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Lot 595
A Lladro group depicting Napoleon seated on a throne with eagle pediment, reading a map, height 35cm, limited edition 796/1459, with certificateFigure appears in good condition WE TAKE GREAT CARE in the accuracy of our condition reports and may record damage and restoration if obvious. The information is provided in good faith along with detailed photographs where requested and is for guidance only. However, this does not imply that there may not be further condition issues associated with the lot and we DO NOT provide any guarantee to the buyer.WE STRONGLY ADVISE BIDDERS TO EXAMINE PERSONALLY ANY LOT THEY ARE INTERESTED IN BEFORE THE AUCTION.
Lot 51
Cartography. Arlott (John, editor), John Speed's England: A coloured facsimile of the first edition, four-part set, London: Phoenix House Limited, 1953-54, original quarter-cloth over papered boards, slipcases en suite, folio, Curtis (Rev. J.), A Topographical History of the County of Leicester, first edition, Ashby-de-la-Zouche: W. Hextall, et al., 1831, hand-coloured double-page map, original publisher's cloth, split and twisted, 8vo, a mid-19th century schoolboy's exercise book, Georgie Peck, October 1859, illustrated with a double-page watercolour panorama of mountains, 13 world maps executed in pen-and-ink or pencil, some of which are tipped-in, further inscribed in manuscript with a historical timeline, original scarlet quarter-roan over marbled boards, worn with some losses, 4to, 1925 Atlas of Finland, original morocco over boards, ex-lib with expected wear and markings, folio, two volumes of Newbolt's Naval Operation Maps, ex-lib, their cloth, 8vo, Flight: The Aircraft Engineer, 1934, 1936-38 issues, original blue cloth, 4to, Aircraft Engineering, volume XI, 1939, ex-lib cloth, folio, (11)
![Wales. John Speed (1551/52-1629) - Caernarvon [i.e. Caernarfon]/both shyre (sic) and/shire-towne (sic), double-page coun](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dd6a871c-4004-4de9-8ca5-b05100f2d0b7/4d9332cf-387e-498f-91e5-b05100f9ac1d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 370
Wales. John Speed (1551/52-1629) - Caernarvon [i.e. Caernarfon]/both shyre (sic) and/shire-towne (sic), double-page county map, English text to verso, [London]: [Sold] by Thomas Bassett [...] & Richard Chiswell, n.d. [1676], engraving, contemporaneous hand-colouring, 38 x 51.5cm Slight wear down the vertical fold, but good. Colouring mostly fresh and bold. Re-margined portion, presumably for mounting. Unexamined out of later Hogarth-type frame.
![Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire [...], first edition, London: Printed by Robert Wh](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dd6a871c-4004-4de9-8ca5-b05100f2d0b7/9a2c7334-a572-4c38-b875-b05100f591d6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 144
Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire [...], first edition, London: Printed by Robert White, for Henry Mortlock, 1677, imprimatur leaf - creased, tatty and loosening, black-ruled title-page printed in red and black, double-column text, pp: [xvi], 507, 8 (coats of arms), [36] (indexes), double-page map and 21 plates, 2 of which are folding and 16 double-page, further in-text illustrations, a respectable copy, 1 folding plate - Newark - repaired with some loss, the contents OK-good with some foxed spots and toning, rarer rust holes with no loss of sense, some creases, 18th c calf boards, rebacked, repaired and the gilding refreshed, all edges gilt, later endpapers, folio (35 x 24cm), [Wing T1063] Provenance: 1) Christopher Hussey, contemporaneous 17th c dated ink MS inscription to original verso blank: 'Memorandū 10th June 1685 if this book/be returned in two months time from *y date/hereof. I will give two shillings for it witnesses/my hand Christopher Hussey-'. 2) Michael Bass, 1st Baron Burton, KCVO (1837-1909), brewing magnate, Liberal politician and philanthropist; his Rangemore Hall, East Staffordshire, bookplate to recto pastedown. 3) Ex Libris Carl J. Fenner, 20th c pictorial bookplate ditto.
