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Barbette (Paul). Opera omnia medica et chirurgica notis et observationibus... cum appendice..., opera et studio J. J. Manget, 3 parts in one, Geneva: I.A. Chouet, 1683, one engraved plate of surgical instruments, spotting throughout, heavy at front and rear, library stamp to title, close-trimmed at upper and outer margins occasionally shaving running head, library cloth, small 4to, together with Thesaurus chirurgiae: The Chirurgical and Anatomical Works... , 3 volumes in 1, 3rd edition, Moses Pitt, 1676, engraved frontispiece and three folding plates to first work, separate titles (Medicina Militaris and Cista Militaris, both dated 1674), library stamp to titles and plates, some spotting and light browning, trivial worming to lower margin, lacks half-titles and two final advert leaves, hinges cracked, library cloth, 8vo, (Wing B700), plus Praxis Barbettina, cum notis & observationibus Frederici Deckers, Leiden: Gassbekios, 1669, lacks additional engraved title, library stamp to printed title, light browning, old manuscript pharmacy notes to rear fly-leaf, modern cloth, slightly frayed at head, 12mo, plus three other editions of the same works. A much reprinted work, this early edition of Opera Omnia was published one year after the first edition. Krivatsy 651; Waller 667. The Praxis contains sections on the heart, epilepsy, and the gastro-intestinal system. (6)

Bellini (Lorenzo). De urinis et pulsibus, de missione sanguinis, de febribus, de morbis capitis et pectoris, dicatum Francisco Redi, cum praefatatione Johannis Bohnii..., 2nd edition, Frankfurt and Leipzig: Printed for Johannes Grossius by Christian Scholvinus, 1685, title printed in red and black (detached, library stamp and a few old annotations), bound with Bartholin (Caspar), De fontium fluviorumque origine ex pluviis dissertatio physica, 1st edition, Copenhagen, 1689, 48pp., bound with Whistler (Daniel), Disputatio medica inauguralis, De morbo puerili Anglorum quem patrio idiomate indiginae vocant The Rickets, quam Deo suppetias ferente, ex authoritate Johannis Polyandri a Kerchoven, reprint of the 1645 Leiden edition, Thomas Flesher, 1684, 16pp., bound with Stisser (Johann Andreas), De machinis fumiductoriis curiosis sive fumum impellendi intra corpus instrumentis ... epistola ad... ad ... Societatis Regiae Anglicanae, 1st edition, Hamburg: Gottfried Liebezeit, 1686, 16pp., four folding plates of tobacco pipes (each with library stamp), title close-trimmed at foremargin shaving the final letter s from `humiductoriis`, bound with Hanhard (Johann Huldreich), Dissertatio physica chemica, de salibus novis experimentis illustrata, 1st edition, Basel: prostat apud Reges, 1685, bound with Cujus sal eruditionis digestione decenti ita sapidum palatoque Aptissimum Evasit ut Et Ad Instar Auri Igne Probate Illibatum Perstiterit Is Merito E Fece Populi Ad Culmen Honoris Evehitur Doctorisque Tiara Decoratur Is Vero Est Vir Juvenis... Dn. Joh. Huldricus Hanhardus Helvetio Vitoduranus Accipiens E Manu Viri... D. D. Jacobi Rothii Anat. et Botan. Profess. Meritissimi... Ob Studium Singulare Itinera Literaria Summe Promeritan Solenniter In Rauracorum Parnasso D. VII. Iulii Ann. MDCLXXXV..., Basel, 1685, 12pp., some spotting or browning throughout, small brown stain to foremargin of last three items not affecting text and with worming within the stain of last two works, old manuscript notes to fly-leaf at front, library cloth, slightly rubbed and split at head of upper joint, 4to. 1) Bellini, professor of anatomy and medicine at Pisa, realized the value of the urine as an aid to diagnosis and insisted on its chemical analysis in pathological conditions` (G-M 4162, 1st edition, 1683). He became a professor early in life due to his discovery of ducts in the kidney, and later was physician to Cosimo de Medici and Pope Clement XI. 2) Caspar Bartholin, junior, was the first Scandinavian to support the new ideas on the origin of springs. 3) Whistler`s graduation thesis was the first description of rickets as a definite disease manifesting itself by a more or less constant association of symptoms. The book attracted little attention, and credit for the first description is usually give to Glisson (1650) who described rickets on the basis of clinical and post mortem experience with the condition (see below). Wing W1677. 4) Stisser`s medical study focuses on the use of tobacco smoke mixed with medicines to treat nervous disorders, including hysteria and epilepsy, and also compares the design and efficacy of English and German pipes in delivering the therapy. Waller 9266. (1)

Carminati (Bassano). De animalium ex mephitibus, et noxis halitibus interitu, ejusque Propioribus Cassis, libri tres, 1st edition, Laude Pompeja, 1777, woodcut initials, light water stain and spots, library stamp, bookplate, contemporary vellum, a little stained and bowed, 4to, together with Brogiani (Dominico), De veneno animantium naturali et acquisito tractatus, 1st edition, Florence, 1752, title with engraved vignette, marginal wormtracks and a few spots, library stamp, library cloth, 4to, plus Plenck (Joseph Jacob), Toxicologia seu doctrina de venenis et antidotis, 1st edition, Vienna, 1785, title with engraved vignette, 338pp., manuscript note to last leaf, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Mr Pemberton, library cloth, 8vo (3)

Colbatch (John). A Treatise of the Gout... , 1st edition, 1697, lacks initial blank, faint library stamp and a little spotting to title, bound with Four Treatises of Physick and Chirurgery... , the second edition Corrected and Enlarged, 1698, general title and four separate part-titles, continuous register, some spotting, bound with The Doctrine of Acids in the Cure of Diseases Farther Asserted, Being an Answer to Some Objections Raised Against it by Dr. F[rancis] Tuthill of Dorchester in Dorsetshire... , 1st edition, 1698, heavy browning throughout, bound with A Relation of a Very Sudden and Extraordinary Cure of a Person Bitten by a Viper, by the Means of Acids... , 1st edition, 1698, half-title, A1 (To the unknown Dr. Colbatch`) torn with large loss affecting last seven lines of recto, some spotting, manuscript contents to old front free endpaper, library cloth, 8vo, together with another copy of A Relation of a very Sudden and Extraordinary Cure of a Person Bitten by a Viper, by the Means of Acids. Together with some remarks upon Dr. Tuthill`s vindication of his objections against the doctrine of acids, 1st edition, 1698, half-title with adverts for the author`s other works to verso, some browning and old dampstaining to upper margin throughout, small repair to title upper corner touching outer rule border only, both library cloth, second volume soiled and slightly frayed on joints, both 8vo. Wing C5013, C4997, C4995 & C5007 (2 copies) respectively. (2)

