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Click here to subscribeLes Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Acquaintances) by Choderlos De Laclos Translated by Richard Aldington hardback book 399 pages Published 1962 The Folio Society. In good sound condition has corner dings with creases on covers and spine. Sold on behalf of the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. Shipping at cost from £4.99 in UK, we can ship a 30kg box for £10 so up to 10 books. Overseas shipping at cost from £7.99
Paul Coldwell (British, b.1952). Three etchings from the 'The Studio' folio, 1988, each signed, numbered 2/20 with artists blindstamps. With signed and numbered title page, page of list of all plates, and in original Solander box. Includes plates III, V, and VIII, each image size 9 x 10cm, box size 32 x 21.5cm (3).
§ Gerd Winner (German, b.1936). 'East One' portfolio of prints, signed and numbered 12/50 in pencil on the title page. Portfolio size 53 x 37cm. Limited edition portfolio. Printed and published and printed by Kelpra Studios in 1978. The folio consists of 9 unbound/ loose folded sheets (50 x 70 cm unfolded size) printed to both sides including 3 title / information sheets and 6 pencil signed screenprints on a double page spread. The works are presented in a black embossed solander album / folder with solander sleeve. The work is personally dedicated from the artist to Phil & Electra May (Phil May being the late lead singer of The Pretty Things) on the title page where it is also numbered 12 from the edition of 50. Please note that artist resale right may also be payable on top of the hammer price for this lot, if sold above the threshold, up to a maximum of 4% (please visit www.dacs.org for more information). Condition Report: §
London.- Abercrombie (Patrick) Greater London Plan 1944, original cloth, a little soiled, 1945 § Greater London Council. Greater London Development Plan: Statement [&] Report of Studies, together 2 vol., Statement is the Chairman's reports copy with extensive annotations and amendments up to 1972 in ink or on numerous separate sheets pasted or stapled in, original wrappers, dust-jacket with note re amendments to upper cover, Report of Studies with errata slip, original boards with dust-jacket, both rubbed and frayed, 1969; Tomorrow's London: a background to the Greater London Development Plan, original wrappers, dust-jacket, 1969, maps and plans, many folding, illustrations; and 11 others on London developments, plans, reports etc., 4to & folio (15)
Monsters, prodigies and portents.- [Wolffhart (Conrad)], "Lycosthenes". Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, large woodcut vignette to title, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, errata f. at end, lacking B3, S1 and Yy5, title torn and repaired with extensive loss of text, a2-4 repaired with loss of text to first f., sigs. KK and LL frayed / torn and repaired at upper corners with loss of text or part of a woodcut, including errata f., lower blank corners of same ff. frayed, water-stained, some spotting, loose in contemporary limp vellum, piece missing from head of spine, lacking ties, soiled, housed in a modern buckram drop-back box, [Adams W250; Durling, NLM, 2878; Wellcome I, 3917; VD16 W 4314], folio, Basel, Heinrich Petri, [August, 1557]. sold not subject to return.
Missal.- Missale Romanum ex Decreto Sacro-Sancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum ..., title in red and black with engraved vignette, full-page engraved illustrations and borders, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, text in red and black, leather tabs, small marginal loss (F4, T6, Y4), 3 tears affecting text (T3, 2I2, 2F5), several leaves strengthened at margins, occasional spotting, lacking final free endpaper, occasional faint marginal staining, bookplate, contemporary calf over wooden boards, loss to boards, rubbed and worn, metal clasps, folio, Salzburg, Melchioris Haan, 1671.
Music.- Four 18th century antiphonal folio leaves with manuscript borders, and large decorative initials, printed recto and verso, engravings in red and black ink on thick laid paper with flower and crown watermarks, each decorated with original foliate borders executed in pen and ink and watercolour, heightened with gold, each sheet approx. 550 x 390 mm (21 3/4 x 15 1/4 in), old drying creases, some surface dirt and browning, mainly to extremities, minor nicks and tears, unframed, [18th century] (4)
Mathematics.- Extraction of the square root [& others], manuscript, c.120 pp., diagrams, a few ff. loose, staining and finger-marking, contemporary half calf, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, folio, [c.1790].⁂ Includes currency exchange, decimals, mensuration of solids, and measuring for carpentry, bricklaying and roofing. Provenance: 'Ebene. Anderson's book, ?Bowness, 1789' (inscription to front pastedown).
