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[PEAKE (Richard Brinsley)] The Characteristic Costume of France; from Drawings Made on the Spot, with Appropriate Descriptions. By an artist recently returned from the Continent. London: William Sams no date, (plates dated 1819), folio, 19 hand coloured aquatint plates published by William Fearman, slight offsetting and foxing, in modern red morocco, all edges gilt

MALHAM (Rev. J) The History and Life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 5th edition, 1813, folio, engraved title, plates, double column text, worn calf

CHAMBERLAIN (Henry) A New and Compleat History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster. London: for J. Cooke. no date [1770], folio, engraved frontispiece, plates, as required, folding map and folding plan of London, slight spotting and toning, occasional stains, ink graffiti to one blank page, reverse calf

BARNARD (Edward) History of England, circa 1800, for Alex Hogg, folio, plates and maps, modern blue half morocco; ASHBURTON (C A) A New and Complete History of England, ... to the Year 1795, folio, 3 folding maps, numerous plates, some creasing, damaged calf; NIMROD. Sporting, Embellished By Large Engravings And Vignettes Illustrative of British Field Sports, 1838, folio, engraved title and plates, some age toning and light foxing, modern half morocco; PAUQUET Freres. Modes et Costumes Historiques, no date, circa 1870, 4to, 96 hand coloured illustrations, detached boards

Book of Common Prayer. Oxford: for M. Pitt, folio, red ruled engraved title [no date] and contents, illustrated with engravings, bound with Constitutions, 1683; panel calf, rebacked and repaired

Literature, various. RECHY (John) City of Night, 1st UK edition 1964, dust jacket; AUSTEN (Jane) Works, 6 vols., Zodiac Press edition reprints, 1978-80, dust jackets; JAMES (P D) An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, 1st edition 1972, dust jacket; others - Folio Society, album of early 20th century postcards, etc

Children's Illustrated. BEDFORD & LUCAS. Four and Twenty Toilers, Grant Richard, no date, oblong 4to; VERNON STOKES & A. WRIGHT. Comic Sport and Pastime, Skeffington & Son, no date, oblong folio; Blobbs at the Fair, Chambers Ltd, no date; PARKER (B & N) Larder Lodge, no date, oblong folio; Faithful Friends: Pictures and Stories for Little Folk, Blackie & Son, no date; and others including Willebeek Le Mair, J. H. Dowd, Vernon Stokes, R. Caldecott, etc. (36)

AMUCHASTEGUI (Axel) Some Birds and Mammals of North America. The Tryon Gallery 1971, large folio, colour plates, no.61 of 505 copies, signed, quarter blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf, slip case; with - another duplicate copy, no. 82/505, some pale staining to leather, slip case (2)

MEYRICK (Samuel R) and Charles HAMILTON SMITH. The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, 1821, folio, hand coloured frontis and 24 plates, as called for, a good copy in rebacked half calf

[ALEXANDER (William)] The Costume of the Russian Empire. London: W. Miller 1803, folio, with 69 (of 73) hand coloured plates, text in English and French, some slight offsetting and light handling stains, straight grain morocco, rebacked, all edges giltlacking 4 plates

MORRIS (Rev F O) A Series of Picturesque Views of the Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 6 vols., London: William Mackenzie, no date, circa 1880, 4to, colour plates, light foxing or spotting, decorative cloth gilt; KNIGHT (C) Shakespeare's works, 8 vols., Pictorial Edition, circa 1870, small folio, half calf, rubbed

CLARENDON (Edward, Earl of) The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, 3 vols., 1st edition 1702-04, folio, frontis portraits and half titles, damp stain to vols. I & II, 20th century half calf

SWAMMERDAM (John) The Book of Nature; or, The History of Insects: reduced to distinct Classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the Anatomical Analysis of Many Species...., London; C. G. Seyffert, 1758, 1st edition, folio, title printed in red and black with engraved device, 53 engraved plates, title and contents a little age toned with occasional dust staining and light foxing, few marginal tears, repaired and rebacked old calf by Bell and Golding, spine gilt

