THE OXFORD LIBRARY SALE

Including - Library Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks. Tribal Art and Rugs. Antiquarian and Modern Books

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THE OXFORD LIBRARY SALE

Including - Library Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks. Tribal Art and Rugs. Antiquarian and Modern Books

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TWO CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN FIGURES, one in the style of a nkisi nkondi power figure and the other painted white, both with modern stands (2)

A PAPUA NEW GUINEA TOTEM POLE ANCESTOR FIGURE, carved wood bird type creature grasp to back with brown, white and red pigments 123cm high

A NIGERIAN IJO TRIBE WATER SPIRITS PLANK MASK worn horizontally on the dancer's head with red, white and black painted decoration, 93cm long (Prov...

A GHANA, ASHANTI TRIBE, LIGHT WOOD STOOL with bowed seat and carved decoration, 46cm wide, 24cm high (Provenance: Desmond Morris, from the collect...

A GHANA, ASHANTI TRIBE, CARVED WOOD STOOL with bowed seat and rectangular base, 49cm wide, 38cm high (Provenance: Desmond Morris, bought at auctio...

A PAPUA NEW GUINEA CARVED WOODEN FEAST BOWL in the form of a canoe with shaped prow and stylised scrolling decoration, approximately 185cm long (P...

A PAPUA NEW GUINEA PAINTED AND CARVED WOODEN CEREMONIAL HANGING BOARD decorated with four masks in polychrome pigments, 155cm long (Provenance: De...

A GHANA, ASHANTI TRIBE, DARK WOOD STOOL with bowed seat and carved decoration, 66cm wide, 44cm high (Provenance: Desmond Morris collection)

A LATE 19TH/EARLY 20th CENTURY ISLAMIC OCCASIONAL TABLE, heavy bronze top with the centre decorated with engraved circular panels of script to a w...

THREE AFRICAN MASKS, all carved wood with over paint, including a circular Luba mask, a small bobo mask and a another black & white painted mask (...

THREE THOMAS ONA CARVED WOODEN FIGURES, seated figure of a district officer (D.O.) with hat, a judge with white stained hair and a women carrying...

LIBRI CENSUALIS VOCATI DOMESDAY BOOK ADDITAMENTA EX CODIC. ANTIQUISS. Printed by command of His Majesty King Geo. III, 1816. Fo. Later cloth boun...

ROTULI PARLIAMENTORUM (ROLLS OF PARLIAMENT) UT ET PETITIONES, ET PLACITA IN PARLIAMENTO. EDWARD I to HENTRY VIII. 6 volumes, thick fo. (435x280) ....

MAITLAND, William and Others, The History of London from Its Foundation to the Present Time. 2 vols. Fo. (430x270 approx. ) printed for Osborne a...

CUVIER, Baron, The Animal Kingdom, 2 vols. bound in one, with The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History and of the Physical Sciences conducted by ...

WESTWOOD, O.S. Illuminated Illustrations of The Bible Copied from select Mss. of the Middle Ages. Wm. Smith, London, 1846. 40 finely coloured plat...

CENSUS OF GREAT BRITAIN, 1851: POPULATION TABLES. Numbers of Inhabitants in years 1801,1811,1821,1831,1841, and 1851. 2 vols Presented to both Hou...

A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours from the Reign of King Richard II. To th...

HUTTON, Charles, A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary. 2 vols. 4to. (270x220mm), J. Johnson, London, 1796. Orig. full calf. much worn Plus ...

ALIGHIERI DANTE, LE PRIME QUATTRO EDIZIONI DELLA DIVINA COMMEDIA LETTERALMENTE RISTAMPATE PER CURA DI. G.G. WARREN LORN VERNON, Tommaso & Boone, ...

FREKE GOULD, Robert, The History of Freemasonry, Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs etc. 3 vols. Thomas C. Jack, London, 1886. Lge....

BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA; or The Lives of The Most Eminent Persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland. W. INNYS, et al. London, 1747-17...

The Order of Service, used by His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury, John Bird Sumner at the Chapel Royal St. James's Palace on the occasion of T...

PETTINGAL, John, 1708-1781. Welsh Clergyman and Antiquarian. Alumni Jesus College Oxford and Corpus Christi, Cambridge. Fellow of The Society of A...

