Books and Manuscripts: A Summer Miscellany

28 Jul 2020  |  UK, London
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ALBIN | A natural history of birds, 1738-1740 (but later)

1: ALBIN | A natural history of... Estimate: Login

ALKEN | The national sports of Great Britain, 1821

2: ALKEN | The national sports of... Estimate: Login

AMBERT | Esquisses historiques... l'armée française, Saumur, 1835, half red morocco, Furstenberg copy

3: AMBERT | Esquisses... Estimate: Login

ANNING, MARY | autograph letter signed, to William Buckland, [1829]

4: ANNING, MARY | autograph... Estimate: Login

ASTLEY | The art of riding, London, 1584, later calf, drop-back box

5: ASTLEY | The art of riding... Estimate: Login

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM | c.460 items including letters by Babbage, Charles Vignoles, and many others

6: AUTOGRAPH ALBUM | c.460 items... Estimate: Login

BEDFORD, DR EVAN | Medical papers, diaries, and related material

7: BEDFORD, DR EVAN | Medical... Estimate: Login

BEEBE, C.W. | A Monograph of the Pheasants, London 1918-1922, 4 volumes

8: BEEBE, C.W. | A Monograph of... Estimate: Login

BONAPARTE, C.L. | Iconographie des pigeons, Paris 1857

9: BONAPARTE, C.L. | Iconographie... Estimate: Login

BOYS | Original views of London as it is. London: Thomas Boys, 1842

10: BOYS | Original views of... Estimate: Login

BRAZIL | Brass plaque celebrating the establishment of the First Brazilian Republic, 15 November 1889

11: BRAZIL | Brass plaque... Estimate: Login

BRAZIL | Fernando de Noronha island, watercolour and engraved map

12: BRAZIL | Fernando de Noronha... Estimate: Login

[BRAZIL]--CICÉRI AND BENOIST | Rio de Janeiro, [1852], hand-coloured lithograph

13: [BRAZIL]--CICÉRI AND BENOIST |... Estimate: Login

[BRAZIL]--CORONELLI | Three globe gores of South America, mainly Brazil, [c.1693]

14: [BRAZIL]--CORONELLI | Three... Estimate: Login

[BRAZIL]--HORATIUS | Il Regno del Brasile parte nobilissima del Mondo nuovo, 1698, engraved map

15: [BRAZIL]--HORATIUS | Il Regno... Estimate: Login

BRAZIL | Two lithographed views of Rio de Janeiro, [1850s]

16: BRAZIL | Two lithographed... Estimate: Login

BRINDESI | Elbicei atika. Musée des anciens costumes Turcs de Constantinople. Paris, Lemercier, [1855]

17: BRINDESI | Elbicei atika... Estimate: Login

CARDIGAN and McCORMICK | Eight months on active service & A Visit to the Camp before Sebastopol, both 1855; 2 works

18: CARDIGAN and McCORMICK | Eight... Estimate: Login

CARLEVARIS | Le fabriche e vedute di Venetia, Venice, [1705]

19: CARLEVARIS | Le fabriche e... Estimate: Login

CHILE | Two lithographed views of Valparaiso, [c.1854]

20: CHILE | Two lithographed views... Estimate: Login

CORONELLI | Atlante Veneto, 1691

21: CORONELLI | Atlante Veneto, 1691 Estimate: Login

DAFFY | Elixir Salutis, 1681, 2 pamphlets

22: DAFFY | Elixir Salutis, 1681... Estimate: Login

DARWIN | autograph letter signed, to Henry Colburn, [1837]

23: DARWIN | autograph letter... Estimate: Login

DINGLE | The new atlas of China, 1920

24: DINGLE | The new atlas of... Estimate: Login

DONN | A map of the county of Devon, 1765

25: DONN | A map of the county of... Estimate: Login

DONOVAN | The natural history of British birds, 1794-1798

26: DONOVAN | The natural history... Estimate: Login

DURY | A chorographical map of the King of Sardinia's dominions, 1765

27: DURY | A chorographical map of... Estimate: Login

EDWARDS | A natural history of birds [Gleanings of natural history], 1802–1806 (watermarks 1816–1824)

28: EDWARDS | A natural history of... Estimate: Login

EINSTEIN | Signed photograph, 1955

29: EINSTEIN | Signed photograph... Estimate: Login

ELLIOT, D.G.| A Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, New York 1873, folio, 36 plates

30: ELLIOT, D.G.| A Monograph of... Estimate: Login

ELLIOT, D.G. | A Monograph of the Phasianidae, New York 1870-1872, 2 volumes

31: ELLIOT, D.G. | A Monograph of... Estimate: Login

FARRÈRE AND FOUQUERAY | Jonques et sampans, 1945

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[FER] | Mappe-monde ou carte generale de la terre, 1760, large hand-coloured wall-map

33: [FER] | Mappe-monde ou carte... Estimate: Login

FRANCE | A pair of trompe-l'oeil engravings of assignats, c.1797

34: FRANCE | A pair of... Estimate: Login

FÜSSLI | Vues remarquables de la Suisse, [c.1802]

35: FÜSSLI | Vues remarquables de... Estimate: Login

GART DER GESUNDHEIT | Augsburg, 1487, coloured woodcuts, later boards

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GOULD, J. | Monograph of the Trogonidae, London 1835-1838, folio

