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A folio including Pelham Jones (c1890-c1950) - Study of a clipper 'Lord Rosebery', watercolour, signed and dated 1932, 38 x 53 cm and other signed watercolours and oil on board

A 19th century leather-bound folio in the form of a book (a/f), containing a quantity of ephemera, including trade cards, playing cards, unframed prints, Victorian scraps and an album of match box labelsMatchbox labels - approx over 400 in album, ranging from pre 1930-1980s. Condition is varied and affected by being glued into album

Basnage, Henri Les Oeuvres de Maître Henri Basnage, Ecuier, Seigneur du Franquesnei, Avocat au Parlement, Contenant ses Commentaires sur La Coutume de Normandie, et son Traité des Hipotéques, 3rd ed., pub. Maurry, Rouen 1709, two vols., old red full calf with gilt borders and armorial, with gilt spine in compartments, marbled end papers, aeg, woodcut head-pieces, folio. (2)

Basnage, Henri La Coutume Reformée de Normandie, 2nd ed., pub. Pierre Ferrand & Antoine Maurry, Rouen 1694, two vols. bound in one, orig. cat's paw calf with gilt spine in compartments, morocco labels, folio, covers detached.

Basnage, Henri Les Oeuvres de Maître Henri Basnage, Ecuyer, Seigneur du Franquesnei, Avocat au Parlement, Contenant ses Commentaires sur La Coutume de Normandie, et son Traité des Hipotéques, 4th ed., pub. Knapen, Leboucher & Humblot, Rouen 1778, two vols., old full cat's paw calf with spine in compartments, morocco labels and gilt floral decoration, marbled end papers, portrait plate after title vol.1, woodcut head-pieces, folio. (2)

Basnage, Henri Les Oeuvres de Maître Henri Basnage, Ecuyer, Seigneur du Franquesnei, Avocat au Parlement, Contenant ses Commentaires sur La Coutume de Normandie, et son Traité des Hipotéques, 4th ed., pub. Rouen 1778, vol.1 only, old full cat's paw calf with spine in compartments, morocco label and gilt floral decoration, marbled end papers, portrait plate after title vol.1, woodcut head-pieces, folio.

Criminal Commissioners Report for Jersey - 1847 First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into The State of the Criminal Law in the Channel Islands, Jersey, printed by William Clowes & Sons, London 1847, with errata slip, contemp. half calf and red cloth, spine in compartments with red morocco label, folio.

Criminal Commissioners Report for Jersey - 1861 Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Civil, Municipal, and Ecclesiastical Laws of the Island of Jersey, together with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix, printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1861, old quarter morocco and olive green faux-crocodile cloth, folio.

Ricard, Jean Marie Traité des Donations Entre-Vifs et Testamentaires, pub. Jean Guignard and Arnoul Seneuze, Paris 1685, orig. mottled calf with gilt decorated spine in compartments, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut head-pieces, initial letters and vignettes in text, folio, spine cracked and splitting, losses to head and tail, edges and corners worn, boards rubbed, corner missing front free end paper, ink names to end papers.

A fine William IV rosewood library folding folio stand the adjustable, hinged rectangular slatted side panels on a ratcheted mechanism and individually adjustable, raised on four turned, tapered knopped columns to shaped arched end supports with a turned stretcher and cupped feet with concealed castors, 43¼in. (110cm.) high max., 30in. (76.25cm.) long, 25½in. (64.75cm.) wide.

* Lewis (John Frederick), Lewis's Illustrations of Constantinople, made during a Residence in that City &c. in the Years 1835 - 36, T. McLean and D. & P. Colnaghi, [1838], lithographic title and dedication, eleven (only of twenty-seven) lithographic prints on ten sheets, some spotting to title and dedication, contemporary quarter morocco with gilt title to upper siding, boards detached and lacking spine, heavily worn and stained, slim folio (Qty: 1)NOTESSold as a collection of prints, not subject to return.

The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, 26 volumes, a run, December 1869 - December 1882, numerous black and white illustrations and chromolithographs throughout, including some double page and folding, retaining the folding colour lithograph of the Suez Canal and the panorama of Istanbul, near uniform contemporary half calf gilt, heavily worn and frayed, folio (Qty: 26)NOTESSold as a periodical, not subject to return.

The Sphere . 116 volumes, a broken run, 1900-45, copious colour & monochrome illustrations, ex-library copies with associated marks, some minor toning, many in original gilt decorated cloth, folio (Qty: 116)NOTESSold as seen not subject to return.

Miscellaneous Periodicals . A large collection of approximately 60 volumes, circa 1840-1904, including Illustrated London News, The Graphic, Illustrated News of The World, Engineer, Le Monde Illustre, copious monochrome illustrations, many original leather & cloth bindings, folio (Qty: 12 cartons)

Harding (James Duffield ) . Harding's Sketches at Home and Abroad, London: Charles Tilt, [1836?], tinted lithograph title (detached, frayed to edges and margins dampstained) and 50 tinted lithograph plates (containing 59 landscapes), without dedication leaf, dampstaining to margins of initial plates, some marginal fraying mostly to first & last plates, scattered spotting, advert slip present, front free blanks with inscription 'Miss Banks, a memorial of her visit to Aston Hall, 22 May 1841', and author's signature to following blank, contemporary green half morocco, cloth sidings to boards (cloth to lower board torn with loss), upper board detached, worn, folio, together with Harding (James Duffield) , A Series of Subjects, from the Works of the late R.P. Bonington Drawn on Stone by J.D. Harding, London: J. Carpenter & Son, [1929-30], lithograph title and 11 plates only (of 21), scattered spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco gilt, extremities rubbed and worn, slim folio (Qty: 2)NOTESAbbey, Travel 29. Abbey dates the publication as 1836, however, the British Library etc. date the publication as 1839.

[Mayer, Luigi]. A Selection of the most interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's celebrated collection of views in Egypt, Asia Minor, &c., London: R. Bowyer, 1812, 16 of 24 hand-coloured etched plates (including 15 aquatint), few loose and slightly frayed to edges, light dust-soiling, endpapers creased and torn to margins, contemporary half black sheep, upper board detached, worn, oblong folio (Qty: 1)NOTESAtabey 790 (1811 edition); Abbey, Travel 369 (referred to in notes).

Pinelli (Bartolomeo). Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi de' Contorni di Roma compresi diversi fatti di briganti disegnati ed incisi all' acqua forte da Bartolomeo Pinelli cominciati l'anno 1819, compiti nel 1822, Rome Gio. Scudellari, 1823, printed title and 50 etched plates on laid paper, some light waterstains and minor marginal spotting, some fraying to extreme edges of first and last few leaves, generally with wide margins, untrimmed, contemporary plain wrappers, some worn and soiled, oblong folio (29 x 44 cm, 11.5 x 17.25 ins) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: From the Estate of Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Rossi ( Giacomo Giovanni de). [Mercurio Geografico overo guida geografica in tutte le parti del mondo ...], 2 volumes bound in one, Rome, circa 1692, lacking half-title and title page to volume one but retaining title page to volume two and index, 126 uncoloured engraved maps (complete as list), including 28 double-page, one folding and 97 single-page, a few maps toned, some marginal dust and finger soiling, one map with a repaired marginal closed tear, but not affecting image, faint but mostly obliterated library? stamps to margins of maps on recto, small gilt paper labels to verso of each map, one map (hemispheral world) with repaired hole (excised library stamp) in lower margin, not affecting printed image, later endpapers, modern quarter blind-stamped morocco gilt, large folio (Qty: 1)NOTESThere is considerable variation in the contents of this atlas, which includes maps by or after Cantelli da Vignola, the Sansons and others.

