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Lot 86

NO RESERVE Italy.- Barri (Giacomo) The Painters Voyage of Italy. In which all the famous paintings of the most eminent masters are particularised, as they are preserved in the several cities of Italy, first edition in English, directions to binder f. and licence f. at beginning, etched allegorical frontispiece by W.Lodge and portraits of Michelangelo, Titian, Veronese, Cortona & Raphael, engraved map of Italy, trimmed at head, affecting headlines, occasional light foxing or finger-soiling, contemporary sheep, rebacked, chipping and wear, [Cicognara 4132; Wing B916; Pine-Coffin 671], 8vo, printed for Tho. Flesher, at the Angel and Crown in S. Paul's Church-yard, 1679.

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Lot 161

NO RESERVE Marlowe (Christopher) The Works, 3 vol., half-titles, wreath device on titles, lacking and end of vol.3 (as often), 20th century half morocco, gilt, very light fading to spines, t.e.g., 8vo, William Pickering, 1826.⁂ The first collected edition of Marlowe's plays; this edition led to the restoration of the playwright's reputation.

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Lot 198

NO RESERVE Cole (G.D.H. and Margaret) The Blatchington Tangle, scattered spotting, spine a little faded, light rubbing and bumping to spine tips and corners, 1926 § Fielding (A.) The Footsteps that Stopped, spine a little sunned, light fraying to spine tips and corners, 1926 § Whitechurch (Victor L.) Shot on the Downs, light browning to endpapers, spine sunned, 1927 § Keate (E.M.) A Wild-Cat Scheme, upper cover a little spotted, light sunning to spine, dust-jacket, spine dulled, chipping and fraying to head and foot with portion of loss to upper panel, [1930], first editions, original cloth; and 8 others by the same and similar, detective fiction, 8vo (12)

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Lot 164

NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, engraved portrait frontispiece and 39 etched plates, lower hinge weak, contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, light rubbing to extremities, 1839; Bleak House, 2 vol., half-title, engraved frontispiece, title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne, occasional foxing or marginal toning to plates, some gatherings pulling, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 1853, first editions in book form; and 8 others, Dickens, 8vo (12)

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Lot 132

NO RESERVE Croker (Rev. Temple Henry), Thomas Williams, Samuel Clark and others. The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 3 vol., engraved frontispiece and 149 plates including 4 maps (Africa by G. Rollos, two America maps by Robert de Vaugondy), vol. 3 Q1 torn with loss to some text, occasional light foxing or browning, some light offsetting, ink ownership inscription to vol. 1 endpaper bookplates to font pastedowns, contemporary reverse calf, some splitting to joints ends, rubbed, folio, for Robinson and Roberts, 1773-75.⁂ Provenance: George Nash (ink inscription dated 1776 and bookplates).

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Lot 42

NO RESERVE Raleigh (Sir Walter) The Historie of the World in Five Bookes, title with engraved vignette portrait, 8 double-page engraved plates, with the initial "Minde of the Front" leaf but lacking engraved additional title, marginal worming, occasional damp-staining and light browning, contemporary calf, rebacked and partly recornered, with part of original spine laid down, gilt stamp to foot of spine corners worn, rubbed, new endpapers, [Wing R162], folio, [for Sam. Cartwright], [1652].⁂ Thomas William Chester Master (1841-1914, Conservative politician; gilt stamp to foot of spine).

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Lot 183

NO RESERVE Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) In Darkest Africa, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 4 maps (3 folding), folding table at end vol. 2., occasional light spotting, original decorative cloth, spines slightly darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, small patch of surface wear to vol.1 upper cover, but a good, bright set overall, [Hosken p.189], 8vo, 1890.

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Lot 83

NO RESERVE English Civil War.- Burnet (Gilbert) The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, etc. In which an Account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland, first edition, engraved portrait to half-title verso, engraved portrait of Charles I, vignette portrait to p. 380, full-page portrait to p. 416, without the 'Addenda' leaf inserted between a5 and a6, light soiling to title and margins, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, corners worn, [Wing B5832], by J. Grover, 1677; and 4 others, English Civil War, folio & 4to (5)

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Lot 59

NO RESERVE Glanvill (Joseph) The Vanity of Dogmatizing: or Confidence and Opinions Manifested in a Discourse of the Shortness and Uncertainty of our Knowledge, and its Causes; With Some Reflexions on Peripateticism; and an Apology for Philosophy, first edition, title in red and black, typographic ornaments in text, occasional light marginal staining, contemporary sheep, some repairing to spine ends, 8vo, [Wing G834; Krivatsy 4753], 8vo, E.C. for Henry Eversden, 1661.⁂ A good copy of Glanvill's first book, a plea for religious tolerance and an attack on Aristotelian philosophy. Scarce in commerce.

