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Heidi, first edition, by Johanna Spyri, colour illustrations by Lizzie Lawson

Herriot (James) The Lord God Made Them All, 1981, first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper with a signed copy of Fuchs' The Crossing of Antarctica and five others (7)

Chatsworth-John Sparrow copy.- Rota (Berardino) Carmina. Nunc tantum ab ipso edita. Elegiarum libri III. Epigrammatum liber. Sylvarum seu Metamorphoseon liber. Naenia, quae nuncupatur Portia, collation: *4 ɫ4 A-S4, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of final f., large and small woodcut historiated initials, occasional spotting, 17th century speckled calf, gilt, rebacked in 19th century blind-stamped calf in compartments, with a black leather label, corners little worn, rubbed, [EDIT 16 CNCE 23454], small 4to (225 x 157mm.), Naples, Giuseppe Cacchi, 1572.⁂ In part first edition, and the only edition to be edited by the poet. Provenance: Dukes of Devonshire (Chatsworth bookplate); John Sparrow (book label, and a note from him in pencil 'Given me by Diana Parikian, September, 1985').

Slingsby (Sir Henry) A Father's Legacy. Sir Henry Slingsbey's Instructions to his Sonnes. Written a little before his Death, first edition, lacking initial blank, title with typographical border, woodcut initial, lightly browned, old calf ruled in blind, rubbed at corners, rebacked, new endpapers, [Wing S3995], 12mo, by J.Grismond, 1658.⁂ Rare, with only 3 copies listed by ESTC: British Library in the UK, and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, California, and University of Cincinnati. A second edition was published in York in 1706 and is equally rare with only 2 copies on ESTC (BL and Harvard University).Slingsby was an ardent Royalist and recorder of Yorkshire and north country life who was executed on Tower Hill for treason on 8th June 1658; the work is dated 4th June 1658 at end. His diary was first published in edited form by Sir Walter Scott in 1806.

Machiavelli (Niccolò) The Florentine history in VIII. Books, 8 parts in 1, second edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece. woodcut decorative initials, occasional spotting, lightly browned, modern panelled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with double black leather labels, spine faded, [Wing M136], 8vo, printed for Charles Harper, and John Amery, and by them sold at the Flower de Luce, and at the Peacock, both against S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1674.⁂ Scarce in commerce. This second English edition is the first to appear after Thomas Bedingfield's version in 1595. Our translator is anonymous, but the dedication is signed 'M.K.'.

Sandford (Francis) A Genealogical History of the Kings of England and Monarchs of Great Britain, first edition, title in red and black, 5 double-page engraved plates, illustrations, 57 full-page, one or two ink annotations, occasional very faint water-staining, bookplate, later diced calf, broken upper joint, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, folio, [Wing S651], Savoy, by Tho. Newcomb for the Author, 1677.

Woman writer.- Behn (Aphra) The Second part of The Rover. As it is acted by the Servants of His Royal Highness, first edition, woodcut crown to title, woodcut initial to dedication, E3 small paper flaw near foot with a little loss of text recto only, trimmed, with loss to final line of text E4r, and affecting some headlines and catch-words, the odd marginal pen trial / ink smudge, some staining, lightly browned, 19th century half vellum, black morocco label to spine, [Wing B1765], 8vo, Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's Head in Chancery-lane, 1681.⁂ The Rover, Behn's best known work and her first 'comic intrigue' (Janet Todd, ONDB), was first staged in 1677 and follows a drunken rake, a sprightly maiden, and an 'impassioned whore' during the interregnum. In this sequel the eponymous Rover chooses the 'impassioned whore' over the conventions of married life.

Brewing.- [Tryon (Thomas)] A new art of brewing beer, ale, and other sorts of liquors, so as to render them more healthfull to the body, and agreeable to nature, and to keep them longer from souring, with less trouble and charge then generally practised, first edition, title laid down, trimmed at head, affecting some headlines, stained, lightly browned, loose in early 20th century half morocco, rather worn, [Vicaire 845; Goldsmiths' 2802; Wing T3187], 12mo, Printed for Tho. Salusbury at the sign of the Temple near Temple-Bar in Fleetstreet, 1690.⁂ The first edition is rare at auction. Tryon (1634-1703) was a hatter who founded a mystical movement known as 'Tryonism', which promoted temperance, pacifism and vegetarianism, and had influenced Benjamin Franklin in his youth.

Machiavelli (Niccolò) The Works..., translated and edited by Ellis Farneworth, 2 vol., vol.2 with one folding engraved plan of encampment and 7 folding letterpress battle plans, engraved bookplate to verso of titles (partly removed), light spotting & soiling to first and last leaves, small tear to 2I1 of vol.1 affecting a couple of letters but no loss, with extract from 'The Monthly Review' for September 1762 pp.161-172 containing a review of the work loosely inserted, modern ink inscription to front free endpapers, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, corners a little worn, rebacked preserving old red morocco labels, unobtrusive repairs to lower cover of vol.2, 4to, for Thomas Davies [& others], 1762.⁂ First Ellis Farneworth edition, one of 500 copies according to the printer Bowyer's records. Farneworth apparently hawked it around London in an attempt to support himself and his two sisters, to little avail as he died the following year.

