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Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 112

London. Faden (William), The Country Twenty-five Miles round London planned from a scale of one mile to an Inch, 3rd edition, 1802, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen and presented on four sheets, 1040 x 1240 mm, card chemise, contained in a contemporary marbled slipcase with printed label to upper cover, worn and rubbed, together with Luffman (John). The Seat of War between Russia and France, circa 1812, engraved folding map on two conjoined sheets with contemporary hand colouring, short split along one fold, 355 x 405 mm, contained in a contemporary paper slipcase with printed label to upper cover, worn and cracked at extremities (Qty: 2)NOTESFirst described item. Howgego, no. 188, state 6

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Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 113

London. Mogg (E. S.), Modern London and its Environs, circa 1846, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 530 x 820 mm, together with Stanford (Edward, publisher). A Map of the Environs of London extending Twenty-five Miles fr. the Metropolis, circa 1870, lithographic map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight overall toning, 910 x 930 mm, retaining one cloth board, with D avies (Benjamin Rees). Davies's New Map of the British Metropolis. The Boundaries of the Boroughs, County Court Districts Railways, and Modern Improvements, published Edward Stanford, 1889, lithographic map with contemporary outline colouring, dust soiled and torn horizontally in half along old linen, overall size 660 x 940 mm, retaining one cloth board, plus an early 20th century Ordnance Survey map of part of Shropshire on a scale of six inches to the mile, heavily stained, marbled endpapers, plus a mid 20th century colour printed map on silk of the coastline of Japan, 1200 x 1300 (Qty: 5)NOTESThe first item described. Howgego number 390, state 2 (a).

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Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 127

* Ogilby (John). The Continuation of the extended Road from Oakeham in Rutland to Richmond com Ebor..., The Continuation of the Road from York to West Chester [and] The extended Road from Oakham to Richmond in Yorkshire, [1676 or later], together three hand coloured engraved strip road maps, slight toning and spotting, each approximately 335 x 440 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 3)NOTESThe first map runs from Barnsley through Halifax, Skipton, Carlton and Middleham and ends at Richmond. The second starts at Warrington, runs through Manchester, Stockport and Buxton and ends at Derby and the third map starts at Oakham and runs through Melton Mowbray, Nottingham, Mansfield, Rotherham and Wombwell and ends at Barnsley. Sheet numbers 49, 90 and 48 respectively.

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Lot 129

* Oxfordshire. Plot (Robert), The Map of Oxfordshire, [1677], [1677], hand coloured engraved map, decorative cartouche, mileage scale, table of explanation and compass rose, old folds, slight creasing, slight overall toning, 500 x 480 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESCreated by the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford, the map is decorated with 172 coats of arms of the county's gentry, Oxford colleges, the city and the four county towns. One of the most decorative maps of Oxfordshire ever produced.

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Lot 130

* Pembroke. Saxton (Christopher), Penbrok Comitat qui inter Meridionales Cambriae..., 1587, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring and some later enhancement, large strapwork cartouche surmounted by the royal crest, mileage scale surmounted by dividers and the coat of arms of Thomas Seckford, one small printers fold, 355 x 470 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESThe first engraved county map of Pembroke, in very good condition

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Lot 144

* Russia. Herberstein (Sigmund), Andere Landtaffel: In welcher der Moscauen gebuet mit sampt den welden und bergen, auch etlichen gebreüchen unnd allen umligenden Landschafften begriffen Basel [1563], uncoloured wood engraving, slight spotting and staining to central fold, 295 x 375 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESWidely regarded as the first 'modern' map of Russia, it was originally published in a German edition of Sigismund Herberstein's Moscoviter Wunderbare Historien.

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Lot 15

Ides (Evert Ysbrants). Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-Land to China, thro' Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary, &c. to Peking, 1st edition in English, London: for W. Freeman [et al.], 1706, engraved additional title-page, large folding engraved map (some repairs on verso), with a few (mainly marginal) tears, one long tear to fold with neat sewn repair at end, 30 engraved plates (8 folding) letterpress generally toned and spotted, front pastedown with armorial bookplate 'Bathurst of Lydney Park', contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, with original spine relaid and modern gilt-lettered spine label, 2 corners showing, 4to (23.2 x 18.2 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESCordier Sinica 2468; ESTC T55175; Lust 519. First published in Dutch in 1704 as Driejaarige reize naar China .

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Lot 154

* Somerset. Jansson (Jan), Comitatus Somersettensis, Somerest-Shire, circa 1638, hand coloured engraved map, ornate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, slight text show-through, 385 x 505 mm, mounted, framed and double glazed, German text on verso, together with Saxton (Christopher & Kip William). Somersettensis Comitatus vulgo Somersett Shyre qui olim pars suit Belgarum, [1610], hand coloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 285 x 390 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 2)NOTESThe first described item is in the scarce 'pre-atlas' state printed before the addition of the six coats of arms and a re-working of the title cartouche.

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Lot 2

Bode (Clement Augustus de). Travels in Luristan and Arabistan, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, London: J. Madden and Co., 1845, 12 wood-engraved or lithographic plates, 2 folding maps, 3 plates of inscriptions (2 folding), variable spotting and browning to plates, staining to fore margins towards rear of volume 1 affecting plate facing p.353, light spotting elsewhere, school prize inscription dated 1860 to front free endpaper, inner hinges strengthened, gilt edges, original red cloth, rubbed and marked, wear to extremities, 8vo, together with: Elwood (Anne Katherine), Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe, Egypt, and the Red Sea, to India, including a Residence there, and Voyage Home, in the Year 1825, 26, 27, and 28, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830, 6 aquatint plates with sepia wash, 2 pp. advertisements to rear of volume 1, half-title to volume 2 only (as in Abbey), edges untrimmed, recent quarter calf, 8vo (22.1 x 13.6 cm), Burton (Richard F.), The Gold-Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. A Fortnight's Tour in North-Western Arabia, 2nd edition, London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878, half-title, folding lithographic map, 2 + 32 pp. advertisements to rear, cancelled ink-stamps (War Office Library) to title-page, inner hinges partially cracked, original cloth, shelfmark label to spine, spine-ends frayed, large ink-stain to rear board, a few other marks, tips rubbed, 8vo, Keane (John F.), Six Months in the Hejaz: an Account of the Mohammedan Pilgrimages to Meccah and Medinah, 1st collected edition, London: Ward and Downey, 1887, rear inner hinge cracked, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine rolled, cockling to front cover, 8vo, and 16 others, travel (Qty: 25)NOTESAbbey Travel 391 (Bode), 521 (Elwood); Macro 1348 (Keane); Penzer pp. 95-6 (Burton). Elwood's work includes lengthy descriptions of Yanbu and Jeddah in modern-day Saudi Arabia, and Yanbu is depicted in one of the plates. This copy of Burton's work, although stated as a second edition on the title-page, appears to be in a first-edition binding, retaining the bevelled boards and gilt decoration as described by Penzer.

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Lot 202

Cheap Repository Tracts. A bound collection of 20 Cheap Repository Tracts, London: J. Evans and Son, c.1812-17, including one duplicate, each with vignette title, variable toning, spotting, soiling and marks, a few leaves edge-frayed, bound together in contemporary stained vellum, rubbed, paper label remnant to spine, 8vo, together with: A second bound collection of 14 Cheap Repository Tracts with 12 other similar religious tracts, mostly London: Howard and Evans, or other Evans imprints, c.1798-1820, each with vignette title, except 2 (Turn the Carpet, and The Servant Man turned Soldier) lacking title, 2 with additional woodcut to text, variable toning or spotting, some marks, a few leaves at front with pale dampstain to fore-margin, Patient Joe p.12 (part of Dan and Jane) close-trimmed at fore-edge cropping text, bound together in contemporary half calf, worn, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESFirst book titles (where 'SR' indicates the 'Sunday Reading' series) comprise: The Two Soldiers; The History of Diligent Dick; The History of Charles Jones; The Cheapside Apprentice, or, the history of Mr. Francis H****; The Carpenter, or, the danger of evil company (signed Z) [with] The Sorrows of Yamba, or, the Negro Woman's Lamentations; Sorrowful Sam, or, the Two Blacksmiths (signed S); The Happy Waterman (signed Z); Tis all for the best (signed Z); The Lancashire Collier Girl; SR- the Harvest Home; The Cottage Cook, or, Mrs. Jones's Cheap Dishes (signed Z); The Grave-Stone [with] The Lady and the Pye [with] The Plum-Cakes, or, the Farmer and his Three Sons (signed Z); The Pilgrims (signed Z); SR- Noah's Flood; SR- a New Christmas Tract; SR- The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle (2 copies); SR- The Fall of Adam; SR- On the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper; SR- Look at Home. Titles in the second book include: Black Giles, the Poacher (signed Z); Tawney Rachel; or, the Fortune Teller (signed Z); The History of Tom White, the Postillion (signed Z); Patient Joe [with] Wild Robert [with] Dan & Jane [with] The Gin-Shop (all except Wild Robert signed Z); John the Shopkeeper turned sailor; The History of Hester Wilmot (signed Z); The Two Shoemakers, in six parts (signed Z); Betty Brown, the St. Giles's Orange Girl (signed Z); The Riot; or half a loaf is better than no bread (signed Z). The Cheap Repository Tracts were devised, and largely written, by Hannah More (who signed her own works 'Z'), and started appearing in 1795. Showing a remarkable grasp of marketing techniques, Miss More observed the children and young people of the poor avidly devouring the content of vulgar and seditious chapbooks, easily and cheaply purchased from hawkers and pedlars. The Cheap Repository Tracts copied their format and were printed in the same style, with crude woodcuts. Sensational titles were used, the Tracts were priced extremely cheaply, their cost being largely borne by subscriptions from charitable gentlefolk, and they were given free to the chapmen and hawkers, who then sold them at profit to themselves. After December 1797, a further fifteen new titles, written by Hannah More, were printed by John Evans, who took over from John Marshall as the official printer for the series. These were issued between December 1797 and October 1798, after which John Evans and his successors continued producing reprints of the original series. This collection contains a good selection of these reprints published under the J. Evans and Son, Howard and Evans, and other Evans imprints, plus a few other related tracts.

