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Taylor (Samuel) An Essay intended to establish a Standard for an Universal System of Stenography or Short Hand Writing, first edition, engraved title and 11 plates, list of su...
Lot 203
03/07/2025
Taylor (Samuel) An Essay intended to establish a Standard for an Universal System of Stenography or Short Hand Writing, for the Author, 1786 & others (4)

£200 - £300

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Palazzi (Giovanni) Aquila inter lilia, sub qua Francorum Cæsarum a Carolo Magno usque ad Conradum imperatorem occidentis X., first edition, half-title, title in red...
Lot 118
03/07/2025
Palazzi (Giovanni) Aquila inter lilia, sub qua Francorum Cæsarum..., first edition, Venice, Giovanni Giacomo Herz, 1671 & others, mostly German (12)

£400 - £600

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Gottfried (Johann Ludwig) Ander Theil Historischer Chronica..., engraved allegorical title (soiled, torn and laid down, loose), lacking A4, M3, N3 & P1, with 47 engraved illust...
Lot 147
03/07/2025
Gottfried (Johann Ludwig) Ander Theil Historischer Chronica..., Frankfurt, M.Merian, [late 17th century] & another (2)

£200 - £300

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Livius (Titus) Historiarum ab urbe condita, libri, qui extant, XXXV, edited by C.Sigonius, 2 parts in 1 including Scholia by Sigonius, Roman type, lacking title but replaced with t...
Lot 18
03/07/2025
Livius (Titus) Historiarum ab urbe condita, libri, qui extant, XXXV, 2 parts in 1, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1555

£1,000 - £1,500

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C[olding] (P[ovel] J[ensen]) Dictionarium Herlovianum..., first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, double column, 3pp. errata at end but without final blank, title soile...
Lot 68
03/07/2025
Colding (Povel Jensen) Dictionarium Herlovianum..., first edition, Copenhagen, Salomon Sartor, 1626

£400 - £600

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Du Bartas (Guillaume de Salluste) Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes, and Workes..., engraved pictorial title by R.Elstracke, with the initial blank but lacking two preliminary ...
Lot 64
03/07/2025
Du Bartas (Guillaume de Salluste) Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes, and Workes..., Humphray Lownes, 1621

£500 - £700

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Egyptology.- Caussin (Nicolas) De symbolica Aegyptiorum sapientia [&] Polyhistor symbolicus..., 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved additional allegorical title, fi...
Lot 61
03/07/2025
Egyptology.- Caussin (Nicolas) De symbolica Aegyptiorum sapientia [&] Polyhistor symbolicus..., 2 parts in 1, first edition, Paris, Romain de Beauvais, 1618

£300 - £400

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Wilkins (John) An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, title with engraved arms of the Royal Society,...
Lot 113
03/07/2025
Wilkins (John) An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, 2 parts in 1, first edition, for Sa. Gellibrand, and for John Martyn Printer to the Royal Society, 1668

£750 - £1,000

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Pachymeres (Georgius) Michael [& Andronicus] Palaeologus sive historia reum..., together 2 vol., Greek & Latin text, half-titles, engraved title-vignettes, head- & tail...
Lot 110
03/07/2025
Pachymeres (Georgius) Michael [& Andronicus] Palaeologus sive historia reum..., together 2 vol., Rome, Typis Barberinis, 1666-69

£300 - £400

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Ashmole (Elias) The Institution, Laws & Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter, second edition, with initial imprimatur leaf, engraved portrait of Charles II (no...
Lot 142
03/07/2025
Ashmole (Elias) The Institution, Laws & Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter, second edition, for Thomas Dring, 1693 & others, genealogy etc. (7)

£300 - £400

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Mining & Metallurgy.- Ercker (Lazarus) Aula subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, das ist Untererdische Hofhaltung ohne welche weder die Herren regiren noch d...
Lot 135
03/07/2025
Mining & Metallurgy.- Ercker (Lazarus) Aula subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, Frankfurt, Johannes Haass for Johann David Zunner, 1684

£600 - £800

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Bourne (Vincent) Poemata, made-up copy combining the sheets of the second edition with the Appendix which first appeared in the third edition, woodcut ornaments and initials, ...
Lot 188
03/07/2025
Bourne (Vincent) Poemata, J.Bettenham for B.Barker, 1735 & others, literature (c.40)

£200 - £300

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Leupold (Jakob) Theatrum machinarum generale. Schau-Platz des Grundes mechanische Wissenschaften, 71 engraved plates, 1724; Theatrum machinarum hydrotechnicarum..., ...
Lot 180
03/07/2025
Leupold (Jakob) Theatrum machinarum generale, first edition, Leipzig, 1724 bound with others from the series, together 5 works in 2 vol., 1724-26