Waterways.- Whitworth (Richard) The advantages of inland navigation; or, some observations Offered To The Public, to shew that an inland navigation may be easily effected between the three great ports of Bristol, Liverpool, and Hull, first edition, folding engraved frontispiece portrait of the Duke of Bridgewater, large folding engraved plan, hand-coloured in outline, 4 folding letterpress tables of furnaces & forges, manufactures & merchandizes, expenses, & landowners, portrait offsetting on to title, some mostly light foxing, occasional light staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip in compartments, lower joint starting at foot, but holding firm, rubbed, 8vo, Printed for R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-Noster Row, 1766.⁂ Rare work at auction. On the use of canals and rivers to transport goods. Whitworth was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1758-9 and MP for Stafford from 1768 to 1780. Provenance: 'To Sir Thos. Broughton Bart., Staffordshire' (ink inscription to front free endpaper and engraved armorial bookplate of Doddington Library to front pastedown). He was a landowner, who is mentioned in the printed tables.

Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., first edition, first issue of vol.1 with errata uncorrected, [one of 500 copies], half-titles (that in vol.2 supplied from another copy), engraved portrait after Reynolds and 3 folding engraved maps, with all cancels and errata as called for, vol.1 with neat contemporary ink annotations, portrait foxed and offset onto title, light water-stain to lower outer corner, some foxing, Z1 & 2 in vol.5 bound in wrong order, contemporary calf, rubbed, rather worn at edges and corners, rebacked, [PMM 222; Rothschild 942], 4to, for W.Strahan; and T.Cadell, 1776-88.⁂ One of the world's great historical works, rare with vol.1 in first state. 500 further copies were quickly printed as the work sold out in a few days. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works...Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day; and the result was clothed in inimitable prose". (PMM)

Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of) Miscellaneous Works, 3 vol. in 2, first edition, half-titles, 7 engraved portraits, engraved plate of the widowed Countess with urn by Bartolozzi after Cipriani (water-stained at head), tissue guards, vol.1 with Directions to Binder leaf at end and mark across 2N3 & 4, vol.3 with tear to K1 but no loss, some light spotting (mostly to vol.3), engraved bookplate of Voltelin Heath and signature to front pastedowns, contemporary diced calf, gilt, spines gilt with red and green labels, rubbed and slightly stained, some repairs, 4to, for Edward and Charles Dilly, vol.3 by and for T.Sherlock [& others] , 1777-78.⁂ A sound set with good margins, unusually bound up with the scarce third volume. The editor, Maty, died whilst preparing the work so the first two volumes were issued by Dilly, and the final volume edited by his son-in-law John Obadiah Justamond and published by Sherlock. ESTC records only 5 UK copies of the third volume.

Milton (John) The Poetical Works, 3 vol. including a Life of the author by William Hayley, lavishly extra-illustrated large paper copy, in addition to the stipple-engravings after Westall and the portraits of Milton at various stages of his life typically accompanying this edition this extraordinary copy contains c.260 additional engravings from a variety of suites including portraits of Milton by Faber and others, and illustrations of Milton's works including by M.Burghers and P.P.Bouche after Medina from the first illustrated edition of Paradise Lost of 1688, 19 mezzotints by John Martin (4to edition), and others by or after Fuseli, Bartolozzi, Richter, Fourdrinier, Cheron and others, mounted or tipped into blank leaves, some trimmed close to plate mark, occasional foxing, later green morocco, by Mansell, covers elaborately ruled in gilt incorporating 4 small square floral corner-pieces, spines gilt in compartments, g.e., a little rubbed and scuffed, mainly to corners and edges, [Lowndes IV, p.1556], folio (c.310 x 420mm.), by W. Bulmer and Co., for John and Josiah Boydell, 1794-97.⁂ A superb copy of Bulmer and Boydells' magnificent edition; a veritable iconography of Milton's great epic poem Paradise Lost, and probably the grandest extra-illustrated copy of Milton ever assembled.

NO RESERVE Economics.- Malthus (Rev. Thomas Robert) An Enquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, first edition, first issue (with Murray alone in imprint (and not with J. Johnson)), 1p. advertisement at end, lacking 4ff. advertisements at end, a few instances of pencil marginalia, a little lightly browned, modern calf-backed boards, [Black 2877; Goldsmith 21130; Kress B6537], 8vo, Printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1815.⁂ The first full presentation of Malthus' theory on rent.

Hume (David) A Treatise of Human Nature: being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into Moral Subjects..., 2 vol., second edition, vol.1 with short cut to lower edge of title and hole to lower margin of B3, vol.2 with old ink stamp of Académie Diplomatique Internationale of Paris to head of title and final leaf a little browned, contemporary half calf, rubbed, corners a little worn, rebacked with gilt-ruled spine and preserving old red roan labels, [Jessop p.4], 8vo, Thomas & Joseph Allman, 1817.⁂ A good copy of the second edition of Hume's principal work. The first edition was published in three volumes in 1739-40 and it seems strange that a second edition was not published separately until nearly seventy years later but it was misunderstood and savagely reviewed on its first appearance. It has been estimated that a thousand copies were printed of the first edition but only four hundred copies or so had been sold by the middle of the eighteenth century. Despite this Hume's work is now regarded as one of the most important works in the history of philosophy, being hugely influential on other writers including his friend Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Charles Darwin and Immanuel Kant amongst others.

Austen (Jane) Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield-Park" &c. With a Biographical Notice of he Author, 4 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles in all vol. and final two blanks in vol. 4, foxing, some light browning, modern red half-morocco, gilt, spines in compartments, g.e., [Gilson A9], 8vo, John Murray, 1818.⁂ First edition of both novels, published posthumously. Northanger Abbey, a Gothic novel parody, had been drafted fifteen years earlier under a working title of 'Susan', but was abandoned when another novel of the same name appeared in 1809. Persuasion was completed by Austen in the summer of 1816, shortly before she was forced to stop writing due to ill-health.

