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LUTHER, Dr. Martin. Colloquia Mensalia; or Dr Martin Luther's Divine Discourses at his Table, translated out of the high German by Captain Henrie Bell, London: William Du-Gard 1652, folio, lacks frontis, title rather soiled and loose, upper cover detached

SKELTON, Sir John. Charles I, London: Goupil & Co 1898, folio, fine full green grained morocco by Zaehnsdorf, top edge gilt, coloured frontis with tissue guarded illustrations throughout, hinge weakening to lower 8cm front board but intact; LANG, Andrew. Prince Charles Edward, London: Goupil & Co 1900, limited edition number 94 of 1500 copies on fine paper, three quarter morocco grained red crested cloth with gilt flowers to four compartments, marbled end papers, (viii) plus 300pp, coloured frontis and 47 tissue guarded illustrations, decorative bookplate to front paste-down, hinges cracked and lower board detached

Cambridgeshire. LYSONS, Rev D & S. Magna Britannia, Vol II, Pt. I Cambridgeshire, London 1808, 4to, cloth, engraved plates, some offsetting and staining; ATKINSON, Thomas Dinham. An Architectural History of the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Etheldreda at Ely, CUP 1933, folio, top edge gilt, with folio of loose plans and notes/explanation volume; JAMES, M. R. The Sculptures in the Lady Chapel at Ely, 1895, some loose leaves, scratched covers (4)

WOOSTER, David. Alpine Plants, 2 volumes, London: 1872-1874, 4to, 107 coloured plates (lacking no.42, and pp115-118 in volume 1), general foxing and staining, rebacked cloth gilt, volume 2 lacks part of spine; Ariel Press. REDOUTE, P-J. Roses 2, 1956, folio, colour plates; and three other unrelated books (6)

RUSSELL FLINT, Sir William. Drawings, London: Collins 1950, folio, no. 359 of 500 copies signed by the artist, cloth backed monogrammed boards, end papers slightly spotted, one lower corner bumped otherwise good in rather marked slip case, with signed sepia print of a ballerina in envelope inserted

LUBBOCK, Sir John. The Stars in six maps, on the Gnomonic Projection, 1840, complete with six double page sheets with hand colouring engraved by J and C Walker, each sheet approximately 75 x 70cm, in worn folio with detached boards

CORONELLI. Isolario Descrittionee, 1696, folio, with 23 full page plates including portraits and double page map of Fiandra Parte Occidentale, numerous engravings within the text, DEFECTIVE, lacking various leaves and plates, binding broken, staining, SOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN

Six 19th Century miniature watercolours - Portuguese views, 7.5cm x 12cm, unframed, a miniature pencil drawing - Figures with hounds in landscape, signed with initials C.E.S., dated May 11 1829, 12cm x 7.5cm together with a 19th Century book design folio containing various 19th Century watercolours and drawings

Robert Adam (1728-1792) Two designs for schemes at Osterley Park, one with a central flower spray with two poles supporting urns and swags and with two parrots all within an anthemion border, the other with a central floral spray witin an anthemion band, a band of entwined flowers and a geometric and floral border, Pencil and watercolour, One pricked for transfer, sheet size, 50.7cm x 45.5cm. The second possibly a pole screen banner design. Provenance: Commissioned by Robert and Sarah Child from Robert Adam in 1777 for Osterley Park and thence by descent to the Earls of Ducie. Sarah married in 1791, as her second husband, Thomas Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie and these drawings have since remained in the Ducie family. These three drawings were part of a folio including botanical and ornithological studies which Sarah Child had collected in the 1790's. Some of the botanical and ornithological studies were by George Raper, a Midshipman on the First Fleet to Australia in 1787, which had been acquired by Sarah through her friendship with her near neighbour Sir Joseph Banks. They were bought in 2005 by the National Library of Australia in a Private Treaty sale organised by Dreweatt Neate. Robert Adam is without question the most important neo-classical architect working in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century. Following success in Scotland with his brothers in the family practice (succeeding their father William Adam 1689-1748) Robert Adam's international reputation stemmed from his Grand Tour to Italy. The three years he spent there from 1754 to 1757 fired his passion for ancient classical forms and decoration. Adam returned to London rather than his native Edinburgh in order to embark upon a career that revolutionised taste in architecture and interior decoration. His drawings from Italy provided a source of direct inspiration from which a substantial number of commissions from the wealthy and aristrocratic were gained. The importance of Adams work at Osterley Park is signified by its demonstration of Adam's invention of the English 'Etruscan' style that was the product of his matured vision. In his book 'Dictionary of Art' Damie Stillman (I.I37) states that 'The Etruscan dressing room is the finest surviving example of his style, inspired by Piranesi and 'Etruscan' vases, but developed by Adam into the height of elegant, brittle and flat Neo-classical decoration'. The fire screen for which this panel was designed survives in situ at Osterley Park in the Etruscan dressing room. The screen was also made to a design by Adam. It has been suggested that Thomas Chippendale made the screen, however other firms to include Linnell and Ince and Mayhew are known to have executed pieces of furniture for the house. Throughout his career Robert Adam kept copies of the designs he provided his clients. Some of the drawings (notably sketch-designs) are from Adams own hand, others were prepared by the assistants he employed. The drawings were kept together by relatives after Adams death until 1833 when a collection of almost 9000 drawings were bought by the architect Sir John Soane. The collection remains in the museum founded in his house in London. Among the collection at the museum are 35 drawings which relate and cover many aspects of the Etruscan Room at Osterley Park. There are four designs in the museum for the embroidered panel of the screen (Vol.17, No.s 141,142,143, 145). According to the account of Eileen Harris (The Furniture of Robert Adam. 1973. Academy Editions. p.105) the final design from which the screen was embroidered is dated 14 April 1777. As the drawing currently being offered is inscribed with the same date and and has been subsequently re-dated May 1777, this would signify that this was in fact the clients copy and the final drawing from which the screen was embroidered by Mrs Child. These three drawings are of particular importance because they reflect the late stage of Adam's development in the Etrus

