D'Urfey (Thomas). Tales, Tragical and Comical. Viz. Abratatus and Panthea ... Hell beyond Hell ... Female Revenge ... The Night-Adventures ... Fatal Piety ... The Broken Commands ... From the Prose of some Famous Antique Italian, Spanish and French Authors. Done into several sorts of English Verse, with Large Additions and Improvements, 1st edition, London: Bernard Lintott, 1704. 8vo (182 x 112), contemporary calf (loss to headcaps), half-title discarded, spotting and browning, marginal worming from A6 to B1, B1 (section-title) torn in gutter,
Quintilian. Institutionum oratorium libri duodecim ... brevibus notis illustrati, a Carolo Rollin, London: T. Deighton [etc.], 1792. 8vo (231 x 142 mm), contemporary calf, gilt spine, some wear,
Pascal (Blaise). Pensées, nouvelle édition, augmentée d'un grand nombre de pensées, Paris: Nyon the elder, 1783. 12mo (173 x 98 mm), contemporary straight-grain citron morocco ruled in gilt, gilt edges,
[Miscellany]. Reflections on those, who, by their Self-Interested Projects, have merited no Respect or Praise from the Majority of Brave, Willing and Generous People ... London: [no printer], 1763. 12mo (158 x 94 mm), contemporary sheep (joints cracked, loss to foot of spine), pp. [2] 214, engraved frontispiece, without final leaf (K12) probably containing text,
and 9 other works (not collated), all 18th century, in contemporary calf or sheep bindings (variable wear), and including: John Campbell, Live of the British Admirals, 1779 (4 volumes, numerous engraved plates and maps); Isaac Watts, Logick, 6th edition, 1736; Andrew Tooke, The Pantheon, 1774; The Pleasing Instructor, 1785; The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians, 1753 (2 volumes, bookplates of Sir Edward Blount of Sodington); The English [... Scots ... Irish] Compendium ... containing the Genealogies of the all the Nobility of England [ ... Scotland ... Ireland], 11th, 6th and 5th editions, 1760-56-56 (6 volumes, the engraved plates all bound in the final volume); Chef d'oeuvres dramatiques des meilleures pièces, de Corneille, Racine, Molière, Voltaire, Crébillon, Destouches, London, 1782 (3 volumes, 4 copies on ESTC); Le Sage, Gil Blas, 1746 (4 volumes); and Smollett, Peregrine Picke, Cooke's Edition, c.1780 (4 volumes) (qty: 27)

Provenance: John Harold Fawcett CMG (1929-2019), British diplomat, though not marked as such.

ESTC T134710 (D'Urfey), T126432 (Quintilian); the Reflections (item 4) is otherwise untraced.