[Bellin, Jacques Nicholas / Senex, John / Ogilby, John]

The Roads through England or Ogilby’s Survey. Revised, improved and reduced by Senex. [Enlarged Edition of John Ogilby’s 1675 published “Britannia”] Distinctly laid down on onehundred & one Plates with the addition of some Roads newly drawn and several corrections of more general use to Travellers. [Including an Appendix with Cityplans of London (double-page), Plymouth, Shrewsbury, Yorck (York), Chester, [Scene of Carrick-Fergus (Ireland)], Waterford, Oxford, Leith [Edinburgh], Harwich, Scenery of Edinburgh / Itinéraire de toutes les routes de l ‘Angleterre. Revues corrigées, augmentées & réduites par Senex en 101 Cartes. [Titlepage bilingual in french and english].

Paris, Desnos, 1766. Quarto (30 cm x 22.5 cm). Collation complete: Bilingual titlepage, 12 double-page maps of England, partly beautifully border-coloured, 6 unnumbered pages of Index with distances in miles, one (1) General Map of England (″Carte Generale” of Engand by D’Ogilby), 101 full-page maps of routes/streets, Engraved titlepage for the Appendix, One (1) double-page of explanations for the London-City-Plan, 17 beautiful maps and engravings of a variety of english cities, also with a section on Ireland (Dublin, Waterford, Kinsale, Galway, Limerick). Original 18th-century contemporary calf with gilt lettering on spine and on five raised bands. The Volume is now protected in Collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing and corners slightly bumped but overall excellent. Interior near fine with only the slightest occasional spotting. Rare and even rarer in this condition !

Boswell, James.

Boswell’s London Journal 1762 – 1763. As first published in 1950 from the original MSS. Prepared for the press, with introduction and notes, by Frederick A. Pottle, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University.

London, The Reprint Society London, 1952. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. XII, 360 pages, including maps. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Slight browning of the pages. Clean inside. Solid binding.

Boydell, Brian.

Rotunda Music – In Eighteenth Century Dublin.

Blackrock (Dublin), Irish Academic Press, 1992. 16 cm x 24 cm. 240 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Bruno, O.S.B. (Bruno of Segni; Bruno Astense; Brunonis Astensis; Bruno di Segni).

Opera. [Sancti Brunonis Astensi Episcopi Signiensium et Abbatis Montis Casini Opera in Duos Tomos Distributa aucta et Adnotationibus Illustrata Regiae Celsitudini Caroli Emmanuelis Pedemontii Principis &c. &c.].

Romae, Joannis Zempel, 1789-1791. Folio. C, 634, XXXVII, 688, III pages. Hardcover / Original parchment with gilt lettering on spine Former copy of St.Joseph’s College / Mill Hill Library.

Caesar, Julius / Charles-Marie-Raymond Duc d’Arenberg.

[De Bello Gallico / De Bello Alexandrino / De Bello Africano / De Bello Hispaniensi ] C. Julii Caesaris Quae Extant Omnia. Ex Recensione Joannis Davisii, Coll. regin. Cantab. Socii, cum Ejusdem Animadversionibus ac Notis Pet. Ciacconii, Fr. Hotomanni, Joan. Brantii, Dionys Vossii et aliorum. Accessere Metaphrasis Graeca. Librorum VII. De Bello Gallico. Nec Non Indices necessarii.

Cantabrigiae [Cambridge], Typis Academicis Impensis Joannis Owens, 1706. Quarto. (4), 751, (5), 96 pages plus 34 pages Index. Including two folded maps (Gallia / Pompeium aer Caesarem (Mare Mediterraneum with Southern Europe and North Africa/Asia Minor) and one folded illustration: “Pontis Figura a Caesare decem diebus ad Rhenum trajiciendum effecti” / (4), 751, (5), 96 Seiten plus 34 Seiten Index mit zwei Faltkarten von Gallien und dem Mittelmeerraum sowie einer gefalteten Abbildung einer Behelfsbrücke über den Rhein. Full 18th century calf with gilt lettering on spine and emblemata of Charles-Marie-Raymond Duc d’Arenberg. Very good +/ Near Fine condition with only minor signs of wear and a faded dampstain throughout. Exlibris of “Comte Goblet d’Alville” on pastedown / Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren und einem durchgehenden, aber ganz dezent verblassten Wasserrand. Mit dem Exlibris des “Compte Goblet d’Alville. Wappensupralibro des Duc d’Arenberg.

