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Bowen (Emanuel, and Bowen, Thomas). Atlas Anglicanus, or a complete sett of maps of the counties of South Britain; divided into their respective hundreds, wapontakes, wards, rapes, lathes &c..., 1st. edition, printed for T. Kitchin, [1767], calligraphic title page, two general engraved maps of England and Wales and forty-three county maps of England & Wales, all with contemporary outline colouring, very occasional marginal spotting, bookplate of Wm. Constable Esq., contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, slim upright folio, contained in modern cloth book box Chubb CCXXXII, Hodson 254. The maps in the 'Atlas Anglicanus' were reductions of the 'Large English Atlas', produced by the same authors. The maps were originally issued monthly in parts with three maps to a part. Initially all the maps were published without an imprint, which was added as production progressed, thus a complete atlas would often be comprised of maps from different states. This copy is an unusual combination of the first two states. (1)

Stukeley (William). Itinerarium Curiosum: Or, An Account of the Antiquities, and Remarkable Curiosities in Nature or Art, Observed in Travels through Great Britain, 2 parts (Centuria I & II) in 2 volumes, 2nd edition, with large additions, 1776, engraved frontispiece to first volume only, 2 folding engraved maps, 206 engraved plates (including two folding & one folding), light stain to upper margin of 2C2 (verso) of first volume, contemporary calf gilt, contrasting green & red morocco labels to spines, joints a little cracked, folio Upcott xxx. The work contains a mezzotint plate of the appearance of the total solar eclipse from Haradon Hill on May 11, 1724. (2)

Field (Richard). Of the Church, five bookes, the Second Edition very much augmented, in the third booke, and the Appendix to the same, Oxford: William Turner, 1628, woodcut title vignette, head- and tailpieces and initials, final blank present, first quire slightly rumpled, minor worming in gutter, contemporary ownership inscription of one Edward Wynne to front free endpaper, later gift inscription to initial blank, early inscription in Welsh to title page, contemporary calf, later paper label to spine, loss to top compartment, extremities slightly rubbed, folio (28.5 x 17.5 cm) Madan I page 138; STC 10858. (1)

Dix (John Adams). AComplete Atlas of the English Counties, divided into their respective hundreds &c. On which are carefully marked the whole of the turnpike and parish roads, the situation of towns, villages, parks, gentemen's seats, churches, chapels, navigable canals and rivers and every object tending to illustrate the History and Antiquities of England..., commenced by the late Thomas Dix of North Walsingham; carried on and completed by William Darton, published William Darton, 1822, double page title, dedication and contents list, thirty-nine double page engraved maps and three folding (Yorkshire, North & South Wales), all with bright contemporary hand colouring, each map with an uncoloured vignette and a circular cartouche, some maps strengthened on recto at base of central fold, contemporary marbled boards with later half calf gilt binding, bumped, folio Chubb CCCLXXXVII. A rare atlas in fine contemporary colour. The maps carry a variety of dates between July 1816 and February 1821. Darton/Dix maps are sometimes found cut and dissected and it is probable that they were first sold individually in this state. (1)

Teesdale (Henry). To the Nobility, Gentry & Clergy of Yorkshire, this Map of the County constructed from a Survey commenced in the Year 1817 & corrected in the Years 1827 & 1828 is respectfully dedicated by the proprietors, Henry Teesdale & Co. and C.Stocking, April 21, 1828, uncoloured engraved large scale map on nine sheets, calligraphic title, list of the altitudes of the principal mountains, compass rose, table of explanation and an engraved vignette of the North west view of York Cathedral, slight offsetting, book plate of R. H. Johnstone, marbled endpapers, contemporary marbled boards, later red half morocco, contemporary red gilt morocco title label to upper board, slim upright folio (1)

Folio Society. The Luttrell Psalter, 2006, facsimile edition reproduced from British Library Additional MS 42130, all edges gilt, original blue morocco, the upper cover blocked with a design in gold and colours by David Eccles, folio, with separate commentary bound in quarter cloth, 8vo, contained together in original drop-back box with leather spine label Limited edition, 1404/1480 copies. (1)

Folio Society. The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours, 2009, fine colour facsimile manuscript, all edges gilt, original full gilt decorated blue silk brocade by Smith Settle, with separate volume of commentary by Stella Panayotova bound in quarter cloth, 8vo, both volumes contained together in blue cloth solander box with gilt lettering to spine, lightly marked, (box measures 23 x 16.2 x 6.8 cm) Limited edition, 138/1200 total copies. (1)

Folio society. Leaves From a Psalter, by William de Brailes, 2012, seven fine facsimile illuminated leaves, reproduced from manuscript pages in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, printed on vellum and window mounted, with a DVD film about the creation of the facsimile, contained together in original drop-back box, plus commentary volume in slipcase, 8vo, box and slipcase lightly marked, box dimensions: 35.4 x 27.2 x 4.6cm (14 x 10.75 x 1.75ins) Limited edition, 35/480 copies. (2)

Folio Society. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, 2009, single etched plate signed and numbered in pencil by Niroot Puttapipat, mounted colour plates throughout by Puttapipat, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, decorative endpapers, original vellum spine and corner tips with pictorial Merida paper sides, by The Fine Book Bindery, contained in dark-blue cloth drop-back box (lightly marked), folio Limited edition, 457/1000. (1)

Folio Society. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Three Other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, illustrated by Harry Brockway, 2010, original engraving by Harry Brockway, numbered and signed in pencil by the artist, sixteen tipped-in colour illustrations, tope edge gilt, remainder rought trimmed, original vellum backed and tipped foil blocked boards, contained within original cloth covered drop-back box, folio Limited edition, 325/1000. (1)

Folio Society. Liber Bestiarum, 2008, fine facsimile edition, all edges gilt, original orange morocco, pictorial front cover and spine blocked in gold and colours, by Brian Settle of Ludlow Bookbinders, with translation and commentary volume, dark blue cloth gilt, folio, contained together in original drop-back box, together with Virgil, The Aeneid, Translated by Robert Fagles, Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox, 2010, colour frontispiece and plates, printed map endpapers, top edge gilt, original terracotta morocco, blocked with a design by Jeff Clements, large 8vo, contained in original drop-back box Limited editions, 1824/2000 and 149/1750 respectively. (2)

Folio Society. Moby-Dick or the Whale, by Herman Melville, 1909, black & white illustrations by Rockwell Kent, top edge in silver, original black morocco, blocked with a design by Rockwell Kent, thick 8vo, together with commentary volume, original black buckram, 8vo, contained together in original drop-back box, together with Les Mis‚rables, by Victor Hugo, Translated and with an Introduction by Norman Denny, 2008, black & white frontispiece and illustrations, top edge gilt, original blue morocco, blocked with a design by Jeff Clements, thick 8vo, with commentary volume, original wrappers, slim 8vo, contained together in original drop-back box Limited editions, 514/1750 and 318/1750 respectively. (2)

Fuller (Thomas). The Historie of the Holy Warre, 1st edition, Cambridge, 1639, additional engraved title, 'A declaration of the Frontispiece' leaf present, folding engraved map, a few marginal wormtracks and holes, occasional light toning, small bookplate, later calf, a little rubbed, folio STC 11464. (1)

Davila (Enrico Caterino). The Historie of the Civill Warres of France, 1st English edition, 1647, imprimatur leaf, title with large woodcut device, bound without dedication (removed by parliamentary order as often), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, errata leaf at end, occasional early marginalia, a couple of lower corners torn away, some light water stains and soiling, presentation inscription stating the book was a gift from Lady Margaret Scudamore [1640-1715] in 1684, endpapers sometime renewed, contemporary calf, old reback, a little rubbed, folio Wing D413. (1)

Cock (Charles George). English-Law: or, A Summary Survey of the Houshold of God on Earth ... Together with an Essay of Christian Government, 1st edition, by Robert White for T. G. and Francis Tyton, 1651, engraved title vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, first and last quires frayed in margins, hand-painted coat of arms to front pastedown above the modern bookplates of Brian William James and R. C. Fiske, 19th-century half morocco, folio (27.5 x 17 cm) Sweet & Maxwell (2nd edition) volume 1 page 99; Wing C4789. Scarce Commonwealth-era treatise on law and government. ESTC traces seven copies in UK libraries only; two appearances at auction since 1939. (1)

Sanderson (William). A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles from His Cradle to His Grave, 1st edition, 1658, engraved portraits of King Charles and William Sanderson, a little light spotting and a few burn marks, one or two closed marginal tears, contemporary previous owner signature of Marianne Milles at head of title, armorial bookplate of Lady Frances Scott, contemporary calf, modern calf reback, a little rubbed, small thick folio Wing S646, ESTC R5305. (1)

