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Collectable 7" vinyl singles: The Kinks - Long Tall Sally (the first Kinks single); The Flamin Groovies - See Some Action; Lonesome Tone - Mum, Dad, Love, Hate & Elvis (promo.copy); Bubba Lou & The Highballs - Love All Over The Place (promo copy); The Pink Fairies - Between The Lines (Stiff Buy 2); The 101'ers - Keys To Your Heart; Wilko Johnson Solid Senders - Casting My Spell On You; The Hawklords; Led Zeppelin (2 US pressings); Joy Division: Dick Penner,Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison (Sun US pressings): (15)
Dameto (Juan Bautista). The Ancient and Modern History of the Balearick Islands; or of the Kingdom of Majorca: which Comprehends the Islands of Majorca, Minorca, Yvica, Formentera and others..., translated from the original Spanish [by Colin Campbell], 1st English edition, William Innys, 1716, two folding engraved maps (including one of Majorca), some spotting and light browning, contemporary calf, heavily rubbed and some wear to edges, covers detached, 8vo Palau 68215. First English edition of Dameto's history of the Balearic Islands published in a second edition three years later. (1)
Miller (John). An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, 2 volumes, printed for Robert Faulder, 1794-89, engraved frontispiece and title both with hand-colouring to first volume, engraved title to second volume also hand-coloured, and 191 hand coloured engraved plates of flowers, edges untrimmed, 20th century quarter cloth, large 8vo, together with Martyn (Thomas), Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany, printed for B. & J. White, 1794, 38 hand-coloured engraved plates, publisher's advert leaf at rear, contemporary half calf, rubbed and minor wear, 8vo (3)
Parkinson (John). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a Kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause used with us, and an Orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing Trees and shrubbes fit for our Land together with the right orderinge planting & preserving of them and their uses & vertues, Collected by John PArkinson Apothecary of London, 1st edition, London: [Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young], 1629, imprint from colophon, woodcut title close-trimmed and lined to verso (some cropping to ruled border at head & foot), numerous woodcut illustrations, 35 leaves (**2-E6) at front of volume torn to fore-edge with some loss and repaired (mostly affecting blank margins), *6 possibly from another copy, lower outer corner of 2Y4 repaired, 3G1 & 3G2 at rear of volume also torn to blank margins and repaired, some dust-soiling, occasional dampstaining and few marks, endpapers renewed, contemporary sheep, rebacked and corners repaired, small folio in 6s Henrey 282; Nissen 1489; Hunt 215; STC 19300. First edition of "the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England" (Henrey). A1r line 4 of heading ends "amend" in this example. A variant also occurs with the quire reset, with A1r line 4 of heading ending "amend the". (1)
Pratt (Anne). The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain, and their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts and Horsetails, 6 volumes, Frederick Warne, [1873], numerous chromolithographic plates including frontispieces and one uncoloured lithographic plate, slight foxing to first few leaves, near contemporary ownership signature to front endpaper, all edges gilt, publisher's decorative green cloth, very slight wear to extremities, 8vo A clean bright set. (6)
Reeves (John). The Art of Farriery both in Theory and Practice, 1st edition, for J. Newbery, 1758, 4 engraved plates (1 folding), errata leaf, front free endpaper excised, closed tear to title page tape-repaired verso, contemporary sprinkled tan calf, slightly marked, some minor wear and expert restoration, 8vo (20.4 x 12.5 cm) Roscoe A434 (1). The work went to a fourth edition by 1778 and the first edition is notably scarce. The author is described on the title page as a farrier from Ringwood, Hampshire; the 'eminent physician' named as contributing part of the text has been identified as Dale Ingram (bap. 1710-1793). (1)
Sowerby (James). English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth, to which will be added, Occasional Remarks, 41 volumes including Supplement bound in 23, 1790-1863, 2998 hand-coloured engraved plates including some folding, occasional minor spotting, light browning or offsetting, volumes 1-36 (bound in pairs) each with bookplate of Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, contemporary diced calf, neatly rebacked in calf gilt, Supplement volumes with uniform modern diced calf gilt spines, the first 2 volumes retaining contemporary tree calf boards, the final 3 volumes half-bound over cloth, all 8vo Henrey BBI 2225; Henrey 1366-68. (23)
Stephens (James Francis). Illustrations of British Entomology; or, a Synopsis of Indigenous Insects... , (Haustellata/Mandibulata), 12 volumes including Supplement bound in 10, 1828-34 & 1846, hand-coloured engraved plates, scattered minor spotting, top edges gilt, inner hinges to volume 1 broken, contemporary green half morocco gilt, rubbed and a little wear at head of spines, one volume split along upper joint, 8vo '[Darwin's] first printed words occur... in 1829. Whilst he was an undergraduate at Cambridge, Darwin had sent records of insects that he had captured to James Francis Stephens, and some of these were published in Illustrations in British Entomology. He refers to the pleasure that he got from seeing his name in print against his records of beetles...' (Freeman, pp. 19-20). There are 92 words quoted from Darwin across 31 entries, with a further two entries naming his as the collector but without quotation. (10)
Jerdon (Thomas Caverhill). Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, containing 50 figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India, 1st edition, Madras: P.R. Hunt, American Mission Press, 1847, 50 hand-coloured lithographed plates (3 with printed correction to plate numeral pasted on), two closed tear marginal repairs to text leaves, not affecting text, a little spotting and dust-soiling, ink ownership name of Bernard dated 9/14 to upper margin of title, lacks half-title, top edge gilt, modern red half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 4to Anker 231; Fine Bird Books, page 83; Nissen IVB 477; Wood, page 407; Zimmer, page 335. Jerdon (1811-1872) worked as assistant surgeon to the East India Company, arriving in Madras in 1836. The author notes that the great majority of the 47 species depicted 'are figured here for the first time, and either improved figures, or different states of plumage, compose the remainder of the drawings'. (1)