Cooke (James). Supplementum Chirurgiae, or The Supplement to the Marrow of Chyrurgerie: Wherein is contained fevers, simple and componnd [sic], pestilential, and not, rickets, small pox and measles, with their definitions, causes, signes, prognosticks, and cures, both general, and particular. As also the military chest, containing all necessary medicaments, fit for sea, or land-service, whether simples, or compounds, such as purge, and those that do not; with their several vertues, doses, note of goodness, &c as also instruments. Amongst which are many approved receipts for several diseases, by James Cooke, Practitioner in Physick, and Chirurgery, 1st edition, 1655, vertical half-title (inscribed Bib: Harv: C.S:` in an old hand), library stamp to title, cigarette burn mark to lower fore-edge outside printed rule borders, bound with Hall (John), Select Observations on English Bodies..., trans. James Cooke, 1st edition, 1657, vertical half-title, archival closed tear repair to A7 verso without loss, foremargins of leaves A9/10 slightly chipped and frayed without loss of text or rule border, manuscript deletion/correction to three words K12 verso, lacks final two blanks, minor spotting, library cloth gilt, 12mo. Wing C6107; Wing H356 & Norman 971. Cooke was a surgeon at Warwick who also translated this second work. Hall married Shakespeare`s elder daughter Susanna, and was a successful Stratford practitioner, living at Hall`s Croft. The illnesses of several eminent persons are described, including Michael Drayton, the poet, but there is a gap in the period around the time of Shakespeare`s death. Both books are rare and were both printed for John Sherley, at the Golden Pelican, in Little-Britain`. (1)

Croce (Giovanni Andrea della). Chirurgiae universalis opus absolutum, 1st edition, Venice: R. Meiettum, 1596, title printed in red and black with large woodcut device, woodcut illustrations of operations and instruments, 4pp. contemporary manuscript index at end, manuscript note to front endpaper, one or two small repaired tears, light water stain and a few spots, library stamp, library cloth, edges lightly rubbed, 4to. Croce improved the instruments for trephination, and published classic woodcuts depicting the operation, including the first illustration of a neurological surgery operation actually taking place. The work is also important for Croce`s descriptions of cranial and cerebral diseases... Croce illustrated all of the instruments used before and during his own time` (G-M 4850.4, referring to his earlier Chirurgiae, libri septem, 1573); Adams C2993; Durling 1083. (1)

Deering (Charles). Catalogus Stirpium, &c. Or, a Catalogue of Plants Naturally Growing and Commonly Cultivated in Divers Parts of England, More Especially about Nottingham... 1st edition, Nottingham: G. Ayscough, 1738, additional dedication to William Griffith, part of Dd2 excised, numerous manuscript notes bound-in at end, library stamps, a few spots, library cloth, light stains, 8vo, together with Wepfer (Johan Jacob), Historia Cicutae Aquaticae, Leiden, 1733, title printed in red and black, six engraved plates (five folding), library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus Ray (John), Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum... 3rd edition, 1st issue, 1724, 24 engraved plates, a few spots, library cloth, library stamp, 8vo, with Meyrick (William), The New Family Herbal; Or, Domestick Physician, 1st edition, Birmingham, 1790, engraved frontispiece (detached), 14 hand-coloured engraved plates, light offsetting and spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, and Thomas Short`s Medicina Britannica: Or, a Treatise on such Physical Plants... 1746 (5)

Denman (Thomas). Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery. Part the Fisrt (sic), 1st edition, [all published], 1782, 262pp. plus index, together with An Essay on Difficult Labours, parts 1-3, 1st edition, 1787-91, 99pp., 78pp., 90pp., bound with An Essay on Uterine Hemorrhages Depending on Pregnancy and Parturition, 1st edition, 1785, 75pp., bound with An Essay on Preternatural Labours, 1st edition, 1786, 52pp., bound with An Essay on the Puerperal Fever, 3rd edition, 1785, 43pp., some light stains, manuscript list at front, library cloth, joints splitting, 8vo, together with Aphorisms on the Application and Use of the Forceps, on Preternatural Labours, and on Labours Attended with Hemorrhage, by Thomas Denman, 1st edition, 1783, blank interleaves, library stamp to title, 8vo, plus An Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery, by Thomas Denman, 2 volumes, 1788-95, some dampstains, library stamps, modern morocco-backed boards and library cloth, 8vo, with four other works: Thomas Denman`s An Essay on Difficult Labours, 3 parts in one, 1st edition, 1787-91, William Smellie`s A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, 3 volumes, mixed eds., 1762-64, another set in 3 volumes, 1779, and another set in 3 volumes, 1784 (14)

[Du Laurens, Andre]. Historia anatomica humani corporis et singularum eius partium, Frankfurt:Matthaus de Becker & Theodor de Bry, 1599], engraved medallion portrait of King Henry IV on leaf *2r, woodcut initials throughout, twenty-six full-page copper-engraved plates (old pencil scribble at foot of plate on Z1r), lacks engraved title, signature 3L in index and final blank, some spotting and light browning, a few old manuscript annotations, old ownership signature of J[ohn] Freer to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, old reback and corner repairs, some wear, folio (300 x 202mm) This work became very popular and went through a number of editions. It remains as one of the more important anatomical texts of the late sixteenth century. Although the book contains many illustrations, few of the plates are taken from Du Laurens` own observations as he took most of his figures from Vesalius, Valverde, Coiter, and others` (Heirs of Hippocrates 387); Adams D1072; Choulant-Frank, p. 222; Durling 1313; Osler 3174; Waller 2629; Wellcome 1935. (1)

Geminus (Thomas, c. 1510-1562). Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio aere exarata, 1st or 2nd English issue, Imprynted at London by Nycholas Hyll dwellynge in Saynte Johns streate, for Thomas Geminus, [1553], forty engraved plates, Adam & Eve double-page plate with figures trimmed close and just touching a fingertip of each, relaid on to two facing leaves, lacks the armorial, architecutral and allegorical engraved title here supplied in an early and possibly near-contemporary manuscript facsimile using silverpoint and sepia ink, manuscript details of the 1559 imprint incorporated at foot, central panel excised and left blank (Royal Coat of Arms in the 1553 editions, portrait of Queen Elizabeth I in the 1559 edition), a few minor tears and small loss to lower right margin, the whole leaf relaid, dedication leaf for King Edward VI, slightly browned and soiled, old inscription of Watt Tooke(?) dated 167[?] to upper outer corner and slightly trimmed, dedication leaf verso To the ientill readers and Surgeons of Englande`, dated 1552, tiny holes to leaves A1 (old ink spash), G1 and G6, split to lower margin of B7, old ink marginalia to C1 verso, archival closed tear repairs to F1 including horizontal split across image and lower outer corner of text block, marginal paper repair to same leaf not affecting text, first cerebral engraved plate trimmed into plate impression touching image, I2 duplicated, upper marginal wormholes not affecting text or plates of leaves I3 to end, final leaf slightly browned and chipped at inner margin, with two small tears and loss not affecting text, leaf reattached at inner margin to endpaper, some other general spotting and soiling, old marginal dampstaining confined largely to preliminaries, signatures A-B and final leaf, library cloth, folio (369 x 258 mm) The Latin Geminus of 1545 and the English edition of 1553 were the first illustrated textbooks of anatomy to be published in this country and the forty illustrations were printed from the first copper plates to be executed here. Encouraged by the success of his Latin edition of Vesalius, Geminus was persuaded, possibly by Vesalius`s old roommate John Caius, to prepare a version of the Vesalian plates with English text for the benefit of `unlatined surgeons.` As he doubted his proficiency in English, Geminus sought the aid of Nicholas Udall, dramatist (he wrote the comedy Ralph Royster Doyster) and prebendary of Windsor, to translate the characterum indices of the Vesalian plates. The English text chosen to accompany the plates was an early translation of the Surgery of Henri de Mondeville, which Thomas Vicary, surgeon to Henry VIII, had used almost word for word in his own Anatomie of the bodie of man (1548). The text was rearranged in Geminus`s book to follow the traditional order of conducting a dissection, beginning with the viscera and ending with the bones in order to dissect first those parts which would most quickly putrefy` (Norman 887). Collation *2[-*1], A6, B7, C-I6 [I2 duplicated], K2; forty engraved plates. Additionally, bound before and after the dedication leaf are to be found three pages of Explanation leaves relating to the fugitive sheet of a seated Adam and Eve with flaps (see Russell 308). Two copies of the first sheet have been used to show recto and verso; the verso of sheet two was blank. Each page is slightly cut down at head and foot, trimmed close at the foremargin affecting text in most lines and relaid on three sheets. The text of this impressive work is in double column, black letter, and with crible metal-cut initials. A watermark of a pot or gauntlet and star is visible in many of the sheets. The illustrations comprise the external anatomy of Adam and Eve (here separated and mounted on two sheets), three skeletal engravings, sixteen muscular engravings, five arterial and venal engravings, four neural engravings, six engravings of organs, four cerebral engravings and one engraving of ocular parts and surgical instruments. These are all based on Vesalian woodcuts to be found in the Fabrica and the Epitome. The first edition in English is extremely rare, the copies produced being so well-used that few have survived in any semblance of good condition. The Norman copy of the undated first issue claimed to be the only complete copy in private hands. There are two English versions of 1553, (STC 11715.5 & 11716), that with an undated title-page being claimed as the first issue. Both are otherwise identical and bear the same imprint at the rear as found in this copy, and not found in any other edition identified. The matter is further complicated by the presence of the three added pages of explanation to accompany the fugitive plate of a seated Adam and Eve (not included in this copy), that though not part of the collation, are often found in copies of the 1559 edition. This copy in the main body of text (excepting the last leaf which is slightly browned and spotted and separated from the main body of text) is in very good order with only the presence of the usual light Birmingham Medical Institute library stamps affecting the freshness of the plates. For further discussions of this remarkable volume see Russell 830-833 (and 308), Cushing VI.C.-2, Norman 887. See also an article by S.V. Larkey, The Library, XIII (1932-33), pp. 367-94. (1)

