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Keill (John). Introductio ad veram physicam: seu lectiones physicae habitae in Schola Naturalis Philosophiae Academiae Oxoniensis an. Dom. 1700. Quibus accedunt theorematum Hugenianorum de vi centrifuga et motu circulari demonstrationes, 4th edition, Henry Clements, 1719, woodcut title device and text diagrams, a3 verso and a4 recto transposed in printing, corrected cancels bound in after a7, a5 verso and a6 recto also transposed, but all leaves and text present, marginal browning to endpapers, title-page and final leaf, small marginal stain to R2 and adjacent leaves, contemporary speckled tan calf, spine gilt with seed-head and shell tools, red morocco label, blind panels to sides, joints superficially cracked but firm, 8vo (19.5 x 11.8 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Sir Thomas Clarke (1703/4-1764), English judge (ownership inscription 'T. Clark, Trin Coll Cantab.' to front free endpaper). 2) Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, Part Five, 14 April 2005, lot 1125 (bookplate; blind-stamp to title-page). Clarke was persistently rumoured to have been an illegitimate son of his patron Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (1666-1732), and bequeathed most of his estate to the third earl (1723-1795). Houzeau & Lancaster 9241. These lectures constituted 'the first course on Newtonian natural philosophy, and the first reputedly based on "experimental demonstrations", at either of the English universities' (ODNB).

Bible [English]. [Bible: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke , London: Robert Barker, 1608], general title lacking, New Testament title within woodcut border present, Apocrypha present, double-column black letter text, lacking 3Q4 & 3Q5, bound with an incomplete Book of Common Prayer at front and at rear Two right profitable and fruitfull Concordances..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1608, and incomplete Booke of Psalmes, 1608, some cropping to running titles and marginal notes, margins frayed and some torn with loss, dampstained, marked and soiled throughout, late 19th/early 20th century calf, rubbed and worn, 4to (leaf size 20.6 x 15.4cm), together with an incomplete and rather poor copy of The Holy Bible, London: Robert Barker, 1612, being an example of the first quarto edition of King James' version printed in roman type, lacking general title, New Testament title torn with loss to lower outer corner, dampstained, marked and soiled throughout, some worming, margins frayed, 19th century morocco, worn, 4to (Qty: 2)NOTESHerbert 293; Darlow & Moule 225; STC 2202, and Herbert 313; Darlow & Moule 242; STC 2219 respectively. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

Taylor (J., publisher). The Builder's Price-Book; containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London, to the several artificers concerned in building. Including the Journeymen's Prices, a new edition, corrected, by An Experienced Surveyor, printed by W. Stratford, for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1802, viii + 139 pages, + 16-page publisher's catalogue at rear, dated January 2, 1802, untrimmed, stitched as issued, with front and rear plain paper wrapper, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESSee Harris & Savage, British Architectural Books and Writers, 43-45. Taylor's Price Book was first published in 1776, and went through many editions.

New Testament [Greek]. Novum Iesu Christi D.N. Testamentum. Cum notis Iosephi Scaligeri in locos aliquot difficiliores nunc primùm editae. Additus etiam syllabus locurum Noui Testamenti, de quorum sensu, & applicatione ad controuersa religionis christianae capita hodie lis est, Geneva: Petrum de la Rouiere, 1620, [8], 16, 453, [3]pp., title within decorative architectural woodcut border (manuscript ownership 'Tho. Smalls 1817' to upper outer corner), introduction in Latin and main text in Greek, woodcut decorative initials, head & tailpieces, with final blank leaf, inscription to upper blank margin of first leaf of New Testament, some spotting and occasional dampstains, 19th century half vellum, lower joint split, soiled and some wear, 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESReferenced by: Darlow & Moule 4667 (note). A re-issue, from the same typesetting, of De La Rovie?re's 4to edition of 1619; according to Reuss, the text is the same as in his 8vo edition of 1619, with one change. Possibly a reprint (with additional notes) of the 1524 Ceporinus edition which follows the third Erasmus edition. Cf. Darlow & Moule 4601. It would appear that the text is sometimes bound in a different arrangement from that seen here.

[Amhurst, Nicholas]. Protestant Popery: Or, The Convocation. A Poem, in five cantos, address'd to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bangor, 1st edition, printed for E. Curll, 1718, engraved portrait frontispiece, [14], 5-74, [2], pp., price at foot of title page, advert leaf at rear, a little spotting and soiling, largely at front and rear, all edges stained red, 19th-century half calf, rubbed, together with [Fleetwood, William], The Life and Miracles of St. Wenefrede, together with her littanies, with some historical observations made thereon, 2nd edition, published for Sam. Buckley, at The Dolphin in Little-Britain, 1713, 128 pp., printer's woodcut device to title and at rear, some spotting and occasional light browning, inner hinges cracked, armorial bookplate of George Becher Blomfield and ownership signature of T. Willement dated 1841 to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, some wear, both 8vo in 4s (Qty: 2)NOTESFoxon A200 for the first work.

[Fox, Edward]. Opus eximium, de vera differentia regiae potestatis et ecclesiasticae, et quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque, 1st edition, printed by Thomas Berthlet, 1534, 63 leaves (lacks final blank), printer's woodcut device to title, a few woodcut initials, slight spotting and soiling, some slight rodent damage and tears with blank paper loss to upper outer corners of first 7 leaves, the upper outer corners of first 4 leaves (including title) with old paper repairs, without loss of letterpress, title and final leaf slightly dust soiled and small marginal nick to final leaf, some old ink inscriptions in more than one hand, including neat ownership inscription of 'Tho: Baker Coll: Jo: Socius eiectus' at foot of title, a few manuscript accounts notes in an earlier hand to title verso, some scattered underscoring, plus a further note in Baker's hand at foot of final page, referring to Thomas Drant who is mentioned in the line above in another hand, 19th-century calf, title page and upper cover detached, some wear and loss at head of spine, small 4to (185 x 135 mm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Thomas Baker (1656–1740), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and antiquary. ESTC S10493; STC 11218. Though institutionally this work is not uncommon, the last copy of this first edition offered at auction appears to have been by Sotheby's in 1938. It is an important treatise on the controversy between King Henry VIII and the Pope. This book is usually attributed to Edward Fox, Bishop of Hereford, a second edition appearing in 1538, and an English translation by Henry, Baron Stafford 1548. It is a concise and thoughtful exposition of the royal position in four parts.

Bosio (Giacomo). Crux triumphans et gloriosa, libri sex, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1617, half-title, engraved allegorical title-page after Peter Paul Rubens by Cornelis Galle the Elder, one engraved plate, approximately 75 woodcut illustrations to text, text-leaves with some browning, small interlinear burn-hole to leaf X5, final blank (3Q6) discarded, bookplate of Michael Jaffé, contemporary inscription 'Collegii Societatis Jesu Ruremunde 1619, MB' to margin of engraved title-page and effaced from half-title, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, rebacked and relined, worn, retaining one metal cornerpiece, folio in 6s (35.3 x 22 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Jesuit college at Roermond, Netherlands (inscriptions dated 1619). 2) Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (bookplate). Jaffé wrote three substantial books on Rubens: Rubens (1967); Rubens and Italy (1977); and Rubens: catalogo completo (1989). Graesse I 500; Judson & Van de Velde, Book Illustrations and Titlepages (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard) , 37. First edition in Latin of this iconographic treatise on the symbolism of the cross, originally printed in Italian in 1610 as La trionfante e gloriosa croce , without the engraved title by Rubens. Giacomo Bosio (1544-1627) was a knight of the Order of Saint John of Malta (Knights Hospitallers) and agent of the order at the papal court in Rome. He was involved in the murder of a fellow knight in Rome in 1581 but retained his position of influence, and later Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt, in securing papal approval in 1608 for a knighthood for Caravaggio, himself a fugitive from Rome following the murder of Ranuccio Tommasoni.

[Hodges, James] The Present State of England, as to coin and publick charges. In three parts. Treating of the necessity of more money before taxes can be effectual, or trade revived, and of ways and means to procure it: as calling in all the plate on ready money; restoring credit; bringing out hoarded money; rectifying the balance of trade; raising the value of money, against which the opposite prejudices, as injurious to King, Parliament and People, with Mr Lock's chief positions, are refuted by demonstrable reason and matter of fact, 1st edition, Andrew Bell, 1697, bound with a supplement..., containing some further considerations of the circumstances of the Kingdom with proposals of help by raising the value of credit, some spotting and browning throughout, lacks final blank, old closed tear paper repair to upper margin of leaf A3 of first part slightly obscuring lettering of running head ("TD"), old manuscript name inscription and alphanumeric shelf marks to first title, armorial book plate of William Perceval, contemporary panel calf, rubbed and slight edge wear, a little wear at head and foot of spines, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESWing H2299 & H2300.

