Lot 164
Antiquarian literature
Collection of English and continental books, 16th-18th century
£2,375
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
comprising:
Hooker (Richard). The Works, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity. London: for Thomas Newcomb for Andrew Crook, 1666. Folio (36.5 x 22.8cm), contemporary red goatskin, large gilt arms to covers comprising prince’s crown above monogram ‘V A’ (or reverse) between ostrich feathers, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional architectonic title-page, bookplate of the dukes of Portland (two arms counter-embowed, vested and gloved each holding an ostrich feather), front cover detached [ESTC R11910];
Ruscelli, Girolamo. Le imprese illustri, aggiuntovi nuovam[en]te il quarto libro da Vincenzo Ruscelli. Venice: Francesco de Franceschi senesi, 1584. 4to (24.1 x 17.5cm), old calf, 4 engraved title-pages, 2 folding plates (signed O2-3 and 2B3-2), engraved emblems throughout the text (many full-page), bookplate of John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe (1680-1741), styled as the Earl of Roxburghe, front board loose, variable browning and mottling throughout, 2R1 loose, a few early headlines shaved [Adams R955];
Antoninus Florentinus, Archbishop of Florence, Saint. [Summe majoris, part 2 only of 4]. Lyon: Jean Cleyn, [1506]. Folio in 8s (29.5 x 20cm), modern leather backing wooden boards, text in double column, gothic letter, 68 lines and headline, contemporary hand-painted initials and capital strokes throughout (in red or blue), old vellum manuscript fragment bound in at rear, lacking first quire (A), last leaf apparently blank (otherwise final quire lacking a leaf) [Adams A1214];
and 8 others (these not collated), including: Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655-61-73 (3 volumes, folio, modern calf, engraved plates); Silius Italicus, De bello Punico, Lyon, 1547 (16mo, later binding); Giovanni Pietro Valeriano Bolzani, Hieorglyphica, Frankfurt, 1678 (4to, modern tan morocco gilt); Tacitus, Opere, Venice: Giunti, 1620 (4to, contemporary vellum, engraved additional title-page, front inner hinge gone); Galen, Omnium operum, Venice: Valgrisi, 1562 (3 volumes only, of 10, folio, modern bindings, repairs); Ben Jonson, Workes, 1616 (first collected edition, volume one only, folio, modern orange morocco, numerous leaves including title-page supplied in photocopy); Biondi, An History of the Civill Warres of England, betweene the two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, 1641 (lacking engraved title-page); and similar (16)
