MISCELLANY - Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, London, 1725, 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf. With various other works in 65 vols. (67)

MISCELLANY - Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, (as illustrated and improv'd by Robert of Brunne) from the Death of Cadwalader to the end of K. Edward the First's Reign. Transcrib'd, and now first publish'd, from a MS. in the Inner-Temple Library By Thomas Hearne. Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1725. 2 volumes, 8vo (225 x 135mm). Engraved illustration on [q3] in the first vol., woodcut initials and ornaments, one-page publisher's advertisement at the end of vol. II (some light browning, spotting and staining, marginal wormtrack to the first few leaves of the second vol.). Contemporary speckled calf gilt, spines with 5 raised bands (lacking lettering-pieces, joints splitting, rubbed). Provenance: Eric Gerald Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor, University of Oxford (label). FIRST EDITION. With various other works in 65 vols. including Gerardus Joannis Vossius's Etymologicon linguæ Latinæ (Lyon, 1664, modern morocco-backed cloth), Nathaniel Lee's Constantine the Great; a Tragedy Acted at the Theatre-Royal (London, 1684, later marbled boards), [Domenico di Giovanni's (and others)] Sonetti del Burchiello del Bellincioni e d' altri poeti ("In Londra", 1757, engraved portrait and title, contemporary calf gilt), Scriptores rei rusticae veteres Latini Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius ... Curante Jo. Matthia Gesnero ... Editio secunda (Leipzig,  Sumtibus Caspari Fritsch,1773, 2 vols., engraved plates, some folding, attractively bound in contemporary polished speckled calf gilt), George Campbell's The Philosophy of Rhetoric ... Second Edition (London, 1801, 2 vols., attractively bound in contemporary polished calf gilt), Thomas Warton's Observations on The Fairy Queen ... A New Edition (London, 1807, 2 vols., contemporary calf gilt), William Shakespeare's Works, edited by Edmond Malone (London, 1816, 16 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf gilt), [Walter Scott's] Tales of My Landlord, Collected and Arranged by Jedebiah Cleishbotham (Edinburgh, 1816-19, 1st-3rd Series in 12 vols., 12mo, contemporary half calf gilt, FIRST EDITION), [William Stewart Rose's] Letters from the North of Italy Addressed to Henry Hallam (London, 1819, 2 vols. in one, contemporary half calf) and Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England (London, 1828, 5 vols., large 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt). The lot sold not subject to return. (67)

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