NO RESERVE Account books.- An account of money and bills found in the house of my father Warren Jane Esquire at the time of his decease, and also of all monies received and paid...according to the tenor of his will, manuscript on paper ruled in red, c.30pp., worming to foot of first few ff., diminishing in area as proceeds and mostly in blank areas, contemporary panelled reversed calf, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, rubbed, c.1805; and a late 18th century ms. account book and blank 19th century ledger, folio (3)
Hawker (Robert Stephen [pseudonym Reuben], Cornish poet and Church of England clergyman, 1803-75) Reference to a Friend, printed form with autograph manuscript insertions, tear in lower margin, folds, slightly creased, 255 x 205mm., Morwenstow, 5th June 1865, tipped-in to a copy of Hawker's Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall, half-title and front free endpaper working loose, some foxing, bookplate of Bernard Spencer Christian Drew on front pastedown, original blind-stamped cloth, 1903 § Church of England.- Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches in the Time of Queen Elizabeth, title within ornamental border, very slight worming affecting upper and lower pastedowns, slightly browned, contemporary patterned calf, rubbed, rebacked in modern calf, 1757, 8vo & folio (2).⁂ First mentioned a commendation of a fellow vicar, the Rev. James Burdon Clyde, not far from Morwenstow, answering various questions as to his character, such as, "Has he been always, and is he now, sober and temperate?", to which Hawker replies, "He always been a temperate & sober man".
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh, engraved frontispiece portrait by William Marshall (trimmed and mounted on later blank leaf facing title), title within elaborate woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials, head- & tail-pieces, lacking initial blank leaf, with contemporary ink signature of W.Bohun at head of title and annotations and underlinings to text, lightly browned, title mounted on stub, later ink ownership inscription and extensive note to front free endpaper, engraved Gilman bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, upper corners worn, lower repaired, [Pforzheimer 33; Wing B298], folio, by R[obert] Y[oung] and R[ichard] H[odgkinson] and are sold by R. Meighen..., 1641.
Dugdale (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum, 3 vol., first editions, additional engraved architectural title to vol. 1, titles printed in red and black, 109 engraved plates only of 120 by Wenceslaus Hollar (some double-page), some plates cut down and mounted, a few ff. with ink marks, 18th century manuscript note on the wooden church at Greensted, new endpapers, modern calf, gilt, vol. 1 lower joints slight splitting, spines a little faded, g.e., [Wing D2483-5-6], folio, Richard Hodgkinsonne, 1655-61-73; sold not subject to return.⁂ The Monasticon Anglicanum revealed the importance of charters as sources for the study of medieval history, and 'established for the first time since the Reformation the importance of monasteries and the scale of their territorial possessions' (ODNB).
NO RESERVE Annotated.- Gadbury (John) Genethlialogia. Or, The doctrine of nativities, containing the whole art of directions and annual revolutions, first f. blank, engraved diagrams in text, tables, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking portrait frontispiece, title, 2 preliminary ff., and all after p.294 at end, ink diagrams and calculations to front free endpaper, and some margins and blank pages, 3T1 torn and with large repair with loss of text, repairs, especially to preliminaries, a few margins trimmed, tears, spotting and staining, browning, modern calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments, [Wing G84], folio, [printed by Ja: Cottrel, for Giles Calvert], 1658. sold not subject to return.⁂ Provenance: John Allason, 1686; Wm. Brown, 1781; Wm. Janes, 1797; Frederic Shearing, 1872 (ink inscriptions).
NO RESERVE Bacon (Sir Francis) Sylva sylvarum: or A natural history, in ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the history natural and experimental of life and death, or of the prolongation of life, tenth edition, engraved additional pictorial title and portrait, portrait with 20th century ink names verso, both engraved plates repaired with marginal loss, Dd1 repaired, spotting and staining, lightly browned, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine in compartments, [Wing B332; Gibson 180], small folio, printed by S[arah]. G[riffin]. and B. Griffin for Thomas Lee, 1676.
Ireland.- An Act for raising money by a poll and otherwise, towards the reducing of Ireland, black letter, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-piece and decorative initial, contemporary ink marginalia, piece out of outer margin of title, spotted, lightly browned, loose, disbound, small folio, Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1689.
