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*Military Commissions. Two printed Military Commission Forms, 1st October 1850 & 7th October 1854, the first appointing William Robert Churchill Spencer to be Captain of a Company in the Rifle Brigade, the second appointing John Douglas Johnstone to be Consign in the Thirty-Third Regiment of Foot, both with paper seals to left margin and autograph signature of Queen Victoria to upper margin, a little spotting and soiling, the first item with damp marks to vertical folds and along lower edge (2)
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[Kettilby, Mary]. A Collection of Above Three Hundred receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery; for the use of all Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses by Several Hands, 5th ed., to which is Added a Second Part, Containing a Great Number of Excellent Receipts, for Preserving and Conserving of Sweet-Meats, &c., 1734, some light browning, and a few leaves with faint marginal water-staining, lacking free endpapers, contemp. sheep, rubbed and worn, with joints cracked, and upper cover almost detached, 8vo, together with Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings, 1685, eng. port. frontis., occn. soiling, front pastedown torn away, contemp. Cambridge pane, rubbed, extrems. worn, 8vo Bitting p.258 (first item). (2)
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Abernethy (John). Surgical Observation ... 2 vols., 1st eds., 1804-06, old water staining to lower outer corners of vol. 1, contemp. half calf, some wear, together with Physiological Lectures, Addressed to the College of Surgeons, 1825, bound with four other items, modern cloth, plus The Hunterian Oration, for the Year 1819, [2nd ed.], 1819, half title, ad. leaf at rear, modern cloth, all 8vo, plus two related First item: Garrison Morton 5584. (6)
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Ballance (Charles A. & Edmunds, Walter). A Treatise on the Ligation of the Great Arteries in Continuity with Observations on the Nature, Progress and Treatment of Aneurism, 1st ed., 1891, port. frontis. and twelve b&w plts., some occn. heavy spotting, initialled presentation inscription from B.... to half title, orig. cloth, rubbed and spine faded, together with Erichsen (John E.), Observations on Aneurism ..., Sydenham Society, 1844, partly uncut and some pages roughly opened, orig. cloth, sl. rubbed, both 8vo, plus ten related extracts and offprints including three Garrison Morton items First item: Garrison Morton 2965. (12)
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Bateman (Thomas). A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases, 2nd ed., 1813, hand-col. litho. frontis., title sl. browned, recent half calf, together with Plumbe (Samuel), A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Skin..., 2nd ed., corrected anbd enlarged, 1827, two col. plts., folding table, contemp. boards, some wear, rebacked, plus Hutchinson (Jonathan), A Descriptive Catalogue of the New Sydenham Soceity's Atlas of Portraits of Deseases of the Skin, Pts 1 & 2 bound as two, Text only, New Sydenham Soceity, 1869-75, eng. illusts. to text, Pt 1 recent cloth, Pt 2 orig. printed wrappers, a little wear, all 8vo First item: Garrison Morton 4021. (4)
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Bernard (Claude). Lecons sur le Diabete et la Glycogenese Animale, 1st ed., Paris, 1877, modern half calf, with upper printed wrapper retained, together with L'Oeuvre de Claude Bernard ..., 1st ed., Paris, 1881, mounted oval photo port. frontis., some spotting, uncut and unopened, orig. printed wrappers, some minor chipping, both 8vo First item: Garrison Morton 3942. (2)
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Bernard (Claude). Lecons sur les Proprietes des Tissue Vivants ..., 1st ed. in book form, Paris, 1866, a few eng. illusts. to text, contemp. qtr. morocco gilt, sl. rubbed and faded on spine, together with Lecons de Physiologie Operatoire, 1st ed., Paris, 1879, eng. illusts. throughout, some minor spotting, contemp. red qtr. morocco, sl. rubbed and darkened rebacked with orig. spine relaid, 8vo Second item: Garrison Morton 634. (2)
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Burdach (K. F.). Die Physiologie als Erfahrungswissenschaft, vols. 1-4 (of 6), 1st eds., Leipsig, 1826-32, ten folding eng. plts., inc. some col., six tables, some spotting or browning, contemp. half calf, worn, vols. 3 & 4 rebacked with remains orig. spines relaid, 8vo, plus three related by Wagner, Mayo and Valentine First item: Garrison Morton 599. Two further volumes were issued but the work was never finished. (7)
