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*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Receipts Book kept by Bridget Domvile, dated 1695, twenty-one leaves of medical receipts, including the distilling of treackle water, a water for the stone and gravell, to make wormwood water, a tobaco for rhume, for a sore breast, recipes for scurvy, for the obstruction of the lungs, a powder to prevent miscaring ('Take dragons blood 1 dram powder of red corall 1 dram ambergreene the weight of 2 barley cornes make this into a powder and in a littill claret wine '), for the dropsie, malencloly water, for the biteing of an adder, and sixteen further leaves of cookery receipts inverted at rear of the volume, including recipes for seede cake, sacke poset, sugar cakes, white marmalad of quince, jely of lupins, sasages without skinnes, a hagis pudinge, veale pye, sage wine good for the head, white meade, etc., old burn mark at upper margin throughout affecting some recipe titles and text, professional archival repairs throughout, contemp. limp vellum with owners name and date to upper cover, rubbed and soiled, folio An Accompanying research note indicates that the name Domvile is most closely associated with Loughlinstown and Loughlinstown House in Ireland at this time but that no Bridget had been found at the right date. The authoress acknowledges some of her sauces for the receipts, names including Lady Warwick, Lady Digby, Lady North, Dr. Bates, Mrs Mild, Lady Trevor and Lady Sidenham. (1)
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Brigham (Amariah). Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation and Mental Excitement upon Health, with Notes by Robert Macnish, 1st English ed., 1836, pubs. ad. leaf at rear, a few minor marks to extrems., orig. patterned dark green cloth with paper label to spine (darkened and chipped with a little loss), 12mo, together with Account of the Ceremonies at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the New York Assylum for Idiots, at Syracuse, Sept. 8, 1854, Albany, J. Munsell, 1854,wood eng. frontis., 42 pp., disbound without covers, slim 8vo, plus Report of the Commissioners on Idiocy, to the General Assembly of Connecticut, May Session, 1856, Newhaven, Carrington & Hotchkiss, 1856, 77 pp., disbound without covers, slimi 8vo, and two others (Antiquarian Notices of Syphilis in Scotland in the 15th & 16th Centuries, by J. Y. Simpson, [1862] & On the importance of a due estimate of the different modes and degrees of Deformation of the Skull, in the study of Craniology, by Joseph Barnard Davis, c. 1865), both slim 8vo The author of the first work was Superintendent of the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, Connecticut, and later of the New York Lunatic Asylum at Utica. Hunter and MacAlpine, pp. 821-825. (5)
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Austin (Thomas, ed.). Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books, pub. for The Early English Text Society by OUP, 1964, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, together with Stone (Reynolds, illust.), A Butler's Recipe Book, 1719, ed. Philip James Introduction by Ambrose Heath, pub. CUP, 1935, numerous wood engs. to letterpress, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, in chipped and faded d.j., small 8vo, plus Frere (Catherine Frances, ed.), A Proper Newe Booke of Cokerye, with Notes, Introduction and Glossary; together with some Account of Domestic Life, Cookery and Feasts in Tudor Days, and of the first owners of the Book, Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Margaret Parker his Wife, pub. W. Heffer, Cambridge, 1913, port. frontis., orig. gilt dec. cloth, 8vo, plus six other facsimile works similar (9)
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Cunliffe (Barry). Excavations at Portchester Castle, vols. 1-3 (Roman/Saxon/Medieval), pub. Society of Antiquaries of London, 1975-77, num. b & w illusts. and folding maps and charts (text in vol. 1 extensively highlighted with ink), orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, together with RCHM (Wales), An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan, vols. 1-3 (the Stone and Bronze Ages/the Iron Age and the Roman Occupation/the early Christian Period), pub. Cardiff, 1976, num. maps, some folding, orig. cloth in d.j.s, plus Richmond (Ian), Hod Hill. Antiquities from Hod Hill in the Durden Collection, 2 vols., pub. British Museum, 1962-68, num. b & w illusts. and diags., orig. cloth in slightly frayed d.j.s, large 8vo, and others similar incl. softback publications, all VG (30)
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*SIMON JONES (Contemporary) india Buildings, Liverpool, signed and dated 'Simon Jones, 86' and further inscribed as title (lower left) watercolour 26 x 29 ½in (66 x 75cm) India Buildings in Water Street, Liverpool was built for Alfred Holt and Co. as a headquarters for the Blue Funnel Line. It was designed by Arnold Thornely and Herbert J. Rowse who had won the competition for this building in 1923 (assessor Giles Gilbert Scott). It was built between 1924-30. Extensively damaged by bombing in 1941, it was reconstructed under Rowse's supervision. Steel-framed, with cliff-like Portland stone walls, and Italian Renaissance detail, its original building cost was #1,250,000. Rowse, the architect had travelled extensively in America. The building in scale, combination of functions and architectural treatment emulates the most ambitious of early 20th Century American commercial buildings. Sold with this lot are nine watercolours (mounted in three frames) by William L. Stevenson depicting Bird and Botanical subjects: these include 'Pigeon Orchid, Hibiscus Oleander, Mandarin's Duck, and Lady Amherst's Pheasant'.
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A gold mounted drop shaped pink shell cameo pendant, designed as the portrait of a lady within a border of half pearls, a 15ct gold, ruby and diamond set pendant cross, Birmingham 1904 (one ruby lacking), and a garnet and cultured pearl set necklace, the front with three clusters and with a pear shaped single stone drop (one pearl lacking).
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