Sales catalogue 318: Ellis

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/33/5
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 318: Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    131 132 133 134 jel oo re 136 Old and Rare Books af WALTON (Izaak), and Charles Cotton, The Complete Angler: or, Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse on River, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In Two Parts. ‘To which are now prefixed, the Lives of the Authors ...and notes. [By Sir John Hawkins]. London, 1760. 8vo, HAWKIN’S First Epition, frontispiece, portrait, 14 plates by Wale and Ryland, and numerous cuts, half calf gilt, top gilt, £4 15s. [WHATELY (Thomas)], Observations on Modern Garden- ing, illustrated by Descriptions. London, Printed for T. Payne, 1771. 8vo, old calf, 18s. [WHEELWRIGHT (H. W.)], Ten Years in Sweden, being a description of the Landscape, Climate, Domestic Life, Forests, Mines, Agriculture, Field Sports, and Fauna of Scandinavia. By ‘*“ An Old Bushman.” London, 1865. Thick 8vo, cloth, 12s. 6d. WILLUGHBY (Francis). Ornithology, in Three Books. Wherein all the Birds hitherto known, being reduced into a Method sutable to their Natures, are accurately des- cribed. Translated into English. To which are added Three Considerable Discourses, I. Of the Art of Fowling. II. Of the Ordering of Singing Birds. III. Of Falconry. By John Ray. London. Printed by A. C. for John Martyn. 1678. Folio, 78 engravings containing several hundred figures of birds, and 2 plates of Bird Nets, calf, with the ARMS of THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF CANTERBURY in gilt on sides, £4 10s. WILSON (Sir Samuel), Salmon at the Antipodes, being an account of the Suecessful Introduction of Salmon and Trout into Australian Waters. London, 1879. Svo, with folding map and photographic frontispiece, cloth, 5s. WODARCH ([Charles]), Introduction to the Study of Conchology : describing the Orders, Genera, and Species of Shells. Third Edition, with considerable Additions and Alterations, by J. Mawe. London 1825. 8vo, with with 7% coloured plates, original boards, uncut, 7s, 6d,
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