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Click here to subscribe° ° Books Miscellany - cloth and leather bound; older and newer; including: Blome's The History of the Holy Bible. num engraved plates, old leather, folio. 1752; Elizabeth Goldring - Nicholas Hilliard: The life of an artist. num. colour illus., d/wrapper, 4 to. Yale Univ. Pres, 2019; 29 books in all
BOOKS, fifteen FOLIO SOCIETY publications comprising three volumes of The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy, two editions of Betjeman's Britain, The Greek Myths I & II by Robert Graves, The Arabian Nights with illustrations by Detmold, The Plums of P.G. Wodehouse, The Best of the Raconteurs, selected by Sheridan Morley and Tim Heald, Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford, Mapping the World by Peter Whitfield, DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Letters and Papers from Prison, The Times Atlas of the World - Comprehensive Condition and The First Folio of Shakespeare - The Norton Facsimile (Condition report: generally good, sd)
BOOKS, six boxes containing approximately 140 miscellaneous titles in hardback and paperback format, subjects include geography, maps, royalty, history, music, biography, contemporary fiction and classic novels which includes ten Folio Society publications and a small selection of Foreign Language titles
Simon Kidston: The Lamborghini Miura; a leather-bound Limited 'Jota' Special Edition, published by Kidston SA, 2021,large format title in maroon and black leather bespoke binding with silver gilt tooling, with paper label to title page with facsimile author's signature and numbered 27 of 75 'Jota' Special Editions, 454 numbered pages, lavishly illustrated throughout, a comprehensive history of the model, with ribbon-tied 'Miura' profile bookmark, together with a black leather-bound folio containing two Miura related cartoon prints after Russell Brockbank, two styling illustrative prints on draughting film, a Bertone publicity image, and a window decal, all contained in silver-coloured cloth-bound presentation library box with maroon velvet lining, with original carton box with packing and with later bespoke padded flight case with handle, measuring 64 x 65 x 25cm overall. (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • ◊• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.◊ £30 + VAT uplift and storage at £6 + VAT per lot per day.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Hasted, Edward, The History Of The Ancient and Metropolitical City Of Canterbury Civil and Ecclesiastical.., Canterbury, Printed By Simmons and Kirkby. 1799. with large fold-out plan, engraved plates throughout, list of subscribers and dedication to the Archbishop of Canterbury, rebound calf spine with gilt tooled title and heraldic horse of Kent over marbled boards, with bookplate for Jonathan Lambert, demy folio. (1)
Wykeham Martin, Charles: The History And Discription Of Leeds Castle, Kent. Westminster: Nichols And Sons, 25, Parliament Street, 1869, eight photographic plates by John Cruttenden of Maidstone, rebound in quarter green leather with marbled boards, gilt tooled spine and titled leather square to the cover, folio. (1)
Cortesao, Armando and Teixeira de Mota, Avelino: Tabularum Geographicarum Lusitanorum Specimen, Published by Lisbon, [Comissão Executiva das Comemorações do V Centenario da Morte do Infante D. Henrique], 1960, author's signed and dated four-line presentation inscription, original crimson quarter cloth, gilt, large folio, with typed notice of provenance regarding the Portuguese Navy frigate SAS Vrystaat. (1)
Harris, John: The History Of Kent, In Five Parts..., London: Printed And Sold by D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1719, Volume I. (no further volumes were printed due to the death of Harris), two engraved portrait frontispieces, folding map, single and double page plates, bound in panelled calf with gilt banded spine, bookplate for Cecil George Savile Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool and with previous owners notes to endpapers, folio. (1) Re-calfed.With the usual bumps and wear to corners and spine.Shelfwave to bottom edge.Obvious split to paste-down end paper, which can be seen in online images.Crease and repair to opening “To The King”.Creases and expected spotting throughout.Map in good order, with the usual creases and has possibly been restuck at some point.
