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Click here to subscribePotter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first edition [with 'wept big tears'], London: Warne & Co., [1902], 98pp, 30 colour plates, holly leaf patterned endpapers, publisher's boards, lacking frontispiece, contents shaken and front hinge broken. Together with first editions of The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1907; The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1908; The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1909. Condition varied, sold with all faults (4)
Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit, first edition from the parts with characteristic stab-holes to gutters [pp. 467-474 uncorrected, i.e. 'Rigaud' instead of 'Blandois', mentioned in the book's errata], London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. Octavo, half-calf lettered in gilt, illustrated with steel-engraved plates by H. K. Browne, “Phiz”, including frontispiece & pictorial title, pp. 625, internally clean, plates foxed as usual
Queen Charlotte (1744-1818). Autograph Letter Signed. A collection of correspondence to private secretary Sir Herbert Taylor, comprising: autograph note signed on Dobbs patent embossed paper, 'The Queen flatters herself that Col Taylor will not refuse to accept a trifling Gift which the present Season affords Her an Opportunity to offer Him. She is perfectly sensible that it is not equal to what the Col Deserves, but there are Services which never can be Repaid & this situation The Queen feels most strongly at this moment, but unable as Her powers are to Reward Him, she will at all Times be happy to convince Him of Her Regard & Esteem. 25th December 1812. Charlotte'; autograph letter on foolscap bearing Royal coat-of-arms wax seal, Windsor, 24 December 1811, 'The Queen is very desirous to prove to Col. Taylor how strongly she feels the unwearied attention He has so uninterruptedly shown Her during the Present anxiety & under which she still continues to labour, also how Sensibly She feels the trouble she has given Him by calling for His assistance at such moments when He might have employed His Time much more to His own Comfort. No reward can ever be adequate to what She feels for His attention but as a proof of it She offers Him a small token by which He is desired to remember that His assiduities are gratefully received & never can be forgotten.'; autograph note on pink-bordered card, 'With the Queens Compliment to Taylor, She sends a small Specimen of English China for the use of His Country Seat. The Plates will She hopes arrive this Evening from London & as soon as they arrive shall be sent, also.., Windsor, the 29th September 1813.' Together with a file copy of a letter from Sir Herbert Taylor to Queen Charlotte, Windsor, 25 December 1811, in Taylor's hand and beginning, 'Colonel Taylor has this moment been honoured with Your Majesty's most gracious & truly gratifying note and the accompanying most handsome Present...', on three sides of one folded sheet bearing 1808 watermark. Recorded in The Taylor Papers, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Herbert Taylor, arranged by Ernest Taylor [Longmans, 1913]. Collection housed in archival wallets (4)Provenance: By descent of Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor GCB GCH (1775-1839), the first Private Secretary to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, serving King George III, Queen Charlotte, King George IV, King William IV, Prince Fredrick, Duke of York and Albany, and additionally serving as aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria
Twamley, Louisa Anne. The Romance of Nature, Or, Flower Seasons Illustrated, with 25 hand-coloured plates, dis-bound, contents loose, London: Charles Tilt, 1836, together with Our Wild Flowers, 12 hand-coloured plates plus engraved title page, full embossed calf, rubbed, and one other, condition varied, sold with all faults (3)
Leonardo da Vinci. A Treatise on Painting, first edition in English, London: J. Senex & W. Taylor, 1721. Engraved frontispiece, title page printed in red & black, 35 engraved plates, five of which are folding, pp. [xviii], 189, 16pp. index, 3pp. publisher's advertisements. Octavo, worn panelled calf, ffep featuring mounted grisaille watercolour portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, captioned as 'a camera sketch from a large & authentic Print', the verso with manuscript notes, a 'Remark, on Pictures at Osmaston'. Contents very well-preserved & bright, a few folded corners and small marks in places, contemporary owner inscriptions and handling marks on title, binding worn with upper board detachedThe first edition in English of the influential Trattato della pittura, compiled from numerous manuscripts after Leonardo's death
