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Lot 293
ST MAGDALENE 1979 19 YEAR OLD RARE MALTS LOWLAND SINGLE MALT St Magdalene was the last remaining distillery in the town of Linlithgow when it closed in 1983; the result of a downturn in the market leading to owners, DCL, finding themselves with an overabundance of stock. The distillery building itself has now been turned into flats (although its iconic pagoda roof remains) so it seems unlikely to make a comeback. As a result, examples of its Single Malt are becoming increasingly sought after.Bottled: October 1998Bottle Number: 168863.8% ABV / 70cl
Lot 439
A Rare Dissolving Apparition Magic Lantern Slide Set, English, c.1880, unsigned but with descriptive lables to the edge of 2 of the 3 slides reading '29 -A. COURTSHIP FOR THE SECOND WIFE', showing the presumed courtship between a man and woman Presumably, slide B, the second slide shows the ghost of the first wife in the background oF the same images 29-C. AND CREATES THE UTMOST CONSTERNATION' showing the ghost of the first wife scaring them to death.
Lot 335
A Rare Victorian Magic Lantern Gas Generator, English, c.1900, with brass plaque stamped J. W. BUTCHER , Optical Dept2 - 4 Ludgate Circus Bldgs, London E.C.' and further stamped No.1, with large outer casing finished in nickle plate with brass fittings, and internal steel canister finished in black paint (A.F.) height 46cm
Lot 247
Curtis (John). British Entomology; Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: Containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found, 16 volumes, London: printed for the author, 1824-39, 770 hand-coloured engraved plates (plate 205 numbered twice), 1 uncoloured plate, subscribers list for volumes I-X only, occasional light spotting and offsetting, bookplates of Arthur Edmund Stearns, contemporary tan calf, spines with crimson and green morocco labels and decorated in gilt, tear at foot of volume VIII spine, occasional worming to a few joints and spine ends, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Curtis' British Entomology, Indices, 1866 (title trimmed and laid down), uniformly boundQTY: (17)NOTE:Provenance: Arthur Edmund Stearns (bookplates); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Freeman 875; Nissen ZBI 1000: A complete set, described by French naturalist George Cuvier as 'the paragon of perfection'.
Lot 4
Book of Hours, in French with Latin cues. Illuminated manuscript on vellum [France, Normandy (probably Fécamp or perhaps Rouen), early(?) 15th century], ii + 87 + ii leaves, 86 x 67 mm, ff. 27v, 86v blank; apparently COMPLETE with a cancelled blank at the end, mainly in quires of 6 leaves (f. 27 apparently a single leaf inserted to supply a missed passage of text, linked to the appropriate place on f. 28r with a red cross), the binding too tight for completely confident collation, but there are no obvious gaps in the text, and there is no evidence that anything ever followed the final leaf, which has a blank verso; ruled in ink for 13 lines per page (16 in the calendar), the ruled space 70 × 50 mm; written in gothic textura script (slightly larger and more formal for the Latin, slightly smaller and more rounded for the French), 2-line initials alternately blue with red flourishing or vice versa, each hour except Lauds with BLUE AND GOLD PUZZLE INITIALS with red and blue flourishing, the first text page with an illuminated border, 2-line initials alternately blue with red flourishing or vice versa; the margins rather closely cropped, occasionally affecting the border and extremities of the flourished decoration, some offsetting, general thumbing and wear but overall in sound condition and fully legible, marbled endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, gilt-gauffered edges, sewn on three bands and bound in 19th-century limp brown leather, blind-tooled with a lattice pattern, housed in a filigree openwork hinged book-box ornamented with 31 polished or cut coloured stonesQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance:Probably produced for use at Fécamp, on the coast of Normany about 40 miles / 60km north-west of Rouen: the calendar includes ‘la dedicace de fescamp’ (15 June), and the rare ‘laurens de eu’ (14 November; i.e. Lawrence, archbishop of Dublin, who died and was buried in 1180 at Eu, also on the Normandy coast, about 50 miles / 80km north-east of Fécamp), as well as several Rouen feasts, including the translation of the relics (3 December), ‘goudart’ (i.e. Gildard) (8 June), the translation of Romanus (17 June), Evodius (7 July, 8 October), Ouen (24 August), and Mellonius (22 October).The first flyleaf has an added 15th-century prayer in Latin, preceded by instructions in French (‘L’en doit avant que l’en die l’oroison ensuivant faire une croix devant sa poitrine …’), signed “Th. Th.” (f. 1v)W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate); perhaps acquired in the 1940s, as there is a newspaper clipping dated 1945 loosely inserted.Text:Calendar (f. 2r); Hours of the Virgin, in French, each text with a brief incipit in Latin, with Matins (f. 14r), Lauds (f. 31r), Prime (f. 49v), Terce (f. 57v), Sext (f. 62v), None (f. 66r), Vespers (f. 72v), and Compline (f. 80r). The liturgical Use is similar to, but not the same as, that of Paris. The antiphon and capitulum at Prime and None, (by which many Uses can be distinguished from one another), are: Benedicta tu; Felix namque; Post Partum; and Gaude Maria.Books of Hours in French are extremely rare. Virginia Reinburg (French Books of Hours, Cambridge, 2012, p. 96), knew of only six, all except one of them in an institutional collection: (i) Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS 509; (ii) Huntington Library, HM 1129; (iii) Houghton Library, MS Richardson 7; (iv and v) Paris, BnF, MS fr. 1874 and fr. 13167; and (vi) offered by Les Enluminures in their Catalogue 2, 1993, no. 10. To these can be added British Library, Harley MS 2952. No others are recorded in the Schoenberg database.
Lot 91
* Cromwell (Oliver, 1599-1658). Lord Protector of England. Great Seal of the Commonwealth, attached to a vellum document, Westminster, 24 May 1658, the document handwritten in brown ink and concerning a dispute between John Thornicroft and Jeffrey Hetherington over land and property in Charterhouse Lane in the parish of St Sepulchre's, to be tried before the Chief Justice, Oliver St John, calligraphic first line with large decorative initial 'O' and decorative initials 'L' and 'P' for the words 'Lord Protector', the borders decorated with pen and pencil floral motifs, some rubbing, spotting and uneven ink tones, skilful repair and pen work to small centre portion of upper border, 605 x 675 mm, a complete Great Seal of the Commonwealth appended (45 mm diameter), slightly rubbed, the whole folded into a bespoke plush-lined velvet document box to display the seal showing Parliament, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to moire silk cover on inside of lid, 20th-century red straight-grained morocco lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine, oblong small folio (20 x 26 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). A six-page typed transcription with silk spine tie is included in the box along with an old Maggs Bros catalogue description of the item, c. 1950's.Although both sides of the seal are somewhat rubbed some details of the impressions are still clearly visible. This is the second Great Seal of the Commonwealth (1651), the obverse showing a map of England, Wales and Ireland, the reverse the House of Commons in session.A rare and good survival.