Pontano (Giovanni Gioviano). Historia della Guerra di Napoli ... tradotta da Giacomo Mauro, Naples: Gioseppe Cacchi, 1590, woodcut title-device, headpiece and initials, spotting and browning, very small worm-track in gutter of title-page, marginal annotation to p. 246, small section of insect damage in final 2 leaves affecting a few letters, 18th-century Italian vellum, 4to (20.5 x 14.8 cm), together with: Dolce (Lodovico), Le Prime Imprese del Conte Orlando, 1st edition, Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1572, woodcut borders, headpieces and initials, portrait frontispiece and index leaf *8 absent, moderately browned, title-page dust-soiled and with repaired closed tear in margin, a few headlines shaved, marginal repairs in final quire N affecting text in N1 verso, a few other marks, all edges gilt, c.1800 English straight-grain red morocco (pencilled note: 'Binding by Roger Payne?'), extremities rubbed, 4to (20 x 14.8 cm), Doni (Antonio Francesco), I Mondi, libro primo [only: of 2], Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1552, woodcut borders to title-page and section-titles, woodcut portraits and other vignettes throughout the text (several full-page), quire a misbound before A, lacking 5 leaves (A4, P4, T2-3, 2E4), toning, light spotting, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, 4to (20 x 14.5 cm), Ruscelli (Girolamo, editor), Lettere di Principi, le quali, o si scrivorno da principi, o a principi, o ragionan di principi, 3 volumes, mixed editions, Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1570-75-81, volume 1 lacking leaves E3-6, closed tear in L2, date in title-page and colophon amended to 1581, volume 2 variably browned, volume 3 slightly browned and marked, engraved bookplates of John Hay, Marquess of Tweeddale, contemporary English mottled calf, 4to (19.1 x 13.9 cm), and 3 others, all partial copies of Ruscelli's Lettere di principi, (Venice: Ziletti, 1562, volume 1 only; 'seconda editione', Venice: Ziletti, 1564, volume 1 only; 'terza editione', Venice: Ziletti, 1570, volumes 1-2 in 1), contemporary vellum, 4to (Qty: 9)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Adams D744 (Dolce), D825 (Doni); STC Italian p. 533 (Pontano); Mortimer Italian 166 (Doni); cf. Adams L563-4 (Ruscelli) Second edition in Italian of Pontano's work, which was first printed in 1509 in Latin as De bello Neapolitano , with an Italian translation appeared in 1544. For this edition OCLC traces thirteen copies world-wide. A second part of Doni's work was printed the following year (1553).

Stukeley (William). Itinerarium Curiosum. Or, an Account of the Antiquitys and Remarkable Curiositys in Nature or Art, Observ'd in Travels thro' Great Britain. Illustrated with Copper Prints. Centuria I., London: Printed for the Author, 1724, engraved frontispiece and 100 plates (including 2 folding & 2 double-page), verso of title with armorial bookplate of 'The Right Honble. Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill (Son and Heir Apparent of Thomas Earl of Ailesbury) and Baron Bruce of Whorleon 1712', frontispiece and some plates lightly toned and spotted, endpapers renewed, contemporary mottled calf with gilt embossed armorial of the author William Stukeley (1687-1765) to centre of each board, neatly rebacked with gilt decorative device to centre of each spine compartment, maroon morocco title label, board corners repaired, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESTwo other examples of William Stukeley's gilt armorial have been located, both on bindings for the same edition of Itinerarium Curiosum, one held at Parham House, Sussex and the other at Wadham College, Oxford. William Stukeley (1687-1765), born in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, was an antiquarian, physician, and Anglican clergyman, who pioneered the scholarly investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire. During his lifetime he published over twenty books on archaeology and other subjects. He is sometimes referred to as the ‘father of British archaeology’, for having a more progressive and modern discipline towards archaeological fieldwork and recording. Charles Bruce, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury (later styled Aylesbury) and 4th Earl of Elgin (1682-1747), of Ampthill, Bedfordshire and Savernake Park, Wiltshire, styled Viscount Bruce of Ampthill from 1685-1741, was the son of Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury and his first wife Lady Elizabeth Seymour, daughter of Henry Seymour, Lord Beauchamp and Mary Capell. As a Tory politician he sat in the House of Commons from 1705-1711, representing Great Bedwyn at the 1705 general election, and returned again at the 1708 general election. At the 1710 general election, he was returned for both Great Bedwyn and Marlborough, where he chose to sit for the latter. In 1711 he was summoned to the House of Lords. In 1741 he succeeded his father in the earldoms of Elgin and Ailesbury.

Caesar (Julius). Les commentaires, translatez par Estienne de Laigue dit Beauvoys, nouvellement reveuz et corrigez, Paris: Guillaume Thibout, 1555, [24] + 430 leaves, signatures [section]8 [par.]-2[par.]8 a-z8 A-2H8, 8 full-page woodcuts including maps and depictions of fortifications, lacking free endpapers, title-page dust-soiled, all edges gilt, contemporary vellum, later manuscript spine-title, small 8vo (11.4 x 7.4 cm), together with: Lucretius, De rerum natura libri sex ... D. Lambino ... recogniti et perpurgati, Paris: Rouillé, 1565, woodcut title-page border, bound without final blank +8, one small worm-hole in text, another worm-track in gutter, front inner hinge split (held by top cord), 18th-century limp vellum, small 8vo, and Bible [New Testament; Latin], Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum à Sebastiano Castalione Latine redditum, Amsterdam: Albert and Bernard Visscher, 1690, engraved title, occasional browning, a few headlines closely trimmed, contemporary vellum, later manuscript spine-title, 12mo (Qty: 3)NOTESAdams L1662 (Lucretius); Julius Caesar not in Adams; Bible not in Darlow & Moule. Rare early edition of the first complete translation of Julius Caesar's corpus into French, first printed in 1531. The translation of De bello Gallico is in fact Robert Gaguin's and was the first vernacular edition of any of Caesar's writings when first printed circa 1486.

[German theological pamphlets]. Disputatio theologica. De ecclesiastica hierarchia et sacris ordinibus quam praeside Joanne Mocquetio Societatis Jesu S. theologiae professore ordinario in alma et Catholica Universitate Ingolstadiana ad 17 Kal. Apriles Anni M. DC. XXII, pro utroq[ue] baccalaureatu theologico defendendam suscepit Cornelius Curtius, theologiae candidatus, 1st edition, Ingolstadt: Wilhelm Eder, 1622, [8] + 99 pp., together with: De ecclesiasticae seculi a nato Christo decimi sexti historiae ubertate et fructu ex eadem capiendo, commentatiuncula. Auctore Joanna Fecthio, 1st edition, Rostock: Joachim Wilde, 1690, [ 100] pp., browning, title-page repaired, ink-staining, and Disptutatio historico-theologica, de primo sacerdote marito Lutherano, Bartholomaeo Bernardi, quam sub praesidio Jo. Henrici Feustkingii ... ad diem Junii, A. MDCCIII in conventu synodali placidissimae disquitioni exponit Georgius Petrus Bolze, ecclesiae Kemberg Archi-Diaconus, Wittenberg: Christian Gerdes, 1703, [6] + 61 + 3 pp., final leaf repaired, all 3 works in uniform c.1900 half morocco, gilt spines, 4to, together with Balguy (Thomas), A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Winchester in the Year 1772, 1st edition, for Lockyer Davis, 1772, 24 pp., modern marbled wrappers, 4to (Qty: 4)NOTESProvenance (first three items): From the library of the earls of Crawford at Haigh Hall, Lancashire, or Balcarres Castle, Fife, with engraved 'Bibliotheca Lindesiana' bookplates. VD17 12:153676N (first item), VD17 14:061772E (second item); ESTC T11720 (fourth item). OCLC traces four copies world-wide for the first pamphlet.

Cartari (Vincenzo). Le Imagini de gli Dei de gli Antichi, nelle quali sono de scritte la Religione de gli Antichi li Idoli, riti & ceremonie loro, Venice, Evanelista Deuchino, 1625, title with woodcut device, dedication dated 1624, 418 pp., 88 text engravings after Bolognino Zaltieri, lacking 14 preliminary leaves at front, a little light toning and soiling, manuscript note and previous owner inscription, 1822 at front, bookplate, later vellum, some soiling, small 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. First published in Venice in 1556 as Le Imagini con la Spositione de i Dei de gli Antichi , Cartari's popular work on classical mythology, iconography, ceremonies and rituals went through many editions following the first illustrated edition of 1571.

[Gunpowder Plot]. Prayers and Thankesgiuing to be used by all the Kings Maiesties louing subiects, for the happy deliuerance of His Maiestie, the Queene, Prince, and States of the Parliament, from the most traitorous and bloodie intended massacre by gunpowder, the 5 of Nouember, 1605, set forth by authoritie, imprinted at London: by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill..., [before 1629], [51] pp., title within illustrated woodcut border, manuscript number '3' inscribed on title, black letter, closely trimmed at upper margin with scattered shaving of running headlines, later engraved portraits of King James VI and I and his wife Anne of Denmark pasted as frontispieces to later front free endpapers, 19th-century ownership signature of Walter Field to front free endpaper recto, 19th-century half morocco over marbled boards, gilt title to spine, rubbed, small 4to (176 x 132 mm) (Qty: 1)NOTESIncludes "An act for publike thankesgiuing to almightie God, euery yeere on the fift day of Nouember". ESTC S4760; STC 16497.1. STC conjectures a date of 1606 for the first publication of this pamphlet. All editions are rare, copies of this edition located at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Christchurch, Oxford, only.

Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone. Nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato, Florence: heirs of Filippo di Giunta, 1527, [8], 284 leaves, signatures 2A8 (2A8 blank), 2A8 a-z8 &8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-H8 I12, woodcut Giuntine device to title-page and verso of final leaf, italic types, spaces with printed guide letters, title-page somewhat damp-stained, tipped to initial blank and slightly marked from erasure of 2 old ownership inscriptions, small spot to following leaf 2A2, small damp-stain to lower margins of f3 and s1-2, closed tear in I4 touching a few letters both sides to no effect on legibility, faint tide-mark to final 50 or so leaves, first appearing at head of gutter in quire F, gradually becoming stronger and extending into upper outer corners of text, endpapers sometime renewed, inner hinges tightened. Contemporary Italian binding of dark brown goatskin over pasteboard, sewn on 3 cords, spine with 3 thick raised bands alternating with 4 narrow false bands, compartments with simple floral centrepieces within thick-and-thin blind rules, interlacing rectilinear strapwork design in gilt and blind to covers incorporating central lozenges lettered 'Di Michele da Prato', edges gilt gauffered with ropework pattern, traces of 4 pairs of ties, spine-bands and joints rubbed, headcap torn but largely intact, board-edges slightly rubbed, corners worn, 4to in 8s (21 x 13.6 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESBrunet I 998-999; Gamba (1828) 156 (‘Rarissimo’); Renouard, ‘Notice sur la famille des Junte’, supplement to Annales de l’imprimerie des Alde, (1834), 93; STC Italian p. 110; not in Adams; see further Kirkham et al., eds., Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works, pp. 42-8. The famous 1527 Giunta edition of the Decameron, known as the Ventisettana, with all the points listed by Brunet distinguishing it from the Venetian facsimile edition of 1729 (Adams B2147). ‘There are few books which have acquired such great esteem and value’ (Renouard). Printed in the year in which Florence threw off Medici rule during the War of the League of Cognac, the Ventisettana was the work of several Florentine humanists, who collated Delfino’s edition printed at Venice in 1516 against manuscripts including the important Mannelli copy made in 1382. It superseded all previous editions and quickly acquired immense prestige, serving as the direct model for all subsequent versions until the 1761 Lucca edition, which was based solely on the Mannelli MS but reproduced much of the textual apparatus of the 1527 edition. Provenance: In a superb contemporary Italian binding in the Grolieresque style developed by the Pflug and Ebeleben binder of Bologna, but perhaps exhibiting greater similarity to the work of the Sienese craftsman active c.1520-40 who is identified in Anthony Hobson’s essay ‘A Central Italian Bookseller and Bookbinder’ (Gutenburg-Jahrbuch 2010, pp. 215-20). Hobson emphasises the Pflug and Ebeleben binder’s predilection for curvilinear fillets as opposed to the rectilinear style of the Siena binder. The panelling seen in the present copy is more elaborate than the forms which Hobson describes, but the other features which he identifies as typical of the Sienese binder’s work are much in evidence: ‘With few exceptions all lines cross each other at right angles. The bindings are of goatskin, usually black, but sometimes red or dark olive-brown, over stiff pasteboards. The edges of five of the more elaborately decorated volumes are gilt and gauffered … Nearly all the volumes were fitted with four pairs of ties. They are sewn on three wide bands. The compartments between the bands are decorated with double blind lines in a variety of patterns … The more elaborately decorated covered were given four false bands alternating with the real ones’ (op. cit., p. 215). The Michele da Prato named on the covers is conceivably Michele Modesti da Prato (b.1510), son of Jacopo Modesti (1463-1530), ‘who had been one of the officials [most] closely involved with the Medici as Chancellor of the Riformagioni from 1515 to 1527, when he was dismissed with the overthrow of the regime’ (H. A. L. Knox, Opposition to Government in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence 1494 -1530, unpublished PhD thesis, Edinburgh, 1998, p. 148). Michele himself was imprisoned in 1528 for criticising the rulers of the short-lived republic, which ended with the restoration of Medici control in 1530. His sister, Dorotea, married into the Giunta family (Treccani, online). An exceptional copy of one of the emblematic books of the Italian Renaissance.

Ariosto (Lodovico). Orlando Furioso, tutto ricorretto, et di nuove figure adornato ... di nuovo aggiuntovi li cinque canti ... et una tavola ... con altre cose utili, et necessarie, Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1573, woodcut title-page (frayed, trimmed and mounted), 51 full-page woodcuts in text, moderate spotting and finger-soiling, damp-staining to lower outer corners from quire R, gradually extending into text, a few leaves (B8, E3, T1, 2D1) detaching, marginal extensions or repairs to D2, E3, I3, O8, and Z4-5, repair in text to M7, contemporary vellum, marked, a few worm-tracks, wear to extremities, 4to (24 x 17.8 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) James Stewart (1742-1821), of Killymoon, landowner and member of parliament for County Tyrone, 1801-12 (bookplate). 2) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Cf. Adams A1673 (1571 edition) & Mortimer Italian 29 (1562 edition). 'Valgrisi's blocks are the first full-page illustrations of Ariosto' (Mortimer).

Bartoli (Pietro Santi ). Colonna Traiana , eretta dal Senato, e Popolo Romano all'Imperatore Traiano Augusto nell suo Foro in Roma. Scolpita con l'Historie della Guerra Dacica la prima e la seconda espeditione, e vittoria contro il Re Decebalo. Nuovamente disegnata, et intagliata da Pietro Santi Bartoli. Con l'espositione latina d'Alfonso Ciaccone, compendiata nella vulgare lingua sotto ciascuna immagine, accresciuta di medaglie, inscrittioni, e trofei, da Gio. Pietro Bellori, 1st edition, Rome: Gio[vanni] Giacomo de Rossi, [ 1673], title-page, dedication leaf, 2 pp. text ('Al lettori'; verso blank), 126 etched plates (7 unnumbered, the remainder numbered 1-119), 14 + [2] pp. text, marginal spotting, first 4 leaves creased, brocade endpapers, bookplate of Michael Jaffé, all edges gilt, near-contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, top compartment with red morocco label containing gilt device of elephant statant with upturned trunk (see note), similar label to second compartment, elaborate gilt panels to sides incorporating drawer-handle motifs, joints cracked (held by cords), rubbed and worn, oblong folio (36.5 x 47.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753), English art collector, grand tourist, and successor of Isaac Newton as warden of the Royal Mint (armorial binding). 2) Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (bookplate). Berlin Katalog 3622; Cicognara 3603. A good, wide-margined copy of this striking depiction of 'the great column which is the sole intact monument of Trajan's Forum (ruined by earthquakes in the 9th century)' (Royal Academy, online).

Paton (Robert Chalmers I.). Freemasonry, its Symbolism, Religious Nature, and Law of Perfection, first edition, Reeves & Turner, 1873, publisher's catalogue at rear, Fareham Library ink stamp and presentation inscription from G.S. Waterlow to half-title, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, small chip with loss to lower margin of upper board, together with Oliver (George) , The Symbol of Glory; Shewing the Object and End of Freemasonry, first edition, London & Orpingham, 1850, engraved frontispiece, publisher's catalogue at rear, some spotting, additional subscriber's list tipped in some pencil marks to preliminary leaves, Lodge of Harmony bookplate and numeric spine sticker, original cloth gilt, rubbed and slightly soiled, a little frayed at head and foot of spine, plus Sadler (Henry) , Masonic Facts and Fictions, comprising a new Theory of the Ancient "Grand Lodge", first edition, Diprose & Bateman, 1887, subscribers' list, four plates including one folding, original cloth gilt, numeric spine sticker, a little rubbed, all 8vo, plus others related by the same three authors, Paton , Oliver and Sadler , all with Lodge of Harmony bookplates and numeric spine stickers (Qty: 17)NOTESProvenance: Lodge of Harmony (no. 309, Fareham) Masonic Library.

Terence. Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetae Terentii omnes Anglicae factae primumque hac nova forma nunc editae: opera ac insustria R. B. in Axholmiensi insula Lincolnsherii Epwortheatis, Cambridge: John Legat, 1598, toning, occasional browning, a few finger-marks, headlines and pagination frequently shaved, title-page slightly soiled, repaired at fore edge, part of side-note on p. 97 failed to print, closed marginal tear in H8, short closed tear in I1-2 touching top line of text, small hole in O6 affecting side-note, marginal loss to T5, repaired marginal loss to final 2 leaves, final leaf laid down with contemporary inscriptions verso showing through, all edges gilt, late-19th-century green calf, gilt spine, rubbed, 4to in 8s (17.9 x 11.6 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: early ownership inscriptions, 'William Lilly' and 'Thomas Tayler', to final leaf verso; deceased estate, Hampshire. ESTC S118303; STC 23890. Rare: two other copies traced at auction, the last in 1985; ESTC traces six copies only in UK libraries. First complete edition of Terence's comedies in English, translated by Cambridge humanist and clergyman Richard Bernard (1568-1642), with the English and Latin text in parallel. Bernard's translation went to a fifth edition by 1641, and Shakespeare's likely familiarity with the text is well attested: echoes of Bernard's phrasing are found in Much Ado About Nothing , All's Well That Ends Well , Twelfth Night , The Taming of the Shrew , The Comedy of Errors , The Merchant of Venice , and Hamlet (see The New Shakespere Society's Transactions 1875-6 , volume 4, p. 198 et seq.). Bernard's translation was preceded only by two phrasebooks, Vulgaria quedam abs Terencio in Anglicam linguam traducta (1483) and Floures for Latine spekynge selected and gathered oute of Terence (1533/4), Terens in English (c.1520), which contained a translation of 'Andria' only, and the 1588 translation of Andria by Morris Kyffin.

Anderson (James). Constitutions of the Antient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons: Containing their History, Charges, Regulations, &c. First compiled by Order of the Grand Lodge, from their Old Records, and Traditions..., a new edition revised, enlarged, and brought down to the Year 1784, under the Direction of the Hall Committee, by John Noorthouck, printed by J. Rozea, printer to the Society, 1784, engraved frontispiece, publisher's advert to final leaf verso, some spotting and old damp-staining to frontispiece and preliminary leaves, all edges gilt, 19th-century gilt-decorated red morocco with gilt-titled leather onlay of the Lodge of Harmony Fareham to upper and lower covers, spine rubbed and upper joint cracked at foot, lodge bookplate and library number '46' sticker at foot of spine, 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Lodge of Harmony (no. 309, Fareham) Masonic Library.

