Browse the selection of lots from 'The Collection of Professor Charles James Frank Dowsett (1924-1998)', featured in our 24 April - 4 May 'Books, Manuscripts and Maps' auction.
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Lot 71 - PALESTINE: 1- SIGNED LIMITED EDN- Kelman, John: The Holy Land
Sold for £195
Lot 147 - FINE BINDING: 1- Lane, E W: The Thousand and One Nights
Sold for £120
Lot 156 - Military: Nolan, EH: The illustrated history of the war against Russia, in TWO Volumes.
Sold for £90
Lot 160 - BIBLES, ETC: 1- GABELENTZ & LOEBE: Ulfilas. Veteris et Novi Testamenti Versionis
Lot 161 - Religion: Tylor, E B: Primitive Culture, researches into the development
Lot 186 - Adriaen van Scrieck - Vanden Oorspronck ende Saeken der Neder-Landen - 1614
Sold for £180
Lot 187 - JORDAN, Johann Christoph von. De Originibus Slavicis, Opus Chronologico-Geographico-Historicum.
Lot 189 - Erasmus (Desiderius): Adagia, id est proverbiorum paroemiarum et parabolarum omnium
Lot 215 - ALLOM, Thomas, (illustrator); G N WRIGHT: CHINA in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, & Social Habits, TWO Volumes only of FOUR
Sold for £145
Lot 216 - China & Japan: Hearn, Lafcadio: Kwaidan. Kegan Paul, 1904, 1st. Edn.
Sold for £125
Lot 222 - First Edn- BURTON, Richard F: Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, in THREE volumes.
Sold for £3,600
Lot 225 - BURTON, Richard (Trans): The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in TWELVE Volumes.
Lot 226 - Lhuyd, Edward: Archaeologia Britannica, Volume One: Glossography [all published].
Lot 227 - Rhys, John: Celtic Folklore Welsh and Manx, in TWO Volumes
Lot 229 - Stanley, Henry: Rouman Anthology or Selections of Rouman Poetry, Ancient and Modern
Sold for £460
Lot 231 - WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC, Etc: 1- Lenormant, Francois: Chaldean Magic: Its Origin and Development.
Sold for £510
Lot 233 - EGYPT, Etc: 1- Wilkinson, J: Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, in FIVE Vols.
Lot 234 - Children & Illustrated: Rackham, Arthur (ill): 1- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Sold for £220
Lot 235 - FOLK & FABLE: L’Estrange, Sir Roger: Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists
Sold for £130
Lot 237 - INDIA: Burton, Richard F: Vikram and the Vampire - Tales of Hindu Devilry
Lot 238 - MYTH, Etc: Spence, Lewis: The Fairy Tradition in Britain
Sold for £230
Lot 240 - Israel-Jewish: Rappoport, A S: Myths and Legends of Ancient Israel, in THREE Vols.