KELLY, Christopher, The Memorable Battle of Waterloo, Thomas Kelly, London, 1817. With frontispiece plate of Britannia attended by British and Pru...

FROISSART, Jean, 1337-1405. L'Histoire et Chronique de Messire. Jan de Tournes, printer to the King. Lyon 1559. 4 volumes in 2. full old leather w...

NALSON, John. 1638-1686, English Historian. An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State from the beginning of the Scottish Rebellion in ...

STEVENS, John, and DUGDALE, Sir William. The History of The Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches being two a...

HENSIUS, Nicholas, 1620-1681. Dutch Poet and Scholar. Cl Claudiani, Latin Epic Poem with engraved frontispiece. Ex. officina Elzeviriana, Amstelod...

VIRGIL, Opera Omnia. Franciscum Hackium, Lugd. Batavorum (Leiden). 1661. 8vo. Old stitched vellum. Tog.with a group of 5 17th century small format...

The History of the Great Plague in London in the year 1665 by 'A Citizen'. John Offor, London, 1819. With frontis. engraving. 505pp. new endpp. Fu...

VARR0, Marcus Terenius, BC. 116-27. Roman Scholar. Opera cum notis Josi Scaligeri, Henr. Stephanus, 1573. Thick 8vo. 180x118mm. old stitched vellu...

GROSE, Francis, and ASTLE, Thomas, compilers. The Antiquarian Repertory, A miscellaneous assemblage of Topography, History, Biography, Customs and...

HERBERT, Edward, Lord of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of Kind Henry the Eighth printed by M. Clark for Anne Mearn in Little Britain, London, 1682....

MOLL, Herman, A System of Geography or a New and Accurate Description of the Earth…. Timothy Childe, London, 1701. 4to. with red and black title p...

P VIRGILIUS MARO, et in eum Commentationes & Paralipomena Germani Valentis Guellii, PP. Planti, Antwerp, 1575, 4ti, 335x239mm. new endpp., repaire...

PEMBLE, William, 1591-1623. English Theologian, The Works, Henry Hall for John Adams, Edward John Forrest, Oxford, 1659. 1 vol. 4to. contemporary ...

FAERNI, Gabrielis, Fabulae Centum, (100 Fables,) New Edition, Darres and Du Bosc, London, 11743. With numerous intext plates and frontispiece engr...

CLARENDON, Edward Earl of , The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1819, 8vo. 6 volumes. Full clf, Tog.w...

CLINTON, Henry Fynes, 1781-1852. English Scholar. Fasti Hellenici, The Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece from the Earliest Account tot eh LV...

Costumes Historiques De La France. Le Bibliophile Jacob nd. but Paris 1840. ½ leather with marbled bds. 8vo. Small 4to. multiple coloured plates. ...

SIBLY, Ebenezer, 1751-1799. English Astrologer and Physician. A Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology; or the Art of Forete...

RUSKIN, John, 1819-1900 Philosopher and Social Thinker. Fors Clavigera, Letters to The Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, 1871-1884, 8 volume...

NONESUCH PRESS, Homers Odyssey printed in Greek and Latin from the first edition of Pope's Odyssey. 1921, Ltd. Edn. 379/835. 4to. Untrimmed paper,...

TULLEY, Richard, Narrative of A Ten Year's Residence at Tripoli in Africa, Henty, Colburn, London, 1816. Plates lacking, maps present. Lib. reboun...

PHILIPS, Mrs. Katherine, Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philips. The Matchless Orinda….Henry Herringman, London, 1678. Engrav...

DICKENS, Charles, The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club. Chapman and Hall and Lawrence and Jellicoe. London, 1910. 4to. 2 volumes. Illustrate...

A 17th Century English/Latin Dictionary, printed in London in 1684. With frontispiece engraving of Bibliotheca Palatina. Thick 4to. Tog.with an ec...

HOWARD, J.J. and CRISP, F.A. Visitation of Ireland, privately printed 1895/1904, Ltd. Edn. 4to. 4 volumes. untrimmed pages, blue bds. Ex. lib.

THE NONESUCH PRESS, In Memoriam, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, with introduction by John Sparrow. Dedication cartouche to Arthur Hallam 1811-1833. On t...

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