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Underwriters' Laboratories Inc - Issue number 65,486 - A 1960's Japanese retro vintage portable gooseneck table lamp / reading light having a green metal elongated shade supported by a chromed gooseneck arm and raised on a green metal base with switch. Applied label to base .Measures; 38cm tall
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Peter Wyngarde's Personal Wardrobe - a beautiful vintage 1960's / 1970's full length Mink fur coat / gown. Light fur cuffs and collar, with its original fur belt still present. No makers label. Likely tailored for Wyngarde. Various publicity and press photographs depict Wyngarde wearing this coat, most notably on a night out with actress Suzanna Leigh (see photos). Showing signs of light wear, but generally in very good original condition. A rare item from Wyngarde's private wardrobe.
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Unknown Production - An original vintage prop French Police Kepi / Cap. Stamped SCP Bernay to interior, complete example with embroidered emblem to front and strap present. Owned by Peter Wyngarde, and likely unused in a production during his extensive television, film and theatre career. Some light wear from use.
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Jason King (1971 British Television Series) a rare origina prop / costume brown leather jacket, as worn by Peter Wyngarde in the series. Tan brown leather construction, with two pockets to the front and large leather lapels. Fitted with a single original button. No makers labels, and was likely custom-made for Wyngarde. The jacket shows signs of use, with some light fading and staining (largely to one part of the interior lining). A rare, unique and iconic leather jacket.
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Jason King / Department S - a collection of original prop / costume accessories belonging to Peter Wyngarde, and very likely used in either series. The collection comprising; a set of four matching handkerchiefs - orange, light green, dark green and red. Along with another similar, also in red. Interesting collection.
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Jason King (1971 British Television Series) - a stunning screen used and matched silk Kaftan smoking / lounge gown, worn and owned by Peter Wyngarde. The gown in blue and green jacquard, with gold coloured silk thread decoration. No makers label, but an old costume department reference tag remains pinned to the inside collar. Some light wear from production use, but generally excellent condition. A rare piece of television costume. As used in several episodes of the series, and first seen in the episode If It’s Got To Go, It’s Got To Go - as well as several publicity images. An iconic outfit from the series.
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NO RESERVE India.- Charles (A.P.) A Monograph on Gold and Silver Ware produced in the United Provinces, plates, original decorated cloth, gilt, Allahabad, 1905 § Birdwood (G.C.m.) The Industrial Arts of India, 1880 § Grünwedel (A.) Buddhist Art in India, revised and enlarged by Jas. Burgess, 1901 § Tavernier (J.B.) Travels in India, translated by V.Ball, 2 vol., 1889 § Smith (Maj. J.T.) Observations on the...Management of Mints, chiefly with reference to...India, later library half morocco, Madras, 1848 § Melville (Henry Dundas, Viscount) Heads of Mr. Dundas's Speech, on the Finances of the East-India Company, 25th March 1800, drop-head title, light foxing, contemporary half calf, worn, spine defective, upper cover detached, 1800, the first four with plates and illustrations, original cloth, most a little rubbed; and 5 others on India, v.s. (12)
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Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works......now newly imprinted, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 425 copies on Perch paper, printed in red and black with text in Chaucer type and titles of longer poems in Troy type, 87 wood-engraved illustrations designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and engraved by W.H.Hooper, wood-engraved title, borders and initials designed by William Morris and engraved by C.E.Keates, W.H.Hooper and W.Spielmeyer, occasional light spotting, original holland-backed boards, uncut, a little rubbed, a few spots to upper cover and small scratch to lower, slight wear to foot of spine and lower edges, paper label on spine chipped, [Peterson 40; PMM 367 note], folio, Kelmscott Press, 1896.⁂ The greatest of all private press books and the apotheosis of the artistic collaboration between William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.