Popish Plot. Malice Defeated: Or a Brief Relation of the Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, Wherein her Proceedings both before and During her Confinement, are Particularly Related, and the Mystery of the Meal-Tub fully Discovered..., printed for Elizabeth Cellier, 1680, folio, 48pp., disbound; CHRISTIAN (E) Reflections upon a Paper Intituled Some Reflections upon the E. of Danby, in relation to the Murder of Sir Edmund-buryGod-frey, 1679, folio, 4pp.; An Account of the Writing it self that was found in the pocket of Lawrence Hill, at the time he and Green were executed for the Murder of Sr EdmondBerry Godfrey Kt., 1679, 3pp. (3)Reflections upon a Paper splitting along fold crease. see images.

CLUTTERBUCK (Robert) The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, 3 vols. 1815-27, folio, map and plates as required, some index leaves with repaired margins, very slight toning and dust staining in a few places, with a separate vol. of 'proof illustrations', variously mounted, light dust staining, all in later brown half morocco (4)

FIDATI (Simon) Commentaria super Evangelia in XV Libros in Duobus Tomis..., Ratisbon: H. Lenzii 1733, small folio, 2 parts in one, 5th edition, title in red and black, double column text, blind stamped pigskin binding, ecclesiastical bookplate of H R Lloyd and corresponding neat stamps to few leaves; BRUCKER (J) Historia Critica Philosophiae, Vol. IV, parts I & II, Leipzig 1743-44, 4to, bear vignette to titles, and Appendix vol. 1767, all in blindstamped vellum (4)

MUIRHEAD BONE, GLASGOW FIFTY DRAWINGS, NO 60/200, GLASGOW 1911 in folio and with slip cover, along with Muirhead Bone, The Western Front in 2 volsQty: 3 vols. in totalSome marks, writing on some pages, some damage to edges, images have been added to the website. Missing pages 7, 33 and 48

The National Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio', 'Audubons Birds of America', published by Abbeville

A quantity of Folio Society books

A box of Folio Society books

A box of Folio Society books.

Johnson (Rossiter) Camp Fire and Battle-Field, an illustrated history of the campaigns and conflicts of the Great Civil War, facsimile edition, published by Bryan, Taylor and Company, New York 1999 together with The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, eleventh edition, folio, published by Times Books 2005. (2)

Van Oyen (A.A.) Vorsternman. Stam-en Wapenboek Van Aaanzienlijke Nederlandsche Familien folio, with illustrated armorial plates, published by J B Wolters, Groningen 1888.

After William Richardson (19thC), Roche Abbey Yorkshire, from the Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire folio, lithograph by George Hawkins, 1844, 29cm x 47cm.

Folio Society. A collection of five works, including fairy stories, historical and poetry. The lot comprising The Once and Future King by T. H. White, The Arabian Nights illustrated by Detmold, Perrault's Fairy Tales illustrated by Edmund Dulac, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Each presented in smart slipcase, very light wear to the head of Grimm's Fairy Tales, light pencil inscriptions to ffep. 8vo.

1740 The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College: to which is prefixed the Life of the Founder Sir Thomas Gresham. with an Appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, written by the Professors, with other Papers serving to illustrate the Lives. By John Ward, Professor of Rhetoric in Gresham College and F. R. S. Printed by John Moore in Bartholomew Lane for the author. Half calf binding with marbled boards, leather in good & shiny condition, boards a touch rubbed in places, rebound with fresh endpapers, pages uncut to edges & with the odd spot. Lacks frontispiece portrait. Gresham College was founded by benefactor Thomas Gresham according to his will, and was the first institution of higher learning in London, reading seven subjects - divination, music, rhetoric, physics, law, astronomy and geometry. Folio.