Harvey (William). Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam, De partu: De membranis ac humoribus uteri: et De conceptione, 1st edition, Du Gard for O. Pulleyn, 1651, engraved frontispiece facing (to recto and facing pi1 as sometimes, see Keynes) of Jove seated on a pedestal and holding in his hands an egg inscribed ex ova omnia`, a little trimmed at lower foremargin with loss of rule border, engraved head-pieces and initials throughout, first and last blank and that at C4 all present, ownership signature of Joesph Bromehead on title with his manuscript note to frontispiece verso Editio princeps`, ownership signature of J[ohn] Braxton Hicks dated 1866 to front pastedown and with small presentation bookplate from Hicks to the BMI pasted to initial blank recto, contemporary sheep gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, some edge wear, 4to (214 x 160mm) After the publication of De motu cordis, Harvey turned his attention to the study of generation. Even if Harvey had not discovered the circulation of the blood, his remarkable work on embryology would have placed him in the front ranks of biological scientists. Without benefit of the compound microscope, his work was necessarily limited; nevertheless, nothing comparable had been done since Aristotle. He disbelieved the previously-held doctrine of `preformation` of the foetus, maintaining instead that it proceeds from the ovum by gradual building up of its parts. Always slow to publicize his findings, Harvey was only after some years persuaded by his friend, Sir George Ent, to put them into print. The first edition was published in London in 1651, followed by three Amsterdam editions of the same year` (Heirs of Hippocrates 436: 1st Amsterdam edition, 1651). G-M 467; Keynes, Harvey, 34; Norman 1011; PMM 127. Wing 1091. Provenance: Joseph Bromehead (1748-1826), was educated at Queen`s College, Oxford (BA 1768, MA 1771), and served as Curate of Eckington, Derbyshire, until his death. He wrote hymns and also published The Melancholy Student, An Elegiac Poem` (1769) and An Oration on the Utility of Public Infirmaries: Occasioned by the opening of the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford` (1772). John Braxton Hicks FRCP, FRS (1823-1897). (1)

Helmont (Jean Baptiste van). Opuscula medica inaudita, I. De Lithiasi. II. De Febribus. III. De Humoribus Galeni. IV. De Peste, 3 parts in one volume, 1st edition, Cologne: Jodocum Kalcoven [Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir], 1644, general title-page and three part titles (Part Two title stating second edition`), errata leaf at rear of each part and separate approbation leaf at end, cancelled approbation leaf (but no blank) present at end of part two, faint library stamp to main title-page (dust-soiled), dampstaining to upper and outer margins of first part, heavy browning to lower half of most leaves of final part, old manuscript contents list to front endpaper, library cloth, 8vo. Krivatsy 5441; Norman 1048 (2nd edition, 1648, bound as second part of the first collected edition of Ortus medicinae). (1)

Hunter (William). An Anatomical Description of the Human Gravid Uterus and its Contents, [edited by Matthew Baillie], 1st. edition, 1794, 88pp., half-title, a few light spots, library stamp, previous owner signature of W. Sanders to title, library cloth, 4to. Hunter`s nephew, Matthew Baillie found an uncompleted manuscript several years after Hunter`s death and discovered that it was intended to be the text for the atlas [i.e. Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata, 1774]. In the Advertisement Baillie explains that he is publishing the work for the first time, with only a few changes and remarks which he felt necessary for completeness` (Heirs of Hippocrates 945); G-M 6157.1. (1)

Johnson (Robert). Enchiridion Medicum, or, a Manual of Physick, Being a Compendium of the Whole Art, in Three Parts: Viz. I. Of diseases of the head, II. Of diseases of the breast, III. Of diseases of the belly..., Comprehending the substance of the more approved authours both ancient and modern: Published for the benefit of all persons, being fitted to the meanest capacity, 1st edition, 1684, advertisement and 6pp. index at rear, old heavy dampstaining throughout, lacks portrait frontispiece, library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, together with Moor (Bartholomaeus de). Pathologiae cerebri delineatio practica, in qua, morborum soporosorum per notas characteristicas distinctio..., 1st edition, Amsterdam: G. Borstius, 1704, title printed in red and black, stamps to title and occasionally to margins elsewhere, heavy old brown stain to inner margins of early leaves, old manuscript biographical and historical note about De Moor [seemingly by James or John Johnstone] to front free endpaper, suggesting that Boerhaave may have been influenced by him and that De Moor writes well, library cloth, 4to. Johnson: Wing J816. (2)

Mattioli (Pietro Andrea). Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei... de medica materia, Venice: Ex Officina Valgrisiana, 1565, woodcut printer`s device on title, full-page woodcut portrait within elaborate border on M6v, and over 900 large woodcuts of plants, herbs, animals, insects, and distillation prcesses, most of them by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, the majority filling three-quarters of the page, some soiling, pinhead wormholes and untidy early manuscript marks to title including ownership signature of Tho. Lewis dated 1663, repaired tears to three preliminaries running close to main text block and affecting some side-notes, last leaves somewhat soiled with final two leaves torn and repaired with significant loss, 17th-century blind-panelled reversed calf with later spine and repairs, thick folio (345 x 240mm) The botanical cuts first appeared in the 1562 Herbar (in Czech) and the 1563 Neu Kreuterbuch printed in Prague, but for this edition the scope was enlarged to include fine zoological cuts and genre scenes. For an account of the history of the woodblocks see Hunt 90. Adams D672; Hunt 92; Nissen 1305. (1)

