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DULLAH (Editor/compiler) - Lukisan-Lukisan Koleski lr. Dr. Sukarno, President Republik Indonesia, 2 vols., Peking 1956, original red and gilt cloth, text in English, Chinese and Russian, some wear to extrem., folio.

FLANDIN, Eugene Napolion & COSTE, Pascal-Xavier - Voyage En Perse, facsimile edition, London 1976, numbered 250/600, three-quarter grained blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf, slip case, folio.

MAASKAMP, E (Publisher) - Uniformes Des Gardes D'Honneur des..., Amsterdam, not dated, re-issue of 1811 edition, limited to 500 copies (un-numbered), three quarter red morocco, small folio.

After Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901- 'Marcelle Lender', published by Veb Verlag Der Kunst, Dresden, circa 1950; lithograph printed in colours, initialed within the plate, 40x30cm: together with seven other lithographs printed in colours to include Yvette Guilbert, Madame Abdala and Aristide Braunt all loose and contained in a folio as issued, with introduction, German edition, 40x30cm each, (8), (folio unframed)

A folio of unframed prints, various sizes, approx thirteen. (see illustration on our website). Best Bid

A folio of assorted prints. Including views of Magdelene College, Oxford, four colour engravings, repro0duction floral prints after Redoute, a group of cathedral views and others. All unframed. (qty). Best Bid

Graham, George, Bishop of Orkney Correspondence and papers, written during his occupation of the Sees of Dunblane and Orkney, and other interesting Scottish documents, all from the archives of the Graham family, two of them bearing signatures of King James I and others, 44 documents, mounted, half russia, folio, neatly rebacked Note: Includes letters from George Graham Bishop of Orkney to his son in law Patrick Smyth of Braco, to David Graham of Guthrie his oldest son, 11 March; from David Graham of Guthrie to George Graham; an Inventory of the affairs of George Graham, 1616; a letter will of George Graham, 15 Jan. 1617; Inventar of the guidis geir soumes of mony possesed and hed be Ge. B of Orknay the 4 Janner 1617; document signed by King James I and VI, Lord Balmerino, David Scone relating to George Graham, letter to George Graham from Peter Rollok, 13 June, 1604; to George Graham from Dunkell; to George Graham from James, Lord Colvill of Culros, 27 Dec.; to George Graham from D. Scone; Precept Controller from D. Scone, Comptroller; to the Laird of Gorthie from J. Grahame of Balgoune, 20 Aug., 1642; document signed by Lord Ruthven; Pack betwixt Marquis of Montrose and William Stirling, 1708; document signed by King James and Alexander Hay relating to George Graham, and document signed by Thomas Hope. George Graham was among the first ten of the Scottish clergy who accepted prelacy as instituted by King James VI. In 1607 he gave his oath of allegiance as Bishop of Dunblane, and became Bishop of Orkney on 26 August 1615. From the Sir Thomas Phillipps' Collection with MHC in pencil and note of sale at Sotheby's in 1895.

Music - Purcell, Henry Te deum et jubilate for voices and instruments perform'd before the sons of the clergy at the cathedral-church of St Paul. London, [1720], folio, contemporary half calf, marble boards, worn, sections of label lacking, boards loose, some light foxing, pencil notes in margins; Ibid Harmonia sacra or select anthems in score for one, two or three voices. London, [c.1730], folio, modern cloth, some light foxing; Maitland, J.A. & Squire, W. The Fitzwilliam virginal book. London, 1899, 4to, 2 volumes, contemporary half red morocco gilt, some slight rubbing to edges; Early Bodleian Music - Strainer, J.F.R. Sacred & secular songs. London, 1901, 4to, 2 volumes, modern cloth gilt, a good set; Early Bodleian Music - Nicolson, E.W.B. Introduction to the study of some of the oldest Latin musical manuscripts... London, 1913, 4to, modern blue cloth gilt [uniform with previous]. a good copy; and 3 others on music (10)

Zarlino, Gioseffo Dimostrationi harmoniche: nelle quali realmente si trattano le cose della musica ... opera. Venice: Francesco dei Franceschi, 1571. First edition, folio, mostly italic letter, some Roman, occasional Greek, printer's allegorical device of 'Peace' on title-page, woodcut initials and decorations, diagrams throughout, modern vellum, all edges blue, marbled slipcase, light discoluration, occasional browning, a few leaves oxidized, several pages misnumbered [Zarlino himself apologises for this and gives an 'errata corrige' on p. vii] Note: BM STC Italian Books. p. 742; Adams Z 67; Brunet V p. 1528; Graesse VI p. 508; New York Public Library, Catalogue of the Music Collection Vol. 45 p. 553. Gaetano Gaspari, Catalogo della biblioteca del liceo musicale di Bologna (Bologna 1890) Vol. I pp. 267-68. Pietro Lichtental, Dizionario e bibliografia della Musica' (Milano, 1826) Vol. 4 pp. 276-87. See also Printing and the Mind of Man 81. First edition of Zarlino's second main treatise of music theory. The first was Le institutioni harmoniche (Venice 1558), a landmark in the history of music theory (New Grove). Dimostrationi harmoniche is of a highly speculative and scientific nature. It is in the form of a dialogue between Zarlino himself; three well-known musicians of the times (Franceso Viola, Choir Master of Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara; Claudio Merulo, organist of St. Mark's in Venice; and Adrian Willaert, Choir Master of the Venetian Republic and Zarlino's teacher); and a fourth, probably fictional, character, the philosopher Desiderio from Pavia. 1519-1590), Zarlino, theorist and composer, typifies the Venetian intellectual world of the 16th century. Ordained in 1541, he had a wide linguistic, philosophical, scientific and artistic culture. The publication of his first music treatise Le institutioni harmoniche earned him high praises and, in 1565, appointment as Choir Master of St. Mark's. Not a prolific composer (his only practical work is the learned and polished 'Modulationes VI Vocum' 1566), he was however the leading counterpoint theorist of the 16th century.

