Paris : Chez Gissey, Bordelet & Ganeau... 1739. First Edition.
12mo, [-]2, A-N8.4., 2f, 157, [3] pp, cont. mottled calf, gilt spine, corners worn, hinges neatly repaired.
One of the more interesting of a number of 18th century ‘philosophical’ works advocating the then radical idea that animals, far from being driven purely by instinct, could communicate with one another in their own language. A fact of which the work of Konrad Lorenz and many other modern naturalists has left us in no doubt. At the time of its publication however it caused considerable moral outrage and the author was exiled to La Fleche.

London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge’s Head near the Inner Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1695. First Edition, folio, [A] - D2, text in French and English on facing pages, the French beginning on the verso of the title-page, title a little foxed in the lower margin, disbound.
Prior, as well as being a poet, was a well respected diplomat in the service of King William III. His knowledge of French was recognised by his being sent to Paris in 1698 in attendance on the English Ambassador. He was undoubtedly well equipped to satirise Boileau’s poem.
Wing P3509

London: Printed for R. Dodsley... sold by M. Cooper... 1744. First Edition
4to, 27 pps, engr. title vignette by Grignion after Hayman, short tears in 1/2-title expertly mended, modern marbled boards.

“Curio” was William Pulteney and the Epistle written on the occasion of his becoming Earl of Bath.
Reference: Foxon A 136 Rothschild 19 Williams p.90

Eton : Printed by J. Pote; Sold also by T. Pote in Fleetstreet; and T. Payne, next the Mews-Gate near St. Martin’s Lane, London. 1762. 8vo, xxiii, [1], 231, [7], 27, [1] pp, 19th century diced calf, gilt spine, marbled edges and endpapers, sound.
Bound at the end are :-
Thiersch, Bernardus : Commentatio de Accentus Graeci Natura. Halberstadt 1824. 26pp
Lindemann, Fridericus : De Latinae Linguae Accentibus... Leipsig 1816 38 pp.

Oxford : Printed by Thomas Combe... for the Ashmolean Society. 1849. 8vo, 23, [1] pp, disbound.

London: Printed for A Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red Lion in Pater-Noster-Row. 1733. Sm. 8vo, 31, [1] pp, disbound.
An answer to Matthew Tindal’s work of 1730 “Christianity as Old as the Creation”
Reference: ESTC T100266

London: Printed in the Year, 1722. Cr. 8vo, B4, B-D4, [-]1, A-D4, E2. disbound.
Reference: Kress 3466

London : Printed for R. Knaplock, at the Bishop’s-Head in St. Paul’s Chuch-yard. 1721. First Edition 8vo, [-]4, a8, B-Z8, Aa-Gg8, Hh6, cont. panelled calf, gilt fillet borders, panel in blind, spine gilt, label missing, hinges partly split, cords sound, a good copy, stamped “BOND” on front fly
Reference: ESTC T89084 Goldsmith’s Library 6000 Kress 3386

Utrecht : Apud Guilielmum Kroon, Bibliop. 1732. 4to, [xxxvi], 315, [1] pp, * - ****4, *****2, A-Z, AaQq4, Rr2, text in greek and latin on facing paces, with copious foot notes, cont. calf, morocco label, head and foot of spine worn, joints tender but cords strong, 18c armorial book-plate of “The Reverend Jonathan Boucher A.M.” on front pastedown.
The “Anacreontea” is a collection of Greek poems on wine, beauty and erotic love variously dated between 1st century BC and 6th century AD.

London : Printed for A. Millar, 1761. 8vo, xvi, 17-48 pp, uncut, half-title soiled, a little foxing throughout, disbound.
Count Johann Reinhold von Patkul (1660-1707) was a Livonian Polish patriot, born in Stockholm, and executed for treason by Charles XII of Sweden.
The British Library ascribes the work to Lorentz Hagen with a note that “the author’s name occurs at p. 46” (Here it appears as Lorens Hager)

London : For Longman and Rees... 1800. First Edition
8vo, xv, 298 pp + [6] pp adverts., later half green morocco, marbled bds, spine fully gilt with fishing emblems, t.e.g. others uncut, a large, clean copy.
Reference: Westwood & Satchell pp. 205-6

Edinburgh : Printed by T and W. Ruddiman, and to be sold at their Printing-house, and by the Booksellers in Town. 1749. 8vo, [-]2, 110 pp, disbound.
George Buchanan (1506-1582), historian and scholar.
“The edition of Opera omnia (1715) by Thomas Ruddiman, later principal keeper of the Advocates' Library, was a great achievement but did not meet with universal approval. Particularly in editing the History, Ruddiman was criticized for his treatment of earlier editions and for the intrusion of his own political views. The outcome was a series of controversies which kept Buchanan at the centre of attention.” - DNB During the course of these controversies Ruddiman became less sympathetic to Buchanan and the present pamphlet is a bitter reply to John Love’s “Vindication...”

Bergomi [i.e. Bergamo]: Expensis Joannis Batistae Ciotti Senensis 1587. Small 8vo, †4, A-N8, O4, lacking O2-4, O2-3 (Index) supplied in facsimile, O4 blank, folding plate with mended tear with slight loss, uniformly browned throughout on account of the paper quality, bound in 18c. Italian paper boards, spine worn but sound.
During the Middle Ages the art of palmistry was actively suppressed by the Catholic Church as pagan superstition. In Renaissance magic, palmistry (known as "chiromancy") was classified as one of the seven "forbidden arts." Therefore in Catholic Italy the present work would have been a surreptitious publication, frowned upon, possibly even banned, by the Church, which is probably the reason for its poor quality paper. It is uncommon in the market.

London : Transport Bookman Publications [1976]. First Edition
8vo, 192pp, profusely illustrated, original cloth, dust wrapper, as new.
“169 photographs, many of them never published before, depict the full range of Aston Martin models from ‘Coal Scuttle’, the very first Aston, through ‘Bunny’, ‘Strasbourg’ ‘Internationals’ , ‘Ulsters’, up to and including the ‘Atom’, a brilliantly conceived project sadly aborted by the outbreak of World War II.” - [from the blurb]

London : For J. Debrett... 1798. 8vo, 78 pp, disbound, sugar paper wrappers.