There are 596772 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe-. MAITLAND (WILLIAM) THE HISTORY OF EDINBURGH, FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE PRESENT TIME, FIRST EDITION, folding plan, torn at fold with slight loss, and repaired, 20 plates, the plate of Holyrood House lacking left-hand side and torn with considerable loss at right, some browning and spotting, contemporary reversed calf, rubbed and marked, rebacked, new endpapers, folio, Edinburgh, 1753.
BIRDS.- BEWICK (THOMAS) A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS, 2 vol., engraved illustrations, bookplates, contemporary half calf, worn at extremities, rebacked retaining original spines, Newcastle, 1826; A General History of Quadrupeds, eighth edition, wood-engraved illustrations, clipping tipped in on title, bookplate, later half morocco, 1824 ~ Hudson (W.H.) Birds in a Village, FIRST EDITION, original buckram, tanned, rubbed at extremities, 1893 ~ Venning (Mary Anne) Rudiments of Conchology, new edition, 10 hand-coloured plates, some foxing, front hinge cracked, original embossed cloth, faded at extremities and spine, corners slighly frayed, spine ends chipped, [c.1837]; and 6 others, Natural History, 8vo (11).
-. MAREY (ETIENNE JULES) LE VOL DES OISEAUX, FIRST EDITION, plate, illustrations, slight foxing, stamp on front endpaper and title, original half cloth over marbled boards, Paris, 1890 ~ Maison Rustique (La).- Le Coqet l'Oie, Exterior Anatomie, 2 chromolithpgraphed plates with hinged parts and movable flaps, original printed wrappers, slightly faded, Paris, [c.1890], 4to & 8vo (2).
BUTTERFLIES.- Duncan (James) Introduction to Entomology, 35 partially hand-coloured plates only (of 38, lacking plates 35 and 36), engraved title and portrait frontispiece, 1840; Foreing Butterflies, Entomology vol. V, 30 partially hand-coloured plates, engraved title and portrait frontispiece, 1837, slight foxing, original cloth, faded, corners bruised, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars ~ Morris (Francis Orpen) A History of British Butterflies, sixth edition, colour plates, first gathering detached, front hinge cracked, original cloth, gilt, corners bruised, 1891, 4to, 8vo (3).
-. Owen (Richard) On the Nature of Limbs. A Discourse..., FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR to George Scharf inscribed on front free endpaper, lithographed frontispiece and 2 folding plates, some light spotting and soiling, engraved bookplate of George Scharf on front paste-down and mounted photograph of Richard Owen loosely inserted, original cloth, rubbed and faded, spine torn and slightly defective, 1849; and another on ophthalmics, 8vo (2).
SMEATON (JOHN) A NARRATIVE OF THE BUILDING AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE EDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE WITH STONE, FIRST EDITION, title vignette, 23 engraved plates, some folding, news cutting tipped in at dedication, some slight soiling, 19th century half morocco, worn, ex-library copy with bookplate, stamps and classmarks, folio, Printed for the Author by H.Hughs, 1791.
Sowerby (Henry) Popular Mineralogy, 20 hand-coloured plates, section of upper edge of title trimmed without loss, ownership inscriptions on title, lacking 1 leaf from first gathering, front hinge cracked, reinforced, armorial bookplate, original embossed cloth, gilt, small tears to edge of spine, head chipped, 8vo, 1850.
ORIENTAL CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART - Two Indian ivory tusk segment boxes, with covers, one carved with a procession of elephants, the cover with elephant finial and leaf border, 4.25in diam, 4.75in high; the other carved with elephants, tiger and lions beneath trees, the cover carved with an elephant, 4in diam, 4.5in high, first half 20th century
SILVER - An Indian silver novelty rectangular cigarette box, in the form of a book, the cover embossed and chased with the P&O ship Strathnaver in full steam, the underside with engraved inscription, the spine engraved 'First Voyage of Kavina Family to England, on 3rd September 1953', 6in wide
JEWELLERY AND WATCHES - A paste, diamond, ruby and sapphire butterfly brooch, first quarter 20th century, of large openwork design with graduated stones mounted throughout, each wing centred by a rose cut diamond or sapphire, the stones applied to a lattice work design, three-stone ruby and diamond abdomen, thorax mounted with a single white paste, ruby eyes, 3.5in wide
A COLLECTION OF FIRST PERIOD WORCESTER TEA WARES most pieces with fluted wrythen moulding, the dark blue narrow border enriched a variety gilt foliate motifs, comprising: coffee pot and cover, two waste bowls, one scallop shape dish, one oval teapot stand, four tea bowls, seven various coffee cups, ten saucers (a lot)
