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Click here to subscribeRare vintage 1970s ladies needlecord vest-back beige dungarees by OSHKOSHBGOSH fit UK101970s LEE BENDER at BUS STOP bell-print black and tan tunic/smock dress with capped sleeves fits UK10: Please note lot contains stated items only, any additional items in the images are included for illustrative purposes only. Condition Report: Good condition
ITALY V ENGLAND 1954 Autographed menu from post match Dinner relating to International Friendly played in Florence on 18/5/1952, ending in a 1-1 draw. No programme was issued for this match, so this is a rare souvenir. Signed by England players Garrett, Elliot, Finney, Broadis, Merrick and Lofthouse. Generally good
1925 ENGLAND Perth Metropolitan XI v England (English FA XI) played 7/5/1925 at Subico Oval, Perth. Rare 24-page official programme. This was the first of a 25 match Australian tour by the English FA on their first visit to Australia played from 7 May to 3 August 1925. England won the match 8-0 and went on to win all the other games on the tour. Good
Suckling (Sir John) The Goblins. A Comedy. Presented at the Private House in Black-Fryers, by His Majesties servants, first separate edition, B1 with tear to lower margin running into text, small rust hole to B8 affecting 1 or 2 letters of text, final f. rather soiled with fore margin chipped, Wigan Public Library blindstamp on title and bookplate to front pastedown, 20th century roan, joints rubbed, [Wing S6129], 8vo, for Humphrey Moseley, 1646.⁂ Rare, also issued the same year as part of Fragmenta Aurea.
E[lys] (E[dmund]) Divine Poems. With a short description of Christian magnanimity, first edition, ink inscriptions to title verso along with library stamps of Bolland Collection and British Library of Political and Economic Science, modern half calf, [Wing E668], 8vo, Oxford, by H. Hall, 1658.⁂ A rare collection of poems by the renowned eccentric Elys. ESTC only the BL and Bodleian copies in the UK and 4 other copies in the US.
[Ellis (Clement)] The Vanity of Scoffing: or a Letter to a Witty Gentleman, Evidently Shewing the Great Weakness and Unreasonableness of Scoffing at the Christian's Faith, first edition, British Library ink stamp to final p. with faint duplicate stamp to title verso, Wigan Public Library blindstamps, title a little soiled, some light marking, modern half calf, [Wing E575], 8vo, by R. Royston, 1674.⁂ Rare early work by Ellis, likely addressed to the Duke of Devonshire.
[Addison (Joseph, writer and politician, attributed to, 1672-1719)] To the [Memory] of Mr. Nicholas Newcomen, manuscript poem, 1p., damp damaged with loss to edges, expertly repaired and laid down on gauze, browned, unbound, housed in a 20th century red morocco gilt slip-case, folio (387 x 304mm.), watermark arms of London, [c. 1712].⁂ Unpublished. The poem comprises forty-eight lines mostly in couplets. It begins: "If Lesbia's Bird snatch't by untimely Fate", and ends, "Look upwards, hope, expect it from the Skies."Provenance: Autograph Letters Manuscripts and Rare Rooks. Collected by the Late John Gribbel, Philadelphia Part Two. Public Sale January 22, 23 and 24. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. 30 East 57 Street, New York.
Dering (Edward) XXVII. lectures, or readings, vpon part of the Epistle written to the Hebrues, title and printer's device within engraved architectural border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, extensive contemporary ink marginalia to a few ff., lacking P8, provided in facsimile, title with a few small repairs (affecting border) and mounted on stub, some worming in text, mostly in first quarter, diminishing in size as proceeds, last few ff. with small marginal worm traces, some spotting or light staining, lightly browned, modern calf, spine in compartments and with burgundy leather label, [STC 6727], small 4to, Imprinted by [H. Middleton for] Lucas Harison, 1577.⁂ Exceedingly rare at auction, with the only copy traced sold by Bangs & Co. of New York in 1897. Dering (c.1540-1576) was an English priest and classical scholar, controversialist, supporter of Thomas Cartwright, and vehement preacher against his fellow clergy.
