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169128959Paris: Chez Estienne Michallet 1691. Title vignettes 4 4 and 7 pages respectively. 1 vols. 4to. Three works bound together in later marbled wrappers. Minor discoloration a few small holes else very good. Title vignettes 4 4 and 7 pages respectively. 1 vols. 4to. Concerning the postal system the horses and post masters. Chez Estienne Michallet unknown books
1699312012London: Car. Harper 1699. First Johnson edition. title printed in red and black. 8 201 7 p. 8vo 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches. Bound in contemporary speckled calf original label on spine joints a bit cracked. Signed E. Lib Guil. Wynne. First Johnson edition. title printed in red and black. 8 201 7 p. 8vo 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches. In addition to Grattius's ancient poem on hunting annotated by Thomas Johnson this edition also includes Fracastoro's 1478-1553 Alcon Caius's 1510-1573 De Canibus Britannicis on the raising of British hunting dogs; and Demetrius Pepagomenus's 1200-1300 Cynosophium Liber de Cura Canum<br/><br/>A collection of works on the use management and care of dogs. <br/> Title page in red and black.<br/> The word "Kynosophion" on title page is in Greek characters.<br/> Each work preceeded by a divisional title page on leaves G5r K3r L1r M6v and M7r.<br/> "Cynosophium. Liber de cura canum" in Greek and Latin on facing pages. Wing  G1582; ESTC R24352; Schwerdt I P. 217 Car. Harper unknown books
1700315107London: John Nutt 1700. First edition. ii 160 pp. 8vo. Period blind-tooled calf red morocco spine label. Early ink signature torn from top margin of title with some loss to ruled border. First edition. ii 160 pp. 8vo. A tour of London and its amusements by the Grub Street satirist Thomas Brown 1662-1704. Includes chapter on gaming houses Amusement X. Wing B5051; ESTC R19929 John Nutt unknown books
1678240583London: Richard Marriott 1678. First edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 1 vols. Lg 12mo 7 x 4-1/2 inches. Contemporary tan paneled calf rebacked with new lettering piece red edges a fine tall crisp copy. Signed "John Drinkwater 1920" on the front flyleaf. Signed "Jb. Lloyd" on title page back endpapers have early notes. Onset on front flyleaf "J. Crouch. First edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 1 vols. Lg 12mo 7 x 4-1/2 inches. A fine copy of the first edition of the last of Walton's Lives. An unusual copy in that it remains uncorrected by its author--it is more frequently found with five or six minor corrections in Walton's hand. This copy has all its editorial flaws intact. Pforzheimer 1053; Church II 1115; Coigney p. 387; Heckscher 2163 Richard Marriott unknown books
164962396London: R. Royston 1649. First edition. 6 263 pp. Woodcut device of Oxford on title page. 1 vols. 4to. Coontemporary calf worn upper joint split internally very good. With bookplates of HENRY SHERWIN and CHARLES WETZEL on endpapers with printed slip from Sherwin stating that he acquired the book from the collection of GEORGE BETHUNE American editor of Izaac Walton. First edition. 6 263 pp. Woodcut device of Oxford on title page. 1 vols. 4to. Bethune Sherwin Wetzel Copy - and Walton Association. Henry Hammond 1605-1660 was an eminent Caroline divine prolific writer biblical scholar and a contemporary of his fellow divine Izaak Walton who refers to Hammond in his LIVES as "the learned Dr. Hammond". A nice assocation copy from the library of the Walton editor George Bethune who clearly saw the connection to Walton and of two of America's greatest angling collectors. New Wing H-520 R. Royston unknown books
