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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    Mas egit ae eo ae a we, ae j eh sy] nest S Pm Sica fay - Q pied Peres tf oi fo Ree Fe j ‘ > q #8. 2 +e WF jie , £ es 3 ‘id ’ oe CATALOGUE .90 -A List of OLD BOOKS ON MANY SUBJECTS me OmastiICALLY REDUCED PRICES Peviio) c. OR LO LI 37 Museum Street, London, W.C.1 Telephone: Holborn 4437 Cables: Avoriolor, London All books in this list are priced under £3 (= $12.12 approx.) Nofurther discount. Terms: Cash 1 Aesop. Ezopische Fabeln van Fedrus . .. in Nederduitsch Dicht verteelt . . . door D. van Hoogstraten. Amsterdam, 1704 7s 6d 4to. Halfcalf. Fine engraved portrait and engraving to each fable. 2 Agathius. De bello Gothorum. Augsburg, Sigismund Grim & Marcus Wirsung, 1519 18s 4to. Boards, worn. Title in red in an architectural border. ‘* Largerustic ”’ (Proctor) initial letters. 3 Agriculture—Campini (Antonio) Saggi d’Agricoltura. Turin, 1774 4s 6d 8vo. Half calf. Constantine Vil. Constantini Caesaris selectarum praeceptionum, de agricultura libri viginti, Jano Cornario medico physico interprete. Basle, Froben, 1538 18s 8vo. Vellum. 41l., 389 pp., 1 leaf. Printer’s device on title and at end. First Latin Epition of this classical book on agriculture. Pages slightly browned, three small repairs in the blank margins. Grescentio (Pietro) Opera di Agricoltura. Venice, Bernardino de Viano de Lexona, Vercellese, 1538 21s 8vo. Boards. 368 ff., 8 leaves. Title within woodcut border. Full-page woodcut at beginning. Some slight waterstains in the margins. 4 5 6 Facio de Quiller (Nicolas) Fruit-Walls improved by inclining them to the Horizon, or a way to build walls for fruit-trees ; whereby they may receive more Sun Shine and Heat, than Ordinary. London, R. Everingham, 1699 10s 6d 4to. Old calf (rubbed). Engraved frontispiece ornaments and several folding copperplates. 7 —— Fillassier. Culture de la grosse asperge dite de Hollande. Antwerp, s.n., 1788 8vo. Wrappers. 3s 6d § —— Forsyth (William) A Treatise on the culture and management of Fruit Trees. London, 1806 4s 6d 8vo. Old calf. ; 9 ——— Hohberg (Wolff Helmhard von) Georgica Curiosa, das ist umstandlicher Bericht . von dem Adelichen Landund Feldleben. Nirnberg, J. Fr. Endters, 1682 7s 6d Folio. Oldcalf. Engraved front. and very many engravingsin text. Ten full-page plates with garden designs, The first volume only of a great German compendium on country life. 10 —— Lapi (G.) Sulla Caligine del corrente anno 1783 . . . Florence, 1783 4s 6d wet iy 8vo. Half calf, loose. Deals with the effects on vegetation due to a very hot summer in 1783. ag Porta (lo. Baptista) Villae ... libri xii. 1, Domus; 2, Sylva Caedua; 3, Sylva glandaria ; 4, Cultus et insitis; 5, Pomarium; 6, Olivetum; 7, Vinea; 8, Arbustum ; 9, Hortus coronarius ; 10, Hortus olitorius; 11, Seges; 12, Pratum. Frankfort, Apud Andreae Wecheli heredes, C. Marnius, et Joannes Aubricus, 1592 £223 4to. Old sheepskin, with arms on sides, binding a little worn. Very rare first edition of this work, which contains the fruit of Porta’s agricultural observations. The title gives an indication of the many subjects dealt with. oe 9 Serres (Olivier de) Le Theatre d’Agriculture et Mesnage des Champs. Paris, A. Saugrain, 1605 £2 15s 4to. Green doeskin. 907 pp. Fine engraved title-page by Malley. Several full-page woodcuts of mazes or labyrinths in gardens, and other folding woodcuts. iho Speechly (William) A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine .. . together with new Hints on the Formation of Vineyards in England. London, 1786 5s Large 8vo. Boards, uncut. 6 large folding copperplates of hot-houses and processes of viticulture. The author himself cultivated successfully more than 100 different sorts of grapes at Welbeck.
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