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Lot 284

SPENCE (Rev): 'Polymetis: an enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets and the remains of the antient artists..': London, R Dodsley, 1747: folio, engraved frontispiece, disbound with one loose board remaining, with sundry other books. (Box)

Lot 286

SPORTING PRINTS: CADFRYN-ROBERTS (John): 'British Sporting Prints': London, Ariel Press, 1955: folio, publishers cloth with dustjacket and slipcase, some external wear and dust else VG: with 5 leatherbound pocket editions, unrelated. (6)

Lot 29

ICE COLD IN ALEX: an interesting post-war album of photographs compiled by a British serviceman, commencing at Blenheim barracks Aldershot, then to Tripoli and Cyprus, approx 180 b/w photographs of military life and surroundings, corner mounted, many with accompanying annotations, including a sequence of 9 personal photographs taken during the shooting of 'Ice Cold in Alex', Miani village (sic), includes John Mills 'taking a break between shots': 'Shiela (sic) Sims feeling the heat', etc, neatly arranged in oblong folio album of period, embossed soft red leather covers. (1)

Lot 299

STAINED GLASS DESIGNS: a folio containing approx 30 designs and patterns for stained glass, 19th century, mostly watercolours and pen and ink sketches, a few photographs, largest items approx 63.5 x 46cm. (A folder)

Lot 307

TA-YUNG (Professor Lim): 'Classical Chinese Painting..Selected Masterpieces of all Dynasty': Hong Kong, Happiness Publishing Company, n.d: small folio, publishers blue cloth with dustjacket, in original printed box (latter worn and torn): with a carton of part and bound issues of The Studio magazine. (Box)

Lot 31

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, WORLD WAR II: a comprehensive period album of b/w aerial photographs taken during World War II allied bombing and surveillance operations, with typewritten descriptive captions dated 1941, the images varying in size, largest approx 30.5 x 23cm, neatly mounted onto grey paper album leaves, contemporary black roan binding gilt ruled and lettered to spine (marked 'Vol I'), externally rubbed but contents sound, oblong folio. (1)

Lot 40

ERTE: Erté at Ninety-Five...the Complete New Graphics': London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987: No.19 of 100 signed copies: folio, publishers brown cloth with slipcase, latter scuffed to edges: with 4 other volumes, Erté, all in very good condition, plus one other. (6)

Lot 43

MANUSCRIPT: 6TH DRAGOONS HORSES: manuscript ledger covering period 1829-43, gilt morocco label to upper board 'Description of Horses A.Troop 6th Dragoons', containing 12pp with approx 140 entries (remainder blank), relating to the horses serving in A troop, 6th (Inskilling) Regiment of Dragoons, with details of colours, sex, age, height, marks and related comments, small folio, half calf over marbled boards, spine rubbed with loss. (1)

Lot 49

SCANDINAVIAN MINIATURES: Lemberger (Ernst): 'Die Bildnis-Miniatur in Skandinavien': Berlin, 1912: No.2 of 510 copies: 2 vols, folio, publishers calf gilt (recased retaining backstrips), rubbed: with 100 mounted plates, majority coloured. (2)

Lot 50

ATLAS: SPRUNER: 'Atlas Antiquus. Delineavit Dr C de Spruner...', Gothenburg, 1850: 27 historical maps, hand coloured in outline: folio, publishers brown cloth, spine deficient, contents generally sound. (1)

Lot 66

IRELAND: 'Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee of the House of Lords, appointed to enquire into the state of Ireland, more particularly with reference to the circumstances which may have led to disturbances in that part of the United Kingdom..: ordered to be printed 18th February 1825: 401pp report, original printed blue wrappers, rubbed with loss, edges rough trimmed, folio, with another similar. (2)

Lot 73

BELL (Sir Charles): 'System of Dissections explaining the anatomy of the human body..', Edinburgh, Mundell & Son, 1799-1803: 5 parts in 1 plus appendix, 29 engraved plates, some folding, browning and foxing, later half calf, rubbed, folio. (1)

