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Lot 1868
A Mahogany cased light and dark wood strung 8 day Longcase CLock having door flanked by mirrored spirals, the arched painted face with Roman numerals having a rolling moon phase dial to the arch, inset second hand below the 12 o'clock position and semi-circular calendar window, decorated to the corners with follies/castles. Weights and pendulum and door key and winder present but movement requires attention. Striking the hours on a bell. Maker R. Fox Pontypool, 87'' approx. to top of finial
Lot 104
Binding.- The book of common-prayer and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England, engraved portrait frontispiece and 48 (of 50) engraved plates, imprimatur f. with woodcut arms at end, C11 very small section torn away, affecting a few letters, sig. I stained, occasional spotting, some light staining, new endpapers, handsome 18th century red crushed morocco, richly gilt, covers with centre-pieces incorporating crossed arrows or spears, some with flags, within a series of borders of different designs, with corner-pieces similar in design to centre-pieces, spine in 5 compartments, vase motif enclosed by floral decoration to all but 2 compartments, the other repeating cover border designs, very small hole near foot of spine, little rubbed, [Wing B3647], 12mo (binding 155 x 91mm.), Printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1676.⁂ A rare edition (ESTC records only one copy (BL)) in a handsome binding.
Lot 107
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, edited by Thomas Speight, double column, mostly black letter, engraved frontispiece incorporating a portrait of Chaucer after John Speed, large woodcut arms to second title (c1, but missigned 'd'), small woodcut arms within text, 7-line cancel slip pasted over bottom right-hand stanza on p. 42, ci ('d') misbound after title, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, hinges strengthened, 19th century half calf, sympathetically rebacked, corners worn, covers little marked, in all a solid copy, [Pforzheimer 179; Wing C3736], folio, no printer, 1687.⁂ The last black-letter edition, which includes the recently discovered conclusions to the Cook's Tale and the Squire's Tale. The final 12 ff. contain a glossary and 'names of Authors cited by G. Chaucer in his Works'.
Lot 110
Irish binding.- Juvenal. Decii junii juvenalis et auli persii, title in red and black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, engraved armorial presentation bookplate, lacking engraved frontispiece, a4 small section torn away from fore-margin, affecting a few letters, library stamp and ink writing to verso of title, occasional light foxing or staining, marbled endpapers, handsome contemporary red morocco prize binding for Trinity College, Dublin, richly gilt, large arms of Trinity College to covers within double borders, spine in compartments and richly decorated with various tools and with a black morocco label, rubbed and marked, g.e., 12mo (binding 132 x 82mm.), Dublin, George Grierson, 1728.⁂ As with other morocco bound volumes commissioned for presentation by Trinity College this volume displays at least one feature of the 'Worth Binder' (RII, p.281, McDonnell & Healy, Gold-tooled bookbindings commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century). Given the use of the fourth iteration of the College's armorial supra-libros (1744), and the understanding that the binding shop that produced work for Sir Edward Worth 'underwent a change' in 1733, we can only assume that the earlier roll was reused by a fellow Dublin binder.Provenance: 'John Radcliff T: C: D' (ink inscription); Hammersmith Libraries, Samuel Martin bequest (ink stamp and inscription to verso of title).
Lot 111
Machiavelli (Niccolò) The Works..., translated and edited by Ellis Farneworth, 2 vol., vol.2 with one folding engraved plan of encampment and 7 folding letterpress battle plans, engraved bookplate to verso of titles (partly removed), light spotting & soiling to first and last leaves, small tear to 2I1 of vol.1 affecting a couple of letters but no loss, with extract from 'The Monthly Review' for September 1762 pp.161-172 containing a review of the work loosely inserted, modern ink inscription to front free endpapers, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, corners a little worn, rebacked preserving old red morocco labels, unobtrusive repairs to lower cover of vol.2, 4to, for Thomas Davies [& others], 1762.⁂ First Ellis Farneworth edition, one of 500 copies according to the printer Bowyer's records. Farneworth apparently hawked it around London in an attempt to support himself and his two sisters, to little avail as he died the following year.
