The Birmingham Assay Office Library

NO RESERVE Numismatics.- Bonneville (Pierre-Frédéric) Traité des monnaies d'or et d'argent qui circulent chez les différens peuples, half-title, w...

Jewellery.- Boodt (Anselmus Boetius de) Le Parfaict joaillier, ou Histoire des pierreries, où sont amplement descrites leur naissance, juste prix,...

NO RESERVE Cornwall.- Borlase (William) The Natural History of Cornwall, first edition, folding engraved map with short tear at fold, 28 engraved ...

NO RESERVE Mining.- Hungary & Transylvania.- Born (Baron Inigo) Travels through the Bannat of Temeswar, Transylvania, and Hungary, in the year 177...

Ornament.- Bouchardon (Edme) Premier Livre de Vases...[&] Second Livre de Vases..., 2 vol., each with engraved pictorial title and 11 plates by Hu...

NO RESERVE Archaeology & Antiquities.- Boulanger (Cl.) Le Mobilier Funéraire Gallo-Romain et Franc en Picardie et en Artois, 50 chromolithographed...

Boulton (Matthew).- Memoirs of the Royal Society, being a new abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions... from 1665 to 1735... by Benjamin Ba...

Boulton (Matthew).- Young (Arthur) A Tour in Ireland, 2 vol., second edition, 5 folding engraved plates on 4 sheets, slight offsetting, contempora...

Boulton (Matthew, manufacturer and entrepreneur, 1728-1809).- Banks (Sir Joseph, Baronet, naturalist and patron of science, 1743-1820).- Minutes o...

Boulton (Matthew).- Provis (John) Tables of the most useful kind to facilitate business in several branches of the copper trade, first edition, li...

Boulton (Matthew).- Trial of William Eginton, John Eginton, Thomas Gibbons, & John Fowles : for a burglary, at the Soho, near Birmingham, and stea...

Boulton (Matthew).- Jameson (Robert) System of Mineralogy, 3 vol., first edition, 16 folding engraved plates, 2 folding tables, some foxing and of...

NO RESERVE Boulton (Matthew).- Documents relative to an Investigation of the Manner in which the Funeral of the late Matthew Boulton, Esq. was fur...

Boulton & Watt's Steam Engines.- [Wilson (Thomas)] A Comparative Statement of the Effects of Messrs. Boulton and Watt's Steam Engines with Newcomm...

Japan.- Bowes Museum, Liverpool. [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Magnificent and Unique Collection of Japanese Art Objects..., plates mounted on...

Boyle (Robert) The sceptical chymist: or Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes, touching the experiments whereby vulgar spagirists are wont to endea...

Gemology.- Boyle (Robert) An Essay about the Origine & Virtues of Gems, first edition, title within double-ruled woodcut border, water-stained, co...

Numismatics.- Tokens.- Boyne (William) Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries, in Yorkshire, by Tradesmen, Oversee...

Mineralogy.- Brard (Cyprien Prosper) Traite des Pierres Precieuses, des Porphyres, Granits, Marbres, Albatres, et autres Roches, 2 vol. in 1, firs...

NO RESERVE Gold.- Watchcases.- Briceau. Briceau Maistre Orfévre, engraved throughout with decorative title and 7 designs for goldsmiths of watchca...

Japan.- Brinkley (Captain Francis) Japan. Described and illustrated by the Japanese, 10 vol., number 554 of 750 copies, 10 colour collotypes of fl...

NO RESERVE Trade Catalogues.- British Association for the Advancement of Science. Portfolio of Lithographic Drawings of the Principle Articles of ...

NO RESERVE Engravers.- Bromley (Henry) A Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits from Egbert the Great to the present time, half-title, 20th centu...

Mining.- Brown (Edward) A Brief Account of some Travels in divers parts of Europe...with some Observations on the Gold, Silver, Copper, Quick-silv...

Female astronomer and school-mistress.- Bryan (Margaret) Lectures on Natural Philosophy, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 36 plat...

NO RESERVE Budé (Guillaume) De asse et partibus ejus libri quinque, ab ipso authore novissime et recogniti et locupletati, collation: a-z8 A-E8 F-...

NO RESERVE Greek Vases.- Burlington Fine Arts Club. Catalogue of Objects of Greek Ceramic Art, number 9 of 25 copies on Japon, contemporary half m...

NO RESERVE Metalwork.- Burlington Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of Chased and Embossed Steel and Iron Work of European Origin, 1900 § Murphy (Bailey ...

Gold-mining.- Burton (Richard F.) The Gold-Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities, second edition, half-title, folding map, advertisement...