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Ornament.- Albertolli (Giocondo) Alcune Decorazioni di Nobili Sale ed Altri Ornamenti, engraved throughout with title, dedication, and 23 plates by Mercoli and Andrea de Bernardis after Albertolli, 1787; Ornamenti Diversi, engraved title and dedication, letterpress sheet to the readers, 24 engraved plates by Giacomo Mercoli after Albertolli on 22 sheets, [1782], together 2 works in 1 vol., engraved titles, dedications & letterpress sheet all bound before plates, light foxing, mostly marginal, upper hinge broken, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, spine defective at head, [Berlin Kat. 595, calls for 22 plates in first work], large folio, [Milan] ⁂ Handsome designs for candelabra, girandole, mirrors, furniture, friezes, ceilings etc., mostly in neoclassical style, and unusually juxtaposing stylized and naturalistic ornament.
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NO RESERVE Botany.- Collaert (Adriaen) Florilegium, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 23 plates (numbered 2-24), most of several flowers, one of a vase of flowers and another of figures in a garden with quotation below, c.180 x 135mm., all trimmed to plate-mark and mounted on blank leaves, some light soiling and staining, later half cloth, rubbed, [Hunt 159; Nissen BBI 383], small 4to, [Antwerp], P.Galle, [c.1590].m⁂ "This is rather a rare little book and one quite important in the history of botanical illustration, as it is among the earliest to have engraved plates of flowers". Hunt
![NO RESERVE [Colquhoun (Patrick)] A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis containing a detail of the various Crimes and Mis](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5fa34ad6-3fee-4e08-824c-ab6100f26bee/e2ea9d13-c590-4806-8614-ab610110b760/468x382.jpg)
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NO RESERVE [Colquhoun (Patrick)] A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis containing a detail of the various Crimes and Misdemeanors...and suggesting Remedies for their Prevention, third edition, without the 2 advertisement ff. at end, half-title, folding table, light spotting to half-title and title, occasional light browning, later half calf, gilt, a little rubbed and stained, H.Fry for C.Dilly, 1796; and 3 others, later editions of the same, 8vo (4)
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Considerations On the present Scarcity of Silver Coins, &c., title with woodcut decoration, ink notes by the author to the lower margin on 4pp., occasional light spotting, 19th century half morocco, [not in Kress or Goldsmiths'], 4to, [n.p.], 1759.⁂ Rare, ESTC lists the BL and Royal Irish Academy copies only. Although the author remains unidentified, the contents of the notes (worrying over possible offence caused by his criticisms of others' works and his desire to add notes and alter arguments for a forthcoming edition) indicate that they are by him, likely addressed to an unknown recipient to whom this copy was presented.
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Conchology.- Costa (Emanuel Mendes da) Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniae, or the British conchology, first edition, 17 hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional minor worming to lower margin, title a little soiled, occasional light foxing or soiling to text, contemporary calf-backed boards, joints cracked, extremities a little worn, rubbed, [Nissen IVB 2785], 4to, for the author, 1778.
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Architecture.- Decker (P.) Chinese Architecture, Civil and Ornamental..., 2 parts in 1, 24 & 12 engraved plates respectively, some light browning or soiling, trimmed affecting plate numbering of second part, 1759; Gothic Architecture Decorated, 2 parts in 1, 12 & 12 engraved plates respectively, occasional spotting, 1759, later library half morocco, a little rubbed, [Berlin Kat. 3419 & 3418; Harris 192 & 193], oblong 4to, for the Author, by Henry Parker and Elizabeth Bakewill (2)⁂ Charming works including designs for garden buildings, temples, bridges, pagodas, barges, fencing and railings.
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Mining.- Pyrenees.- Dietrich (Philippe-Frédéric de) Description des gîtes de minerai, des forges et des salines de Pyrénées, suivie d'observations sur les fer Mazé et sur les mines des sards en Poitou, 2 parts in 2 vol., 2 engraved plates, 4 folding hand-coloured engraved plans, 7 folding letterpress tables, some spotting and light browning (mostly in part 2), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spines gilt and with red morocco label, head of part 2 little worn, rubbed, 4to, Paris, Didot & Cuchet, 1786.⁂ Important work on the mining and metallurgic industries of the Pyrenees region. A further two parts were produced covering Alsace. As with other copies the preliminaries of part 1 have erratic pagination. Here there are 3 ff. in quire a (?lacking a half-title. A half-title (or divisional title is bound in before sig.A); 5 ff. in quire b; and 4ff. in both quires c and d.
