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STRADA (JACOBUS DE)Imperatorum Romanorum onmium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines ex antiquis numismatis quam fidelissime delineatae, title within decorative woodcut border, 118 full-page woodcut medallion portraits by Rudolf Wyssenbach after Rudolf Manuel Deutsch, each within an architectural border, text on verso within woodcut border of putti, fruit and grotesques, and with arabesque ornaments by P. Flotner, with blank a6, without blank v6, title and dedication leaf strengthened with old strip of paper at fore-edge without affecting printed area, final 9 leaves (f.111-118 and index leaf) with some losses to printed area (touching portrait on f.118), f.109 and 110 with small hole and old paper repair, light dampstain to one corner of a few leaves, later blindstamped vellum over boards, some loss to upper cover, spine worn [Adams S1919, the 3 copies all without the blanks], folio (480 x 370mm.), Zurich, Andreas Gesner, 1559This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

ATHENAEUS OF NAUCRATISDeiphosophistae, in Greek, FIRST EDITION, edited by Marcus Musurus, Greek italic type, 45 lines and 2 headlines, capital spaces with guide-letters, dolphin and anchor device on first and last pages, last blank leaf of preliminaries lacking as often, occasional light soiling (mostly in margins and to first and last 2 or 3 leaves, these with some small chips or repairs), early ink marginalia in Greek and Latin (extensive at first) and some underscoring, eighteenth century panelled calf, sides with gilt rule and ornamental blind-tooled borders, gilt panelled spine with raised bands (neatly rebacked), inner gilt dentelles [Ahmanson-Murphy, 105; Renouard p.67; Vicaire 50], folio (313 x 205mm.), Venice, Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, August 1514This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

CORNARIUS (JANUS)De conviviorum veterum Græcorum, & hoc tempore Germanorum ritibus, moribus ac sermonibus, italic type, woodcut historiated initials, final leaf with colophon, a little light browning, early inscriptions on title (partially crossed through), modern panelled calf gilt [Adams C2637; Bitting 99; Vicaire 211], Basel, [colophon: Joannes Oporinus], 1548--ATHENAEUS OF NAUCRATIS. Dipnosophistarum sive coenae sapientum libri XV, title with large woodcut printer's device, some dampstaining (title frayed and repaired, last leaf repaired with loss), modern calf-backed boards [Oberlé 8-10], folio, Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1572--RABELAIS (FRANCOIS) Les oeuvres, 4 vol., frontispiece with portrait of Rabelais by De Launay after Sarabat, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines gilt with paper shelf labels and one or two chips, 12mo, Geneva, [Cazin], 1782--GIOVIO (PAOLO) De Romanis piscibus libellus, doctus, copiosus & elegans, iam recens æditus, full-page woodcut device on last page, lacking preliminary leaves a4-5, nineteenth century calf-backed boards, decorative gilt spine, 8vo, Antwerp, Jean Graphaeus, 1528--[MARTIN (LOUIS)] L'eschole de Salerne en vers burlesques. Et Poema macaronicum, de bello Huguenotic, third edition, title and 2 following leaves repaired with slight loss, lacking frontispiece, later vellum [Vicaire 334], 4to, Paris, Jean Henault, 1650--RAPIN (RENE) Hortorum libri 4 editio altera, fine engraved title, privilege leaf at end, contemporary calf, 12mo, Paris, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1666; and works by Juvenal (1608), Ovid and Virgil (12)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

PETRONIUS (ALEXANDER)De victu romanorum et de sanitate tuenda libri quinque... His accessere libelli duo de alvo sine medicamentis mollienda, 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved arms of the dedicatee Gregory XIII on title, similar woodcut arms at start of part 2 (p.293), colophon with woodcut printer's device, historiated initials, a few leaves with early ink some underscoring and marginalia in Latin ('Vomitus utilis', 'ventroculi qualitatet curatione'), additional leaves inserted before title and at end, blank except for a small eagle and cross stamped device, first and last few leaves neatly restored at edges (along with a few other corner tips), a wide-margined copy in modern maroon morocco, sides with ornate blind-tooled panel borders and cornerpieces with small gilt tool in outer corner, spine gilt lettered and blind-tooled with raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, housed in morocco-edged slipcase [Bitting 368, copy with variant title devices; Oberlé 68; Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica 1158; Simon, Bibliotheca Bachica 498; Vicaire 679], folio (316 x 202mm.), Rome, in aedibus populi romani, 1581This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

BIBLE, IN LATIN[Biblia latina]... Quinta pars huius operis in se continens glosam ordinariam cum expositione lyre litterali & morali... Sup. libros Matthei, Marci, Luce, Johanis, 243 leaves (of 244, lacking final leaf), 78 lines of commentary, gothic type, rubricated in red and blue, initials supplied in alternate red and blue, CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH BLINDSTAMPED CALF over wooden boards, the covers panelled with a pair of intersecting triple fillets framing repeated impressions of rosette and fleur-de-lys tools, the centre panel dissected with diagonal fillets to a lattice design, undecorated spine, metal catches and clasps, plain vellum pastedowns, loss to head and foot of spine, some abrasions and scuffmarks to sides, preserved in black morocco-backed solander box by James Brockman [ISTC ib00609000; BMC III 791; Goff B609; GW4284], folio (340 x 230mm.), [Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Petri, 1 December 1498]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