Loredano, Giovanni Francesco: (Hare, Huge 1st Baron Colraine (trans.) The Ascents Of The Soul: Or, David's Mount Towards God's House. Being Paraphrases On The Fifteen Psalms of Degrees, London, Printed by A.G. and J.P. for Robert Harford, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1681, bound with La Scala Santa: Or, A Scale of Devotions Musical and Gradual: Being Descants on the Fifteen Psalms of Degrees, contemporary blind tooled calf, folio. (1)
Barnes, Joshua: The History Of That Most Victorious Monarch Edward III. King of England and France and Lord of Ireland, Cambridge Printed by John Hayes for the Author, 1688, folio, portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, gilt tooled binding with titled spine. (1)This volume has two engraved plates, pages 583, 707. Pedigree of Kings page 755.
Brandt, Gerard: The History Of The Reformation And Other Ecclesiastical Transactions In And About the Low-Countries.., Faithfully Translated from the Original Low-Dutch, London: Printed by T. Wood, For Timothy Childe, at the White Hart at the West End of St. Paul's Church Yard. Vols I-IV, 1720-1723, full leather binding with seven compartment spine and gilt titles, folio. (4)
Wain, Louis. Miss Lovemouse's Letters, first edition, London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1896. Oblong folio, publisher's colour illustrated paper covers, 22pp., some light spotting & marks, paper covers with some creasing along edges & slight loss at corners, reinforced with cloth strip at spine. Scarce
Peake, MervynThe Gormenghast Trilogy, comprising: Titus Groan. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, first edition in heavily-clipped second state dust jacket (removing price and "Second Impression");Gormenghast. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950, first edition, unclipped dust jacket;Titus Alone. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959, first edition, clipped dust jacket;With Titus Groan, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1949, in torn jacket; Gormenghast Trilogy, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1968-70, in jackets; and the Trilogy, Folio Society, 1992, in slipcase. [10]
NO RESERVE Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The description of Germanie, first edition in English, first f. seemingly the original blank, but laid down, so unable to confirm whether signature mark present, woodcut decorative initials, [STC 23644], lacking title and to the reader f., dedication f. with some chipping, margins repaired and mounted on stub, [By Arn. Hatfield, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598 bound with (as issued) Tacitus (Cornelius) The Ende of Nero and beginning of Galba. Fower bookes of the Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The life of Agricola, second edition in English, full-page engraved plan of Roman army camp, woodcut decorative initials, lacking final blank, [STC 23643], [By Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598, together 2 works in 1 vol., as issued, water-stained, spotting and staining, lightly browned, new endpapers, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, small folio sold not subject to return.
Herbal .- Gerard (John) [The Herball or Generall historie of plantes], edited by Thomas Johnson, numerous woodcuts in text, lacking all before A1 (including title), B4&5, 3L3&4 and final ff. 7B1-6, 3S3 misbound after 3S4, A1&2 margins repaired, affecting pagination on first f., 2T3&4 torn and repaired with loss of text / woodcuts, water-stained, some spotting or staining, modern calf, spine in compartments and with red leather label, [Henrey 156; Hunt 230; Nissen BBI 698; STC 11752], folio, [Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers], 1636. sold not subject to return.
Herbal.- Turner (William) The first and seconde partes of the herbal of William Turner Doctor in Phisick, lately ouersene, corrected and enlarged with the thirde parte, parts 1 and 3 only (of 4), numerous woodcuts in text, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, final 2 ff. of part 1 blank, occasional early ink marginalia (cropped by binder), part 1 lacking general title and 1A1&2, part 3 lacking errata f. 2*1 (as often, according to ESTC) and final blank, part 1 M1 part of lower margin torn away, occasional light water-staining and spotting, lightly browned, 18th century tree sheep, spine in compartments and with later to style black morocco label, upper joint split, but holding firm, spine ends and corners little worn, rubbed, [Henrey 368; Nissen 2013; STC 24367], folio, Cologne, By [the heirs of] Arnold Birckman, 1568. sold not subject to return.
