BONARELLI, Prospero (1588-1659). Il Solimano. Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1620. 4° (202 x 160mm). Engraved title, 5 double-page plates by Jacques Callot after the designs of Giulio Parigi (2 repaired tears on plate 2, slight abrasion on F1 affecting a few letters, some occasional pale spotting.) 18th-century vellum, morocco lettering-piece (front hinge cracked, lettering-piece chipped). Provenance: Wilmot Vaughan, first Earl of Lisburne, Ireland (1730-1800, bookplate). FIRST EDITION, second state of the title. Bonarelli's great tragedy was performed in Florence in 1618. Jacques Callot illustrated the work, following the designs of his tutor and colleague, Giulio Parigi, an architect and the chief designer of courtly festivities under the Grand Duke, Cosimo II de' Medici. Both Parigi and Callot were employed by the Medicis, and under their patronage Callot made his many improvements in etching. This is one of the last books he produced for the Medicis, since he returned to his native Nancy following the death of Cosimo II in 1621. "The dramatic finale shows the city of the tyrant Soliman in flames, The moveable scenes -- THE FIRST IN THE HISTORY OF THE THEATRE -- picture contemporary Florence. The whole of its effective contrasts of dark and light, seems fantastic, yet it is the rational and realistic portrait of a fantastic, imaginary subject" (Otto Benesch, Artistic and Intellectual Trends from Rubens to Daumier, Cambridge, 1942, p.17). Berlin Katalog 4112; Brunet I, 1089; Cicognara 1086; Gamba 1810; Lieure 363-368. View on Christie's.com
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HULSEN, Esaias von. Repraesentatio der Furstlichen Aufzug und Ritterspil. [Stuttgart: 1616 or later]. 2 works in one volume, oblong 2° (254 x 343mm). Engraved throughout, title (bound in after first section), 3 section titles (2 with section title pasted-on), 71 (of 79) plates by Matthaeus Merian after Georg Donauer. (Lacking letterpress dedication leaf, a few tears, some scattered light browning). 18th-century red morocco, gilt border of double and single fillets, central oval gilt coat-of-arms of Eugene de Savoy on both sides, arms or crowned cipher on spine (some minor staining). Provenance: Prince Eugene de Savoy (1663-1736, coat-of-arms on sides) -- Vienna, National Library (stamp on verso of title page). [Bound after:] ASSUM, Johannes-Augustin. Warhaffte Relation und Historischer Politischer Höfflicher Discours Uber dess Durchleuchtigen Fürsten Johann Friderichen Hertzogen zu Würtemberg. Stuttgart: Johann Weyrich Rösslin and Johann Alexander Cellio, 1616. Oblong 2°. Title in red and black. (Some fore-margins shaved with minor loss of text.) Both works describe the festivities held in Stuttgart on 10th-18th March 1616 to honour the christening of Prince Friedrich of Württemberg, second son of Johann Friedrich, Duke of Württemberg and Barbara Sophia Margravine of Brandenburg. The tournaments, processions and ballets are superbly illustrated including the masque of the 12 nations. "It featured four huge papier-mch heads, representing North, South, East and West, from whose mouths emerged dancers symbolizing the various nations" (The Festive Renaissance Folger Library exhibition p.8). Duke Johann Friedrich appeared in the procession as King Priam of Troy and is accompanied by Pallas, Juno, Venus and Mercury. The fine plates are bound after Assum's precise description of the festival. Berlin Katalog 2830; See Lipperheide Sbd 4 (variant collation); Vinet 739; Watanabe 359; 358. View on Christie's.com
MOSHEIM, Johann Lorenz von. Beschreibung der ... denckwürdigen Feyer die bey ... Anwesenheit Des... Fürsten George des Andern, Königes von Grosbritannien... in der Stadt Göttingen im Jahr 1748 begangen ward. Göttingen: Johann Wilhelm Schmidt, 1749. 4° (231 x 180mm). 5 engraved folding plates (2 printed in sepia, 2 in a light green). Old half calf (some rubbing to edges). Commemorating the visit of King George II to Göttingen. Berlin Katalog 2914; Lipperheide Sbf 9. [Laid in:] Göttingische Zeitungen, 1748. Unbound folded sheet. Referring to the visit. [With:] Delineato pompae triumphalis qua Robertus Dudlaeus Comes Leicestrensis Hague Comitis fuit exceptus Palatium Comitum Hollandiae. [Amsterdam]: Cornelis Danckerts, [c.1586]. 10 engravings (of 12, lacking the first and last), each approx. 161 x 323mm, trimmed and individually mounted in an oblong 2° album (228 x 410mm). Modern quarter calf. Provenance: C. van Hulthem, of Ghent (notes on flyleaf dated 1789 and 1829). A pictorial record of the entry of Robert Dudley (1532-1588), Earl of Leicester, in his capacity as Governor-General of the United Provinces, into The Hague, 6 January 1586. Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies 48; Lipperheide Sd 12; Ruggieri 1061. [And:] BURNEY, Charles (1726-1814). An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, and the Pantheon... In Commemoration of Handel. London: T. Payne and G. Robinson, 1785. 4° (270 x 210mm). Additional unsigned leaves after D4, G2, and N2 listing works to be performed at the Commemoration performances. Engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, 4 after Edward F. Burney (some browning). Contemporary tree calf (repaired, spine rubbed). Provenance: Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and later King of Hanover (1771-1825, small ink stamp on verso of title-page). A description of the Handel Commemoration Concerts performed at Westminster Abbey in 1784. The dedication written by Samuel Johnson 'was probably the last work he prepared for publication' (Tinker). Fleeman 85.2BH/1a; Rothschild 544; Tinker 1377; and one other work by Stephen Storace. (4) View on Christie's.com
OLEARIUS, Adam (1603-1671). Hochfürstliche ansehnliche Leichenbegängniss des ... Fürsten ... Herrn Friederichs, Erben zu Norwegen Hertzogen zu Schlesswig Holstein Welchen Gott der Herr den 10. August 1659 zu sich ... genommen. Der entseelte Leib aber den 31. Januarii 1661 in Thum zu Schlesswig ist versetzet worden. Schleswig: J. Holwein 1662. Oblong 2° (303 x 350mm). Engraved additional title, one portrait, and 142 plates (joined as 14 folding plates, and 37 joined as double-page plates, some folds of the plates reinforced, 5 plates with restorations to margins occasionally affecting the image.) Contemporary vellum (some light staining). Provenance: Dessau, Landesbibliothek (ink stamp on verso of engraved title showing through). Friederich III of Holstein-Gottorp died in 1659 and this lavishly illustrated volume describes the funeral procession from Husum to Gottorp (part I) from Gottorp to Schleswig (part II) and through Schleswig from the Town Square to the cathedrale (part III). The author mathematician, geographer and librarian Adam Olearius is best remembered for his travel account to Persia: The voyages and travels of the ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia published in the English translation in 1662. Some of the joined folding plates exceed 1200 mm. Lipperheide Sbf 3. View on Christie's.com
TACKE, Johann (1617-1675). Folgen Die Trawer- Trost- und Ehren- Gedächtnuss Predigten Über den... Todtes- Fall des... Herrn Georgen Des Andern Landgraffen zu Hessen ... gehalten worden. Darmstadt: Christophor Abel, 1662. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (324 x 212mm). 28 double-page plates (numbered 1-56) and 34 double-page plates (numbered 1-34) by Johann Schweizer or Adriaen Haelwegh (some browning, light worming to gutter). 17th-century vellum (endpapers renewed, spine reinforced). This work commemorates the life and death of Georg II, Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt. The plates depict the funeral procession, the display of regalia, the crypt, and portraits of the landgraves of Hessen-Darmstadt, including those of Georg II and his consort, and their successors Ludwig VI and his consort Maria Elisabeth, engraved by Johann Schweizer after Salomon Duarte, a genealogical table of the house of Hessen-Darmstadt, a triumphal arch and various poems in elaborate engraved frames. The second group of plates depict individual groups of the funeral procession. The text begins with a Latin inscription by Henning Witte, followed by numerous sermons and orations held in various cities, including sermons and orations by Balthasar Mentzer, Peter Haberkorn and Johann Tacke. The Lipperheide and Vinet copies appear to have no title, other sources refer to this work as Vita post Vitam. Lipperheide Sbd 9; Vinet 731. View on Christie's.com
