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Lot 13

Fortune (Robert) Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, second edition, additional wood-engraved pictorial title of Chinese marriage procession, tinted lithograph frontispiece and 2 plates, engraved map, wood-engraved illustrations including tail-piece of funeral, 16pp. advertisements at end, foxing to plates (particularly frontispiece), original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed and faded, corners bumped, rebacked preserving part of original spine as label (chipped), 8vo, 1847.*** Published in the same year as the first edition.

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Lot 131

NO RESERVE Hardie (Martin) Water-Colour Painting in Britain, 3 vol., first edition, 1966-68 § Oman (Charles) English Church Plate 597-1830, 1967 § Heal (Ambrose) London Tradesmen's Cards of the XVIII Century, 1925 § Tavernor-Perry (J.) Dinanderie: A History and Description of Mediaeval Art Work In Copper, Brass and Bronze, 1910, plates and illustrations, some in colour, original boards, dust-jackets, a little frayed at edges, some light creasing and bumping but generally clean copies; and 32 others, fine and decorative arts etc., v.s. (38)

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Lot 14

Fraser (James Baillie) Journal of a Tour through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges, first edition, half-title, lacking engraved map, foxed and browned, marginal staining and slight worming to upper edge, modern half calf, 4to, 1820.*** Account of the Scot's exploration of the Himalayas; he was the first European to reach Gangotri.

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Lot 141

Lacquered binding.- Scenery & Songs of Scotland, first edition, alternating plates of songs and views of Scotland, marginal toning, contemporary lacquered binding in tartan design, rebacked preserving original spine strip, marked and scratched, Edinburgh, Banks & Co., [c.1865]; and 2 others, including another lacquered binding in faux mottled calf affect with gilt decorations and an embossed cigar box with 'Don Quixote' design, 4to (3)*** The first is rare, with Library Hub recording one other copy at the University of Edinburgh.

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Lot 15

NO RESERVE Kingdon Ward (Capt. Frank) The Mystery Rivers of Tibet, first edition, plates, folding map (torn), 4pp. advertisements at end, occasional spotting, original pictorial orange cloth, slightly rubbed, spine a little soiled, 1923; and 6 others on Tibet, 8vo (7)

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Lot 150

Falletti (Girolamo) De Bello Sicambrico Libri IIII, et eiusdem alai Poemata, Libri VIII, first and only edition, Roman type, title with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, errata f. at end, a few instances of early ink marginalia, water-stained at head, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, fragments of medieval manuscripts used in binding, bookplate of Thomas Ashby, Jun., loose in contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, stained and rubbed, [Adams F132; Ahmanson-Murphy 523; Renouard, Alde, 172:13; EDIT 16 CNCE 18523], small 4to, Venice, [Paulus Manutius], 1557.*** First and only edition of this collection of Faletti's works, which Renouard calls 'beau et rare'. It includes his epic poem on the Guelders Wars. Falletti was a humanist and diplomat for Ercole d'Este of Ferrara to the court of Charles V.

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Lot 153

NO RESERVE Plantin printing.- Laertio (Diogene) Vitæ Philosophorum, first edition, previous owner's ink signature to title and front free endpaper, occasional faded ink underlining and marginal notes throughout, leaves from another work used as pastedowns, short tear through text (A8), first few leaves becoming loose, contemporary calf, rebacked, central blind-stamps to boards, a little rubbed, small 8vo, [Leiden], Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphemlengium, 1596.

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Lot 16

Landor (A. Henry Savage) Across Coveted Lands, 2 vol., 1902 § Carruthers (Douglas) Arabian Adventure: To the Great Nafud in Quest of the Oryx, 1935 § Zetland (Marquess of) Lord Cromer, 1932 § Butler (Elizabeth) From Sketch-Book and Diary, A. & C.Black, 1909 § Stevens (Roger) The Land of the Great Sophy, third edition, 1979 § Hansen (Thorkild) Arabia Felix, first English edition, 1964 § Quinn (D.B., editor) The Hakluyt Handbook, 2 vol., Hakluyt Society, 1974 § Murphy (Dervla) Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, 1965, all but the fifth and sixth first editions, maps, plates and illustrations, some foxing (particularly the second), original cloth or boards, the first rubbed with faded spines, the last four with dust-jackets, the last three price-clipped, the last rubbed and slightly frayed at edges; and c.25 others, mostly on the Levant and Middle East, 8vo & 4to (c.35)

