Dickinson (John). A new and correct map of the south part of the County of York by actual survey, shewing the true situation of the several towns, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats; the course of the rivers and rivulets, present roads, Roman ways, castles, ancient abbeys & priorys, parks, woods, hills, lakes, collieries and other minerals. Taken at the cost of the most Honble. Thomas Marquess of Rockingham..., 1750, large scale uncoloured map on two unconjoined sheets engraved by Richard Parr, large strapwork and floral cartouche, compass rose, table of towns and villages, additional cartouche containing an explanation of the map, two long repaired tears on right hand margin and one on the left hand margin, slight creasing and spotting, some fraying to margins, overall size 840 x 1230 mm Eden, Dictionary of Land Surveyors, page 84. Worms and Baynton-Williams, British Map Engravers, page 514 (but map not listed). Imago Mundi 19 (1965) page 56 - 67. Rare. We can find only one institutional copy (British Library). The production of the map was financed by Charles Watson-Wentworth, Second Marquis of Rockingham (1730 -1782), who stipulated that the map was to be reserved "For the Marquis's use and not to be sold" (see J. B. Harley 'The re-mapping of England 1750 - 1800). This would explain the map's rarity as it was never commercially available. (1)
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Greenwood (C. & J.). Map of London from an actual survey made in the years 1824, 1825 & 1826..., Greenwood, Pringle & Co., 1st edition, August 21st 1827, fine large scale map with contemporary hand colouring on three sheets, engraved by James and Josiah Neele, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic cartouche, table of explantion, inset views of Westminster Abbey and St. Pauls, dedication to George IV, edged in green silk, marbled endpapers, overall size approximately 1255 x 1875 mm, contained in a contemporary green morocco gilt book box, all edges gilt, very slight wear to extremities Howgego, Printed Maps of London 1553 - 1850, 309, state 1. The Greenwood brothers Christopher and John spent three years preparing this remarkable new survey of London, prepared on the lavish scale of 8 inches to a mile, illustrating for the first time the planned development of Belgravia by Thomas Cubidt, the completion of the Grand Surrey Canal and Regent's Park one year before it was completed in 1828. (1)
Teesdale (Henry). To the Nobility, Gentry & Clergy of Yorkshire, this Map of the County constructed from a Survey commenced in the Year 1817 & corrected in the Years 1827 & 1828 is respectfully dedicated by the proprietors, Henry Teesdale & Co. and C.Stocking, April 21, 1828, uncoloured engraved large scale map on nine sheets, calligraphic title, list of the altitudes of the principal mountains, compass rose, table of explanation and an engraved vignette of the North west view of York Cathedral, slight offsetting, book plate of R. H. Johnstone, marbled endpapers, contemporary marbled boards, later red half morocco, contemporary red gilt morocco title label to upper board, slim upright folio (1)
Swire (William, and Hutchings, William). A Map of the County Palatine of Chester, divided into hundreds & parishes from an accurate survey, made in the years 1828 & 1829, Henry Teesdale, 1830, large scale engraved map with bright contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, compass rose, table of reference and an uncoloured vignette of the south west view of Chester cathedral, edged in green silk, marbled endpapers, 960 x 1320 mm, contained in a modern blue cloth solander box with a red gilt morocco label to upper board (1)
Cary (John, and Smith, William), A New Map of Durham divided into Wards exhibiting its roads, rivers, parks &c, 1831, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, engraved vignette of Durham cathedral, table of explanation, and geological identification code, some light staining, 495 x 550 mm, contemporary green cloth boards with gilt title to upper siding, boards faded and a little stained The noted cartographer, engraver and publisher John Cary (1755-1835) collaborated with William Smith, 'the father of English geology', on a number of his geological projects, notably the 1815 Map and geological sections (1817-1819). Cary had previously produced large, topographical county maps for his New and Correct English Atlas and the plates which were being prepared for a new edition were instead adapted to accommodate Smith's detailed geology, the first set of geological maps being issued in 1819. This is the second state which although coloured using William Smith's geology, gives no acknowledgement to Smtih at all. Scarce. (1)NB: Two engraved railway lines appear on this map, (north-west from Hartlepool towards Durham and north-west from Stockton and Darlington towards Hamsterley), suggesting that this revised, and possibly unrecorded, issue of the map which most likely dates from the early 1840s.
