£40 - £60
Miscellaneous Antiquarian Books. D'Anville's Compendium of Ancient Geography, two-volume set, London: Printed for J. Faulder, et al., 1810, half-titles, folding maps, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, [Royal Navy] Duncan (Archibald), The Life of [...] Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vice-Admiral of the White [...], London: Printed and Published by James Cundee, & Liverpool: J. Nuttall, 1806, full-page plates, folding plans, contemporary sheep, disbound with wear, 12mo, Nicolas (Paul Harris, Lieut), Historical Record of the Royal Marine Forces, two-volume set bound as one, London: Thomas and William Boone, 1845, contemporary quarter-calf, disbound with faults, 8vo, six Eton related works and manuscript, comprising [Blunt (Walter, editor)] & [Praed (Winthrop Mackworth, editor)], The Etonian, three-volume set, third edition, London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1823, contemporary black-stained quarter-calf over marbled boards, rubbed, 12mo, The Eton Calendar for 1842, Eton: E.P. Williams, 1842, steel-engraved frontispiece of the college chapel, some contemporary MS annotation, original publisher's printed and pictorial limp cloth over card, indistinct ownership inscription, 8vo in 4s, A List of Eton College, Taken at Election, 1842. Eton: Printed and Sold by E.P. Williams, n.d., letterpress-printed, some contemporary pencil annotation, original wrappers, the same indistinct ownership inscription as the latter, 8vo in 4s, [&] a late 18th/early 19th c manuscript on biblical history, [42]ff transcript synopsis and verse of J. Fellows' interpretation, ?an Eton beak, some leaves inscribed recto or verso only, contemporary calf gilt, split and rubbed, 8vo, (10)
Provenance: 1st: George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770-1850), of Corehouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland; his armorial bookplates to each pastedown. 4th: 1) William Hughes, contemporary ink MS ownership inscriptions. 2) Coker Court, [?Somerset], 19th c crested bookplates to each pastedown.
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