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Book of Hours (Use of Rome). Illuminated manuscript on prepared parchment in Latin, Northern France or Flanders, circa 1450, 84 x 61 mm, 132 folios: 12 leaves of manuscript calendar at front, 118 leaves of text and illuminations, and one blank ruled leaf at end (complete), plus single 19 th century parchment blank at front and two similar parchment blanks at end, 19 th century red morocco-faced parchment endpapers (rear endpaper with 19 th century printed ownership label of R. Robertson Glasgow of Montgreenan to recto), calendar with 17 lines per page in red and brown ink, ruled in red, with small initial to each month in liquid gold, blue, pink, and black pen outlines, heightened with white, main text with 15 lines per page in brown ink in a gothic textualis bookhand, with capitals in blue and red, or gold with pen-flourishing in red and black, numerous small two-line initials in liquid gold, blue, red, white and black, TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUMINATED MINIATURES in gold and colours, bordered in black, white and gold, with outer borders of foliage in black and green, and leaves and flowers in gold, green, blue, orange or red, each miniature with facing page of manuscript text in brown and red ink, with illuminated vertical border to the right in gold, red, blue and white outlined in black, decorated small initials in gold and blue, and large historiated five-line initial in gold, blue, red, green, pink and white, outer borders of foliage in black, gold, blue, red, green, pink, occasional light toning and handling marks to margins, generally in very good condition with no obvious defects, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles to inside covers with a pale green inset morocco panel to each, fine mid-19 th century elaborately gilt decorated red morocco (unsigned), lettered in gilt to spine Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae, binding measures 9 x 6.7 cm (3.5 x 2.65 ins), housed in dark olive green morocco slipcase, similarly lettered to spine, a little rubbed (Qty: 1)Contents: Calendar (folios 1-12), Hours of the Cross (folios 14-17), Mass for the Blessed Virgin Mary (folios 19-30), Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary- Matins (folios 32-50), Lauds (folios 52-63), Prime (folios 65-68), Terce (folios 70-73), Sext (folios 75-77), Nones (folios 79-82), Vespers (folios 84-89), Compline (folios 91-95), Seven Penitential Psalms (folios 97-114), and Office of the Dead, (folios 116-131). Illuminations: Crucifixion (folio 13), Coronation of the Virgin (folio 18), Annunciation (folio 31), Visitation (folio 51), Nativity (folio 64), Annunciation to the Shepherds (folio 69), Adoration of the Magi (folio 74), Presentation (folio 78), Massacre of the Innocents (folio 83), Flight into Egypt (folio 90), Judgement Day (folio 96), and Mass for the Dead (folio 115). Provenance: Northern France or Flanders, given the names of saints (or bishops) in the calendar associated with towns in southern Flanders and the adjacent northern border of France, and from the preponderance of female martyrs, probably produced for a female lay owner. The partially filled calendar includes the feast days of, among others, Blaise (3 February), Bridget (1 February), Agatha (5 February), Macaire (9 May), Pudentiana (19 May), Bernard of Clairvaux (20 August), Bishop Hubert of Liege (6 September), Lambert of Liege (17 September), Saint Remy or Remigius of Rheims (1 October), Dionysius (9 October), Bishop Martin of Tours (11 November), Saint Eloi or Eligius (1 December), and Barbara (4 December). Eligius for example was appointed Bishop of Noyon-Tournai in 642, and worked for twenty years to convert the pagan population of Flanders to Christianity. Nineteenth-century ownership label at rear of Robert Robertson Glasgow (1811-1860), who inherited Montgreenan, North Ayrshire, Scotland in 1845 from his father Robert Robertson, a physician and owner of plantations in St Vincent (Montgreenan and Sans Souci). Attractive and complete near-miniature book of hours, small enough to hold in the palm of one’s hand, designed for private devotion from Northern France or Flanders.

Blow (John ). Amphion Anglicus. A Work of Many Compositions, For One, Two, Three and Four Voices: with sevral accompagnements of Instrumental Music; and a Thorow-Bass to each Song: figur’d for an Organ, Harpsichord, or Theorboe-Lute, printed by William Pearson, for the Author, 1700, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, title printed in red and black, preliminary leaves and 216 pages (portrait, a-b2, a-b2, unsigned advertisement leaf with Table of Songs to verso, B-Z2, Aa-Zz2, Aaa-Iii2), short closed marginal tear to foot of title, generally a good, clean copy, small pale green oval ownership stamp of B. F. Leavens to title and first leaf of dedication, later endpapers, 20 th century olive green plain morocco with red gilt morocco spine label, spine and head of upper cover faded to brown, folio (32 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: Benjamin Franklin Leavens (1817-1850), American church composer and author of The Service of Song (Boston, 1849). Day & Murrie, English Song-Books 1651-1702, 183; Wing B3353. The English composer John Blow (1649-1708) was organist at Westminster Abbey, a post he generously passed to his pupil Henry Purcell in 1679, until he resumed the role following Purcell’s untimely death in 1695. Blow’s music, alongside that of other English Baroque composers, has undergone a significant revival in recent decades, led particularly in England by Anthony Rooley with the Consort of Musicke, and Peter Holman and the Parley of Instruments. His Amphion Anglicus brings together both sacred and secular songs in a single publication, and is modelled on Purcell’s own collection of 1698, Orpheus Britannicus .

Remmelin (Johann, & Michael Spaher of Tyrol). A Survey of the Microcosme: or, The Anatomy of the Bodies of Man and Woman. Wherein the skin, veins, arteries, nerves, muscles, viscera, bones and ligaments thereof are accurately delineated, and so disposed by pasting, as that all aparts of the said bodies, both internal and external, are exactly represented in their proper site. Useful for all physicians, chyrurgeons, statuaries, painters, &c., corrected by Clopton Havers, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Society, 2nd edition, printed for Dan. Midwinter, and Tho. Leigh at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's-Church-Yard, 1702, printed title, engraved plate of the human body showing the skin and veins, 3 engraved plates or 'visio', with moveable parts, and 4 pages of description for the plates, generally in good condition, and understood to be complete with all hinged overlays, some light soiling to margins, first leaf of descriptive text with short closed tear to lower blank margin, without loss, not affecting text, contemporary marbled boards, heavily rubbed and marked, slim square folio (sheet size 42 x 32 cm/16.5 x 12.5 ins) (Qty: 1)ESTC T147736. Russell 697. A translation of the Catoptrum Microcosmici of 1613, and revised by Clopton Havers, the present work is one of the most elaborate large-scale early books with moveable parts, allowing the reader to learn human anatomy interactively with their own hands and eyes. The 'Microcosme' refers to the classical notion of the human body as a microcosm of the universe. The plates employ an ingenious system of overlays to reveal the successive anatomical features of the human body.

Hills (Henry, junior, printer). Sammelband of 30 poetry pamphlets, all but one Henry Hills pirate editions, 1708-10, including: Addison (Joseph), A Letter from Italy to the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Halifax, 1709, [ Dryden, John], The Medal. A Satyr against Sedition, 1709, [ ibid.], Lucretius ... With an Ode in Memory of ... Mrs. Ann Killigrew, 1709, ibid., Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem, 1709, [Gay, John], Wine. A Poem. To which is added, Old England's New Triumph: Or, the Battle of Audenard. A Song, 1709, [Gould, Robert], Love given over: or, a Satyr against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy, etc., of Woman. With Sylvia's Revenge, 1710, [Swift, Jonathan], Baucis and Philemon ... Together with Mrs. Harris's Earnest Petition: and an Admirable Recipe. As also an Ode upon Solitude: by the Earl of Roscommon, 1710, and 23 others, by John Philips, William Plaxton, Edward Ward, and other authors, variable browning, pagination shaved in a few leaves, price effaced from The Medal title-page, the paper worn through, one work (Philips's Pastorals, 1710) a little chipped in lower margins and with a long closed tear in leaf A7, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and relined, 8vo (17.8 x 10.6 cm) (Qty: 1)Foxon A40, D460, D458, D455, G92, G231, S803; Rothschild 2006-7 and Teerink 522 for Swift. 'Hills's notoriety stemmed from his activities during 1708–9 when he pirated a multitude of short literary works (including pieces by Dryden, Rochester, Congreve, Defoe, and Swift) and sermons—all sold very cheaply and claiming to be published for the benefit of the poor' (ODNB). He died in 1712, and in 1717 a number of his remainders were re-issued as A Collection of the Best English Poetry (1717). Wine was John Gay's first publication. The first edition, printed in 1708 by William Keble, in folio format, is famously rare.

