1. Art and Diseño

UNSWORTHS ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS
Books to be exhibited at the
California International Antiquarian Book Fair
Oakland Marriott City Center
6th-8th February 2015
Booth 516
1.
Aimoinus Monachus [Aimoin of Fleury]: Historiae Francorum Lib. V. Ex Veterib. exemplaribus multo
emendatiores. Cum indice copiosissimo, qui etiam locorum communium ac epitomes vicem supplet. Parisiis
[Paris]: apud Andream Wechelum 1567.
[22606] $900
8vo., pp. [viii]. 795. [xxxv]. Lacking final blank. Upper margin trimmed closely, just touching running title on one or two
leaves. Some light browning and a few spots, some pencil underlining, small marginal waterstain to a few leaves of index.
18th-cent. marbled calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt decoration and title, gilt sides, edges and endpapers
marbled, slight rubbing to corners and joints. Ownership inscription of Abraham Girard dated 1663 to title. The chief work
of Aimoin (c.960-c.1010), a French chronicler and monk in the monastery of Fleury. The book covers history up until the 12th
century, with Aimoin’s contribution ending in the time of Clovis II (died c.657) and remainder completed by other hands.
Adams A 398.
2.
Amory, Thomas: The Life of John Buncle, Esq.; containing various Observations and Reflections, made in
several parts of the World, and many extraordinary Relations. A New Edition. London: Printed for T. Becket and
P.A. Dehondt, and T. Cadell, 1770.
[36380] $450
4 vols., 12mo., [xvi], 281, [i]; xi, [i], 272, [iv]; iv, [viii], 282; [xii], 300. A few minor spots. Late 19th/early 20thC sprinkled &
polished tan calf by Riviere, rebacked to style by Chris Weston, board edges slightly rubbed. Ink ownership inscription "B.
Gaskell" at head of 18thC flyleaf preceding title-pages of all vols., with "Thornes House" added in vol. 4; armorial bookplate
of "Charles George Milnes Gaskell" on front pastedown of all vols. 'In John Buncle Amory describes an education at Trinity
College, Dublin, and offers vivid accounts of life in the Irish capital and among the Gaelic aristocracy in the west of Ireland...
An extravagant fictional autobiography, lengthily praised in the Monthly Review, the work was contemptuously dismissed in a
single sentence by the Critical Review... His powerful advocacy of education for women produced scepticism even from
Amory's admirers. As enthusiastic in learning as in religion, Buncle discourses on topics as varied as monogamy and
microscopes, the Spanish fly and fluxions' (ODNB).
ESTC T71403.
3.
Anacreon: (Amaduzzi, G.C., ed.:) Teiou Mele: praefixo commentario quo poetae genus traditur et bibliotheca
Anacreonteia adumbratur : additis var. lect. Parmae: in aedibus Palatinis [Parma: Bodoni], 1791. [46280] $900
One of only 150 copies. 16mo. in 4s, large paper copy (141x100mm), pp. [iv], cxviii, [ii], 111, [i]. Two engraved portraits to
title pages, text in Greek with commentaries in Latin. Very occasional marginal foxing, small marginal tear to p.91 .
Contemporary vellum, black morocco labels and gilt to spine, a.e.g.. Upper joint split but neatly repaired in vellum, lower joint
starting. Binding a little soiled particularly at spine, labels slightly chipped. Armorial bookplate of John Wells Esq. to front
paste-down, with small Greek inscription. Armorial bookplate of ‘Gul. D. Geddes, Equitis’ to rear paste-down. 'The editions
of 1785 and 1791 are printed in capital letters, and more elegant and exquisitely finished productions cannot be conceived.'
(Dibdin). In 1791 Bodoni actually printed two editions of Anacreon, with this being from the larger of the two - often
catalogued as an octavo, despite its squarer shape, and printed entirely in capitals as per Dibdin - and the smaller having the
proportions of a 12mo. and using lowercase type as well. This copy was formerly owned by Sir William Duguid Geddes (18281900), professor of Greek and Principal of the University of Aberdeen, and author of works including A Greek Grammar
(1855), an edition of the Phaedo of Plato (1863) and The Problem of the Homeric Poems (1878).
Dibdin (4th edn.) I 265.
4.
Andry [de Bois Regard], Nicolas: An Account of the Breeding of Worms in Human Bodies; Their Nature, and
several Sorts; Their Effects, Symptoms, and Prognostics. With the true Means to avoid them; and Med’cines to
cure them. London: Printed for H. Rhodes, 1701.
[43260] $1,200
8vo., pp. xl, [iv], 121, ff. 122-176, pp. 177-266, [xxvi] + 1 folding plate and 4 smaller plates. First and last pages with small
adherences from old endpapers in gutter, a few short marginal tears (one touching two characters with no loss), light toning
and some minor spotting. 20th-century russet morocco, spine in five compartments with two gilt-lettered direct, just a touch of
sunning to spine. Small stamps of the Birmingham Medical Institute to title-page and each of the plate, their bookplate noting
the volume’s presentation by Dr. Blackall to upper pastedown. The first edition in English of De la generation des vers dans le
corps de l’homme (1700), the first book on parasitology (but including a section reporting a discussion as to ‘whether the
frequent use of tobacco shortens the life’, making Andry one of the first physicians to oppose the use of tobacco). Andry’s first
book, it builds on the discoveries of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and asserts that the newly-visible microorganisms are parasites
and the cause of diseases, including spermatazoa, although he also recognises their role in reproduction.
ESTC T88348.
5.
Anselm, St.: Operum, quae quidem haberi potuerunt, ominum. Coloniae Agrippinae [Cologne]: M. Cholinus,
1560.
[49319] $1,000
3 vols. bound as 1. Folio, pp. [lii], 154, [ii], [xvi], 593, [i], [xii], 226. Woodcut device to title-page. Lightly foxed title page
creased vertically, very occasional spots of foxing elsewhere, some light staining. Contemporary blind-tooled boards, dark
brown calf over wood, metal clasps and corner reinforcements. Sturdily rebacked in dark brown morocco, paste-downs
replaced. Upper inner hinge spilt but holding firm, f.f.e.p. creased, tipped on, a couple of tiny tears to endcaps, a little scuffed
but very good overall. Small printed label to f.f.e.p., ‘Residentiae Culemburgensis S.J.’ and some MS in an old hand.
Not in Adams (1573 Cologne edition only).
6.
Aphthonius: (Cattaneo, Giovanni Maria & Rodolphus Agricola, trans.:) Progymnasmata. [...] Novissima
editio, superioribus emendatior, & concinnior. Amsterodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirum. 1645.
[29960] $230
12mo., pp. [ii] 400 [xii] + additional engraved title (the top margin trimmed just to image border, probably removing an
inscription). A faint intermittent dampmark to outer margin. Contemporary vellum boards, title inked to spine, lightly soiled,
binding slightly strained.
A reimpression of the first Elzevir edition of the rhetorical textbook of the sophist Aphthonius
(1642), translated into Latin by Agricola and Cattaneo; the engraved title retains the earlier date.
Willems 1018.
7.
Aristophanes: (Kuster, L., ed.:) Comoediae undecim, Graece et Latine, ex codd. MSS. emendatae: cum scholiis
antiquis, inter quae scholia in Lysistratam ex Cod. Vossiano nunc primum in lucem prodeunt. Accedunt notae
virorum doctorum in omnes comoedias; inter quas nunc primum eduntur Isaaci Casauboni in Equites; illustriss.
Ezech. Spanhemii in tres priores; et Richardi Bentleji in duas priores comoedias observationes [...] Amstelodami
[Amsterdam], sumptibus Thomae Fritsch, bibliop. Lipsiensis 1710.
[49264] $1,880
First edition thus. Folio, pp. [xii], xxviii, 580, 324, [lx]. Two-column Greek and Latin text. Half-title; title in red and black with
engraved printer’s vignette of a winged horse. Elegant curled tail-pieces, 4 small numismatic engravings. Some toning and
foxing, as usual for the poor paper quality of this edition, but sporadic, a good copy. 19th-century crimson straight-grain
morocco, spine and borders heavily gilt, armorial gilt centrepieces, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Endcaps, joints and edges a bit
worn, a few small chips to raised bands, corners lightly bumped, a few ink speckles. Coat of arms of Eton College to upper
boards, and of (Eton-educated) Henry Pelham Fiennes-Pelham-Clinton (1785-1851), 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme and
Knight of the Garter (from 1812). Armorial bookplate of Frederick Anderlecht Goulburn to front paste-down. Dedicated to
Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1660-1715), friend of Isaac Newton and founder of the Bank of England.
Celebrated variorum edition, “emphatically called the ‘Editio Optima’” by Dibdin, containing a new recension of the text of
Aristophanes, and previously unpublished material comprising ancient scholia on the ‘Lysistrata’, and commentaries by Isaac
Casaubon (1559-1614), Ezechiel Spanheim (1629-1710) and Richard Bentley (1662-1742).
Dibdin also offers his own medical opinion on Kuster’s early death, which he ascribes to an abscess in the pancreas caused by
stooping over the very low table at which he worked, surrounded by three piles of books. Dibdin (4th edn.) I 299-300:
Schweiger I 46: “Neue Recens.” Hoffman I, 255-6
8.
Arrian: (Gronovius, Jacobus, ed.:) Expeditionis Alexandri Libri Septem et Historica Indica. Ex Bonav. Vulcanii
Interpretatione Latina Post Variam Aliorum Industriam [...] Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Petrus Vander, 1704.
[49275] $600
Folio, pp. [x], 376, [vi] + folding portrait frontispiece (bound after preliminaries). Title-page in red and black with woodcut
device, woodcut initials, a few illustrations in the text, very occasional marginal notes in a neat, old hand. Lightly toned with
some individual pages a little darked, some foxing especially towards edges. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, edges
sprinkled blue and red. Vellum a bit yellowed, spine darkened, small mark to tail of spine (possibly label residue), a few light
scratches. Armorial bookplate of James Heron Watson to front paste-down. ‘An excellent edition and preferable to all that
preceeded it’ (Dibdin).
Dibdin (4th edn.) I, 329
9.
[Australia] Spencer, Walter Baldwin: Wanderings in wild Australia. In two volumes. Vol. I [II]. Macmillan and
Co., Limited, St. Martin’s Press, London 1928.
[47551] $1,500
2 vols., 8vo., pp. xxvii [1] 455 [1]; xiv, 457-930 [2], + the full complement (as listed in the volumes) of many illustrations, 16
full-page colour plates and three folding maps. With half-titles. 2 pp. publisher’s ads. to end of vol. II. A very nice, tight, bright
copy, in the original dustwrappers (wrappers with some nicks, spines faded, but good). Contemporary bookseller’s tickets of
B.H. Blackwell, Ltd.,Oxford.
Very attractive copies - in dustwrapper - of this heavily-illustrated work by this key
anthropologist and explorer of Australia (1860-1929).
10.
Bacon, Sir Francis: De dignitate & augmentis scientiarum, libri IX.
Moyardum & Adrianum Wijngaerde, 1645.
Lugd. Batav. [Leiden:] Apud Franciscum
[45590] $530
12mo., pp. [xx], 749, [lxxi], incl. engraved title-page. Some light spotting, occasional underlining. Contemporary vellum
boards, long sides overlapping, spine lettered in ink, soiled. Early manuscript table of contents to front endpaper. A pocket
edition of the Latin translation of The Advancement of Learning, which was first published in 1623 having been expanded to
more than twice its original length as well as translated from English. From the collection (but without any signs of ownership)
of Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936), German sociologist and co-founder of the German Society for Sociology, best known for
his theory of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.
Gibson 132.
11.
Bacon, Sir Francis; Acidalius, Valens: Sermones fideles, ethici, politici, oeconomici, sive, Interiora rerum.
[Bound with:] Disputatio Perjucunda, qua anonymus probare nititur Mulieres Homines non esse. Lug. Batavorum
[Leiden:] Apud Franciscum Hackium; Hagae-Comitis [The Hague:] Excudebat I. Burchornius, 1641; 1647.
[45594] $1,130
2 works in one vol., 12mo., pp. 439, [3]; 191, [i]. Browned in places, some underlining. Contemporary vellum boards, soiled.
Old ink notes to front endpapers. The first Elzevir edition of the Latin version of Bacon's Essays, the second printing of the
texts (following the 1638 first). Gibson records that 'only in the engraved title page of the first edition, 1641, does the figure of
Bacon appear on the right of the plate (at table, pointing to Occasio) [as here]. In all later editions the plate is copied in reverse,
with Bacon on the left'. Bound with it is the first edition of 'a satirical analysis of theological disputes over the status and
competence of women, with a confutation by Simon Gedik' (National Trust catalogue).
From the collection (but without any signs of ownership) of Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936), German sociologist and cofounder of the German Society for Sociology, best known for his theory of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.
I. Gibson 51.
12.
Barclay, John: Argenis. Editio novissima. Lugd. Bat. [Leiden]: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1630.
[42702]
$190
24mo, pp. 690, [vi]. Printing flaw on one leaf affecting a couple of characters (a strand of hair having stuck to the p. 629), first
and last pages with slight loss from inside margins (from adherence to endpapers), otherwise just a touch of light spotting.
Later vellum boards, red morocco labels to spine, somewhat soiled.
One of three Elzevir printings of this date (and the
preferable one, according to Willems) of this allegorical romance, first published in 1621 and first printed by the Elzevirs in
1627.
Willems 325.
13.
Basil I: Admonitoria ad filium suum Leonem. Interprete Ioanne Paradis Beluaco - Villariensi à S. Domini
Sepulcro, Iuris Pontificii Doctore, Sanctae sedis Apostolicae Protonotario, & in Academiâ Parisiensi Professore.
Parisiis [Paris]: Nicolai Buon, 1637.
[48034] $1,880
12mo., pp. [xii], 193, [vii]. Parallel Greek and Latin text, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. MS note in an old hand
opposite title page, narrow margins, a few occasional spots of foxing but otherwise very nice and bright. Contemporary brown
mottled calf, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label, edges red, marbled endpapers. Joints only slightly creased, corners worn,
slight dent to very edge of upper board. A rare printing, with no copies in COPAC and only four traced in Worldcat, in the
BNF, the Bavarian State Library, the Royal Library of Denmark, and the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve.
14.
Baxter, William: Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum, Sive Syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris
Britanniae atque Iberniae, temporibus Romanorum [...] London: impensis T. Woodward, C. Davis, J Hazard, W.
Bickerton & R. Chandler, 1733.
[48593] $210
Second edition. 8vo., pp. [viii], xii, [iv], 277, [ixx] + portrait frontispiece. Woodcut head- and tail- pieces and initials. A few
old repairs to title page. Contemporary brown calf. Red morocco gilt title label relaid to spine, double filet gilt border to
boards, edges red. Rebacked in a slightly lighter shade, chips to label, edges worn. Endpapers replaced, but not recently
(second bookplate just visible beneath the first). Armorial bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer to front paste-down.
Includes Edward Lhuyd’s (1660-1709) De fuviorum, montium, urbium, &c. in Britannia nominibus adversaria posthuma.
Frances Currer (1785-1861) was one of England's earliest female bibliophiles and was described by Dibdin as the "head of all
female book collectors in Europe.". Currer inherited the library of her great grandfather, Richard Richardson (1663-1741), a
botanist and antiquary and with additions she built up a sizeable collection of 15,000 volumes. She is likely to be the
“benevolent individual, a wealthy lady” (PB to John Buckworth, 27 Nov 1821) who helped Patrick Bronte financially after the
death of his wife. Charlotte Bronte’s pseudonym “Currer Bell” may have been thus inspired.
ESTC T143103
15.
(Bible. New Testament. Greek:) (Mill, John; Kuster, Ludolph:) Novum Testamentum Graecum, cum
lectionibus variantibus [...] Editio secunda. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: sumptibus filii J. Friderici Gleditschii 1723.
[39551] $1,130
Folio, pp. [xx], 168, [ii], 632. Title page in red and black. A very clean copy. Contemporary Dutch blind-stamped vellum,
somewhat soiled, spine lettered in ink. Armorial bookplate of William Cripps. A revision by Ludolph Kuster of John Mill’s
popular 1707 Testament, incorporating the appendices into the apparatus, providing readings from 12 further manuscripts, and
adding new notes (D&M). “Reissue of the edition of Rotterdam 1710, with a new titlepage and the omission of the dedication”
(BL Cat.). D&M 4735.
16.
Borlase, William: The Natural History of Cornwall. [...] Oxford: Printed for the author by W. Jackson, 1758.
[48619] $1,200
First edition. Folio, pp. xix, [i], 326, [ii] + 29 plates including fold-out map. Errata leaf with binder’s instructions to verso.
Closed tear to p.xix neatly repaired, map repaired along fold, a little toned, occasional light foxing, a few ticks to margins.
Recent navy blue calf, spine and upper board heavily gilt, top edge blue. A few light scratches, some slight indentations to
lower board, very good. First edition of Borlase’s (1695-1772) work on Cornwall concerning the county’s topography,
wildlife and inhabitants, including a chapter on its native language and dialects. ESTC T139226
17.
(Boxhorn, Marcus Zuertius, ed.:) Poetæ satyrici minores, de corrupto reipublicæ statu. Marcus Zuerius
Boxhornius recensuit, & commentariis illustravit. Accedit ejusdem Oratio de eversionibus rerumpub. Lugduni
Batavorum [Leiden]: ex officina Isaaci Commelini, 1633.
[49276] $600
First edition. 12mo. (130 x 90mm), pp. [xvi], 142, [ii]. Title page in red and black. Tiny spatter marks, seemingly ink, to a few
pages but not interfering with text, paper a little browned, marginal paper flaw to very edge of p.101. Contemporary vellum,
title inked to spine, edges sprinkled blue. Spine darkened, a few grey scuff marks but very good. . Inscription of Egerton Webbe
dated 1837, to front paste-down. Webbe (1810?-1840), a composer and writer on music, was son of the composer Samuel
Webbe the younger. Boxhorn (1612-1653) was a precocious scholar, publishing this work at the age of 21, the year after he
was appointed to a professorial chair at Leiden.
Brunet I, 1191
18.
Brisson, Barnabe: Hotman, Antoine and François: De Veteri Ritu Nuptiarum & Jure Connubiorum.
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Petrum le Grand, 1662.
[46568] $380
12mo., pp. [iv], 504, [xliv] + engraved title page. Neat paper repair to bottom of leaf Z1 affecting some text ('N' section of
Index), a few small ink blots, two index leaves unopened. Contemporary vellum with yapp fore-edges, ink title to spine, edges
sprinkled. Spine a little sunned, some smudges and light spotting. Inkstamp of Herman Frederik Willem David Fischer and red
stamp ‘Ex Bibliotheca Heldiana’ to f.f.e.p. Some booksellers’ notes to front paste-down. Contains chapters on wedding
ceremonies and on matrimonial law. French jurist and politician Barnabé Brisson's (1531-1591; latinised as Brissonius) public
career included holding various positions by appointment of Charles IX and Henry III, among them the sixth president of
Parlement. When the Seize took over Paris in 1589, Brisson was sufficiently diplomatic for them to also appoint him first
president of the new Parlement, but before long he lost their trust and was executed in 1591.
Willems, 1615.
19.
Burton, William: A Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, or Journies of the Romane Empire, so far as it
Concerneth Britain [...] London: printed by Tho. Roycroft (for) Henry Twyford, and T. Twyford, 1658.
