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Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,500
Lot No. 0032
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EGYPTIAN BUST OF PTAH
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13,000
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Petrus Annatus (Pierre Annat), Apparatvs ad Positivam Theologiam Methodicus. in quo jam reviso multumque ditato, Clara, Brevis et Expedita Delineatur Idea positivæ & scholasticæ Theologiæ, Scripturæ sacræ, Traditionis divinæ, sanctorum Ecclesiæ Patrum, sacrorum Ecclesiæ Conciliorum, Pontificiarum EcclesiæDecisionum, necnon variis temporibus & varris in locis ortarum in Ecclesia hæresum. Actore R.P. Petro Annato Congregationis Doctrinæ Christianæ Generali Præposito. Editio prima in Germani correctior & auctior. Tomus Primus. Superiorum Permissu ac Privelegiis. Herbipol Sumptibus Phiippi Wilhelmi Fuggart, Bibliopolæ Aulico Academici. Typis Engmannianis' and 'Tomus Secundus' bound in together; old replacement calf binding with gold block titling and embellishments to spine, heraldic motif to front and rear covers; marble endpapers; handwritten 'Dedication Copy' to first page and inverted acquisition stamp 'The National Trust / Founded 1895' and inked '69'; xviii pp + 624 pp + 422 pp 1.82 kg, 21.5 x 18 cmLight soiling to foredges, spine and board-edges rubbed and chipped

Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.

Pierre Annat was a French ecclesiastical writer, born in 1638 at Villecontat. He was the professor of philosophy at Toulouse and was elected general of the Congregation of the Christian Doctrine in 1694.
Lot No. 1677
8
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Gratiano Gratiani Granarense, Scielta de concetti, di Gratiano Gratiani first edition, published Venice, 1592; full vellum, gold block titling to spine 'GRATIA / SCIELT / D CONC' and foreparts of a winged creature; xvi pp + 206 numbered leaves (= 413pp); inked notation to p.xvi expunged; initials 'R.I.S.S.' to inside front cover. 272 grams, 15.5 x 11 cmGood condition; minor staining. An important legal text for canon law.

Ex libris David M. Miller.
Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.

Lot No. 1678
1
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Thomas Comber D.D., A Companion to the Altar; or, an Help to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper; by Discourses and Meditations upon the whole Communion Office to which is added an Essay upon the Offices of Baptism, Catechism and Confirmation. The Third Edition. leather binding with lightly tooled borders, feint partial title to spine; frontispiece with printing details 'Imprimatur / Jan.21 / 167¾' and 'C.Smith, R.P.D. / Episc. Lond. à / sacris domesticis'; pencilled owner's autograph 'Edith C. Westercott/ May 1918'; ixpp + 489 pp + 7 pp (21 pp absent). 505 grams, 18.8 x 12.5 cmLight soiling; upper part of spine absent, scuffed corners and foredges.

Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.

L.F. Rushbrook Williams, History of the Abbey of St. Alban; original cloth with impressed borders, block title to spine; xiii pp + 251 pp, sketch map; heraldic bookplate to front inside cover and printed 'From the Author' note with pencil signature attached with the perforated runners from a sheet of stamps. 523 grams, 22.5 x 15 cmComplete sound copy with light soiling and rubbing to cover.

Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.

Laurence Frederic Rushbrook Williams, CBE, FRSA (1890–1978) was a British historian and civil servant who spent part of his working life in India.
The Modern Traveller. A popular Description, Geographical, historical, and Topographical of the various Countries of he Globe. Arabia, printed in London for James Duncan, 1825; 362 pp; half calf with marbled boards, spine defective; engraved illustrations of 'Mount Sinai & Convent', 'The Great Mosques at Mekka and Medina', 'View of Moosa'; fold-out map to front. 258 grams, 15 x 9.5 cmGood condition; spine mostly absent. Scare.

Ex libris David M. Miller.
Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.

Weeks, Kent R. (editor), Atlas of the Valley of the Kings Study Edition, American University in Cairo, 2005, 2nd printing; large format pictorial card, ring bound; 136 pp., maps, tomb sections and plans (some folding). 1.7 kg, 50 x 36 cmFine condition.

From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent.

Group comprising: the first 20 issues of Horizon, magazine being the organ of the Armana Project (at the ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna) and the Armana Trust Newsletter; pictorial wraps, stapled to each issue, held in two 'Egyptian Archaeology' magazine loose-leaf binders; fully illustrated; the first issue with business card of Barry Kemp, chairman of the trustees, stapled to front cover. 1.8 kg total, 31 x 26.5 cm eachFine condition.

From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent.

A long run of the important periodical Egyptian Archaeology, being the bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society; housed in five matching lettered binders. 10.8 kg total, 31 x 22.5 cm eachNear pristine.

From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent.

de Clercq, L. and Menant, J., Catalogue Méthodique et Raisonné Antiquités Assyriennes Cylindres Orientaux. cachets, Briques, Bronzes, Bas-Reliefs, etc. Tome Premier - Cylindres Orientaux - Texte and Planches et Carte bound together, np, nd (a facsimile of the original 1888 edition); lettered cloth hardback; including replication of owner's notations; ix pp. + 278 pp., 39 monochrome plates, colour map. 2 kg, 36.8 x 26.5 cmFine condition.

Private collection, Munster, Germany.

Mitchiner, M., Medieval Pilgrim & Secular Badges, 1986; hardback with gold block titling; 288 pp, monochrome photographs. 1.48 kg, 30.5 x 21.5 cm

Property of a North London gentleman.

A group of three programmes for the Brussels Ancient Art Fair (BAAF), each with card covers, colour photographs, captions and advertisements: I (2003), 46pp; II (2004) 60 pp; III (2005), 68 pp. 587 grams total, 22 x 19 cm each

From the collection of G.M.R.H., London, UK.

Bagnall, R.S., Cameron, A., Schwartz, S.R., Worp, K.A., Consuls of the later Roman Empire, American Philological Association, Scholars Press, Atlanta; hardback with dustwrapper, 759 pp, history and evolution of the Consulate, discussion of sources, listing of Consuls by name in eastern and western texts and inscriptions; appendices. 2 kg, 29 x 22.5 cmGood used condition.

From the collection of G.M.R.H., London, UK.

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