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Lot 535
A Chinese blue and white porcelain teapot, Qing dynasty, decorated with women in a garden setting and a boy at the window,) 9cm high, a Chinese blue and white porcelain jar and cover, decorated with birds, butterflies and flowers, apocryphal Kangxi mark, 14cm high, a Chinese blue and white porcelain baluster vase, decorated with scrolling chrysanthemum within stiff leaf borders, 13.5cm high, and a Chinese porcelain snuff bottle, with a continuous print of a scaly five clawed dragon, apocryphal Qianlong mark, 11cm high (all at fault) (4) WE DO NOT STATE CONDTION IN THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION – Before bidding please ensure you are satisfied with the condition of this lot – For details of condition please contact the auctioneer.
Lot 187
Harvey (William). Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam, De partu: De membranis ac humoribus uteri: et De conceptione, 1st edition, Du Gard for O. Pulleyn, 1651, engraved frontispiece facing (to recto and facing pi1 as sometimes, see Keynes) of Jove seated on a pedestal and holding in his hands an egg inscribed ex ova omnia`, a little trimmed at lower foremargin with loss of rule border, engraved head-pieces and initials throughout, first and last blank and that at C4 all present, ownership signature of Joesph Bromehead on title with his manuscript note to frontispiece verso Editio princeps`, ownership signature of J[ohn] Braxton Hicks dated 1866 to front pastedown and with small presentation bookplate from Hicks to the BMI pasted to initial blank recto, contemporary sheep gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, some edge wear, 4to (214 x 160mm) After the publication of De motu cordis, Harvey turned his attention to the study of generation. Even if Harvey had not discovered the circulation of the blood, his remarkable work on embryology would have placed him in the front ranks of biological scientists. Without benefit of the compound microscope, his work was necessarily limited; nevertheless, nothing comparable had been done since Aristotle. He disbelieved the previously-held doctrine of `preformation` of the foetus, maintaining instead that it proceeds from the ovum by gradual building up of its parts. Always slow to publicize his findings, Harvey was only after some years persuaded by his friend, Sir George Ent, to put them into print. The first edition was published in London in 1651, followed by three Amsterdam editions of the same year` (Heirs of Hippocrates 436: 1st Amsterdam edition, 1651). G-M 467; Keynes, Harvey, 34; Norman 1011; PMM 127. Wing 1091. Provenance: Joseph Bromehead (1748-1826), was educated at Queen`s College, Oxford (BA 1768, MA 1771), and served as Curate of Eckington, Derbyshire, until his death. He wrote hymns and also published The Melancholy Student, An Elegiac Poem` (1769) and An Oration on the Utility of Public Infirmaries: Occasioned by the opening of the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford` (1772). John Braxton Hicks FRCP, FRS (1823-1897). (1)
Lot 517
* Otto Schubert (1892-1970) Village fete with numerous figures merrymaking signed Schubert bottom left oil on canvas 102 x 120cm. Otto Schubert (1892-1970): Born in Dresden where he studied 1906-1909. Became a set painter for five years at the Dresden theatre, returning to art studies and print making. After WWI he began print making and joined the Dresden Secessionist Movement. As with most German Modernists his work was declared `degenerate` by the Nazis; the majority being destroyed.
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