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Halls Fine Art Auctioneers
Lot 33

A miniature mahogany dish top tripod table with bird cage block on a turned column, three down-swept legs terminating in a pointed toe with loaded feet, 21.5cm diameter, 26.5cm high

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Lot 40

A tortoiseshell pocket fruit knife, the twin blades stamped 'T H Dean', 6.5cm long, along with a tortoiseshell reticule of slender tapering form with rounded lid and base, 12.5cm long, and a circular tortoiseshell lidded plated dressing table box, 6cm diameter (3)

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Lot 53

A 20th century figured walnut, feather banded table top display cabinet in the 18th century taste, 43.5cm wide, 13cm high, 31cm deep

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Lot 63

A late Victorian walnut mantel/table clock, the 6 inch dial with ring of Roman numerals under a slow/fast subsidiary dial, the eight day spring driven movement striking on two coiled gongs, the back plate stamped 'Lenzkirch, 1 million', the leaf carved case with mask and leaf carved front corner pilasters over a gadroon moulded and figured walnut base with proud front corners, 30cm wide, 41.5cm high, 18cm deep

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Lot 92

A George III fruitwood pedestal supper table, the rectangular three plank top with rounded corners on a slender baluster column and tripod base, 68cm wide, 68cm high, 66cm deep 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.

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Lot 101

A Victorian mahogany centre table with bow ends on turned end supports united by a turned stretcher on four downswept legs termination in a scroll foot and salt glazed castors, 107cm wide, 73cm high, 48 cm deep 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.

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Lot 103

An early 19th century mahogany sofa table, the rectangular crossbanded top over a single end frieze drawer on four slender square tapering legs terminating in collars, 91cm long, 73cm high, 51cm deep 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.

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Lot 109

A William IV mahogany circular pedestal dining/centre table, the circular top with moulded edge on an octagonal baluster short column circular base raised on three heavy claw feet raised on later castors, 122cm diameter, 74cm high 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.

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Lot 112

An Edwardian mahogany envelope card table, the top with ribbon and bell flower decoration over a single frieze drawer fitted with gilt metal swing-handles, raised on four slender boxwood lined strung square tapering legs, united by an X-stretcher, 56cm square, 74cm high 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.

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Lot 119

An early 20th century walnut extending dining table and six chairs in the George I taste, the quarter veneered oval topped dining table on four slender cabriole legs terminating in pad foot, the table with winding mechanism opening to accommodate the two additional leaves, the chairs with shaped top rail over a solid back splat above a drop-in seat on cabriole front legs terminating in pad feet, table 148cm long (closed), 207cm long (extended), 106cm wide, 75cm high (7) 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.

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Lot 124

A 19th century mahogany painted fold-over tea table, the demi-lune top with central panel depicting putti riding a lion within an oval surround with summer bloom swags and ribbon painted outer border, opening to reveal a plain interior, over a swag and putti decorated frieze on three square tapering slender legs terminating in a block foot with matching swing-leg to the back supporting the fold-over top, 91cm wide, 73cm high (closed), 44.5cm deep 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.

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Lot 127

A Victorian walnut octagonal occasional table stamped `Gillow & Co. 3384` the veneered top with ebony saw tooth band within a moulded edge on four slender tapering fluted supports united by a matching X stretcher on four slender chamfered out-splay legs terminating in brass castors, 61cm diameter, 59.5cm high 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.

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Lot 144

A George IV mahogany fold-over tea table, the D shaped top over an ebony line strung frieze on four slender turned and tapering legs terminating in brass castors, (at fault) 91cm wide, 76cm high, 43cm deep 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.

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Lot 147

A Regency mahogany sofa table the flaps with rounded corners over one true and one false end frieze drawer on a short turned column and four down swept legs terminating in brass caps and castors, 91.5cm long, 50.5cm wide, 104.5cm (open) 71cm high 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.

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Lot 152

A late Victorian ebonised and mahogany museum display table cabinet the hinged sloping top over shallow glazed sides on four turned and tapering ebonised legs, 172cm wide, 107cm high, 64cm deep NOTE: By repute from the British Museum 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.

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Lot 644

A pair of Chinese fragmentary rice paper paintings, Qing dynasty, of a high ranking court official and his wife seated before a table and receiving food from boys, approximately 25cm by 20cm, in later clip frames 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.

