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LEIGH, Charles (1662-1701). The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire and the Peak, in Derbyshire, Oxford: Printed for the Author, 1700. 3 parts in one volume, 2° (350 x 222mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Leigh by Savage after Faithorn, double-page map hand-colored in outline, 24 plates, list of subscribers (waterstained, some neat marginal tears). Later blindtooled speckled calf (boards partially detached, worn). FIRST EDITION. Nissen BBI 2436; Wing L-975.
MALDEN, Henry. An Account of King's College-Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridge: Fletcher and Hobson, 1769. 8°. Engraved frontispiece, engraved plate (a little light staining). Later paper boards. Provenance: Chris Capon Jnr., 1776 (owner's inscription on front free endpaper).
With 10 other works including Collectanea curiosa antiqua Dumnonia (Exeter & London, n.d.), The History of Barnwell Abbey (Cambridge, 1806) and Thomas Darton's Union Atlas containing New and Improved Maps of all the Empires, Kingdoms and States in the Known World (London, c.1808, worn and repaired). The lot sold not subject to return. (12)
MALDEN, Henry. An Account of King's College-Chapel in Cambridge, Cambridge: Fletcher and Hobson, 1769. 8°. Engraved frontispiece, engraved plate (a little light staining). Later paper boards. Provenance: Chris Capon Jnr., 1776 (owner's inscription on front free endpaper).
With 10 other works including Collectanea curiosa antiqua Dumnonia (Exeter & London, n.d.), The History of Barnwell Abbey (Cambridge, 1806) and Thomas Darton's Union Atlas containing New and Improved Maps of all the Empires, Kingdoms and States in the Known World (London, c.1808, worn and repaired). The lot sold not subject to return. (12)
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