Camden (William). [ Britain , or a Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Ilands Adioyning, out of the Depth of Antiquitie: Beautified with Mappes of the Severall Shires of England..., 1610], lacking title page and preliminaries, later erroneous manuscript title crediting the atlas to John Speed bound in after front endpaper, long closed tear to title, eight engraved plates of coins, fifty-five (only of fifty-seven) uncoloured, mostly folding engraved maps after C. Saxton, by W. Kip and G. Hole, lacking Carmarthen & the Heptarchy of the British Isles, sparse near contemporary ink marginalia to text, Hampshire bound upside down, a few maps with frayed margins and slight loss of printed image, Derbyshire with closed tear affecting image, North Riding of Yorkshire torn with loss and crudely repaired, slight worming to margins of last few leaves, occasional spotting, index bound at rear, last leaf backed with later paper, maps re-guarded, eight loosely inserted genealogical tables, hinges and joints split and weak, early 19th century half calf, worn and rubbed, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESSold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. Chubb XIX.

Boswell (Henry). Complete Historical Descriptions of a New and Elegant Collection of Picturesque views and Representations of the Antiquities of England and Wales..., London: Alex. Hogg, circa 1790, engraved frontispiece (detached, creased & frayed to margins), 46 engraved maps only(?), mostly by Thomas Kitchin, 187 uncoloured engraved topographical views and plans, many with two or more uncoloured images to each sheet , 5 plates of coins, subscriber's list at rear, closed tear to A1, some overall spotting and occasional light stains to few leaves, contemporary calf, red morocco title label, upper board detached, lower joint split, rubbed and worn, folio (Qty: 1)

Camden (William). Britannia: or a chorographical description of the flourishing kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent; from the earliest antiquity..., enlarged by the latest discoveries, by Richard Gough, 4 volumes, 2nd edition, London:John Stockdale, 1806, printed title to each volume, portrait frontispiece to volume one, 48 folding maps by John Cary, all with contemporary hand colouring in outline, 3 uncoloured folding maps and 5 single sheet maps, 103 engraved plates (including 7 folding), variable spotting and offsetting, most hinges cracked, 19th century half calf gilt, joints cracking or cracked, volume one front board detached, worn and rubbed, folio (Qty: 4)

Dugdale (William). Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England and Wales..., London: R. Harbin for D. Browne & J. Smith, 1718, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black with early inscription to upper blank margin "For my dear son John Purley the gift of his father Novr. 30, 1722", 102 engraved plates, some double-page, few plates browned and spotted, front pastedown with early 20th century ownership, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, upper joint splitting at foot, joints rubbed, board corners worn and showing, folio, together with Grose (Francis) , Supplement to the Antiquities of England and Wales, [volume 8 of Antiquities of England & Wales], London: Hooper & Wigstead, [1787], engraved frontispiece, title and 99 plates, occasional scattered spotting,contemporary half calf, lacking spine and lower board detached, worn, folio (Qty: 2)

[Metroland] . 'The Regional Survey of Gerrards Cross based on the Six Inch O. S. Map No. 48 S. E.', Easter 1940, manuscript title-page, 1 printed and 10 manuscript maps all hand-coloured (30 x 46 cm), 20 matt gelatin silver print photographs (mainly 8.5 x 13 cm), all mounted rectos only on 15 cloth-hinged thick card leaves with manuscript captions on mounted slips, 1 additional leaf with inset sheet of translucent paper captioned by hand providing key to photographs on subsequent leaf, printed label 'F. Whillock' to front pastedown, post-bound in contemporary cloth album (bottom post loose), title gilt to front cover, oblong folio (60.5 x 37.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESA detailed cartographic survey of the Buckinghamshire town compiled in the midst of the Phoney War. The maps are headed: Land Utilisation; Relief and Drainage; Towns and Communications; Relief; Sections; Geology; Public Conveyances; Communications; Populatio; Public Buildings, Spaces etc.; and Civil Administration.

Ports and Harbours. Report of the Commissioners upon the subject of Harbours of Refuge, 3 parts in 1 (Report, Minutes of Evidences, Appendix), published W. Clowes and Sons, 1844, ownership signature to title page, fifteen engraved charts and diagrams, correct as list, some folding, extensive contemporary ink annotations and marginalia by the owner, later half morocco utilising original marbled boards and preserving original spine, some wear to extremities, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESThe working copy of Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin, with his signature on title. The elevations and plans were made by various Royal Naval Engineers with proposals for creating or extending deep water harbours within existing coastal harbours. W ith a hand written letter of recommendation from G S Trevelyan of the Admiralty upon the merits of this survey,

Roscoe (Thomas). Wanderings and excursions in South Wales [& North Wales], 2 volumes, London: Tilt & Bogue, Simpkin & Co., and Orr & Co., [circa 1860?], additional engraved vignette titles, 2 folding engraved maps (South Wales map with closed tear to fold & short closed tear to North Wales map), single-page plan and numerous plates, near contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines with morocco title labels, extremities rubbed, 8vo, together with Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales, London: Charles Tilt and Simpkin & Co., [1837], engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title and numerous plates, some offsetting from plates, modern calf, large 8vo, plus Marsh (John Fitchett) , Annals of Chepstow Castle or Six Centuries of the Lords of Striguil from the Conquest to the Revolution, Exeter: Privately Printed by William Pollatrd, 1883, Large Paper copy, half-title, title in red & black, subscriber's list present at rear, top edge coloured red, remainder untrimmed, original cloth, frayed at head & foot of spine, lower joint worn and a little torn, large 4to (limited Large Paper edition 15/25 with the subscriber's name of W.T. Pears, Esq., Old Hall, Aigburth, Liverpool, in letterpress to half-title), and other British topography related including The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales..., by P.J. De Loutherbourg, 1805, facsimile edition, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Shropshire, 1979, colour plates (including two plates from the original edition loosely inserted), original dark green quarter morocco, folio, contained in original slipcase, and The Vale of Nantgwilt, by R. Eustace Tickell, 1894, etched plates, contents loosely contained in original quarter vellum cloth covers, worn, oblong folio, etc. (including few odd volumes) (Qty: 13)

Warwickshire. An illuminated presentation album, containing watercolours of Warwickshire landmarks & views by Herbert Edward Cox, October 1904, presented to F.G. Green Esq. H.M.I. on his retirement as an inspector of schools from local teachers' associations October 1904, comprising 2 leaves of thick board with presentation title and address signed by association members, and 18 watercolours by H.E. Cox of Warwickshire landmarks & views, each window mounted on 8 thick board leaves (including circular, oval and rectangle portrait & landscape formats, mounted back-to-back), views include Coventry, St. Michael's Spire, St Mary's Hall, Ford's Hospital, Royal Pump Room, Henwood Mill, Griff House, Solihull Church, Coton Church, Warwick Castle, Leamington Bridge, Adelaide Bridge, Guy's Cliffe, Kenilworth Castle, Leicester's Hospital, Stratford-on-Avon Church, Shakespeare's Birthplace, and Ann Hathaway's Cottage, each signed by the artist and dated 1904, dimensions vary from approximately 15 x 11 cm to 9 x 10.5 cm, occasional light finger-soiling to margins and few marks, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers with black calf leather hinges, contemporary black calf, upper board with five roundels containing watercolour armorials of Warwickshire, Coventry, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon, neatly rebacked, extremities rubbed, covers slightly scuffed, oblong folio, leaf size 24.7 x 37.6 cm (Qty: 1)NOTESHerbert Edward Cox (1870-1941) was born in Coventry, the fifth of seven children born to James and Sarah Cox. He attended the Grammar School, and after the death of his father in 1887 he trained to paint at the Municipal School of Art in Coventry, becoming a designer and draughtsman. The family moved in 1901 to Eastbourne, where his mother kept a lodging house and he took up textile design. Herbert returned to the Midlands after marrying fellow Coventrian, Margaret Shilton, a secondary school teacher, in Yorkshire. He taught painting at the Coventry Technical Institute and became recognised locally as an accomplished artist, recording street scenes of pre-war Coventry and many surrounding villages and towns.

