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Ficino (Marsilio) Platonica theologia de immortalitate animorum, collation: [*]10 a10 b-z8 &8 aa-nn8 oo10, 318 ff., [*]9 blank, 33 lines, Roman type, initial spaces with guide-letters, first f. frayed and holed, some holes repaired, with loss of several letters, last couple of ff. little frayed, ff3 marginal tear at foot, occasional foxing (mostly light, but hevaier in a few instances)or spotting, 19th century vellum-backed marbled boards, folio (283 x 209mm.), Florence, Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 7 November, 1482..⁂ First edition of Marsilio's chief work, which aimed to prove the harmonious bond between Christian theology and Platonism. In it he argues for the immortality of the soul. A complete and handsome copy of this highly important book, very rare in such state.Literature: BMC VI 637; Bod-inc F-049; BSB-Ink F-121; Goff F157; HC 7075*; GW 9881.

Aristotle. [Opera omnia, graece], edited by Desiderius Erasmus and Simon Grynaeus, 2 vol. in 1, collation: α8 a-z aa-tt8; A-O8 P6 Q-Z AA-HH8 II6, text in Greek, woodcut printer's device to titles and verso of final f. in each vol., woodcut historiated initials, later ink marginalia, underlining in pencil at start, some marginal water-staining, spotting or light foxing, occasional staining, contemporary blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps, corners worn, soiled and rubbed, folio (335 x 201mm.), Basel, Johann Bebel, 1531.⁂ Erasmus' monumental edition of Aristotle - the second edition in Greek, preceded only by the 5 volume Aldine edition, which was textually incomplete (lacking the Poetics and Rhetoric), the present is accordingly the first complete Opera in Greek. Edited in collaboration with Simon Grynaeus, it is dedicated by Erasmus to Thomas More's son John. A handsome and desirable copy bound in contemporary pigskin.Provenance: Sebastian Müller (title inscription dated Mansfeld, 1572, recording the gift to:) Gaspard Hesdelin; Albert Frick (small title inscription dated Jena, 1734); P. Passloch (signature dated 1935).Literature: Adams A1730.

Diodorus, Siculus. Historicae libri XV, translated and edited by Sebastian Castalion, collation: a4 ):(4 b-c6 A-N8 O12 P-Z, Aa-Vu8 Xx6 Yy8, woodcut historiated initials, c6 blank, old ms. ink note in Greek to front free endpaper, later ink marginalia,, some staining and browning, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original richly gilt backstrip in compartments (little loss to ends), arabesque centre-pieces, corners repaired, rubbed, folio (308 x 194mm.), [Basel], [Henric Petri], [1578]. ⁂ Latin version of this history of the ancient world, with additional texts on the Fall of Troy. Literature: Adams D475.

Piranesi (Francesco, 1758-1810) A bound collection of 45 plates, including 'Teatro di Ercolano', 32 double-page plates, with one folding, and 13 single-page, with vedute, architectural details, plans, columns, bound with the title and 4 pp. of text for 'Teatro di Ercolano', engravings with etching on thick laid paper, various sizes, one or two marginal repairs and light spotting, 19th century diced russia, rebacked, edges scuffed, folio, [circa 1780s].

Genealogy.- [Tabula Nobilium in Angliae], manuscript, 150pp. excluding blanks (comprising 143pp. principal work and 7pp. at end from another manuscript), 3pp. index at beginning, ruled in red throughout, manuscript note in two hands at beginning, first f. soiled, others slightly browned, front free endpaper creased, bookplate of William A. Cragg of Lincoln College Oxford on front pastedown, original calf, extensively rubbed, joints split, spine worn and creased, chipped at head and tail, folio, [c. 1750].⁂ Provenance: "This book was transcribed by William Burwell, schoolmaster of Fiskarton [Fiskerton, Lincolnshire], who not understanding one word of Latin has made many mistakes. This copy from which it is transcribed belongs to Christopher Rooe, Esq., of Normanton Turville... copied from an original belonging to William Camden... . With submission, the author of this book cannot be Cambden... when it is known Cambden died in 1623... It is therefore suppos'd to be S.r W. Dugdale's who surviv'd 1666." - 2 manuscript notes at beginning.

China.- Wainwright (John, Butcher) A Journall of Remarks... on Board of the good Ship Bridgewater Nickolas Skottowe, Esq Commander from the Port of London towards Madeira, Madras & China, autograph manuscript, title (in another hand) and 119pp. excluding blanks, one full-page watercolour of ship Bridgewater, 1f. piece cut away, several ff. excised at end, some scribbling by members of the Wainwright family on lower pastedown, slightly browned, lower free endpaper loose, original vellum, soiled and creased, edges and corners worn, upper joint splitting, folio, 1769-71.⁂ Transport of soldiers of the East India Company to Madras and a delivery of "the Companys 11 chests of Treashure in the Long Boat with one officer to Canton", and the collection of china and large quantities and types of China tea for export to England.Nicholas Skottowe (d. 1798) was the commander of the last dedicated slaving voyage organised by the East India Company on the Royal George, in 1764-6.

Hamilton (Sir William, diplomatist and art collector, 1731-1803) Letter signed to Sir John Acton, administrator in the Neapolitan service, 1p. with conjugate blank, in French, folio, Palermo, 4th January 1799, a request to Acton to provide a passport for "Monsieur Gold gentilhomme Anglais avec son Domestique étant sur son depart pour Trapani pour faire un Tour par la Sicile", folds, slightly browned; and 5 others, including a letter to Sir William Hamilton from Matteo Luigi Canonici, a Jesuit collector of medals, v.s., v.d. (7).⁂ At the time of writing Hamilton, together with the King and Queen of Naples had left the previous December, just prior to the French invasion and the proclamation of the Parthenopean republic.

