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Click here to subscribeSuetonius Tranquillus (Gaius) The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperours of Rome ... Translated into English by Philemon Holland, first English edition, engraved architectural title, title repaired with some loss, some soiling, browning and ink inscriptions, small hole in final leaf with a little loss of text, several ff. cropped with a little loss of text, later calf, slightly rubbed, [STC 23423], small folio, for Mathew Lownes, 1606.
Cotgrave (Randle) A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, engraved pictorial title, lacks initial blank and folding table, table provided in facsimile, some water-staining and soiling, corners of final few ff. frayed and creased, old calf, rubbed, [STC 5830], folio, by Adam Islip, 1611.
Florio (John ) Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues, second edition, engraved architectural title, lacks portrait and initial and final blanks, eighteenth century calf, joints weak, slightly rubbed, [STC 11099], folio, by Melch. Bradwood for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611.
Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poet, first Collected edition, woodcut canto headings and head and tailpieces, lacking blank Ii4 and final leaf M2, old ink annotations throughout, final leaf defective and laid down, some soiling, old panelled calf, worn, lower cover detached, [Pforzheimer 972; STC 23083.3] small folio, by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1611.
Raleigh (Sir Walter) The Historie of the World, first edition, engraved title by R.Elstrack preceded by 'The Minde of the Front' leaf, engraved portrait, 7 double-page engraved maps only (of 8), lacks errata leaf at end, A2 and 3 holed with slight loss of text, ring-marks to some text leaves, corner of final leaf defective and repaired, 18th century panelled calf, gilt, skilfully rebacked with elaborate gilt spine, [STC 20637], folio, [William Stansby] for Walter Burre, 1614.
James I (King of England) The Workes, first edition, first issue, (without supplement), full-page coat-of-arms on a2, engraved portrait of Prince Charles on a3, lacking portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials, some worming, that on title repaired, sometimes affecting text, modern half calf, [STC 14344], folio, by Robert Barker and John Bill, 1616.
Bible, English. The Text of the New Testament ... [edited by] W.Fulke, 2 vol. in 1, third Fulke edition, title in woodcut border, lacks preliminary blank, title laid down and with edges frayed slightly affecting image, some light dust-soiling, ink signature to *3, [Herbert 359; STC 2917], [by Adam Islip] for Thomas Adams, 1617; bound with Fulke (William) A Defense of the Sincere and True Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue, device on title, corners of several ff. repaired, light soiling, [STC 11431], [by Eliot's Court Press] for Thomas Adams, 1617, old calf, gilt, rebacked and repaired, folio
Sarpi (Paolo) The Historie of the Councel of Trent ... translated into English by Nathanael Brent, colophon leaf, lacks initial and final blanks, ink inscriptions and marginalia, bookplate, contemporary calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, [STC 21761], folio, by Robert Barker and John Bill, 1620.
Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) The Annales ... The Description of Germanie, 2 vol. in 1, a little light water-staining, ink inscriptions to title, [STC 23647], by John Bill, 1622; bound with Malvezzi (Virgilio) Discourses Upon Cornelius Tacitus, engraved pictorial title, [Wing M359], by E.G. for R. Whitaker and Tho. Whitaker, 1642, eighteenth century panelled calf, gilt spine, folio
Aleman (Matheo) The Rogue: or the Life of Guzman de Alfarache, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, second issue, device on title, lacking final blank, a little light dust-soiling, contemporary calf, gilt spine, slightly rubbed, [STC 289], [by Eliot's Court Press and George Eld] for Edward Blount, 1623; and another, Seventeenth Century Literature, folio & 4to
Godwin (Francis, Bishop) Annales of England ... , engraved pictorial title, portrait, lacking final blank, old ink annotations throughout, soiling and some staining, first and last few ff. with edges frayed, last gathering working loose, old calf, worn, joints broken, [STC 11947], small folio, by A. Islip and W. Stansby, 1630.
