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Books & Prints Sale To include "The Vessey Collection" on Thursday 17th January 2008

Lot numbers:

301-336 of 589

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Sixth Series. Royal Historical Society, 1991. 12 vols, boards; The Antiquaries Journal. Society of Antiquaries, 1991. 16 vols; and a collection of other ephemera and books on history. £50-80

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302 SCOTTISH LEGITIMISTS, Royal Stuart Society, Knights of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and other royalist, loyalist and catholic societies: a very substantial quantity of correspondence, leaflets, ephemera, accounts, &c. (2 boxes) £100-150

Nil

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303 GUILLIM, John. A Display of Heraldrie: manifesting A more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof. The third Edition. [Engravings in text.] Jacob Blome, 1638. Folio, old calf, rebacked. £100-200

Nil

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304 FOY VAILLANT, Jean. Seleucidarum Imperium, sive Historia Regum Syriae, ad fidem numismatum accomodata. [Engravings in text.] P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, Hague, 1732. Folio, contemporary calf; TOPHAM, John, ed. Liber quotidianus contrarotulatoris garderobae. Anno Regni Edwardi primi vicesimo octavo. J. Nichols, 1787. 4to, later half calf. (2) £100-200

Nil

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305 WALLER, William. Vindication of the Character and Conduct of Sir William Waller…explanatory of his Conduct in taking up Arms against King Charles the First. [Two portraits.] J. Debrett, 1793. Tree calf, rebacked; CLERY, M. A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple, during the Confinement of Louis XVI. Sold by the Author, 1798. Contemporary sprinkled calf; and another. (3) £100-150

Nil

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306 WILKES, John. The Correspondence of the late John Wilkes, with his friends,…in which are introduced Memoiors of his Life, by John Almon. [Portrait.] Richard Phillips, 1805. 5 vols, nineteenth century tree calf, smartly rebacked; and 3 others. (8) £50-80

Nil

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307 MacLEAN, John. Historical and Traditional Sketches of Highland Families, and of the Highlands. Dingwall, 1848. 12mo, cloth, label; DODDRIDGE, P. Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Colonel James Gardiner, who was slain at the Battle of Preston-Pans. Cornish, 1816. 12mo, uncut in modern boards; BURTON, John Hill. History of Scotland, from the Revolution to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection. Longman, 1853. 2 vols, cloth; and another, Scottish. (5) £80-120

Nil

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308 FOX, Charles James. A History of the early part of the reign of James the Second. William Miller, 1808. 4to, contemporary half calf; ROSE, George. Observations on the Historical Work of the late Right Honorable Charles James Fox. Cadell and Davies, 1809. 4to, uncut in modern quarter calf; HOME, John. The History of the Rebellion in the year 1745. Cadell and Davies, 1802. 4to, contemporary half calf; JOHNSTONE, The Chevalier. Memoirs of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746. [Portrait.] Longman, 1820. 4to, modern quarter calf. (4) £80-120

Nil

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309 FULLER, Thomas. The Historie of the Holy Warre. The third edition. Cambridge, for John Williams, 1647. Folio, later half calf, lacks engraved title but with folding map; DALRYMPLE, John. Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland. Strahan, 1771-88. 2 vols 4to, contemporary calf, Heytesbury House bookplates. (3) £120-180

Nil

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310 ALLESTREE, Richard. The Gentleman's Calling. Written by the Author of the Whole Duty of Man. [Engraved title.] R. Norton, 1676. Old calf, rebacked. £80-120

Nil

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311 CATULLUS. C. Valerius Catullus veronensis; et in eum Jo: Antonii Vulpii…novus commentaries locupletissimus. Patavii, Josephus Cominus, 1737. 4to, calf, rebacked; and another. (2) £50-80

Nil

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312 PATERCULUS, Velleius. M. Velleii Paterculi quae supersunt: cum variis lectionibus optimarum editionum. Wilmot, Oxford, 1711. Contemporary panelled calf; HORACE. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera. [Engravings.] Sandby, London, 1749. 2 vols in one (continuous pagination), contemporary mottled calf, a.e.g.; and eighteenth century editions of Ovid, Virgil, Lucan and Petrarch. (9) £50-80

Nil

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313 STATIUS, P. Papinius. Sylvarum Lib. V. Thebaidos Lib. XII. Achilleidos Lib. II. Notis…accuratissime illustrati a Johanne Veenhusen. [Engraved title.] Ex Officina Hackiana, Leiden, 1671. Vellum, double labels; TERENCE. Comoediae. Recensuit, notasque suas et Gabrielis Faerni addidit Richardus Bentleius. Editio altera. [Portrait and dedication plate.] Wetstein & Smith, Amsterdam, 1727. 4to, contemporary vellum. (2) £100-200

