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manufactures.
Glasgow …, W. Mackenzie, circa
1860
With engraved vignettew title-pages, 31 portraits and 1108 text
illustrations, pages 836, 9: (2), 832, 832a - 832y, 833 - 1186, 10,2
vols, 4to, contemporary half calf, gilt ruled spines, with labels,
gilt: with a light old stain in the corner of the portraits and the
bindings rubbed and lightly worn though still very strong: a very
good, strongly bound copy.
A comprehensive survey of manufacturing and technical processes.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
LEAN (Thomas).
Historical
statement of the improvements made in the duty performed by
the steam engines in Cornwall, from the commencement of the
publication of the Monthly Reports. Compiled at the request of
the British Association for the Improvement of Science. By
Thomas Lean and brother, registrars and reporters of the duty of
steam engines.
Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. (Cornwall printed),
1839.
FIRST EDITION, folding table, pp (4), vii, (3), 152, (2, blank),
roy 8vo, original cloth, with printed paper label on upper cover: a
small, clean patch of worming in extreme blank margin of final
six leaves, spine evenly faded, nonetheless, a bright, fresh and
attractive copy.
“Gives transcripts of reports for 1814, 1821, 1828,
1835. Also averages. Shows great advance in economy, and lists principal
improvements. “ - Williams II. 25.
(2)
TRADE CATALOGUE: - GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
Electric Light Fixtures. F section 16th edition.
December,
1922.
With 4 coloured plates and a very large number of full-page and
other illustrations, pages viii, 1005(F)-1215(F), large 4to, original
stiff printed paper wrappers: just a little worn at corners, but
sound and clean throughout: a very good copy.
A priced and
profusely illustrated catalogue, covering pendants, brackets, ceiling
fittings, electroliers, crystal fixtures, standards, bronzes, and, silk shades.
(3)
TRADE CATALOGUE: - Barnett & Foster.
No. 645.
General Catalogue of Machinery & Accessories for the Aerated
Water and Beer Bottling Trades, etc.
Barnett & Foster, The Bottlers’
Engineers, Niagara Works, Eagle Wharf Road, London
(1934). Fully
illustrated priced catalogue, pp 160, (4, ads), and 10 loosely
inserted leaves of corr-ections or additions, 4to, original cloth-
backed printed boards: casing weak, boards stained, with some
light damp staining in extreme inner margins, yet a clean and very
good copy.
With, in most cases, lenghty descriptions of the machinery
and accessories.
(5)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1134
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MYERS (Arthur Wallis),
ed.
Lawn Tennis at home and
abroad … with contributions by H. S. Mahony, H. S. Scrivener,
G. W. Hillyard, Mrs. Sterry, and other authorities on the game.
George Newnes Limited,
1903
FIRST EDITION, with many full-page and other illustrs, pp xvi,
328, 8vo, original pictorial cloth: a small patch of wear on fore-
edge of one board, otherwise a very good/nice copy
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[BODINGTON (Oliver Eaton)].
Thirty Seasons at Monte Carlo. Anecdotes of travel and records
of play. By “Pat”.
Grant Richards,
1924. FIRST EDITION, 9
plates after photos by author, 111-pp, 8vo, original cloth: very
good.
Gambling hints from a barrister associated with Bodington and Kelly,
Solicitors.
(2)
BALLOU (Adin).
An exposition of views respecting the
modern spirit manifestations: together with interesting
phenomenal statements and communications. Reprinted from the
second American edition. With introduction, notes, and
appendix.
Liverpool: Edward Howell, publisher,
1853. FIRST
EDITION THUS, pp lii, 160, (4, adverts), 12mo, original pink
glazed printed paper boards replicating the title but with the date
given as 1854 rather than 1853: the boards and backstrip rubbed
and worn, the stitching sound and internally a clean and very
good copy.
Ballou (1803-90), American universalist and socialist, founded Hopedale
utopian community, Milford, Mass., 1840-50, the first of the great
utopian enterprises.
(3)
WILKINSON (Wm. Martin).
Spirit Drawings: a personal
narrative.
Chapman & Hall,
1858. FIRST EDITION, pages iv, 191,
small 8vo, original green cloth, gilt, edges gilt, by Bone & Son,
with their ticket: some light foxing of preliminary leaves but still
an attractive copy.
An early account of occult communication through spirit writing. A dead
child conveys messages through the involuntary handwriting and drawing
of his brother and their father describes the phenomena and his struggle to
gain acceptance of the occurrence, claiming that he was the first who had
dared to print his name in connexion with these phenomena in England.
(4)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1135
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NARDINI (Famiano).
Roma antica di Famiano Nardini.
Edizione quarta Romana, riscontrata, ed accresciuta delle ultime
scoperte, con note ed osservazioni critico antiquarie di Antonio
Nibby … e con disegni rappresentanti la faccia attuale dell’antica
topografia di Antonio de Romanis …
Roma, nella stamperia de
Romanis
1818-19-20
With an engraved portrait of Nardini and 45 engraved plates and
maps (12 folding), pages xxxvi, 331, (1, blank): (2), 358: (2), 384,
349(bis)-416: (4),59, (1, blank); 52; 140, 4 vols, 8vo, strongly
bound in contemporary vellum, gilt ruled spines, with red and
dark green labels, gilt, silk markers, with the armorial bookplate
of Henry Hamilton (“Through” and “nec timeo nec sperno”) in
each volume and with the small green ticket of the Dublin
bookseller T. Connolly: an attractive set.
“This new edition of Nardini has been substantially overhauled by
Antonio Nibby, who has stripped away some of the accretions of earlier
editors and added his own footnotes and corrections to the text. The only
texts not by Nardini to be retained from the earlier editions are
Falconieri’s preface and appendix, and Flaminio Vacca’s memoir of
1594. In the tradition of earlier editors, Nibby has also added his own
appendix to the end of volume IV, in the form of a study of the ancient
Roman roads. This new edition represents a considerable advance on
those which went before, both in the scholarship of the editing, and in the
physical form of the work. The typography and illustrative matter are all
greatly improved, the illustrations, many new to this edition, having been
rndered as engraved and etched plates under the supervision of the
publisher Antonio De Romanis … (who) was also a student of
architecture and archaeology. “ - RIBA 2233.
(4)
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
1136
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NEVE (Richard).
The city and country purchaser, and
builder’s dictionary: or, the compleat builders guide. Shewing the
qualities, quantities, proportions, and rates or values of all
materials relating to building; with the best method of preparing
many of them... The second edition, with additions.
Printed for D.
Browne...,
1726
Pages (12), xx, (288), with the two advert leaves at end, 8vo,
contemporary panelled calf, tastefully rebacked, with label, gilt:
with some light foxing, but a very good copy.
The earliest English-language dictionary of architecture and building: it
was first published, anonymously, in 1703.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1137
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[NEWCOMB (Thomas)].
Blasphemy as old as the
creation: or, the Newgate divine. A satyr. Address’d to the
modern advocates of irreligion, prophaneness, and infidelity. By a
gentleman and a Christian.
London: Printed, and Dublin re-printed,
and sold by George Faulkner, at the Pamphlet-Shop in Essex-street …,
1730
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