Lot Details
Lot 120
[ANTIQUARIAN] An antiquarian miscellany.
Fourteen titles in sixteen volumes. Includes: STOW, JOHN. A Survay of London. London: Purslowe, 1618. Full modern morocco, stains to binding and internally, several repairs; BERNERS, LADY JULIANA. A Treatyse of Fysshing wyth an Angle, the 1880 facsimile edition, full vellum, dampstaining; The Will of Mr. Cecil Rhodes. [N.p.: n.d.]. Not the published edition and without title page or imprint, 13 pp. on blue paper, interleaved, three-quarters black morocco gilt, binding worn, contents fine; MILLAIS, JOHN GUILE. The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, 1904. Number 137 of 1025 copies. 3 large folio volumes. Original cloth backed boards, plates, some spotting to plates, bindings worn; Nelson's Guide to Lake George and Lake Champlain, London, circa 1860 (?), original cloth, map and colored plates, hinge cracked, cloth fine; MANBY, GEORGE. Fugitive Sketches of the History and Natural Beauties of Clifton, Hot-Wells, and Vicinity. London: circa 1809. Plates, a few contemporary illustrations mounted within, modern three quarters morocco; FAIRFAX, THOMAS. The Complete Sportsman; or, Country Gentleman's Recreation. London: n.d. Contemporary calf, frontispiece, boards detached, lacks rear endpaper; TURNER, RICHARD. The Young Gauger's Best Instructor. London: B. Law, 1761. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style, folding plates; STANLEY, MRS. Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia Moderniz'd, London, 1725, folio, this the largest in the lot at 15 1/4 x 9 inches, modern three-quarters morocco, spotting and gnawing to title, minor worm damage, the binding scratched; EARL of CARNARVON. Letter of ... Earl of Chesterfield to his Godson... Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890. Copy xxi of 25 copies for presentation, original three quarters parchment, with facsimile letter tipped-in, the binding worn with the text block separating; FREEMAN, SAMUEL. The Massachusetts Justice: Being a Collection of the Laws. Boston: Isaiah Thomas, 1802. Second edition. Contemporary calf, lacks front endpaper; [ZULU]. OSBORNE, REV. EDWARD. Ukukolwa... London: 1900. Publisher's cloth, text in Zulu, stains to cloth; TERENTIUS AFER, P. Publii Terentii Afri Comeodiae. Cambridge: Tonson, 1701. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style, frontispiece, stains and repairs, boards worn; and LUCANUS, MARCUS ANNEAUS. Pharsalia, sive Belli civilis libri decem. Leiden: S. Luchtmans, 1728. Contemporary red straight grained morocco, frontispiece, folding map, the binding worn with losses to headcap, toned and spotted within. No book fully collated and the lot sold as is. The lot 16 volumes.
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