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Lot 279

HILL (J.) The British Herbal: an history of plants and Trees . . . cultivated for use, or raised for beauty. First Edition. frontispiece, title vignette & many engraved illus. on 75 plates; old marbled boards ( roughly rebacked), folio. 1756

Lot 283

[PLOT, ROBERT] The Natural History of Oxford-Shire . . . by R.P. First Edition. pictorial title vignette, folded map & 16 copper- engraved plates, errata & imprimatur leaves; old calf, with panelled spine skilfully repaired, 4to. Oxford: printed at the Theater, 1677. * Gurdon armorial bookplate; the finely engraved county map (with armorial surrounds) is often lacking.

Lot 284

SIMONIN (L.) La Vie Souterraine ou les Mines et Mineurs. First Edition. 9 coloured lithographed plates, 30 maps & plans (mostly coloured, some d-page) & num. text engravings (some full-page); contemp. half morocco & cloth, gilt-decorated & panelled spine, g.e., roy. 8vo. Paris, 1867; sold with the 3 plate ('atlas') vols. of J. Callon's Lectures on Mining . . . cloth-backed mottled boards, 4to. 1876-86 (4)

Lot 285

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.

Lot 286

[CANADOC, of Lhancarvan. The History of Cambria now called Wales. A part of most famous Yland of Britaine . . . translated into English by H. Lloyd . . . corrected, augmented and continued by David Powel . . . ] First Edition. (6), 402 pp. (but lacks title & 1 text leaf), black-letter, wood engraved pictorial decorations & shields, large historiated initial at dedication; later leather-backed boards, cr. 8vo. (1584) * the first separately printed history of the Principality; a fair number of marginal notes & some neat text scoring.

Lot 288

DODOENS (R.) A New Herball, or Historie of Plants . . . their divers and sundrie kindes . . . first set foorth in the Douch or Almaigne toong, by . . . D. Rembert Dodoens . . . and now first translated out of French by Henry Lyte, Esquier. 2nd English edition. title (laid-down) printed within a wide & elaborately decorated border, black letter; (40), 916 pp. (prelims. complete, lacks 51 pp. in text); (40) pp. indexes present (of 48); 19th cent. half calf & marbled boards, cr. 8vo. Imprinted at London by Ninian Newton, 1586.

Lot 290

GEORGIUS AGRICOLA. De Re Metallica. Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 . . . by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover. num. facsimile illus.; lettered art vellum, impl. 8vo. The Mining Magazine, 1912; sold with a German edition of the same book (Berlin, 1928)

Lot 291

PHILLIPS (H.) Sylva Florifera: the shrubbery historically and botanically treated . . . First Edition, 2 vols. original boards with paper labels uncut. 1823; with other related antiquarian titles.

Lot 293

PONTEY (W.) The Rural Improver; or, a practical treatise on the native and management of such rural scenes and objects (for) the residences of the higher ranks of society. First Edition. 6 engraved plates, binder's note tipped-in & author's advert. note loosely inserted; rebound half morocco & marbled boards, gilt-decorated & panelled spine, replaced marbled e/ps., 4to. 1822

Lot 296

HART (H.C.) Flora of the County Donegal . . . First Edition. coloured & folded map, half title & errata leaf; original gilt-decorated cloth, contained in a custom made morocco-backed & baize-lined cloth box. Dublin & London, 1898. * contemp. inscription from the author, to F.M. More - almost certainly a relative of the (postumous) dedicatee, Alexander Goodman More.

Lot 297

COWELL (M.H.) A Floral Guide for East Kent . . . with those of Faversham . . . First Edition. hand-coloured d-page plan & engraved map, proposed 'supplement' note tipped-in at front, advert. leaf & 4pp. adverts. at end; original boards & printed label. Faversham: W. Ratcliffe; (&) Wandsworth: W. Pamplin, Jun., 1839.

