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Lot 9
IDEAL STAMP ALBUM VOLUME 1, A-Z, 1840-1916. 1000s of stamps, both mint and used, including German states, Italian states, Asia, Americas. Noted Cape Triangles, Wmk varieties and errors noted. GB Mulready front black MX stamps from 1d Black and 1d plates, surface printed through to kings. A true treasure chest and untouched for 50 years, original lot. HCV
Lot 159
A MID 20TH CENTURY RICHARD GINORI FISH DINNER SERVICE, ITALIAN, for fourteen persons, comprising: fourteen dinner plates, side plates, soup dishes and bread plates, an oval dish, a large oval serving dish (66cm long) and a sauce boat, of wrythen fluted design, each with a specimen fish and water plants to the centre, within a border of different aquatic animals and gilt rims, green printed back stamp. (Qty)CONDITION REPORTGood overall condition, no noted damage, crazing or hairlines.
Lot 97
CILICIA AND SYRIA 1919/1959. Mint and used collection in a stock book with plenty of interesting material, comprising nearly four hundred stamps of Cilicia (overprints on Turkey and France), including some varieties and a rare stamp Yvert 7a Maury 10 mint (2.850e), Syria collected intensively/specialised including multiple attractive varieties of surcharge, both Olympic games sets and much more, huge catalogue value within
Lot 291
Mathematics with 'moveable cuts'.- Ward (John) The posthumous works of Mr. John Ward, Author Of The Young Mathematician's Guide, 2 parts in 1, folding plate of moveable cuts, numerous woodcut diagrams, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, ink inscription partially erased from head of title, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spine in compartments, joints split, but holding, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and little scuffed, some staining, 8vo, Printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, 1765.⁂ A reissue of the 1730 edition, with a different title and sig. B reset. The first part deals with navigation and the second spherical trigonometry. Includes: 'A table of difference of latitude and departure.'; 'A table of meridional parts, or miles.' and 'A table of parallel parts in half a mile's differ. of Longitude.' each with a separate title dated 1729.Provenance: Ampleforth Abbey (large purple pictorial stamp to front free endpaper).
Lot 3
Printed Book of Hours.- Tory (Geoffrey) Hore in laudem beatissime Virginis Marie, collation: a-r8 s4, 140ff., complete, printed in red and black, text printed in lettre bâtarde, 13 woodcut illustrations, printer's 'pot cassé' device on title, every page except 3 (2pp. privilege and colophon) within wonderful four-piece woodcut border in 26 distinct combinations, featuring flowers, birds, insects, animals, knots, urns etc. and in the lower block several coats-of-arms, including King Francois I, his mother Louise of Savoy, the King of Navarre Henri d'Albret and his queen (sister of Francois I), ruled in red, short repaired tear to b4, b5 and b6 just encroaching into border, small stain to title, light water-stain to margin of one leaf, 18th century red morocco, gilt, green morocco spine labels, covers a little stained, extremities lightly rubbed, in modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, 4to (194 x 134mm.), Paris, Simon du Bois for Geoffrey Tory, 1527.⁂ A handsome example of sixteenth century French printing, with the first use of these outline illustrations and decorative borders, called "a la moderne". Here Tory continues his innovation in design and his incorporation of the more accomplished Italian printing techniques into the French book. Of particular note are the use of a double-page in the depiction of the Annunciation, which results in the angel facing Mary from the opposite page, and the fully-inked crow and horse in the the Triumph of Death, which produces a more haunting effect.Provenance: Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (noted Prussian collector, monogram stamp in lower margin of title); Paul Harth (red morocco ex-libris label on front pastedown); H.P. Kraus (bookplate from the Stock and Reference Library on front pastedown); Royal Library and the Royal Museum in Berlin (ink stamp on title and recto of final leaf plus release stamp on verso).Literature: Bohatta 330; Brun 232; Fairfax Murray French 279; Mortimer French 304.