Political science.- Foord (John) Ioannis Foorth Synopsis politica, title with woodcut printer's device, folding letterpress table (not called for by ESTC), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking final 3 ff., some marginal worming, occasionally just touching the odd letter, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, modern morocco-backed boards, spine gilt, [STC 11128], small 8vo, Henry Binneman, 1582.⁂ Rare, with only a handful of copies recorded, and seemingly no appearance at auction. Not in Bodleian, and BL copy a fragment only.
Babington (Gervase, Bishop of Worcester) A briefe conference, betwixt mans frailtie and faith. Wherein is declared the true vse, and comfort of those blessings pronounced by Christ in the fift of Mathew, black letter, woodcut head-piece and historiated initial, contemporary ink pen trials to final blank verso, water-stained, particularly outer margins, which are repaired, some other staining, closely trimmed at head, lightly browned, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine in compartments, [STC 1084], small 4to, Printed by Iames Roberts for Thomas Chard, 1596.⁂ All editions of this work rare at auction. The author was cousin to Anthony Babington, who was executed for treason against Elizabeth I as part of the Babington Plot.
King (John) Lectvres vpon Ionas, delivered at Yorke in the yeare of our Lorde 1594, second edition, titles with large woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial (with fleuron only) and final blanks, narrow marginal repair to head of title, K2 and H4 small piece missing from lower margin, occasional spotting or staining, 19th century polished calf, gilt, spine with red morocco label, upper cover detached, rubbed and little scuffed, [STC 14977; Madan I, p.46], small 4to, Oxford, by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be solde [in London, by Joan Brome] in Paules Church-yarde at the signe of the Bible, 1599.⁂ Rare at auction. John King (d.1621) Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1607-1610, Bishop of London 1611-1621. According to Samuel Purchas he entertained Pocahontas while she was in London in 1617.Provenance: Marquis of Downshire (Crowned D to head of spine; engraved bookplate to front pastedown).
Shakespeare source book.- Torquemada (Antonio de) The Spanish Mandeuile of miracles. Or The garden of curious flowers. VVherin are handled sundry points of humanity, philosophy, diuinitie, and geography, beautified with many strange and pleasant histories, [translated by Sir Lewis Leweknor], first edition in English, title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut initials, lacking initial blank with signature mark, A4, [par.]1&2 (ESTC erroneously calling for 4 ff. in this sig.), K2&3 (provided in facsimile), 2S1 (provided in facsimile), and 2S3&4 (contents ff.), title window mounted, with loss to border, extensive marginal repairs to A3, 2S2 outer margin repaired, a few small marginal repairs elsewhere, stained, lightly browned, modern calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments and with red leather label, [Pforzheimer 1011; STC 24135], small 4to, Printed by I[ames]. R[oberts]. for Edmund Matts, and are to be solde at his shop, at the signe of the hand and Plow in Fleet-streete, 1600. sold not subject to return.⁂ Rare copy at auction of this work on the curiosities and wonders of the world, with only four copies traced since 1903; the last being in 1964. Lewkenor (c.1560-1627) was an English courtier, M.P., soldier, and judge, who served as Master of the Ceremonies to King James I. In 1600 he escorted the Moroccan ambassador Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, suggested as the inspiration for Shakespeare's Othello. It has further been suggested that the character of Puck may have been drawn from Shakespeare's reading of the manuscript of the present work.
Bilson (Thomas) The Perpetuall gouernment of Christs Church: Wherein are handled, the fatherly superioritie which God first established in the patriarkes for the guiding of his Church, partly black letter, woodcut decorative initials, final f. blank, ink library stamp to title and the odd other f., title foxed and stained, D1 tear within text, without loss, some water-staining (mostly at head), spotting or staining, lightly browned throughout, closely trimmed at head, modern calf-backed marbled boards, [STC 3066], small 4to, Printed [by W. Hall] for Thomas Adams, 1610.⁂ Rare at auction.
