Lot 650
Miscellaneous - Macquoid, Percy
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
The history of English furniture. London, 1904-08, folio, 4 volumes, illustrated, original cloth gilt, sunned, frayed at head of backstrips, withdrawn from Royal Holloway College library with bookplates and stamps on endpapers; Fontenelle, M. de Conversations on the plurality of worlds. London, 1767, second edition, 8vo, 4 plates, contemporary calf worn, front endpaper removed; Field, George Chromatics; or the analogy, harmony and philosophy of colours. London, 1845, new edition, 8vo, 11 engraved plates [inc. frontispiece], some hand coloured, contemporary calf, rebacked, ink stamp on title, some foxing, plate I waterstained; Ibid. Chromatography, a treatise on colours and pigments and of their powers in painting. London, [no date], new edition, 8vo, colour frontispiece, original cloth gilt, some fading, heavy foxing to title; Quincy, John Pharmacopoeia officinalis & extemporanea or a complete English dispensatory. London, 1739, eleventh edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, ink inscription on title and endpapers, bookplate; Thompson, J.E. A commentary on the Dresden Codex. Philadelphia, 1972, oblong 4to, original cloth, dustwrapper; Preedy, George The courtly charlatan, the enigmatic Comte de St. Germain. London, 1942, 8vo, original cloth; Lamartine, M.A. De Oeuvres. Paris, 1849-50, 8vo, 14 volumes, contemporary quarter red morocco gilt, backstrips darkened; Lewis, Wyndham The apes of God. London, 1955, 8vo, number 477 of 1000 copies, signed by the author, original cloth, dustwrapper, sunned, repaired; and a quantity of other miscellaneous 19th and 20th century works (quantity)