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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    287 Mewton (Sir Isaac) A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English. London, F. Fayram, 1728 £2 5s: 8vo. Contemporary calf. 24, 154 pp., 1 errata leaf, 2 plates. First Epirion of the third book of the Principia. It has a preface on the state of astronomy not reprinted in later editions. 288 Newton (Sir Isaac) Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections. and Colours of Light. The third edition, corrected. London, W. and John Innys, 1721 30s 8vo. Contemporary panelled calf. With the 12 folding plates. 289 Newten. Ferguson (James) Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles. London, 1757 6s 4to. Old calf, very worn. With plates. 290 Niger (H.) Hieronimi Nigri Fossanensis de admirando mysterio et Christo adorando in eucharistia libri quattuor. Turin, Marinus Crauotus, 1554 8s 6d 8vo. Original limp vellum. A very rare imprint. 291 Old Novel. The Mother or the Happy Distress. London, R. Baldwin, 1759 15s 12mo. 2 vols. Contemporary calf, There is no copy of this 18th century novel in the British Museum Library and it is not mentioned in Stone- hill and Block or Halkett and Lang. - 292 Aimoran and Hamet: An Oriental Tale. London, 1761 10s 6d 8vo. Old calf. 2 vols. bound together. 293 “Emily Herbert; or, Perfidy Punished. A novel in a series of letters. Dublin, 1787 10s 6d. 8vo. Old calf. 294 Early Newspaper. Gazetta Universale. 104 numbers of this important newspaper published in Florence, running from January the 3rd, 1784, to December the 28th of the | same year 25s, Small 4to. Old Italian boards. 295 Siri (Vittorio) Mercure contenant |’Histoire Genérale de l’Europe depuis 1640, jusqu’ en 1655, traduit de l’Italien par M. Requier. Paris, Didot, 1756-1759 35s. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt back. 18 volumes. 296 Numismatics. Benaven (Jean Michel) Le Caissier Italien ou lArt de connaitre toutes les Monnoies actuelles d’Italie ; ainsi que celles de tous les Etats, et Princes de |’Europe. Lyons, s.n., 1787 16s Folio. Diced Russia. 2 vols. in 1, each with a beautiful engraved title-page and 173 plates of coins. A very: handsome book. 297 Optics. Caus (Salomon de) La Perspective avec la raison des ombres et miroirs. London, J. Norton, 1612 £2 15s Folio. Old vellum. 67 leaves. The title is engraved and there are over 60 engraved plates, mostly full-page, of perspective throughout the text. 298 Ovid. Le Metamorfosi. Venice, Giunta, 1584 £2 2s 4to. Fine copy bound in 18th century red morocco gilt fleurons on sides, gilt back. With engraved title and 15 full-page engravings. 299 Palearius (Aonius) Epistolarum libri Iv. Orationes. De animorum immortalitate.. Lyons, Beb. Gryphius, 1552 6s 8vo. Unbound. ; 300 Pancirolus (G.) Le livre premier des antiquitez perdues ...traduits de l’Italien... Lyons, 1617 7s 6d 12mo. Old vellum. 301 Perfumes. Rimmel (Eugene) Le Livre des Parfums. Brussels and London, ca. 1880 6s. 8vo. Originalcloth. With many illustrations and coloured plates. 302 Piranesi (G. B.) Della Magnificenza ed. Architettura de’ Romani. Rome, 1761 £2 2s Folio. Old calf. With arms of Duke of Newcastle. Engraved frontispiece and 37 plates. In this edition the very rare second Catalogue of Piranesi’s work has been inserted, listing the views of Rome up to Number 60. 303 Campus Martius Antiquae Urbis. Rome, 1762 £2 2s Folio. Old mottled calf. With Arms of Duke of Newcastle. Two engraved titles and 48 plates. Portrait of Clement XIII. inserted. 304 Colonna di Trajano. Colonna Antonina. Rome, [1775-1777] 35s. Folio. Old calf. With arms of Duke of Newcastle. 32 plates, many folding. 305 I., Lapides Capitolini. [Rome, 1762] Engraved title and 19 plates. IJ., Le Rovine del Castello dell’Acqua Guilia. Engraved title and 19 plates. Rome, 1761 Engraved title and 9 plates. III., Desizione edisegno dell’Emissario del Lago Albano. Engraved title and 9 plates. Rome, [1762-4] 30s 3 works in 1 vol. Folio. Old calf. With Arms. 306 Pliny. A Sixth Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger. A study of six. leaves of an uncial manuscript preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, by E. A. Lowe and E. K. Rand. Washington, 1922 5s 6d. Large 4to. Half calf. Text and plates of facsimiles of the manuscript.