Books & Works on Paper
Lots: 287
Chiswick Auctions’ Books sale, on 22 August is wide-ranging and features numerous individual highlights, as well as a substantial and important collection of photobooks.
Lot 1 - Agreement between Isabella, widow of William, son of Herbert, and Richard their son, 1265
Estimated at £700 - £900
![Lot 2 - Grant of Hugh de Almunton (Alkmanton), of two bovates of land in Somersal (in Derbyshire) [c.1200]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/231103-1-small.jpg?v=63858699810353)
![Lot 3 - Leaf from a Book of Hours, Leaf from a Book of Hours, vellum. Flanders. [c. 15th.]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/230993-1-small.jpg?v=63858700543160)
Lot 3 - Leaf from a Book of Hours, Leaf from a Book of Hours, vellum. Flanders. [c. 15th.]
Sold for £353
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Lot 4 - Leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Paris, on vellum. Central France, c.1460
Sold for £554
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Lot 5 - Leaf from a Book of Hours., on vellum. Northern France (c. 1440)
Sold for £328
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![Lot 6 - Leaf from a noted Missal, in Latin, Vellum. France [c.13th]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/230997-0-small.jpg?v=63858700229280)
Lot 7 - Leaf from the ‘Reims Psalter’, in Latin, Northern France, mid-thirteenth century
Sold for £403
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Lot 10 - Diderot & d’Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire des sciences, third edition
Sold for £2,142
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Lot 11 - Diderot & d’Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire des sciences..., First Edition
Sold for £3,780
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Lot 14 - Lancetta (Troilo) La scena tragica d'Adamo e d'Eva, 1644
Sold for £63
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![Lot 18 - Bible [English - Dr Blayney's 'Standard' Bible].](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/228172-3-small.jpg?v=63858449363860)
Lot 20 - Bibles. Biblia sacra. 1593 & Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, 1655
Sold for £1,008
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Lot 22 - Quakerism. Keith. An Exact Narrative of the Proceedings, 7 articles bound as 1 1696 0 1701
Sold for £214
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Lot 23 - Coke. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England,, fourth edition, 1639
Sold for £378
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Lot 24 - Pufendorf (Samuel) De jure naturæ et gentium libri octo
Sold for £101
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![Lot 26 - [Raleigh (Sir Walter)] The History of the World, 1617](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/229890-1-small.jpg?v=63858451924370)
Lot 26 - [Raleigh (Sir Walter)] The History of the World, 1617
Sold for £1,512
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Lot 30 - Sleeman. Ramaseeana, or, Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language Used by the Thugs. 1836
Sold for £529
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Lot 34 - Imperial Airways. The Greatest Air Service in the World
Sold for £214
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Lot 36 - Wylie (William) A collection of seven works on paper
Sold for £403
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Lot 42 - Keipert. Neuer Hand Atlas uber alle Theile der Erde, Berlin 1860
Sold for £63
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![Lot 45 - Hodgson (O.) Publisher. The Pocket Tourist & English Atlas, [1820]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/227592-1-small.jpg?v=63858614384583)
Lot 45 - Hodgson (O.) Publisher. The Pocket Tourist & English Atlas, [1820]
Sold for £1,134
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Lot 46 - Maps, miscellaneous UK and Europe: Vischer (Nicholas)
Sold for £353
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Lot 48 - Speed (John) The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, 1653
Sold for £756
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![Lot 50 - Vrients (Johannes Baptista) Angliae et Hiberniae accurata descriptio, [1612]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/230558-1-small.jpg?v=63858457189757)
Lot 50 - Vrients (Johannes Baptista) Angliae et Hiberniae accurata descriptio, [1612]
Sold for £1,134
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Lot 51 - ‘Monster Map’ Munster (Sebastian) Tabula Asiae VIII, 1552
Sold for £353
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Lot 57 - Travel. Liningstone. Missionary Travels in South Africa, etc. (7)
Sold for £63
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Lot 62 - Simpson (William) The Seat of War in the East, First Series
Sold for £378
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![Lot 64 - [Dalvimart (Octavien)] The Costume of Turkey](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/230244-11-small.jpg?v=63858456619927)
Lot 65 - The Imperial Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Tehran, Pahlavi Iran, 1971
Sold for £1,008
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Lot 66 - Thevenot. The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. 1687
Sold for £328
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Lot 67 - Denham. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, 1826
Sold for £441
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Lot 69 - Abel. Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, 1818
Sold for £504
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Lot 72 - Barth. A Brief History of the Church of Christ, Madras, 1845
Sold for £139
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Lot 78 - Symonds. Geography and History of India,.., Madras 1843
Sold for £63
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Lot 79 - Wellesley. Transactions in the Marhatta Empire, 1804
Sold for £139
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Lot 80 - Dubroca. Vida de J. J. Dessalines gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo, 1805
Estimated at £800 - £1,200
Lot 83 - Ashbee (Charles Robert) editor. The Survey of London, vols. 1 - 39
Sold for £378
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![Lot 84 - Blondel: Four plates from ‘Fêtes publiques [...] à l'occasion du mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin'](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/223764-1-small.jpg?v=63854387550260)
![Lot 85 - Clarke. Panorama of the Thames, from London to Richmond [c.1824]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/227619-0-small.jpg?v=63858617594620)
Lot 85 - Clarke. Panorama of the Thames, from London to Richmond [c.1824]
Sold for £252
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![Lot 86 - Jones (Inigo) after, [Palace of Whitehall], set of four engravings](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/216672-2-small.jpg?v=63850263530680)
Lot 86 - Jones (Inigo) after, [Palace of Whitehall], set of four engravings
Sold for £756
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![Lot 87 - London. The Grand Panorama of London from the Thames. [c.1845]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/230975-0-small.jpg?v=63858701549943)
Lot 87 - London. The Grand Panorama of London from the Thames. [c.1845]
Sold for £504
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![Lot 88 - [Thiselton-Dyer]. Wallis. Illustrations of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1900 plus memorabilia](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/228653-1-small.jpg?v=63858554944530)
Lot 89 - Anderson. Essays Relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 1800; Complete Farmer, 1807
Sold for £63
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![Lot 90 - Bonelli (Giorgio) Six plates from the Hortus Romanus, [1772 -93]](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/151365-1-small.jpg?v=63851810343090)
Lot 90 - Bonelli (Giorgio) Six plates from the Hortus Romanus, [1772 -93]
Sold for £756
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