The CANTERBURY AUCTION Galleries
Tuesday, December 06 2011
Viewing Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 12pm-4pm, Monday 10am-7pm immediately prior to sale. Open on mornings of sale (Tuesday and Wednesday) from 8.30am until 10am for viewing. Sale starts promptly at 10am each day. Please remember that if you want to leave a commission bid or bid by telephone we need all instructions by Monday 6.30pm before sale.
Robert Morden (d.1703) - Coloured engraving - "The County of Monmouth", 13.5ins x 16.25ins, sold by Abel Swale Awnsham & John Churchil (publishers of 1695 edition of Camden's Brittania), John Carey - coloured engraving - "A Map of Lancashire", 20.5ins x 14.5ins, and Richard Blome (1641-1703) - Engraving - "A Map of Rutland", 8.5ins x 11ins, all in Hogarth frames and glazed
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 289 SOLD FOR: £ 3400
Edward Hasted - "The History and Topographical Survey of Kent" printed for the author by Simmons & Kirkby, Canterbury 1778-1799 (four gilt tooled brown leather folio sized volumes - front covers with armorial of John Frederick - Earl Cowdor. Volume 1 with page of additional plates handwritten by Edward Hasted - binding slightly damaged)
Guide Price: £2000-3000
Lot 290 SOLD FOR: £ 620
Edward Hasted - "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", second edition, volumes 1-12, printed by W. Bristow, Canterbury 1797-1801 (twelve gilt tooled full brown leather bound volumes - slightly worn)
Guide Price: £500-700
Lot 291 SOLD FOR: £ 140
Edward Hasted - "The History of the Antient and Metropolitical City of Canterbury" printed by Simmons & Kirkby, Canterbury 1799 (one three quarters brown leather bound folio sized volume - wear to binding)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 292 SOLD FOR: £ 160
Edward Hasted - "The History of the Antient and Metropolitical City of Canterbury", second edition, printed by W. Bristow, Canterbury 1801 (two full brown leather bound volumes - slight wear to bindings)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 293 SOLD FOR: £ 1550
John Harris - "The History of Kent in Five Parts" printed and sold by D. Midwinter, London 1719 (one full brown leather bound folio sized volume - restored spine)
Guide Price: £1250-1600
Lot 294 SOLD FOR: £ 340
William Somner - "The Antiquities of Canterbury in Two Parts" printed for R. Knaplock, London 1703 (one full gilt tooled brown leather bound volio sized volume - front cover with armorial for John Frederick - Earl Cowdor)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 295 SOLD FOR: £ 170
William Somner - "The Antiquities of Canterbury" printed by I.L. for Richard Thral, London 1640 (one full brown leather bound volume - wear to binding)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 296 SOLD FOR: £ 180
W.H. Ireland - "A New and Complete History of the County of Kent" published by George Virtue, London 1828 (four full brown leather bound volumes - with repaired spines)
Guide Price: £200-250
John Britton - "The History and Antiquities of the Metropolitical Church of Canterbury" printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London 1821 (one full brown leather bound volume), and William Gostling - "A Walk in and about The City of Canterbury", new edition, published and sold by William Blackley, Canterbury 1825 (one grey card bound volume)
Guide Price: £150-200
Reverend J. Dart - "The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury" printed and sold by J. Cole, London 1726 (one full brown leather bound folio sized volume - binding in poor condition), and William Gostling - "A Walk in and about The City of Canterbury", second edition, printed by Simmons & Kirkby, Canterbury 1777 (one full brown leather bound volume - damage to spine)
Guide Price: £200-250
Lot 299 SOLD FOR: £ 160
William Gostling - "A Walk in and about The City of Canterbury" printed and sold by Simmons & Kirkby and W. Flackton, London 1774 (one full brown leather bound volume - damage to spine), and Reverend J. Dart - "The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury", printed and sold by J. Cole, London 1726 (one full brown leather bound folio size volume - binding in poor condition)
Guide Price: £200-250
Lot 300 SOLD FOR: £ 140
Thomas Willement - Two copies of "Heraldic Notices of Canterbury Cathedral" both published by Harding Lepard & Co, London 1827 (two three quarters brown leather bound volumes of varying size), and Joseph Meadows Cowper - "The Memorial Inscriptions of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury" privately printed, run of only sixty-seven copies by Cross & Jackman, Canterbury 1897 - this the author's copy (one three quarters brown leather bound folio sized volume)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 301 SOLD FOR: £ 480
William Lambarde - "A Perambulation of Kent" printed by Edmund Bollifant, London 1596 (one three quarters green leather bound volume), and "The Kentish Traveller's Companion", third edition, printed and sold by Simmons & Kirkby, Canterbury 1790 (one half brown leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £200-300
Lot 302 SOLD FOR: £ 230
J. Y. W. Lloyd - "The History of Powys Fadog", volumes 1-6, published by T. Richards, London 1881 (six blue cloth bound volumes), and five other volumes of Welsh interest
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 303 SOLD FOR: £ 200
