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Regne animal dispose en tableaux methodiques:

Regne animal dispose en tableaux methodiques:

COMTE J Achille [Joseph] 1802-1866

Regne animal dispose en tableaux methodiques: COMTE J Achille £3000

VG+, 1840, Tall Elephant Folio, 90 pls + TP.
In modern, to style, half red morocco, with contemporary red faded boards, some blind tooling, edges lightly bumped and rubbed. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling and titles. Internally, red marbled endpapers, text block edges sprinkled red, book label to fpd (William Alexander Murray), [1] engraved titlepage, [1] blank, [2] introduction, 90 pls (of 90) double page pictorial charts 80*55.5 cms (20 of which were produced at 32 Southampton St, Strand London & the remainder in Paris at Rue de Place de l'Ecole de Medecine, No 13), depicting approximately 5,000 images, new cloth joints, minimal paper repairs. A very good + copy. Weighs 10.5 Kg, and is 56.7*44.5*5 cms. (Graesse 315. Brunet 5572. Nissen 938. Crochard 1839 p11)
Title continues: ouvrage adopté par le Conseil royal de l'instruction publique pour l'enseignement des colléges et autroes etablissements de l'université

£1750 | Published: 1840 | Publisher: Fortin Masson et Cie, Successeurs de Crochard et cie.

A Collection of Voyages and Travels,

A Collection of Voyages and Travels,

[OSBORNE Thomas]

Tall Folio, 1st ed, 2 vols, 1745, 37 maps, 16 pls, 1 folding chart.
In modern speckled calf, to style, gilt edge tooling. Spines, decorative gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles to red calf labels, by Chivers- Period Binders. Internally, new endpapers, text block edges reddened, no inscriptions, 2 columns per page. Vol 1, frontis, [4], (lviii), 261 pp, [1], [1], 410-552, [1], 754-756, 557-630, 699-873 pp, [1] blank, odd pagination but complete, 17 maps (most by Moll, all folding, watermarked RM), 12 plates, 1 chart (folding). Vol 2, [2], [1], 2-p4, [3], (xcviii-c), 95-100, [101-102], [1], [102-103], 104-212, [2], 213-236, [237-245], 236-279, [1], 278-402, 393-480, 466-663, [1], [1], 734-931, [1], [30] index, 20 maps (folding, mostly by Moll), odd pagination but complete. A Superb set. (ESTC T97843. Hill 295. Sabin 57765).
Voyages & destinations include: Gonzales. Story. Moscvy. Overbury. Usher. Dauphinuis. Hakluyt. Wolfe. Drake.Knight. Dunton. Phelps. Hartwell. Frogel. Boothby. Castle. Geare. Warren. Asia. China. Turkey. France. Persia. America. and much more.

£4750 | Published: 1745 | Publisher: Thomas Osborne

Cyfreithjeu Hywel Dda ac Eraill, seu Leges Wallicae Ecclesiasticae & Civiles

Cyfreithjeu Hywel Dda ac Eraill, seu Leges Wallicae Ecclesiasticae & Civiles

[CLARKE Gulielmus] - editor. WOTTONUS Gulielmus [WOTTON William] 1666-1727

VG+, 1730, 1st ed.
In superb full modern black calf, gilt edge tooling, by Period Binders of Bath. Spine, gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles to red calf labels. Internally, new endpapers, rubricated title page, [42], [3], 4-586 pp, lacks half title, parallel Welsh and Latin texts, text block edges sprinkled red, one of the 400 Ordinary paper issues, light browning to edges of tp only, small gutter tear to tp, numerous printers headers, footers & initials, 1 illustration within text, 39.5*25cms. (ESTC T63960. Brunet 1480. Maslen & Lancaster).
Title continues: Hoeli Boni et aliorum Walliae principum, quas ex variis codicibus manuscriptis eruit, interpretatione latina, notis & glossario illustravit.
One of Hywel's supposed pro-English acts was the introduction of elements of English law into those of Wales. This was not impossible, since according to the prologues to the Welsh law books of the thirteenth and later centuries, he was responsible for the first codification and promulgation of Welsh law, known consequently as cyfraith Hywel (‘the law of Hywel’). See ODNB.

£485 | Published: 1731 | Publisher: Gulielmi Bowyer

Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis

Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis

DALI Salvador 1904-1989.

A Stunning Copy

£14000 | Published: 1967 | Publisher: Rizzoli editoris

China in a series of Views

China in a series of Views

WRIGHT The Rev GN [George Newham] 1795/5-1877

A complete set of Allom & Wrights - China in a Series of Views, 4 volumes - in their original gilt pictorial covers, 1st edition, 1843, with 128 plates.
What more could you want!

£3500 | Published: 1843 | Publisher: Fisher, Son, & Co.

Dramatic Characters, or Different Portraits of the English Stage.

Dramatic Characters, or Different Portraits of the English Stage.

[GARRICK David] 1717-1779

A superb copy of Garricks Dramatic Characters, 1st edition, 1770, complete with all 24 hand coloured plates, depicting Garrick and others as Characters of their day.

£1950 | Published: 1770 | Publisher: Robt. Sayer. and Jnno. Smith.