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Camper (Pieter). The Works ... on the Connexion between the Science of Anatomy and the Arts of Drawing, Painting and Statuary ..., new ed., 1821, eng. port. frontis. and eighteen folding plts., recent good quality half morocco gilt, 4to, together with Nass (Lucien), Curiosites Medico-Artistiques, 3 vols., 1st ed., Paris, [1907]-1914, numerous b&w illusts., somewhat shaken and many leaves in vol. 1 det., orig. cloth with printed paper labes to spines, rubbed and faded, 8vo First item: Garrison Morton 6609.91. (4)
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Murdoch (Iris). Sartre, Romantic Rationalist, 1st ed., Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1953, ex-lib. copy with library plate to front pastedown, orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, together with The Bell, 1958; An Unoffical Rose, 1962; The Unicorn, 1963; The Nice and the Good, 1968; An Accidental Man, 1971, all 1st eds. pub. Chatto, all orig. cloth in sl. rubbed d.j.s, some edge wear to 'An Unoffical Rose', 8vo, together with ten others by Murdoch First item author's first book. (16)
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A 19thC mahogany banker's desk with raised rear compartments and revealing pigeon holes and drawers, the three panels form a writing slide, which locks the two outer doors, three frieze drawers with knob handles, on square taper legs with spade feet, 62" wide Provenance: The vendors family were involved in clearance of certain pieces the Bank of England in the 1960's, from where this item was removed
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A Chinese export porcelain toy part teaset, each item painted en griseau with a Chinese figure and a stag within peacock and scroll work borders, comprising a teapot, later wooden cover, 16.5cm wide; a sparrow beak jug, lacking cover 7.5cm high, an ovoid teacaddy, lacking cover 7.5cm high, cracked, and a coffee cup, small rim chips 4.5cm high, Qianlong period (5)
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BRITISH TRADE TOKENS, Tickets and Passes, Drury Lane Theatre Tickets (3), Copper Ticket 1671, obv THEATRE ROYAL, bust of Charles II left, rev VPPER GALLERIE 1671 (D&W 194); Brass Ticket 1888, obv GREAT DRURY LANE DRAMA, two ships of the Armada and a rowing boat on the high seas, rev THE ARMADA, legend AUGUSTUS HARRIS COMPANY around; Modern Paper Ticket, Theatre Royal, late 20th century, “January 19 Upper Circle £16.50 A38”. Second pierced, good fine, first fine and rare, last a item of nostalgia. (3)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Australia, Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, Silver Exhibitors Medal, 1888, to the Rottweil Gunpowder Factory of Germany, struck at the Royal Mint, melbourne, ornate crowned bust left, after Boehm, rev Southern Cross within wreath of native flora, named on edge “Pulverfabrik Rottweil”, 51mm (Carlisle 1888/8). Good extremely fine, with even light tone and an interesting association item. 1456 Exhibitors medals were struck. Originally designed by E. A. Altman, it was re-worked by George Anderson of the Mint, the dies were then cut by Stokes and Martin, and the medal was struck by the Royal Mint. Traces of the signatures remain to left and right of the date on the reverse, whilst below the wreath are the initials C.V.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Germany, World War I, a souvenir shaped piece of coal stamped GOT STRAFE ENGLAND 1914-191[5], and with two crossed mining picks, the text mirrored on the base, 180mm x 60mm, contained in a custom-made wooden box with sliding lid. The top surface a little rough round the edges, a most curious item in a remarkably good state of preservation. The wooden box with its sliding lid is reminiscent of the (much smaller) cases made for the German Prisoner of War camp medals, and this may be the work of prisoners.
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CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AMERICA Coinage, Mexico, Republic, So-Called Pattern 8-Escudos or 8-Reales, undated, c.1840’s, struck in brass, eagle on cactus, rev wreath, PARIS / T, plain edge (cf KM Pn17, 19, etc, obverse). Struck with a curious cental ‘lug’ on the reverse, very fine, rare. The lug might have once been some sort of suspension device, making the coin a display item. See also lot 1692, a somewhat similar piece for Uruguay.
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CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AMERICA Coinage, Uruguay, Republic, so-called Pattern 8-Reales, undated, c.1844, struck in brass, large oval armorial shield, rev wreath, SARANDI / YTUSAINGO / RINCON DE LAS / GALLINAS, corded edge (cf KM 10, obverse). Struck with a curious cental ‘lug’ on the reverse, very fine, rare. The lug might have once been some sort of suspension device, making the coin a display item. See also lot 1684, a somewhat similar piece for Mexico.