Dickens, Charles. Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition [reversed '£' on engraved title], London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. Octavo, half-calf, illustrated with 40 engraved plates by H. K. Browne, "Phiz", plates discoloured and browned, bearing owner inscription of 'Lady Henry Paulet 1844' on front pastedown
Baddam, [Benjamin]. Memoirs of the Royal Society, Vol. III only, scarce, illustrated with 14 engraved plates, 9 of which are folding, London: G. Smith, 1739. Octavo, full contemporary calf, pp. [iii], 4-516, [iv]. Internally very good, some light handling marks & contemporary owner inscription on title, slight loss to one of the margins of plate 7 but not affecting engraved area, binding worn but intact. Together with Elliot's Medical Pocket-Book, Dublin: Gilbert & Hodges, 1801, bearing owner inscriptions of John Browne, M.D., the text interspersed with blank leaves for manuscript notes in a contemporary hand, worn, sold with all faults (2)
A Description of the Town Of Ludlow, illustrated with two tinted aquatint views, Ludlow: W. Felton, 1811, later half-calf, 142pp., worn, p.101/102 with closed tear at edge, worn. Together with Antiquitates Sarisburienses, A Dissertation on the Ancient Coins of Old Sarum, Salisbury: F. Easton, 1771, octavo, two folding plates, worn half-calf (2)
A miscellaneous collection of books to include Life in London, by Pierce Egan, London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1823, illustrated with numerous hand-coloured aquatint plates by George & Isaac Robert Cruikshank; The History of the Present War in Spain & Portugal, by Theophilus Camden, London: J. Stratford, 1814; Fables de la Fontaine, two parts bound as one, London: Baylis for Dulau, 1798; Arabian Nights Entertainments, Vol. IV only, 14th edition, London: T. Longman, 1778; A Dissertation upon the Origin and Structure of the Latin Tongue, by Gregory Sharpe, London: J. Millan, 1751, and Entwick's New Spelling Dictionary, by William Crakelt, London: J. Mawman, 1804, all in contemporary calf, condition varied, sold as found with all faults (6)
Jardine, Sir William. The Naturalist’s Library, Vol. III, Ornithology, Gallinaceous Birds, Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, Stirling and Kenney, 1834. Octavo, contemporary half-morocco lettered in gilt, illustrated with 30 hand-coloured engraved plates, plus hand-coloured pictorial title and engraved frontispiece of Aristotle, pp. 232. Contents good & bright, plates vibrant, many with protective tissue-guards, lightly folded page corners, some light handling marks in places, binding tight & square but worn, early owner inscriptions on opening blanks
[Birac; Lamont; Valière]. The New Art of War, London; E. Midwinter, 1726. Octavo, pp. [xii], 296, [iv], five engraved plates (one folding), nothing before title, four leaves with section torn/detached but would piece back with archival tape, folding plate with some tears, binding worn, rebacked
Dickens, Charles. Bentley’s Miscellany [containing the first appearance of Oliver Twist, serialised for the first time here in volumes 1-5], in nine volumes, London: Richard Bentley, 1837-41. Octavo, half-calf with morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Oliver Twist, Or The Parish Boys Progress, illustrated with plates by George Cruikshank, including the final plate, 'Rose and Maylie'. These volumes also contain Jack Sheppard & Guy Fawkes, by W. Harrison Ainsworth, as well as other contributions by Charles Dickens. A good example, slight loss to the label of first volume, some discolouration to the plates (9)Provenance: Kathleen Mary Tillotson (1906-2001), British academic and literary critic, notably an editor of the letters of Charles Dickens. Later purchased by our vendor from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, London
