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Lot 220

World. Scherer (Heinrich), Typus Totius Orbis Terraquei Geographice Delineatus, et ad Usum Globo Materiali Superinducendus, 1700, uncoloured engraved map showing the World as a series of twelve gores, California depicted as an island, 220 x 350 mm (1)

Lot 286

* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection, mostly 19th century, including fashion, botanical, a hand coloured fencing aquatint, Tallis map of Canada, etc., all framed and glazed (approx. 22)

Lot 291

* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection, 19th & 20th century, including topographical chromos. and engravings after Morris, etc., portrait and fashion engravings, sixteen engravings of birds, a browned Morden map of the Smaller British Islands, a defective old series map Ordnance Survey map of the Isle of Wight, several large format prints including a tinted litho. of Bournemouth and a large engravings after George Morland (approx. 150+)

Lot 442

Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues..., Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and John Bill, 1620, General and New Testament titles with woodcut border (NT title and colophon dated 1621), printed in black letter text, genealogies and double-page map by John Speed bound-in at front (soiled, frayed and few leaves torn), Apocrypha present, some leaves with worming to inner margins, bound with Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances... Collected by R.F.H., Imprinted at London by Bonham Norton, and John Bill, 1619,bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternehold, John Hopkins, and others..., printed for the Company of Stationers, 1621, leaf C7 torn to outer corners, leaf F8 detached and frayed, (lacks all after F8, Psalme 140), some light dust soiling, marks and minor fraying throughout volume, contemp. panelled calf, joints split and worn to extrems., 4to. Herbert 379. (1)

Lot 483

The Irish Compendium: or, Rudiments of Honour, containing The Descent, Marriage, Issue, Titles, Ports, and Seats, of all the Nobility of Ireland, 5th ed., 1756, numerous engravings of armorials, contemp. sprinkled calf, fraying to extrems., 16mo, together with Jameson (Professor, James Wilson & Hugh Murray), Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy, and Zoology, Edinburgh, 1830, folding map frontis. and additional engraved title, publishers adverts to rear, orig. cloth, worn with crude sellotape repairs, 8vo, and Stephens (J.L.), Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 1841, engraved frontis. and additional engraved title, orig. blindstamped cloth, marked and faded, 16mo, plus Glenny (George), Glenny's Hand-Book to the Flower Garden & Greenhouse, comprising the Descriptionm Cultivation, and Management of all the Polular Flowers and Plants, 1850, wood engraved frontis., orig. cloth, worn with defective spine, 8vo, plus two others (6)

Lot 503

Raleigh (Sir Walter). The History of the World, 1621, eng. title (dated 1614) & eng. port. plt. present, 'The Minde of Front' facing eng. title, six folding eng. maps only, inc. one battle plans (lacks 1 map and 1 battle plan), colophon dated 1621, two maps with closed tears, slight fraying to margins of initial leaves, contemp. panelled calf, upper joint split and corners worn, folio STC 20639. (1)

Lot 602

Blades (William). The Bibliography and Typography of William Caxton, 1st ed., 1877, eighteen plates, occasional light dampstains, library stamps, contemporary half morocco, joints and edges lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with. Carter (Thomas Francis), The Invention of Printing in China and its Spread Westward, 1st ed., New York, 1925, folding map and table, plates and illustrations, library stamps and remnants of label, hinges weak, original cloth, some wear to joints and edges, 8vo, plus a small quantity of other books, including Maggs Bros., 70th anniversary catalogue of A Collection of French XVIIIth Century Illustrated Books, London, 1930, Regalita di Torino, a cura di Valentino Brosio, Rome, 1972, Clive Bell's Twelfth Century Paintings at Hardham & Clayton, 1947, Neilonde's Egyptian Scrapbook c. 1860 and two 19th c anatomical books (14)

Lot 708

Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Fellowship of the Ring, being the first part of The Lord of the Rings, 1st ed., 1954, folding map at rear, upper hinge split, contemp. ms. name to front free endpaper, orig. cloth gilt, spine faded and frayed to extrems., covers marked, 8vo A binding copy. (1)

