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LASSELS, RICHARD. The Voyage of Italy..In Two Parts. Printed for Robert Clavel.., 1686 (part 2 dayed 1685). 8vo., black panelled calf. engraved additonal titles (text rather browned). Wing L 466b. -- DEBES, LUCAS JACOBSON. Foeroae, & Foeroa Reservata: that is a description of the Islands and Inhabitants of Foeroe...Englished by John Sterpin, printed by F.L. for William Ilse 1676. First English Edition. 12mo., cont. sheep (rebacked, lacks map and plates). text browned). Wing D 511 (3) £200-300 | Nil |
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| 62 | LICETUS, FORTUNIUS. De Lucernis Antiquorum Reconditis Libb. Sex:.. Udine, Nicolai Scheiratti, 1652. First Edition, folio, old vellum, Four folding engraved plates and 116 text illustrations, by J. Georgins, including 9 full page (one plate col. 1154 has the cancel illustration pasted over). (light damstaining affecting top outer corners of prelims. A work on the oil lamps of the ancient Greeks, Romansm Egyptians etc. includes the two priapus illustrations See Illustration £500-700 | Nil |
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| 63 | LISTER, Dr. MARTIN. A Journey to Paris In the Year 1698. Second Edition, printed for Jacob Tonson, 1699. 8vo., cont. panelled calf (rebacked, Ri repaired). six engraved plates, 2 of them folding. Bookplate of the Hon. Algerman Capell, Ealr of Essex, 1701, pasted to verso of title. Wing L 2526 -- BURNET, GILBERT. Some letters, containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland... Amsterdam, 1686. First Edition. 2 parts in 1, 8vo., full panelled calf. Wing B 5914 £200-250 | Nil |
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| 64 | MANDEVILLE, Sir JOHN. The Voiage and Travaile...Now published entire from an Original MS. in the Cotton Library. Printed for Woodman and Lyon, 1727. 8vo., tree calf gilt. Stanley, A.P. Sinai and Palestine, New Edition, 1875. 8vo., cont. calf gilt Map and plans (2) £150-200 | Nil |
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| 65 | MERITON, GEORGE. A Geographical Description of The World. Printed for William Leake and John Leake, 1674. Second Edition. 12mo., cont. panelled calf (rebacked, orig backstrip laid down). Engraved title (very small nick at outer edge). Wing M 1791 With another by the same (anglorum Gesta 1675) (2) With 20pp. on the American Islands at the end of the first work £100-200 | Nil |
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| 66 | MONFAUCON, BERNARD de. Palaeographical Graeca..Paris, L. Guerin and others, 1708. Folio, half green morocco. 11 engraved plates mostly folding and numerous text illustrations £300-400 | Nil |
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| 67 | MONTFAUCON, BERNARD de Antiquity Explained, And Represented in Sculptures. Trnaslated into english by David Humphreys. 1721 -22 - 25. 5 vols. and Supplements vol 1. Folio cont. panelled calf (rebacked and with corners renewed in brown cloth, sides of M1 stained). Numerous engraved plates (6) £300-400 | Nil |
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| 68 | MORYSON, FYNES. An itinerary..Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions..Printed by John Beale, 1617. First Edition, folio paneled calf gilt. Woodcut maps and plates in text and ornaments on titles (first title torn and laid down, some browning, lacks first and last blanks). STC 18205 See Illustrations £400-600 | Nil |
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| 69 | PAGAN, BLAISE FRANCOIS, COMTE De MERVEILLES, An historical and Georgraphical Description of the great country and river of the Amazones in America..and now tranlsated into English by William Hamilton. Printed for John Starley, 1611. First Edition in English. 8vo., cont. sheep (rebacked, and corners repaired). Folding engraved map. Bookplate of Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill pasted to verso of title. Wing P 162. Sabin 58142 See Illustration £500-700 | Nil |
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| 70 | PORTER, Capt. DAVID. A Voyage in the South Seas, in the Years 1812, 1813 and 1814. With Particular Details of the Gallipagos and Washington islands, Published by Sire Richard Phillips & Co. 1823. 8vo., half calf. Folding engraved map and 2 paltes. Voyages and Travels, No. XLVII, Vol VIII. Sabin 64220 £100-200 | Nil |
