![Rolewinck (Werner). Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens, [Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, after 6 April 1490]](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f18384cb-a82f-48dc-9fe9-aab801078ac9/e3a67394-7da2-4c96-b034-aab901156963/468x382.jpg)
Rolewinck (Werner). Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens, [Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, after 6 April 1490], 89 leaves (of 96: lacking A2, F1, F6, G1, G6, I1, and I6, replaced in modern facsimile), 50 lines plus headline, gothic type, xylographic title-page with full-page woodcut verso of Rolewinck presenting his book before a king, several further woodcuts in the text, rubricated throughout, title-page dust-soiled and reinforced in gutter, a few other leaves similarly strengthened, 3 small worm-holes in first 9 leaves touching headline in one index leaf and a few letters in text, small stain in B3, C5-D1 slightly soiled, variable minor soiling (dust, ink or oil) elsewhere, marginal repairs to folio 4 (index leaf) and signatures A1, E4, E6 and G6, affecting foliation in the latter, foliation in F2, F4 and F5 altered by recent erasure of final I, foliation on most subsequent extant leaves from F3 altered by an early hand (suggesting the loss of leaves at an early date), occasional contemporary marginalia, faded early annotations to title-page naming the author and erroneous place of publication 'Venetiis Anno 1490', top edge gilt, 20th-century red crushed morocco gilt, folio (26.2 x 19.1 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Leonard Twiston Davies (1894-1953), arts patron and antiquarian (bookplate). Goff R276; GW M38725; Hain 6916; ISTC ir00276000. The final event mentioned in this edition of Rolewinck's world chronicle is the death of Matthias I of Hungary, which occurred in April 1490. Goff cites two similar Prüss editions, differentiated by having fifty (R275) and fifty-one (R276) lines to the page. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy catalogued as Goff R275 has forty-nine lines plus the headline, suggesting that the headline is included in Goff's count; Goff R275 also has a different full-page woodcut on the verso of the title, depicting instead a robed figure holding a stick and beads. The two editions are clearly distinguished by their use of different contractions, as listed by Hain.
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![Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible; containing the Old Testament and the New ... With most profitable annotations upon all the](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f18384cb-a82f-48dc-9fe9-aab801078ac9/3c75a701-a2eb-470b-8206-aab901153eb4/468x382.jpg)
Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible; containing the Old Testament and the New ... With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance..., (Amsterdam?), 1683], general title lacking, New Testament title present, six engraved maps and plans by Nicolaes Visscher (plan of Jerusalem torn to left side & lower right corner with loss, and map of Canaan torn to left & right sides with loss), some maps and plans repaired & strengthened to folds etc. and with manuscript to verso, Apocrypha present, dedication leaf torn to fore-edge and repaired (18th century manuscript entries to verso), first leaf of Genesis detached, torn & frayed to edges, bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, London: Company of Stationers, 1679, final leaf torn and with manuscript to verso, dampstaining, browning, dust-soiling, and some marks throughout volume, margins frayed, lacking free endpapers, pastedowns with 18th & 19th century manuscript entries including 'this book was given by Captain William Orton unto William Cooke ye brother of James Cooke & was given by William Cooke unto Robert Cooke the son of his brother James the day before his death which being ye 4th day of July in ye year of our Lord 1736' and 'Abraham Cooke the son of Robt. and Ann Cooke was born ye thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1740 about 35 minutes after 3 a clock in the morning' and 'Ridgway Forster 1792', contemporary blind panelled calf over wooden boards, blind embossed arabesque device to centre of each board, pierced & shaped brass corner pieces and clasp attachments (without clasps), rebacked, folio (leaf size 37.5 x 23.5cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESHerbert 782; Darlow & Moule 616. King James Version, with Geneva notes, etc. Place and printer's name not given. Probably by, or for, Swart in Amsterdam.
[Godwin, Francis] . A Catalogue of the Bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian religion in this Island, together with the brief history of their lives and memorable actions, so neere as can be gathered out of antiquity, 1st edition, George Bishop, 1601, black letter, early annotations and underscoring throughout, lacks final two leaves (Chester, 3pp + 1 page blank), old damp staining to early leaves, closely trimmed at head occasional shaving running head, old pagination, title page dust soiled and first few leaves frayed at corners and foremargin, old partial manuscript index to front endpapers and armorial bookplate pastedown, contemporary quarter calf, worn, 4to, together with [Cary, Henry, Viscount Falkland] , The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward II, King of England and Lord of Ireland, with the rise and fall of his great favourites, Gaveston and the Spencers, printed by J. C. for Charles Harper, at the Flower-de-luce, in Fleet-street; Samuel Crouch, at the Princes Arms in Popes Head-Alley in Cornhil; and Thomas Fox, at The Angel in Westminster-hall, 1680, title printed in red and black, some browning, lacks portrait frontispiece, bookplate of William Perceval, contemporary calf, somewhere, upper cover detached, folio, plus Bacon (Francis & Godwin, Frances) , The History of the Reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary, two parts in one, printed by W. G for R. Scot et al, 1676, engraved portrait frontispiece of Francis Bacon, some spotting and browning, ownership signature of William Perceval to title (brown) verso and initials and shelf mark to recto, contemporary blind-panelled calf with gilt thistle motif and shelf number at foot of spine, somewhere, covers detached, folio, plus three other antiquarian history folios including two odd volumes (Qty: 6)NOTES1 (STC11937); 2) Wing F313; 3) Gibson 121; Wing B300.
