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Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 volumes, first edition, Hutchinson and Co., [1925], 60 colour plates, light foxing/spotting, original bl...

Lot 316

MILLAIS (J G)

British Deer and their Horns. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1897, folio, coloured frontispiece and 10 plates, some foxing and spotting, tissue g...

Lot 317

Yeats W.B.,

Poems, published by T. Fisher Unwin, London 1922, with frontispiece portrait, together with a print ‘The Proclamation of Poblacht Na H Eireann’. (...

Recueil de Lettres, Proclamation et Discours, 2nd edition, 2 vols. Stockholm 1839, 8vo, presentation copy from the King of Sweden to Lieut-General...

DORAT (Claude Joseph) Oeuvres, Vols. I to 22, but lacking nos. 9 and 13, Paris, circa 1770, 8vo, various publishers, calf gilt; HALFPENNY (William...

Saint-Simon - Memoires, 6 vols.; Theatre des Grecs, 4 vols 4to; others including Mazarinades etc

LEECH (John) The Comic History of England, with an original drawing by Leech, covers detached; GRAY (T) Works, photograph plates, Riviere binding;...

Various 19th and 20th century works, including prize bindings, Shakespeare, etc

Lot 324

Binding.

De ALARCON (P A) The Three-Cornered Hat, translated by Martin Armstrong, 1927, with mounted colour plates, and coloured morocco binding, drop back...

HULME (F E) Familiar Wild Flowers, first to fifth series 1887-94, 8vo, illustrated, decorative green cloth covers; Familiar Garden Flowers, 5 vols...

PETRARCA, Il Petrarca, Lyon 1668, 16mo, title damaged, browned and stained; A Short Introduction to English Grammar, Basel 1794, 8vo; BALL (J) A N...

London: Bell and Daldy, no date, c.1880, small 8vo, 52 vols, half tan calf

Lot 328

Bindings.

SCOTT (John) The Poetical Works, London 1782, 8vo, frontispiece, vignette title, a little stained, full vellum; DOWDEN (E) Studies in Literature, ...

containing various topographical and other antique prints and a few watercolour/ink drawings.

Hallam’s Middle Ages (c.1915), Tennyson’s Works (1915, fine tree calf), Rienzi (1860), British Album (1790, 2 books in 1vol.), Elegant Extracts Po...

Works, Illustrated Library Edition, 1874, 8vo, 30 vols., half brown morocco (rubbed); together with Forster, J., The Life of Charles Dickens, 1876...

Lot 332

WILDE (Oscar)

Works, 14 vols., Magdalen edition, no. 23/580, 1911, 8vo, recent half green morocco gilt

Various including Lionel Edwards illustrated: Royal Newmarket by R C Lyle, large paper copy, 1945, half morocco; Forrard-on by Rancher, 1930, no.2...

Antarctic Adventure, Scott's Northern Party, London: T. Fisher Unwin, first edition 1914, 8vo, map and illustrations, original cloth, faded spine

YOUNG (A) General View of the Agriculture of Suffolk, 1797, 8vo, 2nd edition, folding map, neat library stamp, recent binding; COOKE (G A) Topogra...

Lot 336

Stage Coaches.

Five titles, including works by J. Jusserand (one of 65 copies, vellum), Captain Malet, Charles Harper, Stanley Harris, and C T S Birch Reynardson...

Lot 337

HUTCHINSON (H)

British Golf Links, first edition, London, J. S. Virtue 1897, 4to, illustrated, original cloth, tear along spine

Travels in Indo-China and and the Chinese Empire, London 1872, 8vo, folding map and plates (browned) with library blindstamp, cancelled library la...

Lot 339

MILES (Henry D)

Pugilistica, the History of British Boxing, 3 vols, London: Weldon & Co, no date, c.1880, 8vo, illustrated, some foxing, original cloth, spines wo...

Dalmatia and Montenegro, first edition, 2 vols., 1848, 8vo, 7 lithographed plates, 7 wood-engraved plates, folding map and 2 folding pedigrees, la...

Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan, first edition, 1869, 8vo, colour lithograph frontispiece, 4 plain plates, 3 folding maps, illustration...

Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the summer of the year MDCCCX. Edniburgh 1811, 4to, 8 hand-coloured plates on mounted india paper, 2 maps...

Lot 343

LOCKMAN (John)

Travels of the Jesuits, into various parts of the world: particularly China and the East-Indies, 2 vols., 1762, 2nd edition, 8vo, 5 folding engrav...

A Tour through Italy, exhibiting a view of its scenery, its antiquities, and its monuments. London: for J. Mawman 1813, 4to, 2 vols, 8 plans, occa...

Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, etc. and of a Cruise in the Black Sea, 2nd edition, 2 vols in one, 1833, 2 coloured frontispieces, folding m...

