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[CAMDEN (William)] The Historie of the most renowned and victorious Princesse Elizabeth, London: Benjamin Fisher 1630, small 4to, [translated by R. Norton], 4 parts in one, lacks portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf, upper board detached, spine damaged; HOOKER (Richard).Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: for William Stansbye, 1631-32, small folio, engraved title page (margins browned) , decorative chapter headers, rebacked calf; HAKEWILL (George) An Apologie of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World. Oxford 1627, folio, damaged sheep (3)

Norwich - History. Notices and Illustrations of the Costume, Processions, Pageantry, &c., Norwich: Charles Muskett 1850, large folio, 13 hand coloured plates including frontispiece, 9 other lithograph plates, spine chipped; GOULBURN (Rev. E. M.) The Ancient Scupltures in the Roof of Norwich Cathedral. London 1876, 4to, autotype plates, bright cloth gilt, a.e.g.; TAYLOR (Richard) Index Monasticus, ... the Diocese of Norwich, 1821, folio, lacks backstrip; COLMAN (J J) Biblothecha Norfolciensis, 1896, uncut, bright cloth gilt; FITCH (R) Views of the Gates of Norwich, 1861, small 4to, etched plates, original cloth; KNIGHTS (Mark) The Highways and Byeways of Old Norwich, 1887, one of 350 small quarto copies, foxing mainly to first and last leaves, one plate loose; JAY (G B) The First Parish Register of St George of Tombland, 1891, no. 8 of 98 numbered copies, light foxing to edges, WOODWARD (S) The History and Antiquities of Norwich Castle, 1847, 4to, plates, 12 plans with hand colour, light foxing, cloth (8)

[STUART (John)] Sculptured Stones of Scotland, 2 volumes, Aberdeen: for the Spalding Club, 1856-67, folio, lithographed plates, some tinted, sporadic light foxing or spotting, half morocco gilt by Bumpus, t.e.g. Cowdray bookplate; ATHOLL (John, Duke of) Chronicles of the Atholl and Tullibardine Families, in five vols., Edinburgh privately printed 1908, 8vo, 5 vols, author's inscription to Annie Viscountess Cowdray, photogravure portrait plates, original cloth gilt; BRYCE (W M) Holyrood its Palace and its Abbey, c.1914, 4to, half morocco; 5 others Scottish history published by The Third Spalding Club (13)

Antiquarian literature and travel. NALSON (John) An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State..., 2 vol., London: for Tho. Dring et al. 1682-83, folio, engraved frontispieces, cracked panel calf; KEYSLER (John George) Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain. London, 1760, 8vo, plates, worn calf; HERBERT (George) The Temple, Sacred Poems..., 7th edition 1656, 12mo, later bouhd; MOORE (John) A View of the Society and Manners in Italy, in 2 vols., 5th edition, 1790, 8vo, calf; and others, many somewhat worn, with defects (sold not subject to return)

After Albrecht Durer, A folio of late 19th or early 20th century century prints on laid paper, with Bartsch numbers below, approx 55

Suite des Vases Tiree du Cabinet de son Excellence Monsieur du Tillot, Marquis de Felino. Parma: Bossi, 1764, folio, etched title (bound at end), 30 plates by Petitot and dedication leaf and title; together with 2 unsigned additional watercolour drawings en grisaille of decorative urns loosely inserted.

WALLIS BUDGE (E A) The Book of the Dead, Facsimiles of the Papyri of ...., British Museum 1899, large folio, title slightly repaired, ex lib. stamp to verso, colour illustrated, modern half morocco

OGILBY (John)The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse, first edition, London: Thomas Roycroft 1665, folio, title in red and black, frontispiece and 77 plates of 80 (missing plate 1, 7 and 57; plates numbered 1-81 but plates 14/15 as a single plate), frontispiece plate trimmed and remounted, title and first few leaves repaired without loss of text, some pencil marking to text, recased old calf.

JOHNSTON (Alexander Keith). The Physical Atlas. A Series of Maps and Notes illustrating the Geographical Distribution of Natural Phenomena.... Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1848, large folio, hand coloured double page maps, contents somewhat loose

PLINIUS SECUNDUS (Gaius) Caii Plinii Secundi Historiae Naturalis Libri XXXVII. Quos Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit Joannes Harduinus..., 2 vols and index, Paris: typis A. Urbani Coustelier, 1723, folio, folding map and plates of medallions, cloth reback to original calf boards

PERRAULT (C.), Les Hommes Illustres, 2 vols, Paris 1696-1700, folio, engraved frontispiece and portrait plates, including of the author, occasional age toning or staining, contemporary calf.

