Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

HOWELL, James. Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary. London: printed by J[ohn] G[rismond] for Cornelius Bee at the Kings Armes in Little Brittaine, 1660. Folio (326 x 211mm.) Half-title in red and black, engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black. (Some browning to margins of preliminaries, pencil annotation to front free endpaper.) Later half-calf, spine gilt (bumped to extremities). Provenance: Alfred de Vignes (ink name inscribed to front free endpaper); The West Horsley Place Collection.

ANCIENT GREECE. - Constantin CARAPANOS. Dodone et ses Ruines. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1878. Presentation signature from the author to 'Lord Houghton' to the half-title of text vol., 2 vols.: text vol. 4to (316 x 244mm.) plate vol. large 4to (357 x 260mm.) (Moderate spotting throughout text vol., to the preliminaries and margins of the plates.) Near contemporary brown half-morocco (bumping to extremities). Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

MILTON, John. Original Letters and Papers of State, Addressed to Oliver Cromwell; Concerning the Affairs of Great Britain from the year MDCXLIX to MDCLVIII… now first published from the Originals by John Nickolls. London: printed by William Bowyer, 1743. First edition, folio (336 x 219mm.) Errata to rear. (Small loss to corner of last leaf.) Original calf-backed boards, red morocco lettering piece to spine (bumped to extremities). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

CAVENDISH, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. The Life of the Thrice Noble, High and Puissant Prince William Cavenishe. London: printed by A. Maxwell, 1667. First edition, folio (293 x 182mm.) Woodcut decorations and initials. (Water-staining to most leaves). Later calf (wear to spine, upper joint split). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

HOSPINIANI, Rodolphi. Historia Jesuitica hoc est de Origine, Regulis, Constitutionibus, Privilegiis, Incrementis, Progressu & Propagatione Ordinis Jesuitarum. Zurich: apud Joannem Rodolphum Wolphium, 1670. Folio (341 x 23mm.) Titles in red and black with floral woodcut vignette, numerous head and tailpiece woodcuts, initials. (18th century ink annotations to initial leaf, moderate spotting, damp-staining to margins.) Original vellum, black and red lettering pieces to the spine (soiling to covers). Note: rare. Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

[HARRISSE, Henry.] Notes on [Christopher] Columbus. New York: privately printed, 1866. Limited edition of 99 copies, this out of series, small folio (313 x 189mm.) Initials printed in red throughout, 13 mounted albumen-print photographs, tipped-in pamphlet 'Letter of Christopher Columbus… text in fac-simile. New York. 1875' to rear. (Occasional light browning, spotting to first and last few leaves.) Near contemporary marbled calf gilt, by J. Leighton, the covers bordered in gilt, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettering pieces to second, third and fifth compartments, the others with repeat decoration in gilt (rubbing to bottom edge). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate, presentation inscription from Samuel L.M. Barlow to preliminary blank dated 'New York Nov. 1875', and a 2pp. a.l.s. tipped-in at rear); The West Horsley Place Collection.

WITCHCRAFT. Recueil General Des Pieces Concernant Le Procez Entre La Demoiselle Cadiere, de la Ville de Toulon. Aix-en-Provence: chez Joseph David, 1731. 2 vols., 4to (390 x 250mm.) Numerous engraved head and tail-pieces, initials. (Browning and spotting to margins, some creasing.) Contemporary calf, vignette to title, black and red morocco lettering pieces to the second and third compartments, repeating motif to the rest (bumped to extremities). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo di Bernando. The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence… written originally in Italian and from thence newly and faithfully Translated into English. London: printed from John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1680. Folio (318 x 192mm.) Verso of title-page a tipped-in armorial plate from Thomas Thoroton, woodcut headpieces to the 11 treatises. (Browning to margins, ink marginalia to front free endpaper.) Contemporary speckled calf (missing the title lettering piece, rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: Thomas Thoroton (ink name to front free endpaper); Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

LEIGH, Charles. The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire: with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts. Oxford: printed for the author, 1700. Folio (342 x 220mm.) Portrait frontispiece, double-paged hand-coloured map by Herman Moll, 22 engraved plates. (Some offsetting, browning to margins, occasional creases.) Contemporary calf (frayed with some loss). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

THE TATLER. - [Joseph ADDISON and Sir Richard STEELE]. The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. London: printed and sold by John Morphew, 1710-1711. 2 vols. in 1, folio (345 x 208mm.) Portrait frontispiece, bound in at issue number 50 a contemporary hand-written 2pp. of the dedication to Sir Edward Wortley Montague that was printed in the 2nd vol. of the octavo edition, also a 9pp. hand-written copy of the dedication and preface to the 3rd vol. of the octavo edition at number 189, also at rear a 7pp. hand-written copy of the 'motto's' of the 5th vol. of the 12mo edition. (Browning and moderate spotting.) Near contemporary panelled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (scuffing and bumped to extremities). Note: Steele and Addison were writing The Tatler until issue 271, thereafter it was continued by others until issue 331. This edition has 331 numbered issues. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

