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An 18ct yellow gold Gypsy set diamond ring, featuring a fancy light yellow Old Mine cut diamond, diamond dimensions approx 5.5 x 5.0 x 3.1mm, weight estimated as 0.66 carats, assessed mounted as fancy light yellow SI1 to SI2, finger size R, gross weight 4.1g, partial hallmark for 18ct, sponsor L and S, in original boxCondition report: Diamond with minor scratches and abrasions.Marks good.Band is scratched and scuffed - requires a polish but not heavily worn.
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A gent's Seiko kinetic steel cased wristwatch, having black dial with subsidiary date and day dials, screw-down crystal back cover showing kinetic movement, case dia.42mm, on original steel bracelet, with box and booklet; together with another Seiko kinetic gent's wristwatch, the black dial having subsidiary date and calendar dials, case dia 41mm, on leather bracelet with steel clasp, with box (2)Condition report: Steel bracelet kinetic – approx. 7mm scratch to glass beneath 1 numeral, with further small scratches around the day aperture, some light wear to the case on opposite side of the crown, currently in working order.Black strap kinetic – scuff marks through wear to side of case opposite to crown, dial and glass good, in working order and appears little worn.
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Importnat announcment - please note there is a slight tear to this bear's right foot pad as shown in photograph.A rare early Steiff cinnamon mohair teddy bear circa 1908, with black boot button eyes, pronounced clipped muzzle, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed elongated limbs with felt pads, hump, small STEIFF underscored button unusually on outside of left ear and inoperative growler —19in. (48.5cm.) high (dusty and needs a light clean); with a pair of spectacles
![[Kilner (Mary Ann)] The Adventures of a Pincushion, designed chiefly for the Use of Young Ladies, viii, 9-107, [1] p., woodcu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/efbe3ca9-5711-4e62-a554-abbb0121ed80/468x382.jpg)
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[Kilner (Mary Ann)] The Adventures of a Pincushion, designed chiefly for the Use of Young Ladies, viii, 9-107, [1] p., woodcut frontispiece and 36 illustrations, advertisements on final leaf (forming pastedown), light browning, original "Dutch" floral boards, rubbed, spine worn and frayed, 18mo, John Marshall and Co., [between 1779 & 1789].⁂ One of several editions published before 1800, with varying pagination.
![[Perrault (Charles)] Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose, ninth edition, lacking A1 & 6 (frontispiece](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/be3737ac-a085-49ba-b776-abbb011f3ebf/468x382.jpg)
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[Perrault (Charles)] Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose, ninth edition, lacking A1 & 6 (frontispiece and pp.11/12), 7 woodcut chapter headings only (of 8, lacking that to 'The Fairy'), contemporary ink inscription to head of title, light browning, stab-hole to a few leaves, becoming loose, original "Dutch" floral boards, rubbed, lacking backstrip, Salisbury, Collins and Johnson...S.Crowder, 1783 § [Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine d')] The History of the Tales of the Fairies, 7 woodcut illustrations, a little soiled and stained, title frayed and lacking portion from inner margin, D2 torn without loss and D12 (final leaf) defective at lower outer corner with loss to final two lines, embossed stamp to final leaf, stitched in old boards ready for binding in leather, for C. and R.Ware..., 1769 § Famous History of Tom Thumb (The). Wherein is declared, his Marvellous Acts of Manhood...Performed after his First Return from Fairy-land, Parts II & III only (of 3), each with 24pp., titles with large woodcut, Part II with 8 woodcut illustrations and Part III with 12, lightly browned, original printed pictorial wrappers, a little soiled and stained, Printed for the Booksellers, [?1780] § [Peacock (Lucy)] The Adventures of the Six Princesses of Babylon, in their Travels to the Temple of Virtue..., first edition, signed by the author on final leaf, lacking half-title and pp.ix-xxiv of preliminaries, stab-holes, some damp- or water-staining, no endpapers, contemporary marbled boards, lacking backstrip, for the Author, by T.Bensley, 1785 § History of Valentine and Orson (The), 16pp., single folded sheet, woodcut title-vignette, browned, [Nottingham], Printed [by Charles Sutton] for the Company of Walking Stationers, [?1790]; and another later fairy tale, v.s. (7)⁂ The first two are translated from the French, the fourth is an adaptation for children of Spenser's Fairy Queene. ESTC lists only one copy of each of the first and fourth items (both Oxford Bodleian Library).
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Game.- Wallis (John, publisher) An Arithmetical Pastime; intended to Infuse the Rules of Arithmetic, under the idea of Amusement, folding hand-coloured stipple-engraved game of 100 circular spaces in spiral form, with facing letterpress directions, rules and verses, dissected and mounted on linen, the whole c.315 x 715mm., contemporary ink signature "Ann Sophia Grut 1813" to verso, very soiled, some stains, some sections creased and chipped at edges (mainly letterpress), J.Wallis, printed by F.Vigurs, [early 19th century] § Harris (John, publisher) Historical Pastime or a New Game of the History of England, folding hand-coloured engraved sheet of clockwise spiral of small circular portraits and scenes around central portrait of William IV, dissected and mounted on linen, c.490 x 480mm., contemporary ink inscription to upper left corner, light staining to corners, E.Wallis and J.Harris & Son, [c.1835] § Historical Pastime..., folding hand-coloured engraved sheet with central portrait of Queen Victoria, dissected and mounted on linen, c.480 x 475mm., some ink stains, original embossed green cloth slip-case, upper cover with title and decorations in gilt, E.Wallis and J.Harris & Son, [c.1837], [Whitehouse pp.33 & 29], small 4to (3)⁂ The third is a reprint of the second but with portrait of a young Queen Victoria replacing William IV and with 2 additional spaces for the succession of William IV and the Abolition of Slavery.
