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India.- Execution of the assassin Sher Ali.- Bombay Gazette. Extra edition. Monday March 18, 1872...Execution of Shere Ali, handbill, folds, little spotting, some creasing, lightly...

Lot 243

08/05/2025

India.- Execution of the assassin Sher Ali.- Bombay Gazette Extra edition. Monday March 18, 1872...Execution of Shere Ali, handbill, Bombay, 1872.

£150 - £200

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Buffon (G.L.M.L., Comte de) A Natural History ... containing the History and Theory of the Earth ..., 2 vol., translated by William Smellie, engraved portrait frontispieces, 52 han...

Lot 92

08/05/2025

Buffon (G.L.M.L., Comte de) A Natural History ... containing the History and Theory of the Earth ..., 2 vol., translated by William Smellie, Thomas Kelly, 1849.

£200 - £300

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Asia.- Landor (A. Henry Savage) In the Forbidden Land, first 1 vol. edition, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, many full-page, folding map, short tear at gutter with ta...

Lot 240

08/05/2025

Asia.- Landor (A. Henry Savage) In the Forbidden Land, first 1 vol. edition, 1899; and others similar, (6)

£150 - £200

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Royal Binding.- Almanack.- Ladies' Diary (The): or Woman's Almanack for the Year 1760, bound with, The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository § Wing (Tychho) [Graec...

Lot 63

08/05/2025

Royal Binding.- Almanack.- Ladies' Diary (The): or Woman's Almanack for the Year 1760, for the Company of Stationers, 1760, together 14 almanacks bound as 1, contemporary red morocco with the cypher of King George II.

£300 - £400

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Bindings.- Book of Common-Prayer (The) by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1705 bound before, The Holy Bible, by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb...

Lot 58

08/05/2025

Bindings.- Book of Common-Prayer (The), by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1705; and 2 others (3)

£300 - £400

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Queen Anne.- Album of 26 engraved portraits of Queen Anne, twenty-five 18th and 19th century line and mezzotint portraits, including examples by or after Smith, Kneller, Phili...

Lot 69

08/05/2025

Queen Anne.- Album of 26 engraved portraits of Queen Anne, c.1710-50.

£600 - £800

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Manuscript receipts.- Culpeper (Nicholas) Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or The London dispensatory, 2 parts in 1, 'sixth edition', double column, titles within woodcut typographic bor...

Lot 235

08/05/2025

Manuscript receipts.- Culpeper (Nicholas) Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or The London dispensatory, 'sixth edition', Printed by Peter Cole, 1659.

£150 - £200

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A.L. Rowse's copy.- O'Connor (Flannery) Mystery and Manners, first edition, A.L. Rouse's copy with his pencil annotations, photocopy of an article on O'Connor with Rouse's annotati...

Lot 217

08/05/2025

A.L. Rowse's copy.- O'Connor (Flannery) Mystery and Manners, first edition, Rouse's copy with his annotations, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.

£150 - £200

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Lot 201

08/05/2025

Dickens (Charles) Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People, 2 vol., first edition, John Macrone, 1836.

£1,500 - £2,000

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Shakespeare Head Press.- Boccaccio (Giovanni) Decameron, The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation, 2 vol., number 153 of 325 copies on handmade paper, printed in b...

Lot 223

08/05/2025

Shakespeare Head Press.- Boccaccio (Giovanni) 2 vol., one of 325 on handmade paper, original full blue morocco, Oxford, 1934-35

£200 - £300

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Birds.- Morris (Rev. F.O.) A History of British Birds, 8 vol., 358 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, tissue-guards, bookplate of Adrian Bullock, vol. 1 with ink gift inscription ...

Lot 232

08/05/2025

Birds.- Morris (Rev. F.O.) A History of British Birds, 8 vol., 358 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, Groombridge and Sons, [?1888].

£300 - £400

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Iceland.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, lithograph frontispieces, 6 engraved or lithograph plate...

Lot 16

08/05/2025

Iceland.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland, 2 vol., first edition, 1875.

£150 - £200

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Flinders family, of Lincolnshire.- ?Flinders (Matthew, surgeon, 1750-1802, father of Matthew Flinders, naval officer and hydrographer of the coast of Australia, 1774-1814).- Lincol...

Lot 162

08/05/2025

Flinders family.- ?Flinders (Matthew, surgeon, father of Matthew Flinders, hydrographer of the coast of Australia).- Lincolnshire Bills, manuscript bills, rentals, expenses account book, original marbled wrappers, dated in text 1780.