Oudin (César). A Grammar, Spanish and English ... Composed in French ... the third time corrected and augmented. English, and of many Wants supplied, by J. W. who hath also translated out of Spanish the five Dialogues of Juan de Luna, 1st edition in English, printed by John Haviland for Edward Blount, 1622, shallow chip and closed tear in leaf F4, quires P-V damp-stained, early ownership inscription ('Marshall') to title-page, Latin ownership inscription ('Sum è libri Guilielmi Rowland') to rear blank, later sheep, red morocco spine-label, 8vo (16.6 x 10 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC S113559 (tracing nine copies in UK libraries); STC 18897. With its octavo format and lack of overt ornamentation, this English translation of Oudin's grammar was evidently intended as an alternative to the elaborate folio publications of Minsheu and Perceval, and contains, Florio-style, a selection from Juan de Luna's Dialogos familiares.

Helmin (Margaretha). Kunst-und Fleiss-übende Nadel-Ergötzungen; oder, neu-erfundenes Neh-und Stick-Buch. Worin dem, solche schöne wissenschafftliebendem, Frauenzimmer, allerhand, zu vielen Sachen anständige, Muster und Risse, nach der neuesten Façon, zu deren nützlichen bedienung, [with Part II. Fortgesetzter... & Part III. Continuantio...], 3 parts in one, 1st edition, Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel, circa 1725, 156 copper engraved plates, 59 folding, three engraved titles within floral wreath frame, the first with armorial bookplate on verso, each part with two letterpress leaves, occasional minor toning, spotting, and edge-creasing, numerous tears and repairs, some plates trimmed and re-guarded, page block 19.5 x 31cm, modern brown half calf, gilt decorated spine with raised bands, oblong folio (Qty: 1)Margaretha Helmin (1659-1742), also known as Margaretha Helm, was a German embroiderer, teacher and skilled copper plate engraver working in Nurembuerg, who created plates of her many embroidery designs. This substantial work contains a plethora of beautiful designs, to be worked in varying techniques, for household linen and clothing, e.g. fans, shoes and slippers, gloves, stomachers, borders, night caps, jackets, neckerchiefs, muffs, neck linen, gown hems, hats, bags, aprons, tassels, saddle cloths, and book covers. This volume was purchased by Martin Orskey at Sotheby's in 1968, apart from which no other copy has been seen at auction. The V&A has a copy of the work in its collections.

Johnson (Charles). A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, &c. from the famous Sir John Falstaff in the Reign of K. Henry IV, 1399 to 1733. To which is added a Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the most Notorious Pyrates. Interspersed with diverting Tales, and pleasant Songs, printed for and sold by Olive Payne, 1736, A-6K2: title, single leaf of introduction, 3-484, unnumbered index leaf at end, 26 engraved plates (including frontispiece) by Basire, Bowles, Toms, Pritchard and Atkins after Joseph Nicholls and William Jett, title printed in red and black, wide-margined copy, sheet size 37.5 x 24.5 cm (14.75 x 9.6 ins), occasional light spot to margins (generally a very good, clean copy), all edges gilt, gilt ruling to inside covers, gilt-decoration to edges of covers, fine early-19th-century full straight-grained brown morocco gilt by Fairbairn & Armstrong, with binder’s stamp to gutter of inside front cover, oval coat-of-arms of George Agar Ellis to centre of each cover, additional bookplates of Theodore Williams, Charles George Milnes Gaskell and Cortlandt F. Bishop to front pastedown and front endpaper, and engraved bookplate of Ellis & Smith Print Sellers, Romney House, 16B Grafton Street, London to front endpaper, some light spotting to covers, joints rubbed and with some light wear (upper joint tender and cracking at foot), folio (Qty: 1)Provenance: Reverend Theodore Williams (1785-1826). His ‘Splendid and Valuable Library’ was sold over 15 days in April 1827 by Stewart, Wheatley & Adlard. Honourable George Agar Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (1797–1833). Charles George Milnes Gaskell (1842–1919), English lawyer and Liberal Party politician. Cortlandt Field Bishop (1870–1935), American pioneer aviator and book collector. ESTC T112552; NMM IV 275; Sabin 36195. Nothing is known of the author Captain Charles Johnson, whose name is thus generally regarded as a pseudonym. The work has been attributed to Daniel Defoe, although this was rejected most recently by P. N. Furbank & W. R. Owens (Defoe De-Attributions, 1995, 458). Arne Bialuschewski argues that there is significant evidence that A General History was written by Nathaniel Mist, a sailor, printer and journalist of the early eighteenth century, who also employed Defoe to work on the publication of his Weekly Journal: or, Saturday’s Post. The 1724 first edition was registered with the Stationers Company on 24 June ‘for Nathaniel Mist’.(See Daniel Defoe, Nathaniel Mist, and the General History of the Pyrates, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America ,volume 98, number 1, March 2004, pp. 21-38). Adapted from two earlier collections, Alexander Smith’s History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highwaymen (1714), and Charles Johnson’s own General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (1724), the present work provides the best information on the lives and careers of some of the most famous pirates of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, including Jonathan Wild, Jack Sheppard, Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach, Anne Bonny, and Calico Jack, and displays an accurate knowledge of both sea language and the pirate code. Attractive gilt extra binding by Fairbairn & Armstrong, who dissolved their bookbinding business in 1824.

