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Hardyng (John). The Chronicle of Jhon Hardyng in metre fro the first begynnyng of Englade, unto ye reigne of Edwarde ye fourth where he made an end of his chronicle. And from yt time is added with a cotinuacion of the storie in prose to this our tyme, now first emprinted, gathered out of diuerse and sondrie autours of moste certain knowelage [et] substanciall credit, yt either in latin orels in our mother toungue haue writen of ye affaires of Englande, 2 works bound in 1, 1st edition, London: Richardi Graftoni, 1543, text in black letter, woodcut criblé initials, lacking *1-*8, d1-d8, Ss3-Ss8, Tt1-Tt2 but all neatly replaced with leaves from a 19th century letterpress edition (extended margins), also lacking G8 (blank), Aa1 (title of 2nd work), Tt3-Tt8 & Vv1-Vv8, majority of leaves window mounted and several leaves with repaired margins, very faint early marginalia to R2-R4, some worming to text, very light spotting, maroon morocco bookplate of William Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, 19th-century blind decorative calf rebacked preserving original spine, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC No: S103772; STC12766.7.Hardyng dedicated many years to composing this rhyming chronicle of England which was revised multiple times to align with the interests of his patrons. The first version, completed in 1437, had a Lancastrian bias and was dedicated to Henry VI. In 1543, the printer Richard Grafton published two editions of Hardyng’s chronicle. This second edition, often mistakenly thought to be the first by mid-20th-century librarians, was tailored to support Tudor claims of legitimacy and reinforced England’s contentious claims over Scotland, aligning with political narratives during the reign of Henry VIII.

Murchison (Roderick Impey). Siluria. The History of the Oldest Fossiliferous Rocks and their Foundations; with a brief sketch of the distribution of gold over the earth. Third edition with maps and many additional illustrations, London: John Murray, 1859, colour lithographic frontispiece, 41 uncoloured plates including 7 double-page, 32 pp. adverts (dated January 1859), folding geological map of the Silurian Rocks (420 x 395 mm) in pocket at rear, folding sketch map, tabular diagram and numerous wood engravings to text, occasional spotting and light old damp staining to plates and descriptive text leaves at rear, small bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, original blind-stamped brown cloth gilt, some fading to spine and extremities, large, thick 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).A good copy of the third edition of this landmark geological work, first published in 1854.

Culpeper (Nicholas). The English Physitian Enlarged; with Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines made of English Herbs, that were not in any Impression until this, London: for George Sawbridge, 1681, title torn with loss and repaired, lacking all leaves after Bb3, 19th-century marbled endpapers with John Fricker Library sticker numbered 3751 to front free endpaper (hinges crudely repaired), late 19th-century half calf, rebacked, bumped and rubbed, 8vo, together with: Henderson (William Augustus). The Housekeeper's Instructor; or, Universal Family-Cook..., London: Thomas Kelly [1811], engraved portrait frontispiece, decorative and letterpress title pages, engraved plates, ownership inscriptions to portrait frontispiece and front free endpaper, contemporary full calf, spine rubbed with loss, corners bumped, small 4to Cust (Mary Anne). The Invalid’s Own Book: A Collection of Recipes..., 1st edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1853, publishers advertisements to verso, publisher's original cloth, stained, small 8vo Francatelli (Charles Elme). The Cook's Guide, and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant..., London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1880, portrait frontispiece, illustrations to text, light spotting, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, publisher's cloth boards, small 8vo Filippini (Alexander). The International Cook Book..., New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907, bookplate of Paul Miles to front pastedown, contemporary half morocco, a little rubbed, 4to QTY: (5)NOTE:Wing C7511; ESTC R29495 for the first work.

Lipsius (Justus). Saturnalium Sermonum Libri Duo, qui de Gladiatoribus, nouiter correcti, auci, & formis aeneis illustrati, Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1585, title with large Plantin woodcut device, 3 folding etched plates only (the 4th folding plate supplied in photocopy facsimile), 12 full-page etched illustrations, occasional minor spotting, Airth bookplate, all edges red, modern morocco-backed boards, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams L806. The second Plantin edition, the first was published in 1582.

Nannus (Dominicus). Polyanthea. Opus suauissimis floribus exornatum, Basel: A. Petri de Langendorff, 1512, [8], CCXIX, [1] leaves, title printed in red and black with ornate woodcut border and signature to upper margin, decorative woodcut initials, occasional early underscoring to few lines of text and few marginal annotations, minor scattered worming slightly affecting first and last few leaves, light damp-stain to few margins mostly at rear of volume, modern boards covered in old letterpress printed paper, rubbed and lacking back strip, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:This edition not in Adams. A dictionary of scholastic terms being an encyclopaedic work containing a huge number of citations, in prose and verse, on all manner of subjects: chastity, Eucharist, excommunication, fame, glory etc. Also useful as a dictionary for interpreting emblem and allegorical literature

Darwin (Charles). Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N., 1st edition, tenth thousand, London: John Murray, 1860, Postscript on p. vii, 3 wood-engraved illustrations, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements at end dated December 1861, ink ownership monogram or flourish to title, Contents pages lightly toned, Edmonds & Remnants ticket to rear pastedown, hinges cracked, original green cloth gilt, minor rubbing and marks, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Freeman 20.An attractive, bright copy of the final definitive text, with postscript. ‘His first published book is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to Origin of the Species as the most often printed. It is an important travel book in its own right and its relation to the background of his evolutionary ideas has often been stressed’ (Freeman).

Bell (Charles). The Nervous System of the Human Body. Embracing the papers delivered to the Royal Society on the subject of the nerves, 1st edition thus, London: Longman, Rees, Orm, Brown, and Green, and J. Taylor, 1830, xxiii (including half-title), 238, clxxvi, and nine full-page engraved plates at rear, some scattered spotting, becoming stronger towards rear of volume (the plates generally being more heavy spotted), occasional oval library stamp of the Lancaster Lunatic Asylum to tiele and each plate, modern green cloth reback with spine label renewed, 4to, together withAbercrombie (John). Pathological and Practical Researches on Diseases of the Brian and the Spinal Cord, 2nd edition, enlarged, Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes, 1829, library stamp to title of the Society of Apothecaries of London and the Webb Street School of Anatomy & Medicine Library, several further ink stamps of the Webb Street library elsewhere, occasional minor spotting, Society of Apothecaries bookplate, dated 1882 to front pastedown, 19th-century half calf, rubbed and marked, re-cased retaining original spine, 8vo, plusKato (Genichi). The Theory of Decrementless Conduction in Narcotised Region of Nerve, & The Further Studies on Decrementless Conduction, together 2 volumes, Toyoko: Nankodo, March 1924, & February 1926, monochrome plates to each including several folding, both original cloth gilt, 8vo, and others related on the nervous system including Charles Radcliffe, Epilepsy and other Affections of the Nervous System, 1854, James George Davey, The Ganglionic Nervous System, 1858, J. M. Charcot, Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System, First & Second Series, translated and edited by George Sigerson, 2 volumes, London: New Sydenham Society, 1877/81 respectively, J. Luys, The Brain and its Functions, 1881, W, R Gowers, Lectures on the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Brain, 1885, John Wyllie, The Disorders of Speech, Edinburgh, 1894, etc., all 8voQTY: (13)NOTE:Garrison & Morton 1258 (Bell), where this work is described as a second edition. Bell had published the papers on the nervous system which were delivered to The Royal Society in 1824, under the title An Exposition of the Natural System of the Nerves of the Human Body, containing 144 pages and 4 plates. The present work contains many additional case studies, and includes the author's discovery of Bell's Palsy, as well as the first description of Myotonia.

Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll'). Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Macmillan, 1872, frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, lacking 2 advertisement leaves at end, a few spots, hinges broken with text block loose, modern red half morocco gilt, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 84.The first issue, with 'wade' for 'wabe' on page 21.

RAF Pilots' Handbook of the Cairo-Baghdad Route. Royal Air Force Pilots' Handbook of the Cairo-Baghdad Route, HMSO, revised (i. e. second) edition, January 1926, 12 double-page colour air-route maps, Appendix I & II contained in rear pocket, illustrations, a few light stains, previous owner inscriptions erased from front cover verso, 'Notes for Pilots Reconnoitring Tribal Areas in Iraq' booklet loosely inserted (with 2 leaves detached, some stains), original wallet-style cloth, spine faded with small splits, front flap splitting along fold, a little bowed with light stains, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:The second edition, the first was published in 1923, and the third edition in 1929. All editions are rare. The preface states 'This book has been compiled with the object of providing pilots using the air route between Cairo and Baghdad, with a concise, and at the same time adequate compendium of instructions, orders and notes of general information which can be easily handled and referred to in the air.''In 1921, Winston Churchill, then secretary of state for the colonies was outraged that letters from London to Baghdad were taking 28 days. Much too slow for running an empire. An airmail line would cut that to under nine, and serve as a critical link in a path extending from Europe to India and eventually Australia. The missing piece was Cairo to Baghdad, 860 miles - and 540 of that was flat hardpan desert... The solution - an unsophisticated one - was to simply mark a line along the ground. Pilots could follow it, a downed plane could be found near it, and fuel caches could be placed along it...' (Graham Chandler in Air and Space magazine, June 2018). After the exhaustive groundwork was completed, the inaugural flight of two bombers (a DH-9 and DH-10) was made on June 23, 1921, the Royal Air Force handing over the route to Imperial Airways in 1926.

