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KELMSCOTT PRESS -- MORE, Thomas (1478-1535). Utopia. Translated by Ralph Robinson, with a Foreword by William Morris. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. 8° (206 x 140mm). Chaucer and Troy types, printed in red and black. 2 full-page woodcut borders and numerous 10-line and smaller initial capitals by William Morris. Original limp vellum, yapp edges, spine lettered in gilt, silk ties (light spotting on the edges, vellum lightly soiled). Provenance: 'H.E.L.' (gift inscription, dated 'Eton, Dec 51914' to:) -- Edward Kay-Shuttleworth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies on paper from and edition of 308. Cockerell 16; Peterson A16. View on Christie's.com

KELMSCOTT PRESS -- CAVENDISH, George (1500-1562). The Life of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. 8° (207 x 143mm). Printed in red and black in Golden type. Woodcut borders and initials by William Morris. Original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, cloth ties, near-contemporary red cloth slipcase, upper side lettered in gilt (light spotting on vellum and minor spotting on the edges). Provenance: 'M.A.' (crowned cypher). LIMITED EDITION. An excellent, unopened copy from a noble collection. One of 250 on paper, from an edition of 256 copies. Peterson A14. View on Christie's.com

KELMSCOTT PRESS -- MORRIS, William. The Wood Beyond the World. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. 8° (208 x 145mm). Printed in red and black. Woodcut frontispiece, borders and initial capitals by William Morris. (A few light spots in a few margins.) Original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, cloth ties (light spotting on the edges, minor soiling). LIMITED EDITION. One of 350 on paper, from an edition of 348 copies. Peterson A27. [With:] -- Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. 8° (146 x 104mm). Printed in red and black. Woodcut capital initials by William Morris. (Minor spotting.) Original cloth-backed drab papered boards (some spotting and soiling). FIRST EDITION. One of 1500 copies. Peterson A18. (2) View on Christie's.com

KELMSCOTT PRESS -- [ORBELIANI, Sulkhan-Saba.] The Book of Wisdom and Lies. Translated by Oliver Wardrop. Hammersmith: at Kelmscott Press for Bernard Quaritch, 1894. 8° (206 x 140mm). Printed in red and black in Golden type. Woodcut title, border and initials by William Morris. Original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, cloth ties (very light soiling). LIMITED EDITION, and first edition in English of this collection of Georgian fables. One of 250 copies on paper. Peterson A28. View on Christie's.com

KELMSCOTT PRESS -- HERRICK, Robert (1591-1674). Poems. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. 8° (208 x 143mm). Printed in red and black in Golden type. Woodcut title, borders, and initials, by William Morris. (Light spotting on a very few leaves.) Original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, cloth ties (spine lightly soiled, light spotting on the edges). LIMITED EDITION. One of 250 copies on paper, from an edition of 258. Peterson A37. View on Christie's.com

KELMSCOTT PRESS -- MORRIS, William. The Water of the Wondrous Isles. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1897. Tall 8° (285 x 205mm). Printed in Chaucer type in black and red, the book headings in Troy type, in double columns. Seven leaves with full woodcut borders, woodcut initial capitals, woodcut foliate and floral border ornaments. Original limp vellum, spine gilt-lettered, silk ties (light spotting on the edges). LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies from an edition of 256. The borders and initials are after designs by Morris. Cockerell 45; Peterson A45. View on Christie's.com

FRANK BRANGWYN(1857-1956). Unframed, signed with initials in pencil, woodcut on paper `The Revolt` from a special edition of Les Villes Tentaculaires 1919. 3.1-2" x 5"

Ephemera – Broadside – Excisemen The Exciseman an Extract from Bell’s Life in London dated January 17th 1839. Broadside large folio woodcut border printed in double column on one side paper minor splits but in generally good condition. A satire on excisemen sketching out the various types described in a derogatory fashion

WILLIAM CHARLES PENN (BRITISH 1877-1968) INTERIOR WITH FLOWERS AND A JAPANESE WOODCUT Signed, oil on canvas 60cm x 43cm (23.5in x 17in)