Oxfordshire.- Plot (Robert) The Natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England, first edition, initial imprimatur f., engraved title vignette, head-piece and initial to dedication, folding map of Oxfordshire with armorial border, and 16 plates, errata f., lacking final blank, map with some staining and laid down, index f. 3A2 torn at lower corner with loss of a few letters, occasional mostly marginal staining / water-staining, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, spine in compartments and with later gilt and label, upper cover detaching, spine ends crudely repaired, outer edges gnawed, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing P2586; Madan 3130], folio, Printed at the Theater in Oxford and are to be had there: And in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard, 1677.⁂ Issue with price at foot of title. Provenance: W.F. Lowndes Stone, Brightwell Park (engraved armorial bookplate and inscription to head of imprimatur f.); J. Waterhouse (ink signature to head of imprimatur f.).
Trees.- Evelyn (John) Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions, edited by Dr. Alexander Hunter, first Hunter edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by Bartolozzi, 40 engraved plates (1 folding), folding letterpress table, list of subscribers, *c1 blank, water-stained at end (mostly marginal), some spotting and staining elsewhere, 20th century calf-backed marbled boards, spine in compartments and with leather label, corners worn, rubbed, [Henrey 137; Keynes 47; Pritzel 2766], York, Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley [&c.], 1776; and a defective 1670 Sylva, 4to & small folio (2)
Camden (William) Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha, first edition, first 2 ff. blank (mounted on stubs, but chain lines seemingly match), B1 cancel, lacking final errata f., some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, later gilt, spine in compartments and with later black morocco label, upper joint splitting, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, [STC 4496], William Stansby for Simon Waterson, 1615; and the third edition of the same (lacking portrait), folio (2)
Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poët, Edm. Spenser:, title within woodcut historiated border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, final f. blank, occasional later ink marginalia and passage marking, lacking S3 and 2G4&5, general title laid down, S2 torn and repaired with loss of text, a few marginal repairs, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked in modern calf in compartments with a burgundy leather label, corners restored, rubbed and marked, [STC 23085], Printed [by Humphrey Lownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1617; and another by the same (defective), folio (2) sold not subject to return. ⁂ Issued with STC 23086.7 (bound in after general title and lacking final blank); STC 23094 (with final blank); STC 23087 (variant imprint date of 1613); and STC 23077.7 (lacking C6).
Smellie (William) A Sett of Anatomical Tables...of the Practice of Midwifery, second edition, 39 engraved plates by Grignion after Jan van Rymsdyk, Pieter Camper and the author, each plate with accompanying leaf of text, light spotting and soiling, one plate creased, ex-library copy with ink stamp to title, later morocco-backed cloth, rubbed, spine faded and ends slightly worn, repairs to upper joint, [Norman 1955], folio, 1761.⁂ "These engravings are the first accurate anatomical illustrations of the foetus in utero." (Norman).
Obstetrics & Gynaecology.- Spratt (George) Obstetric Tables..., 2 vol., third edition, 19 lithographed plates, 16 hand-coloured, 15 with flaps, some multiple, tissue guards, lists of subscribers, contemporary ink signature to title of vol.1, light spotting, some browning to text, original cloth, rubbed, recased, preserved in modern cloth slip-case, for the author, 1838; and 4 others, similar including facsimile reprints of Smellie and Maygrier, 4to & folio (6)
Britain.- Speed (John) The History of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, second edition, engraved architectural title depicting the peoples mentioned in the title, engraved portrait of John Speed by Salomon Savery, numerous woodcut medallion portraits and arms, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, title and portrait neatly laid down, a few ff. browned, spotting and staining or water-staining, lightly browned, antique style panelled calf, blind-stamped decorated spine in compartments and with black morocco label, [STC 23048], rare in commerce, folio, Are to be sold by George Humble at the Whit horse in Popes-head Alley, 1627.
Public Health.- Gastaldi (Girolamo) Tractatus de Avertenda et Profliganda Peste Politico-Legalis..., only edition, half-title, 47 engraved plates, water- & damp-stained, contemporary vellum, morocco label, rubbed and stained, [Wellcome III, 93], folio, Bologna, Manolessi, 1684; sold not subject to return⁂ Concerning the plague measures implemented in Rome following the frequent outbreaks of contagion which ravaged the city in 1656-57. Cardinal Gastaldi was appointed commissioner general for public health and instigated an extensive programme evaluating the merits and health-providing value of hospitals, and sanitation regarding rivers, other water courses, and drainage. He also proposed strict hygiene measures such as a ban on trade, thorough cleaning of the streets, disinfection of bed linen, isolation hospitals, and health certificates.