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Lot 165

Italian poetry.- Crescimbeni (Giovanni Mario) L'Istoria della Volgar Poesia, 6 vol., first complete edition, half-titles, titles with woodcut Arcadian device, folding engraved portrait frontispiece to vol.1, 2 engraved plates in vol. 6, woodcut illustrations, vol.2 lacking index, occasional spotting or foxing, some light browning, later half vellum, spine gilt and with double leather labels, some worming to spines, rubbed, small 4to, Venice, Lorenzo Basegio, 1730-1731.*** The first complete edition of this monumental work on the history of Italian poetry by the critic and poet Crescimbeni (1663-1728), co-founder of the celebrated Academy of Arcadians, for which he acted as secretary from its foundation in 1690 to his death 38 years later.

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Lot 166

Occitan.- Provençal.- Gros (François-Toussaint) Recüil de pouesiés Prouvençalos, first edition, errata f. at end, worming to upper margins of pp.51-90, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, Marseille, François Berte and D. Sibié, 1734.*** First edition of this collection of Provençal poetry by the Marseille-born poet Gros (1698-1748). It includes a dialogue between a burgher and a peasant, and verses on the influenza outbreak of 1730, along with six fables featuring animals and plants at the end.

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Lot 167

Bindings.- [Argens (Jean Baptiste Boyer, Marquis d')] Memoires Historiques, et Secrets concernant les Amours des rois de France, first edition, ex-library with occasional discreet blind-stamp, marginal worming, small marginal loss (A2), small marginal tear (C6), later calf-backed boards,Paris, 1739 § Velleius Paterculus (Caius) Animadversionibus Justi Lipsi, title vignette, ink-stencil to title, tender edges and small loss to first few leaves, worming affecting odd letter, contemporary limp vellum, a little rubbed and worn, [Antwerp], Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1600 § [Toussaint (François Vincent)] Les Moeurs, engraved frontispiece, title vignette, small tear (repaired), occasional pencil annotations, previous owner's ink signatures, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, chez Thomas Wilcox, 1751; and 9 others, v.s. (12)

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Lot 17

Lansdell (Henry) Through Central Asia, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author to Miss Edith ?Weston dated 1901 inscribed on front free endpaper and with newspaper cutting concerning the author's burial tipped in above inscription, folding colour map (detached), wood-engraved illustrations, 4pp. advertisements at end, original pictorial blue cloth blocked in black and gilt, spine a little rubbed and soiled but a good copy, 1887; and a third edition of Through Siberia in original pictorial cloth, 8vo (2)

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Lot 170

Occitan.- Nalis (Jean-Baptiste) Cantiques noels, et autres ouvrages en vers, partie en François et partie en langue vulgaire de la ville de Beaucaire. Composés par un de ses habitants, second edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, a few words to title in a juvenile hand, some staining, lightly browned, Arles, Jacques Mesnier, 1769 bound with Nalis (Jean-Baptiste) Voici d'instructions simples & catholiques, toutes en vers patois, & toutes pathétiques, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, occasional spotting and staining, lightly browned, Arles, Jacques Mesnier, 1770, together 2 works in 1 vol., lacking front free endpaper, contemporary mottled calf, spine in compartments, rubbed, 8vo *** The first mentioned is the scarce second edition (rare first is 1766) of this collection of devotional and Christmas canticles, riddles, letters and poems addressed to the author's friends, and verses on Christian instruction, written in French and the Occitan dialect of the town of Beaucaire. The verses include reprimands addressed to heavy sleepers, dancers, the idle, the debauched, and prattlers.

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Lot 171

NO RESERVE Troubadours.- La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (Jean Baptiste de) and Claude-François-Xavier Millot. Histoire littéraire des troubadours, contenant leurs vies, les extraits de leurs pièces, et plusieurs particularités sur les moeurs, les usages, et l'histoire du douzième et du treizième siècles, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, titles with woodcut ornaments, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, vol.1 b2 short repaired tear to lower margin, occasional spotting, engraved armorial bookplates of Alexandre-Marie-François de Paul de Dompierre d'Hornoy, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red and green morocco labels, corners worn, rubbed at extremities, a good set, 12mo, Paris, Nephew of Durand, 1774.

