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Lot 193 - Accomplish'd Housewife; or, the Gentlewoman’s Companion, 1745
Sold for £1,800
Lot 194 - Byron (John). The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, 1746
Sold for £540
Lot 195 - Trades. A General Description of all Trades, Digested in Alphabetical Order, 1747
Sold for £840
Lot 196 - Langley (Batty). The Builder's Bench-Mate, 1747
Sold for £860
Lot 197 - Colden (Cadwallader). The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, 1st UK edition, 1747
Lot 198 - Brownrigg (William). The Art of making Common Salt, 1st edition, 1748
Sold for £720
Lot 199 - Smith (Eliza). The Compleat Housewife, 1750
Sold for £210
Lot 200 - Langley (Batty). The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, 1750
Sold for £660
Lot 201 - Provincial periodicals. The Chester Miscellany, 1750
Sold for £880
Lot 202 - Blanckley (Thomas Riley). A Naval Expositor, 1st edition, 1750
Sold for £680
Lot 203 - Prostitution Broadsides, circa 1780
Sold for £14,000
Lot 204 - Edwards (George). Natural History of Uncommon Birds, 1743-51
Sold for £15,000
Lot 205 - Halfpenny (William). New Designs for Farm-Houses [&] Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste, 1751-2 1
Sold for £2,300
Lot 206 - Lens (Bernard, & Gerrard de Lairesse). For the Curious Young Gentlemen and Ladies, 1752
Sold for £2,400
Lot 207 - Argens (Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis de). The Chinese Spy, 1752
Sold for £100
Lot 208 - Avison (Charles). An Essay on Musical Expression, 1753
Sold for £230
Lot 209 - Bradley (Richard). The Country Housewife, and Lady’s Director, 1753
Sold for £200
Lot 210 - Hill, (John). The Conduct of a Married Life, 1st edition, 1753
Sold for £220
Lot 211 - Bradshaw (Penelope). Bradshaw's Family Companion, 1753
Sold for £3,400
Lot 212 - Guthrie (William). The Friends. A Sentimental History, 1754
Sold for £240
Lot 213 - Brouzet [Pierre]. An Essay on the Medicinal Education of Children, 1st edition, 1755
Sold for £3,200
Lot 214 - Holberg (Ludwig). A Journey to the World Under-Ground. By Nicholas Klimius, 1755
Sold for £400
Lot 215 - Kidgell (John). The Card, 1755
Sold for £420
Lot 216 - Haywood (Eliza). The Wife, 1st edition, 1756
Lot 217 - Anstey (Christopher). Memoirs of the Noted Buckhorse, 1756
Sold for £1,650
Lot 218 - Cochem (Martin von). Der verbesserte grosse Baum-Garten, 1757
Sold for £300
Lot 219 - Mitchell (John). The Contest in America between Great Britain and France, 1757
Sold for £4,000
Lot 220 - Phillips (Sarah). The Ladies Handmaid: or, a Complete System of Cookery, 1758
Sold for £780
Lot 221 - Lennox (Charlotte). Henrietta, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1758
Sold for £640
Lot 222 - Over (Charles). Ornamental Architecture, 1758
Sold for £1,600
Lot 223 - Johnson (Thomas). Designs, 1758
Sold for £3,800
Lot 224 - Wilkes (Thomas). A General View of the Stage, 1st edition, 1759
Sold for £340
Lot 225 - Stevens (P., publisher). The Travellers Directory, 1759
Sold for £120
Lot 226 - Hillary (William). Observations on the Changes of the Air ... in the Island of Barbados, 1759
Sold for £190
Lot 227 - 'Hoamchi-vam' (pseudonym). The Bonze, or Chinese Anchorite, 1st edition, 1759
Lot 228 - Novel. The Virtuous Criminal; or, the History of Lord Stanley, 1st edition, 1759
Lot 229 - D'Eisenberg (Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron von). L'Art de Monter a Cheval, 1759
Sold for £1,700
Lot 230 - Nihell (Elizabeth). A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery, 1st edition, 1760
Lot 231 - Allen (Charles). The Polite Lady: or, a Course of Female Education, 1st edition, 1760
Lot 232 - Chapbook. The History of Jack and the Giants, between circa 1754 and 1770
Sold for £480
Lot 233 - Sayer (Robert, publisher). The Florist, 1st edition, [c.1760]
Sold for £3,600
Lot 234 - Collyer (Joseph). Youth's Guide, in the Choice of a Profession or Trade, 1st edition, 1761
Sold for £1,150
Lot 235 - Charlevoix (Pierre Francois Xavier de). Journal of a Voyage to North-America., 1761
Sold for £1,550
Lot 236 - Ridley (James). The History of James Lovegrove, Esq. 1st edition, 1761
Sold for £1,000
Lot 237 - Cook (John). The New Theory of Generation, 1762
Sold for £150
