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Lot 310
Richard & Cie, Paris, a French brass cased repeating and striking carriage clock, the enamel dial with blued steel hands, the 8-day duration timepiece mechanism, signed to the back plate with R & Ce stamp, striking on two gongs, lacking door handle, 13.5 x 9.5 x 8cm.Richard & Co started life in Paris in 1848 under a different name but then added a London branch at 24 Cannon Street in 1867 which became Richard & Co. They were mainly carriage clock makers, producing clocks in different English and French styles for the respective markets. The London business lasted until 1881 with the Paris workshop based at Rue Bondy continuing on until the beginning of the 20th Century.
Lot 311
Richard & Cie, Paris, a French brass cased striking carriage clock, the enamel dial with blued steel hands, the 8-day duration timepiece mechanism, signed to the back plate with R & Ce Made in Paris stamp, striking the half hours, 13.5 x 9 x 8cm.Richard & Co started life in Paris in 1848 under a different name but then added a London branch at 24 Cannon Street in 1867 which became Richard & Co. They were mainly carriage clock makers, producing clocks in different English and French styles for the respective markets. The London business lasted until 1881 with the Paris workshop based at Rue Bondy continuing on until the beginning of the 20th Century.
Lot 52
Vinyl - Two Led Zeppelin LP's to include Two (K 40037) green and orange Atlantic labels, white inner with record shop stamp, and 4 Symbols (K 5008) green and orange labels with name to both sides 'hop / top' error. Both inner and outer sleeves subject to heavy tape reinforcements. Sleeves & Vinyl Vg other than stated
Lot 1181
SPEEDWAY PHOTOS Twenty four original postcard size b/w photos: Belle Vue X 4, Frank Charles 1930's with Press stamp on the reverse, Dent Oliver 1940's with stamp on the reverse, Jack Parker 1940's and Louis Lawson 1940's. Odsal X 4, Ron Clark, Eddie Rigg and Oliver Hart X 2 different. Harringay X 6 , Vic Duggan X 2 different, Ray Duggan, Lloyd Gough, Ron Howe and Norman Parker. Four have pin holes at the top in the centre. New Cross X 10, Jack Milne and Tom Farndon both 1930's with Press stamps on the reverse, Split Waterman 1940's with stamp on the reverse, Jeff Lloyd signed on the reverse in 1954, Ron Johnson, Lionel Van Praag, Bert & Cyril Rogers and George Newton and Bill Longley and Ron Johnson from the 1940's. Generally good
Lot 1183
SPEEDWAY PHOTOS Seventeen original postcard size b/w photos from the late 1940's: West Ham X 13, 3 of which have Press stamps on the reverse, including Bluey Wilkinson, Ron Johnson, Eric Chitty, Fred Curtis, Cliff Watson, Jimmy Gibb, Aub Lawson, Tiger Steverson and Reg Fearman. Plus 4 with Vic Huxley Press stamp on the reverse, Alec Statham of Wimbledon, Jim Coy of Oxford, trimmed at the bottom and Graham Warren of Birmingham. Generally good
Lot 2479
Nigel Hemming (b.1957) A pencil signed and numbered limited-edition print 218/500 of two black Labrador gun dogs entitled 'Work', plus a pencil signed and numbered limited-edition print 56/250 with (Fine art trade guild blind stamp) of a working Springer Spaniel by M.J. Taylor. Frame sizes approx 26 ½ x 20 ½ inches and 21 ½ x 17 ½ inches. (Glazed) (2) COLLECT ONLY.
Lot 2602
A Victorian music box, a/f. COLLECT ONLY.The number under the box and on the back right is 45757. Back left stamp reads Nicole Freres. Spring is ok and movement plays. Many teeth missing, missing finger lever to change barrel tune (as photo) barrel changes tune.Glass panel, 36cm x 16.5cm.Lid, 49.5cm x 21.5cm.Box, 47.5cm x 20cm, total height 14.5cm.The lid sits fairly flat with no visible warping. Old worm in the box.
