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GRILLIONS CLUB - a 2 volume history (1864), very little letterpress, but some 150 lithographed portraits; half leather & cloth, (vol. 2 distressed), folio. * former London non-political dining club for MPs. & other influentials.

MANNING (Rev. O) & BRAY (Wm.) The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey . . . First Edition, 3 vols. num. engraved plates, facsimiles & maps (some folded) & folded tables, subscribers list; later 19th cent. half morocco & marbled boards, folio. 1804-14.

PROSSER (G.F.) Select Illustrations of the County of Surrey: comprising picturesque views of the seats of the nobility and gentry . . . large paper issue. engraved title, subscribers list & 46 lithographed plates (on India paper, mounted) & with some smaller vignettes at the head of some descriptions; contemp. green morocco with richly gilt borders, gilt-decorated & panelled spine, g.e. & marbled e/ps. (by J. Clarke), folio. 1828. * armorial bookplate of Charles Barclay (a subscriber, & MP. for Dorking), later sm. circular leather booklabel of Eric Sexton, FSA.

WARE (I.) A Complete Body of Architecture . . . in which are interspersed some Designs of Inigo Jones, never before published. First Edition. 113 engraved plates (15 folded), title vignette; 19th cent. half morocco & cloth, folio. 1756.

BOLTON (A.T.) The Architecture of Robert & James Adam. First Edition, 2 vols. coloured frontis. & photo. illus. throughout; gilt cloth, folio. 1922. * decorative bookplates of Geoffrey Harmsworth.

ETCHINGS - A Collection of two Hundred Original Etchings . . . First Edition. 200 images (of various sizes) on thin paper & mounted on 104 leaves; contemp. maroon straight-grain morocco, gilt & blind-decorated borders, gilt-decorated & panelled spine, g.e., folio. printed by W. Lewis, (ca. 1820). * artists include Rembrandt (7 original, & 11 after by Vivares), Claude (25 original) & Hollar (48 original). Illustrated

JEKYLL (G.) & HUSSEY (C.) Garden Ornament. 2nd edition (revised). num. photo. illus. (some full-page); gilt-pictorial cloth, folio. 1927.

JEKYLL (G.) & HUSSEY (C.) Garden Ornament. 2nd edition (revised). photo. illus. throughout; gilt-lettered cloth, folio. 1927.

TRIGGS (H.I.) Formal Gardens in England and Scotland . . . First Edition. many photo. plates & plans; green half morocco & cloth, gilt-ruled & panelled spine, gilt top & marbled e/ps., folio. 1902.

COUNTRY LIFE - 25 various vols. from volumes 1 - 38. illus. throughout, mostly clothbound, folio. 1897-1915. * the commencing years of this famous journal.

TALLIS'S History and Description of the Crystal Palace, and the Exhibition of the World's Industry in 1851 . . . pictorial engraved & printed titles, coloured & folded frontis. & approx. 140 engraved plates; contemp. half calf & marbled boards, sm. folio. ( 1851) * sold not subject to return.

BONE (G.) Old Spain. Limited Edition, 2 vols. title vignettes, num. plates (some coloured) & text illus. (by Muirhead Bone); publisher's tan morocco, panelled spines (gilt lettered direct), gilt tops, folio. 1936. * limitation of 265 numbered sets, signed by artist & author.

ILLUSTRATED - Royal Association . . . Fine Arts in Scotland, 5 folio vols. (& another related), decorated cloth & boards. (mid 19th cent.); sold with 3 old manuscript leaves; and another item.

'BINDINGS' - 5 folio covers, red straight-grain morocco, gilt-ruled on sides with gilt decoration at inner corners, elaborately gilt & panelled spines (lettered direct), inner gilt dentelles & gilt-ruled royal blue e/ps., armorial bookplate of J. Chas. Crowle Esqr. on pastedowns; some text from a large paper copy of Burnet's 'Own Times' & appropriately lettered on spines, (ca. 1800).

