Natural History, Travel, Atlases & Maps - L06401

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Natural History, Travel, Atlases & Maps

09 May 2006 • London

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Sale Number: L06401

135. To Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, this British Atlas... is... Most Respectfully Dedicated. London: Longman Rees & Co., 1846

Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP

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136. Chubb, T. The Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland, a bibliography, 1579-1870. 1927; Ibid. A Descriptive List of the Printed Maps of Norfolk 1574-1916. 1928, h.g. fordham's copy--Map Collectors' Circle. 1963-1971, volumes 1-7 (nos. 1-70) bound in 7 vol.--Library of Congress. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress. 1909-1920 and 1958-1963, 6 volumes, h.g. fordham's copies of vol.1-4, vol.3 with loose autograph notes regarding 'a few trifling errors'--Lowery, W. The Lowery Collection. A Descriptive List of Maps of the Spanish Possessions. 1912, fordham's copy--Tooley, R.V. Maps and Map-makers. 1962, signed by the author, modern morocco-backed cloth--Skelton, R.A. County Atlases of the British Isles 1579-1850. 1964-1970, 5 parts in one vol. extracted from The Map Collectors' Circle--Whitaker, H. A Descriptive List of Maps of Northumberland 1576-1900. 1949--Bagrow, L. History of Cartography revised and enlarged by R.A. Skelton. 1964

Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP

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137. A collection of printed books, pamphlets and offprints by H.G. Fordham, including Transactions of the Bibliographical Society; autograph and typed notes and lists by Fordham; 2 copper-plates mounted on wood with Fordham's portrait; and a few other items

Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP

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138. The Historie of the World: commonly called, The Natural Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland. London: Adam Islip, 1635-1634, 2 volumes in one, folio (325 x 209mm.), advertisement leaf at end of vol.2, nineteenth-century calf, [cf. Norman 1719], vol.1 minor repair to edge of first 2 leaves, very slight worming in gathering 2N-2O and small paper flaw in 3D4, vol.2 very slight worming at beginning, binding somewhat rubbed, rebacked retaining original spine

Estimate: 600 – 900 GBP

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139. Veteres arcus Augustorum triumphis insignes. Rome, 1690, folio (500 x 320mm.), engraved pictorial dedication and 46 plates, many double-page, eighteenth-century half russia, uncut, binding worn

Estimate: 600 – 900 GBP

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140. Italian Scenery from drawings made in 1817. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1820

Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP

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141. The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain. London: for John Knapton, 1756

Estimate: 400 – 600 GBP

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142. Travels to discover the source of the Nile in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773. Edinburgh: J. Ruthven for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,500 GBP

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143. Terra Australis cognita: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Edinburgh: A Donaldson, 1766-1768

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

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144. Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English: with Large Additions and Improvements. Published by Edmund Gibson. London: F. Collins for A. Swalle and A. & J. Churchil, 1695

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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145. Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect, containing the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Regular Buildings, both Publick and Private, in Great Britain. [London, 1731?]-1731

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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146. Observations on the Passage to India, through Egypt, and across the Great Desert. London: W. Faden, 1783, first edition, 2 folding engraved maps, [Blackmer 282; Wilson p.37 (later edition); not in Atabey], some spotting

Estimate: 800 – 1,400 GBP

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