Lot: 24
Local History selection, mostly Staffordshire related, including Swinscoe, Blore and the Bassetts 1998; Redfern History of Uttoxeter, 1865, (with map); M. Wright The Best of Cannock Chase, 1933; Stephens History of Congleton, 1970; The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, Vol.VIII, 1963; and various others, mostly h/bk, some in d/jkts, varied condition. (25)
Lot: 33
Descriptive Catalogue of the Series of Coins found at Tutbury, in the County of Stafford, in the bed of the River Dove, in June, 1831, and supposed to have been part of the Military Chest of the Earl of Lancaster. Temp.Ed.II. Derby, [c.1835]; octavo, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth; bookplate of the Dalry Library dated 1904; (4),62pp. Fine
Lot: 38
Charles Mackay The History of the United States of America, Virtue & Co, London [1861-63], tall octavo (26cm), two volumes, original gilt and blind-tooled cloth, rebacked, worn & marked; uncut; few loose pages in Vol.I with edges frayed, plate of James Munro cut down & torn, o/w VG internally with all maps and engravings. 816pp + 772pp
Lot: 39
Scale of Charges for the attendance of the Salford Fire Brigade, within and beyond the Borough, County Borough of Salford, 1894; a public notice, single-leaf, 33cm, folds, laid down on thick board.
Lot: 41
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Robert Cadell, [1840s], set of six volumes, 12mo, bound in full navy blue morocco, ornate gilt decoration; rubbed at corners, gilt edges, few loose pages to vol.1; engraved frontispiece and titles after J.M.W. Turner to each volume; free from foxing. VG (6)
Lot: 46
Pierce Egan Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Revised & Corrected…London, 1823, 3rd Edition; orig. boards damaged, in need of rebinding; uncut; b/w frontispiece & prefaces; main text lacks pagination but appears complete; occasional spotting.
Lot: 47
Sarah Tytler Landseer's Dogs and their Stories, Marcus Ward, 1877, original illustrated cloth, gilt, a.e.g., VG; complete with six chromo-litho plates and very clean internally without inscriptions.
Lot: 48
Maria Edgeworth Harry and Lucy Concluded: being the Last Part of Early Lessons, London, 1827, 4 volumes; quarter-leather, gilt, worn, chipped at head of spines; endpapers with ownership inscriptions dated 1859; sporadic light foxing affects most pages. (4)
Lot: 49
Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, James Nisbet & Co., 1854-56, six volumes; half-leather, gilt, over marbled boards, the boards rubbed in places; marbled edges & endpapers; few pages browned but generally fine internally, enhanced by 58 wood engravings. (6)
Lot: 50
John Preston The New Covenant or The Saints Portion. A Treatise Unfolding the All-sufficiencie of God, Mans uprightness, and the Covenance of grace, Delivered in fourteen Sermons…Nicolas Bourne, London, 1639, 9th edition; octavo, 19th Century full leather, gilt title, head of backstrip pulled; title page marked; final page grimed; approx 35% of the text affected by browning; (16),590,(18)pp
Lot: 51
[Daniel Defoe] Tracts and Pamphlets comprising A New Discovery of and Old Intreague: A Satyr levell'd at Treachery and Ambition; An Elegy on the Author of the True-born English Man; The Storm, An Essay; A Hymn to the Pillory; A Hymn to Victory; The Pacificator; The Double-Welcome: A Poem to the Duke of Marlborough; and The Dissenters Answer to the High-Church Challenge. London, c.1730; octavo, later quarter-leather over marbled boards; bound together with continuous pagination; lacks title and half-title. Commences at page 1. One gathering loose, some browning to text. 192pp. The final tract is not complete.
Lot: 52
Sir Richard Baker Theatrum Triumphans, or a Discourse of Plays, Shewing the lawfulness and excellent use of Drammatique Poesy and vindicating the Stage from those groundless Calumnies and misrepresentions, wherewith it is aspersed. Francis Eglesfield, London, 1670; small 8vo, contemp. full leather, some wear to backstrip; title page faded; two leaves of the preface near detached of which one has margins shaved; two further leaves with damp-staining at foot o/w VG internally; (8),141pp
Lot: 55
The Edinburgh Review, A. & C. Black, Jan & Apr. 1878, 1882 complete, Jan. & Apr. 1883, and Jan. & Apr. 1885; in five matching volumes, half-leather, gilt, marbled boards. The Review was issued quarterly. VG (5)
Lot: 63
Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers Ward & Lock, 1861-1863, Vols 1 to 7; octavo, half-leather over marbled boards, some minor wear, fine internally. (7)
Lot: 69
William Dodd Discourses on the Miracles and Parables of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. T. Waller, W. Faden & E. Dilly, 1757, four volumes; volumes 2 to 4 published by W. Faden only; octavo, full polished calf, gilt ruling and titles, raised bands, red speckled sides; rubbed in places, some wear, mainly to the backstrips; browning to the margins of first & last few leaves o/w fine internally. (4)
Lot: 77
James D. Forbes Norway and its Glaciers visited in 1851: followed by Journals of Excursions in the High Alps of Dauphine, Berne, and Savoy, Adam & Charles Black, 1853; tall octavo, orig. blind-tooled cloth, spine damaged & hinges cracked, tape-repaired; library stamp foot of title page; plates & maps complete, rear folding map with spilt to central fold. Clean text.
Lot: 79
Leslie Stephens The Playground of Europe, Longmans, Green & Co, 1871, First Edition, contemporary half-leather over marbled boards, gilt, spine rubbed; bookplate of George F.M. Grant; b/w frontispiece; slight spotting to prelims o/w fine internally; x,(2),321pp
Lot: 80
Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, MDCCLXXII. Printed by John Monk, Chester, 1774; quarto, 19th C. half-leather, gilt, rubbed & faded; bookplate of C.A.Briggs; engraved title as frontispiece and 44 other plates, several folding; VG internally; (1),viii,379,(1)pp
Lot: 81
Andrew Crombie Ramsay The Geology of the Island of Arran, from Original Survey, Richard Griffin, 1841; contemp. patterned cloth, gilt; tape repairs to spine and front inner hinge; hand-coloured map & geological section as frontispieces; wood-engravings; clean text & map. Scarce
Lot: 83
The Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, Darien Press, Volumes 1 to 19, 1891-1932, complete in bound volumes, vols 1 to 4 in worn half-leather bindings, the remainder in VG gilt cloth; a few pages with fox marks but mostly fine internally with plates & folding maps; together with Garden & Parker Index to the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, Vols.I to X, 1911. (20)