Edward Hasted - "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", 2nd edition, printed by W. Bristow on the Parade, Canterbury, 1797-1800 (eleven volumes bound in black cloth with black leather spines), and book of maps bound in conforming larger folio size, and Edward Hasted - "The History of the Antient and Metropolitical City of Canterbury", Canterbury 1801 (volume two only in conforming bindings)

Paul Budry, R.-Th. Bosshard. Tableaux choisis précédés d'un essai sur le peintre et son oeuvre par Paul Budry, éditions Romanes Lausanne. N°46/406 tirages, un des 300 exemplaires sur vélin pur fil. In-folio, sous jaquette papier bleu.Livres, Photographies et Manuscrits BooksLivres - Books - Bücher

Jacobo Gardina & Jacob Rauch, La Sacra Biblia Quai Ais tuot la Sonchia Scrittüra… 1743.Bible des Grisons en romanche. Petit in-folio, veau brun à 5 nerfs, plats ornés d'une double dentelle estampée, cabochons au centre et coins en laiton doré. Beau faux titre orné, titre encadré d'un bandeau en xylogravure. En début de volume feuillets volants manuscrits de registre de naissance. Condition: reliure en mauvaise état, plat détaché.Livres, Photographies et Manuscrits BooksLivres - Books - Bücher

Pierre Kjellberg, Art déco, les maîtres du mobilier, les éditions de l'amateur, Paris, 1981.Maurice Besset, Le Corbusier, Editions d'art Albert Skira, 1968. In-folio, bel état.Livres, Photographies et Manuscrits Booksmoderne - modern - moderne Bücher;Livres - Books - Bücher ;Meubles - Furniture - Möbel

George Finch Mason (1850-1915) HUMOURS OF THE HUNTING FIELD [1886] first edition publication 14 x 19½in. (35.56 x 49.53cm) Collection of George and Maura McClelland Published by Messers Fores, 41 Piccadilly W., 1886. First edition, with pictorial wood engraved titlepage, 16 wood engraved hunting plates by Finch Mason printed on a tinted ground and a pictorial wood engraved advertisement leaf at end, oblong folio, original half brown cloth with coloured pictorial paper covered upper cover and plain paper covered lower cover. Shows extensive wear to the boards; however the 16 plates remain in good condition.

'Bajo Los Puentes', 33 original prints by Jose Porta, in a folio, with foreword by Walter Starkie, limited edition, signed in pen

A small folio including two 19th Century Japanese coloured prints and others (5).

A folio of assorted sketches, principally being figure studies in charcoal, pencil and watercolour

Posters x3 WW2 to include: HE TALKED SHE TALKED THEY TALKED, THIS HAPPENED, CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES. All are Crown Folio 15in x 10in. Printed for H.M.Stationery Office and are in excellent condition.

Forty-nine World country Maps taken from 1895 World Atlas (original), 14 double folios, 35 single folio size

A folio of engravings and other prints.

Gustave Bourgogne, (French 1888-1968), a folio of various still lifes and other artwork, most inscribed, gouache.Gustave Bourgogne is credited as one of the founders of The Musicalist Art Movement.

A folio containing Victorian and later postcards of Cirencester and the surrounding area to include Fairford, Cheltenham, Bibury, Elkstone, etc CONDITION REPORTS There are approx 350 postcards of the area. Various signs of wear and tear throughout.

AFTER MAUD EARL "Study of retriever and hare", colour print, together with one further engraving of horses going over jumps and HENRY ALKEN "British Sports" by Kingsmead, re-prints, a folio of prints CONDITION REPORTS Probably field spaniel not retriever, a small amount of fading to the print, generally good

FOUR ATLASES: Cellarius (Christoph) Geographia Antiqua, 1806, Rivington, 4to, 33 double-page engraved maps with some outline colour by hand, contemporary calf backed boards, frayed, rubbed and scuffed; Bazin (F.) and Cadet (F.) Atlas Special…De La France, 1855, Paris, Delalain, 32 lithographed maps in colour, folio, becoming disbound from frayed publisher's printed boards; Hall (Sidney) A New British Atlas, comprising a series of 54 maps, 1836, London, Chapman & Hall, 4to, hand-coloured plates and text, contemporary morocco-backed cloth boards, upper cover detached; Johnston (Alexander Keith) The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, 1869, Edinburgh, folio, 45 double-page maps, green cloth boards stained and rubbed, a.e.g. [with:] a folding letterpress table POPULATION RETURNS OF ENGLAND, 1822, Liverpool, Wales & Co., Price One Shilling; w.a.f. (5)