Public Health.- Houses of Parliament. First Report of the Commissioners...into...the Best Means of Preventing the Pollution of Rivers (River Thames), 2 vol., 12 maps & plans, most folding including large colour geological map of Thames Basin, 1866; Second Report...(River Lee), 2 vol., large folding colour geological map, 1867; Third Report...(Rivers Aire and Calder), 2 vol., 7 folding maps & plans, some colour, 1867, together bound in 1 vol., ex-library copy with ink stamp to titles, modern cloth; and 2 uniformly-bound volumes of First-Sixth Reports of the Rivers Pollution Commission 1870-74 covering the Mersey & Ribble rivers, treating sewage, pollution arising from woollen manufacturing, the rivers of Scotland, pollution from mining, and the domestic water supply of Great Britain, folio (3)⁂ The first such governmental documents published.
Tropical Diseases.- Annesley (James) Sketches of the Most Prevalent Diseases of India, first edition, half-title, 3 hand-coloured lithographed plates, folding lithographed map hand-coloured in outline, 2 plates spotted, contemporary cloth, uncut, corners worn, rebacked in calf, 1825 § Scot (W.) Report on the Epidemic Cholera...[under] the Presidency of Fort St.George, presentation copy from the author, map with routes in red & yellow, old cloth, spine faded, Edinburgh, 1849 § jameson (J.) Report on the Epidemick Cholera Morbus...[in] Bengal, in the years 1817, 1818, and 1819, folding map, folding tables, title with ink names crossed out, cropped, Calcutta, 1820 § Ballingall (G.) Practical Observations on Fever, Dysentery, and Liver Complaints, as they occur amongst the European Troops in India...[with] An Essay on Syphilis, second edition, half-title, folding table at end, name cut away from head of title, Edinburgh, 1823, all ex-library copies with faint stamps, the last two library cloth, upper joint split, all rubbed; and 8 others on India, mostly regarding disease, some parliamentary reports, 8vo & folio (12)
Venereal Disease.- Carmichael (Richard) An Essay on Venereal Diseases, second edition, 5 stipple-engraved plates printed in colours, 3 folding, ex-library copy with stamp to verso of title and label, original boards, uncut, rebacked, [Wellcome II, 302], 1825 § Vidal (A.) A Treatise on Venereal Diseases, first edition in English, 6 chromolithographed plates, one double-page, some foxing, original cloth, recased, New York, 1854 § Rosenbaum (Dr. Julius) The Plague of Lust, being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity, 2 vol., first edition in English, one of 500 copies, contemporary half vellum, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, Paris, 1901 § Plenck (Joseph Jacob von) Doctrina de morbis venereis, first edition, light foxing, ink stain to margin of a couple of leaves, modern cloth, [Wellcome IV, 401], Vienna, R.Graeffer, 1779 § Ricord (Philippe) Traité Pratique des Maladies Vénériennes, first edition, 48pp. bookseller's catalogue of medical books at end, old ink library stamp to title, contemporary boards, rebacked in pigskin, Paris, 1838, some a little rubbed; and 32 others on venereal disease, mostly syphilis, 8vo & folio (38)
Africa.- Ogilby (John) Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, first edition, title in red and black, engraved large folding map of Africa, 50 (of 51) maps and plates (of which 42 double-page) and illustrations, 8 (of 9) sheets of letterpress tables, lacking half-title, allegorical frontispiece, and some preliminary ff., title trimmed and laid down, plates strengthened at edges verso (occasionally recto), a few tears, repairs, water-stained, some worming, spotting or staining, modern red crushed morocco, spine in compartments, [Wing O163], folio, Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, 1670. sold not subject to return. ⁂ The most comprehensive work on Africa in English published in the seventeenth century, largely based on the work of Olfert Dapper.