MIDDLETON (Charles Theodore) A New and Complete System of Geography, two vols. 1778-79, folio, plates and folding maps, few creases and dust stains, reverse calf; GAULTIER (Abbe) A Complete Course of Geography, 2nd edition London 1795, folio, part I, 6 folding maps by Samuel Dunn (including folding hemi-spherical map with outline hand colour), other blank maps for completion, binding detached. Sold not subject to return (3)

Thomas Hardy novels six volumes and a boxed set of Shakespeare plays four volumes with another, Folio Society

Les Grandes Heures de Jean Duc de Berry a facsimile illuminated manuscript from the Bibliotheque Nationale Paris 1971. Folio red cloth gilt in matching slipcase

Buckingham Palace, the Complete History. Its Furniture, Decoration & Treasures by H. Clifford Smith (1930) folio in dustwrapper together with a Royal Wedding cut-out doll book

A pitch pine folio stand.

A A Milne, Second Plays, Chatto and Windus, 1928; A A Milne, The Holiday Round, sixth edition, Methuen & Co; Walter De La Mare, Peacock Pie, 1924, Constable and Co Ltd with dustwrapper; Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, illustrated by E H Shepard, Methuen & Co 1931; and The Wind in the Willows, Folio Society, 2014, in slip case

A folio containing an assortment of 19th century financial share documentation on paper in various sizes and formats. (35)

Horsley (John) Britannia Romana: or the Roman Antiquities of Britain, first edition, half-title, engraved pictorial headpiece to dedication, 21 maps (5 double-page) and 83 plates (?of 84), light marginal soiling, 3G2 torn without loss, bookplates of Jeffery Ekins and Sir Lambton Loraine, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rubbed, corners a little worn, rebacked preserving old gilt spine (browned), folio, John Osborn and Thomas Longman, 1732.

Designer Binding.- Smith (Sally Lou, binder).- Cassou (Jean) Adieu aux Halles: Dessins et Commentaires de Philippe Levantal, number 54 of 25 copies on grand vélin signed by the artist, from an edition limited to 1000, plates, bound in black goatskin inlaid with crinkled khaki goatskin forming a design of bare trees branching across both covers with gold tooled lines, by Sally Lou Smith, titled in gilt across spine, khaki suede doublures inlaid with goatskin as on covers, g.e., signed "S.L.S." at foot of rear doublure, preserved in black goatskin-backed cloth drop-back box, folio (c.530 x 400mm.), Paris, 1975. ⁂ Sally Lou Smith (1925-2007) was a Fellow and President of Designer Bookbinders and a highly regarded teacher of bookbinding. Although born and raised in America she spent most of her career in Britain. A comprehensive survey of her work appeared in The New Bookbinder 21 (2001).

Hogarth (William) The Works of William Hogarth, from the Original Plates restored by James Heath, with essay and explanation by John Nichols, 155 etched and engraved plates on 116 sheets, including the 2 portraits, on wove paper, occasional surface dirt and spotting, some nicks and tears to extremities of leaves, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, splitting, upper board detached, rubbed and scuffed, large folio, Baldwin and Cradock, 1822.

Smith (Percy John Delf, 1882-1948) Wuthering Heights, the complete set of five plates, with title page, etchings and drypoint, on antique Dutch laid paper, each signed and inscribed in pencil, numbered 16 from an edition of 25, various sizes, each c. 205 x 250 mm. (8 1/8 x 9 7/8 in), or the reverse, unframed, presented in uniform cream mounts, in blue cloth portfolio with printed label on upper cover, folio, published by Colnaghi, 1923

Foxe (John) Actes and Monuments of Matters most speciall and memorable, happening in the Church, vol.1 only (of 2), black letter, double column, title within ornate woodcut historiated border, calendar in red and black, numerous woodcuts within text, woodcut head-pieces and historiated or decorative initials, contemporary ink marginalia, often extensive, lacking 2L5, a few tears, some spotting and staining, some creasing, contemporary panelled calf, worn, but holding, [STC 11227], folio, Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1610.

English binding.- Meffret. Sermones [De Sanctis], 1 part only of the 3 vol. 'Sermones', collation: A10 B-N8 NN8 O-Y8 Z6 §6 double column, 198 ff., 55 lines and headline, Gothic type, initials, small woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red, A1r the bull's head watermark picked out in red by the rubricator, the odd instance of contemporary ink marginalia, K2 tear at head within text, but without loss, some staining and spotting, final f. outer margin little frayed, ornately blind-stamped 16th century English calf over wooden boards, comprising tudor rose, floral and foliage tools, the lower cover divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, each with a tudor rose or foliage ornament, remains of original metal clasps, corners little worn, rubbed, sympathetically rebacked, later ink marginalia, folio (sheet 310 x 199mm.; binding 317 x 220mm.), Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1487. ⁂ A wide-margined copy of this part of Meffret's sermons, which were published between January, 1487 and May, 1488. All parts of this work are rare at auction. Literature: BMC III, 764; Goff M-442; HC 11005.