Pomis, David De Tzemach David. Venice: Giovanni di Gara, 1587. First edition, folio, the first two leaves mounted, the second at least probably contemporaneously as pagination and signatures (A3 signed 'A2') suggest this blank leaf with 'avertimento' on verso was added after initial printing, Roman, italic and Hebrew letter, woodcut arms of Sixtus V on A3 recto crossed through with a contemporary ink signed monogram 'S V', woodcut heraldic emblem of De Pomis on A6 verso, 2nd to 6th leaves (prefatory and dedicatory) with woodcut initials and decorations, modern quarter calf, title-page lightly browned, repaired at bottom, light waterstaining towards beginning and end and occasional ink or lamp oil stains, final few leaves with a wormhole in top outer corner (crudely repaired) Note: BM STC Italian Books p. 532; Adams P 1823; Vinograd, Venice 717; Habermann, di Gara 97a. First edition of De Pomis' famous Italian, Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic Dittionario Novo Hebraico. This work was new in two ways, as an original digest of its major predecessors, and as a source (according to the author) of largely unknown new terms, mainly historical and scientific. The dictionary uses as its major sources the Shoroshim of David Kimchi (?1160-?1235), a philological dictionary printed before 1480; the Tishbi of the philologist, grammarian and lexicographer Elijah Levita (1468/9-1549), whose work was first published at Isny in 1541 and the Aruch of Nathan Ben Yechiel (1035-c.1110), a lexicon of the Talmud and Midrashim, published in Rome in 1462-1472, whose author according to one legend was a member of the De Pomis family. The author dedicated the work to Sixtus V, who had revoked a ban on Jewish doctors treating Christian patients, which had been put in place by his predecessor Pius V. This had been a major infringement on the life of De Pomis, who was by profession a physician, and who furthermore argued in a treatise in 1588 that it was the duty of Jewish doctors to treat Christians.

Stapleton, Thomas Promptuarium morale, Das ist Sittliche Speisskammer darinnen heylsame Lehren, Gottselig... Ingolstadt: Wolffgang Eder, 1597, 2 volumes in 1, folio, Gothic letter, woodcut printer's device on both title-page of Justice (slightly different) within frame, red and black title on first, numerous calligraphic initials, grotesque head and tailpieces, 52 1/3 page biblical woodcuts, three repeated, one signed 'HF', 1 full-page of the Crucifixion, contemporary mottled calf, joints slightly rubbed, spine richly gilt, six raised bands, edges tooled, marbled endpapers, two green silk page markers, very minor marginal foxing not touching text, at beginning and end, small ink stain in Ee5 of volume I affecting a few letters on verso, little tear and tiny wax stains in t6 of vol. II with loss of a couple of letters on verso Note: Allison & Rogers 1 1243 (variant); Shaaber S 343. Not in Adams, BM STC German Books, Gillow or Milward. First German translation of this monumental theological work in two parts by Thomas Stapleton (1535-98), of Winchester and New College, Oxford, one of the most skilful controversialists of the Elizabethan Age. Originally published in Latin in Antwerp in 1591, it contains commentaries on the Epistles and Gospels for the different seasons of the liturgical year, with a particular view to preparing the 'concionatores' or priests to deal with the heresies of the time and especially Lutherans, in their sermons. The pages are adorned with numerous woodcuts illustrating biblical events such as the Wedding in Cana or the Women at the Holy Sepulchre, possibly by Hiéronymus Fondesendi from Mecheln, according to the initials 'HF' (Nagler III 908), Flemish painter and engraver on wood of the 16th century (Benezit IV p. 420). Provenance: 18th century ms ex libris of J. Ritter on first title-page, other signatures crossed out. Jean Daniel Ritter (1709-1775), German scholar, of a noble Dutch family, was professor of philosophy in Leipizig and of history and law in Wittemberg.

Annan, Thomas Photographs of Glasgow College. [Glasgow, c. 1865], oblong folio, 20 mounted albumen prints, various sizes [average approx 13cm wide by 18cm high if vertical, 18cm wide by 14cm high if horizontal], a few show some edge fading, contemporary green cloth gilt, some rubbing to corners, bookplate, ink stamp to first leaf, front endpaper creased Note: A beautiful album showing early photographs of the original Glasgow University, buildings which were systematically demolished after 1870 when the university moved to its present location at Kelvingrove. This appears to be the earlier edition of this volume as the features in plate two show, the presence of the pissoir on the left of the entrance and the shades of the camera tripod to the right. The pissoir was removed in the later edition.

Italy and Europe, photographs Album, oblong folio, albumen prints including 10 of Derbyshire, 21 of Paris under the Commune, Amiens and Rouen, 46 of Italy including views of Florence, San Gimignano ?, Rome, Naples and Sorrento, a few captioned in the negative, mostly 20 x 25cm, a few 9 x 6cm., mounted recto only on thick album leaves, half morocco lettered on upper cover Our Tour in 1871, Europe, rubbed, upper cover detached

Pharmacopoeia Medici antiqui omnes. Venice: apud Aldi filios, 1547, folio, Roman letter, printer's anchor and dolphin device within floreated oval border on title-page and verso of last, some woodcut initials, early 18th century French gilt-panelled red morocco, spine in seven gilt compartments, joints neatly repaired, a.e.g., green silk marker, some foxing to title-page Note: BM STC Italian Books. p.371; Adams M 991; Brunet III p. 1567; Graesse IV p. 461; Renouard 140:2; Durling 3050 (imperfect); Wellcome 4181; Osler 3374; Garrison & Morton 54. An important pharmacopoeia and remedial encyclopaedia comprising the great Latin medical writers of antiquity and the only early edition of the collection. It comprises part at least of the principal medical texts of Celsus, Severius Samonicus, Trotula, Marcellus Empiricus, Scribonius Largus, Soranus, Plinius Secundus, Apuleius, Antonius Musa, Aemilius Macer, Walafridus Strabo, Aurelianus and Priscian. Both content and arrangement indicate the volume was intended as practical work for the medical profession, or at the very least, serious students. This was a curious departure for Paulus Manutius and indeed for the press as a whole, which, apart from a handful of the great classics had generally eschewed the publication of medical works. A poor and much less complete edition had appeared at Basle some twenty years earlier and it may be that it was either undeservedly successful or that it had excited a market which it then failed to satisfy. Certainly the present edition is a substantial and very laboriously composed practical publication which must have represented a significant commercial investment. Even 200 years ago copies were uncommon (viz. Renouard) and it would be unsurprising if they had been printed in limited numbers; the work was not reprinted. Provenance: Bookplate of Victor A. Schwartz on pastedown, letter (1839) in French, concerning the gift of this copy, pasted to fly, contemporary. inscription in Greek 'Tot Olagkis C' below device