Lot 713

* Abbey (J.R.). Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, Dawsons, 1972, orig. cloth in frayed d.j., folio, together with a carton of map reference including books in d.j's, mapsellers catalogues, etc., plus a collection of facsimiles of illuminated titlepages and a 1960s Peter Rabbits Book Shelf full with editions of Beatrix Potter books (a carton & bookshelf)

Lot 734

Wilson (Charles W.). Picturesque Palestine, vols. 1-3 (of 4), n.d., c. 1880, addn. eng. titles, steel eng. views, double page map, numerous wood engs., some damp soiling (mostly to vol. 2), a.e.g., contemp. half morocco, spines & corners worn, 4to, together with Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities, 2 vols., 1854, col. plts. and numerous wood eng. illusts., contemp. half calf gilt, folio, plus other misc. books, including Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh, vols. 3-6 only (a carton)

Lot 739

Murray (W.H.). The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1st ed., 1951, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in chipped d.j., 8vo, together with Ullman (James Ramsey, and others), Americans on Everest. The Official Account of the Ascent Led by Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, 1st ed., 1965, b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in frayed and chipped d.j., large 8vo, plus Dyhrenfurth (G.O.), To the Third Pole. The History of the High Himalaya, trans. Hugh Merryck, 1st ed., 1955, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j., 4to, and others of mountaineering interest (3 shelves)

Lot 743

Munday (Don). The Unknown Mountain, 1st ed., 1948, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., together with Shipton (Eric), That Untravelled World. An Autobiography, new edition, 1977, b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in d.j., plus Graham (Peter), Peter Graham: Mountain Guide. An Autobiography, Edited H.B. Hewitt, 1st ed., 1965, b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., all 8vo, plus other mountaineering interest (3 shelves)

Lot 755

Younghusband (Sir Francis). Everest: The Challenge, 2nd ed., April, 1936, b & w illusts. from photos., map endpapers, orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j., 8vo, (this edition contains an entirely new account of the 1936 attempt on Everest), together with Styles (Showell), On Top of the World. An Illustrated History of Mountaineering and Mountaineers, 1st ed., 1967, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus Palmer (W.T.), The Complete Hill Walker, Rock Climber and Cave Explorer, 1st ed., Pitman, 1934, b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed on spine, slim 8vo, and other mountaineering (3 shelves)

Lot 764

[Felinska, Ewa]. Revelations of Siberia. By a Banished Lady, Edited Col. Lach Szyrma, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1853, unobtrusive blind-stamp to each title, recent cloth, 8vo, together with Kalm (Peter), Travels into North America, trans. John Reinhold Forster, pub. Imprint Society, Massachusetts, 1972, tipped-in col. frontis., folding map, b & w illusts., orig. linen-backed boards in d.j., thick 8vo, with other misc. travel and related (3 shelves)

Lot 765

Colville (Mrs Arthur). 1,000 Miles in a Machilla: Travel and Sport in Nyasaland, Angoniland and Rhodesia ..., 1st ed., London & Felling-on-Tyne, 1911, num. b & w illusts. from photos., a few slightly frayed at edges, folding map at rear, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed and faded on spine, 8vo, together with Boon (Martin James), The Immortal History of South Africa, 2 vols., 1885, The History of the Orange Free State, 1885, matching orig. pict. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and minor wear to head and foot of spines, 8vo, and other misc. travel (3 shelves)

Lot 780

Sansom (George S.). Climbing at Wasdale Before the First World War, 1st ed., 1982, b & w illusts. and a map by A. Wainwright and twelve b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in d.j., slim folio, together with Rhodes (Daniel P.), A Pleasure-Book of Grindelwald, 1st ed., New York, 1903, b & w illusts. from photos., folding map at rear, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a little worn at head and foot of spine, 8vo, plus Turner (Samuel), My Climbing Adventures in Four Continents, 2nd imp., 1913, b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, faded on spine, 8vo, and others of mountaineering interest (3 shelves)

Lot 306

A 9CT GOLD CIGARETTE CASE by Cartier London, lid engraved and enamelled with a route map from London to Nairobi, Kenya, presented to Brig. Gen. C.R.C. de Crespigny, CB, CMG, DSO, Turf Club, Piccadilly, 1934 (see illustration).