VITALE, Pietro. Le simpatie dell'allegressa tra Palermo ... e la Castiglia. -- Il Tago in oreto cioè la ricca vena delle muse Palermitane su l'allegrezze di castiglia. Palermo: Agostino Epiro, 1711. 2 parts in one, 2° (303 x 215mm). 14 engraved plates only (6 folding and 7 double-page) by Francesco Ciché after Paolo Amato, Antonio Grano and Mario Cordua (lacking frontispiece, one plate with small hole within image). 19th-century blue quarter calf. A description of the festivities at Palermo in celebration of the victory by Philip V, King of Spain, at Brihuega and Villaviciosa in December 1710 during the war of the Spanish Succession. Berlin Katalog 3059 (without the Il Tago); Watanabe 655. [With:] Beschreibung und Abbildung Aller Königl. Und Churfürstl. Ein-Züge Wahl und Crönungs Acta, So geschehen zu Franckfurt am Mayn im Jahr 1658. Frankfurt: Caspar Merian, 1658. 2° (314 x 225mm). Woodcut vignette on title, 20 engraved plates (most double-page, 4 folding), 7 portraits only (of 8, some light staining, some tears, the portraits cut around the plate margin and mounted.) Old calf (rebacked). The coronation ceremony of Leopold I as Holy Roman emperor. Illustrated with views of Frankfurt, including the festivities on the main square the "Römer" with the central wine fountain, various processions and portraits by Caspar Merian. Berlin Katalog 2839; Drugulin 2459; Lipperheide Sba 12; Vinet 666; and 3 other vols. all imperfect; the lot sold not subject to return. (5) View on Christie's.com
Vorstellung Stuttgartischer Jüngst-gehaltener Hochfürstl. Würtemberg-Hessischer Heimführungs-Begängnis. Stuttgart: Johann Weyrich Rösslin, 1675. 2° (329 x 204mm). Engraved vignette on title, 7 engraved folding plates by Philip and Bartholomeus Kilian, J. Franck and G. Andreas Wolfgang after Johann Andreas Tile and Georg Wagner, and one plate with a typographical poem. (Some folding plates with tears and some repairs, minor worming at beginning and end.) Contemporary vellum (some light staining). Commemorates the wedding celebration of Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württenberg, and Magdalena Sibylle, Landgravine of Hessen-Darmstadt. The festivities included fireworks, opera and processions. Three portraits are engraved by Bartholomäus Kilian, 'one of the best portrait engravers of his time' (Thieme-Becker XX, 288). Berlin Katalog 2855; Lipperheide Sbd 13; Lotz p.101; Ruggieri 968; Vinet 741; Wantanabe 363. View on Christie's.com
ASPIN, Jehoshapat. The Naval and Military Exploits which have distinguished the Reign of George the Third. London: Samuel Leigh, 1820. 12° (149 x 93mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 35 circular plates, publisher's advertisment bound-in at end. (Small hole repaired in outer margin of plate 'Pampeluna', light spotting and a little offsetting from plates.) Red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, single fillet border on sides, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, inner dentelles, top edges gilt, others uncut. FIRST EDITION, INCLUDES THE TWO EXTRA PLATES, 'Vittoria' and 'Pampeluna'. They were probably issued later as an added attraction for a book that remained in print for several years. The 33 circular plates measure only 2½in. in diameter; Prideaux calls their execution 'tiny and beautiful'. Abbey Life 350; Tooley 70. View on Christie's.com
BASKERVILLE PRESS -- The Book of Common Prayer - The Whole Book of Psalms. Cambridge: J. Baskerville, 1762. 2 works in one vol., 12° (166 x 101mm). Cancellans title to the first work with the tissue slip pasted over price. (Slight paper adhesion to title, text with occasional stains at bottom margin.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with saw tooth and floral roll border, gilt spine in six compartments, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, some light scuff marks to covers). Provenance: 'Hannah Hill her Book January 5 1775' (inscription on front blank). Gaskell Baskerville 20 & 21. View on Christie's.com
BIBLE, in German, Luther's version. Biblia. Lüneburg: Cornelius Johann Stern, 1711. 3 parts in 1 vol., 2° (425 x 155mm). Engraved additional title, part titles, map of the Holy Land, folding plan of Jerusalem, map of the Mediterranean, and 259 engraved plates after Luyken, Meloni, and others, with bi-lingual Latin and German captions. (Without blank b8, a very few leaves creased, occasional light spotting and occasional light browning.) Contemporary morocco gilt, brass centrepieces of Moses holding the tablets on the upper board and Jesus holding the orb on the lower board, brass corner-pieces modelled with the evangelists, brass catches and clasps and leather and brass straps model with various figures including cherubs, gauffred gilt edges, bundpapier front endpapers (light wear, one strap perhaps repaired at an early date.) Provenance: 'B.C.' (and the date 1725 stamped in gilt on the upper board) -- a European Royal collection. An excellent example in contemporary binding of Stern's folio Luther bible reproducing Luyken's excellent engravings. View on Christie's.com
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BINDING -- [ALLESTREE, Richard (1619-1681)]. The Government of the Tongue. The second impression. Oxford: at the Theater, 1674. 8° (187 x 114mm). Imprimatur leaf. (A few light spots, very light marginal browning). Contemporary brown goatskin PROBABLY BY THE QUEENS' BINDER A, the sides tooled with an all-over gilt pattern of drawer-handles, pointillé volutes and fleurons, stars, dots and a roll-tooled border, parts painted black and grey, spine gilt in six compartments, each tooled with a rosette and stars, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (neatly repaired), in a morocco-backed box (spine sunfaded). Provenance: G. Mundy (inscription on endpaper) -- old inscription to Mrs Mundy (endpaper). A typical and attractive binding by the Queens' Binder A. Davis 117; Madan 3002; Wing A-1134. View on Christie's.com
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BINDING -- [EVANGELISCHE-REFORMIERTE LANDESKIRCHE DES KANTON ZÜRICH]. Liturgia Tigurina: or the Book of Common Prayers, and administration of the sacraments. And other ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies, usually practised ... in ... the city and canton of Zurick in Switzerland.... London: for D. Newman, R. Baldwin, J. Dunton, 1693. 12° (152 x 94mm). Imprimatur on leaf A1v, with prayer and final 7 content leaves. (Some mainly marginal spotting, light marginal soiling). Contemporary red morocco, the sides elaborately tooled in gilt with a centre-piece of 4 acorns within a square, surrounded by volutes, with a border of vases, tulips, and leafy sprays, spine divided into 6 compartments, one with black morocco lettering-piece, the others decorated with floral designs, gilt edges (very lightly rubbed, with 2 unobtrusive scuff marks on rear cover). Provenance: Robert Crowford, Captian, Royal Irish Artillery (signature on blank) -- "A present from Captain Robt. Crowford ... to Mrs Armstrong" (inscription on front blank, dated 20 May 1795). AN ATTRACTIVE BINDING. Wing L2589. View on Christie's.com
BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso (1608-1679). De vi percussionis liber. Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1667. 4° (214 x 156mm). Half-title, 5 engraved plates. (First plate trimmed close at lower margin just into plate mark, tears to half-title, title and +3 expertly repaired, light dampstaining.) Contemporary vellum, early manuscript to spine (flaw to lower cover, edges lightly rubbed, light soiling). Provenance: Richard Short, Rome (early ink inscription on title) -- Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate and blindstamps, sale Sotheby's, 10 June 2004, lot 386). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of this early work on the laws of percussion. 'Borelli discusses percussion in detail, some general problems of motion, gravity, magnetism, the motion of fluids, the vibrations of bodies, and pendular motion' (DSB II 311). He intended this work as a preliminary to his forthcoming study on the movement of animals. His approach was derived from the research on percussion carried out by Galileo: Galileo had first given consideration to this subject in the early 1590s, and had returned to it when writing the Two New Sciences. Borelli's conclusions met with criticism from Stefano degli Angeli and Michelangelo Ricci; the later issue of this work contains his Risposta to these objections, as noted by Cinti. Carli-Favaro 72 (303); Cinti 287 (147); De Caro 52; Honeyman I 396; Riccardi I 159; Wellcome II 204. View on Christie's.com
BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso. De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, liber. Reggio Calabria: Domenico Ferri, 1670. 4° (222 x 154mm). Half-title, title ruled in red, woodcut initials, headpieces, and diagrams. (Aaa1 with small chip to top corner, hole to Kkk4 not affecting text, occasional light soiling.) Contemporary vellum, early manuscript to spine (spine lightly soiled). Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate and blindstamps, sale Sotheby's, 10 June 2004, lot 387). FIRST EDITION. This companion volume to De vi percussionis (see lot 64) is devoted particularly to the study of liquids, and was intended as a preliminary to his final work De motu animalium (1679). Borelli had initially demonstrated his findings to the Accademia del Cimento in Florence. In 1667, however, he passed through Naples and repeated a number of his experiments for the Neapolitan Accademia degli Investiganti. As a result, the secretary of the Investiganti, the Calabrese nobleman Andrea Concublet, arranged for the publication of this work. Carli-Favaro 78 (329); Cinti 291 (147); De Caro 54; Riccardi I 159. View on Christie's.com
BROWN, Richard (fl. 1804-1845). The Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture. London: printed for, and sold by, the author, 1820. 4°-in-2s (282 x 215mm). 25 engraved plates, 17 with hand-colouring. (Occasional light spotting and offsetting.) Contemporary half calf (extremities lightly rubbed, spine slightly faded). EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION. Richard Brown, an architect, designer and drawing-master, became increasingly interested in furniture design, and the present work demonstrates his belief that designers in this field needed to master the art of perspective. The work consists of 25 plates, each accompanied by commentary, and includes 3 plates (2 plain and one fully coloured) developing a design for a library. The designs throughout are in the Classical style and acknowledge the work of Thomas Hope, George Smith and Charles Percier (p.viii), as well as John Soane (p.38, pl. XVIII). ONLY THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND COPY CAN BE TRACED IN INSTITUTIONS. RIBA suggests there is another copy in Grand Rapids Public Library, MI, but this is not found via their online catalogue or through Worldcat. A new edition with 32 plates was published in 1822, and a third edition in 1835. RIBA 438 (3rd edition). View on Christie's.com
CALLOT, Jacques (1592-1635). Les Miseres et les Malheurs de la Guerre. Paris: Israel Henriet, 1633. Oblong 2° (142 x 220mm). 17 etchings on laid paper (of 18, lacking L.1341, one of these [L.1353] laid-in), and two duplicate plates laid-in [L.1353 and L.1356], some with partial watermark of a crown. (Plate 11 bound out of sequence, occasional light soiling, some staining on duplicate plate L.1353.) Mounted in a tinted vellum album by Stroomants with his stamp, spine lettered in red and black. Provenance: Admiral Raymond de Lacrosse (1761-1829, hero of the French Revolutionary Wars; 19th century inscription in the hand of:) -- J.-C. Auffret. [With] CALLOT, Jacques. Exercices Militaires. [Paris: c.1635]. Oblong 2° (c.55 x c.80mm, and 62 x 81mm for the frontispiece). 13 etchings on laid paper, tipped at one edge on card mounts. (Imprint trimmed from frontispiece, a few small marginal repairs, some soiling). FIRST EDITION of one of Callot's greatest achievements: 'ces pages sont d'une inspiration élevée et d'une composition magistrale' (Lieure). All the plates are in the third state, except plate 18 which is in the fourth state; an impression of the third state of this plate is laid-in. With a complete set of the first edition, second state, Exercices Militaires. (17) View on Christie's.com
COOK, Moses. The Manner of Raising, Ordering, and Improving Forrest-Trees. London: printed for Peter Parker, 1676. 4° (195 x 155mm). 4 engraved plates of diagrams. (Occasional light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary calf (clumsily rebacked, extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. This popular treatise was written by the gardener to the Earl of Essex at Cassioberry Park, Hertfordshire. John Evelyn wrote: 'no man has been more industrious than this noble lord in planting about his seate ... the gardens are likewise very rare, & cannot be otherwise, having so skillfull an artist to governe them as Mr. Cooke' (Diary ed. by de Beer, 4, 199-200 (1955). Henrey 38; Wing C-6032. View on Christie's.com
The Copper Plate Magazine; or, Monthly Treasure for the Admirers of the Imitative Arts. London: for G. Kearsly, 1778. 2° (265 x 205mm). Engraved title, 118 engraved plates. (Mainly marginal light browning and spotting, a few text leaves browned, clean marginal tear to the portrait of Voltaire, long but clean tear to portrait of Whitehead, one text leaf with clean tear across page.) Contemporary calf (front cover detached, worn). The book contains 118 engraved plates, including portraits and views after Sandby, Collier, Walker and others of sublime and interesting views in Great Britain and Ireland. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. View on Christie's.com
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CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria. Spagna. [?Venice: c.1706.] Oblong 2° (205 x 270mm). 94 engraved plates (of 95), including the engraved title and 2 folding maps. (Some mostly marginal dampstaining. some light soiling.) Contemporary, possibly original, pasteboards (front hinge split, some soiling and staining, rear free endpaper trimmed). The Spain volume of Coronelli's rare Teatro de la guerra in an early, probably original binding. The plates mostly show views and plans of the various theatres of war, and some navigation maps. The printed list of plates calls for a plate 95 showing Western Europe, but this appears never to have been bound into this copy. Nordenskiöld, vol. 1, pp.115-17 ('the maps in our copy do not quite correspond to the index'). View on Christie's.com
A Designe for Plentie by an universal planting of fruit-trees. London: Richard Wodenothe, [no date, ?1652]. Small 4° (176 x 126mm). 2 woodcut headpieces, 2 ornamental initials. (Lightly browned throughout, shoulder notes shaved). Modern half calf (new endpapers). Goldsmiths' 1289; Wing H984. LAWSON, William (fl. 1618). A New Orchard and Garden: or the best way of planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole Common-Wealth. London: by William Wilson, for George Sawbridge, 1660. Small 4° (182 x 142mm). Woodcut on title, repeated on D4r, illustrations, of which 6 full-page, headpieces, initials, Country Housewifes Garden with separate title. (Some light soiling, light spotting and even browning). Late 19th-century calf-backed boards (head of spine chipped, lightly rubbed). 8th edition of this popular work, first published in 1618. Wing L733; cf. Henrey 226 (1618 edition); cf. Hunt 209 (1626 edition) quotes Eleanour Rohde, who calls this work "the first book on the subject of North-Country gardens, and the Country House-Wifes Garden the first book written for women gardeners". (2) View on Christie's.com
