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Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
Date: 1831-1848- Books
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Bibliotheca elegans. A catalogue of the entire and valuable library of Sir Robert Baylis, Knt. and Alderman, deceas'd. Containing a fine Collection of the best Editions of the Classics, printed by the most celebrated Printers; also the most approved Authors relating to the History and Antiquities of divers Nations, particularly Great-Britain and Ireland. And a curious Collection of Voyages and Travels. Which will be sold by auction, at the Rose Tavern near Temple-Bar, on Monday, November 20, 1749. and the Eleven following Evenings, (sunday excepted) beginning each Evening at Five O'Clock. N. B. The Books are very fine Copies, and most of them elegantly bound. Among many other valuable Articles are, Folio. De Bry's East and West Indies, 25 Parts, 12 vol. compleat Antiquite expliquee, par Montfaucon, 15 vol. 1st Impr. R. P. finely bound Dr. Clarke's Caesar, fine Prints Cicero, by Vascosan 70 vol. 410 - C. Steph. 2 v. beautiful Copy - Manutius, 4 vol. folio Dugdale Monasticon Angl. 3 vol. Plato, Serrani, 3 vol. exemp. elegans Overbeeke's Antiq. of Rome Purchas's Pilgrims, 5 vol. fine Copy Hakluyt's Voyages, 3 vol. Churchill's Voyages, 4 vol. Stukeley's Itinerary Madox's History of the Exchequer Somner's Saxon Dictionary. Octavo. Classics, notis variorum, 34 vol. Elzevir Classics, 35 v. very fair and neat Hearne's Antiquities, 24 vol. Together with some curious single Prints, and eight handsome Book Cases with Glass Doors; which will be Sold in the 12th Days Sale at Noon. Catalogues may be had of Mr. Whiston in Fleetstreet, Mr. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, Mr. Millar in the Strand, Mr. Clarke under the Royal Exchange, Messrs. Thurlbourn and Merril at Cambridge, Mr. Fletcher in the Turl, Oxford, And at the Place of Sale. - The Books may be viewed on Thursday, November 16, Friday 17, and Saturday the 18th.
Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711-1778.Date: 1749]- Books
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Catalogue of books, prints, and books of print being the libraries of the Late Rev. Doctor Usher, F.T.C.D. Mr. Clarendon, and another gentleman which will begin to be sold on Wednesday the 22d of June, 1796, by James Vallance, at his Sale-Room, No. 6, Eustace-Street, the collection consists of a number of excellent books in various branches of literature; among which are the following: folio. Montsaucon's Grecian and Roman antiquities, with the supplement, 15 vol. first impressions of the plates. - Antiquities of France, 5 vol. with plates, Boydel's Shakespeare, with large and small plates, fine impressions. Macklin's British poets, fine impressions. Macklin's British poets, fine impressions. Hodges's views in India fine impressions, bound in Russia. Miller's illustration of the sexual system of linnŭs, 3 vol. with plates coloured and plain, Rubens's landscapes, engraved by Bolswert. Kirby's perspective, fine plates, large paper. Overbeke's antiquities of Rome, 3 vol. impressions, large paper. Trajan and antonine columns, fine impressions, Chambers's dictionary, 5 vol. with plates best edition. Ancient and modern universal history 12 vol. Cooke's voyages, 10 vol. compleat, fine plates pressions of the plates, bound in green tu Pope's works and translations, 14 vol. copy. Spenser's fairie queene, 3 vol. with many designs, elegant. Ferguson's Roman republic, 3 vol. elegant. Doddridge's family expositor, 6 vol. plates, fine copy. With many others equally good. Most of the prints are fine impressions.
