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Books (398)
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Fine Art (32)
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Lot 1 - Book of Hours (Use of Rome). Illuminated manuscript, circa 1450
Sold for £28,000
Lot 2 - Marbodus of Rennes. De lapidibus pretiosis Encheridion, 1531
Sold for £6,500
Lot 3 - Zahrawi (Abu'l-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-). Chirurgicorum, Strasbourg, 1532
Sold for £11,500
Lot 4 - Pseudo-Lull. Testamentum, 1566
Sold for £2,000
Lot 5 - Partridge (John). The Treasurie of Hidden Secrets, 1600
Sold for £4,200
Lot 6 - Bible, 1606, 19th-century straight-grain green moroco gilt
Sold for £2,700
Lot 7 - Milles (Thomas). The Custumers Alphabet and Primer, 1608
Sold for £14,000
Lot 8 - 'N. F.' The Husbandmans fruitfull Orchard, 1609
Sold for £4,400
Lot 9 - Guillemeau (Jacques). Child-Birth or, the Happy Deliverie of Women, 1612
Sold for £6,000
Lot 10 - Stephens (John). Essayes and Characters, Ironicall, and Instructive, 1615
Sold for £1,650
Lot 11 - Fludd (Robert). Societatis de Rosea Cruce defendens, 1st edition, 1617
Sold for £2,200
Lot 12 - Gheyn (Jacob de). Maniement d'Armes d'Arquebuses, Mousquets, et Picques, [1620]
Sold for £4,000
Lot 13 - Oudin (César). A Grammar, Spanish and English, 1st edition in English, 1622
Lot 14 - Carpenter (Nathaniel). Geography delineated forth in Two Bookes, 1st edition, 1625
Sold for £1,950
Lot 15 - Markham (Gervase). A Way to Get Wealth & other works, 1638
Sold for £1,900
Lot 16 - Lilly (William). Monarchy or No Monarchy, 1651
Sold for £1,850
Lot 17 - P[eter], H[ugh]. Good Work for a Good Magistrate, 1st edition, 1651
Sold for £440
Lot 18 - Gastronomy. A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, 1651
Lot 19 - Gracián y Morales (Baltasar). The Heroe, 1st edition in English, 1652
Sold for £1,800
Lot 20 - Lunadoro (Girolamo). The Court of Rome, 1st edition in English, 1654
Lot 21 - Refuge (Eustache de). Arcana Aulica: or, Walsingham's Manual, 2nd edition in English, 1655
Sold for £520
Lot 22 - Paracelsus. Chymical Transmutation, 1657
Sold for £2,800
Lot 23 - Account of a Murder. The Unhappy Marksman, 1659
Sold for £860
Lot 24 - Bourgeois (Louise). The Compleat Midwife, 1659
Sold for £2,900
Lot 25 - Caus (Issac de). New and Rare Inventions of Water-Works, 1659
Sold for £6,600
Lot 26 - Collins (John). Geometricall Dyalling, 1659
Lot 27 - Plat (Sir Hugh). The Garden of Eden, 1660
Sold for £1,600
Lot 28 - Mirabilis Annus, or The Year of Prodigies, 1661
Sold for £1,350
Lot 29 - Rabisha (William). The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, 1661
Sold for £5,800
Lot 30 - Prévost (Jean). Medicaments For the Poor, 1662
Sold for £1,550
Lot 31 - Netherlands. The Dutch Drawn to the Life, 1664
Sold for £680
Lot 32 - Boyle (Robert). New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, 1665
Lot 33 - May (Robert). The Accomplisht Cook, or The Art and Mystery of Cookery, 1665
Sold for £1,000
Lot 34 - Palmer (Roger, Earl of Castlemaine). The Present War between the Venetians and Turk, 1666
Sold for £640
Lot 35 - Culpeper (Nicholas). A Directory for Midwives, 1666-7
Lot 36 - Coxe (Thomas). Discourse of Physick and Physicians, 1669
Sold for £380
Lot 37 - Miege (Guy). Embassies to the Great Duke of Muscovie, the King of Sweden, the King of Denmark, 1669
Lot 38 - Charleton (Walter). Two Discourses, 1st edition, 1669
Sold for £960
Lot 39 - H.A. Mirabile Pecci: or, The Non-Such Wonder of the Peak in Darby shire discovered, 1669
Lot 40 - Valentinus (Basilius). Of Natural & Supernatural Things, 1670
Lot 41 - Palafox y Mendoza (Juan de). The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars, 1671
Sold for £740
Lot 42 - Tanner (John). Hidden Treasures of the Art of Physick, 1671
Sold for £580
Lot 43 - Webster (John). Metallographia, 1st edition, 1671
Sold for £620
Lot 44 - Rivière (Lazare). The Practice of Physick, 1st edition, 1672
Sold for £340
Lot 45 - Bolnest (Edward). Aurora Chymica, 1st edition, 1672
Sold for £1,250
Lot 46 - Sermon (William). A Friend to the Sick, 1673
Sold for £1,150