Royal Naval Asylum.- Regulations for the Establishment and Government of the Royal Naval Asylum, manuscript, title and 74pp., and 4pp. on 3 folding sheets, original Dutch floral wrappers, slightly rubbed, spine splitting, lacks tail of spine, folio, Greenwich, 1808.⁂ Includes: "The Report of the Commissioners of the Royal Naval Asylum" (26 pages); "Regulations for the Guidance of the Officers Assistants and Servants" (35 pages); "A List of the Moveable Furniture allowed to the Officers"; "Form of a Petition for a Boy" etc.The Royal Naval Asylum, later Royal Hospital Schools was an educational institution established for the children of seamen orphaned by the Napoleonic Wars. It moved to Greenwich in 1807, following a grant by George III of the use of the Queen's House.

Napoleon's newspaper at St. Helena.- Journal des Débats Politiques et Littéraires, printed newspaper, 4pp., folds, browned, manuscript note accompanying newspaper presenting it to Miss Taylor from Captain Willetts (tears, folds and browned), folio & 112 x 95mm., newspaper dated 5th January 1816.⁂ Inscription reads: "Should Miss Taylor think a newspaper taken out of Bonaparte's Library at Longwood after his Death worthy of a place in her Cabinet Capt. Willett's by her Acceptance of the Enclosed."

West Indies.- Grenada & Carriacou (former British colony in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain).- [Account Book for various plantations], manuscript, 56pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, very slight stain to tail of a few early ff., slightly browned, original half morocco, corners and spine repaired, marbled covers, folio, 1830-35.⁂ A rare manuscript relating to the islands of Grenada and Carriacou in the final years of slavery in the British Empire. Owners of plantations include a high proportion of Scottish settlers who came to Grenada and Carriacou in the wake of the 18th century Jacobite insurrections.Entries including slavery: "July 9 [1833] To the sum assumed on A/c of Miss Mary Robertson for the manumission of Thomas a slave belonging to Meldrum [Estate] 80 loes... 264[£]... assumed the sum on A/c of Miss Bess Urquhart for the freedom of her daughter Nancy 9 loes... 29 14 [£]; "... my share of Orang Vale Lime Kiln..."; "1832 Jun 23... paid for account of the Hurricane at Barbadoes 3 12 6"; "1834 June 20... a Barrel sugar from Sinclair [Estate] 214 lb [£]7 1"; "William McLeod 1834 To Blackwood's Magazine for 2 years say 14 No. ea year [£]8 11 6"; "Matthew Davies 1834 Jany 31 By a half Barrel Pilot Bread [£] 1 6".People, including: Daniel Polson, planter of Carriacou; James McGillivray, Allan M Donald, John Campbell, David Logan, Roderick Fraser, Adam Head, Blair and Gilland (on the island of Carriacou), Charles S. Geddes, Simon Fraser, Duncan Blair... Surgeon (1793-1855), estate slave doctor; eldest son of John Blair, farmer in Drymen, Stirlingshire; matriculated at Glasgow in 1810; died on Carriacou in 1855. Estates include: Sinclair Estate, Grand Bay Estate, Harvey Vale Estate, Belan Estate, Dumfries Estate, Crayston Estate, Meldrum Estate, La Resource Estate etc.

Swinburne (Algernon Charles, poet and literary reviewer, 1837-1909) Cyril Tourneur, autograph manuscript draft, revisions throughout, signed at the end, 28pp., on blue paper, each leaf individually mounted on a stub, handsomely bound in modern green crushed morocco gilt, inner gilt dentelles, gilt lettering on upper cover, spine in six compartments, dulled to brown, by Riviere, folio, [c. 1887].⁂ Swinburne's essay on Tourneur was first published in The Nineteenth Century magazine in March 1887, and reprinted in The Age of Shakespeare, 1908.Cyril Tourneur (d. 1626), writer and soldier.

Morris (William, designer, author, and visionary socialist, 1834-96) Sheet of scribble by William Morris, autograph manuscript with his pen and ink decoration, 1p., folds, creased and browned, Britannia watermark, folio, c. 1890].⁂ Provenance: "This is a sheet of scribble done by William Morris while he was in the chair at a socialist meeting in his home at Hammersmith - R Catterson-Smith."

Americas.- Central America.- Gage (Thomas) A New Survey of the West-India's..., second edition, 4 engraved maps, contemporary ink inscription dated 25 May 1655 to verso of map frontispiece at head, woodcut typographical ornaments and initials, lightly browned, wormhole to inner margin affecting maps but unobtrusive, hole to D6 with loss of a few letters, 2 tears to M6 slightly affecting text (repaired), modern calf ruled in blind, lightly marked, [Sabin 26299; Wing G113, cf. Hill 665, first edition of 1648], folio, by E.Cotes, and to be sold by John Sweeting, 1655.⁂ The second and best edition of the first non-Spanish description of the Spanish territories in the New World. Gage spent a dozen years in Central America, living for much of the time amongst the Indians. This edition contains 4 engraved maps not included in the first edition of 1648.