Poetry. Sammelband of 42 separately published poetry items and related, 1738-40, including: [Swift, Jonathan], Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift. Written by Himself: Nov. 1731, 1st edition, for C. Bathurst, 1739, [2],18pp., vignette with cockerel on title, publisher’s advert at foot of final page, bound with The Jew’s Complaint , or, The Christian Whore, for W. Lloyd, 1738, 10pp., bound with Hill (John), Orpheus: an English Opera, for John Clarke, 1740, 7,[1],16,[2]pp., lower outer blank corners of final four leaves including advert leaf torn with loss, final page dust-soiled, bound with ‘Translation of the Latin Epitaph, published in Old Common Sense, Feb. 3 1738’, [London? 1738?], 2 copies, single sheet broadside, double column parallel translation, verso blank, bound with 37 other poetry publications, all published 1738-40, many anonymous and many published by Thomas Cooper or Charles Bathurst, contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine with six raised bands, rubbed, slight wear to extremities, lacks spine label (titled ‘Collection of Poems’), folio (33.5 x 21 cm) (Qty: 1)Full list in bound order: 1) [Delany, Patrick], Longford’s-Glyn, or the Willow and the Brook; a True History, Faithfully Translated from the Irish Original, 2nd edition, for Charles Bathurst, 1739, [4],11,[1]pp. Foxon D201. 2) [Pilkington, Laetitia], The Statues: or, the Trial of Constancy. A Tale for the Ladies, for T. Cooper, 1739, 18pp., lacks final blank. Foxon P279; Rothschild 223. 3) The Year of Wonders, Being a Literal and Poetical Translation of an Old Latin Prophecy, Found near Merlin’s Cave, by S[tephe]n D[uc]k, Printed and Sold by J. Johnson, 1737, 6pp, lacks final blank, small tear with loss to upper blank outer corner of final leaf, uncut. Foxon Y14. 4) Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-nine. Or, the Modern P——S, a Satire, for T. Reynolds, 1739, 8pp . Foxon S354; Rothschild 221-2. 5) [Swift, Jonathan], Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift. Written by Himself: Nov. 1731, 1st edition, for C. Bathurst, 1739, [2],18pp., vignette with cockerel on title, publisher’s advert at foot of final page. Foxon S290; Rothschild 2166-8; Teerink 771. 6) Whitehead (Paul), Manners: A Satire, [reimpression], for R. Dodsley, 1739, [ 2],17,[1]pp., no type flowers between title and text on p. 3. Foxon W418. 7) Meredith (James), Manners Decypher’d. A Reply to Mr. Whitehead, on his Satire Call’d Manners, for T. Cooper, [1739], [2],12pp., lacks final advert leaf. Foxon M189. 8) Characters: An Epistle to Alexander Pope Esq; and Mr. Whitehead, for T. Cooper, 1739. 15,[1]pp. Foxon C129. 9) Epidemical Madness: A Poem in Imitation of Horace, for J. Brindley, 1739, 16pp. Foxon E345. 10) Solitude. An Irregular Ode, Inscribed to a Friend, for L. Gilliver and J. Clark, 1738, 15,[1]pp. Foxon S552. 11 & 42) ‘Translation of the Latin Epitaph, published in Old Common Sense, Feb. 3 1738’, [London? 1738?], single sheet broadside, double column parallel translation, verso blank. ESTC 51588. 12) L[or]d B[olingbro]ke’s Speech upon the Convention, for Jacob Littleton, 1739, 7,[1]pp., uncut. Foxon L80. 13) The Green-Cloth: or, the Verge of the Court. An Epistle to a Friend, by Mr. W——d [probably Paul Whitehead], for F. Noble and J. Boydel, 1739, 18pp. Foxon G276. 14) The Tit-Bit. A Tale, for T. Cooper, 1738, 8pp . Foxon T320. 15) A Congratulatory Poem: Humbly Inscribed to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, on the Conclusion of the Convention between their Majesties of Great-Britain and Spain, for J. Brett, 1739, 8pp . Foxon C349. 16) Meredith (James), An Essay on the Divine Attributes…, for J. Hawkins, 1738, 18,[2]pp., two lines manuscript errata at foot of final page, advert leaf at rear (verso blank). Foxon M188. 17) A Hopeful Convention Agreed Upon, and Design’d for the Benefit of Trade. An Inconceivable Curious Medley, for M. Watson, [1739], [5],8-18pp. Foxon H306. 18) E[dinburg]h’s Instructions to their Member, for Patrick Ramsay, 1739, 7,[1]pp. Foxon E24. 19) Achilles to Chiron. By the Right Honourable Lady **** Occasion’d by Reading a Poem, call’d Chiron to Achilles, for Jacob Robinson, 1738, iv,[1],4-8pp. Foxon A16. 20) [Cooke, Thomas], A Rhapsody on Virtue and Pleasure. To the Right Honourable James Reynolds Esq; Late Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, for T. Cooper, 1738, 1 6pp., ‘Price one shilling’ on title. Foxon C422; Rothschild 216. 21) Drake (James), The Lover. A Poem, for T. Cooper, W. Shropshire and T. Gardner, 1739, 15,[1]pp.,. Foxon D424. 22) The Satirists: A Satire. Humbly Inscrib’d to his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, for C. Corbett, [1739], 16pp., no watermark. Foxon S83. 23) A Poetical Essay on Physick. Inscribed to Dr. Pellet, President of the College of Physicians and F.R.S., for T. Cooper, [1740], 16pp . Foxon P703. 24) [D’Urfey, Thomas], The Progress of Honesty: or, A View of the Court and City, for J. Brett, 1739, 18pp . Foxon D551. 25) Sir R[obert Godschall] Triumphant. A Song Addressed to his Friends. To the Tune of To all you Ladies now at Land, for J. Cooper, 1739, 12pp., uncut. Foxon S473. 26) [Newcomb, Thomas], Vindicta Britannica: An Ode, to the Real Patriot, Occasioned by the Declaration of War against Spain, for C. Corbett, 1740, 12pp., no watermark. Foxon N280. 27) Tickell (Thomas), The Horn-Book, a Poem, by Thomas Tickle, [reissue], for Charles Corbet, [1739], 8pp., with an additional poem ‘Thersites’ on pp. 7-8, uncut. Foxon T302. 28) [Boyd, Elizabeth], Admiral Haddock: or, The Progress of Spain. A Poem, Printed and Sold by J. Applebee, C. Corbett, E. Nutt, E. Cook and M. Bartlett, 1739, [4]3-14pp., advert to half-title verso. Foxon B338. 29) Wharton (Philip), The Fear of Death. An Ode, for John Brett, 1739, [5],2-4pp. Foxon W379. 30) The Popular Convention. A Poem, by the Dutchess of Puddledock, for T. Cooper, 1739, 8pp., uncut. Foxon P997. 31) [West, Gilbert], A Canto of the Fairy Queen. Written by Spenser, Never before Published, for G. Hawkins, 1739, [2],12pp., uncut. Foxon W357. 32) The Church Yard: A Satirical Poem, for T. Cooper, 1739, 19,[1]pp. Foxon C184. 33) [Hay, William, attributed to], Apigrams in Distich, for J. Stagg, 1740, 20pp . Foxon I, p. 239. 34) The Jew’s Complaint, or, The Christian Whore, for W. Lloyd, 1738, 10pp. [not in verse]. ESTC N31599 (locating 2 copies only at the British Library and University of California, Los Angeles); WorldCat locates the British Library copy and two further copies at the National Library of Israel and the Hebrew Union College-JIR, Cincinnati. 35) [Gilbert, Thomas], The First Satire of Juvenal Imitated, for H. Goreham, 1740, 20pp . Foxon G141. 36) Hill (John), Orpheus: an English Opera, for John Clarke, 1740, 7,[1],16,[2]pp., lower outer blank corners of final four leaves including advert leaf torn with loss, final page dust-soiled. 37) Duck (Stephen), Alrick and Isabel: or, The Unhappy Marriage. A Poem, for J. Roberts, 1740, iii,[1],16pp. Foxon D467. 38) [Savage, Richard, attributed to], The Triumph of Beauty: or, The Prude Metamorphos’d, for C. Corbett, 1740, 20pp . Foxon T499. 39) A New Ballad on the Taking of Porto-Bello, by Admiral Vernon, for R. Dodsley, 1740, 7,[1]pp., uncut. Foxon N81. 40) [Lorleach, Mr.], A Satirical Epistle to Mr. Pope, for the Author, 1740, 8pp . Foxon L269. 41) The Convention. An Excellent New Ballad. To which is added, The King of Spain’s Protest, and a New Epitaph, for T. Reynolds, 1739, 5,[1], lacks final leaf (New Epitaph, verso blank), uncut. Foxon C402. 42) duplicate of 12.