[49120] $1,130
Small folio (285 x 190mm), pp. [xx], 266, [vi] + 2 plates: portrait frontispiece (by Hollar) and double-page map. Lacking
single-leaf 'Preface to the Reader' (but see below). Title-page in red and black, woodcut initials, illustrations in the text, errata
to final leaf verso. Small burn-hole to pp.33-4 just touching a few letters, pp. 141-2 creased during binding, very occasional
spotting and a few slight smudges, front and rear blanks darkened at edges. Contemporary calf, gilt-ruled panels with various
mottled effects, all edges gilt, rebacked with dark brown morocco, original spine label retained. Spine rubbed, a few chips,
inner hinges relined with tape, marbled front pastedown but no marbled flyleaf. Armorial bookplate of Robert N. Pemberton
and bookplate of T.H. Ellison to front pastedown. Underneath the Pemberton plate a piece of paper crossed through in ink,
possibly patching a removed third bookplate. Latin annotation in an old hand to preliminary blank. ESTC calls for 22 pages
of preliminaries, but a number of copies, including those in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and others in libraries and sale
records, having only 20 pages, being without the single-leaf 'Preface to the Reader'. This leaf, a singleton signed 'a', may have
been more frequently omitted because the catalogue of authors which would follow it is also signed 'a'.
William Burton (1609-1657) is sometimes confused with another of the same name, the younger brother of Robert Burton and
author of 'The Description of Leicestershire', but this Burton was more adept at philology. He died of palsy shortly before the
completion of this work.
ESTC R6432; Wing B6185
20.
[Byron] Aucher, P. Paschal; (Gordon, George) Lord Byron: A Grammar Armenian and English, by P. Paschal
Aucher and Lord Byron. Venice: printed in the Armenian monastery of St Lazarus, 1873.
[47598] $260
Third Edition. Small 8vo., pp. 144. Medium browning, bound in contemporary printed wrappers, chipped, loss of paper at
spine, front cover (with title-page) loose. Inscription, “J.L. Caskey, Paris 1935”. Pascal Aucher (1774-1855), a Mechitarist
monk, was also Lord Byron’s tutor in Armenian.
21.
Caesar, Gaius Julius: (Orsini, Fulvio, ed.:) [Opera Omnia] Rerum Ab Se Gestarum Commentarii. Quae hoc
volumine continentur, & quid huic editioni accesserit, sequens pagella indicabit. Lugduni [Lyon]: (Jacques
Roussin), 1626.
[48577] $750
12mo., pp. (xxxii), 879, (lxxvii) + 2 fold-out woodcut maps. Three further woodcut illustrations to text, occasional headpieces,
printer's device to title page. Foxed and sporadically toned with pp. 481-518 being particularly affected, paper flaw to p.529
resulting in hole to roughly three lines of text each side, another paper flaw to p.69 not affecting text. Contemporary semi-limp
vellum, yapp fore-edges, blind ruled spine and borders, ink title to spine, faint ink ownership inscription in an old hand to
upper board. A little darkened, stain to upper board, ties lost. Ownership inscription to front of upper board, ‘ Ex Libris
Christopher Sonnenberg’ followed by a few further illegible words. Remains of erased pencil notes to f.f.e.p. Likely a licenced,
or perhaps pirated, copy of the early Aldine edition, and a rare printing. Not found on COPAC and apparently unseen by either
Dibdin or Schweiger, Worldcat has two records for the edition but neither seem to be associated with any actual physical
holdings.
22.
Camden, William: Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Annales, Regnante Elisabetha.
[Leiden]: Elzevir, 1639.
Lugd. Batavorum
[46674] $450
8vo., pp. [xvi], xvi, 856, [xl]. Includes engraved portrait of Elizabeth I opposite Apparatus leaf, title page in red and black with
woodcut printer's device. Copious notes in an old hand to endpapers and preliminary blanks, further marginalia in Latin and
English with occasional manicules, a few pages with pencil ticks to margins. Sporadic light foxing, one or two marginal paper
flaws, small hole to centre of p. 359 affecting only a few letters. Contemporary vellum, gilt to spine, evidence of lost label
replaced with ink title, yapp edges. Spine slightly darkened, a little soiled with some smudges and stains, small (burn?) hole to
spine, some bands broken and inner hinge split but binding sound, small loss to top corner of f.f.e.p. Armorial bookplate of
Robert Hinde Esq., bookplate of Francis Massey O'Brien and an anonymous catalogue description affixed to front paste-down.
Ownership inscriptions of: Sunderland, Nov. 23rd 1805, Eton; L.M. Robinson, 1923 and Frances Massey O'Brien, July 1967,
all to front paste-down. FMO's pencil note 'Should go with my Irish Collection [...]' to f.f.e.p. AA reprint of the 1625 Elzevir
edition, though Willems notes 'elle est beaucoup plus belle et imprimee sur meilleur papier.' The previous owner Robert Hinde
Esq. is most likely Captain Robert Hinde (1720/1-1786) of the Light Cavalry, a military eccentric who fortified his Hitchin
manor house and marshalled his 17 children into a uniformed regiment. He also served as the inspriration for Uncle Toby in
Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Another previous owner, who has signed simply 'Sunderland', is George Spencer Churchill (17931857), styled Earl of Sunderland until 1817, who used it as as school-book: the inscription dates from his time at Eton (180511), during which he was rumored to have been the instigator of riots against the notorious headmaster and practitioner of
flogging, Dr Keate. Churchill went on to be a politician, advocate of controversial parliamentary reform and great-grandfather
to the Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Later the book belonged to the Irish-American bibliophile and bookseller of Portland,
Maine, Francis Massey O'Brien.
Willems 475
23.
Chrysostom, John, Saint: (Hoeschel, David, ed.:) De Sacerdotio libri vi. Graeci & Latine. [Bound with:] Contra
Iudaeos Homiliae vi. Augustae V. [Augsburg:] E typographeo M. Mangeri; Joannis Praetorij. 1599; 1602.
[39528] $2,100
2 works bound as 1, the second the Editio Princeps of the Greek text. 8vo., pp. [xvi], 215, [ii], 216-539, [i]; [xvi], 256, [ii],
257-542 (i.e. 541), [iii]. Some light dampstaining at the beginning of first work, a little minor spotting elsewhere.
Contemporary vellum, long edges overlapping, spine titled in ink, hinges cracking but strong, a little dustsoiled. Two
attractive editions by David Hoeschel (1556-1617), librarian at Augsburg; the second is the Editio Princeps of the Greek text of
Chrysostom’s sermons against the Jews. Both works are accompanied by Latin translations, the first by that of Ceratinus and
Brixius, and the second by Hoeschel’s own.
24.
Chrysostom, John, Saint: (Hollier, Henry, trans.:) His Six Books, concerning the Priesthood. London: Printed
for the Translator, [1728.]
[37786] $380
8vo., pp. [xxxii], 208. Gathering F bound out of order, a closed tear through bottom six lines of dedication leaf now repaired.
Some browning and spotting. Contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf, corners worn, rebacked, some old marks and
scratches. Old ownership inscriptions of R. Perryn and S. Lelsome (1740) to front endpapers. A polemical translation of St
John Chrysostom’s six books ‘On the Priesthood’, which aims to demonstrate the way the writings of the Church Fathers
actually support Anglicanism rather Rome: ‘if, at first, the most valuable Monuments of Antiquity had been... set forth in the
Vulgar Tongue, it had been an ample defence of the Reformation’ (preface).
ESTC T120916.
25.
Clarendon, Henry Hyde, Earl of: The history of the rebellion and civil wars in Ireland, with the true state and
condition of that kingdom before 1640; and the most material passages and actions which since that time have
contributed to the calamities it hath undergone. London, printed by H. P. for J. Wilford [...] and T. Jauncy [...]
1720.
[47540] $680
8vo., pp. [16] 381 [1] + engraved portrait frontispiece after Godfrey Kneller of Duke of Ormond. Extra frontispiece, of Earl of
Clarendon, tipped in. Final page a bookseller’s catalogue. Decorative initials, and head- and tail-pieces (including one
featuring Lady Justice). Some light or medium browning, bound in brown quarter-calf and rough-grained cloth (a note in
pencil dates the work to 3[?] December 1943), red morocco gilt label, edges mottled red (tears to leather on spine). First
edition of the ‘History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland’ of the statesman Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (16091674).
ESTC T53951.
26.
[Claudian] Claudianus, Claudius; Statius, Publius Papinius: Ex optimorum codicum fide. [Bound with:]
Opera, ex recensione, et cum notis I Frederici Gronovii. Patavii [Padua:] Ex typographia Seminarii; Venetiis
[Venice:] Apud Paulum Balleonium, 1729; 1676.
[43830] $300
12mo., pp. 258; [ii], 466 (title-page engraved). A little light spotting. Bound together in late 18th-century half sheep, orange
textured paper label with gilt lettering to spine, edges of the Statius untrimmed, a little rubbed. Old purple library stamps to
f.f.e.p. and title-page, with more recent ownership inscription of Francais Maire to f.f.e.p. Two scarce Italian classical
printings, bound together relatively early despite fairly widely varying sources and dates. The first work (Claudian) is
Barcelona only in Worldcat and not in COPAC; the second (Statius) Oxford and V&A only in COPAC plus Brown, Yale,
Columbia, NYPL, Colgate, and Amsterdam (outside Italy).
27.
Colwell, Stephen: The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, with its Various
Modes of Adjustment. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1859.
[49425] $230
First edition. 8vo., pp. xii, 644. Very slightly toned but generally clean within. Contemporary brown cloth, blind-stamped, gilt
title to spine. Neatly rebacked, endpapers renewed, a little rubbed, some fraying to bottom fore-edge corners. Lane Library
Association bookplate to front paste-down. Brandeis University Library inkstamp to lower margin p.15, occasional library
codes.
Sabin 14917
28.
Cotes, Roger: Harmonia Mensurarum, sive Analysis & Synthesis per Rationum & Anglorum Mensuras Promotae:
accedunt alia Opuscula Mathematica: per Rogerum Cotesium. Edidit et Auxit Robertus Smith. Cantabrigiae
[Cambridge:] 1722.
[36201] $3,750
4to., pp. [xx], 249, [iii], 125, [i] + 1 folding table. A little soiling to a few leaves. Modern half calf, marbled boards, spine in
six compartments with raised bands, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, the rest with blind centre- and corner-pieces, a
touch rubbed at extremities. Oval ink stamp of Trinity College Lending Library Dublin on verso of title-page with purple ink
‘sale of duplicate’ stamp below. Roger Cotes (1682-1716) was the first holder of the Plumian chair of Astronomy and
Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge and oversaw the second edition of Newton’s ‘Principia’, encouraging Newton in a
thorough revision instead of a mere checking of errors. Cotes died unexpectedly in his 34th year, and Newton is said to have
remarked, ‘if he had lived, we might have known something’. He published little in his lifetime, and this is ‘a posthumous work
edited by his literary executor, Robert Smith, which established Cotes as probably the most talented British mathematician of
the generation after Newton. Though the Harmonia provides not simply solutions but also methods, it is not for the fainthearted, containing dozens of beautifully printed pages of mathematics, often without a single word of text’ (ODNB).
ESTC T100930.
29.
Cotes, Roger: (Smith, Robert, ed.:) Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures. The third edition, carefully revised
and corrected. London: printed for J.Nourse, 1775.
[45220] $450
Third edition. 8vo., pp. [xvi], 288, [viii] + 5 folding plates. A bit of light spotting to title-page. Contemporary sprinkled calf,
orange morocco label to spine, a touch worn around the edges, neat repairs to spine ends and front joint. Ownership
inscription of J. Fleming, of Oriel College, Oxford, dated 1775 to front pastedown. The third edition of this posthumous
collection of lectures, which 'provides an interesting picture of natural philosophy teaching at Cambridge in the eighteenth
century' (ODNB).
ESTC: T144814
30.
Crucius, Jacobus: Epistolarum Libri IV. Cum Duplici Indice. Delphis [Delft]: ex officina Johannes Andreae
Kloeting, 1633.
[49124] $300
First edition. 8vo., pp.[xvi], 606, [xxvi]. Woodcut initials. F.f.e.p. and following blank both with top fore-edge corner excised,
title page a bit grubby, some light foxing to blanks front and rear. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, yapp edges.
Vellum darkened, quite heavily marked especially to spine but entirely sound. Inscription to f.f.e.p. reading, ‘Antonius
[surname obscured], Coll. Reg. Oxon. ex dono Guliolmi Preston, 1743’. Crucius also published under the name Mercurius
Batavus. This collection of letters was intended as instructional literature, imitating Ciceronian style and delivering moral and
religious ideals alongside regular communication. To that end, many of the letters given earlier dates were actually written later
to be included in the book, rather than sent.
31.
Dickens, Charles (ed.): (Cruikshank, George, illus.:) The Pic Nic Papers. London: Henry Colburn, 1841.
[49231] $680
First edition, second state with ‘publisher young’ in Introduction now corrected. 3 vols., 8vo., pp. vi, [ii], 323, [i]; [iv], 298;
[ii], 378 + 14 plates as called for. Bound without publisher’s advertisements. A little light foxing, mostly to plates and
endpapers, small loss to fore-edge margin pp.137-40 vol.III not affecting text. Contemporary tan calf, spine gilt with dark
green and brown morocco labels, gilt and blind-tooled borders, marbled edges and endpapers. Spines very slightly darkened, a
bit rubbed, a little wear to joints and corners but still very good. “John Macrone was the publisher of Dickens’ first book, and
when he died he left a widow and several children in comparatively destitute circumstances. As a business man he drove, what
to the young author at that time, was a rather hard bargain over a copyright. But the appeal made on behalf of a needy family
Dickens could not resist. He was in the middle of ‘Master Humphrey’s Clock,’ and regardless of this he undertook the
management of ‘The Picnic Papers,’ the proceeds of which were to alleviate hardships. He wrote the Introduction, rewrote his
unacted farce ‘The Lamplighter,’ altering the name to ‘The Lamplighter’s Story,’ edited the balance of the book, excepting the
third volume, and was enabled to place in the hands of the widow the sum of £300” (Eckel).
32.
Dionysius Halicarnassus: (Gelenius, Sigismund, trans.; Sylburg, Friedrich, ed.:) Scripta Quae Extant Omnia,
Historica et Rhetorica; Nunc Primum Universa Latine Edita: illa qudem olim per Gelenium; sed ita modo
interpolata per Frideric. Sylburgium, ut pene nova versio dici queat. Hanouiae [Hanau]: typis Wechelianis, apud
Haeredes Joannis Aubrii [Heirs of J.Aubrius], 1615.
[46571] $600
2 parts bound as 1, 8vo., pp. [xxxii], 718, [clxxviii]; [xvi], 440, [xl]. Woodcut printer's device to title-page, half-title to 2nd
vol., index at end of each vol. Some gatherings slightly toned, short closed tear to bottom margin of p.255 not affecting text,
paper flaw causing loss to margin of leaf kkk1. Contemporary vellum, ink title to spine, yapp edges, paper edges sprinkled red.
Binder's waste used to make joints front and rear is a reused ms on parchment dating from approximately 1390. Small scrape
to spine, boards soiled, edges a little worn, pastedowns loose with partial loss but thongs intact and completely sound.
Sylburg's important edition of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, with Lain translation by Gelenius, was first published in the 1580s,
also by Wechel, as a substantial folio, and here the Latin translation appears alone in a much more pocketable format.
Hoffman I, 585; Schweiger I, 100.
33.
Doctorow, E.L.: Welcome to Hard Times. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.
[49447]
$900
First edition, author signed. 8vo., pp. [viii], 180, [ii]. Toned, particularly towards edges. Quarter cream buckram with orange
paper-covered boards, black title to spine and upper board. Spine a little yellowed, edges very slightly faded, faint mark at
lower edge of upper board but still very good. Dust-jacket a little creased and frayed at head and tail of spine, and joints. A bit
toned, some shelf wear but good. Author’s inscription to the literary critic Frank Kermode, dated 1972, to f.f.e.p.. First edition
of Doctorow’s first novel, with a dust-jacket designed by Seymour Chwast.
34.
Dugdale, William: Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws [&c.]. Also a Chronologie
of the Lord Chancelors and Keepers of the great Seal [&c.] [...] The Second Edition with Additions. [London]: In
the Savoy, Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry Herringman; [...] 1671.
[23539] $1,500
Folio, pp., [viii] 336 [iv] 117 [iii] + 6 plates (three by Hollar). Title page in red and black, full-page illustrations of coats of
arms included in pagination. Soiled (a few leaves significantly so) and lightly browned, a few spots and one or two small
marginal dampstains (to a few leaves only). Bound in modern calf with older marbled endpapers preserved, boards bordered
in blind, spine gilt-ruled with gilt title and circular gilt stamps, lower board showing a few light scratches. Armorial bookplate
of Sir Willm. Jerningham, Bart. to upper pastedown. The second edition of Dugdale’s important legal history (the first,
published in 1666, was mostly destroyed in the great fire). The bookplate is most likely that of Sir William Jerningham, 6th
Baronet of Costessey (1736-1809) and inheritor (through his cousin) of Stafford Castle. Jerningham petitioned the House of
Lords for his assuming the barony of Stafford based on this inheritance but died before it could be decided; in 1824 his son
George William Jerningham successfully achieved the title 8th Baron Stafford. ESTC R225633. Wing D 2489. Lowndes
690.
35.
[Dugdale, William:] A Short View of the Late Troubles in England; Briefly setting forth, Their Rise, Growth, and
Tragical Conclusion. As also, some Parallel thereof with the Barons-Wars in the time of King Henry III. But
chiefly with that in France, called the Holy League, in the Reign of Henry III. and Henry IV. late Kings of that
Realm. To which is added A Perfect Narrative of the Treaty at Uxbridge in an. 1644. Oxford: Printed at the
Theater for Moses Pitt 1681.
[22065] $900
Second edition? (see below), earlier anonymous issue. Small folio, pp. [vi], 136, 185-294, 361-439, [i], 449-488, 553-650, [iv],
737-959, [xiii] + frontispiece (complete despite pagination irregularities). Soiled and lightly foxed/browned, small flaws to
blank areas of frontispiece, including 3cm closed tear to lower margin, and to a few other leaves, old doodle to verso of title
page, still a good copy in later diced calf, gilt border to boards and sides, marbled endpapers, sympathetically rebacked with
new inner margins and gilt and blind-stamp to spine, corners repaired, some spots of wear to sides, a few scratches to boards.
Small stamp of Solicitor’s Supreme Courts Library to title and a few leaves, a few early pencil pointing hands in margins,
ownership inscription of Adam Bagshaw dated 1793(?) to title. The ESTC differs from Wing in listing a separate 1671 edition
on the evidence of one imperfect copy showing a different imprint; assuming that imprint is correct, this would be the second
edition. The “last major production” of the antiquary Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686), “it is useful for its copiousness and the
precision of its dates” (ODNB). Included as an appendix with its own divisional title page is a short work on “the Treaty for a
Peace, Begun at Uxbridge, January 30. 1644,” which is a reprint of a pamphlet originally published in 1645. After the index is a
5-page “Catalogue of Books Printed at the Theater in Oxford” for the year 1681. ESTC R18097. Wing D 2492. Lowndes 692.
Brunet II 868. Graesse II 443.
36.
Duncon, John: The Holy Life and Death of the Lady Letice, Vi-Countess Falkland. With the Spiritual Comfort
and Grief in a Devout Soul. Represented in Letters to that Honourable Lady; and exemplified in Her. London:
Richard Royston, 1653.
[46358] $600
Third edition, enlarged. 12mo., pp. [xxvi], 46, 27-50, 31-192, [vi] (as called for) + portrait frontispiece. Frontispiece slightly
offset to title page, a little worming near gutter, occasional light spotting, . Contemporary blind-tooled calf, marbled
endpapers. Calf crackled, a bit chipped with small loss to front board, old inconspicuous repairs to spine. Several ownership
inscriptions to initial blanks: the first illegible; ‘S. Sparke a gift of M.S. [1798?]’; ‘Sarah Sparke 1798’; ‘To her neice [H.?] M.
