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Lot 123

John Speed

Warwickshire, hand coloured engraved map for Sudbury and Humble, early 17th century, slightly age toned, 41 x 53cm

Lot 124

John Ogilby

The Road from Exeter to Truroe, pl. 69, hand coloured engraving, 38 x 50cm; three others, plates 22, 41 and 57 (2 with slight worming, possibly st...

Lot 125

S. and N. Buck

The South West Prospect of Stamford; The South West Prospect of Peterborough; engravings c.1730-40, 36 x 86cm and 30 x 79cm; light foxing (2)

Lot 126

Emanuel Bowen

Map of Cambridgeshire, mid 18th century, foxing, 72 x 55cm; John Bodger, a plan printed on silk of Whittlesea Mere (damaged), 47 x 67cm; Jan Janss...

Instructions for Forreine Travell. First edition, London: Printed by T.B. for Humphrey Mosley, 1642, 12mo, additional engraved title by W. Hollar ...

The Workes of King Charles the Martyr. London: James Flesher for R. Royston 1662, folio, engraved frontispiece and title, 2 printed titles, double...

Metamorphoses, 17th century vellum bound oblong album of 150 etched illustrations on laid paper, c.10.5 x 12cm (plate), each with Latin caption, w...

Cavalarice, or The English horseman: contayning all the art of horse-manship.., London: Edward Allde for Edward White 1616-17, 8vo, 8 parts in one...

Hyaena Odorifera. Messina: G F Bianco 1638, 8vo, engraved title, portrait, 52pp., green/blue patterned boards with royal monogram in gilt, title w...

A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature. London: W. Mears, 1721, 4to, title in red and black, 28 hand coloured plates as required, subscrib...

Lot 133

SPEED (John)

The Historie of Great Britaine, under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Third edition, London: John Dawson for George Humble...

The History of the World. London: Walter Burre 1614 (imprint leaf dated 1628), folio, frontispiece 'Minde of the Front' leaf, engraved title and p...

Iragguagli di Parnasso: or, Advertisements from Parnassus... with the Politick Touchstone, written originally in Italian... put into English by He...

Lot 136

OWEN (Charles)

An Essay towards a Natural History of Serpents. London: for the author 1742, small 4to, 7 plates as required (pl. VI damaged), all a little soiled...

Spicilegium Anatomicum. Amsterdam: A. Frisius 1670, small 4to, bound with 'Osteogenia Foetuum' as part II, 39 plates including folding as required...

Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi nelle quali si contengono gl'idoli, riti, ceremonie, & altre cose appartenenti alla religione de gli antichi......

Lot 139

MEAD (Richard)

A Mechanical Account of Poisons in several Essays, first edition 1702, 8vo, 1 folding plate, a little age toned, repaired plain calf; TAYLOR (Broo...

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates... with the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrat...

A Treatise on the Management of Bees. London: for the author and sold by Thomas Cadell, 1768, 4to, list of subscribers, 3 folding engraved plates ...

Memoirs for a Natural History of Animals. Containing the Anatomical Descriptions of Several Creatures Dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences a...

Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Natural Philosophy. 2nd edition, Oxford: Hen[ry] Hall for Ri[chard] Davis, 1664-71, s...

Passiones Animae. Amsterdam: Blaviana 1692, small 4to, 92pp., all rather age toned, marginal tear to final leaf, vellum, rebacked

De Hermaphroditorum monstrosorumque partuum natura... , Libri duo. Oppenheim, 1614, small 8vo, title and cartouche (dated 1610) within engraved de...

Lot 146

CHARAS (Moyse)

Nouvelles expériences sur la Vipère. Paris: chez l'auteur, et Olivier de Varennes, 1669, 8vo, first edition, engraved title, 3 double page plates ...

Lot 147

TOFT (Mary)

four pamphlets bound in one slim 8vo vol.: The Several Depositions ... of Mary Toft, of Godalming in the County of Surrey, being deliver'd of Seve...

The Lives of those eminent Antiquaries - ..., in 2 vols., Oxford 1772 8vo, plates, full calf; BROWN (Sir Thomas) Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Enquiri...

Icones Quinquaginta Virorum illustrium ..., 2 vols, Frankfurt: Theodore de Bry 1597-1598, small 4to, engraved titles, author's portrait to both vo...

De Re Militari libri accedunt Frontini Strategematibus eiusdem auctoris alia opuscula. Cum Commentariis... [Antwerp]: Ex Officina Plantiniana Raph...

Lot 151

VENNER (Tobias)

Via Recta ad Vitam Longam, London 1628, 8vo, bound with - The Baths of Bathe, lightly browned throughout, modern calf; SMITH (Robert, Late Rat-Cat...

