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A Register of two thousand names. A record written in black and white, but more in white than black. With a European Roll. "It is nothing, if it is not truth".Lovedale: South Africa. Printed at the Mission Press.. 1887.First edition. 210x135mm. pp. xxiii [ibl], [5]- 642. Register 3L is missing 3M has been printed in duplicate - clearly a printer's error. Light brown cloth, lettered in black. Edges and corner worn, spine and boards marked. Head and foot of spine bumped and joints rubbed.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1852.Bound with The Proper Lessons to be read at Morning and Evening Prayer and The New Testament. Handsomely bound in maroon morocco decorated in blind with a gothic tracery pattern. Spine decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. Gilt turn ins and gauffred edges.

Zurich: Chez Heidegger & Compagnie. 1766.Edward Gibbon's copy. Two volumes. First edition. 12mo. 165x95mm. pp. x, 338; [4], 330. Contemporary calf, spines with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, second and third compartments with red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners a little bumped and joints rubbed and the joint with the upper cover of volume one is cracked but still strong. Front pastedowns of both volumes have the armorial bookplate of Edward Gibbon and volume one has his label.

Dublin: Luke White. 1791.First edition. Four volumes bound in two. 8vo. 210x125mm. Volume I. The History of my own times. Parts I and II. pp. xxv, [2], 270, [2bl]. And The History of the Seven Years War. Part I. pp. xii, [2], 154. Volume II. The History of the Seven Years War. Part II. [4], 188. Memoirs from the Peace of Hubertsburg, to the Partition of Poland, and of the Bavarian War. pp. xii, [4], 198. Of the four half titles "Posthumous Works of Frederic II. King of Prussia" only two are present.

London: Printed for the author.. 1734.First edition. Large quarto. 240x182mm. pp. [20], xxii, 359 [3]. Although the pagination jumps from 198-203, this is a printer's error as the book collates complete and the catchwords are correct. Additional leaves Hh2 and Uu2 have also been bound in alongside the correct ones. Five engraved plates, of which four are folding. Contemporary reverse sheep with borders ruled in blind. Five raised bands, black morocco label in second compartment. Wear to spine and corners with some loss to spine. Repair to head and foot of spine.

n.p. . [1847].One of six manuscript copies transcribed by Charles Pollington. A presentation inscription on one of the preliminary leaves states: "This sixth Copy of Clare's Poems is presented to my dear Grand-daughter Margaret Pollington of London to perpetuate the remembrance of her Grandfather Charles Pollington. Boston. 1851." 185x112mm. Presentation inscription, frontispiece monochrome watercolour of Clare's Cottage, Helpstone, title page and 359pp. Pasted in on the presentation page are two news cuttings and loosely inserted at the back of the book are some newspaper and magazine cuttings relating to Clare.

Aberdeen: J&J.P.Edmond & Spark. 1884.Limited edition. 44 of 101 copies. 4to. 185x140mm. pp. xvi, 18, [2]. Red quarter morocco, marbled paper covered boards. Rubbing and wear to the extremities and to spine. Internally near fine. Overall a very good copy. The preface offers a helpful history and explanation of this curious work. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde in the early part of Henry VIII's reign, it is a satirical poem of 1414 lines "in which various classes of society, chiefly of the lower order, are passed under review in rapid succession".

Cambridge: Printed for The Author, and sold there by Cornelius Crownfield. 1738.First edition. Two volumes. 252x194mm. pp. [6], vi, [8], 280; [2], 281-455, [1bl], 171, [13]. With the final errata, advertisement and instructions to the binder leaves and a total of 83 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, five raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt, morocco label lettered in gilt. Front pastedowns have the bookplates of Belton House and of The Right Hon John Lord Brownlowe whose seat Belton was. Rubbing and some wear to extremities, corners bumped. Head and foot of spines bumped and torn.

London: Printed by S.R., and are to be sold by Edward Gough. 1682.First edition. 8vo. 173x110mm. pp.[16], 78, [2]. With a separate title page for "A remembrance of the worthy show and shooting by he Duke of Shoreditch, and his associaties ... By W.M." (p. [33]-71). Contains the scarce Postscript which was missing from three of the six copies appearing in the auction records since 1975. Contemporary brick red morocco with double fillet border and gilt panel of double fillet and roll-tool decoration with inner and outer corner pieces to upper and lower covers.

London: Edm. Bollifant. 1598. First edition in English. 269x190mm. pp. [8], 496. Collates: a⁴A-2R⁶ 2S⁸. Full calf, double fillet borders to upper and lower covers. Spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated in blind and gilt and lettered in gilt. Tear to title page at gutter and there is some browning and foxing and two small holes in Cc6, Ee6, with loss of two letters in each case. But otherwise a very good copy of the first appearance in English of this influential work which combines the pastoral obsessions of the Renaissance with an early form of novelistic prose.

London: Printed for and sold by the Author.. n.d. [1791].First edition. 8vo. 220x140mm. pp.Xxxii, 343. Uncut in the original marbled paper covered boards. Protected by a brown buckram wrapper with a red morocco label lettered in gilt and housed in a brown slipcase. A lovely copy – as authentic a relic of the eighteenth-century book trade as one could wish to find - of the epistolary memoirs of the first recognisably modern bookseller.