A collection of books on country and traditional sports: horses and horsmanship; foxhunting incl. Simpson (C.) Leicestershire and its Hunts, and Baily's Hunting Directories; shooting and gundogs; angling/fishing incl. West The Natural Trout Fly and Its Imitation; hawking and falconry; with other books on gardening, Derbyshire history, nature, odd Lonsdale Library vols, other miscellaneous subjects with The Library Shakespeare, [1873-75], London, W. Mackenzie, plates (some coloured) and illustrations by Gilbert, Cruikshank, Dudley, 9 slim folio vols. in publisher's original decorative cloth gilt; mostly 8vos and 4tos, some folios, in original 20th century cloth (qty) (twelve boxes)

John Gould (British, 1804-1881) Eight hand-coloured large folio lithographs of British coastal, water and game birds, [c.1830s-1870s, London, J. Gould], by H.C. Richter, J. Wolf, Gould, sheets c.385 x 560mm. Punched holes, some minor foxing, all mounted; colours still bright (8)

American Civil War letter: handwritten by William Fanning Wickham, owner of the famous Hickory Hill plantation in Virginia. Wickham was related to Robert E. Lee, Confederate General, and his grandfather was one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. Addressed to Charles Wykeham Martin, the English Conservative politician, of Leeds Caste, Kent. The letter is dated 1865, 'near Hanover Court House, Virginia.' It describes the origins of the civil war, and first-hand experience, in vivid detail. Together with the book 'Leeds Castle, Kent' by Charles Wykeham Martin (1869), folio, as found, containing photographic plates/albumen prints and assorted ephemera. Also 'The Life and Letters of Admiral Cornwallis', by G. Cornwallis-West (1927). (3)

Shibui (Kiyoshi) Toyohisa Adachi and others., Ukiyo-E Masterpieces, edited by The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2 vol., one of 1,000 copies, 430 tipped-in plates, many colour, illustrations, plate vol. in original cloth, text vol. in original wrappers, preserved in original drop-back box with lid, folio, Tokyo, 1969. ⁂ Scarce. Originally intended to record the international exhibition of Ukiyo-e held in Tokyo on the occasion of the Olympic Games in 1964, but later, considerably enlarged.

Buckland Wright (John).- Keats (John) Endymion: a Poetic Romance, number 97 of 100 specially-bound copies signed by the artist, from an edition limited to 500, wood-engraved illustrations by John Buckland Wright, some full-page, foxing to a few leaves as usual, original pictorial vellum, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with Cynthia Goddess of the Moon by JBW in gilt on upper cover, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, cloth slip-case (slightly rubbed), [Cockalorum 175; Reid A47a], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1947. ⁂ Buckland Wright took over four years to produce this work and considered it to be his greatest achievement. "In his 58 illustrations Buckland Wright is both as classical and as romantic as the poet could have desired. His vision, it seems to me, approaches that of Keats as closely as is possible for any artist working in our generation. While there is more than a hint of classicism in his admirable figures, their groupings and settings are romantic." Christopher Sandford in Cockalorum.

Buckland Wright (John).- Beaumont (Francis) Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, edited by Gwyn Jones, number 13 of 30 specially-bound copies signed by the editor and artist and with an extra plate, from an edition limited to 380, wood-engraved illustrations by John Buckland Wright printed in colours, some full-page, original pictorial blue morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with water-lily by JBW in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, spine very slightly faded, cloth slip-case, [Cock-a-Hoop 187; Reid A64a], Golden Cockerel Press, 1951; with a copy of the prospectus (Cockalorum P187), one of 9700 copies, a little browned, small folio (2)

