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Lot 430
HARDY THOMAS: (1840-1928) English Novelist. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Tess of the D`Urbervilles-A Pure Woman, Volumes I and II only, being part of the Mellstock Edition of the Works of Thomas Hardy (originally 37 volumes), printed by R & R Clark of Edinburgh and published by MacMillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1919. Signed in bold black ink by Hardy with his name alone to the limitations page. One of 500 copies, featuring a portrait frontispiece of Hardy by William Strang (tissue guarded) and bound in the publisher`s blue cloth with gilt decorations to spine and gilt medallion to cover, the untrimmed paper bearing a watermark of Hardy`s initials. Featuring a folding map at the conclusion of the second volume. Some overall age wear, staining and light foxing, about G
Lot 336
Plot (Robert) The Natural History of Staffordshire folding map mounted on linen 37 engraved plates a splendid copy in full red morocco gilt g.e. by W. Pratt Oxford 1686; The Natural History of Oxford-shire...second edition with large additions and corrections folding map 16 engraved plates recent half calf ib. 1705 folio (2)(2)
Lot 337
P[lot] (R[obert]) The Natural History of Oxford-sh first edition folding map 16 engraved plates “price in sheets at the Press. nine shillings To Subscribers. eight shillings” contemporary calf rebacked bit worn inscription torn from endpaper Oxford 1677; the same second edition folding map (old repair with slight loss) 16 engraved plates contemporary russia rebacked ib. 1705 folio (2)(2)
Lot 348
Pryor (A.R.) A Flora of Hertfordshire 5 copies 2 maps 1 coloured 3 of the large paper edition limited to 50 copies (numbers 8 11 & 16) 2 of these in the original printed boards 2 standard copies in original green cloth one with some proof sheets (the annotation “500 July 13th 86” suggests the print run) this copy has a variant of the title-page with “price 14 shillings” but lacks the coloured map 1887; and c.40 others Hertfordshire some pamphlets 4to and 8vo (c.45) (c.45)
Lot 391
Rutty (John) An Essay towards a Natural History of 2 vol. folding map 4 engraved plates of birds folding tables a very nice copy in a contemporary Irish binding of sprinkled calf gilt spines yellow edges a trifle worn bookplate of James Clealand Roseville Bangor on pastedowns 8vo Dublin for the author 1772.
Lot 452
Townsend (F.) Flora of Hampshire first edition 3 copies 2 plates 1 hand-coloured coloured map one W.A. Clark`s copy with annotation original cloth 1883; another copy second edition 4 copies each with the supplement 2 plates 1 hand-coloured folding map 1 with a rather anguished A.Ls. from Frederick Stratton to Lovell Reeve the publisher about a third edition which never materialised original cloth 1909-29; and c.40 others Hampshire v.s. (c.50)(c.50)
Lot 525
Edinburgh Geological Society An Extensive Collecti 13 vol. upwards of 360 pamphlets the contents of each vol. listed and apparently no subtractions many plates and illustrations some coloured a number inscribed by the authors to the EGS similar if not quite uniform half calf some joints cracked but generally sound v.p. [c.1830-1890]. *** Includes; Geikie The Scottish School of Geology 1871; Advertisement of the Mineral Lands of the Red Mountain...Alabama New York 1868; Baron Richtofen The Comstock Lode San Francisco 1866; Keith Johnston A Map of the Lake Region of Eastern Africa large folding map 1870; W.L. Lindsay The Eruption...of the Kotugja Volcano Iceland 1861; A.Koch Description of the...Missouri Leviathan Dublin 1843 and others by Pengelly T.H. Huxley Fleming and Conybeare (on arctic warming) David Forbes (on Darwinite) Oswld Heer Murchison Zirkel & J.W. Dawson.
Lot 172
Hart (H.C.) The Flora of Howth 3 copies folding map original blue or green cloth latter with imprint at base of spine Dublin 1887; Flora of County Donegal folding coloured map original cloth Dublin 1898; Botany Pamphlets c.25 pamphlets or offprints bound as one half calf probably the author`s own set 1875-83; and 10 others Ireland 8vo (15)(15)
Lot 240
Leigh (Charles) The Natural History of Lancashire portrait 2 plates of arms hand-coloured folding map 22 engraved plates some stains recent half brown morocco gift inscription on title Richard Wych to John Wych 1728 learned inscription on p.189 by ?J. Platt 1779 about fossils folio Oxford 1700.
Lot 264
Mammatt (Edward) A Collection of Geological Facts. folding map 102 hand-coloured plates of fossils 12 leaves of hand-coloured sections and 7 folding uncoloured plates of sections half leather rubbed Ashby-de-la- Zouch 1834 ¤ Marshall (William) The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties 2 vol. folding map calf worn 1790; another copy second edition contemporary speckled calf a little worn 1796 ¤ Crutchley (John) General View of the Agriculture in... Rutland disbound 1794; and c.120 others Leicestershire mostly natual history v.s. (c.125)(c.120)
Lot 266
Marshall (J.D.) Notes on The Statistics and Natura engraved plate old wrappers worn Dublin 1836 Boyd (H.A.) Rathlin Island first and second editions plates original corrogated boards the second with dustjacket Ballycastle 1947 Hogan (F.E.) Luibhleabhran [Erse] Irish and Scottish Gaelic Names original cloth Dublin 1900 Macalister (Alexander) Guide to the County of Dublin 2 copies folding map at front rather than the pocket at end original green or blue cloth worn Dublin British Association 1878; and c.220 others Ireland many pamphlets v.s. (c.225)(c.220)
Lot 273
Maton (George) The Natural History of a Part of th 2 copies original half cloth or wrappers 1843 ¤ Aubrey (John) The Natural History of Wiltshire inscribed by John Britton the editor original cloth worn 1847 ¤ Flower (T.B.) Flora of Wiltshire folding coloured map half leather rubbed Devizes 1874 ¤ Preston (T.A.) The Flowering Plants of Wilts folding coloured map original cloth discoloured ib. 1888; and c.20 others Wiltshire 8vo and 4to (c.25)(c.25)
Lot 290
Moore (David) Contributions towards a Cybele Hiber 2 copies original violet or greenish cloth both somewhat worn Dublin 1866; another copy second edition 3 copies coloured map original blue cloth (2) or green cloth with name of publisher blocked at base of spine Dublin Ponsonby 1898 8vo (5) (5)
Lot 302
(Rev. William curate of Bottesford Leicestershir (Rev. William curate of Bottesford Leicestershire helped George Crabbe with his work on “The Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir” particularly fossils d. 1811) & George Crabbe (poet and Church of England clergyman 1754-1832)] Fossilia et Petrificata Leicestriensia... Zoolithus... Bivalviae... autograph manuscript in both hands most Mounsey 31pp. in ink and 1p. and notes in ?Crabbe`s hand in pencil pen and ink map of “Map of a few miles round Bottesford” and 87 pages of pencil drawings of fossils some ff. torn and repaired slightly browned later front endpaper loose with printed label of The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland later morocco extensively rubbed lacks upper cover small 4to [c.1780s - 90s]. *** William Mounsey numbers among the very few eighteenth century systematic palaeontologists and this manuscript must be a particularly early example of of this type of work. The fossils figured are mostly Jurassic vertebrates ammonites gastropods bivalves belemnites etc. but there are some Rhaetian fossils and a few which must come from the drift.
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