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An unusual Victorian pottery teapot cover and stand each item printed in green with an Indian hunting pattern within leaf scroll and flower borders the cartouche shaped teapot with arched foot fitting a similarly shaped stand green printed marks registered shape 281720 RDNO285771 24cm across (3)
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A rare ash ladderback 'Whalers' armchair North American probably New England late 18th century with turned supports and a rush seat each arm terminating in a stylised Sperm Whale heads losses and re-tipping h.131cm. w.56cm. For another American ladderback armchair without these whale motifs see Victor Chinnery Oak Furniture The British Tradition Woodbridge 1979 p. 522 fig. 4.253. Wallace Nutting Furniture of the Pilgrim Century Dover 1965 Vol. 1 p. 271 pl. 485 illustrates a similar chair which he writes originates from Connecticut. Broke Jobe and Myrna Kaye New England Furniture: The Colonial Era Boston 1984 p. 312 item. 79 illustrate and discuss another 'slat-back' armchair which originates from Eastern Massachusetts with similar scrolled arms and flattened bobbin mouldings to its stretcher rails. The eastern sea board of New England has a strong whaling tradition with centres such as Nantucket famously associated with this industry. The naively carved representations of a Sperm Whale to each arm of this chair are very unusual but relate closely to a folk art tradition associated with whaling and usually evidenced in scrimshaw work. W
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Eighteenth/early nineteenth century carved wood Buddha, seated in prayer and decorated all over in gilt, original gilt finish to reverse, the front probably re-gilded, a 2.5 cm drilled aperture would suggest the figure was once attached to a larger item of temple furnishing or procession vehicle, 29.3 cm high
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Jones (Owen) Flowers and Their Kindred Thoughts, Poetry by M.A. Bacon, Designs by Owen Jones, Longman, 1848, chromolithographed title-page, and fourteen plts. of flowers, text printed in gold throughout, drawn on stone by E.L. Bateman, a.e.g., contents loose in orig. brown relievo leather, design by Owen Jones sunk into the surface of the leather, worn, covers detached, loss to spine ends etc., large 8vo, together with Aldin (Cecil, illust.), A Dog Day, by Walter Emanuel, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1902, twenty-eight tinted plts., occasional staining, lacking front free endpaper, orig. boards, worn, paper boards peeling, 4to, plus a qty. of others, children's, illustrated etc. First item McLean, Design, pp.92-93; McLean, Cloth, p.32. (a carton)
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Bacon (Francis, Viscount Verulam) Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries, Whereunto is newly added, The History Naturall and Experimentall of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life, published after the authors death, by William Rawley... whereunto is added Articles of Enquiry Touching Metals and Minerals, 8th ed., 1664, port. frontis. and addn. eng. title (a trifle dust-soiled), printed title-page and subsequent four leaves water-stained, contemp. calf, rubbed and some wear to extrems., with joints partly cracked, folio, together with Herbarium, Collection of dried ferns, mosses, and lichens, early 19th c., forty-four leaves with dried specimens mounted to rectos, each with ms. title, orig. half sheep, rubbed, with silk ties (one detached) and gilt lettered leather label to upper cover, folio, plus Taplin (William), The Gentleman's Stable Directory; or, Modern System of Farriery..., 7th ed., considerably enlarged, and carefully corrected, 1789, port. frontis. foxed, contemp. tree calf, rubbed and soiled, some splitting to joints, gilt dec. spine, 8vo, plus a copy of Francis's 'Fish-Culture, 1863 First item Wing B331. (4)
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Lands. An Act of Parliament for the Removing of Obstructions in the Sale of the Honors, Manors & Lands of the late King, Queen and Prince, 1649, together with An Act for Sale of the Manors of Rectories and Gleab Lands, late belonging to Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Deans and Chapters, 1650, plus An additional Act for more speedy effecting of the Sale of the Manors of Rectories and Gleab Lands ..., 1650, plus An Act for the Sale of several lands and estates forfeited to the common-wealth for treason, 1651, plus An additional Act for Sale of the goods belonging to the late King, Queen and Prince, 1651, plus an Act for the Deafforestation, Sale and Improvement of the Forests ..., 1653, all with woodcut vign. to titles, some browning and dust soiling, the first five disbound, the last item sl. larger with uncut edges and stab stitched spine, slim folio (6)
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Maritime. An Act for Preventing Injuries and Wrongs Done to Merchants at Sea, in their persons, ships, or goods ... 1650, together with An Act for Making Ships and Merchandizes taken, or to be taken from the King of Portugal or any of his subjects, to be prize, 1650, plus An Act for securing such moneys that shall be advanced and lent for the use of the Navy & Army, together with interest for the same ..., 1650, first two items with woodcut vign. to titles, the third item with woodcut vign. to head-piece, drop-title and decorative woodcut initial, first two items a little spotted, the last heavily browned, all disbound, slim folio (3)
