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Lot 183

Seebohm (Henry) The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidæ, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies, first edition, first issue, frontispiece and 20 lithographed plates by Hanhart after Keulemans, each with hand-colouring, wood-engraved illustrations by J.G. Millais and others, contents separating, some ff. detached, upper hinge crudely repaired, lower hinge splitting, original cloth, stamped in blind, gilt, and black, rubbed and bumped, cocking, shelf-lean, [Anker 455; Fine Bird Books, p.141; Nissen IVB 850; Wood, p.561; Zimmer, p.568], 4to, [1887].⁂Sotheran's catalogue number 815: "only 220 copies were printed for sale illustrated with coloured plates".Provenance: Frances M. Myers and Madelaine Jay (bookplates)

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Lot 184

NO RESERVE Sharpe (Richard Bowdler) On the Birds Collected by Professor J.B. Steere in the Philippine Archipelago, being The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, second series, vol.I, part 6, 9 chromolithographed plates by Keulemans, printed by M.&N. Hanhart, each with hand-colouring, a little even browning, original wrappers bound-in, 1877 § Keulemans (Tony) & Jan Coldewey. Feathers to Brush: The Victorian Bird Artist John Gerrard Keulemans 1842-1912, number 279 of 475 copies from an edition limited to 500 signed by the authors, Epse & Melbourne, by the authors, 1982 § Forshaw (Joseph M.) & William T. Cooper. Parrots of the World, number 90 of 100 copies signed by author and illustrator, Melbourne, 1977 § Maclean (Gordon Lindsay) & Gail Darroll. Ducks of Sub-Saharan Africa, colour frontispiece & plates, illustrations, limited edition, Randburg, 1986, second and third illustrations, most colour, first 20th c. cloth-backed boards, others original cloth, rexine, or half rexine, 4to (4) Provenance: Madelaine Jay (bookplates)

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Lot 188

Mathematics.- Diderot (Denis) Memoires sur differens sujets de mathematiques, first edition, engraved title vignette, 7 folding plates and vignettes, water-stained, some spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original gilt spine in compartments, with loss at ends, corneres reapired, rubbed, 8vo, Paris, Durand & Pissot, 1748.⁂ Diderot's ideas on acoustics, tension and air resistance, which also includes a project for a new organ, playable by all.

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Lot 19

NO RESERVE Gardening & Natural History.- [Vallemont (Pierre le Lorrain, Abbé de)] Curiosities of Nature and Art in Husbandry and Gardening, first English edition, engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, text browned, plates generally clean, contemporary panelled calf, upper cover detached, for D.Brown [&c.], 1707 § Miller (Philip) The Gardeners Dictionary, 3 vol., third edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, for the Author, 1748 § Rose (Hugh) The Elements of Botany, first edition, 14 engraved plates, contemporary calf, for T.Cadell, 1775 § Hudson (William) Flora Anglica, 2 vol., second edition, contemporary calf, spines gilt, lacking labels, 1778 § Stillingfleet (Benjamin) Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick, third edition, 11 engraved plates, some soiling, contemporary calf, spine gilt, 1775, rubbed or worn, most joints split; and 4 others, 8vo (12)

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Lot 195

NO RESERVE London.- Allen (Thomas) The History and Antiquities of London, 4 vol., first edition, additional engraved titles, 38 plates only (of 39), 3 folding, illustrations, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, 8vo, 1827-29.

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Lot 196

NO RESERVE Worcestershire.- Nash (Treadway Russell) Collections for the History of Worcestershire, 2 vol. (with supplement bound in), first edition, engraved portraits, titles, plates and maps, folding facsimiles and pedigrees, a few tears and repairs, some spotting or staining, occasional creasing, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, rather worn, but holding firm, folio, John Nicholls, 1781-1799.

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Lot 197

NO RESERVE Yorkshire.- Hunter (Joseph) Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 8 plates, vignettes, list of subscribers, occasional marginal pencil notes, small tears, repaired (frontispiece, title & 2Q1), ex-libris blind-stamp to front free endpaper, spotting, modern half calf, 1819.