Browne Willis - Two volumes - "A Survey of the Cathedral Church of Bangor" and "A Survey of the Cathedral Church of St. Asaph", both printed for R. Gosling, London 1721 and 1720 respectively (two brown leather bound volumes - slight wear to bindings)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 304 SOLD FOR: £ 140
Henry Rowlands - "Mona Antiqua Restaurata", second edition, printed for J. Knox, London 1776, and "The Journey to Snowdon" printed by Henry Hughes, London 1781 (two full brown leather bound volumes - bindings both in poor condition)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 305 SOLD FOR: £ 190
The Cambro-Briton, volumes 1-3, varioulsy printed for the Editor, 1820-1822 (three black three quarters leather bound volumes - worn to bindings), and seven other volumes of Welsh interest
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 306 SOLD FOR: £ 140
The Historie of Cambria translated by H. Lloyd, reprinted for John Harding, London 1811, and Reverend William Warrington - "Cambria Triumphans", third edition, printed for W. Baynes, London 1803 (two three quarters brown leather bound volumes - bindings both in poor condition)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 307 SOLD FOR: £ 100
Giraldus de Barri - "The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin" translated by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, volumes 1 and 2, printed for William Miller, London 1806 (two gilt tooled full brown leather bound volumes - worn to bindings)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 308 SOLD FOR: £ 150
Thomas Roscoe - Two volumes - "Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales" and "Wanderings and Excursions in South Wales" both published by Longman, Simpkin, Bogue & Orr, London 1844 (two gilt tooled full red leather bound volumes - worn to bindings)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 309 SOLD FOR: £ 150
Reverend W. Bingley - "North Wales", volumes 1 & 2, printed for T.N. Longman & O. Rees, London 1804 (two full leather bound volumes - with repaired spines)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 310 SOLD FOR: £ 120
Reverend Evans - "A Topographical and Historical Description of North Wales" printed for Sherwood, Neely & Jones, London (one three quarters brown leather bound volume - worn to binding) and Henry Penruddocke Wyndham - "A Tour Through Monmouthshire and Wales", second edition, printed and sold by E. Easton, Salisbury 1781 (one full brown leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 311 SOLD FOR: £ 280
Thomas Pennant - Three volumes - "The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell", "The Journey from Chester to London" and "The Literary Life of the Late Thomas Pennant by Himself", variously printed for B & J White, Wilkie & Robinson and Benjamin and John White, London 1796, 1811 and 1793 respectively (three volumes in full brown leather and three quarters brown leather bindings, variously)
Guide Price: £150-200
Alexander Nisbet - "A System of Heraldry", second edition, volumes 1 & 2, printed by and for Alex Lawrie & Company, Edinburgh 1804 (two rebound half brown leather bound volumes)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 313 SOLD FOR: £ 100
Francis Sandford and Samuel Stebbing - "A Genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England" printed by M. Fenour, London 1707 (one rebound brown leather folio sized volume)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 314 SOLD FOR: £ 140
William Dugdale - "The Baronage of England" printed by Thomas Newcomb, London 1675 (one full brown leather bound volume - with repaired spine), and "Three letters containing remarks on........Dugdale's Baronage", printed for the author, London 1738 (one three quarters green leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 315 SOLD FOR: £ 240
John Guillim - "A Display of Heraldry", sixth edition, printed by T.W., London 1724 (one full brown leather bound volume - slightly restored)
Guide Price: £150-200
Lot 316 SOLD FOR: £ 210
Sir Samuel Rush Meryick - "Heraldic Visitations of Wales", volumes 1 & 2, published for The Welsh Manuscript Society by William Rees, Llandovery 1866 (two green cloth bound volumes), and John Edwards Griffiths - "Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families" printed for the author by W.K. Morton & Sons, Lincolnshire 1914 (one brown cloth bound folio sized volume - poor condition)
Guide Price: £100-150
Percy Enderbie - "Cambria Triumphans", originally printed for Andrew Crooke, London 1661 and reprinted by Samuel Bagster, London 1810 (one full gilt tooled green leather bound folio sized volume)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 318 SOLD FOR: £ 100
John Reynolds of Oswestry - "A Display of Herauldry" printed by Roger Adams, Chester 1739 (one half black leather rebound volume), John Anderson - "Historical & Genealogical Memoires of the House of Hamilton" published by John Anderson Jrn, Edinburgh 1825 (one three quarters brown leather bound volume), and seven other volumes of heraldic interest
Guide Price: £100-150
Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society edited by Sir William Davies, volumes 1-13, 1949-2001 (thirteen blue cloth bound volumes), and M.P. Siddons - "The Development of Welsh Heraldry", volumes 1-4, published by The National Library of Wales,Aberystwyth , 1991 (four green cloth bound volumes with dust wrappers)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 320 SOLD FOR: £ 160