Oates (Eugene W.). A Handbook to the Birds of British Burmah, Including those found in the Adjoining State of Karennee, 2 volumes, 1st edition, R.H. Porter, 1883, folding colour map to volume 2, some heavy spotting at front of both volumes, original cloth gilt, large 8vo, together with a loosely inserted autograph letter signed from the author to [H.E.] Dresser, Birmingham, 13 November 1910, giving details of his ill-health that year and asking when the last part of Dresser's egg book is coming out, a little spotting, creasing and small split to left margin, 2 pp., 8vo, plus Hume (Allan O.), The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, second edition, edited by Eugene William Oates, 3 volumes, R.H. Porter, 1889-90, twelve mounted Woodburytype portraits, neat ink (and some pencil) notes and marginalia throughout, ink ownership signature of Arthur Dixon, dated 1901, to front free endpapers, with additional ownership signature of F.C.R. Jourdain written beneath in volumes 1 & 3, the first dated 21 February 1907, a little spotting, inner hinges of volume 1 cracked, original cloth gilt, a little damp-staining to board fore-edges, slightly rubbed, 8vo (6)
Shaw (Tsen-Hwang). The Birds of Hopei Province, 2 volumes, Peking, 1936, folding colour map, 25 black & white plates and illustrations to text, continuously paginated, first and last leaves to both volumes slightly yellowed, bound without wrappers in near-contemporary cloth, 4to, together with Wilkinson (E.S.), Shanghai Birds, A Study of Bird Life in Shanghai and the Surrounding Districts, 1st edition, Shanghai, 1929, 23 colour plates and one plain plate as listed, original cloth gilt, plus The Shanghai Bird Year, a Calendar of Bird Life in the Country around Shanghai, Shanghai, 1935, black & white plates from photographs, illustrations to text, original cloth gilt, both large 8vo, plus others related to Chinese ornithology (13)
Woodcock (Martin, illustrator). The Birds of Africa Volume I, [by] Leslie H. Brown, Emil K. Urban, Kenneth Newman, illustrated by Martin Woodcock and Peter Hayman, 1st edition, Academic Press, 1982, colour plates, maps and line illustrations to text, pencil signature of Martin Woodcock to limitation page, all edges gilt, original morocco gilt, 4to Limited edition, 4/100 copies. A pencil note by Martin Woodcock is loosely inserted: 'In this special binding edition of volume 1 of Birds of Africa, the contents are a sort of hybrid between the first and second printings of the standard edition. Thus, the colour work is the improved version done by McCurwen Press, but none of the textual corrections appear, so my horrid little Goldeneye drawing still appears in the Redeyed Pochard account'. (1)
*England & Wales. Munster (Sebastian), Anglia II. Nova Tabula, published Basle, circa 1550, woodcut map with early outline colouring, key with prominent place names, two 'standards' of England and Scotland decorate the map, one small repaired hole to central fold, 265 x 340 mm, mounted, framed and glazed R. W. Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1455 - 1650, no. 28. Munster's map was the first separately printed map of England and a landmark in the cartographic history of British maps. (1)
France & Belgium. Lotter (Tobias Conrad), Mappa geographica in qua Ducatus Lotharingiae et Barr..., Augsburg, circa 1740, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, 500 x 585 mm, together with Nouvelle carte de Cercle de Bourgogne on l'on voit toutes les possessions de la Maison d'Autriche dans les Pays Bas..., Augsburg, circa 1740, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, 470 x 620 mm, together with Homann (Johann Baptist and heirs of), Comitatus Flandriae in omnes ejusdem subjacentes ditoes cum adjacentibus accuratissime divisus..., Tabula Ducatus Britanniae Gallis le Gouvernemt. general de Bretagne..., Charte von Lothringen und Barr..., [and] Gubernatio generalis Languedociae occitania olim dictae..., circa 1790, together four engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring, two maps with some overall toning, each approximately 485 x 585 mm, together with Cassini de Thury (Cesar Francois), Nouveau Tableau pour servir a l'Assemblage des feuilles de la carte de France par Cassini et de celle des Pays-Bas par Ferraris, au D‚p“t G‚n‚ral de la Guerre, Paris, 1808 [or later], index sheet (with duplicate) and 123 (only?) uncoloured engraved sheets, some marginal fraying and closed tears, occasional sheets torn with loss, occasional spotting, each sheet approximately 620 x 920 mm, (some smaller sheets) The Cassini maps were the first general maps of France using a measuring apparatus were made by the Cassini family during the 18th century on a scale of 1:86,400 (one centimetre on the chart corresponds to approximately 864 meters on the ground). These maps were, for their time, a technical innovation. They were the first maps based on geodetic triangulation, and took more than fifty years to complete. Four generations of the Cassini family were involved in their production. These maps, known as "Cassini Maps" or "Maps of the Academy," are still referenced by geographers, historians and genealogists. In 1808, Napoleon I decided to produce a map intended to be more accurate than that of Cassini. However, Napoleon demanded that the primary goal of the work was to produce battlefield maps. The triangulation for this new map began also from the Paris meridian arc or French meridian line, surveyed this time by Delambre and M‚chain. Work on this map took place between 1817 and 1866. During this period several different scales were tested, with the scale 1:80,000 being chosen. This became known as the "Geological Survey" map. The funding for this work was provided by the Department of War. The first work was done by the D‚p“t de la Guerre (as referenced on the index map) and later by the Geographical Service of the Army, whose first director General Fran‡ois Perrier and his successor General Bassot re-measured the French meridian arc. The variety of paper used on this example is noticeable and indicative of a map produced over a long period of time. (131)
*Gloucestershire. Saxton (Christopher), Glocestriae sive Claudiocestriae Comit (Claudy Caesaris Nomine ad huc Celebrat) Verus Tipus atq Effigies. No. Dni. 1577, [1579], engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, elaborate strapwork cartouche, and mileage scale, 385 x 500 mm, mounted framed and glazed Engraved by Augustine Ryner and decorated with the arms of Queen Elizabeth I, a fine example in very good condition of the first ever published map of Gloucestershire. (1)
