Lot: 1
Victorian leather-bound photo-album, complete with sprung clasp, gilt-edged, unused, containing 9 pages of chromo-litho decoration. Some wear to spine.
Lot: 7
Antiquarian selection including 1878 edition of Charles Dickens’ The Village Coquettes; W.H. Robertson Hand-Book of the Peak of Derbyshire, folding map; The Floral Birthday Book, George Routledge, 368 coloured illustrations; London and its Environs; or the General Ambulator, 1820, complete with plates, folding map needs repair, rear board detached; and 3 others. Varied condition (7)
Lot: 12
J.G. Wood The Illustrated Natural History, Routledge 1872-75, set of 3 volumes, original pictorial cloth, gilt, marble-edged, good, many wood-engravings; private library blind-stamp of Robert Ratcliffe at foot of title pages.
Lot: 22
Lord Macaulay The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Longman, 1850-61, 5 Volumes, octavo, rebound in fine half-leather bindings with gilt titles, marble-edged; some browning to the half-titles and final index pages o/w an attractive set. (5)
Lot: 38
[Henry Manders] The History of the Church of Crosthwaite, Cumberland London 1853; fine modern rebind in blue quarter-morocco, gilt, b/w frontispiece, some toning to prelims; and J. McConnell Rustic Rhymes by a Country Parson (Underbarrow Vicarage), Titus Wilson, Kendal, 1907, original printed wraps, some wear, inscribed by the authour. (2)
Lot: 39
John White Middleton An Ecclesiastical Memoir of the First Four Decades of the Reign of George the Third L.B.Seeley, 1822; 19th Century half-leather, gilt, marbled boards, good; fine internally; xvi,[1],388,[12]pp
Lot: 43
Phaedrus Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabulae Aesopiae, A.J. Valpy, 1822, 2 vols (bound into one), contemporary full leather, gilt, some light wear, a.e.g.; bookplate of Robert Shafto Adair, neat ownership signature top of title page. Fine internally. 756pp plus index.