23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Cocker (Edward).
The Young Clerks Tutor Enlarged …..
Thomas Bassett and Robert Pawlet, 1670, sixth edition, [xiv], 208 pages, lacking preliminary blank leaf, four engraved plates at end with annotation verso, two stab holes near centre of page through first two-thirds of book, staining to edges of title page, recent panelled calf binding;
House of Commons, The Orders, Proceedings, Punishments, and Priviledges of the Commons House of Parliament in England.
No imprint, 1641, small quarto, [iv], 25 pages, the second leaf is signed A3 but nothing obvious missing, A1 could be a blank, copies on Jisc give 4 preliminary pages, ESTC not available, modern quarter style binding.
Glanville (Ranulf de), Tractatus de Legibus & Consuetudinibus regni Angliae, tempore Regis Henrici Secundi compositus : Justiciae gubernacula tenente illustri viro Ranulpho de Glanvilla ….
Thomae Wight, 1604, small octavo, [9], 116, [17] leaves, the second leaf is signed *iii, with nothing obvious missing, copies on Jisc give 9 leaves or 16 pages, re-backed calf binding;
Sheppard (W.), The Parsons Guide: or the Law of Tythes .....
W. Lee, H. Twyford, et al. 1670, duodecimo, [20], 99 pages, worn sheep binding with split to spine. (4)
Sold for £300
Estimated at £100 - £200
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Aug, 2024
The Summer Book Sale includes a wide range of interesting books, maps, photographs and manuscripts. In the modern books there are first editions by J.R.R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, signed works by Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John le Carre and others as well as a good collection of deluxe Folio Society works. Earlier books include a small collection of finely bound works published by Didot of Paris, early Law books, a seventeeth century cookery book, a sixteenth century book on Crucifixion by Lipsius, and a very early sixteenth century book using italics which caused controvery at the time.
A good collection of early travel books is complemented by an interesting album of photographs of British Central Africa as well as a small selection of early maps, including a scarce folding map of Tasmania. A typescript personal account of the British Economic Mission to the Far East in 1930 provides a surprisingly interesting read.
For the Royalists, there are signed photographs of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince of Wales and three Christmas cards signed by H.M. the Queen Mother. The sale concludes with a section of books on Natural History, Science and Theology which includes three early editions of Darwin's Origin of Species and a ground breaking work on the human brain by Marie Antionette's physician Vicq D'Azyr, illustrated with hand-coloured aquatints.
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