Castiglione (Baldassare). Il Libro del Cortegiano novamente stampato et con somma diligentia corretto, Parma: Antonio de Viotti, 1532, woodcut Giuntine device to A1, woodcut border to A2, lacking 2 leaves (P1 and P8), front free endpaper excised, a little light spotting and soiling, stronger towards front and rear, woodcut on A1 partially rubbed away, small hole in A2 affecting a letter either side, edges dyed blue, c.1800 red goatskin gilt, spine rubbed, worn at head, 8vo (15.2 x 8.5 cm), together with: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Filocopo, di nuovo riveduto, corretto, ed alla sua vera lettione ridotto, Venice: Lucio Spineda, 1612, final blank 3B8 discarded, lacking front free endpaper, 19th-century sheep-backed marbled boards, manuscript label to front board, headcap and board-edges worn, 8vo (14.7 x 9.2 cm, [Welser, Marcus, or Alfonso de la Cueva], Examen de la liberté originaire de Venise, traduit de l'italien. Avec une harangue de Louïs Hélian ambassadeur de France contre les Vénitiens, traduite du latin, 1st edition thus, Regensburg: Jean Aubri, 1677, occasional damp-staining, contemporary mottled calf, front joint cracked at head, 8vo (15.4 x 8.9 cm), Persico (Panfilo), Del Segretario libri quattro, 3rd edition, Venice: heirs of Damian Zenaro, 1643, spotting, browning and damp-staining title-page laid down, short closed tear in R5, 18th-century marbled sheep, spine refurbished, 8vo (15.3 x 9.4 cm), Bentivoglio (Guido), Raccolta di lettere scritte dal Cardinal Bentivoglio in tempo delle sue nuntiature di Francia, e di Fiandra á diversi personaggi. Agigiuntovi hora del medeisimo autore la relatione della sontuosa festa del Saracino fatta in Roma l'anno 1634, Rome: Filippo de'Rossi, 1654, final register leaf, moderate spotting and browning, damp-staining to front, 18th-century calf, joints cracked at ends, 8vo (15.8 x 10 cm), and Fabri Bremondani (Francesco), Delle lettere, scritte in varie lingue, ed in diversi argomenti, libri tre, Milan: Giulio Cesare Malatesta, 1661, additional engraved title-page lacking, Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate, 20th-century cloth, 8vo (16.4 x 10.4 cm), (Qty: 6)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Rare Parma edition of Castiglione's work, not in Adams, and printed the same year as the first edition of Machiavelli's Il Principe. It may have been printed from the Giunta edition (Florence, 1528) as the first leaf contains the Giuntine device; the first edition was printed at Venice by the Aldine press, also in 1528.
![Bible [English]. [The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in diuers](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f18384cb-a82f-48dc-9fe9-aab801078ac9/addd8036-ab3e-4018-94df-aab901158473/468x382.jpg)
Bible [English]. [The Bible: Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in diuers Languages..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1611], lacking general title, New Testament title present with decorative woodcut border and early 18th century ownership inscription to fore-edge blank margin, Apocrypha present with final leaf torn with loss and early 18th century genealogical entries for the Dyer family to blank verso, double-column black letter text, first & second leaves of Genesis (A1 & A2) torn with loss and repaired, leaves O3 & O4 torn to lower outer corners & at foot with loss of text (repaired), few other minor tears, bound with at front an incomplete Book of Psalms and Common Prayer, many leaves torn with loss and repaired, also bound with at rear an incomplete Concordance, some worm trails to last few leaves of Revelation and throughout majority of Concordance (mostly to fore-edge), toning, finger & dust-soiling, few dampstains and marks throughout volume, early 20th century vellum, 4to, plus a very incomplete and defective 1610 folio Bible printed by Robert Barker in black letter (Qty: 2)NOTESHerbert 308; Darlow & Moule 239; STC 2215.
Aquila (Pietro). Galeriae Farnesianae Icones Romae in aedibus Sereniss. Ducis Parmensis ab Annibale Carracio ad veterum aemulatione posterumq. admiratione coloribus expressae cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis a Petro Aquila delineatae incisae, 1st edition, Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, [c.1674], etched title-page, 24 etched plates by Pietro Aquila including dedication, allegorical plate and portrait of Carracci after Carlo Maratta (all unnumbered), and 21 plates after Annibale Carracci (numbered 1-21), all except numbers 11 and 13 double-page and mounted on guards, a little light spotting and dust-soiling, slightly stronger to plate 21, faint tide-mark to upper outer corners never affecting images, bound with: ibid., Deorum Concilium in Pincis Burghesianis hortis ab Ioanne Lanfranco Parmensi tum spirantibus ad vivum imaginibus tum monocromatibus atque ornamentis mira pingendi arte expressum, a Petro Aquila ad similitudinem delineatum et incisum expressum, 1st edition, Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, [c.1675], etched title-page, 8 etched plates by Pietro Aquila after Giovanni Lanfranco (numbered 2-9 in manuscript to margins of plate-marks, plates 2 and 3 forming a single overview of the whole ceiling), all double-page and mounted on guards, dust-soiling, guards renewed, a few stains to title-page, 2 plates with short closed tears to bottom edge of central fold not affecting image, marginal tear to plate 6 (numbered 7), the corresponding right-hand panel laid onto thicker paper at an early date, plate 8 (numbered 9) similarly laid down, later marbled boards, green vellum spine, vellum tips, sides rubbed, wear to extremities, large folio (46.3 x 36 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Berlin Katalog 4088 (first work). Two uncommon large-scale works by Pietro Aquila (c.1630-1682) recording important Italian baroque ceiling decorations. The plates in the first work reproduce Annibale Carracci's decorations to the barrel-vaulted ceiling of the gallery at the Palazzo Farnese, which were executed between 1597 and 1601 for Cardinal Odoardo Farnese and depict Greek and Roman myths exemplifying the triumph of love. The second work is a record of Lanfranco's ceiling fresco 'The Council of the Gods', painted in 1624-5 in the central hall of the casino of the Villa Borghese for Cardinal Scipione Borghese.
