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The following lots of postcards are being sold upon the instructions of an old Wells family. They contain numerous views of Wells and of the various Companies of the MTASC. taken by Bert Phillips. A First World War Postcard, Bridge Building 19th Division FAWU MTASC and another, Wells No 9 Broad St Our Billett MTASC (2)
Lot 72
A Dame Laura Knight for Clarice Cliff design for a Circus Horses, Bizarre pattern circular plate, pencil sketch and watercolour with gilded highlights, signed and titled in pencil ‘Design for small plate, all alike’ circular, 16cm diameter, along with a side plate in the same design, puce printed mark, first edition 1934, 17cm diameter Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) was a leading artist in the first half of the twentieth century, she became the first woman artist to be elected into the Royal Academy since the first female members Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser. She served as an official war artist during World War II and also travelled to Nuremburg in 1946 to record the War Criminals trial. The Circus pattern which she designed was produced as a complete table service, with matching glassware. Each piece showed different themes including clowns, seals, acrobats, tightrope walkers and horses and was exhibited at the 1934 Harrods Exhibition.
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A mixed lot comprising: three various Snuff Boxes, the first tortoiseshell example of circular form with pull-off cover inlaid with silver wire work and floral and foliate swag decoration; the second fashioned from horn, of rectangular form with hinged lid set with a tortoiseshell panel; the third an ebonised example with inlaid white metal decoration (3)
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An Arts and Crafts silver bowl by Liberty & Co., London 1900, the design attributed to Archibald Knox, the circular bowl with pierced rim and raised on four tendril feet, 11cm (4.5in) diameter, 180g (5.75 oz); and an Arts & Crafts hammered silver tazza by The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd, London 1905, supported on three open scroll legs and a domed base, 14.5cm (5.75in) high, 453g (14.5 oz) (the first lacking its feet)
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A collection of silver and silver gilt spoons, including a pair of salt spoons by Louis Osman, London 1968, engraved 'ESRM 1968' and 'FIRST DOG ESRM 1968'; a set of six silver gilt and differing colour enamel coffee spoons by Barker Bros. Ltd, Birmingham 1938, in a case; a Georg Jensen silver-coloured metal acorn pattern grapefruit spoon, 1933-44 stamped marks; and others, some also enamelled, 275g (8.75 oz) gross (15)
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Hubert M. Brookes, an Art Deco silver canted-rectangular three piece tea service, makers' mark BS (presumably for Birmingham School of Art), Birmingham 1930, straight-tapered and each with ivory stylised harp handles, the tea pot 24.5cm (9.5in) long, 1092g (35 oz) gross. Each piece with hand-written labels under 'Designed and Executed... #Exhibited by Hubert M. Brookes.. '. Sold with a diploma with attached photograph from the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Arts and Crafts Exhibition 1936, 'Lucas Awards First Prize', no. 193. See Jones, Kenneth Crisp. 'The Silversmiths of Birmingham and their Marks 1750-1980' London 1981, p.309 for a short biography of Brookes and Dreweatt Neate, Bristol Collectors' sale 28th November 2006, lot 635 for a hand-built model of a fire engine by Brookes
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Gilbert Bayes (1872-1953), three cement sectional moulds, for a Dove, Fish (incomplete) and another (unidentified). Provenance: The Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust. See Irvine, Louise and Atterbury, Paul. Gilbert Bayes: Sculptor 1872-1953. Shepton Beauchamp 1998, p.171ff for a discussion of these washing line post finials to be made in Doulton stoneware. An example from the first two moulds illustrated on p.172