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Lot 14

NO RESERVE Bible, English. The Bible: That is, The Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament, 3 parts in 1 vol., double-column, general and New Testament titles within elaborated woodcut borders, woodcut illustrations, without the Apocrypha (2Q8 - 2*4), ?lacking preliminary following title, 3Q1 laid down, closely shaved at head and fore-margins, touching headlines and printed side-notes, occasional light damp-staining or soiling, ink notes to endpapers, later calf, rubbed and scuffed, [Herbert 3-6; STC 2213], small 4to, Robert Barker, 1610 [but 1611].

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Lot 67

NO RESERVE Glanvill (Joseph) The Way of Happiness: Represented in its Difficulties and Incouragments; and Cleared from many Popular and Dangerous Mistakes, first edition, with initial imprimatur f., M1 & 2 with printing flaw and tear running into text affecting a few letters, occasional light marginal soiling, later speckled calf, upper joint cracked, chipping and wear to spine ends and corners, extremities rubbed, [Wing G835], 8vo, by E. C[otes]. & A. C[larke]. 1670.⁂ Scarce.

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Lot 149

NO RESERVE Aristotle. The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Thomas Taylor, first edition in English, [one of 50 copies], light spotting, ink inscription to head of title, later half calf, extremities a little rubbed, 4to, for the translator, 1811.⁂ Part of Taylor's remarkable translation of the works of Aristotle, much of which was published in English for the first time. Taylor's translations would have a substantial impact on 19th century thought, influencing Blake, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth in the UK and many of the transcendentalists including Emerson and Blavatsky in the US. Provenance: Samuel Beverly Jones (haberdasher, married Taylor's eldest daughter Mary Meredith Taylor; his ink signature to head of title with later gift inscription above "George Tunstall from").

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Lot 181

NO RESERVE Binyon (Laurence) Niobe. Milton Prize Poem. Apposition. St. Paul's School, July 20, 1887, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to first page, some splitting to spine ends, [1887]; Joan of Arc. Milton Prize Poem. Apposition. St. Paul's School, July 25th, 1888, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to upper cover, [1888], original printed wrappers, folding creases, light creasing and surface soiling, 8vo (2)⁂ A pair of rare works by Binyon, likely his first publications, printed on occasion of his winning the poetry prize at St Paul's School while still a pupil. WorldCat lists only two copies of the fist (both in the US) and three of the second (one in the BL, the others in the US and Canada).

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Lot 89

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** NO RESERVE Stillingfleet (Edward) The Unreasonableness of Separation: Or. an Impartial Account of the History, Nature, and Pleas of the Present Separation From the Communion of the Church of England, first edition, occasional light browning, the odd rust-hole to text, signatures 3I - 3L misbound after 2Z4, ink inscription to endpaper, contemporary calf, extremities rubbed, [Wing S5675], by T. N., 1681 § Barrow (Isaac) A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy. To Which is Added a Discourse Concerning the Unity of the Church, engraved portrait frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, some light marginal toning, ink ownership inscription to head of title and recto of frontispiece, contemporary calf, repairs to spine and corners, wear to extremities, [Wing B961 & B932] by Miles Flesher, 1680 § Hall (Joseph) Contemplations upon the Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Holy Jesus, lacking final advertisement f., title a little soiled, shaved at head and laid down, light foxing or browning, T4-X1 lower margins restored, touching catch-words, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, wear to extremities, later endpapers, [Wing H376], by E. Flesher, 1679; and 3 others, similar, 4to (6)

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Lot 179

NO RESERVE Wilde (Oscar) Newdigate Prize Poem. Ravenna, first edition, original printed wrappers, upper cover with creasing to lower corner, some light toning to covers, otherwise excellent, [Mason 301], 8vo, Oxford, Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878.⁂ Wilde's first published book. "During a vacation ramble in 1877 he started for Greece, [and] visiting Ravenna by chance on the way, he obtained material for a poem on that ancient city, and singularly enough 'Ravenna' was afterwards given out as the topic for the Newdigate competition." (The Aesthetic Movement in England by Walter Hamilton, 1882.)

