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Miscellaneous. A collection of miscellaneous literature, including Scriptorum Fragmenta; a Roberto Stephano, Carolo Sigonio, Andrea Patricio &c. collecta, by Marcus Tullius Cocero, Amsterdam: Joannem Blaeu, 1659, contemporary full vellum, small 8vo, together with other mostly modern literature, including publications by Folio Society, Shell Guide, Yale, Batsford, Antique Collector's Club, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves)

Beckwith (Carol & Angela Fisher). Faces of Africa, 1st edition, Washington: National Geographic, 2004, signed & inscribed by Carol Beckwith to the front endpaper, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 4toAfrican Ceremonies, 2 volumes, 1st edition, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in slipcase, folio, together with:Rubin (WIlliam, editor), "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art, affinity of the tribal and the modern, 2 volumes, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original wrappers in slipcase, large 8vo, plus other similar African & tribal art reference & relatedQTY: (33)

Miscellaneous. A large collection of modern miscellaneous literature, including history & art reference, including Mittelalterliche Handschriften und Miniaturen, by Jorn Gunter, 1st edition, Hamburg: Dr. Jorn Gunter Antiquariat, circa 1998, original cloth in dust jacket & slipcase, folio, Royal Copenhagen Porcelain..., by Arthur Hayden, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1918, original gilt decorated vellum & half calf, large 8vo, plus publications by Britain in Pictures, Batsford, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8voQTY: (6 shelves)

Virgil. [Opera Virgiliana, cum decem commentis, docte et familiariter exposita, docte quidem Bucolica, & Georgica à Seruio, Donato, Mancinello & Probo nuper addito : cu[m] adnotationibus Beroaldinis. Aeneis uerò ab iisdem pr[a]eter Mancinellum & Probum, & ab Augustino Datho in eius principio: opusculorum præterea quædam ab Domitio Calderino. Familiariter uerò omnia tam opera q[ue] opuscula ab Iodoco Badio Asce[n]sio. Addidimus præterea opusculum aliud, in priapi lusum, quod in antea impressis minime reperitur, edited by J. Badius Ascensius, 3 parts in one, Lyon: Jean Crespin, 1529], lacking first title, second title with woodcut fleur-de-lys, circa 200 fine large woodcut illustrations, numerous metalcut criblé initials of various sizes (many historiated), lacking signature Ff2 (i.e. pp. LXXXIII-LXXXIIII) in the second part and signature X3 (pp. CCCXXI-CCCXXII) in the third part, and final leaf at the end of the book, early manuscript annotation to rear endpaper, signature MIII in first part with medium closed tear, one or two small marginal repairs, occasional light water stains (heavier to last few leaves) and light soiling, near-contemporary panelled calf, lacking part of spine, some worming and wear to covers, folio (31 x 21 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Adams V-474. The superb woodcuts are by the Late Master of the Gruninger Workshop, first published by Johann Grüninger at Strasbourg in 1502. Grüninger's Virgil woodblocks, the production of which was supervised by Sebastian Brant, had a long afterlife and passed to Lyon for use in Jacques Sacon's 1517 edition and then to Jean Crespin (for the present edition), before moving to Crespin's associates in Venice, the Giunta family.Sold with all faults not subject to return.

Newton (Charles Thomas). A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus, & Branchidae, Atlas volume, & text volume 1 only, London: Day & Son, 1862, Atlas volume with additional lithograph title, 97 lithograph maps, plates and plans, a few tinted and coloured, 3 double-page, occasional light spotting and pale damp stains, hinges reinforced, original cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, a few small repairs to covers, some fading and small bumps and stains, folio 55.5 x 36 cm, together with volume II (i.e. text volume part I only), folding map,2 lithograph plates, wood-engraved illustrations, marginal water stains to plates and a few leaves, original cloth, spine a little faded, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Atabey 868; Blackmer 1192.'Newton was vice-consul at Mitylene and resided in the Levant from 1852 to 1859. The expeditions to Asia Minor took place over a period from October 1856 to June 1859 and were mostly concerned with the excavations of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe sponsored the first excavation of the Mausoleum, and Newton has dedicated the work to him.' (Blackmer).The Mausoleum, in Bodrum, Turkey was the tomb of Mausoleus, built from 353-350 BC and one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Grotius (Hugo). Annotationes in libros Evangeliorum. Cum tribus tractatibus et appendice eo spectantibus, Amsterdam: Joh. & Cornelium Blaeu, 1641, title in red and black with woodcut device, ink stamp to upper outer corner of title, occasional ink underscoring to few leaves, some toning and scattered spotting, first and last leaves slightly frayed to margins, contemporary vellum bearing the initials E G and date 1655 in blind to upper board, boards detached, lacks spine, worn, folio, together with other mostly 18th-19th century miscellaneous antiquarian including Walter Scott, Waverley Novels, 25 volumes, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841-43, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, wood engraved illustration to titles, contemporary green half morocco gilt, lightly rubbed, small 8vo, with an early 18th-century edition of Aesop's Fables lacking title and some preliminary and last leaves, and Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal..., new edition, London: Thomas Kelly, 1835, engraved portrait frontispiece and numerous hand-coloured plates, some dust and finger-soiling, endpapers renewed, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, 4to, Oeuvres de J. B. Poquelin de Moliere, 8 volumes, Edition Stereotype, Paris: Pierre Didot & Firmin Didot, 1813, bookplate of Frederick H. H. Glasse to upper pastedowns, contemporary green half calf, gilt decorated spines with morocco labels, 12mo, etc.QTY: (approx. 85)

