A George I walnut and featherbanded kneehole deskCirca 1725The quarter veneered top with canted front angles and an ovolo edge, above one long and deep oak-lined drawer, over six short oak-lined drawers flanking the kneehole, with a door to the recess enclosing one shelf, on shaped bracket feet, 85cm wide x 53cm deep x 78cm high, (33in wide x 20 1/2in deep x 30 1/2in high)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP For auctions held in Scotland: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Constantine, Constantine House, North Caldeen Road, Coatbridge ML5 4EF, Scotland, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please refer to the catalogue for further information.For all other auctions: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Stavorinus (John Splinter). Voyages to the East-Indies; by the late John Splinter Stavorinus, Esq. Rear Admiral in the service of the States-General, translated from the original Dutch, by Samuel Hull Wilcocke with notes and additions by the translator. The whole comprising a full and accurate account of all the present and late possessions of the Dutch in India, and at the Cape of Good Hope, 3 volumes, 1st edition in English, London: printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798, 4 folding engraved maps (one with slightly frayed fore margin), some light offsetting and dust-soiling, hinges reinforced, Mission House Library labels and shelf numbers, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed with some edge wear, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Cox I, p. 307; ESTC T100434; Mendelssohn II, p. 426.First published in Leiden in 1793.'This work affords an accurate and valuable account of the Cape in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, with an interesting description of Cape Town and its inhabitants. Stavorinus visited Stellenbosch, Hottentot Holland, Vergeleegen, Klapmuts, and other places of interest in the Colony, and contributes notes upon the position of the country farmers, whom he regarded as being superior in character and manners to the colonists living in the towns. He remarks on the avarice exhibited by the residents of Cape Town, their indisposition to study, and "love of repose and inactivity - what may be denominated laziness"... He draws a gruesome picture of the Cape Town hospital, then opposite the Dutch Reformed Church, and asserts that the institution had, at times, to accommodate 1000 patients, and the sanitary condition of the place was so bad that the sailors who carried the patients to the building often brought back to the ships a fever contracted from the inmates... Stavorinus severely criticises the Government for its arbitrary methods and the public officials for their rapacity, and gives some information respecting the grievances of the colonists, and statistics as to the revenue and expenditure and the settlement.' (Mendelssohn).
Snelgrave (William). A New Account of Guinea, and the Slave-Trade, containing I. The History of the late Conquest of the Kingdom of Whidaw by the King of Dahome. The Author's Journey to the Conqueror's Camp; where he saw several captives sacrificed, etc. II. The Manner how the Negroes became Slaves. The Numbers of them yearly exported from Guinea to America. The Lawfulness of that Trade. The Mutinies among them on board the Ships where the Author has been, etc. III. A Relation of the Author's being taken by Pirates, and the many Dangers he underwent, London: printed for J. Wren, 1754, folding engraved map of the coast of Guinea (some offsetting to title), some toning to endpapers, Mission House Library label and manuscript shelf number to map verso, contemporary calf, modern calf reback with morocco label, corners repaired, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC T136168. A re-issue of the 1734 first edition with a cancel title. Snelgrave was an active slave-trader from 1704 to 1734; his book justifies and defends the trade and contains an account of his capture by pirates in 1719.
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[Wilcocke, Samuel Hull]. A Narrative of Occurences in the Indian Countries of North America, since the connexion of the Right Hon. The Earl of Selkirk with the Hudson's Bay Company, and his attempt to establish a colony on the Red River: With a detailed account of His Lordship's military expedition to, and subsequent proceedings at Fort William, in Upper Canada, 1st edition, London: printed by B. McMillan, 1817, title with small, tear and repair, marginal tear and loss to first leaf of Preface, previous owner signature of John Elder to title, manuscript shelf number to title verso, bookplate of Andrew Carnegie, later tan half morocco gilt, 8vo, together with [Gleig, George Robert]. A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans, under Generals Ross, Pakenham, and Lambert, in the Years 1814 and 1815; with some account of the countries visited, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1821, errata leaf at end, small ownership ink stamp of Hubert Yound, bookplate of Arthur's Club, St. James's, contemporary half calf, upper joint splitting, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance for first work: Andrew Carnegie (1835-1907, Scottish-American philanthropist and industrialist), bookplate; John Elder (possibly John Elder 1824-1869, Scottish marine engineer), his signature to title; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Sabin 20699 (with Douglas ascribed as the author).Sometimes attributed to Simon McGillivary and Edward Ellice the elder, though this work was probably prepared by Samuel Hull Wilcocke, a writer employed by the North-West Company. The culmination of a long trade and land dispute between the Hudson Bay Company and the North West Company, following on from Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk's attempt to establish a colony in the Red River Valley. The result was the Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816, and following Selkirk's seizure of the North West Company's trading post at Fort William and his subsequent legal failure to defend the occupation, the two companies were eventually merged in 1821.