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Lot 36

NO RESERVE Symmons (Edward) A Vindication of King Charles: Or, a Loyal Subjects Duty. Manifested in Vindicting his Soveraigne from those Aspersions Cast Upon Him by certaine persons in a scandalous Libel, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials and head-pieces, occasional light damp-staining to upper margin, the odd spot or light marginal soiling but a good, clean copy generally, 18th century calf-backed boards, joints a little cracked, light rubbing, [Wing S6350A], small 4to, n.p., 1648.⁂ Symmons was chaplain to Charles I.

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Lot 97

[Locke (John)] A Letter Concerning Toleration, second edition, 6pp. advertisements, light surface soiling to title, for Awnsham Churchill, 1690 bound with A Second Letter concerning Toleration, first edition, half-title with advertisement to verso, for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1690 and A Third Letter for Toleration, first edition, half-title, with final errata/ advertisement f. (with chip to inner margin affecting 2 or 3 letters), for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1692, together 3 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting or light soiling, ink ownership inscriptions to front pastedown, near- contemporary panelled calf, lower joint cracked, upper joint repaired, later printed label to spine, some wear to corners, [Wing L2748, L2755 & L2765; Yolton 4, 25 & 27], 4to.⁂ A complete set of Locke's pleas and arguments in favour of religious toleration, written in the wake of the Edict of Nantes. Rare to find all three letters together in this manner. Provenance: Thomas Westcombe; Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; ink inscriptions).

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Lot 199

NO RESERVE Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, half-title, illustrations by Ernest Shepard, pictorial endpapers, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial pink cloth, gilt, very slight sunning to spine, dust-jacket, spine slightly darkened, light surface soiling, light creasing to head, small nick to one corners, an excellent copy, 8vo, 1928.

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Lot 51

NO RESERVE Oration.- Walker (Obadiah) Periamma Epidemion [graece]: or, Vulgar Errours in Practice Censured. Also the Art of Oratory, composed for the benefit of young students, 2 parts in 1 vol., with blank f. A1 between the two parts, general title ruled in red, woodcut ornaments to title, light soiling, occasional notes or underlining, earlier printed leaf used as endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown, 19th century half roan, upper joint cracked, extremities rubbed, [Wing W408], 8vo, Richard Royston, 1659.⁂ Provenance: Charles Edward Doble (1847-1914, Assistant Secretary to the Oxford University Press; bookplate).

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Lot 80

NO RESERVE [Glanvill (Joseph)] Seasonable Reflections and Discourses In Order to the Conviction , & Cure of the Scoffing, & Infidelity of a Denerate Age, first edition, lacking initial and final blanks, A4 with portion of loss to lower corner, affecting 2 or 3 words of text, light soiling to title, endpapers repaired, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, bookplates to pastedown, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, [Wing G830], 8vo, by R[obert]. W[hite]. for H. Mortlock, 1676.⁂ Glanvill's attack on nonconformists, scarce. Provenance: Elizabeth ?Fido (ink ownership inscription dated 1691); Fitzedward Hall (bookplate).

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Lot 170

NO RESERVE Arnold (Sir Edwin) Poems Narrative and Lyrical, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, ownership blind-stamp to dedication p. and ink stamp to endpaper, original blind-stamped cloth, light fading to spine, some light marking to covers, 8vo, Oxford, Francis Macpherson, 1853.⁂ Arnold's first book, preceded only by the pamphlet poem 'Belshazzar'.Provenance: J. Acklam, Wakefield St., Gravesend (presentation inscription and blind-stamp); J. W. Smith, Tunstall House, Surrey (ink stamp).

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Lot 48

NO RESERVE Gassendi (Pierre) The Mirrour of True Nobility & Gentility. Being the Life of the Renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk, Senator of the Parliament at Aix, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece (neatly laid down, corner repaired), lacking blank f. O8, light browning and occasional soiling, shaved at head affecting headlines and first word of title, some minor worming to lower margin, ink ownership inscription and bookplate to front pastedown, later calf, rebacked, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing G295], 8vo, J.Streater for Humphrey Moseley, 1657.⁂ Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) French astronomer and antiquary.Provenance: Charles Edward Doble (1847-1914, Assistant Secretary to the Oxford University Press; bookplate); Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; ink inscriptions).

