The Birmingham Assay Office Library

NO RESERVE Chemistry.- Neumann (Caspar) The Chemical Works, edited by William Lewis, occasional spotting, contemporary speckled calf, corners worn...

India.- Newman (J.B., editor) Permanent Photographs of Madras and Burmese Art-Ware, 50 autotype photographic plates, tissue guards, original decor...

Gemology.- Nicols (Thomas) A Lapidary: Or, The History of Precious Stones..., first edition, issue with "Printer to the Universitie" in imprint, l...

NO RESERVE Monograms.- Nowack (Hans) Das Moderne Monogramm, decorative title and plates printed in green, library half morocco, original cloth wra...

NO RESERVE Gold & Silver.- Odobesco (A.) Le Trésor de Pétrossa: Historique - Description Étude sur l'Orfèvrerie Antique, 3 vol.in 2, chromolithogr...

Ordonnance et instruction selon laquelle se doibvent conduire & régler doresenavant les changeurs ou collecteurs des pièces d'or & d'argent, half-...

Raphael.- Ottaviani (Giovanni, engraver, 1735-1808) [Delle Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano], 1 vol. only, including 2 double-sheet plates of doors ...

NO RESERVE Fine art collections.- Ottley (William Young) & Peltro William Tomkins. Engravings of the Most Noble The Marquis of Stafford's Collecti...

Engravers.- Ottley (William Young) A collection of fac-similes of scarce and curious prints, by early masters of the Italian, German and Flemish s...

Writing book.- Calligraphy.- Palatino (Giovanni Battista) Libro... Nel qual s'insegna a scriuere ogni sorte lettera, antica, & moderna, di qualunq...

NO RESERVE Architecture.- Palladio (Andrea) The First Book of Architecture... with an Appendix touching Doors and Windows, translated by Godfrey R...

NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Parr (Samuel) Bibliotheca Parriana, engraved portrait frontispiece slightly offset on title, contemporary morocco, gilt,...

NO RESERVE Pennant (Thomas) The Literary Life..., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 plates, one folding and hand-coloured, library ...

NO RESERVE Gold & Silver.- Penzer (Norman M.) Paul Storr: The Last of the Goldsmiths, first edition, 1954 § Hartop (C.) The Huguenot Legacy: Engli...

NO RESERVE Design.- Percier (Charles) & P.F.L.Fontaine. Recueil de Décorations Intérieures, half-title, engraved vignette of putti and 72 engraved...

Silver.- ?Percier (Charles, after) Twenty original studies of silverware, including chalices, teapots, ornate jugs, spoons, some possibly after th...

Pettus (Sir John) Fodinæ regales. Or The history, lavvs and places of the chief mines and mineral works in England, Wales, and the English pale in...

Pettus (Sir John) Fleta minor. The lavvs of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd m...

Metallurgy.- Pettus (Sir John) Fleta Minor. The Laws of Art and Nature, in Knowing, Judging, Assaying, Fining, Refining, and Inlarging the Bodies ...

Silver.- Phillips (Philip A.S.) Paul de Lamerie: Citizen and Goldsmith of London...1688-1751, first edition, one of 250 copies, plates, original b...

NO RESERVE Silver.- Sale Catalogues.- P[ichon] (J., Baron) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue de l'Argenterie Ancienne, prices and some buyers' names in m...

Ornament.- Pillement (Jean) Cahier de Six Noeuds de Rubans. Ornées de Fleures, et Gravée en maniere de deux Crayons..., 6 stipple-engraved plates...

Ornament.- Pillement (Jean) Cahier de six Baraques Chinoises, etched throughout with pictorial title and 5 plates by Probst after Pillement, sheet...

NO RESERVE Fireplaces.- Pineau (Nicolas) [Desseins de Cheminées], no title or text, 5 engraved plates of fireplaces and overmantels after Pineau (...

NO RESERVE Cornwall.- Pitt (Thomas) A state of the proceedings of the convocation, or, parliament for the Stannaries of the County of Cornwall, he...

NO RESERVE Staffordshire.- Pitt (William) A Topographical History of Staffordshire, first edition, large folding hand-coloured map, list of subscr...

Plat (Sir Hugh) The Jewel House of Art and Nature: containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the ...

NO RESERVE Plate-Glass-Book (The)...by a Glass-House Clerk, 2 parts in 1, fourth edition, 3 woodcut illustrations, browning to edges of first and ...

Mines & minerals.- Plattes (Gabriel) A discovery of subterranean treasure: (viz.) of all manner of mines and minerals, from the gold to the coal, ...

NO RESERVE Plinius Secundus (Gaius) Histoire naturelle de l'or et de l'argent, Extraite de Pline le naturaliste, Livre XXXIII. Avec le texte Latin...

