(Stonehenge)

Two works regarding one of Great Britain's most notable monuments of antiquity, the first being Inigo Jones's assertion that Stonehenge was originally a Roman temple, the second being a rebuttal by naturalist Walter Charleton who theorized that it was constructed by the Danes. Both volumes in contemporary calf, in folio and quarto format respectively; spines of both rubbed, the latter work with browned imprimatur leaf and title-page.

Inigo Jones. The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly Called Stone-Heng on Salisbury Plain. Restored by Inigo Jones. London: Printed by James Flesher for Daniel Pakeman and Laurence Chapman, 1655. Title-page in red and black, engraved frontispiece by W. Hollar after Van Dyke, seven woodcut folding and double-page plates, three text diagrams. First edition (Wing J594; ESTC R13850). provenance: armorial bookplate with motto "Auxilium meum in Domino." acquisition:  Bent Juel-Jensen, 2007. — Walter Charleton. Chorea gigantum, or, the Most Famous Antiquity of Great-Britan [sic], Vulgarly Called Stone-Heng, Standing on Salisbury Plain,Restored to the Danes. London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1663. Two woodcuts (one folding). first edition (Wing C3666; ESTC R13338; MacDonald 8A). acquisition: Pickering & Chatto.