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Missal. Canon Missae et praefationes aliaq[ue] in eius celebratione rite agenda..., Rome: Vatican Press, 1658, eng. title, two full-page engravings and three pages within eng. pictorial borders, large roman type, pinted in red and black, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, old very neat ink additions to front and rear endpapers, title verso, final blank page and rear pastedown, occ. browning and old water-staining, a.e.g., ex libris Prinknash Abbey, contemp. red morocco gilt, gilt-panelled with corner fan ornaments and Cardinal's coat-of-arms (central chequer-board design) to centre of both covers, heavily rubbed and some wear to extremities, folio. The binding, though probably Italian, does not appear elaborately decorated enough to be an example from the renowned Rospigliosi Bindery. (1)

Missal. Missale Novum Romanum ..., Kempton, 1686, half title, title printed in red and black with vign., printed in red and black throughout with woodcut initials, four full page eng. plts. with facing pages with eng. pict. borders, colophon leaf at rear, titles sl. soiled with small repair at head not affecting text, old ownership signature, eng. bookplate with motto Palma virtuti to front pastedown, contemp. elaborately gilt-tooled calf with centrepiece design including several floral tools, brass corners with bosses and centre bosses, decorative brass clasps on leather straps in working order, old reback, some edge wear, folio. (1)

Missal. Missale Constantiense, ad Romani formam & normam ruvocatum, atque ˆ S. D. M. Clemente VIII. approbatum ... Domini Joan: Georgii, Episcopi Constantiensis, & Domini Augiae Maioris, &c. auctoritate & iussu editum, Constance, Ex Officina Nicolai Kalt, 1603, title printed in red and black, with woodcut illustrated border, text printed in red and black throughout, with woodcut initials, woodcut illusts. to text, and four full-page wooduct illusts., including two coats-of-arms, pp. 249-264 printed on vellum (some soiling to margins), occn. minor marks, printer's woodcut device to final leaf, contemp. blindstamped calf over wood boards, heavily rubbed and some wear, lacks clasp, folio. (1)

Optatus (Saint). Opera cum Observationibus et notis reverendissimi D.D. Gabrielis Albaspinaei Aurelianensis Episcopi, Paris, Claudium Sonnium, 1631, engraved port. frontis. (small tear and one or two minor defects to inner margin), title printed in red and black, with large eng. vign., contemp. calf, somewhat worn, with upper cover det., rear joint cracked, folio, together with Peter of Blois, Opera Omnia ad fidem manuscriptorum codicum emendata, Paris, Simeonis Piget, 1667, title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, contemp. calf, some wear, later reback, folio, plus Velazquez (Joanne Antonio), In Epistolam B. Pauli Apostoli ad Philippenses Commentariorum & Annotationum, 2 vols. bound in one, Lyons, Gabriel Boissat, 1636-39, title to each part printed in red and black, with large eng. vign., late 19th c. half brown morocco, rubbed and scuffed, folio, and two other 17th c. folios (Morino, Commentarius de Sacris Ecclesiae Ordinationibus, secundum antiquos et recentiores Latinos, Graecos, Syros et Babylonios, 3 parts bound in one vol., Antwerp, Stephanum Lucam, 1695 & St. Hilarius, Opera, Paris, 1693, both bound in contemp. calf, some wear, folio. (5)

Paris (Matthew). Historia Major, Juxta Exemplar Londinense 1571, verbatim recusa...Huic primum Editioni accesserunt, duorum Offarum Merciorum Regum, & viginti trium Abbatum S. Albani Vitae... ed. William Wats, 2 parts in 1, Richard Hodgkinson, sumptibus Cornelii Bee & laurentii Sadler, in Vico vulgariter dicto Little licence leaf, half-title with eng. port. to verso, title printed in red and black, contents in clean condition, contemp. full calf, with blind double-rule border, and plain spine with raised bands, rubbed and some marks, upper cover detached, thick folio. STC 19210. Ownership inscription to half-title Math Hale sed nunce ex Libris Mat: H: j. 1686 nov: 26. Presumably from the collection of Sir Matthew Hale (1609-1676) who became Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1671, and is regarded as the greatest common lawyer since Coke. (1)