Austen (Jane) Persuasion, 2 vol., first American edition, 36pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vol.1, ink signature to head of both titles, pencil signatures to next f. in both vol., foxing, occasional staining, a few ff. browned, final blank of vol.2 with section torn away, original cloth-backed boards, original printed paper labels to spines (chipped or split with loss), vol.1 central split to length of spine, head of spine worn, upper cover detaching, both vol. spine ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed and soiled, [Gilson B3], large 12mo, Philadelphia, 1832.⁂ 'Relatively few copies of the 1832-33 Philadelphia editions are known to survive' (Gilson). Our copy with the often missing publisher's catalogue.

Austen (Jane) Northanger Abbey, 2 vol., first American edition, without inserted publisher's advertisement f. at start of vol.1 (which Gilson says is found 'In some copies'), vol.1 first sig. detached, 'Advertisement' f. section of lower blank corners torn away, vol.2 upper corner of title and next f. repaired, both vol. occasional marginal chipping, foxed and stained, contemporary half calf, spines gilt, vol.1 upper cover detached, taking with it afore-mentioned sig., lower cover all but detached, vol.2 joints starting, both vol. spine ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Gilson B5], large 12mo, Philadelphia, Casey & Lea, 1833.⁂ A rare edition. We can trace only two auction results, both for vol.1 only.

NO RESERVE Coleridge (Samuel Taylor).- Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Faustus: from the German of Goethe, [translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge], half-title, engraved frontispiece by Henry Moses, 26 engraved plates by Moses after Professor Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch's 'outlines', final leaf with a list of plates and errata, spotting and foxing, occasional staining, lightly browned, contemporary half calf, sympathetically rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Morgan 2622; Faustus: from the German of Goethe. Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, F. Burwick and J. McKusick, eds., Oxford, 2007], 4to, Boosey & Sons, 1821.⁂ The first substantial English translation. Coleridge had begun a translation for John Murray in 1814, which was soon abandoned. In 1820, when demand was high in England for a translation to accompany Retzsch's iconic illustrations George Soane answered the call with a series of excerpted captions. He was followed by Daniel Boileau, who contributed to the Boosey edition of Retsch's Series of Twenty-Six Outlines. 'Both the Bohte [Soane] and Boosey [Boileau] editions sold out quickly, but Thomas Boosey had initiated plans for a second edition of his version two months before the first edition appeared. He thus turned to Coleridge for "friendly advice" ... The new text was twenty-nine pages longer, and could be bound with the plates or separately as an original publication. Coleridge translated almost half the original work, with his dramatic blank verse embedded in a prose plot summary of the remaining half' (Burwick & McKusick).

Novel set in British India.- Oman (C[harles] P[hilip] A[ustin]) Eastwards, or Realities of Indian Life, first edition, presentation copy from the author to his mother-in-law, some foxing to title, last few text ff. and endpapers, contemporary green panelled morocco, richly gilt, spine in compartments, spine faded to brown, a few scuff marks, rubbed, g.e., 8vo, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1864.⁂ An excellent presentation copy of this atmospheric novel following the Templemore family from England to Bengal in the final days of East India Company rule, when 'the first faint mutterings of the storm which was to dash the crazy fabric of British power' were stirring. It is rich in details of Anglo-Indian life, include hunting alligators and boar, visits to the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, 'a picnic in the Himalayahs' and 'Indian Jugglers'. A Calcutta-born Indigo planter who spent most of his adult life in the Himalayan foothills, Oman is known to have contributed anonymously to All the year round, edited by Charles Dickens, but is perhaps better known as the father of the historian Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman.

Sewell (Anna) Black Beauty: his Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, 8pp. advertisements at end, spotting, hinges weak, brown endpapers, original brown cloth, spine and upper cover decorated in black and gilt, rear cover blocked in blind [Carter's B binding), extremities worn, housed in a suede-lined brown morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, 8vo, Jarrold and Sons, [1877].⁂ A very good copy of this Victorian equine classic, whose author died soon after its publication.

Blake (William) Milton, a Poem in 2 Books, William Muir's facsimile edition, number 7 of c.50 copies, comprising numbered printed title, 5pp. Preface, 45 hand-coloured facsimile plates and 3pp. facsimile letter from Blake to William Hayley, bound in later black morocco, uncut, a little rubbed and marked, [Bentley 249f], 4to (c.285 x 220mm.), Edmonton, William Muir, for Bernard Quaritch, 1886.⁂ One of Blake's most important statements. Blake held that Milton's Paradise Lost was based in a distorted theology, and presented inverted views of Christ and Satan. In this "prophetic poem," Blake has Milton return to life to rectify his errors and redeem himself by purifying his creative imagination. Milton contains the famous poem 'Jerusalem' ("And did those feet in ancient time/Walk upon England's mountains green?"). The first edition of Blake's Milton exists in only four known copies.

Wilde (Oscar) The Sphinx, first edition, one of 200 copies, printed in green, red and black, illustrations by Charles Ricketts, bookplate to paste down, occasional light sprinkled spotting, original vellum, gilt with designs by Ricketts, small portion of discolouration to lower cover, very light foxing, else a bright copy, Elkin Mathews and John Lane, The Bodley Head, 4to, 1894.⁂ Rare first edition of one of the landmarks of 1890s book production, overseen at the author's request by his friend the artist and typographer Charles Ricketts. Ricketts considered the designs for the illustrations and for the binding amongst his best illustrative work. The Pall Mall Budget reviewed, "The vellum binding, the various symbolic designs, the quaint rubicated initials and the general arrangement of the text, all by Mr Rickett's sympathetic art, are most subtly infused by the spirit of the poem. The designs on the cover are particularly striking, and Mr Ricketts has never made a lovelier thing than the group of maidens clustering round "the moon horned Io" as she weeps." (21 June, 1894)

Evans (I. O.) The World of To-Morrow: a Junior Book of Forecasts, first edition, 24 plates on transparent "Diophane", 1 browned, occasional spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth backed translucent "Rhodoid" with pictorial upper cover, spine a little sunned, 8vo, 1933.⁂ Scarce. Only two copies on JISC Library Hub: British Library & National Library of Scotland. Provenance: Inscription reads 'Raymond Proctor from F. W. Proctor. Christmas 1933.'

