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A set of 10 Hot Wheel collector toys that consists of 5 copies of the 1996 First Edition Radio Flyer Wagon (9 of 12 models), the other 5 are 1997 First Edition are comprised of the Way 2 Fast (7 of 12), the Mercedes C-Class (10 of 12), 2 copies of the BMW M Roadster (6 of 12), and the Saltflat Racer (4 of 12). Marked 1996 First Editions. Marked 1997 First Editions. Each item has its original box. Dimensions of the original box: 6.5"L x 4.25"W x 1.5"H. Issued: 1996-1997Manufacturer: MattelCondition: Age related wear.

A set of 5 Hot Wheels toy cars from the 1998 first edition line that consists of the Hot Seat (13 of 48), the Lakester (12 of 40), the Customized C3500 (26 of 40), the Panzo GTR-1 (19 of 40), and the Ford GT-90 (14 of 40). Each item has its original box. Dimensions of the original box: 6.5"L x 4.25"W x 1.5"H. Manufacturer: MattelCondition: Age related wear.

This edition of the Miroir magazine from 1916 AD came out two years after the outbreak of the first World War. It contains several pictures related to the war in Europe, as well as pictures of the Arabian Gulf in that era, including the front page. The magazine also includes some unique scenes of pilgrims in front of mount Arafat, the Medina at that time, the tomb of the Prophet in Medina, part of the port of Jeddah and the city of Karbala, where at that time there was a revolt by Muslims. The second page shows the performance of the Friday prayers in holy Mecca and a scene showing the prostrating worshipers towards the holy Kaaba. Which during that periode, was visited by more than 40.000.000 Muslims every year.ÊThe magazine is in good condition and is 24 by 34 cm.Ê

David Roberts (1796 - 1864), Temple of Philae, first edition lithograph (full plate no. 190), image 34cm x 49cm, framedGood condition

Clare Leighton (1898-1989), wood engraving printed from the block on paper, April, Sowing, from The Farmer’s Year, 1933, 21.5cm x 25.5cm, mounted, glazed andframed. This original, full page wood block print is from the first edition of Clare Leighton’s most famous work, which she wrote, engraved and designed

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942), lithograph in colours on paper, Second Hand Furniture and Effects, 22.5cm x 15cm, mounted, glazed and framed. Printed by the Curwen Pressfor the first edition of High Street published by Country Life in 1938

David Robets (1796 - 1864), view on the Nile, first edition print, image 34cm x 48cm, framedSome light foxing in the sky and slight paper discolouration

Hume (David) Izsledovanie Chelovechskago Razumeniia [An Inquiry concerning Human Understanding], first edition in Russian, ownership signature to head of title, a couple of pencil markings, light browning, original printed wrappers, uncut, stamps to lower cover, a little frayed at edges, some repairs, St.Petersburg, 1902; and 2 others, 8vo (3)*** Scarce. This was the edition used by Lenin when writing his own main philosophical work Materialism and Empiriocriticism of 1909, but Hume’s works were subsequently banned by Stalin.

[Bunbury (Henry William)] Tales of the Devil, from the Original Gibberish of Professor Lumpwitz...in the University of Snoringberg, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, title with blank upper corner torn away and laid down, one or two marginal ink notes, a few very small marginal nicks, light offsetting, some substantial damp-staining at inner edge, affecting text and plates, modern calf-backed marbled boards, extremities lightly rubbed, Bury St. Edmunds, G. Ingram, 1801; and another, Fenwick's "The Goblin Groom" with ink gift inscription to Lord Frederick FitzClarence, 4to (2)  *** The first rare in any condition.

Chateaubriand (François René de) Les Martyrs, ou le triomphe de la religion chrétienn, 2 vol., first edition, ex-library stamp to title verso, occasional light spotting to final few pages, bookplate, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, corners worn, vol.2 spine joint splitting and chipped at foot, endpapers renewed, 8vo, Paris, le Normant, 1809.

Medicine.- Plague.- Relationi di varie Pesti in Italia sin'all'anno corrente 1630, first Naples edition, woodcut title vignette, initials and printer's device to final leaf, small holes to margins of title, browned and stained, worming to lower margin, contemporary limp vellum, worn and stained, new endpapers, Naples, Ottavio Beltrano, 1631 § Academia Real das Sciencas de Lisboa. Advertencias dos meios que os particulares podem usar para preservar-se da peste, first edition, marginal foxing, modern wrappers, uncut, [Wellcome II p.16, second edition], Lisbon, 1800 § Lamarche (J.-B.) Essai sur la Musique, considérée dans ses Rapports avec la Médecine, first edition, marginal water-staining, modern facsimile wrappers, Paris, 1815; and 3 others, medicine, v.s. (6) *** The second is a scarce Portuguese handbook containing practical advice for the populace of Lisbon on the cure and prevention of the plague, following 18th century outbreaks in Marseilles, Toulouse, and Moscow. 