Brooke (Rupert, poet, 1887-1915).- Mallory (George Herbert Leigh, mountaineer, 1886-1924).- Norton (Henry Tertius James, mathematician, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, 1886-1937) 35 Autograph Letters signed, some initials, and 3 cards from Harry Norton to James Strachey, 6 printed invitation cards to Cambridge Conversazione Society dinners (The Apostles), 90pp., folio et infra, Cambridge, London and elsewhere, December 1905 - May 1914, with numerous references to Rupert Brooke, nicknamed the Rajah, in 1908, including Rupert Brooke's sexual proclivities, "It's astonishing, isn't it, how fond the Rajah is of being buggered, he feels, poor dear fellow, quite uncomfortable if one talks to him without an erection", and James Strachey's waning friendship with Brooke, "You asked me why I thought the Rajah's affection would die with his love. When I look at the past as a whole... it's the regular, organic gravity of his feeling which impresses me... His love is not fortuitous in the way Duncan's [Grant] & Maynard's [Keynes] is; you can see why he fell in love... you can assign, in fact, as Keynes would say, a part cause & not the whole cause", and Brooke's burgeoning interest in girls, "The Rajah is a Heteropath? Well, what did we know about him! He told you a year and a half ago that he was already in love, & that circumstances enforced separation; he displayed the kind of passion for Rugby which implies a love affair... You must remember that his connexion with Newnham is peculiar: for the first time in his life he has met a large number of women; they're all young, they're all in love with him... they act, intrigue, & argue & chatter with him..."; Norton's jealousy of Strachey's friendships, "They tell me, this morning, that you were 'remarkably cheery'... I see clearly to what it's due:- your ridiculous visit to the University Cricket-field; the gentlemen... who talked so much & so foolishly... he's infected you, & you, in turn, have infected Rupert, Maynard, Duncan... Eddy Marsh... Mr. Winston Churchill & his bride..."; and Norton's waspish account of George Mallory, "I fear but a vague figure appears... his appearance when I saw him he was just emerging from the Jaundice... a low forehead, a mottle-white complexion, a faintly pendulous nose... His clothes were, I think, important: He was dressed as an outdoor coquette; in dull, rough horse-dung beige, & dull green wool socks... his hair was not greasy, but faintly greased. His manners were good but second hand... He will probably take a low second class in the History Tripos. I thought him sufficiently clever to despise intelligence... sufficiently good-looking to despise beauty... I should have thought him sufficiently good-looking for the Rajah to note him... ", most letters pasted onto transparent paper guards, folds, some browning, a few small tears to edges (c. 48 pieces).⁂ An extremely frank series of letters from a young man hopelessly in love with James Strachey and viciously jealous of Rupert Brooke. The letters are not addressed to anyone, presumably to obviate the anti-homosexual laws prevalent at the time.Rupert Brooke as the "Rajah". Rupert Brooke was known to some of his friends as the "Rajah" because of an erroneous rumour that he was distantly related to the Brooke family, Rajah's of Sarawak. Brooke took to referring to his mother, though not to her face, as the Ranee. Henry Norton was a brilliant mathematics fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, who became a close friend of Lytton Strachey, who made him the dedicatee of Eminent Victorians. Norton fell deeply in love with James Strachey but his feelings were not returned as James was equally passionate about Rupert Brooke, who did not feel the same way about him. In later years they drifted apart, possibly due to medical reasons, as by 1920 he had been diagnosed with hypomania, which turned into severe depression.James Beaumont Strachey (1887-1967), psychoanalyst and translator.Provenance: The Strachey Trust.

Voragine (Jacobus de) Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia, collation: a10 b-p8 q-r6 ל6 s-u8 x6 y8 ל6, double column, 184 ff., the first blank, 49 lines,Gothic type, large first initial in red and blue with marginal flourish, smaller initials and paragraph-marks in red, final f. holed and repaired verso with loss of several words, marginal hole to preceding f., a few very small wormholes within text, water-stained, 19th century limp marbled boards, rather worn, but holding firm, folio (261 x 183mm.), Venice, Antonius de Strata, de Cremona and Marcus Catanellus, 1 July, 1480.⁂ Rare at auction. Literature: BMC V, 292; Goff J95; BSB-Ink I-77.

Bible, English.- The Bible, Complete Old Testament only, comprising Genesis to Prophets, double column, largely printed in black letter, general title within woodcut architectural border printed in red and black, Psalter also with woodcut border, full-page woodcut of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, woodcut illustrations, decorations and initials, lacks initial blank leaf and B1, B6 and gathering C1-6 from genealogical table at beginning, trimmed with occasional loss of headlines or side-notes, light water-stain towards end but generally clean and crisp, 17th century calf, rubbed, clasps, spine cracked, [Herbert 178; STC 2136], folio, by Christopher Barker, 1583.⁂ Handsomely printed, this was the last black letter folio edition of the Geneva version. The full text included the Apocrypha and New Testament. Later bookplate of Lord Walsingham.

Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, 2 parts in 1, translated by Sir Thomas North, titles with woodcut device, woodcut medallion portraits with varying ornamental borders, lacking initial blank, first title discreetly repaired at head (not affecting text), 2F1-2 with small holes and minor loss of text, 3K4 with small hole in text causing slight loss, 5A3 torn and a few other leaves with expertly repaired tears, a few marginal defects, slight marginal worming near beginning, contemporary calf, richly stamped in gilt to an overall pattern of stars with arabesque centre- and corner-pieces and initals "E" and "A" within small circles, rebacked preserving original gilt spine with raised bands, corners and edges repaired, new endpapers and cloth ties, [STC 20068], folio, by Richard Field for George Bishop, 1603.⁂ A handsome copy of the third edition of North's translation, which was first published in 1579. Provenance: "Ex libris Christophori Brayne" (ink inscriptions at beginning and end).