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Lot 202

NO RESERVE Smith (Herbert Maynard) Inspector Frost's Jigsaw, light fading to spine, spine ends a little frayed, 1929; Inspector Frost in the City, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, jacket spine ends and corners chipped, creasing to head and foot, New York, 1930; Inspector Frost and Lady Brassingham, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, rubbing to extremities, [1930]; Inspector Frost and the Waverdale Fire, pencil note "Author's copy" to endpaper with list of page number with corrections below, a few pencil notes to margins indicating corrections, light sunning to spine, splitting to joints, corners a little bumped, 1931; Inspector Frost in Crevenna Cove, dust-jacket, 6/- price sticker to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some light surface soiling, 1933; Inspector Frost and the Whitbourne Murder, light browning to endpapers, light mottling to covers and spine, dust-jacket, spine browned, chipped, frayed and torn, 1939; Inspector Frost in the Background, second impression, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners chipped, 1941, first editions, original cloth; and 5 others by the same, including one with pencil corrections, 8vo (12)⁂ A complete run of Smith's scarce Inspector Frost series, all with the Maynard and Outram Smith Library ink stamp to endpaper.

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Lot 29

[Brathwait (Richard)] Novissima Tuba: Libellus, in sex dialogos apprimè Christianos, digestus, first edition, title with woodcut ornament and border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, with E5 imprimatur f. but lacking initial and final blanks, imprimatur f. with short tear to margin, a few ff. closely shaved at head, affecting headlines, some light damp-staining to head, ink ownership inscription to verso of dedication f., ink scribblings to title, dedication f. and blank margins and leaf versos, later green roan, spine chipped at head, scuffing and wear to covers, [STC 3575], 12mo, Felix Kyngston, 1632.⁂ A rare eschatological work by Brathwait, we can trace no copy at auction. Novissima Tuba ran to another Latin edition the following year and an English edition in 1635. All editions are rare with only the English edition appearing at auction in the last 70 years (John Nicholson, 5th March, 2003, £1,700).Provenance: Isaac Curtiss (ink ownership inscription dated 1689).

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Lot 174

NO RESERVE [Evans (Marian)], "George Eliot". Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, first edition, half-title, 16pp. Blackwood catalogue at end followed by 4pp. Carlyle advertisement, at end, gutter cracked with a few gatherings working loose, occasional spotting or light marginal soiling, contemporary ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original blind-stamped cloth ("A" binding), spine lettered and decorated in gilt, spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, light surface soiling, but a very good example overall, [Baker & Ross A.6.1.a], 8vo, William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.

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Lot 136

NO RESERVE Vertue (George) A Description Of Nine Historical Prints, Representing Kings, Queens, Princes, &c. Of The Tudor Family, 11 double-page engraved plates, final two plates window-mounted, the last with short repaired tear, occasional scattered foxing or light toning, 19th century half calf, joints cracked, spine chipped and worn, rubbed, folio, Society of Antiquaries of London, 1776.⁂ With two additional plates supplied at end: Van Dyke's portrait of Charles I and Henrietta Maria and "A View of the Courts of Wards and Liveries...".

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NO RESERVE Sanders (Nicholas) De origine ac progressu schismatis Anglicani libri tres, second edition, typographic ornament on title, woodcut initials and headpieces, publisher's woodcut device on final f., ink inscription and light soiling to title, occasional light foxing and marginal damp-staining, T6 with portion torn away from margin with loss to printed side-note, lower hinge largely broken, contemporary vellum, chipping to spine ends, toning to covers and spine, [EDIT 16 CNCE 26601], 8vo, Rome, Bartolomeo Bonfadino, 1586.⁂ First Rome edition of Sanders' history of the English Reformation.

