WILLIAMS (R.) The History and Antiquities of the town of Aberconwy and its Neighbourhood . . . First Edition. 5 etched plates, subscribers list, orig. cloth-backed boards. Denbigh: printed for the author . . . 1835; PARRY (R.) Llandudno: its History and Natural History. 2nd edition. 2 engraved plates, (22pp.) advertiser at end; publisher's gilt & blind pictorial purple limp cloth. Llandudno, 1861; together with other older books on the Principality.
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WITCHELL (C.A.) & STRUGNELL (W.B.) The Flora and Fauna of Gloucestershire. First Edition. 10 plates, gilt roan-backed cloth. Stroud, 1892; [M'CRIE (T.) & ANDERSON (J.)] The Bass Rock: its Civil and Ecclesiastical History . . . Zoology and Botany. coloured frontispiece, 6 engraved plates & a table; publisher's gilt-pictorial & blind-decorated cloth. Edinburgh, 1848; with other older books on the western counties.
SOWERBY (James) English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants . . . First Edition, 36 vols. 2,591 (ex 2592) hand-coloured plates; contemp. polished calf, blind-decorated covers & on the gilt-lettered & panelled spines, marbled e/ps. 1790-1814. * old pictorial bookplates of Leonard Daneham Cunliffe; together with Supplement to the English Botany . . . by William Jackson Hooker . . . the figures by James De Carle Sowerby. 4 vols. with 367 hand-coloured plates, uniformly bound with main set (& numbered to vol. 40). 1831-49. * a ms. note relating to a projected 5th vol. at foot of title-page, vol.4.
REPTON (H.) The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton, Esq. . . . a new edition . . . by J.C. Loudon . . . engraved portrait frontis. & many hand-coloured (one with overlay, & some plain) text engravings, half title, 4pp. adverts (for author) & 32pp. Longman (Feb. 1844) catalogue; publisher's blind-decorated cloth. printed for the editor, and sold by Longman & Co. . . . 1840; with other related titles (17)
DARWIN (C.) Journal of Researches into Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World . . . (2nd edition), tenth thousand. text illus., publisher's 32pp. (January, 1860) catalogue; original blind & gilt-decorated cloth (with Edmonds & Remnants ticket). 1860. * the definitive text; includes the Postscript (Feb. 1st., 1860) where the author corrects some errors.
[TURNER, Wm. The First and Seconde Partes of the Herbal . . . lately oversene, corrected and enlarged, with the Thirde Parte, lately gathered . . . ] First Collected Edition. black letter, woodcut illus. throughout, royal arms on titles of 2nd & 3rd Parts (lacks general/part 1 title), 'Bathes in England' section (at end) with separate title; Faultes Escaped/Errata (2 leaves). 19th cent. calf in earlier style, with blind-ruled & rolled decorative borders & panelled spine, impl. 8vo. [Arnold Birckman, 1568]. * the first & second parts originally published 1551-62). Henrey lists several leaves frequently missing - but some are present here; few old mss. marginal notes & on blanks.
LOVELL (R.) [Greek Title] Sive, Enchiridion Botanicum. or, a Compleat Herball, containing the summe of ancient and moderne authors . . . with an . . . universal index of plants: shewing what grow wild in England. 2nd edition, with many additions . . . 84, 675 (i.e. 673) & (6)pp.; old calf, later rebacked with blind-decorated & panelled spine, 12mo. Oxford, 1665. * Plesch copy, with the gilt red leather label on pastedown
GRINDON (L.H.) The Manchester Flora . . . with notices of plants commonly cultivated in gardens . . . First Edition. pictorial & printed titles, num. engraved illus., contemp. half calf & marbled boards, gilt-decorated & panelled spine with red label. 1859: [LIVERPOOL] The Flora of Liverpool . . . First Edition. errata slip, original gilt-lettered & blind decorated cloth. The Liverpool Naturalists' Club, 1872; sold with other northern floras. (17)
[KENT & SURREY] - The BOTANICAL POCKET-BOOK; with Observations on some of the Rarer Plants growing in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells. hand-coloured & folded frontispiece; rebound half leather & cloth, sm.8vo. Tunbridge Wells: printed and published by J. Clifford . . . 1840; BREWER (J.A.) Flora of Surrey . . . First Edition. 2 folded & coloured pocket maps; publisher's blind-decorated & gilt-lettered cloth, with other older Kent & Surrey floras
LEES (E.) The Botany of Worcestershire . . . with descriptions of the most remarkable localities for botanical observation . . . First Edition. folded & coloured map, 3 engraved plates, 3pp. additions/corrections at end; publisher's gilt cloth. Worcester, 1867. * contemp. presentation inscription by author; LEIGHTON (W.A.) The Flora of Shropshire. First Edition. 20 engraved plates. publisher's blind-decorated cloth. Shrewsbury, 1841. * advert. leaves at end; with others on these counties (& Herefordshire) (9)
TRIPP (F.E.) British Mosses, their homes, aspects, structure, and uses. First Edition, 2 vols. 39 hand-coloured & guarded plates; original blind-decorated cloth, gilt-lettered spine. 1874. * publisher's (Geo Bell) 8pp. botanical list (Feb 1883) in both vols.; HOOKER (W.J.) & TAYLOR (T.) Muscologia Britannica; containing the Mosses of Great Britain and Ireland . . . 2nd edition, corrected & enlarged. 36 hand-coloured plates; later 19th cent. green, gilt-ruled morocco, gilt-decorated & panelled spine, g.e. & marbled e/ps. (by William of Cheltenham). 1827; sold with other related titles. (11)
HARDY (Wm.) The Miners Guide: or, Compleat Miner . . . First Edition. engraved diagrammatic figures (nos. 1-3) in text, remainder (4-10) as plates (no. 10 lacking - supplied in facsimile) other text figures, errata/ advertisement leaf; contemp. blind-panelled calf, rebacked (old spine laid-down), new e/ps. Sheffield: printer by Francis Lister, 1748. * rare account of methods of lead & copper mining, also laws & customs in the High & Low Peak of Derbyshire.