Lot 298

JACOB (E.) Plantae Favershamienses. A Catalogue of the Most Perfect Plants Growing Spontaneously about Faversham . . . with an Appendix . . . of the Fossil Bodies of the Adjacent Island of Sheppey. First Edition. engraved portrait frontis., errata leaf; rebound cream boards, sm. 8vo. 1777

Lot 299

SIBTHORP (J.) Flora Oxoniensis, exhibens plantas in agro Oxoniens; sponte crescentes . . . First Edition. errata leaf, later quarter calf & marbled boards. Oxford, 1794

Lot 300

ORDOYNO (T.) Flora Nottinghamiensis, or a systematic arrangement of the plants, growing naturally in the county of Nottingham . . . First Edition. subscribers' list, original cloth-backed boards with paper spine label, sm. 8vo. Newark: printed for the author . . . 1807; DEERING (C.) Catalogus Stirpium, &c. Or, a Catalogue of Plants naturally growing and commonly cultivated . . . especially about Nottingham . . . First Edition. 3pp. errata; rebound quarter calf & marbled boards, sm. 8vo. Nottingham: printed for the author . . . 1738

Lot 301

[BLACKSTONE (J.) Fasciculus Plantarum circa Harefield sponte nascentium. Cum appendice, and loci historiam spectante. First Edition. later gilt-ruled calf, panelled spine, marbled e/ps., 12mo. 1737. * a 6pp. Appendix has a few notes relating to the parish more generally.

Lot 303

RAY (J.) A Collection of Curious Travels & Voyages. In two tomes . . . to which are added, three catalogues of such trees, shrubs, and herbs as grow in the Levant. First Edition. imprimatur leaf, part title for 'Second Time'; contemp. panelled calf. 1693. * from the library of Worcester College, Oxford (with the authorised cancellation stamp)

Lot 305

BRAITHWAITE (R.) The British Moss-Flora. First Edition, 3 vols. 128 engraved plates; contemp. green half morocco & cloth, marbled e/ps. & gilt tops. 1887-1905. a part publication, with some printed wrappers bound-in, as are 3 als., & a receipt from the author to a subscriber.

Lot 311

SWINBURNE (H.) Travels in the Two Sicilies. First Edition, 2 vols. 22 plates & plans (2 folded), folded map & table, half title (vol. ii), directions for plates/advert. (vol. i); contemp. gilt-decorated calf, panelled spines with red & green labels, marbled e/ps., 4to. 1783-85. * Londonderry armorial bookplates.

Lot 324

PONTANUS (Johannes Jovianus). Quae in Hoc Enchyridio Contineantur. Urania sen de Stellis . . . Meteonum . . . de Hortis Hesperidum . . . Lepidina . . . 184 & (4) ff. ornamental woodcuts initials, printers device at end; old half vellum, sm. 8vo. Florence: Philippi di Guinta. 1514. PONTANUS (J.J.) Opera Omnia Oratione Composia (vol. 1 only, of 3), old vellum. Venice, 1518. CONTI (Natale) Delle Historie de ' Suoi Tempi. First Italian Edition, 2 vols. (5, 94), 491 & (1, 52), 495 ff., woodcut title devices; contemp. limp vellum (ms. spine titles), thick cr. 8vo. Venice. Damian Zenaro, 1589. (4)

Lot 327

ORMEROD (G.) The History of the County Palantine and City of Chester . . . incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities. First Edition, 3 vols., portrait frontis., complete with the numerous engraved plates, a d-page hand-coloured county map, plan of Chester & hand-coloured plan of Delamere Forest, num. text illus. & pedigrees, half titles; early 20th cent. gilt-ruled red morocco, gilt-panelled & lettered spines, gilt-ruled inner dentelles, g.e., folio. 1819. * includes the 2 hand-coloured ancient glass plates (incl.Farndon Church heightened in gold); coloured armorial bookplates of George Holland-Ackers; one of the great antiquarian county histories.

Lot 332

OLDHAM (B.J.) English Blind-Stamped Bindings. First Edition. 61 collotype plates; buckram cloth & d/wrapper, roy. 4to. Cambridge University Press, 1952. * the Sandars Lectures, 1949; 750 copies were printed.

