106 FENCING.-MILLER (Capt. James) SOLDIER AND GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION. Gladiatory the most Manly Art of Self-defence. [London], Printed for I. Millan near Whitehall, 1759. Folio, engraved title and 15 fine double-page plates of the Captain and his Pupils, designed and engraved by Scotin and Gravelot, "with borders, &c., in ye most elegant manner which render them Proper Furniture for ye Genteelest Apartments" (plates dated 1738), each plate dedicated to a nobleman or gentleman with the respective armorial bearings, apart from a few slight tears a fine copy, in the original blue paper wrapper, edges of wrapper frayed and back strip gone, VERY RARE, £10 10s FENWICK (Sir John).-See WILLIAM III. 107 FIFTEENTH CENTURY GERMAN WOODCUT.-LIRAR (T.) CHRONIK VON SCHWABEN. Getruckt von Cunrad Dinckmut Zu Vlm, 1486. Sm. folio, a single leaf of the original edition, gothic letter, long lines, ON RECTO A FINE AND SPIRITED FULL-PAGE WOODCUT IN OUTLINE, UNCOLOURED, WITH A VIEW OF TWO PLACES, ONE WITH THE TITLE 108 "HEWEN," THE OTHER ENTITLED “GUTTENBURG," with good margins, hinged on a mount, £5 58 * A fine XVth century woodcut, remarkable as being a rare example of a little known school; it was probably designed and executed by Dinckmut himself, who had been an engraver before he became a typographer. The book from which it comes is of the greatest rarity, and illustrates scenes in Suabian history, ending with the sack of Mentz in 1462. Conrad Dinckmut started to print in Ulm in 1482, and his last book printed there was dated 1496. ANOTHER LEAF FROM THE ABOVE WORK, marked b11, WITH A FINE SPIRITED FULL-PAGE WOODCUT IN OUTLINE, UNCOLOURED, representing the siege of a castle, with men in armour, mediaval cannon, dc., with good margins, hinged on a mount, £5 5s FIRE INSURANCE.-See HISTORICAL REGISTER. 109 FLATMAN (Thomas) POEMS AND SONGS. London, Printed by S. and B. G. for Benjamin Took and Jonathan Edwin, 1674. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, slight water-stain at foot throughout, fine large copy with the 4 blank leaves, A2 marked with an ornamental A, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH RED MOROCCO, the sides tooled in gold with an elaborate cottage design with grape sprays hanging from the eaves, the centre an intricate pattern of flower, leaf and pointillé work with similar cornerpieces, the whole enclosed by rich floral and scroll borders, the spaces between sprinkled with rosettes, flowers, &c., back richly gilt in six compartments, g.c., BY SAMUEL MEARNE, REMARKABLY FRESH AND WELL PRESERVED, old bookplate of Viscount Powerscourt on verso of title, £30 * It is a circumstance of great rarity to find a notable first edition clad in an equally notable binding, as in the present instance. Contains a number of commendatory poems, including one by Charles Cotton. The binding is a striking and beautiful example of the best work of Samuel Mearne, the royal binder to Charles the Second. IIO FRASER FAMILY. FRASER (Alexander, of Philorth, 17th Lord Saltoun) THE FRASERS OF PHILORTH. Edinburgh, 1879. 3 vols, 4to, ONLY 150 COPIES PRINTED, with numerous fine portraits (mostly on India paper), facsimiles and woodcuts, original cloth gilt, t.e.g.. with arms on sides, £6 15s * Lord Saltoun had the help of Sir Wm. Fraser in compiling this work, and it was issued uniformly with the latter's great series of Scottish Family Histories. III FLOWERS. THE COMPLEAT FLORIST. London, printed for J. Duke and sold by J. Robinson, 1747. Roy. 8vo, WITH FRONTISPIECE OF A FORMAL GARDEN, ENGRAVED TITLE WITH Floral bordeR AND 100 FINE ENGRAVINGS OF FLOWERS, ALL BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED BY HAND AFTER NATURE, very small wormhole in blank portion of last two plates, fine copy, contemporary mottled calf, corners worn, £13 10s * A very rare flower book by an anonymous author, remarkable for its fine early botanical colouring. Each plate has a brief gardening description engraved beneath it, and several of the early plates give the London owner's name and the locality whence the plant came. 112 FREEMASONRY.