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America.- Marshall (John) The Life of George Washington..., 5 vol., first English edition, engraved portrait, 2 folding frontispieces, 12 folding maps and vignette at end of vol.3, without 4pp. catalogue at end of vol.5, some foxing, soiling or browning, a few minor marginal defects, maps with one or two tears to folds (repaired), contemporary tree calf, spines gilt with red and black roan labels, rubbed, spines a little worn, gouge to head of vol.4, [Sabin 44788], 8vo, for Richard Phillips, 1804-07.⁂ Published simultaneously with the first American edition, and containing 5 maps/plates not in the Philadelphia edition. The maps include plans of many of the important battles of the Revolutionary Wars in Virginia, the Carolinas, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey.

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Lot 22

NO RESERVE [Home (Henry, Lord Kames)] Sketches of the History of Man, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, contemporary calf, Edinburgh, 1774 § Bryant (Jacob) A New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology, 3 vol., contemporary half russia, 1774 § Jackson (John) Chronological Antiquities, 3 vol., contemporary calf, 1752, some foxing or browning, rubbed or worn, joints split, lacking some labels; and 4 others, 4to & 8vo (12)

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Lot 24

NO RESERVE Isle of Wight.- [Worsley (Richard)] The History of the Isle of Wight, first edition, folding engraved hand-coloured map, 31 engraved plates, 12 double-page, engraved vignettes, double-page letterpress pedigree, with Postscript leaf at end, some light offsetting, contemporary half calf, rather worn, joints split, gouge to spine, by A.Hamilton, 1781 § Albin (John) [Map of the Isle of Wight], with inset plan of the town of Newport, engraving with outline hand-colouring, 415 x 620 mm. (16 1/4 x 24 1/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, folding into contemporary boards with printed label to upper cover, spine split, rubbed, 1832, 4to & 8vo (2)

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Lot 25

NO RESERVE Law.- Grotius (Hugo) De jure belli ac pacis libri tres, edited by J.Barbeyrac, 2 vol., engraved portrait & additional allegorical title, first title in red & black, contemporary panelled calf, spines gilt, Amsterdam, Jansson van Waesberg, 1720 § Eden (Robert) Jurisprudentia Philologica..., engraved portrait, contemporary calf, spine gilt, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1744 § Justinian. The Four Books of...Institutions, translated by George Harris, second edition, contemporary calf, J.Purser, for M.Withers, 1761, some foxing or browning, all a little worn; and 2 others on Roman law, 8vo & 4to (6)

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Lot 27

NO RESERVE Linguistics.- Astle (Thomas) The Origin and Progress of Writing, second edition, engraved portrait and plates, some folding, some browned, 1803 § Wotton (William) Short View of George Hickes's...Treasury of the Ancient Northern Languages, edited by Maurice Shelton, 1737 § Knight (Richard Payne) An Analytical Essay on the Greek Alphabet, engraved plates, 1791 § Spelmann (Henry) Glossarium Archaiologicum..., imprimatur leaf, title in red & black, contemporary half russia, upper cover detached, Alice Warren, 1664, some foxing or browning, the first three all contemporary tree calf, all rubbed or worn; and 5 others, linguistics, v.s. (9)

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NO RESERVE America.- Robertson (William) The History of America, 4 vol., first edition, folding engraved frontispiece, 4 folding engraved maps by Thomas Kitchin, folding plate, some light foxing and offsetting to and from maps, contemporary tree calf, gilt, a little worn, joints split, lacking most labels, 1777 § Irving (Washington) A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 4 vol., first English edition (possibly preceding first American), 2 folding engraved maps, foxing and soiling, slight worming to lower outer corner of vol.4 at beginning, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with red & green roan labels, rubbed, spine of vol.1 chipped at head, 1828, [Sabin 71973 & 35170], 4to & 8vo (6)

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Lot 30

NO RESERVE London.- Newcourt (Richard) Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense; An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Diocese of London , 2 vol., first edition, vol.1 with engraved portrait, 4 plates (3 double-page) and folding map, errata leaf at end, vol.2 with half-title and list of subscribers, browning to vol.2 particularly at beginning and end, 4N4 defective at foot not affecting text (repaired), last few leaves (Index) shave at fore-edge and wormed at inner margin, contemporary calf, worn, joints split, by Benj. Motte..., 1708-10; and 2 others on London, v.s. (4)⁂ The second volume covers Essex.

