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Thomas Allen. M.A. From an original Picture in the Presidents Lodge at Trinity College in Oxford.
J.Bretherton f.
[n.d., c.1750.]
Etching. 125 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"), large margins. Some faint time-staining.
Portrait of Thomas Allen (1542-1632), English mathematician and astrologer. Wellcome: 54
[Ref: 66798] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Archimède. Tiré du Cabinet de Monsieur Papillon de la Ferlé, Intendant et Contrôleur Général de l'Argenterie, Menus Plai=sirs et Affaires de la Chambre du Roi; et Trésorier Général de la Maison et Finances de M.gr le Comte de Provence & c.
Le Prince pin. R. Gaillard sculp.
A Paris et à Londres chez Tessari et C.º [n.d., c.1780.].
Rare etching, printed in red and brown. Sheet 355 x 260mm (14 x 10¼"). Trimmed within plate, repaired tear. Bit messy.
Archimedes, seen half-length, sitting at a desk, turned to left, and tracing figures with a pair of compasses; he wears a turban and an anachronistic embroidered gown. Archimedes (c.287-212BC) was a mathematician, born at Syracuse and died during the siege of the city. Le Prince's painting is a copy after Gerard Dou. First published by Gaillard c.1773.
[Ref: 66683] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
Astronomers.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Etching. Sheet 50 x 70mm (2 x 2¾"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
Two men use a telescope to examine a star. Probably one panel of an alphabet of sciences.
[Ref: 66682] £90.00
(£108.00 incl.VAT)
Modern Balooning. Or the Newest Phase of Folly.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare etching. Sheet 155 x 100mm (6 x 4"). Trimmed and pasted onto album paper.
Satirical scene depicting a donkey sat on top of a horse, suspended in their air by a balloon. The donkey wears a jacket and trousers, and holds a flag, looking down upon the field of other donkeys below.
[Ref: 66810] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
A New Electrical Machine for the Table.
[Benjamin Martin?]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. Sheet 185 x 105mm (7¼ x 4¼"). Trimmed within plate.
A man demonstrates a table-top electrical machine, probably a generator of static electricity, to a young woman.
[Ref: 66697] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
[James Hodder.] Hee that more of thine Excellence would now, On this thy Book let him some thoughts bestow; [...].
[Richard Gaywood fecit.]
Engraving. 135 x 75mm (5¼ x 3"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A head and shoulders portrait of James Hodder, and frontispiece to his book 'Hodder's Arithmetick', published 1661.
[Ref: 66970] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
[James Hodder.] Hee that more of thine Excellence would now, On this thy Book let him some thoughts bestow; [...].
[Richard Gaywood fecit.]
Engraving. 120 x 70 mm (4¾ x 2¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A head and shoulders portrait of James Hodder, and frontispiece to his book 'Hodder's Arithmetick', published 1661.
[Ref: 66971] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
The Rev.d John Laurence A.M. Rector of Bishops Weremouth in the Bishoprick of Durhams, & Prebendary of ye Church of Sarum.
G.Vertue Sculp.
[London: printed for Bernard Lintott][n.d., c.1718.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of John Laurence (1668-1732). Frontispiece to his 'Clergyman's Recreation: Shewing The Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening...' Alexander 352.
[Ref: 67015] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
[Surgical Tools.] Heelkundige Werktuigen. Chururgische Instrumente. A Instrumens de Chirurgie.
Arthus-Betrand editeur. Imp. de Lemercier Bernard et Ce.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Rare lithograph. Sheet 360 x 280mm (14¼ x 11"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
A diagram depicting various surgical tools. Wellcome 493629i.
[Ref: 66715] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
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