Amery’. ‘At some time in the early 1640s the ejected Essex clergyman John Duncon was welcomed into Lady Falkland's
household as her chaplain and spiritual director. As the brother of Nicholas Ferrar's friend Edmund Duncon he probably
brought with him the Little Gidding pattern of an extended family living as a praying community. According to Duncon, in a
household that included her mother and perhaps her aunt Ruth Harington, Lady Falkland daily catechized and prayed with her
maids. Regular attendance at morning and evening prayer was encouraged, holy days celebrated, and communion carefully
prepared for; the whole household kept a monthly fast.’ (ODNB)
ESTC: R19150. Wing D2604.
37.
Ellis, William: The Timber-Tree improved: or, the Best Practical Methods of Improving different Lands with
proper Timber. And Those Fruit Trees whose Woods make the most profitable Returns to their Owners, according
to the newest Inventions, by the Plough, Harrow, and other Methods most approved of. The Fourth edition. [With:]
The Second Part of the Timber-Tree Improved. London: Printed for, and Sold by T. Osborne, and M. Cooper,
1745.
[36207] $1,130
8vo., pp. 115, [i], viii, 207, [i]. Just slightly spotted, short wormtrail in lower margin of last few leaves. Contemporary
sprinkled calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, boards bordered with a gilt rule, tidy repairs to joint ends and
corners, hinges neatly relined, new green morocco label (by John Henderson, late 1970s), old leather a little marked.
Armorial bookplate of “Napier of Ballikinrain” on front pastedown. The scarce 4th edition of the first part of agriculturalist
William Ellis’s ‘The Timber-tree Improved’ (first published 1738), bound with the very rare 2nd edition of the second part
(which had first appeared in 1742). ESTC lists this edition of the first part in 3 UK locations (Wales, Oxford, National Trust)
and five in North America; this edition of the second part is listed in just two locations anywhere (National Trust & British
Columbia). The first part had also been issued as part of vol. 5 of Ellis’s ‘most important work’ (ODNB), ‘The Modern
Husbandman.
ESTC N26077; N41499.
38.
Ennius, Quintus: (Hessel, Franz): Fragmenta, quae supersunt ab Hieron. Columna conquisita disposita et
explicata ad Joannem filium. Nunc ad editionem Neapolitanam MDXC. recusa / accurante Francisco Hesselio [...]
accedunt praeter eruditorum virorum emendationes undique conquisitas; M.A. Delrii opinationes, nec non G.J.
Vossii castigationes & notae in fragmenta tragoediarum Ennii, ut & index omnium verborum Ennianorum.
Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: ex officina Wetsteniana, 1707.
[46573] $450
Small 4to. (210 x 165mm), pp. [xxviii], 32, 454 (recte 450), [ii], including engraved additional title page. Title page in red and
black, with printer's device. Sporadically toned: most gatherings bright but a few quite browned. Contemporary vellum, ink
title in an old hand to spine, edges sprinkled red and blue. Spine and edges a little darkened, boards lightly smudged with a few
slight scratches. Pencilled ownership inscription of A. Lievegoed to f.f.e.p.. A reissue of the 1590 Colonna (1534-1586) text as
it had been printed by Merula in 1595, to which the editor has added the notes of Delrio, Vassius and others. The 'Annales' are
'a narrative poem [...] on the history of the Roman people from the loss of Troy to the seizure of Ambracia' (OCD) which
survives only in fragments, having been much quoted in the ancient period. Merula's edition was both important and infamous
since he added to the other fragments for the first time eleven taken from Servius, and also fifteen from sources known only to
him, which, in 1852, were proven by a scholar to be fraudulent.
Schweiger 343; Brunet II 986
39.
Epictetus: Enchiridion et Cebetis Tabula, Graecè & Latinè. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex officina Ioannis
Maire. 1634.
[48997] $980
32mo. (94 x 50mm), pp. [iv], 379, [i]. Woodcut initials and vignette to title-page, largely Greek and Latin on facing pages. A
little toned. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, yapp edges. Tiny chip to headcap, a few small stains, edges darkened,
slight loosening between gatherings B and C but still sound.
A small-format edition of this philosophical handbook, one of a
string of editions published by Maire starting in 1627.
40.
Eusebius of Caesarea: Samuel of Ani; (Mai, Angelo; Zohrab, Johannes, eds.): Chronicorum Canonum Libri
Duo [...]; Temporum Usque ad Suam Aetatem Ratio e Libris Historicorum Summatim Collecta [...]. Mediolani
[Milan]: Regiis Typis, 1818.
[49282] $300
2 vols in 1. Folio, pp. xxviii, 396; viii, 111, [i]. With half title plus individual title page to each volume. Occasional spots of
foxing. 19th-century vellum, gilt spine with red morocco title label, some edges uncut. Spine a little darkened, a few light
smudgy marks, top edge dusty.
An earlier work than Eusebius's 'Church History', this world history is almost entirely lost in
the Greek original, but preserved in an Armenian version, here translated into Latin.
41.
Fallada, Hans: (Lloyd, Charlotte and A.L., trans.:) The Drinker.
London: Putnam & Co., 1952.
[49270] $230
First English edition. 8vo., pp. [vi], 282. A little toned but clean within. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Endcaps a little creased,
tiny dent to head edge of upper board, top edge dusted, some patchy toning to endpapers but still very good. Dust-jacket toned,
edges lightly worn, spine a little frayed at head and tail but good. Der Trinker was written in code in September 1944, while
Hans Fallada was in prison at Alt-Strelitz, Mecklenberg, on a charge of attempted murder. He was later acquitted and released,
and went to live in Berlin where he died on 6th February 1947.
42.
Felton, Henry: A Dissertation on Reading the Classics, and forming a Just Style. Written in the year 1709 and
addressed to the Right Honourable John Lord Roos, the present Marquis of Granby. The third edition corrected.
London: Printed for Jonah Bowyer, 1718.
[36320] $380
12mo., pp. [ii], xx, [xii], 230. Somewhat spotted, corner of f.f.e.p. repaired. Contemporary panelled calf in a variation of
Cambridge style (possibly done at a later date), the central panel with a central intaglio stencil pattern, spine gilt in
compartments, joints repaired by Chris Weston, new red morocco label. Early ink ownership inscription “e Libris Calebi
Lomax” on front flyleaf, and later ink inscription “Caleb Lomax” on rear pastedown - possibly Caleb Lomax (1689-1729), MP
for St Albans, or his son Caleb (b.1727). The most popular work by Henry Felton (1679-1740), a plea for the traditional
classical education. This copy is in an unusually styled binding, which, since the board panelling appears to overlay a more
traditional trade-binding-style blind roll near the joints, may have been applied later.
ESTC T138678.
43.
Ferguson, James: Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles [etc.] Fourth edition. London:
Printed for W. Strahan [et al.] 1770.
[36215] $1,130
8vo., pp. [viii], 489, [xv] + folding engraved frontispiece and 17 other folding engraved plates. Lightly toned and spotted in a
few places. Contemporary sprinkled tan calf, rebacked preserving original spine compartments and red morocco label, the
compartments ruled in gilt in a diaper pattern, marbled endpapers, hinges neatly relined, corners slightly worn. The fourth
edition of James Ferguson’s first major book, a very accessible popularisation of Newton’s work. It first appeared in 1756 and
was an immediate success, boosting his fledgling business in scientific instruments (established in the Strand the previous year)
and then doing so well that the following year Ferguson sold the business and switched to writing and lecturing full-time.
ESTC T18587.
44.
Florus, Lucius Annaeus: (Le Fevre, Anne, ed.:) Rerum Romanarum Epitome Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit
Anna Tanaquilli Fabri Filia. Jussu Christianissimi Regis, In Usum Serenissimi Delphini. Parisiis (Paris): Apud
Fredericum Leonard, Typographum Regis, 1674.
[49304] $300
4to., pp. [xxiv], 205, [clix] including additional engraved title-page. Woodcut printer's device to title-page, woodcut head- and
tail-pieces and initials through the text. Lightly toned towards top edge, faint staining to lower margins of first and last few
gatherings, binding cracked between frontispiece and title-page but all still sound. Contemporary vellum boards, unusually
rebacked in deliberately contrasting late-18th-century black morocco. Gilt spine and borders, gilt crest to head of spine, a.e.g.,
endpapers replaced. Spine rubbed, vellum a bit darkened, boards a little splayed but still very good.
Edited by Anne Dacier
(nee Le Fevre) (1645-1720), noted French scholar and wife of Andre Dacier, one of the series editors for the Delphin editions.
Schweiger II, 361.
45.
[(Gale, Thomas, ed.:)] Opuscula Mythologica Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1688.
[39092] $1,050
8vo., pp. [xxiv], 752, [viii] + additional engraved title-page. Light spotting and browning in places. Late 18th-century red
long-grained morocco, boards with a gilt border, spine in six compartments divided by gilt rolls, second compartment giltlettered direct, the rest with central ‘fasces’ tool, a.e.g., a little darkening to spine, just slightly rubbed at joints. Modern
bookplate to front pastedown. An elegantly-bound copy of the better second edition, revised and expanded from the 1671 first,
of Thomas Gale’s most important collection of fragments and small works by classical authors including Eratosthenes,
Heraclitus, Heraclides, Theocritus, and Timaeus, with facing Latin translations.
46.
Galton, Francis: The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa.
London: John Murray, 1853.
[47763] $1,050
First Edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, [ii], 314, [ii] + 6 plates including frontispiece and folding map. Most plates and map in colour,
further illustrations in the text, publisher’s list at rear. A few occasional smudges but generally bright, map splitting at second
fold. Leopard-print cloth, gilt spine and centrepiece. Small loss to top of spine (approx. 1cm square), endcaps a little frayed,
uncut edges dusty, endpapers splitting at hinges but binding sound. Pencilled inscription of S[pencer] E[rvin] dated August
1942 to frontispiece verso. Small binder’s label of Remnant and Edmonds, London to rear paste-down. Sir Francis Galton
(1822–1911) was a biostatistician, human geneticist and eugenicist, and also a first cousin of Charles Darwin. In 1850 he
‘undertook a journey of exploration (at his own expense but under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society) to southwest Africa, an area which was at that time largely unknown to Europeans’. This scarce first edition is a copy of one of two
resultant books (the other being The Art of Travel (1855)), which won its author ‘a gold medal from the Royal Geographical
Society, a fellowship of the Royal Society, and membership of the Athenaeum.’ (ONDB)
47.
Gellius, Aulus: (Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus and Jacobus, eds.:) Noctium Atticarum, Libri XX prout
supersunt quos ad libros MSStos novo & multo labore exegerunt, perpetuis notis & emendationibus illustraverunt
Johannes Fredericus et Jacobus Gronovii. Accedunt Gasp. Scioppii integra MSStorum duorum codicum collatio,
Petri Lambecii lucubrationes Gellianae, & ex Lud. Carrionis castigationibus utilia excerpta, ut & selecta variaque
commentaria ab Ant. Thysio & Jac. Oiselio congesta. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Cornelium Boutesteyn &
Johannem du Vivie, 1706.
[48041] $450
4to., pp. [xxxvi], 903, [lxv], including engraved frontispiece. Title-page in red and black with vignette, woodcut head-pieces
and initials. Occasional foxing, edges toned. Contemporary vellum, ink title to spine, raised bands, blind tooled borders and
centrepiece, edges sprinkled red and blue. Spine slightly darkened, some light smudges and marks, top edge dusty. Bookplate
of Drs. H.J. Eijsing to front paste-down. ‘Noch immer sehr gesuchte Ausg. und durch die neueste Bearbeitung nicht
entbehrlich gemacht.’ (Schweiger)
Schweiger I 379
48.
Gent, Thomas: The Antient and Modern History of the Loyal Town of Rippon: With Particular Accounts of
Three of the Northern Saints in the Seventh Century [...] Besides are added, Travels into other Parts of Yorkshire.
York: Printed, and Sold at the Printing Office, 1733.
[36104] $680
8vo., pp. xvi, [ii], 165, [i], 73, [vii] + folding engraved plan frontispiece, 2 full-page woodcuts, and 2 extra-illustrated
engraved plates. Some browning and spotting, folding plates rehinged, one extra plate (unflattering portrait of author, bound
as frontispiece) substantially smaller and frayed at edge, the other a copy of the folding plate from Gent’s ‘Annales Regioduni
Hullini’. Modern (1982) calf binding in period style by Jenny Aste. Two flyleaves from earlier binding are tipped-in at end:
recto of first has ink inscription “William Shilleto 1841”, and pencil inscription “p. 113 Mr. Shilleto Receiver General of the
Duchy of Lancaster” at head of recto of the second. The second of printer and historian Thomas Gent’s Yorkshire city
histories, following his 1730 history of York. Like his other city histories it is the earliest dedicated account of the city and ‘full
of minute examples of personal observation and research, and contain many descriptions of objects now lost’ (ODNB).
ESTC T26486.
49.
Grass, Günter: (Manheim, Ralph, trans.:) The Tin Drum. London: Secker & Warburg, (1962). [49271]
$530
Proof copy. 8vo., pp. 588, [ii]. Half title and final page a little toned, small diminishing stain to fore-edge margin beginning at
half-title and vanishing around p.50. Green paper covers, spine sunned and creased, lightly toned towards edges, a few tiny
marks to edges, inner hinge separating very slightly at gutter but still very good indeed. Inkstamp to upper cover: ‘Date and
price subject to alteration. August 30s0d’.
50.
[Grose, Francis:] A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. London: Hooper and Co., 1796. [46027]
$680
Third edition. 8vo., pp. xvi, [236]. Small ink blot to pp.[35-8] affecting a few words. Contemporary tan calf, gilt title to spine.
Neatly rebacked with original spine retained, top corners a little worn, end papers very slightly mottled. Armorial bookplate of
Frances Mary Richardson Currer to front paste-down. Pencilled bookseller’s notes to r.f.e.p.. Originally published in 1785,
both the second edition of 1788 and this third edition of 1796 had some of their more ‘indecent or indelicate’ entries ‘omitted,
softened, or their explainations taken from books long sanctioned with general approbation’ (Preface to the Second Edition).
However, as it precedes the substantial re-editing undertaken 1823, this edition retains the overall character of Grose’s original
work.
Frances Currer (1785-1861) was England's earliest female bibliophile and was described by Dibdin as the "head of all female
book collectors in Europe.". Currer inherited the library of her great grandfather, Richard Richardson (1663-1741), botanist and
antiquary, and with additions she built up a sizeable collection of 15,000 volumes. She may be the “benevolent individual, a
wealthy lady” (PB to John Buckworth, 27 Nov 1821) who helped Patrick Bronte financially after the death of his wife, and
Charlotte Bronte’s pseudonym “Currer Bell” may have been thus inspired.
Mixed issue: title-page matching ESTC T138426; collation matching ESTC N4993.
51.
Grotius, Hugo: Apologeticus eorum qui Hollandiæ Westfrisiæque & vicinis quibusdam nationibus ex legibus
præfuerunt ante mutationem quæ evenit anno M D CXVIII. Parisiis [Paris]: [s.n.], 1665.
[45592] $450
12mo., pp. [xxiv], 287, [i]. A touch of minor spotting. Contemporary vellum boards, spine lettered in ink, slightly soiled,
pastedowns lifted. A pocket edition of Grotius's Apologeticus, originally published in 1622 in both Latin and Dutch (as
'Verantwoordingh'). In it he addresses the controversies of church reform, reviewing previous conflicts.
From the collection (but without any signs of ownership) of Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936), German sociologist and cofounder of the German Society for Sociology, best known for his theory of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.
52.
[Harris, William:] An Historical and Critical Account of Hugh Peters, After the Manner of Mr. Bayle. London:
printed for J. Noon and A Millar, 1751.
[47048] $300
8vo., pp. 72. Woodcut printer’s device of an angel to title page. Slight foxing, lightly toned throughout but with some pages
more affected. Later half tan sheep with marbled paper boards, black morocco label and gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers.
A little surface peeling to spine and corners, boards rubbed and edges wearing, upper inner hinge cracked but holding firm.
Clipped-out catalogue descriptions of other books on Peters tipped to front paste-down; newspaper article dated 20/3/12
tipped to f.f.e.p.. Illegible ownership inscription to f.f.e.p.. The first ostensibly impartial biography of Hugh Peter(s) (15981660), sometime Pastor of the first church of Salem, Mass., chaplain to the Regicides in 1649 and then victim of a gruesome
royal retribution at the Restoration in 1660, published (anonymously) by Dr William Harris (1720-70).
ESTC T36303
53.
[Hilary of Poitiers, Saint:] (Maffei, Scipio, ed.:) Opera, studio et labore monachorum Ordinis S. Benedicti e
Congregatione S. Mauri castigata, aucta atque illustrata. Nunc vero libris De Trinitate, et commentariis in Psalmos
ad binos Capituli Veronensis codices, antiquitate ac praestantia quosvis ad hanc diem cognitos facile exsuperantes,
diligenter exactis, atque octo maxime variantium Tractatuum adjectione locupletatis. Venetiis [Venice]: Jacobum
Capellati, 1749; 1750.
[49281] $450
2 vols. in 1. Folio, pp. [xxviii], cxiv, 637 cols., [ii]; xxiv, 584 cols, [lxxii]. Title page in red and black, engraved vignette,
initials, head- and tail-pieces. Small symbol inkstamped to t.p., occasional foxing, short closed tear to margin below col.158,
vol.II (not affecting text). Contemporary vellum, brown morocco label added to spine, all edges red. Spine darkened, yellowed
with a few marks, corners lightly bumped, endpapers toned.
Bookplate of Biblioteca del Seminario Metropolitano di Torino
dated 1879 and second partially-removed bookplate to front paste-down. Second reprint, (“incorrectement” - Graesse) of the
great Benedictine edition of 1693; with further philological notes added by the scholar the Marchese Scipio Maffei (16751755), using manuscripts from his native Verona. Hilary of Poitiers (d. 368), was a prominent defender of Catholic orthodoxy
against Arianism.
Graesse III 277-278.
54.
[Historiae Augustae] Obrecht, Ulrich (ed.:) Historiae Augustae Scriptores Sex, Aelius Spartianus, Iulius
Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio, Flavius Vopiscus. Argentorati
(Strasbourg): Io. Frid. Spoor, & Reinh. Waechtler, 1677.
[49305] $300
8vo., pp.[viii], 677, [iii], 71, [cii]. Title page in red and black, generous margins. A few marginal paper flaws, neatly repaired
tear to p.53 (2nd register), neither of which affect text. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, yapp edges, edges sprinkled
blue. Some smudgy marks particularly to spine, top dusty. Faint library inkstamp to title-page verso. The first edition of the
disputed text 'Scriptores Historiae Augustae' edited by Ulrich Obrecht, a Strasbourg jurist. Schweiger II, 385
55.
[Homer] Eustathius, Metropolitan of Thessalonica: (Politi, Alexander); (Salvini, Anton M[aria], ed.:)
Commentarii in Homeri Iliadem (Books I-VI). Florentiae [Florence]: Bernardum Paperinium, 1730; 1732; 1735.
