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Auction No 364, Category: Natural History

4 Lots (displaying 1 - 4)

Bernard Fontenelle "Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes" Pierre Gosse, 1745, small octavo,

Lot: 37

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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Bernard Fontenelle Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes Pierre Gosse, 1745, small octavo, contemp. calf, worn but sound hinges; clean title page & text; lacks frontispiece; 151pp

Francis Darwin "Charles Darwin" John Murray, 1892, First Edn., signed & inscribed by the author

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £94
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Francis Darwin Charles Darwin John Murray, 1892, First Edn., signed & inscribed by the author on front endpapers; original gilt cloth, b/w frontispiece, 348pp. VG

Thomas Burnet "The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth,

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
SOLD £50
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Thomas Burnet The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of all the General Changes Which it hath already undergone, Or Is To Undergo, Till the Consummation of all Things. The Two First Books Concerning The DELUGE, AND Concerning PARADISE.Walter Kettilby, 1684, First Edn, folio, contemp. polished calf, very worn with parts of backstrip missing, front board detached; (xviii), 327, (i),pp; lacks engraved frontispiece; 2 double-page plates [world maps, with the land masses in relief and California as an island], 9 engraved figures in Book One and 3 in Book Two.

Edward Waterhouse "A Discourse and Defence of Arms and Armory", London, 1660,

Lot: 76

  • Auction Date: Wed 14th Dec 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £42
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Edward Waterhouse A Discourse and Defence of Arms and Armory, London, 1660, rebound in modern leather gilt, marginal annotations and some cropping, rare; together with Philip Hamerton Chapters on Animals London, 1874, pictorial gilt cloth, 20 fine etchings; and N.P. Willis Letters from Under a Bridge, and Poems, George Virtue, 1840, half leather, gilt, 8 engraved plates. Fair to VG (3)