Prostitution broadsides. Four broadsides advertising the 'wares' of prostitutes, no publisher or place, possibly Lichfield, circa 1780, drop-head titles: 'The only True List, of those celebrated Sporting Ladies, or Petticoat Amblers, who afford the Bucks and Bloods an amorous Felicity every Evening during the Races', 'An Entire List of all the Sporting Ladies, Entered to run here;-- with a particular Account of their Pedigrees and Performances', 'A True List of the Sporting Ladies', and 'Correct List of the Sporting Ladies, Who are just arriv'd at these Races', all but second incorporating a woodcut illustration at head, each with lines of satirical text printed in a single column describing the attributes of available prostitutes, two broadsides mentioning rates or prices ('Plain, with Ruffles, 5 [shillings]'; 'for a flying stroke, 6d. all night 2s.'), printed on laid paper, versos blank, some spotting, approximately 29 x 17 cm and similar sizes, tipped onto modern paper rectos of a purpose-made album by Bernard Middleton, gilt-titled and decorated red quarter morocco with Cockerell marbled boards and vellum tips, bookplate of Martin & Josephine Orskey, with additional dated ownership signature and binder note dated 1963 to front pastedown, slim folio (Qty: 1)Extremely rare survivals, no other copies of these are recorded by ESTC online which only lists four similar 'sporting ladies' broadsides: 1) 'List of the Sporting Ladies', [Oxford, 1770?], ESTC T41080 (BL and private collection, North America); 2) 'A list of the sporting ladies, who are arrived in Edinburgh, from all different towns in the three kingdoms, to take their pleasure at Kelso races', [Edinburgh?, 1789], ESTC T173516 (NLS only); 3) 'Races extraordinary; or a curious list of sporting ladies: entered to run for a pair of velvet breeches, with golden buttons. The horses belonging to sporting ladies, and jockied by celebrated riding lasses, [Newcastle upon Tyne?, 1800?], ESTC T224875 (BL only); 4) 'A true list of all the sporting ladie's [sic] that are enter'd to run at the present races at Carlisle', [Carlisle, 1775?], ESTC T228508 (BL only). Copac locates two others, a second issue of the Oxford broadside with a suggested date of 1775 (BL), and 'A list of the sporting ladies who is [sic] arrived from all the principal towns in Great Britain and Ireland, to take their pleasure at Leith races, on Monday the 3d June 1776', [Edinburgh, 1776], an 86-line poem in double columns (NLS). The broadsides are 'advertisements' for prostitutes who will be attending unspecified race meetings, but believed by Martin Orskey to originate from Lichfield, Martin having extracted them from a bound volume of chapbooks published in Lichfield in the 1770s. The sheets describe in ribald prose form the various attributes and skills of individual ladies, who are given comical sobriquets such as Jenny Foreyard, Cleopatra Tickleback, Polly Trim, Jenny Spruce and Lucy Pleasant. These names appear on both the second and third broadsides, along with Diana Trapes, a direct reference to the eponymous character and companion to Macheath in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera , first performed and first published in 1728. There is a suggestion that these sporting ladies now trying their 'fortunes in the jockeying trade' came from diverse places in England and Scotland: those formerly 'preparing Fruit to make Wooden drink in Cyder-Land', and those 'From the other side of the Tweed are likewise come a numerous string of brimstones who may be heard of at the Oatmeal Grinder's in Water-Gruel Square … They are all now warranted clear of the Scrub, having been well fumigated since their arrival in England'. In another we are rudely told that Miss Diana G---y and Miss Di-dg-se 'may be heard of at Cunny-Hall, in Cock-Alley'.

Johnson (Thomas) . [Design for Picture Frames, Candelabra, Ceilings, Chimney-Pieces, Clockcases, Girandoles, Metal-work], 1st edition, sold by T. Johnson Carver, at the Golden Boy, 1758, two engraved dedication leaves (one as title, see ESTC), engraved contents leaf, two leaves of letterpress preface, 53 engraved plates by B. Clowes and J. Kirk after designs by Johnson (complete), some light browning and old dampstaining, gilt-titled morocco book label of 'Ann Dixon, Newtown' to front pastedown, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, some wear, cracked on joints, folio (37 x 26.5 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC N483028, locating only three copies (British Library, Avery Library at Colombia, Getty). First edition of the finest and most elaborate English rococo pattern book of Carvers' work, originally issued in parts between 1756 and 1758, and rarely found complete. The first dedication leaf which gives Johnson's address was probably intended as a title, while a second edition with the title One Hundred and Fifty New Designs for Ceilings was published in 1761, and is also scarce.

D'Eisenberg (Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron von). L'Art de Monter a Cheval, ou Description du Manege Moderne, dans sa perfection ... Nouvelle Edition Augmentée d'un Dictionnaire des Termes du Manege Moderne, Amsterdam & Leipzig, Chez Arkstée et Merkus, 1759, & Anti-Maquignonage pour eviter la surprise dans l'emplette des chevaux; ou l'on traite de leur perfection et de leurs defauts, Amsterdam & Leipzig, Chez Arkstée et Merkus, 1764, 3 parts bound in one, each with separate title page, dated 1759, 1747 and 1764 respectively, the first and last titles printed in red and black, additional engraved frontispiece by Bernard Picart, 59 full-page copper engraved plates to the first part by Picart (with printed list of the plates at end), including 4 plates of bridles, Dictionnaire des Termes printed in triple column, with some mainly light browning throughout, 7 (of 9) copper engraved plates to the third part by Picart, entitled Anti-Maquignonage, lacking the first two plates, marbled endpapers, contemporary full tree calf, gilt decorated spine, with red gilt morocco title label, a little rubbed and minor wear to outer corners, oblong folio (25.5 x 40 cm) (Qty: 1)Mennessier de la Lance I, 438; Cohen-de Ricci 345; Lipperheide 2919; Nissen ZBI 1264. Baron Eisenberg (1695-1770) was stable master to King George II. The plates depict the seven different breeds of horse and the position of the rider during training and dressage, each image accompanied by descriptive text.

Caus (Isaac de). New and Rare Inventions of Water-Works Shewing the Easiest waies to Raise Water higher then the Spring. By which Invention the Perpetual Motion is proposed Many hard Labours performd and Varieties of Motions and Sounds Produced … now Translated into English by John Leak, printed by Joseph Moxon, 1659, engraved architectural title, 26 numbered engraved plates, numerous woodcuts in text, woodcut initials, type ornament headpieces, minor soiling and marks to margins of title-page and plates, contemporary ownership inscription in ink to front endpaper ‘Mr Jn Emerson & L Margaret Lidell’, contemporary blind-ruled full calf, rubbed and slight wear, with spine renewed and repair to top margin of upper cover, folio (32.7 x 21.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Norman 417; Thorndike VII pp. 592-593; Wellcome II, p.315; Wing C1527. First edition in English, a translation of the Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau (Moxon, 1644) illustrated with the same plates. Isaac Caus's text and illustrations were adapted from his uncle or father Salomon de Caus's Les raisons des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines (Frankfurt 1615), an important work for the development of technology and particularly that of the steam engine. Isaac de Caus was a pioneer in the construction of life-sized automata, several of which are illustrated here. The present treatise also includes descriptions of a fire engine, various pumps, several types of musical organs, and a sluice. He collaborated with Inigo Jones on the design of Wilton House and its gardens.

Heckle (Augustin). Bowles's Drawing Book for Ladies; or Complete Florist: being An Extensive and Curious Collection of the most Beautiful Flowers, All drawn after Nature by A. Heckle. With a short Introduction to Drawing, and Directions for Mixing and Using of Colours. Also Several Proper and Easy Examples. The Whole adapted for the Improvement of Ladies in Needle-Work, Printed for the Proprietor Carington Bowles, [1785?], 24 engraved plates, 20 hand-coloured, three partially hand-coloured, and one uncoloured, toned throughout (especially to title) and some spotting, some corner curling, plate 4 with upper outer blank corner torn away, title and front free endpaper with contemporary ownership name of Mildred Clark, former with additional ink name of Juliana B. Clark, contemporary marbled wrappers, soiled and worn, oblong folio (20 x 32.5 cm), housed in a custom-made brown cloth solander box, with gilt lettered red morocco label on upper cover (Qty: 1)ESTC T117556; Henrey 795. First published as The Lady's Drawing Book in 1755, there appears to have been several issues of this work, all of which are uncommon.

Hepplewhite (Alice). The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide; or a Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture, in the Newest and most Approved Taste, 2nd edition, I. and J. Taylor, 1789, 125 engraved plates, some light spotting, marginal toning to title, large bookplate ('Freiherrlich Moritz von Bethmann'sche', evidently a member of the Bethmann banking dynasty), contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked, a little rubbed, folio (Qty: 1)ESTC N43593. Hepplewhite's guide, first published the previous year, was the first furniture pattern-book to have appeared in England since the third edition of Chippendale's Director in 1762, and despite criticism from Sheraton it achieved popularity in America and continental Europe. Rare. ESTC traces nine copies only in libraries world-wide (in addition to six for the first edition.

