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Lot 909/0210
SOLD Hammer price €260
Clavering (Rob.) An Essay on the Construction and Building of Chimneys, Including an Enquiry into the Common Causes of their Smoking. 8vo L. 1779. First Edn., fold. frontis plt., fold. table & 4pp adverts at end, orig. calf, upr. cover detached. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 910/0210
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Slave Trade: Clarence – Substance of The Speech of his Royal Highness The Duke of Clarnece in the House of Lords, on the Motion for the Recommitment of the Slave Trade Limitation Bill … 1799, 8vo L. n.d. [1799] [IV], 68pp new boards. (1)
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Lot 911/0210
SOLD Hammer price €100
Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vols. 8vo L. 1802, Tenth, 3 hf. titles, lacks loose end blanks, orig. mottled calf, spines worn. (3)
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Lot 912/0210
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Steuart (Sir H.) The Planter’s Guide; or A Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving Immediate Effect to Wood,… 8vo Edin. 1828. Second, engd. frontis & 5 plts. complete, cont. calf, rebacked. Carton copy with bookplate. (1)
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Lot 913/0210
Thomson (Richard)ed. …. Account of the Processions and Ceremonies observed in the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England, 8vo L. 1820. fold, engd. frontis fold. plan & 2 plts. lacks front blanks, orig. ptd. boards, later paper re-back. (1)
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Lot 914/0210
Dublin Printing: Charlevoix (Fr.) The History of Paraguay, 2 vols. 8vo D. 1769. Cont. calf, raised bands, mor. labels. Sabin 12133. (2)
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Lot 915/0210
Guest (Lady Theo.) A Round Trip in North America, 8vo L. 1895. FIRST EDN., frontis & 15 plts., orig. decor. cloth, gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed on hf. title by author to Mrs. Bond; A Short American Tramp in the Fall of 1864, by Author, ‘Life in Normandy’ Edin. 1865, frontis & decor. title; Chambers (Wm.) Things as they are in America, L. & Edin. 1857, SECOND EDN., cloth; 1 other. (4)
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Lot 916/0210
Hedin (Sven) Overland to India, 2 vols. thick 8vo L. 1910. 2 cold. frontis & 200 plts. (4 cold. & 4 fold.) 2 lg. fold. maps complete, orig. blue cloth, gilt. Good. (2)
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Lot 917/0210
SOLD Hammer price €900
Stanley (Henry M.) How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventure and Discoveries in Central Africa. 8vo L. 1872. FIRST EDN., hf. title, orig. mtd. photo frontis, 3 maps (ex 4), includ. 2 fold., 28 plts. 8pp adverts at end, orig. decor. cloth, good. (1)
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Lot 918/0210
SOLD Hammer price €300
Fine Illustrated Volumes
King (Jessie M.)illus. – Wilde (Oscar) A House of Pomegranates, 4to L. n.d. cold. title, 16 mtd. cold. plts. & end papers by Jessie M. King, decor. cloth; also Pogany (Willy)illus. Faust, by Goethe, trans. by A. Hayward, roy 8vo L. n.d., cold. frontis & 30 cold. plts. by Pogany, t.e.g. gilt decor. cloth. good. (2)More details › -
Lot 919/0210
SOLD Hammer price €190
Illustrated Volumes: Aldin (Cecil) Zoo Babies, 4to L. n.d. Hf. title, 24 cold. plts., decor. end papers, orig. pict. boards, cloth backed, text loose from binding, otherwise good; also The Animal World, Vol. V New (Series) 4to L. 1910. Illus. thro-out, & with attractive full decor. pict. cloth boards after Cecil Aldin. (2)
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Lot 920/0210
SOLD Hammer price €280
Chapman (Wm.) M.R.I.A. Observations on the various Systems of Canal Navigation, …. 4to L. 1797. First Edn., hf. title, 4 engd. plts., cont. tree calf, gilt lettered title on front cover, mor. label. V. good copy. (1)
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Lot 921/0210
SOLD Hammer price €120
Juvenalia: Belloc (Hillaire) More Beasts for Worst Children, oblong sm. folio L. n.d. First Edn. First Impression, 48pp. of illus., orig. cloth backed pict. boards; The Modern Traveller, sm. 4to L. 1898, First, illus., cloth backed pict. boards; More Peers, sm. 4to L. n.d. First Edn, 48pp. of illus., orig. pict. cold. boards; 2 other late vols. by same author. Scarce. (5)
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Lot 922/0210
Washington (George) Epistles Domestic, Confidential, and Official, 8vo N. York 1796, First Edn., hf. title, a few leaves lightly browned, a few small marginal water-stains, unopened, original cloth. (1)
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Lot 923/0210
Yule (Col. Sir H.)ed. & trans. – The Book of Ser Marco Polo, The Venetian, concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of The East. 2 vols. L. 1929. Port. frontis, fold. maps, plts. fac-similes etc., orig. decor. cloth. v. good. (2)
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Lot 924/0210
Thomas (Bertram) The Arabs, roy 8vo L. 1937, First, port. frontis fold. map, plts. & maps, d.w.; Land Finan (Gunnar) The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea, L. 1927. First, map frontis, profusely illustrated, cloth; Armstrong (Neville) After Big Game in the Upper Yukon, L. 1937, First, maps, illus. etc., cloth. (3)
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Lot 925/0210
SOLD Hammer price €140
Shackleton (Ed.) Arctic Journeys, 8vo L. 1936. First Edn., frontis plts. fold. map at end, cloth & pict. d.w. good; Dainelli (G.) Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet, L. 1933. First Edn. in English, frontis plts., dbl. page map, d.w.; Cherry-Garrard (A.) The Worst Journey in the World, L. 1937. One Vol. Edn. illus. fold. map, d.w.; Fuchs (Sir V.) & Hillary (Sir E.) The Crossing of Antarctica, L. 1958, illus. d.w. (4)
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Lot 926/0210
SOLD Hammer price €240
Nansen (Fridtjof) ‘Farthest North,’2 vols. 8vo L. 1898. First Edn., port. & other frontis, fold. map, numerous plts. & text illus., very attractive gold & silver decor. pictorial cloth. A very good copy. (2)
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Lot 927/0210
The Alps: Whymper (Ed.) Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69, roy 8vo L. 1871, frontis, plts. text illus., & 6 fold. plts. & maps at end, orig. cloth; [Dempster (C.L.H.)] The Maritime Alps and their Seaboard, L. 1885. FIRST EDN., frontis plts. & illus. cont. hf. blue mor. by Bayntun. (2)
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Lot 928/0210
Tristram (H.B.) The Land of Israel, a Journey of Travels in Palestine …, thick 8vo, L. 1866, Second Edn., hf. title, cold. frontis, 2 fold. maps, 11 plts. (3 cold.) complete, orig. cloth, worn, otherwise fine. (1)
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