Calligraphy.- Bickham (George) The Universal Penman; or, the Art of Writing..., engraved throughout with 212 numbered calligraphic leaves including 2 titles but lacking frontispiece, many including vignettes, printed on rectos only, half-title torn at foot, rather soiled and stained particularly plates 103, 105 & 134, several marginal tears, plates 69, 144 & 209 with slight loss to images, plate 192 from another copy, plates 211 & 212 with small rust-holes, modern half calf, folio, H.Overton, 1743.

Middlesex.- [Bowack (John)] The Antiquities of Middlesex, Parts I & II [all published], first edition, spotted and browned, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rubbed, corners and spine ends worn, split to upper joint, folio, by W.Redmayne for S.Keble..., 1705-06. ⁂ Scarce first book on Middlesex by a writing-master at Westminster School. The two parts published included Chelsea, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith, Chiswick and Acton.

Derome binding.- Liturgy, Greek.- Leitourgiai tōn hagiōn paterōn [graece], 2 parts in 1, collation: *2, A-P6; a-b4, A-F6, G-Z4; [4], 179, [1]; [16], 212 (i.e. 208) pp., woodcut device on both titles, wooduct decorated initials, head- and tail-pieces, lower margin of first two leaves water-stained and browned, foxing in places, later engraved portrait of the editor Claude de Sainctes tipped in to verso of front flyleaf, 18th-century red morocco, ascribed to Nicolas-Denis Derôme, covers framed in triple gilt fillet, spine with five raised bands, gilt title and imprint on double green lettering-pieces, compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, covers slightly scratched, a little rubbed, head of spine nicked, but overall a handsome copy, folio (289 x 189mm.), Paris, Guillaume Morel, 1560. ⁂ A splendid and rare edition of the Greek Liturgy, finely issued by the Royal printer Guillaume Morel, and edited by Claude Sainctes (1525-1591), whose name is mentioned in the preface appended to the second part of this Parisian publication. The Greek text is supplemented, in the second part, with its Latin translation, introduced by the title Liturgiae siue missae sanctorum patrum. In addition the work contains writings by the Greek Fathers Basilius Magnus, Ioannes Chrysostomus, and Saint Jacobus. The book is rightly considered one of the masterpieces published by the Typographia Graeca founded by King of France, François I. This copy is in a fine gilt-tooled red morocco binding, executed by the leading 18th century Parisian binder Nicolas-Denis Derôme (1731-1790). Provenance: early ownership inscription on the title-page, erased in ink; 'Ecole Sainte Genevieve' (stamp on the title-page); 'J. M. De Chateaugiron', 'Skinos' (both ex-libris on the front pastedown). Literature: Adams L842.

Pollux (Julius) Historia Physica et Chronicon, edited by Giovanni Baptista Bianconio, Greek and Latin text, occasional spotting, uncut in contemporary patterned boards, rubbed, folio, Bologna, ex Typographia S. Thomae Aquinatis, 1795. ⁂ The editor Bianconi (1698-1781) mainly worked from an incomplete Greek codex preserved in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan (Ambrosianus D.34 sup.) and then collated with a complete and more authoritative manuscript discovered in Munich (Monacensis gr. 181). The volume was published posthmously and edited by Bianconi's nephew, Angelo Michele.

Ashendene Press.- Thucydides. [History of the Peloponnesian War], translated by Benjamin Jowett, [one of 260 copies], printed in red and black with text in Ptolemy type, sidenotes in Blado Italic, initials and chapter headings designed by Graily Hewitt, with ink ownership inscription of Arnold Danvers Power and signed by C.H.St.John Hornby on front free endpaper, original white pigskin, spine with seven raised bands, uncut, upper cover damp-stained, folio, Ashendene Press, 1930. ⁂ Arnold Danvers Power (1875-1959) worked with St. John Hornby at W.H.Smith & Son. He prepared the text of Ecclesiasticus for illumination by Alfred Fairbank and then persuaded Hornby to print it, the last book issued by the Ashendene Press.

Jousse (Mathurin) L'Art de Charpenterie, edited by de la Hire, third edition, 10 folding plates, one woodcut, the others engraved, numerous woodcut and a few engraved illustrations, water-stained, particularly at beginning and end, contemporary calf-backed boards, rather worn, folio, Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1751.

