Lot 24 , GLOUCS: (Rudder, Samuel) The History of the Ancient Town of Cirencester ... title within decorated border, 3 plans (2 pictorial and folded) and 6 plates (3 folded, 1 hand coloured); 20th cent. red half morocco and cloth

° GLOUCS: (Rudder, Samuel) The History of the Ancient Town of Cirencester ... title within decorated border, 3 plans (2 pictorial and folded) and 6 plates (3 folded, 1 hand coloured); 20th cent. red half morocco and cloth, gilt-decorated and panelled spine, Cirencester, 1800: Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley - Berkeley Manuscripts. Abstracts and Extracts of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeleys ... (and) a Copious History of the Castle and Parish of Berkeley ... frontis., 2 folded pedigrees; old half morocco and cloth, 4to. 1821; New Historical Description of Cheltenham, 2 vols. (bound together). pictorial engraved titles, folded map, 2 folded plans and 24 plates; old half calf and marbled boards (rebacked, with gilt label). Cheltenham, 1826 (3)
£60-100

Condition:
Rudder - fld. plans lt. frail at folds, gen. good, contemp. (Fairford) ownership, and 20thC pict. bkplt. of Michael Bryant; X, (3),-332pp. (?lacks a pt. title, all text present); Fosbroke - some leather wear, new e/ps., ex. Incorp. Law Soc. library - sm. title stamp and 1/2 others, front inner hinge weak, title soiling; VIII, 242pp.; Cheltenham - some leather wear at corners, map (v.2) lt. browned, titles lt. stained, back e/ps. stained, some intermittent foxing; no vol. number given on titles. 1X, 124 and IV, 288pp., additionally 29 pict. engr. advert. leaves end. vol.I

Sold for £130