![[Combe (William)] The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, first edition, hand-coloured](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/7fb605e6-0a14-4919-b9eb-abbb011e4eb8/468x382.jpg)
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[Combe (William)] The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial title and 29 plates by George Cruikshank, plates lightly browned, text foxed and with offsetting from plates, a few with nick to fore-edge, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, slight worming to head of joints,[Abbey, Life 356; Cohn 153; Tooley 151], T.Tegg, [1815]; The Tour Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, third edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, vignette title and 29 plates after Thomas Rowlandson, some light soiling or browning, modern half morocco, Ackermann, 1813; [The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax], together 3 vol., vo1.1 with engraved title stating "ninth edition", hand-coloured aquatint vignette titles in vol.1 & 3 and 78 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson, some light browning, pp.167-170 and one plate loose, original blind-stamped green cloth, spines pictorial gilt (a little faded), Nattali and Bond, [c.1850], [the last two cf.Abbey, Life 266-267 & Tooley 427-429], 8vo (5)
![[Gaspey (Thomas)] Takings; or the Life of a Collegian. A Poem, first edition, 26 hand-coloured etched plates by Richard Dagle](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/4a790893-5440-4d78-95a5-abbb011f4b71/468x382.jpg)
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[Gaspey (Thomas)] Takings; or the Life of a Collegian. A Poem, first edition, 26 hand-coloured etched plates by Richard Dagley, light spotting or soiling, mostly to text, imprint of one plate shaved, later half red calf, by Bayntun Rivière, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, [Not in Abbey or Tooley], 1821 § Crowquill (Alfred) Seymour's Humorous Sketches, 2 vol. in 1, 2 additional etched vignette titles and 84 plates, tissue guards, occasional light foxing, later half blue morocco, gilt, by Root & Son, spine gilt, g.e., original pictorial cloth bound in at end (soiled), spine very slightly soiled, 1843, 8vo (2)
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Thames Tunnel.- Azulay (Bondy, publisher) Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, board with small mounted circular engraving and two holes for viewing through 2 hand-coloured etched sectional plates and background, joined and folding concertina style into old cloth-backed marbled boards, printed explanation mounted on inside cover (trimmed at head and foot), B.Azulay, [c.1862] § Explanation (An) of the Works of the Tunnel under the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping, folding engraved plan and 9 plates, one with cut-outs serving as overlay to another, one aquatint and tinted, 2 folding, light offsetting, original wrappers with paper label to upper cover, W.Warrington, 1836, a little rubbed and stained, oblong 8vo (2)
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Gillray (James) The Caricatures of Gillray; with Historical and Political Illustrations..., bound from the parts with slip to subscribers regarding letterpress descriptions tipped in at p.36, title with ornamental border, 74 etchings with bright contemporary hand-colouring on 71 sheets only (of 86 on 82), some with aquatint, 4 folding and mounted on stubs, title foxed and a little smaller, some light foxing and soiling to plates, mostly marginal, one plate frayed at lower edge and reinforced not affecting image, folding plates with a few tears repaired (mostly to folds or edges), contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving old spine, rather worn, oblong small folio, [London], John Miller...Rodwell & Martin [and] William Blackwood, Edinburgh, [c.1824].
![Late-Georgian satirical prints.- [Fores (Samuel William, publisher and printseller, 1761-1838) and others]. Collector's folio](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/b0b19484-4222-4ba6-ab9d-abbb0120b532/468x382.jpg)
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Late-Georgian satirical prints.- [Fores (Samuel William, publisher and printseller, 1761-1838) and others]. Collector's folio album containing over 165 caricatures from 1790s to circa 1810, disbound, including a good quantity of Napoleonic satire and Anglo-French relations, and others satirising Anglo-European political issues and characters from 1790-1810, including original caricatures by Isaac Cruikshank (over 70), George Cruikshank (6), Charles Williams (over 35), George Woodward (7), William Heath, one James Gillray, 'The Dutch Divisions' [BM Satires 7171], an uncoloured copy of Thomas Rowlandson's 'An Ordinance Dream... ' [BM 6920], and many others, etchings and engravings, over 95 with hand-colouring, 67 uncoloured, all neatly trimmed within platemarks to borderlines or image and tipped onto uniform album leaves in pink and light brown, each leaf approx. 530 x 370 mm. (20 7/8 x 14 1/2 in), leaves disbound and loose without spine and lower cover, [?] upper cover remains, numerous nicks and tears to album leaves throughout, some affecting the prints, occasional small losses and handling creases to extremities, surface dirt and handling creases throughout, folio, over 140 published by S.W. Fores, [circa 1790-1810 or slightly later].⁂ A large collection of caricatures, the majority published by Fores, many with his imprint 'Folios of Caricatures lent out for the evening'.
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The Sheridan Sisters, or "Three Graces".- English School (19th century) Portrait of Three Women, traditionally understood to be The Honourable Mrs Caroline Norton and Her Sisters, watercolour over pencil with scratching out, ruled double black ink border, on wove paper without watermark, sheet 273 x 222 mm. (10 3/4 x 8 3/4 in), some spotting and surface dirt with light mildew build-up, pencil inscription to reverse of mount identifying sitters, unframed, [circa 1830s or slightly later].⁂ Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, the feminist Caroline Norton, and Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset were the daughters of Caroline Henrietta Sheridan and Thomas Sheridan. The sisters beauty and accomplishments led them to be known as the Three Graces; their brother was the Whig politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1806-1888).
