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NO RESERVE Fermor (Patrick Leigh) Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece, proof copy, photographic illustrations, ink-stamp to upper cover, 1966; Between the Woods and the Water, uncorrected proof copy, typed paper label to upper cover, light finger-soiling, 1986, original paper wrappers, rubbed § Boyd (William) Solo, first edition, signed by author, original illustrated boards, dust-jacket, 2013 § Dalrymple (William) White Mughals, first edition, signed by author, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing to upper edge, 2002; and 7 others, 8vo (11)

Woman writer.- Manley (Delariviere) The Power of Love: in Seven Novels, first edition, initial advertisement f., very small Selbourne Library ink stamp to verso of title, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, a few repairs, rubbed, 8vo, for John Barber, 1720.

NO RESERVE Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Scherz, List und Rache, eighth edition, first separate edition, lightly browned, later drab wrappers, housed in a 20th century cloth portfolio, Leipzig, G.J. Goschen, 1790; and his Jery und Bätely, 1790, 8vo (2)

NO RESERVE Printing.- Lemoine (Henry) Typographical antiquities. Typographical antiquities.History, origin, and progress, of the art of printing, from its first invention in Germany to the end of the seventeenth century, first edition, 20th century cloth, S. Fisher, 1797; and 2 vol. of 19th century reports relating to the BM Library and a set of Wing, large 12mo & 4to (7)

Lightfoot (John) Flora Scotia: or, A Systematic Arrangement in the Linnaean Method of the Native Plants of Scotland and the Hebrides, 2 vol., first edition, engraved additional titles, 35 engraved plates, bookplates, contemporary ownership inscription, some offsetting, occasional spotting and browning, front free endpapers detached to vol. 2, contemporary calf, somewhat rubbed and worn, for B. White, 8vo, 1777.

NO RESERVE Maynwaring (Arthur) The Life and Posthumous Works of ..., first edition, tiny manuscript ink number to title verso, tiny marginal wroming to first few leaves, occasional spotting, ex-library with 1 or 2 blind-stamps, later boards, a little rubbed, 8vo, [Goldsmiths' 5280], for A. Bell; W. Taylor; and J. Baker, 1715.

Joseph Heller Catch 22 first edition with dust jacket and a first edition Graham Green The Quiet American

DICKENS (Charles) A Tale of Two Cities. London 1859, first edition in book form and first issue with p.213 mis numbered 113, and misprint affetcionately on p.134, line 12, with frontispiece, engraved title and 14 plates, very slight toning or foxing to title and plates *This lot will be subject to additional fees 44% on the hammer plus thesaleroom.com charges if applicable*

CONAN DOYLE (Sir Arthur) The Hound of the Baskervilles, first edition London: George Newnes 1902, 8vo, 16 plates, with `you` for `yours` on p.13,(rebound) *This lot will be subject to additional fees 44% on the hammer plus thesaleroom.com charges if applicable*

A Steiff 'First Irish Teddy Bear' Limited Edition UK and Northern Ireland Exclusive with original box, certificate and necklace, 2002. 872/2,000

THORKELIN, Grímur Jónsson, Icelandic Scholar (1752-1829), The first printed edition of Beowulf, the old English Epic Poem translated from Anglo Saxon into Latin 'De Danorum Rebus Gestis Secul. III & IV. Poëma Davicum Dialecto Anglosaxonica' ex Bibliotheca Cottoniana Musaei Britannici, Havniae (Copenhagen) Rangel 1815. title page with colophon. dedication to Johanni de Bülow. 299pp with preface and addenda. 4to. (235 x 200mm). modern rebind in black cloth with gilt tooled leather spine

HEARNE, Thomas, Ed. Hemingi Chartularium Ecclesiae Wigorniensis e Codice Ms. Penes Richardum Graves, Oxford 1723. Hemming's Cartularly. First printed edition with engraved frontispiece. 2 vols. gilt tooled full calf. wear and splits. 8vo. (235 x 155mm) Eric Gerald Stanley b/p plus HEARNE, Thomas, Ed. Titi Livii Foro-Juliensis Vita Henrici Quinti, Oxford 1716. end papers with early notes. 8vo. (230 x 150mm). full contemp. calf. Eric Gerald Stanley b/p (3)

A set of twelve Royal Crown Derby Collector's Guild Members' Packs, including Snuffle Piglet, Scruff Puppy, Spice Kitten, River Bank Vole, Derby Dormouse, Bank Vole, Nibbles Baby Rabbit, Bunny, Duckling, Teal Duckling, Crested Tit, Owlet, all with gold stoppers, all boxed; accompanying books and magazines, Cox, Ian, Royal Crown Derby Paperweights and The 250th Anniversary edition; RCD Magazine editions; price manuals and other supplements, The Artisan Royal Crown Derby Collector magazines; etc Condition Report: All good, all first quality

Antiquarian Books - Dickens (Charles), The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, with Illustrations by Phiz, first edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844, pp: [i]-xiv, [2], 624, 37 full-page caricature cartoons by Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), rebacked contemporary red-stained half-calf over marbled boards, marbled edges, later endpapers, 8vo; Thackeray (William Makepeace), Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author, first edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848, the engraved title-page and novel prefixed by 6 leaves of a contemporary newspaper or periodical review of the work, clipped and pasted on sheets then bound in, contemporaneous half-calf over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers en suite, contemporary book label to recto pastedown: Henry W. Martin, later inscribed and dated Dec: 1861, 8vo, [2]

A Robert Harrop Camberwick Green model, Peter Hazel and Mrs Dingle in the Post Office, CGS05, boxed; others, Mr Crocket in his Van, CG79; The Mayor and Miss Lovelace, Trumpton Cheer, CGC04; Mr Carraway in his Fish and Chip Shop, CGS03; The Clown Musical Box, CGMB3; The Post Office Shop Front, limited edition, first edition, CGSF01; another, The Bakery Shop Front, CGSF02; PC McGarry on the Case, CG62; The Clown, CGYP08B; another the same; all boxed (10)

A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Sea Lion, gold stopper, boxed; another, Harbour Seal, limited edition, 1717/4500, gold stopper, certificate, boxed (2) Condition Report: Booth good, both first quality

A Royal Crown Derby paperweight group, Goose "Mrs Brown" and Goslings, gold stoppers, limited edition, 420/750 (2) Condition Report: Both good, both first quality, no certificates, one box

A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Farmyard Hen, limited edition, 3545/5000, gold stopper, certificate, boxed; others, Song Thrush, Woodland Pheasant and Pheasant, all with gold stopper and boxed (4) Condition Report: All good, all first quality

A set of three graduated Royal Crown Derby paperweights, The Yorkshire Rose Tortoise Family, Father, Mother and Baby, exclusive to Peter Jones, limited edition, 436/1250, all with gold stopper Condition Report: Good condition, first quality (no certificates or boxes)

A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Linnet, 2002 Anniversary edition, gold stopper, certificate, boxed; others, Bullfinch Nesting, Blue Tit and Wren, all with gold stopper and boxed (4) Condition Report: All good, all first quality (Wren stopper loose in the box)