Robert Adam (1728-1792) 'Design of a Fire Screen for Mrs Child for the Etruscan Room at Osterly (sic)', Pen, ink and watercolour, Inscribed, dated '1777' lower left and dated 'April 14th 1777, altered the 25th' lower right. On one sheet of paper, the centre section cut out and replaced with a revised design and the whole pricked for transfer to the silk banner, 62cm x 47cm. Provenance: Commissioned by Robert and Sarah Child from Robert Adam in 1777 for Osterley Park and thence by descent to the Earls of Ducie. Sarah married in 1791, as her second husband, Thomas Moreton, 3rd Baron Ducie and these drawings have since remained in the Moreton family. These three drawings were part of a folio including botanical and ornithological studies which Sarah Child had collected in the 1790's. Some of the botanical and ornithological studies were by George Raper, a Midshipman on the First Fleet to Australia in 1787, which had been acquired by Sarah through her friendship with her near neighbour Sir Joseph Banks. They were bought in 2005 by the National Library of Australia in a Private Treaty sale organised by Dreweatt Neate. Robert Adam is without question the most important neo-classical architect working in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century. Following success in Scotland with his brothers in the family practice (succeeding their father William Adam 1689-1748) Robert Adam's international reputation stemmed from his Grand Tour to Italy. The three years he spent there from 1754 to 1757 fired his passion for ancient classical forms and decoration. Adam returned to London rather than his native Edinburgh in order to embark upon a career that revolutionised taste in architecture and interior decoration. His drawings from Italy provided a source of direct inspiration from which a substantial number of commissions from the wealthy and aristrocratic were gained. The importance of Adam's work at Osterley Park is signified by its demonstration of Adam's invention of the English 'Etruscan' style that was the product of his matured vision. In his book 'Dictionary of Art', Damie Stillman (I.I37) states that 'The Etruscan dressing room is the finest surviving example of his style, inspired by Piranesi and 'Etruscan' vases, but developed by Adam into the height of elegant, brittle and flat Neo-classical decoration'. The fire screen for which this panel was designed survives in situ at Osterley Park in the Etruscan dressing room. The screen was also made to a design by Adam. It has been suggested that Thomas Chippendale made the screen, however other firms to include Linnell and Ince and Mayhew are known to have executed pieces of furniture for the house. Throughout his career Robert Adam kept copies of the designs he provided his clients. Some of the drawings (notably sketch-designs) are from Adam's own hand, others were prepared by the assistants he employed. The drawings were kept together by relatives after Adam's death until 1833 when a collection of almost 9000 drawings were bought by the architect Sir John Soane. The collection remains in the museum founded in his house in London. Among the collection at the museum are 35 drawings which relate and cover many aspects of the Etruscan Room at Osterley Park. There are four designs in the museum for the embroidered panel of the screen (Vol.17, No.s 141,142,143, 145). According to the account of Eileen Harris (The Furniture of Robert Adam. 1973. Academy Editions. p.105) the final design from which the screen was embroidered is dated 14 April 1777. As the drawing currently being offered is inscribed with the same date and and has been subsequently re-dated May 1777, this would signify that this was in fact the clients copy and the final drawing from which the screen was embroidered by Mrs Child. These three drawings are of particular importance because they reflect the late stage of Adam's development in the Etruscan style. The drawing for the screen also allows us to trace t

