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1 Agriculture and Gardening-BATTUS THEODORUS. Q.D.B.V. Modos Seminandi diversa Semina Hebræorum Veterum, ad Illustranda commata Levit XIX., 19, Det. XXII. 9, etc. Præside Theodoro Dassovio, Linguæ Sanctæ, et Orientalium reliquarum Prof. Publ. in Auditorio Majori ad diem 24 April A MDCXCV., 4to, unbound, title soiled, stained, 1 large folding plate, 35s Vitembergae, Christiani Kreusigii, 1695

A dissertation on the biblical law "Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed," with diagrams showing the correct and incorrect method of sowing. Curious and rare.

2 CRESCENTIUS (Pietrus) Opera tradotto novamente per M. Francesco Sansovino Nel quale si trattano le cose della villa con le figure delle herbe poste nel fine. Con vn vocabolario delle voci difficili che sono in questa opera, et con i dissegni di gli stromenti co quali si cultiua et si lauora la terra, 8vo, half calf, back broken, joints loose, first few pp. stained, device on title, 7+481 ff., full-page herbal woodcuts at end, small wormhole, woodcut initials, £2 Venetia, Francesco Rampassetto, 1564 3

MONTEATH (Robert) The Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter, containing A Practical Treatise on Planting Moss, Rocky, Waste, and other lands; also a new Easy and Safe Plan of Transplanting large Trees, and of valuing Growing Wood and Trees of all descriptions. To which is added, the Prevention and Cure of Dry Rot, 8vo, red morocco, gilt border design, gilt back, inside gold dentelles, with arms of George IV., with a dedication to his Most Gracious Majesty George IV., £2 Edinburgh, Stirling, etc., 1824 4 Americana PRICE (Richard, D.D., F.R.S.) Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America, to which is added, an Appendix, 8vo, unbound, 126 pp., 17s 6d London, T. Cadell, 1776 5 STANFORD'S Map of the Seat of War in America, fine large folding map of the States mounted on linen, showing the early battlefields of the Civil War, 17s 6d London, E. Stanford, 1861 6 Amsterdam-VAN CAMPEN (Jacob) Afbeelding van't Stadt Huys van Amsterdam, in dartigh Coopere Plaaten, geordineert door Jacob van Campen; en Geteeckent door Jacob Vannekool, folio, engraved title, page 9 mended, 30 engraved plates, some folded, £3 3s Amsterdam, Dancker Danckerts, 1661 7 Arabic-SCHNURRER (C. F.) Bibliothecae Arabicae Specimen Deo Juvante Praeside Christiano Friderico Schnurrer, 4to, original coloured wrappers, 52 pp., last few pp. stained, 30s Tubingae, Hopfferianis, 1799 8 Archæology-CARTARI (V.) Le Imagini de i dei de Gli Antichi, nelle quali si contengono gl' Idoli, le ceremonie & altre cose appartementi alla Religione de gli Antichi, Raccolte dal Sig. Vincenzo Cartari con la loro espositione, & con bellissime & accommodate figure nuovamente ristampate, 4to, vellum, 87 full-page copper-plate engravings, title-page mended in corner, device on title, stained, £1 Venetia, presso Francesco Zilletti, 1587 9 Army List The Succession of Colonels to All his Majesties Land Forces, from their Rise to 1742. Precedency of each Regiment, with Dates to Promotions, Removes. Deaths, etc., The Same of y Regiments Broke in the two last Reigns, to which is added A List of y Royal Navy; when Built, Rebuilt, number of Men and Guns, Tonnage Dimensions, etc., Pay, Subsistence, Half-Pay, Pensions, etc., of y Army, Navy, and Garrisons at Home and Abroad, size, 7 by 4ins., mottled calf, gilt lines, gilt back, 40+6 folding engraved plates 12 by 14ins., £2 10s London, J. Millan, 1742, 10 Art and Architecture Catalogue du Cabinet des Tableaux de l'Abbé Du-Jardin, large folio, half front, front. and 49 large litho. plates, with descriptive text, 30s

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FICORONIUS (Franciscus) Gemmae Antiquae Litteratae, Aliaeque Rariores Accesserunt Vetera Monumenta Ejusdem aetate reperta, omnia Collecta, Adnotationibus, et Declarationibus illustrata AP. Nicolao Galeotti E. Soc. Jesu, 8vo, wrappers, loose, back stripped, device on title, numerous plates, some folding, 17s 6d Romae, 1757 GOETSCHY (Gustave) Les Jeunes Peintres Militaires: De Neuville-DetailleDupray, preface de E. Bergerat, folio, half morocco (rubbed), contenant 600 croquis inedits, 10 grand dessins et 5 photogravures, epuisé, £2 Paris, L. Baschet, 1878

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VINCI (Léonard de) Traité de la Peinture, précédé de la vie de l'Auteur et du Catalogue de ses ouvrages, avec des notes et observations, par P. M. Gault de Saint-Germain, illustrated with a portrait of Vinci and many fine engraved plates, 8vo, old calf, gilt back, 35s Paris, Perlet, 1803 26 Astronomy-GASSENDUS (Petrus) Institutio Astronomica juxta Hypotheses tam Veterum quam Recentiorum cui accesserunt Galilei Galilei Nuntius Sidereus et Johannis Kepleri, Dioptrice 2nd Ed. priori correctior, 2 vols in 1, 8vo, stamped calf, rubbed, with numerous woodcuts and 4 plates, title in red and black, £1 Londini, Jacobi Flesher, 1653 HYGINUS (C. Jul.) Fabularum liber (Poeticon Astronomicon, etc.), folio, boards, Roman Type, with some Greek, device on title, fine woodcut initials, title mended in corner, numerous woodcuts, £1 15s Basileae, Jo. Hervagius, 1535 28 LONGOMONTANUS (C. S.) Astronomia Danica, 2 vols in 1, folio, old calf, joints loose, corners damaged, rubbed, device on title, 21s Amsterdami, Blaeu, 1640 29 Baptists-FEATLEY (Daniel) The Dippers Dipt, or the Anabaptists duck'd and plung'd over Head and Eares at a Disputation in Southwark, 4to, calf, rubbed, top of back damaged, Best Edition, containing the portrait of Featley, with the plate of his monument and shroud, and the curious front. by Will. Marshall. Lowndes, II., I, 784, 30s

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