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	ALMANAC. The Court and City Register, or Gentleman's Complete Annual Kalendar, For the Year 1771. Containing, I. New and Correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament. II. The Court Register. III. Lists of the Army, Navy, Universities, Public Offices, Hospitals, London: Printed for J. Joliffe...[inter alia], n. d. 1771. 12mo, 140 x 82 mms., pp. [lxiv], [iii] - vi, 282, with separate title-page in red and black for Rider's British Merlin (London: R. and M. Brown), following general title-page, and the Rider section interleaved, attractively bound in full contemporary red morocco, very ornately gilt covers, gilt spine, all edges gilt; short tear in fore-margins of pp. 111 - 114, base of spine slightly chipped, spine a little creased, corners very slightly worn, but an attractive copy Rider's English Merlin is a separate publication of 60 pages inserted between the title-page of the Kalendar and its Index. It is separately catalogued in ESTC at T45011. ESTC N44471 locates copies of the Kalendar in Christ's College Cambridge, National Archives, National Trust, and York Minster. GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 6654 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ALMANAC. The Court and City Register, or Gentleman's Complete Annual Kalendar, For the Year 1772. Containing, I. New and Correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament. II. The Court Register. III. Lists of the Army, Navy, Universities, Public Offices, Hospitals, London: Printed for J. Joliffe...[inter alia], n. d. 1772 12mo, 140 x 82 mms., pp. [lxiv], [iii] - vi, 282, with separate title-page in red and black for Rider's British Merlin (London: R. and M. Brown), following general title-page, and the Rider section interleaved, attractively bound in full contemporary red morocco, very ornately gilt covers, gilt spine, all edges gilt; some contemporary deletions and additions to Navy section, top and base of spine chipped, corners a little worn, remains of clasps, but an attractive copy Rider's English Merlin is a separate publication of 60 pages inserted between the title-page of the Kalendar and its Index. ESTC N4861 locates copies in Huntington, Newbery, Nova Scotia, and Stanford. GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 6655 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches Cambridge: Printed by John Burges Printer to the University; and sold by C. Dilly, F. & C. Rivington, and B. & J. White, in London; and J. & J. Merrill, Cambridge, 1796. Large 8vo, 222 x 131 mms., unpaginated, collating a8b4B-XX8, with "price eight shillings unbound" beneath imprint on title-page, handsomely bound in full red straight grain morocco, ornately gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, all edges gilt; corners very slightly crushed, but a fine and attractive copy with the armorial bookplate of Thomas T. Whipham on the front paste-down end-paper and the small (30 x 10 mms.) pink binder's ticket of F. Kile, 25 Great Marylebone Street [London], on the verso of the front free end-paper. ESTC T81424 locates copies of this printing at BL, Birmingham, Cambridge, St. Bride Printing Library, St. Deniol's Library; Huntington, Virginia, Texas GBP 1045.00 [Appr.: EURO 1146.5 US$ 1728.43 \| JP¥ 148689] Book number: 6326 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	DOS-A-DOS BINDING Songs. Musikalisches Album "Maria Wiechers" 1840. An oblong dos-a-dos binding, 334 x 235 mms., with approximately one hundred leaves in each part, some leaves ruled for music, but with only three leaves having music on them, the rest blank, finely bound in attractive green morocco, with "Musikalishches Album" on a panel of lighter green morocco inside a series of gilt rectangles on the front cover, the name, "Maria Wiechers" and the date, 1840, in gilt also, with various gilt borders, floral scroll at the outer borders; on the rear cover, a series of gilt rectangles and some tooling in blind, with a central panel in a lighter green with gilt ornament in centre, gilt spines. A very attractive item. One of the songs in manuscript is "Lied von Beethoven," though it is unlikely to be by him. GBP 495.00 [Appr.: EURO 543.25 US$ 818.73 \| JP¥ 70432] Book number: 6787 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ESTRUSCAN-STYLE BINDING. SARGENT (JOHN): The Mine: A Dramatic Poem. The Second Edition. To which are added Two Historic Odes. London: