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NO RESERVE Stonehenge.- Webb (John) A vindication of Stone-Heng restored: in which the orders and rules of architecture observed by the ancient Romans, are discussed. Together with the customs and manners of several nations of the world in matters of building of greatest antiquity, first edition, title in red and black, engraved illustrations, lacking initial imprimatur f. and errata, some water-staining to lower margins, occasional spotting, disbound, [Wing 1203], small folio, printed by R. Davenport for Tho. Bassett, 1665. sold not subject to return. ⁂ A refutation of Walter Charleton's Chorea gigantum (London, 1663), in which he claims that Stonehenge was built by Druids and not by the Romans as maintained by Inigo Jones in his Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain Restored (London, 1655).

Leigh (Edward) Three Diatribes, or Discourses. First of Travel, or a Guide for Travellers into Foreign Parts. Secondly, of Money or Coyns. Thirdly, of Measuring of the Distance Betwixt Plane and Place, 3 parts in 1 vol., first edition, early ink inscription to title, a few small ink stains, modern antique-style half calf, [Goldsmith's 1985; Kress 1293; Wing L1010], 8vo, for William Whitwood, at the sign of the Golden Bell in Duck-Lane, near Smithfield, 1671.

NO RESERVE Economics.- Herr (Gottfried) Vermehrtes Arithmetisches Hand-Buch, Gothic letter, title printed in red and black within a decorative woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, tables printed in red and black, lacking engraved additional title, ink stamp to title verso, occasional worming, contemporary blindstamped panelled calf with a hatched design to inner panel, ties defective, worming to covers, spine ends chipped, [Tomash & Williams H123; VD17 14:634793S], folio, Breslau, Gottfried Gründer For The Author, 1653.⁂ First edition of this rare merchants' manual, including compound interest tables.Provenance: Breslau Centralbibliothek (cancelled ink library stamp).

B[rundish] (J[ohn] J[elliland]) An Elegy on a Family-Tomb, first edition, presentation copy from the author, lightly browned, modern boards, small 4to, Cambridge, Printed by J. Archdeacon printer to the University, 1782.⁂ Rare, with ESTC recording only three copies. The presentation inscription reads 'Revd G. Pretyman, from the author'.

NO RESERVE Charity Schools.- Parr (Samuel) A Discourse on Education and on the Plans Pursued in Charity-Schools, first edition, corrections inserted by hand, lightly browned title, modern cloth, [?1785] § Kennett (White) The Charity of Schools for Poor Children Recommended in a Sermon Preach'd in the Parish-Church of St. Sepulchers ..., first edition, by Joseph Downing, 1706 § Cox (Michael) A Sermon Preached at Christ-Church, Dublin ... before the Incorporated Society, for promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland, additional title, Dublin, by George Grierson, 1748, bookplates, the last two uniformly bound in modern morocco-backed boards; and 2 others, also on charity schools, sm.4to (5)

Hayley (William) The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispieces and 1 additional plate, all by William Blake, occasional light scattered foxing, contemporary tree calf, gilt borders, spines gilt in compartments, some cracking to joints but holding firm, light rubbing to extremities, an attractive set, 4to, 1803.

NO RESERVE Galgemair (Georg) Kurtzer Gründtlicher Warhaffter Gebesserter Und Vermehrter Underricht, Zuberaitung und gebrauch, dess circkels schregmess, und linial in wahrer proportion schöne mathematische kunststück, durch unglaubliche behende vortheil an die hand gebendt ... Durch weiland den hochgelehrten herin joannem remelium ... im 1624. Jars, anietzo aber zum vierdten mal auffgelegt und gedruckt, Gothic letter, engraved title, 4 engraved folding plates, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces and diagrams, C3 illustration with folding flap, foxing and browning, minor worming to beginning and end, 20th century half vellum, modern paper label to spine, [Tomash & Williams R73 bis; VD17 23:323920V], small 4to, Augsburg, Johann Wehe, 1655.⁂ "This edition, of which there are two copies in the collection, is the same text as the first edition. The title page has been changed to better represent the content-two major problems of the day, dialing and gauging, are featured prominently. Neither the edition of the previous year nor these two volumes contain figures numbered 2 and 3, an omission that appears to be deliberate" - Tomash & Williams.