Brunfels (Otto) Herbarum vivae eicones first edition of the first part title within allegorical border Strasburg coat of arms both printed in red and black 5 part woodcut border to 3 leaves 86 full-page woodcuts by Hans Weiditz with the blank B4 but without the final blank minor repair to blank margin of first four leaves some minor water-stains generally a nice unsophisticated copy 17th(?) century signature of Miguel Bunillo on title (trimmed) bookplate of William Borrer (1781-1862 Sussex botanist) is possibly added old vellum bit worn ties partly defective invoice from Hammond (1976; £1400) inserted [Adams B2923] folio Strasburg Schott 1530. ***The bibliography of this great book seems somewhat unexplored. The Plesch copy for instance had the misprint Eiconeb on title and index printed in red; this copy has Eicones and index in red; the copy reproduced in Grolier 33a has Eicones and index in black. The second edition of 1532 is completely reset the most noticeable feature being the smaller gothic type used for the captions; why this was introduced is an interesting question. Stevenson in his cataloguing of the 1532 edition [Hunt 30] compared it with the 1530 edition in NY Academy of Medicine ; from which it is clear that there are text variants in the1530 since this copy does not entirely agree with the New York copy. He remarks that the book is “full of bibliographical puzzles which would take many months of research and comparing of copies to solve”. “Hans Weitz was a brilliant and original artist who set new standards of truth and beauty for the printed herbal...these vigorous well-observed drawings...remind us of Durer and much of Weiditz`s work has in fact been falsely attributed at one time or another to that great master or to Burgkmaier. “ -Blunt p. 62. .

Brunfels (Otto) Herbarum vivae eicones 2 vol. in 1 second editions first title within allegorical border Strassburg coat-of-arms both printed in black 5 part woodcut border to 3 leaves 135 full-page or near full-page woodcuts by Hans Weiditz first vol. with the two blank leaves but without the final blank in the 2nd vol. few minor stains but a very nice set in contemporary Italian limp vellum lettered Herbario Duo on front cover slightly later paper label (Erbolario; in red and black) is perhaps German and there are a number of early ink class marks on preliminary blank which suggest a monastic library head of spine a bit frayed ties missing bought from Junk in 1977 with invoice inserted [Adams B2925 but without his 3rd vol.] folio Strassburg Schott 1532-36.

Dodoens (R.) Florum et coronariarum odoratarumque imperfect copy lacking the first two leaves (supplied in photostat and bound in) all the 109 woodcut illustrations present by A. Nicolai and G. van Kampen after Pieter van der Borcht a few with old colour with the last leaf of approbation recent half calf [Voet 1098] 8vo Antwerp Plantin 1569.

Gesner (C.) Historia plantarum. Faksimileausgabe. 8 vol. limited to 550 copies high quality reproduction of watercolours in Erlangen University Library original half vellum slip-cases part invoice from Quaritch inserted folio Zurich Urs Graf 1972-80. ***”Gessner`s illustrations were at last published in eight volumes ...the woodcut illustrations of Gessner`s time could not do justice to these delicate and beautiful drawings” - Blunt p . 86.

Reichenbach (H.G. Ludwig) Icones florae germanicae vol.1-21 only (of 25) bound in 28 2674 fine hand-coloured engraved plates with plates 320-23 in vol.9 which Stafleu says were never published contemporary half roan gilt bit worn nice woodcut bookplate of George Roffavier (1775-1866 French botanist) and with some discrete annotation (mostly reconciling plate numbers which are something of a nightmare) some of the later vol. with Edinburgh bookplate of a member of the Napier family (motto: “Usque fidelis” ; crest of a conifer) perhaps Walter G. Napier (d.1934 botanist) bought from Frank Hammond in 1963 for £475 (invoice inserted) [Stafleu 8885] folio Leipzig 1834-67; sold as a periodical not subject to return ***High quality plates finished with varnish and in some cases silver pigment - for the willows. The first vol. title is Agrostographia germania “although not provided with an Icones title page it counts as its first volume.” - Stafleu. The work was issued in at least 4 different versions (see Stafleu) several of which have partly coloured or uncoloured plates. The final part was not published until 1914. .