Leighton (Clare). The Farmer's Year, A Calendar of English Husbandry, 1st edition, London: Collins, 1933, wood-engraved vignette to title, 12 wood-engraved full-page illustrations, pictorial endpapers, original pictorial green cloth gilt, dust jacket, extremities lightly frayed, oblong folioQTY: (1)

Walpoole (George Augustus). The New British Traveller; or, a Complete Modern Universal Display of Great Britain and Ireland: being a new, complete, accurate, and extensive tour..., London: Alex. Hogg, 1784, engraved allegorical frontispiece, three folding engraved maps of England and Wales, England and Scotland all by Thomas Kitchin, 42 engraved maps on twenty sheets and 85 engraved topographical plates, list of subscribers bound at rear, some plates close-trimmed, marbled endpapers, endpapers a little wormed, contemporary marbled calf gilt with contrasting red morocco gilt label to spine, upper hinge cracked with loose upper board, bumped and worn at extremities, folioQTY: (1)

Antiquarian. A large collection of miscellaneous 18th & 19th century literature. Nisbet (Alexander). A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical: With the True Art of Blazon, According to the Most Approved Heralds in Europe..., 2 volumes, Edinburgh: J. MackEurn, 1732 (volume 1) and R. Flemming..., 1741 (volume 2), titles in red and black, contemporary ownership signature to head of title pages, numerous plate of coats of arms, light spotting throughout, contemporary calf, hinges and joints cracked, rubbed and worn, folio together with, Austen (John. H). A Guide to the Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and the South-West of Hampshire, Blandford: W. Shipp..., 1852, numerous plates, contemporary calf, slightly rubbed 8vo, plus Latham (Charles). In English Homes, volume 2 only, 2nd edition, London: George Newnes Limited, 1902, numerous monochrome illustrations, publishers original decorative green cloth, a little worn and frayed, edges bumped, folio, and Bayle [Pierre]. A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical..., volumes 1 - 6 and 9 only, London; J. Roberts, 1734 - 1739, titles printed in red and black, contemporary calf, hinges and joints cracked, rubbed and worn, folio and other 18th - early 20th-century leather-bound volumes etc. QTY: (6 shelves)

Book of Hours. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, Northern France or Flanders, circa 1500, 160 leaves (from folio 117 added later in the 16th-century), single column, 17 lines of lettre batârde, capitals touched in yellow and red rubrics, 1-line initials in blue with red penwork or liquid gold with black penwork, 2-line initials in liquid gold on blue and burgundy heightened with white penwork, larger initials in blue or pink with scalloping white penwork enclosing foliage and on burnished gold grounds, gold and coloured bar border along outer margin and decorated foliage borders at head and foot, 5 full-page arch-topped miniatures with full borders of sprays of coloured acanthus leaves and other foliage, hand-coloured helmet with surmounted dragon to verso of front free endpaper, coloured print of St. Anne and the Virgin by Theodorus van Merlen (1609-1672) of Antwerp to front pastedown, rear pastedown with indistinct notations in black ink, mid-17th-century French or Flemish polished full calf gilt, original brass clasps intact, top edge of covers neatly refurbished, rubbed, small 8vo (leaf size 14.5 x 10 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Content: a Calendar (fol. 1r); an added gathering of prayers from the later sixteenth century (fol. 13r); the Gospel Readings (fol. 17r); the Hours of the Cross (fol. 22r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fol. 24r); the Hours of the Virgin, with Matins (fol. 29r), Lauds (fol. 37r), Prime (fol. 45v), Terce (fol. 49v), Sext (fol. 54r), None (fol. 56r), Vespers (fol. 59r), and Compline (fol. 64r); the Seven Penitential Psalms (fol. 69r), followed by a Litany; the Office of the Dead (fol. 83r); the Obsecro te (fol. 105r), and O Intemerata (fol. 108r); to this has been added a large collection of prayers in the sixteenth century, including prayers to various saints, an appeal for indulgence claiming to be taken down from the wall of a church dedicated to St. John in the Lateran in Rome, the ‘Verses of St. Bernard’.Illumination: The large miniatures comprise of the Crucifixion with a bird and a human-headed snail emerging from a shell in border; Pentecost, with a bird perched on a snail shell in border; the Annunciation to the Virgin, with foliage set on dull-gold fleur-de-lys in borders; King David kneeling in a grassy landscape before a river and a medieval walled town, gazing up at God who appears in the heavens; the raising of Lazarus, with Christ gesturing as Lazarus steps up out of his grave, dressed in a shroud, with two birds and a drollery creature in border.

Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books. Written by John Locke, Gent. The Second Edition, with large Additions, London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1694, engraved portrait frontispiece by P. Vanderbanck after Sylvester Brounower (some soiling, with central horizontal crease and closed tear repaired to fore-margin without loss), 20 leaves, 407 pp., 6 leaves of index, title and following leaf with small closed tears repaired to lower blank margins, occasional marks and light soiling, final leaves (from Aaa1 onwards, page 361) with stain to centre of blank fore-margins, Hhh1 with long vertical closed tear repaired at inner margin, Ccc4 (page 383/384) torn with loss to lower outer corner, just touching a few letters, old half calf over marbled boards, heavily marked and some discolouration, some wear to head and foot of spine and edges, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC R21459; Pforzheimer 601; PMM 164 (first edition); Wing L2740; Attig 229.The expanded second edition of Locke's famous philosophical essay, and the foundation of classical British empiricism. Part of the new material in this edition arose out of Locke's exchange with the young Irish scientist, William Molyneux, with whom he corresponded in the late 1680's and 1690's. This included the celebrated problem originally proposed by Molyneux in a letter to Locke in 1688 (first published by Locke here in Book 2): if someone born blind had learned to distinguish a globe and a cube by touch alone, and was then given sight, would that person be able to determine purely by sight which one was which? Both Locke and Molyneux thought that he or she would not. Further changes included the entire recasting of the section 'Of Power' dealing with freedom, and the addition of a new chapter 'Of Identity and Diversity', in which Locke equated personal identity with continuity of consciousness, and not with continuity of any spiritual substance.This is the second issue, with Awnsham as the printer (the first issue 'Printed for Thomas Dring...').

Richards (Brooks). Secret Flotillas, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Frank Cass, 2004, monochrome illustrations & maps, original uniform cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, together with:Warner (Graham), The Bristol Blenheim, a complete history, 2nd edition, Manchester: Crécy, 2005, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, plusGentilli (Roberto, Antonio Iozzi, & Paolo Varriale), Italian Aces of World War 1 and their Aircraft, 1st edition, Atglen: Schiffer Military History, 2003, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, very light marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, folio, and other modern military & aviation reference & related, including publications by Grub Street, Pen & Sword, Helion, Frontline, Greenhill, all original cloth in dust jackets, VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (3 shelves)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly Translated out of the originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesties special commandment. Appointed to be read in Churches, one volume bound in two, London: Printed by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: And by the Assignes of John Bill, 1640, general title with decorative woodcut border (trimmed to ruled border, torn to edges with some image loss and lined to verso), New Testament title present with decorative woodcut border and imprint dated 1639, bound with Apocrypha present, black-letter text in double-column, decorative woodcut initials, verso of final leaf in first volume (3L6) with early 18th-century manuscript genealogical entries recording the births of Elizabeth Gell on April 23rd 1723, George Gell on July 14th 1725 and Francis Gell on March 5 1730, minor short worm trail to approximately 20 leaves at gutter in first volume (G1-K3), some leaves at front and rear of each volume frayed to margins with occasional loss to marginal notes and running titles, several leaves at front and rear of each volume with margins repaired, few other paper repairs, occasional light damp-staining mostly at foot of few leaves, some toning to few leaves, 19th-century blind decorated calf, upper joint of first volume split, some boards with leather torn with small areas of loss, worn mostly to extremities, folio (approx. 38.5 x 25.5 cm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Darlow and Moule 421; Herbert 543; STC 2339.The last of the folio editions in large black-letter printed between 1611 and 1640. The NT title is dated 1639. It generally agrees very closely with the earlier editions; but the types somewhat worn, and the rules round the pages do not meet at the corners. Marginal readings in roman type instead of italics. (Herbert, Darlow & Moule).

Shaw (Norton). The Royal Illustrated Atlas of Modern Geography... [London and Edinburgh: A. Fullerton and Co, 1862], 74 hand-coloured engraved maps (many with a little dust soiling to margins, some with short closed tears to folds) small section of title page and contents lists laid to front free endpapers, bookplate of the University Library of Leeds to front pastedown, contemporary dark green quarter morocco with gilt lettering to spine, rubbed and worn, folio, together with,Lett's, Son & Co. Lett's Family Atlas being a series of maps constructed by eminent geographers..., Lett's, Son & Co, 1884, 76 hand-coloured engraved maps, a little dust soiling and closed tears to a few maps, stitching loose, original green half morocco, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, covers detached from text block, rubbed and worn, folio, plusArrowsmith (Aaron). A New General Atlas..., Edinburgh, A. Constable et al.,1817, vignette title page, 53 engraved maps, a little damp staining and spotting throughout, a few with amateur outline colour and route markings in ink, original green half morocco, worn and rubbed, boards detached, 4to plus 11 others including those by or by or after Lewis, Bacon, Johnston, Mason & Payne, J. Migeon, Phillips, Stielers, Stanford and others, various sizes and condition QTY: (21)