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Lot 208

* [Ireland]. 'A Survey of the the Domain, Lands, and Bogs of Clooneen ... Part of the Estate of Thomas Berry Esq. Situate in the Kings County. Laid down by a scale of 20 Perches in one inch ... by Mich[ael] Cuddehy', 1796, estate plan, watercolour on vellum, soiling, a few small holes, creased from folding, 35.5 x 70 cm, together with: Crewe (John, 1st Baron Crewe, 1598-1679). Document signed, 27 December 1670, leasing marshland to Henry Moore of London, manuscript in brown ink on vellum, seal tear to corner (backed with paper verso), soiling, 22 x 28.5 cm, and 3 others including 2 vellum documents (large indenture dated 1679, and a 16th-century English document in Latin) (Qty: 5)NOTESProvenance (first item): Sotheby's, 25 January 1985, lot 178 (paid £35), with envelope. Crewe, of Steane in Northamptonshire, entered parliament in 1624 as member for Amersham. 'During the Personal Rule Crewe was charged with neglect over the collection of Ship Money, and accused of maintaining puritan preachers. Nevertheless, he was appointed to an honorary post at Court in 1638, and Charles I was later reported to have said that "Crewe, though he be against me, is an honest man". As a nominal Presbyterian he supported Parliament in the First Civil War, sitting for Brackley in the Long Parliament until Pride’s Purge' (History of Parliament, online).

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Lot 210

* Mary I (Queen of England, 1516-1558). Grant of Arms to John Hombreston [Humberston of Hertfordshire?] signed by William Hervey, Norroy King of Arms, in the first year of Queen Mary's reign , 17 June 1554, grant of arms on vellum, hand-painted armorial bearings of 3 bars & 3 roundels in dark blue & tarnished silver paint and engrailed with border, crest depicting a Tudor fabrication of an unknown and curious fabulous beast with horse-like neck & head with two short curved horns, 31 lines of English text written in a fine chancery hand, with large gilt initial letter incorporating illuminated portrait of William Hervey wearing Herald's tabard and crown and holding staff of office (short closed tear to old fold beneath figure's feet), upper decorative border with Tudor rose within garter and crown above at centre and with two gilt fleurs-de-lis either side, with elaborate hand-painted floral border to upper and side margins incorporating stylized roses, cornflowers, violets, pansies, pinks and strawberry plants etc. (very small hole to one leaf of upper border), signature of William Hervey as Norroy King of Arms lower right, without seals & tags, margins cropped to edge of decorative borders and around signature at foot, old folds, some staining, dust-soiling and toning, laid down on mount board with some consequent creasing and cockling, approximately 28.5 x 57 cm, (31 x 57 cm including signature at foot), framed & glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESA scarce example of a grant of arms (or confirmation of arms) from the initial year of the five-year reign of Mary I (1516-1558), bearing the signature of William Harvey (or Hervey, 1510-1567) as Norroy King of Arms. William Harvey (or Hervey, 1510-1567) was born on June 1510 to Turner and Mary Harvey in Ashill, Somerset. He became a member of the College of Arms as Hampnes pursuivant-extraordinary and was appointed Bluemantle pursuivant-in-ordinary 18 June 1536. As Bluemantle he accompanied his patron, William Paget, on his embassy visit to France. He was subsequently created Somerset Herald on 28 September 1545 and under this title, he was recorded as being the only officer of arms to attend the funeral of Catherine Queen dowager of King Henry VIII in 1548. He was also sent on official business to the King of Denmark, to Emperor Charles V, and to the Duke of Saxony. On 4 February 1549/50, Edward VI created him Norroy King of Arms and in that position, he made seven official visits to Germany. Queen Mary despatched him to declare war on France at Rheims on her behalf on 7 June 1557, with the reward of £20. He was created Clarenceux King of Arms on 21 November 1557 following the death of Thomas Hawley, where the queen herself set a crown upon his head in a ceremony at St James'. In 1562 Harvey damaged his reputation as the result of a quarrel with his rival Gilbert Dethick, Garter King of Arms, at Turvey, Bedfordshire, while at the funeral of John, 1st Lord Mordaunt, and by June 1565 the Earl Marshal temporarily prohibited him from visiting his province. Dethick listed his complaints to the Earl Marshal alleging the granting of false or incorrect arms and impropriety over Harvey's executorship of the will of Thomas Hawley. The will was declared invalid, but Harvey still secured the prized bequest of Hawley's books. Harvey died at Thame, Oxfordshire on 27 February 1566/67 while on a visitation of Oxfordshire, and was buried there. Harvey was married to Etheldreda (surname perhaps Welles) Harvey and had at least two daughters, Anne & Meldred (see ODNB).

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Lot 215

* Trade advertising. Printed advert on silk for Watt's Patent Shot Bristol, Plumbing in all it's Various Branches, Common Shot, of all sorts, Pig-Lead &c., [Bristol], circa 1790, advertisement on dark cream coloured silk printed to one side, engraved by John Doddrell, advert illustrated with image of figures shooting game and royal armorial above, some light wear to edges, & few marks mostly to corners, image plate mark dimensions 15.6 x 11.3 cm, silk sheet size 16.7 x 12 cm, together with: Broadside invitation , St. Mary Islington, Sir you are desir'd to meet many others, natives of this place on Tuesday, ye 11th day of April 1738 at Mrs Eliz. Grimsead's ye Angel & Crown, in ye upper Street, about ye hour of one: Then & there with full dishes, good wines & good humour, to improve, & make lasting that harmony, and friendship which have long reign'd among us. Stewards Walter Sebbon, John Booth, Bourchier Durell, James Sebbon. N.B. The dinner will be on the table peremptorily at two. Pray pay the bearer five shillings, [London], 1738, illustrated single sheet invitation engraved by Toms printed to one side, within decorative border, some toning, torn to upper & left margin with infill repairs, lined with tissue to verso, image 26 x 18 cm, sheet size 29.5 x 20.7 cm, Stationers trade advert , Montagu Lawrence Stationer, at the Globe near Durham Yard in the Strand London, circa 1770, single sheet engraved advert, printed to one side, 14.5 x 11.5 cm (Qty: 3)NOTESFirst item: Rare provincial advert printed on silk. The engraving by the Bristol engraver John Doddrell of Temple, Bristol (d.1810). In 1775, William Watts, a plumber, started converting his house, near St Mary Redcliffe Church, into the world's first shot tower, in order to make lead shot by his innovative tower process. He did this by adding a tower to his house, and by excavating a shaft into the ground below, achieving a total drop of around 90 feet (27 m). By 1782, the tower was complete and in production, and Watts' process was granted a patent, which involved pouring molten lead through a perforated zinc pan into water below. William Watts was declared bankrupt in 1794, but his tower survived various changes of ownership until it was taken over by the Sheldon Bush and Patent Shot Company Limited in 1868. The tower remained a well-known feature of Redcliffe until 1968, when it was demolished to make way for road improvements.

