1. Finlay, Ian.

Art in Scotland.

London, Oxford University Press, 1948. 14.5 cm x 22.4 cm. Illustrated Colour Frontispiece,‘The Pink Tablecloth’ by J. Leslie Hunter.180 pages.16 black and white illustrations. Original Clothbound Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine strip is discoloured. Dampstains to front endpaper and pastedown. Slight tanning & foxing at pages edges. Red decoration to top edges. Very minor soiling to boards.

2. Meigs, Samantha A.:

Tradition and confessionalism, 1400-1690.

Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997. 23 cm. XI, 209 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. A fantastic, exceptional publication on this topic. [Early modern history series].

3. Schröer, Alois [Bearb.].

Vatikanische Dokumente zur Geschichte der Reformation und der Katholischen Erneuerung in Westfalen. Die Korrespondenz geistlicher und weltlicher Landesherren Westfalens mit den Heiligen Stuhl 1547 – 1683.

Münster, Aschendorff, 1993. 8°. XLII, 477 Seiten. Hardcover / Originales Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

4. Cordus, Euricius / Brasavola, Antonio Musa / [Hieronymus Schreiber / Jerôme Schreiber]

Botanologicon (Euricii Cordi Simesusii Medici Botanologicon) – Angebunden / Bound with: Antonio Musa Brasavola – Examen omnium simplicium medicamentorum, quorum in officinis usus est. Addita sunt Insuper Aristotelis problemata, quae ad stirpium genus, & oleracea pertinent.

Cologne (Köln) / Leyden (Lyon), Johann Gymnicus (Gymnich) / Johannes and Franciscus Frellon, 1534 / 1537. Octavo. Collation complete: I. Euricius Cordus – Botanologicon: Title with the woodcut device of Cologne-printer Johann Gymnicus, including his Motto, the first line of a Verse from the Aeneid by Virgil ‘Discite Iustitiam Moniti’, 183, [21] pp., 2 blank leaves. The titlepage of the Botanologicon bears the manuscript ownership-entry of Nuremberg’s Astronomer, Philosopher and Mathematician Hieronymus Schreiber [also called Jerôme Schreiber], student-friend of Euricius Cordus’ son Valerius Cordus in Wittenberg and later trustee of Valerius Cordus’ scholarly estate after Valerius Cordus’ premature death in Rome. Dated in the same hand on the titlepage also the entry ‘Anno 1539’, when Valerius Cordus matriculated at Wittenberg and Schreiber already had studied there since May 1532. With several contemporary manuscript annotations throughout both titles (the Botanologicon and Examen) / II. A. M. Brasavola – Examen omnium simplicium medicamentorum: Title, [1], [‘Reverendissimo to Ioannes Argenterius’, 4 pp.], [‘Ad Illustris & Sereniss. (‘Epistola Nuncupatoria’) to the Duces of Ferrara’ 17 pp.], [Epigramma, 1 p.], [Examen & Aristotelis Problemata 542 pages, [Dedication to Franciscus Frellaeus, 2 pp.], [Index copiosissimus in Examen Omnium, 13 pp.], [1]. With several manuscript annotations. Original, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards with some stronger signs of running to the corners, with partially bevelled edges and both of the original metal clasps intact. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Title in ink to upper spine and also to top of fore-edge. Very few pressed plants loosely inserted. Interior in excellent condition with some minor staining to very few pages only.

5. [English History Collection] – Brooke-Hunt, Violet.

The Story of Westminster Abbey. [Prize – Binding / Stunning Victorian Leather Binding by Relfe Brothers Ltd. London for the Queen Elizabeth’s School, Wimborne Minster with exceptional gilted emblemata to frontcover: “Gubernato Libere Scole Grammatice in Winborne MinsterSigillum Commune – Elizabeth Regine Anno 1563”].

Twelfth Thousand. London, James Nisbet & Co, No date (1902). 13.5 cm x 18.5 cm. IX, 356 pages, including photographs and illustrations. Original Hardcover full morocco in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Presentation inscription by Rev. J.M.J.Hetcher to J. Cutler [Small stamp: “Tilley’s Library Wimbourne” to endpaper].

6. Brown, Terence.

The Whole Protestant Community: the making of a historical myth.

Derry, Field Day Theatre Company Limited, 1985. 14 cm x 22 cm. 24 pages. Original pamphlet / Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear to the dustjacket and an inscription by the pre-owner. [Field Day Pamphlet Number 7]

7. Thomas More – [More, Thomas]. (1478 – 1535).

Portrait of Sir Thomas More.

Original Engraving. [no year, c.1870]. Plate Size: 9.5 cm x 15 cm. Sheet Size: 13.5 cm x 21 cm. In very good condition with only minor traces of browning mostly to outer margins.