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Lot 1
Rolewinck (Werner) Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum cronicas complectens, collation: [par]6 A8 B-O6 P4, 96 ff. (of 98, lacking final 2 blanks), 50 lines and headline, Gothic type, large woodcut illustration to verso of title, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, title soiled, first few leaves crudely repaired at edges, upper corners of many other leaves repaired, other upper corners damp-mottled and slightly frayed, 19th century half morocco by Potter & Sons of York, spine a little faded, folio (273 x 183mm.), Strasbourg, Johann Pruess, [after 6 April 1490].⁂ Rolewinck's world chronicle, which includes mention of the invention of printing. Provenance: Ampleforth Abbey Library (ink stamp on front free endpaper and bookplate); John de Zulueta (bookplate).Literature: Goff R276; HC 6916; Bod-inc R-126; BSB-Ink R-251; GW M38725.
Lot 285
Euclid. Elementorum libri XV, edited by Cristoforo Clavio, 2 vol. in 1, titles with fine woodcut architectural borders, woodcut printer's device to final colophon leaf, woodcut initials and diagrams, typographic ornaments, contemporary ink signature "Hieronymi Saphii" and small old ink ownership stamp to titles (with some doodles to second title), vol.1 with L4v & L5r poorly inked with one passage overwritten in early ink manuscript, stain to S8 & T1, and repairs to lower outer corner of Pp7-Qq6 with loss of a few letters to two side-notes, final leaf of vol.2 creased and frayed, occasional light browning, old ink stamp to final blank at end of vol.1 and another to front free endpaper, upper hinge weak, contemporary limp vellum, old paper manuscript label, soiled and stained, slight worming and splits to upper joint, [Adams E985; EDIT 16 18360], 8vo, Rome, Vincenzo Accolti, 1574.⁂ Scarce first edition of Clavius's extensive commentary on Euclid's elements, his most enduring work.
Lot 298
Sale Catalogue.- Fourcroy (Antoine François, Comte de) Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque..., first and only edition, half-title, with 4pp. 'Annonce' following title listing contents, times and dates of the sessions of the auction and ink duty stamp to head, title lightly foxed, engraved bookplate, later half calf, rubbed, splits to joints, spine ends repaired, 8vo, Paris, Tilliard Freres, 1810.⁂ Scarce and important sale catalogue of the library of the chemist Fourcroy, intended to be used as a bibliography and including a classification scheme and indexes of authors and titles. The sale lasted for 29 days and contained nearly 2800 lots of which 1800 relate to science or medicine, particularly chemistry. An interesting comparison to the library of his near contemporary Lavoisier which was roughly the same size but did not include so many scientific items.
Lot 183
Byroniana.- Friend of the Law (The): Journal of the Government and Island of Hydra, issue no.14, 6pp. [one bifolium and a single sheet], text in modern Greek, double column, with the orders of the Greek government for the observation of a day of mourning for Lord Byron, ink inscription at head of first page, water-stained and lightly spotted, together with various translations loosely inserted in modern cloth-backed board folder, torn at head of spine, 4to, Hydra, 2nd May, 1824.⁂ Very rare piece of Byron ephemera. The revered status of Byron in Greece at the time of his death, and indeed still today, is evinced by the decrees published in this newspaper only a few weeks after his death at Missolonghi on April 19th, 1824. The 12-point mourning schedule includes: "The fifth day of the month of May, throughout the whole of the free Greek dominion, shall be a day of mourning, on account of the loss of our brilliant supporter, Lord Byron." Other tributes to their hero include flags at half mast on all forts and ships; all public offices to be closed (except those where medical supplies are sold); eleven-gun salutes from the main forts and three broadsides from every armed vessel, except those in the Bay of Argos which should fire seven.Provenance: Nottingham Public Library (small embossed stamp upper corner of first page; and embossed stamp on front board.)