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Lot 647

Five various Chinese rice paper paintings, Qing dynasty, comprising two of figures in landscapes, the largest 16cm by 23cm, the other a double frame, each panel 10cm by 6.5cm, an oval example of a woman at a tripod table, within a daffodil painted slip frame, 12.5cm long, and two depicting a Daoist ghost catcher and another figure, 18cm by 10cm (at fault) (5) 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.

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Lot 666

A Chinese hardwood side table, 20th century, with elaborate pierced low back carved with flowers above a plain bevelled serpentine top and florally carved and pierced apron, raised on four acanthus carved cabriole legs joined by c-scroll stretchers to a central acanthus carved bracket, 130cm wide, 58cm deep, 107cm high 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.

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Lot 668

A Japanese parquetry table cabinet, early 20th century, on later oak two tier stand, the cabinet with two inset panel cupboard doors enclosing an arrangement of six short drawers above a long drawer with lacquered interiors, two side carrying handles and elaborate lacquered metal hinges and corners, inlaid all over with a geometric design in contrasting woods and on narrow plinth, 60cm wide, 34cm deep, 54cm high 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.

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Lot 671

A Chinese rosewood kang table, early 20th century, inset with fielded panel top above a pierced grape and vine apron and curved panel ends carved with vine branches, curled bracket feet, 94cm wide, 44.5cm deep, 33cm high 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.

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 12

Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried). Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, John and Paul Knapton, 1749, vignette to title, twenty-eight engraved plates and twelve outline plates, closed tear repairs to margins of sheets [m] and [q], bound with A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves... , 1750, engraved vignette to title, five (of 7) engraved plates and four outline plates, lacking the second and third plate showing the front and back of a woman to follow sheet A, long horizontal closed tear repair across image of Table I across two of the figures, minor old marginalia to sheet N recto, index leaf at rear, library stamps throughout both works, most plates bearing two ink stamps, some spotting and soiling, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, covers near-detached, remains of backstrip loose but present, atlas folio (725 x 525mm) (1)

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Lot 44

Berkeley (George). A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects, 1st edition, Dublin, 1752, extra leaf Table of contents` after title (only found in some copies), some light browning throughout, library stamp to title and some tract titles, contemporary ownership signature of Richard Raikes at upper margin of title, modern library cloth gilt, 12mo. Keynes 101. Published in London the same year. This is a variant with a paragraph beginning `Licentious habits of youth` added on page 58 of the reprinted pages 55-58; footnotes referring to Alciphron` on pages 69 and 70 omitted on the reprinted leaf; and two paragraphs beginning `The constitution of these kingdoms` and `The magistrates, perhaps` omitted from pages 77-79 together with two footnotes lettered `h` and `i` resulting in a reprint of a shortened text on four leaves and the excision of pages 85-[86]. (1)

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Lot 48

Bondt (Jacob de). An Account of the Diseases, Natural History, and Medicines of the East Indies, Translated from the Latin... , To Which are Added Annotations by a Physician, 1776, publisher`s advert leaf at rear, some spotting, library stamp to title, together with Clark (John), Observations on the Diseases which Prevail in Long Voyages to Hot Countries, Particularly on Those in the East Indies, and on the Same Diseases as they Appear in Great Britain, 2 volumes bound in 1, 2nd [3rd] edition, 1792, separate title and part title to volume 2, paginated as one, folding table as pp. 565-6, errata leaf at rear, two small library stamps to title and one at end of text, minor spotting, both library cloth, slightly rubbed and darkened, second volume a little frayed at head of spine, both 8vo. G-M 2263 (first Latin edition, 1642): It is the first Dutch work on tropical medicine and includes the first modern descriptions of beri-beri and cholera`. The first English translation appeared in 1769. (2)