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'Winged Hours', a Compton Pottery sectional grey terracotta garden sundial, modelled with winged cherub heads, the conforming capital also with roundels inscribed N, S, E and W, with an octagonal engraved dial, approximately 112cm high (faults). Exhibited: The Watts Gallery exhibition, 1998 at Compton. See Franklin Gould, Veronica. Archibald Knox & Mary Seton Watts Modern Celtic Art Garden Pottery, pp. 14, 15 and 41. Watts's first tombstone, modelled in March 1898 by Thomas Steadman, was inspired by a pattern in the Liberty of Saint Gall, embellished with a ring of cherubs, their intertwining wings surrounding a celtic wheel cross and knot roundel. Two days later Louis Deuchars modelled the capital for her Winged Hours sundial where cherubs face north, south, east and west, suggesting the idea of the Cross
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Lot 267
Southeast Asia. Jansson (Jan), Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio, [1638],. engraved map with rather strong hand colouring, title cartouche flanked by figures, plate dimensions 390 x 500 mm, Latin text to verso this landmark map is the first to show the new discoveries by the Dutch ship Duyfken in 1606. (1)
Lot 292
* Alken (Henry). The First Steeple-Chace on Record, pub. Oxford, Benjamin Brooks, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, March 1st 1839,. a set of four hand-coloured aquatints of a night-time steeple chase, engraved by J. Harris, after H. Alken, some marks and tape residues to margins, some light overall toning, plate size approx. 360 x 405 mm (14 x 16 ins) (4)
Lot 336
* Hollar (Wenceslaus, 1607-1677). Parlamentum Londinense. Abbitdung der Session des Parlaments zu Londen uber den Sententz des Grafen von Stafford, [1643], together with The True Maner of the Execution of Thomas Earle of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland upon Towerhill the 12th May 1641, [1643], two fine engravings of the sentencing and trial of Thomas Wentworth, first earl of Strafford and lord lieutenant of Ireland (1593-1641), plate dimensions 260 x 280 mm, framed and glazed pennington 551 (iii) & 552 (iii) respectively. Strafford was sentenced to death for treason in the unsettled period before the Civil War, despite retaining the favour of the King who attempted to have him freed from the tower in the days before his execution. The former engraving is a fine depiction of the House of Lords with Strafford defending himself in the dock, the latter his shows execution by beheading at the Tower of London on 12 May 1641. Included in this lot are two reference books on Hollar by Denkstein and Van Eerde, both in d.js. (4)
Lot 395
London Gazette. Collection of eleven individual issues of the London Gazette dating from 1674 to 1675,. together with a group of eighteen defective issues from 1684 to 1685, including one with a proclamation from the King, of the defeat of the rebels in the Monmouth Rebellion, all slim folio The London Gazette was the worlds first ever newspaper. (29)
Lot 407
Siege of Limerick of 1691. Collection of nine original issues of The Present State of Europe or The Historical and Political, Monthly Mercury, reprinted in Edinburgh, (Crane & Kaye no 745), all 1691,. each issue containing first-hand accounts of The Battle of Ballimore, Defeat of the Irish by General Ginkel, Attack on the Irish at Lamborough, Battle of Aghrim, Taking of Galloway, Defence and battle of Athlone, King James declaration to the Irish, Treaty of Limerick, Oath of allegiance in Ireland to William & Mary, etc., light dampstaining, disbound slim folio (9)
Lot 416
Testimonial. To William Jones, Esquire, Managing Director of the Cardiff Channel Dry Docks & Pontoon Company Limited, The Bute Shipbuilding, Engineering & Dry Dock Company Limited, and the Mercantile Pontoon Company Limited,. an illuminated Testimonial to Jones, on the occasion of the First Annual Dinner of the Staffs of the three Companies, April 24th, 1909, four pages of calligraphic text in red, blue and black, written on card in deep sunken mounts, each page within painted floral borders incorporating painted hunting scenes, or small orig. photographs of the Companys premises in Cardiff docks, or circular studio portraits, followed by two pages of signatures, bound in contemp. brown morocco, upper cover extravagantly decorated in gilt, now rubbed, spine defective, oblong folio (1)
Lot 423
