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Liverpool. Bennison (Jonathan), Bennison's Map of the Town and Port of Liverpool with their Environs including Seacombe, Woodside, Birkenhead, Tranmere &c. from actual survey, Liverpool, 1846, large map, engraved by John Dower, with contemporary outline colouring, additional watercolour circles marking the locations of water tanks and reservoirs, with a manuscript explanation key, sectionalised and laid on linen, 1245 x 1775 mm, marbled endpapers, contained in a contemporary morocco gilt slipcase, the case heavily worn and frayed and split along one border, together with Newlands (James). Map of the Borough of Liverpool and the Townships immediately Adjacent with Contour Lines at every Eight feet of Altitude, lithographed by MacLure, MacDonald & MacGregor, published Wareing Webb, Liverpool, January 1849, uncoloured lithographic map, sectionalised and laid on linen, 580 x 890 mm, manuscript ownership signature to the endpaper, bound in contemporary gilt cloth boards, slight wear and some fading to the boards, with another copy similar, with extensive pencil annotations, plus a late 19th century engraved Ordnance Survey map of Liverpool, the Wirral, the estuaries of the Mersey and the Dee and part of Flintshire, sectionalised and laid on linen, marbled endpapers, 640 x 930 mmQTY: (4)

London. Faden (W.). The Country Twenty-Five Miles Round London planned from a Scale of One Mile to an Inch.., 1796, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, toned overall, a few folds strengthened on verso, 1040 x 1240 mm, together with Chas. Baker & Co. (publisher). London in the beginning of the 20th century, circa 1905, colour lithographic aerial prospect, old folds, short splits along old folds, 440 x 780 mm, with an advertisement for Chas. Baker and Cos. gentleman's clothing stores on the verso, with Stanford (Edward, publisher). A Map of the County of London shewing the Boundary of the Jurisdiction of The London County Council, Also the Boundaries of the Sanitary Districts..., 1899, lithographic map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 670 x 1015 mm, stiff cloth endpapers with a gilt title to the upper cover, with an untitled Ordnance Survey map of west London and southern England including parts of Middlesex, Oxford, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, circa 1840, some additional manuscript additions showing the proposed extension to railways, some staining, 915 x 1685 mmQTY: (4)NOTE:First described item: Howgego, number 188, state 4.

London. Paterson (Daniel), Paterson's Twenty Four Miles round London, with Reference to Seats of the Nobility and Gentry. London, published Bowles and Carver, 1809, circular engraved map with bright contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, reference tables to each of the spandrels, very slight spotting, overall size 660 x 660 mm, contained in a contemporary card slipcase with publisher's printed label to the upper cover, slight wear to the extremities, together with Smith (Charles). A New Map of the County of Middlesex..., 1832, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, some staining and offsetting, 455x 515 mm, contained in a contemporary card slipcase with publisher's printed label to the upper cover, near contemporary manuscript ownership signature to the printed label and the endpaper, with Cary (John). A New Map of Worcestershire Divided into Hundreds..., 1818, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, some staining and offsetting, marbled endpapers, 480 x 535 mm, contained in a contemporary marbled card slipcase, some wear and abrasion and a later ownership signature to the upper sidingQTY: (3)NOTE:The first described map. James Howgego. The Printed Maps of London, no.212a state 5.

Worcestershire. Taylor (Isaac), To The Right Honourable Earl of Coventry, Lord Lieutenant & Custos Rotulorum of this County...., This Map of the County of Worcester is most Humbly Dedicated by their Obedient and most Humble Servant, Isaac Taylor, Ross-on-Wye, 1772, large scale engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sensationalised into 16 pieces, each laid on to later card, each with a manuscript number, decorative uncoloured cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose, table of explanation set within a floriate border and a 'list of places taken from the Land Tax book', slight dust soiling, each sheet 255 x 255 mm, overall size if conjoined, approximately 1020 x 1020 mm, contained in a contemporary marbled card slipcase, the case is heavily worn, frayed and split along the jointsQTY: (1)NOTE:A rare example of one of Isaac Taylor's fine large-scale county maps.

* Neapolitan School. Five gouache drawings, Ischia, Pozzuoli da Monte Nuovo, Procida, Porto D'Ischia [and] Palazzo Reale al Chiatamone, mid-19th century, respectively, the three larger drawings with painted black borders and manuscript titles, the titles in 'drop-down' tabs below the image, slight marginal staining, tipped on to contemporary stiff paper, each approximately 280 x 415 mm, the two smaller images with manuscript titles on black painted borders, tipped on to one sheet of later stiff paper, each approximately 150 x 195 mmQTY: (5)

Cookery Receipts. A group of 3 manuscript cookery receipt books, late 19th and early 20th century, one dated 1888 and including recipes for potted herrings, salt cake, orange marmalade, another of similar date including recipes for curing hams, bacon, cleaning silks, making Christmas pudding, cherry wine, Oliver's biscuits, rice puddings, apple jelly, velvet cream, grape champagne, etc., both heavily used with leaves detached and frayed and later leaves inserted, contemporary roan-backed boards, soiled and worn, small 4to, the last recipe book dated at Worcester, 1904, and including cake recipes, etc., a few related leaves loosely inserted, contemporary cloth, some wear, 8voQTY: (3)

* Guernsey documents. A group of 6 manuscript documents relating to Guernsey, c. 1803-11, one a pre-printed document completed in manuscript, whereby Peter Le Lacheur, Captain Commander of the Letter of Marque, called the Lord Nelson off the Island of Guernsey, appoints Joseph Grout to take possession and command of the Hector from New Orleans bound for Bordeaux, (whereof Eugenio Marchand was late Master), to take the vessel to Guernsey, signed and dated 1 July 1803, the other related documents all in manuscript concerning Joseph Grout, and related accounts concerning insurance, the brig Betsy etc., some soiling and age wear, a total of 9 pages, folioQTY: (6)

* Masefield (John Edward, 1878-1967). English poet and writer, Poet Laureate 1930-1967. An archive of letters and drawings, circa 1940s/1960s, including a group of 79 autograph letters signed, ‘John’ or ‘John Masefield’, c. 1948-66, all to Winifred Gledhill of Sheffield Manor School, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, all in pen except one in pencil and written on 1 or 2 sides of personal printed stationery, oblong 8vo, together with 58 of the original hand-addressed and postmarked envelopes, the letters and envelopes filed in 3 small modern ring binders, together with:a typed poem [Collingdon Downs, Sonnet XXVII] signed, [published 1917], a little creasing and a few minor marks, 1 page, 4to, matted with a reproduction portrait of Masefield, framed and glazed, plus 4 other framed and glazed items: a sheet of pencil drawings of brigs and other shipping vessels, signed and dated November 1927, 1 page, 8vo, matted with a manuscript caption in an unidentified hand beneath, ‘Drawings of Ships made for RHS by John Masefield, Nov 1927’; a drawing of a ship at sea, pencil and watercolour, initialled lower right, 11 x 15 cm; a sketch of a horse rider in hunting pink in the countryside, pen and ink and watercolour, drawn at the head of an octavo sheet with Masefield’s signed presentation inscription to lower blank area for Grace Hunter on her birthday, 17 x 11 cm; a portrait of John Masefield, by W.H. Caffyn, pen and ink and body colour, head and shoulders portrait within decorative border and with subject’s name in capital letters within lower border, pencil notes and marks to verso, 16 x 12 cmQTY: (an archive)NOTE:Winifred Eleanor Gledhill was principal of Market Rasen’s Sheffield Manor School, and was also one of the instigators of the Market Rasen Festival from 1944 through to 1976.