Morland (Samuel). The Description and Use of Two Arithmetick Instruments, together with a short treatise and demonstrating the ordinary operations of arithmetic, as likewise, a perpetual almanack, and several useful tables, 1st edition, Printed, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt, 1673, engraved portrait frontispiece, six engraved plates printed to versos of A2-7 and four folding engraved plates pasted to the blank verso of A8 and B1-3, Perpetuall Almanack plate bound before 2A1 and a folding table bound between G2 and G3, lacks cancels F8 and G8 (as usual), also lacks G[1] (text leaf beginning 'The diameter of any circle being given') and 2A8, old damp-staining and fraying with occasional short closed tears, largely affecting outer margins, all sympathetically restored with archival tissue, the damage being largely confined to the extremities of the frontispiece, first signature and last two leaves, some slight loss of borders of frontispiece, both titles (A1-2) and plate 1 (A2v), and a little loss of legibility to final two lines of final leaf, red dye splashes to A3v and A4r, contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine, small 8vo (140 x 88mm) ESTC R30529; Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyperspace 9; Wing M2777. First edition of 'the first book on a calculator written in English, and the first separate work on the subject after Napier's Rabdologiae (1617). There was little else in English on calculating machines until Babbage. The work may also be considered the first comprehensive book in computer literature, as Pascal published nothing about his own machine except an eighteen-page pamphlet, now of the utmost rarity. The first of the "arithmetic instruments" was Morland's adding machine - a modification of Pascal's calculator The second instrument was his multiplier [which ] operated on the same principle as Napier's bones' (Hook & Norman). This rare book is bibliographically complex with no two copies seeming to be the same. This is the second issue, the first having the first six plates printed on slips of paper pasted on the versos of leaves A2-7. This second issue also only calls for 8 leaves in second signature A, rather than 11. All copies of both issues lack G8 (usually described as a cancel) and most copies lack F8 (another cancel, blank with a numerical calculation to verso). This copy also lacks G1 and 2A8, the Perpetuall Almanack plate possibly accounting for the latter leaf. The second signature A is sometimes missing entirely or only partially present and bound after F (as here) or after G. Other anomalies do exist. Collation: [portrait], A-F8 (-F8), [Perpetuall Almanack plate], G2-7 [folding table bound between G2 and G3], 2A7 B8 *8. (1)
A late Regency mahogany library table, in the manner of Gillows, with a tan leather lined top, three quarter split round moulded border decoration, fitted two frieze drawers, on twin column and gilt metal mounted end supports and downswept legs with brass wheel casters 74 x 119 x 67cm (29 x 46 x 26in) Some fading to the leather, but in good condition.
A Regency rosewood octagonal top pedestal occasional table, in the French style, with brass line inlays and mounts, on an octagonal column and S scroll legs 72 x 53cm (28 x 21in) Some brass line inlay is lifting in one place and some slight colour variation in the top. One leg has been repaired
A French Transitional parquetry inlaid kingwood night table, of serpentine outline with a marble top and lined interior, above four small drawers and with ormolu mounts 78 x 42 x 34cm (30 x 16 x 13in) There is damage to the gallery of one, which has become detached , fading and marks commenserate with age and use
Two-drawer standing oak canteen of cutlery, 8 place setting comprising 68 pieces including forks, spoons, fish knives and table knives, each engraved with initial 'M', together with 7 matching silver teaspoons and 6 matching silver coffee spoons and steel carvers, marks for Sheffeild, dated between 1934 - 1950, gross weight of silver flatware (including additional spoons) 117.56ozt, complete in green felt lined oak canteen labelled 'Edward & Sons Ltd, Jewellers and Silversmiths, Buchanan Street, Glasgow', measuring approx. 77.5cm x 64cm x 40.5cm.(Please note: knives and carvers are steel bladed) For a condition report on this lot visit www.peterwilson.co.uk
Victorian rosewood circular loo table, top with ogee mould above two inch frieze, single octagonal section baluster column with platform base supporting on carved and moulded feet, top diameter 130cm (51"), height 74cm (29"). For a condition report on this lot visit www.peterwilson.co.uk
Victorian rosewood library table, rectangular top with rounded corners above 1.5in frieze, decorated with moulded bead, trestle base united by serpentine shaped stretcher, moulded scroll feet, width 127cm (50"), height 72cm (28"), depth 58cm (23"). For a condition report on this lot visit www.peterwilson.co.uk
George III mahogany three pedestal regency design dining table, comprising to D-ends, central rectangular shape table united by two further leaves, four reed edge, ring turned columns with out-swept legs, decorated with brass string, brass casters, original brass leave clips, length 305cm (120"), width 120cm (47"), height 74cm (29"). For a condition report on this lot visit www.peterwilson.co.uk
Pierre Labatie (French, d. circa 1777) A partly-peeled lemon, a clove of garlic, onions, and a knife on a table signed and dated upper right "Labatie 1775" oil on canvas 22 x 34cm (9 x 13in) Provenance: Christie's South Kensington: Thursday, November 4, 2010 [Lot 34], The Collection of the Late John Appleby: A Channel Island Treasure House Other Notes: Pierre Labatie was a painter of figures, landscapes and still life at Bordeaux. He exhibited at the Salon de Bordeaux in 1776 and five of his works were shown there posthumously. The Musée Lorin at Bourg, France, has one of his paintings. Oil on canvas which has been lined. There are minor undulations at the corners of the canvas. The paint layer has drying cracks in the darker paint passages, which have formed as the paint has dried. There are retouchings toning down the cracks. The varnish is semi-matte and clear. The frame is in a good condition.
