Amsterdam [i.e. Paris] 1745. 2 vols. 8vo, [vol.1] 4ff, xiv pp, 1f [“Table”], 224 pp, [vol.2] 5ff, 268 pp, 1f, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece in vol 1, vignettes on both title-pages, and 69 vignettes in the text, all engraved by Chedel, Fessard or Revenet, after Cochin (though not signed), contemporary plain calf, raised bands, morocco labels, joints cracked but cords sound. A good copy.
This is, in fact, the edition of 1743 with the usual cancel title-pages. “On rencontre d’ordinaire ces deux volumes avec un nouveau titre portant la date de 1745; le titre seul ayant été modifié, les épreuves sont aussi bonnes de tirage” - Cohen / de Ricci. Neither issue appears on the market very often these days.
Reference: Cohen / de Ricci col. 557.

London, 1769. Cr. octavo, A-K8, L4, contemporary calf, slight wear to spine and part of label missing otherwise a fine copy.
The author was a kinsman of Laurence Sterne, and the “Eugenius” of his Tristram Shandy. When first published in 1762 the Monthly Review wrote of this book “ We can safely aver that they are full of obscenity and apparently calculated to inflame the passions”. A witty but risque collection of rabelaisian tales in verse.
Reference: Halkett & Laing. Allibone; Dict. Eng. Lit. Gay/Lemonnyer. v.1. pt.2. col. 758

Dalkey, Co. Dublin : The Cuala Press 1977. 750 copies printed.
8vo. Orig. printed wrappers, stabstitched with red thread.

Turin : Apud HH. Io. Dominici Tarini. 1629. Folio, Title-page in red and black with large engraved printer’s(?) device, [xii]pp, 288 leaves, [48]pp, double column, cont. vellum, yapp edges, short split to front hinge, small piece at upper corner of spine lacking, otherwise sound.
This is a collection of tracts on canon, Roman, and civil law by Amadeus a Ponte, Antonius Faber, Bertrandus Argentreus, Camillus Borellus, Carlus Antonius Blancardus, Franciscus Solsona, Hartmannus Pistor and Maurus Burgius. The editor, Solsona, was a professor of law in Barcelona.
Reference: No copy in COPAC Only 1 copy in USA (UC Berkeley Law School)

London : Faber & Faber Ltd... 1930. Royal 8vo, 285 pp, engraved title, head- and tail-pieces by Rex Whistler, original cloth, top edge rough gilt, others uncut, slight watermark on rear cover.
First and Deluxe Edition, limited to 650 copies, signed, with illustrations printed from the original copper plates

[Berlin : Rudiger, 1763]. 4to, 26 leaves, 2 fold. plates, divisional title-page only, later mottled brown paper wrappers.
Extracted from “Schauplatz der Kunste und Handwerke”, Berlin, Leipzig, etc 1762 -1805, which was a German translation of the “Description des Arts et Metiers” published by the Academie des sciences, Paris 1761-89. The original French title was L’Art de travailler les cuirs dorés ou argentés (Art of gilding or silvering leather).
This German translation was issued over more than forty years by a variety of publishers in, successively, Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Nurnberg, and again Berlin. It is very much rarer than the French original.

[Berlin : Rudiger, 1765]. 4to, 26 leaves, 4 fold. plates, divisional title-page only, later mottled brown paper wrappers.
Extracted from “Schauplatz der Kunste und Handwerke”, Berlin, Leipzig, etc 1762 -1805, which was a German translation of the “Description des Arts et Metiers” published by the Academie des sciences, Paris 1761-89. The original French title was Chamoiseur (Chamois-leather dresser)
This German translation was issued over more than forty years by a variety of publishers in, successively, Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Nurnberg, and again Berlin. It is very much rarer than the French original.

