£200
Local Interest - Leigh (Charles, Doctor of Physick (sic)), The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire: with an Account of the British, Phœnician, Armenian, Armenian, Greek and Roman Antiquities in those Parts, first edition, Oxford: Printed for the Author [...], 1700, black double-ruled title, lacking portrait frontispiece; pp: Book I: [xxii], 4 (subscribers), [2], 2 plates of coats of arms, 2-page county map by Herman Moll, 164, [1] (errata), [165-196] with 9 copperplate etched plates; Book II: [ii], 97, [1] (blank), [i] (errata), 1 copperplate etched plate; Book III (mispaginated but complete): 79, 72-80, [iii] (postscript and errata), 81-112 with 10 copperplate etched plates, [35] (index and advertisement), [1] (blank), late 19th/early 20th century tan morocco over textured buckram boards, folio (36.5cm x 24cm), [1]
Provenance: Midland Railway Institute, Derby: Reference Library, No. R2968, their armorial binding, book label, and tipped-in notice.
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