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Darwin (Erasmus) The Botanic Garden, 2 parts in 1, part 1 first edition, part 2 second edition, half-titles, engraved frontispieces and 18 plates,...

Architecture.- Decker (P.) Chinese Architecture, Civil and Ornamental..., 2 parts in 1, 24 & 12 engraved plates respectively, some light browning ...

NO RESERVE Ornament.- Delacour (William) First [-Eighth] Book of Ornament, engraved throughout with 63 plates on 56 sheets including pictorial tit...

NO RESERVE Distillation.- Demachy (Jacques-François) L'Art du distillateur d'eaux-fortes, &c., 12 folding engraved plates, some spotting, contempo...

NO RESERVE Wine & spirits.- Dent (Major Herbert C.) Wine, Spirit & Sauce Labels of the 18th & 19th Centuries, one of 250 copies, signed by the aut...

Horology.- D[erham] (W[illiam]) The Artificial Clock-maker. A Treatise of Watch, and Clock-work..., first edition, errata slip pasted in at end of...

NO RESERVE Horology.- Derham (William) The Artificial Clock-Maker, fourth edition, 3 folding engraved plates and 4 folding tables, browned and soi...

NO RESERVE Glass.- Deville (Achille) Histoire de l'Art de la Verrerie dans l'Antiquité, 113 tinted or chromolithographed plates mounted on stubs, ...

NO RESERVE Dialogue (A) between a banker and a merchant of the city of Dublin, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, [Goldsmiths' 8939; Kress 5340; ...

NO RESERVE Silver.- [Diderot (Denis) & J. d'Alembert.] Orfevre-Bijoutier, 7 engraved plates; Orfevre Grossier, 19 engraved plates; Plumassier Pana...

Mining.- Pyrenees.- Dietrich (Philippe-Frédéric de) Description des gîtes de minerai, des forges et des salines de Pyrénées, suivie d'observations...

Arms and armour.- Dillon (Harold Arthur Lee, Viscount) An Almain Armourer's Album: Selections from an original MS. in Victoria and Albert Museum, ...

NO RESERVE Guilds and Incorporated Companies.- Dobson (William) and John Harland. A History of the Preston Guild, second edition, Preston &c., [18...

Pharmacy.- [Dossie (Robert)] The Elaboratory laid open, or, the Secrets of Modern Chemistry and Pharmacy revealed, first edition, with 2 leaves of...

NO RESERVE Warwickshire.- Dugdale (Sir William) The Antiquities of Warwickshire, Dr. William Hamper's interleaved and extra-illustrated copy bound...

NO RESERVE Numismatics.- Medals.- Edwards (Edward, editor) The Napoleon Medals: A Complete Series of the Medals Struck in France, Italy, Great Bri...

NO RESERVE Egyptology.- Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire.- Bissing (Fr. W. von) Metallgefässe, Vienna, 1901; Fayence...

NO RESERVE Egyptology.- Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire.- Carter (Howard) & Percy E.Newberry. The Tomb of Thoutmosi...

NO RESERVE Egyptology.- Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire.- Daressy (G.) Textes et Dessins Magiques, Cairo, 1903; Ost...

NO RESERVE Egyptology.- Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire.- Maspero (Jean) Papyrus Grecs d'Époque Byzantine, 3 vol., ...

NO RESERVE Egyptology.- Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire.- Smith (G. Elliot) The Royal Mummies, later library half m...

NO RESERVE Egyptology.- Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire.- Vernier (Émile) Bijoux et Orfèvreries, 2 vol., Cairo, 190...

Egyptology.- Bissing (Fr. W. von) Denkmäler Ägyptischer Sculptur, text vol. & 13 parts of plates, 150 fine photogravure plates, tissue guards, loo...

NO RESERVE Egyptology.- Morgan (J. de) Catalogue des Monuments et Inscriptions de l'Égypte Antique, Premiere Serie: Haute Égypte, 3 vol. in 5, ori...

NO RESERVE Egyptology.- Williams (Caroline Ransom) Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities...Gold and Silver Jewelry and Related Objects, later libray h...

Elizabethan examples of manuscript initials, scripts and proverbs.- [Volume of 26 very fine and elaborate examples of historiated initials and exa...

NO RESERVE Kelmscott Press.- Ellis (F.S.) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of a small but valuable collection of Choice Books and Autographs, ruled in r...

Physics.- Enfield (William) Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and Experimental, second edition, lacking half-title, with errata slip ...

Metallurgy.- Ercker (Lazarus) Beschreibung allerfuernemisten mineralischen Ertz und Bergkwercks Arten, collation: )(4 A-Z4 a-k4 l6, title in red a...