Lot 8433
Maggy Clarysee. Mimosa de Provence. Two signed, limited edition silkscreen prints, 6/80 and 13/80, with impressed MC stamp. 20 x 26cm. Together with another, Winters Delight, signed, limited edition 13/50. 23 x 18cm. (3)PROVENANCE; The residual studio collection of the artist. Maggy Clarysse (1931-2011), hidden away for the past decade, will come to auction in this sale.Consigned by her family, the art displays an extraordinary range, from pointillist studies of ponds, via Cézanne-inspired landscapes to Impressionist and post-Impressionist still lifes. In all, the auction will offer over 450 works by a woman who was obsessed with art and would rise early each day to get to her easel, completing 12 hours of painting, sketching, sculpting and drawing before turning her hand to crafts in the evening.BIOGRAPHY; The art came before and after a successful career as a model from the 1940s to 60s with the glamour that it brought with it.Born in Belgium, Maggy studied at art college in Brussels with the aim of becoming a Paris fashion designer. To that end, she eventually approached a leading couture house to show them her designs.To her delight, they agreed to take her on immediately. However, they did not want her as a designer, but as a model!This led to work in Paris, London and around Europe, with Maggy basing herself first in Germany and then in Paris as a couture house model and then a model for Vogue.She was photographed by Terence Donovan and David Bailey, with one shoot ending up with her pushing the then leading film star, Norman Wisdom, into a swimming pool her reasons for doing so remain shrouded in mystery!It was while on holiday in the south of France in the late 1950s that she met her future husband, an English businessman, and they then married and moved to Barnes in south-west London.She gave up modelling when her son was born, and the glamour days of chic long dresses were over, and she then turned her exceptional work ethic towards art.Maggy painted from dusk to dawn for many decades up until her death in 2011 and enjoyed considerable success commercially.She would divide her time between London and their apartment in the South of France, and she hosted several exhibitions a year between the early 1970s and the late 2000s in both London and Antibes. Works sold for up to £6,000-8,000 but are much more reasonably estimated here. Few of her works come on to the market and this sale provides a unique opportunity for collectors. In all, the auction will offer over 450 works by the artist.
Lot 57
HENRY RYLAND (1856-1925), oil on canvas Judith (gleaning from the field of Boaz), partial signature lower left, titled lower right and with original Cholrodyne advert dated 1895 verso, Goldstein & Co. framers stamp to the back of the mount, Judith pictured here with a sheaf of wheat as she appears in Ryland's later lithograph dated 1903, 20.5 cm x 14.5 cm, framed & glazed
Lot 10
Economics & Law.- Loen (Johann Michael) Der Kaufmanns-Adel..., first edition, lightly browned and spotted, Donaueschingen library copy with ink stamp to title, modern sprinkled board, Frankfurt, J.F.Fleischer, 1742 § Mirabeau (Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de) Opinion...sur les Retours de l'Inde, 23pp., first edition, modern wrappers, [Goldsmiths' 14189], Paris, 1790 § Dumas (J.-A.) Éloge de d'Alembert: Discours qui a concouru pour le Prix extraordinaire proposé par l'Académie Françoise, pour l'année 1788, 54pp., first edition, with final blank,some spotting and soiling, stitched, uncut, a little frayed at edges, preserved in modern cloth portfolio, Paris, P.-J.Duplain, 1789 § Durand de Maillane (P.-T.) Suite et Défense du Rapport, sur les empêchemens, les dispenses & la forme des Mariages, 28pp., first edition, spotted, unbound, frayed at edges, Paris, 1790; and 4 other pamphlets, 3 in Swedish (2 on the murder of Malcolm Sinclair by the Russians and one against gin and brandy drinking), 4to & 8vo (8)⁂ The first is a rare work on the merchant nobility and trade.
Lot 103
Binding.- Royal Arms.- Collection (A) of Anthems. As the same are now performed in His Majesty's Chapels Royal, the Robert Walpole-Richard Caulfield copy, ruled in red, bookplates, stamps and inscriptions to endpapers, contemporary mottled calf, bound for the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court, with the interlaced monogram, "G.R." (George II) in gold, on both, covers with the words "Chapel Royal Hampton Court" beneath, crowned fleurons at the corners, spine ends chipped, spine rubbed, upper cover a little rubbed, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, by J. Bettenham for B. Barker at the College Arms near Dean's Yard Westminster, 1736.⁂ A number of copies of this work were bound for the Chapel Royal, this copy with a distinguished provenance.Provenance: Robert Walpole (1676-1745); Richard Caulfield (1823-1887, librarian of Queen's College, Cork); Robert Day (1836-1914, antiquarian and photographer); William Neville; Dorothy Moulton Mayer (1886-1974, author and singer), their bookplates to pastedown and endpapers; Peter Bander van Duren (1930-2004, British writer on heraldry and orders of knighthood, his blind-stamp to endpaper).