Vinyl Records - LP's and 7" singles - LP's including The Rolling Stones - No2 - LK4661 - matrix runout side A - stamped XARL 6619-2A, side B - XARL 6620-1A; Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol 2) - SKL 5019; The Beatles - With the Beatles - PMC 1206 (Dominion' Credit, KT Tax Code) - matrix runout side A - stamped XEX 447-7N, side B - XEX 448-7N; Beatles for Sale - PMC 1240 - matrix runout side A - stamped XEX 503-3N, side B XEX 504-4N; Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue - JETDP 400 (limited edition blue vinyl, with original inner sleeves and poster); Procol Harum - Shine on Brightly/ A Salty Dog - TFOLP5; Madonna - Madonna, With Love 12" picture disc (Unofficial Release); The First Album - WX22; Others including Nancy Wilson; Curiosity Killed the Cat; The Mission; Bruce Springsteen; 10cc; Steve Winwood; Stevie Wonder; Pet Shop Boys; Jimi Hendrix; Mary Wells; 7" singles including The Rolling Stones - Five by Five - DFE 8590; The Smiths - Panic - RT 193; others including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones; Them Etc (Qty)

A Royal Crown Derby money box, Prudence the Pig, printed in the Imari palette, limited edition pre-release, exclusive to Peter Jones of Wakefield, 179/500, large gold stopper, certificate, boxed Condition Report: Good condition, first quality

A Royal Crown Derby paperweight, Riverbank Beaver, limited edition, 3123/5000, gold stopper, certificate, boxed; others, Stoat and Red Squirrel, both with gold stopper and boxed (3) Condition Report: All good, all first quality

Gibbon (Edward). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 volumes, new edition, Strahan & Cadell, 1788-90, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, contemporary uniform full calf, gilt decorated spines, with contrasting green spine labels, worn with a few labels missing or detached, 4 volumes rebacked with original spines laid down, 8vo, together with Boswell (James). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 5 volumes, new edition, with numerous additions and notes, by John Wilson Croker, John Murray, 1831, engraved frontispiece to each volume (some water staining to these plates), contemporary half calf, later rebacks, some wear, with rear cover to 4 th volume detached, 8vo, plus other 19 th English literature and related including Sir Walter Scott, Waverley Novels, 48 volumes (complete), Adam & Charles Black, 1860-61, marbled edges and endpapers, all bound in contemporary uniform half calf, gilt decorated spines, rubbed and slight wear to extremities, two spine labels missing,8vo, Thackeray, History of Pendennis, 2 volumes, 1 st edition, 1849, Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, twenty-ninth thousand, 1872, etc., all leather bound, including several sets or part-sets, mostly 8vo (Qty: 6 shelves)

Vale Press. Empedocles on Etna, a Dramatic Poem, by Matthew Arnold, printed at the Ballentyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1896, Scene I with decorative border by Charles Ricketts, printed in red, some spotting to untrimmed edges, free endpapers toned, original boards, printed paper labels to front cover and spine, spine somewhat toned and spotted, original glassine dust jacket, torn with losses, 8vo, (limited edition of 210 copies), together with De Cupidinis et Psyches Amoribus Fabula Anilis [by Lucius Apuleius], printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1901, five woodcut illustrations by Charles Ricketts, first leaf of text with decorative initial and border, endpapers toned, untrimmed, original linen-backed boards with paper label to front cover, corners rubbed, spine lightly toned, slim folio, (limited edition of 310 copies), plus The Poems & Sonnets of Henry Constable, printed at the Ballentyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1897, woodcut border and numerous decorative initials by Charles Ricketts, some spotting to untrimmed edges, endpapers toned, original boards, sides with red patterned paper designed by Ricketts, spine paper toned and spotted, printed paper spine label a trifle rubbed and chipped, with single folio publisher's prospectus loosely inserted (partly toned), 8vo, (limited edition of 210 copies), with 3 other Vale Press titles: In Memoriam, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1900; The Kingis Quair, by King James I of Scotland, 1903; The Amber Witch, by Mary Schweidler, 1903, and a Ballentyne Press title: Unto This Last, by John Ruskin, published by George Allen, 1902, all limited editions (Qty: 7)NOTESVale Press: Tomkinson, pp.164-171. Empedocles: scarce with the dust jacket.

Taisnier (Jean). Opus mathematicum octo libros complectens, innumeris propemodum figuris idealibus manuum et physiognomiae, aliisque adornatum, quorum sex priores libri absolutissimae cheiromantiae theoricam, praxim, doctrinam, artem, & experientiam verissimam continent. Septimus physiognomiae dispositionem, hominumque omnium qualitates & complexiones. Octavus periaxiomata de faciebus signorum, & quid sol in unaquaque domo existens, natis polliceatur. Remedia quoq; omnium aegritudinum complectitur. Et naturalem astrologiam atq; effectus lunae quoad diversas aegritudines. Item isagogen astrologiae judiciariae, et totius divinatricis artis encomia. Ombibus Matheseos, Cheiromantiae, Philosophiae, & Medicinae studios utiles ac necessarii, 1st edition, Cologne: Joannem Birckmannum & Wererum Richwinum, 1562, woodcut device to title and with ownership inscription to upper blank margin 'Abraham Linezar Anno Domini 1564' and early annotation, woodcut portrait and ink library stamp to verso, numerous woodcut decorative initials and illustrations, woodcut portrait to verso of final leaf of index, blank leaf 2K4 present at rear with early annotation, blind stamp to A1, early annotations, underscoring and marginalia, some dampstaining throughout, occasional marginal fraying (mostly at front & rear), old margin repair to G3, 2O3 & blank 2K4, leaves Y2 & Y3 loose, sprung & frayed to margins, lower outer corner of 2P1 excised, some worm trails and worm holes to fore-edge blank margins, occasional browning, spotting and few ink marks, old limp vellum (possibly from another volume?), faint blind stamp to upper cover, without ties, folio in 4s (30 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams T69; Graesse, Bibl. magica 100; Poggendorf II, 1066. First edition of Taisnier's work on palmistry and astrology.

Aratus of Soli. Phaenomena, et prognostica, interpretibus, M Tullio Ciceron. Rufo Festo Avieno, Germanico Caesare, una cum eius commentariis. C. Julii Hyginii astronomicon, Paris: Guillaume Morel, 1559 , printed in Latin with Roman and italic types, woodcut title-device, folding woodcut celestial chart on 2 sheets (old repairs verso), marginal repairs to final 2 leaves (h1-2), bound after: ibid., Fainomena kai diosemeia. Theonos scholia. Leontiou Michanikou Peri Arateias sfairas [graece], Paris: Guillaume Morel, 1559, Greek types, woodcut title-device, the 2 folding woodcuts discarded (as usual), bound after: Theocritus, [Greek title]. Idyllia XXXVI. Epigrammata XIX. Bipennis et Ala., Paris: Guillaume Morel, 1561, Greek types, woodcut title-device, title-page repaired at head, minor damp-staining to fore margins of quires A-C, 3 works in 1 volume, ink annotations in Greek and Latin to endpapers and margins, later vellum, 4to (22 x 15.7 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) 'Du Fresne 1634' (ink inscription to front free endpaper). 2) Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653?-1716), Scottish patriot, author and bibliophile, and associate of John Locke (ink inscription 'A Fletcher' to rear pastedown). Adams A1516 (Aratus, Phenomena), A1515 (Aratus, Fainomena), T467 (Theocritus). First Morel editions. Guillaume Morel (1505-1564) was appointed Greek printer to the king (then Henri II) in 1555. The Latin edition of Aratus of Soli's work contains an imposing woodcut celestial chart on two sheets.

