Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/741
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SIZES MIXED TS First Day 118 Burton (W.) The Description of Leicester Shire, engraved title, map, cut into at foot, and portrait, old red morocco gilt, g. e. [1622 |—Throsby (J.) History and Antiquities of the Ancient Town of Leicester, portrait, plans and plates, half calf, Levester, lor the Author, 1791 sm. folio and 4to. (2) 119 Bury (Mrs. Edward) A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, 51 coloured plates engraved by R. Havell, half morocco, gq. e. folio. 1834 120 Buruer (S.) Huprpras, the First Part, with imprimatur, Nov. 11, 1562, and with the list of errata at foot of the last page, J. G. for Richard Marriot, 1663; The Second Part, with wmprimatur Nov. 5th; 1663; and with errata on last page, T. RB: for John Martyn and James Allestry, 1664; The Third Part, with errata on separate leaf at end, Sumon Muller, 1678; 3 vol. all genuine FIRST EDITIONS, at the beginning and end of vol. I and II are some MS. notes, and in the text additional lines and variants occur, all written in an old hand, lower corner margin of E2 (vol. IL) torn off, and corner margins of the trtle to vol. III renewed, sheepskin, enclosed in pull-off leather cases; from the | Vernon collection sm. 800.” 1663-78 121 ° Byron (Lord) Poems on his Domestic Circumstances, 1816; and others, in 1 vol. calf; The Eaton Chronicles; or, The Salt-Box, [edited by W. Gifford], cloth, [1789|]—arrer (R.) On the Eaves of the World, 2 vol. map and plates, original cloth, 191° ; and others 8vo. (13) 122 Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra. Mysteries of State and Government, frontispiece, calf, rubbed, 1691—Buckingham (J. Sheffield, Duke of) Works, portrait, calf, 1723; and others folio and 4to. (9) 123 Camden (W.) Britannia; enlarged by R. Gough, 3 vol. portrait, maps and plates, calf fol, 1789 124 Cameron (Commander V. L.) Across Africa, 2 vol. plates and facsimiles, 1877—Du Chaillu (P. B.) Equatorial Africa, map, and ulustrations, 1861, both half calf—Andersson (C. J.) The Okavango River, plates, calf gilt, 1861; and others 8vo. (8) 125 . Campbell (Dr. John) Lives of the British Admirals, 8 vol. portraits, russia gilt 8vo. 1812-7 126 Campbell (Rev. John) Travels in South Africa, 2 vol. map and | coloured plates, half calf, 1822—Alexander (J. EK.) Narrative of a Voyage of Observation among the Colonies of Western Africa, ete., 2 vol. map and plates, original cloth, 1837; and
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