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Lot 172

[Carli (Giovanni Rinaldo)] Delle Antichita Italiche. parte prima - [seconda], 2 vol. only (of 5), first edition, vignette titles, 2 large folding letterpress tables, 22 engraved folding plates only, illustrations (some full-page), short marginal tear (C2, vol. 2), vol. 2 lacking 2H2 & 2H3 (text), occasional faint spotting, contemporary drab boards, rebacked, facsimile printed spine labels, small abrasion mark to upper cover, rubbed, 4to, Milan, 1788; sold not subject to return

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Lot 175

Troubadours.- François Guizot's set.- Raynouard (François-Just-Marie) Choix des poésies originales des troubadours, 6 vol., first edition, 4 folding plates of facsimiles of manuscripts, vol.2 lacking quire d., and quire c. duplicated, foxed, ink ownership stamps to title (including that of Guizot), contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spines in compartments, spines with labels removed from foot and a few nicks, corners worn, rubbed, large 8vo., Paris, Firmin Didot, 1816-1821.*** François Guizot's set of this scarce work on troubadours. Includes a study of the 'langue romane', biographies, verses from the Crusades, and a comparative grammar of Occitan and other European languages. Guizot (1787-1874) was Prime Minister of France under Louis Philippe.

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Lot 18

NO RESERVE MacGahan (J.A.) Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva, first edition, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, double-page hand-coloured map, advertisement leaf at end, occasional foxing, original red-brown cloth, very slightly rubbed at edges, a very good copy, New York, 1874 § Schuyler (Eugene) Turkistan: Notes on a Journey..., 2 vol., sixth edition, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, 3 folding colour maps, final two leaves of vol.2 badly opened, original cloth, spines faded and worn at ends, 1877, 8vo (3)

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Lot 19

Markham (Clements R.) Travels in Peru and India while superintending the collection of Chinchona plants and seeds in South America, and their introduction into India, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, illustrations, 2 folding maps, folding genealogical table of the Incas, 30pp. publishers' catalogue at end, folding map with short tear to inner edge and slight fraying to outer edge, leaves a little brittle and chipped at edges, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, 4to, 1862.*** Cinchona was the source of quinine used as a cure for malaria, and was greatly needed by the British in India.

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Lot 194

Martyn (William) The Historie, and Lives, of the Kings of England, first edition, without 72pp. 'Successions of the Dukes and Earles...' at end, title with woodcut architectural border and coat-of-arms on verso, woodcut head-pieces and initials, small rust-hole to Ii1 touching side-note, a few light stains, later half russia, joints split, spine worn and torn at head, [STC 17527], for John Bill, William Barret, and Henry Fetherstone, 1615 § [Seward (William)] Anecdotes of some Distinguished Persons, 2 vol., third edition (first Dublin edition), ink inscriptions to titles, marginal staining to end of vol.1, contemporary calf, spines gilt, Dublin, William Porter for P.Byrne, 1796 § Life (The), Voyages and Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called King of the Beggars, edited by Thomas Price, engraved portrait (creased at inner margin), contemporary sheep, worn, London, Bristol & Exeter [imprint with "Eristol" and in upper case], [?1785] § Series of Letters (A) between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot..., 4 vol., contemporary tree calf, 1809, rubbed; and 10 others, v.s. (18)*** ESTC records only 6 copies of the second item (5 in Ireland and one in America), and 6 UK copies of the third.

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Lot 202

Anti-christ.- Palmer (Thomas) A Little View of the Old World, in two books. I. A Map of Monarchy ... II. An Epitomy of Papacy, wherein is discovered the rise of Anti-Christ ..., first edition, title laid down, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, spotting and staining, trimmed occasionally affecting head-lines, page numbers an marginal notes, contemporary calf, rebacked, small paper label to upper cover, a little rubbed, [Wing P253], for Livewell Chapman, 1659.*** Scarce. ESTC lists only 5 copies, 4 in the UK and 1 in North America.

