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Hannay (James) The Complete Works of William Hogarth, 2 vol., 150 engraved plates, occasional spotting, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, a little rubbed, [c.1861] § Miller (Thomas, editor) Turner and Girtin's Picturesque Views of English, Scotch, & Welsh Scenery, frontispiece and 30 plates, 2 folding facsimiles, one with short tear with neat repair, occasional faint spotting, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, 1873; and others similar, 4to & 8vo (9)
Textiles.- [Albrecht (E. W.)] Morgenländische Motive: Original - Teppiche - Stoffe u. - Stickereien, 27 chromolithograph plates, without text, ex-library with ink-stamps to title and plate margins, small abrasion mark to title where label removed, modern cloth, folio, Plauen, Christian Stoll, [?1907].⁂ Scarce. Only 3 copies on Library Hub, 2 at the Glasgow School of Art and 1 at the V&A.
NO RESERVE Botany.- Hibberd (Shirley) The Ivy, a Monograph, first edition, chromolithograph frontispiece, additional title and 2 plates, short tear to frontispiece margin not affecting image, occasional light spots, cloth extremities lightly rubbed but overall a remarkably bright copy, Groombrige & Sons, 1872; The Amateur's Flower Garden, colour plates, tissue-guards spotted, ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers, 2 plates detached and loosely inserted, cloth rubbed and faded, 1871 § Cooke (M. C.) British Edible Fungi: How to Distinguish and How to Cook Them, colour plates, ink ownership inscription to title, occasional very light annotations to text in pen, cloth marked and faded, 1891, original cloth, first two decorative, gilt; and 7 others, flowers and plants, v.s. (9)
NO RESERVE England.- London Map Directory: A Street Atlas of London & its Surroundings, first edition, colour-printed maps, slip-case, 1964 § Strong (Roy) Country Life 1897-1997: The English Arcadia, first edition, illustrations, 1996 § Noppen (J. G.) Royal Westminster, ink ownership inscriptions, occasional foxing, 1937, original boards or cloth, last two with dust-jackets; and a large quantity of others, topography and travel, v.s. (3 boxes)
NO RESERVE Pratt (Anne) Flowering Plants of Great Britain, 3 vol., half-titles, hand-coloured plates, bookplates to pastedown, ink ownership inscriptions to endpapers, occasional light spots, original cloth, gilt, lightly rubbing to joints and spine ends bumped but overall an excellent set, 8vo, Frederick Warne & co., [c.1886].
NO RESERVE Smith (Prof. Norton B.) Practical Treatise on the Breaking & Training of Wild & Vicious Horses, illustrations, advertisements at end, short marginal tear to final leaf, original illustrated paper wrappers, a little rubbed slight chipping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1892.
Kinetic theory of gases.- Hermann (Jacob) Phoronomia, sive de viribus et motibus corporum solidorum et fluidorum libri duo, first edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece and 12 folding plates, title in red and black with engraved vingnette, woodcut illustrations, small ink ownership inscription to pastedown, ex-library stamps from Royal Society of Edinburgh to pastedown and first few ff., some spotting and browning, contemporary dutch vellum, red morocco title label to spine, Amsterdam, Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios, 1716.⁂ First edition of the first textbook on theoretical mechanics based on the Leibnizian calculus, important for containing the first published discussion of the kinetic theory of gases. "For us the importance of Hermann's chapter XXIV is that it is, as far as I know, the first attempt to deal mathematically with the relations between heat and motion" (Knowles Middleton).
Pathology.- Platter (Felix) Observationum, in hominis affectibus plerisque, corpori & animo, functionum laesione, dolore, aliave molestia & vitio incommodantibus, libri tres, first edition, light mould-staining to pastedowns, contemporary vellum with yapped edges, manuscript lettering to spine, overall a fine and clean copy, [Norman 1716; Heirs of Hippocrates 373; G&M 3789], 8vo, Basel, Ludwig König for Conrad Waldkirch, 1614.⁂ A fine copy of this rare first edition medical work by one of the foremost pathologists of the sixteen and early seventeenth centuries. Containing "the first known case report of the death from hypertrophy of the thymus (in an infant) and an account of a meningioma" (Norman). Platter is credited with performing the first public dissection of a human body in a Germanic country and is said to have dissected over 300 bodies during his career. He was widely respected as a teacher and is considered courageous for remaining in Basel to treat the sick on five occasions when the plague struck the city.