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Lot 31

NO RESERVE Loudon (John Claudius) An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture, first edition, 1833; An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, [c.1830], numerous wood-engraved illustrations, foxing, the first loose in binding, contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, paper labels on spines a little chipped, rubbed, 8vo (2)

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Lot 34

NO RESERVE Mathematics.- Jack (Richard) Elements of Conic Sections, first edition, 9 folding engraved plates, with contemporary ink annotations and calculations to one plate and front pastedown, one plate with short tear to fold, another soiled and frayed at outer margin, occasional spotting, one leaf stained, contemporary calf, rubbed, spine ends worn, upper cover detached, Edinburgh, by Tho.Wall & Tho.Ruddimans, 1742; and 2 others, 8vo (3)

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Lot 38

NO RESERVE Morgan (J.) A Complete History of Algiers, browned, some marginal staining, contemporary tree calf, gilt, joints split, by J.Bettenham, for A.Bettesworth & C.Hitch, 1731 § Davis (J.F.) Sketches of China, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding engraved map hand-coloured in outline, advertisement leaf at end of vol.2, some foxing or staining, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed and faded, 1841 § Pinkerton (John) Modern Geography, 2 vol., third edition, engraved maps and plates, some folding, foxing, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, vol.2 lacking labels, 1811, rubbed or worn, 4to & 8vo (5)

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Lot 39

NO RESERVE Music.- Hawkins (Sir John) A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, 5 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved frontispiece and musical notation, contemporary calf, T.Payne & Son, 1776 § Burney (Charles) A General History of Music, 2 vol., engraved plates and musical notation, some folding, contemporary half calf, 1776, a little worn, joints split, lacking some labels, 4to (7)

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Lot 40

NO RESERVE Neumann (Caspar) The Chemical Works, edited by William Lewis, first edition in English, some light browning, contemporary calf, a little worn, joints split, 4to, for W.Johnston [& others], 1759.

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Lot 41

Newton (Sir Isaac) Optice: sive de reflexionibus, refractionibus, inflexionibus & coloribus lucis, libri tres, second Latin edition, with initial advertisement leaf, woodcut arms on title, woodcut head & tail-pieces and initials, 12 folding engraved plates at end, some slightly shaved at head affecting border/plate numbering, T4 with small portion torn away from outer margin but no loss to text, a good clean copy in contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, joints split, spine worn at head, 8vo, W. & J. Innys, 1719.⁂ Scarce translation of Newton's great work on optics and light, first published in English in 1704 and in Latin in 1706.

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Lot 42

Pacific.- Keate (George) An Account of the Pelew Islands...composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson... , first edition, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved map, 15 engraved plates (some stipple-engraved) including folding panorama, tissue guards, errata leaf at end, occasional light foxing or soiling, contemporary mottled calf, rather worn and scuffed, joints split, [Hill 907], 4to, 1788.⁂ "In 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, was wrecked on a reef near one of the Palau (Pelew) Islands, a previously unexplored group. The entire crew managed to get safely ashore, where they were well treated by the natives and eventually managed to build a small vessel from the wreck, in which they reached Macao. They took Prince Lee Boo, one of King Abba Thulle's sons, with them to England, where he made a very good impression. Unhappily, in spite of all precautions, he soon died of smallpox." Hill

