Bernard Lee signed 4x3 album page. John Bernard Lee (10 January 1908 - 16 January 1981), known as Bernard Lee, was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven Eon-produced James Bond films. Lee's film career spanned the years 1934 to 1979, though he had appeared on stage from the age of six. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Lee appeared in over one hundred films, as well as on stage and in television dramatizations. He was known for his roles as authority figures, often playing military characters or policemen in films such as The Third Man, The Blue Lamp, The Battle of the River Plate, and Whistle Down the Wind. He died of stomach cancer in 1981, aged 73. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
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A pair of Chinese famille rose palette chargers decorated with hooded cranes and blossoming foliage, 38 cm diameter CONDITION REPORTS One piece with hairline crack from the rim towards the centre for 8 cm. Several areas of nibbling / chipping to the rim. Some firing faults / pock marks to the glaze and some wear to the gilding and enamelling conducive with age and use. Firing crack to the centre between the flower and the crane. Glazing fault to the rim. See images for detail.Second charger - similar condition to the first but with some scratch marks around the outer rim of the centre. Wear to the gilding and enamel and chipping to the rim. No signs of damage or repair under UV light to either. See images for further detail.
A pair of polychrome glazed faience pottery figures of ceremonial horses with ornate saddles, 18 cm long x 18 cm high CONDITION REPORTS First horse with some crazing and firing cracks to the glaze particularly. Glaze only part covering the lower edge and base - see images for further detail. Some wear/loss to the pommel of the saddle - again see images. Second horse again with some crazing throughout, loss to the glaze on the pommel of the saddle and to the right hand side foliate decoration. No sign of damage or repair under UV light
A box containing various tennis balls, squash balls, hockey balls, etc, together with a bag containing various sporting items including hockey sticks, cricket bat, tennis rackets, badminton racket etc,.two golf bags and contents of Hippo, Wilson and other irons, various woods, etc (30 total), a canvas golf bag and contents of seven PGCA golf irons and a Wilson wood together with a Fordham retriever (ball) and AFTER HENRY ALKEN "The First Steeple-Chase on Record", coloured engraving by J Harris, a set of four in black and gilt frames, size including frames 43 cm x 48 cm
One volume H NOEL HUMPHREYS "The Genrea of British Moths", published T J Orman, 463 Oxford Street London, tooled and gilded cloth board bound (circa 1860), together with one volume H NOEL HUMPHREYS "The Genrea and Species of British Butterflies", published T J Orman, 463 Oxford Street London, tooled and gilded cloth board bound CONDITION REPORTS "British Moths" - cover with some scuffing to the edges and corners and sun bleaching to the spine which is now a beigy colour. See images for details. Some scratching to the end gilding. Whilst the paper itself appears to be basically sound, there are some areas of discolouration and the glueing to the binding appears to have dried, leaving some of the plates and pages loose. See images for examples."British Butterflies" - the cover appears slightly faded and spine particularly so. Some areas of denting and loss to the corners. There is what appears to be a cut mark to the first inner page. Again plates and pages basically appear sound. Colour slightly browned but glueing to the binding dried and therefore some of the pages appearing loose and would be worse if opened fully.
JOHN ATKINSON (1863-1924) “Plough team and figures harvesting in a field”, watercolour heightened with white, signed lower right, together with a companion “Same scene from a different view”, watercolour heightened with white, signed lower left, 28 cm x 37 cm CONDITION REPORTS First image with horse and drover to the left hand side - overall condition good. Frame with some cracking and loss to the top finial. See image.Second painting with horse and drover to the right hand side - whilst overall condition again good, the paper appears to be either discoloured or more brown in colour in the first place but certainly different to image one. See images. Frame with cracking to the gesso but otherwise sound.