Zahrawi (Abu'l-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-, & [Theodorus Priscianus]). Octavii Horatiani Rerum medicarum lib. quatuor.I. Logicus, De curationibus omnium ferme morborum ... II. De acutis & chronicis passionibus ... III. Gynecia ... IIII. De physica scientia ... Albucasis chirurgicorum omnium primarii, lib. tres. I. Cauterio cum igne, & medicinis acutis per singula corporis humani membra. Cum instrumentorum delimatione. II. De sectione & perforatione, phlebotomia, & ventosis. De vulneribus, & extractione sagittarum, & ceteris similibus. Cum formis instrumentorum. III. De restauratione & curatione dislocationis membrorum. Cum typis item instrumentorum, 2 parts in one volume, Strasbourg: Johann Schott, 26 February 1532, [4 leaves] + 319 pages, title within decorative woodcut border, numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments throughout the text, title-page slightly browned and marked, small early ink inscription at foot ‘R 1 . (.) .’ later ownership inscription (‘Geo. Bell’) to head of title, 18th-century engraved bookplate of one Angelo M. Sisinni verso, title restrengthened with archival tissue to margins verso, following leaf with minor repair to upper right corner, bookplate removed from front endpaper, fine modern antique-style blind-decorated full calf gilt, folio ( 29.5 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Adams P2119; Choulant 217; Durling 3764; Hirsch-H. IV, 677; Parkinson 1965; STC 415; Stillwell, Awakening, 532; Waller 7646; Wellcome I, 5256. 'The most attractive printed edition' of the chapter on surgery and surgical instruments from the Kitab al-Tasrif (Vrolijk & van Leeuwen, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, p. 6), the foundational Arabic medical treatise by 10th-century Andalusian physician Abu'l-Qasim al-Zahrawi (circa 936-1013), 'the greatest surgeon of the medieval ages', and known in the Latin West as Albucasis (Meri, ed., Medieval Islamic Civilisation: an Encyclopaedia, I p. 783). The Kitab al-Tasrif is divided into thirty chapters, of which the first (on general principles of medicine), the second (on symptoms and treatments of diseases), and the thirtieth (the present chapter, on surgery) account for more than half the book's entire length. The chapter on surgery is 'the first comprehensive and illustrated treatment on its subject' (Library of Congress cataloguing, online), and is itself divided into three sections: on cauterization, on phlebotomy, dissection, wounds, and the extraction of arrows, and on bone-setting. It was translated into Latin from the Arabic by Gerard of Cremona in the 13th century, and first printed, in Latin, in 1497. In this edition al-Zahrawi's text is proceeded by a companion work, Rerum medicarum libri quatuor, which is the Latin translation by Byzantine physician Theodorus Priscianus (fl. 4th century CE) of his own compendium of medical remedies, the Euporista, originally written in Greek. It is attributed here to 'Octavianus Horatianus'.

[Haslewood, Joseph]. The Secret History of the Green Rooms: containing Authentic Memoirs of the Actors and Actresses in the three Theatres Royal, 2 volumes, 1st edition, printed for J. Ridgway, J. Forbes, and H. D. Symmonds, 1790, each leaf (12mo format, 13.9 x 8.3 cm) window-mounted into larger sheet, extra-illustrated with 22 Theatre Royal playbills (Covent Garden, Drury Lane and Haymarket, 1786-1803), all mounted on stubs, 2 with tissue-repairs, and approximately 120 engraved plates, mainly portraits and theatrical costume and c.1775-90, a few 19th-century including one hand-coloured Gillray etching, mainly window-mounted, all edges gilt, c.1900 green crushed morocco by Riviere and Son, rebacked with original richly gilt spines laid down, French fillet frames gilt to sides, rear boards sunned, rubbing to extremities, small chips to one spine band and head of front board of volume 2, folio (26.2 x 15.8 cm) (Qty: 2)Provenance: Sir Charles Blake Cochrane (1872-1951), theatrical impresario (bookplates). Arnott & Robinson 2209; ESTC T61252 (eight copies in UK libraries). A number of the playbills are for Drury Lane productions in 1795-6, including Garrick's revival of Southerne's Isabella, or The Fatal Marriage (19 September 1795) with Mrs Siddons in the title role, and Macbeth (23 December 1795), with Mrs Siddons as Lady Macbeth.

Andrade (Manoel Carlos de). Luz da Liberal, e Mobre Arte da Cavallaria, offerecida ao Senhor D. Joao Principe do Brazil, 1st edition, Lisbon: La Regia Officina Typografica, 1790, engraved portrait frontispiece of Prince John of Brazil by Frois after Silva, title with engraved armorial vignette, 93 fine copper-engraved plates by Frois, Martini, Alegre, Piedra, after Silva, blank leaf after contents, errata leaf at end, contents generally in clean, crisp condition, with excellent impressions of the plates, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated red full morocco, very slightly rubbed, generally a very attractive copy, folio (Qty: 1)Provenance: Joseph Strutt (1749-1802), antiquary, artist and engraver, and author of A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England (1796-9), and Glick-Gamena Angel-Deod, or the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801). Huth 56; not in Mennessier de la Lance. Only edition of this spendid description of the royal Portuguese riding school, with strong, rich impressions of these engraved plates.

Giarré (Gaetano). Alfabeto di lettere iniziali adorno di animali e proseguito da vaga serie di caratteri, Florence: Giacomo Moro, 1797, 25 engraved decorative calligraphic plates including title, occasional spotting and several leaves browned, modern boards with patterned sides and leather spine label, slightly rubbed, folio (39.5 x 26.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Berlin Katalog 5225. Each of the 25 copper-engraved leaves gives calligraphic examples of Roman and other alphabets, including Greek and Hebrew. They are beautifully decorated with floral garlands, arabesques, birds, animals, vases, trophies and masks. Stanley Morison: 'The market for writing books appeared to go underground for a hundred years, only emerging at the end of the eighteenth century, when the Florentine master, Gaetano Giarré began to produce entirely and refreshingly novel books, in Neo-Classical style'.

Auction Catalogue. A Catalogue of a Large, Extensive, and Valuable Parcel of Books, in Every Science, and in Most Languages; being the Genuine Library of George Galwey Mills, Esq. (gone to the West Indies,) removed from Slaughter-House in the County of Gloucester... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Jeffery, at No. 11 Pall-Mall, on Monday, the 24th of February, 1800, and the twelve following days, (Sundays excepted.) Beginning each day exactly at one o'clock, [1800], ordinary paper edition (with 4 lines of lot description on title-page, as opposed to 5 lines on that of the large paper edition), lacking A1 (blank?), first two leaves adhered to front blank along gutter (with some consequent tears), occasional ink and pencil marginalia, title-page spotted, stab holes to gutter margins, marbled endpapers, remboîtage binding of late 18th century scarlet morocco, some marks and extremities rubbed, smooth spine gilt panelled and with musical trophy tool in centre of each compartment, covers with wide gilt border of hound's tooth roll, metope and pentaglyph roll, ribbon and fleuron roll, and scrolling fern roll, metope and pentaglyph roll repeated on edges and turn-ins, tall 8vo in 4s (Qty: 1)ESTC T7945. Rare and important sale catalogue; no other copy found at auction. The library of George Galwey Mills MP (1765-1828) was an impressive one by any standards, and yet he died in debt and at his own hand. Mills was born on St. Kitts, and inherited his father's plantations, although he appeared to spend much of his life in England. He served as a Member of Parliament for Wallingford, Mitchell and Winchelsea. In 1806 he was imprisoned for debt, amounting to some £43,000. He committed suicide in 1828, shooting himself through the head, whilst in New South Wales serving as Registrar of the Supreme Court. The inquest reported that Mills had showed signs of derangement before he died, and had made mention of monetary difficulties. Amongst the treasures listed in this library sale, which was presumably an attempt by Mills to raise funds, is the Sherborne Missal, and a Shakespeare First Folio (lots 1459 and 166 respectively). Mills was the first recorded English owner of the Sherborne Missal, the largest and most lavishly decorated English service book to survive from the Middle Ages, now in the British Library. He acquired the volume in 1797 (it bears his bookplate), and it was purchased at Jeffery's auction by Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland for £215. It remained in the possession of the Dukes of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle until deposited on loan at the British Library by the 10th Duke in 1983, and obtained for the nation in July 1998. Mills's copy of Shakespeare's First Folio (with portrait) fetched £10 10 shillings (Anthony James West, The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book , 2002, p.301). The volume merits only two lines of letterpress in the catalogue, compared to six lines devoted to the following lot, a Johnson and Steevens 1793 set of Shakespeare's Plays .