Britain.- Camden (William) Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English with Large Additions and Improvements... by Edmund Gibson, engraved portrait frontispiece by R. White, 9 plates of coins and 50 double-page maps, 2 folding (Kent & Norfolk), a few maps margins neatly trimmed, engraved and woodcut illustrations, ink inscription to title (trimmed), modern half calf, gilt spine, a little rubbed, [Wing C359], folio, by F. Collins for A.Swale and A & J Churchill, 1695.

Egyptology.- Champollion (Jean François) Grammaire Égyptienne, ou Principes Généraux de l'Écriture Sacrée Égyptienne..., first edition, half-title, lithographed hieroglyphs throughout, some printed in red, a few hand-coloured (causing light offsetting), occasional foxing or soiling, pp.11/12 torn affecting text but no loss, rather brittle and chipped at edges, ex-library copy with unobtrusive blind-stamp to title, modern calf, uncut, folio, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1836 [-41]. ⁂ Champollion's monumental work, published posthumously and edited by his brother Jacques-Joseph Champollion.

Vardy (John, publisher) Some Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent, engraved throughout with decorative title by Kent, 2 leaves Table of Plates and 53 plates by Vardy after Jones or Kent, title soiled, some water-staining, mostly marginal but extending within platemark on plates 5 7 33, some other soiling and small stains, plate 5 loose, modern calf ruled in blind, [Berlin Kat 2279; Harris 881], folio, John Vardy, 1744. ⁂ Comprising 17 designs by Jones, mostly for chimneypieces, the rest by Kent of a variety of subjects: urns, candelabra, garden buildings etc. including Merlin's Cave at Richmond.

London.- Chamberlain (Henry) A New and Compleat History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps and 65 engraved plates, list of subscribers at end, subscriber's copy with ink inscription of Anthony Heasel [of Walthamstow] 1770 to front pastedown, with a duplicate plate of Dr. Shaw preaching, and with additional hand-coloured mezzotint portrait of John Wilkes, Lord Mayor of London by Carington Bowles and folding letterpress broadside of Wilkes's speech to the House of Commons concerning American taxation bills bound in towards end (portrait trimmed at head and with short tear to imprint, broadside torn and repaired), a few contemporary ink annotations, occasional soiling, plate of View from Greenwich Park soiled and frayed at head with loss to heading, folding map with repaired tears to edge, contemporary calf, red morocco label, rather worn and stained, joints split, folio, for J. Cooke, [?1770].

New Zealand.- Barraud (Charles Decimus) and W.T.L.Travers. New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive, first edition, additional lithographed decorative title with mounted oval chromolithographed vignette, list of subscribers, map, 24 mounted chromolithographed plates after Barraud, 6 plates of tinted lithographs, wood-engraved illustrations, very occasional marginal spotting or soiling, gutta percha perished so broken and loose, some leaves a little frayed or chipped at edges, original half morocco over pictorial gilt cloth, rubbed, folio, 1877. ⁂ Including scenes of Wellington, Auckland, Tarawera Lake, the geothermal terraces of Rotomahana, and Mount Cook.

China.- [Satow (D.)] An album of 50 views of the Shanghai Amateur Circus, albumen prints, mounted one to a page, some a little faded, light warping, light spotting, mostly to mounts, Shanghai Amateur Circus programme and playbill loosely inserted, ink stamp "D. Satow, Portrait & Landscape Photographer, P.851, Nanking Road, Shanghai" to pastedown, original calf-backed cloth, clown and horse illustration to upper cover, a little worn, oblong folio, 1901. ⁂ A very good album including images of the Big Top tent, a man with a group of boys wearing monkey masks (according to the programme named "Professor Pipelet with his troupe of trained monkeys"), a number of men and women on horseback and numerous images of performers in unusual animal costumes.

Strabo. Rerum Geographicarum libri septemdecim, collation: *6, α-θ6, ι4, a-k6, l8, m-r6, s8, t-z6, A-B4, C-D6, E2, F6, G-I2, K4, L2, M6, N8, O-Z6, Aa-Dd6, Ee2, Ff-Gg6, Hh2, Ii8, Kk-Zz6, AA6, BB2, CC-DD6, EE8, FF2, GG4, HH6, II4, KK2, LL6, MM4, NN-OO2, PP-SS6, TT4, VV2, XX8, YY4; [116], 977, [3] pp., double-column Greek and Latin text, woodcut device on title and another on verso of otherwise blank final leaf, 27 double-page woodcut maps and 7 smaller maps in text, woodcut initials, occasional foxing, later limp vellum, gilt arms to covers within gilt roll-tooled border, more recent red morocco spine label, soiled, fore-edges of both covers worn, folio (315 x 202mm.), Basel, ex officina Heinrich Petri, August 1571. ⁂ A good copy of this important geographical survey, edited by Xylander and enhanced by the woodcut maps by Sebastian Munster used in several editions of Ptolemy. Provenance: Emanuel G. Sarasin (ex-libris on front pastedown and ticket at rear) Literature: Adams S1907; Phillips (Atlases) 3390; Nordenskiold 30,21

Unpublished Poem.- Yonge (Lady, wife of Sir William Yonge, Bt., politician, c.1693-1755, d. 1775) Lines wrote on a Stone erected by Lady Yonge in memory of a favourite Spaniel at Waltham House in Essex, unpublished manuscript poem, 2pp. with conjugate blanbk, folds, Pro Patria watermark, folio, 25th September 1774; and 21 other pieces of 18th century manuscript poetry, v.s., v.d. (22 pieces).