Meredith (Louisa Anne). Some of my Bush Friends in Tasmania. Native Flowers, Berries and insects Drawn from Life, illustrated in Verse and Brightly Described, 1st edition, Day & Son, 1860, [2], ii, 106 pp., with additional chromolithographed title-page and 14 chromolithographed plates, some spotting throughout, gutta-percha perished and contents detached with several leaves and plates frayed and torn at edges, all edges gilt, original embossed calf over bevelled boards, covers detached and backstrip deficient, some wear, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESFerguson 12508. A complete but poor copy of this attractive book in the uncommon original binding.

Moffett (Thomas). Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum: olim ab Edoardo Wottono, Conrado Gesnero, Thomaque Pennio inchoatum, 1st edition, London: ex Officina typographica Thom. Cotes. Et venales extant apud Benjam. Allen, 1634, numerous woodcuts throughout the text, light browning, damp-staining to initial quire A, title-page slightly marked, reinforced in gutter, a few shallow chips along fore and bottom edges, interlinear spill-burn to T5, repaired closed tear in Y1 extending into bottom 4 lines of text, marginal tear to 2B1, 2D6 creased at lower outer corner, small marginal chip to 2E3, final page with early ink annotation 'Finis' and related staining to lower inner corner, a few other marks, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, folio (29.9 x 19 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESBritish Bee Books 25; ESTC S102912; Freeman 2624; Lisney 3; Nissen ZBI 2852; STC 17993. 'The first book about insects published in Britain' (Salmon et al., The Aurelian Legacy , p. 95), one of three variant imprints; Lisney identifies the present variant, with 'apud Benjam. Allen', as the first issue. 'Among those who sent [Moffet] specimens or illustrations was John White , the Virginian pioneer' (ODNB).

Bracton (Henry de). De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae libri quin[que], 1st edition, London: Richard Tottell, 1569, roman type, woodcut initials (several on criblé ground), shallow tide-mark to head of gutter in first 10 or so quires, closed tear in leaf 3G4 extending into bottom 10 lines of text, light marginal worming from leaf 5K1 to end, contemporary ink annotations to initial blank and head of title-page, near-contemporary blind-ruled calf, manuscript spine-title, worm-tracks to foot of spine, wear to foot of front joint, a little surface-wear to covers, folio (28.9 x 18.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Sir Daniel Dun (or Donne, c.1545-1617), ecclesiastical lawyer, with his ownership inscription 'Daniel Dun, prec [i.e. price] xi[?]6' (scored through) to the head of the title-page. 2) Private Collection, Shropshire. Dun was admitted a fellow of All Souls, Oxford, in 1567 and became principal of New Inn Hall in 1580. He rose rapidly through the ecclesiastical courts and from 1598 began also to receive instruction to 'inquire into delicate and complicated maritime matters' (ODNB), travelling to Bremen in 1602 to treat with Danish sailors on the Muscovy trade and other matters. He was later a justice of assize in north Wales. 'Historians habitually assess the importance of members of learned professions by what they wrote ... A moment's reflection, however, shows how inadequate a test of a lawyer's importance it is. Most lawyers do not write treatises: they act ... Dun never published a treatise, yet he was responsible for real accomplishments at a critical moment in the history of ecclesiastical law in England. He rose to high office, and he influenced the course of affairs in Church and state' (Helmholz, 'Sir Daniel Dun ( c 1545-1617)', Ecclesiastical Law Journal (2014), 16(2), p. 205). For another example of Dun's signature see Lambeth Palace Library MS 1748 ('Statutes of the Court of the Arches'), folio i recto. Beale T323; ESTC S122159; PMM 89; STC 3475; Sweet & Maxwell I p. 51.6. The foundational work of English common law and 'the most ambitious English legal work of the middle ages, apparently conceived on a grand scale as an overall survey and discussion of the whole of the common law as it was being applied in the king's courts in England, with supporting citations of actual decided cases, and the reproduction of writ and enrolment formulas currently in use' (ODNB).

[Commonwealth of England]. Sammelband of acts and other pamphlets from the Second Protectorate Parliament, 34 works in one volume, London: printed by Henry Hills and John Field, 1656-7, comprising : 1. The Humble Petition and Advice presented unto His Highness the Lord Protector by the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses assembled as the Parliament begun ... the 17th day of September 1656, printed ... 1657, [2] 30 pp., [ESTC R213592; Wing E1566], 2. A Proclamation by His Highness and the Parliament. Whereas ... the Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland ... have presented their desires unto His Highness Oliver Lord Protector, that he would .... hold, and exercise the office of Chief Magistrate of these nations ... given at Westminster the 26. day of June, 1657 [caption-title], single sheet, 30.4 x 22 cm, folded, [ESTC R226165; Wing C7137], 3. An Act for the Security of High Highness the Lord Protector ... At the Parliament begun ... the 17th day of September ... 1656, [2] 10 pp., [ESTC R236728; Wing E1123], 4. An Act for the Exportation of several Commodities of the Breed, Growth and Manufacture of this Commonwealth ... [2] 10 pp., [ESTC R231507; Wing E1110], 5. An Act for Renouncing and Disanulling the Pretended Title of Charles Stuart, etc. ... [2] 4 [2] pp., [ESTC R29990; Wing E1064], 6. An Act for the taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries ... [2] 2 pp., [ESTC R213557; Wing E1134], 7. An Act for an Assessment upon England, at the Rate of Sixty thousand Pounds by the Moneth, for three Moneths ... [2], 73, [1] pp., [ESTC R228084; Wing E997], 8. An Act for Continuing and Establishing the Subsidie of Tunnage and Poundage ... [2] 16 [2] pp., worming to a few lower margins, [ESTC R21719; Wing E1016], 9. An Act and Declaration touching several Acts and Ordinances made since the Twentieth of April 1653. and before the Third of September 1654 ... [2] 20 [2] pp., [ ESTC R228128; Wing E976], 10. Instructions agreed upon in Parliament, for Commissioners, for Surveying the Forest[s] of Sherwood ... Needwood ... Kingswood ... Ashdown ... and Endfield Chase ... [2] 14 pp., [ESTC R176116; Wing E1592], 11. An Act for Raising of Fifteen thousand pounds Sterling in Scotland ... [2] 38 pp., [ESTC R210913; Wing E1054], 12. An Act for an Assessment at the Rate of Five and thirty thousand Pounds by the Moneth upon England ... for three years from the twenty fourth of June 1657. For a Temporary Supply towards the Maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth ... [2] 28 [2] pp., [ESTC R211052; Wing E998], 13. An Act for the Preventing of the Multiplicity of Buildings in and about the Suburbs of London, and within Ten Miles thereof ... [2] 24 [2] pp., [ESTC R176090; Wing E1119], 14. An Act for the Better Observation of the Lords-Day ... [2] 17 [1] pp., [ESTC R211032; Wing E1094], 15. An Act for Discovering, Convicting and Repressing of Popish Recusants ... [2] 21 [1] pp., [ESTC R504607; Wing E1090], 16. An Act for Imdempnifying of Such Persons as have Acted for the Service of the Publique ... [2] 5 [1] pp., [ESTC R27220; Wing E1040], 17. An Act for the better Suppressing of Theft upon the Borders of England and Scotland, and for Discovery of High-way Men and other Felons ... [2] 9 1 pp., [ESTC R30671; Wing E1100], 18. An Additional Act for the Better Improvement and Advancing of the Receipts of the Excise and New-Impost ... [2], 14, 11-42, 47-61, [1] pp., [ESTC R206320; Wing E1171], 19. An Act for the Assuring, Confirming and Setling of Lands and Estates in Ireland ... [2] 21 [1] pp., [ESTC R35547; Wing E1091], 20. An Act for the Attainder of the Rebels in Ireland ... [2] 24 [2] pp., worming to a few lower margins, [ESTC R211310; Wing E1092], 21. An Act for the Setling of the Postage of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the Parliament begun ... the 17th Day of September ... 1656, [2] 8 [2] pp., [ESTC R29992; Wing E1124], 22. An Act for the three moneths Assessment in Ireland, for the Maintenance of the Spanish War [caption-title], 73 76-7 [1] pp., [ESTC R210786], 23. An Act for Punishing of such Persons as live at High Rates, and have no visible Estate, Profession or Calling Answerable thereunto [caption-title], 4 pp., [ESTC R236034; Wing E1049], 24. An Act for Limiting and Setling the Prices for Wines, [2] 2 pp., [ESTC R504608; Wing E1046], 25. An Act giving Licence for Transporting Fish in Foreign Bottoms [caption-title], 3 [1] pp., [ESTC R176093; Wing E1138], 26. An Act for Quiet Enjoying of Sequestred Parsonages and Vicaridges by the Present Incumbent [caption-title], 4 pp., [ESTC R479541; Wing E1051], 27. An Act against Vagrants and Wandring, idle, dissolute persons [caption-title], 3 [1] pp., [ESTC R478218; Wing E971], 28. An Act for the taking away of Purveyance, and Compositions for Purveyance, [2] 2 pp., [ESTC R211048; Wing E1131], 29. An Act for the Improvement of the Revenue of the Customs and Excize [caption-title], 4 pp., [ESTC R13781; Wing E1113], 30. An Act for the Adjournment of this Present Parliament, from the six and twentieth of June, 1657. unto the Twentieth of January next ensuing, [2] 2 pp., [ESTC R474981; Wing E1087], 31. A Declaration of His Highnes the Lord Protector and the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, for a Day of Solemn Fasting and Humiliation in the Three Nations, [2] 5 [1] pp., [ESTC R25360; Wing C7069], 32. A True Narrative of the Late Success which it hath pleased God to give to some part of the Fleet of this Common-Wealth, upon the Spanish Coast, against the King of Spains West-India Fleet, in its return to Cadiz, [2] 11-16 pp., [ESTC R235778; Wing T2800A], 33. An Order of Parliament ... for a Day of Publike Thanksgiving ... for the great Success God hath been pleased to give the Navy of this Commonweath under the Command of General Blake against the Spaniard. Together with a Narrative of the same Success, [2] 5 [1] pp., [ESTC R229820; Wing E1694], 34. A Declaration of High Highness the Lord Protector and the Parliament for a Day of Publique Thanksgiving on Friday the Twentieth of February 1656, [2] 6 pp., [ESTC 225592; Wing C7066], very occasional light worming to lower margins, page-edges untrimmed, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, top spine compartment replaced using modern leather, folio (26 x 17 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Private Collection, Shropshire. 'Of the three parliaments of the Cromwellian Protectorate, the second is arguably the most dramatic. This parliament was dominated by two immediate crises: the need to provide money for the state to maintain a large army and navy to fight an expensive war against Spain; and also the need to legitimise a government founded on a military constitution (the Instrument of Government of 1653) that had never been approved by parliament' (History of Parliament, online). ESTC traces nine copies world-wide for this edition of the Instructions (item 10), four for An Act for Discovering ... Popish Recusants (item 15), nine for An Act for the Attainder (item 20), ten for An Act for the Three Moneths Assessment (item 22), ten for An Act for Limiting ... Prices for Wines (item 24), and six for An Act against Vagrants (item 27). A full list of contents is available on our website or on request.