A collection of prints & drawings comprising: John Samuel Templeton (Irish, fl. 1830-1857), a detailed 19th-century pencil drawing of Dublin Castle, showing Bedford Tower & Gate of the Upper Court (inscribed & signed in ink verso), 21cm by 28.5cm, toning and two small holes at l.r.; a 19th-century ink drawing of a cavalry soldier mounting a horse, unsigned, 24cm by 33cm, wove paper bearing watermark (Prince of Wales's Feathers), tears to edges; nine aquatint etchings of Alpine views (five hand-coloured), Zurich: Leuthold & Dikenmann, c.1800-1850; six soft-ground etchings by Henry Alken (one hand-coloured), depicting horses & hounds, London: Thomas McLean, 1824; two engraved botanical plates, London: J. Wilkes & G. Jones, 1807 & 1813 (19)
Backhouse, E.; J. O. P. Bland. Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking, first edition, London: William Heinemann, 1914. Small quarto, publisher's cloth, illustrated with plates, internally good & bright, pale spotting to endleaves & in places, gift inscription for Xmas 1920, cloth marked & bumped at corners. Together with The Duab of Turkestan, by W. Rickmer Rickmers, first edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1913, illustrated, folding map at rear, quarto, publisher's cloth, internally clean & bright, binding discoloured & worn at edges of spine (2)
Ainsworth, W. Harrison. Mervyn Clitheroe, illustrated by H. K. Browne, London: G. Routledge, 1858, octavo, dark blue grained calf, spines rubbed. Together with The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy, by Frances Trollope, illustrated with 24 steel-engraved plates, London: H. Colburn, 1840, worn half-calf, some foxing, and four other 19th-century literary works (6)
Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, fifth Hawkins edition, London: J. F. and C. Rivington, 1791. Octavo, full calf rebacked, etched frontispiece plus further plates and illustrations of fish within the text, internally very good & bright with pale staining to top corner in parts [Coigney 14]
Dickens, Charles. Master Humphrey’s Clock, three volumes bound in two, first edition, illustrated with wood-engravings by G. Cattermole & H. K. Browne, London: Chapman & Hall, 1840-41, tall octavo, half-calf, rubbed, no title to part two [bound with part one]. Together with The Pickwick Papers, first edition from the parts, 'Weller' on title, London: Chapman & Hall, 1837, the plates discoloured as usual, octavo, full calf (3)
Dickens, Charles. A Tale Of Two Cities, first edition, first issue [p. 213 mispaginated as 113, signature 'b' on list of plates], illustrated with 16 plates by H. K. Browne including frontispiece & pictorial title, as called for, London: Chapman & Hall, 1859. Octavo, half-calf, pp. [x], 254. Contents & plates very good & bright, a couple of plates with offsetting, one with a pale splash mark, some spotting to frontis/title/endpapers, binding rubbed and worn at corners/edges
Mickey Mouse Movie Stories, Story and Illustrations by Staff of Walt Disney Studio, first edition, Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1931, very well-preserved, clean & bright, housed in protective mylar covers. Together with The Water Babies, with "Come to Life" Panorama, by Charles Kingsley, London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., [c. 1920], internally bright with pale spotting in places, pop-up in good order, gift inscription dated 1938, covers good, protective mylar jacket, and Peter Pan & Wendy, by J. M. Barrie, Retold by May Byron, illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [c. 1938], internally bright with pale spotting in a few places, tipped-in colour plates, owner inscription dated 1938, covers good (3)
Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit, first edition [pp. 467-474 uncorrected, i.e. 'Rigaud' instead of 'Blandois', noted in the book's errata], London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857, bearing bookplate & owner inscription of Harman Grisewood, Daylesford House; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition, later issue [states 'sister' not 'visitor' on p.123], London: Chapman & Hall, 1839; Dombey and Son, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1848. Octavo, contemporary half-calf, contents of Dombey and Dorrit very good & bright, occasional pale spots in places, some wear from uncut edges in places, Nickleby internally good & bright but plates discoloured/spotted, bindings rubbed & worn, 1839-1857 (3)
