Sales catalogue 94: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/8
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 94: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f} ACCOUNTANCY. 1 Hatton (E.) The Merchant’s Magazine: or Trades-Man’s Treasury, containing Arith- metick, Merchant Accompt and SBook- keeping. The second edition to which is added Maxims concerning Bills of Exchange Port of Letters to and from foreign countries, an account of the commodities produced by all countries, a Merchant or Trader’s Dictionary, Presidents of Mer- chants Writings. London, J. Heptinstall for Chr. Coningsby, 1697 £3 3S 4to. Old calf, Capel arms in gilt on sides. 4 ll., 258 pp. Fine engraved porirait of the author and 9 engraved plates. Very fine copy of this rare edition. AGRICULTURE AND GARDENING. L’Horto de i semplici di Padova, que si vede primieramente la forma di tutta la pianta con le sue mesure & indi i suoi partimenti distinti per numeri in ciascuna arella, intaghato in rame. Venice, Giro- lamo Porro, 1591 £5 5s _8vo. Vellum, 72 leaves. Engraved device on title, engraved portrait, 4 plates and one large folding plan showing the layout of the famous botanical garden in Padua. Corresponding to the plan of the sections of the garden are a number of pages with rules left blank to be filled in by the owners of the book with the names of the plants cultivated. At the end there is a catalogue of the plants actually cultivated in 1591. A rare and charming book on the oldest botanical garden in Europe. Marshall (Humphry) Catalogue Alpha- bétique des Arbres et Arbrisseaux qui croissent naturellement dans les Etats- Unis de l’Amérique septentrionale, arrangés selon le systeme de Linné . . . traduit de Vanglois avec des notes... par M. Lézermes. Paris, Cuchet, 1788 30s 8vo. Original wrappers, uncut. 278 pp. French editon of this very rare catalogue of the trees and shrubs of America, which was published in Philadelphia in 1785, It has an index of the English plant names at the end. Yong (M.) Catalogue d’Arbres Arbustes et Plantes Herbacées d’Amerique. Paris, Hériesant, 1783 £2 10s 8vo. Original wrappers, uncut. A most interesting catalogue by a seedsman in Pennsylvania, probably the first of its kind, of American trees and plants for sale in Europe, through Villemorin in Paris. One bush was named after Yong by Linnaeus. ARMOUR. Grose (F.) A Treatise on ancient armour and weapons. London, 1785 21s 4to. Old calf, gilt by Kalthoeber, with his ticket. 118, 20 pp. With 49 engraved plates showing ancient armour. A Collection of 22 Sale Catalogues between 1917 and 1936 of Christie’s and Sotheby’s, mostly illustrated and priced. There are also duplicate catalogues of most of the more important. sales. The collection includes also the catalogue of the Brett collection, sold in 1895 18s ART AND ARCHITECTURE. d’imprimer en possession M. T. O. Weigel a Leipzig. Leipzig, Weigel, 1872 12s 6d Large 8vo. Full green morocco. Important descriptive priced catalogue of early single wood- cuts and engravings with 12 full and double-page reproductions. Deperthes (J. B.) Histoire de l’Art du Paysage, depuis la Renaissance des Beaux Arts jusqu’au Dix-Huitieme Siecle. Paris, 1822 12s 6d 8vo. Contemporary boards, calf back. 544 pp. Descamps (J. B.) La Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands et Hollandais avec des portraits. Paris, 1753-1763 35s - 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt. 4 vols. With engraved frontispiece and over 160 engraved portraits of many of the painters whose bio- graphies the book contains. Italian. London, Dodsley, 1770 21s 8vo. Contemporary calf.’ 14 1]., 262 pp. The only English translation, which is ascribed to W. Brown, (Pomponius) De sculptura. Florence [Gifinta] £3 10s 8vo. Old vellum. First edition of a remarkable Renaissance treatise on sculpture, the first modern treatise on sculpture. There are many references to contemporary sculptors, such as Donatello, and Leonardo da Vinci is mentioned. A few con- temporary notes. collection of prints by Wenceslaus Ifollar formed by the late John Towneley . . . which will be sold by auction by Mr. King ...on Tuesday the 26th Day of May 1818. (London, 1818) 25s 4to. Contemporary polished calf. 4+44 pp. Very rare sale catalogue of Hollar’s works, priced throughout in contemporary manuscript (with the exception, of the last two pages). Paris, Jacques Longlois, 1651 £3 10s Folio. Old calf, back slightly defective. 10 Il., 128 pp. Portrait of da Vinci as frontispiece, fine engraved vignette on title, and beautiful engraved illustrations throughout from drawings by Poussin, who copied da Vinci’s manuscript. The first French edition, translated by Roland Fréard, | and printed in the same year and by the same printer as the Italian edition. One page is torn, but without loss of surface, and some very slight waterstains. tecture. Paris, Jombert (ca. 1650) £310s Folio. Old calf, rebacked. With 60 fine engraved plates, including the engraved title and the rare double-page portrait. The fine plates show interiors and exteriors of private palaces, public buildings and a church designed by the artist. . curious observations on several other countries as Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, Geneva, Flanders and Holland. London, For R. Bonwick, J. Tonson, etc., 1714 18s 4 vols. 8vo. Old calf, back a very little worn. Engraved front. to Vol. I., and numerous copper- plate engravings. An interesting book of European travel. This copy is interleaved with blank paper for notes. Plates 15 and 16 in Vol. 3 were appar- ently never issued, as we have compared our copy with that in the Museum.
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