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36 Ireland. Hibernica: or some Ancient Pieces relating to Ireland, never hitherto made publick..., Dublin: Printed by Edward Bate, for the Editor, Walter Harris, 1747, contemporary quarter calf with red morocco title label and vellum corners to boards, joints slightly cracked at head & foot, folio, together with Acts of Parliament, A collection of 100 Acts of Parliament for 1809, Acts include voluntary Militia in Ireland, distillation of spirits, importation of British or Irish made spirits, sugar export, commerce to & from the Cape of Good Hope, free importation of cochineal & indigo, and imporation of certain fish from parts of the coast of His Majesty’s North American Colonies etc., each disbound or stitched as issued, folio (101)
40 Spreat (W.). Picturesque Sketches of the Churches of Devon, Exeter: W. Spreat, 1842, lithograph title with vignette illustration on india paper, 74 lithograph plates (on 71 sheets) on india paper, spotting throughout mainly to margins, modern half morocco gilt, red morocco title label to spine, oblong folio Abbey Scenery, 131. (1)
£200-300
41 Thomas (D.R.). Esgobaeth Llanelwy. The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, General, Cathedral and Parochial, volumes 1-3, new edition, 1908, numerous black and white illustrations, uniform contemporary gilt-decorated blue half calf, boards and spines rubbed, large 8vo, together with Wynn (R.W. Williams), The Historical Records of the Yeomanry and Volunteers of Montgomeryshire 1803-1908, 1909-1919, 2 volumes 1909-26, numerous colour and black and white illustrations and maps, uniform original gilt-decorated white boards, some light marks, 4to, (3 duplicates of volume 1), plus Royal Welsh Fusiliers, A Short History of the 6th (Caernarvon and Anglesey) Battalion..., circa 1946, 59 black and white illustrations plus 18 maps, hinges cracked, original blue cloth boards, slightly marked, spine faded and rubbed, 8vo, plus other Welsh border topographical and military reference, mostly original cloth, 8vo/4to
£200-300
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£100-150
37 Moses (Henry). Sketches of Shipping.., 2 volumes, 1824, volume 1 with twenty uncoloured etched plates, volume 2 with ten uncoloured etched plates, including several of the London docks, Limehouse, Blackwall, Sheerness and Medway, some water staining to volume 2, publisher’s printed paper wrappers with the title printed on the decorative upper cover, spines partially lacking, wrappers a little toned and dust soiled, oblong 4to (2)
£150-250
38 Pevsner (Nicolaus). The Buildings of England series, 66 volumes, all original cloth in dust jackets except 3 volumes paperback, some covers slightly rubbed with some minor loss to head and foot, 8vo (66)
42 Thornton (William). The New, Complete, and Universal History, Description, and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, The Borough of Southwark, and the Parts Adjacent..., by a Society of Gentlemen, the whole revised, corrected & improved..., printed for Alex. Hogg, 1784, engraved frontispiece, folding engraved plan of London, and 103 full-page engraved plates, including views, buildings, some portraits, etc., without the map of the counties 20 miles round London, one plate bound upside down, some minor marks, and small worm track to extreme fore-margin of first few leaves (not affecting text), contemporary engraved bookplate of Reverend Benjamin Lawrence to front pastedown, contemporary full tree calf, worn with joints cracked and upper cover detached, folio
£200-300
39 Rutter (John). Delineations of the North Western Division of the County of Somerset, and of its Antediluvian Bone Caverns, with a Geological Sketch of the District, Printed & Published for the Author, Shaftesbury & London, 1829, engraved frontispiece, eleven engraved or lithograph plates, one folding hand-coloured lithograph map, numerous wood engraved illustrations, list of subscribers, modern black half mock leather, 8vo, together with Jewers (Arthur John), Wells Cathedral: Its Monumental Inscriptions and Heraldry. Together with the Hearldry of the Palace, Deanery, and Vicar’s Close. With Annotations from Wills, Registers, etc., and Illustrations of Arms, 1892, chromolithograph frontispiece, numerous plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, endpapers renewed, original blue cloth gilt, folio, (large paper copy), plus a large 8vo 1892 edition of the same title, and [Cottle, James], Some Account of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, and the Restoration thereof..., 1845, engraved frontispiece and lithograph plates, decorative title, occasional spotting, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt, faded, leather title label to spine worn, 8vo, plus five others, mostly Somerset related (11)
(1)
£150-200
43 Yorke (Philip). The Royal Tribes of Wales, 1st edition, Wrexham, 1799, 12 engraved portraits, some offsetting and spotting, bookplates, contemporary diced calf, rubbed, 4to, together with Welsh Scenery from Drawings, by Captain Batty, 1825, 35 engraved views, light offsetting and spotting, contemporary green half morocco, edges rubbed, 4to, with four others including The Cambrian Traveller’s Guide, 1813, The History of the Gwydir Family, by Sir John Wynn, 1827 and Cambria Depicta: A Tour through North Wales, [by Edward Pugh], 1816 (with 69 aquatint plates only, of 71)
£150-200
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£150-200