More (Thomas). Epigrammata clarissimi dissertissimique viri Thomae Mori Britanni ad emendatum exemplar ipsius autoris excusa, [edited by Beatus Rhenanus], Basel: Johann Froben, December 1520, 116pp., woodcut historiated title border by Hans Holbein the Younger, Roman and Greek types, historiated initials, printer's device at end, old and mostly light but occasionally heavy damp-staining, neat Elizabethan signature and motto inscription of Thomas Butt[e]s below device at end, 'Soyez sage et simple : id est : Be wyse and playne', armorial bookplate (browned) of George Becher Blomfield, now lifted and loose to reveal a second armorial bookplate of Arthur Dalrymple, bookplate browning offset to later blank front free endpapers, all edges stained red, 18th-century calf with original English early 16th century upper and lower panels inlaid, each with roll-tooled twin-head medallions and ornamental decorations [Oldham Trip. 13 & HM. 19 respectively], upper cover with blind-stamp monogram 'TB', heavily rubbed, leather loss to lowest spine compartment, 4to (209 x 154mm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Thomas Butts (ownership signature, holograph family motto and binding monogram stamp); 2) Arthur Dalrymple (bookplate); 3) George Becher Blomfield (bookplate). 1) Thomas Butts was the son of Sir William Butts the Elder (c. 1486-1545), physician to Henry VIII and the subject of Hans Holbein the Younger's well-known portrait (1543), held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Sir William had three children: Sir William Butts of Thornage (c. 1506-1583), Edmund Butts of Barrow and the middle brother, Thomas Butts of Great Riburgh, Norfolk. Thomas is notable for being one of Richard Hakluyt's primary sources for his account of the English merchant and navigator Richard Hore's early voyage in 1536 to the coast of what is now Newfoundland, where his passengers allegedly engaged in cannibalism in order to survive. Hakluyt interviewed Butts some fifty years after the voyage, by which time he was very elderly and the only survivor. Hakluyt, citing Thomas Butts, says there were two ships, the Trinity , 140 tons, Capt. Hore, on which Butts sailed, and the Minion (for the William ?). With the king’s goodwill they carried 30 gentlemen on 'a voyage of discoverie upon the Northwest parts of America'. Hore took his ships to Cape Breton and then coasted southern and eastern Newfoundland to Penguin (Funk) Island, where they killed great auk and bear. At the conclusion of the voyage we learn that: 'They arrived at St. Ives in Cornewall about the ende of October. From thence they departed unto a certain Castle belonging to Sir John Luttrell, where M. Thomas Butts and M. Rastall and other Gentlemen of the voyage were very friendly entertained; after that they came to the Earle of Bathe at Bathe, and thence to Bristoll, so to London. M. Butts was so changed in the voyage with hunger and miserie that Sir William his father and my Lady his mother knew him not to be their sonne, until they found a secret marke which was a wart upon one of his knees, as hee told me Richard Hakluyt of Oxford himselfe, to whom I rode 200 miles only to learn the whole truth of this voyage from his own mouth, as being the only man now alive that was in this discoverie', (Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations , Glasgow, 1904, vol. 8, p. 7). 2) Arthur Dalrymple, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and collector of Norfolk portraits, clerk of the peace for Norwich from 1856, and secretary of the Norwich Waterworks Company. 3) George Becher Blomfield (1801-1885) was a canon of Chester Cathedral, a position he held until his death in 1885. From 1834 until 1874 he was rector of Stevenage in Hertfordshire. During his lifetime, Blomfield published a number of sermons and was also a collector of early printed books and fine bindings, concentrating mainly on bibles, prayer or service books and some theological works. After the death of his widow, Elizabeth, in 1897, Mollington Hall and its library reverted to members of the Feilden family. Blomfield’s collection was sold at auction by Sotheby’s in 1906 on the instructions of Guy Feilden. The binding incorporates different heads-in-medallion panels on the upper and lower covers. Oldham identified three known examples of HM. 19, always used with TRIP. 13, located at U.L.C. Rel. C. 52. 1 (1525), Shrewsbury A. IX. 31 (1534) and York VI. P. 22 (1543). 'The panels HM. 18 and 19 have all the features that have been mentioned as indicating English work, and therefore all five panels, TRIP. 12 and 13, HM. 17, 18 and 19, seem certain to have been engraved in England and by the same die-cutter, quite probably at Oxford', (J.B. Oldham, Bind Panels of English Binders , (CUP, 1958), p. 49). Oldham also notes that the heads-in-medallion panels he describes rarely show any originality, 'except for TRIP. 12 and 13, which have two pairs of heads with a supper party scene between them', (ibid., p. 26). Adams M-1753; Gibson 57; VD-16 M-6296. First separate and definitive edition of More's Epigrams, establishing the authorial text and augmented with eleven new poems. It follows two editions printed by Froben in 1518 for whose errors he apologised to More, promising to reprint it more carefully. More himself revised the text, omitted two poems (one on political grounds) and added eleven new ones, including four personal poems.

Constantin (Robert). Lexicon Graecolatinum, secunda hac editione ... partim Francisco Porti et aliorum additionibus plurimum auctum, 2 parts in 1 volume, [Geneva]: heirs of Eustache Vignon and Jacob Stoer, 1592, title-page in red and black with woodcut anchor device (laid down), toning, occasional spotting, damp-staining to first third of volume (steadily reducing), corner of part 1 signature 2S1 torn away to loss of a few words, blank 2S4 discarded as often, part 2 signature 2X1 with dark ink-stain and resulting paper corrosion affecting a few words, modern calf, folio (33.2 x 20.6 cm), together with: Gesner (Johannes Matthias), Novus linguae et eruditionis Romanae thesaurus post Ro. Stephani et aliorum nuper etiam in Anglia eruditissimorum hominum curas digestus, locupletatus, emendatus, 4 volumes in 2, 1st edition, Leipzig: widow of Caspar Fritsch, and Bernhard Christian Breitkopf, 1749, engraved portrait frontispiece, title-page in red and black, spotting and browning, near-contemporary English sprinkled calf, engraved bookplates (Plummer of Middlestead), joints cracked, volume 2 front board near-detached, folio (39.8 x 24.3 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESAdams C2553/B3148 (Constantin).

Durante (Castore). Il Tesoro della Sanita, nel quale s'infegna il modo di conferuer la sanita, & prolungar la vita, et si tratta della natura de'cibi, & de'Rimedij de' nocumenti loro, Venice: Alessandro de'Vecchi, 1623, title with woodcut device, previous owner signatures crossed through in ink on title, some staining and soiling, a few wormholes, later vellum, foot of spine insect damaged, some soiling, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Bitting p. 137 (for the 1601 edition). First published in Rome in 1586, 'the book treats of various foods: meat, fish, legumes, fruits, condiments, wine etc', and includes the twelve rules on how best to enjoy wine.

Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the originall tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1612], lacking general title, New Testament title present with decorative woodcut border, Apocrypha present, double-column roman type, bound with Genealogies at front (without map), early 18th century manuscript genealogical entries for Richard Reston and family to verso of New Testament title and early 19th century entries for the Dutton family to verso of list of Books in Bible, few leaves torn and frayed with slight loss, sewing weak and some pages sprung, some dust-soiling, occasional dampstaining and few marks, contemporary sheep, torn at head & foot with loss, board corners & edges worn and showing, 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESHerbert 313; Darlow & Moule 242; STC 2219. The first quarto edition of King James' version; printed in roman type. With Genesis x.16, Emorite ; Ruth iii.15, hee.

Morisot ( Claude-Barthelémy ). Epistolarum C enturia P rima, 1 volume only [of 2], 1st edition, Dijon: Philibert Chavance, 1656, browned, ownership inscription of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun to rear pastedown (see note), old boards, worn, 4to (22 x 16.4 cm), together with: Baglione (Giovanni), Le vitte de' pittori, scultori, architetti, ed intagliatori, dal pontificato di Gregorio XIII. del 1572. fino a' tempi di Papa Urbano VIII. nel 1642, Naples: [no publisher], 1733, worming, repairs, browning, 20th-century half morocco, 4to, Bellori (Giovanni Pietro), Le vite de pittori, scultori, ed architetti moderni, Rome: successors of Mascardi, 1728, 14 engraved plates (of 15: lacking frontispiece, toning, occasional spotting, contemporary vellum, gilt arms of the Society of Writers to the Signey to covers, marked, 4to, Orlandi (Pellegrino Antonio), L'abecedario pittorico, Naples: Nicolo and Vincenzo Rispoli, 1733, the 5 plates lacking, browning, bookplate of Michael Jaffé, contemporary calf, rebacked, scuffed and rubbed, 4to, and 1 other (Qty: 5)NOTESProvenance: All items: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitwilliam Museum, Cambridge First item: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716; ownership inscription), Scottish bibliophile, writer and poltician, and friend of the philosopher John Locke. Fletcher assembled a library of over 6000 books across a wide range of subjects. A keen traveller, he spent half of his life abroad, often visiting bookshops in search of works of interest. The greater part of the library was sold in the 1960s. See P. J. M. Willems, Bibliotheca Fletcheriana, the extraordinary library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Reconstructed and Systematically Arranged (1999).

Barberini (Maffeo, Pope Urban VIII). Poemata, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1634, half-title in red and black, engraved allegorical title-page after Peter Paul Rubens by Cornelis Galle the Elder, engraved portrait by Galle, final blank (O4) discarded, lacking endpapers, toning, half-title dust-soiled, occasional dust- or damp-stains to margins, a few other minor spots and stains, inscription 'Little Brittain, Jun 10 1726 [?]n.wton' and 'J Lewis' to half-title, 19th-century stencilled signature (William Ord) below elk's-head device to front pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary calf, sides richly gilt with floral cornerpieces and arabesque centrepieces, front joint cracked, headcaps perished, scuffs to sides, extremities worn, 4to (23.5 x 17.6 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Jaffé wrote three substantial books on Rubens: Rubens (1967); Rubens and Italy (1977); and Rubens: catalogo completo (1989). Judson & Van de Velde, Book Illustrations and Titlepages (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard) , 68. First Plantin edition. Rubens's title-page is a response to Bernini's version for the edition printed in Rome in 1631. Cornelis Galle's portrait of the Pope is based on the engraved portrait by Claude Mellan also published in that edition. Maffeo Barberini (1568-1644), a cardinal since 1606, had been elected Pope in 1623, taking the name of Urban VIII.

Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decameron, di nuovo ristampato, e riscontrato in Firenze con testi antichi, ed alla sua vera lettione ridotto dal cavalier Lionardo Salviati, Venice: Giorgio Angelieri, 1594, silverfish damage to first and last few leaves, title-page repaired, ownership inscriptions recto and verso and to first text leaf (partly effaced), browning and damp-staining, occasional worming (affecting text in outer leaves), 19th-century red quarter morocco, 4to (20.2 x 13.5 cm), together with: Sansovino (Francesco), Diverse Orationi volgarmente scritte de molti huomini illustri de tempi nostri. Raccolte, rivedute, ampliate e corrette. Con un trattato dell'arte oratoria della lingau volgare, 3 parts in 1 volume, Venice: Giacomo Sansovino, 1569 [part 2: Francesco Sansovino, 1561], woodcut headpieces and initials, faded contemporary inscription to title-page, small marginal worm-track to part 1 quires R-T, very light damp-staining towards rear, 20th-century quarter vellum, 4to (20.5 x 14.5 cm), Catherine of Siena (Saint), Lettere Devotissime, nuovemente con tutta la diligentia che si ha potuto ristampate, Venice: Domenico Farri, 1591, spotting, small marginal worm-hole in initial quire including title-page, title-page unevenly trimmed along fore edge, worming in gutter of quires Q-R, lower outer corner of last few leaves eroded, early ownership inscriptions to title-page and front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, repaired across foot of front joint, 4to (20.1 x 15 cm), and Guevara (Antonio de), Delle Lettere ... libri quattro. Tradotti di Spagnolo dal Sig. Alfonso Ulloa, Venice: Compagnia degli Uniti, 1585, variable damp-staining, spotting and browning, repaired worm-tracks in initial quire including title-page and to final leaf, marginal worm-tracks to part 1 quires D-G affecting a few side-notes, volume 3 final blank M4 not present, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, Ely Cathedral library plate and deaccession stamp to front pastedown, 19th-century continental quarter sheep, gilt spine, 4to (20.4 x 14.5 cm) (Qty: 4)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Adams S349 (Sansovino, part 1), S348 (Sansovino, part 2); STC Italian pp. 110 (Boccaccio), 607 (Sansovino); cf. Adams C1107 (Catherine of Siena, 1562 edition), G1488 (Guevara, 1591 edition).

Calmet (Augustine). Dictionnaire Historique, Critique, Chronologique, Geographique et Litteral de la Bible, enrichi de plus de trois cent Figures en taille-douce, qui representent les Antiquitez Judaiques, nouvelle edition revue, corrigee, et augmentee, 4 volumes, Paris, Emery, Saugrain & Pierre Martin, 1730, half-title, title to each volume printed in red and black, with copper engraved vignette, 185 copper engraved plates, including 5 double-page maps (the Ancient World, Holy Land, Journey of the Israelites in the Desert, and Eastern Mediterranean, all by P. Starck-Man), double-page engraved plan of Canaan by De Berey, double-page plan of Malta, and double-page views of Antioch, Mount Ararat, Mount Carmel, plans of Jerusalem, Tiberiad, Mount Tabor, costume plates, including views of the Jewish Synagogue, engraved head-pieces, generally in clean condition, edges tinted in red, marbled endpapers, contemporary uniform mottled full calf, gilt decorated spines, first volume with loss at head, third volume with a little loss at foot, thick folio (Qty: 4)NOTESBrunet I, 1495.

Eliot (George, i.e. Marian Evans). Daniel Deronda , 4 volumes, 1st edition, Blackwood and Sons, 1876, 1st issue without Contents leaves, half-titles present, without advertisement leaf in volume 4, spotting mainly to first & last few leaves and fore-edges, volume 4 with 4cm closed tear in T3, marbled endpapers, first volume with front hinge cracked and free endpaper nearly detached, all rear hinges cracked, near contemporary blue quarter morocco, rubbed with some marks, 8vo, together with The Spanish Gypsy, A Poem, 1st edition, Blackwood and Sons, 1868, half-title, 8 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear (toned), stitching broken in one gathering, bookplate of John M. Cameron, original blue cloth gilt, some wear to extremities, spine darkened, 8vo, with five others by or relating to George Eliot, including some American 1st editions, various conditions (Qty: 13)NOTESFirst item: Sadleir 813.

Swift (Jonathan). Works... accurately revised in six volumes... with some account of the author's life, and explanatory notes historical and explanatory, by John Hawkesworth, 6 volumes, 1755, main titles printed in red and black, 26 engraved plates, four engraved plates of music, occasional light toning and soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spines relaid, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 6)NOTESProvenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth. Teerink 87. The first Hawkesworth edition, complete in six volumes but later expanded to 14 by 1779.

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus). Opera quae exstant omnia: a Justo Lipsio emendata et scholiis illustrata. Editio quarta, atque ab ultima Lipsi manu, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1652, bound with: Tacitus (Cornelius), Opera quae exstant, Justo Lipsio postremum recensita, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1648, 2 works in 1 volume, mild toning, intermittent light spotting and dust-soiling, Seneca with half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece of Lipsius, architectonic title-page with medallion portraits and 2 full-page engravings (bust of Seneca and the dying Seneca in his bath), all after Peter Paul Rubens by Cornelis Galle the Younger, vignette at p. xxiv, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, initial blank loose, marginal repair to C6, minor printing flaw to 3Q5, small spill-burn in 3Y6, Tacitus with title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, final blank (3H8) present), browning towards rear, marginal worming to final 3 quires (3F-3H), contemporary vellum, spine defective, a few small perforations through front board and text up to quire [superscript 2]C, folio in 6s (37.8 x 24 cm), together with: Tacitus (Cornelius), Opera quae exstant, a Justo Lipsio postremum recensita, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1648, title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, final blank (3H8) present, toning, bookplate of Michael Jaffé, contemporary mottled calf gilt, worn, folio in 6s (39.4 x 24.8 cm) (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (bookplate). Judson & Van de Velde, Book Illustrations and Titlepages (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard), 30-32 for the three engraved plates by Rubens. Lipsius's edition of Seneca was first printed in 1605, with the plates redesigned for the second edition of 1615.

New Testament [English]. The Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the Traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes.... Whereunto is added the Translation out of the Original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England... The Whole Worke, perused and enlarged in divers places by the Authors owne hand before his death..., by W. Fulke D. in Divinitie, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1601, decorative architectural woodcut border to title, few decorative woodcut initials, occasional light dampstaining mostly to blank margins, bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker and Assignes of John Bill, 1638, title torn with loss, detached and frayed to margins, few other leaves detached and frayed to margins, some dampstains, bound with at rear The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternehold, John Hopkins and others..., London: Printed by E. Griffin and I. Raworth, 1638, some dampstains and light dust-soiling, contemporary calf, boards detached and leather torn, lacking spine and clasps, worn, folio (leaf size 32.7 x 21.5cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESHerbert 265; Darlow & Moule 202. The second edition of Fulke's work, first published in 1589. The arrangement of the matter is exactly the same as in the first edition. The title-border: at the top is a lamb bound on an alter, with the legend Possidete animas vestras , and the initials NH and CT; at the bottom is a cup, where springs a vine, which twines round the columns on either side; this design is dated 1574.

Pope (Alexander). Works, 4 volumes 1717-1741, half titles, folding engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, volumes I-III titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved vignettes and head- and tail-pieces, wormtrack front and rear of volume IV, just affecting one letter of half title, small marginal repair to first part title, occasional minor soiling, contemporary presentation inscription at front of volume I, volume I-III hinges reinforced, contemporary speckled calf gilt, volumes I-III rebacked with original spines relaid, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 4)NOTESProvenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth. The set comprises the first quarto editions of Works, 1717 and 1735, the first authorised edition of Letters (large paper folio issue cut down to quarto to conform with the set) and its sequel Works... in Prose, volume II, 1741 (small folio issue)

Titi (Filippo). Descrizione delle Pitture, Sculture e Architetture esposte al pubblico in Roma, Rome, Marco Pagliarini, 1763, title with woodcut device, occasional light toning, bookplate of William Murray of Touchadam, contemporary vellum, upper cover and head of spine partially repaired, a little soiled, 8vo, together with Cittadella (Cesare). Catalogo Istorico de Pittori e Scultori Ferraresi ed delle opere loro con in fine uno nota esatta delle piu celebri Pitture delle Chiese di Ferrara, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, Ferrara, Francesco Pomatelli, 1782, engraved titles by Luigi Ughi, 12 engraved portraits, occasional light water stains, previous owner inscription, dated 1860 at foot of first title, contemporary half morocco, spine rubbed with tears at end, some edge wear, 8vo, plus Panni (Anton-Maria). Distinto Rapporto delle Dipinture, che trovansi nelle chiese della citta, e Sobborghi di Cremona, 1st edition, Cremona 1762, woodcut initials, previous owner inscription, 1788 erased at foot of title, original wrappers, manuscript label to spine, a few chips and losses to spine, 8vo, with two others: Adamo Chiusole's Itinerario delle Pitture, Sculture, ed Architetture piu' rare di molte citta d'Italia, Venice, 1782 (interleaved with notes) and Notice des Statues Bustes et Bas-Reliefs de la Galerie des Antiques du Musee, ouverte pour la premiere fois, le 18 Brumaire an 9/Notice des Tableaux exposes dans du Musee, 2 volumes, Paris, 1814 (Qty: 6)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Cicognara 3891 and 2240 for the first and second works. Filippo Titi's guide to the churches and monuments as well as paintings of Rome was first published in 1674 as Studio di pittura, scoltura et architettura, nelle Chiese di Roma , and is the first guide to Rome to focus exclusively on works of art.

Smedley (Jonathan). Poems on Several Occasions, 1st edition, 2nd issue, [no publisher], 1723, woodcut title-device and head- and tailpieces, dedication leaf discarded, variable spotting and browning, minor paper disruption to title-page, author's name added in a contemporary hand, ink-stamp ('Alexander Gardyne, 1883') verso, short closed tear in H4 just touching one letter verso, 19th-century half morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, rubbed, 8vo (20 x 12 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESESTC T53831; Foxon S496. ESTC traces two copies world-wide (British Library and Oxford); the first issue (1721) is of comparable scarcity. Foxon describes this issue as containing 'substantial additions at end'. The copy he inspected contained no preliminaries other than the cancel title-page, though a dedication leaf is noted by ESTC. Smedley (1670/1-1729) was a Church of Ireland clergyman and a noted antagonist of Jonathan Swift.

