23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Antiquarian Law.
[Coke, (Sir Edward)], A Booke of Entries: Containing Perfect and approved Presidents of Counts, Declarations, Informations, Pleints, Inditements, Barres, Replications ……
Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1614, folio in sixes, register A5, par4, B-6D6, 6E5, 6F6, 6G3 (bound without blank leaves at A6, 6E6 and 6G4). Latin text printed double column, 12mm hole in 2D5, 10mm hole in 2R3, 4V6-4X2, ink obscured title at head of 4G4, modern cloth gilt binding;
Dalton (Michael), The Countrey Justice: Containing the Practice of the Justice of the Peace, Out of their Sessions …
Printed by G. Sawbridge et al. to be sold by H. Twyford, F. Tyton et al., 1677, folio in sixes, [16], 413, 437-555, [25] pages, irregular pagination but text continuous, closed tear in title, 4mm hole in Y3, 8mm hole in 2J, occasional staining, name to title page and front endpaper, bookplate, early calf, edges worn, restoration to head and tail of spine;
With twenty-two others, seventeenth century and later. (24)
Sold for £650
Estimated at £200 - £400
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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