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Walker (J. & C.). The British Atlas, 1858, engraved title in the form of a dedication to Queen Victoria, forty-nine hand coloured double-page engraved maps of England, Scotland, Ireland and counties, contemp. half calf with leather label to upper cover, worn with defective spine and covers detached, folio Internally in very good condition. (1).

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Whitaker (Thomas Dunham). The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York, 2nd ed., 1812, frontis. and addn. eng. title, num. engraved and aqua. views, genealogical tables (some folding), all plts. complete, contemp. calf gilt, rubbed and scufed with joints splitting, together with a defective copy of the first edition lacking the port. frontis, folio (2).

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Wimbush (Henry B. and Carey, Edith F.). The Channel Islands, 1st ed., A&C Black, 1904, col. frontis., lib. stamp to title, num. col. plts., t.e.g., orig. dec. cloth gilt, lib. blind stamp, 4to, together with "Aleph". London Scenes and London People, 3rd ed., 1864, col. frontis., orig. cloth gilt, sl. worn, 8vo, plus Stroud (Dorothy) . Capability Brown, 1950, col. frontis., orig. cloth gilt, d.j. sl. soiled, 4to, plus Ramsey (Stanley C.). Small Georgian Houses and Their Details 1750-1820, 1972, num. b&w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, with d.j., folio, plus three other books of topographical interest, etc, 4to (7).

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Wood (Anthony). Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford ..., 2nd ed., very much Corrected and Enlarged; with the Addition of above 500 New Lives from the Author's Original Manuscript, 1721, title to each vol. printed in red and black, modern endpapers with library bookplate to front pastedowns of each vol., some slight spotting, modern library style dark brown qtr. morocco, folio (2).

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Carwythenack Rental Book. Mannor of Carwythenack. The Court Baron or Law Court of William Hill Esq. Lord of the Mannor held in and for the Same the Twen third day of May 1748 at the house of John Rogers in Gweek, the Carwythenack Rental Book, containing all the successive Court Baron returns from that date to 14th October 1772, approximately 50 leaves, written in various neat secretarial hands, with details of Tenements Tenants, Rents, Arrears, and Dues, slightly creased at the fore-edge, stitched into covers utilising an early 17th-c. vellum indenture, soiled, small folio Carwythenack Manor, in Gweek, was owned by the Hill family, and was demolished in 1935. The tenement names are redolent of the mining industry. (1).

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Helston Rental Book. Conventionary Rents, High Rents, and Back Rents for properties owned by Peter Hill in Helston, with Conventionary Rents and High Rents for his properties in the Manor of Carythenack, comprising entries for the period 1788-95, approx. forty leaves, written in various secretarial hands, with details of Tenants, Tenements, Rents, Arrears, and Dues, frayed at the fore-edge, stitched into covers utilising an early parchment indenture, soiled, small folio (1).

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Rental Book. Rental Book for properties belonging to William Hill, for the period Michaelmas 1789 to 1792, divided into Helston and Wendron Lands, Wendron Lands, Footes Lands, Scattered Lands, Besson Lands, and the Manor of Manaton approximately 50 leaves, written in various hands, with some alterations and amendments, giving details of Tenements, Tenants, Rents, Arrears and Dues, slightly frayed at the edges, stitched into covers utilising an old indenture on paper, soiled, small folio (1).

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Johnson (John, A.R.I.B.A.). A pair of sketchbooks containing architectural studies, mostly in England and France, c.1875-1905, mostly pencil studies of architectural details, ornament, gothic facades and churches, buildings etc., incl. Angouleme, Chalais, Bourg (Charente), Worcester, Norwich, Cartmel Priory, Furness Abbey, Salisbury, Ablington, Broughton Castle, Mere Church etc., some leaves loose, orig. plain cloth, with owner's name and address to endpapers, some wear, 4to, together with An album of early 20th-c. pencil studies and landscape sketches by a different hand, mostly on the South Coast, incl. Brighton, Babbacombe, Torbay, incl. some with watercolour finish, many initialled J.G.W.(?), all small-format, mounted in contemp. half leather album, rubbed and some wear to extremities, oblong folio (3).

