MISCELLANY - John GAY (1685-1732). Fables. [etc.]

MISCELLANY - John GAY (1685-1732). Fables. London: Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1727. 4to (256 x 200mm). Title with engraved illustration, 50 engraved illustrations only ([?]of 51, lacking L4 [i.e. pp. 73-74], variable browning, spotting and staining). Contemporary calf gilt (heavily rubbed). A second volume, not present here, followed in 1738. With a quantity of very miscellaneous books and documents including John Bunyan's The Works (London, 1736, 2 vols., engraved portrait, contemporary calf, defective), [Daniel Defoe’s] The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (London, 1790, 2 vols., engraved plates, contemporary calf), [Susanna Dobson’s] Historical Anecdotes of Heraldry and Chivalry (Worcester, 1795, contemporary calf, upper cover detached), W. H. Bartlett’s Walks about the City and Environs of Jerusalem (London, [c. 1844], second edition, engraved plates, original decorated cloth gilt), John M. Kemble’s Horæ Ferales; or, Studies in the Archæology of the Northern Nations (London, 1863, contemporary blue calf gilt, head of spine lacking), J. B. Waring’s Stone Monuments, Tumuli and Ornament of Remote Ages (London, 1870, original buckram, soiled), Report on Central African Rail Link Development Survey. Vol. 1. (London, June 1952, plates, folding maps, buckram-backed paper boards), a bound album containing early 20th-century monochrome photographs of American locomotives, several belonging to the "Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co."; with a manuscript Account Book relating to the Estate of Robert Kedington of Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, kept from 1787 to 1853; and a collection of miscellaneous legal documents, the majority on vellum, most 18^th- and 19^th-century with a number referring to Dawson Place in Kensington, but some earlier on parchment. Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. The lot sold not subject to return. (qty)