Lot 333

CRAIG (M.) Irish Bookbindings, 1600-1800. First Edition. coloured frontis. & 58 b/w. photo. plates; gilt cloth, 4to. 1954

Lot 334

BRASSINGTON (W.S.) Historic Bindings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford . . . First Edition. 24 plates (in gold & colour), text illus.; contemp. green half morocco & marbled boards, gilt-decorated & panelled spine, marbled e/ps. (by Riviere), 4to. 1891. * book label of Kenneth Bloomfield.

Lot 335

DAVENPORT (C.) English Embroidered Bookbindings. First Edition. 52 plates (some coloured), gilt cloth. 1899; with 4 others related to bindings & Fincham (on bookplates) (6)

Lot 336

BRASSINGTON (W.S.) A History of the Art of Bookbinding, with some account of books of the ancients. First Edition. 10 coloured plates & num. other illus. (some full page & coloured); pictorial cloth, gilt top, patterned e/ps. roy. 8vo. 1894

Lot 337

GOLDSCHMIDT (E.P.) The Printed Book of the Renaissance . . . First Edition. num. illus. gilt cloth, d/wrapper, 4to. Cambridge University Press, 1950. * 750 copies were printed; Parkes (M.B.) The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College, Oxford . . . First Edition. num. full page & other illus. (some coloured), gilt cloth & d/wrapper. 1979; with some other related books (14)

Lot 338

McLEAN (R.) Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings in Paper. First Edition. illus. throughout (some coloured), cloth-backed pictorial boards & d/wrapper, 4to. 1983; TIDCOMBE (M.) Women Bookbinders, 1880-1920. First Edition. many illus. (some coloured), cloth-backed patterned boards. 1996; w ith some related volumes (10)

Lot 341

PRESSED FLORA SPECIMENS - [JACKSON, Mary] The Specimen Flora; or, British Botany Exemplified by Plants from a Collector's Cabinet. . . . First Edition. title, 2pp. Preface & specimens mounted on 102 leaves, with ms. names & locations; rebound cloth (retaining old label), new e/ps. & g.e., cr. 8vo. Longman (etc.), 1847. * most of the locations are Sidmouth or Gloucs.; contemp. relevant ms. quotations on blanks front & back.

Lot 343

PRESSED FLORA SPECIMENS - Hobson (Edward) A Collection of Specimens, of British Mosses and Hepaticae, collected in the vicinity of Manchester, and systematically arranged with reference to the Muscologia Britanica, English Botany . . . First Edition, 2 vols. 240 leaves with mounted specimens, each with a printed label naming & referencing (as given on title), some minute examples contained in sm. mounted envelopes, printed titles & vol. ii with its 2pp. index; the leaves loose in original mottled boards (lacking ties), gilt spine labels, cr. 8vo. Manchester: printed by M. Wilson, 1818-22. * of great rarity; owing to the remarkable nature of the production few sets could have been issued;

Lot 1444

A Royal Worcester figure `First Dance` designed by F.G. Doughty, wearing a yellow dress and shawl, together with seven Royal Worcester Compton & Woodhouse limited edition figures, comprising `The First Quadrille`, `Belle of the Ball`, two `Queen of Hearts`, `The Fairest Rose`, `The Masquerade Begins`, and `Sweetest Valentine`, a Royal Worcester Victoria & Albert Museum series figure `1855: The Crinoline`, and six Coalport figures, comprising `The Flower Seller`, `Lady Alice`, `Eugenie`, `Geraldine`, `Demetria`, and `Debutante Celebration Time`.

Lot 153

A First Edition "Casino Royale" by Ian Fleming, published by Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, London, 1953, original cloth, no dust wrapper.

