b'158BOOKS & EPHEMERA1347THE SALE OF A HOUSE AT VERSAILLES - 1691,14th February 1691, French seven-page document on vellum, being the contract covering the sale of a house at Versailles; signed on the last page by the seller (Bruneau) and the purchaser (Bontemps).Alexandre Bontemps (16261701) was the valet of King Louis XIV and a powerful figure at the court of Versailles, respected and feared for his exceptional access to the King. He was the second of a sequence of five Bontemps to hold the position of Premier valet de la Chambre du Roi (First valet of the kings bedchamber in uninterrupted succession between 1643 and 1766, when an early death, leaving no successor, broke the line.$200300 1348Three large vellum sheets on which are recorded the details of land holdings and transactions in and around Liverpool during the reign of George 1 (early 1700s) and later. With relevant tax stamps, but lacking seals. Each approx. 64 x 72cm. 1349$150200 13501349 A group of seven framed antique documents and indentures KINGO, TH[OMAS]. written in French and English, 18th/19th century,the largest frame 45 x 81cm overall (7)Den forordnede Ny Kirke-Psalme-Bog, $300500 [Copenhagen, 1723].Contemporary silk over wooden boards, marbled end-papers,1351silver clasps and decorations to upper and lower boards.Extensively annotated to front and back end papers with familyA range of etchings and engravings affixed to the pages of birth, death and baptism dates; the earliest being 1630-1701a dilapidated album, or loosely inserted; various sizes and and the last being dated 1926. A narrow edition of the Danishsubjects (approx. 220 items). Includes some Australasian psalm book by the bishop Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634-1703),subjects. Mixed condition.whose hymn-writing marks a climax in baroque spiritual poetry$200300 in Denmark. The first half of the volume includes psalms for the whole Christian year, while the second features other religious1352texts with separate title-pages. LEGAL DOCUMENTS: A collection of 1880s - 1900s framed $200400 & glazed indentures and conveyances, mainly English; all with appropriate revenue stamps, signatures and hand-drawn maps, where relevant. (11 items). The largest 64 x 78cm.$200300 1353TENISON-WOODS, J.E.Fish and Fisheries of N.S.Wales,[Thomas Richards, Government Printer, Sydney 1882]. First edition. pp 213, Octavo, half leather bound with marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, fifty photographic plates, bindings intact.$120180 1354The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer in three (dilapidated) volumes, text by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, the gilt-tooled cloth bindings are more or less detached with many loose pages evident, however most of the 44 steel engravings and numerous woodcuts appear to be present; peripheral foxing on many pages; publisher Virtue & Co (London), c.1880s.$80120 1355BALL, SIR ROBERT STAWELL,An Atlas of Astronomy: A Series of Seventy-Two Plateswith Introduction and Index.[George Philip & Son, London, 1892] 1st ed., 72 lithographic plates, with spacers and tissue guards. Original blue cloth binding with gilt decorations and lettering; all edges gilt.1355 $200300'