-AN ORATION, DELIVERED IN THE SUBLIME Grand LODGE, IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH-CAROLINA, on the 23d of September, 5801 (1797), before the Members of that Lodge, the Symbolic Grand Lodge of Ancient York Mason, and the Officers of the several lodges in the city, and published at their request. By Brother Frederick Dalcho, Member of the Supreme Council of the XXXIII Degree, and Grand Orator of the Sublime Lodge of Perfection. Charleston, South-Carolina, Printed by T. B. Bowen, No. 3, Broad Street (1797). 8vo, with the song and chorus. Written for the Original Chapter of Prince Masons by T.M.W.S.I.F., with the music, slight waterstains, BUT A FINE UNCUT COPY, old paper wrapper, £10 10s 113 FRENCH XVIIIth CENTURY ENGRAVINGS. A COLLECTION OF 41 BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS FROM VARIOUS BOOKS, including 8 charming title-pages, chiefly to works by Dorat, and 27 engravings after Marillier by De Ghendt, De Longueil, Helman, Gaucher, Simonet, Godefroy, Ponce, Née and others, 2 title-pages and 1 engraving after Eisen by De Longueil and De Ghendt, 2 plates after Moreau by Helman, and 1 engraving after Queverdo by De Longueil, FINE ORIGINAL IMPRESSIONS. The whole mounted and bound together in one vol, 8vo, red morocco, inside dentelles, g.e., by Zachnsdorf, £7 10s 114 FRENCH XVIIIth CENTURY ENGRAVINGS. DELILLE (Jacques) L'IMAGINATION, Poëme. A Paris, chez Giguet et Michaud, 1806. PRINTED ON VELLUM PAPER, 2 vols, 8vo, with 6 fine plates after Lebarbier, Myris and Monsiau by Baquoy, Courbe, Triere and Delvaux, proofs before inscription, CONTEMPORARY FRENCH STRAIGHTGRAINED RED MOROCCO, dentelle border in gold on the sides, backs gilt in compartments, 4 of them containing a large geometrical ornament of flowers, &c., on a dotted gold ground, in fine state, £7 78 115 FRENCH XVIIIth CENTURY ENGRAVINGS. DI TITO LUCREZIO CARO DELLA NATURA DELLE COSE, libri sei, Tradotti dal Latino in Italiano da Alessandro Marchetti. In Amsterdamo (Paris) a spese dell' Editore To. Po. 1751. 2 vols, 8vo, PRINTED ON FINE DUTCH PAPER, WITH BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE FRONTISPIECES AND ENGRAVED TITLES AFTER EISEN BY LEMIRE, THE 6 PLATES AFTER COCHIN AND LE LORRAIN BY TEMIRE, TARDIEU, AND OTHERS, THE 7 CHARMING VIGNETTES AFTER COCHIN AND EISEN, and the 5 tail-pieces after Cochin, Eisen and Vassé, CONTEMPORARY FRENCH CALF GILT, back gilt in compartments, with bird ornament in each, £12 10s * Contains some of the most beautiful examples of the work of those distinguished XVIIIth century French artists, Eisen and Cochin. 116 FRENCH XVIIIth CENTURY ENGRAVINGS.-CABINET POULLAIN OU Collection de cent vingt estampes gravées d'après les tableaux et dessins qui composoient le cabinet de M. Poullain, receveur général des domaines du Roi, décédé en 1780, &c., executées sous la direction du Sieur Fr. Basan, graveur, &c., Le Sieur Moitte, peintre, en avait fait les dessins d'après les tableaux avant la mort de ce célèbre amateur. A Paris, chez Bason et Poignant, 1781. 4to, GENUINE FIRST ISSUE, WITH BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE 2 BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVED TITLES BY CHOFFARD AND LE BRUN, AND THE 118 PLATES AFTER BERGHEM, CLAUDE LORRAIN, GERARD DOW, OSTADE, REMBRANDT, RUBENS, TENIERS, VAN DYCK, AND OTHER CELEBRATED PAINTERS, engraved by Alix, Delaunay, de Longueil, and others, FINE COPY, old dark blue straight-grained morocco, with Palmer crest in centre of each cover, back richly gilt, g.e., £12 10s *With the printed title, dedication, and 22 pp. of text not found in later issues, in which also the plates are weak impressions. 117 FRENCH XVIIIth CENTURY ENGRAVINGS. FENELON (F. de, Archbishop of Cambray) LES AVENTURES DE TELEMAQUE, Fils d'Ulysse. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Didot Jeune, 1790. LARGE VELLUM PAPER, 2 vols, roy. 8vo, oval vignette portrait of Fénélon after Vivien by Gaucher on title of Vol. 1, AND BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE 24 BEAUTIFUL PLATES BY MOREAU, very choice and practically uncut copy, blue morocco, back and sides gilt, deep inside borders, edges gilt on the rough, BY LORTIC, £31 10s 118 FRENCH XVIIIth CENTURY ENGRAVINGS. FENELON (F. de, Archbishop of Cambray) LES AVENTURES DE TELEMAQUE, Fils d'Ulysse. A Paris, chez Deterville (imprimerie de Crapelet), An. IV. (1796). 