Price, Munro: Napoleon: The End of Glory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. First edition. 8vo., pp. xx, 324 + plates. Maps and illustrations to text. Hardback: red cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Trivial shelf-wear, a very good copy. Ref: 53565
Sabry, M: L'Empire Egyptien sous Mohamed-Ali et La Question D'Orient Paris: Librairie Orientaliste, Paul Geuthner, 1930. Large 8vo., pp. 605, [iii]. Internally clean. Half blue sheep, raised bands, gilt title direct to spine, blue cloth boards, edges sprinkled red, dark green endpapers, original red and black wrappers bound in at rear. A bit rubbed, some peeling to spine and corners but still very good. Tiny stamp, 'Bramhall and Menzies' to ffep verso. Number 556 in an edition of 2000 copies. Ref: 54403show full image..
Selden, John: (Boxhorn, Marcus:) Mare Clausum seu de Dominio Maris. Libri Duo [?]. I. Mare, ex iure natur? seu gentium, omnium hominum non esse commune, sed dominii privati seu proprietatis capax, pariter ac tellurem, esse demonstratur: II. Serenissimum Magn? Brittani? regem maris circumflui, ut individu? atque perpetu? imperii bri Londini [London]: Juxta exemplar Will. Stanesbeii pro Richardo Meighen, 1636. Second edition. 12mo., pp. [xxiv], 504, 61, [iii]. Two parts bound together, chiefly in Latin, with passages in English, French, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic. Title-page in red and black, woodcut initials, several full-page illustrations (including 2 maps) and smaller numismatic illustrations in the text. Title-page with library ink stamp and the remains of a small paper label to top fore-edge corner, a few gatherings toned (e.g. K), some faint spots and smudges, a little light toning. Contemporary plain vellum, detailed titles inked to spine, edges faintly sprinkled brown. Vellum a little yellowed, spine greyed, a few small stains, a little surface damage to top corner of board near joint where a sticker has been mostly removed, top corner of ffep lost, still a very good, sound copy overall. To front pastedown, 'Heinbrychelii 1767', a few library codes. This edition came a year after the first, which appeared in folio in 1635. Selden (1584-1654) was commissioned by Charles I (pursuing a highly ambitious maritime policy) to undertake this work in order to settle disputes which had arisen between England and Holland over the rights Dutch fishermen claimed to fish in the waters surrounding the British Isles. It ranks as the classic opposition to the arguments made by Grotius, one of the Dutch emissaries, in his work 'Mare Liberum' (1609) that 'the sea was free to all'. Selden's response argued that the seas as well as land were capable of private dominion; he traces customs from the Greeks forward in support of his thesis. The result is a book "of tremendous erudition and replete with learning? fortified at every point with authority from record, statute, case-book and chronicle" (Fletcher: John Selden, Selden Society Lecture, 1969). ESTC S117048; Sabin 78972; Rahir 439; cf. Willems 449. Ref: 54922show full image..
Stone, Lawrence: Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660-1753. Oxford University Press, 1992. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 281 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, very good. Ref: 53574
Thurley, Simon: Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved Its Heritage. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2013. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 294, inc. illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a touch only of shelf-wear: a fine copy. Ref: 53930
Tinniswood, Adrian: The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England. London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 570 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine, Dust-jacket, lightly sun-faded and creased with moderate shelf-wear. From the library of Prof. William Lamont, without written evidence of ownership but with his pen-scoring to outer margins against passages of particular interest. Ref: 53729
[Waldensians] Bracebridge, Charles Holte:) Authentic Details of the Valdenses, in Piemont and Other Countries; with abridged translations of 'L'Histoire des Vaudois,' par Bresse, and 'La Rentree Glorieuse,' d'Henri Arnaud, with the ancient Valdensian Catechism. To which are subjoined original letters, written during a residence among the Vaudois of Piemont an London: John Hatchard and Son, 1827. First edition. 8vo. pp. [viii], 464 + 12 plates. Plates toned with some transfer to adjacent leaves (including title-page), very occasional foxing. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco label. Extremities and boards a bit rubbed. 19th-century memento bookplate of Capt. Gervase Petty Sleigh to front pastedown; ex-dono inscription to Joseph Walton from John Sleigh Esq. (1885); John Sleigh's autograph to first leaf of text. First edition of this important history of the Valdenses based on authentic documents and on the personal journey to Piedmont and other countries of the author, Charles Holte Bracebridge (1799-1872) of Atherstone Hall, Warwickshire. Among the places he visited was Schoenberg, the place of exile of the Valdenses in the early 18th century. Bracebridge also discussed the famous scarf of the pastor Henri Arnaud, probably donated to him by Vittorio Amedeo II, Duke of Savoy, saying it had been taken to Holland. Gervase Petty Sleigh (1854-1883) was captain on HMS Flagship Regent in Siam. Hugon-Gonnet, 'Bibliografia Valdese', 40. Ref: 53277show full image..
[Westminster Magazine] The Laughing Philosopher. Dublin: James Williams, 1777. First edition in book form. 12mo., pp.[vi], 244. Ornately engraved title-page with vignette. Running title is 'Momus: or, the laughing philosopher'. Small ink blot to top edge of text block, which is slightly visible at very edge of head margins. Occasional faint marks but very good. Some lightly pencilled notes to the index describing certain pieces as 'good' or 'tr?s bon'. Contemporary calf mottled in a diagonal pattern, neatly rebacked in a lighter brown with recent label, corners repaired, very good. To front paste-down, engraved bookplate with crest of Edward Butler of Carlow; modern bookplate of Peter Stewart Young of Tillingham. Originally printed serially in The Westminster Magazine (1772-1782). Titles include: 'A Ramble through Covent Garden'; 'Humorous description of the House of Commons'; On the present fashionable Mode of Dressing Ladies' Hair'; 'Some curious Specimens of Problematical Oratory' and 'An Attempt to explain what the undefinable Je ne sais quoi is'. ESTC T64895. Ref: 54414show full image..
Williams, N. J.: The Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports 1550-1590. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. First edition. 8vo., pp. xviii, 321. Hardback: dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A hint only of shelf-wear: very good. In the Oxford Historical Monographs series. Ref: 53913
Zouch, Thomas: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney. York: printed by Thomas Wilson and Son, for J. Mawman, Poultry, and T. Payne, Pall Mall, London; and 1809. Second edition. Pp. viii, 9-400 + engraved portrait frontispiece. A little light foxing towards front and rear but generally very good indeed. Contemporary half tan calf, blind-tooled spine, discreet repair to headcap, replacement label, marbled boards, salmon pink endpapers with small repair at fore-edge. A bit rubbed, some scratches, small piece of marbling lost to upper board, good overall. Bookplate of Robert Mackenzie Marshall to front paste-down, along with tiny yellow paper label 'Folthorp Royal Library Brighton'. To blank endpaper, ms gift inscription, 'Catherine Mary Perceval, June 20 1849 from her affectionate Uncle, W.W. Drummond.' Zouch (1737-1815) was better known as an editor and biographer of Izaak Walton. The first edition of this work on Sidney was published in 1808. Ref: 54381show full image..
