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465 [Defoe, Daniel]. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Who lived eight and twenty years alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque..., [with The Life of Daniel Defoe, by George Chalmers], 2 vols., London: John Stockdale, 1790, engraved frontispiece & titles, thirteen engraved plates, tissue guards, contemporary marbled calf gilt, 8vo
470 Erasmus (Desiderius). Lingua, sive, de linguae usu atque abusu liber utilissimus, & Encomium Moriae, sive Declamatio in laudem stultitiae & Consultatio de Bello Turcis inferendo, Leiden: J. Maire, 1641-43, three works bound as one, engraved vignette to each title, extensive contemporary annotations some in red ink, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine and upper board, dust-soiled, 12mo
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£150-200
466 Dickens (Charles). The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1st edition in six original parts, Chapman & Hall, 1870, engraved portrait and additional title, and twelve wood-engraved plates, numerous advertisments (without the rarely found Cork Hats advertisement at rear of part II), some light spotting, original printed blue wrappers, generally torn and edge-frayed (with some loss to spines), part V with rear cover detached, slim 8vo (6)
471 Fashion & Costume. La Belle Assemblee, being Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine, 6 odd volumes, 1810-21, folding map, ninety-eight engraved plates (including some folding), fifty-four coloured fashion plates, small holes where previously sewn, contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn, boards detached, 8vo, together with a volume of plates from the West End Gazette Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (7)
£100-150
£300-500
468 Drake (Nathan). The British Classics [with:] Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator and Guardian, 24 volumes plus 3 volumes, 1804-15, first set with engraved title and frontispiece to each volume (except last volume with engraved title only), second set with engraved frontispiece to first 2 volumes only, some spotting, contemporary uniform red half straight-grain morocco gilt over marbled boards, a little rubbed and chipped, head-piece to volume 13 slightly snagged, spines partly darkened, small 8vo (27)
£200-300
469 Elzevir Press. Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines, Sr. d’Argenton, Derniere edition, Leiden: chez les Elzeviers, 1648, engraved title, armorial bookplate of George Trevor Spencer to upper pastedown, contemporary sheep, gilt decorated spine, gilt crest of George Spencer to upper board, joints cracked, rubbed & worn, 12mo, (Willems 634), together with [Allestree, Richard], The New Whole Duty of Man..., with Devotions Proper for Several Occasions. Embellished with a Curious Set of Cuts, 2 parts in one, London: printed only for John Hinton, at the King’s-Arms, in Newgate Street, [1778], engraved frontispiece, title & nine plates, one full-page engraved illustration, title to second part 23rd edition with imprint dated 1778, all edge gilt, contemporary gilt decorated red morocco, worn at head & foot of spine and to board corners, 8vo, with Exercises, Instructive & Entertaining, in False English, Written with a view to Perfect Youth in their Mother Tongue, as well as to Enlarge their Ideas in General, and give them a Relish for what is Ornamental, useful, and Good, 14th edition, Leeds: John Heaton, 1811, contemporary sheep, joints cracked and some wear, 12mo in 6s, and Binding, Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Count A. Hamilton, Translated from the French, 2 vols., new edition, 1828, numerous engraved portrait plates, some spotting and offsetting, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt and blind decorated green morocco, slightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo, plus two others (7)
£150-200
472 Games and pastimes. Youthful Sports, a new edition, Wm. Darton and Josh. Harvey, July 11th, 1804, vignette title-page, and thirty engravings on letterpress, some light spotting and toning, two facing pages with some juvenile colouring, disbound and loosely inserted into later marbled wrappers, 12 x 8cm (4.75 x 3ins), together with Hack (Maria), Winter Evenings; or, Tales of Travellers, 4 volumes, 3rd edition, printed for Harvey and Darton, 1823, engraved frontispiece to each (that to first volume slightly frayed to fore-edge, just clipping head-line), some spotting and toning, D5 in volume 3 with lower corner torn away (with loss of a few letters), contemporary ownership name on front free endpapers, volumes 1 and 4 lacking rear free endpaper, original red roan-backed marbled boards gilt, extremities rubbed, spines faded and with some minor loss at ends, 12mo in 6s, housed together in a modern card slipcase, plus [Strickland, Agnes], The Moss-House: in which many of the Works of Nature are Rendered a Source of Amusement to Children, 1st edition, William Darton, 1822, six engraved plates, including frontispiece, lightly offset to text, front hinge splitting, early manuscript name on front free endpaper, blue sprinkled edges, original roan-backed marbled boards, extremities a little rubbed in places, 12mo in 6s, plus other antiquarian children’s books similar
467 Donato (Alessandro). Roma vetus ac recens utriusque aedificiis... expositis,tertio edita, Rome: Fratrum de Rubeis, 1725, engraved frontispiece, four folding engraved maps or plans, engraved illustrations to text, old dampstain to upper outer corners affecting text and plates, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and later ownership names to endpapers and title, contemporary vellum with leather labels to spine, rubbed and soiled, 4to (1)
£100-150
Provenance: from the library of a descendant of the publisher William Darton. Darton G1074(3): the first edition of ‘Youthful Sports’ was published in 1801, and all editions are rare. It contains descriptions of such games as: Battledore and Shuttlecock; Quoits; Blindman’s Buff; Flying the Kite; Bow and Arrow; Stilts; Marbles, Peg Top; Trap Ball; Air Balloons, Dressing Dolls; Bird Nesting; Whip Top; and Badger the Bull, or Bait the Bear. £200-300 (19)
473 Goldsmith (Oliver). The History of Greece from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great, 2 volumes, printed for Richardson & Co. et al, 1821, half-titles, presentation inscription to title of volume two, some scattered light spotting, bookplate of Don Antionio Canovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain, to upper pastedowns, original boards, rubbed and worn with loss to spine, 8vo, together with Manley (Delarivier), Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality of both Sexes from the New Atalantis an Island in the Mediteranean, 2nd edition, John Morphew, 1709, some scattered toning and light spotting, owenership inscriptions in ink to upper pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed and scuffed, upper board detached, 8vo, plus other 18th and 19th century titles, including Levizac’s Lettres Choisies de Mesdames de Sevigne, Franz von Sales’ Philothea, Tagliches handbuch, published in Philadelphia, 1812 (rebound), Johann Baptist Say’s Darstellung der Nationalokonomie oder der Staatswirthscahft..., Narrations d’Omai, insulaire de la Mer du Sud... (volume two only), and others including some German language, mostly 8vo
£150-200
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£200-300