![Judaica.- [Mears (Abraham)], "Gamaliel ben Pedahzur". The book of religion, ceremonies, and prayers; of the Jews, as practise](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b7ed54e3-d8c6-448e-b190-ae8a010a1cd3/bea88a34-274f-424d-a8bd-ae8a01103ded/468x382.jpg)
Lot 104
Judaica.- [Mears (Abraham)], "Gamaliel ben Pedahzur". The book of religion, ceremonies, and prayers; of the Jews, as practised in their synagogues and families On all Occasions...with the Hebrew Title of each Prayer made English, 2 parts in 1, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional contemporary ink corrections to text and marginalia, later pencil markings, related contemporary folding French engraving bound in before B1 (not called for), library ink stamp to front free endpaper, title with purple library ink stamp recto and small later cutting mounted verso, some spotting or light staining, lightly browned, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, spine in compartments and with chipped leather label, upper cover detached, spine creased, corners worn, rubbed, [Cecil Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 302, no. 6; The Great Synagogue, (1950), pp. 73-74], 8vo, Printed for J. Wilcox, at Virgil's Head, opposite to the New Church in the Strand, 1738.⁂ The first translation of any part of the Jewish prayer book into English. According to Cecil Roth Mears was 'an apostate member of one of the oldest families of the Ashkenazi community in England', and his 'description of Jewish rites and ceremonies...is of considerable interest, giving as it does a graphic, detailed, and at times not unamusing picture of London Jewish life, in particular, it must be accentuated, the life of the community of the Great Synagogue, in which Mears had been brought up in the first half of the eighteenth century'. Provenance: Edward Nicholas Hurt (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown).
Lot 137
Trollope (Anthony) The Last Chronicle of Barset, 2 vol. first edition in book form, first issue, bound from parts, frontispieces and 30 wood-engraved plates by G. H. Thomas, vignette illustrations, occasional scattered foxing, original decorative cloth, gilt, spines a little darkened, extremities lightly bumped, joints a little rubbed, Smith, Elder and Co., 1867; The Warden, first edition, title lightly browned with small bookseller stamp to top right corner, occasional light finger-soiling or browning, without advertisements, late 19th century half morocco, spine gilt in compartments with morocco spine labels, [Sadleir 4, 26], 1855, 8vo (3)
Lot 139
Trollope (Anthony) The Way We Live Now, 2 vol., first edition in book form, frontispieces and 38 wood-engraved plates by Luck Fildes, bookplates to pastedown and small bookseller's stamp to front free endpaper, vol.1 with remnants of paper laid down to endpaper and foxing to frontispiece, hinge cracked in places but holding firm, original green cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped and creased, covers lightly marked, but an excellent and bright set overall, [Sadleir 44], Chapman and Hall, 1875; and a first edition of The Vicar of Bullhampton, 8vo (3)
Lot 174
Greene (Graham) England Made Me, first edition, publisher's file copy with their ink stamp with publication date "June 24th. 35" filled in by hand to front free endpaper and autograph note "Publication Date" to front endpaper and pastedown, original cloth, light sunning to spine, spine a little frayed at foot, light marking and soiling to covers, [Wobbe A8a], 8vo, 1935.
Lot 191
Lawrence (D.H.) Rawdon's Roof, endpapers lightly browned, 1928; Pansies, jacket lightly spotted and soiled, 1929; Sons and Lovers, 20pp. advertisements, ink ownership stamp to pastedown, scattered spotting and foxing, ex-library copy with stamp and markings to rear pastedown, 1913, first editions, first two one of 500 copies signed by the author on colophon page, original cloth, first two with dust-jackets, [Roberts A40, A47, A4], 8vo (3)
![Canada.- [Maseres (Francis)] Additional papers concerning the Province of Quebeck, first edition, engraved hand-coloured map](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b7ed54e3-d8c6-448e-b190-ae8a010a1cd3/63ac615a-2360-4e1d-bdac-ae8a0110e5e3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 249
Canada.- [Maseres (Francis)] Additional papers concerning the Province of Quebeck, first edition, engraved hand-coloured map "Quebec and its Environs" dated 1813 laid onto title verso, 2 other Quebec plates loosely inserted, lacking final blank f., title with some show-through from glue on verso with contemporary ink ownership inscription and ink stamp, occasional light browning, modern morocco-backed boards, [Sabin 45411], 8vo, W. White, 1776.