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Lot 204

Cowley (Abraham) The Works, first collected edition, engraved portrait by W.Faithorne trimmed to platemark, woodcut device on title, with Life bound after Davideis, neat contemporary ink inscription of Thomas Pargiter of Lincoln College 1668 to verso of portrait and with several annotations or crossings out by him (a few cut away from margins on a1 & e2 of Life and D3 of Verses), short tear to lower margin of Q4 towards end affecting catchword but no loss, contemporary calf, rubbed and slightly stained, rebacked, [Wing C6649], by J.M. for Henry Herringman, 1668 § Milton (John) Paradise Lost, edited by Richard Bentley, half-title, 2 engraved portraits, first few leaves becoming loose, modern half morocco, for Jacob Tonson...John Poulson..., 1732, folio & 4to (2)*** At the foot of Thomas Sprat's Life of Cowley in the first Pargiter has added "and most hearty flatterer" before Sprat's name.

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Lot 211

Guevara (Antonio de) Spanish Letters: Historical, Satyrical, and Moral, first English edition, spotting and browning to endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo, for F. Sanders, and A. Roper, 1697.

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Lot 212

[Courtilz de Sandras (Gatien de)] The French Spy: or, the Memoirs of John Baptist de La Fontaine, first English edition, small paper defect affecting odd letter (M1), occasional foxing, near contemporary speckled calf, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Wing C6597A], 8vo, for R. Basset, 1700.

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Lot 213

Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Opera, 1 vol. in 2, first edition published in England, fine engraved additional architectural title, engraved head- and tail-pieces, lightly browned throughout, occasional spotting, contemporary panelled armorial calf, sympathetically rebacked, preserving red and green morocco spine labels, spine ends little chipped, corners worn, joints starting, but holding firm, rubbed, Cambridge, Jacob Tonson, 1702; and Tonson's Virgil, 1701, 4to (3)

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Lot 214

NO RESERVE Military Dictionary (A). Explaining all Difficult Terms in martial discipline, fortification, and gunnery ... to which is added, a Sea-Dictionary of all the Terms of Navigation, third edition, folding engraved frontispiece, misbound after advertisement, 2 full-page illustrations, previous owner's ink signature to title, light browning to first and last few leaves, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt, 12mo, J. Morphew, 1708.

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Lot 217

Palmer (Samuel) Moral Essays on some of the most Curious and Significant English, Scotch and Foreign Proverbs, first edition, later pencil marks and annotations to preface, trimmed affecting odd headline, spotting, near contemporary diced calf, upper cover detached, s little rubbed, 8vo, by Tho. Hodgkin, for R. Bonwicke, W. Freeman ..., 1710.

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Lot 218

NO RESERVE Osborne (Thomas, Duke of Leeds) Copies & extracts of some letters written to and from the Earl of Danby (now Duke of Leeds) in the years 1676, 1677, and 1678. With particular remarks upon some of them, first edition, initial blank, 2 ff. advertisements at end, a few ink numbers to verso of title, water-stained, contemporary panelled calf, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, spine ends little chipped, a few stains, rubbed, 8vo, Printed for John Nicholson, 1710.*** Provenance Charles, 4th Earl of Orrery & Lady Elizabeth Cecil (their engraved armorial bookplate to verso of title).

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Lot 219

More (Dr. Henry).- Ward (Richard) The life of the learned and pious Dr. Henry More, Late Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge. To which are annex'd divers of his useful and excellent letters, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement f. at end, occasional spotting or staining, contemporary panelled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, some staining, rubbed, 8vo, Printed and sold by Joseph Downing, 1710.

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Lot 22

Oliphant (Laurence) The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852, second, enlarged, edition, lithographed frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations, folding map with route in red (spotted), 16pp. publishers' catalogue at end, original pictorial brown cloth, gilt, corners bumped, spine ends a little worn, 1853 § Graham (Stephen) Through Russian Central Asia, first American edition, plates, original pictorial cloth, New York, 1916 § Bigham (Clive) A Ride through Western Asia, second edition, plates, 4 folding hand-coloured maps (spotted), original cloth, 1897; and 10 others on Russia and Central Asia, 8vo (13)

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Lot 221

D'Urfey (Thomas) New Opera's, with comical stories, and poems, on several occasions, first edition, bookplate of Stanley Earl of Derby to pastedown, some browning or marginal toning, contemporary panelled calf, light scuffing, neatly rebacked with red morocco spine label, small burn hole to lower cover edge, [ESTC T134712], William Chetwood, 1721; and 2 others, 18th century, one also with the bookplate of Charles Stanley, Earl of Derby, 8vo (3)

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Lot 224

Gueullette (Thomas Simon) Mogul Tales, Or, The Dreams of Men Awake: Being Stories told to divert the Sutana's of Guzarat, for the Supposed Death of the Sultan, 2 vol., first edition in English, engraved frontispieces and 4 plates, occasional light foxing, vol.1 A1 with small hole to upper margin, bookplate to pastedowns, contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with green morocco labels, cracking to joints but holding firm, vol.2 upper joint neatly repaired, spine ends chipped, corners a little bumped, 8vo, J. Applebee, 1736.*** Scarce and charming work, an imitation of the Arabian Nights and similar works that were in vogue at the time.