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Lot 43

Pamphlets.- Clagget (Charles) Musical Phaenomena..., first edition, half-title, engraved portrait printed in sepia, with additional title for No.I [?all published], 4pp. engraved music at end, for the Author, 1793 bound with Dowsing (William, of Stratford) The Journal...Parliamentary Visitor, appointed...for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches, &c. within the county of Suffolk, in the years 1643-1644, first edition, Woodbridge, R.Loder, 1786 and Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, No.I, folding pedigree, 6 engraved plates, J.Nichols, 1780 and [Keate (George)] Sketches from Nature, thirteenth edition, 1779 and [Sheridan (R.B.)] A Comparative Statement of the Two Bills, for the better government of the British Possessions in India, brought into Parliament by Mr.Fox and Mr.Pitt..., ?first edition, half-title, [Not in British Library, ESTC records 4 UK copies only, all Oxford, 4 in America], n.p., [?1788] and Shirley (William) Electra, a Tragedy, first edition, half-title, [ESTC 4 UK copies only], W.Faden for J.Newbery and R.Davis, 1765 and Mason (William) Ode to the Naval Officers of Great Britain, first edition, half-title, lacking final advertisement leaf, T.Cadell, 1779; The English Garden, Book the First, second edition, half-title, R.Horsfield, 1772; ...Book the Second, first edition, half-title & final advertisement leaf, York, A.Ward, 1777; ...Book the Third, first edition, half-title, H.Goldney, 1779; ...Book the Fourth, first edition, with additional general title and final blank, York, A.Ward, 1781 and Eyre (Edward) A Friend to Old England, first edition, with half-title (not called for by ESTC), engraved title-vignette, with final advertisement leaf for an account and illustration of the Guillotine "the modern beheading machine", [ESTC 4 copies only, all in UK), Minerva Press, 1793 and Jenner (Charles) Poems, first edition, half-title and final blank, Cambridge, J.Bentham, 1766 and [Wolcot (John)], "Peter Pindar". Expostulatory Odes to a Great Duke and a Little Lord, second edition, "Cavendish Society 1789" inscribed in ink on title, G.Kearsley, 1789 and [Falconer (William)], "Theophilus Thorn". The Demagogue, first edition, half-title, [ESTC 2 UK copies only, BL & National Library of Scotland, plus 3 in America], G.Robinson & J.Roberts, 1766 and [Dunster (Charles)], "Marmaduke Milton". St. James's Street, a Poem, first edition, J.Debrett, 1790, together 16 works in 3 vol., contents in contemporary ink manuscript on front pastedowns, some foxing or soiling, occasional staining, bound in contemporary half calf, rubbed, 4to; sold as a collection of pamphlets, not subject to return

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Lot 44

NO RESERVE Poor Laws.- Burn (Richard) The History of the Poor Laws: with Observations, first edition, browning, by H. Woodfall & W.Strahan, 1764 § [Bott (Edmund)] A Collection of Decisions of the Court of King's Bench upon the Poor's Laws, first edition, with initial errata leaf and final advertisement leaf, [1771] § Nolan (Michael) A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor, 3 vol., third edition, foxing, 1814, contemporary sheep or calf, worn, some covers detached; and another on the Poor Laws, 8vo (6)

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Lot 46

NO RESERVE Price (Uvedale) An Essay[s] on the Picturesque, 2 vol., second edition of vol.1, first edition vol.2, title of vol.1 torn and laid down, London & Hereford, 1796-98; A Letter to H.Repton on...Landscape-Gardening, second edition, slight worming to lower outer corner of first few leaves, Hereford, 1798, together 3 vol., uniform contemporary calf, gilt, some spines defective, one cover detached § Leadbetter (J.) The Gentleman and Tradesman's Compleat Assistant, third edition, engraved frontispiece and 3 plates, 2 folding, 5pp. advertisements at end, some staining, contemporary sheep, worn and defective, cover detached, 1770 § Warton (Rev. T.) Essays on Gothic Architecture, first edition, 10 engraved plates, some folding, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, 1800; and another, 8vo (6)

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Lot 47

Priestley (Joseph) Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, 3 vol., vol.1 & 2 second edition, vol.3 first edition, half-title in vol.1, 6 engraved plates, 3 folding, errata & 1p. advertisement leaf only at end of vol.1 (of 3pp.), vol.2 without 4pp. catalogue at end but present in vol.3, E8 of vol.1 creased, I5 of vol.3 with tear to lower margin, J.Johnson, 1775-77; Experiments and Observations relating to various branches of Natural Philosophy; with a Continuation of the Observations on Air, 3 vol., first edition, issue with "peinted" in imprint of vol.1, 3 folding engraved plates, vol.1 with errata and 3pp. advertisements at end, vol.2 with additional pages *395-398 at end and 6pp. catalogue, vol.3 with 6pp. catalogue, vol.1 J.Johnson, 1779 & vol.2 & 3 Birmingham, 1781-86, together 6 vol., some soiling, browning to fourth volume, uniform contemporary tree calf, rubbed, joints cracked, lacking 3 labels, 8vo⁂ Important work concerning the discovery of oxygen.