Lot 74

MEDICAL: ARETAEUS: 'De Causis et Signis Acutorum et Diuturnorum Morborum, Libri Quateuor...', Leiden, Vander, 1735: edited by Hermann Boerhaave, title page printed in black and red, Greek and Latin text, near contemporary calf gilt with both boards detached, tall folio. (1)

Lot 81

SCOTT (Sir Walter): 'Marmion..a tale of Flodden Field..', Edinburgh, A & C Black, 1855, 8vo, publishers green blind stamped bevel edge boards ornately gilt, aeg, light wear and a few nicks to spine ends else VG: together with 12 other volumes, 19th century to modern, including 4 early editions of other works by Scott, an attractively bound French book of hours 1841 with metallic cruciform closure, a few Folio Society and others. (13)

Lot 83

LADD (Tony): 'An Oological Record of British Raptors..': FIRST EDITION, 2015: pictorial laminated boards simulating an old quarter leather binding, titled in gilt, edition limited to 400 copies, ms dedication from the author to Richard Williamson on title page, folio, VG. (1)

Lot 195

An 1896 folio of 'Cartoons for the cause' by Walter Crane, 43 x 30cm.

Lot 440

Frank Brangwyn 1867-1943, lithograph entitled "A Pit rescue", sold by The Folio Society, Collector's Corner London, image 22cmx 30cm; and a 19th Century French etching signed in pencil and numbered 71/200 (2)

Lot 206

A folio of mainly 20th Century watercolours, drawings and prints; and a small Religious watercolour, framed

Lot 207

Elizabeth Lyness N.D.D., a folio of mainly unframed prints and a framed and glazed watercolour of an angel

Lot 373

Historic 19th century licences (3) Norwich, m/s City of Norwich and county of the same City granting of a License by William Wilde with m/s amendment for 1837, by the Justice at a petty session, Norwich 1838 m/s City of Norwich and County of the Same City Justices of the Peace giving Notice of a Special Session Justices called 'The General Annual Licensing Meeting at the Guildhall for granting Licenses for keeping Inns, Alehouses etc., for consumption on the premises (Amended for 1849 and 1858), written up and Britannia watermarked paper and Norwich - Another m/s General Annual Licensing meeting with dates blank, requiring applicants to affix to a Church and Chapel door a notice of the Day, hour and place of Licensing meeting to be held… Also at the home of every Justice Dwelling of the said City and County and of every Inn Keeper not already licensed who has given notice of his intention to keep an Inn and apply for a Licence. Dated 1837, a well written folio on Britannia watermarked paper. (3)

Lot 402

FOLIO OF MANY PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS & SKETCHES, MAINLY UNSIGNED WITH CARRY CASE

Lot 3228

GENEALOGY. - Beriah BOTFIELD. Stemmata Botevilliana. Memorials of the Families of de Boteville, Thynne, and Botfield, in the Counties of Salop and Wilts. Westminster: J.B. Nichols and Sons, 1858. Limited edition, being one of only 250 copies, 4to (279 x 230mm.) Engraved plates. (Damp-stain to frontispiece, light spotting to title, toning.) 20th century blue cloth (endpapers replaced). Provenance: West Sussex County Libraries (labels to pastedowns). - And a further four volumes related to genealogy (including Daniel Rowland's 'An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Noble Family of Nevill', 1830, folio) (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3142

GOULD, John. Birds of Great Britain. Melbourne: Hill House, 1990. Volume 1 (only), folio (539 x 365mm.) Numerous facsimile colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, original box.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3208

ROY, William. The Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain. London: W. Bulmer & Co., 1793. Folio (543 x 351mm.) 51 plates, all engraved but for 1 letterpress plate, including 6 double-paged and 1 double-paged and folding, 4pp. list of Society of Antiquaries to rear. (Occasional light spotting, toning.) Early 20th century half brown morocco over buckram cloth-covered boards (some fading and discolouring, minor staining, light rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3140

DUTTON, Clarence E. Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District. Washington: Department of the Interior, 1882, folio (506 x 421mm.) Title, 22 double-paged lithographed plates, including 12 geologic maps, 11 in colour, and 10 colour or tinted lithographed views of the Grand Canyon drawn by William H. Holmes and Thomas Moran, 1p. 'List of Atlas Sheets'. (Toning.) Original black cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover (rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: L.R. Wager, geologist (name inscribed to initial blank); by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3080