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Lot 225

Harris (James) Three Treatises. The First Concerning Art. The Second Concerning Music, Painting, and Poetry. The Third Happiness, first edition, scattered faint spotting, modern calf-backed boards, 1744 § A Chronological Series of Engravers from the Invention of the Art to the beginning of the Present Century, half-title, 3 engraved folding plates, ex-library with blind-stamps and faded ink-stamp to title verso, occasional faint spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, contemporary calf, rebacked, slight bumping to corners, Cambridge, 1770 § The Record of the International Exhibition 1862, folding double-page lithographed frontispiece, decorative title, 24 plates, some double-sided, 7 folding or double-page, illustrations, spotting, occasional off-setting, previous owner's name label to blank, later half-morocco, a little rubbed, Glasgow, William Mackenzie, [1862]; and others similar, 8vo & 4to (6)

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Lot 230

NO RESERVE Cookery.- Ellis (William) The Country Housewife's Family Companion, first edition, engraved frontispiece of farmyard, advertisement leaf at end, some light water-staining, frontispiece detached and lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf, worn, [Bitting p.143; Cagle 664; Oxford p.79; Simon BG 388], for James Hodges...and B. Collins, 1750; and a 16th edition of Smith's Compleat Housewife of 1758 lacking 2 of 6 plates, 8vo (2)*** On husbandry comprising the care of agriculture and livestock, and recipes for their products including bread, puddings & pies, soups & sauces, poultry, pork, butter, cheese and beer.

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Lot 231

[Brooke (Francis, translator)].- [Riccoboni (Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières)] Letters from Juliet Lady Catesby, to her friend Henrietta Campley, Transtated [sic] from the French, second edition, occasional light browning, some worming to lower margin, not affecting text, early ink ownership inscription to title, attractive contemporary mottled calf, some light insect damage along joints but an attractive copy overall, 12mo, Dublin, J. Potts, 1763.*** Rare translation of this early novel by this important early English novelist. Brooke would publish her own The History of Emily Montagu in1764, often referred to as the first North American novel. ESTC lists 5 copies only.

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Lot 232

Gibbon (Edward) An Essay on the Study of Literature, first English edition, marginal loss to title, neatly restored, short tear neatly repaired (C1), trimmed affecting occasional printed marginal note, modern speckled calf by Bayntun-Riviere, [Norton 6], 8vo, for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1764.*** First edition in English of the great historian's first book, originally written in French

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Lot 234

NO RESERVE Perfumes & Cosmetics.- [Buc'hoz (Pierre-Joseph)] The Toilet of Flora; or, a Collection of...Methods of Preparing Baths, Essences, Pomatums, Powders, Perfumes..., A New Edition Improved, foxed and browned, with engraved book-label "Robert Davidson No.101" and with number supplied in manuscript mounted on verso of title, modern morocco-backed boards, 12mo, for J.Murray...and W.Nicoll, 1775.*** First published in France in 1771 with the first English edition in 1772; interesting for promoting the use of natural substances in cosmetics rather than white lead based face paint and mercury based rouge. ESTC lists 8 UK copies.

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Lot 235

Bolingbroke (Henry St.John, Viscount) Letters on the spirit of patriotism: on the idea of a patriot King: and on the state of parties, at the accession of King George the first, new edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, offsetting on to title, Printed for T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, 1775; A collection of political tracts. By the author of the Dissertation upon parties, printed for T. Davies, 1769; and 4 others, by the same, occasional spotting and light staining, uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt spines in compartments and with red morocco 'Works' label, a few corners little worn, rubbed, 8vo (6)