Lot 472

JOHN OGILBY - The continuation of the road from Bristol to Chester, antique coloured road map with cartouche, 13" x 17 1/2".

Lot 484

F C LEWIS after T Taylor, Winchester College, aquatint engraving, published circa 1805, 17 1/2" x 22 1/2", together with a map of the County of Buckingham by C & J Greenwood and an engraved view of the south east view of Balliol College (mounted but unframed) (3).

Lot 485

JOHN CARY - 'A map of Huntingdonshire from the best authorities', engraving, hand coloured, 20 1/2" x 16".

Lot 498

JOHN THORLEY (19th/20th century) A river landscape with rocky crag, a figure standing nearby, 14 1/2" x 10" and four further pictures to include a continental school oil, two portraits and a map (5).

Lot 538

A FRAMED CHINESE SILK FAN with mother of pearl sticks, together with two Chinese silk pictures of figures in a landscape, 19" x 3" and an antique map of Holland (4).

Lot 2

Alexander (Boyd). From the Niger to the Nile, 2nd impression, 2 vols., 1908, three folding maps with short marginal tears, half-tone plates, a few light spots, original cloth gilt, edges rubbed, spines a little faded, 8vo, together with Millais (John G.), Far Away Up the Nile, 1st ed., 1924, map, half-tone plates after Millais, occasional light spotting, original cloth , light edge wear, spine a little faded, 4to, plus Bent (J. Theodore), The Sacred City of the Ethiopians, being a record of Travel and Research in Abyssinia in 1893, 1st ed., 1893, nine plates, folding map, repaired, with short tears, occasional light spotting, recent half calf, spine gilt with lettering pieces, t.e.g., 8vo, together with the Rev. James Smith's A Pilgrimage to Palestine (Aberdeen, 1895), A Pilgrimage to Egypt (Aberdeen, 1897) and A Pilgrimage to Italy (Aberdeen, 1899) (7)

Lot 8

Bishop (Mrs J.F., nee Isabella L. Bird). The Yangtze Valley and Beyond. An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chauan and Among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory, 1st ed., 1899, num. b & w illusts. from photos., folding map at rear, contemp. green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Macartney (Lady Theodora), An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan, 1st ed., 1931, authors presentation copy, signed and inscribed on flyleaf, four b & w illusts. from photos., sketch map, some minor spotting of prelims., orig. cloth, rubbed and marked, some wear to spine, 8vo, with other various travel (15)

Lot 9

Black (Adam & Charles, publishers). Black's General Atlas, Edinburgh, 1844, sixty steel-eng. map sheets by Sydney Hall, Hughes and others, correct as list, England & Wales (North & South) and United States all split along centrefold, Egypt a little stained, some minor scattered spotting, orig. half morocco gilt, worn, folio, together with Blackie (W.G.), The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of the World, 1882, twelve (of 13) col. plts. of national costume, sixty-five (of 67) double-page col. map sheets, (lacks Belgium & the Netherlands, and Denmark), both maps of England and Wales split along centre-fold, a few minor marginal defects, contents somewhat loose in orig. half morocco gilt, worn, large 4to Sold as seen, not subject to return. (2)

Lot 11

Bohun (Edmund). A Geographical Dictionary, Representing the Present and Ancient Names and States of all the Countries, Kingdoms, Provinces, Remarkable Cities... of the Whole World... With a Short Historical Account of the Same, and a General Index of the Antient and Latin Names..., Continued, Corrected, and Enlarged with great Additions throughout..., 1693, eng. double-hemisphere world map illust. to title, old limp wrappers with cloth spine, some wear and soiling to covers, folio (1)

Lot 14

Brookes (R.). The General Gazetteer: Or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary: Containing a Description of all the Empires, Kingdoms..., Provinces, Cities, Towns, Forts..., in the Known World, 2 vols., 3rd ed., pub. W. Lochhead, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, 1816, addn. eng. title, nineteen folding eng. maps (inc. double-hemisphere World map), two eng. plts. (one folding), few maps with closed tears (one badly torn), contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spines, joints to vol. 1 slightly cracked, 8vo (2)

