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Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 643

Folio Society; a quantity of boxed sets and other loose titles to include, a seven book box set for CS Lewis, two three book box sets for the 'The Arabian Nights' vols 1, 2, & 3 and 4, 5, & 6, various other loose titles to include Andrew Lang 'The Pink Fairy Book', 'Ballet Shoes', 'The Railway Children', Edward Lear's 'Complete Nonsense', Mark Twain 'Tom Sawyer', Lawrence James 'The Rise and Fall of the British Empire', 'Grimm's Fairy Tales', 'Pompei', 'The Pursuit of Love', 'The Diary of a Nobody', 'The Book of Margery Kemp', 'Strong Poison', 'The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion', 'The Enchanted April', 'The Spy's Bedside Book', Machiavelli 'The Prince' etc (2).

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Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 644

Folio Society; a quantity of individual titles to include 'The Maltese Falcon', 'The Great Enterprise', 'The Freaks of Mayfair', 'Folk Tales of The British isles', 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', 'The Postman Always Rings Twice', 'Perraults Fairy Tales' illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 'The Darling Buds of May', 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', 'Master and Commander', 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'The Trials of Charles I', 'Journey of the Terror', 'A is for Ox', also a Mid Point Press limited-edition Jane Austin 'The Illustrated Library' with gilt tooled red binding and a Mid-Point Press limited-edition Sir Arthur Conan Doyle illustrated 'Sherlock Holmes' with gilt tooled green binding.

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Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 645

Folio Society; a quantity of loose and boxed sets to include two historical box sets containing seven volumes for 'The Maya', 'The Aztecs', 'The Incas', 'The Babylonians', 'The Hittites', 'The Egyptians', and 'The Persians', further titles to include 'The Great Plague', 'The Daughter of Time', 'The Assassins', 'Photographs', 'Shakespeare, Life and World', 'Christmas Crime Stories', John Ruskin 'The Stones of Venice', Dee Brown 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee', and various other titles (2).

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Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 642

Folio Society; a quantity of box sets to include Jane Austin, Leo Tolstoy, Hemmingway, Footprints of Jesus, Charlotte Bronte, and further loose books to include 'The March of Folly', 'The Lady in the Van', 'Justine', 'At the Court of the Borgia', 'The Third Policeman', 'Bratt Farrar', 'A Room with a View', 'The Newgate Calendar', 'Cider with Rosie' etc (2).

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Burstow & Hewett
Lot 786

A shelf of folio edition books, including poetry, The Twelve Caesars, Rudyard Kipling etc

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Burstow & Hewett
Lot 809

Folio edition books, including Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy

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Brettells Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 364

A 1960's German Hardcover Edition of Deutsche Städteansichten (German Cityscapes) by R.Löwit Wiesbaden Together with a Alte Deutsche Städteansichten Folio Containing Engraving Prints of Germany

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Brettells Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 355

A Embossed Red Folio Containing Book Plate Prints of Antique Carpets, 6 Inch Ordnance Survey Manchester and Vicinity in 1848, Various Folios Relating to Art and Artists, Cut Out Model of the University of Osuna 1548 etc

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Special Auction Services
Lot 292

A small group of luggage and handbags and other items, including a Schedoni tan suitcase marked 455 GT, a black Pollini suitcase on wheels, two attache cases, a leather wash bag, a Jane Hopkinson handbag, a Bentley red document folio and more

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Charles Miller Ltd
Lot 273

A LATE 19TH CENTURY MIDSHIPMAN'S LOGBOOKS FROM H.M.S. NILE, ETC. kept by Fabian Chapman between 25 September 1894 - 31 January 1897, 189ff., 31 watercolour drawings, 25 of a technical nature, all but seven coloured, 17 partly coloured maps and plans, original half roan, rubbed, folio -- 12½ x 8in. (31.5 x 20cm.); during this period the Nile sailed exclusively in the Mediterranean or British waters; the descriptions of the ship's activities are standard for a vessel of this period; together with another kept between 1 February -15 July 1898 onboard H.M.Ships Nile, Lark, Cruiser, Trafalgar and Volage, 85ff., 19 drawings, seven of a technical nature, all but one coloured, 16 partly coloured maps, original reverse half calf, rubbed, folio -- 12½ x 8in. (32 x 20cm.); the first half of the journal takes part in the Mediterranean, mostly in Greece, where Chapman gives us snippets of news about the Greco-Turkish war in Crete between February and May. After a voyage to Spithead the Volage sailed to Barbados, Trinidad, Grenada, St Lucia, Antigua, St Kitts returning to home waters via Bermuda; together with an odd volume and his service-pattern telescope (4)

