London : Grenville Publishing Company Ltd 15-17 City Road, E.C.1 [1948, ‘49, ‘50]. First Edition
3 vols, cr. 8vo, Vol.1. [xvi], 272, 84 ills, Vol.2. [xvi], pps 289 - 544, 82 ills., Vol.3. [xvi], pps 561 - 800, 81 ills., publisher’s cloth, no dust wrappers, good condition.
Bill Boddy, MBE was the editor of Motor Sport from 1936 to 1991. After 1991 he still contributed regularly to the magazine, continuing a career that lasted eighty-one years.

[London] : Motor Racing Publications. [1972]. First Edition
4to, 189 pp, text illustrations throughout, original boards, dust wrapper, as new.

London : Sold by Fletcher Gyles, over against Gray’s-Inn, in Holborn: and by J. Roberts... 1732. 8vo, 53, [7] pp (ads), title-page and last leaf soiled, disbound.
Phlegon of Tralles in Asia Minor was a Greek writer who flourished in 2nd century AD.

[London] : Printed in the Year 1689. Small 4to, [6], 26 pp, some page numbers cropped, disbound.
In November 1688 there was an uprising in York in support of William of Orange who landed at Torbay on 4th November.

Some authorities, including Wing, give this to Thomas Newsam.
Reference: Wing N1039

London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the Two Temple-Gates, in Fleet-street. n.d. [c.1713]. First Edition, second issue (p.18, line 3 reads ‘...the Heart...’)
Small 4to, A-I4; [viii], 63, [1] pp, faint waterstain in first two gatherings, modern 1/4 red morocco, marbled bds.
The Prologue is of interest for its view of Shakespeare as an untutored genius - “In such an Age, Immortal Shakespear wrote, By no quaint Rules, nor hampering Criticks taught; With rough majestick Force he mov’d the Heart, And Strength, and Nature, made amends for Art...”
Reference: ESTC T55544

London : Printed for Henrie Hood. 1641. Small 4to, A4, B2, [2], 10 pp, browned throughout, disbound.
“In the debate over ship money in December 1640 he (Pierrepont) denounced the judges who had denied parliament's right to make the tax illegal. He then chaired the committee for the impeachment of Sir Robert Berkeley, the judge who had defended ship money most vociferously. Pierrepont's major speech against ship money has survived (in the present pamphlet) and illustrates his political beliefs” - Oxford DNB.

Reference: Wing P2212

London : Printed in the Year 1702. 8vo, eng. port., lvi, 492 pp, cont. blindstamped panelled calf, spine gilt but worn, lacking label, joints cracked, otherwise a good copy.
The original work, of which this is the first English translation, was first circulated in manuscript and, in 1662, published, without the author’s consent and with various alterations and the addition of two important chapters, by Johan de Witt. It presents important economic arguments for industrial freedom.
Reference: Kress 2344 Goldsmiths’ 3864

London : Printed for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop’s-Head in Saint Paul’s Church-yard. 1682. Small 4to, [-]2, B-E4, F2, first leaf blank, orig. stab-stitch holes in gutters, disbound from a volume.
The author was an ardent royalist, an antiquary and a bishop of the nonjuring Church of England.
Reference: Wing H1876

London : Printed for Henry Carpenter, in Fleet-street, 1746. Folio, 4 leaves, p.8 mis-numbered “7”, on the title-page is written in a contemporary hand “By this is understood Mr. William Pitt”, disbound, fine.
This satire on William Pitt was included in Hanbury Williams’ A Collection of Poems. 1763 but Horace Walpole annotated his copy, now in the British Library, “Not by Sr C.W.”
Reference: ESTC T50399 Foxon U2

London : Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in Cheapside... 1715. 8vo, 48 pp, disbound.
One of at least ten editions published the same year.

London : Printed Anno Dom. 1680. Folio, [ii], 10 pp, uncut, disbound, foxed and dust-stained.
Reference: ESTC R2802 Wing B5268

[London] : Jarrolds. [1969]. First Edition
8vo, xviii, 302 pp, 29 photographic illustrations and 7 double-page maps in text, publisher’s cloth, dust wrapper protected in a mylatr sleeve, fine.
“ What is an epic drive? Today it is the yet-to-be-completed journey from the Arctic to the tip of South America... In 1888 an epic drive was one successfully completed between the town in which the car was built and the next town” [from the first paragraph of chatper 1.]

London : Printed for John Virtuoso, near Crane-Court, Fleet-street. 1753. 8vo, [2], 48 pp, disbound, lacks 1/2 title
At Sloane’s death, his executors were instructed to petition parliament to save his collections for the nation. Parliament, on hearing that they were being offered for £20,000 collections estimated at £80-1000,000 took up the offer, adding the Harleian and Cotton collections of manuscripts. By act of parliament dated 7. June 1753 they constituted the founding collections of the British Museum.

London, Chapman & Hall, 1912. 4to, xx + 118pp + 58 plates + map + folding genealogical chart, orig. cl. bkplate of N. Gwynne.

Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-Upon-Avon and Publshed for the Press by Basil Blackwell Oxford 1928-29. Limited Edition no. 318 of 375 copies
8 volumes, folio, uncut and unopened, marginal illustrations throughout coloured by hand, original publisher’s 1/4 buckram and paper boards, printed paper labels on spines and a duplicate laid in loose in each volume, a fine set.

London : Printed by Wm Bulmer & Co. for John Porter... 1814. 2 volumes, 4to, port., [4], 581 pp, 2 plates, + front., [2], vii, 634 pp, cont. russia, rebacked, old backs laid down.

Birmingham : Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, At Shakespear’s Head in the Strand, London. 1761. 4 volumes 4to, portrait, xxviii, 525 (recte 537), (5) pp + (viii), 538, (12) pp, 4 plates + 579, (13) pp + 555, (11) pp, contemporary red morocco, single fillet borders, fully gilt spines with titling direct to leather, turn-ins gilt with a roll of stars, crescents, palmettes, etc., marbled endpapers, edges stained green, armorial bookplate of “Anthony Morris Storer” and leather book label of “C.A. and V. Baldwin” on front pastedown of each volume, very fine condition.
Reference: ESTC T89166 Gaskell 17