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Ledbury Park Album. Large album of prints and drawings formerly in the possession of the Biddulph Family of Ledbury Park, Herefordshire, c.1800-1850, incl. eighteen orig. pencil landscape drawings by John Francis Laporte (1761-1839), mostly of Ledbury Park and environs, incl. Malvern, Midsomer Hill nr. Ledbury, mostly signed or initialled, and dated 1813-21, three orig. pen, ink and wash views of Ledbury and Bradlow Knoll, by John James Barralet (1747-1815), twelve b&w proof lithos. views of the Lake District, pub. Day & Haghe, three b&w litho. views in Scotland, incl. one by D. O. Hill, printed by Hullmandel, and two by G. F. Prosser, three b&w litho. views by T. Ballard of Ledbury, depicting the new and old bridges at Over, nr. Gloucester (on india paper), Munnow Bridge, Monmouth & Upper Cottage, Wrekin, Shropshire, and approx. sixty-five other various prints and engravings, incl. one pencil drg. of Kenilworth Castle, various litho. views and caricatures, a few hand-col., etc., sheet size approx. 14" x 25", large late 18th-c. engr. armorial bookplate of the Biddulph Family of Ledbury to front pastedown, early 19th-c. half calf, somewhat worn, large oblong folio. Ledbury House or Ledbury Park was built in 1595, and was used as a headquarters by Prince Rupert during the Battle of Ledbury in 1645. John Francis Laporte was a pupil of John James Barralet. (1).

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Sketchbook An Album containing approx. 45 leaves of wash drawings, pencil and ink sketches, mostly Lancashire and South and Western England, c.1837, incl. views of the Boden Stone, Borrowdale, Forth Forge, Lancashire, Southampton, Ruskin Castle, Isle of Man, incl. Peel Castle, Lougharne Castle, Carmarthenshire, Combe Martin, Devon, Hereford, Ilfracombe Harbour, Watermouth Bay, Isle of Wight, Grantham etc., sheet size approx. 8" x 14", contemp. plain cloth, oblong folio (1).

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Hutchins (John). The History and Antiquities of Dorset, 3rd ed., selected, augmented, and improved, by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson, 4 vols., 1861-70, b&w map, 126 eng. plts., mostly views, antiquities, pedigrees, etc., a few plts. close-trimmed to fore-margins (one or two with fore-margin restrengthened), occn. minor foxing, mostly to prelims., contemp. half morocco, maroon label to spines (one missing), rubbed and minor wear to extrems., thick folio (4).

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Carwythenack Rental Book. Mannor of Carwythenack. The Court Baron or Law Court of Charity Hill Widdow, Guardian of William Hill.... Lord of the said Mannor, held 9th October 1734 at the house of Elizabeth Rogers widdow in Gweek Wartha, the Carwythenack Rental Book containing all successive Court Baron returns from that date to 6th April 1747, approx. fifty leaves, written in various secretarial hands, with details of Tenements, Tenants, Rents, Arrears, and Dues, slightly frayed at the fore-edge, stitched into covers utilising an early vellum indenture, soiled, small folio (1).

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Bacon (George W., pub.). Bacon's Popular Atlas of the World, 1897, together with Commercial and Library Atlas of the British Isles, 1896, num. colour maps, both orig. dec. cloth, rubbed and marked, the latter damaged to spine with some crude repairs, folio (2).

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Buonaiuti (B. Serafino, Van Ler Bergi, P. & Godby, James). Italian Scenery, Representing the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Different States of Italy..., 1806, frontis. and thirty-one hand col. stipple eng. plts. (complete), contemp. full calf gilt, modern reback with raised bands, folio (1).

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Clarke (James Stanier & M'Arthur, John). The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. from His Lordship's Manuscripts, 2 vols., 1809, eng. frontis. to vol. 1, fifteen eng. plts. and b & w eng. illusts. to text, leaf N2 (p.47/48) of vol. 1 torn without loss, minor marginal finger soiling, contemp. tree calf, gilt dec. spines, neat modern rebacks and corner repairs, sq. folio (2).