Cano (Melchior). De locis Theologicis Libri duodecim, 1st edition, Salamanca: Mathius Gastius, 1563, title with printer's woodcut device, woodcut initials, text printed in double column, colophon leaf at end, light waterstain to upper outer corners at end (generally a good clean copy), early ink ownership inscription to foot of title 'De livraria S. Marcos', later bookplate of St. John's Seminary, Wonersh to front pastedown, 18th century calf gilt, rubbed and scuffed, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESRuiz-Fidalgo 573; cf. Adams C535 (1564 edition). Melchior Cano (c.1509-1560), Spanish theologian, who attended the Council of Trent as a representative of Charles V of Spain, and became professor of theology at the University of Salamanca in 1546. First edition of Melchior Cano's most important work, in which he attempted to bring systematic rules and scientific method to the study of theology, in opposition to the obfuscation of earlier scholastic writers. Cano provides a list of reliable sources, or loci, upon which the theologian may depend: Scriptures, Tradition, the Catholic Church, General Council, Roman See, Church Fathers and Doctors, Theologians and Canonists, Natural Reason, Philosophy and History. In the eleventh of the twelve books that make up the work, Cano deals with the 'authority of human history', and defends the use of historical truth as a weapon against the Reformed Church and its use of false or distorted history.
Newton (Isaac). Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, new edition, edited by John Wright, 4 volumes, Glasgow, 1822, half-titles, diagrams to text, some toning and scattered spotting, edges untrimmed, bookplate of George Prevost to upper pastedowns and front free endpaper of volume 1 with bookplate of Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, contemporary black half sheep, neat black calf rebacks, some wear to board edges, 8vo (Qty: 4)NOTESFirst Glasgow re-issue of the 1739-42 so-called Jesuits' edition. Babson 32; Wallis 17. Provenance: Sir George Prevost, 2nd Baronet, of Belmont, Hampshire (1804-1893). He was the son of Sir George Prevost, 1st Baronet (1767-1816) who had been Governor of Novia Scotia and Governor General of the Canadas. He succeeded his father to the title in 1815. Edward Neville da Casto Andrade, FRS (1887-1971, English physicist, writer and poet). The volumes were purchased by the vendor from Heffer's bookshop in Cambridge after the death of Andrade.
Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 volumes, printed by John Jarvis and sold by John Fielding, 1786, engraved portrait frontispiece and half title to volume I, text printed in triple column and unpaginated, volume I title and first gathering detached, light spotting and toning, contemporary reversed calf, old rebacks, some edge wear and stains, 4to, together with The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. with Murphy's Essay. Edited by the Rev. Robert Lynam, 6 volumes, 1825 (Qty: 8)NOTESProvenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth. First work: pirate edition.
Manuzio (Paolo). Epistolae, et Praefationes quae dicuntur, 1st edition, Academia Veneta, 1558, title with engraved device, occasional underlining and marginalia, a little light soiling, later vellum, spine dulled, a little discoloured, 8vo, together with Epistolarum Libri XII... postrema editio, [Geneva], 1616, title with small woodcut device, preliminary leaf *vi torn with small losses, occasional underlining and soiling, previous owner inscriptions to title and rear endpapers, shelf label to front pastedown, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, spine rubbed, 16mo (Qty: 2)NOTESProfessor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. First work Adams M483.
Mascardi (Agostino). Silvarum libri IV, 1st edition, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1622, engraved allegorical title-page after Peter Paul Rubens by Theodoor Galle, browning, a few stains, final blank (2C4) discarded, a little worming to inner hinges, bookplate of Michael Jaffé, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, 4to (20.5 x 16 cm), together with another copy (title-page stained along edges and with shaved contemporary ownership inscription to lower margin, spill-burns in H3 and I4, retaining final blank 2C4, bookplate of John Sparrow, 20th-century half vellum) (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Both copies: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Jaffé wrote three substantial books on Rubens: Rubens (1967); Rubens and Italy (1977); and Rubens: catalogo completo (1989). Second copy (in 20th-century half vellum): John Sparrow (1906-1992), English barrister, warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and influential book-collector. Judson & Van de Velde, Book Illustrations and Title-Pages (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard XXI), 48. The 'first book [of] contemporary poetry illustrated with a title-page by Rubens', of which 1,000 copies were printed (Bertram, Rubens as a Designer of Title-Pages, pp. 184 & 60). Ex-Jesuit Mascardi (1590-1640) was a prominent intellectual at the court of Pope Urban VIII.