Lot 112
Waterways.- Whitworth (Richard) The advantages of inland navigation; or, some observations Offered To The Public, to shew that an inland navigation may be easily effected between the three great ports of Bristol, Liverpool, and Hull, first edition, folding engraved frontispiece portrait of the Duke of Bridgewater, large folding engraved plan, hand-coloured in outline, 4 folding letterpress tables of furnaces & forges, manufactures & merchandizes, expenses, & landowners, portrait offsetting on to title, some mostly light foxing, occasional light staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip in compartments, lower joint starting at foot, but holding firm, rubbed, 8vo, Printed for R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-Noster Row, 1766.⁂ Rare work at auction. On the use of canals and rivers to transport goods. Whitworth was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1758-9 and MP for Stafford from 1768 to 1780. Provenance: 'To Sir Thos. Broughton Bart., Staffordshire' (ink inscription to front free endpaper and engraved armorial bookplate of Doddington Library to front pastedown). He was a landowner, who is mentioned in the printed tables.
Lot 114
Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., first edition, first issue of vol.1 with errata uncorrected, [one of 500 copies], half-titles (that in vol.2 supplied from another copy), engraved portrait after Reynolds and 3 folding engraved maps, with all cancels and errata as called for, vol.1 with neat contemporary ink annotations, portrait foxed and offset onto title, light water-stain to lower outer corner, some foxing, Z1 & 2 in vol.5 bound in wrong order, contemporary calf, rubbed, rather worn at edges and corners, rebacked, [PMM 222; Rothschild 942], 4to, for W.Strahan; and T.Cadell, 1776-88.⁂ One of the world's great historical works, rare with vol.1 in first state. 500 further copies were quickly printed as the work sold out in a few days. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works...Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day; and the result was clothed in inimitable prose". (PMM)
Lot 115
Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of) Miscellaneous Works, 3 vol. in 2, first edition, half-titles, 7 engraved portraits, engraved plate of the widowed Countess with urn by Bartolozzi after Cipriani (water-stained at head), tissue guards, vol.1 with Directions to Binder leaf at end and mark across 2N3 & 4, vol.3 with tear to K1 but no loss, some light spotting (mostly to vol.3), engraved bookplate of Voltelin Heath and signature to front pastedowns, contemporary diced calf, gilt, spines gilt with red and green labels, rubbed and slightly stained, some repairs, 4to, for Edward and Charles Dilly, vol.3 by and for T.Sherlock [& others] , 1777-78.⁂ A sound set with good margins, unusually bound up with the scarce third volume. The editor, Maty, died whilst preparing the work so the first two volumes were issued by Dilly, and the final volume edited by his son-in-law John Obadiah Justamond and published by Sherlock. ESTC records only 5 UK copies of the third volume.
Lot 12
Arms & Armour.- Schrenk von Notzing (Jacob) Der Aller Durchleuchtigisyen und Grobmächtigen Kayser... Königen und Ertzhertzogen..., title with small woodcut arms, engraved portrait of Ferdinand II of Tirol and 121 (of 125) full-page engraved portraits of notable men in armour, all text within ornate woodcut borders featuring various pieces of arms and armour, a few short marginal tears, occasional spotting and light staining, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over boards, a few very small holes, soiled and rubbed, [Lipperheide 499; VD17 23:266204Y], folio (480 x 346mm.), Innsbruck, Daniel Baur, [1603].
Lot 124
Austen (Jane) Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield-Park" &c. With a Biographical Notice of he Author, 4 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles in all vol. and final two blanks in vol. 4, foxing, some light browning, modern red half-morocco, gilt, spines in compartments, g.e., [Gilson A9], 8vo, John Murray, 1818.⁂ First edition of both novels, published posthumously. Northanger Abbey, a Gothic novel parody, had been drafted fifteen years earlier under a working title of 'Susan', but was abandoned when another novel of the same name appeared in 1809. Persuasion was completed by Austen in the summer of 1816, shortly before she was forced to stop writing due to ill-health.
