1996 STRANGEHOPES (Samuel) A BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE, containing an Introduction to Astrology, shewing the Nature, Quality, and Effects of the TwelveSigns, and Seven Planets, their Dominion over Bodies, with the Fortunes of those calculated who are born under them, ALSO A DELIGHTFUL WHEEL OF FORTUNE. Secondly, A TREATISE OF PHYSICK, the Anatomy of Man's Body, the Diseases incident to the Body of Man, Rules and Receipts for Curing them. Also SWEATING, BATHING, CONSERVING, AND PRESERVING, the Way to MAKE CORDIAL WATERS, etc. Thirdly, THE COUNTRYMAN'S GUIDE TO GOOD HUSBANDRY, Rules for Setting and PLANTING OF ORCHARDS, GARDENS, AND WOODS, also Curing Diseases in Sheep, Horses, Cows, Oxen, etc., etc. 1679. A great many very curious woodcuts, 12mo, sprinkled calf extra, old style, by RIVIERE, £2 25 1996a STRUTT (Joseph) THE SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, INCLUDING THE RURAL AND DOMESTIC RECREATIONS, May Games, Mummeries, Pageants, Processions, and Pompous Spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time. 1801. Illustrated by forty COLOURED engravings from ancient paintings in which are represented upwards of 200 of the popular diversions, 4to, half morocco extra, gilt edges by RIVIERE, 3 13s 6d

Copies like the above with the plates in coloured state are uncommon. 1997 SURFLET (Richard) MAISON RUSTIQUE, or the COUNTRIE FARME, com-piled in the French Tongue by CHARLES STEVENS and JOHN LIEBAULT, Doctors of Physicke, and Translated into English by RICHARD SURFLET, Practitioner in Physicke.. ALSO A SHORT COLLECTION OF THE HUNTING OF THE HART, WILDE BORE, HARE, FOX, GRAY, CONIE, OF BIRDS AND FAULCONRIE, the contents whereof are to be seen in the page following (see note below). London, printed by Edm. Bollifant for Bonham Norton, 1600. FIRST EDITION, woodcuts, small 4to, old calf, rebacked, VERY FINE COPY, £10 IOS

1998

Another Edition, title as follows:-MAISON RUSTIQUE, or THE COUNTREY FARME, compiled in the French Tongue by CHARLES STEVENS and JOHN LIEBAULT, Doctors of Physicke, and Translated into English by RICHARD SURFLET, NOW NEWLY REVIEWED, CORRECTED, AND AUGMENTED, WITH DIVERS LARGE ADDITIONS, out of the

Serres, his Agriculture,

Works of Vinet, his Maison Champestre,

Albyterio in Spanish,

Grilli in Italian; and other authors.

French.

And the Husbandrie of France, Italy, and Spaine, reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England, by GERVASE MARKHAM, the whole contents are in the page following (see below). London, by Adam Islip for John Bill, 1616. With numerous fine woodcut illustrations, folio, A SOUND AND FINE COPY in the original calf, £8 8s

Very scarce. This is the FIRST EDITION, edited by GERVASE MARKHAM. The following is a summary of the contents, as given on the backs of the titles of each of these valuable books:-" Whatso-ever can be required for the building, or good ordering, of a Husbandman's House, or Countrey Farme: as, namely, to foresee the changes and alterations of Times; to know the motions and powers of the Sunne and Moone, upon the things about which Husbandry is occupied as, to cure the sick labouring man. to cure Beasts and flying Fowles of all sorts; TO DRESSE, PLANT, OR MAKE GARDENS, AS WELL AS FOR THE KITCHIN, AND PHYSICKE USE, AS ALSO IN QUARTERS; WITH MANY FAIRE AND CUNNING PORTRAITURES TO MAKE COM-PARTMENTS OF DIVERS FASHIONS IN EVERIE QUARTER: WITH A LARGE DESCRIPTION OF THE HEARBE NICOTIANA (TOBACCO) OR PETUM; (with a woodcut of the plant), as also of the root Mechoacan: TO PLANT, GRAFT, AND ORDER ORANGE-TREES, Citron-trees, and such other strange trees: TO ORDER BEES: TO MAKE CONSERVES: TO PRESERVE FRUITES, Flowers, Roots, and Rindes; to make Honey and Wax: TO PLANT AND GRAFT ALL SORTS OF FRUIT-TREES TO MAKE CYDER, PERRIE, DRINKE OF CERVICES, AND OYLES: TO DISTIL WATERS AND OYLES, or Quintessences, of whatsoever the Husbandman's store and encrease, with manie patternes of Limbeckes for the distilling of them: TO FEED AND PRESERVE SILKWORMS: to make and maintaine Medow-Groundes :: FISHPONDS OF RUNNING OR STANDING WATERS: TO TAKE FISHES: to measure and tyll Corne-ground: TO BAKE BREAD: TO TRIMME VINES: TO MAKE MEDICINABLE WINES: with A VERRIE LARGE AND EXCELLENT DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE NATURE AND QUALITIE OF WINE IN GENERAL

