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Lot 2089

Yorkshire Estates A Survey and Valuation of Estates at Steaton, Bilbrough and Newton-Kyme in the County of York, belonging to Thomas Fairfax Esq., Made in the Year of our Lord 1812 by John Humphries, Ripon, manuscript, title and 43 leaves, two large hand-coloured estate plans, (manuscript on folding parchment, dated 1813), large folio, a.e.g., full morocco binding; Catalogue of Books in the Library at Newton Kyme, 1840, manuscript, includes additions after 1842, half roan binding; Expenses Book, A nineteenth century manuscript expenses book, title indistinct, vellum binding; Lord Grimthorpe's London Accounts, 1927-33, 1933-39, two large household accounts books, manuscript entries, half roan bindings; Westow Hall Stud, attractive pedigree book, free of entries, a.e.g., straight grain morocco, slipcase (6) [provenance; Westow Hall]

Lot 2094

Whitaker (Thomas Dunham) An History of Richmondshire in the North Riding of the County of York ..., 1823, Longman, Hurst ..., two volumes, large paper copies, 46 engraved plates after J.M.W. Turner et al (some on India Paper) and 27 pedigrees as called for, includes the cancelled plan of Jerveaux, some foxing, large folio, t.e.g., full morocco gilt bindings

Lot 2099

Chattock (R.S.) Wensleydale, Fourteen Etchings with Descriptive Text, 1872, Seeley ..., folio, fourteen plates, original cloth; Turner (J.M.W.), Richmondshire, 1891, Virtue, numbered India Paper edition limited to 500 copies, 20 engraved plates, unbound folio sheets in original quarter morocco book-form folder (edges worn); Hutton (W.), A Trip to Coatham, A Watering Place in the North Extremity of Yorkshire, 1810, John Nichols ..., portrait frontis, 3 plates, folding map, recent half calf; Phillips (John), Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire ... Part II, The Mountain Limestone District, 1836, Murray, 4to., 25 plates including folding geological map, original wraps; [Clarkson (Christopher)], The History of Richmond, in the County of York ..., 1814, Bowman, three plates, sheep; with eight others (13)

Lot 2100

Clutterbuck (Robert) The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford ..., 1815, Nichols, Son and Bently, folio, three volumes, 54 maps and plates (3 coloured), some extra illustrations, recent quarter leather bindings

Lot 2103

Raine (James) The History and Antiquities of North Durham...., 1852, Nichols, folio, twelve plates as called for, t.e.g., half morocco by Joyce [Frank Graham's copy with several of his pencil annotations, relating to his later publications]; Embleton (Ronald) - original artwork, 'Crossing to the Island', pen and ink drawing, used to illustrate Graham's 'Historic Holy Island' and others, framed and glazed, with two Frank Graham booklets containing the image (4)

Lot 2112

Thoresby (Ralph) Ducatus Leodiensis: or, The Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes ..., 1715, Atlins & Clements, folio, portrait frontis, folding map and 11 plates as called for, calf (re-backed) [Boyne p.71]; Survey of an Estate Situate at Clotherholme, Studley Roger, North Stainley cum Sleningford and Ripon, in the Parish of Ripon ..., the Property of the Earl de Grey & Ripon, 1861, manuscript, title, contents and thirteen pages of survey, 'Robert Selford, Ripon' inscribed below title, limp morocco binding; with one other (3)

Lot 2114

Conder (C.R.) & Kitchener (H.H.) Map of Western Palestine in 26 Sheets from Surveys Conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund ... During the Years 1872 - 1877, 1880, large folio, numbered subscriber's copy, signed by the Chairman, James Glaisher, title sheet, coloured key map and 26 colour maps, housed in original half roan folder (upper board detached)

Lot 2121

Jefferys (Thomas) The County of York, Survey'd in MDCCLXVII, VIII, IX, and MDCCLXX, Engraved by Thomas Jefferys ...1771, 1772, T. Jeffreys, folio, twenty double page engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, remnant half leather (board detached)

