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SMITH (ADAM) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776. Sold for £68,750 inc. premium

ORWELL (GEORGE) Keep the Aspidistra Flying, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "To, F.G. Westrope, with very best wishes, from, 'George Orwell'" on the front free endpaper, Victor Gollancz, 1936. Sold for £22,500 inc. premium

FLEMING (IAN) Casino Royale, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, Jonathan Cape, [1953]. Sold for £20,000 inc. premium

PROUT (VICTOR ALBERT) The Thames from London to Oxford in Forty Photographs. First [-Second] Series in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Virtue and Company, [1862]. Sold for £16,250 inc. premium

FLEMING (ALEXANDER) Papers and memorabilia of Sir Alexander Fleming kept by his niece Mary Elizabeth (Anne) Johnston. Sold for £12,500 inc. premium

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ADAMS (JOHN) Letters Patent signed as President ("John Adams") and issued under the Great Seal of the United States of America, counter-signed by Secretary of State Timothy Pickering, Philadelphia, 10 July 1797

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ADAMS (JOHN)
Letters Patent signed as President ("John Adams") and issued under the Great Seal of the United States of America, counter-signed by Secretary of State Timothy Pickering, Philadelphia, 10 July 1797

Sold for £4,375 inc. premium

ALEXANDER VI BORGIA AND TOLEDO Spanish Renaissance transcript of the Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI of 1 October 1496 confirming the privileges of the Hospital of the Holy Cross; Toledo, 25 November 1530

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ALEXANDER VI BORGIA AND TOLEDO
Spanish Renaissance transcript of the Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI of 1 October 1496 confirming the privileges of the Hospital of the Holy Cross; Toledo, 25 November 1530

Sold for £2,250 inc. premium

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APPERLEY (CHARLES J.)
The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Rudolph Ackermann, 1842

£700 - £900

ARCHAEOLOGY, PSEUDO-ARCHAEOLOGY, MESOPOTAMIA, AND BRITISH-ISRAELISM Archive of Lt.-Col. W.B. Lane, relating to his studies in Mesopotamia, archaeology of the region, the Bible and "Ur" texts, comparative religions, Anglo-Saxon "Lost Tribe" theories, Pyramidology, and "Manna from Heaven", and other materials, loose or housed in a variety of small boxes, tins and envelopes (quantity)

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ARCHAEOLOGY, PSEUDO-ARCHAEOLOGY, MESOPOTAMIA, AND BRITISH-ISRAELISM
Archive of Lt.-Col. W.B. Lane, relating to his studies in Mesopotamia, archaeology of the region, the Bible and "Ur" texts, comparative religions, Anglo-Saxon "Lost Tribe" theories, Pyramidology, and "Manna from Heaven", and other materials, loose or housed in a variety of small boxes, tins and envelopes (quantity)

Sold for £1,875 inc. premium

BEAUMONT (JOHN) An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and Other Magical Practices, FIRST EDITION; and another (2)

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BEAUMONT (JOHN)
An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and Other Magical Practices, FIRST EDITION; and another (2)

Sold for £875 inc. premium

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New], FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF KING JAMES' GREAT "HE" BIBLE, Robert Barker, 1611

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BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION
[The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New], FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF KING JAMES' GREAT "HE" BIBLE, Robert Barker, 1611

Sold for £31,250 inc. premium

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BOSWELL (JAMES)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, H. Baldwin for C. Dilly, 1791

Sold for £1,875 inc. premium

CARION (JOHANNES) The Thre Bokes of Cronicles... whereunto is added an appendix . . . from the yeare . . . 1532 to . . . 1550 gathered by John Funcke of Nurenbourgh, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH, [colophon: S. Mierdman] for Gwalter Lynne, 1550

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CARION (JOHANNES)
The Thre Bokes of Cronicles... whereunto is added an appendix . . . from the yeare . . . 1532 to . . . 1550 gathered by John Funcke of Nurenbourgh, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH, [colophon: S. Mierdman] for Gwalter Lynne, 1550

Sold for £1,187.50 inc. premium

CHINA CHIANG KAI-SHEK and CHIANG MAYLING SOONG. Sian: A Coup d'Etat / A Fortnight in Sian: Extracts From a Diary, "AUTOGRAPHED COPY", signed by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek ("Mayling Soon Chiang") with her four-character seal mark in red ink on front free endpaper, Shanghai, The China Publishing Company, 1937

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CHINA
CHIANG KAI-SHEK and CHIANG MAYLING SOONG. Sian: A Coup d'Etat / A Fortnight in Sian: Extracts From a Diary, "AUTOGRAPHED COPY", signed by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek ("Mayling Soon Chiang") with her four-character seal mark in red ink on front free endpaper, Shanghai, The China Publishing Company, 1937