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[Egypt]. Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. The Tomb of Queen Meryet-Amun at Thebes, by H.E. Winlock, pub. New York, 1932, monochrome collotype frontis. and plts., folding plan, diags. to text, contemp. dark blue half morocco, slightly scuffed, folio, (limited ed. of 500 copies), together with Te Decoration of the Tomb of Per-neb, The Technique and the Color Conventions, by Caroline Ransom Williams, pub. New York, 1932, col. collotype frontis., b & w and col. collotype plts., contemp. dark blue half morocco, slightly scuffed, folio, (limited ed. of 750 copies), with The Egyptian Expedition (Bulletins for 1916-36),numerous b & w illusts., contemp. dark blue half morocco, 4to, and Hayes (William C.), Glazed Tiles from a Palace of Ramesses II at Kantir, Paper no. 3, pub. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1937, b & w plts., contemp. dark blue half morocco, slim folio, plus one other related (5).

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Johnston (Alexander Keith). The Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena, pub. William Blackwood and Sons, 1850, double-page hand-col. map frontis, twenty-four single-page engr. maps, hand-col. or outline-col., minor foxing to prelims., a.e.g., orig. publishers pubs., half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed to extremities, folio (1).

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Lante (Louis Marie, & Lamesangere, Pierre de). Costumes des Femmes de Hambourg, du Tyrol, de la Hollande, de la Suisse, de la Franconie, de l'Espagne, du Royaume de Naples, etc., 1st ed., Paris, 1827, preliminary descriptive text (some marks and spotting), 100 carefully hand-col. eng. plts. of women's costume, a few marks and sl. foxing to margins (plates generally clean), recent green morocco-backed marbled boards, folio (1).

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Martin (R. Montgomery, editor). The Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, pub. J & F Tallis, [1851], engraved title, eighty engraved maps hand coloured in outline with good margins, each with num. vignette illusts. and decorative border, all maps complete as list, two double-page engraved city plans of Liverpool and Glasgow and two plates of mountains, rivers, etc., some very light finger soiling to margins, contemp. half calf, worn with defective spine, folio Internally a very good copy. (1).

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Mentelle (Edme). Atlas National de la France, c.1800, thirty-four maps only of French departments, some maps folding, a few torn, contemp. calf, oblong folio Sold as a collection of maps. Not subject to return. (1).

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Rand, McNally & Co. (pubs.), Rand, McNally & Co.'s Indexed Atlas of the World containing Large Scale Maps of Every Country and Civil Division upon the Face of the Globe, together with Historical, Statistical and Descriptive Matter Relative to Each, pub. Chicago, 3rd ed., 1882, num. colour maps, diagrams, etc., a.e.g., orig. half morocco gilt, worn to extrems. with split to upper joint, folio (1).

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Rycaut (Paul). The Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Containing the maxims of the Turkish Politie, the most material points of the Mahometan Religion, there effects and heresies, there convents and religious votaries. Their Military Discipline, with an exact computation of their forces both by land and sea, 1668, two single-page engr. plts., and twenty-one engr. illusts. to text, lacks eng. frontis., some light water staining to fore-margins at front of vol., contemp. plain full calf, rubbed and some wear (restored at head and foot of spine and endpapers renewed), folio. (1).

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Shorten (John R.). The Johannesburg Saga, 1st ed., 1970, num. b&w illusts., mostly after photos., some col. plts. and illusts., orig. mock green leather gilt, in rubbed and frayed d.j., thick 4to, together with Wilson (H. W.), With the Flag to Pretoria, a History of the Boer War of 1899/1900, 2 vols., 1900-01, & After Pretoria: The Guerilla War, 2 vols., c. 1901, num. b&w plts. and illusts., maps, etc., folding map at front of 2nd vol., torn without loss, contemp. half maroon morocco, rubbed and scuffed, folio, plus Creswicke (Louis), South Africa and the Transvaal War, 6 vols., Edinburgh, pub. T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1900-01, num. col. and b&w plts., orig. uniform publisher's decorated cloth, rubbed and some soiling, small 4to (11).