* Newfoundland. To Henry S. Shea Esquire, Captain Royal Artillery, Aide-de-Camp and Private Secretary to His Excellency Colonel Sir Stephen S. Hill, R.C.M.G. C.B. Governor of Newfoundland, c. 1850, manuscript farewell and congratulations upon Shea's coming promotion, written in a neat italic calligraphic hand and signed in three columns at foot by over 60 people including 'Edward Newfoundland' [Rev. Edward Feild, Bishop of Newfoundland 1844-1876], H.W. Hayles, Chief Justice, Thomas Joseph, Bishop of St John's, W.V. Whiteway, Solicitor General, James H. Kelly, Coadjutor Bishop of Newfoundland, et al, a little soiling, creasing and age wear, 61 x 40 cm, rolled with unattached wooden battenQTY: (1)

* Northampton. A collection of 13 broadsides and other publications, 1795-1836, including At a Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Inhabitants of the Town of Northampton, held at the Peacock Inn, the 12th June, 1795. Resolved, that the Mayor and Corporation have thought it proper to lay before the public their resolutions of the 8th instant... of preserving the Peace of the Town..., 4 pp., old folds, folio 33.5 x 21 cm; Northampton, 22 March, 1798. The Inhabitants of this Town and Neighbourhood who wish to enroll themselves in the Volunteer Corps now associating for assisting the Executive Government at this Alarming Crisis... single sheet,15.5 x 19 cm; Royal British System of Education. The King, the Patron of Education, and Friend of the Poor. Joseph Lancaster, Inventor and Superintendent of the Plan for Educating Poor Children, under Patronage of the King, Queen, the Prince of Wales, and Royal Family intends to Deliver a Lecture on his New and Original System of Education... November 1810, single sheet, 17 x 21 cm, plus others, i.e. The Oath of a Freeman of the Town of Northampton, Copy of a Petition to His Majesty for a New Charter, The Select Committee for Superintending the Management of the Soup House, in Northampton, Prospectus for Forming a Company to Supply the Town of Northampton with Water, together with other ephemera including Lady Augusta Leith, a manuscript receipt for the purchase of items of clothes, 1814, a census, circa 1790 of persons over 21 in Westminster (with names written in manuscript, a tax return 1860-61, Services at Stow Parish Church on the Coronation Day of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, June 26, 1902, and six ninteenth-century indentures, deeds, etc.QTY: (24)

Rufus (Quintus Curtius). De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, 1st Giunta edition, Florence: Phillipi Juntae, 1517, woodcut device to final text leaf verso, copious early marginal notations to first few gatherings (sporadic later in volume), marginal light spotting & dust-soiling, hinges tender, 18th-century brown speckled sheep gilt, lacking title label to spine, remnants of label to spine base, rubbed, some wear to joints, 8vo, together with:Heinsius (Daniel). Laus Asini tertia parte auctior : cum alijs festivis opusculis... Leiden: Elzevir, 1629, engraved title, woodcut initials & emblems to text, light dust-soiling & spotting, hinges tender, contemporary limp vellum with old red colouring (faded in parts), small manuscript title to spine head, rubbed, lacking ties, 24moQTY: (2)NOTE:Filippo Giunta (1450-1517), founder of the House of Giunta in Florence. Edited by Lucas Robia.Isaac 13395.

Ludolph (of Saxony). Vita Christi, ex Euangeliis et scriptoribus orthodoxis per Ludolphum Saxonium, sacri ordinis Carthusiensium, excerpta ... Adiecto indice nouo, & non vulgari, Paris: Claudium Chevallonium, 1534, printer's woodcut device to title, decorative initials, text in double column, early inscription to title 'Ad usum fris frci a Conceptione' repeated to foot of title (but partly inked over) & lower margin of first leaf of text (aa2), occasional early ink annotations in Latin, some marks & light soiling to preliminary leaves, later endpapers, later full vellum, manuscript title to fore-edge, portion of title label loosely inserted, some soiling & light wear, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Not in Adams.

Ovidius Naso (Publius). Metamorphoseon libri XV. Denuo collatis probatissimae fidei exemplaribus quam accuratissime emendati, 3 parts in one, Lyon: Godefroy & Marcellin Beringen, 1547, separate title to each part with woodcut device, first title with some light water stains, woodcut initials, first title with colophon to verso of final leaf, second and third titles with woodcut device of a ring to verso of final leaf, with the words 'sine fraude', 453, 431, and 421 pp. respectively, text entirely set in italic, four lines of contemporary manuscript text in brown ink to final leaf of Philomela, and another contemporary inscription in brown ink to verso of final leaf of the third part, contemporary elaborately gilt decorated red full morocco, raised bands to spine, a few small wormholes to foot of spine, 16moQTY: (1)NOTE:Pettegree & Walsby, French Books III & IV, 81339.This edition not in Adams (CO494 for the Gryphius edition of the same year).

Eber (Paul). L'Estat de la Religion et Republique du peuple Judaique. Depuis le retour de l'exil de Babylone iusques au dernier saccagement de Jerusalem, 2nd edition, [Geneva]: Jean Crespin, 1563, printer's woodcut device to title, bound with at front:Hainaut (Jean de), L'Estat de l'Eglise, avec le discours des temps, depuis les apostres, jusques a? present: augmente? et reveu tellement..., [Geneva: Jean Crespin], 1564, printer's woodcut device to title and verso of final leaf, few woodcut illustrations, upper blank margin of title frayed with ink burn and with 19th-century manuscript ownership, occasional light damp stains, dust-soiling and few marks, manuscript notes to pastedowns, late 17th-century panelled calf, recent reback, board corners worn, 8voQTY: (1)

Hese (Jean de). Peregrinatio ab urbe Hiervsalem institute, et per Indiam, Aethiopiam, aliasque quasdam remotas mundi nationes ducta: quarum fitus, insulas, flumina, montes, mores & diversitates hominum, animalia, monstra & mirabilia multa, nostro orbi incognita describit... & De Orbis Situ, ac descriptione... Francisci, Monachi ordinis Franciscani... 2 parts in 1, Antwerp: Joannes Withagius, 1565, A-G8, H3, woodcut vignette to title of each part (continuous pagination), second part with large woodcut illustration of a globe to verso, small 19th-century ownership ticket of Jacobi Manzoni to front pastedown, small old ownership inscription to front free endpaper (not legible), light toning, contemporary limp paper boards, title in manuscript to spine, rubbed, small 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:A fictional account of the author's travels t Jerusalem and elsewhere, more commonly known as the Itinerarius, first published in 1490.