![Austen (Jane) Pride and Prejudice, A Novel, 2 vol., occasional spotting, [Gilson E3], H.G. Clarke and Co., 66 Old Bailey, 184](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c4c3e896-3dcc-41ec-9d49-ac2500c71570/5125e61c-6d8a-4bfe-b66e-ac2600c00626/468x382.jpg)
Lot 127
Austen (Jane) Pride and Prejudice, A Novel, 2 vol., occasional spotting, [Gilson E3], H.G. Clarke and Co., 66 Old Bailey, 1844; Sense and Sensibilty, A Novel, 2 vol., vol.2 D2 fore-margin trimmed, both vol. occasional spotting or mostly light foxing (more pronounced to title of vol.1), [Gilson E2], H.G. Clarke and Co., 66 Old Bailey, 1844, together 4 vol., charming upper chromolithographed and gilt wrappers bound in to each vol., foxed verso, with minimal show through, uniformly bound in contemporary dark green half calf, gilt spines in compartments and with red morocco labels, vol 2 of P&P rebacked to style, S&S rebacked, preserving original backstrips, these little chipped at head and marked, all vol. rubbed, small 8vo (4)⁂ Rare editions. 'No copy has been seen in original wrappers' (Gilson).
Lot 136
Wilde (Oscar) The Sphinx, first edition, one of 200 copies, printed in green, red and black, illustrations by Charles Ricketts, bookplate to paste down, occasional light sprinkled spotting, original vellum, gilt with designs by Ricketts, small portion of discolouration to lower cover, very light foxing, else a bright copy, Elkin Mathews and John Lane, The Bodley Head, 4to, 1894.⁂ Rare first edition of one of the landmarks of 1890s book production, overseen at the author's request by his friend the artist and typographer Charles Ricketts. Ricketts considered the designs for the illustrations and for the binding amongst his best illustrative work. The Pall Mall Budget reviewed, "The vellum binding, the various symbolic designs, the quaint rubicated initials and the general arrangement of the text, all by Mr Rickett's sympathetic art, are most subtly infused by the spirit of the poem. The designs on the cover are particularly striking, and Mr Ricketts has never made a lovelier thing than the group of maidens clustering round "the moon horned Io" as she weeps." (21 June, 1894)
Lot 160
Symmetry.- Beerbohm (Max) Portrait of a Lady, sepia ink symmetrical drawing, signed and dated '1919' in the lower right corner, further inscribed lower left, sheet 315 x 207 mm (12 1/4 x 8 1/8 in), under glass, minor surface dirt and light browning, framed, 1917 Provenance:Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd., The Leicester Galleries;Mrs. M. G. McleanExhibited:The Leicester Galleries, Max Beerbohm, May 1921⁂ The symmetrical folding technique employed appears to have been a method that Beerbohm utilised in a very similar drawing 'Saturday Afternoon', which is now held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (see acc. no. 1978.590.3).
![Sassoon, Siegfried.- Whistler (Rex) "!", [Young girl running from the woods], pen and brown and black inks, pencil and waterc](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c4c3e896-3dcc-41ec-9d49-ac2500c71570/dba56e57-b3f9-4180-88d8-ac2600bf4a99/468x382.jpg)
Lot 161
Sassoon, Siegfried.- Whistler (Rex) "!", [Young girl running from the woods], pen and brown and black inks, pencil and watercolour, on wove paper laid onto paper support, the support inscribed and attributed to Whistler in Sassoon's hand, sheet 225 x 160 mm (9 5/8 x 5 7/8 in), under glass, lower edge irregularly trimmed, minor surface dirt and light browning, framed [probably circa 1930-1950 or slightly later]Provenance:Siegfried Sassoon:Sale. Sotheby's, Books and Manuscripts from The Library of Siegfried Sassoon, 18th July 1991 [Part lot]
Lot 162
Sassoon, Siegfried.- Whistler (Rex) "The Host", pen and brown ink, pencil and watercolour, on wove paper laid onto paper support, the support inscribed and attributed to Whistler in Sassoon's hand, sheet 245 x 150 mm (9 5/8 x 5 7/8 in), under glass, minor surface dirt and light browning, framed [probably circa 1930-1950]Provenance:Siegfried Sassoon:Sale. Sotheby's, Books and Manuscripts from The Library of Siegfried Sassoon, 18th July 1991 [Part lot]
Lot 18
Morin (Jacques) Les Armes & Blasons des Chevaliers de l'Ordre du Sainct Esprit creez par Louys XIII Roy de France et de Navarre, engraved architectural title with panel depicting the presentation of the book to the King, 78 engraved illustrations of arms, privilege leaf at end, light water-staining, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, a little rubbed and soiled, small folio, Paris, Pierre Firens, [1623].
