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LOT 1678
Books - Comber - Companion to the Altar
PUBLISHED 1681 A.D.
7 3/8 x 4 7/8 in. (505 grams, 18.8 x 12.5 cm).
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). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
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Books - Merton [Thoms] - The Old Story Books of England
Published [1845] A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Ambrose Merton, i.e. William John Thoms, The Old Story Books of England. Illustrated with twelve pictures by eminent artists. Collected and re-edited by Amb [rose] Mer[ton] comprising The famous history of Guy Earl of Warwick; The gallant history of Bevis of Southampton; History of Tom Hickathrift the Conqueror; The famous story of Friar Bacon; A true tale of Robin Hood; A merry tale of the king and the cobbler; The sweet and pleasant tale of patient Grissel; The romantic story of the princess Rosetta; The mad pranks of Robin Goodfellow; The rarest ballad that ever was seen of the blind beggar's daughter of Bethnal Green; The doleful story of the babes in the wood; The lady Isabella's tragedy; A mournful ditty of the death of fair Rosamund; to which is added Queen Eleanor's confession; Gammer Gurton's Garland, calf binding with tooled pattern to covers and spine with gold-blocked title; marbled endpapers and bookplate of Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote; manuscript presentation texts to first page 'Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote / 11th Nov.ber 1844 / From M.W.' and 'Martin Shirley Heathcote / March 1921 / from Grace Heathcote'; twelve colour plates illustrating the stories. 572 grams, 17 x 13 cm
Good condition; binding slightly worn.
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Books - Welsh Language Bible
Published 1769 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Y Bibl Cyssegr-Lan Sef Yr Hen Destament A'r Newydd Welsh-language bible of Old and New Testaments, printed by M. and R. Baskett in London; leather-bound boards, original binding; owner's name 'Mary Deiuss' inked to inside front cover, with pen-trials and other marks; front page with owner's name 'Mary Davies' over year '1836' and several iterations of the name; various annotations and attempts to copy the printed script in handwriting on the title page of Genesis; usage wear to the covers and fore edge, blackening and crumbling; binding damaged and loose, some losses to corners; printed text in two columns with footnotes; detached leaf from book of Esau (Esay) in front; 1.53 kg, 22.5 x 14 cm
Fair condition; heavily used.
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Books - Welsh Language Bible
Printed 22nd May 1770 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Welsh-language bible of Old and New Testaments with heavy leather-bound boards. gold block titling to the spine 'BIBL SANTAIDD' (Holy Bible); handwritten notes of births to inside front cover beginning 'Richard Griffiths dies June (2) 1891 and was interred in Cockett Chruch [corrected to 'Church']; title page missing apart from an upper corner; fold-out map of the eastern Mediterranean area in the time of the Apostles; pen-trials and notes to the end pages. 3.28 kg, 27 x 22.5 cm
Original binding scored and rubbed; foxing to some pages
Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