Ancient naval history.- Ryves (Sir Thomas) Historia naualis antiqua, libris quatuor, second edition, folding woodcut plate, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, errata to penultimate verso, final f. blank, library blind-stamp to title and first and last few ff., C8 repaired vertical tear the whole length of f., with loss of a few letters, but with no loss of sense, closely trimmed at head, very occasionally just touching a headline, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, antique style calf, spine in compartments and with green morocco label, [STC 21475], 8vo, Robert Barker, 1633.⁂ Rare at auction. The second edition, extending its coverage to the creation of the Roman Empire. Ryves, who was from a prominent Dorset family, became a lawyer who specialised in Admiralty and Ecclesiastical law. In 1636 he became the Admiralty judge for Dover, and later judge for the Cinque Ports.
Hall (Joseph) The Balme of Gilead: or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine, first edition, title within woodcut architectural border, R1 with chip to margin affecting printed sidenote, light marginal staining, [Wing H365], by M. Flesher, for Nat Buttler, 1646 bound with Christ Mysticall: or, The Blessed Union of Christ with His Members, first edition, with initial blank, some light spotting, [Wing H374], for M. Flesher, 1647, together 2 works in 1 vol., ink name to front free endpaper, bookplate of Basil G. Wood to front pastedown, contemporary calf, chipping to spine, gouge to front cover, a little rubbed, 12mo.⁂ A rare pair of devotional works by Hall, we can trace no examples of the first and only one example of the second at auction in the last 50 years.
Chess.- Johannes Gallensis Summa collationum, sive communiloquium, ?first edition, collation: [a-z8 A-I8 K6], 262 ff., 27 lines plus headline, gothic type, two- to four-line initials in red, red paraphs, initial strokes and underlining, very good margins with early manuscript sidenotes and copious small lection marks for reading aloud, plus subject headings including 'de ludo schacio exposius', contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards from the bindery of the Kartause Marienburg (Weddern, near Duelmen, Westphalia), 2 clasps and remains of leather straps, rebacked and with new endpapers, corners rubbed, 4to (210 x 138mm.), Cologne, Ulrich Zel, [c.1472].⁂ Generally regarded as the first edition, closely followed by another Cologne edition dated 1472, printed by Arnold Ther Hoernen. This manual for priests and preachers is most notable for being the first printed book to describe, albeit in moral/allegorical terms, the game of Chess. Pars 1, Distich 10, Caput 7 includes the exposition beginning "Mundus iste totus quoddam scaccarium est, cuius unus punctus est albus et alius niger" (the world resembles a chessboard which is chequered white and black) and ending with the caution that if a man falls into sin "in isto scaccio dyabolus dicit eschack" (in this game of chess the devil says Check). The moves of the various pieces are described in symbolic terms: the King can move in all directions because his will is law; the Knight's move consists of a straight move and a sidelong one, to illustrate his legitimate powers and his illegal extortions; the Bishop moves obliquely 'because nearly every bishop misuses his office through cupidity'; and the Queen's move of just one square diagonally (under the medieval rules, before her power and scope were greatly enlarged in the Renaissance) 'is aslant only, because women are so greedy that they will take nothing except by rapine and injustice' (H.J.R. Murray, A History of Chess, 1913, p.530). It is rare at auction, with only two copies (including this in 2017) recorded since 1906. ISTC lists 6 copies in North America, but none of which at Harvard, Yale, Morgan, Huntington, LC, Folger or Newberry.Provenance: Ampleforth Abbey (bookplate and facing ink stamp).Literature: BMC I, 191; Goff J-328; H 7440*; GW M13986; BSB-Ink I-574; ISTC ij00328000.