Laszlo (Carl)La Lune En Rodage, First & Second Series, vol.1 unnumbered from an edition limited to 215 (65 hors commerce), vol. 2 number 67 of 150 copies plus an unspecified number of hors commerce copies, with pieces of original artwork (drawings, gouaches, collages etc.), graphics, photographs, sheets of letterpress text, music etc.tipped to thick card leaves of varying colours, many signed, original hessian-backed printed veneer boards fastened with metal bolts, each with small bas-relief mounted on upper cover (metal on vol.1 by Pomodoro and and marble by Talman on vol.2), oblong 4to, Basle, Editions Panderma, 1960 & 1965. ⁂ Important Survey Of Post-War And Contemporary Art Featuring Many Major Avant-Garde Artists And Including Original Artwork. The present lot contains two of the most ambitious and important contemporary art portfolios of the post-war era. Containing a mixture of original and editioned works La Lune en Rodage brought together many of the most cutting-edge avant-garde artists of the age and gave them the opportunity to work in mediums that in many cases they had not previously. Volume 1 features Piero Manzoni's only editioned multiple, an 'editioned' unique drawing by Lucio Fontana, and Enrico Catellani's first multiple, and across the two volumes artists such as well Arman, Jean Arp, Hundertwasser, Otto Piene, Man Ray, Dieter Roth, Victor Vasarely amongst many others included works. The production of volume 3 was beset with delays and the project was largely abandoned during its early production in 1965, it was finally published in 1977 but by that time many of the works which had been set to be included were absent most notable was a wonderful screenprint by Bridget Riley, which until recently was largely unknown.

Picasso (Pablo).- Balzac (Honoré de) Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu, number 127 of 240 copies on Rives, from an edition limited to 350, wood-engraved illustrations and 13 etchings by Picasso (the first an illustrated table to suite of 12) printed by Louis Fort, etchings with tissue guards, loose in wrappers, all loose as issued in original printed cream wrappers with wood-engraving on each cover, uncut, glacine wrapper (stain to lower wrapper), original cloth-backed board folder and slip-case (very slightly rubbed), [Artist & the Book 225; Artist & the Book in France p.339; From Manet to Hockney 92], 4to, Paris, Ambroise Vollard, 1931.⁂ "Balzac's story involves an artist who laboured for ten years to produce a picture epitomising feminine beauty, which was then meaningless to anyone but himself." (From Manet to Hockney)

Bibiena (Ferdinando Galli) Direzioni a' Giovani Studenti nel Disegno dell'Architettura Civile, 2 vol., mixed edition (vol.1 third edition, vol.2 second edition), 133 engraved plates (75 in vol.1 and 58 in vol.2), 18 folding, contemporary mottled sheep, spines gilt, citron and green labels, a little worn and scuffed, gouges to lower cover of vol.1, [Berlin Kat. 2630; Fowler 135, first editions], 12mo, Bologna, Lelio dalla Volpe, 1764-53.⁂ Revised pocket edition of Bibiena's folio L'Architettura Civile of 1711, with the addition of an important chapter on stage design in the second volume, intended for students of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna and first issued in 1731-32.

Cambry (Jacques) Rapport sur les Sépultres, présenté à l'Administation Centrale du Département de la Seine, first and only edition, half-title, 9 engraved plates and plans by Gallien or L'Épine after Jacques Molinos, all but 2 folding, washed, with some traces of damp-staining to last few leaves, with 2pp. 8vo offprint of a reply by Molinos to the 'Journal de Paris' responding to accusations of plagiarism by Pierre Giraud bound in at beginning, modern green calf-backed boards, spine gilt in compartments, 4to, Paris, Didot l'Aine, An VII [1799].⁂ Rare and important contribution to the discussion of Parisian public cemeteries as memorials to civic virtue, as picturesque landscape gardens of rest, and as an essential for public health. Molinos's design of a circular garden with catacombs and central pyramid serviced by outlying mortuary depots echoed the barrières designed by Ledoux on the outskirts of Paris. It was actually a commercial operation in which plots and urns would be sold to the wealthy and was fiercely attacked in the journals, as well as by the architect Giraud, who had designed a similar pyramidical crematorium in a champs de repos but which was not published until 1801.

Jones (Inigo) The Designs...consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings. Published by William Kent, with some Additional Designs, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, lacking half-title (as often) but with engraved allegorical frontispiece (also often missing), with engraved title-vignettes incorporating portrait of Inigo Jones and head- & tail-pieces and initials, list of subscribers, 97 engraved plates by Fourdrinier and others, 29 double-page or folding, some light browning or spotting, the latter mostly marginal, one plate with small tears to outer margin repaired, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, uncut, rubbed, spine a little worn with some minor repairs, preserved in later morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, joints worn with splits, [Fowler 162, lacking frontispiece; Harris 385; Millard, British 34, lacking half-title; RIBA 1624, lacking half-title and frontispiece], folio, 1727.⁂ A fine untrimmed copy. The list of subscribers includes the Earl of Burlington (12 copies), Charles Bridgman, Colen Campbell, James Gibbs, and Nicholas Hawksmoor."The Designs of Inigo Jones is an impressive and important book. Yet oddly enough more influential than any single building depicted in it were its plates of doors, windows, niches, etc. These plates seem to have had a formative effect upon Gibbs's Book of Architecture (1728) and from that point on became a standard feature of eighteenth-century pattern books" (Harris).