£1,000 - £1,500

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Martin (Benjamin) A New and Compendious System of Optics, first edition, lacking half-title and conjugate leaf a8 of preliminaries, 34 folding engraved plates (?of 35), spotted, on...
Lot 192
03/07/2025
Martin (Benjamin) A New and Compendious System of Optics, first edition, for James Hodges, 1740 & others, science (19)

£300 - £400

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Strada (Famiano) Histoire de la Guerre de Flandre, translated by P. Du-Ryer, 2 vol., titles in red & black with woodcut device, 2 engraved portraits and smaller portraits in te...
Lot 94
03/07/2025
Strada (Famiano) Histoire de la Guerre de Flandre, 2 vol., Paris [Leiden, Elzevier], 1652 & others, French military history (8)

£400 - £600

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Socrates, Antisthenes & others. Socraticorum epistolae, edited by Leone Allacci, title with engraved device and letterpress quotation to verso with pasted engraved bookpla...
Lot 79
03/07/2025
Socrates, Antisthenes & others. Socraticorum epistolae, Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1637 & others, Greek text (3)

£400 - £600

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Du Chesne (François) Histoire des Chanceliers et Gardes des Sceaux de France distingueés par les Regnes de nos Monarques..., first edition, title with large engraved ...
Lot 128
03/07/2025
Du Chesne (François) Histoire des Chanceliers et Gardes des Sceaux de France..., first edition, Paris, for the author, 1680

£300 - £400

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[Domesday Book.] [Seu liber censualis Willelmi primi regis Angliae...], edited by Abraham Farley, 2 vol., no title as issued, light browning at beginnings and ends but generally cl...
Lot 202
03/07/2025
[Domesday Book.] [Seu liber censualis Willelmi primi regis Angliae...], 2 vol., [printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan], 1783 & others, history (c.20)

£300 - £400

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Mathematics.- Cowley (John Lodge) An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid, second edition, 41 (of 42) engraved plates of nets of various polyhedra partly cut to fold and form th...
Lot 200
03/07/2025
Mathematics.- Cowley (John Lodge) An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid, second edition, engraved plates of cut-out polyhedra, T.Cadell, 1765 & others, mathematics (9)

£400 - £600

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[Parker (Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury)] De antiquitate Britannicae ecclesiae, second edition, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of otherwise blank leaf, woodcut head...
Lot 49
03/07/2025
[Parker (Matthew)] De antiquitate Britannicae ecclesiae, second edition, Hanau, Wechel for Claude Marne & heirs of J.Aubrey, 1605

£200 - £300

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Philostratus. Les Images ou Tableaux de Platte Peinture..., translated by Blaise de Vigénère, engraved pictorial title and numerous illustrations, title slightly...
Lot 71
03/07/2025
Philostratus. Les Images ou Tableaux de Platte Peinture.., Paris, 1629 & others (9)

£300 - £400

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[?Motte (Benjamin)] Oratio Dominica, with half-title 'The Lords Prayer in above a Hundred Languages, Versions, and Characters', title with engraved vignette by Sturt of a dog mindi...
Lot 148
03/07/2025
Motte (Benjamin) Oratio Dominica [The Lords Prayer in above a Hundred Languages, Versions, and Characters], Dan.Brown & W.Keblewhite, 1700 bound with 2 others, similar

£400 - £600

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Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1600-49.- Jesús y Jódar (Francisco de, preacher to King Philip IV of Spain, 1568-1634) El Hecho de Les Tratado...
Lot 140
03/07/2025
Charles I (King).-Jesús y Jódar (Francisco de) El Hecho de Les Tratados del Matrimonio presendido por el Principe de Gales con La Ser.ma Infante de Espana Maria..., manuscript in Spanish, contemporary calf, [late 17th century].

£300 - £400

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Smith (Thomas) Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Cottonianae, first edition, engraved portrait, title with engraved vignette, 1696 bound with [Edward (Bernard, editor)...
Lot 145
03/07/2025
Smith (Thomas) Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Cottonianae, first edition, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1696 & another (2)

£200 - £300

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Architecture.- Vredeman de Vries (Jan) Architectura: continens quinque ornamenta architecturae, scilicet Atticum, Jonicum, Doricum, Corinthium, & Compositum..., title with...
Lot 91
03/07/2025
Vredeman de Vries (Jan) Architectura, Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1647 & others (3)

£400 - £600

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