Platina (Bartolomeo). Hystoria de Vitis pontificum periucunda: diligenter recognita: & nunc tantum integre impressa, Venice, Philippo pincio Mantuano, 22 August 1504, & Divo Sixto iiii Pont. Max. Platynae dialogus de falso & vero bono, Venice, Philippo pincio Mantuano, 22 August 1504, two parts, 146 numbered leaves to first part, sixty-five unnumbered leaves to second part (A-F VIII, G I-V), large woodcut title to first part, woodcut initials, early neat annotations in ink to margins, bound with Urceo (Antonio), In Hoc Codri volumine hec continentur. Orationes seu sermones ut ibse apbellabat. Epistole, Silve, Satyre, Egloge, Epigrammata, Venice, Impensis Petri Liechtensteyn Coloniensis Germani, 1506, seventy-two numbered leaves, printed in double column, woodcut initials, first leaf with two small holes, affecting one or two letters, early marginal annotations in ink, occ. minor marks and small stain to upper inner margin of final few leaves, some minor marks elsewhere, later full vellum, rubbed and some minor marks, folio. The final work is an edition of Urceo's complete work, edited by his admirer, Philippo Broaldo, the younger. (1)

Plato. Opera Omnia quae exstant, Marsilio Ficino interprete, Frankfurt: Claudium Mamium et haeredes Joannis Aubrii, 1602, Greek and Latin text, printer's woodcut device to title (somewhat soiled), sm. tear to centre of following Prologue leaf affecting lettering on three lines of text, pencil marginalia throughout, ex libris Captain Leycester, R.N., and Prinknash Abbey, pencilled arithmetic and notes to front pastedown and endpaper (det.), contemp. calf, worn, folio. (1)

Plautus (Titus Maccius). Comoediae. Commentary by Joannes Petrus and Bernardinus Saracenus, Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 17 Sept., 1499, 346 leaves, head-line and 42 lines of text or 58-59 lines of commentary, roman letter, title Plautinae viginti comediae ...Ó on recto of the first leaf, printer's woodcut device on the recto of fol. 345, followed by two pages of Registrum and Emendanda, initial spaces blank except for guide letters, first two leaves extensively restored at the foot, with minor loss of letterpress, early leaves stained in the margins, last 40 leaves with an early and none-too-elegant repair to two running holes, with the missing letters of letterpress supplied in MS., the bulk of the text in generally good state, with wide margins, 18th c. vellum, defective at the head of spine, some worming, folio. Goff P.784. Hain 13082. Polain 3198. BMC V523. Ex libris R.M. Beverley, and Prinknash Abbey. (1)

Plutarch. [Ploutarchou Chaironeos ta Sozomena Panta]. Plutarchi Chaeronensis quae Extant Omnia, cum Latina Interpretatione Hermanii Cruserij: Gulielmi Xylandri, et Doctorum Virorum Notis, et Libellis Variantium Lectionum ex mss. Codd. Diligenter Collectarum, et Indicibus Accuratis, 2 vols., Apud Andreae Wecheli heredes, Claudium Marnium, & Joannem Aubrium, Frankfurt, 1599, printers woodcut device to vol. 1 title and final leaves, contemp. blind embossed pig skin with roll-work decoration, slightly marked, folio. Adams P1608. (2)

Raynaud (Theophile). Opera Omnia ..., 20 vols. bound in 10, Lyons, 1665, (vol. 20 at Cracow, 1669), eng. port. frontis. to vol. 1, titles printed in red and black with eng. vigns., occn. worming, severely affecting vols. 17-20, some titles with ownership signature of August Vindel, ex libris Exeter College, Oxford, and Prinknash Abbey, contemp. blind-stamped vellum over wood board (boards to vols. 19-20 removed and endpapers crudely repaired), rubbed and soiled and covers to last three vols. with numerous wormholes, last vol. snagged at head of spine, all folio. (10)

Strabo. Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII..., 2 vols., Oxford, 1807, half-titles and vign. titles, Greek and Latin text, eng. plt. and seventeen folding maps, some spotting and offsetting, ex libris Prinknash Abbey, cotnemp. blaink-stamped and gilt-panelled russia with gilt coat of arms to each cover with motto Tuto et celebriter [?Penrice family of Norfolk and Suffolk], rebacked, heavily rubbed and sl. edge wear, folio. (2)

Surius (Laurentius). [Vitae sanctorum ex probatis authoribus & MSS. codicibus primo quidem per R.P. Fr. Laurentium Surium Carthusianum editae nunc vero multis Sanctorum vitis auctae...], 12 vols. in four, Cologne, 16[17-]18, three separately paginated months per volume with separate titles and woodcut devices, lacks general title and port. frontis., heavy browning throughout, some occ. wormholes, largely confined to side-notes and outer margins of last two volumes, old ink ownership inscriptions to some titles, ex libris Prinknash Abbey, cotnemp. blind-stamped vellum over boards with brass edges and broken clasps, rubbed and soiled, folio. Based on Sanctorum priscorum patrum vitaeÓ by Aloysius Lipomanus. (4)