[Wonnecke (Johann] [Gart der Gesundheit] 246 leaves only (of 248) 2 columns 40 lines lacking the first leaf with full-page woodcut (supplied in reasonable facsimile) and the final blank some 400 text woodcuts based on those in the 1485 first edition coloured in a contemporary hand a somewhat soiled copy (the index leaves are most used) with a few minor defects (k3 short but stains agree; corner torn from q1 with loss of a few words a few repairs without loss (eg q6) 16th century blind-stamped pigksin 2 rolls with portrait medallions outer with the great men of the reformation (Erasmus Luther Huss Melanchton) quite likely bound in or near Lindau which went reformed in 1528 some wear and old repairs clasps intact ownership inscription at the end of Phillip Bausle Burger of Lindau 1564 on front flyleaves 19th century notes on the history of the text with reference to Miltitz etc. by G.H.Peurbaund (?) of Dabroth bei Lauend (?) 1873 printed label of “Bibliotheca Julinska” the library of Alfred Potocki (1817-89 politician and Austrian minister of agriculture; he seems to have had a number of herbals; a Tabernomontanus of 1613 with the same provenance is currently on the market) partly pasted over this bought from Francis Edwards in 1971 for £1800 with invoice inserted [BMC II 535-6; Hunt 6; Goff G103] folio Ulm Conrad Dinckmut 31-Mar 1487. ***The British library copy lacks 2 leaves and Hunt 8 leaves; both are without the frontispiece also missing here. ISTC lists 17 copies in Germany but about two thirds are imperfect some consisting of a few leaves only. Of the 4 copies in the US 3 are imperfect and the 4th is made up. No copy of this edition at auction in the last 35 years. First published in Mainz in 1485 “indisputably the most splendid and important of the incunabula herbals...one of the first incunabula on a scientific subject written in the vernacular.” Blunt & Raphael p. 115.

Brunfels (Otto) Tomus herbarii III first edition 118 leaves only (of 122 lacking I6 L6 M5 & P3) top half of E1 & M2 cut away 90 woodcuts by Weiditz and others mostly full-page some worming upper outer corner rotted away (mostly blank woodcut generally unaffected) half calf [by Bernard Middleton] [Adams B2925 3rd vol] folio Strassburg Schott 1536; sold not subject to return.

Lloyd (L.) Scandinavian adventures 2 vol. coloured map 12 tinted plates long inscription from the author to Admiral Sir Charles Napier “...in hopes that after he has muzzled the Russian bear...” 1854; The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway second edition folding map in pocket 48 chromolithograph and 4 woodcut plates 1867 original green cloth gilt shaken and a bit worn 8vo(3)

Dezallier D`Argenville Gardening 1728 second edition title in red and black 38 folding engraved plates 3pp. advertisements woodcut illustrations occasional spotting endpapers browned contemporary calf rebacked covers rubbed and scuffed Bernard Lintot 1728. ***Provenance: Robert Melville ?Governor of Grenada the Grenadines Dominica St. Vincent and Tobago founder of the botanical gardens at St. Vincent (ink inscription dated 1779 to front free endpaper); Whyte Melville (bookplate); Francis Gray Smart (bookplate).

Bunbury. An Academy for Grown Horsemen 2 parts in 1 vol. hand-coloured aquatint portrait additional vignette title and 27 plates by Rowlandson original boards rubbed recased later cloth drop-back box with morocco label and slip-case 1825 § [Goodhall (Walter)] The Sportsman`s Pocket Companion hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece by J.Berryman woodcut illustrations of game birds spotted later half red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe spine gilt t.e.g. others uncut J.Bailey [c.1815] 12mo(2)

Ruskin.Dame Wiggins of Lee inscr. presentation copy from John Ruskin to Sarah Angelina Acland inscribed on front free endpaper woodcut illustrations by Kate Greenaway book-label of Sarah Angelina Acland annotated with manuscript explanation of inscription on front pastedown original pictorial cloth gilt very slightly rubbed at edges 8vo Orpington 1885. ***The inscription reads “Angie/ From her poor little/ Hearth-Cricket/ 29th November 1885”. The note on the book-label explains “This book was given to her by Mr. Ruskin who called himself a `Cricket` in consequence of one of the household asking how a man could be a cricket (meaning critic).” Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) was the daughter of the physician Sir Henry Wentworth Acland (1815-1900). Ruskin and Acland met as undergraduates at Oxford and remained lifelong friends.

Ireland.Picturesque Views on the River Thames 2 vol. half-titles hand-coloured aquatint additional pictorial titles and 52 plates 2 engraved maps woodcut illustrations some foxing boards uncut a little rubbed [cf.Abbey Scenery 430 1792 edition] 8vo 1801-02.

Ireland.Picturesque Views..Warwickshire Avon first edition half-title hand-coloured aquatint additional pictorial title and 29 plates engraved map and 2 etched portraits woodcut illustrations plates foxed modern half green calf spine faded [Abbey Scenery 427] 8vo 1795.