Sold for £812.50 inc. premium

COOKERY AND MEDICINE Eighteenth century recipe book kept in two sections, "Pharmacy/ Miscellaneous Recipes" and "Cookery/ Miscellaneous", 1766 onwards

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COOKERY AND MEDICINE
Eighteenth century recipe book kept in two sections, "Pharmacy/ Miscellaneous Recipes" and "Cookery/ Miscellaneous", 1766 onwards

Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

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CORNWALL
CAREW (RICHARD) The Survey of Cornwall, FIRST EDITION, John Jaggard, 1602

Sold for £2,125 inc. premium

CORNWALL HITCHINS (FORTESCUE) AND SAMUEL DREW. The History of Cornwall, 2 vol., EXTRA-IILUSTRATED COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF JONATHAN COUCH, including approximately 50 manuscript marginal annotations by Couch, 8 by his son Thomas, 10 watercolour/ink sketches by or attributable to Thomas, 15 albumen print photographs of ancient stones, Polperro and other views in Cornwall (5 large), numerous woodcuts, or engravings by John Thomas Blight and others, 8vo and 4to; and another (12)

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CORNWALL
HITCHINS (FORTESCUE) AND SAMUEL DREW. The History of Cornwall, 2 vol., EXTRA-IILUSTRATED COPY FROM THE LIBRARY OF JONATHAN COUCH, including approximately 50 manuscript marginal annotations by Couch, 8 by his son Thomas, 10 watercolour/ink sketches by or attributable to Thomas, 15 albumen print photographs of ancient stones, Polperro and other views in Cornwall (5 large), numerous woodcuts, or engravings by John Thomas Blight and others, 8vo and 4to; and another (12)

Sold for £1,125 inc. premium

COSTUME ALEXANDER (WILLIAM) Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese [-Turks; Russians; Austrians; English], John Murray, 1814 (5)

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COSTUME ALEXANDER (WILLIAM)
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese [-Turks; Russians; Austrians; English], John Murray, 1814 (5)

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

CRICKET COLMAN (JEREMIAH) The Noble Game of Cricket... from Pictures, Drawings and Prints in the Collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman... with an introduction by Clifford Bax LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO CLIFFORD BAX, B.T. Batsford, 1941

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CRICKET COLMAN (JEREMIAH)
The Noble Game of Cricket... from Pictures, Drawings and Prints in the Collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman... with an introduction by Clifford Bax LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO CLIFFORD BAX, B.T. Batsford, 1941

Sold for £875 inc. premium

DICKENS (CHARLES) Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz", 3 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, with the "Fireside" plate, Richard Bentley, 1838; and 2 others relating to Dickens, including a medallion portrait of the author "issued by the Circle of Friends of the Medallion in Manhattan. June of 1912" (5)

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DICKENS (CHARLES)
Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz", 3 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, with the "Fireside" plate, Richard Bentley, 1838; and 2 others relating to Dickens, including a medallion portrait of the author "issued by the Circle of Friends of the Medallion in Manhattan. June of 1912" (5)

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

DICKENS (CHARLES) A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST ISSUE, first editions in book form, all but the fourth mentioned with illustrations by Hablot K. Browne, spotting (very minor to first mentioned), last 3 mentioned in early half calf, 8vo; and 7 others by Dickens (10)

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DICKENS (CHARLES)
A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST ISSUE, first editions in book form, all but the fourth mentioned with illustrations by Hablot K. Browne, spotting (very minor to first mentioned), last 3 mentioned in early half calf, 8vo; and 7 others by Dickens (10)

Amended

Sold for £4,000 inc. premium

EAST ANGLIA – DE VERE ESTATES Accounts of William Sydney, deputy of William Waldegrave, receiver of the Estates of the late John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, Hereditary Great Chamberlain, comprising the financial returns of his manors in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, 1526

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EAST ANGLIA – DE VERE ESTATES
Accounts of William Sydney, deputy of William Waldegrave, receiver of the Estates of the late John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, Hereditary Great Chamberlain, comprising the financial returns of his manors in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, 1526

Sold for £375 inc. premium

FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS – CHEQUES Three cheques, each signed and subscribed by Nicholas Vanacker ("for Yrs Nicholas/ Nic.o Vanacker"), London, 1657-64, THREE OF THE EARLIEST CHEQUES IN EXISTENCE

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FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS – CHEQUES
Three cheques, each signed and subscribed by Nicholas Vanacker ("for Yrs Nicholas/ Nic.o Vanacker"), London, 1657-64, THREE OF THE EARLIEST CHEQUES IN EXISTENCE

