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Sale date: |
Books & Prints Sale To include "The Vessey Collection" on Thursday 17th January 2008 |
Lot numbers: |
501-530 of 589 |
Lot |
Description & Estimate |
Vat on hammer % |
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Hammer Price £ |
501 |
GREY, Elizabeth, Countess of Kent. A Choice Manuall, or Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and Chyrurgery…Whereto are added several Experiments of the Virtue of Gascon pouder…as Also most Exquisite waies of Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c. Fifteenth Edition. [With] A True Gentlewomans Delight. Wherein is contained all manner of cookery… [Portrait.] Printed by Gartrude Dawson and are to be sold by Margaret Shears, 1667. 2 parts in one, 24mo, old sheep, worn, portrait and early leaves defective at corner affecting a few words, signature I loose, but complete £900-1800 | Nil |
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| 502 | MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in twelve books. The Third Edition. [Portrait.] S. Simmons, 1678. Early black morocco gilt, a.e.g., a few headlines shaved £800-1500 | Nil |
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| 503 | BROWN, Robert. The Races of Mankind. Cassell, ca.1880. 4 vols bound in 2, half calf; and 2 others. (4) £20-40 | Nil |
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| 504 | STAFFORD, W.C., and Charles BALL. Italy Illustrated. [2 maps, steel engravings.] London Printing and Publishing Co., nd. 2 vols 4to, half calf, stained; and another. (3) £20-40 | Nil |
140 | |
| 505 | COLBY MAPS. Five large 1 inch:1 mile English county maps (sheets 40, 42, 43, 63, 64), folded, laid down on canvas. Ordnance Map Office, 1824-31, all with House of Lords library stamps £50-80 | Nil |
70 | |
| 506 | BRAYLEY, E.W., and J. BRITTON. The Beauties of England and Wales. [Vol. VI: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Engravings, maps.] Vernor & Hood, 1818. Half calf, spine defective, liberally extra-illustrated £50-100 | Nil |
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| 507 | HUTCHINS, John. The History and Antiquities of the county of Dorset. [Maps, plates.] Bowyer and Nichols, 1774. 2 vols folio, contemporary calf. (2) £500-800 | Nil |
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| 508 | PLOT, Robert. The Natural History of Staffordshire. [Engravings, map.] Oxford, at the Theater, 1686. Folio, later calf, gilt, a.e.g. £500-1000 | Nil |
700 | |
| 509 | BOGOLUBOW, A. [Russian title.] Tapisseries de l'Asie Centrale, faisaint partie de la collection reunie par A. Bogolubow. Manufacture des Papiers de l'Etat, St Petersburg, 1908. 2 parts, elephant folio, bound in one, the margins of the text pages (in French and Russian) extended to match the two maps, 36 chromolithograph and 7 monochrome plates in the second fascicule, later full tan morocco, the original printed upper wrappers retained. See illustration and inside front cover £1500-2000 | Nil |
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| 510 | MORRIS, F.O. A History of British Birds. With 394 plates coloured by hand. John C. Nimmo, 1895. 6 vols, contemporary half morocco gilt, extremities slightly rubbed. (6) See illustration £500-800 | Nil |
500 | |
| 511 | JONES, Paul. Flora Superba, selected and painted by the artist. Tryon Gallery, 1971. One of 400 numbered copies, signed by Jones. Folio, half vellum, slipcase £90-150 | Nil |
80 | |
| 512 | SITWELL, Sacheverell, and Wilfrid Blunt. Great Flower Books 1700-1900. A Bibliographical Record. Collins, 1956. One of 295 copies signed by the authors and bound in green half morocco, this marked Out of Series, slipcase £300-500 | Nil |
300 | |
| 513 | STERN, F.C. A Study of the Genus Paeonia, fifteen illustrations by Lilian Snelling. RHS, 1946. 4to, buckram £80-120 | Nil |
90 | |
| 514 | URQUHART, Beryl. The Camellia, paintings by Raymond Boothe and Paul Jones. Leslie Urquhart Press, 1956-60. 2 vols folio, cloth, dust-wrappers. (3) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 515 | GRIGSON, Geoffrey, ed. Thornton's Temple of Flora, with Plates. Collins, 1951. Folio, half cloth, dust-wrapper £50-80 | Nil |
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| 516 | MEE, Margaret. Flowers of the Brazilian Forests. Tryon Gallery, 1968. One of 500 numbered copies. Folio, quarter morocco, marbled boards, slipcase £450-650 | Nil |
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| 517 | "Autobiography", Letters and Literary remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thraile) (edited with notes by A. Hayward Esq) in two vols, 2nd edition London 1861, leather bound £150-250 | Nil |
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| 518 | BECKFORD, W: "Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal", in two vols, London 1834, with leather corners and spine £300-500 | Nil |
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| 519 | "Intentions by OSCAR WILDE, the decay of lying, pen pencil and poison, the critic as artist, the truth of masks", London 1891 £200-300 | Nil |
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| 520 | MASEFIELD, John; "The Country Scene in poems by John Masefield and pictures by Edward Seigo", Collins, London, 1937 £50-100 | Nil |
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| 521 | SHUCKFORD, Samuel: "The sacred and prophane history of the world", London, 1737, leather bound, together with a collection of other similar books, (a lot) £30-50 | Nil |
25 | |
| 522 | ABBOTT'S ILLUSTRATED COUNTIES: "Dorsetshire, its History, Antiquities, places of interest, etc", Southampton 1896 £20-40 | Nil |
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| 523 | BOSWELL, E: "The Civil Division of the County of Dorset, methodically digested and arranged", Sherborne 1795 £30-60 | Nil |
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| 524 | "Anecdotes, Respecting Cranbourn Chase with a very concise account of it, facsimile reproduction of the second edition printed by Lieut.-General Pitt Rivers, 1886 £50-80 | Nil |
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| 525 | "The Charities Report of the Commissioners into the Charities of Dorset, 29 & 30", London 1836 and 1837 £50-80 | Nil |
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| 526 | FOWLER, J: "Mediaeval Sherborne", Longmans, Dorchester 1951, together with Sherborne register, third edition, 1550-1937 (2) £30-60 | Nil |
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| 527 | HILLIER, J: "A portfolio of old Poole," Poole 1983 together with "Swanage Past" and "The Dorset Coastline" (3) £15-20 | Nil |
25 | |
| 528 | Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire and Dorsetshire, 1939" £60-80 | Nil |
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| 529 | "The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: "Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, vol 4, North" (two copies) (2) £30-40 | Nil |
35 | |
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530 |
BOND, L: Tyneham A Lost Heritage", Dorset 1985, together with four other books on Dorset towns (5) £20-40 |
Nil |
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