Lot 47 - Torriano (Giovanni). The Italian Reviv'd, 1673
Lot 48 - Reynell (Carew). The True English Interest, 1st edition, 1674
Sold for £920
Lot 49 - Godfrey (Robert). Various Injuries & Abuses in Chymical and Galenical Physick, 1674
Sold for £1,700
Lot 50 - Petty (Sir William). Discourse concerning the use of duplicate proportion, 1674
Sold for £2,300
Lot 51 - Boursault (Edmé). The Prince of Conde, 1st edition in English, 1675
Lot 52 - Woolley (Hannah). The Queen-like Closet, 3rd edition, 1675
Lot 53 - Vaughan (Rice). A Discourse of Coin and Coinage, 1st edition, 1675
Lot 54 - Barbette (Paul). Thesaurus Chirurgiae, 1676
Lot 55 - Debes (Lucas Jacobsen). Faeroae, & Foeroareserata, 1676
Lot 56 - Phillippes (Henry). The Purchasers Pattern, 1676
Lot 57 - Graaf (Reinier de). De Secco Pancreatico: Or, A Physical and Anatomical Treatise, 1676
Lot 58 - Child-rearing. The Fathers Legacy: or, Counsels to His Children, 1678
Lot 59 - Harvey (Gideon). The Family-Physician, and the House-Apothecary, 1678
Sold for £200
Lot 60 - Royal binding. English Military Discipline, 2nd edition, 1678
Lot 61 - Badcock (William). Touch-stone for Gold & Silver Wares, 1679
Sold for £980
Lot 62 - Bromfield (M.). A Brief Discovery of the Chief Causes..., 1679
Sold for £880
Lot 63 - Clavell (Robert). General Catalogue of Books printed in England, 3rd edition, 1680
Lot 64 - Peter (John). A Treatise of Lewisham Wells, 1st edition, 1680
Sold for £1,200
Lot 65 - Leigh (Edward). The Gentlemans Guide, 1680
Lot 66 - Mynsicht (Adrian von). Thesaurus & Armamentarium Medico-Chymicum, 1682
Sold for £480
Lot 67 - Sylvius (Franciscus; also known as Franz de le Boë). Of Children's Diseases, 1682
Lot 68 - Bible, contemporary black goatskin gilt, 1683
Sold for £320
Lot 69 - Englands Vanity: or the Voice of God Against the Monstrous Sin of Pride, in Dress and Apparel, 1683
Sold for £1,450
Lot 70 - Ercker (Lazarus, & John Pettus). Fleta minor, 1683
Lot 71 - Woolley (Hannah). The Accomplish'd Ladies Delight, 3rd edition, enlarged, 1683
Lot 72 - Pallavicino (Ferrante). The Whores Rhetorick, 1683
Sold for £7,200
Lot 73 - Hartman (George). The True Preserver and Restorer of Health, 1684
Lot 74 - Accademia Del Cimento. Essayes of Natural Experiments, 1684
Sold for £1,300
Lot 75 - Courtin (Antoine de). The Rules of Civility, 1685
Sold for £210
Lot 76 - Tate (Nahum, editor). Poems by Several Hands, 1685
Sold for £420
Lot 77 - Granville (Denis). Letters to his Nephew after his Admission into a College in Oxford, 1685
Lot 78 - Helmont (Franciscus Mecurius van). Paradoxal Discourses, 1685
Sold for £700
Lot 79 - Préchac (Jean de). The Serasquier Bassa: An Historical Novel of the Times, 1685
Sold for £1,400
Lot 80 - Cleeve (Charles). The Songs of Moses and Deborah paraphras'd, 1st edition, 1685
Sold for £400
Lot 81 - Venette (Nicolas). The Art of Pruning Fruit-Trees, 1685
Lot 82 - Compleat Planter & Cyderist, 1685
Lot 83 - Weidenfeld (Johannes Segerus). Four Books of Johannes Segerus Weidenfeld, 1685
Sold for £1,500
Lot 84 - Hillenius (François). The English, and Low-Dutch Instructer, 1686
Lot 85 - Thompson (Nathaniel). 86 Loyal Poems upon the two late Plots, 1st edition, 1686
Sold for £560
Lot 86 - White (John). Arts Treasury, 1688
Lot 87 - Love (John). Geodaesia: or, the Art of Surveying and Measuring of Land, 1st edition 1688
Sold for £1,050
Lot 88 - La Fayette (Marie, comtesse de). Zayde, A Spanish History, 2nd edition in English. 1690
Sold for £160
Lot 89 - Rochester (John Wimot, Earl of). Poems, etc., 1st authorized edition, for J. Tonson, 1691
Lot 90 - Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine, Madame d'). Memoirs of the Court of France, 1692
Sold for £100
Lot 91 - Fletcher (Thomas). Poems on Several Occasions, 1st edition, 1692
Lot 92 - Avril (Philippe). Travels into divers Parts of Europe and Asia ... into China, 1693
Sold for £260
Lot 93 - Hopkins (Charles). Epistolary Poems, 1st edition, 1694
Lot 94 - Leybourn (William). Pleasure with Profit, 1694
Sold for £800
Lot 95 - Mackworth (Humphrey). England's Glory, 1694
Sold for £2,100
Lot 96 - Mather (William). The Young Man's Companion, 1695