Sold for £2,000 inc. premium

FITZGERALD (EDWARD) Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, Bernard Quaritch, 1859

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FITZGERALD (EDWARD)
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, Bernard Quaritch, 1859

Sold for £17,500 inc. premium

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FONTAINE (NICOLAS, SIEUR DE ROYAUMONT)
The History of the Old and New Testament, Jeremiah Bright [and others], 1712

Sold for £937.50 inc. premium

GALLIMAUFRY Collection of manuscript and printed material including notebooks, letters etc., broadsides and pamphlets, seventeenth to twentieth century

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GALLIMAUFRY
Collection of manuscript and printed material including notebooks, letters etc., broadsides and pamphlets, seventeenth to twentieth century

Sold for £937.50 inc. premium

GIBBON (EDWARD) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., second edition of volumes 1 and 2, FIRST EDITION of volumes 3-6, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776-1788

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GIBBON (EDWARD)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., second edition of volumes 1 and 2, FIRST EDITION of volumes 3-6, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776-1788

Sold for £1,375 inc. premium

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HAWAII - PHOTOGRAPHY
"Vistas of Hawaii Illustrating Life and Scenery in the Hawaiian Islands", and other related ephemera (small quantity)

Sold for £27,500 inc. premium

HENRY V AND THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON Indenture issued by and under the seal of the goldsmith Drew Barantyn, twice Lord Mayor of London, to Henry Prince of Wales, the future Henry V, Westminster, 10 October [1408]

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HENRY V AND THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
Indenture issued by and under the seal of the goldsmith Drew Barantyn, twice Lord Mayor of London, to Henry Prince of Wales, the future Henry V, Westminster, 10 October [1408]

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

HERALDRY Illuminated genealogy collected by Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms, certified by William Hawkins, Ulster, King of Arms of All Ireland, and executed (or supervised) by a Mr Green, showing the descent of Sir John Percival of Burton, Bart., Dublin, 1715

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HERALDRY
Illuminated genealogy collected by Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms, certified by William Hawkins, Ulster, King of Arms of All Ireland, and executed (or supervised) by a Mr Green, showing the descent of Sir John Percival of Burton, Bart., Dublin, 1715

£2,000 - £3,000

HOGARTH (WILLIAM) The Works... from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath... with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, Baldwin and Cradock, [c.1822]

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HOGARTH (WILLIAM)
The Works... from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath... with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, Baldwin and Cradock, [c.1822]

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

HYDE (THOMAS) Syntagma dissertationum... cum appendice de lingua sinensi aliisque Unguis orientalibus, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Oxford, Clarendon, 1767

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HYDE (THOMAS)
Syntagma dissertationum... cum appendice de lingua sinensi aliisque Unguis orientalibus, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Oxford, Clarendon, 1767

Sold for £1,187.50 inc. premium

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INDIA - NAWABS OF OUDH
[A History of Oudh], 8vo; and 2 others, mid-twentieth century titles in Persian (4)

Sold for £750 inc. premium

IRELAND SMITH (CHARLES) The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford, 3 folding engraved plates (including panoramic views of Dungarvan, Lismore, and Waterford), 2 large folding engraved maps (County Waterford; Plan of Waterford City), early ownership inscription neatly excised from blank upper margin of one leaf, 1746; The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 vol., Dublin, A. Reilly for the Author (3)

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IRELAND
SMITH (CHARLES) The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford, 3 folding engraved plates (including panoramic views of Dungarvan, Lismore, and Waterford), 2 large folding engraved maps (County Waterford; Plan of Waterford City), early ownership inscription neatly excised from blank upper margin of one leaf, 1746; The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 vol., Dublin, A. Reilly for the Author (3)

Sold for £875 inc. premium

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JOHNSON (THOMAS)
[Designs for Picture Frames, Candelabra, Ceilings, Chimney-pieces, Brackets, Clockcases, Gerondoles, Metal-work], folio

Sold for £1,750 inc. premium

LEWIS (JOHN FREDERICK) Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra, made During a Residence in Granada in the Years 1833-4, FIRST EDITION, Hodgson, Boys & Graves, [1835]

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LEWIS (JOHN FREDERICK)
Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra, made During a Residence in Granada in the Years 1833-4, FIRST EDITION, Hodgson, Boys & Graves, [1835]

Sold for £1,750 inc. premium

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LYALL (ROBERT)
The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow, 1823--MACMICHAEL (WILLIAM) Journey from Moscow to Constantinople (2)