AFTER MICHAEL LYNE "Steeplechasing scene", colour print, signed in pencil, 63 cm x 93 cm, together with twenty various sporting and other prints AFTER JOY HARKEN, GEORGE WRIGHT, SNAFFLES, J POLLARD and others to include four mirrored framed and glazed reproductions of historic newspaper covers including "First Man on the Moon", "Kennedy Assassinated", "Nelson Mandela Free", "Titanic Sinks" and "Wall Street Crash"
A collection of various hunting prints including AFTER JOHN KING "The Ledbury", colour print, limited edition No'd. 110/250, signed lower right, AFTER MICHAEL LYNE "The Cotswold at Shipton Oliffe", colour print, AFTER GEORGE WRIGHT "Up a tree", colour print, a framed and glazed map of "Foxhound and Stag Hound Packs in the United Kingdom (British Field Sports Society edition)", AFTER JOHN KING "Newbury Racecourse Centenary 1905-2005", limited edition colour print No'd. 92/350, signed in pencil, AFTER PETER DONNITHORNE "The Wyck and District Beagles at West Kington 2009", limited edition colour print No'd. 28/105, signed in pencil lower left and nine others various, together with two botanical prints and various hunting / racing books including JOHN HISLOP & JOHN SKEEPING "Steeplechasing", first edition reprinted 1954, TERRY BIDDLECOMBE "Tales of Racing and Chasing", GRAHAM BRADLEY with STEVE TAYLOR "The Wayward Lad", etc
Two boxes of books on the subject of fishing including BRIG J L CAUNTER "Shark Angling in the UK", 1961, W M HALL "Fishing Personally", 1986, A EDWARDS HOBBS "Trout of The Thames", first edition, with dust jacket, J R HARTLEY "Fly fishing", 1991, LONSDALE LIBRARY "Trout fishing for all anglers", 1929, CHARLES RITZ "A fly fisher's life", 1959, J W JONES "The Salmon", 1959, etc, etc (34), together with HARDY'S "Fishing Map of England", one volume of Moore Allen & Innocent Auction Catalogue Tuesday 11th March 2008 "Single Owner Fishing Collection" with sale results
GEORGE STUBBS "Anatomy of the Horse", published J A Allen & Co. Ltd, 1965, R LYDEKER "Animal Portraiture", published Frederick Warne & Co., tooled and gilded cloth board bound, together with five various LIONEL EDWARDS titles including "Reminiscences of a Sporting Artist", "The Devon and Somerset Stag Hounds 1907-1936", cloth board bound with tooled and gilded spine, "Sketches in Stable and Kennel", reprint 1936, tooled cloth board bound, with dust jacket, "Beasts of the Chase", first edition, 1950, tooled cloth board bound, with dust jacket and PETER SCOTT "Morning Flight - A Book of Wildowl", 4th impression 1939, tooled and gilded cloth board bound, with dust jacket and "Wild Chorus", reprint 1948, tooled and gilded cloth board bound, with dust jacket, CECIL ALDIN "Exmoor - The Riding Playground of England", first edition 1935, tooled cloth board bound, GEOFFREY D S BENNETT "Famous Harness Horses", illustrated by W A Rouch, volume II, 1932, limited edition No'd. 10/600, tooled and gilded cloth board bound, JOHN BOARD "A Year with Horses", first edition, 1954, with inscription "To John Nestle Fellow Practitioner from John Board" November 1956, ERNEST THOMPSON SETON "Wild Animals I Have Known and 200 Drawings", published 1898, tooled cloth board bound and four further various volumes on the subject of horses
Philately. United States definitives and commemoratives, mint and used, including plate blocks, for Lyndon B Johnson 1973, Sanjuan and Emily Dickinson 1971, American Revolution by Centennial 1973, ExPo 1974 and Postal People 1973, Apollo Soyuz 1975, Birds and Their States, together with first day covers United States and United Nations, in two albums.