Lot 256
China.- The Sacred Edict: containing 16 Maxims of the Emperor Kang-He. Amplified by his Son. With a Paraphrase on the whole by a Mandarin. And translated, with Notes, by William Milne, Protestant Missionary at Malacca, first edition in English, half-title, occasional small stain or light marking to margins, ink ownership inscription to head of title verso, paper slip signed "Lieut-General Sir James Outram" laid onto title verso with bookseller's label of Arthur Prosthain, Oriental Bookseller below, faint blind-stamp to title and final f., modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, 1817.⁂ Rare first English translation of the Sacred Edict of the Kangxi Emperor, we can trace no copy at auction since 1948. The edicts were first issued by the Emperor in 1670, consisting of sixteen maxims, each seven characters long, to instruct the average citizen in the basic principals of Confucian orthodoxy. Also published here is Wang Youpu's interpretation of the maxims.
Lot 278
Agriculture.- America.- Deane (Samuel) The New-England Farmer; or, Georgical Dictionary, first edition, list of subscribers, double column, browned, green glazed bookplate and book-label of Mrs Henry Steele to pastedowns, contemporary sheep, rebacked preserving old red roan label, corners repaired, [Sabin 19056], Worcester, Mass., Isaiah Thomas, 1790 § Birkbeck (Morris) Letters from Illinois, third edition, 6pp. publishers' catalogue at end, contemporary names to rear endpapers including that of the author, rather soiled, a few stains, with contemporary book-label of Kendal Library to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, rebacked, 1818, both ex-Lawes Library, Rothamsted with stamp to front pastedowns, rubbed, 8vo (2)⁂ The first is one of the earliest American dictionaries of agriculture.
Lot 318
Darwin (Charles) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, first edition, first issue, 7 heliotype plates (3 folding), slightly creased with some finger soiling, numbered in Arabic, engraved illustrations, ink stamp to contents page (touching text) and plate, and a few others, lacking final 5 leaves (all after p.168; index and advertisements), title browned at margins, occasional spotting, some light finger soiling, later half calf, spine a little rubbed, [Freeman 1141; G&M 4975], John Murray, 1872; Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology..., engraved illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, very occasional light foxing, upper hinge cracked but firm, original cloth, spine head chipped, [Freeman 38], John Murray, 1882; and 3 others Darwin, 8vo (5)
Lot 330
Stubbs (George) The Anatomy of the Horse, first edition, first issue, 24 fine engraved plates, all washed, light browning to text ff., 'To the Reader' and final leaf with repaired tears to verso, small ink stamp to title and one other text leaf, a couple of other minor professional repairs, lacking the errata slip, contemporary half calf, rebacked, rubbed, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Garrison and Morton 308.1; Lennox-Boyd Stubbs, pp. 165-188; Mellon Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 57; Nissen ZBI 4027; Norman 2032 (later issue, plates watermarked '1798')], oblong folio, Printed by J. Purser, for the Author, 1766.⁂ A very good copy of this landmark work on equine anatomy. This copy in the first issue, without watermarks and on laid paper. The artist, previously renowned as a portrait painter, became synonymous with depicting horses after this work, showing off his supreme draughtsmanship and observational talents, was published.Provenance: Royal Veterinary College (ink library stamp). This copy came from the private collection of the late book dealer and collector, Norman Comben, who was permitted to purchase a few duplicate copies from the RVC library in return for a detailed cataloguing of their collection many years ago; Dr Niall Kenny (small circular bookplate).
Lot 340
Chess.- Ponziani (Domenico Lorenzo) Il Giuoco Incomparabile degli Scacchi, second edition, woodcut decorations and decorative initials, contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered, 4to, Venice, Simone Occhi, 1773.⁂ Second edition of this work on chess published for the first time in Modena in 1769.Provenance: J.W. Rimington Wilson, Chess Library (ink inscription on front pastedown); other earlier ink annotations and calculations in Italian on front free endpaper; Brooklyn Public Library (ink stamp on rear free endpaper).
