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

25. Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs. London: George Nickisson, 1842–1857, 7 volumes, 322 hand-coloured lithographed plates of birds, 8 uncoloured plates, 101 (of 105) hand-coloured lithographed plates of eggs, contemporary green calf gilt, [Nissen IVB 628; Wood p.462], lacks 4 plates of eggs, some rubbing to binding

Estimate: 1,200 – 1,800 GBP

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26. General Conchology. 1835, hand-coloured plates, nineteenth-century green half morocco

Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP

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27. Theatrum botanicum: The Theatre of Plants. Or, an herball of a large extent. London: Tho[mas] Cotes, 1640

Estimate: 800 – 1,200 GBP

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28. Travel and Sport in Africa. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902

Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP

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29. The Art of Deer Stalking. London: John Murray, 1838, first edition, engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 10 plates

Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP

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30. A Naturalist's Calendar. London: for B. and J. White, 1795, first edition, red morocco gilt by Waters, text slightly spotted

Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP

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31. Castles of Alnwick, & Warkworth, &c. 1823 [1824], 4to, signed by the author on dedication leaf, lithographed pictorial title, 29 plates and 9 illustrations, one coloured, contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt edges, spotted

Estimate: 500 – 700 GBP

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32. A Most Pleasant Description of Benwel Village in the County of Northumberland. Newcastle: John White, 1726, 12mo, inserted dedication leaf after L2, errata leaf at end, late nineteenth-century green morocco gilt by Waters, gilt edges, some spotting and soiling, a few leaves cropped (A2 verso, title to part 2 and index)

Estimate: 500 – 700 GBP

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33. Works. Newcastle: Printed by R. Ward for Bernard Quaritch, 1885-1887, 5 volumes, 8vo, Memorial edition, number 178 of 750 copies, signed Bernard Quaritch, with an autograph note from Quaritch to J.W. Pease loosely inserted in vol.1, original half morocco

Estimate: 500 – 700 GBP

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34. for the better government of his maiesties army royall, in the present expedition for the northern parts... under... Thomas Earl of Arundel. Newcastle: R. Barker, 1639

Estimate: 500 – 700 GBP

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35. Collectanea Dunelmensia. [c.1780s], 4to, a collection of printed material (a few manuscript), including articles, legal matters (printed and manuscript), historical documents, poetry, Thomas Falkner's Of the Patagonians... printed by the friendship of George Allan Esq. at his private press at Darlington, 1788 [edited by Thomas Pennant], ephemera, etc., printed by Allan at his private press or by others, nineteenth-century half calf, spine faded--Bell, John, compiler. Some Account of the Family of Radclyffe of Dilston, &c. in Northumberland. [compiled c.1852], 4to, a collection of printed material (a few manuscript) relating to the Radclyffe family and the Earls of Derwentwater, including a manuscript plan for the Martket Place in Alston, nineteenth-century half morocco, spine faded--Billings, R.W. Architectural Illustrations... of the Cathedral Church at Durham. London, 1843; Ibid. Illustrations... of the County of Durham. Durham, 1846, together 2 vol., 4to, engraved plates, contemporary half morocco, occasional slight spotting, spines slightly faded--Sykes, John. Local Records... in Northumberland and Durham... a new edition. Newcastle, 1833, 2 vol., 8vo, extra-illustrated with approximately 115 plates, illustrations, nineteenth-century half morocco; and 6 others (12)

Estimate: 600 – 900 GBP

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36. Observations on Popular Antiquities. London: Rivington and others, 1813, 2 volumes, 4to, fine green morocco gilt by Hayday, bookplate of Joseph Eyton

Estimate: 600 – 900 GBP

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