Taylor (John, the Water Poet) [Works], woodcut illustrations in text, lacking title, additional engraved title, initial blank and some ff. throughout, several ff. defective and with repairs, soiling, later half calf, worn, covers detached, small folio, [by John Beale &c., 1630], sold not subject to return.
Ovidius Naso (Publius) Metamorphosis Englished ... by G[eorge] S[andys], engraved pictorial title, portrait frontispiece, 15 plates, plates closely cropped with occasional loss of image, water-staining, marginal tear to Nn1, some ink annotations, eighteenth century panelled calf, slightly rubbed, small hole in upper cover, [STC 18966], folio, Oxford, by John Lichfield [and William Stansby], 1632.
Speed (John) The Historie of Great Britaine Under the Conquests ... , third edition, engraved portrait, lacks initial blank, portrait and title laid down, some soiling, marginal repairs to 5Q4 and 5Z3-4, old calf, rebacked, slightly rubbed, [STC 23049], folio, by John Dawson for George Humble, 1632.
Plinius Secundus (Gaius the elder) The Historie of the World ... translated into English by Philemon Holland, 2 vol. in 1, second edition, engraved title vignettes, initial and final blanks present, bookplate, old speckled calf, gilt spine, slightly rubbed, [STC 20030], folio, by Adam Islip, 1634.
Gerard (John) The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, third edition, engraved title trimmed and laid down, numerous woodcut illustrations, repairs to a couple of leaves of table at end, occasional foxing and light browning, lacking portrait, occasional loss of catchwords, later calf, gilt, joints and extremities worn, [STC 11752], folio, by Adam Islip [& others], 1636.
Virgilius Maro (Publius) Works ... translated into English Verse; By [John] Dryden, large-paper copy, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, list of subscribers, 103 plates including c.15 browned, some browning, old tree calf, gilt, joints cracking, [Wing V616], folio, for Jacob Tonson, 1697.
Wilkins (David) Leges Anglo-Saxonicae Ecclesiasticae & Civiles ... , list of subscribers, some browning and water-staining, last c.20ff. with marginal repairs, inner margins of first few ff. strengthened, modern rexine, typis Guil. Bowyer, impensis Rob. Gosling, 1721; and 2 others, Law, folio & 8vo (3).
Burghley (William Cecil, Lord)-Haynes (Samuel) & William Murdin, editors ... A Collection of State Papers ... 1542-1570 (1571-1596) ... left by William Cecil, Lord Burghley ... at Hatfield House, 2 vol., a little light foxing, bookplates of the Earl of Breadalbane, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, folio, by William Bowyer, 1740-1759.
Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, seventh edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title laid down and lightly soiled, frontispiece and title lightly water-stained, lacking final blank, final leaf lightly spotted, later half calf, slightly rubbed, folio, for J.F. & C. Rivington [&c.], 1785.
[Caxton (William, translator) The myrrour & descrypcyon of the worlde], lacks all before d1, h1&4 supplied in a modern hand, marginal restoration y1, y2-4 defective, many woodcut illustrations, some slight staining, mostly marginal, new preliminary blanks heavily annotated, new endpapers, 17th century? vellum, new paper label, [STC 24764], folio, [Printed by L.Andrewe, 1527?]; sold not subject to return.
Bible, English. [The Byble in Englysh, fifth folio edition of the Great Bible], black letter, double column, 62 lines per column, woodcut illustrations and initials, pointing hands in margins and text, lacking all before a1 (i.e. general title and preliminaries), i8, A1, Q4 (blank), AA1, CC6, EE2, Aaa1, Eee5, Aa1 (NT title), Nn1 and Nn8 (colophon), also lacking DD4-5 but with duplicate signature DD1-8 from another edition bound in, some staining, a few marginal tears and defects, many headlines and some side-notes shaved with loss, slight worming to lower margin towards beginning, modern morocco, [Herbert 61], folio, 1541; sold not subject to return.
Eusebius Pamphilius, and others. The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ ... translated ... by Meredith Hanmer, small marginal wormhole first 5 ff., title slightly stained, early ownership marks front blank, modern half morocco, [NSTC 10573], folio, T.Vautrollier, 1585.