London. Greenwood (C. & J.), Map of London from an actual survey made in the years 1824, 1825 & 1826..., extended and comprising the various improvements to 1830, published Greenwood & Co., 2nd. edition, August 31st 1830, fine large scale map with contemporary hand colouring, engraved by Josiah Neele, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic cartouche, table of explanation and reference to the parishes, inset views of Westminster Abbey and St. Pauls, dedication to King William IV, very slight staining, edged in green silk, marbled endpapers, 1250 x 1890 mm, contained in a contemporary green morocco gilt book box, all edges gilt, some wear to extremities Howgego, Printed Maps of London 1553 - 1850, 309, state 2. The Greenwood brothers Christopher and John spent three years preparing this remarkable new survey of London, prepared on the lavish scale of 8 inches to a mile, illustrating for the first time the planned development of Belgravia by Thomas Cubitt, the completion of the Grand Surrey Canal and Regent's Park one year before it was completed in 1828. This second edition has the additions of the Lea Union Canal and the names of Bayswater and East Greenwich. (1)
*Oxfordshire. Plot (Robert), The Map of Oxfordshire, [1677], hand coloured engraved map, decorative cartouche, mileage scale, table of explanation and compass rose, old folds, small closed tears with slight loss affecting image, repaired with facsimile, one long closed tear affecting image, 500 x 480 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Plot (Robert), The Natural History of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England, printed at the Theatre in Oxford..., 1677, decorative title, dedication to Charles II, sixteen uncoloured engraved plates, index bound at rear, bookplates of Effingham and Simon Nowell-Smith, later endpapers, 19th century half calf gilt, worn at extremities, 4to Created by the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford, the map is decorated with 172 coats of arms of the county's gentry, Oxford colleges, the city and the four county towns. One of the most decorative maps of Oxfordshire ever produced. (2)
Persia. Ortelius (Abraham), Persici sive sophorum regni Typus, [1595], hand coloured engraved map, slight fraying to margins but not affecting image, 350 x 500 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Kitchin (Thomas), New map of Persia divided into its provinces from the latest authorities, circa 1790, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring and some later enhancement, old folds, 385 x 345 mm The first map described:- Marcel van den Broecke. Ortelius Atlas Maps, no. 167. (2)
Mandelslo (Johann Albrecht von). Voyages celebres et remarquables, faits de Perse aux Indes orientales ... contenant unde description nouvelle et trŠs-curieuse de l'Indostan, de l'Empire du Grand-Mogol, des Œles et presqu'Œles de l'Orient, des royaumes de Siam, du Japon, de la Chine, du Congo, etc. ... mis en ordre et publiez ... par Adam Olearius, traduits de l'original par A. de Wicquefort ... nouvelle edition rev–e et corrig‚e exactement, augment‚e considerablement, Amsterdam: Michel Charles Le CŠne, 1727, half-title to volume 1, title pages printed in red and black, engraved arms to dedication, portrait 20 maps and plans (most of them folding), 16 folding views including panorama of Tokyo, 1 folding plate depicting Hottentots, 7 further plates not mentioned in the 'avis au relieur', 19 vignettes in the text, final privilege leaf, additional engraved title and volume 2 half-title lacking, occasional spotting and browning, later hand-colouring to folding map 'Royaume de Perse' and the views of Gamron (i.e. Bandar Abbas) and Anvers, plan of Goa with small rupture to intersection of folds, map of the Congo with short split along one fold, short closed tear to 'La rade de Batavia' plate not affecting image, mild damp-staining towards rear, near-contemporary calf, gilt spine, joints cracking superficially at ends, folio (31 x 19 cm) Atabey 884 (accompanied by a copy of Olearius's Voyages ... faits en Moscovie, Tartarie, et Perse), Cordier Indosinica 883, Japonica 367-8, Sinica 2077, Cox I pp. 271-2 for other editions. Re-issue of Van der Aa's 1719 Leiden edition, the preferred edition of a work first published in German in 1647. Mandelslo travelled to Persia in 1633 as part of an embassy sent by the Duke of Holstein; the other ambassadors remained in Persia but Mandelslo obtained permission to continue to India, sailing from Hormuz on the Persian Gulf in 1638 and landing at Surat, thence travelling throughout India and returning to London via Ceylon and Madagascar. In addition to the regions visited, the plates and maps depict China, Japan, and various locations in the Dutch East Indies. (1)
*Turkish Empire. Speed (John), The Turkish Empire, published George Humble, [1627], hand coloured engraved 'carte-a-figures' map, ten costumed figures to the vertical margins, eight oval vignettes of principal cities to upper horizontal margin, 395 x 515 mm, mounted, framed and double glazed, English text on verso A clean bright example in very good condition of one of the most decorative maps of the region issued in the 17th Century and the first map of the region to be published in England. (1)
Underground map. Beck (Henry C.), London Underground Transport, 1937, colour photolithographic on card, an example of Beck's iconic map of the London Underground four years after its first appearance, slight spotting, the verso shows a detail of the interchange stations in the central area with the names of the stations within diamonds, some staining to verso, two folds, 155 x 225 mm, together with a London Transport 1935 untitled folding map of the bus routes in the central area of London, old folds, 430 x 565 mm (2)
Mauritius. Manuscript handbook to the dependencies of Mauritius, circa 1900, approximately 50 leaves + numerous blanks, several leaves written on rectos or versos only, contents leaf headed 'List of Dependencies of Mauritius', 10 manuscript charts and plans (of which 7 on india or other thin paper, mounted), depicting the Aldabra Group and Assumption Island (both part of the Seychelles) and Mal‚ (Maldives), mounted maps stained from adhesive, ownership inscription to front free endpaper dated 'Seychelles 1900', disbound, narrow folio (32 x 15 cm) The dependencies of the crown colony of Mauritius included the Chagos Islands, the Seychelles, and other islands and archipelagos. A note on the leaf following the contents leaf states that the information for the first 15 dependencies is 'derived from a report of the Stipendary Magistrate made in 1880 ... in the possession of Mr Hobbs of the Mauritius C. S. (Survey Dept.); the information for the Aldabra Group is attributed to a report by surveyor S. C. E. Baty dated December 1895. (1)
*World. Magini (Giovanni Antonio), Universi orbis descriptio ad usum navigantium, published Venice, [1596], hand coloured map, engraved by G. Porro, 135 x 175 mm, mounted, framed and glazed R. W. Shirley. The Mapping of the World, no. 196. First published in Magini's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. This 'mariner's map' is a reduced version of Gerard Mercator's large world map of 1569. Note the speculative addition of a mountain range in the Southern Continent, a clear 'North-West passage' and the absence of the Great Lakes. (1)