Broadside.- 'Machine for taking likenesses'.- Pinion (Raphael) Limomachia. By His Majesty's royal letters patent, the new-invented machine for taking likenesses, by which the usual objections to the art, viz. time, trouble, and expence, are entirely removed, etched vignette at head, folds, these strengthened verso with tape, some marginal chipping and spotting, lightly browned, hinge mounted onto card at head only, 405 x 260mm., no printer, [c.1750].⁂ Rare, with ESTC recording only two copies at Harvard, and WorldCat seemingly not adding to our tally. We can add a BM copy. Pinion is described as a 'portrait-grinder, at his manufactory, in Liecester [sic]Square, opposite the aequestrian [sic] statue of the King'. Also offered are 'portraitures in worsted, human-hair, and hot poker'.
Gothic novel.- Robinson (Mary) Hubert de Sevrac, a Romance of the Eighteenth Century, 3 vol., first edition, errata at the end of each vol., advertisement f. at the end of vol. 3, vol. 2 M6 with repaired tear at foot, lacking half-titles, occasional light foxing, armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden to front pastedowns, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments with red and green morocco labels, a handsome set, [Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1796: 77; Summers p.362], 8vo, for the Author by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796.⁂ Rare gothic novel by Robinson set during the French Revolution. In her lifetime Robinson was better known as an actress and lady of fashion as well as for a string of prominent affairs, including with George IV whilst he was still Prince of Wales. Her literary output, though derided at the time, has since been reassessed and Robinson herself now seen as a proto-feminist.
Bond (Michael) A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed by the author and dated October 1958 on endpaper, illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, light foxing to endpapers, original cloth, slight bowing to covers, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, closed tear with creasing and neat tape repair to head of upper panel, chip to foot of rear panel, some light surface soiling and small patch of browning to lower panel, but a bright and excellent example overall, 8vo, 1958.⁂ The first of Michael Bond's Paddington books signed by the author in the month of publication. A children's classic, rare signed and in the dust-jacket.
Fleming (Ian) Moonraker, first edition, first state with "shoo" on p.10, neat ink ownership inscription dated 1955 to front free endpaper, original boards, lettered in silver, light crease to spine, dust-jacket, spine with light toning and a little creased at head, light surface soiling, small patch of surface wear to foot of upper panel, light rubbing to extremities, but an unusually bright and excellent copy, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, 1955.⁂ The rare first state, especially unusual without any of the usual fading to the colour of the jacket.
Woodwose.- Tuberinus (Johannes) Carmen ad gravem: santumque senatum Lipsensem: de orgiis corporis Christi publici assertoris, first edition, collation: A-B4, fine large woodcut of a Woodwose (or wild hairy man of the forest) to title, copious contemporary German ink annotations throughout, modern boards with gilt-lettered black morocco label to upper cover, 4to (215 x 157mm.), Leipzig, Wolfgang Stoeckel, [c.1511].⁂ A rare work, with an insight into contemporary Lepizig learning through the copious notes of a student. The large woodcut depicts a Woodwose, or hairy wild man of the forest, who carries a shield bearing the arms of the city of Leipzig. The setting of the text provides ample room for inter-linear and marginal notes.Literature: Adams T1016; VD 16 B2375.
Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, original first state boards with golden gun on upper cover, variant issue with spine lettered in silver, very slight fading to spine, a bright and fine example, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, a few short nicks with creasing to head, spot to upper panel, an excellent example, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, 1965.⁂ A rare variant of the rare first state. The spine here lettered in silver rather than the usual gold as with the vast majority of copies.
Greene (Graham) The Power and the Glory, first edition, usual light browning to half-title, bookplates of Florence and Edward Kaye and Edward Kobler to pastedown, light marginal toning, half-title working loose, original cloth, dust-jacket priced at 8s. 3d. unclipped, light creasing and fraying to spine ends and extremities, very faint surface soiling to lower panel, but an excellent example overall, [Wobbe A16], 8vo, 1940.⁂ Hailed by John Updike as "Graham Greene's masterpiece", the work was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the hundred best English-language novels since 1923. Bookplates of Florence and Edward Kaye, distinguished collectors of fiction from 1591-1974; and John Kobler, US biographer best known for his 1971 work on Al Capone. Rare in the dust-jacket, especially so in such excellent condition. Many of the copies were seemingly lost in the bombing of Heinemann's publishing house during the war.
