504 Grose F.: The Antiquities of England and Wales, Nd. C. 1780. Eight Vols. Qto. Later Qtr. binding, marbled edges. Engraved frontis and engraved oval vignette on all title pages. Engraved plates, vignettes and small scale county page maps. Folding map of England and Wales in Vol.7.
505
Mallet R.: The First Principles of Observational Seismology, 1862. Vols. I & II. As developed in the report to the Royal Society of London of the Expedition made by command of the Society into the interior of the Kingdom of Naples, to investigate the circumstances of the Great Earthquake of December 1857. Royal 8vo. Original green textured & blind-stamped cloth, gilt titling on spine. Folding colour panorama litho frontis to Vol.1 and plate to Vol.II. Two folding maps (A & B) as required in separate pockets in vol. II. Coloured and tinted lithograph plates & vignettes; folding plans, maps, charts & diagrams. The set is ex lib. (Yorkshire Philosophical Society) and has small oval stamps on the very margins of maps & plates and some minor wear to the extremities to the binding, otherwise it can be described as a very good, near fi ne set and represents a seminal treatise in the science of Seismology.
£1500 - £2000 506
Beeton's Book of Favourite Modern Poets of England and America, nd. C.1880. Royal 8vo Hb., Green cloth, highly decorative gilt & black binding, aeg. Poetry text together with engraved plates. Scarce.
507
Zimmermann A.: Sonatas (edited & fi ngered by) for the Pianoforte composed by Beethoven, 1873 (less common title) together with : Sonatas for the Pianoforte composed by W.A. Mozart, C. 1912. Two tall qto. Hb. vols. by Novello, brown cloth, gilt, aeg.
£100 - £150
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, nd. C. 1920. 8vo. Hb + Dj. Red cloth with gilt decoration and illustrated dj. Tipped in colour plates with titled tissue guards by Edmund Dulac; Housman L.: The Magic Horse and other Stories from the Arabian Nights, 1911. 8vo. Hb. Brown cloth, gilt illus. Colour plates by Dulac with titled tissue guards. Dickens C.: A Christmas Carol, 1947. 8vo Hb. Colour plates by Arthur Rackham.
£60 - £80 509
Gilbert M.: Winston Churchill. Vols. 1 - 8. 8vo. Hb + Dj . plus one other Churchill title £40 - £60
510 £30 - £40 £20 - £30
A Varied Collection of Educative or Recreational Illustrated Titles in French with Decorative Folio Bindings, most with aeg : Le Tour Du Monde en Famille Voyage De La Famille Brassey Dans Son Yacht Le Sunbeam, 1887; Clarettie L.: Linette - Memoirs D'Une Enfant De Paris, C.1927; Anfossi M.: Une Heroine de Quatorze Ans, C.1899; Poinsot M.: Sur le Gouffe, C.1890; Brown A.: Perdus Dans Les Sables, C.1885; Picard A.: La Terre Des Fleurs, C.1890; Figuier L.: Le Savant Du Foyer Notions Scientifi ques, 1880.
Lot 505 (and detail image)
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