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Sins. An Act for Suppressing the Detestable Sins of Incest, Adultery, and Fornication, 1650, upper half lightly dampstained, together with An Act for the Better Preventing and Suppressing of Prophane Swearing & Cursing, 1650, plus An Act Enabling the Lords Commissioners for Custody of the Great-Seal, to Issue Commissions or Delegates in cases of Pretended Marriages, 1650, plus An Act Touching Marriages and the Registering thereof, and also Touching Births and Burials, 1653, all but third item with woodcut vign. to titles, third item with woodcut head-piece and drop-title, all somewhat spotted and dust soiled, first and fourth item uncut and nicked at edges, fourth item defective, all disbound without covers and some leaves det., slim folio (4)
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Sport. An Ordinance Prohibiting Cock-Matches, 1654, together with An Ordinance against Challenges, Duells, and all Provocations there unto, 1654, plus An Ordinance Prohibiting Horse-races for Six Moneths, 1654, first two with woodcut vign. to title and third item with woodcut ornament and drop-title, a little dust soiled, disbound, slim folio (3)
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[Joan of Arc]. Sibylla Francica seu de Admirabili puella, Iohanna Lotharinga ... Dissertationes aliquet coaeuorum Scriptorum historicae & philosophicae ... Item Dialogi Duo [by P. de Alliaco] De querelis Franciae et Angliae ... Omnia ex Bibliotheca Melchioris Haiminsfeldii Goldasti eruta & in lucem producta, Ursellis, ex officina Cornelii Sutorii, 1606, [iv]+36+43+[i] pages, text browned, with some staining, early inscription at the foot of the title page, disbound, small 4to (1)
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Magnus (Olaus, Archbishop of Uppsala) Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, pub. Christopher Plantin, Antwerp, 1561, numerous woodcuts to letterpress of wild animals, hunting scenes, fishing, sea monsters, costume, ships, battle scenes, military machines, maps and town views, etc., lacking title-page, the last leaf of Table, c4-c6, and all text after f8 (pp.232/3), some light marks and dampstaining, early 19th c. marbled calf, worn, and lacking upper cover, 8vo, together with Mattei (Loreto), Il Salmista Toscano Parafrasi Lirica Sopra il Salterio, pub. Macerata & Parma, 1678, half-title creased and frayed to fore-edge, occn. foxing and staining, lacking front free endpaper, upper hinge split, contemp. vellum, soiled, some sl. wear to extrems., small 4to, plus four others 17th and 18th c., defective First item is Magnus's famous work on the inhabitants of the Northern Territories - principally Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, but embracing Greenland - which was first published in Rome in 1555 (see Mortimer, Harvard Italian 16th Century Books, 270) (6)
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HANOVERIAN PATTERN comprising twelve each of table knives, dessert knives, table spoons, dessert spoons and dessert forks, also eleven table forks, principally Walker and Hall, Sheffield 1906 (one item by Charles Boyton and Son, Sheffield 1936; the knives Sheffield 1966); with two Old English pattern table spoons, 1804 and 1811; and two French table spoons of Fiddle Thread pattern (not sterling standard), 99oz not including the French spoons or the knives (75 items)
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An L. Hollis & Sons Double Barrel Percussion Shotgun the 32 inch steel barrel with illegible markings to the breach scroll engraved side locks swan neck hammers diced stock and H.I.S. monogram to buttcap with ramrod (This lot is purchased as an exempt item under section 58(2) firearms act 1968. To be held as a curiosity)
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A Keep Brothers London 11-bore double barrel percussion shotgun serial no. 7311 with 32 inch damascus twist steel barrels various proof marks brass tipped ramrod the terminal with concealed wad screw. Finely engraved floral and foliate side locks dolphin hammers shell and acanthus engraved trigger guard half stock diced and plain steel buttcap. Contained in a mahogany case with recessed brass carrying handle the hinged lid enclosing relined interior various compartments and accessories including an Irish elongated leather powder flask with carrying strap and a copper and brass bag shape powder flask by C & J.W Hawksley. (This lot is purchased as an exempt item under section 58(2) firearms act 1968. To be held as a curiosity)
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A H. Beckwith London 8 bore single barrel shotgun converted from a muzzle loader with 36 7/8 inch barrel 13 1/3 inch stock hinged percussion cap compartment to the stock engraved with a scene of a tiger killing an antelope and an engraved steel butt cap (This lot is purchased as an exempt item under section 58(2) firearms act 1968. To be held as a curiosity)
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The first four kits to build a ‘ModelWorks’ full size Likamobile steam car to include front and rear axle assemblies with linkages two spoked wheels with Avon pneumatic tyres rear chain hub linkage and other sundry parts. This item has come from a deceased estate so we cannot guarantee that all items are present but would point out that all parts are still available from ModelWorks International Sales Ltd. Royal Oak Daventry. Northants. NN11 5QT.