A miscellaneous collection of 18th- & 19th-century books to include Peter Schlemihl: From the German of Lamotte Fouque, second edition, London: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1824, illustrated with eight etched plates by George Cruikshank (including frontispiece), octavo, half-calf; Kisses: A Poetical Translation of the Basia of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius, London: Printed by John Crowder for J. Bew, 1790, engraved frontispiece and vignette title, octavo, worn calf; Catullus Tibullus et Propertius, by C. Gallo, Paris: J. Barbou, 1754, octavo, worn calf; Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations; Intended to Illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables, by Thomas Martyn, London: J. White, 1799, illustrated with 31 [of 38] hand-coloured botanical plates, octavo, defective binding; A Report of all the Cases Determined by Sir John Holt, Savoy: E. & R. Nutt, 1738, folio, worn calf, together with three damaged books by A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh, first edition, 1926; Now We Are Six, first edition, 1927; When We Were Very Young, third edition, 1924), and three others, condition varied, sold with all faults (11)
Gooch, Benjamin. Cases and Practical Remarks in Surgery, London: Printed for T. Wilson & T. Durham, 1758. Octavo, full calf, pp. [xvi], 184, illustrated with 12 numbered plates (most folding), gilt morocco title label loosely inserted, bearing bookplate for Dr. Wickham, Penrith, contents good with general discolouration, owner inscriptions on title & ffep, final few leaves creased with one tear, binding heavily worn and secured with tape
A miscellaneous collection of books to include The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands, by Robert Mudie, third edition in two volumes, illustrated with beautifully hand-coloured plates, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1841, octavo, publisher's pebble cloth lettered in gilt, spine lifting on first volume; Jack the Giant Killer, by Richard Doyle, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1842, quarto, publisher's illustrated cloth, internally bright, binding worn; Robin Hood: A Collection of All The Ancient Poems, Songs and Ballads Now Extant, by Joseph Ritson, limited edition numbered 135/300, illustrations after Thomas Bewick plus nine etchings after A. H. Tourrier, London: John C. Nimmo, 1885, half parchment & cloth boards, head of spine worn; Master Humphrey’s Clock, by Charles Dickens, in three volumes, illustrated by G. Cattermole and H. K. Browne, original cloth, worn; Bradshaw’s Railway Map of Great Britain & Ireland, sectional & linen-backed, c. 1895, and others, condition varied, sold with all faults (10)
Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, London: John Murray, 1857. Octavo, publisher's embossed cloth lettered in gilt, complete with all illustrations, plates & maps, as called for. ix, 687pp., 4pp. publisher's advertisements dated 1 November 1857, 8pp. other advertisements. The book includes a quantity of loosely-inserted newspaper clippings, 1869-72, reporting on the disappearance, safety, and death of Livingstone, with one article stating that he has been murdered, and another claiming he 'has been killed and burnt by the natives'. There is also a letter dated 1864 regarding an order of wool, recipient unknown, which has presumably been used as a bookmark with notes referring to the text, and a later inscription on ffep stating that the book was 'rescued from an unoccupied house in Helgoland, via a requisitioned German warship'. Contents generally good, but the text-block detached from its worn cloth binding, the map in rear wallet is very well-preserved, sold as found with all faults
Roby, J. Traditions of Lancashire, in two volumes, 1829, octavo, woodcut illustrations and steel-engraved plates, title page of Vol. II repaired, silk moiré cloth, worn, contents shaken. Together with Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire, by James Croston, and County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire, two volumes, Manchester: John Heywood, 1887, cloth damaged, contents shaken (4)
Caesar (Gaius Julius) The Commentaries..., of his Wars in Gallia; and the Civil Wars Betwixt him and Pompey... also the Art of our Modern Training by Clement Edmonds, engraved frontispiece and 14 plates, several folding, letterpress title in red and black, light damp-staining throughout, frontispiece neatly backed with tissue on recto and with some restoration to margins, some chipping to upper margin of title and first few ff., modern calf, [Wing C201], folio, Edward Jones for Mathew Gillyflower, 1695.⁂ A scarce edition.