Campanus (Johannes Antonius).Omnia Campani Opera, 2nd edition, Venice, Andrea Torresano, [n.d. 1502], Roman letter; some light marginal spotting, slight marginal water-staining to one or two quires (not affecting text), 16th-century full vellum, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:BM STC Italian 141; Adams C 471; Goff C 74; Ren. 292:2 (1502); not in Ahmanson Murphy.A second edition of the collected works of Johannes Antonius Campanus (Giovanni Antonio Campano; c. 1429-1477). Campanus was in his time a churchman, humanist and orator. He took appointments in Naples and Perugia as a teacher of rhetoric before his election as Bishop of Crotone in 1463. From 1472-74 he was Papal Governor of Todi.

Lodge (Edmund). Portraits of illustrious Personages of Great Britain..., 12 volumes, London: printed for Harding, Mavor and Lepard, 1823, numerous engraved plates, some light spotting & toning, contemporary uniform gilt decorated red half morocco, boards & spines slightly rubbed with some minor loss, some hinges cracked & boards partially & completely detached, folio, together with:Burlington (Charles, David Llewellyn Rees & Alexander Murray), The Modern Universal British Traveller; or a new, complete, and accurate tour through England, Wales, Scotland, and neighbouring islands..., London: printed for J. Cooke,1779, numerous engraved plates, gutters cracked, some light toning & spotting, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards partially detached, boards & spine rubbed with some loss, folio, plusCoxe (William), Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, 5 volumes, volumes 1-4 are 3rd edition, London: printed for T. Cadell, 1787, volume 5 is a 1st edition, 1791, engraved folding maps & plates, some minor toning, contemporary uniform full calf, some hinges cracked, spines slightly toned & rubbed to head & foot, boards slightly marked & rubbed, 8vo, and other 17th-19th century British and foreign travel & topography reference, including plate books (some incomplete), mostly contemporary leather bindings, overall condition is fair/good, 8vo/folioQTY: (5 shelves)

Pliny the Elder. Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII. Quos interpretatione et notis illustravit Joannes Harduinus e Societate Jesu, jussu Regis Christianissimi Ludovici Magni, in usum Serenissimi Delphini. Editio nova emendatior & auctior, 2 volumes bound in 3, Paris: Impensis Societatis, 1741, folding engraved map ('flumina quatuor paradisi terrestris'), 11 plates, occasionally lightly toned, edges stained red, contemporary full vellum, manuscript titles to spine, folio QTY: (2)NOTE:First published thus in 1685, this edition of Pliny was produced by the Jesuit scholar Jean Hardouin (1646-1729), who made use of the evidence of Roman coins to verify parts of the text. This is considered the last commentary on the entirety of the text of Pliny. Hardouin was a controversial figure who believed nearly all ancient classics (Pliny's Natural History being one of the exceptions) were 13th-century forgeries by monks under the direction of Severus Archontius.

Grose (Francis). A New and Complete Abridgment or Selection of the Most Interesting and Important Subjects in The Antiquities of England and Wales..., London: H. D. Symons and Alex. Hogg, 1798, allegorical frontispiece, printed title and introduction, 40 uncoloured engraved maps by Thomas Kitchin and 131 uncoloured engraved views (on 76 sheets), slight spotting throughout, front blank and frontispiece detached, rear hinge cracked and weak, crude old tape repairs to joints, upper board detached, heavily rubbed and worn, folio, together with Cary (John). Cary's New Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland, on which are carefully laid down all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and the Navigable Canals, Cities, Market and Borough Towns, Parishes and most considerable Hamlets, Parks, Forests &c &c, June 11th 1794, dedication and printed title with slight staining, general map of England & Wales, table of explanation and 76 (complete) engraved map sheets (numbered 1 - 81 and omitting 62/63, 71/72 & 80 as published), all with contemporary outline colouring, index bound at rear, some staining, offsetting and dust soiling throughout, later endpapers, 20th-century quarter cloth, bumped with slight spotting to the boards, 4toQTY: (2)

Ogilby (John, translator). The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, 2nd [3rd] edition, [bound with:] Aesopic’s: Or a Second Collection of Fables, Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations. London: Printed by Thomas Roycroft for the Author, 1668, titles printed in red and black, 148 engraved plates by Wenceslaus Hollar and Dirck Stoop, lacks frontispieces and one other plate, old dampstaining throughout affecting text and plates, occasional tears and crude paper repairs, a few with some loss of text or images, contemporary ownership inscription of Alex Thomas to front free endpaper and later ownership inscription to first title verso, contemporary calf, dampsstained and worn, folio (41 x 26 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Wing A697 & A698. Sold with all faults not subject to return.

