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in Picardy and Normandy.
Cambridge: Printed at the Pitt Press, by
John Smith, for J. & J. Deighton …,
1835. With 4 engraved plates,
pp xxvi, (2, blank),235, 8vo, original cloth: a very good copy
Second, enlarged edition of the best English treatise of its date on the
Gothic style, particularly important for its account of German Late
Romanesque. See Pevsner, Architectural Writers, 45-51. His tour in
Northern France in 1831 was with Thomas Rickman.
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ADDINGTON (Henry).
Some account of the Abbey
Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, at Dorchester, Oxfordshire.
Oxford: Published for the Society for promoting the study of Gothic
architecture, by John Henry Parker,
1845. FIRST EDITION, with
engraved title, 15 plates and text illustrs, by Orlando Jewitt,
pages xii, 172, 4, 8vo, original brown cloth: spine worn but
binding strong, otherwise very good
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GUIZOT (Franois P. G.).
The Fine Arts, their nature and
relations. Translated with the assistance of the author by George
Grove. With illustrations drawn on wood by George Scharf,
Jun.
Thomas Bosworth,
1853. V.
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BELLARS (Wm.).
The Fine Arts and their uses. Essays on
the essential principles and limits of expression of the various
arts, with especial reference to their popular influence.
Smith,
Elder, & Co.,
1870. FIRST EDITION, pages xii, 381,2(adverts),
8vo original cloth: a very good copy.
“My object has been to put forward a simple, but at the same time
comprehensive, scheme of aesthetics, which should be applicable to all
Art, and available by any person. “ - Preface.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
925
.
HUBBARD (Thomas O’Brien) and LEDEBOER (John
H.).
The Aeronautical Classics. Edited for the Council of the
Aeronautical Society of Great Britain. Illustrated with portraits,
plates, and diagrams.
Printed and published for the Aeronautical
Society of Great Britain by King, Sell & Olding,
1910-11
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, with plates and illustrations,
pages (4), x, 40: x, 45: (2), xxi, 40: (6),27: xx, 39: viii, (2), 40,
8vo, original blue cloth, gilt: a nice fresh copy.
Cayley’s Aerial Navigation, Wenham’s Aerial Locomotion, Walker’s
The Art of Flying, Lana’s The Aerial Shp, Pilcher’s Gliding, and,
Borelli’s The Flight of Birds.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
CLEATOR (P. E.).
The Robot
Era.
George Allen & Unwin,
1955. FIRST EDITION, plates and
illustrs, 172-pages, 8vo, original cloth: very good in dw.
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GATLAND (K. W.) & KUNESCH (A. M.).
Space Travel.
A. Wingate,
1953. FIRST EDITION, with 100 illustrs,205-pp,
8vo, original cloth: very good in dull dw.
“An illustrated survey of its problems and prospects”.
(3)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
926
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HUNTER (Sir Wm. Wilson).
Orissa: (or the vicissitudes
of an Indian province under native and British rule; in two
volumes. Being the second and third volumes of The Annals of
Rural Bengal).
Smith, Elder, & Co.,
1872
FIRST EDITION, with a large folding coloured map in an end
pocket, 16 plates (1 coloured) and one text woodcut, pages (8),
330, (2, blank): (4),278, (2),219,2 vols, 8vo, original cloth, gilt:
the bindings lightly marked but sound and strong with no
cracking of the inside hinges: a very good to nice copy, inscribed
“With the author’s compliments”.
A much acclaimed work by a distinguished civil servant and historian:
a valuable survey of a region best known for the great temple of
Jagannath
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
[BELL (Thomas Evans)].
The Rajah
and Principality of Mysore: with a letter to the Right Hon. Lord
Stanley, M. P.
Printed by Thomas Richards,
1865. FIRST (ONLY)
EDITION,56-pages, 8vo, original green cloth, gilt, by Bone &
Son, with their ticket: a nice, fresh copy, inscribed on flyleaf
“With Major Bell’s Compts. “
Privately published. Advocating the claims of the dispossessed ruling
family. Major Bell (1825-87) had been dismissed in 1860 for
insubordination to the Chief Commissioner for advancing the same
claims. However, all the measures Bell recommended were approved and
carried out by Lord Canning, and he was appointed Deputy
Commissioner of Police at Madras in 1861. He retired in 1863 and
devoted the remainder of his life to advocating measures for the benefit
of India and its people. The Dictionary of Indian Biography lists
twelve of his published works but not this present one. NSTC notes four
copies.
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€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
927
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HUTCHINSON (Sir Jonathan), FRCS.
A clinical memoir
of certain diseases of the eye and ear, consequent on inherited
syphilis; with an appended chapter of commentaries on the
transmission of syphilis from parent to offspring, and its more
remote consequences.
John Churchill,
1863
FIRST EDITION, with 2 chromolitho plates and a few text
illustrations, pages xii,259, (1, adverts), 8vo, original cloth, by
Westleys, with their ticket: the spine lightly and evenly faded: a
very good to nice copy.
In this important monograph the prolific surgeon and ophthalmologist
Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913) is the first to present the triad of
symptons indicative of congenital syphilis, which produced a firm
diagnosis almost half a century before the Wassermann test.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
TROLTSCH (Anton F. von) &
HELMHOLTZ (Hermann L. F. von).
The surgical diseases of
the ear. By Prof. von Troltsch. The mechanism of the ossicles
and the membrana tympani. By Prof. Helmholtz. Translated
from the German by James Hinton.
The New Sydenham Society
1874. FIRST EDITIONS IN ENGLISH, with an engraved plate
and some 20 text illustrations, pages vii, (3), 160, 8vo, original
brown cloth, gilt: the boards a little worn but the binding sound
and strong and otherwise a very good to nice copy.
Garrison-Morton 3376 and 1563. The first English translations of two
classic, related works. Troltsch devised the first modern mastoid
operation and the translator, Hinton, was the first in Britain to perform
it.
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BRIGHT (Richard).
Clinical memoirs on abdominal
tumours and intumescence. By the late Dr. Bright. Reprinted
from the “Guy’s Hospital Reports”. Edited by G. Hilaro Barlow
…
The New Sydenham Society
1860. FIRST COLLECTED
EDITION, with 79 text illusrrations, pages xviii, 326, 8vo,
original brown cloth, gilt, by Westleys, with their ticker: a nice
copy.
Garrison-Morton 2616. Observations on abdominal diseases including
ovarian tumors, diseases of the liver and spleen, and on renal disease for
which Bright is remembered eponymically. His exceptional powers of
observation and description make his clinical reports valuable. One of
the half-dozen greatest names in the honourable roll of English
physicians.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
928
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INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Manchester Unity, Dublin
District. Address & presentation to Brother George Mark Mc.
Cormick M. D; F: R. C. S. I: T. C. and Past Provincial Grand
Master of the Dublin District ….
(Dublin: circa
1877)
The first opening of the Album takes the form of an Address to
Brother George Mark McCormack, retiring ‘Medical Officer of
our Order in Dublin’, indicating that it formed part of the
presentation made that evening to Dr McCormick. The
illuminated page is signed by eight Dublin and provincial
officers and trustees of the Order. The album consists of some
47 photographic portraits of members of the Dublin society
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