Wordsworth (William & Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and other Poems, 2 volumes, volume I 3rd edition; volume II 2nd edition, printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees by Riggs and Cottle, 1802, volume I half title bound after preface, repaired marginal tears to pp. 51-53 and first notes leaf at end of volume I, a little minor toning, contemporary calf gilt, spines a little rubbed and faded, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth. The third edition with the famous Preface, regarded as the unofficial manifesto of the Romantic movement, expanded from 40 pp. (first appearing in the second edition) to 64 pp.In this edition two poems, Coleridge's 'The Dungeon' and Wordsworth's 'A Character' were omitted, several poems moved within the volumes and numerous minor alterations made throughout.

New Testament [Greek]. Novum Jesu Christ D.N . Testamentum. Ex Bibliotheca Regia, 2 parts in one, 3rd edition, Paris: Roberti Stephani , 1550, [32], 272 (really 268), 202, [2]pp., printer's woodcut device to title (short closed tear to lower blank margin and vertical crease) and device to verso of final leaf, numerous woodcut initials and decorative section dividers, d5 & n7 with early annotation & ink show through, 2 small ink burn holes to I3, q3 & B8 torn with slight loss, closed tears to A2 and lower blank margin of B2, few scattered small worm holes, some general toning, occasional faint ink spots and some spotting mostly to margins, armorial bookplate of John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale, Earl of Gifford, Viscount Walden, Lord Hay of Yester (1645-1713) to upper pastedown, early 18th century mottled calf, gilt decorated spine and double-rule border to boards, joints cracked mostly at head & foot, rubbed and some wear to extremities, folio (leaf size 32 x 20cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams B1661; Darlow & Moule 4622. The collation of this volume agrees with Darlow & Moule, *8, **8, a-q8, r6, A-M8, N6. Provenance: John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale (1645-1713), was created Lord Treasurer in 1695, and appointed Lord High Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament in 1704. He was Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1704–1705. Robert Estienne (Robertus Stephanus in Latin) published four Greek New Testaments in the sixteenth century (1546, 1549, 1550, and 1551). The first three editions of his Novum Testamentum were published in Paris, the fourth in Geneva. His third edition of 1550 was affectionately known as Editio Regia, because of the magnificent Greek font and large folio size of the codex. Not only the most handsome, the 1550 Stephanus is also the most important of his texts. This was the first published Greek New Testament to have a textual apparatus. Stephanus examined 15 manuscripts and listed several of their readings in the margins of his Editio Regia. Stephanus’s fourth edition was the first to have verse divisions in it, a feature that Stephanus invented to help the reader more easily compare the two Latin translations and the Greek that are found in the fourth edition. Though the text of the third and fourth editions was virtually identical, the fourth became the basis for the Geneva Bible, the first Bible translation to have verse divisions. The 1550 Stephanus also became the standard text to be used as a collating base for countless collations of Greek New Testament manuscripts.

Eliot (George, i.e . Marian Evans). [A complete first edition set of the major works], 10 works in 27 volumes, Blackwood and Sons, 1858-1885, all half-titles present as called for, George Eliot's Life with all plates present as called for, all publisher's advertisements discarded, some toning, Silas Marner with a few light spots, first volume of Romola with contemporary pale ink ownership inscription to head of title, first volume of George Eliot's Life with second half of textblock slightly cockled, marbled endpapers, most hinges cracked, top edges gilt, uniform early 20th century tan calf, by Zaehnsdorf, signed on front turn-ins, spines with gilt lettered labels and elaborate gilt-tooled foliage design, gilt-decorated edges and turn-ins, some rubbing (mainly to extremities), all spines darkened (a few with slight wear at head and some surface cracking), third volume of Adam Bede with spine nearly detached, Spanish Gypsy rebacked with original spine relaid (some small losses), several joints cracked, three corners bumped, two covers detached (front cover of Scenes, and rear cover of Middlemarch volume 3), both covers to first volume of Romola with circular stain, 8vo (Qty: 27)NOTESTitles comprise: Scenes of Clerical Life, 2 volumes, 1858; Adam Bede, 3 volumes, 1859; The Mill on the Floss, 3 volumes, 1860; Silas Marner, 1 volume, 1861; Romola, 3 volumes, 1863; Felix Holt, The Radical, 3 volumes, 1866; The Spanish Gypsy, 1 volume, 1868; Middlemarch, 4 volumes, 1871-2; Daniel Deronda, 4 volumes, 1876; George Eliot's Life, by J. W. Cross, 3 volumes, 1885.

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised: by his Majesties speciall Commandement, Printed at London by Robert Barker, and the Assignes of John Bill, 1636, general and New Testament titles within decorative woodcut borders (NT title and colophon dated 1612), large woodcut royal armorial to verso of general title (with brown stain), Apocrypha present, occasional underscoring and annotations, some dust-soiling and few marks, edges close trimmed with cropping to marginal notes, bookplate of Alfred Bywaters to front free endpaper dated 1847 and his signature to verso of front free endpaper, hinges split, all edges gilt, 19th century calf, joints cracked, worn to extremities, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESOld Testament - Herbert 504; Darlow & Moule 392. General title:... the Old / Testament... with large woodcut to verso. Ornament before Mark with man's head. New Testament - Herbert 315 or 316; Darlow & Moule 243 or 244. With Rev. xxii 15 scorners for sorcerers. The first octavo edition of King James' version; printed in roman type.

Cesio (Carlo). Galeria nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma del Sereniss. Duca di Parma etc dipinta da Annibale Caracci, intagliata da Carlo Cesio, 1st edition, [Rome]: Francesco Collignon, [1657], etched title-page, dedication leaf, and 40 plates on 31 sheets by Cesio after Carracci, plates numbered 1-30 but numbers 22-5 each with bis plate, plates 24-7 (including bis plates) each containing 2 separate engravings, and plate 30 bisected and mounted on 2 sheets, most plates double-page and mounted on guards, extra-illustrated with 8 further etched plates bound in at rear, all but 1 signed F. L. D. Ciartres (i.e. François L'Anglois), browning and staining throughout, a few repairs and closed tears, plates 3-7 bound in reverse order, several plates longitudinally re-conjoined at an early date, contemporary pencil or sanguine studies to versos of a few plates, Italian gift inscription dated 1692 to front free endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, folio (41.5 x 29 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Bartsch XXI, 108, 21-64; Cicognara 3375; cf. Berlin Katalog 4088 (with Venanzio Mondalini imprint and different collation). First edition of Cesio's fine series of etchings after Annibale Carracci's ceiling decorations in the Farnese Gallery in Rome (painted 1597-1601). Bound in at the front of this copy is the associated introductory booklet Argomento della Galeria Farnese dipinta da Annibale Carracci disegnata ed intagliata da Carlo Cesio , which contains a Platonic description of the ceiling by Giovanni Pietro Bellori. This has the imprint 'In Roma per Vitale Mascardi. MDCLVII', but the two works are habitually encountered together, and often catalogued under the title of the booklet.

Fazello (Tommaso). Le Due Deche, Dell'Historia di Sicilia ... Tradotte dal Latino in linguae Toscana dal P. M. Remigio, Venice: Domenico and Giovanni Battista Guerra, 1574, woodcut title-device, headpieces and initials, 2 pages of Kufic Arabic inscriptions (pp. 236-7), variable bleeding to ink affecting headlines and outer sections of text, remaining generally legible, small worm-track to gutter of quires 3F-3I, 18th-century tree calf gilt, joints superficially cracked but firm, 4to (22.1 x 15.6 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (1730-1800; bookplate). 2) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. STC Italian p. 245; not in Adams. First edition in Italian, second issue (a year after the first), of the first printed history of Sicily, which originally appeared in Latin in 1558 as De rebus Siculis decades duae (see Adams A203).

Cicero (Marcus Tullius). M.T. Ciceronis Opera . Ex Petri Victorii codicibus maxima ex parte descripta..., 5 volumes, Paris: Robert Estienne, 1539 -[38], woodcut illustration to titles, few decorative criblé initials, general title with early ink inscriptions, volume 1 title with small wormtrail to illustration (slightly affecting following leaves), volume 3 title with early ink inscriptions, each front pastedown with hand-coloured armorial adhered to upper corner, early ink marginalia (slightly trimmed) and underlining, variable generally pale dampstaining (mainly affecting margins), volumes 2 and 3 each with a preliminary blank with neat ink manuscript inscriptions date 1893, volume 3 Gi with Latin note in early ink manuscript on a paper slip tipped-in to gutter margin, volume 4 lacking 2 leaves (Mmii & Mmvii - single-sided photocopies loosely inserted), 20th century cloth, gilt lettering to spines, lightly rubbed in places with a few scratches, folio in 8s (Qty: 5)NOTESRenouard 48:8. First Estienne edition.

Eck (Johann). Quinta Pars Operum Johannis Eckii contra Lutherum et alios Declamatoria, 3 volumes in one, Augsburg, Alexander Vueyssenhorn, 1533, two titles in red and black within woodcut border to first and third parts, text in double column, 60 woodcut illustrations, title at front with early ink initials below the date of HN, dated 1567, and additional ownership inscription to blank margin at foot 'Loci Capuccinorum Bambergae 1638', contemporary or near contemporary brown ink marginal annotations throughout, stain to verso and recto of s3 and s4 in second part, E4 in third part with short closed tear to top margin without loss, bookplate of Reverend Joseph W. Reeks to front pastedown, and bookplate of St. John's Seminary, Wonersh to front endpaper, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, some wear to edges and overall discolouration, remains of brass clasps to boards, later manuscript paper tile label to spine 'Joannus Eckii Hom. de Temp. et de Sanct. MDXXXIII', thick folio (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams E23. Only the first, second and fifth volumes of Eck's works were published from a projected five-volume edition. This volume contains all the author's sermons, being thus complete in itself.

