An Edwardian mahogany library bookcase, the lower section enclosed by two panelled doors with well matched flame mahogany veneers, two frieze drawers and a repeating geometric moulding, the upper section enclosed by two glazed panelled doors with blind fret and dog tooth moulded detail, 130 cm wide x 215 cm high
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Inlaid walnut cased longcase clock, the 24cm brass dial having silvered chapter ring bearing the names Ferron & Burchell, Hertford, single hand and Roman numerals, the hood with blind fret pediment, square glazed door flanked by split pillars, the trunk having a long door with crossbanded decoration and standing on a plinth base, 30 hour movement Condition:
Bindings. Scenes & Silhouettes by D.L. Murray, 1st edition, Jonathan Cape, 1926, modern green blind panelled and decorated calf, 8vo, contained in slipcase, together with Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine with other records of his early career in England & America..., by William Cobbett, Nonesuch Press, 1927, colour frontispiece, modern half calf gilt, contrasting skiver labels, 8vo (limited edition 214/1800), with Cairo, Jerusalem & Damascus, by D.S. Margoliouth, Chatto & Windus, 1907, tipped-in colour frontispiece, numerous colour plates, modern dark green half morocco gilt, 8vo, plus other modern bindings, including literature, poetry, history & travel The bindings by Doreen Hedger, Bookbinder & Restorer, Romsey, Hampshire (all unsigned). (36)
Bindings. Wisdom in Miniature; or the Young Gentleman and Lady's pleasing instructor..., new edition, Minerva Press, 1793, modern calf gilt, blind decorated spine, 16mo in 8s, together with Poems of Wordsworth, chosen and edited by Matthew Arnold, 1879, modern dark blue half morocco gilt, 8vo, plus other mostly modern leather & vellum bindings, many by Doreen Hedger of Romsey, Hampshire (bindings unsigned) (16)
Lowe (Edward Joseph). Ferns: British and Exotic, 2nd edition 1872, numerous colour plates, near-contemporary inscriptions to front pastedowns, original blind-stamped cloth gilt, spines and rear cover of volume 1 faded, a few nicks to headcaps, extremities slightly rubbed, large 8vo Nissen BBI 1243. (8)
Boissard (Jean-Jacques, & others). Topographia Romae, 2nd edition, Frankfurt, 1627-8, parts 1-3 only (of 6), in 1 volume, engraved title to volumes 2-3, lacking in volume 1, 4 portraits in text, folding map of Italy, 148 plates of which 7 folding, occasional damp-staining in lower margins, part 2 browned, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, slightly soiled, front joint partially split, folio, together with Vroom (Henricus de; also known as Henricus Sedulius), Historia Seraphica, vitae Francisci Assisiatis, illustriumque virorum et feminarum, qui ex tribus eius Ordinibus relati sunt inter sanctos, 1st edition, Antwerp: Martinus Nutius heirs, 1613, title page with engraved border containing portraits of Franciscan saints, mild toning, a few trivial marks, bequest plate to the Bishopric of Cornwall dated 1883 to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, tawed ties, soiled, spine slightly defective, folio, plus Benitez de Lugo (Cajetano), Concursus Dei praevius, et efficax necessario cohaerens cum libero arbitrio humano à necessitate libero, 1st edition, Rome: Rochi Bernabo, 1730, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, toning, marginal spotting and browning, ink-stamps of St. Joseph's College, Mill Hill, contemporary vellum, rebacked to style, soiled, folio, and Plutarch, Comoediae, ex recognitione Francisci Guieti Andini, opera et studio Michaelis de Marolles, cum eiusdem Interpretatione Gallica, Paris: Pierre l'Amy, 1658, 1st edition, engraved title page to each volume, contemporary and later ownership inscription to front free endpapers and engraved and letterpress titles, mild damp-staining to first few leaves in volumes 1 and 3, contemporary vellum, contemporary manuscript spine-titles, 8vo, and others, classical texts and devotional Catholic works, 17th-19th centuries, all vellum-bound, various formats (3 shelves)
