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Acts.- An Act for the Attainder of the Rebels in Ireland, [Wing E1092], Henry Hills and John Field, 1657 bound with An Act for the Setling of the Postage in England, [Wing E1124], Henry Hills and John Field, 1657 and An Act for the better Suppresing of Theft Upon the Borders of England and Scotland and For the Discovery of High-way Men and other Felons, [Wing E1100], Henry Hills and John Field, 1657 and An Act for the Assuring, Confirming and Setling of Lands and Estates in Ireland, [Wing E1091], Henry Hills and John Field, 1657 and c.20 others, Acts and related, black letter, titles with woodcut arms,some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, folio

Wilkins (John) An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, 2 parts in 1, first edition, imprimatur leaf, title with engraved armorial, two full-page engraved plates, engraved illustrations, two folding tables, slightly browned, occasional light spotting, armorial bookplate of Beilby Thompson of Escrick, contemporary calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down, corners bumped, [Wing W2196; Alston VII 290, noting that copies vary as to plates and tables], folio, John Martin Printer to the Royal Society, 1668.⁂ The first full exposition of universal language in English by the renowned mathematician and astronomer John Wilkins (1616-72), first Secretary of the Royal Society. This, his most important work, was prepared with the assistance of John Ray & Francis Willughby. It contains sections on the origin of languages and letters, the theory of grammar and phonetics and their relation to universal language, and the proposed alphabet for Wilkins's devised universal language."Beilby Thompson (1742-99), landowner and politician.

Milton (John) Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books, fourth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by R.White after Faithorne (laid down), 12 engraved plates by M.Burghers and P.P.Bouche after Medina, 6pp. list of subscribers at end, a little soiled and browned, a few ink stains, first plate trimmed close at fore-edge, M3 with tear to lower margin, near contemporary speckled calf, very slightly rubbed, neatly rebacked preserving old red morocco label, new endpapers, a good copy, [Pforzheimer 720; Wing M2147], folio, for Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob Tonson, 1688.⁂ The first folio and the first illustrated edition of Milton's great work; one of three variants published in the same year.

Isabella I (as Queen of Castile, married Ferdinand II of Aragon, 1451-1504) Order to her chamberlain Sancho de Peredes to give a quantity of silver to her treasurer Alonso de Morales, D.s. "Yo la Reyna", also signed by Miguel Perez d'Almazan secretary, Alonso de Morales treasurer and witnessed by Diego Remirez one of the Queen's clerks, manuscript in Spanish, 2pp., 2 small slits repaired with tape, folds, slightly browned, folio, Granada, 12th August 1501.⁂ The order concerns the beating down of a silver brazier, done on the Queen's orders as it had soldered joints in it.

[Burton (Robert)], "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy, fourth edition, with initial 'Argument of the Frontispiece' leaf, engraved title with allegorical border by C.Le Blon, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, initials and device on colophon, initial leaf slightly frayed and reinforced and inner margin, occasional staining to upper margin but generally a good clean copy, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, some repairs to corners and edges, [STC 4162], folio, Oxford, [John Lichfield] for Henry Cripps, 1632.

Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., first edition, titles printed in red and black, text in double column, vol.2 lacking sig. 25M (i.e. 2 leaves), a couple of tears, some light foxing and browning, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, folio, [PMM 201; Rothschild 1237], Printed by W. Strahan..., 1755.⁂ "The most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography." (PMM)

Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol. fifth edition, titles printed in red & black, occasional spotting, a few ff. foxed, vol.II title inscribed 'Phoenix Fire Office', contemporary tree calf, rebacked in near-contemporary calf, gilt and with red and dark green morocco labels, morocco label of the Phoenix Fire Office to covers, upper covers all but detached, other covers working loose, rubbed, folio, For W. Strahan [&c.], 1784.

Foulis Press.- Virgilius Maro (Publius) Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, 2 vol. in 1, half-titles, list of subscribers at end, occasional spotting, 19th century red crushed red morocco, gilt, upper joint just starting at foot, little rubbing, g.e., folio, Glasgow, Foulis Press, 1778.

