Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May-June 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/707
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    D5 Or ~2 D9 60 61 62 63 64 SIZES MIXED Gwynn (John) London and Westminster Improved, folding plans, calf, 1766—Trench (F. W.) A Collection of Papers relating to The Thames Quay, 17 plates, calf, covers loose, 1827; ete. 4to. (9) Hakewill (George) An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and. Providence of God, engraved title, calf folio. Oxford, Willham Turner [for Robert Allot, of London |, 1635 * On pp. 327-9 is an account of a magnetic telegraph. Hero, of Alexandria. Liber de Machinis Bellicis, necnon Liber de Geodaesia a Francisco Berocio latinitate donati, FIRST EDITION, woodcuts, vellum 4to. Vemace, 1572 HERO. SPIRITUALIUM LIBER: a _ Frederico Commandino Urbinate ex Graeco, nuper in Latinum conversus (*, 2 Ul. ; A-v wm fours), woodcuts, vellum 4to. Urbino, 1575 ** HIRST EDITION of this famous work in which are des- cribed and illustrated the working of a siphon, a syringe, a steam engine, a penny in the slot machine, a fire engine, etc. At the end is bound “ Tre Discorsi sopra il modo Valzar acque da’ luoghi bassi” by Guiseppe Ceredi, Parma, 1567, with folding woodcuts (one torn). Hero. Spiritualium Liber, a F. Commandino conversus, second edition, woodcuts, vellum | Paris], Gules Gourbin, 1583; another edition, engraved illustrations, half roan, Amsterdam, 1680 Al0.4, (2) Hero. Gli Artifitiosi et Cvriosi Moti Spiritali ... tradotte da M. Gio Battista Aleotti, First ITALIAN TRANSLATION, title within woodcut border, woodcuts, vellum 4to. Ferrara, Vittorio Baldim, 1589 Hero. Moti Spiritali, another copy, @ 4 misbound before q 2, vellum 4to. 1589 Hero. Moti Spiritali, another edition, woodcuts, boards, Bologna, 1647; another copy, vellum, 1647; Buch von Lufft-und Wasser-Kunsten, frontispiece and woodcuts, sprinkled calf gut, Frankfort, 1688; ete. Ato. (A) Hero. Spiritali ... ridotti in lingua volgare da Alessandro Giorgi, woodcuts, brown morocco gilt, inside borders, uncut Ato. Urbino, 1592 Hero. The Pneumatics, translated for and edited by Bennet Woodcroft, FIRST EDITION in H'nglish, ulustrations, cloth, 1851;. another copy, original cloth, loose, 1851—Field (George) Chromatics, coloured illustrations, cloth, 1817;
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