Printed for T. Cadell..., 1788. Small 8vo, pp. xxvii [xxviii Persons of the Drama], 12mo, engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates (a little foxed), attractively bound in full contemporary calf, with decorative covers to a gilt ornament with black surround repeated in parallel slanting lines on each cover, all edges gilt; spine restored, with some gilt ornamenting retained but otherwise in blind, upper rear cover missing two of the ornaments, corners restored, but a very attractive period binding. With the decorative bookplate of "Mr. Thornhill" on the front paste-down end-paper. GBP 660.00 [Appr.: EURO 724.25 US$ 1091.64 \| JP¥ 93909] Book number: 5583 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	FRENCH ROYAL BINDING. JEAN DE LOYAC. Le Triomphe de la Charite en la Vie du Bien-Hevrevx Iean de Diev. Institvtion et Progrez de son Order Religievx. Avec les Ceremonies de la Beatification, & de la Translation solemnelle de sa Relique, ennoyée a la Rene Mere par le Roy d'Espagne. A Paris, Chez Antoine Chrestien…, 1661. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 210 x 160 mms., pp. 408, 12, [21 index, 22 blank], with engraved and printed title-pages, 4 other engraved plates, handsomely bound in full red morocco (probably contemporary) red morocco, with the gilt arms to a gilt anchor device on the covers, with inset of three fleur de lys and short stroke at 45 degree angle (denoting relationship to the king) in gilt in centre, with ornate gilt rolls on each cover surrounding the panel, and with a crown on cipher in each corner, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label, all edges gilt; corners a little worn, slight abrasions to binding at lower right-hand front cover, some slight loss of gilt at margins, but generally a fine and attractive French royal binding from the late17th or early 18th century. The binding is similar to those made for Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Panthievre (1725 - 1793), though this binding appears to be earlier and probably exhibits the arms of Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678 - 1737), admiral of France, the third son of Louis XIV, hence the anchor motif and the diagonal bar between the fleur-de-lys. With a presentation inscription ("Ce Livre appartient à Mariane Vier [?] Demeurant à la ferté sous gouarre [?]. Je prie Les personnes qui Le trouveront d'avoir La Bonté De Le remettre à mon aDresse. Fait à la ferté le 28 août 1819 [signed] Femme[?] Fournier") in French dated 28 August 1819 on the recto of the blank leaf before the engraved title-page, and the autograph "J. Spencer Northcote/ Clifton/ 1857" in the top corner. Ex-libris, with the bookplate of St. Dominic's Convent/ Stone on the front free marbled end-paper. The historian, priest, and college head James Spencer Northcote (1821 - 1907) was ordained priest of St. Dominic's Convent in 1855. Jean de Dieu (1495 - 1550) was the son of Portguese parents, André and Thérèse Ciudad.and devoted most of his life to caring for the poor. He was beatified by Urbain VIII in 1630 and was canonized by Alexandre VIII, in 1690. GBP 2750.00 [Appr.: EURO 3017 US$ 4548.5 \| JP¥ 391288] Book number: 5931 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	GREGORY (JOHN): A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World. A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World. 1788. 8vo, pp. [ii], xx, 291 [292 blank, 293 - 201 Contents, 202 blank], bound in contemporary vellum, border consisting of two parallel light blue lines on covers, gilt rules in spiral twist across spine, light blue morocco label in gilt, marbled end-papers; no half-title or portrait. The style very much resembles bindings from the Edwards of Halifax bindery, though the boards seem somewhat thicker than those on bindings from Edwards of Halifax and which often have a solid blue border. But the binding is attractive and in fine condition. Gregory's Comparative View was first published in 1765 and many times reprinted. Of the seven copies located by ESTC in British libraries and six in North American libraries, several lack the half-title and the portrait. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 3356 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	MATTHEWS (WILLIAM), BINDER. Cavalcade of Painting. A book for the student or the connoisseur of art, illustrated by reproductions of masterpieces of the famous London collections. London, Publisher by Harper of Holloway, no date [1945] 8vo, 190 x 132 mms., pp. 64, with each page with colour illustration of painting, bound by William Matthews, bound in full nigerian tan morocco, with gilt panel with borders in gilt, gilt spines, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, signed by Matthews, on lower margin of rear board; slight natural defect to leather on front cover. Matthews (1898 - 1977)began his training as a binder at the Central School of Arts and Crafts when he was 13. An exhibition catalogue, The Tradition [sic] of Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century, 12 November 1979 to 15 February 1980, compiled by Bernadette G. Callery and Elizabeth A. Mossiman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1979), notes, "His love of gold tooling is evident on his bindings, which catch and reflect the light giving the 'solid brilliance of deep gold.'" Not my usual sort of book, but job lots produce some curiosities from time to time. GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 603.5 US$ 909.7 \| JP¥ 78258] Book number: 6721 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ROGALL (GEORG FRIEDRICH): Kern Alter und Neuer Lieder so in der Koeniglichen Preussischen Landen gebrauchlich find, mit einem erwechlichen Spruche ueber einem jeden Liede und einemerbaulichen Gebet-Buche auch noethigen Registern versehen, nebst einem Unterricht wie man ein Gesang Koenigsberg, Druckun Verlageder Hartunschen Buchdrucherei..., [c. 1840] Tall, narrow 12mo, 173 x 85 mms., pp. [viii], 852, bound in full black velvet, gilt metal borders and ornaments on covers, decorated paper strips coated with gilt at top and base of spine (top strip defective, missing portion from left-hand corner), gilt decorations on spine with gilt shield reading "souvenir" in middle of spine, blue coated end-papers, all edges gilt, with single thin lines of gauffering toward each cover, preserved in a contemporary slipcase cover with green embossed paper (a little worn at extremities, with some paper missing. Generally a very attractive binding, probably dating from the mid-1850s, which would be consistent with a previous owner's autograph dated 1859: "August Neuber/ gekauft 1859." Another somewhat illegible signature appears on the recto of the front free end-paper, dated 1896, or, possibly, 1856. Rogall (1701 - 1733) published Kern alter und neuer Lieder: für das Königreich Preussen mit einem erwecklichen Spruche über einem jeden Liede und mit erbaulichen Gebeten, auch nöthigen Registern in Königsberg in1731, and this is just one of many reprints. GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 603.5 US$ 909.7 \| JP¥ 78258] Book number: 3039 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SCOTTISH WHEEL BINDING. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churche University of Oxford: Printed by John Baskett..., 1716. 8vo, 195 x 117 mms., collating a-b8,c4, B-Aa8, Bb8, Cc4, engraved portrait of George I as frontispiece, engraved title-page for "The Liturgy of the Church of England. Adorn'd with Fifty six New Historical Cuts. London, Sold by Richard Ware...," printed title-page in red and black, some of text in red and black. BOUND WITH: [VICKERS (William)]: A Companion to the Altar: Shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation, In order to our Worth Receiving the Holy Communion...The Eleventh Edition. London: Printed for Edmund Parker..., 1729. 8vo, pp. [5] - 58, engraved frontispiece, and this text bound between M5 and M6 of the Book of Common Prayer, with in total 55 plates. The engraved title-page at the beginning of the volume is signed Sturt. sculp. the frontispiece portrait of George I is signed J. Mynde sculp, and the remaining plates are unsighted. A Scottish wheel binding in full dark olive morocco, with a wheel design on covers, floral ornaments in each corner, neatly rebacked preserving the original spine gilt in compartments, original end-papers, corners restored; several chipped blank margins, text occasionally fingered, some loss of gilt on covers, but in general a sound an attractive copy. The wheel design is similar to that in the British Library, Davis 246, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000003644&ImageId=ImageId=41427&Copyright=BL. Even closer is a wheel binding in the National Library of Scotland, http://www.nls.uk/bookbinding/1730-4.html. BCP is ESTC T88866; Companion to the Altar is ESTC T76125. GBP 1650.00 [Appr.: EURO 1810.25 US$ 2729.1 \| JP¥ 234773] Book number: 6709 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SCOTTISH HERRINGBONE BINDING. HOLY BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; Newly translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid..., 1764. 