Comedies and Tragedies, 1st edition, 1st issue, Henry Herringman, 1664, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author and his dog, engraved by William Faithorne, with the escutcheon in the second state, titles to the separate plays all dated 1663, additionally with the 1664 title to The Prisoners following 4C4, occasional spotting or browning, small paper repair to S1 not affecting text, bookplate of Belton House and leather book ticket of C.A. & V. Baldwin to front pastedown, bookplate of Christopher Rowe to front free endpaper, 19th-century calf with red morocco spine label and Brownlow arms stamped on upper cover, slightly rubbed, folio (280 x 190mm) Greg pages 1085-86; Pforzheimer 571; Wing K450. (1)

Hollar (Wenceslaus, & others). Suite of 70 engravings from Ogilby's Fables of Aesop, 1665-8, plate measurements 25.5 x 18 cm to 28.5 x 20 cm, 8 signed 'W. Hollar fecit' with dates 1664, 1665 and 1666, 1 signed 'F. Barlow inven, R Gaywood fecit, 1668', 40 of the plates numbered (1-8, 11-13, 17, 19, 22-5, 31, 36-8, 43, 45, 56-62, 64, 66-7, 72, 74-6, 79-80), the remainder unnumbered (including most of the signed plates), lightly pencilled captions in margins, toning, spotting and soiling, all mounted on linen, sewn on 5 cords, disbound, folio (37 x 24.5 cm) (1)

Saunders (Richard). Physiognomie and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, the Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body, fully and accurately explained ... the Second Edition very much enlarged, for Nathaniel Brook, 1671, engraved portrait frontispiece, 1 similar plate (facing p. 330), 2 further full-page engravings counted in the pagination, numerous woodcuts in the text (many full-page), lacking final blank, 'Peroratio' leaf bound after Epistle Dedicatory (usually bound at end), tissue-repair along edges of frontispiece, title page tipped to frontispiece with consequent paper disruption in gutter, moderate browning, occasional spotting, contemporary sheep, rebacked and relined, restoration to boards, folio (29 x 19.5 cm) Wing S755. (1)

Heath (James). A Chronicle of the Late Intestine War in the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland ... the Second Edition, to which is added a Continuation to this Present Year 1675 ... by J. P., printed by J. C. for Thomas Basset, 1676, engraved frontispiece with medallion portraits of Charles and prominent cavaliers (old repair recto), title page printed in red and black, 3K4 chipped in margin, closed tear in 4L2, damp-staining to index, ownership inscriptions including 'Kister 1757' to title page and 'Wm Topham 1767' to front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, worn, folio (29 x 18 cm) Wing H1321. (1)

Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus). Les Dix Livres d'Architecture de Vitruve, edited and translated by Claude Perrault, Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1684, engraved additional title, 68 plates including 8 double-page, engraved head- and tail-pieces, woodcuts to text, scattered spotting or light browning, small closed tear to foremargin of 2Q1 not affecting text, contemporary ink ownership name of 'Jonat. Richardson' to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rubbed, some edge and corner wear, modern morocco reback with red morocco spine label and seven raised bands, folio (430 x 285mm) The second Perrault edition, and Brunet argues, with Perrault's scholarly commentary and translation is more complete than the first edition of 1673 and therefore preferable. Fowler 418 (notes). Provenance: Believed to be Jonathan Richardson the Younger (1694-1771), collector and son of the famous painter of the same name. (1)

Picinelli (Filippo). Mundus symbolicus, in latinum traductus a Augustino Erath, Cologne: Hermann Demen, 1687, 2 volumes in 1, half-title, engraved allegorical title page, engraved vignette to letterpress title, 41 further vignettes in the text, with the final blank, light browning, marginal spotting, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, rubbed and dust-soiled, folio (35.5 x 21.5 cm Landwehr, German Emblem Books 480, VD17 23:000499N. First published in Italian as Mondo simbolico, in 1653. (1)

Fabretti (Raphaele). De Columna Traiani Syntagma, 2nd edition, Rome, 1690, title with woodcut device, two double page plates (one browned, as often), woodcut illustrations, some light spotting and offsetting, contemporary annotation at foot of title, all edges red, contemporary vellum, red label to spine with small shelf number stamps at ends, light soiling, folio Cicognara 3710. (1)

Dryden (John). The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden and Several other Eminent Hands. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Made English by Mr. Dryden, 1st edition, for Jacob Tonson, 1693, half-title and title page slightly damp-stained, a few minor marks, contemporary ownership inscription ('Elizabeth James') and pen-trials to half-title, 19th-century ownership inscription to title, contemporary panelled calf, old manuscript label to spine, joints superficially split but firm, rubbed, folio (33 x 21 cm) Wing J1288. (1)

Aesop. Aesop's Fables, with his life: in English, French, and Latin, newly translated, illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures, to this edition are likewise added, thirty one new figures representing his life by Francis Barlow, printed by R. Newcombe, for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1703, additional etched title, engraved coat of arms for William Earle of Devonshire (closed tear repair to verso), 32 full-page plates by Thomas Dudley (the first unnumbered and placed as frontispiece, torn with large loss to lower left corner, now supplied with good photocopy repair), 110 half-page copper plates, plate impressions for fables LXX and LXXI transposed, correct impressions additionally tipped in as overlays (the first with paper repair and image loss to upper left corner), some heavy browning (especially to early leaves) and spotting throughout, occasional inkstains, splashes and other soiling and marks, a few closed tear repairs, old ink doodles of figures and horses to frontispiece recto, bookplate of Christopher Rowe, contemporary boards with period-style calf gilt reback, rubbed, folio (320 x 200 mm) Wing A695. A rare complete copy of this third edition, a reissue of the 1666 and 1687 edition sheets, with a cancelled title leaf. This copy, unlike most others, has the sheets for folios [2]R1-2 with the requisite copper plate impressions. It also includes the additional engraved title-page, often missing, and the scarce plate 17, often removed because of concern for the nude women depicted. The engraved English version of the text is by Aphra Behn. (1)

Marot (Daniel). A series of eight suites of ornamental engravings, The Hague and Amsterdam, circa 1700-1710, 48 ornamental engravings printed in red and mounted on stubs, the engravings showing highly decorative designs for clocks, vases, mirrors, fountains, fire places, doors, embroidery etc., 20th-century antique-style tree calf by V. Beaumont, spine richly gilt, corners a little worn, two small ink splashes on the upper cover, small folio (310 x 230mm) Berlin Catalogue 355-356; Guilmard pages 103-105 provides a full listing of his numerous suites of engravings. The volume contains the following suites, all complete unless otherwise stated, with the title of each suite in the first plate. 1) Nouveaux livre de boites de pendules, 6 plates. 2) Nouvelles chemin‚es … panneaux de glaces … la maniŠre de France, 6 plates. 3) 8 plates (of more?) of vases, without title. 4) 4 plates (of 6?) of doors, without title. 5) Nova fontium delineatio, 5 plates of designs for fountains. 6) Nouveaux livre d'ornements propres pour faire la broderie et petit point, 6 plates. 7) Nouveau livre de lembris de revestement … panneaux, 6 plates. 8) Nouveaux livre de berssaux et trilliages, 6 plates. This interesting volume contains a good selection of Marot's very decorative ornamental designs. Daniel Marot (1661-1752) was a French Protestant architect, furniture designer and engraver. He engraved many plates of decorative objects, interiors, carriages, and clocks etc. He worked mostly in the Netherlands and in England for a short period - examples of his work can be seen at Hampton Court and Petworth. (1)

Racinet (Auguste). Polychromatic Ornament ... comprising upwards of Two Thousand Specimens of the Various Styles of Ancient, Oriental, and Medieval Art, and including the Renaissance and the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 1st edition in English, Henry Sotheran and Co., 1873, 100 chromolithographic plates, many heightened with silver or gold, light spotting to initial text leaves, a few plates faintly oxidised or marked in margins, all edges gilt, contemporary crushed red morocco by Francis Bedford, titles and decorative quatrefoils gilt to spine compartments, foliate cornerpieces gilt to boards within gilt and blind frames, small section of wear to top edge of front board, folio (38.5 x 26 cm) An exceptionally bright copy of Racinet's magnificent pattern book, in full red morocco gilt by Francis Bedford (1799-1883), the leading English bookbinder of his time. (1)

Josephus (Flavius). Des Hochberempten Histori beschreibers alle Bcher ... durch Caspar Hedion vertetsche, und jetzundt von newem ... gebessert und gemehret, Strasbourg: Samuel Emmel, 1556, 2 parts in 1 volume, each with part-xylographic title page printed in red and black, 5- and 12-line woodcut initials throughout, first title page slightly marked and with contemporary and later ownership inscriptions, variable spotting and browning, damp-staining to part 1 quires O-V, occasional marginal damping elsewhere, old paper-repairs to a few fore margins, part 1 signature R2 chipped in margin touching side-note, closed tears in part 1 signatures 2F6 and 2N1, occasional contemporary marginalia, contemporary manuscript catch-title to fore edge, later vellum, folio in 6s (31.5 x 19.5 cm) VD16 J974; not in Adams but cf. J375. (1)

