Lot 97 , SOMERSET, BATH: The Historical and Local New Bath Guide...with Observations on the Medicinal Virtues, and Directions for the Use of the Bath Waters, by Sir George Smith Gibbes.....2 folded plans, 13 plates and 35 decorat

° SOMERSET, BATH: The Historical and Local New Bath Guide...with Observations on the Medicinal Virtues, and Directions for the Use of the Bath Waters, by Sir George Smith Gibbes.....2 folded plans, 13 plates and 35 decorative/pictorial advert. leaves (of the City's leading tradesmen) at end; original printed boards (later cloth spine). Bath: C. Duffield....(ca.1820); The Life of Richard Nash, Esq., late Master of Ceremonies at Bath. Extracted principally from his original papers. 2nd edition. portrait frontis.; old gilt ruled calf, decorated panelled spine, Signet Library gilt arms on covers, printed for J. Newbery..1762; The Historical and Local New Bath Guide...9 plates and a folded plan; original printed boards, uncut. Bath: J. Barratt, (1821); The New Bath Guide; or Useful Pocket Companion... new edition, corrected and enlarged, folded plan, 2 portraits and another plate; sometime rebound half calf and marbled boards, sm. 8vo. Bath: R. Crutwell, 1777 (4)
£80-100

Condition:
Duffield Guide - reback preserves old label, intermittent spotting but reasonable, 1 advt. leaf stained. (2), 176, (4)pp. adverts., the (4)pp. coaching with illus.; in pagination some extra starred pages; Nash upper board joint cracked and loose, lower one weak, certain amount of foxing (incl. title). VIII, 237pp and advert. leaf; Barratt Guide - spine replaced (later label), boards lt. marked, light title offset, gen. good copy; Cruttwell Guide - marbled e/ps., lt. foxing but gen. good copy

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