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drawn by Lieutenant (later Major-General) Richard Wace RA (1842-1920) charting his first voyage to India in 1864 and subsequent return in 1866, pe...

Single sheet hand coloured woodcut city plan, Tokyo: Toueido, 1849 , with key inset, 750 x 860mm, on fine paper, some wear to folds and edges, mai...

Coloured folding map of Peking with the original printed envelope, publ. The American Express Co., Inc., c.1930, 695 x 520mm

Stanford’s Handy Map of the United States Distinguishing the Unsettled Territories; the Railways; The Cities and Towns according to population; al...

India Showing Railways Open and Under Construction on 31st March 1927; Calcutta: India Railway Conference Association, 1927. Coloured folding map,...

West Coast of Scotland, late 19th century with some revisions, approx 60 sheets, some with vignettes, including Lochs, Western Isles, Skye, Harris...

South West England and Wales, late 19th century, double page coastal maps/charts, including Falmouth Harbour, Menai Strait 1464, Newquay to Holyhe...

mostly Ireland, engraved by J & C Walker, Davies et al., sheets 2046 (Waterford Harbour), 1787 (Wexford and Wicklow), 45 & 46 (Larne to Bloody For...

engraved by S I Neele, published by John Stockdale, hand coloured, with fold lines, (tear to one fold), 273 x 865mm (unframed); a small map of 'Du...

Map of the Country Twenty Miles Round Mansfield, Comprising Parts of the Counties of Nottingham, Derby, York, Lincoln and Leicester, Shewing the F...

ou Cartes choisies pour la Commodite. Amsterdam 1708, narrow 8vo, 30 folding maps, a little browning, contemporary calf gilt

containing a concise description of the most remarkable places, ancient and modern, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, 1793, 12mo, with six fol...

Lot 74

CARY (John)

Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: being a new set of County Maps from Actual Surveys, 1793, 4to, engraved title and 47 engraved maps hand-colo...

Lot 75

CARY (John)

Cary's New Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland, 1794, 4to, engraved throughout, coloured general map, others with outline hand colour, ...

Britannia or a Chorographical Description of England, Scotland and Ireland, enlarged by Richard Gough, 3 vols. 1789, folio, folding maps by Cary, ...

Lot 77

BACON (G W)

New Large-Scale Atlas of the British Isles, with Plans of Towns. London 1892, 4to, with coloured maps, city and town plans, lower board detached

CRITCHETT & WOODS, 13th edition, 1812, small 8vo, later bound; the other for 1823, later half morocco (2) ...[more]

small 8vo, 83rd edition, bound with Kent's Tradesman’s Assistant, plain calf

1889, 2nd edition, (43.5 x 36cm), 154 colour maps, plans and plates, index at end, repaired half morocco

Lot 81

BLACK (A & C)

Black's General Atlas of the World. Edinburgh 1861, (44.5 x 33cm), 56 maps including double page, hand colouring, first leaves slightly foxed and ...

The American Atlas. 1976 [or later as bound by Boydell] Facsimile Edition of 200 copies, this un-numbered, blue half morocco, slip case

1886, 16th edition, (34 x 29cm), coloured maps, some toning and finger soiling, first leaves repaired, later cloth.

The Art of Glass. London 1662, small 8vo, title and text slightly browned or soiled, small tear to margin, imprint leaf at end repaired without lo...

The English Improver Improved or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed, London: for John Wright 1652, small 4to, engraved pictorial title, 2 engraved p...

Lot 92

DAVILA (H C)

The Historie of the Civill Warres of France. London 1647, folio, translated out of the original, firts English edition, engraved title vignette, s...

London: Robert Barker, 1611. Folio, approx. 38 x 25cm, with the erroneous reading "and he went into the citie" in Ruth 3:15, corrected to "...she ...

Commentariorum in Evangelium Johannis libri XIIII. Cologne: Frans Birckman, 1526, folio, printer's device to title, bound with Commentariorum, and...

His Three Books Treating of the Rights of War and Peace, Translated by William Evats. London: Printed by M. W. for Thomas Basset, 1682, folio, tit...

Lot 97

Bible,

London: Norton and Bill, 1622, 216 x 160mm, wood engraved title and NT title, final leaf with imprint date 1623, Genealogies bound at the start, a...

London: Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1712, 4to, a little toned, some family ms occasion notes, contemporary calf, cracked

Cosmographie in Four Books. Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the whole World, and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas and isles...

Lot 101

RAPIN (Rene)

Hortorum libri iv..., first edition, Paris 1665, 4to, title with engraved device, engraved frontispiece, head and tail-pieces and initials, light ...

Krautterbuch..., Mit vleiß übersehen, und mit der kräutter zunamen... gemehret und gebessert durch M. Sebizium.., Sampt angehenckten Speißkammer. ...