DIDEROT, Denis (1713-1784) and Jean Le Rond D'ALEMBERT (1717-1783, editors). Six volumes of plates for L'Encyclopédie Méthodique Padua: n.p., 1784-92. 6 vols in 13, 2° (301 x 215mm). Engraved title vignettes and 1091 plates, of which 190 double-page and 30 folding. (Occasional light browning, occasional light marginal dampstain.) 19th-century vellum [vols 1-3] and vellum-backed boards [vols 4-6], the spines numbered in manuscript (spine labels renewed, some staining, extremities rubbed). Provenance: G. Bertoni (neat stamps). The first 6 volumes of plates from this Padua edition of 'the greatest encyclopedia of science, which had widespread effect in establishing uniformity of terminology, concept, and procedure in all fields of science and technology' (Horblit). Cf. Horblit 25b; cf. PMM 200. (13) View on Christie's.com
DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631). The Battaille of Agincourt... The Miseries of Queene Magarite, the infortunate wife, of that most infortunate King Henry the sixt. London: William Lee, 1631. 8° (150 x 103mm). (Browned throughout, margins trimmed, occasionally touching headline, a few small marginal repairs, occasional light soiling). Blue panelled morocco gilt by Riviere & Son (new endpapers). Provenance: William Robinson (partly erased signature on title). Second edition, first published in 1627. STC 7191. [With:] HUBERT, Francis, Sir (d. 1629). The Historie of Edward the Second... together with the fatall down-fall of his two unfortunate favorites Gaveston and Spencer. 8° (150 x 95mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Edward II, with the blank A1. (Margins trimmed, occasional affecting shoulder notes, a few occasional spots). Crimson morocco gilt by Lloyd, gilt edges (new endpapers). Originally published the previous year as an unauthorized edition as The deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second, King of England. STC 13901. [And:] With 3 other works, including Thomas Blount's Boscobel (London, 1680 [i.e.1681], engraved portrait, 2 folding plates and additional separate engraved title, light occasional dust-soiling) and Thomas Wincoll's Plantagenets Tragical Story (London, 1649, engraved frontispiece portrait). (5) View on Christie's.com
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Dialogo ... Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernico. 'Florence' [Naples]: 1710. Large 8° (249 x 175mm). Title in red and black, engraved title-page vignette, woodcut initials, diagrams in text; title to Lettera alla Granduchessa with woodcut device. (Occasional light spotting, marginal repair to title, small marginal hole or tear in 3 leaves.) Contemporary vellum, spine lettered gilt. SECOND EDITION IN ITALIAN of Galileo's Dialogue. The first edition was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books immediately after publication in 1632. No subsequent Italian edition followed until this one of 1710, published clandestinely in Naples. It contains two other works attempting to refute the perceived polarity between Copernicus's theory and the Bible: Foscarini's Letter (originally published 1615) and Galileo's Lettera alla Granduchessa di Toscana (composed in 1615, first published 1636). 'Galileo argued that neither the Bible nor nature could speak falsely and that the investigation of nature was the province of the scientist, while the reconciliation of scientific facts with the language of the' (DSB V 242). A LARGE, FRESH COPY. Carli-Favaro 99 (413); Cinti 319 (168); De Caro 24; Riccardi I 512. View on Christie's.com
GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo -- REISCH, Gregorius (d.1525). Margarita Filosofica. Venice: Barezzo Barezzi, 1599. 8° (216 x 160mm). With blanks, folding table and woodcut volvelle map, illustrations. (Occasional light soiling, one gathering browned, faint marginal dampstain in some gatherings.) 17th-century limp vellum (spine cracked, hinges split, lacking ties). Provenance: Dr. Andrea Raineri (inscription in an early hand) -- an early 20th-century collection (press label on the front cover). FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN OF THIS CELEBRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA, translated by Gallucci. The Addenda comprises some of the additions of the 1512 Strasbourg edition, including Martin Waldseemüller's treatises on architecture and perspective, and Masha'allah's composition of the astrolabe. Some of the new additional treatises in this Italian edition are on arithmetic, geography and grammar. 2 issues are known, with apparently no priority: one with Barezzi's imprint, and another with Somascho's imprint which is more common institutionally. Not in Adams; Cicognara 3321; Sabin 69132 (Somascho imprint). View on Christie's.com
HALL, John (1575-1635). Select Observations on English Bodies: or Cures ... performed upon very eminent persons in desperate diseases, translated by James Cooke. London: John Sherley, 1657. 12° (151 x 82mm). Vertical half-title (lacking the final 2 blanks, upper outer corner of last few leaves with small repairs, just affecting border and one number of last 2 leaves, light spotting, occasional small light stains or light marginal browning or soiling). Modern crimson morocco by Riviere, triple fillet gilt border on sides, spine ruled, lettered and elaborately tooled in gilt, inner dentelles, partly uncut. Provenance: a few old corrections (in text). FIRST EDITION. 'Hall was Shakespeare's son-in-law, having married Shakespeare's elder daughter Susanna in 1607; his Select Observations is interesting primarily as a piece of medical Shakespeareana' (Norman). Not in Garrison-Morton, Wellcome, Waller or Osler. Krivatsy 5217 (imperfect, lacking longitudinal label); Norman 971; Wing H-356. View on Christie's.com
HARRIS, Moses (1730-c.1788). The Aurelian: or, Natural History of English Insects; namely, Moths and Butterflies. London: J. Robson, 1778. 2° (457 x 276mm). English and French titles, and text in English and French in double-coloumn. English title with engraved vignette, frontispiece, hand-coloured engraved diagrammatic key-plate and 44 plates numbered I-XLIV, by and after Harris, PLATE I INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'Colour'd by me Mr. Harris Sept. 1778', indicating that the plates were coloured by the author throughout. (Occasional very light spotting and offsetting, a few short marginal tears.) 19th-century half morocco, t.e.g. (extremities rubbed). Second edition, second issue. A fresh, tall copy of the Aurelian by Harris, 'ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING AUTHORS OF ENTOMOLOGICAL LITERATURE DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY' (Lisney). Harris drew from live specimens and his plates are amongst the most beautiful of their kind, showing dorsal and ventral views of all the subjects, together with various stages of development (egg, caterpillar, chrysalis), each with their preferred food. First published in 1766, the Aurelian went through many editions. This has led to a complex bibliography, and, as Lisney notes, it 'frequently occur[s] as made-up copies'. In this copy, Plate I is without the dedication, plate II is not mounted and appears on matching length paper, and the text and plates are on undated Whatman laid paper. BM(NH) II, p.788; Lisney 232; Nissen ZBI 1835. View on Christie's.com