Hemingway (Ernest) A Farewell to Arms, first edition, first issue without the legal disclaimer, very slight browning to endpapers, original cloth with gilt labels to upper cover and spine, light bumping to foot of spine and lower corners, first issue dust-jacket with mis-spelled 'Katherine Barclay' to front flap, very slight toning to spine and lower panel, light creasing to head and foot with small nick to foot of upper panel, light rubbing, but a sharp, near-fine example generally, preserved in custom half morocco drop-back box, [Hanneman 8a], 8vo, New York, 1929.⁂ A superb example of one of Hemingway's key novels, rare in such condition and among the best fiction to come out of the First World War.
Nicholson (William) Clever Bill, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author/illustrator "for Mrs Howard from Mabel Low and from William Nicholson" to pastedown, 21 colour illustrations by the author, light spotting and foxing to pictorial endpapers, original pictorial boards, light rubbing and surface soiling to extremities, dust-jacket, browned and spotted, chips and short closed tears to spine ends and extremities, longer 5cm tear along upper flap joint, small scuff to upper panel, oblong 8vo, 1926.⁂ Nicholson's scarcest picture book and very rare to find with the jacket and as a signed copy. Mabel Low, wife of a Harley Street doctor, met Nicholson in 1922 when they became friends.
δ America.- Martyr d'Anghiera (Peter) De Orbe Novo, edited by Richard Hakluyt, collation: a⁸, A-Z⁸, Aa-Rr⁸, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut head-pieces and initials, with the exceedingly rare engraved folding map of the New World, monogrammed 'LG' in ligature in lower left corner, possibly the French engraver Leonardo Gaultier, an excellent fine impression printing with light plate tone on 16th century laid paper with small spherical watermark [similar to Briquet 14056 and 14057, French, dateable to 1550s or slightly later], italic type, contemporary marginal annotation to leaf D1, some light foxing and browning, map with some light scattered spotting, mostly marginal, later parchment boards, ink title to spine, some soiling, spine darkened, 8vo (170 x 105mm.), Paris, Guillelmum Avvray, 1587.⁂ Peter Martyr's authoritative chronicle of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, edited by Richard Hakluyt as part of an ongoing enterprise to encourage England's competitive expansion into the New World. Published the year before the Armada, the work is dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh, an apparent promotion for Hakluyt's cause. The Latin text is drawn from the 1530 edition of Martyr's text, the first to be published with all eight "Decades". The folding map, known as the Hakluyt-Martyr map, is a remarkable piece of cartography, exceedingly rare to find in its original situation. We cannot trace a copy appearing at auction with the map present in over a century. It covers North and South America, including part of Africa, Europe, and Pacific islands. New Guinea and Japan are shown partially blank. The overall shape of the coastline of America is greatly improved, eliminating the bulge to western South America commonly found in maps of the period. Most remarkable is the inclusion of "Virginea 1584", the first appearance of the name Virginia on a printed map. An area entitled "Nuevo Mexico" with a large inland lake is also the first use of this term on a printed map.Literature: Adams M753; Sabin 1552; Burden 63 for the Hakluyt-Martyr map. δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Asia.- De Salis (William Fane) Reminiscences of Travel in China and India in 1848, first edition, 32 lithograph plates, occasional minor foxing, original burgundy half roan, gilt, cloth a little faded, spine rubbed, 4to, Printed for Private Circulation, 1892.⁂ Rare. The lithographs, after his own sketches, include views of Hong Kong, Singapore, Mount Ophir, Cochin, Mocha, Coast of Nubia, Mount Zapharan, Alexandria, Malta, Algiers and Gibraltar.Loosely inserted are a 12pp. pamphlet in original wrappers entitled "Introductory Remarks to a Residence in Australia and to Travels in China and India; and a 1p autograph letter from a later De Salis family member.