AND AFTER THAT, ANOTHER SPECIAL AND PARTICULAR ONE, OF ALL SUCH WINES as grow in Gasconie, Languedoc, Touraine, Orleans, Paris, and other Countries of France: to Plant Woods of Timbertrees and Under-growth: to make a Warren: TO BREED HERONS: AND TO IMPARKE WILD BEASTS. AS ALSO A LARGE DISCOURSE OF HUNTING THE HART, WILD BORE, HARE, FOX, GRAY, CONIE, AND SUCH LIKE: WITH THE ORDERING OF HAWKES, AND ALL SORTS OF BIRDS, and lastly in the end thereof, is briefly shewed the nature, manner of taking, and feeding, of the NIGHTINGALE, LINNET, GOLDFINCH, SISKIN, LARKE, AND OTHER SUCH SINGING 1999 SURTEES (R. S.) "ASK MAMMA,' or THE RICHEST COMMONER IN ENGLAND. 1858. FIRST EDITION, COLOURED and other illustrations by JOHN LEECH. 8vo, calf extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £2 15S

MELODIOUS BIRDS.

2000 SURTEES (R. S.) "HAWBUCK GRANGE" or The SPORTING ADVENTURES OF THOMAS SCOTT, ESQ., by the author of "Handley Cross," etc. N.D. With COLOURED plates by "PHIZ,” 8vo, stained calf extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, by Larkins, 1 IS

2001 SURTEES (R. S.) HILLINGDON HALL, or THE COCKNEY SQUIRE, a Tale of Country Life. 1888. With twelve coloured illustrations by Wildrake, Heath, and Jellicoe, 8vo, original cloth, £I 2s 6d

This is the First Edition uniform with the "Handley Cross" series. 2002 SURTEES (R. S.) JORROCKS' JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES; BEING THE HUNTING, SHOOTING, RACING, DRIVING, SAILING, EATING, ECCENTRIC_AND EXTRAVAGANT EXPLOITS OF THAT RENOWNED SPORTING CITIZEN, MR. JOHN JORROCKS, of St. Botolph Lane, and Great Coram Street. Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. With fifteen BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED plates by HENRY ALKEN (THE FIRST EDITION SO ILLUSTRATED), 8vo, stained calf extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE, £13 135

A delightful and very scarce volume.

2003 SURTEES (R. S.) MR. SPONGE'S SPORTING TOUR. 1853. FIRST EDITION, coloured illustrations and woodcuts by JOHN LEECH, 8vo, half red morocco extra, top edge gilt, 2 105

2004 2005

Another copy, calf extra, gilt edges, by Riviere, £3 3s
Another, in the original cloth, UNCUT, £3 ICS

2006 SURTEES (R. S.) THE HORSEMAN'S MANUAL: being a Treatise on Soundness, the Law of Warranty, and generally on the Laws relating to Horses. 1831. FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, original cloth, UNCUT, £255

The first publication of the celebrated author of the "Handley Cross" series. Very scarce. 2007 SUTCLIFFE (Matthew) THE PRACTICE, PROCEEDINGS AND LAWES OF ARMES, DESCRIBED OUT OF THE DOINGS OF MOST VALIANT AND EXPERT CAPTAINES, and confirmed both by ancient and modern examples and precedents. Imprinted at London by C. Barker, 1593. Black Letter, small 4to, original vellum, £5 5s

Chap. XII, Wherein the use of Horsemen, Pikes, Halberdes, and other such weapons, also of targets, small shotte, archers. Chap. XVIII, Of the use of the Navy in Warres. 2009 SWITZER (Stephen) THE PRACTICAL FRUIT GARDENER, being the Best and Newest Method of Raising, Planting, and Pruning all sorts of Fruit Trees agreeably to the Experience and Practice of the most Eminent Gardeners and Nursery Men, by STEPHEN SWITZER, Revised and Recommended by Mr. Laurence and Mr. Bradley. 1724 With several copperplates, 8vo, old calf, 10s 6d