![Natural History. [Botany] Wood (John Frederick, FHS), The Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturist, volumes I-VIII, L](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dd6a871c-4004-4de9-8ca5-b05100f2d0b7/a3b78cfd-cc73-4c97-9e46-b05100f6328d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 173
Natural History. [Botany] Wood (John Frederick, FHS), The Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturist, volumes I-VIII, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1847-54, mixed contemporary bindings, 12mo in 6s, [Provincial Imprint] Deering (Charles), Catalogus Stirpium, &c., or, A Catalogue of Plants, Naturally growing and commonly cultivated in divers (sic) Parts of England, More efpecially (sic) about Nottingham [...], first and only edition, Nottingham: Printed for the Author, by G. Ayscough, and fold (sic) by C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard (sic), London 1738, unexamined, contemporary calf boards, repaired and rebacked, 8vo, [Henry 620], Lowe (Robert), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Nottingham, London: Printed for Richard Phillips, et al., 1798, folding hand-coloured map frontispiece, 20th c cloth over boards, etc., (14) Ex-lib, sold with any faults and as such not liable to return.
Lot 369
Scotland. John Crane Dower & T. Harwood after F.A. & G.W. Carrington - A Map of Scotland, Divided into Counties shewing (sic) The principal Roads, Railways, Rivers, Canals, Lochs, Mountains, Islands, &c. on a Scale of Five Miles to an Inch, London: Published by S. Lewis & Co., 1846, being the supplementary map volume to Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, title-page and contents leaf, engravings on six folding sheets, some stable cross-section tears, but stable, some foxed spots, original publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered, 4to
![Railwayana. Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway [...], second edition, London: Longman and Co., et al., n.d.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dd6a871c-4004-4de9-8ca5-b05100f2d0b7/3db758ec-f845-47c9-bd70-b05100f6a639/468x382.jpg)
Lot 195
Railwayana. Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway [...], second edition, London: Longman and Co., et al., n.d. [1838], folding hand-coloured map, charts, full-page plates and adverts, original publisher's pictorial green cloth, gilt, tired and lightly bumped, all edges gilt, 8vo, [Cornwall] Trevithick (Francis, CE), Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of his Inventions, two volumes in one as issued, Londno: E. & F.N. Spon, 1872, folding and full-page plates, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, Lardner (Dionysius), The Steam Engine, eighth edition, London: Taylor, Walter, and Maberly, 1851, original publisher's cloth, split and worn, uncut, 12mo, Winton's Modern Steam Practice, 1883, bound as two, disbound, 4to, James Watt, the Stephensons, etc., (7)
Lot 367
London. Samuel John Neele (1758-1824) - A New Map of the Country Round London, Published October 5th 1796 by John Stockdale, Piccadilly, engraving, contemporary hand-colouring, 81 x 97cm Unexamined out of frame. Overall good condition. Some minor foxed portions. Discernible seems, but not apparently split. Some colour fading. Walnut-veneered frame with some splits and light losses.
Lot 14
Arctic & Polar Exploration. Nares (Captain Sir George, R.N., et al) & Feilden (H.W.), Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea During 1875-6 [...], with Notes on Natural History, two-volume set, first edition, London: Sampson Low, et al., 1878, 6 mounted Woodburytype photographic plates, further mixed media illustrations, volume I lacking fold map, otherwise unexamined, contemporary green quarter-calf gilt over cloth, worn, rubbed and split, some quires loose or with movement, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, Von Heuglin (Theodor), Reisen nach dem Nordpolarmeer in den Jahren 1870 und 1871, volumes I & II only, Braunschweig: G. Westermann, 1872-3, chromolithograph frontispieces, 3 folding maps and plan, plates, slightly later institutional library cloth, their bookplates, ink and blindstamps, some repaired faults, 8vo, (4) Condition: Nares volume I lacking fold map, otherwise both volumes unexamined and uncollated.
