London: Printed for R. Davis, in Piccadilly, and T. Caslon, opposite Stationers-Hall. 1765. Sm. 8vo, 55pp, prelims. and last gathering browned, brown paper wrappers.
The author, a native of France, came to England to be gardener to Sir John Stapleton in Yorkshire. He soon moved south and farmed forty acres at Walham Green, close to where Earl’s Court now stands. Here he had a small vineyard, much admired by Peter Collinson who visited in 1765, and also cultivated grasses for cattle food, the subject of the present work, for which he was famous in his day. His brother was John Rocque, the cartographer.
Reference: ESTC T68828 Blanche Henrey 1276 & v.2 pp 609-11

[London] : New Englishe Library. [1978]. First Edition
Large 4to, 224 pp, profusely illustrated throughout, mainly in colour, originlal cloth, dust wrapper, as new.
A pictorial survey of all the various models, specials, and custom coachwork of the vintage and derby Bentley, in glorious colour.

London : Printed for W. Johnston, in Ludgate-Street. 1765. First Edition
8vo, xiv. [4], 573 pp, contemporary calf acid-stained in unusual diagonal stripes, expertly re-backed, morocco label, prize label of “The English Grammar School, 75 Grafton Street, Dublin” on front paste-down, a good sound copy.
Reference: ESTC T138280 Jaggard p.146

Edinburgh : Printed in the Year 1725. 8vo, 32 pp, top edge trimmed, others uncut, disbound.
The text is concerned with a controversy over the election of the Lord Provost. It is signed at the end "I am, Sir, Yours Philo-edin."

York : Printed for John Hildyard in Stonegate. 1745. Large paper.
Small 4to, viii, 29, [1] pp, 1f (ads.), first leaf dust-soiled, waterstain to lower margin throughout, disbound
Upon the outbreak of the '45 rebellion the author, a zealous whig, formed an association for the defense of the constitution and liberties of the kingdom, and by his efforts raised some £40,000 in aid of the government. He was rewarded shortly afterwards by being translated to Canterbury.

London : For J. Jackson & J. Jolliffe... 1745. 8vo, 32 pp, disbound, early signature of “James Stonehouse” on title.

[Philadelphia - printed] London : Reprinted for J. Wright... 1798. 8vo, 25, [3] pp, disbound, sugar paper wrappers.
Reference: Sabin 30443 ESTC (1990) t115414

London : Printed for J. Wilford in Stationer’s-Court, and sold at the Pamphlet-shops of London and Westminster. 1729 (Price 6d). 8vo, 36 pp, disbound.
The Treaty of Utrecht was a unilateral treaty ending, without consulting her allies, Britain’s involvement in the War of Spanish Succession, popularly known as “Marlborough’s War”. It marks, however, Britain’s ascendancy to a leading European power.

London : James Burns, Progressive Library... 1869. 8vo, 14, [2]pp, (ads), 2 plates, errata slip tipped in on p.3, orig. printed wrappers, fine.
The author claims to have ‘improved’ upon the deciphering of cuneiform writing done by Sir Henry Rawlinson et al. and links his findings to the symbols of Freemasonry.

London : For J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and A. Millar... 1756. 8vo, lxviii, 172 pp, 1f, 115 pp, 1f, 196 pp, cont. calf, gilt 2-fillet borders, mor. label, joints starting.
This is a mixed edition with Letters 3 and 4 in first edition with title-pages dated 1755.

Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd... and G. & W.B. Whittaker, London. 1823. First Edition
8vo, xiii, [3], 363, [1] pp, original boards, uncut, sympathetically rebacked in paper, printed label on spine, sl. waterstain on some leaves. Inserted in the front are 4 pages of G.B.Whitaker’s adverts. dated “September 1823” and numbered 1-2 and 15-16.
The author was a long-time resident of Jamaica. The unsigned introduction to the present work, assesses him as a knowledgeable and impartial observer of the Jamaican scene who approves of abolition but is opposed to sudden emancipation, pointing out that though the planters have at times been unfairly accused, their advocates have been to prone to vindicate indiscriminately.

Reference: Sabin 91692

London : Printed for John Newton, at the Three Pigeons, over-against the Inner-Temple-Gate, in Fleet Street, 1694. First Edition
8vo, [-]6-1. B-P8, Q4, 1 folding map, cont. sprinkled calf, moroccon label on spine, edges sprinkled red, hinges a littleworn, small loss at foot of spine, otherwise sound, engraved armorial bookplate of “James Leigh Esq. Adlestrop” (an ancestor of Jane Austen’s mother) on front pastedown and his signature on front fly.
Falle's Account of Jersey, 1694, which included discussion of the island's institutions and natural history, was the first and for a long time the standard work on Jersey, reprinted as late as 1837. The present copy once belonged to an ancestor of Jane Austen’s mother, Cassandra.
Wing F338

Bath : T. Boddely [for] J. Leake & G. Frederick... and M. Cooper... 1751. 8vo, [4], 24 pp, disbound.
This letter to Richard Mead on Mrs. Stephen’s patent medicine for curing the stone was first published as an appendix to the second edition of Hartley’s pamphlet “De Lithotriptico... Bath 1746”. This is the first separately published edition.

[London : Earls Court Exhibition] 1907. 330 x 400 mm, map folded in 12 panels, the map printed in red and black on a grey grounde, the verso printed in red and blue, faint discolouring at folds otherwise in very good condition for such a fragile item.
Underground and Tube railways are shown in red, other railways in black.

Long Crendon, Bucks : The Seven Acres Press 1926. Small 4to, 12ff, original parchment boards, uncut.

The colophon reads “This book is printed and made by hand by Loyd Haberly at Long Crendon. Of 450 copies offered for sale, this is No. 170 .” Haberly usually undertook every aspect of production, from illustrating and papermaking to printing and binding.
Reference: Ransom. p. 420 no.3.

Paris: Chez le Citroyen Cailleau... L’an premier de la Republique Francaise. 12mo, eng. front. by E. de Ghendt after P. Marillier, 264pps, cont. French red morocco, 3-line gilt border, small corner pieces, fully gilt spine, green morocco label.
At p.233 is Hymne a l’Amour, to be sung to the tune of the Marseillaise!

Reference: Cohen/de Ricci p.19

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1885. 24mo., (102x77mm), [24] pp, frontispiece, vignette to title, 5 full-page illustrations and text illustrations throughout all in colour, pictorial glazed boards, yellow cloth spine, binding somewhat dust-stained with some wear, internally good.

Liege: Chez Everard Kints. 1739. Cr. 8vo, [viii], 320 pp, 4 folding plates, 2 with tears neatly mended without loss, old decorated paper boards, inscription on front fly “Cet livre apartient pour Jaques Frederic Theurer. Mannheim 18 April Anno 1759” and bookplate of “Biblioteca Caproni, Vizzola” a sound copy.
Rare edition of an undisguised satire on the scandals of life at the Palatinate Court in Mannheim under Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine.
Reference: Barbier VoI 1. col. 158 Gay/Lemmonyer Vol. 1 col. 195

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.