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WALKER & HALL SILVER PLATED TABLE LAMP,on stepped base, 25.5cm high, along with two further table lamps (3)Recommend re-wiring on all 3 lamps. Tarnishing and oxidation present on all lamps. One of the panels to the main lamp is cracked down the middle. Stains and scratches also present to all 3 lamps.
Political science.- Foord (John) Ioannis Foorth Synopsis politica, title with woodcut printer's device, folding letterpress table (not called for by ESTC), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking final 3 ff., some marginal worming, occasionally just touching the odd letter, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, modern morocco-backed boards, spine gilt, [STC 11128], small 8vo, Henry Binneman, 1582.⁂ Rare, with only a handful of copies recorded, and seemingly no appearance at auction. Not in Bodleian, and BL copy a fragment only.
Chinese astronomy.- Schlegel (Gustave) Sing Chin Khao youen: Uranographie Chinoise, ou preuves directes que l'Astonomie Primitive est Originaire de la Chine..., 2 vol. [text and plate vol.], only edition, folding table to vol.1, 7 celestial maps in red and black to atlas vol., light marginal toning and spotting, slightly heavier to atlas vol., uniform modern burgundy morocco-backed boards, a little faded, still a very attractive set, [Houzeau & Lancaster 609], 8vo & oblong folio, The Hague and Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1875.⁂ This scholarly historical treatise of Chinese astronomy and the mapping of the heavens is rarely sold complete with the scarce atlas volume. Gustave Schelegel (1840-1903), a celebrated Dutch sinologist and field naturalist, begun studying Chinese at the age of nine and made his first trip to China at the age of seventeen. In 1866 he published a monograph on the Tiandihiu (Heaven and Earth Society), but is known for his magnum opus, his Dutch-Chinese dictionary, published in 4 volumes between 1882 and 1891.
Paris (Matthew) Monachi Albanensis, Angli, Historia Major a Guilielmo Conquaestore ad ultimum annum Henrici tertii, first edition, titles within woodcut border, lacking 5 preliminary ff. following title (comprising preface to the reader, a table and woodcuts of the Kings of England, title a little soiled and with ink inscriptions, the odd wormhole, modern calf-backed boards, [STC 19209A], Reginald Wolf, 1571 § Tanner (Rev. Thomas) Notitia Monastica or a short history of the religious houses in England and Wales, first edition, engraved title vignette and 5 plates of arms, some light foxing, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary paneled calf, rebacked rubbed, [Wing T144], Oxford, printed at the Theatre, 1695 § [Dobson (Susannah)] Historical Anecdotes of Heraldry and Chivalry, first edition, 5 engraved plates, interleaved, some light foxing ink inscription to endpaper, 19th century calf, gilt, upper joint cracked with head of spine working loose, extremities rubbed, Worcester, by Holl and Brandish, 1795; and 2 others, English history, v.s. (5)
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