Lot 203
Theatre.- Sutcliffe (Berkley, one of the leading stage designers of the mid 20th century, 1918-1979) Collection of 25 original costume designs for the production "Love from Judy" at the Saville Theatre, watercolour and gouache over pencil, some heightened with white, a few with swatches of fabric pinned to sheet, 10 sheets on blue-coloured papers, irregularly trimmed, with 5 signed, 15 on thin wove paper, numerous inscriptions and ink stamps, various sizes, the latter 15 each approx. 400 x 260 mm (15 3/4 x 10 1/4 in), handling creases, old folds, a few nicks and tears, occasional surface dirt, unframed, 1952 (25)Provenance:Sir Emile Littler, Pantomine House, Birmingham [ink stamp to many]
Lot 300
Wecker (Johann Jacob) Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art & Nature, being the Summe and Substance of Naturall Philosophy, Methodically Digested, first edition in English, fine etched additional title by Richard Gaywood with 7 portraits including including Alexis of Piedmont, Albertus Magnus, William Harvey, Francis Bacon and Raymond Lull, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, initials and diagrams, 3pp. bookseller's catalogue at end, lightly browned, a few rust spots, Macclesfield Library copy with small embossed stamp to title and South Library label to front pastedown, contemporary sheep ruled in blind, rubbed, scuffs to lower cover, some splits to joints, [Duveen p.613; Ferguson II 534; Krivatsky 12628; Wing W1236], folio, for Simon Miller, 1660.⁂ A good copy of this encyclopaedia of arts and sciences, first published in Latin in 1582. Wecker was born, studied and worked in Basel, firstly as professor of logic and Latin, before graduating as a physician. His wife Anna (a daughter of Isaac Keller) published a cookery book in 1600. The work includes sections on fire, cosmetics, wines, poultry, trees, herbs, fruits, metals, gardens, glass, fountains, the occult, painting and sports.
Lot 155
Agriculture.- Donaldson (James) Husbandry anatomized, or, an enquiry into the present manner of teiling and manuring the ground in Scotland for most part, second edition, ink stamp to title, [Fussell p.84; Perkins 497; Rothamsted p.48; Goldsmiths' 3384; Wing D1853], Edinburgh, Printed by John Reid, 1697 bound with [Donaldson (James)] Postscript to Husbandry Anatomiz'd, [Fussell p.84; Perkins 498; Wing D1855], Edinburgh, Printed by John Reid, 1698, together 2 works in 1 vol., 12pp. ms. index and notes at end, identified by an inscription (signed A.C.) as the hand of Sir John Sinclair of Longformachus [sic], some staining / water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned throughout, closely trimmed at head, 18th century mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, upper joint splitting, but holding firm, small 8vo ⁂ Second edition of the first printed work on agriculture in Scotland (ESTC records a 1696 edition at Signet Library only (now dispersed)). 'A rare little book ... A high estimation has always been placed upon this work, as a valuable production of that early time, and it is considered fully equal to anything of that kind that had appeared to date. Copies are exceedingly scarce.' (McDonald, Agricultural Writers, p.142). Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Library (Rothamsted), sold these rooms July, 2018, lot 308 (ink stamp to recto and verso of title).
Lot 202
Theatre.- Zinkeisen (Doris Clare, Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, 1898-1991) Collection of 75 original costume designs for the production "Dear Miss Phoebe" at the Phoenix Theatre, including many full-length dresses, bonnets, overcoats, and accessories including handbags, watercolour, gouache, pencil under-drawing, many heightened with white and with swatches of material pinned to the paper, numerous inscriptions, production stamp with details of the scene and act of each costume, on various wove papers, each sheet approx. 380 x 280 mm (14 7/8 x 11 in), handling creases, old pin holes, surface dirt and minor browning, all loose, unframed, [circa 1950]Provenance:Sir Emile Littler, Pantomine House, Birmingham [ink stamp to many]⁂ Commissioned by Emile Littler, the English theatrical impresario, producer and author, who controlled the Palace Theatre, London from 1946 to 1983 and had two stints as President of the Society of West End Theatre Managers in the 1960s.
Lot 88
Law.- Norwich lawyer's copy.- Fitzherbert (Sir Anthony) 1577. La graunde abridgement, collecte par le iudge tresreuerend mo[n]sieur Anthony Fitzherbert, 2 parts in 1, black letter, titles within ornate woodcut architectural borders, woodcut historiated initials, occasional contemporary ink marginalia, first title with short split within central title (without loss), faded ink stamp and small repair to upper margin and little creased, part 2 fol.7 misbound after title, some spotting / light foxing, occasional light staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped calf, covers with arabesque centre-pieces, sympathetically rebacked, edges little worn, rubbed, [STC 10957], small folio, Richard Tottel, 1577.⁂ An important work of its time (first published between 1514 and 1517), it was 'an enormous enterprise for its day, a massive digest of 13,845 cases from the year-books arranged under alphabetical headings' (ODNB).Provenance: Myles Branthwaite (1557-1612), successful Norwich lawyer, who lived at Hethel Hall, and acquired five other manors in the area.