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Charles Miller Ltd
Lot 263

SHIP'S LOG FOR THE PADDLE SLOOP H.M.S. VESUVIUS, 1841-44 under the command of Commodore Erasmus Ommanney, folio, written in two hands, 1841-1844, the log concerns itself mainly with ordinary tasks (washing clothes, caulking, coaling, painting masts, washing decks, etc.) with a disproportionate amount of punishments (30 lashes for disobedience, 30 lashes for insolence, 36 lashes for being drunk on duty, 42 and 48 lashes for disobedience, 30 lashes for being below when the hands were on deck, 36 lashes for leaving the ship without leave, etc.) contemporary half roan (rubbed) -- 13 x 8in. (33 x 20.5cm.)Footnote: The Vesuvius was based in Malta and undertook voyages to Beirut (several visits), Jaffa, Acre, Crete, Barcelona (several visits), Tunis, Tripoli, Alexandria, Constantinople and other Mediterranean ports. Erasmus Ommanney (1814-1904) was one of four Ommanneys to serve in the Royal Navy in the 19th century. Entered the service in 1826, serving with the allied forces at the battle of Navarino in 1827 and after a varied career was promoted rear admiral in 1864, retiring from the Royal Navy as admiral. He was knighted in 1887.

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Charles Miller Ltd
Lot 271

'REAL SAILOR SONGS' edited by John Ashton with presentation mss inscription to fly, title in red and black, with front index to sections including Sea Fights, Press Gang, Disaster, Ashore, Love and others, most leaves adhering to thick brown paper guards, occasional light offset and spotting, original half vellum, gilt arms of the Duke of Edinburgh, Admiral, on front cover, rather discoloured, folio, 97pp, London, Leadenhall Press, 1891

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Cotswold Auction Company
Lot 90

Hirst, Damien"I Want to Spend the Rest of my Life Everywhere with Everyone, One to One Always Forever Now", Robert Violette (ed), elephant folio, illustrations throughout, moving parts, dj, red cloth

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JS Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 169

A FOLIO OF VARIOUS PRINTS.

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Franklin Browns
Lot 29

Bits of Old Edinburgh, drawn and etched by Frank W Simon, a folio of prints

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Transport Auctions of London
Lot 398

1845 PLAN & SECTION of the proposed London, Newbury & Bath Railway. A folio of around 50 plans inside leathercloth covers. Inside page bears a signed receipt by the Clerk of the Peace of the County of Wiltshire. The route was proposed from the GWR Bath station to Newbury via Devizes, Pewsey, Hungerford but the bill presented in the House of Commons in 1846 was not proved, did not receive Royal Assent and the railway was never built. Overall size 30" x 19" (75cm x 48cm) and generally in good condition. [1]

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Arthur Johnson & Sons Auctioneers
Lot 731

An album of female modelling photographs and a folio of fashion designs

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Chaucer Auctions
Lot 79

The Jubilee Years 1887 1897 hardback book 240 pages in presentation box Published 1996 The Folio Society. Good sound condition jacket has discolouration. From TV Blockbusters presenters Bob Holness collection. All proceeds are being donated to the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99. We can ship a 20KG box in UK for £12, Europe £40, US/ROW £80.

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Lot 120

The Calas Affair A Treatise On Tolerance by Voltaire hardback book translated and edited by Brian Masters. Published 1994 The Folio Society. 145 pages. Fine condition. From TV Blockbusters presenters Bob Holness collection. All proceeds are being donated to the Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99. We can ship a 20KG box in UK for £12, Europe £40, US/ROW £80.

