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LOT 3141
LOT 3141
POLITICAL CARICATURE. The British Antidote to Caledonian Poison: Containing fifty-three Anti-ministerial, Political, Satirical, and Comic Prints, for those remarkable Years 1762, and 1763. London: for J. Pridden, [circa 1764.] 2 vols. in 1, seventh edition, 8vo (184 x 109mm.) Engraved folding frontispiece, 1 engraved illustration, 50 engraved plates, including 4 folding. (Some loss to frontispiece, small tears along folds of two folding plates, browning, finger-marked, minor soiling.) Contemporary half calf (old repair to spine, heavily rubbed). Note: rare. The two volumes were published separately so it is especially scarce to find them bound together. The title page contains a footnote advertisement for ‘The Scots Scourge’, also in two volumes, that together form a ‘compleat Sett of all the Political Prints published during Lord Bute’s Glorious Administration’.
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LOT 3142
LOT 3142
SUSSEX. A Full and Genuine History of the Inhuman and Unparalleled Murders of Mr. William Galley, a Custom-House Officer, and Mr. Daniel Chater, a Shoemaker, By Fourteen Notorious Smugglers… Written by a Gentleman of Chichester. Chichester: William Mason, [circa 1801.] Sixth edition, 8vo (179 x 121mm.) 7 engraved plates. (Browning, light spotting and finger-marking, lacking initial blank.) Contemporary half morocco (inner hinge weakened, extremities rubbed, minor loss to spine panel). Note: plates show graphic depictions of the torture and murder of William Galley and Daniel Chater by the notorious Hawkhurst Gang, a group of smugglers who were based in the south-east England from 1735 until 1749 when key members of the group were arrested and executed.
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LOT 3143
LOT 3143
FENELON, Francis de Salignac de la Mothe. A Demonstration of the Existence and Attributes of God. London: W. Taylor, 1720. Second edition, 12mo (159 x 92mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Browned, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary calf (lacking lettering piece, extremities rubbed, label remains to front pastedown). – And a further three volumes by Fénelon (‘Explication des Maximes des Saints sur La Vie Interieure’, 1697, 12mo, and ‘The Adventures of Telemachus, Son of Ulysses’, 2 vols., 1743, 8vo) (4).
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LOT 3144
LOT 3144
DRAWING. The Young Artist’s Complete Magazine for the Instruction of the Youth of both Sexes; or, Complete Body of the Polite and Useful Arts. London: for the Author, and Sold by J. Bew, [circa 1785.] Vol. 1 [only, of 2]. Second edition, oblong 12mo (88 x 144mm.) Half-title, title, 71 engraved plates in pairs, outlined and shaded. (Lacking frontispiece, lacking 2 text leaves and 1 plate for ‘Lesson 1’, lacking blanks, some offsetting and occasional crease, tear to B1.) Near contemporary calf-backed boards (crease to upper cover, hinges weakened, adhesive remains to pastedowns, rubbed). Provenance: Henry Gilbert (gift inscribed by on the front pastedown). Note: rare.
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LOT 3145
LOT 3145
THEOLOGY. – Joh. Honrico HOTTINGERO. Historiae Ecclesiasticae Novi Testament. Zürich: Michaëlis Schufelbergeri, 1655. Part 1 (only, of 2). 8vo (156 x 97mm.) Text in Latin, 33pp. ‘Index’ to rear, 1p. errata leaf. (Title browned, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary calf, mounted paper label to spine, lettering in manuscript (minor loss to label, lightly rubbed).
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LOT 3146
LOT 3146
[DEFOE, Daniel.] The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. London: T. Martin, 1792. Sixteenth edition, 8vo (169 x 96mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved plates. (Toning, upper margin trimmed, corner crease to ZZ4, A2 loosening, toning, lacking front blank.) Contemporary calf (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Arnold Merrick (ink name to front pastedown and stamp to title).
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LOT 3147
LOT 3147
BIBLE, In Greek. Tes Kaines Diathekes. [The New Testament.] London: Richard Whittaker [Leiden: B. and A. Elzevir], 1633. 8vo (167 x 111mm.) Title in Greek and Latin, title-page with woodcut printer’s device, double-column, text in Greek, commentary in Latin to rear, text interleaved with numerous 18th century manuscript notes in a single hand. (Toning, browning, marginal annotation and underlining to text, densely filled annotation to initial blanks and interleaved leaves.) Near contemporary calf (some loss to spine panel, extremities rubbed). Provenance: ‘T.B’ (ink inscribed to initial blank); Thomas Smith, Oxon (ink inscribed to title-page); J.F. Twigge (ink inscribed to title-page).
