Fens Drainage.- Dodson (Col. William) The Designe for the perfect Draining of the Great Level of the Fens, (called Bedford Level)...as it was delivered to the Honourable Corporation for the Drainage of the said Great Level, the 4th of June, 1664..., first edition, title with typographical border, woodcut initials, folding engraved map, lacking initial blank, a little browned, one or two stains, cropped, later half calf, spine chipped at head, [Wing D1801], small 4to, by R. Wood...so be sold by Henry Twiford...and by Rich. Marriott, 1665.⁂ Rare, with only 8 UK copies listed by ESTC (BL, 2 in Cambridge, 2 in Oxford, Petyt Library, Senate House Library and Sheffield University) and 2 locations in America (Folger and Harvard). The only auction record we have been able to find was the Kenney copy in 1965 (£50).
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Fine Collection of Georgian Views of Dublin Malton (James) A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin, a fine set of 27 (26 hand coloured acquaints) each approx. 45cms x 58cms (17 3/4" x 23") including the Map and Coat of Arms of the City of Dublin, published London (J. Malton & G. Cowen) Dublin July 1794 & 1795, in matching hogarth frames. (27) Provenance: Property of a Titled Lady.
![Map: Irish [Lodge (John)] The Course of the Grand Canal from Dublin to the River Shannon, c. 1850, approx. 14cms x 40cms (5 1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/35d73948-aee7-44b8-81ef-a90300a2ce68/76801d14-9357-4d86-f200-2a468329c6c5/468x382.jpg)
BRITISH SCHOOL (19th CENTURY) PENCIL DRAWING Study of a boy's head Bearing signature 'Geo Romney', Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal exhibition label verso 5 1/4" x 4 1/2" (13.5 x 11.5cm) ALSO A FOLDED LINEN-BACKED MAP OF THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER by C. Smith, published 1801 17 1/2" x 19 1/2" (44.5 x 49.5cm) borderline AND A LATE VICTORIAN OVAL POTTYER DISH (3)
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, 3 vols, George Allen & Unwin, London, comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, 13th impression, 1963, The Two Towers and The Return of the King, each 9th impression, 1962, all with folding map, crimson boards and non price-clipped dust jackets, original slip case (some discolouration to spines but otherwise good); together with Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (People's Edition), seventy-eighth thousand, 1898, pictorial green cloth (4)
An early Vulgate New Testament, missing titlepage, starting at page 3 with 'Sanctum Jesu Christi Evangelium Secundum Matthaeum Caput I...' and decorated capital 'L' (Liber generationis...), later-bound with a folding map of the Holy Lands (three maps in one) after Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667), the arms of Edward [9th] Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshall of England (1686-1777) pasted down on inside front board (covering a previous ink inscription) and an engraving of Ezekiel and the Angel to inside back board, gilt-tooled calf, small 32mo
A 19th century hand coloured map of The Bristol Channel, with inscription 'To The Right Honourable Sir Robert Southwell, who attended his Majesty King William the 3rd in this Expedition for Ireland in Quality of Principall, Secretary of State for that Kingdom', 48cm x 59.5cm, and a double engraving of a Perspective View of the City of Bath and the City of Bristol, engraved for Walpoole's New Complete British Traveller, 34cm x 21.5cm
A Second World War 26th Hussars / Chindit campaign medal group, that of Y7942712 L/Cpl Allan Smith, B Squadron, XXVI Hussars, including Pay Book and Permanent Pass, a quantity of Airgraphs and postcards, an album and loose photographs, an embroidered "ditty" bag, two Chindit formation signs and a shoulder title, silk escape map, and a number of post-War items including veterans' association badges, beret, photographs and ephemera
Entomology: A Collection of Birdwing Butterflies, circa mid 20th century, a large framed case containing six specimens of male Birdwing butterflies to include - Ornithoptera Goliath, Victoriae, Paradisea, Meridionalis, Tithonus and Rothschildi, set against a background map of New Guinea & Indonesia, enclosed within a pine glazed case 53cm by 6cm by 53cm, a pair of Ornithoptera Paradisea Arfakensis, displayed and mounted on a background map of Australia & South-West Pacific, contained within a stained Watkins & Doncaster Deal glazed wall case, 40cm by 5cm by 30cm, a pair of Ornithoptera Tithonus, contained within a stained Watkins & Doncaster Deal glazed wall case, 25cm by 5cm by 40cm, all specimens with data tags (3)
![[MAPS] Morden, Robert (c.1650-1703), 'Somerset', engraved county map, hand-coloured in outline, 37cm x 43cm, framed and glaz](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c64e3e37-c0a3-46cc-8d31-a90a00d6b97d/d8f76809-798b-4d93-c4c0-a6a7ae6b9693/468x382.jpg)
![[MAPS] Morden, Robert (c.1650-1703), 'Cornwall', engraved county map, hand-coloured in outline, 35.5m x 41.5cm, framed and g](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c64e3e37-c0a3-46cc-8d31-a90a00d6b97d/16637f33-7004-4508-9d31-8dd6b565949a/468x382.jpg)
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