Agricola (Georgius). De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556... by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, pub. for the Translators by The Mining Magazine, 1912, numerous b & w illusts., untrimmed, orig. vellum, black lettered spine worn and frayed at foot with sl. loss, lower joint splitting, folio, together with Zwšlf BŸcher vom Berg-und HŸttenwesen... Berlin, 1928, numerous b & w illusts., untrimmed, orig. bevel-edged blindstamped vellum, dusty, spine rubbed, and sl. frayed to extrems., folio (number 340 from an unspecified limitation) (2)
Lot 442
Dionysius (Areopagita). Opera [Part One only], Celestis hierarchia. Ecclesiastica hierarchia. Divina nomina. Mystica theologia. Undecim epistole Ignacii. Undecim epistole Policarpi Epistola una, Strasbourg, [G. Husner], 1503,. four preliminary unnumbered leaves [bound in from Part Two], and 329 numbered leaves, black letter text, large woodcut to first leaf, historiated and decorative woodcut initials supplied in blue and red, numerous small initials and paraph marks supplied in red, extensive early ink annotations to preliminary leaves and part of the commentary by Vercellensis towards end of vol., occn. minor marks to margins (generally in good condition), contemp. blind-patterned calf over wood boards, lacks clasps, some marks and soiling, 20th c. antique-style reback with thick raised bands, incorporating old red morocco label, folio The first part of the works of Dionysius Areopagite, one of the early Christian mystics, who combined neoplatonic ideas derived from Plotinus, Proclus and others with Christian theology, and influenced much medieval and renaissance philosophy, including St. Thomas Aquinas. (1)
Lot 445
Galt (John). The Life and Administration of Cardinal Wolsey, 1st ed., 1812, eng. port. frontis., occn. water-staining, mostly to first and final leaves, incl. frontis. and title-page, contemp. gilt dec. diced russia, rubbed, and spine label chipped, with some wear to extrems., lower cover lightly water-stained, 4to, together with Walpole (Horace), Memoires of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1822, eleven eng. plts., incl. frontispieces, correct as list, occn. foxing and finger-soiling, marbled edges and endpapers, contemp. gilt dec. purple calf, some surface rubbing, but a handsome set, 4to, plus Reign of George V, Representative Subjects of the King, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1912, numerous ports., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed (foxed), orig. gilt dec. morocco, 4to, plus six others antiq. (11)
Lot 447
Hodgson (James). The Theory of Navigation Demonstrated: and its Rudiments clearly and plainly proved, from the first and most simple principles of the mathematicks ... and a catalogue of the right ascensions, and distances from the pole of some eminent fixed stars. Also a collection of the latitudes of several ports and cities; with their longitudes from Her Majestys Observatory, decuded from Coelestial Observations, 1st ed., 1706,. half title, with publishers list to verso, two folding engraved plts., one with two printed overlays (loose), numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams to text, and one engraved illustration to text of a compass, some minor browning towards front of vol., contemp. calf, somewhat worn, with backstrip crudely repaired, small thick 4to (1)
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Lot 448
Holinshed (Ralph). The First and second volumes of Chronicles [and Third volume of Chronicles], comprising the description and historie of England... Ireland... Scotland, first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: Now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586, by John Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others, 3 vols. bound in 2, at the expenses of John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, 1586-7, lacks A1, two woodcut titles and three woodcut part-titles present, double-column black letter text, woodcut initials, some near-contemp. marginal annotations in ink, mostly to second vol., light peppered worming to rear of each vol., generally not affecting legibility, a few minor marks and minor marginal tears to prelims. (one or two small paper repairs), lacks final leaves (after G2) of Table at rear of third vol., later 18th-c. full calf, with early 19th c. reback to each vol., corners renewed, some wear to extrems., thick folio sTC 13569. With the cancelled leaves, principally to volume 3, as described in STC. This second edition of Holinsheds Chronicles, issued without the woodcut illustrations used in the first edition, is the primary source for many of Shakespeares history plays. Ex libris Richard Laurence Pemberton, and Prinknash Abbey, with bookplates to front pastedown of each volume. (1)