Lot 182
Jones (Inigo) The Designs...consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings. Published by William Kent, with some Additional Designs, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, lacking half-title (as often) but with engraved allegorical frontispiece (also often missing), with engraved title-vignettes incorporating portrait of Inigo Jones and head- & tail-pieces and initials, list of subscribers, 97 engraved plates by Fourdrinier and others, 29 double-page or folding, some light browning or spotting, the latter mostly marginal, one plate with small tears to outer margin repaired, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, uncut, rubbed, spine a little worn with some minor repairs, preserved in later morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, joints worn with splits, [Fowler 162, lacking frontispiece; Harris 385; Millard, British 34, lacking half-title; RIBA 1624, lacking half-title and frontispiece], folio, 1727.⁂ A fine untrimmed copy. The list of subscribers includes the Earl of Burlington (12 copies), Charles Bridgman, Colen Campbell, James Gibbs, and Nicholas Hawksmoor."The Designs of Inigo Jones is an impressive and important book. Yet oddly enough more influential than any single building depicted in it were its plates of doors, windows, niches, etc. These plates seem to have had a formative effect upon Gibbs's Book of Architecture (1728) and from that point on became a standard feature of eighteenth-century pattern books" (Harris).
Lot 192
Raoul-Rochette (Désiré) Sur L'Érechthéum de l'Acropole d'Athènes: Deux Dissertations de Fr.Thiersch, 2 folding plans at end, 1851; Sur la Topographie d'Athènes, 1852, together2 works in 1 vol., each one of only 25 copies, presentation copies from the author inscribed to "savant confrère Monsieur L. de La Borde" at head of upper wrappers, light foxing, later half red morocco, original printed upper wrappers bound in, spine gilt in compartments with coronetted monogram of the Marquis de Laborde, boards slightly rubbed and faded, [Not in Blackmer], 4to, Paris⁂ Two book-length articles by the French archaeologist, reviewing recent publications on the monuments and topography of Athens, both in very limited editions and inscribed to his friend Léon de Laborde.Marquis Léon de Laborde (1807-1869, French archaeologist, traveller, and diplomat. He was one of the first Europeans to describe Petra and in 1844 he visited Greece to collect material for an unpublished study of the Parthenon.
![Wiedewelt (Johannes) Samling af Aegyptiske og Romerske Oldsager, I.Deel [all published], first edition, engraved pictorial ti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c4c3e896-3dcc-41ec-9d49-ac2500c71570/75ab5496-ba14-4b6d-95b4-ac2600bf136c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 194
Wiedewelt (Johannes) Samling af Aegyptiske og Romerske Oldsager, I.Deel [all published], first edition, engraved pictorial title and 27 plates, contemporary ink inscription to foot of title, light water-staining to upper outer corner sometimes extending into plate-mark but not affecting images, occasional spotting or soiling, a few leaves reinforced at fore-edge, contemporary half sheep, rubbed, corners and spine a little worn, [Blackmer 1793], folio, Copenhagen, N.Möller, 1786.⁂ Featuring Egyptian and Roman antiquities in the royal collection in Copenhagen, by the Danish neo-classical sculptor Wiedewelt.
Lot 20
Dottori (Carlo de') Aristodemo Tragedia, first edition, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, some light staining and spotting, 19th century calf-backed boards, spine gilt, rubbed, [Salvioli 356; Allacci 110], small 4to, Padua, Matteo Cardorino, 1657.⁂ Rare first edition of this drama, called by Peter Broad in The Cambridge History of Italian Literature the 'acknowledged masterpiece of Seicento tragedy' (pp.331-332, Cambridge, 1999). It was first performed on 31st May, 1655 by twelve Paduan gentlemen, with Sertorio Orsato taking the lead role.