Bede, Saint, the Venerable. Historiæ ecclesiasticæ gentis Anglorum libri V., first edition, second issue (with A1 cancelled and replaced with three leaves bearing half-title, cancel title, and leaf beginning 'Deo tri-uni', and with 3T3 cancelled and replaced with separate dated title page 'Chronologia Anglo-Saxonica elegans et perantiqua'), parallel Anglo-Saxon and Latin text, half-title, title in red and black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, errata ff. 4F2 and ²2G4, lacking engraved map, some spotting, lightly browned, attractive 19th century red crushed morocco, richly gilt, spine in compartments and with black and brown morocco labels, rubbed (especially joints) and marked, g.e., [Wing B1662], folio, Cambridge, Roger Daniel, 1644.⁂ A presentation copy in 1662 from Edward Rainbow (1608-1684, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University) to Sir Wadham Wyndham (1609-1668, Justice of the King's Bench 1660-1668, who sat on the Fire Court during the trials of property restitution after the Great Fire).
America.- Purchas (Samuel) Purchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all ages and places discovered ... a Theologicall and Geographicall Historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the islands adjacent, first edition, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, small loss and tissue repairs to early blank and title, lacking 3S2, 3S3 duplicated, previous owner's ink signature to title and early blank verso, early ink inscriptions to final blank verso, bookplate, marginal water-staining, spotting and staining, lacking endpapers, near contemporary calf, neat repairs to corners and spine ends, a little rubbed, [STC 20505; Sabin 66678], folio, by William Stansby, 1613.
Raleigh (Sir Walter).- Ross (Alexander) The History of the world: the second part, in six books: being a continuation of the famous history of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight: beginning where he left, 2 parts in 1, half-title, title in red and black and with fine engraved printer's device, errata / notes from printer f. at end, final dated title page with engraved vignette (misbound after first title), woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, sig. 3D misbound, but complete, marginal water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, spine in compartments and with later morocco label, head of spine and corners worn, foot of spine chipped and repaired, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing R1956A], folio, Printed [by R. Cotes, T. Newcomb, T. Mab, and A. Coles] for John Saywell, 1652.
China.- Montanus (Arnoldus) Atlas Chinensis: being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the vice-roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary, translated by John Ogilby, first edition in English, engraved additional pictorial title (bound after letterpress title), letterpress title in red and black, 2 engraved double-page maps and 30 plates only (of 38), all but 5 double-page or folding, includes the large folding view of Hocsieu, engraved illustrations, 4 folding engraved plates form another later work bound in, words 'Second & Third' neatly cut from additional title and repaired verso, map 'Imperium Sinicum' torn and repaired, with small loss to border and part of title cartouche at lower left-hand corner, marginal repairs to plates, a few short tears, offsetting, some spotting and light staining, lightly browned (including plates), modern green crushed moroco, spine in compartments and with rather basic burgundy leather label [Cordier, Sinica 2349; Landwehr VOC 545; Lust 525; Löwendahl 145 (note); Wing D242], folio, Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, 1671. sold not subject to return. ⁂ First edition in english of a work by Olfert Dapper, first published the year before in Dutch, and mistakenly ascribed by Ogilby to Arnoldus Montanus.Provenance: Sir William Maynard Gomm (two 19th century engraved armorial bookplates).
Mazzella (Scipione) Parthenopoeia, or The history of the most noble and renowned kingdom of Naples, translated by James Howell, first edition in English, woodcut portraits and coats-of-arms, final advertisement f., preliminaries *2&3 misbound after 2B4, worming to lower inner gutters, sometimes just encroaching on text, but without loss of sense, some spotting or staining, modern red morocco-backed marbled boards, spine in compartments and with black leather label, patch repair to 1 compartment of spine, [Wing M1542], Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1654; and 5 others, defective 17th century English, some with portraits or plates, small folio & 4to (6)
Roman Britain.- Burton (William) A commentary on Antoninus his itinerary, or Journies of the Romane Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain, engraved portrait frontispiece and double-page map by Wenceslaus Hollar, title printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations, preliminaries misbound, but complete, title and A2 working loose, occasional spotting or mostly light staining, lightly browned, new endpapers, contemporary speckled sheep, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments and with green leather label, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing B6185], small folio, Printed by Tho. Roycroft, and are to be sold by Henry Twyford in Vine-Court Middle-Temple, and T. Twyford at the Inner Temple-Gate, 1658.⁂ Provenance: 'Robt. Lathropp, ex dono Edwi Tovye 1660' (ink inscription to title).
