Science and cookery
Collection of works, 18th-19th century
Estimate: £600 - £800
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Desaguliers, John Theophilus (translator). The Motion of Water, and Other Fluids. Being a Treatise of Hydrostaticks … Written Originally in French, by the late Monsieur Marriotte … Translated into English. London: for J. Senex, and W. Taylor, 1718. First edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, 7 engraved plates, advertisement leaf;
Hammond, Nathaniel. The Elements of Algebra. London: J. Walthoe, 1742. First edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield with bookplate and blind stamps as usual;
Keys, John. The Antient Bee-Master's Farewell; or, Full and Plain Directions for the Management of Bees to the Greatest Advantage. London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796. First edition, 8vo, 20th-century maroon morocco, 2 engraved plates, half-title discarded, prelims misbound;
Bateman, Thomas. A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases. London: Longman [etc.], 1814. Third edition, 8vo, contemporary green quarter calf, marbled sides, vellum tips, colour aquatint frontispiece;
Leslie, John. A Short Account of Experiments and Instruments, depending on the Relations of Air to Heat and Moisture. Edinburgh: William Blackwood [etc.], 1813. First edition, 8vo, modern cloth, etched plate;
Glasse, Hannah. The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy … A New Edition, with all the Modern Improvements. London: for T. Longman [and others], 1796. 8vo, 20th-century quarter calf, repaired loss to title-page affecting costing one letter, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-page and p. iii, Hannah Glasse's printed facsimile signature to p. 1, pp. xxxii-xl (bills of fare) misbound between between 418 and 419;
Stone, Edward. A New Mathematical Dictionary. London: W. Innys [etc.], 1743. Second edition ('with large additions'), 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf ruled in gilt, final leaf of index pasted to rear pastedown, bound without errata leaf and advertisement leaf;
Gagliardi, Domenico. Anatome Ossium. Leiden: apud Henricum Mulhovium, 1723. First edition, 8vo, 20th-century tan quarter sheep by Claude Honnelaitre, 4 engraved plates (one folding);
Fothergill, John. The Works … by John Coakley Lettsom. London: for Charles Dilly, 1783-4. 3 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century quarter calf, 11 engraved plates, volume 2 title-page with repaired closed tear, J. Johnston Abraham;
‘Arabella Atkyns’ [pseud.]. The Family Magazine: in Two Parts. Part I. Containing Useful Directions in all the Branches of House-Keeping and Cookery … Part II. Containing a Compendious Body of Physick. London: for J. Osborn, 1741. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn;
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