INCUNABULA. - Giovanni BOCCACCIO. Explicit compendiu[m] Ioha[n]nis Boccacii de Certaldo. quod de preclaris mulieribus ac fama[m] p[er]petuam edidit feliciter [or De Mulieribus Claris]. [N.p. but Strasbourg: n.d. but circa 1474-1475, Polain dates no later than 1479.] Folio (290 x 203mm.) 165pp. of text printed in the Husner type with red initials and occasional red rules, two to six line spaces for capitals, with guide letters in nearly all cases, one leaf with ink marginalia depicting a hand pointing to the manuscript words 'Amoris preludia'. (Some spotting and browning, minor marginal damp-staining, one leaf torn with minor loss to margin.) Mid-19th century blue half-morocco, by White of Pall Mall dated 1850, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, third and fourth compartments, the others blank (extremities scuffed). Note: title provided from the colophon, imprint from the ISTC, although an incorrect date is given on the binding. 'Concerning Famous Women' is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature. Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

RANNEW, Thomas. In this Book is the Figure of the Dividing of the Land of Israel among the Tribes of Israel, that is, among those that have the faith of Israel when their captivity is returned. London: 1688. Small folio (321 x 197mm.) Title, 1 plate, 1 double-paged plate, 3 folding charts. (Spotting and damp-staining throughout.) 19th century half-morocco, replaced endpapers (bumped to extremities, scuffed.) Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

BIBLIOMANIA. Frontispieceana, or a Collection of Engraved Frontispieces, Title-pages, &c &c &c Extracted from Various Works Auntient and Modern. Common and Uncommon and now faithfully digested into one. Tomblands, Ipswich: 1816 [but contents 16th to early 19th century]. Large 4to (321 x 242mm.) Manuscript title-page and dedication, 12pp. of manuscript introductory text, illustrated with approximately 325 title-pages, frontispieces, head and tail pieces, printer's devices, illustrations and decorative initials from various works on 201 leaves. Contemporary half-calf (worn, covers detached). Note: the volume includes an early woodcut of a witch flying on a broomstick on p.42, two folding posters advertising R. Ackermann publications with hand-coloured illustrations on p.178 and p.190, three early illuminated decorative initials on p.191 and another on p.195. Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.

MASSEY, Frank E. Portrait Sketches of Cheshire Hunting Men. Manchester: George Falkner and Sons, the Deansgate Press, 1903. First edition, oblong folio (266 x 344mm.) 41 colour plates on thick card mounted on stub. (Spotting verso of the plates.) Original red and green cloth, moiré silk endpapers, g.e. (bumped and soiling to extremities and front endpapers). Provenance: Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to the front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

HOBSON, William Colling (publisher). This Map of Yorkshire is most respectfully dedicated to the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, Landowners, and Manufacturers of the County. [or, Hobson's New Survey of Yorkshire] [London:] 1848. Engraved hand-coloured folding map in two parts (each part 1270 x 820mm.) Engraved by J. & C. Walker, each part in 16 sections and backed onto linen. (Minor offsetting.) Folding within original red cloth, the upper cover blocked in gilt and blind, metal clasp (extremities somewhat scuffed and frayed). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate with motto 'Anchora Tutissima Virtus'; Robert Milnes-Crewe (bookplate to front pastedown); The West Horsley Place Collection.

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Jane AUSTEN. Letters… collected and edited by Deidre Le Faye. London: The Folio Society, 2003. 8vo (235 x 141mm.) Numerous illustrations in colour. Silk-covered boards with floral design, slipcase (faint marks to the slipcase). - And approximately seventy-three more volumes published by the Folio Society (including Jane Austen's Works, 7 vols., 1997, 8vo) (a quantity).

STUCK, Hudson. Voyages on the Yukon and its Tributaries… a Narrative of Summer Travel in the Interior of Alaska. London: T. Warner Laurie, Ltd., [n.d. but 1917]. First UK edition, 8vo (223 x 146mm.) Folding map of the Yukon river, and another to the rear, numerous plates. (Gift inscription to the front free endpaper.) Original blue cloth (lightly bumped to extremities). - And twenty volumes about North American travel and exploration (21).

ASIA. - George SMITH. Ten Weeks in Japan. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, 1861. First edition, 8vo (212 x 130mm.) 8 tinted wood-engravings, some with tissue-guards, a linen-backed folding map hand-coloured in outline to rear. (Spotting to verso of plates and to the linen, finger-marks to preliminaries.) Later half-morocco, (endpapers replaced). - And thirteen volumes mainly relating to Asia (14).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Anthony TROLLOPE. The Novels of Anthony Trollope… The First Complete Edition. London: The Folio Society, 1989-1999. 48 vols., 8vo (221 x 142mm.) Numerous illustrations by a variety of illustrators. Original buckram-backed boards, slipcases (one or two minor marks). Note: published at the rate of four a year between 1989 and 1999 the Folio Society printed the first complete edition of Trollope's works (48).