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TW Gaze
Lot 220

"The Imperial Shakespeare", large folio two volume late 19th Century work containing large number of steel engraved plates, uniform decorative full leather gilt (worn) (2)

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Ewbank's
Lot 1040

Folio of modern prints and exhibition posters, to include Paul Nash, Imperial War Museum, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, among various others. Image size typically 73 x 48cm. (1 folio)

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Ewbank's
Lot 1086

R B Kitaj RA (1932-2007), A Day Book by Robert Creeley, Graphis Berlin, comprising pages of text and wraparound screenprint cover by Kitaj, in folio, sheet sizes 61 x 42cm Condition Report: Very good condition overall. No indication of the item's number within a larger series. No signature.

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Ewbank's
Lot 1110A

Daphne Padden (British, 1925-2009), folio of artworks, mainly abstract collages and watercolour designs for commercial assignments. Various sizes. Sample size 47 x 46cm. (1 folder)

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Ewbank's
Lot 1119

Folio of eleven Louis Curti costume design watercolour drawings. Each signed 'Louis Curti' in pencil and dated 1900. Annotated in pencil verso. Image size typically 32.5 x 25cm. (1 folio - 11 works)

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Ewbank's
Lot 1147

AMENDED DESCRIPTION Larry Terence Parkes (British, 1927-2003), folio of original cartoons, ink and watercolour, including work for the Daily Telegraph. Various sizes, typically 21 x 16cm. (1 folder) Condition Report: Original artworks by the artist, as per amended description.

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Lot 100

NO RESERVE Letters to India.- Thomson (George, of Fairley, Aberdeen) 6 Autograph Letters signed to his son Alexander Thomson, Bengal Horse Artillery, in India, together 22pp. some including address panels, sm. 4to & folio, 22nd March 1817 - 19th December 1819, on a variety of subjects relating to his son's time in India, asking him to call on various people he knows, refusing to pay a bill for £437 presented to him, "Had you been a Field Officer, besides a Cadit [sic] the sum contained in that Bill would have been an extravagant expenditure...", congratulating him having joined the horse artillery, and news from home, "Fairley in time will be rather a pretty place and very comfortable", tears where opened and along folds, some staining, browned; and 2 other related letters, v.s., v.d. (8 pieces).

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Lot 113

Bacon (Sir Francis) Operum Moralium et Civilium, first edition, first issue, engraved portrait frontispiece, printed titles with small woodcut device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, A4 and 2E6 blank, spotting, some staining / water-staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original chipped gilt backstrip in compartments with new red morocco label, some gilt new, corners worn, rubbed, [Gibson 196; Wing 1109], folio, Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini [and John Haviland]; prostant ad Insignia Regia in Coemeterio D. Pauli, apud Richardum Whitakerum [and John Norton], 1638.⁂ The first issue (without the 'Novum organum' at end) of the first collected works in Latin.Provenance: 'Ex libris Rob. Thorp' (18th ink inscription to head of title); 'Miss Dickson from Miss Thorp Sale 1869, bought again 1879' (ink inscription to front free endpaper).

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Lot 114

Spenser (Edmund) The Works of that famous English poet, double column, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 4K2 advertisement f., marginal split to frontispiece, neat tear to L2 within text, but without loss, occasional spotting and light staining (including a little ink), contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments, spine ends and corners worn, joints splitting, but holding firm, rubbed and scuffed, [Pforzheimer 980; Wing S4965], folio, Printed by Henry Hills, for Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street, 1679.⁂ Includes Theodore Bathurst's translation of The Shepheardes Calendar.

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Lot 115

17th century judges.- Philo-Dicaios. The Triumphs of Justice over Unjust Judges, slightly browned, disbound, [Wing T2297], folio, Benjamin Harris, 1681.⁂ Dedicated to Lord Justice Scroggs, the judge in the majority of Popish Plot cases and includes judges hanged for corruption and ship money.