Lot 457
Manutius (Paulus). Antiquitatum Romanarum, Liber De Legibus, Venice, [Paulus Manutius], 1557,. title with woodcut device of the Aldus anchor, initial spaces with printed guides, a few marks and underlinings in blue crayon, minor marginal waterstain towards the rear of vol. (contents generally in clean condition), later 18th c. vellum, with black morocco gilt spine, a little rubbed and marked and minor wear to extrems., folio Renouard 172/18. The second issue, printed in the same year as the first, with thirty-three, rather than five lines of text to verso of the final leaf before index (folio LXXX). Ex libris Ronald Knox and Prinknash Abbey, with bookplates to front pastedown. (1)
Lot 468
[Montagu Charles, Earl of Halifax] The Hind and the Panther Transversd to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City-Mouse..., 1st ed., printed for W. Davis, 1687,. pp.[vi]+28, modern sheep gilt, rubbed, sm. 4to, together with Cibber (C.), Love Makes a Man: or, The Fops Fortune, A Comedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majestys Servants, printed for Richard Parker, [1701], pp.[iv]+76, title-page with small paper repair to blank margin, lightly browned throughout, 19th c. marbled half calf gilt, rubbed, sm. 4to, plus Shadwell (Tho.), A True Widow, A Comedy, Acted by the Dukes Servants, printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1679, pp.[viii]+78+[1], first two leaves foxed, and frayed to fore-edge, title-page with faint circular ink stamp, modern sheep gilt, extrems. rubbed, sm. 4to, plus six other plays similar (9)
Lot 469
Montanus (Benedictus Arias). A bound volume of seven biblical commentaries and archaeological studies, all pub. Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1572, (except third work dated 1573),. separate title to each part, with booksellers woodcut device, fourth part (Thubal-Cain) with rectangular engraved illusts. to verso of final leaf, fifth part (Phaleg) with two folding engraved maps of the Terrae Israel and the Terrae Canaan (the first with some fraying to extreme fore-edges, just touching engraved image), sixth part (Exemplar) with eleven engraved plates, occn. light dampstaining to extreme upper and outer corners (contents generally in good condition), 19th c. half calf, worn with joints cracked, folio Adams 1631, 1658, 1662, 1656, 1659, 1643, & 1634. The titles to each: Communes et Familiares Hebraicae Linguae Idiotismi, Liber Joseph, sive, De Arcano Sermone, Liber Jeremiae, sive, De Actione, Thubal-Cain, sive, De Mensuris Sacris liber, Phaleg, sive, De Gentium Sedibus Primis, orbiscue terrae situ, liber, Exemplar, sive, De Sacris Fabricis liber & Daniel, sive, De Saeculis Codex Integer. Additionally bound in at the rear of the volume are three short works on variant readings of the Hebrew and Greek Bible (De Varia in Hebraicis libris lectione, Adams 1640, Variarum in Graecis Bibliis lectionum libellus & Annotationes Variarum lectionum in Psalmos). Benedictus Arias Montanus (1527-1598), a Spanish Benedictine monk, Orientalist and Biblical Commentator, was Editor of the famous Antwerp Polyglot Bible published by Christopher Plantin in eight volumes, several volumes of which contained biblical commentaries, much of which was written by Arias Montanus had written himself. Much of the present folio, although published separately, would have appeared in this work. (1)
Lot 471
Muratori (Ludovico Antonio). Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, sive Dissertationes de Moribus, Ritibus, Religione, Regimine, Magistratibus, Legibus, Studiis Literarum, Artibus, Lingua, Militia, Nummis ..., 6 vols., Milan, Ex Typographia Societatis Palatinae, 1738-42,. half-title, engraved frontis. by Zucchi after F. Zugni, and printed title in red and black with engraved vign. to each vol., some woodcut illusts. to text of coins, inscriptions, etc., contents clean, marbled endpapers, contemp. uniform mottled full calf, gilt-dec. spines with morocco labels, rubbed and some wear, joints partly cracked or splitting, folio Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750), regarded as the father of Italian history, was a scholar, historian and antiquary, who worked as librarian to the Duke of Modena. His major work was the Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (1723-51), and its companion work Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi (1738-1742). This copy with British Library oval inkstamp and duplicate stamp (dated 1818) to title verso, and final leaf verso of each volume, and a handwritten note to blank before half-title of the first volume Purchased by Order of Committee Septr. 1. 1769. (6)
