The Birmingham Assay Office Library

Royal expenditure.- Jefferys (Nathaniel) Facts are Stubborn Things. A Letter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, second edition, n.d.; A Le...

Diamonds & pearls.- Jeffries (David) A treatise on diamonds and pearls. In which their importance is considered; and plain rules are exhibited for...

NO RESERVE Diamonds & pearls.- Jeffries (David) Traité des diamants et des perles, où l'on considère leur importance, on établit des règles certai...

NO RESERVE Diamonds & pearls.- Jeffries (David) Abhandlung von den Demanten und Perlen, worinnen ihr Vorzug nebst den Regeln, ihren wahren Werth z...

Baskerville.- Jennings (Rev. David) An Introduction to the Knowledge of Medals, first edition, [Gaskell 28, variant imprint], Printed by John Bask...

Numismatics.- Medals.- Jobert (Louis) The Knowledge of Medals, [translated by Roger Gale], first English edition, contemporary calf, rebacked, lat...

NO RESERVE Gold & Silver.- Jones (E. Alfred) The Gold and Silver of Windsor Castle, one of 285 copies, Letchworth, Arden Press, 1911; The Old Roya...

Ornament.- Jones (Owen) The Grammar or Ornament, chromolithographed additional decorative title and 100 plates, most chromolithographed, many heig...

Ornament.- Jones (Owen) Examples of Chinese Ornament, first edition, 100 fine chromolithographed plates (including additional pictorial title), pr...

Jewellery.- Kemp (G. & J., goldsmiths from Fetter Lane, London) Original designs for jewellery, an album, 46 pp. with over 300 original designs fo...

Fruit.- Knight (Thomas Andrew) Pomona Herefordiensis, first edition, 30 hand-coloured engraved plates by William Hooker after Elizabeth Mathews an...

NO RESERVE δ Pyrotechnics.- Kunckell (Johann), George Ernest Stahl and Johann Christian Fritsch. Pyrotechnical discourses, first edition, errata s...

Alchemy.- Lacinius (Janus) Praeciosa ac nobilissima artis chymiae collectanea de occultissimo ac praeciosissimo philosophorum lapide, collation: a...

Ornament.- Langwith Manufactory, Grantham, Lincs. Fifteen Plates of Composition Ornaments..., letterpress title with wood-engraved decorations, 1...

Le Fèvre (Nicaise) A compleat body of chymistry: vvherein is contained whatsoever is necessary for the attaining to the curious knowledge of this ...

Metalwork.- Le Pautre (Jean) Livre de Serurerie, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 17 plates of gates, stair-rails etc. by Jacques le P...

Ornament.- Le Pautre (Jean) [Frises et Feuillages], 28 engraved plates from several suites including 2 titles 'Rinceaux de Frises et Feuillages' a...

Parisian goldsmiths & jewellers.- Le Roy (Pierre) Statuts et privilèges du corps des marchands orfèvres-joyailliers de la ville de Paris, 2 parts ...

NO RESERVE Numismatics.- Coins.- Leake (Stephen Martin) An Historical Account Of English Money From The Conquest to the Present Time, third editio...

Lemery (Nicolas) A Course of Chymistry. Containing the easiest manner of performing the whole operations that are in use in physick... translated ...

NO RESERVE Chemistry.- Lemery (Nicolas) A course of chymistry. Containing an easie method of preparing those chymical medicins which are used in p...

Gemology.- Leonardi (Camillo) The Mirror of Stones: in which The Nature, Generation, Properties, Virtues and various Species of more than 200 diff...

Horology.- Lepaute (Jean Andre) Traite d'Horlogerie, second edition, 17 folding engraved plates, lacking half-title, some foxing, Catalogue des Li...

NO RESERVE Letter (A) from a Member of Parliament, on the plate-tax, 20th century morocco-backed cloth, spine gilt, Printed for J. Scott, 1756 § A...

NO RESERVE Rings.- Liceti (Fortunio) De Anulis Antiquis Librum Singularem, title with woodcut printer's device, double-page engraved plate of ring...

Sale Catalogue.- [Lightfoot (John)] [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, Dec...

NO RESERVE Mining.- Linden (Diederick Wessel) Three letters on mining and smelting; in which a method is laid down, whereby these useful sciences ...

List (A) of the Brokers of the City of London, at Michaelmas 1812, closely shaved at foot with loss to some signatures and final lines of text, mo...

List of the Wardens, Assistants, and Livery, of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London, additional engraved armorial title, original red str...

[Lowndes (William)] A Report Containing an Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coins, only edition, title soiled, later mottled calf, gilt, uppe...

Glass-making.- Loysel (Jean Baptiste) Essai sur l'Art de la Verrerie, first edition in book form, folding engraved plate, title soiled, light foxi...