2009 SYLVANUS.-THE BYE-LANFS AND DOWNS OF ENGLAND, WITH TURF SCENES AND CHARACTERS, BY SYLVANUS. 1850. FIRST EDITION, portrait of Lord George Bentinck, 8vo, original cloth, uncut, 15S

2010 SYLVESTER (Joshua) DU BARTAS, HIS DEVINE WEEKES AND WORKES, translated and dedicated to the King's most excellent Majesty by Joshua Sylvester, now fourthly corrected and augmented. H. Lowndes, 1613. Very fine engraved title by W. Hole, and woodcut portrait, etc., small 4to, a very choice copy in the original calf gilt, with gilt designs on sides (clean and sound), £3 35

2011 SYLVESTER (Joshua) Another edition, with title as follows: Du BARTAS, HIS DIVINE WEEKES AND Workes, WITH A COMPLEATE COLLECTION OF ALL THE OTHER MOST DELIGHTFUL WORKES, Translated and WRITTEN BY THE FAMOUS PHILOMUSES JOSHUA SYLVESTER. 1633. BEST EDITION, very fine engraved title by Elstracke, containing designs from Striptural subjects in compartments, a portrait of Du Bartas, and a fine engraved portrait of Sylvester, also a folding sheet, "The Mysterie of Mysteries," and woodcuts, folio, VERY FINE COPY, red morocco extra, gilt edges, £3 15S

An interesting old book, containing the following poem on Tobacco (11 pp.), entituled " TOBACCO BATTERED AND PIPES SHATTERED (ABOUT THEIR EARS THAT IDELY IDOLIZE SO BASE AND BARBAROUS A WEED, OR AT LEAST WISE OVER LOVE SO LOATHSOME VANITIE). BY A VOLLEY OF HOLY SHOT THUNDERED FROM MOUNT HELICON." Pages 130-131 contain interesting notices of America (How THE NEWFOUND WORLD-DISCOVERED IN OUR TIME-CAME PEOPLED. a double question, with answer; CONJECTURES TOUCHING THE PEOPLING OF THE SAME; THE WONDERS OF THE NEW-FOUND WORLD, etc.). With a collection of Commendatory Verses on the Author by the most celebra ed wits of the age, including BEN JONSON, JOS. HALL, JOHN VICARS, SAMUEL DANIEL, JOHN DAVIES, etc., etc. Du Bartas' poem was received with such universal applause as to pass through more than thirty editions in the space of six years. The Famous Ronsard sent the Author a pen of gold, and being asked his opinion of the work, answered, "Du Bartas has done more in one week than I have in the whole course of my life."-Dr. FARMER.

"But I will sweeten this discourse also out of a contemplation in Divine Dubartus."-ISAAC WALTON, in the "Complete Angler."

"Both the version of Sylvester, and his original poems, published with it, are remarkable for their inequality, for great beauties and glaring defects. His versification is sometimes exquisitely melodious, and was recognised as such by his contemporaries, who distinguished him by the appellation of Silver-tongued Sylvester."-Dr. DRAKE, "Shakespeare and his Times." 2012 TAPLIN (William) The Gentleman's Stable Directory, or Modern System of Farriery, Breeding, Breaking, Shoeing, Stabling, Exercise, and Rowelling, to which are added particular instructions for the general MANAGEMENT OF HUNTERS and Road Horses, and OBSERVATIONS UPON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE TURF. 1796. -A Compendium of Practical and Experimental Farriery, by W. Taplin. 1796. Together 3 vols, 8vo, half calf, 9s

2 vols.

2013 TATE (Nahum) THE INNOCENT EPICURE: OR THE ART OF ANGLING. A POEM. Printed for S. Crouch, H. Playford and W. Brown, 1697. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, half calf neat, £8 18s 6d

2014

The preface is signed N. Tate. Very fine copy of a rare poem.

Another copy, THE SECOND EDITION. H. Metre for R. Gosling, 1713. 12mo, fine copy in calf nent, £3 3s

Presentation copy with inscription on fly-leaf, Ex dono Authoris." 2015 TATHAM (William) AN HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL ESSAY ON THE CULTURE AND COMMERCE OF TOBACCO. 1800. Coloured and other illustrations, 8vo, fine copy, original boards, UNCUT, from the Ashburnham Library, 125

2016 TAVERNER (John) CERTAINE EXPERIMENTS CONCERNING FISH AND FRUITE: PRACTISED BY JOHN Taverner, GENTLEMAN, AND BY HIM PUB. LISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF OTHERS. London, printed for William Ponsonby, 1600. FIRST EDITION, Black Letter, small 4to, A REMARKABLY FINE COPY, in calf extra, by Lewis, £21