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Lot 48

NO RESERVE Reynolds (Sir Joshua) Seven Discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the President, first edition, lacking half-title and final leaf of advertisements, contemporary calf, T.Cadell, 1778; The Works, 3 vol., second edition, engraved portrait, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, 1798 § Leonardo da Vinci. A Treatise on Painting, half-title, engraved portrait and plates, illustrations, spotting, original boards, uncut, lacking spine, covers detached, 1802 § Edwards (E.) Anecdotes of Painters, engraved portrait, contemporary half calf, 1808 § [Félibien (André)] Entretiens sur les Vies et sur les Ouvrages des plus Excellens Peintres Anciens et Modernes, 2 vol., second edition, half-titles, titles with woodcut device, contemporary calf, Paris, S.Mabre-Cramoisy, 1685, some foxing and soiling, rubbed or worn; and another, 8vo & 4to (8)

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NO RESERVE [Anstey (Christopher)] An Election Ball..., second edition, engraved frontispiece, Bath, for the Author, by S.Hazard, 1776; another edition, first edition in Latin, engraved title-vignette and 5 illustrations, slight staining to title, Bath, S.Hazard, 1776; A Paraphrase or Poetical Exposition of the Thirteenth Chapter of the First Book of St.Paul's Letters to the Corinthians, 12pp., second edition, folio sheets folding to 4to, [Not in British Library; ESTC lists 2 copies only: University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Duke University in America], J.Dodsley, 1779; Speculation; or, a Defence of Mankind: a Poem, first edition, lacking final advertisement leaf, title soiled with small ink stain, for the Author, by J.Dodsley, 1780; On the Much Lamented Death of the Marquis of Tavistock, 8pp., fifth edition, [ESTC 3 UK copies only], J.Dodsley, 1778; Envy, 24pp., first edition, J.Dodsley, [?1778]; A Pindaric Epistle, address'd to Lord Buckhorse, A New Edition, ?lacking half-title, title with engraved portrait of Buckhorse, [ESTC 4 UK copies, 2 in BL], J.Dodsley, 1779, together 7 works bound in 1 vol., the first two bound last, list of contents in contemporary ink manuscript on front free endpaper, occasional soiling, a few small stains, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, a little worn, spine chipped at head, 4to ⁂ The last was first published as The Patriot, a Pindaric Address to Lord Buckhorse in 1767, Buckhorse was a prizefighter.

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Lot 53

Yarranton (Andrew) England's Improvement by Sea and Land, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, with initial licence leaf, 15 folding engraved maps and plates, some with small tears at edges, browned, some insect damage to outer margin at beginning of first part and to upper margin of second part affecting some head-lines, contemporary calf, worn, joints split, lacking label, [Wing Y13aA & Y13a], small 4to, R.Everingham for the author, 1677-81.⁂ The first part is the variant issue with p.193 paginated "177" and signed "T".

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Lot 55

Astrology in medicine.- Tanstetter (Georg) Artificium de applicatione astrologie ad medicinam, first edition, title within woodcut historiated border, woodcut diagrams, woodcut historiated initials, water-stained, fore-edge a little frayed, modern half calf, spine gilt, [Thorndike V, 316-317; not in Adams or Caillet], 8vo, Strasbourg, Georg Ulricher, 1531.⁂ A rare little work on the application of astrology to medicine, with a preface by the German botanist and theologian Otto Brunfels.

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NO RESERVE Bacon (Sir Francis) The Works, 5 vol., engraved portrait, 2 frontispieces and title vignettes, contemporary half russia, joints split, some covers detached, 1778 § Harris (James) Philological Inquiries in Three Parts, first edition, engraved portrait and 2 plates, 1781 § Beattie (James) An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, second edition, Edinburgh, 1771 § Locke (John) Two Treatises on Government, sixth edition, 1764 § Paley (William) The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, 2 vol., fourth edition, 1787, some foxing or browning, all but the first contemporary calf, some spines gilt, rubbed or worn; and 3 others, 4to & 8vo (13)