Lot 5
Donaueschingen copy.- Herodotus. Herodoti Libri Novem, edited by Joachim Camerarius, collation: α6 β4 a-z, Aa-Cc6, initial spaces with guide-letters, woodcut historiated initials and printer's device to otherwise blank final f., Basel, Heirs of Johann Hervagius, [1541] bound with Thucydides. Thucydides cum scholiis, edited by Joachim Camerarius, collation: α*6 β*6 α6 b-z A-D6 E8 F10, woodcut decorative initials, t6 blank, colophon f., lacking final f. (with woodcut printer's device, otherwise blank), Basel, Heirs of Johann Hervagius, 1540, together 2 works in 1 vol., titles in Greek and Latin, text in Greek, titles with large section of lower blank corner repaired, spotting and mostly light staining, lightly browned, lacking front pastedown, contemporary ornately blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards, metal clasps, spine in compartments and with later ink title, short split to pigskin of lower cover, a few small ink stains, lightly soiled, folio (312 x 200mm., binding 326 x 220mm.)⁂ The Donaueschingen copy of the first Herwagen editions of these Greek historians; the Herodotus being the second Greek edition overall and the Thucydides the third. With regards to the binding the second borders and centre panels with blind rolls of half figures (prophets on upper cover, virtues on the lower) are signed 'A F'. According to Haebler (I, 110), three potential candidates for rolls thus signed are the two Leipzig binders Andreas Ficker (1542-92) and Andreas Francke (c. 1530), and Andreas Franckow, of Wittenberg (c.1534). Provenance: F.F. Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen (small blue ink stamp to verso of first title, slight show through). Literature: Adams H395; Adams T664.
Lot 13
Porta (Giovanni Baptista della) De Distillatione lib. IX, first edition, woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, epigrams in Hebrew, Greek, Chaldean, Arabic, Slavonic, and Armenian, each with Latin translation, full-page engraved portrait of the author within elaborate frame by Giacomo Lauri, woodcut ornaments and initials and 35 illustrations in text, contemporary ink inscription and small circular ink stamp on title, a few leaves browned, some spotting and light water-staining, contemporary limp vellum, [cf.Ferguson II 216, Strasbourg edition of 1609, "the Roman edition is much the finer book"], 4to, Rome, Camera Apostolica, 1608.⁂ Important treatise which represents the most comprehensive view of the applications of distillation in the sixteenth century. The distillation process, as applied to every conceivable substance, was the basis of alchemical research and as such was the beginning of experimental chemistry. The nine parts of this work deal with the various kinds of distillation, including methods of extraction, the preparation of scented distilled waters, oils distilled from resins, oils distilled from woods, the distillation of corrosive mineral acids, the properties of these acids, distillation of alcohol from wine, and the preparation of various ointments.
Lot 293
Mining & Metallurgy.- Calvör (Henning) Acta historico-chronicologico-mechanica circa metallurgiam in Hercynia Superiori. Oder Historisch-chronologische Nachricht und theoretische und practische Beschreibung des Maschinenwesens, 2 vol. in 1, engraved illustration and 48 plates, 7 folding, one with overlays, 1763; Historische Nachricht von der Unter- und gesamten Ober-Harzischen Bergwerke..., errata leaf at end, 1765, together 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, woodcut head-pieces and initials, title of first work with contemporary ink signature and slightly soiled, old ink stamp "G.D." to verso of titles, very lightly browned with one or two small stains but generally very clean, contemporary half sheep, rubbed, joints split, spine worn at head, folio, Braunschweig ⁂ The first is an important work on mining technology, intended as a supplement to Schlüter's Gründliche Unterricht von Hüttenwerken published in Braunschweig in 1738 (see lot 292), and bound, as often, with Calvör's invaluable historical companion volume on the history of mining in Germany, specifically the Harz mountains in northern Germany. Mining had taken place in the Harz mountains since the middle of the 10th century and they were the source of a number of metals and minerals including silver, lead, gold, copper, iron, sulphur, alum, and arsenic.
![Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer).- [Mellish (Florence Vivienne, photographer)] "Vivienne". Photographic portrait of Sir Winsto](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0c5be023-91b9-447b-ad4d-ae1d00a00107/72072158-8a81-4658-9683-ae1d00a2fff4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 219
Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer).- [Mellish (Florence Vivienne, photographer)] "Vivienne". Photographic portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, signed by Churchill on mount 'Winston S. Churchill | 1955', 130 x 160mm, photographer's stamp to verso, small amount of spotting at top edge of mount, framed, [c.1950].⁂ One of Churchill's favourite portraits, which was used for his 1950 election campaign. The photograph was taken by Churchill's daughter Sarah's mother-in-law, 'Vivienne', who was known as the "Grand Old Lady of the Camera", due to her insistence that all subjects come to her studio rather than she to them. Churchill, however, was the exception and during their ten minute session, Vivienne produced nine studies of which this is one. The present photograph belonged to the de Blanck family - Ambassador Count Guillermo de Blanck y Menocal was a friend of Churchill's and his son the artist, Dario de Blanck, was introduced to painting by Churchill. The photograph is accompanied by certificate of authentication from reputable autograph expert Garry King (Autographica Ltd). The lot also includes another signed photograph, of classical guitarist Andrès Segovia, dedicated to Guillermo de Blanck.
Lot 302
Alexander, Trallianus. De singularum corporis patrium, ab hominis coronide ad imum usque calcaneum, vitiis, aegritudinibus, & iniuriis, libri ad unguem fauti v, edited by Alban Thorer, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut historiated initials, c6 blank, 2 errata ff. at end, lacking final f. (with woodcut printer's device, otherwise blank), title with ink stamp, lightly foxed and with small chip at foot, stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, new endpapers, later vellum, 19th century morocco labels to spine (1 chipped), soiled, [Wellcome I, 206; Durling 147; VD 16 ZV 394; cf. Adams A701 (records fewer preliminary ff.)], folio, Basel , Henricus Petri, March, 1533.⁂ Rare in commerce. Alexander of Tralles was one of the most eminent physicians of the Byzantine Empire. This edition edited by Thorer (c.1489-1550), Swiss physician and Rector of Basel University. Provenance: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (ink stamp to title and a2).
Lot 94
Law.- Blackstone (Sir William) Tracts, chiefly relating to the antiquities and laws of England, third edition, 3 engraved tables, of which 1 folding, a few engraved illustrations of seals, all but 2 leaves of those normally found after p.353 misbound at start, purple armorial ink stamp to title, some spotting and occasional light staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, joints splitting, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, some staining, rubbed, 4to, Oxford, Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1771.⁂ Scarce copy at auction of the most complete edition of this work. Includes Magna Carta, the Charter of the Forest, and 'Observations on the Oxford press'.
Lot 142
Craven (Elizabeth) A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. In a Series of Letters, half-title, 4pp. publisher's catalogue at end, old ink stamp to foot of title and following leaf, original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened, numbered "23" in manuscript on spine, very slightly rubbed, short tear to foot of lower joint, preserved in modern drop-back box, Vienna, R.Sammer, 1800 § M[ontagu]e (Lady M[ar]y W[ortle]y) Letters...written during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa..., 2 vol., half-titles, attractive contemporary tree sheep, spines gilt with green roan labels, Paris, Nyon, An XI - 1803, 12mo (3)⁂ The first is a remarkable survival of a work originally published in 1789, by a talented playwright and travel writer who knew Johnson, Boswell and Horace Walpole. She and her first husband, 6th Baron Craven, became embroiled in a number of scandals and separated in 1780. She subsequently formed a relationship with the Margrave of Brandenburg-Anspach, to whom these letters are written, and married him in 1791 when their respective spouses had died. Part of the publisher's 'Pocket-Library of the most eminent Works of English Poets and Prosaist' (as printed on upper cover). Library Hub lists only 3 printed copies in the UK (National Library of Scotland, University of St.Andrews, and the Wellcome Library).