London.- Newcourt (Richard) Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense; An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London , 2 vol., first edition, vol.1 with engraved portrait, 4 plates (2 folding) and folding map, errata leaf at end, vol.2 with half-title, some browning particularly in vol.2, old ink inscriptions of M.Wood on front pastedown and note on front free endpaper of vol.1, contemporary panelled calf, red morocco labels, a little worn, joints split, folio, by Benj. Motte..., 1708-10. ⁂ The second volume covers Essex.

Bailey (Nathan) A New Universal Etymological Dictionary, edited by Joseph Nicol Scott, engraved frontispiece ( frayed at edges and laid down), double column, ink signature on title, light soiling, bookplate of Charles Ekins, contemporary calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, folio, T.Osborne...J.Buckland..., 1764.

Pausanias. Graeciae descriptio accurata, 2 parts in 1, collation: a-c4, A6, B-Z4, Aa-Zzzzz4 Aaaaaa-Tttttt2; [26], 898 pp., 899-943 numbered as columns, [76] pp., title in red and black with engraved printer's device, double column text in Greek and Latin, handsome contemporary Dutch vellum prize binding, covers within gilt frames, central gilt arms of the city of Amsterdam, lacking ties, joints cracked, folio (332 x 212mm.), Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1696. ⁂ Monumental edition of this celebrated work, edited by Joachim Kühn, and supplemented with the Latin translation by the humanist Romolo Quirino Amaseo, which first appeared in Rome in 1547. The editio princeps had been published in 1516 by Aldus's heirs. "Since its rediscovery in the Renaissance Pausanias' work has been recognised as a valuable source for ancient Greece, a mine of antiquarian, historical and topographical information on various purposes. [...] From the seventeenth century onward visitors to Greece found Pausanias' work an excellent resource for the reconstruction of the country's ancient topography. Its usefulness for this purpose was easy to recognise, and by the early nineteenth century [...] Pausanias' Periegesis not only served as a travel guide but it was also used systematically to discover and identify ancient remains" (M. Pretzler, Pausanias. Travel Writing in Ancient Greece, London 2007, pp. 11-12). This copy is a fine example of a 'prize binding'. Provenance: a printed leaf bound before the half-title states that this copy was given as a gift to Jan Vreelant 'ob spectatos in Graecis literis progressus', by the Rector of the Amsterdam Gymnasium in October 1734. Literature: Brunet IV, 455; Schweiger I, 224: Dibdin II, 272 ( "emphatically and justly called the 'ed. opt. of Pausanias'").

Aesop. Esopi appologi sive mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant, collation: a8, b-p8.6, q-s6; A-B8, C6, D-I6.8, K6, L4, M6 (lacking final blank M6), 2 parts in 1, woodcut portrait of Aesop to verso of first title, woodcut illustrations and initials, small portrait to verso of A1 in part 2, repairs to some leaves with occasional loss to text or image, a few leaves remargined, C4 with hole affecting woodcut to recto and text to verso, with the blank leaf s6 present at end of part 1, a few leaves with ink annotations, underlining or scoring out of text, a couple of leaves misbound, some light browning, good margins and apart from the faults and repairs mentioned generally a clean copy, 19th century dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., folio (297 x 201mm.), Basel, Jacob Wolff de Pfortzheim, 1501. ⁂ A handsome copy of the first edition with Brant's new section of 140 fables. The woodcuts which accompany Brant's part are richer and more sophisticated than the rather naïve illustrations to the first part, which were based on Zainer's cuts for the first illustrated edition (printed in Ulm, c.1476). Literature: Adams A291; Fairfax Murray German, 20

Japan.- Florian (Jean-Pierre Claris de) Fables Choisies...Illustrées par des Artistes Japonais sous la Direction de P.Barboutau, 2 vol., pictorial titles, 28 colour woodblock prints, original pictorial wrappers sewn with cord, soiled, together in original pictorial cloth folder, rubbed, oblong folio, Paris, Flammarion, [1895-96].

