Lot #0087: Collection of scarce antiquarian books - lot #1 - Category A

14 fairly scarce old books, with condition ranging from very good to deplorable. 1 - Remarks on a Sermon of the Late Rev. John Wesley, Entitled "The Almost Christian" Dublin: James Moore, 1792. Missing front cover, title page, and everything prior to page vi. // 2 - "Original Views of London as it is, by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842"A Re-issue of the Complete Set of these Scarce and Valuable Delineations of London, with Descriptive Notes to each Plate, and a Short Introduction by E. Beresford Chancellor. London: The Architectural Press, 1926. Hardcover, 9 1/2" x 12", 111 pages, illustrated with full page black and white plates. // 3 - THESES THEOLOGICAE; VARIIS TEMPORIBUS IN ACADEMIA SEDANENSI EDITAE, ET AD DISPUTANDUM PROPOSITAE by LUDOVICO LE BLANC. London: Mosem Pitt, 1683. Hardcover in brown leather, 8" x 13", 344 pages. Lacking title page. // 4 - THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER CRAIG OF ROSE-CRAIG 1604-1631, Printed for the Hunterian Club, 1873. Hardcover, 8" x 10". Numerous books with separate title pages and separately paginated bound as one. Printed on quality paper. Very rare. // 5 - THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND DURING THE REIGNS OF QUEEN MARY, AND OF KING JAMES VI. TILL HIS ACCESSION TO THE CROWN OF ENGLAND. WITH A REVIEW OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY PREVIOUS TO THAT PERIOD; AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING ORIGINAL PAPERS.IN TWO VOLUMES. By WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D., Minister of Lady Yester's, Edinburgh. The Fifth Edition. London: A. Millar, 1762. Volume One only. Hardcover, 8 1/2" x 10", 437 pages. Marbled endpapers. // 6 - CAIRO JERUSALEM, AND DAMASCUS, THREE CHIEF CITIES OF THE EGYPTIAN SULTANS by D. S. MARGOLIOUTH. Toronto: The Musson Book Co., 1907. Hardcover, 7" x 9", 473 pages. Illustrated with 58 full page colour plates. // 7 - A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, Including the Biblical Chaldee. From the Latin of William Gesenius, by Edward Robinson. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1854. Hardcover in marbled boards with leather spine and corners, 6" x 9 1/2", 1160 pages. // 8 - RAILWAYS AND OTHER WAYS: BEING REMINISCENCES OF CANAL AND RAILWAY LIFE DURING A PERIOD OF SIXTY SEVEN YEARS; WITH CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF CANAL AND RAILWAY MEN EARLY TEAM ROADS AND RAILWAYS STEAMBOATS AND OCEAN STEAMSHIPS THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH AND ATLANTIC CABLE CANADA AND ITS RAILWAYS, TRADE AND COMMERCE WITH NUMEROUS INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES, HUMOROUS AND OTHERWISE, OF CANAL COACH AND RAIL by MYLES PENNINGTON. Toronto: Williamson & Co., 1897. Hardcover, 7" x 9", 407 pages + 48 page appendix, extensively illustrated in black and white. // 9 - ALL MEN ARE MORTAL by SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1955. Hardcover, 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", 345 pages. // 10 - HIMALAYAN VILLAGE: AN ACCOUNT OF THE LEPCHAS OF SIKKIM by GEOFFREY GORER. London: Michael Joseph, 1938. Hardcover in dust jacket, 7" x 9 1/2", 510 pages. Illustrated with black and white plates. // 11 - A very old German book with no title page. Place of origin, publisher, and date unknown. 5 1/4" x 9" x 2 1/2". 12 - SIXTY SERMONS ON PLAIN AND PRACTICAL SUBJECTS; BY THE LATE REVEREND THOMAS PYLE, MANY YEARS MINISTER OF LYNN IN NORFOLK, CANON RESIDENTIARY OF THE CHURCH OF SARUM, AND AUTHOR OF THE PARAPHRASE ON THE ACTS, EPISTLES, AND REVELATION, IN THE MANNER OF DR. CLARKE. Published by his Son PHILIP PYLE, A.M. Volume II. Norwich: Printed and sold by Richard Beatniffe, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]. Hardcover, 5" x 8", 483 pages. An exceedingly rare book. Lacking upper board, lower board detached, text block broken in two between pages 208 and 209. Pages very good. // 13 - Bilder-Atlas der Sommer-Herbstblumen. Hardcover, 5 1/2" x 8 1/4", 40 pages connected accordion style so they can be opened up in a line. ?Miterlauterndem Text von H. Schunmacher. Ravensburg: Otto Maier, no date, circa. 1920s. White Colouring coming off of lettering on cover. Accordion pages separated at one joint and taped together at one other. Otherwise very good. // 14 - PRAYING AND WORKING by the Rev. WILLIAM FLEMING STEVENSON, London: Alexander Strahan, 1863. Hardcover in beveled boards, 5" x 7", 11 pages. ?