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John Adams, of Edmonton; Teacher of the Mathematics, Navigation, &c. Born at Pondersend 1737/8. Aged 56. To his numerous Pupils, both at sea & son land; to his extensive aquaintance, & particular friends, this Portrait is respectfully inscribed by their obedient Serv.t J.T. Smith.
Painted & Engraved by J.T. Smith, Engraver of the Antiquities of London and Environs.
Pub.d Feb. 1 1795 by N. Smith, Rembrandt's Head, G.t May's Buildings, St Martin's Lane.
Etipple with engraving/ 185 x 138mm (7¼ x 5½"), with large margins. Foxing in borders. Very small hole in title "the".
Half-length portrait of John Adams, seated at a table on which are a telescope and sextant. He was headmaster of Latymer School, Edmonton, and author of 'The Mathematician's Companion'.
[Ref: 60750] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Painted & Engraved by J.T. Smith, Engraver of the Antiquities of London and Environs.
Pub.d Feb. 1 1795 by N. Smith, Rembrandt's Head, G.t May's Buildings, St Martin's Lane.
Etipple with engraving/ 185 x 138mm (7¼ x 5½"), with large margins. Foxing in borders. Very small hole in title "the".
Half-length portrait of John Adams, seated at a table on which are a telescope and sextant. He was headmaster of Latymer School, Edmonton, and author of 'The Mathematician's Companion'.
[Ref: 60750] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
![[Ptolemy & Euclid] Universitas rerum ut pulvis in manu Jehovae.](jpegs/60759.jpg)
[Ptolemy & Euclid] Universitas rerum ut pulvis in manu Jehovae.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 125 x 150mm (5 x 6"). Trimmed from larger sheet, mounted on album paper, tear in top right corner due to mounting glue, remains of red-lettered title underneath.
Full-length portrait of Claudius Ptolemy and Euclid holding instruments, with an armillary sphere held by a disembodied hand between them. The Latin motto translates as 'The universe is as a handful of dust in the hand of God'. This is later version of an engraving used as a vignette on the titlepage of Girolamo Cardano's 'Opera omnia', 1663.
[Ref: 60759] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 125 x 150mm (5 x 6"). Trimmed from larger sheet, mounted on album paper, tear in top right corner due to mounting glue, remains of red-lettered title underneath.
Full-length portrait of Claudius Ptolemy and Euclid holding instruments, with an armillary sphere held by a disembodied hand between them. The Latin motto translates as 'The universe is as a handful of dust in the hand of God'. This is later version of an engraving used as a vignette on the titlepage of Girolamo Cardano's 'Opera omnia', 1663.
[Ref: 60759] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Margaret Bryant] Mrs. Bryan and Children.](jpegs/60744.jpg)
[Margaret Bryant] Mrs. Bryan and Children.
Engraved by W. Nutter from a Miniature of the same size Painted by Sam.l Shelley.
London, Published Septem.r 29th; 1797 by G. Kearsley 46 Fleet Street.
Stipple. 265 x 200mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Margaret Bryan (1790 - 1815; fl.), schoolmistress and natural philosopher, with her two daughters. They are shown amidst the scientific instruments Bryan would have used. She taught astronomy and natural philosophy to girls at her school in Blackheath, London, at a time when education for ladies was largely self-taught. She also wrote elementary, practical books that gave a general grounding in astronomy and physics. Engraved by Samuel Shelley (1756-1808) as the frontispiece to the sitter's 'A Compendious System of Astronomy' (1797).
[Ref: 60744] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by W. Nutter from a Miniature of the same size Painted by Sam.l Shelley.
London, Published Septem.r 29th; 1797 by G. Kearsley 46 Fleet Street.
Stipple. 265 x 200mm (10½ x 7¾"). Trimmed within plate.
Margaret Bryan (1790 - 1815; fl.), schoolmistress and natural philosopher, with her two daughters. They are shown amidst the scientific instruments Bryan would have used. She taught astronomy and natural philosophy to girls at her school in Blackheath, London, at a time when education for ladies was largely self-taught. She also wrote elementary, practical books that gave a general grounding in astronomy and physics. Engraved by Samuel Shelley (1756-1808) as the frontispiece to the sitter's 'A Compendious System of Astronomy' (1797).
[Ref: 60744] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Sacred to the Memory of William Buchan M.D. Author of the Domestic Medicine. Ob: Ad: MDCCCV Aet: LXXVI.
Published by Thomas Kelly, Paternoster Row, 1809.