SHORTER Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition 2002, Folio Society, 2 vols, large 4to of numbered limited edition of 1500, in Nigerian goatskin with Moire silk sides, in s/c (1)

Simpson "Sketches at the Seat of War" 1st series, 40 coloured illustrations, all present, 1855 Colnachi's authentic series, large folio, all plates loose w.a.f. (1).

A folio of engravings entitled "illustration of the bride of Lammermoor" for the members of the Royal Association for the promotion of Fine Arts in Scotland, 1875.

C.L.E. Perrott. A selection of British Birds, being a folio containing colour engravings published 1979.

John Burgess AOWS (1814-1874) A shady pool pencil 25 x 30 cm (9 01-Feb x 11 01-Feb in) Provenance: The artists executors sale, 1876; Sabin Galleries, London together with a folio of nine unframed watercolours and drawings, by or attributed to Sir George Hayter, Paul Sandby, Philip Connard, Thomas Uwins, Octavius Oakley, David Charles Reid (2), Charles Branwhite and another hand, various sizes

GEORGE WALLWYN SHEPHEARD (1804-1852), an Italianate landscape with artist on sketching tour, his folio tucked under his arm, signed, watercolour, 12" x 18 1/2"

WILLIAM A BENNETT (19th/20th century), A folio of various oils and watercolours, topographical scenes in Italy etc., all unframed.

Janvier (Robert). Part of an atlas containing fifteen double-page maps of France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Ruddia, China, Barbary Coast, South America, Holy Land, etc., c.1760s, contemp. hand colouring, some marks, plate dimensions of each 325 x 460 mm, contemp. cats-paw calf, folio, together with an incomplete copy of Lettss Polular Atlas (1883) containing 90 maps, orig. half morocco gilt sold as a collection of maps. Not subject to return. (2)

* Maps & prints. A broken copy of Nories The Complete Three Channel Pilot (1814),. the maps incomplete and fraying, folio, plus an incomplete and broken copy of Choix des Plus Celebres Maisons de Plaisance de Rome et de ses Environs (1809) with numerous engraved views and maps, together with volumes of newspapers sold as seen. Not subject to return. (-)

Rotz (John). The Maps and Text of the Boke of Idrography presented by Jean Rotz to Henry VIII now in the British Library, ed. Helen Wallis with a foreword by Viscount Eccles, Oxford, Roxburghe Club, 1981,. double-page colour facsimile maps, t.e.g., orig. crushed brown half morocco gilt, large folio (1)

Walker (J. & C.). To their Royal Highnesses...This British Atlas, Comprising Separate Maps of Every County in England..., 1837, engraved title, 41 engraved county maps only (of 47), damp-stained to lower portion throughout, contemp. boards, worn, folio sold as a collection of maps. (1)

* Botanical engravings. Jacquin (Nicolaus Joseph von), 48 uncoloured engraved plates contained in a single incomplete volume of Selectarum stirpium Americanarum Historia, 1763,. bound in contemp. calf, folio, together with a large collection of over 700 botanical engravings from David Dietrichs Flora Universalis, c.1830s, and two odd vols. of Hulmes Familiar Wild Flowers (a carton)

Holland Press. Spoils of War, Portraits of the French and Spanish Ships, taken by Lord Anson, Captain Buckle and Sir E. Hawke, in the year 1747, pub. Holland Press and Harry Margary, 1977 (2 copies),. title, introductory leaf of text, and twelve b&w facsimile plts., orig. cloth-backed wrappers, with large paper label to upper cover, slim oblong atlas folio, together with Curtis (Samuel), A Monograph on the Genus Camellia, 1819, facsimile ed., n.d., c. 1970s (2 copies), introductory text and five col. plts., orig. printed wrappers, atlas folio, plus fifteen facsimile colour plates from Crombies Rules of Golf, and a small collection of plates from Muirhead Bones War Drawings, 1917 (6)

* Prints & engravings. A varied collection of approx. 250 prints,. including Heath Robinson, Arthur Rackham, fashion plates, folio Shakespeare engravings, etc. (2 cartons)