Lot 17

Cook (J.H.). Atlas of the Madras Presidency Compiled under the direction of the Superintendent, Madras Survey, pub. Central Survey Office, Madras, 1892, key map and eleven double-page maps (complete as listed), some place names undelined with red pen, loosely inserted folding map entitled 'The All India Railway Guide Map Showing Railways' with a few marginal tears and measuring approx. 670 x 590 mm, owners name excised from upper corner of title and front free endpaper, orig. limp morocco gilt, a little wear to spine, 8vo (1)

Lot 18

De Windt (Harry). A Ride to India Across Persia and Baluchist‡n, 1st ed., 1891, b & w frontis. and plts., folding map at rear, occ. minor spotting, orig. green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed at head & foot of spine, 8vo (1)

Lot 19

Dredge (James). The Pennsylvania Railroad: its Organization, Construction, and Management, 1879, eng. port. frontis., eight-two diag. plts. (inc. many double-page and folding), numerous illusts. to text, folding col. map at rear, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, t.e.g., contemp. red half morocco gilt, spine and extrems. rubbed, large 4to (1)

Lot 20

Durham (M. Edith). High Albania, 1st ed., 1909, half-title present, b & w plts. from photos., folding map at rear, presentation ink stamp to title, orig. pict. cloth, spine a little faded and slight nick at head of spine, 8vo (1)

Lot 27

Fogg (William Perry). Travels and Adventures in Arabistan: or The Land of “The Arabian Nights”. Being travels through Egypt, Arabia and Persia, to Bagdad, 1st ed., [1881], frontispiece and twelve engraved plates, illustrations, a few light spots, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine and edges lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Blakesley (Joseph Williams), Four Months in Algeria: with a visit to Carthage, 1st ed., Cambridge, 1859, four maps or plans, three folding, four plates, large folding map torn along folds, a few light spots, original cloth, tears to spine, faded, 8vo, plus three other books: David Ker's On the Road to Khiva, 1st ed., 1874 (lacking map); Charles Koch's The Crimea and Odessa: Journal of a Tour, with an Account of the Climate and Vegetation, 1st ed., 1855 and George Rawlinson's The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy; or the Geography, History & Antiquities of Parthia, 1st ed., 1873 (5)

Lot 29

Gibbons (Major A. St. H.). Africa from South to North through Marotseland, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1904, portrait frontispiece, folding map, two large linen-backed folding maps in rear pockets, photogravure plates, occasional light spotting, bookplates, original pictorial cloth, paper number label on each spine, rubbed, t.e.g., 8vo, together with Whymper (Edward), Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 2nd ed., 1892, lacking supplementary vol., two folding maps, one in rear pocket, plates and illustrations, original cloth gilt, spine faded, rubbed, 8vo, plus a small quantity of other books of African or South American interest (carton)

Lot 40

Marcoy (Paul). Travels in South America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, 2 vols., pub. Blackie & Son, 1875, ten maps, plates and illustrations, occasional light spotting, hinges weakening, original pictorial cloth gilt, a.e.g., small folio, together with erstacker (Frederick), Western Lands and Western Waters, 1st ed., 1864, illustrations, occasional light spotting, prizegiving presentation inscription on ffep, original blindstamped cloth, joints splitting, rubbed, 8vo, plus seven other books on American or South American interest, including Herndon and Gibbon's Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1854, (vols. 1 and two copies of vol. 2, plus folding map, torn), House and Home or, The Carolina Housewife, 3rd ed., 1855 and Samuel Humphrey's Peruvian Tales, related in one thousand and one hours, by one of the select virgins of Cusco, to the Ynca of Peru, (vol. XXI of the Novelist's Magazine, 1786, 8vo) (10)

Lot 49

Official History of the Great War. Messopatania Campaign, 1914-1918, Togoland and the Cameroons, 1914-16, France and Belgium, 1914-18, Egypt and Palestine from June 1917 to the End of the War, together 30 vols. (incl. map volumes), all ex-lib. copies with usual marks, all orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear, 8vo. Unchecked, sold as seen, not subject to return. (30)

