28 ANGLING.-BLOME (RICHARD) THE GENTLEMAN'S RECREATION, IN TWO PARTS, THE FIRST BEING AN ENCYCLOPEDY OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, EMBRACING HERALDRY, MUSIC, PAINTING, ARCHITECTURE, GEOGRAPHY (INCLUDING AMERICA), NAVIGATION, ETC., ETC. The Second Part treats of HORSEMANSHIP, HUNTING (DEER, FOX, AND HARE), HAWKING, FISHING. FOWLING, COCK-FIGHTING, etc., etc. 1686. FIRST EDITION, with fine impressions of the numerous large and curious plates, folio, original calf, neatly rebacked, £7 178 6d guineas. The FIRST EDITION is preferable to the later Editions, on account of the impressions of the Engravings. THE ABOVE CONTAINS THE 10 PAGES OF THE "ARMS OF BENEFACTORS," EMBRACING OVER TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY COATS OF ARMS, BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED (BOOKPLATE DESIGNS). These are deficient in many copies. IT ALSO CONTAINS OTHER HERALDIC PLATES. The engravings of SPORTING SUBJECTS are extremely curious and 29 ANGLING.-BOWLKER (CHARLES) THE ART OF ANGLING, or Compleat Fly-Fisher: Describing the Different Kinds of Fish, their Haunts, Places of Feeding and Retire- ment, with an Acconnt of the Generation of Fishes, and Observations on the Breeding of Carp, together with directions How to Regulate Pools or Ponds, also the Various Kinds of Baits, and the great diversity of Flies that Nature produces, to which are added Directions for making Artificial Flies. Birmingham, 1788. 8vo, original Another Edition. Birmingham, 1792. 8vo, original sheep, 68 30 ANGLING.-BROOKS (R.) System of Natural History. 1790. 6 vols, 8vo, old The whole of Vol III is devoted to the history of Fishes and Serpents, and an Appendix is added at the end "Containing the whole Art of Float and Fly Fishing, the Best Rules for the Choice of Tackle, and a Description of Natural and Artificial Baits." 31 ANGLING.-BROOKS (R.) THE ART OF ANGLING, Rock and Sea Fishing, with the Natural History of River, Pond, and Sea Fish, illustrated with 133 cuts. 1740. FIRST Second Edition. 1743. 8vo, original sheep, 158 32 ANGLING.—“ EPHEMERA,” THE BOOK OF THE SALMON; in Two Parts. Part I. The Theory, Principles, and Practice of Fly-Fishing for Salmon; with Lists of Salmon-Flies for every Good River in the Empire. Part II. The Natural History of the Salmon, all its known Habits Described, and the Best Way of Artificially Breeding it explained, usefully illustrated with numerous coloured engravings of Salmon-Flies and Salmon-Fry, by EPHEMERA, author of "A_Handbook of Angling," assisted by ANDREW YOUNG, of Invershire. 1850. FIRST EDITION, with nine pretty coloured en- gravings, small 8vo, original cloth, £1 18 33 ANGLING.-FOSTER (DAVID) THE SCIENTIFIC ANGLER. being a General and In- structive Work on Artistic Angling. (1882). 8vo, illustrations and portrait, cloth, 28 34 ANGLING.—FRANCIS (FRANCIS) A BOOK ON ANGLING, being a complete treatise on the Art of Angling in every branch. 1867. Coloured and other plates, FIRST EDITION, 35 ANGLING.-FRANCK (RICHARD) NORTHERN MEMOIRS Calculated for the Meridean of Scotland, to which is added, THE CONTEMPLATIVE AND PRACTICAL ANGLER, writ in the year 1658. New Edition, with Preface and Notes [by SIR WALTER SCOTT]. Edinburgh, 36 ANGLING.-GREENDRAKE (GREGORY, i.e., J. Coad) ANGLING EXCURSIONS IN IRE- 37 ANGLING.-HANSARD (GEORGE AGAR) TROUT AND SALMON FISHING IN WALES. 38 ANGLING.-HENDERSON (W.) MY LIFE AS AN ANGLER. 1880. Portrait and 39 ANGLING.