Philately. Two Stanley Gibbons stamp albums for Channel Islands and GB, various, two albums of first day covers, a Cenital stamp album, with GB, Ireland and Jersey stamps, three Stanley Gibbons albums, comprising first day covers mainly from 1970's and 1980's, first day covers and picture postcards, loose post war stamps, cover albums, etc. (8 albums and a quantity)
British Isles. Le Rouge (George Louis). Les Isles Britanniques ou les Royaumes d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande Divisees par Provinces, Paris, 1744, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring and some later enhancement, inset maps of the Channel Islands and the Shetland and Faroe islands, central fold repaired on verso, 500 x 640 mm, together with Smith (Charles). Smith's New Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland...., June 1806, corrected to 1811, engraved folding map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, toned overall, slight dust soiling and staining, slight wear where old folds cross, 1150 x 940 mmQTY: (2)NOTE:The first map described. R. W. Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1650 - 1750, Le Rouge 1, state 1 (only state recorded).
![British Isles. Ptolemy (Claudius). Prima Europe Tabula, Petrus de Turre, Rome [1490] engraved map on a trapezoidal projection](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e9dc0ac2-559f-4025-a874-ae7e01100a9c/16139c56-1140-4888-a9dd-ae7f00f6c0eb/468x382.jpg)
British Isles. Ptolemy (Claudius). Prima Europe Tabula, Petrus de Turre, Rome [1490] engraved map on a trapezoidal projection on two conjoined sheets, sparse wash colouring, later guard affixed to the central fold on the verso, slight dust soiling, 340 x 540 mm, no text on versoQTY: (1)NOTE:R. W. Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, number 6. Originally published in Rome in 1478 this is the second issue of number 2 and is one of the first obtainable maps of the British Isles.
Cellarius (Christoph). Notitia orbis antiqui sive Geographia plenior ... et novis tabulis geographicis, singulari cura & studio delineatis, illustravit. Adjectus est index copiosissimus locorum & aliarum rerum geographicarum, volume 1 (of 2), Cambridge: Joannis Oweni, 1703, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red & black with engraved illustration, 20 double-page maps and plans, short worm trail to lower blank margin at gutter to initial leaves, short closed tear to final leaf of index, without rear free endpaper, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spine, joints cracked at head, worn at head & foot of spine, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Second edition (first Leipzig 1701), volume one (Europe) of this early standard work on the geography of Classical Antiquity by the German scholar Cellarius (1638-1707). The second volume was published in Amsterdam in 1706.
![Cardiganshire. Redmayne (William), Cardigan-Shire, John Lenthall [1711 edition], engraved playing card map of Cardigan (Jack](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e9dc0ac2-559f-4025-a874-ae7e01100a9c/a7215866-6016-407f-ba96-ae7f00f6c5c1/468x382.jpg)
Cardiganshire. Redmayne (William), Cardigan-Shire, John Lenthall [1711 edition], engraved playing card map of Cardigan (Jack of diamonds), with a large uncoloured diamond placed over the county map, with English text above and below the map, 90 x 50 mm, together with Morden (Robert). Cardigan Sh: 2nd edition [1676], engraved playing card map of Cardigan (6 of spades), some dust soiling, 95 x 55 mmQTY: (2)NOTE:William Redmayne's playing cards were first published in 1676 as the 'Recreative Pastime by Cardplay; Geographical. Chronological and Historiographical of England and Wales...,'. This example - published by John Lenthall - was the third and final edition of these cards and can be identified by the decorative borders.Robert Morden’s set of playing cards was published in 1676 as a pack of fifty-four cards, including a title and explanation card. The Welsh and southwest counties of England are spades. There was a second edition published in the same year but they are considered comparatively rare. There was a third edition published in 1680 in partnership with Joseph Pask but these were in a bound volume, and finally in 1773 by H. Turpin, but this edition has no suit marks (to discourage gambling).