Lot 2138

Cook (Lieutenant James) The Journal of H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771, 1977, Genesis/Rigby, numbered limited edition of 500, folio, colour and monochrome plates, half calf binding, slipcase

Lot 2139

Cook (Captain James) The Journal of H.M.S. Resolution 1772-1775, 1981, Genesis/Hedley Fine Art, numbered limited edition of 500, folio, colour and monochrome plates, a.e.g., half morocco binding, slipcase

Lot 2140

Banks (Joseph) and Cook (Captain James) The Banks/Cook Portfolio, 1990, Hill House, numbered limited edition of 500, comprising a large cloth gilt Portfolio containing two colour portraits, two maps, a botanical print and a facsimile letter, all numbered, together with Text volume, edited by Pamela Gilbert, folio, colour plates, dust wrapper, and two promo pamphlets, original packaging; Joppien (Rudiger) & Smith (Bernard), The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, Volumes 1 (Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-71), Volume 2, Voyage of Resolution and Adventure 1772-75, Volume 3, (Resolution and Discovery 1776-80, Text and Catalogue volumes), 1985-87, OUP, four volumes, folio, dust wrappers; with two others (7)

Lot 2143

Bligh (Captain W.) The Log of H.M.S. Providence 1791-1793, 1976, Genesis, numbered limited edition of 500, folio, colour and monochrome plates, folding maps, half calf binding, slipcase

Lot 2146

Flinders (Matthew) A Voyage to Terra Australis, 1989, South Australian Government Printer, numbered facsimile limited edition of 500 sets, two folio text volumes and one large folio atlas volume, housed in large crimson velour box with hinged lids (one lid detached from hinges)

Lot 2149

Ralegh (Walter), The Historie of the World, in Five Bookes ..., 1634, Lathum & Young, folio, engraved title and preceding page laid down, eight double-page maps and plans, restoration to some pages, recent full calf binding with original board calf laid down

Lot 2151

Hering (George E.) The Mountains and Lakes of Switzerland, The Tyrol and Italy .., 1847, Nattali, folio, twenty hand-coloured litho plates including title and frontis, some foxing, a.e.g., half morocco gilt

Lot 2190

Blome (Richard) The Gentleman's Recreations, In Three Parts..., 1710, Bonwicke, Walthoe, et al, second edition, large folio (page 420mm x 260mm), additional engraved title/frontis, eighty plates (six on three double sided leaves), second and third part title pages dated 1709, early panelled calf (rebacked, some marginal staining of early leaves, early annotation in places)

Lot 2191

Brookshaw (George) Six Birds, Accurately Drawn and Coloured after Nature, with Full Instructions for the Young Artist; Intended as a Companion to the Treatise on Flower Painting, 1817, Longman, Hurst ..., folio, six colour plates, each with duplicate plain plate, half roan binding (worn); Albin (Eleazar), A Natural History of English Song-Birds ..., 1759, C. Ware, third edition, engr. frontis, 23 plates (loss to plate at p.18, repaired), later cloth; Berge (F.), Schmetterlingsbuch oder allgemeine und befondere Naturgeschichte der Schmetterlinge, mit besonderer Rucksicht auf die europäischen Gattungen ..., 1842, Stuttgart, small 4to., 48 hand-coloured plates (some annotation of species, neatly repaired tears to majority of plates), pebble-grain cloth (3)

Lot 2218

Merian (Maria Sibylla) The Surinam Album, 2006, Folio Society, large folio, numbered limited edition of 1000 copies, 91 mounted colour plates, quarter morocco with David Eccles design to upper board, with cloth-bound octavo Commentary volume by Julie Harvey, and three colour prints in envelope, all housed in original solander box

Lot 2219

Olney (Peter J.S.) The Wildfowl Paintings of Henry Jones, 1987, Threshold/Harrap, numbered limited edition of 350 copies, signed by the author, oblong folio, tipped in colour frontis, 60 mounted colour plates, half morocco, solander box