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[De Lolme, Jean-Louis]. The History of the Flagellants, or the Advantages of Discipline; Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbe Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne, Canon of the Holy Chapel, &c. By somebody who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne, 1st edition in English, London: printed for Fielding and Walker, 1777, half-title, title with engraved vignette, 4 engraved plates, 3 engraved head-and- tail pieces, repair at gutter of p. 331, some offsetting and light spotting, contemporary ownership inscription at head of title, manuscript shelf number to front pastedown, later speckled calf, green morocco label to spine, decorated in gilt, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Brunet I 22386; ESTC T143818; Lowndes II p. 625.Originally first published in 1700 in Paris by Jacques Boileau, a Doctor of Theology at the Sorbonne, and his controversial treatise was condemned by the Jesuits as heretical. De Lolme's translation includes his own commentary and attempts to allow readers to regard the work in a moral and philosophical light.
Baskerville Press. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches, 1st edition, 2nd impression, Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, 1760, title within border and at foot with letterpress stating 'price six shillings and six pence, unbound', border to majority of pages throughout, front free blank with the signature and inscribed 'William Wilberforce, Kensington Gore', marbled endpapers with bookplate of political reformer William Wilberforce (1759-1833) to upper pastedown and manuscript shelf number label, all edges gilt, 19th-century brown morocco, gilt decorated spine and border to boards, spine faded and extremities rubbed, large 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Gaskell 12.
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[Devereux, Robert, second Earl of Essex, 1566-1601]. A bound collection of heraldic tracts including pedigrees showing the relationship between the Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth and other Knights of the Garter, late 16th Century, 250 leaves manuscript on paper, with 17th-century additions, some pages blank, early pagination with pages numbered 109-616, some other foliation and partial renumbering in modern pencil, some dust-soiling, late 18th-century armorial bookplate of (?)’T.S.M.’ by J[ames] Kirk to front pastedown, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, beneath and William H. Robinson’s Bibliotheca Phillippica bookseller’s ticket below that, old pencil inscription at head of pastedown indicating the volume was ex Bibliotheca Heberiana and Phillippica, uncut, 18th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, gilt-titled leather spine label, ‘MS. Heraldic Pedigrees of Earl of Essex & C.’, inscribed beneath in old ink, ‘olim Ld Somers nup Sir Jos. Jekyll’, small paper shelf-mark numbers at foot, [Phillipps MS] ‘8196’ and ‘228’, slightly soiled, some edge wear to boards, folio (305 x 210 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex (1566-1601); Edward Dyer (1543-1607) and family; John Somers (1651-1716); Joseph Jekyll (1663-1738); (?)T.S.M. (bookplate); Richard Heber (1773-1833); Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), (Phillipps MS 8196 spine label); William H. Robinson, booksellers; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).An old brief 4-page manuscript index is loosely inserted, evidently written before pp. 1-108 were separated and ‘lost’. These missing leaves are identified as ‘Calendar of the Dorse of the Close Rolls 1 H. A.; Fines 1 H. A.; Table to these after many blank leaves’.There can be little doubt that this set of pedigrees was executed for the Earl of Essex for some special purpose. Folio 244r (p. 603 of original pagination) bears the signature of ‘Edward Dyer’ in a 17th-century hand. Sir Edward Dyer (1543-1607), the poet, had as a patron Walter Devereux, first Earl of Essex, father of Robert, the second Earl. Thus Robert and Dyer must have been on intimate terms, which would account for the manuscript being in the possession of the Dyer family in the seventeenth century.