Mexico.- Mining.- Reglamento para la organización de las diputaciones de minería y arancel para el cobro de derechos y honorarios, title with small wood-engraved vignette of a miner, 1884 bound with Código de minería de la República Mexicana, title with small wood-engraved vignette of a miner, 1884 and Ley de instruccion para las escuelas nacionales de ingenieros y de agricultura, 1883 and Ley de 26 de Mayo de 1882 que crió la Dirección General de Estadística, y Reglamento de la misma ley, expedido en 10 de Junio de 1883, 1883, together 4 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary blue calf-backed marbled boards, spine richly gilt, rubbed, Mexico City, Printers of the Ministry of Development, 8vo⁂ A very good sammelband of rare works on mining and related education in Mexico.
Medicine.- Ophthalmology.- Sugita (Ryūkei) Ganka shinsho [A new book on eye diseases], 6 vol. (5 vol. with additional supplement), first Japanese edition, original Chinese characters with Japanese reading marks, text in 10 vertical lines within single border, vol. 1 with 11 illustrations printed in colour, supplement with 12 plain illustrations, extensive manuscript annotations in Chinese to margins, interlineating text and extra slip in vol. 5, two hands in red and black ink, vol. 5 and 6 with some marginal worming, worse in the latter affecting some text, a few odd spots throughout, bound in the Japanese style in a Fukurotoji binding of original yellow wrappers with printed title slips, rubbed, stitching renewed, housed within modern blue cloth wrap-around case with bone clasps, 8vo, Tokyo, Suharaya Mohe, 1815-16.⁂ First Japanese edition of Joseph Jacob's, Plenck Verhandeling over de oogziekten, itself a Dutch version of his Doctrina de morbis oculorum (1777); supplement by Ryūkei's student Matsuda Shū on the preparation of drugs according to the Dutch pharmacopeoia. This book introduced European ophthalmology to Japan. This copy is heavily annotated by two contemporaneous expert Japanese practitioners, who not only refer to rare Japanese works, but also other un-translated Dutch texts such as by Georg Beer, Antonio Scarpa and Conrad Langenbeck. Illustrations printed in up to five colours, rather than hand-coloured, possibly by the artist Ishikawa Tairō (1765-1817). Literature: I. Gabor Lukacs, Extensive marginalia in old Japanese Medical Books, 2010, pp. 141-171 (this copy). II. G. E. Mestler, A catalogue of old Japanese medical books, pp. 131-140 and 327-347.
Mathews (Richard) The Unlearned Alchymist his Antidote. Or, a more full and ample Explanation of the use, Vertue and benefit of my Pill, entituled An effectual Diaphoretick, Diuretick purgeth by Sweating Urin, first edition, lacking initial blank and final two leaves, K4 & 5 defective at foot with loss of a few lines, frayed at corners, contemporary ink signature of M.Lloyd with quotation to verso of title, rather soiled, no endpapers, contemporary calf ruled in blind, old red roan label, worn, spine defective at head and lacking small portion from upper cover, upper joint split, [Wing M1290], for Joseph Leigh, 1660.⁂ A rare book, in a somewhat poor state. ESTC records copies in only 4 UK locations (Edinburgh University, 2 at Glasgow University, Bodleian Library Oxford, and Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh), and 3 further copies in America. The British Library contains copies of the 1662 and 1663 editions but not this first edition. We have been unable to trace any copy sold at auction.
Virgilius Maro (Publius) Opera Vergiliana, edited by Badius Ascensius, 2 parts in 1 vol., collation: ɫ8 a-t8 v10 ; ɫɫ6 A-Z. AA-II8 KK6, Roman type, titles in red and black and with wide woodcut decorative borders, woodcut vignettes after Sebastian Brandt, and historiated initials, lacking colophon f., first title with early ink inscriptions to head and loss to lower margin, final extant leaf with lower margin cut away, a few wormholes to first part, occasional light marking or staining but a good copy generally, later half calf, joints cracked but covers holding, wear to extremities, folio (355 x 240mm.), Lyon, Jacques Mareschal, [1527]-1528.⁂ A rare edition at auction. Literature: Adams V473; Mortimer, French, 537.