Lot 2221

Folio Society A collection of Folio Society publications, 91 volumes, predominantly historical subjects, all in slipcases

Lot 2228

Laurence (Edward) The Duty of a Land Steward .., 1743, Knapton, folding frontis map, folding plate, diced calf (re-backed); Strype (John), Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion .., 1709, Wyat, folio in fours, contemporary calf (re-backed); Watts (Victor), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place Names ..., 2006, CUP, dust wrapper; with eight others (11)

Lot 2229

Folio Society A collection of books published by the Folio Society, 152 volumes, historical and literary titles, predominantly with slipcases

Lot 2231

New Testament The Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated out of the vulgar Latine...., 1617, John Bill, enlarged by W. Fulke, folio in sixes, worn title laid down, recent quarter leather [Herbert #360]; Fulke (William), A Defense of the Sincere and True Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue...., 1617, John Bill, folios in sixes, recent quarter leather; idem, A Briefe Confutation of Sundry Cavils and Quarrels...., 18 pages with loss to top edge of some leaves, all laminated and bound in boards, explanatory note stating that this was originally bound with the bible. (3)

Lot 2001

Stacey (Conor) The Stapleton Collection, Designs for the Irish Neoclassical Interior, 2007, Tralee; Churchill House Press, folio, dust wrapper

Lot 2005

Daniels (George) The Art of Breguet, 1986, Sotheby's, folio, dust wrapper (fine); Pieces of Time, Catalogues 23, 26, 28 through to 92, 94, 1992-2012, A4 format, illustrated, wraps

Lot 2006

Cipriani (Giovanni Battista) A Collection of Prints after the Sketches and Drawings of the Late Celebrated Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Esq. R.A., engraved by Mr Richard Earlom, 1789, Boydell, folio, engraved portrait, engraved title page, printed title page with list of contents, 49 plates as called for, contemporary half calf (worn)

Lot 2007

How (George Evelyn Paget & Jane Penrice) English and Scottish Silver Spoons, Mediaeval to Late Stuart, and Pre Elizabethan Hall Marks on English Plate, 1952-57, private printing, three folio volumes, numbered limited edition of 550 copies, dust wrappers

Lot 2008

Bode (Wilhelm) Die Anfaenge der Majolikakunst in Toskana, 1911, Berlin; Bard, folio, numbered limited edition of 200, 37 plates, mounted illustrations on text pages, original cloth, slipcase

Lot 2009

Falke (Otto von) Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in Munchen, 1914, Leiden, two volumes, folio, unnumbered from a limited edition of 200, 153 card plates (several loose) with 328 mounted colour illustrations, original cloth (stain to upper board of volume 1)

Lot 2025

Burton (Robert) The Anatomy of Melancholy .., 1925, Nonesuch Press, two volumes, folio, signed presentation copy from the illustrator E. McKnight Kauffer (1926), unnumbered limited edition of 750, original quarter vellum (some wear)

Lot 2026

Powys (Llewelyn) The Book of the Days of Llewelyn Powys, 1937, Golden Cockerel Press, folio, numbered limited edtion of 300, twelve etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis, t.e.g., quarter morocco; Gay (John), Fables, 1793, Stockdale, two volumes, seventy plates including engraved titles and frontis (after William Blake and others), Beeleigh Abbey bookplate, a.e.g. calf; with two others (5)

Lot 2029

The Graphic The Graphic, An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, Volumes 19 to 25, Jan 1879 - June 1882, folio, seven volumes, original cloth gilt (damp stained cloth)

Lot 2030

Bestiarum Liber Bestiarum, MS Bodley 764, 2008, Folio Society, numbered limited edition of 1980 (of 2000) copies, facsimile manuscript bound with a.e.g., in full morocco by Brian Settle, with designs by David Eccles, additional Commentary by Christopher de Hamel with Translation by Richard Barber, bound in cloth gilt, the two volumes housed in original solander box

Lot 2047

Clarendon (Edward, Earl of) The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England ..., 1702-1704, Oxford, three volumes, portrait frontis to each, folio in fours, contemporary calf (half title to volume 3 only, binding worn, joints cracked, board detached)