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Tabulae Geographicae, quibus universa geographia vetus continetur, e multis authoribus collectae, 4 parts bound in 1, Padua, Ex Typografia Seminarii, 1699, eighty-four mostly double-page engr. maps (incl. one fldg.), with old hand-col. in outline, twenty-four maps trimmed to margin and laid down, small split strip to centrefold of map of Asia, generally in clean condition, contemp vellum, some wear to spine and edges, large folio. Phillips 5644. A collection of maps by various cartographers, incl. Ortelius, Sanson, Du Val and others. (1).

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Wilkinson (Robert, publisher). Atlas Classica, Being A Collection of Maps of the Countries Mentioned by the Ancient Authors, Both Sacred and Profane. With their Various Subdivisions at Different Periods, 1808, engraved title, 46 hand coloured engraved maps, some folding or double-page, seven engraved tables, complete as list, modern qtr. calf, morocco title label, sq. folio (1).

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Wilson (H.W.). With the Flag to Pretoria. A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900, 2 vols., 1900, together with After Pretoria: The Guerilla War, 2 vols., 1902, num. b & w illusts. from photos., two large folding col. maps, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. crimson qtr. morocco in bright condition, folio. A very handsome set. (4).

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Chinese watercolours. La Rue Peking [so titled on spine], mid 19th-c., album containing 100 fine pen, ink, watercolour and gouache Chinese watercolour drawings, on tissue paper (numbered 1-99 with a bis plate 70), each with ink caption in Chinese script, and pencil caption in French to lower margin, mostly depicting Chinese costume, trades, street scenes, punishments, modes of transport etc., each tipped-in to corners (some torn to lower outer corner), sheet size approx. 17.5 x 29.5cms, mounted on album leaves, a.e.g., late 19th-c three-quarter dark green morocco, a little rubbed, oblong folio (1).

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Kaempfer (Engelbert). The History of Japan, giving an Account of the Ancient and Present State and Government of that Empire; of its Temples, Palaces, Castles and other Buildings..., 2 vols. in 1, pub. Kyoto: [Bunji Yoshida], 1929 (facsimile of the 1727 edition), num. illusts., some folding, contemp. calf gilt, rubbed with upper joint starting to split, folio Limited edition 74/150. (1).

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Netto (C.). Papier-Schmetterlinge aus Japan, Leipzig & Berlin, [1888], twenty-two full page plts. incl. two chromos., num. b & w illusts. to text, occ. light spotting, pictorial endpapers, a.e.g., orig. half leather with circular pictorial panel to upper board, with orig. off-white dust wrapper lettered in gilt (a little browned with small closed tear), folio (1).

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Netto (C. & Wagener, G.). Japanischer Humor, Leipzig, 1901, five chromos., b & w illusts., orig. printed boards, folio, together with Dickins (Frederick V., translated), Chiushingura or the Loyal League, New York, 1876, two-tone woodblock plts., orig. embossed boards, recently rebacked in black calf, oblong 8vo, and Dickins (F.V., trans.), Hyak Nin Is'Shiu, or Stanzas by a Century of Poets, being Japanese Lyrical Odes, 1866, a.e.g., inner hinges splitting, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, and other illustrated and literal books on Japan(11).

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Salwey (Charlotte M., nee Birch). Fans of Japan, 1894, ten chromos., thirty-nine b & w illusts. to text, orig. dec. cloth, a little worn at head and foot of spine, folio (1).

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Evelyn (John). Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesties Dominions..., 3rd ed., 1679, main title printed in red and black with separate title to each section, errata leaf present to rear, contemp. mottled calf, recently rebacked with raised bands and leather spine label, corners repaired, folio (1).

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Forshaw (Joseph M. & Cooper, William T.). Parrots of the World, 3rd ed., revised, 1989, num. col. illusts., recent half calf gilt, with orig. d.j., folio, together with Glasier (Phillip), Falcolnry and Hawking, 3rd ed., Batsford, 1998, col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., with other various ornithology (17).