Lot 92
Latham (Simon). Latham's Faulconry, or the Faulcons Lure and Cure: In Two Books. The first concerning the ordering and training up of all Hawks in generall; especially the Haggard Faulcon-Gentle. The second, teaching approved Medicines for the cure of all Diseases in them. Gathered by long practise and experience, and published for the delight of noble mindes, and instruction of young faulconers in things pertaining to this princely art, 2 parts in one, London: R. Hodgkinsonne for Th. Rooks, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Lamb, at the east end of St. Pauls Church, 1658, [34], 176, [2]; [22], 144, [6]p. (a-b8 A-L8; A? [A1 signed 'M'], )(4, B-K8, L3, blank leaf L4 at end not present), full-page woodcut frontispiece to first part, and the exceptionally rare additional engraved frontispiece (Latham's Faulconry... Newly Revised and Amended. The 4th Edition) facing first title, woodcut illustrations to text, early 19th-century ownership inscription in brown ink to verso of frontispiece 'N. F. Bonham, Capt of 10th Hussars Glasgow, the gift of his friend Captain Robert E. Giffard, 10th Hussars who died in Jany. 1836', additionally signed by Bonham to second part (p. 43 and margin of p. 72), minor paper flaw to pp. 39/40 and 47/48 of first part, short closed tear to head of pp. 87/88, and minor brown stain to upper blank margin of pp. 90-102, of the second part, none of which affect the text, Beeleigh Abbey bookplate to front pastedown, 20th-century full calf gilt, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Captain Robert Giffard, 10th Hussars (died 1836); Henry Frederick Bonham (1808-1856), officer in the 10th Hussars, who rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel (gift inscription). W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC R202683; Wing L568 & L569; Bibliotheca Accipitraria II, 335.04; Harting 19 and 20 (note); Schwerdt I, p. 302.Fine copy. The fourth edition of Latham's classic work on falconry 'appears to be the rarest of all editions up to this date' (Bibliotheca Accipitraria). This copy with the very scarce additional engraved title-page which is not recorded in Bibliotheca Accipitraria or included in the collation of the Folger copy given on ESTC; nor is it recorded in other copies listed in auction records.The two works were first published separately in 1614 and 1618. The frontispiece to the first part shows the Haggard falcon surrounded by various falconer's tools; the woodcut vignette on the title-page of the second work shows a falconer on horseback carrying his falcon on his arm.
Lot 255
Wilson (Harriette). Paris Lions and London Tigers, 1st edition, London: Printed and published by J.J. Stockdale, 24 Opera Colonnade, 1825, 231 pp., 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Findlay, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, attractive early 20th century brown crushed half morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere), Bath, spine in six compartments between raised bands, with gilt motifs of a mask, bottle, wine glass and fan, 12moQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Fine copy. Rare. Only two copies located in the UK (British Library and University College London).Harriette Wilson, née Dubouchet (1786-1845), was a celebrated British Regency courtesan whose conquests included the Prince of Wales, the Lord Chancellor, and four future Prime Ministers. She began her career at the age of fifteen, becoming the mistress of William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven, and 7th Baron Craven. At the age of forty, she decided to secure her financial future by publishing her own autobiography. She and her publisher decided to blackmail her lovers. Among her lovers was Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who commented "publish, and be damned" when informed of her plans to write her memoirs. Published in 1825, the same year as the present work, under the title Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Written by Herself, the book immediately became a bestseller.
Lot 220
Bradbury (John). Travels in the interior of America, in the years 1809, 1810, and 1811; including a description of Upper Louisiana, together with the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, with the Illinois and Western Territories, and containing remarks and observations useful to persons emigrating to those countries, 1st edition, Liverpool: Smith and Galway, 1817, xii, [9]-364 pp., a few minor spots, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Ruthven Deane to front pastedown, later black full morocco, gilt decorated spine, lightly rubbed, generally a fine copy, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Buck 89; Graff 383; Howes B695; Sabin 7207; Wagner-Camp 14.The Scottish naturalist John Bradbury travelled up the Missouri River to the Arikara and Mandan villages, before returning down river to St. Louis. The appendix includes an account of the Stuart overland trip, an Osage vocabulary, information about the Mississippi Valley, and an account of the captivity of John Colter. There is also a "Catalogue of some of the more rare or valuable plants discovered in the neighborhood of St. Louis and on the Missouri." Bradbury's account "deserves to be classed as one of the most accurate and pleasingly written travel accounts of this period of American history" (Clark). Bradbury was accompanied on this trip by naturalist Thomas Nuttall. This account is also notable for providing one of the only first-hand accounts of the New Madrid earthquake, which he witnessed on the banks of the Mississippi only a few miles from the epicenter. He was also almost alone in speculating that the lands bordering the Missouri River would become a great agricultural resource, just before the public began to think of the Great Plains as the "Great American Desert."
Lot 37
James I. The True Lawe of Free Monarchies. Or the Reciprock and mutuall dutie betwixt a free King, and his naturall Subjects, [2nd edition], London: Printed by T. C. [Thomas Creede] according to the copie printed at Edenburgh, 1603, without A1 (blank), A4(-A1) B-D8, E4, woodcut coat of arms of James I to title (a little soiling, and minimal loss to extreme inner and outer lower blank corners), light water stains to lower portion of leaves at front and rear, old inscription in brown ink to front pastedown 'Horace 2nd-21', burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, late 17th or early 18th-century sprinkled full calf, with spine lettered in gilt at head 'HOR.2-21', and upper cover stamped in gilt, 'Traquair House', water stain to lower left corner of upper cover, housed in modern dark brown quarter morocco drop-over bookbox, 12moQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Traquair House, home of the Stewart family. Originally a hunting lodge for the kings and queens of Scotland, the property was gifted by the Earl of Buchan, a half uncle to James III, to his second son James Stewart. James became the first Lord of Traquair in 1491 after James IV had succeeded to the throne; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). STC 14410; ESTC S119321. Rare.The True Lawe of Free Monarchies was first published in Edinburgh as a small octavo pamphlet in 1598, when James was King of Scotland. This octavo edition was published in London in the year James was crowned King of England. The True Lawe embodies a political theory that kindled dissension in England throughout the seventeenth century. James was not the first king to believe in his own Divine Right - Henry VIII took it for granted when he made himself Supreme Head of the English Church - but was the first to elaborate the theological case for his convictions, and to thrust them upon his subjects in print.
![[Hobday, W.]. The Cyprian of St. Stephen's, or, Princely Protection Illustrated; in a Poetical Flight to the Pierian Spring:](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/58f83210-d8be-44f6-bb81-b06d011764e4/7d3d7f5a-dd92-4fc8-bdca-b07600e69006/468x382.jpg)
Lot 198
[Hobday, W.]. The Cyprian of St. Stephen's, or, Princely Protection Illustrated; in a Poetical Flight to the Pierian Spring: by Sam Satiricus, 1st edition, Bath: John Browne, 1809, hand-coloured frontispiece, 27, [1]pp., the leaves disbound and individually re-guarded and the whole extra-illustrated with 50 mostly contemporary hand-coloured etchings and engravings including one by James Gillray ('Pandora opening her Box!', published H. Humphrey, 22 February 1809), plus 8 plain plates including one pasted to foot of page 4, some spotting, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, 20th-century crimson crushed morocco gilt by Riviere, minor rubbing, 4to (248 x 212 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Rare. WorldCat locates only two copies of this poetical pamphlet in the UK (British Library & University of Oxford) and three in the USA (Huntington Library, Indiana University & Lawrence University).This was one of a flurry of mostly scurrilous pamphlets and publications concerning the controversy surrounding Frederick, Duke of York and his mistress Mary Anne Clarke (1776?-1852). Their lavishly funded liaison gained public notoriety in 1809 when Colonel Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle charged the Duke in the House of Commons with misuse of military patronage. The illustrations are mainly caricatures of Mary Anne Clarke published by Fores, Teg and others, the last being one of the Duke of York.
