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Lot 138
Lyell (Charles). Principles of Geology, Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation, 3 volumes, 1st edition, John Murray, 1830-33, engraved frontispiece to volume I, hand-coloured frontispieces to volumes II & III, four maps (two hand-coloured & two folding), four engraved plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams, bound without half titles to volumes I & III and advertisements at front of volume I, some light offsetting and scattered spotting, Bedfordshire General Library ink stamps and manuscript shelf numbers to titles, hinges reinforced, booklabels of T. Elger, manuscript note 'Purchased at Library Sale (1868)' to volume I front pastedown, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and repaired, spines with red labels, 8vo, with a loose one page autograph letter signed by Charles Lyell, dated January 1851, giving a new address at Rivermead, Hampton Wick, mounted on pink paper with manuscript note beneath, old folds Dibner 96; Horblit 70; Norman 1398; PMM 344. Charles Lyell popularised the doctrine of uniformitarianism, first suggested by James Hutton, which presumes that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now, have always operated in the past and apply everywhere in the universe. The central argument in Principles, and one that had a notable influence on the young Charles Darwin, was that 'the present is the key to the past' and that geological remains from a distant past can be explained by reference to observable geological processes now in operation. (3)
Lot 103
Childrey (Joshua). Britannia Baconia: Or, the Natural Rarities of England, Scotland & Wales. According as they are to be found in every Shire, 1st edition, 1661, lacking blank A1 (as often), a few leaves mispaginated, manuscript annotations to rear blank, a few small corrections to text, some spotting and soiling, previous owner signature to title, manuscript shelf number to title verso, modern calf, 8vo Wing C3871. (1)
Lot 171
Smith (William). Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils, with Reference to the Specimens of the Original Geological Collection in the British Museum: Explaining their State of Preservation and their Use in Identifying the British Strata, Part I [all published], 1st edition, printed for E. Williams, 1817, folding hand-coloured Geological Table of British Organized Fossils (laid down; Eyles 16B, the figures 1-34 are added to the coloured tablets), lacking the other folding table 'Stratigraphical Table of Echini', title repaired to verso, blank area of final leaf repaired, a few light spots, bookplate and shelf label, later half calf, spine repaired at ends, edges rubbed, 4to Eyles 20; Norman 1960; Ward & Carozzi 2075. Rare. "Smith based this more detailed description of the fossils found in different geological strata in England on his own enormous fossil collection, which he sold to the British Museum a year earlier." (Norman). (1)
Lot 47
[Vason, George]. An Authentic Narrative of Four Years' Residence at Tongataboo, one of the Friendly Islands, in the South-Sea, who went thither in the Duff, Under Captain Wilson, in 1796, 1st edition, 1810, engraved frontispiece and map (both laid down, some soiling and toning, recent half calf gilt, 8vo, together with Big Game and Pygmies. Experiences of a Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi, by Cuthbert Christy, 1st edition, 1924, folding map, half-tone illustrations, a little light spotting, original blue cloth gilt, some fading to spine, 8vo, plus The River and the Desart: Or, Recollections of the Rhone and the Chartreuse, by Miss Pardoe, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1838, lithographed frontispieces (one with light water stain), light toning, shelf labels, contemporary half calf, Society of Writers to the Signet gilt stamps to covers, joints cracked with losses to spines, 8vo, with others including Travels in Istria and Dalmatia, Drawn up from the Itinerary of L.F. Cassas, by Joseph Lavallee, 1805, Charles Rothery's Notes on a Yacht Voyage to Hardanger Fjord, and Adjacent Estuaries, circa 1850 and Henry Blackburn's The Pyrenees: A Description of Summer Life at French Watering Places, 1867 (35)
Lot 1217
A late 19th Century Japanese Shibyama decorated wall cabinet:, with flowering trees, branches and sprays, heightened in gilt, ivory and mother-of-pearl, the upper part enclosed by a singled hinged and pair of sliding doors, having shelf below with shaped open and pierced fret back, the cupboard below of D shaped outline, enclosed by a pair of doors with drawer below, flanked by an open compartment to either side, 67cm (2ft 2 1/2in) wide, 109cm (3ft 7in) high.
Lot 1172
By Edwards & Roberts An Edwardian mahogany and marquetry writing desk:, of bowed breakfront outline, banded in satinwood, bordered with boxwood and ebony lines and decorated with ribbon tied husk garlands and foliate sprays, the pierced brass galleried superstructure with a central concave fronted shelf flanked by curved lidded compartments, each fitted with a drawer and decorated with oval panels of cherubs, having a tooled leather inset writing surface, fitted with a central frieze drawer flanked by three bow-fronted drawers to either side on square tapered legs, terminating in spade feet, 122cm (4ft) wide. The centre drawer stamped Edwards & Roberts.
Lot 126
Ross, Sir James Clark. A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the years 1839-43. John Murray, London:, 1847. First edition. 2 volumes. 8vo, Volume I: lii, 366 pp. Volume II: [vii]-x, 447 pp, lithographed plates and maps, some folding, illustrations in the text. Half brown calf and marbled boards, gilt titles at red spine labels. The Michael Gilkes Collection of Travel & Exploration Books, Private Collection. A highly important early expedition to Antarctica which contributed much to the cartographic emergence of the continent. Ross visited many sub- Antarctic islands & charted 900 km of Antarctic coast at Victoria Land in his circumnavigation of the continent. He was the first to penetrate the Ross Sea ice pack, discovering Ross Island and attainment by 4 degrees the furthest Southern expedition to date. Ross also accurately determined the position of the Magnetic Pole. "The first [voyage] to enter what is known as the Ross Sea, the first to sight the Admiralty Mountains, the first to see Victoria Land, Ross Island, Mounts Erebus and Terror, and the Ross Ice Shelf, amongst other momentous discoveries. Once this account became public, no one could doubt there was a great southern continent of immense proportions to be explored"
Lot 857
A Ladderax by Staples shelving system, comprising a teak three drawer unit 48cm H x 89cm W x 40.5cm D; a fall front unit, 40cm H x 59cm W x 40.5cm D; a unit with glass front, 47.5cm H x 59cm W x 35cm D; a solid two door unit, 47.5cm H x 89cm W x 35cm D; a three drawer unit, 48cm H x 89cm W x 40.5cm D; two small side racks, 134cm H; five taller side racks 202cm H, five shelves at 59cm x 36cm; seven shelves and 89cm x 36cm; 1 shelf with lip at 89cm x 42cm and two shelves at 59cm x 20cm, with a selection of brass shelf brackets (Qty)
Lot 837
A Victorian walnut and marquetry bonheur-de-jour, with a central mirror above a single drawer flanked by two compartments with glazed doors and gallery, each with an interior shelf, all above a canted fall front enclosing a compartmented interior inset with embossed leather, inlaid with floral scrolling foliage and applied with brass garlands, on four cabriole legs, 140cm H x 82cm W x 54cm D
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