Maritime Law.- Selden (John) Mare clausum seu de dominio maris libri duo, first edition, with initial and final blanks, title in red and black with woodcut device, errata on penultimate leaf, illustrations, mostly woodcut but including 2 engraved maps, old ink inscription "Hen. Bull è coll. Magd. Oxon 1691" at head of title and initial blank, light marginal staining at beginning and end, some worming causing slight loss, contemporary sheep, rubbed and scuffed, head of spine and corners a little worn, [Sabin 78971; STC 22175 ], folio, Will. Stanesby for Richard Meighen, 1635.⁂ Important work on maritime law proposing that countries could claim territory at sea as well as on land, opposing Grotius's suggestion that the sea should be international territory and free for all to use for trade. The Dutch then produced a compromise that a country's maritime territory should extend only as far as it could be protected by cannon from the coast, later developed into the three-mile limit.

Ashendene Press.- More (Sir Thomas, Saint) A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the Newe Yle called Utopia, one of 100 copies on handmade Batchelor paper, printed in red and black in Subiaco type, with initials in red designed by Eric Gill, pp.161-2 with small rust mark to lower fore-edge, presentation copy from C.H. St John Hornby to John Galsworthy with his ink inscription "John Galsworthy from C.H.St.J.H., 25 Dec. 1907" to front free endpaper, Galsworthy bookplate to endpaper and George Abrams bookplate to pastedown, original holland-backed boards, uncut, some light staining and soiling to boards, spine marked at foot, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Hornby 22], folio, Ashendene Press, 1906.⁂ The first book from the press with marginal notes printed in red.

Grasses.- Sinclair (George) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis: or, An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of Different Grasses, and Other Plants, Used as the Food of the More Valuable Domestic Animals..., first edition, 35 samples of seeds pasted to 14 ff., 1 sample secured by tape, 123 mounted dried specimens of grasses, each with pasted-in captions, tissue guards, a few with tears, one with repair, errata slip pasted to contents f. verso, without folding engraved plan (not found in all copies), offsetting from samples, scattered spotting and soiling, most to peripheral ff., upper hinge splitting a little, contemporary black half calf over cloth, spine gilt, morocco title label, a little rubbed, [Nissen BBI 1850, calls for 122 grass specimens], folio, 1816.⁂The work dedicated to John Russell, the 6th Duke of Bedford; Sinclair's research carried out in the grounds of Woburn Abbey, where he was gardener to the Duke; his work thought directly to have influenced the development of Darwin's 'principle of divergence'.‘The folding plan is uncommon: it is not called for in Nissen.’ 

Scopoli (Giovanni Antonio) Deliciae florae et faunae insubricae seu novae, 3 vol., first edition, 3 additional engraved architectural titles (vol.2 printed in blue, vol.3 with additional state printed in red and yellow), engraved title-vignettes and head-pieces of Pavia Botanical Garden, 74 engraved plates only (of 75, lacking plate XIX in vol.2) after Bordiga, Cairoli, Chiesa and Lanfranchi, with all but 2 plates with additional state printed in colours and finished by hand (lacking plates VI in vol.1 and XIX in vol.2), occasional foxing, mostly to text, plates generally clean, light water-stain to outer margin of final few leaves of vol.1, vol.1 & 3 handsome contemporary calf with Bourbon arms in gilt, blue marbled edges, vol.2 contemporary mottled calf, gilt, all with gilt borders and spines with morocco labels, a little rubbed and marked, a few scuffs, spine ends slightly worn, [Great Flower Books p.139; Nissen BBI 1822], folio, Pavia, Monastery San Salvatore, 1786-88.⁂ Scarce work on the fauna and flora of Pavia and the Lombardy region, with a very rare additional set of plates printed in colours. G.A.Scopoli (1723-88) was born in the Italian Tyrol and studied medicine and chemistry before becoming Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pavia in 1777, where he founded a botanical garden and chemistry laboratory. He was greatly interested in botany and zoology and corresponded with Linnaeus, whose system of nomenclature he adopted. Linnaeus named several plants and insects after him.The present copy lacks the colour state of 'Lotus Oligoceratos' in vol.1 and both colour and black & white states of 'Falco Rufus' in vol.2, but it does contain pp.103-114 in vol.2 which are sometimes missing having been destroyed "by war action". It is very rare to find the work with the plates in two states, only this copy has appeared at auction, most recently in the De Belder sale in 1987. In the British Library there is the Sir Thomas Bankes copy of which vol.1 only contains the plates in both states.