Shakespeare (William) The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the second folio, comprising pp.1-19 and 20-38 respectively, woodcut head-piece and initial to both, some minor soiling and a few small stains, a few headlines shaved, touching ruled border and running title (The Tempest) on a few leaves, modern morocco-backed cloth, folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], [1632].⁂ Nice juxtaposition of one of the Bard's earliest plays (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, c.1589-93) and what some believe is the last play he wrote alone (The Tempest, c.1610-11), from the second folio of 1632.

Shakespeare (William) The Life of King Henry the Fift [&] The first [second] & [third] Part of King Henry the Sixt, from the second folio, together in 1 vol., with the Epilogue to Henry IV part 2 at beginning which has on the verso 'The Actors Names' for Henry V, comprising pp.69-95 (misnumbered '59'), 96-119, 120-146, and 147-172 respectively, some water-staining to text, 3 leaves in middle of second work with repairs and silking, modern morocco-backed cloth, folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], [1632].⁂ Four plays bound together - Henry the Fifth includes one of Shakespeare's most famous and oft-repeated lines (Act 2, scene 1) "Once more unto the Breach, Deare friends, once more; Or close the Wall up with our English dead" and the King's final rallying "Cry, God for Harry, England, and S. George."

Binding.- Bible, English. The Holy Bible conteyning the Old Testament and the New, 2 parts in 1, double column, 2 engraved titles (the general title from a Buck and Daniel bible), woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking all before 2I1, Robert Barker and John Bill, 1638 [colophon dated 1639] bound with a Clement Cotton Concordance of 1639 and a Griffin and Raworth Psalms of 1638, ruled throughout in red, 18th century panelled armorial red morocco, gilt,metal clasps, richly gilt spine in compartments, spine ends chipped,cornrs worn, rubbed, g.e., folio sold as a binding and not subject to return. ⁂ Provenance: Calverley Family (engraved armorial book ticket to front pastedown with motto 'Ex caligine veritas'); '10/6 - 1851, Starbuck' (inscription to front free endpaper).

Donne (John) LXXX sermons preached by that learned and reverend divine, engraved additional architectural title with an oval portrait of Donne at its centre (second state), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial and final blanks, Aa5 outer margin torn with loss of a few printed side-notes, some water-staining, last few index ff. stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments with red morocco label, [STC 7038; Grolier/Donne 62; Grolier/Wither to Prior 293; Keynes, Donne, 29], folio, printed [by Miles Flesher] for Richard Royston, in Ivie-lane, and Richard Marriot in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1640. ⁂ First edition of the first folio collection of Donne's sermons. The prefatory essay is the first printing of Izaak Walton's classic Life of Donne.

Longitude.- Act (An) for Providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall Discover the Longitude at Sea, 6pp., woodcut arms to title, woodcut initial, sewn, folio, Printed by John Baskett...And by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1714.⁂ First edition of the act announcing the competition to establish longitude: 'nothing is so much wanted and desired at Sea, as the Discovery of the Longitude' (part of the opening sentence). A reward of up to £20,000 was offered to the person who found a solution to this pressing problem, which had great bearing on trade and the quest for Empire, the catalyst for which was Sir Cloudesley Shovell's disastrous shipwreck off the Scilly Isles on his return from the Siege of Toulon in 1707. It was John Harrison who finally met the criteria with his marine chronometer, although it was many years before he received his rightful reward, due to the prejudice of the Board of Longitude.

Shakespeare (William) A Midsommer Nights Dreame, from the second folio, comprising pp.145-162 (p.153 mis-numbered 151 and corrected in ink), soiled and stained, edges browned and brittle, hole in one leaf affecting a few words on verso, all leaves loose, folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], [1632].⁂ A complete, albeit rather grubby copy of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies.

Parliamentary Petition.- Fur Trade.- Hat-Making.- The Case of the Manufacturers and Others concerned in the making and vending of Beaver Hats..., with appended paragraph entitled 'Loss of the Hat Trade' detailing trade with Spain and Portugal, bifolium, as issued, docket title to verso of last f., folds, some browning and soiling, a few nicks, creases and closed tears to edges, edges uncut, folio, ?1764; and both another copy without the appended paragraph and a copy of a supplementary document in support of the petition describing events in Spain and Portugal, folio (3)⁂ESTC lists two copies, in The Library Company of America and the University of Minnesota respectively; copies of both other pieces are recorded in the BL and the NLS only.

Shakespeare (William) Twelfe-Night, Or what you will, from the third folio, comprising pp.255-275 plus blank verso, edges browned and occasionally brittle, corners rounded, some trimmed and slightly affecting ruled border, folio, [c.1664].⁂ Widely regarded as the rarest of the four 17th century folio editions, an unknown quantity of the print run having been allegedly destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Complete individual plays seldom come onto the market.

Shakespeare (William) The London Prodigal [&] The History of the Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell [&] The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham, from the third folio, comprising pp.1-16, 17-32 and 33-54 (some pages misnumbered) respectively [i.e.pp.934-983], stained, frayed and soiled, some worming to inner margins, edges browned and brittle, all leaves loose, 1664; with a number of other leaves from the 3rd folio, including parts of All's Well that ends well (some leaves duplicated), The Winter's Tale and The Puritan Widow, mostly in similar condition, folio (51 leaves)⁂ The three complete plays were some of the seven which were included for the first time in this third folio edition, all but one of which (Pericles) were spurious. This copy of Sir John Oldcastle has the page number 36 omitted but completed in ink in a contemporary hand; the play's title is also written in ink in a contemporary hand in the upper margin of p.39.

