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Lot 540
An early 20th Century mahogany open bookcase of three shelves on a plinth base CONDITION REPORTS Approx 109 cm in height x 30 cm in depth x 114 cm in length. The top has water marks and other staining as well as various scratches and discolouration. The back boards appear to have been replaced. Has general scuff marks, chips, bruises etc conducive with age and use especially to the front edges. The back boards appear to have had worm at some point. The shelf runners have been fixed into place - see images for further details
Lot 41
A George III and later mahogany and boxwood line inlaid sideboard, the galleried and moulded top over three long drawers above two banks of two short and two dummy drawers flanking central kneehole shelf, h. 81 cm, w. 148 cm, d. 54 cm CONDITION REPORT: Splitting to sides. Marking and dents to surface. General wear and tear
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)
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