Antiquities.- Cochin (Charles Nicolas) & J.C.Bellicard. Observations sur les Antiquités d'Herculanum, Sécond Edition, actually third edition, 40 engraved plates & plans, 7 folding, with final blank, stain to upper edge at inner margin of a few leaves, old ownership stamp of H.G.Doggett to front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, [Cohen de Ricci 245], Paris, Ch.Ant.Jombert, 1757 § Parsons (William) Etchings & Busts, Bas Reliefs &c. from the Antique, engraved throughout with title in decorative frame and 20 plates, stitched in original wrappers, lower cover frayed, lacking upper cover, title soiled, 1809 § Croker (T.Crofton, editor) Catalogue of a Collection of Ancient & Mediaeval Rings and Personal Ornaments formed for Lady Londesborough, first edition, 2 folding plates, ex-library copy with embossed stamp to title, cloth, original upper printed wrapper bound in, signature of H.Royston Fairbank MD to head, privately printed, 1853, 8vo & 4to (3)

Mathematics.- Number Theory.- Hardy (G.H.) and E.M. Wright. An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, first edition, upper hinge starting, original cloth, light sunning to spine, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, an excellent example, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1938; and another, a bound group of Oxford lectures including Hardy on Number Theory and Eddington on Relativity, 8vo (2)

Medicine.- Kennedy (James) The History of the Contagious Cholera..., first edition, 2 folding engraved maps of India & Ceylon and Asia & Europe, both lightly offset, modern calf-backed marbled boards, 1831 § Manson (Sir Patrick) Lectures on Tropical Diseases..., presentation copy from the author inscribed on front free endpaper, illustrations, original cloth, 1905 § Horn (George) An Entire New Treatise on Leeches, first edition, with final blank, disbound, for the Author, 1798 § Prater (S.H.) Chart to tell whether an Indian Snake is Poisonous or Harmless, folding chart printed in red & black, illustrations, mounted on linen, browned, folding into original cloth boards, a little stained, [Bombay], [c.1917] § Clayton (George) Prescription Reading, first edition, interleaved with extensive annotations in ink or pencil, original cloth, [?Manchester], [c.1900], most rubbed; and 6 others, medicine, including a late 19th century manuscript pharmacist's notebook, v.s. (11)

Crusades.- Matthieu (Pierre) Dell'historia di san Luigi IX e delle cose piu memorabili occorse nella guerra da lui fatta con Saraceni per l'acquisto di Terra Santa, first Italian edition, fine engraved architectural title with putti holding the arms of Louis IX at head by Greuter, woodcut head-pieces, decorative initials and printer's device to final recto, colophon / errata f., a few wormholes in title, 2O4 small piece from lower margin, 2Q2 large piece of lower blank corner neatly cut away, foxing and some staining, lightly browned, hinges splitting, contemporary limp vellum, stained, 4to, [Venice], [Francesco Baba], 1628. *** First Italian edition of this account of the  crusades of Louis IX against the Turks. 

Gardening.- [Bonnefons (Nicolas de)] Le Iardinier François, septiesme edition, engraved additional title and 3 plates, additional title with date to foot in ink manuscript, first plate with tiny hole within image at gutter, tiny hole to Z8 affecting one or two letters, some very small marginal wormholes / traces, including to head of one plate, once or twice into headline but without notable loss, lightly browned and soiled, particularly to verso of final f., endpapers with ink and pencil inscriptions and much loss, hinges almost broken, contemporary vellum, spine with date in ink manuscript, darkened and soiled, 12mo, Rouen, Denis Duchesne, 1664. *** Scarce, with no copies on WorldCat.  

Shillito (Edward) New & Original Poems...on Creation and Redemption...entitled the Footsteps of Jesus, comprising the History of Adam & Eve, and the Garden of Eden, frontispiece and a few other leaves printed in gold, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, a few hand-coloured, slight spotting and staining, original decorative roan, gilt, g.e.,  rebacked, Hull, E.Shillito, [c.1860] § Hemans (F.D.) The Better Land...Illuminated by Helen Baker, first edition, 10 chromolithographed leaves on card heightened in gold and/or silver and mounted on stubs, some foxing, original cloth, gilt, Day & Son, [1867] § Scott (Sir Walter) The Fire Ring...Illuminated by G.P.Windsor, presentation copy from the artist with illuminated dedication to J.Davison, 11 leaves on card with floral borders printed in gold and finished by hand, paper guards, foxing, original cloth, 1877, all a little rubbed; and 3 others including a calligraphic manuscript of Kubla Khan with 4 mounted watercolour illustrations by Mabel Early c.1930, 8vo & 4to (6) *** All scarce with Library Hub listing only a handful of copies of each.

