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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 201

KENT - TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL HISTORY
BOYS (WILLIAM) Testacea minuta rariora... A Collection of the Minute and Rare Shells, lately Discovered in the Sand of the Sea Shore near Sandwich, FIRST EDITION, Canterbury, Simmonds and Kirkby, 1789 (3)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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KENT - TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL HISTORY

BOYS (WILLIAM) Testacea minuta rariora... A Collection of the Minute and Rare Shells, lately Discovered in the Sand of the Sea Shore near Sandwich, FIRST EDITION, 3 engraved plates of shells "accurately drawn, as magnified with the microscope, by Geo. Walker,... at Faversham", contemporary calf, red morocco spine label, scuffed [Nissen ZBI 524], 4to, J. March, for J. White [and others], [1784]--PACKE (CHRISTOPHER) Ankographia [in Greek] sive Convallium descriptio... Explanation of a New Philosophica-Chorographical Chart of East Kent, FIRST EDITION, without the map (as usual), light spotting, modern half cloth over marbled boards, 4to, Canterbury, J. Abree, for the Author, 1743--The Kentish Traveller's Companion, in a Descriptive View of Towns... Situated in or Near the Road from London to Margate, Dover and Canterbury, second edition, 3 folding engraved maps (2 frayed with minor losses at fore-edge), contemporary calf, spine gilt, 8vo, Canterbury, Simmonds and Kirkby, 1789 (3)

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Provenance: First work, Fanny Anne Wood, early ownership inscription; Second work, F. William Cock (1858-1943), of Appledore in Kent, bookplate.

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