[49265] $2,700
3 vols. Folio, pp. [xii], lxxii, 520; [xvi], xxiv, 521-952, 161, [iii]; [xiv], xxxiv, 953-1329, [i], 163-333, [i]. Facing columns of
Greek and Latin text. Title pages in red and black with engraved vignettes. Engraved head- and tail- pieces and initials. Some
spots of foxing and a little toning front and rear but generally bright, occasional small spots of candle wax. Contemporary
vellum, brown paper gilt labels to spines, edges red. Spatter of white paint to spines, mostly affecting vol.II, vellum a bit
darkened, endcaps creased. Homeric commentaries of the 12th-cent. Byzantine grammarian Eustathius, concerning the first
half of the Iliad only but a complete set as printed. “Their value consists particularly in the assemblage of material drawn from
the old scholia and the lost works of earlier scholars and lexicographers [...] He often illustrates a point by reference to the
customs and observances of his own time and to contemporary vernacular Greek [...] Eustathius was the outstanding scholar of
his time, enthusiastic for traditional learning, for the preservation of books, for sound principles of education, and for the moral
reawakening of monasticism” (OCD).
56.
[Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: Opera. Londini [London]: Gulielmus Pickering, 1824.
[46279]
$410
Large paper copy (105 x 70mm). 32mo., pp. 192 + 1 portrait frontispiece, 1 engraved plate. Very light occasional foxing but
still nice and bright inside. Contemporary red morocco by Joubert, gilt title to spine, gilt dentelles, bright blue morocco
doublures, t.e.g. Joints and corners a little worn, small split starting at head of lower board, slight discolouration to free
endpapers from leather joints. Illegible inscription to f.f.e.p. verso, bookseller's pencilled notes to rear. A large paper copy of
the first book in Pickering's Diamond Classics Series, one of the scarcest of the series. The bookseller's notes to r.f.e.p. give
bibliographical references: 'Welsh 3564. Spielmann 205A. Nauroy p.58. Bondy p.87 [...] p.82.'
Keynes, Pickering, p. 73.
57.
[Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: (Bentley, Richard, ed.:) [Opera] ex recensione & cum notis atque
emendationibus Richardi Bentleii. Editio altera. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios Hff.
1713.
[48039] $450
4to., pp. [xxiv] 717, [i], 239, [i], including engraved frontispiece. Without half-title preceeding Liber II at p.442 found in some
copies. Title page in red and black with engraved device. Some toning (some gatherings more affected), occasional wax specks
and light ink smudges, a few faint tidemarks to pp.661-4 and rear pages, marginal repair to index p.123. Contemporary
vellum, raised bands, gilt spine, borders and centrepiece of The Hague to both boards, edges red. Soiled, some smudges, gilt
fading, edges dusty.
The second edition of Bentley's (in)famous edition of Horace, first printed at Cambridge in 1711,
notable for his rash but inspired conjectures and emendations. "The Amsterdam editions of 1713 and 1728 are preferable to the
Cambridge one of 1711. The notes and text are in the same page, and they are accompanied by the index of Treter, corrected by
Verburgius" (Dibdin 104).
Dibdin (4th edn.) II 101; Schweiger II 406; Bijker Riedel A140; Lowndes 1113: “The best
edition.”; Graesse III 354 (note); Brunet III 319 (note).
58.
[Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: (Crucque, Jacques de, ed.:) Ex antiquissimus undecim Lib. M.S. et
schedis aliquot emendatus [...] Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Christophori Plantini, 1578.
[49306] $710
Small 4to., (227 x 170 mm), pp. [xvi], 648, [xxiv]. Printer's device to title-page, some small illustrations in the text, woodcut
initials. Occasional tiny annotations and underlinings in an old hand. A few small paper flaws (two marginal and one affecting
a couple of words to pp.441-2), a little light toning towards edges, odd spots of ink. Modern green morocco, red gilt label to
spine, edges red, marbled endpapers. Spine faded to yellowish tan, a little shelfwear, very good. Signature of Ludovicus
Martellus Rotomagæus title-page, with 'illustra Deus oculum' in the same hand beneath printer's device. Illegible library ink
stamp also to title. A few ms codes to preliminary blanks.
The first edition of Horace's full works (selections had appeared
earlier) edited by Jacob Cruquius (Jacques de Crucque), a French scholar resident in Bruges. Cruquius was the first to identify
the errors in several early commentaries, and also consulted a group of four manuscripts in Ghent, including one of notable
antiquity and authority, which were destroyed during riots in 1566.
Schweiger II, 398; Adams, H-929; Voet, 1384.
59.
Hunter, Joseph: Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York: with
Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton, and Whiston, and of the
Chapelry of Bradfield. London: Printed for the Author, by Richard and Arthur Taylor: Published by Lackington,
Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819.
[49000] $450
Large paper copy, folio, pp.x, [ii], 299, [i] + engraved portrait frontispiece and 8 further plates, further engravings in the text.
List of subscribers. Occasional marginalia, plates slightly foxed, small tears to frontis., title and leaf 2Q, all repaired. Recent
half brown calf with marbled paper boards, gilt and blind tooling to spine, t.e.g., other edges uncut. Some light scuffs to spine,
edges dusty, very good. Embossed stamp ‘Ex Libris LMP MCMLXII’ to f.f.e.p.. Letter dated 1925 to Mrs Dearden of Attercliffe
Common, Sheffield loosely inserted. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861) established his reputation as an antiquary relatively late in life
with this study of the Sheffield area, and a follow-up on Doncaster a decade later. He performed his research in London and
Oxford on holidays from his home in Somerset, finding time to also visit his home city of Sheffield when he could, and
borrowing manuscripts when he couldn't.
60.
[Ireland] [Honourable Irish Society:] A concise view of the origin, constitution, and proceedings of the
Honourable Society of the Governor and Assistants of London of the New Plantation in Ulster, within the realm of
Ireland, commonly called the Irish Society. Compiled principally from their records. London: printed by order of
the Court, by Arthur Taylor, 39, Coleman Street, printer to the Honourable City of London 1832. [47545] $560
8vo., pp. xiii [3] 235 [1] + frontispiece. Light browning, foxing, but very good, bound in contemporary green cloth, dark green
label stamped in gilt (binding slightly rubbed but very good). Second edition (first: 1822) of this study of the Honourable Irish
Society, which was set up by royal charter in 1613 to undertake the English plantation in the northwest of Ulster. Their rights
included (as they still do) extensive fishing in the area, and the present book has a “Narrative of the fishing cause” of the
Society by David Babington, their law agent (pp. 195-222). The frontispiece engraving is by H. Adlard and shows the salmon
leap and mill at Coleraine.
61.
Josephus, Flavius: (Arlenius, Arnoldus & Gelen, Sigismund, eds.:) Opera. Basileae [Basel]: Froben. Cum
Imp. Maiestatis Privilegio ad annos v., 1544.
[46676] $5,600
Editio Princeps. Folio, pp. [xii], 967, [i]. Title-page in red and black. Sporadic worming, in places resulting in some losses to
margins, but never affecting more than a few letters of text. Title-page creased, some annotation to preliminary blank, titlepage, and p. 181. Later (18th century) marbled calf, spine gilt, colourful block-printed endpapers, all edges red. Endcaps a
little chipped, a few worm holes visible to spine and edges, boards scuffed, joints and board edges worn and beginning to peel,
small square hole to upper board at fore-edge. Several mostly illegible inscriptions to title-page in various old hands, the
words ‘Collegij Anglorum’ and ‘de Rolaf’ just distinguishable indicating the English College, Lisbon. The first printing of the
original Greek text of the works of Josephus, which remained the standard text for over three hundred years. A Latin translation
had been printed and reprinted beginning in the incunable period. This Greek text was edited by Arnoldus Arlenius together
with Froben's in-house scholar Sigismund Gelen, working from a manuscript discovered by Arlenius in his cataloguing of the
library of the Spanish ambassador to Venice, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza.
Adams J352. Dibdin II 130
62.
Josephus, Flavius: (Gelenius, Sigismund, ed.:) Opera quae exstant, nempe.
Crispinum, 1634.
Geneuae [Geneva]: Jacobum
[46164] $750
Folio, pp. [viii], 1102, [xxviii]. Slightly toned, a little marginal worming to first few quires, blot from hot wax to p.610 affecting
a couple of words and slightly marking the preceeding page, small marginal inkstain to several leaves at rear. Tan calf, gilt
spine and borders. Rebacked retaining original spine, boards scratched with a little surface loss suggesting tape removal, a
few worm holes to upper board, edges and corners worn, upper hinge neatly repaired. Ownership inscription of M.D. Macleod,
The University, Southampton in pink ink to f.f.e.p.. Much older ink inscription of ‘[Glo?]espin’ to front pastedown. The third
Geneva printing of the second major edition of Josephus in Greek - the editio princeps appeared in 1544 and was followed by a
1591 Geneva edition reusing earlier Latin translations. There was also a printing in 1611; this is the last and by some accounts
least accurate of the three, although it held its place until the next major editions appeared in the 1690s.
63.
Junius (Filii), Franciscus [Du Jon, François]: (Lye, Edwardus ed.:) Etymologicum Anglicanum. Oxonii
[Oxford]: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1743.
[49009] $750
Folio, unpaginated [pp.572] + portrait frontispiece. Corrigenda and list of subscribers bound out of order at front. Occasional
light foxing towards edges, leaf 3S2 folded and therefore partially uncut. Recent blind-tooled brown morocco with green
morocco gilt spine label, by Bernard Middleton. A few slight scuffs, endpapers a little toned, very good.
Etymologicum
Anglicanum 'was the first systematic etymology of the English language, and had an immediate and lasting effect on its study.
Dr. Samuel Johnson used it extensively in the compilation of his own dictionary, and from it stems the modern historical
approach to lexicography.' (Barker, The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1978, p.27).
ESTC T145431.
64.
Justinus, Marcus Junianus: (Graevius, Joannes Georgius, ed.:) Historiae Philippicae, [...] cum ejusdem
Castigationibus. Editio Ultima prioribus correctior. Traiecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: typis Guilielmi van de Water,
Guilielmi Broedelet, 1708.
[46576] $230
8vo., pp. [xxiv], 414, [cxxxviii], including additional engraved title-page. Title-page in red and black with engraved vignette.
Smudged ink underlining to author's name on p.1, closed marginal tear to p.265 not affecting text. Contemporary vellum, ink
title in an old hand to spine, edges speckled blue. A little soiled with some smudges and spots, corners slightly bumped,
evidence of beige paper or labels removed from both paste-downs, top edge dusted. Small illegible ownership inscription and
separate initials to front endpapers. 'Graevius was the first man who, on the basis of the Aldine edition as reprinted by the
Juntae, corrected the errors of Bongarsius, and formed the text of Justin by sober critical rules.' (Dibdin). One of the later
editions Dibdin prefers, as it contains the additional notes of Faber (1615-72), Vorst (1623-76) and Scheffer (1621-79). Also
appended are Bongar's Excerptiones Chronologicae, and the Prologi Historiarum Philippicarum Pompeii Trogi. Dibdin
(4th
edn.) II 139; Schweiger II, 491
65.
Kirk, Robert: (Lang, Andrew, ed.:) The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. A Study in
Psychical Research. The Text by Robert Kirk, A.A. Minister of Aberfoyle, A.D. 1691 [...] London: David Nutt,
1893.
[47595] $450
8vo., pp. lxv, [iii], 92, [ii] + frontispiece. Publisher’s list to rear. Limp cream paper wrappers, black title and vignette, edges
uncut. A little darkened, spine creased, some small smudges but still very good. Limited edition of 550 copies. Number III in
the Bibliothèque de Carabas series.
66.
Libanius: (Wolfius, J.C., ed.:) Epistolae. Quas nunc primum maximam partem e variis codicibus, manu exaratis,
edidit, Latine convertit & notis illustravit. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios. 1738.
[46584] $1,350
Editio princeps. Folio, pp. [xx] 865 [i] + school prize leaf. Title page in red and black, engraved device. Sporadic foxing, some
dustiness to upper margins. Contemporary vellum, faded ink title to spine, spine and boards tooled in gilt, armorial Amsterdam
gilt centrepiece to both boards, edges sprinnkled red. Darkened and a bit soiled, some gilt rubbed, scuffed at edges, small red
ink blot to lower board, ties lost. Printed school prize leaf with engraved vignettte, inscribed to Jano Lissone 16th April 1786.
The first collected printing of the letters of Libanius, the fourth-century AD rhetorician. More than 1500 of his letters survive,
the largest extant collection from antiquity, and only brief selections had been previously edited. Wolf's magisterial volume not
only prints as many as were known but also includes Latin translations for each letter; Smith called it 'the best edition' (Dict.
Gr. & Rom. Bio.), and it is still cited in modern editions.
Brunet III, 1050; Graesse IV, 195; Hoffman II; Spoelder, 493
(Amst. 12).
67.
Littleton, [Adam]: Linguae Romanae Dictionarium Luculentum Novum. A New Dictionary in Five Alphabets:
Representing I. The English words and phrases before the Latin [...] II. The Latin-Classic before the English [...]
III. The Latin-Proper Names [...] IV. The Latin-Barbarous [...] V. The Law-Latin [...] Cambridge: printed for W.
Rawlins in St. Bartholomew’s Close, T. Dring at the Harrow near the Inner-Temple Gate in Fleetstreet et al, 1693.
[49121] $680
First edition thus. 4to., [pp. 1272]. Very lightly toned, occasional individual leaves a little darker, small loss to edge of lower
margin of title, small burn-hole to leaf 3K affecting only a few letters. Contemporary dark brown calf, blind-tooled frame to
upper boards, sympathetically rebacked in calf with blind tooling and red morocco gilt label, corners repaired, edges red,
endpapers replaced. Rubbed, top edge of upper board peeling. Ex-Library of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, with their
bookplate (stamped ‘Withdrawn’) to front paste-down and embossed stamps to f.f.e.p. and title-page. Lengthy ms Latin poem in
an old hand to front and rear blanks. Attributed by Wing to Littleton, an expanded edition of the latter's 'Latin dictionary in
Four Parts'; the editor is unknown. The preface claims it was partly based on three volumes of alphabetical Latin quotations
compiled in manuscript by John Milton. Wing L2565; ESTC R29945
68.
(Liturgy. Italo-Greek Catholic Church.) (Apollinaire, Agresta, ed.:) [Greek:] Leitourgikon sun Theo hagio
kata ten taxin tou Tupikou tes panseptou Mones tou Kruptopherrhes. Rome: apud Ioannem Baptistam Bussottum,
1683.
[39741] $3,750
Folio, pp. [xxiv], 428, [32]. Title page printed in red and black with engraved border. Text in Greek, printed in red and black
throughout. Dampmarking in gutter (more widely towards end) with some discolouration, some spotting. Contemporary sheep,
boards with an elaborate gilt border and central gilt cross-piece, spine with six raised bands, small central gilt decoration in
compartments, marbled endpapers, somewhat darkened and scratched, edges neatly repaired. ‘For the western monasteries of
the Order of St. Basil, in accordance with the use of the Monastery of St. Mary of Cryptoferrata [i.e. Grottaferrata].’
(University of York library catalogue entry). Now the only remnant of an Italo-Greek (or Italo-Albanian) monastic tradition,
using the Byzantine rite but within the jurisdiction of the Church of Rome, the Monastery of St. Mary has for centuries served
the liturgical needs of the Greek-speaking communities of Southern Italy. During the 17th and 18th centuries it also served as a
focus for the missionary work of the Order of St Basil the Great in modern-day Belarus and Ukraine, encouraging parts of the
Ruthenian Church to rejoin the Catholic fold (starting with the Union of Brest in 1696). Hence this liturgy, elegantly printed in
Rome, for the use of the monasteries of both the Italo-Albanian and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Churches.
69.
[Liverpool] Enfield, William: An Essay Towards the History of Leverpool. Drawn Up From Papers Left By the
Late Mr George Perry, and From Other Materials Since Collected [...] With Views Of The Principle Public
Structures, A Chart Of The Harbour, and A Map Of The Environs. London: printed for Joseph Johnson, 1774.
[47180] $940
Second edition. Folio, Large Paper copy (340 x 213mm), pp. vi, [vi], 116 + 9 plates and 3 further folding maps and charts.
Large paper with deckle edges intact, includes a list of subscribers and errata leaf. First and final blank leaves excised, faint
browning transferred from plates, some small closed tears to maps and to margin of p.33. Contemporary tan half russia, diced,
gilt spine and unusual corner pieces, grey paper boards. Joints creased and a little worn, paper somewhat scratched and
spotted, edges worn and corners fraying. Differs from the previous year’s first edition in its new title page, preface and list of
subscribers, and also in its additional gathering Y*, numbered *87-90*.
At the time of publication William Enfield (1741-1797) was minister to the Cairo Street Chapel in Warrington, as well as rector
academiae and tutor in belles-lettres at Warrington Academy. His literary skills were widely spread: he published sermons,
essays, a hymnal, a biographical dictionary, and textbooks on elocution and natural philosophy, as well as this topographical
study from Perry's papers. Among the friends made in Warrington was Anna Laeticia Barbauld, who made him the subject of
her 'Epistle to Dr Enfield on his Revisiting Warrington in 1789'.
ESTC T145378
70.
Long, James; (Weir, Harrison; Wood, R.M. et al, illus.:) The Book of the Pig. Its Selection, Breeding, Feeding,
and Management. London: Upcott Gill, 1886.
[45579] $530
First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 360 + 36 wood-engraved plates, comprising 25 styles of piggery illustrated on 22 plates and 14
plates showing examples of different breeds. Frontispiece slightly foxed, occasional light fingermarks to margins. Original
decorative boards in green cloth and gilt with embossed illustrations and faux-pigskin grain. A little cocked, very proficiently
rebacked with original spine retained almost intact, corners and lower hinge repaired, very good. Three inkstamps of Chas.
and Thos. Harris & Co. Ltd to preliminary blanks. 1904 leaflet from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries on Pig Breeding
and Feeding loosely inserted. James Long was a writer and lecturer on agriculture and also contributed to The Field newspaper
under the pseudonym ‘Merlin’. He sought to dispel the prejudice that pigs were food suitable only for the poor and to
encourage farmers to consider them as profitable livestock.
71.
Lucian of Samosata: (Benedictus, J., ed.:) [...] Opera Omnia in Duos Tomos Divisa. Salmurii [Saumur], Ex
Typis Pietri Piededii, 1619.
[46578] $680
First edition thus. 2 vols., 8vo., pp. [xx] 1078 (recte 1122) [xxxiv]; [viii] 1114 [xlviii]. A few closed marginal tears, early
leaves a little brittle at edges, occasional minor staining. Contemporary vellum, ink titles to spines, Yapp sides, edges spinkled
red. A little soiled particularly at spines, endcaps creased, some smudges and candle wax spots. A few handwritten notes to
preliminary blanks. The works of the 2nd century Greek "belletrist and wit" (OCD) Lucian of Samosata. The text stands out
from previous printings for being newly improved with conjectures and manuscript collations; Schweiger thought the result
"quite correct", although Dibdin, perhaps idiosyncratically, held the opposite view.
Dibdin (4th edn.) II 192-193.
Schweiger I 193.
72.
Lucretius Carus, Titus: (Wakefield, Gilbert, ed.:) De Rerum Natura libros sex, ad exemplarium MSS. fidem
recensitos,... et cum animadversionibus Ricardi Bentleii, ... aliorum subinde miscuit Gilbertus Wakefield. Londini
[London]: Impensis editoris, typis A. Hamilton, 1796-7.