Dugdale (Sir William) Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, With their Dependencies, in England and Wales, 3 parts in 1, engraved additional pictorial title, title in red and black, 102 engraved plates, some double-page, by Danile King after Hollar and others, 2 double-page plates and one page of text torn without loss, another plate with small hole, some foxing and browning, 1 plate heavily browned, new endpapers, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked in modern calf, folio, R. Harbin for D. Browne and J. Smith and others, 1718.⁂ Provenance: Pencil inscription on front free endpaper: "Bought from A.R. Heath Sept 2008. This copy came from Downside Abbey."
Scottish dissenters.- The case of the patrons of the churches in Scotland, considered with regard to the Bill now depending in the Honourable House of Commons, docket and drop-head titles, fold, some spotting, lightly browned, creased, [Edinburgh], no printer, [1735]; and the rarer of two issues (3 copies recorded) of 'Reasons for repealing or explaining so much of the Corporation and Test Acts', 1735, small folio (2)⁂ Rare, with ESTC recording only one copy (NLS).
Bible, English.- The Christian's Family Bible. Containing the Old and New Testaments at Large; and the Apocrypha, the first to be edited and revised by Rev. William Rider, 3 vol., 9 engraved maps and 97 plates, some light foxing or soiling, occasional tearing to leaves, vol. 1 with contemporary and later ink familial inscriptions, contemporary calf, spines gilt, joints cracked, chipped and rather worn, [D&M 1178], folio, for the Author, 1763-7.⁂ A scarce edition.
London.- Proto-psychogeography.- Trueman (W.) A Sunday's Walk Round London, extra-illustrated, including over 32 views, ballads, and caricature subjects published by Fores, Laurie & Whittle and others, most inlaid to size, additional title printed in red and black (dated 1883), manuscript index noting 49 illustrations (not all remain), some leaves missing, nineteenth-century crimson half morocco, gilt, worn, 8vo inlaid to folio, W. Trueman, [1773], Kensington, 1883
Valor Ecclesiasticus, 6 vol., 15 folding hand-coloured engraved maps, 1 folding engraved plate, half-titles, slight spotting, occasional small tears to margins, City of York Public Library bookplate, library stamp on verso of titles, 2 vol. modern quarter morocco, the remaining 4 contemporary half calf, worn, all rebacked in modern cloth, folio, Record Commission, 1810-1834.
NO RESERVE Execution chap-book.- Cooke (Percival) The Confession of Percival Cooke and James Tomlinson, who were executed ... on a drop newly erected in front of Derby Gaol, woodcut of coffin to final leaf, small library blind-stamp to title, a little rubbed and creased at edges, folio leaf folded, Nottingham, C. Sutton, [1812].
Dickens (Charles) Mrs. Joseph Porter; Dinner at Poplar Walk; The Bloomsbury Christening; The Boarding House; The Steam Excursion; Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle, in The Albion or British Colonial, and Foreign Weekly Gazette. New series. vol. 2, no. 1 - vol. 3, no. 52, comprising c.103 issues with supplements in 2 vol., horizontal tear to first f. of no. 6 (p. 41), some light creasing or occasional foxing, a few short marginal tears, but generally a clean and excellent set, bookplate of Lt. Colonel Baird to pastedowns, contemporary half calf, some cracking to joints and wear to extremities, rubbed, folio, New York, 1834-35.⁂ Dickens' first appearance in print in America. Rare, we can trace only one other example at auction. Along with the New Yorker, the Albion pirated several works by the young Dickens, publishing them either anonymously or signed as Boz. This infraction began Dickens' lifelong campaign to secure international copyright for his works. The works appear in the present volumes as follows:1. Mrs. Joseph Porter. Vol. 2 no. 13, 1834.2. Dinner at Poplar Walk. Vol. 2 no. 14, 1834.3. The Bloomsbury Christening. Vol. 2 no. 19, 1834.4. The Boarding House. Vol. 2 nos 26 & 41, 1834. Vol. 3 no. 12, 1835.5. The Steam Excursion. Vol. 2 no. 46, 1834.6. Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle. Vol. 3 no. 6, & Vol. 3 no. 12, 1835.
Keynes (John Maynard) The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, 1942 § Marx (Karl) A Contribution to the Critique of Political Money, 1918 § Wolff (Henry W.) People's Banks, 1919, ink ownership signatures or stamps to first few pp., original cloth, last two blind-stamped; and another on economics, 8vo & folio (4) ⁂ All from the library of Leonard Minkes, professor and economist.
