Lyell (Charles)Principles of Geology .., 1853, John Murray, ninth edition, frontis, four plates, original cloth;idem, A Manual of Elementary Geology, 1855, John Murray, fifth edition, frontis, original cloth;with eight others (10) £100 - 150
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Mantell (Gideon Algernon)A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains ..., 1850, Bohn, 4to., seventy five hand-coloured litho plates (including frontis), original cloth (spine worn) £300 - 500
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Cuvier (Baron) & Griffith (Edward)The Animal Kingdom, 1830, Whittaker Treacher, 49 plates as called for, folding table, recent cloth;Tennant (James), Catalogue of Fossils, Found in the British Isles, forming the Private Collection of James Tennant, 1858, frontis, original cloth (binding weak);Burmeister (Hermann), The Organization of Trilobites .., 1846, Ray Society, 4to., six plates (stained), original cloth-backed boards (worn);with a small quantity of others (qty) £200 - 300
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United States Geological SurveyEmmons (Samuel Franklin), Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado, (Monograph XII), Washington, 1886, 4to., numerous plates (atlas volume not present), recent quarter leather;Ferguson (Henry G,), Geology and Ore Deposits of the Manhattan District, Nevada, (Bulletin 723), 1924, plates, original wraps;Lindgren (Waldemar) et al, The Ore Deposits of New Mexico, (Professional Paper 68), 1910, 4to., maps and plates, recent cloth (retaining front wrap);with a large quantity of others on the geology and mineralogy of North America (qty) £300 - 500
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James Reynolds & SonsReynolds's Geological Atlas of Great Britain ..., 1889, James Reynolds, second edition, frontis, hand-coloured key, 33 hand-coloured maps, a.e.g., original cloth (gutta percha perished - pages loose), preserved in quarter leather solander box;Woodward (Horace B.), Stanford's Geological Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland .., 1914, Stanford, third edition, 37 colour maps, 16 plates, cloth; £80 - 120
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Geikie (Archibald)Geological Map of England and Wales .., 1897, Bartholomew, large hand-coloured folding map, linen-backed, with accompanying text booklet, original cloth covers;Murchison (R.I.), Geological Map of England and Wales .., 1858, Stanford, hand-coloured folding map, linen-backed, original cloth covers;Bacon, Bacon's New Geological Map of England and Wales .., nd., hand-coloured folding map, linen-backed, original cloth covers; £100 - 200
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Walker (J. & C.)A Geological Map of England and Wales and Part of Scotland, Showing also the Inland Navigation by Means of Rivers and Canals, with their elevation ..., n.d., large hand-coloured folding map, 1432mm x 1000mm, 36 sections, linen-backed, two part slipcase in book form £200 - 300
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Geikie (Archibald)Map Showing the Surface Geology of Ireland, nd., Bartholomew, coloured folding map, linen-backed, original cloth;with two others (3) £50 - 100
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Ruthven (John)Map of the English Lakes and Adjoining Country Geologically Coloured, 1855, John Garnett & E. Stanford, hand-coloured folding map, 562mm x 524mm, linen-backed, with accompanying descriptive text volume, original printed cloth (cloth title: Geological Map of the Lake District) £200 - 300
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Strass [Johann Freidrich]Stream of Time or Chart of Universal History, From the German of Strass, 1849, C. Smith, large hand-coloured folding chart showing development of nations, 1170mm x 720mm, linen-backed, original cloth covers £50 - 100
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Barrere (Henry) Beranger (Ch.) et alCarte Geologique de la France, 1876-1900, eight large geological maps, 1:80,000, coloured, folding, linen-backed, paper labels;Spain and Portugal, Mapa Geologico de Espana .., 1902, folding coloured geological map, linen-backed, slipcase;with a small quantity of British Ordnance Survey maps, etc. (qty) £100 - 200
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Geological Survey of England and WalesYorkshire: Sheet 38 - Marske, Hudswell etc., 1878, (some annotation); Sheet 39 - Richmond, Moulton, etc., 1879; Sheet 59 - Downholme, Bellerby etc., 1878, hand-coloured folding maps, 6 inch to mile, linen-backed, recent labels;Yorkshire Coast: Sheets 103 (NS33) - Stockton, 1889; 104 (NS34) - Guisbrough, 1884; 95 (NS44) - Robin Hoods Bay, 1881; 104 (NS35) - Whitby, 1881, 95 (NS54) - Scarborough, 1881; 95 (NS55) - Flamborough Head, 1881, folding hand-coloured geological maps, 1 inch to mile, linen-backed, Stanford labels (9) £100 - 200