A Spode Willow First pattern custard cup stand, of lobed circular shape on raised foot, the surface moulded with six circular rims to hold the cups with a similar seventh rim on a raised central circular handle/plinth, printed in blue with details from the chinoiserie scene and border, diameter 24.5cm, impressed small upper-case mark, circa 1800-10
A selection of English porcelain, comprising; a pair of Coalport teacups and saucers painted in iron-red and gilt with a band of stylised flowers (some wear to gilding), a Minton saucer, pattern no. 499, a pair of Spode 'Dollar' pattern plates, pattern no. 715 (both damaged) and a Chamberlain's Worcester bowl, pattern no. 298, various dates first quarter 19th century
Three various Worcester teacups and saucers, comprising; a Barr dark-blue-ground cup and saucer gilt with an anthemion and flowerhead band, a Flight, Barr & Barr cup and saucer painted in shades of pink and green with a floral band reserved on a pale-yellow-ground, printed and impressed marks and a Barr, Flight & Barr example with a salmon-pink and gilt cailloute ground, various dates first quarter 19th century (some rubbing to gilding)
THIRTEEN BEATRIX POTTER BOOKS, including some first editions, published by Frederick Warne & Co. Comprising:- The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 1903, Pigling Bland 1913, Tom Kitten 1907, Benjamin Bunny 1904, Jemima Puddle-Duck 1908, The Tailor of Gloucester 1903, Two Bad Mice (no date), Peter Rabbit (no date), Mrs Tiggy-winkle 1905, Mr Jeremy Fisher 1906, Tailor of Gloucester (no date), Jemima Puddle-Duck (no date, boards detached) and Two Bad Mice (no date, boards detached). (13)
A circular scalloped Worcester plate, with central en grissaille printed neo-classical panel with loose flower spray border, 23cm diameter; also a First Period Worcester pierced sifting cup, in the form of moulded leaves with loose painted floral sprays, 8.5cm wide; and a small First Period Worcester leaf moulded blue painted jug (lacking handle), loosely painted with floral spray, open crescent mark, 7cm wide (3)
A Worcester First Period circular slop bowl, the exterior with stylised flower spray and sprigs, the interior with swagged frieze, open crescent mark, 12cm diameter; also a saucer with underglaze blue printed decoration, depicting a Chinese lady and her son with an obelisk and vases, crescent mark, 13cm diameter
A rare example of the less than wholly satisfactory first version of Professor R.H.Smith's boxwood and brass cylindrical slide rule in orig case. The accompanying solicitor's letter, found with it shows that the device was already invented in 1895. Prof. Smith's dispute with Elliot Bros was followed by an improved version made by J.H.Steward of London G+
A pair of unusual miniature trowels with ivory handles and silver plated blades the first engraved "To May Chappel on laying a foundation stone in the New Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Newquay July 23rd 1903", the other "To Miss Elsie Chappel on laying a foundation stone in the Wesleyan Sunday school Newquay Nov. 11th 1903, hair cracks in handles otherwise G++. See Lot 1764 for illustration
Sandrart (Johann Jakob von) Insignium Romae Templorum Prospectus Exteriores et Interiores, 2 parts in 1, engraved titles, first part with 73 engraved plates on 69 sheets, 1 folding, 2nd part with 38 plates and an engraved list of plates, occasional foxing, a few plates in part 2 slightly stained, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, lacking ties, (Berlin Kat. 2676), folio, Nuremberg, (1682-85).
-. Kunckel (Johann) Ars Vitraria Experimentalis oder Voldkommene Glasmacher-Kunst ... , second edition, engraved additional title, frontispiece, 20 plates, browning, some foxing and browning, first few ff. with marginal worming, contemporary speckled sheep, slightly rubbed, paper label to spine, small 4to, Frankfurt and Leipzig, C. Riegels, 1689.
-. Martin (Arthur Marie) and Charles Cahier. Monographie de la Cathedrale de Bourges, Premiere Partie (all published), Vitraux de XIIIe Siecle, 2 vol. including plates, 61 chromolithographed plates, 4 sepia and 7 black and white, slight damp-stain at extremity of some margins in plate vol., library stamp on title and first page of text, contemporary calf elaborately decorated with onlays and gilt, g.e., slightly rubbed, short split at foot of joints of text vol., upper cover text vol. slightly stained, elephant folio, Paris, 1841-44.
Verani (Gaetano) Monumentum Extremi Honoris, Perennis Virtutis Manibus ... Principis Ferdinandi Mariae, utriusque Bavariae ... Ducis, ... , first edition, 36 large emblematic engravings within rococco borders in text, (Praz II, 171), 1679; bound with Schmid (Jacobus) Chur Bayrische Loewenhaut bald trucken bald nass. Vorgestellet in der Lob: und Leich-Predig dess ... Herrn Ferdinand Maria in Ober: Und Nidern Bayrn ... , engraved portrait & large folding plate, (1679), 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary boards, folio, Munich, Joannes Jaecklin.
Loading...