George Viner Ellis and G.H. Ford - "Illustrations of Disections" published by James Walton, London 1867 (one three quarters brown leather bound folio sized volume - worn to binding)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 321 SOLD FOR: £ 240
A General System of Surgery in Three Parts, Translated into English from the Latin of Dr. Laurence Heister, second edition, printed for W. Innys, London 1745 (one full brown leather bound volume - in poor condition)
Guide Price: £250-350
Lot 322 SOLD FOR: £ 100
Sir John Skelton - "Charles I" and Osmond Airy - "Charles II", both published by Goupil & Co, London 1898 and 1901 respectively (latter volume No. 161 of 1250 - contained in three quarters blue leather and three quarters green leather bindings respectively)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 323 SOLD FOR: £ 140
The Works of That Great Monarch and Glorious Martyr King Charles I printed by Samuell Browne at The Hague 1651 (one full brown leather bound volume - repaired to spine), and The Right Reverend Mandell Creighton - "Queen Elizabeth" published by Boussard Valadon & Co, London 1896 (one full brown leather bound volume), "Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton by His Wife", fourth impression, volumes 1 & 2, published by Longsmans, Green & Co, London 1904 (two three quarters red leather bound volumes)
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 324 SOLD FOR: £ 190
Richard Walter - "A Voyage Around The World by George Anson", fourth edition, printed for John and Paul Knapton, London 1748 (one full brown leather bound volume - binding in poor condition), William Harrison Aynsworth - "The Tower of London" illustrated by George Cruikshank, published by George Routledge & Co, London 1854 (one three quarters brown leather bound volume, and Sir Herbert Maxwell - "Scottish Gardens" published by Edward Arnold, London 1908 (one full green leather bound volume)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 325 SOLD FOR: £ 210
The Works of Alexander Pope, volumes 1-8, printed for Nichols & Son, et al, London 1812 (eight gilt tooled maroon leather bound volumes), and twenty-two other leather bound books, various
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 326 SOLD FOR: £ 120
Charles Dickens - "Bleak House", first edition, published by Bradbury & Evans, London 1853 (one three quarters blue leather bound volume), R.S. Surtees - "Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour" illustrated by John Leech, published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London (one three quarters red leather bound volume), and nineteen other leather bound books, various
Guide Price: £120-160
Lot 327 SOLD FOR: £ 150
Edward Gibbon - "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", new edition, volumes 1-8, printed for T. Cadell et al, London 1838 (eight gilt tooled brown leather bound volumes), and Henry Hallum - "The Constitutional History of England", third edition, volumes 1-3, published by John Murray, London 1832 (three maroon leather bound volumes)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 328 SOLD FOR: £ 220
The Waverley Novels, volumes 1-25, published by R. Cadell, Edinburgh 1841 (twenty-five gilt tooled three quarters blue leather bound volumes), and George Eliot - Seven volumes - "Works", published by William Blackwood & Sons (seven three quarters green leather bound volumes)
Guide Price: £150-200
John Speed - "History of Britain" (one brown leather bound volume - in poor condition and lacking title page)
Guide Price: £300-400
Fifteen copies of "Bentley's Miscellany", volumes 5-20, published by Richard Bentley, London 1839 (fifteen three quarters brown leather bound volumes), and six volumes of Dickens works (six three quarters red leather bound volumes - worn condition)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 331 SOLD FOR: £ 100
Florence K. Upton - "The Gollywog's Polar Adventures", published by Longmans Green & Co., London and New York and Bombay, 1900 (one paper bound volume - a/f), Peter Newell - "The Hole Book", published by Harper & Brothers, New York 1908 (one cloth bound volume - a/f) and seven other childrens books, various
Guide Price: £80-120
Lot 332 SOLD FOR: £ 60
James White - "A Treatise on Veterinary Medicine, Volume 3", sixth edition, printed for Longman, Hurst, et al, London 1823 (one hard bound volume - poor condition)
Guide Price: £100-150
Lot 333 SOLD FOR: £ 60
Raccolta.........di Napoli, volumes 5 and 10, published by Giovanni Gravier, Naples 1769 and 1771 respectively (two vellum hard bound volumes - poor condition)
Guide Price: £120-160
Three early 20th Century musical scores - "Dogs of Devon or Foiled Again", "The May -Queen", and "The Rose Maiden", published by J Curwin & Sons Ltd., F. Pitman Hart & Co., and Boosey & Co., London, respectively (three dark green cloth bound volumes - with monogram of Mount Edgecombe, Cornwall, to front covers)
Guide Price: £70-100
Rev. F.O. Morris - "A History of British Butterflies" published by Groombridge & Sons, London 1864 (one green cloth bound volume - slightly worn)
Guide Price: £150-200
Rev. F.O. Morris - "A History of British Birds", volumes 1-6, published by Groomridge & Sons, London 1865 (six green cloth bound volumes - slightly worn)
Guide Price: £500-700
Phillip Gilbert Hamerton - "Landscape" published by Seeley & Co, London 1885 (one white leather parchmount bound volume, No. 455 of 500)
Guide Price: £400-600