Aesop. Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflections, by Sir Roger L'Estrange, 2nd edition, corrected and amended, printed for R. Sare [and others], 1694, 2 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece of L'Estrange by Robert White after Godfrey Kneller,and portrait of Aesop, front free endpaper detached, small spill-burn in d1, large engraved armorial bookplate of the Biddulph family, contemporary panelled calf, joints split but firm, slightly rubbed, folio (32 x 19.5 cm), Croke (Sir George), The First Part, though last publish't, of the Reports of Sr George Croke ... Collected and written in French by Himself; Revised and published in English by Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1st edition, for John Field [and others], 1661, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials, text mainly in black letter, errata leaf, contemporary calf, front board near-detached, worn, folio (29 x 17.3 cm), Agathias Scholasticus, [Greek title] De imperio et rebus gestis Iustiniani imperatoris libri quinque, ex bibliothecae et interpretatione Bonaventurae Vulcanii, Paris: Typographia Regia,1660, engraved title vignette, head- and tailpieces and initials, 3 initial leaves including title page detached, browneand slightly chipped, contemporary calf, covers detached, worn, large folio (42.5 x 28 cm), Jones (Sir William), Memoirs of the life, Writings, and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, by Lord Teignmouth, 1st edition, John Hatchard, 1804, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 1 leaf of manuscript facsimile, browning, ownership inscription 'Philip Gell, Tr. Coll. Cambridge, Aug. 1804' to half-title, bookplate of publisher and politician Philip Lyttelton Gell (1852-1926), contemporary quarter roan with Gell arms gilt to front board, spine rubbed and sunned, worn at head, 4to (29.8 x 24 cm) Wing A707 and C7011 for the first two items. (4)
Aquinas (Thomas). In libris de generatione et corruptione Aristotelis clarissima expositio, Venice: heirs of Ottaviano Scoto, 1530, [4] + 46 leaves, text in black letter, double column, printer's woodcut device to title page and colophon, large woodcut depicting Thomas Aquinas triumphing over Averroes (Ibn Rushd) to folio [2], woodcut initials and typographic diagrams throughout, damp-staining to title page and lower margins of outer leaves, variable tide-mark to fore and lower margins occasionally encroaching on text, modern greyish-brown calf with geometric red and black morocco panel onlaid to front board, folio in 8s (29.5 x 19.5 cm) USTC 859462; not in Adams or BM STC Italian (but see p. 671 of the latter for the first edition of 1488). Scarce Venetian edition. USTC traces nine copies, all in French or Italian institutions; no copies traced on Copac or OCLC. (1)
Bacon (Francis). Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica, civilia, et theologica, cura et fide Guilielmi Rawley, 1st edition, 2nd issue, by Roger Daniel for Octavian Pulleyn, 1658, a few minor marks, 17th-century engraved bookplate of Antonius Biderman (d. 1679, bailiff in the service of the House of Frstenberg) to title page verso, causing faint toning recto and very minor paper disruption to no loss of text, later floral paper-backed marbled boards, rubbed, small 8vo (16 x 9.8 cm), together with: [Dunton, John], Athenian Sport: or Two Thousand Paradoxes Merrily Argued, to Amuse and Divert the Age ... by a member of the Athenian Society, 1st edition, for B. Bragg, 1707, half-title, 8 pp. advertisements, browning, bookplate of Robert S. Pirie, 19th-century green half morocco, rubbed, 8vo (19.6 x 12 cm), Leyden (John), The Poetical Remains ... with Memoirs of his Life by James Morton, 1st edition, for Longman [and others], 1819, half-title, 8 pp. advertisements, uncut in original boards, short split to head of front joint, extremities bumped, 8vo (22.4 x 13.8 cm) Wing B314 for Bacon; Gibson 230 for the first issue (imprint 'ex officina R. Danielis, 1658'), ESTC traces eight copies in UK libraries. (3)
[Bird, Isabella]. The Englishwoman in America, 1st edition, John Murray, 1856, 32 pp. publisher's catalogue to rear, contents toned, damp-staining to fore edges of front free endpaper and initial blank, inner hinges cracked, engraved bookplate (John Murray of Touchadam), contemporary bookseller's ticket and 2 other effaced labels to front pastedown, a few other minor spots and marks, original pink cloth, spine sunned and slightly marked, small chip to headcap, tips slightly bumped and worn, 8vo Sabin 5545. First edition of the first book by 'the most notable woman traveller of her time' (ODNB). Rare in commerce. (1)
Bible [English; Douai-Rheims version]. The New Testament of Jesus Christ ... the fourth Edition, enriched with Pictures, [Rouen:] John Cousturier, 1633, 6 full-page engravings depicting the evangelists, St Paul and St John the Apostle, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, lacking engraved title page, plate (depicting the Pentecost) and quire 2Y (comprising 4 index leaves), browning, a few marks, contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, worn, front joint cracked at foot, 4to (23.7 x 17.5 cm), together with: Bible [Welsh], Y Bible Cyssegr-lan; sef, yr Hen Testament a'r Newydd, London: Thomas Baskett, 1752, also including the Book of Common Prayer and the Psalms, lacking the Apocrypha, mild browning, a few 19th-century inscriptions including a genealogy, contemporary tree calf, early 19th-century tree calf, joints partially split but firm, 8vo, Bunyan (John), The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come, Newcastle: M. Brown, 1786, engraved frontispiece by Ralph Beilby, spotting and browning, near-contemporary ownership inscriptions to frontispiece verso (showing through), title page and blanks, related newspaper clipping tipped to front pastedown, contemporary calf, red morocco label, some minor wear, 8vo Huntington (William), A Key to the Hieroglyphical Print of the Church of God, in her Fivefold State, 1st edition, for the author, 1791, contemporary tree calf, slightly rubbed, 8vo, [Molindes, Franz], Pietas quotidiania, erga divinissimum humani generis redemptorem, fidei authorem, salutis consummatorem, Jesus crucifixum, Wroclaw: Typis Academicis Collegii Societatis Jesus, 1738, old ink-stamp to title page, endpapers renewed, contemporary sprinled calf, 12mo (13.6 x 8 cm), and 1 other Darlow & Moule 370, Herbert 479 and STC 2946 for the first item; Darlow & Moule 9600 for the second (their copy also lacking the Apocrypha). ESTC traces one copy only for the Newcastle edition of Bunyan (Newcastle Central Library), and eight for the key to Huntington's popular engraving. OCLC locates one copy for this edition of the final item (Molindes), at the National Library of Poland. (6)
Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Maiesties speciall commandement..., Imprinted at London by Robert Barker and John Bill, 1630, general and New Testament titles within decorative woodcut border, general title with manuscript date beneath imprint and inscriptions to verso with slight show-through, Apocrypha present, double column black letter text with occasional very slight close-trimming to running titles and marginal notes, bound with at front the Genealogies by John Speed, including double-page woodcut map of the Canaan, Genealogies title strengthened to inner margin and initial leaves frayed to outer margins, bound with at rear A Briefe Concordance..., London: Printed by the Assignes of Clemment Cotton, 1630, with woodcut device to title, also bound with an incomplete Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., London: Printed by W.S. for the Company of Stationers, 1631, volume contains early ownership inscriptions and genealogical entries for Robert Imbleton dated Jan 2nd 1647, William Story (undated), and John Foster dated 1758 & 1780, occasional light dust-soiling and dampstains mostly to first & last few leaves, contemporary gilt panelled maroon morocco, second compartment of spine with gilt initials WM and date 1710, upper joint split at head & foot, spine worn with loss at head & foot, upper board dust-soiled, extremities worn, 4to, (leaf size 212 x 160mm) Herbert 430, Darlow & Moule 329 & STC 2290. Apocrypha with Wisd. xix. 22: 'neither diddest thou...'. (1)
Bible [New Testament - English]. [The New Testament of Jesus Christ faithfully translated into English... by the English College then Resident in Rhemes. Set forth the second time, by the same College now returned to Doway. With addition of one new Table of Heretical Corruptions, the other Tables and Annotations somewhat augmented..., Printed at Antwerp by Daniel Vervliet, 1600], title lacking, numerous woodcut decorative initials, few tears to first & last few leaves (first leaf of Preface torn with a little loss, with repairs to first two leaves at foot), some spotting, marks, soiling and occasional dampstaining, 18th century reversed calf, old reback with red morocco title label, boards detached (with first & last few leaves), worn 4to, 21.7 x 15.8cm Herbert 258; Darlow & Moule 198; STC 2898. This is the second edition of the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament in English, first published at Rheims in 1582. (1)
Bible [English]. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Cambridge: Printed by Thomas and John Buck, 1630, title within decorative border and with printer's woodcut device, double-column roman text with few decorative woodcut initials, final blank present (4E6), bound with at front The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures..., by J[ohn] S[peed], [London], circa 1630, and The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and other rites and ceremonies of the church of England, with the Psalter and Psalmes of David, Cambridge: Printed by Thomas and John Buck, 1630, title detached and frayed, with old cloth strengthening repairs to gutter margin and lower margin (obscuring some letters of title), leaf E2 crudely reattached to paper guard with some text adhesive staining and text loss, bound with at rear The Whole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..., Cambridge: Printed by Thomas and John Buck, 1630, title within decorative border, volume interleaved with blank leaves between each part (few blanks removed at front of volume), some toning, light dust-soiling and few marks, lacking front free endpaper, front pastedown inscribed 'W. Gregory The Gift of Richard Hopton Esqr. at Canon Frome Septbr. 8th 1748. These books were Sr Wm Gregory's but bought by my mother when my Fathers Personal Estate was appraised at How Capel 1702 - 2 volumes' and 'Dr Gregorys Monument in Hambleton Church in Berkshire. He was Rector there', and with removed bookplate, all edges gilt, contemporary brown morocco with elaborate gilt decoration, joints split (old repair to upper joint), loss of leather at foot of spine, some wear, 4to Herbert 432; Darlow & Moule 331 and STC 2293. The New Testament part only of the Bible (NT comprising leaves 3O1-4E6). This and the black-letter issue of the same year are the first quarto editions of King James' version printed at Cambridge, being a reprint of the Cambridge folio of 1629. Sir William Gregory (1625-1696) was a British judge and politician. In 1677 he was elected a Serjeant-at-law and also sat as Member of Parliament for Weobly, Herefordshire. In the same year Gregory purchased the manor and estate of How Caple, Herefordshire, from Edward Caple, whose family had held it since 1289. After only a year in Parliament he was elected to serve as Speaker of the House of Commons in the Habeas Corpus Parliament. In 1689 he was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench, a position he held until his death. Richard Hopton (1685-1764), of Canon Frome, near Hereford married on 9th December 1705, Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Geers, M.P., of Bridge Sellers, Herefordshire. Elizabeth was the widow of a William Gregory (1676-1702) of How Caple. They had two children William (c.1700-1765) & Elizabeth Gregory. It would appear that at the time Richard Hopton gifted the Bible to William, the first volume (Old Testament) was included. (1)
Boswell (James). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works..., 4 volumes, 3rd edition, revised and augmented, London: H. Baldwin and Son, for Charles Dilly, 1799, engraved portrait frontispiece after Reynolds (offset to title) and two engraved folding plates, toning and scattered spotting and occasional dampstains, all edges gilt, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt decorated spines and board borders, manuscript library marks in gilt at foot of spines, 8vo, contained in two purpose-made book boxes Bennet Langton's copy, inscribed on the fly-leaf to the first volume 'From Bennet Langton to Bryan Waller'. The writer Bennet Langton (c.1736-1801) was a founding member of the Literary Club. He is best known for his close friendship with writer Samuel Johnson and has numerous appearances in James Boswell's book The Life of Samuel Johnson. The recipient of the volumes Bryan Waller is possibly the poet Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874). Bryan Waller wrote an epistle to Bennet Langton in 1802 (refer to The Monthly Mirror, volume 14, 1802, page 104). (2)