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Palmer (Samuel, 1805-1881) Christmas - folding the last sheep (from Samuel Palmer A Memoir), etching on japan, an excellent "proof" impression, probably the fourth state (of five) with the engraved title and the words "from Bampfylde's Sonnet", platemark 125 x 105 mm. (4 7/8 x 4 1/8 in), sheet 180 x 140 mm. (7 x 5 1/2 in), inscribed in pencil verso 'Proof on [?]Jap paper/ finished state', some spotting and light toning, some marginal cockling to sheet, unframed, 1850 [but circa 1882]Literature:Lister 4
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Dorset.- Lyme Regis.- Roberts (George) The History of Lyme-Regis..., list of subscribers, errata leaf, 2 folding lithographed views, original boards, uncut, spine stained and defective, Sherborne, 1823; The History and Antiquities of the Borough of Lyme Regis and Charmouth, folding hand-coloured geological map (tightly bound and unable to unfold), folding lithographed plate of Ichthyosaurus fossil (a little spotted), list of subscribers but no errata at end, original embossed cloth, roan label, spine faded, 1834 § Brown (H.Rowland) The Beauties of Lyme Regis, Charmouth, the Land-slip..., presentation copy from the author (recipient's name erased), 9 engraved or wood-engraved plates (some with 2 images), one folding of the Land-slip, advertisement leaf and 32pp. illustrated catalogue at end, one plate with light water-staining, scribblings in blue crayon to final leaf of Index, original cloth, slightly damp-stained, Lyme Regis, [c.1840], first editions, a little rubbed; and 4 others, duplicates, 8vo et infra (7)
![Italy.- [?Ferrari (Filippo)] Costumi di Roma e di altri Paesi dello Stato Pontificio, etched and hand-coloured throughout wit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/8c14b3ae-c637-452d-9c29-abbb011de3f0/468x382.jpg)
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Italy.- [?Ferrari (Filippo)] Costumi di Roma e di altri Paesi dello Stato Pontificio, etched and hand-coloured throughout with pictorial title & 35 plates, 6 conjoined sheets folding in concertina style, small tear to edge of title, some light spotting and soiling, split to one fold, original blue embossed boards, rubbed, spine and joints worn and slightly chipped, 32mo (c.90 x 65mm.), [Rome], [c.1825].⁂ Charming booklet of costumes of Rome and its surroundings including brigands, wine carriers, monks, Swiss guards, soldiers and many regional figures, particularly women; seemingly a smaller version of Colas 1046.
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Birds.- Strickland (H. E.) and A. G. Melville. The Dodo and its Kindred, first edition, list of subscribers, 18 lithographed plates, 2 hand-coloured (one heightened with gum arabic) and one folding panorama, wood-engraved illustrations, errata slip, tissue guards, light marginal foxing to a few plates but hand-coloured ones bright and clean, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, spine a little faded, corners and lower joint slightly rubbed, [Anker 486; Nissen IVB 900; Fine Bird Books p.145], 4to, 1848.⁂ Important and ground-breaking work, based on the dissection of the preserved head and foot of a stuffed dodo at Oxford University Museum. The list of subscribers includes Sir William Jardine, Rev.F.O.Morris, William Yarrell, P.J.Selby, W.H.Lizars, P.L.Sclater and John Gould.
![Wood.- [Seligmann (Johann Michael)] Icones lignorum exoticorum et nostratium germanicorum ex arboribus, arbusculis et fructib](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/f13a21da-6077-47d3-aa8c-abbb011e9f78/468x382.jpg)
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Wood.- [Seligmann (Johann Michael)] Icones lignorum exoticorum et nostratium germanicorum ex arboribus, arbusculis et fructibus..., Parts I & II only (of 4) bound in 1 vol., titles with engraved vignettes of putti with trees, titles and text in Latin and German, 24 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, each with 9 samples of different species of wood, first title a little soiled, second with light water-staining at head, occasional spotting or staining, mostly marginal, a few plates with faint damp bloom, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed, hinges repaired, [Landwehr, Dutch Books with Coloured Plates 84; Nissen BBI 939], 4to, Nuremberg, 1773-74.⁂ Important work on wood featuring beautifully-illustrated cross-sections of European and exotic woods. Originally published with this title and 48 plates but later added to by J.C.Sepp and Martinus Houttuyn to comprise a frontispiece and total of 106 plates (with titles and text in Dutch, German, French, English and Latin).
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Dance.- Caroso (Fabrizio) Il Ballarino, first edition, 2 parts in 1, collation: A-F4; a-z4, Aa-Zz4, †4, Roman and italic type, title with woodcut printer's device, repeated on separate title introducing part 2, engraved portrait by Giacomo Franco of the author within border including his coat-of-arms, 22 full-page engraved illustrations in text (partially repeated) likewise by Franco, within ornamental borders, woodcut decorated initials, head- and tail-pieces, printed music and lute tablature, occasional light browning, later red morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, covers within triple gilt fillets, spine with five raised bands, compartments richly tooled, title lettered in gilt, marbled pastedowns, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., 4to (233 x 172mm.), Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1581.⁂ A fine copy of the first edition of the most important 16th-century Italian treatise on dancing, and one of the most beautiful dance books ever produced. This copy is of the issue bearing Ziletti's device on the title. Born in Sermoneta, Fabrizio Caroso was a protégé of Felice Maria Orsini Caetani (d. 1596), Duchess of Sermoneta. He spent most of his life in Rome, where he was active as a dancer, 'inventore di scene', dance master, musician and composer. He was the last proponent of the Renaissance Italian dance style, opposing the French danse noble, which had begun to spread across Europe in the last decades of the 15th century. Caroso was not only a practicing dancer, but also a refined theorist, and this work, dedicated to Bianca Capello, provides a vast amount of detail about the dances of the period. The first part illustrates 55 rules for steps, while the more lengthy second part describes 76 separate dances, including the alta, bassa, balletto, pavan, cascarda, saltarello and spagnoletta. Each dance is supplemented with a poem in praise of a different woman, mostly members of Roman noble families, and includes musical notation for the lute. Each of the dances under discussion is designed for one or more pairs of dancers. Throughout the work, Caroso celebrates the concept of 'nobil vivere', and the figure of the well-educated dancer- courtesan. The 22 full-page copper engravings are executed by the renowned artist Giacomo Franco and depict the positions of dancers at the beginning of each of the various dances and cumulatively represent a precious iconographic source not only for the history of dance, but also for that of fashion and the culture of the period in general. Literature: Adams C-755; Mortimer Italian, 106; RISM C, p. 1233; Gregory & Bartlett I, 53; Lipperheide 3055; P. D. Magriel, A Bibliography of Dancing, pp. 42-44; A. Feves, "Fabrizio Caroso and the Changing Shape of the Dance, 1550-1600", Danse Chronicle, 14 (1991), pp. 159-174; P. Gargiulo (ed.), La danza italiana tra Cinque e Seicento. Studi per Fabrizio Caroso da Sermoneta, Roma 1997.
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Bindings.- Regnard (Jean-François) Oeuvres, 4 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 engraved, of which 9 by Vignet, Croutelle, Halbou, Duhamel and Le Roy after Borel, occasional spotting or light foxing, a few small stains, the odd small marginal repair, inner gilt dentelles, handsome contemporary green morocco, covers with Greek key and single filet borders, richly gilt flat spines in compartments with various medallion tools within Greek key borders and red and black morocco labels, some bumping to vol.1, g.e., little rubbed at extremities, 8vo (bindings 226 x 148mm.), Paris, Maradan, 1790.