COOK (JAMES) AND JAMES KINGA Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the Years 1776, 1778, 1779, and 1780, 4 vol., half-titles in volumes 2-4 (as called for), list of subscribers, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1, one engraved folding map, 49 engraved plates (2 folding, one misbound), contemporary calf, red and green gilt morocco spine labels, rubbed with a few small scuff marks [Forbes 70], 8vo, John Fielding, 1785-1786--SODERSTRÖM (JAN) A. Sparrman's Ethnographical Collection from James Cook's 2nd Expedition (1772-1775), 34 plates, later cloth, 4to, Stockholm, Aktiebolaget Thule, 1939--MURRAY-OLIVER (ANTHONY, editor) Captain Cook's Artists in the Pacific 1769-1779, limited to 2000 numbered copies, 130 plates (some colour), publisher's half morocco, slipcase, oblong folio, New Zealand, Avon Fine Prints Ltd, 1969 (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

EUSEBIUS PAMPHILI, BISHOP OF CAESAEREAEcclesiasticae historiae; Evangelicae praeparationis Lib XV, 1544; Evangelicae demonstrationis lib. X, 1545 [colophon dated 1 April, 1546], 3 works bound in 2 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, titles in Greek and Latin, printed in Greek type ('Grecs du Roi'), printer's device on three titles and final verso of first and third works (as called for), large woodcut ornaments and initials designed by Geoffroy Tory, contemporary French (?Parisian) calf gilt, attributable to the 'Pecking Crow' binder, covers panelled with single blind outer fillet border, inner border of with leafy-scrollwork roll and large fleur-de-lys corner-pieces, enclosing a lozenge with sprays at corners, four 'rosettes' and a central ornament, spine in seven compartments decorated with rosette and ornamental sprig tools, rebacked preserving most of the original spine, g.e. [Adams E1093; E1082, E1087; Schreiber Estiennes, 77 and 78], folio (345 x 212mm.), Paris, Robert EstienneThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

FLACIUS (MATTHIAS)Ecclesiastica historia, integram ecclesiae Christi ideam, Parts 1-3 only (of 13) in 1 vol., woodcut device on general title, contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, sides with double roll frame, the outer with alternate falcon on a globe surmounted by the English Royal crown, and the Golden Fleece hanging by a chain from the Imperial crown, the inner with medallions with heads, including the binder's initials 'R.B.', with central lozenge made up from a narrow decorative roll enclosing a central oval cartouche contaning an armorial escutcheon with a unicorn rampant, rebacked preserving most of the original spine, without clasps, a few small areas of loss (mostly along lower margin), fragment of an illuminated vellum manuscript used as binder's waste at hinges [Goldschmidt, Gothic and Renaissance Book Bindings, 233], folio (318 x 195mm.), Basel, J. Oporinus, [1564], sold as a bindingThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

GRAY (THOMAS)Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, second or third issue, half-title ('Designs, &c.'), printed on rectos only, engraved title-vignette, 6 plates, head- & tail-pieces and initials, 4pp. 'Explanation of the Prints' by Horace Walpole bound at end, occasional light spotting, short tear to margin of one plate, dark green straight-grained morocco gilt by Clarke & Bedford, spine elaborately tooled within compartments, g.e., slightly rubbed at extremities [Rothschild 1061], folio (380 x 265mm.), R. Dodsley, 1753; Odes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, engraved vignette on title, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked [Hazen 1; Rothschild 1067], 4to, Printed at Strawberry-Hill, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE - BINDINGDas Buch des heiligen römischen reichs unnderhalltung, FIRST EDITION, third variant (see footnote), 90 leaves (including blank A8), 39 lines, gothic letter, large woodcut of the Imperial arms on the title, and woodcut of Bavarian Ducal arms on the colophon leaf, contemporary Southern German (?Augsburg) blindstamped deerskin over wooden boards, the fore-edge bevelled, sides with pairs of triple fillets enclosing a wide Forest Deer Hunt roll, each cover with differing central panel, that on the upper including the device of an Imperial Eagle clutching a Cross, and with the legend 'Newe Gesatzt' in upper border, spine in 4 compartments decorated with a double-rose tool, gilt metal catches and clasps (without strap), one corner repaired, old cracks on spine repaired with loss to head and foot, preserved in cloth solander box [VBD D688], folio (265 x 185mm.), [Munich, Hans Schobster, 3 February, 1501]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