Dramatic expression.- Engel (Johann Jacob) Ideen zu einer Mimik, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, half-titles (bound after titles), engraved frontispiece and 34 plates, some mostly pencil underlining (especially in index at end of part 2), spotting or staining, lightly browned, 19th century brown half crushed morocco, gilt spine in compartments, some staining to spine ends, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, For the Author and August Mylius, 1785-1786. *** A solid copy of this important work on gesture and the expression of emotions, with particular reference to drama. It was well-received across Europe, leading to Henry Siddons' Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action, 1807, which was practically a translation of Engel's work, but with illustrations of the great Shakespearean actress Sarah Siddons (see D. Tunstall, Shakespeare and Gesture in Practice, 2016.).

Du Moulin (Pierre) The Capucin treated, or The lives of the Capucins, with the life of S. Francis their patron, first edition in English, engraved frontispiece, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, trimmed, affecting some signature marks or catchwords and just touching headlines, some spotting or foxing, lightly browned, 19th century half calf, upper cover detached, little worn, [Wing D2581], 8vo, Printed for Henry Marsh, 1665.  *** Rare first edition in English of this salacious attack on the Capuchins; especially their penances. 

Bookbinding.- Binding.- Zaehnsdorf (Joseph W.) The Art of Bookbinding, first edition, half-title, 10 plates printed in various tints, steel-engraved illustrations, [Brenni 42; Mejer 1054], George Bell & Sons, 1880 bound with a third edition of Nicholson's Manual of the art of bookbinding, Philadelphia, 1882 (with samples of marbled paper), together 2 works in 1 vol., some spotting or foxing, lightly browned, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, hinges starting, contemporary black crushed morocco, gilt, spine in compartments, covers with 2 sets of double filets, the innermost intertwining at corners, rubbed, marbled edges, 8vo (binding 197 x 133mm.)*** An attractively bound copy of two classics of bookbinding. 

Reynolds (J[ohn]. H[amilton].) Safie. An Eastern Tale, first edition, library ink-stamp to title and a few other ff., title with small portion torn away at upper and fore-margins (not affecting text), a few tiny marginal nicks elsewhere, light toning, some light soiling and scattered spotting, attractive later calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, 1814 § Corry (John) The Gardener's Daughter of Worcester; or The Miseries of Seduction. A Moral Tale, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, some surface abrasion affecting title and frontispiece, with loss to a few words to title, minor toning and dust-soiling, dark brown morocco by Blair Jeary of Stamford, gilt, [c.1800], book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, 19th century, 8vo & small 4to (13) *** Both rare. The second mentioned includes a terminal 4pp. poem, set in London, "The Prostitute. An Elegy". 

Bath & Bristol.- Ibbetson (Julius Caesar) J.Laporte & J.Hassell. A Picturesque Guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, the River Avon, and the adjacent country, first edition, half-title, 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates, errata/advertisement leaf at end, contemporary ink signature of Thomas Howell to title, a good clean wide-margined copy, colour heraldic bookplate of Edward Mash Browell, contemporary half russia, rubbed, upper cover detached, corners worn, [Abbey, Scenery 38; Tooley 277], 4to, 1793.

Cookery & Home Economics.- Consult Me, to Know How to Cook..., chromolithographed frontispiece and title laid down, modern calf-backed marbled boards, Wakefield, 1866 § Valentine (Laura) The Amenities of Home, first edition, free endpapers loose, original cloth, [c.1882] § Glenny (George) Glenny's Hand-book to the Fruit and Vegetable Garden, first edition, original cloth, stained, rebacked preserving original spine, 1850 § Davidson (H.C., editor) The Book of the Home, 8 vol., colour plates, illustrations, original decorated cloth designed by Talwin Morris, 1905, rubbed; and 11 others including a volume with textile patterns and an album of Grants' of St.James's wine & spirit bottle labels, 8vo & 4to (c.20)

[Matthieu (Pierre)] & others. Vnhappy prosperity. Expressed in the history of Ælius Seianus, and Philippa the Catanian, 4 parts in 1, second edition, engraved frontispiece, titles within woodcut typographic borders, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, frontispiece detaching, the odd short tear, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, lacking pastedowns, front free endpaper wormed and with piece missing at foot, contemporary sheep, worn, [STC 17667], 12mo, Printed by Thomas Harper, 1639. *** Rare at auction. 'Originally published in Paris, 1617 under title: Ælius Seianus, histoire romaine. Supposed to have been written to represent the rise and fall of Concino Concini, Maréchal d'Ancre, assassinated 1617, and of his wife Leonora Dori Galigaï. The first English translation [of part one only] published under the initials P.M., with title: The powerfull favorite..., 1628, is said to have been intended as a satire on George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham' (WorldCat). Provenance: Samuell Taylor, 1685 (ink inscription to rear free endpaper); Edward McWhorter (20th century blind-stamp to front free endpaper). 

Hanway (Jonas) Proposal for County Naval Free-Schools, to be built on Waste Lands, giving such effectual Instructions to Poor Boys, as may nurse them for the Sea Service, first edition, engraved title, 8 engraved plates (7 folding), one with short splits to foldlines and one trimmed to platemark, folding engraved table, 48pp. engraved music, scattered faint spotting, faint spotting, off-setting, ex-Inner Temple Library with label and occasional ink-stamps, contemporary half-calf, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, folio, [1783].

