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Auction No 400, Category: History

25 Lots (displaying 21 - 25)

"Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on the Training of Pauper Children; with Appendices"

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on the Training of Pauper Children; with Appendices, HMSO, 1841; octavo, nicely bound in modern cloth with gilt title; VG internally including folding architectural diagram of a District School; xii,421pp   

Eugene Francois Joseph Tailliar: Four Historical Pamphlets comprising "Notice sur la langue romane d'oil et sur son etat, dans le nord de la France

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
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Eugene Francois Joseph Tailliar: Four Historical Pamphlets comprising Notice sur la langue romane d'oil et sur son etat, dans le nord de la France, aux XIIe et XIIIe siecles, [1837], 80pp; Essais sur L'Historie des Institutions, [n.d.]; Etudes sur les Institutions Dans leurs rapports avec les monuments. 2me Etude Domination Romaine. Periode Anterieure a L'Avenement de Diocletien en 284. [n.d.],46pp + 12 plates; and Notice sur Origine et l'Organisation des Commune dans le Nord de la France. [n.d.]; bound together in a worn & chipped quarto half-leather binding, gilt, title label still fine; marbled endpapers; two private library stamps of Francois Toraven; some pages with spotting but generally clean, the architectural essay & plates fine. 

John [Williams], Bishop of Lincoln "Great Britains Salomon: A sermon preached at the magnificent funerall, of the most high and mighty King, Iames,

Lot: 65

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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John [Williams], Bishop of Lincoln Great Britains Salomon: A sermon preached at the magnificent funerall, of the most high and mighty King, Iames, the late King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c, John Bull, London, 1625; sm.4to; bound in cloth covered boards, black tape repair to spine; lacks frontispiece; clean text; pp.37/8 torn with temporary repair; colophon page damaged (not affecting text); (2),76,(1)pp.  

Jean-Paul Marat, and A. Vermorel (Editor) "Oeuvres de J.P. Marat", Decembre-Alonnier, Paris, 1869; octavo, quarter red morocco, gilt,

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Jean-Paul Marat, and A. Vermorel (Editor) Oeuvres de J.P. Marat, Decembre-Alonnier, Paris, 1869; octavo, quarter red morocco, gilt, marbled boards & endpapers, a little worn; ownership signature top of title page; tear to lower margin pp.11/12 needs repair; o/w fine internally; vii,326pp

Clarence Gilbert Hoag and George Hervey Hallett "Proportional Representation", Macmillan, New York, 1926, 1st Edition;

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £250
SOLD £125
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Clarence Gilbert Hoag and George Hervey Hallett Proportional Representation, Macmillan, New York, 1926, 1st Edition; octavo, gilt cloth, slightly marked upper left front board; old Manchester Guardian library stamps to both sides of title page; newspaper review laid down on front pastedown with brown offset on endpaper; o/w fine internally and in the original binding. Very scarce, and a pioneering work on the concept of proportional representation in the election of governments.; xx, 546pp