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Lot 76

Castro (Rodrigo de). De universa muliebrium morborum medicina, novo & antehac nemine tentato ordine opus absolutissimum; et Studiosis omnibus utile, Medicis vero pernecessarium, 4th enlarged and corrected edition, 2 parts in one volume, Hamburg: Zacharias Hertel, 1662, first title in red & black with allegorical engraving, separate title and register to second part, folding table, library stamp to title and table, bound with Medicus-politicus: sive de officiis medico-politicis tractatus, Hamburg: Zacharias Hertel, 1662, final blank present, occasional browning to both works, contemporary vellum, soiled, 4to. The Portuguese Jewish physician Rodrigo de Castro (1546-1627) fled from the Inquisition to become one of the earliest Jewish settlers in Hamburg. The first work here is his influential work on gynaecology: Krivatsy 2289; Wellcome II, p 312. The second work is one of the first `modern` works on medical ethics. It includes chapters on problems in forensic medicine, e.g. the examination of injuries, virginity, impotence, signs of poisoning and the examination of slaves` (Norman 416); G-M 1759; Krivatsy 2291; Waller 1821 (all citing the first edition of 1614). (1)

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Lot 92

Cowper (William). Myotomia Reformata: Or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body... To Which is Prefix`d an Introduction Concerning Muscular Motion, 1st edition, 1724, engraved frontispiece, engraved table, 67 engraved plates, including plate XIII in two states, engraved illustrations, plate XIV with marginal repair, a few minor spots, modern black morocco-backed boards, folio. This work made a modest first appearance in 1694 as an octavo, but Cowper worked until his death on a new edition which was finally published posthumously under the supervision and at the expense of Richard Mead (1673-1754). This sumptuous folio with engravings after Rubens and Raphael and an ingenious set of historiated initials ranks among the most artistic anatomical atlases of the period` (G-M 392.1). (1)

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Lot 93

Cowper (William). Myotomia Reformata: Or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body. Illustrated with Figures After the Life... To Which is Prefix`d an Introduction Concerning Muscular Motion, 1st edition, 1724, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, engraved table, 67 engraved plates after Rubens and Raphael, plate XIII in two states, illustrations, scattered light spotting, endpapers renewed, contemporary half calf, joints cracking, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio. Large paper copy. G-M 392.1. (1)

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Lot 169

Graunt (John). Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made Upon the Bills of Mortality, with Reference to the Government, Religion, Trade, Growth, Air, Diseases, and the Several Changes of the Said City, the Third Edition, Much Enlarged, John Martyn & James Allestry, 1665, two folding tables, both with closed tear repairs to verso, the larger table with further fold wear and minor damage to lettering, some old dampstaining throughout, marginal chipping and browning to first and last few leaves, outer margin of E8 repaired with some loss of text affecting nine lines, small tear to lower outer corner of H4 touching one letter of final line verso, lacks imprimatur leaf before title and both blanks (a8 and O8), modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, 8vo (161 x 99mm) First published in 1666, Graunt`s observations on the bills of mortality led to the publication of the first life table to be based on real mortality data. Designed to provide a warning against the plague epidemic, the bills of mortality did not give the age of death, but did provide the cause of death, and from this Graunt was able to estimate that 36% of all deaths concerned children under the age of six. Among the wide range of deaths listed in the Table of Casualty are the more common as well as Excessive drinking, Fainted in a Bath, Grief, Killed by several Accidents, Lethargy, Leprosie, Overlaid and starved at Nurse, and Suddenly. Goldsmiths` 1757; Kress 1155; Wing G1600. (1)

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Lot 205

Hodges (Nathaniel). Loimologia: or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: with precautionary Directions against the like Contagion..., To which is added, an essay on the different Causes of Pestilential Diseases, and how they become Contagious: with Remarks on the Infection now in France, and the most probable Means to prevent its Spreading here, 2nd edition, 1720, pp.[ii]+iii-vi, 288, folding table at rear, first gathering comprising three leaves (possibly lacking front blank/half-title?), library stamp to title and two stamps to folding table, library cloth, 8vo, (G-M 5121), together with Mead (Richard), A Discourse on the Plague, 9th edition, 1744, title with ownership ink stamp of R. Nesbitt MD to lower blank margin and also faint library stamp, front blank inscribed From the Author`, occasional light spotting, library cloth, 8vo, with Harvey (Gideon), The City Remembrancer: being Historical Narratives of the Great Plague at London, 1665..., volume 1 only (of two), lacks half-title, library stamp to title, library cloth, dampstained at foot of upper board, 8vo. Nathaniel Hodges provided the best record of the Great Plague of 1665. Hodges was a physician to the City of London and medical hero of the great epidemic. The first edition was published in 1672 in Latin and translation into English 1720. (3)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 223