Buckland Wright (John).- Hartnoll (Phyllis) The Grecian Enchanted, number 30 of 60 specially-bound copies signed by the author and artist and with an additional suite of aquatint plates and an extra one, from an edition limited to 360, title printed in pink and green with vignette and decorative border, 7 plates after aquatints by John Buckland-Wright, additional plates loose in pocket at end, original pictorial two-tone grey and pink morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, fighting cocks by JBW in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, spine very slightly browned, spotting to top outer corner of upper cover, cloth slip-case (a little faded), [Cock-a-Hoop 189; Reid A65a], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1952 with Buckland Wright (John) Proofs of engravings for 'The Grecian Enchanted', comprising: a set of early state proofs of engravings before aquatint (title and 8 plates including extra one), on laid paper, c.210 x 125mm. (sheets c/325 x 205mm.), all signed in pencil, some light marginal soiling, [c.1952]; proofs of frontispiece, title before letters and plates 3 (2 copies, one labelled "Etching 2nd state" in pencil), 4 (marked "clean" in pencil in margin), 6 and extra plate (2 copies, one on laid paper), all but duplicate of extra plate on Basingwerk Parchment paper, most sheets c.360 x 260mm., [c.1952]; 2 sheets of printer's proofs featuring the standard illustrations after the aquatint plates, each with 4 illustrations, on laid paper, sheets c.630 x 390mm., folded, [c.1952], [Golden Cockerel Press]; plus a copy of the prospectus for the book initialled by JBW in pencil at foot (Cockalorum P189, one of 9700 copies), an A.L.s. from the author Phyllis Hartnoll dated Feb.7th 1952 to JBW praising his illustrations "...I feel I must write and say how enchanted I am with them!", and a cutting from 'The Times' of Hartnoll's obituary dated 28th January 1997 (sm.qty) ⁂ "A simple tale, as evanescent as the scent of wild thyme, into which Phyllis Hartnoll wove the mingled ecstasy and heart-break of young lovers. The sunshine and shadow of their April love that triumphs over all obstacles and outfaces death." Cock-a-Hoop In her letter Phyllis Hartnoll comments on the illustrations, "...They are...so entirely in the spirit of the story. I particularly liked the title-page, the cock-fight, the one on the ship and the one of the lovers together. But they are all beautiful, and I shall cherish my copy of the book very much...".

Gwasg Gregynog.- A collection of over 50 prospectuses for publications by the press (including a few duplicates), most illustrated, some with wood-engravings, [1975-2010]; with over 100 pieces of ephemera concerning or printed by the press (book- & print-lists, announcements, orders of service and other jobbing printing etc.), v.d., loose sheets or original wrappers, v.s., together in 2 raw silk drop-back boxes, folio, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog (2 boxes)

Gibbings (Robert) Fourteen Wood Engravings, 16 wood-engraved illustrations, compliments slip loosely inserted, original yellow wrappers, slightly dust-soiled, folio, Golden Cockerel Press, [1932].

Golden Cockerel Press.- Powys (Llewelyn) Glory of Life, number 20 of 277 copies, wood-engraved frontispiece, title, initials and illustrations by Robert Gibbings, title and initials printed in red, very light browning to frontispiece as usual, original vellum-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. ⁂ According to Christopher Sandford in Chanticleer this is "probably the finest example of Robert Gibbings' book illustration. His magnificent title-page engraved in wood was an innovation, and titles of this kind would enhance the beauty of many publishers' books."

Golden Cockerel Press.- Chase (Owen) and others. Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex of Nantucket which was destroyed by a whale..., number 14 of 275 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings, original "sail-type" binding of yellow and green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed and soiled as usual, small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. ⁂ The account of the terrible suffering endured by the crew of the Essex which was attacked and sunk by a large sperm whale. After three months of mostly drifting at sea in three whale boats five men out of twenty-one survived, having resorted to cannibalism. At first they ate the bodies of those who had died but on one occasion, having drawn lots, they killed and ate the cabin boy. Another three men who had remained on an uninhabited island were also rescued. The tale was the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

Halderman (Joe) Forever Peace: To Stop War, Poem... [with] Etchings by Judith Chute, number 4 of 30 copies on fine paper signed by the author and artist, 9 etchings, each titled, numbered and signed in pencil by Chute, 2 partly coloured, original paste-paper boards, uncut, folio, Upper Montclair, N.J., Temporary Culture, 2008.

Thomson (Virgil) and Maurice Grosser. Eighteen Portraits, number 28 of 120 copies signed by artist and composer, 18 lithographed portraits by Maurice Grosser and 18 sheets of musical notation by Virgil Thomson, loose as issued in original cloth drop-back box, folio, New York, Vincent Fitzgerald & Co., 1985.

Whittington Press.- O'Connor (John) The Wood-engravings..., with a commentary by Jeannie O'Connor, 2 vol., number XII of 50 specially-bound copies with additional proofs and signed by the artist and editor, from an edition limited to 350, wood-engravings by John O'Connor, some printed in colours, text in original morocco-backed pictorial boards, uncut, additional engravings all initialled in pencil and loose in original board folder, with Christmas card by O'Connor loosely inserted, together in slip-case, folio, Andoversford, Whittington Press, 1989.