![Hippocrates. [Opera] Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, octoginta volumnia, quibus maxima ex parte, annorum ci](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f18384cb-a82f-48dc-9fe9-aab801078ac9/cdac6ce1-1141-498b-be49-aab901155a7d/468x382.jpg)
Hippocrates. [Opera] Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, octoginta volumnia, quibus maxima ex parte, annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua, Graeci vero, Arabes, et prisci nostri medici, Rome: Francesco Minizio Calvo, 1525, title-page with architectonic border, roman type, side-notes in italic, [superscript 2]pi1 in gothic, first quire (pi1-4) including title-page misbound after register leaf F4 and the architectonic title just shaved at head, lacking privilege leaf 3P7 and final blank 3P8, 3P7 replaced in good-quality facsimile on old paper, variable generally light spotting, soiling and damp-staining to margins, moderate browning to initial quires [superscript 2]pi-F and a few later leaves, first-bound quire [superscript]2pi more extensively damp-stained, first-bound leaf [superscript 2]pi1 marked and finger-soiled, a few ink- or oil-stains elsewhere in the text, notably in quire D and leaves [superscript 2]R3, and [superscript 2]2I2, short slits to lower margins of [superscript 2]D4, [superscript 2]U5, [superscript 2]2S1, and [superscript 2]2Y6 not affecting text, frequent contemporary marginalia and manuscript manicules in brown ink in at least 2 hands, crude decorative initials supplied around a few guide-letters in a contemporary hand, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over thick reverse-bevelled wooden boards, brass clasps and catches, rubbed, housed in a custom leather solander box in imitation of an early binding, folio (28 x 20.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) 'Caesaris Odoni' (contemporary ownership inscription to [superscript 2]pi1); 2) John Rathbone Oliver (1872-1943), American psychiatrist and medical historian (bookplate); 3) Michael Sharpe (bookplate). 'Caesaris Odoni' is likely to be Cesare Odoni (or Odone, d. 1571), botanist and professor of medicine at Bologna, and author of commentaries on Theophrastus (1561) and Aristotle (1563). Adams H567; Heirs of Hippocrates 10; Norman 1076; Osler 149; PMM 55; Waller 4495; Wellcome 3177. First complete edition in Latin of the Hippocratic corpus, printed a year before the Greek editio princeps (1526). 'Although various fragments of Hippocrates' works had been published earlier in Greek and Arabic versions, these eighty works, translated for the first time from the Greek texts into Latin by Marco Fabio Calvo (d. 1527), form the first so-called "complete" Hippocrates ... These eighty texts, the most familiar of which is the Aphorisms, were probably written by a number of authors, but all are in the Hippocratic tradition. This historically important book ... must be regarded as the definitive Hippocrates' (Heirs of Hippocrates).
![Bible [English]. The Bible: Translated according to the Hebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f18384cb-a82f-48dc-9fe9-aab801078ac9/f1520604-7aae-47c0-a1a9-aab901158722/468x382.jpg)
Bible [English]. The Bible: Translated according to the Hebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1615, general title and New Testament titles present, both within decorative woodcut borders (general title detached & with leather strip to gutter margin, frayed to edges), Old Testament without first leaf of Genesis (A1), Apocrypha present, double-column black letter text with marginal notes in roman type, some cropping to running titles, bound with Two right profitable and fruitfull Concordances, or large and ample Tables Alphabeticall, London: Robert Barker, 1613, also bound with an incomplete Book of Psalms, light toning, minor dust-soiling and occasional marks, fraying to first & last leaves, remnants of contemporary sheep, boards detached, worn, lacking ties, 4to, together with another early 17th century black letter English Bible (Qty: 2)NOTESHerbert 340; Darlow & Moule 264; STC 2241. This example without Genealogies.Amendment: The first named bible is missing the first leaf of Genesis (A1) so is therefore incomplete.
Foxe (John). The Book of Martyrs: containing an Account of the Sufferings and Death of the Protestants in the Reign of Queen Mary the First ... now revised and corrected by an impartial hand, 1st edition thus, John Hart and John Lewis, 1732, engraved frontispiece with medallion portraits, vignette title-page and 29 plates by Thomas Bowles, repairs to title-page verso, preface leaf and leaf H1, 3P1-2, and 11P1-2, loss to bottom half of quires 10O-R with text replaced in neat contemporary manuscript, occasional light spotting and browning, contemporary marbled sheep, relined, some wear, folio (35.6 x 21.1 cm) , together with: Sydney (Temple), A New and Complete History of England, from the Earliest Period of Authentic Intelligence to the Present Time, 1st edition, for J. Cooke, 1773, engraved frontispiece and 100 engraved plates after Thomas Wale, engraved map after Thomas Bowen, list of subscribers, address leaf ('To the Public'), title-page and 'address leaf spotted, occasional browning, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and relined, front joint cracked, covers scuffed, folio (38.5 x 23.6 cm), and Cowell (John), A Law Dictionary: or the Interpreter of Words and Terms, used either in the Common or Statute Laws of Great Britain, and in Tenures and Jocular Customs, ... in this edition very much augmented and improved, printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, for J. Walthoe [and others], 1727, spotting and damp-staining to outer leaves, 20th-century tan calf, folio (31.7 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESESTC T118078 (ten copies in the UK), T174414 (eight copies world-wide), T132904. Sold not subject to return owing to the absence of an established collation for Foxe.
