Selden, John Titles of Honor London: by William Stansby for Richard Whitaker, 1631. Second edition, folio (27.8 x 18cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined retaining old label, title-page in red and black, frequent Anglo-Saxon, Arabic and Hebrew types, woodcut illustrations throughout, 6 full-page engravings depicting the ceremonial dress of ranks in the English peerage (from baron to the prince of Wales), corners worn, front inner hinge gone, browning, damp-staining to gutter of prelims and occasionally to fore margins later on, title-page with closed tear in gutter, 5Y3 torn (most of text intact), final blank discarded [ESTC S117044; STC 22178]; Willis, Browne. A Survey of the Cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle [etc.]. London: for R. Gosling, 1727. First edition, 4to (24.5 x 19cm), contemporary panelled calf, half-title, 20 engraved plates (all but one folding), engraved armorial bookplate of the Barons Kenyon, 'Peel Library' inscribed above, old reinforcement to inner hinges [ESTC T93608]; Weever, John. Antient Funeral Monuments of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent. London: by W. Tooke, for the editor, 1767. Second edition (first published in 1631), 4to (26.5 x 20cm), contemporary marbled half calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, folding table, woodcuts in text, bookplate of Henry Carington Bowles (1763-1830), publisher and map- seller [ESTC ST28052]; and 5 others (these not collated): John Evelyn, Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees ... With Notes by A. Hunter, 1786 (2 volumes, 4to, modern half leather, engraved plates); Roger North, Examen ... into the Credit and Veracity of a Pretended Complete History, 1740 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, frontispiece, worn, joints cracked); [John Hughes, editor], A Complete History of England, 1719 (second edition, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary panelled calf, engraved portraits, joints cracked); John Tillotson, The Works, 1728 (mixed editions, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved portrait, spines worn); John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities, 1813 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked) (13)

Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).