Ephemera.- Collection of printed including: [Admiralty]. Memorial of Margaret Robson, widow of George Robson, pilot who "was lost in the... sloop in the North seas on the 30th October 1796" and is left destitute, and ordering the case to be referred to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, manuscript, 1p., tears along folds, folio, 1st August 1798 § Fugitive`s OATH. I... Upon my corporal Oath... solemnly swear... That I was actually on the First Day of January... 1772, beyond the Seas in Foreign Parts..., printed form not filled in, cut at head, tears repaired (partly stitched), folds, tipped-in on stub and a page of engraved portraits, [not in ESTC], C. Hood, 1772 § [British Army]. Rates of Pay, To be issued to the Field Officers and Captains of the Dragoon Guards... 25th December 1797, printed broadside, on a stub, [ESTC copy issued with "Circular. War Office... 1798"; ESTC lists 1 copy only, fold, W. Windham, 25th January 1798 § Sir Peter Laurie, "By the Mayor To the Aldermen of the Ward of}... Woodthorpe" [regarding law and order on the day of the Lord Mayor`s Procession], printed broadside not filled in, fold, pristine condition, fold, Printed by Arthur Taylor, Printer to the Honourable City of London, 29th September 1832; and a quantity of other material, including a 18th century account for men and women`s gloves, letters from Lord Curzon, Austen Chamberlain, printed pages from works on Heraldry, v.s., v.d.(qty)
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West Indies.- Cochrane (Jane, daughter 24pp., sm. 4to & folio, Basseterre, Guadeloupe, Matouba & Chapel House, near Bognor, 1810-14, life in the West Indies and much relating to her father`s position as governor, "Sometimes we have eight Navy Captains at dinner at once to night my father flies his flag [11 Dec. 1810] and at 8 o clock tomorrow morning all the ships salute the new Commander in Chief. . On Sunday upwards of 30 of the principal inhabitants came to pay their respects to mamma. I have not yet commenced speaking French the black people speak so ill that it is almost impossible to understand them. They dress much better than at Barbadoes the country people there only wear a petticoast and a handkerchief on their head in this manner.", and life in England and various other topics, "What a provoking and what a distressing thing the late fraud or hoax as Cobbet calls it upon the Stock Exchange has been. Lord Cochrane has vindicated himself as far as lays in his power, bu the Committee do not seem to be satisfied yet. Cobbet blames him for condescending to explain what passed at his house on the 21st of February.", small tears along some folds, a little creased, slightly browned.
Solicitors.- Knight & Brookes, solicitors. manuscript, 11pp., small area with loss on each f., folds, a little browned, folio, 9th January 1812; and 7 others, v.s., v.d.(8 pieces) ***"1810 February Attending you as to you having sold some property to Mr Heber [?Richard Heber (1774-1812), book collector)] and Mr Wood, when you directed us to apply to Mr Owen your Auctioneer for a Copy of the Conditions of Sale." Mentions Hawkestone Abbey in ?Shropshire..
