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Lot 201 - ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605). Monstrorum historia. Cum paralipomensis historiae omnium animalium, Bologna, 1642, 2 parts, including supplement, bound in one volume, [colophon to second part dated 16
Sold for £4,000
Lot 202 - BERTHOUD, Ferdinand (1727-1807). Essai sur l'Horlogerie, Paris, 1763, 2 volumes, 4to, 38 folding plates, tables, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. (2)
Sold for £300
Lot 203 - BIBLE, in English - The Bible, Amsterdam, Thomas Stafford, 1644, folio, general title and title to the New Testament, woodcut maps and illustrations including 2 full-page, contemporary calf (worn). TH
Sold for £700
Lot 204 - CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965), Clementine CHURCHILL (1885-1977), Clement ATTLEE (1883-1967), Peter Geoffrey OATES (1919-2007), and others. An archive of manuscript and printed material. Pleas
Sold for £6,500
Lot 205 - FONTANA, Domenico (1543-1607). Della Transportatione dell' Obelisco Vaticano, Rome, 1590, folio, engraved title, portrait and 38 plates, contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION.
Unsold Estimated at £3,000 - £5,000
Lot 206 - [HOWITT, Samuel ([?]1765-1822, artist)]. Foreign Field Sports ... With a Supplement of New South Wales, London, 1819, folio, 110 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by Howitt and others, FINELY BOUND i
Sold for £800
Lot 207 - KENNEDY, John F. (1917-63, 35th President of the United States of America). A monochrome photograph of the President, SIGNED "John Kennedy", in window mount, dated 4.6.1961 on the verso.
Sold for £320
Lot 208 - KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602-80). Ars magna lucis et umbrae, Rome, 1646, folio, 38 engraved plates, diagrams and illustrations (lacks one leaf), modern half vellum. FIRST EDITION.
Sold for £1,700
Lot 209 - LANA DE TERZI, Francesco (1631-87). Prodromo, Brescia, 1670, folio, 20 engraved plates including one of a flying machine, [?]later full vellum. FIRST EDITION.
Sold for £1,600
Lot 210 - REGIOMONTANUS, Johaness Müller (1436-76), and others. Scripta ... de torqueto, astrolabio armillari, Nuremberg, 1544, 4to, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, FINELY BOUND in modern morocco. FIRST EDI
Sold for £2,400
Lot 211 - RONDELET, Guillaume (1507-66). Libri de piscibus marinis, Lyon, 1554, [?]volume one only (of 2), folio, woodcut illustrations, initials and ornaments, modern old-style vellum gilt. FIRST EDITION. Sold
Sold for £450
Lot 212 - SENDAK, Maurice (1929-2012, illustrator) - William BLAKE (1757-1827). Poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, London, 1967, tall 12mo, 8 illustrations by Maurice Sendak, printed in sepia. Orig
Lot 213 - STELLUTI, Francesco (1577-1653, editor and translator). Persio Tradotto in verso, Rome, 1630, 4to, engraved title, portrait and 5 illustrations, contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION of the first book to
Lot 214 - VEEN, Otto van (1556-1629). Le Theatre Moral de la Vie Humaine, Brussels, 1672, folio, folding engraved plate and 103 engraved emblematic illustrations after Otto van Veen, contemporary calf (heavily
Sold for £190
Lot 215 - BIBLE, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, probably Paris or northern France, 13th-century, 4to (216 x 155mm), c.480 leaves with 86 FINE HISTORIATED INITIALS painted in colours and gold [see n
Sold for £86,000
Lot 216 - [BYRON, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron, i.e. "Lord BYRON" (1788-1824)]. Don Juan, London, 1819, Cantos I - II (only, of 16) bound in one volume, 4to, VERY FINELY BOUND in 19th-century dark green crushe
Sold for £850
Lot 217 - [DE QUINCEY, Thomas (1785-1859)]. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, London, 1822, 12mo, half title, original publisher's boards, later book box by Riviere. FIRST EDITION.
Sold for £2,800
Lot 218 - DOUGLAS, Gawin (1474-1522). The xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgili Translated ... into Scottish metir, London, 1553, 4to, FINELY BOUND in later morocco. FIRST EDITION of the first tran
Sold for £24,000
Lot 219 - IBBETSON, John Thomas, later Sir John Thomas SELWIN [or SELWYN], 6th Baronet (1789-1869, artist). "Scotch Scenery" [c. 1824], 2 volumes, 4to, 162 FINE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS by John Thomas Ibbetson, mo
Lot 220 - JONSON, Ben (1572-1637). The Workes, London, 1616-40. 3 volumes, folio, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION of the most important collection of dramatic works printed in the 17th-century after the first
Sold for £9,500
Lot 221 - "NUREMBERG CHRONICLE" - Hartmann SCHEDEL (1440-1514). Liber chronicarum, Nuremberg, 1493, large folio, woodcut illustrations, 19th-century morocco. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED OF A
Sold for £50,000
Lot 222 - SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). The Cenci, "Italy" [i.e. Livorno], 1819, 4to, FINELY BOUND in late 19th-century full red crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.
Sold for £1,200
Lot 223 - SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Posthumous Poems, London, 1824, large 8vo, preface by Mary Shelley, FINELY BOUND in late 19th-century full red crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION. RARE. With The Sh
Lot 224 - SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London, 1819, large 8vo, FINELY BOUND in late 19th-century full red crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.
Sold for £900
Lot 225 - GOULD, John (1804-81). The Birds of Great Britain, London, [1862-]73, 5 volumes, large folio, 367 EXCEPTIONALLY FINE hand-coloured lithographed plates, FINELY BOUND IN 19th-century morocco gilt. FIRST
Unsold Estimated at £30,000 - £50,000
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