Marie, Queen of Roumania. The Story of Naughty Kildeen, illustrations by Job throughout, some hand-coloured through stencil, original pictorial cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, an excellent bright copy, [1922] § Newell (P.S.) Topsy & Turvys, colour illustrations with text at head and foot so that it can be read both ways round, some light marginal soiling, shaken, hinges weak, original pictorial boards, rubbed, spine and corners a little worn, New York, The Century Co., 1893 § Lorne (Marquis of) V.R.I. Her Life and Empire, colour portrait, decorative title in purple, green and gold, illustrations, original decorated blue cloth, gilt, spine rubbed and faded, stain to lower cover, [1901]; and a volume of oblong folio wood-engraved "Cartoons of the Season" featuring the Boat Race, R.A.Exhibition, Derby etc. from 1869, v.s. (4)
Craft and needlework.- Froebel College pupil craft workbook, issued by the Institut Calozet, 3 handwritten calligraphic and decorative section titles and 34pp. of work in a variety of materials, including paper weaving, folding and decoupage, wood lattice-work, bead designs and embroidery, one item missing from third session "formes d'objets usuels", some creasing of items on first page of paper folding, generally good condition, page block loose in original half cloth over gilt-lettered boards, worn and stained, oblong folio, ?Brussels, 1917-18.⁂ A large workbook containing student work of increasing complexity over a three-stage course.
Jones (Owen) The Grammar of Ornament, chromolithographed additional decorative title and 111 plates, some heightened in gilt, paper guards, occasional spotting or light marking, original decorative cloth, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip (chipped and faded), corners worn, rubbed, small folio, Bernard Quaritch, 1868.
America.- Delaware.- Report on the Harbour of Refuge to be Constructed in Dover Bay, 7 lithographed plates (2 with hand-colouring, 1 folding), diagrams and illustrations, contemporary calf-backed boards, corners bumped, folio, By William Clowes, 1846.⁂ Rare British parliamentary report on the construction of a harbour in Delaware including 2 maps of Delaware Bay and a plan of Dover Harbour. Library Hub lists the BL copy only.
Britain.- [Gough (Richard)] Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain, vol. 1 only (of 2), first edition, 83 engraved plates, most with tissue-guards, engraved illustrations, scattered spotting, short marginal tear with expert repair (p1), small loss to corner not affecting text (2Y2), occasional faint marginal water-staining, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt, g.e., folio, by J. Nichols for the Author, 1786.⁂ Volume 2 was published 10 years later in 1796, and is often separate from this volume.
London.- Architecture.- Dugdale (Sir William) The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, second edition, list of subscribers, 12 engraved plates (10 double-page) and c.30 full-page engraved illustrations by Wenceslaus Hollar and J.Harris, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, errata/binder's f., lacking portrait, spotting or foxing, occasional staining, lightly browned, antique style panelled calf, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, folio, Printed by George James, for Jonah Bowyer, 1716.
London.- His Majesties Commission for the Rebuilding of the Cathedral Church of S. Paul in London, title fore-margin trimmed (but still ample), slight worming to title and first couple of leaves, just touching a couple of letters, worming then only in lower margin throughout, good margins but dust-soiled and lightly stained, later vellum-backed boards, rubbed and soiled, [Wing C2939], folio, Printed by the Assignes of John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1674.⁂ The rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire in 1666, under the charge of Sir Christopher Wren. Construction took 33 years and spanned the reigns of five monarchs.
Ehrenberg (Christian Gottfried) and Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones mammalium quae ex itinere per Africam Borealem et Asiam Occidentalem... decas secunda, including botanical plates, reptiles, and studies of birds, 17 plates only, lithographs with hand-colouring on wove paper watermarked 'H. Oser', each sheet approx. 485 x 340 mm (19 1/8 x 13 1/4 in), scattered spotting and surface dirt, presented loose as issued, within two matching publisher's printed boards, ties broken, [cf. Nissen ZBI 1247], folio, Berlin, Ex Officina Academica, 1829 (2)
Zoology.- Quadrupeds.- Gesner (Konrad) Thierbuch; das ist, ausfuhrliche Beschreibung...aller vierfussigen Thieren, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, a few full-page, lacking title, (:)ii, f1, and g4 (g3 misbound after g6), i6 misbound within gathering i, crude repairs within text to a1-3 and f3, mostly marginal repairs, most extensive to first few ff., d2 tear within text, without loss, y6 lower corner repaired with loss of text, closely trimmed at head and foot, affecting some catchwords and signature marks, and just touching the odd woodcut, some spotting and staining, lightly browned throughout, early 20th century cloth-backed marbled boards, corners worn, rubbed, [Heidelberg], [Johann Lancellot for Andreas Cambier], 1606; and 3 others, defective Bewick illustrated Zoology, small folio & 8vo (4) sold not subject to return.