NO RESERVE Johnson (Samuel).- Johnsoniana: or Supplement to Boswell, collected by Piozzi et al, first edition, half-title, additional engraved title, frontispiece, 44 plates, occasional light foxing to plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, 1836; Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., contemporary calf, rubbed, spine worn, 1828 § Croker (John Wilson) Boswell's Life of Johnson, contemporary calf, rubbed, 1876; and 25 others, Johnson and Boswell, v.s. (29)

NO RESERVE Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Uncle Tom's Cabin, first English edition, portrait frontispiece, vignette title, and wood-engravings by George Cruikshank, occasional finger soiling or light marking, half morocco, rubbed, spine faded, by John Cassell, 1852 § Bayle (Peter) The Dictionary Historical and Critical..., 5 vol., second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol.1, half-titles, titles in red and black, occasional damp-staining, contemporary calf, rubbed, upper cover detached to vol.1, others working loose, for J.J. & P. Knapton [and others], 1734-38; and c.110 others, antiquarian, leather-bound etc., v.s. (c.115)

NO RESERVE Galgemair (Georg) Kurtzer Gründtlicher Warhaffter Gebesserter Und Vermehrter Underricht, Zuberaitung und gebrauch, dess circkels schregmess, und linial in wahrer proportion schöne mathematische kunststück, durch unglaubliche behende vortheil an die hand gebendt ... Durch weiland den hochgelehrten herin joannem remelium ... im 1624. Jars, anietzo aber zum vierdten mal auffgelegt und gedruckt, Gothic letter, engraved title, 4 engraved folding plates, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces and diagrams, C3 trimmed at foot, some occasional light browning, later vellum, [Tomash & Williams R73; VD17 23:323920V], small 4to, Augsburg, Johann Wehe, 1655.⁂ "This edition, of which there are two copies in the collection, is the same text as the first edition. The title page has been changed to better represent the content-two major problems of the day, dialing and gauging, are featured prominently. Neither the edition of the previous year nor these two volumes contain figures numbered 2 and 3, an omission that appears to be deliberate" - Tomash & Williams.

NO RESERVE Patmore (Coventry) Odes, first edition, occasional light spotting, original printed wrappers, mostly disbound, lower cover detached, a little soiled, later slip-case, worn, privately printed, 1868; The Rod, The Root and the Flower, Derek Patmore's copy, editor's note to front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket, some bumping and creasing to extremities, 1950; and 23 others, by the same or relating to Patmore, v.s. (25)⁂ "Only 250 copies were [privately] printed, of which Patmore, having sent some out privately, destroyed over a hundred of the remainder." - John Hayward.

Illustrated.- Lane (Edward William) The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called ... The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, 3 vol., additional engraved titles, frontispiece and illustrations, occasional spotting, later cloth with morocco spine labels, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1883 § Wells (H. G.) Floor Games, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, occasional faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, pictorial label to upper cover, rubbed and worn, 1911 § Rogers (Samuel) Italy, engraved illustrations, occasional spotting, contemporary morocco, gilt, rubbing to corners and spine extremities, 1830 § Poynter (Edward J.) South Kensington Drawing-Book, illustrations, original decorative cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, n.d; and 27 others either illustrated or on illustration, v.s. (33)

Adventure fiction.- Stoker (Bram) The Lair of the White Worm, first edition, colour plates, one loosely inserted, some spotting, original boards, gilt, stained, spine faded, 1911 § Mason (A.E.W.) Königsmark, foxing to title and fore-edge, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little stained, small chips and creases to extremities, 1938; and 4 others, adventure, first editions, 8vo (6)

NO RESERVE Detective fiction.- Bentley (E. C.) Trent's Last Case, first edition, colour frontispiece, bookplate, original cloth, soiled, extremities bumped and creased, 1913 § Yates (Lionel) and Honor Goodhart. The Eclipse of James Trent, D.I, first edition, presentation inscription from Yates, original cloth, a little marked, extremities bumped and creased; and 5 others, detective fiction, 8vo (7)

NO RESERVE Shaw (George Bernard) Saint Joan, presentation inscription signed by the author to half-title, dust-jacket, small chips and tears to extremities, 1924 § Durrell (Lawrence) Pied Piper of Lovers, endpapers browned, occasional minor spotting, 1935 § Nesbit (E.) New Treasure Seekers, illustrations, gilt, 1904, first editions, endpapers browned, original cloth or boards, spine ends bumped and creased, the last pictorial cloth; and c.140 others, 20th century literature, v.s. (c.140)⁂ The second is the first edition of Durrell's first book, with the spine label incorrectly labelled 'Pied Pipers of Lovers'