Hobbes (Thomas). Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, 2nd edition, London [probably Amsterdam]: for Andrew Ckooke [sic], 1651 [i.e. 1678], engraved allegorical title-page, letterpress title-page with woodcut device of a bear grasping sprays of foliage, folding letterpress table, slightly browned, part of front free endpaper torn away, variable damp-staining in top margins, a few leaves damp-stained in lower outer corners, small worm-trail in lower margins of C3-D1 just touching text, another in quires 2N-2R occasional touching a letter, a few other tiny marginal worm-trails, contemporary blind-ruled calf, covers pitted, a few sections of wear, folio (29.1 x 18.6 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Private Collection, Shropshire. ESTC R13936; Macdonald & Hargreaves 43; Wing H2247; cf. Pforzheimer 491, PMM 138. This second edition was 'a piracy made up of sheets printed by John Redmayne in 1670 and Christoffel Cunradus some time before the end of 1678' (ESTC).

Holinshed (Raphael). The Firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, 3 parts in 1 volume [of 2], 1st edition, London: for John Hunne, 1577, general title-page and 2 section-titles each with woodcut border, woodcuts throughout the text, text mainly in black letter and in double column, worming to first title-page and first few quires, reducing to a couple of small holes by quire E, and one by quire N, a few holes reappearing in part 3, very occasional sliver of damp-staining in margins, general title-page with repaired closed tears and marginal restoration, next 2 leaves (Epistle Dedicatory) with fraying and closed tears at fore edges, spill-burns in k6 affecting woodcut verso and l7 affecting a word either side, early annotations to r5 recto, part 2 with loss to section-title, retaining blank *b*6, B6 torn at upper outer corner to loss of pagination, closed tear in O7 extending into text, spill-burns in S5 and x6 affecting a word either side, part 3 with signatures [fleuron]1-2 (section-title and dedication leaf) misbound after quire D, leaves E6-8 cancelled as usual, marginal damp-staining to quire H, 15 pp. of manuscript continuation in a contemporary hand bound in at rear (final leaf laid down), modern calf over wooden boards, folio in 8s (29.2 x 19 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Bound with an extensive manuscript continuation written in a contemporary hand and chronicling events in Ireland during the reigns of Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth from 1546 to the time of Sir Henry Sydney (1529-1586), lord deputy in 1565-71 and later in 1575-8; this appears to be at least in part a transcription from the second volume of Holinshed's work. 2) Private Collection, Shropshire. ESTC S3985; Pforzheimer 494; STC 13568b. First edition of the first volume of Holinshed's great narrative history of the British Isles. The work was conceived as part of a 'deliberate movement to elevate the status of England, English letters, and English language through writing and publishing maps, histories, national epics, and theoretical works on English poetry' (ODNB). It is the single most important chronicle written in English in the 16th century — a secular counterpart to Foxe's Actes and Monuments (1563) — and the principal source for all of Shakespeare's conventional English history plays as well as King Lear, Macbeth and Cymbeline.

Devon. Donn (Benjamin), A Map of the County of Devon, with the City and County of Exeter, 1st. edition, 1765, printed title, key plate, twelve engraved double page maps engraved by Thomas Jefferys, all with contemporary outline colouring, ornate cartouche and uncoloured plans of Exeter and Plymouth, some off setting, slight dust soiling and a little creasing, all plates re-guarded, later endpapers, old dealers catalogue entry sellotaped to front endpaper, modern half morocco with morocco gilt title label to upper siding, slight wear to extremities, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance:- Beeleigh Abbey Books 1992 and then from the private collection of Rodney Shirley. Batten & Bennett. The Printed Maps of Devon, no. 44

[Law]. Registrum omnium brevium tam originalium quam judicialium, noviter impressum et quam exacte correctum et emendatum, 2 parts in 1 volume, London: Richard Tottel, 1553, title-page with woodcut border (McKerrow 40), woodcut initials, italic type, second part lacking leaves M3-4 (replaced by duplicates of leaves M1 and M6) and final colophon leaf P4, water-staining to initial quires 1-2 with shallow marginal loss to title-page and more substantial loss to 4 other leaves (1[superscript 6]-2 [superscript 3]), 2 [superscript 3] laid down, variable generally light damp-staining thereafter, small hole in 2d4 affecting a few letters, small worm-track through text in final 40 or so leaves (quires I-P), inner hinges guarded with a leaf of contemporary vellum manuscript, 17th-century blind-ruled calf, folio in 6s (26.1 x 17 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) 'Joh[ann]es Lock me possidet' (contemporary ownership inscription to title-page). 2) 'Thomas Mytton, 15 May 1692' (ownership inscription to vellum manuscript guarding inner hinges). 3) Private Collection, Shropshire. Beale T310; ESTC S116150; STC 20837. A compilation of writs edited by William Rastell, nephew of Sir Thomas More, and sometimes attributed to Ralph de Hengham (c.1235-1311). This second edition is largely a re-issue of the 1531 first edition, with a new title-page and the tables reprinted; the main text, which ends at folio 321 verso, retains the date 1531. Six copies traced in UK libraries.