Lot 238 - Baskerville Press. The Book of Common Prayer, 1762
Lot 239 - Gallini (Giovanni-Andrea). A Treatise on the Art of Dancing, 1762
Lot 240 - Gelleroy (William). The London Cook, or the whole Art of Cookery made easy and familiar, 1762
Sold for £900
Lot 241 - Le Page Du Pratz (Antoine Simon). The History of Louisiana, 1763
Sold for £1,450
Lot 242 - Dossie (Robert). The Handmaid to the Arts, 1764
Lot 243 - Gunning (Susannah). Family Pictures, 1st edition, 1764
Sold for £2,200
Lot 244 - Memis (John). The Midwife's Pocket-Companion, 1765
Sold for £560
Lot 245 - Society of Upholsterers. Genteel Household Furniture, [1765]
Sold for £2,500
Lot 246 - Cumming (Alexander). The Elements of Clock and Watch-Work, 1st edition, 1766
Lot 247 - Shackleford (Ann). The Modern Art of Cookery Improved, 1767
Lot 248 - Fransham (John). The Entertaining Traveller, 1767
Sold for £500
Lot 249 - Bossu (Jean Bernard). Nouveaux voyages aux Indes occidentales, 1768
Sold for £270
Lot 250 - Menon (& Bernard Clermont). The Professed Cook: or, the Modern Art of Cookery, 1769
Sold for £360
Lot 251 - Raffald (Elizabeth). The Experienced English House-Keeper, Manchester, 1769
Sold for £620
Lot 252 - Silver Filigree Binding. London Almanack, 1769
Sold for £1,100
Lot 253 - Knox (John). An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North-America, 1769
Lot 254 - Pointon (Priscilla). Poems on Several Occasions, 1st edition, Birmingham: for the author, 1770
Estimated at £300 - £400
Lot 255 - Treyssac de Vergy (Pierre Henri). The Mistakes of the Heart, 4 volumes, 1771
Sold for £760
Lot 256 - Fleming (Francis). The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Timothy Ginnadrake, 1771
Sold for £1,300
Lot 257 - Campbell (James). A Treatise of Modern Faulconry, 1773
Sold for £940
Lot 258 - Bougainville (Louis de). A Voyage round the World, 1st edition in English, 1772
Sold for £580
Lot 259 - Trade catalogue. Utensils in Husbandry ... made and sold by James Sharpe, 1773
Sold for £1,900
Lot 260 - Wilkes (Benjamin). One Hundred and Twenty Copper-Plates of English Moths and Butterflies, 1773
Sold for £7,400
Lot 261 - Johnstone (Charles). The History of Arsaces, Prince of Betlis, 1st edition, 1774
Lot 262 - Trades. Valuable Secrets concerning Arts and Trades, 1775
Sold for £460
Lot 263 - Bookseller's catalogue. Sayer and Bennett's Enlarged Catalogue..., 1775
Sold for £4,400
Lot 264 - Lavoisier (Antoine). Essays, Physical and Chemical, 1st edition in English, 1776
Lot 265 - Bible; Dutch. Het Boek der Psalmen, Amsterdam, 1777
Lot 266 - Kilner (Dorothy). The Histories of More Children than One, circa 1777
Sold for £3,000
Lot 267 - Almanac. Rider's British Merlin, 1778
Lot 268 - Pratt (Samuel Jackson). Shenstone-Green, Or, The New Paradise Lost, 1779
Lot 269 - Poetry. Sammelband of 18th-century poetry pamphlets
Lot 270 - Epistolary novel. History of Lady Bettesworth and Captain Hastings, 1st edition, 1780
Sold for £1,050
Lot 271 - Maxwell (Francis Kelly). An Essay upon Tune, 1781
Sold for £520
Lot 272 - Almanac. The Polite Repository, 1781
Lot 273 - Almanac. John Goldsmith, 1782
Sold for £820
Lot 274 - British Jewell, or Complete Housewife's best Companion, 1782
Lot 275 - Silver Filigree Binding. London Almanack, 1782
Sold for £1,200
Lot 276 - Stewart (James). Plocacosmos, 1782
Lot 277 - Combe (William). Original Love-Letters, 1st edition, 1784
Sold for £250
Lot 278 - Faujas de Saint-Fond (Barthélémy). Machine Aerostatique de MM. de Montgolfier, 1784
Lot 279 - Adams (George). An Essay on Electricity, 1784
Lot 280 - Masonic binding. Constitutions of the Antient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, 1784
Lot 281 - Grose (Francis). Antiquities of England Wales, contemporary russia gilt, 1784-7
Sold for £2,800
Lot 282 - Booker (Luke). Poems on Subjects Sacred, Moral, and Entertaining, 1785
Sold for £80
Lot 283 - Marriott (Thomas). Female Conduct. A Poem, 1st edition, 1785
Lot 284 - Potter (T.). The Moralist; or Portraits of the Human Mind, 1st edition, 1785
Lot 285 - Heckle (Augustin). Drawing Book for Ladies; or Complete Florist, [1785?]
Sold for £2,600
Lot 286 - Type Specimen. A Specimen of Printing Types, by William Caslon, 1785
Sold for £1,400
Lot 287 - Almanac. Goldsmith, 1786
Lot 288 - Smith (John). The Printer's Grammar, 1787