[42404] $1,350
3 vols., 4to., pp. [viii], xxxiv, [ii], 382, [ii]; [xii], 404, [iv]; [xii], 396, [c]. Several gatherings quite foxed, a bit of light spotting
and toning elsewhere, a paper flaw to one page of vol. II (p. 166) around a few words (with no loss). Contemporary diced
Russia, marbled endpapers, unsympathetically rebacked, black morocco labels, spines sunned, hinges relined with buckram,
corners knocked, a touch of wear to edges. Binder’s ticket of Carpenter & Co. and ownership inscription of C.D.N. Costa
(dated 1980) in first volume. Dibdin rarely seems as perplexed as he does when attempting to sum up Gilbert Wakefield: ‘our
recollection of the man interferes so much with our judgement of him as an editor and critic’. Wakefield spent most of the last
two years of his life in Dorchester Gaol, having written a seditious pamphlet in which he expressed a wish that the French
would invade and conquer Britain. After two hundred years posterity can probably forgive him that, but his scholarship has
remained controversial. In Brink’s opinion (English Classical Scholarship p. 110) ‘Wakefield teemed with ideas, but was
unable to sift them, rash in publishing, conceited, inaccurate, a most uneven performer’, although one who performed in a
‘broad field’. Brink regards Wakefield’s Lucretius as his ‘most painstaking work’ and adds that it is ‘unsafe to neglect his
[Wakefield’s] suggestions’. More recently still, Hugh Lloyd-Jones has accused Wilamowitz-Moellendorf of dismissing
Wakefield ‘too contemptuously’, remarking that ‘some of his conjectures show real acuteness’. This work contains previously
unpublished notes by Bentley, and is probably the most important edition of Lucretius, with the possible exception of
Havercamp’s, published between Creech’s in 1695 and Lachmann’s in 1850. Most of the large paper copies are said to have
been destroyed in a fire, but small paper copies like this one were by no means common at first, and now are probably
comparably rare on the market. Dibdin (4th edn.) II 203-6. ESTC T49791. Gordon 115.
73.
Mackenzie, George Steuart: Travels in the Island of Iceland during the summer of the year MDCCCX.
Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Allan and Company, for Archibald Constable [et al.] 1811.
[36128] $1,130
4to., pp. xvii, [iii], 491, [i] + 17 engraved plates (8 of them with contemporary hand-colouring). Light foxing, particularly to
plate mounts. Modern half dark brown calf with marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt direct, old marbled endpapers preserved.
Armorial bookplate of ‘Maj. Genl. Edward Hopton, C.B.’ on front pastedown; ink inscription of ‘Wm. Parsons’ at head of
verso of front flyleaf. An account of a trip to Iceland by Sir George Mackenzie, seventh baronet, together with two physicians,
Henry Holland and Richard Bright. It describes ‘the natural history of the island and the history, literature, and diseases of the
people. (Bright and Holland made significant contributions - both had read papers on Iceland to the Geological Society of
London in 1811.) Mackenzie's Iceland long remained a key publication’ (ODNB). The former owner Edward Hopton later
became Lieutenant General, KCB, and Lieutenant Governer of Jersey
74.
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius: (Volpi, Giovanni Antonio & Gaetano, eds.:) [...] Quæ Exstant
Omnia, Diligentissime Emendata, et cum Optimis Editionibus Collata, ut Ex Praefatione Manifestum. Patauii
[Padua]: excudebat Josephus Cominus, 1736.
[49311] $300
8vo., pp.[viii], xxxix, 640, 85, [iii]. Engraved vignette to title-page, occasional diagrams in the text, woodcut initials and headand tail-pieces. Very light sporadic foxing but generally bright within. Contemporary half vellum, cream-coloured boards,
orange morocco gilt label to spine, edges uncut and some unopened. Label a bit chipped with small loss, some smudgy marks
and light stains, small dent to lower board at fore-edge, top edge dusty. ‘The basis is the text of Gronovius; with which those
of the Aldine and Stephanine editions (the latter, 1585, 12mo.) are collated. The notes of Pontanus and Obsopoeus are added,
with an account - in the preface - of the use of the works of Macrobius, and of the best editions of his text.’ (Dibdin)
Schweiger II, 587; Dibdin II, 221 (1737)
75.
Manilius, Marcus: (Bentley, Richard, ed.:) Astronomicon ex recensione et cum notis Richardi Bentleii. Londini
[London]: Typis Henrici Woodfall, Sumptibus Pauli et Isaaci Vaillant. 1739.
[49312] $1,280
4to., pp. xvi, 307, [v] + 2 engraved plates: portrait frontispiece of Bentley (by Vertue after Thornhill), and folding celestial
map. Woodcut device to title page, engraved headpiece to Dedication. Occasional neatly pencilled marginal notes. Closed tear
(85mm approx) to pp.145-6, sporadic light worming to top fore-edge corner not affecting text, small closed tear to map
attachment, some edges a little toned. 19th-century half vellum, black morocco gilt spine label, marbled paper-covered boards,
fore- and tail-edges deckled. Vellum darkened, rubbed, edges worn, corners frayed Inkstamp and signature of writer and book
collector Walter Ashburner (1864-1936) to title-page. Signature of W. Oates dated 1740, also to title-page. The last work
published by the great scholar. Bentley's 'Manilius is a greater work than either the Horace or the Phalaris ... Had Bentley never
edited Manilius, Nicolaus Heinsius would be the foremost critic of Latin poetry' (Housman, preface to Manilius, 1903).
ESTC T165913.
76.
Methodius of Olympus, Saint: Episcopi et Martyris Convivium Decem Virginum. Leo Allatius haectenus non
editum primus Graece vulgavit, Latine vertit, notas & diatribam de Methodiorum scriptis adiecit. Romæ [Rome]:
Typis S. Congreg. de Propaganda Fide, 1656.
[46400] $750
8vo., pp. [xvi], 435, [xiii]. Text in Greek and Latin. Printer's device of an elaborate bee on title page and p.386, initials and
tailpieces. Some light foxing, a few small marginal holes not affecting text. Contemporary vellum, ink title to spine, edges
mottled red. Spine slightly darkened, boards marked, a few surface wormholes, endpapers rumpled and dusted. Armorial
bookplate to front paste down, ownership inscription of Michaëlis Angeli Giacomelli to f.f.e.p. verso. Booksellers notes
pencilled to f.f.e.p., 'Autograph of M.A. Giacomelli, Archbishop of Chalcedon, with his bookplate'. Embossed armorial stamp to
title page. The first complete edition of Methodius's 'The Banquet of Virgins' - selections had been published in 1644 at Paris
- by the church father Saint Methodius, bishop of Olympus and then Tyre. Several of his other works survive as fragments,
with this one, written around 300 AD and popular through the rest of late antiquity, the only one known in its entirety. A
stylistic imitation of Plato's Symposium, except that the participants, a group of ten virgins, praise the state of virginity instead
of love. The text is published in Greek with a parallel Latin translation.
77.
Michaux, F. Andrew: [Nuttall, Thomas:] The North American Sylva; or, a description of the forest trees of the
United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts, and their
introduction into commerce; to which is added, a description of the most useful of the European forest trees.
Illustrated by 156 coloured copperplate engravings, by Redoute, Bessa, etc. Translated from the French of F.
Andrew Michaux, member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, etc. With notes by J. Jay Smith, member
of the Academy of Natural Sciences, etc. [A description of the forest trees [...] not described in the work of F.
Andrew Michaux, and containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the territory of Oregon,
down to the shores of the Pacific, and into the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the United
States. Illustrated by 121 fine plates, coloured by A. Biegeman. By Thomas Nuttall, F.L.S., member of the
American Philosophical Society, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, &c. &c. &c. A.N. Hart,
publisher, No. 27 Minor Street, Philadelphia 1856.
[47447] $4,500
6 vols., 4to., being 3 vols. of Michaux and 3 vols. of Nuttall. With 156 hand-coloured plates to Michaux and 121 hand-coloured
plates to Nuttall. Vol. I of Nuttall has a plate V bis and a plate X bis, accounted for in register by plate XXXII following plate
XXIX (text follows suit). Scattered foxing, very good copies, tissue guards intact, bound in ornate contemporary blind-stamped
brown morocco, all edges gilt, yellow waxed-paper pastedowns and endpapers, green ribbons (binding rubbed but good).
Fine copies of an early joint edition of Michaux and Nuttall’s classic ‘North American Sylva’, an essential part of the
nineteenth-century American naturalist’s library. Michaux’s work, first published in French, was printed in English first in
1817, and Nuttall’s continuation appeared in 1842. Joint publications began in Philadelphia in 1851. Many of the designs for
Michaux’s illustrations were made by the great French botanist and arrtist, Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Pritzel 6196n.,
6774 (1859 and 1842 editions). Sabin 48695, 56351 (1850 and 1842 editions).
78.
Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti, comte de: Errotika Biblion. Rome: de L’Imprimerie du Vatican,
MDCCLXXXIII [i.e. Germany? [c. 1860.]
[45003] $190
12mo., pp. 263. Some light spotting. 20th-century half blue morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., one
corner lightly bumped. Purchase inscription to title-page, with initials (blocked out) and place and date (1869). One of the
numerous reprints of this classic of erotica, often published with the false imprint of the Vatican. Mirabeau was de Sade’s
contemporary in the prison in Vincennes, where this work was written; the two met but did not get along.
Kearney,
Private Case, 1195.
79.
Mylonas, George E.: Aghios Kosmas. An Early Bronze Age settlement and cemetery in Attica. With an appendix
on the Early Helladic skulls by J. Lawrence Angel. Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press. 1959.
[48645] $300
Folio, pp. xviii, 191 [1] + photos and plans. Bound in grey publisher’s cloth. Inscription of J.L. Caskey.
With J.L.C.’s
occcasional annotations; a draft of a review by J.L.C., two and a half pages, typed foolscap, corrected in pencil, is folded in.
80.
Nutt, Alfred; Hartland, E.S.; Billson, Charles J.; Arnold, E. Vernon; Weston, Jessie L.; John, Ivor B.;
Faraday, Winifred: Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance and Folklore, Vols. 1-12. London: David Nutt,
1899-1902.
[47789] $450
12 vols. as 1. 8vo., pp. 36; 43, [i]; 61, [iii]; 40; 37, 2, [i]; 40; 53, [iii]; 52; 56; 46; 55, [i]; 51, [i]. Original green wrappers
bound in. A little toned, some occasional foxing, some wrappers faded. Bound together in red buckram, gilt title to spine, edges
sprinkled blue. Board edges a little rubbed, top edge dusty but robustly bound and very good. No.s 11 and 12 signed across
front wrapper ‘John F. Kelly’. Alfred Trübner Nutt (1856-1910) was both publisher of and main contributor to these volumes.
‘Nutt was not only an astute businessman, but was also a lifelong student of folklore and of the Celtic languages, and displayed
scholarship and power of original research in both fields. His name was ‘definitely associated with the plea for the insular,
Celtic, and popular provenance of the Arthurian cycle’ (Folk-Lore, 513).’ (ODNB)
81.
Ocellus Lucanus: (Vizzanius, Carolus Emmanuel, ed.:) De Universi Natura. Textum e Graeco in Latinum
transtulit. Bononiae [Bologna]: ex Typographia Ferroniana, 1646.
[43263] $1,200
4to., pp. [xxiv], 224, [iv], 225-348, [xvi]. Intermittent marginal dampstaining, a few gatherings browned, one leaf with a
repaired marginal tear. 18th-century vellum boards, spine divided by blind rules, one compartment dyed yellow and lettered in
gilt, another lettered direct, somewhat soiled and stained. Gilt stamp of the Birmingham Medical Institute to spine and their
small stamp to title. On the Nature of the Universe, the only extant treatise by Ocellus Lucanus, the 5th-century Pythagorean
philosopher. It had been printed in Latin beginning in 1541 (the original Greek, unusually, having appeared first, two years
earlier), and several times more in the 16th century; this edition and its 1661 reprint were joined by only one other edition
(Gale’s, at Cambridge) in the 17th. Vizzanius, the editor, is notable for addressing the authenticity of the work in his preface,
using considerations of dialect which Warburton later accused Bentley of plagiarising in his criticism of Phalaris. Warburton
was probably mistaken, but having anticipated Bentley in assessing the authenticity of Greek texts is no small feat.
82.
Orpheus: (Perdrierius, Renatus, ed.:) Opera, iam primum ad verbum translata, & diligentius quam antea multis
in locis emendata, per Renatum Perdrierium Parisiensem. Basileae [Basel]: Apud Ioannem Oporinum, 1555.
[40965] $900
First edition of this translation, 8vo., pp. 178, [xiv]. A little light spotting, faint dampmark to fore-edge of first few leaves, titlepage a little dusty and with two tiny holes in top blank margin and a dampstain in inner margin, one early manuscript
annotation on one leaf. Bound in modern boards covered with a piece of old vellum manuscript, spine lettered vertically in red
and black ink, title-page and last leaf guarded. Inscription of ‘Chereau’ to title. The first edition of the Latin verse translation
of three Orphic works, The Argonautica, De Lapidus, and the Hymns, by René Perdrier (or Renatus Perdrierius). Ficino and
Crivelli had earlier produced versions in the 15th century, but following the c.1521 Aldine editio princeps, the mid-16th
century was a period of flourishing interest in Orphism, and Henri Estienne published the Greek text a decade later, with half a
dozen other editions before 1600.
Adams O314.
83.
[Ovid] Ovidius Naso, Publius: (Heinsius, Daniel, ed.:) Opera. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Ex officina
Elzeviriana, 1629.
[48986] $750
First edition thus. 3 vols., 16mo., pp. [xxiv] 344; [xvi] 444; [xii] 420. Engraved title-page to vol. I, ‘Kalendarium’pp.145-60
vol.III in red and black. Occasional foxing mostly to endpapers, 35mm closed tear to p.393 vol.III, vol.I has top fore-edge
corner of r.f.e.p. excised. Contemporary vellum, titles inked to spines, yapp edges, edges sprinkled blue. A little yellowed, some
smudgy marks, top edges darkened but still very good. Armorial bookplate of Cecil Thompson to each front paste-down. First
Elzevier edition of Ovid’s ‘omnia opera’ (the ‘Metamorphoses’ and ‘De Tristibus’ had been published by the press as separate
works in 1626 and 1627).
Dibdin (4th edn.) II 266-267. Schweiger III 630. Willems 317.
84.
Palaephatus: (Tollius, Cornelius, ed.:) De Incredibilibus. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Ludovicum Elzevirium,
1649.
[46368] $450
12mo., pp. [xxxviii], 253, [xi]. Title-page in red and black. Round inkstamp, single pen trial and smudge of wax to title-page,
small holes to leaf **4 affecting a few letters. Contemporary vellum, ink title to spine, Yapp edges, edges green. A small patch
repair, joints a little cracked and alum thongs missing from upper board. Illegible ink ownership inscription to f.f.e.p., ink
library code opposite title-page. A significant edition of this unusual text, an attempt to treat mythological stories critically,
providing realistic explanations for the 'incredible' happenings passed down in legend. First published by Aldus Manutius as
part of an edition of Aesop, it became a popular school text due to its simple language and humanist appeal; the editor of this
edition, Cornelius Tollius, provides a Latin translation which was almost invariably reprinted by later editors of the Greek text.
Willems 1089
85.
Palingenius, Marcellus: [i.e. Manzolli, Pietro Angelo:] [...] Zodiaci vitae: hoc est, de hominis vita, studio, ac
moribus optime instituendis, Libri XII. Parisiis [Paris], apud Hieronymum de Marnef, & viduam Gulielmi Cavellat
[excudebat Carolus Rogerius] 1580 [1579. Mense Maio].
[22813] $450
16mo., pp. 366 [lxxxii]. Light to medium foxing and browning, owner’s name neatly cut out of title-page, clean tear to final leaf
(no loss) with wormholes also to blank of this leaf. Bound in red morocco (poss. 18th-cent.), ruled and panelled in gilt, gilt
plant-designs to spine, all edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Ratcliffe College. A hugely popular cycle of twelve Latin poems
on human life, learning and happiness, each corresponding to a sign of the Zodiac. The work was dedicated to Alfonso II
d’Este and first published in Venice, c.1531. ‘Marcellus Palingenius’ is an anagram of the real name of the author (see above),
who was born c.1500 at La Stellata near Ferrara. The work contains satirical passages on the Pope and Luther, and also
achieved considerable success in an English translation by Barnaby Googe (1560). Attractively bound copy.
Adams M 503.
See also ‘Ency. Brit’ (1911 edn.)
86.
Paulus Diaconus; Lipsius, J: Pauli Warnefridi Langobardi Filii, Diaconi Foroiuliensis, De Gestis
Langobardorum Libri VI. Ad MS, & Veterum Codicum Fidem Editi; De Recta Pronunciatione Latinae Linguae
Dialogus. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1595;
[c.1586].
[46592] $1,000
12mo., pp. [xii], 337, [i]; [ii], 96, [viii]. Woodcut device to title page of first work. Slightly toned with some occasional foxing,
small scorch mark to text p.16 (no loss of sense), preliminary blanks and one leaf loosening. Some underlining to one page in
second section. Later vellum, possibly retaining old boards, ink title to spine, Yapp edges, edges sprinkled red. Endcaps
creased, a little darkened at fore-edge but otherwise bright, pastedowns lifting to reveal mauscript binder's waste. Some
booksellers notes and a pasted catalogue entry to front paste-down. Two works bound together: the first is the major work of
Paul the Deacon, his History of the Lombards, in an edition published by Plantin - the first edited by Fr. Linbenbrog; the
second work is an anonymous edition of Lipsius's study on the correct pronunciation of Latin.
Adams, p.499
87.
Peck, Francis: Desiderata Curiosa: or a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces (Relating chiefly to
Matters of English History) in six books. London: Printed 1732-35.
[36144] $900
2 vols. bound as 1, folio, pp. [viii], viii, [xii], 66, 26, 52, 50, 44, 56, [xii] + engraved portrait frontispiece and 6 other engraved
plates; [xxii], 68, 58, 52, 32, 50, 36, 32, 56, 25, [xix] + engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 other engraved plates. A little
marginal dustsoiling but quite clean. Contemporary tan calf over re-used late 16thC/early 17thC pasteboards (witness the
impression of a large lozenge strapwork centre-piece), recently rebacked with spine panel-gilt, relaid label gilt-lettered & dated, boards single-rule gilt bordered, board edges decorative roll in blind, old scrapes and scratches since polished over,
a.e. red speckled, brown & white sewn endbands. Armorial bookplate of “Wm. Constable Esqr. / F.R.S. & F.A.S.” on front
patsedown. This, the major publication of Francis Peck, 1692-1743, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and correspondent
of William Stukeley (who presented the plate of Henry Wykys, vicar of Stamford, printed herein), contains an important
biography of Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Queen Elizabeth I's Lord High Treasurer. ESTC T97524.
88.
Petronius Arbiter, Titus: (Burman, P., ed.:) Satyricon quae supersunt cum integris doctorum virorum
commentariis [...] Traiecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht] Apud Gulielmum vande Water, 1709.
[46585] $530
First edition. 2 vols. in 1. 4to., pp. [xl], 688, [iv], 368 [cxvi]. Engraved title page, 14 small engraved illustrations in text, errata
leaf at rear, title page in red and black with woodcut printer's device. A little very sporadic foxing, light offsetting to pp.612-13
(vol.1), slight marginal staining pp.255-61 and paper repair to p.261 (both vol. 2) not affecting text, top margin trimmed a little
close. Vellum prize binding, spine and boards tooled in gilt, Amsterdam coat of arms in gilt to both boards, remains of green
ribbon ties to upper board, edges sprinkled dark brown and red. A little darkened and smudged, two small patched repairs to
upper board. Two short anonymous catalogue descriptions pasted to preliminary blank. First Burman edition of Petronius's
1st-century 'Satyricon'. "The main characters are the homosexual pair Encolpius (the narrator) and the younger Giton, who
undergo various adventures in a southern Italian setting. They encounter a number of characters, some of whom, such as the
unscrupulous adventurer Acyltus and the lecherous poet Eumolpius, try to divide the lovers; Giton is not particularly faithful,
and this, like the sexual orientation of the lovers, and many other elements in the novel, constitutes an evident parody of the
chaste fidelity of the boy-girl pairings of the ideal Greek novel" (OCD). Burman (1668-1741) of Utrecht and later Leiden, is
credited with bringing into vogue the variorum edition (see Sandys II 444-5).