Etching, sheet 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾") Trimmed inside platemark.
William Buchan (1729-1805), physician and author. His 'Domestic Medicine, or the Family Physician' was published in 1769, and rapidly sold out of its first edition of 5000 copies. Before the twentieth century, no single health guide matched the popularity of 'Domestic Medicine', which by that time had gone through at least 142 English language editions (it was particularly popular in the US), and translations into several major European languages. In later life he published several other minor works.
W. 464.
[Ref: 60861] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Published by Thomas Kelly, Paternoster Row, 1809.
Etching, sheet 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾") Trimmed inside platemark.
William Buchan (1729-1805), physician and author. His 'Domestic Medicine, or the Family Physician' was published in 1769, and rapidly sold out of its first edition of 5000 copies. Before the twentieth century, no single health guide matched the popularity of 'Domestic Medicine', which by that time had gone through at least 142 English language editions (it was particularly popular in the US), and translations into several major European languages. In later life he published several other minor works.
W. 464.
[Ref: 60861] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Humboldt (Le Baron Fredéric Henry Aléxander de) Associé Etranger de l'Institute de France.
F. Gouin.
Publié par Blaisot [n.d., c.1820].
Stipple. 195 x 120mm (7¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on left.
Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1859), the Prussian naturalist and explorer who explored much of Central and South America. Charles Darwin described him as 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.'
Wellcome Collection 4393i
[Ref: 60727] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
F. Gouin.
Publié par Blaisot [n.d., c.1820].
Stipple. 195 x 120mm (7¾ x 4¾"). Trimmed into plate on left.
Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1859), the Prussian naturalist and explorer who explored much of Central and South America. Charles Darwin described him as 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.'
Wellcome Collection 4393i
[Ref: 60727] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Alexander von Humboldt.
Gem. von C. Begas. Lith. von C. Wildt. Druck des Königl. lith. Insituts zu Berlin. (von Berndt)
Berlin, Verlag U. Eigenthum des literarischen Instituts [n.d., c.1840.].
Lithograph on chine collé, on printed backing paper with publisher's blindstamp. Printed area 440 x 320mm (17¼ x 12½"). Bit dusty. Repair in margin top left.
A half-length portrait of explorer and naturalist Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) before a backdrop presenting his travels in South America. After Carl Joseph Begas (1794-1854).
Wellcome Collection 4398i.
[Ref: 60810] £350.00
Gem. von C. Begas. Lith. von C. Wildt. Druck des Königl. lith. Insituts zu Berlin. (von Berndt)
Berlin, Verlag U. Eigenthum des literarischen Instituts [n.d., c.1840.].
Lithograph on chine collé, on printed backing paper with publisher's blindstamp. Printed area 440 x 320mm (17¼ x 12½"). Bit dusty. Repair in margin top left.
A half-length portrait of explorer and naturalist Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) before a backdrop presenting his travels in South America. After Carl Joseph Begas (1794-1854).
Wellcome Collection 4398i.
[Ref: 60810] £350.00
![[Magic Lantern] City of London Grand Hydro-Oxygen Microscopic Exhibition, No. 4, Charlotte Row,](jpegs/60770.jpg)
[Magic Lantern] City of London Grand Hydro-Oxygen Microscopic Exhibition, No. 4, Charlotte Row, Opposite the Private Entrance to the Mansion House.
J. Brimmer, Printer, 59a Greek Street, Soho [n.d., c.1830].
Broadside, letterpress and wood-engraving. Sheet 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼), printed on both sides. Slight staining, old ink mss. on reverse "commencing every hour".
An advert for a show with a 'Oxyhydrogen Microscope', a magic lantern capable of projecting images from microscope slides using limelight, illustrated with an image of a cheese mite. Altrick, shows of London, pg. 370-1, "never indeed until the advert of the monster mile panorama at the end of the next decade was the in-fighting livelier than it was among rival microscopes".
[Ref: 60770] £490.00 view all images for this item
J. Brimmer, Printer, 59a Greek Street, Soho [n.d., c.1830].
Broadside, letterpress and wood-engraving. Sheet 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼), printed on both sides. Slight staining, old ink mss. on reverse "commencing every hour".
An advert for a show with a 'Oxyhydrogen Microscope', a magic lantern capable of projecting images from microscope slides using limelight, illustrated with an image of a cheese mite. Altrick, shows of London, pg. 370-1, "never indeed until the advert of the monster mile panorama at the end of the next decade was the in-fighting livelier than it was among rival microscopes".
[Ref: 60770] £490.00 view all images for this item