Bible [German]. Biblia, Das ist, die gantze Heilige Schrifft, Deudsch. D. Mart. Luth...., Wittenberg: [Hans Krafft Erben], 1581, general title in red and black with decorative woodcut border (trimmed to border edge and remargined,Prophets part title in red and black with decorative woodcut border, numerous woodcut illustrations by Hans Brosamer including large portrait illustration with central small hole to image, decorative initials, double-column gothic script, occasional close trimming to marginal notes, first and last few leaves torn (some with text loss) and repaired, few other leaves torn with loss and repaired, full-page woodcut trimmed to border and lined to verso, some toning, damp-staining and scattered spotting, recent endpapers, contemporary blind decorated calf over wooden boards, brass corner pieces and central boss to each board, modern neat reback, lacking clasps, folio (36.5 x 22.5 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:This edition of the Lutheran Bible not in Darlow and Moule.Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

Valerius Maximus (Gaius). [Facta et dicta memorabilia. Valerius Maximus cum commento Oliverii Arzignanensis Vicentini], Venice: Boneti Locatelli, for Octaviani Scoti, 30 April 1493, 206 (of 210) folios, numbered in roman numerals (signatures a-z, [con]8, [rum]10), lacking the first three leaves including title-page (a1-3), and the final blank leaf at end (rum10), printed head-line and 64 lines of commentary surrounding the main text, fine large white-on-black decorative initials, printer's woodcut device at end, capitals extensively supplied throughout in red and blue, with other textual marks neatly supplied in the same colours, early sections of the main text (principally concerning prodigies, dreams and miracles) with contemporary annotations in brown ink, scattered wormholes to the first third of the volume (not affecting legibility), several leaves with light browning, occasional minor stains, old blind-panelled full calf (probably late 16th or 17th-century), good-quality 19th century light brown calf reback, spine gilt with black morocco gilt labels, rubbed and marked, folio (shet size 297 x 200 mm), contained in modern purpose-made drop-over maroon cloth bookboxQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Possibly William Sotheby (1757-1833), grandson of James Sotheby (1682-1742), of Sewardstone (Epping Forest), and later Ecton Hall (with pencil inscription to verso of front endpaper 'Sotheby b17'); W. Richter, bookseller, London.; where purchased by George Jones by 1886 (inscribed to verso of front endpaper 'George Jones bought 14.10.86... from W. Richter, 45 Booksellers Row, W.C. This is my first XV Century purchase'.Goff V40. Hain/Copinger 15792. BMC V 441.The nine books of Memorable Deeds and Sayings by Valerius Maximus, a collection of around 1000 short tales and anecdotes of Roman life, arranged under topical headings as exempla, with an extensive commentary by Oliverius Arzignanensis of Vicenza, was popular throughout the Renaissance as it provided the main sourcebook of information on aspects of Roman life that were increasingly admired and emulated, especially in Italy and France. First printed in Strasbourg about 1470, this edition was printed nine times by 1500 (this being the fifth); in 1510 the eminent Parisian printer and editor Josse Bade published an edition with his own commentary added to that of Arzignanensis that went through some 30 printings in the 16th century in Paris, Venice and Milan.James Sotheby (1682-1742), a London merchant, was a keen collector of manuscripts and early printed books, who purchased Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire in 1673.The estate passed on to his son, also named James, who was born in 1682. The younger James's collection of books and manuscripts was inherited by his grandson William Sotheby, who was born on 9 November 1757, the eldest of four children of Colonel William Sotheby of the Coldstream Guards (the fourth son of James Sotheby and the grandson of the original purchaser of Sewardstone) and Elizabeth Sloane. The library at Ecton Halll was subsequently sold at auction on 24 July 1924.

Marmont du Hautchamp (Barthélémy). Histoire des finances sous la minorité de Louis XV. Pendant les années 1719 & 1720. Précedée d’un abrégé de la vie du Duc Regent, & du Sr. Law, 6 volumes in 3, 1st edition, The Hague: Pierre La Hondt, 1739, titles printed in red and black, engraved plate (Admiré la Forces) in volume 4, 2 folding tables (Billets de Banque…) printed on both sides in volume 6, without sole half-title to volume 1, marbled edges, contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt with floral motifs and contrasting red and blue morocco labels, lower cover of first volume slightly scuffed, 12mo (158 x 94 mm) QTY: (3)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020). Einaudi 3728; Goldsmiths’ 7712; Kress 4447. First and only edition. An important economic history, preceded by an abridgement of the life of John Law, including discussions of commerce, the general bank, the circulation of specie, the system of credit, and the decadence of the French system of finances. It offers the best contemporary source on the financial activities of John Law and the Banque Générale, Banque Royale and the Compagnie des Indes.

Cavallo (Tiberius). The Elements of Natural or Experimental Philosophy, 4 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803, 29 engraved folding plates, spotting, mismatched contemporary half calf, first and final volume lacking spine labels, some wear, 8voQTY: (4)

Bible [English]. [The Holie Bible conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe, London: R. Jugge, 1568], lacking general title and 8 other leaves (Sum of Scriptures, 1st & 4th leaves of Genealogies, final leaf of Prologue/Description of Years, leaf of Order of Books, leaf V2 of Revelations, leaf V5 last leaf of Table/colophon and leaf V6 final blank), each provided in neat facsimile, New Testament title present with several ownership annotations including 'Miss Peggy Ogilvy 1753' and 'Geo. U. Adam 1818', numerous woodcut illustrations, engraved portraits of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and several decorative initials throughout, double-column black letter text, title to third part with ownership annotation 'Margaret Ogilvie her Bible 1753', some damp-staining particularly to calendar and initial leaves of Genesis, several minor paper repairs to margins (mostly first and last few leaves, three leaves of genealogies and two of Revelations with more significant loss impacting text), occasional light marginal dust-soiling, near contemporary panelled calf over wooden boards, 4 of 8 brass corner pieces to boards, brass clasps present, modern calf title label to spine, folio (39 x 26.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 89; Herbert 125; STC 2099.The first edition of the 'Bishops' Bible', A revision of the Great Bible version, undertaken by Matthew Parker (1504-1575), Archbishop of Canterbury, with the assistance of many bishops and well-known Biblical scholars. The Bishops Bible was the most lavishly illustrated folio Bible in English, which replaced the Great Bible for church use. Part 2 title page contains an engraved portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, within an oval frame with the motto Droit et Loyal. At the beginning of the Psalter occurs an engraving of William Cecil, Lord Burghley. The verso of the New Testament title with woodcut armorial initial to first word containing Archbishop Parkers' arms quartered with those of Christchurch, Canterbury, including the printed initials M P, and the date 1568. This is sometimes called the 'Treacle Bible,' though the rendering triacle in Jer. viii. 22is found in many Bibles of an earlier date, from 1535 downwards. A curious note occurs at xlv. 9: Ophir is thought to be the Ilande in the west coast, of late founder by Christopher Columbo: frō whence at this day is brought most fine golde.

Fabyan (Robert). The Chronicle of Fabian whiche he nameth the concordaunce of histories, newly perused. And continued from the beginnyng of Kyng Henry the seuenth, to thende of Queene Mary, [&] The second volume of Fabians Chronicle, conteinyng the Chronicles of Englande & of France from the beginning of the reigne of king Richard the first, until thr rand of the reigne of Charles the nineth, 2 volumes, 4th edition, London: Jhon Kyngston, 1559, titles within decorative woodcut borders, decorative woodcut initials, title of volume 1 with loss to margins and repaired with later paper, first few leaves of volume 1 with repaired margins from worming and small closed tears, k5 with long closed tear into text from outer margin, D2 with tear to lower corner, H4 with old repair to inner top margin, some marginal worming, mostly affecting q-u and ll-zz gatherings, ll2 mispaginated as ll3 (volume 2), lacking n1 in volume 1 and PP3, ZZZ2-ZZZ5 and BBB1-BBB6 inclusive in volume 2, endpapers renewed, volume 1 bound in contemporary calf rebacked, corners bumped, volume 2 bound in modern calf to style, a few light scuffs to spines, 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:The fourth, final and most complete edition of the 'best and most complete early history of England' (Rosenbach), a significant source for Shakespeare’s history plays and a valuable record of the earliest naval engagements fought by England.