Snape (Andrew). The Anatomy of an Horse, 1st edition, London: M. Flesher, for the Author, 1683, engraved portrait frontispiece, 49 engraved plates, occasional minor spotting and soiling, armorial ink stamp of Henry Drax to title verso with some see-through, old name inscription at head of title erased with some resultant paper loss outside of double-rule border, lacks initial blank, contemporary calf, rabacked with spine relaid and some minor restoration, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Nissen ZBI 3587; Wing S4832. First edition of the of first book on equine anatomy in English.

Philoponus (Joannes). Ioannu Grammatikou tou Philoponou Ypomnema eis ta Peri psyches biblia Aristototelus... Ioannis Grammatici Philoponi Comentaria in libros de Anima Aristotelis, Venice: in aedibus Bartholomaei Zanetti Casterzagensis, aere vero & diligentia Ioannis Trincaveli, 1535, title with fine large woodcut device of a putto standing by a tree stump, the same woodcut repeated to verso of blank leaf at end, 145 printed leaves of Greek text, A1 with headpiece and large initial printed in red, other woodcut headpieces and initials, title with repaired tear at lower margin, short closed marginal tear at foot of M3, a little light toning to title, occasional small mainly marginal water stains, seventeenth-century full vellum, manuscript title to spine and shelf number at foot, spine darkened, some dust soiling to covers, folio, 29.5 x 20 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Adams P1049. Provenance: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716), Scottish writer, politician and owner of the finest private library in Scotland, his signature to rear endpaper.Philoponus, otherwise known as John the Grammarian, born in Alexandria circa 490 AD, was a theologian, philologist and philosopher who authored many works, including commentaries on Aristotle, as here with De Anima (On the Soul). This edition is edited by the Venetian Vettore Trincavello (1496-1568) who edited some of the first editions of Greek classical works.

Interior Décor. A collection of late 19th & early 20th century interior décor reference, including L'Ornement Russe, by N. Simakoff, Moscow, 1882, original boards, folio, Ensembles Mobiliers Exposition Internationale 1925, by Maurice Dufrene, Paris: Charles Moreau, 1925, original boards, folio, Le Style Moderne dans la Decoratin Intérieure, by Henri Clouzot, Paris: Ch. Massin & Co., 1926, original boards, folio, & others similar, some original boards, some disbound, sold as seen not subject to return, 4to/folioQTY: (2 cartons)

Henry VIII Acts of Parliament. Anno Quarto Henrici VIII. The Kynge our Soveraygne Lorde Henrye the viii. after the conquests, by the grace of God King of England and of Fraunce and Lorde of Irelande, at his Parlyamente holden at Westminster iiii. day of November, in the fouth yere of his most noble reygne,... hath, doo, to be ordeined, made & ennacted, certaine statutes and ordynaunces in maner and fourm folowing, [London: Richard Tottel, circa 1556-60?], 8 leaves, [C4]-D4, watermark of a hand and star, black letter text, watermark of a hand and star, title page with black rule outer border, woodcut initials, first leaf with small neat re-strengthening to fore-margins with archival tissue, 20th century dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt 'Making Bulwarkes ECT. 1513', slim folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Beale S120 or S121.Contains eight acts of parliament passed in the year 1512, the fourth year of KIng Henry VIII's reign: An acte concerninge makinge of Bullwarkes on the sea side, An act concerninge punishment for murther, An act concerninge Juryes in London, An act of proclamacions to be made before exigents be awarded in forrayne countyes, An act repelling penaltyes for gevinge of wages to labourers and artificers, An act concerninge customers & comptrollers for sealyng of cloth of gold, silver, and al other maner of silkes and corses, An act concerninge peuterers and true weightes & Beames, An act concerninge Richard Strode [of Devon].

Nash (Treadway Russell). Collections for the history of Worcestershire, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Printed by John Nichols, 1781-82, titles with engraved vignette, engraved plan of Worcester, 73 engraved plates, few engraved illustrations, numerous pedigrees (some folding & double-page), volume 1 title relaid, occasional light spotting, contemporary quarter calf, rebacked with spine lettered in gilt, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Upcott 1330-7.

Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed. In this impression you shall find these additions: 1 His portraiture and progenie shewed. 2 His life collected. 3 Arguments to euery booke gathered. 4 Old and obscure words explaned. 5 Authors by him cited, declared. 6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two bookes of his neuer before printed, 1st Speght edition, London: Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton, 1598, black letter text in double column, engraved portrait of the author by John Speed (torn with losses) title within elaborate woodcut architectural border (some light dust-soiling and margins a little frayed), 3 other divisional titles with woodcut borders, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, occasional small marginal worming obscuring a few letters of catchwords, occasional light toning and small damp stains, later calf, rebacked, some wear to corners, folio, 31 x 21 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Pforzheimer 177 (different imprint); STC (2nd ed.) 5078; Grolier 43 English.'From the form of imprints it would seem that Bishop, Norton, and Wight commissioned Islip to print this edition, and judging from the frequency with which copies with their imprints occur it is probable that Bishop took the largest share and Norton the next' (Pforzheimer).First edition of Thomas Speght’s definitive edition of the complete works of Chaucer and the first to contain an engraved portrait of the author. this copy the Islip and Norton issue. Speght, a somewhat obscure schoolmaster, was assisted in its production by the chronicler John Stow, Francis Thynne, Francis Beaumont (father of the dramatist of the same name), and Robert Glover.