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Lot 330
Atlases.- Morden (Robert) [Geography Rectified: or, A Description of the World], maps only, no title or text, comprising double-page engraved 'Catalogue of Mapps in This Booke' and 77 double-page engraved maps only (of 78, lacking map of Bermudas), all with attractive bright outline hand-colouring in contemporary hand, all mounted on stubs, some offsetting and foxing, 2 maps with repairs to margins, 1 map closely shaved at foot, just within plate margin, ink inscription to front endpaper, faint ink stamp to rear endpaper, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, retaining much of original backstrip, 8vo, n.p., [c.1688]⁂ Bound volume of maps from Morden's Geography Rectified including a twin hemisphere map and 16 maps of the Americas, with a general map of America showing California as an island. The work was first published in 1680 with 62 maps and a second, enlarged, edition in 1688 with 78 maps.
Lot 207
Trollope (Anthony) He Knew He Was Right, first edition, in the original 32 parts, 32 wood-engraved plates and vignette illustrations after Marcus Stone, part 14 lacking 2nd page of advertisement at front (torn out), all other slips and advertisements as called for, internally clean, part 8 p.189 lower corner fore-edge chipped, text-block broken at part 25 p.195 and part 32 p.384, original printed wrappers, 5 with covers detached and separated, 4 with covers loose but intact, 2 others with tears along spine, part 25 ink stamp to upper cover, part 32 lower cover toned and chipped at upper corners, occasional very faint surface soiling, overall a bright set, preserved in a custom cloth chemise and cloth pull-top box, extremities lightly rubbed, [Sadleir 31], 8vo, Virtue and Company, 1868-89.
Lot 287
Mathematics.- Computing.- Boole (George) An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities, first edition, third issue, errata f. following contents, chocolate brown endpapers, ink stamp of Intermediate Education Board for Ireland to upper blank corner of title and following 2 ff., some spotting, lightly browned, endpapers foxed, original cloth, spine gilt (including name of author and Macmillan & Co. at foot), rubbed, [Norman 266; Origins of Cyberspace 224], a good copy, 8vo, London [i.e. Dublin], Macmillan and Co., 1854.⁂ 'pure mathematics was discovered by George Boole in [this] work' (Bertrand Russell). His 'work led to...computer technology via the master's thesis of C.E. Shannon (1937), who recognized that the true/false values in Boole's two valued algebra were analogous to the open and closed states of electric circuits. This invention of the binary digit or "bit" made possible the development of the digital computer.' (Norman). Issue with 'Macmillan and Co.' alone on title, errata f. bound after contents and L2 and Q8 cancels. There is no 'Note' f., or publisher's catalogue.
Lot 86
Law.- Regis pie memorie Edwardi tertii a quadragesimo ad quinquagesimum, largely printed in black letter, text in legal French, woodcut historiated title, woodcut decorative initials, final f. blank, heavily annotated in a contemporary hand throughout, lower corner of sig.C1-E1 repaired, slightly affecting a few side-notes, small repaired hole in C3 with slight loss of text, occasional marginal staining, contemporary blind-stamped calf, rebacked, corners repaired, lacking ties, [STC 9583], folio, by Richard Tottel, 1565.⁂ Second edition of the year books 40 to 50, heavily annotated by an early legal hand. Provenance: Thomas ?Worswick (ink inscription at head of title); Eustachius Strickland (ink inscription dated York 1822 on front pastedown); York Law Library (small ink stamp to title margin, colophon and front endpaper).
Lot 8
Sweden.- Magnus (Johannes) Gothorum Sueonumque Historia, ex Probatis Antiquorum Monumentis Collecta, collation: α8 a-z, A-Z, Aa-Rr8, woodcut printer's device to title, map and illustrations, lacking final f. with printer's device, otherwise blank, some water-staining, occasional spotting, contemporary blind-stamped calf, arabesque centre-pieces within two sets of borders, spine in compartments and with later paper label with ms. title, head of spine and corners worn, a few small worm traces, rubbed, recased, 8vo (180 x 104mm.), Basel, [Widow of] Michael Isengrin, 1558.⁂ A patriotic blend of folklore and history of the monarchy by this exiled Catholic Archbishop. Provenance: Maj och Bertil Josephson (ink stamp to front free endpaper); Prof. Eric Stanley (1923-2018) Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford (bookplate to front free endpaper). Literature: Adams M137; VD 16 M 222.