1971 Les Grand Heures de Jean Duc de Berry. Published Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1971, introduction translated from French by Victoria Benedict and Benita Eisler. A facsimile reproduction of the important illuminated Book of Hours manuscript ms. lat. 919 held in the Bibliotheque National, Paris, as collected by John Duke of Berry, a 14th century collector of manuscripts and books of hours. Original cloth covered boards, presented in slipcase (some damp staining to case). Folio.

Military WWI interest. 1919 British Naval Medals: Commemorative Medals, Naval Rewards, War Medals, Naval Tokens, Portrait Medallions, Life-saving Medals, Engraved Pieces, &c., &c. by Admiral The Marquess of Milford Haven (Prince Louis of Battenberg until 1917). Publ. John Murray. Illustrated with depictions of each medal throughout. Original full cloth binding with leather spine label as issued, red edges. An important reference book on the medals issued to the Royal Navy during and after the First World War. Folio.

Folio Society. 2003 The Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang, with an introduction by Joan Aiken, paintings and decorations by Charles Van Sandwyk. Publisher's full decorative cloth binding in slipcase, prior owner's pencil inscription to ffep, smart condition. 8vo.

Bernard Shaw, George. 1924 Saint Joan, a Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue by Bernard Shaw with Sketches by C. Ricketts. Limited edition of seven hundred and fifty copies, publ. Constable and Co. Ltd. Publisher's original quarter cloth binding with decorative paper covered boards & spine label, edgeworn with light loss to head and tail of spine, boards discoloured. Ownership bookplate to front pastedown & later gift inscription to ffep, pages uncut, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates by Charles Ricketts. Folio.

1804 A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice, with Introductory and Concluding Symphonics & Accompaniments for the Piano Forte, Violin & Violoncello by Pleyel Kozeluch & Haydn. Volume I entd. at Stationer's Halll. Printed & sold by T. Preston, also by G. Thomson the Editor & Proprietor, Edinburgh. Signed G. Thomson to base of title page by music publisher George Thomson. Including verses by Robert Burns, Allan Ramsay and others. Orig. full calf binding appearing rebacked to spine, edgewear to extremities & spine is loosening, rubbed at hinges and the odd mark to the boards. Binding generally firm, occ. offsetting to sheet music. Folio.

Folio Society. A collection of nine Folio Society editions, all presented in slipcase. The lot comprising 1998 English Eccentrics illus. Roland Pym, 2002 The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin, 2000 Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, 2001 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, 2003 Jane Austen's Letters, 2000 An Innkeeper's Diary by John Fothergill, 2002 Essays of Francis Bacon, 2002 Travels of a Victorian Photographer: The Photographs of Francis Frith, and 2000 The Greek Myths by Robert Graves (2vol in single slipcase). Some with light wear to the slipcases. 8vo.

Spenser, Edmund. 1909 The Faerie Queene. Published Cambridge, at the University Press. Limited edition of three hundred, this being No. 56. Publisher's original quarter buckram binding & paper covered boards, binding a little soiled in places with bumping to the extremities, orig. spine labels present, buckram worn to the front hinge of vol II, edges uncut. Illustrated with tailpiece illustrations. Folio.

The Illustrated National Family Bible, with the Commentaries of Scott & Henry. Edited by the Rev. John Eadie. Publ. Gilpin & Company. Contemp. full crushed morocco binding, brass edges & Gothic clasps, inset cartouche decoration to front board, gilded edges. Gift inscription to ffep, To my Darling Husband W. C. Preater, from his Devoted Wife Daisy M. Preater, April 6th '07. With full plate illustrations throughout, and a frontispiece in full colour. Foolscap folio.

A folio containing various photographs and ephemera relating to The Cambridge Arts Theatre and others

A folio, 'The Enid Blyton Bible Pictures', together with further SPCK Giant Picture Books by Elsie Anna Wood, 'The Gospels', etc., containing further colour lithographs.