Folio Society. The Holkham Bible, facsimile reproduced from British Library Additional MS 47682, London, 2007, colour facsimile leaves throughout, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated blue half morocco with patterned cloth covered board, small folio, complete with Commentary volume by Michelle P. Brown, original cloth-backed boards, 8vo, contained together in original book boxQTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition 1704/1750.

Hole (Hugh Marshall). Old Rhodesian Days, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1928, signed & inscribed by the author to the front endpaper, 29 monochrome illustrations & maps, some light toning & offsetting, original brown cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with:Millais (John Guille), A Breath from the Veldt, new edition, London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1899, numerous monochrome illustrations, front & rear gutters cracked, some minor toning, top edge gilt, original green cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, folio, plusBrenthurst Press, publisher, John Blades Currey 1850 to 1900, Fifty Years in the Cape Colony, edited by Phillida Brooke Simons, 1986,Melton Prior, War Artist in Southern Africa 1895 to 1900, by Jane Caruthers, South Africa, 1987,A Soldier in South Africa, The Experiences of Eustace Abadie 1899 to 1902, 1989,Britain at The Cape 1795 to 1803, edited by Maurice Boucher and Nigel Penn, 1992,The Siege of Mafeking, 2 volumes, edited by Iain R. Smith, 2001, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, all original cloth in dust jackets, large 4to, all un-numbered limited editions of 850 copies per title, and other late 19th century & modern Africa travel, history & Boer War reference, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Sadeler (Johann). Bonorum et Malorum Consensio & horum praemia, illorum poena, Antwerp: Moguntiae, 1586, 15 fine full-page intaglio engravings on laid paper by Sadeler, mainly after drawings by Maarten de Vos, front free endpaper with small area clipped to top margin, with good margins throughout, contemporary mottled full sheep, modern plain reback, rubbed with some marks, oblong folio, (plate size 21.6 x 27.6 cm, sheet size 24.3 x 33.7 cm), together with: Landscapes, Venice: n.p., 1599, 8 fine full-page intaglio landscape engravings on thick laid paper by Sadeler after various artists, including Mostard, Lodovico Pozzo and Matthias Bril, two lines of verse by Alciati to lower margin of each plate, modern quarter calf over green cloth boards, oblong folio, (plate size 21.4 x 27.2 cm, sheet size 24.4 x 34.1 cm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Bonorum et Malorum Consensio (The Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Story of the Family of Seth): I) Title-Page; II) Adam, Seth and His Family; III) Seth and Enoch; IV) The Descendents of Enoch; V) Enoch and His Family; VI) Methuselah and His Children; VII) Adam's Funeral; VIII) Lamech and His Family; IX) Perversity of Man; X) Wickedness and Violence on Earth; XI) God Appearing to Noah; XII) Noah Building The Ark; XIII) Noah's Ark; XIV) The Deluge; XV) Bodies Carried Away.Landscapes: Rocky Landscape with Antique Buildings; River Landscape with Three Naked Men and a Dog; River Landscape with Mythological Scene; Landscape with Couple Threatened by Death and Cupid; Landscape with Death and Cupid; Landscape with Hunter Aiming Bow at Bird; Rocky Landscape with a Town in the Background; Peasants Admiring Isis on a Donkey.

Pontificale Romanum ad omnes pontificias ceremonias, quibus nunc utitur sacrosancta Romana Ecclesia, accommodatum..., Venice: Giunta, 1572, text printed in red and black throughout, title with woodcut illustration (with some early hand-colouring) and printer's device of Lucantonio Giunta in red (repeated to colophon on hh5), lacking the final leaf of contents (+4) with full-page woodcut, many large woodcut illustrations and initials to text (with early hand-colouring), typeset music, without final blank at end (hh6), scattered worming to margins, particularly at front and rear of volume, generally not affecting legibility (but occasionally affecting some letters), contemporary blind-decorated Venetian full calf gilt, with small crucifixion motif in gilt to centre of each cover, rubbed and scuffed, with some wear to extremities, folio (textblock 345 x 245 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Edit16 11862. The fifth of six folio Pontificale printed by Giunta and his heirs between 1510 and 1582.

[Gentillet, Innocent]. A Discourse upon the Meanes of Wel[l] Governing and Maintaining in Good Peace, A Kingdome, or other Principalitie ... Against Nicholas Machiavel the Florentine. Translated by Simon Patericke, London: Adam Islip, 1608, title with woodcut printer's device and bearing early signature H. Brooke, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, B3 & B4 bound in wrong order (as seen in other examples), occasional light dust-soiling, endpaper hinges repaired, contemporary calf with oval foliate gilt decoration to centre of each board, joints and head of spine neatly repaired, modern calf title label, corner repaired and upper edge of lower board repaired, ties skilfully replaced, folio (28.4 x 18.6 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 11744. The second edition in English of Gentillet's famous condemnation of Machiavelli's The Prince, first published in English in 1602.