[Stubbe, Henry]. A Justification of the Present War Against the United Netherlands. Wherein the Declaration of His Majesty is Vindicated and the War Proved to be Just, Honourable and Necessary, 1st edition, London: printed for Henry Hills and John Starkey, 1676, 2 folding engraved plates, bound with A Further Justification of the Present War Against the United Netherlands, 1st edition, London: Henry Hills and John Starkey, 1673, engraved frontispiece (close-trimmed at outer margin), folding plate (close-trimmed and laid down), double-page plate, lacking plates C & D (i.e. 2 plates of coins), final leaf with small loss and archival tissue repair, bound with The Dutch Usurpations: or A Brief View of the Behaviour of the States-General of the United Provinces Towards the Kings of Great Britain: with some of their cruelties and injustices exercised upon the subjects of the English Nation, by William de Britaine, 1st edition, London: printed for Jonathan Edwin,1672, woodcut headpiece and initial, some light spotting and toning overall, Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet bookplates, modern brown library buckram gilt, 8vo, together with Stubbe (Henry). A Further Justification of the Present War Against the United Netherlands, large paper copy, 1st edition, London: printed for Henry Hills and John Starkey, 1673, engraved frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, including one folding, some light spotting and toning, later calf with The Society of Writers to the Signet gilt stamps, rebacked and repaired, a little rubbed, small 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:First work ESTC 474717; Second work ESTC 30154.

Galton (Francis). Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1869, 2 folding tables, illustrations, 'Directions to the Binder' slip, publisher's catalogue at rear, front endpaper detached, marginal water stain to half-title and following few leaves, 'From the Publishers' inscription to half-title, hinges tender, original cloth gilt, spine faded with tears at ends, light edge wear, 8vo, together with Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1883, 4 plates including double-page chromolithograph plate, some light spotting front and rear, small abrasion to front endpaper, original cloth, spine faded, a few light marks to covers, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Garrison-Morton 226; Norman 864; Osler 1599; Waller 15950 for first work. 'Galton investigated the families of great men and suggested that genius was hereditary, and thus founded the science of Eugenics, although he did not coin the word until 1883' Garrison-Morton).Garrison-Morton 230; Norman 866; Osler 1597; Waller 5403 for second work. 'In his important Inquiries he showed mathematically "the results of his experiments on the relations between the powers of visual imagery and of abstract thought, of the associations between the elements of different sense departments, of the correlation of mental traits, the associations of words, and the times taken in making the associations" (T. K. Penniman). The word "eugenics" first appears in the above book.' (Garrison-Morton).

Moore (Jonas). A New Systeme of the Mathematicks, volume 1 (of 2), comprising parts I-VII (of VIII), 1st edition, London: printed by A. Godbin and J. Playford, for Robert Scott, 1681, additional engraved title, letterpress title printed in red and black, 40 engraved plates (including 36 folding, one with volvelle), engraved illustrations (one with volvelle), three folding plates with closed tears (one repaired) and another torn with loss, damp-staining throughout mostly to upper outer corners, occasional light dust-soiling, endpapers recently renewed, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked preserving original spine with green morocco title label, extremities rubbed, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:This first volume contains the sections on Arithmetick, Geometry, Trigonometry, Cosmography, Navigation, the Doctrine of the Sphere, Algebra, Euclid and the Surds. The second volume (not present) contains the New Geography.

French Academy of Sciences. Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences. Année MDCXCIX[-MDCCIII]. Avec les Memoires de Mathematique & de Physique, pour la même Année. Tirez des Registres de cette Académie, 5 volumes with two parts to each volume, Amsterdam: Gerard Kuyper, 1706-1707, titles printed in red and black with engraved printer’s device, engraved frontispiece to each volume, with the privilege leaf in each volume printed in Dutch, 71 engraved plates and tables, many folding, woodcut initials, Catalogue des Livres at rear of volumes 2 (11 pp.), 3 (7 pp.), 4 (3 pp.) & 5 (5 pp.), scattered minor spotting, contemporary matching continental polished calf, spines richly gilt with five raised bands and gilt-titled red and green morocco labels, minor rubbing, 12mo (160 x 90 mm)QTY: (5)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020). Wolf, History of Science Technology & Philosophy, XVIth & XVIIth Centuries, pp. 63-67. Linda Hall Library, Milestones in the History of Science, (1956), p. 27. Thornton, Scientific Books, Libraries & Collectors, pp. 264-5. Not in the British Library. Complete first edition of this printing following the Academy’s complete reorganisation and enlargement by Bignon in 1699. The Académie des Sciences of Paris, like its counterpart, the Royal Society of London, began with regular meetings of a small group of French scientists and philosophers, including Descartes, Pascal and Fermat. The Académie, authorized by Louis XIV himself, held its first official meeting on 22 December 1666, and from the beginning concerned itself exclusively with scientific subjects. It published a celebrated series, the ‘Histoire’ and ‘Memoires’, covering its early researches and investigations covering the years from 1699.

Shaw (William). A Galic and English Dictionary. Containing all the words in the Scotch and Irish Dialects of the Celtic, that could be collected from the Voice, and Old Books and MSS, 2 volumes bound in one, 1st edition, London: W. & A. Strahan, 1780, 4 pp. subscribers’ list, double column, contemporary ink ownership inscription of 'J. Hamilton' at head of first title, a little spotting, contemporary tree calf, red morocco spine label, somewhat scuffed, some cracking and wear to joints, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020). First and only edition of the first Gaelic/English dictionary.

Ferne (John). The Blazon of Gentrie: Devided into two parts, The first named The Glorie of Generositie. The Second, Lacyes Nobilitie. Comprehending discourses of Armes and of Gentry. Wherein is treated of the beginning, parts, and degrees of Gentlenesse, with her lawes: Of the Bearing, and Blazon of Cote-armors: Of the Lawes of Armes, and of Combats..., 1st edition, London: printed for John Windet, for Toby Cooke, 1586, [20], 341, [3], 130 pp,decorative woodcut initials, head and tail pieces, numerous woodcuts armorials, genealogical charts, contemporary ownership inscription of Ro. Wilkinson in brown ink to lower margin of title, another early ownership inscription scratched out (some weakening of paper) above imprint, small losses to upper outer margins of title with inner margin and outer margin reinforced to verso with later paper, Lvi with loss and later paper repair to outer corner, final leaf with small loss to lower inner margin affecting one or two words, inner margin reinforced to verso with later paper, minor marginal water staining, 17th-century full calf, modern reback, edges refurbished, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 10824; Moule XXXIV.

Bentham (Jeremy). Rationale of Judicial Evidence, specially applied to English Practice from the Manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham, Esq., 5 volumes, 1st edition, London: Hunt & Clarke, 1827, half-titles (bound after main title in volume 4), final blank with printer’s imprint present at rear of volume 2 only, ink ownership stamp of Lewis D. Stubbs to front free endpapers, a little spotting and marginal browning at front and rear of each volume, mostly from previous turn-ins, modern green morocco-backed marbled boards with gilt-titled contrasting morocco spine labels, spines faded, 8vo (214 x 132 mm)QTY: (5)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Uncommon first edition of this landmark in the field of legal philosophy. It was edited from Bentham’s manuscript, with a preface, by John Stuart Mill.

[Qu’ran]. The Alcoran of Mahomet, Translated out of Arabick into French by the Sieur du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and Resident for the French King, at Alexandria. And Newly Englished, for the Satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish Vanities. To which is prefixed, the Life of Mahomet, The Prophet of the Turks, and Author of the Alcoran…, London: Randal Taylor, 1688, [20], xviii, [32], 511, [1] pp., a little spotting and light dampstaining to lower margins throughout, a few early leaves creased, contemporary speckled calf, upper cover detached and lower joints cracked, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).British Library, Arabic Books I, 887; Wing K748.Reprint of the first English translation of the Qur'an of 1649. It was translated into English from André du Ryer's French edition of 1647.

Holinshed (Raphael). [The First volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irlande, containing, The description and Chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting unto the conquest. The descriptions and Chronicles of Scotland, from the first original of the Scots nation, till the year of our Lorde 1571. The description and Chronicles of Ireland, likewise, from the first original of that Nation, until the year 1547, faithfully gathered and set forth by Raphael Holinshed] [&] The last volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande with their descriptions, conteyning The Chronicles of England from William Conqueror until this present tyme faithfully gathered and compiled by Raphaell Holinshed, together 2 works bound in 3, 1st edition, London: John Hunne, 1577, titles for Scotland and Ireland present, each with woodcut borders, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout (several images duplicated), volume 1 lacking ¶1 (general title) and Ee7 in England, E7 in Scotland, E6, E7, E8 cancelled leaves, G4, G5, H2, H3, H4, H5, and final 3 leaves from Ireland, volume 2 lacking ¶1, ¶2, t2, u6, u8 and volume 3 lacking index leaves M1-M4 & N1-N2, duplicate of E1 tipped into volume 2, facsimile folding engraved map of Edinburgh bound after Yyyy6 in volume 3, some contemporary marginalia and underlining, erroneous page numbering and some leaves misbound, some leaves torn with minor loss and some with repairs mostly to volume 1, minor marginal worm holes to Y-SS gatherings in volume 3, some pages with short closed tears and lightly shaved with minor loss to printed marginal notes, areas of light water staining and dust soiling, Gloucestershire County library ink stamp to pastedowns, modern calf with gilt lettering to spine, folioQTY: (3)NOTE:STC 13568b; Pforzheimer 494. This work is considered the single most important chronicle written in English in the 16th century and is perhaps best known as one of the primary sources for the plays of William Shakespeare, who used it extensively for Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Cymbeline. The first edition of Holinshed's great narrative history of the British Isles 'is of great importance not only because the illustrations were omitted in the second but also because of the variant texts. It is, moreover..., the rarer book' (Pforzheimer).