Lot 1081

A box of boxed Exclusive First Edition 1:76 scale Diecast Vehicles including buses, coaches etc

Lot 521

Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of The Court of King Charles The First, in two volumes, Third Edition, London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green; Paternoster-Row, 1823, together with, two other volumes of the same book dated 1833, each 22cm high, (4)

Lot 3041

HORSFIELD, T.W. The History and Antiquities of Lewes. Lewes: 1824. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (275 x 205mm). 6pp. list of subscribers, 42 plates, plans and maps (including 1 folding lithographic plate, 1 folding engraved map, 29 lithographic plates, plans and maps, 10 engraved plates, 1 wood-engraved plate), extra-illustrated with related newspaper cuttings and other extracts. (Volume II with text browned throughout, the leaves on either side of the inserted cuttings also browned, the plate facing p.123 in vol. II shaved into the image area.) Modern half-calf, spines gilt with early lettering-pieces. Provenance: B. Winstone (inscription); Sidney Spokes (Castle Place, Lewes, inscription, bookplates); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3042

DALLAWAY, James, and Edmund CARTWRIGHT. A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex. London: 1815-1830-1832. 2 vols. in four parts bound in three vols., folio (vol. I, parts 1 and 2: 342 x 262mm; vol. II, parts 1 and 2: 380 x 270mm). Vol. I (bound in 1 vol.): general title and dedication printed in red and black, 3 folding letterpress genealogical tables, 27 plates, plans and maps (comprising: 1 double-page hand-coloured map, 2 hand-coloured plans [1 double-page], 24 uncoloured plates and plans [1 double-page]). (Some light spotting, heavier to a few plates.); Vol. II (bound in 2 vols.): uncut, titles in red and black, 2pp. list of subscribers, 2 letterpress genealogical tables, 51 only (of 54) plates, plans and maps (including 1 double-page map, 2 folding hand-coloured map, 1 single-page hand-coloured map, 2 double-page uncoloured plans, 1 double-page hand-coloured plate, 1 single-page hand-coloured plate), numerous illustrations, many hand-coloured, extra-illustrated with a duplicate of the plate bound between pp.360 and 361 in part 1, 2 copies of a mounted lithographic portrait of Cartwright, a rare aquatint image of the Sydney Oak at Penshurst and 5 further plates. (Part 1: tear to outer margin of title page, large clean tear to plate facing p.253, some spotting; part 2: lacking the frontispiece portrait, the plate facing p.194, and the plate facing p.304, some light spotting, heavier to a few plates). Contemporary calf (vol. I: rebacked with original spine laid down), or recent green half-morocco (vol. II, parts 1 & 2). Note: first edition of vol. I, and vol. II, part 2, second edition of vol. II, part 1. Vol. I and vol. II, part 1 were published in 1815 and 1819 respectively by James Dallaway, but are scarce due to a fire at the printer`s premises which destroyed the majority of the copies (3). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3044

MANTELL, Gideon. The Geology of the South-East of England. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. 1833. First edition, 8vo (214 x 133mm). Half-title, lithographic frontispiece, 5 lithographic plates (1 folding), 1 folding hand-coloured engraved map, wood-engraved title vignette and illustrations. (Light creasing to the folding plate, slight offsetting to the map). Contemporary diced calf (rebacked, modern endpapers). Note: Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) is now known for pioneering the scientific study of dinosaurs. The present work remains one of his best known and may be considered an important early milestone in the study of modern geology and palaeontology. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3045

MANTELL, Gideon (1790-1852). The Fossils of the South Downs. London: Lupton Relfe, 1822. First edition, 4to (305 x 240mm). Uncut, 4pp. list of subscribers, 41 plates and maps only (of 42), comprising 1 hand-coloured lithographed geological map, 40 aquatints (2 folding), extra-illustrated with 3 loosely-inserted small format original drawings of fossils, one on paper with watermark date `1834`. (Lacking plate III, frontispiece cut down and re-inserted, title, half-title and frontispiece spotted, some spotting to plates, creasing to the folding plates, plates XXI and XXII with tears to outer margins.) Modern cloth. Provenance: Lilian Houghton (signature); Leslie Beaconsfield Bristow (armorial bookplate). Note: "...Mantell`s first and in some respects most important book" (Dean). Dean 40. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3046