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Houghton (Rev. W.). British Fresh-Water Fishes, pub. William Mackenzie, [1879], forty-one fine chromo litho plts. (complete) after A.F. Lydon, wood eng. throughout, some minor spotting, t.e.g., near contemp. dark green qtr. morocco gilt, folio (1).

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Knoop (Johann Hermann). Pomologia, dat is Beschryvingen en Afbeeldingen van de Beste Soorten van Appels en Peeren, Welke in Neder en Hoog-Duitsland, Frankryk, Engelland..., pub. Abraham Ferwerda, Leeuwarden, 1758, light red oval library stamp to title, nineteen (of 20) hand-col. plts. (11 of 12 plts. of apples, lacking plt. I, and 8 plts. of pears), bound with Fructologia, of Beschryving der Vrugtbomen en Vrugten die men in de Hoven Plant en Onderhoud..., Leeuwarden, 1763, nineteen hand-col. eng. plts. (complete), also bound with Dendrologia, of Beschryving der Plantagie-Gewassen..., Leeuwarden, 1763, together three parts in one, all titles with dec. borders printed in red ink, some light browning and offsetting to text leaves, sewing broken, contemp. half calf covered boards, worn, disbound folio (1).

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L'Obel (Matthias de, 1538-1616 ). Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia Matthiae de Lobel Insulani. Cui Annexum est Adversariorum volumen, Reliqua Sequens Pagina Indicabit, 2 vols. in 1, ex Officina Christophori Plantini Architypographi, Antwerp, 1576, title within woodcut border and with printers' woodcut device (close trimmed & some loss to lower margin, repaired to verso), title of vol. 2 also with woodcut border, numerous botanical woodcut illusts. throughout, corrected woodcuts pasted over the originals on leaves R3 & R4, some damp soiling to initial leaves of vol. 1 with consequent fraying and marginal loss, small worm holes to last few leaves of vol. 2, near contemp. calf, old reback and corner repairs, boards detached, folio Volume 2 has title "Nova Stirpium Adversaria, Perfacilis Vestigatio... Auctoribus Petro Pena et Matthia de Lobel..., Christophorum Plantinum, Antwerp, 1576". (1).

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Morris (Beverley R.). British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 1855, 60 hand col. plts. (complete), text block detached at front hinge, a.e.g., contemp. morocco gilt, folio (1).

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Parkinson (John). Paradisi in Sole Paradisius Terrestris, or, A Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers... with a Kitchin Garden... and Orchard of all Sorte of Fruitbearing Trees..., 1st ed., 1629, woodcut title and port. illust. of author, numerous woodcut botanical illusts., lacking leaf Rr4 and last two leaves (Index), old waterstain throughout and slight soiling, later half morocco with cloth spine strip, folio (1).

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Shaler (Nathaniel Southgate & Davis, William Morris). Illustrations of the Earth's Surface. Glaciers, pub. Boston, 1881, title with sellotape repairs and lib. stamp, num. maps and plts. after photos., each with tissue guard, all plts. complete as list, orig. cloth, crude library reback, fraying to extrems., folio (1).

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Strutt (Jacob George). Sylva Britannica, or Portraits of Forest Trees Distinguished for the Antiquity, Magnitude or Beauty, pub. Henry G. Bohn, 1826, fifty uncol. etched plts., incl. addn. title, some minor scattered spotting, mainly to margins, indelible ink stamp to verso of printed title, contemp. red half morocco gilt, rubbed and scuffed, tall folio Large paper copy. (1).

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Tabernaemontanus (Jacobus Theodorus). Neu Vollkommen Kruuter-Buch..., 2 vols., Johann Ludwig Kenigs, Basel, 1731, addn. eng. title to vol. 1, title page of vol. 1 printed in red & black, woodcut botanical illusts. throughout, vol. 2 leaves 6H4 & 6H5 (pp.1307-1310) trimmed to fore-edge margins, contemp. panelled calf, slight wear to upper joints, old repair to upper spine panel of vol. 1, folio (2).