Marryat (Captain Frederick, naval officer autograph manuscript, 1p. only (p. 14), ink inscription at tail of page: "Capt Marryat`s copy of `The Poacher`, folio, [c. 1840]; letters to Storey including: photograph of Samuel Storey, Gladstone, Charles Beresford (naval officer, 1848-1919); Joseph Chamberlain, Edward Grey (Viscount Grey of Fallodon); Lord Rosebery, John Morley (Viscount Morley of Blackburn); Thomas Ellis (Liberal politician and Welsh Nationalist); Lady Megan Lloyd George (politician, first woman MP from a Welsh constituency), Austen Chamberlain, Harry Furniss, R.D. Blackmore (novelist and barrister, 1825-1900); John Ruskin, Horace Wigan (actor and adaptor of plays, 1818?-85); cut signatures; Gladstone, Lord Milner, Herbert Gladstone etc., most tipped-in, some loose, 19th century album, gilt, slightly rubbed, g.e., nineteenth/twentieth centuries. ***Letter from Ruskin to ?Storey on the Guild of St. George. "A.L.s. to "My dear Sir", 2pp., 8vo, Mrs Ravens, Coniston, 4th June 1887, "Your letter, was unanswered because when it came, I was in very serious debate with our Trustee Mr Thompson, respecting the view he took of the St. George`s Guild, - and entirely doubtful myself, what to report of it to its members. More and more, its essential purpose - the holding of land under beneficent laws, becomes impossible in the present condition of English fashions and policy; and my own part in the management of it, is now confined to getting what good drawings and sculptures I can for its educational purposes. I am, for chief trouble at present in fierce contest with the Dean of Ch Ch [H.G. Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, father of Alice Liddell (1811-98)] for authority over my own Oxford Schools. I must let St George`s affairs rest as they are. If you read any of the volumes of Fors [Clavigera] you may find enough account of the design of the Guild to satisfy you as to the part you would care to take in supporting it." .
Gomez Regulae, Ordinationes, 1546 title within ornate woodcut architectural border, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut printer`s device to verso of final text f., 1732 purchase inscription of J. Feste to front free endpaper and with his name to upper margin of title, small green ink stamp of `Bibliotheque Cte. Chappaz de la Prat` to title, occasional foxing or spotting, old green reversed calf, split at head of spine, corners worn, faded and soiled, [Not in Adams], folio, Paris, Galliot du Pré, 1546.
Stobaeus (Joannes) Loci Communes Sacri 1581 double column, text in Greek and Latin, woodcut printer`s device to title and verso of final f. of index, title with 2 early ink ownership inscriptions, 1 dated 1699, small burnhole to 3A5, affecting a couple of letters, 17th century vellum, blind-stamped arabesque centre-pieces to covers, lightly soiled, [Adams S1880], folio, Frankfurt, ex officina Andreæ Wecheli, 1581.
Camden (William) Anglica, Hibernica, 1602 first edition, title with woodcut printer`s device, 2ff. of woodcut portraits, small section missing from upper margin of title (repaired), browned, later calf, gilt, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, folio, Frankfurt, impensis Claudii Marnii, & hæredum Iohannis Aubrii, 1602.
Hooker Ecclesiastical Politie 1676 engraved additional pictorial title, printed title in red and black, lacking portrait, modern dark blue crushed morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, [Wing H-2632], R.White for Rob. Scot [&c.], 1676; and 2 vol. of Gibson`s Codex juris ecclesiastici Anglicani, folio(3)
Augustine (Saint, Aurelius Augustinus of Hippo) Op 11 vol. in 8, half-title to vol.1, engraved frontispiece to final vol., arms to titles and head-pieces, occasional spotting or light soiling, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recornered, rubbed and scuffed, folio, Paris, Francis Muguet, 1689-1700., sold not subject to return.
Bayle Dictionaire Historique et Critique 1715 4 vol., including supplement, third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol.1 and supplement, large engraved vignettes to titles, marginal water-staining, contemporary calf, richly gilt spines in compartments and with red morocco labels, rubbed and scuffed, folio, Rotterdam and Geneva, chez Fabri & Barrillot (supplement), 1715-1722.
Tostado (Alonso) Super Leviticum 1529 title printed in red and black with magnificent coat-of-arms, paragraph cut from f.2, F5 holed with loss of several words, without the last leaf (F6), presumably blank, few leaves browned and minor marginal defects, contemporary Spanish vellum, title lettered on fore-edge, printed ownership inscription on title, foot of n8, and last page, of the library of the monastery of St. Francis, Zaragoza, folio, Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, 1529. ***Rare; not in Adams or Copac and only 2 copies on EDIT16 - the Vatican & a library in Urbino..