GREGYNOG PRESS. - Blair HUGHES-STANTON. The Revelation of Saint John the Divine. Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1932. Limited edition, this being one of 250 copies signed by Blair Hughes-Stanton, folio (347 x 199mm.) Numerous wood-engraved illustrations, many full-page, text in red and black. (Toning.) Original red calf, blind-stamped titling and device to upper cover (lightly rubbed extremities, minor staining and scuffing to both covers).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3225

SUSSEX. - John WALPOLE-BOND. A History of Sussex Birds. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1938. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (247 x 149mm.) Numerous plates. (Toning, pp.103-106 loose in volume 2.) Original brown buckram, t.e.g. (light rubbing). Provenance: 'Margaret and Tony' (gift inscribed to on the front-free endpaper of volume 1). - And a further twenty-one volumes relating to Sussex (including William H. St. John Hope's 'Cowdray and Easebourne Priory in the County of Sussex', 1919, folio, and two copies of Thomas Walker Horsfield's 'The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex', 2 vols., 1835, 4to) (24).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3215

DILLON, Harold Arthur Lee. An Almain Armourer's Album. Selections from an Original Manuscript in Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. London: W. Griggs, 1905. Folio (497 x 313mm.) 31 colour plates of armour, 4 additional plates including 1 folding and 1 double-paged. (Toning, occasional spotting, marginal stamps to plates, corner crease to plate 23.) Near contemporary blue calf-backed white buckram (minor soiling to covers, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (labels to pastedowns and stamps to plates); E.W. Margesson (presentation label from on front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3219

HANHAM, Frederick (editor). Natural Illustrations of the British Grasses. Bath: Binns and Goodwin, 1846. First edition, 4to (308 x 204mm.) 61 mounted dried specimens of grass on separate leaves. (Lacking 1 specimen 'Bromus Secalinus', 3 are partially lacking, and 3 loose, offsetting to descriptive leaves, occasional soiling and creasing.) Original blue silk moiré boards bound by Astle & Sons, gilt decoration to covers (heavily rubbed, spine panel worn with loss). Provenance: Dawson of Low Wray (armorial bookplate to front pastedown). - And six related volumes (including an album of approximately 225 botanical specimens from North Yorkshire mounted on 29 leaves, all numbered and titled with Latin and common names in pink and blue manuscript hand, 1928-1933, small folio). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3210

OVID. - Isaak VERBURG (translator). De Gedaant-Wisselingen van P. Ovidius Naso, in het Latyne n Nederduitsch, Nieulyx vertaald, en te zamen in het Licht gegeven, door Isaak Verburg. Amsterdam: R. and J. Wetstein and W. Smith, 1732. 2 vols., first edition of this Dutch translation, folio (433 x 272mm.) Title in red and black with engraved vignette, Latin and Dutch text in parallel, 4 engraved plates, 124 engraved illustrations in the text. (Intermittent browning, fingermarks to titles, damp-staining to upper margins throughout volume 1, and to first leaves of volume 2, lacking blanks.) 20th century half brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3206

[COLLINGWOOD, Bruce J.] Lapidarium Septentrionale: or, A Description of the Monuments of Roman Rule in the North of England. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1875. Folio (368 x 233mm.) 15 plates, including a large folding map of Northumberland in rear pocket, several chromolithographed and 2 double-paged plates, numerous illustrations in the text. (Spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves, toning, hinges reinforced, newspaper cutting mounted to initial blank.) Contemporary red half morocco, pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (rebacked, rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: Frederick Walter Denby (armorial bookplate to the front pastedown); Florence Snowball(?) (gift inscriptions on paper mounted to initial blank).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3200

BIBLE, In German. Sacra Biblia, das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments. Wien: Georg Lehmann, 1734. Folio (353 x 221mm.) Title in red and black, additional engraved title, numerous engraved plates. (Moderate damp-staining and browning throughout, chipping and small tears to additional title, corner creasing, illegible names to second blank.) Contemporary pigskin (heavily rubbed). Provenance: Antony Gillmore (name inscribed to initial blank). - And a related volume ('The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church', 1754, folio) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3216