Cartulary of Garendon Abbey in Leicestershire. Manuscript on vellum, circa 1450, 27 leaves, contemporary foliation 1-29, lacking folios 6 and 7, paginated 1-27 in modern red chalk, written in book-hand, the initial capitals left blank (for illumination) within a square box, the majority with a small lower-case guide letter at the centre, some marginal comments of circa 1540, somewhat soiled, damp-wrinkled and stained without loss of legibility, the final three folios damaged by damp without any significant loss of text, manuscript note to front flyleaf initialled by H.C.M. Phillipps, indicating that it was purchased at the Craven Orde sale in June 1829 by Evans of Pall Mall and acquired by him from them, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, old book auction description (lot 78a) loosely inserted, 18th-century half calf over marbled boards with gilt-titled contrasting spine label, gilt floral motifs and manuscript shelf sticker ('555') to spine, heavily rubbed, 4to (335 x 260 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Purchased at the Craven Ord sale, 25 June 1829, Lot 555, by Evans of Pall Mall; acquired by H.C.M. Phillipps, Torquay; W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).The text begins with the foundation charter by Robert de Beaumont (1104-1168), second earl of Leicester, and the first 13 folios in the modern foliation are occupied by the full texts of 34 donations and royal and episcopal confirmations, including final concords levied in the honor courts of Sayer de Quincy (d1219), earl of Winchester, and his son Roger de Quincy in 1252-53. Folios 13-17 in the modern foliation contain summaries of 89 gifts, four of which are English translations from what must have been Latin originals. Many charters are accompanied by marginal comments of circa 1540.Elements of two further cartularies are at British Library, MS Lansdowne 415; most of that cartulary and an abstract of the present one are printed in John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester 3 (2) (1804), pp. 805-30, 834-8. This volume is described in GRC Davis (ed., revised by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison and David M. Smith). Medieval cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland (London: British Library, 2010) Item 432.'Robert [Robert de Beaumont], second earl of Leicester (1104–1168), magnate and justiciar, was perhaps the most distinguished aristocrat of his day, educated to a high standard and a consummate politician and man of action. The curia regis seems to have been the place where he was happiest. He was a founder of two abbeys—Garendon (1133), a foundation which shows him to have been one of the earliest patrons of the Cistercian order in England, and Leicester (1138–9)—and of several hospitals and priories. His abbey foundations were, however, economical, employing the lands of other people, as at Garendon, or, in the case of Leicester, lands already given by his father to the church.' (ODNB)'Garendon Abbey, a Cistercian house, was founded in 1133 by Robert, Earl of Leicester. It was in all probability a daughter house of Waverley, the earliest Cistercian monastery to be established in England. The founder endowed the abbey with 5 carucates and 3 virgates of land at Garendon, a burgage tenement at Leicester, and other lands at Dishley, Shepshed, and Ringolthorp. During the 12th century various benefactors granted to the abbey lands at Eastwell, Ibstock, Welby, Burton on the Wolds, and Stanton under Bardon in Leicestershire, at Costock in Nottinghamshire and at Heathcote in Derbyshire. The wild country of Charnwood Forest, in which Garendon lay, gave the monks opportunities for agricultural development of the type accomplished by many other Cistercian houses. Before the end of the 12th century granges had been established in the vicinity of the abbey at Garendon itself, Stanton, Dishley, and Ibstock, and farther afield at Burton on the Wolds, Ringolthorp, Goadby, and Welby in eastern Leicestershire, the Peak and at Costock and Rempstone in Nottinghamshire. The abbey seems to have carried on sheep farming on a considerable scale; in 1225 the abbot obtained permission to export wool to Flanders or elsewhere, and there are references to sheep-folds at the granges. In 1341 the abbey was granted the royal chapel or hermitage of Cripplegate, at London, and in 1343 had licence to acquire four messuages in London. The advowson of Dishley was obtained in 1458, and the church was appropriated in the same year.Two daughter houses were founded from Garendon—Bordesley (1138) and Bittlesden (1147). There are indications, however, that in the late 12th century the Cistercians of Garendon failed to live up to the highest standards of their Order. One of the abbots, Geoffrey, seems to have been a married man, and one of the monks is said to have become a Jew. The resignation of Abbot William in 1195 was perhaps due to the displeasure of the general chapter of the Order at the Garendon lay brothers’ habit of drinking beer. A serious incident occurred in 1196, when the new abbot, Reynold, was attacked in the infirmary, and gravely wounded, by a lay brother. In consequence the general chapter of Citeaux ordered all the abbey's lay brothers to be dispersed. The command was not carried out at once, and in 1197 the abbots of two other Cistercian houses were instructed to proceed to Garendon and enforce the will of the general chapter. The abbey continued to contain lay brothers after this incident. In 1219 the conventual church was dedicated by the Bishop of St Asaph. At the end of the 13th century the finances of the house seem to have been in an unsound condition; in 1295 the king, at the request of the abbot and convent, appointed a special keeper to apply the revenues of the abbey to the relief of its debts, providing reasonable maintenance for the abbot and monks meanwhile, and two years later the abbot acknowledged that the house owed debts totalling £160. The depredations of a powerful neighbour, John Cornyn, Earl of Buchan, may have contributed to the abbey's difficulties at this period.' (Victoria County History of Leicestershire 2 (1954), pp. 5-7, written without the benefit of this volume.)
