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    By Ralph Thoresby; Joseph Hunter
    London   Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley
    9" by 5.5" xvi, 471; 442; xii, 448; xii, 491 pp.
    A handsomely bound first edition four-volume set of Ralph Thoresby’s Diary and Letters of Eminent Men, detailing the life and correspondence of the distinguished Leeds antiquary and Fellow of the Royal Society.
    By Ralph Thoresby; Joseph Hunter

    1830-1832 4Vols The Diary of Ralph Thoresby & Letters of Eminent Men Addressed to Ralph Thoresby

    London   Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley
    9" by 5.5" xvi, 471; 442; xii, 448; xii, 491 pp.
    A handsomely bound first edition four-volume set of Ralph Thoresby’s Diary and Letters of Eminent Men, detailing the life and correspondence of the distinguished Leeds antiquary and Fellow of the Royal Society.
    £395.00
    : 2kgs / : 981H12
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    Description

    First Edition, Leather Binding

    Handsomely bound in a half calf binding with gilt detailing to spine and marbled paper boards.

    First edition.

    Complete in four volumes.

    Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece to volume I.

    A four-volume set comprising two volumes of The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, Author of the Topography of Leeds (1677-1724) (1830), together with two volumes of Letters of Eminent Men Addressed to Ralph Thoresby (1932), featuring correspondence from notable contemporaries including the Reverend Richard Stretton, Dr. Nathaniel Johnson, James Illingworth, Bryan Fairfax, and Philip, Lord Wharton.

    Ralph Thoresby (1658–1725) was an English antiquary, topographer, and Fellow of the Royal Society, best known for his Ducatus Leodiensis, the first detailed history of Leeds.

    Condition

    Bound in a half calf binding with marbled paper boards. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to spine. The odd minor handling mark to boards. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Previous bookseller's discreet label to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edges.

    Near Fine

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