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Africa.- Russell (Henry) The Ruin of the Soudan, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates with tissue guards, 3 folding maps (2 contained in r...

Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, 2 engraved portraits, 2 maps (one printed in red ...

America.- Slavery.- Taylor (John Granville) The United States and Cuba: Eight Years of Change and Travel, half-title, corrections inserted by hand...

Atlantic.- Boyson (V. F) The Falkland Islands, first edition, frontispiece and 35 plates, folding map at rear, bookplate to pastedown, foxing to f...

Australia.- Roth (Walter E.) Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines, 24 lithographed plates (4 colour), 1 folding...

Europe.- Holcroft (Thomas) Travels from Hamburgh, through Westphalia, Holland, and the Netherlands to Paris, abridged by John Fulton, occasional s...

Middle East.- O'Connor (Frederick, Lt.-Col. Sir ) On the Frontier and Beyond, first edition, frontispiece, plates, map, ownership stamp to end pap...

Middle East.- Richardson (Robert) Travels along the Mediterranean, and Parts Adjacent ... extending as far as the Second Cataract of the Nile, Jer...

NO RESERVE Mountaineering.- Shipton (Eric) Nanda Devi, illustrations by Bip Pares, 1936 § Younghusband (Sir Francis) The Epic of Mount Everest, re...

Persia.- Jones (Sir William) A Grammar of the Persian Language, marginal pencil note (R4), advertisement at end, occasional faint spotting, modern...

Persia.- Malcolm (Col. Sir John) The History of Persia..., 2 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles but with folding engraved map and 22 engrave...

Russia.- Oliphant (Laurence) The Russian shores of the Black Sea..., first edition, half-title, frontispiece and two maps, one folding, short tear...

NO RESERVE Russia.- Turgenev (Ivan Sergeyevich) Russian Life in the Interior or the Experiences of a Sportsman, edited by James D.Meiklejohn, firs...

South America.- Venezuela.- Hackett (James) Narrative of the Expedition which Sailed from England in 1817, to join the South American Patriots, fi...

Britain.- Speight (Harry) The Craven and North-West Yorkshire Highlands, 1892; Lower Wharfedale, 1902; Upper Wharfedale, 1900; Romantic Richmondsh...

NO RESERVE Isle of Wight.- Mogridge (George) Wanderings in the Isle of Wight, engraved folding map, wood-engraved vignettes, occasional spotting a...

Nottinghamshire.- Thoroton (Robert) The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, first edition, title in red & black, 8pp. engraved coats-of-arms at end, f...

Scotland.- Defoe (Daniel) The History of the Union between England and Scotland, engraved portrait frontispiece, without the 95pp introduction fou...

NO RESERVE Scotland.- Dundee.- Dundee Register and Directory, containing lists of the public bodies, companies and shipping...with a roll of the p...

NO RESERVE Wales.- Davies (Hugh) Welsh Botanology, 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved plate, errata leaf, later calf-backed boards, gilt, uncut...

Diet.- [Robinson (Nicholas)] A Treatise on the Virtues and Efficacy of a Crust of Bread, Eat early in a Morning Fasting, third edition, half-title...

NO RESERVE Hunting.- [Barrow (Albert Stewart)], "Sabretache". Shires and Provinces [&] More Shires and Provinces, together 2 vol., mounted colour ...

NO RESERVE Sport.- British Sports and Sportsmen: Hunting; Modern Flat-Racing, Steeplechasing, Point-to-Point Racing, Coursing and Greyhound Racing...

Agriculture.- Walton (William) The Alpaca. Its Naturalization in the British Isles ..., first edition, wood engraved frontispiece, additional vign...

NO RESERVE Birds.- Jardine (Sir William) The Naturalist's Library, vol.XV: Ornithology. The Natural History of Humming-Birds, vol.2 only (of 2), e...

Birds.- Swainson (Charles) Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary ink ownership signature to front ...

NO RESERVE Botany.- Darwin (Charles) I Movimenti e le abitudini delle piante ramplicanti, Turin, Unione Tipografico-Editrice, 1878 bound with Darw...

Botany.- Marnock (Robert, editor) The Floricultural Magazine, and Miscellany of Gardening, vol.1, 3 & 4 only (of 6), hand-coloured engraved additi...

NO RESERVE Buffon (G.L.M.L., Comte de) Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, 19 vol. including 6 vol. supplement, folding engraved maps an...

Gardens.- Jekyll (Gertrude) Wood and Garden, 1899 § Jekyll (G.) & Edward Mawley. Roses for English Gardens, 1902 § Jekyll (G.) & Lawrence Weaver. ...

