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page, a full-page portrait of the translator, Du Verdier, and 88
large woodcuts and diagrams, pages (8), 359, (57), 4to, finely
bound in full calf antique, with label, gilt: a large and very good
copy with engraved bookplate of Richard Clarke, Newport, Isle
of Wight and later, armorial bookplate on pink paper, of
Thomas Sewell, with Clarke’s neat initials and smaller signature
of Sewell on title.
Adams C 784. Mortimer, French Books, 129. A seminal work on
classical iconography: an early source for artists, depicting the ancient
gods and goddesses with figurative details. This is the first edition of Du
Verdier’s Latin translation, the issue with Honorat’s device and imprint
(it was also isused with the device and imprint of Etienne Michel).
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx.)
645
.
CARY (John).
Cary’s new itinerary: or an accurate
delineation of the great roads, both direct and cross, throughout
England and Wales; with many of the principal roads in
Scotland … Ninth edition with improvements.
Published by G
[sic] & J. Cary … August
1821
With 8 folding engraved maps, pp (12), 41, (1), cols 124, pp (82),
cols 588, pp (589)-602, cols 603-938, 943-958, pp 959-1047, (1),
complete thus except that leaf 3P3 (cols 939-942) is not present
and appears never to have been bound in, cr 8vo, finely bound
by D. W. Carroll of Dublin, with their small yellow ticket on the
front e. p., in full polished calf, the boards with blind-stamped
borders, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: a bright, fresh, attractive
copy, handsomely bound, inscribed in a contemporary hand on
title-page “Worcester 1822”.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
[WILSON (Wm.)].
The Post Chaise
Companion: or traveller’s directory through Ireland. Containing
a new & accurate description of the direct and principal cross
roads, with particulars of... seats, cities, towns, parks, natural
curiosities, antiquities, castles, ruins, manufactures, loughs,
glens, harbours, &c.... (with) a travelling dictionary, or
alphabetical tables... The 3d. edition, corrected and enlarged.
With an entire new set of plates.
Dublin: Printed & published by J.
& J. H. Fleming,
1803. With engraved title, 4 plates of views (2
folding), a large folding map, another folding map and pp (2),
cols xxviii, 646, pp 647-660, (19), 8vo, contemporary mottled
calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt, with two silk markers and
the initials ‘A. G. ‘ in gilt at foot of spine: the extreme upper
outer blank corner of title-page neatly renewed and the binding
a little worn at corners with a light crack in the upper joint but
still a clean and very good copy. (2)
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
646
.
CASAS (Bartolome de las), OP.
Tyrannies et cruautez des
Espanols, commises es Indes Occidentales, qu’on dit le
Nouveau Monde … Traduite … par Jacques de Miggrode
Rouen: J. Cailoue,
1630
The title-page printed in red and black, with device, pages (22),
214, 4to, old, possibly contemporary vellum, wanting ties: a
fresh and atrractive copy.
Sabin 11271. “First published as here translated from the work known
as the Brevissima relacion, Antwetp, 1579; here reprinted “joouxte la
coppie imprimee a Paris par Guillaume Julien”. - Alden, European
Americana 630/42, locating seven copies, but the edition does not come
readily to hand in WorldCat or COPAC. On the mistreatment of the
indigenous peoples of the Americas. One of his stated purposes for
writing this account is his fear of Spain coming under divine
punishment and his concern for the souls of the native peoples. The
account is one of the first attempts by a Spanish writer of the colonial
era to depict the unfair treatment that the indigenous people endured
during the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the Greater Antilles,
particularly the island of Hispaniola. His point of view can be
described as being heavily against some of the Spanish methods of
colonization, which, as he describes, inflicted a great loss on the
indigenous occupants of the islands. His account was largely responsible
for the passage of the new Spanish colonial laws known as the New
Laws of 1542, which abolished native slavery for the first time in
European colonial history and led to the Valladolid debate. The book
became an important piece in the creation and propagation of the so-
called Black Legend — the tradition of describing the Spanish empire
as exceptionally morally corrupt and violent. The book was published
several times by groups that were critical of the Spanish realm for
political or religious reasons.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
647
.
CATHOLIC CHURCH, ARCHDIOCESE OF MILAN.
Acta Ecclesiae Mediolanensis sive sancti Caroli Borromæi
instructiones et decreta. In quibus, de ecclesiarum fabrica,
suppellectile & ornatu; de virorum ecclesiasticorum dignitate,
vita & officio; de politia ecclesiastica, cultu divini, animarum
regimine, & omnium hominum salute procuranda, pie, sancte ac
cumulate præcipitur. Præterea ejusdem sancti appendices
septem. I. De cura pestilentiæ. II. Sacramentale: sive
sacramentorum administrandi ritus. III. Instructio prædicationis
verbi Dei. IV. De nitore & munditia Ecclesiæ. V. Institutio
seminarii: seu clericorum instruendorum ratio. VI. De disciplina
familiæ episcopalis, deque ejus regimine. VII. Selecta quædam
edicta, & monita christiana. …
Parisiis: apud I. Iost,
1643
With engraved vignette title-page printed in red and black, pages
(12), 20. 515, (1, blank); 140; 187, (1), folio, with two very small,
old oval stamps on the title-page, otherwise a well-margined and
very good copy, strongly bound in recent cloth, with label.
COPAC locates just the Manchester copy of this edition but WorldCat
finds ten. The texts of letters, diocesan synods, constitutions and acts
promulgated by St. Charles Borromeo Church in Milan, together with a
biography by Carlo Bascape, Bishop of Novara.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
ESTIUS (Guilielmus).
Annotationes
in praecipua ac difficiliora Sacrae Scripturae loca. Nova editio
correctior …
Antverpiae, apud Ioannem Baptisam Verdussen,
1682.
The title-page in red and black with large engraved vignette,
pages (4), 635, (63), folio, strongly bound in recent boards: the
title-page lightly dusty and with a small paper flaw in the margin
of the penultimate leaf without serious loss, otherwise a very
good copy. (2)
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
648
.
CATULLUS.
Catulli, Tibulli, et Propertii Opera.
Birminghamiae: typis Johannis Baskerville.
1772
Pages (2), 276, 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt bordered sides,
attractive fully gilt spine, with label, gilt: with a small circular
stamp on the title-page, but still a fresh, attractive copy,
handsomely bound, with the armorial bookplate of Robert
Ruttledge.
Gaskell 45. The issue with the very slightly larger ‘T’ in the first word of
title.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
LUCRETIUS.
De rerum natura
libri sex.
Birminghamiae: typis Johannis Baskerville.
1772. Pages
(2), 131, 128(bis) - 214, 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt bordered
sides, attractive fully gilt spine, with label, gilt: with a small
circular stamp on the title-page, but still a fresh, attractive copy,
handsomely bound, with the armorial bookplate of Robert
Ruttledge.
Gaskell 50. Gordon 20A.
(2)
VIRGIL.
Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et
Aeneis.
Birminghamiae; typis Johannis Baskerville,
1766. With
engraved frontispiece by Grignion after Wale, pages (2), 388,
leaf D5 a cancel, 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt bordered sides,
attractive fully gilt spine, with label, gilt: a very little wear at
headband, a small circular stamp on the title-page and the usual
light foxing, but still an attractive copy, handsomely bound, with
150