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Gillray (James). Approx. 117 satirical cartoons, late 19th century, some hand coloured, mostly folio size, some double-page and/or mounted (approx. 117).

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Gould (John). Turdus Iliacus, c.1870s, fine hand col. litho., a little browning and fraying to margin, folio, framed and glazed, together with twenty mounted hand coloured lithos. and engravings after Smit, Keulemans, etc. (8).

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Italy. Twenty-nine hand coloured plates of Classical designs after wall paintings, friezes, etc. from William Hamilton's Antiquites Etrusques, 1766, mostly coloured in black and orange, mostly double-page folio (29).

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Prints & engravings, 17th-19th century, incl. twenty-three c.1810 engravings of heraldic arms by F.Chesham after C.Cotton, hand coloured engravings of mammals published by E.Donavan, botanical subjects, large folio hand coloured engravings of sealife, classical art and architecture, etc. (approx. 120).

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Vanity Fair Album. A Show of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day; with Biographical and Critical Notices, 3 vols., 3rd ed., 1869-71, 153 col. litho. caricatures by Ape, Coide & others of sovereigns, statesmen & Judges, inc. Napoleon, Abdul Aziz, Darwin and two judges in red robes (correct as list), a.e.g., gutta-percha perished and contents loose, orig. gilt dec. green cloth, folio (3).

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Vanity Fair Album A Weekly Show of Political, Social, & Literary Wares, vol. 16 only, 1876, twenty-six col. litho caricatures mainly by Spy, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco, gilt dec. spine, rubbed to extrems., folio (1).

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Vanity Fair cartoons. Michael Michailovitch, January 4, 1984, two col. litho. caricatures by Spy, folio (3).

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World. Cruchley (G.F.), Map of the World on Mercator's Projection showing the Discoveries at the North Pole and the New Settlements in Australia, New Zealand &c., additions to 1852, hand coloured engraved folding map on two sheets, the whole approx. 950 x 1680 mm, contained in orig. cloth binding with leather label to upper cover, a little worn to spine and corners, folio (1).

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Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965). An exceptional album of approx. 150 black and white photographs of Winston Churchill taken during the period 1908-1915, all press photographs, some showing signs of retouching in the negatives, various sizes but largely 20 x 12 cm and similar, all mounted on to white card with thin borders and then pasted into an album comprising seventy pages, the majority with contemp. neat ink captions and dates (in an unidentified hand) to lower edge of mounts, some dozen photos damaged or missing, album leaves chipped and largely loose, 1920s' cloth album, lower board missing and metal spine detached, oblong folio (1).

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Diana (Princess of Wales). Dresses From the Collection of Diana, Princess of Wales: A Charity Sale Conducted by Christie's on a Not-For-Profit Basis, N.Y., 1997, col. photos throughout, orig. mock morocco, folio Signed limited edition, 195/250. (1).

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Elgar (Sir Edward, 1857-1934, composer). Autograph musical quotation, from 'The Apostles' [Opus 49], signed 'Edward Elgar: Malvern', dated 4th April 1903, four short hand-drawn staves with music and the libretto 'The face of all the East / is now a-blaze with Light! / The Dawn reacheth even unto / He...bron!', all in the composer's neat hand and framed within an Art Nouveau style green pencil ornamental border (in an unknown hand), dated by Elgar at head, quotation source, signature and place at foot, one page (approx. 34 x 21 cm), the leaf sewn into the Fifteenth [and final] issue of 'The Wyche of Wizard' (1903), along with various manuscript stories, poems, drawings and watercolours, etc., orig. wrappers, folio (1).

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Manuscript on vellum. Phillada Flouts Me, written out and decorated by Marjorie Thompson, Royal College of Art, 1930, nine leaves with eight attractive illustrations in colours, calligraphic text in black with red initials, orig. half blue morocco in gilt-dec. black morocco clam-shell book box, approx. 22 x 17 cm, together with Breviary of Love. Being the Private Journal... of Jeanne Aurelie Grivolin, [manuscript on paper] Written out and Illustrated by Marian Marsh, 1947, 104pp in a neat calligraphic hand, seven hand-drawn colour illustrations, t.e.g., orig. crushed blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little rubbed, small folio (2).