John of Gaddesden. Rosa Anglica practica medicine a capite ad pedes noviter impressa & per que diligentissime emendata, 2nd edition, Venice: Impressa mandato & expensis heredum Octaviani Scoti, per Bonetum Locatellum, 1502, 135 leaves, double column, sixty-five lines, white on black five-line (and one fourteen-line) woodcut initials, white on black printer`s woodcut device beneath colophon, lacks final blank, scattered minor old underscoring and marginalia including author`s name identified on title, some spotting and dust-soiling at front and rear, old and mostly light dampstaining to lower and outer margins touching text throughout, heaviest in quires b to e, neat closed tear to gutter margin of a2 touching letterpress of Table without loss, some marginal browning and one small tear with loss to foremargin of final leaf, British Museum and Duplicate for Sale 1769` ink stamps beneath title letterpress and beneath colophon at rear, modern half morocco gilt over marbled boards (date imprint incorrectly stamped as 1516), folio (295 x 205mm) This was the first printed medical book written by an Englishman. Durling 2607; G-M 2191 (1st edition); Wellcome 2486; Heirs of Hippocrates 105. John of Gaddesden (c. 1280-1361), took his name from Little or Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire. He was court physician to Edward II and was supposedly the inspiration for Chaucer`s `Doctour of Physik` in The Canterbury Tales. Gaddesden left a considerable reputation. He was the first major medical scholar to have been trained wholly in England, and the only Oxford-trained medieval physician to achieve recognition on the continent. His Rosa anglica was a distillation of the works of more than forty-six medical authorities, ancient and recent, although it ignored the near contemporary works from the northern Italian universities. In it Gaddesden claims to have saved the king`s son (presumably either Thomas or Edmund, sons of Edward I from his second marriage) from smallpox by wrapping him in scarlet cloth in a bed with red hangings. He also, unusually, admits to practising the arts of the surgeon and barber-surgeon as well as the physician, proclaiming his skills at setting bones, letting blood, drawing teeth, and even cutting corns and killing lice. Money was probably a factor: Gaddesden boasts of his fees, suggests expensive remedies for the rich and cheap ones for the poor, and notes that mental illnesses are seldom lucrative for the physician. Gaddesden chose the title because the five books of the Rosa recalled the five sepals of the rose; it also echoed the Lilium medicine of Bernard de Gordon. Gaddesden claims that, just as a rose excels every other flower, so the Rosa excels all previous medical works, and that poor surgeons and physicians can substitute it for many other books. Matthaeus Sylvaticus mentioned Gaddesden in his Pandectae (1317), and although the illustrious Montpellier surgeon, Guy de Chauliac, sniffed in 1363 that the Rosa was a foolish compendium of stale material, Chaucer included Gaddesden with Galen, Avicenna, and the other great medical authorities. Numerous Latin copies of the Rosa survive and it was partially translated into Middle English and Irish in the fifteenth century. The first printed edition appeared at Pavia in 1492; three more followed, the first two at Venice and the third at Augsburg, in 1502, 1516, and 1595 respectively. The only modern English translation of the Rosa, published in 1929, was made from an Irish version of the fifteenth century` (DNB). This is the oldest book in The Birmingham Medical Institute`s Collection. This edition is considered to display superior printing to that of the first edition and this attractive copy appears to be the first to be offered at auction for over thirty years. (1)

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Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 226

Jones (John). The Mysteries of Opium Reveal`d by Dr. John Jones, Chancellor of Landaff, a Member of the College of Physicians in London..., who, I. Gives an account of the name, make, choice, effects, &c. of opium. II. Proves all former opinions of its operation to be meer Chimera`s. III. Demonstrates what its true cause is... IV. Shews its noxious principle, and how to separate it, thereby rendering it a safe and noble Panacea, whereof, V. He shews the palliative and curative use, 1701, licence leaf facing title, folding table entitled `A Table of the Doses of the Best and Safest Opiates`, bound without first blank leaf, library stamp to title and folding table, some light browning and occasional spotting, library cloth, 8vo. Wellcome III, p.363. (1)