Plot (Robert) The Natural History of Oxford-shire, initial imprimatur ff., engraved title vignette, 16 engraved plates, double-page folding map, engraved head-piece and initial to dedication, small piece of paper pasted over price at foot of title, errata ff., occasional faint marginal damp-staining, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt arms to boards, [Wing P2586], folio, Oxford, at the Theater, 1677.
Langford (Thomas) Plain and Full Instructions to Raise all sorts of Fruit-Trees that Prosper in England, second edition, 2 engraved plates, 1 with key opposite, 6pp. advertisements, worming to lower margin, plate 2 with small section of outer margin torn away, lightly browned, a few spots, British Museum duplicate stamp to verso of title, Royal Agricultural Society of England bookplate to front pastedown, 20th century half calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, [Henrey 216; Wing L389], 8vo, Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St.Paul's Church-Yard, 1696. ⁂ John Evelyn praises this work in a one-page letter printed after the 'To the Reader', in which he states that he knows 'of nothing extant which exceeds it'. The second edition adds for the first time a section headed 'Of Greens and green-houses in general' and 'A Catalogue of Choice Fruits...greens and blossoming shrubs: to be had at Brompton Park, near Kensington'. Includes the making of cider, perry and liquors.
Cider and Bees.- Worlidge (John) Vinetum Britannicum: or a Treatise of Cider..., 2 parts in 1, second edition, engraved frontispiece, 2 plates and 2 full-page illustrations, lacking advertisement leaf at end of part 1, some foxing and soiling, especially to margins, a few marginal defects, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn, some repairs to leather, [Wing W3609 and W3595; Bitting p.504 (note); British Bee Books 54; Cagle 1070; Simon BG 1632], 8vo, Printed for Thomas Dring...and Thomas Burrel, 1678.⁂ Part 2 is devoted to Bees and Bee-keeping. Provenance: Marcus Crahan (bookplate); contemporary ink inscription mentioning Mrs Bidford, dated 1685, on front free endpaper; 19th century ink inscription above newspaper cutting relating to Garraway's Coffee House, near the Royal Exchange.
Milton (John) The Poetical Works, engraved portrait frontispiece, old repairs to edges, 12 engraved plates by Michael Burghers or Peter Paul Bouche to Paradise Lost, R2 with marginal hole and short marginal tear, marginal loss to final ff., water-staining throughout, several ff. with frayed edges, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, [Wing M2162 & M2163], folio, for Jacob Tonson, 1695.
Africa.- Ludolf (Hiob) A New History of Ethiopia, being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia, first English edition, 8 engraved plates, of which 7 folding, one bound upside down, engraved ethtiopic alphabet plate, folding letterpress table, H1 & 2Z2 with short marginal tear, 2Y3 with small hole affecting odd letter, spotting, previous owner's ink marking to title, bookplates, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, [WingL3468], folio, for Samuel Smith, 1682.⁂ Provenance: engraved bookplate of Walter Charles James. Bookplate of Lawrence Strangman, and bookplate of David Crampton Winfield (1929-2013).
Rycaut (Paul) The History of the Turkish Empire, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 plates only (of 4), also lacking 2ff. (dedication to the King and 'To the Reader'), title lower edge reinforced, c1 with slight tear just encroaching into text, small rust hole in X3 slightly affecting text, occasional foxing and soiling, later mottled sheep, upper cover scuffed, lower cover worn, rebacked, [Atabey 1074; Wing R2406. Not in Blackmer], Printed by J.M. for John Starkey, 1680; and another by Rycaut, also defective, folio (2)⁂ Provenance: James H. Williams (ink name on title); Colonel H.H. Fane (bookplate); Malin and Constantine Sorsbie (bookplate).