Vallance, James.Date: 1796]- Books
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A catalogue of prints and books of prints, both ancient and modern, after the most eminent masters. Among them are the following Books of Prints. The Works of Capt. Baillie Oeuvres de Phil Wovermans Oeuvres de Pillement, half bound Scenographia Americana Sadelar's Landscapes Oeuvres de F. K. Wierotter Perelle's Landscapes, Worlidge's Gems, 3 vols. Hayes's British Birds finely coloured Edwards's Flowers on 100 plates, do. Harris's English Insects, Moths and Butterflies Redinger's various coloured Horses Miller's Plants, done at Nuremberg Ovid's Metamorphoses The Life of Massachio, by Patch - Fra. Bartolomeo, ditto - Giotta ditto Barry's Charts of Nova Scotia, &c. The North American Pilot The American Atlas, by Jefferies The West Indian Atlas De L'isle's Atlas Dunn's Atlas Piranesi's Views of Rome Books bound in Russia, &c. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. fol. Johnson's Dictionary in 2 vols. Postlethwayte's Dictionary of Trade Beauwe's Lex Mercutoria Atkyn's History of Gloucestershire Wood's Body of Conveyancing, 3 vols. Harris's Collection of Voyages, 2 vols. Anderson's History of Trade, 2 vols. Hawkin's History of Music, 5 vols. Grose's Antiquities of Eng. and Wales Strut's Customs and Manners of the Ancient Inhabitants of Eng. 3 vols. Pennant's Tour to Scotland, 3 vols. Anson's Voyage Blackwel's Courtof Augustus, 3 vols. Hume's History of England, 8 vols 4 to Robinson's History of Scotland, 2 vols. Hooke's Roman History, 4 vols. Locke's Works, 4 vols. Bolingbroke's Works, 5 vols. Thompson's Description of the Royal Palace of the Escurial with plates Philosophical Transactions, complete Wards Justice, 4 vols. Lexembourg Gallery half bound. A Choice Collection of Metzotintos, First Impressions; many of them Proof Prints; all in fine Preservation and many very scarce. Likewise A Collection of fine Paintings. With an Appendix, containing. A Collection of Books, most of them in elegant Bindings, the lowest Price of each Article printed in the Catalogue By Hooper and Davis, No. 25, Ludgate-Hill. Catalogues to be had gratis, as above; at Mr. Ridley's, St. James's Street; Mr. Shropshire's, New Bond Street; Mr. Millan's, Charing-Cross; and at Mr. Sewel's, Cornhill.
Hooper and Davis (Booksellers : London, England)Date: 1779?]- Books
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The water works of the ancient Romans : the natural springs, aqueducts, reservoirs, baths, and drains of Rome / by Alexander Thomson.
Date: 1859- Books
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Sael's catalogue for 1792, consisting of twenty thousand volumes; including two libraries lately purchased; and many rare and curious books, collected from various Parts of the Kingdom; with a choice Collection of the most esteemed modern Publications: The whole forming an extensive Variety of the best Authors in every Branch of Literature; many of which are in elegant Bindings. Among others equally valuable are Speculum Ecclesiae, Liber Edwardi Confessoris, MS. Biographia Britannica, 4 vol. Blair's Chronology, best edit. Borlase's Cornwell. Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani, a Gibson, 2 tom. Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 3 vols. large paper. Camden's Britannia, by Gough, 3 vols. Nash's Worcestershire, 2 vols. Dee, Bramhall, Saunders, Agrippa, Hopkins, &c. on Witchcraft. King's Vale Royal, eleg. MS. notes. Dictionaries, by Chambers, Johnson, Ainsworth, Baretti, Motherby, Miller, &c. Leicester's Cheshire. Earl of Oxford's Col. of Voyages, 2 vols. Holy Bible, by Field, Wilson, Gill, Brown, Doway, Coll, &c. Morant's Essex, 2 vols. large paper. Peck's Stamford, large paper. Tanner's Notitia, by Nasmith. Scriptores Historiae Romanae, 3 tom. Plukenetti Opera, 4 tom. Homerus Gr. Hodierna, cum multis fig. Newton's Milton, 3 vols. eleg. Ferguson's and Gibbon's Rome, 9 vols. Pennant's Wales, London, and Scotland, 6 vols. New Test. by Tyndale, first edit. Vaughan's Antiquities. Fenn's Letters, 4 vols. Horae ad Usum Sarum, cum fig. MS. on vellum - 1498 Mountenay's Emblems, in seven languages. Gentleman's Magazine, 68 vols. Bell's Poets, 109 vols. Dodsley's Register, 31 vols. Gibbon's and Hook's Rome, 23 vols. eleg. Shakspeare, by Johnson, Stevens, Bell, Capel, and Malone, 51 vols. Ancient and Modern Universal History, 60 vols. Johnson's Poets, 75 vols. Hume's and Smollet's England, 13 vols. portraits. Voltaire's Works, 36 vols. Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian, 14 vols. British Classics, 40 vols. Which are now selling, for ready Money only, at the exceeding low Prices printed in the Catalogue. by G. Sael, Bookseller, at the English Library, Newcastle Street, Strand, London, Who gives the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books, or Books exchanged. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Richardson, at the Royal Exchange; Messrs. Merrills, Cambridge; Prince and Co. Oxford; Mr. Poole, Chester; and of the principal Book sellers in every County Town in England. Those Gentlemen and Ladies who are desirous of G. Sael's future Catalogue, in either Town or Country, may depend on receiving it, by favouring him with their Address before the Publication. Country Dealers, and all Public Schools, &c. supplied with all Publications whatever, on the lowest Terms, and with the utmost Dispatch. Orders for Exportation punctually executed.