2 vols, 8vo, WITH PORTRAIT OF FENELON AFTER VIVIEN BY HUBERT, AND THE 24 BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS AFTER MARILLIER BY BAQUOY, DE GHENDT, LANGLOIS JEUNE, PATAS, PONCE AND OTHERS, PROOFS BEFORE INSCRIPTIONS, a few plates very slightly spotted, very fine copy, original boards, with the labels, £8 158 119 FRENCH XVIIIth CENTURY ENGRAVINGS. PYGMALION, Scene Lyrique de Mr. J. J. Rousseau, Mise en Vers par Mr. Berquin. Paris, 1775. LARGE DUTCH PAPER COPY, thin. sm. 4to, text engraved throughout by Drouët, with engraved title after Marillier (before his signature), AND 6 CHARMING VIgnettes by DelAUNAY AND PONCE AFTER MOREAU LE JEUNE, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, fine copy, CONTEMPORARY STRAIGHT-GRAINED FRENCH MOROCCO, stained in various shades of colour, ornamental gold border on the sides, inside borders, t.e.g., modern lettering-piece on back and new end-papers, £15 *Very rare in this state, and containing Berquin's Idylle, N.D., at end, consisting of 8 pages of engraved text, with separate pagination and vignette, and tailpiece by Gaucher after Marillier, which is very often wanting. It is Idylle III. of Vol. 2 of the Recueil entitled l'Esperance, and is generally found added to the Pygmalion, though sometimes it is offered as a separate work, 120 FRENCH XVIIIth CENTURY ENGRAVINGS. -RACINE (Jean) EUVRES DIVERSES, avec des Commentaires, par M. Luneau de Boisjermain. A Paris, L. Cellot (Tome VI. et VII., A Londres), 1768. 7 vols, 8vo, WITH PORTRAIT AFTER SANTERRE BY GAUCHER, AND 12 BEAUTIFUL PLATES AFTER GRAVELOT BY DUCLOS, LEMIRE, NEE, PREVOST, SIMONET, AND OTHERS, contemporary mottled calf gilt, g.e., backs worn, £20 * One of the most highly esteemed of the XVIIIth century French illustrated books. WITH EIGHT EXTRA PLATES. 121 FRENCH REVOLUTION COLOURED COSTUME.-COSTUMES DES REPRESENTANS DU PEUPLE, Membres des deux Conseils, du Directoire Exécutif, des Ministres des Tribunaux, des Messagers d'Etat, Huissiers, et autres fonctionnaires publies, &c. A Paris, chez Deroy, 1795. 8vo, engraved title with coloured vignette of the Conseil des Cinq-Centa, and 13 fine coloured plates of the state costume of members, &c., of the French Revolutionary Government after St. Sauveur, by Labrousse, FURTHER ILLUSTRATED BY THE ADDITION AT THE END OF A DIFFERENT SERIES OF 8 COLOURED PLATES OF SIMILAR COSTUME, after Garnerey by Alix, FINE UNCUT COPY, original boards, rebacked in calf, with the original printed label on the front cover, VERY SCARCE, £5 10s 122 GARDENING.-BLAKE (Stephen, Gardener) THE COMPLEAT GARDENERS PRACTISE, directing the Exact Way of Gardening. In Three Parts. The Garden of Pleasure, the Physical Garden, the Kitchen Garden. How they are to be ordered for their best Situation and Improvement, with Variety of Artificial Knots for the Beautifying of a Garden, the Choisest Way for the Raising, Governing, and Maintaining of all Plants Cultevated in Gardens, now in England, &c., search the World, and there's not to be found a Book so good as this for Garden ground, 1664. Sm. 4to, WITH 30 COPPER-PLATES, CONTAINING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS For Gardens, KNOTS, &c., wants B4, name on title, slight water-stain, contemporary marginal annotations, LARGE COPY, WITH ALL THE PLATES INTACT, half calf gilt, t.e.g., £6 6s * Collation: A 4 11., a 4 11., 30 plates of designs, B to X in 48. 123 GARDENING.-BOYCEAU (Jacques) TRAITE DV JARDINAGE SELON LES RAISONS DE LA NATVRE ET DE L'ART. Divise en trois livres. Ensemble diuers desseins de parterres, Pelouzes, Bosquetz et aultres ornementz Seruans a l'embellissement des Iardins. [Paris], 1638. FIRST EDITION, folio, fine engraved title by M. van Lochom, BRILLIANT IMPRESSION OF THE PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AFTER A. DE VRIS, 62 BEAUTIFUL FOLDING AND OTHER DESIGNS OF PARTERRES, &c., large ornamental initials and head and tail-pieces, very slight defect at foot of title, which with several plates have just been touched by a binder, BUT A VERY FINE AND WONDERFULLY CLEAN COPY, mottled calf, gilt back, g.e., £45 * One of the rarest French works on gardening, and remarkable for the beauty of its ornamental designs. The author was intendant of the royal gardens to Louis XIII. [See Illustration.] |