Callot, Jacques.

De Droeve Ellendigheden van den Oorlooch seer aerdigh en konstighafgebeeldt door Jaques Callot Loreijns Edelman. [Dutch edition of Callot’s most famous suite: “Les Miseres et malheurs de la guerre” (Translates: “The miseries and misfortunes of war”) originally published in France in 1633].

[Amsterdam], Gerret van Schagen, [n.d., approximately 1730] Oblong – 8°. 18 original plates (including Frontispiece) with 20 interleaved, blank pages. All plates subtitled in dutch. 19th century Hardcover with label in english on front board. Callot’s most famous suite, Les Misères et malheurs de la guerre (the miseries and misfortunes of war, 1633), produced following Richelieu’s invasion of Lorraine during the Thirty Years War. Oblong Large Octavo. Engraved titlepage in dutch plus 17 plates after Callot by Leon Schenk, numbered 2-18, each plate with 6 lines of verse by l’abbé Michel de Marolles. Plates 3-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches, mounted on larger leaves, titled in french in manuscript-writing. Both contemporary marbled boards cleanly detached (needs repair or new binding. Inside with only minor foxing. The plates clean and fresh.

[Carnan, Thomas] Anonymous.

An historical account of the curiosities of London and Westminster, in three parts. Part I. Contains a full description of the Tower of London, and every thing curious in and belonging to it. Part II. Contains the history of Westminster-Abbey, from its foundation to the present time ; with its antiquities, tombs, and inscriptions. Part III. Treats of the old cathedral of St. Paul’s and the new ; together with a full account of the Monument, London-Stone, the City-wall, gates, and other antique [Roman] remains.

First Edition with three separate titlepages. London, Printed for Thomas Carnan, 1785 – 1788. Small Octavo. IV, 64, IV, 139, [5 p. Index], 56 pages. Hardcover / Original half-parchment with marbled paper-covered boards. Binding with some stronger signs of wearMarbled paper loosening but the binding and spine firm. Overall still in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner Mary Gray written in ink on titlepages.

Cervantes De Saavedra, Miguel [Jarvis Edition with an excellent provenance, being from the library of John Fane, (Lord Burgersh) the Earl of Westmoreland].

The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish by Charles Jarvis, Esq. [Bound with: “The Life of Michael de Cervantes Saavedra” and an “Advertisement concerning the Plates”].

Second issue of the First Jarvis Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, J. & R. Tonson and R. Dodsley, 1738-1742. Quarto. Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece, XXIV, (8), I – [XXIV], (interrupted with 8 unnumbered pages: “Supplement to the Translator’s Preface,” on the origin of books of chivalry, [by Wiliam Warburton]), continued pagination [XXV-XXXII], Second Frontispiece (Portrait of Cervantes by George Vertue after G. Kent), V, (2), 355 pages with 28 copperplates (including the two frontispieces). Volume II: XII, 388 pages with 41 copperplate illustrations. In total 69 copperplate engravings, all drawn by John Vanderbank and engraved by Gerard van der Gucht / Vandergucht. Modern Hardcover bindings by an english masterbinder, styled to the 18th century period and with new endpapers that carry the original bookplates / Exlibris of John Fane, (Lord Burgersh) the Earl of Westmoreland. Excellent condition with only minor signs of foxing to the outer margins of the pages. All illustrations in strong and fresh imprint. An excellent set from a famous library.

[Cowper, William] Thomas, Gilbert.

William Cowper and the eighteenth century.

New and revised edition. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1948. Octavo. Portrait-Frontispice, 347 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard, with his Exlibris on the pastedown.

Coxe, William.

Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark – Illustrated with Charts and Engravings [15 maps and 13 portraits / illustrations]. Illustrations and fold-out-maps include: 1.″Map of Poland with its Dismember’d Provinces” by Thomas Kitchin Senior / 2. “A Polish Gentleman” / 3. “Stanislaus Augustus – King of Poland” / 4. “Map of European Russia” by Thomas Kitchin Senior / 5. “A Plan [Map] of the City of Moscow” [by Thomas Kitchin (1784)] / 6. “A Plan of the City of St. Petersburgh” [by Thomas Kitchin (1784)] / 7. “A Russian Gentleman in a Winter Dress” / 8. “Catharine The Second, Empress of Russia” / 9. “Apparatus for freezing Quicksilver” / 10. “Pugatchef” [Portrait of Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev] / 11. “Chart [Map] of the Caspian Sea” / 12. “Territorial Acquisitions of Catherine the Second in the Vicinity of the Black Sea” [The map showing the acquisitions includes Crimea / Tavrida] / 13. “Plan [Map] of the Canal of Vishnei Voloshok, which unites the Baltic and the Caspian” [Also shows the “Plan of the Ladoga Canal” with the Fortress of Schlusselburgh and the new road to Moscow from St.Petersburgh, Lake of Gorodolub and Lake Mastino] [by Thomas Kitchin (1784)] / 14. “Map of Southern Norway” Published by T. Cadell in London, October 1790 / 15. “Plan [Map] of the Canal of Stroemsholm which joins the Lake Sodra Barke on the Confines of Dalecarlia to the Lake Maeler” Published by T. Cadell in London, October 1790 / 16. “Map of the Danish Isles, Sleswick and Holstein [Schleswig Holstein]” by Thomas Kitchin Senior / 17. “A Plan [Map] of the City of Copenhagen” Published by T. Cadell in London, March, 1784 / 18. “[Plan / Map] of the “Canal of Kiel” with inset: “Plan of the Canal of Kiel, which joins the Northern Sea and the Baltic” – Published by T. Cadell in London, march, 1784 [showing Kiel, Rendsburg, Holtenau and the River Eider] / 19. “A Map of the Southern Provinces of Sweden” (very minor tear) – [by Thomas Kitchin senior (1784)] / 20. “A Fin Peasant selling Game” [Hunting / Finland / Game & Wildfowl] / 21. “A Swedish Gentleman in the Court Dress” / 22. “A Swedish Lady in the Court Dress” / 23. “Gustavus the Third, King of Sweden” / 24. A Plan [Map] of the City of Stockholm” – [by Thomas Kitchin (1784)] / 25. [Map / Plan of the] “Canal of Trolhaetta” [Trollhättan / Trollhaettan] with inset of “Course of the River Gotha from the Wenner Lake to Aker” Published by T. Cadell in London, March 1784 / “A Russian in a Winter Dress” / “Male and Female Remiz; or Penduline Titmouse” [Penduline Tit / Ornithology]/ 26. “Specimen of Russian Print (cyrillic)” this the only illustration placed inside the text-volumes (Volume I, facing page 373) //

The Fifth Edition. Six Volumes (complete set of 5 Volumes text plus separate Volume with Plates). London, Printed for T.Cadell and W.Davies, 1802. Octavo. 28 Illustrations in total [15 maps (often large-fold-out-maps) and 13 full-page illustrations of inhabitants of Sweden, Finland and Russia in their local Dress / Pagination: Volume I: XV, 404 pages including the rare Specimen of Russian Print (cyrillic) / Volume II: (3), 374 pages / Volume III: (3), 404 pages / Volume IV: (3), 367 pages including the “Genealogical Table of the Kings of Sweden of the House of Vasa (Genalogy of the House of Wasa)”/ Volume V: (3), 283 pages plus 56 unnumbered pages of an Index and including a “Genealogical Table of the Kings of Denmark of the House of Oldenburgh (House of Oldenburg)” and verso “Genealogical Table of the Kings of Denmark, from Harald Blaatand to Christian I.” / Plates Volume [Volume Six]: Original, mid-19th century Hardcover (half-leather with gilt lettering on spines). Unusual, much more valuable version of this edition with the plates and maps in a separate Volume instead of being bound with the text. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The upper and lower spines slightly bumped. Hinges starting but holding. The plates-volume needs repair with both boards cleanly detached. Interior very clean. The plates, illustrations and maps all in unusually excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear (two absolutely minor tears to two maps). Excellent publication, with an abundance of large maps and folkloristic illustration, all printed in the late 18th-century, mostly by Thomas Kitchin, but bound in the 1802-edition.