Medicine.- Dupuytren (Guillaume) Lecons Orales de Clinique Chirurgicale, 4 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles, scattered spotting, occasional faint water-staining, ex-Salford Royal Hospital with ink-stamps and manuscript note to titles, new endpapers, contemporary cloth, recased, modern printed paper spine labels, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Heirs of Hippocrates 1324], Paris, 1832-34 § Schurig (Martin) Muliebria Historico-Medica, hoc est Partium Genitalium Muliebrium, previous owner's ink inscription to title, tear to title with neat old repair, spotting and staining, modern boards, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Dresden & Leipzig, Christopher Hekel, 1729; 8vo & 4to (5). *** The first mentioned "is considered to be the publication which most clearly reflects Dupuytren's wide-ranging interests and skills. These four volumes cover a great many subjects including chapters on the surgical repair of hair lip, the classification of burns ... " (Heirs of Hippocrates)

Durham Cathedral.- Davies, of Kidwelly (John) The Ancient rites, and monuments of the monastical, & cathedral church of Durham. Collected out of ancient manuscripts, first edition, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initial, closely trimmed at head, just touching a preliminary headline and the occasional pagination, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, orange marbled endpapers (the front detached), 2 later small engraved views of the cathedral mounted on endpapers, 19th century mottled polished calf, gilt, lacking spine label, spine ends and corners worn, covers detached, rubbed, [Wing D392], small 8vo, Printed for W. Hensman at the King's Head in Westminster-Hall, 1672. *** A rare copy at auction of this work on the history and architecture of Durham Cathedral, with much on St. Cuthbert, and references to Bede. Our copy with an attractive provenance.  Provenance: John Trotter Brockett (1788-1842), English attorney, antiquarian, numismatist, and philologist. Parts of his collections of books, coins and medals were sold by Sotheby's in 1823. The coins and medals sale lasted 10 days and raised £1760, and the book sale lasted 14 days and raised £4260. (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown); William Tyson, F.S.A., Bristol (1785-1851), bookseller, journalist, and antiquary (engraved bookplate to front free endpaper).  

Against Ciceroniana.- Estienne (Henri) Nizoliodidascalus, sive monitor Ciceronianorum Nizolianorum, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces, occasional early ink marginalia in Greek and underlining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, remains of small early paper labels to spine ends, lacking ties, [Adams S1781; Renouard 146:2], 8vo, [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1578.  *** First edition of Estienne's attack on Mario Nizzoli’s Thesaurus Ciceronianus and all such ‘Ciceroniana’. It is the last in a trilogy of works on the subject, starting with De Latinitate falso suspecta (1576) and Pseudo-Cicero (1577). Offered here with an excellent provenance. Provenance: Antoine Baude, sold in 1633 (engraved armorial bookplate); 'Bibliotheca Colbertina', Jean-Baptiste Colbert, influential French statesman in the reign of Louis XIV (ink inscription to head of title); Earls of Macclesfield (engraved North Library armorial bookplate with ms. press mark '119. D. 17'). 

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB." Manka, the Sky Gipsy: The Story of a Wild Goose, first edition, black and white illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, edges a little chipped, 1939; and 5 others by Watkins-Pitchford, 8vo (6)

Ruscelli (Girolamo) Tre Discorsi... à m. Ludovico Dolce, first edition, woodcut printer's device to title, some light foxing, upper hinge weak, later vellum over boards, morocco labels to spine, soiled, yapp edges, [EDIT 16 CNCE 34649], 8vo, Venice, Plinio Pietrasanta, 1553. *** First edition of polymath Ruscelli's famous polemical treatise against the Venetian scholar Ludovico Dolce as editor of Boccaccio, translator of Ovid and grammarian. 

Piper (Charles A.) Sixty-Three: Not Out, first edition, decorations by John Piper, ownership name on browned endpapers, Plaistow, privately printed at the Curwen Press, original cloth-backed boards, title label and spine a little discoloured, 8vo, 1925. *** A scarce book with illustrations by the author's son; Library Hub records only 3 in the Bodleian, the British Library and Exeter University. It was probably intended for a limited readership and likely printed in a small number.

Erotica.- Greek romance.- Achilles Tatius. Erôtikôn Achilleôs Tatiou [graece] sive de Clitophontis & Leucippes amoribus libri VIII, edited by Claude Saumaise, first Saumaise edition, Greek and Latin text, engraved pictorial title depicting Leucippe and Clitophon on horseback, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary Dutch vellum, gilt, arms of the City of Rotterdam to covers, flat spine in compartments, each with central rosette, yapp edges, lacking ties, gilt dulled, rubbed, [Gay I, 14], 12mo, Leiden, Franciscus Hegerus, 1640. *** First edition with the important commentary and textual revisions of Claude Saumaise, given as a school prize probably at the Schola Erasmiana in Rotterdam (a 1642 inscription to front free endpaper presents the book to Gualter Breman from the Rector Henrico Suardecronio, who was a onetime head of the school). 