Pharmacopoea . Pharmacopoea Rossica , 2nd edition, Petropoli [i.e. Saint Petersburg], 1782, engraved title, bound with: Pharmacopoea Suecica, ad Exemplar Holmiense a MDCCLXXX recusa, Leipzig & Hamburg-Altona: J.H.S. Hellmann, 1784, engraved vignette to title, occasional browning and spotting throughout volume, near contemporary half sheep, gilt decorated spine with red skiver title label, some wear at head & foot of spine, small 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESThe first item is the rare second edition of the earliest Russian pharmacopoeia, first published in 1778; Pharmacopoea Suecica was first published in 1775.

Gibson (John). Atlas Minimus, or a New Set of Pocket Maps of the several Empires, Kingdoms and States of the known World, with Historical Extracts relevant to each. Drawn and engrav'd from the Best Authors. Revis'd, corrected and improv'd by Eman[uel] Bowen, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: J. Newbery at ye Bible & Sun in St. Pauls Ch: Yard, 1758, 56 leaves (of 58: advertisement leaf and final blank discarded), engraved throughout, comprising frontispiece, title-page, preface leaf, index leaf, and 52 maps hand-coloured in outline, small worm-hole to inner margins throughout, spreading slightly in maps 51-2, text and images never affected, contemporary ownership inscription ('Anthony Fisher') to head of title, contemporary gift inscription ('Anthony Fisher, The Gift of Philip Mair') and pen-trials to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, covers detached, worn, 12mo (11.4 x 8.4 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESESTC T163454; Roscoe J146A (1). This first issue contains an errata at the foot of the index leaf, correcting the caption on the map of Africa. Copies are often encountered uncoloured. Fourteen of the maps are devoted to the Americas.

Freshfield (Douglas W.). Italian Alps. Sketches in the Mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, the Trentino, and Venetia, 1st edition, 1875, wood-engraved frontispiece, 5 folding partly coloured maps, wood-engraved illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, a little minor spotting front and rear, presentation inscriptions to frontispiece verso, half title reinforced at gutter, original decorative cloth gilt, joints and spine ends slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with: Freeston (Charles L.), The High-Roads of the Alps. A Motoring Guide to One Hundred Mountain Passes, 1st edition, [1910], maps and half-tone illustrations, endpapers lightly toned, original pictorial cloth, one or two small marginal stains, 8vo, and other mountaineering including The Alps, by R.L. G. Irving, 1939, Alpine Centenary 1857-1957, the Sixty-Second Volume (No. 295) of the Alpine Journal, 1957 and Reinhold Messner's All 14 Eight-Thousanders, translated by Audrey Salkeld, revised edition, 1999 (Qty: 21)NOTESFirst book Neate F66.

Milton (John). A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, 2 volumes, London: A. Millar , 1738, large-paper copy, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, titles printed in red and black, both with contemporary signature 'Will. Hamilton' to upper blank margins, occasional light dust-soiling, contemporary calf, old rebacked spines torn with loss, worn, folio, together with: Clarke (Samuel) , A Mirrour or Looking-Glasse both for Saints, and Sinners ... Whereunto are added a Geographical description of all the Countries in the World [...the second volume], 2 volumes, 3rd edition of volume 1, London: for Tho. Newberry [volume 2: Robert Clavel & others], 1657-71, engraved portrait frontispiece (detached), additional engraved titles (short tear to top margin of first title), volume 2 additional engraved title torn at head with loss (detached with letterpress title), dust-soiling and toiling to both volumes, uniform c.1800 half calf, boards detached and very worn, folio, Cave (William) , Apostolici: or, the History of the Lives, Acts, Death, and Martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded the Apostles..., London: Printed by A.C. for Richard Chiswell, 1677, engraved frontispiece (trimmed and mounted), additional engraved title (repaired closed tear), letterpress title in red & black, some leaves stained in fore margins, bound with: ibid. , Ecclesiastici: or, the History of the Lives, Acts, Death & Writings, of the most Eminent Fathers of the Church, that Flourisht in the Fourth Century, 2 parts in 1, London: Printed by J.R. for Richard Chiswel, 1683, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black, bound with: ibid. , Antiquities Apostolicae: or, the History of the Lives, Arts and Martyrdoms of the Holy Apostles of our Saviour and the Two Evangelists, SS. Mark and Luke, 3rd edition, London: Printed by R. Norton for R. Royston, 1677, title in red & black with repaired closed tear, engraved illustrations, some leaves torn, dust-soiling and marks, uniform c.1800 half calf, joints split and few boards detached, spines worn with loss, worn, folio, Folkes (Martin) , A Table of English Silver Coins from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time, London: Society of Antiquaries, 1745, signature to upper blank margin of title, occasional dust-soiling, edges untrimmed, cloth hinge repairs, contemporary quarter sheep, worn with some insect damage, paper sidings torn with loss, slim 4to, Dixon (Charles) , The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands, 2nd edition, Sheffield: Pawson & Brailsford, 1900, numerous chromolithograph plates, original pictorial cloth, light toning and mottling, 4to (Qty: a carton)NOTESSold not subject to return.