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Lot 217

Agricola (Georgius). De re metallica libri XII, 2nd edition, Basel: Froben, 1561, printer's woodcut device to title, approximately 300 woodcuts throughout the text (many full-page), 2 woodcut plates facing pp. 96 and 109 (respectively shaved along fore and bottom edges), disbound, spine perished, retaining front board only (possibly c.1700 English calf ruled in blind), lacking text leaf i2 and colophon leaf B6, retaining alpha6 (blank), title-page frayed, short worm-track to first 3 quires (alpha-b) affecting text, light worming to top margin of quires K-M and V-2B (final quire) not affecting text, B5 chipped at upper inner corner, light browning, a few marginal damp-stains and other light marks, contemporary ink diagram to title-page and marginalia to pp. 15 and 478, folio in 6s (31 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) 'Edward H. Haslewood Esq, 15 Angel Court', early-19th-century ownership inscription to title; 2) 'Scholefield', 19th-century ownership inscription to front pastedown, possibly Sir Joshua Scholefield (1775-1844), Radical politician; 3) Thence by descent. Adams A350; VD16 A 934. Cf. Norman 20 & PMM 79 for the first edition, 1556. 'The first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times' (PMM).

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Lot 218

Albertus Magnus. De secretis mulierum libellus ... eiusdem de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum, et animalium quorundam libellus, Strasbourg: Lazarus Zetzner, 1601, signatures A-2B8, browning, quire A loosening, title-page with interlinear hole and roughly effaced ownership inscription (another inscription extant), front inner hinge cracked, contemporary blind-ruled vellum, 16mo (11.8 x 7.5 cm), together with: [Numismatics]. Vocabula rei numariae ponderum et mensurarum Graeca, Latina, Ebraica, quorum intellectus omnibus necessarius est. Collecta ex Budaei, Joachimi Camerarii, et Philip. Melanth. Annotationibus. Additae sunt appelationes quadrupedum, insectorum, volucrum, piscium, frugum, leguminum, olerum, et fructuum communium, collectae à Paulo Ebero et Casparo Peucero, Wittenberg: Johannes Crato, 1558, bound with: Schuler (Georg), Fabularum Ovidii interpretatio tradita, in academia Regiomontana a Georgio Sabino, 1st edition, Wittenberg: Peter Seitz, 1559, 2 works in 1 volume, signatures A-O8 and A-Q8 R4, Schuler with strapwork title device, light browning throughout, occasional damp-staining in corners, contemporary ownership inscriptions, marginalia and underlining, first work title-page slightly frayed, contemporary limp vellum dyed orange, front inner hinge gone, spine defective, lettering scored in front cover, 8vo (14.4 x 9 cm), Dionysius the Areopagite, Coelestis Hierarchia. Ecclesiastica Hierarchia. Divina nomia. Mystica theologia. Duodecim epistolae, Venice: in vico Sanctae Mariae Formosa, 1556, signatures (8 ((4 A-2Q8, woodcut title-device, occasional browning and damp-staining, contemporary limp vellum, spine defective, covers partly detached, 8vo (15.2 x 10 cm), Palaephatus, Peri apiston [graece], Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1649, small hole in L2-3 gutter just touching a letter L2 verso, contemporary vellum, 12mo (12.6 x 7.4 cm), and 9 others, English and Continental literature, 16th-19th century (Qty: 18)NOTESAdams B28 (Schuler), D526 (Dionysius the Areopagite); VD16 E59 ([Numismatics]), S123 (Schuler); VD17 12:169328H (Albertus Magnus); Willems 1089 (Palaephatus); cf. Adams B3151 & B3152 for [Numismatics], other editions.

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Lot 22

Lockman (John, editor). Travels of the Jesuits, into Various Parts of the World: compiled from their Letters, now first attempted in English, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: for John Noon, 1743, 6 folding engraved plates and maps, map of Malabar with short closed handling tear, volume 2 with advertisement leaf at rear and with closed tear to p.385 fore-margin, contemporary streaked calf, gilt spines rubbed with some wear, contrasting spine labels, 8vo (20.1 x 11.9 cm) (Qty: 2)NOTESESTC T93295; Sabin 40708. Abridged from the French Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères.

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Lot 220

Austen (Jane). Works, 6 volumes, Steventon Edition, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1882, half-titles, engraved frontispieces (those in volumes 1-5 engraved by Greatbatch after Pickering as in Bentley's 'edition of 1833, and portrait in volume 6 as in the Memoir of 1870), bound without advertisement leaves, short closed tear to centre of volume 1 title repaired, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, 20th century red half morocco gilt, 8vo (Qty: 6)NOTESGilson D13; Keynes 31. One of 375 sets printed on John Dickinson & Co. handmade paper (not numbered). Jane Austen's great-nephew Cholmeley Austen-Leigh, son of the writer of the Memoir, was at that time a partner in the firm Spottiswoode & Co. who printed this set for Bentley. The Steventon Edition was the last complete edition of Jane Austen's works to be published by Bentley, it was however the first set issued by that firm in which the novels appear in the order of first publication.

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Lot 221

Bacon (Francis). Novum Organum Scientiarum, Leiden, Adrianum Wyngaerde et Franciscum Moiardum, 1645, engraved title, a few woodcut initials, bound with Historia Naturalis & Experimentalis De Ventis, &c., Leiden, Franciscum Hackium, 1648, engraved pictorial title, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, contemporary vellum with yapp fore-edges, lightly rubbed to spine, 12mo (Qty: 1)NOTESGibson 104 & 110a. The second edition of Bacon's Novum Organum , and the first to be printed on the continent.

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Lot 225

Bembo (Pietro). De Gli Asolani, Venice: Giovanantonio ed i Fratelli da Sabbio, 1530, signatures A-N8 O4 (O4=blank), variable light spotting and toning, a few leaves tipped in or strengthened in gutter, damp-staining to quires M-O, 18th-century quarter vellum, soiled, spine-label chipped, wear to extremities, 8vo (19.6 x 13 cm), together with: ibid., Le Prose, Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1548, A6 B-2M4 (2M4= colophon leaf, dated 1549; blank in Adams), woodcut title-device, edition statement 'terza impressione' to title-page verso, light spotting, armorial bookplate, front inner hinge split (held by cords), 18th-century vellum, marked, 8vo (21 x 13 cm), and 2 others, including another copy of Le Prose, variant, with leaves A1-4 in a different setting (A1 recto blank, drop-head title verso, without imprint or edition statement either side), light spotting, 18th-century vellum (Qty: 4)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Adams B573 ( Prose ); Gamba 136 ( Prose ; 'rara'); STC Italian pp. 80 ( Gli Asolani ) & 81 ( Prose ). Gli Asolani was first printed in 1505. This edition is described on the verso of the title as the 'seconda': while there were in fact several printings between 1505 and 1530, the 1530 edition was ‘significantly revised … [bringing] the work into greater linguistic and stylistic conformity with Bembo’s watershed, contribution to the Italian language question’ (Marrone, ed., Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J., p. 166).

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Lot 227

Bembo (Pietro). Prose, nelle quali si ragione della volgar lingua, 1st edition, Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 1525, 95 leaves (of 96: lacking final blank Q6), signatures A-Q6 (-Q6), title to A1 verso, A1-2 slightly damp-stained, A1 with old discreet repair not affecting text, quire P misbound in order P2-5 P1-6, quires P-Q damp-stained, slightly chipped along edges and with a few old repairs (just extending into text in Q4), occasional toning and a few marks elsewhere, 19th-century cloth-backed patterned paper boards, surface-loss to spine, covers rubbed, folio (29 x 19 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. STC Italian p.81; not in Adams or Gamba. True first edition, with the following points to distinguish it from the near-identical counterfeit edition: paper watermarked with cardinal's hat surmouted by a cross; forme dimensions 20 x 12.3 cm; misprint 'altre' on G6 recto corrected by hand to 'arte'; colophon with 'le stampino' not 'la stampino'.

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Lot 228

Bible [English]. [The Bible, London: Christopher Barker, 1584], lacking a-d8 & e1 (general title and following 8 preliminary leaves), also lacking New Testament title (4A1) and leaves 2D7, 2D8, 2H1 & 2H2 and final leaf 4P2, printed in black letter, first leaf (e2) strengthened at gutter, early inscription to final leaf of Apocrypha (3I6), without the 24 leaves of Book of Common Prayer, leaves 2O4, 2T4 & 4B1 torn to lower outer corners with text loss, few closed tears (particularly to first leaf of Genesis/Moses), dust-soiling, occasional dampstains and some marks throughout, modern calf, paper label to spine, 4to (leaf size 20.7 x 15.7 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESHerbert 186; Darlow & Moule 142; STC 2142. Bishops' version. Apparently the last quarto edition.This volume without the 24 leaves of Book of Common Prayer.