England & Wales. Jaillot (Alexis-Hubert & Sanson Nicolas), Le Royaume d'Angleterre distingué en ses Provinces..., Paris, [1693], large engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, large uncoloured decorative cartouche and mileage scale, toned overall, 780 x 585 mm, together with Tirion (Isaak). Nieuwe Kaart van de Eilanden van Groot Brittannien..., Amsterdam, circa 1770, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, inset map of the Orkney and Shetland islands, 330 x 375 mm, with Chatelain (Henry Abraham), Carte du Gouvernement Militaire de l'Angleterre ou l'on Represente l'Etat des Officiers de Guerre et celui des Forces de Terre et de Mer, circa 1708, hand-coloured engraved map of the British Isles with a historical tableau on either side of the map and French text below, overall size 350 x 465 mm, mounted, plus another 14 maps similar, including examples by or after Albrizzi, Vertue, Muller, Nolin, Bickham and Du Laporte, various sizes and conditionQTY: (17)NOTE:The first described map. R. W. Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750, Jaillot 2, state 2.
![Merian (Matthaus the younger). Abbildung der Statt und Rivier von Rochester, Chetham etc. [on sheet with] Prospect detz Enlan](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e9dc0ac2-559f-4025-a874-ae7e01100a9c/725c3433-bc90-419c-97ce-ae7f00f6e0a9/468x382.jpg)
Merian (Matthaus the younger). Abbildung der Statt und Rivier von Rochester, Chetham etc. [on sheet with] Prospect detz Enlands Shepey und der Bestung Shirnalse...., circa 1680, two uncoloured engravings on one sheet (as published), old folds, overall size 300 x 370 mm, together with Bellin (Jacques Nicolas). Carte Réduite des Isles Britanniques, Drésée au Depost des Carrtes, Plans et Journaux de Marine..., Paris, 1757, uncoloured engraved map of the British Isles with the depot de la Marine stamp to the lower right corner, some water staining, occasional rust spots, 890 x 560 mm, with Albrizzi (Girolamo). Reges Angliae Inchiito ac Potentiss Jacobo pº eius nominis Angliae Franciae et Hiberniae VI hoc noie Scotiae regi D. D. D. Venice [1614 or later], uncoloured engraved 'family tree' of the British monarchy, inset vignette of Nonsuch Palace, some browning to the central fold, occasional marginal closed tears, 545 x 385 mm, Latin text on verso, plus Chatelain (Henry Abraham). Carte du Gouvernement Écclesiastique D'Angleterre..., circa 1720, hand-coloured engravings set above French text, 355 x 455 mm, with another three engravings and maps similar, various sizes and condition QTY: (7)NOTE:The first described item illustrates the Dutch fleet's infamous raid on the anchored English fleet in Rochester in 1667, which resulted in five English ships being burnt.
Ogilby (John). The Continuation of the Road from London to the Lands End Plate 2d. commencing at Andover com. Hants & extending to Crookhorn com. Somerset, The Road from London to Weymouth com. Dorset [and] The Road from London to Pool in the Count. Dorset, circa 1676, together three hand-coloured engraved strip road maps, the first described map with professional repairs to the central fold, each approximately 320 x 445 mmQTY: (3)NOTE:Sheet numbers 26, 53 & 97.