A folio of Indian colour prints, the Bhagavata Paintings from Mankot.

Folio of Paintings and Prints

Folio Society. Thomas Hardy. A small selection. (13)

Folio Society. Anthony Trollope. A large selection, in slipcases. (48)

Folio Society. A selection, includes: P. G. Wodehouse - Jeeves & Wooster six volume box set; Gibbon's Roman Empire in eight volumes (two slipcases); and others.

Folio Society. Military interest. (14)

Folio Society. Evelyn Waugh box set. Sword of Honour. (3)

Folio Society. A carton. (16)

Folio Society. Pullman, Philip - His Dark Materials. London: 2008, 1st thus. Three volumes in slipcase. Books clean and bright. (3)

Folio Society. A carton. Includes: The Celts (2001, 1st); Robert Graves The Greek Myths (2000, 8th printing); etc. (17)

Folio of school teachers' teaching aid prints and a part snapshot album, c.1920s

Folio Society Edition books and others

"Eight Original etchings by The Late John Sell Cotman Also Ten Etchings By M.E.Cotman", now first published. Charles Muskett, Old Haymarket, Norwich, 1846.The complete folio set:J.S.Cotman - The Student (The Spanish Student); Oriental Figure holding a Flintlock; Two Children; Woman drawing Water; An Ecclesiastic Reading; Windmills at Yarmouth; Scene on the Beach; Fecamp.Miles Edmund Cotman - French Fishing Boat off the Shears; Sailing Boat at sea in light Breeze; Loaded Barge in light Breeze; Hay Boats, Medway; Three-horse Cart leaving the Waterside; Two Anglers near a Copse; Beach scene, two figures with a horse drawn Cart; Riverside Copse with Cattle and Sails; Farmstead with Children and Dog playing; Four Trees in open Landscape. From the Cotman collection belonging to Dr Henry Lowe and his wife Judy (nee Cotman).Grosvenor Prints 2008.Conservation; Ellison, 2009.

Middle East.- Treaty of Peace between the State of Israel and the Arab Republic of Egypt, typescript in English, Arabic, and Hebrew, hole-punch and ribbon binding, one or two leaves detached and loosely inserted, contemporary green boards, rubbed, bumping to corners, upper cover with bumping and loss to upper corner, folio, [c.1979]. *** Scarce. Following on from the 'Camp David Accords' of 1978, the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed in 1979 by Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt and Menachem Begin, President of Israel, and was witnessed by Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America. This treaty made Egypt the first Arabic country to recognise Israel. Normalisation of relations between the two countries started to take effect from January 1980.

Smith (Philip, binder) New Directions in Bookbinding [&] The Book: Art & Object, 2 works in 1, extraordinary binding by Philip Smith of full tan goatskin with modeled onlays in various colors, upper cover with a 'V' shape opening revealing a painted scene set into the suede of the free endleaf, a similar painted scene set into the lower cover, full modeled goatskin doublures, all edges marbled, preserved in a felt bag, within clear Plexiglas slip-case and custom wooden case, the case with some pieces missing around the integral locking mechanism, folio (binding 353 x 220mm.), 1974-82.*** Smith describes this binding in an inserted sheet of "Artist's Notes" at the rear: "The idea of 'new directions' is suggested in the 'infinite regress' of the images, while the concept of the book as 'art and object' is suggested in the painting and sculpting features: this is a new treatment of the one-off hand-made book in an age when it is no longer necessary to bind books by hand for the general reading public - a new approach has long been necessary in this mainly 'traditional' craft justifying the continuance of it (if any justification is required). The purposely rugged effect moves away from the graphic 'reliure a la francaise" style. The 'object' nature of this kind of work is further enhanced by its incorporation in a display container made by Robert Ingham. The painting is with acrylic-based pigments and the modeling is with epoxy putty (the peaks are re-inforced over the millboard base with 2.5mm brass rods) and covered with 'maril' and feathered leather onlays. Other new features include the shaped double-core headband with the shaped cap, and the set-off markings from the puckered doublures enriching the suede flyleaves..."