Extremely rare-but especially in so fine state. 2017 TAYLOR (Samuel) ANGLING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, reduced to a complete Science, being the Result of more than Forty Years' Real Practice and Strict Observation throughout the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Three Parts: I, Describing the Rivers and other Waters of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and the Fish they Produce, and the best parts adapted for Angling; II, A Full Description of the different kinds of Fish taken by Angling

etc.; III, A List of Artificial Flies

AND HOW TO ANGLE FOR EACH, how to make each, the most skilful way

of Throwing the Line, Night Fly-fishing, Natural Fly-fishing, etc. 1800. 8vo, half morocco extra, top edges gilt, uncut, 15s

2018

Another copy, in the original boards, uncut, 8s 6d

2019 TATTERSALL (George) Sporting Architecture. N.D. Beautiful engravings, shewing the Life of the Horse, Hunting and Racing, Boxes and Paddocks, Grand Stands, various Kennels, and other Sporting plates, 4to, cloth, uncut, £I IS 2020 TEMPERATE DISCUSSION of the Causes which have led to the present High Price of Bread. 1800. 8vo, sewn, uncut 25 6d

1846.

2021 THAMES ANGLER (The), by A. W. S. and M. W. H. (Chertsey). Frontispiece and engraving, 12mo, original morocco, with emblematic design on side, gold tooling, gilt edges, PRESENTATION COPY FROM AUTHOR, 125 6d

2022 THAMES ANGLING PRESERVATION SOCIETY (The). Twickenham, 1840. 18mo, half morocco extra, uncut, covers preserved, very neat, 9s 2023 THETFORD (Lancelot) THE PERFECT HORSE-MAN, or the EXPERIENCED SECRETS OF MR. MARKHAM'S FIFTY YEARS PRACTICE: shewing how a man may come to be a general Horseman by the knowledge of these seven offices, viz., the Breeder, Feeder, Ambler, Rider, Keeper, Buyer, Farrier. Published by LANCELOT THETFORD, 1680. Engraved frontispiece, containing portrait of Markham, etc., 12mo, new sheep, £ IS 2024 Another copy, a very fine one, in old calf, with a large quantity of receipts added on paper at end in contemporary MS., £1 10S

2025 THOMAS (B.) THE SHOOTER'S GUIDE: or Complete Sportsman's Companion, containing a compendious view of the Game Laws, a Description of the various kinds of Dogs, and the best mode of Breeding, Rearing and Training them, with an Account of the Diseases to which they are liable, and the best methods of Cure; to which are added Directions for GROUSE, PARTRIDGE, PHEASANT, WOODCOCK, SNIPE, HARE, and WILD DUCK SHOOTING, particular instructions for the Juvenile Sportsman, and much miscellaneous information on the Choice of Guns, Gunpowder, Shot, etc., etc. 1816. Very pretty plates of grouse, partridge, woodcock, pheasant, etc., shooting, small 8vo, original boards, 10s 6d

2026

Another edition. 1810. 12mo, half calf, 9s

2027 THOMSON (James) THE VALUE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE SCOTTISH FISHERIES, comprehending fully every circumstance connected with their present position. 1849. Small 8vo, half morocco, neat gilt back, 9s

2028 THORNE (James) RAMBLES BY RIVERS: The Duddon, the Mole, the Adur, Arun, and Wey; the Lea, the Dove, the Avon, and the Thames. 1844-9. Together 4 vols, 12mo, numerous engravings, half morocco extra, top edges gilt, uncut, 18s A very neat set, with the book-plate of Thos. Westwood.

2029 THORNHILL (R. B.) THE SHOOTING DIRECTORY. 1804. Fine portrait and plates, 4to, half calf, £I IS

2030 THORNTON (Thomas, Colonel) A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND, AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, including Remarks on English and Scottish Landscape, and general Observations on the State of Society and Manners, by COLONEL T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. 1804. FIRST EDITION, 16.excellent engravings by Medland, Pouncy, Landseer, etc., 4to, old half binding, repaired, £2 25

2031

Chiefly relating to FISHING AND SHOOTING.