Moffett (Thomas). Healths Improvement, or, Rules Comprizing and Discovering the Nature, Method, and Manner of Preparing all sorts of Food Used in the Nation ..., Corrected and Enlarged by Christopher Bennet, 1655, imprimatur leaf before title (spotted and slightly dampstained), old inscription of John Tourneor to recto, faint library stamp and old ownership name of Charles Hornblower to title (somewhat spotted and dust soiled), old manuscript prescription written to two blanks at rear, a little spotting and dampstaining to lower outer corners throughout, scattered old ink marginalia and the repeated signature of Charles Hornblower, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to (180 x 140mm) Oxford P27; Vicaire 613. Wing M2382. (1)

Morgagni (Giovanni Battista). De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libriquinque, 2 volumes in one, Venice: Ex typographia Remondiniana, 1761, engraved portrait frontispiece, first title in red and black, library stamps to half-title, portrait and a few lower margins, some spotting, light old dampstaining to early leaves, Ii3 of volume 1 torn with loss to blank area of outer and lower margins, a few old ink marginal annotations, underscoring and marks, all possibly in the hand of James Johnstone and with approx. seventy leaves of manuscript medical notes bound at rear, mostly taken from late 18th-c. medical and related works and the majority seemingly in the hand of James Johnstone, but with at least one other hand present, remains of armorial Johnstone family bookplate to front pastedown and remains of original presentation inscription from James to John Johnstone dated 1834 pasted above and below, modern half calf gilt, slightly rubbed, folio (365 x 230mm) Published when he was seventy-nine years of age, [De Sedibus] had been years in preparation, and constitutes a foundation of modern pathological anatomy. Vast in scope, it is one of the most fundamentally important works in the history of medicine. In it he reports in precise and exhaustive detail his findings in nearly seven hundred autopsy dissections, introducing and insisting on the concept that diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease must be based on an exact understanding of the pathologic changes in the anatomic structures. It put the final rout to the old humoral pathology. Morgagni`s contribution to the understanding of disease may well rank with the contributions of Vesalius in anatomy and Harvey in physiology` (Heirs of Hippocrates 792). G-M 2276; Dibner, Heralds of Science, 125; Norman 1547; PMM 206. (1)

Pemell (Robert). De morbis capitis; or, Of the Chief Internall Diseases of the Head, With their Causes, Signes, Prognosticks, and Cures, for the benefit of those that understand not the Latine tongue, by R. P., 1st edition, Philemon Stephens, 1650, title-page within decorative woodcut border (a little trimmed at upper and outer margins), library stamp to title, some old marginal dampstaining and dust-soiling, tightly bound (stab stitched), old manuscript inscription to blank before title, lacks final leaf (K8, blank?), library cloth, small 8vo (139 x 87mm) The first neurology book written in English. Pemell, writing contemporaneously with Thomas Willis, describes, among other things, how to arouse a patient from an epileptic seizure. Besides, the more accepted methods of making a noise in the patient`s ears, rubbing and bathing the soles of the feet, he suggests more esoteric methods, such as applying a female pigeon (the fethers being first pulled off) unto the navell of the epileptick; for hereby the fit is abated, and the venomous vapours are drawn away`. Includes a bibliography. Rare institutionally and no auction records found. Wing P1131. (1)

Ridley (Humphrey). Observationes quaedam medico-practicae & physiologicae, inter quas aliquanto fusius agitur de asthmate et hydophobia, 1st edition, 1703, engraved plate of a heart (with small wormhole), M4 with marginal manuscript correction, a few minor spots, library cloth, 8vo, together with Withers (Thomas), A Treatise on the Asthma. To Which are Added Cases and Observations..., 1st edition, 1786, library stamps, a few spots, 8vo. Following on from his Anatomy of the Brain (1695), Ridley proves himself as good a clinical observer as an anatomist, with over thirty observations, some on asthma and hydrophobia, and the anatomy of a fetal heart, with descriptions of autopsies. (2)

Rush (Benjamin). Medical Inquiries and Observations, volumes 1-2 & 4-5, Philadelphia: printed by [or for] Thomas Dobson, 1794-93-96-98, volumes 1 and 4 with half-titles, volume 2 with errata leaf at rear, library stamp to titles, some spotting, library cloth, 8vo, together with Denham (Joseph), Observations on the Effects of Buxton Water, 1st edition, 1793, some heavy spotting at front and rear, title trimmed at upper margin, faint library stamp to title, closed tear repair to a3, bound with Rush (Benjamin), Medical Inquiries and Observations, volume 2 (of 2), 1st edition, Philadelphia, , 1793, errata leaf at rear, errata corrected in neat contemporary manuscript and with further corrections in the same unidentified hand, possibly by the author, bound with Anderson (Alexander Purcell), Tentamen chemicum inaugurale, de compositione acidi sulphurici..., 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1790, half-title, author`s presentation inscription to Mr Percival to main title verso, a little spotting at rear, library cloth, small tear at head of spine, all 8vo. Volume 1 is a third edition, the first edition published in Philadelphia in 1789. Volume 2 is a first edition, and completes the first edition pairing. Volumes 4 and 5 are also first editions. The handful of extra manuscript corrections in the bound-up volume are so minor as to point to the author as the most likely source. G-M 80 (citing 5 volume edition [1794]-98). (5)

Salmon (William). Botanologia. The English Herbal: or, History of Plants. Containing I. Their names, Greek, Latine and English. II. Their species, or various kinds. III. Their descriptions. IV. Their places of growth. V. Their times of flowering and seeding. VI. Their qualities or properties. VII. Their specifications. VIII. Their preparations, Galenick and chymick. IX Their virtues and uses. X. A complete florilegium, of all the choice flowers cultivated by our florists..., 1st edition, 1st issue, H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710, title printed in red & black (with ink stamp to upper blank margin of the Manor House, Knowle), numerous woodcut botanical illustrations, lacks addn. engraved title, short worm trail to title and initial leaves, few other worm holes, first & last few leaves with marginal fraying, two leaves at rear of volume torn to lower outer corners with loss and repaired, seven other leaves at rear of volume strengthened to lower outer corners with archival tissue, some browning & spotting, endpapers renewed, upper pastedown trimmed to reveal earlier endpaper beneath with ownership signature of J.H. Kimbell and also with presentation label to the British Medical Institute from Dr William Watson Newton, manuscript poetry to rear pastedown with the dates 1762 & 1769 and the name John Fry, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, board edges and corners repaired, folio (367 x 220mm) Henrey 1308. This copy includes the additional unnumbered pages consisting of an Index morborum`. (1)

