The Birmingham Assay Office Library

NO RESERVE Diamond trade in Spain.- Sáenz Díez (Martin Diego) Manual de joyeros, con la teorica y practica, title with engraved vignette, engraved...

Gold & silver.- Sage (Balthazar George) L'art d'essayer l'or et l'argent; Tableau comparé de la coupellation des substances métaliques par le moye...

NO RESERVE Silver.- Salembier (Henri) Modèles de Dessins d'Orfèvrerie, facsimile reprint on Van Gelder paper, decorative title with border of bees...

Middle East.- Scala (A. von) Sammlung von Abbildungen Türkischer, Arabischer, Persischer, Centralasiatischer und Indischer Metallobjecte...vom K.K...

Economics.- Scaruffi (Gasparo) L'alitinonfo... per fare ragione, et concordanza d'oro, e d'argento; che servirà in universale, collation: *6 A-B6 ...

Schimmelpenninck (Mary Anne) Theory on the Classification of Beauty and Deformity, and their correspondence with Physiognomic Expression..., first...

NO RESERVE Antiquities.- Schliemann (Dr. Henry) Mycenae, 1878; Troy and its Remains, 1875, first editions, plates, maps and illustrations, origina...

Jewellery.- Schlodhauer (Charles) Elements de Bijouterie et de Joaillerie Modernes et Anciens, half-title, 48 chromolithograph plates, each with t...

Schlüter (Christoph Andreas) Gründlicher Unterricht von Hütte-Werken...nebst einem vollstäandigem Probier-Buch, first edition, Gothic letter, 58 e...

Mining.- Schlüter (Christoph Andreas) De la fonte des mines, des fonderies, &c., 2 vol., first edition in French, half-titles, engraved frontispie...

NO RESERVE Crowns.- Hungary.- Schmeizel (Martin) Commentat io historica de coronis, tam antiquis, quam modernis iisque regis. Speciatim de origine...

Glass.- Schmoranz (Gustav) Old Oriental Gilt and Enamelled Glass Vessels, 44 mounted plates, 32 chromolithographed, contemporary half morocco, gil...

Trades and crafts.- Schooper (Hartmann) Panoplia [graece] Omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium genera continens, collation: A...

Schreittmann (Cyriacus) Probierbüchlin. Frembde und subtile künst vormals im truck nie gesehen von woge und gewicht, auch von allerhandt proben au...

Heraldry.- Segar (Sir William) and Joseph Edmondson. Baronagium Genealogicum: or the Pedigrees of the English Peers..., 6 vol. including Supplemen...

Heraldry.- Segar (Sir William) Original Institutions of the Princely Orders of Collars, presentation copy from the publisher inscribed on verso of...

Separate Arrangement (A) of the all the Principal Merchants, Manufacturers, and Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of So...

Seton or Setoun (Robert, second Earl of Winton, son of Robert Seton, first Earl of Winton, Scottish peer, ambassador, supporter of Mary, Queen of ...

Seventy-Two Plates of Gold and Silver Coin, engraved title and 72 plates on 36 sheets, occasional foxing, contemporary calf, rebacked and recorner...

NO RESERVE Literature.- Shakespeare (William) Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, facsimile of the first folio edition of 1623, one of 1000 copies s...

Numismatics.- Coins.- Sharpe (Thomas) Catalogue of Provincial Copper Coins, Tokens, Tickets, and Medalets, issued in Great Britain, Ireland, and t...

Manuscript illumination.- Shaw (Henry) Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts And Early Printed Books from the Sixth to the Seventeenth C...

Middle Ages.- Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 2 vol., additional hand-coloured lithographed title, 93 colour plates, some...

Staffordshire.- Shaw (Rev. Stebbing) The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, 2 vol. [volume 1 and volume 2 part 1 (all published)], without ...

NO RESERVE Calligraphy.- Shelley (George) Natural Writing in all the hands, with variety of ornaments, engraved portrait & title by George Bickham...

NO RESERVE Mining.- Shiers (William) A Familiar Discourse or Dialogue concerning the Mine-Adventure, 2 parts in 1, first edition, 2 folding sheets...

Sickingen (Carl Heinrich von) Versuche über die Platina, first edition, engraved vignette title, 2 folding engraved plates, folding letter press t...

NO RESERVE Simpson (David) A discourse on stage entertainments, lacking half-title, title soiled, some foxing, 20th century morocco-backed cloth, ...

India.- Simpson (William) & Sir John William Kaye. India Ancient and Modern, 2 vol., chromolithographed decorative dedication heightened with gold...

NO RESERVE Numismatics.- Coins.- Skelton (H. P.) New Illustrated Manual of the Current Gold & Silver Coins, plates of embossed gold and silver coi...

NO RESERVE Banking.- [Slack (Thomas)] The Banker's Sure Guide; or Monied Man's Assistant, third edition, short tear to b3 into text but not affect...

