A collection of assorted antiquarian, science, natural histo...

Hammer

£100

A collection of assorted antiquarian, science, natural history and other titles, including Samuel Hieron: 'The Sermons of Master Samuel Hieron, Formerly Collected Together by Himselfe, and Published in One Volume in His Lifetime...', London, John Legatt, 1620, [16],763,[14]pp, a/f, pp.663/664 loose, lacks pp.699/700, numerous separate printed title pages with imprint dated 1619, folio, contemporary calf worn, previous ownership signatures/inscriptions dating from 17th and 18th Century at front and back, including Richard Frankland (possibly Richard Frankland (1630–1698), English nonconformist, notable for founding the Rathmell Academy, a dissenting academy in the north of England?); (Great Exhibition.) 'Tallis's History and Description of the Crystal Palace, and the Exhibition of the World's Indsutry in 1851', London & New York, John Tallis, [1851], 3 volumes in 2, 155 illustrations as called for (many full page steel engraved plates, some folding), uniform contemporary half calf gilt, backstrips detached (Vol. I majority backstrip loosely inserted, Vol. II part backstrip loosely inserted), all edges gilt; (Mythology, Religion.) Gerald Massey: 'A Book of the Beginnings. Containing an Attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the Lost Origins of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols, Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouthpiece and Africa as the Birthplace. Volume 1: Egyptian Origines in the British Isles. Vol 2: Egyptian Origines in the Hebrew, Akkado-Assyrian and Maori', London, Williams and Norgate, 1881, 1st edition, 2 volumes, uniform original publisher's cloth gilt; Lewis Mumford: 'Technics and Civilization', L, Goerge Routledge, 1934, 1st UK edition, 16 b/w plates as called for, original cloth gilt; Stephen P. Mizwa: 'Nicholas Copernicus A Tribute of Nations', NY, The Kosciuszko Foundation, 1945, 1st edition, 70 b/w plates and illustrations, original boards gilt; M. Nierenstein: 'Incunabula of Tannin Chemistry', L, Edward Arnold, 1932, 1st edition, folding map, orig. boards gilt; 'Archivos do Museo Nacional do Rio de Janeiro', 1877, Vol. II only, 174,[1]pp, 9 litho plates (2 coloured), contains papers by Dr. Frederico Muller on lepidoptera etc., large 4to, old half calf gilt, armorial bookplate of Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919), English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist (9)