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NO RESERVE Warwickshire.- Dugdale (Sir William) The Antiquities of Warwickshire, Dr. William Hamper's interleaved and extra-illustrated copy bound in 4 vol., engraved plates and folding maps, interleaves with occasional manuscript notes, some light foxing, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, slightly rubbed and 2 spine ends chipped, Coventry, John Jones, 1765; and a copy of Hamper's The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale, 1827, folio and 4to (5)⁂ William Hamper (1776-1831) was a noted Warwickshire businessman and antiquary. J.A. Langford's A Century of Birmingham Life...1741-1841, includes a list of 140 ways to spell 'Birmingham' compiled by Hamper.
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Metals, fossils & minerals.- Aldrovandi (Ulisse) Musaeum metallicum in libros IIII distributum, fine engraved pictorial title by F. Coroleanus, numerous woodcut illustrations, without ¶4 (?blank) as with other copies traced, some spotting or light foxing, occasional browning, contemporary mottled vellum, spine in compartments and with morocco label, head of spine repaired, corners worn, [Nissen ZBI 75; Ward and Carozzi 43; Wellcome I, 172], folio, [Bologna], [G. Battista Ferroni], 1648.⁂ Scarce first edition of volume XIII of Aldrovandi's works, covering metals, fossils, minerals and shells. At the University of Bologna Aldrovandi had established one of the first herbaria and extensive botanical and zoological collections.
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Excellency of Pen and Pencil (The), exemplifying the Uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of Drawing, Etching, Engraving, Limning..., first edition, engraved frontispiece, folding plate and illustrations, some full-page, old ink signature of W.Vaughan at head of title, light spotting, a few small rust-spots causing holes, later tan morocco ruled in gilt, by Ramage, g.e., decorative gilt dentelles, [Wing E3779], 8vo, by Thomas Ratcliff and Thomas Daniel, for Dorman Newman and Richard Jones, 1668. ⁂ Rare; ESTC lists only 6 UK copies.
![[Freeth (John)], "J. Free". The Political Songster, addressed to the sons of freedom and lovers of humour, title mounted on s](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5fa34ad6-3fee-4e08-824c-ab6100f26bee/ea1a803c-4f89-4c07-a8c1-ab61010e665d/468x382.jpg)
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[Freeth (John)], "J. Free". The Political Songster, addressed to the sons of freedom and lovers of humour, title mounted on stub, occasional light soiling, library half morocco, spine chipping at head, rubbed and scuffed, [Gaskell 42], 8vo, Birmingham, for the author, by J. Baskerville, and sold by S. Aris, and M. Swinney, 1771.⁂ Rare, ESTC lists 2 copies only of this edition (not in BL). The Bodleian also has an edition from the same year with an additional leaf at the end not called for here. Freeth was the owner of the Leicester Arms, a Birmingham inn and coffee house (popularly known as Freeth's Coffee House). Freeth would write songs to music based on the events of the day which would then be sung to patrons. The popularity of the songs encouraged Freeth to publish with the first collection appearing in 1766 (also rare with only 1 copy on ESTC). This is the second collection and the first to be printed by Baskerville.
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Silver.- Germain (Pierre) Elements d'Orfevrerie..., 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved throughout with 2 titles, dedication, notice, list of plates and 100 engraved plates by Pasquier & Baquoy after Germain, handsome early 19th century red morocco, gilt, by Capé, covers with triple gilt fillet borders with central ornamental lozenge surrounding motto "Paulatim", spine gilt with decorations and five raised bands, g.e., light spotting to covers and small ink stain, very slightly rubbed and edges, [Berlin Kat. 1066; Cohen-de Ricci 430], 4to, Paris, chez l'Auteur Place du Carousel a l'Orfevrerie du Roy, 1748.⁂ Attractive and important work of Rococo designs for tableware and churches by the Parisian silversmith Pierre Germain.