British Sports and Sportsmen Racing, Coursing and Steeplechasing. London, 1911, folio, two volumes, number 15 of 1000 copies, 109 photogravure plates, contemporary green and beige cloth gilt, bevelled boards, t.e.g., small section of wear to head of backstrip, interior clean; Shooting. Shooting and Deerstalking. London, 1913, folio, number 401 of 1000 copies, 105 photogravure plates, contemporary green and beige cloth gilt, bevelled boards, t.e.g., interior clean; Country Sports The Sportsman's Dictionary or, the Gentleman's Companion for Town and Country. London: Printed for Fielding and Walker, 1778, 4to, frontispiece, 15 engraved plates, half title, contemporary calf gilt, marble endpapers, heavily rubbed, hinges splitting, interior clean; Colquhoun, John Rocks and Rivers or Highland Wanderings. London: Murray, 1849, first edition, 8vo, 16pp. publisher's advertisements at end, publisher's blindstamped green cloth, spine faded and worn at head and tail; Salmon Casts and Stray Shots. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1857, first edition, 8vo, 16pp. publisher's advertisements at end, publisher's blindstamped blue cloth, rubbed; Younger, John. River Angling for Salmon and Trout. Kelso: Rutherford, 1864, 12mo, engraved frontispiece, publisher's blindstamped cloth blocked in gold, slightly rubbed; Liddell, Robert. The Lay of the Last Angler. Kelso: Rutherford, 1888, first edition, 8vo, photographic frontispiece, plates, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt; Stewart, W.C. The Practical Angler. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1857, second edition, 8vo, half-title, illustrations in text, bookplates of Thomas Burton Gabriel and Hon. John Wayland Leslie, some spotting and slight soiling, extremities rubbed; Parker, Maude. Fisherman's Map of Salmon Pools on the River Tweed, 1930, first edition, 8vo, folding lithographed map, publisher's cloth, paper label on upper cover; Stoddart, T.T. An Angler's Rambles and Angler's Songs, 1866; Lauder, T.D. Scottish Rivers, 1874; Roberts, R. The River's Side, 1866; Gill, E.M. Practical Dry-Fly Fishing, 1912; Armistead, W.H. Trout Waters Management, 1908; Ransome, A. Rod and Line, 1929; [Cox, I.E.B.] Facts and Useful Hints relating to Fishing and Shooting, 1867, lower hinge broken; Brown, W.S. Secrets of Border Angling, 1907; Woolley, R. Modern Trout Fly Dressing, 1939; Sheringham, H.T. Elements of Angling, 1908; Bernard, J. Fly-Dressing, 1932; Aflalo, F.G. Fishermen's Weather, 1906; Grey, E. Fly Fishing, 1899; Coston, H.E.T. Speckled Nomads, 1938, dust-jacket; Aston, G. Letters to Young Fly-fishers, 1926, dust-jacket; Durand, E. Wanderings with a Fly-Rod,1938; Sharp, A. An Angler's Corner, 1930; Lawrie, W.H. Border River Angling, 1939; plates, publisher's cloth, a few slightly spotted or binding slightly discoloured; and 16 others (46)

Johnson, T.B. The Shooter's Preceptor. London: T & M Johnson, 1838. First edition, 8vo, 3 plates, later cloth, original paper label, chipped at edges, some foxing, bookplate of the Schwerdt Library; Harting, James Hints on Shore Shooting. London, 1871, 8vo, frontispiece, errata slip, original cloth gilt, sunned, interior clean; North, Roger A Treatise on Fish and Fish-Ponds. London: J. Goodwin, [c.1824], folio, 17 (of 18) uncoloured engraved plates by Eleazar, Elizabeth and Fortin Albin, later cloth, lacking plate of The Carp, several plates and leaves loose, one plate margin trimmed, one leaf creased, worn and faded; Thomas, B. The Shooter's Guide, 1814, frontispiece and plates, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, a little dust-soiling; The Shooter's Companion, 1819, etched plates, publisher's boards, uncut, joints cracked; Johnson, T.B. The Sportsman and Gamekeeper's Directory, [n.d.], publisher's cloth-backed boards, upper hinge weak, The Gamekeeper's Directory, 1851, second edition, engraved frontispiece, quarter cloth, lacks rear endpaper; Mayer, John. The Sportsman's Directory, 1823, fourth edition, engraved frontispiece, publisher's pictorial boards, uncut, head and base of spine chipped, covers slightly soiled; Watt. W. Remarks on Shooting, 1839, presentation copy from the author, publisher's cloth, worn, upper hinge broken; Blakey, R. Shooting, 1854, frontispiece, contemporary half cloth; 8vo or 12mo (10) Provenance: Bookplate from the Schwerdt library in Johnson's The Shooter's Preceptor.

Millais, J.G. Game birds and shooting sketches. London: Henry Sotheran, 1892, folio, frontispiece, 16 colour plates, original half red morocco gilt, worn at corners and edges, foxing, owner's ink inscription on front endpaper

Millais. J.G. Game birds and shooting sketches. London: Henry Sotheran, 1892, folio, frontispiece, 16 colour plates, original half red morocco gilt, rubbing at edges, interior clean

Pollard, H.B.C. & Rickman, Philip British and American Game Birds. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1945, 4to, number 96 of 125 copies, original pencil sketch by artist on preliminary leaf, 20 colour plates, original quarter brown morocco gilt, slight stain to backstrip, interior very clean; The Gun at Home and Abroad British Game Birds and Wildfowl. London: The London and Counties Press, 1912, small folio, number 881 of 950 copies, 26 colour plates, original full brown morocco gilt, t.e.g., fading to backstrip, some rubbing to hinges, spotting to frontispiece (2)

Smart, John A Round of the Links, Views of the Golf Greens of Scotland. Aberdeenshire: The Heritage Press, 1980, folio, number 59 of 500 copies, signed by manufacturers, original quarter calf gilt, slipcase, some rubbing to edges, owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper