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Lot 239

NO RESERVE Thomson (James) The Poetical Works, 2 vol., no half-titles (as called for), list of subscribers at end of vol.1, staining to title, faint vertical crease, engraved bookplates of the Earl of Lonsdale, John Fort of Read Hall and Brisbane of Brisbane, later half maroon morocco, spines gilt, rubbed, [Gaskell 672], Glasgow, Andrew Foulis, 1784; The Seasons, Stereotype Edition, engraved plates, contemporary ink inscription to head of title, some foxing and offsetting, attractively bound in contemporary red straight-grain morocco with decorative gilt borders, spine gilt, g.e., a little rubbed and marked, spine dulled, 1809; and another edition of the same, folio & 8vo (4)*** Subscribers to the first include Edmund Burke, Patrick Colquhoun, William Robertson, and Adam Smith.

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Lot 241

NO RESERVE Burney (Charles) An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, and the Pantheon ... in Commemoration of Handel, first edition, 8 engraved plates including plan of orchestra, some stipple engraved and printed in bistre, with final errata/directions to binder leaf, occasional faint spotting, title and front free endpaper strengthened at hinge, cracked hinges, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, upper cover detached, 4to, for the Benefit of the Musical Fund, and sold by T. Payne, 1785.

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Lot 242

NO RESERVE Schools.- [Penn (James)] An Introduction to Latin Grammar; for the Use of Christ's-Hospital, third edition, engraved frontispiece and additional title, with blank G6 but lacking final blank, a little soiled and browned, contemporary inscriptions to front free endpapers, later calf, printed by Charles Rivington, printer to Christ's-Hospital, 1785 § Trollope (Rev. William) A History of the the Royal Foundation or Christ's Hospital, engraved frontispiece and plates, some light foxing, original cloth, paper label, uncut, recased, William Pickering, 1834 § Stanley (A.P.) The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., 2 vol., third edition, engraved portrait, contemporary calf, 1844, rubbed; and 2 others, v.s. (6)*** The first is a scarce school book, first published in 1761, with a second edition in 1771. This edition is not in ESTC but Library Hub records 3 copies (BL, Oxford & Cambridge).

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Lot 245

Bookseller.- Lackington (James) Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James Lackington, the present bookseller in Chiswell-street, Moorfields, London...In a series of letters to a friend. With a triple dedication. 1. To the Public. 2. To Respectable, first edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, spotted, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt and with red morocco label, joints splitting, but holding firm, rubbed, 8vo, Printed for and sold by the author, No. 46 and 47, Chiswell-Street; W. Bulgin, Bristol; and all other booksellers, 1791.*** Lackington (1746-1815) is credited with revolutionising the book trade. He is best remembered for refusing credit at his shop, and thereby reduced the price of books to make himself more competitive. He also saved remaindered books from pulping and sold them at bargain prices. His main bookshop, 'The Temple of the Muses', was in Finsbury Square.

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Lot 25

Shaw (Robert) Visits to High Tartary, Yârkand, and Kâshghar..., first edition, 4 tinted lithographs and 3 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, 2 folding maps with partial hand-colouring, advertisement leaf and 16pp. publishers' catalogue at end, original pictorial green cloth, gilt, rubbed, a little worn at edges, recased, new endpapers, 8vo, 1871.

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Lot 256

NO RESERVE Cowper (William).- Hayley (William) The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 3 engraved portraits and a tail-piece by William Blake, later ink inscriptions to titles, some spotting, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with red roan labels, Chichester, J. Seagrave, 1803 § Cowper, Illustrated by a Series of Views, in, or near, the Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks, 12 engraved plates by J.Greig, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, 1803 § Rural Walks of Cowper (The), displayed in a series of views near Olney, Bucks, half-title, 15 engraved plates and facsimile of writing, advertisement leaf at end, marginal foxing, original boards, pink paper label to upper cover (chipped), uncut, spine worn and stained, 1822, rubbed, joints split; and 6 others by Cowper, v.s. (10)*** A third volume of the first item, containing letters, was published by Hayley in 1804.