Joyce (James) Haveth Childers Everywhere, number 37 of 100 copies printed on Japan and signed by the author, printed in green and black, some very light scattered spotting, original printed wrappers, glacine dust-jacket, chip to foot of lower panel, [Slocum 41], folio, Paris, Henry Babou & Jack Kahane; New York, the Fountain Press, 1930. ⁂ A fragment of what would eventually become Joyce's final complete work, Finnegans Wake.

Meffret. Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive Hortulus reginae, Pars Hyemalis only, collation: a12 b10 c-r8 ſ8 s-v8 w-z8 ד8 ɔ8 10, double column, 230 ff. (of 231, lacking a1), 55 lines and headline, Gothic type, initials, initial-strokes and paragraph-marks in red, occasional early ink marginalia, a2 hole at head, with loss of a few words, p3 short tear at foot within text, without loss, final f. (printed recto only) with hole to inner margin, (with loss of several letters) and a section of lower corner torn away, some spotting and staining, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine in compartments and with black leather label, folio (307 x 202mm.), Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 20 January, 1487. ⁂ All parts of this work by this 15th century Meissen preacher are rare at auction. Provenance: 'ex libris Barth. Lungi'; 'Ex libris Wolff. Sigismundi Fischer, Anno 1677' (ink inscriptions to a2).

Gellius (Aulus) Noctium atticarum Libri undeuiginti, collation: ãã10 a-n8 o10 p8, Roman and some Greek type, title and large woodcut device of Jean Petit within woodcut historiated border, woodcut criblé initials (with later hand-colouring), occasional early ink marginalia and interlinear notes, occasional staining (mostly light), Paris, Badius Ascensius for Jean Petit, 1517 bound with Valla (Laurentius) Elegantiarum Libri sex Latine ligue studiosis perutiles ac pernecessarii nuper summa diligentia recogniti, edited by Badius Ascensius, collation: aaa8 A-X Aa-Hh aa6, Roman type, large woodcut device of Jean Petit to title, woodcut criblé initials (with later hand-colouring), occasional early ink marginalia, some damp-staining towards end, final f. holed with loss of several letters, Paris, Jean Petit & Wolfgang Hopyl, 1507, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary panelled calf over wooden boards, metal clasps, rebacked, corners repaired, creased and rubbed, folio (284 x 195mm.) ⁂ Two rare works, with USTC listing only three copies of the first and one of the second work. The first work is the first Badius edition of this version of the text and the second is the fourth Badius edition. Provenance: 'Guillemon' (early ink signature to title). Literature: I. Not in Adams; Renouard, Badius Ascensius, II, 463:2 II. Not in Adams.

Livius (Titus) Ex XIIII T. Livius Decadibus Prima Tertia Quarta, 4 parts in 1, collation: A8 B6 a-m8 n10, *10 aa-mm8 nn6, **10 aaa-qqq8, A-I8, numerous woodcut printer's devices, including to title and verso of otherwise blank final f., that on title with a little hand-colouring, initial spaces with guide-letter, ink stamp to foot of title, first title soiled, occasional staining and spotting elsewhere, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal clasps, joints splitting, but holding firm, soiled and rubbed, folio (315 x 201mm.), [Venice], [House of Aldus & Andrea Torresani], [January 1521, October 1520, November 1520, December 1520, February 1521]. ⁂ 'elle est fort rare' (Renouard). Literature: Adams L1323; Renouard, Alde, 89:6; EDIT 16 CNCE 37644.Please note: The estimates should read £750-£1000 