Nashe (Thomas, 1567-c.1601). A sammelband of 7 works, 1592-1600, comprising, in order: Nashes Lenten Stuffe, Containing, The Description and first Procreation and Increase of the towne of Great Yarmouth in Norffolke, 1st edition, 1599; Haue with you to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriel Harueys Hunt is vp, 1st edition, 1596; Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Diuell, 1593; Strange Newes, Of the intercepting certaine Letters, and a Conuoy of Verses, as they were going Pruilie to victuall the Low Countries, 1592; The Terrors of the night Or, A Discourse of Apparitions, 1st edition, 1594; [Attributed to John Lyly], Pappe with an hatchet. Alias, A figge for my God sonne, [1589]; A Pleasant Comedie, called Summers last will and Testament, 1600; all first or early edition issues published in London, all edges gilt, early 19th-century gilt-tooled calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, 4to (177 x 123 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Additional material bound in:A small portrait frontispiece of Nashe is mounted as frontispiece before the first title (19th-century reproduction from a 1597 original). At the start of the volume is a 4-page manuscript list of Nashe's works with notices of biographical accounts, written in a neat hand, probably by Robert Reeve, on laid paper with watermark of 'A. Smith'; a later manuscript note tipped in noting an account of Nashe's 2 plays published in the Retrospective Review for April 1828; this article copied in a neat contemporary hand and supplied on 3 part-folding pages at rear; a 4-page manuscript, in the same hand and on the same paper as the first list, giving a list of the volume's contents ('These have been long bound together in the same order'), and details of Nashe's works owned by the King's Library (24 items), the Marquis of Stafford (7 items), the Malone collection ('The Tragedie of Dido... by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nash Gent 1594'), the Garrick collection (Summers Last Will and Testament), the British Museum (6 items as referenced by Beloe's Anecdotes) and a final note by Reeve that 'Nash also wrote a play called "The Isle of Dogs” turned from a comedie into a tragedie. But it does not appear to have been printed.'Provenance: Thomas Smyth (possibly Sir Thomas Smyth of Hill Hall, Essex, c. 1602-1668): early name inscription to second title; Robert Reeve (died 1840), attorney-at law in Lowestoft, Suffolk: ownership inscription to front pastedown: ‘Robert Reeve, Lowestoft’; J[eremiah] J[ames] Colman (1830-1898) and his son Robert James Colman (1861-1946), of the J. & J. Colman mustard business, Norwich, Norfolk: armorial bookplates to front pastedown and front free endpaper.An extraordinary, and possibly unique, sammelband of rare works by the legendary prose writer Thomas Nashe. The only comparable items identified are a handful of multi-pamphlet volumes offered at auction centred on John Lyly and the Marprelate controversy. This collection of seven works was apparently bound by the former owner Robert Reeve, circa 1820, who notes that the items had been together in this order long since before he owned them. The missing two leaves in the final work are supplied in printed ‘facsimile’ and appear to have been specially set by Reeve at the time of binding; as such these two leaves are probably unique. For more information concerning editions and issue points the standard reference is the 5-volume works edition edited by Ronald B. McKerrow, 1904-10, with extra information obtained from ESTC, STC and Pforzheimer.Thomas Nashe (or Nash) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and pamphleteer. He is often considered the most brilliant and inventive prose writer of Elizabethan England. His subject range was wide as demonstrated in these seven works here. It is thought he collaborated with his friend Christopher Marlowe on Dido, Queen of Carthage, Ben Jonson on The Isle of Dogs (now lost) and Shakespeare on the Henry VI plays. In pamphlets such as Pierce Penniless he was involved in a defence of the Church of England. He was attracted to the Martin Marprelate controversy by his hatred of puritanism, being employed by the bishops to write against the works of fictional character Martin Marprelate. His lengthy and vicious quarrel with Gabriel Harvey was instrumental in defining English prose style and became so troubling that the authorities closed down the printing presses and issued a life ban on writing to both Harvey and Nash (1599).Nashes Lenten Stuffe (1599) was Nashe’s last work and written after he went on the run from the London authorities following the furore surrounding a performance of his and Ben Jonson’s Isle of Dogs (1597). Have with You to Saffron-Walden was a response to Gabriel Harvey during their lengthy feud. Pierce Penniless contains an attack on both Richard Harvey, the astrologer and the Marinist, who, as part of the Marprelate controversy, had been waging a pamphlet war attacking the episcopacy of the Anglican church. Strange Newes contains Nashe’s fierce response to Harvey’s demolition of the recently deceased writer, Robert Greene. In The Terrors of the Night Nash sceptically considers dreams, nightmares, and apparitions, which he considers born of superstition, melancholy or imagination. Pappe with a hatchet is now believed to have been written by John Lily, though its inclusion here leaves open the idea that Nashe may have had some involvement in it, and besides it is one of the pamphlets in the Marprelate controversy. The last item, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, is Nashe’s only extant solo-authored play, a comedy notable for breaking new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama.For the unabridged description with full details of each individual work please see the virtual catalogues and description on our website.

[Rastell, William]. A Table Collected of the yeres of our Lord God, and of the yeares of the kings of England, from the first yeare of William Conquerour: shewing how the yeares of our Lord God, and the yeares of the Kings of England concurre and agree together, by whiche Table it may be quickly accompted, how many yeares, moneths & dayes be past, since the making of any evidences, instruments, or writings, that have their dates of the yeres of the kinges reignes, and not dates of the yeres of our Lord God. And also it shal be redily seene, in what yeare of our Lord God those evidences, Instruments, or wrytings were made, Imprinted at London by [H. Middleton? for] John Waley, 1571, A-L8, black letter text, large woodcut to verso of title depicting God the Father and the Holy Ghost, and Mary (?) carrying the Cross, minor loss to lower blank fore-margin of title, not affecting text, final leaf of text with printer's imprint: Ex officina Joannis Waley Typographi. Anno a virgineo partu M.D.LXXI Mens. Martii, and woodcut device of a maiden and figure of death, generally a clean copy, with 65 pages of additional manuscript chronology in brown ink at end (from 1577 to 1771), and a further 19 blank leaves, inkstamp of Cornwell House to front endpaper, 18th century full calf gilt, rubbed and minor wear to head and foot of joints, small 8vo (textblock 14 x 8.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:STC 20738; EEBO 0018. An edition of William Rastell's A table collected of the yeres of our Lorde God, and of the yeres of the kynges of England, from the fyrst yere of William Conquerour, first published in 1558. William Rastell (1508-1565), English printer, lawyer and man of letters, who edited the works of his uncle, Thomas More. He rose to the position of treasurer at Lincoln's Inn in 1549 but was forced to go into exile at Leuven by the Protestant policies of Edward VI. He returned to England following the accession of Queen Mary in 1553, going into exile once again in 1563.

Manutius (Aldus). De Quaesitis per epistolam, libri III. 1st Aldine edition, 3 parts in 1, Venice: [Aldine Press], 1576, woodcut vignette portrait of Aldo Manuzio the Elder to title, woodcut initials & headpiece, small armorial ownership ticket of Jacobi Manzoni to front pastedown, D1 with lower right-hand corner snipped with loss, sporadic spotting, endpapers renewed, a few leaves toned, portion of title lower margin with neat paper repair to verso, a few small water-stains, late 19th-century mottled sheep-backed boards, red morocco title label lettered in gilt to spine, contemporary manuscript title to lower edge, lightly rubbed & marked, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams M440.