Sold for £5,000 inc. premium

MARY I Letters Patent with an Initial Letter Portrait of the enthroned Queen Mary, leasing the lands of the suppressed and dissolved Priory of Snelshall in Buckinghamshire to Edmund Ashfilde of Totenhoe, Westminster, 22 May 1554; A FINE INITIAL LETTER PORTRAIT OF MARY TUDOR

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MARY I
Letters Patent with an Initial Letter Portrait of the enthroned Queen Mary, leasing the lands of the suppressed and dissolved Priory of Snelshall in Buckinghamshire to Edmund Ashfilde of Totenhoe, Westminster, 22 May 1554; A FINE INITIAL LETTER PORTRAIT OF MARY TUDOR

Sold for £3,125 inc. premium

MILITARY - ROYAL ARTILLERY AND CHINA Fine album of approximately 130 albumen prints, compiled by a member of the Royal Artillery, mostly of the equipment (large guns, lifting equipment, river rafts, etc.) and soldiers at manoeuvres at the Artillery barracks at Shoeburyness and Woolwich, China (15, by Felice Beato), Abyssinia, Paris during the Commune, and miscellaneous others, 1870s

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MILITARY - ROYAL ARTILLERY AND CHINA
Fine album of approximately 130 albumen prints, compiled by a member of the Royal Artillery, mostly of the equipment (large guns, lifting equipment, river rafts, etc.) and soldiers at manoeuvres at the Artillery barracks at Shoeburyness and Woolwich, China (15, by Felice Beato), Abyssinia, Paris during the Commune, and miscellaneous others, 1870s

£2,000 - £4,000

NAVAL - RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, BALTIC SUBMARINE FLOTILLA AND SIERRA LEONE Photograph album relating to the officer's naval service in the Baltic in 1917-1918, and with H.M.S. Ramillies in Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, and Malta, [c.1917-1928]

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NAVAL - RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, BALTIC SUBMARINE FLOTILLA AND SIERRA LEONE
Photograph album relating to the officer's naval service in the Baltic in 1917-1918, and with H.M.S. Ramillies in Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, and Malta, [c.1917-1928]

Sold for £750 inc. premium

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NAVAL LOW (CHARLES RATHBONE)
Her Majesty's Navy including its Deeds and Battles, 3 vol., J.S. Virtue, [1890-1893]

Sold for £312.50 inc. premium

NELSON (HORATIO) Autograph letter signed ("Nelson"), to the Duke of Queensberry ("My Dear Lord Duke"), inviting him to dine with his kinsman Sir William Hamilton and Lady Hamilton, "Sunday Jan.ry 11th 1801"

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NELSON (HORATIO)
Autograph letter signed ("Nelson"), to the Duke of Queensberry ("My Dear Lord Duke"), inviting him to dine with his kinsman Sir William Hamilton and Lady Hamilton, "Sunday Jan.ry 11th 1801"

Sold for £3,125 inc. premium

NEWTON AND WOOLSTHORPE MANOR Release from Robert Elston of Colsterworth, yeoman, and his wife to Thomas Hubbert of Colsterworth, baker, of lands in Colsterworth [?Grantham], with terriar citing abutting lands held by Isaac Newton and his family, 10 August 1705

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NEWTON AND WOOLSTHORPE MANOR
Release from Robert Elston of Colsterworth, yeoman, and his wife to Thomas Hubbert of Colsterworth, baker, of lands in Colsterworth [?Grantham], with terriar citing abutting lands held by Isaac Newton and his family, 10 August 1705

£2,000 - £3,000

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PERCEVAL FAMILY
Collection of papers relating to the Perceval family and the Earls of Egmont, eighteenth to early twentieth century

Sold for £687.50 inc. premium

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PROUT (VICTOR ALBERT)
The Thames from London to Oxford in Forty Photographs. First [-Second] Series in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Virtue and Company, [1862]

Sold for £16,250 inc. premium

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RUSKIN (JOHN)
Six autograph letters signed ("J Ruskin"), to Professor Henry Attwell of Nassau School, Barnes, Brantwood, 1875-1881

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

SCOT (REGINALD) The Discovery of Witchcraft: Proving, That the Compacts and Contracts of Witches with Devils and Infernal Spirits or Familiars, Are But Erroneous Novelties and Imaginary Conceptions, 2 parts in 1 vol., A. Clark, 1665

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SCOT (REGINALD)
The Discovery of Witchcraft: Proving, That the Compacts and Contracts of Witches with Devils and Infernal Spirits or Familiars, Are But Erroneous Novelties and Imaginary Conceptions, 2 parts in 1 vol., A. Clark, 1665