A Regency rosewood and parcel gilt card table, inlaid with a band of ebony and cut brass to a brass line border, opening to a green baize lined interior, on a tapering square column, gadroon moulded base and on boldly carved ebonised wood lion paw feet and casters 75 x 99 x 50cm (29 x 39 x 20in) The condition is considered to be good
Graves, Rev. John The History of Cleveland. Carlisle: Printed for F. Jollie and Sons, 1808. 4to, half calf over marbled boards, spine bands and compartments decorated in blind and gilt, lettered directly in one and at foot with imprint, speckled edges, marbled endpapers; engraved frontis, engraved title, folding map, hand-col. in outline, 8 plates, folding letterpress table; provenance: William van Mildert (last Prince-Bishop of Durham, his armorial bookplate impaled with Dunelm on upper pastedown) -- Henry Drummond Albury Park Surrey (banker, politician, writer, founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church, his armorial bookplate to ffep). Oliver, George The History and Antiquities of the Town and Minster of Beverley...Beverley: Printed and sold for M. Turner, 1829. 4to, early bound in half calf, spine with morocco lettering pieces in 2, a.e.g. marbled endpapers; engraved frontis., 5 plates, folding table as called for in embellishments, w/ numerous illus. to txt; provenance: John Stansfeld (collector of county histories and similar, his armorial bookplate to upper pastedown. Lockwood, Henry & Cates, Adolphus The History and Antiquities of the Fortifications to the City of York. J. Weale, Architectural Library, 59, High Holborn, et al, 1834. Folio, cloth-backed boards, sometime rebacked; engraved plan frontis., 12 plates. Poulson, George Beverlac. Printed for George Scaum, Beverley, 1829. 4to (2 vols). Later bound in green buckram; all plates and pedigrees as called for in embellishments. Neale, J.P. View of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen...Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster Row, 1828. 8vo, half calf over marbled boards, spine blind in compartments, lettered directly in gilt in one, marbled edges; engraved frontis., 70 plates.
Teesdale, Henry Map of Yorkshire dedicated ''To the Nobility, Gentry, & Clergy of Yorkshire''. Henry Teesdale & Co., London and Thos. Deacon and Co., Manchester, 1835. Nine folded sheets, dissected and laid on linen, outlines hand-coloured, calligraphic title, table of explanation, engraved vignette of York Cathedral on Sheet Nine, contained in case. The paper labels on the sheets relate to the Poor Law Unions, formed after the 1834 Act. They are nearly all edged with colour on the map, with Parishes and township boundaries edged in red. Teesdale's map was an updated version of that produced by Christopher Greenwood, with no mention of Greenwood's previous survey on the new map.
Dodoens, Rembert; Lyte, Henry (trans.) A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plants. [London, c.1578 (lacking title-page)]. 4to, later rebound in paper-backed boards with paper lettering-piece, blue speckled edges; [2 (Epistle to the Queen, dated 1578)], [1 (To the Friendly and Indifferent Reader)], [2 (Poems by WB and Thomas Newton)], [2 (Recommendations by W. Clowes and T[?homas] N[?ewton], [5 (Praefatio ad Medicinae Candidatos)], [2 (Last leaf of Appendix misbound according to catchwords)], [3 (Epistola ad Lectorem)], [5 (Appendix)], [1]-564 (lacking leaves E1+6 and Q6), [10 (Index of Latin names)], [5 (Index Apellationum...)], [7 (Index of English Names)], [8 (Table of the Natures, Virtues and Dangers of the Herbs)]; inhabited and floriated intials in Latin prelims, head- and tail-pieces to the six books, occasional early marginalia, seeming mainly monetary calculations. Lyte's translation of Doedens work was hugely significant in the study of herbs and their operations. It was the standard work in the latter half of the 16th century and was a huge influence on Gerard and Parkinson. Sibly, Ebeneezer Culpeper's English Physician and Complete Herbal. Printed for the Author, [c.1798 (year of Masonry 5798 according to dedication)]. 4to, full calf, sometime sympathetically rebacked with morocco lettering piece to spine; pp. xvi, 396, [2 (title, verso blank), 256; eng. port. frontis and 29 eng. botanical plates (lacking plates in the English Physician). Sibly's edition of Culpeper sought to maintain the occult aspects of natural philosophy, drawing on the astrological and sympathetic vitues of the herbs.Niewe Herball has tears affecting foot of T2 and T5, loss to the bottom right corner of Ddd2 and the upper right corner of Eee3, with heavy loss to the outer margin and text of Eee4, a little foxing, marking, creasing etc internally but a very good copy of an important work. Culpeper's board edges scuffed and rubbed with loss of leather, some marking, foxing etc internally but similarly very good.
A large Chinese hardwood carving, of Shou Lao, the draped deity stands supported by his staff and holding the peach of longevity, a crane by his side, on a pierced rocky base, outlined throughout with brass stringing, now converted to a table lamp, he stands on a late 19th century French Rococo Revival bronze plinth, cast with a frieze of acanthus scrolls and shell feet, traces of verdigris, 61cm high overall, the carving c. 1900, the stand c. 1880, (2)
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