Lot 95
* Barkstead (John, died 1662). Major-General and regicide. Document Signed, 'Jo Barkstead', 25 May 1653, being a manuscript receipt, 'Recd. by mee Collonell John Barkstead Lieut. of the Tower of London of Thomas Fauconberg Esqre. Rec[eiv]er Generall of the publique Revenue' the sum of £410.2s.4d., for himself and the gentlemen porters, the yeoman warders, the gentleman gaoler, physician, etc., written in brown ink on laid paper, heavy spotting and some dust-soiling and light creasing, 1 page, folio, tipped along fore-edge on to a blank sheet of paper in a 20th-century calf gilt document folder with burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, rubbed, limp leather spine partly perished and upper cover detached, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Barkstead was appointed to be governor of the Tower of London in 1652, gaining praise by Cromwell for his vigilance. At the Restoration he was outlawed and fled to Germany. He was later arrested in Holland and brought to England for trial, and executed on 19 April 1662. Barkstead was one of the 59 commissioners who signed the death warrant for King Charles I, being the 36th to sign. Rare.
Lot 11
Leonardus de Utino. Sermones quadragesimales de legibus fratris Leonardi de Utino sacre theologie doctoris ordinis predicatorum, Vicenza: Impensa [et] diligentia maxima Stephani koblinger de Vienna impressum hoc op[us] p[re]clarissimu[m] Vince[n]tie octauo cale[n]d[as] decembris. MCCCCLXXViiii [24 November 1479], 403 (of 404) leaves, a2-10, b-s10, t8, v-y10, 1-2 8, 3-19 10, lacking the first leaf (a1), which is blank to recto but has a Table to verso, text printed in Koblinger's types 2:150G and 3:74G, in double column, 52 lines per column, capital spaces, rubricated throughout, larger red initials and numerous small initials in red, primary initial on a2 recto unrealised, burgundy morocco gilt book plate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, scattered contemporary marginal annotations in brown ink, light soiling to recto of first leaf, a5 with some creasing to blank fore-margin, a few minor marginal stains and small repairs (small repairs, not affecting text, minor paper repair to head of inner margin of a5-6, s8-10 with stain to lower outer blank margin, z4 with small paper repairs to lower blank margin, 7 9-10, and 8 1-2 with small paper repairs and associated stain to lower outer margins, light water stain to lower outer corners at rear of volume), early 20th-century Italian limp full vellum, lettered by hand to spine (endpapers renewed), thick Chancery folio (290 x 195 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).GW M17926; Goff L148; BN 15th century VII 1043 (IB.31825); BSB-INK L124; Bod-inc L077.Rare: only two auction records of this edition located (Catawiki, 2021 and Christies New York, The Knakles Collection of Incunabula, 17 April 2000, lot 151.The collected sermons of the famous Dominican Friar Leonardo Mateo da Udine (died 1469). Leonardo delivered sermons across Italy, including Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and served as professor of Theology and rector of the Dominican school at Bologna before he became prior of the Convent of St Dominic, also in Bologna.The second of four books printed at Vicenza by the prototypographer of Vienna. This edition of the Udine Dominican Leonardo's popular sermons is a page-for-page reprint of the first edition, printed in 1473 at Venice by Franciscus Renner and Nicolaus de Frankfordia. Koblinger probably trained in Renner's office, since the material and texts of all three of Koblinger's signed Vicenza editions show connections with Renner, including the unusual method of signing using the alphabet (a-y) followed by arabic numerals. The two gothic founts used in both this and Koblinger's 1480 edition of Utino's Sermones de sanctis vary only slightly from types of the same size used by Renner up until 1477-1478. Koblinger presumably acquired the punches and/or types after the dissolution of the Renner-Frankfordia partnership in 1477. By 1481 Koblinger had returned to his native Vienna, where he was almost certainly responsible for the production of a German-Italian vocabulary and 7 or 8 other unsigned tracts, printed in 1482 and 1485.Koblinger printed only a handful of books including the first ever issued in Vienna. The sermones is the second of just four known works printed by Koblinger in Vicenza, before he returned to Vienna in 1481. There he published the Vocabolista Italico-Tedesco, the first book to be published in Vienna.
Lot 28
Guevara (Antonio de). The Dial of Princes compiled by the reverend father in God Don Antony of Guevara, Byshop of Guadir, Preacher, & Chronicler to Charles the fift, late of that name Emperour. Englished out of the French by Thomas North, sonne of Sir Edward North knight L. North of Kirtheling. And nowe newly reuised and corrected by hym, refourmed of faultes escaped in the first edition : with an amplification also of a fourth booke annexed to the same, entituled The fauoured Courtier, never heretofore imprynted in our vulgare tongue. Right necessarie and pleasaunt to all noble and vertuous persons, [London]: Nowe newly imprinted by Richarde Tottill. An. Domini. 1582, [28 (of 30) unnumbered leaves], 476 numbered leaves (folios 1-476), A6 (lacking A7-8), B-C8, A-NNn8, OOo4, woodcut title, woodcut initials, black letter text, a very fine copy with clean wide margins, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, later 19th-century marbled endpapers, with 19th-century bookplate of Henry Cunliffe Armiger to front pastedown, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front endpaper, old bookseller's printed catalogue description tipped-in to front endpaper, fine later 19th century gilt-decorated red-brown full levant morocco by Riviere, with large centre ornament to each side, gilt lettered and decorated spine in compartments between five raised bands, some fading to spine, small 4to[60], 476 [i.e. 752], [1] p. A-C? D? A-3N? 3O?.QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Reverend Henry Cunliffe (1826-1894), Vicar of Shifnal, Shropshire, fourth son of Sir Robert Henry Cunliffe, 4th Baronet (bookplate, and bibliographical notes in Cunliffe's hand to front endpapers). A selection from his library was sold anonymously at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 21 May 1897, with further books from his library sold by Sotheby's, London, 27 and 28 May 1946; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).STC 12429.Rare enlarged edition translated by Thomas North from Guevara's Relox de Príncipes of 1529, a treatise on the education and ideal conduct of princes, and thought to be a source-work for Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.
![Capgrave (John). [Nova legenda Anglie, 1st edition, London: Wynkyn de Worde, 27 February, 1516], black letter text, 44 lines](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/58f83210-d8be-44f6-bb81-b06d011764e4/a39a08db-4d58-4ff9-a590-b07600e61bc0/468x382.jpg)
Lot 16
Capgrave (John). [Nova legenda Anglie, 1st edition, London: Wynkyn de Worde, 27 February, 1516], black letter text, 44 lines and headline in double column, without catchwords, full-page woodcut of Saints in Glory [Hodnett 237] on the first page, repeated on the verso and the penultimate page, full-page cut of the royal arms on verso of folio A6 of preliminaries, and Caxton's large device on last page, woodcut criblé initials, upper marginal repairs to first 9 leaves including piece torn from top of Ai affecting the woodcut on both pages, narrow worm-track with careful repairs slightly affecting text through first 29 folios, upper corner of A2 (Prologus) neatly replaced with piece from another copy with the large decorative initial 'S' neatly inked en grisaille, following folios A3 & A4 supplied from a slightly smaller copy (peppered wormholes and old ink underscoring), skilful circular repair (from another copy) to second column of folio 171, a few scattered discrete and mostly marginal repairs including to folios 96, 120, 168, 182 and 269, lacks blank ll6 (between folios 192 and 193), scattered old ink marginal marks, some old mostly marginal dampstaining, heavier browning from damp to upper margins of last few leaves, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, 19th-century diced tan russia, blind-stamped decorated spine with gilt lettering, some edge wear, covers detached, folio (280 x 195 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Collation: A, A-X, a-z, &, aa-ll [-blank ll6]; 341 leaves, 6 leaves unnumbered; i-cccxxxiiii, last folio unnumbered.STC 4601; Plomer, Wynkyn de Worde, pp. 82-83.This Catalogus of the lives of 168 saints is based on the work of John of Tynemouth (died 1290?). It was attributed in the middle of the 16th century to John Capgrave (1393-1464) by the antiquaries John Leland and John Bale, but that has since proved to be unfounded (cf. P. J. Lucas, 'John Capgrave and the Nova legenda Anglie: A Survey', The Library, 5th series, XXV, 1970, pp.1-10). None of the manuscripts or early printed editions of the work names an author. Its alphabetical, rather than chronological, arrangement made this one of the most useful books printed by Wynkyn de Worde.Rare. Copies are often found lacking the woodcut illustrations, all of which are present in this copy, as well as the life of Thomas à Becket (folios 283-93), which was suppressed.