[Watkins-Pitchford (D.J.)], "BB."- "Michael Traherne." Be Quiet and Go A-Angling, first edition, black and white illustrations by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford, ink signature on front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, three small tears on upper cover, edges creased, large tear with loss on lower cover, Lutterworth Press, 1949; The Wayfaring Tree, jacket lower cover slightly soiled, 1945; The Autumn Road to the Isles, 1959; The White Road Westwards, 1961; September Road to Caithness, 1962; A Summer on the Nene, jacket slightly rubbed at edges, 1967, all first editions, black and white illustrations, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets;  The Countryman's Bedside Book, dust-jacket chipped with loss, 1941; Shooting Man's Bedside Book, dust-jacket with ring stain on upper cover, 1948; Recollections of a 'Longshore Gunner, Ipswich, The Boydell Press, 1976; The Naturalist's Bedside Book, 1980, The Quiet Fields, ink inscription on front free endpaper, 1881, all first editions, black and white illustrations, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets;  Confessions of a Carp Fisher, modern morocco, 1950; The Fisherman's Bedside Book, Leather edition, original limp leather, dust-jacket, 1955; A Carp Water (Wood Pool) and How to Fish It, original cloth, 1958, first and third first editions, black and white illustrations by Watkins-Pitchford;  The Shooting Man's Bedside Book, 1948; A Stream in Your Garden, 1950; Tide's Ending, colour plates, jacket edges chipped, lower cover slightly foxed and marked, 1950; The Autumn Road to the Isles, proof copy, original brown wrappers, inscribed "Prf Autumn Road NK" on upper cover, ring stain on upper cover, slightly faded, 1959; A Summer on the Nene, dust-jacket with small piece of surface wear on upper cover, price clipped, 1967, all but the third first editions, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets; and others by the same, 8vo (45). 

France.- Emilio (Paolo) Historia delle cose di Francia, first Italian edition, title and verso of otherwise blank final f. with woodcut printer's device featuring the Sibylline Oracle, fine woodcut historiated initials, obliterated ink ownership inscriptions to title, ss1&2 with some marginal browning, some spotting or mostly light foxing or staining, hinges split, but holding, contemporary limp vellum, later small paper label to spine, yapp edges worn, small worm trace to upper cover, some staining, [EDIT 16 CNCE 18075], 4to, [Venice], [Michele Tramezzino], [1549]. *** A wide-margined copy of the first Italian edition of this work on France and its Kings, particularly in the 15th century. 

Patent Trial.- Trial of a Cause (The) instituted by Richard Pepper Arden, Esq ... by Writ of Scire Facias, to Repeal a Patent granted ... to Mr. Richard Arkwright, for an Invention of certain Instruments and Machines for Preparing Silk, Cotton, Flax, and Wool for Spinning, first edition, engraved folding plate, detached and with splits to foldlines, ex-Nottingham libraries with usual labels and ink-stamps, modern cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1775. 

Owned by hermits.- Augustinus (Aurelius, Saint) Sermoni ali eremiti del divo Aurelio Augustino Ipponense a salute non solum de litterati ma etiam de vulgari, Roman letter, double column, charming white on black ground criblé initials, early ink foliation and occasional marginalia (including a longer note to verso of title), lacking final blank, small worm hole to outer margin of first few ff., H1 upper corner torn and neatly repaired with loss of a few letters recto and verso, some spotting or staining, loose in contemporary limp vellum, later small circular paper label to upper cover, little stained, [Adams A2220; EDIT 16 CNCE 28191], 8vo, Venice, Alessandro Paganini, 1515. *** Rare copy at auction of this handsomely printed edition of these sermons. Paganini was greatly influenced by Aldus. Provenance: 'questo libro fie de Frate ant. dosema alia hermita de santo girinimo'; 'Cog’is Eremit. S.ti Romualdi Camald. Ord. sub no. 390' (early ink inscriptions to title). 

Heraldry.- Bara (Jerome de) Le Blason des armoiries, second edition, numerous woodcut illustrations of arms, several with ?later hand-colouring towards the rear, small later watercolour of arms to rear endpaper, papal arms with hand-colouring laid down to rear pastedown, bookplates to front, title and following two ff. with paper repair to top fore-edge corner, final leaf laid down to sheet, occasional faint spots or soiling, nineteenth century half-calf, spine gilt, folio, Lyon, Bartholemew Vincent, 1581.*** This classic masterpiece about the art and science of heraldry, includes historical and fictional characters, such as Father John, Alexander the Great, Knights of the Round Table, figures from Greek and Roman mythology, European kings and aristocracy. First edition printed Lyon 1579. 