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Lot 228

Jorden (Edward). A Discourse of Natural Bathes, and Mineral Waters... , and in this Fourth Edition, a Quaere Concerning Drinking Bathe-Water at Bathe, is Resolved, to Which is Added, an Appendix Concerning Bathe... , by Thomas Guidot[t], three parts in one volume, 1673, folding table, separate titles and pagination to second and third parts, some spotting and occasional light old dampstaining, white library cloth with leather label to spine, soiled, 8vo, together with Witty (Robert). Scarbrough Spaw, or a Description of the Nature and Vertues of the Spaw at Scarbrough in Yorkshire, 1st edition, 1660, lacks imprimatur at front and final blank, errata to final leaf recto, old inscription and faint library stamp to title, a little browning, library cloth, slightly dampstained, small 8vo. Wing J1075 & W3231. (2)

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Lot 312

Pare (Ambroise). Les Oeuvres d`Ambroise Pare..., divisees en vingt huict livres, avec les figures & portraicts, tant de l`anatomie, que des instruments de chirurgie, & de plusieurs monstres, reveues & augmentees par l`autheur, 4th edition, Paris: Gabriel Buon, 1585, title within engraved ornamental border, engraved portrait of the author to verso of leaf following first quire, woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces and illustrations throughout, four-page table between leaves E5 and E6, ownership signature of Thos. Lovatt 1805` to second leaf, some spotting, marginal soiling and dampstaining throughout with one heavier stain to foremargin of early leaves, a few marginal closed tear repairs and one repair to B1 touching text, first and last few leaves slightly chipped and browned at margins, library stamp and upper margin repairs to title, title and final leaf rehinged, modern morocco gilt, folio (367 x 235mm) The collected works of the greatest 16th-century surgeon, superbly illustrated with numerous woodcuts. It is generally accepted by all authorities that there was no third French edition of the collected works. This fourth edition in 1585 was, therefore, the immediate successor of the second edition in 1585 and is the most highly prized of the collected editions, and rightly so. Carefully revised by the author, it was the last one to be seen personally through the press by him; and it contains the `Apologie et traicte contenant les voyages`, which is Pare`s most characteristic document` (Doe 31). Of the twenty-two copies inspected by Doe in her bibliography of Pare only nine had the portrait by Horbeck, here present. Wellcome I, 4821. Overall, a good wide-margined copy with most of the dampstaining and browning being away from the text. (1)

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Lot 375

Schurig (Martin). Spermatologia historico-medica, h.e. seminis humani consideratio physico-medico-legalis, Frankfurt: Sumptibus Johannis Beckii, 1720, title printed in red & black, contents browned, faint library stamp to title, library cloth, 4to, together with Freind (John), Emmenologia in qua fluxus muliebris menstrui phaenomena, pediodi, vitia..., Paris: Guillelmum Cavelier, 1727, bound with Praelectiones chymicae, Paris: Cavelier, 1727, faint library stamp and contemporary owners name to first title, modern library calf, small 8vo, plus Underwood (Michael). A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, with Directions for the Management of Infants from Birth, 3 volumes in two, 4th edition, 1799, half-titles, folding table, a few light spots, library stamps, BMI presentation label from Dr Blackall, later half calf (volume 2 rebacked, a little rubbed), plus others related, all with defects (7)

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Lot 414

Underwood (Michael). A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, with General Directions for the Management of Infants from Birth, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1795, half-titles, folding table, a few light spots, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo. Underwood laid the foundation of modern paediatrics. His work was superior to anything that had previously appeared and remained the most important book on the subject for sixty years, passing through many editions. Includes the first description of sclerema neonatorum (Underwood`s disease); the second edition (1789) contains a description of congenital heart disease in children, being the first paediatric treatise to do so` (G-M 6326); Norman 2122. (1789 edition). (2)