Nil

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314 VIRGIL. P. Vergili Maronis Codex antiquissimus a Rufio Turcio Aproniano V. C. distinctus et emendatus qui nunc Florentiae in Bibliotheca Mediceo-Laurentiana adservatur bono publico typis descriptus anno mdccxli. [Frontispiece.] Manniani, Florence, 1741. Contemporary vellum, text printed in red and black uncials in facsimile of original manuscript; and a 2 vol edn of Caesar, Leiden, 1713. (3) £100-200

Nil

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315 DNB, OED &c. The Compact Edition of the Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1975. 2 vols 4to, buckram, slipcase, magnifying glass in drawer; and other dictionaries and reference works. (2 boxes) £50-100

Nil

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316 WORLD'S CLASSICS. 31 vols, all with dust-wrappers. (Box) £30-50

Nil

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317 PAPERBACK POETRY and plays; a quantity, many as new. (2 boxes) £30-50

Nil

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318 PAPERBACK FICTION, a quantity, many as new. (2 boxes) £30-50

Nil

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325 HUTCHINS Reverend John, MA: "The History and the Antiquities of the County of Dorset", 3rd Edition, augmented and improved by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson, Printed by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 25 Parliament Street, 1861, 4 volumes, dated 1861, 1863, 1868, and 1870 (4) See illustration £600-800

Nil

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326 EYTON, MA, The Reverend R. W.: "A Key to Doomsday, showing the method and exactitude of its mensuration, and the precise meaning of its more usual formula, and analysis and digest of the Dorset survey", Printed by Taylor & Co, Ken Little Queen Street, London, 1878, and another similar edition, together with the County edition of the Great Doomsday Book, published by Alecto Historical Editions, London 1988 (3) £40-80

Nil

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327 "The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: An inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset", Volume One, West Dorset, Volume Two, South East Dorset in three parts and Volume Three Central Dorset in two parts (6) £50-100

Nil

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328 HUTCHINS, MA John: "The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset" Printed by W. Bowyer, J. Nichols, London, 1774, in two volumes; together with the BINGHAM Rev George: "Biographical anecdotes of the Rev John Hutchins, MA", Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, Number 34, London, 1813, (3) See illustration £200-400

Nil

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329 COKER Reverend Mr: "A Survey of Dorsetshire containing the antiquities and natural history of that county", Printed for J. Wilcox at the Green - Dragon in - Britain 1732, together with WARNE Charles: "Ancient Dorset", Printed for the author and subscribers only by D. Sydenham, Bournemouth 1872 and the manuscript volume of accounts "Rental of the estate of Sir John Coventry Esq at Corfe Mullen, Dorset, with accounts for 1859-1863" (3)

Nil

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330 BLAKE Malachi: "A Brief Account of the Dreadful Fire at Blandford - Forum in the County of Dorset which happened June 4th 1731." Second edition Printed by R. Ward, 1735, together with CHAFIN William: "A Second Edition of the Anecdotes and History of Cranborne Chase" London 1818 and the COKER Rev "A Survey of Dorsetshire" London, 1732. (3) See illustration £80-150

Nil

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331 W PHILLIMORE & E NEVILLE (Eds): "Dorset Parish Registers, Marriages" In three volumes, London, 1906, together with five volumes on Dorset History (8) £50-100

Nil

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332 BOSWELL Edward: "The Civil Division of the County of Dorset" Second Edition, Dorchester 1833, together with a rebound extract "A survey of the County of Dorset" and CLARIDGE John "General View of the Agriculture in the County of Dorset" London, 1743 and St GEORGE Henry and LENNARD Sampson "The Visitation of the County of Dorset, taken in the year 1623", London, 1885 together with an addenda. (5) £100-200

Nil

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333 "Kelly's Directory of Dorsetshire, 1923" and a similar volume of 1927 together with "Hunt & Co's Directory of Dorsetshire, 1851", together with an unbound directory of Dorsetshire (4) £40-80

Nil

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334 POWYS Llewelyen: "Somerset and Dorset Essays" London 1957 together with a collection of modern books on Dorset and related subjects (27 volumes) £40-80

Nil

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335 HOLMAN Roger and HOADE Bill: "Dorset's Most Beautiful Buildings" Dorset Books, 2001 and a collection of other similar books on Dorset (13) £20-40

Nil

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HARDY Thomas: "Wessex Poems and other Verses", Harper and Brothers 1843, together with SYMONDS UDAL John: "Dorsetshire Folk-Lore" Printed by Stephen Austin & Son 1922, inscription by the author (2) £80-150

Nil

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