Lot 204
China.- Dods (George, Acting Colonial Surgeon in Hong Kong, 1836-1909) Album of original drawings and watercolours of Macao and Canton (Guangzhou), and their environs, including approximately 40 studies, possibly by several hands, of which three are double-page landscape views of the 'Canton River', the harbour 'Opposite Macao', and 'Tiger Island', alongside two fully worked watercolour views, one of 'Canton', the other of sailing ship "Beagle", as well as numerous sketches and studies of locals, local scenes, and the artist's friends, many executed in the manner of George Chinnery, pencil, watercolours, many sheets inscribed with locations, on Chinese handmade laid paper, each leaf approx. 160 x 230 mm (6 1/4 x 9 in), some leaves loose from binding, occasional minor surface dirt, some spotting and light browning, bears owners ink inscription to front free endpaper 'GDods/ Canton 1862-3-4', contemporary half calf, marbled boards, linen ties, rubbed and scuffed, worn, oblong 8vo, [circa 1860s]⁂ A visual document of one Colonial Officer's experience of China in the 1860s.
Lot 208
Hawaii.- Fornander (Abraham) and Thomas Thrum. Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore, 9 parts in 3 vol., being Vols IV-VI of the Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, text in Hawaiian and English, some light soiling to titles, attractive 20th century half calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels, original wrappers bound in (some a creased), uncut, 4to, Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1916-20.⁂ First edition of this important foundational work, rare as a complete set. Fornander was a Swedish-born emigrant to Hawaii who spent some time as a whaler and journalist before becoming a respected judge on the Circuit Court. He devoted much of his spare time to his ethnographic studies of the Hawaiian race; on his death in 1887 his voluminous research passed to the Bishop Museum who eventually ensured their publication.
Lot 210
Holy Land.- Frith (Francis) Sinai and Palestine, 12 original parts, 37 mounted albumen prints including smaller print on title, most c.230 x 165mm. or vice versa, tissue guards, one of two a little faded, light foxing or soiling to some mounts, first mount with light water-staining to outer edge, original printed pale grey wrappers, most split and slightly frayed at spine with contents loose, part 6 with tear to upper cover, part 12 foxed and soiled, [Gernsheim, Incunabula 195; cf. Blackmer 1942], folio, 1862.⁂ The "best edition" of Frith's Holy Land views; very rare in the original parts. "The prints in this edition are of a much stronger quality than those in the first edition having been gold-toned". (Gernsheim). The views include Jerusalem, Nazareth, Damascus, Gaza, the Sinai peninsula, etc.
Lot 217
Pacific.- Beasley (H. G.) Pacific Islands Records: Fish Hooks, edited by Thomas A. Joyce, first edition, one of 250 copies, this out-of-series, plates and illustrations, occasional light foxing, original cloth, lettered in gilt, very light fading to spine, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, light marking or finger-soiling to covers, but a very good copy overall, 4to, 1928.⁂ Rare, the definitive work on the subject, based on Beasley's own collection, includes fish hooks from Hawaii, Fiji, Tahiti, Easter Island and elsewhere.
![Turkey.- [Dalvimart (Octavien)] The Military Costume of Turkey, first edition, large paper copy, half-title, hand-coloured en](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c4c3e896-3dcc-41ec-9d49-ac2500c71570/6c730f20-614b-4d58-96c9-ac2600c06f5e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 220
Turkey.- [Dalvimart (Octavien)] The Military Costume of Turkey, first edition, large paper copy, half-title, hand-coloured engraved portrait frontispiece by Thomas Charles Wageman, hand-coloured aquatint additional vignette title and 29 plates (watermarked 'J Whatman 1816') by J.H. Clark, each with letter-press description f. (watermarked W Balston 1813; additional title is counted as plate 1), portrait / additional title all but loose, small worm trace to inner gutter of first few ff., offsetting to portrait / title, light water-staining to some lower corners, some spotting and light staining, original boards, original printed paper label to upper cover (stating that a large paper copy), rebacked with later cloth, edges worn, scuffed and stained, label scuffed with loss,[Colas 2059; Lipperheide 2388; cf. Abbey, Travel, 373 & Blackmer 1125], B.R. Howlett for T. McLean, 1818.
Lot 221
Voyages.- Journal of a Voyage Round the World (A), in His Majesty's Ship The Dolphin, Commanded by the Honourable Commodore Byron, in which is Contained... an exact Description of the Streights of Magellan, and of the Gigantic People called Patagonians. Together with an accurate Account of the Seven Islands lately discovered in the South Seas, occasional light spotting or soiling, ink ownership inscription "Chas. Walker" dated 1786 and ownership blindstamp of T. M. Ramsay to endpapers, contemporary sheep, rebacked, corners bumped, for A. Millar and J. Hodges, 1784.⁂ A rare voyage, ESTC lists only 5 known copies of this imprint (Indiana, Brown and Minnesota Universities, Alexander Turnbull Library).