£100 - £150

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Missions.- Koelle (Rev. S.W.) Polyglotta Africana; or, A Comparative Vocabulary of Nearly Three Hundred Words and Phrases, in more than one hundred distinct African languages, larg...

Lot 124

08/05/2025

Missions.- Koelle (Rev. S.W.) Polyglotta Africana; or, A Comparative Vocabulary of Nearly Three Hundred Words and Phrases, Church Missionary House, 1854; and a small group of others (c.15)

£100 - £150

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Merrymount Press.- Altar Book (The): Containing the order for the celebration of the Eucharist according to the use of the American Church, one of 350 copies, printed in red and bl...

Lot 125

08/05/2025

Merrymount Press.- Altar Book (The): Containing the order for the celebration of the Eucharist according to the use of the American Church, one of 350 copies, Boston, Merrymount Press, 1896

£200 - £300

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Catholic Church.- Councils.- Pithou (Pierre) Synodus parisiensis de imaginibus anno Christi DCCCXXIV, woodcut printer's device to title, some browning, initial c.30ff. working loos...

Lot 109

08/05/2025

Catholic Church.- Councils.- Pithou (Pierre) Synodvs parisiensis de imaginibvs anno Christi DCCCXXIV, Frankfurt, Haeredes Andreae Wecheli, Claudius Manrius & Joannes Aubrius, 1596

£150 - £200

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Italy.- Venice.- Sabellicus (Marcus Antonius Coccius) Le Historie Vinitiane, first edition in Italian, woodcut printer's device to title and final f. verso, guide-spaces for initia...

Lot 122

08/05/2025

Italy.- Venice.- Sabellicus (Marcus Antonius Coccius) Le Historie Vinitiane, first edition in Italian, Venice, Curtio Troiano di Navò, 1544; and another similar (2)

£200 - £300

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Bentivoglio (Cardinal Guido) Historia della Guerra di Fiandra, 3 parts in 1, half-title and divisional titles, woodcut devices to titles, small worm-trail lower corner O4-Aa4 with ...

Lot 113

08/05/2025

Bentivoglio (Cardinal Guido) Historia della Guerra di Fiandra, Venice, Michele Miloco, 1668; and 3 others (4)

£100 - £150

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Group of 3 clothed figurines illustrating part of the wine-making process, n.d.; together with 2 sets of wine-making clogs and another figurine, v.s. (6)

Lot 140

08/05/2025

Group of 3 clothed figurines illustrating part of the wine-making process, n.d.; and 3 others (6)

£60 - £80

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Bible commentaries.- Psalms.- Bugenhagen (Johann) In librum Psalmorum interpretatio, title within figurative woodcut border by Hans Holbein, ink inscription to title, and elsewhere...

Lot 99

08/05/2025

Bible commentaries.- Psalms.- Bugenhagen (Johann) In librum Psalmorum interpretatio, Basel, Adam Petri, 1524; and 6 others (7)

£200 - £300

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Oceania.- Keate (George) An Account of the Pelew Islands, second edition, stipple-engraved frontispiece, 25 engraved plates (one folding), one folding engraved map, frontispiece st...

Lot 22

08/05/2025

Oceania.- Keate (George) An Account of the Pelew Islands, second edition, for Captain Wilson; and sold by G. Nicol, 1788.

£150 - £200

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Diet.- Armstrong (John) The Art of preserving health: a poem, half-title (bound after title), title with engraved vignette, hole to inner gutter of final f. (no loss of text), occa...

Lot 128

08/05/2025

Diet.- Armstrong (John) The Art of preserving health: a poem, Printed for T. Davies, 1774; and 2 others related, including a first edition of Nisbet on diet, 1801 (3)

£100 - £150

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[Audiger (Nicolas)] La Maison regleé, et l'art de diriger la maison d'un grand Seigneur, second French edition, 6 folding engraved table plans, woodcut head- and tail-p...

Lot 129

08/05/2025

[Audiger (Nicolas)] La Maison regleé, et l'art de diriger la maison d'un grand Seigneur, second edition, Paris, Nicolas le Gras, 1700; and 6 others, 18th century French Cookery & Agriculture (7)

£300 - £400

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West Indies.- Raynal (G.T.F., Abbé) A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, 5 vol., second edition, ...

Lot 28

08/05/2025

West Indies.- Raynal (G.T.F., Abbé) A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, 5 vol., second edition, translated by J. Justamond, for T. Cadell, 1776; and another on the West Indies (6)

£400 - £600

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