Bowers (Robert Woodger). Freemasonry and the Tabernacle & Temples of the Jews, first edition, published by the author, at Kent Lodge, Hillborough, Herne Bay, Kent, 1899, a few illustrations to text, advertisement leaf tipped in at front, all edges gilt, original blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed and soiled, small 4to, together with Lane (John) , Centenary Warrants and Jewels: Comprising an Account of all the Lodges under the Grand Lodge of England to which Centenary Warrants have been Granted, together with Illustrations of the Special Jewels, with an Introduction by William James Hughan, 1891, colour frontispiece and 12 plain plates, some spotting, original cloth gilt, plus Chapman (John) , The Great Pyramid, printed by request, printed and published by J.S. Virtue & Co., [1896], author's presentation inscription to half-title, some spotting, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt, plus Sandys (William) , A Short View of the History of Free-masonry, published by Crew & Spencer, 1829, 62 pp., inner hinges cracked, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, all 8vo, plus other 19th & 20th-century freemasonry interest, the majority with Lodge of Harmony bookplates and numeric spine stickers, mostly 8vo (Qty: 40)NOTESProvenance: Lodge of Harmony (no. 309, Fareham) Masonic Library.
Botfield (Beriah). Prefaces to the First Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics and of the Sacred Scriptures. Collected and edited by Beriah Botfield, M.A., M.P., F.R.S., 1st edition, Henry George Bohn, 1861, titles in English and Latin, lxxvi + 674 pp., light spotting to first and last few leaves, front blank with some staining, red endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary dark green gilt-decorated full morocco (by J. Leighton, Brewer St.), a few minor marks, outer corners to lower board showing, 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Fine copy. The first published anthology of printed prefaces to the editiones principes of classical and sacred texts, sourced from Botfield's own magnificent collection. Beriah Botfield (1807-1863), antiquary, heir to a Shropshire ironworks fortune, and early member of the Roxburghe Club, bequeathed his library to his Thynne cousins, and the books were moved to Longleat in the 20th century. Portions of the library were sold by Christie's in 1994 and 2002.
Aguilon (François d'). Opticorum libri sex, 1st edition, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1613, half-title, engraved allegorical title-page and 6 headpieces after Peter Paul Rubens by Theodor Galle, one engraved and numerous woodcut diagrams in the text, publisher's woodcut device to final leaf, browning, smudge to half-title, light worming to head of gutter from quire 3* to S, small worm-hole in lower margins from quire A, becoming more extensive from quire 3C to 3I and reducing thereafter, bookplate of Michael Jaffé, 20th-century mottled half calf, folio (34.2 x 22.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) 'Da livraria do Marques de Alegrete, artes ciencia, CX6' (early ink inscription to half-title verso); the marquessate of Alegrete is a title in the Portuguese nobility created in 1687 by Pedro II. 2) Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (bookplate). Jaffé wrote three substantial books on Rubens: Rubens (1967); Rubens and Italy (1977); and Rubens: catalogo completo (1989). Becker 6; DSB I p. 81; Judson & Van de Velde, Book Illustrations and Title-Pages (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard XXI) , 10; Norman 25. D'Aguilon's 'master treatise on optics' (DSB) is a synthesis of the works of Euclid, Roger Bacon, Kepler, Arab scientist Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), and others. 'A remarkable collaboration between the scientific, printing and visual arts ... Aguilon's work ... contained the first discussion of the stereographic process (which Aguilon named), one of the earliest presentations of the red-yellow-blue colour system, an original theory of binocular vision and the first published description of Aguilon's Horopter' (Norman). It is also the first published book with a title-page designed by Rubens, and is considered 'a landmark of baroque book illustration' (Becker); Rubens's title-page combines allegory, myth and architecture in a symbolic representation of optics not only as the queen of mathematical sciences, but also as a form of spiritual knowledge (see Bertram, Elevating Optics: The Title Page by Peter Paul Rubens of Franciscus Aguilonius’s Opticorum Libri Sex (1613) in its Historical Context, Explorations in Renaissance Culture (online), volume 42, number 2, 2016).
![[Darwin, Erasmus]. The Botanic Garden, 2 parts in one, part I 1st edition; part II 3rd edition, 1791, general title, engraved](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f18384cb-a82f-48dc-9fe9-aab801078ac9/97f1a30d-d731-4471-ba8f-aab9011572a4/468x382.jpg)
[Darwin, Erasmus]. The Botanic Garden, 2 parts in one, part I 1st edition; part II 3rd edition, 1791, general title, engraved frontispieces, 18 engraved plates, including six by William Blake (one signed, four Portland Vase plates and vignette unsigned), lacking part II half title, some offsetting and a little light spotting, bookplate of Richard Cope Hopton of Canon Frome (1738-1810), contemporary calf gilt, rebacked, a little rubbed, 4to, together with The Botanic Garden part II, volume II only, 1st edition, Lichfield, 1789, half title, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette, four engraved plates only (of 7), bound without the Supplement at end, light offsetting and spotting, contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (1932-2006), critic and scholar, and descendant of William Wordsworth. Henrey 468; Nissen 451. The second work, part II of the Botanic Garden was first published in Lichfield two years before part I was published in London.