1670262585London: Printed by Thomas Newcomb for Richard Marriott 1670. First edition. With four copperplate portraits of the subjects; and with three individual title pages for Wotton Hooker and Herbert. 16 88; 79 1 56 77-140 104 pp. Bound without blank A1 blank A8 present. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep rebacked. Loose in binding spine worn. Ink signature dated 1740 on free endpaper leather label of Estelle Doheny. Internally clean and with generous margins. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. With four copperplate portraits of the subjects; and with three individual title pages for Wotton Hooker and Herbert. 16 88; 79 1 56 77-140 104 pp. Bound without blank A1 blank A8 present. 1 vols. 8vo. Walton on the English Poets. First collective edition of Walton's essential biography of seventeenth century English divines and poets. The biography of Wotton was published as part of Reliquae Wottoniane 1651; Walton's Elegy of Donne was first published in the 1635 edition of Donne's Poems and the Life in the edition of Donne's LXXX Sermons in 1640; separately in 1658; the biography of Hooker was first published in 1665. The Life of George Herbert has was first published separately in the same year as this edition. The irregular pagination in the life of Herbert is a printer's error; the text is complete.<br/><br/>An important work with distinguished provenance. Wither to Prior 955; ESTC R15317; Wing W671; Pforzheimer 1056; Keynes G. Donne 4th ed. 61; Coigney p. 386 Printed by Thomas Newcomb for Richard Marriott unknown books
1689267448Paris: Jacques Le Febvre 1689. Second French edition. 24 344 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Modern plain calf red morocco spine label. Text browned some spotting and dampstaining towards rear of volume. Second French edition. 24 344 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Translated from the Italian of Gioachino Greco c.1600-1634 considered by some to be the first professional chess player. Greco was one of the most celebrated players of the seventeenth century and importantly recorded many of his matches as he travelled across Europe. A complete copy of one of the most famous early chess books. DeLucia 2nd ed. p. 61; Niemeijer 400; Schmid 187 Jacques Le Febvre unknown books
1670264960London: Printed by Thomas Newcomb for Richard Marriott 1670. First collected edition. With four copperplate portraits of the subjects; and with three individual title pages for Wotton Hooker and Herbert. 16 88; 79 1 56 77-140 104 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 18.5 x 12 cm. Old calf rebacked new endpapers front pastedown with window to show old bookplate of John Culliford Goodden. Spine a bit worn generally a clean fresh copy. Prelim A8 bound before A1 both with ink notes with the October 10 1670 ownership inscription of Johannis Stevens on recto of frontispiece portrait; annotations and signatures of Goodden ca. 1793 in text. Some light staining in the outer margins towards the rear. Sterling Maxwell copy with his notes on binder's leaves and bookplate in the rear. First collected edition. With four copperplate portraits of the subjects; and with three individual title pages for Wotton Hooker and Herbert. 16 88; 79 1 56 77-140 104 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 18.5 x 12 cm. Walton on the English Poets. First collective edition of Walton's essential biography of seventeenth century English divines and poets. The biography of Wotton was published as part of Reliquae Wottoniane 1651; Walton's Elegy of Donne was first published in the 1635 edition of Donne's Poems and the Life in the edition of Donne's LXXX Sermons in 1640; separately in 1658; the biography of Hooker was first published in 1665. The Life of George Herbert has was first published separately in the same year as this edition<br/><br/>A1 bears an ink inscription "Reader Eternity is the Prize / Be good and to Salvation wise - N.D.N.". Wither to Prior 955; ESTC R15317; Wing W671; Pforzheimer 1056; Keynes G. Donne 4th ed. 61; Coigney p. 386 Printed by Tho(mas) Newcomb for Richard Marriott unknown books
1689240368London: Printed for Tho. Bassett at the George in Fleet-street; Will. Hensman and Tho. Fox in Westminster-Hall 1689. First edition. 8 729 i.e. 719 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt spine lettering label. Small snag at top of spine else fine. Bookplates of The Right Hon. Anthony Earle of Kent 1702 and Thomas Philip Earl de Gray Wrest Park. First edition. 8 729 i.e. 719 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. HANDSOME COPY. Of piscatorial interest as it contains "The angler's ballad" "To my dear and most worthy friend Mr. Izaak Walton" "The retirement. Stanzes Irreguliers. To Mr. Izaak Walton" and "Contentation directed to my dear Father and most worthy Friend Mr. Izaak Walton" Wing C-6389; Westwood & Satchell p. 66; Pforzheimer 221 Printed for Tho. Bassett, at the George in Fleet-street; Will. Hensman and Tho. Fox, in Westminster-Hall unknown books