Bordone (Benedetto di).- Commentaria in Bibliam. Ed: Bernardinus Gadolus, 3 vol., collation: I: A8 6 6 a-c8 d10 e8 f6 g-h10 i8 k6 l-u8 x-y6, II: A-R8 S10 T-Z8 AA-BB8 CC6 DD-HH8 DDD-EEE8 FFF-HHH6 DDDD-GGGG6 HHHH4 II8 KK-LL6, III: aa-ff8 ll-ss8 tt10 vv-zz8 &&12-1 a8 b-c6 AA6  aAA8 BBb-NNn8 OOo6 PPp8 QQq6, in all 839ff. (of 854 ff., lacking, as usual, quire BB6), text in 48-61 lines, large woodcut printer's device to PPp8r & QQq6r, ornate white-on-black woodcut candelabra border and fourteen-line initial depicting St. Jerome on fol. aAA2r, woodcut initials throughout, vol. 3 with some ink notes to margins in ?contemporary hand, paper repair top corner A1 (vol. 1), a few scattered instances of soiling or staining, nineteenth century calf-backed boards, a little worn, folio (341x223 mm), Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de forlivio, 1497- 25th August 1498.*** This Venetian edition of the Vulgate contains an extremely fine fifteenth century woodcut border by the celebrated miniaturist, cartographer and later printer, Benedetto Bordone (1450/55-1530).  The border, originally created in 1494 for another work, along with the numerous figurative woodcut initials here present, demonstrate Bordone's huge skill and inventive imagery. Provenance: Giovanni di Maffio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo [ink ownership inscriptions, dated 1532];  from the Franciscan library of St. Bonaventura al Bosco, Tuscany (ink ownership inscriptions, partly erased, dated 1545]Literature: BMC V, 350; Goff H-160; GW 12419.   

Biographies of women.- Boccaccio (Giovanni) De Claris Mulieribus, second edition, collation: [a10 b–i8 k10], 84ff. including initial blank, 35 lines, gothic letter, opening large 6-line initial in red and blue with penwork extending into margins, 5 initials J or I in red and blue (one just blue) extending 7 or 8 lines in margin, numerous other 2- or 3-line initials in red or blue, wide margins, occasional light foxing or staining, later brown morocco, gilt, by Lortic (with ticket), fine gauffered gilt edges, small folio (282 x 195mm.), Strassburg, Georg Husner, 1474.*** A fine, clean and complete copy of the second edition of Boccaccio's biographical accounts of classical women, set in Husner's elegant type. This edition preceded only by Zainer's illustrated Ulm imprint.Provenance: Charles Butler of Warren Wood, Hatfield (bookplate); James Stevens Cox (bookplate).Literature: GW 4484; Hain/Copinger 3327; BMC I, 83; 353; Goff B 717;  BSB Ink B 560.

Luther (Martin) Auslegung der Evangelien an den fürnemesten festen im gantzen jar geprediget, edited by Stephan Roth, 2 parts in 1, collation: [*]6 A-P6 : a-l6 m8, both titles within ornate woodcut historiated borders, part 1 title printed in red and black, penultimate f. colophon recto otherwise blank, and final f. blank, part 2 lacks final blank, [Leipzig], [Nikolaus Wolrab], 1546 [colophon 1545]-1545 bound with Luther (Martin) Außlegung der Episteln und Evangelien: von Ostern bis auff das Advent, edited by Caspar Cruciger, collation: A6 *-**6 A-Z a-z Aa-Ss6 Tt4, title with woodcut vignette depicting Luther kneeling before Christ on the cross, final f. blank, title with a few tears in margins, with loss at upper inner corner, V3 torn with considerable loss, b5 small hole within text at foot, with loss of a few letters, Wittenberg, Hans Lufft, 1547 and (bound first in vol.) a defective Lufft 1546 Auslegung, together 3 works in 1 vol., large woodcut illustrations, woodcut decorative initials, later ink marginalia and underlining, some short tears without loss, stained (including some ink), some spotting, mostly lightly browned (occasionally heavier), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, spine in compartments, remains of leather clasps, short split at head of spine, edges worn, soiled, rubbed and scuffed, folio (303 x 191mm.)*** Sermons from notes taken by listeners in Wittenberg and collated by Roth (originally published without Luther’s permission), and later revised (with Luther’s permission) by Cruciger.Literature: I: VD16 L 3992 II: VD 16 L 5614.