NO RESERVE Turkey.- Sandys (George) Sandys travells, containing an history of the original and present state of the Turkish Empire: their laws, government, policy, military force, courts of justice, and commerce, sixth edition, engraved double-page map, folding panorama and numerous illustrations in text, lacking additional pictorial title, title with small piece from upper corner (affecting part of border), stained and laid down, map trimmed to just within platemark (affecting some numbering), with a couple of short tears and laid down, panorama outer margin trimmed just within border and with split at 1 fold, final f. outer margin repaired, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, modern half morocco, spine in compartments and with basic leather label, [Wing S679], small folio, Printed for Rob. Clavel, Tho. Passinger, Will. Cadman [& others], 1670; and 3 others, 17th (defective) & 19th century Travel, v.s. (4) sold not subject to return.
Voyages.- Hakluyt (Richard) [The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500. yeeres], first edition, black letter, woodcut head-pieces and historiated or decorative initials, X4 blank, 2X5-2Y6 cancelled and replaced with 2Y1-6 (second state of Bowes' embassy to Russia) , lacking map (as often), title, S6, 2P6 and 4F2-4 (the last blank), without the unpaginated leaves relating to Drake at p.642, upper margins of preliminaries little frayed, 4F1 repaired hole at head, with loss of text, the odd tear (without loss), some spotting and staining, lightly browned, modern calf, with earlier blind-stamped panelled calf covers and a rather worn spine (with modern leather label) laid down, these earlier pieces chipped, rubbed and scuffed, [Sabin 29594; Hill 743; PMM 105 (second edition); STC 12625], small folio, [By George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker], [1589]. sold not subject to return. ⁂ 'the most complete collection of voyages and discoveries, by land as well as by sea, and of the nautical achievements of the Elizabethans' (PMM).
Britain.- Sammes (Aylett) Britannia antiqua illustrata: or, The antiquities of ancient Britain, derived from the Phœenicians, vol 1. [all published], first edition, title in red and black, engraved double-page map and illustrations, map little creased, some spotting or mostly light staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, spine in compartments and lacking label, upper cover detached, lower joint starting, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, [Wing S535], Printed by Tho. Roycroft for the author, 1676; and 3 others, Britain & Ireland, folio et infra (4)
Cornwall.- Borlase (William) Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall, second edition, 2 engraved maps, of which 1 folding, 25 engraved plates, of which 1 folding, damp-staining at head of sigs. C-E (diminishing in size), causing marginal fraying on C1, hole to final f., with loss of several letters, offsetting, occasional water-staining, mostly at end, some spotting, modern light tan half calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, folio, Printed by S. Baker and G. Leigh [& others], 1769.⁂ Includes a Cornish vocabulary at end.
Isle of Man & Cheshire.- King (Daniel) The Vale-royall of England· Or, The county palatine of Chester illustrated...Also, an excellent discourse of the Island of Man; treating of the island. Of the inhabitants...Of the civil government. Of the trade..., 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved additional pictorial title, folding maps of Cheshire & The Isle of Man, double-page plan of Chester, 11 plates of Arms and 5 other folding or full-page plates, engraved illustrations, additional title misbound after title and trimmed at head to just within border, letterpress title little chipped and trimmed and laid down, plan with short split at fold, plate of cathedral with a few tears and laid down, without loss, plate of 'Hugh Lupus' trimmed to border and laid down, map of Isle of Man with marginal repair, a few short tears, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, 19th century panelled calf, rebacked in richly gilt 20th century calf, corners worn, covers rubbed and little scuffed, [Wing K488], Printed by John Streater, in Little S. Bartholomews, and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the west-end of Pauls, 1656; and a defective copy of Carew's Cornwall, 1602, small folio & small 4to (2)⁂ The work was in fact written by William Smith, William Webb and Samuel Lee, and the part devoted to the Isle of Man by James Chaloner. King only wrote the dedication and was the engraver of the plates.