Lot 222
Voyages.- Nicol (John) The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, damp-staining to title and frontispiece, occasional light spotting or finger-soiling, modern half calf, spine gilt in compartments with naval motifs, [Ferguson 875; Sabin 55241], 12mo, Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1822.⁂ Includes accounts of his visit to the Hawaiian Islands and life aboard a South Sea Whaler, also contains one of the only accounts of the "Second Fleet" voyage to Australia carrying 245 female convicts.
Lot 227
Fishes.- Artedi (Petrus) Ichthyologia sive opera omnia de piscibus, edited by Carl Linnaeus, 5 parts in 1 vol., first edition, woodcut ornaments to some titles, light blue ink stains to lower margins of first few sigs., diminishing in size, some mostly light browning (heavier in a few instances), occasional spotting or staining, contemporary half calf, spine in compartments, spine neatly repaired, corners worn, rubbed, [Waller 11771; Wood p.204], 8vo, Leiden, Conrad Wishoff, 1738.⁂ 'this taxonomically most important work assured Artedi the honor of being the father of the science of ichthyology.' (DSB). The first fully scientific survey of fish, published by Linnaeus, after the untimely death of his close friend the author. It contains a biography of the author by Linnaeus.
Lot 23
Tessereau (Abraham) Histoire Chronologique de la Grande Chancelerie de France, first edition, engraved title vignette and head-piece and initial to dedication, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and decorative initials, errata/privilege leaf at end, no 3Q4 but pagination continuous, light marginal water-staining at beginning and end, occasional spotting, contemporary red morocco with triple gilt fillet borders and central noble arms within oval wreath, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., rather rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, joints split, spine missing portion at foot, folio, Paris, Pierre le Petit, 1676.⁂ Comprehensive history of the Chancellery of France.
Lot 25
Bible, German.- Biblia Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft Altes und Neues Testaments, verteutscht durch D. Martin Luthern, edited by Nicolaus Haas, half-title, engraved additional pictorial title, printed general title in red and black and with engraved printer's device, 23 engraved maps, plans, plates and pictorial divisional titles by Lips after Krügner, occasional spotting, light browned, contemporary calf gilt, metal and leather clasps (1 detached, but present), richly gilt spine in compartments, upper joint cracked, but holding firm, corners little worn, rubbed and scuffed, [not in D&M], Leipzig, Johann Ludewig Gleditsch, 1707.⁂ Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (engraved armorial North Library bookplate, sold Sotheby's, 11th April, 2006, lot 2427).
Lot 28
Richardson (Samuel) Clarissa, die Geschichte eines vornehmen Frauenzimmers..., translated by Johann Daniel Michaelis and Johann Mattheson, 8 vol., first German edition, Gothic letter, some light browning, old German mottled sheep, spines gilt with red morocco labels, a little rubbed, 8vo, vol.1 & 2 Frankfurt, Leipzig, vol.3-8 Gottingen, A.Vandenhoeck, 1748-1753.⁂ Scarce.
Lot 34
Beckford (William).- Thiébault (Dieudonné) Mes Souvenirs de Vingt Ans de Séjour a Berlin; ou Frédéric le Grand, sa Famille, sa Cour, son Gouvernement, son Académie, ses Écoles, et ses Amis Littérateurs et Philosophes, 5 vol., first edition, half-titles, William Beckford's copy with his extensive pencil notes to front free endpapers (3pp. in vol.1, 2pp. in vol.3 and 1p. each in vol.2, 4 & 5) and later ink note "Beckford sale 1883 lot 2571" [£1.16s to Bain] in vol.1, light foxing, bound for Beckford in near contemporary half calf, ?by Charles Lewis, spines gilt with black roan labels, rubbed, corners and spines a little worn, chipped at ends, upper cover of vol.1 detached, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, 8vo, Paris, F.Buisson, 1804.⁂ Important contemporary memoir of Frederick the Great, by Dieudonné Thiébault (1733-1807), who acted for many years as the king's literary advisor, and with an interesting provenance. As usual, Beckford's notes mainly summarise the text rather than adding comments of his own, but the notes show what he found interesting and act as a kind of index to the most amusing passages, e.g. in vol.1, "Mons.r Thiébault en faveur auprès des Chiens de sa Majesté" (p.276) and vol.5, "Frederic bon Vampire" (p.403).Provenance: William Beckford (1760-1844), novelist, writer and collector, whose library passed to his son-in-law, the Duke of Hamilton, and was sold in the great Hamilton Palace sales of 1882-83; Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), politician and Prime Minister 1894-95 (small armorial gilt label, his note re Beckford sale, some other pencil annotations possibly by Rosebery).