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Lot 257

Lycophron. Cassandra, translated & edited by Viscount Royston, presentation copy from the translator to the Rt. Hon. Lady Lucas inscribed on front free endpaper, folding letterpress table, light spotting, engraved bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey of Wrest Park, contemporary calf with borders in gilt and blind, Cambridge, [privately] printed by R.Watts, 1806 § Secundus (Joannes) Kisses: a Poetical Translation of the Basia..., third edition, printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece by Bartolozzi and plate, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf, gilt border, red roan label, J.Bew, 1778 § Somervile (William) The Chase, wood-engraved vignettes by Thomas Bewick, light staining, contemporary tree calf, printed by W.Bulmer & Co., 1802 § Goldsmith (O.) & Thomas Parnell. Poems, half-title, wood-engraved plates and vignettes by Thomas Bewick, contemporary calf, border in gilt & blind, rebacked, Bulmer, 1804 § Heron (Robert, translator) Arabian Tales..., 4 vol., modern morocco, rebacked, Edinburgh, 1792 § Trollope (Anthony) The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vol., first edition in book form, wood-engraved plates by George H.Thomas, contemporary half roan, 1867, all rubbed, some joints split, the first a little stained and with worn spine; and c.40 others, literature, v.s. (c.50)

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Lot 259

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Hours of Idleness, first edition, first issue, with 'thnnder' on p.144 line 4 and 'Thc' on p.181 line 21, lacking half-title, previous owner's occasional ink and pencil annotations, spotting, modern calf-backed boards, [Wise I.7], 8vo, Newark, S. and J. Ridge, 1807.

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Stein (Sir Marc Aurel) On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China, first edition, half-title, plates, some colour, some folding, folding colour map (short tears at folds reinforced with sticky tape), advertisement leaf at end, original terracotta cloth, gilt medallion on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, corners bumped, 8vo, 1933.

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Lot 261

NO RESERVE Nelson (Horatio, 1st Viscount).- Southey (Robert) The Life of Nelson, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, engraved frontispiece, lacking half-titles, foxing to frontispiece, offsetting to titles, occasional spotting and staining, contemporary calf, gilt, spines in compartments and with red morocco labels, foot of spine chipped, joints splitting, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, 1813.

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Lot 262

Trial.- The Great Stock Exchange Fraud.-The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, baron de Beaufain... for conspiracy in the Court of King's Bench, first edition, 4 pp. publisher's adverts, lacking folding plate, ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, later library roan, J. Butterworth, and Gale, Curtis and Fenner, 8vo, 1814.*** After spreading false information of Napoleon's death and causing bond prices to rise, Berenger and his co-conspirators sold more than a million pounds of government bonds for good profit. Once news of Napoleon's death was found to be a hoax, bond prices plummeted, and after the conspiracy was quickly discovered and the six men were arrested and tried.

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Lot 268

NO RESERVE Holbein (Hans) Icones veteris testamenti; Illustrations of the Old Testament, text in English, Latin, French, Italian and Spanish, wood-engraved illustrations after Holbein, endpapers foxed, contemporary blue calf, spine gilt, worn, William Pickering, 1830 § Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats..., facsimile reprint of first edition of Pisa 1821, light spotting, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, spine defective at foot, Noel Douglas, 1927 § Fenning (Daniel) The Universal Spelling-Book..., fortieth edition, woodcut frontispiece with 3 scenes, woodcut vignettes, contemporary sheep, worn, by J.Barker, [?c.1800]; and c.15 others, miscellaneous, including 2 19th French cartonnage bindings, v.s. (c.20)

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Torrens (Lt.-Col. Henry d'Oyley) Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and Kashmir, first edition, folding lithographed map and 12 chromolithographed plates, 2 folding panoramas, wood-engraved illustrations, lacking errata slip, foxing, mostly to plates, one panorama soiled and frayed at fore-edge (reinforced), original purple pebble-grain cloth, gilt, bevelled edges, rubbed and marked, rebacked preserving original spine (faded), corners repaired, 8vo, 1862.

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Lot 274

NO RESERVE Beckett (Gilbert Abbott) The Comic Blackstone, first single volume edition, frontispiece, title vignette and illustrations by George Cruikshank, original cloth covers and spine strip bound in at end, frontispiece and title a little foxed, ink ownership signature removed from title, later red calf, gilt, by Baytun Riviere, 1846 § [Cooper (James Fenimore)] The Water Witch, 3 vol., first English edition, bookplates to pastedown, gathering loose in vol.2, faded ink ownership signature to titles, contemporary half calf with morocco spine label, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830; and 60 others, literature and history, mostly antiquarian, v.s. (63)