Rushworth (John) Historical Collections of Private Passages of State ... portrait frontispiece, double-page map, preliminary **3 marginally torn with slight loss to single rule border, new endpapers, bookplate, contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked, original backstrip preserved, corners repaired, [Wing R2316], folio, Printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 1659.
Taylor (Jeremy) Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in all her General Measures, the Third Edition, engraved portrait and title-vignette, new endpapers, original pastedown preserved, contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked, morocco label, outer corners worn, [Wing T326], folio, 1676.
Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus) De consolatione philosophiae cum commentario Thomae Aquinatis, 72ff. including initial and final blanks (former with corner defective, latter laid down), i1 verso not printed and supplied in an early hand, first text p., a1 recto, supplied with an illuminated border and initial, many initials supplied in red, early marginal inked note d5 recto, slight marginal damp-stain throughout, some worming affecting covers and first and final few gatherings, largely marginally but touching some words, early inscriptions on first and final early blanks, extensive modern inscriptions on newly inserted modern blanks, bookplates of Lucy Wharton Drexel and Boies Penrose II, contemporary wooden boards, 1 corner chipped, lacks clasp, modern morocco rebacking, [BMC II, p.425; Goff B-777], folio, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Aesop. Esopi appologi sive mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant, 2 parts in 1 vol., first Brant edition, with blank s6, without blank M6, 335 fine woodcut illustrations including a full-page representation of Aesop and a portrait of Brant at the beginning of the second part, r5-6, s1, B4 and C5-6 marginally restored and possibly from another copy, four of these with tears repaired, r6 slight loss, outer margin A1 restored and tear repaired, M6 tear repaired, verso slightly soiled and with short early marginal inscription, a1 faint trace of early inscription and marginal worming repaired, a2-7 and M2-5 little marginal worming, r4, A4, B5 and E3 minor splitting through paper fault without loss, c2, e2 and f6 minor marginal repair, c6 traces of early scoring, B4 early inked marginalia, short early marginal inscription five other pp., minor staining to approximately 10ff., inscriptions and cuttings on new endleaves, bookplate, 19th century calf decorated in blind, [Adams A291; Fairfax Murray 20; Brunet I, p.91 "Cette edition n'est pas commune"], folio, Basel, Jacobi [Wolff] de Phortzheim, 1501.
Homilies. Homilie doctorum omnium de sanctis, full-page title woodcut, initials rubricated throughout, marginal repair to corner of title, tear in D6 repaired without loss, marginal tear C2, 2 or 3 small wormholes throughout, early inked marginal inscription k3, occasional slight marginal staining, final f. damp-stained, lengthy modern inscription front blank, contemporary calf gilt, crudely rebacked, [Not in Adams], folio, Basel, per Jo. Froben, 1513.
Joyeuse & Magnifique Entree (La) de Monseigneur Francoys, Fils de France, et Frere unicque du Roy ... en sa tres-renommee ville d'Anvers, first edition, engraved title, 21 engraved plates, all but one double-page, occasional worming, mostly marginal but sometimes slightly affecting text or a couple of plates, a few plates with tears at folds, mostly confined to lower margin, some marginal staining and soiling, later vellum, [Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies 38], folio, Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1582.
Blondel (Jacques-Francois) Description des Festes, donnees par la Ville de Paris, a l'Occasion du Mariage de Madame Louise-Elizabeth de France, & Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand Amiral d'Espagne ... le 29 & 30 aout 1739, engraved title-vignette, vignette head-piece, 13 plates, some double-page, title and one plate repaired, contemporary red morocco, gilt, arms of Paris on covers, rubbed and repaired, [Berlin Kat. 3012; Lipperheide 2714], folio, Paris, 1740.
Beerbohm, Max, Things New and Old, London, William Heinemann, small folio, 1923 coloured frontispiece and 9 plates, signed plate at end in folder, contemporary cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, g.e., No. 188 of 350 limited edition copies signed by the author, ownership inscription, library stamp and bookplate of Paul Steinbreher.
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