister. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original brown cloth, initial blank and half-title to each volume, 16 pp. advertisements to volume 1, ownership inscriptions of Campbell Douglas (1828-1910), noted architect, to front front free endpapers, rubbed and bumped, spines rolled, variable spotting and staining, volume 1 final quire (P) with shallow burn-hole to lower margin [Sadleir 167]; Banks, Mrs G. Linnaeus [Isabella]. The Manchester Man. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1876. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, half-titles, 2 + 16 pp. advertisements, slightly rubbed and marked, spines rolled, tips bumped and showing through, volume 2 recased and relined (spine stained), half-titles spotted [Sadleir 154: 'A factual story of Manchester during the first 30 years of the nineteenth century'; contains reference to the Peterloo massacre]; [Holford, Mary Anne]. Strathrowan. A Tale of Modern Life. London: Chapman & Hall, 1879. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, pp. [4] 297, [2] 304, [2] 358, half-title to volume 1, rubbed, tips bumped, volume 1 inner hinges cracked, light cracking to others [not in Sadleir]; Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Refugees. A Tale of Two Continents. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. First edition (1,000 copies printed), 3 volumes, 8vo, [8] 227, [4] 214, [4] 304, 24 pp. advertisements to volume 1 (dated 3/93), original green cloth, bindings shaken, soiled and worn, Grant's Library labels to front covers, variable spotting and staining, volume 2 signature 2 loose, signature 6 starting, volume 3 water-stained and front cover bowed [not in Sadleir]; together with 4 other triple-deckers (these not fully collated): George Meredith, One of our Conquerors, 1891 (first edition, original blue cloth); [Sarah Ellis née Stickney], Family Secrets, [c.1843] (first edition, contemporary green half skiver, 31 engraved plates including frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages); [John Galt], The Spaewife; a Tale of the Scottish Chronicles, 1823 (first edition, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered); Walter Besant, Herr Paulus, 1888 (first edition, contemporary quarter roan, volume 1 with loss to headcap); and one double-decker, H. S. Merriman, From One Generation to Another, 1892 (original cloth) (26)Note: Library Hub traces three copies only of Strathrowan (BL, Cambridge, NLS).

19th-century literature Collection of works by various authors including: Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward Lock & Bowden Limited, [1895]. Second edition, 8vo, original vellum-backed boards, 8 pp. advertisements, front joint split through, tips worn [Mason 330]; Dickens, Charles. The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life. London: Chapman and Hall [-Bradbury and Evans], 1845-46-46. 3 works, first editions, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, engraved frontispiece and vignette title to each work (Chimes vignette title in first state, Battle vignette title in fourth state), Cricket and Battle each with advertisement leaf (the former in second state), bindings rubbed and marked, wear to spines and extremities, spines rolled, Cricket rear joint split, Battle front inner hinge broken, Chimes frontispiece and vignette title spotted [Smith II:5, 6, 8]; Idem. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition, 8vo (21.1 x 12.8cm), contemporary green half morocco by Carss of Glasgow, half-title, directions to the binder leaf, 43 engraved plates including frontispiece and vignette title-page, plates in early state with page numbers and no imprints (but the Buss plates replaced), plates spotted and browned; Trollope, Anthony. Travelling Sketches. London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, a superb copy, entirely unopened; Ibsen, Henrik. Bygmester Solness. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1892. First edition of The Master Builder, 8vo, original decorative green cloth gilt; and 12 others (these not collated), including: Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, 1844 (first edition, contemporary diced calf, worn); Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake, 1869 (Mauchlinware binding); John Ruskin, Praeterita, 1900 (second edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan half calf); idem, Elements of Drawing, 1857 (first edition, original cloth); William Morris, The Wood Beyond the World, 1895 (one of 50 copies on Whatman paper, original cloth, slipcase); Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, London: George Routledge and Co., 1852 (contemporary half calf); William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out, [1890] (first edition, original cloth, frontispiece); Charles Kingsley, The Saint's Tragedy, 1848 (first edition, original cloth); Hans Christian Andersen, Tales from Denmark. Translated by Charles Boner, 1849 (second edition, original boards, backstrip lacking); Cardinal Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864 (first edition, bookplate of Cecil Deedes, 1843-1920, clergyman); Mary Martha Sherwood, The History of John Marten, 1844 (first edition, original cloth); Frances Trollope, The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy, 1840 (first one-volume edition, original cloth) (21)