Lot 344
Golf.- Photograph album of golfers, tennis players, sailing, seaside scenes and topographical scenes, mostly in East Anglia, c. 190 photographs (c. 80 golfing or golfers), 1 golfing photograph corner torn away, some photographs faded or browned, all laid down, a few captioned in pencil, album ff. brittle and tearing, ff. loose and working loose, original morocco, gilt lettered direct "Golf Felixstowe" on upper cover, worn and defective, v.s., 4to album, stamp of C.J. Emeny, photographer, Walton, Nr. Ipswich on front pastedown, [c. 1900].
Lot 354
Brambilla (Giovanni Alessandro) Instrumentarium chirurgicum militare Austriacum, first edition, printed on thick paper, engraved title, dedication, head- & tail-pieces and 67 plates, with the 5 leaves of Preface (often lacking), a little browned, occasional spotting, ex-library copy with faint unobtrusive stamp to plates and stain to head of title and dedication where stamp removed, modern blue morocco-backed cloth, spine gilt, uncut, [Wellcome II, 229], folio, [Vienna, Matthias Schmidt], 1782.⁂ The most complete survey of surgical and medical instruments of its time, illustrating over 600 instruments in actual size, some invented by the author. Brambilla was personal physician to Emperor Joseph II and established a school for military surgery in Vienna in 1781.
Lot 356
Collins (Samuel) A Systeme of Anatomy, treating of the Body of Man, Beasts, Birds, Fish, Insects, and Plants, 2 vol., first edition, licence leaf, engraved portrait by William Faithorne and frontispiece of the Theatrum Cutlerianum (latter bound as additional title in vol.2), titles printed in red and black, 74 engraved plates in vol.2 with letterpress descriptions to verso (including the scarce additional plate between pp. 934-935), woodcut initials and headpieces, with 8pp. 'Preface to Tables' in vol.2 and 5 of the inserted dedications (seemingly lacking those between pp.410 & 411 and pp.509 & 511 but some misbound), portrait lacking small portion from lower inner margin just touching border (repaired), title spotted and soiled, some other foxing, water-staining to vol.2 affecting plates, plate I torn and frayed at inner edge with slight loss (repaired), ex-library copy with faint stamp to plates, modern morocco-backed cloth, [Norman 498; Russell 194; Wellcome II, 373; Wing C5387], folio, Thomas Newcomb, 1685.⁂ The number of dedications varies: according to Russell "one copy has been noted with nine dedications, but the usual number is four". This copy has five: to the Duke of Albemarle, Earl of Devonshire, Duke of Norfolk, Charles Cheyne, and Lord Bennet Sherard.
Lot 365
Hewson (William) Experimental Inquiries: Part the First...An Inquiry into the Properties of the Blood..., second edition, contemporary ink signature of W.Moorhouse to title, stain to H3 & 4, T.Cadell, 1772; Part the Second. Containing a Description of the Lymphatic System..., first edition, presentation copy from the author to the anatomist John Sheldon inscribed on half-title, with Sheldon's engraved bookplate and in manuscript note "Joanni Jones dono dedit Rebecca Sheldon 1809" below, 6 engraved plates, all but one folding, J.Johnson, 1774; Part the Third. Containing a Description of the Red Particles of the Blood..., [edited] by Magnus Falconar, first edition, errata leaf, 4 folding engraved plates, faint trace of library stamp to foot of title, tear to D4 repaired, T.Longman, 1777, together 3 vol., mixed set, some light spotting or soiling, water-staining to vol.2, vol.1 & 2 with book-label of Haskell F.Norman, vol.1 contemporary sheep and slightly smaller, vol.2 & 3 contemporary calf, all rubbed, some worming to lower covers, rebacked, red morocco labels, vol.3 with new endpapers, [Norman 1069; Wellcome III, 259], 8vo ⁂ The first accurate account of blood coagulation and the first complete account of the lymphatics; rare to find all three volumes together.