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Napoleon.- Vernet (Carle) Tableaux historiques des campagnes d'Italie, depuis l'an IV jusqu'à la bataille de Marengo, suivis du Précis des opérations de l'Armée d'Orient, des détails sur les cérémonies du Sacre, des bulletins officiels de la Grande Armée et de l'Armée d'Italie dans tout le cours de la dernière guerre d'Allemagne, jusqu'à la paix de Presbourg, half-title, fine engraved portrait of Napoleon on horseback by Simon after Vernet, 24 plates by Duplessi-Bertaux and others after Vernet only, double-page map, hand-coloured in outline, by Louvet after Dieu, divisional title to 'Cérémonies du Sacre' with stipple-engraved portraits of Napoleon and Josephine, engraved head- and tail-pieces, lacking text pp. 15-16 (1 f.) and 133-136 (2 ff.), c.5 plates with a small stain, occasional spotting and light browning, light green half ?morocco over dark green contemporary marbled boards by Bell Golding, Cambridge, gilt spine in compartments and with original red morocco label, folio, Paris, Auber, 1806. ⁂ A handsomely produced piece of Napoleonic propaganda, recording his achievements in Italy, Egypt and Germany, along with details of his coronation in 1804.
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Medieval Marriage Contract.- Marriage contract agreed between Thomas de Nevill kt and John de Chaumont that Sir Thomas's eldest son shall marry John's daughter Elayne, and they will be enfeoffed of Sir Thomas's manor of Evereslaye with many provisions for reversion etc., manuscript in Anglo-Norman, 39 lines, in light brown ink, lacks seal, natural flaw in left margin, 1 small hole in text, slight staining affecting upper left corner, folds, browned and creased, 280 x 246mm., York, 1345.⁂ Medieval marriage contracts from the fourteenth century are rare.
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Bible, New Testament. Single leaf from the gospel of St John, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in a very small gothic bookhand, 35 lines, written in light brown ink, 1 line in red, some rubrication, some underlining in red, 2 2-line initials extending into a partial bar border incorporating foliate motiffs in gold, blue, green and red, 3 other 2-line initials, all initials in gold and blue, some slight surface wear to decoration, a few pin pricks, mounted, 135 x 85mm., [?Paris], [c. 1300].
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Walsingham (Francis) A Search made into Matters of Religion, by Francis Walsingham Deacon of the Protestants Church, before his Change to the Catholike, second edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut initials and head-pieces, slight worming to fore-edge of title and at foot of first four and last four leaves, small hole to N3, occasional light browning, free endpapers detached, contemporary plain blind-ruled calf, rubbed, small portion missing from lower cover, [STC 25003], small 4to, [Saint-Omer, English College Press], 1615.⁂ Provenance: T. Busby S.J., early ink name on title; Jean-Marie-Philippe Dubourg, Bishop of Limoges 1802-1822 (bookplate); Jean-Joseph-Marie-Sixte de Marliave (1918-1999) (bookplate).
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Greek printing.- Bible, Greek. Vetus Testamentum Graecum, 1 vol. in 2, first edition of the Greek Septuagint Bible printed in England, title in red and black with engraved vignette, title in Latin and Greek, preface in Latin, text in double-column in Greek, minor soiling and light staining, handsome early 18th century red morocco, gilt, spines gilt in compartments with 3 green morocco labels, g.e., fine decorative endpapers a little discoloured round edges, bookplate of Bibliotheca Lamoniana, later bookplate of the Bishop of Salisbury, [Darlow & Moule 4692], 4to, Roger Daniel, 1653.⁂ A lovely copy of the rare first printing in England of the Septuagint, the earliest translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek. Edited by the Unitarian controversialist John Biddle (1615-1662), who was imprisoned by the Parliamentary Commissioners for his religious opinions. "Roger Daniel's version of the text of the Sixtine edition [was] prepared for the use of the scholars at Westminster School. This appeared in 1653 and was edited by the Socinian, John Biddle. Its publication may have owed something to the interest in the Septuagint generated by Codex Alexandrinus and the frustration produced by the failure of Young's attempts to edit it" (S. Mandelbrote, "English Scholarship and the Greek Text of the Old Testament", p. 87).
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Webster (Noah) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., first English edition, occasional light spotting, vol. 2 lacking front free endpaper, contemporary calf, gilt, spines richly gilt in compartments with red and brown morocco labels, covers rubbed and scuffed, 4to, Black, Young and Young, 1832.⁂ An attractive set of the scarce first English edition of Webster's dictionary.
![Scott (Sir Walter) [Works], 98 vol., comprising, Waverley Novels, 48 vol., Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1853-1854; The](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/f87c2b04-07f4-4047-b807-abbb011ef56b/468x382.jpg)
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Scott (Sir Walter) [Works], 98 vol., comprising, Waverley Novels, 48 vol., Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1853-1854; The Miscellaneous Prose Works, 28 vol., Edinburgh, Robert Cadell and Adam and Charles Black, 1850-1851; Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, 10 vol., Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1839; The Poetical Works, 12 vol., Edinburgh. Robert Cadell, n.d., engraved frontispieces, additional vignette titles and folding maps, some browning / foxing to plates, occasional spotting, uniformly bound in contemporary light tan calf, richly gilt spines in compartments and with red and black morocco labels, a few vol. marked or nicked, little rubbing, but generally in very good order, 8vo (bindings 171 x 113mm)
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James (Henry) Stories Revived, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, vol.2 & 3 with initial blank, vol.3 with advertisement leaf at end, some very light spotting at beginning and ends, one or two minor marks, variant binding of original dark green cloth, boards with three rules in black, blue & white patterned endpapers (slightly browned), spine ends and corners a little bumped, slight wear to edges, [Edel and Laurence A27a; Sadleir 1290; Wolff 3584], 8vo, 1885.