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NO RESERVE Silver.- Giardini (Giovanni) Promptuarium artis argentariae, 2 parts in 1, second edition, 2 titles with engraved vignettes, 98 engraved plates only (of 100, lacking frontispiece and dedication) by M.J.Limpach after designs by Giardini, some plates numbered in plate, others in manuscript in contemporary hand, light spotting and soiling, mostly marginal, contemporary vellum, rubbed, slight wear to corners and head of spine, small splits to joints at head, [Berlin Kat.1142], folio, Rome, Faustus Amideus, 1750.⁂ Designs for silversmiths reflecting the influence of late Baroque architecture and sculpture. The first part contains ecclesiastical objects such as chalices, censers, and candlesticks, the second more secular items including vases, clocks, and candelebras.
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NO RESERVE Glaser (Christopher) Traité de la chymie, engraved additional pictorial title and 3 folding plates, short tear with a little loss to additional title, occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary calf, spine in compartments, spine ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed, Paris, Jean d'Houry, 1673; and 12 others, French Chemistry, 12mo & 8vo (13)
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Chemistry & Alchemy.- Glauber (Johann Rudolf) The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist...containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals, first collected edition in English, engraved frontispiece, 10 woodcut or engraved plates, worm hole / trace to lower margins, some spotting or mostly light foxing, occasional staining, contemporary panelled calf, upper cover detached, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scratched, [Duveen p.260; Ferguson I p.322; Wellcome III p.124; Wing G845], printed by Thomas Milbourn, for the author, 1689; and a defective Glauber, folio & small 4to (2)⁂ Glauber is regarded as the best practical chemist of his day and the first industrial chemist. Provenance: John Christie (bookplate).
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Gold & Silver.- Arphe y Villafane (Juan de) Quilatador de la plata, oro y piedras, conforme a las leyes reales y para declaracion de ellas, collation: ¶8 ¶¶8 A-Z8 2A-2G8 2H4, title with large woodcut arms, full-page woodcut portrait of the author to verso of ¶4, tables, woodcut printer's device to foot of final f., little staining to title, occasional spotting, some light browning, 19th century red calf, gilt, covers with centre-pieces 'Bibliotheca de Salva', 8vo (145 x 97mm.), Madrid, Guillermo Drouy, 1598.⁂ Rare second edition of this work on the assaying of gold, silver, and precious stones. 'Arfe was the outstanding Spanish gold- and silversmith of the late Renaissance and Early Baroque periods' (Hoover). Literature: Palau 16054; cf. Hoover 54.
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Warwickshire.- Greenwood (C. & J.) Map of the County of Warwick from actual Survey made in the years 1820 & 1821, large calligraphic title, table of explanation, compass rose and vignette of Warwick castle in the lower left, engraving with original hand-colouring, 1320 x 1050 mm. (52 x 41 1/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, light offsetting, minor browning and surface dirt, edged with blue linen and folding with marbled ends, contemporary tree calf book-style case, tooled in blind, worn label to spine, rubbed and slightly worn, 1822.
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NO RESERVE Act (An) to prohibit the Importation of light silver coin of this realm from Foreign Countries into Great Britain or Ireland, title with woodcut arms, crude tape repairs at head, 20th century calf-backed cloth, Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1774 § Report from the Select Committee on The Royal Mint, 7 folding lithographed plates, 1837 bound with Report from the Royal Commission on International Coinage, 1868, contemporary half morocco, rubbed; and 22 others, mostly 19th / 20th century acts, v.s. (24)
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Metallurgy.- Hampe (John Henry) An Experimental System of Metallurgy..., first edition, mezzotint portrait with letterpress in Latin and Greek below trimmed and laid down on blank leaf as frontispiece, wide margins, light foxing, later half morocco, by R.R.Porter, t.e.g., a little rubbed, spine faded, folio, J.Nourse, 1777.⁂ Scarce. ESTC lists only 5 UK copies (BL 2 copies, Science Museum, John Rylands Library in Manchester, and Brotherton Library, Leeds), and 4 in America.
