Antiquarian literature
Collection of works, English and continental, 16th-19th century
£530
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Petrarch. [Opera]. Con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello di novo ristampato con le figure a i triomphi, et con piu cose utili in varii luoghi aggiunte. Venice: Giolito de Ferrari, 1545. 4to, later boards, rebacked, old ownership inscriptions, title-page cropped, a few headlines shaved, occasional soiling, damp-staining towards rear [Adams P810];
Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. London: John Stockdale, 1790. First Stockdale edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, rebacked with original spines laid down and endpapers renewed, engraved title-page and frontispiece to each volume, 13 engraved plates including portrait, 14 pp. advertisements (lacking conjugate blank of final advertisement leaf), volume 1 joints and spine cracked, preface leaf (unsigned) possibly misbound between A1 ('The Advertisement') and A2 ('Directions for placing the Cuts'), title-pages spotted;
Bible; German; illustrated. Historischer Bilder Bibel. Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Kraussen, 1705. 5 parts in 1 volume, folio, early-19th-century English dark blue diced calf, covers blind-tooled with concentric Greek-key and palmette rolls, engraved calligraphic title page and unnumbered architectonic frontispiece to each part, 135 numbered engraved plates (without plate 60 bis noted in some commercial records), frequent chips and tears, chiefly to margins but a few extending into text (e.g. plate 114), a few repairs, occasional spotting and a few other marks;
and 23 others (these not collated), including: Lucius Apuleius, Les metamorphoses ou l'asne dor, Paris; Samuel Thiboust, 1623 (8vo, contemporary calf, engraved title-page); Thomas Fuller, Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea: or, a Body of Medicines, 1719 (third edition, modern panelled morocco); William Tothil, The Transactions of the High Court of Chancery, 1649 (12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked, front board and title-page detached); Virgil, Opera, Leiden: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1649, 12mo, contemporary calf, front board detached); A Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ: or, the Last Speeches and Testimonies of those who have suffered for the Truth in Scotland, Glasgow, 1741 (8vo, contemporary sheep); Thomas à Kempis, The Christian's Pattern, 1708 (contemporary calf, rebacked); John Coakley Lettsom, The Naturalist's and Traveller's Companion, 1799 (8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, engraved plates including hand-coloured title-page, ex-library copy); Emanuel Swedenborg, A Treatise concerning Heaven and its Wonders, also concerning Hell … a New Translation, London: Society for printing and publishing the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, 1817 (8vo, contemporary blue half calf); Thomas Bewick, A History of British Birds, 1832 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf); idem. A History of British Quadrupeds, 1824 (eighth edition, 8vo, contemporary calf); and similar (37)