ITALY - ANTIQUITIESBARTOLI (PIETRO SANTI) Le antiche lucerne sepolcrali figurate. Raccolte dalle cave sotteranee, e grotte di Roma... con l'osservationi di Gio. Pietro Bellori, 3 engraved parts titles, 116 engraved plates (plates 33-46 of part 2 bound at the end of part 1), caption in ink in margin of each plate, light spotting, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed [Berlin Cat. 889; Cicognara 3609], folio (322 x 205mm.), Rome, Gio. Francesco Buagni, 1691--VENUTI (RIDOLFO) Antiqua numismata maximi moduli aurea, argentea, aerea ex Museo Alexandri S.R.E. Card. Albani in Vaticanam Bibliothecam, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved vignette on titles, engraved plates, numerous large engraved vignette views, contemporary calf gilt, large gilt arms on sides, spine worn [Cicognara 3043], folio (404 x 263mm.), Rome, Calcographei Cameralis, 1739-1744--LA CHAUSSE (MICHEL ANGE) Le grand cabinet romain our recueil d'antiquitez romaines... que l'on trouvé à Rome, engraved allegorical frontispiece, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 43 engraved plates (most illustrating 4 images), small dampstain just touching image of frontispiece, modern calf-backed marbled boards, folio (355 x 240mm.), Amsterdam, Francois l'Honoré, & Zacharie Chastelain le fils, 1706 (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

JAPANKAEMPFER (ENGELBERT) The History of Japan, Giving an Account of the Ancient and Present State and Government of That Empire, 2 vol. bound in 1, FIRST EDITION, second issue, engraved additional title in volume 1 (dated 1727), titles in red and black, letterpress list of subscribers, 45 engraved plates and maps (including large map of Japan, mostly double-page or folding, one shaved just touching image), short tear repaired to title of second appendix, light dampstaining to first half, calf antique [Cordier, Japonica 414-415], folio (347 x 225mm.), [Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis], 1727[-1728]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

JAPANMONTANUS (ARNOLDUS) Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des Provinces Unies, vers les empereurs du Japon, additional engraved pictorial title-page, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 26 engraved plates and maps (several folding), 70 engravings in the text, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving much of original gilt spine [Cordier, Japonica 385], folio (360 x 225mm.), Amsterdam, Jacob de Meurs, 1680This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

LAISNÉ (ÉLIE)Commentaire sur le Prophete Isaye, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black with woodcut ornament, several woodcut ornaments and initials, some toning and occasional light spotting, front free endpaper (with inscription) near detached, contemporary red morocco gilt, sides with 2-line fillet border enclosing large central oval of leaves enclosing a cross, fleur-de-lys corner-pieces, spine tooled in seven compartments within raised bands, folio (324 x 220mm.), Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1654This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

MAIORANIS (FRANCISCUS DE)Super primo libro sententiarum, 246 leaves (including 2 blanks), 48 lines, 2 columns, gothic type, initials supplied and rubricated throughout in alternate red and blue ink, including opening 7-line initial 'C', leaves c5 and c6 misbound between i4 and i5, c5 repaired with old paper, contemporary Augsburg blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, by the Fächer frei binder, sides panelled with a border of repeated rose tool, and central latticed panel with pineapple and open fan tool, chased brass catchplates (inscribed 'Maria') on the upper cover, clasps and leather straps, old paper lettering label on spine (traces of worming), extremities of spine and corners neatly restored [ISTC im00090000; BM VI 887; Goff M90; GW M22459] folio (298 x 195mm.), Treviso, Michele Manzolo, 1476This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

MYSNINGER VON FRUNDECK (JOACHIM)Apotelesma, hoc est, corpus perfectum scholiorum, ad institutiones Justinianeas pertinentium, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, and portrait of the author on verso, woodcut arms on B8, and large device on final leaf, Helmstadt, Jakob Lucius, 1588; HOTMAN (FRANCOIS) Vetus-Renovatus. Commentarius in quatuor libros institutionum juris civilis, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, Lyon, Anton Candide, 1588, 2 works bound in 1 vol., contemporary blindstamped pigskin over pasteboard, BY GEORGE KAMMBERGER THE YOUNGER, OF WITTENBERG, sides panelled with a series of fillets, a narrow heads-and-shields roll, a cresting roll, and a five virtues roll signed by Wittenberg roll cutter 'F.H.', on the upper cover a central panel with the arms of Christian I, Elector of Saxony, and on the lower those of Christian's mother, Anne of Denmark, both of which signed 'G.K.', spine in 6 compartments with raised bands and ink lettering within 2, page edges speckled and decorated with stripes in blue and red wash inks, age soiling, folio (345 x 224mm.)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

ORIGINES (ADAMANTIUS)Operum tomi duo priores [-tertius, -quartus], 4 parts in 2 vol., titles to Parts 1 and 3, each with a large woodcut of the interior of a printing workshop, the first printed in red and black, large woodcut initials, lacks final blank in Part 2, first six leaves (including title) and final 2 leaves of Part 4, occasional sprinkled single wormholes, second volume with some light dampstaining, final 2 leaves repaired with some loss, contemporary English blindstamped calf over wooden boards, covers with repeated design of intersecting roll borders (including Oldham 946), enclosing central panel filled with alternating vertical impressions of a dragon-and-gryphon roll, signed with initials 'W.G.' and 'I.G.' (Oldham 560) and a twisted pineapple roll (Oldham 953), spines in 5 compartments with raised bands, later lettering label within one compartment, modern endpapers but retaining original binder's waste and manuscript sewing guards (including a fragment of a ?seventeenth century French vernacular telling of the story of Troy), sides with scattered single wormholes and a few small areas of abrasion, extremities of spine repaired [Adams O280], folio (340 x 210mm.), [Paris, Jean Petit, Josse Bade, and Conrad Resch, 1522]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

