£60
Senca & L'Estrange (Sir Roger, Knt, translator), Morals, By Way of Abstract. To which is added, A Discourse Under the Title of an After-Thought. London: Printed for E. Ballard, et al, 1775, engraved plates, 19th c pencilled manuscript annotations, contemporary sheep, rebacked and recornered in conforming 19th c sheep, split and holding, 12mo; Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, volume II only, fourth edition thus, Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1768, 20th c quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo in 4s; Dickens (Charles), The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, first "Cheap" edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, double-column, half-title, lacking frontispiece, otherwise unexamined, contemporary green quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers en suite, 8vo; Motte-Fouqué (Friedrich de la) & Montolieu (Isabelle, translator), Ondine [Undine], third French edition, Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1822, finely bound in English Regency grey faux straight-grained morocco gilt, marbled edges, purple endpapers, contemporaneous printed calligraphic book label: C.J. Ellis, 8vo; Kipling's The Five Nations, first edition, London: Methuen and Co., 1903, fine binding of brown morocco gilt, splitting, some further wear, all edges gilt, doublures, marbled endpapers, 8vo; 1933 Surtees in Hatchards' red half-morocco, 8vo; Samuel Rogers; four odd volumes of Gibbon's Decline & Fall, 8vo; calculus; etc., miscellaneous leather and part-leather bindings, mixed sizes, (17)
Provenance: 1st: John Thomas Hope (1761-1854); armorial bookplate to pastedown, presumably his annotated marginalia.
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