£630
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Rome: Stamperia Pagliarini, 1805, 2 volumes in one, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, folding plan and 56 engraved plates, contemporary red quarter morocco, occasional light wormhole to margin, bookplate of Hardwicke Knight;
Antoine, Morison. Relation historique d'un voyage nouvellement fait au Mont de Sinai et a Jerusalem. Toul: A. Laurent, 1704. 4to, [20], 750, [8], contemporary calf, lacks the portrait and 2 folding maps, ownership name erased from title, inscription of Abbé Augustine de Caillinstein on endpaper, occasional light spotting, head and base of spine worn;
Raoul-Rochette, D. Peintures Antiques Inédites prégédées de Recherches sur l'Emploi de la Peinture... Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1836. First edition, 4to, hand-colouring to title-page and 15 plates (including 10 hand-coloured), modern quarter calf, bookplate of Mr Allan Marquand, plates and title-page with Princeton University library stamps, some foxing;
Micali, Giuseppi. Antichi Monumenti per servir all'opera intitolata l'Italia avanti il dominio dei Romani. Florence, 1810. First edition, large folio, engraved folding map and 60 engraved plates (lacks plate 35 and with two plates numbered 36), contemporary half vellum, bookplate of Lord James Butler, small dampstain in lower margin, early inscription of Elianor Charlotte Lismore at head of title, small blindstamp to plates, binding rubbed;
Spon, Jacob and George Wheler. Voyagie door Italien, Dalmatien, Grieckenland en de Levant. Gedaan in de Jaren 1675 en 1676. Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, 1689. 4to, additional engraved title, and 6 folding engraved plates, contemporary vellum, folding view of crowd and Mosque in Spon volume, p. 104, lacks pp. 53-56;
Hittorff, Jacques-Ignace and William Wilkins. Les Antiquités Inédites de l'Attique contenant les restes d'Architecture d'Éleusis, de Rhamnus, De Sunium et de Thoricus. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1832. First edition, large folio, 60 engraved plates, half-title, contemporary cloth, title slightly spotted, slightly rubbed;
Cuper, Gisbert. Apotheosis vel Consecratio Homeri. Amsterdam: H & T. Boom, 1683, 4to, 9 engraved plates, engraved illustrations, contemporary vellum, "Acad. Lugd" stamp on title, with 'duplicate' scored across, slight loss to foot of title
Castellan, Antoine Laurent. Lettres sur la Morée et les Iles de Cérigo, Hydra et Zante. Paris: H. Agasse, 1808, 2 parts in one volume, 8vo, half-title in volume 1, 24 plates and 1 (of 2) folding maps (the folding map present being 'Plan de la Rade de Napoli de Malvoisie'), contemporary calf, slightly rubbed;
Raffenel, Claude Denis Continuation de l'histoire des événemens de la Grèce. Paris, 1824, 8vo, 4 engraved portraits, contemporary half calf spine gilt, early bookplate of 'Bibliotheca Comitis Georgii Karolyi' and Joannis Szasz
Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.