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| 71 | PSLAMANAAZAAR, GEORGE, pseud. An Historical and Geograpical Description of Formosa...Printed for Dan. brown, 1704. First Edition, 8vo., cont. panelled calf, spine gilt. 16 engraved plates, 2of them folding (torn, but skillfully repaired). Errata leaf (some browning). Bookplate of Sr Jacob Astley of Melton Constable in Norfolk with his signatureon first blank £250-350 | Nil |
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| 72 | SANDYS, GEORGE. A Relation of a Journey begun An: Dom: 1610. Foure Books. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire..., Printed for Andrew Crooke, 1637. Fourth Edition, folio old calf gilt (rebacked). Engraved title, folding map and folding plate, text illustrations. Contemporary ms. notes in margins of first 54pp. STC 21730 See Illustration £400-600 | Nil |
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| 73 | SANDYS, GEORGE. Sandys Travels, Containing An History of the Original and present State of the Turkish Empire...Seventh Edition. Printed for John Williams Junior, 1673. Folio, panelled calf gilt. engraved title (from 6th Edition), double page map and plate. text illustrations. (title and eng. title laid down, old library stamp on title and in text, some margins reparied). Wing S 680 £250-350 | Nil |
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| 74 | SELLER, ABEDNEGO. The Antiquities of Palmyra. Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, 1696. First Edition, 8vo., cont. panelled calf (rebacked, orig. backstrip laid down, corners repaired). Folding engraved view and plate. Errata slip. Bookplate of Lawr. Brook Hollinshead. Wing S 2448 £300-400 | Nil |
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| 75 | WENTWORTH. W.C. A Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, and its dependent settlements in Van Diemen's Lane. Second Edition, Printed for G. and W.B.Whittaker, 1820. 8vo., old half mottles calf. Engraved frontispiece and folding map (brown) £100-200 | Nil |
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| 76 | AUSTN, WILLIAM. Haec Homo, wherin the Excelency of the Creation of Woman is desribed.., Printed by Richard Olton for Ralph Mabe, 1637. 12mo., old vellum (repaired, with new ties, lacks A1, engraved title). Woodcut ornament on title and 4 woodcut in text. STC A974 £150-250 | Nil |
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| 77 | BACON, Sir FRANCIS. Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning or the Partitions of Sciences. First Eiditon in English, tranlsated by G. Wats. Oxford, Printed by leon. Lichfield...1640. Folio, panelled calf. Engraved title and portrait frontispiece. STC 1167 £500-700 | Nil |
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| 78 | BACON, Sir FRANCIS. The Naturall and Experimentall History of Winds, &c. Written in Latine..Translated into English by R.G. Printed for Humphrey Mosely, 1653. First Edition in English 12mo., old speckled calf (rebacked, backstrip laid down). Portrait frontispiece (portrait a facsimile, title laid down, text with some browning). Wing B 305 £100-200 | Nil |
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| 79 | BADOCK, WILLIAM. A Touchstone for Gold and Silver Wares. Second Edition with Additions. Printed for J. Bellinger (1679) oarlty black letter 8vo., calf gilt. Engraved plate (title defective at lower edge, with loss of imprint, ? lacking frontispiece). Wing B382A, only 2 copies listed £100-200 | Nil |
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| 80 | BAKER, HUMFREY. The Well spring of Sciences. which teacheth the perect works and practice of Arithmeticke..Printed by Thomas Purfoot, 1602. Mostly black letter, small 8vo., cont. vellum (some neat repairs and with new ties, some staining to text at end). Title within woodcut border, printers device on verso of final leaf. 2 old signatures on title. STC 1215 £300-400 | Nil |
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| 81 | BARBA, ALVERO ALONSO. The Art of Medals..In Two Books. Translated by edward, earl on Sandwich. Printed for S. Mearne, 1674. 2 parts on one, 8vo., fill calf gilt. Engraved plate (upper blank margin of title and small holes restored, some browning to text, plate shaved at outer edge) Wing B 678; Sabin 3254 £500-700 | Nil |