Rupertus. Opera Omnia 2 vol., device on titles, decorated initials, worming to first few ff. of vol.I, vol.II title with hole in lower margin repaired, fore-edge frayed, marginal tear to next f., few other marginal tears, browning and marking, vol.I gathering Nn misbound, contemporary limp vellum, overlapping edges, large calligraphic titles in black on spines, fore-edges decorated in ink, with author, title and vol. number inside elaborate cartouches, not uniform, vol.I with marmoset (?) at head and roses at foot, vol.II with rat at head and apples at foot, rubbed, creased and stained, fore-edges little torn, vol.I small repair at head, vol.II spine defective and repaired at foot, new endpapers, small stamps on titles, ink shelf mark on vol.I, bookplates, folio, Cologne, in Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, 1602. ***This form of fore-edge decoration is decidedly uncommon, and, as a long bibliographical note tipped-in at the start of vol. I suggests, can perhaps be ascribed to Spain, where some books in the Escorial library were still arranged with the elaborately decorated fore-edges outwards..
Thucydides. De bello peloponnesiaco edited by Josephus Wasse, text in Greek and Latin, engraved title, 2 folding engraved maps, signature of John Green (1706-79), Bishop of Lincoln), Amsterdam, 1731 § Demosthenes. The Orations...translated into English by Thomas Leland, 3 parts in 1, portrait, folding map, 1771, contemporary calf, some wear; and 2 others, similar, folio and 4to(4)
![Foxe (John) [Book of Martyrs], Actes and Monuments 2 vol. in 1, fifth edition, engraved title, remargined and probably reback](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2796178/318-201061617232_468x382.jpg)
Foxe (John) [Book of Martyrs], Actes and Monuments 2 vol. in 1, fifth edition, engraved title, remargined and probably rebacked with lower right-hand corner of image in facsimile, U3 slightly cropped at fore-edge affecting image, paper faults throughout, some repaired, Kk1 tear in lower margin not affecting text, Nn4, Oo3 & Qq3 all with paper faults affecting corners, Hhh1 in duplicate, Hhh2 lacking, Ppp1 small stain affecting text, 7H5 paper fault at corner, 8C5 (p.1042-1044) in facsimile, final page, index mounted and remargined, worm tracks to at head Rrr2 - 5G2, woodblock illustrations throughout, library stamp of Brazenose College Library Oxford to front endpaper and margin of engraved title, armorial bookplate to front paste-down, early blind-stamped calf, rebacked preserving old spine, new endpapers, [STC 11226], folio, Peter Short, 1596.
Purchas (Samuel) Purchas his Pilgrimage,1617 third edition, Dd6 torn and defective, margins of Rr1 & Gggg2 defective with slight loss of side-notes, final leaf (Table) frayed with slight loss, browned and water-stained, ex-library copy with a few stamps, later cloth, [STC 10507], folio, by William Stansby for Henry Fetherstone, 1617; sold not subject to return
Montaigne Essayes 1632 third edition of Florio`s translation, initial `To the Beholder of this Title` f., fine engraved additional pictorial title by Martin Droeshout , a few ff. browned, a few small spots or stains, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine slightly faded, edges rubbed, [STC 18043], folio, M.Flesher for Richard Royston, 1632. ***Provenance: Ph.Skippon, ?son of the civil wars soldier (ink inscription to verso of intial f. `Ph.Skippon, Trin:Coll., 1659); Elizabeth French (early ink signature to title)..
Jonson (Benjamin) The Workes, 1640 2 vol., first collected edition, vol.1 with engraved pictorial title, lower corner lacking, engraved portrait frontispiece, with contemporary ink inscription on verso, subsidiary plays with separate dated titles, new endpapers, bookplate to pastedown, marginal browning, spotting, later polished speckled calf gilt with spine compartments and green morocco label, Richard Bishop, vol.2 with 10 of the 12 plays only (i.e.without `Bartholomew Fayre` and `Staple of Newes` and also without the general title), occasional foxing or soiling, some slight damp-staining and worm track in gutters, 17th century inscription on front endpaper, contemporary calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, [Richard Meighen], [Pforzheimer 560], folio, 1641 -[1640]; sold not subject to return(1) ***The plays included in the second volume are The Divell is an Asse, Masques, Under-Woods, Mortimer His Fall, Horace, The English Grammar, Timber, The Magnetick Lady, A Tale of A Tub, and The Sad Shepherd..