Virgil. The Works, second edition, translated by Mr. Dryden, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 101 plates, 3 with tears, 1 with old repair, list of subscribers, 3R1 with short marginal tear, 4S3 & 4S4 with small marginal loss and neat repairs, spotting and browning, broken hinge with upper cover to A1 detached, near contemporary calf, rebacked, neat repairs to bottom edge, rubbed, bumping to corners, small loss to spine head, [Wing V617], folio, for Jacob Tonson, 1698.
Stanley (Thomas) The History of Philosophy, 2 vol. in 1, 17 engraved plates, ?lacking final f. to part 6 (?3q2), 1 plate with two small holes, some ff. browned, [Wing S5237; Wing S5238aA], for Humphrey Moseley, 1655-56; The History of Philosophy, the Third and Last Volume, 5 engraved plates, some minor finger soiling at margins, [Wing S5238A], for Humphrey Moseley, 1660; The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy, [Wing S5240], for Thomas Dring, 1662, together 3 vol., each with engraved portrait frontispiece, titles with woodcut devices, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, uniformly bound in contemporary calf with red morocco labels to spines, a few small tears to joints and spine ends, corners a little rubbed, folio (3) ⁂ Provenance: William Trumbull [bookplates]
South America.- Vega (Garcilaso de la) "El Inca". The Royal Commentaries of Peru, 2 parts in 1, translated by Paul Rycaut, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 10 engraved plates, a few burn-holes in text, last 26ff. with upper corner repaired with some loss of rule, headline and pagination (mostly supplied in pen and ink), occasional foxing and soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn, upper cover detached, head of spine defective, [Wing G216; Sabin 98760], folio, Printed by Miles Flesher, for Christopher Wilkinson, 1688.⁂ One of 4 variants of this edition. ".. [Rycaut] had a very slight knowledge of the Spanish language and he did not scruple to make wild guesses at the meaning of sentences, and to omit whole chapters. Thus he only gives fourteen out of the twenty-six chapters in the first book, and sixteen out of the twenty-six in the second."--C.S. Markham's introd. to the First part of the Royal commentaries, 1869-71, v. 1, p. xvi. (ESTC) .
Edmondes (Sir Clement) Observations upon Caesars Com[m]entaries, woodcut portrait frontispiece, engraved title and 7 double-page or folding plates only (of 12), front endpaper and portrait becoming loose, later calf, upper joint cracked and a little worn at foot, [STC 7491], folio, for Math. Lownes, 1609.⁂ First published in 1600. "Edmondes . . . supplemented his comments on Roman military practice with observations on contemporary campaigns, including those of the English forces in France and the war in Ireland . . . He also discussed the question of how to deal with an invasion of England" (ODNB).Provenance: William B. Scott (bookplate).
Mining.- Browne (Edward) An Account of Several Travels Through the great part of Germany, first edition, 5 engraved plates only (of 6), title, following leaf and one plate with marginal repairs, some worming, mostly marginal but occasionally slightly affecting text or plates, contemporary sheep, rebacked, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing B5109; Kress S1447], 4to, Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1677.⁂ Edward Browne (1644-1708) was the son of Sir Thomas Browne, author of Religio Medici, and was also a physician but travelled extensively throughout Europe.Provenance: J.W. Knightley (ink inscription on title).
Virgil. The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Faithorne after Peter Lilly, additional engraved title, printed title in red and black, double-page engraved map and 101 full-page illustrations or plates after Franz Cleyn by Wenceslaus Hollar and Pierre Lombart, engraved initials and head-pieces, occasional staining, modern half calf over marbled boards, joints cracking, [Wing V610], folio, Printed by Thomas Warren for the Author, 1654.
Foxe (John) [Book of Martyrs] Acts and Monuments Of matters most speciall and memorable, 3 vol., half-title to vol.1, titles within elaborate woodcut borders, engraved portrait and 5 plates, 3 folding, 1 with splits to folds, occasional light marginal marking or staining but a good, clean well-margined copy generally, contemporary calf, rebacked, retaining original gilt backstrips, wear to corners, sympathetic later endpapers, [Wing F2035], for the Company of Stationers, folio, 1641.
