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Rare eight-volume set enriched with 8 frontispieces of this edition of the famous periodical essays founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, offering a detailed panorama of English society in the early 18th century -

The work aims to instruct, entertain and moralize its

Literature, History, Reference - Quantity: 8 - Book

Joseph Addison et Richard Steele - The Spectator - 1770

The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume – Samuel Coleridge / Percy Shelley / John Keats.
Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1829. 3 volumes in one. Vol I (Coleridge): xi, 225 pages, Vol II (Shelley): xi, 275 pages, Vol III (Keats): vii, 75 pages.

Poetry, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Samuel Coleridge / Percy Shelley / John Keats - The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume - 1829

Beautiful bindings in full green morocco with gold-tooled boards. Spines restored with 4 raised bands, title and ornaments in gold. Gilded edges.

Vol. 1: flyleaf, 2 blank pages, [3] unnumbered pages, 280, 2 blank pages, flyleaf.
Vol. 2: flyleaf, 1 blank page, [1], from 280 to

Natural History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Esther Hewlett - Scripture Natural History for Youth - 1828

Man by Robert Mudie in 3 volumes.
* Man, in His Physical Structure and His Adaptations 1838 - Examines the biological and physiological design of humans.
* Man, in His Intellectual Faculties and Adaptations 1839 -  Focuses on cognitive abilities and the human mind.
* Man, in His

Philosophy - Quantity: 3 - Book

Robert Mudie - Man (Social/Intellectual/Physical) - 1838-1840

DESCRIPTION: I present to you at auction a universal classic work: The History of Rome by Oliver Goldsmith, 1817 edition.
This book covers the complete history of Rome from its mythical origins to the fall of the Empire, addressing figures such as Caesar, Augustus, or Nero and

History, Europe - Quantity: 2 - Book

Oliver Goldsmith - The History of Rome - 1817

DESCRIPTION: I present at auction a spectacular 9 kg edition of: “THE FAMILY DEVOTIONAL BIBLE,” published around 1861. We are looking at a piece of great historical, artistic, and collector value, one of the most appreciated Victorian editions of this fundamental work within

Bibles, Religion, Illustrated - Quantity: 2 - Tipped in plates, Fold out maps or plates - Book

Matthew Henry - The Family Devotional Bible - 1861

Beautiful blue leather bindings with gold-decorated frames and an ornament with a lyre and birds on the plates. On the spine, gilt ornaments and title. Gilded edges.

Vol. 1: flyleaf, 1 blank, [1], 250, 1 blank, flyleaf.
Vol. 2: flyleaf, 1 blank, [1], 252, 1 blank, flyleaf.
Vol.

Poetry - Quantity: 1 - Book

Jonathan Swift - The Poems of Jonathan Swift (3 voll.) - 1822

17 hand-coloured plates by John Leech.
Fine binding.

Full-calf leather with gilt lineal borders and vignette.
Contrasting morocco labels to spine.
Raised gilt bands.
Decorative gilt panels with gilt animal vignettes.
Triple gilt page-blocks.
Marbled endpapers.
Sporadic

Fine Bindings, Humour & caricature, Hunting, shooting and fishing, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Hand coloured illustrations - Book

Robert Smith Surtees - Handley Cross or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt - 1854

The Holy Bible; containing the Old and New Testaments, with explanatory notes, references and a condensed concordance. Illustrated with more than nine hundred highly finished engravings. - London, Paris and New York; Cassell, Petter and Galpin; ca. 1880 [printing year not listed]

Religion, Bibles, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Book

The Holy Bible, the Old and New Testaments (ex libris 'Samuel Owen Cardigan') - 1875

Two volumes in full leather bindings, rebacked, with gilt title to spines. General wear to original board leather, as shown. Recent endpapers. Stamp of 'St Mary's hospital Radford library manchester' seen throughout, including titles and plate versos. Pages are complete with a

Botany, Nature, Natural History, Illustrated - Quantity: 2 - Book

John Hull - Elements of Botany - 1800

This is an extremely rare copy, of Lewis Carroll's "Through The Looking-Glass", in the publisher's ledura binding. The book features the illustrations John Tenniel and dates to 1940. This copy has been extremely well cared for and it remains in Near Fine condition. It would make

Children's books, Illustrated, Young adult fiction, Literature, Science fiction and fantasy, Fine Bindings - Quantity: 1 - Book