Antiquarian literature Collection of English and continental books, 16th-18th century comprising: Hooker (Richard). The Works, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity. London: for Thomas Newcomb for Andrew Crook, 1666. Folio (36.5 x 22.8cm), contemporary red goatskin, large gilt arms to covers comprising prince’s crown above monogram ‘V A’ (or reverse) between ostrich feathers, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional architectonic title-page, bookplate of the dukes of Portland (two arms counter-embowed, vested and gloved each holding an ostrich feather), front cover detached [ESTC R11910]; Ruscelli, Girolamo. Le imprese illustri, aggiuntovi nuovam[en]te il quarto libro da Vincenzo Ruscelli. Venice: Francesco de Franceschi senesi, 1584. 4to (24.1 x 17.5cm), old calf, 4 engraved title-pages, 2 folding plates (signed O2-3 and 2B3-2), engraved emblems throughout the text (many full-page), bookplate of John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe (1680-1741), styled as the Earl of Roxburghe, front board loose, variable browning and mottling throughout, 2R1 loose, a few early headlines shaved [Adams R955]; Antoninus Florentinus, Archbishop of Florence, Saint. [Summe majoris, part 2 only of 4]. Lyon: Jean Cleyn, [1506]. Folio in 8s (29.5 x 20cm), modern leather backing wooden boards, text in double column, gothic letter, 68 lines and headline, contemporary hand-painted initials and capital strokes throughout (in red or blue), old vellum manuscript fragment bound in at rear, lacking first quire (A), last leaf apparently blank (otherwise final quire lacking a leaf) [Adams A1214]; and 8 others (these not collated), including: Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655-61-73 (3 volumes, folio, modern calf, engraved plates); Silius Italicus, De bello Punico, Lyon, 1547 (16mo, later binding); Giovanni Pietro Valeriano Bolzani, Hieorglyphica, Frankfurt, 1678 (4to, modern tan morocco gilt); Tacitus, Opere, Venice: Giunti, 1620 (4to, contemporary vellum, engraved additional title-page, front inner hinge gone); Galen, Omnium operum, Venice: Valgrisi, 1562 (3 volumes only, of 10, folio, modern bindings, repairs); Ben Jonson, Workes, 1616 (first collected edition, volume one only, folio, modern orange morocco, numerous leaves including title-page supplied in photocopy); Biondi, An History of the Civill Warres of England, betweene the two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, 1641 (lacking engraved title-page); and similar (16)

[Ballet] The Works of Monsieur Noverre, translated from the French London: G. Robinson [and others], [1782]-3. First edition in English, 3 volumes in 1, 8vo (21.1 x 12cm), recent blue half morocco, half-title to each volume, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [9] vi-lxviii 227 [5], [4] 258, [6] vii-xi [3] 3-330, toning, light spotting, ownership inscription effaced from half-title, frontispiece browned and more heavily spotted, occasional pencil-markings [ESTC N25828]Note: Very rare: ESTC traces nine copies in libraries world-wide; two copies traced at auction, the last in 1985. Jean-Georges Noverre's concept of ballet d'action revolutionised the performance of classical ballet. Volumes 1-2 comprise a translation of his Lettres sur la danse et sur les ballets, first published in 1760; the third volume contains treatments of his ballets The Danaides, Rinaldo and Armida, Adela of Ponthieu, The Graces, The Horatii and Curiatii, Agamemnon Revenged, and Apelles and Campaspe.

[Brooke, Frances] The History of Emily Montague London: J. Dodsley, 1769. 4 volumes, 12mo (16.7 x 9.7cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco labels, golden fleece motifs gilt to spine compartments (see note), half-titles, errata leaf to volume 4, volume 1 final leaf of text (L12) discarded [ESTC T72176; Sabin 8240] (4)Note: First edition of the first novel set and written in Canada. Brooke was in Quebec between 1763 and 1767, accompanying her husband who was chaplain to the British garrison. 'In the late eighteenth century the work also became a kind of guidebook for visitors to Quebec' (ODNB). Provenance: The Hon. George Baillie (c.1721-1797; ownership inscription to title-pages, engraved armorial bookplate of his antecedent George Ballie to front pastedowns, armorial binding); thence by descent to the Earls of Haddington.