Bouguer (Pierre). De la manoeuvre des vaisseaux, ou Traité de méchanique et de dynamique, 1st edition, Paris: H. L. Guerin et L. F. Delatour, 1757, half-title, 15 folding plates, damp-staining, fraying and tape-repairs to initial blank, half-title, final plate and final text-leaf, institution blind-stamps to prelims, some worming, modern sheep, 4to, together with La Billardière, (Jacques-Julien Houtou de), Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l'Assemblé constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ère et la 2me année de la République Françoise, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: H. J. Jansen, An VIII [1800], without the atlas volume, spotting to endpapers and half-titles, contemporary calf, volume 1 rebacked and recornered, volume 2 rebacked and front board renewed, 4to, plus Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Les Antiquitez romaines, traduites du Grec par Gabriel François Le Jay, 2 volumes, Paris: Grégoire Dupuis, 1722, labels and blind-stamps of Westminster City Libraries, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, rubbed, faint blind-stamps to front boards, 4to, and Bonnechose (Emile de), Histoire d'Angleterre jusqu'à l'époque de la Révolution francçaise, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: Didier et Ce, 1859, half-titles, light spotting to outer leaves, volume 1 inscribed by the author 'A Sir William Jolliffe, hommage et souvenir de l'autre E. de Bonnechose' on the half-title, contemporary cat's-paw calf, gilt spines relaid, slightly rubbed, 8vo, and others, French and other foreign-language works, history, religion, and classical works, 18th- and 19th century, various formats (6 shelves)
Qur'an. Manuscript Qur'an, Ottoman territories, 19th century, Arabic manuscript, black ink on laid paper, 297 leaves, naskh script, mainly 15 lines to the page, decorative frames and roundels, worming, smudging and soiling, frequent paper disruption along frames, repairs, some leaves replaced in near-contemporary manuscript facsimile, final leaf loose, contemporary goatskin with enveloped falp, some light wear, 8vo (16 x 10 cm), together with Anselm, Ludolph of Saxony, & Vincent Ferrier, Enchiridion vere aureum piarum et Christianarum meditationum ac praecum de vita et passione Christi, ex D. Bernardi Clarevall., Anselmi Cantuarensis, et Ludolphi Carthus. scriptis iam primum concinnatum et in lucem aeditum, Cologne: Ludwig Alectorius and heirs of Jacobus Soter, 1578, small worm-holes in text, damp-staining in gutter, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, metal clasps, worn, front joint cracked, 12mo The second item contains three texts: De vita spirituali by Saint Vincent Ferrier, Meditatio redemptionis by Anselm, and Orationes in librum vitae Jesu Christi by Ludolph of Saxony; despite the title it does not contain a work by Bernard of Clairvaux. (2)
[Beckford, William]. Vathek, translated from the original French, Third Edition, revised and corrected, W. Clarke, 1816, engraved frontispiece (slight offsetting to title), spotting throughout and heaviest on title-page and frontispiece, lacks half-title, chalk-blue endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt-panelled with floral tools and with gilt and blind tooling to spine, gilt-lettered 'Beckford/Fonthill' at foot of spine, rubbed, small burn hole to centre of upper cover, 8vo (1)
Bible [German]. Biblia, Das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift des Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers : mit eines jeden Capitels kurzen Summarien, Auch beygefugten vielen aufs neue berichtigten Parallelen, Philadelphia: Schäfer & Koradi, circa 1850, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black (with repaired closed tear), New Testament title present, three engraved maps and 16 engraved plates, occasional spotting and toning, free endpapers creased, contemporary black morocco with blind embossed decoration to boards, spine torn at foot, spine and extremities rubbed, 4to (1)
Bible [English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by his Majesties special command..., [Amsterdam?], 1708/07, engraved general title and letterpress New Testament titles present, without all maps, Apocrypha present, bound with at front The Book of Common Prayer..., with the Psalter or Psalms of David, London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, Deceas'd, 1711, and bound with at rear The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1702, some toning and occasional spotting throughout, contemporary diced blind panelled calf, brass bosses and corner pieces (lacking two corner pieces), clasps lacking, upper joint torn at foot, wear to extremities, folio Herbert 897; Darlow & Moule 700. (1)