Hobbes (Thomas) Leviathan second edition with "bear" ornament on printed title, dedication leaf loose, X2 lower corner torn with loss, contemporary signature and `price` to the recto of front free end-paper, bookplate of Sir James R. Fergusson to front paste-down, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked preserving old spine, new endpapers, rubbed at extremities, [Wing H2247], folio, for Andrew Crooke, 1651 [i.e. Amsterdam, c.1651].
Livius (Titus) The Romane Historie translated by Philemon Holland, contemporary inscription cut away from head of title (repaired and reinforced at fore-edge), a little browned, light damp-staining to outer margin causing slight fraying to a few leaves, mainly to upper outer corner, contemporary calf, a little worn, rebacked, edges of boards repaired, [Wing L2613a], folio, by William Hunt, for George Sawbridge, 1659.
Burton (Robert) The Anatomy of Melancholy engraved title, half-title, title and half-title torn and repaired, last f. torn with loss, edges trimmed, extensively browned, ink inscription: "Richard Carpenter Topsham 1762" and later note by Rev. Godfrey Thring and with his signature on later endpaper, 18th century calf, rubbed, joints split, [Wing B1683], folio, H. Cripps and E. Wallis, 1660; sold not subject to return.
Chishull Antiquitates Asiaticae Christianam first edition, large paper copy, engraved title vignette, 2 plates and illustrations in text, with the additional leaf of errata to p.61 at end only found in some copies, occasional marginal water- staining or light damp-staining, modern calf-backed boards, [Blackmer 340; Not in Atabey], folio, W.Bowyer, 1728. ***Contains the inscriptions collected by Chishull when he was chaplain to the Levant Company at Smyrna from 1698-1702..
Hawkesworth (John, editor) The Adventurer 2 vol. (containing 140 numbers), engraved portrait to each title, a few minor wormholes to upper margins of preliminaries of vol.2, trimmed, affecting most imprints, vol.1 L3 trimmed shorter than all other ff., occasional spotting, a few small stains within text, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, covers rubbed and scuffed, [Rothschild 1120; Courtney & Nichol Smith, p.39; Chapman & Hazen, p.136], folio, for J.Payne, 1753-1754. ***Contributors include Samuel Johnson, Thomas, Joseph and Jane Warton, Hester Mulso and George Colman. Unconfirmed contributors include Bonnell Thornton and Elizabeth Carter..
![Homer. Iliados 1756; Odysseias 1758, [graece] edited by J. Moor and G. Muirhead, 4 vol., titles in Latin and Greek, half-titl](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2796178/354-201061617257_468x382.jpg)
Homer. Iliados 1756; Odysseias 1758, [graece] edited by J. Moor and G. Muirhead, 4 vol., titles in Latin and Greek, half-titles to vol.3 and 4 only, new endpapers, later polished calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels, rubbed, generally a crisp and clean copy with good margins, [Gaskell 319], folio, Glasgow, R. & A. Foulis, 1756-1758.(4) ***"The folio Homer towers in importance over all the other Foulis books." (Gaskell)..
King (J.G.) Greek church in Russia double frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, contemporary calf, front cover detached, 1772 § Colelerius (J.B.) SS. patrum qui temporibus apostolicis floruerunt; Barnabae [etc.], 3 parts in 2, texts in Latin and Greek, contemporary calf, repaired, Paris, 1672; and another, folio and 4to(4)
Johnson.Dictionary of the English Language seventh edition, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, title and first few leaves lightly water-stained, short tears to inner margin of title and following leaf repaired, some spotting, contemporary calf, rubbed, corners a little worn, rebacked with gilt spine preserving old morocco label, folio, for J.F. & C.Rivington [&c.], 1785.