Cocker (Edward) The Young Clerk's Tutor; being a most useful Collection ..., third edition, engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved calligraphic plates at end, ?lacking A1 (blank), scattered spotting and staining, small loss to final free endpaper, contemporary sheep, split to spine head at upper joint but holding firm, a little rubbed, [Wing C4857A], small 8vo, by J. Streater, and are to be sold by Robert Crofts, 1664.
Forestry.- Cook (Moses) The Manner of Raising, Ordering; And Improving Forest and Fruit-Trees, second edition, 4 engraved plates, bookplate of Earl Fitzwilliam, front free endpaper with early ownership inscription of Joh: Fulham, another with ink manuscript recipe for "?riping and ordering a Walnutt", small ink inscription to title, a few other instances of early ink marginalia, B2 with lower inner corner chipped and silked, B3 torn and silked with small loss to text, a couple other short tears into text without loss, light foxing, occasional soiling, some damp-staining towards end (affecting plates), contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, old covers rubbed, 4to, for Peter Parker, 1679⁂ A reissue of the 1676 edition with cancel title and the addition of 'A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure' by Gabriel Plattes at end.
Hobbes (Thomas).- Thucydides. The History of the Grecian War: in Eight Books, translated by Thomas Hobbes, second edition, attractive engraved additional title, letterpress title in red and black, 3 folding engraved maps and 2 plates, first map t repaired, occasional light marking or soiling to margins but a very good, clean copy generally, contemporary calf, joints repaired, extremities rubbed, later endpapers, [Wing T1134], folio, by Andrew Clark for Charles Harper, 1676.⁂ Hobbes' most celebrated translation. Hobbes was the first to translate Thucydides directly from the Greek into English and even drew the map of ancient Greece that accompanied this edition.
Greece.- Pelopennese.- Coronelli (Vincenzo) An Historical and Geographical Account of the Morea, Negropont, and the Maritime Places as far as Thessalonica..., first edition in English, translated by R. W. Gent, 42 folding engraved maps, plans and views (of which 1 with closed tear from top edge affecting image and 1 with small nick to blank margin), final advertisement leaf, various ink ownership inscriptions, some light spotting and staining, affecting some plates, upper hinge cracking at B1, contemporary calf, lower cover nearly detached, [Atabey 286-8; Blackmer 408; Wing C6342], large 12mo, for Matth. Gillyflower, 1687.
Scientific Instruments.- Gunter (Edmund) The Works...Conteining The description and use of the Sector, Cross-staff, and other Instruments...in Astronomie, Navigation, Dialling...with a new Treatise of Fortification, 'third edition', engraved frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, diagrams and plates, lacking additional engraved title, title and frontispiece frayed at fore-edge, first few leaves working loose, some water-staining, contemporary calf, rubbed, [Wing G 2239A], 4to, Printed by F.N. for Francis Eglesfield, 1653.⁂ In this edition the letter press title page has: no comma following "Quadrant" in the 14th line; no comma following "corrected" in the 20th line; and the last 'n' in "London" is swash.