Ibn Ajurrum. Kitab al-Ajurrumiyah, Near East: colophon signed 'Abdullah ibn Mustafa, Rabi' al-Awwal, 1307 AH [i.e. November 1889 CE], Arabic manuscript on wove European paper watermarked 'F. P', 38 leaves, naskh script, mainly 5 lines to the page, rubricated headings and colophon, title and ownership inscription of one Khayrullah Mahmud al-Khayali to initial leaf in a separate hand, profuse partially rubricated marginal commentary written at angles to main text, small marginal worm-track in earlier leaves, one leaf (folio 3) loose, some openings reinforced in gutter, a few mild water-stains, wire-stitched in contemporary leather-backed pasteboards, worn, 8vo (21.5 x 15.5 cm) Provenance: Private Collection, England. The highly influential introduction to Arabic syntax (nahw) of Ibn Ajurrum (1273-1323), a North African grammarian of Berber origin, inspired more commentaries than any other work of its kind, and was first printed at the Typographia Medicea in Rome in 1592. (1)

Firuzabadi (Majd al-Din al-). Al-Qamus al-muhit wa'l-qabus al-muhit, Ottoman territories, early 19th century, Arabic manuscript in black ink on glazed laid paper, 543 leaves, 2 parts in 1 volume, part 1 with countermarks HB and GB bisected by single rods bearing trefoils, part 2 on thicker paper stock mainly countermarked S [second initial cropped] and transcribed by a different copyist possibly at a slightly later date, part 1 with various naskh script, 33-6 lines to the page, illuminated headpiece to folio 1b, text within polychromatic frames throughout, keywords and headings in a larger thuluth script and frequently rubricated, many headings in part 2 in green, inner hinges cracked but holding, opening bifolium soiled and repaired with paper disruption along frame of folio 2, repaired tear in folio 148 obscuring a few words, a few other marginal repairs, moderate spotting and staining but generally a fresh copy with wide margins, contemporary red goatskin, decorative blind frames to boards enclosing vegetal filigree lozenges in blue, envelope flap front board gilt-lettered in Arabic 'matn al-Qamus ['text of the Qamus'] 'Ali 'Abd al-Raziq', remains of labels to spine, matching red morocco slipcase with flap and marbled paper onlays to sides (worn), folio (29 x 19 cm) An attractive copy of the great Arabic dictionary compiled by Iranian polymath al-Firuzabadi (d. 1414). 'The Qamus ... has become the most widely used of all the dictionaries and has exercised considerable influence in the West' (Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, volume 2, page 468). The countermark GB is recorded as belonging to Treviso papermaker Giovanni Berti (c. 1789-1828. See Biddle, 'New Strategies in Using Watermarks to Date Sub-Saharan Islamic Manuscripts', page 31, in Friedrich et al., eds., Studies in Manuscript Cultures, volume 12. (1)

Ibn al-Jawzi. Mawlid al-'arus, probably Syria: colophon signed Ibn Yahya, 25 Sha'ban 1217 AH [i.e. 20 December 1802 CE], Arabic manuscript in black ink on laid paper, 46 leaves (+ 20 leaves to front containing the copyist's rough draft for the same text + 4 annotated fly-leaves to rear), naskh script, 10-12 lines to the page, sections with headings in decorative panels or demarcated by stylised rules, text and decoration frequently rubricated, folio 8 chipped in lower outer corner to loss of a few words, a few mild smudges, ink-staining in fore margin, one other intermittent stain in lower margin, contemporary blind-stamped leather over limp pasteboards, 8vo (19 x 14.5 cm Provenance: Private Collection, England. Brockelmann, History of the Arabic Written Tradition, Supplement Volume 1, page 954. The Mawlid al-'arus is a collection of poetry and hadith concerning the birth of the Prophet Muhammad. Some authors have attributed it to the great Arab poet al-Hariri of Basra rather than orthodox jurist Ibn al-Jawzi (1126-1200), probably on account of its popular character. In the colophon the copyist describes himself as a native of al-Tawani, which is the name of a village in modern-day Hebron and of a larger Syrian settlement near Damascus. (1)

Jabir ibn Hayyan. Kitab al-Safi min al-khamsumi'ah [and:] Jannat al-khuld, Near East, circa 1800, Arabic manuscript in black ink on laid paper, 26 leaves + 1 flyleaf, containing 2 texts transcribed by the same copyist and extracted from a larger volume, Kitab al-Safi occupying folio 1a line 22 to folio 22b line 14, Jannat al-khuld folio 22b line 15 to folio 26b line 6, naskh script, 23-4 lines to the page (except for folio 26: completed in a later nasta'liq hand and containing the beginning of a new text, Kitab al-Tadbir al-gharib, which continues onto folio 27), bound with [?Izniqi, 'Ali Shalabi al-], Kashf al-asrar fi-hatk al-astar, probably Ottoman territories, 18/19th century, a fragment, containing the conclusion of section (qism) 2, all of sections 3-4, and most of section 5, Arabic manuscript, black ink on laid paper, 37 leaves, nasta'liq script, 17 lines to the page, rubricated headings and underlining throughout the volume, profuse contemporary and later marginalia, stitching split in places, most openings sometime reinforced in gutter, Jabir's texts browned and with water-staining in upper outer corners obscuring a few headings, the Kashf al-asrar with closed tears to last few leaves (some repaired), staining, 19th-century red sheep backing cloth-covered pasteboards, worn, 8vo (20.5 x 14.5 cm) Provenance: Private Collection, England. Manuscript sammelband containing two alchemical texts attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. 721-815 CE) and a lengthy fragment from a 16th-century Ottoman astrological and alchemical treatise. The Kitab al-Safi ... ('The Pure Book among the Five Hundred') contains four chapters on the preparation of alchemical compounds. The Jannat al-khuld ('The Everlasting Garden') appears to describe the philosopher's stone ('al-hajr alladhi imtala'at minu hadhihi'l-dunya': 'the stone by which this world is sated'). The present sections of the Kashf al-asrar ... ('The Unveiling of Secrets and the Tearing of Veils') discuss elixirs and planetary conjunctions. National Library of Medicine MS A 70 contains a copy of Jannat al-khuld (item 2; 2 leaves); see Iskandar, A Descriptive List of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, pages 23-7 for the contents, authorship and other manuscript copies of the Kashf al-asrar. (1)

*Medici (Giuliano de, 1479-1516). Letter signed to the Captain and Count of Pistoia, Florence, 17 February 1512, in brown ink on laid paper, concerning an appointment to the benefice of the 'pieve', a principal church of Mantechiusoli, and making it clear that the matter presented some complications, in translation, 'I thank you for your diligence and prudence, and particuarly that there should have been no scandal... I am sending to the men of the "pieve" to make them hand it over, and this I think will come about. In that case it will be necessary to govern it more gently, when possession is given. If it is not so, I shall be pleased to hear of it... when things turn out so well so soon, it is a case for clemency...', one page with endorsements to verso, a little spotting and several tiny holes only affecting one letter of text, one page, folio (285 x 210 mm) Provenance: Dr Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017). Giuliano de Medici was the youngest son of Lorenzo the Magnificent and a younger brother of Pope Leo X. (1)

Camers (Joannes). Commentaria in C. Iulii Solini Polyhistora, et Lucii Flori De Romanorum rebus gestis, libros, ac Tabulam Cebetis ... praeterea Pomponii Melae De orbis situ libri tres, cum commentariis Ioachimi Vadiani, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1557, woodcut initials, toning, occasional light spotting, ink-stamps of the Cabinet du marquis de Montpeyroux and related inscriptions to title page and colophon leaf, related inscription and effaced label to front pastedown, title page with additional ink-stamp 'Museum Rem. Faesch, Basil' verso, bound using leaf from a late 13th/early 14th-century vellum manuscript copy of Jacobus da Viragine's Legenda Aurea, decorated with puzzle initials in red and blue bodycolour, slightly rubbed and soiled overall, later manuscript spine-title and manuscript shelf-mark label, loss to spine-ends, some wear on raised bands, faint ink-stamp to foot of front cover, pastedowns lifting to reveal flesh-side, folio (31.5 x 19.5 cm) Adams S1395, VD16 S6970. The late 13th or early 14th century vellum manuscript leaf used to bind this copy contains sections from chapters 70, 72 and 82 of Jacobus da Viragine's Legenda Aurea (The Golden Legend), respectively 'De letania maiori et minori', 'De Adscensione Domini', and 'De sanctis Vito et Modesto'. (1)