Britain.- Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall) A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland, 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispieces, engraved or lithographed plates and illustrations, list of subscribers, scattered spotting and staining, vol. 1 with cracked hinges, vol. 2 with broken hinges, contemporary half-calf, crudely rebacked and recornered, rubbed and worn, 1838 § Rucksack Club (The) Journal 1948, plates, original paper wrappers, faint staining to edges, Sale, [1948]; and others topography, large 8vo & 8vo (11).

Darwin (Charles) The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, sixth edition (thirteenth thousand), folding chart, without advertisements, ink stamps and ink ownership inscription to endpapers, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example, [Freeman 393], 8vo, 1872.*** The sixth was the first edition of Origin to include the word "evolution".

Astronomy.- Laplace (Pierre-Simon, de) Exposition du Systême du Monde, second edition, half-title, contemporary calf-backed boards, joints cracked, extremities rubbed, Paris, J.B.M. Duprat, An VII [1799] § Englefield (Henry) Tables of the Apparent Places of the Comet of 1661, whose return is expected in 1789,  first edition, 2 engraved plates, of which 1 folding, modern paper-covered boards, for P. Elmsly, 1788; and 4 others, eighteenth century, v.s. (6)

Racy advice to young gentleman.- [Pope (Alexander)] Sober Advice from Horace to the Young Gentlemen about Town, first edition (p.5, end of line 3 reads 'amiss'), parallel Latin and English texts with duplicate pagination, title with woodcut ornament with bust of a lady at head, woodcut head-pieces and historiated initials, closely trimmed at head, occasionally just touching pagination, some spotting, disbound, [Foxon P968; Griffith 347; Rothschild 1621], folio, Printed for T. Boreman, 1734.  *** Pope's anonymous sexually explicitly and personally allusive poem, for which Boreman paid the large sum of 60 guineas for the copyright. Includes a savage caricature of  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as Fufidia, the woman who 'thirsts and hungers only at one end'.

Chambers (Sir William) Dissertation sur le Jardinage de l'Orient, [with supplement] Discours servant d'explication, par Tan Chet-Qua de Quang-Cheou-Fou, Gentilhomme..., 2 vol. in 1, first edition in French, errata leaf at end of first work, some light spotting and soiling, contemporary half mottled calf, rubbed, [Harris 119], 4to, G.Griffin, 1772-73. *** Scarce French edition of Chambers' exaggerated account of Chinese gardening practices, partly a critique of those of Capability Brown. He issued the discourse under the name of Tan Chetqua as an explanation but by then had been ridiculed in England for his views. On the Continent, however, the work was highly influential, promoting the "Jardin Anglo-Chinois" style. 

Book trade history.- Battaglini (Angelo) Dissertazione accademica sul commercio degli antichi e moderni libraj recitata nella generale adunanza tenuta nella Sala del Serbatojo d' Arcadia il di 7. settembre 1786, first edition, title printed in red and black and with fine engraved vignette by Giordano, final imprimatur f., some spotting or staining, lightly browned, early 19th century drab wrappers, ink manuscript title to spine, [Munsell, Catalogue of books on printing and the kindred arts, 11; Cicognara 1577], 8vo, Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1787.  *** Rare first edition of this history of the book trade. Battaglini (1759-1842), cleric, writer & editor, and deputy head of the Vatican Library under Marini. Includes early scribes and booksellers and their unrealistic pricing, complaints of shoddy editing and printing, and early writers on the book trade with bibliographical references. 

Britain.- Bradley (A. G.) Highways and Byways in North Wales, first edition, illustrations by Joseph Pennell & Hugh Thomson, some light spotting, endpapers browned, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, spine sunned, corners and spine ends rubbed, 1898; and others, 31 from the same Highways & Byways series, most first editions but some reprints, and some from Bell's Cathedral Series, 8vo (c.39)

Ogilvie (John) Britannia: A National Epic Poem, in Twenty Books, first edition, half-title, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece (very slightly offset), list of subscribers at end, presentation inscription "To Mr John Garvock. As a sincere expression of just esteem & a very unequal although well meant return to many offices of disinterested friendship. From the Author" to front free endpaper, neat repairs and restoration to half-title and endpapers, very light spotting to frontispiece, the odd spot elsewhere, light toning towards end, uncut in ?original boards, rebacked, Aberdeen, for the Author, 1801; and others, 19th century, including a copy of "The Case of Ferdinand Smyth Stuart" bound with his "Destiny and Fortitude", v.s. (c.20) *** The first with recipient John Garvock included among the list of subscribers. 

Women.- Hippolytus Redivivus id est remedium contemnendi sexum muliebrem. Autore S.I.E.D.V.M.W.A.S., first edition, second issue, title with woodcut ornament, occasional spotting, lightly browned, partly unopened, 19th century polished calf, gilt, joints starting, but holding firm, little rubbed, [Gay II, 482], 12mo, [Netherlands], no printer, 1644. *** Biting satire against women, which points out their perceived flaws, including vanity, loquaciousness, and secretiveness. The author states that while he detests women in theory, he adores them in practice, and he suggests to like-minded males that masturbation is likely the only way to resist their dangerous allure.  Provenance: Jacques Vieillard (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown). 