[Cleland, John] Memoirs of *********** ** ************ [a Woman of Pleasure] London: printed for G. Fenton in the Strand, [?1755], 2 volumes, 12mo, 232pp. + 252pp., typographic ornament on title-pages, contemporary calf, gilt rule to boards, volume number gilt stamped to spines, ownership inscription 'M.F. Heise, 1785' on front free endpapers, the free endpapers also with small unobtrusive blindstamp of a ?princely coronet with initials 'W.W.', slightly rubbed, joints split or partly split, occasional light spotting, [ESTC T84804: BL copy only]; with a single contemporary manuscript annotation 'Navarino' in lower margin of page 191 volume 1 referencing the word 'untoward' which is underlinedNote: A very early edition of the first and the most famous erotic or pornographic novel in English. 'The novel, consisting of two letters addressed by the fictional character Frances “Fanny” Hill to a “Madam,” recounts in vivid and explicit detail Fanny’s transgressive sexual experiences from her adolescence through her middle age' (University of Indiana, 'Banned Books', online). The novel was perhaps the most heavily challenged book in court, in both England and the United States. It was first published unabridged in the United States by Putnam in 1963, but it was not until the landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Memoirs v. Massachussets (383 U.S. 413) in March 1966, that the ban imposed by the Attorney General of Massachusetts was lifted. Cleland [1710-1789] composed his novel while serving a sentence for debt in the Fleet Prison. According to his own testimony, it was written largely from boredom and, the early chapters anyway, was based on an idea '... originally give me by a young gentleman of the greatest hopes I ever knew, above eighteen years ago, on an occasion immaterial to mention here'. Volume one appeared about November 1748, and volume two was published in early February the following year. Both were printed by Thomas Parker for Ralph Griffiths and advertised in the press at three shillings each volume. 'In November 1749, a warrant was issued for the arrest of the author, publisher and printer of the book and by the end of the month, Cleland, Griffiths and Parker... were all on bail and awaiting trial' (Kearney, A History of Erotic Literature, p.66). The bookseller and publisher Ralph Griffiths blamed everything on his brother, Fenton Griffiths, whose inverted name, G. Fenton, was used for the book's false imprint. When examined before Lord Stanhope, the Law Clerk in the Secretary of State's office on 13 November 1749 Ralph Griffiths said he had sold about 60 sets of the said work. Cleland in his defence argued ingeniously that had he not been prosecuted the work would have died a quiet death and added, somewhat maliciously, that the clergy were amongst the keenest buyers of the work. Cleland and his associates were found guilty in court, and the novel was withdrawn, at least officially, from circulation. Despite losing the case, however, Cleland seems to have escaped lightly; no record of any punishment exists. Foxon states: 'There were four editions in which the title-page reads, with minor variations, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. London: printed for G. Fenton, 1749'; at least one of them was probably printed on the continent. Shortly after his release, Cleland produced a heavily bowdlerized version of the Memoirs, entitled Memoirs of Fanny Hill, which was published in March 1750. Ralph Griffiths was again prosecuted for this publication at the instigation of Bishops of the Church of England. In his defence Griffiths argued that he saw nothing wrong with the book as all the details of the sexual encounters had been omitted from the text. Indeed the book, as a result, is significantly shorter than the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Readers however did not embrace this watered down version of the more racy original which circulated widely in underground form for over two hundred years. The number of copies of the first edition of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is unknown but if Ralph Griffiths's claim that he had sold about sixty copies between November 1748 and November 1749 is true, it seems unlikely that more than a few hundred at most were ever printed. The number of copies printed of the present edition is also unknown but is probably no greater than the first edition. No copies of this edition are recorded being sold at auction since 1975. David Foxon notes "Editions C & D [with 1749 on the title-page], like the undated Memoirs of ********** cannot at present be dated at all precisely; probably they never will". ESTC notes the date as "? 1755". The copy of this edition reproduced in Eighteenth Century Collections Online has the front endpaper inscribed and dated 1759, indicating that this edition must have been printed by 1759 at the very latest. David Foxon. Libertine Literature in England 166-1745, Appendix. 1964

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Poems London: by N. Biggs, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. Third edition, 12mo (15.5 x 9.6cm), contemporary marbled calf, advertisement leaf to rear, bookplate (Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baron Gilmour, 1857-1939), rubbed, joints cracked; Byron, George Gordon, Lord. The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems. London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, first issue, 8vo, original wrappers, half-title, 4 pp. advertisements (dated November 1816), bookplate to half-title (J. R. Hutchinson, motto 'perseverando'), housed in customer green cloth chemise and slipcase with a copy of The Siege of Corinth, 1816, second edition, 8vo, original wrappers, 4 pp. advertisements, bookplate; Idem. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, first issue (with Doge's speech on p.151 beginning 'What crimes?'), 8vo, original boards, half-title, advertisement leaf, inner hinges strengthened, occasional spotting; and 19 others, poetry (these not collated), including: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, Two Poems. London: Chapman & Hall, 1854 (first edition, original wrappers); Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, 1852 (first edition, original wrappers); William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works, 1870 (Centenary Edition, 6 volumes, contemporary straight-grain red morocco); Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos XV. and XVI, 1824 (first edition, boards, Baron Gilmour bookplate); Swinburne, A Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade, 1876 (4 copies, first editions, original wrappers); and similar including more by Byron (27)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo The Complete Works. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1903-4 Autograph Centenary Edition, number 20 of 600 sets with a leaf of Emerson's autograph manuscript tipped into the first volume. 12 volumes, 8vo (22 x 14cm), original green crushed half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 56 photogravure plates, the set partly unopened, spines sunned (12)Provenance: Sir Alexander Stone (1907-1998), Scottish financier and benefactor.

Fernandez de Avellaneda, Alonso The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote, de ... With Illustrations and Corrections by the Licentiate Don Isidro Perales y Torres. And now first translation from the Spanish. Swaffham: D. Sudbury, 1805. 3 volumes, 12mo (17.5 x 9.5cm), contemporary 'Spanish' calf, neatly rebacked to style, Greek-key roll and twin fillet frame gilt to covers, marbled endpapers and edges, [2] 4 xliv 340, [2] 4 286, [2] 4 233 pp., engraved armorial bookplates (Thomas J. Woodward) (3)Note: Rare provincial English edition of the unauthorised continuation of Don Quixote, first published in Spanish in 1614, and in English in 1705; Library Hub traces three copies only.