Shaw (George) Cimelia Physica. Figures of Rare and Curious Quadrupeds, Birds, &c. Together with Several of the Most Elegant Plants..., second edition, frontispiece and 59 plates engraved and hand-coloured by John Frederick Miller, a little soiling and faint even browning, some spotting, a few ff. nicks and very short closed tears to edges, some repaired, contemporary straight-grained green morocco, g.e., board margins ruled and tooled in blind, inner borders tooled in blind and gilt, staining, a few scuffs and scrapes, spine and extremities worn, loss at spine ends, fore corners and spine bands repaired, [Fine Bird Books p. 94; Nissen IVB 638; Stafleu and Cowan 6033; Wood p. 465; Zimmer p. 585], by T.Bensley, folio, 1796.⁂Without the plate list and taxonomy from the first edition found in some copies of the second.Provenance: Madelaine Jay (bookplate)

Mathematics.- Euclid.- Finé (Oronce) In sex priores libros geometricorum elementorum Euclidis Megarensis demonstrationes, collation: [apple]4, a-d, E-M6, N4, title within Coline's metalcut criblé 'Trilicium' border, fine metalcut criblé initials, woodcut diagrams and strapwork head-pieces, a few instances of later ink marginalia, some staining to preliminaries, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, spine in compartments, spine repaired, rubbed and marked, folio (299 x 193mm.), Paris, Simon de Colines, 1544.⁂ Second edition of Oronce Finé's commentary on Euclidean problems, with some revisions from the first edition of 1536. Literature: Renouard, Colines, 395-396; Schreiber, Colines, 214; Mortimer, French, 216; Thomas-Stanford 10.

Mathematics.- Euclid. Euclidis quæ supersunt omnia [graece], edited by David Gregory, one of 250 large paper copies, parallel Greek and Latin text, initial blank, engraved frontispiece and title vignette, woodcut diagrams within text, errata f., frontispiece with repairs and creased, without loss, marginal repair to lower corner of title, occasional spotting, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, preserving original backstrip in compartments, corners repaired, folio (400 x 250mm.), Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1703.

Lambe (Samuel) Seasonable Observations humbly offered to His Highness the Lord Protector, [2], 20pp., with initial blank, drop-head title, woodcut head-piece and initial, At the Authors charge...by William Hope, 1657 bound after Case of Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury (The), 16pp., by K.P. for C.R., 1679 and [Blount (Charles)], "Junius Brutus". An Appeal from the Country to the City, for the preservation of His Majesties Person, Liberty, Property, and the Protestant Religion, 8pp., caption title, [1679] and Clarendon (Earl of) Two Letters...to His Royal Highness the Duke of York...[&] the Dutchess, occasion'd by Her embracing the Roman Catholick Religion, 4pp. caption title, [?1680] and D. (J.) A Word without Doors Concerning the Bill for Succession, 4pp., caption title, [1679] and [Smith (Francis)], "Tom. Tickle-foot the Taborer". Some Observations upon the Late Tryals of Sir George Wakeman, 11pp., for A.Brewster, 1679 and Impartial Account (An) of Divers Remarkable Proceedings...of Parliament relating to the Horrid Popish Plot, &c., [2], 26pp., 1679 and Smith (John) The Narrative...containing a further Discovery of the late Horrid and Popish-plot, [8], 35pp., with initial imprimatur leaf and errata to p.35, by Robert Boulter, 1679 and Sarpi (Paolo) A Treatise of Matters Beneficiary, [8], 48, 59-84, [2] pp., with final blank, by Thomas Hodgkin..., 1680 and Cotton (Sir Robert) The Antiquity and Dignity of Parliaments, [2], 13pp., 1679, together 10 works in 1 vol., the first item bound last, contemporary ink manuscript list of contents on front free endpaper and receipts at beginning and end (upside down), some light soiling, a few minor stains, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, rubbed and soiled, ink note and calculations to upper cover, [Wing L229, C883, B3300AB, C4421, D48, S4540, I63, S4127, S701 & C6481], folio⁂ The first item is scarce, with only 6 UK copies listed by ESTC and a further 5 elsewhere. This copy contains an initial blank and 20pp. text with the final leaf p.19 headed "To his Highness the Lord Protector..." and catchword on previous page "To" (but verso paginated "12"). ESTC calls for 18pp. and a final blank, plus a second section of 4pp. with caption title "A Post-script", stating "In this edition, the colophon does not include the bookseller's name William Hope. Wing reports edition with 'to be sold by William Hope' in colophon", as in the present copy. Evidently there are 2 variants and this edition appears to be complete.