Beza (Theodore). Icones, id est verae imagines doctrina simul et pietate illustrium... additis eorundem vitae & operae descriptiones, quibus adiectae sunt nonnullae picturae quas emblemata vocant, Geneva: Jean de Laon, 1580, lacking i1-2, 2q1 & 4, title-page with woodcut printer's device, 37 woodcut portraits within Renaissance borders, 51 woodcut borders without portraits, 43 woodcut emblems (8 with early hand-colouring), numerous woodcut head-pieces and initials, many leaves with contemporary & early manuscript annotations, bookplate of 'Sylvae Ducis' to front pastedown, a few neat paper repairs to margins, occasional light dust-soiling, contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine, lightly marked, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams B920.

Aquinas (Thomas). Enarrationes quas cathenam vere auream dicunt, Venice: Marcum Antonium Zalterium & Michaelem Zanettum, 1584, woodcut vignette title, text in double column, unnamed bookplate to front pastedown, neat early notations & manuscript contents in Latin to front blank, some gatherings faintly damp-stained to margins (sometimes affecting text), spotting & toning, some leaves with small worm-holes, old paper with faint blindstamp stuck to title outer margin, crossed out contemporary ownership inscription to title, early grey paper boards, manuscript title to spine, marked & rubbed, 8vo, together with:Irenaeus (Saint). Fragmenta Anecdota, Hague: Henrici Scheurlerii, 1715, vignette title, woodcut initials & tailpieces, a few faint damp-stains, occasional light toning, early Latin notations to front blank verso, modern neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, marked & lightly soiled, 8vo, plusSegneri (Paolo). Quadraginta Sermones, Dillingen: Joannis Caspari Bencard, 1693, title in red & black, woodcut initials & headpieces, dust-soiled & lightly damp-stained, endpapers & blanks renewed, small early notation to title, modern brown morocco, rubbed, small 4to, with 3 other antiquarian volumesQTY: (6)

[Saint German, Christopher]. The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, and a Student in the Lawes of England, newlie corrected and imprinted, with new additions, London: Imprinted at London in Fleetestreete, within Temple Barre at the signe of the Hand and Starre by Richard Tottill, 1593, text in black letter, A-Y8, Z4, contemporary ink note to title identifying the name of the author: 'By Christopher Saint German, Interioris Templi Societate Armr.', manuscript annotations to blank flyleaf and occasionally to margins in a neat early hand, contemporary limp vellum, some discolouration and light soiling, lacking ties, small 8vo (textblock measures 131 x 85 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Francis Astry of Woodend, Bedfordshire (his inscription in ink to verso of final leaf of text). A gift from Francis Astry (or Astrey), of Woodend in Bedfordshire, i.e. the Rev. Dr Francis Astrey (1676-1766), Treasurer of St Paul's Cathedral (his property inherited by Francis Penyston of Cornwell, Oxfordshire).Beale T-479; STC 21575.Late 16th-century printing of "the most remarkable book relating to English law published in the Tudor period, and quite unlike any book to have come from the pen of an English lawyer before" (DNB). The first 24 chapters were initially published in Latin in 1528, and the English translation appeared in 1530 with an additional 13 dialogues between the theologian and the barrister. It remained the standard handbook for legal students until the appearance of Blackstone's Commentaries in the 18th century.

Bible [English]. The Bible that is, the holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testaments, Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, [1612], engraved general title with detailed early manuscript table and notes listing 'the division of the kingdoms upon Solomon's death' (with heavy show-through to front of title), New Testament title present with imprint dated 1611 with detailed genealogical entries to verso (with consequent heavy show-through to recto of title), Apocrypha present, full-page woodcut illustration of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, few other woodcut illustrations, colophon dated 1612, early marginal notes in ink and underscoring, upper outer corner of 4Q3 torn and neatly repaired (with no text loss), bound with at front The Booke of Common Prayer, with the Psalter or Psalmes of David. Of that Translation which is appointed to be used in Churches, Imprinted at London by Robert Parker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1611, title within decorative woodcut border, with early manuscript to margins including ownership M. Dalton (verso of title strengthened to lower outer corner, occasional early marginal notes, bound with (at rear) The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others, conferred with the Hebrewe, with apt notes to sing them with all..., London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1609, early manuscript annotations to last two leaves, some toning throughout, occasional light dust-soiling and minor damp stains to few leaves, manuscript notes and few late 17th and early 18th-century genealogical entries to blanks at front and rear (regarding the family of William Lyng & Mary Dalton), later endpapers, near-contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked preserving gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, board edges and corners neatly repaired, folio (32.6 x 21.8 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Herbert 312; Darlow & Moule 241; STC 2218.

Elzevir Press. Helvetiorum Respublica diversorum autorum, quorum nonnulli nunc primum in lucem prodeunt, Leiden: Elzevir, 1627, engraved title, 535 pp., Cornwell House ink stamp, all edges red, contemporary vellum, some dust-soiling to spine, 12mo, together with F. Sprecheri Rhetia, ubi eius verus situs, politia, bella, foedera, et alia memorabilia accuratissime describuntur, Leiden: Elzevir, 1633, engraved title, Cornwell House ink stamp at front, manuscript collation note dated 1720, all edges gilt, contemporary vellum, light dust-soiling to spine, 12mo, plus Svecia, siue de Suecorum regis dominiis et opibus. Commentarius politicus, Leiden: Elzevir, 1631, engraved title, Cornwell House ink stamp, collation note, 1720 at front, contemporary vellum, spine dust-soiled, 12mo, with 6 others by the press including Respublica et Status Regni Hungaryae, 1634, Respublica Bojema a M. Paulo Stransky. Z., 1643, Bellum Bohemicum recensente, 1646, and Republica sine status regni Poloniae, Lituaniae, Prussiae, Livoniae etc, 1627QTY: (9)

Ovid. Opera omnia. Daniel Heinsius recensuit; accedunt breves notae..., 3 volumes, Leiden: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1629, engraved title to first volume, Cornwell House ink stamp to front free endpapers of each volume, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spines, volume 3 lacking title label to spine, light wear at head and foot of spines, 16mo in 8s, together with:Seneca (Lucius Annaeus), Opera omnia: Ex ult: I. Lipsii emendatione: et a M. Annaei Senecae ... quae exstant; ex And. Schotti recens, 3 volumes, Leiden: Elzevirios, 1640, engraved title to first volume, letterpress titles to other volumes dated 1639, Cornwell House ink stamp to front free endpapers, contemporary calf with morocco title label to each spine, some wear to extremities, 12mo, Tacitus (Cornelius), Cornelius Tacitus ex I. Lipsii accuratissima edition, Leiden: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1634, engraved title, early manuscript annotations at head of title and to following leaf, Cornwell House ink stamp to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, without title label to spine, light wear to extremities, 12mo, plus three other Elzevir Press volumes: including Titi Livii Historiarum Libri ex recensione Heinsiana, volumes 1 & 2 only (of 3, a matched pair), Leiden: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1634 and Operum P. Ovidii Nasonis edition nova..., 3 volumes in one, Amsterdam: Danielis Elzevirii, 1664QTY: (10)NOTE:Willems 317, 508, 415, 405 and 1345 respectively.