Lot 311
Penicillin.- Fleming (Alexander) On the Antibacterial Action of Cultures of a Penicillium, with special reference to their use in the isolation of B. Influenzae, in The British Journal of Experimental Pathology, Vol. 10, No.3, pp.227-236, photographic illustrations on 1 leaf between pp.228 and 229, ink stamp to top edge, disbound, [Garrison-Morton 1933; Grolier Medicine 96; Heirs of Hippocrates 2320; Norman 798; PMM 420a], small 4to, June, 1929.⁂ First edition of the first announcement of the discovery of penicillin. In 1929, while working at St. Mary's Hospital in London, Fleming discovered the antibacterial properties of penicillium mould. He published his findings in this present essay and suggested that the brown liquid substance produced by the mould would be an 'efficient antiseptic for application to, or injection into, areas infected with penicillin-sensitive microbes' (p. 236). However, this substance was unstable, and it was not until 1940 that it was stabilised as a drug by Ernst Chain and Howard Florey. All three men shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Lot 304
Kahn (Fritz) Das Leben des Menschen, 5 vol., mixed edition (vol.1 & 2 third edition, vol.3 second edition, vol.4 & 5 first edition), plates and illustrations, some colour, a few folding, with large chromolithographed anatomical chart in pocket at end of vol.5, also another chart, accompanying leaflets and a pair of 3-D glasses, split along top edge of pocket, ownership stamp to front free endpapers, library stamps and label to vol.4, one or two minor marginal tears but overall an excellent set, original half cloth, slightly rubbed, Stuttgart, 1926-31; with an original salesman's sample of the work in original red pictorial wrappers, rubbed and slightly frayed at edges, 4to (6)⁂ A good though mixed set of the inner workings of the human body by the German gynaecologist Fritz Kahn, complete with the famous anatomical wall chart 'Der Mensch als Industriepalast'. This visualisation of the human body as a machine or chemical plant was hugely influential on many including the artist Eduardo Paolozzi, the manufacturers of medical teaching aids Adam Rouilly & Company who produced their own version, and the German artist Henning Lederer who, in 2006, created an interactive and animated installation based upon the poster.
Lot 162
LEWIS CARROLL (C. L. DODGSON). Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing. 39pp. Small format. Oxford, 1st published 1890 but this a later ed.; also The Wonderland Postage-Stamp-Case, a printed envelope containing pictorial card slip case in which is a folded pictorial sewn wallet for stamps, halfpenny to one shilling, with 12 inserted Victorian stamps of the appropriate denomination, invented 1889 but this a 3rd ed.
Lot 254
Japanese 1944 pattern Shin Gunto Katana, 65cm cutting edge, the tang signed Showa Ju Hachi Ningo Gatsu, 18th year, 5th month of Showa, (May 1943), the reverse with star stamp, and signed Kurihara Naganori of Seki.90cm overall length.Condition report: The scabbard has some scuffs, marks, and stains. The Tsuba and other iron parts have some corrosion. The grip has a paint finish over the binding. The habaki shows signs of wear. The blade has some shallow small chips or faults to the cutting edge as seen in image 9, there are also some similar small dents around the curve up to the point. The blade has a good polish but there are scattered black stains and light pitting marks throughout.
Lot 328
German S. 98/05 n.A. bayonet, by V.C Shilling, stamped with crown over W and 17 for 1917, as well as 1920's date stamp.This is one of the bayonets the German army was allowed to keep following the Paris Peace Conference signed on the 28th June 1919. Stamped on the right crossguard is the 1920's date stamp illustrating that it is a legal weapon for the new German army. The mark also prevented German soldiers from taking advantage of the cash rewards offered to civilians to hand in WWI surplus weaponry.50cm long
Lot 47
Deactivated Lee Enfield SMLE .303 rifle, 24 inch barrel, tangent sight, the wrist joint with GR crown and LSA (London Small Arms) mark, 1917 date, the reverse with RFI 1949 .410 stamp. serial number 31242.Deactivated to current EU/UK specifications with certificate. No licence required to purchase. Buyer must be over the age of 18.114cm long Condition report: The bolt opens and closes but does not cock and cannot be removed. The magazine can be removed.
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