Lot 50

Ostell's New General Atlas; containing Distinct Maps of all the Principal States and Kingdoms throughout the World, new ed., c.1830, 29 engraved maps only (of 30), one map of Europe with some loss but the remainderin good condition with original ooutline colouring, orig. printed boards with later calf reback, 4to, together with Butler (Samuel), An Atlas of ancient Geography, 1822, twenty double page engraved maps ahnd coloured in outline, some pen marks, one map (of Spain) stuck together, orig. marbled boards with paper label, worn, 8vo (2)

Lot 52

Pettersson (Carl Anton). Lappland, Dess Natur Och Folk, Stockholm, 1866, twenty one mounted chromolithographed plates, folding map, wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth, upper cover with gilt vignette, some wear to edges, spine faded, oblong folio (1)

Lot 56

Roosevelt (Theodore). African Game Trails, an account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist, London, 1910, portrait frontispiece, map, half-tone plates, a few light spots, presentation inscription, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, t.e.g., 8vo, together with Schillings (C. G.), With Flashlight and Rifle, 1st ed., 2 vols., 1906, portrait frontispiece, half-tone plates, hinges a little weak, original pictorial cloth, spines a little rubbed and faded, t.e.g., 8vo, plus eight other similar books including Abel Chapman's Memories of Fourscore Years Less Two, 1851-1929 (London, 1930), Captain E. Dion Lardner's Soldiering and Sport in Uganda, 1909-1910, (London, 1912) and Sir Robert Baden-Powell's Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting (London, 1924, revised edition) (11)

Lot 58

Sandys (George). A relation of a Journey begun An: Dom: 1610. Four Bookes Containing a description of the Turkish Empire of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote parts of Italy, and Islands adioyning, 2nd ed., printed for W. barrett, 1621, engraved title (trimmed and relaid), hand coloured double-page engraved map, engraved plates to text, contemp. ink marginalia throughout, some leaves with worm trail to inner margin and final leaf creased and torn with a little loss, 18th century calf-backed marbled boards, worn, folio (1)

Lot 59

Santa Maria (Giuseppe di). Seconda Speditione all' Indie Orientali, 1st ed., Rome, Filippo M. Mancini, 1672, half-title, without folding map, a few woodcut decs. and initials, etc., brown stain to central portion of prelims. and some light embrowning throughout, later ink inscription to verso of front blank, 'Monte Carmelo in l'Egidio', contemp. vellum, with title in ink to spine, a little rubbed and some marks, small 4to. An important account of the Bishop of Hierapolis' second mission to the Malabar region of India between 1660 and 1665, during a period of Dutch Colonial expansion in India. (1)

Lot 60

Sayer (Captain Frederick). The History of Gibraltar, and of Its Political Relation to Events in Europe, Saunders, Otley, 1862, tinted frontis. and two tinted views, folding map, occasional spotting and finger-soiling, title-page laid-down, contemp. library half roan, rubbed, some occasional wear to edges and joints, 8vo (1)

Lot 68

Baillie-Grohman (William A.). Sport in the Alps, in the Past and Present..., 1st ed., A. & C. Black, 1896, photogravure frontis., b & w plts. and illusts., lacks f.f.e., paper adhered to front pastedown, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. cloth, 8vo, together with Martin Conway (W.), The Alps, 1st ed., A. & C. Black, 1904, col. plts. by A.D. McCormick, upper inner joint broken and lower inner joint cracked, t.e.g., orig. dec. cloth, 8vo, with Edwards (Amelia B.), Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys. A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites, 2nd ed., 1893, wood eng. frontis., plts. and illusts., folding map, occ. minor spotting, orig. cloth, slightly rubbed to extrems., 8vo, together with Larden (Walter), Recollections of an Old Mountaineer, 1st ed., 1910, b & w frontis. and plts., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, with Nansen (Fridtjof), Eskimo Life, 1st ed., 1893, b & w frontis., plts. and illusts., few ink library stamps and marks etc., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, modern half morocco gilt, 8vo, plus two others (7)