Dibdin (4th edn.) II 276; Schweiger II 724-5.
89.
Phalaris [...] Epistolae. Ex MSS Recensuit, Versione, Annotationibus, & Vita insuper Authoris Donavit Car.
Boyle ex Aede Christi. Oxonii [Oxford]: e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1718.
[43129] $710
8vo., pp. [xiv], 154, [vi] + engraved frontispiece. Greek and Latin text. A little soiling at beginning and end. Contemporary
Cambridge-style panelled calf, rebacked and re-polished preserving original red morocco label, hinges relined. Bookplate of
Cheshunt College Library with 'Withdrawn' stamps to front pastedown. Second impression (first published in 1695) of the
book which set off the academic spat which changed the face of English classical scholarship. In his preface Charles Boyle,
younger brother of the Earl of Orrery and grand-nephew of Robert Boyle, accuses Richard Bentley, as King's Librarian, of
"singular humanity" in denying him adequate access to a manuscript. Thus provoked by this (unfair as it happens) accusation,
Bentley published A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris first in 98 pages and then expanded to about 600, proving the
spuriousness of the attribution of the letters to Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigentum. Written in English and proceeding step by step
through anachronism, unhistorical use of language and form, dialect, artificiality of content and transmission of text, Bentley
set a new benchmark for classical scholarship. The hapless Boyle could have had no idea of the future consequences of his
prefatory clause of sarcasm.
ESTC T144295. Brunet IV 592.
90.
Phalaris (pseudo-): (Francklin, Thomas, trans.:) The Epistles of Phalaris [...] To which are added, Some Select
Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers. London: Printed for R. Francklin 1749.
[22642] $300
First edition. 8vo., pp. [xvi] 224. Some light soiling, upper blank corner of last 7 leaves creased. Contemporary calf, neatly
rebacked, spine in six compartments with raised bands between dashed gilt rules, old red morocco label preserved, corners
and edges renewed, hinges relined. Ownership inscription of William Brodie (1854) to upper pastedown. The first edition of
Thomas Francklin’s (1721-1784) English translation of the letters which were believed to be by Phalaris the Tyrant (proven by
Bentley to be a later work).
ESTC T111261. Lowndes 1848. Graesse V 261.
91.
Plautus, Titus Maccius: (Gronovius, J. F. ed.:) Comoediae. Accedit Commentarius Ex Variorum Notis &
Observationibus [...] Amsterdam, typographia Blaviana. 1684.
[48031] $380
2 vols in one. 8vo, pp. [xxiv], 624; 588, [xliv]. Engraved title-page with ownership inscription, title page with vignette to vol.
II. Lightly foxed, a little toned towards top edge but generally bright. Contemporary vellum, ink title to spine, blind-tooled
borders, gilt centrepiece, turned-in fore-edges, edges sprinkled red. Spine a little soiled, ties lost. Armorial bookplate of
George Griffin Stonestreet and his inscription dated 1798 to front paste-down; his inscription also to engraved title-page.
According to Dibdin the best of the variorum editions based on the work of J.F. Gronovius.
92.
Plautus, Titus Maccius: (Taubmann, Friedrich, ed.:) Comoediae Superstites Viginti; cum fragmentis
deperditarum / ex optimis quibusque editionibus [...] Patavii: excudebat Josephus Cominus, 1725.
[49313] $300
1 vol. bound as 2. 8vo., pp. [xl], 496; 487-830, [ii]. Vignette to title page, woodcut colophon to final leaf (verso) of vol. II, nice
and bright within. Contemporary vellum, red morocco gilt labels to spine, edges sprinkled blue. A bit yellowed, some greyish
marks, lower board of vol.II worn at head edge but very good.
‘Sehr correcter Abdr. des Taubmannsch. Textes von den
Gebr. Ant. u. Hieron. Volpi besorgt. Ziemlich selten’ (Schweiger).
Schweiger II, 767
93.
Pollux, Julius: (Lederlinus, J.H., and T. Hemsterhuis, comm.:)
Amstelaedami: ex Officina Wetsteniana, 1706.
Onomasticum Graece & Latine
[46165] $1,130
2 vols. Folio, pp. [viii], 48, 683, [i]; [ii], 687-1388, [xvi], 178, [x] + double-page plate to vol. II. Addtional engraved title
page, engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black. Gathering 8N in vol. I bound out of sequence, small hole to p. 373
affecting a few letters, repair to corner of rear endpaper in vol. I. Tan Cambridge-style calf with cats-paw staining in the
frame, neatly rebacked with red morocco gilt spine labels, edges sprinkled red. Boards scratched, some small areas of surface
loss, corners worn, hinges relined. . To each volume: bookplate of Robert Edward Way to front paste-down; bookplate of
William Sedgwick, Queens College Cambridge and inscription of Caroli Beaumont, Cantab. to half-title verso. Vol. I also has
'1727 May 6. Bought of Ds. Gee [?] R.P.' added beneath, and oval inkstamp of Queens College Library to title page.
The
Onomasticon, a 2nd century AD thesaurus of Attic Greek phrases which preserves much significant material, as edited
primarily by J. H. Lederlin - with the last three books taken care of by Hemsterhuis. The edition impressed Bentley, who sent
Hemsterhuis an admiring letter, including some conjectures of his own on the text (and it is said that the brilliance of these
conjectures nearly put the Dutch scholar off any future attempts at Greek).
94.
Pomponius Mela: (Gronovius, Abraham, ed.:) De Situ Orbis Libri III. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex
Officina Samuelis Luchtmans, 1722.
[46586] $530
First edition thus. 8vo., pp. [lxxx] 811 [xxxvii] + additional engraved title and 1 folding map, further engraved illustrations in
text. Title page in red and black. Map somewhat browned, stub from excised prize dedication page just visible. Contemporary
vellum, inked title and gilt to spine, gilt border and Delft armorial centrepiece to both boards. Spine a little darkened but
otherwise largely clean, endcaps creased, a few light marks to boards, ties lost. Some pencilled booksellers’ notes to front
paste-down The first of Abraham Gronovius's (1695-1775) editions of Pomponius Mela, "the earliest Roman geographer"
(Ency. Brit. 11th edn.), incorporating the work of his father, Jakob Gronovius, who had himself published two editions of the
work. "Pomponius is unique among ancient geographers in that [...] he asserts the existence of antichthones, inhabiting the
southern temperate zone inaccessible to the folk of the northern temperate regions from the unbearable heat of the intervening
torrid belt" (Ency. Brit. 11th edn.).
Dibdin II 356. Graesse V 402-3. Brunet IV 801 (note).
95.
Pontey, William: The Forest Pruner; or Timber Owner’s Assistant: being a Treatise on the Training or
management of British Timber Trees ... Also, an examination of the properties of English Fir Timber ....
Huddersfield: Printed for the Author, by T. Smart. 1805.
[36264] $300
8vo., pp. 277, [v] + engraved frontispiece and 7 other engraved plates (nos. 2, 3, 6, & 7 all double-page and coloured with
wash). Toned and foxed in places, some offsetting, one or two marginal ink notes, all edges untrimmed. Modern half sheep in
period style by Chris Weston, spine divided by gilt rolls, red morocco label. The first edition of Pontey’s treatise on trees,
printed for the author at Huddersfield, where he maintained a garden (though he was also forest pruner to the Duke of Bedford).
Contemporary reviews called it long-winded and overly styled for the content, but it was not unsuccessful and more than one
further edition appeared before the decade was out.
Montague Summers’ copy
96.
(Pope, Alexander:, ed.:) Selecta Poemata Italorum qui Latine scripserunt. Londini [London]: impensis J. & P.
Knapton, 1740.
[42709] $450
2 vols., 8vo., pp. [iv], 47, [i], 53-270; [viii], 252 (matching the BL copy). A touch of foxing to title-pages. Contemporary
sprinkled calf, spines in six compartments with raised bands, numbered in gilt, the rest with gilt decoration (much rubbed),
joints and corners neatly repaired. Spines a bit darkened with endcaps worn down and labels lost, but sound. Ownership
inscriptions to front endpaper of Geoffrey Woledge (Birmingham 1937) and A. Montague Summers (1899). The same
collection, with some additions, omissions and changes in arrangement, as that published anonymously in 1684, by Francis
Atterbury (V&A catalogue), but with nearly 40 more poems in total, and compiled by Alexander Pope. Griffith (517) writes,
‘... the most interesting thing put forward in this year, but it has been little studied.’ The gap in pagination in the first volume,
not described in any catalogue record in COPAC, matches the scan of the BL copy in ECCO.
This copy belonged to the occultist and scholar Augustus Montague Summers (1880-1948), purchased the year he entered
Trinity College, Oxford, beginning 'a university career in which he attracted attention by his dandyism, wit, and unusual
learning' (ODNB). ESTC T124846.
97.
[Prang and Company] Calkins, Norman A.; Diaz, A.M.: Prang’s Natural History Series for Children. Cat
family. [Cow family.] [Swimming birds.] [Wading birds.] [Birds of prey.] [Scratching birds.] Boston: L. Prang &
Company 1878.
[47669] $530
6 works in 1 vol., 8vo., pp. [2] 18; [2] 18; [2] 16 [2]; [2] 16 [2]; [2] 17 [1]; [2] 16 [2], + 4 colour plates to each work (i.e. 24
in all). Red border to text pages. Light or medium browning, bound in contemporary half-red roan and marbled boards, gilt to
spine, light blue paper pastedowns and endpapers (rubbed, touch of wear, cracking to top joint but binding still good).
Speckled edges. Pencil binder’s note to p. 1 of first work. The complete set of this partial introduction to the animal kingdom.
98.
Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius: (Heinsius, N., ed.:) (Opera) quae exstant [...] Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud
Danielem Elzevirium, 1667.
[49123] $260
12mo., pp. [xxiv], 327, [i], 167, [xvii]. Title in red and black with printer’s device and hand-ruled lines, separate half-title to
Heinsius’ notes, occasional engraved initials and head- and tail-pieces. A little toned but generally clean. Contemporary
vellum, title inked to spine in an old hand, yapp edges, edges sprinkled blue. Some smudgy marks, endcaps creased, turn-ins
lifting slightly causing cracks to edges of endpapers but all holding firm.
Bookplate of Jules
Pardonneau of Tours to front paste-down; armorial bookplate of Samuel Alfred Steinthal to f.f.e.p.. Steinhall was minister of
Cross Street Unitarian Chapel (1871-93), supporter of the co-operative movement, women’s sufferage and the abolition of
slavery. “Cette édition, qui peut se diviser en deux volumes, est jolie et assez peu commune” (Willems). The first Heinsius
and only Elzevir edition of the 4th-cent. Prudentius, “the greatest of the Christian poets” (OCD). Nicolas Heinsius (1620-1681),
son of the classicist Daniel Heinsius, was a specialist in Latin verse, with his own reputation as a Latin poet; he was also a
soldier and diplomat. Willems 1386. Berghman 2122. Dibdin (4th edn.) II 360. Graesse V 467. Brunet IV 915-6.
99.
Publilius Syrus: Mimi, aucti et correcti ex codice MS. Frisingensi; cm notis viri docti, et variis lectionibus.
Patavii [Padua]: Excudebat Josephus Cominus, 1740.
[32937] $450
8vo., pp. 80. Page edges untrimmed. Slightly later half vellum with cream paper boards, red and green morocco gilt labels to
spine, old paper shelfmark to tail of front joint, a little dusty. Booklabel of Leon Olschki to upper pastedown. The ‘Sententiae’
(or ‘Mimi’) of Publilius Syrus are here published by Cominus, preparatory to an edition of the works of the scholar Muretus
despite this not being Muretus’s edition of the work, with the connection being their pithy epigrams and prose style. It was
reissued by Cominus in 1741 with the scholar’s works, and again in 1769.
Schweiger II 994.
100.
[Quintilian] Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius: (Burmann, Peter, ed.:) De Institutione Oratoria libri duodecim.
Patavii [Padua]: Excudebat Josephus Cominus. 1736.
[27781] $380
2 vols., 8vo., pp. [xii] cli [i] 352; [353]-740, 176. A few gatherings lightly age-yellowed, half-title in vol. 2 lightly spotted.
Early half vellum with plain paper boards, red and green morocco gilt labels to smooth spines, edges sprinkled red and blue,
boards lightly marked. A reprint of Burmann’s edition, first published in Leiden in 1720, which eclipsed ‘the celebrity of all
former commentators’ (Dibdin); it provides the notes of Almeloveen, Gallaeus, Turnebus, Gibson, and Obrechtus, Dodwell’s
‘Annales’, readings from three previously uncollated manuscripts, and more.
Dibdin (4th edn.) II 469. Schweiger II 845.
Calico Peel’s copy?
101.
Raffles, Thomas Stamford: The history of Java. London: printed for Black, Parbury, and Allen, booksellers to
the Hon. East-India Company, Leadenhall Street, and John Murray, Albemarle Street 1817.
[47433] $3,000
2 vols., 4to., pp. [iii]-xlviii, 479, [1]; [iii]-viii, 288 [4], cclx, + 31 leaves of plates as required in vol. I, and 37 as required in
vol. II. Illustrations include large map with hand-colouring, ten coloured aquatints by William Daniell, and, in text, nine halfpage views. Lacking half-titles, and 4 pp. ads. at end of vol. II. Some foxing and spotting, map with a short tear at inner border,
but a generally nice and fresh copy, bound in contemporary half-burgundy morocco-style leather (possibly skiver leather) and
brown cloth, c.1900, by the Charles E. Lauriat company of Boston, gilt border-rules to cover leather and gilt decorations and
titles to spines, edges mottled red, beige linen-covered pastedowns and endpapers (rubbing and wear, loosening and
powdering to leather at joints, else fine). Armorial bookplates (presumably salvaged from previous binding) of Right Honble
Sir Robert Peel, bart., Drayton Manor; bookplate to vol. I of P.H. Burrage. First edition of “the first English-language
history” (ODNB) of Java, and a marvellously illustrated work. Raffles (1781-1826) was the British East India Company’s
lieutenant-governor for Java and was the founder of Singapore. The present copy carries the bookplates of Sir Robert Peel,
probably ‘Calico’ Peel (1750-1830), the first baronet and father of the prime minister. The central figure in his time of the
calico-printing industry, Peel was also a parliamentarian and introduced the first British factory legislation.
Abbey ‘Travel’
554.
102.
Robinson, H[ugh]: Scholæ Wintoniensis Phrases Latinæ. The Latin Phrases of Winchester School. Corrected and
Much Augmented, with Poeticals added [...] London: printed for A.M., to be sold by R. Boulter, 1670.
[46360] $600
7th edition, with additions. 8vo., pp. [viii], 406. Title page laid down and p. 347 repaired, small loss to bottom corner of p.201
affecting a few letters, occasional MS notes and ink blots, possibly some blanks excised to the rear with notes covering the
remaining stubs, otherwise having survived schoolboy usage relatively unscathed. Recent dark brown slightly scuffed morocco,
blind tooled, red label with gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers. Ownership inscription of [P.?] Johannes Higgins, [Rev.?]
Waterford, 1724 to title page. Hugh Robinson (1583/4-1655) was headmaster at Winchester College from 1613 to 1627. First
published in the year before his death, this work appeared in a second edition produced by his son Nicholas in 1658 and
remained in print through the remainder of the century. In the nature of such books they were heavily used and despite the
numerous editions, few survive: this seventh edition is recorded in only one location in ESTC (Illinois).
Wing R1685A.
103.
ESTC R33534;
[Sallust] Sallustius Crispus, Gaius: Catilinarii et Jugurthini Historiae. Glasguae [Glasgow]: In Aedibus Roberti
Urie, 1749.
[40552] $270
8vo., pp. [iv], 250. Light age-toning (heavier to leaf A1), a little minor spotting. Contemporary French red morocco, boards
bordered with a triple gilt rule, spine divided by triple gilt rules, orange morocco label in second compartment, floral tools in
remainder, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., lightly rubbed, spine a touch sunned, short split in leather at foot of lower joint. The
first Urie printing of Sallust in Latin (followed by a printing of Gordon’s English translation in 1762), a scarce but elegant
edition, with ESTC recording six copies in 5 locations in the UK, and another 5 copies in the USA. ESTC T93522.
104.
[Sallust] Sallustius Crispus, Gaius; Florus, Lucius Annaeus; Velleius Paterculus, Gaius: (Crispinus, Daniel,
Anne Le Fevre & Robert Riguez, eds.:) [Opera] Quae extant. In usum serenissimi Galliarum Delphini, diligenter
recensuit, & Notulas addidit Daniel Crispinus. [Bound with:] Rerum Romanarum Epitome. Interpretatione et notis
illustravit Anna Tanaquilli Fabri filia. [And:] Historiae Romanae ad M. Vinicium Cos. libri duo. Interpretatione et
notis illustravit Robertus Riguez. Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Fredericum Leonard, 1674; 1674; 1675. [40548] $600
4to., pp. [xxx], 234, [cxxvi], [xxii], 205, [clix], [xxviii], 151, [lxxxix] + an engraved frontispiece to each work. Age-toned
throughout, some light foxing and spotting, blank lower margin of second title-page renewed early on. 18th-century vellum
boards, spine in 5 compartments with raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, old paper shelfmark label to
foot, long sides overlapping. Booklabel with motto ‘sollicitae iucunda oblivia vitae’ to front pastedown, and an early
ownership inscription to the foot of each title-page ‘Laurentii Paralos’(?). The Delphin editions, produced as part of a project
to newly edit and annotate all of classical literature to aid the education of the French Dauphin, of Sallust, Lucius Annaeus
Florus, and Velleius Paterculus, all bound together. The Sallust is edited by Daniel Crespin, one of the primary editors of the
series, the Florus by the notable scholar Anne Dacier (nee Le Fevre), and the Velleius Paterculus by the Jesuit Robert Riguez.
105.
[Sallust] Sallustius Crispus, Gaius: (Mattaire, Michael, ed.:) [Opera] quae extant. Londini [London]: Ex
officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts, 1713.
[40551] $340
12mo., pp. [xiv], 179, [xi] + engraved portrait. Title-page in red and black. Lightly toned, occasional minor spotting, portrait
offset onto facing page. Late 19th-century green long grain morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, second and
third compartments and foot gilt-lettered direct, a.e.g., small scrape to front joint, spine slightly sunned. Mattaire’s edition of
Sallust, one of several classical authors he edited in the same year for Tonson & Watts. Although his editions were of no great
textual significance, they were always elegantly printed and usually (as here) accompanied by exhaustive indices.
ESTC T111402.
106.
Salvian of Marseilles: A treatise of God’s government and of the justice of his present dispensations in this
world. London: printed for S. Keble, 1700.
[40117] $450
8vo., pp. [xxiv], 255, [i]. Some headlines cropped. Browned and foxed in places, some staining, early clumsy inscription to
head of title page, later advisory manuscript verse to initial blank. Later quarter calf with marbled boards, corners tipped with
vellum, spine renewed preserving old label, endpapers renewed at various times. The first full translation into English of the
greatest work of the 5th-century Christian writer Salvian of Marseilles, a treatise arguing that God maintained continuous close
governance of the world; therefore, it concludes, the barbarian invasions of Rome were punishment for the immoral and
dissolute inhabitants of the city. ESTC R16712.
107.
[San Francisco] The Golden Gate Bridge. A Technical Description in Ordinary Language. San Francisco: E.
Cromwell Mensch, 1935.