-HOFLAND (T. C.) THE BRITISH ANGLER'S MANUAL, or the Art of Angling in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, with some Accounts of the principal Rivers, Lakes, and Trout Streams in the United Kingdom; with Instructions in Fly-fishing, Trolling, and Angling at the Bottom, and more particularly for the Trout. 1:39. Engraved frontispiece and numerous other beautiful illustrations, 8vo, cloth, 108 40 ANGLING.-KNOX (DR.) FISH AND FISHING in the Lone Glens of Scotland, with a History of the Propagation, Growth, and Metamorphoses of the Salmon. 1854. Several engravings, 8vo, original covers, 28 41 ANGLING.-MAISON RUSTIQUE, or THE COUNTREY FARME, compiled in the French Tongue by CHARLES STEVENS and JOHN LIEBAULT, Doctors of Physicke, and Translated into English by RICHARD SURFLET, NOW NEWLY REVIEWED, CORRECTED, AND And the Husbandrie of France, Italy, and Spaine. reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England, by GERVASE MARKHAM, the whole contents are in the page following (see below). London, by Adam Islip for John Bill, 1616. With numerous fine woodcut illustrations, folio, FINE COPY in the original calf, £4 48 Very scarce. This is the FIRST EDITION, edited by GERVASE MARKHAM. The following is a summary of the contents, as given on the back of the title of this valuable book :-"Whatsoever can be required for the building, or good ordering, of a Husbandman's House, or Countrey Farme : as, namely, to foresee the changes and alterations of Times; to know the motions and powers of the Sunne and Moone, upon the things about which Husbandry is occupied: as, to cure the sicke labouring man, to cure Beasts and flying Fowles of all sorts; to DRESSE, PLANT, OR MAKE GARDENS, AS WELL AS FOR THE KITCHEN, AND PHYSICKE USE, AS ALSO IN QUARTERS; WITH MANY FAIRE AND CUNNING PORTRAITURES, TO MAKE COMPARTMENTS OF DIVERS FASHIONS IN EVERIE QUARTER; WITH A LARGE DESCRIPTION OF THE HERBE NICOTIANA (TOBACCO) OR PETUM; (with a woodcut of the plant), as also of the root Mechoacan: TO PLANT, GRAFT, AND ORDER ORANGE-TREES, Citron-trees, and such other strange trees; TO ORDER BEES: TO MAKE CONSERVES: TO PRESERVE FRUITES, Flowers, Roots, and Rindes: to make Honey and Wax: 10 PLANT AND GRAFT ALL SORTS OF FRUIT-TREES: TO MAKE CYDER, PERRIE, DRINKE OF CERVICES, AND OYLES: TO DISTIL WATERS AND OYLES, or Quintessences, of whatsoever the Husbandman's store and encrease, with manie patternes of Limbeckes for the distilling of them; TO FEED AND PRESERVE SILKWORMS: to make and maintaine Medow-groundes: FISHPONDS OF RUNNING OR STANDING WATERS: TO TAKE FISHES: to measure and tyll Corne-ground: TO BAKE BEAD: TO TRIMME VINES TO MAKE MEDICINABL WINES; WITH A VERRIE LARGE AND EXCELLENT DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE NATURE AND QUALITIE OF WINE IN GENERAL: AND AFTER THAT, ANOTHER SPECIAL AND PARTICULAR ONE, OF ALL SUCH WINES as grow in Gasconie, Languedoc, Touraine, Orleans, Paris, and other Countries of France: to Plant Woods of Timber-trees and Under-growth: to make a Warren: TO BREED HERONS: AND TO IMPARKE WILD BEASTS. AS ALSO A LARGE DISCOURSE OF HUNTING THE HART, WILD BORE, HARE, FOX, GRAY, CONIE, AND SUCH LIKE: WITH THE ORDERING OF HAWKES, AND ALL SORTS OF BIRDS, and lastly in the end thereof, is briefly shewed the nature, manner of taking, and feeding, of the NIGHTINGALE, LINNET, GOLDFINCH, SISKIN, Larke, and OTHER SUCH SINGING MELOD'OUS BIRDS." 42 ANGLING.