Blockbook Leaf.- Ars Moriendi [Inspiration against single leaf from a blockbook contemporary hand-coloured woodcut printed on one side of the leaf only a few small repairs to verso mounted and preserved in a folding cloth case 4to (leaf size 248 x 188mm. actual woodcut 212 x 155mm.) South Germany [c.1470-80]. ***This image is the ninth in the series of eleven images and shows the dying man being watched over and protected from despair by a vision of Christ`s crucifixion with St Peter Mary Magdalene (carrying a jar of ointment) and an angel standing by his deathbed a cockerel on the bedstead and animals in the foreground. A rare survival one of only two leaves known from this edition. Provenance: H.P. Kraus catalogue 193 (1993) where it was offered with another woodcut leaf (Temptation against Faith) from the same blockbook. Reference: W.L. Schreiber Manuel de l`amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur metal (Leipzig 1902) Ars moriendi group I.V .

Aristotle. Organon 1483 edited by Nicoletus Vernia commentary by Averroes 116ff. (?of 119 lacking blank q10 and ?initial and final blank) double column 66 lines and headline italic letter initial spaces woodcut printer`s device printed in red to final text f. (z8) occasional early ink marginalia a1 browned and stained a few wormholes affecting part of a letter or two on several ff. occasional foxing or spotting a few stains some marginal repairs especially to upper gutters old wooden boards rebacked in antique style calf lacking clasps upper corners of boards worn some worming rubbed [not in BMC Goff A-962; HC 1660] folio Venice Andreas Torresanus de Asula and Bartholomaeus de Blavis 1483. ***Rare. First in a series of separately issued parts of the works of Aristotle by the Venice based printers. Averroes was an Andalusian Muslim polymath. Some consider him the founding father of secular thought in Western Europe.

Pacioli (Luca) Divina Proportione first edition title and final leaf with woodcut of the tree of proportion and proportionality in red and black woodcut initials some criblé diagrams in margins woodcut illustrations including the human head 3 architectural subjects the alphabet (without Z) & the suite of polyhedral shapes the latter after Leonardo da Vinci some early ink annotations in Italian washed trimmed and with some paper repairs (to blank margins and worm-holes) and the lower half of the final leaf (woodcut of tree of proportion) supplied in good facsimile 2 leaves bound out of order modern brown calf in period style with clasps cloth drop-back box [Mortimer Harvard Italian 346] folio (trimmed down to a 4to size) Venice Alessandro & Paganino de Paganini 1509. ***A professionally restored copy of one of the great renaissance books. Pacioli was born in Borgo Sansepolcro and entered the Franciscan order sometime between 1470 and 1476 where he taught mathematics first as a tutor and then as a lecturer at the University of Perugia. In 1496 he went to Milan where he met Leonardo da Vinci who drew the various figures of polyhedra for this work. He completed the work in 1498 and dedicated it to his Milanese patron Ludovico il Moro. It was eventually published in Venice in 1509 with the addition of a short tract on architecture and an Italian version of Piero della Francesca`s De quinque corporibus regularibus. .

Carpenter (Edward) Chants of Labour frontispiece and pictorial title by Walter Crane woodcut decorations original red-pictorial brown cloth 8vo 1888; plus a mounted 19th century photograph of William Morris inscribed on the reverse from “Ted” [Edward Carpenter](2)

[Fitzherbert (Sir John)] Surveyinge woodcut architectural border black letter marginal worming not affecting text tape repair to margin of sig.C7 light water-stain to lower margin some other light soiling late 19th century morocco-backed boards upper cover detached lower third of backstrip missing [STC 11008] Thomas Berthelet 1539. ***Includes a chapter on the laws and tenures relating to angling entitled “Of mylnes severall fishyng and commen fyshyng what they be worth in the yere.”.

Wilde (Oscar) A House of Pomegranates first edition [one of 1000 copies] 4 plates by Charles H.Shannon woodcut title decorations and patterned endpapers by Charles Ricketts ink contemporary signature at head of title original cloth comprising green spine and off-white covers decorated in red & gilt spine lettered in gilt uncut a little rubbed and browned spine slightly stained [Mason 347] small 4to 1891. ***”Mr. Shannon is the drawer of dreams and Mr. Ricketts is the subtle and fantastic decorator.” Oscar Wilde in letter to The Speaker December 5 1891 in defense & praise of this publication. This is one of Ricketts & Shannon`s early collaborations before they went on to form the Vale Press in 1896.

Speckle (Daniel) Architectura von Vestungen. first edition title in red & black with engraved architectural border by Matheus Greuter woodcut coat-of-arms of Julius Herzog von Braunschweig (the dedicatee) tail-pieces and initials 21 engraved plates all but one double-page but many bound with text between two parts with additional R1 &2 leaves following signature R and errata leaf at end with typographical border a few contemporary ink annotations title a little soiled and water-stained some other light soiling and staining a little wormed affecting hinges but intact eighteenth century half vellum over marbled boards spine titled in manuscript and split at head rubbed [Berlin Kat. 3516; Cockle 789] folio Strasbourg Bernhart Jobin 1589. ***Advanced treatise on fortification and town planning by the architect responsible for the fortification of Gibraltar.