Plowden (Edmund). 1578. Les Commentaries, ou Reportes de divers cases esteants matters en ley, et de les Arguments sur yceux, en les temps des Raygnes le Roye Edwarde le size, le Roigne Mary, le Roy et Roigne Phillip et Mary, et le Roigne Elizabeth [part 2: ... Cy ensuont certeyne Cases Reportes], 2 parts in 1 volume, London: Richard Tottel, 1578 [part 2: 1584], title-page with woodcut border to each part, woodcut initials throughout (most on criblé ground), full-page woodcut table of consanguinity to folio 451 verso, text mainly in blackletter, first title-page closedly trimmed at foot, minor worm-track to foot of first few quires, quickly diminishing, small spill-burn in part 1 leaf 5H2 touching side-note verso, section of rear free endpaper torn away, light silverfish damage to lower margin of last 2 leaves, a few other trivial marks, retaining blank leaves 5H6 in part 1, 2T6 and [superscript 2]A6 in part 2, and A1 in 'Un report fait per un uncertaine authour ...' (all apparently original), occasional marginalia (in a later hand, at one point referring to Blackstone), later Italian manuscript leaves used as pastedowns, 17th-century blind-ruled calf, loss to foot of spine, folio (27.6 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) 'Jan 28 1668 I doo warrant this Book perfect, Willm [?]Plaids' (inscription to front free endpaper). 2) 'H Mitton 1675' (inscription to front free endpaper). 3) 'E Locke' (inscription to rear pastedown). 4) Private Collection, Shropshire. Beale R485, R486a; ESTC S115947, S115951; STC 20041, 20046.7; Sweet & Maxwell I p. 306.95-6. Second editions of both parts: the first originally appeared in 1571, and the second in 1579. Plowden's Commentaries 'decisively broke out of the older year-book tradition' (ODNB). This second edition of the first part contains additional cases and an analytical index by Recorder William Fleetwood.

Pope (Alexander). An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, Printed by J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver, 1734 [1735], some browning at front and rear, bound with four other Pope items: One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. A Dialogue Something like Horace, Printed for T. Cooper, [1738], half-title, advert leaf at rear, bound with One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. Dialogue II, R. Dodsley, [1738], 16pp., bound with The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated by Mr. Pope, R. Dodsley, 1737, bound with The Sixth Epistle of the First Book Of Horace Imitated, L. Gilliver, 1737 [1738], half-title, bound with [Johnson, Samuel], London: A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal, 2nd edition, R. Dodsley, 1737, bound with Advice to the Fair: An Epistolary Essay, in Three Parts: On Dress, Converse, and Marriage: Address’d to a Sister, J. Wilford, 1738, bound with Miller (James), Of Politeness. An Epistle to the Right Honourable William Stanhope, Lord Harrington. The Second Edition, L. Gilliver & J. Clark, 1738, bound with Whitehead (Paul), Manners: A Satire, [London?, 1739?], bound with [King, William, attributed to], Miltonis Epistola ad Pollionem. Edidit & notis illustravit F. S. Cantabrigiensis, Editio Altera, T. Cooper, 1738, bound with (at front of volume) University of Oxford. Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum augustissimi & desideratissimi regis Caroli Secundi, Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1685, two title-pages with engraved vignettes, brown stain to foremargin and some acid burning damage to both titles, some contemporary ink notes to upper corners of rectos, bound with Strenæ Natalitiæ Academiæ Oxoniensis in celsissimum principem, Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1688, engraved vignette to title, some heavy staining, some contemporary ink marginalia, bound with other mostly poetry, odes, essays and speeches, a total of 32 printed items and one manuscript item ( Indicia Eruditorum…, c.1740, 2pp.), c. 1685-1740, occasional light marginal dampstaining or spotting, 20th-century reversed half calf over marbled boards, folio (32.5 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Private Collection, Shropshire. The collections comprises the following items: 1) ESTC R30765; 2) ESTC R32204; 3) ESTC R5564; 4) ESTC T56617; 5) ESTC N506824; 6) ESTC T56621; 7) ESTC T56619; 8) ESTC T56619; 9) ESTC R118115; Foxon R114. Reissue of the first edition of the same year; 10) ESTC T135093; Foxon K69. Reissue; 11) ESTC T36631; Foxon P244; 12) MS item, not located; 13) ESTC T125646; Foxon R194; 14) ESTC T111483; 15) ESTC T180849; 16) ESTC T32229; 17) ESTC T144479; 18) ESTC T49655; 19) ESTC T28384; 20) ESTC T22855; 21) ESTC T44603; 22) ESTC T5747; Foxon P965; Griffith 476; 23) ESTC T5739; Foxon P957; 24) ESTC T5567; Foxon P802; Griffith 352; 25) ESTC T5720; Foxon P933; Griffith 485; 26) ESTC T5724; Foxon P938; Griffith 494; 27) ESTC T102900; Foxon M237; 28) ESTC T125865; Foxon B122 OR N461; Foxon B123; 29) ESTC T134119; Foxon J77; 30) ESTC N10534; Foxon M256; 31) ESTC T139152; Foxon W419; 32) ESTC T57963; Foxon A90; 33) ESTC T87637.

Browne (Sir Thomas). A Letter to a Friend, upon Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend, 1st edition, London: for Charles Brome, 1690, 12 pp., moderately browned, a few spots, bound in 1914 in reddish-brown pigskin gilt by Katherine Adams for Sir Geoffrey Keynes, spine faded and rubbed, pale mottling to sides, folio (28.6 x 18 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), bound for him in 1914 by noted Arts and Crafts bookbinder Katherine Adams (1862-1952) (endpapers with pencilled notes identifying and dating the binding, ownership inscription 'G L Keynes 1914', book-ticket 'ex dono Geoffrey Keynes'); Keynes's bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne appeared in 1924. 2) From the estate of John Lawson (1932-2019). ESTC R19833; Keynes 135; Wing B5158

Philips (Katherine). Poems. To which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey and Horace, Tragedies. With several other Translations out of French, London: printed by J. J. for H. Herringman, 1669, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Faithorne, retaining final blank 2U2, browning, variable spotting and staining, burn-holes in leaves T3-4 touching one letter verso in each, all edges gilt, contemporary red goatskin gilt, joints and extremities rubbed, restoration to spine-ends and tips, folio (28.6 x 17.2 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: From the estate of John Lawson (1932-2019). ESTC R20915; Wing P2034; cf. Grolier Wither to Prior 669. Second authorized edition, and the third overall.