[Twysden, Sir Roger]. Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X... Ex Vetustis Manuscriptis, nunc Primm in Lucem Editi.., 1652, few leaves loose, contemp. calf, rebacked, spine & extrems. slightly rubbed, thick folio. (1)

Austin (William, of Lincoln's Inn). Devotionis Augustinianae flamma, or, Certaine Devout, Godly, and Learned Meditations..., 2nd ed., 1637, addn. eng. title (printed with second edition), woodcut device to central title, contemp. inscription dated June 7th 1638, from William Oldisworth to Miss Hampden laid-down to front endpaper, recent endpapers, modern calf with relaid gilt arabesque from earlier binding to centre of upper and lower boards, folio. (1)

Bible [English]. A Practical Family Bible; on a plan entirely new ..., by the late Honourable and Reverend Francis Willoughby, new ed., revised, improved, and enlarged by the Reverand Joseph Wise, printed for J. Wilkie, 1778, numerous eng. plts. by Grignion, Hall, Fuseli and others, including several maps, contemp. full calf, somewhat worn, with upper joint cracked and corners showing, large folio. (1)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New..., [3rd distinct folio edition of King James version], Robert Barker, 1617, general and N.T. titles within decorative woodcut borders, black letter text in double columns, fifty-nine lines to a full column, general title somewhat dust-soiled and rehinged to endpaper and detached upper board, A2 of prelims. to A4 of text (twenty-one leaves) detached as a block with first seven leaves rehinged and restitched and with running wormhole to lower outer corner sl. affecting lettering of side-notes on three leaves, all somewhat soiled and with three skilful closed tear repairs to folios A2-4, old light dampstaining to lower margin of early leaves, a few marginal repairs not affecting text, a little soiling towards rear, final four leaves and lower board det., these leaves a little frayed at edges, final two leaves somewhat soiled with archival repairs to gutter and lower margins with sl. loss of text to gutter margin side-notes and final line of text of final leaf recto, contemp. calf, spine worn and covers det., thick folio (page size 390 x 270mm). An unpunctuated signed autograph note about this copy in Francis Fry's holograph is pasted on to the front pastedown: 1617 Authorised Version This is Perfect & all genuine I have examinded it all through & certify every leaf to be the true edition for these are often mixed with parts of other editions found & clean & few margins near the end &c a little repaired The two title[s] are very fine Francis Fry, fourteen lines one page printed crest and motto Esto fidelis at head, 8vo. Tipped on to the endpaper facing is a four-page prospectus for Fry's A Description of the Great Bible..., etc., Bristol 1865. (1)

Bodoni Press. Characterum Ethicorum Theophrasti Eresii capita duo hactenus anecdota..., Parma: ex Regio Typographeo, 1786, eng. port. frontis., a little minor marginal spotting and soiling ot early leaves, uncut, old plain boards, lacks spine, some soiling and wear to extremities, folio, together with Omelia Recitata al Popolo ne giorno di San Bernardo..., [by] Adeodato Turchi, Parma: Dalla Stamperia Reale, [1790], eng. vign. to title and head-piece to following leaf, minor marginal spotting, old marbled wrappers, a little wear to spine and extremities, slim 4to. (2)

Cassian (John). Ioannis Cassiani Opera omnia, cum commentariis D. Alardi Gazaei..., nova editio, ab eodem denvo recognita..., apud Joannem Baptistam & Guilielmum Riuerios, Atrebati, 1628, general title printed in red & black, with eng. illust., addn. eng. title, woodcut initials, head & tailpieces, borders red-ruled throughout, a.e.g., early 18th c. gilt panelled red morocco, elaborate gilt dec. spine, extrems. slightly rubbed, folio. (1)

Ephraim (St., The Syrian). Opera Omnia quae exstant Graece, Syriace, Latine, 6 vols., Rome, Typographia Vaticana, 1737-40, half-title, full page eng. port., titles printed in red and black with eng. vign., eng. head-pieces, etc., initials, etc., double-column text printed in Latin, Greek and Syriac, contemp. uniform full vellum, morocco labels to spine of each vol., rubbed and some minor soiling, folio. (6)

Gomberville (Marin Le Roy, Sieur de). [The Doctrine of Morality or, a View of Human Life, According to the Stoick Philosophy, exemplifyd in one hundred and three copper-plates, done by the celebrated Monsieur Daret...], prob. 1721, eng. frontis., eng. half-title (duplicated at p. 123 as part-title to second part), lacks main title, numerous eng. illusts., English and French parallel text, some spotting and light soiling, a few closed lower margin tears and repairs, contemp. qtr. calf, som wear to boards, folio. Published in 1721 and reprinted in 1726 with a cancel title. (1)