Lewis Carroll - Through The Looking-Glass - 1940

The bindings, in leather and cardboard, are in poor condition, as detailed in the photos; they are certainly worthy of being preserved and restored.
The pages, totaling over 2,500, are intact, perfectly bound and readable, and show numerous widespread browning, but these do not

History - Quantity: 6 - Book

Titus Livius; George Baker (traduttore) - The History of Rome - 1833

In folio, (cm. 47x33), a marvelous work composed of 3 volumes in full blue morocco, the last one enclosed in a rigid, book-shaped case with raised bands containing the plates. Tomo I: pp. XXXXVI-469-(1); Volume II: pp. XI-472/1025-(3); Volume III: Collection of the plates not

Science - Quantity: 3 - Book

Leonardo da Vinci - Leonardo da Vinci, corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen at - 1978-1980

Gay, John. Blake, William and others.
Fables. With a life of the Author and embellished with 70 Plates.
1793. London: John Stockdale, 1793. 2 vols. in one,
Royal 8vo ( cm.26.5x1.5), xi, 225; vii, 187,(1, advertisement) pp. - 70 plates.
including 12 by Blake. Old marbled calf,

Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Book

John Gay / William Blake and others - Fables - 1793

DESCRIPTION: I am putting up at auction a magnificent copy of “THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,” printed in Oxford in 1888, belonging to the prestigious British editorial tradition and based on the famous KING JAMES VERSION (Authorized Version), one of the

Bibles, Religion, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Fold out maps or plates, Tipped in plates - Book

[King James Bible] - The Holy Bible - 1888

This is an antique copy of; 

 "The Revolutionary Plutarch", a three-part work from 1805 about prominent figures during the French Revolution. 

The Revolutionary Plutarch: Exhibiting the Most Distinguished Characters, Literary, Military, and Political, in the Recent Annals of

Military, History - Quantity: 3 - Book

Anonieme - The Revolutionary Plutarch - 1805

Beautiful full-leather binding in blue leather with "Clifton High School Eastbourne" decorated in gold. On the spine 5 raised bands, gold tooling and a gold title in a red leather label applied. Marbled edges.

guard leaf, 1 blank leaf, XVI, 784, 1 blank leaf, guard leaf.
A

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Lord Macaulay - The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay - 1882

Fourth Edition Prize Calf Binding 1863.
Translated from the French.
by Andrew R. Scoble.

Full-calf leather prize bindings.
Binding by J. Griffin, Portsea.
Gilt lineal borders to covers.
Morocco title to spine.
Raised gilt bands.
Decorative gilt panels.
Marbled endpapers and

Fine Bindings, Illustrated, History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Francois-Auguste Mignet - The History of Mary, Queen of Scots - 1863

"Or, an Answer to Some Libels Lately Published in.
Prejudice to the Memory of That Unfortunate 
Prince."

Two volumes in one binding. 
Very good condition overall.

"Armorial bookplate on inside cover from 
the library of Samuel James Baron Waring.
Samuel James Waring, 1st Baron

History - Quantity: 1 - Book

John Boswell - The Case of the Royal Martyr Considered with Candour - 1758

THE NEW WORLD BETWEEN COLONIES AND EMPIRE: AMERICA INVENTED IN THE 1669 COSMOGRAPHY.
Very interesting the map of North America, where Mexico is above New England. Fascinating, imprecise and still to be defined.
Edition of 1669 of Peter Heylyn’s Cosmography, one of the most

History, Geography - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Heylyn - Cosmographie - 1669

With Walter Crane's fabulous Arts and Crafts illustrations.

A very nice copy of the first edition thus. Six volumes. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. One of 1000 unnumbered copies on handmade paper printed by Charles Whittingham & Co. at the Chiswick Press. 

The original soft covers

Literature, Illustrated - Quantity: 6 - Book

Edmund Spenser / Walter Crane - The Faerie Queene - 1897

Volume IV, Part 1 & 2, and Volume V, Part 1 & 2. Four books in red Morocco binding with gilt title and elaborate decorations to spines. All edges gilt. General wear to exteriors as shown with marks and scuffs. Bookplates to front pastedowns, two in each except the second. Each

Natural History, Nature, Illustrated - Quantity: 4 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

George Shaw - General Zoology Or Systematic Natural History: Pisces. - 1803-1804

Illustrated edition of Tennyson's collected poems. Bound in splendid green morocco leather with gilded floral motifs on the edges and in the center. Spine titled and decorated with gold motifs. Edges gilt. This is the famous Moxon edition of Tennyson's poems, with 54 wood

Alfred Tennyson - Poems - 1857

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