Sold for £2,375 inc. premium

SMEATON, RENNIE AND LEATHER -- THE AIRE & CALDER NAVIGATION Volume of 'Engineers Reports on Aire & Calder Navigation 1771-1829' and 1754, A MAJOR SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, CONTAINING THE EARLIEST, AND HITHERTO UNRECORDED, ENGINEERING PROJECT BY JOHN SMEATON

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SMEATON, RENNIE AND LEATHER -- THE AIRE & CALDER NAVIGATION
Volume of 'Engineers Reports on Aire & Calder Navigation 1771-1829' and 1754, A MAJOR SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, CONTAINING THE EARLIEST, AND HITHERTO UNRECORDED, ENGINEERING PROJECT BY JOHN SMEATON

Sold for £21,250 inc. premium

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SMITH (ADAM)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776

Sold for £68,750 inc. premium

WILLIAM III Autograph letter signed ("William R"), in French, to the Duke of Queensberry, written as a postscript to a longer, official, letter, "A Hamptoncourt ce 13 de Juin 1700"

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WILLIAM III
Autograph letter signed ("William R"), in French, to the Duke of Queensberry, written as a postscript to a longer, official, letter, "A Hamptoncourt ce 13 de Juin 1700"

Sold for £812.50 inc. premium

WOOD (HENRY) A Series of Designs of Furniture & Decoration in the Styles of Louis XIVth, Francis Ist, Elizabeth, and Gothic, FIRST EDITION, William Pickering, [1845]

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WOOD (HENRY)
A Series of Designs of Furniture & Decoration in the Styles of Louis XIVth, Francis Ist, Elizabeth, and Gothic, FIRST EDITION, William Pickering, [1845]

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

YORK MINSTER AND NORFOLK Decorated certificate issued by George Meriton, Dean of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, signed by him and the Chancellor Philip Hodson, York, 28 February 1621[/22]

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YORK MINSTER AND NORFOLK
Decorated certificate issued by George Meriton, Dean of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, signed by him and the Chancellor Philip Hodson, York, 28 February 1621[/22]

Sold for £937.50 inc. premium

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BANKES (THOMAS)
A Modern, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography... A Complete Atlas... Cook's Voyages, C. Cooke, [c.1800]

Sold for £1,250 inc. premium

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1 — ADAMS (JOHN) Letters Patent signed as President ("John Adams") and issued under the Great Seal of the United States of America, counter-signed by Secretary of State Timothy Pickering, Philadelphia, 10 July 1797

2 — ALEXANDER VI BORGIA AND TOLEDO Spanish Renaissance transcript of the Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI of 1 October 1496 confirming the privileges of the Hospital of the Holy Cross; Toledo, 25 November 1530

3• — APPERLEY (CHARLES J.) The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Rudolph Ackermann, 1842

5• — BEAUMONT (JOHN) An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and Other Magical Practices, FIRST EDITION; and another (2)

6• — BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New], FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF KING JAMES' GREAT "HE" BIBLE, Robert Barker, 1611

7• — BOSWELL (JAMES) The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, H. Baldwin for C. Dilly, 1791

8• — CARION (JOHANNES) The Thre Bokes of Cronicles... whereunto is added an appendix . . . from the yeare . . . 1532 to . . . 1550 gathered by John Funcke of Nurenbourgh, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH, [colophon: S. Mierdman] for Gwalter Lynne, 1550

10• — COOKERY AND MEDICINE Eighteenth century recipe book kept in two sections, "Pharmacy/ Miscellaneous Recipes" and "Cookery/ Miscellaneous", 1766 onwards

11• — CORNWALL CAREW (RICHARD) The Survey of Cornwall, FIRST EDITION, John Jaggard, 1602

13• — COSTUME ALEXANDER (WILLIAM) Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese [-Turks; Russians; Austrians; English], John Murray, 1814 (5)

14• — CRICKET COLMAN (JEREMIAH) The Noble Game of Cricket... from Pictures, Drawings and Prints in the Collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman... with an introduction by Clifford Bax LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO CLIFFORD BAX, B.T. Batsford, 1941

16• — DICKENS (CHARLES) A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST ISSUE, first editions in book form, all but the fourth mentioned with illustrations by Hablot K. Browne, spotting (very minor to first mentioned), last 3 mentioned in early half calf, 8vo; and 7 others by Dickens (10)

17• — EAST ANGLIA – DE VERE ESTATES Accounts of William Sydney, deputy of William Waldegrave, receiver of the Estates of the late John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, Hereditary Great Chamberlain, comprising the financial returns of his manors in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, 1526

18* — FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS – CHEQUES Three cheques, each signed and subscribed by Nicholas Vanacker ("for Yrs Nicholas/ Nic.o Vanacker"), London, 1657-64, THREE OF THE EARLIEST CHEQUES IN EXISTENCE

19• — FITZGERALD (EDWARD) Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, Bernard Quaritch, 1859

20• — FONTAINE (NICOLAS, SIEUR DE ROYAUMONT) The History of the Old and New Testament, Jeremiah Bright [and others], 1712

21 — GALLIMAUFRY Collection of manuscript and printed material including notebooks, letters etc., broadsides and pamphlets, seventeenth to twentieth century

22• — GIBBON (EDWARD) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., second edition of volumes 1 and 2, FIRST EDITION of volumes 3-6, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776-1788

23 — HAWAII - PHOTOGRAPHY "Vistas of Hawaii Illustrating Life and Scenery in the Hawaiian Islands", and other related ephemera (small quantity)

24 — HENRY V AND THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON Indenture issued by and under the seal of the goldsmith Drew Barantyn, twice Lord Mayor of London, to Henry Prince of Wales, the future Henry V, Westminster, 10 October [1408]

25 — HERALDRY Illuminated genealogy collected by Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms, certified by William Hawkins, Ulster, King of Arms of All Ireland, and executed (or supervised) by a Mr Green, showing the descent of Sir John Percival of Burton, Bart., Dublin, 1715

26• — HOGARTH (WILLIAM) The Works... from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath... with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, Baldwin and Cradock, [c.1822]

27• — HYDE (THOMAS) Syntagma dissertationum... cum appendice de lingua sinensi aliisque Unguis orientalibus, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Oxford, Clarendon, 1767

28• — INDIA - NAWABS OF OUDH [A History of Oudh], 8vo; and 2 others, mid-twentieth century titles in Persian (4)

30• — JOHNSON (THOMAS) [Designs for Picture Frames, Candelabra, Ceilings, Chimney-pieces, Brackets, Clockcases, Gerondoles, Metal-work], folio

31• — LEWIS (JOHN FREDERICK) Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra, made During a Residence in Granada in the Years 1833-4, FIRST EDITION, Hodgson, Boys & Graves, [1835]

32• — LYALL (ROBERT) The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow, 1823--MACMICHAEL (WILLIAM) Journey from Moscow to Constantinople (2)

33 — MARY I Letters Patent with an Initial Letter Portrait of the enthroned Queen Mary, leasing the lands of the suppressed and dissolved Priory of Snelshall in Buckinghamshire to Edmund Ashfilde of Totenhoe, Westminster, 22 May 1554; A FINE INITIAL LETTER PORTRAIT OF MARY TUDOR

35 — NAVAL - RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, BALTIC SUBMARINE FLOTILLA AND SIERRA LEONE Photograph album relating to the officer's naval service in the Baltic in 1917-1918, and with H.M.S. Ramillies in Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, and Malta, [c.1917-1928]

36• — NAVAL LOW (CHARLES RATHBONE) Her Majesty's Navy including its Deeds and Battles, 3 vol., J.S. Virtue, [1890-1893]

37* — NELSON (HORATIO) Autograph letter signed ("Nelson"), to the Duke of Queensberry ("My Dear Lord Duke"), inviting him to dine with his kinsman Sir William Hamilton and Lady Hamilton, "Sunday Jan.ry 11th 1801"

38 — NEWTON AND WOOLSTHORPE MANOR Release from Robert Elston of Colsterworth, yeoman, and his wife to Thomas Hubbert of Colsterworth, baker, of lands in Colsterworth [?Grantham], with terriar citing abutting lands held by Isaac Newton and his family, 10 August 1705

39 — PERCEVAL FAMILY Collection of papers relating to the Perceval family and the Earls of Egmont, eighteenth to early twentieth century

40• — PROUT (VICTOR ALBERT) The Thames from London to Oxford in Forty Photographs. First [-Second] Series in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Virtue and Company, [1862]

41 — RUSKIN (JOHN) Six autograph letters signed ("J Ruskin"), to Professor Henry Attwell of Nassau School, Barnes, Brantwood, 1875-1881

42• — SCOT (REGINALD) The Discovery of Witchcraft: Proving, That the Compacts and Contracts of Witches with Devils and Infernal Spirits or Familiars, Are But Erroneous Novelties and Imaginary Conceptions, 2 parts in 1 vol., A. Clark, 1665

43• — SMEATON, RENNIE AND LEATHER -- THE AIRE & CALDER NAVIGATION Volume of 'Engineers Reports on Aire & Calder Navigation 1771-1829' and 1754, A MAJOR SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, CONTAINING THE EARLIEST, AND HITHERTO UNRECORDED, ENGINEERING PROJECT BY JOHN SMEATON