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Lot 23

Lopez de Gomara (Francisco). Histoire generalle des Indes occidentales et terres neuves, qui jusques à present ont esté descouvertes, traduite en francois par M. Fumée Sieur de Marly le Chastel, 1st edition in French, Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1568, signatures A6 A-2I8 2K2 only, lacking index (i.e. 12 leaves at end, signatures A8 B4), woodcut title-device, headpieces and initials, damp-staining and soiling, title-page repaired at foot not affecting text, early ownership inscriptions, endpapers renewed, contemporary limp vellum, soiled (16.7 x 10.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESCf. Adams L1479, Sabin 27746, Ternaux 110, all with the date 1569. Rare first edition in French of La historia general de las Indias , first printed at Zaragoza in 1552-3, 'a work of the highest importance ... indispensable to the student of Spanish affairs in America' (Sabin, describing the first edition, no. 27724).

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Lot 237

Bindings. [The Divine Comedy], by Dante Alighieri, 2 volumes (of 3): The Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri, and The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri, J. M. Dent and Co., 1904, from the Temple Classics series, half-titles and titles printed in red & black, frontispiece to each volume, gilt floral endpapers, contemporary Florentine style painted vellum, the front covers with decorative initials and designs painted in red, green, pink, blue and yellow, heightened with gold, the spines with painted manuscript titles, somewhat dust-soiled, extremities rubbed, Purgatorio with small loss to foot of spine, Paradiso front joint cracked with short tear to spine covering, 12mo in 8s, together with: The Spirit of Anecdote and Wit, by John Seward, 4 volumes, London: Walker and Co., 1823, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, variable spotting and toning, each front pastedown with book ticket, most hinges cracked after/before endpapers, binding to 3rd volume nearly detached at rear hinge, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt, extremities rubbed, some scuffs and mottling to covers, 12mo in 6s, with 2 others (Qty: 14)NOTESFirst item: The 'Florentine style' of painted vellum bindings was created in the late 19th century by the Giannini family, who produced a range of beautifully decorated books for the art-loving English community. Other local binders quickly followed suit, and these volumes from Dante's Divine Comedy closely follow the Giannini style.

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Lot 24

[Melkite Greek Catholic Church] . [Two broadsides commemorating the consecration of Giuseppe (Yusuf) Ageluni as archbishop of Durazzo], Rome: col permesso de' superiori, 1795, both printed in red and black incorporating woodcut vignettes and containing the same 9 lines of text at head ('Consecrandosi solennemente nella chiesa Greca di S. Atanasio in arcivescovo di Durazzo l'illustrissimo, e reverendissimo monsignore Giuseppe Ageluni [...]'), the first with commemorative poems in Greek, Latin, Italian and Arabic, the second with a different Italian poem (a sonnet), the same Arabic poem, and a Syriac translation, both folded, opening to 59 x 36.5 cm, bound with 29 similar ecclesiastical broadsides (decrees, indulgences and other announcements), many folding, c.1900 half morocco, spine-title 'Dereta, indulgentiae, etc., 1747-1795', rubbed, folio (38.8 x 26 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: St John's Seminary, Wonersh (with library plate to front pastedown). Neither of these broadsides traced in libraries. Ageluni (1738-1816) was born in Acre, modern day-Israel, and became a monk in the Basilian Chouerite Order of Saint John the Baptist, headquartered at Dhour El-Choueir on Mount Lebanon. He became procurator-general of the order and produced an Arabic translation of Paul-Gabriel Antoine's Theologia moralis universa, which was printed at Rome by the Propaganda fide in 1795.

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Lot 242

Castelvetro (Giacomo, 1546-1616; former owner). Lettere devotissime della beata virgine santa Caterina da Siena, nuovamente con tutta la diligentia che si ha potuto ristampate, Venice: nella contrada di Santa Maria formosa, 1562, signatures a4 A-N4 O-3F8 3G10, woodcut title-device and initials, lacking quire M (replaced with a duplicate of quire N), apparently retaining final blank 3G10 (but lacking rear free endpaper), occasional light worming in gutter, variable damp-staining, commensurate loss to foot of front free endpaper and leaves a1-2 (a1=title-page) not affecting text, 2 small holes to a1-2 touching one word in a2, upper outer corner of a3 reattached, old paper repair along top margins of a1-4, marginal holes to A3-4, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, contemporary manuscript spine-title (with apparent trace of ownership inscription), faded inscription to front cover, remains of ties, soiled, 4to (20.6 x 15.2 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Giacomo Castelvetro (1546-1616), writer and teacher of Italian, inscribed 'Di Giacopo Castelvetri' on the title-page in his hand, and with his autograph marginalia to folios 1-4, 23 and 87. Castelvetro, a native of Modena, visited England for the first time in 1574. He returned in 1580 and enjoyed the patronage of Sir Philip Sidney , Sir Christopher Hatton , and Sir Francis Walsingham; i n 1592 he became Italian tutor to James VI of Scotland and Queen Anne, and later taught at Cambridge. His time in England was interspersed with frequent trips to the Continent, including the great book fairs at Basel and Frankfurt. 'During his lifetime Castelvetro achieved only limited recognition, but after John Florio , the first recorded teacher of Italian at Oxford, he was the most important promoter of his native tongue and national heritage in England at this period. It was only in the twentieth century, with reassessments of his career and the publication of his 'Brieve racconto' as The Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables of Italy ( ed. G. Riley , 1989 ), that his significance as an advocate of the consumption of more fruit and vegetables was appreciated' (ODNB). For further examples of Castelvetro's hand see Newberry Case MS 5086 and Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R.10.6. Adams C1107; not in BM STC Italian.

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Lot 243

[Cobbold, Elizabeth]. Six Narrative Poems; by Eliza Knipe. The Vizir. The Village Wake. The Return from the Crusade. The Prussian Officer. Atomboka and Omaza. Humanity, 1st edition, London: for the author, 1787, pp. [iii]-x [2] 74, disbound, lacking half-title, first 3 leaves loose and slightly nicked, pp. vii-ix (list of subcribers) soiled, 4to (26 x 21.1 cm), together with: Seward (Anna), Ode on General Eliott's Return from Gibraltar, 1st edition, London: for T. Cadell, 1787, 11 [1] pp., contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, disbound with concomitant marginal nicks and tears, 4to (25.6 x 21 cm), More (Hannah), The Twelfth of August; or the Feast of Freedom, 1st edition, London: J. and T. Clarke, 1819, 8 pp. (single half-sheet, folded twice), 3 woodcut vignettes, unbound, 8vo (22.5 x 14 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESESTC T96943 (Cobbold: seven copies in UK libraries), T95506 (Seward: five copies in UK libraries). Six Narrative Poems, Cobbold's second book, is dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds and noted for containing, 'Atomboka and Omaza', which has been described as a 'remarkably powerful example of anti-slavery verse' (Dellarosa, Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton's Rebellious Poetics, 1782-1814 , p. 29. n. 17). More's poem was written to commemorate the abolition of domestic slavery in Ceylon.

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Lot 244

* Commonwealth of England. By the Protector. A Declaration of His Highnes with the Advice of the Council, in order to the Securing the Peace of this Commonwealth, London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1655, single broadside, woodcut arms and initial, black and roman letter, browned, creased from folding, a few chips and tears to extremities, framed and glazed (not inspected out of frame), 36.6 x 28.4 cm, [English School], [Portrait of a Royalist gentleman], 19th century, head-and-shoulders portrait facing left, probably depicting James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (1607-1651), dressed in plate armour with blue sash of the Order of the Garter, water- and bodycolour on card, 18 x 15 cm, Smith (John, mezzotinter), Carolus 1th, [London]: sold by J. Smith in Russel Street, [c.1700?], mezzotint after Philip Fruytiers on wove paper, trimmed shaving imprint, adhesive staining to corners, 32.8 x 23.4 cm, and a copy of John Selden, Titles of Honor, 2nd edition, 1631 (with spurious, probably 18th-century signature 'O Cromwell' to initial blank, contemporary calf, binding broken, covers detached, several leaves loose, folio, not collated) (Qty: 4)NOTESFirst item: ESTC R211676; Wing C7075. The First Protectorate Parliament orders royalists to surrender all arms and to cease to employ any 'sequestered or ejected ministers' for the education of their children; such ministers themselves are forbidden from 'keep[ing] any school, either publick or private', public preaching, and 'administer[ing] Baptism, or the Lords Supper, or marry[ing] any persons, or us[ing] the Book of Common-prayer'.