Krahl (Regina) Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul: A Complete Catalogue, edited by John Ayers, 3 vol., first edition, illustrations, some colour, original pictorial cloth, gilt, dust-jackets, folio, 1986.

Ireland.- Nicholl (Andrew) This Series of Twelve Drawings of the Northern Coast of Ireland, 12 tinted lithographed plates and lithographed dedication leaf and subscribers leaf, some foxing, mostly in margin, original lithographed wrappers, soiled, small stain on upper cover, edges chipped, [Abbey Scenery, 462], folio, n.d. [c. 1830s].

More (Henry) Historia Missionis Anglicanae Societatis Iesu, first edition, additional engraved title incorporating four portraits of clerics including Edmund Campion, woodcut initials, approbation/errata leaf at end (repaired at upper inner margin), contemporary ink inscription "Collegii Soc. Jesu catalogo...1662" on engraved title, a little browned, light water-staining to first few leaves, a few rust-spots causing small hole to N2 and 3S1 affecting a couple of letters, contemporary blind-stamped alum-tawed pigskin with clasps (one lacking), lower compartment of spine painted red, later label chipped, rubbed and soiled, folio, St.Omer, Thomas Geubels, 1660.⁂ Historical work by the great-grandson of Sir Thomas More.

France.- Vernet (After Joseph, 1714-1789) [Vues des ports de France], sixteen plates (of 18) after the series of paintings commissioned to Vernet by the Marquess of Marigny in 1753, etchings and engravings by Charles Nicolas Cochin fils (1715-1790) and Jacques Philippe Le Bas (1707-1783), each on laid paper mounted on paper support and bound into an album, platemarks approx. 530 x 745 mm. (20 7/8 x 29 3/8 in), sheets approx. 605 x 805 mm. (23 3/4 x 31 3/4 in), some occasional tears and areas of restored loss, surface dirt and handling creases, half-roan over paper-patterned boards, rubbed, folio, [circa 1760-1780].Literature:cf. Arlaud 243-260⁂ Scarce. In 1753, King Louis XV commissioned Vernet to produce a series of paintings to document and promote the harbours of France. Between 1753 and 1765, Vernet travelled to ten harbours, and eventually completed 15 of an intended 24 views. The series consolidated Vernet's reputation, and from 1758 the present suite of engraved reproductions began. In addition to the fifteen plates etched after Vernet, three more plates were etched after Cochin's designs in 1776 and 1796.

India.- Sorabjee (Dossabhaee) Idiomatical sentences in the English, Hindostanee, Goozratee and Persian Languages, Bombay, 6 parts in 1, text in 4 columns, occasional staining, modern calf-backed marbled boards, folio, Gumput Crustnajee, 1843.⁂ Rare. Provides military, legal. commercial and medial phrases.

South America.- Osorio da Fonseca (Jeronimo) De rebus Emmanuelis regis Lusitaniae Invictissimi Virtute et Auspicio Gestis Libri Duodecim, title with large woodcut arms of King Manuel of Portugal, large woodcut historiated initials, ink inscription scored through at head of title, some water-staining, mostly to last quarter of the work, a few stains and spotting elsewhere, 17th century calf, gilt spine in compartments, joints starting, but holding firm, spine with gilt dulled and ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed, Lisbon, folio (305 x 219mm.), Antonio Goncalves, 1571.⁂ First edition of this history of Portugal, containing an account of the early voyages of the Portuguese to the East Indies, including the discovery of the eastern shores of South America in what is now Brazil. Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Cabral, Almeida and Albuquerque are all looked at. Provenance: 'Hieronymus Psorius Vir eloquio suavis Ingenio, Doctrina et Pietate praestantissimus' (ink inscription to front free endpaper); 'G.Kingsley' (17th century ink signature to title); Chapel House, Newport (18th century ink inscription to title). Literature: Sabin 57804; Borba de Moraes p.637; Samodaes 2292; Adams O379.