Adam (Robert & James) The Works in Architectur Numbers I-III only (of 10: Syon House, Kenwood and Luton Park), first editions, titles and text in English and French to each part (title to part 2 torn and repaired), 24 engraved plates, 2 double-page, a few with contemporary repairs to verso, not affecting images, individually bound in modern half dark blue morocco, gilt, uncut, red morocco labels to spines and upper covers, [cf.Harris 5, first edition in book form], elephant folio, T.Becket, 1773-75. ***The parts were originally published separately, then issued as 2 volumes in 1778-79..
Bowyer.Illust.Record..Important Events..Annals..Eu engraved map, facsimile of autographs and 3 sheets of portraits, 15 hand-coloured aquatint plates (4 folding or double-page) and 1 hand-coloured plate with map and aquatint view, 1815; The Campaign of Waterloo, engraved plan and 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates on 4 sheets (1 double-page), 1816, together 2 works in 1 vol., tissue guards, 1 folding plate with tear 30 mm. into image and small tear to fore-edge touching plate-mark, foxing to portrait plates, some mostly light marking to margins, light crease affecting upper fore-corner of a few plates and leaves, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving old spine with red morocco labels, edges repaired, rubbed, [Abbey, Life 352 & 354; Tooley 97-98], folio
![Bowyer.[Illustrations to the History of England] no title, engraved throughout with portrait of David Hume, 2 dedications and](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2796178/458-201061617448_468x382.jpg)
Corbould.Eglinton Tournament,1840 pictorial lithographed title and 8 tinted lithographed plates, title foxed, some other spotting, with music scores `Tournament Quadrilles` and `The Waterford Quadrilles` bound in at end (engraved musical notation with lithographed pictorial covers), bookplate of Robert Cross, contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt, rubbed, original cloth upper cover bound in at end (lightly stained), folio, 1840.
![Corbould.Woburn Abbey Marbles,1822 only edition, [one of 180 copies], title-vignette of bull, 46 engraved plates by Henry Mos](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2796178/461-201061617454_468x382.jpg)
Corbould.Woburn Abbey Marbles,1822 only edition, [one of 180 copies], title-vignette of bull, 46 engraved plates by Henry Moses after Corbould, all on india paper and mounted, some plates foxed, presentation inscription "From the Duke of Bedford" on front free endpaper, modern half morocco, spine gilt, uncut, [Blackmer 404], folio, privately printed, 1822.
Forster.British Gallery of Engravings from Pictures of the Italian, Flemish, Dutch, and English Schools, titles and text in English and French, 52 engraved plates by Heath, Raimbach, Schiavonetti and others, a few plates with marginal foxing, most offset, contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., a little rubbed, folio, W.Miller, 1807.
Hofland.Desc...Mansion/Gardens..White-Knights a Seat of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, large paper copy, 8 aquatint and 15 etched plates after T.C.Hofland, all on india paper and mounted, tissue guards, foxed affecting some plates, engraved bookplate of Sir Thomas Baring, original half vellum over drab boards, green morocco label on spine, uncut, rubbed and spotted, [Abbey, Scenery 425; Tooley 268], folio, privately printed for the Duke of Marlborough, [1819]. ***White-Knights, near Reading, was a seat of the Marquis of Blandford (later 5th Duke of Marlborough) who entertained there lavishly. As well as a magnificent library and collection of paintings the estate was renowned for its gardens, full of rare and unusual plants. In 1819 the Duke went bankrupt and retired to Blenheim, causing the estate and contents to be sold off and the house demolished. .