INCUNABULA -- ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.). Opera nonnulla. Translated by Johannes Argyropulus and others. Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis de Forlivio for Benedictus Fontana, 13 July 1496. Small folio (289 x 198mm). 508 leaves, 44 lines and headline, types: 135 G., 110 R., woodcut diagrams, hand-coloured cardinals arms on aa3, woodcut initials, mostly ornamental but a few historiated, with the blank h6. (Title soiled and with a few small holes, colophon laid down on final blank with loss of some margin, stain across u6v ending on inner gutter of u7r, light spotting and browning, a few stains, a little, mainly faint, waterstaining). Later vellum, manuscript title on spine (vellum partly torn away in 2 compartments of spine). Provenance: Joseph Granate (inscription on title) -- an early reader (illegible title inscription). The only complete, unified edition of Aristotle's Works printed in the 15th century. BMC V 349; GW 2341; Hain *1659; Proctor 4552. View on Christie's.com
INCUNABULA -- ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS (d.636). Ethymologiae. De summo bono. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavius Scotus. 11 December 1493. Small 2° (280 x 200mm). 100 leaves, 66 lines and headline, types 130 G., 74 G., and 80 Gk., double columns, full-page woodcut of the consanguinity on ff5v, small woodcut diagrams and symbols, woodcut initials, mostly ornamental, a few historiated, printer's device at end (full-page woodcut shaved at margins, lower margin of title repaired, worming in inner margin and gutter throughout, mostly repaired, light, mainly marginal waterstaining, a few stains). Later vellum (new endpapers, lightly soiled and rubbed). Provenance: old marginal annotations (some shaved). BMC V 442; Hain *9280; Sander 3527; Goff I186. View on Christie's.com
INCUNABULA -- JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (c.1230-1298). Legenda aurea. - USUARDUS (d. c. 875). Martyrologium. Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 22 July 1490. Chancery 2° (266 x 197mm). 316 leaves. 45 lines and headline, double column. Type: 18:290G, 15:175bG, 17:86G, 16:80G. Opening initials on a2 and c1 in red or blue with contrasting penwork decoration, other 2- to 4-line initials in red or blue, red capital strokes, some printed guide-letters. (Small repairs to title, last two lines of colophon erased, an occasional light stain.) Late 19th-century tan pigskin tooled in blind by W.H. Smith, spine lettered in gilt, red edges (joints starting to split). Provenance: inscriptions erased from title, a2 and below colophon -- Dr. J.A. Giles (Tregaskis bookseller's description dated July 1891). Koelhoff's edition of the Golden Legend, the popular collection of saints' lives, is the first to have appended to it the martyrologium of Usuardus. The colophon is dated 'in vigilia sanctissimorum trium Regum', interpreted by A. Labarre as 22 July, correcting previous interpretations of 5 January (cf. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1975, pp.77-80). C 6465 (Voragine only); HCR (Usardus only) 16111; BMC I, 229 (IB. 3615); CIBN J-96; Bod-inc J-060; Goff J-123. View on Christie's.com
KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630). Harmonices mundi libri V. Linz: Johannes Plank for Gottfried Tampach, 1619. 2° (296 x 190mm). First state of general title with printer's device and without text beginning 'Accessit nunc...', dedication to King James I of England (*2r-*4r) later suppressed by Kepler and absent from some copies. 5 engraved plates, numerous woodcut text diagrams and illustrations after Wilhelm Schickard, woodcut musical notation in Book III. (Lacks quire C, old repairs to title, heavy ink erasures to dedication leaves creating holes in *3-4, plates browned and slightly waterstained, some browning of text and persistent light waterstain at upper margin.) Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, spine titled and dated in manuscript, red edges (bowed, stains to rear cover, ties lacking). Provenance: Pedro de Faycon (with note dated 1707 stating that the erasures conform with the Papal Index of 1640). FIRST EDITION of Kepler's great cosmological treatise, containing the third law of planetary motion. An ardent Copernican, Kepler accepted that the sun was near the centre of the universe, but he went farther by attributing physical force to it. Books I and II are concerned with the geometrical foundation of universal harmony, beginning with a detailed exposition of Euclid's Elements. He discusses polygons and polyhedrons and -- for the first -- stellated dodecahedrons. Book III investigates harmonic proportions and music theory, while Book IV contains the fullest expression of his astrological views. Book V is devoted to astronomy and contains his third law, stating that 'the square of the period of time of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun' (Dibner). Caspar 58; Dibner Heralds 6; Grolier/Horblit 58; Houzeau & Lancaster 11832; Zinner 4737; Norman 1207. View on Christie's.com
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò (1469-1527). The Works, translated by Henry Neville. London: for J. S., to be sold by Robert Boulter, 1675. 2° (321 x 198mm). (Lightly spotted and soiled, stain on 3Y3 and 3Y4, light marginal worming at end.) Contemporary calf (worn). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, including The History of Florence, The Prince, The Discourses and The Art of War, each with sectional title. Wing M-128. View on Christie's.com
![MAIER, Michael (1568?-1622). Lusus Serius. Oppenheim: L. Jennis, 1616 [bound with:] Viatorium, hoc est, de montibus planetaru](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2795087/d5327433e_468x382.jpg)
MAIER, Michael (1568?-1622). Lusus Serius. Oppenheim: L. Jennis, 1616 [bound with:] Viatorium, hoc est, de montibus planetarum septem, seu metallorum. Oppenheim: J.T. de Bry, 1618. 2 works in one, small 4° (186 x 150mm). Engraved vignette to title and woodcut tailpiece to first work; second work with engraved border to title, and 7 large text-engravings. (Occasional very light spotting and browning.) Slightly later cream paper-covered boards (small chip to head of spine, spine darkened, a little bumped and rubbed). FIRST EDITIONS of two of Maier's classic alchemical and emblematic works. The Viatorium concerns the seven metals and their corresponding planets, represented on the engraved title-page. In 1609 Maier became court physician to Rudolph II, Emperor and King of Hungary and King of Bohemia, who held him in high esteem and himself had a direct interest in the occult). Between 1611-1616, the alchemist spent time in England at the court of James I, and his writings later found favour with Elias Ashmole and Isaac Newton. RARE. Caillet III 6996 & 7005; Duveen (omitting first work) 382; Ferguson II, 63 & 65. View on Christie's.com
MAITLAND, William (?1693-1757). The History and Survey of London from its Foundation to the Present Time. London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756. 2 vols., 2° (420 x 250mm). 120 (of ?121) engraved plates, maps and plans, 12 folding, 2 engravings and 99 woodcuts in the text, most coats-of-arms coloured in a contemporary hand. (Variable light spotting and browning, Ggg in vol. I and 12I in vol. II affected more heavily, marginal tears to 3 leaves in vol. II, old repairs to last 2 leaves in vol. II at gutter, large folding plate of Westminster Bridge with a few small tears and minor loss, biro lines to folding map at start of vol. II.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked and recornered in late 19th-century morocco, rubbed and scuffed, short splits to joints). Provenance: Sir Joseph ?Arnidale (inscription dated 1838 cut from original endpapers and pasted onto front pastedowns). Second edition. (2) View on Christie's.com
