lot 1 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Pevsner (Nikolaus) and Metcalf (Priscilla) The Cathedrals of England, 8vo, 2005, 3 vols, cloth; Wedgwood (Cicely Veronica) The Thirty ... read more

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lot 2 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society: Spengler (Oswald) The Decline of the West, 2 vol, 8vo, cloth, [n.d.]; The Bhagava Gita, Translation by Juan Mascaro... Illustrations ... read more

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lot 3 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society--Grahame (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows, folio, vellum-backed pictorial boards lettered in gold, cloth box, colour frontispiece and ... read more

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lot 4 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Shakespeare (William) Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint, 8vo, 1989, cloth and gilt pattern boards; Poems of William Shakespeare, 8vo, ... read more

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lot 5 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Trollope (Anthony) selected works: Can You Forgive Her?, The Duke's Children, The Belton Estate, Dr. Thorne, 8vo, cloth and paper ... read more

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lot 6 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Kendall (Paul Murray) Richard III, 8vo, 2005, gilt cloth; Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 8vo, 1961, leather and cloth, 2 ... read more

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lot 7 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Music for King Henry VIII, large folio, limited edition no. 118/500, cloth and parchment boards; with commentary & score, 2 vols.

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lot 8 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Wilde (Oscar) - Stories, plays and poems, essays and letters, 8vo, 1997, 4th edition, cloth, 3 vols; Thomas (Dylan), Under Milk Wood, ... read more

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lot 9 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Sackville-West (Vita) Saint Joan of Arc, 8vo, 1995, illus. by Chris Daunt, cloth; Freile (Juan Rodriguez) The Conquest of New Granada, ... read more

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lot 10 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Hugo (Victor) Les Miserables, 8vo, reprint 2008, limited edition 477/1750, calf leather, in solander case with booklet; De Maupassant ... read more

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lot 11 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, folio, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, 2009, an edition of 1,000, original etching to front by Niroot ... read more

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lot 12 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Stephenson (Robert Louis) Treasure Island, 4to, 1994, gilt cloth; Rego (Paula) Nursery Rhymes, 4to, 1994, cloth and printed boards; ... read more

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lot 13 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Johnson (Charles) Lives of the Most Notorious Pirates, 8vo, 1962; Munthe (Axel) The Story of San Michele, 8vo, 1991; Jerome (Jerome K. ... read more

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lot 14 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Austen (Jane) 12th selected works, 7 vols, 8vo, gilt cloth, 1975 edition; Du Maurier (Daphne) Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek, ... read more

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lot 15 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Julius (John) A History of Venice, 8vo, 2007, gilt cloth; Morris (Jan) Venice, 4to, 2008, second edition; Boswell (James) The Grand ... read more

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lot 16 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Kipling (Rudyard) The Jungle Book and the Second Jungle Book, 4to, 1992 and 1994; Just So Stories, Kim, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards ... read more

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lot 17 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Barrie (James Matthew) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, folio, 2004, 2nd edition, illustrated by Arthur Rackham; and Peter Pan and ... read more

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lot 18 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Green (Roger Lancelyn) The Adventures of Robin Hood, 4to, 2001, 3rd edition, gilt cloth; Burnett (Frances Hodgson) A Little Princess, ... read more

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lot 19 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Dickens (Charles) selected works, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Bleak House, 15 vols., 8vo, printed cloth, re-issue ... read more

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lot 20 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Shakespeare (William) The Letter Press Shakespeare, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's ... read more

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lot 21 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Shakespeare (William) The Letter Press Shakespeare; Richard II, Richard III, King John, Henry V and other history plays, folio, ... read more

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lot 22 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Shakespeare (William) The Letter Press Shakespeare; Hamlet, Othello, Julius Caesar, King Lear and other plays, folio, limited edition ... read more

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lot 23 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Folio Society - Shakespeare (William) The Letter Press Shakespeare, Sonnets & Poems, 2009, limited edition 1781/1980, grained calf leather and ... read more

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lot 24 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Shakespeare (William) Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, The First Folio of Shakespeare, folio, 1996, 2nd edition, grained calf leather and printed ... read more

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lot 25 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Pardoe (Julia) The Beauties of the Bosphorus. Illustrated in a Series of Views of Constantinople and its Environs from Original Drawings by W. H. ... read more

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lot 26 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Relating to Kipling (Rudyard) a large collection of printed ephemera, newspapers and albums of press cuttings relating to the author.