Presinger (Rupert). Novitius Benedictinus, juxta verba et mentem Benedicti, 1st edition, Salzburg: Mayr, 1729, light browning, Ramsgate Abbey bookplate, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal catches, manuscript shelf-mark in white ink to spine, rubbed and dust-soiled, 12mo, and 1 other Uncommon handbook for Benedictine monks, no copies in British or Irish institutional libraries. (2)
Drake (James). Drake's Road Book of the London and Birmingham Railway, n.d., [1840], large hand-coloured folding engraved map (two small sellotape repairs), wood engravings to text, Drake's Time Tables booklet present, 16 pages of adverts at rear, original gilt-decorated cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Lever. The Railway and the Mine. Lever's Illustrated Year-Book 1861, engraved vignette title, 8 plates of fossils and other illustrations, 7 pages of adverts to rear, postage stamp to front free endpaper, owner's stamp to front and rear front endpaper, original blind-stamped and gilt-decorated cloth, spine a little sunned and frayed to head, 8vo, plus Lardner (Dionysus), The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated...and its Application to Navigation and Railways..., 7th edition, 1840, engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous wood-engravings, later cloth with morocco label, 8vo, and Freeling (Arthur), Freeling's Grand Junction Railway Companion to Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham... , 1838, folding map and folding table of fares, numerous adverts at rear, occasional spotting, original cloth with modern reback, rubbed, 8vo (4)
A mid Victorian mahogany round cornered bookcase cupboard, having twin upper arched glazed doors over base fitted with twin blind frieze drawers to further conforming arch panel cupboard doors, width 106cm Condition Report / Extra Information Split to top of base.Replacement veneer to cupboard door.
Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA (1887-1976), View of a Town, a signed limited edition coloured print, signed in pencil lower right, with Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp lower left and letters to number indicating 751/850, published by Mainstone publications in 1973 for the Usher Gallery, Lincoln, printed in India by Bottons Fine Art, 46 x 55 cm, aluminium frame.
Hebrew Manuscripts.- Barcelona Haggadah (The): An Illuminated Passover Compendium from 14th-century Catalonia in facsimile (MS British Library Additional 14761), 2 vol. including companion volume edited by Jeremy Schonfield, number 349 of 500 facsimiles, colour illustrations, many heightened with gold, bound in handsome original morocco elaborately stamped in blind, t.e.g., others uncut, together in original marbled board slip-case, 4to, Facsimile Editions, 1992.⁂ Superb facsimile of one of the finest illuminated Hebrew manuscripts in the British Library, lavishly illustrated with figures, animals, birds, grotesques and scenes of ritual and home life.
Hebrew Manuscripts.- Golden Haggadah (The): a Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Hebrew Manuscript in the British Museum, 2 vol. including commentary by Bezalel Narkiss, facsimile number 82 of 520 copies, colour illustrations, many heightened with gold, Yablon copy, original calf elaborately stamped in blind, by Zaehnsdorf, spine slightly faded, cloth slip-case, commentary with illustrations, original cloth, spine faded, split to upper joint, 4to, Eugrammia Press, 1970.
Hebrew Manuscripts.- Kennicott Bible (The), 2 vol. including commentary by Bezalel Narkiss and Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, number 77 of 500 facsimiles, illustrations, many colour, some heightened with gold, bound in handsome original morocco box elaborately stamped in blind, g.e., commentary original morocco with blind-stamped spine, together in velvet-lined cloth drop-back box with fastener, 4to, Facsimile Editions, 1985.⁂ Magnificent facsimile of "one of the most sumptuous Hebrew illuminated manuscripts in existence and a masterpiece of mediaeval Sephardi art." (Introduction).
