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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red half-leather with black spine-labels and gilt lettering and decoration, leather is rubbed at edges and spine-ends. Clean marbled end-papers, marbled block edges, light foxing to prelims, sound binding. Slight damage to base of spine from no longer present sticker. Volume contains many black and white plates and some vignettes. Colour plates facing pages 298, 405, 458 and 459, double colour plate at page 406 and two fold out plates facing page 2. Contents Includes: I. Memoir on a Mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, the earliest Map known containing the name 'America' by Richard Henry Major II./III./IV. Primitive Site, Extent and Circumvallation of Roman London by William Henry Black and sketch by Thomas Lewin V./VI. Holbein's Portraits of the Royal Family of England by John Gough Nichols and George Scharf VII. Administration of the Criminal Law in time of Edward I by Francis Morgan Nichols VIII. Portrait of the Duchess of Milan at Windsor Castle, probably Holbein 1538 by Scharf IX. Subterranean Chambers at Trelowarren in Cornwall by J. T. Blight X. Royston Court House and its Appurtenances by Joseph Beldam XI. Annulus Piscatoris or Ring of the Fisherman by Edmund Waterton XII. Unpublished work "Antiquarius" by Hieronymus Bononius of Treviso and his Poetry by William Henry Black XIII. Churches at Rome earlier than 1150 by Alexander Nesbitt XIV. History of Winterton in Lincolnshire by Abraham de la Pryme and Edward Peacock XV./XVI. Human Sacrifices among the Romans by Henry George Liddell and William Bodham Donne XVII. Letters from Sir Henry Wotton to James I by C. Knight Watson XVIII. Roman Architectural Remains at Chester discovered 1863 by William Tite XIX. Remains of Roman Wall of London by Tite XX. Mantle and Ring of Widowhood by Henry Harrod XXI. Inventory of the Household Goods of Sir Thomas Ramsey, Lord Mayor of London 1577 by F. W. Fairholt XXII. Pocket-Dial made in 1593 for Robert Devereux Earl of Essex by John Bruce XXIII./XXIV. Position and Identification of the Portus Lemanis of the Romans by Thomas Lewin and W. H. Black XXV. Worked Flints of Pressigny-le-Grand by John Evans XXVI. Magic in the Reign of Elizabeth I by W. H. Hart XXVII. Ancienne Statue de Gillaume-le-Conquerant by M. L'Abbe Cochet XXVIII. Excavations at Silchester by James Gerald Joyce XXIX. Early Charters and Documents relating to Priory of Austin Canons and Abbey of Austin Canonesses at Canonsleigh in Devon by Charles Spencer Perceval XXX. Instructions from Henry VI to Edward Grimston, Ambassador to Burgundy 1449 and Portrait of Grimston by Peter Christus in 1446 by William J. Thoms, A. W. Franks and George Scharf XXXI. Ancient Rock Tombs at Ghain Tiffiha and Tal Horr, Malta by John S. Swann XXXII. Human Remains and Skulls from Tombs at Ghain Tiffiha and Tal Horr by John Thurnam XXXIII. Romano-British Cemetery near Plymouth by C. Spence Bate Contains colour and black and white plates. No dust jacket, as published. Stamps for Halifax Antiquarian Society and "Withdrawn" stamp on front end-papers and prelims. Pages of main text and plates (including reverse of plates) are free from stamps. Hand-written reference numbers on end-papers. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-4kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 40119031149. For International tracked shipping please select the Priority shipping service. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.