Lot 369
Paré (Ambroise) The Workes...Three Tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the Veines, Arteries, & Nerves, translated by Thomas Johnson, 2 parts in 1, second edition in English, engraved title with portrait and medical scenes by T.Cecill, numerous woodcuts in text, second part with 4 full-page woodcut illustrations on 3 sheets (one on both sides, all trimmed with slight loss), errata leaf at end, title soiled and frayed at edges (old tape stains to inner margin) and with unobtrusive ink library stamp, dedication lacking top outer corner not affecting text (repaired), light water-staining towards end, tear to head of Pp5 and foot of III1 affecting a few lines but no loss (latter repaired), later half calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine, new label, corners repaired, [Wellcome IV, 295; Wing P349], folio, by Richard Cotes and Will. Dugard, and are to be sold by John Clarke, 1649.⁂ Including 'Aggeiologia [graece]: or, A Description of the Vessells in the body of Man' by Adrian van der Spieghel, with separate title, at end.
Lot 370
Santorini (Giovanni Domenico) Septemdecim tabulae quas nunc primum edit atque explicat iisque alias addit de structura mammarum et de tunica testis vaginali, edited by Michael Giradi, first edition, lacking engraved portrait but with 21 fine stipple-engraved plates by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and others, each with additional outline plate making total of 42, with final leaf containing privilege and arrangement of plates (sometimes missing), title with small embossed stamp to head and a little foxed and soiled, some other light spotting, small stain to upper margin of a few leaves affecting border of plate 17, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, rubbed, repairs to spine ends, [Norman 1888], folio, Parma, [Giambattista Bodoni] for Regia Typographia, 1775.⁂ The only significant medical book printed by Giambattista Bodoni. Santorini was generally acknowledged as the outstanding anatomist of his day with many parts of the body named after him, particularly in the face. The first 17 plates in the work, the "septemdecim tabulae" of the title, were drawn by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and engraved under Santorini's personal supervision, intended for an enlarged edition of his Observationes anatomicae but he died before completing the task. The plates were published 38 years after his death by Michael Girardi, a professor of anatomy at Parma, who added to them two plates by the anatomist Giovanni Battista Covoli, as well as two of his own.
Lot 383
Eiffel (Gustave) La Tour de Trois Cents Mètres, 2 vol., one of 500 copies (numbering not uniform), signed presentation copy from the author inscribed "A l'Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland de Glasgow. Hommage de G.Eiffel" on half-title of vol.1, etched portrait (spotted), titles in red & black with vignette, text with illustrations, 2 leaves of facsimile signatures and appendix at end, plate vol. with 53 double-page lithographed or chromolithographed plates numbered I-XLVII as called for (with 8 additional plates but XXVI & XXVII never printed), a few with folding leaf of explanatory text, 13 photogravure plates, 11 double-page, double-page colour map of environs of Paris, all mounted on stubs, text volume lacking pp.181-185, library stamp to titles but an excellent copy, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., rubbed, particularly joints, spine ends repaired, preserved in modern cloth slip-cases, folio, Paris, 1900.⁂ Magnificent account of the construction of the famous Eiffel Tower, built in 1887-89 for the Universal Exposition in Paris of 1889, and one of the earliest monographs dedicated to a modern building. It was produced at Eiffel's expense for presentation to libraries, institutions etc.
Lot 385
Hydraulics.- Belidor (Bernard Forest de) Architecture Hydraulique, ou l'Art de Conduire, d'Élever et de Ménager Les Eaux, 4 vol., 219 engraved folding plates (of which 1 torn), vol. 1 engraved frontispiece, vol. 2-4 title with engraved vignette, vol. 3 half-title, titles with library stamp, engraved and woodcut head-pieces, vol. 1 title with small tear to lower edge (blank margin), vol. 4 front endpaper torn, some light browning, occasional scattered spotting, contemporary patterned sheep, spines gilt with red morocco labels, vol. 3 with brown label, rubbed and corners worn, 4to, Paris, chez Jombert, 1782 .
![Sundials.- [Saher (Ferdinand)] Nova praxis construendi circinum proportionalem horographicum..., only edition, woodcut head-](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b7ed54e3-d8c6-448e-b190-ae8a010a1cd3/8829d7e3-e8d0-4744-9faa-ae8a0110c720/468x382.jpg)
Lot 392
Sundials.- [Saher (Ferdinand)] Nova praxis construendi circinum proportionalem horographicum..., only edition, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials,18 engraved plates containing 22 figures, light staining to verso of plates, modern ink stamp of Christopher St. J.H.Daniel to pastedowns, modern sprinkled brown calf tooled in blind, very slightly rubbed, [Tomash & Williams S6; VD17 23:269580Z], oblong 8vo, Vienna, Sussana Christina [Saher], 1695.⁂ Rare work attributed to Ferdinand Saher, brother of the printer of the work, concerning a sector customised for the design of sundials. OCLC locates 5 copies worldwide with only one in the UK (University of Oxford), one in Italy, two in Germany and one in America.
