Sales catalogue: Bowes & Bowes

Date:
1930s
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/3/12
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Bowes & Bowes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    69 Archilochi Iambographorum Principis Reliquae.. Edidit I. Lebel. 8vo., yellow morocco, with gilt lines, g.e., and bound by J. Clarke. 1812 14/- From the Rev. Theodore Williams’ Library with his bookstamp on covers. 70 Architecture —PrErRRavuLT (Claude) A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, viz.: Toscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. Wherein the proportion and characters of the members of their several pedestals, columns and Entablatures, are distinctly consider’d with respect to the Ancient and Moderns. To which is annex’d a discourse concerning Pilasters. Made into English by John James, with engraved title, 6 folio plates, and 72 vignettes, iniiial letters, and tail-pieces by John Sturt, panelled calf (repaired). 1708 30/- FEART (Roland) A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern, ina collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the Five Orders, viz.: Palladio & Scamozzi, Serlio & Vignola, D. Barbaro & Cataneo, L. B. Alberti & Viola, Bullant & De Lorme, compared with one another. ‘Translated, with an account of Architects & Architecture, & Leon Baptista Alberti’s Treatise of Statues, by JoHN EveELyn. Third Edition, with the addition of Elements of Architecture by Sir H. Wotton, portrait and many fine plates, 71 folio, calf. 1723 £2/2/- 72 HALFPENNY (Wm., alias Michael Hoare) The Art of Sound Building, demonstrated in Geometrical Problems ; shewing Geometrical Lines for all kinds of Arches, Niches, Groins, and Twisted Rails, both regular and irregular, and several other draughts of Buildings and Stair- cases. With 21 large plates engraved by. B. Cole, folio, calf, gilt borders and back (rubbed). 1725 30/- His system for the formation of twisted rails was well thought of in his time.—D.N.B. 73 Delli Cingue Ordini di Architettura ‘di Andrea Palladio Vicentino. With plates, 8vo., half calf. Venezia, 1746 7/6 Il forestiere istruito delle cose piu’ 74 della Cilla di Vicenza dialogo di ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi. Portrait of il Marchese Mario Capra, and many plates, Ato., boards. Vicenza, 1761 9/- 75 Vitruvius. The Civil Architecture of Vitruvius. Comprising those books which relate to the Public and, Private Edifices of the Ancients. Translated by Wm. Wilkins. With 30 plates, 4to., half, morocco, a little worn, London, 1812 25/- Milan. Il Duomo di Milano. Ossia Descrizione storico-critica di questo in- signe Tempio e degli oggetti d’arte che lo adornano. Corredata di 65 Tavole. Folio, boards. Mulano, 1823 9/- 76 77 Arden of Faversham, a tragedy, reprinted from the edition of 1592, with Introduc- tion by A. H. Bullen. (280 printed), sm. 4to., voxburghe. 1887 7/6 78 Aristophanes.—Plutus et Nubes (Gr. et Lat.), cum Scholiis Graecis Antiquis, etc. 8vo., calf (bookplate of Jas. Bones of Eton and King’s). 1732 4/6 Bookplate of Jas. Bones of Eton and King’s. ; Comedies, traduites en Francois, avec notes critiques, et un Examen de chaque piece selon les regles du Theatre, par Madame Dacier. Frontispiece, fcap. 8vo., calf (shabby). Paris, 1692 5/- 80 Aristotelis Stagiritae Rhetoricorum libri 3. Ejusdem de Poetua (gr. et lat.). 8vo., vellum. Paris, 1614 7/6 81 Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti. Works, translated from the French. Also A Discourse of Christian Perfection by the Archbp. of Cambray. Portrait, 8vo., calf. 1713. (Title and portrait stained) 15/- Contains a Treatise of Plays and Shows, with the Decrees of the Councils, and the Sentiments of the Fathers on that Subject ; Duties of Persons in High Stations, etc. 82 Armstrong (Dr. John) The Art of Pre- serving Health: a poem. 12mo., calf gilt. 1774 17/6 ‘No writer of the 18th century has so masterful a grasp of blank verse as is shownin parts of this poem.”’ 83 Arriani de Expedit. Alex. Magni His- toriarum Libri VII. Ejusdem Indica. Ex Bonavent. Vulcanii Brug. interpre- tatione. Nicolaus Blancardus recensuit, versionum Latinum emendavit, octo libros Animadversionum adjecit. Engraved frontispiece and fine engraved portrait of Blancardus by W. Eversdyck, 8vo., calf. Jansson, Amstelodami, 1668 7/6 84 Arrian’s History of Alexander’s Expe- dition. Translated from the Greek, with notes by Mr. Rooke, with LeClerc’s Criticism upon Quintus Curtius, and some Remarks upon Perizonius’s Vindication of that Author. 2 vols., 8vo., calf (joints cvacked). 1729 9/- 85 Arrowsmith (John, Regius Professor and successively Master of St. John’s and Trinity) Armilla Catechetica. A Chain of Principles; or An orderly concatenation of Theological 79 Aphorisms and Exercitations. Published since his death, 4to., olive morocco, gilt, g.e. Cambridge, 1659 21/- To the Reader, signed ia Thos. Horton and Wm. Dillingham. <A very fine copy 86 Art of Patience and Balm of Gilead under all Afflictions. An Appendix to the Art of Contentment, by the Author of the | Whole Duty of Man. Second Impression, frontispiece, 8vo., shabby calf. 1694 7/6 The endpapers are portions of,a “proadsheet for Accessors...by a Land Tax, Duties, printed in London, 1697. 87 Art’s Treasury of Rarities and Curious Inventions. 16mo., half bound. Glasgow, 1761 7/6 Dyeing cloth, silk, stuffs, eather and art of Japanning, the Generation of Metals, Artificial Fireworks, etc.