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***'Elizabethan Bible'.- Bible, Church Slavonic. Bibliya siretch knigi vethogo I novogo zaveta, first edition of the Bible printed in St. Petersburg, engraved title bordered by nine lush cartouches with allegorical images, fine engraved portrait frontispiece of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, engraved illustration at head of Genesis depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, numerous woodcut decorations and initials, text leaves within typographic borders, first few ff. washed and cleaned, some marginal water-staining, mostly to last two dozen leaves, contemporary calf, upper cover blind-stamped central oval with imperial two-headed eagle with three crowns, framed with olive branches and flowers, lower cover with vignette of a floral motif, spine titled in gilt and with raised bands, marbled endpapers, faded gilt edges, rubbed, head of spine and one section restored (leather added, not recently), folio (408 x 258mm.), St. Petersburg, V Tipografii Alexandro-Nevskogo Monastyria, 1751.*** The first edition of the famous "Elizabethan Bible", the collective name for the translation of the Bible into Church Slavonic, published during the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. The text was based on the translations to Church Slavonic done in Ostrog in 1570s (which resulted in the production of the Ostrog Bible in 1580) and Moscow in 1660s (Bible printed in 1663 in Moscow). The edition here was officially the third Bible, produced for Orthodox Christians of Russia.  It first appeared in print in 1751 in St. Petersburg after more than 10 years of preparation. The print-run was quickly sold out and was followed by 11 editions during the eighteenth century. Provenance: 18th century signature in ink: “M., Ushakov " on title verso. On the front cover, over the two-headed eagle the image of an anchor is scratched. These two signs of ownership might suggest some association to Admiral Fyodor Ushakov (1745-1817) the famous naval officer of 1780-1810s, commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Bible, English. [The holie Bible], [Bishops' Version], black letter, double column, woodcut illustrations, maps and initials, lacks 4 leaves of preliminaries (general title, (ii), *1 and blank f. *8), also P1 (divisional title to part 2), 3A1 (divisional title to part 3), 3P7, 4N10 and from New Testament R1 (leaf of woodcuts relating to Revelation), lacking engraved map of Canaan, general title and (ii) supplied in facsimile, prelims with tears and repairs with loss of some text, some leaves of NT seemingly supplied from another copy, including NT title (incongruous worming within text), ruled border to head trimmed a few times and printed side-note to C5v cropped, a few very small chips or closed tears without text loss, circular ink stain to NT title, NT some ff. with chips or tears repaired, affecting text but generally without loss, NT some worming within text, usually a few small and minor wormholes but heavier to R2, R7 & S1, final 5ff. more extensive repairs with some loss of text, final colophon f. trimmed and laid down with small loss, a few ink marks or inscriptions, some water-staining to preliminaries and final few ff., browned, some soiling and staining, modern antique-style panelled calf, red morocco spine label, few scratches to lower cover, [Herbert 132], folio (c.390 x 250mm.), Richarde Jugge, 1572; sold not subject to return.  *** The second folio edition of the Bishops' Bible, this copy far more complete than most. The main body of text containing the Old Testament, Pslames and Apocrypha is in particularly good condition and generally wide-margined. "A remarkable feature of this edition is its two-version Psalter, which exhibits, printed side by side, (1) The translation used in common prayer (taken originally from the Great Bible, and still retained in the Prayer Book) in black-letter, and (2) The translation after the Hebrewes (i.e. the Bishops' version) in roman type" (Herbert). In this copy, the preliminary leaves are bound with Sig.[par] before Sig.* but with leaf [par]10 at end ("order of the preliminary leaves is somewhat uncertain" - Herbert). A grand 16th-century black letter printing on strong paper, one of the most beautiful printings of the English bible.Provenance: William Austin: 1695 ?Born; Obadiah Woodcock January 6. 1766; Kenrick Edisbury (ownership inscriptions to *7).  