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Keynes (John Maynard) The End of Laissez-Faire, first edition, light browning to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine, light central crease to spine, dust-jacket, some chipped and creasing to spine ends, short closed tears with accompanying creasing to head and foot of lower panel, still and excellent example overall, [Woolmer 97], 8vo, 1926.⁂ Rare in the dust-jacket. The End of Laissez Faire was based on the Sidney Ball Lecture given by Keynes at Oxford in November 1924 and on a lecture given by him at the University of Berlin in June 1926.
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Militaria.- Eisenhower (Dwight D.) Crusade in Europe, number 1,269 of 1,400 copies with a facsimile of the D-Day order signed below by the author, signed presentation inscription from the author to Field Marshall Viscount Slim "Whose brilliant military leadership in World War II won the admiration and acclaim of the allied world. With best wishes and regards from his comrade-in-arms" on half-title, bookplate of Viscount Slim to endpaper, map endpapers, original cloth, very light fading to spine, but a fine copy overall, t.e.g., others uncut, plastic jacket, 8vo, New York, 1948.⁂ An unusually fine copy with a superb inscription from the author to one of the great military leaders of the Second World War. Field Marshall Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led the so-called "Forgotten Army" in the Burma campaign against the Japanese. His transformation of the Allied Burma Corps and the subsequent successes achieved earned him the reputation as one of the best generals of the war.
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Militaria.- Montgomery (Bernard Law, first Viscount Montgomery of Alamein) The Path to Leadership, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Field Marshall, Viscount Slim, "To: Bill Slim with admiration and high regard for a great captain" to endpaper, addressed by Montgomery below to Slim at the House of Lords, frontispiece, original cloth, light fading to spine, 8vo, 1961.⁂ An excellent association copy, addressed from one great British military leader to another (for Viscount Slim, see previous lot).
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Atomic physics.- Bohr (Niels) An archive of Bohr material from the collection of Lewis L. Strauss, comprising, 3 T.L.s.s from Bohr, 3 pp. in total, Copenhagen and Valby, 26th October, 1945, 5th March 1951, and 18th October, 1951, enclosing a typescript and offprint, and arranging social plans, original envelopes (the second two letters sent together); Light and life. Address delivered at the opening of The International Congress on Light Therapy, signed presentation copy from Bohr to Strauss, original grey printed wrappers, neatly reinforced with cloth tape along spine, Copenhagen, 1932; Resonance in Uranium and Thorium Disintegration and the Phenomenon of Nuclear Fission, offprint from The Physical Review, vol. 55, no 4, 15th February, single sheet, some chipping at foot, little spotting, 1939; An original typescript copy of Bohr's article 'A Challenge to Civilization', which appeared in Science, vol. 102, October 12, 1945, with a 2 pp, letter of transmittal to Strauss, 26th October, 1945, folded, and affixed to letter and book with staples; 5 additional offprints or extracts: 'Science and Civilization' (1945); 'Natural Philosophy and Human Cultures'(1939); Referate and diskussionen' (1936);'"Biology and Atomic Physics' (1938); 'Disintegration of Heavy Nuclei' (1939); 'Transmutations of Atomic Nuclei' (1937); and 'Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?' (1935); and 3 original color photographic portraits of Bohr taken by Strauss, August, 1955, at the Conference for the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, mounted on front pastedown, with an autograph note from Strauss beneath, occasional spotting, all bound into a later cloth over boards folder, spine titled in gilt 'Nils Bohr to L.L.S., rubbed, small 4to⁂ A fascinating and intimate archive between friends. Strauss was was one of the first commissioners of the Atomic Energy Commission, the civilian authority in charge of atomic research after World War II. He was appointed its Chairman in 1953. He was a strong proponent of the development of the nuclear bomb as a deterrent, as well as for the peaceful application of nuclear power. Includes a rare offprint which identifies nuclear Isotope U-235.
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Dialling.- Leybourn (William) Dialling, Plain, Concave, Convex, Projective, Reflective, Refractive. Shewing, how to make all such Dials, and to adorn them with all useful Furniture relating to the Course of the Sun, second enlarged edition, engraved frontispiece portrait and 34 plates (14 folding), 4 engraved vignettes, light spotting to title, early ink annotations to front free endpaper (mounted on stub), contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, corners repaired, later endpapers, [Houzeau & Lancaster 11535; Tardy p.163; Wing L1913], folio, by J.Matthews, for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1700.
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Early motoring.- Trade catalogue.- De Dion-Bouton. Automobiles, printed in orange and black, illustrations of cars, a bus, lorries, and engines, ink stamps of Autogarage Gatti, Modena throughout, original decorative light green wrappers printed in dark green and red, Gatti stamps, lower wrapper with some staining, 8vo, Puteaux [Paris], [April, 1906].⁂ A scarce survival, especially in such a good state of preservation.