[Paradin, Claude]. Quadernos ystoricos de la Biblia [part 1 only, of 2], 1st edition in Spanish, Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1553 [bound with:] ibid., [Quadrins historiques de la Bible, part 2 only, of 2], 1st edition, [Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1553], signatures A-E8, A-H8 (lacking A1, i.e. divisional title-page 'Quadrins historiques de l'Exode', and E3, replaced by signature E2 from the Spanish edition, apparently containing the same 2 woodcuts), 199 (i.e. 74 + 125) woodcuts in the text by Bernard Salomon, title-page slightly marked, damp-staining to part 2, final leaf (H8) laid down and with early ink inscription verso showing through recto, early ink ownership inscription 'Charles Cotton's' to title (see note), date transcribed ('A. D. 1553') in the same hand, manuscript pagination throughout probably in the same hand, early ink annotations in French to part 2 signature D7 and in English to G5-8, late-17th-century English panelled calf gilt, central panel of front board gilt-lettered 'R: Cooper', front joint cracked (held by cords), 8vo (15.6 x 11.6 cm), and 1 other (Gabriele Simeoni, Figure del Nuovo Testamento, illustrate da versi vulgari Italiani, Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1570, with 134 woodcuts by Pierre Eskrich, incomplete at rear, ending at signature I3, staining, vellum binding defective, 8vo) (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: 1) 'Charles Cotton' (ownership inscription to title-page): probably Charles Cotton (1630-1687), English poet and translator, and co-author of The Compleat Angler . (A facsimile of Cotton's signature was printed in the 1815 Bagster edition of The Compleat Angler .) 2) 'R. Cooper' (binding). 3) Trotter family of Mortonhall, Edinburgh (engraved bookplate). 4) Patricia Milne Henderson (bookplate). Cf. Mortimer French 81 & 87 and Adams P293-4. A made-up copy of one of the most popular series of Biblical illustrations printed in the Renaissance, comprising the first part of the rare first edition in Spanish, and the second part of the original French edition; the Spanish edition in fact only covered Genesis and Exodus, whereas the second part of the French edition provides figures and verses from Exodus to Maccabees. 'The beautiful woodcuts made by artist and prolific engraver Bernard Salomon (1506-1561) truly distinguish these books … With such fine illustrations, the pan-European appeal of this book is easy to understand’ (Coldiron, Printers without Borders: Translation and Textuality in the Renaissance , p. 114). The Spanish translation of Paradin's accompanying quatrains was done by the printer Jean de Tournes.

Azevedo (Luiz Marinho de). Fundaçaõ, antiguidades, e grandezas da mui insigne cidada de Lisboa, e seus varones illustres em santidade, armas, et letras, 3 parts in 1 volume, 2nd edition, Lisbon: Manoel Soares, 1753, [28] 169 [3] 118 [4] 266 pp., browning, repair to part 3 signature L4 affecting a few letters, modern book-labels to front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled sheep, rubbed, small puncture to top spine compartment, loss to foot of spine, 4to (19.3 x 13.3 cm), together with: Farinha (Bento Joze de Souza, editor), Colleçam das antiguidades de Evora escriptas por Andre de Rezende, Diogo Mendes de Vasconcellos, Gaspar Estaço, Bernardo de Brito, e Manoel Severim de Faria, 1st edition, Lisbon: Filippe da Silva e Azev, 1785, bound with: Resende (André de), Historia da antiguidade da cidade de Evora, 3rd edition, Lisbon: Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1783, 2 works in 1 volume, 180 pp., 109 pp., contemporary ownership inscription 'Catharina Soze da' Silsa' to rear blank, contemporary cat's-paw sheep, gilt spine, 16mo (14.5 x 9 cm), Vieira (Manoel Antonio), Descripçaõ do prodigioso santuario do Bom Jesus do Monte da cidade de Braga, 1st edition, Lisbon: Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, 1793, [ 24] 242 pp., 20th-century tan sheep, 16mo (14.8 x 9.6 cm), Manesson-Mallet (Alain), De l'Europe. Chapitre XII [extracted from Description de l'univers], [Paris: D. Thierry, 1683], a fragment, pp. 145-66, 23 engraved maps and plates, browning, modern half calf, 4to (19.6 x 14.9 cm), and 5 others, including Rodrigo Caro, Antiguedades ... de Sevilla, 1st edition, Seville, 1634 (lacking leaf H3), and Giuseppe Gorini Corio, L'Uomo trattato fisico moral, 1st edition, Lucca, 1756 (with engraved frontispiece and headpieces) (Qty: 10)NOTESOCLC traces eight locations world-wide for Azevedo's work (the first edition, 1652-3, is similarly uncommon), four for Farinha, three for Resende (first printed in 1553), and three for Vieira.

Marinoni (Giovanni Jacopo de). De astronomica specula domestica et organico apparatu astronomico libri duo, 1st edition, 2nd issue, Vienna: Leopold Kaliwoda 1746, engraved frontispiece by Jeremias Jacob Sedelmayr after Daniele Antonio Bertoli (a few scattered ink specks), title printed in red and black with an engraved vignette plan of Vienna by Johann Christoph Winkler, 43 folding engraved plates, 15 large engraved illustrations, decorative initials and headpieces, with errata and directions to the binder at rear, marbled pastedowns (without marbled free endpapers), contemporary sheep, gilt decorated spine, joints cracked and old repair to upper joint, extremities rubbed and repair to lower outer corner of rear board, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESRiccardi II, 119. This is Giovanni Jacopo de Marinoni's most important treatise, ‘two books on local astronomical observations’. The Italian mathematician, engineer and astronomer's private observatory, which was built at his own expense, was considered to be one of the most beautiful and best equipped in Europe at the time. He built his own instruments, which are illustrated in this work, including quadrants, telescopes, micrometers, an improved Graham pendulum, and a camera obscura. The work also contains a section on horology ‘De horologiis oscillatoriis’. The frontispiece to the volume depicts the interior of the Imperial Library in Vienna. The title page of the first edition, first issue is dated 1745.

Smart (Martin). The Female Class-book; or, Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Reading Lessons, adapted to the use of schools, for every day in the year..., selected principally from female writers, or on subjects of female education and manners, 1st edition, London: Lackington, Allen, & Co. et al, 1813, [iv], 467 pp., spotting and some soiling throughout, old ink signatures and pen trials of the Jameson family to front endpapers, tree sheep, rebacked and corners restored, rubbed, together with: The Female Instructor; or, Young Woman's Companion: being a guide to all the accomplishments which adorn the female character..., stereotype edition, Liverpool: Nuttall, Fisher, & Dixon, [1811], engraved frontispiece and 6 (of 8?) engraved plates, heavy spotting and browning throughout, occasional marginal splits and tears, old boards with later morocco reback, worn, S tockdale (John Joseph, translator and publisher), Encyclopedia for Youth; or, An Abridgment of all the Sciences, for the use of schools of both sexes, 2nd edition, 1807, 11 engraved plates including 3 folding, spotting and some old marginal dampstaining throughout, contemporary ink ownership inscription of Edmund Wigley Junior to title and his father's (?) ownership inscription pasted to renewed front endpaper, contemporary tree calf, later calf reback and corner repairs, rubbed, all 8vo (Qty: 3)NOTESFirst item: Darton G866.

Chardin (John). The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies... To which is added the Coronation of this present King of Persia, Solyman the Third, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, London: Moses Pitt, 1686, engraved portrait frontispiece by D. Loggan (dated 1643, repairs to verso), additional engraved title, folding map, 16 engraved plates, one or two leaves detaching, a few tears and small repairs, some mainly marginal damp stains and soiling, a few small marginal wormtracks, some insect damage to fore margins of later endpapers, later calf with red and black labels (one label rubbed), a few stains, small wormtrack to lower cover, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESCox I, pp. 249-50; ESTC R12885; Wing C2043. First English edition, published concurrently with the French edition. Shah Abbas II (and his successor son Suleiman I) had made Chardin his agent for the purchase of jewels in 1666, and the book describes his travels to Persia via India and Russia from 1664-69 and 1671-77 and his account is a highly regarded and reliable source of information on the court, art, religion and culture of Safavid Persia.