[CROMWELL, Thomas.] Excursions in the County of Sussex. London: 1822. First edition, 8vo (224 x 140mm). Engraved frontispiece, additional title, 1 folding plan, 1 folding map, and 43 plates (?only, of a possible 44). (Possibly lacking one plate, some spotting.) Original drab paper-covered boards, letterpress title and advertisement to the upper and lower boards (rebacked in cloth at an early date, the original spine label laid down, scuffed, some discolouration to spine, extremities bumped). Note: although the title calls for `fifty engravings` the maximum found seems to be no more than 48 (i.e. frontispiece, title, folding plan, folding map & 44 plates). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3047

LEE, William. Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston. Lewes: printed for W. Lee, the editor and proprietor, and may be had of Messrs. Rivington, London, 1795. First edition, 8vo signed in 4s (212 x 123mm). Half-title, 8pp. list of subscribers. (Pp.5-6 torn into text and repaired at lower outer corner, some light damp damage to lower outer blank corners of leaves Y1-Kk4.) Contemporary tree-calf (rebacked, and recornered, lettering-piece replaced). Upcott III, 1245. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3048

KNIGHT, Charles (printer). - F.G. BENNETT, and others (editors & compilers). Statutes and Constitutions of the Cathedral Church of Chichester. Chichester: printed by Charles Knight, 1904. First edition, 8vo (215 x 135mm). Parallel texts (where appropriate) in Latin and English. Contemporary mottled half-calf, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Provenance: Leslie Beaconsfield Bristow (armorial bookplate); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3050

HERON-ALLEN, Edward. Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition, 4to (310 x 250mm). Half-title, 6pp. list of subscribers, 60 plates (2 coloured), 3 folding maps in pocket at rear. (Text spotted.) Original buckram, paper title label (some soiling). Provenance: Frederick James Hazeldine (South Godstone, Surrey, ink stamp and subscriber`s list); Lilian Houghton (signature); Leslie Beaconsfield Bristow (armorial bookplate); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3052

BERRY, William. County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Sussex. London: printed by W. Marchant, published by Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830. First edition, folio (355 x 215mm). Uncut, half-title, numerous wood-engraved coats of arms and other heraldic devices. (3Q2 torn with loss to upper blank margin, final leaf creased, spotting to first and last few leaves.) Modern calf-backed cloth, spine gilt. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3057

SUSSEX. - Charles DAWSON. History of Hastings Castle. [London:] Constable & Co. Ltd., 1909. First edition, 2 vols., 4to (285 x 190mm). Plates (some double-page), extra-illustrated with two loosely inserted autograph letters signed from the author. (Some light spotting.) Original blue cloth gilt, t.e.g. (some slight discolouration). Provenance: W.H. Hills (bookplate). - And seven others of similar interest (9). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3074

ANTIQUE REFERENCE, FURNITURE. - Bernard D. COTTON. The English Regional Chair. [Woodbridge:] Antique Collectors` Club, 1990. First edition, large 4to (298 x 207mm). Numerous illustrations, some colour. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Provenance: W. Leslie Weller (presentation copy inscribed by the author). - And thirty-nine others of similar interest (40). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3084

ARCHITECTURE, ENGLISH. - Nathaniel LLOYD. A History of the English House. London & New York: 1931. First edition, folio (317 x 219mm). Illustrations. (Slightly affected by damp.) Original cloth. - And thirty-five others of similar interest (36). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3098

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.

Lot 3110

SPENCE, Joseph. A Parallel; in the manner of Plutarch: between a most celebrated man of Florence; and one, scarce ever heard of, in England. Strawberry Hill Press: 1758. First edition, one of 700 copies, small 8vo signed in 4s (185 x 115mm). Title with integral engraved portrait vignette. 19th Century polished calf (spine defective). Provenance: John Temple (armorial bookplate). Hazen 6. - And one other volume [Hazen 15] published by the Strawberry Hill Press (2). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3112

GROSE, Francis. A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions. London: printed for S. Hooper, 1787. First edition, three parts in one volume (as issued), 8vo (222 x 140mm). Uncut, with signature *K (...A Supplement…), but without the 2 advertisement leaves at the end. (Repaired tear to C in the third part.) Later green half-calf, bound for Hatchards, gilt, t.e.g. (faded, rubbed). - And seven other works in nine leather-bound vols., 18th and 19th Century literature or reference (10). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3119