Lot 82
Premonstratensian Order. Annales Canonici et Candidi Ordinis Premonstratensis et Vita Sancti Norberti, cum Calendario continente fundatores, Abbates, et Viri Illustres Ordinis Praemonstratensis, 17th century, 153 leaves, manuscript on paper, written in a small French hand, with some coats of arms in trick, ruled in red throughout, large initial ‘I’ in red on first page, a few other large initial spaces left blank, calendar at rear (largely left blank), pp. 7-8 detached, very occasional browning and old water stains, Phillipps MS 8269 inscribed to first blank page recto, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, contemporary doeskin, upper cover stained, some soiling and wear, spine deficient and joints weak, folio (285 x 190 mm), preserved in a 20th-century green pigskin slipcase lettered in gilt and housed in a gilt-titled green morocco-backed cloth book box, rubbed, 32.5 x 23.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Phillipps MS 8269 (inscription); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).A rare and important manuscript chronicle of the origins of the Premonstratensian Order, covering 1120-155, with the history of the foundation of the different monasteries in England, France, Germany, and a life of Saint Norbert.The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons, is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church founded in Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Saint Norbert of Xanten (c. 1075-1134), who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg. Beeleigh Abbey was constructed for the Order in 1180.
![[Pilkington, James, Bishop of Durham]. The burnynge of Paules church in London in the yeare of oure Lord 1561, and the iiii.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/58f83210-d8be-44f6-bb81-b06d011764e4/3f896769-4ccf-45b9-9445-b07600e623ea/468x382.jpg)
Lot 25
[Pilkington, James, Bishop of Durham]. The burnynge of Paules church in London in the yeare of oure Lord 1561, and the iiii. day of June by lyghtnynge, at three of the clocke, at after noone, which continued terrible and helplesse unto nyght, London: Willyam Seres, dwellynge at the west end of Powles, at the Sygne of the Hedgehog, [10 March, 1563], A-R8, S3 (lacking colophon leaf S4 at end), black letter, woodcut initials, title and following leaf with small loss to upper outer blank corner, a few minor waterstains and other marks, B8 with closed vertical tear without loss and associated stain to verso, final leaf with some soiling and small tears generally without loss, 18th-century marbled endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, old bookseller's printed description tipped-on to front endpaper, all edges gilt, attractive 18th century gilt-decorated red full morocco, lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). STC 19931.Rare and only edition. Bishop Pilkington had delivered a sermon at Paul's Cross on the 8th June 1561, four days after the fire which destroyed the old St. Paul's, ascribing the destruction to the wrath of God and warning of worse to follow. His sermon provoked an angry response from the Catholic apologist John Morwen, alleging the cause was in fact due to abandoning the old faith and to blasphemy, to which Pilkington responded with his 'Confutacion of an Addicion', an uncompromising onslaught on the Catholic church. The text of Pilkington's Confutacion is here preceded by Morwen's Addicion.
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[Devereux, Robert, second Earl of Essex, 1566-1601]. Manuscript volume containing a variety of copies of earlier documents by and about the Earl of Essex, circa 1620-30, including contemporary reports of parliamentary affairs, 'The Earle of Essex, his appearance… at the Lord Keepers House, 1600 (16pp.), 'The Arraignments of ye Earle of Essex and Southampton in Westminster Hall ye 19th day of February 1600' (22pp.), Advise to his Sonne' (17 pp.), ‘A description of the arraignment of the Duke of Norff.’ (10pp.), a poem beginning 'All that have eyes now wake and weepe’, copies of personal letters from Sir Charles Cornwallis, etc., a total of 139 pages written in more than one neat hand, the pieces with varying numbers of blanks between pieces and sections, a total of 225 blank pages, the hands all legible except 15 pages in thicker ink with loss of legibility due to bleeding and smudging, armorial bookplate of the Wodehouse family (‘frappe forte’) to front pastedown with old ink inscription ‘Wodehouse, Kimberley, 1838’ written on the bookplate, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front flyleaf recto and two quotations from the cleric Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) to verso in an 18th-century hand, 19th-century calf with gilt-titled spine, original calf covers relaid with gilt-tooled lozenge design to centre of both covers, rubbed, small 4to (195 x 137 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Wodehouse family, earls of Kimberley (bookplate); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).A very rare collection of pieces, in particular a highly important series of documents recording the offences of Essex which led to his arraignment and the culmination of his close relationship with the queen culminating in her signing his death warrant. After his return from Ireland in 1599 Essex was brought before a specially constituted court which preferred three specific charges against him. All material relating to his arrest and trial is of special interest on account of the paucity of the material available.‘No full report of these proceedings is extant. Bacon drew up an apparently complete account, but only a fragment dealing with the first charge (the journey into Munster) survives. The rest has to be gathered chiefly from Fynes Morison's ‘History of Ireland' and paroled accounts of Essex's Irish action published officially after his death. The gist of the accusations lay in the negotiations with Tyrone, and no authentic record of these is accessible’ (ODNB). The accounts as given in the present manuscript volume include speeches by Essex and by Bacon and references to Tyrone.Although most of the volume appears to have been written in the 1620s several of the pieces appear to be copies originally penned at an earlier date. Bacon, for instance, is never 'Lord Verulam’ but always 'Mr. Bacon’. Francis Bacon was created Baron Verulam of Verulam in 1618.Towards the end of the volume the collection includes several letters from the English courtier and diplomat Charles Cornwallis (died 1629) which are personal, one, presumably to his first wife, Elizabeth, ending ‘Faythfull and affectionate husbande’ (22 July 1614). This letter would have been written one month after he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Cornwallis had been suspected of fanning the parliamentary opposition to the king. John Hoskins, who had made himself conspicuous in the House of Commons of England by his denunciation of Scots and Scottish institutions, declared when arrested that he was Cornwallis's agent. Cornwallis disclaimed all knowledge of Hoskins, but admitted that he had procured the election of another member of parliament, and had supplied him with notes for a speech against recusants and Scotchmen. The privy council placed Cornwallis under arrest in June 1614, and he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for a year, with Hoskins and Leonel Sharp.The untitled poem is a known epitaph (or perhaps two) on King James, and so originally written after his death in 1625. The poem is now ascribed to George Morley (1598-1684): [An Epitaph upon King James], beginning ‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’, 22 lines; and another of 10 lines, running on with no separate heading, beginning ‘For two and twenty yeares, long care’. They were published consecutively as two separate pieces with minor text variations in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), pp. 398-99. The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700 online refers to it as 22 lines and notes: ‘Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), … [but] The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley’. All 32 lines are published as one piece and attributed to Edward Fairfax in William Grainge, Daemonologia: A Discourse on Witchcraft… (Harrogate, 1882), pp. 18-19.