Hippocrates. Omnia Opera Hippocratis [graece], edited by Gianfrancesco Torresani, collation: *6 A-Z, AA-EE8 FF10, title in Greek and Latin, privilege from Pope Clement VII, dedicatory letter from Gianfrancesco Toressani to Giovanni Giorgio Trissino, and letter from Gianfrancesco Torresani to the reader all in Latin, index in parallel Greek and Latin, text in Greek, title with large woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, final f. with woodcut printer's device verso otherwise blank, little chipping and staining to outer edge of title, *1&6 narrow area of reinforcement to inner margin, occasional spotting, a few ff. lightly browned, a few small stains, 17th century calf, richly gilt spine with floral and foliage decorations in compartments, rubbed, gilt gauffered edges, a very good copy, folio (300 x 200 mm.), Venice, House of Aldus & Andrea Torresani, May, 1526. ⁂ Editio princeps of the Hippocratic Corpus. Torresani based his edition on a 15th-century manuscript (now Paris BnF gr.2141), and made corrections from another (now Venice Marc. gr. 269), which had once belonged to Cardinal Bessarion. The present edition was published a year after the first edition in Latin, which had been printed by Calvus in Rome. The Aldine edition marked a considerable improvement over the Latin in that 'it repaired a considerable number of accidental omissions and one long repetition that Calvus made because he followed only one manuscript. Moreover; by presenting the original text, it laid the necessary foundation for all further philological and medical study of the corpus' (Durling). The dedicatee Trissino was a grammarian, poet, dramatist and diplomat, whose own works were beautifully printed by Ludovico Arrighi . Provenance: 'J.E. Petrequin, acheté paris avril 1864' (ink inscription to foot of verso of front free endpaper).Please note: Lot 224 – There is a neatly repaired tear to the title.  

Dionysius Carthusianus. Insigne Commentariorum opus, in Psalmos omnes Davidicos..., collation: *4, A-Z6, a-z6, aa-ee6, ff4, AA-HH6, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut initials, some marginal staining and a few wormholes, 18th century calf, rebacked, rubbed, folio (310 x 195 mm.), Cologne, Peter Quentell, March 1531. ⁂ First edition of the earliest work by Dionysius (1402-1471), the phenomenally productive Flemish theologian, Carthusian monk, ecstatic, and associate of Nicolas of Cusa, for whom he composed treatises refuting Muslim belief, superstition, and magical practices. His exegetical writings begin with the present commentary (1434) and go on to treat the entire New and Old Testaments, while his philosophical writings reflect the Christian Platonism of his namesake 'the Areopagite', and the mysticism of John and Hugh of St. Victor, and Saint Bonaventure. He also edited Boethius, Peter Lombard, and ps-Dionysius, simplified the text of Cassian, codified 'rules of Christian living' for churchmen and laymen alike, and agitated for military action against the Turks after the fall of Constantinople. 'He has been called the last of the Schoolmen', observes the Catholic Encyclopaedia', and 'he is so, in the sense that he is the last important Scholastic writer, and that his works may be considered to form a vast encyclopedia of the scholastic teaching of the Middle Ages: this their primary characteristic and chief merit'. The modern edition of Dionysius' Opera Omnia (ed. M. Leone, 1896-1935) runs to forty-four quarto volumes. The first edition of In Psalmos omnes Davidicos, the first stepping-stone toward that 'vast encyclopedia', is - despite its bulk - uncommon: COPAC lists only a 'Cathedral Libraries' copy, and other editions of 1534, 1539, 1547, 1558, to which may be added those of 1542 and 1548 (WorldCat). Literature: Adams D557 (three copies); VD 16 1922 (nine copies in Germany; apparently there are none in American institutions.)

Josephus (Flavius) [Opera] [graece], edited by Arnoldus Arlenius, collation: *6 a-z A-z Aa-Hh6 Ii4 AA-MM6, Greek type, title in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, large woodcut historiated initial at start, initial spaces with guide-letters, woodcut head-pieces, woodcut printer's device to verso of final f., some early red ink underlining, a few unobstrusive very small wormholes within text, some spotting or light foxing, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal clasps and corner-pieces, spine in compartments and with 2 later leather lables (1 chipped with loss), small nick at head of spine, lightly soiled, rubbed, folio (319 x 217mm.), Basel, Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1544. ⁂ A wide-margined copy of the handsomely printed editio princeps, providing a comprehensive history of the Jews from Creation to the end of the war with Rome (70 AD). The printed work is taken from manuscripts in the library of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, for whom the editor Arlenius was librarian. The present copy matches the rarer of two variants (based on the spelling of one word in the colophon) given by Adams. Provenance: Jesuit College, Würzburg (various ink inscriptions, one dated 1575); The Hon. W.T. Monson (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown). Literature: Adams J352; Hoffmann II, 443.

