1. [Colbert, Jean-Baptiste] Colbert, John Baptist.

The Life of the famous John Baptist Colbert, Late Minister and Secretary of State to Lewis XIV., the present French King. Done into english from a french copy printed at Cologne this present year 1695.

First english edition. London, Printed for R. Bentley, 1695. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, (14), 246, (8) pages. Hardcover / Rare, original 17th-century or early 18th-century leather. Original binding with stronger signs of rubbing to rear board. Pastedowns loosened. Interior and frontispiece very good. Needs minor attention from bookbinder. Very rare in this original binding !

2. Tryal of Connor Lord MacGuir – Temple, John / Tichborne, Sir Henry.

The History of the General Rebellion in Ireland raised upon the Three and Twentieth day of October 1641. Together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ensued thereupon. To which is added, Sir Henry Tichborne’s History of the Siege of Drogheda, in the Year 1641. As also, The whole Tryal of Connor Lord MacGuir, with the perfect Copies of the Indictment, and all the Evidences against him. Together with the Pope’s Bull to the Confederate Catholicks in Ireland.

The Seventh Edition. Cork, Phineas and George Bagnell, 1766. 14 cm x 21 cm. xxiv, [12 pages with list of Subscribers], 412 pages. Hardcover / Professionally rebacked, original boards with gilt lettering and ornament to style of the 18th century. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Title and following page slightly fingerstained. Else in very good condition and especially beautiful and firm after the restoration of the volume by an english masterbinder.

3. Waterhouse, Ellis.

Painting in Britain 1530-1790.

Middlesex, Penguin Books Ltd., 1953. 18.2 cm x 26.4 cm. XV, 271 pages.192 pages of black & white plates. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. With only very minor foxing to edges, endpapers, half-title and title pages. Pages lightly tanned. Gilt lettering to spine and emblem on front. Minor wear to spine. Binding tight. Clean interior.

4. Summerson, John.

Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (Pelican History of Art).

London, Penguin Books, 1953. 18.4 cm x 26.4 cm. XVIII, 373 pages. Illustrated with black and white plates. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. With only minor foxing to edges, front pages and endpaper. Pages slightly tanned. Rear endpaper separated from book block. Gilt lettering to spine and emblem on front cover. Binding strong.

5. [Songling, Pu], Zeitlin, Judith.

Historian of the Strange – Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale.

Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1993. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 332 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. [Shakespeare, William] Wills, Gary.

Witches & Jesuits. Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

New York, Oxford, The New York Public Library, Oxford University Press, 1995. 15 cm x 22 cm. VIII, 223 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. Shakespeare, William.

King Henry VIII / King Richard II. With Preface, Glossary & C by Israel Gollancz.

Two Volumes of The Temple Shakespeare. London, J.M. Dent and Co., 1895, 10.5 cm x 13.5 cm. King Henry VIII – Frontispieces (Old Palace, Whitehall), XIII, 163 pages / King Richard II – Frontispiece (Berkley Castle), X, 140 pages. Original Hardcover with debossed crest on covers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Highly decorated title pages featuring portraits of respective Kings. Gilt top edges and deckled fore and bottom edges. Minor discoloration to endpapers and pastedowns. Main text, print and pages bright and clear. Shakespeare’s Crest on pastedowns. A verse by Hugh Holland printed on the protective tissue for the frontispiece in Henry VIII volume and prose from I.S.M. (From Second Folio) on protective tissue in the Richard II volume. [The Temple Shakespeare]

8. [Saint Claude de la Colombiere] LaVigne, Ruth H.

The Life of Saint Claude de la Colombiere: Spiritual Director of St. Margaret Mary.

Boston, St. Paul Books & Media, 1992. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 125 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with very minor signs of external wear. Slight scuffing on spine and front cover. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

9. Lang, James.

Rebuilding St. Paul’s after the Great Fire of London.

London, New York, Toronto, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1956. 19.5 cm x 25.6 cm. XI, 269 pages. 22 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine faded. Top corner of front board bumped. Minor foxing to endpapers and hint of tanning to edges but interior otherwise bright and clean.