De Animalibus libri vigintisex Novissime Impressi. Emendatus fuit Liber iste per ... Marcum Antonium Zimaram. Venice: O. Scoti ac sociorum 1519, f...

Les Ruses Innocentes, 5 parts in one vol., Paris: chez Charles De Sercy 1688, 4to, title in red and black, lacking engraved title, 65 (of 66) wood...

Traité des Arbres et Arbustes qui se Cultivent en France en Pleine Terre. Vol II only. 1755, 4to, first edition, half-title, 3 folding engraved pl...

Lot 155

BLITH (Walter)

The English Improver Improved or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed, London: for John Wright 1652, small 4to, engraved pictorial title, 2 engraved p...

CIBBER (C) Plays, in 2 vols., 1721, 4to, with subscribers list, title with clipped upper corner, some general spotting, calf, rubbed; ADDISON (J) ...

Lot 157

CHARDIN (J)

Journal du Voyage du Chevr. Chardin en Perse & Aux Indes Orientales. par la Mer Noire & par la Colchide. London: Moses Pitt 1686, folio, portrait ...

The Six Voyages. London 1678, folio, first English edition translated by John Phillips, four parts with separate title pages, 24 engraved plates (...

Lot 159

GREEN (John)

A Journey from Aleppo to Damascus: With a Description of Those Two Capital Cities, and the Neighbouring Parts of Syria. London 1736, 8vo, folding ...

A Voyage into the Levant Perform'd by Command of the late French King. London 1741, in 3 vols., 8vo, folding map and 151 plates, some age toning, ...

Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: E. & J. Wright, [1808], folio, engraved portrait on title, Whatman 1806 watermark, untrimmed, boards wit...

Camden's Britannia Newly Translated into English, London 1695, folio, Gibson edition, portrait frontispiece, 50 double page or folding maps, plate...

Anglia Sacra, sive Collectio Historiarum, 2 vols. London: R. Chiswell 1691, folio, half-titles, engraved vignette titles, titles printed in red & ...

appointed to be read in Churches in the time of Queen Elizabeth..., Oxford, 1683, folio, a little age toned, rebacked panel calf

Lot 165

PETER of BLOIS.

Petri Blesensis Bathioniesis Opera. Paris: Jean Petit 1519, folio, black letter, double column, engraved title in red and black, rebacked rolled c...

Operum Omnium, Cologne 1560, folio, 3 parts in one, some damp staining at head, rebacked blind tooled calf with clasps

Lot 167

EVELYN (John)

Silva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, 5th edition London 1729, folio, title in red and black, worn cracked calf

Sermonum Opera. Hagenau 1521, folio, title slightly age soiled, some finger marking and age stains, bevelled boards, rolled calf with later clasps

Lot 169

ORIGEN.

Operum, 4 pts in 2 vols., Paris: J B Ascensius 1512-19, folio, titles in red and black, contemporary blind tooled pigskin with minor worming to in...

In Pauli Epistolas Collectanea. Paris: J B Ascensius 1535, small folio, title with large woodcut printer's device, elaborate initials, minor wormi...

HAYMO of Halberstadt. In divi Pauli epistolas omneis interpretatio. [Cologne] 1528, thick 12mo, woodcut to title and final page, contemporary roll...

Lot 171

MARTIN (T)

The History of the Town of Thetford, 1779, 4to, portrait and plates, some staining, rebacked calf

Lot 172

GREGORIUS I.

Dialogus in quattuor libros divisus. Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 23 Mar. 1508, 8vo, title and text in red and black, woodcut overle...

Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum Libri V. Cambridge: Roger Daniel 1644, folio, general age toning, rebacked calf

Opus Aureum Sancti Thome de Aquino. Venice: O. Scotus 1521, folio, woodcut to title page, double column text, intermittent damp staining, some sli...

Ecclesiastica Historia, et Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum Venerabilis Bede. Strassburg: 1500, small folio, gothic letter, some intermittent worming...

Strassburg: M. Hupffuff 1516, small 4to, woodcut title, some soiling and staining, text generally age toned, early ink inscriptions, old calf back...

Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X, bound in 2 vols., London 1652, folio, title slightly soiled, thick paper copy, worn calf (2)

Lot 178

CASSIODORUS.

Psalterii Davidici expositio. Paris: Andre Boucard for Jean Petit, Sept 8, 1519, 4to, edges of first leaves rather worn and nicked with marginal d...

Saint Augustine of the Citie of God. With the Learned Comments of Io. Lodovicus Vives. 2nd edition London: G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620, folio, tit...

London: Christopher Barker 1583, small 4to, black letter, double column, lacking OT title and 3 other leaves, also lacking prayer book title, conc...

Praesbyteri de Temporibus Suis Sive de Sex aetatibus Huius Seculi Liber Incipit. Venice: Joan de Tridino alias Tacuino 1509, small 4to, some old a...

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