Victorian sporting life - Kirby, H.G.M. A collection of 6 albums of watercolours and sketches by H.G.M. Kirby depicting a history of his sporting life and friends, approx 260 watercolours and 30 drawings [pen & ink and pencil], to include 2 small folio albums relating to a moor in Forsinard rented by Kirby's friend Mr Fox from the Duke of Sutherland [approx 140 watercolours and 29 sketches, some captioned], ink notes in one volume include the circumstances of Kirby's death at the lodge in September 1912, a few hours after shooting a stag, his funeral and how the albums had been retained by Mr. Fox at the Army and Navy Club in Pall Mall until returning them to the Kirby family on his death, the remining 4 albums [2 oblong 4to, 2 4to] are similar with notes on the pastedowns and captions with the illustrations, all albums half morocco gilt, restored (6) Note: These six albums are a fine insight into Victorian and Edwardian country life, covering a variety of subjects including Shetland loch fishing, deer stalking, fishing in Norway and golfing. A majority of the watercolours and sketches are set in the moors of Sutherland and at Bradwell Grove, Oxon, the estate of Kirby's friend W.H. Fox. However, some others focus on trips abroad, from Dinard in Brittany to Palestine and Egypt. The house at Bradwell Grove still stands and is now the centre of a wildlife park. The shooting lodge in Sutherland has been modernised and is now rented out for sporting and walking holidays and is frequently used by stalkers.

Batty, Robert Select Views of some of the principal Cities of Europe. London: Moon, Boys and Graves, 1832, folio (380 x 275mm.), engraved title and dedication, 30 plates and 30 outline plates, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, corners bumped, some light foxing

Drummond, James Old Edinburgh. Edinburgh: G. Waterston, 1879, large folio, number 392 of 500 copies, 103 lithographs on 83 leaves, contemporary quarter morocco gilt, rubbed at top, corners bumped

Egypt - Denon, Dominique Vivant, Baron Planches du yoyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte. London, [1802], folio, atlas volume only, frontispiece, 59 [of 60] plates listed for, lacking plate 25, later quarter cloth, some plates trimmed, some pencil notes to margins, light foxing. Sold not subject to return.

Gold & Diamond Fields of Transvaal, South Africa. Oblong folio (56 x 23.5cm), 25 plates of coloured photogravures, some with several images, a few with text on verso, original pictorial cloth with inset coloured photograph, gilt edges

Hill, David Octavius Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire; drawn from Nature and on Stone. Perth: T. Hill, [c.1821], folio, 29 (of 30) lithographed plates, original boards with paper label on upper cover, contents loose, some plates dampstained, chiefly in corner, occasional finger soiling or light spotting, one plate captioned in pencil, boards worn and crudely repaired

Newton, Charles Thomas, Sir & Pullan, Richard Popplewell A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae. London: Day & Son, 1862, folio & 8vo, 3 volumes including Atlas, Atlas volume containing lithographed title with 97 plates and plans, text volume with folding map and 14 plates, original cloth gilt, fading to backstrips and heads of boards, hinges splitting on Atlas volume, gutter percha weak, some foxing; Gouffier, Choiseul Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece. Paris, 1809, folio, volume 2 [part 1] only, engraved title, 12 plates and maps, later half calf gilt, rubbed, some foxing (4)

Rome-Overbeke, Bonaventura ab Reliquiae antiquae urbis Romae. The Hague: P. Gosse & D. Pinet, 1763, 3 volumes in one, large folio, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved dedication plate with portrait of Queen Anne, portrait of Overbeke, double-page plan and 146 engraved plates, half-title to volume 1, contemporary calf, spine gilt, original red and green morocco lettering pieces, joints and corners repaired, upper joint cracked, some wear to edges, a few scrapes Note: A clean copy with wide margins. The Kissner copy had a frontispiece, map and 148 plates but other copies collate as with the present copy.

Travel - Denon, V. Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte. [London: Samuel Bagster], [1809], folio, portrait frontispiece, folding map, 109 engraved plates, full calf gilt, worn, rebacked, inner hinges strengthened, foxing; Whittemore, J. A new historical and topographical picture of Brighton. Brighton, 1827, 16mo, 10 engraved plates, contemporary cloth, some foxing to plates, bookplates; Oulton, W.C. Picture of Margate and its vicinity. London, 1820, 8vo, 17 coloured plates [of 20], engraved title, later half blue morocco gilt, rubbed, some offsetting; Nansen, Fridtjof Farthest North. London, 1898, 8vo, 2 volumes, illustrated, original decorative cloth gilt, some rubbing, owner's ink inscription to endpapers; Justus The wrongs of the the Caffre Nation. London, 1837, 8vo, original boards, backstrip torn; Couchaud, A. Choix d'eglises bysantines en Grèce. Paris, 1842, 4to, 37 plates, contemporary quarter morocco gilt, rubbed at edges, some spotting (7) Provenance: Bookplate of R. Townley Parker, dated 1858, together with another of Reginald Arthur Tatton.

Accademia del cimento Saggi di naturali experienze fatte nell'accademia del cimento. Florence: Gio. Filippo Cecchi, 1691, second edition, folio, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, half title, engraved portrait and 75 full-page engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum, small crack at head of upper joints Note: Second edition of the publication of the first European academy of science. A fine copy.

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henricus Cornelius De occulta philosophia libri tres. [Cologne: Johannes Soter?] (July 1533), first edition, folio, woodcut portrait of Agrippa on title-page, woodcut initials and illustrations, with the final blank leaf, early inscription on title; Plutarch Opera moralia. Basle: M. Isingrinius, 1541, folio, woodcut initials, owners name deleted from title creating small hole, repaired on verso not affecting text, 2 works in one volume, eigheenth century vellum stamped 1723 on upper board, spine worn, new endpapers Footnote: First edition of this celebrated work. Agrippa von Nettesheim's writings brought him into conflict with the Inquisition and he was charged with heresy. De occulta philosophia is a defence of magic, by means of which men may come to a knowledge of nature and of God, and contains Agrippa's idea of the universe with its three worlds or spheres. Caillet 93; Adams A386, suggesting Basle imprint.