Bembo (Pietro). Historiae Venetae Libri XII, Venice: [Gualtiero Scoto for Sons of Aldus, 1551], large woodcut device of Gualtiero Scoto to title, contemporary inscription in Greek in brown ink at foot of title, Aldine woodcut device to verso of final leaf, woodcut initials, engraved bookplate of the Royal Library at Cambridge, containing the motto 'Munificentia Regia 1715', additionally inscribed in brown ink to the head of this bookplate by William Cole 'Had this Duplicate fro ye Royal public Library. Wm: Cole-1745', pages 82 and 83 with early marginal annotation referring to Christopher Columbus and Pope Alexander, 18th century full calf, spine lettered in gilt, a little rubbed and some light wear to joints, with upper joint partly cracked, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Ely, one of the greatest book-collectors of his day, whose library was purchased by King George I, and subsquently presented to the University of Cambridge as a mark of gratitude for support given to the Hanoverian succession. This copy sold as a duplicate in 1745, and purchased by 2) William Cole (1714-1782), Cambridgeshire clergyman and antiquary who compiled an extensive collection of manuscript histories concerning Cambridgeshire and Buckinghamshire, all 100 volumes of which were given to the British Museum. 3) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Adams B597; Censimento 16 CNCE 5037; Renouard 152/17. First edition of Bembo's history of Venice, with the woodcut device of Gualtiero Scoto depicting Mercury and Athena on the title. The work covers the period between 1487 and 1513. Published posthumously, this work was a joint edition between Aldus' heirs and the Venetian publisher Gualtiero Scoto. Book six contains a detailed overview of Columbus' discovery of the New World.

[Manuscripts]. 'Let[tere] di Nap[oli]' [spine-title], 1547, a fragment, 6-52 leaves, later (19th century?) bibliographical manuscript note to initial blank, water-stain extending from top edges, concomitant loss of text in leaves 6-7 and marginal erosion thereafter, 19th-century green half calf, 8vo (20.5 x 13.5 cm), together with: ' Aggiunta alli giornali di misser Giuliano Passaro delle cose di Napoli. Fattada me notar Gregorio Russo per insino al presente anno 1537', possibly 18th century, 106 leaves, a little damp-staining, worming to first few leaves including title, 19th-century half vellum, 4to (25.5 x 17.8 cm), ' Della famiglia Ventimiglia', 6 leaves, pen-and-ink coat of arms to first leaf, 19th century half roan, 8vo (21.5 x 14.4 cm), 'Diario de' Raimi, e d'Incerto' [spine-title], probably 17/18th century, 11 + 36 + [1] 55 [i.e. 56] leaves, contemporary vellum, 4to (21.7 x 15 cm), [Sammelband of manuscript documents relating to the Orsino dynasty], mostly 18th century, approximately 70 leaves, some printed material bound in, similar material laid in, contemporary vellum, folio (27.5 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 5)NOTESProvenance 1) Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827), with engraved bookplates (first three works only). 2) Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), English bibliophile ( Phillipps Manuscripts 4993, 5425, 5757, 6962, 5803). 3) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool.

[Manuscripts]. 'Copie [di] ... scritture, ricavate dall' archivio del Conte di Ventimiglia, Marchese di Geraci', [c.1775], manuscript in brown ink on paper, 4 pp., [4] pp. blank, 127 leaves (a few leaves blank), contemporary reddish-brown Italian goatskin gilt, folio (29 x 20.2 cm) , together with: ' Series Scripturarum, quae in Archivio Arcis S. Angeli continentur, jussu Sanc.mi D. N. Pauli Papae V. à Silvio de Paulis disposita [Rome], 1610, manuscript on paper, 454 unnumbered leaves, browning, front inner hinge gone, contemporary vellum, folio (29.4 x 22 cm) (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: 1) Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827), with engraved bookplate (first work) and manuscript pressmark (second work). 2) Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), English bibliophile (Phillipps Manuscripts 6201 & 7678). 3) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool.

Andrews (Lancelot). [Apospasmatia] Sacra: or a collection of posthumous and orphan lectures: delivered at St. Pauls and St. Giles his Church... never before extant, London: printed by R. Hodgkinsonne for H. Moseley , A. Crooke et al, 1657, engraved portrait frontispiece, erratic pagination and signatures from pp. 499-515 but text complete, some spotting, soiling and water stains, previous owner inscription of Theophilus Makeham , 1698 at foot of portrait, his occasional annotations, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf gilt, Theophilus Makeham's initials stamped in gilt to covers, covers detaching, clear tape reinforcement to upper cover, spine rubbed, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: A Theophilus Makeham, born in 1679 to parents Paul and Elizabeth Makeham, is listed in the record of London Rolls as an apprentice to the Draper's Company in 1697, making him 19 years of age in 1698, the date of the inscription in this volume. Wing A3125. Lowndes notes a 1649 edition but this is not recorded by Wing.

[Burton, Robert]. The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes & severall cures of it ... by Democritus Junior ... The Sixth Edition, corrected and augmented by the author, Oxford: for Henry Cripps, 1651, half-title ('The Argument of the Frontispiece' verso), engraved title-page, light to moderate browning, intermittent damp-staining to upper outer corners, half-title and engraved title-page strengthened in margins verso and with contemporary ownership inscription to upper outer corner, faint central stain to engraved title, small worm-track to lower margins from quire 2H, spill-burn in 3O1 touching a word either side, interlinear spill-burn in 4K2, repaired closed tear in final leaf, a few other marks, 19th-century diced half russia, rebacked with original spine laid down, spine gilt in compartments containing urn tools, folio (27.5 x 17.7 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Norman Douglas Simpson (1890-1974), botanist (bookplate); 2) Eduard Rosenbaum (1887-1979), Anglo-German economist and librarian; 3) thence by descent. ESTC R29167; Jordan-Smith 6; Wing B6181; cf. Hunter & McAlpine pp. 94-99, PMM 120.

Calvin (John). Commentaires de M. Iean Caluin sur les Epistres de l'Apostre S. Paul, & aussi sur l'Epistre aux Hebrieux. Item, sur les Epistres Canoniques de S. Pierre, S. Iean, S. Iaques, & S. Iude, autrement appelees Catholiques. En lisant & conferant ceste edition auec les autres, vous cognoistrez euidemment que l'autheur a le tout reueu & augmente,? & que la traduction est comme reduite en sa perfection, [Geneva]: Conrad Badius, 1562, woodcut headpiece & printer's device to title, some dampstaining and light dust-soiling mostly at front and rear, ownership inscription to front free endpaper 'Mariane de la Perrelle 31 Janvier 1800', 18th century marbled sheep, red morocco title label, joints rubbed, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams C321.

Calvin (John). Commentarii in Isaiam Prophetam. Primùm collecti opera & diligentia N. Gallasii: deinde locupletati & expoliti magno labore & cura ipsius Authoris: tertiò recogniti & aucti ampla accessione locorum Scripturae qui passim in toto opere citantur: nunc postremò aliquot locis ex autographo ipsius Authoris restituti. Additi sunt is fine tres Indices locupletissimi, [Geneva]: Eustathius Vignon, 1583, printer's woodcut device to title, bound with Praelectiones in librum prophetiarum Jeremiae, et Lamentationes..., 3rd edition, Geneva: apud haered. Eustath. Vignon, 1589, printer's woodcut device to title, bound with Praelectiones in Ezechielis Prophetae viginti capita priora…, Geneva: Iohannem Vignon, Petrum & Iacobum Chouët, 1616, printer's woodcut device to title, some toning and browning throughout, some dampstaining to initial leaves at front of volume and to margins throughout volume, contemporary vellum, blind embossed arabesque to centre of boards, later manuscript title to spine, joints split and spine repaired to lower panel, marked, lacking ties, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams B1587 and C298 (for first two titles within volume)

Calvin (John). Praelectiones in librum prophetiarum Danielis. Joannis Budaei & Caroli Ionuillaei labore & industria exceptae. Additus est è regione versionis Latinae Hebraicus & Chaldaicus textus, Geneva, 1591, title within woodcut decorative architectural border (with two ink stamps, partly detached at gutter, frayed to margins & dust-soiled), bound with Calvin (John) , Praelectiones in duodecim prophetas (quos vocant) minores..., Geneva: Eustathium Vignon, 1581, printer's woodcut device to title, few light dampstains mostly to initial leaves, later endpapers, contemporary vellum, later title and date in manuscript to spine, upper board detached, worn at head & foot of spine, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams B1605 & C306.