Burke (Edmund, subject). The Confederacy of Kings against the Freedom of the World; being Free Thoughts upon the Present State of French Politics ... in Three Letters addressed to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, 1st edition, for Deighton, and Johnson, 1792, errata leaf, marginal damp-staining to first 2 quires including title page, bound with: [Price, Joseph], A Third Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, on the Subject of the Evidence contained in the Reports of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, 1st edition, for the author, 1782, title page soiled and laid down, repaired closed tear, lacking final leaf (pp. 69/70); Burke (Edmund), Two Letters addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, [2nd edition or later], F. and C. Rivington, 1796, lacking half-title (which contains the edition statement); Dundas (Henry, 1st Viscount Melville, subject, An Exposure of the Persecution of Lord Melville in a Letter to an Intimate Acquaintance, 1st edition, for J. Hatchard, 1805; Le Mesurier (Havilland), Two Letters on the Commissariat; written to the Commissioners of Military Inquiry, 1st edition, for John Stockdale, 1806, title page slightly soiled and with a short closed tear; generally light spotting and browning throughout the volume, stab-holes visible in gutter, contemporary half calf, front board detached, 8vo (21 x 13 cm). Together with approximately 10 others, including Hinds (Samuel), A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of Norwich, 1st edition, B. Fellowes, 1852, contemporary half calf by Bedford, 8vo, Sade (Jacques de), The Life of Petrarch, collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch by Mrs Dobson, 2 volumes, 5th edition, 8 engraved plates, offset, contemporary half calf, 8vo, and similar ESTC N26822 (Confederacy of Kings), T2818 (Price). Pamphlet volume including scarce pieces relating to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and the Warren Hastings trial. ESTC traces eight copies only for the first item (Confederacy of Kings); Copac locates seven copies of the Dundas, and one copy of the Le Mesurier. (15)
Capriolo (Aliprando). Ritratti di cento capitani illustri, 1st edition, 2nd issue, Rome: Filippo Thomassino and Giovanni Turpino, 1600, engraved title page, arms and 100 portraits, errata leaf, old repair to title page verso, repair to leaf R1 costing a few letters, 19th-century green quarter morocco, 4to (23.4 x 16 cm) Not in Adams; BM STC Italian 1465-1600 p. 147 for the first issue, which appeared in 1596; the second issue retains the original imprint in the colophon but has a new title page and dedication leaf. The portraits are mainly of Italian notables including Christopher Columbus, but there are also portraits of Tamerlane, Ottoman sultan Beyazid I, Skanderbeg and Hayreddin Barbarossa. (1)
Diemerbroeck (Ysbrand van ). The Anatomy of Human Bodies ... To which is added a Particular Treatise of the Small-Pox and Measles ... Translated from the last and most correct and full Edition ... by William Salmon, 1st edition in English, for Edward Brewster, 1689, engraved portrait frontispiece, 16 engraved folding plates, a few small marginal holes to frontispiece, title page soiled and with contemporary ownership inscriptions to head, plates variably frayed, torn and tape-repaired verso, often with partial loss of image, some with contemporary annotations to margin, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and restored, folio (32 x 19 cm) Russell, British Anatomy (2nd edition) 262, Wing 1415; not in Garrison & Morton or Norman. Rare first edition in English of Diemerbroeck's Anatome corporis humani; there was a second edition in 1694. (1)
Downame (John). A Guide to Godlynesse, or a Treatise of a Christian ... whereunto are added divers Prayers and a Treatise of Carnall Securitie, 1st edition, 2nd issue, printed by F[elix] K[ingston] for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1629, 2 parts in 1 volume, engraved title page by John Payne, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, engraved title and final text leaf trimmed and mounted with very slight loss to head of title, other leaves in quire A restored along top edges to loss of headlines, very occasional marginal damp-staining, extending into text in final 20 leaves, tiny interlinear spill-burns to F4, G4 and T5, minor worming in lower margins of 3P-4B, leaf 4K5 (final text leaf of first part) duplicated, the duplicate leaf replacing blank 4K6, second blank (chi1) also lacking, effaced ownership inscription to A2 recto, later ownership inscriptions to p. 1, 18th-century half sheep, slightly rubbed and worn, folio (26.8 x 17.5 cm), together with: Hall (Joseph), [A Recollection of such Treatises as have bene heretofore severally published, and are nowe revised, corrected, and augmented, with addition of some others not hitherto extant, printed by Felix Kingston, Edward Griffin and William Stansby for Henry Fetherstone, 1621], engraved title lacking, numerous section titles, 4 with architectonic woodcut borders, first leaf (dedication, A1) frayed, final leaf frayed and loose with partial loss of text, occasional soiling and marginal worming, contemporary panelled sheep, worn, folio (31 x 20.5 cm), Burnet (Gilbert), The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, etc., 1st edition, by J. Grover for R. Royston, 1677, half-title (with later inscription '[...] given to the Cheval James Hamilton', 2 engraved portrait plates including frontispiece, full-page engraved portrait to p. 416, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, spine worn, folio (32 x 20 cm), [Bacon, Francis, & others], Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government in Letters of Illustrious Persons and Great Ministers of State, 2nd edition, for G. Bedell and T. Collins, 1663, imprimatur leaf, title page in red and black, small ink-spot to title, index spotted, 18th-century reversed calf, spine-ends chipped, folio (30 x 18 cm), Stillingfleet (Edward), Origines Britannicae, or, the Antiquities of the British Churches, 1st edition, by M. Flesher for Henry Mortlock, 1685, contemporary panelled calf, worn, folio (32 x 19 cm), Rapin de Thoyras (Paul), The History of England, translated into English with Additional Notes by N. Tindal, 2 volumes [of 4], 2nd edition, for James, John and Paul Knapton, 1732-3, 4 engraved folding maps, 9 genealogical tables, numerous engraved headpieces, closed tear in table facing volume 1 p. 46, lacking frontispieces and possibly other plates, worm-track to first few quires of volume 2, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, some minor wear, folio (39.6 x 24.2 cm), and 1 other STC 7144 (Downame), 12708 (Hall); Wing B5832 (Burnet), C185 (Cabala), S5615 (Stillingfleet). Downame's work is scarce, with two other copies traced in auction records, both of this second issue (the first issue appeared in 1622). (8)
Eliot (George, i.e. Marian Evans). Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life, 4 volumes, 1st edition, William Blackwood, 1871-1872, first volume with errata slip present, bound without half-titles, occasional light spotting mostly at front and rear, front free blank endpapers with signature S.M. Socendy(?), hinges split, contemporary dark green half morocco gilt (with ink stamp to endpapers 'Mudies Select Library"), extremities rubbed, 8vo Sadleir 815; Wolff 2059a. (4)