Elzevir Press. Regni Chinensis Descriptio, ex varijs authoribus, Leiden: Elzevir Press, 1639, engraved title, 2 full-page woodcut illustrations, Cornwell House circular ink stamp to front endpaper, all edges red, contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript, slight dust-soiling to spine, 12moQTY: (1)NOTE:Willems 486; Cordier, Sinica 23; Löwendahl 91; Lust 69.Comprises “extracts, largely from Trigault, De regno Chinae, also from Marco Polo, etc. on China in general" (Lust).

Werdenhagen (J.A.) De Rebuspublicis Hanseaticis, tractatus generalis, 4 volumes, Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1631-33, engraved title and engraved portrait of the author to volume I, Cornwell House ink stamps, manuscript collation note, 1720 at front of volume I, contemporary vellum, spines a little dust-soiled, 12mo, together with Guillelmi Postelli de Republica seu Magistratibus Atheniensium Liber. Ex musaeo Joan. Balesdens, in Principe Senatu advoeau, Ledien: Joannes Maire, 1635, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, Cornwell House ink stamp, all edges red, contemporary vellum, spine dust-soiled, 12mo, with 3 others by the publisher: Tractatus de Republica Romano-Germanica, by Jacob Lampadio, 1634, De Republica seu Magistratibus Atheniensium, 1645, and De Universitate libri duo: in quibus astronomie, editio tertia, 1635: QTY: (8)

Bohme (Jakob). Psycologia vera I.B.T. XL quaestionibus explicata. Et rerum publicarum vero regimini: ac earum Maiestatico Juri applicata, translated by Johanne Angelio Werdenhagen, Amsterdam: Johann Janssonius, 1632, [94],621pp., engraved title, folding diagrammatic plate ' Figura Oculi Aeternitatis, sive Globe Philosophici', Cornwell House ink stamp to front endpaper, contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript, a little dust-soiled, 12mo QTY: (1)NOTE:Scarce Latin translation of Jakob Boehme's Vierzig Fragen von der Seele of 1620.

Elzevir Press. De Constantinopoleos Topographia lib. IV, by Pierre Gilles, Leiden: Elzevir Press, 1632, engraved title, small marginal wormtrack to P2 just affecting one or two letters, previous owner signature, Cornwell House circular ink stamp, all edges red, contemporary vellum, spine titles in manuscript, 12mo, together with A. Gislenii Busbequii. Omnia quae extant, Leiden: Elzevir Press, 1633, engraved title, small annotations to one front endpaper, Cornwell House ink stamp, all edges red, contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript, a few small stains, 12moQTY: (2)NOTE:Willems 367 & 380.

Elzevir Press. Republica Hebraeorum Libri III, editio novissima, by Petrus Cunaeus, Leiden: Elzevir Press, 1632, engraved title, errata leaf at end, Cornwell Hous ink stamp to front endpaper, all edges red, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, a little dust-soiled, 12mo, together with Itinerarium Benjaminis, Latine redditum opera Cons. l'Empereur, Leiden: Elzevir, 1633, title with woodcut Elzevir device, small womtracks in gutter towards end, Cornwell House ink stamp, hinges broken, contemporary vellum, dust-soiling to spine, 12mo, plus Bonaventura Cornelius Bertramus. De Republica Ebraeorum Recentitus commentarioque illustratur opera Constant. l'Empereur, Leiden: Joannis Maire, 1641, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, Cornwell House ink stamp, all edges red, contemporary vellum, some dust-soiling to spine, 12moQTY: (3)NOTE:Willems 362 & 379 for first two works.

[Wotton, Henry, 1568-1639]. 'Of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex and George Villiers Duke of Buckingham some observations by way of Paralell in the tyme of their estates of favour, 1634', contemporary manuscript fair copy in a very neat hand on rectos and versos of 26 unnumbered leaves, following on in another neat contemporary hand with 'On this great Frost 1634' and 'On the Thawe 1634', [by William Cartwright, 1611-1643], 5 pp., there following in a third contemporary hand 2 leaves with copy of a monument inscription for Maria, Countess Buckingham, [in Westminster Abbey], the second titled 'Epigrames. To D.W.', beginning 'A man of scarlet lately was promoted', the remaining leaves largely blank save for 11 lines from Spenser's Fairy Queen in a later hand to an initial leaf, possibly in the hand of F[rancis] Penyston whose signature appears at rear along with 12 pages of notes on the Kings of England, seemingly in his hand, Cornwell House ink stamp, 3 further pen and pencil name inscriptions in difficult hands at front of volume, contemporary limp vellum, some soiling, one corner with small loss, small 8vo (150 x 100 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:The most substantial item is that by Henry Wotton which was published in 1641 under the title A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham. This would seem to be a manuscript copy that was made (perhaps for private circulation) before publication. The two Cartwright poems would appear to be very contemporary fair copies.

Elzevir Press. Descriptio Regni Japoniae, cum quibusdam affinis materiae ex variis auctoribus collecta et in ordinem redacta per Bernhardum Varenium, Amsterdam: Elzevir Press, 2 parts in one, 1649, engraved title (close-trimmed to right margin), folding table, occasional light water stain, all edges red, Cornwell House ink stamp to front endpaper, all edges red, contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript, slight dust-soiling, 12mo, together with Tractatus in quo agitur. De Japoniorum religione. De Christianae religionis introductione in ea loca, De ejusdem exstirpatione, Amsterdam: Elzevir Press, 1649, occasional light water stain, Cornwell House ink stamp, all edges red, contemporary, spine with light dust-soiling, 12moQTY: (2)NOTE:Willems 1095.

Manuscript Volume. A manuscript volume of legal notes on laws and regulations relating to Non Conformists, Conventicles [unlawful religious meetings], Quakers, and the Militia, apparently compiled by Nicholas Estoelle, a professional clerk in Piccadilly, London, on behalf of Thomas Penyston, son of Sir Thomas Penistone of Cornwell, Oxfordshire, circa 1663, 41 pages of manuscript notes in brown ink, each page numbered (the final page 41 titled but otherwise blank), numerous blank leaves thereafter, with a full-page coat of arms of Thomas Penyston in a different hand at the front of the volume, in brown ink, bearing the motto: virtus invicta viget, signed Thomas Penyston, Brill 1655 below, and with the clerk's name and address with red seal to the inside rear vellum cover: 'Mr Nicholas Estoelle at one Lecons next done to the Lion in the Wood in picudille', also loosely inserted at rear a contemporary handwritten account (possibly by Nicolas Estoelle or Thomas Penyston) of moneys owed: 'A note of money due to me this quarter Dec; 25', which includes sums from the 'publique account', Mr Knollys, etc., with further accounts to verso possibly in a different hand, contemporary limp vellum with yapp fore-edges, original vellum tie attached to upper cover, some soiling and light wear, small 8vo (textblock 138 x 90 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Thomas Penyston, son of Sir Thomas Penistone (1591-1644), of Cornwell, Oxfordshire.Sir Thomas Penistone was among a large number of gentleman in the retinue of the third Earl of Dorset – “one of the seventeenth century’s most accomplished gamblers and wastrels” according to Robert Cooper in The Literary Guide and Companion to Southern England (Ohio University Press, 1998) taken from Acts of Parliament.The Lion in the Wood may be a public house that existed in Wilderness Lane near Dorset Street in London.