![Perotto (Niccolo). Cornucopiae, sive linguae latinae comentarii diligentissime recogniti atq[ue] ex archetypo emendati, Venic](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f18384cb-a82f-48dc-9fe9-aab801078ac9/b2f4a0e1-6c76-4021-8195-aab90115653b/468x382.jpg)
Perotto (Niccolo). Cornucopiae, sive linguae latinae comentarii diligentissime recogniti atq[ue] ex archetypo emendati, Venice: heirs of Aldo Manuzio the Elder, 1517, italic type, woodcut Aldine device to title-page and to versos of K8 and Y8 (final leaf), medial blank 10[pi]8 present, a few worm-holes to first 50 and final 20 or so leaves, occasional light toning, a few quires browned, title-page stub-mounted, effaced ownership inscription recto, damp-stain to upper outer corner of final few leaves, 18th-century vellum, spine label renewed, folio in 8s (31.8 x 21.3 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams P721; Ahmanson-Murphy 151; Renouard 81:10; STC Italian p. 499. Niccolo Perotto (1429-1480) was humanist secretary to the Byzantine émigré scholar and philosopher Cardinal Bessarion, whose famous collection of classical manuscripts are now in the Bibliotheca Marciana in Venice.
Aldrich (Henry). Elementa architecturae civilis ad Vitruvii veterumque disciplinam, et recentiorum praesertim a Palladii exempla probatiora concinnata, 2 parts in 1 volume, Oxford: D. Prince [and others], 1789, engraved portrait frontispiece, 55 engraved plates, list of subscribers and advertisement leaf bound after part 2 title-page (listed at front of volume in ESTC), title-page slightly spotted, heavier spotting to text in part 2, bookplate of Michael Jaffé, contemporary diced russia, covers with gilt device of griffin's head erased below earl's coronet (see note), joints partially cracked but firm, 4to (26.6 x 17.4 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley (1767-1831; armorial binding). Bligh was a noted amateur cricketer for Kent, and his descendant Ivo Bligh, the eighth earl, was England captain during the inaugural Ashes series (1882/3). 2) Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (bookplate). Berlin Katalog 2033; Fowler 18; Harris 17. First edition in English and second edition of the original Latin, which was first published c.1708, with twelve plates only. A tall copy.
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Sarbiewski (Maciej Kazimierz). Lyricorum libri IV. Epodon lib[er] unus alterq[ue] epigrammatum, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, 1632, engraved allegorical title-page after Peter Paul Rubens by Cornelis Galle the Elder (closely trimmed along bottom edge shaving most of imprint), occasional underlining and marginal strokes in red pencil, 17th-century ownership inscription 'Phi. Woodhouse' in brown ink to front free endpaper, repeated on initial blank and rear free endpaper, engraved bookplate of the barons Wodehouse inscribed 'Wodehouse, Kimberley 1838', book-label of John Sparrow, contemporary English speckled calf, front joint slightly abraded, 4to (19 x 13.9 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) 'Phi. Woodehouse' (contemporary ownership inscriptions), probably Sir Philip Wodehouse, 3rd Baronet (1608-1681), member of parliament for Norfolk and subsequently Thetford during the Commonwealth. 2) John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse (1771-1846; engraved bookplate with inscription). 3) John Sparrow (1906-1992), English barrister, warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and influential book-collector (book-label). 4) Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Judson & Van de Velde, Book Illustrations and Titlepages (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard) , 62. First Plantin and first quarto edition, and the fourth overall. Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640), a Polish Jesuit, 'was considered to be one of the greatest neo-Latin poets in his time and beyond' (Bertram, Rubens as a Designer of Title Pages , p. 197). Bertram writes at length on the rich symbolism of Rubens's title-page design, which depicts Apollo placing his lyre on an altar before the arms of Pope Urban VIII; facing Apollo are a woman and child commonly interpreted as a muse with the young Pindar (op. cit. pp. 202-12). Sarbiewski's poems were first printed at Cologne in 1625.
