Sales catalogue 365: William Ridler

Date:
July 1901
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/45/8
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 365: William Ridler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    700 Gaguin (R.) MER LES CRONIQUES et Miroir Hystorical de FRANCE, ANGLETERRE, Espaigne, DESTRUCTION DE TROYE, &c., sm. folio, black letter, very curious large spirited woodcuts, ornamental woodcut title (wants a a leaf), bright old gilt calf neat, £2 28 Paris, 1520 A curious book with interesting particulars relative to English History. The author was a conspicuous Poet and ‘Historian of the XV. Century and was sent on an embassy to London 1469. He follows in his History the taste of his age for Fables and Prodigies. 701 GARDENING.—Wilton Gardens, Seat of PuILte HERBERT, EARL OF PEMBROKE, fac- simile of the original unique volume, oblong folio, 26 plates after ISAAC DE CAUS, half mo- rocco neat, 12s 6d 16— Of the original only one perfect copy is known, Bindley’s, which sold in his sale for £56, of this facsimile a copy recently sold for £3 ros. 702 GARDENING.—Duhamel’s La Physique des Arbres; oti il est traité de Anatomie des Plantes, et de Economie Végétale, 2 vols, 4to, many folding plates, well engraved, bright old gilt calf neat, 15s Paris, 1768 In the recent sale at Sotheby’s of Books on Gardening a copy sold for £3 3s. 703 GAY (John) Poems, FIRST EDITION, in- cluding TRIVIA, or the Art of Walking the Streets of LONDON, PLAYS, &c., 2 vols in 1, 4to, plates, FINE Copy, rebound calf gilt, ANTIQUE STYLE, £1 58 TONSON, 1720 Gay’s Art of Walking the Streets of London is a curious picture of London Life 180 years ago. Hirst copy 44 Ios. This first edition is most rare. 704 GAY (John) The Beggar’s Opera, with the Overture in score, and the Musick to each Song, 8vo, half calf neat, SCARCE, 6s 6d 1749 705 GILPIN (W.) HicHianps of SCOTLAND, 2, vols—Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and WESTMORELAND, 2 vols—River Wye— Forest Scenery of HAMPSHIRE, 2 vols, Xc., 8 vols, 8vo, many pleasing tinted plates of views of Old Castles and Lake Scenery, bright old calf gilt neat, £1 8s (lately priced £5 5s) 1789-91 706 GELL (Sir Wm.) PomprrAna, the Topo- graphy, Edifices and Ornaments of POMPEII, 2 vols, roy. 8vo, very numerous beautiful plates, the vignettes on INDIA PAPER, cloth bds. nt., UNCUT, SUBSCRIBER’S COPY, 15s 1832 707 GELL (Sir Wm,) Topography of Romg, 3 vols, 8vo, plates, and the very large map mounted on linen, cloth neat, 68 6d 1834 708 GEM (The), with Pieces by S1r W. Scort, C. Lams, KEATS, Hoop, COLERIDGE, &c., cr. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, many pretty plates, red morocco extra, gilt edges, SCARCE, 10s 6d 1829 ' A copy recently sold at Sotheby's for L5 5S 709 GEMS. — Tassie (James) Collections of Gems, CAMOES, as well as Itaglios, taken from the finest Cabinets in Europe, 2 vols in 1, thk. 4to, many plates, containing numerous figures of GEMS, half calf neat, SCARCE, £1 8s 1790 710 GEMS.—Licetus (Fort.) Antiqua Schemata GremMMARUM Anularium, sm. folio, nwmerous fine and curious plates of GEMS, including the SUPPRESSED ONES, BEAUTIFUL COPY, calf gilt. extra, the sides richly tooled, gilt top edges, £1 8s Patavii, 1653 711 GEMS.—Bartolo (P. S.) Museum Odescal- chum, sive Thesaurus Antiquarium G@EMMA- RUM, 2 vols, sm. folio, LARGE PAPER, many splendid proof plates of GEMS and ornamental vignettes, HANDSOME COPY, blue morocco super extra, rich gilt back and sides, gilt edges, binding very fresh, £1 18s (BINDING ALONE cost £6 6s) Rume, 1751 712 GEMS.—Picart (H.) PIERRES ANTIQUES gravees, expliques par Phillipe Stosch, folio, LARGE PAPER, 70 beautiful plates of CURIOUS ANTIQUE GEMS, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, FINE COPY, half calf neat, £1 88 Amst., 1724 Copies are RARE, valued by Fournier at 200 to 300 francs. Plate 68 is generally wanting. 713 GEMS.—Dactyliotheca Smithiana cura A. F. Gorii, 2 vols, folio, 100 beautiful plates of ANTIQUE GEMS, BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, FINE COPY, calf gilt extra, £1 1s 1767 This was Consul Smith’s famous collection. Copies have sold as high as 410 10s—see Bohn’s Coin Catalogue. 714 GEMS.—Pierres Gravées Antiques, oblong 4to, 65 fine engravings, containing 105 beauti- ful Gems after B. Wicars, half calf neat, SCARCE, 10s 6d — [1780] 715 GEORGE IV., Memoirs of, Scenes of his PRIVATE and Public Life and Companions, by RoperRT HUISH, 2 vols, 8vo, portraits and plates, VERY SCARCE, having been rigidly snppressed on account of some revelations respecting several Aristocratic Families, half calf gilt, £1 15s 1830 716 GERMAN Prayers.—Christliche Seelen- Schatz, ausser lesener Gebetter, stout sm. 4to, MANUSCRIPT on paper, beautifully written, with full-page designs, vignettes and capitals, THE WHOLE EXQUISITELY DRAWN IN PEN AND INK, old red morocco extra, gold tooled sides, gilt edges, with the arms of CLEMENT Augusta on back, for whom the volume was executed in a case, £2 8s (lately priced £25, see printed description) Bonn, 1729 A marvellous monument of patient industry in pen and ink drawing and Caligraphy, it is a collection of Prayers for the Roman Catholic Church, and the volume is in lovely condition. 717 GERMANY.—Bleu’s Grand Atlas of Ger- many, with Descriptions, thk. roy. folio, LARGE VELLUM PAPER, numerous large fold- ing maps, with COATS OF ARMS, all in brilliant coloured state and ILLUMINATED IN GOLD, VERY FINE copy, red velvet neat, gilt edges, £2 10s Amst., 1662 In splendid condition, a grand old atlas. 718 GESSNER (S8.) Idylles, translated by W. Hooper, 4to, LARGE THICK PAPER, many beautiful plates and VIGNETTES, PROOFS WITH OPEN LETTERS, FINE copy, old brown calf neat, 98 1776 719 GESSNER (S.) Works, with Memoir, 2 vols, 8vo, LARGE PAPER, portrait and beauti- ful plates and woodcuts in the style of BEWICK, green morocco extra, 9s (cost £3 3s) 1805 NortH of ENGLAND and the HIGHLANDS of ScoTLAND, 4 vols, 8vo, numerous tinted plates of Lake Scenery, Old Castles, dc., FINE COPY, bright old gilt calf neat, nice old ex-libris of E. Lawrence, 10s 6d 1778
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