Paris: François-Ambroise Didot. 1785.Two volumes. Large 4to. 310x230mm. pp. ix, [1], 596; [4], 548. Handsomely bound in red morocco. Gilt borders, spine lettered in gilt, turn ins decorated in gilt. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pale blue silk ribbon in each volume. Slight bumping to bottom edges and rubbing to corners and to head and foot of spines but otherwise a lovely set in very good condition and internally excellent save for a little foxing in places and some minor staining in volume two.

or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards call'd the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany. Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II.London: printed for T. Warner; W. Meadows; W. Pepper; S. Harding; and T. Edlin . 1724.First edition. 8vo, (viii), pp.407, engraved frontispiece of "The famous Roxana". Early nineteenth-century calf, covers with a blind-tooled border, spine decorated in gilt and blind, chestnut brown endpapers, edges lightly rubbed, short hairline crack at top of one joint.

n.p. [Trevecca?] . 1780.  First edition. 8vo in 4s. 188x117mm. pp. viii, 134, [2]. Nineteenth century half calf, marbled paper covered boards, slightly bumped and rubbed. Internally a little browned but overall a very good copy of a rare book. We have traced only two at auction, eight copies on JISC Library Hub, and a further five in Worldcat. Tipped in are two manuscript documents (seven pages in total) by Jones himself.

Penrith: Printed and published by J. Brown.. 1809-10.First edition. 8vo. 255x160mm. pp. 448. Contemporary blue-grey boards, grey paper backstrip, pages uncut. Protected by a loose buckram cover and housed in a slipcase. Repair to spine, joints and to hinges at the gutter. Surface crack to spine, corners slightly worn. Internally very good but with some marking and foxing and a little crinkling to the edges of some leaves. Each issue has the revenue duty stamp. Front pastedown has book label of Mary Elizabeth Hudson and the very discreet label W.A.S. which is William A.

London: F.C.and J. Rivington. 1822.First edition. 8vo. 225x140mm. pp. xi [ibl], 356, errata leaf tipped in. Uncut in the original boards with paper label to spine. Leaves X7 and 8 unopened. Spine somewhat worn with some of the paper missing, corners rubbed and worn and some marks on the boards.

Londres: en la imprenta R.Taylor.. 1826.Simon Bolivar's copy. First edition. 4to. 294x197mm. pp. [2], xiii [ibl], [2], 707 [1]. Two parts in one volume, paginates continuously. Two frontispiece portraits in each part. Half title (bound after, rather than before the prologue) is signed by Simon Bolivar, using only his surname and in his distinctive hand. Contemporary calf, gilt roll border, spine decorated in gilt, green morocco label lettered in gilt. Some scuffing and marking to boards, corners a little worn and slight cracking to hinge with upper cover. Internally very good with some foxing and marking (on p.657).

Salisbury: Sealy and Hodson. 1773.First edition. 8vo. 196x123mm. pp. [iv], 256. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper covered boards, rebacked, morocco label lettered in gilt. Rubbing to boards and bumping to corners. Internally very good but with some browning and closed tears to K2 and K3 (which also has a tear with loss to top margin). Overall a nice copy of a light and amusing collection of poetry and prose to keep while the hours spent travelling in a post chaise.

Oxford: Printed by the University Printers. 1695. 12mo. 150x80mm. A12-Kk11. Volume one only, containing the Old Testament. Bound in a nice contemporary sombre binding, marbled endpapers. Internally, there is some staining but otherwise a very good copy. Final blank has the ownership inscription "Ann Stallard Her Book.

London: Printed by John Baskett, printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, & by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills deceas'd. 1715.Bound with The Book of Common Prayer, London: Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceased, 1709. And with The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, And Others. London: Printed by J. Heptinstall, 1717. 8vo. 192x120mm. Unpaginated. Collates as follows: BCP a4, A8-G6. Bible pi1, A8-Z8, As8-Zz8, Aaa8-Zzz8, Aaaa8-Cccc4. Psalms: A4-L4.

London: Richard Hodgkinsonne. 1655.First edition. Volume one (first part). Folio in 4s. 332x210mm. [ff.23], pp.1- 608. Ends on 4G4 after the survey of the Benedictine foundations and before the Cluniac. Engraved title page and fifty-one engraved full page (and some folding) plates, many by Wenceslaus Hollar, and with engraved illustrations in the text. The folding map of Thanet is present. In an extraordinary binding of eighteenth century red morocco with triple fillet borders.

London: Printed by W. and J. Stratford. 1790.First edition. 8vo. 200x130mm. pp. [4], 44. Plus three leaves of waxed blue card on which were mounted samples of tin foil from Banca (an island off Sumatra) and Cornwall. These samples have since oxidised to dust, leaving residues. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked to style, original metal clasps, marbled endpapers. Contemporary book label of George Croker Fox, a shipping agent and merchant from Falmouth whose father (of the same name) founded the family firm of G.C.Fox.

Lausanne & Geneva Marci-Michaelis Bousquet. 1742.Two volumes. First edition. 8vo. 167x100mm. pp. xxx, 466; [2], 1-432, 443-499, [2, 1bl]. Title page of volume one printed in black and red. Collates complete despite the pagination. 44 folding plates with an extensive array of diagrams. Eighteenth century calf with double fillet borders to the covers. Spine with five raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt, morocco labels lettered in gilt. All edges red. Some slight rubbing and fading to spines.

Coloniæ Agrippinæ [Cologne] Apud Ioducum Kalcovium [Jost Kalkhoven]. 1645.First edition. 8vo. 188x122mm. pp. [8], 239 [1bl]. Attractively bound in eighteenth century mottled calf, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated with a floral motif, second compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Edges of boards, tooled in gilt, all edges red. Internally there is some browning and foxing but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Front pastedown has the bookplate of the Macclesfield Library. Allatius (1586-1669) was a Greek scientist, theologian and keeper of the Vatican Library.