Cardano (Girolamo) De subtilitate libri XXI, collation: α-γ4 a-z A-Z Aa-Zz4 Aaa6 Bbb-Eee4 Fff6, Roman type, title with central woodcut portrait of the author, woodcut illustrations and diagrams within text, woodcut historiated initials, 3A&F6 blank, some marginal water-staining, contemporary vellum, stained and rubbed, folio (315 x 200mm.), Basel, [Ex off. Petrina], 1560. ⁂ A scarce edition of this work that combined solid learning with more esoteric matters, such as alchemy. Cardano was an Italian polymath, who is considered one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance. A keen gambler he is seen as one of the key figures in the foundation of probability. The work includes sections on distillation, gemstones, plants and mathematics. Literature: Adams C673.

Cyprian (Saint, Bishop of Carthage) Opera, collation: a4, b6, c4, A-Z6, AA-MM6, NN-TT4 (TT4 blank), woodcut device on title, occasional light foxing, minor marginal worm-track near end, late 17th century mottled calf, spine gilt, corners and spine ends worn, folio (310 x 210 mm.), Rome, Paulus Manutius, 1563. ⁂ A good copy of the Aldine Cyprian, complete with final blank. Literature: Adams C 3161; Renouard II,29:3; EDIT 16 CNCE 13896.

Digby (Sir Kenelm) Two Treatises, in the One of Which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked Into: in the Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, first edition, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, lacking final blank, title a little soiled, with chipping and restoration to outer margin, 3N3 with lower corner restored, 18th century manuscript note addressed to James Wyld regarding the sale of a horse, upper hinge strengthened, bookplates, contemporary calf, rebacked, upper joint cracked ,corners and fore-edge strengthened and repaired, [Wing D1448], folio, Paris, Gilles Blaizot, 1644. ⁂ Digby's chief philosophical work, the publication of this volume marked the introduction of Gassendian and Cartesian atomism into England. He aimed to prove the immortality of the rational soul and its distinction from the material body. In the first treatise he provides the first important defence of Harvey's theory of circulation of the blood in English. The work also contains "the fullest early account in English of teaching the deaf to lip-read", a practice Digby had first observed at the Spanish court, and which he had reported to Prince Charles. Provenance: James Wyld Jnr.; John Farquhar Fulton (1899-1960), American neurophysiologist and science writer (bookplates)

Malta plague.- A collection of 178 broadside notices giving the names and addresses of those who had contracted or died from the 1813 plague in Malta, all printed recto only, apart from 1 in later ms., the first 13 in Italian only, the others in Italian and English, a few with ink signatures and official stamps, some spotting, browning or staining, but generally in good complete condition, except one notice for July, which is torn and repaired with loss, folio et infra, Malta, 7th May, 1813- 31st October, 1813; and 2 other related ms. documents, v.s. (181) ⁂ A remarkable survival charting the outbreak and eventual containment of the plague on Malta. A complete list of all those affected is given in weekly bulletins. After October separate broadsides were no longer issued and details were published in weekly newspapers. Included is a ms. declaration signed by the Chief Secretary of the Government confirming that the data on the printed bulletins correspond with written records housed in the record office of the island.

Venice.- Guoro (Pandolfo, Venetian Supreme Naval Commander, Adriatic, 1554-1556, Military Governor of Cyprus, 1560-1562, Civil Governor, 1565-1566) Letter as 'Capitano del Colfo' [Italian 'Golfo', Supreme Naval Commander, Adriatic], with secretarial signature to the Three Heads of the Council of Ten at Venice, 1p. and conjugate blank and address panel, in a clear italic hand, in Venetian Italian with translation, folio, 21st July 1555, acknowledging their letter of the 17th July 1555, "by which I am committed ... to send to the City all the corn and fodder ['biave', Italian 'biade'] that I shall find as cargo in any place whatsoever, whether on board the vessels of your City and of the subjects of Your Serenity, or of foreign captains, imposing on the captains and merchants who do not convey it to Venice the penalty of Your Sublimity's indignation", except for "the cargoes of corn for the needs of this city in Dalmatia", which he is to let go "under security or other caution not to proceed elsewhere", all which "Your ... Lordships may be assured I will not fail to carry out with all exact zeal and diligence according to the circumstances", adding that "the ... Superintendent ['provedor', Italian 'provveditore'] of the Navy having now conveyed the present order to all the Grand ['magnifici'] Sopracomiti here, it remains only for me to put it into force immediately", for further details he will refer to what the Superintendent "has already sent me", folds, slightly browned. ⁂ Famine in Venice.