MANGET, Jean Jacques, editor (1652-1742). Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, seu rerum ad alchemiam pertinentium thesaurus instructissimus. Geneva ['Genevae']: Chouet, G. De Tournes, Cramer, Perachon, Ritter, & S. De Tournes, 1702. 2 vols., 2° (346 x 210mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 30 engraved plates and one text illustration, woodcut diagrams. One-leaf publisher's catalogue. (Variable light spotting and browning, occasional minor marginal worming, vol. II with light soiling to verso of 3 plates, plates 2 & 3 shaved at fore-edge just touching image, small marginal repair to 3P2.) 20th-century calf preserving contemporary endpapers (lightly rubbed, covers damp mottled). Provenance: some ink underlining and marginalia in an early hand towards end of vol. I. FIRST EDITION. 'THE MOST COMPLETE COLLECTION OF ALCHEMICAL TEXTS EVER PUBLISHED ... FOR THE HISTORIAN OF CHEMISTRY THIS IS A MOST IMPORTANT AND INDISPENSABLE WORK' (Duveen). Manget was appointed physician to the Elector of Brandenburg in 1699, a position he retained when the Elector became King of Prussia. His work collects and reprints 'treatises on medicine and surgery, [which] are valuable as works of reference to books which either are now difficult to obtain or which have disappeared' (Ferguson p.71). There appear to be two issues of the work, distinguished by the use of either 'Genevae' (as here) or 'Coloniae Allobrogum' in the imprint. Both Bolton and Ferguson give a full listing of the treatises. Blake p. 285 (2 copies, 'Coloniae Allobrogum' and 'Genevae'); Bolton pp. 1004-1013 ('Genevae'); Brunet III, 1365 ('Genevae'); Caillet III, p. 28 ('Genevae', commenting 'ouvrage de la plus grande rareté'); Duveen p. 387; Ferguson II, pp. 68-71 (vol. I: 'Coloniae Allobrogum', vol. II: 'Genevae'); Graesse IV, p. 363; Waller 11192 ('Coloniae Allobrog.'); Wellcome IV, p. 42. (2) View on Christie's.com
MASCALL, Leonard (d. 1589). A Booke of the Arte and Maner how to plant and grasse all sortes of trees. London: John Wight, 1575. Small 4° (176 x 128mm). Woodcut vignette on title, repeated on L1v, one woodcut plate illustrating grafting tools, 4 cuts and one diagram in text, ornamental initials, head and tailpieces. (Occasional light soiling or spotting, top margins shaved, occasionally touching headline). Green calf gilt by Bayntun, Bath, gilt edges (spine lightly sunfaded, a few light scuff marks). Provenance: old manuscript inscription on title ('This should have been bound after the table in the beginning of this book'). Third edition of the popular treatise, first published in 1569 and based on David Brossard's L'art et manière de semer et faire pépinières de sauvageaux. Henrey I, 258; STC 17575. View on Christie's.com
McIAN, Robert Ronald (d.1856) & James LOGAN (?1794-1872). The Clans of the Scottish Highlands. London: Ackermann and Co., 1845-47. 2 volumes, 2° (363 x 259mm). Lithographic dedication partially printed in gold, 2 chromolithographic frontispieces showing the arms of the clans and 72 chromolithographic plates, all finished by hand. (Occasional light spotting, small light marginal dampstain to last plate and accompanying text leaves, heavier towards end, 3 plates with imprints trimmed.) Red half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt spines and edges, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Life 426. View on Christie's.com
[MENSA PHILOSOPHICA] -- The Philosophers Banquet. Newly furnished and decked forth with much variety of many severall dishes, that in the former service were neglected ... by W.B. London: by T[homas] C[reed] for Leonard Becket, 1614. Small 8° (134 x 88mm). (Lightly browned throughout, occasional light soiling or staining, margins trimmed, occasionally touching headline). Crimson morocco by Riviere, spine lettered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles (spine a little sunfaded). Second edition in English of this compilation of didactic and entertaining texts which were widely distributed from the late 15th to the 17th century under the general title Mensa philosophica. It has been variously attributed to Theobald Anguilbert, an Irish physician, and to Michael Scot, a late 12th to early 13th-century mathematician, physician and scholar whose name appears on A5r. STC 22062. View on Christie's.com
The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. London: James Jenkins, [n.d.] [paper watermarked 1815]. 4° (337 x 269mm). Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, engraved title, engraved dedication to Wellington, hand-coloured engraved portrait of the Duke, and 51 hand-coloured aquatint plates. (Occasional light scattered spotting). Contemporary russia, gilt borders to covers, rebacked preserving original gilt spine, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Alex Cullen (bookplate). Abbey Life 365; Tooley 281. View on Christie's.com
RALFE, James (fl. 1820-1829). An album of plates from The Naval Chronology of Great Britain ... from the Commencement of the War in 1803, to 1816. London: L. Harrison for Whitmore and Fenn, 1820. 2° (285 x 220mm). 30 (of 60) hand-coloured and tinted aquatint plates by T. Sutherland, F.C. Lewis, and others after T. Whitcombe, J. Beresford, and others. (Some light marginal soiling.) 19th-century half sheep (worn). FULL-MARGINED PLATES COLOURED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. Tooley notes that 'genuine coloured copies are rare'; they are distinguished from copies coloured later by the head-line captions printed in blue rather than black. The plates are normally heavily cut-down when bound with the octavo text; the Abbey copy is described as uncut but measuring only 256x175mm. The plates are based on drawings made by officers who participated in the action shown. Tooley 392; Abbey, Life, 342; Sabin 67602. View on Christie's.com
NAPLES -- Descrizione e disegni della mascherata che intervenne al real teatro di S. Carlo il carnevale dell' anno 1827. Naples: Stamperia Reale, 1827. 2° (333 x 222mm). 39 hand-coloured lithographic plates showing carnival costumes by Cuciniello and Bianchi, including a very large folding plate extending to 2280mm by Antonio Nicolini depicting 84 figures in a procession with music printed below. (Variable light spotting, the whole loose.) Contemporary red roan-backed cloth, gilt spine (extremities rubbed, the whole loose, stitching broken, dampstain to lower cover). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF A RARE NEAPOLITAN COSTUME BOOK. The plates depict Carnival at Naples in 1827, when the king of Naples, Francesco I, together with the royal family, attended the San Carlo theatre dressed in the Persian fashion. The folding plate shows the highlight of the great ball, as members of the nobility dressed as Scots, Tartars and in French fashions, dance quadrilles for the Shah, while others, masquerading as the Parnaso of the Italian Poetry, Dante, Petrarca, Aristo and Tasso, offer poetical tributes to the Court. Lipperheide Si 57 (calling for 13 plates only). View on Christie's.com
NASH, Joseph (1809-1878). Mansions of England in the Olden Time. [London:] T. M'Lean, 1839-1841. Series 1-3 in 3 vols., large 2° (552 x 450mm). Descriptive letterpress to Series 2 in two formats, one broadsheet (520 x 350mm) printed recto & verso, the other 2° (334 x 210mm). Hand-coloured mounted lithographic titles and 76 hand-coloured plates on 74 sheets by G. Hullmandel after Nash (only, of 77 called for, also lacks the lithographic dedications and contents leaves ['not found in all copies,' Tooley], and the letterpress to Series 1 & 3, variable light spotting, heavier to 'Franks, Kent' in Series 1.) Original publisher's portfolios (extremities rubbed). SUPERIOR COLOURED COPY OF 'NASH'S MOST FAMOUS WORK' (RIBA). Without the fourth series published later in 1849, and without the 8° descriptive text. Abbey Scenery 402; RIBA 2237; Tooley 337. (3) View on Christie's.com
[NESS, Christopher (1621-1705)]. The Devils Patriarck ... the notorious life of ... Innocent the 11th. London: John Dunton, 1683. 8° (152 x 90mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Pope Innoncent. (Portrait a little frayed at margin, portrait, title and a few leaves dust-soiled, waterstain near end). Brown polished calf gilt for Henry Sotheran, gilt edges. Provenance: old inscription about the author on title. FIRST EDITION. "To the reader" is signed T.O., Titus Oates. Wing N-452. With Francis Bacon's The Essaies (London, 1614; title soiled, light waterstaining throughout, rebacked). STC 1145; and Thomas Southouse's Surveigh of the Monastery in Faversham in the County of Kent (London, 1671; light browning and soiling, marbled calf by Bayntun). Wing S-4772. (3) View on Christie's.com