PIGHIUS (STEPHANUS VINDIUS)Annales magistratuum provinciar[um] S.P.Q.R. ab urbe condita, engraved architectural title-page, 2 engraved illustrations in the text, printer's device on final leaf, 2 small holes resulting from ink obliteration of old ink name in blank areas of title, approximately 20 leaves nibbled at upper or lower margin, light dampstain at upper margin of some leaves, contemporary Antwerp binding of polished calf gilt, sides with panels enclosing large central arabesque and cornerpieces, spine with leaf-bud and fleuron tool in six compartments, old ink lettering in 2 compartments, neatly repaired at extremities of spine and corners, some abrasions to sides (revealing boards in a few places), vellum sewing guards cut from a fourteenth century liturgical manuscript, preserved in crushed brown morocco-backed solander box by James Brockman, folio (365 x 230mm.), Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, Jan Moretus, 1599 [colophon: 1598]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

PLUTARCHIllustriam virorum vite, edited by Gérard de Verceil, title printed in red and black with historiated woodcut border and central image of a printer's workshop, numerous large criblé woodcut initials, contemporary north Italian blindstamped morocco, covers with a border or fleur-de-lys and ermines, enclosing a repeated Christogram 'JHS', gilt morocco spine label, green edges, rubbed at extremities with small loss to head of spine, folio (328 x 215mm.), Paris, Iodocus Badius Ascensius, 15 July 1520This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

SHAW (THOMAS)Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 32 engraved plates, maps and plans on 29 sheets (several folding), engraved vignettes and illustrations in text including full-page sheet of music, several early marginal annotations and corrections in ink, contemporary calf, red morocco spine label, slightly frayed at extremities of spine [Blackmer 1553; Röhricht 1352; Weber I, 496], folio (340 x 220mm.), Oxford, at the Theatre, 1738This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

STALKER (JOHN) AND GEORGE PARKERA Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing, Being a Compleat Discovery in Those Arts... The Method of Guilding, Burnishing, and Lackering, with the Art of Guilding... Also Rules for Counterfeiting Tortoise-shell, and Marble, and for Staining or Dying Wood, Ivory, and Horn, FIRST EDITION, issue with errata/contents leaf, 24 engraved plates plants, animals, architecture and people (plate 17 with one corner slightly torn away, plate 19 with small hole in blank area, plate 21 sprinkled with 6 small gilt spots, a few small marginal tears), contemporary calf, rubbed [ESTC R187178; Wing 5187D], folio (375 x 240mm.), Oxford, Printed for, and Sold by the Authors, John Stalker, at the Golden Ball... ; or by George Stalker, at Mr. Richard Woods House over against the Theater in Oxford, 1688This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

TERTULLIANUS (QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS)Opera, edited by B. Rhenanus, printer's woodcut device on title, large historiated woodcut initials, sprinkled single wormholes to opening leaves (reducing to 1 or 2 later), quite extensive marginal annotations in Latin (and 8 small ink sketches) in several hands, contemporary blindstamped and gilt calf over wooden boards, gilt-stamped 'Opera Tertuliani' on upper cover, and with four 'acorn' devices on each cover, brass corner-pieces, clasps and catches (without straps), old paper label on spine, extremities of spine refurbished [Adams T406], folio (300 x 202mm.), Basel, Froben, 1528This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

WOOD (ROBERT)The Ruins of Palmyra, Otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart, FIRST EDITION, 57 engraved plates (one on 3 sheets joined), after G.B. Borra, 3 full-page engraved illustrations of inscriptions, light spotting to title, short tear repaired to plate 32, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, red morocco gilt spine label, rubbed [Fowler 443; Harris 939], folio (575 x 380mm.), [no publisher], 1753This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

BACON (FRANCIS)The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, FIRST EDITION, first issue, engraved portrait frontispiece, title within woodcut architectural border, without initial blank, a little very light dampstaining, early ink marginalia, nineteenth century polished calf [ESTC S1406; Gibson 116a], W. Stansby for M. Lownes and W. Barret, 1622--[CAMDEN (WILLIAM)] The Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, 4 parts in one vol., lacks frontispiece and 2 leaves of Table, title browned and repaired, burn-hole in 4 leaves with loss of a few words, a handful of wormholes, 2 leaves of Table frayed, modern morocco [ESTC S4171], B. Fisher, 1630--[RENAUDOT (EUSEBE)] A General Collection of Discourses of the Virtuosi of France, imprimatur leaf, without final blank, light toning, modern half sheep [ESTC R1662], T. Dring and J. Starkey, 1664--The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, imprimatur leaf, first few leaves creased, last few with light waterstain, paper flaw on B1 touching page number, bookplate of John Fowles, modern half morocco [ESTC T51985], J. Tonson, 1710; and 4 others, folio and 4to (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION[The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New], New Testament title within wide woodcut border, black letter, double column, calendar and almanac printed in red and black, with Speed's 'Genealogies', lacks general title (A1), final leaf with loss of a couple of letters of headline and touching 3 letters of text, lower fore-corners of 35 leaves (including 8 preliminaries and 21 at end) strengthened with old paper (no loss of text but 2 side-notes obscured), small stain to 5G2, contemporary calf, worn with some loss to extremities of spine and lower cover [ESTC S122467; Herbert 353], folio (403 x 280mm.), Robert Barker, 1617This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