37: GOULD, J. | Monograph of the... Estimate: Login

HAYES, W. | Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds, London 1794

38: HAYES, W. | Portraits of Rare... Estimate: Login

HUME and MARSHALL | The Game Birds of India, Calcutta 1879-81, 3 vols

39: HUME and MARSHALL | The Game... Estimate: Login

JAILLOT AND SANSON | Atlas Nouveau. Contenant toutes les parties du Monde, 1692-1693, 2 volumes

40: JAILLOT AND SANSON | Atlas... Estimate: Login

JAWHARI, ISMA'IL IBN HAMMAD | Turkish-Arabic dictionary, 1803, Sir Gore Ouseley's copy

41: JAWHARI, ISMA'IL IBN HAMMAD |... Estimate: Login

KNORR | Verlustiging der oogen en van den geest, 1770–1775

42: KNORR | Verlustiging der oogen... Estimate: Login

KOREA | Manuscript map, [twentieth century]

43: KOREA | Manuscript map... Estimate: Login

LATHAM | A general synopsis of birds, 1781-1785

44: LATHAM | A general synopsis of... Estimate: Login

LONDON |The several plans and drawings ... in the Third Report ... upon the improvement of the Port of London, 1800

45: LONDON |The several plans and... Estimate: Login

MALAYSIA | Reconnaissance Map South-East Pahang, 1922

46: MALAYSIA | Reconnaissance Map... Estimate: Login

MEDICINE | Manuscript medical and culinary recipe book, 17th centuy

47: MEDICINE | Manuscript medical... Estimate: Login

MERCATOR AND HONDIUS | Atlas, 1613

48: MERCATOR AND HONDIUS | Atlas... Estimate: Login

MEYER | Angenehmer und nuetzlicher Zeit-vertreib mit Betrachtung curioser vorstellungen allerhand... Thiere, 1748–1756

49: MEYER | Angenehmer und... Estimate: Login

NOLIN | Le Globe Terrestre Represente En Deux Plans-Hemispheres, 1775, large hand-coloured wall-map

50: NOLIN | Le Globe Terrestre... Estimate: Login

NOLIN | L'Afrique dressee sur les relations, 1775, engraved wall-map

51: NOLIN | L'Afrique dressee sur... Estimate: Login

ORTELIUS | Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1584, 3 parts in one

52: ORTELIUS | Theatrum orbis... Estimate: Login

PENNANT | The British zoology, 1761-1766

53: PENNANT | The British zoology... Estimate: Login

PISTRUCCI | Iconologia ovvero immagini, 1819

54: PISTRUCCI | Iconologia ovvero... Estimate: Login

PTOLEMAEUS | Geographia universa, Venice, 1596, later half vellum

55: PTOLEMAEUS | Geographia... Estimate: Login

SIMPSON |The seat of the War in the East. London, 1855–56, 2 parts in one volume

56: SIMPSON |The seat of the War... Estimate: Login

STEDMAN | Narrative of a five years' expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam, 1813

57: STEDMAN | Narrative of a five... Estimate: Login

SYRACUSE | Bonanni, Delle Antiche Siracuse, 1717, 2 volumes; Descrizione delle quattro, 1717, engraved map (3)

58: SYRACUSE | Bonanni, Delle... Estimate: Login

VEER | Tre navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi e Zelandesi, 1599, first Italian edition

59: VEER | Tre navigationi fatte... Estimate: Login

WHITEREAD, Rachel | House Project, Artangel, 1995, no.2/60 of the artist's proofs

60: WHITEREAD, Rachel | House... Estimate: Login

WIEGAND | watercolour and pencil sketch, [twentieth century]

61: WIEGAND | watercolour and... Estimate: Login

PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, DUKE OF CLARENCE | series of seven letters to Sybil St Claire Erskine, 1891

62: PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, DUKE OF... Estimate: Login

ASHENDENE PRESS | Dante, la Divina Commedia, 1902-1905

63: ASHENDENE PRESS | Dante, la... Estimate: Login

AUSTEN | Mansfield Park, 1814

64: AUSTEN | Mansfield Park, 1814 Estimate: Login

BEARDSLEY--ARISTOPHANES | The Lysistrata of Aristophanes, 1896, number 21 of 100 copies

65: BEARDSLEY--ARISTOPHANES | The... Estimate: Login

BIBLE | 1645, embroidered binding

66: BIBLE | 1645, embroidered... Estimate: Login

BODLEIAN LIBRARY | Catalogue, 1738

67: BODLEIAN LIBRARY | Catalogue... Estimate: Login

CAPOTE | Breakfast at Tiffany's, revised typescript, 1958

68: CAPOTE | Breakfast at... Estimate: Login

CERVANTES | The History of Don Quichote, 1620

69: CERVANTES | The History of Don... Estimate: Login

[CHURCHILL]--AUTOGRAPH ALBUM | Containing c.275 items including a letter by Churchill

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[CHURCHILL]--MONORAIL | visitors' book signed by Churchill and others, 1910-11

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[DOYLE, Sir A.C.] COTTINGLEY FAIRIES | Collection from M.T. Johnson, including 5 photographic plates, psychic spectacles

72: [DOYLE, Sir A.C.] COTTINGLEY... Estimate: Login

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