18mo (in 12s and 6s), 133 x 80 mms., unpaginated, final leaf Ee6, ending with Proverbs, xvi, i. e., almost certainly one volume of 2, with rest of OT and NT in unlocated second volume, but an attractive contemporary Scottish herringbone binding in red morocco, spines gilt in compartments to a thistle motif, covers ornately gilt to various motifs (birds, floral, acorns, bellows), all edges gilt, Dutch floral paste-down end-papers; some gilt gone from lower front cover, but generally a fine example of a typical pattern found on other Bibles and prayer books from this period in Scottish binding history. A similar binding in green morocco can be found on the NLS website, http://www.nls.uk/bookbinding/1770-5.html. GBP 1375.00 [Appr.: EURO 1508.5 US$ 2274.25 \| JP¥ 195644] Book number: 6547 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SCOTTISH HERRINGBONE BINDING. HOLY BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; Newly translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid..., 1758. 18mo (in 12s and 6s), 138 x 80 mms., unpaginated, final leaf Ff9, ending with Proverbs, xxxi, volume 1 only, contemporary Scottish herringbone binding in dark olive morocco, ornately giltto a central panel of symmetrical leaves surround by a border of swells and teardrops, with floral cup in each and further scroll border on each cover, spien gilt to a cross design with acorns and ornaments, Dutch floral end papers, all edges gilt; binding a little faded but a good example of a familiar type of Scottish herringbone binding. A vaguelysimilar binding in green morocco can be found on the NLS website, http://www.nls.uk/bookbinding/1730-5.html. GBP 660.00 [Appr.: EURO 724.25 US$ 1091.64 \| JP¥ 93909] Book number: 6650 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SCOTTISH HERRINGBONE BINDING. HOLY BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; Newly translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid..., 1758. 12mo, 138 x 78 mms., unpaginated, A - Ee12, Ff9, bound in olive morocco, with a central panel to a leaf design within a framework of scrolls, gilt border tool to a thistle motif, spine gilt in compartments to an acorn motif, with volume number "1" in gilt, Dutch floral end-papers. A good example of typical Scottish herringbone binding from the mid 18th century Volume 1 only. The text ends on Ff9r, Proverbs XXI, 31. GBP 495.00 [Appr.: EURO 543.25 US$ 818.73 \| JP¥ 70432] Book number: 6837 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SHENSTONE (WILLIAM): The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq. The Fifth Edition [volumes 1 and 2]. A New Edition [volume 3]. London: Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1777. 3 volumes. Small 8vo, 180 x 125 mms., pp. 332 [333 - 334 Contents]; vii [viii blank], 345 [346 blank], viii, 360, engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page in volumes 1 and 2, engraved tail-piece in volume 1, folding engraved plan of The Leasowes at page 287 in volume 2, attractively bound in contemporary lightly mottled calf, gilt border roll on covers, spine ornately gilt to a bird and cup balanced on urn motif, represent in three separate panels on each spine, red and olive morocco labels; bookplate crudely removed from front paste-down end-paper of each volume, front joint volume 1 slightly cracked, top of spine volume 1 very slightly chipped, upper rear joint volume 2 very slightly chipped, but generally a fine and attractive set, with ornaments that resemble those used by Scott of Edinburgh, with the contemporary autograph of F or T Pope on the top margin of each title-page. Shenstone (1714 - 1763) is little read, or likely to be read, these days, but Samuel Johnson had some praise for some of his poems, concluding his remarks in The Lives of the Poets, by saying, "The general recommendation of Shenstone is easiness and simplicity; his general defect is want of comprehension and variety. Had his mind been better stored with knowledge, whether he could have been great, I know not; he could certainly have been agreeable." GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 6595 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.