Goltzius (Hubert). Thesaurus rei Antiquariae Huberrimus, ex antiquis tam numismatum quam marmorum inscriptionibus pari diligentia qua fide conquisitus ac descriptus, & in locos communes distributes, Antwerp: Ex officina Gerardi WolsschatI, sumptibus Jacobi Biaei, 1618, printer's woodcut device to title, bound with Goltzius (Hubert) , Sicilia et Magna Graecia sive historiae urbium et populorum Graeciae ex antiquis nomismatibus, 2 parts in one, Antwerp: Ex officina Gerardi WolsschatI, sumptibus Jacobi Biaei, 1618, additional engraved general title, letterpress title to second part "Siciliae historia posterior sive eorum, quae post pacem sub Augusto terra marique partam vsque ad hoc saeculum gesta sunt", 2 full-page engraved maps (of Sicily & Southern Italy), 36 full-page engraved illustrations of ancient coins printed back-to-back (dampstained to margins), bound with Goltzius (Hubert) , Graeciae Universae Asiaeq. Minoris et Insularum nomismata veterum Huberto Goltzio quondam scalptore cum indice geographico, Antwerp: Ex Typographia Henrici Aertssii, sumptibus Jacobi Biaei, 1618, additional engraved title, 38 full-page engraved illustrations of ancient coins printed back-to-back and 26 engraved plates of ancient coins (occasional light dampstaining to margins), contemporary mottled calf (surface a little pitted), gilt decorated spine, worn at head & foot with some loss, lower outer board corners worn & showing, folio (Qty: 1)

Homer. Ilias. Latinis versibus expressa à Raymundo Cunichio Ragusino, Rome: Giovanni Zempel, 1776 [and:] Odyssea. Latinis versibus expressa à Bernardo Zamagna Ragusino, Siena: Pazzini Carli brothers, 1777, 2 works, each with half-title, title-page printed in red and black with engraved portrait vignette of Homer, engraved initials, and head- and tailpieces, Iliad additionally with engraved arms to f4 verso, Odyssey lacking front free endpaper and with tide-mark to lower outer corners, Iliad bound in contemporary half vellum, patterned paper sides, folio (36.8 x 23.2 cm), Odyssey in contemporary vellum, slightly soiled, head of spine defective, folio (33.8 x 21.8 cm), together with: Terence, Comoediae nunc primum Italicis versibus reddiate cum personarum figuris aeri accurate incisis ex MS. codice bibliothecae Vaticanae, Urbino: Girolamo Mainardi, 1736, title-page in red and black with engraced vignette after Fililppo Barigioni, engraved head- and tailpieces and vignettes throughout the text, 6 full-page, the tailpieces signed Domenico Miserotti, lower outer corner of title-page torn away affecting part of imprint, contemporary vellum, marked, wear to extremities, vellum lifting in places, folio (39.6 x 26 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: George John Carnegie (1843-1911), 9th Earl of Northesk (bookplates); Samuel Gurney (1885-1968), descendant of the Norwich banking family (book-labels). First editions of these two attractively produced Latin translations of Homer. Although printed a year apart in different cities they are typographically uniform, and a notice on the final page of the Iliad refers to the impending publication of Zamagna's version of the Odyssey.

Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from the originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Harrison's Edition, with his Life of the Author, London: Harrison & Co., 1786, engraved portrait frontispiece (neat tissue repairs to inner & fore-margin), title in red & black, some spotting mostly at front & rear and to margins, endpapers renewed preserving bookplate of T. Baxter Junr. to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with gilt decorated spine, morocco title label retained, corners repaired, large folio, contained in purpose-made book box with gilt decorated spine & maroon morocco title label (Qty: 1)

[Knox, John]. The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland; containing five books: together with some Treatises conducing to the History. Published by authority, London: John Raworth for George Thomason & Octavian Pullen, 1644, [84], 276, 279-397, [1], 401-460, 91, [2], 92-122 pp., half-title, title within decorative ornament border, final blank present, also bound without leaf Eee (probably a blank - no apparent loss of content), gutter margin of 3X4 torn (not affecting text), some light browning and dust-soiling, contemporary sheep, spine torn at head and foot with loss of upper panel, board corners worn, small folio, together with Jameson (William) , Nazianzeni Querela et Votum Justum. The Fundamentals of the Hierarchy examin'd and disprov'd: Wherein the choicest Arguments and Defences of the most applauded and latest Hierarchick or Prelatick Writers, A.M. D.D. the Author of An Enquiry into the New Opinions (chiefly) propagated by the Presbyterians in Scotland..., Glasgow: Printed by Robert Sanders, for the author, 1697, faint early inscription & ink stains to title, light dust-soiling, contemporary calf, 4to (Qty: 2)NOTESKnox: Wing K738 and ESTC R12446. With the two un-numbered pages between pages 91 & 92 of Admonition.

Locke (John). An Essay concerning Humane Understanding, 5th edition ('with large Additions'), London: Awnsham and John Churchill and Samuel Manship, 1706, signatures a-i2 *4 B-2N4 2O2 2Y-4G4, index bound before main text rather than at end, closed tear in 2A2 touching top line of text, section of front free endpaper torn away, ownership inscription 'Owen Brigstocke Esqr 1734' to front pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, worn, front joint cracked, folio (34.8 x 21.4 cm), together with: The Works, 3 volumes, 3rd edition, London: Arthur Bettesworth [and others], 1727, 2 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, repaired closed tear in volume 1 signature 2U3, volume 2 with light damp-staining to lower outer corners, 2 spill-burns in 3R1, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, spines defective, folio (31 x 20 cm) (Qty: 4)NOTESProvenance (Works): Sir Charles Granville Stuart-Menteth, 1st Baronet (1769-1847; ownership inscription to front free endpaper). ESTC T33271, T115711; Yolton 65, 365A.1-3.

Piccolomini (Sylvius Aeneas, Pope Pius II). Opera quae extant omnia, nunc demum post corruptissimas aeditiones summa diligentia castigata et in unum corpus redacta, Basel: ex officina Henricpetrina, [1571], roman type, printer's woodcut device to title-page and verso of final leaf, 18 woodcut maps after Sebastian Münster in text (one full-page), lacking 11 leaves (signatures Fff6-Hhh4), old marginal repair to lower margin of signature 2S1, ink inscription 'Collegii Socis Jesu Ambergae 1658' to title-page, contemporary vellum, supralibros of the Society of Writers to the Signet gilt to sides, yapp fore edges, marked and dust-soiled overall, ties perished, folio (31.2 x 20.2 cm), together with: Plutarch, Parallela en Biois Hellenon te kai Romaion [graece], Basel: [Johann Bebel], 1533, lacking signature a6, a1 loose and with repaired loss to lower outer corner (a few letters replaced in facsimile), light marginal spotting, occasional browning, faint tide-mark to upper outer corners, marginal damp-staining to final few leaves, ink inscription '16 Martii ... Collegii Tolosani Societ. Ihu' to title-page, contemporary limp vellum, folio (30.6 x 20.6 cm), and 1 other (Qty: 3)NOTESAdams P1334 & P1611.

Saadi Shirazi. (Died 1292 A D). Boostan, by Sheik Muslahuddeen Saudee of Sheraz, to which is added a Compendious Commentary together with a Dictionary of such words as are hard of meaning now. First Computed Expressly for this Edition by Moolvy Jumnuzuddy, Calcutta, 1828. Reprinted at Bombay, 1842, 112 leaves, lithographed (by Gunput Crustnajee) in Persian throughout with title-page at end in Persian and English, heavy browning to first 28 leaves and some lesser browning to final leaves including title, a few marginal repairs to foremargin not title not affecting text, one marginal tear with loss, contemporary roan-backed cloth, repeated gilt floral ornament to spine, rubbed and some edge and corner wear, folio (Qty: 1)NOTESBustan [The Orchard] was one of the two major works by the Persian poet Saadi Shirazi (1210-91), completed in 1257.