Another copy, a very fine one in the original boards, UNCUT, with label— very scarce thus, £4 4s 2032 THORNTON (Thomas, Colonel) A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH VARIOUS PARTS OF FRANCE in the year 1802, including a description of the SPORTING ESTABLISHMENTS, MODE OF HUNTING, and other FIELD AMUSEMENTS as practised in that Country, with the advantages of Sporting in France and England, by COLONEL THORNTON. 1806. Fine illustrations, some foxed, 2 vols, 4to, original boards, UNCUT, £2 25 2033 TIGER'S THEATRE (The). (1807.) Coloured plates, 12mo, sewn, 5s

2034 TOPSEL (Edward) THE HISTORY OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS AND SERPENTS; DESCRIBING AT LARGE THEIR TRUE AND LIVELY FIGURE, THEIR SEVERAL NAMES, CONDITIONS, KINDS, VIRTUES (both Natural and Medicinal), COUNTRIES OF THEIR BREED, THEIR LOVE AND HATRED TO MANKIND, and the Wonderful Work of God in their Creation, Preservation, and Destruction, INTERWOVEN WITH CURIOUS VARIETY OF HISTORICAL NARRATIONS Out of Scriptures, Fathers, Philosophers, Physicians, AND POETS, illustrated with divers Hieroglyphicks and Emblems, etc., both pleasant and profitable for Students in all Faculties and Professions, collected out of the Writings of CONRADUS GESNER, and other Authors, by EDWARD TOPSEL; whereunto is now added, THE THEATER OF INSECTS; OR, LESSER LIVING CREATURES, as BEES, FLIES, CATERPILLARS, SPIDERS, WORMS. etc., a most elaborate work, by T. MUFFETT, Dr. of Physick, the whole revised, corrected. and inlarged, with the addition of two useful Physical Tables, by J. R., M.D. 1658. Very numerous remarkable and spirited cuts, folio, a few wormholes in some pages, and a small blank piece gone off corner of last leaf, ELSE A FINE COPY, QUITE PERFECT, in the original calf, £5 5s

Referred to by Walton.

2035 TOUCHSTONE (S. F.) RACE HORSES: PEDIGREE, DESCRIPTION, HISTORY; or, A History of Celebrated English and French Thorough-bred Stallions and French Mares, which appeared on the Turf from 1764 to 1887, preceded by a Preface from the Duke of Beaufort, translated from the French by C. B. Pitman. 1890. Sixty beautiful full-page COLOURED plates, and one hundred and thirty-four coloured vignettes in the text, oblong folio, half morocco, as issued, £5 5s

Only a limited edition of this beautiful book was issued.

2036 TRAITE des tuliPES, avec la MANIERE DE LES BIEN CULTIVER LEURS NOMS, leurs COULEURS, ET LEUR BEAUTE. à Paris, 1678. Small 8vo, old vellum, £1 10S

2037 TRAPANI (Gaetano) A Catalogue of the Different Kinds of Fish of Malta and Gozo, with their Maltese, Latin, English, and French Names, as well as their Season. Malta, 1838. Quarto, sewn, 2s 6d

2038 TREATISE ON GREYHOUNDS (A), with Observations on the Treatment and Disorders of them by a Sportsman. 1819. "Pretty frontispiece and vignette, Izmo, calf neat, 7s 6d

2039 TREATISE on the Use and Abuse of The Second, commonly called The Steward's, Table in Families of the First Rank, in Four Parts, containing: I. An Explanation of the Misteries of that Sacred Divan, with a full Account of the Several Arts, Lies, Contrivances therein, used to Distress, and if possible Starve, the Lower Class of Servants, together with the Compliments and Enquiries that pass in the giving and receiving Characters, whether from House Keepers, House Stewards, or Clerks of the Stable, or the separate Servants under their Inquisition. II. An Account of their Routs, Cards, Visits, and Private Pleasures; Kept Mistresses by the Men, and Kept Husbands, or Gallants, by the Females. III. An Humble Proposal to the Nobility and Gentry, who think a Nest of these Sycophants a necessary Piece of Grandeur, to place on them certain Hieroglyphical Badges distinguishing the several places they fill, to prevent the Lady's Woman from being called My Lady, and the Valet being called My Lord. IV. An Attempt to Prove such an Order of People to be entirely Useless, and through whose means many of the Greatest Estates have been Reduced, the Credit of the Nobility and Gentry Diminished, and several reputable Tradesmen Ruined, concluding with an Earnest Request to Every Man of Great Fortune to be his own Steward. Printed for the Author (1758). 8vo, engraved frontispiece, sewn, 10s 6d 2040 TREATISE (A), shewing how Usefull, Safe, Reasonable, and Beneficial the Inrolling and Registering of all Conveyances of Lands may be to the Inhabitants of this Kingdom. 1694. Quarto, sewn, 4s