Lot 143
Pattern & Decoration, 5 books
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
R. Scott - Brook & Co., and others 14 sheets, laid-down onto card with some loss, showing designs for bookbinding, engraving and stamping tools, several marked with prices; Cellini, Benvenuto The Treatises... on Goldsmithing and Sculpture. London: Edward Arnold, 1898. 4to, number 83 of 600 copies, green cloth with paper label to spine; Silvestre & Girault Alphabet-Album... Paris: J. Techener, 1843. Folio, lacking plate 43, contemporary black morocco gilt, foxed and worn with ownership initials to many plates, upper part of spine detached, rubbed; [Pettus, John. Fleta Minor: the laws of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals, London, 1683?] Folio, portrait, lacking initial gathering including title-page, e1 lacking, lacking lower cover, upper cover detached, dampstained; Knight & Rumley [Heraldic Illustrations Specimen Crests & Fancy Gems, 1870?] 4to, 77 plates, all text lacking or defective, soiled, original cloth, spine lacking, covers detached (5)