Nansen (Fridtjof). Farthest North, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897, frontispieces, 16 colour plates, numerous further black and white plates after photographs, 4 folding maps, original publisher's prospectuses loosely inserted, many leaves uncut, lightly spotted, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:The First Crossing of Greenland, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890, portrait frontispieces, numerous black and white illustrations (many full-page), 5 folding maps, front free endpaper of volume 2 torn at gutter, sporadic spotting, hinges tender, original grey pictorial cloth, front joint of volume 1 worn at head, headcaps with closed tears, rubbed, 8vo, withEskimo Life, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1893, 16 black and white plates (including frontispiece), publisher's advertisements to rear, endpapers and pastedowns renewed, original green pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine laid on, worn and marked, 8vo, with 15 others by NansenQTY: (20)
Sharp (M. W. after). The Red-Hot Politician, W. H. White, 1829, mixed-method engraving by J. Arnold and W. J. White with contemporary hand-colouring, old folds strengthened on verso, slight dust and finger soiling, 545 x 380 mm, together with Meadows (Robert Mitchell, 1763-1812). A Storm in Harvest, Richard Westall, Feby. 1st 1802, mixed-method engraving after Richard Westall, printed in colours and finished by hand, trimmed to plate mark, lower margin strengthened, slight marginal fraying and a few repaired marginal closed tears, 590 x 710 mm, with Sharpe (M. W. after). Love at First Sight - Suited [and] Married To Morrow!!! - Not Suited, W. J. White, 1825, a pair of mezzotint engravings by H. Dawe and W. Ward respectively, occasional marginal closed tears, each approximately 320 x 225 mm, plus Derlag, Druck & Seitz (lithographers). Crinoline Difficulties [and] Cause and Effect, Hamburg, circa 1860, pair of lithographs with contemporary hand-colouring, titles repeated in German, 'Cause & Effect' with some creasing and cracking to the title, slight marginal fraying, each approximately 410 x 280 mm, with Claude Lorraine (after). Saint George and the Dragon [and] The Landing of Aeneas in Italy, John Boydell 1787 & 1772 respectively, two hand-coloured classical engravings by Daniel Lerpiniere and James Mason respectively, slight marginal fraying, each approximately 470 x 610 mm, together with Martinet (Francois Nicolas). Départ du Roi Le 20 Mars 1815 [and] Retour du Roi Le 8 Juillet 1815, Paris chez Ostervald, circa 1815, a pair of aquatints with contemporary hand-colouring, each approximately 370 x 455 mm, with Sophie appretant le but de l'arc au jeune Sargines, circa 1820, aquatint with contemporary hand-colouring of an archery scene, toned overall, 405 x 440 mmQTY: (11)
Simpson (William). A collection of 79 tinted lithographic plates from The Seat of the War in the East, First & Second Series, London: Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co., [1855-56], 50 tinted lithographs by E. Walker, T. Picken, J. Needham, R. Carrick, B. Morin, C. Haghe and others after William Simpson, occasional marks and light spotting to margins, some plates with short marginal tears, including a few with minor loss to blank margin, together with the printed key tissue-guard to many of the plates, sheet size 36.5 x 55 cm (14 1/2 x 21 3/4 ins) and similar, all disbound and looseQTY: (79)
Ovidius Naso (Publius). Fastorum libri diligenti emendatione typis impressi aptissimisq; figuris ornati co?mentatoribus Antonio Consta?tino Fanensi: Paulo Marso piscinate uiris clarissimis additis quibusdam uersibus qui deerant in aliis codicibus: insuper Græcis characteribus ubi deerant in aliis impressionibus: appositis rebus notabilibus quibusdam in margine una cu? tabula in ordine alphabeti: que nullo i alio codice ipressa reperies, [edited by Bartolomeo Merula], Milan: [Giovanni Giacomo da Legnano for] Magistrum Leonardum Pachel, 17 February 1510, title with woodcut illustration depicting Ovid, Antonio Costanzi and Paolo Marso, the leaf inset to later paper, with loss of all original outer blank border, 8 (of 12) preliminary leaves only, numerous woodcut initials, woodcut illustration the first leaf of each of the six sections (or books), first three leaves repaired to lower outer corners, with loss of some words or portion of text, penultimate preliminary leaf with small hole repaired, final 13 leaves with repairs to upper outer corners, generally without loss, but slightly affecting legibility, a few early ink marginalia and underlinings, 19th century bookseller's ticket of George T. Juckes, Birmingham, and 20th century ownership inscription of D. L. Cumming to front pastedown, 19th century black half morocco, spine gilt, lightly rubbed to extremities, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:OCLC 68841189. EDIT16 CNCE 57770. Three copies in Italy (Bergamo, Parma and Rome); one copy at National Library of Sweden. No copy traced at auction.The ink annotations in this copy would appear to be printer's corrections, as the digital version of the final colophon leaf (available online at EDIT16) has the same correction to the colophon, in the same contemporary hand.