ROWLAND, Daniel. An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobel Family of Nevill, particularly of the House of Abergavenny. London: Samuel Bentley, 1830. Folio (438 x 270mm.) Lithographed plates, some on India paper, 3 double-paged genealogical histories to rear, 4pp. index. (Occasional spotting, toning.) Near contemporary brown morocco with repeating floral and tendril gilt motif within hound's tooth borders, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (scuffing to lower cover, tear to top of spine, endpapers replaced). Provenance: Joseph Gualteri King Eyton (colour bookplate to front pastedown); Worthing Public Library (labels to front pastedown and front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3217

SPIRITUALISM. - Ethel le ROSSIGNOL. A Goodly Company. [London:] Chiswick Press, [1933.] Folio (498 x 364mm.) 42 black and white spiritualist illustrations, 7 tipped-in colour plates. (Mild toning, slight corner creasing to colour plates.) Original green cloth (split to upper joint, rubbing, some soiling and spotting to covers). Note: scarce. Between 1920 and 1929 Ethel le Rossignol claimed to channel forty-two drawings through a medium she called J.P.F. They were exhibited in 1929 at the London Spiritual Alliance- which later became The College of Psychic Studies.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3212

DU CANGE, Charles Dufresne. Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis. Paris: Osmont, 1733-1734. 6 vols., folio (410 x 262mm.) Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, half-titles, engraved portrait and additional title to volume 1, engraved headpieces and initials. (Browning, occasional spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (rubbing to extremities, surface wear to volume 1, some joints splitting). Note: lacking volume 6, but with the Supplement volume to the second volume. Provenance: Thomas Carnegy of Craigo (armorial bookplate to front pastedowns); Nashdom Abbey (embossed stamp to half-titles) (6).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3211

ANTIQUE REFERENCE. - Charles R. BEARD. A Catalogue of the Collection of Martinware Formed by Mr. Frederick John Nettlefold Together with a Short History of the Firm of R.W. Martin and Brothers of Southall. London: Privately Printed for the owner, 1936. Folio (369 x 275mm.) Portrait frontispiece, numerous mounted colour plates, 4pp. index to rear. (Mild toning.) Original brown cloth, gilt borders, original box (light rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3182

MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written and illustrated hymn-book written in Church Slavonic for the Festal Stikherarion, Russian Old Believer. N.p.: early 19th century.] 264pp., manuscript, folio (255 x 201mm.) 12 preliminary leaves with text in black and red, 1 full page illuminated title in red, green, gold and black, 252 leaves of text in black and red in semi-uncial script, 8 coloured decorative headpieces, 7 marginal coloured decorations, 7 elaborately decorated initials including 1 eight-line initial, 1 six-line and 4 five-line initials. (Browning, occasional paper repair, some minor soiling.) Blind-stamped calf over (possibly) earlier wooden boards (rebacked, some loss to extremities, some insect damage to pastedowns).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3145

ARCHITECTURE. - Victor BALTARD and Felix CALLET. Monographie des Halles Centrales de Paris Construites Sous le Règne de Napoléon III. Paris: A. Morel, 1863. Elephant folio (452 x 603mm.) Half title, title, 17 loose leaves of text, 29 loose steel-engraved plates, including 5 double-paged and 1 triple-paged. (Some spotting to 3 plates, minor spotting to 2, some marginal damp-staining.) Original printed wrappers (creasing to margins), contemporary cloth-backed portfolio with marbled paper-covered boards (worn). Note: a monograph on the great market hall in Paris constructed of iron and glass. Provenance: Birmingham Architectural Association (paper label mounted to upper cover and stamp to upper wrapper).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 3198

SYMON, Lord Bishop of Ely. A Commentary Upon the First Book of Moses, called Genesis. London: Richard Chiswell, 1698. Second edition, corrected, 4to (198 x 150mm.) Half-title. (Browning, occasional spotting, contemporary hand-written notes to rear blank.) 18th century panelled calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (rebacked, light rubbing). Provenance: Charles Chambers (name inscribed to front pastedown). - And a further eight volumes (including John Walker's 'An Attempt Towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England', 1714, folio, and 'The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments', published by Mark Baskett, 1763, 4to) (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

Lot 157

° ° Rickman, Philip - A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches, folio, half green morocco, 463 of 500, signed by the artist author, with 31 colour plates, Curpotten Limited, 1979, in slip case.

