Antiquarian Books | Seven volumes

Antiquarian Books

Seven volumes, comprising:

(i) Matthew Prior. Poems on Several Occasions. London: Jacob Tonson, 1718. FIRST FOLIO EDITION (464 x 282 mm), engraved frontispiece, title-vignette and head- and tail-pieces, list of subscribers, contemporary calf, dampstaining, large closed tear to pp. 19–20, rebacked, rubbed and rebacked

(ii) Jean-Philippe Rameau. Generation harmonique ou traité de musique theorique et pratique, Paris: Prault fils, 1737 [Hirsch, i 486], OTTO JAHN’S COPY. [16] & 227, [13], [4] pages, title printed in red and black, engraved vignette by Duflos on title-page, 12 folding plates of musical examples by J.L. Renou, bookplate of Mozart’s biographer Otto Jahn, pp.226-227 misnumbered, eighteenth-century calf, light browning, discolouration to title, repairs to spine

(iii) Francis Bacon. The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh. London: W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes and William Barret, 1622. Folio (291 x 182 mm), engraved portrait of Henry VII supplied from a later work and pasted in, title-page within woodcut architectural border (McKerrow & Ferguson 224), woodcut initials and headpieces, text within ruled border with blank marginal columns for side-notes (one printed side-note on X1v), errata on verso of final leaf, later calf, red edges, marbled endpapers, lacking the engraved frontispiece portrait of Henry VII by John Payne, final leaf soiled and with marginal repairs, rebacked

(iv-v) Robert Southey. Life of Nelson. London: John Murray, 1813. FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (158 x 94 mm), engraved portrait in first volume and facsimile of Nelson's signatures in second volume, publisher's advertisements to verso of final text leaf in each volume, contemporary calf, housed in a modern cloth slipcase, joints of first volume starting, joints of second volume repaired

(vi) Bernardo de Ulloa. Rétablissement des manufactures et du commerce d'Espagne. Amsterdam, 1753. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION ON FLYLEAF FROM THE TRANSLATOR PLUMARD DE DANGEUL, TO 'LE BARON DE HOPEKEY DE LAPLAND', 8vo (164 x 95 mm), fine contemporary calf, spine gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, some light spotting

(vii) Alexander Hunter. Culina famulatrix medicinae, or receipts in modern cookery. York: T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1806. 8vo (193 x 114 mm), fourth edition, engraved frontispiece of a pig by H. Cave, untrimmed edges, contemporary half calf, brown stain to leaves O3-4, occasional spotting throughout, spine and upper board becoming detached, binding worn

PROVENANCE:

(i) "Catherine Leveson Gower | June 17 1741", ownership inscription to front pastedown; monogrammed bookplate dated 1892; (ii) Otto Jahn (1813–1869, German biographer of Mozart), bookplate; (iii) P.J. Radford, bookplate; (iv-v) sale, Bloomsbury Auctions, 3 February 2005, lot 290; (vi) sale in these rooms, 11 April 1985, lot 253