NO RESERVE Galilei (Galileo) Usus Et Fabrica Circini Cuiusdam Proportionis, Per Quem Omnia Fere Tum Euclidis, Tum Mathematicorum Omnium Problemata Facili Negotio Resolvuntur, Bologna, heirs of Dozza, 1655 § Capra (Baldessare) Difesa di Galileo Galilei... Contro alle calunie & imposture di Baldessar Capra, Bologna, heirs of Dozza, 1655, woodcut decorations to titles, woodcut initials, head-pieces and diagrams, uniform modern blind-stamped calf, preserved in custom drop-back boxes, [Tomash & Williams C24 & G7], 4to (2)⁂ Fragments extracted from the first volume of the 1655-1656 Dozza edition of Galileo's work consisting of Capra's work on the use and construction of proportional compasses and Galileo's resulting attack on Capra

NO RESERVE Forster (E.M.) Abinger Harvest, first edition, first issue with 'A Flood in the Office' present, bookplate and ownership signature of Holbrook Jackson, endpapers browned, original cloth, minor rubbing to extremities, dust-jacket, chips and creases to spine ends and extremities, 8vo, 1936.⁂ George Holbook Jackson (1874 - 1948) was a British journalist, writer and publisher, and was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. This first issue includes the chapter 'A Flood in the Office' which was removed from later printings.

NO RESERVE Koestler (Arthur) Spanish Testament, Left Book Club edition, with Left Book Club information pamphlets loosely inserted, original cloth, a little marked and frayed, 1937 § Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Lesbia Brandon, fore-edge spotted, 1952 § MacNeice (Louis) The Earth Compels, 1938, the last two first editions, endpapers browned, original cloth, dust-jackets, short tears to spine ends, extremities bumped and creased; and c.150 others, fiction, including some 20th century print ephemera, v.s. (c.150)

Lee (Harper) To Kill a Mockingbird, first English edition, light marking to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, light creasing to extremities but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1960.

NO RESERVE Gesualdo (Filippo) Plutosofia... nella quale si spiega l'arte della memoria con altre cose notabili pertinenti, tanto alla memoria naturale, quanto all'artificiale, first edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, head- and tail-piece, full-page woodcut illustration, tables, small paper flaw in margin of ¶¶1, woodcut trimmed at outer and lower margin, later patterned paper boards with manuscript fragment along spine, [Edit16 20728; Tomash & Williams G41], 8vo, Padua, Paolo Meietti, 1592.⁂ Gesualdo's treatise on mnemonics, based on lectures he gave at Palermo.Provenance: Inscriptions on inside front cover: "Nell'elenco de libri rari V.3.74.4" and "Del V. seminario di S. Gio. Bat. in Varallo".

Furniture.- Cescinsky (Herbert) Chinese Furniture, first edition, half-title, 54 collotype plates, captioned paper guards, some spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, neatly and symathetically rebacked, retaining original backstrip, covers a little marked, 4to, 1922⁂ Scarce in commerce.

NO RESERVE Milne (A. A.) A Table Near the Band and Other Stories, first edition, presentation inscription signed by the author, "For Ian - because he likes the other me - and incidentally, because I like him", original cloth, soiled, spine ends bumped and creased, 1950 § Flint (William Russell) Breakfast in Périgord, one of 450 copies signed by the author, illustrations, original morocco-backed pictorial boards, very light finger soiling, slip-case, 1968 § Nielsen (Kay) East of the Sun, West of the Moon, 23 tipped-in colour plates (of 24), endpapers foxed, light foxing, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, extremities rubbed, marked, [1930]; and c.190 others, fiction, children's literature, miscellaneous, v.s. (c.190)

NO RESERVE Girard (Albert) Tables Des Sinus, Tangentes, & Secantes Selon Le Raid De 100000 Parties, second edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials and diagrams, occasional foxing, minor worming to lower margin towards end, contemporary vellum, light staining to upper cover, [Tomash & Williams G45], 12mo, The Hague, Jacob Elzevier, 1629.⁂ These tables were first printed by Jacob Elzevir, 1626, and were revised and enlarged by an "Appendice de la Trigonometrie" in 1627. This is a reprint of that 1627 edition.

Big game.- Jessen (Burchard Heinrich) W.N.McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia, & British East Africa, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding colour plate in pocket at end (foxed and torn at folds), original burgundy cloth, light fading to spine and very light stain to upper cover but an excellent copy overall, [Czech p.84], 8vo, privately printed, 1906.⁂ Scarce. The author was a Norwegian who went on four hunting expeditions with the McMillans, an American couple from St.Louis, Missouri, who later settled in Kenya.

Agriculture.- Dickson (R.W.) Practical Agriculture, 2 vol., first edition, 87 engraved plates, 27 hand-coloured, contemporary half calf, gilt, an attractive set, 4to, 1805.