Richardson (George). A collection of Ornaments in the Antique Style comprised in XXXVII Plates designed & engraved by G. Richardson Archt. & Son, 1816, decorative aquatint title and 36 sepia aquatint plates of ornament for friezes, pilasters, chimney pieces, staircases, etc., good margins, 19th-century bookplate of William Wilshere pasted to verso of title, original boards, with printed title label to upper cover: 'Richardson's Grecian, Roman and Etruscan Ornaments. 2l. 2s. boards', soiled and some waterstains and wear to edges, spine refurbished, folio (36 x 27 cm) (Qty: 1)Abbey Life 61; Harris 739; not in Berlin Katalog. George Richardson (1736-1817) began his architectural career working for John Adam in Edinburgh. Having accompanied Adam on his Grand Tour from 1760 to 1763 he worked in the Adams Brothers London office, and then set up his own architectural business in 1765, specialising in the decoration of apartments in the neo-classical style. The best examples of his work are the interiors at Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire.

Trade Catalogue. John Slater, Coach Spring & Patent Steam Kitchen Manufacturer, Birmingham, circa 1819, 20 numbered engraved plates, 8 double-page, showing kitchen ranges and accompanying flues and utensils, ten with mounted text facing (one on verso of front free endpaper, the others on verso of preceding plate), that opposite plate 6 dated August 1819, some contemporary manuscript annotations in ink or pencil, seven printed slips bound in with contemporary prices in ink, generally toned and soiled, with some water-staining (mostly to last few plates), some edge-creasing and occasional minor fraying, first plate with 9 cm closed tear, plate 5 with piece torn from lower outer blank corner, front pastedown with mounted engraved patent label, front free endpaper with piece torn from upper outer corner (with closed tear encroaching on mounted text on verso), contemporary sheep-backed marbled wrappers, vertical crease to wrappers and text block, oblong folio (28 x 35 cm), housed in custom-made modern cloth solander box, with gilt lettered morocco label on front (Qty: 1)Rare early illustrated trade catalogue of steam ovens: only two other copies sold at auction, both with fewer plates than this copy (12 and 16). The first plate declares: 'The Steam Kitchen, with the late improvements for carrying off all waste steam, & unpleasant smell, from the Roaster, is now allowed to be the most complete Cullinery apparatus, in Europe, being the most oeconomical, most useful, & most simple, ever introduced - Fish, Flesh, Fowls, Game & Vegetables, may be Roasted, Baked, Boiled, Steam'd, Stew'd & Broil'd, with the nicest delicacy. The Apparatus is now in use in every County in England, in most Counties in Scotland & Wales, in every County in Ireland, in British America, & the United States, in the Steam Boats on the Lakes, the East & West Indies, & their Trading Ships. Also in France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Germany & Sweden.'

Type Specimen. Specimens of Ornamental and Colored Wood Letters, Wood & Company, circa 1860, 53 plates including title-page, of which 7 printed in colours, most with one of two imprints ''J. & R. M. Wood, Austin Letter Foundry, London', or 'Wood & Company 89, West Smithfield, London', some soiling and spotting, some surface abrasion, holes, and short edge tears (repairs on verso in places), red edges gilt, early 20th century patterned card wrappers edged with a gilt floral roll, recent red morocco spine, folio (50 x 31.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Rare: not in St Bride Library; we have been unable to trace another copy.

Trade Catalogue. Illustrated Pattern Book of English China & Earthenware; French China-Ware, Plain & Ornamental; English & Foreign Flint Glass, Plain, Cut & Engraved. Coloured & Decorated Glass, also of Chinese & Japanese China Ware, Parian & Terra-Cotta Goods, Window & Plate Glass Plain & Silvered, Mirrors, Looking Glasses, Mechanical Pieces, Flowers & Birds under Glass Shades, Pictures & Picture Frames, Stained Glass Windows & Panels; Table Ornaments, &c. Lamps, Globes, Chimneys, &c., circa 1880, numerous plates and illustrations throughout, including chromolithographs, some illuminated, title-page lightly spotted, front pastedown with printed label 'A.M.S. Trade Mark', all edges gilt, original bevel-edged cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, gilt titled to upper cover, some rubbing to edges and corners showing, folio (Qty: 1)Winterthur 340: all after no. 223 missing, i.e. lacking 'Silber Light and Duplex Lamps' (our copy has this section, and ends on 261, believed complete). Winterthur notes: 'Names of 3 firms appear in catalogue: W. Doubleday, A.M.S. (within a rope tied as a bow), and Silber & Fleming. Any or all could have used this catalogue.'

Bruel (Francois-Louis). Histoire aéronautique par les monuments, peints, sculptés, dessinés et gravés des origines à 1830. Deux cents reproductions en noir et en couleur, Paris, André Marty, 1909, title printed in red & black, additional half title with limited edition number on verso, dedication and advertisement, 200 colour and monochrome reproductions of old prints and engravings, of ephemera, drawings, letters and prints relating to ballooning and early aeronautics, several double-page and folding, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Martin and Josephine Orskey, top edge gilt, remainder rough trimmed, contemporary half morocco gilt for Bumpus, very slight wear to extremities, folio (Qty: 1)Limited edition, number 172 of 325 copies.

Provincial Mughal School. 'The Nabob Shujah al Dawlah on horse back', North India, circa 1760, gouache with pen and ink on thick wove paper, heightened with gold, foreground containing a hunting scene with a mounted archer in an elaborate green and gold robe, attended by several onlookers, background with a sprawling riverside palace, the river containing various barges and smaller vessels, narrow blue border, verso inscribed 'To Robert Gregory, Esqr, The Nabob Shujah al Dawlah on horse back with an Hunting piece by Cheetahs, dogs &c, J Carnac' and 'No 59' in black ink in an 18th-century hand, 30.2 x 41.7 cm (Qty: 1)Provenance: Presented by John Carnac (1721-1800), East India Company army officer, to Robert Gregory (1729?-1810), director of the East India Company and politician (presentation inscription). Carnac was three times commander-in-chief of the company's forces, in 1760, defeating the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan II near Bihar, in 1764, 'when his forces repulsed those of Shuja ud-Daula of Oudh' at Patna (ODNB), and again in 1765, when he defeated the Marathas, after which he assisted Clive 'in the negotiations with Shuja ud-Daula and the Mughal emperor that resulted in both the grant of the diwani of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa to the company and a diplomatic settlement that established peace' (ibid.). After returning to England in 1767 he was again in India from 1773 to his death. Gregory was in India as a free merchant from 1747 to 1766, when he returned to England. He was elected to the company's court of directors in 1769 and became chairman in 1775, retiring in 1782; unlike Carnac he did not go back to India. See Bodleian MS. Douce Or. a.3 folio 4 recto for a similar painting, containing a procession in the foreground.

Rivière (Lazare). The Practice of Physick, in Seventeen several Books. Wherein is plainly set forth, the Nature, Cause, Differences, and Several sorts of Signs; Together with the Cure of all Diseases in the Body. By Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... William Rowland. Being chiefly a Translation of the Works of that Learned and Renowned Doctor Lazarus Riverius, printed by John Streater, 1672, engraved frontispiece with 4 medallion portraits, woodcut head and tailpieces, marginal stipple-form staining to a few leaves, small spill-burns in H3 and 2A1 affecting one letter in the latter, closed marginal tear in 3U4, small hole in [superscript 2]2P2 to loss of text, mid-19th-century tan half calf, rubbed, folio (28.7 x 18.7 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC R214736; Wing R1563. First published in 1655.