NEWTON, Isaac (1642-1727). Opticks; or A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. London: William Innys, 1730. 8° (195 x 111mm), 12 folding engraved plates (some spotting, title and A2 with short marginal tear, perforation stamp on title, small ink stamp to plate versos, A2 with ink stamp at foot, one plate with segment torn from margin). Modern half calf. Provenance: John Tomlinson (1737 inscription with price of 5/-) -- John Crerar Library (stamps). Fourth edition, 'carefully printed' from the third edition of 1721 and incorporating Newton's revisions to it. Babson 136. View on Christie's.com
QUIRINI, Angelo Maria (1680-1755), Bishop of Brescia. Primordia Corcyrae. Brescia: Giovanni-Maria Rizzardi, 1738. 2 parts (of 3) in one volume, 4° (280 x 204mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black with small engraved map of Corfu, divisional title to appendix (part II) with small engraved plan of Corfu town, two engraved plates, three engraved initials, one engraved tailpiece. (Divisional title lightly soiled and cleanly torn with old paper repair to verso, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary vellum, light blue edges (light worming to paste downs). Provenance: Angelo Maria Quirini (author's ink presentation inscription on front pastedown to:) -- Maria Mazzuchelli -- 20th-century stamp to title. AUTHOR'S OWN COPY OF HIS SECOND EXPANDED EDITION CONTAINING THE RARE Appendix sacrae quaedam Corcyrae primordia which comprises correspondence between Quirini and Pope Benedict XIII concerning the customs of Corfu. The author was Latin Archbishop of Corfu between 1723 and 1727. The third part merely assembles comments on Corfu by other authors that appear in the main text. Blackmer 1373. View on Christie's.com
RAILWAYS -- ROSCOE, Thomas. The Book of the Grand Junction Railway. [Birmingham:] by Wrightson and Webb, 1839. 4° (216 x 135mm). Engraved title, 3 maps and 15 plates. (Occasional light marginal soiling and a few scattered spots.) Contemporary half sheep by G. Simms of Manchester, with label, edges gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: I. J. Carrick (signature) -- George Jameson (armorial stamp, date 1913 in manuscript). FIRST EDITION. WorldCat records an apparently more common issue published in London by Orr in the same year. GRAY, Thomas. Observations on a General Iron Rail-Way or Land Steam-Conveyance. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. 8° (224 x 135mm). Engraved folding frontispiece, 4 engraved plates including one folding. (Occasional light offsetting, some wear in folding plates.) Original boards (rebacked, corners worn and chipped, rear endpaper nearly detached). Provenance: William Barclay Parsons (bookplate; gifted to:) -- The New York Public Library (de-accessioned stamps, dated 1934). Fifth edition, first published in 1820. (2) View on Christie's.com
SLAVERY -- An Abstract of the Evidence delivered before ... the House of Commons in the Years 1790 and 1791; on the part of the Petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade. Edinburgh: Glasgow and Edinburgh Societies Instituted for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1791. 8° (178 x 97mm), folding engraved plate and map. (Occasional light spotting and browning, repaired marginal tear to plate.) Contemporary half calf, rebacked (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: John Anderson, University of Glasgow (1726-1796, bookplate). ASSOCIATION COPY belonging to a member of the Scottish enlightenment. This is one of two Edinburgh issues, complete with the initial advertisement leaf, map of West Africa, and plate showing the inhumane arrangements for the trans-Atlantic shipping of slaves. John Anderson became Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University in 1757, and was also active in the Glasgow Literary Society. In his will he left instructions that his estate was to be used to found a new university in Glasgow. While this never came about, his executors managed to establish Anderson's Institution, which survives to this day in transmuted form as Strathclyde University. View on Christie's.com
SOLINUS, Caius Julius. De situ orbis terrarum. Pesaro: Hieronymus Soncino, 31 January 1512. 2° (304 x 215mm). (Title lightly soiled, light waterstaining throughout, heavier towards the end). Adams S1390. [Bound after:] STRABO (63 BC-24 AD). De situ orbis. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 13 July 1510. 2° (304 x 215mm). Woodcut on title of a master and 4 pupils all seated at their desks, woodcut initials, some large, and including an initial 'A' on n3r which is the upside-down upsilon used in Callierges' Etymologicon magnum, Venice, 1499. (Light waterstaining, heavier from gathering S on, a few leaves lightly browned). Adams S1900; Sander 7091. 2 works bound together. 18th-century polished calf (spine repaired). Solinus' important compendium of curiosities and wonders of the ancient world, bound with a later edition of Strabo's great geographical encyclopedia. View on Christie's.com
SEELEY, John. Stowe. A Description of the House and Gardens. London: J. Edwards, 1797. 4° (245 x 185mm). Engraved title, 25 engraved plates, 6 engraved plans, one folding, double-page map. (Variable light spotting.) Contemporary red morocco by Christian Kalthoeber (with his orange label), covers with double gilt fillets and inner dotted roll bordering a repeated foliate scroll, star burst devices at corners, fan-shaped inner corner-pieces built up of various tools, gilt spine with double bands outlined with thick and thin gilt fillets, lettered in one panel, the others elaborately tooled, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilded, silk marker (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: William Beckford (neat ms. note to verso of front endpaper, and printed catalogue entry on pastedown from the Hamilton Palace sale part III, Sotheby's 11 July 1883, lot 1876) -- Archibald Rosebery (book label; sold at Sotheby's 28 October 1975, lot 374). LARGE-PAPER COPY, WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL PROVENANCE, FINELY BOUND BY KALTHOEBER. The Hamilton Palace catalogue describes it as having 'proof plates'. The views in this edition by John Seeley were entirely new. Lowndes IV 2527, stating that 150 copies were published with proof plates; RIBA 2953. View on Christie's.com
VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (c.80-70 B.C.- c.15 B.C.). Architettura. Vetruvio in volgar lingua. Perugia: Giano Bigazzini, 1536. 2° (281 x 200mm). Woodcut architectural title, woodcut portrait of the printer and 81 woodcut illustrations in the text, including two repetitions (some light, mostly marginal spotting and soiling). 18th-century sheep, flat spine gilt in compartments (covers detached, large loss of leather on the upper board, spine ends chipped). First edition of Caporali's translation. The only kown work to have been printed by Bigazzini, this edition comprised the first five of the ten books of Vitruvius. The woodcuts are free copies (reduced or enlarged) of the Cesariano's Como, 1521 edition, with 8 subjects added although the cuts of Milan cathedral were excluded. Berlin Kat. 1805; Brunet V:1330; Cicognara 706; Fowler 400; Mortimer Italian 546; Sander 7700. View on Christie's.com