1631243817London: Printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Harison at the golden Unicorne in Pater-noster-row 1631. The fourth edition. Newly Corrected Enlarged and Adorned with many excellent Additions as may appeare by this marke pointing hand" First separate edition. 12 118 2 pp. Lacking first and final leaves blank. 1 vols. 4to in 8's 18.5 cm. 19th-century black pebbled cloth upper cover lettered simply in gilt "COUNTRY CONTENTMENTS G.M." Title page somewhat soiled outer margin with a 1/2-inch darkened streak text generally somewhat toned. The fourth edition. Newly Corrected Enlarged and Adorned with many excellent Additions as may appeare by this marke pointing hand" First separate edition. 12 118 2 pp. Lacking first and final leaves blank. 1 vols. 4to in 8's 18.5 cm. First separate edition. First published in 1615 STC 17342 with its companion book THE ENGLISH HUSWIFE which was printed again separately in 1623. This second edition of THE HUSBANDMANS RECREATIONS without that book's section on horses is actually the first edition ever printed separately and it is quite scarce on the market: only three copies have appeared at auction over the last quarter century the last of which brought $2983. Poynter 34.5b; STC 17344; ESTC S112050; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 242 Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Iohn Harison, at the golden Unicorne in Pater-noster-row unknown books
1665225573London: Printed by J. Grismond for Rich. Marriott and are to be sold at his shop under the Kings-Head Tavern over against the Inner Temple Gate in Fleetstreet 1665. First edition. 22 208 pp. including imprimatur leaf facing the title and final leaf of errata. 1 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth-century brown calf gilt spine. Joints a bit rubbed; with repair at head of spine. A few upper margins closely cropped generally a fine clean copy. Bookplate of Paul Beilby Thompson. First edition. 22 208 pp. including imprimatur leaf facing the title and final leaf of errata. 1 vols. 8vo. Wing W670; Grolier Wither to Prior 953; ESTC T10749; Coigney p. 386 Printed by J. G[rismond] for Rich. Marriott, and are to be sold at his shop under the Kings-Head Tavern, over against the Inner unknown books
1631243598London 1631. Reissue various editions see below. 28 188 2; 12 118 2; 12 252; 4 24; 12 158; 8 133 3 p. : ill. woodcuts. WITHOUT GENERAL TITLE PAGE. 4to. Contemporary speckled calf blind french fillet with early manuscript waste-paper. Handsome copy. Reissue various editions see below. 28 188 2; 12 118 2; 12 252; 4 24; 12 158; 8 133 3 p. : ill. woodcuts. WITHOUT GENERAL TITLE PAGE. 4to. A reissue with added general title page here missing of "Cheape and good husbandry" 5th ed. 1631; "Country contentments" 4th ed. 1631; "The English house-vvife" 4th ed. 1631; "The Inrichment of the vveald of Kent . revised inlarged and corrected" 1631; "Markhams farewell to husbandry" 3rd ed. 1631; all by or edited by Gervase Markham; and "A Nevv Orchard and Garden" 2nd ed. 1631 by William Lawson.<br/><br/><br/><br/>One of the most popular general household books of the 17th century with 15 separate editions before 1700. Poynter 34.5 unknown books
1688254004Napoli Naples: Carlo Porpora 1688. Second edition. Engraved title. xx 229 3 pp. 4to. Mid-eighteenth century Italian polychrome enameled binding of full brown calf covers with two gilt-rolled panells central strap and scroll device built up from gouges surrounded by pointellé flowers with remnants of blue and red enamel edges gilt guaffered and painted with floral and hare design front free endpaper removed bookplate. Second edition. Engraved title. xx 229 3 pp. 4to. A history of ancient sport and games in Italy first printed in 1641. This copy in an elaborate eighteenth-century Neopolitan enameled binding with all edges gilt gauffered and painted. Graesse IV p. 113 Carlo Porpora unknown books