Mickle (William Julius, editor and translator). The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India. An Epic Poem. Translated from the Original Portuguese of Luis de Camöens, 2nd edition, Oxford: Jackson & Lister for J. Bew, T. Payne, J. Dodsley, et al., 1778, etched frontispiece (slightly offset to title), folding engraved map (offsetting), contemporary tree calf with red morocco label, rebacked with spine relaid, some edge wear, 4to (273 x 210 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020). Goldsmiths’ 11720. The second edition, but the first to contain Mickle’s criticism of Adam Smith’s view of the East India Trade, so being one of the earliest criticisms of Smith’s laissez-faire doctrines in The Wealth of Nations (see pp. clxi-clxxxvi).

Lloyd (Lodowick). The Pilgrimage of Princes, penned out of sundry Greeke and Latine aucthours, London: printed by [J. Charlewood and J. Kingston for] William Jones, and are to be solde at his newe long Shop at the West doore of Powles [1573], [8], 168, 165-172, 117, 178-188, 185-218, [2] (*4, **4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Kkk4), title with woodcut decorative border supplied in facsimile, black letter text, many 9-line woodcut initials, woodcut tail-pieces, early ownership signature 'Tho Willoughby M : 2 : 8' to *2 (dedicatory acrostic poem to Christopher Hatton), contemporary ownership inscription in brown ink to lower blank margin of F1, small wormtrack and damp-stain visible to lower inner blank margins of signatures V-Z and Aa-Hh, not affecting text, a few marks and very light marginal soiling elsewhere, modern endpapers, contemporary brown dark brown full calf with decorative oval impressed blind stamp to each cover, rubbed and some marks, some restoration to spine, and title label renewed, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 16624. Printers' names and publication date conjectured by STC.First edition of Lloyd's lengthy book of manners for princes, full of moralising stories and examples taken from both classical mythology and biblical literature.

Hippocrates. Octoginta volumina, 1st edition, Rome: Franciscus Minutius Calvus, 1525, 410 leaves, title within ornamental woodcut border (faint library stamp at upper margin), table of contents in two columns, index in three columns, printed shoulder notes, two large woodcut initials, roman, italic and gothic type, initial spaces with printed guide letters, colophon and final blank present, old marginal pen mark to 2L5v and marginal note to 3M3r, archival closed tear repairs to upper margins of leaves H3-5 not touching text, small tear with loss to lower outer corner of leaf P2 not affecting text, a little spotting and light browning and old dampstaining to upper margins throughout, occasional faint ink library stamps to lower blank margins of nine text leaves, very minor worming to lower margins towards rear and a few trivial single wormholes to upper margins of last few leaves including colophon and final blank, armorial bookplate of Johnstone to front pastedown, marbled endpapers, early 19th-century morocco, lettered gilt, spine darkened and some dark staining to covers, joints cracked and tender, slightly rubbed and a little wear to extremities, folio (280 x 205 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Provenance: 1. Johnstone, armorial bookplate, either Edward Johnstone [1757-1851], physician, first President of the provincial Medical & Surgical Association, one of the original physicians of the Birmingham General Hospital; or his brother John Johnstone [1768-1836] physician at the General Hospital. Gifted to: 2. Birmingham General Hospital, founded 1779, whose books were gifted to: 3. Birmingham Medical Institute Library founded 1875; 4. The BMI Library sold through these rooms in 2012, this book sold on 18 April, lot 201. Adams H567; BMI I, 201; Heirs of Hippocrates 10; Norman 1076; Osler 149; PMM 55; Waller 4495; Wellcome 3177. First complete Latin edition of the works of Hippocrates, printed a year before the Editio princeps was published in Greek. Calvo wrote out his own version of the Greek text, drawn from a number of sources, and then made his Latin translation from the compiled Greek text. ‘This historically important book ... must be regarded as the definitive Hippocrates’ (Heirs of Hippocrates). An excellent large copy, with interesting provenance, and, uncommonly, with the woodcut title-page border entirely unshaved.

Brun de la Combe (Joseph André). Nouveau Plan de Culture, de Finance et d'Économie…, [no place or publisher], Envoyé à l’Assemblée Nationale le 20 Septembre 1790, [2], iv, 16, [1]-283, 276bis-283, 284-354, 353bis-354, 355-358, [4], 359-480, [4] pp., part-titles at p. 209 and after p. 358, pp. 309-10 cancel, two errata leaves at end, contemporary ink ownership inscription (shaved) of Col. Burke at head of title, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, worn, upper joints weak and lower cover detached, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:First edition of Brun de la Combe's proposals to the National Assembly to reform France's society and economy. There are seemingly at least two variant issues, this copy having the pagination as noted, including the additional ‘bis’ cancel leaves. A note at the foot of p. 284 gives an explanation for the 8 additional pages found in this issue.

Boccaccio (Giovanni). A Treatise excellent and compe[n]dious, shewing and declaring, in maner of Tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable Princes and Princesses with other Nobles, through mutabilitie and change of unstedfast Fortune together with thier most detestable & wicked vices. First compyled in Latin by the excellent clerke Bocatius, an Italian borne. And sence that tyme translated into our English and Vulgare tong, by Dan John Lidgate Monke of Burye. And nowe newly imprynted, corrected, and augmented out of diverse and sundry olde writen copies in parchment, London: Richard Tottel, 10 September 1554, ¶6, A-Y6 Aa-Pp6, ¶¶6, lacking woodcut title and following five leaves (¶1-6), and final leaf at end (¶¶6), all supplied in modern careful facsimile to match, black letter in double column, 12 half-page woodcut illustrations (including the one to the final leaf, here supplied in facsimile), contemporary or near-contemporary ink annotations to A1, F3, and R6 (an illustration, or doodle, of a mermaid to verso of the leaf), A1-4 with neat archival restorations to extreme lower blank margins and outer corners (A4 with repair to lower outer corner with loss of a few words), occasional minor soiling and a few small unobtrusive stains to margins, small wormhole to signatures B-C, with loss of a few letters, generally not affecting legibility, endpapers renewed, bookplate of George Ralph Charles 3rd Baron Harlech (designed by A. Wyon) to front pastedown, contemporary roll-tooled blindstamped full calf, rubbed and somewhat worn, modern recase, with spine lettered in gilt 'The Booke of John Bochas', and original binding laid down to covers, folio (sheet size 27.5 x 19 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech (1855-1938), Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire (bookplate). Baron Harlech resided at Brogyntyn Hall, northwest of Oswestry, Shropshire. Home to the Ormsey-Gore family from 1815, it was abandoned circa 1985, and eventually sold by the 6th Baron Harlech in 2001. Former owner Sir Robert Owen of Brogyntyn (died 1698) was a bibliophile whose family had established a tradition of patronage of poets and writers as well as a fine collection of books and manuscripts. Accompanying the present copy is a three-page typewritten description and identification of the work, signed in ink Wm Williams (presumably of the National library of Wales), and dated 6 December 1945.Pforzheimer 74; STC 3177; Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books, 3177.Third edition of the 1494 verse paraphrase by John Lydgate of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium, a collection of moralistic tales of the misfortunes of famous people. Lydgate based his translation, which he began at the request of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester (youngest brother of Henry V), around 1431 and completed in 1438 or 1439, on the 1476 French version by Laurent de Premierfait. 'The long task weighed heavily even on Lydgate, who makes a number of semi-comic references to it, and at some point wrote a begging poem, the Letter to Gloucester (Minor Poems, 665-7), a witty request for funds.' (ODNB). Lydgate was to fall spectacularly from grace in the wake of his wife's arrest for practising witchcraft against Henry VI. He was arrested in 1447 and died shortly thereafter.Appended to this third edition is the first appearance of Lydgate's Daunce of Machabree, apparently the earliest printed version of the Dance of Death in English. The work is illustrated with striking woodcuts which ‘deserve to be ranked as among the best of English sixteenth century wood-engravings’ (Pforzheimer).

Snell (James). A Practical Guide to Operations on the Teeth. To Which is Prefixed a Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Dental Surgery, 1st American edition, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832, 5 engraved plates, contemporary, large ink ownership name of James B. Eames at head of title, some spotting, uncut, old cloth-backed boards, some soiling and wear to backstrip, 8vo, together with:Ruspini (Bartholomew), A Treatise on the Teeth…, 3 parts in one, 8th edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1797, [4], 75, [1], [2], 43, [1], 60 pp., first leaf blank, separate title to second part, original printed pink wrappers, rubbed, some loss to spine, lower wrapper slightly creased, 12mo, preserved in a gilt-titled cloth wallet with button fastenerQTY: (2)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Snell's book was first published in London in 1831. The illustrations include an operating chair and various dental instruments. In the historical sketch Snell refers to the works of Martin, Berdmore, Fauchard, Geraudy, Larini, Mouton, Lecluse, Bunun, Dubois de Chemant, Hunter, Blake and Fox. The chapters include The Operating Chair, Extraction of the Teeth, Excision of the Teeth, The Dental Mirror, Stopping, Scaling the Teeth and Ligatures for Fastening Loose Teeth.