[Valle (Giambattista della)] Vallo libro title with pictorial woodcut border by Eustachio Celebrino 3 woodcut initials 21 woodcut illustrations 10 full-page 26 typographical battle formations final leaf with woodcut printer`s device wormhole to fore-edge of second half becoming worse to last few leaves with loss of a few letters slight staining to title otherwise a very clean copy modern limp vellum preserving old stained vellum split to upper joint [Breman 328; Cockle 765 note] 8vo Venice heirs of Piero Ruano 1550.

Camden (William) Britannia 1753 2 vol. third Gibson edition engraved portrait frontispiece titles in red and black 51 double-page/folding engraved maps by Robert Morden and others 9 engraved plates of coins engraved and woodcut illustrations one full-page contemporary ink inscription on titles a little browned some soiling slight worming to a few margins modern calf spines gilt a little faded folio R. Ware J. & P.Knapton T.Longman & others 1753.

Coasting Pilot (The) 15 engraved charts on 17 sheets all but one double-page and/or folding and one of St.Malo on penultimate text leaf woodcut illustrations of coastal views Scotland and North Britain with outer right edge defective and renewed with some loss (approx. 1 inch) Chart of Newcastle Trade in 2 parts the second trimmed at left edge within platemark but presumably as issued to adjoin the first part upper right corner of The River of Thames defective and renewed Part of Sussex single-page and trimmed at left edge within platemark previously attached to preceding chart of Isle of Wight some other repairs but mostly marginal washed and pressed throughout modern half morocco over marbled boards folio for J.Mount and T.Page 1769. ***We have been able to trace only one other copy of this atlas the one held by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich which collates as this copy (pp.2 40 16 plates) but has one chart missing from our copy (British Channel) whilst ours has one missing from theirs. Our copy has been restored by a professional conservator and included in the lot are the original calf covers the endpapers stubs and some of the stitching. The original front pastedown bears pencil inscriptions reading “James Palmer`s Book 7 Jan`ry 1770” and beneath another exactly the same but the date “1 Jan`ry”. One of the original rear endpapers bears a larger (later) scrawled inscription of ?J.O.Simmons Mansfield and “P.E. Island” beneath. A front endpaper bears a contemporary index of the charts the first four in ink in a contemporary hand the rest in pencil in a later hand. There are also several calculations in pencil which we assume to indicate when the book changed ownership (or similar event) as they all bear the number 1769 (date of publication) and another figure (1815 1821 and 1900) and a calculation of the difference. The charts present in our copy are: 1) The River of [sic] Thames 2) North Sea 3) Newcastle Trade...from the South Foreland to Newcastle 4) As above (other part) 5) Sea Coast of Scotland 6) East Coast of Scotland and North Britain 7) England Flanders and Holland 8) Flanders 9) Zealand 10) Holland from the Maes to the Texel 11) England Scotland and Ireland 12) Isle of Wight 13) As above (other part single sheet Part of Sussex) 14) Plymouth Sound 15) Irish Sea 16) Ireland and part of England 17) England to the Streights [of Gibraltar] 18) The Haven of St. Malo (in text).

Beattie, James An account of the life and writings of James Beattie. Edinburgh, 1806. 4to, 2 volumes, frontispiece, contemporary tree calf gilt, black labels, hinges cracking, extensive offsetting to title of volume I, bookplates; [Idem] An essay on the nature and immutability of truth. London, 1772. Third edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, contemporary ink inscription on front endpaper; Conybeare, John A defence of reveal`d religion. London, 1732. 8vo, half title, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, calf replaced on upper board; Abercrombie, John Inquiries concerning the intellectual powers and the investigation of truth. Edinburgh, 1830. 8vo, later half calf gilt; Meikle, James Metaphysical maxims. Edinburgh, 1811. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary morocco gilt, rubbed at edges; Cigogne, Daniel de L`office de la semaine sainte selon le messel... Lyon, 1699. 8vo, engraved title, engravings, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, contemporary calf gilt, lacking front and rear free endpaper; and 8 others (14)