§ Dame Elisabeth Frink CH, RA (British 1930-1993)A group of seven unframed lithographs, to include: from The Iliad, 1975, published by the Folio Society, The Sea itself made way for Zeus, Hephaestus began by making a large shield, Zeus sent out an eagle with its talons in a fawn, and Diomedes let fly, but missed Dolon on purpose, and from The Odyssey, 1974, published by the Folio society, At midday the old man himself emerged and found his fat seals already there, A dark wave gathered mountain-high, and hid Tyro and Poseidon, and Not a single axe did Odysseus miss, each 24.5 x 15.5cm
Frithjof Tidemand-Johannessen (1916-1958) Norwegian, a folio of eight signed and titled woodcut prints, titled 'Norge', each with original notes on British Broadcasting Corporation headed paper, congratulating the recipient for 'Beating the Panel' on What's My Line, Christmas Day 1954, signed by Maurice Winnick on behalf of the BBCCondition report: Four woodcuts from the complete edition (of 12) are missing. Cover is torn and loose to central margin. prints generall good
Rare WW2 signed prints The RAF Jubilee Limited Edition. This portfolio of prints was produced in 1979 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. It consists of four high quality prints taken from paintings by artist Eric Kennington, which he painted in 1940 of famous WWII airmen. Each one measures 14? x 10? and they are personally autographed by the airmen in question: Douglas Bader, James ?Ginger? Lacey, John Cunningham and Rod Learoyd VC. They come supplied in a gold printed presentation folio, complete with RAF ribbon, and Certificate of Authenticity signed by AM Sir Denis Crowley-Milling on behalf of the RAF Benevolent Fund. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Railways. Pigot & Co.'s British Atlas, comprising the Counties of England (upon which are laid down all Railways Completed and in Progress), London: Pigot & Slater, Fleet-Street, and Fountain-Street, Manchester, c.1840. Folio (410 x 290 mm), title-page with engraved vignette, 'Address' leaf with list of contents at foot, 'Distance Table of 72 Principal Towns in England and Wales' (1 f.), 'Distance Table, in English Miles, of 73 Principal Towns in Ireland' (1 f.), 'Distance Table of the Principal Towns in Scotland' (1 f.), 'Distance Tables of the Principal Towns in the English Counties' (4 ff.), 41 hand-coloured steel-engraved maps (of 43: without 'Yorkshire' and 'Pigot's New Map of the Environs of London', but retaining the 3 large folding maps, 'England & Wales with Part of Scotland, including the New Lines of Canals, Rail Roads, etc.', 'New Map of Ireland embracing Every Recent Alteration', and 'New Map of Scotland with the Latest Improvements', each dated 1840), disbound, title-page soiled, folding maps with short splits to extremities of folds and neat linen-tape reinforcement to central intersection of folds verso, other maps with old tape-reinforcement along gutter (never affecting images), Buckinghamshire and Kent with juvenile pencil markings verso, closed marginal tear to Northumberland, a few marginal nicks to last few maps, Worcestershire extensively torn and crudely repaired (qty: 1) This edition apparently not in Chubb but cf. CCCCXXV-CCCCXXVIII. Sold as a collection of maps.
Bible (English; Authorised). [The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the Originall Tongues and with the Former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesties Speciall Command. Appointed to be read in churches, Cambridge: Thomas and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1629]. Folio in sixes (295 x 192 mm), near-contemporary olive-green morocco, each cover gilt with concentric dogtooth rolls enclosing large coat of arms with crest of a gryphon statant (slightly rubbed, ties gone, score-mark to rear cover), all edges gilt, signatures [par.]6 A-3I6 3K4 3L-4A6 4B4 (4B4=blank), ruled in red throughout, woodcut initials, 18th-century bookplate (William Greene Esqr), engraved general title-page lacking, moderate browning, signatures N6-O1 and 2Q4-5 with light circular stains toward gutter, stronger staining in gutter of quires 3U-3A, leaves R5, 3B4-5 and 3L4 with closed tears extending into text (repaired in 3B5 and 3L4), New Testament title-page (3L1) with long closed tear in gutter (affecting one letter), two other closed tears and 18th-century manuscript genealogy verso, a few marginal nicks and other marks elsewhere, Book of Common Prayer bound in at front and The Whole Book of Psalmes at rear (both defective) (qty: 1) Darlow & Moule (1903 edition) 324; ESTC S107038. First edition of the King James Bible to be printed at Cambridge, a 'beautiful' edition (Darlow & Moule).