Series..Magnificent Engravings..Shakespeare/Milton engraved frontispiece and 24 plates by James Heath, Bartolozzi, and others after James Northcote, Thomas Stothard, Henry Fuseli, J. Opie, and W. Hamilton, frontispiece foxed, title soiled, some other spotting, contemporary brown straight-grained morocco, gilt, spine gilt, g.e., rubbed, H.M`Lean, 1818; and another, similar, folio(2)
COLLIER (Jeremy) An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, in 2 vols London 1708-14, folio, frontispiece to vol I, panel calf, hinges cracked. Vol II inscribed `James Cooke 1716` to first free end paper, and `Ex Libris Jacobi Cooke` to title. Previous owners have speculated on a connection to Captain Cook, (though he was not born until 1728). The book has links to a former owner living at Great Ayton, where the Cook family also lived; together with FRANCISCUS JUNIUS. Testamentum Novum.., Geneva: Sumptibus M Berjon 1617, folio, vignette title, some old staining, last leaf cut down and mounted, modern half calf (3)
HOWEL (William) An Institution of General History, London: for Henry Herringman 1662, age browning, worn calf (with an ownership inscription dated 1661); ECHARD (Laurence) The History of England, in 3 volumes, 1707-18, folio, frontispiece to each volume, contents generally in good condition, rebacked calf, boards worn
CAVE (William) Historia Literaria, New Edition, 2 vols in one, Basel 1741-45, folio; HELVIUS (C) The Historical and Chronological Theatre, 1687, folio, worn calf; BAKER (Sir R) A Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1730, folio, binding detached; CAMDEN (W) The History of the Princess Elizabeth, 4th edition, 1688, binding worn; VOSSIUS (G-J) Ars Historia de Historicis Graecis Libri Quatuor de Historicis Latinis Libri Tres, 2 vols Amsterdam: P & J Blaeu 1699-1700, folio, worn panel calf; HALES (William) Chronology, 3 vols in four, London: for the author 1809-12, 4to, binding cracked and worn; etc (14)
COWLEY (Abraham) The Works, 7th edition, London 1681, folio, portrait frontispiece, repaired worn calf; TAYLOR (J) Elements of the Civil Law, 3rd edition 1769, 4to, calf; HERBERT (Edward, Lord) Life, 4th edition 1792, folding plate, boards; NORTH (R) Life of Francis North, 1742, 4to, portrait frontispiece, repaired calf; GAULT (J) Life of Cardinal Wolsey, 1812, 4to, repaired calf (5)
* GELLIUS (Aulus) [Noctes Atticae]: Noctiu Atticarum Libri Undeviginti.., Apud Jodocum Badium Ascensium Mense Septembri 1532, small folio, woodcut title in red and black; bound with - CRINITUS (Petrus) De Honesta Disciplina Lib.XXV, De Poetis Latinis Lib.V, et Poematon Lib.II, Venundantur ab eodem Ascensio 1525, folio, woodcut capitals, neatly red ruled throughout, rebacked calf (repaired); DU LUC (Jean) Placitorum Summae apud Gallos Curiae Libri XII, Lutetiae: apud Carolum Stephanum 1553, folio, rebound in cloth (2)
* PISTORIUS (Johann) Illustrium Veterum Scriptorum, qui Rerum a Germanis per multas aetates Gestarum Historias.., Frankfurt: Apud Andreae Wecheli 1583, folio, slight damp stain to lower corners, title and final leaf age stained, full calf with blind stamped arms of Rev William Crashaw d.1626, neatly repaired calf (upper joint cracked)
* LIVIUS (Titus) Romanae Historiae Principis, Libri Omnes, 2 vols, Frankfurt am Main: apud Georgium Corvinum, impensis J et S Feyerabendt, folio, 1578, woodcut titles after Jost Amman, woodcut capitals and illustrations, colophon to Vol II, Chronologia with separate pagination and woodcut title, all somewhat age toned, damaged and repaired vellum
* DU CHOUL (Guillaume) Discours sur la Castrametation et Discipline Militaire des Romains, Lyon: Guillaume Rouille 1555, folio, woodcut title, capitals and illustrations, folding plate (a little torn along folds), title stained and lower corner neatly repaired, rebacked old worn calf preserving spine strip, signature of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun to title. Provenance: Sotheby`s October 2nd sale 1973, lot 338