[Stevenson, William]. [Book-Keeping by Double Entry: reduced, in its theory, to one simple rule; and applied, in its practice, to all the variety of accompts necessary to be kept by The Shop-Keeper, Merchant, Banker, Landed Gentleman, Steward or Factor upon a Landed Gentleman's Estate, and Farmer: All exemplified in Sets of Books adapted to each Kind of Business; with Specimens of the most necessary Subsidiary Books in Business. By William Stevenson some Time Merchant in Rotterdam, And present Teacher of Book-Keeping, authorised by Act of Council of the City of Edinburgh], 1st edition, [Edinburgh : printed by R. Stirling for the author, 1762], [4], v, [1], 18, [178] pp., lacks the first two (title and dedication) leaves and final three leaves (B132, C131-2), 4 pp. subscribers’ list (torn with small loss affecting a few letters of final three lines of recto and verso), final leaf (B131) torn with loss affecting text of lower inner margin, some spotting, scattered contemporary ink marks and minor stains, ink ownership inscription of ‘W. Gordon, 1801’ to front and read free endpapers, contemporary calf-backed boards, cracked on joints, worn, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Very rare. ESTC T113297.

Henty (G. A.). To Herat and Cabul, a story of the first Afghan war, 1st edition, London: Blackie & Son, 1902, frontispiece, 7 black and white illustrations, double-page map, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, lightly marked, spine a little faded, 8vo, together with:The Tiger of Mysore, a story of the war with Tippoo Saib, 1st edition, London: Blackie & Son, 1896, frontispiece, 11 black and white illustrations, map and 2 plans, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements, a few stains to covers, 8vo, withWith Frederick The Great, a story of the seven years' war, 1st edition, London: Blackie & Son, 1898, frontispiece, 11 black and white illustrations, map, further in-text diagrams, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, all edges gilt, original pictorial red cloth gilt, some wear, 8vo, plusFenn (G. Manville). Trapped by Malays, a tale bayonet and kris, 1st edition, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1907, frontispiece, 7 black and white illustrations, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges spotted, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with 6 shelves of clothbound Henty and related volumesQTY: (6 shelves)

Valerius Maximus. Valerii Maximi Dictorum et factorum memorabilium libri novem, 1st edition, 1st issue, Venice: Aldus the Elder, October, 1502, printer's woodcut anchor device to title [*1] and colophon leaf cc8, early underscoring and marginal notes in brown ink, manuscript page numbers to upper outer corners, all edges gilt (with evidence of gauffering), 19th-century olive green morocco by 'Canape R. D.' with gilt embossed Aldus anchor device to upper board, spine evenly faded to brown, 8vo (16.4 x 9 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Adams V82; Renouard 36:10.An uncommon first issue. In later issues, the initial gathering contained additional leaves of content.

Kavan (Anna). Sleep Has His House, 1st UK edition, London: Cassell & Company, 1948, original red cloth, spine faded, small hole to foot of upper joint, a few extremities lightly frayed, dust jacket, extremities frayed and creased with some small loss, some red marks to rear panel, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:A rare example of the first UK edition. The work was published in the United States the year prior.

[Caradoc, of Llancarvan]. [The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales: a part of the most famous yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language aboue two hundreth yeares past: translated into English by H. Lhoyd Gentleman: corrected, augmented, and continued out of records and best approoued authors, by Dauid Powel Doctor in divinitie, imprinted at London by Rafe Newberie and Henrie Denham, 1584], lacking title and 28 other leaves (comprising preliminary and final leaves), few woodcut illustrations, black letter text, some dust-soiling and marks, typed label to front free endpaper, early 19th-century calf, lacking upper board, lower board detached, 8vo, together with: Barlow (Thomas). Brutum Fulmen: or The Bull of Pope Pius V. concerning the Damnation, Excommunication, and Deposition of Q. Elizabeth, as also the Absolution of her subjects from their Oath of Allegiance, with a Peremptory Injunction, upon pain of an Anathema, never to obey any of her Laws or Commands. With some Observations and Animadversions upon it. By Thomas Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Whereunto is annex'd the Bull of Pope Paul the Third, containing the Damnation, Excommunication, &c. of King Henry the Eighth, 2nd edition, London: printed by S. Roycroft for Robert Clavel, 1681, contemporary calf, morocco title label to spine, joints cracked and weak, extremities rubbed, 4to,Charles I. The Trial of Charles the First, King of England, before the High Court of Justice, for High-Treason: Begun January 20, in the 24th year of his reign, and continued to the 27th. To which is added, the Journal of the High-Court of Justice, for the Trial of the King, as it was read in the House of Commons, and attested by Mr. Phelps, Clerk to that Court. With additions, by J. Nalson Doctor of the Civil Laws, London: printed and sold by the booksellers in town and country, 1740, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, some browning and spotting, armorial bookplate of Sir Charles Larcom, Bt., adhesive fabric tape to endpaper hinges, early 19th-century diced calf, worn and boards detached, 8vo in 4s, plus other 18th and 19th-century miscellaneous antiquarian including Gentleman's Magazine, and history related, etc.QTY: (2 cartons)

Michel (Walter). Wyndham Lewis paintings and drawings, 1st edition, London: Thames and Hudson, 1971, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, price clipped, lightly rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, together with; Edwards (Paul), Wyndham Lewis painter and writer, 1st edition, London: Yale University Press, 2000, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed and marked, large 8vo, plus Cork (Richard), Vorticism and Abstract Art in the first Machine Age, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Gordon Fraser, 1976, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets with slipcase, spine slightly discoloured volume 1, folio, and other Wyndham Lewis reference books mostly original cloth in dust jackets some original wrappers, G/VGQTY: (48)

Kipling (Rudyard). Just So Stories, 1st edition, 1st impression, 1st state, London: Macmillan and Co, 1902, 22 black and white plates by the author, smaller illustrations in-text, some spotting to endpapers, original pictorial red cloth gilt, some flaking of white blocking to spine, dust jacket, a small gathering of wormholes to lower panel (just touching a few letters of text), a few closed tears to upper margin of panels, spine and upper panel margins toned, extremities lightly rubbed, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Martindell 99; Stewart 260.An exceptionally fine example in dust jacket. The cloth binding was issued in two states. The first was issued with white blocking that did not adhere, resulting in excessive chipping and loss. The white of the second state was more stably blocked, resulting in it staying intact. The first state white blocking on this example, while a little chipped to the spine, is remarkably well preserved.

New Testament [English]. The Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the Traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes.... Whereunto is added the Translation out of the Original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England... The Whole Worke, perused and enlarged in divers places by the Authors owne hand before his death..., by W. Fulke D. in Divinitie, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1601, decorative architectural woodcut border to title (neatly strengthened to gutter margin, ownership inscription to verso of leaf 'Peter Birkbeck his booke Castleford, Novemb. 15 1666'), few decorative woodcut initials, neatly repaired closed tear to lower blank margin of final leaf, light dust-soiling mostly to title, slight damp-stains mostly to lower margins of leaves at front of volume, light toning, modern blind and gilt panelled calf, gilt decorative motif to centre of boards, morocco title label to spine, folio (30.5 x 20.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow & Moule 202; Herbert 265.The second edition of Fulke's work, first published in 1589. The arrangement of the matter is exactly the same as in the first edition. The title-border: at the top is a lamb bound on an alter, with the legend Possidete animas vestras, and the initials NH and CT; at the bottom is a cup, where springs a vine, which twines round the columns on either side; this design is dated 1574.

Obicini (Tommaso). Thesaurus Arabico-Syro-Latinus, [edited by Dominicus Germanus], Rome: Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1636, [8], 447, [48] pp., woodcut printer’s device to title, Syriac, Arabic and Latin text throughout, first and final two leaves blank, browning throughout, contemporary vellum with manuscript title to spine, minor marks, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Brill, Philologia Orientalis, II, 223; British Library, Catalogue of Arabic Books, II, 506, 448; See Graf IV 175; Schnurrer, Bibliotheca Arabica, pp. 38-39.First edition of the Syriac-Arabic dictionary arranged according to subjects, originally compiled in the 11th century by Elias bar Shinaya, Metropolitan of Nisibis, edited with a Latin translation by Obicini. It was published by Obicini’s pupil Germanus de Silesia, author of an Arabic Grammar and an Italian-Arabic dictionary. It is dedicated by Achilles Venerius to Cardinal Barbarini. The Syriac types are the 20pt Maronite types and the Arabic types Granjon’s arabe du kitãb al-Bustãn.

Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. Authorised and appointed to be read in Churches, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1602], lacking general title, New Testament title present with decorative woodcut border, Apocrypha present (verso of final leaf with old paper slip pasted over to obscure words 'Chalgrave Church Bible'), Kalendar and Almanacke in red and black (verso of leaf B1 with early ownership signature to upper margin Thomas Phillips), double-column text in black letter, few woodcut illustrations and maps, woodcut decorative initials, head and tailpieces, final leaf of Revelation with 18th-century manuscript to lower margin of recto and ownership names of members of the Goodson family to verso, light damp-staining mostly to margins of first and last few leaves and also with few leaves at front and rear strengthened to gutter margins, one or two repaired short marginal repairs, bound with a later Genealogies by John Speed at front of volume (King James issue instead of Bishops' version), dust-soiling, damp-staining and several repairs to genealogies, 18th-century front flyleaf with genealogical entries for members of the Gwillim family including 'Thomas Gwillim March 15th 1712 born, John Gwillim born Dec 20th 1743 and Henry Gwillim born Oct 10th 1777', modern endpapers, 18th-century panelled calf, modern reback with blind decorative motif to compartments, board corners worn, folio (38 x 25 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 206; Herbert 271; STC 2188.The last edition of the Bishops' Bible. This edition of the Bishops' Bible was presumably used by Kong James' translators as the basis of their new version. (Herbert, Darlow and Moule)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches, Oxford: John Baskett, 1717/1716, additional engraved general title by Du-Bose representing Moses writing the first words of Genesis (torn with image loss and lined to verso), general letterpress title and calendar printed in red and black, general title with engraved illustration by G. Vander Gucht depicting view of Oxford (torn to lower outer blank corners and lined to verso), engraved vignette to New Testament depicting the Annunciation (imprint dated 1716), with numerous engraved head & tail-pieces and initials after Thornhill, Cheron, Laguere and others, generally illustrating incidents from the Bible, Apocrypha present, occasional toning, few leaves repaired to margins mostly at front and rear of volume, front flyleaf with pasted-in manuscript note 'The Bible of the Parish Church of Ardleigh begun to be used Feb 12th 1726. ... Ralph Creffeild & ... Wm. Lugar, Churchwards', marbled endpapers, front pastedown with red morocco ownership label with 'St. Mary, Ardleigh, 1847' in gilt within decorative gilt border, contemporary blind panelled reversed calf, brass corner pieces and central boss to both boards, rebacked preserving original spine and morocco title label, folio (49.5 x 30.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 736; Herbert 943.This edition is commonly known as the 'Vinegar Bible'. Unfortunately the book contained many misprints, and earned the nickname A Baskett-ful of Errors. From the misprint The parable of the vinegar (for vineyard) in the headline above Luke XX. (Herbert).

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Maiesties speciall commandement, Imprinted at London: by Robert Barker, 1613, general title and New Testament titles present (imprint to NT dated 1614), each with decorative woodcut borders, Apocrypha present, double-column black letter text, colophon dated 1614, first leaf of Genesis torn at foot with text loss and repaired, verso of titles and final leaf of Prophets with early manuscript inscriptions and entries mentioning the names William, Thomas and Elizabeth Dutton, few other manuscript annotations including to final leaf of Revelation, some running titles to upper margins cropped, bound with at front The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures..., by J[ohn]. S[peed], title and following leaf (bearing woodcut illustration of Adam and Eve) torn with loss and repaired, with double-page woodcut map present with early manuscript to margins and repair to upper blank margin, bound with an incomplete Common Prayer at front and Psalms at rear, with some repairs, toning, light dust-soiling and few marks throughout, endpapers renewed, contemporary sheep, modern reback with morocco title label, 4to (20.4 x 16 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 257; Herbert 331; STC 2230.Both titles omit the words Appointed... The text ends on Sss8a. Ruth iii. 15 she, Isaiah xxxviii. 9 beasts for breasts. This copy is without an edition of the Concordance which is sometimes bound in.

[Ariosto, Ludovico]. [Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, by John Harington], 1st edition in English, [London: Richard Field, 1591], 46 full-page engravings after Giralomo Porro, main text in double-column, colophon with large woodcut device, lacking title, 'The Argument' to each book within woodcut border, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, occasional small wormtracks, mainly to upper margins (affecting a few headline letters), a few small worm and burn holes, occasional light water stains and light toning, gift inscription in ink at front 'Julian Huxley from Arthur Watts, March 29, 1919', hinges reinforced, later calf, rebacked and repaired, a few scorch marks to covers, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Sir Julian Huxley (1887-1975, evolutionary biologist); Arthur Watts (1883-1935, artist).ESTC S106637; Pforzheimer 447; STC 746.The first English edition of Ariosto's epic poem, translated by John Harington, with the dramatic engravings copied from Giralomo Porro's originals made for the 1584 Venice edition.

[Grafton, Richard]. [A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande and Kinges of the same, Deduced from the Creation of the Worlde, unto the first habitation of thys islande: and so by contynuance unto the first yere of the reigne of our most deere and sovereign Lady Queene Elizabeth: collected out of sundry authors], 2 volumes in one, 2nd edition, [London: Henry Denham for Richard Tottle and Humffrey Toye, 1569-68] 2nd volume 'beginning at William the Conquerour, endeth wyth our most dread and soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth' dated 1568 within woodcut border, woodcut headpieces and initials, large woodcut device to colophon, black letter, first title and following 5 preliminary leaves supplied in facsimile (incorrect facsimile title bound-in using volume 2 woodcut border - correct title supplied in loose photocopy facsimile), leaves A1-4 trimmed and laid down with small losses), A5 repaired to margin, a few other small repairs and marginal closed tears, a few leaves close-trimmed at top margin, a few early annotations, occasional light water stains and dust-soiling, eighteenth-century diced calf. covers with The Society of Writers to the Signet gilt stamps, rebacked, joints and edges rubbed, folio, 27.5 x 18.5 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 12147.

Creswell (K. A. C). A Bibliography of the Architecture, Arts and Crafts of Islam, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Cairo: The American University at Cairo Press, 1961-73, original red buckram gilt, spine of first volume faded, folio, together with:Grube (Ernst J.). Islamic Paintings from the 11th to the 18th Century, in the collection of Hans P. Kraus, New York: H. P. Kraus, [1972], full-page illustrations throughout (some colour), original green cloth gilt, spine faded, folio, limited edition, 454/750 copies, plusArberry (Arthur J.). The Chester Beatty Library, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, 5 volumes, Dublin: Emery Walker, 1955-62, black and white illustrations throughout, edges untrimmed, original red buckram gilt, a few spines faded, small 4to, with approximately 30 volumes of related reference on Islamic books and artQTY: (approx. 35)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the originall Tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties special command. Appointed to be read in Churches, Cambridge: printed by Tho. and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, [1629], engraved general title by Jo. Payn (short closed tear to gutter margin), letterpress New Testament title with woodcut device (imprint date 1629), few woodcut initials, Apocrypha present, verso of New Testament title with early 18th-century manuscript entries 'Ann ye wife of Tho: Birch departed her life October ye 30 day 1725 aged 44 years' and 'Thomas Birch married Eliz. Pamer(?) July ye 11th 1726', woodcut device above colophon and dated 1629, lacking final blank leaf 4B4, bound with at rear The Whole book of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., Cambridge: printed by Thomas and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1629, woodcut device to title, lacking final 3 leaves, bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments..., Cambridge: printed by Thomas and John Buck, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1629, woodcut device to title (closed tear to lower margin), lacks 6 leaves (B2-B5, F3 & F4), titles and borders red-ruled throughout volume, occasional scattered spotting, front flyleaf with early 19th-century genealogical entries for Philip Beddall and Elizabeth (née Toller, married on June 25th 1821 at Southill Church, Bedfordshire) and their children and verso of leaf with 20th-century bookplate of Ranulph Brocas Hunter (1880-1954), all edges gilt, hinges split with old cloth repair to upper hinge split, early 19th-century calf with raised and recessed borders to boards, elaborate gilt and blind decoration, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, gilt and blind decorated turn-ins, folio (28.5 x 19.3 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow & Moule 324; Herbert 424; STC 2285.Book of Common Prayer - Griffiths 1629.2 (page 93). The first edition of the King James' version of the Bible printed at Cambridge. Cambridge began to print the Bible in the Geneva version in 1588 under a charter granted by Henry VIII in 1534, the charter was ratified by Charles I in 1628 and this edition if the first production of the new charter. Though the issue was resisted by the King's printers the accuracy of the text gained general support. Lea Wilson (p. 104) says: 'For this beautiful edition the text appears to have undergone a complete revision, although I can find no record of such having been done by authority. Yet the errors in the first and intermediate editions are here corrected, and considerable care appears to have been exercised as to the words printed in italics, punctuation, etc.' This seems to be the earliest edition in which occurs the error: 1 Tim. iv. 16, Take heed unto thyself and unto thy doctrine (for ... the doctrine). (Herbert, Darlow and Moule)

Imhooff (Jean-Jacques). L'Art de tenir les livres en parties doubles, ou la science de faire écriture de toutes les négociations qui se sont, soit en banque, soit en merchandises, ouvrage divisé en deux parties..., 1st edition, Vevey: chez l'auteur, 1786, viii, [492] pp., signed by the author at end of preface, errata leaf at end of first section, multiple paginations and foliations and section or part-titles, apparently complete but with at least 4 pages (pp. 63-66 at end) misgathered, scattered spotting or browning, marginal browning to title and final two leaves from turn-ins, contemporary calf, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt with contemporary red morocco label, scuffed and rubbed, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020). Goldsmiths’ 13244; Herwood, 504; Historical Accounting Literature, [ICA], p. 160. An Accountant’s Book Collection, [ICA Scotland], p. 26. First edition of this rare accounting treatise by Imhooff, a mathematician and accountant from Aarau in Switzerland. The first part of the work, the most voluminous, is a double-entry accounting manual, including numerous examples of entries; the second part is devoted to calculating fractions.