Kingdom of England claiming the Throne of France and The Defeat of King John of France at the Battle of Poitiers.- La Querella, per la quale il Re d'Inghilterra pretende il regno di Franza [&] Giovanni primo et ultimo Re di Franza di quel nome perse una giornata contra Inglesi apprersso la gran Città di Poictiers..., manuscript in Italian, 7pp., in a neat Italic hand, part only, bound in differing order, some slight surface affecting one or two words, folds, browned, new endpapers, modern boards, [Phillipps ms. 21133], folio, [?Italy], [c. 1555]. ⁂ The manuscript may be roughly dated as the marriage of Mary Tudor and Philip of Spain is mentioned in the first manuscript. The second manuscript discusses the role of the Dukes of Burgundy in the Anglo-French conflict of the Hundred Years War.

Carafa (Giovanni, Duke of Paliano, nephew of Pope Paul IV, d. 1561) Autograph Letter signed to Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, 1p., 4to, Rome, 24th January 1558, about a stock of wheat being delivered by ship, and other subjects including mentioning the pope and Bartolomeo Camerario, a professor of law at Rome who Carafa imprisoned in 1558, a few very small holes caused by ink acid not affecting legibility, folds, slightly browned § Beni (Paolo, humanist scholar, literary critic, theologian and linguist, 1552/3-1625) Autograph Letter signed to "His Most Serene Highness", 1p. with conjugate blank, in Italian, folio, Padua, 28th May 1623, firstly reporting about a Signor Collo and secondly showing his satisfaction in knowing that his books ("I miei libri") had been accepted in the Royal Library ("Regia biblioteca"), probably referring to the library of the King of Naples, and moreover, that four more volumes of his works (Benianae LucubrationesI) were expected to be issued by September/October of that year, folds, browned; and 12 others, 16 and 17 century Italian letters, v.s., v.d. (14)

Heber (Richard, book collector, 1774-1833).- [Papal Conclave on the death of Pope Paul IV and the election of Pope Pius IV], manuscript in Italian, 13pp., in a neat Italic hand, incomplete at end, slightly browned, n.d. [c. 1559]; and 2 others, including a letter from Philippe de la Canaye, sieur de Fresnes (French jurist and diplomat, 1551-1610), to Isaac Casaubon, classical scholar and ecclesiastical historian, 1559-1614), dated 1597, folio & 135 x 185mm., (3). ⁂ First mentioned provenance: Part of Lot 1128, Part 11, Heber Sale, 1856, Sold to Payne.

Cant Language.- Dictionary of the cant Language, 18 century poetry and 17 century religious work in a commonplace book, manuscript in several hands, 169pp. excluding blanks, 1f. loose, another f. torn and repaired with tape, browned, some dampstaining, 19th century buckram, lacks spine, folio, 1650s - 1830s. ⁂ Includes: "Dictionary of the cant Language... Banker a Salesman Servant as what do you buy... Meggs Guineas meet to Spend Money - or Petticoat... Slubble it, hold your tongue... Whibble sad drink Whiddle to tell or discover" [6pp.]; "An Ode to Garrick Upon the Talk of the Town [by Edward Moore]"; "An Epistle from Cambridge"; "Epitaph L.M. 1749 [Mary Leapor]"; "Fox Hunting by Wm. Somerville"; "Lyrics of the East by Mrs. Godwin" etc. Cant language is the jargon or argot of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. Thieves cant was a feature of popular pamphlets and plays particularly between 1590 and 1615, but continued to feature in literature into the nineteenth century.

Cromwell (Oliver, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1599-1658) Warrant to the Treasurer, Gualter Frost to pay £20 to Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Kelsey for expences of his journey through Kent, D.s. "Oliver P", signed "Tho: Kelsey" in receipt on verso, manuscript, 1½pp., folds, foxed and browned, lower half laid down on brown paper, folio, Whitehall, 30th April 1655. ⁂ "These are to will, and require you out of such moneys as now are, or shall come to your hands on accompt of our Counceles Contingencies to pay unto Lieutenant Collonel Thomas Kelsey or to whom he shall appoint to receive the same, the sume of twenty pounds for the extraordinary charges of his journey into Kent about our service. Here of you are not to faile, and for soe doing this shallbe your warrant." Kelsey (Thomas, d. in or after 1676), parliamentarian army officer and major-general; lieutenant of Dover Castle and governor of the garrison.