Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
30th May 1974
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/16
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Licence: In copyright

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

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    ‘qu’une biographie méthodique et raisonnée des “*beaux-arts. L’ Auteur a partagé les arts en deux grandes ‘sections: ErUDES GENERALES, ETUDES SPECIALES. Les ETUDES GENERALES embrassent la Philo- sophie et la Théorie de Vart; les Rapports de Vart -avec les religions, la société, les lettres et les sciences ; VHistoire générale de Vart, les matériaux pour ‘cette méme histoire, c’est-a-dire Archéologie et la Géographie dart, la Biographie wniverselle des artistes, ete. Les ErupEs sPKcraLEes ont trait au Dessin ‘proprement dit et aux arts dont il est la base fon- damentale (l’ Architecture, la Sculpture, la Peinture, la Gravure, la Lithograghie) ; elles embrassent de ‘méme les arts industriels (l’Ameublement, la Me- nuiserie Wart, la Céramique, la Ciselwre, VOrfe- vrerie, etc.)—un point de vue technique, historique et descriptif. : Viollet le Duc, Essai sur 1’Architecture Mi- litaire, imp]. 8vo. 153 woodcuts, exhibiting an- cient Fortification and Military Costume, (sells 25fr. unbound), hf. red morocco, uncut, 20s Paris, 1854 Virgilius (4 Naugerio recognitus, cum Aldi ad P. Bembum Epistola) 12mo. blue morocco extra, gilt edges, from Sir Mark Sykes’ and Bishop Butler’s libraries, €12. Venet. Aldus et Andreas, 1514 This is the rare edition, containing the best Aldine text, which Renouard supposed, from the mark onthe title and at the end, to have been printed ‘some time later than the date it bears. Virgil’s Mneis, translated into Scottish Verse by the famous GAWIN Douetas, Bishop of Dun- keld, with Glossary, with very mumerous MS. additions, particularly to the Glossary, of great philological value, probably by Dr. Jamieson, whose autograph is on the title, sm. folio, calf, rebacked, otherwise a fine copy, scarce, £5. Edinburgh, 1710 Voltaire, Giuvres, avec préfaces, avertisse- ments, notes, ete. par M. Beuchot, 70 vols.— Tables alphabétique des matiéres, par Miger, LATEST PURCHASES. 2 vols.—together 72 vols. 8vo. sd. £4. 10s Paris, Lefévre, 1834-40 Voltaire, la Pucelle d’Orleans, figures par Du- plessis Berthault, 2 vols. sm. 8vo. portraits, plates, and 21 jime vignettes, LARGE PAPER, sd. 21s Londres, 1780, (reprinted, Paris, 1860-70 ?) Walcott (J.) Figures, Description, and History of Exotic Animals; Amphibia and Pisces, sm. 4to. plates on the Teat, half calf, 15s 1788 Walker (C.) Monographia Chalciditum (Hymen- optera) 2 vols. in 1, 8vo. 15 plates, half calf gilt, 15s 1839 Walpole (Horace) Anecdotes of Painting in England, with additions by Dallaway, Large Paper, 5 vols. roy. 8vo. 88 portraits, proofs on India paper, and woodcuts, citron morocco extra, gilt edges, £21. Major, 1828 A very beautiful book: these illustrated works in fine state are becoming rare. | Walter’s Untersuchungen iiber Molecular- Mechanik, roy. 8vo. sd. 2s 6d ~—- Berlin, 1873 Wellington’s Despatches during his va- rious Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, the Low Countries, and France, by Colonel GuRwoob, 12 vols. 8vo. calf gilt, £3. 16s f 1837-38 Wine. (Pozzr) del Vino, della. sue malattie e de’ suoi rimedi: dei Vini artifiziali e della Fabbricazione dell’ Aceto, 12mo. bound up with Linnei Systema Vegetabilium and an- other, half calf, 7s 6d Firenze, 1806 Yakoot. 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(the letterpress in German) 30 vols. in 18, small folio, containing upwards of 2500 fine engrav- ings of Views, Buildings, Towns, Castles, Churches, etc. by MERIAN, and others, some by Horyar, during his sojowrn at Frankfurt, a volume a little stained, vellum, a bargain, £4. Frankfurt, 1642-88 Contents:—Vol. I Austria, Styria, Tyrol, etc. II. Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, IlI. Bavaria, IV. Suevia, V. Alsatia, VI. Palatinus Rheni, VII. Arch. Mogunt, Trevir,et Colon. VIIL. Franconia, IX. Hassia, X. Westphalia, Xf. Saxonia Su- perior, XII. Saxonia Inferior, Thuringia, Misnia, Lusatia, XIII. Brunsvicia et Luneberg, XIV. Brandenburg, Pomerania, XV. Helvetia, Rhetia et Valesia. XVI. Germania Inferior, Hollandia, Brabant, Flandria, Burgundia, etc X VII.-X XIX. Gallia, XXX. Italia, without the Index. “Cette collection merite de conserver une place dans les grandes bibliotheques, parceque les planches de Merian, sont la representation fidele des choses telles qu’elles existaient a Vepoque ou Vauteur publiait son livre.” — Brunet. Zoological Atlas: Atlas van Platen, behoor- ende bij den Leercursus der Natuurlijke His- torie, folio, 42 plates, containing about 500 jigures of Birds, Mammals, Fish, etc. bds.2s 6d ca. 1850 Zoological Journal, conducted by Bell, Sowerby, and others, from the commencement in March 1824 to 1834, 5 vols. 8vo. many coloured plates, hf. calf, £2. 2s 1825-35 —— the same, Vols, J.-IV. 8vo. hf. calf neat, 30s Agriculture: Ricsy (E.) Holkham, its Agri- culture, etc. 8vo. bds. 2s 1818 An Account of Mr. Coke’s (Earl of Leicester) Improvements in Agriculture. America. Revort on the Exploration of the Country between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement, by S. J. 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