[Holinshed, Raphael]. Cancelled leaves from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, prob. facsimile reprint of the 1586-87 edition, c. 1720s, black letter double-column text, being pp. 421-4, 433-6 and 443-50 of vol. 2 (Historie of Scotland), plus pp. 1328-31 and 1419-1574 [pp. 1539-50 were not cancelled] of vol. 3 (Historie of England), bookplates of Richard Laurence Pemberton & Prinknash Abbey Library to upper pastedown, contemp. calf, rebacked, some wear to binding, folio. Between 1723 and 1728 three facsimile reprints of the castrated leaves were sold, with the clear intention that they should be sophisticated into existing copies of the Chronicles to replace cancels and missing leaves. Consequently many copies of the 1587 edition have eighteenth-century leaves sophisticated at one or more of the castration sites. A third edition published in 1807-8 restored the censored passages but reordered the descriptions and histories and changed attribution practices, DNB. For further information on the history of the censored cancelled leaves of this edition and 18th-century reprints, see STC 13569, Lowndes and The Library, vol. 13 (1958), pp. 120-24. (1)

Imhoff (Jacob Wilhelm). Historia Italiae et Hispaniae Genealogica, exhibens instar prodromi Stemma Desiderianum ab ima radice cum suis stirpibus ac ramis, unde Italiae & Hispaniae Reges Proceresque, Norimbergae, sumptibus Joannis Hoffmanni Vid. & Engelberti Streckii, 1701, the half-title present, title-page printed in red and black, eng. head-and-tail pieces and initials, woodcut armorial illusts. in the text, text browned, a few leaves with an ink stain at the extreme fore-edge margin, old vellum-backed boards, soiled and worn, corners roughly repaired, folio. With the signature of the writer Robert Southey (1774-1843), dated Louvaine, 20 Oct. 1815, on the half-title. Ex libris T.P. Baldwin, and Prinknash Abbey. (1)

Junius (Franciscus). De Pictura Veterum Libri tres ..., accedit Catalogus, adhuc ineditus, Architectorum, Mechanicorum, sed praecipue Pictorum, Statuariorum, Caelatorum, Tornatorum, aliorumque artificum ..., Rotterdam, Typis Regneri Leers, 1694, addn. eng. title, contemp. calf, modern reback, covers scratched with some wear, outer corners renewed, folio, together with Baudrand (Michael Antonius), Lexicon Geographicum; in quo universi orbis Urbes, Provinciae, Regna, Maria, & Flumina recensentur, Paris, 1670, title with large printer's woodcut device of Francois Muget, double-column text, modern half calf, folio, plus Athanasius (Saint), Opera Omnia quae extant, 2 vols. bound in three, Paris, 1698-1706, contemp. mottled calf, modern reback, with library label to foot of spine of each vol., plus other theological works, all 17th and 18th century, leather-bound, folio. (14)

[Marten (Henry)]. A Word to Mr. Wil. Prynn Esq. and Two for the Parliament and Army. Reproving the one, and justifying the other in their late proceedings, Printed for T. Brewster, 1649, sixteen pages, disbound, in a specially-made brown cloth chemise, small 4to, together with C. (E.), A Full and Final Proof of the Plot from the Revelations: Whereby the Testimony of Dr. Titus Oates and Mr Will. Bedloe is demonstrated to be Jure Divino, Printed for Thomas Simmons... and Jacob Sampson, 1680, [viii] + 12 pages, Advertisement leaf facing the title-page, rebound in green cloth, small folio, and Guilford (Francis North, baron), The Examination of Captain William Bedlow Deceased, Relating to the Popish Plot, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill [etc.], 1680, sixteen pages, licence leaf present (soiled, damaged at the gutter, top corner torn away), title-page soiled, rebound in green cloth, small folio, and The Tryal and Conviction of Thomas Knox and John Lane, for a Conspiracy, to Defame and Scandalize Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe, Printed for Robert Pawlett, 1680, [iv]+ 68 pages, licence leaf present (restored in the gutter), rebound in green cloth, small folio. Wing M825; C23; G2215; and T2165 respectively. (4)