Shakespeare (William) The much admired Play, called, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, from the third folio, comprising pp.1-20 [i.e. 914-933], stained, often heavily, frayed and with some holes affecting text, all leaves loose, folio, 1664; and several leaves from the 2nd folio, including Measure for Measure (complete but for one leaf), some badly frayed and stained, folio (27 leaves)⁂ Pericles was included in the third folio for the first time together with 6 other plays which were attributed to Shakespeare but not authentic.

Beardsley (Aubrey) An Issue of Five Drawings Illustrative of Juvenal and Lucian, number 40 of 120 copies, 5 plates, loose, bookplate of James Denny on inside cover, in printed wrappers, folio, 1906; The Lysistrata of Aristophanes, 8 collotype plates, printed paper watermarked "AB", preserved in a blue cloth portfolio with gilt initials "T.G.N.S." on upper cover, accompanying note identifies this as T.N.G. Stubbs and states that he was given the portfolio by Vyvyan Holland, [c. 1929], plates by Aubrey Beardsley, 4to, v.d. (2).

Legay (Jehan, Sieur de la Bougatriere) Abrege des Antiquitez Noblesse et Haultes Alliances de L'Illustre Maison Despinay, manuscript in French, in an attractive cursive hand, title and 132pp., d'Espinay arms executed in gold, silver and water-colours pasted on verso of title, water-colour drawing, heightened with gold, of a headless figure, the left hand holding an orb, the right hand raised in blessing, inscribed at the top "A Madame, Madame D'Espinay" pasted on verso of folio 46, green watered silk endpapers, green morocco and gilt patterned doublures, bound in 19th century brown morocco gilt, inlaid with various colours, the sides divided into irregularly-shaped compartments by double-fillets, by Le Couturier stamped at tail of spine, 8vo, [France], [16th century].⁂ Sotheby's Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books and Fine Bindings, Monday, December 14th, 1959. The Property of a Gentleman. Bought by Alan G. Thomas.

Persian manuscript.- Mir'at Makkah [The Mirror of Makkah], vol.1 only of a larger work entitled Mir'at al-Haramayn [The Mirror of Two Santuaries], Persian manuscript on blue paper, 213ff., 12-14 lines to the page written in elegant nasta'liq script in black ink, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, outer margin in red, first page decorated with an illuminated head-piece in colours and gold, intercolumnar rules in gold, lacking catchwords, generally in very good condition, broken and hinges split, contemporary citron morocco, paper label to spine, upper cover slightly stained, folio, Qajar, [last quarter of 19th century].⁂ Anonymous Persian translation of an original Ottoman Turkish text by Eyyub Sabri Pasha (d.1890), written during the reign of Sultan 'Abd al-Hamid Il bin 'Abd al-Majid I (reigned 1876-1909). Complete in itself, this volume was probably part of a larger work on the Holy Sanctuaries (Mecca and Medina) and the pilgrimage routes in the Hejaz, printed in Ottoman Turkish in 5 volumes by the Bahriyye Press, 1888, with other Ottoman Turkish editions printed in Constantinople between 1884 and 1889 and in Arabic in Cairo.

China.- Daniell (Thomas and William) A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the way of China, first edition, 50 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates with grey wash border, all on thick paper, text and plates mounted on stubs, some light browning or soiling, modern red morocco, a little spotted and marked, one or two small gouges to lower cover, spine faded, [Abbey Travel 516; Tooley 173], a very good copy, oblong folio, bound as folio, 1810.⁂ The Daniells left England in April 1785 on board the Indiaman Atlas, arriving in Whampoa, China, in August. Having spent several months in China they then sailed on to Calcutta. Includes views of Madeira, the Cape of Good Hope, Java, Macao and Canton with roughly half the plates depicting China (views, costumes, interiors etc.).

Nonesuch Press.- Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English, translated by H.F.Cary, number 66 of 1475 copies, printed in Monotype Blado, text in Italian and English, double-page plates from drawings by Sandro Botticelli, endpapers a little browned, original vellum stained orange, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, a good copy without the usual fading to spine and covers only slightly splaying, folio, Nonesuch Press, 1928.

India.- Hunter (Lt. James) Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore, Parts 1-8 & 10 only (of 10), first edition, hand-coloured stipple-engraved portrait of Tippoo Sultan and 36 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, tissue guards, light foxing to title and portrait, some light marginal soiling to plates, plates of Part 7 (26-29) with a few damp spots, stitched in the original blue wrappers with hexagonal stipple-engraved pictorial labels depicting camel to upper covers and numbered in manuscript (one or two lacking or detached and loosely inserted), contemporary ink signature to upper outer corner of wrappers or first plate of each part, soiled and marked, some paper spines lacking or detached, [Tooley 275; cf. Abbey, Travel 424], oblong folio, W.Bulmer & Co. for Edward Orme, 1805.⁂ One of the finest colour-plate books of India with superb views and scenes of everyday life, and rare to be found in the original parts. It was later issued with Daniell and Ward's Twenty-Four Views in Hindostan as Blagdon's Brief History of Ancient and Modern India.