*Henry VIII (1491-1547, King of England). A near-contemporary copy of 'The last wyll and testament of Kynge Harry the eyghte 30 December 1546', undated, circa 1570, written in brown ink in a neat secretary hand, large decorative initial, small grotesque to inner margin of top line of folio 4r, laid paper with watermark of 'PM' within a crowned shield, small heraldic sketch of a unicorn's head to final blank with colour markings, plus three more sketchy horses or dog heads, some spotting and dust-soiling, final blank verso more heavily soiled and damp-stained and with small tear, minor fraying to edges close to but not affecting text, disbound without covers, evidence of leather remains to spine, 8 leaves including final blank, slim folio (300 x 205mm) The will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in April 1547. A comparison of this text with the registered copy (TNA PROB 11/31/247) shows many differences, omissions and incorrect transcriptions of words and the use of dialect forms (such as sarve for serve). This copy of the will is said to have formed part of Phillipps MS 13761 which notes that the volume included, inter alia, 'Testaments of H. 8 & H. 6' part of a collection of papers from the archive of Sir Henry St George (1581-1644), who served as Garter King of Arms in the last year of his life. Although such a provenance is borne out by the heraldic endorsements, and by the fact that hundreds of St George manuscripts were on the market in the 1730s and in 1846 (ODNB), the hand of this manuscript makes it hard to attribute its authorship to Sir Henry, and the same objection stands against his father Sir Richard St George (1554-1635), whose association with the College of Arms dates only from 1602 (ODNB). An old bookseller's typed description accompanying the lot states that the volume of manuscripts was acquired by Thomas Phillipps in 1852 from the manuscripts of Sir Henry St George, and listed among the St George manuscripts in 1697 in Bernard's Catalogi Lib. MSS. Angl. pars altera, no. 4217. The paper is watermarked PM within a crowned shield, several versions of which are included in C.M. Briquet, Les filigranes (Amsterdam, 1968) as 9637-9644, datable between 1545 and 1601. The closest match is 9641, datable 1567-1570, a period consistent with the hand. Such a date is supported by the presence of the grotesque beside the name of Princess Mary on the first line of folio 4, an adornment unlikely to have been made before November 1558. In a lengthy and pious introduction, the king accepts that 'every creature, the more high he is in estate, honour and authority in this world, the more he is bound to love, serve God and thank God and the more diligently to endeavour to [do] good and charitable works'.'Repenting also our old and detestable life', he invokes God and the Virgin Mary to 'pray for us and with us while we live here in this world and in time of passing out of it'. He desires burial 'in the choir of our college of Windsor, midway between the [stalls - blank in MS] and the high altar' in a tomb which is 'well one ward [recte toward] and almost made in which we will allow [recte will also] that the bones and body of our true [and] loving wife Queen Jane be put also'. 'The tombs and altars of king Harry the 6 and also of king Edward the fourth our great uncle and grandfather be made more princely'. Re-establishment of the Poor Knights of Windsor each to wear 'a long gown of white cloth with a garter upon the breast embroidered with a shield and a cross of St George with the garter and a mantle of red cloth'. Daughters 'shall not marry nor take any person to her husband without the assent and consent of the privy councillors and others appointed by us to our dearest son Prince Edward'.'seeing the fatherly love which we bear to our son Prince Edward and to this our realm we declare his [recte him] according to justice and equity and conscience to be our lawful heir and do and bequest unto him the succession of our realm of England and Ireland with our title of France and all other dominions both on this side [the seas] and beyond, charging him and commanding him on pain of our curse, seeing he hath so loving a father of us and that all our chief labour and study in this world [is] to establish him in the imperial crown of this realm after our days, in such sort as may be pleasing to God and to the wealth of this realm, and to his honour and quiet, that he be ordered and ruled, both in his marriage and also in ordering of the affairs of the realm, as well outward as inward, and also all his own privy affairs and in giving offices of charge by the advice and counsel of our right and entirely beloved counsellors'. 'Item we bequest to our daughter Mary and Elizabeth marriage[s], they being married to potentate by the advice of our foresaid counsellors, if we bestow not them in our own life time, ten thousand pounds in money, plate, jewels and household stuff for each of them or a larger sum at the discretions of our said executors'. This is the discussion of the will from the entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP, 2004) by Eric Ives: 'It was in the context of this final factional battle that Henry revised his last will and testament on 30 December 1546. It was authenticated by the dry stamp, a form of signature by proxy which Henry had introduced in 1545 to save himself trouble. This system was in theory open to abuse, but the will is undoubtedly genuine. Arguments that it was stamped only after the king became incapacitated, or even after he was dead, do not stand up to analysis. The king confirmed Edward as heir and after Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, though the girls were to lose their places in the succession if they married without the written permission of a majority of privy councillors. Next in line he put the Grey and Clifford families, descendants of Mary, his younger sister. The granddaughter of Henry's elder sister, Margaret-Mary, queen of Scots-was not mentioned, though presumably she qualified in the final remainder to the next rightful heirs. To govern the country during his son's minority, Henry nominated sixteen executors who were to function as Edward's privy council, and since sixteen might be too few for day-to-day business, he named a further twelve to be counsellors to the sixteen as and when required. Henry's will provoked discussion in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth and also in modern times. Some historians have argued that because traditionalist and anti-traditionalist councillors were roughly equal in numbers, Henry's intention was to rule from the grave and preserve his individual religious policy.' (1)

*Pepys (Samuel, 1633-1703). A Clerk's copy letter, signed 'S. Pepys', 1 February 1695/6, to Cousin [Major Thomas] Aungier, concering affairs relating to Christ's Hospital, beginning, 'I thank you for yours by ye Penny-Post this day, & for ye Enclosed Papers of News. Of which latter, I send you back ye Written one ab[ou]t ye Act for Garbling, together with that which you lately sent me ab[ou]t ye Demands at ye Parish of Christ-church make of ye Hosp[ita]l as not knowing but you may have future use for both. Let me only observe one new Instance therein, of ye Effects of our late extravaganeys in Building, with reference to ye Parish-Houses call'd down for ye sake of ye Mathe[matica]l. & of ye Shops & Houses new-built under ye Cover of our New Writing-Schools. When ye whole hereon & the other Points shall be adjusted betw[ee]n them & us, I shan't forget to call for a Copy of it', continuing in the same vein, with names mentioned including Mr Oxwick, Plumb, Dr Sloane and (?)Iverso, then writing, 'I don't doubt but Capt. Stapleton (now he hath found ye way to you) will visit you again. If not, what I told you I would propose to him, of setting an Example to all others of ye Children of ye King's Foundac[i]on, who shall come to Advancem[en]t in ye King's Service, of wearing their Founders cognizance or Badge, after their so coming in to ye Service of ye Crown; which I should be very glad he might have the honour of beginning, & my selfe have the pleasure of presenting him with ye first that shall be so born, as having been my Child. I say, if he should not in a little time give you an opportunity of proposing it to him, I shall apply my selfe elsewhere first; I think it not only in itselfe so honourable, but a means, likely (beyond any thing else) to be of use to ye whole Found[acio]n it, by distinguishing them from ye Herd of Com[m]on Mariners: And thereby manifesting ye Title they have by their Education, to Preference in ye King's Service before any other not so related thereto; besides ye Necessity it will alsoe in a great measure bring upon them of endeavouring to distinguish themselves by their merits & vertues, in proproc[i]on to ye honour they receive from that Badge, in Conjunction with their Com[m]iss[io]ns; that I shall unwillingly lose any time in me getting it (for their sakes) putt in Executions. And knowing him descended of so eminent a Family as he is, I should think it much more desirable for him, as a Gent[lema]n to have ye honour of begin[n]ing it, than be driven to take it up, when begun by others of less Quality than himselfe', suggesting he may communicate this to Lady Vavasour and Mr Topham, neatly written in a brown ink in a clear hand on three pages and three lines at the top of the fourth page, with Pepys's distinctive signature beneath sentiment, two sheets of laid paper with watermark of the City of London arms on one sheet and 'EB' on the other, some overall light browning, folio (300 x 190mm) The letter is accompanied by a photograph of a typed letter from R.W. Ladborough, Pepysian Librarian at Magdalene College, Cambridge, 19 January 1967. The letter is addressed to Roger Goodenough concerning the letter and noting: '1. Full information about the connexion of the Angiers with Pepys is given by W.H. Whitear's More Pepysiana, London, Simpkin Marshall, 1927, at pp. 9-12. (There is a copy in the Pepys reference Library). 2. The enclosed letter is a copy, probably written by Pepys's clerk, but signed by Pepys himself, the recipient was, I think, John Angiers who would appear to have been governor of Christ's Hospital. (See Whitear, opposite p. 12). There is other correspondence between this Angiers and Pepys at the British Museum (Add. MSS 20732). So far as I can ascertain, this letter has not been published.' The letter is it appears addressed not to John Angier but to (Major) Thomas Aungier, described as both 'nephew' and 'cozen', and a member of the School Committee of Christ's Hospital. The letters held by the British Library are those between John Angiers and Samuel Pepys, 1694-95, and relating to Christ's Hospital. In 1673 Pepys was involved with the establishment of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital, which was to train 40 boys annually in navigation, for the benefit of the Royal Navy and the English Merchant Navy. In 1675 he was appointed a Governor of Christ's Hospital and for many years he took a close interest in its affairs. Among his papers are two detailed memoranda on the administration of the school. In 1699, after the successful conclusion of a seven-year campaign to get the master of the Mathematical School replaced by a man who knew more about the sea, he was rewarded for his service as a Governor by being made a Freeman of the City of London. (1)

