[MISCELLANEOUS]. MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO. The Florentine Historie. London, 1595. Title within woodcut border. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked; title repaired along gutter margin; some browning and staining. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. STC 17162 -- STANLEY, THOMAS. The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy. London, 1662. Folio, contemporary calf, worn; hinges cracked. FIRST EDITION. Wing S-5240 -- HALE, MATTHEW. The Primitive Origination of Mankind. London, 1677. Folio, modern half calf, library mark at foot of spine; lacks engraved portrait FIRST EDITION. Wing H-258 -- BACON, FRANCIS. Opera. London, 1730. Engraved frontispieces. 4 volumes, 4to, contemporary calf, upper covers with central gilt coat-of-arms of St. John's College Oxford, rebacked, some rubbing to covers. Gibson 248. St. John's College; Felix Cunha, bookplate -- PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM. An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations... London, 1805. 4 engraved colored folding tables. 4to, contemporary boards, spine repaired -- GROTIUS, HUGO. De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. In quibus ius naturae & Gentium: item iuris publici praecipua explicantur. Amsterdam, 1735. Engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved additional title. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo, contemporary vellum, upper spine end defective -- ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. Colloquia. Amsterdam, 1664. 8vo, contemporary vellum, light wear to spine ends; upper hinge cracked -- ERASMUS. [Opuscula]. Leiden, 1641-45. 16 (of 17?) volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf; bookplates and library stamps. (26)