Stark (William). The Works... consisting of Clinical and Anatomical Observations, with Experiments, Dietical and Statical, revised and published from his original mss., 1st edition, printed for J. Johnson, 1788, half-title present, three folding plates, 4pp. publisher`s advertisements at rear, bound after Hunter (John), Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy, 1st edition, 1786, eighteen engraved plates, title-page with early manuscript signature of Edward Johnstone M.D., both works with some foxing (mostly to plates), with library stamp to plates (also found on first title), and with oval library stamp intermittently throughout, upper hinge split between front blank and title, library cloth, 4to. 1) William Stark (1741-1770) was an English physician and medical pioneer who investigated scurvy by experimenting on himself with fatal consequences. He obtained his medical degree in 1769, and immediately began his studies into the effects of diet. His first experiment involved a diet of just bread and water with a little sugar for the duration of 31 days, after which he slowly introduced other foods one at a time, including olive oil, milk, roast goose, boiled beef, fat, figs, and veal. Stark recorded that after two months his gums were red and swollen and prone to bleeding; he had given himself scurvy which led to his early death at the age of twenty-nine whilst he was still in the throes of his experiments. This scarce work was one of the first on dietary studies. Blake, p. 431. 2) G-M 309. (1)

Sydenham (Thomas). Tractaus de podagra et hydrope, 1st edition, 1683, short closed tear to title upper margin with archival tissue repair to verso, bound as the third work with two other first editions by Sydenham, Epistolae responsoriae duae, prima de morbis epidiemicis ..., secunda de luis venereae ..., 1680 [and] Dissertatio epistolaris ..., De observationibus nuperis ... De affectione hysterica, 1682, Epistolae with blank at front and errata leaf at rear, errata to other two works printed to final leaf versos, faint library stamp to title of Epistolae and with slightly trimmed ownership signatures of G. de Lys and J. Wilkes to upper margin, old manuscript contents list to blank recto (somewhat spotted and dust-soiled), library cloth (gilt-titled pamphlets volume 18 to spine), slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (172 x 112mm) A nice clean copy of three of only five works published by Sydenham in his lifetime. The first work (bound chronologically as the third item in the volume) is Sydenham`s classic description of gout, based upon his own sufferings. Considered his masterpiece, it earned him the title The English Hippocrates`. 1) PMM159; Wing S6320; G-M4486; Norman 2040; Osler 998; Waller 9422. 2) Wing S6310. 3) Wing S6309. (1)

Sydenham (Thomas). The Entire Works of Dr Thomas Sydenham, Newly made English from the Originals: wherein the History of acute and chronic Diseases, and the safest and most effectual Methods of treating them, are faithfully, clearly, and accurately delivered. To which are added, Explanatory and Practical Notes, from the best medicinal Writers by John Swan, 1742, library stamp to title, title partly adhered to following leaf at gutterwith some consequent adhesive staining, library cloth, 8vo, together with Praxis Medica. The Practice of Physick: or, Dr. Sydenham`s Processus Integri, Translated out of Latin into English, with large Annotations..., the Third Edition, Inlarged throughout, with some Thousands of Additions not in the first Impression, by William Salmon, 1716, engraved portrait frontispiece, slight dustsoiling to last few leaves, front free endpaper with library stamp and presentation label by Dr. Smallwood Savage. front pastedown with printed book label of Henry Knight and manuscript ownership of T.H. Smith, Alcester, 1901, hinges split, contemporary panneled calf, joints cracked, 8vo, with The Entire Works of Dr Thomas Sydenham..., the third edition, with all notes inserted in their proper places by John Swan, 1753, title with ownership signature of John Heath (upper margin excised), short worm trail to lower blank margins of initial leaves, endpapers renewed with presentation label to the BMI by Dr. Smallwood Savage, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo, plus one other incomplete volume of Sydenham`s Works (4)

Torraca (Gaetano ). Delle Antiche Terme Taurine Esistenti nel Territorio di Civitavecchia Dissertazione in cui si Premettono le Memorie cronologiche di essa citta..., Rome, 1761, manuscript inscription to title `Biblioth: Colli Calai ex Libris P.F. Marroni` and with three library stamps (one very faint), some dampstaining throughout, contemporary vellum, 4to, together with Antisari (Domenico), Lettera concernente l`uso e virtu de Bagni di Viterbo detti del Papa scritta a monsignore illustrissimo Gio. Maria Lancisi, Viterbo: Giulio de Giulii, 1706, faint library stamp to title, leaf M2 creased, contemporary vellum, small 8vo (2)

Vesalius (Andreas). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1555], woodcut title, portrait of the author on a6 verso, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout (including seventeen full-page anatomical illustrations), two folding tables with woodcut diagrams (one on unsigned leaf between bb5 and bb6, short marginal split to inner margin), historiated woodcut initials, lacks final leaf (blank with printer`s device to verso), library stamp to title, dedication, portrait and table leaves, frequent BGH library stamps, mostly to blank lower outer corners, skilful old and small neat paper repairs to three leaves (cc5/6 & dd1) with facsimile` manuscript insertions to a few words and one illustration, some occasional old light dampstaining to inner margins, a few minor marginal splits and worm holes (sig. K) not affecting text, near-contemporary ownership signature of Guilielmus de Mesa (dated 20-4-1596) to upper margin of final leaf verso (printer`s colophon), plus ownership signature of C. Kendall (dated 1729) to front free endpaper, engraved armorial bookplate of the Johnstone family to front pastedown, above and partly on which is written a presentation inscription in 1834 from John Johnstone (1768-1836, physician & biographer) to his nephew James Johnstone (1806-1869, physician, first president of the British Medical Association and founding benefactor of the Birmingham Medical Institute Library), with a brief signed note by the latter to a second free endpaper verso, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over pasteboards with central arabesque to each cover, lacks ties, crude vellum repairs to spine ends and tape repair to upper joint, partly sprung, folio (408 x 272mm), contained in a purpose-made cloth clamshell book box. Second folio edition of the most important anatomical treatise of the sixteenth century and a watershed work in the history of anatomical illustration. Adams V605; Choulant-Frank pp.181-182; Cushing, Vesalius VI.A.-3; G-M 377; Durling 4579; Norman 2139; Osler 568; PMM 71 (describing the 1543 first folio edition); Waller 9901; Wellcome 6562. Heirs of Hippocrates 283: In 1552, a small `pocket` edition of the Fabrica was pirated in Lyons but, as it had no illustrations, it was neither popular nor profitable. For that matter, neither the first nor the second splendid folio edition was profitable, either, and the printer, Oporinus, suffered losses on both. By the time of this second folio edition, the plates from the first edition had been copied in England and throughout Europe, and the prospect for sale of a new edition must have been considerably lessened. Even so, the new edition was even more lavish than the first, with heavier paper and larger type, necessitating an entire recutting of the initial letters. Corrections were made in the text by Vesalius with some rearrangement of both the text and the illustrations. The woodcut title-page has always created much interest. It carries considerable dramatic impact and probably fairly represents, with some theatrical touches, an `anatomy` of the sixteenth century. The block for the second edition was entirely recut and, although it closely resembles that of the first edition, there are a few changes. The unclothed man of the first edition, observing from his perch at the left, is clothed in the second edition, `for no other reason that one can see,` comments Cushing, `unless to save the nun`s embarrassment by clothing the naked figure` (Cushing Vesalius, p. 90). The wood blocks were cut in Venice and transported by mule across the Alps to Basel, where Oporinus - artist, printer, and friend of Vesalius - received them with detailed instructions from the author.` Provenance note: An identically dated ownership signature of Guilielmus (Guilielmi) de Mesa appears in the National Library of Medicine`s copy of Estienne`s De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (1545). (1)