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Ephemera, a large collection of assorted ephemera to include copy of The Times newspaper dated 30th October 1824, a copy of The News dated April 21st 1816, 19th C letters, photographs, engravings, valentines poems, theatrical magazine clippings (mounted on card), 20th C photos, gardening booklets, 1950s record advertising posters (Decca, Polygon etc), poetry books and booklets, Selfridges 1909 diary, 2 copies of L'Assiette au Beurre circa 1901 and a 1905 copy of Le Rire, 3 French large format haberdashery catalogues from 1933 excellent for the study of fashion history. Sold with a folio initialled W.H. containing items relating to Professor William Henderson 'The Royal Illusionist' and 'Prestidigitateur and Novel Instrumentalist' etc (mixed condition gen gd) (100s)

Masonic, a quantity of books and paperwork relating to the Masons to include 'Freemason's Book of the Royal Arch' and Freemason's Guide and Compendium' both by Bernard E Jones, 'Freemasonry A Celebration of the Craft', Folio Society 'The Trial of the Templars' by Malcolm Barber together with a quantity of paperwork from 1960 onwards relating to several different Lodges and Chapters but predominantly Kentish Lodge and Pythagorean Chapter, 100+ letters, documents, booklets and menus (gen gd) (100s)

Music - Boyce (William, Mus. Doc.), Fifteen Anthems, together with a Te Deum, and Jubilate, in Score for 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 Voices, Composed for the Royal Chapels by William Boyce, Mus. Doc., late Organist and Composer to His Majefty (sic), and Master of his Majesty's Band of Musicians, Printed for the Author's Widow and Family, London 1780, pp: [ii], 3, [i], 141, the sheet music engraved and printed by T. Bennett, contemporary red-stained calf spine and boards, crown folio Condition Report: Please see additional images, scuffed binding with bumps and losses, lacking end papers at front; verso scuffed and creased, soiled margins, generally fainter as the music progresses, loss and 47/48 lower margin, split at 52/53, stable; slighter at 77/78, speckled browning here and there, light odd scuffs to margin

India: Photographs and Drawings of Historic Buildings, 100 Plates Produced by W. Griggs, From the Collection in the late Office of Curator of Ancient Monuments in India, London 1896, 9 fold-out chromolithograph plates, 40 full-page chromolithograph plates, further b/w line engraved architectural elevations and sections, b/w photographic reproductions of monuments and artefacts, some plates and illustrations prefaced by explanatory text, full contemporary publisher's red cloth gilt, in the Islamic taste, red endpapers, crown folio Condition Report: Minor warping to the boards and ripple to the front lower portion but stable, spine slightly sunned, head and tail cap are gently frayed, stable split to inner mid hinge, but contents tight in binding, plates good, some very minor, occasional speckling, but nothing too drastic, light soiling to spine and back board, a good copy

Legal History - Keble (Joseph, of Grays-Inn, Efquire (sic)), The Statutes at Large in Paragraphs and Sections or Numbers, from Magna Charta Until this Time [...] Together with [...] Abridgements in the Margin and the Addition of above a Thoufand (sic) New References from other Books of Law: and A New Table [...], Printed by the Affigns (sic) of John Bill deceas'd [...], Printers to the King's moft (sic) Excellent Majefty (sic), London 1684, repaired title-page with woodcut Royal Arms of James II, preface with large woodcut initial, mainly printed in Black Letter Gothic type throughout, 20th century black leather binding, raised bands to spines enclosing a silver lettered title-label, medium folio

Local Interest - Craven (Maxwell), signed dedications from the author: Stanton and the Thornhills, Privately Printed, 2012, h/b, d/j, small folio; Pirates, Parsons & Patricians: The Wigram Family and their Derbyshire Connections, Derby 2014, h/b, d/j, 4to; Newton Solney, Derby 2009, h/b, d/j, small folio; "To Grow Out of the Landscape": The story of Newton Park, 2008, p/b, 8vo; Clockmakers & Watchmakers of Derbyshire, Mayfield Books, Ashbourne 1998, h/b, d/j, 4to; John Whitehurst of Derby: Clockmaker & Scientist 1713 - 88, Mayfield Books, Ashbourne 1996, h/b, d/j; other publications on Derby and its environs by the same author; Ronaldshay (The Rt. Hon. the Earl of), The Life of Lord Curzon: Being the Authorized Biography of George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., three-volume set, Ernest Benn Ltd., London 1928, b/w illustrations throughout, contemporary blue cloth; 8vo; further biographies and monographs on Lord Curzon, his life and career, various, (6); pamphlets and ephemera; qty

Local Interest - Derbyshire Lead Mining and Geology - Craven (Maxwell), Stanton and the Thornhills, Privately Printed, 2012, h/b, d/j, armorial endpapers, small folio; Rieuwarts (J.H.): Adventures in the Lead Trade - being an account of the mining interests of the Thornhill family of Stanton Hall, near Bakewell, Derbyshire, limited edition of 300, Hucklow Publishing, Hucklow 2013, h/n, d/j, oblong 4to; Lead Mining in Derbyshire, Parts 1 to 4, Landmark Publishing, Ashbourne 2007 - 2012, h/b, d/j, (4); and, Lathkill Dale, Derbyshire: its Mine and Miners, Landmark Publishing, Ashbourne 2000, h/b, d/j; Porter (Lindsey), Ecton Copper Mines under the Dukes of Devonshire, 1760 - 1790, Landmark Publishing, Ashbourne 2004, h/b, d/j; George Sitwell's Letterbook 1662 - 66, edited by Philip Riden, Derbyshire Record Society, Volume X, 1985, h/b, d/j; British Geological Survey: Geology of the country around Buxton, Leek and Bakewell, 1985; Ford (Trevor D.), Derbyshire Blue John, 2005; etc