Ercker (Lazarus) Aula subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, 2 parts in 1, engraved additional pictorial title, woodcut illustrations,...

Ercker (Lazarus) Aula subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum das ist untererdische Hofhaltung, fifth edition, engraved additional picto...

NO RESERVE Numismatics.- Evelyn (John) Numismata. A Discourse of Medals, Antient and Modern, first edition, title in red and black, engraved illus...

NO RESERVE Mezzotint engraving.- Evelyn (John) Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper, second edition, engrav...

Excellency of Pen and Pencil (The), exemplifying the Uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of Drawing, Etching, Engraving, Limnin...

NO RESERVE Exposition Rétrospective de Limoges 1886, 50 albumen print photographic plates, original half vellum, browned, spine worn at head, uppe...

Fachs (Modestinus) Probier buechlein darinne gruendlicher bericht vormeldet wie man alle metall und derselben zugehoerenden metallischen ertzen un...

Steam Engines & James Watt.- Falck (N.D.) An Account and Description of an Improved Steam-Engine, first edition, folding engraved plate, advertise...

NO RESERVE Faujas de Saint-Fond (Barthelemi) Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides; undertaken for the purpose of examining the state of ...

NO RESERVE Economics.- Boulton (Matthew Robinson).- Fitzwilliam (Charles William Wentworth, Viscount Milton) Address to the Landowners of England ...

*** Please note, the description for this lot has changed.Flaxman (John, sculptor and draughtsman, 1755-1826), Wyon (William, chief engraver at th...

NO RESERVE Bookbinding.- Fletcher (William Younger) English Bookbindings in the British Museum, 1895; Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum, ...

Numismatics.- Coins.- Folkes (Martin) Tables of English Silver and Gold Coins, 2 vol., 67 engraved plates, occasional marginal dampstaining, conte...

Art Nouveau.- Follot (Paul) Documents de Bijouterie et Orfèvrerie modernes, 24 plates including 12 fine pochoir jewellery designs, title browned a...

NO RESERVE Textiles.- Forrer (R.) Die Zeugdrucke der Byzantischen, Romanischen, Gothischen und spätern Kunstepochen, 57 plates, several chromolith...

NO RESERVE Ceramics.- Maiolica.- Fortnum (C.Drury E.) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Maiolica, Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian War...

NO RESERVE Glass.- Francis (Grant R.) Old English Drinking Glasses..., 1926 § Hartshorne (Albert) Old English Glasses, 67 plates, 2 chromolithogra...

Franklin (Benjamin) Political, miscellaneous, and philosophical pieces; arranged under the following heads...G. P. General politics; A. B. T. Amer...

NO RESERVE Gold & Silver.- Frederiks (J.W.) Dutch Silver, 4 vol., The Hague, 1952-61 § Heller (David) A History of Cape Silver 1700-1870 [&] Furth...

[Freeth (John)], "J. Free". The Political Songster, addressed to the sons of freedom and lovers of humour, title mounted on stub, occasional light...

Distilling.- French (John) The Art of Distillation...also, The London Distiller, 2 parts in 1, third edition, woodcut initials and illustrations, ...

NO RESERVE Cameos.- Furtwängler (Adolf) Die antiken Gemmen, Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst im klassischen Altertum, 3 vol., 70 mounted photogra...

NO RESERVE Ganneron (Edmond) La Cassette de Saint Louis Roi de France, 6 chromolithographed plates heightened with gold, contemporary roan-backed ...

Garbett (Samuel).- Manufactures Improper Subjects of Taxation. Addressed to the merchants and manufacturers of Great-Britain; being an attempt to ...

NO RESERVE [Gauger (Nicolas)] La Mecanique du feu, ou L'Art d'en augmenter les effets, & d'en diminuer la dépense, engraved additional pictorial t...

Glass.- Gedde (Walter) A Booke of Sundry Draughtes, principally serving for Glasiers: And not Impertinent for Plasterers, and Gardiners...whereunt...

Silver.- Germain (Pierre) Elements d'Orfevrerie..., 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved throughout with 2 titles, dedication, notice, list of pl...

NO RESERVE Ornament.- Old master prints.- Gheeraerts the Elder (Marcus), After. Five plates from 'Passio Verbigenae Quae Nostra Redemptio Christi'...

NO RESERVE Silver.- Giardini (Giovanni) Promptuarium artis argentariae, 2 parts in 1, second edition, 2 titles with engraved vignettes, 98 engrave...

NO RESERVE Glaser (Christopher) Traité de la chymie, engraved additional pictorial title and 3 folding plates, short tear with a little loss to ad...

Chemistry.- Glaser (Christopher) The compleat chymist, or, A new treatise of chymistry. Teaching by a short and easy method all its most necessary...

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