[Vesling, Johann]. The Anatomy of the Body of Man... , translated by Nicholas Culpeper, printed for George Sawbridge, 1677, twenty-four engraved plates, each plate with explanation leaf, title-page with early manuscript signature of Thomas Richards (and previous name above obliterated with ink), faint library stamp to title and plates, oval library stamp intermittently to lower margin rectos, hinge split between A1 and A2, library cloth, spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, tall 4to (283 x 190mm) Wing V287. (1)

Vigo (Giovanni de). Opera in chyrurgia. Additur chyrurgia Mariani sancti Barolitani, 2 parts in one volume, Lyon: In edibus Jacobi Myt, 1521, both titles with ornamental woodcut borders and the first printed in red and black, double-column text with woodcut initials, three unnumbered index leaves at end of first work (with printer`s woodcut device after colophon), the second work lacking final leaf of text (supplied in old neat facsimile manuscript, verso blank) and three leaves of index, some spotting and browning, foremargins of first few leaves a little chipped with trivial loss to one side-note on a2v, modern half morocco over marbled boards, a little rubbed, 8vo (195 x 135mm) Though reprinted numerous times copies of early editions of Vigo`s surgery are uncommon. The second part was written by Mariano Santo, a student of Vigo who achieved great fame through his introduction of the Marian operation` of lithotomy. (1)

Vigo (Giovanni da). The Whole Workes of That Famous Chirurgion Maister Iohn Vigo: Newly Corrected, by Men Skilfull in that Arte, Wherevnto are annexed certain works, compiled and published by Thomas Gale, Maister in Chirurgerie, 3 parts in one volume, Thomas East, 1586, black letter, woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces, part one and two title-pages within border of printer`s ornaments, the first slightly browned and soiled and with one horizontal closed tear affecting imprint details, relaid and rehinged, double-page table at end of part two with vertical heading of first leaf recto trimmed and supplied in old manuscript (A profitable table of ulcers`), printer`s woodcut device to colophon on final leaf verso, some scattered old marginalia, lacks blank at end of part two and title-page to third part, occasional soiling and old dampstaining, a little worming to lower margins occasionally touching letterpress towards rear of second part and first half of third part but without loss of sense, hinges broken, library cloth, some fraying to head of joints and spine, 4to (184 x 140mm) A later edition of one of the most important surgical works of the Renaissance, which appeared in over forty editions in six languages for more than a century after its initial publication in 1514. Vigo was the first to discuss syphilis: he identified its primary and secondary stages and recommended a mercury ointment as a treatment. STC 24723; Wellcome 6623. (1)

Withering (William). An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses, with Practical Remarks on Dropsy, and Other Diseases, 1st edition, Birmingham, 1785, uncoloured engraved folding frontispiece (second state, with artist`s name and with lower leaves pointing to the left), two small splits on folds, upper margin of title excised leaving manuscript inscription beneath, [?from] the Author` but not seemingly in the Withering`s holograph, faint library stamp to title and three stamps to frontispiece (one touching lower right leaf), lacks first leaf before half-title (plain except for two rules and signed a` to recto with verso blank), unnumbered leaf after preliminaries with explanation of plate, bookseller ads. to final leaf verso, bound with [Darwin, Charles, 1758-1778], Experiments establishing a Criterion between Mucilaginous and Pugulent Matter. And An Account of the Retrograde Motions of the Absorbent Vessels of Animal Bodies in some Diseases.,[Edited, with a life of the author, by Erasmus Darwin, the Elder], 1st edition, Lichfield, 1780, final unnumbered leaf with an epitaph of Charles Darwin, bound with Ferriar (John), Tentamen medicum inaugurale, de variola..., Edinburgh, 1781, 30pp., lacks final blank, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (203 x 125mm) 1) Containing the results of ten years clinical trials which demonstrated his discovery of the efficacy of digitalis in heart diseases. It is one of the first modern clinical studies of a drug and one of the great medical works to be first published in Birmingham. G-M 1836; Hunt 676; Norman 2255; Henrey 1505; Hunt 676; Heirs of Hippocrates 1039; Osler 426. 2) Charles Darwin was the eldest son of Dr Erasmus Darwin and before his untimely death and for this work he won the first medal by the Aesculapian Society of Edinburgh in March 1778. The foxglove has been given to dropsical patients in this country with considerable success: the following cases are related...`, p. 103. Both works are rare. (1)

Zwelfer (Joannes). Pharmacopoeia Augustana reformata cum ejus mantissa & appendice... , 3 parts in 1 volume, Dordrecht: Vincent Caimax, 1672, separate titles to appendix and final part, library stamp to titles and occasionally elsewhere, general title somewhat soiled and a little frayed at margins, lacks additional engraved title, modern library cloth, partly faded and split along upper joint, 4to, together with Bate (George), Pharmacopoeia Bateana, in qua, octingenta circiter pharmaca... , edited by James Shipton, 1688, imprimatur leaf before title, errata leaf at rear, library stamp to title, some soiling and marginal fraying at front and rear, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, small 8vo, (Wing B1085), plus Hermann (Paul), Cynosura materiae medicae..., Strasbourg, 1710, title printed in red and black, lacks fourth leaf of preliminaries (blank?), library stamps to title, some spotting and browning throughout, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, 4to, plus Gaubius (Hieronymus David), Libellus de methodo concinnandi formulas medicamentorum, Leiden, 1739, title printed in red and black, faint library stamp to title, some spotting, modern library cloth, a little dampstained, 8vo, plus Dale (Samuel), Pharmacologiae seu manuductionis ad materiam medicam supplementum... , Sam Smith & Benj. Walford 1705, library stamp to title, some spotting or browning, library cloth, 8vo, plus other 18th-century pharmacopoeias and related in Latin, including editions from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, occasional old manuscript annotations, mostly 8vo (18)

BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859). - Robert HOWLETT and George DOWNES (photographers). A stereoscopic photograph titled to pink label verso `6. "The Leviathan" Steam Ship. Pumps for hydraulic rams`, circa 1856-1857, overall card size 84 x 73mm. (images 75 x 73mm.). - And three further stereoscopic cards relating to the Great Eastern, one titled in manuscript verso `Launch of the Leviathan 1857`.

BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859). - Robert HOWLETT & George DOWNES (photographers). A tinted stereoscopic photograph titled in manuscript verso `Great Eastern Shrove Tuesday`, published by The London Stereoscopic Company, circa 1859-1860, overall card size 83 x 176mm. (images with arched top 75 x 72mm.) Note: a scarce image of figures by a stall selling stereoscopic cards on the deck of the S.S. Great Eastern.

MEDICAL HISTORY. - Philip H. BAHR. A manuscript document in note form on `Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Line` headed paper, dated March 8th 1911. 11pp. (253 x 191mm.) Detailing cases of tropical diseases in Fiji with corrections in red ink. (Minor light creasing and staining.) Note: Philip H. Bahr became a leader in the field of tropical medicine; he married the daughter of Sir Patrick Manson (the founder of the London School of Tropical Medicine), becoming Philip Manson-Bahr.

GASTRONOMY. A manuscript recipe book. [N.p.:] the upper cover dated 1838. 4to (200 x 160mm.) (Burn to bottom corner of all leaves.) Original wrappers (worn and detached). Note: includes approximately fifteen recipes and household hints. - And three later manuscript cookery books (4).

HOLMES, George Bax. A collection of books and manuscript translations, the majority by or owned by George Bax Holmes of Horsham.