Popish Plot. An Impartial Account of the Arraignment, Trial & Condemnation of Thomas Late Earl of Strafford, and Lord Lieutanant of Ireland: before the Parliament at Westminster, Anno Dom. 1641, pub. 1679, pp.[iv]+48, generally browned, first four leaves lined with archival tissue (title with sl. loss to outer corners), bound with The Tryal of William Stayley, Goldsmith; for speaking Treasonable Words against his Most Sacred Majesty: and upon full Evidence found Guilty of High Treason, and received Sentence accordingly, on Thursday November the 21st 1678, pub. 1678, pp.10, and The Tryal of Edward Coleman, Gent. for Conspiring the Death of the King, and the Subversion of the Government of England, and the Protestant Religion: who upon Full Evidence was found Guilty of High Treason, and received Sentence accordingly, on Thursday November the 28th 1678, pub. 1678, pp.[iv]+104, some browning, and thirteen others related, bound together in recent half calf, with remains of old spine label, thick folio. (1)

Prisons. Gaols. Copies of all Reports, and of Schedules (B), Transmitted to the Secretary of State..., (Counties, Ridings, or Divisions), 30 November 1830, 336pp., incl. reports from sixty-eight counties, cities and towns in England and Wales, modern plain cloth, folio. (1)

Ruinart (Theodorici). Acta Martyrum, Verona, 1731, addn. eng. title, printed title in red and black with eng. vign., contemp. vellum, rubbed and some soiling to spine, folio, together with New Testament [Greek & Latin], Jesu Christi Domini Nostri Novum Testamentum, sive Novum Foedus ... ed. Theodori Bezae, Cambridge, Roger Daniels, 1642, title with printer's woodcut device, contemp. later vellum, rubbed and a little soiled, folio, plus other various theological works, all 17th & 18th century, all vellum-bound, folio. (11)

State Tracts. A Collection of State Tracts, Publishd on Occasion of the Late Revolution in 1688. And During the Reign of King William III. To which is Prefixd, The History of the Dutch War in 1672..., 3 vols., 1705-07, titles printed in red & black, contemp. panelled calf, old rebacks with gilt dec. spines, bindings slightly rubbed, folio. Bookplate of Prinknash Abbey Library. (3)

State Trials. A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings for High-Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours; from the Reign of King Richard II to the End of the Reign of King George I, 6 vols., 2nd ed., with great additions, 1730, titles printed in red & black, contemp. panelled calf, joints cracked and some wear to extrems., two title labels lacking, folio. (6)

Watson (William). The Clergy-Man's Law: Or, the Complete Incumbent, Collected from the 39 Articles, Canons, Proclamations, Decrees in Chancery and Exchequer, as also from all Acts of Parliament, and Common-Law Cases, Relating to the Church and Clergy of England, 1st ed., 1701, partly black letter text, contemp. calf, covers detached, folio, together with Buller (Francis), An Introduction to the Law Relative to Trials At Nisi Prius, 2nd e.d., with large additions, 1775, contemp. calf, covers detached, 4to, plus The Law of Evidence with all the Original References, Carefully Compared... by a Late Learned Judge [Sir Geoffrey Gilbert], pub. Dublin, 1754, interleaved with blanks, contemp. calf, upper covers detached, small 4to, with other law, mostly 18th-century. (a carton)

Dickens (Charles). A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, New York, Press of the Woolly Whale, 1930, 123/250 copies, printed in red and black on Tarazona hand-made paper, Marley's knocker decoration and five initial letters designed and drawn by W.A. Dwiggins, bound for Asprey in full crimson morocco, sides decorated in gilt to a design incorporating vertical lines and christmas trees, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, folio. (1)

Nonesuch Press. The Works of Shakespeare. The text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a Selection of Modern Readings, edited by Herbert Farjeon, 7 vols., Nonesuch Press, New York, 1929-33, orig. full light-brown morocco gilt by A.W. Bain, London, 8vo. Limited edition 991/1050. (7)

Nonesuch Press. The Works of Shakespeare. The text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a Selection of Modern Readings, edited by Herbert Farjeon, 7 vols., Nonesuch Press, New York, 1929-33, orig. full light-brown morocco gilt by A.W. Bain, London, a little darkened on spines, 8vo. Limited edition 1408/1050. (7)

Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romanes. Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot: and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North... with the Fifteen Supplementary Lives of 1603, 5 vols., Nonesuch Press, 1929-30, 1350/1550 copies, printed on Arches paper, full-page illusts. by T.L. Poulton, bound in full red straight-grained morocco for Asprey & Garrard, gilt Greek-key pattern border to sides, and on raised bands, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, small folio. (5)

Sage (Dean). Ten Days Sport on Salmon Rivers, intro. by David Ledlie, privately printed, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997, seven etched plts. by Gordon Allen, each signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, orig. pubs. navy blue qtr. morocco over patterned paper-covered boards, enclosed in red cloth-covered fall-down-back box, folio. Limited edition 4/55, signed by David Ledlie, the printer, Darrell Hyder, and the publisher. (1)