[STOW, John] A Survay of London. Conteyning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Description . . . (2nd edition) since by the same author increased, with divers rare notes of antiquity . . . printer's title-page device, 'faults escaped' leaf at end, text engraving, some decorated/historiated initial letters; late 19th cent. simulated 16th cent. blind-tooled leather over thick wooden boards, rebacked (1994) & old spine mounted ( & period marbled e/ps. added), cr. 8vo. imprinted by John Windet, printer to the honourable Citie of London, 1603. * i.e. revised by the author himself - prior to his death in 1605; armorial bookplate of Charles T. Galliard; an informative typed note regarding the binding is loosely inserted.
JOSEPHUS (Flavius) Hochberuhmten Judischen Geschichtschreibers Historien und Bucher . . . title printed in red & black within wood-engraved pictorial border, text wood engraved illus. & decorated initials, woodcut device on imprint; contemp blind-stamped pigskin, panelled spine, roy. 4to. Strassburg: Theodosius Rihelius, 1609; bound with EGESIPPI, des Hochberuhmten futrefflichen Christlichen Geschichtschreibers funff Bucher . . . title printed in red & black within wood-engraved pictorial border, wood-engraved text illus. & decorated initials; (Strassburg: T. Rihel, 1609)
PRESSED FLORA SPECIMENS - [FLINTOFT, J.J.] Collection of Mosses in the English Lake District] 86 leaves, with 103 specimens mounted on rectos, neat ms. legend in lower margins giving Latin / English name & location found; original blue cloth, blind-decorated covers, gilt-lettered on upper within decorated border & gilt-lettered spine, cr. 8vo. [? Keswick, ca. 1860] * inscription at front dated 1868; no letterpress (? as issued)
A walnut and gilt metal mounted oval library table, in Louis XVI style A walnut and gilt metal mounted oval library table, in Louis XVI style, last quarter 19th century, with tooled and gilt leather inset top above applied ornate gilt metal frieze containing single blind drawer and decorated with Vitruvian scrolls and reserve panels depicting classical scenes with cherubs, with quadrouple tapering fluted supports joined by x-shaped stretchers and undertier, above acanthus feet 72cm high, 150cm x 102cm
PUTRON, Rev. Pierre de. Nooks and Corners of Old Sussex. Choice examples in Sussex Archaeology. Lewes: Farncombe & Co., 1875. Large 4to (314 x 252mm). Printed in red and black, frontispiece and numerous illustrations. (Some spotting.) Original green morocco-grained cloth, the upper cover and spine blocked in gilt, the lower cover in blind, matt glazed endpapers, g.e. (slightly bumped and rubbed, inner hinges cracked). Provenance: Rev. John Parkin (Halton, nr. Hastings, gift inscription from his son); Thomas Parkin (armorial bookplate); L.C. Prideaux (bookplate); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851. Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue. By Authority of the Royal Commission. London: Spicer Brothers and W. Clowes & Sons, 1851. First edition, vols. I-III (without the two supplemental vols.), large 8vo (256 x 172mm). Engraved additional title, 1 folding hand-coloured lithographic map, numerous plates (a few coloured, a few folding), illustrations. (Clean tear and creasing to the map). Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, glazed endpapers, gilt edges (soiled and bumped, inner hinges weak or split) (3). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.
John Worsfold, Hampton Wick: a stained pine thirty hour longcase clock, the posted movement with anchor escapement, the brass dial with silvered roman chapter ring, engraved floral centre, single pointer, the case with blind fretwork frieze above a glazed door (detached), rectangular waist door on panel base with plinth support, with single weight and pendulum, 73 1/4in. high.
Wm. Snow, Padside: a large Georgian mahogany longcase clock, the painted roman dial with outer arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and date dial, with moon phase to the arch, foliate spandrels, two train movement with anchor escapement striking on a bell, the case with broken pediment and dentil cornice, brass finials, blind fretwork frieze, moulded arched glazed door flanked by fluted columns with giltmetal capitals, arched and moulded waist door flanked by fluted quadrants, panel base, shaped bracket feet, 104in. high approximately.
A George III mahogany tallboy, the upper section with flared cornice, fitted three short and three long graduated drawers flanked by blind fretwork canted corners, above three further long graduated drawers, all fitted with brass swan neck handles, raised on bracket feet, 40 x 22 x 68in. high.
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