Ecclesiastical manuscript The Triple Crown in England – a brief chronicle of the connexion between England and Rome from the conversion of the Saxons to the reign of Henry the Eighth. Compiled from Protestant and Romish Historians 1848 manuscript. Two volumes marbled boards a total of 318pp 4to. This is the unpublished draft of a carefully compiled history of the church in England up to the Reformation offering a brief chronicle of the Papal connections. The writer is clearly an educated Catholic and no admirer of Henry VIII and has collected his information from various sources. The ms is heavily annotated with edited textural corrections additions insertions and deletions. Although Catholic emancipation was being firmly established by 1848 it was still a contentious issue and it is most likely that this work would have been for secret and closely guarded circulation. It is unlikely that it was ever published

Italian Manuscript large manuscript volume of 491pp large folio written in Italian with an original date of 1755. Clearly this is on an ecclesiastical theme as the manuscript bears an inscription in English :’This work is printed but the edition having been interdicted under severe penalties is become extremely scarce & only to be found in very few collections. It is to be found in Earl Spencer’s but in no other in England to the writer’s knowledge. Lacking cover but in good condition throughout.

English Civil War – Cromwell and Religion An Act for the Better Observation of the Lord’s Day dated September 17th 1656. Folio 18pp unbound good condition. With a number of manuscript side notes to text written in a contemporaneous hand. One of the most draconian Acts ever passed in this country. By this measure Cromwell clamped down on any sort of pleasurable activity taking place on a Sunday with the text leaving it in no doubt as to what you could not do – drinking dancing singing playing of musical instruments maypole dancing fairs shooting revelling wrestling bowling ringing of bells feasting sporting activity and even ‘vainly and profanely walking’ – all these were banned. No wonder when Charles II was restored he earned the title very quickly of the ‘Merry Monarch’ !

Charles II manuscript transcript of his speech to both Houses of Parliament on October 10 1667 on the reassembly of Parliament following the disasters of the Dutch Wars. This is a transcript written probably in the early 18th c – watermark of the paper suggests a date of c1730. Written in a neat secretarial hand on 4pp folio. The manuscript opens with a brief speech by the King and then a longer explanation of the state of the nation by Orlando Bridgeman the Lord Keeper. Charles had prorogued Parliament about 11 weeks before in order to concentrate on the Dutch Wars but they had gone so badly that in effect he had to come back to Parliament to explain what had happened so that he could be voted more money. The document concludes with a list of 14 points discussed by ‘Ye Committee appointed to inspect ye miscarriage of ye Warr’.

House of Lords Orders concerning the Clerk of the Parliaments and other clerks of the House of Lords manuscript volume red leather binding bearing the Royal crest of George II. Written in a very neat script op 46pp 8vo. The volume contains entries from 1515 to 1753 all relating to the regulations governing the Clerks to the House of Lords. An attractive and most informative volume. It is written in a number of hands suggesting that this was a day book kept by the Clerks and was updated as new regulations and instructions were agreed by Parliament. It thus provides a very valuable insight into the workings of Parliament at this time

Boer War The Siege of Kimberley – Its Humorous and Social Side by T Phelan 1913. The inside cover contains a manuscript account by Driver J Thimbleby driver of the last train to get through to Kimberley a few hours before the siege began recounting his experiences on the journey beginning ‘...I was the Driver of the Train that took Cecil John Rhodes into Kimberley a few days before the War & siege staged. Rhodes was on his way to Rhodesia but did not proceed...’ A remarkable first hand account.

Gandhi superb autograph letter signed ‘Bapu’ in English to ‘Dear Poduval’ dated February 10th 1937 : ‘...I went through the whole of your manuscript during the pilgrimage but could not get the time to write to you. Your confession is good for you but you must not brood over the past. You must use the past only as a stepping stone to a better present and a still better future...’

Gandhi typewritten questionnaire form entitled ‘Some Educational Problems for Discussion’ comprising two folio sheets containing a total of 10 questions on education each of which has been answered in manuscript by Gandhi who has signed the form at the end. Some slight staining to the right hand edge of the second sheet making some of the words a little feint but they are still legible. An important document reflecting Gandhi’s own thoughts on education : Q. Is not ‘education through one’s own mother tongue as the best’ an accepted fact by practical experience ? A. ‘Of course’. Q. If it is when no facilities exist for that in Burma even to the extent available in India (for a Malayalee child in my case) what is the next best medium of instruction – is any other Indian vernacular preferable to English ? A. You should be the teacher yourself ...

A collection of documents and items relating to James Sprent, surveyor of Hobart town in 1841.Comprising a sealed parchment manuscript (Sprent`s degree certificate), a University of Glasgow class ticket dated 1822, another dated 1823, and another dated 1822/23, a Reeves ruler and a zinc document case. (…) No one could have foretold that 170 years on Sprent`s work would still be in use and published in digital format. As recently as 2009, James Sprent`s historic plans were used in thecoroner`s enquiry into Hobart`s Myer store fire. Illustrated online at: www.mossgreen.com.au

(Lot of 6) Group of East Indian/Persian miniature paintings, including: two illustrated pages from an Indian manuscript featuring battle scenes, page 6"h x 10.75"w; one page depicting three martyrs, reversed by text; two pages from a Persian manuscript with figures in a landscape; together with a Japanese painting of a banquet with Ainu, 8"h x 13"w; Provenance: Estate of Rebecca and Seymour Fromer (founder of the Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA) Start Price $150

Nine volumes "The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary", published from the original manuscript in the Bodleian Library by Thomas Herne M.A., 3rd Edition, bound as five, Oxford 1768, marbled boards and leather spines and corners

One volume "The Will of Aethelgifu", a tenth century Anglo-Saxon manuscript, translated and examined by Dorothy Whitelock, published for presentation to the Members of The Roxburghe Club, 1968, folio size, cloth bound boards with tooled and gilded spine

JOHN CROFT ESQ. "A Tour to Spain, Old Castile, from Oporto in Portugall, in a series of letters to a friend ... 1766, faithfully transcribed by Marmaduke Strother", a hand-written manuscript, vellum bound, together with another hand-written manuscript inscribed to frontispiece "The History of Ernest or the Little Midshipman by Henry Herbert Stephen Cross, with coloured illustrations, published under the direction of ships, guns and anchor, St. Mary Stome, Ipswich, December 22nd 1849", a further 18th Century hand-written manuscript as a "Miscellany of facts, dates, details of various provisions, etc.", and one volume "Notices of the Ancient Family of Croft, of the Counties of Lancaster & York", published London 1841 (4)

Australia. Substance of a Sermon against Drunkenness, Preached to Catholics of Divers Parts of New South Wales, by W. Ullathorne, Sydney: printed by William Jones; London: reprinted with the author’s permission and published by Keating and Brown, 1838, pp.17, [3], includes 2pp. pubs. ads. at rear, disbound slim 12mo, with a detached half-title entitled ‘The Horrors of Transportation’ with a manuscript annotation ‘For the use of the Catholic Congregation, Copsey’, plus Adelaide, South Australia, Form of Application and Regulations for Assisted Passage, c.1873, unused 4pp. application form & regulations printed on blue paper, with central folds, folio. (2)

Bonne (Rigobert, and Desmarest, Nicolas). Atlas Encyclopédique Contenant La Geographie Ancienne, et Quelques Cartes sur La Géographie du Moyen Age, La Géographie Moderne, et Les Cartes Relatives a la Géographie Physique, vol.1 only (of 2), Paris, 1787, allegorical engraved frontis, title page, seventy-six uncoloured engraved maps (of 140), very occ. spotting and slight marginal toning, uncut, modern qtr. vellum with manuscript title to spine, 4to. (1)