Burton (Richard F.) Falronry in the Valley of the Indus, first edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece and 3 plates, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, half-title, partially unopened, occasional faint spotting and finger-soiling to margins, original cloth, covers a little mottled, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Penzer p.41], 8vo, 1852.

NO RESERVE Grollier de Serviere (Gaspard) Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathematique et de mecanique, ou description du cabinet de monsieur Grollier de Serviere, first edition, title printed in red and black, engraved and woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, 85 engraved plates (numbered 1-88, but nos. 39, 48 and 76 not called for), errata and instructions to the binder at end, occasional light browning, eighteenth-century calf, gilt, arms of Dumont family to covers, chipping and wear to head of spine and foot of upper joint, [Tomash & Williams G90], 4to, Lyon, David Forey, 1719.⁂ A description of the collection of mechanical instruments formed, and predominantly made, by the author's grandfather, Nicolas Grollier de Serviere (1593-1686). He was a mirror-maker and descendant of Jean Grolier the bibliophile. The collection included clocks, bridges, locks, water-raising devices, mills, military engines, a revolving bookcase, wheelchair etc.

Birds.- Delacour (Jean) The Waterfowl of the World, 4 vol., first edition, frontispieces and colour plates by Peter Scott, illustrations, bookplates, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jackets, slight chipping to corners and extremities, some small tears, small loss to spine extremities (vol. 1), 1954-64 § Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.) Birds of Arabia, first edition, colour plates, illustrations, large folding map in pocket at end, occasional very faint spotting, bookplate, previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, Edinburgh & London, 1954; and a 1966 edition of 'The Original Water-Colour Paintings of John James Audubon for the Birds of America', 8vo & folio (6)

Morris (Rev. Francis Orpen) A History of British Birds, 6 vol., first edition, 358 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, occasional foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spines of vol.1,3 and 5 slightly faded, 1851-57; A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vol., second edition, 233 colour plates, occasional foxing, advertisement leaves at end, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a fine set, 1875, 8vo (9)

NO RESERVE Turton (William) A Manual of the Land and Fresh-Water Shells of the British Isles, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates, bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, worn, upper joint cracked, 1840 § Ferguson (James) An Introduction to Electricity, 3 engraved plates, creased, title browned with minor light spotting, endpapers browned, later half calf, for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775 § Dinsdale (A.) First Principles of Television, first edition, plates, illustrations, original cloth, soiled, extremities rubbed, 1932; and 26 others, natural history, science, v.s. (29)

NO RESERVE Henrion (Denis) Usage Du Compas De Proportion, first edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, head-pieces, illustrations and diagrams, double-page engraved plate, damp-staining to upper margin, heavier at beginning, contemporary vellum, modern paper label to spine, some staining to covers, wear to upper fore-edge, [Tomash & Williams H109], 8vo, Paris, Michel Daniel, 1618.⁂ Rare, we can trace only 1 other copy of this first edition at auction in the last 40 years. Usage du Compas introduced the sector into France and would prove hugely popular, running into numerous editions.

NO RESERVE Horology.- Martinelli (Domenico) Horologi elementari divisi in quattro parti. Nella prima parte fatti con l'acqua. Nella seconda con la terra. Nella terza con l'aria, first edition, title with woodcut decoration and within ornamental border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, 16 full-page engraved illustrations, Q2 neatly repaired at top corner, occasional light staining or browning, later card boards, light staining and rubbing to covers, new endpapers, [Riccardi i, 123; Tomash & Williams M53], 4to, Venice, Bortolo Tramontino, 1669.⁂ A treatise on clocks driven by water, sand, air and fire.

NO RESERVE Metius (Adriaan) Manuale arithmetice & geometrie practice: in het welcke beneffens de Stock-rekeninghe ofte Rabdologia J. Nepperi, first edition, woodcut illustration to title, woodcut initials, illustrations, head- and tail-pieces, 4 folding woodcut tables, 4 additional tables loosely inserted, blindstamp to title and second ff., title a little soiled, small hole to I2 affecting signature, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, rubbed, [Tomash & Williams Add 32], 8vo, Amsterdam, Henderick Laurentsz, 1634.⁂ The Macclesfield copy of this work on arithmetic and surveying. Provenance: The Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate and blindstamp).