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lot 28 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Rackham (Arthur)--Rossetti (Christina) Goblin Market, 8vo, boards, d-j, 1977; Stephens (J.) Irish Fairy Tales, 8vo, cloth, d-j, 1979; Steel (F.A.) ... read more

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lot 29 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Surtees (R. S.) Handley Cross, [n.d.]; ''Ask Mamma;'' or, the Richest Commoner in England, [n.d.]; ''Plain or Ringlets?'', [n.d.]; Mr Romford's ... read more

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lot 30 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Carroll (Lewis) The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits, 12mo, red cloth gilt, frontispiece & illustrations by Henry Holiday, 1896.

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lot 31 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Church (A. J.) Three Greek Children: A Story of Home in Old Time, 12mo, calf gilt, prize binding with bookplate, coloured frontispiece & plates, 1890.

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lot 32 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Gillray (James) The Works... With the History of his Life and Times, edited by Thomas Wright, 4to, half morocco, portrait, plates & illustrations, ... read more

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lot 33 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Hogarth (William) The Complete Works... With an introductory Essay by James Hannay, large 4to, half morocco, engraved portrait, additional title and ... read more

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lot 34 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Cruikshank (George) Omnibus... Edited by Laman Blanchard, 8vo, half calf, frontispiece, plates & illustrations, 1842.

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lot 35 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Low's Political Parade, with Colonel Blimp, oblong 4to, cloth-backed boards, illustrations, [c. 1936].

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lot 36 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Milne (A. A.) Winnie-the-Pooh, 8vo, green cloth gilt, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, 1926, first edition.

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lot 37 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Burns (Robert), The Poems, Letters, and Land, 4to, half calf and marbled boards, London; George Virtue, 2 vol.

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lot 38 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Milton (John) A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works... With Some Papers Never Before Publish'd, 3 vols in 1, ... read more

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lot 39 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) The History and Adventures of Don Quixote, Translated... by T. Smollett... The Fourth Edition, Corrected, 4 vols, 12mo, ... read more

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lot 40 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Homer, The Odyssey, 1855; illus. Oxford, 1856, 8vo, uniform calf (2).

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lot 41 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Spenser (Edmund) Faerie Queene, a new Edition with a Glossary... by John Upton, 2 vols, 4to, calf, 1758.

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lot 42 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Bell's British Theatre, 6 parts in 2 vols, 12mo, mottled calf, 6 engraved frontispieces, 6 engraved additional titles, 1791-96.

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lot 43 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Essays, 12mo, half morocco, 1929.

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lot 44 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Aesop. Fables... with Morals and Reflections by Sir Roger l'Estrange, Kt., the sixth Edition corrected, 8vo, tree calf, engraved portrait, ... read more

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lot 45 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Gay (John) Fables... With the Life of the Author, 12mo, diced calf, engraved frontispiece, title-page & head-pieces, 1816.

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lot 46 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Gay (John) Fables... With a Life of the Author, 8vo, calf, engraved title-page, plates, 1793; Aesop. Fables... Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, 8vo, ... read more

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lot 47 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Sidney (Algernon) Discourses concerning Government... The Second Edition, folio, calf, engraved portrait, [ESTC ], 1704, bookplate of John Hobson.

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lot 48 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Johnson (Samuel) The English Dictionary, 3 vols, 4to., leathercloth, 2nd edition, 1827.

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lot 49 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Hobbes (Thomas) The Moral and Political Works... Never before collected together, folio, calf, engraved portrait and 1651 Leviathan title-page ... read more

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lot 50 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Harrington (James) The Oceana and other Works, folio, half calf, uncut, engraved frontispiece, portrait, title printed in red and black, a tall copy, ... read more

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lot 51 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Knox (John) The History of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland, 4to, later half calf, engraved portrait, half title, Edinburgh, ... read more

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lot 52 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Mill (John Stuart) The Subjection of Women... Second Edition, 8vo, half calf, 1869, bookplate of Madeleine Broderick.