Edwards (Sydenham). Insects by Sydenham Edwards, a late 18th or early 19th century manuscript notebook by Sydenham Edwards, containing 130 leaves of handwritten notes in dark brown ink, with find hand-coloured illustrations, almost certainly drawn from life, with later handwritten title at front ‘Insects by Sydenham Edwards, Given me by Mrs Edwards Sept. 1833. Edwd. E. Antrobus’, a.e.g., early 19th c. plum full morocco, titled in gilt to spine Insects, and with Sydenham Edwards lettered in gilt to foot of spine, rubbed to joints and extreme corners, 8vo (18.5 x 12 cm). Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) was born in Usk, Monmouthshire, and when only eleven years old displayed his prodigious skills in draughtsmanship by copying plates from the Flora Londinensis. He was quickly apprenticed to William Curtis in London, and for twenty-seven years produced many of the drawings published in Curtis’ monthly Botanical Magazine. Edmund Edward Antrobus, of Bath Lodge, Trafalgar Square, was the son of a director of Coutts Bank, and a dealer in tea, with premises at 446 The Strand. (1)

Atlas advertisement. Bowles (Thomas), The World described: or a New and Correct Sett of Maps..., n.d., c.1740, printed broadsheet describing various atlases for sale, some cracking and fraying to printed surface, backed with archival tissue, 400 x 230 mm, together with Baldwin (Richard, pub.), An Exact List of all Their Majesties Forces in Flanders, England, Scotland and Ireland for the Year 1692 and the Charges of each Regiment, 1692, printed broad sheet, near contemp. manuscript signature, slight spotting, staining and creasing, 420 x 290 mm, with one other similar, plus Duval (Pierre), ’Table General de Geographie’, ‘Alphabet et Definition des Termes dont onse sert Geographie’ [and] ‘Introduction a la Geographie’, Paris, c.1669, three engraved descriptive geographical folio sheets, one with sparse contemp. hand colouring, each approx. 405 x 500 mm. (6)

East India Company - Ship’s Logbook. A manuscript logbook for the Ship Wake, Captain Robert Norton, Commander, 15th August to 30th December 1746, proceeding from Calpie on the Hooghly to Southern Indian ports, a total of sixty-five leaves, all seemingly in one hand, partly in tabular form with ships course, soundings, etc., but also including remarks relating to their business, at 8pm on the 22nd September noting ‘Sent on shore 60 bales of gunney belonging to the Company with all the jute rope each [?] 20 ropes in all 116 bundles’, at the rear, inventories of clothing (4 pp.), ‘Of working an Azimuth’ (2 pp.), and as the first page the beginning of ‘A Tre[a]tise of Moles in all Parts of the Body, and what their Signification with Relation to Good or bad Fortune’, a few leaves detached, hinges partly broken, contemp. vellum, soiled and worn with some loss revealing boards beneath, small 4to. Written at a time when English trade began in earnest with India and Bengal, this would appear to be the first known reference to the trading of jute. The logbook is mentioned in an article by Sir Richard Temple in the ‘Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and is mentioned specifically as the earliest reference in the OED. See also Gordon Thomas Stewart, ‘Jute and Empire: The Calcutta Jute Wallahs and the Landscapes of Empire’ (1998), p. 41. (1)

Laurel (Stan & Hardy, Oliver). Naughty Amelia Jane! by Enid Blyton, illustrated by Sylvia I. Venus, 8th ed., 1951, b&w illusts., vign. to title, coloured in in a juvenile hand, some spotting throughout, signed by Laurel & Hardy in blue ballpoint pen on front free endpaper, beneath a printed competition label for the Wolligog Club consolation prize in the Laurel & Hardy competition, the name of the winner Christine Holder inserted in manuscript, a small Laurel & Hardy caricature sticker stuck over the foot of the bookplate above the signatures, orig. cloth, a little faded on spine, 8vo. (1)

Manuscript - Stafford Family. The Descent of the Staffords. Being Materials for a History of the Barony. Derived from Original Sources, Pedigrees, Charters, Public Records, Rolls, and other Documents, many unique and now only existing in the Willm. Salt Library, 1894, by J.W. Bradley, Librarian of ye said Library, pp.[ii]+62, decorative calligraphic title-page inserted (trimmed into image at head, toned and foxed), neat manuscript throughout, with hand-drawn and coloured initial letters and elaborate borders, variously floral, pictorial, and armorial, one hand-col. illuminated plt. showing the armorial bearings of Ralph, Earl of Stafford, Knight of the Garter, a few blank leaves at rear, rough-trimmed, bookplate of Reginald Bladen on front pastedown, orig. half vellum by Maltby, sl. edge-rubbed, gilt lettered label on spine, 4to. John William Bradley was the author of several books, including ‘A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists...’, 1887-89. (1)

Manuscript - West Midlands. Rent Book belonging to William Harris, Solicitor, of Stourbridge, 1800, approx. 60pp. ms. followed by a number of blank leaves, commencing from 29th September 1800, with names of owners, occupiers, field names, acreage, annual value, rates, etc., with inserted loose documents, receipts, accounts, printed notices, etc., orig. qtr. vellum, marbled boards rubbed and worn, sm. 4to (19.7 x 15.5cm). (1)

* Miscellaneous ephemera, mostly 19th & 20th c., including printed and manuscript material, photographs, textiles interest, etc. (2 cartons)

Antiphonal. Antiphonale pro toto tempore adventus Domini et pro tempore quadragesimale, Low Countries, mid 18th c., a large and impressive folio antiphonal in manuscript on Honig & Villedary paper, watermarked with fleur-de-lys and shield (Churchill 429 & 437), carefully written in large-scale red & black ink throughout, consisting of title leaf and 354 pages, with musical notation on a five line stave in red, few corrections and small paper repairs, a number of leaves blank at end, contemp. full calf over wooden boards, engraved & chased brass corner pieces and central bosses featuring a repeated motif of a stylised dragon, spine with three stout leather strengthening pieces with riveted brass strips to each side (probably contemporary), with clasps (upper clasp defective), rubbed and some minor wear, large folio (50 x 31cm). The manuscript is the work of two female scribes from a Dutch or Belgian religious order, and their names are given on pages 303 and 353 as Vrauw Augustine van der Roer and Vrauw Francoise van Damme. (1)

Bible [Latin]. Biblia; Interprete Sebastiano Castalione. Una cum eiusdem annotationibus.. adiecit ex Flauio Iosepho historiae supplementum..., 2 parts in one, Basel: Joannem Oporinum, [1554], woodcut device to a1 title (lined to verso & detached, lacks all other leaves in gathering a), woodcut dec. initials and few woodcut illusts. to text, leaves e2-e5 with ink stains, some dampstaining mostly at front & rear of volume, leaves Hh5 &Hh6 browned and with faint manuscript annotations, final blank XX6 detached, some peppered worming mostly at rear of volume, lacks free endpapers, 18th c. calf, boards detached and some wear, spine with vertical split, folio. Adams B1048 or B1049. It has not been possible to distinguish between the two editions B1048 and B1049 due to the first gathering being incomplete. B1048 calls for six leaves in the first gathering and B1049 calls for only four. (1)