* HERODOTUS and THUCYDIDES. Herodotus Libri Novem, bound with Thucydides cum scholiis et antiquis.., Basle: ex Officina Hervagiana 1540-41, small folio, 2 tailpieces, 2 titles (first little soiled and with old ownership name), blind-stamped vellum dated 1544, age soiled, small tear to head of spine, with 2 brass clasps (one strap hinge repaired), recent label
* CLUVERIUS (Philippus) Sicilia Antiqua... Sardinia et Corsica, Lugduni Batavorum ex officina Elseviriana 1619, folio, engraved title, half title, 5 double pages of maps as required, slight sporadic staining, full embossed vellum; with Germaniae Antiquae Libri Tres, Elzevir 1631, folio, portrait frontispiece, engraved title, 26 plates (some double page), 11 double page maps, slight browning to text, full embossed vellum, both good (2)
* AGOSTINI (Antonio) Dialoghi di... Arcivescovo di Tarracona intorno all Medaglie.., Rome: Appresso Filippo de Rossi 1650, folio, water stained mainly to first and last leaves, stained limp vellum, new lettering piece GRAEVIUS (J G) L Annaei Flori Epitome Rerum Romanarum, 2 vols in one, Amsterdam: apud G Gallet 1702-03, 8vo, 2 added engraved titles, full vellum with gilt arms (lacking ties); CEPOLLA Consilia, Venice: apud Bartholomaeum Rubinum 1575, vignette title with old library stamps, 8vo, worn quarter vellum (3)
![* [PLINY]. BECICHEMUS (Marinus) Marini Becichemi Scodrensis elegans ac docta in C Plinium praelectio.., Paris 1519, small fol](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10091/2796231/113-2010621152116_468x382.jpg)
* OGILBY (John) The Fables of Aesop Paraphrased in Verse adorn`d with sculpture.., vol I only, 2nd edition, London: Thomas Roycroft for the author 1668, folio, lacking title, portrait of Ogilby and dedication, but all other plates present (82), title supplied in facsimile, rebound and rebacked by Foster in 1978 using old boards, contents generally good with occasional slight staining
* LUCRETIUS CARUS (Titus) De Rerum Natura Libri Sex, London: Jacob Tonson 1712, folio, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates, engraved decorations, some soiling, good margins, full tan morocco gilt by C Lewis with his ticket, gilt monogram and arms to covers, spine gilt in compartments, a.e.g., some rubbing and tears to leather. Provenance: Purchased Bloomsbury December 1993
* ECHARD (Laurence) A General Ecclesiastical History.., London: for J Tonson 1702, folio, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, folding map of the Holy Land, very slight damp stain to lower corners throughout, fine gilt tooled red panel calf, possibly by Mearne, repaired at head, old cracking to joints, edges rubbed, a.e.g.
HMS LEVIATHAN. A fascinating manuscript ship`s Punishment Book dated 1803 to 1805, narrow folio without covers, recording names, ranks and numbers of offenders, with date, complainer, actual offence as reason of punishment and the number of lashes. Punishments range from 300 lashes `the sentence of a court marshall` to very few or even a `forgiven` verdict. Offences include drunkeness, quarrelling and fighting, disobedience, neglect of duty, theft, robbery, `for making water between decks`, and filthiness.
FULLER (Thomas) The Church History of Britain, 1655, folio, folding plan of Cambridge and 4 plates (1 double page), brown staining, modern half calf; TANNER (Thomas) Notitia Monastica, 1744, folio, portrait frontispiece, age staining, modern rebacked calf; AQUINATIS (Thomas) Summa Theologica, Paris: P Chevalier 1631, folio, repaired title and portrait frontispiece, somewhat toned throughout, worn calf
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