History. A large collection of late 19th & early 20th century history reference & biography, including The Isle of Bute in the Olden Time, 2 volumes, by James King Hewison, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1893, original uniform gilt decorated red cloth, large 8vo, Bygone Somerset, edited by Cuming Walters, London: William Andrews & Co., 1897, original gilt decorated blue cloth, 8vo, mostly original cloth, overall condition is generally good, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves)

Randell (James). Views in Norway, from original pictures ..., drawn on stone by Eug[e?ne] Cice?ri, Paris, London: Colnaghi & Co., and Paris, Berlin, New York: Goupil & Co., 1854, tinted lithographed pictorial title and 12 tinted lithographed plates, letterpress introduction and descriptions, contents loose (gutta percha perished) and dust-soiled, with edge tears and minor edge stains, variable foxing to plates, title with some repaired tears in image and a small loss to inner margin (just touching image), two plates somewhat soiled, the final plate with some losses to blank margins, and with two longer tears extending into image (by 1 cm & 21.5cm respectively), one letterpress leaf with long vertical tear, front free endpaper detached and torn, original gilt-lettered black half morocco, worn, boards detached and without spine, large folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Rare set of views of Norway. Not in Abbey.

Brazil. Mappa do Sul do Brazil organisado por Gentil de Aassis Moura engeheiro da commissão Geograca. de São Paulo, circa 1912, colour printed map, minor spotting to a few sections, a little frayed, dissected and laid on linen, folded into original green cloth covers, a little rubbed and stained, 905 x 1030 mm together with; Instituto De Expansão Commercial. Brasil, Graphicos Economicos - Estatisticas, Rio De Janeiro, 1929, 24 brightly coloured printed graphics with agricultural and production statistics for Brazil, text in Brazillian Portuguese, English and French, tissue guards present, plus another copy of the same printed in 1930 with 29 statistical graphs, both contained within original printed wrappers, a little chipped and torn, oblong folio, andBuenos Aires. Plano de la Ciudad Buenos Aires Edicion Peuser 1953, folding coloured lithographic map printed in black, blue and pink, with advertisement material to margins, index to verso, minute holes to folds 475 x 650 mm QTY: (3)

Map Reference. A collection of approximately 40 books, mostly 20th-century, including Shirley (Rodney. W.). The Mapping of the World, Holland Press, 1983, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, presentation copy, signed by the author on the half-title, bookplate of Patrick Filmer-Sankey to the verso of the first front blank, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jacket, folio, together with Burden (Philip). The Mapping of North America, volumes I & II, Raleigh Publications, 1996 & 2007, numerous colour and black and white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, dust jackets, folio, with Skelton (R. A.). County Atlases of the British Isles, Carta Press, 1970, additional half-title, numerous black & white illustrations throughout, limited edition 25/30, signed by the author, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, modern half morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, 4to, plus other volumes similar on maps and scientific instruments, including examples by John Blake, R. A. Skelton, Catherine Delano-Smith, Carole Scott and Peter Barber, various sizes and condition and Kircher (Athanasius). Mundus Subterraneus.., volume 1 only, J. Jannson & J. Waesberge & Sons, Amsterdam, 1678, decorative letterpress title, lacking the two portraits and the double-page maps, numerous engravings, diagrams and maps to the text throughout, some toning and slight staining throughout, upper hinge cracked, contemporary calf with gilt decorated spine, heavily worn and rubbed, folioQTY: (approx. 40)NOTE:Sold as a collection, not subject to return.

Camden (William). Annales Rerum Anglicarum, et Hibernicarum, regnante Elizabetha, ad annum salutis M. D. LXXXIX, 1st edition, London: William Stansby for Simon Waterson, 1615, [10], 499, [20] pp. (Index), woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, B1 cancel, lacking final errata leaf, contents in very good clean condition, unidentified 19th century armorial bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary full calf, spine in compartments, with morocco spine labels replaced, rubbed and marked to spine, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 4496.The historian William Camden (1551-1623) also wrote a second volume of Annals, which he delibrately delayed publication of until after his own death (it was first published in 1627), because his text dealt with people who were still alive. This first volume includes a description of Drake's voyage around the world in 1577-80, as well as information on Drake's early life, obtained first hand from the man himself.

Shepherd (David). The David Shepherd Archive Collection. Paintings specially selected by the Artist and published to celebrate his 80th birthday in April 2011, Sark: Gateway Publishing, 2011, 109 colour reproductions of paintings by David Shepherd, accompanying DVD, white cotton gloves and publisher letter loose as issued, top edge gilt, original green morocco-backed vellum, contained in a grey solander box within cardboard box, oblong folio, 34.5 x 46.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition 113/1000, signed by the artist.

