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Books & Prints Sale To include "The Vessey Collection" on Thursday 17th January 2008 |
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241-270 of 589 |
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241 |
HUMBERT, L.M. Memorials of the Hospital of St Cross and Alms Houses of Noble Poverty. [Photographs, woodcuts.] Wm Savage, Winchester, 1868. Cloth; HEATH, Sidney. Old English Houses of Alms, a pictorial record. Francis Griffiths, 1910. 4to, quarter buckram, boards; and another. (3) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 242 | WATMOUGH, A. A History of Methodism in the Neighbourhood and City of Lincoln. J.Mason, 1829. 12mo, boards; 2 more on Lincolnshire and 3 others. (6) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 243 | SHAW, P.J. An Old York Church, All Hallows in North Street. [Colour and black and white plates.] Published at the Church Shop, York, 1908. One of 500 numbered copies. Folio, cloth; COLLINGWOOD, W.G. Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age. Faber & Gwyer, 1927. 4to, cloth; CREENY, W.F. Illustrations of Incised Slabs on the Continent of Europe from rubbings and tracings. For the Author, Norwich 1891. Folio, printed boards. (3) £80-120 | Nil |
70 | |
| 244 | ROSCOE, Thomas. Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales. 51 engravings. Tilt and Simpkin, [ca. 1836]. Maroon morocco gilt; LANDMANN, G. A Universal Gazetteer or Geographical Dictionary. [Eight folding maps.] Longman, 1840. Calf. (2) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 245 | McCLINTOCK, F.L. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions. With maps and illustrations. John Murray, 1859. Cloth, recased, folding map in pocket at end; NANSEN, Fridtjof. Farthest North. Newnes, 1898. 2 vols, cloth gilt; and 4 others on polar exploration. (7) £150-250 | Nil |
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| 246 | KELLER, Franz. The Amazon and Madeira Rivers, with sixty-eight illustrations on wood. Chapman and Hall, 1874. 4to, cloth gilt; BATES, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. John Murray, 1864. Second edn, cloth gilt, recased. HOEHNE, F.C. Album de Orchidaceas Brasileiras. Sao Paolo, 1930. Oblong 4to, pictorial boards; SLACK, Henry J. Marvels of Pond-Life. Groombridge, 1861. Cloth; and 3 others. (7) £100-150 | Nil |
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| 247 | REYNOLDS, William. Voyage to the Southern Oceans. Letters…from the U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-1842. Naval Institute, Annapolis, 1988. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 16 others, travel. (Box) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 248 | MONTORGUEIL, G. Les Trois Couleurs: France, son Histoire. Colour illustrations. Charavay, Martin, Paris, [ca. 1880]. 4to, decorated cloth; SPIES, Paul, et al. The Canals of Amsterdam. SDU, The Hague, 1993. 4to, boards; and 10 others, European history and travel. (12) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 249 | RUTTER, Owen. If Crab No Walk: a traveller in the West Indies. Hutchinson, 1933. Cloth; REVILL, W. Chaco Chapters. Hodder & Stoughton, 1947. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 18 others, America and West Indies. (Box) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 250 | STARK, Freya. The Lycian Shore. John Murray, 1956. Cloth, dust-wrapper; LEVI, Peter. The Hill of Kronos. Collins, 1980. Boards, dust-wrapper, postcard from author inserted; FORMILLI, C. The Castles of Italy. A. & C. Black, 1933. Cloth; and 17 others, most on Italy, Greece and Turkey. (Box) £40-60 | Nil |
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| 251 | FILIPPI, F. de, ed. An Account of Tibet: the travels of Ippolito Desideri. Routledge, 1937. Cloth; GORER, Geoffrey. Himalayan Village: an account of the Lepchas of Sikkim. Michael Joseph, 1938. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 15 others on China and Tibet. (Box) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 252 | MARCO POLO. The Most Nobel and Famous Travels of Marco Polo, ed. N.M. Penzer. Argonaut Press, 1929. One of 1050 numbered copies. Quarter vellum; FURRER-HAIMENDORF, Christoph. The Naked Nagas: Head-Hunters of Assam. Thacker, Spink, Calcutta, 1946. Cloth; and 11 others, central Asia and Far East. (Box) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 253 | DEVONSHIRE, Henriette. Rambles in Cairo. Schindler, Cairo, 1931. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 12 others on (mostly north) Africa. (13) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 254 | d'ORLEANS, Prince Henri. Du Tonkin aux Indes. Illustrations de G. Vuillier, cartes et appendice geographique. Calmann Levy, Paris, 1898. 4to, contemporary quarter morocco gilt; WINKLES, B. French Cathedrals. [Steel engravings.] Tilt, 1837. 4to, new half morocco. (2) £60-100 | Nil |