![[Shakespeare (William)] The Tragedie of Iulius Caesar, from the Second Folio, 22pp., numbered 129-150, double column, woodcut](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c4c3e896-3dcc-41ec-9d49-ac2500c71570/5e477212-7b96-46dc-a78a-ac2600bf65e8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 94
[Shakespeare (William)] The Tragedie of Iulius Caesar, from the Second Folio, 22pp., numbered 129-150, double column, woodcut head-piece and tail-piece, some light staining, one leaf torn with slight loss to about 15 lines of inner column (repaired), modern burgundy morocco-backed cloth, spine titled in gilt, folio (305 x 210mm.), [Printed by Thomas Cotes], [1632].⁂ The first play ever performed at the Globe Theatre (at its opening in 1599), Julius Caesar remains one of Shakespeare's most popular and enduring plays - ever quotable and politically relevant.
Lot 95
Donne (John) Poems, by J.D. with elegies on the Authors Death, first edition, with the 2ff. 'The Printer to the Understanders' and 'Hexastichon Bibliopolæ' after A4 (not always present), 2N1 in uncorrected state, woodcut decorative initials, lacking initial and final blanks, A3 trimmed at foot, affecting sig. and catch-word, L1&2 short tear within text, just touching part of the odd letter, without any real loss, water-stained, some spotting and light browning, late 19th / early 20th century half calf, spine in compartments and with an orange leather label and blind-stamped leaf motifs, rubbed at extremities, [Keynes 78; Ashley 3082(1); Pforzheimer 296; Grolier, Langland to Prior 286; STC 7045; Hayward 54], small 4to, Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1633.⁂ First collected edition of the poems. The first edition in print of all but one poem ('Elegie on Prince Henry'). Provenance: Mandell Creighton; Tom Creighton (bookplates); J.O. Edwards (book label).
Lot 96
Evelyn copy.- Sprigge (Joshua) Anglia rediviva; Englands recovery: being the history of the motions, actions, and successes of the army under the immediate conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt. Captain-General of all the Parliaments forces in England, first edition, woodcut frontispiece arms of Thomas Fairfax, folding engraved equestrian portrait of Fairfax by William Marshall after Edward Bowers, large folding etched plate of the Battle of Naseby by Robert Streater, folding letter-press table, errata f., preliminaries after A4 misbound between B4 and C1, but all present, repaired tear to portrait, B4 very small hole near head, affecting a few letters, battle plate strengthened verso in a few places, occasional spotting and mostly light staining (including head of table), later half calf, spine gilt and with orange leather label, corners little worn, rubbed, [Wing S5070], small folio, Printed by R.W. for Iohn Partridge, and are to be sold at the Parot in Pauls Church-yard, and the Cock in Ludgate-streete, 1647.⁂ Provenance: Evelyn family copy (engraved armorial bookplate of Sir. Fred. Evelyn, Bt. and 20th century 'JE' monogram bookplate); 'Thomas Jervoise 2 Feb 1646 7s.' (either Sir Thomas Jervoise (1587-1654), English politician and supporter of the Parliamentary side during Civil War or his son Thomas Jervoise (1616-1693), English politician.
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Lot 98
Peasants' Revolt.- [Cleveland (John)] The idol of the clovvnes, or, Insurrection of Wat the Tyler, with his priests Baal and Straw; together with his fellow kings of the commons, against the English Church, the King, the laws, nobility and royal family and gentry, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking final blank, some mostly light water-staining, occasional spotting, 19th century polished calf, gilt, [Wing C4673], 8vo, no printer, 1654.⁂ The Royalist poet Cleveland had a particular fascination with Wat Tyler's rebellion against Richard II. Provenance: 'Thomas Browne, his Book' (contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper).
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