[Hall, or Halle, Edward]. The Union of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, beyng long in continuall discension for the croune of this noble realme ... beginnyng at the tyme of kyng Henry the fowerth, the author of this devision, and so successively proceeding to the reigne of the high and prudent Prince Kyng Henry the eyght, the undubitate flower and very heire of both the saied linages Whereunto is added to every Kyng a severall table, Londini in officina Richardi Graftoni, 1548, black letter, title within an architectural woodcut border, the upper compartment showing the king sitting in parliament, lacking signature B (folios 9-14), tables present for Henry IV, V, VI, Edward V, Richard III, and Henry VII (lacking four leaves of table to Edward IV, signature L), also lacking lacking integral blanks Rr8, KK6, and kkk8, and XXX1-2, 5-6, final leaf of the main text (XXX6) supplied in old manuscript in brown ink, lacking the 12 leaves of tables to Henry VIII (YYY-ZZZ6), woodcut initials, occasional neat repairs to blank margins, occasional minor marginal stains or marks (generally in clean condition with good margins), early (later 16th or early 17th century) full calf with remains of clasps, modern calf gilt reback, thick folio (leaf size 263 x 180 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 12722.First edition, with the titlepage reading "illustre". Described by STC as 'an exceptionally difficult work to grasp because of perplexities in the order of its printing'. Halle's "Chronicle" is a mirror of Tudor life. It is the best contemporary chronicle of the reign of Henry VIII, and a panegyric of the House of Tudor, and especially of Henry. Grafton, Holinshed, and Stow borrowed extensively from it, while Shakespeare, in his earlier historical plays, followed Halle closely. In 1555, with Mary Tudor on the throne, Grafton was stripped of his title "printer to the king", and Halle's work was prohibited by proclamation.

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by his Maiesties speciall Commandement. Appointed to be read in Churches, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1613, general and New Testament titles present both with woodcut borders, Apocrypha present with manuscript inscription to verso of final leaf 'This book was bought at Mr Badgers sale Armscott by James Wilkes Oldborough September 27th 1859', Kalendar printed in red and black with first leaf of Kalendar torn to loss to lower third, decorative woodcut initials, bible in double-column black letter (72 lines to full column), ink splash mark to R2 (diameter approximately 2.5 cm), text with repaired closed tear to fore-margin of 3I2, 4M6 torn to lower outer blank corner and margin and repaired, 4N1 torn with loss to lower third of leaf, lacking final 3 leaves which are provided in early 19th-century manuscript written on 5 leaves, few leaves at rear with minor worm holes at head of gutter margin, light damp-stains to last few leaves, bound with (between Kalendar and Genesis) The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, according to every Family and Tribe..., by J[ohn]. S[peed]., title with woodcut border, woodcut genealogies, recent free endpapers, contemporary calf, neat modern reback with red pink calf title label, remnants of woven ties to boards, folio (41 x 26.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 249; Herbert 322; STC 2226. 'The true 1613 folio edition of King James' Bible; easily distinguishable from the other large folio editions by its smaller type ... The preliminary leaves are set up as in the other large folio editions, but the text is printed in smaller type with 72 instead of 59 lines to the full column.' (Herbert; Darlow & Moule). Ruth 3:15 reading 'She went into the citie',

Winterfield (Captain). The Voyages, Distresses and Adventures of Capt. Winterfield. Written by himself. Containing an account of his transactions in America, during the War; his disastrous voyage to England, in which he had the misfortune to be taken by an Algerine Man of War, near the coast of Portugal, and carried to Barbary, where he remained in slavery upwards of six years; his miraculous escape from thence, with five more, in a canvas boat of their own construction, and safe arrival at Majorca: with several remarkable circumstances after his captivity; and his late arrival at last in Scotland, new edition, London: printed for Ann Lemoine, 1799, engraved frontispiece (small insect predation to lower corner), 48 pp., woodcut illustrations of a bird perched on a branch to final leaf, bound with The Adventures of Gen. Hutchinson and Serinda, the Fair Georgian; containing an account of their captivity, their escape from Aleppo, in the disguise of pilgrims, and the extraordinary vicissitudes which thet afterwards experienced, till their accidental meeting in London, 1st edition, London: printed for J. Lee, 1802, engraved frontispiece (small marginal hole and small loss to upper corner), 46 pp., some light toning and a few minor stains, modern tan calf, spine lettered gilt, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:First work Sabin 104837. First published in 1788. Second work rare.

Sennert (Andreas). Arabismus, h. e. Præcepta Arabicæ Linguæ, In harmoniâ ad Ebræa … Accessit in fine Compendium Lexici Arabici…, 1st edition, Wittenberg: Job Wilhelm Fincelius, 1658, [8], 166 pp., errata on last two pages, Latin with Arabic in the text throughout, extensive manuscript annotations (slightly trimmed) in an early hand in Latin and Arabic in the blank margins on many pages, leaves lightly browned, small circular monogram ‘T. H.’ ink stamp to title, oval ink stamp ‘Dom. S. Aloys Jerseiens. S. J.’ to verso with slight see-through to recto, two modern leaves with manuscript Arabic notes tipped in, 19th-century boards with gilt-titled spine label, some soiling and edge wear, spine chipped with loss, small 4to (180 x 145 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Schnurrer, Biblotheca Arabica, 82. Not in Smitskamp, Philologia Orientalis. Copac: Oxford, Cambridge only. Not in the BL.First edition of this very rare Arabic grammar from the Wittenberg School of Orientalism. Andreas Sennert (1606-1689) was a pupil of Jacob Golius, and became Professor of Oriental languages in Wittenberg, where he placed special emphasis on the study of Arabic.

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Maiesties speciall commandement, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1613, general and New Testament titles with decorative woodcut borders, Apocrypha present, double-column black letter text, verso of final leaf Revelation with early signature 'Mad: Gundry', bound with at front The Booke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1613, title in red and black with woodcut border (neatly repaired tears and marginal fraying), repaired closed tear to following leaf, occasional trimming to running titles, bound with The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, According to every Family and Tribe..., by J[ohn] S[peed], woodcut genealogies (3 leaf with torn or excised with loss), bound with at rear The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., London: Company of Stationers, 1612, woodcut illustration to title, Psalms with light damp-staining and lacking all after G4, later endpapers with modern cloth hinge repairs, contemporary calf with gilt embossed ornamental motif to centre of each board, modern reback preserving 19th-century title label, some board corners neatly repaired, boards rubbed, 4to (21 x 16 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 250; Herbert 323; STC 2227.The first black-letter quarto edition of King James' version. 'This and many subsequent issues were produced in close imitation of those black-letter quarto editions of the Geneva Bible which had proven so popular. Apparently a close reprint of the folio of 1611. Gen. x. 16, Emorite, Ruth iii. 15 he, etc. Both titles omit the words Appointed...' (Herbert)

More (Thomas). Utopia: written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England. Translated into English by Gilbert Burnet, late Bishop of Sarum. To this edition is added, a short account of Sir Thomas More’s life and his trial, Dublin: R. Reilly, for G. Risk, G.Ewing, and W. Smith, 1737, xxviii, 140 pp., two leaves (pp. xxv-xxviii) misbound between pp. 138-9, minor spotting, engraved armorial bookplate of the Earls of Drogheda, contemporary calf, red morocco title label and gilt crest on spine, slightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).See Printing & the Mind of Man, 47 [first edition, Louvain, 1516].Utopia was first published in Latin in Louvain in 1516. It was translated into English by Raphe Robinson and first published in English in 1551. A more commonly known English translation of the text is that of Gilbert Burnet, published in 1684, and reprinted here in this first Dublin printing.