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Lot 417

Vesalius (Andreas). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1555], woodcut title, portrait of the author on a6 verso, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout (including seventeen full-page anatomical illustrations), two folding tables with woodcut diagrams (one on unsigned leaf between bb5 and bb6, short marginal split to inner margin), historiated woodcut initials, lacks final leaf (blank with printer`s device to verso), library stamp to title, dedication, portrait and table leaves, frequent BGH library stamps, mostly to blank lower outer corners, skilful old and small neat paper repairs to three leaves (cc5/6 & dd1) with facsimile` manuscript insertions to a few words and one illustration, some occasional old light dampstaining to inner margins, a few minor marginal splits and worm holes (sig. K) not affecting text, near-contemporary ownership signature of Guilielmus de Mesa (dated 20-4-1596) to upper margin of final leaf verso (printer`s colophon), plus ownership signature of C. Kendall (dated 1729) to front free endpaper, engraved armorial bookplate of the Johnstone family to front pastedown, above and partly on which is written a presentation inscription in 1834 from John Johnstone (1768-1836, physician & biographer) to his nephew James Johnstone (1806-1869, physician, first president of the British Medical Association and founding benefactor of the Birmingham Medical Institute Library), with a brief signed note by the latter to a second free endpaper verso, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over pasteboards with central arabesque to each cover, lacks ties, crude vellum repairs to spine ends and tape repair to upper joint, partly sprung, folio (408 x 272mm), contained in a purpose-made cloth clamshell book box. Second folio edition of the most important anatomical treatise of the sixteenth century and a watershed work in the history of anatomical illustration. Adams V605; Choulant-Frank pp.181-182; Cushing, Vesalius VI.A.-3; G-M 377; Durling 4579; Norman 2139; Osler 568; PMM 71 (describing the 1543 first folio edition); Waller 9901; Wellcome 6562. Heirs of Hippocrates 283: In 1552, a small `pocket` edition of the Fabrica was pirated in Lyons but, as it had no illustrations, it was neither popular nor profitable. For that matter, neither the first nor the second splendid folio edition was profitable, either, and the printer, Oporinus, suffered losses on both. By the time of this second folio edition, the plates from the first edition had been copied in England and throughout Europe, and the prospect for sale of a new edition must have been considerably lessened. Even so, the new edition was even more lavish than the first, with heavier paper and larger type, necessitating an entire recutting of the initial letters. Corrections were made in the text by Vesalius with some rearrangement of both the text and the illustrations. The woodcut title-page has always created much interest. It carries considerable dramatic impact and probably fairly represents, with some theatrical touches, an `anatomy` of the sixteenth century. The block for the second edition was entirely recut and, although it closely resembles that of the first edition, there are a few changes. The unclothed man of the first edition, observing from his perch at the left, is clothed in the second edition, `for no other reason that one can see,` comments Cushing, `unless to save the nun`s embarrassment by clothing the naked figure` (Cushing Vesalius, p. 90). The wood blocks were cut in Venice and transported by mule across the Alps to Basel, where Oporinus - artist, printer, and friend of Vesalius - received them with detailed instructions from the author.` Provenance note: An identically dated ownership signature of Guilielmus (Guilielmi) de Mesa appears in the National Library of Medicine`s copy of Estienne`s De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (1545). (1)

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Lot 426

Vigo (Giovanni da). The Whole Workes of That Famous Chirurgion Maister Iohn Vigo: Newly Corrected, by Men Skilfull in that Arte, Wherevnto are annexed certain works, compiled and published by Thomas Gale, Maister in Chirurgerie, 3 parts in one volume, Thomas East, 1586, black letter, woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces, part one and two title-pages within border of printer`s ornaments, the first slightly browned and soiled and with one horizontal closed tear affecting imprint details, relaid and rehinged, double-page table at end of part two with vertical heading of first leaf recto trimmed and supplied in old manuscript (A profitable table of ulcers`), printer`s woodcut device to colophon on final leaf verso, some scattered old marginalia, lacks blank at end of part two and title-page to third part, occasional soiling and old dampstaining, a little worming to lower margins occasionally touching letterpress towards rear of second part and first half of third part but without loss of sense, hinges broken, library cloth, some fraying to head of joints and spine, 4to (184 x 140mm) A later edition of one of the most important surgical works of the Renaissance, which appeared in over forty editions in six languages for more than a century after its initial publication in 1514. Vigo was the first to discuss syphilis: he identified its primary and secondary stages and recommended a mercury ointment as a treatment. STC 24723; Wellcome 6623. (1)

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Brightwells
Lot 6

A large games compendium including chess and backgammon boards reversing to The Steeplechase, Guide to the Compendium (sellotaped), table croquet, etc. Incomplete. Late 19th century