Bible (English; Authorised). The Holy Bible. Containing the Bookes of the Old and New Testament, Cambridge: John Field, [1660]. 2 volumes, large folio (457 x 290 mm), contemporary red goatskin gilt by Samuel Mearne, spines richly gilt in compartments incorporating the royal cipher of Charles II, each cover gilt with 24 impressions of the royal cipher in two different sizes between concentric floral and fillet rolls, comb-marbled endpapers, all edges and turn-ins gilt, pp. [16] 680; [2] 681-1103 [1] 1-258 [2], [2] 1-338, signatures [par.]-2[par.]4 A-3K6 3L4; pi1 3M-4Y6 4Z8 a-x6 y4 (y4=blank), A-2D6 2E8, ruled in red throughout, engraved general title-page to volume 1 by Lombart after Diepenbeeck depicting Solomon enthroned (undated; counted in pagination by ESTC), volume 2 with letterpress general title-page ('The Second Part of the Holy Bible', dated 1660) and letterpress New Testament title-page (dated 1659), engraved arms of Charles II by Hollar to each volume, 118 engraved plates mainly by Visscher or Le Blond after Heemskerck, de Bruyn, de Vos, Coninxloo, Potter and others (mainly double-page, and including a folding panorama of Jerusalem on two sheets), engraved double-page map by Hollar (facing volume 1 p. 298). Bindings variably scuffed and rubbed, superficial score-marks, ties possibly renewed, occasional light browning to contents, volume 1 with closed tear in C2, plate at p. 12 with closed tear in gutter and fraying along top edge, plate at p. 468 with split to foot of central fold, volume 2 with short closed tears in a1, D4 and N6, closed transerve tear through P2 to no loss of text, marginal nicks or tears to a few plates (facing pp. 872, 1008 and 138), and a longer closed tear and marginal fraying to panorama of Jerusalem (qty: 2) Darlow & Moule (1903 edition) 525; ESTC R17044. A splendid copy of the illustrated reissue by John Ogilby of John Field's two-volume folio Bible of 1659, in contemporary red goatskin by Samuel Mearne (1624-1683), royal binder to the restored Charles II. According to Darlow and Moule the reissue had a new general title-page dated 1660 and reading 'illustrated with Chorographical Sculps by J. Ogilby'. Our copy appears to retain the original general title-page, as it is undated and does not contain the reference to Ogilby. The number of plates is known to vary; ESTC calls for a total of 102 only. Provenance: Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet (1608-1666), diplomat, poet, translator and prominent royalist; given by him to Sir Edmund Turnor (1619-1707) of Stoke Rochford, Lincolshire, with Turnor's engraved bookplate (dated 1702) and 18th-century ink inscription 'A present to Sir Edm. Turnor from the Rt Hon. Sir Richd Fanshawe' to the initial blank of each volume (volume two with additional 20th-century annotation 'his brother-in-law, Ambassador at the Court of Spain').Without the dedication leaf to Charles II found in some other copies (see note). Volume 2 additionally with short closed tear to foot of first title-page (pi1) and spill-burn in 3X5 affecting one letter verso.
