Lot: 4
19th Century French Newspapers, mostly 1812-22 with many Napoleonic Wars period especially Le Moniteur Universel. Good to fine. (54)
Lot: 5
Stereographs, late-19th & early-20th Century, some RPs but largely half-tone, with topography, humorous, coal-mining (9), and domestic scenes. Mostly good to VG. (213)
Lot: 45
Christian le Ros "Christmas Day; and How it was Spent by Four Persons in the House of Fograss, Fograss, Mowton, and Snorton, Bankers" Routledge, 1854, first edition, full leather, gilt, four plates by Phiz; and [George Smeeton] Doings in London; or Day and Night Scenes of the Frauds, Frolics, Manners and Depravities of the Metropolis, Hodson, 1850, rebound in paper-covered boards, 33 engravings after George Cruikshank.
Lot: 56
La Commedia di Dante Allighieri illustrata da Ugo Foscolo, Pietro Rolandi, London, 1842-45, four vols (in two), full calf, gilt, boards detached, title labels chipped, marble edges and endpapers; fine internally, good clean text. (2)
Lot: 57
Henry Nutter Local Rhymes, B. Moore, Burnley, 1890, signed and inscribed by the author; limp cloth (bowed) with gilt title; staples rusted o/w good. 160pp + index
Lot: 81
F.O. Morris A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, [1880], six vols., bound in leather-covered bevel-edged boards, elaborate gilt decoration, rubbed at extremities, complete with 240 fine coloured tissue-guarded plates; foxing to endpapers, occasional minor spotting elsewhere, the plates largely unaffected. (6)
Lot: 83
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with notes by Milman, Guizot and William Smith, John Murray 1881, eight volumes, fine rebind in gilt green cloth, complete with engraved portrait and Maps; small damp-stain to foot of portrait, folding maps at rear of Vol.1 strengthened with archival tape. Top right corner of title page to Vol.1 torn away, part of front folding map to Vol.8 missing, good clean set.
Lot: 84
William Anderson The Scottish Nation; or, the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of the People of Scotland, Fullarton, 1860-63, three vols, tall octavo, worn half-leather, gilt; a genealogical table from Vol.3 missing o/w plates and tables complete. Damp staining to plates in Vol.1; foxing to tissue-guards. (3)