Galenus (Claudius) [Opera], 5 vol., pagination: I. [4], 24, 181, [1 blank] ll.; 108 ff., II. [3], [1 blank], 184 ff.; 106 ff., Greek and Roman type, woodcut Aldine device on title and on verso of final leaf. III. [4], 106 ff.; 155, [1] ff., IV. [4], 113, [1 blank] ff.; 74, 6, 57, [1] ff., V. [4], 346, [6] ff., final quire AAA bound between quires Τττ and Υυυ, Greek and Roman type, woodcut Aldine device on title and on verso of final leaf of all volumes (Fletcher f4; A3c), capital spaces, all blank leaves present, vol.2 stain at top of a2 and a3, repair to b1 and in blank gutter of n1, wormhole through last several leaves slightly affecting text, 20th-century brown morocco blind-tooled in period style by Bernard Middleton, folio (314-318 x 218-224mm.), Venice, Heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, April-August 1525. ⁂ Editio princeps of Galen of Pergamum, one of the 'biggest' books printed by the Aldine Press, directed by Aldus's father-in-law Andrea Torresano. It is one of the rarest of all Aldine editions, "only two or three complete sets have been sold during the past 30 years [...] It is so rare and consequentely so expensive because of the limited number of originally printed copies. Being an exceptional case for Aldus- editions, the initial print run remained the only one." (L. Perrilli, A Risky Enterprise. The Aldine Edition of Galen, p. 447). The works of Galen appeared for the first time in Latin translation in 1490 (Goff G, 37), and only a few of his writings were available in Greek, e.g. the Περὶ φιλοσόφου ἱστορίας, printed in the second volume of the Aldine Aristotle Corpus, and the Θεραπευτικά published in Venice by Zacharias Kallierges and Nicolaos Vlastos (Goff G, 38). The delay was due to the partial disappearance of the written heritage of Greek medicine, and the great difficulty in finding Greek medical manuscripts, "and then there was a gap of a generation until the Aldine firm put out a series of medical authors, Galen in 1525, Hippocrates in 1526, Paul of Aegina, and the first half (only) of Aetius in 1534" (V. Nutton, Greek Science in Sixteenth Century, p. 20). Literature: Adams G, 32; STC Italian 285; Renouard Alde, pp. 101-102; Ahmanson-Murphy, 231-233, 235-236; Cataldi Palau, 95; Finazzi, 51; PMM 33; Wellcome I, 2507; Durling 1748; Grolier-Norman, n. 5B; Hoffmann II, 122; V. Nutton, John Caius and the Manuscripts of Galen, Cambridge 1987, pp. 39-42; Ead., Greek Science in the Sixteenth-century Renaissance, in Renaissance and Revolution, ed. J.V. Field-F.A.A.J. James, Cambridge 1993, pp. 20-24; P. Potter, The editiones principes of Galen and Hippocrates and their Relationship, in Text and Tradition. Studies in Ancient Medicine and its Transmission, ed. K.D. Fischer-D. Nickel-P. Potter, Leiden 1998, pp. 243-261; V. Nutton, Ancient Medicine, London 2004, pp. 230-247.

Stobaeus (Joannes) Eclogarum libri duo, 2 parts in 1, collation: *6, A-Q6, R8, S-T6, V4; [12], 236, [4] pp., woodcut device on title, contemporary limp vellum, inked title on spine, lacking ties, folio (350 x 232 mm.), Antwerp, ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575. ⁂ Editio princeps of Stobeaus' Eclogae, dedicated by the printer Christopher Plantin to Cardinal Gugliemo Sirleto, one of the greatest sixteenth-century collectors of Greek manuscripts. The volume was edited by the philologian Willem Canter (1542-1575), a correspondent of Fulvio Orsini and Joseph Scaliger, who mainly based his work on a manuscript owned by the Hungarian humanist Johannes Sambucus (1531-1581), collated with a codex sent to Plantin by the aforementioned Cardinal Sirleto. Literature: Adams S1879; Voet 2263; Hoffmann III, 635-636; A.S.Q. Visser, J. Sambucus and the Learned Image, Leiden 2005, pp. 38-40. Provenance: Alessandro Bozza (ex-libris on front pastedown).

London.- Panorama.- Baynes (Thomas Mann) A Lithographic Sketch of the North Bank of the Thames...shewing the Proposed Quay and some other improvements suggested by Lieut.-Colonel Trench, letterpress Prospectus leaf, 9 lithographed plates by Hullmandel after Baynes, including two versions of plate 3 with alternative versions of the Adelphi), folding lithographed plan, water-stained, original drab wrappers with printed label to upper cover, uncut, folded, rubbed and soiled, spine frayed, oblong folio, J.Dickinson, 1825.