Jewel, John Certaine sermons or homilies appointed to be read in churches. London: R.H. and J.N. for Richard Whitaker, 1640. Folio, 2 parts in one volume, title within woodcut border, contemporary calf, [STC 13662], rebacked, rubbed, title slightly spotted; Leslie, Charles. "Philalethes" A view of the times, their principles and practices in the second [-fourth] volume of the rehearsals. London: the booksellers, 1708-09. Folio, contemporary panelled calf, a few pages browned, worn (2)

Newton, Sir Isaac Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London: William & John Innys, 1726. "Third" edition, 4to, lacking portrait, title in red and black, with half-title following title, Halley’s verses, engraved illustration of cometary orbit on p.506, woodcut diagrams throughout, two pages of publisher`s adverts at rear, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and repaired at corners, previous ink inscriptions to head of title and on front fixed endpaper, bookplate, some light foxing to titleNote: Babson 13 “This edition was the last published during the author’s lifetime and the basis of all subsequent editions. It was edited by Henry Pemberton, M.D., F.R.S., and contains a new preface by Newton and a large number of alterations, the most important being the scholium on fluxions, in which Leibnitz had been mentioned by name. This had been considered an acknowledgement of Leibnitz’s independent discovery of calculus. In omitting Leibnitz’s name in this edition, Newton was criticised as taking advantage of an opponent whose death had prevented any reply. Halley’s verses were restored to their original form.” Babson

Alexander, Aphrodisaeus In priora analytica. Aristotelis commentaria. Venice: Aldus, 1520. 8vo, 141 leaves, woodcut Aldine device on title, later calf, waterstained, wormed at beginning with some loss of text to leaves 1-32, repairs and loss to title

Aristaenetus Epistolae Graecae. Cum Latina interpretatione & notis, tertia editio. Paris: Marcum Orry, 1610. 8vo, [viii], 296, Greek and Latin text, translated and edited by J. Mercerus, woodcut device on title, contemporary vellum; Dinner, Konrad Epithetorum Graecorum farrago locupletissima. Frankfurt: Andreae Wechelius, 1589. 8vo, [xxiv], 871, woodcut device on title and verso of final leaf, contemporary vellum, slight browning, cut a little close at head [Adams 460]

Bessarion, Johannes Lettere & orazoni... scritte à principi d`Italia intorno al collegarsi, et imprender guerra contro al Turco. Volgarizate dal Signor Filippo Pigafetta. Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1594. Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials; Ammirato, Scipione. Orazione... al beatiss. et santiss. padre, et signor nostro Sisto Quinto. Intorno i preparamenti che hauerebbono a farsi contra la potenza del Turco. Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1594. 4to, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, 2 works in one volume, old vellum, margins of first two leaves slightly chipped, some dampstaining throughout, binding slightly wornNote: Not in Adams

Cassius Dion Dionis Nicaei rerum Romanarum à Pompeio Magno ad Alexadrum Mamaeae, epitome Ioanne Xiphilino. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1551. 4to, 357, [iii], woodcut device on title, brown quarter morocco, lacking the second partNote: Adams D513

Ctesias, Memnon & Appian Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone excerptae historiae. Appiani Iberica. Item, de gestis Annibalis. Omnia nunc primum edita. Cum Henrici Stephani castigationibus. Paris: Henri Estienne, 1557. 8vo, [xvi], 248, woodcut device on title, nineteenth century calf, spine gilt, g.e.,Note: Adams C3020

Demosthenes -- Aldus Orationum pars secunda. Venice: Paulo Maunutio, Aldi filio, 1554. 12mo, part 2 only, Aldine woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, nineteenth century half calf, [Adams, D264], slight worming to a few lower margins at beginning and end just touching a few letters, slight spotting and staining; [Hertel, Jakob] Vetustissimorum et sapientiss. comicorum quinquaginta. Basle. [J. Oporinus ?, 1560]. 8vo, contemporary vellum, occasional spotting; Hermogenes, the Rhetorician. Ars oratoria absolutissima... commentaris Gasparis Laurentii. Geneva: P. Aubert, 1614. 8vo, later calf-backed boards, somewhat spotted, head of spine worn; Andronicus Rhodius Ethicorum Nichomacheorum paraphrasis. Cambridge: J. Hayes, 1679. 8vo, Greek and Latin text, 19th century vellum, some spotting; Palaephatus. De incredibilibus. Cornelius Tullius... notis illustravit. Amsterdam: L. Elzevir, 1649. 12mo, woodcut device on title, contemporary vellum (5)

Dioscorides, Pedanius Libri octo Graece et Latine. Castigationes in eosdem libros. Paris: Petrus Haultinus, 1549. 8vo, [xl], 392 leaves, woodcut device on title, contemporary panelled calf, title torn without loss, double column, Latin & Greek text, some marginal manuscript annotations, covers detached, slightly wornNote: Adams D656