Alchemy.- Lullius (Raymundus) Testamentum..., duobus libris universam artem chymicam complectens, collation: A4 B-Hh8, 2 folding woodcut plates, w...

Numismatics.- Coins.- Macdonald (George) Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection, University of Glasgow, 3 vol., titles in red and bl...

Mackmurdo (A.H.), Herbert P.Horne and Selwyn Image, editors. The Century Guild Hobby Horse, vol.1-7 & with the suppressed issue No.1 (April 1884),...

Mining in Wales.- Mackworth (Sir Humphrey) The Case of Sir Humphry Mackworth, and of the Mine Adventurers, with respect to the Irregular Proceedin...

NO RESERVE Furniture.- Macquoid (Percy) A History of English Furniture, 4 vol., contemporary library half morocco, 1904-08 § Hurrell (J.W.) Measur...

NO RESERVE Economics.- Mahon (Charles Stanhope, Lord) Considerations on the Means of Preventing Fraudulent Practices on the Gold Coin, first editi...

London.- Maitland (William) The History of London, 2 vol., list of subscribers, 131 engraved maps, plates and plans, some folding, some double-pag...

Numismatics.- Medals.- Manby (Capt. G. W.) Anastatic Drawings of Gold and Silver Medals, Presented by Sovereigns and Public Bodies to Capt. George...

NO RESERVE Mining.- Manningham (Henry) A compleat treatise of mines. Extracted from the Memoires d'artillerie. To which is annexed, (by way of int...

Silver.- Masson. Nouveaux Desseins pour graver sur l'orfeverie..., engraved pictorial title and 5 plates (numbered 1-6) of decorations for silver ...

Geology.- Mines.- Derbyshire.- Mawe (John) The Mineralogy of Derbyshire: With a Description of the Most Interesting Mines in the North of England,...

Mining.- Brazil.- Mawe (John) Travels in the Interior of Brazil, particularly in the Gold and Diamond Districts..., first edition, engraved fronti...

NO RESERVE Geology.- Mawe (John) A Treatise on Diamonds and Precious Stones, Including their History - Natural and Commercial, 3 hand-coloured eng...

NO RESERVE Médailles sur les principaux évènements du règne de Louis le Grand, avec des explications historiques, engraved additional pictorial ti...

Mercati (Michele) Metallotheca. Opus posthumum, 2 parts in 1, including appendix, first illustrated edition, folding engraved frontispiece, titles...

Jewellery.- Meusnier (Georges) La Joaillerie Francaise en 1900, one of 500 copies, plates, original wrappers bound in, contemporary half morocco, ...

NO RESERVE Silver.- Meyrick (Sir Samuel Rush) & Henry Shaw. Ancient Plate and Furniture from the Colleges of Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum, 10 h...

Middle East.- Migeon (Gaston) Exposition des Arts Musulmans au Musée des Arts Décoratifs, number 5 of 200 copies, 100 fine photogravure plates, a ...

Jewels.- Ministère des Finances, France. [Sale Catalogue] Diamants, Perles et Pierreries provenant de la Collection dite des Joyaux de la Couronne...

Ornament.- Moelder (Charles de) Proper Ornaments to be Engrav'd on Plate, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 10 plates on laid paper, so...

NO RESERVE Gold & Silver.- Molinier (Emile) L'Orfèvrerie Religieuse et Civile du Ve a la fin du XVe siècle, later half blue morocco, spine gilt in...

NO RESERVE Molinier (Emile) La Collection Wallace: Meubles et Objets d'Art Francais des XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles, one of 25 deluxe copies on Japon,...

Mongez (Antoine) Tableaux, statues, bas-reliefs et camees, de la Galerie de Florence, et du Palais Pitti, 4 vol. in 2, engraved frontispiece to vo...

Horology.- Mudge (Thomas) Thoughts on the Means of Improving Watches, And most particularly those for the Use of the Sea, first edition, 16pp., tr...

NO RESERVE Diamonds and Precious Stones.- Murray (John) A Memoir on the Diamond, second edition, 2 engraved plates, printed on thin paper, a littl...

Musaeum Hermeticum.- Aureus tractatus de philosophorum lapide [and others], 7 parts ?only in 1 vol., some titles with engraved devices, a few engr...

Worcestershire.- Nash (Treadway Russell) Collections for the History of Worcestershire, 2 vol., first edition, presentation copy with inscription ...

Nazari (Giovanni Battista) Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre, collation: *4 A-Y4, title with first word in woodcut cartouche and with woodcut...

Economics.- Necker (Jacques) Oeuvres, 4 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding hand-coloured engraved maps, 4 folding letter...