Lot 226
Waugh (Evelyn), Put Out More Flags, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1942, publisher's cloth only, 8vo, another copy, similar, not signed, Ninety-Two Days, With a Map and 24 Illustrations, first edition, London: Duckworth, 1931, publisher's blue cloth only, 8vo, others first editions, including Black Mischief, 1932, Scoop, 1933, Wine in Peace and War, n.d. [1947], Helena, 1950, Men at Arms, 1952, Unconditional Surrender, 1961, etc., (24)
Lot 196
Roman Historiography in the European Enlightenment. Description historique de l'Italie en forme de dictionnaire, two-volume set, Avignon: Chambeau, 1790, volume I with engraved allegorical title, complete with map and 40 plates, contemporary calf over green papered boards, losses to calf, split but stable, monogrammed library stamps to each title: C.G. within in a circle in red, volume I with a British peer's fragmentary morocco library label: MC surmounted by a coronet, each pastedown with a printed blue paper shelf label: Topography, Travels, &c. No 1305, 8vo, [&] [Necker (Karl Friedrich)], Description du gouvernement present du corps germanique appellé communément le Saint Empire romain [...], [?Geneva]: s.n., 1741, discreet repairs to margin of title-page and signatures [Y8] and Z1, in-keeping 20th century calf gilt, 8vo, (3)
Lot 157
Mining. Hunt (Robert), British Mining, London: Crosby Lockwood and Company, 1884, 20th c black cloth, 8vo, Hull (Edward), The Coal-Fields of Great Britain [...], With Map and Illustrations, second edition, London: Edward Stanford, 1861, original cloth, 8vo, Barrett's Life and Work among the Navvies, fourth edition, 1884, original publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo, Riemer (J.), Shaft-Sinking Under Difficult Conditions, London: Charles Griffin, 1907, original cloth, 8vo, Historical Review of Coal Mining, 1924, Printed and Published for the Mining Association of Great Britian, original black cloth, 8vo, Nash (William Giles), The Rio Tinto Mine, London: Simpkin Marshall, 1904, illustrated original publisher's green cloth, top-edge gilt others uncut, 8vo, Williams & Cryer's Mining Drawings, n.d., cloth, oblong 4to, Kingston's Mines, London: Gall and Inglish, n.d., original publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo, Hartwig, etc., (12)
![Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts. Herbert (George), The Temple [...], eleventh edition, London: Printed for R.S. and are t](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dd6a871c-4004-4de9-8ca5-b05100f2d0b7/428c83a6-5aaa-4bd0-8417-b05100fdeefc/468x382.jpg)
Lot 889
Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts. Herbert (George), The Temple [...], eleventh edition, London: Printed for R.S. and are to be Sold by Richard Willington, 1695, [bound with] [Harvey (Christopher)], The Synagogue: or the Shadow of The Temple [...], In Imitation of Mr. George Herbert, sixth edition, London: Robert Stephens, 1673, first title split and loose at title-page, both titles uncollated and with defective leaves and further condition points, contemporary panelled calf, chipped and disbound, 12mo, [Shakespeare], Henry IV. With the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed (sic) Hot-spur, parts I & II, London: J. Tonson, 1734, Part II defective, but with the sole frontispiece, both parts with some stains, disbound, 12mo, idem., three further plays as one, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, & The Tempest, London: J. Tonson, 1734, the second and third titles with frontispieces that are now loose, disbound, 12mo, Dodd's Beauties of Shakespeare, Chiswick Press: Printed by Charles Whittingham, 1818, lacking ffep, finely bound in contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 12mo, three early 19th c manuscript hymnals, Richard Brooke, dated 1817-18, inscribed in MS with hymns and musical notation, including Psalms, mixed bindings of calf, sheep and calf over boards, worn in places, oblong 4to & 8vo, another, barely-inscribed by J. Ward, 1826, marbled wrappers, 4to, Murray's History of British India, London: T. Nelson and Son, 1853, map and plates, finely bound in contemporary crimson morocco, gilt extra, all edges gilt, 8vo, Watson's Theological Tracts, six-volume set, Cambridge: J. Archdeacon, Printer to the University, et al., 1785, contemporary mottled calf, worn, chipped and split, but holding, 8vo, Blomfield's Life of Christ, Bungay: C. Brightly, 1809, plates, contemporary mottled calf, 4to, Knight's Secret Societies of the Middle Ages, first edition, 1837, defective contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, The Jolly Angler, seventh edition, n.d. [c. 1850], cloth, 8vo, Stamford's Map of Africa, n.d. [19th c], original cloth boards, British India & the Raj, a photograph album of 10 b/w photographic prints, c. 1935, mostly Delhi, contemporary polychrome-decorated lacquer boards, cloth back, oblong folio, etc
Lot 37
British India and the Raj. 19th c Indian Imprints: Transactions of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India, Volume VIII, Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1841, hand-coloured folding map, one leaf repaired, ?slightly later cloth, 8vo, Fryer (F.W.R., Esquire, B.C.S.), Final Report on the First Regular Settlement of the Dera Ghazi Khan District, in the Derajat Division, 1869 to 1874, Lahore: Printed at the Central Jail Press, 1876, original publisher's boards, slightly later book label on recto pastedown: Major-Gen. A.A. Munro [of the eponymous Fort Munro, Punjab/Pakistan], Woodside, Frant, Sussex, 8vo, [?Circular Orders] [...], for the Punjab, to the Civil Officers within his Jurisdiction, from 1853 to 1856 (both inclusive), Lahore: Printed at the Punjabee (sic) Press by J.F. Williams, 1858, defective and repaired title-page, some folding plates and tables, later blue cloth, 8vo, [&] India in England, Being a Collection of Speeches Delivered and Articles Written on the Indian National Congress [...], volumes I-III bound as one, Lucknow: G.P Varma & Brothers Press, [1888]-1890, cloth, 8vo, (4) Sold as seen, uncollated, with or without any repairs, and not subject to return. Each volume with various degrees of worming.
Lot 220
Travel. Willyams (The Rev. Cooper, A.M., et al.), A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure, One of the Squadron Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. [...]. With a Description of the Battle of the Nile on the First of August 1798 [...], first edition, large paper copy, London: Printed by T. Bensley, for J. White, 1802, complete, pp: xxiii, [1] (errata), 309; illustrated with 43 plates as called for, mostly executed in sepia, including an engraved dedication leaf to Admiral Lord St. Vincent (Willyams' patron), a map of the Mediterranean, and a plan of the Battle of the Nile, very good ex-library copy, ink numbers to verso of title and dedication and blind-stamps (inoffensive), mostly marginal but within image of around 18 plates, else generally clean with some occasional spotting or light staining, small repair to inner margin of title, 20th century quarter-calf gilt over cloth, preserving an earlier gilt-lettered label, contemporary marbled edges, royal folio (49cm x 35.5cm), [Abbey, Travel, 196; Blackmer 1813] Provenance: Bath Public Library, The Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles bequest 1920; bookplate to pastedown, their blindstamps within as catalogued.