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Lot 245

Curtius (Rochus). Tractatus de Jure Patronatus... cum vespertine juris canonici lecture prefectus esset, 1st edition, Paris: Francois Regnault, [1514], 88 ff., double-column, title with woodcut elephant device, occasional early underlining and marginalia (a few margins trimmed affecting notes), full page annotations to final leaf verso, occasional light water stains, manuscript date 1514 at foot of title, modern brown half morocco by Eleanor Lawson (pencil note at front), light stains to upper cover, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams C3115. First published in 1506, this is the first edition with the commentary by Rochus Curtius on jus patronatus or the right of patronage by the Church in granting privileges and gift of lands to benefactors.

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Lot 249

[English Civil War] . An Order of the Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning all such persons as have come in from the Kings quarters, before the first of this instant December [drop-head title] London: printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Honorable House of Commons, December 18, 1645, single broadside, type-ornament border, slightly toned, creased from folding, a few faint spots and marks, a few minute worm-holes not affecting text, 2 closed tears extending into border at head, attempted repair verso, hand-numbered '94' to upper left corner in black ink, 29 x 20.5 cm (Qty: 1)NOTESESTC R212263; Wing E2643. Very rare: ESTC traces four copies world-wide. The Rump Parliament orders 'that all such persons as have come in from the Kings quarters, being Souldiers of Fortune, and submitted to the Parliament before the First of this instant December, and also those five Colonels and Officers that came in with Captain Pickering from Worcester ... shall forthwith depart out of the City of London and Lines of Communication ... [I]f any of them shall return to the said City ... they and every of them shall be taken and proceeded against as spies'.

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Lot 250

Erasmus (Desiderius). In Evangelium Matthaei paraphrasis [bound with:] Paraphrasis in Evangelium Marci, 2 works in 1 volume, Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1544, printer's woodcut device to title-page and verso of final leaf in each work, woodcut initials, slightly browned, occasional damp-staining, a few other marks, first work with short-closed tear to foot of title-page and small marginal worm-track in quires a-h, second work bound without quire O, replaced in later manuscript, ownership inscription in a similar hand ('Jo. Abel, 1758') and one earlier inscription to title-page, 18th-century sprinkled calf, rebacked retaining most of original spine, 8vo (16 x 10.2 cm), together with: Council of Trent, Catechismus ex decreto Concilii Tridentini, ad parochos, Pii V. Pont. Max. jussi editus, Cologne: Heinrich von Aich, 1567, damp-staining, 2 small holes to gutter of title-pag,e marginal repair to P1, 2G8-2H1 torn affecting a few words, closed tear in O6, vellum manuscript leaf used as pastedowns, no free endpapers, contemporary calf, binding broken, 8vo (15.6 x 9 cm), and 1 other (Qty: 3)NOTESAdams E748 (Erasmus, Matthaei ), E754 (Erasmus, Marci ), C1059 ( Catechismus ).

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Lot 252

Galenus (Claudius). Terrapeutica. Claudii Geleni Pergameni methodus medendi, id est, de morbis curandis, libri quatuordecim, Venice: Aloysius de Tortis, 1538, occasional woodcut initials, few marks and minor stains, title and following few leaves with a little damp-fraying to fore-edges (generally not affecting text), later plain vellum, thick 16mo (Qty: 1)NOTESWellcome 2639. Norman 852. The seventh or eighth edition of Linacre's translation of Galen's Methodus Medendi, first published in 1519.

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Lot 255

Grey (Elizabeth, Countess of Kent). A Choice Manual, or Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and Chirurgery: Collected, and practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the virtue of Gascon pouder, and Lapis contra Yaruam by a Professor of Phisick. As also most exquisite ways of Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c., 2 parts in one, 16th edition, London: Printed by A.M. for Margaret Shears at the Sign of the Blew Bible in Bedford Street in Covent Garden, 1670, engraved portrait frontispiece (A1) with closed tear to gutter margin (image slightly cropped at fore-edge), the second part "A true gentlewomans delight" has separate title page dated 1671 and pagination, with continuous register throughout, sewing broken throughout and leaves detached, light dust-soiling, contemporary sheep, leather torn and with loss to upper quarter of spine, worn, 12mo (Qty: 1)NOTESWing K315B for the first part (gives the date of the sixteenth edition as 1671). Oxford p.22/23 for 1653 & some later editions. Wing K317C for the second part. The title to the second part: - A True Gentlewomans Delight. Wherein is contained all manner of Cookery: Together with Preserving, Conserving, Drying, and Candying. Very necessary for all Ladies and Gentlewomen. Published by W.G. Gent. London, Printed by A.M. for Margaret Shears at the Sign of the Blew Bible in Bedford Street in Covent Garden, 1671.

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Lot 256

Havers (Clopton). Novae quaedam observationes de ossibus ... versio nova, cui accessit Joannes Ch. Heyne, Leiden: Georg Wishoff, 1734, signatures *4 2*1 A-2E7, 4 folding engraved plates, G8 repaired in fore margin, without errata leaves noted in some copies, contemporary vellum, soiled, 8vo (15.2 x 9.6 cm), together with: Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried), De ossibus corporis humani, 2nd edition, Vienna: Johann Paul Kraus, 1746, signatures *6 A-T8 V2, spotting, c.1900 library cloth, 8vo (15.2 x 9 cm), Gaubius (Hieronymus David), Institutiones pathologiae medicinalis, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: A. Donaldson and John Reid, 1762, half-title, ownership inscriptions and presentation plate to initial blank, modern crushed quarter morocco, 12mo in 6s (16.8 x 9.5 cm), Lommius (Jodocus). The Medicinal Observations ... a most masterly Collection from Greek, Arabian, and Latin Physicians ... with a Letter and Preface by J. Wynter, 1st edition thus, London: W. Owen, 1747, A2 signed A3, slightly browned, c.1900 library cloth, 12mo in 6s (16.1 x 9.3 cm), and 10 others, medicine, 18th century, library cloth, various formats (Qty: 16)NOTESProvenance: Birmingham Medical Institute, with ink-stamps. ESTC T112463 (Gaubius: ten copies world-wide), T113980 (Lommius); cf. Garrison-Morton 387 and Norman 1024 for Clopton, first edition, 1691 ('The first complete and systematic study of the structure of the bones', Norman).

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Lot 257

[Higden, Ranulphus]. [Polycronycon, imprented in Southwerke, by my Peter Treveris at ye expences of John Reynes, 1527], numerous decorative woodcut initials and few illustrations including one full-page (with closed tear & repair), lacking title (2a1, provided in manuscript facsimile with applied printed decorative border from another work), and lacking leaves 2h2-2h6, b1 & b8, L2, L4, L5, L7, M1, M8, N3, N6, O1, O8, P8, Q1, Q2, Q4, Q5, Q7, R2-8, S1-S8, T1-T6, U1-X8, with leaves q4 & q5 supplied from another copy (having cut-down margins, browned), leaves b1, b8 P8 & R8 provided in neat manuscript facsimile, 2a2 with excised text provided in manuscript facsimile and repaired, 2h1 with excised text and lined to verso, some dampstaining and marks, 18th-century panelled calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, some pitting to leather surface, joints split, extremities worn, folio (29 x 19.7cm), together with an incomplete and defective [First tome or volume of the Paraphrases of Erasmus, London, circa 1551/52], lacking title and incomplete at rear, some leaves detached and torn, text block split in two, contemporary calf over wooden boards, lacking spine and boards detached, folio (Qty: 2)NOTESSTC 13440. The third and last early edition of Polychronicon, printed in 1527 by Peter Treveris. It succeeded the editions of William Caxton in 1482 and Wynkyn de Worde 1495. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

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Lot 258

Hobbes (Thomas). Leviathan, sive De materia, forma, et potestate civitatis ecclesiasticae et civilis, Amsterdam: Joannes Blaeu, 1670, signatures *2 A-3A4 3B2, title-page slightly marked, later sprinkled tan calf, rebacked and relined , dogtooth roll gilt to sides, 4to (19.4 x 14.4 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Jacob or James Church (contemporary ownership inscription 'E Libris Jacobi Church' to title-page; 2) William Adair (19th-century engraved bookplate to rear pastedown). Macdonald & Hargreaves 45; cf. PMM 138. First separate edition in Latin; a Latin translation had previously been included in the Opera philosophica quae Latine scripsit omnia (1668).

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Lot 259

Holland (John). The Directors of the Bank of England, Enemies to the Great Interests of the Kingdom; and also, not just to the Trust reposed in them by the Adventurers, who chose them to do their best Endeavours, by all Honest Means, for the Advantage of the Joint Stock, 1st edition, London: for the author, [1715], 15 [1] pp., slightly browned, modern pencil annotations and contemporary ink annotations to title-page, 20th-century pink crushed morocco backing marbled boards (19.3 x 13.9 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Sotheby's, 31 October 1979, lot 278 (lot ticket laid in). ESTC T139807 (seven copies in UK libraries); Goldsmiths' 5235; Hanson 2179. Holland (1658-1721) was principal founder of the Bank of Scotland and became its first governor on its establishment in 1696. He resigned the following year owing to his close association with the East India Company and the bank's need for overt political backing, but 'in his writings and background advice helped to steer the bank through the difficulties of the next twenty years' (ODNB). Rare in commerce: no other copy traced in auction records.