Universal language.- Wilkins (John) An Essay Towards a Real Character, And a Philosophical Language, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, imprimatur f., title within double-rule border and with engraved arms of the Royal Society, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, 2 engraved plates, 2 folding letterpress tables, 2 engraved illustrations, with blank leaf 3M4 but lacking final blank, contemporary calf, upper joint repaired, lower cracking, [Wing W2196; Alston VII 290], folio, Printed for Sa: Gellibrand, and for John Martyn Printer to the Royal Society, 1668.⁂ The first full exposition of a universal language in English, contains sections on the origin of languages and letters, the theory of grammar and phonetics and their relation to universal language, and the proposed alphabet for Wilkins's devised universal language.Provenance: Bishop of Chester (in ink capitals on title)
Fireworks.- Babington (John) Pyrotechnia or, A discourse of artificiall fire-works: in which the true grounds of that art are plainly and perspicuously laid downe... Whereunto is annexed a short Treatise of Geometrie, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, charming engraved additional title surrounded by author's portrait and elaborate pyrotechnic devices, engraved full-pages illustrations and 2 folding plates, woodcut initials and diagrams, engraved title and folding plates mounted on stubs, folding plates closely shaved, one with short repaired tear just running into image, some light foxing, bookplates of Victor de Pontigny and Mark Dineley to front pastedown, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, loss to head of spine, rubbed, [Philip B010.1; STC 1099], folio, Thomas Harper for Ralph Mab, 1635.⁂ The first English treatise to deal exclusively with fireworks. "This book is without doubt the most important in Firework bibliography." - PhilipSoldier and mathematician Babingdon was a gunner in the service of the Earl of Newport, to whom he dedicates the present work. The first part comprises detailed descriptions and instructions concerning firework displays with much on firework automata. The second part was intended for the use of artillery officers and includes extensive early logarithmic tables.
Heywood (Thomas) The Hierarchie of the blessed Angells, first edition, with initial licence f., engraved allegorical title, 9 engraved plates included in pagination, lacking final blank f., occasional light browning or damp-staining, some light soiling, armorial bookplate of Frederick WIlliam Cosens to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, extremities a little worn, later endpapers, [STC 13327], folio Adam Islip, 1635.⁂ Heywood's long poem, containing a passage discussing early dramatists including Shakespeare.
Anatomy.- GIbson (Thomas) The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized, first edition, initial imprimatur f., 13 engraved plates, small portion of loss to head of P1 margin with some surface tearing affecting letters on verso, small rust-hole to 2E5, a few ink and pencil notes to rear endpaper, ink ownership inscription and book label to front pastedown, contemporary calf, splitting to head of joints, [Wellcome III, 113; Wing G672], for M. Flesher, 1682.⁂ The last leaf (Kk8) is signed Z4, being a cancel for Z4 (pp. 343-344) which is present in its original position.
Homer. His Iliads translated, adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, second Ogilby edition, title in red and black, engraved frontispiece defective at foot and laid down, 46 plates (of 48, 2 trimmed and mounted), 1 torn, several with foxing/staining, 2R4 torn and repaired, some soiling, upper hinge broken, modern sheep, scuffed and faded, [Wing H2549], folio, Printed by James Flesher, for the Authour, 1669.
Law.- Dugdale (Sir William) Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice ..., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, imprimatur ff. at beginning, title printed in red and black, 4 engraved plates, full-page illustrations, errata at end, 3ff. with tiny rust-holes affecting odd letter, occasional faint spotting, tiny marginal worming not affecting text, lacking endpapers, bookplates, near contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, [Wing D2488], folio, by F. and T. Warren, for the Author, 1666.
Caesar (Gaius Julius) The Commentaries...of his Wars in Gallia; and the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey, engraved frontispiece, 14 engraved plates, 9 folding, title printed in red and black, strengthened at fore-edge on verso, final leaf lacking bottom corner, not affecting text, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, [Wing C201A], folio, Savoy [London], by Edward Jones, for Matthew Gillyflower, 1695.
Greece.- Randolph (Bernard) The Present State of the Morea, called Anciently Peloponnesus, third edition, engraved double-page folding map frontispiece (detached and loosely inserted), 2 engraved folding plates only (of 3), previous owner's ink signatures to title, small marginal paper defect to title, by Will. Notts at the Queens-Arms, 1689, bound before, The Present State of the Islands in the Archipelago (or Arches) Sea of Constantinople, and Gulph of Smyrna ..., first edition, 4 engraved folding plates, engraved folding map. Oxford, at the Theater, 1687, together 2 works bound as 1 vol., scattered spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, lower cover detached, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Wing R238, Blackmer 1385; Wing R234, Blackmer 1386], 4to.
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