44• — SMITH (ADAM) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776

45* — WILLIAM III Autograph letter signed ("William R"), in French, to the Duke of Queensberry, written as a postscript to a longer, official, letter, "A Hamptoncourt ce 13 de Juin 1700"

46• — WOOD (HENRY) A Series of Designs of Furniture & Decoration in the Styles of Louis XIVth, Francis Ist, Elizabeth, and Gothic, FIRST EDITION, William Pickering, [1845]

47 — YORK MINSTER AND NORFOLK Decorated certificate issued by George Meriton, Dean of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, signed by him and the Chancellor Philip Hodson, York, 28 February 1621[/22]

48• — BANKES (THOMAS) A Modern, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography... A Complete Atlas... Cook's Voyages, C. Cooke, [c.1800]

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ADAMS (JOHN)
Letters Patent signed as President ("John Adams") and issued under the Great Seal of the United States of America, counter-signed by Secretary of State Timothy Pickering, Philadelphia, 10 July 1797

2 —
ALEXANDER VI BORGIA AND TOLEDO
Spanish Renaissance transcript of the Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI of 1 October 1496 confirming the privileges of the Hospital of the Holy Cross; Toledo, 25 November 1530

3^• —
APPERLEY (CHARLES J.)
The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Rudolph Ackermann, 1842

5^• —
BEAUMONT (JOHN)
An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and Other Magical Practices, FIRST EDITION; and another (2)

6^• —
BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION
[The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New], FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF KING JAMES' GREAT "HE" BIBLE, Robert Barker, 1611

7^• —
BOSWELL (JAMES)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, H. Baldwin for C. Dilly, 1791

8^• —
CARION (JOHANNES)
The Thre Bokes of Cronicles... whereunto is added an appendix . . . from the yeare . . . 1532 to . . . 1550 gathered by John Funcke of Nurenbourgh, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH, [colophon: S. Mierdman] for Gwalter Lynne, 1550

10^• —
COOKERY AND MEDICINE
Eighteenth century recipe book kept in two sections, "Pharmacy/ Miscellaneous Recipes" and "Cookery/ Miscellaneous", 1766 onwards

11^• —
CORNWALL
CAREW (RICHARD) The Survey of Cornwall, FIRST EDITION, John Jaggard, 1602

13^• —
COSTUME ALEXANDER (WILLIAM)
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese [-Turks; Russians; Austrians; English], John Murray, 1814 (5)

14^• —
CRICKET COLMAN (JEREMIAH)
The Noble Game of Cricket... from Pictures, Drawings and Prints in the Collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman... with an introduction by Clifford Bax LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO CLIFFORD BAX, B.T. Batsford, 1941

16^• —
DICKENS (CHARLES)
A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST ISSUE, first editions in book form, all but the fourth mentioned with illustrations by Hablot K. Browne, spotting (very minor to first mentioned), last 3 mentioned in early half calf, 8vo; and 7 others by Dickens (10)

17^• —
EAST ANGLIA – DE VERE ESTATES
Accounts of William Sydney, deputy of William Waldegrave, receiver of the Estates of the late John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, Hereditary Great Chamberlain, comprising the financial returns of his manors in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, 1526

18^* —
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS – CHEQUES
Three cheques, each signed and subscribed by Nicholas Vanacker ("for Yrs Nicholas/ Nic.o Vanacker"), London, 1657-64, THREE OF THE EARLIEST CHEQUES IN EXISTENCE

19^• —
FITZGERALD (EDWARD)
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, Bernard Quaritch, 1859

20^• —
FONTAINE (NICOLAS, SIEUR DE ROYAUMONT)
The History of the Old and New Testament, Jeremiah Bright [and others], 1712

21 —
GALLIMAUFRY
Collection of manuscript and printed material including notebooks, letters etc., broadsides and pamphlets, seventeenth to twentieth century

22^• —
GIBBON (EDWARD)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., second edition of volumes 1 and 2, FIRST EDITION of volumes 3-6, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776-1788

23 —
HAWAII - PHOTOGRAPHY
"Vistas of Hawaii Illustrating Life and Scenery in the Hawaiian Islands", and other related ephemera (small quantity)

24 —
HENRY V AND THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
Indenture issued by and under the seal of the goldsmith Drew Barantyn, twice Lord Mayor of London, to Henry Prince of Wales, the future Henry V, Westminster, 10 October [1408]