1654304178London: Printed for Charles Adams 1654. First English edition. Three-page preliminary poem by Edmund Waller twenty-four-page preface. Parallel Latin and English text. 94 86 pp. 12mo. Contemporary dark calf spine gilt a.e.g. slightly rubbed. First English edition. Three-page preliminary poem by Edmund Waller twenty-four-page preface. Parallel Latin and English text. 94 86 pp. 12mo. "Nothing in known respecting this author Grattius except that Ovid speaks of him as a contemporary. The poem is heroic and consists of 536 lines: its style is hard and prosaic; it describes the weapons and arts of the chase horses and hounds; but the science is rather Greek than Italian and the information contained in it is principally derived from Xenophon." A History of Roman Classical Literature Browne 317.<br/><br/>Wase's commentary includes chapters on "the styles of hunting different from the English both antique and forreigne" and "the modern authors who have written upon this subject." The first edition in Latin was published in Lyon by Sebastian Gryphius in 1537. ESTC R1966; Wing G-1581; Schwerdt I p. 217. Provenance: Bent Juel-Jenson bookplate; Robert S. Pirie bookplate Printed for Charles Adams unknown books
1664245585Paris: chez Jacques le Gras au Palais à l'entrée de la Gallerie des Prisonniers 1664. Second edition. Engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved folding plates. xii 320; 152 4 pp. 8vo. Bound in contemporary full mottled French calf spine gilt small worming at back inner margin of 3 leaves not affecting text. Bookplate of Bibliothèque Fournier-Sarlovèze. Signed "Reynaud" on ffep. Second edition. Engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved folding plates. xii 320; 152 4 pp. 8vo. Beautiful copy in contemporary binding of the second edition of this popular manual of horsemanship. The second edition is enlarged with a second part on the treatment of horse maladies. Huth p. 22; Wells 1871 chez Jacques le Gras, au Palais, à l'entrée de la Gallerie des Prisonniers unknown books
1682239930London: Printed by T. James for Tho. Helder at the Angel in Little Britain 1682. First edition. Two woodcuts in text at pp. 37 & 38. 10 prelim leaves 1- 78 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 5-3/8 x 3-1/2 inches. Bound in full tan calf gilt spine a.e.g. by Bedford. Back hinge off else fine. Bookplate of Nell Rose Wheeler and Charles Van Cise Wheeler. First edition. Two woodcuts in text at pp. 37 & 38. 10 prelim leaves 1- 78 2 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 5-3/8 x 3-1/2 inches. Nobbes was the first to write extensively on the subject of trolling and has come to be called "the father of trolling" although Walton and others had mentioned it before. Westwood & Satchell p. 156; Heckscher 1445; Wing N-193 Printed by T. James for Tho. Helder at the Angel in Little Britain unknown books
16593041431659. Pen and ink on one parchment membrane three red wax seal impressions. Folio 17-1/2 x 14-3/8 in. Parchment browned. Mounted and housed in a green morocco-backed folding-box. Pen and ink on one parchment membrane three red wax seal impressions. Folio 17-1/2 x 14-3/8 in. Obligation and bond by Walter Fowler Robert Pickin and Brian Lane to John Gough of Oldfalling in Bushbury Staffordshire for £1000 following the sale to Gough of the Priory Grounds in Bradley Staffordshire signed by Fowler Pirkin and Lane with red wax seal impressions and signed by Walton and three others at witnesses.<br/>Izaak Walton was a London merchant and author who is perhaps best known today as the author of the Compleat Angler an early book on fishing conservation and the environment as it interacts with the people who rely on it. unknown books
1651240318London: Printed by Thomas Maxey for R. Marriot etc. 1651. First edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved portraits in text. 540 pp. 1 vols. 18mo. Bound in full red morocco gilt dentelles a.e.g. by Stikeman & Co. Hinges neatly repaired internally fine. The James William Ellsworth and R.B. Adam copy. First edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved portraits in text. 540 pp. 1 vols. 18mo. Contains a poem of 24 lines "On a Banck as I sate a Fishing" a description of the Spring cited in The Compleat Angler. Printed two years before the first edition of The Compleat Angler by the same printer. An extremely rare book and internally a very fine copy. Westwood & Satchell p. 243; Heckscher 2199 Printed by Thomas Maxey, for R. Marriot, etc. unknown books