Langley (Batty and Thomas) Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved...in the Gothick Mode for the Ornamenting of Buildings and Gardens, first edition, engraved title in second state (without plea to subscribers), 2 letterpress dedications, list of subscribers and 4pp. text, 64 engraved plates, with plates XXI-XL of Langley's 'City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs' of 1740 bound in at end, Robert Hartwell's copy with his ink signature on title, a good clean copy in contemporary speckled sheep, gilt, rubbed, a few marks, scuff to lower cover repaired, rebacked preserving old roan label, some corners repaired, [Harris 409], 4to, [1742].⁂ Rare first edition later reissued in 1747 as Gothic Architecture Improved. This was the first major English attempt to systematise Gothic architecture into orders, partly following the inspiration of William Kent, with splendid plates of Gothic umbrellos, temples, pavilions, windows and chimneypieces.Plate XXXVII of the additional plates from the City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs is a cancel and is captioned "The Curvatures of Raking Moldings for Entire and open Pediments, and for the Capping of their Mutules and Modilions. By Mr. Robert Hartwell of ye Tower of London Carp.r".

Parker (Thomas Lister) Description of Browsholme Hall, first edition, etched frontispiece and 19 plates by J.C.Buckler including a plan and plate of facsimile signatures, plan with rooms identified in manuscript, folding pedigree, title and following leaf browned, original boards, uncut, rubbed and slightly spotted, rebacked, 4to, S.Gosnell, 1815.⁂ Scarce account of Browsholme Hall in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now in Lancashire) privately printed for the author's friends, of which only 100 copies were for sale. Browsholme was a Jacobean manor house altered and extended for Thomas Lister Parker by Jeffrey Wyatt (later Sir Jeffrey Wyatville), partly to accommodate his picture gallery and library. The latter was sold by Leigh and Sotheby in 1815.

Fontana (Carlo) Templum Vaticanum et Ipsius Origo, first edition, titles in Italian and Latin, 79 engraved plates (11 folding), faint off-setting, occasional faint marginal spotting, bookplate, near contemporary vellum, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Rome, Jo. Francisci Buagni, 1694.

Wiedewelt (Johannes) Samling af Aegyptiske og Romerske Oldsager, I.Deel [all published], first edition, engraved pictorial title and 27 plates, contemporary ink inscription to foot of title, light water-staining to upper outer corner sometimes extending into plate-mark but not affecting images, occasional spotting or soiling, a few leaves reinforced at fore-edge, contemporary half sheep, rubbed, corners and spine a little worn, [Blackmer 1793], folio, Copenhagen, N.Möller, 1786.⁂ Featuring Egyptian and Roman antiquities in the royal collection in Copenhagen, by the Danish neo-classical sculptor Wiedewelt.

Foulis (Robert) A Catalogue of Pictures composed and painted chiefly by the most admired masters of the Roman, Florentine, Parman, Bolognese, Venetian, Flemish, and French Schools... , 3 vol. in 2, first and only edition, contemporary ink signature of Alex. Fraser Tytler to head of title and with a few ink annotations, bookplate removed from verso of first title, a few small spots or stains but generally very clean, modern half calf, spines ruled in gilt with red morocco labels, [Gaskell 595], London, sold at the Place of Exhibition, and by T.Cadell and P.Elmsly, [Glasgow, Foulis Press], 1776.⁂ Scarce detailed catalogue of the Foulis Gallery of Old Masters, brought to London for exhibition and sale. The last fifty pages includes a list of Foulis Press publications, prints engraved in the Academy at Glasgow and sold by Robert and Andrew Foulis, and statues in plaster of Paris, moulded in Glasgow.Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (1747-1813), Scottish judge, academic and friend of Robert Burns. He persuaded Burns to remove lines from his poem 'Tam o' Shanter' which were insulting to the legal and clerical professions. On p.92 of vol.1 is a long note by Tytler copying a letter from C.Gesner to his father dated Rome 18 July 1787 concerning Raphael's Entombment of Christ in the Borghese Gallery. Tytler notes that the Foulis version (described on p.93) is probably a contemporary copy and is now in his possession. Another note referring to Raphael's Holy Family appears on p.275.

Africa.- Chapman (James) Travels in the Interior of South Africa, comprising Fifteen Years' Hunting and Trading, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps, tears expertly repaired, bookplates, previous owner's signature to half-titles, original decorative cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Hosken p.45], 8vo, 1868.⁂ Bookplates of 'The Explorers Club' and the historian John Ralph Willis.

Dottori (Carlo de') Aristodemo Tragedia, first edition, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, some light staining and spotting, 19th century calf-backed boards, spine gilt, rubbed, [Salvioli 356; Allacci 110], small 4to, Padua, Matteo Cardorino, 1657.⁂ Rare first edition of this drama, called by Peter Broad in The Cambridge History of Italian Literature the 'acknowledged masterpiece of Seicento tragedy' (pp.331-332, Cambridge, 1999). It was first performed on 31st May, 1655 by twelve Paduan gentlemen, with Sertorio Orsato taking the lead role.

Africa.- Papers Relative to the Expedition to the River Niger, first edition, Brook-Hitching copy with 'BH' in pencil to front free endpaper, folding hand-coloured map, scattered spotting, original paper wrappers bound in, modern half-morocco, 4to, 1843.⁂ The Niger expedition of 1841-1842 was instigated by the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilisation of Africa.

