28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 117
 

117

Fortescue (Sir John). De Laudibus Legum Angliae. Hereto are added the two Sums of Sir Ralph de...

Fortescue (Sir John). De Laudibus Legum Angliae. Hereto are added the two Sums of Sir Ralph de Hengham ... with Notes both on Fortescue and Hengham. By that Famous and Learned Antiquarie John Selden, London: for Abel Roper, 1660. 8vo (137 x 90 mm), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, modern leaf-form brass clasps and catches, front joint cracked, minor loss to fore margins in signatures K-L - Bible (English; Authorised). The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, London: John Bill, 1665. 8vo (170 x 105 mm), later reversed calf, engraved architectonic title-page (trimmed and mounted), joints cracked, rear board near detached, the final leaf of the Old Testament and the entire New Testament replaced by a 19th-century edition (1821), leaf 3M1 repaired - [Bancks, John]. A Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell, 2nd edition ('carefully revised, and greatly enlarged'), London: for J. Osborn, and C. Davis; and J. Hodges, 1742. 12mo (161 x 92 mm), contemporary mottled calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, binding polished, front joint cracked, headcap perished - Jester's Magazine. The Jester's magazine: or, the Montlhy Merry-Maker. For June [-November] 1766. Numb. IX [-XIV], London: S. Bladon [and others], 1766. 6 parts only in 1 volume, 8vo, old boards (unsympathetically hand-painted at a later date), sold as a periodical - and further antiquarian (not fully collated) including Congreve, Works, 5th edition, 1730, Annual Register for the Year 1765, 4th edition (ex library), Milton, Paradise Lost, 6th edition, 1763 (2 volumes, 12 engraved plates of 13), Solomon Low, The Protestant Family Piece, 1st edition, 1716 (without leaves O1-5), and others (qty: 13) ESTC R23745 (Fortescue), R211594 (Bible), T135014 (Bancks), P3405/P3406 (Jester's Magazine, five complete sets world-wide).

Sold for £550
Estimated at £150 - £200


 

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