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| 255 | LANGALLERY, Marquis de. Memoires. Daniel Aillaud, Hague, 1743. 12mo, contemporary panelled calf; LA MOTTE, Houdart de. L'Iliade, poeme avec discourse sur Homere. Dupuis, Paris, 1714. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt; and 3 others, eighteenth century French. (5) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 256 | BOSSUET, J.B. An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholic Church in Matters of Controversie. Henry Hill, 1686. 4to, contemporary calf, worn; PARKER. Bishop Parker's History of his own Time. Charles Rivington, 1727. Contemporary sprinkled calf. (2) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 257 | BEHN, Aphra. All the Histories and Novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn, entire in one volume. Fifth Edition. R. Wellington, 1705. Old calf, rebacked, some marginal tears and repairs. £300-500 | Nil |
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| 258 | MILTON, John. Paradis Perdu, traduit par Jacques Delille. Giguet et Michaud, Paris, 1805. 3 vols 12mo, contemporary calf, chipped; and 10 others, French. (13) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 259 | CARACCIOLI, Charles. The Antiquities of Arundel; The Peculiar Privilege of its Castle and Lordship…by the Master of the Grammar-School. For the author, 1766. Contemporary calf; PARKYNS, G.J. Monastic and Baronial Remains, with other interesting fragments of antiquity. [100 sepia aquatint plates.] Longman, 1816. 2 vols in one, contemporary diced calf, rebacked; CHURCHYARD, Thomas, ed. G. Chalmers. Churchyard's Chips concerning Scotland. Longman, 1817. Half calf. (3) £250-350 | Nil |
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| 260 | TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS. The Book of the Martyrs of Tolpuddle. TUC, 1934. 4to, half leather; DOWNES, Kerry. Sir John Vanbrugh. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 31 others, miscellaneous biography and history. (33) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 261 | STIRLING-MAXWELL, William. Don John of Austria. Longmans, 1883. 2 vols, cloth; BLUNT, W. The Dream King: Ludwig II of Bavaria. Hamish Hamilton, 1970. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; and 26 others, biographies of European royalty and aristocracy. (29) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 262 | COLVILLE, Mrs Arthur. Duchess Sarah being the social history of the times of Sarah Jennings Duchess of Marlborough. Longmans, 1904. Cloth; and 28 others, biographies, letters &c of British royalty and aristocracy. (29) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 263 | CREIGHTON, Mandell. Queen Elizabeth. Boussod, Valadon & Cie, 1896. 4to, quarter roan; and 17 others, royalty &c. (18) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 264 | FRANKLYN, Julian. Shield and Crest. MacGibbon & Kee, 1970. Buckram, dust-wrapper; and 30 others on heraldry. (2 boxes) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 265 | BRYDSON, Thomas. A Summary View of Heraldry in reference to the usages of Chivalry. Mundell, Edinburgh, 1795. Contemporary half calf; and 3 others, heraldry. (4) £60-100 | Nil |
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| 266 | GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Allen Lane, 1994. 3 vols boxed. Boards, dust-wrappers; and 12 others, early civilisations. (15) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 267 | GAUTIER, Leon. Chivalry. Routledge, 1891. Illustrated boards; THIERRY, Augustin. History of the Conquest of England by the Normans. David Bogue, 1847. 2 vols, cloth; and 25 others, Middle Ages. (28) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 268 | COLVIN, H.M. The History of the King's Works. HMSO, 1963. 2 vols and boxed plans, boards, dust-wrappers; LACROIX, P. Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance. Bickers, nd. Cloth gilt. (4) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 269 | KLINKENBORG, Verlyn, ed. The Drake Manuscript. Deutsch, 1996. Boards, dust-wrapper; HANCOX, Joy. The Byrom Collection. Jonathan Cape, 1992. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 23 others, Tudor period. (25) £50-100 | Nil |
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GAIRDNER, James. The Paston Letters. Edward Arber, 1872. 3 vols, full vellum; WISE, D. Diary of William Tayler, Footman 1837. St Marylebone Society, 1962; and 6 others, reproduced sources (10) £50-80 |
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