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Newton (Sir Isaac) Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, 3 parts in 1, first edition, presentation copy to Nicolas Fatio de Duillier and with his ink and pencil annotations, title printed in red and black, 19 folding engraved plates, paper flaw to part 1 p.98 with some distortion to 2 lines of text and letters supplied in ink by the printer, a couple of other printing flaws probably features of the earliest copies to come off the press, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, joints split but firm, spine ends slightly chipped, corners worn, lacking spine label, preserved in modern silk-lined green morocco drop-back box by Shepherds, [Babson p.66; Gray 174; Wallis 174], 4to, Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, 1704.⁂ Highly important association copy, received by Fatio, Newton's close friend and collaborator, five days before Newton himself presented a copy to the Royal Society. The earliest known presentation copy of the only book Newton prepared for publication and saw through the press himself.Inscribed at the top of the front pastedown in Fatio's hand: 'Ex Dono Autoris Clarissimi: Londini, Februarii undecimo, 1703/4. Nicolaus Facius.' Fatio also used the Latin form of his name in an inscription recording presentation by Newton in his copy of the third edition of the Principia (1726).The date of presentation is of particular interest. The Opticks builds on work that Newton carried out as early as the mid-1660s and later presented in his earliest lectures as Lucasian Professor in Cambridge. His first publications in the journal of the Royal Society, the Philosophical Transactions, were on the nature of light. For much of the 1670s, he engaged in critical correspondence with English and Continental virtuosi about his findings. As he stated in the 'Advertisement' at the beginning of the published Opticks, he began to prepare a more complete work on light in about 1675. He returned to the idea of publishing this work only after the appearance of the Principia (which contained one section on optical mechanics) in 1687 had won him international fame. The manuscript was largely prepared in the period 1687-8 and 1691-2. The Scottish mathematician and Oxford Professor of Astronomy, David Gregory, saw an incomplete text when he visited Newton in Cambridge in May 1694. Newton delayed finishing the book, however, and decided to print it only in 1702 or 1703. The book was going through the press in December 1703. On 16 February 1704, Newton presented the completed book to the Royal Society, of which he had been President since 30 November 1703. The copy on offer was presented to Fatio five days earlier.Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664-1753) was a Swiss mathematician and natural philosopher. Educated at the Academy of Geneva, Fatio worked with Giovanni Domenico Cassini at the Royal Observatory in Paris in the early 1680s. He first came to England in 1687 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society on 2 May 1688. After the Revolution of 1688, Fatio was the most important intermediary between Newton and Huygens. Fatio regarded himself (with some justification) as being among the very few mathematicians internationally who were equipped to handle the new calculus and as being in the forefront of scientists who were trying to explain the action of gravity, the force which played such an important role in the physical explanations provided by the Principia. In the early 1690s, Fatio emerged as the likeliest person to produce a revised edition of the Principia and discussed corrections to the work with Newton, to whose manuscripts he also had access. At this time, he was one of Newton's closest confidants. The two men regularly exchanged letters (several of which remain unpublished) and Fatio advised Newton in particular about the purchase of alchemical works in French. For much of 1693, Newton and Fatio collaborated on alchemical experiments, with Fatio conveying information derived from practitioners with whom he associated in the London Huguenot community. According to William R. Newman, who has recently produced a definitive account of the alchemical collaboration of Newton and Fatio, Newton was 'testing the ability of a vitriol to "ferment" respectively with salts of lead, tin, and copper' and fermenting iron, copper, and lead with metallic quicksilver. Exhaustion from long hours tending the furnace involved in these experiments may well have caused Newton's famous breakdown, which he discussed in letters to Samuel Pepys and John Locke in autumn 1693. Newman's work demonstrates that Fatio's involvement with Newton reflected shared intellectual concerns with 'chymistry, the transformation of materials, and the production of remedies.' These interests remained vital despite Newton's illness, which cannot now be attributed to any falling out with Fatio. Fatio found new employment as a tutor in 1694, which required him to be away from London; he travelled to the Netherlands with his pupil in 1697-8, and returned to Geneva between 1699 and 1701. Nevertheless, he remained a regular participant in conversations among Newton and his disciples: his interest in the renewed editing of the Principia and in Newton's other projects was taken for granted.In London in 1698, Fatio set to work seeing two compositions of his own through the press: an English treatise on the exploitation of the angle of the sun's rays in gardening (Fruit Walls Improved) and a Latin pamphlet on the geometrical investigation of the line of quickest descent (Lineae brevissimi descensus), a work notable for its author's attempt to reassert a position among the front rank of European mathematicians. As such Fatio was critical of the behaviour of Johann Bernoulli and his associates for the nature of the challenge problem which they had issued in 1696, and which Newton had answered with a correct solution for the line of quickest descent. Newton had presented his work anonymously in the Philosophical Transactions (January 1697), but gave no hint about the method he had followed. He presented a construction of the solution-curve (a cycloid).Behind Bernoulli's challenge lurked Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, whom Fatio accused of having ignored Newton's priority in the invention of the calculus in his publications about this mathematical tool. At the heart of the dispute lay a broader intellectual problem that many Continental mathematicians had in accepting Newton's subordination of his method of fluxions to traditional geometrical arguments and their consequent belief that Newton had not properly mastered the intricacies of the new analysis that Leibniz had developed. On such a reading, no other mathematician in England except Newton was worthy of consideration (Fatio included). Fatio's pamphlet also treated the problem of the solid of least resistance, which Newton had solved in Book II of the Principia (1687). 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Newton (Sir Isaac) Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, edited by Thomas Le Seur and Franciscus Jacquier, 3 vol., second Jesuit edition, vol. 1 with half-title and with title in red and black, titles with woodcut decorations, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, numerous diagrams, vol.1 with occasional marginal staining, occasional light browning, contemporary calf, gilt, spines gilt in compartments, vol. 1 upper joint cracked but holding firm, some cracking to remaining upper joints, light rubbing to covers, g.e., an attractive set overall, [Babson 31], 4to, Geneva, C. & A. Philibert, 1760.
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Botany.- Miller (Philip) Abbildungen der nützlichsten, schönsten und seltensten Pflanzen welche in seinem Gärtner-Lexicon vorkommen, 2 vol., first German edition, engraved vignette titles, 301 hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional foxing or light browning to text, contemporary boards, ink titles to spines, rebacked, preserving original backstrips, [Nissen BBI 1379], folio, Nuremberg, A. W. Winterschmidt, 1768-82.⁂ A clean and excellent copy of the scarce German edition.
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Buffon (G.L.M.L., Comte de) Natural History, General and Particular, 9 vol., second edition, engraved portrait, 2 maps and 305 engraved plates 7 folding, occasional light offsetting, bookplate of Sir Richard Johnstone to pastedowns, contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels, 8vo, W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1785.⁂ A handsome set.
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Herbal.- Dodoens (Rembert) A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes, translated by Henry Lyte, first English edition, black letter, title within ornate woodcut historiated border and with woodcut arms of Henry Lyte to verso, woodcut portrait of the author, numerous woodcut illustration, final f. supplied in excellent facsimile, title rather soiled and with margins repaired, T5 torn and repaired with 2 small holes to text, occasional light soiling, several ff. with corners or margins repaired, a few early ink names and marginal notes, later calf, sympathetically rebacked, [Henrey 110; Hunt 132; Nissen 516; STC 6984], folio, At London [but Antwerp], by me Gerard Dewes, 1578.⁂ A good copy of this important Renaissance herbal. Dodoens served as court physician to Emperor Rudolf II of Austria before becoming Professor of Medicine at Leiden University in 1582.