BELLOC, Hilaire. The Cruise of the `Nona`. London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1925. First edition, 8vo (220 x 145mm). Original blue cloth (some discolouration, extremities slightly bumped). Provenance: Laurence W. Meynell (author; signature). - And thirty-nine others by and on Belloc, including a number of first editions (40). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3120

BETJEMAN, John. Ghastly Good Taste. London: Chapman & Hall, 1933. First edition, 8vo (186 x 121mm). Folding panorama bound at rear, tipped-in errata slip. Original cloth-backed boards (faded and slightly bumped), inner flap of dust-jacket loosely inserted. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3129

DASHWOOD, J.B. The Thames to the Solent by Canal and Sea or the Log of the Una Boat `Caprice`. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. First edition, small 8vo (173 x 110mm). Half-title, 7 plates, 1 folding lithographic route map tinted by hand, 7 uncoloured plates. Later red morocco-backed cloth by Maltby of Oxford, spine gilt (spine slightly faded). Provenance: P.A.L. Vine (bookplate); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3130

DE MORGAN, William. Joseph Vance, An Ill-written Autobiography. London: William Heinemann, 1906. First edition, 8vo (190 x 121mm). Original cloth, boxed. Provenance: Donald D. Day (signature dated September 1906); Michael Ernest Sadler (bookplate); The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3133

FLOWERS & GARDENING. - C.S. COOPER & W. Percival WESTELL. Trees & Shrubs of the British Isles, Native & Acclimatised. London & New York: 1909. First edition, 2 vols., large 4to (297 x 228mm). Colour frontispieces, plates (14 colour). (1 plate torn without loss, some browning or spotting.) Original green cloth (extremities somewhat bumped, lower joint of vol. II splitting). - And thirty-eight others of similar interest (39). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3136

HAYLEY, William. The Life and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper… second edition. Chichester: 1803. Second edition of vols. I and II, first edition of vol. III, 3 vols. (264 x 205mm). (Lacking plates, some light damp-staining.) Contemporary mottled calf, covers with borders decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers (neatly rebacked). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3139

HUNTING. - Robert B. FOUNTAIN. A History of the Burton Hunt, the first 300 years. Otley: 1996. Limited edition of 500 copies, 8vo (242 x 165mm). Illustrations, some colour. Original cloth. Provenance: W. Leslie Weller (presentation inscription signed by the author to title-page). - And approximately seventy-eight others on hunting (a quantity). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3140

INGPEN, Roger. Shelley in England. London: 1917. First edition, 8vo (218 x 140mm). Portrait frontispiece, 1 folding genealogical table, plates. Contemporary light brown half-morocco by Root, spine elaborately tooled in gilt, t.e.g. Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3143

KNOX, Alfred Edward. Autumns on the Spey. London: John van Voorst, 1872. First edition, small 8vo (194 x 125mm). 4 plates. Original cloth, blocked in gilt (spine slightly faded, extremities lightly bumped). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3144

LAWRENCE, T.E. The Mint… by 352087 A/c Ross. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition, 4to (247 x 185mm). Original cloth, dust-jacket (soiled). - And seventeen others by or on Lawrence (18). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3145

LITERATURE. - `George ORWELL` [Eric BLAIR]. The Road to Wigan Pier. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1937. First edition, Left Book Club issue, 8vo (217 x 140mm). Illustrations. (Minor light browning.) Original limp cloth (old faint creases). - And sixty-eight others of similar interest (69). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

Lot 3163

TOPOGRAPHY. - Nikolaus PEVSNER. The Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol. London: Penguin Books, 1958. First edition, 8vo (181 x 110mm). Maps and illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket (torn with minor loss). - And thirteen others all by or edited by Pevsner (14). Provenance: The Library Collection of the Late W. Leslie Weller MBE, DL, FSA.

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