BLAKE (WILLIAM)Illustrations of the Book of Job, engraved title and 21 engraved plates on India paper (without the word 'Proof'), mounted on heavy unwatermarked wove, sheets numbered at corners in pencil, sheet of plate 20 creased and strengthened at upper right corner, loose in solander box by J. & S. Brockman [Bentley 421B; Keynes 55], folio (510 x 345mm.), William Blake, 8 March 1825 [but 1874]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

CALVERT (EDWARD)[CALVERT (SAMUEL)] A Memoir of Edward Calvert Artist by His Third Son. Illustrated with Reproductions of His Own Paintings and Sketches, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 32 OF 350 COPIES, SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE AUTHOR, half-title, frontispiece portrait, 34 plates on 31 sheets after Calvert, 45 illustrations in the text, occasional light spotting and toning, one or two plates working loose, publisher's buckram gilt with ticket of 'Leighton Son and Hodges' inside lower cover, t.e.g., folio (370 x 270mm.), Sampson Low, 1893This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

EVELYN (JOHN)Autograph letter signed ('J Evelyn'), to his wife ('My Deare'), subscribing himself 'Deare, Deare, Yr most affectionate Husband & humble servant', opening: 'I am just now ariv'd from Hampton-Court, where his Majestie gave me so kind a reception as I could not have desired a more gracious: The Duke of Albemarle presenting me to the King, he ran to me, & giving me his hand to Kisse, told me he was heartily glad he had me Safe; & twise, using this expression, as I am an honest man, I have been in care for you; I have pitied you; I have been I tell you realy troubled for that employment; I am much beholden to you for your good Service:- Upon which I reply'd, that for ther danger I did not consider it, so the performance of my duty might answer his Majesties gracious opinion of me; He told me, he was highly satisfied, & that I had exceedingly oblig'd him: I use his Majesties very ex[ressions as neere as I can recall them: after this I had the honor to entertaine him quite alone concerning severall particulars relating to my service for neere 3 quarters of an hour, & after that twise more in privat dissimissing me with a Command to waite on him on Thursday at Whitehall, where I find I shall receive orders for my grand Project of an Infirmary to be built at Chatham, & divers other affairs, that I am like to be engag'd in: After this the Duke of Yorke came to me of his owne accord; & gave me likewise his hand to Kisse, with many most obliging expressions for the good Service I had don him & the King, then came my Lord: Arlington, Sir William Coventry, & a full Crowd of other Greate Persons to salute me; but none with more ceremony, compliment & wonderfull expressions of Kindnesse, than my Lord of St Albans who is wont (you know) to over looke all the World: Thus I passd from one, to another, halfe pull'd to pieces for joy, & at last I came away, a Squire as pure as ever I went. To my no small contentment, though I was once or twise affraid of making you a Lady; but (thank God) I got dextrously off'; integral address leaf ('For Mrs Evelyn, at/ Geo: Evelyns Esqr his house in [paraph] Wotton'), contemporary or early dockets ('From J. E. the 29 Jan 65/ [in different hand] to Mrs Evelyn/ his reception by the K. & Duke of York at Hampton Court./ Escaped being Knighted'); fine impression in red wax of a signet-seal showing [?] Pomona standing by a fruit-laden tree with a basket in her right hand, 2 pages plus integral address-leaf, with small seal-tear, some damp and other staining, especially to integral leaf, professionally restored and overall in attractive condition, folio, Sayes Court [Deptford], 29 January 1665/66

FLORIO (JOHN)Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues... Whereunto are added Certaine Necessarie Rules and Short Observations for the Italian Tongue, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials and headpieces, lacking portrait, without first and last blanks and blank 3F4, G1 torn and repaired with a little obscured text supplied in manuscript, 3L4 torn and repaired with some loss, chip to upper corner of title, a few other marginal paper repairs, modern half morocco [ESTC S121353], folio (280 x 178mm.), Melch. Bradwood for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

HOLME (RANDOLPH)The Academy of Armory, or, a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved decorative title, 3 engraved plates on 2 sheets (as in Huntington copy), numerous full-page engraved illustrations, short tear to final preliminary leaf, 2 small holes touching a couple of letters on final 'To the Reader' leaf, additional title neatly re-inserted, some toning and spotting, modern panelled calf, gilt morocco lettering label, spine faded [ESTC R21065], folio (365 x 230mm.), Chester, for the Author, 1688This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