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| 82 | BOHUN, RALPH. ADicourse Concerning the Origine and Propertoes of Wind. With an Historical Account of Hurricans...Oxford: by W.Hall for Tho. Bowman, 1671. First Edition, 8vo., calf gilt. Initial blank with letter'A'. 3 text engravings. Biblitheca Philippica bookplate lightly tipped in (robinson purchase). Wing B3463 Sabin 6146 The First attempt to explain weather phenomena See Illustration £400-600 | Nil |
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| 83 | BORDE, ANDREW. The Breuiary of Healthee for all manner of syckenesses and diseases. Thomas East, 1575. Two parts in one, black letter. Small 4to., modern red morocco, tooled inblind, a.e.g. (lacks first title and last leaf of Table, D4, text rather soiledr, some repairs). Title to part 2 within woodcut border. Conteporay ms. medical notes on 2pp (black leaf) at end of first part. STC 3376 £300-500 | Nil |
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| 84 | BULWER, JOHN. Anthropometamorphosis: The Man Transform'd: O, The Artificall Changling Historically presented..Printed by William Hunt, 1653. Second Edition, small 4to., hlaf calf. Additional engraved title and portrait (both neatly inlaid). "Intent of the Frontispiece unfolded" leaf (with inner margin renewed). Numerous woodcut illustrations, including three extra woodcuts between pp 122 & 123 (slight loss to headline of Ppp3, some browing). Wing B5461. See Illustration £600-800 | Nil |
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| 85 | BURNET, THOMAS. The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth..Third Edition review'd by the Author, Printed by R.N. for Walter Kettilby, 1697. Two parts in one, folio, cont. panelled calf (rebacked, orig. backstrip laid down). Engraved additional title and two double page maps, text illustrations. (some spotting, and staining at end of volume, a few neat repairs). Wing B 5953. £300-400 | Nil |
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| 86 | CHARLETON, WALTER. Enquiries into Human Nature, in VI. Anatomic Praelections in the New Theatre of the Royal Colledge of Physicians in London. Printed by M.White, for Robert Boulter, 1680. Small 4to., full calf. (lacks portrait, title repaired some browning and staining, B2 torn and crudely repaired). Six text illustrations. Wing C 3678 Walter Charleton (1619-1707) was physician to Charles I and II £200-400 | Nil |
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| 87 | COOKERY. A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen...or, the Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying..Printed by R.H., 1651. 12mo., dark green morocco, panelled sides gilt, purple silk doublures. (title and a few other leaves remargined, sometimes with slight loss, lacks A1, A6, A7, A12, D6, D7, E1 and H12). Wing C 4729. Two copies only in Wing, British Library and Wellcome Library. Someimes atrtributed to Sir Hugh Plat. £100-200 | Nil |
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| 88 | DIGBY, Sir KENELM, Two Treatises. In the one of which the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, The Nature of Mans Soule...Paris, Printed by Gilles Blaizot, 1644. First Edition, folio, full black morocco gilt a. e.g. Woodcut diagrams Wing D 1448. This Paris Edition eas published while Digby and his family wer in exile during the Civil War. One of the most important English scientific books of the 17th century See Illustration £600-800 | Nil |
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| 89 | EVELYN, JOHN. Numismata. A Discourse of Medalsm, Antient and Modern. Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1697. First Edition, folio, full panelled calf. 100 engraved text illustrations. Wing 3505. Sold with a imperfect copy of Freart. A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern, 1665 (lacking engraved and printed titles, imprimatur and final leaf (2) £200-300 | Nil |
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| 90 | FALCONER, JOHN. Cryptomenysis Patefacta: Or the Art of Secret Information Disclosed without a Key...Printed for Daniel Brown, 1685. First Edition, 8vo., full speckled calf gilt. (lacks blanks A1 & A8, but with a final blank, text lightly browned) Wing F 296. £200-300 | Nil |
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