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Lot 129
* Great Exhibition. Hawkins (G. lithographers), Untitled panorama, Messrs. Fox Henderson & Co. Oct 1st.1850, large tint stone lithograph, proof before title, some creasing and marginal fraying, 360 x 1000 mm, mounted, together with Guesdon (A. lithographer). The Palace of Industry, Paris, Universal Exhibition of 1855, E. Gambart & Company, 1855, large tint stone lithograph, title repeated in French, some spotting, old central fold, occasional marginal closed tears, 490 x 845 mmQty: (2)
Lot 132
* Lynch (Ilbury, 1886-1951). The Lady of the Loggia-Largesse!, 1907, pen & ink on paper, depicting a young lady in a long flounced strapless gown, holding a flower in one hand and a folding fan in the other, standing on a stone step against a colonnaded structure in a garden, a cloaked peasant figure sitting cross-legged on the ground beside her and gazing up, titled, signed, and dated to lower margin below image, small brown mark showing though from verso (unfinished sketch on reverse), image size 25.2 x 21.8cm, sheet size 27.4 x 25.7cm, mountedQty: (1)NOTESInspired by Aubrey Beardsley, Ilbury Lynch first became well-known for his 1909 drawing 'Just Published', a homage to Beardsley (1872-1898) and his biographer Robert Ross, now in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. He subsequently worked for publisher Grant Richards illustrating Ernest Bramah’s The Transmutation of Ling (1911), Lord Dunsany’s Five Plays (1914) and Ada Leverson’s Bird of Paradise (1914) and amongst other works.
Lot 217
Person (David). Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters, necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall Heads of diverse Sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of Naturall things unfoulded, &c., 1st edition, Printed by Richard Badger, for Thomas Alchorn, and are to be sold at his shop, in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the grene-dragon, 1635, A1 present before title, with near-contemporary ink ownership inscription 'E Libris Hugonis Walsh 1669', title within decorative woodcut border, woodcut head-pieces, etc., early brown ink manuscript note on slip of paper, describing the difference between a partial and total eclipse, bound in after final leaf of text, and further contemporary ink manuscript to verso of blank leaf at rear, giving computations of the circumference of the earth, the distance from the earth and the sun, etc., small area of worming to head of inner margin at front of volume, and one or two wormholes to margins elsewhere, none affecting text, lacks signatures Mm-Nn4 (pages 87-102) from the separately paginated fifth part of the text, B8 misbound after B1 to first part of the volume, occasional pale waterstain (text block otherwise generally in good condition), marbled edges and endpapers, 19th-century blind-decorated full calf, spine lettered in gilt, a little wear to joints and head and foot of spine, small area of surface leather to upper cover lifted, small 4to (binding measures 185 x 140 mm, 7.25 x 5.5 ins), together with: Royal Society, The Philosophical Transactions from the year MDCC. (where Mr. Lowthorp ends) to the year MDCCXX. abridg'd, and dispos'd under general heads, by Benj. Motte., volume 1 only (of 2), London: R. Wilkin, R. Robinson, S. Ballard, et al., 1721, imprimatur leaf before title, numerous folding engraved plates and diagrams, contemporary panelled calf, gilt decorated spine, joints split, worn to extremities, 4to, Bartholinus (Thomas), Anatomia, ex Caspari Bartolini parentis institutionibus, The Hague: Adriani Vlacq, 1655, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait and numerous full-page illustrations, eight folding plate plates, leaf D4 torn to lower outer corner with text loss (repaired, with text provided in manuscript), R8 & 2C3 torn to fore-edge blank margin, occasional light damp staining, contemporary calf, two old paper labels to spine, joints split and some wear, and others including an incomplete & wormed volume of Horological dialogues, by John Smith, 1675Qty: (6)NOTESSTC 19781; ESTC S114573; Wellcome 4918. The only published work of David Person, or Pierson 'of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman', being a series of five treatises on the physical and natural sciences: the nature and effect of the sun, moon and stars, circumference of the globe, the causes of meteors, comets, and weather, battles and combats, happiness, sleep and dreams, and miracles, prodigies, the philosopher's stone and metaphysics. Person "held that celestial bodies are incorruptible and did not believe that new stars were natural phenomena. Instead, they were 'extraordinary works of the great maker, threatening mortalls by their frownings'... He rejected Copernicus on the ground that the universe, as it resolves, must have an immovable centre which is the earth" (Dobrzycki, The Reception of Copernicus' Heliocentric Theory, 1973).
Lot 96
Two Indian single earrings, to include a silver gilt, set with white sapphire and later replacement paste stones, garnets and seed pearl drop, with a yellow metal clasp, 5cm high, and an elaborate multi stone and enamel earrings, the top section set with diamonds, sapphire, ruby, garnet, moon stone, seed pearl, coral and emerald in a flower design, the lower section with white, red and green enamel, with birds and leaves, set with central paste stone, yellow metal, unmarked, 5g all in. (2)
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