1697240722London: Printed by J. Dawks for N. Rolls in Petty-Canons-Hall in St. Paul's Church-yard 1697. Fourth edition. Engraved frontispiece and 4 folding plates. 10 138 91 2-78 71 90; 8 tables 101. 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full 18th-century panelled calf with new spine and red leather lettering piece. Very good copy. Bookplates of William Pinkerton ink signature G.M. Rivington Wilson on bottom and of Charles Dunlap. Fourth edition. Engraved frontispiece and 4 folding plates. 10 138 91 2-78 71 90; 8 tables 101. 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "Cox's book is well composed comprehensive and compact. It fills a space in the not overcrowded list of old English hunting and hawking books and certainly compares favourably with John Ray's additions to the 'Ornithology' which deal with fowling and hawking" Schwerdt I p. 123. As for the angling section "Nicholas Cox is of the superstitious astrological necromantical order of angling writers. He makes us acquainted with divers miraculous streams and unaccountable fishes." See long note in Westwood & Satchell pp. 68-69. Wing C-6706; Schwerdt I pp. 122-23; Westwood & Satchell pp. 68-69; Sherwin 1946 lot 146 part; Maclay Sale lot 173 Printed by J. Dawks, for N. Rolls, in Petty-Canons-Hall, in St. Paul's Church-yard unknown books
1634240580London: Francis Constable 1634. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece date altered in manuscript woodcut illustrations of coats of arms. xii 255 1; viii 163 1 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Eighteenth-century calf morocco spine label neatly rebacked some toning to text generally fine. Bookplate of Henry A. Sherwin. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece date altered in manuscript woodcut illustrations of coats of arms. xii 255 1; viii 163 1 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Sherwin Copy. Influential manual of conduct for the gentleman or courtier written for the eight-year-old son of William Howard Lord Arundel and covering a multitude of subjects from heraldry and geography to law and art. Pages 207-215 address "Exercises of the body" including running swimming hawking and hunting. Westwood & Satchell record the chapter on fishing at pp. 251-255 which also includes the paragraph on "Making Flyes."<br/>The engraved frontispiece has apparently been inserted. It has been printed from the plate used in the first edition with date and imprint deftly altered in ink. The second part has its own title page with the imprint "Printed for I. M. and are to be sold by Francis Constable." ESTC S114316; STC 19504; Westwood & Satchell p. 167; Heckscher 1512; Sherwin 376 this copy; Maclay Library Five Centuries of Sport lot 463 Francis Constable unknown books
1634236461London: Francis Constable 1634. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece date altered in manuscript woodcut illustrations of coats of arms. xii 255 viii 163 1 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Eighteenth-century calf morocco spine label. With some neat contemporary ink annotations at Chapters 5 6 and 18 and a page of manuscript notes on verso of last page of text. John Goodford bookplate. Maclay bookplate. Joints lightly rubbed else fine. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece date altered in manuscript woodcut illustrations of coats of arms. xii 255 viii 163 1 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Maclay Copy. Influential manual of conduct for the gentleman or courtier written for the eight-year-old son of William Howard Lord Arundel and covering a multitude of subjects from heraldry and geography to law and art. Pages 207-215 address "Exercises of the body" including running swimming hawking and hunting.Westwood & Satchell record the chapter on Fishing at pp. 251-255 which also includes the paragraph on "Making Flyes."<br/><br/>The engraved frontispiece has apparently been inserted. It has been printed from the plate used in the first edition with date and imprint deftly altered in ink. The second part has its own title page with the imprint "Printed for I. M. and are to be sold by Francis Constable". The annotations are found in the chapters on University Life Stile and History Reputation and Carriage. ESTC S114316; STC 19504; Westwood & Satchell p. 167; Heckscher 1512; Maclay Library Five Centuries of Sport lot 463 Francis Constable unknown books