Maffei (Giovanni Pietro). Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum item, ex India Epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita. Omnia ab Auctore recognita, & nunc primum in Germania excusa, Cologne: In Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, 1589, title with printer's woodcut device, early inscription to upper blank margin and square paper patch to lower blank margin obscuring ink stamp, folding uncoloured engraved world map 'Indiarum Orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio, Pet. Maffei Historiae Harum Verissimae, Dedicata' (platemark 260 x 485 mm), with small rust spot, a few decorative woodcut initials, initial two leaves loosening, occasional light toning and minor dampstains, 20th-century bookplate of Dr. E. Vandenbergh to front pastedown (possibly later paper), without front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine (torn and with some loss at foot), slight wear to lower joint, lacking ties, folio (30 x 18.7 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams M92; Cordier Sinica 782; Sabin 43770 (note); Shirley The Mapping of the World , 166; cf. Borba de Moraes p. 9 (first edition, Florence, 1588). First edition printed in Germany. Maffei's history of the East and West Indies provides much important information on India, China, Japan and Brazil. 'Later issues are recorded from Venice, Bergamo and Antwerp but only those from Cologne in 1589 and 1593 contain a world map' (Shirley).

Henry VIII, King of England. Assertio septem sacramentorum adversus Mart. Lutherum ... Accedit quo que R.P.D. Iohan. Roffen. Episcopi contra Lutheri captivitatem Babylonicam, Assertionis Regis defensio, 2 parts in one volume, Paris: Guillaume Desboys, 1562, printer's woodcut device to second title, blank at end of first part present, old damp staining and browning throughout, with occasional damp fraying and loss to text, contemporary ownership inscription of Nicolaus Carrus to first title (browned and damp-frayed at fore margin), Skene Library bookplate to front pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary calf with blind-stamped ornamental design to both covers, later rebacked, worn, covers detached, small 8vo (118 x 77 mm) (Qty: 1)NOTESCollation: a-r8; A-HH8. Later edition of King Henry VIII,'s polemic against Luther, also reprinting the defence by John Fisher against Luther's counter attack. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

* [French Polynesia]. Small ethnographic archive compiled by Katherine and William Scoresby Routledge, c.1921-3, comprising: ‘Rapa & Tuamotu’ [cover-title], cloth-bound notebook, pencilled manuscript notes on approx. 80 pp., containing information on inhabitants, customs, legends, history, geography, toponyms, and a few sketches, 4to (21 x 17 cm) ‘Rapa folk tales’ [cover-title], 20 leaves of lined note-paper, manuscript and typescript, string-bound, containing translated transcripts of Rapa folk tales (note on index page: ‘Tales told by Mazazza & trans by Joan’), 4to (28 x 21.5 cm) [Panorama of Rapa-Iti looking north-west], pencil and grisaille watercolour on 2 conjoined sheets of wove paper, pencilled captions on sheet of tissue-paper tipped along bottom edge (15 x 70 cm), and a similar panorama, apparently preparatory, in 2 sections (each 12.5 x 35.5 cm), together with other items including printed chart of Rapa Iti with place names added in manuscript (Rapa Island, 2 nd edition, Washington DC: Hydographic Office, 1916), offprint of Katherine and Scoresby Routledges’ paper Notes on some Archaeological Remains in the Society and Austral Islands (London: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1921; contains a reproduction of the above panorama), and further typescript and manuscript notes on Rapa Iti and environs (including some from correspondents), most material docketed in pencil by the same hand (probably Katherine's) (Qty: 1 folder)NOTESKatherine Routledge (née Pease) and her husband William Scoresby Routledge are best remembered for attempting the first methodical archaeological survey of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), in 1913-15, described in Katherine's account The Mystery of Easter Island (1919). This material appears to derive from their second expedition to the Pacific, in 1921-3, during which they visited Mangareva, Raivaevae, and Rapa Iti. The notebooks and most of the other manuscript material are possibly in Katherine's hand rather than her husband's. An extensive archive of similar material from the Routledges' travels is now held by the Royal Geographical Society (reference WSR).

Reynolds (Joshua). A Catalogue of Portraits, Fancy Pictures, Studies and Sketches, by the late Sir Joshua Reynolds ... which will be sold by Auction by Mr. Greenwood, by Order of the Executors, at the Great Room, Saville-Rowe, on Thursday, 14th April, and Two following Days, at 12 o'Clock, 1st edition, [London: no publisher, 1796], bound with: ibid., A Catalogue of the First Part of the Cabinet of Ancient Drawings, which belonged to Sir Joshua Reynolds Deceased ... consisting of a Most Valuable and Chosen Collection of the Works of Michel-Angelo, Raffaelle, Coreggio, Titiano, etc., and of all the Great Masters, their Contemporaries and their Immediate Followers, down to the three Caracci and their Scholars. Together with One Hundred and Forty One Drawings by Rubens, Vandyck, and Rembrandt; which, by Order of the Executors, will be sold at the Prices marked in this Catalogue, by A. C. de Poggi, at his Room, No. 91, New Bond-Street, on Monday, May 26, 1794, and to continue till all the Drawings are sold, 1st edition, London: T. Burton, [1794], 2 works in 1 volume, 11 [1] pp., xxiv 54 [2] pp. (retaining half-title and errata leaf), extra-illustrated with mezzotint proof portrait to front, slight toning, a few faint spots, 19th-century tan calf gilt by Hayday, 8vo (20.4 x 12.6 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) William Twopeny (1797-1873), lawyer and amateur draughtsman and printmaker (gilt bookplate). 2) Sir George William Agnew, 2nd Baronet (1852-1941), Liberal politician and art dealer (engraved bookplate). 3) Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (bookplate). ESTC T161858 (four copies world-wide) & T30282 (seven copies world-wide).

Angelo (Henry). The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, with an introduction by Lord Howard de Walden and notes and memoirs by H. Lavers Smith, 4 volumes, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trüber & Co. Ltd., 1904, 68 plates reproduced from originals in the collection of Joseph Grego (some in colour), extra-illustrated with 283 18th-20th century engravings & etchings etc. (including 2 folding, one monochrome watercolour, some hand-coloured, many mounted), mostly comprising portraits & few caricatures, occasional spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, bookplate removed from upper pastedown of first volume, some dampstains to endpapers, contemporary red cloth gilt by Ware of Bristol, spines faded, large 8vo (limited edition of 1000 copies printed), together with: Angelo (Henry). Angelo's Pic Nic ... with a prefatory note on the Angelo Family by Rev. Charles Swynnerton, 2 volumes, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trüber & Co. Ltd., 1905, 24 plates reproduced from originals in the collection of Joseph Grego (some in colour), Extra Illustrated with 47 18th-early 20th century engravings & etchings etc. (some hand-coloured, many mounted), mostly comprising portraits & few caricatures, one leaf cut/torn to inner blank margin and evidence of few plates having been removed, occasional spotting and dampstaining, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary red cloth gilt by Ware of Bristol, spines faded, dampstaining to upper board of volume 2, large 8vo (limited edition of 500 copies) (Qty: 6)

