MISCELLANY - Julius CAESAR (100 B.C.-44 B.C.). Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii, Lyon, 1603, small 8vo, 2 folding engraved maps, 2 full-page folding engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum, clasps. With 11 other miscellaneous books. (12)

MISCELLANY - Julius CAESAR (100 B.C.-44 B.C.).  Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii, Hac postrema editione, ab innumeris mendis, quibus scatebant, repurgati. Lyon: Apud Joan. Pillehotte, 1603. Small 8vo (120 x 78mm). 2 folding engraved maps, 2 full-page engraved illustrations, initials (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary vellum elaborately decorated in blind, metal clasps. With 11 other miscellaneous books including John Norden's Speculum Britanniæ: An Historical and Chorographical Description of Middlesex and Hartfordshire (London, 1723, folding engraved plates and maps, contemporary calf, rebacked, old annotation), The Trial of His R. H. the D. of C. July 5th, 1770, for Criminal Conversation with Lady Harriet G----------R ... The Sixth Edition (London, 1770, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary half calf, much later annotation), Trial for Adultery. The Trial of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. for Criminal Conversation with Mrs Bromel (London, [n.d. but c.1793], 8vo, later engraved portrait, later annotations and pasted-in clippings, contemporary calf-backed boards), Izaak Walton's The Complete Angler (London, 1824, 8vo, engraved plates and vignettes, contemporary half roan), John Britton's Bath and Bristol, with the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, Displayed in a Series of Views (London, 1829, 4to, engraved plates, modern half calf), H. N. Humphrey's Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart. Selected from the MS. in the British Museum (London, 1844, 4to, chromolithographed plates, modern leather) , [Arthur Hughes'] Tom Brown's School Days. By an Old Boy (Cambridge, 1857, 8vo, attractively-bound in contemporary polished calf, FIRST EDITION), Jonathan Swift's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver (London, 1882, large 8vo, etched plates on "Japanese paper", attractively-bound in contemporary polished tree calf gilt, NUMBER 58 OF 150 COPIES), and an 18th-century imitation book, without text block, but containing instead a concealed compartment. Provenance: The Property of the late Frank Graham (1913-2006), and thence by descent. The lot sold not subject to return. (12)