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Toovey's

Lot 3095

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM. A musical photograph album, [circa 1880-1900]. Folio (183 x 234mm.) Containing a chromolithographed decorative leaf and ten further leaves with window apertures and decorative floral chromolithographic surround, fitted with a key-wind musical cylinder movement playing two airs. (Minor tears.) Original morocco, the upper cover with applied elaborate papier mâché panel of two lovers in a landscape within a moulded border (spine lacking). Contained within a modern cloth box with key.

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Lot 3100

FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES. World Championship Jules Rimet Cup Final England v West Germany Saturday July 30 1966. [N.p. but London: n.d. but 1966]. Folio (228 x 177mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original wrappers (slightly creased). – And a quantity of other football programmes, including domestic, European and international ties, a small collection of football magazines and a scrap album, some with autographs.

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Lot 3138

HALES, John W., Frederick J. FURNIVALL and others (editors). Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript, Ballads and Romances. London: 1867-1868. 3 vols., 8vo (219 x 138mm.) Folding frontispiece. (Some spotting.) Contemporary half-calf, by Henderson & Bisset (extremities slightly rubbed). Provenance: R.S. Aitchison (armorial bookplate to vol. I).

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DETAILLE, Édouard (illustrator). Cavaliers de Napoléon. [N.p.: n.d.] Limited edition, this number 16 of an unstated limitatio

Toovey's

Lot 3180

DETAILLE, Édouard (illustrator). Cavaliers de Napoléon. [N.p.: n.d.] Limited edition, this number 16 of an unstated limitation, folio (325 x 248mm.) 32 plates. Unbound as issued, within original cloth-backed portfolio.

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SNELLING, Thomas. A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of Scotland. London: 1774. [bound with:] Thomas SNELLING. A View of t

Toovey's

Lot 3224

SNELLING, Thomas. A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of Scotland. London: 1774. [bound with:] Thomas SNELLING. A View of the Origin, Nature, and Use of Jettons or Counters. London: 1769. 2 works in 1 vol., folio (390 x 250mm.) 17 engraved plates. (Some spotting and browning.) Stitched, loosely contained with later wrappers (somewhat spotted and creased).

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Toovey's

Lot 3284

BALDACCI, Osvaldo. Columbian Atlas of the Great Discovery translated by Lucio Bertolazzi and Luciano F. Farina. Rome: 1997. Folio (486 x 319mm.) Numerous illustrations, many colour, some double-page. Original paper-covered boards (extremities lightly bumped). – And sixteen others on maps and atlases relating to North America (17).

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Toovey's

Lot 3286

HASLEHUST, Ernest W. (illustrator). – Walter JERROLD. The Silvery Thames. Leeds and London: 1906. Limited edition of 200 copies, this number 45 signed by the author and illustrator, oblong folio (280 x 375mm.) 60 tipped-in colour plates. (Occasional soiling.) Original half-vellum (somewhat soiled and affected by damp).

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Toovey's

Lot 3294

HENRY, MATTHEW. An Exposition on the Old and New Testament. London: J. Stratford, [n.d. but circa 1828.] 3 vols., folio (425 x 260mm.) 98 engraved plates. (Some spotting and browning.) Contemporary calf (rubbed and scuffed). – And five bibles (8).

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Toovey's

Lot 3299

OSPREY (publisher). Ogilby’s Road Maps of England and Wales from Ogilby’s ‘Britannia’, 1675. Reading: 1971. Folio (391 x 262mm.) Printed in facsimile, numerous double-page maps. Original cloth (lightly scuffed). – And fourteen others on maps and atlases relating to the British Isles (15).

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ACTON, Harold. This Chaos. Paris: Hours Press, 1930. Limited edition of 150 copies, this out of series signed by the author,

Toovey's

Lot 3315

ACTON, Harold. This Chaos. Paris: Hours Press, 1930. Limited edition of 150 copies, this out of series signed by the author, folio (284 x 191mm.) (Some soiling and light spotting.) Original calf-backed boards designed by Elliott Seabrooke (somewhat soiled, spine worn).

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PLOT, Robert. The Natural History of Staffordshire. Oxford: printed at the Theater, 1686. Folio (306 x 188mm.) Engraved title

Toovey's

Lot 3321

PLOT, Robert. The Natural History of Staffordshire. Oxford: printed at the Theater, 1686. Folio (306 x 188mm.) Engraved title vignette, 1 folding map, 36 plates (of 38) only (26 folding). (Some browning and occasional soiling, map, occasional text leaves and some plates torn and repaired, lacking plates XI and XXXV.) Near contemporary calf (worn, front-free endpaper now loosely inserted). Provenance: Charles Lyttleton (armorial bookplate, signature dated Aug’st 1st 1740 to front-free endpaper, some marginal ink annotations). Wing P2588.