Discussion of 17th century theatre.- Wright (James) Country Conversations... Of the Modern Comedies, Of Drinking, Of Translated Verse, of Painting and Painters, Of Poets and Poetry, first edition, with initial imprimatur (a little soiled) and final advertisement f., title neatly silked, a few ink inscriptions towards end, some light fraying to margins of later ff., modern half morocco, [Wing W3693], small 8vo, for Henry Bonwicke, 1694.⁂ Rare discussion of 17th century theatre by one of the principal collectors in the subject of his day. Shakespeare, Johnson and Fletcher come in for particular praise although many of the newer playwrights (with the exception of Dryden) are criticised as "Flashy and Light; like your Wipt Cream they have little or nothing of Substance in them."
Herbert (William) A Prophesie of Cadwallader, last King of the Britaines, first edition, typographic device to title and head and foot of most text ff. (a few trimmed), lacking A1 (as most copies) and gathering C1-4, modern half morocco, [STC 12752], 4to, Printed by Thomas Creede, for Roger Jackson, 1604.⁂ Extremely rare. This copy was seemingly the last to appear at auction when it made $84 (£35) in 1969, bought by Quaritch. The title continues: "Containing a Comparison of the English Kings, with many worthy Romanes, from William Rufus, till Henry the fift, Henry the sist, his life and death, Foure Battels betweene ther two Houses of Yorke and Lancanster, The Field of Banbery, The losse of Elizabeth, the praise of King James, and lastly a Poeme to the young Prince."
Foxe (John) A Sermon of Christ Crucified, preached at Paules Crosse the Friday before Easter, commonly called Good-Friday, first edition, title within woodcut border, largely printed in black letter, final blank leaf present, some water-staining to lower edge encroaching into text-block in places, modern calf, upper joint cracking, [STC 11246], 8vo, Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1609.⁂ Rare at auction with the last copy on RBH in 1963.Provenance: Chas. Garrard (ink name on title); William King (ink inscriptions on final blank, dated 1739); other Latin inscriptions to title.
Woman printer.- P[ick] (S[amuel]) Festum Voluptatis, or the Banquet of Pleasure...containing divers choyce Love-Posies, Songs, Sonnets, Odes, Madrigals, Satyrs, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Elegies, first and only edition, four leaves (G1-4) in facsimile, lacks final blank leaf H4, a couple of ink corrections, possibly authorial, some toning and soiling, modern morocco-backed cloth, [STC 19897], 4to, E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Bernard Langford, 1639.⁂ Rare. RBH cites only a copy in a Scribner's catalogue in 1943. ESTC locates copies at BL, Bodley, Folger, Huntington and Harvard. Elizabeth Purslowe continued the business for 14 years after the death of her husband, printing over 160 books including John Donne's Juvenalia. She was also part of the printers' syndicate Eliot's Court Press.
Vicars (John) Babylons Beautie: or the Romish-Catholicks sweetheart, first edition, title within typographic border, woodcut initials and headpieces, ink mark to title, light browning, later half roan, darkened, some surface wear, [Wing V293], small 4to, G.M.for Ralph Rounthwait, 1644.⁂ Rare, we can trace no copy at auction since 1968.
Two rare Japanese Hirado porcelain netsuke figures, Edo period, each modelled as a recumbent Chinese boy with nodding head and articulated tongue, underglaze blue and brown glazed decoration, lengths 9cm (one with hairline crack to back, the other with missing tongue).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Two rare Japanese Hirado porcelain netsuke rattles, Edo period, each modelled as a Chinese boy holding a lion mask, wearing a blue decorated jacket, heights 6cm and 6.2cm (minor chip to foot of one).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
1890 silver RARE combined powder compact / scent bottle with bevelled mirror and original feather puff (Regd No 94521) by Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders & James Francis Hollings (Frank) Shepherd ~ total weight 45g and 4.5cm diameter ~ has dents to body and lid NOTE : the interior is hallmarked inside the flask as well
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