-MARSH (J.) THE JOLLY ANGLER, or Waterside Companion, containing an Account of all the Best Places for Angling, the Tackle, Baits, and other Requisites to form an Expert Angler, with a Correct Description of Tying Hooks, Making Arti- ficial Flies, Repairing Tackle, etc., also an Appendix, descriptive of the most successful means used in Sea Fishing at the different Watering Places. (1836). Numerous 44 ANGLING.-SILVESTER (TIPPING) PISCATIO, or Angling, a Poem, written originally 45 ANGLING.-Wayth (C.) TROUT FISHING, or the River Darent, a Rural Poem. 1845. Small 8vo, original cloth, uncut, 58 ANGLING.- See also under "EARLY SCHOOL BOOK" 46 ARWAKER (Edm., M.A.) Fons Perennis, A POEM on the Excellent and Useful 47 ASCHAM (Roger) A REPORT AND DISCOURSE WRITTEN BY ROGER ASCHAM OF THE AFFAIRES AND STATE OF GERMANY and the Emperour Charles his Court, duryng certaine yeares while the sayd Roger was there. At London, Printed by John Daye, dwelling over Aldersgate, N.D. (1555). Small 4to, Black Letter, corner of one page neatly penned in our language, evincing its author to have been a man as capable of shining in the 48 BACON (Francis, Lord Verulam) THE CHARGE OF SIR FRANCIS BACON, KNIGHT, His Majestie's Attorney Generall, TOUCHING DUELLS, upon an Information in the Star- Chamber against Priest and Wright, with the Decree of the Star-Chamber in the same cause. Robert Wilson, 1614. FIRST EDITION, Small 4to, sewn, £2 28 49 BACON (Francis, Lord Verulam) THE WISDOME OF THE ANCIENTS, written in Iatine by the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, Baron of Verulam and Lord Chancellour of England, DONE INTO ENGLISH BY SIR ARTHUR GORGES, Knight. 50 BATH.-CHAPMAN (HENRY) Thermæ Redivivæ, the City of Bath Described, with some Observations on those Sovraign Waters, both as to the Bathing in, and Drinking of them, now so much in use. 1673. Quarto, sewn, £1 1s 51 BATH.-JACKSON (John, Rector of Weston-Birt) Of God's Benefits to Mankind in Healing all their Diseases, a Sermon preached at Bath. Oct. 5, 1707. Quarto, 52 BEHN (Mrs. Aphra) A Poem to Sir Roger L'Estrange, on his Third Part of the History of the Times, relating to the Death of Sir Edmund Bury-Godfrey. 1688. FIRST EDITION, small 4to, clean and UNCUT copy, sewn, 78 6d 53 BEHN (Mrs. Aphra) PLAYS WRITTEN BY THE LATE INGENIOUS MRS. Behn, IX. The Roundheads; or, the Good Old X. The City Heiress; or, Sir Timothy XI. The Town-Fopp; or, Sir Timothy XII. The Widow Ranter; or, the His- XIII. The Feigned Courtizans; or, a XIV. The Emperor of the Moon EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, fine copy in original calf, 54 BENNETT (Charles H.) and BROUGH (ROBERT B.) SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE. 1860. FIRST EDITION, with numerous clever COLOURED illustrations by CHarles Bennett, 8vo, stained calf extra, gilt over the original gilt edges (UNCUT), with the covers preserved 55 BERKSHIRE.-Act_to_enable Robert Phillips and his male issue to take the 56 BERKSHIRE.-Bill for Repairing the Highways from Sunning Lane End, next 57 BERKSHIRE.-Letters to the Stranger in READING, by Detector (Rev. H. 58 BERKSHIRE.-Privately_Printed Act to vest part of the settled Estate of 59 BOCCACCIO (G.) THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, TRANSLATED BY JOHN PAYNE. Lawrence and Bullen, 1893. With twenty original and capital illustrations by LOUIS CHALON, including the extra ones, 2 vols, 8vo, cloth as issued, £3 38 60 BON GAULTIER. THE BOOK OF BALLADS, edited by Bon Gaultier. Orr & Co., 1845. FIRST EDITION, with numerous engravings by ALFRED CROWQUILL, 12mo, original cloth as issued, £2 108 61 BRISTOL.