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Merchants.- Hatton (Edward) The Merchant"s Magazine: or, Trades-Man's Treasury, seventh edition, engraved portrait and 9 calligraphic plates, light dampstaining to lower corner, occasional ink annotations, sheet of autograph calligraphy loosely inserted, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, [Kress 3104; not in Goldsmiths'], for Chr. Coningsby, at the Ink-Bottle, 1719 § Watson (John) Table of Exchange, 2 parts in 1 vol., list of subscribers, 1p. advertisement, contemporary calf, [not in Kress or Goldsmiths'; ESTC 3 copies only, not in National Library of Ireland], Dublin, by S. Powell, 1750; and 6 others, merchants and tradesmen, v.s. (8)
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Lettering.- Hollins (William) The British Standard of the Capital Letters contained in the Roman Alphabet, first edition, 52 engraved plates, most of large single letters each in bold and in outline with dimensions (I & J together on one sheet), light spotting, staining to final leaf, title and final two leaves defective at lower margin (repaired, one just touching last line), old cloth-backed boards, roan label, rubbed and soiled, upper cover slightly warped, 4to, Birmingham, for the author, 1813.⁂ Scarce; Library Hub lists only 4 copies (Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and Aberdeen).
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NO RESERVE Lithography.- Hullmandel (Charles) The Art of Drawing on Stone, first edition, lithographed vignette title and 19 plates, 2 printed on india paper and mounted, 2 printed with ochre (one the background colour separation for the other), light foxing and soiling, contemporary cloth, rubbed, spine defective, [Abbey, Life 221], tall 8vo, C.Hullmandel & R.Ackermann, [1824].
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NO RESERVE Private Press.- Gold & Silver.- Ashbee (C.R.) Modern English Silverwork, one of 200 copies signed by the author, lithographed plates by the author, some partly hand-coloured, browned & brittle at edges, front free endpaper loose, other leaves mounted on stubs, original buckram, upper joint split, Broad Campden, Essex House Press, 1909 § Cellini (Benvenuto) The Treatises on Goldsmithing and Sculpture, translated by Ashbee, one of 600 copies, photogravure plates, illustrations, errata/advertisement leaf at end, original buckram, uncut, lacking spine, Essex House Press, 1898 § Symonds (John Addington) The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, 2 vol., one of 300 copies, wood-engraved decorative border and initial by Charles Ricketts, light spotting, original holland-backed boards, uncut & unopened, Vale Press, 1900 § Burne-Jones (Edward) The Beginning of the World: Twenty-Five Pictures..., illustrations after Burne-Jones, original linen-backed boards, uncut, browned, upper cover detached with preliminaries, printed at the Chiswick Press, 190, all rather rubbed or worn; and 8 others, private press, 4to & 8vo (14)
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Fruit.- Knight (Thomas Andrew) Pomona Herefordiensis, first edition, 30 hand-coloured engraved plates by William Hooker after Elizabeth Mathews and Frances Knight, heightened with gum arabic, some light foxing and offsetting, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rebacked, Printed for the Agricultural Society of Herefordshire, 1811.
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Le Fèvre (Nicaise) A compleat body of chymistry: vvherein is contained whatsoever is necessary for the attaining to the curious knowledge of this art...and teaching the most exact preparation of animals, vegetables and minerals, so as to preserve their essential vertues, 2 parts in 1, second edition in English, with the variant printing of the first title, 5 folding engraved plates and 2 full-page illustrations, some spotting or mostly light foxing, 20th century red crushed half morocco, [Duveen 346; Ferguson II, pp.17-18; Wing L926; cf. Hoover 512], 4to, printed for O. Pulleyn Junior, and are to be sold by John Wright at the sign of the Globe in Little-Brittain, 1670.