Gardens.- Triggs (H. Inigo) Formal Gardens in England and Scotland. Their Planning and Arrangement Architectural and Ornamental Features, with han...

NO RESERVE Insects.- [Budgen (L.M.)], "Acheta Domestica". Episodes of Insect Life, First & Second Series (of 3), first editions, wood-engraved fro...

NO RESERVE Jardine (Sir William) The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece...

NO RESERVE Trees.- Loudon (John Claudius) Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, 8 vol., second edition, numerous plates, some folding, illustration...

NO RESERVE Arsenic.- Bergman (Torbern) and Andreas Phil. Dissertatio chemica de Arsenico, first edition, light spotting and browning, unbound, yel...

NO RESERVE Darwin (Charles) The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the action of worms..., illustrations, modern ink ownership signature to fro...

Forster (Thomas) Researches about Atmospheric Phaenomena, first edition, presentation copy inscribed 'with the Author's respects' to half-title, w...

Lardner (Dionysius) & others. [Cabinet Cyclopaedia], 16 vol. from the series, engraved vignette titles, 7 vol. contemporary half dark blue calf, 9...

Medicine.- Whately (Thomas) An Improved Method of Treating Strictures in the Urethra, engraved folding plate, advertisement at end, ink-stamp of '...

Nicholson (William) The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 6 vol., numerous engraved plates, a few folding, some light brow...

Military.- Aelianus Tacticus. Sive de motionibus, ac praeceptis militaribus, ad Formandas & Transformandas Acies necessariis, woodcut printer's de...

Logic.- [Arnaud (Antoine) and Pierre Nicole.] La logique ou l'art de penser: contenant, outre les regles communes, plusiers observations nouvelles...

Binding.- Bible, Dutch.- Het Nieuwe Testament, double column, engraved pictorial title, ink signature to verso of title showing through, Amsterdam...

Broadside Papal Bull.- Innocent (XI, Pope) Sanctissimo D.N.D. Innocentio diuina prouidentia Papa XI. ac Eminentissimis, & Reuerendissimis Dominis ...

NO RESERVE Bussy (Roger de Rabutin, Comte de) Amours Des Dames illustres de Nostre Siecle, engraved additional pictorial title and 8 plates, lacki...

NO RESERVE Clément (Pierre) Nouvelles littéraires, &c. de France, number 1 only, bifolium, horizontal fold, some soiling, creased, Paris [?but Lon...

Malta.- Plague.- Campbell (Maj. Gen. Sir James) Broadside proclamation relating to the plague on the islands of Malta, 295 x 205mm., small piece m...

[Brontë (Charlotte)] "Currer Bell". Jane Eyre ou Mémoires d'une Gouvernante ... imités par Old-Nick, half-title, booksellers label, spotting, smal...

[Brontë (Charlotte)] "Currer Bell". Shirley et Agnès, 2 parts in 1 vol., first French edition, titles to each part loosely inserted, scattered fai...

NO RESERVE Heraldry.- Rietstap (J.B.) Wapenboek van den Nederlandschen Adel, 2 vol., 103 chromolithographed plates, some heightened with gold or s...

Women.- Stryienski (Casimir) Mesdames de France. Fille de Louis XV, one of 300 copies, frontispiece and plates, with an original document signed b...

NO RESERVE Wine.- Legrand (Edy, illustrator).- Nicolas. Liste des grands vins fins 1932, illustrations by Edy Legrand, original spiral-bound card ...

Bible, Latin. Single leaf from the Psalms, decorated manuscript on vellum, 2pp., double column, 43 lines, written in black, blue and red ink in a ...

Kent, Ruckinge near Romney Marsh.- I, Adam son of Henry Haman of Hope have granted and conceded by this charter to Thomas Askeman of half an acre ...

Indentures etc.- Suffolk.- Indenture, bargain and sale by Thomas Cotton of Panfield, Essex to Christopher Cox of Bury St Edmunds of land in Langha...

Burying in Woollen Affadavit.- Judith Eastbury... maketh Oath, That the Body of William Chichley... in the Parish of Edgware... was buried at the ...

Ireland, Tipperary.- "his pockett Book", manuscript accounts book, 36pp. excluding blanks, some ff. excised, original vellum, slightly creased, ye...

NO RESERVE Ramsgate.- George IV.- Copy of the letter conveying the King's gracious pleasure that the Port be called The Royal Harbour of Ramsgate,...

Beethoven (Ludwig van) & others. Music manuscript, c.124 pp manuscript scores in unknown hand, lyrics in German, ?lacking title and first few leav...

Sedgwick (Adam, geologist, Charles Darwin's tutor at Cambridge, 1785-1873) Profr. Sedgwick's objections [to George Crabbe's "Short Conclusions fro...

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