Xenophon. The Historie of Xenophon containing The Ascent of Cyrus into the Higher Countries. Wherein is described the admiral journey of ten thousand Grecians from Asia the lesse into the territories of Babylon and their retrait from thence into Greece, not withstanding the opposition of all their enemies. Whereunto is added a comparison of the Roman manner of warres with this of our time, out of Justus Lipsius. Translated by Joh. Bingham, 1st edition, London: Printed by John Haviland for Raphe Mabb, 1623, verso of title with engraved bookplate of Rt. Hon. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon and Baron Capell of Hadham (1670-1710), with engraved date 1701, woodcut initials, head-and tail-pieces, without initial and final blank leaves ([A]1 and X4), burgundy morocco bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown, pastedown also bearing earlier manuscript shelf number 'C:5: 12', contemporary gilt panelled calf, gilt-decorated spine, morocco title label and crest label of George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839), folio (267 x 176 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670-1710); George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).ESTC S118779; STC 26064.Fine copy with early provenance. A translation by John Bingham of Xenophon's Anabasis, an account of the march of the mercenary army of 10,000 Greeks led by Cyrus, prince of Persia, to attack his brother Artaxerxes II and seize the Persian throne.
Chapman (James). Travels in the Interior of South Africa, comprising fifteen years' hunting and trading; with journeys across the continent from Natal to Walvisch Bay, and visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Bell & Daldy, 1868, half titles, wood-engraved frontispieces, 2 folding engraved maps with routes outlined in red, plates and illustrations, occasional light spotting, shelf numbers, armorial bookplates of James Lamont of Knockdow (1st Baronet, 1828-1913, Scottish African and Arctic explorer), handsomely bound in contemporary tan calf, spines with black labels and gilt decoration, 8vo QTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Czech page 61.'An early South African Hunting work, this title describes the author's journey through the western Transvaal, Bechuanaland to Matabeleland with excursions through Damaraland and Namaqualand. Chapman bagged elephant near the Notuani River and the Marindasana Desert. Near Lake Ngami he hunted buffalo, giraffe, kudu, impala and other game. He continued hunting elephant and buffalo, and embarked on a search for Thomas Baines whom he finally located near the Zambesi, and encountered more elephant, rhino and roan antelope.'(Czech).
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[Noble, Charles Frederick]. A Voyage to the East Indies in 1747 and 1748. Containing an account of the Islands of St. Helena and Java. Of the City of Batavia. Of the government and political conduct of the Dutch. Of the Empire of China, with a particular description of Canton, and of the religious ceremonies, manners and customs of the inhabitants. Interspersed with many useful and curious observations and anecdotes, 1st edition, London: printed for T. Becket, P.A. Dehondt & T. Durham, 1762, 11 engraved plates, including a folding view of Batavia, 'Directions to the Binder' leaf at end, some light offsetting and spotting, Mission House Library label to front pastedown, manuscript shelf number to front endpaper, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked in lighter modern calf, residue from label removal at base of spine, covers with some corner wear and stains, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A, Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.ESTC T145010; Lowendahl 623; Lust 348.