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Metalwork.- Le Pautre (Jean) Livre de Serurerie, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 17 plates of gates, stair-rails etc. by Jacques le Pautre after Jean le Pautre, 4 plates possibly from a different series by Le Pautre (ornamental knockers etc.), light soiling and occasional spotting, mostly marginal, final two plates creased at lower corner, later half red roan, old upper wrapper with title in manuscript bound in, [Berlin Kat. 1343, calling for title and 11 plates], Paris, [later 17th century] § Designs for Gates. Ornamental Iron Work..., engraved throughout with pictorial title and 20 plates, with 4pp. folding letterpress publishers' catalogue bound in at end, later half morocco, [Berlin Kat. 1325], I. & T.Taylor, [c.1793], both a little rubbed; and another volume of 5 designs for railings by Poilly, folio & oblong 4to (3)
![Ornament.- Le Pautre (Jean) [Frises et Feuillages], 28 engraved plates from several suites including 2 titles 'Rinceaux de Fr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5fa34ad6-3fee-4e08-824c-ab6100f26bee/7e07cff3-bbb6-4877-b6c5-ab61010f95fd/468x382.jpg)
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Ornament.- Le Pautre (Jean) [Frises et Feuillages], 28 engraved plates from several suites including 2 titles 'Rinceaux de Frises et Feuillages' and 'Frizes Feuillages', c.210 x 150mm., a few larger, all trimmed close to plate-mark and mounted on blank leaves, some light soiling or staining, later calf-backed boards, rubbed, spine chipped at head, folio, Paris, Langlois, Mariette & others, [late 17th century]; sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return ⁂ Comprising mostly friezes but also a state bed and a large triumphal urn.
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Horology.- Lepaute (Jean Andre) Traite d'Horlogerie, second edition, 17 folding engraved plates, lacking half-title, some foxing, Catalogue des Livres de Fonds by Bachelier dated 1827 bound in, modern half morocco, Paris, chez Samson, 1767 § Cumming (Alexander) The Elements of Clock and Watch-work, first edition, errata leaf and 16 engraved plates at end, some light foxing and offsetting, later calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed, upper joint cracked, Printed for the Author, 1766; and 23 others, horology, 4to and 8vo (25)
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Numismatics.- Medals.- Manby (Capt. G. W.) Anastatic Drawings of Gold and Silver Medals, Presented by Sovereigns and Public Bodies to Capt. George William Manby, presentation inscription from Manby "To the Rev. G. H. Dashwood... representing medals received by George Will. Manby Capt... for saving the lives of sailors from shipwreck, June 6 1851" to endpaper, plates, original cloth, rebacked, Yarmouth, 1851 § Till (William) Descriptive Particulars of English Coronation Medals, engraved frontispiece, attractive contemporary red morocco, gilt, a little darkened, 1838 § Snowden (James Ross) A Description of the Medals of Washington, engraved additional title and 20 plates, occasional light foxing, contemporary pictorial cloth, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, Philadelphia, 1861 § Catalogue of the Collection of Coins and Medals of the late L. C. Wyon, Late Chief Engraver to the Royal Mint... Which Will be Sold at Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, morocco-backed library cloth, original wrappers bound in, 1901; and 14 others, medals, 8vo & 4to (18)
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Silver.- Masson. Nouveaux Desseins pour graver sur l'orfeverie..., engraved pictorial title and 5 plates (numbered 1-6) of decorations for silver including trays, bowls, teapots and sugar casters, [Berlin Kat. 1055; Cohen-de Ricci 694], Paris, Mariette, [c.1710] bound with several other similar suites of ornamental plates by Le Pautre, Mariette, Langlois, Androuet du Cerceau, de la Guertière, Loire, Le Bouteux, Touchar, Le Blond, Pineau and Cotelle, forming a total of 150 engraved plates, a few with title, one or two suites incomplete, a couple of plates bound upside down, occasional light marginal soiling or browning, one with small marginal tear, bound together in magnificent later dark blue morocco, by Rivière & Son, elaborately tooled in gilt with double fillet border and panel with ornate floral frame and corner-pieces, spine gilt in compartments with floral decoration and six raised bands, g.e., very slight rubbing to corners and lower joint at head, folio; sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return ⁂ Superb collection of plates with designs for ewers, cartouches, gold & silver, marquetry, friezes, embroidery, grotesque details of Raphael's frescoes in the Vatican loggia, wheelchairs, parterres, gardens & garden buildings, textiles, and ceilings. A detailed list of the contents is available on request.
