Lot: 1
Joseph Gillow A Literary and Biographical History or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics from the Breach with Rome in 1534 to the Present Time, Burns & Oates,[1885], 5 volume set, vols.2 to 4 in original faded cloth, vol.1 rebound; clean internally, no inscriptions. Unopened. (5)
Lot: 2
Antiquarian selection, 18th & 19th Cent. including Jeremy Collier (trans.) The Emperor Marcus Antoninus, his Conversation with himself, 1708, 2nd Edn; [Joseph Battell] The Yankee Boy from Home, 1864; tracts by Daniel Defoe (2, c.1704); and 17 others. Fourteen are in leather including several prayer books & bibles in attractive blind-tooled bindings. Fair to fine. (21)
Lot: 19
National Bible Society of Scotland. The Holy Bible, 1945, special illustrated edition for the Society issued to celebrate VE Day, in full soft morocco binding, gilt, in presentation box, presented to Dr. John Bolton by Rutherglen East Church, VF; together with John Dinwiddie The Ruthwell Cross, Dumfries 1933, in d/jkt, fine. (2)
Lot: 24
John Rotheram An Essay on Establishments in Religion with Remarks on the Confessional, White & Saint, 1767, bound with four other 1767 tracts comprising James Ibbetson A Plea for the Subscription of the Clergy to the Thirty-Nine Articles, Benjamin Page Five Letters on Several Subjects, Nathaniel Forster A Sermon Preached at the Visitation of the Rev.Dr.Moss, and Thomas Weare A Sermon Preached before the University of Oxford; contemp. worn calf, front board detached. Together with Elizabeth Helme Plutarch's Lives Abridged, 1794, half-leather, worn, gilt title label. Both volumes with good clean text. (2)
Lot: 47
The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, Adam & Co, [1880], quarto, half-leather with some wear, gilt title, 18 tinted lithographs; frontispiece loose, some browning mainly affecting text margins.