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Baker (Henry) Of Microscopes, and the Discoveries made thereby, 2 vol., 32 engraved plates, many folding, folding letterpress table, some foxing or soiling, S7 in vol.1 torn without loss, contemporary tree calf, lacking labels, spines defective at head, J.Dodsley, 1735 § Sprat (Thomas) The History of the Royal Society of London, fourth edition, imprimatur leaf, title in red & black, woodcut ornaments, 2 folding engraved plates, worming to inner margin of first few leaves, contemporary calf, spine worn at head, 1734 § Rumford (Benjamin Thompson, Count) Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, vol.1 & 2 only (of 3), third edition, 12 engraved plates, one folding, some foxing, contemporary half calf, rubbed, splits to joints, 1797-98, the first two a little worn, 8vo & 4to (5). ⁂ The last includes essays on the poor, food & drink, fireplaces & chimneys, the management of fire & the economy of fuel, heat etc.

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Lot 83

NO RESERVE Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri de).- Bernard (Tristan) Le Fardeau de la Liberté. Comédie en un Acte en Prose, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author, original lithographed pictorial wrappers by Toulouse-Lautrec, rubbed, 8vo, Paris, 1897.⁂ The copy is presented to the French explorer Charles Rabot.

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NO RESERVE Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decameron, preface by Paolo Rolli, etched frontispiece by Baron after Grisoni, title with woodcut device, engraved portrait, woodcut ornaments, list of subscribers, one or two small stains, [Adams B2147], [London, Thomas Edlin], 1527 [but 1725] bound with Lettera Critica del Sig. Buonamici...e Lettera Rispondente del Sig. Rolli, engraved portrait, first and last couple of leaves a little browned, Paris, Giovanni Battista, 1728, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary calf with elegant gilt border of semicircles and stars, spine gilt with dove holding olive branch in each compartment, rubbed, joints split, spine ends worn and chipped § Moulin (Pierre du) Defense de la Foy Catholique..., title with pictorial woodcut border, engraved portrait of James I tipped to verso, a little browned, attractive 17th century red morocco, gilt, g.e, rubbed, remains of paper label to spine, [?Paris], 1611; and 4 others, continental, 8vo et infra (6)⁂ The first is the London reprint of the famous Giunta edition of 1527.

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Lot 93

Westminster School.- Welch (Joseph, compiler of biographical reference works, was for forty years assistant to William Ginger, bookseller to Westminster School. c. 1750-1805) A List of Scholars of St. Peter's College, Westminster, as they were Elected to Christ Church College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, first edition, engraved frontispiece and plate, half-title, interleaved by the insertion of 209 pages of manuscript names of Westminster scholars, 8pp. list "Captains previous to their quitting Westminster" at end, with an additional 24pp. manuscript index at end, slightly browned, plates slightly foxed, hinges a little weak, contemporary half calf, rubbed, corners worn, gilt spine, red leather label, rubbed, 4to, Printed by J. Nichols, Sold by W. Ginger and others, 1788 - [19th century].

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Lot 292

Books and Annuals - The First Men in the Moon, 1964 edition, HG Wells; Space Satellites book; 1953 Popular Mechanics; Boys Own annual, Moon Landing; Science and Mechanics; The Story of Flight (6)

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Lot 206

Japanese Art and Handicraft by Henry L. Joly and Kumasaku Tomita, a reprint of the 1916 first edition by Sawers-Valansot, 1976, hardcover, lacking dust jacket, in a slip case

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Lot 207

The Frederick M. Mayer Collection of Chinese Art, published by Christie, Manson & Woods. First edition, octavo, cloth, 376pp; 228 lots profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, list of prices realised with buyers names inserted Other Notes: One of the most important sales of Chinese porcelain and works of art of the second half of the 20th century

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Lot 594

[TRANSPORT]. RAILWAY & OTHER comprising Nock, O.S. The British Steam Railway Locomotive, from 1925 to 1965, first edition, Allan, London, 1966, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto, SIGNED BY AUTHOR & PUBLISHER; and Reid, H. Extra South. An Unscheduled, Unhurried Look at Dixie Steam Railroading, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto, WITH PRESENTATION BOOKPLATE FROM AUTHOR; and eighteen other works, (20).