Alexander, Aphrodisaeus Quaestiones naturales et morales. Venice: Johannes Gryphius, 1555, folio, woodcut device on title and at end, eighteenth century red boards, [not in Adams], spine faded, lightly rubbed

Alexandro, Alexander ab Genialium dierum libri sex … Paris: vaeneunt apud Ioanne Roigny [in fine: excudebat in aedibus Carolae Guillard], 1539. Folio, printer's device of a printing press on the titlepage, later quarter calf, marbled boards, rubbed, title-page dusty, with early inscriptions and outer, lower corner torn away, occasional marginal notes in an early hand and underscoring, lacking the last blank Note: Adams A719, Index Aureliensis 103.236. Provenance: H.D. Forbes, inscription on endpaper

Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan Operu sancti Ambrosii pars tertia. [Basle: p magistru Johannem de Amerbach, 1492]. Folio, text of the Epistola in Roman, the rest in Black Letter, text in two columns apart from the Epistola, capitals left blank with guide letters, later quarter vellum, titlepage a little discoloured, extensive repairs to worming at inner margins, some patches of water staining, library stamp in the lower margin of the last leaf and library label of Swindon Public Refernce Library Note: Goff A551; GKW 1599 Edited by Johannes de Lapide, the third volume of the three volume works, being the Libri epistolarum and the Opus sermonum

Ammonius Hermiae Commentaria in librum Porphyrii de quinque vocibus, & in Aristotelis praedicamenta. Venice: Johannes Gryphius, 1552, folio, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, woodcut diagrams, with blank G4, contemporary vellum, one gathering loose, some damp-staining, chiefly in margins Note: First issue of the first collected Latin editions of these three philosophical texts, including Ammonius' commentaries. In the later issue the colophon is dated 1553. BMSTC Italian books, p.46 (issue with colophon dated 1553); not in Adams.

Ancient sculpture Incised markings on stone found in the county of Northumberland, Argyleshire. London: Privately printed, 1869, folio, 32 plates including frontispiece, contemporary half morocco gilt, a.e.g., worn at edges, staining throughout; Carter, John Specimens of the ancient sculpture and painting now remaining in England... London, 1838, folio, 115 plates [33 coloured], contemporary morocco gilt, rubbed at edges; Stothard, C.A. The monumental effigies of Great Britain. London, 1817, folio, frontispiece, 150 plates [bound with] Kempe, A.J. Introduction and description for Stothard's Monumental effigies... London, 1832, later half morocco gilt, worn, interior heavily foxed and stained, worm damage in second half of volume; Pooley, Charles An historical and descriptive account of the old stone crosses of Somerset. London, 1877, 8vo, illustrated, map, original cloth gilt, some light rubbing at edges; Rimmer, Alfred Ancient stone crosses of England. London, 1875, 8vo, illustrated, original cloth gilt, rubbed at edges; Styan, K.E. A short history of sepulchral cross-slabs. London, 1902, 8vo, original cloth gilt, sunned; and 3 others on stone crosses (10)

Anselm, Saint In omnes sanctissimi Pauli apolstoli epistolas enarrationes. Cologne: E. Ceruicornus, 1533, folio, title within woodcut border, woodcut initials, seventeenth century vellum, slight worming to a few headlines, early annotations, owner's name inked out on title and last leaf creating small hole, repaired on verso, and with partial loss of imprint at end, a few leaves slightly bronwed or damp-stained in upper margin at end Note: Adams A1174

Antoninus [Forciglioni], Saint, Archbishop of Florence Chronicon. [Basle: Nicolaus Kessler, 1502]. 3 volumes, folio,[xiv], 215, [v]; [xiv], 240, [v], 1 blank; [xii], 256, [iv], Black Letter, text in two columns, initials added in red, printer's device following the colophon in volume 3, modern vellum, brown morocco lettering pieces, some patches of worming (mostly in 1 & 3) touching letters of text, a few leaves with some light water staining, titlepage to volume 1 with repair to upper margin, some early marginalia, but generally a good and clean copy (3) Note: Adams A1207. This edition not in the British Library catalogue. Intended as a general history of the world to show the workings of divine providence (Catholic Encyclopedia,) the work is more valuable when the author turns to contemporary events with which, from his frequent embassies on the part of the Republic of Florence, his correspondence with Popes and others, his close links to the Medici family, he was closely connected. Born in 1389, he entered the Dominican order and was the founder of the famous Covent of San Marco at Florence. The Chronicon was first published at Venice 1474-79, as part of his Opera omnia.

Antoninus [Forciglioni], Saint, Archbishop of Florence Quarta pars summe maioris Antonini archipsulis florentini. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1487]. Folio, 40.5 x 27 cm, 252 of 256 leaves (lacking 4 leaves of table], Black Letter, text in two columns, capitals supplied in red and black, rubricated throughout, contemporary blind stamped calf over wooden boards, heavily restored, margin of table of chapters water stained, small library stamp at foot of page of first leaf, capital cut out from folio 1 of text (9.5 x 9 cm), two patches of worming in the inner margins, a number of single worm holes (particularly through last few signatures) Note: GSW 2189; Hain 1246; Proctor 2052 Volume 4 of the Summa theologica moralis, partibus IV distincta, the principal work of the Dominican Archbishop of Florence composed shortly befoe his death in 1479. It marked a new and very considerable development in moral theology. Fifteen editions of the work appeared in the first fifty years after its first appearance in print and it continued to be reprinted into the 19th century.

Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon A complete body of ancient geography. London: Robert Laurie & James Whittle, 1795, large folio, 13 double-page engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, two margins trimmed to neatline, original marbled boards, vellum corners, neatly rebacked in calf, spine gilt, new black morocco lettering piece on upper cover

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint Prima [prima secunda, secunda secundae, tertia pars] operum [i.e. the Summa theological]. Lyons: [excudebat Joannes Crispinus, 1540-41]. 4 volumes, folio, titlepages in red and black within woodcut borders, woodcut portrait of the angelic doctor as a vignette, woodcut initials, Black Letter, text in two columns surrounded by commentary, later mottled calf, red morocco lettering pieces, heads, tails and edges rubbed, some scuff marks, some marginalia in an early hand, paper generally slightly discoloured and with some water staining, repair to lower margin of f. 87 in the Prima secunda, dedication to Pope Adrian VI mounted on the verso of the title to the tertia pars (4) Note: Not in Adams or the BL. With the commentaries of Cardinal Tommaso de Vio Gaetani Cajetan (1469-1534). In theology Cajetan is justly ranked as one of the foremost defenders and exponents of the Thomistic school. His commentaries on the Summa Theologica, the first in that extensive field, begun in 1507 and finished in 1522, are his greatest work and were speedily recognized as a classic in Scholastic literature. The work is primarily a defence of St. Thomas against the attacks of Scotus. In the third part it reviews the aberrations of the Reformers, especially Luther. The important relation between Cajetan and the Angelic Doctor was emphasized by Leo XIII, when by his Pontifical Letters of 15 October, 1879, he ordered the former's commentaries and those of Ferrariensis to be incorporated with the text of the Summa in the official Leonine edition of the complete works of St. Thomas. (Cath. Encyc.)