Lot 180

° ° 'Sabretache' - Shires and Provinces. First Edition. 6 coloured plates (with captioned guards) & text illus. (by Lionel Edwards); gilt pictorial cloth, gilt top and other edges rough-trimmed, folio. 1926

Lot 184

° ° Newton, Helmut - Sumo, one of 10,000, signed, folio, original cloth in d/j, with 464 pp., 400 plates, Taschen, Monte Carlo, 1999, with chrome stand designed by Philippe Starck, together with original shipping box. Note: This monumental work, measures 70 x 50cms. and weighs 34.8kg. Created on the occasion of the centenary of Helmut Newton’s birth and the publisher Taschen’s 40th anniversary.

Lot 207

° ° Clutton, Henry - Illustrations of Mediaeval Architecture in France, from the Accession of Charles VI to the Demise of Louis XII. With Historical and Professional Remarks. Folio, London, 1856. 16 tinted lithographic plates and numerous text illustrations. Contents lightly foxed. Publisher’s quarter leather binding, head and tail of spine rubbed; Galsworthy Davie, W. Architectural Studies in France. Folio, 1877. 10 coloured and 89 black and white plates, some damp staining affecting the lower edges of the first few coloured plates. Original cloth binding rubbed and worn, later Morocco spine with gilt titling. (2)

Lot 208

° ° Fox, John - Acts and Monuments of Matters of Most Special and Memorable, Happening in the Church.... Whereunto are annexed certain additions..... to which also is added the Life of the Author.... the ninth edition, vols 1 & 2 bound together (of 3). portrait frontis., 4 engraved plates, map and num. other text engravings; disbound and distressed, binding broken and some leaves loose, folio. printed for the Company of Stationers, 1684

Lot 21

° ° Anon - Die Olympischen Spiele 1936. 1st ed. 2. Vol. Complete with numerous illustrated plates and text illus. Original cloth with unclipped pictorial d/j. Folio. Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Germany, 1936.

Lot 226

° ° Thomas Marcel. Les Grandes Heures de Jean Duc de Berry. Folio, London, 1971. Longnon, Jean. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Musée Condé, Chantilly. 4to., 1969. Original cloth binding in slipcase. Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry. The Late Fourteenth Century and Patronage of the Duke. 2 volumes, 1969; James R. [Ed.] Leaves of Gold. Manuscript Illuminations from Philadelphia Collections. Small folio, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002. Cockerell, Sydney C. Old Testament Miniatures. A Medieval Picture Book with 283 Paintings From The Creation to The Story of David. Folio, London n.d. [1969] All in their original cloth bindings and dust wrappers. Together with eleven other books about European book illumination. (16).

Lot 229

° ° Wilson, Sir Charles (editor) - Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. 4 vols. pictorial engraved & printed titles, many illus. throughout (incl. steel-engraved plates), 2 d-page maps; rebound calf backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered panelled spines, folio. (ca.1880)

Lot 237

° ° Aesop, Fables - Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, 2nd edition, translated by Roger L’Estrange, folio, original panelled calf, with frontis portrait after Godfrey Kneller, R. Sare et al, London, 1694

Lot 241

Manuscript leaf from a book of hours illuminated in blue, red and gilt; French, second quarter of the 15th century, parchment, 126 x 179 mm; contemporary foliation xiiij (which also appears, for the guidance of the rubricator, at the very foot of the folio); at foot, in pencil, c1930: 500, perhaps the price in francs; card mount, endorsed, c1930: Manuscrit enlumine sur velin XIVe siècle garantithe text begins with the opening and closing verses of Psalm 20, followed by Gloria tibi trinitas and the first 25 verses of Psalm 21, to Timeat eum omne semen [Israel]The illumination resembles British Library Add MS 16997, a Book of Hours of the Use of Paris attributed to the first quarter of the 15th century, but the use of a cursive hand for the text perhaps suggests a later date.

