Auction No 372, Category: Antiquarian

48 Lots (displaying 1 - 20)

Traditional bookbinders' cloth and papers, an extensive holding comprising various cloths in rolls,

Lot: 1

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £200 - £300
SOLD £340
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Traditional bookbinders’ cloth and papers, an extensive holding comprising various cloths in rolls, plus marbled and coloured papers in sheets ranging from A2 to A4, and other items. In addition to items shown in our photograph, there are many smaller papers in box files and folders. BUYER TO COLLECT

Antiquarian books, prints, and newspapers (2), including bound volumes(2) of 19th Century steel engravings,

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Antiquarian books, prints, and newspapers (2), including bound volumes(2) of 19th Century steel engravings, and De Buffon Natural History 1785 in 4 volumes lacking boards & backstrips but retaining engravings. Mixed condition. (Qty)

                                                            

Bundles of legal and financial correspondence 1880s & 1890s and 1900s to 1930s, London and Berwickshire respectively

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Bundles of legal and financial correspondence 1880s & 1890s and 1900s to 1930s, London and Berwickshire respectively, from wide range of correspondents, many stock exchange related. (100s)

"The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politicks, and Literature, of the Year 1759"

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £125
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The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politicks, and Literature, of the Year 1759, Dodlsey, 1760; and 24 subsequent volumes from 1760 to 1842;  octavo, uniform tree-calf bindings, some wear, mainly to the backstrips which are chipped in places; texts complete and generally VG, but the volumes for 1760 and two later are dampstained. Our photo shows 18 of the 25 volumes in this lot. (25)

John Harwood Hill "The History of the Parish of Langton with…the Hundred of Gartree, Leicestershire, 1867"

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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John Harwood Hill The History of the Parish of Langton with…the Hundred of Gartree, Leicestershire, 1867, folio, poor binding, front board detached, VG internally; Tegetmeier Pheasants: Their Natural History and Practical Management, 1881, some pages loose; Woman’s Weekly Nov.4th 1911 to May 4th 1912, bound volume; Bagshaw History, Gazetteer and Directory of Derbyshire, 1846, poor binding, map loose and damp-affected, fine text; and a wide range of others, 19th & 20th Century, a few modern, h/bk and s/bk. Poor to VF (21)

Antique Maps and prints in folder including c.1750 pair of star Maps "The Celestial Hemispheres"

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
SOLD £100
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Antique Maps and prints in folder including c.1750 pair of star Maps The Celestial Hemispheres, English County Maps of the 1820s published by James Pigot (10), Plan of the Battle of Wynendale 1772, a scene of Executions in Lisbon 1759, a View of Manufacturers Hall Halifax 1789, few Natural History plates, the Orbit of Halley’s Comet 1795 & few others; also few modern items including a letter signed by Peter Scott. VG/VF 

William Nicholson "A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts", London, 1802 & 1803,

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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William Nicholson A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts, London, 1802 & 1803, Volumes 2 and 6 only, complete with engravings; original boards, backstrips badly worn; uncut and partly unopened; good clean texts. (2)

Jean-Francois Lavoisien "Dictionnaire Portatif de Medecine", Paris, 1781, 2 vols, full calf, gilt, worn,

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Jean-Francois Lavoisien Dictionnaire Portatif de Medecine, Paris, 1781, 2 vols, full calf, gilt, worn, boards of Vol.2 wormed, contemp. inked signature to title page of Vol.1; William and A.P. Buchan Domestic Medicine, or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases, London, 1807, full leather, gilt, worn, some faults; and R.P. Coconnier L’Hypnotisme Franc, Victor Lecoffre, 1898, fine half-morocco, gilt, marbled boards. (4)

[John Arbuthnot] "An essay on the usefulness of mathematical learning, in a letter from a gentleman

Lot: 18

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £120
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[John Arbuthnot] An essay on the usefulness of mathematical learning, in a letter from a gentleman in the city to his friend in Oxford. S. Wilmot, Oxford, 1721, 2nd Edition; octavo, title page and final page dust-affected, scattered foxing elsewhere; old catalogue number entered in ink at foot of title page; 37,[1]pp. Disbound, with remnants of old leather backstrip. 

James Smith "A New Treatise of Fluxions: containing: I. The Elements of Fluxions, demonstrated in two easy propositions

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
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James Smith A New Treatise of Fluxions: containing: I. The Elements of Fluxions, demonstrated in two easy propositions..II. A Treatise of Nascent and Evanescent quantities..III. Sir Isaac Newton’s Demonstrations of the Fluxions enlarged and illustrated. IV. Answers to the Principal objections in the Anylist. London, 1737; octavo, lacks title page; 59pp. A folding plate at front probably does not belong. Good clean text. Disbound, with remnants of old leather backstrip. 

