Camden, William
Britannia, enlarged... by Richard Gough
£525
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: John Stockdale, 1806. Second edition, volumes 1-3 only (of 4), folio (43 x 25.5cm), contemporary diced russia, rebacked to style, 49 engraved maps (most folding), numerous engraved plates, bookplates of ornithologist and bibliographer W. H. Mullens (1866-1946) and of Thomas William Evans, surface-wear to bindings;
Drake, Francis. Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the County of York. London: by William Bowyer for the author, 1736. First edition, folio (37.5 x 23.5cm), modern quarter morocco, 60 engraved plates, plate 15 with closed tear to foot of central fold, plates 58-9 damp-stained [ESTC T65433];
Hutchins, John. The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1774. First edition, 2 volumes, folio (37 x 24cm), modern blue half morocco, engravings in text (including the Cerne Abbas giant, vol. 2 p. 293), folding tables, bound without the plates and map, damp-staining [ESTC T99476];
Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. London: for R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter, and J. Tonson, 1721. Second edition ('corrected and enlarged'), 2 volumes, folio (39.5 x 24cm), modern quarter morocco, browning [ESTC T59423];
and 5 others: Letters from Roundhead Officers written from Scotland and Chiefly Addressed to Captain Adam Baynes, Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1856 (first edition, 4to, original cloth, presentation inscription); William Hamper (editor), The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale, 1827 (first edition, 4to, contemporary quarter cloth, spine torn at head); Charles James Fox, A History of the Early Part of the Reign of the James the Second, 1808 (first edition, 4to, contemporary quarter cloth); White Kennet, Parochial Antiquities attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and Other Adjacent Parts in the Counties of Oxford and Bucks, 1818 (new edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half cloth, front inner hinges gone); Sir John Temple, The Irish Rebellion, 1812 (4to, contemporary cloth, front joint cracked, spine defective); the lot sold as seen (14)
Footnote
Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).