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Lot 64

NO RESERVE Binding.- Bible, English. The Holy Bible. Containing the Old Testament and the New, 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved architectural title, light foxing and browning, occasional damp-staining, bookplate to endpaper, ink note of provenance loosely inserted, handsome contemporary black morocco elaborately tooled in gilt with a cottage-roof design, leafy sprays surmounted by tulip and floral heads, red and orange morocco onlays depicting tulips, acorns and floral designs, spine rubbed and faded, corners and spine ends a little worn, extremities rubbed, g.e., [Herbert 697; Wing B2277], 4to, Cambridge, John Field, 1668.⁂ Provenance: Henry Salt (bookplate with statement "Given by Harriet Black from the Library at No. 9 Russell Square"); Revd. Canon Maynard Smith (loosely inserted note, stating "in Remembrance of Janet Sarah Salt").

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Lot 103

NO RESERVE Voyages.- Dampier (William) A New Voyage Round the World, first edition, 5 engraved maps (4 folding), folding frontispiece wormed at lower margin, some marginal foxing or light soiling, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, early reback, splitting to head of upper joint, extremities a little worn, [Wing D161], 8vo, for James Knapton, 1697.⁂ Provenance: Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; his ink inscription).

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Lot 137

NO RESERVE Beaumont (Francis) and John Fletcher. The Dramatick Works..., 10 vol., half-titles, 54 engraved plates, some light offsetting, occasional light foxing or browning, vol. 3 P2 with tear running into text, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, extremities a little worn, 8vo, for T.Evans [&c.], 1778.

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Lot 71

NO RESERVE Gardening.- Rapin (Rene) Of Gardens, four Books ... now made English by J[OHN] E[velyn, the Younger], first edition in English, first issue, engraved arms of Lord Arlington on title and at head of dedication, table misbound after dedication, C1 with tear to lower margin, not affecting text, some light marginal browning, in ownership inscription to head of dedication and ink price to title, 20th century calf, spine a little faded, light rubbing to spin ends and corners, [Keynes 181; Wing R269], 8vo, by T[homas]. R[atcliffe]. & N[athaniel]. T[hompson]. for Thomas Collins and John Ford at the Middle-Temple Gate, and Benjamin Tooks [sic] at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1672.⁂ John Evelyn the Younger's first book, rare first issue with title dated 1672. We can trace no example of this issue at auction and only 6 copies listed on ESTC. Keynes states seeing the table in only the ULC copy. Provenance: Tho Boston Alnwick 1770 (ink inscription).

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Lot 177

NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol, reading edition, scattered spotting, original printed wrappers, some splitting to joints, chipping to spine ends, 1868; The Cricket on the Hearth, first edition, engraved frontispiece and additional title, illustrations, ink inscription to endpaper, original pictorial cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine slightly dulled, light bumping to spine ends and corners, 1846; and 3 others, first editions of The Battle for Life and Haunted Man and a reading edition of Poor Traveller, 8vo (5)

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Lot 167

NO RESERVE Thackeray (William Makepeace) Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, first edition, first issue with the suppressed woodcut of Marquis of Steyne on p. 336 and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on p. 453, etched frontispiece, additional vignette title-page, and 38 plates, wood-engraved vignettes throughout, lacking initial advertisement f., some light surface soiling to engraved title, but a remarkably clean copy otherwise, bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary green half calf, spine gilt in compartments, extremities a little rubbed, 1848; and 10 others by the same and Charles Lever, 8vo (11)

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Lot 30

NO RESERVE New Testament, Greek. He Kaine Diatheke [graece]. Novum Testamentum, Greek type, title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, occasional light foxing, very occasional ink notes to margins, ink ownership inscriptions and notes to endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, late 18th-century calf, upper joint broken, upper cover detached, wear to extremities, rubbed, [Willems 396], 12mo, Leiden, Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1633.⁂ Provenance: Henry Legge (armorial bookplate); Johannis...?Bunson, Decani Cicester A.D. 1885 (ink inscription); Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar, ink inscription dated "Trin. Coll. Oxon. 1885).

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Lot 10

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***NO RESERVE Florio (John) A Worlde of Wordes, or, Most copious, and exact dictionarie in Italian and English, first edition, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials and tail-piece, lacking initial and final blanks and K3&4, title a little soiled and with ink ownership inscription to head, first gathering with repair and restoration to lower corner, b1 with tear to corner running into text, light damp-staining, worming to lower margin, ink names to endpapers, 19th century half calf, covers mottled, extremities a little rubbed, [STC 11098], small folio, by Arnold Hatfield for Edward Blount, 1598.⁂ The first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary, notable for containing one of the earliest printed references to cricket. On p. 370, 'Sgrillare' is explained as "to make a noise as a cricket, to play cricket-a-wicket, and be merry".Provenance: John Bayman; Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; ink inscriptions).

