Sales catalogue 117: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/24
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 117: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ACCOUNTANCY. . 13 London (John) A Compleat System of Book-Keeping, after the Italian Method, wherein the Principles of the Art are set forth and explained ... examples of all the different accounts which naturally come to be formed and kept in carrying on ‘a regular Course of Trade. .... London, LT SZ, Moise 4to. Boards. Two parts in one volume. 14 Thompson (Wardhaugh) The Accomptant’s Oracle; or Key to Science. Being a Treatise of Common Arithmetic with the doctrine of vulgar and decimal fractions. York, 1777 25s 8vo. Old calif. AFRICA. 15 Ockley (Simon, Professor of Arabick in the University of Cambridge) An Account of South-West Barbary: Containing what is most Remarkable in the Territories of the King of Fez and Morocco. Written by a Person who had been a Slave there a con- siderable Timre; and Published from his Authentick Manuscript. London, J. Bowyer, iy Es: £2 10s Sm. 8vo. 152 pp. Calf, rebacked. Folding map. ALMANACKS. 16 Raphael.—The Prophetic Messenger. Al- manac for 1834 10s 8vo. Half calf. 84 pp. With coloured folding frontispieces (torn in some of the folds, but no loss of surface). AMERICA. 17 Golumbus.—Codice Diplomatico Colombo- Americano ossia Raccolta di Documenti Originali e inediti, spettanti a Cristoforo Colombo alla scoperta ed al Governo dell’ . America, pubblicato. per ordiner’ degl’ Illmi. Decurioni della Citta di Genova, 1823 £2 10s 4to. Calf. gilt, arms of Lord Stuart de Rothesay stamped in blind on sides. With facsimile plates and portraits. 18 Formaleoni (Vincenzio) Saggio Sulla Nau- tica’ Antica de’ Veneziani con una _ illus- trazione d’alcune carte idrografiche antiche della Biblioteca di S. Marco, che dimostrano Pisole Antille prima della scoperta di Cristo- foro’ Colombo. Venice, presso Tlautore, 1783 £3 3s 8vo. Paper wrappers. 611,60 + 64pp. With one. plate of diagrams and three folding plates reproduc- ing i5th century portulans preserved in Venice. A very uncommon book, containing a good deal of in- formation about the early stages of the discovery of North and South America. : 19 Prescott (William H.) Memoir of the Honourable Abbott . Lawrence, Prepared for the National Portrait Gallery. Printed for Private Distribution, 1856 £1 is 4to. 51 pp. Original cloth. Portrait. With in- scription from Mrs. Abbott Lawrence. Lawrence was U.S. Minister to Great. Britain, 1849-52, & Founder of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. An uncommon book by the great American historian. of America by the Northmen in the Tentl Century. London, 1839 . 30» 8vo. Old half calf. 344 pp. 2 folding maps ano one plate. ‘ ART. and nos. 5-7). (Philippus, S.J.) n Summorum Pontificum Templi Vaticani Fabricam Indicantia. Rome, 1696 £3 3s Folio. Old vellum. 15; & 240 pp. With 86 plates (also four additional not numbered ones). ‘There are no plates 37-38, but these are evidently not called: for in the text. : ; A very full account of the architectural history of St. Peter and the Vatican, profusely illustrated with plans, views, pictures cf monuments, etc. Numismata Pitoresco. Dialogo tra un Senator venetian deletante de un professor de Pitura, soto nome d’Kcelenza e de Compare. Venice, Baba, l660 ?. - £7 10s 4to. 18th century vellum, gilt back. 10 leaves, 680) pp., 5 ll. Engraved portrait of the author and 25: fine full-page engravings by Boschini. This work, written in verse, is of great importance for the history of Venetian painting, as it treats of the development of the art in Venice, describing at length the art of Domenicho, Titian, Tintoretto, and many others. a Eau Forte et au Burin et de la gravure en maniere noire avec la facon’ de construire les presses modernes et dimprimer en Taille-douce. Nouvelle edition, revue et augmentee du double. Paris, 1745 £4 4s 8vo. Contemporary French calf. 32, 186 pp., 2 ll. of advertisement. Engraved frontispiece, 19 en- graved folding plates, 3 vignettes by Cochin and one. by Bosse. .The best edition, greatly enlarged, of this. important work on the technique of engraving, first published in.1643. Cohen, p. 177. exemplifying the use of them in the arts of Drawing, Etching, Engraving, Limning, Painting in Oyl, Washing of Maps and Pic- tures, also the way to cleanse any old painting and preserve the colours, collected from the ablest writers... .as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, etc. London, 1688 | £8 8s 8vo. Old calf, repaired, 8 ll., 123 pp. Engraved frontispiece and engravings in text. Sée the account by Lewin I, pp. 32-6.. The book is of great import- ance being one of the earliest in English on the subject and containing probably the earliest description of mezzotinting and tools. Of the utmost rarity.— torn from last page, affecting a few letters. Romanorum liber singularis. Stockholm, Johannes Janssonius, 1656 2is 8vo. Vellum. A very rare work on Roman archaeo- logy, printed at Stockholm. . chiefly by the most admired masters of the Roman, Florentine, Parman, Bolog- nese, Venetian, Flemish and French schools . . illustrated by descriptions & critical. remarks. London, Sold at the Place -of Exhibition, (776 35s 8vo. ‘New half calf. Descriptive catalogue of a in London.
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