[John Lawson] "A Dissertation on the Geometrical Analysis of the Antients, with a Collection of Theorems and Problems

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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 [John Lawson] A Dissertation on the Geometrical Analysis of the Antients, with a Collection of Theorems and Problems, without solutions, for the Exercise of Young Students. Simmons & Kirkby, Canterbury, 1774; octavo; title page dust-affected; xxiv,32pp, plus two folding-plates. VG. Disbound, with remnants of old leather backstrip.      

Edward Waring "A Letter to The Reverend Dr.Powell….In Answer to his Observations

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
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Edward Waring A Letter to The Reverend Dr.Powell….In Answer to his Observations on the First Chapter of a book called Miscellanea Analytica, and his Defence of those Observations, Cambridge, 1760, 47pp plus plate; bound with [W.S. Powell] A Defence of the Observations on the First Chapter of a Book called Miscellanea Analytica, T. Merrill, Cambridge, 1760, 38pp; and [John Wilson] A Vindication of the Miscellanea Analytica: in Answer to a late Pamphlet entitled Observations, &c. T. & J. Merrill, Cambridge, 1760, 22pp plus blank leaf. Octavo. VG. Disbound, with remnants of old leather backstrip.  

Benjamin Robins "New Principles of Gunnery: containing The Determination of the Force of Gun-Powder

Lot: 22

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £54
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Benjamin Robins New Principles of Gunnery: containing The Determination of the Force of Gun-Powder , and An Investigation of the Difference in the Resisting Power of the Air to Swift and Slow Motions. J. Nourse, London, 1742, 1st Edition; octavo, disbound, remains of leather backstrip; lvii,95pp. Folding Plate. Rear endpaper heavily creased o/w fine. 

"A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings Upon High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanours"

Lot: 58

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
SOLD £135
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings Upon High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanours, London, 1730-1766, the 2nd Edition, bound into 16 matching volumes, folio, quarter leather, very worn, boards partly loose or detached, all requiring rebinding; uncut, edges dust-affected, large body of the text clean; collated by previous owner as complete. (Weight approx. 85 kilos)

                                                            

Tom C. Smith "Records of The Parish Church of Preston", 1892, large paper copy, gilt cloth, fine, plates complete

Lot: 59

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £46
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Tom C. Smith Records of The Parish Church of Preston, 1892, large paper copy, gilt cloth, fine, plates complete, many folding, bookplate of Stephen Simpson; and H. Fishwick History of the Parochial Chapelry of Goosnargh, 1871, large paper copy, requiring restoration, text & plates clean and complete. (2)

Lt. General Pitt Rivers "Excavations in Cranborne Chase, near Rushmore on the borders of Dorset and Wilts"

Lot: 61

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £185
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Lt. General Pitt Rivers Excavations in Cranborne Chase, near Rushmore on the borders of Dorset and Wilts, privately published, 1887-98, 4 large volumes, original gilt cloth; Vol. I with backstrip detached & in two pieces, covers loose, other volumes with small faults to top & foot of spine; text, plates and maps complete; VG internally and suitable for restoration. (4)

A.H. Clough (Ed.) "Plutarch's Lives: The Translation called Dryden's", John Nimmo, 1893, 5 volumes

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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A.H. Clough (Ed.) Plutarch's Lives: The Translation called Dryden's, John Nimmo, 1893, 5 volumes, original gilt cloth, wear to top & foot of spines (esp. Vol.5); uncut two sides; armorial bookplates. Clean texts. (5)

Francis Grose "Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time"

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £150 - £200
SOLD £100
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Francis Grose Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time, T. Egerton, 1801, New Edition (enlarged) including the supplement on armour and weapons; tall quarto, full leather, gilt, worn, very weak hinges, requiring restoration; 142 plates including frontispieces and plans, plus engraved titles; some spotting to the plates, mostly of a minor nature and affecting the occasional margin, the frontispieces and title pages most noticeably affected; clean text throughout.

                                                                                                

Edward Gibbon "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Methuen, 1896-1900, 7 vols

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Methuen, 1896-1900, 7 vols, edited by J. B. Bury; original gilt cloth, folding maps, VG set. (7)

William Anderson "The Speeches and Judgement of the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session in Scotland

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £50
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William Anderson The Speeches and Judgement of the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session in Scotland upon the important cause, His Grace George James Duke of Hamilton and other, pursuers; against Archibald Douglas, Esq.; Defender. J. Balfour & others, Edinburgh, 1768, octavo, rebound in fine modern half-calf, gilt, marbled boards; uncut two sides, slight staining to margins of some leaves, few contemp. marginal annotations in ink, generally VG internally. vi,[1],620pp.