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Mercati (Michele) Metallotheca. Opus posthumum, 2 parts in 1, including appendix, first illustrated edition, folding engraved frontispiece, titles in red and black and with engraved vignette, 6 engraved plates (1 folding), engraved illustrations, errata f. and 'Regestum' f. with engraved printer's device at end of part 1, lacking half-title and a portrait, some spotting or light foxing, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed, [Hoover 581; Sinkankas 4390; Ward & Carozzi 1541; Caillet 7390], folio, Rome, Johannes Maria Salvioni, 1719.⁂ A landmark treatise in the history of mineralogy and metallurgy. Mercati was personal physician to Popes Gregory XIII and Clement VIII, and superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden. He formed one of the first organised collections of minerals under the aegis of Pope Sixtus V. 'The collection reflects the state of knowledge extant at the time, and therefore includes objects of presumed magical or medicinal virtue as well as those which are correctly identified and described' (Sinkankas).
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Ornament.- Moelder (Charles de) Proper Ornaments to be Engrav'd on Plate, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 10 plates on laid paper, some with Pro Patria watermarks, 4 numbered in the plate, some folding, one plate with large repaired tear, some probably trimmed, minor handling creases and light surface dirt, later library half morocco, rubbed, [Berlin Kat. 753], Thomas Bowles, [c.1694 but slightly later]; and 2 others, including an album of suites originally published by Bowles, Somer, Nicholls and others, one titled 'A Compleat Book of Ornaments consisting of variety of Compartments, Shields, Masks, Frize-Work, Moresk-Work &c.' (engraved title & 26 plates on laid paper, several with Pro Patria watermarks), [c.1700 but slightly later], oblong 4to (3)
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Worcestershire.- Nash (Treadway Russell) Collections for the History of Worcestershire, 2 vol., first edition, presentation copy with inscription "Presented by the Rev. Author Dr. Treadway Russell Nash to James Ross of Worcester 1784" to head of endpapers, engraved vignette titles for first and second editions, extra-illustrated with c.130 engraved and mezzotint views, plans, portraits etc. in total, numerous engraved illustrations, folding pedigrees, numerous ink notes by Ross to text margins and initialled pencil notes by Ross to plate margins, 1f. autograph notes by Ross loosely inserted, occasional light spotting or offsetting, 20th century morocco, gilt, joints rubbed, uncut, 1781-99; and 2 others,12pp. bound autograph notes and corrections by Ross and the 1895 Index relating to the same, folio (4)⁂ James Ross of Worcester (1746-1831) engraved many of the views that appear in Nash's work.
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Writing book.- Calligraphy.- Palatino (Giovanni Battista) Libro... Nel qual s'insegna a scriuere ogni sorte lettera, antica, & moderna, di qualunque natione, con le sue Regole, & misure, & essempi, et con vn breve et vtil discorso de le cifre, collation: A-H8, title with large woodcut portrait, full-page woodcut alphabets and examples of calligraphy, H8 with large woodcut printer's device recto otherwise blank, a few ff. with light red crayon colouring, repaired hole within portrait, marginal reapirs, some spotting or light staining, 19th century polished mottled calf, gilt, spine in compartments, rubbed, 8vo (198 x 126mm.), [Rome], [Antonio Maria Guidotto & Duodecimo Viotti], 1556.⁂ 'the last of the three major Italian copy-books of the sixteenth century... Palatino's manual was a more ambitious effort than Arrighi's or Tagliente's... Palatino's models of chancery script are among the handsomest, but are nearly impossible to execute if the writer is a person of modest ability.' (Miner, 2000 Years of Calligraphy, 65).Literature: Bonacini 1338; EDIT 16 CNCE 6666.
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