Bartoli (Pietro Santi). Colonna Traiana , eretta dal senato, e popolo romano all'imperatore Traiano Augusto nell suo foro in Roma. Scolpita con l'Historie della guerra Dacica la prima e la seconda espeditione, e vittoria contro il re Decebalo. Nuovamente disegnata, et intagliata. Con l'espositione latina d'Alfonso Ciaccone, compendiata nella vulgare lingua sotto ciascuna immagine, accresciuta di medaglie, inscrittioni, e trofei, da Gio. Pietro Bellori, 1st edition, Rome: Gio[vanni] Giacomo de Rossi, [ 1673], title-page, dedication leaf, 2 pp. text ('Al lettori'; verso blank), 126 etched plates (7 unnumbered, the remainder numbered 1-119), 14 + [2] pp. text, worming to lower margins, reducing towards centre of volume, light damp-staining to lower margins of initial 30 or so leaves, title-page slightly frayed (strengthened along fore margin verso), marginal restoration to pp. 3/4 of the text, edges untrimmed, modern half leatherette, oblong folio (38.5 x 46.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESBerlin Katalog 3622; Cicognara 3603. A complete, untrimmed copy of this striking depiction of 'the great column which is the sole intact monument of Trajan's Forum (ruined by earthquakes in the 9th century)' (Royal Academy, online).

Bartoli (Pietro Santi). Admiranda romanarum antiquatum ac veteris sculpturae vestigia anaglyphico opere elaborata ... notis Jo. Petri Bellorii illustrata, 2nd edition. Rome: Domenico de Rossi, 1693, 83 etched plates including title-page and dedication leaf (of 84: lacking plate 84), light to moderate spotting, variable damp-staining to margins, just touching upper outer corners of images in plates 44-5, 60-73, 75, and 77-83, plates 1-4 (including title-page and dedication) somewhat spotted and soiled, title-page trimmed along top edge, oil-stain to top edges of plates 13-20 and 39-40 not affecting images, marginal worm-track to plates 74-83, edges untrimmed, modern half leatherette, oblong folio (39 x 47.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESCicognara 3607. An untrimmed copy of Bartoli's pictorial account of Roman historical reliefs and sarcophagi. According to Cicognara there was a preceding edition without a date on the title-page.

Bartoli (Pietro Santi). Columna cochlis M. Aurelio Antonino Augusto dicata, eius rebus gestis in Germanica, atque Sarmatica expeditione insignis, ex S. C. Romae ad viam Flaminiam erectabrevibus notis Jo. Petri Bellorii illustrata, 2nd edition, Rome: Domenico de Rossi, 1704-8, etched title-page, dedication leaf, part-title 'Stylobates columnae Antoninae' , and 80 plates (numbered 1-77 and I-III), variable light fraying and marginal damp-staining to outer leaves (plates 2 and 77 strengthened in margins), worm-track to foot of first 5 leaves including title-page (attempted repair to first 4), quickly reducing thereafter, title-page somewhat spotted and dust-soiled, occasional light spotting and soiling to margins elsewhere, light marginal worming to plates 29-42 and 73-77, , closed marginal tear to plate 52, extra-illustrated with an etched plate tipped to a guard before the title-page, all edges untrimmed, modern half leatherette, oblong folio (39 x 47.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESBerlin Katalog 3623; Cicognara 3605. An untrimmed, complete copy of this comprehensive depiction of the Antonine Column in Rome, the commemorative monument erected between AD 172 and 196 to celebrate the victories of Marcus Aurelius. The three extra plates issued in 1708 with the part-title 'Stylobates columnae Antoninae' are often absent and not listed in the Berlin Katalog. The first edition appeared in 1672.

Brieger (Peter et al) . Illuminated Manuscripts of The Divine Comedy, 2 volumes, 1969, numerous black & white illustrations, uniform original red cloth in dust jackets, spines slightly faded & covers lightly marked, large 8vo, together with Berkovits (Ilona) , Illuminated Manuscripts in Hungary XI-XVI, 1969, Irish University Press, numerous colour and black & white plates, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot with minor tear to head of spine, large 8vo, and Pächt (Otto & Alexander, J.J.G.) , Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodlean Library Oxford, 2 volumes, 1966, Oxford, colour and black & white illustrations, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, spines lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus 28 further volumes of Illuminated manuscript reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo/folio (Qty: 33)

Campbell (Colen). Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect, Containing the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Regular Buildings, both Publick and Private, in Great Britain..., volumes 1-3, [1725], 229 engraved plates only of 335 (including 48 double-page & folding, engraved title-pages to volumes 1 & 2 in English & French, & engraved dedication to volumes 1, lacking 6 double-page plates), titles to volumes 1 & 2 without imprint, volume 3 with letterpress title in red & black and imprint dated 1725, letterpress dedication also to volume 3, some dampstaining and light dust-soiling, occasional worming to margins, slight marginal fraying to few plates, few marks, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines lacking title labels, joints split, worn, folio (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Volume 1 contains 86 engraved plates (numbered 1-100, includes engraved title, dedication & 14 double-page & folding plates), occasional dust-soiling, some dampstaining mostly to lower margins, folding plate of Castle Howard frayed to margins. Volume 2 contains 73 engraved plates (numbered 1-20 & 23-98, lacking double-page plates 21/22 & 99/100, includes engraved title, 14 double-page & folding plates), occasional dust-soiling, some dampstaining mostly to lower margins, worming to some inner & lower margins. Volume 3 contains 70 engraved plates (numbered 7-56 & 61-100, lacking double-page plates 3/4, 5/6, 57/58 & 59/60, includes 20 double-page & folding plates), occasional dust-soiling, some dampstaining mostly to lower margins. Fowler 76; Harris 97 & 99.

Flaxman (John). [The Odyssey of Homer engraved from the compositions of John Flaxman] & The Iliad of Homer, engraved from the compositions of John Flaxman, 2 volumes, 1805, engraved title page to second volume of The Iliad, but without title page to first volume of The Odyssey, 34 and 39 line engraved plates respectively, the first volume with some marks and light damp marking to upper outer corners, all edges gilt, contemporary uniform dark green half morocco, rubbed and some marks, first volume with some wear to covers, oblong folio, together The Theogony Works & Days & The Days of Hesiod engraved from the compositions of John Flaxman, 1817, engraved title and 37 numbered line-engraved plates, engraved by William Blake after Flaxman, some scattered spotting throughout, marbled endpapers, front and rear inner hinges restrengthened, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated full green crushed morocco, a little rubbed and scuffed to joints and edges, and a little faded to spine and outer margins, oblong folio (27 x 42 cm, 10.5 x 16.5 ins) (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: From the Estate of Michael Jaffé CBE (1923-1997), English art historian and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Frankau (Julia). The Story of Emma, Lady Hamilton, 2 volumes, London: Macmillan, 1911, 30 colour plates, each with captioned tissue guard, and numerous monochrome plates, volume one dust-soiled (mainly to margins), free endpapers toned and spotted (lightly affecting adjacent leaves), top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, original japon gilt, front covers and spines somewhat dust-soiled and rubbed (mainly to extremities), volume one front joint partly cracked, and spine frayed at foot, volume two front joint a little cracked, folio (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Annie Cowdray (pictorial bookplate on each front pastedown). Annie Pearson 91860-1932) was the wife of the 1st Viscount Cowdray, and they lived at Dunecht House, which is depicted on the bookplate. Limited edition, out-of-series copy from the total edition of 250.