Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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No text description is available for this image![38 By 40 41 42 43 plan and plates, 1793—The Southampton Guide, 1768— A Description of Buxton, 1790—The Salisbury Guide, folding plate, 1787—A New Portsmouth Guide, 1798— The Shrewsbury Guide, folding plan, n. d.—The Chester Guide, frontismece and folding plan, 1782; in 1 vol. half calf ; and others; sold not subject to return (5) Halfpenny (W. & J.) Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste, the 3d edition, 64 plates, London for R. Sager, n.d.; The Country Gentleman’s Pocket Companion, and Builder’s Assistant, the second edition, 25- plates, for R. Sayer, 1756; in 1 vol. contemporary half calf [Haslewood (J.)| The Secret History of the Green Room, second edition, 2 vol. half calf, 1792—-Fashionable Follies. A Novel, 2 vol. frontispiece, half calf, 1781—Lewes (Charles Lee) Comic Sketches, portrait, half calf, 1804 (5) Hervey (J.) Meditations, 2 vol. portrait and plates, contem- porary straight-grained red morocco gilt, g.e. 1796— Pinkerton (J.) Iconographia Scotica, or Portraits, con- temporary red morocco gilt, g.e. 1797; sold not subject to return (3) Horak B. V. M. ap uSUM AMBIANENSEM [AMIENS] CUM CAL- ENDARIO, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, written in a large and bold gothic hand, 11 lines to a page, 203 Il. four half- page miniatures in gold and colours painted on diapered grounds with borders of bar design and curving branches ith wy-leaf terminals, some large imtials painted in coours on a gold ground, numerous smaller initials in gold and colours, old calf (binding worn) (1:42 mm. by 108 mm.). FRENCH, XIV CENT. Horae B.V.M. apd vusum RoMANUM cUM CALENDARIO [| MILANESE.| MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, very well written in a clear and regular Italian gothic hand in red and black, 281 Ul. (including nine blanks), 11 lines to a page, FIVE VERY FINELY DECORATED PAGES, each contauning a large and finely executed historiated wutial and a beautifully painted border in gold and colours, FOURTEEN OTHER LARGE AND FINELY PAINTED HISTORIATED INITIALS in lake, blue, yellow and green on grounds of burnished gold and with marginal decoration, other initials in red and blue with marginal pen-work, old blue morocco gilt, g. €. IN VERY FINE CONDITIOON](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31659500_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)