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Bible [English]. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, London: Charles Bill & Thomas Newcomb, 1693, engraved general title (fraying and few tears), letterpress New Testament title with imprint dated 1691, red ruled borders throughout, margins cropped affecting some text, early 19th century gilt decorated straight grain morocco wallet style binding with silver white metal clasp, extremities slightly rubbed, 12mo (leaf size 12 x 6cm), together with The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the Original Tongues..., with Marginal notes shewing Scripture to be the best Interpreter of Scripture, [Amsterdam?], Printed Anno 1682, engraved general title, New Testament title with ownership signature D. Hildyard, red ruled borders throughout, leaf 2G1 detatched and frayed to edges, some fraying to first & last few leaves, contemporary blind panelled and decorated morocco, joints split and a little wear, 12mo, with The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the Original Tongues..., Oxford: Printed at the Theater and are to be sold by Thomas Guy, at the Oxford Arms in Lombard Street near Popes Head-Alley, London, 1689, letterpress general and New Testament titles, late 17th century manuscript genealogical entries to verso of general title including 'John Woods son of Hamlet Woods of Risley and Elisabeth his wife was born the 25th day of February Anno Domini 1678/9' and 'Henry Woods son of ... was born the 26th day of October Anno Domini 1680' etc., 3U3 & 3U4 torn with loss, few other leaves slightly torn, bound with an incomplete Book of Psalms at rear, occasional dust-soiling, toning and few marks, contemporary gilt panelled and decorated morocco, slightly rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 3)NOTESHerbert 827; Darlow & Moule 653. Distinct edition with Psalms lxxiv, 15, driedst. Herbert 778; Darlow & Moule 612. Herbert 812; Darlow & Moule 642, a variant copy which substitutes the name of T. Guy for P. Parker and Apocrypha inserted.
Wesley (John). Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament, 1st edition, 1755, engraved portrait frontispiece with burn hole to inner blank margin, some leaves at rear of volume frayed and torn, dust-soiling, marks and some marginal dampstaining throughout, manuscript family entries to front endpaper and verso of frontispiece, contemporary calf, old reback, boards detached, worn, 4to, together with Blome (Richard) , The History of the Holy Bible, London: M. Cooper, circa 1700(?), numerous engraved plates, 19th century calf, crude reback, worn, folio, and Fox (John) , The Book of Martyrs, London: John Hart & John Lewis, 1732, engraved title, frontispiece and plates, some dust-soiling and few marks, contemporary half calf, joints split, worn, folio, and Howe (Laurence) , A Compleat History of the Holy Bible, 3 volumes, 5th edition, 1729, engraved frontispieces and plates, titles in red & black (first title lined to verso), some dust-soiling, spotting and marks, early 19th century blind and gilt decorated calf, slight wear to extremities, 8vo, and Wesley (John) , The New Testament with an Analysis of the several Books and Chapters, 1790, some dust-soiling and few marks, contemporary marbled calf, upper board detached, 12mo, plus other 18th and 19th century theology and few miscellaneous antiquarian volumes and 20th century theology reference etc. (Qty: 3 shelves)
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Aretino (Pietro). Capricciosi e piacevoli ragionamenti, nuova editione ... [part 2:] La puttana errante, overo dialogo, di Madalena e Giulia , 2 parts in 1 volume, Cosmopoli, 1660, [i.e. part 1: Leiden: Jean Elzevir, 1660; part 2: Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1668], 514, 38 pp., a few trivial marks, all edges gilt, c.1800 English straight-grain red morocco (pencilled note: 'Binding by Roger Payne?'), extremities rubbed, 8vo (15.1 x 8.9 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Willems 858. Second edition of the Puttana errante , the 'first imaginative prose work which deals directly and exclusively with physical sexual satisfaction' (Foxon, Libertine Literature , p. 27); the attribution to Aretino is now believed to be spurious. It was first printed by Jean Elzevir in 1660 as a supplement to his edition of Aretino's satirical Ragionamenti (the first Elzevir edition). According to Willems, both works were subsequently reprinted and issued together by Daniel Elzevir in 1668, but the second edition of the Puttana errante is often found bound with the 1660 edition of the Ragionamenti , as here. The second edition of the Puttana errante is distinguished by having 38 pages as opposed to 54; Willems identifies the first edition of the Ragionamenti by the elongated letterform 'z' used in the side-notes.
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).
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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.
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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.
Du Chesne (Andre). Historiae Normannorum scriptores antiqui, res ab illis per Galliam, Angliam, Apuliam, Capuae Principatum, Siciliam, & Orientem gestas explicantes, ab Anno Christi DCCCXXXVIII. ad annum MCCXX. Insertae sunt Monasteriorum Fundationes variae, series Episcoporum ac Abbatum: genealogiae Regum, Ducum, Comitum, & Nobilium... ex MSS. codd. omnia fere nunc primum edidit, Paris [Robert Fouet, Nicolas Buon, & Sebastien Cramoisy], 1619, [12], 1092 (of 1104), [20], also without index at end, title printed in red and black with engraved printer's device, colophon leaf before main text, front pastedown from an incunable printed text in red and black, contemporary blindstamped full vellum, rubbed and some discolouration, some wear to corners, with a little loss to lower outer corner of front board, folio, together with Jansen (Cornelis). Commentariorum in suam Concordiam, ac totam Historiam Evangelicam partes IIII, Lyon, Charles Pesnot, 1582, title with large printer's woodcut device, text in double column, woodcut initials, contemporary blind-decorated full calf, later reback, clasps lacking, some wear, thick folio, plus Philo Judaea. Opera, ex accuratissima Sigismundi Gelenii, & aliorum interpretatione, partim ab Adriano Turnebo... partim a Davide Hoeschelio, Paris, 1640, title printed in red and black with large engraved publisher's device, parallel text in Greek