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LOT 3148
LOT 3148
RAMSAY, Andrew Michael. The Travels of Cyrus. To which is annex’d, A Discourse Upon the Theology and Mythology of the Ancients. London: T. Woodward, 1727. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (196 x 122mm.) Half-title, engraved initials and headpieces. (Occasional corner crease, lacking half-title to vol. 2.) Contemporary panelled calf, red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (extremities rubbed, upper joints splitting). Provenance: Charles Townshend, Lord Bayning, M.P. (bookplates to front pastedowns) (2).
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LOT 3149
LOT 3149
HERBERT, George. A Priest to the Temple: Or, the Country Parson’s Character, and Rule of Holy Life. London: Benj. Tooke, 1701. Fourth edition, 12mo (154 x 86mm.) Title, 2pp. ‘An Advertisement to the Reader’, with ‘A Prefatory View of the Life and Vertues of the Author’, 1p. publisher’s advertisement. (Toning, an engraved plate of Saint Augustine mounted verso the title, light browning.) Contemporary calf (lacking lettering piece, extremities rubbed, insect-damage to upper cover).
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LOT 3150
LOT 3150
SHENSTONE, William. The Works, In Verse and Prose. London: J. Dodsley, 1777. 3 vols., fifth edition, 8vo (176 x 113mm.) 2 engraved frontispieces, including a portrait, 2 engraved vignettes to titles, 7 engraved illustrations in the text, 1 engraved folding plan of Shenstone’s estate, The Leasowes. (Offsetting, browning throughout, occasional spotting, armorial bookplates to front pastedowns.) Near contemporary tree calf, red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (staining and upper joint of vol. 3 splitting, occasional scuffing). Note: Shenstone’s garden at Leasowes was noted for its simplicity and as an example of the ferme ornée, an expression of the romantic movement in landscape gardening and possibly to be seen as a progenitor of re-wilding. Provenance: A.H.C. Brister (ink name to front pastedowns) (3).
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LOT 3151
LOT 3151
BOYLE, Robert. A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things… [and]…Some Uncommon Observations About Vitiated Sight. London: H.C. for John Taylor, 1688. First edition, second issue, 8vo (171 x 107mm.) In 2 parts, second title-page for ‘Uncommon Observations’, errata leaf, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Toning, illegible ink name to title, a single wormhole from title-page to H8 but from E5-G8 it enlarges, affecting one or two letters on each leaf.) Contemporary speckled calf (spine repair at ends, scuffed and surface loss to upper cover). Note: second issue with the author’s name rather than initials to title-page. The second part is one of the first treatises to use the empirical method. Boyle came to believe that by observation the empirical method was superior to the scholastic and his persuasive arguments influenced, among others, Isaac Newton. [Krivatsy 1726].
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LOT 3152
LOT 3152
BURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London… London: for J. Dodsley, 1791. Eighth edition. (Occasional browning and pencil annotation, marginal tear to D6, marginal losses to four leaves at top edge, illegible ink name to title, a few corner creases.) [Bound with:] Thomas PAINE. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution. London: J.S. Jordan, 1791. Part 1 (only, of 2). Fourth edition. Half-title, the ’Meeting of the Society for Constitutional Information’ leaf to rear, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements. (Light spotting to last leaves, spotting to half-title, occasional browning.) 8vo (208 x 123mm.) Mid-19th century red half calf, black morocco lettering piece (lightly rubbed). Provenance: C. Ward (ink name to title of ‘Reflections’); George Drewry Squibb (bookplate to front pastedown).
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LOT 3153
LOT 3153
SALE, George. The Koran, Commonly Called The Alcoran of Mohammed: Translated From the Original Arabic. London: Longman, Rees, & Co., 1836. 2 vols., new edition, 8vo (214 x 127mm.) 4 plates. (Mild toning.) Contemporary brown full calf, black and brown morocco lettering pieces to the spines (minor scuffing to covers, insect-damage to top of lower joint of vol. 2, lightly rubbed extremities). Provenance: Frederic Thesiger, Lieutenant General, Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1916-21 (bookplates to front pastedowns) (2).
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LOT 3154
LOT 3154
HOLMES, Abiel. The Annals of America, from The Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to the year 1826. Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1829. 2 vols., second edition, 8vo (224 x 135mm.) (Light spotting to titles, toning.) Contemporary green half calf, two red morocco lettering pieces to the spines (lightly rubbed extremities). Note: with material added after the first edition of 1805 (2).