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Geological Survey of England and WalesNo. XXX - Part of Cornwall, 1866, folding hand-coloured geological map, 1 inch to mile, linen-backed, cloth;No XXXIV - Swindon, etc., 1857, folding hand-coloured geological map, 1 inch to mile, linen-backed, slipcase;with a large quantity of other folding coloured geological maps, various dates, various scales (predominantly 1 inch to the mile) (qty) £200 - 400
MAPS AND ATLASES |
Oxford RiversOrdnance Survey of England and Wales, A collection of twenty-one folding maps of Oxfordshire rivers, 6 inch to the mile, second edition 1900, linen-backed, uncoloured apart from rivers, college stamp to covers (21) £50 - 100
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Cary (J.)[New Map of England and Wales], 1794, bound map, hand-coloured in outline, on 77 pages (numbered to 81), 85 page index, 3 pages of subscribers, lacks title, general map and dedication, functional binding £50 - 100
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[Cluver (Philip)]Typus Orbis Terrarum, nd. [1652 or later], hand-coloured map of the world in two hemispheres, mounted, framed and glazed £100 - 200
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Drayton (Michael)Three allegorical maps from Drayton's Poly-Olbion: Cornwall and Devon Shyre; Glocester Shyre; Ches Shyre, nd. [1613-22], hand-coloured, mounted, framed and glazed (3) £200 - 300
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S. Lewis & CoAtlas to the Topographical Dictionary of England ..., 1848, 4to., hand-coloured general map, plan of London and 43 county maps, hand-coloured in outline, some folding, original cloth (cloth worn and damp stained) £100 - 200
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AtlasThe Cosmographic Atlas of Political, Historical, Classical, Physical and Scriptural Geography and Astronomy, 1885, W. & A.K. Johnston, folio, sixty-six coloured maps and astronomical plates as called for, original cloth (cloth marked and worn in places) £100 - 200
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CartographyA collection of books on maps and map collecting (qty) £80 - 120
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Cary (John)Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys...., 1809, 4to., 47 hand-coloured maps (some roads with darker over-colour), original boards (worn, functional spine repair) £100 - 200
FOREIGN TRAVEL |
Scott (Robert F.)Scott's Last Expedition, Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott ..., 1913, Smith Elder, first edition, two volumes, folding maps and plates as called for, original cloth £100 - 150
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Psalmanaazaar (George)An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa ..., 1705, second edition corrected, folding map (torn with some loss to lower edge), fifteen plates (one folding), folding alphabet, calf (wear to spine) £100 - 200
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Waterton (Charles)Wanderings in South America, 1825, frontis, cloth;Churchill (Winston Spencer), My African Journey, 1908, Hodder & Stoughton, first edition, lacking one plate (Murchison Falls), original pictorial cloth (wear to spine);Lushington (R.F.), A Prisoner with the Turks, 1915 - 1918, 1923, cloth-backed boards;Dobson (B. Palin), History of the Bolton Artillery, 1860 - 1928, 1929, original cloth (4) £100 - 200
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Wainwright (A.)A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ... Book One, The Eastern Fells, 1955, Henry Marshall, first edition, original cloth £80 - 120
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Ponting (Herbert)A collection of eight modern monochrome prints from Ponting's photographs of Scott's last Antarctic expedition (1910-13) comprising:Basking Seals, 2001, 345mm x 472mm, silver gelatin, numbered limited edition of 49;Castle Berg in Spring, 2001, 345mm x 465mm, silver gelatin, numbered limited edition of 49;Sastrugi, 2001, 167mm x 222mm, silver gelatin, numbered limited edition of 49;In the Ice Pack: Reflections and Penguin, 2001, 167mm x 229mm, silver gelatin, numbered limited edition of 49;Ice Reflections, 1997, 300mm x 400mm, numbered limited edition of 400;together with three untitled/unnumbered images of the same expedition,each mounted, framed and glazed, the limited edition prints with certificates to rear of frames £100 - 200
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Hakewill (James)A Picturesque Tour of Italy, From Drawings Made in 1816-1817, 1820, James Murray, 4to., engraved title, 63 engraved plates as called for (some foxing), cloth (re-backed retaining original backstrip) £100 - 200
SPORT |