[Heber (Reginald)] Palestine. A Poem; in Blank Verse. Written for the Prize at Oxford in 1803, very light browning, modern wrappers, for the Author, 1806 § H[oare]. W[illiam]. Amusement of Leisure Hours, first edition, presentation inscription "With W. Hoare's best respects and compliments" to head of title (a touch trimmed at fore-edge), a couple very small marks to title, some marginal foxing to title and final f., modern wrappers, Christiana Rickaby, [?1803] § [Hardinge (George)] The Editor, the Booksellers, and the Critic, an Eclogue. From No. XIII of...Chalmeriana, presentation inscription "For J. Annesley Esq. From the Author" to head of title, some foxing, later wrappers, 1800, all but last with book-label of J.O. Edwards; and others, 19th century poetry, disbound or in wrappers, 4to & 8vo (c.20)  *** The first mentioned a very scarce edition. WorldCat records only two institutional copies. 

Italian Language.- Tomitano (Bernardino) Ragionamenti della Lingua Toscana, first edition, printer's device to title, ink ownership inscriptions and a few other marginal notes, first gathering working loose, some damp-staining at start, t5 small marginal defect, contemporary black morocco, stamped in blind and gilt in panel design, gilt lettering to spine, portion of top corner lower cover torn away, [EDIT 16 CNCE 39253], 8vo, Venice, Giovanni Farri & fratelli, 1545. 

Walker (John) Institutes of Natural History..., first edition, light soiling and offsetting, modern half calf, spine faded, Edinburgh, Stewart, Ruthven & Co., 1792 § Capper (Col. James) Meteorological and Miscellaneous Tracts, applicable to Navigation, Gardening, and Farming, with Calendars of Flora, first edition, half-title, 6 folding tables, ex-Lawes Agricultural Trust (Rothamsted) library copy with stamp to pastedown, original boards, uncut, rubbed, rebacked, Cardiff, [1810] § California Nursery, Derby. [Sale] Catalogue of a Quantity of Valuable Nursery Stock, modern wrappers, Derby, Aulk & Spreckley, 1877; and 9 others, natural history, v.s. (12)

Economics.- Marshall (Alfred) Principles of Economics, vol.1, second edition, advertisement leaf at end, some leaves unopened, ex-library with occasional blind-stamps, spotting to half-title and fore-edge, covers a little soiled, spine ends bumped, 1891; Industry and Trade, first edition, ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, spine sunned, ends bumped, a couple of small tears to joints but holding firm, 1919 § A.C. Pigou. Industrial Fluctuations, first edition, 20 charts, many folding, advertisement leaf at end, pp. 323-34 detached and loosely inserted, spine slightly faded, backstrip beginning to split at upper joint, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1927, original cloth, extremities slightly rubbed, hinges cracked; and 9 others relating to economics, 8vo (12) 

Ireland (William Henry) Ballads in Imitation of the Antient, title lightly toned, Preface with one or two passages marked in blue pencil, one leaf with short marginal tear, occasional very light soiling, 20th century manuscript notes on endpapers, contemporary calf, spine gilt, lacking label, upper joint split with cover just holding, 1801; Rhapsodies, engraved portrait (lightly browned and offset), some light spotting to portrait and title, a few later marginal pencil notes, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, printed paper label "Ireland Shakespeare Fabrications. G. Hilder Libbis" to upper cover, joints split, 1803, first editions, bookplates, book-label of J.O. Edwards, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed; and 3 others by the same, including first edition Stultifera Navis, 8vo (5) *** The first mentioned the first book published by Ireland in the wake of the scandal caused by the discovery of his notorious forged Shakespeare manuscripts and documents. 

Astronomy.- Brewster (Sir David) Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, black morocco spine labels, scuffs, Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co., 1855 § Nasmyth (James) and Carpenter (James) The Moon: considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, photographic plates, illustrations, ink ownership inscription to half-title, upper hinge cracked but firm, original pictorial cloth, a little minor staining and light wear to extremities, 1885 § Airy (George Biddell) Six Lectures on Astronomy, second edition, 7 plates at rear, foxed, ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, contemporary cloth, rebacked, a little soiled, corners rubbed, [c.1850]; and 23 others, astronomy, 19th century, 8vo (27)  

Emblemata.- Horapollo, the grammarian Ierogluphika... De sacris notis & sculpturis libri duo, edited and translated by Jean Mercier, text in Greek and Latin, woodcut illustrations throughout, with neither the woodcut upside down on F7 recto or the pasted-slip on G7 verso as in some copies, printer's device to final leaf verso, two small holes and ms. note to title, ?damp-staining and similar, mainly marginal, contemporary vellum, worn, [Adams H850; Rawles & co. F.330; Mortimer French, 315], 8vo, Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1551.*** First Kerver edition in Greek and Latin. This series of woodcuts, including pieces attributed to Jean Cousin or Jean Goujon, first appeared in Kerver's French edition of 1543.  