Sael, George, 1760 or 1761-1799.Date: 1792]- Books
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Edwards's catalogue of a select collection of ancient and modern books, in every branch of science, valuable drawings and prints, painted from the antique; Including the choicest Part of the Libraries of Monsignor Salichetti of Rome, late Physician to the Pope; of Cav. Zanetti of Venice; and an Assortment of the rarest and most esteemed Articles, collected in various Parts of Europe. Zanetti's Orig. Drawings of Ant. Stat. 2 v. Books of finely colour'd Drawings from Herculaneum, the Baths of Titus, and the Vatican, &c. Capital Drawings of Birds by G. di Udino, a scholar of Raphael Lewin's Paintings of English Birds, on vel. Albert Durer's Engravings complete Vernet's Prints, first impressions Piranesi's Works complete, 16 vol. russia Gallerie de Dresde Luxemburg Gallery, first impression Museum Florentinum, 13 vol. russia Museum Clementinum, 3 vol. russia Sir W. Hamilton's Views of Naples, col. Sir W. Hamilton's Etruscan Antiq. col. Antiquities of Herculancum, royal edition Worlidge's Gems, fine impressions Houbraken's Heads, large paper, 1st impr. Hogarth's Works, old impressions, morocco The Old French School of Engravers, 14 v. Tewrdancks, 1517, printed on vel. & illum. Telemaque, grand papier, 1734 Voyages Pittoresq. D'italie, Grece, France, Sicile & Suisse, 21 vol. Superb Manuscripts of the Classics on vel. Alcoran, folio MS. with rich illuminations Decamerone di Boccacio, 1527, pr. on vel. Campbell's Vitruvins Britannicus, 5 vol. Sir W. Dugdale's Works Chronicles by Froissart, Holinshed, &c. Rapin & Tindal, russia Historiae Byzantinae Scriptores, edit. ptima Rymeri Foedera Dc Bry Navigationes in Indias Gesneri Numismata Montfaucon Mon. Francoise, 5 tom. gr. p. - Antiq. & Sup. 15 tom. gr. pa. Lancelot du Lac, Cirongilio di Francia, Primaleon y Polendos, Olivante de Macedonia, Amadis di Gaula, Guerino il Meschino, &c. Edmondson's Baronagium Anglicanum, 6 v Physique Sacre, 8 vol. morocco Winkelman Monumenta Inedita, 2 vol. Ariosto Orlando Furioso, carta mass. Biblia Sacra Mogunt. 1462, pr on vel. with il. Boccacio II Decamerone, ediz. prima Petrarca, 1472 Decor Puellarum, 1461 Psalterium, Gr. & Lat. 1481. edit. primae Juvenal, 1470, edit. princeps Florus, edit. princeps Manilius, 1474, edit. princeps Sallustius, edit. princeps Terentius, edit. princeps C. Nepos, 1471, edit. princeps Hist. Augustae Scriptores, 1475, edit. prin. Plautus, 1472, edit. princeps Rei Rusticae Scriptores, 1472, edit. prin. Solinus, 1473, edit. princeps V. Flaccus, 1474, edit. princeps Celsus, 1478, edit. princeps Astronomi Veteres, edit. princeps Lascaris Grammatica Graeca, 1480 Anthologia Graeca, 1494, edit. princeps Apoll. Rhodius, 1496, edit princeps Caefar a Clark, morocco Lucretius, charta max. 1712 Lactantius, 1468, morocco Doleti Comment. Ling. Lat. 2 vol. Delphin Classics complete Catullus, &c. Vulpii, charta max. 6 vol. Periera Antoniana Margarita Eustatius in Homerum, 4 vol. russ. Marchi Architettura Militare Atlas de D'anville Jacquin's Drawings of American Plants, Hortus Vindobonensis, &c. Buffon's Birds, coloured, 10 vol. Merian's Surinam, coloured Petiver's Works Lister's Shells Sloane's Jamaica Various Bibles, with fine cuts Cook's Voyages complete, first edition Voyages de Chardin, Nieburh, Sonderat, de la Valle, &c. Booke called Caton, Caxton, 1483 Pylgremage of the Soule, Caxton, 1483 Parliamentary Debates complete, 120 vol. Gentleman's Magazine, 66 vol. complete Monthly Review, complete The whole are in fine Condition, and many of them in elegant Bindings. They are now on Sale, 1790, (at the Prices printed in the Catologue, and marked in the First Leaf of every Book) At Edwards's, No. 102, Pall-Mall, London. - The full Value for Libraries. - Books exchanged and Libraries valued.