Mahan (Albert Thayer). The Life of Lord Nelson, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Sampson, Low & Co., 1897, numerous illustrations, portraits, maps and battle plans, extra-illustrated (by John D. Fry) with 60 additional illustrations, including 7 portraits of Nelson, 4 of Lady Hamilton, William Beckford, Napoleon, Captain Riou, Catherine II, Alexander I, Nelson's father, English and French admirals, etc., also views of Merton and other places associated with Nelson, a facsimile of a plan made by Nelson to illustrate the battle of Aboukir, and a facsimile autograph letter signed from Nelson to Commodore Linzee, all inlaid and mounted to uniform size, some scattered spotting and light offsetting, minor marginal fraying to last few leaves of volume 1, bookplates of F.E. Dinshaw, shelf label tickets and burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedowns, top edges gilt, early 20th-century crushed red morocco gilt by Riviere, gilt-decorated spines with five raised bands, slightly rubbed, discreet repair at foot of volume 1 and minor fraying to head and foot of volume 2, 8vo (220 x 150 mm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate).An attractive illustrated edition with additional half-titles, title-pages and explanatory note leaves specially printed and inserted before the original title-pages in each volume. Preceding each new half-title is a bookplate illustration leaf identifying the extra-illustrator as John D. Fry, a manuscripts' collector and son of the bibliographer and collector of English bibles, Francis Fry.
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[James, Thomas Horton]. Rambles in the United States and Canada during the Year 1845, with a short account of Oregon, by Rubio, 1st edition, London: Samuel Clarke, 1846, light spotting to last few leaves, shelf number label to front pastedown, contemporary calf, 'Society of Writers to the Signet' gilt stamps to covers, upper cover detached with small wormtrack, spine a little rubbed with loss at foot of compartment, small loss at head, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.Sabin 73859: 'Very severe on the Americans.'
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[Cheffontaines, Christophe, Archbishop of Caesarea]. Varii Tractatus et Disputationes, de eo quod sit utile atque necessarium, nonnullas secum pugnantes scholasticorum scriptorum opiniones, licet in iis quae sunt fidei summa fit inter illos concordia, ad decretoru[m] concilii Tride[n]tini normam conciliare & corrigere. Authore R. P. C. de capite Fontium Archiep. Caesarien, nuoper totius ordinis Minorum generali ministro, Paris: Arnold Sittart, 1586, [32], 129 leaves (1-129) á8, é8, A-Q8, R1, woodcut initials and head-pieces, signature E (running title De veteri ritu celebrandi Missam) inserted from another edition, with disruption of the text and sense, lacks R2 (blank) at end, R1 an inset cancel leaf, A1 with small paper repair to lower blank margin, 18th-century marbled endpapers and printed bookplate of Girardot de Prefond to front pastedown, with printed shelf label above bearing the number CIV, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, 18th-century olive green full morocco, with triple gilt fillet outer border, spine gilt in six compartments between raised bands, of which three contain the title and date, the other three with sunflower tool within a lozenge of dots, outer corners rubbed, somewhat faded to spine and outer edges, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Paul Girardot de Préfond (1722-ca. 1800), from his second library, acquired largely en bloc by Justin, Comte de MacCarthy-Reagh (1744-1811); Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, Livres Precieux provenant de la bibliotheque de Major Adrian McLaughlin, 7-8 octobre 1980, lot 1640.Adams C1431.‘One of the most celebrated book collections of the eighteenth century’ (Escoffier).'Paul Girardot de Préfond was a timber-merchant who fell into an apathetic state on retiring from active business. His physician, Hyacinthe Baron, was an eminent book-collector, and he advised the patient to take up the task of forming a library. So successful was the prescription that the merchant became renowned during the next half century for his superb bindings, his specimens from Grolier's stores, and the Delphin and Variorum classics which he procured from the library of Gascq de la Lande. On two occasions the sale of his surplus treasures made an excitement for the literary world. Some of his rarest books were sold in 1757, and twelve years afterwards his Delphin series and the greater part of his general collection were purchased by Count MacCarthy.' (Charles and Mary Elton, The Great Book-Collectors, 1893, pp. 198–99).Very likely bound by the celebrated French bookbinder Derome le jeune, with the same sunflower tool within a lozenge of dots as the signed Derome binding in the McLaughlin sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, 7th October 1980, lot 1527. A rectangle is cut from the outer corner of the flyleaf, where a Derome ticket is most often to be found.
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[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.
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