Caxton (William, printer). [Higden, Ranulphus, Polycronicon], single leaf from Liber Tercius, [Westminster, William Caxton, between 2 July and 20 November, 1482], folio CXX, signature 16/1, 40 lines and headline, one 2-line initials supplied in red, red paraphs and marginal note added in Caxton's printing shop, generally in very good condition, folio (269 x 194 mm) (Qty: 1)NOTESSTC 13438; Pforzheimer 489; Goff H267; Hain-Copinger 8659. The text includes the account of the rape of Lucretia by Lucius Tarquinus from Eutropius. Attractive example from the first edition of Higden's Polycronicon in English, printed by Caxton.

Barbarano de' Mironi (Francesco). Historia Ecclesiastica della Città, Territorio, e Diocese di Vicenza, 3 volumes in 1, 1st edition, Vicenza: Cristoforo Rosio, 1649-53, signatures pi4 *-2*4 *2 A-2O4, +4 A-2Q4, +-2+4 A-2S4, engraved folding general title-page, 3 similar volume titles each with view of Vicenza (counted in register), engraved arms to dedication leaf of each volume, folding plate depicting local saints to volume 1 (paginated as pp. 17-18 but not counted in register), woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, occasional light browning and light marginal damp-staining, general and volume 1 title-pages closely trimmed along bottom edges shaving imprint, old repairs to verso of folding plate, volume 3 title-page slightly frayed and softened along outer edges, later Italian ownership inscription to front pastedown, and ink diagram to rear free endpaper, 18th-century vellum, 4to (20.4 x 14.9 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Francesco Barabarano de' Mironi (1596-1656) was born of noble lineage in Vicenza (then part of the Venetian Republic), and studied law at Padua. He joined the Capuchin religious order, and published a number of sermons and religious works. His Historia di Vicenza was published in three volumes between 1649 and 1653; a further three volumes left in manuscript were published posthumously over a century later, in 1760-62. The first volume deals with the saints of Vicenza, the second with the beatified, and the third with 'persone cospicue per bonta di vita' (people who have led a good life). Uncommon: only one other set of these three volumes traced in auction records; the BL holds a copy of volume one only.

Berkeley (George). Works... To which is added an account of his life and several of his letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais and Mr Pope, 2 volumes, 1st London edition, G. Robinson, and John Exshaw, Dublin.1784, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, engraved plate, folding engraved plan, woodcut illustrations, some offsetting and occasional light spotting and small marginal water stains, contemporary tree calf, spines with red and black labels, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth. Keynes 143. The first London edition, issued in the same year as the Dublin first edition with cancel title adding Robinson to the imprint. Considered the philosopher supreme of the Romantics, Berkeley advanced his theory of immaterialism and critique of abstraction, and the city of Berkeley in California is named after him.

Leonardus de Utino . Sermones aurei de sanctis, Venice: Franz Renner of Heilbronn with Nicolaus of Frankfurt, 1473, 313 leaves (of 314: lacking blank), 42 lines, double column, gothic types, hand-painted initials in red and blue, rubricated paragraph marks, later manuscript foliation starting on folio 2, folio 1 (index leaf) re-guarded and repaired, contemporary annotations recto, marginal worming to initial and final 30 or so folios, small worm-tracks in text of initial and final 10 folios, occasional spotting and other marks, stronger to initial few folios, intermittent damp-staining (mainly restricted to margins), effaced ink-stamp to margin of folio 156, initials in final 10 folios and a few others smudged, 19th-century blind-tooled calf, rubbed, 4to (22 x 15 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESGoff L-152; GW M17908; Hain 16129; ISTC il00143000. The edition printed by Ulrich Zel at Cologne the same year is often cited as the first edition, but the priority is in fact unresolved. Leonardus de Utino (c.1400-1470) was an influential Dominican preacher and theologian who became provincial of Lombardy. This edition of his 'Golden Sermons' is noted for containing two Marian poems printed in the Italian vernacular, 'Trenta foglie ha la rosa' (folio 204b) and 'Ave di cieli imperatrice santa' (207a).

Milizia (Francesco). Principi di Architettura Civile, 3 volumes, 3rd edition, Bassano, 1813, 35 engraved plates, most folding, a little light marginal toning and damp stains, bookplates, contemporary vellum, some soiling, 8vo (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Handsome copy of the third edition of this influential treatise by Francesco Milizia (1725-1798), with the engraved plates by Cipriani. Originally published in 1781 with only 8 plates, a further 27 were first issued by Giovanni Battista Cipriani in 1800, and incorporated in subsequent editions.

Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poet, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected, [London]: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1611, [4], 363, [1], [2 blank], [10], 56, [2 blank], [136], [14],16pp., decorative woodcut border to general title (cancel), woodcut head & tailpieces and part dividers etc., some part titles, erratic pagination, final leaf of Faerie Queen dated 1612, six leaves excised to upper outer corners or at head with loss and repaired, some toning and occasional dampstains, few worm and small rust holes, 19th century calf, rebacked, small folio (leaf size 25.2 x 16.5cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESSTC 23084; Pforzheimer 973. The first collected edition with minor variations, probably published in 1612 or just after.

Howell (James). Dendrologia [graece]. Dodona's Grove, or, the Vocall Forrest, 1st edition, by T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley, 1640, engraved frontispiece, vignette to title-page, and 2 plates, all after Matthaeus Merian the Younger, short closed tear in title-page affecting frame only, variable damp-staining, more extensive in plates and quires B and C and slightly affecting title-page vignette, otherwise marginal, lacking rear free endpaper, contemporary blind-ruled calf, worn in plates, joints partially cracked but firm, folio (29.3 x 19.2 cm), together with: Fuller (Thomas, & others), Abel Redevivus: or, The Dead yet Speaking. The Lives and Death of the Moderne Divines, 1st edition, 1st issue, by Thomas Brudenell for John Stafford, 1651, engraved additional title-page dated 1651, letterpress title-page in red and black, engraved portrait plate (Lancelot Andrewes), numerous engraved portraits throughout the text, toning, a few marks and damp-stains, 2S3 and 4S2 restored (including text in the former), 2 engraved portraits of Thomas Fuller laid-in (one contemporary, mounted on card, the other possibly a later copy on old paper), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, wear to extremities, 4to (18.8 x 13.4 cm), Grotius (Hugo), The Truth of Christian in Latin ... Now translated into Englsih ... by Symon Patrick, 3rd edition ('corrected'), for Luke Meredith, 1689, engraved frontispiece, later ownership ink-stamp to initial blank, contemporary sheep, 8vo (17.5 x 10.7 cm), Burnet (Gilbert), The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale, sometime Lord Chief Justice of his Majesties Court of Kings Bench, 2nd edition, for William Shrowsbery, 1682, engraved frontispiece, bookplate of Lord Lilford, contemporary panelled calf, rear board detached, 8vo (17.3 x 10.8 cm), and 1 other (Qty: 5)NOTESPforzheimer 512, STC 13872, Grolier Wither to Prior 407 (Howell); ESTC R177335, R13942, R215370 and Wing F2400, G2130, B5828 (Fuller, Grotius, Burnet). First issue of Fuller's work, with the engraved title-page dated 1651. ESTC calls for one plate only, which is accounted for by the plate of Lancelot Andrewes: no portrait of Fuller appears to be called for. According to ESTC the engraved title should read 'A bel Redevivus or The dead yet speaking By T. Fuller and other eminent divines', but other examples we have seen leave the authors unnamed. In both Grotius's and Burnet's works the frontispiece accounts for signature A1.

[Pascal, Blaise]. Les Provinciales. Ou les lettres escrites par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis, et aux RR. PP. Jesuites: sur le sujet de la morale, et de la politique de ces pères, Cologne: Pierre de la Vallée [i.e. Amsterdam: Louis and Daniel Elzevir], 1657, toning, light damp-staining to lower outer corners in first half of the volume, a few other marginal marks, contemporary ownership inscription 'G van Vrianen' to initial blank, repeated on title and scored through, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title (place and date added to foot by a later hand), 12mo (13 x 7 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESWillems 1218; cf. PMM 140. First Elzevir edition, and the second overall, of 'the first example of French prose as we know it today ... [and] an expression of one of the finest intelligences of the seventeenth century' (PMM). The eighteen letters were originally printed in Paris between 1656 and 1657, with the same fictive imprint as seen here. For textual reasons Willems prefers the second Elzevir edition, which has the same date, but concedes that 'bibliophiles attach a much higher price to the first, which indeed is better executed' ('les bibliophiles attachent beaucoup plus de prix à la première, qui en effet est mieux exéctutée').

Della Rovere (Francesco Maria I). Discorsi Militari dell'Eccellentiss. Sig. Francesco Maria I. dalla Rovere Duca d'Urbino. ne i quali si discorrono molti avantaggi, & disvantaggi, della guerra, utilissimi ad ogni soldato, 1st edition, Ferrara, Dominico Mammarelli, 1583, [4], 32 numbered leaves, title with printer's woodcut device, text in italic letter, a few woodcut initials and end-pieces, one or two woodcut illustrations, early ink signature of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun to head of title, marbled endpapers, 17th century calf gilt, minor wear to joints and outer corners, small 8vo (14.5 x 9.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716), Scottish bibliophile, writer and poltician, and friend of the philosopher John Locke. Fletcher assembled a library of over 6000 books across a wide range of subjects. A keen traveller, he spent half of his life abroad, often visiting bookshops in search of works of interest. The greater part of the library was sold in the 1960s. See P. J. M. Willems, Bibliotheca Fletcheriana, the extraordinary library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Reconstructed and Systematically Arranged (1999). 2) Provenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. The Discorsi Militari is a collection of the military opinions, stories and recollections of Francesco Maria I Della Rovere (1490-1538), Duke of Urbino, the great Captain of the Venetian Republic, who had died in suspicious circumstances in Pesaro. Nephew of Pope Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere), Francesco was appointed capitano generale of the Papal States in 1509, and fought in the Italian Wars against Ferrara and Venice. Following the death of Julius II in 1513 and the election of the new Medici pope Leo X, Francesco was excommunicated and expelled from Urbino, but reinstated after that Pope's death in 1521. He was appointed captain general of the Venetian army during the first Hapsburg-Valois War (1521-26) when the republic fought on the side of the French. He remained in the service of the Venetian Republic after the Sack of Rome in 1527.

