Dugdale, Sir William
The Antiquities of Warwickshire
£693
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
London: for John Osborn and Thomas Longman, 1730. Second edition, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, engraved portrait frontispiece, 23 engraved plates and maps only (of 24), of which 20 double-page, bookplates of William Fermor of Tusmore, Oxfordshire, and the Barons Holland of Holland House, variable damp-staining
Hakewill, James. The History of Windsor, and its Neighbourhood. London: Edmund Lloyd, 1813. First edition, large-paper copy printed for subscribers (79 listed), large 4to (412 x 315 mm), xviii 359 pp., contemporary dark red morocco gilt over thick bevelled boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 18 engraved plates including frontispiece, 3 engraved maps (one double-page), engraved vignettes, text and plates printed on thick wove paper (text watermarked J Whatman 1811), occasional interleaves, bookplate, laid-in tissue-guards, pale discolouration to covers, spotting and occasional marginal damp-staining to plates and maps, 2D1 closed with tear to lower margin;
Sims, John. Curtis's Botanical Magazine. London: printed by Stephen Couchman, published by Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1816 & 1822. Volumes 43 & 49, 8vo, non-uniform half leather bindings (volume 49 front board near-detached), 90 and 82 hand-coloured engraved plates (several folding), occasional light damp-stains to top margins of plates in volume 43, volume 49 first plate working loose;
and approx. 15 others, mainly Scottish topography, including A. H. Evans, A Fauna of the Tweed Area, 1911 (first edition, original cloth), A. E. Gathorne-Hardy, Autumns in Argyleshire with Rod and Gun, 1900 (first edition, original cloth), and similar