JONSON (BEN)The Works... to Which is Added a Comedy, Called The New Inn. With Additions Never Before Published, third folio edition, engraved frontispiece portrait by William Elder after Robert Vaughan, woodcut ornaments on title, old pencil scribble on A3 (and the laurel of portrait touched), lower fore-margin of the opening 40 or so leaves softened with small loss not affecting letters, 4 leaves toned, contemporary reverse calf, worn [ESTC R15282; Pforzheimer 561; Wing J1006], H. Herringman, E. Brewster [and others], 1692--DRYDEN (JOHN, translator) The Works of Virgil... Translated into English Verse; by Mr. Dryden, issue with cancel title printed in red and black (small hole repaired), engraved allegorical frontispiece (laid down, small area of loss to image), 101 engraved plates (a few shaved), light spotting, early half calf, worn [ESTC R26296], Jacob Tonson, 1697, folio (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

LIVIUS (TITUS)The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, large woodcut device on title, woodcut portraits of Queen Elizabeth I on verso of title and of Livy on [A]4v, without initial or final blanks, title strengthened on verso without obscuring portrait, occasional pink spots, a few side-notes shaved, wormhole at foot of 150 leaves, repairs to first 3 gatherings and 6F3-5 touching a few words, 6E6 with margin repair, paper flaw on 5V4 affecting text, modern calf [ESTC S114001; Pforzheimer 495], folio (300 x 200mm.), Adam Islip, 1600This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

MONTAIGNE (MICHEL EYQUEM DE)The Essayes or Morall, Politike and Militarie Discourses, 3 parts in one vol., third edition of John Florio's translation, additional engraved title, with letterpress leaf of explanation, library stamp on verso of engraved title, a few leaves resized, library bookplate, modern quarter roan, rubbed [ESTC S114977], folio (280 x 170mm.), M. Flesher for R. Royston, 1632This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

SPENSER (EDMUND)The Works, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, short tear at blank gutter margin of frontispiece, contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt, joints worn [ESTC R7177], small folio, Jonathan Edwin, 1679--LOCKE (JOHN) The Works, 3 vol., fifth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and dedication leaf, contemporary calf, gilt morocco spine labels, worn with loss of 2 headbands, S. Birt, and others, 1751--JONSON (BEN) The Works, 9 vol., engraved frontispiece, calf by Bickers & Son, red and black morocco spine labels, worn with small losses to a couple of spines, 8vo, Bickers, 1875 (13)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

DALI (SALVADOR)Dali illustra Casanova, NUMBER 999 OF 1500 COPIES, 13 offset lithographs in colours, 7 illustrations after drawings in the text, metal plaque with copy details inside upper cover, publisher's binding of maroon velvet, with central metal medallion on upper cover, with original gilt metal double-S scroll stand on rectangular transparent perspex base, folio (475 x 330mm.), Rome, Delfino Press, [1980]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

GIACOMETTI (ALBERTO)Paris sans fin, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 157 OF 250 COPIES, with the artist's signature stamp, 'sur velin d'Arches' paper, 150 lithographs by Giacometti, loose as issued in publisher's printed wrappers, glassine wrappers, cloth chemise and slipcase, folio (422 x 320mm.), Paris, Tériade, 1969This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

GRIS (JUAN)REVERDY (PAUL) Au soleil du plafond, NUMBER 142 OF 220 COPIES, SIGNED BY REVERDY on the colophon, printed 'sur vélin des papeteries d'Arches', 11 coloured lithographed plates by Gris (after gouaches produced in 1920), text comprises facsimile of twenty handwritten poems by Reverdy, some offsetting on text, loose as issued in publisher's wrappers, design after Gris on upper cover, glassine covering, chemise and slipcase (slightly worn), folio (425 x 325mm.), Paris, Tériade, 1955This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

LE CORBUSIERPoème de l'angle droit, NUMBER 94 OF 270 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST in pencil on the colophon leaf, 19 colour lithographed plates hors-texte, text and illustrations (some colour-printed) also by Le Corbusier, an invitation card to the book launch exhibition at La Galerie Berggruen (22 November 1955) loosely inserted, some offsetting throughout, loose as issued in publisher's stiff wrappers with colour lithographed upper cover designed by Le Corbusier, publisher's chemise with lettering on spine, slipcase, folio (425 x 320mm.), Paris, Tériade, 1955This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

LÉGER (FERNAND)Cirque. Lithographies originales, NUMBER 161 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the justification leaf, 63 lithographs (34 printed in colours), all printed 'sur Velin d'Arches' wove paper, the title and text by Léger, some light offsetting, loose as issued in publisher's stiff pictorial wrappers designed by Léger, glassine over-wrappers, original chemise with printed spine label, and slipcase (slightly worn and soiled), folio (425 x 320mm.), Paris, Tériade, [1950]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

MAN RAYAlphabet pour adultes, NUMBER 106 OF 150 COPIES printed on 'grand vélin d'Arches', from an overall edition of 180, SIGNED BY MAN RAY on the colophon, rayograph with colour silkscreen mounted on wood panel as issued, signed and numbered on image, 37 offset lithograph plates (including pictorial title), loose as issued in pictorial wrappers, original bright orange solander box, folio (330 x 280mm.), Paris, Pierre Belfond, 1970This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