NO RESERVE Morin (Jean-Baptiste) Trigonometriae canonicae libri tres. Quibus planorum et sphæricorum triangulorum theoria atque praxis accuratissimè brevissiméque demonstrantur. Adiungitur liber quartus, pro calculi tabulis logarithmorum, first edition, woodcut initials, head-pieces and diagrams, errata f. at end, section excised from margin of title and restored, contemporary calf, ruled in gilt and lettered "Convent. Concept. Capucin. Parisi.", wear to upper joint, spine ends and corners, g.e., [Tomash & Williams M131], 4to, Paris, Jean Libert, 1633.⁂ "Morin had a difficult personality and is remembered not only as an opponent of Galileo (and his Copernican ideas) but also as a fervent opponent of Descartes. He should, however, be given credit for his attempts to solve the longitude problem. His solution was based on measuring absolute time by the position of the moon relative to the stars. Morin recognized that better instruments and better lunar tables were required to implement his solution, and he sought to make some advances in these areas. As a practical matter, his method, though theoretically sound, did not achieve the required accuracy. Morin is remarkable in that these logarithm tables are among the earliest anywhere and certainly are the first published in France by a Frenchman. He was obviously a capable mathematician and seems to have grasped the usefulness of logarithms when many of his contemporaries did not." - Tomash & Williams. Provenance: Couvent des Capucins du Marais (Paris, founded 1622, inscription on title and lettered on upper cover).

NO RESERVE Neander (Michael) Synopsis mensurarum et ponderum, ponderationis', que mensurabilium secundum Romanos, Athenienses, ex præstantissimis authoribus huius generis contracta, first edition, woodcut initials and tables, k3 closely trimmed at foot, small ink note to title, 20th century vellum-backed boards, [Tomash & Williams N21; VD16 N341], 4to, Basel, Johann Oporinus, 1555.⁂ The author's first book, for some time the 'standard work' on the measures of the ancients. It includes the Greek text, with Neander's Latin translation, of Galen's treatise on measures.

NO RESERVE Punched card tabulators.- Eckert (Wallace) Punched card methods in scientific computation, first edition, diagrams and illustrations, original cloth, Columbia University, 1940 § Friedman (Burton D.) Punched card primer, Department of the Interior library stamps (and Withdrawn stamps), original boards, extremities rubbed, New York, Public Administration Service, 1955 § Casey (Robert S.) and James W. Perry. Punched cards: their applications to science and industry, second printing, original cloth, New York, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1951, [Tomash & Williams E1, F99 & C34]; and 6 others on the same, 8vo (9)

NO RESERVE Ramus (Petrus) Arithmeticæ libri duo: geometriæ septem et viginti, first edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials and diagrams, occasional ink annotations in a contemporary hand, marginal repair to title, occasional light damp-staining to margins, ink library stamps to title and a1, 20th century pigskin-backed boards, [Smith, Rara Arithmetica p.330; Tomash & Williams R8; VD16 L451], 4to, Basel, heirs of Eusebius & Niklaus Bischoff, 1569.⁂ "Peter Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée) was primarily a teacher of mathematics who was a central figure in the early stages of the Scientific Revolution. "This book is part of Ramus' campaign to improve the teaching of science and mathematics. He was of the opinion that science in general, and in particular mathematics, had lost its focus on practical needs. The teaching of the arithmetic of Boethius had concentrated attention on the properties of numbers to such an extent that practical arithmetic and geometric skills had been neglected. This text on geometry was designed to correct that situation. It deals first with arithmetic, and then the last three quarters are devoted to geometry, with a heavy emphasis on the calculation of areas, volumes and surveying. Many geometric diagrams are used to illustrate the text, and the section on surveying gives a number of practical applications. His teaching, however, was anti-establishment in nature, for he attacked Aristotle, particularly his logic, and defended a thesis in which the works of Aristotle (and particularly his contemporary followers) were brought into question. After he published these views in Aristotelicae animadversiones, he was forbidden by Francis I to teach and publish philosophy. Because of this ban, Ramus turned to the study and teaching of mathematics. He was reinstated in 1547 and thereafter managed to rise swiftly in French academic circles, due in part to the vacancies caused by the plague. He continued to have problems with the authorities because of his views and in 1562 left the Catholic Church and converted to Calvinism. He was killed as part of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, despite having explicit royal protection. There is some reason to believe his death was at the hands of assassins hired by his academic rivals" - Tomash & Williams.Provenance: Library of the Franciscan Minims, Tyrol, Austria (ink stamps).