Horapollo. Hieroglyphika [Greek title]. De sacris notis et sculpturis libri duo, Paris: Jacques Kerver, 1551, text in Greek and Latin, 195 woodcut emblems in text (Mortimer's count), printer's woodcut device to final leaf verso, woodcut on F7 recto upside-down and woodcut on G7 verso on pasted slip (both as in Mortimer), slightly spotted and browned, editor's name scored through on title, bookplate of Patricia Milne Henderson, contemporary manuscript catch-title to bottom edge, contemporary limp vellum, yapp fore edges, spine strengthened at headcaps and with later manuscript title, joints partially split but firm, 8vo (16.6 x 10.7 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams H850; Mortimer French 315. First Kerver edition in Greek and Latin. This series of woodcuts, including pieces attributed to Jean Cousin or Jean Goujon, first appeared in the French edition of 1543. 'In this edition, seven of the 1543 blocks have been replaced with new blocks slightly or entirely redesigned ... The Greek is Philippus' translation, from the Aldine edition of 1505 ... The Latin text differs from earlier versions and is probably Jean Mercier's own translation' (Mortimer).

Chapman (Abel). On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1908, 34 plates including frontispiece, 4 + 16 pp. advertisements, presentation inscription from Chapman on his letterhead pasted to front pastedown, original cloth, rubbed, spine rolled, 8vo, together with: Savage Sudan, its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life, 1st edition, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921, 30 plates including frontispiece, original cloth, pale mottling in places, 8vo, and 8 other Abel Chapman titles, i.e. Bird-Life of the Borders (1889; and another copy, 1907), Wild Spain (1893), Wild Norway (1897), Unexplored Spain (1910), The Borders and Beyond: Arctic ... Cheviot ... Tropic (1924), Retrospect (1928; frontispiece loose), and Memories (1930), all 1st editions in original cloth (except Bird-Life, 1907, 2nd edition) (Qty: 10)NOTESCzech Africa pp. 59-60 ( On Safari , Savage Sudan , Retrospect , Memories ). '[Chapman's] African adventures culminated in On Safari (1908) and Savage Sudan (1921) - the first natural history book about this area - which were entertaining and vivid accounts of east Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan' (ODNB).

Duaren (Francois). De Sacris Ecclesiae ministeriis ac beneficiis libri VIII, 2 parts in one, 1st edition printed in England, London: G. Bishop, 1585, woodcut device to titles, N5 with closed tear in text, occasional underlining and annotations, ink splashes to Y6-7, occasional water stains and light soiling, hinges tender, contemporary calf, covers with oval blindstamped decoration, spine mostly worn away, one corner worn, a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESSTC 7262. First printing in England of an important work on the study of law by Francois Duaren (or Douaren, 1509-1559), Proffesor of Law at the University of Bourges. The second part is Pierre Rebuffi's Tractatus de Decimis.

Veen (Otto van). Amoris divini emblemata, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1660, engraved portrait frontispiece (trimmed and mounted), 60 engravings in text, extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait of the infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia mounted to title verso, modern quarter morocco, 4to (22.4 x 16.6 cm), together with: Phaedrus (Gaius Julius), Phaedri, Aug. liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. notis illustravit in usum serenissimi principis Nassavii David Hoogstratanus, Amsterdam: Frans Halm, 1701, engraved additional title-page, portrait (trimmed and mounted), 18 plates, head- and tailpieces, front inner hinge split between engraved and letterpress titles, bookplate (G. de Visme), contemporary vellum, soiled, 4to (25.5 x 19.5 cm), Bolswert (Boetius à, illustrator), Vitae passionis et moris Jesus Christi ... piis meditationibus et adspirationibus exposita per P. Joannem Boughesium, 1st edition, Antwerp: Hendrik Aertssens, 1622, half-title (repaired), engraved title-page, 76 plates, toning, a few marks, ownership inscription 'S. M. Proust 1772' to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, joints cracked, worn, 8vo (17 x 10.5 cm), Giovio (Paolo), Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose, Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1574, woodcut portrait to title verso, approximately 100 woodcut oval emblems in text, browning, without final leaf T4 (probably blank), front inner hinge gone, contemporary vellum, 8vo (17 x 12 cm), Saumaise (Claude), De annis climacteris et antiqua astrologia diatribe, Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriorum, 1648, a few marks, 18th-century calf, worn, 8vo (15.5 x 10 cm), and 1 other continental imprint (Qty: 6)NOTESCohen-de Ricci 797-8 (Phaedrus: 'Très belle édition, bien illustrée'); Landwehr Low Countries 702 (Veen); Willems 644 (Saumaise); Giovio not in Adams. First Plantin edition of Otto van Veen's work. Van Veen (c.1556-1629) was Rubens's last and most influential teacher.

Herbert (Thomas). Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa and Asia the Great, describing more particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in Oriental India, with the Isles adjacent, 3rd edition, London: J. Best for Andrew Crook, 1665, additional engraved title, folding engraved plate of Persepolis (torn with loss), engraved illustrations in text, lacks leaves 2G1 & 3K1, a few leaves close-trimmed, occasional light soiling and small stains,small marginal wormtrack to first few leaves, occasional early marginalia modern panelled calf gilt, two tiny wormtracks to lower cover, folio, together with: Chardin (John). The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies... To which is added, the Coronation of this present King of Persia, Solyman the Third, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, 1686, additional engraved title (laid down), folding engraved map, 16 engraved plates, mostly folding, lacking engraved portrait, a few plates with tears and small mainly marginal losses, some water staining and soiling throughout, letterpress title and early leaves with some marginal insect damage, bookplate and shelf number, contemporary mottled calf gilt, small splits to joints, rubbed with some edge wear, folio (Qty: 2)NOTESWing H1534 & C2043.

Auldjo (John). Sketches of Vesuvius, with Short Accounts of its Principal Eruptions, from the commencement of the Christian era to the present time, 1st UK edition, London: Longman et al., 1833, folding hand-coloured map, slightly edge-frayed with short closed handling tear, 16 uncoloured lithographed plates, several folding, a couple of short closed handling tears, modern boards, some light scratches and marks, printed paper labels to front cover and spine, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESNot in Abbey. First published in Naples the previous year.