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint Summa totius theologiae … Antwerp: ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1585. 5 parts in 1 volume, folio, printer's compass device on the titlepage and divisional titles, contemporary calf , arms in blind on the boards, rebacked, wear to head and tail of spine, endpapers renewed, some paper discolouration throughout [ Adams 1440]; Gonet, Joannes Baptista. Clypeus theologiae Thomistiace. Lyons: apud Anissonios, & Joan. Poosuel, 1681. 5 volumes, folio, modern calf. Library stamps on titles, some spotting throughout (6)

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint Super epistolas Sancti Pauli co[m]mentaria. Venice, Philippus Pincius for Giunta de Giuntis, 7 March 1510, folio, [12], 261, [1] leaves, double column, woodcut initials, woodcut device on Registrum leaf at end, ruled in red throughout, 3 ownership inscriptions, one dated 1515, on title-page, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, some damp-staining in lower margin not affecting text, remains of clasps, worm-holes on upper cover Note: Adams A1484 Provenance: Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart. of Rufford Hall, bookplate

Aquinas, Thomas, Saint Summa Catholicae fidei contra gentiles. Rome: Heirs of Antonius Bladius & Joannes Osmerius, 1570, folio, edited by Franciscus de Sylvestris, [i.e. vol. 9 of the Bladus Opera Omnia], woodcut with portrait on title-page, device on otherwise blank last leaf, later boards, worn, inner margin of title restored, occasional discolouration [cf. Adams A1394]; Julian, the apostate Opera. Leipzig: M.C. Weidmann & J. Gleditsch, 1696, folio, title printed in red and black, additional engraved title, half-title, contemporary blindstamped vellum with central arabesque, some browning; Cotlerius, Johannes Baptista S.S. patrum qui temporibus apostolicis floruerunt. Antwerp: Huguet, 1698, 2 volumes, folio, titles with vignette and printed in red and black, Greek and Latin text, contemporary panelled calf, some light marginal dampstaining, short tear and wormhole to title of volume 1, neatly rebacked, morocco labels (4)

Archaeology - Kemble, John Horae ferales; or studies in the archaeology of the Northern nations. London, 1863, 4to, 34 plates, some coloured, original cloth gilt, rebacked; Miles, William A description of the Deverel Barrow opened A.D. 1825. London, 1826, 8vo, two engraved titles, 8 plates, contemporary calf, worn, boards loose, foxing; Danish Archaeology Atlas de l'archeologie du nord... Copenhagen, 1817, folio, 22 plates [mainly coins], contemporary boards, worn at edges, foxing; Rowlands, Henry Mona antiqua restaurata, an archaeological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the Isle of Anglesey. London, 1766, second edition, 4to, map frontsipiece, 12 plates, contemporary calf gilt, hinges split, pencil notes on endpapers and in margins; Baye, Baron J. de The industrial arts of the Anglo-saxons. London, 1893, 4to, 17 plates, original decorative green cloth gilt, some rubbing to edges; Miln, James Excavations at Carnac. Edinburgh, 1881, 8vo, illustrated, original cloth gilt, rubbed at edges; Miln, James Fouilles faites a Carnac. Paris, 1877, 8vo, illustrated, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed; Worsfold, T. Cato The French Stonehenge. London, [no date], 8vo, illustrated, original cloth gilt, modern fold-over box; Lukis, W.C. Guide to the chambered barrows of South Brittany. Ripon, 1875, 8vo, presentation copy from the author, folding map, original cloth, modern fold over box; Maclagan, Christian The hill forts, stone circles and other structural remains of ancient Scotland. Edinburgh, 1875, 4to,39 plates, original cloth gilt, foxing; Evans, Sir John The ancient stone implements, weapons and ornaments of Great Britain. London, 1897, 8vo, illustrated, original cloth gilt, sunned; Fergusson, James Rude stone monuments. London, 1872, 8vo, illustrated, folding map, original cloth, sunned (11)

Aristotle [Greek title] Operum … Graece & Latine … adscriptis ad oram libri … in quibus plurima nunc primum in lucem prodeunt, ex bibliotheca Isaaci Casauboni … accesserunt … fragmenta … Lyons: apud Iacobum Bubonium, 1590. 2 volumes, folio, large device on the title-pages of both volumes, text in two columns of Latin and Greek, some Ms. marginalia (cropped), some water staining to the outer margins of volume 1, some staining through pages 521-545 (with repairs and some loss of text), lacking the final page of volume 1, slight water staining of the lower margins of volume 2, lacking the last signature with the Indices. Note: Adams A 1736 Operum … adiecta est vita Aristotelis … ac sriptis eiusdem, commentatio doctissima per Philippum Melancthonem … Basle: [n.p, Oporinus?], 1538. Volume 2 only of three volumes, with Hh4 a blank, woodcut initials, orginal roll tooled calf, rubbed and worn and lacking the lower board, , Melancthon's name scorred out on the title-page and at the head of the Life, uniform paper discolouration throughout, margins of titlepage and first few leaves a little frayed, single worm hole through first couple of signatures Note: Adams A 1741, but not describing Hh4 as a blank; Riley 9 (with only two volumes) Omnia facile princeps opera … extant omnia … in tres tomos digesta … Accesserunt in singulos libros argumenta, nunc primum ex optimis graecorum commentariis in Latinam linguam converesa … Basle: ex officina Ioan. Oporini, 1548. Volume 1 of 3, folio, printer's device on the title-page, woodcut initials, later calf, rubbed and worn, spine partly detached, worm hole in the margin through two thirds, some marginal water staining Note: Adams 1743; Riley volume 2 only. Contains the Isagoge of Porphyrius, the Categoriae, Hermenias De interpretatione, the Analytica priora [posteriora], Topica, Sophistici elenchii (4)

Aristotle Opera omnia quae extant Graece & Latine veterum ac recentiorum interpretum, ut Adriani Turnebi, Isaaci Casauboni, Iulii Pacii studio emendatissima, cum Kyriaci Strozae … libris duobus greacolatinis de Republica in supplementum Politicorum Aristotelis …. Authore Guillelmo Du Val … Paris: Typis Regiis, 1619. 2 volumes, folio, title-page in red and black, engraved portrait of Aristotle on the title-page to both volumes, text in two columns of Latin and Greek, decorative headpieces and capitals, folding table in volume 1, contemporary mottled calf, gilt arms of Lincoln's Inn on all covers, joints splitting, rubbed and worn, uniform paper discolouration throughout, small marginal tear to the folding table, tear in the lower margin of volume 2 neatly repaired (no loss), cancelled stamp of the Lincoln's Inn Library on verso of the title-pages (2) Note: Brunet I. 459, Goldsmith 664, not in Riley.