Lot 476
Panvinio (Onofrio). Fasti et Triumphi Roma Romulo Rege usque ad Carolum V. Caes. Aug. sive Epitome Regum, Consulum, Dictatorum, Magistror. equitum, Tribunorum militum consulari potestate Censorum Impp. & aliorum Magistratuum Roman. cum Orientalium tum occidentalium, ex antiquitatum monumentis maxima ... desumpta, Venice, Jacopo Strada, 1557,. title with large printers woodcut device, text occasionally printed in red and black, numerous woodcut illusts. of early coins to text, woodcut initials, some leaves browned, light dampstain to upper inner margin at front of vol., title restrengthened to top left corner, early 19th c. vellum-backed marbled boards, rubbed and scuffed, raised bands and morocco labels to spine, folio Adams p. 195. Ex libris Horace Walpole, with bookplate to front pastedown, and Basil Tolhurst, with bookplates to front pastedown and front endpaper. This copy also with early ownership inscription to foot of title F. Leonardi Coquai Aurelii confessarii M. Ducissae Christianae a Lotharingia. 1606. First edition of this handsomely printed work on Roman history, with numismatic illustrations by Bernard Salomon, mostly from the collection of Jean Grolier. Panvinio brought out a corrected edition the following year, entitled Fastorum Libri V.. (1)
Lot 483
Thackeray (William Makepeace). The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, his Friends and his Greatest Enemy, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1849-50, etched plts. (incl. frontispieces and addn. titles) and illusts. to text by the author, usual spotting and browning, first vol. with early ms. name to printed title, second vol. with booksellers ink stamp to eng. title, early 20th c. half morocco gilt, spines darkened, 8vo, together with The Virginians, A Tale of the Last Century, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1858-59, half-title present to vol. 1, etched plts. (incl. frontispieces and addn. titles) and illusts. to text by the author, scattered foxing, contemp. half calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving orig. gilt dec. spines, 8vo, plus The Newcomes, Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq., 2 vols. in 1, 1st ed., 1854-55, etched plts. (incl. frontispieces and addn. titles) and illusts. to text by Richard Doyle, occn. foxing and browning, near contemp. half calf, rubbed, spine faded, 8vo, plus nine others by and about Thackeray, incl. some 1st eds. and some with hand col. plts. (14)
Lot 491
Jefferies (Richard). Worlds End, 3 vols., 1st ed., Tinsley Bros., 1877, half-titles and ads. at rear, neat owner name to each title page, first vol. with label removal to front free endpaper, some hinges cracked, orig. cloth gilt, spines darkened and with wear at ends, 8vo, together with After London, or Wild England, 1st ed., Cassell, 1885, half-title (neat ink-stamp), ads. at rear, light spotting, orig. cloth gilt, some wear to spine, plus Greene Ferne Farm, 1st ed., Smith, Elder, 1880, half-title, ads. at rear, orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, spine sunned, 8vo, and Amaryllis at the Fair, 1st ed., Sampson Low, 1887, half-title, bookplt., hinges cracked, orig. pict. cloth gilt, rubbed, some wear to edges, 8vo, plus three reprints by Jefferies. (9)
Lot 492
Jefferies (Richard). The Scarlet Shawl, 1st ed., Tinsley Bros., 1874, half-title, ads. at front and rear, lacking front free endpaper, lower hinge partially cracked, orig. red cloth gilt, rubbed and sl. cocked, 8vo, together with Greene Ferne Farm, 1st ed., Smith, Elder, 1880, half-title, ads. at rear, orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and marked, spine a little yellowed, 8vo, plus The Dewy Morn, 2 vols., 1st ed., Bentley, 1884, occasional light spotting, one gathering working loose in first vol. with one leaf wholly detached (but present), orig. green cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, spine ends worn, 8vo, and T.T.T., Reprinted from the North Wilts Herald, pub. Wells, Arthur Young, 1896, 100 copies printed, later (?) cloth with orig. printed wrappers bound-in, 8vo, plus Jefferies Land, A History of Swindon and its Envirions, 1st ed., Simpkin, 1896, 350 copies printed, plts., folding map at rear, orig. cloth gilt, spine ends and corners rubbed, 8vo. (6)