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Lot 116

NO RESERVE Platina (Bartholomaeus Sacchi) The Lives of the Popes ... translated into English ... by Sir Paul Rycaut, second English edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, several marginal tears, expertly repaired and laid down, title in red and black, spotting and staining, 4N1 lacking lower corner (not affecting text), new endpapers, near contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, [Wing P2404], folio, for C. Wilkinson, 1688.

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Lot 117

[Laud (William, Archbishop)] The History of the Troubles and Tryal of ... William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in black and red, faint off-setting, faint marginal stain (L4), small loss to bottom edge (3T2) not affecting text, 2pp. publishers advertisements at end, strengthened hinges, previous owner's ink inscription, near contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, [Wing L586], folio, for Ri. Chiswell, 1695.⁂ Provenance. Ink inscription reads, "This book belonged to Dr. William Holden Hutton, Dean of Winchester 1919-1930 and came to me under his Will."

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Lot 119

Guillim (John) A Display of Heraldry, title in red and black, 65 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations, head- and tail-pieces, lacking *c2, B4, ⁴L2 and (f)2 (all blanks), scattered faint spotting, one or two evenly browned leaves, new endpapers, later calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, folio, for R. and J. Bonwicke and R. Wilkin ..., 1724.

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Lot 131

NO RESERVE Bible, English.- An Exposition on the Old and New Testament...forming the most complete Family Bible ever published, 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, frontispiece and c.97 plates, some foxing and staining to plates, occasional foxing to text (heavy on a few ff.), some spotting and staining, a few tears, modern buckram, black leather labels to spines, folio, J. Stratford, [c.1800].

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Lot 140

Smuggling.- 16 Customs & Excise letters regarding smuggling, 16 printed circulars, disbound, folio, 1832-88. ⁂ Includes: tobacco concealed in a toggle or in cotton bales or herring barrels; poultry coops with false bottoms; altered brandy casks; flower water cans contain essential oils; silks and gloves in a concealed space below the half deck etc.

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Lot 15

Dante Alighieri. L'Inferno..., edited by G.G.Warren Lord Vernon, 3 vol., engraved portrait and plates, illustrations, with folding map of Italy loosely inserted, occasional spotting, hinges weak, vol.2 loose in binding, contemporary marbled boards, uncut, rather crudely rebacked in cloth, rubbed, folio, Thomas & William Boone, 1858-65.

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Lot 16

Cooper (Thomas) Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae, printed in double column, partly in black letter, lacking initial and final blanks, title with bear and ragged staff woodcut device and with various ink or pencil inscriptions (soiled and lacking upper outer corner, laid down), occasional light browning, a few ink stains, slight worming to inner margin, nineteenth century ink inscriptions to front free endpapers, nineteenth century calf ruled and stamped in blind, rubbed, loose in binding, upper cover detached, [STC 5689], folio, printed in the shop of Henry Bynneman [by Henry Denham], 1584.

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Lot 162

Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 8 vol., 1983-1990 § Sprenger (Jacobus) and Heinrich Kramer. Malleus Maleficarum, light fading to spine, 1968 § Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus & Criseyde, 1990, plates or illustrations, original boards or cloth, slip-cases, some light rubbing but generally excellent; and c.35 others, The Folio Society, v.s. (c.45)

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Lot 163

Codex Sinaiticus, colour facsimile reprint, original cloth, with accompanying reference guide booklet in original wrappers, together in original cloth slip-case (very slightly marked), folio, Peabody, Mass. & London, 2010.⁂ Superb facsimile of the earliest complete copy of the New Testament, a fourth century Greek Bible from St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.

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Lot 187

Australia.- Macarthur (Major Edward) Colonial Policy of 1840 and 1841, as illustrated by the Governor's Despatches, and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, lithographed map with a little hand-colouring, title lightly browned, occasional spotting, modern buckram-backed boards, [Ferguson 3241], John Murray, 1841; and 4 others, 3 of which 19th century NSW Acts, 8vo & folio (5)⁂ Advocating emigration to the Australian colonies and discussing at length the British government's land policy in New South Wales.