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lot 53 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Wilson (Woodrow) The State. Elements of Historical and Practical Politics, 12mo, cloth, advertisements at the end, Boston, 1889, first edition.

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lot 54 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Paine (Thomas) The Political Works, 2 vols, 8vo, engraved portrait, half calf, 1817.

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lot 55 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Greek (The) Tragic Theatre, 5 vols, 8vo, calf, 1809, bookplate of Fasque.

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lot 56 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Aristotle. Ethics and Politics... Introduction... by John Gillies... The Second Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, calf, 1804.

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lot 57 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Burke (Edmund) The Works, 8 vols, 1889-1890; Prior (Sir J.) A Life of Edmund Burke, 1891, 12mo, uniform tree calf, gilt stamp of Hertford College, ... read more

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lot 58 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Plutarch. Lives... Translated... With Notes... by John Langhorne, D.D., and William Langhorne, M.A., 6 vols, 8vo, calf, engraved frontispieces, 1770.

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lot 59 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Spelman (John) Ælfredi Magni A nglorum regis invictissimi vita tribus libris comprehensa, folio, calf, 7 engraved plates, Oxford, 1678, first edition.

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lot 60 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Montaigne (Michel de) Les Essais, 3 vols, 4to, blond calf, engraved portrait, [ESTC N9321], London, 1724, bookplate of Daniel Giles.

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lot 61 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Thurloe (John) A Collection of the State Papers, 7 vols, folio, calf, engraved portrait, 1742, bookplate of Sir Stafford H. Northcote.

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lot 62 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Mill (John Stuart) A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive... Fifth Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, half calf, 1862, bookplate of Francis Henry Jeune.

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lot 63 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Bentham (Jeremy) An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation... A new Edition, corrected by the Author, 2 vols in 1, 8vo, half calf, ... read more

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lot 64 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Mill (John Stuart) Dissertations and Discussions... Second Edition, 3 vols, 8vo, blue calf gilt, prize binding, with bookplate, 1867.

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lot 65 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Mill (John Stuart) Autobiography... Second Edition, 8vo, calf, half title, advertisement leaf at end, 1873.

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lot 66 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson... The fifth Edition, revised and augmented, 4 vols, 8vo, diced calf, portrait, folding engraved plate, ... read more

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lot 67 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Cicero (M. T.) The Letters.. With Remarks by William Melmoth, 3 vols, 8vo, calf, portrait, 1799; Cicero (M. T.) Cato and Laelius: or, Essays on ... read more

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lot 68 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Rutherford (W. G.) Babrius, 8vo, calf, 1883.

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lot 69 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Macaulay (Thomas Babington) The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, 5 vols, calf, 1849-61, gilt stamp on upper covers of ... read more

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lot 70 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Hume (David) and Tobias Smollett. The History of England... Continued to the present Time by Thomas Gaspey, 3 vols only, 4to, half calf, engraved ... read more

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lot 71 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Ewald (Alexander Charles) The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beconsfield, K.G., and his Times, 2 vols, large 8vo, half morocco, frontispieces ... read more

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lot 72 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Locke (John) The Works... Sixth Edition, 3 vols, folio, calf, engraved portrait, plate, 1759, bookplate of Francis Earl of Killmorey.

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lot 73 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Twiss (Horace) The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon... Second Edition, 3 vols, 8vo, diced calf, 3 portraits, 1844.

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lot 74 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Filmer (Sir Robert) Patriarcha: or the Natural Power of Kings, portrait, [ESTC R29832], London, 1680; The Free-Holder's Grand Inquest, [ESTC R36445], ... read more

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lot 75 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Smith (Sir Thomas) The Commonwealth of England: and the Manner and Government thereof.. With new Additions, 12mo, calf, additional engraved title, ... read more

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lot 76 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Juvenal. The Satires... Translated, 8vo, calf, half-title, 1739; Virgil. The Georgics... Translated... by William Sotheby, 8vo, calf, 1815, bookplate ... read more

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lot 77 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Spencer (Herbert) Social Status: or, the Conditions essential to human Happiness, 12mo, half calf, 1868; Pollock (Sir F.) An Introduction to the ... read more

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lot 78 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