[Leipzig : Kanter 1766]. 4to, 78 leaves, 3 fold. plates, divisional title-page only, later mottled brown paper wrappers.
Extracted from “Schauplatz der Kunste und Handwerke”, Berlin, Leipzig, etc 1762 -1805, which was a German translation of the “Description des Arts et Metiers” published by the Academie des sciences, Paris 1761-89. The original French title was Tanneur (Leather tanner)
This German translation was issued over more than forty years by a variety of publishers in, successively, Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Nurnberg, and again Berlin. It is very much rarer than the French original.

Venice : Chez Charles Palese Imprimeur 1773. Small 4to, eng. port. by G. Zuliani after Naza: Nazzari, a8, b12, 39pp, 19c. half calf, marbled boards, worn but joints sound.
Andre Tron , known to his contemporaries as “Il Paron”, Master of Venice
Reference: Barbier v.1 col. 1021

Paris : Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard... 1707. First Edition
12mo, eng. front., 9ff, 249, [3] pp, cont. calf, gilt spine, head and tail repaired, sound. Book-plate of Bibliotheque de Mouchy.
Reference: Cioranescu 32737

A pair of gouache drawings (170 x 215mm), on paper, each signed lower right “J Hefele”, framed (322 x 355)
Little is known of the artist: he was German by birth but spent several years in England where he came as one of King William’s army. He died here about 1710.

Strasbourg : Chez Amand Konig, Libraire. 1766. Small 8vo, )(4, A-T8, [viii], 304 pp, title-page in red and black , woodcut head- and tailpieces, antique-style panelled calf tooled in blind, spine fully gilt, red mor. label, marbled e-p., a fine copy.
The author would appear not to be the well-known Abbe Prevost: all libraries, except Cambridge, avoid ascribing it to him. It seems likely that it is an unknown seeking to use the Abbe’s fame to his own advantage.
The book is rare. Copac locates BL and Cambridge; CCfr one copy at Strasbourg; and Karlsruhe adds 2 copies in German libraries.

London: Printed by W. Bulmer for Longman... et. al. 1813. First Edition.
4to, Engraved front. + 9 plates (1 folding), viii + 323 + lxiii pps. + 2 leaves (Index), some offset on title, contemporary full polished calf, unidentified earl’s crest in blind on both covers, front joint tender, a very good copy.
“This was the first serous attempt to apply chemistry to agriculture, and it remained a standard work until displaced by Justus von Liebig’s publications a generation later. The book is of interest because of its pioneering nature, and it went through a number of editions; but its value must be said to lie more in the impulse it gave toward the application of scientific methods in agriculture than in any of the theories advanced.” - DSB.

Parisiis [i.e. London] : 1664. Small 8vo, A-I4, K2 (B1-2 mis-signed A1-2), clean tear in E1 not affecting legibility, disbound.
An attack on Bates’ Elenchus motuum, which was a defence of Charles I in his confrontation with parliament. Roberta Anderson, in her entry for Pugh in the new Oxford DNB says of the present work “It was initially credited to Pugh, but it has since been accepted that although it was not his work he probably had a hand in its production”
Reference: Wing P4186A McAlpin Collection III, p 512.

London : Printed for P. and J. Knapton, in Ludgate-street. 1753. 8vo, [2], xix, [1], 80 pp, title page in red and black, disbound.

[London : Printed by Harrison and Sons for H.M.Fletcher, 1970]. Edition limited to 25 copies with an original copper
Folio, title-page with engraved vignette by Rex Whistler, 3 lls text (versos blank), 25 engraved plates by Rex Whistler, 12 of them coloured by hand (by Len Pooley), on handmade paper watermarked T.H Saunders, together with one of the original copper plates used for printing the Cresset Press edition, contained in the original portfolio of half green morocco, paper boards, as new.
The plate in this copy is for the map of “The Kingdom of Brobdingnag”.

The Cresset Press edition of Gulliver’s Travels illustrated by Rex Whistler was published in 1930 and limited to 195 copies on handmade paper and 10 copies on vellum.