China.- [Costumes], vol.2 only (of 2), text in Chinese, 10 colour plates with illustrations numbered 26-50, some light soiling, original wrappers stitched with ribbon, paper label on upper cover (slightly defective), rubbed and soiled, folio, n.p., [c.1880].

Soane (Sir John) Designs for Public and Private Buildings, first edition, half-title, engraved title with vignettes and 55 plates, one misbound, list of plates at end, plates foxed, some light damp-staining at beginning affecting lower inner margin of title and first few leaves and plates, modern boards with contemporary morocco spine (repaired), recased, [Fowler 338], folio, 1828.

Thucydides. Thucydides cum scholiis et antiquis et utilibus, edited by Joachim Camerarius, collation: α β6 α6 b-z A-D6 E8 F10, title in Greek and Latin, text in Greek, woodcut historiated initials, t6 blank, penultimate f. with colophon recto otherwise blank, final f. with woodcut printer's device verso otherwise blank, title and next f. with upper corner and lower margin repaired, next few ff. with lower margin repaired, water-stained (mostly marginal), spotted, small worm trace / hole to lower margin of some ff., 17th century red morocco, richly gilt, spine in compartments, corners worn (especially lower), rubbed, g.e., folio (292 x 186mm.), Basel, Ex Officina Hervagiana, 1540. ⁂ A scarce copy of this important edition.

Alberti (Leon Battista) The Architecture...Of Painting...Of Statuary, edited by James Leoni and translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli, 3 vol. in 1, second edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece by B.Picart, titles and text in English and Italian with woodcut device, printed in double column, 75 engraved plates, some by Picart, contemporary ink signature at head of title, frontispiece defective at inner edge and laid down with ink hatching filling missing area, ex-library copy with unobtrusive blind stamp at head of title and first leaf of each vol., some light spotting and browning, modern half calf, [Harris 14; Millard, British 5], folio, Thomas Edlin, 1739.

Rossetti (Dante Gabriel).- Marillier (H.C.) Dante Gabriel Rossetti..., first edition, plates, original decorated blue cloth, gilt, designed by Laurence Housman, t.e.g., others uncut, with the rare dust-jacket, a little browned and soiled, slightly frayed at edges, 1899 § Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) The Early Italian Poets..., small water-stain to upper outer corner of title and dedication, bookplate of George Livingston Nichols, contemporary vellum, spine gilt, lightly soiled, upper joint cracked, 1861 § Shelley (P.B.) The Poetical Works..., edited by Harry Buxton Forman, 4 vol., frontispieces, original pictorial turquoise cloth, gilt, designed by Rossetti, slightly rubbed, 1876; and a pamphlet by Rossetti, folio & 8vo (7)

Orosius (Paulus) Historiarum initium ad Aurelium Augustinum, edited by Aeneas Vulpes, collation: a8 b-m6 n4, 77 ff. (of 78, lacking initial blank), 42 lines and headline, Roman type, initial spaces, early ink marginalia throughout, repair to head of e1, within text, but with no loss, some water-staining, mostly marginal, washing out some of the ink marginalia and occasionally causing small loss to margins, these repaired, new endpapers, later blind-stamped sheep, sympathetically rebacked and repaired, rubbed and scratched, [BMC V, 278; Goff O-98; Hain 12102], folio (290 x 207mm.), Venice, Octavianus Scotus, 30 July, 1483. ⁂ Profusely annotated in an early hand. Paulus Orosius (c.375-418AD) was a Christian historian, theologian and disciple of St. Augustine. Here he argues that the world has improved since the introduction of Christianity rather than declined as argued by others.

London.- Regent's Park.- House of Commons. First [-Fifth] Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, 10 folding hand-coloured engraved plans, some light offsetting, 1812-26; The Reports of the Surveyor General of His Majesty's Land Revenue, reprints of First-Fourth Reports (1797-1809) with Index, 2 folding engraved plans, one with partial hand-colouring, 1812, together 6 works in 1 vol., modern half calf, folio ⁂ Concerning improvements on the Crown Estates, proposing development along Piccadilly, Hyde Park, Park Lane, and Regent's Park by John Nash.

