Bible (?), printed in a cursive Syriac script

lot 168 (The Library Sale, 9th Jan, 2020)

19th century, 4to, Protestant Reformation Society (London) stamp to inside cover, binding by Collier, worn, and lacking backstrip

Estimated at £250 - £350 More details 4  

[COTTON (Charles)]

lot 169 (The Library Sale, 9th Jan, 2020)

Scarronides : or Le Virgile Travestie . A Mock-Poem. Being the First Book of Virgils Aeneis in English, Burlesque. London: E. Cotes for Henry Brome , ... read more

Sold for £180 More details 3  

RUBEIS (J. Jacobus de.)

lot 170 (The Library Sale, 9th Jan, 2020)

After RAPHAEL. Imagines Veteris ac Novi Testamenti...in Vaticani Palatii Xystis. Rome, c. 1675, oblong folio (c.344 x 460 mm), engraved title and ... read more

Sold for £440 More details 8  

[PLAT (H)]

lot 171 (The Library Sale, 9th Jan, 2020)

A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, Or, The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. With the manner how to make diverse kinde of Sirups, and all ... read more

Sold for £170 More details 3  

NEWTON (Isaac)

lot 172 (The Library Sale, 9th Jan, 2020)

Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, Printers to the ... read more

Sold for £30,000 More details 12  

WALPOLE (Horace)

lot 173 (The Library Sale, 9th Jan, 2020)

Anecdotes of Painting in England. Strawberry Hill: T. Farmer 1762-71, 4 vols and Supplement vol.; with - Catalogue of Engravers, 1792, all small 4to, ... read more

Sold for £460 More details 5  

HUME (David)

lot 174 (The Library Sale, 9th Jan, 2020)

The History of England, new edition in 8 vols., London: Cadell 1770, 4to, portrait frontispiece, full tree calf gilt, some joints cracked (8)

Sold for £140 More details 3  

WALPOOLE (G)

lot 175 (The Library Sale, 9th Jan, 2020)

The New British Traveller, c.1790, folio, lacking title page, first leaves cut down, folding general map, 3 others folding and 18 pages of smaller ... read more

Sold for £260 More details 4  

Bell's Common Place Book

lot 176 (The Library Sale, 9th Jan, 2020)

London 1770, small 4to, ms entries include 'Of temperaments in general..', 6pp., 'ways to avoid death from fevers', 7pp., 'Catalogue of Medicines for ... read more

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L'ABBAT.

lot 177 (The Library Sale, 9th Jan, 2020)

The Art of Fencing, or, the Use of the Small Sword. Translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat; Master of that Art at the ... read more

Sold for £1,200 More details 3