Shakespeare (William). The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The Cambridge Edition Text, as Edited by William Aldis Wright, including the Temple Notes. With a Preface by Christopher Morley, 2 vols., Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1936, 605/750 copies, signed by the artist, forty plts. by Rockwell Kent, bound in full red crushed morocco for Asprey, sides onlaid with strips of black, orange, red, and maroon leather, with gilt dots, in an abstract design to produce a curved curtain effect, similar onlays covering the whole of the flat spines, lettered in gilt at the foot, a.e.g., folio. (2)

Alberti (Leon Battista). The Architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in Ten Books. Of Painting in Three Books and Of Statuary in One Book. Translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli, 2nd ed., divided into two volumes by James Leoni, Venetian architect, 3 vols. bound in one, Thomas Edlin, 1739, double-column parallel text in Italian and English, engraved frontis by Picart (relined), some soiling to title, occn. spotting and minor stains to extreme margins, seventy-four eng. plts., later (prob. early 19th c.) half calf, heavily rubbed and minor wear to extrems., folio. Harris 14. (1)

Aringhi (Paolo). Roma Subterranea Novissima, 2 vols., Rome, Blasio Diversini & Zanobio Masotti, 1651, half-title and additional engraved title (by Baronio) to each vol., printed titles in red and black with large engraved vign., 224 engraved plates in all, mostly full-page, including six folding, woodcut illusts. to text, etc., occn. minor stains and some foxing to margins, one or two plates loose, and one or two text leaves creased, contemp. stained vellum, worn with backstrips partly deficient, covers to first vol. detached, folio. First edition of the latin translation of Antonio Bosio's Italian text (first published in 1632), edited by the scholar Paolo Aringhi. Antonio Bosio (1576-1629), known as the father of Christian archaeology, spent most of his life exploring the catacombs of Rome, much of which has since deteriorated or been destroyed. (2)

Art Journal, 22 vols., a broken run, 1862-79 & 1881-84, numerous steel eng. plts. after paintings and sculptures, b & w wood eng. illusts., some minor foxing, some vols. with contents partly loose and minor fraying to fore-margins (generally appears complete with all plates), a.e.g., all orig. publisher's cloth gilt, some fading and damp-marking to covers, and general wear, folio. (22)

Bolton (Arthur T.). The Architecture of Robert & James Adam (1758-1794), 2 vols., 1st ed., pub. Country Life, 1922. numerous b & w illusts. and photos., col. frontis. to vol. 2, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, spine sl. darkened, and frayed at ends, covers damp-mottled to lower corners, folio. (2)

Goursat (Georges, Sem). Quelques Croquis de Guerre, 25 Dessins Croquis et Aquarelles, Paris, Devambez, n.d., c. 1916-17, twenty-five col. litho. reprods., orig. wrapper bound in at rear, t.e.g., near-contemp. half calf, rubbed and scuffed to joints and edges, folio. Limited edition 161/250, signed by the artist. (1)

Graevius (Johann Georg). Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum, 12 vols., Venice, Typis Bartholomaei Javarina [later Jo. Baptistae Pasquali], 1732-37, half-title to each vol., title to each vol. with eng. vign., large folding plan of Rome at front of vol., numerous eng. plts., maps, etc., mostly folding, light dampstain to upper inner margin of vol. X (contents generally in clean condition), contemp. uniform calf-backed boards, rubbed and marked, minor wear to extrems., thick folio. Contemporary ownership signature of G. Evington to front pastedown of each volume. (12)

Jones (Owen). The Grammar of Ornament, 1st ed., 1856, addn. illuminated chromo. title and one hundred plts. (complete), with tissue guards, some light marginal soiling and staining, addn. title with small piece missing from top outer blank corner (repaired), plts. 78 and 82 with ink blot to top outer blank corner, letterpress title printed in black and red, a few short edge-tears to text, hinges strengthened, contemp. half morocco, rebacked preserving orig. gilt dec. spine, tall folio. (1)

Lambourne (Lionel, and Hamilton, Jean). British Watercolours in the Victoria and Albert Museum. An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the National Collection, pub. Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980, num. col. and b & w illusts., together with Halsby (Julian and Harris, Paul), The Dictionary of Scottish Painters, 1600-1960, pub. Canongate/Phaidon, 1990, num. col. and b & w illusts., plus Finch (Roger), The Pierhead Painters. Naive Ship-Portrait Painters, 1750-1950, 1st ed., 1983, num. b & w illusts., all orig. cloth in d.j., 4to/folio, and other art ref., all VG. (34)

Motte (Charles). Galerie Lithographiee de son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc DOrleans, 2 vols., Paris, [1818-29], litho. title and port. to each vol, 152 litho. plts. on chine applique, some minor foxing, mainly to margins, one or two minor marks to margins, recent owner's inscription to top left corner of title to first vol., t.e.g., contemp. half maroon morocco, heavily rubbed and scuffed, worn at extrems., large folio. (2)

Pain (William). The Builder's Companion, and Workman's General Assistant, 3rd ed., with many Improvements and Additions, 1769, eighty-eight copper-eng. plts. (numbered 5-92 as usual), one or two folding, contemp. half calf, some wear, joints partly cracked, folio. (1)

Paine (James). Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses, and also of Stabling, Bridges, Public and Private, Temples, and other Garden Buildings; executed in the Counties of Derby, Durham, Middlesex, Northumberland, Nottingham, and York, Part One (of two), 1st ed., printed for the Author, 1767, eighteen preliminary leaves, including title, dedication leaf, list of subscribers, preface, and list of plates, some light soiling to title and to upper margins of several leaves of text, fifty-one (of 55) engraved plates, including many double-page, numbered I-LXXIV, lacking plates XXVI, XXVIII, XXXII and LSVIV, double-page plate (XXX-XXXI) partly split at head of centrefold, minor wormhole to extreme. fore-margin of last few plates, occn. minor soiling to margins, contemp. reversed calf, some wear with partial loss of surface leather, modern reback, folio. (1)

Poleni (Johann). Utriusque Thesauri Antiquitatum Romanarum Graecarumque, Nova Supplementa Congesta, 5 vols., Venice, Typis Jo: Baptistae Pasquali, 1737, half title and eng. vign. title to each vol., eng. plts., including many folding, contemp. half mottled calf, rubbed and minor wear to extrems., folio. With contemporary ownership signature of G. Evington to front pastedown of each volume. (5)

Richardson (Thomas Miles). The Castles of the English and Scottish Border, from Original Drawings, by T. M. Richardson, with descriptive and historic illustrations, Newcastle upon Tyne, M. A. Richardson, 1834, six uncol. mezzotint plates, two illusts. to text, some foxing to endpapers, contemp. half brown morocco, worn with covers det., slim folio, together with Reed (Frederick H.), Illustrations of Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, pub. by the Author, 1872, list of subscribers, b&w litho. plts. of plans, elevations, and details, etc., one plate a little soiled and some minor damage to fore-margin, contemp. half red morocco gilt, rubbed and some minor wear, large slim folio, plus Davie (W. Galsworthy), Architectural Studies in France, n.d., c. 1875, some chromo. and numerous b&w litho. plts., contemp. half morocco, rubbed and some minor wear, large folio, and eight others similar, mostly 19th c. architectural interest, folio/4to. (11)

Ronner (Henriette, illust.). Les Chats Esquisee Naturelle et Sociale, Paris, Boussod, Valadon, c.1890, photogravure port. frontis., twelve photogravure plts. of cats (one detached), tissue guards creased, some spotting, contents a little shaken, a.e.g., orig. cloth with inset panel to upper cover, a little worn and grubby, folio. (1)

Sallengre (Albert Henri de). Novus Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum, 3 vols., Venice, Typis Jo: Baptistae Pasquali, 1735, half title, and eng. vign. title to each vol., eng. plts., contemp. half calf, rubbed and some minor wear to extrems., folio. With contemporary ownership signature of G. Evington to front pastedown of each volume. (3)

Sandrart (Joachim von). Altaria et Sacella Varia Templorum Romae ... figuris aeneis XL, Nuremburg, c. 1690, forty double-page fine copper eng. plts., including final plate entitled Index Figurarum, most plates with neat title inscription in pencil in an early hand to lower margin, contents generally clean, old leather-backed boards, worn, with covers det., folio. (1)

Schroeder (Ulrich von). Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1st ed., Hong Kong, 1981, num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. gilt dec. crimson mock morocco, with slipcase, folio. [One of 500 copies printed]. A monumental reference work on Himalayan sculpture from the earliest bronzes to the twentieth century. (1)