Lot 173
Fore-edge paintings. The Oeconomy of Human Life. Translated from an Indian Manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Manner in which the said Manuscript was Discovered. In a Letter from an English Gentleman now Residing in China to the Earl of E****, [by Robert Dodsley], London: S. & E. Harding, 1795, half-title, and advertisement leaf in preliminaries, stipple-engraved illustrations throughout, old water staining and some spotting throughout, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt with double fore-edge paintings to each edge (six in total), contemporary gilt-decorated black morocco, rubbed, joints tender, slightly frayed at head and foot of spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).A rare example of a book with each edge having a double fore-edge painting. The principal paintings on the fore-edge show the outskirts of a village with two figures by a bridge over a river and a windmill, the opposing painting a river scene with a fisherman on a boat and a church with a spire in the distant background. The top and bottom edges show more indistinct fore-edges of generic countryside.
Lot 78
Essex. A sammelband of 27 English Civil War pamphlets mostly relating to the siege of Colchester, Essex, 1648, comprising:1. A Great Fight at Colchester upon Tuesday night last, being the 25. of this instant July, and the advancing of General Lucas and his Forces to the very Guards of the Parliamenteers, with the particulars of the Fight, and the number that were killed and taken prisoners on both sides, and the springing of a Mine to blow up part of the Leaguer. Likewise a letter from Colchester concerning the marching of an Army to London, and a message from Prince Charles to Gen. Lucas. And a bloudy fight at Deal Castle in Kent, London: R. Woodus, 1648, [2], 6 pp., woodcut to title,2. C. (W.). The Prince of Wales his coming to Yarmouth, with 19. Saile of Shipping, & Landing an Armie for the Relief of Colchester. Also a Fight between them and the Parliaments Forces; some of the Princes men taken Prisoners, and rescued again by the town of Yarmouth, who joyne with the Prince, and keep out the Parliaments Forces. With a list of the Lords, Knights, and other Commanders come over with the Prince. And Sir Charles Lucas his men roasting a whole horse, for joy of the Prince his coming. Certified in a Letter from a Gentleman of Quality in the Army, London: Printed by Robert Austin, July 27, 1647, [2], 6 pp., upper outer blank corner of final leaf repaired, 3. A great and bloudy Fight at Colchester, and the storming of the Town by the Lord Generals forces, with the manner how they were repulsed and beaten off, and forced to retreat from the Walls, and a great and terrible blow given at the said storm, by Granadoes and Gunpowder. Likewise their hanging out the Flag of Defiance, and their sallying out upon Tuesday last, all the chief Officers ingaging in the said Fight, and Sir Charles Lucas giving the first onset in the Van, with the number killed and taken, and Sir Charles Lucas his Declaration, London: G. Beal, 1648, [2], 6 pp., woodcut to title, imprint slightly cropped,4. The Resolution and most faithfull expression of the Gentry and Commonalty of the Countie of Essex. Presented to the House of Parliament Jun. 20. 1642. Wherein is declared their certaine and reall intentions to maintaine the Priviledges of the Crowne and Parliament. Also the true Relation of an Opposition and Disturbance given to the Earle of Stamford at the Training of the Traine Bands at Leicester. Which Disturbance was given by Mr. Hen. Hastings, sonne to the Earle of Huntington. With the Order from the House concerning Mr. Hastings, as a Delinquent and occasioner of the same Disturbance. As also an Order to send for the Maior, for proclaiming the Kings Proclamation. Hen. Elsyng. Cler. Parl., [London]: Printed for William Arding, June 25, 1642, [8] pp.,5. A Great Fight between his Excellencies Forces, and the Enemy, neer the Island of Mersey, Goring beaten into Colchester, the Army within pistoll-shot of the Walls, and their resolution to give no man quatter; certified in a Letter upon Thursday night last, being the 22 of this instant June, 1648. With a list of the number that were slain and taken prisoners, 22 Pieces of Ordnance taken, with all their Arms, Powder, Match, and Bullet. Also another Fight at Wivener, within two miles of Coulchester, 16 slain, 40 taken prisoners, and the surprizing of Lieut. Col. Gardener, and a Party of Walloons, by Capt. Fisher, with his Suffolk Horse. With their Examination before the Generall, and their Consession, touching their marching up to the Walls of London, and joyning with a Party to plunder the City. Likewise the Lord Generals Proclamation touching the proceedings of his Army, and his Directions to every Colonell and Commander, touching their respective Troops and Companies. Signed, T. Fairfax, London: Printed for R. W., 1648, [2], 6 pp., neatly repaired worm trail at foot of leaves (with no loss of text),6. Another Fight at Colchester, and the storming of the Town on Fryday night last, by the Parliaments Forces, and the successe thereof. Together, with the proceedings of His Majesties loyall subjects; in the Counties Northampton, Liecester, and Rutland, touching their raising of sixe Regiments for the defence of King, Parliament, and Kingdome. Likewise, a great Fight in Scotland, between Duke Hamiltons Forces commanded by the Earle of Kalendar Lieutenant Generall, and the Marquesse of Argyles party, with the number slain and taken prisoners, the Lord Chancellours escape, and hundreds fled to the Mountains. Also, Duke Hamiltons Speech to the Estates of Scotland, concerning the advancing with his Army into England, London: Printed for G. W., 1648, [2], 6 pp., leaf A2 remargined at gutter, For a full listing of all the titles in this work, please go to the Dominic Winter websiteQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Willis and Sotheran, Catalogue of Superior Second-Hand Books, 25 October 1862, item 282, £4. 10s.; Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of a Valuable Assemblage of Books, 21 February 1865, item 244; From the collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps Bt. (1792-1872); Purchased by private treaty by William H. Robinson Ltd., Pall Mall, London; Purchased by W. A. Foyle (bookplate).1. ESTC R202343; Thomason E.454[15]; Wing G1693.2. ESTC R205003; Thomason E.454[18]; Wing C163.3. ESTC R202335; Thomason E.453[18]; Wing G1633.4. ESTC R26988; Wing R1138.5. No institutional location found. Not traced in ESTC or Wing.6. ESTC R205037; Thomason E.449[29]; Wing A3260.7. ESTC R203404; Thomason E.452[42]; Wing R2325.8. ESTC R205134; Thomason E.460[34]; Wing A3252.9. ESTC R204978; Thomason E.457[15], Wing A3266.10. ESTC R9153; Thomason E.450[10]; Wing L56A.11. ESTC R205056; Thomason E.454[8]; Wing C2973.12. ESTC R202094; Thomason E.461[35]; Wing F181.13. ESTC R204969; Thomason E.448[6]; Wing N1334.14. ESTC R204984; Thomason E.448[15]; Wing I2.15. ESTC R205133; Thomason E.460[33]; Wing C3601A.16. ESTC R205005; Thomason E.454[21]; Wing G1811A.17. ESTC R204986; Thomason E.448[21]; Wing L383.18. ESTC R203059; Thomason E.448[10]; Wing N1336.19. ESTC R203401; Thomason E.448[11]; Wing R2328.20. ESTC R204995; Thomason E.457[20]; Wing L382.21. ESTC R204912; Thomason E.447[2]; Wing B3242. 22. ESTC P1344; Thomason E.449[31]; Not recorded in Wing.23 ESTC R204988; Thomason E.448[23]; Wing H90.24. ESTC R201945; Thomason E.448[18]; Wing E3663.25. ESTC R204973; Thomason E.448[7]; Wing R2329.26. ESTC R204947; Thomason E.447[22], Wing F903.27. ESTC R203705; Thomason E.461[24]; Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S186. Wing says 'var.' In CSmH and Thomason copies the 'A' of 'A3' is under the second 'c' of 'accompt', as seen in this example. Also signed at end 'T.S.' rather than being signed at foot of p. 5 'S.T.' as seen in the other variant.This volume comprises 27 rare pamphlets recording the events during the English Civil War, particularly in Colchester, Essex, and also referring to related military movements and events during that time. Many relate to the Siege of Colchester which occurred in the summer of 1648 (12 June - 28 August) when the Second English Civil War reignited in several areas of Britain. Colchester became embroiled in the unrest when a Royalist army on its way through East Anglia to raise support for the King, was attacked by Lord-General Thomas Fairfax at the head of a Parliamentary force. The Parliamentarians' initial attack forced the Royalist army to retreat behind the town's walls, but they were unable to bring about victory, and as a result, they settled down to a siege. The Royalists resisted the siege for eleven weeks and only surrendered following the defeat of the Royalist army in the North of England at the Battle of Preston, Lancashire (17-19 August 1648).