Lot 65
Shakespeare source book.- Prepositas his Practise, a Work-very necessary to be used for the better preservation of the Health of Man, Translated out of Latin into English by L. M., mostly black letter, title with woodcut fleur-de-lis ornament, woodcut initial and headpiece, title a little soiled with British Library ink stamp to verso and "Duplicate for Sale 1769" stamp below, ink name on recto largely erased causing minor holing with neat tissue repair, red ink marking to table at end, last gathering closely shaved at foot, damp-staining and occasional light browning, medical receipt in an early hand to N2 verso, bookplate with 19th century gift inscription to front pastedown, later red morocco, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked and recornered, rubbed, [STC 20180.7], small 4to, by John Wolfe for Edward White, dwelling at the little north doore of Paules, at the signe of the Gunne, 1588.⁂ Rare book of medical receipts, a possible source book for Ophelia's "garland speech". We can trace no copy at auction since 1935.In his 1979 essay "Ophelia's Herbal" (Economic Botany, 1979, pp.227-232), Lucile Newman cites the present work as a potential source for Ophelia's famous "garland speech", highlighting three receipts in particular (nos. 88, 203 and 212) as containing the herbs mentioned which indicate that she could be intending for their use as abortifacients.
Lot 76
Witchcraft.- Wagstaffe (John) The Question of Witchcraft Debated; Or a discourse against their Opinion that affirm Witches, first edition, first issue (without publisher's name in imprint), lacking initial blank, trimmed just touching headline on one preface leaf and sidenotes on C3, small embossed library stamp to title, later sprinkled calf, rubbed, upper cover slightly stained, [Wing 198A], 8vo, 1669.⁂ A reissue includes "Edward Millington" in the imprint; a second edition appeared in 1671.
Lot 9
Descartes (René) Meditationes de prima philosophia, 2 parts in 1, second edition, woodcut printer's device to titles, errata to verso of general title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, title strengthened at inner margin verso, water-stained, browner at start, occasional spotting, [Willems 985; Guibert 43.2], Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1642 bound with [Schook (Marten)] Admiranda methodus novae philosophiae Renati des Cartes, title with woodcut printer's device, ⁂11&12 blank, some staining, occasional spotting, Utrecht, Johannes van Waesberge, 1643, together 2 works in 1 vol., recased in old limp vellum, soiled, 12mo⁂ Second edition of Descartes's principal work on metaphysics; the first to contain a complete set of objections and replies. Here bound with Schook's attack on Descartes, prompted by the latter's controversy with Voetius. Schook later claimed that Voetius was in fact the main author of the work. Provenance: Mark Pattison, Lincoln College, Oxford (blind-stamp to general title).
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Curiosa.- Dulaure (Jacques-Antoine) Pogonologia, or a Philosophical and Historical Essay on Beards, first edition in English, half-title, lightly browned, one or two corrections in ink, book-label of Thomas Preston, contemporary sheep, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, Exeter, printed by R.Thorn, and London, T.Cadell, 1786 § Treatise (A) on the Custom of Counting Noses, first edition, title lightly soiled and with faint ink signature, ex-library copy with embossed stamp, later half calf, rubbed, rebacked, for M.Smith, 1779 § Modern Dissertation (A) on a Certain necessary Piece of Household Furniture, 16pp., only edition, title with woodcut ornament, modern panelled calf, spine faded, by H.Kent, 1752, 8vo (3)⁂ An interesting and amusing group of oddities, on beards, noses, and chamber pots. The first is a scarce satirical work on beards which until that time had long been out of fashion. The second, on noses, is one of two issues with variant imprints, both rare; ESTC records only one copy with this imprint (Dublin City Libraries). The third item, on chamber pots, has 4 locations in ESTC (BL, Guildhall, & Wellcome in UK, and another in Kansas).
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