[49424] $45
Pamphlet, pp.64. Diagrams and illustrations in the text. Pictorial wraps. Wrapper splitting a little at head where it has come
free of its staple, repaired with tape. Rubbed but still very good. Detailed diagrams of the construction of the Golden Gate
Bridge, published two years before completion and opening in 1937.
108.
Scott, David: The History of Scotland [...] Westminster: J. Cluer and A. Campbell, 1727.
[48028]
$1,050
First edition. Folio, pp. xiv, 767, [vii] + engraved frontispiece and fold-out map. Very lightly toned towards edges but
generally bright. Contemporary tan calf Cambridge boards, gilt title and blind-tooling to spine, edges sprinkled red. Lighter
tan used to reback and repair in a sturdy but somewhat inelegant style, boards scuffed, lacks f.f.e.p., inner hinges reinforced
with cloth tape. An alternative impression of the royal paper edition of 1727, this time with the preliminaries reset: the first
word of the last line on p.[iii] being ‘And’.
ESTC T84144
109.
Scribonius Largus: Compositiones Medicae. Ioannes Rhodius recensuit, Notis illustravit, lexicon Scribonianum
adiecit. Patavii [Padua]: Typis Pauli Frambotti, 1655.
[43265] $1,430
4to., pp. [xxiv], 144, 465, [xliii] + 2 plates (further full-page engravings within pagination). Two leaves (sectional title and
third leaf of second pagination section) with large dark stains, causing paper damage to blank area of sectional title (sometime
repaired) but no loss, small repair to margin of following leaf, a few minor spots elsewhere, gathering O bound out of order.
Contemporary vellum boards, long sides overlapping, slightly soiled, endpapers renewed, new leather label to spine. Small
stamp to title and gilt stamp to spine of Birmingham Medical Institute, red stamps of the Libraria Colonna to title, endpaper,
and several leaves and plates. The ‘editio optima’ of the Compositiones, or ‘compounds’, of Scribonius Largus, physician to
Emperor Claudian. A collection of medical receipts and prescriptions (notable for, among other things, containing the earliest
reference to the Hippocratic Oath), it was first published in 1529 and included in several 16th-century collections of medical
authors, but this edition by Rhodius improves the text, adds substantial notes, and appends a ‘Lexicon Scribonianum’.
110.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: (Farnaby, Thomas, ed:) Tragoediae, cum notis Thom. Farnabii. Amstelodami
[Amsterdam]: Apud Joannem Janssonium, 1643.
[42392] $230
12mo., pp. 371, [i]. Paper flaw to one leaf (I10) affecting a few words of notes and one or two of text. A little light spotting,
fore-edge of title page gently rumpled. Contemporary vellum boards, long sides overlapping, spine lettered in ink, just lightly
soiled, remains of an old paper label to spine and front pastedown, corner of r.f.e.p. torn away. Library stamp of the
Grosherzogliche Bibliothek, Neustrelitz to verso of title page and old ownership inscription of George Auguste to recto, a few
early ink notes to endpapers. A pleasant pocket edition of Farnaby’s edition of Seneca, which had been first published in 1613.
111.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: (Gronovius, J.F., annot.:) Opera Omnia [...]; Notae. Lugd. Batav. [Leiden]: Apud
Elzevirios, 1658-9.
[42391] $720
4 vols., 12mo., pp. [xlviii], 535, [i]; 694, [ii]; 440, 381, [i]; [xxiv], 490, [xxvi]. First volume with engraved title-page and two
further full-page engravings, both of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. A touch of light spotting, a little early underlining at the
beginnings of the volumes. Contemporary vellum boards, long sides overlapping, spines hand-lettered, a bit marked.
Ownership inscriptions of Hatton, Oxford (£1.15.0) and Charles C. Cholmondely (1826) to f.f.e.p. of vol. I. The third Elzevier
edition of Seneca, complete with the separately-issued volume of notes by Gronovius, in a contemporary binding. Willems
records that it is the least favoured of the three, but still set high prices in sales; Dibdin suggests that it is this printing of the
notes volume that is most desirable (to join to sets of the first edition of the text). Dibdin (4th edn.) II 397. Willems 1251;
1228. Schweiger II 912.
112.
Seneca (the Younger): Publilius Syrus: (Haverkamp, Syvert & Preiger, Abraham, eds.:) [...] forsan etiam
aliorum, Singulares Sententiae centum aliquot versibus ex codd. Pall. & Frising. auctae & correctae, studio &
opera Jani Gruteri. cum notis ejusdem recognitis & castigatis. accedunt ejusdem notae postumae ut & nova versio
Graeca Josephi Scaligeri [...] nunc primum ex utriusque autographis adnornatae & in lucem editae Lugduni
Batavorum [Leiden]: apud Johannem du Vivie, 1708.
[48985] $300
8vo., pp. [xxviii], 569, [v]. Additional engraved title-page, title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut headand tail-pieces. Sporadic light foxing, evidence in gutter preceeding engraved title of presentation certificate removal.
Contemporary vellum prize binding, gilt spine with red morocco label, gilt crest of The Hague to each board, edges sprinkled
red. Spine label a little chipped, some greyish marks, boards slightly bowed, top edge dusty. Bookplate of Maurice B. Worms to
front paste-down, possibly Maurice Benedict de Worms (1805-67), an Austrian plantation owner descended from the
Rothschild family. Modern ink inscription to f.f.e.p., ‘A.S.B. from A.J.C. Easter mcmlx’. Taken from works including De
Moribus, these writings are now attributed to ‘Pseudo-Seneca’. Containing ‘some notes of Scaliger and Gruter... The engraved
frontispiece, representing the subjects of the several plays, is very spiritedly executed.’ (Dibdin).
Dibdin II, 398
113.
(Sermons.) A collection of 12 sermons bound together. London: [various printers,] 1642-1694.
[45597]
$900
4to., various paginations. Some dustsoiling and staining throughout, a few headlines shaved, one or two manuscript
corrections. Bound together in modern dark brown calf ruled in blind in plain period style, paper label to spine, slightly
rubbed. The contents are:
1. Sherlock, William: A Sermon Preach'd at the Temple-Church, December 30. 1694. Printed for Will. Rogers, 1694. First
edition, pp. [iv], 27, [i]. ESTC R232282.
2. Stillingfleet, Edward: Of the Nature of Superstition. Printed for H. Mortlock, 1682. pp. [ii], 46. ESTC R18667.
3. Hickes, George: A Sermon Preached at the Church of St. Bridget. Printed for W. Kettilby, 1684. pp. [viii], 32. ESTC
R12554.
4. Fleetwood, William: A Sermon Against Clipping. Printed by Tho. Hodgkin, 1694. pp. [iv], 29, [iii]. ESTC R498382, Christ
Church only.
5. Smith, Thomas: A Sermon preached before the Right Worshipful Company of Merchants trading into the Levant. Printed by
T. Roycroft, 1668. pp. [iv], 51, [i]. ESTC R222747.
6. Tillotson, John: A Sermon preached before the King, Febr. 25th, 1675/6. Printed by A. Maxwell, 1676. pp. [ii], 36, [ii].
ESTC R10103.
7. Stillingfleet, Edward: A Sermon preached on the Fast-day, November 13. 1678. Printed by Margaret White, 1678. First
edition, pp. [iv], 53 [recte 52]. ESTC R8213.
8. Lamplugh, Thomas: A Sermon preached before the House of Lords on the Fifth of November. Printed by Tho. Newcomb,
1678. pp. [iv], 43, [i]. ESTC R204329.
9. Tillotson, John: A Sermon preached November 5. 1678. Printed by J.D. for B. Aylmer, 1678. pp. [iv], 36. ESTC R217946.
10. Jones, David: A Farewel-Sermon preached to the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth, & St. Mary Woolchurch-Haw in
Lombard-Street. The Third edition. Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1692. pp. [ii], 41, [i]. ESTC R32368.
11. Calamy, Edward: Gods free Mercy to England. Printed for Christopher Meredith, 1642. pp. [viii], 51, [i]. Lacking initial
blank. ESTC R204372.
12. Ramsay, William: Mirmah, Maromah, Maroum. A discourse consisting of three sermons. Printed by J.A. for Benj.
Billingsley, 1680. pp. [x], 25, [i]; [vi], 29, [i]; [iv], 36. ESTC R27145.
114.
Silius Italicus; Statius, Publius Papinius: De Secundo Bello Punico. [Bound with:] [Opera] denuo ac serio
emendatus. Amsterodami [Amsterdam:] Apud Guilielmum Ianss. Caesium, [Ioan. Ianssonium,] 1624; 1628.
[43827] $190
16mo., pp. 279, [i]; [ii], 356, [iv] (title-page in each work engraved). Title-page of first work partly hand-coloured in yellow.
Lightly toned, a couple of small spots. Contemporary vellum boards, long sides overlapping, soiled. Ownership inscription of
Matthew Porterius dated 1880 to f.f.e.p. The text of Statius, according to Graesse, is corrected from the papers of Daniel
Heinsius, while the Silius Italicus reprints the text as edited by Hermann von dem Busche.
115.
Sillitoe, Alan: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. London: W.H. Allen, 1958.
[49263]
$980
First edition, author’s signature to f.f.e.p. 8vo., pp. 213, [i]. Very slightly toned but clean within. Red cloth, gilt title to spine.
Endcaps a little creased, a few very faint smudges to endpapers, tiny pencilled code to rear pastedown, top edge a little dusty,
very good. Dust-jacket, spine faded with very small losses at head and tail, rubbed, tiny chips to fore-edge corners, shelf-worn
but whole and still good.
116.
Simson, Robert: Sectionum Conicarum Libri Quinque. Editio Secunda. Edinburgi [Edinburgh]: Apud W. Sands,
A. Murray, & J. Cochran, Sumptibus W. Sands, & A. Kincaid. 1750.
[36274] $410
4to., pp. viii, 224 + 39 folding engraved plates. Lightly toned, a little faint spotting. Pages untrimmed, bound in quarter calf in
period style by Chris Weston. The second edition of this work (first 1735) by the Scottish mathematician Robert Simson,
‘which he partly intended as an introduction to the treatise by Apollonius of Perga on the subject; here Simson employed
methods of pure geometry rather than algebra’ (ODNB).
ESTC T101346.
117.
Strada, Famiano: Prolusiones Academicæ. Oxonii [Oxford]: Sheldonian Theatre, 1745.
[46583]
$380
8vo., pp.[xii], 325, [xxi]. Engraved publisher's vignette to title page, wide margins. A little browning to pp.50-1, pencilled note
to p.216, occasional light foxing. Contemporary vellum, marbled edges and endpapers. Spine darkened and ink title largely
rubbed away, boards somewhat marked, corners bumped.
These lectures by the Jesuit historian Famiano Strada (15721649) were first published in Cologne 1617 and had a long life in Oxford, appearing in 1631 as well as in this mid-eighteenthcentury printing. Strada's writings are remarkable for how substantially forgotten they are, despite the substantial influence that
one or two individual lines have had: The contest of the Musician and the Nightingale, adapted by Ford and Crawshaw, among
other European poets, is included, as is a passage proposing the idea of communicating at a distance by magnetized needles perhaps the first proposal of the theory behind the telegraph. Strada's writings may have also (in Coleridge's opinion)
influenced Milton's choice of subject in Paradise Lost.
ESTC T100350
118.
Strutt, Joseph: (Hone, William, ed.:) The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; [...] London: Printed for
Thomas Tegg, 1845.
[48620] $230
New edition with index. 8vo. pp.lxvii, [i], 420. Many illustrations in the text. A few spots of light foxing to a couple of pages
front and rear, but generally clean within. Claret morocco, heavily gilt spine and borders, green morocco label, a.e.g.,
marbled endpapers. Spine faded, raised bands, joints and edges worn, a few scuffs but still very good. This ‘New’ edition is
the third, the first having appeared in 1801 and the second (in fact just an incorrect reprint, according to Hone’s preface) in
1810, the year of Strutt’s death.
119.
Sykes, Percy: A History of Afghanistan. London: Macmillan and Co., 1940.
[47672]
$1,200
2 vols. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 411, [iii] + 11 plates and 4 folding maps; viii, [ii], 414, [ii] + 10 plates, 3 folding maps and
1 further large folding map in pocket at rear of vol. II. Without dust-jackets. Blue cloth, gilt spine, top edge blue. Spines faded,
a few very light spots and scratches to boards but still very good indeed.
First edition of this influential work by the
diplomatist and author Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes (1867-1945). “Although many of the ideas put forth in
this work have passed into historical currency the volumes were intended in large part as a manual for British officers”
(ODNB).
120.
Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius; St. Ambrose: Epistolarum Libri Decem. Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: imprimi
fecit Gerhard Wingendorp, 1653.
[46581] $450
12mo., pp. [x], 19-461, [iii] + engraved title-page featuring a portrait of the author. Several leaves unopened. Early 18thcentury mottled calf, spine gilt, marbled edges. Joints a little worn, some scratches but very good. A pocket edition of
Symmachus's letters, first printed in 1510 (partially; later editions tripled the number of included letters).
Schweiger II,
991; Graesse V, 539; Willems 1678.
121.
Tacitus, Gaius Cornelius: (Grenewey [Greenway], Richard; Savile, Henry, trans.:) The Annales of Cornelius
Tacitus. The Description of Germanie. [Bound with:] The end of Nero and beginning of Galba. Foure Bookes of
the Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The Life of Agricola. The fourth edition. Printed at London by Arnold Hatfield
for John Norton, 1612.
[49403] $900
2 parts in 1 vol., small folio (280 x 190mm), pp. [vi], 271, [i]; [vi], 227, [i]. Full-page engraving and a marginal woodcut (T2r
and S3r, second register), woodcut initials. First and last blanks excised, title and final page a little tattered at edges, slight
worming from title to pp.107-8 first vol. and a few gatherings of second vol., never affecting more than a couple of letters,
occasional spots of wax and ink not obcuring text, slightly toned toward top edge. Contemporary dark browncalf, sturdily
rebacked in a slightly lighter shade, corners repaired. Some scrapes to lower board, edges worn but still very good. The
second edition of Grenewey’s translation of the ‘Annals’ and the ‘Germania’, issued together with the fourth edition of Savile’s
translation of the ‘Histories’ (first published on its own in 1591). Discussing these translations, Bennett noted in ‘English
Books and their Readers’ (p. 91) that “no [classical] author has been Englished for us in fuller or worthier shape than the wisest
of Roman Historians”.
ESTC S117625. STC 23646. Schweiger III 1023.
122.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius: (Grovonius, J., ed.:) Opera Quae Exstant, integris Beati Rhenani, Fulvii Ursini, M.
Antonii Mureti, Josiae Merceri, Justi Lipsii, Valentis Acidalii, Curtii Pichenae, Jani Gruteri, Hugonis Grotii,
Joannis Freinshemii, Joannis Frederici Gronovii, & selectis aliorum commentariis illustrata [...] Trajecti
Batavorum (Utrecht): Jacobum à Poolsum & Johannem Visch, 1721.
[48030] $530
2 vols. 4to., pp. [xxxiv], 756; 578, [clx] + additional engraved title page to vol. I. Title pages in red and black with vignettes,
woodcut initials (some historiated) and head- and tail-pieces, further illustrations in the text, includes errata leaf. Occasional
neat annotations in an old hand. A little very light foxing, generally nice and bright. Contemporary vellum, gilt and red
morocco labels to spines, blind tooling to spine and boards, edges red. Spines darkened and a little grubby, top edges dusty.
Bookplate of Campion Hall, University of Oxford to each front paste-down and inkstamp of same to each title page. Latin MS
notes in an old hand to front paste-down vol. I. According to Dibdin this quarto variorum edition is, 'very ample and excellent
[...] containing the notes and observations of almost all the old and best editors'. Dibdin (4th end.) II 454; Schweiger II 10034.
123.
Tasso, Torquato: (Ariosto, Orazio: Camilli, Camillo:) Il Goffredo Overo Gierusalemme Liberata, Poema
Heroica [...] [Venice]: Combi, Sebastiano, 1652.
[49125] $340
12mo., pp.436, 239, [i], 186, [ii], including additional engraved title page. Woodcut head- and end-pieces, half-title to each
part. A little toned, occasional tiny ink spots. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, yapp fore-edges, all edges red. Vellum
darkened with quite a few smudgy marks, endcaps creased. Illegible ownership inscription (first name possibly Ellen) an old
hand to f.f.e.p., inscription of another name in a different old hand to title-page.
Engraved title-page states Amsterdam as
place of publication, but actually printed in Venice by Sebastiano Combi.
124.
Temple, William: [Swift, Jonathan, ed.:] Works, [...] to which is Prefix’d Some Account of the Life and
Writings of the Author. London: printed for J.Round, J.Tonson, J.Clarke, B.Motte, T.Wotton, S.Birt, and
T.Osborne, 1731.
[49127] $530
2nd edition. 2 vols., Folio, pp. [xii], 480; [viii], 585, [i] + portrait frontispiece. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials,
separate title-page to each part but continuously paginated. Neatly repaired tear (65mm approx.) to frontispiece, light staining
to bottom fore-edge corner of first few gatherings of vol.I. Contemporary brown calf, sturdily rebacked in calf, corners and
edges also repaired, red and green morocco gilt labels and blind-tooling to spines, gilt borders and frames, edges sprinkled
red. Swift (1667-1745) was employed, with a few departures and returns, as Secretary to diplomat and government reformer
Temple (1628-1699) for the last ten years of Temple’s life. Upon Temple’s death, Swift wrote that all that was good and
amiable in mankind departed with him (ODNB). ESTC T136952
125.
[Terence] Terentius Afer, Publius: (Phaedrus; Publilius Syrus:) (Bentley, Richard, ed.:) Comoediae.
Recensuit, notasque suas et Gabrielis Faerni addidit Richardus Bentleius. Editio altera; Augusti Liberti Fabularum
Aesopiarum; Sententiae. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud R. & J. Wetstenios, & G. Smith, 1727.
[49320] $600
2 vols in 1. 4to., pp. [xxxii], 444, [clxxxii], [viii], 87, [xcvii] + engraved frontispiece and engraved portraits of the works’
dedicatees, Princes Frederick Louis and William Augustus of England (the latter is depicted in an oval carried by an eagle
above Aesop in a pastoral landscape). Includes half-title, title page in red and black with engraved vignette and divisional half
title preceeding Phaedrus. Slightly toned, a few individual pages more affected. Contemporary prize vellum, orange morocco
gilt label to spine, gilt border and coat of arms of Dordrecht to each board, edges sprinkled red and blue. Spine a little
darkened, a few smudgy marks, ties lost but still very good. Retains its original printed presentation page, dedicated to Paulus
Repelaer and dated 1826, with signatures. The second (and best) edition of Bentley's Terence, which also includes the Fables
of Phaedrus and the Sentences of Publilius Syrus. The first edition was published in Cambridge the previous year, but "that of
Amsterdam, according to Harwood, is the most valuable, as Bentley communicated to Wetstein, the publisher, many additional
notes and emendations" (Dibdin).
Dibdin (4th edn.) II 474. Schweiger III 1068.
126.
Theocritus; Moschus; Bion; Simmias: (Heinsius, Daniel , ed.:) (Opera) quae extant: cum Graecis in
Theocritum scholiis, & indice copioso: omnia studio & opera Danielis Heinsii. Accedunt Iosephi Scaligeri, Isaaci
Casauboni, & eiusdem Danielis Heinsii notae & lectiones. (Heidelberg): Ex Bibliopolio Commeliniano, 1604.