Buchanan (George). Geor. Buchanani Scoti Poemata quae extant, Editio postrema, Amsterdam: apud Joannem a Waesberge et Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1665, engraved title with ink erased signature to lower margin, Cornwell House ink stamp to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, upper joint cracked, light wear to extremities, 16mo in 8s, together with:Prudentius, Aurelii Prudentii Clementis, V. Cons. opera, ex recensione Victoris Giselini, Raphelengii [Antwerp]: Ex Officina Plantiniana, 1610, printer's woodcut device to title and with early manuscript annotation, Cornwell House ink stamp to front blank, contemporary calf, gilt floral motif to centre of each board, 16mo,Demosthenes, Demosthenis Orationes Olynthiacae et Philippicæ Græce et Latine simul editae cum argumentis Libanij, Augustae Munatianae, 1620, some browning throughout, contemporary calf, slight wear to extremities, 12mo,New Testament [Greek], He Kaine Diatheke. Novum Testamentum ex regiis aliisque optimis editionibus, hac nova expressum: cui quid accesserit, praefatio docebit, one volume in two, Leiden: Ex officina Elzeviriorum, 1633, title in red and black with woodcut device and early ink initials, L9 provided from another edition, early 18th-century calf, gilt decorated spine with contrasting labels, 24mo in 12a, plus other similar 17th and 18th-century small format antiquarian volumesQTY: (16)

Denham (Sir John). Poems and Translations, with the Sophy, 1st edition, London: Printed for H. Herringman at the Sign of the Blue-Anchor in the Lower-Walk of the New-Exchange, 1668, two parts bound in one, a variant issue, with N6 (bound at end of the first part with errata for both parts), and A5 (The Table) bound in before title to the second part (The Sophy), a few minor marks (generally in clean condition), early 16th century printed endpapers, with 17th-century ownership inscription 'Robert King's booke', with manuscript motto 'Res divina poesiest', later ink stamp of Cornwell House to blank before title, contemporary plain full calf, upper joint partly cracked at head, water stain to lower outer corner of the upper cover, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Grolier 263; Wing D1005.

Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church... together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., London: Printed by John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1679, title and borders red-ruled throughout, spotting mostly to first and last few leaves, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated black morocco, worn at foot of spine, 24mo in 12s, together with:Theology, A Discourse concerning the Duty of Repentance, in two parts. Shewing the necessity of a good life, and the insufficiency of a death-bed repentance to salvation, after a life spent in sin, Dublin: Printed by Aaron Rhames, for R. Gunne, in Capel Street, 1734, [4], 104p., manuscript annotation to title 'by the famous Mr Edgeworth', occasional worm holes throughout, front pastedown with 18th-century inscription 'Deane Swift Ex Dono Charissime 1749, M60', contemporary sheep, upper board detached (with some worming), lacking lower board, worn, 12mo 6s (no institutional location found),[Allestree, Richard], The New Whole Duty of Man, containing the faith as well as practice of a Christian, made easy for the practice of the present age..., London: W. Bent, circa 1810, engraved portrait frontispiece and title, occasional light spotting, contemporary sheep, joints cracked and some wear to extremities, 8vo, plus two other early 19th-century antiquarian relatedQTY: (5)

Groot (Hugo de). Nederlandtsche Jaerboeken en Historien, sedert het jaer MDLV tot hat jaer MDCIX; met de belegering der stadt Grol en den aenkleben des jaers MDCXXVII; als ook het tractaet van de Batavische nu Hollandtsche Republyk en de vrye zwvaert...vertaelt door Joan Goris, Ansterdam: Weduwe van Johannes van Someren.., 1681, half-title, additional engraved allegorical title, printed title in red and black with woodcut vignette, woodcut initial, engraved frontispiece, 26 double-page copper engraved plates by Jan Luyken, 20 single-page engraved portraits, pp.259-60 misbound after pp.261-2, 19th-century bookplate of Henry Lea Guillebaud to front endpaper, contemporary vellum, rubbed and some wear, rebacked, folio, together with:Opneer (Peiter). Opus Chronographicum Orbis Universi a mundi exordio usque ad annum M.DC.XI. Continens historiam, icones, et elogia, summorum pontificum imperatorum, regum, ac virorum illustrium, Antwerp, Hieronymi Verdussii, 1611, engraved title with architectural border, woodcut portraits to text, folding Geneology, Hhh1-4 supplied in manuscript facsimile, some light toning, title remargined and relaid, †2-6 with paper restoration to lower margins, early 19th century half sheep over light green marbled boards, worn, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:The first Dutch and the first illustrated edition.

Adrichem (Christiaan van). Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et biblicarum cum tabulis geographicis aere expressis, Cologne: Jodocum Henricum Kramer, 1682, engraved title with 18th-century manuscript to lower margin, eleven folding or double-page engraved maps and one folding engraved plan of Jerusalem, folding map 'situs terrae promissionis...' lined to verso and torn with slight loss, 'Tribus Neptalim' and 'Tribus Simeon' both cropped to ruled margin and re-margined, one other map trimmed to lower margin with slight image loss, plan of Jerusalem lined to verso and with few areas torn with image loss, toning and few marks, occasional marginal fraying, contemporary gilt-panelled vellum, old morocco reback (rubbed), folio QTY: (1)NOTE:A scholarly treatise on the Holy Land, published several times since 1590.

Buonarroti (Filippo). Osservazioni istoriche sopra alcuni medaglioni antichi all'altezza serenissima di Cosimo III. Granduca di Toscana, Rome: Domenico Antonio Ercole in Parione, 1698, additional engraved title, 32 folding engraved plates and numerous illustrations, occasional light spotting, contemporary vellum, 4to, together with Occo (Adolf), Imperatorum Romanorum numismata a Pompeo Magno ad Heraclium ab Adolfo Occone olim congesta, nunc Augustorum iconibus, perpetuis historico-chronologicis notis, pluribusque additamentis illustrata, & aucta. Sac. Caesareae et Regiae Maiestati Inuictissimi, et Clementissimi Leopoldi Primi Optimi Maximi, Augustorum Augusti exhibita studio, et cura Francisci Mediobarbi Biragi S.R.I. comitis, & regiae ciuitatis Papiae decurionis, Milan: Ludouici Montiae, 1683, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black with engraved illustration, initial 8 leaves with loss to lower outer corners with crude repairs, few engraved illustrations to text, occasional light damp stains mostly to lower outer corners, 19th-century sheep-backed marbled boards, joints cracked, folio, plus [Goltzius, Hubert], Imagines et vitae imperatorvm Romanorum : Illae ad vetusta numismata fideliter designatae; hae ex probatissimis auctoribus depromtae. Addita ad singulas imagines Ausony? & aliorum Elogia Tetrasticha, [Leiden]: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Christophorum Raphelegium, 1599, printer's woodcut device to title (torn with loss mostly to fore-margin, manuscript additions at head & foot, ink stamp to verso), woodcut illustrations to text, some toning throughout, ink stamp to verso of rear free endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, 16mo in 8s (Adams I47)QTY: (3)

