Lot: 49
Annibal Caro Rime del Commendatore Annibal Caro, Bernardo Giunti e Fratelli, Venice, 1583, small quarto, disbound but endpapers preserved; title with coat of arms; dedication to Alessandro Farnese adorned with woodcuts; title, (6), 103, (8)pp. Front endpaper dust-affected o/w fine.
Lot: 50
[John Selden] Johannis Seldeni Liber de Nummis. Antiqua pecunia Romana & Graeca metitur precio ejus, quae nune est in usu. Hinc Accedit Bibliotheca Nummaria, Mosem Pitt, London, 1675, small quarto; no front board, rear board detached; imprimatur, engraved title, (4), 19, 86pp. Good clean text.
Lot: 52
Christian de Thomas Becket Epistolae Et Vita Divi Thomae Martyris Et Archi-Episcopi Cantvariensis. Nec Non Epistolae Alexandri III. Pontificis, Galliae Regis Ludovici Septimi, Angliae Regis Henrici II. Aliarumque plurium Sublimium ex utroque Foro Personarum.Henrici Fricx, Brussels, 1682, quarto, 2 Volumes, 18th Cent polished calf, gilt, a little worn at hinges; bookplates of James Whatman. Occasional minor spotting o/w fine internally. (12), 905, (76)pp
Lot: 53
[Marianne Spencer Hudson] Almack’s: a Novel, Saunders & Otley, 1826, 3 Volumes, 1st Edn, half-leather, backstrips worn; John Walker A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin and Scripture Proper Names, 1804, 2nd Edn, engraved portrait; J. Thomson The Seasons, 1805, woodcuts by Bewick, tree-calf, spine repaired; and A Gallery of Portraits painted by an old and celebrated Master and re-touched by an Irish Artist, Dublin, 1813, bound with The New Bath Guide, 1807, quarter-leather, gilt. (6)
Lot: 69
The Quiver: an Illustrated Magazine, bound volumes for 1863, 1863-64, 1865, 1866, 1867 and 1872, all half-leather, gilt, over marbled boards, some foxing to prelims, front inner hinge of 1863 volume cracked. (6)
Lot: 70
19th Century Selection including Edgeworth Essay on Irish Bulls, 1815, 4th Edn; Charles Dickens The Chimes 1845, and The Battle of Life 1846, gilt cloth, some wear; and Castellan Letters on Italy, 1820, disbound, five hand-coloured engravings, 108pp. Fair to VG (8)
Lot: 84
Invitations and Tickets, 1890s, mainly Fox-Hunting Meets comprising Cheshire Hounds (4), Lyme Harriers (2), and Wilmslow Theatre Charity event (2). Very Good. Plus another item. (9)