Mining.- Bushell (Thomas) Mr Bushell's Abridgment of the Lord Chancellor Bacon's Philosophical Theory in Mineral Prosecutions, first edition, gene...

London.- Campbell (R.) The London Tradesman. Being a Compendious View of All the Trades, Professions, Arts, both Liberal and Mechanic, now practis...

NO RESERVE Cappel (Jacques) De ponderibus, nummis et mensuribus libri V, engraved pictorial title, Frankfurt, Levinus Hulsius, 1606 bound with Cap...

Cardanus (Hieronymus) De Subtilitate Libri XXI, collation: α4 β4 γ4 a-z A-Z Aa-Zz4 Aaa6, title with woodcut printer's device recto and portrait of...

NO RESERVE Economics.- [Carlisle (Nicholas)] A Memoir of the Life and Works of William Wyon, Chief Engraver of the Royal Mint, 2 parts in 1, title...

Numismatics.- Medals.- Carter (Thomas) British War Medals of the British Army and How They Were Won, chromolithographed plates, original pictorial...

NO RESERVE Catalogue of a Collection of Ancient & Medieval Rings and Personal Ornaments formed for Lady Londesborough, 2 folding engraved plates, ...

Chambers (Ephraim) Cyclopaedia: or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 5 vol., numerous engraved plates to vol.5, contemporary ownership...

Architecture.- Chambers (William) Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils, first edition, with text in both Englis...

NO RESERVE Architecture.- Chambers (William) A Treatise on Civil Architecture, first edition, list of subscribers, 45 engraved plates only (of 50)...

NO RESERVE Glass.- Chance Brothers & Co., Glass Makers of Birmingham. Designs for Ornamental Glass..., trade catalogue, lithographed throughout wi...

Gemstones.- Chappuzeau (Samuel) Histoire des Ioyaux, et des Principales richesses de l'Orient & de l'Occident, first edition, engraved additional ...

NO RESERVE India.- Charles (A.P.) A Monograph on Gold and Silver Ware produced in the United Provinces, plates, original decorated cloth, gilt, Al...

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...

NO RESERVE Priestley (Joseph).- Cobbett (William) Observations on the emigration of Dr. Joseph Priestley, and on the several addresses delivered t...

NO RESERVE Cobbett (William) Paper against Gold, 15 numbers in 1 vol., double-column, large folding broadside "The Death-Bed Recantation of a cel...

NO RESERVE Numismatics.- Coins.- Cochran-Patrick (R. W.) Records of the Coinage of Scotland, 2 vol., plates and illustrations, occasional marginal...

NO RESERVE Calligraphy.- Cocker (Edward) Magnum in parvo or The Pens Perfection, second edition, lacking engraved title and the 6pp. letterpress t...

Economics.- C[oke] (R[oger]) A Treatise Concerning the Regulation of the Coyn of England, and how the East-India trade may be Preserved and Encrea...

NO RESERVE Botany.- Collaert (Adriaen) Florilegium, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 23 plates (numbered 2-24), most of several flower...

Numismatics.- Medals.- Collas (Achille) Trésor de Numismatique et de Glyptique... Sceaux des Rois et Reines de France [&] Sceaux des Grands Feudat...

NO RESERVE [Colquhoun (Patrick)] A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis containing a detail of the various Crimes and Misdemeanors...and sugge...

Poor.- Colquhoun (P.) A Treatise on Indigence; exhibiting a General View of the National Resources for Productive Labour; with Propositions for Am...

Japan.- Conder (Joseph) The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement, first edition, 54 plates, 14 colour, illustrations, holes to inner...

Considerations On the present Scarcity of Silver Coins, &c., title with woodcut decoration, ink notes by the author to the lower margin on 4pp., o...

Ornament.- Roupert (Louis).- Cossin (Louis) [Ornamental designs for goldsmiths], engraved throughout with fine portrait of the goldsmith Louis Rou...

Conchology.- Costa (Emanuel Mendes da) Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniae, or the British conchology, first edition, 17 hand-coloured engra...

NO RESERVE Church ornament.- Cotman (John Sell) Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk and Suffolk, 2 vol., second edition, 2 colour frontisp...

NO RESERVE Pewter.- Cotterell (H.H.) Bristol and West-Country Pewterers..., number 101 of 150 large paper copies, contemporary library half morocc...

NO RESERVE Cox (James) A descriptive inventory of the several exquisite and magnificent pieces of mechanism and jewellery...made in the Thirteenth...

Da Vinci (Leonardo) Trattato della Pittura . . . si sono giunti Tre Libri della Pittura, & il Trattato della Statua di Leon Battista Alberti, con ...