James (Grace). Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales, Edition de Luxe, London: Macmillan and Co., 1910, 40 tipped-in colour plates illustrated by Warwick Goble, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, modern light brown half morocco, gilt decorated spine, large 4to (limited edition of 500 copies printed), together with:Detmold (Edward J., illustrator). Hours of Gladness by M. Maeterlinck..., London: George Allen & Co. Ltd., [1912], 20 mounted colour plates, original gilt-blocked cloth, frayed at head and foot of spine, 4to,Pogany (Willy, illustrator). Tannhäuser. A Dramatic Poem by Richard Wagner freely translated in Poetic Narrative Form by T. W. Rolleston, London: G. G. Harrap & Co., [1927], tipped-in colour plates (one lacking), decorative boarders and illustrations throughout, original pictorial cloth, large 8vo,Brantome (Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de). The Lives of Gallant Ladies, translated out of the French by H. M., 2 volumes, Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1924, nine woodcut plates by Robert Gibbings (including two hand-coloured), edges untrimmed, modern cloth-backed boards, 4to, plus other illustrated books including Folio Society. Dante Alighieri Inferno, translated by Henry Francis Cary, London, 1998, numerous colour illustrations by William Blake, original brown morocco-backed blue cloth, folio, contained in original slipcase, and works illustrated by Edward Detmold, Jessie Willcox Smith and Hilda Roberts QTY: (11)

Folio Society cased set of 'The Domesday Book' and other volumes. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Folio Society, full works, comprising Hobbes (Thomas) Leviatham, The Rise and Fall of the Medieval Monastery, The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours, and London Characters and Crooks.

A History of England, various volumes, published by The Folio Society, hardback with individual slipcases. (12)

Vincent Van Gogh The Sketchbooks, a facsimile of the artist's sketchbooks in the collection at the Van Gogh museum, published by The Folio Society, the presentation case enclosing four fitted sections containing reproduction sketchbooks, together with commentary by Marije Vellekoop and Renske Sujver, together with loose leaves in the collection at the Van Gogh Museum.

Folio Society. The Works of the Bronte Sisters, comprising The Tenant of Wild Fell Hall, Agnus Grey, Wurthering Heights, Shirley, Villette, Jane Eyre and The Professor, cloth bound gilt tooling and outer slipcase.

Folio Society. Various works to include Orwell (George) Animal Farm, Stephenson (RL) Travels with a Donkey, The Deeds of the English Kings William of Malmesbury,, etc. (a quantity)

Chronicles of The Dark Ages, comprising The Coming of the Anglo Saxons, Anglo Saxon Lore and Learning, and The Fall of the Anglo Saxon Kingdoms, published by The Folio Society, in slipcase.

A mid to late 20thC postcard album, containing black and white Foulsham Banfield and other postcards, all circa 1970s and 80s, landscapes and folio portraits, etc. (AF)

Briggs (Katherine M). Folk Tales of Britain volumes 1-3, published by Folio Society, cloth bound in outer slipcase.

Notable Historical Trials, volumes 1-4 published by The Folio Society, comprising Socrates to the Gunpowder Plot, Galileo to Admiral Byng, Boston Massacred Queen Caroline and Burke and Hare to Oscar Wilde.

Folio Society. Various works to include Longford (Elizabeth) Queen Victoria, The War with Hannibal, Pompeii, Shakespeare's Life and World, etc. (a quantity)

Hardy (Thomas). Folio Society box set, comprising The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crown, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Under the Green Wood Tree and The Trumpet Major.

Lane Fox (Robin). Pagans and Christians, volumes 1-3, published by Folio Society, hardback with outer slipcase.

Folio Society. A box set comprising 4 volumes from The Greek World, comprising The Lyric Age, Persian Wars, The Hellenistic Age, and The Classical Age, in presentation case.

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, published by The Folio Society, cloth bound with gilt tooling, in presentation case.

The Complete Greek Tragedies, volumes 1-5, comprising Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, published by The Folio Society, in case.

Plutarch Lives, volumes 1-4, published by The Folio Society, in presentation case.

The Benedictional of St Aethelwold, published by The Folio Society, copy number 284, in presentation case.

The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare, prepared by Charlton Hinman, New Introduction by Peter M Blayney, second edition published by WW Norton and Company London 1996, cloth bound gilt tooling with outer slipcase.

Folio Society. Various works comprising Virgil's Aeneid, The Peloponnesian War, Herodotus Histories and The Persian Expedition by Xenophon.

Folio Society. Various works, to include The Lifted Veil Women's 19th Century Stories, Defoe (Daniel) A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, The Folio Christmas Book, The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes, etc. (1 shelf)

The Luttrell Psalter, published by The Folio Society, bound in goat skin with gilt and coloured tooling, together with a Luttrell Psalter Commentary, in presentation case.

Folio Society. Various works to include Austen (Jane) Emma Persuasion Pride and Prejudice, works relating to Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, etc. (a quantity)