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Lot 262

Irenaeus (Saint). [Greek title]. Contra omnes Haereses libri quinque ... omnia notis variorum, et suis illustravit Joannes Ernestus Grabe, Oxford: e theatro Sheldoniano, 1702, engraved allegorical frontispiece, title vignette, headpiece and initial, occasional damp-staining, marginal burn-hole to T2, worm-track in lower margin of final few quires, contemporary ink marginalia, ownership inscription 'Tho. Foulkes' to front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked but firm, wear to spine-ends, folio (40.1 x 24.5 cm), together with: Bull (George), Opera omnia Latine conscripta, London: William Bowyer, 1721, engraved portrait frontispiece (shorter, possibly supplied from another copy at an early date), marginal worming to gutter of first few quires, contemporary panelled calf, spine defective at head, tips bumped and worn, folio (40 x 24.5 cm), and 2 others (A Practical Family Bible, London: J. Wilkie, 1772, engraved plates, modern sheep to style, folio, and The Holy Bible ... with Notes and Practical Observations by the Rev. John Brown, London: J. McGowan & Son, 1833, engraved plates, contemporary half calf, folio, collations unknown) (Qty: 4)NOTESESTC T139640 (Irenaeus), T101051 (Bull: Bowyer's ledgers record 500 copies printed).

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Lot 272

Meagher (Andrew). The Popish Mass Celebrated by Heathen Priests, for the Living and the Dead, for several Ageas before the Birth of Christ: or a Sermon, Preached at Thurles, on Sunday the 2d of August, 1767. To which is annexed, a Dissertation on the Conformity of Popery with Paganism, Proved, in every Point, from Popish and Pagan Authors, with an Appendix..., By the Reverend Andrew Meagher, Formerly a Priest of the Church of Rome, and Doctor of the Sorbonne; but now of the established Church of Ireland, Limerick: Printed by T. Welsh, 1771, [12], xxxviii, [2], 330, [2] pp., with list of subscribers and final errata leaf, tiny hole to 2A1 affecting couple of letters, contents leaf pinned in place, some dust-soiling and light dampstaining, bookplate and ink stamps to front pastedown, contemporary sheep, some wear to extremities, rubbed, 8vo, together with: Edwards (Jonathan) , A History of the Work of Redemption..., 4th edition, Edinburgh: M. Gray & T. Vernor, 1793, ink stamp to front endpaper, contemporary marbled calf, red morocco title label to spine, upper joint split, 8vo, and 2 others, A Letter from Rome, shewing an exact conformity between Popery and Paganism, by Conyers Middleton, 4th edition, 1741, contemporary calf, joints cracked, rubbed, 8vo, and The Conformity between Modern and Ancient Ceremonies, [by Pierre Mussard], 1745, ink stamp to title, contemporary calf, boards detached, worn, 8vo (Qty: 4)NOTESFirst item rare.

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Lot 276

Plinius Secundus (Gaius). [The Historie of the World ... Translated into English by Philemon Holland], 2 volumes in one, 2nd edition in English, London: by Adam Islip, 1634, lacking volume 1 initial blank, title-page and one other preliminary leaf, and volume 2 text-leaves Y3-4 and final blank 3P8,, contents toned, variable damp-staining, scattered marks and stains, a few side-notes shaved, volume 1 leaves pi2-4 creased and frayed with loss to margins, burn-hole in [par.]3 affecting a word either side, 3H1 (part of index) torn with loss of one word verso, volume 2 Z3-2A2 nicked and frayed along fore edges with loss to side-notes, Z3-4 working loose (held by one cord), worming in gutter from quire 3K to final quire 3P, 3P7 ('An Advertisement') with substantial marginal loss, loose endpapers with early ownership inscriptions 'Lewis Reford' (and Latinised variants) and ink-stamps 'Step. Melvin, Coleraine', old panelled calf, covers with crown device and caption 'Londonderry' in blind, front cover with date '1726' in blind, rubbed and worn, folio in 6s (30.5 x 22.2 cm), together with: Church of England, Certain Sermons or Homilies appointed to be read in Churches in the Time of Queen Elizabeth, Oxford: printed at the Theatre, and are to be sold by Peter Parker, 1683, lacking M2 and N3-4, title-page (pi1) trimmed and mounted, A1 extended and repaired in margins with remaining closed tear into text, loss to lower margin of A2, outer leaves (quires B-D and 3C-3D) frayed with some loss of text (mainly side-notes), E1 strengthened in lower margin and with loss of text, R2 with holes, 2H1 extended in margin, a few other holes and marks, marbled endpapers with ownership inscription dated 1690 contemporary calf, worn, folio (31 x 19.2 cm) (Qty: 2)NOTESESTC S121936 (Pliny), R233857 (Church of England: five copies world-wide); STC 20030 (Pliny); Wing C4091HB (Church of England); cf. Pforzheimer 496 (Pliny, first edition in English, 1601).

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Lot 281

* Shakespeare (William). A single leaf from Shakespeare Works 2nd folio edition, 1632, double-column letterpress text comprising lines 480-742 of Henry V, Act 2 scenes 1 & 2 (pages 73 & 74), with ruled line border, light toning and spotting, sheet size 31.4 x 21.6 cm, window-mounted with title blocked in gilt at foot of mount, Folio Fine Art Ltd. paper label to verso of backing board, framed & glazed, with Reading Fine Art Gallery Ltd. paper label to backboard, together with Shakespeare (William) , Henry V. A Facsimile of the First Folio Text, with an Introduction by J. Dover Wilson, London: Printed at The Chiswick Press for Faber & Faber, circa 1930, small area of paper thining to verso of title where label removed, ownership ink stamp and signature to front free endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, few marks, slim folio (Qty: 2)

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Lot 284

Sympson (Samuel). [A New Book of Cyphers, more Compleat and Regular than any yet extant. Wherein the Whole Alphabet (twice over,) Consisting of Six Hundred Cyphers, is variously changed, interwoven and reversed. Being A Work very Entertaining to such as are Curious, and Useful to all sorts of Artificers in general], 1st edition, [London: for Samuel Sympson], 1726, engraved additional title-page, 102 engraved plates, lacking letterpress title-page, engraved title-page repaired, occasional spotting, 20th-century half pigskin rubbed, 8vo (18.3 x 12.8 cm), together with: Butler (Samuel), Hudibras. The First and Second Parts ... Corrected and Amended, with Several Additions and Annotations, London: for John Martyn and Henry Herringman, 1674, spotting and browning, marginal loss to title-leaf and final leaf, E1 with marginal hole and loss, headline shaved verso, spill-burn in M8, engraved bookplate (Leonard Charles Price), 19th-century diced calf, front cover near-detached (held by lower cord), 8vo (17 x 10.2 cm), White (John), A Speech of Mr John White, Counsellor at Law, made in the Commons House of Parliament concerning Episcopacy. Printed by his owne Copie, London: for Thomas Nicholes, 1641, [2] 14 pp., 20th-century sheep, 4to (18.2 x 13.7 cm), Patarol (Lorenzo), Series Augustorum, Augustarum, Caesarum, et Tyrannorum Omnium, tam in Oriente, quam in Occidente, a C. J. Caesare ad Leopoldum, 2nd edition, Venice: Aloysio Pavino, 1708, engraved frontispiece, engraved portraits throughout the letterpress, bookplate and ownership inscription of Revd George Proctor (possibly the propietor of the Academy for Young Gentleman at Chichester House, Brighton, the model for Blimber's in Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son), contemporary calf, covers detached, worn, 8vo (20.6 x 13.4 cm), and 4 others, antiquarian (Qty: 9)NOTESESTC T145073 (Sympson; ESTC traces four copies in UK libraries); Wing W1773A (White), B6311 (Butler).