Soane (John, Architect). Plans, Elevations and Sections of Buildings, Executed in the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, et caetera, 1st ed., Architectural Library, 1788, list of subscribers, forty-seven eng. plts., closed marginal tear to plt. 21 touching plt. impression, a little minor spotting and soiling, ownership signatures of Mr Gosset, Twickenham and R. Hesketh to front pastedown, contemp. qtr. calf, some soiling and wear to baords, joints weak, folio. Mr [Matthew] Gosset, Viscount of Jersey is named in the subscribers list. From Prinknash Abbey. Harris & Savage 842. (1)

Vacher (Sydney). Fifteenth Century Italian Ornament chiefly taken from brocades and stuffs found in pictures in the National Gallery, pub. Quaritch, 1886, dec. title, list of subscribers, thirty col. litho. plts. of textile ornament and design, including some printed with gold, contents in clean condition, some foxing to endpapers, Architectural Association Library label to front pastedown, t.e.g., orig. vellum-backed decorated boards, rubbed and some soiling, minor wear to extrems., large folio. (1)

Wyatt (Matthew Digby). The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century. A Series of Illustrations of the Choicest Specimens Produced by Every Nation at the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry, 1851, 2 vols., pub. Day & Son, 1851-53, 158 chromo. litho. plts., plus chromo. litho. title to second vol., minor stain to upper extreme fore-margin at rear of second vol. (not affecting image), contents generally in clean condition, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, contemp. half plum morocco, gilt dec. spines, rubbed and scuffed, minor wear to extrems., large folio. (2)

Nister (Ernest, pub.). Pretty Polly, A Novel Book for Children, with an Introduction by F.E. Weatherly, [1897], four double-page pop-up chromo. plts., second plt. detached and with minor damage to the fragile horses reins (without loss), b & w illusts. to text, some browning and finger-soiling, patterned endpapers, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, sl. rubbed and dust-soiled, 4to, together with Aldin (Cecil), A Sporting Garland, 1st ed., [1902], col. illusts. throughout, two leaves detached, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, rubbed and soiled, oblong folio, plus An Artist's Models, 1930, twenty tinted plts., correct as list, D5 a little torn to blank fore-margin, rough-trimmed, orig. cloth in torn and frayed d.j., with some light soiling, large 8vo, plus Dogs of Character, 1927, numerous letterpress illusts., orig. cloth in foxed, torn, and frayed d.j., with loss to head of spine, 4to, plus one other illust. by Aldin. (5)

* Prints & engravings, various, 17th-19th century, including engravings after Old Master paintings, including Boydell, Tardieu, seven copper engravings by Frederick Bloemaert, pub. N. Visscher, a quantity of chromolithograph folio plates from Digby Wyatt's Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century, numerous 18th and early 19th century engravings of classical antiquities, sculptures, etc., part one only of John Laporte's Studies of Trees, 1813, stitched as issued, with orig. upper wrapper intact, all loosely contained in 19th c. half calf portfolio, with ties, soiled and some wear, large folio. (a folder)

* Prints & Engravings. The Falls of Niagara after Lieut. Col. Cockburn, Plates 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6, including duplicate of Plate 5, pub. Ackermann & Co., 1857 [but later], together six uncol. aqua plts., engraved by C. Hunt, C. Bently and J. Edge, after Cockburn, all later restrikes, probably 20th c., plate size approx. 510 x 710 mm (20 x 28 ins), with full margins, a few minor marks to extrems. and one or two light creases, together with Some Account of the Cathedral Church of Exeter, 1797, eleven b&w eng. plts., including three double-page, title plus 22 pp. of text, untrimmed, contents loose and unbound, large folio, and Ryland (John), The Stationers Almanack for the Year MDCCXC, pub. 1789, calendar printed in red and black, with large engraving to upper half of Queen Elizabeth's procession to St. Paul's Church following the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588, some marks and marginal defects, laid down, plate size approx. 565 x 475 mm (22.25 x 18.75 ins), framed and glazed, plus other various framed prints, including Map of the County of Dorset, by C. & J. Greenwood, 1829 (browned), two engraved plates of the New London Bridge, two hand-coloured vue doptiques (Vue dune Marine en temps calme & vue de la Mer, au Vent frais), early 18th c., some marks, relined, sheet size approx. 300 x 445 mm (12 x 17.5 ins). (14)

Berne-Bellecour (Jean). Dans les Lignes Anglaises, Texte par Madame C. de Pratz, Paris, Editions dArt Guerrier, 1917, tipped-in b&w portrait of the Prince of Wales, twenty-four tipped-in reprods., printed in colour or tint, most heightened with colour by hand, bound in orig. half cloth portfolio, some soiling and wear to extrems., large folio. Limited edition of 325 copies, listing 11/25 de luxe copies on japon, with an original watercolour by the artist, showing horses and buildings near the frontline. (1)