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Africa.- Alexander (Capt. James Edward) Narrative of a Voyage of Observation among the Colonies of Western Africa, 2 vol., first edition, half-tit...

NO RESERVE Africa.- Bruce (James) Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, 6 vol. (includi...

*** Please note the description of this lot has changed. Atlas.- Le Sage (A.) Genealogical, Chronological, Historical, and Geographical Atlas, 12 ...

Central Asia.- Masson (Charles) Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, The Punjab, & Kalat, 4 vol., 6 tinted lithographed plat...

NO RESERVE China.- Balfour (Frederic H.) Waifs and Strays from the Far East, first edition, original pictorial cloth, slightly stained and rubbed,...

Egypt.- Hieroglyphics.- Clayton (Robert, Bishop of Clogher) A journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai, and back again...in company with some missi...

Greece.- Grote (George) A History of Greece, 8 vol. in 9, frontispiece, faint foxing to first and last few leaves, 9 linen backed maps (8 folding)...

Binding.- Greece.- Wordsworth (Christopher) Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive and Historical, new edition, additional engraved title, frontispiece, a...

India.- Neve (Arthur) Tourist's Guide to Kashmir, Ladakh, Skardo, Etc., 4 folding lithographed maps and plans, publisher's slip 'special notes for...

NO RESERVE Mountaineering.- Ruttledge (Hugh) Everest 1933, first edition, George Lowe's copy, with his bookplate, frontispiece, plates, 4 maps, of...

NO RESERVE World.- Montagu (Irving) Wonderings of a War Artist, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, plates, spotting, original picto...

Britain.- Falle (Rev. Philip) An Account of the Island of Jersey, ex-library with occasional ink-stamps, abrasion mark to front free endpaper wher...

NO RESERVE Britain.- Lewis (Samuel) A Topographical Dictionary of England, 4 vol., fifth edition, 1844; A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 2 vo...

Cornwall.- An Act for enabling Their Majesties to make grants, leases and copies of offices, lands, and hereditaments, parcel of their dutchy of C...

NO RESERVE Devon.- Jenkins (Alexander) The History and Description of the City of Exeter and its Environs, first edition, extra illustrated, engra...

England.- Thoyras (Rapin de) The History of England, 2 vol., second edition, translated by N. Tindal, engraved portrait frontispieces, one trimmed...

London.- Report from the Select Committee on Thames Embankment, original wrappers bound in at front, 2 folding plans, first torn and repaired with...

London.- Dugdale (Sir William) The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, 3 parts in 1, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 14 en...

Scotland.- [Burt (Edward)] Letters from A Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London, 2 vol., first edition, engraved plan frontis...

Big Game.- Millais (John Guille) British Deer and their Horns, first edition, frontispiece, 10 plates, illustrations, many full-page, new endpaper...

Bindings.- Surtees (Robert Smith) [Sporting Novels], 8 vol., hand-coloured frontispieces and plates, illustrations, scattered spotting, occasional...

NO RESERVE Sport.- British Sports and Sportsmen: Past and Present, 2 vol., limited edition of 1000, c.1912; British Sports and Sportsmen: Hunting...

NO RESERVE Winter sports.- Lunn (Arnold) A History of Ski-ing, first edition, frontispiece, half-title, 24 plates, illustrations, ex-library with ...

NO RESERVE Birds.- Fulton (Robert) The Illustrated Book of Pigeons with Standards for Judging, chromolithograph frontispiece and 49 plates, tissue...

NO RESERVE Birds.- Meinertzhagen (Colonel R.) Nicoll's Birds of Egypt, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, portrait frontispiece, 3 folding colour...

Birds.- Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of British Surface Feeding Ducks, number 530 of 600 large paper copies, additional vignette titl...

Birds.- Millais (John Guille) The Natural History of British Game Birds, one of 550 copies, colour frontispiece, plates after Thorburn or Millais,...

Birds.- Millais (John Guille) British Diving Ducks, 2 vol., number 74 of 450 copies, half-titles, colour frontispieces, 72 plates, tissue-guards, ...

NO RESERVE Birds.- Swaysland (W.) Familiar Wild Birds, 4 vol., half-titles, 160 chromolithograph plates, one detached and loosely inserted, most w...

Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 5 vol., including supplement, number 74 of 105 copies, half-titles, 82 colour plates, tissue-guards, ...

Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) A Naturalist's Sketch Book, number 24 of 105 copies, half-title, 60 mounted plates, tissue-guards, occasional faint s...

Birds.- Thorburn (Archibald) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, number 87 of 155 copies, half-title, 30 mounted colour plates,...