Lot 186
Pennant (Thomas), Some Account of London, third edition, London: Printed for Robert Faulder, 1793, engraved title-page, portrait frontispiece, folding panorama/map of London & Westminster in 1563 repaired, 13 engraved plates, 2 of which are folding, prelims foxed &/or browned, little or none elsewhere, contemporary calf, joints split, some bumps and losses, otherwise sound, 4to
![Johan Blaeu (1596-1673) - Staffordshire, double-page county map, s.l., s.n., n.d. [c. 1650], copperplate engraving, contempor](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dd6a871c-4004-4de9-8ca5-b05100f2d0b7/c61cd52a-ce76-428e-b468-b05100f983f4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 162
Miscellaneous. Late 18th to mid-19th c children's and juvenile books, didactics, and adult annuals, including Smith (Charlotte), Rural Walks: in Dialogues. Intended for the Use of Young Persons, two-volume set, second edition, London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1795, lacking three leaves: vol. I B1, vol. II G6-7, remaining leaves tatty in places, occasional chips, late 20th c calf, 12mo, Taylor (The Rev. Isaac), Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers, third edition, London: J. Harris and Son, 1820, half-title, folding map frontispiece defective, original red roan over publisher's pictorial boards, worn and chipped, 12mo, Friendship's Offering; or, The Annual Remembrancer [...] for 1825, London: Lupton Relfe, hand-coloured engraved architectural Gothick title, some engraved prelims, split gutter but holding, rare in original aquatint card covers, worn, over embossed paper wrappers, all edges gilt, 12mo, Forget Me Not for 1826, London: R. Ackermann, original publisher's pictorial green paper covers, chipped with loss, all edges gilt, 12mo, [Mudford (William)], The Iron Shroud; or, Italian Revenge, Paisley: Caldwell and Son, 1839, 24pp, original cover only, 12mo, Daniel O'Rourke's Wonderful Voyage to the Moon [...], Glasgow: Printed for the Bookseller, n.d. [c. 1835], 24pp, original cover only, 12mo, another defective Scottish chapbook, three harlequin volumes of Joyce's Scientific Dialogues for Young People, mixed imprints and dates, unexamined, various contemporary bindings, 12mo, incomplete work illustrated by Bewick, etc., (17)
![Robert Morden (c. 1650-1703) - Herefordshire, double-page county map, [London]: Sold by Abel Swale, Awnsham &](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dd6a871c-4004-4de9-8ca5-b05100f2d0b7/3c725197-c202-4f94-8601-b05100f991a6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 368
Robert Morden (c. 1650-1703) - Herefordshire, double-page county map, [London]: Sold by Abel Swale, Awnsham & John Churchill, dated 1695 in MS by a later hand, engraving, slightly later colouring, 37 x 42cm, another four maps, smaller, including two road maps, (5) Unexamined out of frames. Condition clear from images.
Lot 123
Illustrated Books. Robinson (W. Heath, illustrator) & Kipling (Rudyard), A Song of the English, London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1909], tipped-in colour plates, reinforced inner-margin, original publisher's blue cloth, pictorial gilt, 4to, Bayes (A.W., illustrator), Andersen (Hans Christian), & Dulcken (Dr H.W., translator), Fairy Tales and Stories, London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, n.d. [c. 1900], colour plates, original publisher's red cloth gilt, 8vo, Bain (J. Arthur), Life and Explorations of Fridtjof Nansen, With numerous Illustrations and Map, London: Walter Scott, Ltd., n.d. [?1897], original cloth, 8vo, etc., (4)
![Equatorial Africa, Anthropology and Language. [4]ff of foolscap folio, n.d. [early 20th c; a manuscript note suggests c.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dd6a871c-4004-4de9-8ca5-b05100f2d0b7/7a752ee2-851a-4fbb-85db-b05100f87ba5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 279