Henry VII Year Books. [Anni Regis Henrici Septimi. Quibus accesserunt annus primus et secundus de noua et valde bona collatione. Ac etiam, annus decimus, undecimus, decimus tertius, decimus sextus, et vigesimus, nunquam ante hac ‘diti. Anno Domini 1555, Richard Tottell, 1555], [i.e. 1563?], law reports from 1-16, 20 and 21 Henry VII, separate paginations with continuous register, black letter, woodcut initials, lacks title-page, occasional contemporary and later ink marginalia and underscoring, peppered wormholes (mostly at front and rear), a few mostly marginal closed tears, some light old damp-staining, 23 lines of manuscript verse quotations [from William Bullein's Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence] in brown ink in an unidentified contemporary hand to first front free endpaper recto (watermark of hand with a flower on laid paper), contemporary blind-stamped calf over boards, with central lattice panel of diamonds within a rolled border of repeated motifs of female heads within roundels and floral decoration, ownership monogram blind stamp of 'F.B.' to centre of both covers, remains of one brass clasp only, some rubbing and wear with scattered worm holes, neatly rebacked with remains of spine relaid, folio (280 x 190mm) Provenance: An unidentified 16th century English collector, here quoting from William Bullein's Dialogue against the Fever. Beale R408; STC 9223.5. The Year Books are the earliest law reports of England, forming a continuous series from 1268 to 1535, and covering the reigns of King Edward I to Henry VIII. Richard Tottel produced the majority of sixteenth-century printed Year Books, a great many being published between the years 1556 and 1572. William Bullein (c. 1515-1576), physician, published his last and most popular work, A Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence, in 1564. 'This work saw him move away from the overwhelmingly medical concerns of his previous writing, and extend his use of dialogue beyond the didactic to a more lively style in which he mixed medicine, morality, and entertainment. Like the authors of many plague tracts, Bullein takes the epidemic as his starting point for a broad criticism of the sins of society, attacking engrossing and enclosure in the countryside and the sudden charity of the afflicted, and parodying hypocritical and atheistic physicians and apothecaries, and the desperation of usurious merchants when faced by death.' (Oxford DNB). The manuscript verses begin: 'How the cardinal came of nought / and his prelacie sold and bought / And where such prelate be, springe of love degree, / And spirituall dignitee / farewell begninitee, / farewell simplicitee, farewell humanitee, farewell good charitee'. The final two lines are: 'but or thei enter if they have lerned nought / afterward is vertue the least of theyr thought'. The quotations are taken from one long speech by the character Crispinus who recounting his visit to Parnassus, repeats some verses he heard spoken by a number of famous poets from the previous two hundred years. The four poets 'quoted' here are John Skelton (an attack on Cardinal Wolsey), Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate and Bartley. The small variations in wording between the early editions suggests that this, if not copied from a manuscript, was transcribed from the first edition of 1564, rather than the later editions of 1573 or 1578: See Mark W. Bullen & A.H. Bullen (editors), A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence by William Bullein, from the Edition of 1578, Collated with the Earlier Editions of 1564 and 1573, Trbner, 1888, pages 16-18. All editions are rare and only three copies of the first edition are located: two imperfect copies at the British Library and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and a possibly unique complete copy at the Huntington Library, California. That copy, used by the editors of the (fourth) 1888 edition had been part of the Britwell/Heber Collection, acquired by Huntington from the Britwell Court library sale in 1919. (1)

*Wellesley (Arthur, Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852). An unpublished autograph dispatch signed 'Wellington', Cea, 17 April 1810, 'No. 23', to Admiral Nathaniel Berkeley, in full, 'Sir, there is a man by the name of Stephen Bromley who had deserted from the 4th Dragoons now in charge of the Provost Marshal at Lisbon; and I shall be very much obliged to you if you will let me know whether you will receive him into one of His Majesty's ships, if he should be discharged from the Service. He is a stout man, and has not been guilty of any crime which renders him infamous. I shall be much obliged to you if you will send to England by the first opportunity one officer, four Sergeants and sixty Privates of the 28th Light Dragoons respecting whose passage the Assistant Quarter Master General will apply to the Agent of Transports', Admiral Berkeley's 4-line manuscript reply written vertically at foot of page 2, 'That we will receive the man on board H.M.S., and that if the officers and men of the 23rd Lt. Dr. are ready they shall proceed to England on Wednesday morning', 2 pages with integral blank, laid paper with Whatman watermark date of 1808, folio After halting the French advance in Portugal at Busaco, 27th September 1810, Wellington and his army retreated behind the defensive Lines of Torres Vedras. Wellington had his headquarters at Viseu from 17th February 1810, but on 14th April 1810 moved them to Cea, in order to improve communications with his front line troops. Wellington himself reached Cea on 15th April, but it was immediately apparent to him (letter to General Crauford, 15th April) that Cea was inadequate for the needs of both himself and those of his headquarters staff, with the result that Wellington moved his headquarters back to Viseu on the day this dispatch was written and was back in Viseu himself by 19th April. The recipient of this dispatch, Admiral George Cranfield Berkeley (1753-1818) was Royal Navy commander on the coast of Portugal, 1808-1812. He worked tirelessly for Wellington in support of the army in Portugal, with the result that Wellington was full of praise for his abilities, writing in 1810 of Berkeley that 'his activity is unbounded, the whole range of the business of the Country in which he is stationed, civil, military, political, commercial, even ecclesiastical I believe, as well as naval, are objects of his attention', and also described Berkeley as the best naval commander he had ever cooperated with. Berkeley, who had previous to the Napoleonic Wars seen service afloat during the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars, retired from active service in 1812. The Corporal Stephen Bromley who had been court-martialled for desertion was by 1810 a soldier of some considerable experience, having originally enlisted into the 4th Dragoons on 10th September 1799. His regiment landed at Lisbon on 24th April 1809 and prior to Bromley's desertion saw action at Talavera, 27-28 July 1809, Busaco, 27 September 1810, and during the subsequent retreat to the Lines of Torres Vedras. Bromley would appear to have been convicted of the simple crime of desertion, since had he been guilty of desertion to the enemy he would have faced a firing squad on recapture. The 28th Light Dragoons landed at Lisbon on 23rd June 1809, and subsequently saw action at Talavera. On the second day of the action at Talavera, 28th July, the regiment took part in a disastrous series of charges. Initially going in to action as a unit, the officers of the 23rd lost control of the men under their command. Charging far too fast, they failed to see a steeply banked dry river bed in front of them, into which the bulk of the regiment's men and horses fell headlong. After the survivors had extricated themselves from the river bed, the regiment split into two wings, the smaller wing launching a suicidal attack against a French square, and being beaten off with heavy losses. The other, larger wing, some 200 strong, launched an equally forlorn charge against the leading brigades of a French cavalry division, taking on odds of five to one. Although the 200 men managed to fight their way through the first line of French cavalry, they were eventually fought to a standstill, surrounded and overwhelmed. During this series of charges the 23rd sustained heavy casualties, losing some 207 from its original strength of 459 officers and men, and ceased to exist as a fighting unit. As a result, Wellington ordered the 23rd home to England to recruit and rebuild. Ian Fletcher, Wellington's Regiments (Spellmount, 2005) records the regiment as having arrived back in England in January 1810. However, as this dispatch indicates, surviving members of the regiment were still being repatriated as late as April 1810. It took some time to train recruits and bring the regiment back up to strength, with the result that it did not return to the Peninsula and did not see action again until Waterloo, 18th June 1815. This dispatch is not among those published by Lieutenant-Colonel Gurwood in his 7-volume Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington (1836), who records a total of six dispatches only from Cea by Wellington during his brief stay there; April 15th (3) and April 17th (3), this dispatch bringing the known total of despatches to seven. (1)