Chaloner (Sir Thomas, the elder, diplomat and writer, 1521-65) Autograph inscription signed, "Sum Thomae Chaloneri 1557", on the title-page of Wolfgang Lazius' Commentariorum Reipub. Romanae illius, in exteris provincijs, bello acquisitis, constitutae, libri duodecim, [1551], printed title-page only, cut down, several wormholes, slightly browned, folio, 1557.⁂ "To the Elizabethans, Chaloner's fame rested not on his English works, but on his Latin poetry, his military and diplomatic service to four Tudor monarchs, and his escape from drowning off the coast of Algiers. But today he is mostly remembered as the first translator into English of Desiderius Erasmus's Praise of Folly (1549)." - Oxford DNB.

London Bridge Brushmaker.- The Case of Edward Jones, and the Copartners concern'd in the Timber Trade, newly set on Foot between Great Britain, Bremen, Hanover, Germany, &c., printed broadside, folds, slightly browned, [unrecorded in ESTC], folio, [c. 1719]; and another, a printed list of goods imported and exported from London in 1764, folio (2). ⁂ First mentioned Edward Jones, at the Three Brushes on London-Bridge.

Exeter Fire.- To... Lancelot... Lord Bishop of Exon. The... Petition of Thomas Osborne of Alphington, in the County of Devon..., printed broadside, ink inscription on verso, folds, browned, edges creased and slightly chipped, [not in ESTC], folio, Exeter, no printer, 3rd August 1721; and another, folio (2).⁂ First mentioned a petition to Lancelot Andrews, Bishop of Exeter for relief after a fire in Alphington, and printed and endorsed by the bishop. This broadside would be circulated amongst the bishop's diocese, hence the inscription on verso, "be pleased to bring in what you Collect at the next visitation where the poor sufferers will be to resieve it".

Fairfax (Brian, the younger, antiquary and scholar, Commissioner of Customs, 1676-1749) A Theoretick Treatise of Ship-Building Translated from the French of P: Paul Host Professor of the Mathematicks..., manuscript, 7½pp., folds, small tear along folds, browned, Ipswich, folio, 1st December 1733.⁂ A sample translation of the first chapter of Hoste's work, "L'Art des Armées Navales, ou Traité des Evolutions Navales", Lyon, 1697. The last page is a letter from Ipswich, dated 1733, "By this Specimen of the work of Father Hoste may be seen how usefull a teacher of the Mathematicks would be in His Maj.tys dock-yards... ."Paul Hoste (1652-1700), King's Professor of Mathematics at Toulon.

Bristol Export Lists, nos 1-10, 12-49 (lacks no. 11, no. 15 misnumbered as 14, no. 22 duplicated), c. 50pp., printed lists, double column, small tears at head where secured, a few nos. with slight foxing to edges, sm. folio, Bristol, George Worrall, 1816.

Birds.- Willughby (Francis) The Ornithology..., first edition in English, title in red and black, 80 engraved plates (2 of trapping and the rest of birds), 2 letterpress tables, woodcut initials, lightly soiled and stained, plate 20 torn and repaired, 58 & 59 torn at fore-edge not affecting images, 78 stained and frayed at fore-edge with tear just touching image (repaired), contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, rubbed, corners, worn, rebacked, red morocco label (spotted), [Anker 532; Nissen IVB 991; Wing W2880], folio, by A. C. for John Martyn, 1678.⁂ Greatly expanded version of Willughby's 1676 Latin text by John Ray, which includes essays on falconry and songbirds as well as additional plates.

Gardening.- Rea (John) Flora: seu, De Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege..., second edition, with 'The Mind of the Front' verses leaf at beginning, additional engraved allegorical title, title in red & black, 8 engraved plates containing 16 plans of formal gardens, 3 fine engraved head-pieces of floral displays by F.H. van Hove, woodcut initials, some light soiling or staining, hole to Y1 with loss of a few letters, worming to inner margin with occasional slight loss, paper flaw tear to R4, one plate torn at lower margin, contemporary panelled calf, a little worn, rebacked and repaired, new endpapers, [Henrey 3266; Wing R422], folio, by T[homas] N[ewcomb] for George Marriott, 1676.⁂ "The most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century." (Henrey p.195). The work is enthusiastically referred to in the diaries of John Evelyn.