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Lot 7

NO RESERVE Erasmus (Desiderius) Epitome adagiorum... in locos digesta communes, singulari fide recognita et multis aucta locis, in quibus antea manca videbatur, title soiled and with repair to upper margin, final errata f., lacking blank a1, occasional light marginal soiling, the odd preliminary f. closely shaved at head, modern cloth, 8vo, Paris, Gilles Beys, 1583.⁂ Rare enlarged Paris edition, printed by Plantin's son-in-law.

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Lot 134

NO RESERVE Ashmole (Elias) and WIlliam Lilly. The Lives of those Eminent Antiquaries, Elias Ashmole... and Mr William Lilly, Written by Themselves, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, light offsetting, armorial bookplate of Sir Edmund Antorbus to front pastedown, contemporary calf, joints cracked, rubbed and worn, T. Davies, 1774 § Fell (John) The Life of the most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dr H. Hammond, second edition, upper margin of title cut away, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, new endpapers, [WIng F618], J. Flesher, 1662; and 33 others, biographies and similar, v.s. (35)

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Lot 194

NO RESERVE Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Lost World, first edition, plates, some scatter spotting, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine a little darkened and with vertical crease, light marking to covers, extremities a little rubbed, [1912]; and 5 others by Robert Louis Stevenson, 8vo (6)

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Lot 195

NO RESERVE Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 3 vol., number 193 of 500 copies on hand-made Riccardi paper, titles in blue and black, tipped-in colour plates after watercolours by Sir William Russell Flint, captioned tissue guards, original limp vellum, gilt, with ties, t.e.g., others uncut, light soiling, card slip-cases (a little faded, some splitting to joints), 4to, Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society Ltd., 1913.

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Lot 12

NO RESERVE London.- Stow (John) A Survay of London. Conteyning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that City, second edition, largely black letter, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials and illustrations, with 2P3 errata but lacking final blank f., title mounted on stuf with corners restored, light browning and soiling throughout, closely shaved affecting a few printed side-notes and headlines, ink ownership inscriptions and notes to endpapers, 20th century calf with old calf covers laid down, [Pforzheimer 993; STC 23343], small 4to, by John Windet, 1603.⁂ "This is the last edition corrected and augmented by Stow." - Pforzheimer.Provenance: Smith family (ink inscriptions with dates from 1730 to 1897); Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; his ink inscription).

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Lot 35

NO RESERVE Archaeology.- Smith (Joannes) Oppidum batavorum, seu Noviomagum, folding engraved plate, illustration in text, library marking to endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, light soiling, small 4to, Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1645.⁂ Provenance: R.P.L. Booker (Eton Housemaster and antiquarian).

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Lot 43

NO RESERVE Luther (Martin) Dris Martini Lutheri colloquia mensalia: or, Dr Martin Luther's divine discourses at his table, &c. Which in his life time hee held with divers learned men, first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece (trimmed and laid down with some loss to extremities), title in red and black and with small woodcut device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, title a little soiled and laid down, internal tears to 2Q5 and 2Y1, final f. creased, torn and repaired with loss to a few letters of text, occasional light staining or soiling, later calf-backed vellum, joints cracked, a little soiled, [Wing L3510], folio, Printed by William Du-Gard, 1652

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Lot 38

NO RESERVE Gauden (John) Eikon Basilike [graece]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie, with final blank, lacking frontispiece portrait (supplied in 19th century pen and ink facsimile), B6 and K12 with large chip causing loss to several words, light soiling to title, some light foxing, ink note of provenance tipped in at front, 20th century morocco, spine gilt, g.e., [Madan 5; Wing E279], 12mo, [by Thomas Warren], 1648 [but 1649].⁂ An early and scarce edition. Provenance: "I have given this book... to Rev. H. Maynard Smith... George F. Hooper" (ink note).

