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Lot 94
A Group of 18th Century and Later Antiques, including Samuel Buck (1696-1779), "The West View of Roche Abbey, near Tickhill in Yorkshire 1723", engraving, a similar with the front elevation of Sandbeck, seat of the Earls of Scarborough, an early Victorian mahogany tea caddy (a/f), a three bottle oak and silver plated tantalus and a case entymology study of butterflies and an enamel clock dial (one shelf)
Lot 89
Hampshire.- Sleight (C., surveyor and artist) The South West View of Hook in Hampshire, the seat of William Hornby Esq., watercolour, pen and ink, on laid paper without watermark, signed and title inscribed in margin underneath, sheet 280 x 465 mm (11 x 18 1/4 in), minor spotting and surface dirt, unframed, probably late 18th century
Lot 120
City of London.- Advice to the Livery-Men of London: shewing that it is for their Interest and Honour, to chuse Merchants in Trade, for their Representatives in Parliament..., only edition, with final advertisement leaf (not called for in ESTC), light staining, slight loss to lower inner margin of title and advertisement leaf (repaired not affecting text), modern cloth, spine slightly faded, [Not in Goldsmiths' or Kress], for A.Baldwin, 1713 § [Corporation of London. Court of Common Council]. Addresses presented...to the King..., [1778]; Addresses, Remonstrances, and Petitions; commencing the 24th of June, 1769..., [1778] bound with Petition (A) of the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex, presented to His Majesty, the 24th of May, 1769, together 3 works in 1 vol. (as often, the last mentioned bound second), first editions, bookplate removed from front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled calf, a little rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine preserving old red morocco label, Henry Fenwick; and another on the livery, 8vo (3) *** The first is rare, with ESTC listing only 4 UK copies (2 BL, Longleat, Bodleian) and one in America (John Hopkins). The second volume concerns the Court of Common Council, the effective governing body of the City of London. The first two items listed include several references to the American colonies while the last relates to John Wilkes who was imprisoned for libel and barred from taking up his seat as a Member of Parliament. The radical Wilkes strongly supported the cause of the colonies against the Crown. The Lord Mayor of London, William Beckford, father of the author and art-collector, supported Wilkes and the rights of the City of London, accusing the King of interfering in the results of the election.
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