Sales catalogue 90: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/5
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 90: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    270 Military.—Vegetius Renatus (Flavius) De re militari libri quatuor Accesserunt Sex, Juli Frontini Strategematon quatuor, etc. Leyden, Ex officina Plantiniana, Apud Fran- ciscum Raphelengium, 1592 18s 8vo. Contemporary pigskin, very finely stamped allegorical scenes on upper and lower cover. Several woodcuts in text. A fine specimen of stamped binding. 271 Mining. Gibbons (Benk.) On the Ventilation of Mines ; and especially of the thick or ten yard coal mines of South Staffordshire. Birmingham, 1847 2s 6d 8vo. Cloth. 272 Pettus (Sir John) Fleta Minor. The Laws of Art and Nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confined Metals. In two Parts. The first contains Assays by Lazarus Ercknern . . . now translated into English. London, Thomas Dawks, 1683 £2 10s Folio. Old calf, gilt back, arms of Lord Grenville stamped in blind on sides, joints weak. 22 ll., 345 pp., 71 . With fine portrait of the author by R. White and 43 fine copperplates in text showing metallurgical | processes, furnaces, retorts, etc. First Epition. This rare work by Sir J. Pettus (1613-1690), who was deputy governor to the Royal Mines, . is of great interest, giving an account of the state of mining in England during the 17th century. 273 Momoro (Ant. Francois) Traité élémentaire de l’ Imprimerie ou Le Manuel del’ Imprimeur. . Paris, Tilliard and Fils, 1796 35am 8vo. Boards, calf back. 4 pp., 347 pp. 1 folding table in text and 36 folding plates. Showing the interior ° of a foundry, instruments used, how to correct proofs, etc., etc. Some leaves a little dampstained. 274 Montaigne (Michel de) Essais. Paris, 1793 6s | 8vo. 3 vols. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt back, with labels. With engraved portrait. 275 More (Henry) Conjectura Cabbalistica, or A conjectural Essay of interpreting the minde : of Moses according to a three-fold Cabbala: viz., Literal, Philosophical, Mystical or ° divinely moral. London, James Flesher for W. Morden, 1653 Bound up with :—An Antidote against Atheism, or an appeal to the natural faculties of the : minde of man whether there be not a God. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. Ibidem, 1655 18s 8vo. Half calf. 2 books bound together. 10 1l., 251 pp., 7 ll. (the last leaf of the index is missing), 16 11., 398 pp., 2 ll. 276 Mere (Sir Thomas) Epigrammata. London, I.H. for Humphrey Mosley, 1638 21s | 16mo. Paper wrappers. Title, 182 pp., 1 leaf. The engraved portrait is missing. A rare London edition. 277 Music. Corelli (Arcangelo) Sonate a Violino e Violone o Cimbalo. Opera Quinta. [Rome], 21s 1700 Oblong folio. Old vellum. First Epitrion. The engraved frontispiece is missing. 278 Holder (William) A Treatise of the Natural Grounds and Principles of Harmony. . London, 1731 12s 6d. 8vo. Old calf. 279 Maugin et Maigne, Nouveau Manuel du Luthier. Paris, 1869 3s 6d. 12mo. Half calf. With 2 folding plates. 280 Vaucenson. Le Mécanisme du Fluteur Automate, presenté a Messieurs de: lV’Académie Royale des Sciences. Paris, Jacques Guerin, 1738 15s } 4to. Wrappers. 20 pp. The original account of the famous mechanical fluteplayer invented by Vaucenson. 281 Napier (John, Laird of Murchiston) Ouverture de tous les secrets de l’Apocalypse, ou | revelation de S. Jean. Mise en Francois par Georges Thomson, Ecossois. La Rochelle, , N. Delacroix, 1605 7s 6d. Border to title of printer’s ornaments. Second French edition of Napier’s work on the Apocalypse, printed | in a remote small town. 282 Naval. Boismélé (J. B. Torchet de), Ch. A. Boudrot de Richelbourg, and Theodore : de Blois. Histoire Générale de la Marine. Paris, P. Prault, 1744-1759 £2 584 4to. 3 vols. Stain lard mottled calf. With 2 engraved frontispieces. 5 engraved headpieces showing | naval battles and harbours, 1 engraved folding plate and 21 folding tables. 283 Euler (Leonhard) Scientia Navalis seu Tractatus de Construendis ac dirigendis } navibus. St. Petersburg, Academia Scientiarum, 1749 21s | Ato. 2 vols. Mottled calf. 65 folding plates with diagrams for shipbuilding, etc. The first volume is in fine state, but the second volume has rather bad wormholes in the inner blank margins. 284 —— Ordonnance de Louis XIV. our les armées Navales et Arcenaux de Marine. Paris, 1689 12s 6d : 4to. Old calf, some dampstains. 285 Saverien. Dictionaire Historique, Théorique et Pratique et Marine. Paris, C. A. Jombert, 1758 30s | 8vo. Oldcalf. 2 vols. 24, 434, 386 pp., 21l. With 4 folding plates showing the construction of a ship. 286 Neo-Latin Poetry. Baldinus (Bern) Carmina. Secunda liber humanae philosophiae : Aristotelis. Milan, 1574 18s | 4to. 19th century red morocco with arms of Gomez de la Cortina.
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