Africa.- Schoeller (Dr. Max) Mitteillungen über meine reise nach Äquatorial-Ost-Afrika und Uganda 1896-1897, 3 vol. comprising 2 text and 1 atlas vol, first edition, frontispieces, 152 plates (2 hand-coloured), 16 folding maps, bookplate of Edward North Buxton, occasional faint spotting, original reverse calf, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities,4to, Berlin, 1901-04.⁂ One of the scarcest and most detailed works on Kenya and Uganda. Schoeller had previously travelled into northern Abyssinia with Schweinfurth and Alfred Kaiser. In 1896-7 he journeyed into Equatorial East Africa, recording his observations and discoveries, including Dar es Salaam, the Masai Steppe, Guasso-Nyiro, Uganda, the Athi plains and the Ukamba-Mombasa, which later became this 3 vol. work.

Africa.- Smith (William) A New Voyage to Guinea, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates, trimmed (as usual), faint scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, [Sabin 84559], 8vo, MDDCXIV [but 1744].

Hawaii.- Brigham (William T.) Ka Hana Kapa: The Making of Bark-Cloth in Hawaii, 2 vol., (including plate vol.), first edition, being vol. 3 of the Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, text vol. with colour frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations, a few margins a little frayed, occasional foxing, modern half calf, original upper wrapper bound in, plate vol. with 27 colour plates, loose as issued with 2pp. text in folding cloth portfolio, housed within calf-backed board portfolio, 4to, Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1911.⁂ First edition of this important work on this uniquely Hawaiian craft.

Hawaii.- Fornander (Abraham) and Thomas Thrum. Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore, 9 parts in 3 vol., being Vols IV-VI of the Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, text in Hawaiian and English, some light soiling to titles, attractive 20th century half calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels, original wrappers bound in (some a creased), uncut, 4to, Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1916-20.⁂ First edition of this important foundational work, rare as a complete set. Fornander was a Swedish-born emigrant to Hawaii who spent some time as a whaler and journalist before becoming a respected judge on the Circuit Court. He devoted much of his spare time to his ethnographic studies of the Hawaiian race; on his death in 1887 his voluminous research passed to the Bishop Museum who eventually ensured their publication.

Holy Land.- Frith (Francis) Sinai and Palestine, 12 original parts, 37 mounted albumen prints including smaller print on title, most c.230 x 165mm. or vice versa, tissue guards, one of two a little faded, light foxing or soiling to some mounts, first mount with light water-staining to outer edge, original printed pale grey wrappers, most split and slightly frayed at spine with contents loose, part 6 with tear to upper cover, part 12 foxed and soiled, [Gernsheim, Incunabula 195; cf. Blackmer 1942], folio, 1862.⁂ The "best edition" of Frith's Holy Land views; very rare in the original parts. "The prints in this edition are of a much stronger quality than those in the first edition having been gold-toned". (Gernsheim). The views include Jerusalem, Nazareth, Damascus, Gaza, the Sinai peninsula, etc.

Pacific.- Beasley (H. G.) Pacific Islands Records: Fish Hooks, edited by Thomas A. Joyce, first edition, one of 250 copies, this out-of-series, plates and illustrations, occasional light foxing, original cloth, lettered in gilt, very light fading to spine, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, light marking or finger-soiling to covers, but a very good copy overall, 4to, 1928.⁂ Rare, the definitive work on the subject, based on Beasley's own collection, includes fish hooks from Hawaii, Fiji, Tahiti, Easter Island and elsewhere.

Polar.- Worsley (Frank, New Zealand sailor and explorer who served on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1916, as captain of the Endurance, 1872-1943) Under Sail in the Frozen North, Preface by Grettir Algarsson, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author with his inscription on half-title, frontispiece and 32 plates and maps and 1 large folding map at end, names cut out of half-title and front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, small teat at head of spine, spine slightly faded, 8vo, 1927.

Central & South America.- Humboldt (Alexander von) & Aimé Bonpland. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, during the Years 1799-1804, 7 vol. bound in 6, first English edition, 8 engraved plates and maps (7 folding), Table of Degrees of the Centigrade Thermometer at beginning of vol. II, 1 folding map torn and repaired, some foxing and browning, vol. I ink inscription and each vol. with booktickets of Dr Southwood Smith on front pastedowns, contemporary calf, gilt spines, slightly rubbed with some small surface wear, modern red and green morocco labels, [Hill (2004) 848; Sabin 33770], 8vo, 1818-29.

Turkey.- [Dalvimart (Octavien)] The Military Costume of Turkey, first edition, large paper copy, half-title, hand-coloured engraved portrait frontispiece by Thomas Charles Wageman, hand-coloured aquatint additional vignette title and 29 plates (watermarked 'J Whatman 1816') by J.H. Clark, each with letter-press description f. (watermarked W Balston 1813; additional title is counted as plate 1), portrait / additional title all but loose, small worm trace to inner gutter of first few ff., offsetting to portrait / title, light water-staining to some lower corners, some spotting and light staining, original boards, original printed paper label to upper cover (stating that a large paper copy), rebacked with later cloth, edges worn, scuffed and stained, label scuffed with loss,[Colas 2059; Lipperheide 2388; cf. Abbey, Travel, 373 & Blackmer 1125], B.R. Howlett for T. McLean, 1818.