and Latin in two columns, minor marks to first and last few leaves, contemporary full calf, worn with covers detached, upper cover gilt lettered 'Mr Hulme's Exhibition M Elton Braz. Coll. 1801', and Malder (Johann), De Virtutibus Theologicis et Justitia et Religione Commentaria Ad Secundam Secundae D. Thomae, Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, Apud Balthasarem et Joannem Moretos Fratres, 1616, elaborate engraved title, text in double column, some light overall browning, colophon to verso of final leaf of text, and printer's woodcut device to last leaf, contemporary blind-decorated full calf, worn with upper cover detached and rear cover near-detached, folio (Qty: 4)NOTESGross 578. An important collection of early Norman histories, including some of the most important medieval texts here published for the first time, including Ordericus Vitalis Dudo of St. Quentin, and William of Jumieges. The editor Andre Du Chesne (1584-1640) is 'one of the fathers of French history, together with Gregory of Tours'. Several of the texts included here were printed from manuscripts owned by the important English antiquary Sir Robert Cotton, including William of Poitiers' biography of William the Conqueror, the Encomium Emmae Reginae, an 11th-century life of Queen Emma, aunt of William the Conqueror (whose marriages to Ethelred and Canute paved the way for the Norman claim to the English throne and the invason of 1066), as well as William of Jumieges' Gesta.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
Moll (Herman). Bowles's Atlas Minor; Containing a new and curious set of Sixty-five maps in which are shewn all the Empires, Kingdoms, Countries, States in all the known parts of the Earth..., printed and sold by Carington Bowles, 1781, double page title and 64 of 65 maps, (lacking map of Ireland) double page and folding maps, all with contemporary outline colouring, a few repaired closed tears to old folds, near contemporary quarter calf, upper board detached, heavily worn and frayed, 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESSold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. Moll 's Atlas Minor was first issued in London in 1729 with later additions appearing as '' Bowles's Atlas Minor ''.
Hall (Joseph). Episcopacie by Divine Right, London: R.B. for Nathanael Butter, 1640, without initial blank, some dampstaining, near contemporary sheep, old reback, boards detached worn, 4to, together with Greenhill (William) , An Exposition of the five first Chapters of the Prophet Ezekiel, with useful Observations thereupon, London: Matthew Simmons for Benjamin Allen, 1645, final leaf torn with slight loss, margins frayed and browned, dust-soiling, contemporary sheep, old amateur reback, worn, 4to, with Fergusson (James) , A Brief Exposition of the Epistles of Paul to the Philippians and Colossians, London: Company of Stationers, 1656, some spotting, toning and dampstaining, margins browned, 20th century cloth, 8vo, and Cotton (Clement) , A Large and Complete Concordance to the Bible in English, According to the last Translation, First collected by Clement Cotton, and now much enlarged and amended..., by Samuel Newman, a poor labourer in the Lords vineyard, London: Thomas Downes and James Young, 1643, slight marginal dampstaining at rear, contemporary calf, joints split and upper board near detached, worn, folio (Wing N929), plus three others including Annotations upon the Five Bookes of Moses by Henry Ainsworth, 1639, and The Saints Temptations by John Rowe, 1675 (Qty: 7)
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.
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[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.
Burnet (Gilbert). Some Letters containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy &c. Written by G. Burnet, D.D. to T.H.R.B., printed in the year 1687, 225 pp., occasional light soiling, previous owner inscription, 1849 to front endpaper, later sprinkled sheep, rebacked, joins and edges rubbed, 12mo (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Gilbert Burnet's own copy (with his repasted bookplate). 2) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Wing B5917. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) was a writer and historian and later Bishop of Salisbury. First published in Amsterdam in 1686.
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.
Porta (Giovanni Battista della). La Fisonomia dell'Huomo et la Celeste, 3 parts in one, Venice: Sebastian Combi & Giovanni La Nou, 1652, title with engraved vignette, engraved portrait, engraved illustrations, some full page, bookplate, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, spine titled in manuscript, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Garrison and Morton 150; Wellcome I, 596. First published in Latin in 1586. 'Della Porta preceded Lavater in attempting to estimate human character by the features. This is one of the first works on the ancient "science" of physiognomy to be extensively illustrated' (Garrison and Morton).
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.
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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.
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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.
English Civil War Pamphlet. The Shrove-Tuesday Banquet, sent to the Bishops in the Tower. First, A London Pancake to the Bishop of Canterbury, presented by the Apprentices of London, with the Water Mens attendance. Then, a Lincolnshire Pudding, and a Yorkshire Friter to the Bishop of Yorke, a Norfolk Dumplin, and a Suffolke Caveshead to Bishop Wren. An old cudgell-beaten cocke to the B. of Gloucester. A rusty piece of bacon to the B. of Rochester. And lastly, a dish of collops and egges to the B. of Bath and Wells. With the cause of the souldiers training, and the manner of their drinking a health to the said Bishops, [London]: printed for Tho. Iowel [i.e. Powel], 1641, [7] pp., some spotting, lower margin of title torn away and repaired without loss of text, lower blank margin of final leaf torn away, not affecting text, armorial bookplate of George Becher Blomfield, pencil shelf mark 4943, additional blank leaves supplied, 19th-century calf-backed cloth with gilt-title to spine, rubbed and soiled, small 4to (192 x 136 mm) (Qty: 1)NOTESESTC R15723 locates 4 copies in the UK and 2 copies in North America; Wing S3700.
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