Aristotle Opera omnia quae extant graece & latine … ut Adriani Turnebi, Isaaci Casauboni, Iulii Pacii studio emendatissima, cum Kyriaci Strozae … libros duos graecolatinis de Republica in supplementum Politicorum Aristotelis … Authore Guillielmo Du Val … Paris: Typis Regiis, apud Societatem Graecarum Editionum, 1629, 2 volumes in 4, large folio, title-pages in red and black, with engraved portraits of Aristotle on the title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, text in two columns of Latin and Greek, 18th century calf, worn and rubbed, spines damaged, boards detached, title-pages a little dusty and slightly discoloured, with early library stamps, margin of the last leaf of the second volume water stained (4) Note: This edition not in Riley. Provenance: With the armorial bookplates of Alexander Thomson of Banchory.

Aristotle - Alexander, Aphrodisiensis In octo libros topicorum Aristotelis exlicatio … Antonius Muretus nunc primum latine & eleganter interpretus est. Venice: Ioan. Gryphius excudebat, 1554. Folio, printer's device on the title-page, text in two columns, woodcut initials,18th century vellum, worm trail at inner edge of lower margin, with the terracotta book plate of the University of Chicago Library. Note: Not in Adams, Riley, BM, STC Italian Books. Index Aureliensis 103.356 [Hieoronymus Scotus] [Greek title] In topica Aristotelis, commenatrii. Venice: in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, 1513 [1514]. Folio, Aldine anchor device on the titlepage, capitals left blank with guide letters, 18th centurymarbled wrappers, margins dusty crude repairs to p. 67 (no loss) and some other marginal repairs, p.107 torn, repaired with loss of text, and other faults Note: Adams A 665; Riley 251; Renouard 251; Index Aureliensis 103.323. Thyo, Angelo Quaesitum et praecognitiones libri praedicamentorum: Porphyrii quae cum opinionibus omnium nostri temporis philosophorum … [Padua]: Bernardino de Bindonis & Iacobus Fabrianus socii excudebant, 1547. Folio, device on the titlepage, text in two columns, woodcut initials, disbound, some leaves with marginal water staining Note: Not in Adams or the BM. (3)

Aristotle Petri Victorii commentarii in primum librum Aristotelis De arte poetarum … secunda editio. Florence: in officina Iuntarum, Bernardi filiorum, [1572], 1573. Folio, Giunta device on the title-page, large woodcut historiated initials and one woodcut Greek initial, 18th century diced calf, with gilt arms on both covers of the Earl of Malmesbury, red morocco lettering piece, edges rubbed water staining of the lower outer corner of last third, a few marginalia, one or two leaves a little discoloured, lacking the final leaf with colophon Note: Adams A1906; Riley 182 Provenance: Head of the title-page inscribed Societatis Jeus Dilingae Ioannis Grammatici Philoponi Alexandrei commentaria in libros de generatione, et corruptione Aristotelis: ex colloquiis Hammonii Hermeae, propriisque eius considerationibus; Hieronymo Bagolino Veronesi interpreter. Venice: apud Hieronymum Scotum, 1543. Folio, large printer's device on the title-page, a small version repeated at the end, 18th century diced calf, gilt arms on the covers of the Earl of Malmesbury, joints rubbed, title-page a little spotted Note: Not in Adams. Riley with the 1540 edition, the BM with the 1543 edition with both the Greek and Latin text. The present edition has the Latin text only (2)

Aristotle Petri Victorii commentarii in tres libros Aristotleis De arte dicendi … [with the Greek text]. Florence: in officina Bernardi Iunctae, 1548. Folio, device on verso of the last leaf, modern full blind tooled calf, title-page and verso of last leaf a little dusty, blind library stamp on the title-page. [ Adams A1941; Riley 216] Petri Victorii commentarii in VIII libros Aristotelis De optimo statu civitatis …. Iisdem, ad verbum Latine expressis … [with the Greek text and translation by Vettori]. Florence: apud Iuntas, [in fine: apud haeredes Bernardi Iuntae], 1576. Folio, device on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf, modern vellum, with the signature of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun on the title-page. [ Adams A1913; Riley 190] Petri Victorii commentarii … in tres libros Aristotleis De arte dicendi, nunc primum in Germania editu … [with the Greek text].Basle:[ex officina Ioannis Oporini, 1549]. [bound with] Francisci Robortelli … in librum Aristototelis De arte poetica … Basle: per Ioannemm Hervagium, 1555. Folio, first work with device on the title-page, the second with device on the titlepage and oon the verso of the last leaf, text of the first work in two columns, 18th century half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, title-page of the first work a little dusty and with early ownership inscriptions, second work with marginalia in an ealy hand, water staining through roughly half the work. [First work: Adams V672; Riley 217; the second work: Adams A1904. Not in Riley]. Aristotelis … omnia quae extant opera … Averrois Corubensis in ea opera omnes qui a nos pervenere commentarii … Venice: apud Iuntas, 1550-1553. Volumes 1, 4, 7 & 8 only of 11volumes, volumes 7 & 8 bound together, printer's devices on the title-pages and on the verso of the last leaves, the general title which prefaces volume 1 printed in red with coat of arms printed in red and yellow heightened in gold, woodcut diagrams, volumes 1, 7 & 8 in contemporary vellum, volume 4 in 18th century half calf, marbled boards, spine of volume 7 & 8 worn and chipped, library stamps on the general title-page, device cut from the title-page of volume 4, ownership inscriptions on the titles of volumes 1 and 7, first couple of leaves of volume 4 stained. [Adams A1745; Riley 21 with volume 3 only] (6)

Aristotle - Themistius, Euphrada Themistii peripatetici … paraphrases in Aristotelis. Posteriora, &., Physica. In libro octo, Anima, [etc.] …. Additus & indes, necnon contractionum solutions Marci Antonii Zimarrae in dictis eiusdem Themistii … His demum omnibus adiecimus eisudem Themistii paraphrsem in librum tertium de Anima …a … Ludovico Nogarola … latinate donatam … Venice: apud Hieronymum Scotum, 1559., folio, woodcut portrait of Aristotle on the title-page, printer's device at the end, woodcut initials, contemporary limp vellum, over-lapping fore-edges, couple of early ownership inscriptions on the title-page, worm hole in lower margin of second half, small piece lost from the upper margins of the last half dozen leaves, (no loss), a few leaves with slight paper discolouration, with the terracotta bookplate of the University of Chicago Library Note: This edition not in Riley (1542) or in BM. Adams with edition of 1558.