Lot 75

Norton (E. F.). The Fight for Everest: 1924, 1st ed., 1925, several col. plts., b & w plts. after photos., folding map at rear, orig. dark green cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed to extrems., large 8vo (1)

Lot 80

Whymper (Edward). Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 2 vols., inc. Supplementary Appendix, 1st eds., 1892/91 respec., wood eng. plts. and eng. maps (inc. some folding), folding map in rear pocket, owner's signature to half-title, recent endpapers, edges untrimmed, modern half morocco gilt with orig. cloth to boards, Supplementary Appendix in orig. cloth gilt, spine slightly rubbed to joints and extrems., both 4to, contained together in slipcase (2)

Lot 81

Whymper (Frederick). Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska..., 1st ed., John Murray, 1868, wood eng. frontis. and plts. (one frayed and dust-soiled to margins), folding eng. map at rear, pubs. ads. at rear, library stamp to half-title and cancelled bookplate to front endpaper, orig. cloth gilt, rebacked retaining orig. spine, 8vo (1)

Lot 85

Dugdale (William). The Antiquities of Warwickshire..., Coventry, 1765, title printed in red & black, facsimile folding county map, eng. illusts. and armorials to text, eng. plts. and plans, 19th c. boards with cloth spine & corners, worn & covers loose, folio, together with a very defective copy of the same work, lacking all plts. Upcott III, 1263. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (2)

Lot 87

Heath's Picturesque Annual. Ireland, Picturesque and Romantic. By Leitch Ritchie, 1837, eng. frontis., addn. eng. title and numerous eng. plts., occ. minor spotting, a.e.g., contemp. blind embossed green velvet, 8vo, together with Heath's Picturesque Annual, Ireland Picturesque and Romantic, by Leitch Ritchie, 1838; Versailles, by Leitch Ritchie, 1839; Windsor Castle, and its Environs, by Leitch Ritchie, 1840, together 3 vols., each with eng. frontis., addn. eng. title and numerous eng. plts., some spotting, a.e.g., 1838 vol. in orig. blind embossed green velvet, other vols. in orig. green silk covered boards, (worn), 8vo, with Cromwell (Thomas), History and Desription of the Ancient Town and Borough of Colchester, 2 vols., 1st ed., pub. Robert Jennings, 1825, vign. title to each, steel engs., folding map and facsimiles, all correct as listed, some scattered spotting and minor marginal dampstains, orig. boards, rebacked, preserving orig. spines, 8vo, plus other 19th/20th c. British topography (approx. 30)

Lot 90

Meyrick (Samuel Rush). The History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan..., 1st ed., 1810, twenty eng. plts., incl. one folding, correct as list, scattered marginal foxing, contemp. calf, rubbed and worn, with spine detached, and upper cover just holding on the cords, thick 4to, together with Jones (William Basil, and Freeman, Edward Augustus), The History and Antiquities of Saint David's, 1st ed., 1856, twenty-three eng. plts., occn. foxing and marginal water-staining, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and scuffed, with sl. wear to extrems., 4to, plus Roscoe (Thomas), Wanderings and Excursions in South Wales: with The Scenery of the River Wye..., 1844, fifty eng. plts., incl. frontis. and addn. title, folding map hand-col. in outline (with several closed tears repaired on verso), a.e.g., modern qtr. calf, 8vo, plus eight others, mostly Welsh topog. (11)

Lot 92

Shepherd (G. & Gastineau, H.). The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain... Kent, c.1828, addn. eng. title, eng. map (close-trimmed, just clipping edge of image at top edge), and 124 plts. only (of 126) on 62 leaves, on india paper, scattered foxing, subscribers list, hinges split, a.e.g., orig. pubs. maroon morocco, gilt dec. spine, elaborately embossed covers, sl. rubbed to extrems., but a handsome copy, 4to (1)