Walton (Izaak) & Cotton (Charles)The Complete Angler ..., 1893, Samuel Bagster, numbered Tercentenery Edition, limited to 350 copies, two volumes, plates as called for, t.e.g., original quarter vellum, dust wrappers £150 - 200
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Yorkshire County Cricket Club [1894 Yearbook]List of Officers, Rules, List of Subscribers, ... edited by Joseph Beckett Wostinholm, 1894, Sheffield, 136 pages, lacking rear free endpaper, original cloth £200 - 400
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Parker (Eric) et alShooting by Moor, Field and Shore ..., (Lonsdale Library Vol.III), 1929, deluxe numbered limited edition of 375, signed by Eric Parker and with etched frontis signed by the artist Winifred Austen, mounted plates as called for, t.e.g., uncut edges, publisher's full morocco;Geen (Philip), Days Stolen For Sport, nd., [c.1907], Werner Laurie, first edition, plates as called for, a.e.g., publisher's deluxe half green morocco gilt;Johnson (T.B.), The Shooter's Companion ..., 1823, Sherwood Jones, frontis, plates, some early annotation, half roan;with four others (7) £100 - 200
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Marquess of Cleveland's Fox HoundsOperations of the Raby Pack in the Season 1831-32, 1832, Reynell, 4to., annotation to title page, quarter roan (worn);Bathurst (Earl), The Charlton and Raby Hunts, 1938, first edition, signed by the author, original cloth (2) £80 - 120
NATURAL HISTORY |
Morris (Beverley R.)British Game Birds and Wildfowl, 1897, Nimmo, two volumes, fifth edition revised by W.B. Tegetmeier, sixty hand-coloured double-page plates, original cloth £200 - 400
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Hancock (John) - Original ArtworkA Sketch Book which is believed to have belonged to John Hancock (of the Hancock Museum), pencil sketches and watercolour sketches, including multiple illustrations of a whale caught 6th July 1858, and a Grey Seal caught 8th Oct 1858 at Warkworth, both with accompanying notes, dimensions, etc., as well as other natural history studies, small oblong folio, half roan (well worn) £300 - 500
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Nichol (Walter) & Sang (Edward)The Planters Kalendar; or the Nurseryman's & Forester's Guide .., 1812, three plates (2 hand-coloured), original boards (worn, spine cracked, binding weak, boards detached) £50 - 80
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Bewick (Thomas)Figures of British Land Birds engraved on Wood by T. Bewick. To which are added, a few Foreign Birds, with their Vulgar and Scientific Names, Vol I [all published], 1800, lacking page 134 [the 'notorious vignette' - see Roscoe #16], calf (worn, lacking part of backstrip)[an edition produced 'in compliance with the wishes of many ..friends, who were desirous of possesing good impressions of the British Birds, unaccompanied with the descriptive part ...']idem, History of British Birds, Vol II, 1804, calf (worn, upper board and prelims loose);idem, A Supplement to the History of British Birds, 1821, calf (boards detached, backstrip worn);Bewick (Thomas and John), Select Fables, 1820, ?large paper, portrait frontis, calf (re-backed retaining original backstrip) £200 - 400
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Wingfield (W.) & Johnson (G.W.)The Poultry Book; comprising the Characteristics, Management, Breeding and Medical Treatment of Poultry ..., 1853, Orr & Co.,, chromolitho title and twenty-one chromlitho plates after Harrison Weir (as called for - see Norris, #208), some foxing, half calf. £200 - 300
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MycologyA large and comprehensive collection of books on Fungi, being the working library of the late Dr Juliet C. Frankland, a world authority on the subject (qty) £300 - 500
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[Norton (E.H.)]Brazilian Flowers, drawn from Nature in the Years 1880-1882 in the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro ..., 1893, Coombe Croft, large folio, index leaf, eighteen (of 50) chromolitho plates, several heightened with gum arabic, some foxing, remnant wraps, sold not subject to return, £100 - 200
MISCELLANEOUS |
Wynter (John)An Essay on Chronical Diseases, the Methods of Cure; And herein, more fully, Of the Medicinal Waters of Bath and Bristol, Their Several Virtues and Differences, 1728, Innys and Leake, second edition, xvi, 122, [6], pages [bound with]idem, Of Bathing in the Hot-Baths at Bathe, Chiefly with Regard to the Palsie, and some Diseases in Women, 1728, Innys and Leake, [2], 95 pages. two plates, contemporary calf boards (re-backed) £100 - 200
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Taylor (Jeremy)Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience ..., 1660, Richard Royston, two volumes bound as one, folio in sixes, engraved title, portrait frontis, red ruled title pages, errata leaf, contemporary calf (later spine label) £200 - 300