[Charles II] State Tracts... Relating to... the Reign of Charles II, [ESTC R10117], London, 1689, note of purchase on title 'Geo: Smyth pret-11s-:, ... read more

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lot 79 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

[Charles II] State Tracts: being a Collection of several Treatises relating to... the Reign of Charles II, folio, calf, [ESTC R10117], London, 1689, ... read more

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lot 80 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Gaspey (W.) Tallis's Illustrated London, in Commemoration of the Great Exhibition of 1851, 12mo, cloth gilt, plates, [n.d.]; Holmes's Great ... read more

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lot 81 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Reid (Whitelaw) American and English Studies, 2 vols, 8vo, morocco, Reid's black-bordered card loosely inserted, 1914.

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lot 82 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Eccleston (James) An Introduction to English Antiquities, 8vo, calf, illustrations, 1847.

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lot 83 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Bridoul (Toussain) The School of the Eucharist, 4to, old calf-backed boards, lacking the initial imprimatur leaf, [ESTC R9439], London, 1687; ... read more

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lot 84 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Book of Common Prayer... Together with the Psalter, folio, contemporary blue morocco gilt, dentelle border, arms of George II on sides, g.e., remains ... read more

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lot 85 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Grotius (Hugo) De jure belli ac pacis librorum III, 4to, calf, Edinburgh, 1707, title-page inscribed 'Ex dono authoris. Ex Bibb: Spotswood'. ... read more

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lot 86 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

John of Salisbury, Policraticus, sive de nugis curialium... Accedit... ejusdem Metalogicus, 12mo, later half morocco over red-painted vellum boards, ... read more

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lot 87 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Müller (F. Max, ed.) Sacred Books of the Buddhists, translated by various oriental Scholars, 3 vols, 8vo, half morocco, t.e.g., 1899-1910.

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lot 88 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Nightingale (J.) The Religions and Religious Ceremonies of all Nations, 12mo, calf, folding map, plates, 1835.

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lot 89 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible, large 4to, morocco, clasps, colour frontispiece, additional title and plates, Gateshead, [n.d.].

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lot 90 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Augustine (Saint) [Opera]... Editio nova, 10 vols (of 12) in 7, folio, calf, engraved head-pieces and initials, Antwerp, 1700.

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lot 91 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Hooker (Richard) The Works... in eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity, folio, panelled calf, additional engraved title-page, title printed in red and ... read more

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lot 92 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Winkles (H. & B.) Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, 2 vols, 4to, half morocco, engraved titles, plates, [1836]; Britton (J.) The History and ... read more

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lot 95 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Tacitus (C.) The Annales... The Description of Germanie, 2 parts in 1 vol, folio, later half calf, engraved diagram, [ESTC S117626] [London], 1622.

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lot 96 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Schott (Andreas) Paroimiai ellenikai. Adagia, sive proverbia graecorum, 4to, old calf, printer's woodcut device on final leaf, Antwerp, 1612.

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lot 97 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Charles I, King of England. Basilika, the Works of King Charles the Martyr... With the History of His Life; as also of His Tryal and Martyrdome, the ... read more

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lot 98 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

James I, King of England. The Workes, folio, early blind-stamped calf, engraved additional title, engraved portrait on verso of half-title, small ... read more

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lot 99 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Wits (Herman) Ægyptiaca, sive Dekaphylon, 4to, early vellum, additional engraved title-page, second edition, Amsterdam, G. Borst, 1696. See ... read more

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lot 100 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Sansovino (Francesco) Il secretario overo formulario di lettere missive et responsive, 8vo, old vellum, spine decorated in ink, woodcut portrait on ... read more

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lot 101 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Guicciardini (Francesco) La historia d'Italia, 2 vols in 1, 4to, old vellum, [Geneva], 1636.

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lot 102 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Aristotle, De republica, qui Politicorum dicuntur, 4to, early limp vellum, extensive early manuscript notes in margins, Paris, 1574.

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lot 103 (Fine Art, 6th Dec, 2016)

Bordin (Jean) Les Six Livres de la Republique, Lyon, 1593; Herpin (R.) Apologie pour La Republique de J. Bodin, Lyon, 1594, 2 works in one vol, 8vo, ... read more

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