Lot 278 , Boys, William - Collections for an History of Sandwich in Kent, two vols bound as one, qto, half calf,

Boys, William - Collections for an History of Sandwich in Kent, two vols bound as one, qto, half calf, renewed endpapers, erratum trimmed and pasted to reverse of title page, with 52 engraved plates and folded tables, plate margins lightly spotted, tear repaired to frontispiece, lacking half title, a few annotations in pen and pencil, tear to plate margin of St Clements, Sandwich plate, Simmons, Kirkby and Jones, Canterbury 1892 [i.e.1792]

William Boys (1735-1803), surgeon to the seamen of Deal and Goodwin Sands. The Sandwich Tern plate, at page 851, was named Sterna Boysii, by the ornithologist John Latham

Estimate £400-600


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Sold for £500