Amsterdam : Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium 1651. Second Edition
!2mo, 568, [6] pp, + 1 leaf blank, eng. title with the imprint “Octavianum Pulleyn 1651”, contemporary vellum, title on spine in ink, lower cord of front board detached, partial loss of surface to yapp edge, otherwise a good copy.
«The most important book on the subject to appear during the 17th century. Harvey was among the first to disbelieve the erroneous doctrine of the ''preformation'' of the foetus; he maintained that the organism derives from the ovum by the gradual building up and aggregation of its parts. The chapter on midwifery in this book is the first work on that subject to be written by an Englishman”- (Garrison & Morton). The first edition was published by Octavianus Pulleyn in London in 4to. The same year (1651) three more editions appeared in Amsterdam of which the earliest, and most elegant, is the present one published by Elzevir.
Reference: ESTC R231308 Wing H1091A Willems: Les Elzevirs 1129

The Hague (et se trouve a Paris) : Chez Delalain... 1773. Second Edition - second issue of vol.1.
Large Paper. (227 x 140mm) 2 vols in one, 8vo, eng. front., xxii, [2], eng. pl., pp [1]-176, eng. pl., eng. title to vol.2, pp [179]-309, [3]pp, the second copy of the plate (facing title of vol 2) from an ordinary paper copy, a few deckle edges towards the end and penultimate leaf slightly frayed, 19th century French mottled calf, gilt borders and spine, morocco labels, marbled edges and endpapers, sound.
The illustrations consist of:- 2 frontispieces by Marillier engraved by de Ghendt, a plate by Marillier engraved by de Launay ( repeated in vol.2), a vignette on the printed title to vol.1, 99 headpieces and 99 tailpieces all by Marillier and engraved by various engravers. “Cet ouvrage... est le chef d’œuvre de Marillier” - Cohen de Ricci.
The fine Fürstenberg/Schäfer copy sold some years ago was 19mm shorter that ours.
At page ii of the preliminaries there is an “Avis sur cette edition” which reads, in part “En relisant le Traité de Locke sur l’Education, j’y ai trouvé ce passage : Lorsqu’un Enfant commence à savoir lire, je crois qu’on ne peut lui donner un meilleur Livre que des Fables, qui puisse à la fois le divertir et l’occuper. Si d’ailleurs chaque Fable est représentée par une Estampe, cela lui plaira beaucoup plus, et pourra l’encourager à poursuivre sa lecture...... Ce fragment est la seule réponse que je ferai à ceux qui critiqueront la pompe typographique de cet Ouvrage...” From this it would appear that Dorat , inspired by Locke’s Essay on Education, produced his Fables especially for children.
Reference: Cohen / de Ricci 313

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc. 1944. First Edition
4to, Frontispiece, 128 pp, 22 plates and duplicates at p37 and 44, publisher’s cloth, dustwrapper, presentation inscription inink on verso of frontispiece “Go! ‘Fantastic Memories’ and be proud to be in the hands of Mrs H S Sewell, the last Lady who believes in the existence of Lilliput... Maurice Sandoz. New York 1945”, engraved bookplate “Tysoe Manor” on front pastedown, a minor chip at foot of d/w spine, otherwise a very fine copy
The recipient was the daughter the gypsum magnate, Jerome Berre King, and the wife of Brigadier-General Horace Somerville Sewell, CMG, DSO & bar (1881–1953), an officer in the British Army during World War I. In 1940 they moved into Tysoe Manor in Warwickshire but during WW II he was attached to the British Information Sevice in New York.

Paris : P-F. Didot for L.N. Prevost and T. Barrois, Paris; P. Elmsly, London; R. Graeffer, Vienna; and A. Koenig, Strassburg 1787-1788 [c.1792]. First Edition, Large Paper
Large folio, (585x435mm), title-page, 44 numbered engraved plates, (31 of them by P.J. Redoute) and 6 by James Sowerby) cont. half calf, marbled boards, rebacked to style, title-page lightly soiled and some minor foxing on a few plates, but generally a very good copy, on the front pastedown the engraved bookplate of “Earl of Dartmouth” and the red morocco Ex Libris of Arpad Plesch.
When this copy was sold by Sothebys at the sale of the Arpad Plesch Collection in 1975 it was described as Large Paper, and it certainly has very ample margins. Dunthorne measures a copy at 20.125x13 ins (i.e. 510x330mm) ; a copy sold at Sothebys in 2000 measured 525x340mm, and one at Christies in 2009 497 x 335mm. Brunet mentions a “recueil de ces quatre ouvrages de L’Heritier en Grand Papier” but we find no large paper copies at auction apart from the present one.
L’Heritier, a wealthy amateur botanist encouraged the early careers of two important botanical artists of the period, namely James Sowerby and Pierre-Joseph Redoute. Unusually however, he requested that the plates be left uncoloured, explaining that “if his engravings were coloured, much of the sharpness and precision would be lost. The plates by Sowerby and Redoute are particularly fine, and provide us with an example of the early work of these two botanical illustrators, when they were still under the influence of the great French tradition established by Robert" (An Oak Spring Flora). Text was never issued, forestalled by the French Revolution.

Reference: [Nissan 1188] Dunthorne 247 Brunet 5me Ed. v3. col. 1044

[Geneva] : Ex Officina Henrici Stephani... 1557. Two works in one volume.
8vo, *4, a-q8,r4 and A-X8, 263 [numbered 363] pp, and 320 pp, greek and italic letter, title-page and last leaf a little stained, a small, but persistent wormhole through the blank margin of most leaves of the second work not touching the text., recent full vellum, paper label on spine.
Of the first work, Fred Schreiber says “EDITIO PRINCEPS of the 41 Greek dissertations on theological, ethical and other philosphical subjects, by the itinerant Platonist lecturer. Maximus of Tyre, reputed to have been the tutor of Marcus Aurelius... At the end are appended 19 pages of critical notes by Henri Estienne”. He goes on to say. of the second work, “To accompany his editio princeps of the Greek text, Estienne published the Latin version by Archbishop Cosimo Pazzi which had first been published in 1517. In his preface Estienne criticizes Pazzi’s version for the numerous errors it contains, and states that he has thoroughly corrected and revised it.”
Schreiber: The Estiennes 141a & 141b, Renouard p.116. no.2, USTC 450461 Adams M939 & M940