NO RESERVE Ramus (Petrus) Scholarum Mathematicarum, libri unus et triginta, first edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and a few diagrams, some light foxing, browning and water-staining, creases to some leaves, inscription and ink library stamps to title, modern vellum-backed marbled boards, [Tomash & Williams R10; Smith, Rara arithmetica, p.335; VD16 L534], 4to, Basel, Heirs of Eusebius & Niklaus Bischoff, 1569.⁂ "This book, consisting of thirty-one chapters, was part of Ramus' attempt to reform the teaching of mathematics. The first three chapters deal with the history of mathematics, mainly from the time of the Greeks, and were actually published two years previously, in 1567, as Proemium mathematicarum. The next two chapters are a commentary on one of Ramus' earlier works, Arithmetica (an elementary text on arithmetic), first published in 1555 but with many editions since that date. Chapters 6 to 31 are a commentary on Euclid's Elements, with Ramus pointing out the useful applications. In a remarkable eight-page preface to this work, Ramus addresses Catherine de' Medici and pleads with her to provide a building for the professors of what came to be called the Collège de France. He indicates that this building is needed so that the professors would no longer have to lecture in the back streets of Paris. He also asks that she follow the lead of her Italian relatives and put her personal library in this new building rather than keeping it in the provinces. Ramus was well aware of the library and the current situation of the queen mother because he had taken shelter with her when, in 1562, his Protestant beliefs caused him to be driven out of Paris" (Tomash & Williams).Provenance: Library of the Franciscan Minims, Tyrol, Austria (inscription on title: Ex lib F.F. Mm Ref Bibliothek der P.P. Franciscaner in Hall, and later ink stamps).

NO RESERVE Stone (Edmund) A New Mathematical Dictionary, first edition, woodcut initial, head-piece and diagrams, errata f., 2pp. advertisements, bookplate to pastedown and endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, a little rubbed, [Tomash & Williams S201], 8vo, J. Senex and others, 1726.⁂ Rare. The self-taught Stone became a member of the Royal Society in 1728, his Mathematical Dictionary would run through a number of editions and was used as a source by Johnson in compiling his Dictionary of the English Language.Provenance: James Rigg; Turner Collection, Keele University (bookplates)

NO RESERVE Sundials.- Guerrino (Tommaso) Tavole gnomoniche Per disegnare in diversi modi gli Orologj Solari Sopra Piani Orizontali, E Verticali, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, one folding woodcut plate, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, one with printed extension (p.28), one leaf blank apart from volvelle (p.33), a few corrections made by use of printed overlays, occasional light marginal soiling, ink notes in an early hand to front free endpaper, floral paper pastedowns, contemporary vellum, Latin motto to upper cover, repairs to spine ends, modern label to spine, [Riccardi i, 638; Tomash & Williams G98], folio, Milan, Pietro Agnelli, 1762.⁂ Guerrino's treatise on sundials, with extensive astronomical tables.Provenance: Teodoro Arrighi (inscription on title-page).

NO RESERVE Vega (Georg, Freiherr von) Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus, ex Arithmetica Logarithmica, et ex Trigonometria Artificiali Adriani Vlacci collectus... [parallel title in German] Vollstaandige Sammlung grosserer logarithmisch-trigonometrischer Tafeln, nach Adrian Vlack's arithmetica logarithmica und trigonometria artificialis verbessert, first edition, tables, errata with manuscript notes and additional small slip pasted in, lacking un-numbered leaf after errata, occasional spotting and browning, modern vellum-backed boards, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Tomash & Williams V7; VD18 1474418X], Leipzig, Weidmann, 1794; Logarithmisch-trigonometrisches Handbuch, first editions, parallel titles in Latin and German, tables, errata at end, occasional foxing or browning, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, later endpapers, [Tomash & Williams V5; VD18 1024705X], Leipzig, Weidmann, 1793, folio & 8vo (2)⁂ Both of these works would prove enormously popular, each running into hundreds of editions.

NO RESERVE Barrême (François) Le livre necessaire à toute sorte de conditions. Inventé de nouveau pour tirer tout d'un coup les intérêts, first edition, ?second issue, engraved title and list of works by the author, woodcut initials and head-pieces, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, [Kress 1280; Tomash & Williams B101], 12mo, [Paris, Barrême], [1671].⁂ Compared with the copy in Kress, this one has just 14 preliminary leaves and is without pp.373-395 ("Les econtes faites"). Le Livre Necessaire became one of the foundational works for the new discipline of accounting.

NO RESERVE Woodhouse (Robert) The Principles of Analytical Calculation, first edition, occasional light browning, occasional damp-staining to head, second and third ff. torn at inner margin, contemporary half calf, rebacked, rubbed, [Tomash & Williams W109], Cambridge, 1803 § William (Farr) Vital Statistics: A Memorial Volume of Selections From the Reports and Writings of William Farr, first edition, portrait frontispiece, ex-library copy with ink stamps to title and elsewhere, original cloth, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, wear to extremities, [not in Tomash & Williams], 1885 § Charting courses, limited edition, plates and illustrations, folding table, original pictorial boards, spine chipped at head, New York Recording & Statistical Corporation, 1931, [Tomash & Williams R45]; and another, statistics, 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ "...Woodhouse defended analytic methods, the differential notation, and a theory of calculus based, like that of Lagrange, on series expansions" - DSB.