[49316] $710
First Heinsius edition. Small 4to. (225 x 160 mm), pp. [xxviii], 432. Text in Greek and Latin, woodcut printer's device to titlepage, a few illustrations in the text, includes several 'pattern poems' wherein the layout of the type forms the shape of wings, a
battle axe etc. Occasional neat pencil notes. Some light marginal staining towards front and rear, a few ink spots and smudges,
top edge closely trimmed but clear of text. Contemporary dark brown calf, neatly rebacked with gilt label. Rubbed, a little
stained, inner hinges repaired. Initials (illegible) in an old hand, dated Feb 22 1726 to front paste-down, also inkstamp of R.H.
Robbins. Armorial bookplate of Francis North, 2nd Baron Guilford dated 1703 to title-page verso. Contains the three 'pattern
poems' (technopaignia) of Simmias of Rhodes, 'The Wings', 'The Axe' (both in choriambic metre) and 'The Egg'. Preferable to
the octavo version of the previous year (which Heinsius reportedly tried to suppress) and 'a very excellent edition', according to
Dibdin.
Dibdin II, 486-7; Schweiger, 310; Hoffman III, 8
127.
Tibullus, Albius: (Brouckhusius, Janus, ed.:) Quae Exstant, Ad fidem veterum membranarum sedulo castigata.
Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Ex Officina Wetsteniana. 1708.
[49317] $450
4to., pp. [xx], 476, [lxxii] including engraved title-page + 9 further plates. Title page in red and black with engraved device,
occasional illustrations within the text. A little staining to edge of margins near the front, occasional very light spotting, paper
flaw to edge of p.153 not affecting text. Contemporary brown speckled calf, recent calf reback with retained red morocco gilt
spine label, edges sprinkled red, inner hinges reinforced. A few scuffs and marks, corners fraying, but still very good. Small
label with the name David Walley, and small bookplate with elaborate letter C and crown motif to front paste-down. Based on
Scaliger’s text with notes and some changes by Jan van Broekhuyzen (1649–1707), a scholar and writer who is best-known for
his editions of Propertius, for which he was apparently called “the Propertius of Holland” (Schweiger, Sandys II 329).
Harwood, quoted in Dibdin, calls it “a valuable edition,” but cautions that “Brouckhusius is a bold editor, and has taken
unwarrantable liberties with the text.”
Schweiger III 1089. Dibdin (4th edn.) I 382. Graesse VI 157.
128.
(Twysden, Sir Roger, ed.:) [Simeon of Durham (fl. 1130); John of Hexham (fl. 1180); Richard of Hexham
(d.1163-1178); Serlo Grammaticus (1109-?1207); Ailred of Rievaulx (1109?-1166); Ranulph Brito (d.1246);
John Brompton (fl. 1436); Gervase of Canterbury (fl. 1188); Thomas Stubbs (fl. 1373); Ralph d’Escures (d.
1122); William Thorne (fl. 1397); (anon.); Henry Knighton (fl. 1363):] (Selden, John:) (Somner, William:)
Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X. Ex vetustissimis manuscriptis, nunc primum in lucem editi. Londini [London],
Typis Jacobi Flesher, sumptibus Cornelii Bee [...] 1652.
[49126] $750
Editiones principes. 2 vols. as 1, folio, pp. [xii], l, [viii], 1-8, cols. 9-2296, [ii], 2311-2768, [cci]. Half-title, title in red and
black, section titles, woodcut initials. A few tiny wax spots and ink blots not obscuring text. Contemporary dark brown calf,
blind-tooled frame, edges sprinkled brown and red. Neatly rebacked, red morocco gilt spine label, a few scratches to boards,
inner hinges reinforced. Two armorial bookplates to front paste-down: F.E. Sotheby, Ecton and Derek Baker. Third armorial
bookplate to half-title verso, that of Ambrose Isted Esq., Fourth armorial bookplate title-page verso with no name but with the
motto ‘Que Serra Serra’. Major-General Frederick Edward Sotheby inherited the estate of Ecton upon the death of his halfbrother Charles in 1887. Charles had inherited it from their cousin Ambrose Isted in 1881, thus connecting at least two of the
bookplates. ‘Editiones principes’ of English medieval chronicles, and church and royal histories (titles of individual works are
listed on pp. XLIX-L of the edition). A 48-page life of the authors is written for the book by the jurist John Selden (15841654). A 84-page glossary of terms, by the Anglo-Saxon scholar William Somner (1598-1669) predates his important SaxonLatin-English lexicon (1659). There is a variant title-page which states that the edition was sold by Jan and Daniel Elzevier in
Leiden.
Wing H 2094.
129.
[Ussher] Usher, James: A Body of Divinity, or the Summe and Substance of Christian Religion. [...] this Third
Edition, corrected and much amended. London: M.F. for Tho: Downes and Geo: Badger 1648.
[36057] $680
Folio, pp. [xii], 3-451, [xv], 24 + engraved portrait frontispiece. Some spotting and staining (mostly light), small tear to titlepage border repaired with sellotape. Contemporary sprinkled calf, ruled in blind, rebacked by Chris Weston, a.e.r. with
‘Ussher’ in manuscript to top of fore-edge, evidence of chaining staple at head of fore-edge of upper board, also evidence of
later clasps, old leather somewhat marked. Near contemporary ink inscription “Roger Mostyn Anno 1685” at head of t-p
underneath later ink inscr. “The gift of Robin Mostyn Esqr. of Nanternis his [?]”; typographically bordered printed blue
booklabel of Gloddaeth Library on front pastedown. Also the Ex Libris of Rev. John F. Brencher on front pastedown, his MS
mini-biography of Ussher on f.e.p. & his signature on reverse. Archbishop James Ussher’s enormously popular catechetical
summary of the reformed Christian faith, first published in 1647, immediately reprinted several times, and still in print. This
copy has intriguing early provenance; Roger and Robin Mostyn are possibly members of the important Flintshire family who
participated significantly in the English Civil War. ESTC R226431.
130.
Velleius Paterculus, Marcus: (Burmann, Pieter, ed.:) Quae supersunt ex historiae romanae voluminibus
doubus: cum integris scholiis, notis, variis lectionibus, et animadversionibus doctorum. Lugduni Batavorum
[Leiden]: Samuelem Luchtmans, 1744.
[48037] $300
8vo., pp. [xl], 748, [cxx] + additional engraved title page. Occasional light foxing, generally nice and bright. Contemporary
vellum prize binding, brown morocco labels and gilt to spine, gilt Amsterdam coat of arms centrepiece to both boards, edges
sprinkled red, three green ties remaining (the fourth loosely inserted). Somewhat soiled, labels chipped, edges dusty. Printed
academic presentation certificate with engraved coat of arms bound in, inscribed to Joannes Cokart (crossed through) ‘hoc
virtutis ac diligentiae praemium’, signed by H. Verheyk and dated 19th September 1777. Inkstamp of Hermann Funke to titlepage verso. Dibdin finds this second edition 'very excellent' and notes its 'considerable improvements' on the first. It is
unusual to find prize bindings like this with the prize and any of the ties still present.
Dibdin II 525; Schweiger II 1129
131.
Velleius Paterculus, Marcus: (Vossius, G.:) [Opera] Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden], ex officina Elzeviriana 1639.
[21094] $180
1st edition, 1st issue. 24mo., pp. [xii] 116 [xxviii] 128 [iv]. With errata leaf and final blank at end. Bound with 18 blanks at
end. Engraved title-page with bottom margin (blank) shaven off. Light age-yellowing, bound in contemporary vellum boards,
label red morocco gilt (slightly darkened, some messy pencil notes and an old torn bookplate on front pastedown and f.f.e.p.
recto).
First Elzevier Velleius Paterculus, first issue (with the dedication, To Georges Rataller Doublet, dated Pridie Kal.
Maias). Velleius Paterculus (c.19 B.C.- c.31 A.D.) was a Roman historian, referred to in the 11th edition of the Encylopedia
Britannica as “a vain and shallow courtier, and destitute of real historical insight, although generally trustworthy in his
statements of individual facts”; this has since been shown to be too severe an estimation and Paterculus has his place among the
minor ancient historians.
Willems 120 no. 484.
132.
Veratius, Jobus, (pref.:) Conciones et orationes ex historicis Latinis excerptae. Lugd. Batav. [Leiden]: Ex
officina Elseviriana, 1649.
[29946] $230
12mo., pp. [xii] 411 [ix] incl. engraved title. Light browning and spotting, a little underlining in preface. Contemporary vellum
boards, long sides overlapping, title inked to spine, soiled and spotted, spots of wear to upper joint and lower sides. Old ink
note to upper pastedown. A collection of speeches from ancient historians based on earlier similar collections by Henri
Estienne, among others. It reprints a preface by Jobus Veratius (d. 1571) but is not his work; the true editor appears to be
unknown.
133.
Verneuil, M(aurice) P(illard): (Romains, Jules, pref.:) Images d’une Femme. Vingt-quatre Études de Nu. Paris:
Éditions Denoel & Steele, 1931.
[47826] $720
4to., pp.16 + 24 photographic plates. A few slight smudges to text pages, otherwise a very good, bright copy internally. Housed
in original folder with terracotta paper-covered boards and cream title label in black and red. Boards originally joined by a
black cloth backstrip which has perished and come away, but otherwise good with only a few slight scuffs and a little
darkening to edges of upper board. Ltd edn: 1088/1100.
134.
Vigilius, Bishop of Thapsus; Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch: Libri V. Contra Eutychianam Confusionem duarum
naturarum, damnatum in Synodo Chalcedonensi. [Bound with:] Sancti martyris Ignatii Antiochiae archiepiscopi,
epistolæ. [Leipzig:] In officina Voegeliana; Antverpiae [Antwerp:] Ex officina Christophori Plantini, [1575?];
1572.
[43833] $1,880
8vo., pp. [ii], 160, [vi]; 70, [ii], 79, [i]. Lightly toned, some light spotting and staining, two sidenotes shaved in second work,
some old underlining and a few substantial manuscript notes. Later vellum boards, long sides overlapping, spine lettered in
ink, slightly marked, a page of manuscript notes pasted to front pastedown. Ownership inscription on title-page of M. Furebii
Mylii, dated 1640; the other notes and annotations probably in his hand. A scarce edition of the major work of Vigilius,
Bishop of Thapsus (BL & St Andrews only in COPAC, plus only Brigham Young outside of Germany and Switzerland in
Worldcat), edited by Caspar Churrerius. Bound after it is Plantin’s Greek and Latin texts of the letters of Ignatius of Antioch
(each section with its own title-page, and not always found together). A 17th-century owner has added a substantial quotation
about Vigilius on a pasted-in page at the front, with a further note facing the title-page of the second work
Second work:
Adams I33.
135.
[Virgil] Vergilius Maro, Publius: (Burman, P., ed.:) [...] Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Ex Editione Petri
Burmanni [...] Glasguae [Glasgow]: In Aedibus Academicus, Excudebat Andreas Foulis [...] 1778. [46043] $900
2 vols bound as 1. Folio, pp. [viii] 277 [i]; [iv], 307, [i], bound without list of subscribers. Very occasional slight toning to
some gatherings. Contemporary crimson morocco boards, rebacked with some attempt made to match the original colour, gilt
title and borders, gilt Athenæum Library stamp to spine and upper board. Joints worn, boards scuffed and a little chipped, with
some patch repairs, new endpapers pasted over old marbled endpapers.
The first Foulis folio of Virgil, which “presents us
with the text of Burman, printed in a correct and magnificent manner” (Dibdin). Pieter Burman (1668-1741) was a pupil of
both Graevius and Gronovius, and his Virgil was first published posthumously, having been finished by his nephew Pieter
Burman II (1714-1778).
Gaskell 639. ESTC N22205. Dibdin (4th edn.) II 558. Schweiger II 1178. Brunet V 1293.
Graesse VI.2 343. Lowndes 2777.
136.
[Virgil] Vergilius Maro, Publius: (Schrevel, Cornelis, ed.:) [Opera] Cum Veterum Omnium Commentariis et
Selectis Recentiorum Notis. Nova Editio. [Lugduni Batavorum] : Ex officina Abraham Commelini, 1646.
[49321] $980
4to, pp. [xvi], 996, [lvi]. Engraved title-page, woodcut initials. Slightly narrow margin at head edge, small hole to margin of
p.3, repaired tear to p.505 not affecting text. Contemporary speckled brown calf prize binding, red morocco label to spine, gilt
borders and coat of arms of Hoorn to each board. Spine creased and a little rubbed, small neat repair headcap, edges a bit
worn but very good. Stub of excised prize certificate just visible after first gathering. Library inkstamp (Amsterdam?) to titlepage verso.
One notable feature of this edition is Schrevel's use of collations supplied by Nicolas Heinsius, who would later
produce his own edition of Virgil, following the work of his father, whose text had been printed by the Elzevirs. Schweiger,
1169-70; Graesse VI, 340.
137.
Vossius, Isaac: Variarum Observationum Liber. Londini [London]: Prostant apud Robertum Scott Bibliopolam.
1685.
[36285] $1,130
4to., pp. [x], 397, [iii]. A few minor spots. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red label in second
compartment, boards bordered with a double blind rule, expertly rebacked preserving original spine compartments, hinges
neatly relined, corners renewed. 19th-century printed booklabel of ‘Gloddaeth Library’ on front pastedown. ‘In 1685 Vossius
published Variarum observationum liber, which contained a dissertation of interest, ‘De triremium et liburnicarum
constructione’, which Graevius inserted in the twelfth volume of his Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanorum, a treatise, ‘De
origine et progressu pulveris bellici’, and another opuscule, ‘De antiquae Romae magnitudine’. Throughout this work Vossius
gave free rein to his capricious imagination and to his love of paradox. He passes an extravagant eulogy on the Chinese
civilization, and tries to prove that the population of Rome was 14 million, and that its area was twenty times greater than that
of Paris and London combined. (He also introduces some flattering remarks about Charles II and on the country of his
adoption, but his alleged depreciation of the size of London elicited several replies...)’ (ODNB).
With the dedication leaf to Charles II, which is not included in the ESTC pagination and is often missing as it was cancelled by
publisher on the King’s death in the year of publication.
ESTC R842.
138.
Wagner, Richard: (Rackham, Arthur, illus.: Armour, Margaret, trans.:) The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie;
Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude. London: William
Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1910; 1911.
[49261] $750
2 vols., 4to., pp. ix, [i], 159, [i]; ix, [i], 181, [i] + 64 plates as called for. Occasional spots of browning and foxing, largely
towards front and rear. Beige buckram, gilt spines and upper boards. Patches of fading including spines, endcaps creased,
edges a little foxed, vol.I endpapers split at rear hinge but holding firm. Without dust-jackets.
139.
Wallace, Alfred Russel: Tropical Nature, and other essays. London: Macmillan & Co. 1878.
[47451]
$600
8vo., pp. xiiii [3] 356 [2]. Leaf at end with publisher’s ads. to recto. Foxing at beginning and end but good, bound in green
publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering and publisher’s stamp to spine, simple black linear pattern to spine and covers, brown
pastedowns and endpapers. Binding slightly rubbed, bumped and discoloured, and hinges cracked, but good..Bookseller’s
label of Whiteleys, stationers, Westbourne Grove. Inscription dated 1882, pencil purchase note, June 1926. First edition of
this work on the equatorial zone and the geographical distribution of animals. The author was the explorer, naturalist and
proponent of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913).
140.
Wallace, Alfred Russel: Island life: or the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a
revision and attempted solution of the problem of ecological climates. London: Macmillan & Co. 1880.
[47452] $900
8vo., pp. xvii [3] 526 [2] + 3 maps (coloured), further maps and illustration in text. Final bifolium unopened. Very slight
foxing and browning but good, bound in green publisher’s cloth, lettered in gilt and with gilt Macmillan device to spine, gilt
globe stamp to front cover and black Macmillan device to back, simple black linear design to head and foot of spine and
covers,brown paper pastedowns and endpapers (rubbed, slightly worn and bumped, front cover a touch bent,f.f.e.p. loose).
Purchase note in pencil dated June 1926. Some pencil notes. First edition of this important work on climate and geographical
distribution of wildlife, by this pioneer of natural selection (1823-1913). Inter alia Wallace discusses the work of Charles
Darwin.
141.
Wase, Christopher: Senarius, sive, De legibus & licentia veterum poetarum.. Oxonii [Oxford]: e Theatro
Sheldoniano, 1687.
[49318] $900
First edition. 4to., pp. [xxiv], 248, xii. Engraved printer's device to title-page. A little light foxing mostly affecting title,
occasional light toning, slight staining to margins towards rear. Contemporary vellum, small handwritten label to spine, edges
sprinkled red. Spine slightly darkened with evidence of a small label removed at the tail, some smudgy marks, boards a little
bowed but entirely sound. ‘Fletcher’ in an old hand to rear paste-down. A treatise on Greek and Latin metrics and rhythmics,
named for a verse consisting of six feet, especially in Latin prosody. The author, Christopher Wase (1627-1690), studied at
King's College, Cambridge and published a translation of Sophocles' Electra dedicated to Elizabeth Stuart the year he
graduated, later becoming Architypographus for the Oxford University Press (to some controversy, given his educational
background).
Brunet V, 1420; Bauer IV, 290.
142.
[Wild, Robert:] Iter Boreale. Together with some other select poems, not heretofore printed. London: Printed for
L.F. 1661.
[26363] $1,200
First edition thus. 8vo., pp. 63 [i]. Margins cut close (but never affecting text), lightly toned throughout. Early 20th-century
mid-brown calf, spine vertically gilt-lettered, just very lightly rubbed and scratched. Ownership inscription of ‘Chaundy’ dated
29-04-1932 to rear pastedown. The second edition of satirical poet and nonconformist minister Robert Wild’s ‘Iter Boreale’,
and the first edition of the other included poems (some 2/3rds of the volume). The Iter Boreale was very popular, being first
published on 23rd April, 1660, and seeing several issues and at least two continuations by other hands in the same year. This
edition appeared the next year, and there were a total of eight by 1674, with this one among the rarest, ESTC showing holdings
for only eight copies (four US, four UK). Pepys read the Iter Boreale, and ‘like[d] it pretty well but not so as it was cried up’
(quot. in ODNB). Most of the additional poems in this edition are elegies for the Earl of Essex and several puritan ministers,
although also included are ‘The Norfolk and Wisbech Cock-Fight’ and a poem ‘Upon some bottles of Sack and Claret’.
ESTC R35248. Wing W2134.
143.
Yeo, William: The Method of Ullaging and Inching All Sorts of Casks and Utensils, Used by Common Brewers,
Victuallers, Distillers etc. in a new, easy and accurate Manner, by Tables and Segments, Likewise, the Method of
finding their full Contents. Very useful for the Officers of the Revenue, and all other Persons concerned in
Gauging. London: printed for the Author by E. Owen, 1749.
[46362] $750
8vo., pp. iv, 231, [i]. A little abrasion to title-page with a few letters renewed, recent library stamp to title page verso.
Contemporary tan mottled calf, red label with gilt title to spine. Headcap chipped and spine and corners a little worn, mark to
upper board possibly from tape removal, small area of surface loss to lower board, endpapers sympathetically replaced and
remains of old bookplate just visible behind front pastedown. Ownership inscription of Owen Jones, June 23, 1753 to title
page. Inscription of Edward Evans specifying 'not His Book', 1761. Clipping from bookseller's catalogue tipped onto front
pastedown. First and only edition of this scarce text on gauging casks, for use by excise officers. Beginning in the 1670s the
accurate measuring of taxable liquids became a significant issue for establishing the legitimacy of the Excise, and a number of
methods were followed, with accompanying manuals. ESTC locates two copies of this title in the British Library, one each in
Oxford and Cambridge, and otherwise only the Clark Library in LA. William Yeo was an excise officer and dedicates this
work to the Royal Commissioners for the Duties on Excise.
ESTC T129446.