Fore-edge paintings. Poems: by William Cowper with a biographical and critical Introduction by the Rev. Thomas Dale, 2 volumes, published Tilt and Bogue, 1841, printed titles and numerous wood engraved illustrations to text throughout, slight spotting to first few leaves, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco with gilt decorated spines and sidings, slight mottling to upper board of volume 2, near contemporary fore-edge paintings of Cowper against a background of a Buckinghamshire village to volume 1 and 'A Winter walk at Noon' of a couple working beside a millstream with the mill in the background to volume 2, slight wear to extremities, 8vo (2)
Froissart (Jean). Histoire et chronique memorable de messire Jehan Froissart, reveu et corrig‚ ... par Denis Sauvage de Fontenailles, 4 volumes in 1, Paris: Gervais Mallot, 1574, woodcut title devices, headpieces and initials, damp-staining to first gathering, repairs to title page verso and to margin of volume 1 leaf a3 obscuring one letter in headline, contemporary ownership inscription 'Henry Cobham, 1581' to title page (see note), contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt arabesque lozenges to sides, sides pitted and restored, folio (34 x 21 cm), together with Ambrose (Saint), [Omnia quotquot extant opera], volumes 1-3 (of 5) in 1, Basel: Froben, 1538,woodcut title- and colophon devices, historiated initials, incomplete (lacking volume 1 quire AA: replaced in a combination of printed and old manuscript facsimile), marginal damp-staining, mild browning, old blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked and extensively restored on front board, worn, folio (33.5 x 21.5 cm), Videl (Louis), Histoire de la vie du Connestable de Lesdiguieres, 1st edition, Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1637, incomplete (lacking engraved portrait), marginal damp-staining to initial leaves, bookplate of novelist John Fowles (1926-2005) to front pastedown and of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1662-1711) to title page verso, old calf, worn, folio (35.5 x 24 cm) Adams F1067-8 for two other issues of this edition of Froissart; B937 for Ambrose (this edition was edited by Erasmus). Provenance (Froissart): likely ownership inscription of Sir Henry Cobham (1537-1592), English ambassador to France from 1579 to 1583. (3)
Goldsmith (Oliver). The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II, 4 volumes, 1771, ownership inscription on each title-page of Captain Mackintosh, 71st Regiment, two volumes with his inscription partly erased from front pastedowns, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, some joints cracked, spines of volumes 2 & 4 worn, 8vo, together with Langhorne (John & William), Plutarch's Lives, translated from the original Greek; with notes, historical and critical; and a life of Plutarch, 6 volumes, new edition, 1819, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (offset to title), armorial bookplate of B. Jackson to upper pastedowns, contemporary gilt and blind decorated calf, occasional light rubbing to extremities, 8vo, with Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, literally translated; comprising all the epigrams hitherto omitted by English translatiors. To which is added an original metrical version and copious explanatory notes, Printed for Private Circulation, London, 1868, two tone engraved frontispiece, interleaved throughout with lined paper, scattered spotting, top edge gilt, 20th century dark green half morocco gilt, 8vo (limited edition 51/150), and Dilworth (W.H.), The Lifes of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin, 1760, three page publisher's advertisement at rear, slightly torn to inner blank margins of first & last leaves, contemporary floral printed boards with modern calf spine, board edges worn, slim 12mo, plus other 18th & 19th century antiquarian (27)
Johnson (Samuel). The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on their Works, 4 volumes, 1st separate edition, printed for C. Bathurst et al, 1781, engraved portrait frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds (first state without imprint, spotted), volume 4 with advertisement leaf present, volume 3 without terminal blank, occasional spotting and toning to text, oval ownership label of Thomas Lee to upper pastedowns, hinges repaired, edges untrimmed, contemporary marbled boards with recent calf rebacks, board edges worn, 8vo Rothschild 1265; Tinker 1365. (4)
Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To which are Prefixed, A History of the Language and an English Grammar, 2 volumes, the fifth edition, London: W. Strahan, J.F. & C. Rivington and others, 1784, titles printed in red and black (cloth tape strengthening to inner margin of volume 1 title), occasional minor spotting, modern full sheep, contrasting morocco spine labels, extremities rubbed and scuffed, folio Courtney p.57. Fifth edition of the first standard English dictionary, of which 1,000 copies were printed. (2)
Laennec (Ren‚-Th‚ophile-Hyacinthe). A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest, in which they are described according to their Anatomical Characters, and their Diagnosis established on a New Principle by means of Acoustick Instruments, translated from the French with a New Preface and Notes by John Forbes, 1st edition in English, T. and G. Underwood, 1821, late amendment: lacks part-title leaf to part 1, errata leaf, 8 engraved plates, moderate spotting and browning, marginal damp-staining and very small worm-track to lower inner corner of plates, short closed tear to margin of plate I, contemporary engraved bookplate of Richard Long MD, related gift inscription ('Richard Long MC to L. A. Long' to title page, contemporary half calf, mark to spine, short split to head of front joint, some wear to sides, 8vo in 4s (21.3 x 12.8 cm) Norman 1256; Garrison & Morton 2673 for the French first edition of 1819 (and referring to Forbes's translation). 'The publication of this book revolutionized the study of disease of the thoracic organs' (Garrison & Morton). Forbes 'did as much as anyone to popularise the use of the stethoscope and to introduce Laeenec's teaching to English readers' (Norman). His translation was printed in Penzance in a run of 500 copies only. (1)
Stanford (Edward, publisher). Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography, exhibiting the Physicial and Political Divisions of the Various Countries of the World, 3rd edition, revised and enlarged, Edward Stanford, Ltd., 1904, 110 double-page lithographic colour maps mounted on linen guards, spotting to endpapers, blanks and half-title, light finger-soiling to preliminary text leaves, all edges gilt, original crushed half morocco gilt, slightly rubbed and marked, large folio (56 x 39 cm) This edition contains ten additional maps not in the second edition (1893), which itself had ten more maps than the first edition (1887). (1)