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by his Majestie's special command..., [Amsterdam?]: Printed in the Year 1708, additional engraved general title, letterpress general and New Testament titles, three folding engraved maps only by Visscher (of five), one folding plan of Jerusalem (detached), Apocrypha present, maps and plan torn and frayed to margins with some loss and repaired, bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer..., London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, Deceas'd, 1711, title torn with loss not affecting text (creased) and upper margin of A2 also torn, and bound with at rear The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, London: Company of Stationers, 1702, worm holes to fore-margins throughout volume, and worm trails mostly to fore-margins of Book of Psalms at rear of volume, some toning and few marks, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine, joints split at head and foot and some wear, folio (37.8 x 23.5 cm), together with:Prideaux (Humphrey), The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations, from the declension of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the time of Christ, volume 1 only (of 2), 5th edition, London: R. Knaplock and J. Tonson, 1718, title in red and black, five folding engraved maps and one folding plan, engraved illustration, 20th-century manuscript map adhered to front pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, lower joint split and upper board detached, title label lacking, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Bible - Herbert 897; Darlow & Moule 700.The King James' version, with the Geneva notes, etc.

Reelant (Adriaan). Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Utrecht: Guilielmi Broedelet, 1714, additional engraved title, letterpress titles printed in red & black with printer's engraved device, folding engraved portrait, four folding engraved maps, six single-page engraved maps, two folding engraved charts, one folding engraved plate, one large folding table, few engraved illustrations to letterpress, light toning and spotting, manuscript ink library number to titles, 19th century Bristol Baptist College library stamps to front endpapers, contemporary vellum, spine to volume 1 torn with significant loss, small area of spine to volume 2 torn with slight loss, worn, 4to (Blackmer 1406), together with:Lamy (Bernard), Apparatus Biblicus sive Manuductio ad Sacram Scripturam, tum clarius, tum facilius intelligendam..., edition octava Veneta..., Venice: Laurentium Basilium, 1793, 12 engraved maps, plates & tables (comprising 3 folding maps and 9 folding plates & tables etc.), light damp stain to lower outer corners, contemporary marbled sheep, slight wear to extremities, 8voQTY: (3)

Legal Manuscript. A manuscript volume of the transcriptions of law reports and cases, mid-18th century, probably compiled by F. Fisher of Inner Temple and transcribed from works such as Edward Coke's Reports, etc., written to rectos only of 158 numbered leaves, approximately 350 leaves blank at rear, ownership signature 'F. Fisher, Kemp. Int.' to front flyleaf, additionally signed by Fisher to rear free endpaper and by Richard Paley of Inner Temple (1721/2) to rear pastedown, Cornwell House ink stamp, contemporary reversed calf with title label 'Commonplace Book', worn, covers detached, folio (37 x 24 cm)QTY: (1)

[Akenside, Mark]. The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem. In three books, 1st edition, London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1744, half-title, title printed in red and black (with the Authors name provided in ink manuscript to centre of the leaf), page 20 misnumbered 22, bound with [Armstrong, John]. The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem, 1st edition, London: A. Millar, 1744, title with price printed beneath the imprint, both works untrimmed, contemporary palin calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed and a , little wear, 4to, together with other 18th-century history and related, almost all bound in contemporary leather bindings, including David Hume, The History of England, 6 volumes, A. Millar, 1762, George Lord Littelton, The History of the Life of Kind Henry II, 4 volumes, London: W. Sandby & J. Dodsley, 1767, William Robertson, The History of the Reign of The Emperor Charles V, 3 volumes, W. & W. Strahan, 1769, Joseph Baretti, A Dictionary of the Engliah and Italian Languages, 2 volumes, new edition, 1778, N. Hooke, The Roman History, 4 volumes, 5th edition, 1770, Remians of John Tweddell late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge being a selection of his correspondence, a republication of his Prolusiones Juveniles, an appendix contianing some account of the author's collections mss. drawings & c., and of thier extraordinary disappearance preceded by a biographical memoir of the deceased and illustrated with portraits, picturesque views and maps by the Rev. Robert Tweddell, 2nd edition, 1816, and volume two only of Maria Edgeworth's Practical Education, 1798QTY: (22)NOTE:Akenside: Rothschild 20; Foxon A139.

Bindings. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the original tongues..., Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid, 1758, part work only (Genesis - Ecclesiastes), letterpress general title and preliminary leaves, volume text ends at 2F9 (Ecclesiastes xxxi. 31), some dust and finger-soiling, scattered spotting, floral blocked endpapers (slightly worn) with 18th and early 19th-century manuscript ownership and genealogical entries to blanks and verso of free endpapers (names include Margaret Dickie with various dates 1771 to 1805, Margaret Dunlop 1788, James Dunlop 1826, William Dunlop born 25 Nov 1793 etc.), all edges gilt, contemporary maroon brown crushed morocco with elaborate Scottish 'Wheel' gilt decoration, joints cracked and some wear at head, 12mo in 6s (13.1 x 7.4 cm), together with: The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the original tongues..., Oxford: Printed by Thomas Basket, Printer to the University, 1750, part work only (Genesis - Psalms), letterpress general title and preliminary leaves, volume text ends at X7 (Psalms CXLVIII. 2), some dust and finger-soiling, Dutch-gilt pastedowns, all edges gilt, contemporary brown crushed morocco with Scottish 'Herring Bone' gilt decoration, joints cracked and light wear to extremities, 12mo (12.8 x 6.9 cm),The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ..., (being the New Testament portion only of 1716 Holy Bible), Edinburgh: printed by James Watson, 1716, letterpress title with woodcut device and decorative border, title and borders red-ruled throughout volume, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated maroon morocco, joints split and some wear, 12mo (12 x 6.2 cm)QTY: (3)

Mason (Charlotte). The Lady's Assistant for regulating and supplying her table; containing one hundred and fifty select bills of fare, properly disposed for family dinners ... with upwards of fifty bills of fare for suppers ... and several deserts: including a considerable number of choice receipts of various kinds ... now first published from the manuscript collection of a professed housekeeper, 1st edition, London: J. Walter, 1773, lower outer blank corner of introduction leaf torn away (without text loss), early manuscript recipes to verso of title, upper margin of introduction leaf, verso of final leaf and free endpapers (with some show-through), manuscript recipes for mince pies, civet of hare, fish sauce, elder wine, and 'Mrs Clark's recpt. to cure hams' etc., some spotting and few marks, contemporary calf, repaired at head & foot of spines and to board corners, 8vo, together with:Rundell (Maria Eliza Ketelby), A New System of Domestic Cookery ... By a Lady, new edition, corrected, London: John Murray, 1819, engraved frontispiece and nine plates, offsetting and spotting, some dust-soiling, contemporary half calf by S. & T. Gilbert, extremities rubbed, 12mo,Kent (Nathaniel), Hints to Gentlemen of Landed Property. To which are added supplementary hints, new edition, London: G. Nicol, J. Walker [& others], 1799, 10 engraved plates (including 6 folding), one engraved illustration, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with later red morocco title label, upper board detached, lower joint cracked, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Mason - Cagle 861; Maclean, p.95; Vicaire 572.