Epiphanius, Saint, Bishop of Constantia, Cyprus De prophetarum vita & interitu commentarius graecus. Basle: A. Cratandrus, 1529. 4to, 210, [ii], woodcut device on title and on verso of final leaf, Greek and Latin text, contemporary calf, head and tail of spine wornNote: Adams E257

Hermogenes Hermogenis Tarsensis rhetoris acutissimi de ratione inueniendi oratoria, libri IIII. Argentorati : Excudit Iosias Rihelius, 1570. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo; Idem De ratione tractanda gravitatis occultae liber. Argentorati: Excudebat Iosias Rihelius, 1571; Idem Ioannis Sturmii scholae in librum Hermogenis de ratione tractandae gravitatis occultae. Argentorati: Excudebat Iosias Rihelius, 1571, 3 works in one volume, woodcut device on titles, contemporary vellum, small inkstain to a few fore margins of first work, loss to head of spine and part of lower cover; Quintus Calaber [Greek text] Ilias Kointu Smyrniau; seu Quinti Calabri paraleipomena, id est, derelicta ab Homero, XIV libris.. correcta a Laurentio Rhodomano. Hanover: Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & heredes Ioannis Aubrii, 1604. 8vo, 3 parts in one volume, contemporary vellum, minor worming to last five leaves (2)

Justinian I, Emperor Impp. Justiniani, Justini, Leonis novellae constitutiones. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1558. Folio, [xx, 529, vii], edited with notes by H. Estienne, Greek text, woodcut device on title, contemporary vellum, two small holes to final leaf with a few letters supplied in pen facsimile, lacks tiesProvenance: Hieronymus Berchemius Gerharto Falckenburgio, 1567, inscription at foot of title.

La Rovière, Petrus de [Greek text] Poetae Graeci veteres, tragici, comici, lyrici, epigrammatarii. Cologne: P. de la Roviere, 1614. 2 volumes, folio, woodcut device on title, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, small marginal repair to fore-margin of first few leaves, some spotting, a few corners slightly dampstained, volume 2 does not call for a separate title-page, head of volume 2 worn, hinges partly cracked

Meibom, Marcus Antiquae musicae auctores septem. Graece et latine. Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1652. 2 volumes in one, 4to, titles printed in red and black and with woodcut device, 4 folding tables, contemporary vellum, V1-4 of index substituted with a blank gathering

Meursius, Johannes Glossarium Graeco-Barbarum. Leiden: Louis Elzevir, 1614. 4to, [xvi, 672],woodcut device on title, engraved portrait on title verso, contemporary vellum, small repair to lower margin of four preliminary leaves not affecting text, some light discolouration, owner`s stamp "Ph. Le Bas" on title

Oppianus De venatione. lib IIII. De piscatu lib. v. Leiden: officina Plantiniana, 1597. 12mo, eighteenth century calf, spine gilt, [Adams O207], slightly spotted, head and tail of spine worn; d`Ansse de Villoison, J.B.C. Anecdota Graeca. Venice: Coleti, 1781. 2 volumes in one, 4to, nineteenth century calf-backed boards, small paper loss to fore margin of first title, spine worn with loss; Philostratus, Flavius De la vie d`Apollonius Thyaneen en VIII livres. Paris: M. Guillemot, 1611. 4to, volume 2 only, contemporary calf, slight dampstaining and spotting, worn, upper cover detached; Pindar Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. [Geneva]: P. Estienne, 1599. 4to, woodcut device on title, early nineteenth century calf-backed boards, small hole to blank margin of title, occasional browning to extreme margins, head and tail of spine worn; Eustathius De Ismeniae et Ismenes amoribus: libri XI. Gilbertus Gaulminus ... primus Graecè ... edidit, & Latinè vertit. Paris: J. Drouart, 1618. 8vo, Greek and Latin text, nineteenth century calf, spine gilt, a few pages lightly spotted, head of spine very slightly rubbed; Euripides Tragoediae XIX. Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1571. 16mo, nineteenth century calf, spine gilt, extremities worn; Barclay, J. Argenis. Nuremburg: W.M. Endter, 1703. 12mo, engraved plates, eighteenth century calf, arms gilt on sides "Bertholdus III Abbas Cremifanensis", g.e., upper joint cracked, foot of spine worn; Guarini, G.B. Le pasteur fidele. Paris: C. Cramoisy, 1623. 12mo, additional engraved title, contemporary vellum, some spotting and occasional staining; Aesop Phrygis fabulae.. Gabrie Graeci fabelle XXXXIIII. Batrachomyromachia. Paris: H. de Marnes & widow of W. Cavellat, 1585. 16mo, woodcut device on title, woodcuts in the text, contemporary calf gilt, spine defective, covers detached; sold not subject to return (9)