Equatorial Africa, Anthropology and Language. [4]ff of foolscap folio, n.d. [early 20th c; a manuscript note suggests c. 1916], being sheets of translations from English into their equivalent tribal language/dialect, including Maka/Makaa, Njem/Njyem, and other tribes in and around Cameroon, a 1pp typed account of certain customs, a pen-and-ink map, 7.5 x 15cm, etc
![British India and the Raj. The War in India. Despatches of [...] Hardinge, The Governor-General of India; [...] Gough, C](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dd6a871c-4004-4de9-8ca5-b05100f2d0b7/5118f415-e6be-47aa-a47c-b05100f9ef97/468x382.jpg)
Lot 42
British India and the Raj. The War in India. Despatches of [...] Hardinge, The Governor-General of India; [...] Gough, Commander-in-Chief; [...] Smith [...] and other documents; comprising the engagements of Moodkee, Ferozeshah, Aliwal, and Sobraon; with a map of the country, and seven plans of the positions of the army, second edition, London: John Ollivier and Ackermann & Co., 1846, 3 folding hand-coloured maps/plans, of which Sobraon is torn and now detached, browned, a few tatty and chipped leaves, 20th century half-leather, 8vo, Cooper (Frederic, Esq., C.S.), The Crisis in the Punjab, from the 10th of May until the Fall of Delhi, first London edition, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858, half-title, lacking map, ex-lib, their binding and faults, 8vo, Ruggles (Major-General J.), Recollections of a Lucknow Veteran, 1845-1876, first edition, London: Longmans, et al., 1906, ex-lib, their red cloth, bookplate, and blindstamp, otherwise OK, 8vo, Recollections Captain Bellew's Memoirs of a Griffin [...], London, 1880, original publisher's cloth, worn, 8vo, Edwards' Reminiscences of a Bengal Civilian, London, 1866, ex-lib, rebacked and repaired cloth, 8vo, two Indian imprints, including Selections from the Records of Government, North-Western Provinces. Second Series, volume III only, Allahabad: Printed at the Government Press, 1870, later cloth, 8vo, etc., (7) Sold as seen, uncollated, with or without any repairs, and not subject to return. The two Indian imprints each with various degrees of worming.
Lot 36
British India & the Raj. Reports on Sanitary Measures in India 1873-74, 1874-75, 1875-76, volumes VII, VIII & IX respectively, bound as one, London: George Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1875, 1876, & 1877, cloth enclosing original wrappers, folio, Ross (A.), Report on the Settlement of Dehra Doon, s.l., s.n., n.d. [c. 1850], Government Library, Agra, stamp, 130pp, later cloth, 8vo, Auber (Peter), An Analysis of the Constitution of the East-India Company [...], London: Printed for Kingsbury, et al., 1826, disbound, 8vo, Army List 1808, lacking title-page, otherwise unexamined, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed, 8vo, Report of the First Indian Industrial Conference Held at Benares [...], Allahabad: Printed at the Indian Press, 1906, lacking general title-page, otherwise unexamined, original cloth over boards, losses, 8vo, Dutt (Romesh C.), Baroda Administration Report 1902-03 and 1903-04, Bombay [i.e. Mumbai]: The Time Press, 1905, folding map, original papered boards, perished spine, losses, 8vo, A Settlement Manual for the North-Western Provinces, 1868, lacking general title-page, otherwise unexamined, cloth, 8vo, Hughes (A.W.), A Gazetteer of the Province of Sindh, London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, defective, perished original cloth, 8vo, Naoroji, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, 1901, red cloth, 8vo, Who's Who in India, Supplement 1912: Coronation Edition, red cloth, 8vo, municipal law, etc., (15) Sold as seen, uncollated, with or without any repairs, and not subject to return. Some titles with worming.