MATTA (ROBERTO)Como detta dentro vo significado, ONE OF 25 COPIES 'sur Japon nacré', this copy 'A' of 5 hors commerce copies reserved for the artist, from a total edition of 125 copies, 16 etchings with aquatint (3 double-page) printed in colours, with an extra suite of 16 etchings on pearl Japan paper, ALL SIGNED BY THE ARTIST in pencil beneath the image, 6 smaller etchings (2 printed in colours), tissue guards, unstitched as issued in publisher's wrappers (slightly toned), cloth chemise and slipcase, folio (460 x 380mm.), Lausanne, Meyer, 1962This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

MIRO (JOAN)CHAR (RENÉ) Le marteau sans maître, NUMBER 25 OF 125 COPIES 'sur grand vélin d'Arches', from an overall edition of 175 copies SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the colophon, 23 etchings with aquatint in colours by Miro (some double-page, 2 with off-setting onto image, some offsetting onto text), prospectus loosely inserted, loose as issued in publisher's stiff grey wrappers, original solander box (slightly scuffed), folio (452 x 358mm.), [Paris], Au vent d'Arles, 1976This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

NICHOLSON (WILLIAM)Twelve Portraits, 12 colour-printed plates tipped onto card, title-page frayed with small losses at fore-margins, loose as issued in publisher's portfolio (soiled, lacks ties), publisher's cloth portfolio, soiled, lacks ties, folio, William Heinemann, 1899; An Almanac of Twelve Sports, 12 colour-printed plates, text body detached, publisher's cloth-backed boards, worn, 4to, R.H. Russell, 1898 (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Regulations Affecting the Sanitary Condition of the Army, the Organization of Military Hospitals, and the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded; with Evidence and Appendix, 6 folding graphs, 5 folding lithographed diagrams printed in colour, contemporary 4-page part summary on House of commons paper loosely inserted, publisher's blue printed wrappers, upper cover and edges of lower reinforced with cellophane, folio, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, for her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1858This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

PICASSO (PABLO)ILIAZD, Pseudonym of ILIA ZDANEVICH. Pismo [in Russian], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES 'sur Japon ancien', from an overall edition of 66 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO and the author on the colophon leaf, 6 etchings or engravings (including pictorial title) by Picasso, tissue guards, paper toning and some offsetting to endpapers and blank leaves but contents clean, loose as issued in parchment wrappers (the title etching repeated on the upper cover) with card insert, original additional protective paper wrappers with title printed on upper cover, stiff parchment envelope [Bloch 462-467; Baer 784-788; Cramer Books 48], folio (378 x 250mm.), Paris, Latitud curanta y uno, [1948]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

PICASSO (PABLO)[Poèmes et lithographies], NUMBER 46 OF 50 COPIES, from an overall edition of 52 copies, SIGNED BY PICASSO on the justification leaf, 14 lithographed plates by Picasso (juxtaposing images and text), on 'Vélin d'Arches' wove paper, each numbered '46/50' in pencil in corner, with the printer's signature on the verso, justification leaf toned, loose in original half cloth portfolio, ties with some loss [Cramer Books 69; Bloch I, 615-628], folio (665 x 510mm.), [Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, 1954]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

PICASSO (PABLO)Picasso. Venti pochoirs originali, NUMBER 144 OF 200 COPIES, text by Franco Russoli, 20 colour pochoir plates after Picasso, with numbered tissue guards, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, original cellophane wrappers, folio ( 395 x 295mm.), Milan, Silvana, [1955]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

PICASSO (PABLO)Les Bleus de Barcelone, NUMBER 158 OF 500 COPIES, introduction by Jaime Sabartes, half-title, 11 colour plates after Picasso tipped onto thick card, pencil limitation on each, one illustration after a drawing of Sabartes, loose as issued in wrappers and pictorial cloth solander box, folio (545 x 420mm.), Paris, au Vent d'Arles, 1963This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

PICASSO (PABLO)[MERIMÉE (PROSPER)] Les Carmen des Carmen, NUMBER 208 OF 245 COPIES 'sur Arches', from an overall edition of 275, signed by Picasso (in red pencil) and Aragon on the colophon, SUITE OF 5 ORIGINAL PRINTS BY PICASSO, comprising a colour lithograph, a drypoint etching, and 3 aquatints, each numbered in pencil '208/245', plates, marginal illustrations and decorations (some in colour) by Picasso, loose as issued in publisher's stiff wrappers, original jute-covered solander box, lettered in red on spine, slightly rubbed and split at joint [Cramer 126; Monod 8045], folio (358 x 260mm.), Paris, Editeurs Francais Réunis, 1964This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

ALLIX (SUSAN)STRUTT (ARTHUR JOHN) A South Italian Journey, NUMBER 20 OF 30 COPIES, 33 intaglio and relief plates (various techniques) by Susan Allix, most in colours, full citron goatskin by Susan Allix, covers with goatskin and calf coloured onlays, original solander box, with morocco lettering label on spine, folio, S.J. Allix, 1985This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • AR