*Wolseley (Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount, 1833-1913). Original manuscript briefing notes entitled 'Extract from Notes to accompany Itinerary from Cape Coast Castle to Coomassie', drawn up by Lieutenant John Frederick Maurice, Royal Artillery, Private Secretary to Wolseley during the Ashantee Campaign of 1873-74, and one of the founder members of Wolseley's 'Ashantee Ring', dated 27 September 1873, comprising 11 handwritten pages on six folio sheets of blue official army notepaper, incorporating a pen and ink map of the Ashantee capital, Coomassie, signed with initials 'J.M. Cape C.C.E.' (Cape Coast Castle Expedition), accompanied by a watercolour sketch of the cape coast castle from the seaward side by acting Lieutenant (later Admiral) James Stoddart, Royal Navy (1827-1892), watercolour on card, pencil inscription to verso 'Cape Coast Castle, Admiral Stoddart, as Lieutenant, 1836', 18.5 x 26cm A surprise attack on the British Gold Coast Protectorate by the Ashantee King took place on 22nd January 1873. Months of sporadic violence followed, which the resident British forces - a battalion of the West India Regiment and one hundred Royal Marines - barely managed to contain. A punitive expedition was dispatched from England under the command of Major-General Garnet Wolseley, who embarked for the Gold Coast aboard the SS Ambris with an advance part of thirty-five staff officers, from Liverpool on 12th September 1873. Wolseley and his officers landed at the Gold Coast Castle on 2nd October 1873. This draft plan of campaign was drawn up by Lieutenant Maurice while Wolseley was at sea, being dated just five days prior to their disembarkation at Cape Coast Castle. Arriving, by design, well in advance of the main body of his force, which did not arrive until January 1874, Wolseley had a detailed plan, based on Lieutenant Maurice's comprehensive notes, in place by the time his troops arrived. After citing the various published and written sources used when drawing up the plan of campaign, including Bowdich's Mission to Ashantee (1817), Hutton's A Voyage to Africa (1820), Dupuy's Journal of a Residence in Ashantee (1820), Commander William Winniatt's Journal of his visit to the King of Ashantee (1848) and the Guide for Strangers traveling to Coomassie (1862), the notes provided General Wolseley with a detailed account of the country between the coast and the Ashantee capital, its peoples, towns and villages (with estimates of population), the jungles, rivers and swamps, climate and potential for obtaining supplies during an advance; Maurice details five different potential routes from the coast to Coomassie (7 pages of the text), outlining potential difficulties, whether the land to be crossed might prove friendly or hostile, the total distance covered by each route, along with a copied map of the Ashantee capital, taken from Bowditch, at a scale of 400 paces to the inch, indicating the position of the principal buildings and locations in the city, including Aboosaywe, or place of execution, the palace, temple, etc, and the various types of terrain in the immediate vicinity of the capital; swamp, ground cleared but rocky, yam garden, etc, as a guide to selecting the best route for the final attack. Five routes are proposed: one from the River Prah through Kairokou, Eusaguesu, Abbatea and Biaqua to Coomassie, Maurice noting with regard to this route that as the tribes to the west of Elminia have revolted, this route leaves the left flank of the line of communication so exposed that it would seem madness; a second route from the Cape Coast Castle via Anamaboe, which Maurice describes as being too difficult and dangerous; a third route from Accra to Aguieso across the rivers Birrimo, Auinee and Boosim-Prah, described as having the advantage of starting from Accra, as a base the most healthy place on the coast and well within British territory; a fourth route from Accra, passing to the north of the proposed route 3; and a fifth route to Coomassie via the River Volta, which Maurice notes as only being practicable if the river was navigable when the campaign commenced. Wolseley was able to complete the campaign successfully in only two months, evacuating his troops before the malarial wet season arrived. The plan of campaign that Wolseley put into action was essentially an amalgam of the first two options proposed by Maurice, described respectively as madness and difficult and dangerous, Wolseley overcame the problems these two routes presented by negotiating agreements with the previously hostile tribes on the left flank of his line of attack, and recruiting them to actually assist in the invasion of the Ashantee kingdom that had been previously oppressing them. The problem of passing large numbers of troops through dense jungle along narrow tracks and roads was overcome by splitting his attack into four columns, constructing an advance jumping off point in the interior at Prahsu, approximately fifty miles from Coomassie, from which the main column attacked along the Prahsu - Coomassie road, supported by the three flanking columns, and converging on Coomassie for the final assault. Captain (later Major-General Sir) John Frederick Maurice (1841-1912) obtained material and information from a wide variety sources, including Admiral James Stoddart, from whom he obtained this watercolour showing the location and strategic importance of the Cape Coast Castle, which became the base for operations during the Ashantee campaign. (2)

Alberti (Leon Battista). L'Architettura di Leon Battista Alberti, tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli Con la aggiunta de disegni et altri diversi trattati del medesimo auttore, Monte Regale: Leonardo Torrentino, 1565, 331, [21]pp., woodcut printer's device on the title and portrait of Alberti verso, 3 woodcut plates including a double-page plate of the Baths of Diocletian, woodcut decorative initials and numerous woodcuts in the text (some full-page), leaf L6 with small repair touching a woodcut recto and with loss of a few letters to verso, first four leaves only with small worm track at extreme fore-edge not affecting text, early 20th-century vellum gilt, slightly soiled and partly split along joints, folio Fowler 8 (describes an imperfect copy), Millard IV, 6 and Mortimer 12 only describe the 1550 edition. Clean, wide-margined copy. This is the second folio edition of Bartoli's translation of 'De re aedificatoria' and the first to include Domenichi's translation of 'La Pittura' which begins at page 305 with separate title. The woodcut illustrations are from the same blocks as those used in the first edition of the translation in 1550, but this edition is regarded as rarer than the 1550 edition. This important and influential work by the great Italian renaissance humanist is based on Vitruvius and when first published in 1485 was the first printed book on architecture. Fowler 8 describes an imperfect copy; Millard IV, 6 and Mortimer 12 only describe the 1550 edition. (1)

*Besler (Basilius). Pistacia, Thalictrum flore incarnato..., Reseda Plinnii..., & Linaria aurea..., [from Hortus Eystettensis, 1613], together 4 large folio hand-coloured botanical copper engravings on laid paper, with watermark of a pine cone within an armorial shield, printed without text to verso, each titled in Latin below the image, with contemporary manuscript translations into German below each caption in brown ink, with margins, generally in good condition, sheet size 55 x 41 cm (21.6 x 16.1 ins) or similar The Pistachio Nut, Bay Tree and Almond, Aquilegia-leaved meadow rue, white meadow rue and Small-flowered fumitory, Dyers-weed and Toad Flax from Besler's Hortus Eystettensis, or Garden of Eichstatt, published in 1613. The first edition was published in two issues: one with descriptive text printed on the verso of each plate, and one without the text. The deluxe issue without text backing the plates (as here) was undoubtedly intended to be coloured by hand, the versos left blank to ensure no shadow of the printed text would detract from the image. This first edition was limited to 300 copies, each of which carried a premium price. The watermark of a pine cone within an armorial shield present on these sheets (and on those of lot 92) may represent the arms of Augsburg, suggesting that production of these plates was undertaken in the workshop of Wolfgang Kilian in Augsburg. References: Nicolas Barker, Hortus Eystettensis, the Bishop's Garden and Besler's Magnificent Book, second edition, 1995. David Paisey, review of Barker's Hortus Eystettensis in The Library, 6th series, volume 17, pages 365-368). (4)

*Besler (Basilius). Ageratum, Coniza Palustris, Coniza Minor [Aster and Fleabane]; Cytisus Columella, Cytisus V. Clusii, Genista Scoparia, Polemonium Monspelliensium [Dorcynium, Creeping Dwarf Broom, Broom Tops, and Wild Jasmine]; Malua crispa, Pseudodictamus floribus vertillatis, Marubium Creticum angustifolium [Curled Mallow, False Dittany, Cretan Horehound]; Reseda Plinii, Abrotanum Mas., Dracuncellus Hortensis [Dyer's-Weed, Common Southernwood and Garden Dragon], 1613, together 4 large folio hand-coloured botanical copper engravings on laid paper, with watermark of a pine cone within an armorial shield, printed without text to verso, each titled in Latin below the image, with contemporary manuscript translations into German below each caption in brown ink, with margins, generally in good condition, sheet size 55 x 41 cm (21.6 x 16.1 ins) or similar From Besler's Hortus Eystettensis, or Garden of Eichstatt, published in 1613. The watermark of a pine cone within an armorial shield present on these sheets may represent the arms of Augsburg, suggesting that production of these plates was undertaken in the workshop of Wolfgang Kilian in Augsburg (see David Paisey, Review of Nicholas Barker's Hortus Eystettensis, The Library, 6th series, volume 17, pages 365-368). (4)

Rea (John). [Flora: Seu, De Florum Cultura. Or, A Complete Florilege, Furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist. In III books, 1st edition, 1665], lacks letterpress title following 'The Mind of the Front', 16 engraved plans of formal gardens on 8 plates (plates 4 and 5 close-trimmed at head), woodcut initials throughout, separate dated title-page to 'Pomona. The third book', errata at foot of final page of index, a little worm tracing and some small worm holes to gutter margins not affecting text, minor spotting, old ink ownership name of 'Eliz: Yorke' at head of first leaf verso, later ownership inscription of Mrs Ann Parker to front free endpaper and bookplate of Christopher Rowe to front pastedown, recent period-style blind-stamped calf with red morocco spine label, folio (305 x 190 mm) Henrey 325; Hunt 301; Wing R421 or R422. 'The most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century'. (1)