Glass.- Slade (Felix) Catalogue of the Collection of Glass...with Notes on the History of Glass Making by Alexander Nesbitt, 22 chromolithographed...

Engineering.- Smeaton (John) Experimental Enquiry concerning the Natural Powers of Wind and Water to turn Mills and other Machines depending on a ...

Drawing.- Smith (Thomas) The Art of Drawing in its various branches..., second edition, half-title, 17 engraved plates, several aquatint, most han...

NO RESERVE Ceramics.- Solon (Louis M.) The Ancient Art Stoneware of the Low Countries and Germany: or "Grès de Flandres" & "Steinzeug", 2 vol., nu...

NO RESERVE Electrotyping.- Spencer (Thomas) Instructions for the Multiplication of Works of Art in Metal, By Voltaic Electricity, first edition, d...

Engraved Gems.- Spilsbury (John) A Collection of Fifty Prints from Antique Gems..., first edition, 50 engraved plates, some spotting and browning,...

NO RESERVE Medicine.- Spilsbury (Francis) Free observations on the scurvy, gout, diet, and remedy, 2 parts in 1, seventh edition, half-title, 20th...

Spitzer (Friedrich) La Collection Spitzer, 7 vol. including Atlas, number 321 of 600 copies, 342 photogravure or chromolithographed plates, some h...

Gold & Silver.- Starr (Theodore B.) Photographs, American Gold & Silver Plate..., album of 21 photographs mounted on 18 thick card leaves, some wi...

NO RESERVE Church ornament.- Stokes (Margaret) Notes on the Cross of Cong, number 131 of 200 copies, 2 chromolithographed plates, 1 heightened in ...

NO RESERVE Mining.- City of London Corporations.- S[tringer] (M[oses]) Opera mineralia explicata: or, The mineral kingdom, within the dominions of...

Russia.- Stroganov (Sergei Grigorevich) Drevnosti Rossiskago Gosudarstva, 5 vol. text bound in 1 and 6 plate vol. in 5, together 11 vol. in 6, tex...

NO RESERVE Silver.- Stukeley (William) An Account of a large Silver Plate, of Antique Basso Relievo, Roman Workmanship, found in Derbyshire, 1729,...

India.- Survey of India Offices. Technical Art Series of Illustrations of Indian Architectural Decorative Work [& Metal Work], 13 vol., 173 heliog...

Tableau General de tous les Maîtres & Marchands Orfévres-Joyailliers Bijoutiers, title with woodcut arms, 20th century half morocco, spine gilt, P...

NO RESERVE London.- Tallis (John) [London Street Views], 47 double-page engraved plates (of ?88) with street elevation, vignette usually of a shop...

NO RESERVE Church ornament.- Tarbé (Prosper) Trésors des églises de Reims, 32 lithographed plates, occasional light browning, contemporary half ca...

Vases.- Taylor (I. & J. Taylor, publishers) [A collection of works on vases], comprising: A New Book of Vases, engraved title and 2 plates, J.Tayl...

Chemistry.- Thibaut (Pierre) The Art of Chymistry, as it is now practised, second English edition, woodcut initials and head-pieces, imprimatur f....

NO RESERVE Thomas (Thomas) [Sale Catalogues] Catalogue of the First Portion of...Coins and Medals, S. Leigh Sotheby & Co., 1844; bound with Catalo...

NO RESERVE Crown Jewels.- Thomson (Thomas, editor) A Collection of Inventories and other Records of the Royal Wardrobe and Jewelhouse; and of the ...

Japan.- Tomkinson (Michael) A Japanese Collection..., 2 vol., number 67 of 200 copies, portrait and plates, mostly photogravure, some colour, Japa...

Economics.- Tooke (Thomas) Thoughts and Details of the High and Low Prices of the Thirty Years from 1793 to 1822, second edition, folding table, [...

Trade Catalogue, 101 engraved plates of designs for silver on 95 sheets, many depicting single objects, some multiples, one folding, the first fou...

Trade Catalogue, 22 engraved plates incorporating 65 designs for silver numbered 1-65 (missing nos.6, 7 & 8), the last 2 plates numbered in manusc...

NO RESERVE [Trade Catalogue with designs for coffin furniture], 43 engraved plates of lettering, plaques, ornaments, rings etc. with numbers & dim...

NO RESERVE Translaet vande ampliatien ende moderatien provisionele ghedaen by de [...] eeertzhertoghen [!] [...] tot beter onderhoudenisse ende ob...

[Treatise of all Sorts of English Weights used in England], manuscript, 176pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, a few ff. with some brown stains, s...

NO RESERVE Treaty of navigation and commerce between His Britannick Majesty and the most Christian King. Signed at Versailles, September 26, 1786,...