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The Imperial Family Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, Blackie, Glasgow 1844. Pictorial purple-brown leather gilt,

Dreweatts Bristol Salerooms (The Apsley Road Saleroom)

Lot 501

The Imperial Family Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, Blackie, Glasgow 1844. Pictorial purple-brown leather gilt, engraved plate illustrations, folio.

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(J.F. Hollings), "Sketches in Leicestershire", an album of lithographs with descriptions, Leicester 1843, large fol

Gilding's Auctioneers

Lot 178

(J.F. Hollings), "Sketches in Leicestershire", an album of lithographs with descriptions, Leicester 1843, large folio.

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A Victorian album, with manuscript poetry, engravings, watercolours, 6" ordnance map of Rugby neighbourhood, in a cloth

Gilding's Auctioneers

Lot 444

A Victorian album, with manuscript poetry, engravings, watercolours, 6" ordnance map of Rugby neighbourhood, in a cloth slip case, new views of Waterloo, an album of lithographs, seventy etched facsimiles after the original studies of Michael Angelo and Raffaelle, Oxford 1852 and a loose folio of hand coloured prints and engravings.

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Andrew Smith & Son

Lot 115

Mixed folio containing various engravings and drawings etc

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J M Heathcote, a folio of five 19th century watercolours - Great Gidding, 1860; Conington Castle, Huntingdonshire; Nr Langall

Andrew Smith & Son

Lot 117

J M Heathcote, a folio of five 19th century watercolours - Great Gidding, 1860; Conington Castle, Huntingdonshire; Nr Langallen; Cuckfield Park 1866; Ashburnham Place, Battle 1877, all unframed (5)

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Andrew Smith & Son

Lot 118

JM Heathcote, a folio of five 19th century unframed watercolours - Near Zermatt, Matterhorn 1867; Sligackan 1874; Sawtry 1877; St George`s Hill Surrey 1874; Hagley 1871 (5)

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Andrew Smith & Son

Lot 119

JM Heathcote, a folio of five unframed 19th century watercolours, Buildwas Abbey 1871; Tantallon Castle 1876; North Berwick 1877; Fen & Mere 1835/6, etc (5)

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Athina Tarsouli, `Costume Grecs`, folio album of coloured lithographic prints of Greek costumes, each sheet 25 x 35 cms, a pr

Andrew Smith & Son

Lot 136

Athina Tarsouli, `Costume Grecs`, folio album of coloured lithographic prints of Greek costumes, each sheet 25 x 35 cms, a presentation copy with hand-written dedication by the artist to Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson C-inC allied forces in the Mediterranean, dated Athens October 1944

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Andrew Smith & Son

Lot 139

Book: `Fighter Pilot Profile Collection`, pub. Military Gallery 1984, comprising signatures of twenty six fighter pilots in album, c/w documentation, edition of 2,000, to/w `So Many`, RAF Bomber Command folio book (2)

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Andrew Smith & Son

Lot 149

Books:Lee, Frederick George, `The History, Description and Antiquities of the Prebendal Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Thame in the County and Diocese of Oxford`, pub. Mitchell & Hughes, London 1883, ltd edition of 210 copies, this no.97, folio, contemporary brown half-morocco.

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A folio of 18th and 19th Century business/visitors cards, teaching aids etc, mostly mounted.

Chippenham Auction Rooms

Lot 1

A folio of 18th and 19th Century business/visitors cards, teaching aids etc, mostly mounted.

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A folio of Chinese visiting cards, an illustration of a lady dated 1836.

Chippenham Auction Rooms

Lot 5

A folio of Chinese visiting cards, an illustration of a lady dated 1836.

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An early and unusual two piece engraving depicting mythological creatures, possibly 18th/19th Century Catholic, also a folio

Chippenham Auction Rooms

Lot 18

An early and unusual two piece engraving depicting mythological creatures, possibly 18th/19th Century Catholic, also a folio of assorted 19th Century engravings, prints etc.

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Bloomsbury Auctions (Godalming)

Lot 10A

Spirit of the Times: a Chronicle of the Turf Fiel 4 vol in 2 104 issues in all illustrations adverisments each issue lacking about 10 more pp. of advertisments but text complete little marked black half roan little rubbed rebacked folio New York 1884-86. ***Mostly concerned with horses in America; racing breeding care &c..