Dugdale (Sir William) The Baronage of England; or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility, 3 vol. in 2, first edition, double column, titles to vol.1 & 2 in red and black, 5 folding genealogical tables, vol.1 errata f. at end (trimmed and laid down), occasional contemporary and later ink or pencil marginalia, vol.2 P2 small hole in text (with loss of a few letters), first index f. with repaired tear and the second (final f.) with a few short tears / small losses to lower margin and laid down, both without loss of text, both vol. occasional spotting or staining (including some ink), bookplates of Charles Longuet Higgins, Turvey Abbey, attractive 19th century diced russia, gilt, spine in compartments and with double leather labels, some fading to vol.2, both vol. a few spots, [Wing D2480], Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman, 1675-1676; and another, by the same, folio (3)
Nottinghamshire.- Thoroton (Robert) The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, extracted out of records, original evidences, leiger books, other manuscripts, and authentick authorities, first edition, initial imprimatur f., title in red and black, engraved double-page county map, 16 plates and plans by Wenceslas Hollar after Richard Hall (most double-page), 8pp. and a slip of coats-of-arms at end, and illustrations, water-stained, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, corners worn, rubbed, [Wing T1063], folio, Printed by Robert White, for Henry Mortlock, at the sign of the Phœnix, 1677.
Staffordshire.- Plot (Robert) The Natural History of Stafford-shire, first edition, title with large engraved vignette, engraved plate of 'Armes omitted', folding map (linen-backed and inserted in pocket at end) and 37 plates by Burghers, of which 26 double-page (mostly houses), 4pp. list of subscribers at end, plate 'Tab. XI' at p.189 with purple damp-staining, 2E4 torn without loss of text, second f. of subscribers strengthened with tape (still legible), the odd short tear or repair, some spotting or mostly light staining, lightly browned, new endpapers, 20th century half morocco, [Wing P2588], Oxford, At the Theatre, 1686; and a defective copy of Leigh's Natural History of Lancashire, 1700, small folio (2)⁂ By the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Includes two chapters on minerals and fossils. Subscribers include Elias Ashmole and Robert Boyle.
Surveying.- Leybourn (William) The Compleat surveyor: containing the whole art of surveying of the land, by the plain table, circumferentor, theodolite, peractor, and other instruments, fourth edition, title in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, 6 folding plates, and a small plan of a manor in Rutland, a4 advertisement f., water-stained, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, corners restored, covers rubbed, [Wing L1910], small folio, Printed by E. Flesher, for George Sawbridge, at the signe of the Bible on Ludgate-hill, 1679.⁂ Provenance: 'Jo: Alleyne book pr 15s'; 'John Bowdon Junier his Book' (contemporary ink inscriptions to verso of portrait).
Chaucer (Geoffrey) [The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with diuers addicions, whiche were neuer in printe before], [edited by William Thynne with additions by John Stow], double column, black letter, woodcut illustration at beginning of The Knightes Tale, title for The Romaunt of the Rose within a full-page woodcut historiated border, woodcut decorative initials, lacking all before B1, B6, C5&6, D1-4, F1-6, G1-4, L1, Oo3&4, 2Q6, 2S1-6, 2T1-6, and all after 3K3, tears, occasionally affecting text (see in particular foot of B1), water-stained / stained (especially first few ff.), some spotting, mostly lightly browned, late 18th / early 19th century panelled calf, spine in compartments and with later red leather label, lower joint split, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [?STC 5076], folio, [?by Ihon Kyngston, for Ihon Wight, dwellyng in Poules Churchyarde], [?1561]. sold not subject to return.
Virgilius Maro (Publius) The Works of Virgil: containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Æeneis, translated by John Dryden, engraved frontispiece by Michael vander Gucht, 101 engraved plates after Franz Cleyn, most by Wenceslaus Hollar and Pierre Lombart, foxed, some spotting and offsetting, mostly lightly browned, modern panelled calf, spine in compartments and with burgundy leather label, spine uniformly faded, some staining (?attempt to give binding an antique look), [Wing V616], folio, Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges-Head in Fleetstreet, near the Inner-Temple-Gate, 1697.
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