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Horses.- Veterinary.- Lafosse (Philippe-Étienne) Cours d'hippiatrique, ou Traité complet de la médecine des chevaux, first edition, half-title, fine engraved frontispiece of a dissection scene by B.L. Prevost after Sullier, portrait of the author by J. Baptiste Michel after Harguinier, title vignette by Prevost, engraved arms of Charles-Eugene de Lorraine to head of dedication, 56 plates, of which 19 double-page or folding, by B. Michel Adam [femme Fessard], F.A. Aveline, C. Baquoy, Benard, Ch. Beulier, L. Bosse, Prevost and others after Harguinier, Lafosse, Saullier, and 7 engraved headpieces by Delaunay, Hubert, Levilain, Lucas, Mlle Massard, Mesnil, and Michel after Le Carpentier, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, some spotting and light browning, occasional finger-marking, contemporary red morocco, gilt, spine in compartments with floral decoration within filet borders and a black morocco label, spine dulled and with narrow repairs at ends, rubbed, g.e., [Mennessier de la Lance, I, pp. 20 & 21; Podeschi / Mellon 61; Nissen ZBI 2360; Brunet III, 765; Cohen-de Ricci 587; ], folio (492 x 316mm.; binding 502 x 344mm.), Paris, Edme, 1772.⁂ One of the great books on horses and equine medicine. 'Ce livre est un véritable monument élevé à l'Hippologie. Papier, impression, déssin, gravure, sont également signés' (Mennessier de la Lance). Lafosse, the son of a farrier / horse doctor, was a French veterinarian who at a young age had performed dissections to teach the cavalry, and later taught in an anatomical theatre in Paris. Provenance: 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (small circular gilt leather bookplate to front pastedown).
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Spiders.- Martyn (Thomas) Aranei, Or a Natural History of Spiders, including the Principal Parts of ... English Spiders by Eleazar Albin, as also the Whole Publication ... on Swedish Spiders by Charles Clerk, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, engraved calligraphic title, 28 hand-coloured engraved plates of spiders by Basire, Carwitham and Smith, some heightened with gum arabic, lacking frontispiece and 2 numismatic plates, light damp-staining to upper margins of plates, handsome contemporary straight-grain red morocco, by Samuel Welch with his ticket, covers decorated in blind, spine in compartments, lettered in gilt, upper cover detached, some light rubbing to extremities, g.e., [Nissen ZBI 2724], 4to, 1793.
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Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, 13 vol. (complete set), half-title, 153 engraved plates (aquatints, stipple-engravings, etchings, wood-engravings), including 50 hand-coloured, occasional light foxing and some light offsetting but otherwise in excellent condition, bookplate to pastedowns, early 20th century crushed red half morocco, gilt, spines lightly faded, a little rubbed, 8vo, [Cohn 32, Podeschi A12; Schwerdt I p.32; Slater p.9; Tooley 64], 8vo, 1822-28. ⁂ A comprehensive view of the life and habits of those who lived in the English countryside. With a broader scope than the "Sporting Magazine" and with its fine series of coloured plates, this is the most attractive periodical of its type.Including athletic sports such as cricket, boxing, wrestling, racing, rowing, sailing etc. as well as field sports.
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Allais (Louis-Jean), Athanase Détournelle & Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vandoyer, engravers and publishers. Projets d'Architecture et autres productions de cet art, qui ont mérités les Grands Prix accordés par l'Académie, par l'Institut National de France, et par des Jurys du choix des Artistes ou du Gouvernement, second series, on Papier grand Colombier d'Hollande, (watermarked Van der Ley), title with French nationalistic wood-engraved ornament, fine engraved additional pictorial title and 120 plates (520 x 358mm.), all ff. numbered in pencil in top right-hand corner, otherwise generally clean and crisp, with occasional light spotting or finger-marking, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, richly gilt spine with architectural instruments motifs, small stars and foliage decorations, along with a large red morocco label, some fading to marbled boards, corners neatly restored with green vellum, rubbed, folio (binding 534 x 380mm.), Paris, Détournelle & J. Charles, 1806. ⁂ A very good copy of this scarce collection of the second series of prize-winning architectural designs. Includes fountains, aqueducts, lighthouses, prisons, gardens, and triumphal arches and columns.
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[Ercolani (Giuseppe Maria)], "Neralco (Pastore Arcade)". I tre ordini d'architettura dorico, ionico e corintio presi dalle fabbriche piu celebri dell'antica Roma; Descrizione del Colosso Romano, del Panteo, e del Tempio Vaticano, 2 parts in 1, first edition, fine engraved title vignette, 76 plates, of which 3 folding, head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, occasional light browning, mostly in part 2, occasional mostly small areas of water-staining to upper margins, some spotting or light foxing, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, covers with triple filet borders, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip and red morocco label, a few scuffs and stains, rubbed, [Berlin Kat. 2632; Cicognara 580], folio, Rome, Antonio de' Rossi, 1744.⁂ Rare in commerce. Ercolani (1690-1760) was a member of the Academy degla Arcadi, being given the name 'Neralco', which he used primarily for his poetical works.
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Gardens.- Laborde (Alexandre de) Description des Nouveaux Jardins de la France et de ses Anciens Chateaux, 2 vol., first edition, text in French, English and German, half-title to text vol., plate vol. with fine engraved title with large vignette, a map, 2 plans, and 122 plates after Constant Bourgeois on 89 sheets, plus 3 additional sheets (2 of which with 4 plates with overslips and 1 plate of images to be cut out for overslips), tear to lower margin of plate 104, spotting, occasional foxing (mostly marginal), occasional light browning, contemporary half calf over light yellow boards, spines richly gilt and with red and black morocco labels, spine ends neatly repaired, boards with some scuffing, rubbed, [Millard, French Books, 84], folio (465 x 329mm.; binding 476 x 344mm.), Paris, Delance, 1808.⁂ A very good set of what Millard calls 'an invaluable record of each of the gardens illustrated, and of a type of garden design that has all but disappeared.'