Edwards, James, 1756-1816.Date: 1790]- Journals
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Greece & Rome
Date: 1931-- Journals
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Classical antiquity
Date: ©1982-- Pictures
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Rome: remains of a room at the baths of Diocletian, including antique sculpture and plaques. Photograph by Anderson, ca. 1931.
Date: [1931?]Reference: 582088i- Books
Aspects of women in antiquity : proceedings of the first Nordic Symposium on Women's Lives in Antiquity, Göteborg 12 - 15 June 1997 / edited by Lena Larsson Lovén & Agneta Strömberg.
Nordic Symposium on Women's Lives in Antiquity 1997 : Göteborg, Sweden)Date: 1998- Books
Lexicon of the Greek and Roman cities and place names in antiquity, ca. 1500 B.C. - ca. A.D. 500 / ed. by K. Branigan ; general ed., Adolf M. Hakkert.
Date: 1992-- Books
L'antica anatomia nell'arte dei donaria (Ancient anatomy in the art of votive offerings) / a cura di Gaspare Baggieri ; referenza archeologica M. L. Rinaldi Veloccia.
Date: 1999- Books
Naissance et petite enfance dans l'Antiquite : actes du colloque de Fribourg, 28 novembre - 1er decembre 2001 / Veronique Dasen (ed.).
Date: 2004- Pictures
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Proportions of the human body: four figures of the Farnese Hercules and the Laocoön group, with proportions marked. Line engraving by W. Grainger, 1788/1795, after G. Audran (?).
Audran, Gérard, 1640-1703.Date: [1788/1795]Reference: 561911i- Archives and manuscripts
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Travelling Letter Book
Date: Dec 1901 - Mar 1902Reference: WF/E/01/02/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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A catalogue of the libraries of the late Sir John Barnard, Knt, Late Vicar of St. George's in the East, Dr. Mid Dleton of Bristol, and Dr. Ross, deceased; Containing upwards of twenty thousand volumes of valuable books, and in fine Condition, many of them elegantly bound in Morocco, with a large Collection of modern French Books, and a good Collection of Law. Amongst which are the following: Folio. Journals House of Commons, 31 vol. ... Monasticon & Stevens's Contin. 3 v. Thornton's Nottingshamshire Philipot's Kent Antiquities of Palmyra - Balbec - Spalatro - Athens Religious Ceremonies, l. pap. 6 vol. russia Universal Hist and Supplement, 8 vol. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. russia leather Voyages par Le Brun, 3 tom. - de Norden, 2 tom. Bacon's Works, 3 vol. Dictionaries, viz. Miller's, Chamber's, 4 vol. Ainsworth, Johnson, Postlethwayte, Collier, Bayle, 5 vol. Biog. Brit. 6 vol. General, 10 vol. Portuguese, Gesneri Thesaur. 4 tom. H. Stephani Thesaur. Graece, 5 tom. ch. max. Hoffmanni Lexicon, 4 tom. Appendix ad H.Stephani Thesaur. 2 tom. Golii Lexicon Arabicum Assemanni Biblio, Orient. 4 tom. ... Calmet sur la Bible, 9 tom. Musaeum Florentinum, 10 tom. corio russ. Statue Antiche, di Rossi Antiq. de Rom. par Desgodetz Medailles de Louis XIV. relie en maroquin Blackwell's Herbal, 2 vol. l. p. coloured Hill on Fossils, l. paper, coloured Herbarum Amboinens. 7 tom. ... Ornithologie, par Brisson, grand nomb. des fig. 6 tom. grande pap. in turkey leather With many Hundreds more equally good. Which will begin to be sold (for Ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on March 18, 1765. and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, Next the Mews-Gate, in Castle-Street, St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had (price 6d) Mr. Brotherton's Cornhill; at Child's Coffee House, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Owen's, Temple-Bar; Lewis, in Russel-Street, Covent Garden; Walter, Charing-Cross; Ridley, St. James's-Street; Shropshire, New Band-Street; Mess. Merril, and Matthews, at Cambridge; and at the Place of Sale. Where is given the full Value for any Library, or Parcel of Books.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1765]- Pictures
A male écorché figure, of whom only the right side of his body has been flayed. He holds the removed skin of his right side in his right hand and pulls back the skin of his left abdomen with his left hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498-approximately 1580.Date: [between 1550 and 1559]Reference: 99i- Pictures
A male écorché figure, lateral view seen from the right, striding towards right, holding disc. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498-approximately 1580.Date: [between 1550 and 1559]Reference: 100i- Pictures
Grotesque ornament. Engravings by or after J. Androuet du Cerceau.
Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549-1584.Date: [1562?]Reference: 3183067i- Pictures
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A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
Master of Los Balbases (Painter in Burgos), active approximately 1495.Date: [1495?]Reference: 46009i