China.- Nieuhoff (Jan) An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China, translated by John Ogilby, second edition, additional engraved pictorial title by Hollar, title in red and black, folding engraved map, folding plan of Canton and 16 plates only (of 17, lacking ?portrait of Ogilby), numerous engraved illustrations in text, wide margins, lacking list of plates, title lightly soiled, folding map browned at fold, occasional offsetting to or from illustrations, a few small rust-spots (one causing tiny hole to illustration on 3D1, with early 19th century manuscript presentation note tipped to front pastedown, contemporary sheep, worn, [Cordier Sinica 2347; Wing N1153], folio, by the Author, 1673.

Aesop. Vita & Fabellae, first Aldine edition, collation: a8, A8, B10, b8, c8, C8, D10, d8, e-h8, i6, k-ξ8, o4, 150 leaves, Greek and roman type, woodcut Aldine device on recto of first leaf, larger framed woodcut device on final verso, blank spaces for capitals, with printed guide letters, slightly browned and soiled in places, some bibliographical annotations on first front flyleaf, among others "Libri rarissimi exemplar pulcherrimum", pencil notes by Bernard Quaritch on rear pastedown, early 19th-century vellum, gilt-lettered green morocco spine label (chipped), folio (266 x 172mm.), Venice, Aldus Manutius, October 1505.⁂ The rare first Aldine edition of the Fabulae, supplemented with a Latin translation and the fictitious life of Aesop ascribed to Planudes, likewise in Greek and Latin. "This edition may be considered among the rarer and more beautiful productions of the Aldine Press" (Dibdin, Introduction, I, p. 247). The volume also contains the text, in both languages, of the forty-three fables by the second-century writer Babrius (or Gabrias, as Aldus erroneously calls him), and the Greek text only of writings by Phurnutus or Cornutus, Palaephatus, and Heraclides Ponticus, along with the Hieroglyphica by Horapollo, the proverbs by Tarrhaeus and Didymus, and the Apologus Aesopi de Cassita apud Gellium, all of which appear here in their first editions: this Aldine edition is thus rightly defined by N. G. Wilson as "a most curious miscellany" (From Byzanthium to Italy, p. 143).The Aldine Aesop follows the 1481 editio princeps printed in Milan by Bonus Accursius, but it includes five additional fables that had remained unpublished. The edition is the only work printed by Aldus to have parallel text in Latin and Greek, indicating the popularity of the Fables as a schoolbook during the Renaissance. The Greek and Latin text is interleaved to aid those readers who knew Latin but not Greek. The texts are also separable: the pages printed in Greek are numbered sequentially, and there are copies in which the Aesopus Graecus is found bound together without the Latin translation. The title-page points out this particular feature, stating that the Fables are presented "cum interpretatione latina, ita tamen ut separari a graeco possit pro unius cuiusque arbitrio".Provenance: Henry Philip Hope (1774-1839; see Catalogue of the... library of Henry P. Hope, Esq...sold by auction, by Leigh and Sotheby..., London 1813, lot 1584, "Esopi Vita et Fabulae, Gr. very fair Venet. ap. Ald."; note on front flyleaf 'Hope's Sale 1813' £8.0.0.'); Porkington Library of John Ralph Ormsby-Gore, Lord Harlech (1816-1876; ex-libris on front pastedown); Kenneth Rapoport (ex-libris on front pastedown).Literature: Adams A278; STC Italian 8; Renouard Alde, 49.6; Ahmanson-Murphy 93; Hoffmann I, p. 63; Staikos,The Greek Editions of Aldus Manutius and his Greek Collaborators (1495-1515), New Castle, DE 2016, 46; N. G. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy, Baltimore 1993, pp. 143-144.

Canon law.- Gregorius IX, Pope. Decretalium copiosum argumentum, collation [*]1 a-z A-S8 T10 aa8 bb6 cc-dd10, double column, printed in red and black, Gothic letter, title and woodcut printer's device within ornate woodcut criblé border, large pictorial criblé genealogy, second woodcut genealogy, woodcut criblé initials, title with a few small holes and repaired, some staining, heavier to first few ff., wormholes / small traces, affecting text, occasional spotting, 17th century mottled sheep, rebacked, folio (373 x 269mm.), [Paris], [Ulrich Gering & Berthold Rembolt], 1507.⁂ A rare edition of the Decretales.