Lot 347

HILL (Aaron)

A Full and Just Account of the Present State of The Ottoman Empire in all its Branches, 2nd edition, London 1710, folio, frontispiece portrait (mo...

A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Bootha. London 1874, 8vo, frontispiece, illustrations, folding map, some foxing, half calf; CORNI...

A Picturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant and part of France. London: T. & I. Egerton, 1796, 2nd edition, small 4to, 2 volumes, plates as requir...

Lot 350

ROSS (Sir John)

Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage...,London: A. W. Webster, 1835 4to, mounted frontispiece, some foxing, modern cloth...

The Succession of Colonels to all His Majesties Land Forces from their Rise to 1742, London: for J. Millan opposite to the Admiralty Office, narro...

An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin. London: John Van Voorst, 1850, 8vo (200 x 120mm...

Collection of historical and topographical works, mainly 19th century and early 20th century, including Salopian Journal, 1876-77, with mounted ph...

Bristol Records Society. 16 vols first editions from 1930 to 1950, cloth; others later in publisher's cloth bindings. DALLAWAY (W) Antiquities of ...

Lot 355

[STEVENS (J)]

A New Collection of Voyages Discoveries and Travels.., in 7 vols., London: for J Knox 1767, 8vo, with 15 folding maps including London and Paris p...

Lot 356

Travel.

STEIN (Sir A) On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks, 1933, folding plates, coloured map and illustrations, light foxing to fore-edge otherwise good, in ...

Moko; or Maori Tattooing. London 1896, 4to, half title, frontispiece and plates as required, light spotting or foxing, original cloth lightly age ...

Peches, Peches de Mer, 35 plates from Diderot's Cyclopedie, some damp staining, disbound folio; Du MONCEAU (Duhamel) Art du Chandelier, 3 plates, ...

Lot 359

Travel.

MURRAY (Hugh) A Grammar of general Geography, no date c.1840, 12mo, moveable frontispiece, 8 folding maps, linen backed, worn; The New Zealanders,...

Lot 360

BURNEY (James)

A Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean, Vols. I and II, London 1803-06, 4to, charts and plates a...

Lot 361

Travel.

Blunt (Lady Anne) A Pilgrimage to Nejd, in 2 vols 1881, 8vo, folding maps, illustrations, foxing, ex. Signet Library, BAKER (W) The Albert N'Yanza...

LIVINGSTONE (David) The Life and Explorations of ---, London : J Murdoch no date, 4to, c.1880, lithographic plates, morocco gilt (worn and rebacke...

Cherry Creek, vol. 1, no. 1 printed on brown paper, for April 23, 1859, folded broadsheet with damage to folds and intersections. According to a s...

Plan of the Parish of Brancaster in the County of Norfolk 1829, 4to manuscript with 6 plans (5 of which hand-coloured), and tables of landowners e...

A Complete Stranger's Guide through London, parts I to 77, no date, oblong 8vo, each with a double page plate, original wrappers, some a little fr...

Lot 366

DAVEY (Henry)

A Set of Etchings Illustrative of Beccles Church and other Suffolk Antiquities. Norwich: for the author 1818, folio, first edition, list of subscr...

Lot 367

COTMAN (J S)

Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk and Suffolk ... second edition, with additional plates, 2 volumes, 1839, 4to, hand tinted plates, a fe...

Collection of 21 vols. of illustrated world topography, early editions, 8vo, typical decorative cloth covers; and five others similar (26)

Environs of London series: Vols. I (Surrey) 1796; vol. II, III and V. (Middlesex) 1795-1800; vol. IV, Herts, Essex and Kent 1796; with engraved pl...

Various mainly early 20th century works, including: EDWARDS (L) My Hunting Sketch Book, 1928, 4to colour plates; My Scottish Sketch Book, 1929 fir...

Brown Jack, 1934, signed numbered copy, 162/250, vellum backed; Shires and Provinces by Sabretache, 1926, large 4to; British Racecourses by B Curl...

Lot 371

PAPWORTH (J B)

Select Views of London, Ackermann 1816, small 4to, 76 coloured aquatint plates including 5 folding, contents somewhat toned, damaged spine with co...

Hunting, Hawking and Shooting, 4 vols., 1928-37, 4to, no.265 of 300 copies, signed, plates, uncut, half green morocco by Kelly & Sons, Harold Wern...

Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet, no date [Washington, 1895] , pp.669-747, 8vo, 52 plates, cloth cover stained at foot

Lot 374

IRELAND.

BREWER (J N) The Beauties of Ireland, 2 vols., London 1825-26, 8vo, plates, half calf; STEPHENS (Rev. Walter) Notes on the Mineralogy of Part of t...

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