1694240249London: Printed for the Author. To be sold by Henry Mortclock sic at the Phenix 1694. First edition. xxx 304 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 6-5/8 x 4-1/4 inches. Nineteenth-century brown calf edges red by Tout. Bookplates of "Bibliotheca Piscatoria. Collection of Robert Clarke. December 31 1892" and of the Field Museum with release. Ex-library small perforated stamp ink note and blind stamp to title shelfmark on verso. Traces of worming at foot of text from pp. x- xxx 1-10 with minor loss of a few letters. Very good. First edition. xxx 304 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 6-5/8 x 4-1/4 inches. Wing F-2064; Westwood & Satchell p.100-101; Litchfield 2 Printed for the Author. To be sold by Henry Mortclock [sic] at the Phenix unknown books
1668222879London: Printed for Richard Marriot and are to be sold by Charles Harper 1668. Fourth edition. Engraved cartouche on the title-page and ten small copperplates of fish in the text. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/4 inches; 140 x 83 cm. Full dark green morocco spine extra gilt boards with triple fillet border gilt turn-ins a.e.g. by Riviere. Five leaves in first gathering closely trimmed affecting catchwords 1/8-inch scuff at bottom of front board. A fine copy superbly bound in custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. Fourth edition. Engraved cartouche on the title-page and ten small copperplates of fish in the text. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/4 inches; 140 x 83 cm. Excellent copy of this Walton first published in 1653. The first four editions - there were five in his lifetime - remained anonymous. Coigney 5; Horne 5; Oliver 5; Pforzheimer 1051; Westwood & Satchell p. 219; Wing W 665 Printed for R[ichard] Marriot, and are to be sold by Charles Harper unknown books
1653239106London: Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot 1653. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart Faithorne or Vaughan 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other type-ornament headpieces woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. Bound without terminal blank R4; leaves F4 Q5-8 and R1-3 in facsimile a few headlines just shaved; washed and pressed. Early 20th-century olive morocco gilt paneled sides with corner fleurons and central lozenge gilt spine with two red leather labels edges gilt on the rough. In red morocco-backed slipcase with chemise spine tooled in gilt with crest and motto "veritas" by James McDonald New York. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart Faithorne or Vaughan 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other type-ornament headpieces woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. The First Walton. First edition of a landmark of English literature.<br/>The present copy has A3r in uncorrected state and displays most other errors as noted by Horne although p. 114 reading VVhen not VVien; p. 245 with a notorious error is here in facsimile in the corrected state.<br/>The first edition of Walton's perennially popular and never out-of-print angling classic has always been difficult to find. Its tremendous appreciation in value over the last twenty years is an indication of how few copies indeed remain outside of permanent collections as well as how relentlessly it is still pursued by collectors. Wing W 661; Coigney 1; Horne 1; Church Catalogue I 32; Pforzheimer 1048; Grolier Wither to Prior III 193; Grolier English 31; Westwood and Satchell p. 217. Provenance: John Peachey 1749-1816 West Dean Sussex F.R.S. and M.P. 2nd Baron Selsey from 1806; bookplate dated 1782 preserved - Harry T. Pethers sale Sotheby's 5 December 1960 lot 135 £145 to Maggs - Bent Juel-Jensen acquired from Maggs February 1961 for £225 Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot unknown books