[Medicine] . Sammelband of 18 medical dissertations, circa 1750-59, including: Physiologicæ Conspectus Anatomico-Mechanicus,..., by Paul Beyre, Otia Phisiologica..., by Joanne Brun, De Generatione Hominis..., by Petro-Stephano Crassous, mostly Montpelier published, monochrome plates, some contemporary marginal annotations, some light spotting & marks, contemporary gilt decorated mottled calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed with minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, together with Gostling (G.) , Extracts from the Treaties between Great-Britain and other kingdoms and states..., 1792, some light spotting & offsetting throughout, contemporary gilt decorated, mottled calf, hinges cracked, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 4to, and Bell (John) , Engravings of the Bones, Muscles and Joints, part first, 1st U.S. edition, 1817, Philadelphia, 12 black & white plates, bookplate to front pastedown some spotting & offsetting throughout, contemporary red quarter morocco, boards & spines slightly rubbed, large 4to, plus other mostly 18th & 19th century medical & science reference, many leather binding, some original cloth & odd volumes, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to (Qty: 6 shelves)NOTESApproximately 120 volumes

Lindsay (Norman, illustrator). Petronius. A revised Latin text of the Satyricon with the earliest English translation (1694) now first reprinted with an introduction ... privately printed by Ralph Straus, 1910, 100 plates, a little minor soiling, bookplate of S.L. Courtauld, top edge gilt, contemporary green half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine faded, 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Sir Stephen Lewis Courtauld MC FRS (1883-1967), English philanthropist and youngest brother of Samuel Courtauld, founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art. Limited edition of 250 from a total edition of 265, this copy unumbered and signed by the artist only (usually signed by artist and printer).

[Castro, Casimiro]. [Album del Ferrocarril Mexicano, colleción de vistas, 1st edition, Mexico City: Victor Debray, 1877 or 1878], 2 parts in 1 volume, pp. 15-40 43-56, [2] 1-18 (i.e. lacking main title-page, pp. 1-14 and 41/2), first part with English and Spanish text in double column, second part in French (with separate title-page), chromolithographic additional title-page, 23 chromolithographic plates (of 24: lacking plate 23), double-page chromolithographic map, map with short closed tear near central fold and old marginal repair verso, marginal damp-staining to plates, just encroaching on upper outer corners of images towards rear, plates 1-4 slightly spotted, plate 24 slightly softened along edges, plates 14 and 20 strengthened along bottom edge verso (repairing closed tears), gilt edges, original cloth (front board dated 1878), spine defective, front board loose, cloth worn away and lifting at extremities, oblong folio (Qty: 1)NOTESThe vibrant chromolithographs depict bridges, stations and views along the railway, as well as views of Veracruz, Huamantla, Cordoba and Orizaba. The double-page map is titled 'Plano orografico de la zona recorrida por el ferro-carril Mexicano de Veracruz a Mexico formada por Antonio Garcia Cubas'.

Aesop. Aesop's Fables with his Life: in English, French & Latin, The English by Tho. Philipott, the French and Latin by Rob. Codrington, Illustrated... by Francis Barlow, 1st edition, London: printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, 1666, additional engraved title, 108 engraved illustrations, lacking engraved frontispiece and pp. 1-4 at front, additional and letterpress titles laid down, a few tears and repairs, burnholes and ink splashes, some light toning and soiling, a few wormholes and tracks at gutter towards end, bookplate to letterpress title verso, later calf gilt, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, a little rubbed with some edge wear, folio, together with: Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldrie, 3rd edition, corrected and much enlarged by the author himselfe in his life time, London: Thomas Cotes for Jacob Blome, 1638, woodcut coats of arms, 2G3-4 margins repaired, occasional light spotting and soiling, small marginal wormtrack to last few leaves, previous owner name John Pimlott to title, perforated stamp of Allan Wyon, chief engraver of Her Majesty's Seals to title margin, his bookplate, later sprinkled calf gilt, upper corners repaired, folio (Qty: 2)NOTESFirst work: ESTC R477463; Wing A696. Second work: STC 12503.

Popham (A.E.). Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, 3 volumes, Yale University Press, 1971, numerous monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth gilt, covers heavily damptstained to outer edges (with very minimal effect on the text leaves of the first two volumes, and some marginal damp marking to text leaves of the third volume), large 4to, together with Brauer (Heinrich and Wittkower, Rudolf). Bernini's Drawings, reprint edition, Collectors' Editions, circa 1975, original quarter mock morocco gilt, 4to, plus Rearick (Janet Cox), The Drawings of Pontormo, 2 volumes, Harvard University Press, 1964, monochrome plates, original cloth in slightly frayed dust wrappers, small 4to, and Shaw (James Byam). Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, 2 volumes (Catalogue/Plates), Oxford University Press, 1976, monochrome illustrations, orignal red cloth gilt in dust wrappers, 4to, plus others on Italian drawings, including: Lanfranco Ravelli, Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio, 1978, A.E. Popham, Correggio's Drawings, 1957, Paul Joannides, The Drawings of Raphael, 1983, Phyllis Pray Bober, Drawings after the Antique by Amico Aspertini, 1957, British Museum, Italian Drawings, XIV-XV Centuries, 2 volumes, 1950, Italian Drawings, Michelangelo and His Studio, 1953, Artists Working in Rome c. 1550 to c. 1640, 1982 & School of Parma XVI Century, 2 volumes, 1967, etc., original cloth in dust wrappers, and some volumes paper bound, mostly 4to (Qty: 35)NOTESEx libris Michael Jaffé (1923–1997).

Yeats (W. B., Ernest Dowson, & others). The Book of the Rhymers' Club [and:] The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club, 2 volumes, 1st editions, London: Elkin Mathews [and John Lane], 1892-4, text-blocks slightly toned, short closed tear to volume 1 title-page, a few other trivial marks, volume 2 with bookplate of Patricia Milne-Henderson, original cloth, volume 1 with glassine dust jacket (torn at lower outer corner of front panel), small 8vo , together with: Gilchrist (Alexander), Life of William Blake ... new and enlarged edition, 2 volumes, London: Macmillan and Co., 1880, all plates and vignettes as called for (various media, many on india paper, mounted), occasional spotting, original pictorial cloth gilt, a bright copy, 8vo, and 5 others, poetry including Christina Rossetti, original cloth (Qty: 9)NOTESRhymers' Club: one of 450 copies of the first volume, and 650 of the second.

Carew (Richard). The Survey of Cornwall, 1st edition, London: printed by S. S. for John Jaggard, 1602, woodcut title-device and initials, woodcut and type-ornament headpieces, woodcut vignette in text, variable browning, headlines frequently trimmed, [par.]4 with old attempt at paper-strengthening in fore margin, leaves A1-2 misbound between 2T1 and 2T2, lacking quire Q (replaced with 6 leaves of contemporary or near-contemporary manuscript), light damp-staining towards rear, first binder's blank with tissue-repair, early ownership inscriptions 'T. Keigwin' to second binder's blank and 'John Jackson' to title-page, modern calf, 4to (17.4 x 12.4 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESBoase & Courtney I p. 57; ESTC S107479; STC 4615.

