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A coloured engraving by James Basire after Dayes, 35 x 45cm; an Oxford Almanack engraving, 1766, 37 x 44cm; a small etching by T. Mackenzie c.1946...

Historic Notices Fotheringhay, 1821; Excursions in the County of Norfolk, 1818 with the rare supplement of 1826, and additional map of Norwich; to...

Collection of guides in original red cloth covers, a few with dust jackets; also others by Murray, Terry etc. (c.70 vol.)

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...

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...

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 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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

The Brighton and Lewes Guide, 1805, 12mo, folding coloured plate, lacking map, later half calf; Robin & Lindsay's Guide through Glasgow, no date, ...

The Queen of Hearts, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859, in 3 vols., 8vo, without half titles, 16-page publisher's catalogue at end of vol. I, origi...

A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery, first edition, London: for Richard Wilkin 1714, 8vo, 218pp and index...

The Highways and Byeways of Norwich, 1887, large paper 4to, one of 50 copies with mounted india paper plates, uncut, light foxing, binding rubbed ...

An Essay towards a Topographical History of The County of Norfolk, in 11 volumes, 1805, 8vo, plates, uncut, light foxing, modern quarter calf with...

History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk, 10 vols., Nowich 1781, 8vo, plates and maps/plans including folding, vol. 5 lacking the plate of...

Lot 193

BIRCH (Thomas)

The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, engraved by Mr Houbraken and Mr Vertue with their Lives and Characters. London: J & P Knapton 1...

Lot 194

[HARTLEY (J)]

History of the Westminster Election. London 1784, first edition 4to, 16 satirical plates (mostly folding) publ. by W. Humphrey, another folding pl...

Lot 197

MERBECKE (John)

The Book of Common Prayer, London: Pickering 1844, small 4to, printed in red and black, a little marginal staining, soiled vellum; New Testament, ...

Memoirs Historical and Topographical of Bristol and its Neighbourhood, 2 vols., 1821-23, 4to, plates, light spotting and age staining, full morocc...

Lot 199

LAVATER (J C)

Essays on Physiognomy, ... illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings by ... Thomas Holloway, translated from the French by Henry Hunter, v...

Le Spectacle de la Nature ou Entretiens sur les Particularites de L'Histoire Naturelle, vols. I-III, Utrecht: Etienne Neaulme, 1735-36, 12mo, 6 pa...

Lot 201

HOLANDRE (F)

Abrege D'Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Vivipares et des Oiseaux, 4 vols. [tomes I and III only with plate vols.], Aux Deux-Ponts 1790-91, 8vo...

An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, in 2 vols., London 1793, 4to, first edition, half titles, errata leaf at end of vol. II, some pencillings...

Lot 203

SCOTT (W)

The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, 2 vols, London 1813, folio, mounted india paper proofs, engraved titles, spines chipped and rubbed...

The Descent of Man, in 2 vols. 1871, 8vo, first edition, 2nd or later issue, 16-page publisher's catalogue to rear of each volume dated January 18...

The Expression of the Emotions, 1st edition 1872, 4pp. catalogue dated November 1872 at end, 7 heliotype plates with Roman numerals, garter style ...

Lot 206

LODGE (Edmund)

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, in 4 vols. 1821-34, folio, numerous plates, some slightly foxed or spotted as often, one boa...

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