Local Interest - Overton Hall Estate Catalogue, To be Sold by Private Tender (The highest or any Tender not necessarily accepted), A Valuable Freehold Property, Known as the Overton Hall Estate, Embracing an area of about 1,060 acres, and comprising a Charming Stone-built Residence, known as Overton Hall, The Agricultural portion comprises Fifteen Farms, Dwelling Houses, Accommodation Land, Woodland and Building Land, For appointment to view apply to Mr Henry Holmes, Jessop's Quarries, Ashover Chesterfield [...], Derbyshire 1918, pp: 20, [i], illustrated with a b/w illustration of the hall and estate, along with two large fold-out partially-coloured map, measuring 97.5cm x 73.5cm and 63.5cm x 80.5cm overall, printed teal paper covers and restitched spine, slim folio; Robinsons of Chesterfield Centenary: An epic account of the growth of the firm of Robinson and Sons Ltd. of Chesterfield, 1839 - 1939, claret card covers, gilt with a vignette of the Crooked Spire, as issued, 4to, [2]

Miscellaneous - Theology, George I Book of Common Prayer, [bound with] The Whole Book of Psalms [...], BCP lacking title-page and any further bibliographical details but calendar dated from 1725 onwards, Psalms: Printed by William Pearfon (sic), for the Company of Stationers, London 1727, BCP with some full-page engraved plates and woodcut initials, Psalms title-page ruled in black, early 19th century diced red morocco gilt and marbled endpapers, the covers gilt ruled enclosing a rolled border, the spine with raised bands forming compartments gilt with bosses and scrolling swags to angles, lettered in the second compartment, gilt dentelles, red-stained edges, 12mo; Foxe's Book of Martyrs [...], with Notes, Comments, &c., by the Rev. J. Milner [...], A New and Corrected Edition by Rev. Ingram Cobbin [...], Illustrated with fine Engravings, William Tegg, London 1867, stipple-engraved frontispiece and title-page, contemporary half-calf and cloth boards, red-stained edges, large 8vo; Compendium Seu Breviarium Absolutissimum Omnium Meditationum, Cologne 1623, contemporary vellum covers, 16mo; Wilde (Oscar), Salomé, Newly translated by Vyvyan Holland, Engravings by Frank Martin, The Folio Society, London 1957, turquoise brocade covers, slipcased, 8vo, [5]

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]

Roman Art and Architecture - Wilpert (Joseph), Die Malereien Der Katakomben Roms [The Paintings of The Catacombs of Rome], volume II only, Herdersche Verlagshandlung, Breisgau 1903, 267 coloured and monochrome full-page photographic prints of the Roman catacombs and their frescoes, quarter-buckram and printed yellow board as issued, crown folio

Rural Pursuits - Masefield (John), Right Royal, Illustrated by Cecil Aldin, William Heinemann, London 1922, tipped-in colour plates, contemporary charcoal cloth, 4to; Pennell-Elmhurst (Captain "Brooksby"), The Cream of Leicestershire [...], With Illustrations, Coloured and Plain, by John Sturgess, and Portraits and Map, George Routledge and Sons, London 1883, contemporary pictorial red cloth, 8vo; Lutyens (F.M.), Mr Spinks and His Hounds: A Hunting Story, with Illustrations by C. Lutyens and the Author, second edition, Vinton & Co., Limited, London [n.d., c. 1900], contemporary pictorial green cloth, 8vo; Ogilvie (Will H.), Scattered Scarlet, Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, Constable and Company Ltd., London 1923, tipped-in colour plates, contemporary red cloth, 4to; The Haddon Hall Library: Shand (Alexander Innes), Shooting, J.M. Dent & Co., London 1902, full-page plates, contemporary green cloth gilt, 8vo; Pictures of Life & Character by John Leech, From the Collection of Mr Punch, Second Series, Published by Bradbury and Evans, London 1862, contemporary pictorial boards, oblong medium folio; Steward (F.A.), 'Cross Country with Hounds, Collins, London 1936, contemporary cloth, oblong crown folio; Badminton Library, facsimile reprints, h/b, (2); various 19th century and later bindings; etc

Sutherland [William] and [George], The Art of Graining & Imitating Woods, second edition, Published by the Decorative Art Journals, Co., Manchester 1900, pp: [i], 34, 20 large full-page chromolithographic plates, pictorial buff cloth as issued, medium folio

The Book of Common Prayer [...] [&] Holy Bible, Containing The Old Teftament (sic) and The New [...], Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb (sic), deceas'd; Printers to the Queens moft (sic) Excellent Majefty (sic), London 1703, [with] The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others [...], Printed by W.B. for the Company of Stationers, London 1703, etched and engraved portrait frontispiece of Queen Anne to BCP, etched and engraved architectural frontispiece to Holy Bible by John Sturt (1658 - 1730), which is unusually 'By His Majefties (sic) Special Command', further full-page engraved Biblical plates and woodcut initials throughout each text of BCP and Bible, rebacked and repaired worn fragmentary panelled red morocco gilt, contemporaneous ink MS ownership and presentation inscription to BoC: This Booke (sic) was given by John Wellins to his Brother Edward Wellins and his for [...] Witnefs (sic) his (?) bands -, John Wellins 1708, small folio

