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Bewick (Thomas), A History of British Birds, two volume set, sixth edition, Newcastle: Printed by Edw. Walker, 1826, in-text wood engravings, detached contemporary diced calf boards, 8vo; Andrews (James Petit, FAS), The History of Great Britain, two parts bound as one, first editions, London: T. Burton and Co. for T. Cadell, 1794-95, contemporary speckled calf, upper-cover split and repaired, 4to; Churton (Edward), The Railroad Book of England, London: Edward Churton, [1851], folding map repaired, original publisher's green quarter-roan over cloth, uncut, 8vo; Wilson (Rev. John M., editor), The Farmer's Dictionary; or a Cyclopedia of Agriculture, two volume set, Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, n.d., [c. 1865], plates, finely bound in contemporary quarter-calf over cloth, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo; The Holy Bible (KJV), facsimile of then 1611 Authorized Version, Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1911, black-ruled, contemporary panelled calf over boards binding, red stained edges, folio; Cookery: Soyer's Modern Housewife, 1858, laid frontispiece, plates and adverts, original publisher's cloth, 8vo; botany prize binding; etc., (10)
Provenance: 2nd: William Morehead of Herbertshire (1737–1793), founding member of The Royal Society of Edinburgh; armorial bookplate.
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