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Brightwells
Lot 603

A printed plush table cover in reds and golds, 1930`s

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Brightwells
Lot 608

A green and pink printed continental table cover, others in various colours and designs

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Brightwells
Lot 609

A green and gold beaded fringe from a 1920`s lampshade, another in blues and greens and a quantity of loose beads, a cross stitch kettle holder and a green and brown on cream crewel work table cover

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Brightwells
Lot 628

A wax decorated dressing table set, boxed, lace and crochet edged mats, gold and silver embroidered, gloves, etc

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Brightwells
Lot 630

A patchwork and applique Chinese made quilt with frogs, fish, embroidered dragons etc. Red ground. Verso a patchwork with raised insects. 20th century. With a 19th century Indian table cover with mirror work

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Brightwells
Lot 645

Linen and damask crochet edged towels, crochet edged table mats, coloured embroidered cloths, etc. Quantity

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Brightwells
Lot 757

A large Brussels lace centre runner, table mats etc. Quantity

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Brightwells
Lot 759

A large quantity of crochet edgings, table mats, tatted mats, etc and lace modesty vests, lace flounces, motifs, crochet edgings, etc (2 Boxes)

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Brightwells
Lot 825

A black machine lace stole, length of red Oriental fabric with polychrome flowered embroidery, a lace type table cover and a hand embroidered cut work tablecloth

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Brightwells
Lot 851

A pink J Kent Fenton England dressing table set including ring stand and a fan shaped brass mirror

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Brightwells
Lot 876

A quantity of 18th century pale blue brocaded silk probably from a dress. Made up later as a bed or table cover with later fringe. 66 x 86 in. Faded, A/F

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Brightwells
Lot 898

A German porcelain green and pink flowered dressing table set with tray, ring stand, powder bowls, rose water bottle and candlesticks

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Brightwells
Lot 939

An amber coloured etched glass dressing table set of two jars, two candlesticks and an atomiser. Probably Bohemian circa 1930

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Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Lot 9

A Chinese lady`s silver backed four piece dressing table set: comprising a hand mirror, hairbrush, clothes brush and comb, with engraved fiery dragon decoration, each piece fully marked (4).

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Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Lot 18

A George V vanity and part picnic set, initialled MSC, MC, MMCD , including three rectangular dressing table boxes, one rectangular tray, one oval mirror, two brushes, two clothes brushes, one shoe horn, one button hook , one spirit flask, twelve assorted oval and circular jars and containers, maker Finnigans LTD, London, 1912, total weight of silver, 73.50ozs.

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Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Lot 26

A George V rectangular dressing table tray with engraved scroll and foliate decoration, 30cm. wide, maker C.C, Chester 1912, 11.67ozs.

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Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Lot 99

A George V Old English thread pattern flatware service, Sheffield 1926, makers W. Hutton & Sons Ltd., comprising: twelve table spoons (one plated), twelve table forks (one plated), twelve dessert forks (one plated), twelve dessert spoons (one plated), ten teaspoons, twelve egg spoons, four salt spoons, four sauce ladles and one soup ladle, contained in an oak canteen, total weight of silver 139ozs (79)

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Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Lot 102

An early Victorian fiddle, thread and shell pattern flatware service, comprising: six table spoons, six table forks, six dessert forks and six dessert spoons, London 1838, maker Charles Lias, 58ozs (24)

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Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Lot 104

A set of six Victorian fiddle pattern table forks, London 1845, maker William Eaton, 13ozs (6)

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Mullocks Specialist Auctioneers & Valuers
Lot 159

1950s Subbuteo table soccer set: To consist of 2 complete teams and 2 other teams with 10 players, pitch, goals, balls with all the original booklets and leaflets in original box but distressed

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Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Lot 830

An oak rectangular dining table, of large size and refectory type in the 17th century taste, with a plank top on dual trestle end supports united by a stretcher, the top 305cm (10ft) x 110cm (3ft 7 1/4in).

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Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Lot 833

A Georgian provincial oak side table, with moulded edge to the rectangular top, an arrangement of three drawers and on square legs, 84cm (2ft 9in) wide.

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Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Lot 838

An 18th Century oak rectangular side table: fitted with a single long banded drawer in the ogee pointed frieze on square chamfered legs, united by stretchers, 76cm (2ft 6in) wide.

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