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	ALMANAC. The Court and City Register, or Gentleman's Complete Annual Kalendar, For the Year 1771. Containing, I. New and Correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament. II. The Court Register. III. Lists of the Army, Navy, Universities, Public Offices, Hospitals, London: Printed for J. Joliffe...[inter alia], n. d. 1771. 12mo, 140 x 82 mms., pp. [lxiv], [iii] - vi, 282, with separate title-page in red and black for Rider's British Merlin (London: R. and M. Brown), following general title-page, and the Rider section interleaved, attractively bound in full contemporary red morocco, very ornately gilt covers, gilt spine, all edges gilt; short tear in fore-margins of pp. 111 - 114, base of spine slightly chipped, spine a little creased, corners very slightly worn, but an attractive copy Rider's English Merlin is a separate publication of 60 pages inserted between the title-page of the Kalendar and its Index. It is separately catalogued in ESTC at T45011. ESTC N44471 locates copies of the Kalendar in Christ's College Cambridge, National Archives, National Trust, and York Minster. GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 6654 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ALMANAC. The Court and City Register, or Gentleman's Complete Annual Kalendar, For the Year 1772. Containing, I. New and Correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament. II. The Court Register. III. Lists of the Army, Navy, Universities, Public Offices, Hospitals, London: Printed for J. Joliffe...[inter alia], n. d. 1772 12mo, 140 x 82 mms., pp. [lxiv], [iii] - vi, 282, with separate title-page in red and black for Rider's British Merlin (London: R. and M. Brown), following general title-page, and the Rider section interleaved, attractively bound in full contemporary red morocco, very ornately gilt covers, gilt spine, all edges gilt; some contemporary deletions and additions to Navy section, top and base of spine chipped, corners a little worn, remains of clasps, but an attractive copy Rider's English Merlin is a separate publication of 60 pages inserted between the title-page of the Kalendar and its Index. ESTC N4861 locates copies in Huntington, Newbery, Nova Scotia, and Stanford. GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 6655 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches Cambridge: Printed by John Burges Printer to the University; and sold by C. Dilly, F. & C. Rivington, and B. & J. White, in London; and J. & J. Merrill, Cambridge, 1796. Large 8vo, 222 x 131 mms., unpaginated, collating a8b4B-XX8, with "price eight shillings unbound" beneath imprint on title-page, handsomely bound in full red straight grain morocco, ornately gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, all edges gilt; corners very slightly crushed, but a fine and attractive copy with the armorial bookplate of Thomas T. Whipham on the front paste-down end-paper and the small (30 x 10 mms.) pink binder's ticket of F. Kile, 25 Great Marylebone Street [London], on the verso of the front free end-paper. ESTC T81424 locates copies of this printing at BL, Birmingham, Cambridge, St. Bride Printing Library, St. Deniol's Library; Huntington, Virginia, Texas GBP 1045.00 [Appr.: EURO 1146.5 US$ 1728.43 \| JP¥ 148689] Book number: 6326 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	DOS-A-DOS BINDING Songs. Musikalisches Album "Maria Wiechers" 1840. An oblong dos-a-dos binding, 334 x 235 mms., with approximately one hundred leaves in each part, some leaves ruled for music, but with only three leaves having music on them, the rest blank, finely bound in attractive green morocco, with "Musikalishches Album" on a panel of lighter green morocco inside a series of gilt rectangles on the front cover, the name, "Maria Wiechers" and the date, 1840, in gilt also, with various gilt borders, floral scroll at the outer borders; on the rear cover, a series of gilt rectangles and some tooling in blind, with a central panel in a lighter green with gilt ornament in centre, gilt spines. A very attractive item. One of the songs in manuscript is "Lied von Beethoven," though it is unlikely to be by him. GBP 495.00 [Appr.: EURO 543.25 US$ 818.73 \| JP¥ 70432] Book number: 6787 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ESTRUSCAN-STYLE BINDING. SARGENT (JOHN): The Mine: A Dramatic Poem. The Second Edition. To which are added Two Historic Odes. London: Printed for T. Cadell..., 1788. Small 8vo, pp. xxvii [xxviii Persons of the Drama], 12mo, engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates (a little foxed), attractively bound in full contemporary calf, with decorative covers to a gilt ornament with black surround repeated in parallel slanting lines on each cover, all edges gilt; spine restored, with some gilt ornamenting retained but otherwise in blind, upper rear cover missing two of the ornaments, corners restored, but a very attractive period binding. With the decorative bookplate of "Mr. Thornhill" on the front paste-down end-paper. GBP 660.00 [Appr.: EURO 724.25 US$ 1091.64 \| JP¥ 93909] Book number: 5583 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	FRENCH ROYAL BINDING. JEAN DE LOYAC. Le Triomphe de la Charite en la Vie du Bien-Hevrevx Iean de Diev. Institvtion et Progrez de son Order Religievx. Avec les Ceremonies de la Beatification, & de la Translation solemnelle de sa Relique, ennoyée a la Rene Mere par le Roy d'Espagne. A Paris, Chez Antoine Chrestien…, 1661. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 210 x 160 mms., pp. 408, 12, [21 index, 22 blank], with engraved and printed title-pages, 4 other engraved plates, handsomely bound in full red morocco (probably contemporary) red morocco, with the gilt arms to a gilt anchor device on the covers, with inset of three fleur de lys and short stroke at 45 degree angle (denoting relationship to the king) in gilt in centre, with ornate gilt rolls on each cover surrounding the panel, and with a crown on cipher in each corner, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label, all edges gilt; corners a little worn, slight abrasions to binding at lower right-hand front cover, some slight loss of gilt at margins, but generally a fine and attractive French royal binding from the late17th or early 18th century. The binding is similar to those made for Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Panthievre (1725 - 1793), though this binding appears to be earlier and probably exhibits the arms of Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678 - 1737), admiral of France, the third son of Louis XIV, hence the anchor motif and the diagonal bar between the fleur-de-lys. With a presentation inscription ("Ce Livre appartient à Mariane Vier [?] Demeurant à la ferté sous gouarre [?]. Je prie Les personnes qui Le trouveront d'avoir La Bonté De Le remettre à mon aDresse. Fait à la ferté le 28 août 1819 [signed] Femme[?] Fournier") in French dated 28 August 1819 on the recto of the blank leaf before the engraved title-page, and the autograph "J. Spencer Northcote/ Clifton/ 1857" in the top corner. Ex-libris, with the bookplate of St. Dominic's Convent/ Stone on the front free marbled end-paper. The historian, priest, and college head James Spencer Northcote (1821 - 1907) was ordained priest of St. Dominic's Convent in 1855. Jean de Dieu (1495 - 1550) was the son of Portguese parents, André and Thérèse Ciudad.and devoted most of his life to caring for the poor. He was beatified by Urbain VIII in 1630 and was canonized by Alexandre VIII, in 1690. GBP 2750.00 [Appr.: EURO 3017 US$ 4548.5 \| JP¥ 391288] Book number: 5931 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	GREGORY (JOHN): A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World. A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World. 1788. 8vo, pp. [ii], xx, 291 [292 blank, 293 - 201 Contents, 202 blank], bound in contemporary vellum, border consisting of two parallel light blue lines on covers, gilt rules in spiral twist across spine, light blue morocco label in gilt, marbled end-papers; no half-title or portrait. The style very much resembles bindings from the Edwards of Halifax bindery, though the boards seem somewhat thicker than those on bindings from Edwards of Halifax and which often have a solid blue border. But the binding is attractive and in fine condition. Gregory's Comparative View was first published in 1765 and many times reprinted. Of the seven copies located by ESTC in British libraries and six in North American libraries, several lack the half-title and the portrait. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 3356 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	MATTHEWS (WILLIAM), BINDER. Cavalcade of Painting. A book for the student or the connoisseur of art, illustrated by reproductions of masterpieces of the famous London collections. London, Publisher by Harper of Holloway, no date [1945] 8vo, 190 x 132 mms., pp. 64, with each page with colour illustration of painting, bound by William Matthews, bound in full nigerian tan morocco, with gilt panel with borders in gilt, gilt spines, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, signed by Matthews, on lower margin of rear board; slight natural defect to leather on front cover. Matthews (1898 - 1977)began his training as a binder at the Central School of Arts and Crafts when he was 13. An exhibition catalogue, The Tradition [sic] of Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century, 12 November 1979 to 15 February 1980, compiled by Bernadette G. Callery and Elizabeth A. Mossiman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1979), notes, "His love of gold tooling is evident on his bindings, which catch and reflect the light giving the 'solid brilliance of deep gold.'" Not my usual sort of book, but job lots produce some curiosities from time to time. GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 603.5 US$ 909.7 \| JP¥ 78258] Book number: 6721 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	ROGALL (GEORG FRIEDRICH): Kern Alter und Neuer Lieder so in der Koeniglichen Preussischen Landen gebrauchlich find, mit einem erwechlichen Spruche ueber einem jeden Liede und einemerbaulichen Gebet-Buche auch noethigen Registern versehen, nebst einem Unterricht wie man ein Gesang Koenigsberg, Druckun Verlageder Hartunschen Buchdrucherei..., [c. 1840] Tall, narrow 12mo, 173 x 85 mms., pp. [viii], 852, bound in full black velvet, gilt metal borders and ornaments on covers, decorated paper strips coated with gilt at top and base of spine (top strip defective, missing portion from left-hand corner), gilt decorations on spine with gilt shield reading "souvenir" in middle of spine, blue coated end-papers, all edges gilt, with single thin lines of gauffering toward each cover, preserved in a contemporary slipcase cover with green embossed paper (a little worn at extremities, with some paper missing. Generally a very attractive binding, probably dating from the mid-1850s, which would be consistent with a previous owner's autograph dated 1859: "August Neuber/ gekauft 1859." Another somewhat illegible signature appears on the recto of the front free end-paper, dated 1896, or, possibly, 1856. Rogall (1701 - 1733) published Kern alter und neuer Lieder: für das Königreich Preussen mit einem erwecklichen Spruche über einem jeden Liede und mit erbaulichen Gebeten, auch nöthigen Registern in Königsberg in1731, and this is just one of many reprints. GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 603.5 US$ 909.7 \| JP¥ 78258] Book number: 3039 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SCOTTISH WHEEL BINDING. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churche University of Oxford: Printed by John Baskett..., 1716. 8vo, 195 x 117 mms., collating a-b8,c4, B-Aa8, Bb8, Cc4, engraved portrait of George I as frontispiece, engraved title-page for "The Liturgy of the Church of England. Adorn'd with Fifty six New Historical Cuts. London, Sold by Richard Ware...," printed title-page in red and black, some of text in red and black. BOUND WITH: [VICKERS (William)]: A Companion to the Altar: Shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation, In order to our Worth Receiving the Holy Communion...The Eleventh Edition. London: Printed for Edmund Parker..., 1729. 8vo, pp. [5] - 58, engraved frontispiece, and this text bound between M5 and M6 of the Book of Common Prayer, with in total 55 plates. The engraved title-page at the beginning of the volume is signed Sturt. sculp. the frontispiece portrait of George I is signed J. Mynde sculp, and the remaining plates are unsighted. A Scottish wheel binding in full dark olive morocco, with a wheel design on covers, floral ornaments in each corner, neatly rebacked preserving the original spine gilt in compartments, original end-papers, corners restored; several chipped blank margins, text occasionally fingered, some loss of gilt on covers, but in general a sound an attractive copy. The wheel design is similar to that in the British Library, Davis 246, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000003644&ImageId=ImageId=41427&Copyright=BL. Even closer is a wheel binding in the National Library of Scotland, http://www.nls.uk/bookbinding/1730-4.html. BCP is ESTC T88866; Companion to the Altar is ESTC T76125. GBP 1650.00 [Appr.: EURO 1810.25 US$ 2729.1 \| JP¥ 234773] Book number: 6709 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SCOTTISH HERRINGBONE BINDING. HOLY BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; Newly translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid..., 1764. 