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Sumerian Cuneiform Clay Tablet.- Revenue tablet, list of sheep, beams of timber, garden material etc., as rental, drawn up for incorporating in the Cadastral survey made by officers of the Temple of the Sun-God at Lagash [Telloh], "Based as genuine by Dr. Budge, Brit: Museum 1904 A.D."; Account or revenue Table drawn up in connection with the administration of revenue under the direction of the priests of the Temple of Lagash, clay tablets, incised with lines of Sumerian cuneiform on the obverse and reverse, some slight surface wear affecting some text, a few cracks, 30 x 34mm., Lagash, [c. 2300BCE]; and another similar cuneiform tablet, v.s., v.d. (3 pieces).⁂ Lagash, now Telloh in southern Iraq, one of the most important capital cities in the ancient lands of Sumer, located halfway between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. There were numerous temples in Lagash and such documents were used as accounting tools for their dues.Provenance: ALs from the wife of Rev Leonard Harding Squire (1854-1918), to her parents enclosing a description of the second mentioned tablet by Sir Ernest Wallis Budge (1857-1934), orientalist, 14th April 1900.
Lot 182
Binding.- L'Office de la Quinzaine de Pasque, Latin-François, a l'usage de Rome et de Paris, double column, title with woodcut arms, the odd instance of contemporary ink crossings out, some spotting and staining, contemporary red morocco with the arms of Philippe, Duc d'Orléans and Marie Louise d'Orléans, central arms within elaborate borders of various rolls, including garlands, large flower-head and flower and stem corner-pieces, spine in six compartments, all but one with central floral tool within a border of foliage tools, the other with a red morocco label, head of spine neatly repaired, corners of upper cover little worn, those of lower cover renewed, rubbed, g.e., 8vo (binding 204 x 136mm.), Paris, Libraires associés, 1739.
Lot 185
Bindings.- Regnard (Jean-François) Oeuvres, 4 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, 12 engraved, of which 9 by Vignet, Croutelle, Halbou, Duhamel and Le Roy after Borel, occasional spotting or light foxing, a few small stains, the odd small marginal repair, inner gilt dentelles, handsome contemporary green morocco, covers with Greek key and single filet borders, richly gilt flat spines in compartments with various medallion tools within Greek key borders and red and black morocco labels, some bumping to vol.1, g.e., little rubbed at extremities, 8vo (bindings 226 x 148mm.), Paris, Maradan, 1790.
Lot 331
Palladio (Andrea) I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, first edition, 4 parts in 1, collation: A2, B-I4; AA-KK4 (quire HH misbound, in the sequence HH2, HH1, HH4, and HH3); AAA-FFF4; AAAA-RRRR4, complete with blank leaves KK4 and RRRR4, Roman and italic type, each title within architectural woodcut borders with de Franceschi's printer's device included in upper panel, a different printer's device on verso of fol. RRRR3, 221 woodcut illustrations, plans, and sections (156 are full-page blocks, including 84 printed as plates, recto and verso of 42 leaves) executed after Palladio's drawings by Giovanni and Cristoforo Chrieger, Cristoforo Coriolano, and others, numerous woodcut animated initials, occasional light foxing, lower margin of fol.I2 slightly trimmed, handsome early nineteenth-century green calf, over pasteboards, covers framed by undulating gilt fillet, small floral tools at each corner, spine gilt with gilt-lettered red morocco label, board edges decorated with gilt freeze, green silk bookmark, gilt edges, lower corners slightly bumped, generally a fine copy, folio (290 x 195mm.), Venice, Domenico de' Franceschi, 1570.⁂ A milestone in the history of architecture: the first edition of the Quattro Libri dell'Architettura by the Paduan theorist and practising architect Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, universally known as Andrea Palladio, after the name given to him by his patron and renowned humanist Giangiorgio Trissino. Palladio was primarily active as an architect in Venice, Vicenza, and along the Brenta river, where he built magnificent villas for wealthy members of the Venetian patriciate. This authoritative and influential treatise celebrates the purity and simplicity of classical architecture, drawing its inspiration from Roman sources, especially Vitruvius, and Italian Renaissance architects, above all Leon Battista Alberti. The work is divided into four parts or libri, devoted to orders and elementary problems, domestic buildings, public buildings, and town planning and temples. "Palladio followed the rules of classical Roman architecture more closely than any other architect, even sometimes at the cost of practicability and domestic comfort. In spite of the vogue for the baroque and the fact that Palladio left no immediate successors, his book exerted a powerful influence on contemporary architecture and classical ideals until the end of the eighteenth century [...] 'Palladianism' became a party label in the world of connoisseurship and England blossomed with buildings 'in the Palladian style' - two centuries after Palladio had created it. From England the style made its way into Scotland, Ireland and America" (PMM). The treatise was reprinted and translated many times over the following centuries. Within the splendid series of woodcuts which accompany the text, especially noteworthy are those in the second libro depicting plans and elevations of villas, including the famous Villa Maser built for Palladio's patron Daniello Barbaro. Literature: Mortimer Italian, 352; Berlin Katalog 2592; Cicognara 594; Fowler 212; Olschki Choix, 15125; PMM 92.
Lot 46
Restoration Binding.- Bible, English. The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New..., fine engraved architectural title by Chantry dated 1673, bound without Apocrypha, New Testament with separate letterpress title, 1675 bound with Whole Book of Psalms (The), 1675, together 2 works in 1 vol., ruled in red throughout including engraved title, contemporary ink inscription to head of engraved title erased but with contemporary manuscript list of Sir John Conyers's children written by his wife Lady Conyers to front free endpapers, with a later transcription loosely inserted, dedication very lightly browned, a few small spots or stains and minor marginal flaws, bound in magnificent contemporary red morocco, gilt, ?by Queens' Binder A, the covers elaborately tooled in gilt with overall design of drawer-handles, pointillé fleurons & rosettes, volutes and dots all within a roll-tooled border, spine gilt in compartments and five raised bands, with silver clasps and corner-pieces, upper catch with initials "M C" engraved on verso, g.e., a little rubbed, clasps and corner-pieces slightly tarnished, lower clasp lacking catch, [Herbert 721; Wing B2294, 2672 & 2517], 4to, Cambridge, John Hayes⁂ A pencilled note on the front free endpaper states that this is a Samuel Mearne binding but from the use of the drawer-handle tools forming an overall pattern it seems much more likely to be the work of Queens' Binder A. It is certainly very similar to those by this binder (possibly William Nott) in Maggs catalogues 1075 nos.78 & 79 and 1212 nos. 54 & 55, the roll-tool borders on all being identical.Sir John Conyers, 3rd Baronet (1649-1719) of Horden, Co. Durham. In 1675 he married Mary Newman, a kinswoman of Robert Baldwin of Staughton, Hunts., whose estate was inherited by Conyers. With the initials "MC" on the clasp this was presumably Mary's bible, possibly given to her as a wedding present. Of the nine children listed four died either stillborn or prematurely.
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Lot 142
NO RESERVE Binding.- Cooke (Rev. William) Poetical Essays on Several Occassions, list of subscribers, occasional spotting, inner gilt dentelles, contemporary red morocco, gilt, covers with wide foliage borders within dogtooth borders and with floral corner-pieces, spine in compartments and richly decorated with floral tools, corners little worn, rubbed at extremities, g.e., small 4to (binding 233 x 191mm.), Printed for S. Smith, Holborn, 1775.⁂ A scarce work, which includes 'Thoughts on Stonehenge'.
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