Pamphlets. The Woman's Labour: An Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck; in Answer to his Poem, called the Thresher's Labour. To which are added the Three Wise Sentences, taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III and IV, by Mary Collier, now a Washer-Woman, at Petersfield in Hampshire, 3rd edition, London: Printed for the Author & sold by J. Roberts, 1740, [5], 6-30 pp., damp & dust-soiling, marginal fraying and few closed tears, worn, stitched as issued, 8vo, together with: Letter from Edmund Burke, Esq; one of the Representatives in Parliament for the City of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs. Sheriffs of that City, on the Affairs of America, 4th edition, London: J. Dodsley, 1777, ink stamp to title and following leaf, title with ink stain at head and tears to margins (repaired to lower margin), some toning, disbound 8vo, and Oration delivered before the Legislature of Massachusetts, at their request, on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington, by Francis C. Gray, Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1832, presentation slip for the Library of the Mass. Historical Society tipped onto final leaf (slip torn with manuscript loss), disbound 8vo, Substance of the Speech delivered by Lord Grenville, in the House of Lords, November 13, 1801, on the motion for an address, approving of the Convention with Russia, London: Cobbett & Morgan, 1802, some spotting to title, disbound 8vo, and Fragmenta Chirurgica & Medica, by William Fordyce, London: Ex officina T. Spilsbury. Prostant apud T. Cadell, 1784 , engraved title and one plate, disbound 8vo, A Familiar Treatise on Asthma, Difficulty of Breathing, Wheezing, Winter Cough, and Consumption of the Lungs..., by [James T.] Fisher, Surgeon, Formerly an Asthmatic Invalid, 3rd edition, enlarged, London: Printed by R. Cantwell, 1811, title & advert leaf (lower wrapper) at rear dust-soiled, torn & frayed, stitched as issued, 8vo, and other 18th & 19th century pamphlets, including literature, poetry, plays & dramas, tragedies & comedies, and few political & continental etc. (Qty: approx. 80)

Kent (Elizabeth Grey, Countess of). A Choice Manuall, or Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and Chyrurgery: Collected, and practised by the right honourable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the virtues of Gascon pouder, and lapis contra yarvam, by a Professor of Physick. As also most exquisite waies of Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c., 2 parts in one, 12th edition, London: Printed, by Gartrude Dawson, and are to besold [sic] by William Shears at the sign of the Blew Bible in Bedford Street in Coven [sic] Garden, 2659 [i.e. 1659], lacking initial blank (A1), and lacking portrait frontispiece and leaves I2, K2-K11, M8, P6-P7 & final leaf S6, leaf A5 torn with loss, some fraying to margins mostly at front at rear of volume with some slight text loss, browning and dust-soiling, contemporary sheep, spine worn at foot with loss, spine, joints and extremities worn, 12mo (Wing K313A), together with: [Wybard, John] , Tactometria, seu, Tetagmenometria, or, the geometry of regulars practically proposed..., by J.W., London: Printed by Robert Leybourn, for Nathaniel Brooks, 1650, front blank (A1) partially adhered to pastedown, title-page torn to upper inner corner with loss to initial letters of first & third words and with early manuscript to title, one folding table and few diagrams to text, gutter margins of initial leaves stained/adhered with some tears, browning, some spotting and dust-soiling, contemporary calf, old paper strip to spine securing detached boards, worn, 8vo ( Wing W3736), and other defective 17th century antiquarian including The Mystery of Dreames by Philip Goodwin, 1658 (Qty: 14)NOTESSold with all faults, not subject to return.

Avicenna [i.e. Abu 'Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abdallah Ibn Sina]. [Bifolium from the Canon medicinae, Strasbourg: Adolf Rusch, c.1473], single bifolium, text in double column, 56 lines, gothic type, illuminated initial 'C' with elaborate floral flourish, 19 further Lombard initials in red and blue ink with penwork flourishes, decorative line-fillers in red and blue, paragraph marks in red, capital strokes in yellow, contemporary foliation (228 and 231), recent pencil annotation to foot of first leaf recto, 40.6 x 28.5 cm (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 'From the library of Coventry School' (pencil annotation). Goff A-1417; GW 03114; ISTC ia01417700. This bifolium is from Liber III, Fen (i.e. section) III, which is titled ‘De anathomia oculi et de dispositionibus et egritudinibus eius' and concerns the anatomy of the eye. Goff believed this edition of Avicenna's great medical treatise to be the first, but according to ISTC it may post-date the Milan edition completed on 12 February 1473.

Anderson (George William, editor). A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, undertaken and performed by Royal Authority. Containing an Authentic, Entertaining, Full, and Complete History of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, 1st edition, London: Alex. Hogg, [1784-6], iv 5-655 [v] pp., 157 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, folding general chart and the 'Death of Cook' plate, small section of loss to corner of frontispiece not touching image, preface leaf (pp. iii/iv) torn in gutter, a few plates loosening, consequently slightly proud and therefore frayed along fore edges, closed tear in signature 7O1 repaired in margin, contemporary half calf, covers detached (with frontispiece, pp. i-iv and folding chart remaining attached to front cover), paper largely worn away on sides, corners consolidated with clear plastic tape, folio (38.5 x 25 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESBeddie 18 (cf. 17 & 19); Hill (1974) p. 5. 'An important compilation of English voyages richly illustrated with 157 engraved maps and plates. Anderson sometimes gives the original accounts, others are edited or abridged versions, and frequently additional materials, from other sources, are added to give scope and depth ot the narratives' (Hill). The plates include new engravings from the famous portraits and views by William Hodges and other artists which illustrate Cook's three voyages. The other voyages collected are those of Byron, Anson, Carteret, Wallis, Mulgrave, and Drake.

Philidor (Franc?ois Danican). Analysis of the Game of Chess, a new edition, improved and greatly enlarged..., 2 volumes, London: for P. Elmsly, 1790, scattered spotting, 2nd volume with some light dampstaining to first few leaves, volume 1 with armorial bookplate of Joseph Goodall, contemporary marbled calf gilt, spines somewhat faded and rubbed, loss to one title label, 1 volume label lacking and 1 loosely inserted, volume 1 front joint cracking, 8vo, together with: Walker (George, editor) , The Philidorian; a magazine of chess, and other scientific games, complete in one volume, London: G. Walker and Son, 1838, comprises issues 1-6 of The Philidorian, December 1837-May 1838, 1 folding table (lightly spotted), numerous black & white illustrations in letterpress, contemporary half morocco, rubbed with some wear to corners, 8vo, with other leather bindings, including an incomplete set of Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere, by M. le Comte de Buffon, 25 volumes, Paris (Deux-Ponts): Sanson, 1785-1787, with numerous hand-coloured plates (Qty: 51)

Daniell (Thomas & William). Hindoo Excavations in the Mountain of Ellora, near Aurangabad in the Decan, in Twenty-Four Views, from the Drawings of James Wales, under the Direction of Thomas Daniell [i.e. Oriental Scenery, volume 6 only], 2nd edition, London: printed for Thomas and William Daniell, 1816, letterpress title-page, 24 aquatint plates including additional title, 7 engraved plans, 20 text-leaves, letterpress title toned, nicked and marked, other text-leaves toned, aquatint title and first 2 plates spotted and dust-soiled in margins, light marginal spotting elsewhere, marginal damp-staining to final 8 aquatints and all plans occasionally touching images, endpapers spotted and toned, contemporary drab paper boards, rebacked, wear to extremities, adhesive consolidation attempted to fore edge of front board, oblong folio (27 x 37 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAbbey Travel 432.