Wallace (Alfred Russel). Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "Mars and its Canals," with an Alternative Explanation, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co., 1907, half-title, two plates (including frontispiece), advertisement leaf at end, upper margin of title with early signature G.H. Rowe and early manuscript notes to final text leaf and first page of adverts (also with browning from loosely inserted newspaper cutting), a little spotting mostly to front and rear free endpapers, original green cloth gilt in bright condition, 8voQTY: (1)

Harrison (Joseph). The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine, conducted by Joseph Harrison, volumes 1 - 11 & 13, 1834 - 45, decorative titles, 169 engraved and lithographic plates, all with contemporary hand-colouring, slight spotting and offsetting, some volumes with a near 20th-century manuscript ownership signature to the front pastedown, uniform contemporary half calf gilt, some wear to extremities, 8voQTY: (12)NOTE:Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.

Franklin Expedition. Ephemera from Rear-Admiral Noel Wright to Commander John Minter relating to the Franklin expedition, 1952-65, two manuscript maps (King William's Land & Boothia Peninsular), 9 typed letters & extracts, some occasional spotting & toning, together with a first edition presentation copy from Wright to Minter of Wright's Quest for Franklin (1959)QTY: (12)

Group of three Hindu Indian illuminated manuscript pages. One side painted with an erotic or romantic scene and the other with script.Provenance: From the Estate of Horst Rechelbacher, Osceola, Wisconsin.Horst Rechelbacher, the founder of Aveda and Intelligent Nutrients, was a pioneer in the field of safe and eco-friendly cosmetics. The same curiosity that led him to explore ways to improve the beauty industry led him to travel the world, collecting rare and beautiful objects as he went.Each; sight: 9 in x width: 5 in. Framed; height: 16 in x width: 12 in.

[MILITARY] a folio red morocco blotter (rubbed) with, pasted on inside covers, printed and manuscript French / English award certificate of the Military Medal, to James Nunnerly, Quartermaster of the 17th Lancers, dated 1861.

[NAVY / ADMIRALTY / BANKING] a collection of documents relating to SIR EVAN NEPEAN, (1751-1822) of the Admiralty, including 10 manuscript or part-printed cheques / requests for payment, Dover 1798-1799, all endorsed and signed in full or with initials by Nepean, including 2 on account of the sloop Mercurius; 2 others with ms. dockets to the verso in Nepean's hand; a letter (2 pp. with integral leaf) to Nepean from the Dover banker J. Fector, regarding "230-240 gun boats (if worthy to be so called) abt. 160 of them lay sunk", at Dunkirk, dated 26th October, 1802, docketed 'Secret' in Nepean's hand; the expenses of J. Groves, to Nepean, re costs attendant to the prosecution of Carter the Bill-Sticker, etc., 1 p. foolscap, Jan. 1793; & a small q. (5) of bills & receipts regarding expenses incurred regarding the costs of custody, etc. of 2 French prisoners, Dover 1794 - with no obvious Nepean connection but part of this collection; & 2 docs. relating to maritime matters & the Margate bank Cobb & Co. (Q).

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, a vellum document with engraved vignette SIGNED by "BONAPARTE" in his capacity as Premier Consul, counter signed by Secretary of State, Maret, & Minister of War, Berthier; the piece entitled "Brevet d'Honneur Pour le Citoyen..." made out in manuscript to Francois Schouder, brigadier in the 14th Regiment of Dragoons, for his exceptional bravery (beneath the walls of Alexandria) serving with L'Arme d'Egypte, 30 Ventose, an 9 [i.e. 30 February 1801], and awarding him "un Sabre d'Honneur", 10 Prairial an 11 [i.e. 10th June 1804], with paper seal (vellum with folds & some discolouring) 33 x 43cms, unframed.

[MANUSCRIPT MUSIC, compiled by Anne Holder, 1812] 4to album, song list on front paste-down, over 118 numbered 48 unnumbered pages, various composers and writers, including Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Sarti, Moore, Rawlings, Bishop et alia; together with: BURNEY (F.H.) editor: The Musical Bijou, an Album of Music, Poetry, and Prose, 4to, title, 2 ff., pp. 113 (incl.4o ff. engr. music), 1 f. engraved sheet for owner name, litho frontis. & 2 litho plates (on india paper laid), roan-backed pictorial boards with litho scene and title, original blue roan backing, a,e,g, L., [1829] (2)

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INTEREST, misc. printed material, facsimile letters, but with some manuscript, mostly 19th c. (Q).

[LIFEBOATS / R.N.L.I.] The "Mary Somerville" Lifeboat, a large folio "Duplicates of Returns of Service" printed report book filled-in in manuscript with 29 reports of call-outs between 1886 and 1891, blue limp cloth, part printed label; together with 3 original photographs (mounted) of the crew (with and without life vests) & small q. modern research & other material (Q).[Note: the "Mary Somerville" was stationed at Deal, Kent, and was one of the boats sent out to the GOODWIN SANDS].

A collection of original illustration watercolours, some calligraphy & manuscript material, 19th / 20th c. (Q).

The Will of Bonny Bobby Shafto, the 18thC Durham and Wiltshire MP Robert Shafto is the widely accepted subject of the (seriously embellished) nursery rhyme Bonny Bobby Shafto. The will, which was apparently never proved, makes no mention of his 3 sons but appears to favour a mistress and 3 illegitimate children. Manuscript on 2 large parchment sheets, signed by the administrator appointed by the church court (gd)

Documents, North Charlton, Northumberland, 100+ small manuscript documents concerning the North Charlton tithes (payable by all householders in the parish) 1775-1811 (gen gd)

Jonathan Hinden, conductor and former Head of Music staff at Glyndebourne, a collection of his hand-annotated manuscript books

Mathematics.- Gauss (Carl Friedrich) Werke, edited by E.Schering, vol.1-7 in 3, a few manuscript leaves of calculations loosely inserted, a few ink spots to fore-edge of vol.2 & 3, contemporary half morocco, Gottingen, 1863-74 § Plücker (Dr. Julius) Analytisch-Geometrische Entwicklungen, 2 vol. in 1, 10 folding engraved plates, old ink library stamps to title, contemporary paste-paper boards, Essen, 1828-31 § Doppler (Christian) Versuch einer Erweiterung der analytischen Geometrie auf Grundlage eines neu einzuführenden Algorithmus, first edition, half-title, 9 folding lithographed plates, some foxing, final leaf of text torn and crudely repaired with tape, modern boards with original wrappers mounted on covers, Prague, 1843, all rubbed; and 2 bound volumes of dissertations by Jöns Svanberg, 4to (7)⁂ Volumes 8-12 of Gauss's works were edited by F.Klein and published later, from 1900 up to 1933.

Pordage (John) Sophia: das ist, Die Holdseelige ewige Jungfrau der Göttlichen Weisheit, first edition, small ink ownership inscription to title, occasional damp-stain to lower edge, occasional isolated spotting, contemporary wrappers, loss of most of spine, edges creased with loss to upper joint foot, uncut, 8vo, Amsterdam, 1699.⁂ First printed edition, in German; never published in original English, the unpublished manuscript having been lost. Pordage, Anglican priest, astrologer, alchemist and mystic records his spiritual journey and visions. Worldcat records only nine copies; bar the BL, all others in Germany, Switzerland and Denmark.