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Lot 19

Beijer Stottsteatrarna Pa Drottingholm 1937 number 50 of 255 copies many full-page illustrations a few colour original cloth oblong folio Stockholm [1937]. ***One of the most important studies of 18th century theatres scenery and stage machinery..

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[Diderot & d`Alembert. Encyclopédie] Theatres 31 engraved plates 7 double-page; Machines de Theatre 49 engraved plates 4

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Lot 26

[Diderot & d`Alembert. Encyclopédie] Theatres 31 engraved plates 7 double-page; Machines de Theatre 49 engraved plates 4 folding 36 double-page the last 4 plates with marginal water-stain both with list of plates 1 leaf of list with marginal repairs lightly soiled occasional marginal soiling modern morocco-backed marbled boards folio [Paris] [c.1770].

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Lot 28

Finch (Christopher) Art of Walt Disney 1973 1973 § Walther (Ingo F.) and Norbert Wolf. Codices Illustres. The World`s Most Famous Illuminated Manuscripts Taschen 2001 § Zöllner (Frank) Leonardo da Vinci The Complete Paintings and Drawings Taschen 2003 plates and illustrations the first original pictorial buckram transparent dust-jacket the other original boards dust-jackets; and 13 others similar folio(16)

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Lot 36

Shakespeare (William) The First Folio 1968 Norton facsimile edition original leather-backed buckram gilt slightly rubbed slip-case rubbed folio New York 1968.

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Mordecai (Nathan) Concordantiarum Hebraicarum text in Hebrew & Latin woodcut device on colophon lacking *1 (?blank) and 2

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Lot 42

Mordecai (Nathan) Concordantiarum Hebraicarum text in Hebrew & Latin woodcut device on colophon lacking *1 (?blank) and 2 folding ff. ink inscription "Monastery Sancti Spiritus Bergomi" to title 2 lines of text on L5 scored through in ink small stain to lower corner of title and c.a quarter of text ff. light water-staining from Oo5 to end occasional light spotting modern antique-style calf spine gilt slightly rubbed [Adams I188] small folio Basel Henricus Petri 1556.

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Lot 46

Tamburini (Thomas) Theologia Moralis 3 vol. in 1 vellum foxed Venice 1755 § Trommium (Abrahamum) Volkomene Nederlandsche Concordantie ofte Woord-Register des Ouden en Nieuwe Testaments 3 vol. vellum hinges cracking endpapers torn Amsterdam 1672 § Totius Latinitatis Lexicon Consilio et Cura Jacobi Facciolati 2 vol. half vellum 1835; and 6 others folio(12)

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Lot 68

17th century Acts.- A Collection of Acts relating to: appointment of judges during the Commonwealth trade ("An Act for Setled Convoys for Securing the Trade of the Nation" 1650) customs and excise sheriffs taxation religion duties payable rebuilding the City of London highways "disarming Papists" frauds and perjury etc. browned mostly disbound the rest contemporary calf worn folio 17th century - 1715(qty)

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Lot 70

Tryal (The) of William Viscount title holed contemporary panelled calf worn covers loose 1681/2 § Tryal (The) of Thomas Earl of Macclesfield...for High Crimes and Misdemeanours licence f. names on title and free endpaper contemporary panelled calf rubbed corner worn 1725 § Trial (The) of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy licence f. corner missing title marked last f. marked and creased disbound 1776 § Whole Proceedings (The) in the House of Peers...against Simon Lord Lovat for High Treason licence f. disbound 1747 and 11 others trials including another copy of the second folio (15)

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Lot 72

Parliament.- Assembled at Westminster in this Present Convention January 22 1688/9 J. Partridge and M. Gillyflower 1689 bound with His Majesties Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament 18th February 1688/9 C.Bill and the Executrix of T. Newcomb 1701 bound with c. 30 other Gracious Speeches in 1 vol. some spotting contemporary calf-backed boards with a collection of other Parliamentary material Gracious Speeches Humble Addresses Reports Votes Acts &c many disbound a few pp. in photocopy some incomplete folio 17th & 18th centuries(c. 70)

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Lot 73

Parliament.- Journal of the House manuscript 421pp. excluding blanks ruled in red some water-staining affecting some pp. slightly foxed and browned 1f. with small tear at tail W.K.R. Bedford`s copy with his bookplate on front pastedown later endpapers 19th century half calf rubbed worn joints split folio [eighteenth century]. ***"A leaf of this journal was picked up by me in 1856 in the ditch opposite the Rectory back gate. I purchased the remainder from the Chandler`s shop at the Boot public house at the price of waste paper - it having been bought at the same rate by the propreitor in the in Market Hall Birmingham." - W.K.R. Bedford. W.K.R. Bedford (1826-1905) antiquary..