-GIBB (J.) The Mutual Duties of Magistrates and People, a Sermon preached in the Church of ST. MARY REDCLIFFE, in the City of BRISTOL, May 29. PRINTED AT BRISTOL by Sam Farley, for Francis Wall, Bookseller, on the Tolzey [1721]. Quarto, sewn, 158 62 BROWNE (Sir Thomas, author of Religio Medici) POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THE LEARNED SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Kt., M.D., late of Norwich, Printed from his Original Manuscripts, viz. : I. Repertorium: or the Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Norwich. II. An Account of some Urnes, ete., found at Brampton in Norfolk, anno 1767. III. Letters between Sir William Dugdale and Sir Tho. Browne. IV. Miscellanies. To which is Prefixed his Life; there is also added Antiquitates Capella D. Johannis Evangelista; bodie Scholæ Regia Norwicensis, authore Johanne Burton, A.M. ejusdem Ludimagistro. E. Curll, 1712. FIRST EDITION, beautiful impression of the choice portrait of author, and several fine plates, 8vo, a nice copy in calf extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £1 108 63 BROWNE (Sir Thomas, author of Religio Medici) PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA: or ENQUIRIES INTO VERY MANY RECEIVED TENENTS AND COMMONLY PRESUMED TRUTHS, by Thomas Brown, Dr. of Physick: The Fifth Edition, with Marginal Observations, and a Table Alphabetical, whereunto are now added Two Discourses, the One of URNBURIAL, or Sepulchrall Urns, lately found in Norfolk, The other THE GARDEN OF CYRUS, or Network Plantations of the Ancients. 1669. Fine portrait of the author, 4to, calf, £1 18 64 BULLEN (A. H.) SPECULUM AMANTIS, LOVE POEMS FROM RARE SONG-BOOKS AND MISCELLANIES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Privately Printed, 1889.-MUSA PROTERVA, LOVE POEMS OF THE RESTORATION. Privately Printed, 1889. 2 vols, 8vo, original cloth, uncut, as issued, £4 108 Only a limited number printed, and very scarce. Grave moralist, with eyes a-squint, And you, coy maiden. come not nigh, But, ho! all ye whose brisker veins 65 BUNYAN (John) SOLOMON'S TEMPLE SPIRITUALIZED, or Gospel-Light Fetcht out of the Temple at Jerusalem. to let us more easily into the Glory of New Testament Truths. 1688. FIRST EDITION, some headlines cut, 12mo, calf, £1 18 CALDECOTT (Randolph).-See under WALES. 66 CHURCHYARD (Thomas) [CHURCHYARDES CHOISE] A GENERALL REHEARSALL OF WARRES, wherein is five hundred several services of land and sea: as Sieges, Battailles, Skirmiches, and Encounters, a thousande gentle menne's names, of the best sort of warriours, a praise and true honour of Soldiours: a proofe of perfité nobilitie, a triall and first erection of Heraldes: a discourse of calamitie, AND JOYNED TO THE SAME SOME TRAGEDIES AND EPITAPHES, AS MANY AS WAS NECESSARIE FOR THIS FIRSTE BOOKE, all which woorkes are dedicated to the right honourable Sir Christopher Hatton, Knight, vize Chamberlain, Captain of the Gard: and one of the Queene's Majestie's Privie Counsail, written by Thomas Churchyard, gentleman. Imprinted at London, by Edward White, dwellyng at the little Northe doore of Paule's Churche, at the Singne of the Gunne (1579). Black Letter, FIRST EDITION, small 4to, lower (blank) portion of last leaf mended, a perfect copy in blue morocco super extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £15 158 Jolley's copy sold in 1843 for 11. Mr. Corser's, 1868, 18 5s., and a copy was marked in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica at 21. 