Voyages.- Nicol (John) The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, damp-staining to title and frontispiece, occasional light spotting or finger-soiling, modern half calf, spine gilt in compartments with naval motifs, [Ferguson 875; Sabin 55241], 12mo, Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1822.⁂ Includes accounts of his visit to the Hawaiian Islands and life aboard a South Sea Whaler, also contains one of the only accounts of the "Second Fleet" voyage to Australia carrying 245 female convicts.

Bird's eggs.- Ginanni (Count Giuseppe) Delle uova e dei nidi degli uccelli ... aggiunte in fine alcune osservazioni, con una dissertazione sopra varie spezie di cavallette, 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 3 divisional pictorial titles, 22 plates of eggs and 8 plates of grasshoppers, minor worm trace to upper margin of first few ff., finger-marking, occasional spotting, contemporary vellum, spine ends little chipped, rubbed, [Anker 161; Nissen IVB 1031; Wood p. 359], a very good copy, 4to, Venice, Antonio Bortoli, 1737.⁂ 'The first separate work on oology' (Nissen), with a separate section on grasshoppers.

Darwin (Charles) The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 vol., first edition, first issue, half-titles, tipped-in 'Postscript' f. to vol.2, wood-engraved illustrations, 16pp. advertisements at end of both vol., both vol. endpapers, half-titles and advertisements foxed, occasional spotting elsewhere (including vol.1 title), hinges splitting, original cloth, gilt, vol.2 small stain to foot of upper cover, both vol. corners little worn, lightly marked, rubbed, [Freeman 937; Norman 599], 8vo, John Murray, 1871.⁂ The first appearance of the word 'evolution' in any of Darwin's works. In The Descent of Man Darwin 'compared man's physical and psychological characteristics to similar traits in apes and other animals, showing how even man's mind and moral sense could have developed through evolutionary processes' (Norman). Our set bears the following first issue points, as called for by Freeman: Vol.2: verso of title with errata, verso of half-title with printer's note, tipped-in 'Postscript' f. at pp.ix-x, which referes to 'a serious unfortunate error', which affects pp.297-299. Vol 1: first word on p.297 is 'transmitted'. Both vol: advertisements dated January, 1871.

Fishes.- Artedi (Petrus) Ichthyologia sive opera omnia de piscibus, edited by Carl Linnaeus, 5 parts in 1 vol., first edition, woodcut ornaments to some titles, light blue ink stains to lower margins of first few sigs., diminishing in size, some mostly light browning (heavier in a few instances), occasional spotting or staining, contemporary half calf, spine in compartments, spine neatly repaired, corners worn, rubbed, [Waller 11771; Wood p.204], 8vo, Leiden, Conrad Wishoff, 1738.⁂ 'this taxonomically most important work assured Artedi the honor of being the father of the science of ichthyology.' (DSB). The first fully scientific survey of fish, published by Linnaeus, after the untimely death of his close friend the author. It contains a biography of the author by Linnaeus.

Tessereau (Abraham) Histoire Chronologique de la Grande Chancelerie de France, first edition, engraved title vignette and head-piece and initial to dedication, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and decorative initials, errata/privilege leaf at end, no 3Q4 but pagination continuous, light marginal water-staining at beginning and end, occasional spotting, contemporary red morocco with triple gilt fillet borders and central noble arms within oval wreath, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., rather rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, joints split, spine missing portion at foot, folio, Paris, Pierre le Petit, 1676.⁂ Comprehensive history of the Chancellery of France.

NO RESERVE Chemistry.- Becher (Johann Joachim) Institutiones chimicae prodromae, id est . Oedipus chimicus, obscuriorum terminorum & principiorum chimicorum, mysteria aperiens & resolvens. Opusculum, omnibus medicinae & chimiae studiosis lectu perquàm utile & necessarium, engraved additional pictorial title and a plate of the Prague Medal, printed title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, final f. blank, narrow worm trace within text in sigs. E&F, some staining, contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, [Duveen p.55; Ferguson I, p.87; Krivatsy 982; Wellcome II, p.125], 12mo, Amsterdam, Elizeus Weyerstrat, 1664.⁂ Becher's important work on the elements, which 'rapidly became a standard text on elements, principles, and chemical processes' (DSB). The engraved plate depicts an alchemical medal commemorating a divina metamorphosis that took place before Emperor Ferdinand III at Prague, on January 15, 1648. There exists a Frankfurt edition of the same date. No precedence has been established as to the first edition.

Libraries.- Le Gallois (Pierre) Traitté Historique des Plus Belles Bibliotheques de l'Europe, first edition, half-title, with 3pp. privilege at end but without index sometimes present, title with small nick to fore-edge, later vellum, spine titled in red & black, lightly soiled, [cf.Bigmore & Wyman I p.429], 12mo, Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1680.⁂ Concerning ancient and contemporary libraries, both public and private, and proposing a new classification system.

Richardson (Samuel) Clarissa, die Geschichte eines vornehmen Frauenzimmers..., translated by Johann Daniel Michaelis and Johann Mattheson, 8 vol., first German edition, Gothic letter, some light browning, old German mottled sheep, spines gilt with red morocco labels, a little rubbed, 8vo, vol.1 & 2 Frankfurt, Leipzig, vol.3-8 Gottingen, A.Vandenhoeck, 1748-1753.⁂ Scarce.

