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LOT 4083
LOT 4083
BIBLE, In English. [The Bible: that is, The Holy Scriptures, contained in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages.] London: by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1595. Geneva Version. NT within decorative woodcut border, double-column, black letter, woodcut initials and illustrations in the text, with ‘Apocrypha’. (Lacking OT title and ‘Adam and Eve’ engraving, lacking 7 leaves, numerous small paper repairs and also large paper repairs at I6 and Tttt1, browning, minor soiling, many leaves chipped, marginal damp-staining and several leaves in ‘Apocrypha’ damp-stained with text losses to Hhhh2-3.) [Bound with:] The Whole Booke of Psalmes. London: for the Companie of Stationers, 1631. Decorative woodcut border to title, black letter. (Heavily browned, paper repair to N1, lacking last two leaves.) Small folio in 6s (267 x 180mm.) 17th century calf to lower cover, upper cover 18th century mottled calf (rebacked, endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed). Provenance: John Britton (ink name inscribed to rear pastedown). [Herbert 225, but 210 for collation].
Estimate: £200 – £400
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LOT 4084
LOT 4084
BIBLE, In English. [The Bible, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke: and conferred with the Best Translations in Divers Languages.] London: deputies of Christopher Barker, 1588. Geneva version. NT title with woodcut architectural border, black letter, double-column, with ‘Booke of Common Prayer’ and ‘Two right profitable and fruitful Concordances’, with ‘Apocrypha’. (Lacking OT title, lacking all before D4 of ‘Book of Common Prayer’, lacking 3 leaves from ‘Apocrypha’ and 2 leaves from NT, C6 of OT with a 2.5 inch tear, browning, occasional minor soiling, corner creasing, contemporary ink annotation verso last leaf of ‘Common Prayer’ and also verso title of ‘Concordances’, headlines trimmed in last leaves.) [Bound with:] Whole Book of Psalmes. London: John Wolfe for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1586. (Browning, several leaves damp-stained, lacking leaves from F1, last leaves loose, headlines trimmed.) 4to (208 x 131mm.) Contemporary calf (some loss to spine, heavily rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Mills (ink name to front pastedown); James Gaunt (ink name verso last leaf of ‘Apocrypha’). [Herbert 197].
Estimate: £300 – £500
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LOT 4089
LOT 4089
EVELYN, John. Silva: or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty’s Dominions. London: for J. Walthoe, J. Knapton, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth et al., 1729. Fifth edition, with mounted clipped signature of W.J. Evelyn, folio (321 x 197mm.) Title in red and black, 11pp. ‘Appendix’, with ‘Terra. A Philosophical Discourse of Earth’ and ‘Pomona’ and ‘Kalendarium Hortense’ with 5pp. ‘Table to Terra and the Other Tracts’, extra-illustrated with 3 engraved plates relating to the Evelyn family and 2 mounted newspaper clippings, several blank blue leaves bound-in at front and rear with water-mark ‘E. Towgood, 1857’. (Toning, marginal damp-stain to last leaves.) Contemporary calf, brown morocco lettering piece to spine (extremities scuffed and rubbed). Note: William John Evelyn, descendant of John Evelyn, was conservative M.P. for West Surrey in 1849 and 1852, and M.P. for Deptford in 1885.
Estimate: £120 – £180
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LOT 4090
LOT 4090
BATH. – [Julius Caesar] IBBETSON and J. LAPORTE and J. HASSELL. A Picturesque Guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, The River Avon, and the Adjacent Country; Illustrated with a Set of Views, Taken in the Summer of 1792. London: for Hookham and Carpenter, 1793. First edition, 4to (262 x 198mm.) 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates, tissue-guards, errata leaf to rear with publisher’s advertisement verso. (Lacking half-title, browning to title, occasional light spotting, marginal paper repair verso one plate, minor marginal finger-marks, soiling verso last plate.) Near contemporary green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, upper cover corner heavily rubbed). Provenance: G.F. de[?] Wilde (ink name inscribed to title). [Tooley 277]. – And a further four volumes (including Richard Fenton’s ‘A Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire’, 1811, 4to, and Giraldus de Barri’s ‘The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales A.D. MCLXXXVIII’, vol. 2 [only], 1806, 4to) (5).
Estimate: £50 – £80
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