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Jacobite Rebellion. Group of four important black letter acts, all made at the time of the rebellion in 1715, including An Act for appointing Commissioners for Taking the Estates, Castles, Manors, etc., of Rebels and Traitors, 1715, 16pp., An Act to Impower His Majesty to Secure and Detain such Persons as His Majesty shall Suspect are Conspiring against His Person, 1715, 6pp., An Act for the more Effectual Securing the Peace of the Highlands in Scotland, 1715, 10pp., An Act for the Eassie and Speedy Trial of such Persons as have or shall Levy War against His Majesty, 1715, 4pp., some spotting, all disbound, folio (4).

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Lincolnshire - Candlesby Poor Relief. Manuscript accounts ledger covering the period from Easter 1807 to 25th June 1837, each period divided into two lists, the first 'An Assessment made and agreed upon by the Inhabitants..., for defraying the Expenses incident ot the Poor...', giving names of occupiers and rentals paid, the second listing Disbursements by the Overseer, items including summonses, examinations, journeys, loads of straw, coal, house repairs, hats, shoes, bricks and tiles, lime and sand, working on the roads, etc., with dates and amounts, approx. 100 leaves in a neat hand, last few leaves det., a little soiling, hinges cracked, orig. vellum, worn, folio (1).

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Southcott (Joanna, prophetess, 1750-1814). An extensive collection of manuscripts (drafts, copies and originals) put together by John Burton, a follower of Joanna Southcott, dated between 1814 and 1835, the collection comprising approx. 115 well-filled pages, mostly folio and quarto, many by or in the hand of Burton, some worn and dusty but clearly legible, some folded, a few showing signs of having been mailed or hand delivered A full typescript transcription of the collection is provided with the lot. (a folder).

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Bible [English]. The Bible..., 2nd quarto ed., pub. Jean Crespin, Geneva, [1569-]1568, roman type, double columns, red-ruled throughout, OT lacks all before folio f3, plus folios g1, h2-7, n8 (blank), NT (bound at front) lacks all after Hh7 (ends John xix.40), printer's woodcut device to NT title (sm. split at lower margin without loss), some finger-soiling throughout, some fraying and occ. tears with minor loss, g4 of OT torn with significant loss to lower margin, scattered old ink annotations, 19th-c. panlled calf, rubbed and covers det., 4to (approx. 195 x 125 mm) (1).

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Bible [English]. The Holy Bible..., Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1703, printed titles to each part, eng. plts. throughout, lacks additional engraved title [dated 1704], Book of Common Prayer and Psalms (1703) bound at front, index and Metrical Psalms (1703) at rear, a little worming to upper margins of Index and Psalms at rear slightly affecting text, lacks one(?) leaf at end of Psalms, contemp. gilt-panelled calf with red leather label to spine, rubbed, folio (1).

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Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments..., [Amsterdam?], 1715, bound with Book of Common Prayer, New Testament and Book of Psalms, all with separate title pages dated 1715, some leaves with light dampstaining, lacking the Moxon maps, contemp. calf with brass clasps and corners, splitting at the joints, folio (1).

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Bible [Latin]. Biblia Sacre, [possibly Martin Meranus, Antwerp, 1541], lacks A1 (title), numerous woodcut illusts. to text, NT woodcut title present (undated), first two leaves of prelims. a little soiled with stains to margins, with fraying mostly to top margin, affecting some letters and one or two words, water stained throughout, some minor scattered worming, last few leaves of index at end with some marginal fraying (with loss of a few words and letters to leaf Ggg7), lacks Ggg8 (and all following leaves if any), old calf, some wear with mordern plain reback, thick folio (textblock measures approx. 307 x 200mm) Apocalpse of St. John at end of NT bears colophon "Antuerpiae Typis Martini Merani. M.D.XLI.". (1).

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