Dalton (Michael). The Countrey Justice; containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace as well in as out of their Sessions ... Now again enlarged with many Precedents and Resolutions of the Quaeres contained in the former Impressions: and the Statues of King Charles I and His Majesty King Charles II added under their several Titles, London: John Streater [and others], 1666. Folio (282 x 180 mm), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, rebacked retaining original label, bound without preliminary and possibly final blank, spill-burn in 2N6 - Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language ... The Fourth Edition, revised by the author, London: printed by W. Strahan, for W. Strahan [and others], 1773. 2 volumes, folio (410 x 235 mm), 19th-century maroon half morocco, gilt morocco labels '15th Regt' to front boards, manuscript presentation leaf inset into initial blank ('Doctor Badenach requests the officers of the 15th Regiment to accept for their library Johnson's Dictionary & a map of England, as a small mark of that regard which he will ever entertain for them, 20 Upper Baker St. London, Febry 22nd 1826'), imperfect, volume 1 title-page with marginal loss and extensive closed tears, laid down, substantial loss to volume 2 title-page and subsequent leaves - Nalson (John). An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I, London: for S. Mearne, [and others; volume 2: for A. Mearne ... ], 1682-3. 2 volumes, folio (326 x 195 mm), contemporary non-uniform calf, refurbished, volume 2 rebacked, each volume with engraved frontispiece and 'The Mind of the Frontispiece' leaf, volume 2 with engraved portrait, incomplete, lacking at least volume 1 leaves A2-4 - Southwell (Henry). The New Book of Martyrs, London: for J. Cooke, No. 17, in Pater-Noster Row, c.1785. Folio (365 x 230 mm), 20th-century boards, partly preserving original spine, incomplete (40 plates of 42 or 43?: lacking plates 19 and 23a; and lacking at least quires 3I-3L), front inner hinge cracked - Fuller (Thomas). The Historie of the Holy Warre, 4th edition, Cambridge: Thomas Buck, 1651. Folio (286 x 180 mm), contemporary sheep, rebacked, engraved frontispiece (preceded by 'A declaration of the Frontispiece' leaf), engraved folding map (staining and repaired loss along folds), incomplete (lacking at least text-leaves C2-3) - and 2 others including another copy of Fuller, Holy Warre, 3rd edition, 1647, bound with The Holy State, 3rd edition, 1652, Holy Warre lacking at least the frontispiece and folding map, Holy State incomplete at end but with numerous engraved portraits in the text (qty: 9) ESTC R29291 (Dalton), T117232 (Johnson), R6970 & R229450 (Nalson), T105997 (Southwell), R12547 (Fuller).
Dudgdale (William). [Origines] Juridiciale, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal [...], 2nd edition ('with additions'), London: by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman, 1671. Folio (346 x 215 mm), contemporary speckled calf (joints cracked, corners worn), imprimatur leaf, title-page in red and black (with section excised from head to loss of first word, 'Origines'), errata leaf, 5 engraved portraits by Wenceslaus Hollar and others (of 6: lacking the portrait of Edward Coke), engraved arms throughout the text, together with: a manuscript antiphonary leaf on vellum, probably Italy, c.1500, with 4 puzzle initials in red and blue bodycolour; 3 manuscript documents relating to transactions in the parish of Ightenhill, Lancashire, 1733; a large manuscript indenture on vellum, 1779, involving one Thomas Smith of Leyland, Lancashire (with engraved royal arms); and a copy of The Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, volume 1, number 1, 1 January 1825 (spotted) (qty: 7) ESTC R225633 (Dugdale). Dugdale's work was first printed in 1666.
Milton (John). Paradise Lost ... Seventh Edition [and:] Paradise Regain'd ... To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions, London: J. Beecroft [and others], 1770 & 1766. 2 works in 4 volumes, 8vo (203 x 124), uniform contemporary calf (variable wear to spines and cracking to joints, volume 1 joints tender), engraved portrait frontispieces to each volume except Paradise Regain'd volume 2, Paradise Lost with 12 engraved plates after Francis Hayman, Paradise Regain'd with 5 engraved plates also after Hayman, contemporary ownership inscriptions to endpapers and title-pages (Thomas Bargus of Pembroke College, Oxford, dated 1772) - [Burke, Edmund]. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. The Fifth Edition. With an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste, and several other Additions, London: J. Dodsley, 1767. 8vo (202 x 128 mm), contemporary calf, gilt crest of Francis Foljambe (1749-1814), British politician, to foot of spine, front cover detached, rear joint cracked - Carew (Thomas). An Historical Account of the Rights of Elections of the Several Counties, Cities, and Boroughs, of Great Britain, 1st edition, London: John Nourse, 1755. Folio (410 x 250 mm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined - Dodington (George Bubb). The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington ... New Edition, Salisbury: E. Easton, 1784. 8vo (196 x 120 mm), contemporary mottled calf, half-title, advertisement leaf - and 10 others (not collated), mainly 18th-century English literature, history and theology, all in contemporary calf bindings, including Livy, The History of Rome, Translated ... by George Baker, 6 volumes, London, 1797, Hugh Blair, Sermons, 4 volumes, 13th edition, 1894, and similar (qty: 41) ESTC T133912 (Milton, Paradise Lost), N19462 (Milton, Paradise Regain'd), T42253 (Burke), T144424 (Carew), T144755 (Dodington).
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