![Clement V (Pope). Clementinaru[m] materia cum capituloru[m] & titulorum numero : Clarissimus ex apostillis quisque titulu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e9dc0ac2-559f-4025-a874-ae7e01100a9c/c2fa4c52-8d97-4766-b820-ae7f00f713a8/468x382.jpg)
Clement V (Pope). Clementinaru[m] materia cum capituloru[m] & titulorum numero : Clarissimus ex apostillis quisque titulus redditur. Labyrinthus glosarum per divisiones aperitur. Exponunt textum familiariter casus litterales. Medullas glosarum in harum margine spectare vales ... in prioribus deprauate conspiciebantur, [Paris]: Thielmann Kerver, [June 1519], cx, [6] leaves, title-page in red and black with text arranged as an acrostic giving 'Clementia' and with printer's device, large woodcut illustration to verso of title-page of a master and pupils, main text printed in double columns in red & black, woodcut crible? initials, index at rear with final blank (A6), imprint from colophon, occasional early underscoring and marginalia, light fraying to lower margins of initial leaves and few marks, bound with [Sexti libri materia cum capitulorum numero], two parts only of four (Extrauagantes .xx. Joha?nis .xxii. and Extrauagantes co?munes), [Paris]: Thielmann Kerver, [1513], woodcut printer's device to first leaf of each part, woodcut crible? initials, text in red & black, 18th century marbled endpapers with recent yellow cloth hinges, 18th century blind panelled sheep with gilt decorative motifs, rebacked, board corners worn, small 4to in 8sQTY: (1)NOTE:Clement V - Adams C 2130.
![Budaeus (Gulielmus). Commentarii Linguae Graecae, Cologne, Johann Soter, 1530, [28], 595, [5] pages (AA-BB4,rr1-6,a-z6,A-Z6,A](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/e9dc0ac2-559f-4025-a874-ae7e01100a9c/6ecd2ddc-137a-47b8-bf9d-ae7f00f71485/468x382.jpg)
Budaeus (Gulielmus). Commentarii Linguae Graecae, Cologne, Johann Soter, 1530, [28], 595, [5] pages (AA-BB4,rr1-6,a-z6,A-Z6,Aa-Dd6), text in Greek and Latin throughout, title with large printed woodcut device (with Soter's pentagram device incorporating five individual letters in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Ethiopic, encircled by the words 'Symbolum Sanitatis' within a decorative architectural outer border), near-contemporary ownership inscription at head 'Thos Weston: pre:- 14s 00d', minor soiling to title and first and last few leaves, woodcut initials, additional smaller printer's woodcut device to verso to final blank, additional ownership signatures to front blanks of 'Jo. Alexander' (late 16th or 17th century), and D. L. Cumming (20th century), early blind-panelled full calf, rubbed and a little wear to edges, joints partly cracked, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Thomas Weston (later 16th or early 17th century inscription to head of title); John Alexander (17th century); D. L. Cumming (20th century).Printing and the Mind of Man 60 (for the 1529 first edition). No copy of this edition by Soter located in the UK.French Renaissance humanist Guillaume Budé (1467-1540) was the most influential French scholar of the early 16th century. The Commentaries on the Greek Language first published in Paris a year earlier is 'a collection of lexicographical, philological, and historical notes, which formed the basis for the study of the Greek language in France. A monument of the New Learning, it was several times reprinted and gave Budé the reputation which is now commemorated in the Collection Budé series of modern reprints of Greek and Latin classics which now numbers more than 800 volumes. In his dedicatory preface to Francois I, the author reminds the King of his promise to establish a Royal College for the study of ancient languages, an appeal which led to the founding of the College Royal (also in 1530), today known as the Collége de France.