WELLESLEY, Henry, 1st Baron Cowley (1773-1847). Characters in the Grand Fancy Ball given by the British Ambassador Sir Henry Wellesley at Vienna, at the conclusion of the carnival 1826. London: R. Ackermann, 1828. 4° (229 x 180mm). Half-title, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 12 plates. (Lightly spotted, light marginal thumb-soiling). Recent purple half morocco. Second edition. [GRIMALDI, Stacey (1790-1863)]. A Suit of Armour for Youth. London: by the Proprietor, 1824. 12° (182 x 105mm). Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 11 plates, each with a fold-up flap revealing a hand-coloured engraved scene. (Lower margin of frontispiece rubbed, lightly and evenly browned throughout). Contemporary calf gilt by R. Wallis, gilt edges (front joint cracked at head of spine, lightly rubbed). (2) View on Christie's.com
WOUVERMANS, Philips (1619-1668). Oeuvres. Paris: Jean Moyreau, 1737. 2° (550 x 420mm). 43 engraved plates only (of 100), including 6 double-page, and one depicting two images, after Wouvermans by Moyreau, Le Parmentier and Dupuis (also lacking the portrait, occasional light marginal browning, a few plates with faint brown stain). Contemporary brown morocco by Manoury, Grand Rue Saint Etienne, large floral border on sides, spine lavishly decorated in gilt, red morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges, floral endpapers (lightly rubbed). Brunet V, 1480: "Ce recueil se trouve plus ou moins complet, parce qu'il a été continué à différentes reprises"; Cohen-de-Ricci 1068. View on Christie's.com
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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. [The Decameron]. The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation.. London: Isaac Jaggard for Mathew Lownes, 1625-1620. 2 volumes in one, 2° (280 x 182mm). Titles within differing woodcut borders, the border to vol. I with a boar passant, the crest of the Sidney family, in top compartment [McKerrow and Ferguson 212], the border to vol. II composed of six woodcut medallions repeated as vignettes throughout both volumes. Woodcut initials and ornaments. (Without first and final blanks in both vols., lacking \\h\\h\\h2 (table) in vol. 2, lower margin of Mm6 trimmed, a little light spotting, a few tiny rustholes.) Brown morocco gilt by Birdsall, gilt edges (front hinge neatly splitting). Provenance: Rosenbach Collection (catalogue inserted) -- Peddie School (sale Christie's New York 2006). Second edition of vol. I, first edition of vol. II of THE FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH. At least fifty-four English plays, including several works by Shakespeare, have plots derived from the Decameron. Grolier Wither to Prior 250 (first edition); Pforzheimer 72 & 71; STC 3173 & 3172. View on Christie's.com
![[DEVONSHIRE, Georgina Cavendish, Duchess of (1757-1806)]. The Sylph; A Novel. Dublin: for W. Wilson, T. Walker, C. Jenkin [a](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2795087/d5327489e_468x382.jpg)
[DEVONSHIRE, Georgina Cavendish, Duchess of (1757-1806)]. The Sylph; A Novel. Dublin: for W. Wilson, T. Walker, C. Jenkin [and others], 1784. 12° (173 x 104mm). Half-title. (Light marginal soiling, final text leaf a little creased along gutter, lacking endpaper). Contemporary calf, preserved in a modern cloth box (head of spine chipped, spine with skilful repairs). First published in 1779. View on Christie's.com
![[DONNE, John (1573-1631)]. Poems ... with Elegies on the Authors Death. London: by J. Flesher by John Sweeting, 1654. Small](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2795087/d5327491e_468x382.jpg)
[DONNE, John (1573-1631)]. Poems ... with Elegies on the Authors Death. London: by J. Flesher by John Sweeting, 1654. Small 8° (137 x 90mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait by W. Marshall. (Frontispiece and title re-hinged, lacking the first blank, first few leaves with light waterstain, lightly browned or dust-soiled throughout). Contemporary vellum (soiled). Fourth edition, third issue. Keynes 83; Wing D-1870. View on Christie's.com
FIELDING, Henry (1707-1754). The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews. London: A. Millar, 1742. 2 vols., 12° (154 x 90mm). (Occasional light soiling, vol. II without preliminary advertisement leaf.) Contemporary tree sheep (rebacked, preserving old lettering-pieces, some neat repairs to covers). Provenance: 'Wm. Cooke after 1767' (partially erased inscription on title) -- J. Wyndham (1951 inscription on front endpapers). FIRST EDITION of Fielding's 'comic romance'. The manservant Joseph is the brother of Richardson's heroine, Pamela, who herself appears in the story. Cross III, p. 305; Rothschild I, 844. (2) View on Christie's.com
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Faustus. London: Boosey and Sons, 1821. 4° (215 x 131mm). (Faint dampstain, more pronounced at end, light soiling.) Contemporary half calf (extremities rubbed). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Although published anonymously, this translation is attributed to Coleridge by Frederick Burwick and James McKusick in the most recent edition (OUP, 2007). An abstract of the first part of Goethe's tragedy, it was issued to accompany the separately-published series of plates by Henry Moses after Moritz Retzsch. View on Christie's.com
JACSON, Frances Margaretta (1754-1842). Plain Sense, a Novel. London: William Lane, Minerva Press, 1795. 3 vols., 12° (169 x 103mm). Half-title in each vol. (light spotting, a few marginal tears, some mainly marginal waterstaining in vol. II, B5v-B6r of vol. II slightly soiled, some quires in vols. I and III pulled and some leaves becoming loose). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with vellum corner tips (spines worn). Provenance: [Newton Hall, Northumberland]. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S 'POPULAR FIRST NOVEL'. The two unmarried sisters, Maria and Frances, both turned to writing, partly in order to help out their brother Shallcross Jacson (d. 1821) who was 'over-fond of drink and horse-racing', Maria turning to manuals on botany and gardening, and Frances to fiction (see ODNB). Their other brother, Roger, had a son Shallcross Fitzherbert Jacson (1826-1917) who married Frances, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Cook of Newton Hall, and who inherited the house in 1856, following the death of his wife's brother, Samuel Edward Cook (later Widdrington). RARE. NO COPY IN BL and only two copies recorded in the British Isles (National Trust and private collection). Blakey, p. 172. (3) View on Christie's.com
![[JACSON, Frances Margaretta]. Disobedience. A Novel. London: William Lane, Minerva Press, 1797. 3 vols., 12° (166 x 103mm). H](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10058/2795087/d5327497e_468x382.jpg)
[JACSON, Frances Margaretta]. Disobedience. A Novel. London: William Lane, Minerva Press, 1797. 3 vols., 12° (166 x 103mm). Half-title in each vol. (half-title in vol. I with piece torn from bottom margin, vol. II with heavy worming to bottom margin of preliminaries and first 35 leaves, some staining in vol. IV, some general light spotting and occasional dust-soiling). Contemporary calf-backed grey boards, spine of each vol. numbered '77' in gilt (spines worn). Provenance: [Newton Hall, Northumberland]. FIRST EDITION of the author's second novel. Frances Jackson's novels 'enjoyed considerable contemporary popularity', Maria Edgeworth even considering one of her works superior to Jane Austen's Emma. However, her anonymity was carefully guarded, and once her authorship had faded into obscurity, it was only in the 1990s that secure assignment of her novels occured (see ODNB). Only 2 copies recorded in the British Isles (BL and John Rylands). Blakey p. 180. (4) View on Christie's.com
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Prometheus Unbound. London: C. & J. Ollier, 1820. 8° (204 x 128mm). Half-title, publisher's advertisment leaf at end. (Title and half-title spotted, some light spotting throughout, a little soiling). Brown morocco gilt by Tout and Sons, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the cancellandum contents leaf (A3). Additionally bound in after gathering A is the cancellans with the correct spelling. Wise pp.55-56. View on Christie's.com
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