Lot 245

° ° Laud, William - A Relation of the Conference betweene William Law, then Lrd. Bishop of St. Davids… and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite, 1st edition, title refurbished and laid down (with partial loss to a few letters), browned , several ink annotations, modern panelled calf, small folio, Richard Badger, London, 1639

Lot 246

° ° Cowley, Abraham - The Works, 2 parts in one vol., folio, modern crushed brown morocco, engraved portrait, H. Herringham, J. Knight and F. Saunders, London, 1688; the Second and Third Parts of the Works, engraved frontispiece, Charles Harper, London, 1689

Lot 288

° ° Holy Bible - Biblia dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture ... pictorial engraved title, d-page maps and a plan, engraved plates (with multi images): old leather with panelled spine, folio. Dordrecht & Amsterdam, 1686

Lot 289

° ° Holy Bible - The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments... (Authorised Version). portrait frontis., num. copper engraved plates, maps in outline colour & a coloured plan; contemp. reversed calf, panelled spine, folio. printed by John Baskett, 1738

Lot 299

° ° (Amsterdam - Printed 18th Century Folio Bible - Authorised Version, with Geneva Notes) The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New.......With most profitable Annotations....hand-coloured pictorial engraved and printed titles, 5 hand-coloured and folded maps and a hand coloured and folded plan, decorated initial letters; (24), 710 and 248pp.; contemp. blind ruled calf, central engraved silver lozenge mount on covers and four silver corner mounts, sometime rebacked with panelled spine, folio. (? Amsterdam: printed in the year, 1708)

Lot 300

° ° [John Field's 1660 Restoration Prayer Book] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments ... With the Psalter, or Psalmes of David. engraved frontis (royal arms, by Hollar), title (with engraved device & within double fleuron border), dedication (signed John Ogilby), engraved headpieces and decorated initial letters, printer's device end of Ordinal (Zlv), some black letter, multi-ruled in red throughout. [Cambridge: printed by John Field], Anno Domini, 1660: bound with the first volume (of 2) of Field's Restoration Bible - The Holy Bible. Containing the Bookes of the Old and the New Testament. pictorial engraved title. double-page map (with 2 others and a plan insert) & 5 other d-page plates, decorated initial letters and double red-ruled throughout; contemp. gilt-ruled and panelled black morocco, the gilt-decorated central panel with onlaid gilt-decorated red morocco lozenge and gilt fleurons at corners, the inner corners of the covers (by spine) with onlaid gilt-decorated red morocco pieces (the outer silver ones, at fore-edge, having been removed), gilt-decorated & panelled spine with red label, silver clasps & gilt edges, folio. Cambridge: printed by John Field, Printer to the Universitie ... 1660

Lot 301

° ° Bochart, Samuel - Opera Omnia. Hoc est Phaleg, Chanaan, et Hierozoicon ... editio quarta, 3 vols, engraved pictorial and printed titles, portrait and half title (vol.1), 13 engraved maps (some folded), text illus., head and tailpiece decorations; contemp. gilt-decorated calf, panelled spines with orange and brown labels, folio. Leiden & Utrecht, 1712

Lot 32

° ° Hanham, Frederick (editor) - Natural Illustrations of The British Grasses, 1st edition, folio, red watered silk, by Astle & Sins, with 62 pages of actual specimens of dried grasses, spine crudely repaired with tape, Bath, London and Edinburgh, 1846

Lot 338

° ° Bone, Muirhead (illustrator) - The Western Front. illus. throughout with many plates (some coloured) & text illus.; contemp. half morocco & cloth, folio 1917

Lot 34

° ° Wilson, Sir John - The Royal Philatelic Collection, with frontis portrait of King George VI, folio, crushed red morocco, with gilt Royal Coat of Arms, with 60 plates of which 12 are in colour, Viscount Kemsley at the Dropmore Press, London, 1952, together with Prospectus and Advance Announcement 4pp. pamphlet.

Lot 346

° ° Blaeu, Joan - Atlas Major of 1665 ... introduction and texts by Peter Van Der Krogt ... (new edition) with coloured maps throughout (incl. full, double-page and folded), with a portrait of the cartographer and some other plates & illus.; coloured pictorial boards & d/wrapper, folio. 2005

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