Lot 103

Blanchard (Emile). Les Poissons des Eaux Douces de la France, 1st ed., Paris, 1866, title with engraved vignette, illustrations, occasional light spotting, contemporary cloth, 8vo, together with (Montpetit, A), Les Poissons D'Eau Douce du Canada, 1st ed., Montreal, 1897, twelve hand-coloured chromolithographed plates, b & w illustrations, one text leaf with closed marginal tears, contemporary half calf, spine with calf labels, lightly rubbed and faded, 8vo, plus Berg (Leo), Freshwater Fishes of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, 4th ed., 3 vols, Jerusalem, 1962-65, coloured folding map, illustrations, original cloth, d.j.'s, some edge wear, slightly grubby, 8vo (5)

Lot 111

Harting (James Edmund). The Birds of Middlesex. A Contribution to the Natural History of the County, 1st ed, 1866, tinted litho. frontis., orig. gilt dec. cloth, slightly rubbed, together with MacPherson (Rev. H.A. & Duckworth, William), The Birds of Cumberland Critically Studied, including some Notes on the Birds of Westmorland, 1st ed., Carlisle, 1896, hand-col. litho. frontis., folding map, orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, plus Sharpe (R. Bowdler), A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain, 4 vols., Allen's Naturalist's Library series, 1894-97, num. col. plts., orig. qtr. cloth gilt, rubbed and minor wear to extrems., and other ornithology, all 8vo (16)

Lot 126

Ready (Oliver G.). Life and Sport on the Norfolk Broads in the Golden Days, 1st ed., [1910], b & w illusts. from photos., orig. dec. cloth, a little rubbed and short closed tear at head of spine, together with Riviere (B.B.), A History of the Birds of Norfolk, 1st ed., Witherby, 1930, b & w illusts. from photos., large folding map, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and dust-soiled, plus Patterson (Arthur Henry), Notes of an East Coast Naturalist, 2nd ed., 1905, Nature in Eastern Norfolk, 1st ed., 1905, Wildlife on a Norfolk Estuary, 1st ed., 1907, Wild-Fowlers and Poachers, Fifty Years on the East Coast, 1st ed., 1999, b & w illusts. from photos., all orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and dust soiled, all 8vo (6)

Lot 138

Africa. Reinecke (I.C.M.), Charte von Senegambien Nigritien und Guinea, pub. Weimar, 1803, engraved map of western Africa with inset map of the Cape Verde Islands, hand coloured in outline, approx. 460mm x 570mm (1)

Lot 139

Africa. Homann (Johann Baptist), Totius Africae Nova Repraesentatio, c.1730s, hand coloured engraved map, fine uncoloured title cartouche, a few minor marks, 490 x 570 mm (1)

Lot 141

Africa. Cary (John), A New Map of Africa from the Latest Authorities, 1805, engraved map, hand coloured in outline, 475 x 530 mm, together with Laurie & Whittle (pub.), Africa, and its Several Regions and Islands, 12 May 1794, engraved map, hand coloured in outline, 465 x 575 mm (2)

Lot 142

Africa. De La Rochette (Louis Stanislas D'Arcy), Africa, pub. William Faden, 25 April, 1803, hand coloured engraved map, uncoloured decorative title in the form of a medal, 515 x 570 mm (1)

Lot 145

America. Valck (Gerard), America Aurea Pars Altera Mundi, c.1700, hand coloured engraved map of North and South America showing California as an island, fine uncoloured title cartouche, margins restored, 485 x 590 mm (1)

Lot 147

America. Brown (Thomas), Correct Map of North & South America with their Subdivisions, including The West India Islands, 1809, engraved map of North and South America with contemp. wash colouring, a few very small wormholes, 490 x 525 mm (1)

Lot 149

Asia. Ortelius (Abraham), Asiae Nova Descriptio, [1575-79], engraved map with attractive hand colouring, decorative title cartouche, plate dimensions 372 x 485 mm Second state of the plate with the 'F' of 'La Farfana' in lower case and the town 'Ara' above Aden removed. Van den Broecke, pages 6-7. (1)

Lot 152

Asia. Ogilby (John), A New Map of Asia, [1673], hand coloured engraved map with title and dedication cartouches and one armorial, some paper repairs to central fold, 425 x 540 mm (1)

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