67 CIVIL WAR.-AN ANSWER TO A PAMPHLET, intituled "THE LORD GEORGE DIGBY, HIS APOLOGY FOR HIMSELFE;" plainly discovering the cunning untruths and implicit malice in the said Pamphlet against the just and legal proceedings of the Honourable the High Court of Parliament. 1643. Small 4to, half bound, UNCUT, 48 68 CIVIL WAR.-A LETTER sent to George Lord Digby in FLUSHING, from a worthy Gentleman in WINDSOR, together with a Coppy of a Letter sent from SIR JOHN BYRON, Concerning divers matters of great consequence. 1641. 4to, half bound, 4s 6d 69 CIVIL WAR.-A Speech made in the House of Peers, by the EARLE OF MONMOUTH, on January 13, 1641, upon the occasion of the present distractions and of his Majestie's removall from White-hall. 1641. Quarto, half bound, 4s 70 CIVIL WAR.-DIGBY (GEORGE, Lord) APOLOGIE FOR HIMSELF. Oxford, 1642. 4to, half bound, 48 71 CIVIL WAR.—HOBS (THOMAS, of Malmesbury) Behemoth, or an EPITOME OF THE CIVIL WARS OF ENGLAND from 1640 to 1660. Printed 1679, 12mo, old calf, 78 6d 72 CIVIL WAR.—The Arraignment, Conviction, and Condemnation of the WESTMINSTERIAN-JUNCTO'S ENGAGEMENT, with a Continual Exhortation to all Honest English Spirits to avoid the danger of Perjurie by taking of it. Printed in the yeare 1649. Quarto, half bound, 58 73 CIVIL WAR.-THE PROPOSITIONS of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for a safe and well-grounded Peace, sent to his Majestie at Newcastle, by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, the Earl of Suffolk, etc. 1646. Small 4to, haif bound, 68 Contains four pages of interesting lists of names. 74 COACHING.—BRIGHTON AND ITS COACHES, a History of the London and Brighton Road, with some Account of the Provincial Coaches that have run from Brighton, by WILLIAM C. A. BLEW, M.A. 1894. With twenty beautiful illustrations from original water-colour drawings by J. and G. Temple, ALL COLOURED BY HAND, 8vo, blue cloth gilt, UNCUT, £1 1s 75 COCKTON (Henry, Author of "Valentine_Vox," etc.) THE SISTERS, Or ENGLAND AND FRANCE, a Romance of Real Life. 1844. FIRST EDITION, with seventy engravings by Kenny Meadows and Alfred Crowquill, 8vo, a very choice copy in stained calf extra, gilt over the original gilt edges (UNCUT), with the covers preserved at end, by RIVIERE, £2 28 76 COCKTON (Henry) THE STEWARD, A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. N.D. FIRST EDITION, with illustrations by T. ONWHYN, 8vo, calf super extra, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT, by RIVIERE, £2 28 77 COOKERY.-The Family-Dictionary, or Household Companion, wherein are alphabetically laid down exact Rules and choice Physical Receipts for the Preservation of Health, Prevention of Sickness, and Curing the several Diseases, Distempers, and Grievances incident to Men, Women, and Children; also Directions for making Oil, Ointments, Salves, Physical Wines, Ales and other Liquors, etc., etc.; LIKEWISE DIRECTIONS FOR COOKERY, IN DRESSING FISH, FLESH, FOWL, SEASONING, SAUCES, etc., etc., with THE ART OF CARVING, etc., etc., by J. H. 1695. Small 8vo, old calf, 98 78 CORNEWALLIS (Sir William) ESSAYES, or rather Encomions, Prayses of Sadnesse, and of the Emperor Julian the Apostata. 1616. FIRST EDITION, Small 4to, from the Libraries of T. Jolley, Esq., and Rev. T. Corser, cloth, £1 18 79 COSTUMES of the Canary Islands. 1829. Six fine accurately coloured plates, with descriptions, thin 4to, sewn, 10s |