Byrne (Oliver). The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners, 1st edition, London: Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for William Pickering, 1847, half-title, diagrams throughout printed in red, blue, yellow and black, some spotting throughout, endpapers renewed, contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine relaid (however with some loss), corners refurbished, some wear and marks, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Friedman, Color Printing in England 43; Keynes, Pickering, pp. 37 & 65; McLean, Victorian Book Design, p. 70. 'One of the oddest and most beautiful books of the whole century' (McLean).A self-educated mathematician and engineer, Byrne 'considered that it might be easier to learn geometry if colours were substituted for the letters usually used to designate the angles and lines of geometric figures. Instead of referring to, say, 'angle ABC', Byrne's text substitued a blue or yellow or red section equivalent to similarly coloured sections in the theorem's main diagram' (Friedman). Exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London 1851 with a price of 25 shillings, the work was exceedingly expensive and unaffordable for educators who could have put the new teaching method to practical use. Regardless, it is considered a landmark example of Victorian book production and a technical tour-de-force.

Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 4 volumes, new edition, Glasgow: R. Chapman, 1805, engraved frontispiece portrait of Adam Smith (from the Tassie Medallion), a little browning throughout, uncut and unopened on some gatherings, original pale blue boards with printed paper labels to spines, volume 1 rehinged with replacement endpapers, some soiling and wear including chips at heads of spines, slightly cracked on joints, some edge wear and corner bruising, 12moQTY: (4)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).Vanberblue, p. 13.Rare first Glasgow edition, taken from the fourth edition of 1786. The first printing of the Wealth in Scotland and the first to contain a portrait of the author.

Buchanan (C[olin]). The Writing-Master and Accountant's Assistant Containing an Extensive System of Practical Arithmetic. With a valuable set of Engravings of Business Writing &c. Designed for the use of Academies and Boarding Schools, 1st edition, Glasgow: Printed for the Author by R. Chapman, 1798, [2], 5-80 pp., engraved title with vignette of a classroom, lacks A2 (Preface leaf), 23 engraved plates, some soiling and browning, marginal chipping and fraying without loss of text, title neatly re-hinged and with discreet closed tear repair to blank fore-margin, closed tear repair at foot of K1 and marginal repairs to blank margins of E2, F1 and T1, contemporary or original marbled boards, rubbed, modern plain calf reback, 4to (260 x 210 mm), preserved in a recent blue cloth solander box with red morocco title label to spineQTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020). First edition of a very rare work of Scottish book-keeping and accountancy, with no copies traced at auction or in commerce. ‘Colin Buchanan, of the “Academy”, Greenock – a private school of his own – was the author of two works upon book-keeping, and was a famous teacher of his day. He was tall and dignified in deportment, with a kindly, beaming countenance, and was an original thinker’, (Murray, Chapters in the History of Book-keeping and Accountancy, 1930, p. 51). Dunlop, An Accountant’s Book Collection [ICA of Scotland], p. 8; not in Herwood or ICA, London. Though lacking the Preface leaf, 23 plates is apparently correct and conforms to the BL copy digitised for ECCO.

New Testament [English]. The Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated out of the vulgar Latine by the papists of the traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes. With Arguments of Bookes, Chapters, and Annotations, pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations, and to clear the controversies of these dayes. Wherunto is added the Translation out of the Original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England, with a Confutation of all such Arguments, Glosses, and Annotations, as conteine manifest impietie, of heresie, treason and slander, against the Catholike Church of God, and the true teachers thereof, or the Translations used in the Church of England: Both by auctoritie of the holy Scriptures, and by the testimonie of the ancient fathers. By William Fulke..., 1st edition, Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1589, title within woodcut border, few woodcut initials, double-column text in Bishops' version and Rheims New Testament, preface with some marginal annotations and underscoring, small hole to G5 with loss to few letters of text, few ink spots to L3, lower outer blank corner of Hhhh4 torn, final four leaves of index tables at rear (Xxxx1-Xxxx4) provided in facsimile, occasional light damp-stains mostly to outer corners, modern blind panelled and decorated calf, folio (26.2 x 18.7 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 156; Herbert 202; STC 2888.'The title given in full above, and the description below, sufficiently indicate the nature of this book. It was the first systematic and comprehensive attempt to refute the arguments and accusations contained in the Rheims New Testament of 1582. Many partial replies had been already published by T. Bilson, G. Wither, E. Bulkeley, and others, including W. Fulke himself'. (Herbert, Darlow and Moule).

Taylor (Harriet). ‘Enfranchisement of Women’ [pp. 149-161 in the July issue of:] Westminster Review, Volume 55, Issues CVII-CX bound as one, American Edition, New York: Leonard Scott & Co., 1851, occasional browning and some pencil notes, bookplate and pencil name inscription of James Dougherty of Johnson, Vermont, contemporary black half morocco gilt over marbled boards, rubbed, large 8vo, together with: The Westminster Review, Volume I, Nos. 1 & 2, January-April 1824, 2 parts in one volume, London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1824, engraved view of Westminster, and two ink library stamps to title, occasional spotting and light damp spotting, scattered minor pencil marks, uncut, contemporary two-tone boards, rubbed and marked, spine chipped with remains of indistinct paper spine label, 8vo, plus Mill (John Stuart), The Subjection of Women, 2nd edition, London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, half-title, original orange cloth, spine lettered gilt, some soiling, 8vo [MacCaig, D.], A Reply to John Stuart Mill on the Subjection of Women, 1st edition, Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott & Co., 1870, Holton Library Brighton and library name stamp on title (near detached), library labels at rear, original green cloth, spine lettered gilt, rebacked with spine relaid (rubbed and small tear with loss of two title letters), 8vo White (Carlos), Ecce Femina: An Attempt to Solve the Woman Question. Being an examination of arguments in favor of female suffrage by John Stuart Mill and others, and a presentation of arguments against the proposed change in the construction of society, 1st edition, Hanover, N.H: the Author, 1870, bookplate of the Library of the Philomathaean Society, Gettysburg College, and circular blind stamp on the title of Philo Society of Pennsylvania College, a little spotting or soiling, original purple cloth, spine lettered gilt, rubbed, spine faded and a little frayed at head and foot, 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020).The first item contains a seminal work on woman suffrage by John Stuart Mill’s wife, Harriet Taylor (1807-1858). This is the American edition of the Westminster Review, first published in London in the same year. While Taylor’s essay received subsequent publication in women’s rights tracts, it was not separately issued until 1868, almost seventeen years after its first appearance. The second item, the first two issues of the first volume of Westminster Review contains James Mill's Art. XI. Periodical Literature. 1. Edinburgh Review (pp. 206-50); and John Stuart Mill's Art. X. Periodical Literature. Edinburgh Review (pp. 505-41).

Wilberforce (William). A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Addressed to the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of Yorkshire, 1st edition, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies and J. Hatchard, 1807, [4], 396, [4] pp., half-title, 4 pp. adverts at rear (dated December 1806, browned with marginal fraying and one closed tear repair to final leaf), titles somewhat spotted and dust-soiled with light brown stain to gutter margins, uncut in the original sheets with three stab holes and possibly sewn at a later date, 8vo (230 x 145 mm), preserved in a modern green cloth solander box with red cloth title label to spineQTY: (1)NOTE:Lots 263-331 comprise the residual book stock of Hamish Riley-Smith (1941-2020). PMM 232b: ‘... [F]inally on 25 March 1807 the royal assent was given to a bill abolishing the trade in slaves. This, signalized by Wilberforce's Letter, was the first major victory for the [abolitionist] movement’; Sabin 103953. A rare, uncut and unbound first edition of William Wilberforce’s book of 80,000 words, which he completed on the evening of 27 January 1807 and published four days later. It summed up his arguments against the slave trade which he had presented over the previous twenty years, and was a key document in the fight to end the slave trade in Britain. Copies were rushed to the House of Lords as soon as it came off the presses to coincide with the debate and second reading of the Abolition Act that was to take place in the first week of February 1807. The Lords carried the Abolition Bill by 100 votes to 34, and the triumph was repeated in the House of Commons on 23 February, winning by 283 votes to 16. Please note that there is a printing flaw affecting pp. 275-278 with a resulting long, closed tear to both leaves. There is no paper loss at all but due to the fault, which must have occurred during printing, there is a semi-circular area with some missing letterpress at the outer margin affecting the start of lines 8-18 on p. 276. There is no missing text on the other three pages. Please refer to the images on our website.

[Worcester, Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquis of]. A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, 1st edition, London: J. Grismond, 1663, [24], 72, [16] pp., title and text within double-rule border, with both blanks before and after Index, lacks initial blank and bound without the rare supplement (as often), some light spotting and dust-soiling, recent blind-stamped calf, 12mo (125 x 76 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Bibliotheca Mechanica p. 360; Norman 1976; Tomash & Williams S162; Wing W3532. First edition of this curious catalogue of 100 inventions that the author claims to have originated, including: ‘How to make a man to fly; which I have tried with a little Boy of ten years old in a Barn, from one end to the other on an Hay-mow’; ‘A Chair made a-la-mode, and yet a stranger being perswaded to sit down in’t, shall have immediately his armes and thighs lock’d up beyond his power to loosen them’; ‘A portable Fortification able to contain five hundred fighting men’; ‘How to make upon the Thames a floting Garden of pleasure…’; and a ‘Water-commanding Engine’, considered a prototype of the steam engine. The 34-page supplement, which is, (as here), very frequently missing, features what is effectively a patent for that important machine.