Lot 330
Collier (John Payne). Trilogy. Conversations between Three Friends on the emendations of Shakespeare's text contained in Mr. Collier's Corrected Folio, 1632, and employed by recent editors of the poet's works, printed for private circulation only, London: T. Richards, [1874], three parts in one volume (comedies, histories, and tragedies), top edge gilt, inside gilt dentells, bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, near-contemporary gilt-decorated dark blue crushed full morocco (unsigned), some abrasions to lower board edges (generally in excellent condition), small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Limited to 25 copies printed for private circulation. Collier's Trilogy offers further defense of the spurious contemporary annotations to the so-called Perkins 1632 folio edition of Shakespeare, to show how many of its manuscript readings have been adopted by significant editors of Shakespeare such as Dice. Collier's annotated 1632 folio was however unmasked as a fabrication, and his literary pretensions as a consequence, significantly demoted. See Arthur and Janet Freeman, John Payne Collier, Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century (Yale University Press, 2004).Rare. No copy at auction since 1964.On 31 January 1852, John Payne Collier announced in the Athenaeum that he had discovered in a copy of the Second Folio of Shakespeare a large number of emendations 17th-century hand. The original is now in the Huntington Library.
Lot 60
Charles I. The Joyfull Returne of the most illustrious Prince, Charles, Prince of Great Brittaine, from the Court of Spaine. Together with a relation of his Magnificent Entertainment in Madrid, and on his way to St. Anderas, by the King of Spaine. The Royall and Princely Gifts interchangeably given. Translated out of the Spanish Copie. His wonderfull dangers on the Seas, after his parting from thence: Miraculous delivery, and most happy-safe landing at Portsmouth, on the 5. of October Stil veteri, to the unspeakable joy of both nations. Testified no lesse by Triumphall Expressions of the Spanish Ambassadours, (here now residing) as by the lowd acclamations of our owne people, 1st edition, London: Edward All-de for Nathaniell Butter and Henry Seile, 1623, [2], 46 pp., woodcut headpiece and initial, rough-trimmed, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, and old bookseller's printed description to front pastedown, 17th century full calf with double-rule gilt outer border, some light marks to covers, contained in modern purpose-made brown calf drop-over bookbox, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).STC 5025. Rare.In February 1623, the future Charles I, and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham travelled to Spain in disguise, as brothers Thomas and John Smith, concealing their faces with wigs and false beards. Their plan was to secure a marriage between Charles and the Catholic Spanish Infanta, Maria Anna, known today as the Spanish Match. Owing to religious difficulties (Maria objected to marrying a Protestant) the plan was abandoned.
Lot 151
Montagu (Elizabeth Robinson). An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakspear, compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets. With some remarks upon the misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire, 4th edition. To which are now added, Three Dialogues of the Dead, London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777, title, contents leaf, 20, 316 pp., light spotting to a few leaves, modern half calf gilt over marbled boards, panelled spine with maroon morocco title label, 8vo, together with Hazlitt (W. Carew). Shakespeare Jest-Books; reprints of the early and very rare jest-books supposed to have been used by Shakespeare ... edited, with introduction and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Willis & Sotheran, 1864, light spotting to first and last few leaves of first volume only, top edge gilt, bookplate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, later half brown morocco (by Bayntun, Bath), gilt-decorated spines (date misnumbered 1844 to foot of each), a few very minor marks, generally in excellent condition, 8vo, plus Ingleby (C. M.). Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse; being materials for a History of Opinion on Shakespeare and his Works, culled from writers of the first century after his rise, 1st edition, London : For the Editor: Printed by Josiah Allen, of Birmingham, & published by Tru?bner & Co., 1874, xx, 362 pp., Large Paper copy, corrections pasted to recto of blank leaf at end, bookplate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated red full morocco (by Proudfoot, Euston Square), a little scuffing to board edges, 8voQTY: (5)
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Manuscript History of France. Histoire de France [so titled to upper cover], manuscript on vellum, French, circa 1470s, 117 leaves, 238 x 163 mm (9 3/8 x 6 1/2 ins), manuscript text in French in dark brown ink, the first leaf illuminated in gold and colours, with blason of the Comtes de Vermandois held aloft by two monkeys (one on either side), surrounded by elaborate foliate decoration incorporating flowers and strawberries, a bird and snail to right margin, small dragon to lower margin and large decorative initial in red, blue and gold, two further large decorative initials to folio 8 recto and folio 20 verso, numerous small initals in red and gold, and blue and gold throughout, contemporary miniscule annotations to margins in light brown ink, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to verso of front cover, and additionally marked in pencil above 'De Froyle' and '6926 Ph' (in two different hands), old limp vellum ((probably 17th century) with yapp fore-edges, decorative gilt lozenge to centre of each cover, upper cover with manuscript title in brown ink 'Histoire de France', modern black morocco labels to spine 'Histoire de France' and '14 Cent.', 4to (245 x 170 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Comte de Vermandois, ancient noble French family in northern France to the east of Amiens, straddling the present-day départements of the Oise and Aisne; Sir Thomas Philipps (1792-1872), his pencil inscription to inside front cover '6926Ph'; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Munby Phillipps Manuscripts 6926: 'Histoire de la Creation du Monde ad an.1314. 1st page illum. with a Coat Chequy O. et Az. the shield held by two monkeys n. fol. V. S. XV'.Rare, possibly unique text. A fine manuscript history of France, written in French, beginning with the foundation of the Roman empire, taken from the text of the 4th century A.D. historian Orosius, and continued up to 1314. The text begins: 'De la creation du monde iusques a la fondacion de romme selon orose eut quatre mille quatre cens quatres vingts et quatre ans...'. The penultimate leaf 116 reads in part (approximate transcription): 'L'an mil iii. viii. le tour saint benoist abbe. led. pape fift publier a carpentras ou la court pour lois estoit lesd. constitucione quil avoit fait faux et avoit ordonne qui sen fust fait ung livre qui voulloit nomer le vii decretalles. Mais il comenca destue ma ladif dont il morut apres qui ceust tem le siege viii. ans v. mois. xv. jos au chasteau de la roche maur a la fine du Rosne de la partie du royaulme et fut son corps porte a carpentras la ou la court estoit. Et apres en gascoigne en ung lieu ma dame de vierte ou il avoit fonde ung collige de chanoines seculiers ou diocesse de busars et y avoit choisie la sepulture lieuasses sterile et vaste. Et ne peut envoyer le livre aux universitee et estudes generaulx aux escolliers come il est de coustume. Mais Jhan xxii. son sucesseur. le fift et la noma clementines au nom de son predecesseur come il est contenu au dit livre. L'an mil. iii. Xiiii veille saint andre morut phe. roy de France a ung chasteau nome defront la ou il estoit ne en cestuy monde et luy succeda au roy de France. Loys son ainsne fils qui aussy estoit roy de navarra. Ladite annemesmee au darnier jour davril qui fut veille de lascencion. En geuraud de marinhe chlr. de normendie a cause de maintes accusations contre luy faictes. fut juge a pendre et executer. qui au temps de Phe. avoit tant de gouvernemant q ceulx qui voulloit estoient princes...'The history ends with the death of Philip IV in 1314, and the accession of Louis X of France 'the Quarrelsome'.
