Sales catalogue 619: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/156
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 619: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [52a] MORGHEN (Filippo). RACCOLTA DELLE COSE NOTABILI VEDUTE DAL Cavatiere Witp ScuLL E DAL SIGNoR DE LA Hire nel lor famoso viaggio dalla Terra alla Luna che sono spiegate nela sotria di detto viaggio descritta dal’ istesso Wild Scull nell ’ordine seguente, e designate dal detto Signor de la Hire. Esposte in nove rami incisi appresso Filippo Morghen Fiorentino. With finely engraved title-page, showing the Cavalier Wild Scull and Signor de la Hire descending from their Flying Machine in the Moon, and introducing themselves to its inhabitants, with 9 further engravings. Oblong folio. Half morocco, by Riviere. Naples, before 1764. (SEE ILLusTRATION OVERLEAF.) £35 First State. See Bruel, “ Histoire Aéronautique par les Monuments Peints,” No. 194, where a reproduction of the title (in the second state issued 1764) is shown. The remark- able plates show the following :— r. An Inhabitant of the Moon mounted on a Winged-Serpent, fighting a Porcupine. 2. A New Machine to cut strange wild beasts from head to foot. 3. The coaches which are used in the Moon and which are propelled by sails. 4. The manner of navigation by means of bellows (and steam) in that Planet. 5. The manner of transporting goods on rafts drawn by Steam Bellows (a kind of steam tug). 6. Water melon used for fishing purposes (a kind of steam trawler). 7. Water melon, which serves as a dwelling house, to protect the inhabitants of the moon. 8. Boat which has as sails the wings of a gigantic bird. (The bird, chained to the masts, is kept in good temper by being fed with gigantic snails, a quantity of which are kept on board, while others are being towed behind). 9. House boats, on which the inhabitants of the Moon live, showing at the same time the manner of calling birds by the sounds of a drum. (A new version of Dilly, Dilly, come to be killed). [53] JONES (Robert). AxririciaL Fireworks, improved to the modern practice.With plates. Second Edition. 8vo. Or. calf. London, 1766. £32 Explaining an early use of the word “ Balloon.” [54] OVID. Les METAMORPHOSES, Gravées sur les desseins des meilleurs Peintres Francais par les Soins des Srs Le Mire et Basan Graveurs. Engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication (two leaves). “ Explica- tion des planches” (20pp.). 139 beautiful plates by Eisen, Boucher, Gravelot, Moreau, Leprince, Monnet, Parizeau et Saint-Gois, engraved by Baquoy, Basan, Binet, Duclos, de Ghendt, Helman, de Launay, Legrand, Lemire, Leroy, Leveau, de Longueil, Masquelier, Massard, Miger, Née, Ponce, Rousseau et Saint-Aubin. Roy. 8vo. Beautifully bound in blue morocco by Riviere, g.e. Paris, Chez Basan and Le Mire, 1767. £21 With Eisen’s famous engraving of the Fall of Daedalus and Icarus. [ 23 ]
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