NO RESERVE Birds.- Wright (Lewis) The New Book of Poultry, 30 colour and 16 black & white plates, numerous illustrations, errata slip, lacking fro...

Birds.- Yarrell (William) A History of British Birds, 3 vol., third edition, half-titles, wood engraved illustrations, one or two marginal pencil ...

Botany.- [Darwin (Robert W.)] Principia Botanica: Or, a Concise and Easy Introduction to the Sexual Botany of Linnæus, third edition, ink signatur...

Botany.- Herbarium.- [Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden.] Album of pressed ferns, flowers etc., c.25 ff. of pressed flowers and illustrations, incl...

Botany.- Salmon (William) Botanologia: The English Herbal, first edition, additional engraved title, title in red and black, numerous woodcut illu...

Gardening.- Miller (Philip) The Gardeners Dictionary, 3 vol. inc. supplement, vol. 1 & supplement first editions, vol. 2 second edition, engraved ...

NO RESERVE Horses, Dogs etc.- Brooke (Brig. Geoffrey) Horsemanship: The Way of a Man with a Horse, Lonsdale Library vol.I, [c.1930] § Smith (A.Cr...

Thorburn (Archibald) British Mammals, 2 vol., number 97 of 155 copies, half-titles, 50 colour plates, tissue-guards, illustrations, spotting to en...

NO RESERVE Canals.- Havestadt (Christian) Festschrift zur einweihung des Teltowkanals, compliments slip from 'Royal Commission on Canals and Water...

Computing and mechanisation.- Diebold (John) Automation. The Advent of the Automatic Factory, first edition, ink ownership inscription and stamp t...

Gemoloy.- Haüy (René-Just) Traité des Caractères Physiques des Pierres Précieuses, first edition, half-title, 3 folding engraved plates at end, br...

Dublin-printed pharmacopoeia.- Royal College of Physicians of London. Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, inter-leaved, with occ...

NO RESERVE Medicine.- Brookes (Richard) The General Practice of Physic, 2 vol., fourth edition, ink ownership inscription to titles, previous owne...

NO RESERVE Medicine.- Marsh (Dr. J. C. Lory) Lectures on Nursing: short notes addressed to nurses on what to do and what to avoid ..., second edit...

Medicine.- Taylor (Charles Bell) Verbatim Report of a Speech ... on the second reading of a Bill for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts of...

Pamphlets.- Gout.- Religion.- Fashion.- Cadogan (William) A Dissertation on the Gout, and all Chronic Diseases ..., eighth edition, 1771 bound wi...

NO RESERVE Meteorology.- Espy (James P.) Theory of Rain, Hail, and Snow, Water-spouts, Land-Spouts, Variable Winds, and Barometric Fluctuations, 2...

NO RESERVE Wyld (Samuel) The Practical Surveyor, or the Art of Land-Measuring made easy, fifth edition, folding engraved frontispiece and 6 foldin...

Thomas, Hibernicus. Flores omnium pene doctorum, qui tum in theologia, tum in philosophia hactenus claruerunt, title with woodcut printer's device...

Reformation.- Verstegan (Richard) Theatre des Cruautez des Heretiques de nostre temps, first French edition, 2 parts in 1, engraved pictorial titl...

Petrarca (Francesco) Das Erste Buch dess Trostspiegels, woodcut illustrations throughout by the 'Petrarca Master' [Hans Weidtiz], lacking all befo...

Denmark.- Saxo Grammaticus. Historiae Danicae Libri XVI., edited and with commentary by Stephanus Johannis Stephanius, engraved pictorial title, p...

Sir Henry Blount's copy.- Bartoli (Daniello) La ricreatione del savio in discorso con la natura e con Dio libri due, first edition, Sir Henry Blou...

NO RESERVE Staffs & rods.- Celsius (Olof) Baktēriologia sive de baculis dissertatio, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, water...

NO RESERVE Pöllnitz (Carl Ludwig von) The Memoirs...being the Observations he made in his late Travels from Prussia..., vol.1-3 only (of 4), seco...

NO RESERVE Choiseul (Étienne Francois, Duc de) Mémoires..., 2 vol. in 1, first edition, Dr.Rohan Butler's copy with his ink signature at beginning...

NO RESERVE Picot (Jean) Histoire de Genève, 3 vol., first edition, folding engraved map, contemporary half calf, spines gilt (vol.3 torn and repai...

NO RESERVE Pluche (Noel Antoine) The History of the Heavens, translated by J. B. De Freval, 2 vol. in 1, first English edition, engraved frontispi...

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