Lot 320
Shakespeare (William). Venus and Adonis, from the hitherto unknown edition of 1599; The Passionate Pilgrime, from the first edition of 1599 .... Epigrammes, written by Sir John Davies. And certaine of Ovid's Elegies, translated by Christopher Marlowe, from a rare early edition. Edited by Charles Edmonds, Editor of the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1870, red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary red morocco gilt by Proudfoot, small 8vo (limited edition 1/131 signed by the editor Charles Edmonds, 23 April 1870), together with:Bullen (Arthur Henry, editor). England's Helicon. A collection of Lyrical and Pastoral Poems: published in 1600, London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, near-contemporary red half morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt decorated spine with initials 'J. E.' at foot of spine, 8vo (limited edition 202/250 of large paper edition),Bullen (Arthur Henry, editor). Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, London: John C. Nimmo, 1889, red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, near-contemporary red half morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt decorated spine with initials 'J. E.' at foot of spine, 8vo (limited edition 124/260 of large paper edition),[Head, Richard]. The English Rogue described, in the Life of Meriton Latroon ... Being a compleat history of the most eminent cheats, etc. [by R. Head, assisted by F. Kirkmam], 4 volumes, London 1665, facsimile edition, [reprinted 1874], burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, top edge gilt, contemporary uniform marbled half calf by Riviere and Son, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, 8vo,Lee (Sidney, introduction). An English Garner. Elizabethan Sonnets newly arranged and indexed, 2 volumes, Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1904, red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedowns, top edge gilt, contemporary blue morocco by Bickers and Son, gilt decorated spines, joints cracked and spines a little faded, 8vo,Hartshorne (Charles Henry, editor). Ancient Metrical Tales: Printed chiefly from original sources, London: William Pickering, 1829, bookplate of Alexander Stone to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary marbled calf by Riviere and Son, gilt decorated spine with brown morocco title label, 8vo,[Rump Ballads & Songs]. Rump: or An Exact Collection of the choycest Poems and Songs relating to the late times. By the most eminent wits, from anno 1639. to anno 1661, 2 volumes in one, London: Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane, and Henry Marsh at the Princes Armes in Chancery-lane 1662, [reprinted 1874], frontispiece and additional illustrated title, bookplate of Richard Holmden and burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, of Belleigh Abbey to front endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary mottled calf by Root and Son, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, upper joint cracked, small 8voQTY: (11)
Lot 26
Baldwin (William, editor). The Myrrour for Magistrates. Wherein maye be seen by example of other, with howe grevous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and unstable worldly prosperity is founde, even of those whom Fortune seemeth most highly to fauour. Imprinted at London in Fletestrete nere to Saynct Dunstans Churche by Thomas Marshe, 1563, two parts in one, [4], clx [i.e. 168], [1] leaf (collates paraph 4, A3-4, B-M8, O-U4, X-Y8, Aa-Bb8, Cc3), lacking A1-2, all of signatures N and Q, and Cc4 at end (errata leaf), first issue of the second edition, with Aa1 recto, line 7 'diligece', title within elaborate woodcut border, some soiling (restored to foremargin), following three leaves with paper repairs to lower outer corners (not affecting text), a few catchwords shaved, occasional minor marks, final two leaves (Cc2-3) with some soiling and stains, contemporary annotations in brown ink to title, B2, K7, L1, and Y1, 19th century pencil note to verso of blank leaf before title 'Lot 98 from Lilly Sale March 21st &c 1864', printed ownership ticket to verso of front endpaper: From Dr. Laing's Library, printed auction description for this copy (lot 485) to front endpaper, dated in pencil 1/4/46, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, 19th-century red-brown morocco (by Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow), binder's ticket to rear pastedown, gilt-decorated spine with black morocco title label, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Grolier, Langland to Wither 174; Pforzheimer 731; ESTC S100551.Rare. First issue of the second edition (with Aa1 recto, line 7 'diligece'), containing eight additional legends, including The tragedie of Edmund Duke of Somerset by George Ferrers, which had been omitted from the first edition of 1559 for political reasons, Thomas Sackville's Sackville's important Induction and the Complaint of Buckingham, and Thomas Churchyard's Shore's WifeThe work was conceived as a continuation of John Lydgate's The Fall of Princes, itself based on Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (Concerning the Falls of Illustrious Men). The Mirror was one of the major achievements of what C. S. Lewis called the ‘Drab Age’, and provided source material for Spenser, Shakespeare, Daniel, and Drayton.
![Book of Hours, Unidentified Use, in Latin. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France: Angers, c. 1460s], i + 155 + i leaves,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/58f83210-d8be-44f6-bb81-b06d011764e4/0a489ed2-e462-4392-9daf-b07600e60ad4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 8
Book of Hours, Unidentified Use, in Latin. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France: Angers, c. 1460s], i + 155 + i leaves, with catchwords, lacking the calendar and other leaves with illumination, perhaps including miniatures, some leaves bound out of place; part of f. 96 excised; 13 lines per page written in a fine gothic textura script (c. 50 × 35 mm); illuminated throughout with one- and two-line initials, and with LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS CONTAINING FLOWERS ACCOMPANIED BY A BORDER (ff. 1r, 52r, 56v, 61r, 70r, 143v); some smudging of pigments, the vellum generally slightly cockled and thumbed, with a few small holes and a few stains from rusted paper clips, a few leaves becoming loose, decorated gilt endpapers, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, 16th-century red velvet, each cover with gilt metal corner- and centre-pieces, the spine with a pierced metal panel and the fore-edge with intact clasp, the velvet worn and the metal tarnished, but sound overall, small 8vo (108 × 78 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance:Doubtless made at Angers, to judge by the style of illumination and a prayer that includes the names of at least five bishop-saints of Angers (f. 152v): Maurilius, Renatus, Albinus, Licinius, and Magnobod; others are Maurice (to whom Angers Cathedral is dedicated) and the rare Serenedus (venerated at Angers); the litany includes most of the same saints. Despite this, neither the Hours of the Virgin nor the Office of the Dead seem to be the normal texts for the Use of Angers, which suggests that the book may have been made for a nearby town that followed a different liturgy.Sold at Sotheby’s, 16 May 1955, lot 92 (lot 90 in the same sale was also in the Foyle collection and is now at the Bodleian Library, Oxford).W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).Hours of the Virgin (f. 1r), Lauds followed by suffrages to Sts Michael, Peter & Paul, Sebastian, Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, and Catherine; Hours of the Cross (f. 47r) and of the Spirit intermixed; Seven Penitential Psalms (f. 78r); Litany (f. 92v); Office of the Dead (f. 101r); Obsecro te (f. 143v); the usual extract from St John’s Gospel (f. 148v); prayers (f. 151r), including one mentioning Angers saints, one to St Barbara in rhyming verse, and another to St Martin.Although defective, this is a substantially complete medieval illuminated Book of Hours, in an unusual binding and with some unusual texts, whose very incompleteness makes it ideal for study and research.