Machiavelli (Niccolo). A Translation of Part of the First Book of Machiavell's Art of War: Treating of the best Method of defending a Country agaunst Invasions and Popular Tumults. With an Introduction and Preface, in Answer to Modern Objections, 1st edition, for M. Cooper, 1744, xxiv, 40 pp., half-title, light browning, leaf A4 spotted, modern quarter calf, 8vo, together with: Hervey (John, 1st Baron; subject), Sapho to Phaon: An Epistle from a Lady of Quality to a Noble Lord, occasion'd by the Late Publication of his Miscellaneous Thoughts, 1st edition, for Jacob Robinson, 1743, [4] 63 [1] pp., half-title, light spotting, quarter calf, 8vo, Marlborough (Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of; subject), Remarks upon the Account of the Conduct of a Certain Dutchess. In a Letter from a Member of the Last Parliament in the Reign of Queen Anne. To a Young Nobleman, 1st edition, for T. Cooper, 1742, 48 pp., marginal damp-staining, modern quarter calf, 8vo, [Winnington, Thomas; contested attribution], An Apology for the Conduct of a late celebrated second-rate Minister, from the Year 1729, at which Time he commenc'd Courtier, till within a few Weeks of his Death, in 1746 ... Written by himself and found among his Papers, ?1st edition, for W. Webb, [?1747], 6, 9-50 pp., title page spotted and browned, modern quarter calf, 8vo ESTC traces four copies only for Machiavelli, eight copies for the Remarks (of which five at Oxford), and seven copies in the UK for Sapho to Phaon, an anonymous harangue addressed to John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, concerning his Miscellaneous Thoughts on the Present Posture both of our Foreign and Domestic Affairs (1742). Henry Fielding published an anonymous vindication of the Duchess of Marlborough in the same year as the Remarks (1742). (4)
Pecquet (Jean). Experimenta nova anatomica, 3rd edition, Paris: Cramoisy, 1654, 6 engravings in the text (1 full-page), intermittent light damp-staining, contemporary speckled English calf, rebacked to style and relined, superficial stripping to front board, 4to (18.6 x 13.6 cm), together with Bartlet (John), Pharmacopoeia Hippiatrica: or, the Gentleman Farrier's Repository, of Elegant and Approved Remedies for the Diseases of Horses, 1st edition, Eton: by J. Pote for T. Pote, 1764, errata leaf, library stamp to title page verso, occasional light soiling, worming in top margin of quires O-S, contemporary ownership inscriptions to initial blank, modern quarter calf, 8vo (17.4 x 10.5 cm), Berkeley (George), Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, 2nd edition, improved and corrected, London: for W. Innys, and C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744, uncut in original wrappers, wear to spine-ends, 8vo, and 1 other (an ex-library copy of Richard Owen's History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds, 1st edition, 1846, contemporary calf, 8vo) Garrison & Morton 1095 for the first edition of Pecquet's work (printed in 1651). ESTC traces nine copies in UK libraries for Bartlet's work. (2)
Smith (Joseph). The Book of Doctrine & Covenants, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Selected from the Revelations of God, Second European edition, Liverpool: Orson Pratt, 1849, erratum leaf, contemporary ink ownership inscription of William Huskins to front pastedown, a few minor spots, inner hinges cracked, original blind-stamped brown cloth, somewhat rubbed and a few minor stains, small chip at head of lower board, 12mo After an unsuccessful attempt to publish in 1833, the first edition appeared in 1835, and later editions incorporated additional revelations and reference aids. In February 1841 in Liverpool, some 4,000 copies of the 1837 Kirtland edition were printed and it was from the plates of the 'European' edition that subsequent Latter-Day Saint editions would descend. Following the Liverpool printing of 3,000 copies of the first European edition in 1845 by Wilford Woodruff, this 1849 'Second European Edition' published by Apostle Orson Pratt and printed by R. James moved the index to the front of the volume, (in the present volume the index is headed 'Index' and not 'Contents' as noted by the Maxwell Institute and includes the chronology of revelations), along with other format changes which were retained for many later editions. Five thousand copies were printed, and George Q. Cannon used it for his translation for the Hawaii edition. The Nauvoo edition had been printed in 1844. The present copy was probably published around November 1849. Citing from the Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star Vol. II, No. 10, 15th May 1849: 'The Book of Doctrine and Covenants are all gone, but soon will be reprinted'. From the same journal and volume, No. 22, 15th November 1849: '"The Doctrine and Covenants" are now ready. An additional index has been formed in the order of the date in which the several revelations were given'. The second European edition of The Book of Mormon was published in Liverpool in May 1849, also by Orson Pratt. In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stands alongside the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and The Pearl of Great Price as scripture. Together the LDS Church's scriptures are referred to as the 'standard works'. The LDS Church's version of the Doctrine and Covenants is described by the church as 'containing revelations given to Joseph Smith, the Prophet, with some additions by his successors in the Presidency of the Church'. (1)
Willyams (Cooper). A selection of views in Egypt, Palestine, Rhodes, Italy, Minorca, and Gibraltar, John Hearne, 1822, 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates, some spotting and occasionally heavy old dampstaining tide marks to lower margins throughout, contemporary half calf over patterned boards, worn, folio (40 x 35.5 cm) This second edition has four additional plates relating to the Hajj and Egypt which are not found in the first. Abbey Travel 198; Atabey 1339 (issue with title dated 1821); Blackmer 1814. (1)
Verstegan (Richard). A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In Antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation, John Bill, 1628, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, illustrations, occasional marginalia in red ink, a few annotations, occasional marginal water stains and soiling, later calf gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, a little rubbed, small 4to (STC 21362), together with Sylva Sylvarum: Or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, by Francis Bacon, 5th edition, 1639, engraved portrait frontispiece (detached and repaired), additional engraved title, woodcut headpieces and initials, first leaf of Table (a1) with lower corner torn away (with small loss of text), marginal wormtrack to first few leaves, some water stains towards end, a little light soiling, later half vellum, modern calf reback, folio First work contains the first account in English of the Pied Piper story, first published in the first edition of 1605. (2)
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