NO RESERVE Zucchetta (Giovanni Battista) Prima Parte della Arimmetica, part 1 [all published], first edition, title with engraved architectural border and portrait of the author, engraved portrait of the dedicatee Christopher Papa of Nuremberg to *2, contemporary printed corrections slip mounted on contents f. 2*3, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, occasional scattered foxing, occasional marginal dampstaining, seventeenth-century vellum, a little browned, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Adams Z195; Edit16 30423; Smith, Rara Arithmetica pp.425-426; Riccardi I I, 674 'rarissimo'); Tomash & Williams Z13], folio, Brescia, Vicenzo Sabbio, 1660.⁂ Zuchetta was a mathematician from Genoa. The preface lists some 98 arguments for the need of arithmetic in all classes of society. As well as general arithmetic it includes mercantile arithmetic, especially currency exchange.

Sultan's book on syphilis.- Hunter (John) and Philippe Ricord. Traite de la Syphilis, first French edition, 9 engraved folding plates, occasional spotting, attractive contemporary red morocco, gilt, Sultan Abdulmecid I 's copy with gilt arms to covers, some light rubbing to extremities, g.e., Paris, 1844.

Theory of evolution.- White (Charles) An Account of the Regular Gradation in Man, first edition, 4 engraved plates (3 folding), light spotting and offsetting, occasional very light browning, bookplate of Burghwallis Hall to pastedown, contemporary half calf, light rubbing to extremities, [Norman 2234], 4to, C. Dilly, 1799.⁂ An interesting prequel to the theory of evolution, stimulated by the work of White's fellow surgeon John Hunter. The advertisement at the front includes "The author...has no desire to elevate the brute creation to the rank of humanity, nor to reduce the human species to a level with brutes". One of the folding plates depicts a variety of skulls. Darwin was apparently unfamiliar with the work.

Watson (Richard) Chemical Essays, 5 vol., vol. 4 first edition, the rest fourth and fifth editions, vol.1 with folding table, contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and black morocco labels, light rubbing to extremities, but an attractive set overall, 8vo, 1789-91.

Europe.- Moore (John) A View of Society and Manners in Italy, 2 vol., first edition, 1781; A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany, 2 vol., second edition, 1779, occasional light foxing, uniform in attractive contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and black morocco labels, some light rubbing to extremities, 8vo (4)

India.- Rennell (James) Description of the Roads in Bengal and Bahar, first edition, folding frontispiece map, double page table at end, map torn at folds and repaired, margins torn with slight loss, marked & offset, table mounted, fore-edge trimmed with slight loss, title frayed, paper somewhat brittle, some marking, ink stamps of the New York Historical Society on title, modern calf-backed marbled boards, 8vo, 1778.⁂ Rare. Rennell was appointed Surveyor-General of India by Clive in 1767.

India.- Shepherd (William Jonah) Narrative of the Mutiny at Cawnpore 1857, first edition, [one of 500 copies], occasional marginalia (slightly cropped), ink inscription on preliminary blank f. and ms . title cut down and mounted on inside front cover both dated 1863, later cloth-backed marbled boards, 8vo, [1862/3].⁂ Scarce. This is the first (and probably only) edition of this work in book form, taking from the original publication in the Delhi Gazette and produced in 500 copies only. The inscription is by Sophia Catty, mother of Major Charles Parker Catty, who served in the Kaffir War as Commandant of "Catty's Rifles" from October 1868 to May 1876. There is also a 2pp. manuscript note relating to Major Catty's actions in the Kaffir War, written at the Cawnpore Club, loosely inserted.

Levant.- [Montefiore (Lady Judith)] Private Journal of a Visit to Egypt and Palestine by Way of Italy and the Mediterranean, second edition, folding table, title a little browned, ownership blindstamp to endpaper, original blue cloth with gilt arms to upper cover, spine darkened and spotted, spine ends and corners a little bumped and chipped, 8vo, Wertheimer Lea & Co., 1885.⁂ Rare, we can trace only one other copy of this edition at auction and only one copy of the first edition. Judith Montefiore travelled frequently and extensively with her husband, Moses Montefiore, and was the author of the first Jewish cookbook in English, The Jewish Manual, published in 1846.

