Lot: 74
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: 75
[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: 76
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: 79
The Comic Almanack: an Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities …..with many hundred Illustrations by George Cruikshank and other artists, Chatto & Windus, 1878, the First Series, original gilt cloth, fine; occasional tone spot o/w VG internally; plus The Female Instructor; or, Young Woman’s Guide to Domestic Happiness, Thomas Kelly, 1822, engraved frontisp & 5 (of 6) plates; tastefully rebound in modern calf, gilt. (2)
Lot: 89
Pierce Egan Boxiana G.Smeeton, 1812, Volume 1 of the series; together with Volumes 2 & 3 from a subsequent edition; Vols.2 and 3 in 19th Century half-leather, gilt, repaired, with new endpapers; Vol.1 in a fine modern half-leather binding. Most plates intact but 4 folding plates missing from Vol.1, some plates added to Vol.2 (contains 13 instead of 6) and Vol. 3 lacking one of the seven plates. Some damp staining. Also 5 others on boxing.
Lot: 107
H. C. Maxwell Lyte A History of Eton College 1440-1875, Macmillan 1877, in an attractive full-leather gilt binding, showing some wear; Francis Howell The Characters of Theophrastus….and Illustrated by Physiognomical Sketches, Josiah Taylor, 1824, full morocco, gilt, some occasional minor spotting; Cecil Reddie Abbotsholme, George Allen, 1900; and 6 others. Good to VF (9)