Hebrew Manuscripts.- Rothschild Miscellany (The): The Israel Museum Jerusalem MS, 180/51, 2 vol. including commentary, number 150 of 500 facsimiles, colour illustrations, many heightened with gold, original blind-stamped calf, facsimile with four clasps, uncut, spines a little rubbed, original cloth slip-cases, facsimile with leather strap, slight scuffin to strap and edging, small 4to, Facsimile Editions, 1989.⁂ Fine facsimile of the lavish Hebrew manuscript executed in Northern Italy in 1479.
[Lindisfarne Gospels] Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Lindisfarnensis, 2 vol., one of 680 facsimiles, illustrations including several colour and mounted, vol.1 facsimile original vellum stamped in blind, vol.2 with commentaries original vellum- backed boards, with dust-jackets (slightly soiled) and original card boxes (rubbed), folio, Olten & Lausanne, 1956-59.
NO RESERVE Middle East manuscripts.- Qur'an, Arabic manuscript on paper, 442pp., 20 lines to a page written in naskhi script in black ink, partially rubricated, title decoration in red, ruled text border in reed blue and gold, some staining, heavy towards end and making several leaves torn and brittle, several other leaves torn along border/text block, some repairs, contemporary blind-stamped sheep, rebacked, lower cover detached, Ottoman Empire, [c.1870]; and 3 other Middle Eastern manuscripts, 8vo (4)
4 x Miscellaneous Hammered Coins comprising: Roman Imperial: Hadrian copper as, rev. SALVS AVGVSTI COS III S C , Salus holding sceptre & feeding snake arising from altar GFine/Fine & Constantine reduced centenionalis 'Constantinopolis' issue, rev. Victory holding sceptre in right hand & resting left hand on shield , her foot standing on ship's prow, MM SMK in ex, Fine; Edward II silver penny Durham Ecclesiastical Mint, MM cross moline on obv (Bishop Bec), legend weakly struck between 6 & 9 o'clock & correspondingly on rev o/wise AFine, John the Blind of Luxemburg (1309-1346) sterling imitation of Edwardian type, obv legend reads EIWAnESDNSZREXB & rev legend reads (LVC) ENB GEN SIS, verdigris spots both sides o/wise GFine, together with Switzerland City of Chur billon bluzger 1766, obv arms with ibex within city gates, rev cross within inner circle, AVF
[MEDICINE] KLEIN, E & SMITH, E NOBLE - ATLAS OF HISTOLOGY London, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1880. 4to, colour plates, half-calf (worn), lib stamps to title; LIVRE D'OR DE LA MEDECINE DOSIMETRIQUE ALBUM D'AUTOGRAPHES & DE PORTRAITS. N Heins, 1891. 2 parts in 1, oblong 4to; FULTON, JOHN F - PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM London, Oxford University Press, 1943. 8vo, cloth; BOWEN, B B - A BLIND MAN'S OFFERING New York, published by the Author, 1851. 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, cloth; DeKROYFT - A PLACE IN THY MEMORY New York, John F Trow, 1866. 12mo, frontispiece of the New York Institute for the Blind, publisher's cloth; UNGLEY, CHARLES C - DEFICIENCIES OF NUTRITION (1938). Slim 4to, signed by the author; HUDSON, ALFRED - LECTURES ON THE STUDY OF FEVER Dublin, McGee, 1868; MAGUIRE, F A - AN ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT THESIS ENTITLED 'A CRITICAL SURVEY OF THE ANATOMY OF THE FEMALE PELVIS Based on Sections & Dissections of a series of Sixteen Female Pelves', the Thesis dated April 1926, and submitted by Maguire for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, University of Sydney. Folio, 204 leaves with original photographic plates of the dissections etc. Bound in original leather boards (now detached); MUNRO, DONALD - CRANO-CEREBRAL INJURIES Oxford University Press, 1938. 1st edition, 8vo, cloth; JELLIFFE, SMITH ELY & WHITE, WILLIAM A - DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM London, H K Lewis, 1935. 8vo, cloth; a good collection, including some volumes from the estate of Dr. Macdonald Critchley, past President of the World Federation of Neurologists (approx 189)
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