Aristotle Divi Thome Aquinatis in libru de aia Aristotelis expositio magistri Dominici de flandria ordinis predicator in eundem libru acrissime questiones & annottaiones. [Venice: per Petrum de Quarenghis, 1501] Folio, ff. [xcv], Black Letter, text in two columns, capitals blank with guide letters, woodcut of an angel on the the titlepage and of Aquinas on the first leaf of text later vellum, endpapers renewed, marginal notes in an early hand Note: Not in Adams, the BM or STC Italian Books.

Aristotle Ethicorum ad Nichomachmum libri decem, Ioane Argiropylo … interpreta, nuper recogniti & cum Donati Acciaioli … commentaries … nunc primum in lucem editi.Venice: in officina Lucaeantonii Iuntae, 1535. Folio, printer's device on the title-page, repeated at the end, wood-cut initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, modern vellum, title-page with a few small stains, a few leaves spotted, last signature with partial water staining Note: Not in Adams; Riley 103; Index Aureliensis 107.948.

Aristotle Ethicorum Nicomachiorum libri decem ex Dion. Lambini interpretatione graecolatine. Theod. Zvingeri Argumentis atque scholiis … Theophrasti … Morum characters, interprete Cl. Auberio … Pythagoreorum … Fragmenta ethica, a. G.V.L. …emendata … Basle: Eusebii Episcopii opera ac impensa, 1582, folio, printer's device on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf, woodcut initials, the text of the Ethica and the Charcters of Theophrastus, etc. in two columns of Latin and Greek, contemporary blind tooled and stamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked, edges worn, title-page with couple of early ownership inscriptions, water staining at the inner corner of first few signatures, outer margins of the first couple of signatures frayed, some discolouration and spotting, couple of single worm holes in the second half of the work, margins of last few signatures stained Note: Adams A1812; Index Aureliensis 108.654. Not in Riley

Aristotle [Greek title-page]. Historia de animalibus, Iulio Caesare Scaligero interprete, cum eiusdem commentariis … [Greek and Latin text; edited by Philippe Jacques de Maussac]. Tolouse: apud Domincum & Petrum Bosc, 1619. Folio, large vignette on the title-page, title-page in red and black, modern blind tooled calf, endpapers renewed, library blind stamp on the title-page and cancellation stamp on the verso, unifor paper discolouration throughout, spotting, repair to margin of last leaf (no loss) Note: Riley 117

Aristotle Parva quae vocant naturalia: De sensu & sensili, De memoria & reminiscentia, De Somno & vigilia [etc.] …. Omnia in latinum conversa, & antiquorum more explicata a Nicolao Leonico Thomaeo. Eiusdem opuscula nuper in lucem edita, item eiusdem dialogi quotquot extant. Paris: apud Simonem Colinaeum [in fine part 3: ex officina chalcographica Lodovici Cyanii], 1530. 3 parts in 1 volume, folio, printer's device on the title-page, woodcut diagrams in the text, woodcut initials, contemporary limp vellum, stained and worn, lower joint broken, title-page a little discoloured, repairs to inner margins of pp.271-273, a little light spotting of the final part Note: Adams A1889; Index Aureliensis A107.925; Renouard (Colines) 149. Not in Riley. BM apparently with two parts only.

Aristotle Parva naturalia. De sensu & sensile [etc.] … Omnia in latinum conversa & antiquorum more explicata a N. Leonico Thomaeo. [ Venice: Iacobus Fabrianus, 1546]. Folio, title-page in red and black within an elaborate woodcut border, woodcut initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, later calf, floral endpapers, title-page with early ownership inscription erased, first few signatures with some marginalia in an early hand, light water staining of the lower margins of the last couple of signatures Note: Not in Adams or Riley. A reprint of the edition by Bernardino and Matheo Vitali, Rome, 1523. The border is described by Essling 2202.

Aristotle Simplicii …commentaria in octos libros Aristotelis de physico auditu; nunquam antea excusa, Lucillo Philaltheo interprete. Paris: apud Ioannem Roigny, [in fine: excudebat Io. Lodicus Tiletanus]1544. Folio, device of a printer press on the titlepage, crible initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled pigskin over wooden boards, head and edges rubbed, titlepage a little dusty, some marginalia in an early hand, some lines neatly ruled through Note: Adams A1898. Not in BL, Riley or Schwab For the printer's device, see Davies no 247. The large decorated initials are probably designed by Geofrey Tory and are illustrated and described by Johnson Decorative initials no 53.

Aristotle Simplicii … commentaria in octo libros Arisotelis de physico auditu … Lucillo Philaltheo interprete. Paris: apud Ioannem Roigny, 1544, folio, printer's device of a printing press on the title-page, woodcut decorative initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, 18th century diced calf, gilt arms of the Earl of Malmesbury on both covers, red morocco lettering piece, joints split, inscribed Bibliothecae Colbertianae at the head of the title-page, earlier ownership inscription partly washed out, light uniform paper discolourartion, a few pages lightly spotted, without the final blank leaf Note: Adams A1898. Not in BM, Riley or Schawb. The fine printer's device is illustrated and described by Davies as no 247. The large decorative initials are probably designed by Geofrey Tory and are illustrated and described by Johnson Decorative initials no 53. Provenance: From the library of Jean- Baptiste Colbert (1625-1683), 'Le Grand Colbert', minister of state, founder of the Gobelins, of museums and acadamies, he left at his death a library of nearly 55,000 of books.