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Lot 597

[MISCELLANEOUS]. WEST COUNTRY & OTHER Wortley, Laura. Lucy Kemp-Welch 1869-1958, The Spirit of the Horse, reprint, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1997, boards, dustjacket, colour and black and white illustrations, quarto; Holland, Clive. From the North Foreland to Penzance, first edition, Chatto & Windus, London, 1908, pictorial blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, further colour plate illustrations, quarto; and four other works, (6).

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Lot 600

[MISCELLANEOUS]. OBSERVER BOOKS Twenty-two titles from the series, including No.83, Devon & Cornwall (first edition, 1980); No.89, Tanks (first edition, 1981); No.93, Classic Cars (first edition, 1982); No.95, Canals (first edition, 1982); and No.98, Opera (first edition, 1982).

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Lot 962

LAWRENCE, D.H.; 'The Man Who Died' with illustrations by J. Farleigh, pub. William Heinemann London 1935 in cloth and marbled boards with dust jacket, also 'The Seven Deadly Virtues' drawn by D. Tegetmeier and with foreword by E. Gill, limited edition of 250 and signed by Tegetmeier and Gill, pub. Lovat Dixon Ltd (2). Additional InformationThe dust jacket to the second volume af, both with foxing, fading, scuffs and marks throughout, foxing to pages particularly to the first item in the lot. 

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Lot 978

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW; approximately seventy-five volumes, volumes 1-22 continuous, 24-39, 41-72 and volume 77, fourth edition, pub. John Murray London, first 1812 and last 1846, in marbled and calf boards with gilt tooled spines.Additional InformationAll in worn condition with losses to calf, fading to gilt etc, foxing to interior of varying extents, vol. 3 with tear to spine.

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Lot 4280

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first Moses Browne edition, London: Henry Kent, 1750. Red leather binding with gilt title & date and pictorial design (fish) to spine, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece and further engraved plates and woodcuts of fish within the text. Sympathetically rebacked/rebound incorporating original boards and spine, inner hinge weak at frontispiece, a little wear to extremities/headcaps. [Coigney 7]

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Lot 4282

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Hawkins edition, London: Thomas Hope, 1760. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked with recent leather spine, raised bands, gilt title. Etched frontispiece plus further etched plates and illustrations of fish within the text. Featuring two repaired folding plates at rear: an advertisement for a company dealing in fishing rods & tackle, and 'The Anglers Assistant' (a guide to catching different species, the seasons, the methods and the baits). Armorial bookplate for Rev. Sidenham Teast Wylde, Bristol 1779; 18th and 19th century ink ownership inscriptions to verso of frontispiece for the Barnett and Wylde families; owner inscription dated 1773 to title page, and other owner inscriptions within the text; occasional discolouration. [Coigney 9]

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Lot 4290

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Bagster edition, London: Samuel Bagster, 1808, printed by C. Mercier and Co. Full crushed tan morocco binding by Bayntun of Bath with raised bands, gilt angling motifs, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers and silk markers. A unique copy embellished with extra illustrations: 18th and 19th century engravings and aquatint etchings, some hand-coloured, including portraits, topographical views, natural history plates, all bound within the work; occasional light spotting. Together with another copy of the first Bagster edition, worn half-calf with some discolouration and occasional foxing. (2) [Coigney 17]

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Lot 4294

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Major edition, London: John Major, 1823. Large paper copy with the plates on India paper, bound in recent full red crushed morocco with gilt title & date, top edge gilt; some spotting to the plates with evidence of slight dampstaining at upper margins.  [Coigney 23]

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Lot 4296

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Tegg edition, in two volumes, London: Thomas Tegg, 1824. Green leather bindings with gilt titles, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers, headcaps worn to Vol. I, in slipcase [Coigney 27]

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Lot 4300

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Nicolas edition, complete in two volumes, London: William Pickering, 1836. Quarto, contemporary half-calf with gilt title, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Embellished with 61 illustrations, including full page and in-text depictions of fish, portraits, views. Contents generally good and bright, wide margins, occasional foxing; bindings tight and solid. Originally purchased from Bauman Rare Books (paperwork loosely inserted). (2) [Coigney 44]

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Lot 4301

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, Lewis edition, London: L. A. Lewis, 1839. Bayntun half-calf binding with marbled boards, contrasting red & green morocco title labels, gilt angling motifs to spine, top edge gilt. Together with another copy of the first Lewis edition in worn contemporary boards, rebacked with recent calf spine, red morocco title labels, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. (2) [Coigney 49]