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Lot 188

First Australian Bible Society.- Broadside.- Auxiliary Bible Society of New South Wales, 228 x 190mm., a few pencil numbers and letters, lightly stained, Sydney, 1825; and another seemingly unrecorded work on the state of the church in NSW, 1837 (Webster Collection 2617), folio (2)⁂ Unrecorded. The Bible Society NSW was the first of its kind to be formed in Australia (Act of the Parliament of NSW, 1817). Provenance: Webster Collection, 3895 (small ink stamp to verso).

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Lot 198

England.- Fuller (Thomas) The History of the Worthies of England, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, lacking A1, E4 & K4 (blanks), rust stain in shape of key (v3), one or two tiny rust holes affecting odd letter, occasional faint spotting, bookplates, later morocco, gilt, g.e., slight rubbing to spine extremities, [Wing F2440], folio, by J.G.W.L. and W.G., 1662.⁂ Without the 18th century index, which is frequently found bound at the end of this work.

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Lot 20

Aesop & others. Fables...with Morals and Reflexions. Part I, edited by Sir Roger L'Estrange, fourth edition, lacking engraved portrait but with plate of Aesop surrounded by animals (torn & trimmed, mounted on blank leaf and loosely inserted), for R.Sare [& others], 1704; Fables and Storyes Moralized. Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop, edited by Sir Roger L'Estrange, first edition, with the final advertisement leaf, browned, [Wing L1247], for R.Sare, 1699, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary panelled calf, worn, upper cover detached, folio

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Lot 200

England.- Tanner (Rev. Thomas) Notitia Monastica: or, an Account of all the Abbies, Priories, and Houses of Friers heretofore in England and Wales, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved plates, lacking o2 (blank), medieval matrix wax impression to final leaf verso, one or two marginal manuscript notes, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, folio, 1744.

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Lot 203

Hertfordshire.- Cussans (John Edwin) History of Hertfordshire, 6 parts in 3 vol., half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 22 plates, most tinted lithographs or chromolithographs, double-page hand-coloured map, list of subscribers, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary half-morocco, a little rubbed, folio, London & Hertford, 1870-81.

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Lot 204

Hertfordshire.- Salmon (Nathaniel) The History of Hertfordshire ..., list of subscribers, 1728, bound before, Necome (Rev. Peter) The History of the Ancient and Royal Foundation called The Abbey of St. Alban., text trimmed and mounted widening margins, 1795, together 2 vol., extra illustrated, 121 plates, some folding, many trimmed and pasted down, 2 or 3 with short tears and old tape repairs, 3 maps (2 folding), 2 folding plans, occasional spotting and staining, a rembotage near contemporary calf originally made for a larger title, rebacked and recornered, a little rubbed, folio.

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Lot 205

Kent.- Harris (John) The History of Kent. In five Parts ..., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, trimmed and laid down, 41 engraved plates, all but 3 double-page, 3 with tears and neat repairs, several trimmed to plate mark, 3 double-page maps and 1 large folding double-page map, title trimmed with loss to one rule border, list of subscribers, previous owner's ink signature to title, occasional water-staining and spotting, occasional marginal notes and underlining, front free endpaper detached, contemporary calf, neat repair to spine foot, a little rubbed. folio, D. Midwinter, 1719.

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Lot 206

Kent.- Philipott (Thomas) Villare Cantianum: or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated, first edition, large folding double-page map hand-coloured in outline, engraved illustrations, corrections inserted by hand, one or two ink annotations in various hands, bookplate, manuscript notes loosely inserted, Z1 with small hole affecting odd letter, contemporary calf, gilt, a little rubbed, [Wing P1989], small folio, by William Godbid, 1659.

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Lot 207

Lake District.- Green (William) Forty Etchings from Nature, Old Buildings situate in the Mountainous District of the North of England, first edition, 40 etched plates, proof impressions, some minor foxing and soiling, original paper title label from wrapper pasted to front free endpaper, later green half morocco, gilt, small paint mark to lower cover, oblong folio, n.p., [c.1820].⁂ Rare suite of plates, mostly of cottages and houses in the Lake District. Only one copy traced at auction, which mentioned an advertisement leaf, not present here.