AYRTON (MICHAEL)Minotaur. Ten Etchings, NUMBER 16 OF 75 COPIES, signed by the artist on the colophon, 10 original etchings by Michael Ayrton, each signed and numbered by the artist, printed on 140lb Saunders Imperial mould-made paper, tissue guards, sheet size 735 x 520mm., loose as issued in original solander box, printed title label on upper cover, rubbed, large folio, [Studio Prints, 1971]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

BECKETT (SAMUEL)The North, NUMBER 103 OF 137 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on J. Barcham Green hand-made paper, 3 etched plates by Avigdor Arikha, each signed by the artist, loose as issued in publisher's blindstamp wrappers, cloth chemise and slipcase, folio, [Printed by the Rampant Lions Press], for Enitharmon Press, 1972This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

CHAUCER (GEOFFREY)The Works, 2 vol. [Facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer; Companion Volume... by Duncan Robinson], NUMBER 318 OF 500 COPIES, tipped-in plates of Burne-Jones' original designs to the Kelmscott Chaucer, publisher's decorative cloth, slipcase, folio, Basilisk Press, 1975This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

ELIOT (T.S.)Four Quartets, NUMBER 250 OF 290 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, publisher's vellum-backed marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, original matching slipcase [Gallup A43c], small folio, [Verona, Officina Bodoni for Faber & Faber, 1960]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

ELIOT (T.S.)The Waste Land, NUMBER 143 OF 300 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, publisher's vellum-backed marbled boards, in original matching slipcase (short split at 2 corners) [Gallup A6d], folio, [Verona, Officina Bodoni, for Faber & Faber, 1961]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

GILL (ERIC)CHAUCER (GEOFFREY) Troilus and Criseyde, NUMBER 156 OF 225 COPIES, printed in red, blue and black, wood-engraved illustrations and decorations by Eric Gill, original quarter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., a few small spots on spine [Chanticleer 50], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

GILL (ERIC)The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I, NUMBER 329 OF 500 COPIES, 65 wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Gill, original half pigskin over buckram by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., light soiling to spine, original slipcase [Chanticleer 78], folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1931This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

GILL (ERIC)SKELTON (CHRISTOPHER) The Engravings of Eric Gill, 3 vol. (including portfolio), NUMBER 78 OF 85 SPECIAL COPIES, with 8 additional woodcut prints taken from the original woodblocks, each window-mounted as issued in cloth portfolio, numerous illustrations, publisher's quarter morocco, together in original slipcase, folio, Wellingborough, Christopher Skelton, 1983This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

[HUGHES-STANTON (BLAIR)]MILTON (JOHN) Four Poems, NUMBER 158 OF 250 COPIES, wood-engraved illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, publisher's decorative red morocco, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1933--THEOCRITUS. Sixe Idylia... Translated in English Verse, 2 vol. (including portfolio), ONE OF 135 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, with 'a set of signed prints in final state', from an overall edition of 417 copies, 8 etched plates by Anthony Gross, additional suite signed loose as issued in solander box, half, Clover Hill/Chilmark Press, 1971--MACKLEY (GEORGE) Engraved in the Wood. A Collection of Wood Engravings by George Mackley with an Appreciation by Ruari Maclean, NUMBER 44 OF 300 COPIES, 68 wood-engraved plates loose as issued in folder, text quarter morocco, together in solander box, Two-Horse Press, [1968], Printed by the Rampant Lions Press; Monica Poole Wood Engraver, ONE OF 50 COPIES with fourteen additional engravings and specially bound, from an overall edition of 300, signed by Poole and the editor, Florin Press, 1984; idem, another copy, NUMBER 103 OF 250 standard copies, cloth-backed boards, 1984--POOLE (MONICA) The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh, NUMBER 13 OF 110 COPIES, signed by the author, original woodcut proof plate loosely inserted inside lower cover, Gresham, 1985--Margaret Wells. A Selection of Her Wood Engravings, ONE OF 30 COPIES WITH AN ADDITIONAL SIGNED WOODCUT loosely inserted in wallet at end, from an overall edition of 200, Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1985--SMITH (RICHARD SHIRLEY) Wood Engravings. A Selection, 1960-1977... With a Foreword by Laurence Whistler, NUMBER 54 OF 180 COPIES, signed by the author, Cuckoo Hill Press, 1983; idem, another copy, 1983, unless otherwise stated publisher's quarter morocco, slipcase, 8vo and small folio; and 9 others (19)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •

JONES (DAVID)The Chester Play of the Deluge, NUMBER XXIV OF 80 COPIES 'on Barcham Green hand-made paper... numbered I to LXXX, bound in quarter morocco, with a separate set of the wood-engravings on japon', from an overall edition of 337, 10 wood-engraved illustrations, additional suite of engravings loose as issued in cloth chemise, the text in publisher's morocco-backed marbled boards, together in slipcase, folio, [Printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press], for Clover Hill, 1977This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •