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Auction Date: July 03, 2025 - July 03, 2025

Page Size: 205 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
176	Chevreau	Chevreau (Urbain) Histoire du Monde, 8 vol., Paris, Michel Clouzier, 1720 & others (c.40)	Paris,	1720	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 215.90
177	Fleury (Claude, Abbe) & J.C.Fabre.	Fleury (Claude) & J.C.Fabre. Histoire Ecclesiastique, 36 vol., Paris, 1722-43	Paris	1722-43	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
178	Hooker (Richard)	Hooker (Richard) The Works...of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, for John Walthoe, 1723 & others		1723	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 139.70
179	Racine (Jean)	Racine (Jean) Oeuvres, 2 vol., J.Tonson & J.Watts, 1723 & similar sets of Rousseau and Tasso by		1723	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 120.65
180	Leupold	Leupold (Jakob) Theatrum machinarum generale, first edition, Leipzig, 1724 bound with others from		1724	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,524.00
181	Numismatics.- [Arbuthnot (John)]	Arbuthnot (John) Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures.., first edition, J.Tonson, 1727 &		1727	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 457.20
182	Hebraica.- Spencer (John)	Hebraica.- Spencer (John) De legibus Hebraeorum ritualibus et earum rationibus, libri quatuor, 2	Cambridge,	1727	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 69.85
183	Boileau-Despreaux (Nicolas)	Boileau-Despreaux (Nicolas) Oeuvres, 2 vol., engraved plates, Amsterdam, Francois Changuion, 1729 &	Amsterdam,	1729	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 381.00
184	Parker (Matthew)	Parker (Matthew) De antiquitate Britannicae ecclesiae, William Bowyer, 1729 & others, ecclesiastical		1729	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 241.30
185	Reitz (Wilhelm Otto	Reitz (Wilhelm Otto) Belga graecissans, first edition, Rotterdam, J.Hofhout, 1730 & others,	Rotterdam,	1730	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 139.70
186	V[oltaire	V[oltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de)] Histoire de Charles XII. Roi de Suede, 2 vol. in 1, pirated	Basle [London],	1731	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 50.80
187	Gregorian Calendar.-	Gregorian Calendar.- Bettazzi (Giacomo) Epitome operis Paschalis...proferens in prooemio		1733	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 101.60
188	Bourne (Vincent)	Bourne (Vincent) Poemata, J.Bettenham for B.Barker, 1735 & others, literature (c.40)		1735-43	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 482.60
189	Gallon (Jean-Gaffin)	Gallon (Jean-Gaffin) Machines et Inventions approuvees par l'Acadmie Royale des Sciences, 6 vol. in	Paris,	1735	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 635.00
190	Newton (Sir Isaac).-	Newton (Sir Isaac).- Greaves (John) Miscellaneous Works..., 2 vol. in 1, contains first printing of		1737	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 952.50
191	Middle East.- [Sale (George) and Joseph Morgan.]	Middle East.- Sale (George) and Joseph Morgan. The Lives and Memorable Actions of many Illustrious		1739	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 482.60
192	Martin	Martin (Benjamin) A New and Compendious System of Optics, first edition, for James Hodges, 1740 &		1740	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 533.40
193	Battely (John)	Battely (John) Opera Posthuma, viz. Antiquitates Rutupinae et Antiquitates S.Edmundi Burgi...,	Oxford,	1745	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 139.70
194	Ainsworth (Robert)	Ainsworth (Robert) Thesaurus linguae latinae compendiarus...or, a Compendious Dictionary of the		1746	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 215.90
195	Coste (Pierre)	Coste (Pierre) Histoire de Louis de Bourbon, second du nom, Prince de Conde, 2 vol. in 1, third		1748	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 95.25
196	Tracts.- Somers	Tracts.- Somers (John, Lord) A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts, First -Fourth Series,		1748-51	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 482.60
197	Parliament.-	Parliament.- From PA: 1 to Pa: 184 [&] From PA: 184 to PA: 342 [Parliamentary Business], 2 vol.,		n.d. [18th century].	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 279.40
198	Agriculture.- Duhamel du Monceau (Henri Louis)	Agriculture.- Duhamel du Monceau (Henri Louis) Traite de la Culture des Terres, suivant les	Paris	1753-61	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 177.80
199	Espagnac	Espagnac (J.B.J.S.d'A., Baron) Essai sur les Grandes Operations de la Guerre, 4 vol., The Hague,	The Hague,	1755	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
200	Mathematics.-	Mathematics.- Cowley (John Lodge) An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid, second edition, engraved		[c.1765]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,905.00

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