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Lot 285

Tacitus (Gaius Cornelius). Opera omnia quae exstant ... J. Lipsius denuo castigavit, et recensuit, Antwerp: Christophe Plantin , 1581, slightly browned, marginal paper-repair to d7, spill-burn in top edge of m2, inner hinges possibly tightened, all edges gilt, manuscript catch-title to top edge, contemporary limp vellum ruled in gilt, contemporary manuscript spine-title, slightly marked, 8vo (17 x 10.5 cm), together with: Gellius (Aulus), Noctes Atticae ... Henrici Stephani Noctes aliquot Parisinae, Atticis A. Gellii Noctibus seu Vigiliis invigilatae, Paris: [Henri Estienne], 1585, title-page laid down (with small hole visible in margin), lacking blank [superscript 2]C1, 18th-century polished calf, gilt spine, rubbed, 8vo (17.3 x 10.6 cm), Catullus, Tibullus, & Propertius. [Opera] nova editio. Josephus Scaliger Jul. Caesaris F. recensuit, Paris: Mamert Patisson, at the shop of Robert Estienne, 1577, lacking E7 and blanks S2 and r6, slightly browned, 18th-century polished calf, loss to head of spine, 8vo (16.6 x 10.1 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: 1) Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie (1625-1707), first lieutenant-general of the Paris police force created by Louis XIV in 1667, with engraved bookplate, annotated 'De la Reynie' (Tacitus only); 2) Sir John Trollope (1800-1874), 1st Baron Kesteven and 7th Baronet Trollope, Conservative member of parliament for South Lincolnshire from 1841 to 1868, with engraved bookplates (all items). Adams T32 (Tacitus), G366 (Gellius), C1154 (Catullus); Renouard 150:2 (Gellius: 'édition rare et estimable'), 179:1 (Catullus); Ruelens-de Backer 224:9 (Tacitus).

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Lot 292

Cotman (John Sell). Etchings, 1st edition, London: for the author by Boydell & Co., 1811, etched title-page, 21 etched plates (of 24), all on wove paper, 4 pp. list of subscribers (for 'The third part of John Sell Cotman's Architectural Etchings'), lacking etched dedication leaf and 2 text leaves (index and prospectus), variable spotting, contemporary half cloth, rebacked, marbled sides, gilt leather label to front board, folio (41 x 31.4 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe artist's scarce first book, sometimes referred to as Miscellaneous Etchings . The plates comprise mainly views in Yorkshire, but also Wales and East Anglia.

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Lot 30

"Sino-Japanese Disturbances". Souvenir Album, Shanghai, 1932, two maps, numerous photographic illustrations of the Japanese army in action in Shanghai, one tissue guard torn, one or two spots, original silk-lined boards, paper label to upper cover, upper cover detached, lacking one silk tie, some spotting and soiling, oblong 4to, together with two others: Alice Mabel Bacon's Japanese Girls and Women, 1902, and a printed album of sketches from the Japanese front line in Manchuria, circa 1933 (Qty: 3)NOTESFirst item records the 'January 28' or Shanghai incident (January-March 1932) which began after a Chinese uprising against Japan in the international District of Shanghai.

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Lot 301

Hooker (William Jackson). Exotic Flora, Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare or otherwise interesting Exotic Plants, especially of such as are deserving of being cultivated in our gardens, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1823-27, half title for volume II only, 228 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 233, lacking 4 plates, i.e. numbers 178-181, 2 plates numbered 163), occasional light offsetting and minor spotting, bookplates of Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave (1827-1919, economist and grandson of Dawson Turner), contemporary boards, modern green morocco rebacks, some light edge wear, 8vo (Qty: 3)NOTESDunthorne 140; Great Flower Books p. 103; Nissen BBI 920; Stafleu & Cowan 2993. Author's presentation copy, inscribed at head of volume I title 'Elizabeth Palgrave, from her affectionate brother the author'. William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), botanist and editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine became the first full-time director of Kew Gardens in 1841 married Maria Dawson Turner (1797-1872), eldest daughter of Dawson Turner in 1815; Lady Elizabeth Palgrave (1799-1852) was the second eldest daughter of Dawson Turner and married Sir Francis Palgrave in 1823.

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Lot 306

Palgrave (Francis Ephraim, 1788-1861). Sir Francis Palgrave's Letters from Turin, 1841, 2 etched portrait frontispieces of Sir Francis and his wife Lady Elizabeth (heavily spotted), etched by Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave) after drawings by Thomas Phillips and John Phillip Davis respectively, followed by 18 contemporary fair copy letters from Sir Francis to his wfe, written continuously on 46 numbered pages, written in a neat unidentified family hand, offsetting from frontispiece to first page, bound with the accompanying series of copy letters written by Sir Francis to his father-in-law Dawson Turner, a total of 15 unnumbered pages in a second neater hand, annotated at head by Dawson Turner, 'The original in my correspondence' and with some further proof corrections and amendments in his holograph, contemporary half morocco, gilt-titled spine, rubbed, folio (32.5 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1)

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Lot 327

[Turner, Gurney]. First Impressions, or A Day in India. A Letter from an Assistant Surgeon, lately arrived in Calcutta, to his Nephews at Hampstead, Yarmouth: Printed by Charles Sloman, 1841, [4], 42 pp., initialled presentation inscription from [the Editor] Dawson Turner to his daughter M[ary A[nne] Turner to front free endpaper, all edges gilt, original pale yellow card wrappers with printed title within decorative border to upper cover, some soiling and a little wear, spine broken and deficient with covers and several leaves now separated, slim 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESGurney Turner (1813-1848) was the eldest surviving son of Dawson Turner, whose own son (also called Dawson Turner) played in the first International rugby match in 1871. Rare, with 'Not Published' printed on the title-page; four copies located at the British Library, University of Cambridge, Royal Society of Medicine and The Wellcome Library.

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Lot 333

Tichy (Gyula, illustrator). Egy Tusos Uveg Mesei, edited by Simon Pollack, Budapest, 1909, frontispiece , 35 plates, 3 vignettes, staple rust, original wrappers with illustration to upper wrapper, green ribbon at head and foot of spine (lower ribbon broken, small tears and splits to spine), 4to, limited edition 4/25, together with: Koussikoff (Alexandre). Le Sablier. Poeme en trois nuits traduction de Y. Sidersky, Paris, 1924, 8 illustrations by Victor Barthe, light offsetting to tow text leaves, a few light spots, contemporary presentation inscription and loose letter, original wrappers, small splits to spine, 4to, limited edition of 500 (Qty: 2)NOTESFirst item a rare Art Nouveau erotic work by Hungarian artist Gyula Tichy (1879-1920).

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Lot 353

Americana Bibliography. The John Carter Brown Library. European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1776, edited by Dennis C. Landis, 6 volumes, reprint, New York: Readex Books, 1980-88, together with Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, [1599-1800], 6 volumes, Kraus Reprints, 1961-65 & Brown University Press, 1973, plus Additions, 1471-1700, Brown University Press, 1973, plus Streeter (Thomas Winthrop) , The Celebrated Collection of Americana, 7 volumes, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1966-69, inner hinges of first volume broken, plus Cole (George Watson, editor) , A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Discovery and Early History of North and South America, forming a part of the Library of E.D. Church, 5 volumes, reprint, New York, 1951, plus Rosenbach (Dr A.S.W.) , The Collected Catalogues, 10 volumes including Index, New York: Arno Press, 1967, all original cloth, Carter Brown and Streeter Collection volumes a little rubbed and snagged on spines, Church catalogue partly faded, 4to/8vo (Qty: 35)

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Lot 356

[Griffith, Acton Frederick]. Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica: or, A descriptive catalogue of a rare and rich collection of early English poetry, in the possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Illustrated by occasional extracts and remarks, critical and biographical, printed by Thomas Davison, for the proprietors of the collection, 1815, title printed in red and black, wood engraved illustrations, occasional minor spotting, 19th century half brown calf, gilt decorated spine, a little rubbed and scuffed, bookplate of the Duke of Bedford and H.W. Edwards to front pastedown, 8vo, together with Corser (Rev. Thomas). Collectanea Anglo-Poetica: or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue of a portion of a collection of early English poetry, with occasional extracts and remarks biographical and critical, 11 volumes (parts 1-11), Chetham Society, 1860-83, original near-uniform blindstamped cloth, spines gilt, very slightly rubbed to extremities, first 2 volumes somewhat sunned to spines, 8vo, plus Maskell (William). A History of the Martin Marprelate Controversy in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1st edition, William Pickering, 1845, author's faint ink signature dated 1845 to half-title, some marginal annotations in ink (by the author?), 20th century signature of Geoffrey Bullough to front pastedown, original blue cloth, with remains of paper label to spine, rubbed and lightly faded to spine, 8vo, and [Yeats, G.D.]. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Writings of Patrick Colquhoun, printed by G. Smeeton, 1818, engraved portrait frontispiece, 64 pp., light waterstain to lower outer corner of frontispiece, inscribed in ink to front blank 'To James Ewing Esq. with Mr. J. Colquhoun's best regards. 17 July 1824', contemporary half black morocco, heavily rubbed, slim 8vo, plus other 19th century interest, mostly cloth-bound (Qty: 30)

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Lot 36

Busby (Thomas Lord). Costume of the Lower Orders of London, 1st edition, London: for T. L. Busby by Baldwin and Co., [1820], iv + [24] pp., 24 hand-coloured etched plates, spotting and staining, Mechanical Figure/Owen Clancy description leaf with repaired closed tear, repaired closed tear to Shoe-Black plate not touching image, modern red half morocco to style, gilt morocco label to front board, 4to (29.4 x 21.5 cm), and one other item (24 of 32 hand-coloured etched plates from Real Life in London, London: Jones & Co., 1821, all loose) (Qty: 2)NOTESAbbey Life 423; Tooley 123. WIth watermarks dated 1817 to text and 1819 to plates as noted by Abbey. The 'Fortune Teller' plate is unsigned, which according to Abbey and Tooley indicates a first issue, but the imprint of Baldwin and Co., is said to indicate a later issue, with first-issue copies containing the imprint 'Baldwin, Cradock and Joy'. In this copy the caption on the 'Mat Man' plate has been corrected from 'Mattman', which might suggest a later issue, but the correction has been made by abrading the paper, not the plate itself.