Theatrum Historicum sive Chronologiae Systema Novum. Nicholas Hampelius 1629, folio, title in red and black, a little soiled to amrgins,text sligh...

Traité des Arbres et Arbustes qui se Cultivent en France en Pleine Terre. Vol II only. 1755, 4to, first edition, half-title, 3 folding engraved pl...

Lot 105

CARO (Annibale)

De le lettere familiari, 2 vols. in one, Venice: Bernardo Giunti e Fratelli 1581, small 4to, Chatsworth bookplate, and Duke of Devonshire gilt mon...

Lot 106

MANWOOD (John)

A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest., Also a Treatise of the Pourallee, London: for the Societie of Stationers 1615, 8vo, old ownership name to ...

Scotia Illustrata sive Prodromus Historiae Naturalis, Edinburgh 1684, folio, 22 plates on 11 leaves at end, recased panel calf, rebacked

Lot 108

GREW (Nehemiah)

Musaeum Regalis Societatis or a Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal Society…; Subjoyned the Co...

Flora Sibirica sive Historia Plantarum Sibiriae, vols. I and II (of 4), St Petersburg 1747-49, 4to, titles stained, 149 folding plates, some stain...

MARTYN (John), vols. VIII and IX; LOWTHORP (John) third edition, 3 vols. 1722; EAMES (John) vols. VI and VII, (in 3), 1734; JONES (Henry) vols. IV...

Medico-Physica Academiae, Naturae Curiosorum…, 5 vols. 1671- 94, small 4to, plates including folding, three added engraved titles, one frontispiec...

Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, translated by Edmund Gibson, 2 vol., 2nd edition, 1722, folio, engraved p...

Camden's Britannia Newly Translated into English, London 1695, folio, Gibson edition, portrait frontispiece added from another edition, 50 double ...

Lot 114

SNAPE (Andrew)

The Anatomy of an Horse, London 1686 folio, probably 2nd edition, with appendix, portrait frontispiece, 49 plates, (pl.12 with very small hole), a...

Lot 115

MAYNE (Jasper)

Part of Lucian made English from the Originall. Oxford 1664-63, small folio, 2 vols. in one, portrait frontispiece repaired at head, rather browne...

Upon the Yeerely Celebration of Mr Robert Dovers Olimpick Games upon Cotswold-Hills, various authors, London, printed by Robert Raworth for Mathew...

Lot 117

Medicine.

SHIPTON (J) Pharmacopoeia Bateana, London 1688, 12mo; FULLER (T) Pharmacopoeia Bateana, bound with Pharmacopoeia Hermtica, 1719, 12mo; ALLEY (Geor...

Lot 118

PERSON (David)

Varieties, or a Surveigh of Rare and Excellent Matters, necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons, wherein the principall Heads of diverse...

Lot 119

JORDEN (Edward)

A Discourse of Naturall Bathes and Minerall Waters. Third edition London: Tho. Harper 1633, small 4to, first leaf marked in a contemporary hand 'I...

Tracts Political Geographical and Commercial on the Dominions of Ava and the North Western Parts of Hindostaun. London 1811, 8vo, spine damaged (l...

Lot 121

BATE (John)

The Mysteryes of Nature and Art conteined in foure severall Tretises.., London: for Ralph Mab 1634, small 4to, first edition, engraved title, mark...

Lot 122

FRENCH (John)

The Art of Distillation, London: R Cotes for T Williams, 1651, 8vo, first edition, engraved title in red and black, woodcut illustrations, some so...

A Ternary of Paradoxes: The Magnetick Cure of Wounds. Nativity of Tartar in Wine. Image of God in Man . 2nd edition, London: James Flesher for Wil...

Lot 124

HAMCONIUS (M)

Frisia seu de viris rebusque Frisiae illustribus. Libri duo. Franeker: J. Lamrinck for J. Starter, 1620, small 4to, title printed in black and red...

The Historie of the World, Translated into English by Philemon Holland. London: Adam Islip, 1601, folio, 2 vols. in one, vol. I title and first le...

Lot 126

GOWER (John)

De Confessione Amantis. London: Thomas Berthelette 1554, small folio, Chatsworth Library bookplate, Black Letter, title within woodcut border, few...

The History of Don Quichote. The First Parte. -- The Second Part of the History of... Don Quixote. Translated by Thomas Shelton, London: Edward Bl...

Formulae Remediorum ex D D Barbeirac praxt Depromptae, Tomus I, 1693, 12mo, 282pp pen and ink manuscript fair copy, bound with 'Novus de Morbis Ve...

Lot 129

WILLIS (Thomas)

De Anima Brutorum. Amsterdam: J a Someren 1674, 12mo, 7 (of 8) folding plates at end, later sprinkled calf; REDI (Francsco) Opusculorum Pars Prior...

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