18mo (in 12s and 6s), 133 x 80 mms., unpaginated, final leaf Ee6, ending with Proverbs, xvi, i. e., almost certainly one volume of 2, with rest of OT and NT in unlocated second volume, but an attractive contemporary Scottish herringbone binding in red morocco, spines gilt in compartments to a thistle motif, covers ornately gilt to various motifs (birds, floral, acorns, bellows), all edges gilt, Dutch floral paste-down end-papers; some gilt gone from lower front cover, but generally a fine example of a typical pattern found on other Bibles and prayer books from this period in Scottish binding history. A similar binding in green morocco can be found on the NLS website, http://www.nls.uk/bookbinding/1770-5.html. GBP 1375.00 [Appr.: EURO 1508.5 US$ 2274.25 \| JP¥ 195644] Book number: 6547 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SCOTTISH HERRINGBONE BINDING. HOLY BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; Newly translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid..., 1758. 18mo (in 12s and 6s), 138 x 80 mms., unpaginated, final leaf Ff9, ending with Proverbs, xxxi, volume 1 only, contemporary Scottish herringbone binding in dark olive morocco, ornately giltto a central panel of symmetrical leaves surround by a border of swells and teardrops, with floral cup in each and further scroll border on each cover, spien gilt to a cross design with acorns and ornaments, Dutch floral end papers, all edges gilt; binding a little faded but a good example of a familiar type of Scottish herringbone binding. A vaguelysimilar binding in green morocco can be found on the NLS website, http://www.nls.uk/bookbinding/1730-5.html. GBP 660.00 [Appr.: EURO 724.25 US$ 1091.64 \| JP¥ 93909] Book number: 6650 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SCOTTISH HERRINGBONE BINDING. HOLY BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; Newly translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid..., 1758. 12mo, 138 x 78 mms., unpaginated, A - Ee12, Ff9, bound in olive morocco, with a central panel to a leaf design within a framework of scrolls, gilt border tool to a thistle motif, spine gilt in compartments to an acorn motif, with volume number "1" in gilt, Dutch floral end-papers. A good example of typical Scottish herringbone binding from the mid 18th century Volume 1 only. The text ends on Ff9r, Proverbs XXI, 31. GBP 495.00 [Appr.: EURO 543.25 US$ 818.73 \| JP¥ 70432] Book number: 6837 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	SHENSTONE (WILLIAM): The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq. The Fifth Edition [volumes 1 and 2]. A New Edition [volume 3]. London: Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1777. 3 volumes. Small 8vo, 180 x 125 mms., pp. 332 [333 - 334 Contents]; vii [viii blank], 345 [346 blank], viii, 360, engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page in volumes 1 and 2, engraved tail-piece in volume 1, folding engraved plan of The Leasowes at page 287 in volume 2, attractively bound in contemporary lightly mottled calf, gilt border roll on covers, spine ornately gilt to a bird and cup balanced on urn motif, represent in three separate panels on each spine, red and olive morocco labels; bookplate crudely removed from front paste-down end-paper of each volume, front joint volume 1 slightly cracked, top of spine volume 1 very slightly chipped, upper rear joint volume 2 very slightly chipped, but generally a fine and attractive set, with ornaments that resemble those used by Scott of Edinburgh, with the contemporary autograph of F or T Pope on the top margin of each title-page. Shenstone (1714 - 1763) is little read, or likely to be read, these days, but Samuel Johnson had some praise for some of his poems, concluding his remarks in The Lives of the Poets, by saying, "The general recommendation of Shenstone is easiness and simplicity; his general defect is want of comprehension and variety. Had his mind been better stored with knowledge, whether he could have been great, I know not; he could certainly have been agreeable." GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 6595 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.