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Lot 367

McKitterick (David, editor). Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, volume VII, Parts 1 & 2 (facsimile of Pepys's Catalogue), Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 1991, original black cloth gilt in glassine overwrappers, folio, together with Ro yal Society . The Signatures in the First Journal-Book and the Charter-Book of The Royal Society, 4th edition, 1980, photographic illustrations, top edge gilt, original maroon cloth gilt, large folio, plus other various bibliographical and reference interest (Qty: 2 shelves)

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Lot 370

Gibson (R.W.). Francis Bacon, A Bibliography of His Works and of Baconiana to the year 1750, 1st edition, Oxford University Press, 1950, monochrome illustrations, original quarter cloth, lightly rubbed, 4to, together with Smith (Walter E.). Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, A Bibliographical Catalogue of the First Appearance of His Writings, 2 volumes, Los Angeles, 1982-83, monochrome illustrations, original green cloth in dust wrappers, 4to, plus Jackson (William A.). An Annotated List of the Publications of the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Cambridge Massachusetts, Houghton Library, 1965, monochrome illustrations, original grey cloth with glassine overwrapper, folio, and other bibliographies of English authors, various, mainly 20th century publications, mostly original cloth, 8vo/4to (Qty: 3 shelves)

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Lot 379

Eragny Press. Areopagitica. A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England, London: Eragny Press, 1904, printed in red and black, 'Brook' type, double column, large woodcut initial and broad foliate border to p.3, woodcut initials throughout and printer's device to colophon leaf all by Esther Pissarro after Lucien Pissarro, free endpapers browned, edges untrimmed, original patterned paper boards, contemporary glassine dust jacket, 4to (27 x 20.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Presentation copy, inscribed 'To Ch. Shannon from Lucien Pissarro' on the front free endpaper. Charles Haslewood Shannon (1863-1937) was co-founder of the Vale Press (1894-1904); the first sixteen Eragny Press books were all in fact published by the Vale Press and printed using Vale type. 2) Robert A. P. Fitzsimons FRCS (1892-1978), with bookplate dated 1921. 3) Thence by descent. Tomkinson p.64 (19). Second issue, one of 160 copies; the 1903 first issue of 226 copies 'was partly destroyed by fire at the binders, only the sample copy and 40 unbound copies being saved' (limitation leaf).

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Lot 42

Speed (John). England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged with ye Historic Relation of things Worthy memory from a farr larger Voulume Done by John Speed, Anno Cum privilegio, pub. George Humble, 16[27], decorative title page, Catalogue of all the Shires and first few leaves frayed with loss, title page with later manuscript ownership signature, 63 uncoloured engraved maps by Pieter Van den Keere including two folding (British Isles and Yorkshire), map of the British Isles with some worming, map of Kent torn with very slight loss to printed image, map of Cumberland and Westmorland bound upside down, index bound at rear, some water staining throughout, endpapers torn and frayed with loss, contemporary vellum with faded manuscript inscription and title to upper cover, lacking ties, oblong 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Estate of John Lawson (1932-2019). Chubb XII.

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Lot 420

Drake (Edward Cavendish) . A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time [2 copies], 1768, printed by J. Cooke, black & white plates & maps, period inscriptions to front endpapers, some toning, marks & light wear, contemporary full calf, boards & spines rubbed with loss, folio, sold as seen, together with: Snelling (Thomas) , A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of England, from the Norman Conquest to the present time,, 1762, printed for T. Snelling, 7 black & white engraved plates, bound with A View of the Origins, Nature, and Use of Jettons or Counters. Especially those commonly known by the Name of Black Money and Abbey Pieces, 1769, 7 black & white engraved plates, and A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of Scotland, from Alexander the First to the Union of the Two Kingdoms, 1774, 10 black & white engraved plates, front board & endpaper partially detached, some spotting & toning throughout, lacks rear endpapers, contemporary half calf, boards & spine rubbed with loss, large 4to, and Marks (J. [publisher]) , Scultpura Historico-Technica: Or, The History and Art of Engraving..., 3rd edition, 1766, 10 back & white engraved plates, previous owner mark to head of the title page, minor loss to the front endpaper, some light toning & offsetting, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, board & spine rubbed with minor loss to foot, 8vo, plus other 18th, 19th & 20th century illustrated literature, topography, history & miscellaneous reference, some leather bindings, many original cloth, some gilt decorated, some odd volumes, overall condition is fair/good, 8vo/folio, plus a carton of miscellaneous prints & engravings including 2 19th century scrap albums (Qty: 6 shelves & a carton)

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Lot 46

Walpoole (George Augustus). The New British Traveller; or, a Complete Modern Universal Display of Great Britain and Ireland: being a new, complete, accurate, and extensive tour, London: Alex. Hogg, [1784], engraved frontispiece, 46 engraved maps on 23 sheets (including 4 folding) and 87 engraved plates, folding map of England & Wales torn to lower blank margin and lined to verso, repaired closed tear to map of Monmouthshire/Herefordshire, final leaf 'list of subscribers' torn with loss, dust soiling mostly to first & last few leaves, light scattered spotting, disbound folio (Qty: 1)

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Lot 48

Buckland (William). Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology, 2 volumes, London: William Pickering, 1836, half-titles (Bridgewater Treatise VI), 87 engraved & lithograph plates (some folding, including hand-coloured folding chart), near-contemporary half calf, both volumes neatly rebacked preserving morocco title & volume number labels, 8vo, together with: (Gideon Algernon). The Medals of Creation; or, First Lessons in Geology, and in the Study of Organic Remains, 2 volumes, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844, hand-coloured lithograph frontispieces to both volumes and four lithograph plates (some hand-coloured), numerous wood engraved illustrations, endpapers renewed, original gilt blocked red cloth, both volumes neatly rebacked preserving original spines, 8vo, and 12 hand-coloured engraved maps from the Geological Survey of England and Wales, and A Geological Map of Scotland by J.A. Knipe, 1859 ( linen-backed, map surface worn & varnished) (Qty: 17)

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Lot 5

Carter (Howard & Mace, A.C .). The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, 2 volumes , 1st edition , 3rd impression, Cassell & Co., 1927, numerous monochrome plates, inscriptions to half-titles, printed endpapers, original cloth gilt, large 8vo, together with: Breasted (James Henry) , A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, bound in 3 volumes, 2nd edition, reprinted, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, colour frontispiece, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations, all edges gilt, contemporary red half morocco gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, 4to in 8s, Petrie (Flinders) , Seventy Years in Archaeology, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1931], monochrome portrait frontispiece and plates, slight spotting, near-contemporary brown half morocco, 8vo, and other Egyptology related, mostly 20th century publications, including Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, edited by Paul T. Nicholson & Ian Shaw, 1st edition, Cambridge University Press, 2000; Egypt of the Pharaohs an Introduction, by Sir Alan Gardiner, 1st edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962; First Steps in Egyptian, a book for beginners, by E.A. Wallis Budge, London, 1895; The Great Pyramid, its Spiritual Symbolism, by Morton Edgar, 1st edition, Glasgow, 1924 (Qty: 30)

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Lot 52

Costa (Emanuel Mendes da). A Natural History of Fossils, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: L. Davis & C. Reymers, 1757, engraved plate as frontispiece, cancel title, list of subscribers, some spotting to first & last leaves, contemporary speckled calf, red morocco title label, light cracking at head & foot of spine, joints and extremities a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESThe single plate is often bound as a frontispiece. Mendes da Costa based this book on his extensive fossil and mineral collection, and the book established him as a respected member of the scientific community. The first-issue title referred to 'Volume 1, Part 1', and although a second volume was suggested, it never appeared.

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