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Lot 169

NO RESERVE Arnold (Sir Edwin) The Feast of Belshazzar. A Prize Poem, first edition, short tear and patch of toning to foot of title, original wrappers, short tear and chip to upper wrapper, light surface soiling, Oxford, 1852; The Light of Asia or the Great Renunciation, frontispiece, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, spine darkened, rubbing and surface soiling, 1885; and another by the same, 8vo (3)

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Lot 130

NO RESERVE Milton (John) Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books, engraved portrait frontispiece and 12 plates, some light offsetting, lacking index f. T1, ink inscription to endpaper, 19th century half calf, rubbed, C. Hitch and L. Hawes &c., 1760; The Poetical Works, 4 vol., half-titles, each with portion excised from front free endpaper, 19th century half morocco, Oxford, 1824; and c.35 others, literature, v.s. (c.40)

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Lot 63

NO RESERVE Royal Society.- Glanvill (Joseph) Plus Ultra: or, the Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the days of Aristotle, first edition, imprimatur leaf at beginning and advertisement leaf at end, repaired tears to head of E2 and F2, light marginal toning, 20th century half calf, [Wing G820], 8vo, for James Collins, 1668.⁂ In his argument in favour of the Royal Society, the recently-elected Glanvill says that the Society has done more to advance useful knowledge in a few years ''than all the Philosophers of the Notional way, since Aristotle opened his shop in Greece''.

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Lot 22

NO RESERVE World.- Heylyn (Peter) Mikrokosmos [graece]. A Little Description of the Great World, third edition, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, folding table, table (2¶1-2*2) misbound at end, title creased, ink names to rear endpapers, contemporary calf, chip to lower joint, light marking, a very good, clean copy, [STC 13278; Sabin 31636], small 4to, Oxford, 1627.⁂ One of many quarto and folio editions of this popular early geography, the most commonly used source of information about the rest of the world used in England at the time. Heylyn (1600-62) , a "bluster-master" according to his enemy John Hacket, annoyed King James I by saying in the first edition of this work that 'France is the greater and more famous Kingdom than England'; 'is' was a misprint for 'was' he claimed, and the passage referred to the time of Edward III, but he wisely removed it from later editions.Provenance: William ?Prime; William James Canter (ink inscriptions).

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Lot 104

NO RESERVE Pope (Walter) The life of the Right Reverend Father in God seth, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, first edition, with 2pp. advertisements at end, lacking errata slip, light soiling to title, some light marginal staining, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, retaining original backstrip, later endpapers, [Wing P2911], 8vo, for William Keblewhite, 1697.

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Lot 180

NO RESERVE Irving (Washington) The Works..., 17 vol., engraved frontispieces, some light offsetting, handsome 19th century half calf, gilt, spines gilt in compartments with brown and green morocco labels, light rubbing to extremities, 8vo, 1879.⁂ An attractive set of Irving's works including the 1864 edition of his Life and Letters and the 1879 edition of his life of George Washington.

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Lot 141

NO RESERVE Economics.- Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vol., fourth edition, occasional scattered foxing and light browning, contemporary speckled calf, early reback, spine rubbed, corners a little worn, later endpapers, [Goldsmiths' 13148; Kress B1129], 8vo, for A.Strahan and T.Cadell, 1786.⁂ "The Wealth of Nations is not a system, but as a provisional analysis it is completely convincing. The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" - PMM.

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Lot 117

NO RESERVE Roma.- Donati (Vitaliano) Roma vetus ac recens utriusque aedificiis ad eruditam cognitionem expositis, 4 folding engraved plans, numerous engraved illustrations, many full-page, lacking final blank, without 2A6 (as often), occasional light foxing or browning, occasional worming to fore-margins, 19th century half roan, splitting to joint ends, extremities rubbed and scuffed, 4to, Rome, Rubeis Brothers, 1725.⁂ A6 not present in other copies and possibly a cancel.

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Lot 73

NO RESERVE Baxter (Richard) A Christian Directory: or, a Summ of Practical Theologie, and Cases of Conscience, 4 parts in 1 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional title, first few gatherings with repairs to upper margin, gatherings 3N & 3O with restored hole to text, lettered supplied in manuscript, the odd small rust-hole or short marginal tear, occasional light damp-staining, ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers, 18th century calf, upper cover detached, spine chipped and worn, corners worn, rubbed, [WIng B1219], folio, by Richard White, 1673.⁂ Provenance: John Fowell Jones (1792-1877, Oxford alumnus and ecclesiastic); Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; ink inscriptions).

