Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
1874
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/14
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    120 BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, LONDON. . “The glorious illuminations of the Irish MSS., the most exquisitely beautiful adie wit ~ which religious art, so prolific in its creations, has ever enriched the world! It is that strangely complicated, interlacing and lacertine knot-work pattern which is so frequently found upon the crosses of the Anglo-Saxon period, and especially common within the kingdom of Northumbria. Introduced into Ireland most probably with Christianity, it there received a very high deve ment by being engrafted upon the native Keltic stock, and thence spr ead with Irish and Chris teaching, not only. to Scotland and the North of England, but to still more distant parts of Euroj Oxford, February, 1868. J. O. WESTWOOD. | Wight’s Indian Botany: 1conzs PLANTARUM INDI | | ORIENTALIS; or Figures of Indian Plants. By Dr. Robert Wig : F.L.S. Surgeon to the Madras Establishment, 6 vols. royal 4to. 2101 pla including all those given in the author's “I .LUSTRATIONS” and “ N¥ILGHE! Puants,” but plain instead of coloured (pub. £27. 10s) cloth, £8. 1838 CreaHorn’s Index, 4to. cloth, rare, £2. 2s Madras, 1g SOLD SEPARATELY: ‘ Vol. II. with 418 plates, 4to. 1840-42, £5. Vol. V. with 299 plates Ato, 1852, £4 i Vol. ILI. with 326 plates, 4to. 1843-47, £6. Vol. VI. with 181 plates, 4to. 1853, £2 Vol. IV. with 459 plates, 4to. 1848-50, £6. *,* Sets completed at a reduced rate “ A most important work, with 2101 invaluable representations of Indian Plants.”—H, CLE “The Volumes form the most important contributions, not only to Botany, but to Nat Science, which have ever been published in India, and they hawe beer of the greatest ae throughout owr labowrs. It is admitted that Dr. Wight has accomplished a great work as essential to the student of the Indian Flora, as Sowerby’s English Botany is in Britain.” | Hooxer anp THOM WIGHT’S PRODROMUS FLOR& PENINSULA INDIA ORIENTA containing abridged Descriptions of the Plants found in the Peninsu British India, arranged according to the Natural System. By Drs. Wight and W. Arnott, Vol. 1, 8vo. (pub. 16s) cloth, 7s Lond. The Yorkshire Library : A Brorocrapmesr Account BOOKS on TOPOGRAPHY, eee of the 17th Century, Biogr Spaws, Geology, Botany, Maps, Views, Portraits, and Miscellaneous Li Z ture relating to the County of York, with Cotrations and Notes Oo: Books and Authors, by W. Borns, F.S.A. 1 vol. 4to. viii and 304 pp. two y traits (of Francis Drake and ‘Thomas Gent), 21 fine woodeuts of SEALS oj the Incorporated Boroughs of Yorkshire, £1. 10s _ Privately printed, | The Edition has been limited to 150 copies, and prompt application is necessary, as 20 copies remain for sale. The small number printed has added materially to the price, ~ will on that account very soon become a rare book. Great care has been bestowed on the _ tion of the Books, ‘Tracts, etc., down to the present period. ‘The work is handsomely puntes illustrated, so as to make it desirable and useful to the Collector of a Yorkshire Library. | ¥ or kshire Tokens issued in*.the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth Centuries, by Tradesmen, Overseers of the Poor, etc, Gold, Silver, Brass, and Copper: also the Seals of all the Corpora in. that County ; ; by Wiuiiam Borne, F.S.A. 4to, 62 Pp- and 15 pla with an Addenda of 8 pp. and 2 plates, cloth, 20s + | i Headingley, Privately printed ‘for the Author 185) ‘Of this a onty 150 copies were printed for distribution among the friends of the aut but of the Addenda, containing his latest researches to the year 1870, only fifty copies [we printed. Mr. Quaritch having purchased the few remaining copies, offers them i in this comple form at the above low price. “Antiquaries and Numismatists should lose no time in securing ¢ a copy of this valuable and interesting work. . : This catalogue of 359 Tokens, illustrated with seven plates, is taken mostly | from exa m0 in the author’s collection. It is the first of the kind that has been issued, and is printed o side to allow of additions being made. It contains, I. A list of the Tokens of the Banks of land and Ireland, the States of Jersey and the Governments of the Colonies. II. Silver T issued by private individuals prior to 1811. ILI. Private Tokens extensively issued in 181 1812, at the most trying period of the currency of this country, and which were withdra order of Government in 1813. Only one hundred and fifty copies were printed for the | ser ribers, of which a Ta are left; immediate application: therefore is foe to secure & ¢ G, NORMAN AND SON, gst aha hae SATs COVENT GARDEN. 2 ET ee RET. Cee ie eee a. Pe es NBs ee ae
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