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Lot 4308

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Bethune edition, New York & London: Wiley & Putnam, 1847. Half-calf with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. [Coigney 61]

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Lot 4314

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Ticknor & Fields edition, Boston: 1866. 12mo, publisher's green cloth with gilt title (this green cloth variant not mentioned by Coigney), top edge gilt, illustrated with 'Landing of the Trout' frontispiece by J. T. Willmore after John Absolon, plus 13 in-text illustrations of fish. Originally purchased from Bauman Rare Books (paperwork loosely inserted) [Coigney 85]

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Lot 4317

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, second Bell & Daldy edition, in two volumes, London: 1868. Original green cloth with gilt titles to spine, curiously numbered VII and VIII to spines (though complete, Part 1 and Part 2, in these two volumes). Coigney only had the first volume in his collection, and he was the first to record its existence. [Coigney 90]

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Lot 4322

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, Griggs facsimile of the first edition, [1882]. Full panelled calf, top edge stained red, remainder untrimmed. Good, clean, bright. [Coigney 117]

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Lot 4331

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Lowell edition, large paper (limited edition) numbered 14 of 150, in two volumes, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1889. Publisher's pale blue cloth, pictorial gilt spine and upper board, patterned endpapers, bookplate for A. L. Reynolds, illustrated throughout with tipped-in etchings and engravings (the Howell etchings signed in pencil). Contents good and bright, pale dampstaining to corners of first volume; bindings tight and solid with some general discolouration and wear to headcaps. (2) [Coigney 144]

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Lot 4335

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first McClurg edition, large paper state (limited edition) numbered 382 of 500, Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1893. Publisher's pictorial gilt cloth, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, pictorial borders to the text throughout, contemporary owner inscription. Contents good and bright, a couple of marks to blank endleaves at rear; binding good, tight, solid, some general discolouration/spotting to the cloth. Housed in a slipcase box with crushed brown morocco spine bearing gilt title and angling motifs, and raised bands. Together with a regular state copy of the same in publisher's blue gilt pictorial cloth. (2) [Coigney 163]

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Lot 4339

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first Le Gallienne edition, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, top edge stained green, remainder untrimmed (some pages uncut), Angler's Calendar and publisher's advertisements at rear, illustrated with views of Derbyshire (Beresford Hall, Ashbourne, Brailsford, Thorpe Cloud, Alstonfield, various pubs/inns). Contents good and bright, some foxing to endleaves; binding good and tight. Together with another copy of the same in publisher's blind-embossed coarse olive cloth. (2) [Coigney 182]

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Lot 4340

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, second Caldwell edition, New York & Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co, 1899. Publisher's gilt blue cloth (the first of Coigney's three binding variants), top edge gilt. Together with another copy of the same in publisher's Berkeley Library embossed Nouveau cloth (the third of Coigney's three binding variants). (2) [Coigney 191]

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Lot 4342

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, Selfridge edition, London: Selfridge & Co. Ltd., [1901]. Very scarce, recorded for the first time by Coigney. Publisher's blue buckram. Contents generally good and clean, some pale spotting to opening leaves; binding very worn at spine, upper board almost detached. [Coigney 211]

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Lot 4350

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first Thorpe edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. Publisher's gilt green pictorial cloth, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates and protective captioned tissue-guards, bookseller's ticket (Redin & Co., Cambridge). Contents good and bright, some offsetting to endpapers and splitting to inner hinges; binding tight and solid, some light rubbing/discolouration. [Coigney 250]

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Lot 4353

Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, first Brewer abridged edition, The Divine Art of Contentment, limited edition ('Only Seventy Copies Printed, Illuminated Letter by Elinore Taylor Brewer'), Iowa: Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, 1912. 'Privately Printed for Luther A. Brewer and His Friends, Christmas 1912'. Publisher's quarter vellum binding with paper covered boards, gilt title to spine, subtly patterned endpapers, loosely inserted publisher's sheet (wishing a Merry Christmas), owner inscription and stamp to front free endpaper. Contents good, clean, bright; binding tight and solid, some very pale spotting and light wear at corners, small area of loss at upper-right of upper board. Scarce. [Coigney 255]

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