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Lot 211

London.- Ackermann (Rudolph) The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 81 hand-coloured aquatint plates including additional vignette title, engraved plan and portrait, list of subscribers, occasional spotting and faint off-setting, later straight-grain morocco by Roger de Coverly, neat ?repair to lower joint (vol. 2 only), gilt, a.e.g., small stain to lower boards, folio, for R. Ackermann, 1812.

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Lot 215

Rutland.- Wright (James) The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland, first edition, engraved double-page map, engraved and woodcut illustrations, title in red and black, odd word scored out by a previous owner, O4 with small rust hole affecting odd letter, P3 with short tear at inner margin not affecting text, scattered finger soiling, new endpapers, contemporary calf, spine ends and upper joints neatly repaired, a little rubbed, [Wing W3696], folio, for Bennet Griffin, 1684.

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Lot 228

Millais (John Guille) British Deer and their Horns, first edition, frontispiece, 10 plates, tissue-guards, illustrations, many full-page, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, later half-morocco retaining original pictorial upper cover, folio, 1897.

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Lot 23

Chambers (Ephraim) Cyclopaedia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 2 vol., folding engraved frontispiece, titles in red and black, 20 engraved plates, 8 folding or double-page, folding Caslon type specimen (a little browned), plate of Anatomy bound upside down, occasional soiling, a few stains, engraved armorial bookplate of the Earl of Guilford of Wroxton Abbey, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, spine ends and corners worn, joints split, folio, for D.Midwinter [& others], 1738.⁂ The inspiration for Diderot and d'Alembert's great Encyclopédie.

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Lot 240

Birds.- Millais (John Guille) British Diving Ducks, 2 vol., one of 450 copies, half-titles, colour frontispieces, 72 colour, collotype or photogravure plates, tissue-guards, original buckram, light sunning to spine as usual, t.e.g., folio, 1913.

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Lot 243

Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, first edition, 30 colour plates, tissue-guards, spotting, bookplate, later half-morocco, folio, 1923.

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Lot 247

Botany.- Dykes (William Rickatson) The Genus Iris, first edition, half-title, 48 colour plates, illustrations, spotting, previous owner's ink inscription to title, bookplate, original morocco-backed boards, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, folio, Cambridge, 1913.⁂ Provenance: bookplate of Vincent Cartwright Vickers, Governor of the Bank of England between 1910 and 1919.

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Lot 254

NO RESERVE Gardening.- Miller (Philip) The Gardeners Dictionary: containing the Best and Newest Methods of Cultivating and Improving ..., engraved frontispiece and 19 engraved plates, one or two plates with frayed edges not affecting text, diagrams in text, scattered spotting, occasional faint off-setting, modern half-calf, folio, for the Author, 1759.

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Lot 262

Gardens.- Paul (William) The Rose Garden. in two divisions, 15 hand-coloured lithograph plates, tissue-guards, illustrations, list of subscribers, occasional spotting, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, gilt, sunned spine, bumping to corners and extremities, 1848 § Latham (Charles) The Gardens of Italy, first edition, 2 vol., frontispieces and plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1905; and 3 others similar, 8vo & folio (5)

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Lot 266

NO RESERVE Herbal.- Salmon (William) Botanologia. The English herbal: or, History of plants, first edition, engraved additional pictorial title by K.Cyrus after K.Solomon, printed title in red and black, numerous woodcut illustrations, 28 pp. only (of 44) of indices (as often without the 'Index morborum'), stained, heavily so at start (?oil), some spotting, lightly browned, 19th century half morocco, rebacked, preserving original backstrip in compartments, corners worn, rubbed, [Henrey 1308; Hunt 426], folio, Printed by I. Dawks, for H. Rhodes, 1710. sold not subject to return.

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Lot 271

Trees.- Evelyn (John) Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, title in red and black, loss to upper corner, neatly restored, engraved illustrations, occasional ink marginal notes, previous owner's ink signatures, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, neat repairs to corners, a little rubbed, folio, 1729.

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