Wales.- Coxe (William) An Historical Tour of Monmouthshire, 2 vol., one of 60 copies on 'Royal Paper', half-titles, 2 engraved maps, 1 folding with short marginal tear, 55 engraved views, 11 engraved portraits, 7 engraved plans, 16 engraved ground plans, folding facsimile, illustrations, most with tissue-guards, advertisement at end vol. 2., previous owner's ink signature to titles, scattered faint spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt, a little rubbed, 1801 § Pennant (Thomas) Tours in Wales, 3 vol., 44 engraved plates, occasional spotting, later half-morocco, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1810, large 4to & 8vo (5).
Lucy Family of Charlecote Park.- Lucy (Sir Fulke, sixth son of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, Commissioner for assessment, Cheshire, Captain Lord Gerard's Horse, of Henbury, Cheshire, c. 1623-77) 2 Autograph Letters signed to Sir Robert Clayton and John Morris of Clayton & Morris, scriveners, land agents and bankers of Old Jewry, City of London, together 2pp. with conjugate blanks and address panels, St James's Square, 21st and 27th February 1676, on various business matters, "I was last evening in the old Jurie... I spoke with Mr Lemmon at yr Office who Could not tell me of yr satisfaction from Drs Commons but Mr Palmer is the undoubted heir unto Dr Hamey...", folds, browned, a few stains, small tears where opened (2).
Charles II & Hearth Tax.- Hearth Tax receipt, printed form signed with manuscript insertions, 2 small holes, folds, browned, 97 x 87mm., 9th September 1685.⁂ "[1685] Received of the Lady ?Wirh the sum of fourteen shillings in full for one half years Duty for 3 + 11 Fire-hearths in her houses in Wellington [Somerset]."
Nelson.- Siser (John) Lines written uppon the death of Lord Nelson, manuscript, lower left corn torn away not affecting text, tears along folds, soiled, 2nd March 1806 § Cobbett (William)].- Cobbett's Speech on moving to abolish Sun & Moon, manuscript, 6½pp., last leaf left margin torn slightly affecting text, 1833, sm. 4to (2).
Cotswolds, Ampney St Peter & Ampney St Mary.- Release by Giles Daubeny and others to Rev Richard Cumberland for uses of the Manor of Ampney St Peter and lands in Ampney St Peter and Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire, D.s. by several parties, manuscript on vellum, 27 sheets, folds, some yellowing and soiling, c. 580 x 760mm., 23rd June 1808.
Scott (John, first Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, 1751-1838).- Scott/Eldon/Stowell family (of Newcastle upon Tyne & Durham).- Album of letters by William Scott, John Scott, first Earl of Eldon and other members of the Scott/Eldon/Stowell family & others, on a wide variety of family, business and political matters, c. 80 letters, numerous pp., folds, most laid down in album, a few loose, browned, original half morocco, gilt, rubbed, letters v.s., v.d., album lge 4to, 1810-48.⁂ "There has been very lately however an address from Newcastle to the Duke of Cumberland from I think some Orangemen there lamenting that he, the Grand Master, should have opposed the Reform Bill." - Eldon letter.Includes letters from Lord Darlington of Raby Castle, Earl of Caithness etc.
Congress of Vienna.- Proclama... Repubblica di Genova, printed proclamation, woodcut coat of arms at head, 2 ALs.s. from Giovanni Battista Martelli to a Mr Arnold concerning buying a library and his translation of Collins attached, folds, slightly browned, 430 x 260mm. & sm. 4to, 1814 (3).⁂ A proclamation concerning the settlement of the Congress of Vienna.
NO RESERVE Land Survey Exercises.- Square Field... Lands Surveyed near Beccles, manuscript, 54pp. excluding blanks, titles in red ink, numerous pen and ink drawings, slightly browned, hinges a little weak, modern ink stamp on inner boards, original morocco-backed boards, worn, upper cover partially stained, , printed paper label "Education Beccles Academy for Young Gentleman W. Cowles Master. J. Dalliston" on upper cover, folio, [c. 1820]; and 3 other manuscript school mathematical exercise books, folio & sm. 4to, v.d. (4).
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