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Lot 88

NO RESERVE Heylyn (Peter) Keimelia Ekklesiastika [graece]. The Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, engraved portrait frontispiece, occasional light browning, "Medley" armorial bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, corners worn, [WIng H1680], by M. Clark, for Charles Harper, 1681; and 2 others by Heylyn, folio (3)

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Lot 144

NO RESERVE Coleridge (Samuel Taylor).- [Chatterton (Thomas)] Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley...in the Fifteenth Century, engraved additional title, 1 plate, spotting to engraved title, very occasional light browning, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, 19th century half calf, spine ends and corners chipped and bumped, rubbed, [Rothschild 590], 8vo, Cambridge, B.Flower, for the editor, 1794.⁂ First Cambridge edition of this notorious Chatterton hoax. This edition was the first to contain Coleridge's Monody on the Death of Chatterton, his second appearance in print.

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NO RESERVE New Testament, Greek. Tēs Kainēs diathēkēs hapanta [graece]. Novi Testamenti libri omne, title within woodcut border with anchor device, woodcut initials and headpieces, light foxing damp-staining, shaved at head, affecting a few headlines, ink inscriptions to endpapers, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, [Gilmont 3233], small 8vo, [Geneva], Eustache Vignon, 1587.⁂ Provenance: "To the Rev. William C. Blundell from T. W. C."; Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; ink inscriptions).

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Lot 27

NO RESERVE Europe.- Barclay (John) The Mirrour of Mindes, or Barclay's Icon Animorum, translated by Thomas May, first edition in English, with initial and final blanks and blank P6, 2E3 with tear running into text, occasional light browning, a few ff. shaved at head, affecting headlines, some light marginal damp-staining, ink ownership inscriptions to initial blank and endpapers, 19th century vellum, [STC 1399], 12mo, by John Norton, 1631.⁂ Scarce. Discusses the people of the principal nations of Europe: their merits, failings, habits and customs of thought and behaviour.Provenance: Will. Frankland (early ink ownership inscription); Henry Layard Smith (1869-1949, author and Evelyn scholar; his ink ownership inscription).

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Lot 152

NO RESERVE Britain.- Cary (John) Cary's Traveller's Companion or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales, engraved title, general map and 42 county maps, hand-colour in outline, that or Yorkshire large and folding, 1814 bound with Cary's new Itinerary or an accurate delineation of the great roads both direct and cross throughout England and Wales, sixth edition, engraved title, dedication, folding map of England and Wales (torn near fold) and six folding region maps with contemporary hand-colouring, 1815, together 2 works in 1 vol., some light offsetting and occasional browning, later half calf, lacking spine, covers becoming detached, corners worn, 8vo.

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Lot 66

NO RESERVE Classics.- Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus) De consolatione philosophiae libri V., engraved title, light staining, modern calf, Amsterdam, Blaeu, 1668 § Kennett (Basil) Romae Antique Notitia: or, the Antiquities of Rome, tenth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 14 plates, some folding, occasional light browning, ink ownership inscription of Robert Hale dated 1739 to endpaper, contemporary calf, rubbed, for J. and P. Knapton, 1737; and 9 others, similar, 8vo & 12mo (11)

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Lot 189

NO RESERVE Austen (Jane) Pride and Prejudice, reprint, half-title, the frontispiece, title, illustrations, head- and tail-pieces, initials and decorations by Hugh Thomson, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial green cloth, gilt, with peacock design to upper cover and peacock feathers to spine, slightly cocked, light sunning to spine, spine ends a little bumped, t.e.g., 8vo, George Allen,1906.

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Lot 105

NO RESERVE Theatre.- Collier (Jeremy) A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage, first edition, title with portion restored at head, spotting and light browning, etched bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary black morocco, gilt, possibly a remboitage, extremities a little rubbed, g.e., [Pforzheimer 189; WIng C5263], 8vo, for S. Keble &c., 1698.⁂ Collier's famous attack on the English stage that began a small pamphlet war with John Vanbrugh. This copy includes a poem in an 18th century hand to the rear endpaper:John Dryden enemies had three;Sr. Dick, Old Nick & Jeremy.Agt. the first he kept the Field,And made the Doctor soon to yield.And, had's Life been holier,He'd beat the Devil and ye. Collier.

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