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LOT 3155
LOT 3155
TURNER, Sharon. The History of the Anglo-Saxons, from Their First Appearance Above the Elbe, to the Death of Egbert. London: for T. Cadell, Jun., 1799-1805. 4 vols., first edition, 8vo (210 x 126mm.) 1 large folding hand-coloured engraved map, half-titles to vols. 2 and 3. (Offsetting of map to first text leaf, toning, marginal loss and crease to front blank of vol. 3.) Contemporary tree calf, green and black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (upper joint splitting to vol.1, extremities rubbed). Provenance: James Kinsopp (ink name to titles and bookplates to front pastedowns) (4).
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LOT 3156
LOT 3156
SUSSEX. – D. JACQUES. A Visit to Goodwood, near Chichester, the Seat of his Grace the Duke of Richmond. Chichester: by the Author, and Messrs. Lackington, Hughes & Co., 1822. 8vo (227 x 133mm.) 3 engraved plates. (Browning and moderate spotting throughout, blanks replaced, lacking ‘Subscriber’s List’.) Later blue cloth (paper label to spine, endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed). Provenance: West Sussex County Libraries (labels to front pastedowns, stamps verso title). – And a further thirteen volumes related to Sussex (including ‘The Bognor Guide’, 1838, 4to, and George Hillier’s ‘A Day at Arundel’, 1851, 8vo, and Louis J. Jennings’ ‘Rambles Among the Hills’, signed by the author, 1880, 8vo, and H.R.P. Wyatt’s ‘Fragments of Findon’, 1926, 8vo) (14).
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LOT 3157
LOT 3157
JUNIUS. The Letters of the Celebrated Junius. A More Complete Edition Than Any Yet Published. London: [n.p.], 1783. 2 vols., 12mo (177 x 98mm.) (Toning, marginal insect-damage to preliminaries of vol. 1.) Contemporary calf, red and black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (minor scuffing to covers). Provenance: Susanna Sherrin (ink name to initial blanks). – And a further seven volumes (including H. Hammond’s ‘A Practical Catechism’, 1700, 8vo, and William Beveridge’s ‘Private Thoughts: In Two Parts Compleat’, 1720, 8vo, and an American hand-written liber amicorum ‘Leaflets of Friendship’, [circa 1850’s], 8vo) (9).
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LOT 3158
LOT 3158
ORIGINAL ART-WORK. – Paul JAMES (editor). Birds of Sussex. Sussex: Ornithological Society, 1996. First edition, 8vo (228 x 149mm.) Photographic illustrations, black and white illustrations by John Reaney. (Mild toning.) Original brown cloth, dust-jacket, original box. – And with 7 original black and white drawings by John Reaney that are published in the book, framed and glazed (two panes cracked) (8).
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LOT 3159
LOT 3159
INDIA. – L.F. Rushbrook WILLIAMS. Report of the Administration of Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy and Governor General of India, 1916-1921. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1921. 8vo (241 x 148mm.) (Light spotting to preliminaries.) Original red cloth (sunning to spine, spotting to upper cover). Note: rare. Lord Chelmsford and Edwin Montagu drew the initial outlines for a limited form of self-government for India in the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms which formed the basis of the Government of India Act in 1919.  However, Indian nationalists, especially having fought with the British in the First World War, thought the reforms were insufficient. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Frederic Thesiger, Lieutenant General, Viceroy and Governor-General of India 1916-21.
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LOT 3160
LOT 3160
SIGNED BOOK. – Robert Hamilton Bruce LOCKHART. Memoirs of a British Agent. London and New York: Putnam, 1934. Second edition, signed by R.H. Bruce Lockhart and Leslie Howard and Michael Curtiz and William Cargan, 8vo (217 x 139mm.) Photographic frontispiece. (Toning, label remains to front pastedown.) Original cloth (dust-soiled, spotting to upper cover, ink reference to spine). Note: signed on the half-title by the author and by Michael Curtiz, the director of ‘British Agent’, the 1934 American spy film based on Lockhart’s book. Leslie Howard and William Cargan starred in the film. The plot was based around Lockhart having apparently led a failed mission to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. He always denied the charge and eventually the ’Lockhart Plot’ was proven to be a Russian manoeuvre to discredit the French and English governments. Provenance: Battersea Public Library (label to front pastedown).
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