10. Lancisi, Giovanni Maria / Wright, Wilmer Cave (translator).

De Aneurysmatibus Aneurysms.

Special reprint edition of New York, The Macmillan Company, 1952. Delanco NJ, The Classics of Medicine Library, 2001. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XXXV, 362 pages. Beautifully bound Hardcover with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine with raised bands. Elaborate gilt embossment and ruling on both boards. All edges gilt. With white silk ribbon page marker. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Near fine condition. With protective mylar jacket. Bookplate of preowner shows that “This is copy number 541 of the Classics of Medicine Library” [The Classics of Medicine Library]

11. Kippenberg, Anton.

Die Sage vom Herzog von Luxemburg und die historische Persönlichkeit ihres Trägers. Mit 2 Vollbildern und 11 Abbildungen im Text. Neudruck der Ausgab Leipzig, Engelmann, 1901. Mit einem Vorwort von Friedrich Michael: “Anton Kippenberg: Buchhaendler – Philologe – Sammler”.

Niederwalluf b. Wiesbaden, M. Sändig, 1970. 8°. VIII, 280 Seiten. 1 Titelbild. Hardcover / Blaues Leinen. Sehr guter, neuwertiger Zustand mit nur ganz geringen äusserlichen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar.

12. Jonson, Ben / Cain, Tom (Editor).

Poetaster. The Revels Plays.

Manchester / New York, Manchester University Press, 1995. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XV, 304 pages. Three black and white plates Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Plate No.1 entitled “Heroic Virtue (Hercules) treads down Envy. Christoffel Jegher, woodcut after Peter Paul Rubens, Modello for Banqueting House ceiling”. Plate No.2 of the title page of the first edition of poetaster (1602). Plate No.3 “From Q, sig. FIV and F, sig 2c2v”.

13. Jardine, Lisa.

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measued London.

London, Harper Collins, 2003. 16 cm x 24 cm. IX, 422 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s – Mylar. Excellent condition.

14. Góngora y Argote, Luis de.

The Solitudes. Translated and with an introduction by Edward Meryon Wilson. Revised and edited by Willis Barnstone.

New York, Las Americas Publishing Company, 1965. Octavo. 159 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [A Cypress Book].

15. [Galilei, Galileo] Heilbron, J.L.

Galileo.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010. Octavo. XIV, 508 pages. With several illustrations (also in colour). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition.

16. [Gadadhara] Bhattacharyya, Sibajiban.

Gadadhara’s Theory of Objectivity – Part Two – Containing the Text of Gadadhara’s ‘Visayatavada’. With an English Translation, Explanatory Notes and a General Introduction.

Part Two of two. Delhi, Varanasi, Patna, Bangalore, Madras, Motilal Banarsidass, 1990. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. IX, 188 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

17. Franklin, Benjamin / Wright, Esmond (editor).

Benjamin Franklin: His Life As He Wrote It.

London, The Folio Society, 1989. 16 cm x 25.5 cm. 260 pages. Original hardcover with slipcase. As new.

18. [Fletcher, John / Massinger, Philip].

Beggar’s Bush. Edited by John H. Dorenkamp.

First published 1647 Folio of ‘Comedies and Tragedies’ Beaumont and Fletcher. The Hague, Paris, Mouton & Co, 1967. 15 cm x 22 cm. 202 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor pencil markings in text and back flap of dustjacket.

19. Finlay, T.A.

With the Army of O’Neill. An Irish Historical Romance.

Dublin and Cork, The Educational Company of Ireland Limited, no year. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece, 176 pages. 4 other illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Pictoral to front board also. Fair condition. Some soiling to front board. Wear to spine cloth. Board corners rubbed and bumped. Gutter between endpage and rear pastedown cracked with exposed cloth. Binding shaky. Minor damp staining to top edges. Marking to interior. Some dog-eared pages. Front endpaper carries private signature of ‘James O’Sullivan, Bantry.’

20. [English History Collection] – Weiss, David A. / Papin, Joseph (drawings).

The Great Fire of London.

New York, Cumberland Enterprises, 1968. 15 cm x 23 cm. 159 pages including multiple illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.