Beckford (William).- Thiébault (Dieudonné) Mes Souvenirs de Vingt Ans de Séjour a Berlin; ou Frédéric le Grand, sa Famille, sa Cour, son Gouvernement, son Académie, ses Écoles, et ses Amis Littérateurs et Philosophes, 5 vol., first edition, half-titles, William Beckford's copy with his extensive pencil notes to front free endpapers (3pp. in vol.1, 2pp. in vol.3 and 1p. each in vol.2, 4 & 5) and later ink note "Beckford sale 1883 lot 2571" [£1.16s to Bain] in vol.1, light foxing, bound for Beckford in near contemporary half calf, ?by Charles Lewis, spines gilt with black roan labels, rubbed, corners and spines a little worn, chipped at ends, upper cover of vol.1 detached, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, 8vo, Paris, F.Buisson, 1804.⁂ Important contemporary memoir of Frederick the Great, by Dieudonné Thiébault (1733-1807), who acted for many years as the king's literary advisor, and with an interesting provenance. As usual, Beckford's notes mainly summarise the text rather than adding comments of his own, but the notes show what he found interesting and act as a kind of index to the most amusing passages, e.g. in vol.1, "Mons.r Thiébault en faveur auprès des Chiens de sa Majesté" (p.276) and vol.5, "Frederic bon Vampire" (p.403).Provenance: William Beckford (1760-1844), novelist, writer and collector, whose library passed to his son-in-law, the Duke of Hamilton, and was sold in the great Hamilton Palace sales of 1882-83; Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), politician and Prime Minister 1894-95 (small armorial gilt label, his note re Beckford sale, some other pencil annotations possibly by Rosebery).

Aeschines. Epistolae, translated into Latin and with commentary by René Guillon, collation: A-D4 E2, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut decorative initials, the odd spot, modern marbled boards, small 4to (215 x 150mm.), Paris, André Wechel, 1555.⁂ Rare first edition of this humanist version of the Greek letters attributed to Aechines, the Greek statesman and one of the Attic orators. Guillon was a pupil of Guillaume Budé. USTC records only three copies, of which none are in the UK (Harvard, BnF and Lyon). Literature: Adams A261.

Heraldry.- Bossewell (John) Workes of armorie, deuyded into three bookes, entituled, the concordes of armorie, the armorie of honor, and of coates and creastes, first edition, mostly black letter, title within sectional woodcut typographic border, woodcut arms, crests and figures, a few with early hand-colouring, final 2 ff. (E1&2) from second edition (but text identical to the first edition), D1 small section of outer margin cut away, 2D4 small repair to lower inner corner, final E2 torn with loss to lower blank corner and laid down, stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with red leather label, upper joint cracking, but holding firm, rubbed and scuffed, [STC 3393], small 4to, Richard Totell, 1572.⁂ 'an example of the sort of learning that delighted Tudor antiquarians' (ODNB). Provenance: Rogers Ruding (1751-1820), English cleric, academic, and numismatist, author of the Annals of the Coinage (engraved armorial bookplate and probably his note to front free endpaper pointing out that text of second edition does not differ from first).

Aldine.- Bizzarri (Pietro) Varia opuscula, quorum indicem sequens pagina demonstrabit, first edition, 4 parts in 1, collation: A-T8 U4, woodcut printer's device to titles, woodcut head and tail-pieces and decorative initials, few small wormholes to lower margin of last 3-4 ff., the odd spot or small stain, final blank torn with loss and laid down, modern morocco, richly gilt, [Adams B2090; Renouard 198-199:15; EDIT 16 CNCE 6175], 8vo (153 x 99mm.), Venice, [Paulus Manutius], 1565.⁂ ⁂ Rare in commerce. Bizzarri was an Italian historian, spy, and sometime fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Provenance: 'G. Madrin, 1577'; 'Nicolai Saundersoni codex ex dono Gryffi madrin defuncti...1577...Oxon' (ink inscriptions to front free endpaper and title).

Webster (John) A monumental columne, erected to the liuing memory of the euer-glorious Henry, late Prince of Wales, first edition, title with woodcut typographic ornament within single filet at head and foot, woodcut head-pieces and a decorative initial, A1 (misbound after A3) printed entirely in black recto & verso, C2v printed entirely in black, lacking C3&4 (both printed in black recto & verso), C1 small repair to lower blank corner, C2 small repaired hole affecting a couple of letters recto and small part of black printing verso and repaired at lower blank corner, dark green crushed morocco by Matthews, gilt, covers with three sets of filet borders (one double filet) with floral corner-pieces, spine lettered longitudinally, little rubbed at extremities, g.e., [STC 25174; cf. Wither to Prior 888 (Three Elegies)], small 4to (180 x 124mm.), Printed by N[icholas]. O[kes]. for William Welby, dwelling in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Swan, 1613.⁂ A rare work, with an appealing provenance. The last copy we can trace at auction was in 1937 (in a volume of 'Tracts' at Sotheby's, making £6). There was widespread grief at the premature death of Henry from typhoid, aged just 18. The tragic event prompted a number of literary tributes, with Webster interrupting work on The Duchess of Malfi to pen his. The work was later re-issued as part of Three elegies on the most lamented death of Prince Henrie, the first written by Cyril Tourneur. The second Iohn Webster. The third Tho: Heywood, 1613, itself scarce. Provenance: 'Richard Grant White Esq. with the best wishes of R.H. Stoddard.'. A presentation copy from an American critic and poet to a fellow American critic and Shakespeare scholar.

Law.- Dalton (Michael) The Countrey Justice, third edition, title with elaborate woodcut border, woodcut head-pieces and initials, lacking initial but with final blank, title a little browned at edges and with name cut away at head, unobtrusive wormhole to title and first few leaves, contemporary calf, old paper label to spine, a little rubbed and marked, gouge and a few small holes to upper cover, some corners repaired, [STC 6208], folio, [by Adam Islip] for the Societie of Stationers, 1626.⁂ First published in 1618 this was the most important guide for Justices of the Peace during the 17th century. This edition is quite scarce with only 8 UK copies listed by ESTC.