‎Vickers, Neil; Bolton, Derek‎
‎Being III‎

‎THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON: being an historical account of the Towns, Villages and Hamlets, within Twelve Miles of that Capital [...] Volume I: COUNTRY OF SURREY. Volume II-III: COUNTRY OF MIDDLESEX. Volume IV: COUNTRY OF HERTS, ESSEX & KENT. ‎

‎ 1792 London: printed by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell in the Strand, 1792-1796. Complete set of 4 in-4 vol.: 26 x 33.5 cm. I/ 1 map, xii-593 pp. + 24 engr. pl., 4 ff. of index, 1 f. errata; II/ 1 map, vi-598 pp. + 14 engr. pl., 23 ff. of index; III/ v-[1]-706 pp. including index + 11 engr. pl.; IV/ 1 map., vi-724 pp. including index + 11 engr. pl., 2 ff. errata. First edition richly illustrated with 3 maps, 4 title-page vignettes and 60 inset engraved plates. Contemporary red long-grain morocco. Gilt title on spine. Gilt filets-roll on convers. Rolled doublures and marbled endpapers. Gilt edges. Ex-libris: Archibald Philipp Earl of Rosbery. Very nice copy luxuriously bound.‎

‎The Environs est le principal ouvrage de Daniel Lysons (1762-1834), qui a dessiné lui-même la plupart des illustrations "The whole forms a work of permenant value; the arrangement is clear and the style interesting; while the copious extracts from the parochial registers, though occasionally inaccurate, are useful to the biographer and genealogist" (Oxford DNB). Archibald Philip Primrose (1847 1929), 5e comte de Rosebery, connu également à partir de 1851 sous le titre de courtoisie de Lord Dalmeny, fut Premier ministre de la reine Victoria de 1894 à 1895. ‎

‎Louis Napoleon and the genesis of the Second Empire. being a life of the Emperor Napoleon III to the time of his election to the presidency of the French republic. With numerous illustrations reproduced from contemporary portraits, prints and lithographs‎

‎Londres-New York, John Lane [Richard Clay], 1909 in-8, xx pp., un f. n. ch., 394 pp., un f. n. ch., avec 23 planches hors texte, dont un plan de Ham à double page, percaline cerise, dos et plats ornés de filets à froid, symboles napoléoniens dorés sur le plat supérieur (abeilles en écoinçon, armes impériales au centre), tête dorée (reliure de l'éditeur). Dos uniformément insolé et passé.‎

‎Édition originale. Frank Halliday Cheetham (1872-1937) est plus connu pour ses monographies sur l'architecture.Au CCF, exemplaires seulement à la BnF.Ex-libris manuscrit Simpson. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT‎

‎Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham; being papers read at the Meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle Upon Tyne. Volume III.‎

‎1870 551 p., 15 lithographed plates, contemporary half calf with marbled boards (the two labels on spine missing). Some scattered foxing but mostly in first few pages and endpapers, some plates also somewhat foxed. Rare third volume of this journal, which later was renamed: Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Topics are: fossil amphibians, fossil fishes, fossil reptiles and fishes, terraced slopes, Crustacea (Janassa, Entomostraca), meteorology, etc. Most plates depict fossil vertebrates and Crustaceans.‎

‎Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Genetics. Vol. 1. Well-Being of Mankind and Genetics. Vol. II. Problems in General Gentics. Vol. III. Molecular Bases of genetics Process.‎

‎1980-1981 3 vols (in 6). 256, 416, 296, 272, 253, 376 p., num. figs & pls, hardbound. A scarce complete set of these Proceedings.‎

‎Land of the Locusts. Being some further Verses on Grigs and Cicadas. Part I-III.‎

‎1978-1985 x, 529, [2], viii, 554, xiv, 466 p., numerous figures, 4to, paperbound. Library stamps, else good set. Scarce.A ethnological study filled with ancient and less ancient poetry, tales, figures on/of Orthopteroid insects.‎