Alcocer (Pedro de). Hystoria, o descripcion de la Imperial cibdad de Toledo. Con todas la cosas acontecidas en ella, desde su principio, y fundacion. Adonde se tocan, y refieren muchas antiguedades, y cosas notables de la hystoria general de Espan?a. Agora nuevamente impressa, Toledo: Juan Ferrer, 1554, title printed in red & black, with woodcut armorial (faint ink stamp to lower right blank corner, leaf trimmed down and margins repaired, some worm trails to title and following two leaves), woodcut decorative initials, occasional early underscoring and marginalia, A2 trimmed at foot and to fore-margin with repairs, closed tear repairs to G1, Q6, R1, without the final text leaf X6 ('correcion de algunos lugares de este libro'), last few leaves frayed to fore-margins, occasional marks, 20th century black morocco backed cloth, slim folio in 6s, together with:Valda (Juan Bautista de), Solenes fiestas que celebro Valencia a la immaculada concepcion de la Virgen Maria..., Valencia: Geronimo Vilagrasa, 1663, additional engraved title and numerous plates including some full-page, few initial leaves to first gathering a little loose, paper flaw to P2 affecting few letters of text, occasional light toning, contemporary limp vellum, 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:Perez Pastor, La Imprenta en Toledo, 270. First published in 1551, Alcocer's account is the earliest printed history of Toledo.
Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Corbaccio di M. Giouanni Boccacci nouellamente stampato, e con riscontri di testi a penna alla sua vera lezione ridotto, Florence: Filippo Giunti, 1594, [8], 122p., one numeral of imprint date overwritten & altered, woodcut device to title and few decorative initials, first five leaves red ruled, fore-margin of title torn and repaired closed tear to final leaf of text (I1), lacking following three leaves at rear (I2-4, index), manuscript notes to front endpaper and inscription 'from the collection of William Roscoe Esq.', with loosely inserted letter on British Museum letterheaded paper regarding the volume and provenance, upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of the Duff family, 19th century half calf, lacking spine and upper board detached, 8vo, together with:Charles I, England's black tribunal: containing, I. The compleat tryal of King Charles the First, by the pretended High Court of Justice in Westminster-Hall, Begun Jan. 20, 1648. Together with His Majesty's Speech on the Scaffold, Erected at White-Hall-Gate, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 1648...., The fifth edition, very much enlarged, London: J. Wilford & T. Jauncy, 1720, lacking portrait frontispiece, some dust-soiling and spotting, contemporary sheep, lower joint cracked and upper board detached, board corners worn, 8voQTY: (2)
Lambard (William). Eirenarcha: Or of the Office of the Justices of Peace, in foure Bookes: First Gathered 1579. published 1581. and now fourthly revised, corrected and enlarged, [and] The Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, and such other lowe and Lay Ministers of the Peace..., 2 volumes in one, Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, 1599, first title within decorative woodcut border, woodcut initials throughout, mostly black letter, early ink ownership inscription of Susanna Salter at foot of A7r of first work, slight stain on three or four leaves, blank lower corner from one leaf (Tt8) torn with blank loss, a few headlines shaved, two margins of last leaf of 'Dueties' repaired, affecting a few letters in first line of recto and running head of verso, Carlton Club ink stamp to first title verso and at foot of final page at end, 19th-century half morocco gilt, rubbed, thick small 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 15169 & 15152.The two works are often bound together, but were issued separately, these being corrected and enlarged from the first editions of 1581 and 1583.The main work contains details indictments for, among other things, killing a man by witchcraft, bewitching a horse, keeping a bowling alley and for hearing mass. The second companion work in this extended edition contains paragraphs about those responsible for destroying 'noisome foule & vermine' and officials concerned with the poor and with prisons.
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