A catalogue of the valuable library of James Edwards, Esq., containing a splendid assemblage of early printed books. Chiefly upon vellum ... manuscripts ... books of prints ... Also his collection of fine Greek vases. Which will be sold by auction ... April 5, 1815, and the five following days (Sunday excepted.) / By R.H. Evans.

  • James Edwards
Date:
1815
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Credit: A catalogue of the valuable library of James Edwards, Esq., containing a splendid assemblage of early printed books. Chiefly upon vellum ... manuscripts ... books of prints ... Also his collection of fine Greek vases. Which will be sold by auction ... April 5, 1815, and the five following days (Sunday excepted.) / By R.H. Evans. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [9] SECOND DAY’S SALE. Architecture and Antiquities. *82 Palladio’s Architecture, by Leoni, 2 vol. folio, plates by Picart, russia, - - - 1721 183 Campbell’s Vitruvius Britannicus, with the continuation by $0t Woolfe and Gandon, 5 vol. large paper, fine copy, in russia. 184 Paine's Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Houses, 2 vol. folio, russia, - 1783 185 Soane’s Plans, Elevations, and Sections of various Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Houses, folio, russia, - 1788 186 Inigo Jones’s Designs for Public and Private Buildings, published by Kent, 2 vol. in 1, folio, russia, 1770 187 Chambers’s Treatise on Civil Architecture, folio, 1739 188 Marquez, Case della Citth degli Antichi Romani, 8vo. 1793 189 Marquez, Ville di Plinio il Giovane, 8vo. Roma, 179^ 190 Bartoli e Bellori, Pitture Antiche del Sepolcro de’ Nasonii nella Via Flaminia, 2 vol. in 1, folio, best edition,fine im¬ pressions^ red morocco, - Romce, \680 391 Uggeri Journees Pittoresques des Edifices de Rome Ancienne, 2 vol. oblong folio, - - Romce, 1800 192 Bartoli, Admiranda Romanarum Amiquitatum et Sculpture vestigia in Roma extantia. To this copy of the original edition are added 40 plates of antiquities taken from the 2d edition. 393 Desgodetz, Edifices Antiques de Rome, folio, original edition, very fine impressions of the plates, selected from three copies, russia, - - Par. 1082 194 Montfaucon’s Antiquities of Italy, - - 1725 195 Tableaux et Arabesques Antiques trouves dans les thermes de Titus, Par. 1803.—Arabesques Antiques des Bains de Livie, - - - Par. 1789 196 Cameron’s Baths of the Romans, with the Restorations of Palladio corrected and improved folio. The plates of the ancient ceilings and pictures coloured, russia, 1/72 197 Montfaucon, Antiquite Expliquee et representee en Figures, jg * avec le Supplement, 15 vol. large paper, Par. 1722 1$8 WinckelmannMonumenti Antichi Inediti, 2vol.Roma. 1767 C