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Auction Date
October 27, 2024 - October 27, 2024
Page Size: 453 items in 19 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
127

FISH: 1- Couch (Jonathan). A History of the Fishes of the British Islands

1877 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 435.20
128 RUSSELL, Patrick:

TWO WORKS/VOLUMES: 1- An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of Coromandel.

1796 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,808.00
129 Albin (Eleazar):

A Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects.

c.1736 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 281.60
130 INSECTS: Fowler, W.W:

The Coleoptera of the British Islands. Vol. I-V (lacking vol. 6).

1887-91. GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
131

Lloyd's Natural History: 1- A Hand-Book to the Order Lepidoptera, 5 Vols.

1896-87 GBP 150.00 - 300.00 GBP 243.20
132 DONOVAN, Edward:

The Natural History of British Shells, Including Figures and Descriptions of all the Species Hitherto Discovered in Great Britain, Systematically Arranged in the Linnean manner.

1799-1803 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 307.20
133 Sowerby, George Brettingham:

The Conchological Illustrations [or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured shells].

1841 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 793.60
134 Harvey, William Henry:

Phycologia Britannica or, a History of British Sea-Weeds.. In 4 Volumes.

London 1846-51 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 512.00
135 Hill, John:

The British herbal. One volume in two (one text and one plates)

London 1756 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 128.00
136 Oliver GOLDSMITH:

An History of the Earth and Animated Nature, in 8 vols.

1774 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 230.40
137 Visscher, Nicolaes (publisher).

No title page, just a collection of 82 illustrations, all double-page.

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 3,392.00
138

BIBLES: 1- D'oyly, George & Richard Mant: The Holy Bible, According to The Authorized Version; 2 vols.

Oxford GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 115.20
139

The New Testament

1615 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 115.20
140 THEOLOGY: HALL, Joseph:

THE FIRST BOOKE. CHARACTERISMES.

1620 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 243.20
141 TAMAMURA Koraburo:

Famous scenes in Japan.

Japan n.d. ca 1880's. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
142 Le Roy, Jacques:

Castella & praetoria nobilium Brabantiae [and] L'erection de toutes les terres. 2 works in one volume.

Leiden 1699 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
143

VIEWS OF NAPLES, 1845: Vianelli dis. e Wenzel lit.: NAPOLI. A volume containing 17 views of Naples,

1845 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 140.80
144 TURNER J. M. W:

Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England, from Drawings made principally by J. M. W. Turner, R.A. and engraved by W. B. Cooke, George Cooke, and other eminent Engravers.

London 1826 GBP 250.00 - 400.00 GBP 179.20
145 TURNER J. M. W:

Picturesque Views in England and Wales from Drawings by J.M.W. Turner...,

London 1838 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 243.20
146 Strutt, Joseph:

A Compleat View of the Manners of the Inhabitants of England, in 2 vols.

1775 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 115.20
147 Phillips:

The British Military Library or Journal (2 volumes).

1799-1801 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 115.20
148 Ptolemy; Giovanni Antonio Magino Patavino (Edit):

Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei Pars secunda, continens praeter antiqvas ipsivs Ptol. recentiores etiam tabulas, quae Vniuersae terrae faciem nostro aeuo cognitam exhibent.

GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,688.00
149

Album of nine Watercolours:

c. 1811 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
150

PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM- Mainly military, INDIA, ETC.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 307.20
151

SCRAPBOOK: British Royal Portraits: With manuscript notes and cuttings throughout.

C 1796 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 140.80
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