NO RESERVE Gold.- Cellini (Benvenuto).- Plon (Eugene) Benvenuto Cellini: Orfèvre, Médailleur Sculpteur, plates, some photogravure on india paper a...

Staffordshire.- Plot (Robert) The Natural History of Stafford-shire, first edition, title with engraved vignette, folding map laid down, 37 plates...

Woodturning.- Plumier (Charles) L'Art de Tourner ou de faire en perfection toutes sortes d'ouvrages au tour, first edition, engraved additional pi...

Jewels.- Pouget (Jean Henri Prosper) Traité des Pierres Précieuses et de la maniere de les employer en Parure, first edition, engraved pictorial t...

Numismatics.- Coins.- [Prattent (Thomas)] The Virtuoso's Companion and Coin Collector's Guide, 8 vol. in 4 [all published], engraved frontispiece,...

Alchemy.- Price (James) An account of some experiments on mercury, silver and gold, made at Guildford in May, 1782. in the laboratory of James Pri...

Priestley (Joseph) Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, 3 vol., vol.1 & 2 second edition, vol.3 first edition, half-title to vo...

NO RESERVE Priestley (Joseph) An Appeal to the Public, on the Subject of the Riots in Birmingham, 2 parts in 1, 6pp. advertisements at end pf part...

Middle East.- Prisse d'Avesnes (Achille Constant T.Emile) La Décoration Arabe, 98 plates numbered 1-110 (12 double-page) mounted on stubs, most ch...

NO RESERVE Proclama Publicato per Ordine dell'Illustriss. Signori Proveditori sopra l'Affrancatione della Cecca, 1640, 29. Decembre, title with wo...

Proposals for the New-Invented Machine-watches, by Subscription, broadside, 328 x 208mm., woodcut decorative initial, folds, a few stains, August ...

Mineralogy.- Cornwall.- Pryce (William) Mineralogia Cornubiensis; a Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining..., first edition, engraved portrait f...

NO RESERVE Ornament.- Racinet (Auguste) L'Ornement Polychrome, 100 chromolithographed plates, some heightened with gold, spotting to text, contemp...

NO RESERVE Arms, armour and costume.- Racinet (Auguste) Le Costume Historique, 6 vol., lithographed and chromolithographed plates, contemporary re...

Raponi (Ignazio Maria) Recueil de Pierres antiques gravees concernant l'histoire, la mythologie, la fable, les ceremonies religieuses, les costume...

Engraved Gems.- Raspe (Rudolph Erich) A Descriptive Catalogue of a General Collection of Ancient and Modern Engraved Gems, Cameos as well as Intag...

Law.- Rastell (William, editor) A collection of all the statutes, from the beginning of Magna Charta, vnto this present yeare of our Lord God 1579...

Real Museo Borbonico, 16 vol., engraved and a few lithograph plates, some folding, a few in final vol. colour, foxed, original green half morocco,...

NO RESERVE Poultry.- Réaumur (René Antoine Ferchault de) The Art of Hatching and Bringing Up Domestick Fowls, first edition in English, half-title...

Silver.- Rentrop (Wilhelm) [Silberwaaren Fabrick], trade catalogue, 32 lithographed plates of silverware and ornaments (?of 34), without letterpre...

Repertory of Arts and Manufactures (The), vol. 1-5, 7-12, 239 engraved plates, many folding, some spotting, some offsetting, occasional short tear...

NO RESERVE Reports past the Committee at Goldsmiths-hall, first edition, first 3ff. crudely repaired with tape, additional leaves paginated 13-30 ...

Report of the Committee of the Society of Arts...Relative to the Mode of Preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes, half-title, 6 engraved plates (1 fo...

NO RESERVE Art and artists.- Reynolds (Sir Joshua) A Discourse delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, first edition, half-title with ink ...

NO RESERVE Numismatics.- Coins.- Rodgers (Charles) Catalogue of the Coins of the Indian Museum, 4 vol. in 1, 21 plates, contemporary half morocco,...

Rogers (Charles) A Collection of Prints in imitation of drawings, to which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes,...

NO RESERVE Silver.- Roth (H.Ling) Oriental Silverwork Malay and Chinese, first edition, plates, original pictorial cloth blocked in silver, spine ...

NO RESERVE Vases.- Rudolph (Christian Friderich) Einige Vases mit modernend Einfassungen unterschiede Liebhabern u: Kunstlern zu Dienst, engraved ...

NO RESERVE Kitchens.- Rumford (Benjamin Thompson, Count) Essay X. Part I. On the construction of kitchen fire-places, and kitchen utensils, togeth...

Cyphers.- Russell (John) A Complete and Useful Book of Cyphers..., second edition, engraved throughout with title and 24 plates, mostly monograms ...