Bloch (Marcus Elieser). Ichthyologie, ou Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere des Poissons. Avec des figures enluminees, dessinees d'apres nature, Volumes 1-6 bound in 3, 1st edition, Berlin: Chez l'Auteur, & Chez Francois de la Garde, Libraire, 1785-1788, half-title to each volume, engraved vignette to title of each volume by D. Berger after F.C.W. Rosenberg, 216 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, generally in clean condition with wide margins, marbled endpapers with bookplates removed, contemporary full russia with greek key gilt border decoration to outer edges, each volume with antique-style modern reback, gilt decorated spines, folio (47.5 x 29.5 cm, 18.7 x 11.75 ins) Nissen ZBI 416. Wood, page 244. Dance, page 56. A fine copy of the first six volumes of Bloch's masterpiece, described by Nissen as 'the finest illustrated work on fishes ever produced. The plates, by a variety of artists and engravers, are outstandingly coloured, and are heightened with gold, silver, and bronze to produce the metallic sheen of fish scales.' The drawings for the work were taken from Bloch's own extensive collection of approximately 1500 fish, which at the time was one of the largest collections in private hands. The full set of 12 volumes containing 432 plates was only completed in 1797. (3)

Walton (Izaak). The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing, and Instructions how to angle for a Trout of Grayling in a Clear Stream by Charles Cotton, with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, 2 volumes, 1st edition, William Pickering, 1836, half-titles, 14 engraved plates with tissue-guards and numerous engraved vignettes and headpieces in the text, mainly by Augustus Fox after Stothard or Inskipp, additional facsimile title page facing volume 1 p. 4 (as issued), some light offsetting from vignettes, occasional pale spotting in margins, the engraved title (meant to face the Epistle Dedicatory in volume 1) bound to front of volume 2, 19th-century green straight-grain morocco by Zaehnsdorf for Robert Tyndall Hamilton Bruce (1846-1899), his monogram and horse and thistle devices gilt to spine compartments, and his large gilt arms blocked to covers on lighter green morocco onlays, extremities very lightly rubbed in places, volume 2 spine very slightly sunned, all edges gilt, pale green silk doublures, embossed gilt lion rampant motifs gilt to initial blanks, folio (27.7 x 18.5 cm) Coigney 44; Wood pages 62-3. First Nicolas edition. A handsome copy in a deluxe binding done for Scottish businessman and arts patron Robert Tyndall Hamilton Bruce (1846-1899). The dimensions correspond to those Coigney provides for the large-paper issue, but the engravings are printed direct rather than on india paper. (2)

Teesdale, Henry New British Atlas Containing a Complete Set of County Maps...Published by Henry Teesdale & Co., [1829]. Folio, later rebound [1943] in blue cloth, retaining leather title to upper board and pastedown; engraved title, 3 folding hand-coloured maps, 41 single-page hand-coloured maps and two double-page maps (of Yorkshire). Teesdale acquired Robert Rowe's English Atlas in the 1820s and reissued it as his own with much altered plates as ''New British Atlas''.Heavily repaired in 1943 (according to note on pastedown), creases of folding maps protected with cloth, some marginal staining and marking, occasional marginal tearings with slight loss, England and Wales with section lost from bottom right corner, tape at margin of Scotland, small tear affecting lower left border of Kent but not main image, marking from tape repair to bottom edge of Middlesex and Monmouthshire entering map, loss to bottom edge of Northampton affecting small area of map, marginal loss only to fourth sheet of Yorkshire, however maps generally clean and crisp. A good copy of an impressive and important British Atlas.

Thoresby, Ralph. Ducatus Leodiensis or the Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leeds...Printed for Maurice Atkins, and Sold by Henry Clements at the Half Moon in St Paul's Church-yard, 1715. Folio, sometime rebound in full calf retaining original spine and board panels, spine with morocco lettering piece, all edges marbled, retaining original marbled endpapers; title, verso blank, [4 (dedication to Marquis of Carmathen, dedication to mayor of Leeds etc., directions to binder)], v-xxii, 628 [12 (index)]; engraved frontis, 11 plates (2 folding laid down on linen, some others folding), numerous armorial illus. to txt (occasionally hand-coloured), missing folding map of Leeds; provenance: Alfred Mattison (author of The Romance of Old Leeds, owner's ink inscription to ffep).Binding solid with little wear, original parts scuffed, some foxing, staining, browning etc internally, p.575 lacking section of margin with no loss of text, generally very good.

Whitaker, Thomas History of Richmondshire. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 90, Cheapside, and 8, Pall Mall; and Robinson and Hernaman, Leeds, 1823. Elephant folio (2 vols). Full calf, sometime rebacked, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; Vol. I [8 (title, blank, Introduction, blank, Dedication, blank, Advertisment, blank)], 442, [2 (blank, colophon)], Vol. II: [4 (half title, blank, title, blank)], [1-4], 5-502; 45 plates and 27 pedigrees as called for, with illus. to text. Large paper edition.Both volumes showing shelf wear with scuffing and rubbing of binding. With some foxing, spotting and offsetting from plates throughout but generally a very good copy.

Graves, Rev. John The History of Cleveland. Carlisle: Printed for F. Jollie and Sons, 1808. 4to, half calf over marbled boards, spine bands and compartments decorated in blind and gilt, lettered directly in one and at foot with imprint, speckled edges, marbled endpapers; engraved frontis, engraved title, folding map, hand-col. in outline, 8 plates, folding letterpress table; provenance: William van Mildert (last Prince-Bishop of Durham, his armorial bookplate impaled with Dunelm on upper pastedown) -- Henry Drummond Albury Park Surrey (banker, politician, writer, founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church, his armorial bookplate to ffep). Oliver, George The History and Antiquities of the Town and Minster of Beverley...Beverley: Printed and sold for M. Turner, 1829. 4to, early bound in half calf, spine with morocco lettering pieces in 2, a.e.g. marbled endpapers; engraved frontis., 5 plates, folding table as called for in embellishments, w/ numerous illus. to txt; provenance: John Stansfeld (collector of county histories and similar, his armorial bookplate to upper pastedown. Lockwood, Henry & Cates, Adolphus The History and Antiquities of the Fortifications to the City of York. J. Weale, Architectural Library, 59, High Holborn, et al, 1834. Folio, cloth-backed boards, sometime rebacked; engraved plan frontis., 12 plates. Poulson, George Beverlac. Printed for George Scaum, Beverley, 1829. 4to (2 vols). Later bound in green buckram; all plates and pedigrees as called for in embellishments. Neale, J.P. View of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen...Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster Row, 1828. 8vo, half calf over marbled boards, spine blind in compartments, lettered directly in gilt in one, marbled edges; engraved frontis., 70 plates.

Folio Society Dictionary, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, on Historical Principles, 2002, Oxford University Press, Folio Society numbered limited edition, quarto, two volumes, top edge gilt, original half morocco over silk boards, slipcase; Thesaurus, Oxford Thesaurus of English, 2004, Oxford University Press, Folio Society numbered limited edition, quarto, top edge gilt, original half morocco over silk boards, slipcase (3)

Seguin, Lisabeth Gooch A Picturesque Tour in Picturesque Lands. Strahan and Company Limited, 1881. Folio, publisher's vellum-backed calf, boards ornately decorated with broad gilt roll-tooled borders enclosing four onlaid contrasting green calf cornerpieces with gilt floral design around onlaid central red calf ovals with gilt tulip design, all joined with thin onlaid red calf with gilt single broken fillet, around a central onlaid green calf lozenge wavy with gilt floral design enclosing onlaid red calf oval bearing decorative gilt 'S', spine backed in vellum with central onlaid decorative calf lettering piece in red and green with green calf gilt decorations at head and foot, top edges gilt, foredges uncut, marbled endpapers; with over 160 woodcut illustrations retaining tissue guards. Edition de luxe. On special handmade paper, with Proofs of Illustration on Japanese Paper. No. 102 of 300 copies for England (and 300 copies for America).A touch of rubbing etc to boards, spine darkened with a little loss to lettering piece, lower joint a touch cracked (although still well attached), foredges a little dirty, with occasional marginal marking, but a clean copy.

Cristofoli, Adriano; Valesi, Dionisio Anfiteatro Detto L'Arena di Verona. Francesco Masieri, [c.1750]. Copper engraving on two folio sheets, joined at the middle, after drawings by Veronese architect Adriano Cristofoli, framed. The plate depicts the amphitheatre at Verona (apparently inspired by the style of Ludovico Dorigny's 1695 etching, published by Valentine Masieri) surrounded on three sides by architectural details with a key at the bottom. The amphitheatre is shown in lively activity with performers and audience. with Veduta del Celebratissimo Campanili di Pisa in Toscana. Presso Gio Sardi Livorno, [n.d.]. Engraved, framed.Fading at join with occasional evidence of small tears off the join neatly restored.