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A partly constructed 1/5th scale model of the steam wagon ‘Pride of Penrhyn’ together with the kits to complete the model as supplied by ModelWorks. The chassis has been completed with wheels fitted solid tyres steering wheel with linkage brake fitment and gear linkage to back axle. This item has come from a deceased estate so we are unable to guarantee that all parts are present however all parts are available from ModelWorks International Sales Ltd of Royal Oak Daventry. Northants. NN11 5QT.
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An Arts & Crafts silver and enamel spoon by George Lawrence Connell, with heart-shape hammered bowl, the handle terminating in blue/green enamel filled entrelacs, London 1912, 18cm long, 53g (1.75oz). See Arwas, Victor. Liberty Style (London & Tokyo 1983) p.144 item S-121 for an example by the same maker and Christie’s South Kensington Arts & Crafts sale 9th December 2003 for an example by William Hutton of 1902.
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Henry W Binns, Architect 141 Park Road, NW, (Binns and Scarlett, Architects, 19 Southampton Place, London, WC1)- House in Regency Close, St John's Wood, NW; gouache, signed 'Gick' and dated 39, inscribed on mount, 39x61cm: together with four other architectural designs in gouache and pen and ink from the same architect's practice, (5). Note: The first item was exhibited in The Royal Academy in 1940, No. 1415. A letter of provenance accompanies this lot
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Badham (Rev. C. David). Prose Halieutics, or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle, 1st ed., Parker, 1854, occasional pencil annotations, bound without ads. at rear, contemp. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, together with Frederic (M.J.N. de), The Continental Fish Cook, or a few hints on Maigre Dinners, Washbourne, 1874, orig. limp blindstamped cloth, rubbed, spine ends chipped, 16mo, plus Thwaites (Mrs. John B.), Fish Cookery, including Many New Recipes , Liverpool, Howell, 1883, occasional spotting, orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, and Gathorne-Hardy (Hon. A.E.), The Salmon, with Chapters on the Law of Salmon-Fishing by Claud Douglas Pennant, Cookery by Alexander Innes Shand, Longmans, Fur, Feather & Fin series, 1898, half-title, b&w plts. (frontis. repaired), library plt. to front pastedown, contemp. cloth, rubbed and stained, 8vo First item Westwood & Satchell, p.20. (4)
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Manuscript receipt book, early 19th c., approx. 46 pages, with a similar number of blank leaves, orig. vellum, rubbed, 8vo, together with Cookery manuscript book, late 19th c., approx. 30 pages, plus numerous blank leaves, front free endpaper detached, orig. vellum, soiled, joints splitting at ends, and sl. wear to foot of spine, folio First item with assorted recipes, for dishes such as green pea soup, Dutch puffs, biscuit bread, the best ketchup in England, and Scotch woodcock. Second item with a number of household and culinary recipes, including furniture polish, boot varnish, tooth powder, spruce beer, Pocock's pickle and egg flip. (2)
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Harvey (Gideon). Ars Curandi Morbos expecatione; item de Vanitatibus, Dolis, & Mendaciis Medicorum , Amsterdam, 1695, eng. frontis., title printed in red and black, 4 pp. list of contents, + 302 pp., occn. minor browning, untrimmed, contemp. plain wrappers with hand-written title to spine, 12mo The second latin edition of Harvey's Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation, published in English in 1689. (1)
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Trade catalogue. British and Indian Army Sadlery &c., by J.W. Eldrid & Co., 21 Fore Street, Cripplegate, London, n.d., c. 1850s, hand-col. litho. title and fifty-six litho. plts. incl. many tinted, showing the firms products, descriptions and product codes, twenty full-page plts. of horses and harnesses, the remainder multiple images to a plt., products incl. bridles, saddles, belts, boots, steel picks, whips and whip thongs, harness furniture, saddle trees, buckles, belts, rosettes and ornaments, furniture and tools, etc., some occ. soiling, title soiled and split at lower margin, hinges weak, orig. cloth with Eldrid's oval gilt address stamp to upper cover, soiling and some wear, oblong folio A very rare item and apparently complete. (1)
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A Lambeth London delftpolychrome plate, painted with two rabbits in a landscape shaded by a tree within a lappet border, painted in shades of iron-red, manganese, green and blue, 23cm diameter, circa 1770 (cracked); and two other London delft polychrome geometric pattern plates (one cracked). See Michael Archer, Delftware (1997), p.138 B.48 for the lead item.
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