Sophocles Tragediae [Greek]. Paris: A. Turnebus, 1552-53. 4to, 2 parts in one volume, woodcut device on titles, Greek text, seventeenth century calf, [Adams S 1445], a few fore-margins slightly dampstained; Gnomologia. [Greek]. Paris: A. Turnebus, 1553. 4to, [Adams G783], lacking 8pp. [A1-4], rebacked, corners and edges worn, new endpapers

Ciceronis, Marcus Tullius Three bookes of duties to Marcus his sonne, tourned out of Latine into English by Nicolas Grimald. London: Richard Tottel, 1583. 8vo, title within woodcut border, double column, contemporary vellum, title cut down and remounted with some loss, lacking *2, slight worming, mostly in inner margin, sometimes affecting text, final leaf laid down with loss of a few lettersNote: STC (2nd ed.) / 5285 The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery copy reproduced on Early English Books Online at http://eebo.chadwyck.com also lacks part of its woodcut title.

Stow, John The annales of England. London: Ralfe Newbery, 1592. 8vo, title within woodcut border, nineteenth century blindstamped calf, lacking A1, initial cut from I2, O8, T5, Y5, FF1 [& possibly other leaves], final leaf 4Q5 with slight loss, title worn with some loss, rebacked, soundly bound Sidney, Sir Philip [The countess of Pembrokes Arcadia] [London: Simon Waterson, 1628]. Folio, modern panelled calf, [STC 22547], lacking title page, A2 torn without loss, slight dampstaining to second half (2)

Royal Doulton Flambe Woodcut Vase 1617, height 35cm

After John Hall Thorpe - Study of Cowslips in a Blue Vase, early 20th Century woodcut printed in colours, signed, within an ebonized frame, together with three prints by other hands.

PHILOSTRATUS, Flavius. De Vita Apollonii Tyanei, Scriptor Luculentus a Philippo Beroaldo Castigatus. Venice: per Bernardinum Venetum de Vitalibus, 1502. Folio, marked in 6s (292 x 193mm.) Woodcut initials. (Some browning and soiling, first leaf repaired at inner margin, library stamp to title.) Near contemporary vellum (slightly soiled). Provenance: Luis G. Burmester (small bookplate to title).

FURST, Herbert. The Decorative Art of Frank Brangwyn. London & New York: 1924. Limited edition of 120 copies, this out of series and inscribed `complimentary`, 4to (315 x 249mm.) Woodcut portrait signed in pencil by Brangwyn, 34 colour plates, uncoloured illustrations. (Some light browning and spotting.) Original cloth, t.e.g. (somewhat soiled, stitching weak). Provenance: Edward Kenneth Center (consigned for sale by a direct descendant of the artist).

Joseph Cribb (1892-1967) St Joan of Arc, watercolour over pencil, signed and dated 1936 lower right, 25 x 10.5 cm (10 x 4 1/4 in) With a small woodcut of woman holding a flower, by another hand. Joseph Cribb was apprenticed to Eric Gill in 1906, a year before they both moved to Ditchling in Sussex, where he remained as one of the longest serving members of that artistic community

19TH CENTURY JAPANESE WOODCUT BY KUNISADA II (1823 - 1880) - "Tale of Gengi, chapter 1", 13" x 9", together with two further woodblock prints, and a Chinese export watercolour of figures before a magistrate, 10 1/2" x 13" (4).

Gellius (Aulus) Noctium Atticarum aldus 1515 first Aldine edition with `duerniorem` on final f. woodcut printer`s device to title and verso of final text f. initial spaces with guide letters blank 2D8 present small ink stains to title and 2B2&3 2A8 small section cut away from lower margin occasional marginal light water-staining 19th century polished blind-stamped and gilt calf spine slightly faded 1 lower corner worn slightly rubbed [Adams G344; Renouard Aldus 1515: 9; Simon BG 743] a good copy 8vo Aldus 1515.

Valerius Flaccus (Gaius) Argonautica 1517 italic type initial spaces with guide letters woodcut printer`s device to verso of final blank f. foxed later vellum bookplate of Paul Sorensen [Adams V75] 8vo Florence Filippo Giunta 1517. ***A scarce edition.