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Illustrated with 115 plates (including the 33 plates of the Founders) most of them colored aquatints. Upper joint of first volume cracked (but cords remain sound), extremities worn, some offset from plates, bound without the half-titles, 1820 inscription in each volume, followed by 1902 inscription from heir of original recipient, marginal discoloration to lower fore-tips of prelims to first volume, but a good set. A later copy, on ordinary paper, including the portraits of the Founders (published in 1815) and the adjusted index to the plates. The frontis to the first volume is in the preferred state, with ‘Cambridge’ instead of ‘Oxford’, but several of the other key plates are in their later states. TOOLEY 5. ABBEY (SCENERY) 278-80. $3500. Magnificent Color Plates 2. [Ackermann, Rudolph]: THE UPHOLSTERER’S AND CABINETMAKER’S REPOSITORY: CONSISTING OF SEVENTY-SIX DESIGNS OF MODERN AND FASHIONABLE FURNITURE; VIZ. CURTAINS, DRAPERIES, BEDS, CHAIRS, SOFAS, SEATS, OTTOMANS, SIDE- BOARDS, BOOK-CASES, SCREENS, WORK-TABLES, &c. &c. &c. DRAWN BY VARIOUS ARTISTS FROM REAL FURNITURE. London. [ca. 1830]. [2]pp. plus 76 leaves of beautifully handcolored engraved plates (one folding). Quarto. Contemporary three quarter sheep and boards, expertly rebacked in period-style sheep, spine gilt, original printed paper label on front cover. Old ink signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy. A beautiful copy of this rare British color plate book, one of the most striking collections of examples of the Regency style in decorative arts. The plates, all in superb condition, depict with splendid color all manner of furniture designs. Some of the patent chair designs are quite fanciful. Many of the plates illustrate special library furniture, including chairs, tables, bookcases, etc. This work was originally issued in parts as an element in Ackermann’s Repository of Arts between 1809 and 1824. $7500. Translations into Anglo-Saxon 3. [Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham (trans)]: HEPTATEUCHUS, LIBER JOB, ET EVANGELIUM NICODEMI; ANGLO-SAXONICE. HISTORIÆ JUDITH FRAGMENTUM; DANO-SAXONICE. Oxoniæ [i.e. Oxford]: E Theatro Sheldoniano ... Typis Jvnianis, An. Dom 1698. [8],168,32pp. Large octavo. Quarter modern black morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Engraved frontis, headpiece, and initial. Top margins very occasionally a trace dusty, oth- erwise a very good, crisp copy. First edition of this collection of translations into Anglo-Saxon of selections from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, edited by Edward Thwaites. The translations of the Heptateuch and Job are ascribed to Aelfric. The fine frontispiece and headpiece are the work of M. Bur- ghers. “Thwaites’s most important contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies was his 1698 edition of hitherto unedited parts of the Old Testament in Old English, including Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and the book of Job, together with the apocryphal Judith and the Gospel of Nicodemus. ... Although some of his contemporaries criticized Thwaites’s edition — partly because it included apocryphal material, partly for its lack of a Latin translation and notes — it was for its time a ground-breaking enterprise and one that was not repeated until 1922, when S. J. Crawford edited the Heptateuch afresh, using a different base manuscript. Thwaites’s edition had been based on Bodleian MS Laud misc. 509, and his text was reprinted, with some emendations, by C. W. M. Grein in 1872. Thwaites dedicated his edition to George Hickes, at that time still proscribed as a nonjuror, and this caused some political embarrassment to the vice-chancellor, who threatened to suppress the edition unless Thwaites cut out the dedication. He bluntly refused — and prevailed” – DNB. ESTC R4371. WING B2198. DARLOW & MOULE 1606. $1750. 4. [Afghanistan]: Lal, Mohan: LIFE OF THE AMIR DOST MOHAMMED KHAN, OF KABUL: WITH HIS POLITICAL PROCEEDINGS TOWARDS THE ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, AND PER- SIAN GOVERNMENTS, INCLUDING VICTORY AND DISASTERS OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN AFGHANISTAN. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. Two volumes. xviii,[2],399; vii,[3],498pp. plus nineteen illustrations. Contemporary calf, gilt-tooled spines, red and green gilt morocco labels. Joints slightly worn. Ownership insignia on verso of front free endsheets, gift inscription on free endsheet of first volume. A very good, attractive set. A biography of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan, eloquently dedicated to Queen Victoria. An interesting Persian perspective of Mohammed Khan’s rule, intriguing for its eagerness to please British readers in light of recent conflicts between Persia and Great Britain. OCLC 3687402. $1000. Alchemical Lexicon 5. [Alchemy]: Ruland, Martin, The Elder: LEXICON ALCHEMIAE, SIVE DICTIONARIUM ALCHEMISTICUM, CUM OBSCURIORUM VERBORUM, & RERUM HERMATICARUM, TUM THEOPHRAST – PARACELSICARUM PHRASIUM, PLANAM EXPLICATIONEM CONTI- NENS .... Frankfurt: Cura ac sumtibus Zachariae Palthenii, 1612. [4],471 [i.e. 487 (due to many errors in numbering in the late portion of the text)],[1 (blank)]pp. Small quarto. Slightly later plain full calf (visible waste sheets from an English astronomical gazette used in the binding are for the year 1635). Alchemical device on title, two marginal woodcuts, several tables (leaf M1 folded at fore-edge to accommodate the over extension of the table on that leaf). Crown of spine has shallow loss, bookplate scar on front pastedown, front free binder’s endsheet almost detached, text block considerably browned (as usual for this title), 3N4 has a short, clean tear in from the margin, some occasional marginal discoloration, occasional spotting; still, a good copy. First edition of this very substantial lexicon, compiled by the physician to Emperor Rudolph II and lecturer at the gymnasium at Lauingen in Swabia. “He was in favor of Parcelsus’ reforms, but he dealt greatly