Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts
Catalogue Information: 165 lots | 41 with images
Lot 1: ACCUM, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838). A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light; exhibiting a
ACCUM, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838). A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light; exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating streets, houses and manufactories, with carburetted hydrogen, or coal-gas; wi [...more]
Lot 2: ACOSTA, Jose de (?1539-1600). De natura novi orbis libri duo, et de Promulgatione Evangelii
ACOSTA, Jose de (?1539-1600). De natura novi orbis libri duo, et de Promulgatione Evangelii apud Barbaros. Cologne: Birckmann shop, for Arnoldus Mylius, 1596. 8° (163 x 97m). Woodcut Jesuit device on title, ornamental initials. (Faint staining.) Mode [...more]
Lot 3: [APOSTOLIUS, Michael (c.1422-c.1480)]. Paroemiae. Nunc demum, post Epitomen Basiliensem
[APOSTOLIUS, Michael (c.1422-c.1480)]. Paroemiae. Nunc demum, post Epitomen Basiliensem, integrae, cum Petri Pantini versione, eiusque et Doctorum Notis, in lucem editae, Leiden: Officina Elzevir, 1619. 4° (244 x 175mm). Parallel text in Greek and [...more]
Lot 4: ARKWRIGHT, Richard (1732-92). The Trial of a Cause instituted by Richard Pepper Arden, Esq;
ARKWRIGHT, Richard (1732-92). The Trial of a Cause instituted by Richard Pepper Arden, Esq; his Majesty's Attorney General... to repeal a patent granted on the sixteenth of December 1775 to Mr. Richard Arkwright, for an invention of certain instrume [...more]
Lot 5: AUDSLEY, George Ashdown. The Ornamental Arts of Japan, London: Sampson Low, 1882. 2
AUDSLEY, George Ashdown. The Ornamental Arts of Japan, London: Sampson Low, 1882. 2 volumes, 4° (402 x 285mm). 2 calligraphic frontispieces, 70 chromolithographed plates and 35 plain plates, mostly heliogravures, all after the author. (Occasional in [...more]