25 —
HERALDRY
Illuminated genealogy collected by Peter Le Neve, Norroy King of Arms, certified by William Hawkins, Ulster, King of Arms of All Ireland, and executed (or supervised) by a Mr Green, showing the descent of Sir John Percival of Burton, Bart., Dublin, 1715

26^• —
HOGARTH (WILLIAM)
The Works... from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath... with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, Baldwin and Cradock, [c.1822]

27^• —
HYDE (THOMAS)
Syntagma dissertationum... cum appendice de lingua sinensi aliisque Unguis orientalibus, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Oxford, Clarendon, 1767

28^• —
INDIA - NAWABS OF OUDH
[A History of Oudh], 8vo; and 2 others, mid-twentieth century titles in Persian (4)

30^• —
JOHNSON (THOMAS)
[Designs for Picture Frames, Candelabra, Ceilings, Chimney-pieces, Brackets, Clockcases, Gerondoles, Metal-work], folio

31^• —
LEWIS (JOHN FREDERICK)
Sketches and Drawings of the Alhambra, made During a Residence in Granada in the Years 1833-4, FIRST EDITION, Hodgson, Boys & Graves, [1835]

32^• —
LYALL (ROBERT)
The Character of the Russians, and a Detailed History of Moscow, 1823--MACMICHAEL (WILLIAM) Journey from Moscow to Constantinople (2)

33 —
MARY I
Letters Patent with an Initial Letter Portrait of the enthroned Queen Mary, leasing the lands of the suppressed and dissolved Priory of Snelshall in Buckinghamshire to Edmund Ashfilde of Totenhoe, Westminster, 22 May 1554; A FINE INITIAL LETTER PORTRAIT OF MARY TUDOR

35 —
NAVAL - RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, BALTIC SUBMARINE FLOTILLA AND SIERRA LEONE
Photograph album relating to the officer's naval service in the Baltic in 1917-1918, and with H.M.S. Ramillies in Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, and Malta, [c.1917-1928]

36^• —
NAVAL LOW (CHARLES RATHBONE)
Her Majesty's Navy including its Deeds and Battles, 3 vol., J.S. Virtue, [1890-1893]

37^* —
NELSON (HORATIO)
Autograph letter signed ("Nelson"), to the Duke of Queensberry ("My Dear Lord Duke"), inviting him to dine with his kinsman Sir William Hamilton and Lady Hamilton, "Sunday Jan.ry 11th 1801"

38 —
NEWTON AND WOOLSTHORPE MANOR
Release from Robert Elston of Colsterworth, yeoman, and his wife to Thomas Hubbert of Colsterworth, baker, of lands in Colsterworth [?Grantham], with terriar citing abutting lands held by Isaac Newton and his family, 10 August 1705

39 —
PERCEVAL FAMILY
Collection of papers relating to the Perceval family and the Earls of Egmont, eighteenth to early twentieth century

40^• —
PROUT (VICTOR ALBERT)
The Thames from London to Oxford in Forty Photographs. First [-Second] Series in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Virtue and Company, [1862]

41 —
RUSKIN (JOHN)
Six autograph letters signed ("J Ruskin"), to Professor Henry Attwell of Nassau School, Barnes, Brantwood, 1875-1881

42^• —
SCOT (REGINALD)
The Discovery of Witchcraft: Proving, That the Compacts and Contracts of Witches with Devils and Infernal Spirits or Familiars, Are But Erroneous Novelties and Imaginary Conceptions, 2 parts in 1 vol., A. Clark, 1665

43^• —
SMEATON, RENNIE AND LEATHER -- THE AIRE & CALDER NAVIGATION
Volume of 'Engineers Reports on Aire & Calder Navigation 1771-1829' and 1754, A MAJOR SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, CONTAINING THE EARLIEST, AND HITHERTO UNRECORDED, ENGINEERING PROJECT BY JOHN SMEATON

44^• —
SMITH (ADAM)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1776

45^* —
WILLIAM III
Autograph letter signed ("William R"), in French, to the Duke of Queensberry, written as a postscript to a longer, official, letter, "A Hamptoncourt ce 13 de Juin 1700"

46^• —
WOOD (HENRY)
A Series of Designs of Furniture & Decoration in the Styles of Louis XIVth, Francis Ist, Elizabeth, and Gothic, FIRST EDITION, William Pickering, [1845]

47 —
YORK MINSTER AND NORFOLK
Decorated certificate issued by George Meriton, Dean of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, signed by him and the Chancellor Philip Hodson, York, 28 February 1621[/22]

48^• —
BANKES (THOMAS)
A Modern, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography... A Complete Atlas... Cook's Voyages, C. Cooke, [c.1800]