28th Apr, 2022 10:00

Fine Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 294
 

Thornton. A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, 1806

Thornton (Col. Thomas)

A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, 2 vol. in 1, 2 additional engraved titles, stipple-engraved frontispieces, 53 aquatint or engraved plates (10 double-page), 2pp. engraved music, engraved vignettes, one plate with tear, half calf, over contemporary marbled boards, morocco gilt decorated spine, foxed and rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 84; Schwerdt II, p. 261], 4to, 1806; Walton (Izaak) and Charles Cotton The Complete Angler, 2 parts in one, first Hawkins edition, edited by John Hawkins, 16 engraved plates including 2 frontispieces and 2 of music, wood-engraved decorations and piscatorial vignettes, bookplate to front pastedown, later paneled calf, slightly rubbed [W&S p.21], 8vo, for Thomas Hope, Richard Matthews, and Samuel Trimmer, 1760 ; The History of the Feuds and Conflicts among the Clans in the Northern Parts of Scotland and in the Western Isles; from the year M.XXXI. unto M.DC.XIX. Now first published from a manuscript, wrote in the reign of King James VI, full calf, bookplate to fron paste-down, J&J Robertson, Glasgow: 1780; Hannay (James) The Complete Works of William Hogarth, engraved plates, contemporary half morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed,[c.1880]; Milton's Paradise Lost, edited by Robert Vaughan, 50 plates by Gustave Dore, tissue guards, half-title, some slight foxing, ‘designer binding’ with onlay to upper cover, gilt, 1882. v.s. (5)

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