Antiquarian. Collection of antiquarian literature from a North Yorkshire country estate, 17th-19th century, including:
1) Planta (Joseph). The History of the Helvetic Confederacy, London: John Stockdale, 1800. 2 volumes, 4to, uncut in original boards, engraved folding map, engraved title-pages, wear to spine-ends, damp-staining towards front of volume 2,
2) Robert, Prior of Shrewsbury. The Life, and Miracles, of S. Wenefride; Virgin, Martyr, and Abbess; Patroness of Wales, 3rd edition, [London: no publisher], 1712. 12mo (134 x 74 mm), contemporary panelled calf, contemporary ownership inscription ('Barbra Forser' [sic]) to title-page, engraved portrait frontispiece trimmed and mounted verso, bound with The Litanies of S. Wenefride, Virgin and Martyr, [London: no publisher], 1712, 8 pp.,
3) Ward (Thomas). England's Reformation ... A Poem in Four Cantos, 3rd edition, London: E. More, 1719. 2 volumes, 12mo (160 x 94 mm), contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, ownership inscriptions ('Eliz. Messenger, 1753'),
4) Tassoni (Alessandro). La secchia rapita, poema eroico, Parma: fratelli Bobsi, 1765. 16mo (142 x 90 mm), contemporary carta rustica, woodcut frontispiece, partly unopened, contemporary ownership inscription ('Catharine Lawson') to title,
5) [Henderson, Andrew]. A Full and Authentic History of the Rebellion MDCCXLV. and MDCCXLVI, London: W. Reeve and W. Owen, [1755]. 12mo (166 x 98 mm), contemporary calf (rubbed),
and approx. 20 others (not collated), including Wilson The Farmer's Dictionary, c.1850 (2 volumes, 4to), Blackwall, The Sacred Classics defended and illustrated, 3rd edition, 1737 (2 volumes, 8vo), Piganiol de La Force, Nouveau Voyage de France, nouvelle édition, Paris, 1755 (2 volumes, 12mo, engraved folding maps), Travels of Cosmo the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, through England, 1st edition, 1821 (4to, disbound, sepia aquatint plates, folding panorama of London lacking section), and similar, including various Catholic interest in English and French (qty: 36)

ESTC T144801 (Planta), T99781 (Robert, Prior of Shrewsbury, The Life, and Miracles; twelve copies world-wide), T99780 (The Litanies of S. Wenefride: three copies world-wide).
The Life, and Miracles of S. Wenefride was first printed by Caxton in 1485, and subsequently in 1635 by the Jesuits.