Lot 213
Tolkien (J.R.R.), The Lord of the Rings, three-volume set, first editions, harlequin impressions: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers both fifth impressions, The Return of the King third impression, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, dated February 1956, 1957, & January 1957 respectively, complete texts in mostly very good condition, with little or no markings, and those mostly to edges, Fellowship with thumbed corner creases, yet never affecting text, the Fellowship with full-page and folding map of the Shire and Middle-Earth, the Two Towers and Return each with their respective folding maps, original dustjackets over original red cloth, each dj very good and fresh, with light wear and light scuffs, but with no tears or repairs, head of Fellowship dj bumped, the spines of each dj are gently sunned, the Fellowship's in a glassine wrapper, enclosing sellotape adhesive, recto and verso, with resulting off-setting to ffeps, the red cloth boards tightly holding each textblock in situ, each cloth spine with former mildew staining, light corner bumps here and there, red-stained top-edges as issued, 8vo, (3)
Lot 148
Local Interest. White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire, Sheffield: Printed for the Authors, by James Ward, et al., 1857, 20th c quarter-calf over green cloth, 8vo, Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutland, 1900, original publisher's cloth, split, chipped and faded, large 8vo, idem, 1925, original cloth, rebacked, large 8vo, Bulmer's History & Directory of Derbyshire 1895, with faults, original red calf over cloth, split, 8vo, Wright's Directories of Nottingham, 1893, 1900, & 1902, original blue cloth, 1902 binding repaired, 8vo, & Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire with Map, 1928, repaired map, repaired original publisher's pictorial red cloth, 8vo, (8)
Lot 145
Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, first edition, London: Printed by Robert White for Henry Mortlock, 1677, defective: lacks title and dedication leaf, 2 leaves of index, and some plates, some leaves re-margined, map present but laid on linen, further discreet repairs, 20th c brown half-morocco over cloth, rubbed, folio (34 x 22.5cm), [Wing T1063]
Lot 1281
° ° Ashmole, Philip & Myrtle - St. Helena and Ascension Island: a natural history. coloured plates and other illus.; publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. 2000; Royal Society - A Discussion on the Results of the ... Expedition to Aldabra 1967-68. folded map and other illus.; printed wrappers, thick 4to. 1971; Harrison, Tom - World Within: a Borneo Story. coloured and folded map, photo plates; publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. 1959; with other related books (44)
Lot 1262
° ° Fussell, L. - A Journey Round the Coast of Kent....including Penshurst, and Tunbridge Wells; with Rye, Winchelsea, Hastings, and Battle, in Sussex....folded map; contemp. half calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated spine. 1818; (Brayley, Edward Wedlake) The Beauties of England and Wales....Kent. 2 vols. (i.e. vols. VII and VIII of the series) bound together. 36 engraved plates; old half calf and marbled boards, panelled spine with maroon label, thick lge. cr. 8vo. 1806-07; Lambarde, William - A Perambulation of Kent.... (new edition). portrait frontis. and map; contemp. half calf and marble boards (by J. Fox of Dover, with his ticket). Chatham, 1826; sold with 2 related books. (5)
Lot 1294
° ° Davison, Charles - The Hereford Earthquake of December 17, 1896. 3 folded maps, text illus.; publisher's gilt cloth. Birmingham, 1899; Woodward, Ida - In and Around the Isle of Purbeck.... 32 coloured plates (by John W.G. Bond) and a map; publisher's gilt cloth with gilt top, roy. 8vo. 1908; Trevaldwyn, B.W.J. - A Short Account of the Church and Parish of St. Martin-by-Looe. illus. (some full page; publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, patterned e/ps. Plymouth, 1901; with some other West Country topography (12)
Lot 1311
° ° Baker, Edward B. - Sport in Bengal: and how, when, and where to seek it. folded and coloured pocket map, text decorations; publisher's gilt ruled cloth. 1887; Kinloch, Alexander A. A. - Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged. folded and coloured map, 35 plates; rebound red half morocco and cloth, gilt ruled panelled spine (by Morrell), 4to. Calcutta and Bombay, 1892; Gardner, Mrs Alan - Rifle and Spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in Northern India. frontis. and num. illus. (some full page), publisher's gilt cloth and gilt top, impl. 8vo. 1895; together with others of a similar nature (7)
Lot 1254
° ° Lambarde, William - A Perambulation of Kent: conteining the description, hystorie, and customes of that shyre ... (second edition) now increased and altered ... title within generously decorated border, heptarchy map, folded 'carde of the beacons', decorated initial letters, black letter; old blind-ruled calf, panelled spine with maroon label, gilt-lettered 'RB' on covers. by Edward Bollifant, 1596
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