Lot 3057

Bill (William) Hammond (1928 - 2013) - a large and comprehensive folio of watercolours and works on paper from the artist's studio, including nudes and figurative drawings (qty) Hammond was the Art Director at the advertising company J Walter Thompson of London and was responsible for the Lux television commercials, as well as having heavy involvement in campaigns for Guiness and Hovis

Lot 3064

An interesting folio of watercolours and oils, various subjects, avian, figurative, lanscapes, etc, 19th and 20th century

Lot 3115

An interesting folio of advertising artwork designs, watercolour and oil, Highland Dancers, National Costumes, abstract, seascapes, etc

Lot 3321

An interesting folio of prints, engravings and caricatures, various artists and subjects, Kapp, The Hon. Mr Justice Avory, architectural and topographical, 18th and 19th century

Lot 1414

A FOLIO OF ASSORTED PICTURES, including watercolours

Lot 10

Burchett (Josiah). A Complete History of the most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Conclusion of the Last War with France. Wherein is given an Account of the most Considerable Naval-Expeditions, Sea-Fights, Stratagems, Discoveries, and other Maritime Occurences that have happen'd among all Nations which have Flourished at Sea..., 1st edition, printed by W.B. for J. Walthoe, 1720, title printed in black and red, engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait bound following Contents, nine folding engraved naval charts by Hermann Moll, without imprimateur leaf, errata leaf at rear, engraved head and tail-pieces and initial letters, scattered spotting, some toning to initial and final leaves, armorial bookplate of George Craster, Northumberland on front pastedown, hinges repaired, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco label, tissue repairs to joints and edges, folio in 4s Sabin 9205. (1)

Lot 103

Prout (John Skinner). The Castles and Abbeys of Monmouthshire, 1838, tinted lithograph title, dedication and 29 tinted lithograph plates, occasional spotting, contemporary dark green half morocco gilt, spine and extremities rubbed & worn, covers detacked from text-block, large folio, (leaf size 55 x 38cm) Abbey Scenery 538. (1)

Lot 113

Shaw (Rev. Stebbing). The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, Compiled from the Manuscripts of Huntbach, Loxdale, Bishop Lyttelton and other Collections of Dr. Wilkes, The Rev. T. Feilde &c. &c....., 2 vols., [volume 1 and volume 2 part 1 (all published)], 1798-1801, ownership signature of John Minors to upper blank margin of vol. 1 title (listed as Minors esq. of Eccleshall in subscribers list), folding engraved county map (with short closed tear), eighty-two engraved and aquatint plates (one folding), folding engraved plan of the town of Wolverhampton, engraved illustrations to text, occasional toning & spotting to text leaves, edges untrimmed, 20th century green half morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt decorated spines, lightly faded to spines, folio Upcott pp.1176-1185. Large Paper copy. (2)

Lot 115

Speed (John). The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their Originals, Manners, Habits, Warres, Coines and Seales..., from Julius Caesar unto the Raigne of King James of famous Memorie, 3rd edition, published John Dawson for George Humble, 1632, engraved portrait frontispiece of John Speed, additional engraved portrait of William the Conqueror, printer's woodcut device to title, woodcut illustrations and decorative head & tailpieces throughout, a few pages with long repaired closed tears, very occasional spotting, later marbled endpapapers, 19th century marbled calf, repaired and re-backed, a little worn at extremities, folio STC 23049. (1)

Lot 116

Speed (John). The Second Booke: Containing the Principality of Wales: Delivering an exact Topography of the Following Counties. Pembroke-Shire, Caermarden-Shire, Glamorgan-Shire, Brecknock-Shire, Radnor-Shire, Cardigan-Shire, Mountgomery-Shire, Merioneth-Shire, Denbighshire, Flint-Shire, Caernarvon-Shire, Anglesey Isle. With the Divisions of their Cantreves and Commots. Descriptions of their Cities and Shire-Townes..., printed M. and S. Simmons for Roger Rea, 1662, letterpress title, general map of Wales and twelve (complete as list) uncoloured engraved double page county maps by John Speed, all with English text on verso, a few maps with margins strengthened on verso, occasional marginal repaired closed tears, slight creasing, the maps have been re-guarded and this has caused some browning to the central fold, front blank torn with loss and repaired, later marbled endpapers, 19th century gilt calf, skillfully re-backed, slim folio (1)

