Lot: 42
Church Papers, a bound volume of Reports to the House of Commons 1811-1823, modern cloth, gilt, chiefly statistical returns from the Church of Ireland and the Church of England, bound with a few related Acts of Parliament of the period 1824-1840. Few pencil annotations o/w fine.
Lot: 50
William Yate An Account of New Zealand; and of the Formation and Progress of the Church Missionary Society’s Mission in the Northern Island. R.B. Seeley & W. Burnside, 1835, 2nd Edn; octavo, half-leather gilt over marbled boards by Porter & Custard of Yeovil, complete with Map and 10 tissue-guarded plates (the flags hand-coloured), a fine copy; together with Te Rangi Hiroa The Coming of the Maori, 1977 in d/jkt, and [E.F. Manning] Old New Zealand, a Tale of the Good Old Times, Richard Bentley, 1876, orig.gilt cloth. VG/Fine (3)
Lot: 80
Epistles & letters of Saint Thomas Becket. Epistolae Et Vita Divi Thomae Martyris Et Archi-Episcopi Cantvariensis. Nec Non Epistolae Alexandri III. Pontificis, Galliae Regis Ludovici Septimi, Angliae Regis Henrici II. Aliarumque plurium Sublimium ex utroque Foro Personarum. Edited by Christian Lupus from manuscripts held at the Vatican. Printed by Henri Fricx, Brussels, 1682; quarto, 2 volumes, in 18th Century polished calf, gilt; bookplates of James Whatman (1702-1759) paper maker and inventor of wove paper. Occasional minor spotting o/w fine internally; [12],905,[76]pp. VG
Lot: 159
Arturi Jonstoni (Arthur Johnston) Psalmi Davidici: Interpretatione, Argumentis, Notisque. Illustrati: In Usum Serenissimi Principis, London, 1741; quarto, full contemp. leather with elaborate gilt decoration, slightly worn and marked, gilt title intact, red sides; bookplate of E.Wyatt Edgell; fine internally with engraved frontispiece and double-page Map; pp. xvi, 392, map, index.
Lot: 179
J. B. Hannay Sex Symbolism in Religion, London, 1922, 1st Edn, 2 volumes, orig. gilt cloth, spines a little faded, ownership signature, fine internally; William Inge The Philosophy of Plotinus, Longmans, 1923, 1st Edn, 2 vols, orig. gilt cloth; and Confucius The Unwobbling Pivot and The Great Digest, Peter Owen, 1951, in foxed d/jkt, translated by Ezra Pound. G/VG (5)