Clavell (Robert). The General Catalogue of Books printed in England since the Dreadful Fire of London MDCLXVII. To the End of Trinity-Term MDCLXXXX. Together with the Texts of Single Sermons, with the Authors Names: Playes acted at both the Theaters: and an Abstract of the General Bills of Mortality since 1660 ... To which is now added a Catalogue of Latin Books printed in Foreign Parts and in England since the Year MDCLXXX, 3rd edition, printed by S. Roycroft for Robert Clavel l, 1680, pi4 A-G2 [dagger]4 H-3b2, bound with: [Drop-head title] A Catalogue of Books continued, printed and Published at London in Michaelmas-Term, 1680, Numb. I [-Trinity Term, 1683. Numb. 12], i.e. 12 supplementary numbers, discretely paginated with continuous register A-2K2, variable browning through entire volume, a few marks and stains, stab-holes visible in gutter and upper margins, General Catalogue title-page water-stained, short closed tear in 2X2, 2Z1-2 transposed, contemporary speckled sheep, head of spine repaired, a few scuffs to covers, section of skilful restoration to rear board, folio (30 x 19.6 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC R12389; Wing C4601. As can be surmised from the title, Clavell's catalogues are not only an indispensable source for the history of the English book trade but also for the cultural and everyday life of Restoration London. The first edition was published in 1673, inevitably a much shorter treatment at some 80 pages only; all editions are rare. ESTC does not record the twelve supplementary numbers bound in at the rear of this volume, which continue the main catalogue up to 1683.

Milles (Thomas) . The Custumers Alphabet and Primer. Conteining, Their Creede or Beliefe in the true Doctrine of Christian Religion. Their Ten Commandementes, or Rules of Civill life and Conversation daily grace, general confession, speciall supplication and forme of prayers. Togither with a pertinent answere to all such ... would faine perswade others, that, the bringing home of traffique must needes decay our shipping, [London, William Jaggard?], 1608, 44 pages, signatures A-L2, title with woodcut decorative border, two woodcut head-pieces, and two woodcut initials, with author's manuscript annotations, underlining and manicules in brown ink to text, some soiling to title and final leaf, light waterstain to final few leaves, two blank leaves at front and rear, without pastedowns, later bookplate of Caroline Bishop to verso of front board, contemporary full calf, triple blind fillet border to each cover, lettered in gilt to upper centre of front cover EDWARD?GWYNN, and E G to rear, board-edges with gilt fillet tooling, red and yellow edges to text leaves, upper joint partly cracked, a little wear to head and foot of spine with minor old repairs, folio (29 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: From the library of Edward Gwynn, a lawyer who formed a major library of 16th- and early-17th-century English and Latin texts, including the famous volume of nine Shakespeare Quartos bound together in contemporary binding, which was sold by Rosenbach to the Folger Library in 1919 for $100,000. Little is known of Gwynn, but he was probably born circa 1590, and entered Middle Temple in November 1610. From 1626 he lived with his close friend Alexander Chorley in a house within the gardens of Furnivall's Inn, off Holborn in London. After his death, his library was bequeathed to Alexander Chorley, and was subsequently dispersed. Around 200 books from his library have now been traced, including 50 in Marsh's Library in Dublin, 26 at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 23 at Cambridge and 31 at Oxford. An ongoing list tracing all copies of books from Gwynn's library is available on the Folger Library website.The calf binding offered here conforms to the characteristic style used by Gwynn, with the name Edward Gwynn stamped in gilt capitals to the upper cover, and initials E G to the lower cover. See Liam Sims, Edward Gwynn and his Bindings, posted on Cambridge University Library Special Collections blog on 4 July 2018. ESTC S114606; STC 17927. Thomas Milles (circa 1550-1626), a customs official, intelligence agent and antiquary from Ashford in Kent, was the author of works on economic policy, free trade, religious controversy, as well as The Catalogue of Honor (1610). His publications, almost all of which are exceedingly rare, are idosyncratic due to the author's characteristic addition of manuscript marginal annotations, added by him to virtually all copies. Moreover, these manuscript additions and glosses vary from one copy to another, suggesting that Milles saw his printed publications as subject to ongoing revision. In the present copy, almost every page contains some form of correction, added note or elucidation, underlining or manicules (a pointing hand or finger). As 'Customer of Sandwich' in Kent, he was involved in intercepting foreign agents and correspondents and was employed in unravelling numerous plots of the period. This also gave him the opportunity to observe England's chronic shortage of precious metals, and the unfair monopoly exercised by the Merchant-Venturers based in London. Milles advocated free trade through staple ports, which gave designated ports the right to trade the cargo of merchant ships passing through their own port.

Ercker (Lazarus, & John Pettus ). Fleta minor. The Laws of Art and Nature, in Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining and Inlarging the Bodies of Confin'd Metals. In Two Parts. The First contains Assays of Lazarus Erckern ... now translated into English. The Second contains Essays on Metallick Words, alphabetically composed, as a Dictionary, by Sir John Pettus, printed for the author by Thomas Dawks, 1683, 2 parts in one volume, engraved frontispiece portrait by R. White, and 43 copper-engraved illustrations, numerous ornate opening initials, minor marginal fraying to frontispiece and title, a very good copy with wide margins, early ownership inscription 'James Hamilton' to title-page (see note), some spotting and browning, G1 with small piece torn from margin, H1v and H2r soiled, signature Z in duplicate, [C]2 holed and slightly torn at lower margin, without final blank in each vol.) Contemporary blind-panelled mottled full calf, some marks, discreet restoration to head and foot of spine, folio (35.5 x 22.4 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: possibly James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton (1658-1712), famously killed in a duel on the 15 th November 1712 over the inheritance of the Macclesfield estate, or James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton (1703-1743), early governor of the Foundling Hospital, London, and a fellow of the Royal Society. ESTC R5570; Hoover 633; Wing P1906; Wellcome II, 527. The first part is a translation of Ercken's Beschreibung aller fürnemisten mineralishcen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten . The author of the second part, Sir John Pettus (1613-1690), was appointed deputy governor of the royal mines by Cromwell in 1655, a position he held until his death 35 years later. Having spent more than £20,000 on the royalist cause during the Civil War, he appears to have been imprisoned for debt several times in later life, and it has been suggested that Fleta Minor was composed in Fleet Prison.

Leybourn (William). Pleasure with Profit: Consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, viz. numerical, geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical. Published to Recreate Ingenious Spirits; and to induce them to make farther scrutiny into these (and the like), sublime sciences..., to this work is also annext, A Treatise of Algebra... by R. Sault, 1st edition, printed for Richard Baldwin, and John Dunton, 1694, 2 full-page engraved plates, 5 engraved illustrations to text, numerous woodcut illustrations to text, including diagrams and charts, a few minor marks and some light browning, modern antique-style blind-decorated and ruled full calf, with gilt morocco title label to spine, folio (31 x 19 cm) (Qty: 1)Wing L1931; Wheeler Gift Catalogue 207; De Morgan, Arithmetical Books, page 54. A teacher of mathematics and professional land surveyor in London, William Leybourn (1626-1701) started out as a printer, his output including Thomas Salusbury's Mathematical Collections and Translations of 1661-1665, which contained the first appearance of Galileo in English. The present work includes Salusbury's translation of Galileo's La Bilancetta , under the heading Of The Ballance of Signeur Galileo Galilei (Statistical Recreations, Chapter III). Leybourn also prints Descartes treatise on mechanics in the section entitled mechanical recreations, using Salusbury's translation.