Xenophon. Omnia quae extant operis, 2 parts in 1, first complete Aldine edition, collation: *4, A-L8; α-ξ8, ο6 (fol. G2 signed ii, fol. H1 unsigned), [4], 87; [119] leaves (with misnumbering), complete with blank leaves L8 and α1, Greek and roman type, text in Greek, woodcut Aldine device on title and on verso of final leaf, blank spaces for capitals, with printed guide letters, a few pale spots and fingermarks, some marginalia in Greek, 17th-century sprinkled calf, gilt spine with raised bands, edges speckled red, spine ends repaired, folio (306 x 209mm.), Venice, Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, April 1525.⁂ The first complete edition of Xenophon issued by the Aldine press, edited by Gian Francesco d'Asola, son of Aldus' father-in-law, Andrea Torresano. Alongside Xenophon's short, and still then unpublished, De Atheniensium re publica and De vectigalibus, the Aldine edition of 1525 contains the Agesilao, the text of which had been in the past erroneously attributed - as Torresano states in his preliminary address to readers - to Plutarch, and therefore included in previous editions of the Plutarchean Vitae. The volume also contains Xenophon's Hellenica, a work which had already been published by Aldus Manutius in October 1503. Provenance: from the library of St. Maria Incoronata, Padua (ownership inscription 'Biblioth. Collegij S. Mariae Coronatae Papie[nsis]', and old small stamp on title).Literature: Adams X4; STC Italian 738; Renouard Alde, 100.1; Ahmanson-Murphy 229; Cataldi Palau 94.

FOLIO SOCIETY 16 vols. Dickens (7 without s/case), plus The Dickens Encyclopaedia plus 8 vols. Trollope (1 without s/case) (25)

FOLIO SOCIETY The Bible 2 vols. 1970, s/case, plus 11 other Folio Soc. in s/cases & 2 R.S. Surtees in s/cases (15)

FOLIO SOCIETY 40 vols. no s/cases

ERIC MEADE-KING (1911-1987), FOLIO CONTAINING A LARGE QUANTITY OF SKETCHES AND WATERCOLOURS

William Conor BE RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968)The Irish SceneFirst edition, published by Derrick MacCord, Belfast, 1944, a series of twelve tipped in colour plates, each a reproduction of one of Conor’s paintings, accompanied by text by Richard Rowley and with a foreword by E. M. O’Rourke Dickey. Folio-sized, in cloth covered boards.

Agnes Martin (1912-2004)Paintings and Drawings 1974-1990 (suite of 10)The complete set of 10 lithographs printed in colours, 1991, from the edition of 2500, on vellum transparency paper, printed by Lecturis, Eindhoven and published by Nemela & Lenzen GmbH, Monchengladback and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, housed within the original grey card portfolio, each sheet 298 x 298mm (11 3/4 x 11 3/4in) (10) (folio)This set was published to celebrate the artist's 1991 retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Richard Prince (b.1949)WomenChromogenic print in colours, 2004, signed and inscribed 'C' in black ink on a label affixed verso, the edition was 26 and each print lettered A to Z, on photographic paper, published by Hatje Cantz Editionen, Ostfildern-Ruit, the print loose as issued and housed within the original black textured portfolio, together with the accompanying artist's book, overall 572 x 415 x 12mm (22 1/2 x 16 3/8 x 1/2in) (folio) The artist's book published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Women', Regen Projects, Los Angeles, 2004.

δ Zao Wou-Ki (1921-2013)Le jardin d'encreThe complete portfolio comprising the etching with aquatint printed in colours, 2007, signed and numbered from the edition of 63 in pencil, on wove paper, with the title, justification and text pages by Bernard Noël in French, the etching printed by René Tazé, published by Bernard Dumerchez, Paris, all housed within the original cream cloth-bound clamshell box, overall 670 x 390 x 45mm (26 1/4 x 15 2/5 x 2in) (folio) δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

δ Various ArtistsCentenaire de la Statue de la LibertéThe complete portfolio comprising six lithographs printed in colours by Michel Dubre, Michel Lecoste, Hugh de Saint-Morland, Eric Schlimberger, Eric Gaudin and Katia Schmitt, 1986, each signed and numbered from the edition of 250 in pencil, each on Arches wove paper, with title-page, text and justification, printed by Mourlot, Paris, with their blindstamp, loose as issued in the original blue linen portfolio, with title embossed in gilt on the uppers, overall 775 x 555 mm (30 1/2 x 21 5/8 in) (folio)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