Philo Judaeus. In libros Mosis De mundi opificio, Historicos, De legibus. Eiusdem libri singulares, collation: α6, Α-Ζ8, a-y8, z4; [12], 736 [i.e.720], [48] pp., woodcut printer's device on title, occasional foxing, contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine and repeated on later paper label, edges violet, tears to spine and yapp edges, lacking leather ties, folio (342 x257mm.), Paris, Adrien Turnebe, 1552. ⁂ Rare and estimeed editio princeps of the works of the hellenistic philosopher Philo Alexandrinus, also called Philo Judaeus. His attempt to reconcile Greek philosophy and Judaism was greatly influential in early Christianity. The volume was edited and magnificently printed by the outstanding philologist Adrien Turnèbe (1512-1565), responsible for the Typographia Graeca established by François I, King of France. The texts are set in the famous type known as Grec du Roi, designed by Claude Garamond in 1541. "Turnèbe was not a professional printer, but a teacher of Greek and Latin at the Royal College at Paris who abandoned his teaching in order to promote Greek literature through the printing press" (K. Sp. Staikos, Greek Philosophical Editions in the First Century of Printing, Athens 2001, p. 87). Provenance: 'Ex libris Johannis Baptistae' (partly erased ownership inscription on title); ex-libris 'Principis Burghesii' and 'Louis Grossmann Cincinnati' on front pastedown; Hebrew Union College Cincinnati (blind-stamp on title and duplicate stamp on front pastedown). Literature: Adams P1033; Pettegree-Walsby, French Books III & IV, 82807; J. Lewis, Adrien Turnèbe, Genève 1998.

Egyptology.- Champollion (Jean François) Dictionnaire Égyptienne en Écriture Hiéroglyphique, first edition, half-title, lithographed hieroglyphs throughout, title lightly soiled, ex-library copy with unobtrusive blind-stamp on title, modern calf, uncut, folio, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1841-43. ⁂ Lithographic reproduction of Champollion's manuscript, published after his death, with an index at the end of the hieroglyphs sorted by type including celestial, anatomical, animal, architectural, household objects etc.

Stanley (Thomas) The History of Philosophy, in Eight Parts, 8 parts in 1, first edition, with general title dated 1656 and 8 part titles, 17 engraved plates of Greek philosophers, with Tables and errata leaf but lacking advertisement leaf, browned, a few ink or rust spots, P2 in Part I lacking corner not affecting text, plate of Aristippus in Part IV with holes (mostly to lower margin but one affecting image), modern calf ruled in blind, a little rubbed, a few small scratches, [Wing S5237 & 5238a], folio, for Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring, 1656.

Bickham (George) The British Monarchy..., engraved throughout with frontispiece after Gravelot, title, 2pp. list of subscribers and 190 numbered leaves on British counties and territories including 2 additional titles (no.39 &164) and a folding table (no.162-3), many with vignettes, maps and illustrations, and an unnumbered folding engraved map, printed on rectos only, some foxing and soiling, no.34 & 106 torn and laid down, several marginal tears or defects, some repaired, contemporary calf, border in gilt and blind, rubbed and stained, rebacked with gilt spine, corners repaired, new endpapers, folio, G.Bickham, 1748. ⁂ The additional titles are: A Description of the several Counties in South Britain, dated 1744, and A Short Description of the American Colonies, dated 1747.

Law.- Justinianus I. Novellarum constitutionum Dn. Iustiniani principis, collation: α8, β4, a-z4, A-E4, F6, a-z4, A-I4, K6 (lacking blanks F6 and K6); [24], 224 [i.e. 234], 263, [3] pp., woodcut decorated initials, light water-stain to upper margin of first and final leaves, early 18th-century calf, spine with six raised bands, title on lettering-piece (abraded), rubbed, joints cracked, spine ends chipped, folio (330 x 195mm.), Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1531. ⁂ A landmark in the codification of Roman law: the editio princeps of the relevant section of Corpus Iuris Civilis, usually referred as the Constitutiones Novellae, by the Eastern Emperor Justinian I, a collection of all new laws modifying his Codex of 529. This text of the 168 Greek Novels, which first appeared in print in Latin in 1476, was edited by the German jurist Gregor Holoander, who taught law at the University of Nuremberg. The edition also includes the Canones Apostolorum, here falsely ascribed to Pope Clemens I. Provenance: almost illegible contemporary ownership inscription on title; the Scottish writer and politician Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655-1716; ownership inscription on rear pastedown); the bookseller H.P. Kraus, New York. Literature: Schweiger, 481.

Wakeman (Geoffrey) The Production of Nineteenth Century Colour Illustration, number 79 of 100 copies, tipped-in original specimens from 19th century works, most colour-printed, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, transparent dust-jacket, folio, Loughborough, The Plough Press, 1976.

Houghton (Rev. William) British Fresh-water Fishes, 2 vol., first edition, 41 wood-engraved plates after A.F.Lydon printed in colours, tissue guards, wood-engraved vignettes and illustrations, some foxing, mostly marginal, ex-library copy with traces of ink stamp to verso of plates and labels removed, slight insect damage to lower outer corner of last few leaves of vol.1, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., rubbed, corners slightly worn, [Nissen ZBI 2009], folio, [1879].