Desaguliers (John Theophilus). A System of Experimental Philosophy, Prov'd by Mechanicks. Wherein the Principles and Laws of Physicks, Mechanicks, Hydrostaticks, and Opticks, are Demonstrated and Explained at Large, by a Great Number of Curious Experiments: with a full Description of the Air-Pump, and the several Experiments thereon: as also of the Different Species of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hydrometers; as shewn in the Publick Lectures in a Course of Mechanical and Experimental Philosophy, to which is added, Sir Isaac Newton's Colours: the Description of the Condensing Engine, with its Apparatus: and Roley's Horary; a Machine Representing the Motion of the Moon about the Earth; Venus and Mercury about the Sun, According to the Copernican System, printed for B. Creake and J. Sackfield, 1719, [14], 201, [5]pp., 10 partly-folding engraved plates, a few diagrams to text, publisher's advert leaf before title with advert for Boerhaave's Method of Studying Physick to verso, 3 pp. adverts at rear, title rehinged and lacking conjugate leaves A2-4 (Preface, 4pp; Errata, 2pp.), contemporary ink ownership signature of 'Geo. Martin, 1734' to title and later signatures of C.D. Nevinson (to front endpapers) and W. Strachey (half-title recto), engraved armorial bookplate of John Stokes MA, MD, early ink errata corrections, some occasional light browning, soiling and old marginal damp staining, contemporary blind-panelled calf, rubbed, joints split, some wear to extremities, old neat repair to lower outer corner of upper board, upper cover detached, 4to (19.5 x 16.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Dr George Martine or Martin (1702-1741) of St Andrews, author of Essays and Observations on the Construction and Graduation of Thermometers, and on the Heating and Cooling of Bodies (later published in volume one in 1780) and an advocate of the mercury thermometer. He also published An Examination of the Newtonian Argument for the Emptiness of Space, and of the Resistance of Subtile Fluid (1740). 2) Charles Dalston Nevinson, MD (1773-1846). ESTC T135774 (with signature 'b' under the gap after 'PAUL'); Wellcome II, p. 451. This is an unauthorised edition, edited by Paul Dawson, and without 'All Carefully Examined and Corrected by Mr Desaguliers' on the title-page. When Desaguliers became aware of the book he approached the booksellers but found that two-thirds of the imprint had already been sold. They promised to insert into all remaining copies a preface that Desaguliers would write, together with a substantial errata. This copy appears to have all the errata corrected in the text. Primarily of interest as a textbook on Newtonian physics, the first issue appeared with the title A System of Experimental Philosophy .

Wordsworth (William). Poems, in Two Volumes, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1807, half titles, errata leaf at end of volume I, usual cancels D11-12 in volume I and B2 in volume II), bound without publisher's list at end of volume II, occasional minor spotting, Priaulx Library Guernsey ink stamps to half titles and contemporary ownership signatures of Mary Liell, later blue half calf gilt, spines a little faded to green, 12mo (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth. Wise 8. Of the minor variants, there is no full stop after 'Sonnets', p. 103 volume I (second state) and 'fnuction' uncorrected, p. 98, line 15 in volume II (first state). Much of Wordsworth's most memorable verse is first printed here including 'She was a Phantom of Delight', 'The World is too much with us' and 'I wandered lonely as a Cloud'.

Giovio (Paolo). Lettere Volgari, raccolte per messer Lodovico Domenichi. Et nuovamente stampate con la tavola, 1st edition thus, Venice: Giovanni Battista and Melchior Sessa, 1560, toning, occasional finger-soiling and marginalia, contemporary limp vellum, slightly shaken, ties perished, 8vo (15.1 x 10 cm), together with: Tolomei (Claudio), Delle lettere libri VII. Con nuova aggiunta ristampati, e con somma diligenza da molti errori corretti, Venice: Altobello Salicato, 1572, woodcut map of the Monte Argentario peninsula in Tuscany to folio 190 verso, title-page and final quire browned, a few stains elsewhere, lacking final blank (P8), 18th-century vellum, 8vo (14.6 x 9.6 cm), Garimberto (Girolamo), Concetti ... raccolti dal lui per scriver e ragionar famigliarmente. Di nuovo con somma diligenza corretti, e ristampati, Venice: Nicolo Bevil'acqua, 1564, A-S12 T10 (T10 blank but for publisher's woodcut device verso), occasional damp-staining, 18th-century book-label (John Rutherfurd of Edgerston), front inner hinge split but holding, contemporary limp vellum, later manuscript spine-title, ties perished, 12mo (14 x 8 cm), Tasso (Bernardo), Li tre libri delle lettere. Alli quali nuovamente s'è aggiunto il quarto libro, Venice: P. Gironimo Giglio, 1559, a-ii8 kk2, light spotting and damp-staining, contemporary limp vellum, 8vo (14.2 x 9 cm), and 4 others (incomplete 16th-century editions of the letters of Tasso and Sansovino, vellum bindings, 8vo) (Qty: 8)NOTESProfessor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Adams G697 (Giovio), T789 (Tolomei). Garimberto's Concetti were first printed in 1551; this edition is not in Adams and OCLC traces two copies world-wide.

Alberti (Leandro). Descrittione di tutta Italia ... Aggiuntavi nuovamente la descrittione di tutte l'isole pertinentia ad essa Italia, 2 parts in 1 volume, Venice: Ludovico degli Avanzi, 1561, woodcut title devices, complete with blank 3R8, occasional browning, a few other marks, early Jesuit ownership inscription to title-page, 20th-century half vellum, wear to head of spine and to front board, 4to in 8s (20.5 x 14.4 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESSTC Italian p. 14; this edition not in Adams (cf. A474 for Avanzi's 1567 edition). Alberti's Descrittione was first printed at Bologna in 1550. This Venetian edition is the first with the added section on the Italian islands.

[Surtees, Robert Smith]. "Ask Mamma", or the Richest Commoner in England, 13 monthly parts, 1st edition, Bradbury and Evans, 1857-8, 13 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech (heightened in gum arabic), all advertisements and slips as called for, plate in part 4 offset, original printed wrappers, part 1 spine worn, front wrapper slightly chipped, minor wear to spine-ends of a few other parts, together with: Mr Facey Romford's Hounds, 12 monthly parts, 1st edition, Bradbury and Evans, 1864-5, 24 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech or Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz'), without advertisements 'Note of Lever's Martin ...' in part 6, 'Just Published ... The Belle of the Village' in part 7, and 'Liverpool London & Globe Insurance Co.' in part 11, but with Chapman and Hall advertisement slips not listed in Tooley in parts 3, 9 and 12, original printed wrappers, spine of part 1 (first issue copy: see note) slightly chipped, minute chipping to spine-ends of a few other parts, part 7 wrappers slightly dented, each work housed in a custom red quarter morocco drop-back box with matching chemise, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESTooley 472 & 475. Part one of "Ask Mamma" is a first issue, with the title on the front wrapper in outline rather solid letters. The set of Mr Romford's Hounds contains two copies of the first part: one of the first issue, with the title 'Mr Romford's Hounds' on the front wrapper, and one of the third issue, with the title 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' in solid letters.

Merello (Michele). Della Guerra Fatta da' Francesi, e de'Tumulti suscitati poi da Sampiero dalla Bastelica nella Corsica, libri otto, 1st edition, Genoa: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1607, title within architectural woodcut border, with vignette view of the port of Genoa, occasional water stains and light spotting, bookplates front and rear including Marchionis Salsae, hinges breaking, contemporary vellum, loss at head of spine from insect damage, some edge wear and stains, small 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. First edition of this account of the Italian War, 1551-1559 when Henri II of France declared war against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, during which a combined Franco-Ottoman force captured Corsica in 1553. Sampiero da Bastelica, a Corsican mercenary organized the revolt against Genoese rule and events in his later life led to the legend of Shakespeare partially basing Othello on him.

Gould (Robert Freke). The History of Freemasonry, its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, etc.... , 3 volumes, Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, no date, circa 1890, engraved portrait plates, some scattered heavy offsetting, all edges gilt, Lodge of Harmony bookplates (no. 63-65), all edges gilt, contemporary richly gilt-decorated red morocco, small numeric stickers to spines, together with Waite (Arthur Edward) , The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry..., 2 volumes, first edition, Rebman Ltd., 1911, 28 plates, some illustrations to text, Opinions of the Press bound before title in volume 1, some occasionally heavy spotting, top edges gilt, remainder uncut, original cream cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, spine darkened and a little frayed at head and foot, plus Tudor-Craig (Major Sir Algernon) , Catalogue of Contents of the Museum at Freemasons' Hall in the Possession of the United Grand Lodge of England, 3 volumes [including Portraits & Prints / Library Catalogue], 1938, colour and black & white plates, top edges gilt, original buckram gilt, slightly rubbed, all 4to, plus other related large-format freemasonry interest (Qty: 15)NOTESProvenance: Lodge of Harmony (no. 309, Fareham) Masonic Library.

Godwin (William). Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, 2 volumes, 2nd edition corrected, 1796, half titles, some spotting and light soiling, small marginal water stain to first few leaves of volume II, later sheep-backed buckram boards, spines a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth. PMM 243. The second edition of Godwin's best-known work, in which some of the more rationalist and utopian ideas in the first edition were modified. "It was one of the earliest, the clearest, and most absolute theoretical expositions of socialist and anarchist doctrine. Godwin believed that the motives of all human action were subject to reason, that reason taught benevolence, and that therefore all rational creatures could live in harmony without laws and institutions." (PMM).