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

Arkwright (William [of Sutton Scarsdale Hall, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire]), The Pointer and His Predecessors: An Illustrated History of the Pointing Dog from the Earliest Times, unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 750, Arthur L. Humphreys, London 1902, illustrated with 39 full-page plates, contemporary green cloth and ivory buckram spine, the upper-cover and spine gilt lettered, small folio Condition Report: R

Le Blond & Co - a folio of Baxter process prints, each annotated to the loose mount, including The Leisure Hour No.112; The Bird's Nest No.96, Blowing Bubbles No.71, The Fisherman's Hut no.90, others, oval, typically 13cm x 17.5cm, approx 32, marbled album Condition Report: Please see additional images

Royal Interest - a large and comprehensive album of late Victorian newspaper and press clippings of the monarch's death, Her Majesty Queen Victoria, R & I, 1819 - 1901, the upper cover lettered and tooled with the Royal Arms in gilt, enclosing 61 paginated and chamfered stiff card pages applied with clipped notices and articles, each inscribed and dated in ink MS by the compiler, full contemporary green-stained calf ledger gilt, gilt foliate dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled and gilt endpapers, recto pastedown with armorial school bookplate: Boys Library, Wellington College, crown folio

Architecture and Masonry - Mylne (Rev. Robert Scott), The Master Masons to the Crown of Scotland and Their Works, copy no. 303, Scott & Ferguson and Burness & Company, Edinburgh 1893, illustrated with full-page lithographic and engraved architectural and topographical plates, contemporary pictorial cloth binding, Ex Library copy, neatly embossed library stamp to prelim and some gilt numeration to spine, crown folio; Vallance (Aymer), The Old Colleges of Oxford: Their Architectural History Illustrated and Described, B.T. Batsford, London [n.d., 1912], full-page lithographic and photographic plates, further engraved illustrations accompanying text, Neo Gothic title-page and initials, contemporary pictorial cloth binding, Ex Library copy, Nottingham Reference Library paper label to upper-cover, some institutional stamps to prelims and plate margins in places, medium folio, [2]

Burkitt (William, M.A., Late Vicar and Lecturer of Dedham in Essex), Expository Notes, with Practical Obfervations (sic), on the New-Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ [...], sixth edition, Printed for John Wyat, at the Rofe (sic) [...], London 1716, engraved portrait frontispiece of the clergyman by Robert White (1645 - 1703), rebacked contemporary panelled calf and gilt lettered morocco title-label, later endpapers, crown folio; two modern pamphlets relating to the parish of Dedham, Essex, and Burkitt as as past incumbent, [3]

Continental Theology - Bishops Phillpotts' Copy, [Nazianzus (Saint Gregory of)], Sancti Patris Nostri Gregorii Nazianzeni Opera Græc Lat, [edited by Jacques de Billy SJ], two-volume set, Sumptibus C. Morelli, Parisiis [Paris] 1630, parallel Greek and Latin text, engraved Renaissance title-page vignettes of figures emblematic of the Four Continents at each angle and flanking a fountain of wisdom, woodcut head, tail-pieces and initials throughout, volume I in contemporary calf, volume II later bound in 20th century half-calf and marbled boards, each with red speckled edges, 17th century ink MS annotations in volume I and getting sparse as the text progresses, Provenance: verso of each title-page with two institutional library stamps: Koen. Fried. Univers. zu Halle and Duplum Biblioth. Acad. Halens. Vend; with, D. Nutt, Bookseller, Strand, [London], his ticket on pastedown of volume I only; Bishop Henry Phillpotts of Exeter (1778 - 1869), lozenge shaped armorial bookplate to pastedown of volume I only and inscribed Clero Cornubiensi d.d. Henricus Exoniensis and dated 1866, front endpaper inscribed in ink MS presumably in the prelate's own hand; then, Bishop Phillpotts' Library, Truro label, No. 13 A, crown folios, (2); [Bellarmine (Saint Robert, SJ), Controveriæ, four-volume set bound as two, [Johann Gymnich, Cologne], woodcut vignettes to each title-page, contemporary panelled calf boards, later gilt calf spines with raised bands, crown folios, (2); Sacrorum Bibliorum Vulgatæ Concordantiæ [...], Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, Venetiis [Venice] 1754, contemporary vellum boards, gilt lettered spine, Ampleforth Abbey Library armorial bookplate, small folio; [Sirmond (Jacques, SJ)], Opera Varia, volumes III-V, bound as two, Bartolomei Javarina, Venice 1728, 19th century cloth and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, 19th century Continental armorial bookplate, surmounted by a marquis' coronet, later theological institution shelf label, crown folios, (2), [7]

A New Royal and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: or, Complete System of Human Knowledge [...], Embellifhed (sic) with upwards of One Hundred Copper-Plates [...], Printed for J. Cooke. London 1770, engraved frontispiece and further full-page plates, contemporary panelled reverse calf, lettered piece to spine's second compartment, crown folio

Folio Society - Cobbett (William), Rural Rides [...], edited by Ian Dyck, 2010, pictorial buckram, slipcased; Fielding (Henry), The History of Tom Jones, 1973, pictorial red cloth, slipcased; others, Hogarth, Dicken's London, Cellini, Michaelangelo, gastronomy, history, literature, various sizes and dates, mostly slipcased; qty [28]

Folio Society - P.G. Wodehouse, Christopher Marlowe, Michael Morpurgo, Émile Zola, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, others, various, all cloth bindings, mainly pictorial, each slipcased, [20]