Bremner, F[rederick] Types of the Indian Army: Illustrating the Races Enlisted in the Bengal, Punjab, Madras & Bombay Armies. Quetta: F. Bremner, 1897. Oblong folio, publisher's half-morocco gilt; 60 mounted carbon prints with printed captions. Bremner was one of hundreds of British photographers who set up in Indian cities during the height of the Raj. Unlike other photographers his work remains important, because he worked in Baluchistan and Sindh, rarely photographed, and over many decades. He first came to India from Banff in Scotland in 1883 to work with his brother-in-law and opened his own studio in Karachi six years later. He became successful enough to open studios in Quetta, Baluchistan and Lahore and Rawalpindi. In 1810 he opened in the vibrant city of Simla. His military photographs are especially prized, marked by the quality of the plates and the detail of his compositions. He captured uniforms, equipment, transport and living conditions of the troops on location, giving them a realism sometimes lacking in posed shots. His books were sold to order making them hard to trace today. The word ''Types'' in the title of this series refers not to the roles of the regiments shown, but rather the races and religious creeds of the soldiers. The book is divided into four sections - the Bengal, Madras and Bombay Armies (the Presidencies) and the Punjab Army. Many famous regiments (whose descendants still serve India) are featured - such as the Bengal Sappers and Miners - but also irregular forces and garrison artillery, showing the breadth of the armies of the time.Some spotting to plates, mostly marginal affecting mounts, occasionally affecting images.

Macklin Bible The Holy Bible, embellished by the most eminent British artists. With historical prefaces…For T. Cadell, by T. Bensley, 1824. Folio (4 vols). Contemporary black hard-grained morocco, boards richly panelled in gilt and blind, spines with low raised bands gilt, compartments scrolled in gilt, lettered directly in gilt in two and at foot with Macklin's name, wide inner dentelles decorated in gilt and blind all round, yellow doublures and endpapers, gilt edges, wide embroidered blue markers; 76 engraved plates, large engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout. First edition thus. A re-issue of the sumptuous Macklin Bible (1800), with the original plates and new prefaces by Edward Nares (1762-1841), Regius Professor of modern history at Oxford. The first three volumes (dated 1824) correspond to Macklin's original six. The last volume of Apocrypha is dated 1816 which is when the supplement was issued to Macklin's original work. Macklin's impressively illustrated Bible, printed in dramatic large type, drew the artistic talents of de Louthenbourg, Hamilton, Opie, Cosway, Benjamin West and Richard Westall, along with Fuseli, Kauffman, Reynolds and Stothard. It almost bankrupted the publisher, who never lived to see its success. He died exhausted (aged 47) just five days after the delivery of the final engraving. It ''endures as the most ambitious edition produced in Britain, often pirated but never rivalled''. (ODNB). A little wear at extremities, very occasional light spotting, vol. I sig. 3R short closed tear affecting text, vol. IV water-stained in lower margin mostly not affecting text, an excellent set.

Besse, Joseph Suffering of the Quakers. London: Printed and Sold by Luke Hinde...1753. Folio (2 vols). Modern calf retaining older board panels and morocco lettering pieces, all edges speckled.

Gill, Eric (illus) The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. Folio Society, 2007. Folio (2 vols). Gospels facsimile in full black morocco, upper board blocked in gilt after Gill's design for the living creatures of the Evangelists in a blind-blocked frame, spine lettered directly in gilt, all edges gilt, black marker; Commentary in buckram-backed boards with paper title label on upper board; both in black clamshell box. Limited edition numbered 2740/2750. A deluxe reprint of the legendary Golden Cockerel edition of 1931. The Gospels are widely considered one of the most beautiful books printed in the twentieth century, rivalling the Kelmscott Chaucer and the Doves Bible. They were perhaps the Press' finest production - as well as one of the most successful private press books of the century. One of the contributing factors to the beauty of the book is the holistic design. Robert Gibbings, owner of the Press, would write in the Book Collector (Summer 1953) that he ''would send [Gill] the proofs and on these he would build his designs, fitting his figures to the spaces determined by the type and allowing his fancy to spread into any quarter that offered itself''. That Gill designed images, typeface and layout ensured a rarely-equalled unity of conception. The Commentary comprises John Dreyfus' essay on 'Eric Gill and the Golden Cockerel Type' and Robert Gibbings' 'Memories of Eric Gill' reproduced from The Book Collector. An excellent facsimile of a rare masterpiece.

Leighton, Clare The Farmer's Year. Collins, 1933. Oblong folio, org. cloth, in unclipped dj; 12 woodcut plates, each month with decorative initial capital and 6 with woodcut tail-piece. idem. Four Hedges. A Gardner's Chronicle. Victor Gollancz, 1935. 8vo, org. cloth, in unclipped dj; numerous woodcut illus. by Leighton. idem. Country Matters. Victor Gollancz, 1937. 8vo, org. cloth, in dj; numerous woodcut illus. by Leighton. Illustrator and writer Clare Leighton was best known for her wood engravings. During the 1920s and 1930s, as the world around her became increasingly technological, industrial, and urban, Leighton portrayed the vanishing lives of rural working men and women. Contemporaries like Sir John Squire praised her work, Eric Gill saying that ''...no one in our time has succeeded better than Clare Leighton in presenting the noble massiveness and breadth of the life of the earth on a scale so grand.'' idem. The Musical Box. Gollancz, [1936]. Oblong 4to, org. boards, decorative endpapers; coloured illus.Jacket dulled and torn, with some loss to foot of spine, board edges sunned, also foot of spine where jacket lost, however apart from occasional very slight foxing and a couple of margins a touch dusty, a clean copy internally. Four hegdes dj spine faded, edges a little creased and torn, light foxing to jacket but despite slight, occasional, marginal foxing throughout a clean, bright copy internally. Country Matters dj has tear in lower corner of upper panel, spine faded with rubbing and creasing to edges, foxing of endpapers but internally clean. Musical Box boards used with tearing to head of spine, very slight marginal foxing but bright internally.

Daniell, William (eng); Smirke, Robert (illus) The Adventure of Hunch-back and the Stories Connected With It. Printed for William Daniell, 1814. Folio, org. boards with paper label on spine, edges uncut; 17 engraved plates by Daniell after Smirke. Large paper copy.Boards scuffed and scratched, spine cracked with some loss, endpapers creased and folded, a little foxing throughout, mainly marginal, but a few plates affected, a few plates a little marked, occasional offsetting from plates, but a very good copy.

A collection of late 17th century and later lace needlework, The A.B. Cotterill Collection, Wollaton, Nottingham, displayed in three folio albums, including an early 18th century Italian flounce lace section, 41cm long, Milan or Genoa; 18th century Milanese Flounce lace section, 30.5cm long; a mid-19th century Irish lace fragment, worked at Magherafelt, County Derry, early 20th century ink manuscript collector's label attached; 19th century Limerick lace handkerchief; Pillow lace collar, Northamptonshire, late 19th century; Pillow lace collar, East Midlands, 19th century; 19th century Guipure lace collar; other collars, including Ribbon lace; Broderie Anglaise lappet, late 19th/early 20th century; Elizabeth II 1953 Coronation shaped square handkerchief; other royal commemoratives, Queen Victoria and later; 1951 Festival of Britain; WW1 silk embroidered lace handkerchief, with Allied Flags; Stiletto work; Teneriffe lace, various; further handkerchiefs, cuffs and other hand stitched, loom and bobbin made lace; further textiles, (3 folders)

An interesting folio of early 18th century and later engravings and prints, including Wenceslaus Hollar (1607 - 1677), by and after, Dormanskirch and Rindorp, first state, engraving, 9.5cm x 18cm, Pennington 840; Pietro Aquila (c. 1630-1692), after Annibale Carracci (1560 - 1609), Jacobus de Rubeis formis Romae ad Templ. S Marie de Pace au priu S. Pont, [Rome, n.d., c. 1675], engraving, 42cm x 51.5cm; after Salvator Rosa (1615 - 1673), A River God and Sleeping Warrior, early 18th century, etching, 46cm x 34cm, (faults); Peter Schenk the Elder (1660 - 1711), by and after, a set of seven, views of Formal Gardens, [third to fourth quarter, 17th century], engravings, 17.8cm x 20cm, (7); after David Teniers the Younger, a set of three, Senses: Hearing, Smelling and Tasting, 18th century, line engravings, 18cm x 12.5cm, mounted, (3); John Faber Jr (1684 - 1756), by, The Right Honble Philip Lord Hardwicke Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Sold by J. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Sqaure, [London] 1737, mezzotint, 40cm x 29cm; Francesco Bartolozzi RA (1727 - 1815) and William Woollett (1735 - 1785), after Philip James de Loutherbourg RA (1740 - 1812), Tom Jones afsisting (sic) Molly Seagrim In The Churchyard and Repelling her Adversaries, [Published by Victor Marie Picot, London, n.d. 1776], engraving and etching, 40.5cm x 37cm; Thomas Major (1720 - 1799), after B. Peters (Dutch Old Master, 17th century), [Figures Rowing Over a Lake to a Keep], [...] from an Original Painting [...] in the Collection of the Right Rev:D Father in God, William Lord-Bishop of London Derry (sic, Londonderry, Ireland), Published by [T. Major, London] 1749, engraving, 27cm x 32cm; other Old Master and later engravings and prints; (collection)