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Lot 78

18th Century.- A collection of Acts subjects relating to: America ("An Act to continue an Act... for granting Liberty to carry Rice from... Carolina... to... Southward of Cape Finisterre... and to... Georgia" 1735; "An Act for better Preservation... of Woods in America" 1729) paying duty including on malt cider beer etc. the statute of hue and cry repealing laws on witchcraft night watchmen highways street lighting trade religion "manufacture of British Sail cloth" Army finance ("An Act to make perpetual... to prevent the infamous Practice of Stock-jobbing Acts relating to local areas the law relief of insolvent debtors Ireland together 9 vol. some browning a few wormholes in a few margins of 1 vol. contemporary calf a few covers detached rubbed and in some cases worn folio v.d. 1714 1720 1722 1729 1734-36 1737-38 1740 1757-59.

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Lot 79

Robert Walpole.- A Report imprimatur leaf before title bookplate on front pastedown Earl of Harcourt`s copy with a letter from Lady Mary Harcourt tipped-in on front free endpaper giving this vol. on behalf of her son in exchange for another copy manuscript note on the Treaty of Utrecht perhaps by Simon Harcourt first Viscount Harcourt (1661-1727) loosely inserted slightly browned contemporary panelled calf slightly rubbed folio Jacob Tonson and others 1715.

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Lot 80

India.- A collection of Acts slightly browned disbound folio 18th & 19th centuries(qty)

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Lot 83

London & Middlesex.- A collection including the Night Watch in the City of London paving the streets "Act to enable... a new Sewer at Bayswater..." "Act for making the Hamlet of Wapping Stepney... a distinct Parish" mostly from the reign of George III some browned disbound folio 18th century(qty)

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Lot 87

Leeward Islands.- Acts of Assembly some slight browning new endpapers modern buckram John Baskett 1740; and another folio(2)

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Lot 91

Lincolnshire.- An Act for Amending docket tite at end 1770; and 5 others relating to the draining of the Lincolnshire Fens together 6 Acts in 1 vol. contemporary calf rubbed covers detached lacks spine folio.

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Lot 93

Naval & Maritime.- A Collection mostly acts regulating Marine Forces while on Shore others including finance of the Navy and including an "Act for collecting at the Port of Leghorn certain small sums... to which the Merchants... there have usually contributed for the relief of shipwrecked Mariners" etc. mostly from the reign of George III some browned disbound folio 18th century (qty)

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Lot 95

Military.- A collection of Acts and other military matters including mutiny and desertion Ordnance at Woolwich rates of subsistence to be paid to Innkeepers on quartering soldiers the militia mostly from the reign of George III slightly browned disbound folio c. 1770s - 1806(19)

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Lot 96

Trade.- A collection of Acts including: Tea Fir-Timber imports of Foreign Brandy duties Business of Pawn-Brokers Turkey Tobacco etc. browned a few dampstained with loss disbound folio 18th & 19th centuries(qty)

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Lot 99

Americas.- An Act for continuing title and 2pp. extract p. 3 1778; An Act for extending like Liberty in the Exportation of Rice from East and West Florida to the Southward of Cape Finisterre... title and 2pp. extract pp. 631-632 1770; An Act for amending and explaining an Act... intituled An Act to establish a Fund towards further defraying the Charges of the Administration of Justice and Support of the Civil Government within the Province of Quebec title and 2pp. extract pp. 1227-1228 1775; and a small quantity of others including Hudson`s Bay Company Papers A Proposal For the better Supplying of Churches in Our Foreign Plantations and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity 1725; Papers Relating to American Loyalists folio(sm. qty)

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Lot 100

Parliament.- A Bill to Allow the Exportation 5pp. drophead title docket on verso of last f. stitched as issued [ESTC locates 2 copies in America only; no copies located in the British Isles] [1780]; and a small quantity of Acts and Parliamentary Papers relating to America folio(sm. qty)

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Lot 101

America.- A Bill for The Provisional 3pp. drophead title docket title on verso of last f. folds slightly browned [ESTC locates 5 copies] folio [1783]. ***Not enacted..

