28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 113
 

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Dalton (Michael). The Countrey Justice; containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace as...

Dalton (Michael). The Countrey Justice; containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace as well in as out of their Sessions ... Now again enlarged with many Precedents and Resolutions of the Quaeres contained in the former Impressions: and the Statues of King Charles I and His Majesty King Charles II added under their several Titles, London: John Streater [and others], 1666. Folio (282 x 180 mm), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, rebacked retaining original label, bound without preliminary and possibly final blank, spill-burn in 2N6 - Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English Language ... The Fourth Edition, revised by the author, London: printed by W. Strahan, for W. Strahan [and others], 1773. 2 volumes, folio (410 x 235 mm), 19th-century maroon half morocco, gilt morocco labels '15th Regt' to front boards, manuscript presentation leaf inset into initial blank ('Doctor Badenach requests the officers of the 15th Regiment to accept for their library Johnson's Dictionary & a map of England, as a small mark of that regard which he will ever entertain for them, 20 Upper Baker St. London, Febry 22nd 1826'), imperfect, volume 1 title-page with marginal loss and extensive closed tears, laid down, substantial loss to volume 2 title-page and subsequent leaves - Nalson (John). An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I, London: for S. Mearne, [and others; volume 2: for A. Mearne ... ], 1682-3. 2 volumes, folio (326 x 195 mm), contemporary non-uniform calf, refurbished, volume 2 rebacked, each volume with engraved frontispiece and 'The Mind of the Frontispiece' leaf, volume 2 with engraved portrait, incomplete, lacking at least volume 1 leaves A2-4 - Southwell (Henry). The New Book of Martyrs, London: for J. Cooke, No. 17, in Pater-Noster Row, c.1785. Folio (365 x 230 mm), 20th-century boards, partly preserving original spine, incomplete (40 plates of 42 or 43?: lacking plates 19 and 23a; and lacking at least quires 3I-3L), front inner hinge cracked - Fuller (Thomas). The Historie of the Holy Warre, 4th edition, Cambridge: Thomas Buck, 1651. Folio (286 x 180 mm), contemporary sheep, rebacked, engraved frontispiece (preceded by 'A declaration of the Frontispiece' leaf), engraved folding map (staining and repaired loss along folds), incomplete (lacking at least text-leaves C2-3) - and 2 others including another copy of Fuller, Holy Warre, 3rd edition, 1647, bound with The Holy State, 3rd edition, 1652, Holy Warre lacking at least the frontispiece and folding map, Holy State incomplete at end but with numerous engraved portraits in the text (qty: 9) ESTC R29291 (Dalton), T117232 (Johnson), R6970 & R229450 (Nalson), T105997 (Southwell), R12547 (Fuller).

Sold for £570
Estimated at £300 - £400


 

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