Lot 129

Andrews (Henry C.). Coloured Engravings of Heaths. The Drawings Taken from Living Plants only. With the Appropriate Specific Character, full Description, Native Place of Growth, and Time of Flowering of each; in Latin and English, circa 1810-30, 90 fine hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 288), most with accompanying letterpress description, in generally clean and bright condition, some occasional marginal toning, loose, original printed wrappers for parts XLIX, LIII-LVIII, LX-LXII, LXIV-LXV, LXVIII-LXXIII, LXXVI-LXXX, 82 & 85 (some chips and tears), a few plates without descriptions, folio, sheet size 435 x 275mm (17 x 10.75ins) Dunthorne 9, Great Flower Books p.47; Nissen BBI 31. Described by Wilfred Blunt as Andrews's "finest achievement... notable in conception and impressive in execution". Begun in 1794 and running to 1830, Andrews drew and engraved all the plates and wrote most of the text, and according to Dunthorne even did the colouring. (90)

Lot 130

Butler (Arthur G.). Foreign Finches in Captivity, 2nd edition, published Brumby & Clarke Ltd, 1899, additional half title, sixty (complete) chromolithographic plates, frontispiece detached, top edge gilt, contemporary quarter morocco gilt, spine partially detached, worn at extremities, 4to, together with four partially excised volumes including Sowerby's 'Genera of Shells', two volumes of Hewitson's 'Eggs of British Birds' and 'Constable's Miscellany' containing hand coloured engravings of butterflies, plus two partially excised copies of G.D.Armour's 'Pastime with Good Company', with numerous tipped in uncoloured plates, with two similar volumes on horses, and, Leech (John), Four Masterpieces, circa 1870, four large chromolithographs of sporting scenes, all from the 'Sketches in Oils' series, all images printed on two sheets, near contemporary cloth portfolio with old linen ties, slim folio Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return. (quantity)

Lot 135

Davidian (H. H.). The Rhododendron Species, 3 volumes, B. T. Batsford, 1982, numerous illustrations throughout, original publisher's cloth in d.j., spine of volume one somewhat faded, 4to, together with Krutch (Joseph Wood), Herbal, Phaidon Press, 1976, illustrated throughout, original publisher's two-tone cloth, folio, plus Talbot Kelly (R. B.), The Way of Birds, Collins, 1937, half-title, illustrated throughout, original publisher's cloth, 4to, plus others related (18)

Lot 138

Estienne (Charles). Maison Rustique, or, The Countrey Farme. Compyled in the French Tongue by Charles Stevens, and John Liebault, Doctors of Physicke and translated into English by Richard Surflet, Now Newly Reviewed, Corrected and Augmented, with divers large additions, out of the works of Serres, Vinet, Albyterio & Grilli... and the Husbandrie of France, Italie, Spaine, Reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: Gervase Markham, 3rd English edition, printed by Adam Islip for John Bill, 1616, woodcut illustrations to text, woodcut initials, some minor marks and marginal soiling (contents generally in clean condition), title and folding leaf a little brown, with small repair to lower outer corner of title, bookplate of Donald McDonald and another bookplate with initials R.W. to modern endpaper, 20th century half brown morocco, with old spine label retained, folio (280 x 175 mm) STC 10549. Goldsmiths 451. Kress 353. (1)