Macedonia.- Justinus (Marcus Junianus) Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii historias, collation: a8 b-l6, 67 ff. (of 68, lacking initial blank), 55 lines, Roman type, final ‘Registrum’ f., initials in red or blue, the first with a marginal flourish in purple ink, a few very small wormholes (mostly in margins), occasional spotting or light staining, ?washed, modern green calf, spine in compartments and with gilt title, little stained and marked, folio (305 x 203mm.), [Venice], [Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis & Albertinus Rubeus Vercellensis], [after 1487 [-?c.1498]].  *** A wide-margined copy of this rare edition at auction of Justinus's epitome of the Historia Philippica by Pompeius Trogus; his history of the Kings of Macedonian Empire. Literature: BMC V, 420; Goff J-621; HC 9655; BSB-Ink I-670; GW M15648; ISTC ij00618500.  

Bible, Czech. Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular (ie Bohemian), collation: a–g10 h8 i–z A10 B8 C–Z AA BB10 CC8 aa–ll10 mm [*8], 585 leaves only (of 610), double column, 46-7 lines to a page, initial-letters and paragraph-marks supplied in red or yellow, aa1v large initial hand-coloured in red, green and blue, Register printed in red and black, lacking the first quire, b6 and 9, c5 and 6, d3 and 4, e8-10, f1, r10 and mm8, and 3ff. of the register (II, VII and VIII), c4 only partially preserved, about ten other leaves with cut-out or restored margins with some loss of text, many other leaves with marginal repairs or restoration but without loss of text, ee7 torn in text, some headlines shaved, many leaves browned and with stains, some early ink marginalia, later ink annotations on blank leaves at beginning and pencil annotations on some blank leaves regarding missing leaves,19th century sheep, gilt spine laid down, decorative endpapers, edges stained red, a large number of blank paper leaves bound in, modern calf-edged cloth slip-case, Super-Chancery folio (308 x 201mm.), Prague, Jan Pytlik, [Jan] Severin, Johann von Stoerchen, and Mathias vom Weissen Loewen, August 1488.*** First edition of the complete Czech Bible, and the first Bible printed in any Slavonic language. A year earlier in Prague, an anonymous press using a different font had printed a Czech Psalter (GW M36725); in Pilsen, ca. 1475-1476, an anonymous press had produced two editions of the New Testament in Czech, one folio (GW M45676, two copies) and one quarto (GW 45679: one copy, one fragment of 20 leaves).The incunable literature has misleadingly translated the last two publishers' names into German, but in the colophon their names are in Czech, i.e. “Johann von Störchen” is “Jan od apuow”, the equivalent of modern Jan Apek. The colophon explains the status of the financial backers of this historic and very expensive production: "Those eminent men and citizens Master John Pytlík, Master Severyn the Merchant, Alderman for this year, Master John of the Stork, and Master Mathias of the White Lion.First printed translations of the Bible: 1466 German; 1471 Italian; 1477 Dutch (NT) OT in 1525; 1478 Catalan; 1488 Bohemian (cf Czech 1579); 1498 French.Rarity: About 90 copies are believed to exist, most of which are incomplete. GW records 77 copies and fragments in institutions. Apart from this example, only 2 other copies (both incomplete) have appeared auction in the 20th century.Provenance: Dr. Joseph Liboslaw Ziegler (1782-1846), decanus in Chrudim (stamp); Sotheby’s London 17 March 1958 (£80 to Maggs).Literature: Goff B-620; GW 4323; ISTC ib00620000; BMC III 808 (IB.51405); BSB-Ink B-501; Bod-inc B-340E.