![[Arnaldi, Enea]. Descrizione delle architetture, pitture e scolture di Vicenza, con alcune osservazioni, 2 parts in one volum](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/58f83210-d8be-44f6-bb81-b06d011764e4/4f338e5f-dff9-41b6-bcec-b07600e673f6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 153
[Arnaldi, Enea]. Descrizione delle architetture, pitture e scolture di Vicenza, con alcune osservazioni, 2 parts in one volume, 1st edition, Vicenza: Francesco Vendramini Mosca, 1779, xxiv, [2], 144, 135, [3]pp., engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title tot both parts, 10 folding engraved sheets, each with two plates and a total of 40 illustrations [by Cristoforo Dall’Acqua], a little mostly marginal spotting to early leaves, oval ink library stamp and ink shelf-mark reference to both title versos (ink stamp neatly erased on back of first title), pencil shelf-mark note at head of first title and to front pastedown, library ticket of Charles M. Hutt to front pastedown, 19th-century vellum, gilt-decorated spine with contrasting title labels, a little rubbed, 8vo (115 x 180 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Cicognara, 4393.Enea Arnaldi (1716-1794) worked as an architect in Vicenza and was also responsible for the restoration of the Basilica Palladiana. Rare.
Lot 89
Clarke (Samuel). The Gunpowder-Treason: Being a Remembrancer to England, Of that ancient deliverance from that Horrid Plot, hatched by the Bloody Papists, 1605. Tending to revive the Memory of the fifth of November to every family in this Nation. That all sorts may be stirred up to real thankfulness, and transmit the same to their posterities, that their children may know the reason why the fifth of November is celebrated: that God may have glory and Papists perpetual Infamy. By Samuel Clark pastor of Bennet Finck, London: Printed by A. Maxey for John Rothwel, 1657, [40]pp., signatures F-G8, I4, leaf size 132 x 75 mm, all window-mounted with red-ruled margins to folio size, title-page ruled in red, text leaves spotted and slightly soiled, closed tear to first leaf of ‘To the Reader’ (F2), extra illustrated with 18 contemporary engravings (one later facsimile letter) of incidents and portraits of the conspirators, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, all edges gilt, late 19th-century brown morocco by Riviere and Son, inner dentelles gilt, gilt-titled spine, upper joint partly cracked and tender, folio (375 x 270 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). ESTC R491826 locates just two copies, both in North America, at Henry E. Huntington Library and Yale University. ‘Part 2 of England’s Remembrancer (the Powder Plot) with added text, concluding with an addendum to part 1 (the Armada). Possibly printed for incorporation into copies of the 1657 edition of the whole. The new texts were included in the 1676 edition.’ A rare Gunpowder Plot pamphlet with contemporary extra illustrations.
![James I. The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie. With a prefatory Memoir by R[obert]. P[earse]. Gillies, Edin](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/58f83210-d8be-44f6-bb81-b06d011764e4/cf0511c4-0149-4be8-a74f-b07600e6966d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 209
James I. The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie. With a prefatory Memoir by R[obert]. P[earse]. Gillies, Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co., 1814, reprint of 1584 edition, advertisement slip before title with annotation 'This I purchased at the sale at Lee Priory in Augt. 1834 - 10/6 - BM', pencil annotation to upper margin of title 'I bought this at Lee Priory at the sale of Sir Egerton Bridges Library in 1834 - 10/6', few manuscript notes and annotations throughout and two leaves of manuscript notes at rear, verso of front free endpaper inscribed F. William Cock M.D. 1903 10/6 and with manuscript note 'This was Sir S. E. Brydges own copy and the notes throughout and at the end are in his handwriting, except the notes at end by J. L. Williams Curate of Barson [alias Barfrestone] who mentions Wm. Wordsworth being at the home S. E. B. was very partial to Wordsworth & his poems. Mentions him repeatedly in his works. S.E.B. died Sep 1837 in his 75th year', bookplate of F. William Cock M.D. F.S.A. of Appledore, Kent to front free blank dated 1903, gilt red morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, 19th-century brown half morocco, slim 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (1762-1837), bibliographer, genealogist and also M.P. for Maidstone from 1812 to 1818. He was educated at Maidstone Grammar School and The King's School, Canterbury. He was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge in 1780, though he didn't take a degree and was later called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1787. A founding member of the Roxburghe Club he also founded a weekly magazine called The Literary Magnet, with his son Egerton Anthony Brydges under the joint pseudonym Tobias Merton. He wrote novels and poems and produced several bibliographical publications which were printed at his private press at Lee Priory, in Littlebourne, Kent. The press was established in 1813 and ceased printing in 1823. It was known for producing high-quality printings of unusual and rare tracts. Lee Priory was originally built during the reign of James I and later remodelled. Due to troubled financial affairs, the contents of the property were sold in 1834 on the death of Thomas Brydges Barrett. The auction catalogue advertised the sale of Lee Priory's "Extensive and Valuable Library, containing upwards of 5000 volumes of Books." Many of the books printed at Lee Priory were illustrated with intricate woodcuts created especially for the press, which were also sold in the 1834 auction. The Priory was demolished in 1953. Egerton Brydges' second daughter Jemima married the poet Edward Quillinan (1791-1851) in 1817. She died in 1822 from the tragic effects of burns. Edward Quillinan was a great defender of the works of William Wordsworth and subsequently married Wordsworth's daughter Dora in 1841.Pencil note to verso of front free endpaper stating only 92 copies printed.
Lot 65
Hong Kong Regiment Victorian Officer's helmet plate circa 1891-1902. Good rare cast frosted silvered crowned circlet THE HONG KONG REGIMENT resting in pierced laurel sprays; dragon to voided centre. Two loops. VGC See “British Colonial Badges†by Renfrews & Cranston. 950. Bob Betts Collection
Lot 361
No.4 (Independent) Company Commando WW2 formation sign c1940. Good rare slipped Rose in red with green leaves and stem, red 4 on the stem all embroidered on khaki disc. Service wear, generally VGC. Raised March/April 1940 Major J.R. Petterson.; reorganised as Special Service Bn 11.10.40. In March 1941 became No.2 Commando.
Lot 340
Palestine Gendarmerie Mounted Section badge circa 1922-26. Good rare die-cast white metal crowned PG cypher resting on PALESTINE GENDARMERIE scroll over 1921 superimposed on crossed lances with pennons. Loops. VGC Palestine Gendarmerie disbanded in 1926, many members joined the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force or Palestine Police. Bob Betts Collection
Lot 178
21st (Empress of India's) Lancers Victorian cap badge circa 1898-99. Good rare die-stamped brass crowned crossed lances with pennons, the lower halves in white metal; XXI across the lances. Two toned loops. VGC Converted from Hussars to Lancers 31.3.1897. Designated (Empress of India's) in December 1898
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