Lot 149

Mawson (Thomas H., assisted by E. Prentice Mawson). The Art and Craft of Garden Making, 5th edition, New York, circa 1920, numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, top edge gilt, original gilt-decorated green cloth, slightly rubbed, folio, together with Walton (Isaak), The Compleat Angler or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation [Cambridge, Mass.], Riverside Press, 1909, designed by Bruce Rogers for the Riverside Press, title with decorative border and vignette illustration, head- and tail-pieces, untrimmed, original boards with paper label to spine and spare title label tipped in to rear endpaper, 16mo, limited edition 152/440, plus Rackham (Arthur, illustrator), The Compleat Angler by Isaak Walton, 1st edition, 1931, colour plates, monochrome illustrations, original green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, and other various fishing and sporting interest, including James Wilson, The Rod and The Gun, 1841, Augustus Grimble, The Salmon Rivers of England and Wales, 1913, John Loudon, The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the late Humphrey Repton, 1840, G.A.B. Dewar, Life and Sport in Hampshire, 1908, etc. (19)

Lot 150

Miller (Philip and Martyn, Thomas). The Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary; Containing the Best and Newest Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Garden, and Nursery; of Performing the Practical Parts of Agriculture; of Managing Vineyards, and of Propogating all sorts of Timber Trees, 2 vols. in 4, 1807, nineteen engraved plates (of 20), occasional spotting, contemporary quarter calf, velllum corners, rubbed and worn, joints cracked, spine of volume one partly deficient, folio (4)

Lot 159

Rumpf (Georg Eberhard). Thesaurus Imaginum Piscium Testaceorum... ut et Cochlearum... quibus accedunt Conchylia... denique Mineralia..., 2nd edition, The Hague, 1739, additional engraved title with fine hand colouring, engraved portrait frontispiece, letterpress title printed in red and black with engraved tailpiece by Bernard Picart, sixty engraved plates, all with hand-colouring, first few plates with light marginal dampstains, occaisonal pencil marginalia, a little light dust-soiling, re-guarded throughout, edges untrimmed, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked and repaired, folio Nissen 3520. (1)

Lot 16

Haghe (Louis). Sketches in Belgium and Germany, 1840, 26 tinted lithographed plates, publisher's list at end, contents loose, gutta percha perished, some scattered spotting, original morocco-backed boards, spine rubbed and faded with small splits, a few stains, folio (1)

Lot 168

Weinmann (Johann Wilhelm). Phytanthoza Iconographia sive Conspectus..., volume I only (of 8), Regensburg, 1737, title printed in red and black, 150 hand-finished colour printed plates, sheet size 400 x 240mm (15.75 x 9.5ins), scattered spotting and browning, contemporary mottled calf, spine with brown labels and gilt decoration, some edge wear, folio (1)

Lot 176

Blaeu (Johannes). Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with an introduction by R.V. Tooley, published Thames & Hudson, circa 1970, facsimile reprint, 115 maps including four printed in colour and two colour printed title pages, most maps double-page, limited edition 53/500, publisher's crimson half morocco gilt in slipcase, folio, together with, Ogilby (John), Britannia, Volume the First: or an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales..., 1675, but facsimile reprint published Osprey 1971, 100 uncoloured double page road maps, publisher's cloth gilt, folio, with, Speed (John), John Speed's England..., Edited and Introduced by John Arlott, 4 volumes, published Phoenix House Limited, 1953, numerous double page colour printed maps, publisher's half cloth with decorative printed boards, each volume contained in card slipcase (as published), slim folio, plus, Blaeu (Johannes), Atlas Major, volumes 1 & 2 Anglia [and] Scotia & Hibernia, originally published 1645, facsimile reprints, published Taschen, 2006, numerous colour plates, publishers decorative cloth, d.j.s, contained in decorative slip case, folio, with another nine facsimile atlases, including examples by Pigot, Speed, Camden, Bowen & Kitchin and Moule, various sizes and condition (17)