δ Henry Moore (1898-1986)Auden Poems, Moore Lithographs (Cramer 245-273)The complete portfolio, 1973, comprising the title, justification and lithographed text pages, signed and numbered from the edition of 150 in pencil on the justification page, together with the four additional lithographs printed in colours, each signed and numbered from the edition of 150 in pencil, each on wove paper, loose as issued within the original green cloth folder, all housed within the original green cloth clamshell box, published by Petersburg Press, London & New York, overall 440 x 360 x 50mm (17 1/2 x 14 1/8 x 2in) (folio) δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

δ Victor Pasmore (1908-1988)The Dance of Man in Modern Times (Bowness Lambertini 28.A, 28.B, 28.C, 28.E, 28.G)The portfolio, 1972, comprising six of the ten etchings and aquatints printed in colours, with the title, justification and some text pages, signed and numbered in roman numerals from the edition of fifteen on the title page, each on wove paper, published by Eleonora and Walter Rossi, 2RC Editrice, Rome, sheets various sizes, the largest 500 x 1000mm (20 x 39in) (folio) δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

WAESBERGE & SWART.  The English Atlas, Volume 1 containing a Description of Poland. Folio with fldg. maps. Card wrappers. Small lib. stamp to reverse of title. 1943 facsimile of the 1680 ed.; also 3 other vols.  (4).

DAVENANT SIR WILLIAM.  The Works ... Consisting of Those Which Were Formerly Printed & Those Which He Design'd For The Press. Eng. port. frontis. Folio. Old calf, top brd. & frontis det. but present. 1673.

BROWNE T. G.  Bailliere's Atlas of the Ox, Its Anatomy & Physiology. Plates. Oblong folio. Pict. brds., well worn cond. 1927; also a stiff card lithograph advertisement for Thorley's Food, A Condiment for Pigs & 1 other item.  (3).

BARTHOLOMEW J. G.  The Survey Atlas Of Scotland. 68 double page & other maps incl. reproductions of early maps. Folio. Qtr. dark morocco. 1912.

SOBIESKI STUART J.  Vestiarium Scoticum, Introduction & Notes. Frontis but no plates. Folio. Qtr. morocco. Edinburgh, 1842; also 1 other vol.  (2).

BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA.  An Original Issue of The Spectator together with the Story of the Famous English periodical. Ltd. ed. 455. Folio. Cloth backed marbled brds. Grabhorn Press, 1939; also a carton of unrelated vols.

GLANVILLE PHILIPPA.  London In Maps. Maps & illus. Tall folio. Orig. cloth gilt in d.w. & slip case. 1972; also Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, col. facsimile plates, quarto, orig. maroon cloth gilt in slip case, 1969.  (2).

TROLLOPE ANTHONY.  6 various works. Qtr. cloth. Folio Society, 1970's.

BURROW JAMES.  A Series of the Decisions of the Court of King's Bench Upon Settlement Cases. Quarto. Calf. 1768; also 2 other vols., Burrow's Cases, folio in calf & 3 calf bound vols., Scottish legal interest.  (6).

Architecture & Art.  11 quarto & folio vols. with plates & illus., late 19th/early 20th cent. 

WRIGHT J. (Pubs).  Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. Quarto. Qtr. calf, some internal browning & spotting. 1801; also bound part of The Modern Universal British Traveller, folio, c.1780's & 2 other vols.  (4).

(HARBIN GEORGE).  The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England Asserted. Folio. Calf, top brd. det. but present, internal browning particularly to later leaves. 1713.

McDOUALL ANDREW.  An Institute of the Laws of Scotland. 3 vols. Folio. Rubbed calf. Edinburgh, 1751-1753; also 9 vols., Session Notes, c.1940's.  (12).

PATON J. N. (Illus).  The Dowie Dens O'Yarrow. Eng. plates. Folio. Orig. cloth. 1860; also 5 other Victorian illus. vols.  (6).

QUEENSLAND.  Annual Report of the Under Secretary for Mines. 7 various folio vols., varying cond. 1902-1922.

LEECH JOHN.  Follies Of The Year. 21 hand col. plates. Oblong folio. Orig. cloth gilt, worn & rebacked, c.1865; also G. Bowers, A Month in the Midlands (Foxhunting), litho plates, oblong quarto, worn bdgs., n.d. & Hobbes, a vol. with Aubrey Beardsley, pict. bdg., 1906 & one other.  (4).