Lot 117
  • 117

Yorkshire--Thoresby, Ralph

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Ducatus Leodiensis: or, the topography of the ancient and populous town and parish of Leedes... the second edition, with notes and additions by Thomas Dunham Whitaker. Leeds: Printed by B. Dewhirst, for Robinson [&c.], 1816, 11 engraved plates, illustrations
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WHITAKER, T.D. Loidis and Elmete; or... the districts described in those words by Bede; and supposed to embrace the lower portions of Aredale and Wharfdale, together with the entire Vale of Calder [and Appendix]. Leeds: Printed by B. Dewhirst, for Robinson [&c.], 1816, FIRST EDITION, 53 mostly engraved plates, engraved and wood-engraved illustrations in text, bound with A Series of Views of the Abbeys and Castles in Yorkshire, 1820 (see footnote)

LARGE PAPER COPIES, together 2 volumes, folio (478 x 320mm.), half-titles, nineteenth-century russia gilt by J. Mackenzie, gilt edges, some spotting to plates

Provenance

LONGLEAT HOUSE, sale in these rooms "Valuable Printed Books. Duplicates from the Library at Longleat House", 11 June 1979, lot 159

Literature

Upcott III, p.1384 and p.1386

Condition

The condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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Catalogue Note

The second work includes an appendix and index published c.1820 (and therefore omitted by Upcott) of 88pp. and calling for 4 plates. One of these additional plates is bound at p.270 of the main work, and one (the portrait of William Hey) is moved from the main text to p.32 of the appendix. Bound at the end is A Series of Views of the Abbeys and Castles in Yorkshire, 1820, 8pp., with 4 plates, of Rievaulx Abbey.