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Lot 103

Fisheries.- A collection of Acts including: the White Herring Fishery curing of Fish Southern Whale Fishery etc. slightly browned disbound 18th & 19th centuries; and a small quantity of Maritime Acts folio(qty)

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Australia.- An Historical Narrative first edition advertisements on verso of last f. title tear repaired lacks map new endpap

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Lot 104

Australia.- An Historical Narrative first edition advertisements on verso of last f. title tear repaired lacks map new endpapers modern half morocco slip-case [Ferguson 11] sm. 4to Printed for John Fielding [?1786]; and 2 copies of Parliamentary Report Convict Discipline and Transportation 1852 folio(3)

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Lot 105

Draft Petition.- To the Honourable the 1p. drophead title [c. 1790]; and 8 duplicates folio(9) ***An unused petition calling for electoral reform..

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Lot 107

Grand Junction Canal.- An Act 12pp. drophead title small tear and ink inscription at head a few marginal notes and underlinings in text 1795; and another Railway Act folio(2)

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Lot 109

Ireland.- A Collection of Acts including: Militia of Ireland duty on woollen and bay yarn "An Act for providing a proper salary for the Officer of the Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland" 1802; "An Act for regulating the Trial of Controverted Elections or Returns of Members to serve in the United Parliament of Ireland" 1802 etc. browned most disbound some in contemporary calf defective folio(qty)

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Lot 113

Slavery Acts.- An Act for carrying [8pp.] 18-24pp. drophead title 1836; and 5 other anti-slavery Acts and another Correspondence... to the Importance and Regulation of Slaves in... Colonies and Plantations 1799 disbound folio(7)

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Lot 116

Electricity.- A collection of Acts browned a few underlinings in text ink signature of J.D. FitzGerald on front free endpaper contemporary morocco gilt rubbed upper cover detaching lacks spine sm. folio 1882-1900.

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Lot 117

Treaties etc.- Treaty of Peace folding maps slightly browned original printed wrappers slightly browned 1919; and 7 others Treaties etc. folio(8)

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Lot 120

[Comines (Philippe de) The Historie of Philip de trans. Thomas Dannett] third edition engraved title some staining genealogical tables tears and paper damage to D6 G6 N6-P1 at fore-edge R1 R6 Dd6 holes with loss some browning and foxing contemporary mottle calf rebacked new front free endpaper folio S.G. for Joshua Kirton 1665.

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Foxe (John) The seconde Volume of the Ecclesiastic vol. II only numerous woodcuts title corner and fore-edge repaired dampsta

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Lot 121

Foxe (John) The seconde Volume of the Ecclesiastic vol. II only numerous woodcuts title corner and fore-edge repaired dampstain to last few leaves later reversed calf rebacked new endpapers folio for the Company of Stationers 1684.

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Bacon (Sir Francis) The Historie of the Raigne of first edition first issue [some sheets with second issue points] engraved f

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Lot 123

Bacon (Sir Francis) The Historie of the Raigne of first edition first issue [some sheets with second issue points] engraved frontispiece portrait contemporary inscription to head of portrait small tears to 2 leaves wax? marks to verso of portrait contemporary calf later reback rubbed new endpapers [Gibson 116a cf.116b; STC 1159] folio W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes and William Barret 1622.

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Lot 126

Shakespeare (William) Works a Leaf from three of The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth pp. 95/96 Second Folio 1632 The Taming of the Shrew pp. 217/218 Second Folio 1632 The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus pp. 631/632 Third Folio 1664 and The Tragedy of King Lear pp. 97/98 Forth Folio 1685 single leaves the First Folio leaf trimmed close to border some slight foxing signs of careful removal from their original bindings housed in paper portfolio folio 1623-1664 § Bonacinae (Martin) Mediolanensis leaf of text p.710 mounted with facsimile of title-page 1646; and 4 others similar v.s.(8)

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[Burnet (Thomas)] The Theory of the Earth 4 part in 2 vol. first edition engraved additional titles and 2 folding plates engr

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Lot 139

[Burnet (Thomas)] The Theory of the Earth 4 part in 2 vol. first edition engraved additional titles and 2 folding plates engraved illustrations one or two full-page advertisement leaf at end of vol.2 signature cut away from head of title of vol.1 title of vol.2 soiled and with old ink inscription at head (slightly defective at upper outer corner and tear affecting text crudely repaired) vol.2 a little browned a few rust-spots or holes ex-library copy with small ink and embossed stamps contemporary mottled calf spines gilt with red morocco labels (not uniform) rubbed splits to joints slight wear to spine ends [Wing B5950 & 5954] folio R. Norton for Walter Kettilby 1684-90.

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