Lot: 59
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand Genie du Christianisme, or Beautes de la Religion Chretienne Le Nomant, Paris, 1823, octavo, 5 volume set, 19th Cent half-calf, few scuff marks, gilt red titles, marbled boards, VG (5)
Lot: 60
Jonathan Swift A Second Collection of Miscellanies J. Roberts, London, 1720, First Edition, incomplete but including title, dedication and the whole of The Art of Punning including the preliminary text and preface. Small ink archival inscription top right of title page and few repairs; tastefully rebound in modern quarter leather with marbled boards and new endpapers. (10), xiii, 27, (4)pp.
Lot: 61
Francisco Luca SACRORUM BIBLIORUM VULGATAE EDITIONIS CONCORDANTIAE, AD RECOGNITIONEM JUSSU SIXTI V. PONT. MAX. BIBLIIS ADHIBITAM, RECENSITAE ATQUE EMENDATE, Balthasar and Egmond, Cologne, 1684; frontispiece, title, pp5-16, and extensive concordance. Octavo, in a 19th Century cloth binding, a.e.g.
Lot: 62
[Mrs. Charles Mathews] Memoirs of a Scots Heiress. Addressed to the Right Honourable Lady Catherine ******. by the Author of Constance, &C. ...T. Hookham, London, 1791, 12mo, 3 vols.,title page missing from Vol.1 but half-title present; contemp. half-leather with backstrips very worn but gilt title and volume labels intact. Clean internally.
Lot: 63
The New Testament, Richard Whittaker, London, 1633, Greek text, editorial notes in Latin by Robert Stephen and others; small octavo, full panelled calf with raised bands, gilt title, top of spine wants repair; red sides. Clean text. pp (8), 459, (13).
Lot: 64
D. Antonio Gavin A Master-Key to Popery. In Five Parts. J. Stephens, London, 1725, 2nd Edition (revised); full ruled calf, top of spine chipped, lacks title label; light foxing throughout, mainly confined to the margins. Title, xii, 259, (2)pp.
Lot: 65
Richard Head The English Rogue: described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, A Witty Extravagant, 1660-1674, set of four volumes from various editions, all with plates, bound uniformly with paper covered boards, the backstrips missing or damaged; some minor browning but largely clean internally. (4)
Lot: 66
[James Fennimore Cooper] Ravensnest; or, The Redskins, Richard Bentley, 1846, First UK Edition in 3 vols, contemp. boards, cloth backstrips, bumped corners, title labels chipped and browned, uncut 2 sides; spotting to endpapers and prelims, clean text. (3)
Lot: 67
Charles Churchill Gotham, Books 1 to 3, London, 1764, 1st Edition, bound with 3 other satirical poems by Churchill, quarto, contemp.full leather, some wear, clean text; together with four other 18th & 19th works including John Skelton A Ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge 1882, edited by John Ashton. Mixed condition. (5)
Lot: 68
Thomas Edwards The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary; The Trial of the letter y, alias Y, and Sonnets, London, 1758, full leather, spotting to prelims o/w VG; Beaumont and Fletcher Bonducca, a Tragedy, 3rd Edition, 1778, bound with four 18th Century tragedies, half-leather; and 5 others in leather bindings, mixed condition. (7)
Lot: 74
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: 78
Nimrod (Charles James Apperley) The Life of John Mytton, Esq, of Halston, Shropshire…..with Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric, and Extravagant Exploits, George Routledge, 1870, 5th edition, enlarged, complete with 18 tissue-guarded hand-coloured engravings after Alken & Rawlings; the engravings with some foxing largely confined to margins; rebound in modern cloth.
Lot: 79
Lord William Lennox Pictures of Sporting Life and Character, Hurst & Blackett, 1869, 1st Edition, 2 Vols, original publisher’s gilt cloth, darkened, b/w frontispiece to both vols, tissue-guards foxed; clean text. (2)