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Hooker (Richard)The Works of Mr Richard Hooker .. in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity ..., 1662, 4to., first complete edition, engraved title (1661), portrait frontis, calf (re-backed) £100 - 200
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TrialsA large volume of 18th century trials, comprising;The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy ..., 1776;The Trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng, at a Court Martial ..., 1757;The Trial of George Gordon ... for High Treason, 1781;The Trial of George Gordon ... (Second Part), 1781;....the Trial of the Indictment, the King on the Prosecution of William Jones .., against Rev William Davies Shipley for a Libel .., nd.,The Trial of John Donellan for the Wilful Murder of Sir Theodosius Edward Allesley Boughton, 1781;.... an Action brought by Anthony Fabrigas against Lt. Gen. John Mostyn, Govn. of Minorca ..., for False Imprisonment and Banishment .., 1773;The Trial of Jane Butterfield for the Wilful Murder of William Scawen ..., 1775;The Trial of William, Lord Byron .., for the Murder of Willliam Chaworth ..., 1765;The Trial of John Horne ..., for a libel, 1777;various publishers, folio, half calf (worn, boards detached) £300 - 500
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TrialsThe Whole Proceedings on the Trial of an Information ... against John Stockdale for a Libel on the House of Commons ...., taken .. by Joseph Gurney, to which is subjoined an Argument in support of the Rights of Juries, 1790, John Stockdale, 12, 228 pages, bound without the advert leaves, contemporary tree calf;Report of the Trial of an action brought by Thomas Waller Watson against Thomas Carr ... for an Assault and False Imprisonment ...., 1823, Newcastle, frontis, disbound (2) £100 - 200
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Fortescue [John]A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of England ..., 1599, Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, translated by Robert Mulcaster, limp vellum (sprung) £300 - 500
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Anon. [John Rastell]An Exposition of Certaine Difficult and Obscure Wordes, and Termes of the Lawes of this Realme ..., 1579, Richarde Tottell, small hole in H5, lacking 2D1 (leaf 209), final leaf misnumbered 196 (for 211), pages creased, binding weak, contemporary calf (worn) [note, Cambridge copy has 211 leaves, the final one misnumbered, other examples give 224 leaves without mentioning a misnumbering];Anon., Les Termes de la Ley, or Certaine difficult and obscure Words and Terms of the Common Laws and Statues .., 1671, Sawbridge et al, sheep (worn);Anon., Rules, Orders and Notices, in the Court of King's Bench ..., 1747, calf (worn, joints cracked) (3) £100 - 200
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Foss (Edward)The Judges of England ..., 1848-64, nine volumes, calf (worn);Campbell (John, Lord), The Lives of Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, 1846-7, seven volumes, half calf;idem, The Lives of the Chief Justices of England ..., 1849-57, three volumes, half calf (19) £100 - 200
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North (Roger)Examen: or, An Enquiry into the Credit and Veracity of a Pretended Complete History ..., 1740, Fletcher Gyles, 4to., portrait frontis, calf (restoration to spine, joint cracking);idem, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North, Baron of Guildford ..., 1742, 4to., portrait frontis, calf (re-backed, retaining original backstrip);Monk (James Henry), The Life of Richard Bentley, D.D., ..., 1830, 4to., portrait frontis, half calf (3) £100 - 200
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Martin (William)A Short Outline of the Philosopher's Life ..., 1833;idem, The Defeat of Learned Humbugs and the Downfall ..., 1832;idem, The Downfall of all False Writers ... 1832;with further tracts by Martin and others, bound as one in 20th century cloth £100 - 200
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Prescott (William H.)History of the Conquest of Mexico .., 1843, eight volumes, t.e.g., half morocco by Riviere;Bryce (James), The American Commonwealth, 1893, two volumes, calf by Riviere;Sismondi (J.C.L. Simonde de), Histoire des Republiques Italiennes du Moyen Age, 1840, ten volumes, calf gilt by Nutt (20) £100 - 200
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Burnet (Gilbert)A Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England ..., 1677, Chiswel, calf (well worn, some worming);Burnett [Gilbert], Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time ..., 1823, Clarendon Press, six volumes, calf (7) £100 - 200
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