13 Folio Society Books

Sir William Russell Flint, 1880 - 1969: A Comparative Review of the Artist's Signed Limited Edition Prints by Keith S Gardner and Nigel D Clark, with contributions by Cecilia Green and Moira Shearer, limited edition 961/1500, Sir William Russell Flint Galleries Ltd., Bristol 1986, coloured plates, contemporary blue-morocco and buckram, gilt lettered spine, marbled endpapers, slipcased en suite, small folio

Antiquarian Books, Photographs, Maps and Ephemera - Photography, India/British Raj, Militaria, a late 19th/early 20th century Anglo-Indian Army regimental photograph, the officers and chaplain, their pith helmets inscribed King's, standing before a gut, 20cm x 24.5cm, mounted, maple cushion frame, 44cm x 49cm overall; another, of a Highland subaltern, wearing a kilt, the mount inscribed Rangoon, 44cm x 31cm, framed, (2); Books - Theology, La Sainte Bible, ou Le Vieux et Le Nouveau Testament, Traduits en François sur Les Textes Hébreu et Grec, Par les Pasteurs et les Professeurs de l'Eglise et de l'Académie de Genève, Chez J.J. Paschoud [...], A Genève 1805, later 20th century brown pebble calf binding, paper title-label to flat spine, pastedown preserving contemporary early 19th century crested bookplate: Hugh Percy (a scion of the Dukes of Northumberland), medium folio; Miscellaneous Folios, Thomas Shotter Boys Original Views of London, First Published in 1842 Now Reprinted [...] with Twenty-Six Coloured Reproductions from the Original Lithographs, the Text of 1842, and a Parallel Modern Text by James Laver, C.B.E., two-volume set, Charles W. Traylen, Guildford 1954 - 1955, each with printed card covers, red cloth portfolio binding; Repton (John Adey) and Wilkins (William), Norwich Cathedral at the end of the eighteenth century, with descriptive notes [...], limited edition 546/1000, bookplate to pastedown, Gregg Press, Farnborough 1965, fold-out architectural elevations and plates, contemporary blue cloth, pictorial printed slipcase, atlas folio; Printing The Times Since 1785: Some Account of the Means of Production and Changes of Dress of the Newspaper, Illustrated with Upwards of Fifty Facsimiles of Pages and Many Line Engravings &c., Printing House Square, London 1953, black cloth, royal folio, (3); Cartography, after John Speed, a two-fold map, of the county of Warwickshire, late 19th century monochrome strike, 31cm x 41cm, mounted and framed; 19th century map, of Staffordshire, Published by J & C Walker, London hand-coloured delineations, ebonised frame, (2), [8]

A folio of black and white engravings from the drawings of William Richardson

Original folio of 10 maps and pamphlet published by the United States of America War Office August 1917 regarding The Attack of the British 9th Corps at Messines Ridge - the outer case entitled "Secret and Confidential For Official Use Only - Not To Be Taken Into Front-Line Trenches"

The New Testament leather bound volume Cambridge 1769, Chorographia Britannia London 1742 (both covers off), The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Folio Society edition 1956 in slip case and selection of other antiquarian books (worn)

A collection of 19th century coloured ornithological engravings, 13 x 20cm approx, four county maps including Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, etc, a folio of reproduction maps of Birmingham, etc, together with a Gainsborough painting box and an adjustable easel, etc

Mixed collection of items including a book of children's nursery prints, a folio of Enid Blyton bible pictures, etc, together with an unframed painting on canvas by Doreen Payne Petyarr, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs

A collection of seven Folio Society books with slip covers including Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Arthur Rackham, The Fables of Aesop and Perrault's Fairy Tales both illustrated by Edmund Dulac, The Hobbit by J R Tolkien etc

A collection of good quality children's titles including a boxed edition of The Wind In The Willows, also The Wind In The Willows published by The Folio Society, Winnie The Pooh - The Complete Collection of Drawings and Poems published by Methuen, Beatrix Potter titles, etc, together with two first edition Harry Potter titles, one minus its original dust jacket

29 miscellaneous Folio Society books, all with original slip cases and including five boxed sets

Stamps: sheets and part sheets; stock books; booklets; folio of Victorian receipts; other ephemera

Munich Cartoons painted by Royal Court Painters Dr E Wolf & Sohn, Munich [n.d.]; and A & L Streitenfeld, Ausstatung Vornehmer Wohnraume, being a folio of interior designs, Berlin late 19th century, both defective.

Faria Y Sousa, Manuel de - Africa Portuguesa. Tomo unico, folio, blindstamped, calf rebacked, end papers renewed, first few pages creased Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, Lisbon 1681

Saint Francoise de Sales - Les Oeuvres de Sainct Francois de Sales, evesque et prince de Geneve, 2 vols, folio, calf, spines gilt, vol 1 with engraved frontis, Frederic Leonard, Paris 1669.Note: No set of this date in BM, a set noted in Cambridge University

Giannone, Pietro - The Civil History of the Kingdom of Naples, translated into English by Captain James Ogilivie, 2 vols, old calf, folio, London 1729-31

Salazar de Mendoza, Pedro - Cronica de el Gran Cardenal de Espana, Don Pedro Goncalez de Mendoza, folio, with plate of arms, port and folding engraved genealogical table, later red morocco gilt, worn and scuffed, modern writings on renewed front end papers, Maria Ortiz de Saravia, Toledo 1625

Sousa de Macedo, Antonio de - Lusitania liberata ab injusto Castellanorum dominio ..., folio, with engraved title, 2 ports and 11 plates, Illustrated with 14 full-page engravings, by John Droeshout, engraved on a burin: 1. Prehistoric: portrait of John IV 2. Title page engraved: allegory with Justice and Victory 3. Preceding p. 1: Lusitania 4. Page 58: D. Afonso Henriques 5. P. 93: D. Afonso Henriques and the Miracle of Ourique (vision of Ourique) 6. P. 143: D. João I 7. Page 165: Tree the genealogy of the descendants of D. Manuel I 8. Pág. 470: Phoenix renaissance (allegory of Justice) 9. Page 542: The Dragon of Bragança "pretending to be asleep" 10. 560: Coronation of D. João IV 11. 650: The triumph of King John IV (on horseback) 12. Page 708: Dragon dominating the armillary sphere 13. Page 764: Shield of the royal arms of Portugal 14. Page 792: Obelisk with allegorical figure extolling the Portugal's victory over the Spanish dominion, rebacked calf, with gilt armorials of Fanshaw to front and back boards, Marquess of Donegal armorials to paste down, London 1645

Plutarch - Lives "The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes", folio, calf gilt, Richard Field, London 1612

Antonio, Nicolas - Censura de Historias Fabulosas, Obra Posthuma, folio, contemporary vellum, later "Society of Writers to the Signet" armorial to front and back boards, Valencia 1742

Du Chesne, André - Histoire générale d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse, et d'Irlande, contentant les choses memorables & remarquables avenues aux isles & royaumes de la grande Bretagne, d'Irlande, de Man, & autres adjacentes, 1st edition, folio, calf, spine head repaired and re-labelled, tear repair to mid margin title page, early 18th century printed armorial pasted to reverse of title page, Jean Petit-Pas, Paris 1614

Justice, Alexander - A Compleat Account of the Portugueze Language, 1st edition, folio, rebound calf gilt, title page mounted, minor worming to early pages (some repaired), browned throughout, R. Janeway, London 1701

Mariana, Juan de - Historia general de Espana, 2 vols, folio, vellum, front boards each with diamond inset red leather gilt inscriptions - "Givwen by the Rt. Hon. Field Marshall Earl Ligonier to Major General Urmston 1767", Andreas Garcia de la Iglesia, Madrid 1678

COMPACT GALLERY JAPAN - ENGLAND 1972 FOLIO OF TEN ARTIST SIGNED PRINTS

A COLLECTION OF BOOK PLATES from a large format late 19th or early 20th century French book showing grand domestic interiors together with a German folio containing plates depicting curtains in grand windows and further interiors 'Ausstattung Vornehmer Wohnräume', each series of plates approximately 50cm high

Chinese School, folio of assorted watercolours and prints including a study of an eagle, largest 56 x 48cm, all unframed

Thomas Alexander Anderson (active 1929-1973), a folio of nude sketches, some signed and dated

A collection of 38 Folio society books, including The Times Atlas of The World

Quantity of Art reference books to include Sothebys Greentree Foundation three catalogue folio, Barbara Hepworth etc

Art and artits - a quantity of books, leather bound and others to include Folio editions, Great Pictures by Great Painters, history of art etc, in two boxes **All lots in this sale are subject to a maximum of £2.50 plus VAT Buyers Premium**