Engravings. A bound volume of various later 18th and early 19th c. engravings of classical antiquities and monuments, plus a series of later 18th century engravings by Cherubino Alberti after Michelangelo, etc.,. containing fifty-two various plates, including a set of eight mainly litho. plates by Giovanni Francesco Ferrero of the Shield of Achilles, after Flaxman, pub. Rome, 1841, approx. twenty-five line engravings from Gerhard & Panofka, Monumenti inediti pubblicati dallInstituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica [1829-53], and thirteen later 18th c. good-quality copper engravings by Cherubino Alberti, after decorations in the Sistine Chapel, by Michelangelo, and similar, a few plates folding, single-page sheet size approx. 580 x 440 mm (22.75 x 17.25 ins), bound in 19th c. morocco-backed boards, some wear, atlas folio (1)

LAssiette au Beurre, fifty orig. issues, Paris, 1901-09,. numerous col. illusts. after Willette, Radiguet, Camara Delannoy, Flores, etc., all orig. pict. wrappers, stapled as issued, minor wear to extrems. (generally in good condition), slim folio (approx. 50)

Illustrated London News, 14 incomplete vols., 1848-89,. contemp. worn bindings, folio (14)

Vanity Fair Album, vol. 3, 1871,. fifty-two chromo. caricatures, gutter percha partially perished, and a number of leaves at front detached, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. bevel-edged green cloth, extrems. rubbed and sl. frayed, spine and upper cover near-detached at upper hinge, folio includes Charles Darwin. (1)

London Gazette. Collection of eleven individual issues of the London Gazette dating from 1674 to 1675,. together with a group of eighteen defective issues from 1684 to 1685, including one with a proclamation from the King, of the defeat of the rebels in the Monmouth Rebellion, all slim folio The London Gazette was the worlds first ever newspaper. (29)

Siege of Limerick of 1691. Collection of nine original issues of The Present State of Europe or The Historical and Political, Monthly Mercury, reprinted in Edinburgh, (Crane & Kaye no 745), all 1691,. each issue containing first-hand accounts of The Battle of Ballimore, Defeat of the Irish by General Ginkel, Attack on the Irish at Lamborough, Battle of Aghrim, Taking of Galloway, Defence and battle of Athlone, King James declaration to the Irish, Treaty of Limerick, Oath of allegiance in Ireland to William & Mary, etc., light dampstaining, disbound slim folio (9)

Testimonial. To William Jones, Esquire, Managing Director of the Cardiff Channel Dry Docks & Pontoon Company Limited, The Bute Shipbuilding, Engineering & Dry Dock Company Limited, and the Mercantile Pontoon Company Limited,. an illuminated Testimonial to Jones, on the occasion of the First Annual Dinner of the Staffs of the three Companies, April 24th, 1909, four pages of calligraphic text in red, blue and black, written on card in deep sunken mounts, each page within painted floral borders incorporating painted hunting scenes, or small orig. photographs of the Companys premises in Cardiff docks, or circular studio portraits, followed by two pages of signatures, bound in contemp. brown morocco, upper cover extravagantly decorated in gilt, now rubbed, spine defective, oblong folio (1)

Agricola (Georgius). De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556... by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, pub. for the Translators by The Mining Magazine, 1912, numerous b & w illusts., untrimmed, orig. vellum, black lettered spine worn and frayed at foot with sl. loss, lower joint splitting, folio, together with Zwšlf BŸcher vom Berg-und HŸttenwesen... Berlin, 1928, numerous b & w illusts., untrimmed, orig. bevel-edged blindstamped vellum, dusty, spine rubbed, and sl. frayed to extrems., folio (number 340 from an unspecified limitation) (2)

Barnes (Joshua). The History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward IIId ..., together with that of His Most Renowned Son, Edward, Prince of Wales of Aquitain, Sirnamed the Black-Prince, 1st ed., Cambridge, printed by John Hayes for the author, 1688,. title printed in red and black, engraved port. frontis. and three full-page engraved plates (complete), contents generally in clean condition, early ownership signature of William Tryon to head of title, endpapers renewed, contemp. calf, heavily rubbed and some wear, recased with orig. spine laid down, folio Wing B871. (1)

Bible Illustrations. A series of thirty-six hand-coloured mezzotint plates illustrating scenes from the Bible, pub. Roake & Varty, Map & Printsellers, 31 Strand, London, n.d., c. 1830s,. thirty-six hand-coloured mezzotint plates, heightened with gouache and varnish, a few plts. torn and sl. damaged, some marks, contemp. half morocco, worn, slim folio (sheet size approx. 410 x 320 mm) Possibly a re-issue of colour illustrations to the Bible published by Carington Bowles 1789. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)

Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, compared with the former editions, and many valuable MSS, Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before printed; by John Urry ..., together with a Glossary by a Student of the same College. To the whole is prefixed the authors life, newly written, and a preface, giving an account of this edition, printed for Bernard Lintot, 1721,. engraved port. frontis. of John Urry (some spotting), title with eng. vign., eng. port. of Chaucer by George Vertue, several eng. illusts., head-pieces, etc., contemp. full calf, some wear to edges, joints cracked, large folio (1)

Dionysius (Areopagita). Opera [Part One only], Celestis hierarchia. Ecclesiastica hierarchia. Divina nomina. Mystica theologia. Undecim epistole Ignacii. Undecim epistole Policarpi Epistola una, Strasbourg, [G. Husner], 1503,. four preliminary unnumbered leaves [bound in from Part Two], and 329 numbered leaves, black letter text, large woodcut to first leaf, historiated and decorative woodcut initials supplied in blue and red, numerous small initials and paraph marks supplied in red, extensive early ink annotations to preliminary leaves and part of the commentary by Vercellensis towards end of vol., occn. minor marks to margins (generally in good condition), contemp. blind-patterned calf over wood boards, lacks clasps, some marks and soiling, 20th c. antique-style reback with thick raised bands, incorporating old red morocco label, folio The first part of the works of Dionysius Areopagite, one of the early Christian mystics, who combined neoplatonic ideas derived from Plotinus, Proclus and others with Christian theology, and influenced much medieval and renaissance philosophy, including St. Thomas Aquinas. (1)

Common Prayer. The Booke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments. And other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1631,. red and black title within typographic border, somewhat soiled and frayed at edges, black letter text with large woodcut initials, some minor marginal dampstains, later blind-panelled calf gilt, together with Certaine Sermons or Homilies, Appointed to be Read in the Churches. In the Time of the late Queene Elizabeth of Famous Memory. And now thought fit to be re-printed by Authority from the Kings most excellent Majesty, printed for R.H. and J.N., 1640, title within woodcut border, black letter text with large woodcut initials, old waterstains to margins, contemp. calf, rebacked, both folio (2)

Holinshed (Ralph). The First and second volumes of Chronicles [and Third volume of Chronicles], comprising the description and historie of England... Ireland... Scotland, first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: Now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586, by John Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others, 3 vols. bound in 2, at the expenses of John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, 1586-7, lacks A1, two woodcut titles and three woodcut part-titles present, double-column black letter text, woodcut initials, some near-contemp. marginal annotations in ink, mostly to second vol., light peppered worming to rear of each vol., generally not affecting legibility, a few minor marks and minor marginal tears to prelims. (one or two small paper repairs), lacks final leaves (after G2) of Table at rear of third vol., later 18th-c. full calf, with early 19th c. reback to each vol., corners renewed, some wear to extrems., thick folio sTC 13569. With the cancelled leaves, principally to volume 3, as described in STC. This second edition of Holinsheds Chronicles, issued without the woodcut illustrations used in the first edition, is the primary source for many of Shakespeares history plays. Ex libris Richard Laurence Pemberton, and Prinknash Abbey, with bookplates to front pastedown of each volume. (1)

Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language, 7th ed., 1785,. eng. port. frontis. (light staining to edges), contemp. sheep with gilt dec. to edges of upper and lower boards, some wear, esp. to spine and edges, upper joint cracked at head, folio (1)

[Lupi, Antonio Maria]. Dissertatio et Animadversiones ad nuper inventum Severae martyris epitaphium, 1st ed., Palermo, Stephani Amato, 1734,. title with large engraved vign. coat-of-arms, twenty engraved plates and illusts., including some folding, and some to text, numerous woodcut illusts. to text, contents generally clean, neat contemp. ownership inscription of Geo Errington to front pastedown, contemp. vellum, a little rubbed and soiled, with bookplate of Prinknash Abbey to front pastedown, folio. An account of early Roman artefacts relating to the female Christian Martyr, Severa, discovered by the author in a cemetry outside Rome in 1732. (1)

Manutius (Paulus). Antiquitatum Romanarum, Liber De Legibus, Venice, [Paulus Manutius], 1557,. title with woodcut device of the Aldus anchor, initial spaces with printed guides, a few marks and underlinings in blue crayon, minor marginal waterstain towards the rear of vol. (contents generally in clean condition), later 18th c. vellum, with black morocco gilt spine, a little rubbed and marked and minor wear to extrems., folio Renouard 172/18. The second issue, printed in the same year as the first, with thirty-three, rather than five lines of text to verso of the final leaf before index (folio LXXX). Ex libris Ronald Knox and Prinknash Abbey, with bookplates to front pastedown. (1)

Montanus (Benedictus Arias). A bound volume of seven biblical commentaries and archaeological studies, all pub. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1572, (except third work dated 1573),. separate title to each part, with booksellers woodcut device, fourth part (Thubal-Cain) with rectangular engraved illusts. to verso of final leaf, fifth part (Phaleg) with two folding engraved maps of the Terrae Israel and the Terrae Canaan (the first with some fraying to extreme fore-edges, just touching engraved image), sixth part (Exemplar) with eleven engraved plates, occn. light dampstaining to extreme upper and outer corners (contents generally in good condition), 19th c. half calf, worn with joints cracked, folio Adams 1631, 1658, 1662, 1656, 1659, 1643, & 1634. The titles to each: Communes et Familiares Hebraicae Linguae Idiotismi, Liber Joseph, sive, De Arcano Sermone, Liber Jeremiae, sive, De Actione, Thubal-Cain, sive, De Mensuris Sacris liber, Phaleg, sive, De Gentium Sedibus Primis, orbiscue terrae situ, liber, Exemplar, sive, De Sacris Fabricis liber & Daniel, sive, De Saeculis Codex Integer. Additionally bound in at the rear of the volume are three short works on variant readings of the Hebrew and Greek Bible (De Varia in Hebraicis libris lectione, Adams 1640, Variarum in Graecis Bibliis lectionum libellus & Annotationes Variarum lectionum in Psalmos). Benedictus Arias Montanus (1527-1598), a Spanish Benedictine monk, Orientalist and Biblical Commentator, was Editor of the famous Antwerp Polyglot Bible published by Christopher Plantin in eight volumes, several volumes of which contained biblical commentaries, much of which was written by Arias Montanus had written himself. Much of the present folio, although published separately, would have appeared in this work. (1)

Muratori (Ludovico Antonio). Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, sive Dissertationes de Moribus, Ritibus, Religione, Regimine, Magistratibus, Legibus, Studiis Literarum, Artibus, Lingua, Militia, Nummis ..., 6 vols., Milan, Ex Typographia Societatis Palatinae, 1738-42,. half-title, engraved frontis. by Zucchi after F. Zugni, and printed title in red and black with engraved vign. to each vol., some woodcut illusts. to text of coins, inscriptions, etc., contents clean, marbled endpapers, contemp. uniform mottled full calf, gilt-dec. spines with morocco labels, rubbed and some wear, joints partly cracked or splitting, folio Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750), regarded as the father of Italian history, was a scholar, historian and antiquary, who worked as librarian to the Duke of Modena. His major work was the Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (1723-51), and its companion work Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi (1738-1742). This copy with British Library oval inkstamp and duplicate stamp (dated 1818) to title verso, and final leaf verso of each volume, and a handwritten note to blank before half-title of the first volume Purchased by Order of Committee Septr. 1. 1769. (6)

Panvinio (Onofrio). Fasti et Triumphi Roma Romulo Rege usque ad Carolum V. Caes. Aug. sive Epitome Regum, Consulum, Dictatorum, Magistror. equitum, Tribunorum militum consulari potestate Censorum Impp. & aliorum Magistratuum Roman. cum Orientalium tum occidentalium, ex antiquitatum monumentis maxima ... desumpta, Venice, Jacopo Strada, 1557,. title with large printers woodcut device, text occasionally printed in red and black, numerous woodcut illusts. of early coins to text, woodcut initials, some leaves browned, light dampstain to upper inner margin at front of vol., title restrengthened to top left corner, early 19th c. vellum-backed marbled boards, rubbed and scuffed, raised bands and morocco labels to spine, folio Adams p. 195. Ex libris Horace Walpole, with bookplate to front pastedown, and Basil Tolhurst, with bookplates to front pastedown and front endpaper. This copy also with early ownership inscription to foot of title F. Leonardi Coquai Aurelii confessarii M. Ducissae Christianae a Lotharingia. 1606. First edition of this handsomely printed work on Roman history, with numismatic illustrations by Bernard Salomon, mostly from the collection of Jean Grolier. Panvinio brought out a corrected edition the following year, entitled Fastorum Libri V.. (1)

Speed (John). The History of Great Britain under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, 2nd ed., 1623, dec. head and tailpieces, a few woodcut illusts., examples of coins, armorials and genealogical tables etc., lacking blanks, title with minor loss at gutter margin and one small hole, dedication leaf close-trimmed at head, final few leaves of Table at rear repaired along fore-edge, recent half calf gilt with morocco label to spine, folio This volume formed the continuation of the Theatre of Great Britaine. STC 23046.3. (1)

Tasso (Torquato). Manoscritti inediti di Torquato Tasso ed altri pretevoli documenti per servire alla biografia del medesimo, posseduti ed illustrati dal Conte Mariano Alberti, ed. Romualdo Gentilucci, Lucca, Tipografia Giusti, 1837,. eng. port. frontis., thirty-three facsimile plts., including many hand-col., some light marginal foxing and minor marks, contemp. morocco-backed cloth, worn with upper cover near-detached, and rear joint cracked, folio (1)

Bartoli (Pietro Santi). Serenissmo. Principi Leopoldo Medices Leonis X admirandae birtutis Imagines, ab Hetruriae legatione ad Pontificatum, ˆ Raphaele Urbinate ad vivum, et ad miracuaum expressas, in Aulaeis Vaticanis, textili monocromate elaboratas ..., Rome, Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, n.d., c. 1680s,. engraved title and fourteen eng. plts., bound with D. Nicolao Simonellio Picturae omnimque bonarum Artium Cultori eximio ..., Rome, Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, n.d., c. 1680s, engraved title and fourteen eng. plts. by Bartoli after Raphael, bound with Parerga, atque ornamenta, ex Raphaelis Sanctii Progotypis, ˆ Joanne Nannio Uti Baticlte Palst Xystis, partim opere, plastico, partim coloribus expressa, ad betum Ornamentorum, et bicturarum, quae extabin ruinis domus Imperat. Titi, elegantiam ..., [Rome], Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, n.d., c. 1680s, forty-three engraved plates, including title, plus additional plate at end, wide margins throughout (sheet size approx. 280 x 410 mm), contents generally in clean condition, a.e.g., contemp. full calf gilt, rubbed and some wear, joints partly cracked at head and foot, oblong folio Ex libris Victor Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park, and John Tolhurst F.S.A., with bookplates to front pastedown. A collection of engravings by Bartoli after Raphaels tapestries in the Vatican, and related decorations. (1)

Bradshaw (Percy V.). Art in Advertising, a study of British and American pictorial publicity, n.d.,. numerous colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, together with six volumes of Annual of Advertising & Editorial Art & Design, 1948/62, colour and b&w illusts., orig. cloth, rubbed, last four in rubbed slipcases, all small folio (6)

Brettingham (Matthew). The Plans, Elevations and Sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester. To which are added, the Cielings and Chimney-Pieces; and also A Descriptive Account of the Statues, Pictures, and Drawings; not in the former edition, printed by T. Spilsbury ... and sold by B. White and S. Leacroft, 1773,. seventy engraved plates on sixty-nine leaves (irregularly numbered), including some folding, occn. light toning, old owners signature in ink of R. (or B.) Hesketh to verso of front endpaper, a few minor marginal marks (contents generally in clean condition), contemp. half calf, worn with covers det., large folio Harris 48. (1)

Cameron (Charles). The Baths of the Romans Explained and Illustrated, with the Restorations of Palladio Corrected and Improved, to which is prefixed, an Introductory Preface, pointing out the Nature of the Work, and a Dissertation upon the State of the Arts during the different Periods of the Roman Empire, published by the author, 1772,. title with eng. vign., text printed in English and French, engraved dedication leaf, seventy-five engraved plates, including frontis., many folding, some with printed overlays, occn. browning to margins of plates, t.e.g., 19th c. half morocco, worn with covers det., and portion to head of spine missing, folio Harris 95. (1)

Canina (Luigi). Ricerche sullArchitettura pru propria dei Tempi Cristiani ..., 2nd ed., enlarged, Rome, 1846,. 145 eng. plts. of architectural plans, elevations, details, etc., some light foxing to extreme fore-margins, contemp. cloth, rubbed and marked, some wear, with portion to head of spine missing, and outer corners bumped, large folio (1)

Chandler (R., N. Revett & W. Pars). Ionian Antiquities, published, with permission of the Society of Dilettanti, vols. I & II,bound in one, 1769 & 1797,. ninety-two full page engraved plates, including one or two folding, many engraved head- and tail-pieces, some minor foxing and marginal soiling, small semi-circular stain to inner margin at foot of vol. affecting first third of the volume, contemp. half dark green morocco, worn with upper portion of backstrip deficient, folio Blackmer 1566. These two volumes were the product of the Society of Dilettantis first Ionian mission in 1764-66. The first volume is the second issue of c. 1784, with an additonal chaper IV added. (1)