Lot 18

Jones (Owen & Goury Jules). Views on the Nile from Cairo to the Second Cataract, Drawn on Stone by George Moore from Sketches taken in 1832 & 1833..., published Messrs. Graves and Warmsley, 1843, additional decorative tinted lithographic title, twenty-eight (of 31) tinted lithographic plates, each with a page of descriptive text, lacking plates 4, 6 & 21, (Tomb near Cairo, The Sphinx & Landing Place Philoe), some waterstaining and spotting throughout, several plates with frayed and stained margins, a David Roberts lithograph of 'The Convent of Terra Santa Nazereth' loosely inserted, gutta percha perished, contents shaken and loose, contemporary quarter morocco with gilt title to upper board, lacking spine, boards detached, heavily worn and frayed, folio Blackmer 888. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)

Lot 21

La Mottraye (Aubrey de). Travels through Europe, Asia, and into Part of Africa; with Proper Cutts and Maps. Containing a great variety of geographical, topographical, and political obversations on those parts of the world; especially on Italy, Turky, Greece, Crim and Noghaian Tartaries, Circassia, Sweden, and Lapland, 3 volumes, 1st English edition, printed for the author [3rd volume printed for E. Symon & others], 1723-32, first volume with printed licence leaf facing title, third volume with engraved frontispiece, 56 copper engraved maps and plates, including many folding or double-page, first volume with short wormtrack towards centre of inner margins at rear, slightly affecting some plates, one folding map to second volume torn without loss, third volume with wormtrack to extreme lower outer corners at centre of volume, contents generally in very good, clean condition, contemporary full calf blindstamped calf, gilt decorated spines, rubbed and some wear to edges with joints to first and second volumes, partly cracked, folio (358 x 220 mm) Ex libris Thomas Johnes (1748-1816) of Hafod, with his bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Atabey 661. Navari 946: 'This important work describes La Mottraye's travels over a 26-year period which took him through Northern Europe to Tartary and the Levant. The plates are of particular interest and include many signed by Hogarth which form part of his early work. They illustrate antiquities, objets d'art, and scenes of the eastern life.' (3)

Lot 215

Reference. Baynton-Williams (Ashley & Miles), New Worlds, Maps from the Age of Discovery, published Quercus, 2006, additional half title, numerous colour illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, d.j., folio, together with, Shirley (Rodney), Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1650 - 1750, published 1988, numerous uncoloured illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, d.j., 4to, with, Goss (John), The Map Maker's Art, published Studio Editions, 1993, numerous colour and black & white illustrations throughout, publisher's cloth gilt, d.j., folio, with another approximately seventy-two volumes on maps, cartographers and map collecting, various sizes and condition (approx.75)

Lot 22

Martin (R. Montgomery). The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, published J.F.Tallis, circa 1857, uncoloured double page map of Liverpool, decorative title page, two comparison plates, seventy-eight (of 80), engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring (lacking Venezuela and Peru & Bolivia), a few maps with short marginal closed tears, some marginal spotting and finger soiling, a few maps trimmed with slight loss, descriptive text for Ireland with long closed tear, text for Jamaica frayed and creased, hinges and joints weak, contemporary half calf gilt, worn and frayed, folio Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (1)

Lot 232

*British topographical views. A mixed collection of approximately 100 engravings, mostly 19th century, engravings and lithographs, including examples by Daniell, Byrne, Pickering, Jones, Bartlett, Brandard, Newman, Watts, Hill and Turner, various sizes and condition, together with a folio album containing approximately seventy-five uncoloured 18th century British topographical engravings, each view approximately 180 x 300 mm, partially excised, with six engravings of North American scenery, two county maps by John Cary and a collection of approximately forty-five engravings of heraldic crests and coats of arms, various sizes and condition (approx.220)

Lot 24

Neele (Samuel & George ). Neele's General Atlas Consisting of a Complete Set of Maps Compiled from the Best Authorities and Including all the New Discoveries, sold Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, published 1814, decorative calligraphic title and dedication, index and advertisement, sixty (complete) engraved maps with contemporary hand colouring (including fifteen double page), with two extra maps of France and Turkey in Europe, some short closed tears and splits at base of central fold, large ink signature to front blank, later endpapers, hinges strengthened, later quarter sheep, rubbed and worn, folio (1)

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