Lot 495
Jefferies (Richard). Bevis, the Story of a Boy, 3 vols., 1st ed., Sampson Low, 1882, half-title to vol.1 (as issued), 32pp. ads. at rear of vol.3, occasional light browning or spotting, hinges to each vol. broken with entire contents loose inside, vol.2 lacking all leaves prior to B1 (p.1), bookplt. to each front pastedown with evidence of removal of earlier label from pastedown of vol.1, orig. brown dec. cloth gilt, rubbed, some wear to edges, 8vo, together with Wood Magic, A Fable, 2 vols., 1st ed., Cassell, 1881, half-title to first vol., ads. at rear of second, hinges cracked with upper hinge of first vol. entirely broken, orig. green dec. cloth gilt, rubbed, some wear to spines, 8vo (5)
Lot 508
Chandler (R., N. Revett & W. Pars). Ionian Antiquities, published, with permission of the Society of Dilettanti, vols. I & II,bound in one, 1769 & 1797,. ninety-two full page engraved plates, including one or two folding, many engraved head- and tail-pieces, some minor foxing and marginal soiling, small semi-circular stain to inner margin at foot of vol. affecting first third of the volume, contemp. half dark green morocco, worn with upper portion of backstrip deficient, folio Blackmer 1566. These two volumes were the product of the Society of Dilettantis first Ionian mission in 1764-66. The first volume is the second issue of c. 1784, with an additonal chaper IV added. (1)
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Lot 510
[Cockburn, Ralph]. Selections from the Dulwich Gallery, n.d., c. 1830,. thirty fine highly-finished aquatint plates, each mounted on card with double-rule in gold, each with handwritten title in ink to preceding guard leaf, handwritten title leaf bearing the words Selections from The Dulwich Gallery only within gold double-ruled border, one or two minor marks to first plate, foxing to final blank leaf, a.e.g. (page size approx. 417 x 280 mm), contemp. green full morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, with some marks and small stains, a little wear to extrems., folio See Abbey, Life in England 201, where the titles are provided on printed slips pasted to the verso of each plate. (1)
Lot 526
Leonardo da Vinci. A Treatise of Painting, translated from the original Italian, and adornd with a great number of cuts. To which is prefixd The Authors Life; done from the last edition of the French, 1st English ed., printed for J. Senex, and W. Taylor, 1721,. engraved port. frontispiece, title printed in red and black, thirty-five engraved plates including some folding, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, some light foxing to first and last few leaves, recent good-quality antique-style sprinkled full calf gilt, 8vo Leonardos famous Trattato was first published in Paris in 1651, and in this first English edition is accompanied by a translation of Du Fresnes Life of the Artist. Sothebys, Macclesfield Library, V (14 April 2005), 1236.. (1)
Lot 529
Old Watercolour Society. The Old Water-Colour Societys Club Annual Volumes, 61 vols., a slightly broken run, vols. I-VI, VIII-XXXI & XXXIII-LXIII, 1924-94,. numerous b&w illusts., a few in colour, all orig. cloth-backed boards (later full cloth), first vol. with some staining to covers and backstrip frayed along upper joint and partly det., 4to/large 8vo (61)
Lot 530
Overbeke (Bonaventura ab ). Les Restes de lAncienne Rome, recherchez avec soin, mesurez, dessinez sur les lieux, 3 vols., The Hague, Pierre Gosse & Daniel Pinet, 1763, titles printed in red and black with eng. vign., 150 eng. plts., including allegorical frontispiece, portraits of Queen Anne and the author, and a double-page map to first vol., contents generally clean (first vol. with minor waterstain to extreme lower margin, contemp. cats-paw full calf, worn with some loss of leather, particularly to first vol., joints cracked, folio (3)
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