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Lot 275

Dickens (Charles) The Battle of Life, first edition, fourth issue, new endpapers, 1846; The Chimes, second edition, ink ownership inscription removed from endpapers, 1865, illustrations, frontispieces, additional engraved titles, very occasional spotting, original red pictorial cloth, the first rebacked preserving portion of original spine, extremities rubbed and a little stained, 8vo; and another, Dickens (3)

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Lot 277

NO RESERVE Hawthorne (Nathaniel) The Blithedale Romance, first American edition, later issue with copyright notice opposite lines 2-4 on preface, original cloth, spine ends chipped and extremities lightly rubbed, Boston, 1852 § Clark (J. W) Robinson Crusoe, engraved title vignette by Millais, later calf, lightly rubbed, 1866 § Marryat (Frederick) Masterman Ready: Or, The Wreck of the Pacific Written for Young People, illustrations, 1851, light spotting to endpapers or first few ff., bookplates to pastedown to first and last but overall bright clean copies; and c.85 others, English literature and history, mostly antiquarian, v.s. (c.90)

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Lot 281

Trollope (Anthony) Lady Anna, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary half-morocco by Roger de Coverly & Sons, gilt, lightly sunned spines, 8vo, 1874.*** Bookplate of Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher.

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Lot 286

Harte (Bret) A First Family of Tasajara, 2 vol., first edition, presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, endpapers spotted, some pages carelessly opened, original cloth, spines gilt, spine ends bumped and creased, else an excellent set, 8vo, 1891.

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Wilson (Andrew) The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, through the Upper Valleys of the Himalaya, first edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece, wood-engraved title-vignette, 2 advertisement leaves and 32 pp. publishers' catalogue at end, folding map in pocket at end, very occasional foxing, original green cloth, pictorial gilt spine, spine ends a little worn, corners slightly bumped, a good copy, Edinburgh & London, 1875; and 5 others on the Himalayas and Kashmir, 8vo (6)

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Lot 290

NO RESERVE *** Please note, the description to this lot has changed. ***Skeat (W. W., editor)The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 7 vol., first edition, endpapers foxed, original cloth, spines gilt, 1894§ Spurgeon (Caroline F. E., editor) Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion 1357-1900, 3 vol., illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, uncut, 1925 § Crepet (Jacques, editor) Oeuvres Complètes de Charles Baudelaire: Correspondance Générale, 6 vol., first edition, original blue half morocco, Paris, Louis Conard, 1947-1948; and 18others, literary criticism, collected letters or works, etc., v.s. (34)

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Lot 293

NO RESERVE Cable (George W.) and J.M. Barrie. The Grandissimes, presentation inscription from Barrie to half-title verso, 1898 § Barrie (J.M) The Little Minister, 3 vol., second edition, 1891 § Kipling (Rudyard) Puck of Pook's Hill, illustrations, spine faded, 1906, light foxing to first few ff., original cloth, very light scuffing to extremities but overall clean copies, and 34 others, mostly late 19th century literature, v.s. (39)

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Lot 294

NO RESERVE Browning (Robert) The Poetical Works, 2 vol., portrait frontispieces, bookplates to pastedown, foxing to first few ff. and title, contemporary morocco, gilt corner decorations, spines gilt in compartments, spines faded, Smith, Elder & Co., 1899 § [Chatterton (Thomas), "Thomas Rowley". Poems Supposed to have been Written at Bristol, first edition, engraved title vignette, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, upper cover detached, B. Flower, Cambridge, 1794; and 44 others, poetry, v.s. (47)*** The second mentioned features 'Monady on the Death of Chatterton', the first poem of Samuel Coleridge to be printed in book form.

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Lot 296

NO RESERVE Twain (Mark) Autobiography, first edition, 2 vol., portrait frontispieces, pencil dedication inscription to first ff., some damp staining to vol. 2, modern half-roan, gilt spine, t.e.g., covers stained, rubbed, [Bal 3537, variant A], 1924 § De Selincourt (Ernest) The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 6 vol., half-titles, folding facsimile of a manuscript letter, front endpapers browned, original cloth, gilt spines, vol. 1-3 spines faded, lightly scuffed, 1935-39 § Dowden (Edward) The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait frontispieces and 6 plates, folding facsimile of a manuscript letter, original pictorial cloth, gilt spine, 1886; and 27 others, literary criticism, collected letters or works, etc., v.s. (30)

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