[Shakespeare (William)] [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, lacks A1-*3 (i.e. 'To the Reader', title, preliminaries), A1-4 (pp.1-8 from The Tempest), t3 & 4 (pp.189-192 from Richard III), 3c6-3d4 (pp.411-419 from Cymbeline, i.e. final 5ff.), preliminary leaf *4 ("Upon the Lines and Life of...W. Shakespeare" by Hugh Holland) present but extensively creased, browned and torn with very small text loss (but with a third of the leaf torn away) and laid down on f. with ''A Catalogue...'' in facsimile on verso, some missing prelims and all text at end supplied in a variety of facsimile leaves (including title with good facsimile of Shakespeare's portrait by Droeshout), A5-6 and last few ff. mounted on stubs, L2, y4-5 & 2f2 short tears into text without loss, Y1 longer repaired tear to foot, some ff. margins frayed occasionally causing loss of text (see in particular D3-4 & Sig. T), the odd small repair affecting text, l4 portion torn away at foot with loss to final 2 lines verso, lower corners frayed from Sig. 3a with loss to catchwords and a few letters, 3c2 to end (i.e. 4 remaining last ff.) margins frayed with loss of many lines of text, trimmed at head, very occasionally into ruled border and shaving headline to K3, a few ink annotations or corrections, longer ink note to I2v, lightly browned, some soiling, some water- and other staining, modern antique-style calf, richly gilt, upper cover slightly stained, little rubbed, particularly to lower cover, joints cracked at head and foot but holding, preserved in a drop-back box, [STC 22274; Pforzheimer 906, issue not determined], folio (c.314 x 195mm.), [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. *** The second folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, this copy, albeit with the odd defect, with the majority of plays complete. "For though his Line of life went soone about,/ The Life yet of his Lines shall never out" (Hugh Holland, preliminary poem on *4).Provenance: Edward Vaughan (early ownership name on *4).

Herbal.- Parkinson (John) Theatricum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, or, an Herball of a Large Extent, first edition, hand-coloured engraved title and over 2000 woodcut botanical illustrations in the text, additional printed title, lacks ?preliminary leaf (20 only of 22pp., ?blank), text 3I3 (supplied in manuscript) and index and errata at end, engraved title small tear with loss, trimmed, laid down and with a later border (partially removed), printed title timmed and laid down, hand-coloured engraved plate from another work bound in among preliminary ff., tears in 2Y4, 3I4 (with small loss), 4Q2 and 6G6, other smaller tears in numerous margins, browned, some foxing, new endpapers, modern morocco, gilt spine, pencil note on lower pastedown "1978 - This Book rebound in Oxford - RI & MW", [Blanche Henrey 286; STC 19302], folio, by Tho. Cotes, 1640; sold not subject to return.*** "Parkinson's second work, which occupied him for many years, was Theatrum botanicum (1640), with more than 1700 pages. This described some 3800 plants and showed his extensive reading of the period's authorities; of particular value was the almost entire incorporation of Caspar Bauhin's Pinax, for its synonyms. Parkinson divided plants into seventeen ‘tribes’, based partly on their medicinal qualities and partly on habitat. William How in 1655 roundly accused him of plagiarizing the work of Matthias L'Obel, but Parkinson had acknowledged his debt to him, and as one historian wrote, 'He has taken very little, for the simple reason that very little was worth taking' (Raven, 268). Certainly John Ray did not despise the work, for he termed it 'the most full and comprehensive book of that subject extant' (Raven, 272), and frequently quoted from it." - Oxford DNB.Provenance: Roger Warner (1913-2008), antiques dealer and collector.