Russia.- Tooke (William) Histoire de l'empire de Russie sous le règne de Catherine II et à la fin du dix-huitième siècle, 6 vol., first edition in French, half-titles, vol.6 some water-staining at head, heavier towards end, occasional spotting or light browning, contemporary calf, gilt, spines richly so and with double black morocco labels, a few corners worn, rubbed, 8vo (bindings 252 x 132mm.), Paris, Crapelet, 1801.⁂ Tooke served as chaplain to the English church at St. Petersburg from 1774 to 1792. There he made the acquaintance of many members of the Russian nobility, as well as a variety of men of letters and science of all nationalities, whom Catharine II had summoned to her court.

South East Asia.- Nicolas (Gervaise) An Historical Description of the Kingdom of Macasar in the East-Indies, first English edition, foxed and browned, some water-staining towards end, mostly marginal, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, rebacked, 8vo, Printed for Tho. Leigh and D. Midwinter, 1701.⁂ Rare account of Makassar, now part of present-day Indonesia, by a French missionary who spent four years in Siam.

NO RESERVE Bramer (Benjamin) Beschreibunge und Underricht wie allerley Theylungen zu den Mathematischen Instrumenten zu verfertigen: neben dem Gebrauch eines newen Proportional Instruments in zweyen Theylen verfasset, first edition, title within decorative woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces and diagrams, 2 folding woodcut plates (both with short tears), browning, heavy in places, modern calf-backed boards, [Tomash & Williams Add 9; VD17 39:121571A], small 4to, Marburg, Paul Egenolff, 1615.⁂ Rare first edition of Bramer's important treatise on the construction and usage of a sector or proportional compass in which he cites Galileo (who had published his Le operazioni del compasso geometrico in 1606) , we can trace only 1 other copy at auction.

Britain.- Magalotti (Lorenzo) Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, through England, During the Reign of King Charles the Second, first edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 39 aquatint plates (including a folding panorama of London, occasional light offsetting but a clean and excellent copy generally, original boards with printed paper label to spine, spine repaired at head, extremities rubbed and bumped, [Abbey, Scenery 32], 4to, for J. Mawman, 1821.

NO RESERVE England.- Ireland (Samuel) Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon, first edition, sepia-printed aquatint additional pictorial title and 29 plates, engraved map and 2 etched portraits, light foxing to plates, later blue calf, gilt, by R. Faulder, 1795 § The Salisbury Guide, engraved map, 2 folding plates, ownership inscription of John Arlott, other 19th century ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, calf-backed boards, rubbed, Salisbury, by J. Easton, 1800 § Twining (Henri) Voyage en Norwège et en Suède, 18 lithograph plates, some light spotting, later half calf, a little rubbed, Paris, chez Delaunay, 1836; and 58 others, topography, travel, London, v.s. (61)⁂ Second is scarce, with Library Hub recording only one copy of this edition.

NO RESERVE England.- Wilkes (John) The History of England from the Revolution to the Accession of the Brunswick Line, vol. 1 only [all printed], first edition, half-title, advertisement at end, bookplate, lacking final leaf (a blank), modern half-morocco, [Rothschild 2562], 4to, 1768.

NO RESERVE Čapek (Karel) R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). A Fantastic Melodrama, first American edition, half-title, title printed in red and black, 4 plates, original orange cloth, lettered in black, spine slightly discoloured, some light fraying to spine ends, but a sharp and excellent copy overall, [Origins of Cyberspace 249; Tomash & Williams C20], 8vo, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.⁂ First American edition of the book that coined the word "robot".

NO RESERVE China.- Preyel (Adam) Artificia Hominum Miranda Naturae, in Sina & Europa, ubi Eximia... & Singularia, first edition, lacking additional engraved title, small hole to foot of title, affecting part of imprint, foxed, some worming in second half, contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments, upper cover detached, Frankfurt, Wilhelm Serlini, 1655; and 5 others, defective Continental and English, including a 2 vol. Apuleius from the library of Christopher Wordsworth, v.s. (6) sold not subject to return.

NO RESERVE Bernier (Jean) Réflexions, Pensées et Bons Mots, first edition, notes to endpaper, half-title, contemporary ink markings to title, some browning and staining, later calf, a little rubbed, Paris, Guillaume de Luyne, 1696 § Bernandin de Saint-Pierre (Jacques-Henri) Paul et Virginie, half-title, plates, foxing, captioned tissue-guards, later half morocco, slip-case, L. Curmer, Paris, 1838; and c.100 others, French, including a large quantity of 19th century French newspaper supplements, v.s. (lg qty.)