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Interiors.- Wood (Henry) A Series of Designs of Furniture & Decoration in the Styles of Louis XIVth, Francis Ist, Elizabeth, and Gothic, first edition, title within decorative border, 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates printed on thick paper, one toned, occasional light spotting, or marking, first plate with abrasion to fore-margin, modern half calf, gilt, [not in Keynes, Pickering Handlist], folio, William Pickering, [1845].⁂ Rare complete copy of Wood's handsome designs for window curtains, settees and sofas, sideboards, bookcases, room panelling, chairs etc. WorldCat lists the BL copy only and we can only trace two other complete copies at auction.
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Palladio (Andrea) I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, first edition, 4 parts in 1, collation: A2, B-I4; AA-KK4 (quire HH misbound, in the sequence HH2, HH1, HH4, and HH3); AAA-FFF4; AAAA-RRRR4, complete with blank leaves KK4 and RRRR4, Roman and italic type, each title within architectural woodcut borders with de Franceschi's printer's device included in upper panel, a different printer's device on verso of fol. RRRR3, 221 woodcut illustrations, plans, and sections (156 are full-page blocks, including 84 printed as plates, recto and verso of 42 leaves) executed after Palladio's drawings by Giovanni and Cristoforo Chrieger, Cristoforo Coriolano, and others, numerous woodcut animated initials, occasional light foxing, lower margin of fol.I2 slightly trimmed, handsome early nineteenth-century green calf, over pasteboards, covers framed by undulating gilt fillet, small floral tools at each corner, spine gilt with gilt-lettered red morocco label, board edges decorated with gilt freeze, green silk bookmark, gilt edges, lower corners slightly bumped, generally a fine copy, folio (290 x 195mm.), Venice, Domenico de' Franceschi, 1570.⁂ A milestone in the history of architecture: the first edition of the Quattro Libri dell'Architettura by the Paduan theorist and practising architect Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, universally known as Andrea Palladio, after the name given to him by his patron and renowned humanist Giangiorgio Trissino. Palladio was primarily active as an architect in Venice, Vicenza, and along the Brenta river, where he built magnificent villas for wealthy members of the Venetian patriciate. This authoritative and influential treatise celebrates the purity and simplicity of classical architecture, drawing its inspiration from Roman sources, especially Vitruvius, and Italian Renaissance architects, above all Leon Battista Alberti. The work is divided into four parts or libri, devoted to orders and elementary problems, domestic buildings, public buildings, and town planning and temples. "Palladio followed the rules of classical Roman architecture more closely than any other architect, even sometimes at the cost of practicability and domestic comfort. In spite of the vogue for the baroque and the fact that Palladio left no immediate successors, his book exerted a powerful influence on contemporary architecture and classical ideals until the end of the eighteenth century [...] 'Palladianism' became a party label in the world of connoisseurship and England blossomed with buildings 'in the Palladian style' - two centuries after Palladio had created it. From England the style made its way into Scotland, Ireland and America" (PMM). The treatise was reprinted and translated many times over the following centuries. Within the splendid series of woodcuts which accompany the text, especially noteworthy are those in the second libro depicting plans and elevations of villas, including the famous Villa Maser built for Palladio's patron Daniello Barbaro. Literature: Mortimer Italian, 352; Berlin Katalog 2592; Cicognara 594; Fowler 212; Olschki Choix, 15125; PMM 92.
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Vases.- Antonini (Carlo) Manuale di vari ornamenti componenti la serie de' vasi antichi si di marmo che di bronzo esistenti in Roma e Fuori, 3 vol., first edition, titles with large engraved vignettes incorporating the arms of the dedicatee Pope Pius VII, fine engraved pictorial divisional titles to each volume and 193 plates, some mostly marginal foxing, a few finger-marks, vol.3 light water-stain to upper inner gutters, attractive contemporary vellum, gilt, covers with wide borders incorporating a scrolling heavily laden grapevine, and cornucopia corner-pieces, spines richly gilt in a lattice design and with red and dark green morocco labels, some marking, g.e., [Berlin Kat. 594], folio (plates 334 x 222mm.; bindings 345 x 235mm.), Rome, Romanis, 1821.⁂ First edition of this work on ancient vases, beautifully illustrated with detailed engravings by and after the author. The three volumes treat the ancient vases found in the Vatican museums of Pio-Clementino and Chiaramonti, those housed in the Capitoline Museum and the Gallery of Rome, as well as those found in the areas surrounding Rome.
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Rackham (Arthur).- Shakespeare (William) A Midsummer-Night's Dream, one of 1000 copies signed by the artist, 40 tipped-in colour plates and illustrations by Arthur Rackham, crease to final plate, occasional spotting / light browning to text ff. and guards, attractive dark blue crushed morocco, gilt, by Bayntun Rivière, g.e., 4to, 1908.
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Calligraphic Manuscript.- Thomas (Louise) & Lady Strange. The Alphabet of Wild Flowers addressed to her young daughter by Mrs Thomas of Eyhorne House Illustrated by Lady Strange, illuminated manuscript in black, gold and colours on paper, 15 leaves including title, on rectos only, title in purple ink and gold with pointillé decoration, written in black ink in semi-gothic script with 26 letters on 14 leaves (A and Z with full page, others two to each page), each letter with 4-line verse on a flower with illuminated initial and finely-illustrated border depicting the flower in watercolours and gold, some with gold background decorated in pointillé or similar, final leaf with monogram tail-piece signed "L.Strange fecit aetat 68", each leaf laid down and mounted on stub, occasional light soiling, bound in dark green velvet, upper cover with intricate gold thread embroidery featuring monograms in centre and corners, deep pink watered silk endpapers, g.e., upper joint split, preserved in green silk folder lined in ivory silk and with ties, lightly stained and worn at edges, spotting to ivory silk, wear to tears, green silk slip-case (worn), oblong 4to, 1856.⁂ Exquisite illuminated album of wild flowers.Louise Thomas (1810-1911), of Eyhorne House, Hollingbourne, Kent married Richard Thomas around 1840. They had five daughters and a son, and from several references to Mary in the text this album was a gift for her fourth child, born in 1847. The Victoria and Albert Museum contains a very similar album by Lady Strange bound in red velvet so she presumably produced one for each of the Thomas daughters. The colophon states that Lady Strange was 68 when she illustrated the present album, and 70 for the V & A example. Louise herself died in 1911 aged 101.
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