Chandler (R., N. Revett & W. Pars). Ionian Antiquities, published, with permission of the Society of Dilettanti, 1st ed., 1769,. twenty-eight full-page engraved plates, engraved head- and tail-pieces, etc., untrimmed, some minor marks to margins, contemp. calf-backed boards, worn with upper cover det., folio Blackmer 1566. (1)

[Cockburn, Ralph]. Selections from the Dulwich Gallery, n.d., c. 1830,. thirty fine highly-finished aquatint plates, each mounted on card with double-rule in gold, each with handwritten title in ink to preceding guard leaf, handwritten title leaf bearing the words Selections from The Dulwich Gallery only within gold double-ruled border, one or two minor marks to first plate, foxing to final blank leaf, a.e.g. (page size approx. 417 x 280 mm), contemp. green full morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, with some marks and small stains, a little wear to extrems., folio See Abbey, Life in England 201, where the titles are provided on printed slips pasted to the verso of each plate. (1)

Cresy (Edward and G.L. Taylor). Architecture of the Middle Ages in Italy, illustrated by Views, Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details, of the Cathedral, Baptisery, Leaning Tower or Campanile, and Campo Santo, at Pisa, from drawings and measurements taken in the year 1817, accompanied by Descriptive Accounts of their History and Construction, published for the Authors, 1829,. half-title, eng. frontis. and twenty-nine architectural plts. and plans at rear, complete as list, some spotting and staining, contemp. half calf, worn, esp. at spine and corners, folio, plus two others related (3)

Gibbs (James, Architect). A Book of Architecture, containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments, 1st ed., 1728, 148 fine eng. plts. of 150, inc. two double-page, (lacks plts. 1 & 111), slight damp staining to upper outer corner of title, and to fore-edge margins, contemp. diced calf, gilt dec. spine and dec. to board edges, gilt armorial to centre of each board, joints cracked and spine worn, corners repaired, folio the most significant influence on architecture of its day. The Book of Architecture was intended as a pattern book of use to such gentlemen as might be concerned in Building, especially in the remote parts of the country, where little or no assistance for designs can be procured. Fowler 138, Harris 257. (1)

Gleeson (James). William Dobell, 1st ed., pub. Thames & Hudson, 1964,. thirty-two tipped-in col. plts., num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, together with The Asmat of New Guinea. The Journal of Michael Clark Rockefeller, with his Ethnographic Notes and Photographs made among the Asmat People during two Expeditions in 1961... Edited, with an Introduction by Adrian A. Gerbrands, New York, 1967, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. dec. cloth in printed glassine d.j., folio, plus Meyer (Franz), Marc Chagall, 1st ed., Thames & Hudson, 1964, num. tipped-in col. plts. and b & w illusts., orig. dec. cloth in slightly chipped d.j. and slipcase, thick folio, and other various art reference (24)

Gruner (Lewis). Scripture Prints from the Frescoes of Raphael in the Vatican, with an Introductory Preface by the Rev. Charles H.H. Wright, 1866, fifty-two tinted litho. plts., correct as list, endpapers foxed, front free endpaper detached and creased, orig. cloth gilt, soiled, some wear to extrems., and crudely rebacked, oblong folio (1)

Hempel (Rose). The Heian Civilisation of Japan, trans. Katherine Watson, 1983,. num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in slightly torn d.j., square 4to, together with The Chinese Scholars Studio. Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period. An Exhibition from the Shanghai Museum, pub. Thames & Hudson, 1988, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, plus Hiroshige. Birds and Flowers, Introduction by Cynthea J. Bogel, Commentaries on the Plates by Israel Goldman, Poetry Translated from the Japanese by Aldred H. Marks, pub. George Braziller/Rhode Island School of Design, 1988, num. col. illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, with others of Chinese and Japanese interest (approx. 180)

Hogarth (William). The Works of William Hogarth from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath...to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Essay on the Genius and Productions of Hogarth, and Explanations of the Subjects of the Plates, by John Nichols, 1822, eng. port. frontis., 154 engravings on 118 sheets, small light waterstain to foot of inner margin at rear of vol., a few minor marks to margins, most plates with tissue guard, wide margins (sheet size approx. 685 x 510 mm, 27 x 20 ins), modern good-quality half calf, spine gilt, large folio (1)