Wright (Thomas) The Art of Floating Land, as is practised in the County of Gloucester, first edition, 3 folding engraved plates, disbound, lightly soiled, J.Rider, 1799 § [Sharp (Granville)] Remarks concerning the Encroachments on the River Thames near Durham-Yard, first edition, presentation copy from the author with contemporary ink inscription slip "H.Champnes - 1771 - E Donis Granville Sharpe" mounted on front pastedown, ex-library copy with a ink stamps, modern cloth, G.Bigg, 1771; and 4 others, science and agriculture, 8vo (6)*** ESTC records only one copy of the first item, in Delaware, USA.The second mentioned is an attack on the plan to create an embankment on the Thames for the purpose of building the Adam brothers' Adelphi building. It was too late to be of any service for the Act allowing the embankment of the river had been passed by the time the Remarks had been printed.

Economics.- [Haywood (Eliza)] Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia, 2 vol., vol.1 second edition, vol.2 first edition, each with annotated 4-page keys and final blank, vol.1 lacking half-title, water-staining to first and last leaves, staining to some inner margins of vol.1, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, slightly rubbed, vol.2 spine rubbed, 1726 § Davenant (Charles) An Essay Upon Ways and Means of Supplying the War, half-title, folding table, small ink inscriptions and trimmed heads to half-title and title, browning and spotting, a few tears, endpapers renewed, modern cloth, worn morocco spine labels, hinge cracked in a few places but leaves holding firm, 1695 § [James (Ralph)] The Taste of the Town: or, A Guide to all Publick Diversions, title in red and black, tear to upper corner of title, small hole to upper corner of a2, occasional spotting, light browning, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, morocco spine label, covers rubbed, 1731; and 2 others, also leather-bound, relating to economics, 8vo (6)

Medicine.- Pomet (Pierre) A Compleat History of Druggs Divided into Three Classes, Vegetable, Animal and Mineral, 2 vol. in 1, first edition in English, titles printed in red and black, 84 engraved plates only (of 86), lacking H5 & 6, occasional light marking or browning, later half calf, for R. Bonwicke, et. al., 1712; and c.100 others, defective, largely medical, v.s.; sold not subject to return (c.100)

England.- Hassell (John) Tour of the Grand Junction, first edition, large paper copy, 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, very  occasional spotting, modern crimson straight-grain moroco, gilt, by Bayntun of Bath, spine gilt in compartments, t.e.g., others uncut, very slight rubbing to corners but a handsome copy, [Abbey, Scenery 30; Tooley 252], 1819 § Cooke (William Bernard) The Thames; or, Graphic Illustrations...on the Banks of that Noble River, 2 vol., engraved plates, some light foxing,  contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., rubbed, spines faded, 1811, 8vo (3)

India.- Numismatics.- [Steuart (Sir James)] A Collection of Miscellanies relative to Coinage in India, ?first edition, drop-head title, occasional finger soiling, modern calf-backed boards, 4to, [?for the author], [1772] *** Believed to be a prelude to Steuart's later, "Dissertation for the East India Company of London on the Bengal Coinage in the year 1772"

Anatomy.- Collins (Samuel) A Systeme of Anatomy, treating of the Body of Man, Beasts, Birds, Fish, Insects, and Plants, 2 vol., first edition, titles in red and black, engraved plates, light damp-staining, lacking engraved frontispiece and portrait, some gatherings detached or working loose, lacking the Epistle Dedicatory, some light damp-staining, some fraying or tearing, non-uniform calf, very worn some covers detached, Thomas Newcomb, 1685 § Browne (John) Myographia Nova: or A Graphical Description of All the Muscles in Humane Body, title and frontispiece supplied in facsimile, engraved plates, lacking plate 14 and 3 early muscle plates, 1 plate and 2ff. supplied in facsimile, some marking and staining, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, some wear to corners, Tho. Milbourn, 1698; and 5 others, defective works by Collins and Browne, folio; sold not subject to return (8)

Natural world.- Geology.- Jonston (John) Thaumatographia naturalis, in decem classes distincta, first edition, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, the odd instance of contemporary ink marginalia and underlining, some water-staining to lower margins, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary English speckled calf, lacking spine label, rubbed, [Garrison-Morton 287 'A compilation of all the contemporary zoological knowledge'; NLM/Krivatsy 6268; Norman 1177; Sinkankas, Gemology 3277; Ward & Carozzi, 1217; Wellcome I, 3477; Wood p 409], 12mo, Amsterdam, Willem Jansz Blaeu, 1632. *** First edition of the author's first book. 'A treatise on natural wonders, was divided into ten categories: the new stars, the elements, meteors, minerals, plants, birds, quadrupeds, insects and other 'bloodless' animals, fish, and men' (Norman).