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Designs in all styles for artists and art-workmen, from Egyptian,
Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, Persian, Pompeian, Roman, Chinese,
Japanese, Indian, Moorish sources, etc., with chapters on gothic
ornament, ornamental metal work, inlays, labyrinths, and diapers,
blazonry and heraldry, floral ornament, letters and monograms, etc.
(2)
SCHIENA (Luca di) & CAPRILE (Giovanni).
Oikoumene.
Roma, edizione non venale … Instituto Grafico Tiberino …,
1966.
With 66 woodcut illustrs from Breydenbach”s “Peregrinationes”
(1486), pages xv, 107 and leaf of imprint, folio, originall stiff
paper wrapper within matching stiff matching wrapper
repeating one of the woodcuts, in matching stronger paper
board case, the whole in a strong matching board library case -
in excellent, unmarked state, virtually as new.
A handsome production, not intended for sale, here in as new state.
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DRAKE (Maurice & Wilfred).
Saints and their Emblems.
With a foreword by Aymer Vallance.
T. Werner Laurie,
1916.
FIRST EDITION, with 12 plates (some coloured), pp xiii,235,
(2, adverts), (1), folio, recent cloth-backed boards, t. e. g.: light
fingering and signs of use, but a good-very good copy.
(4)
DODGSON (Campbell),
ed.
Grotesque Alphabet of 1464.
Reproduced in facsimile from the original woodcuts in the
British Museum. [Formerly in thhe possession of Sir George H.
Beaumont and by him presented to the British Museum].
British
Museum,
1899. With 9 plates of facsimiles, 16-pages, folio,
original cloth-backed printed paper boards: the boards worn at
corners, wanting the backstrip, loose, but a clean and complete
copy. (5)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
902
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HERNE (John).
The Pleader: containing perfect presidents
and formes of declarations, pleadings, issues, judgments, and
proceedings, in all kinds of actions, reall, personall, and mixt;
very necessary to be known, and of excellent use. Together with
the termes and rolls wherein they were entred; and also diverse
points of great learning, and various notes and cases to illustrate
the same. As they were drawn, entred, and taken in the times of
those famous prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas,
Richard Brovvnlovv, Robert Moyle, John Gulston, Thomas
Cory, Esqrs. Collected and published for the use and benefit of
the students and practicers of law, by John Herne. With exact
alphabeticall tables of all the principall matters therein
contained.
London, Printed for Henry Twyford, Thomas Dring, and
Timothy Twyford, and are to be sold at their shops, in Vine Court
Middle Temple, the George in Fleetstreet neer St. Dunstans Church,
and the Inner Temple Gate,
1657
Pages (19), (1, blank), 841 (recte 747), (1, blank), (1, table), (1,
adverts), complete thus in spite of erratic pagination, folio, 18C
calf, with chipped label, gilt: small worm-hole in upper margin
of last few leaves, without serious loss, binding rubbed, worn,
joints cracked but still strong, light foxing throughout: a well-
margined and good to very good copy.
Wing H 1574.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
BARNARDISTON (Thomas).
Reports of cases determiined in the high court of chancery,
from April 25. 1740. To May 9. 1741. With two tables …
In the
Savoy: Printed by Henry Linton,
1742. FIRST EDITION, pp
(8),502, (46), folio, contemporary calf: the binding a little
scratched but sound and strong and otherwise a bright, fresh
copy with the Tervoe bookplate.
“His reports have a peculiar value, from the fact of containing the
decisions of the great Lord Hardwicke, and if the author has
occasionally fallen into slight errors, they are neither so glaring or
numerous as to detract much from their merits, or render them
unworthy of a place in every lawyer’s library. “ - Marvin 93-94.
(2)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
903
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HIERONYMUS, ab Oleastro, OP.
Reverendi Patris Fratris
Hieronymi ab Oleastro Comentaria in Mosi Pentateuchum,
iuxta M. Sanctis Pagnini … Interpretationem [with the text].
Olyssippone [Lisbon:] apud Iohannem Barrerium …
1556-57-57-57-
58
FIRST EDITIONS, with fine woodcut border to the titles in
vols 2, 3, 4 and 5, full-page printer’s device on final page of
second, third, fourth and fifth vols, with woodcut initials, pages
(8), 315, (1): leaves (4), 96: (2), 86: (2), 67, (1, blank): (3), 69, (1),
with leaves D4-5 and E2-3 in the fifth vol repeated without
corresponding loss, complete with the original blank leaf at the
end of vol four and the final leaf blank but for printer’s device
and colophon at end of vol five,5 vols bound in 1, folio,
contemporary Spanish roll-tooled calf, gilt spine: the binding
rubbed at corners with a light crack in the upper board but the
binding very strong, two old small stamps on title-page, shoulder
notes on six leaves cut close without serious loss, passages on
three pages inked out, though still legible, by a contemporary
hand (Inquisition censorship?): a very good to nice, clean, well-
margined, unsophisticated copy.
Commentaries on the first five books of the Bible. The author, a
Dominican Friar born in Azambuja (d. 1563), was elected prior at
Batalha in 1552, took up the post of Inquisitor at Évora and was then
transferred to the Lisbon Inquisition. As Inquisitor he was noted for
practising the greatest violence and cruelty. In 1560 he was elected
Provincial of his order.
(5)
€1,200-€1,500 (£960-£1,200 approx.)
904
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HIGH TREASON.
A collection of the several statutes,
and parts of statutes, now in force, relating to high treason, and
misprision of high treason (with: A form and method of trial of
commoners, in cases of high treason, and misprision of high
treason …).
Printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry
Hills …,
1710
SECOND EDITION, pp 113, (1, blank), (14): 44, (3), (1,
blank),2 parts in 1 vol (separate titles and pagination, but
continuous signatures), 12mo, contemporary unlettered panelled
calf: a fine and attracive copy in original state, with the
preliminary imprimatur leaf.
Apparently unchanged on, but scarcer than, the original printing of
1710.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
POMFRET (John).
Poems upon
several occasions. … Viz. I. The choice. II. Love triumphant
over reason. III. Cruelty and lust. IV. On the divine attributes. V.
A prospect of death. VI. On the conflagration, and Last
Judgment. VII. Reason: a satyr. VIII. Dies novissima: or the last
epiphany. With his remains. And also some account of his life
and writings. To which are added, Poems: by Mr. Tickell. Viz. I.
The fatal curiosity. II. A description of the Phoenix. III. A
fragment of a poem upon hunting. And several other poems.
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, at the Corner of Castle-
lane in Dame’s-street, near the Horse-guard,
1726. FIRST IRISH
EDITION, with a frontispiece engraved by J. Groim of Dublin
after Louis de Gruenier’s fontispiece for the London edition of
1724, pages (11), (1, adverts), 144, 12mo, contemporary calf, old
neat rebacking, with label, gilt: a very good copy.
ESTC locates copies at L, D, Dt: CaOHM, CtY, ICU. Foxon, p. 610.
(2)
STIRLING (John) and HOLMES (John).
A System of
Rhetorick, in a method entirely new, containing all the tropes
and figures, necessary to illustrate the classics, both poetical and
historical. By John Sterling [sic], M. A. To which is added, The
Art of Rhetorick made easy; or the elements of oratory, briefly
stated, and fitted for the use of schools of the United Kingdoms
of Great-Britain and Ireland: illustrated with proper examples to
each figure, and a collection of speeches from the best English
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