A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[The first 'Big Ben'] The Largest Bell in England, Cast by John Warner & Sons, London,](jpegs/64289.jpg)
[The first 'Big Ben'] The Largest Bell in England, Cast by John Warner & Sons, London, By Order of her most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, for the Clock Tower of the New Palace at Westminster, 1856.
[1856.]
Wood-engraved admission ticket on card, unused. Sheet 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Old ink mss on top edge, a few spots, mounted on album paper with newspaper clippings, one showing the same image. One print has come away from the album paper.
A ticket to see the first 'Big Ben' bell, shown on the ground with two men added for perspective. The bell cracked during testing so never reached the Clock Tower.
[Ref: 64289] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
[1856.]
Wood-engraved admission ticket on card, unused. Sheet 185 x 145mm (7¼ x 5¾"). Old ink mss on top edge, a few spots, mounted on album paper with newspaper clippings, one showing the same image. One print has come away from the album paper.
A ticket to see the first 'Big Ben' bell, shown on the ground with two men added for perspective. The bell cracked during testing so never reached the Clock Tower.
[Ref: 64289] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
![[Pierre Borel] PetriBorelli.](jpegs/64159.jpg)
[Pierre Borel] PetriBorelli. Historiarun et Observationum, Medicophysicarun, CenturiæN.
[n.d., c.1653.]
Engraving. 140 x 80mm (5½ x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper. Nick into image on left.
Portrait of Pierre Borel (1620-71), doctor of medicine at the University of Montpellier and physician to Louis XIV.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 64159] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1653.]
Engraving. 140 x 80mm (5½ x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper. Nick into image on left.
Portrait of Pierre Borel (1620-71), doctor of medicine at the University of Montpellier and physician to Louis XIV.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 64159] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)
Leonardi Botalli. Opera OMNIA.
[P. Philippe sculp]
[n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3 ¾"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Leonardo Botallo or Leonardi Botalli Astensis in Latin (1530-87), Italian anatomist who is remembered in the eponymous foramen Botalli which allows blood in the fetal heart of humans to move from the left to the right atrium and the ductus Botalli connecting the pulmonary artery to the proximal descending aorta although both are now thought to be incorrectly attributed to him as these were added in posthumous editions of his work. He published several treatises including De curandis vulneribus sclopettorum (1560) which examined gunshot wounds and questioned the contemporary theory that gunshot wounds were to be treated as if they were poisoned.
[Ref: 64160] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
[P. Philippe sculp]
[n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving 145 x 95mm (5¾ x 3 ¾"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Leonardo Botallo or Leonardi Botalli Astensis in Latin (1530-87), Italian anatomist who is remembered in the eponymous foramen Botalli which allows blood in the fetal heart of humans to move from the left to the right atrium and the ductus Botalli connecting the pulmonary artery to the proximal descending aorta although both are now thought to be incorrectly attributed to him as these were added in posthumous editions of his work. He published several treatises including De curandis vulneribus sclopettorum (1560) which examined gunshot wounds and questioned the contemporary theory that gunshot wounds were to be treated as if they were poisoned.
[Ref: 64160] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Dr. Bossy on Tower Hill. From the spot; taken a short time before the Doctor died.
[n.d., c.1792.]
Etching. Sheet 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed into plate on upper and bottom. Some time-staining.
Doctor Bossy, an infamous medicine vendor performing on stage to a crowd at Tower Hill in an attempt to sell his wares.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 64236] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1792.]
Etching. Sheet 210 x 150mm (8¼ x 6"). Trimmed into plate on upper and bottom. Some time-staining.
Doctor Bossy, an infamous medicine vendor performing on stage to a crowd at Tower Hill in an attempt to sell his wares.
Not in BM.
[Ref: 64236] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Iosephus Quercetanus Medicus Regius Paris. Hæc Quercetami corpus quce pinxit Iago est, Ingenio at melius pingitur ille fuo.
[n.d., c.1652.]
Engraving. 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Joseph Duchesne or du Chesne (c. 1544 - 1609), French physician. A follower of Paracelsus, he is now remembered for important if transitional alchemical theories. He called sugar toxic, saying: “Under its whiteness, sugar hides a great blackness.”
[Ref: 64158] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1652.]
Engraving. 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Joseph Duchesne or du Chesne (c. 1544 - 1609), French physician. A follower of Paracelsus, he is now remembered for important if transitional alchemical theories. He called sugar toxic, saying: “Under its whiteness, sugar hides a great blackness.”
[Ref: 64158] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Vera Effigies Gulielmi Leybourn, Philom. anno Aetatis 30.
R. Gaywood fecit.
[n.d., c.1657.]
Engraving. 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of William Leybourn (1626 - 1716), English mathematician and land surveyor, author, printer and bookseller.
Wellcome 1760-2.
[Ref: 64156] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
R. Gaywood fecit.
[n.d., c.1657.]
Engraving. 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of William Leybourn (1626 - 1716), English mathematician and land surveyor, author, printer and bookseller.
Wellcome 1760-2.
[Ref: 64156] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Ioan Guinteri' Andernack Medicus. Fugasti kethum medica clarifsimus arte, Securus fati vivis in orbe tej.
[n.d., c.1650.]
[Boissard.]
Engraving. 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Johann Winter von Andernach (born Johann Winter; 1505 - 1574), German Renaissance physician, university professor, humanist, translator of ancient, mostly medical works, and writer of his own medical, philological and humanities works.
[Ref: 64157] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1650.]
[Boissard.]
Engraving. 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper at edges.
Portrait of Johann Winter von Andernach (born Johann Winter; 1505 - 1574), German Renaissance physician, university professor, humanist, translator of ancient, mostly medical works, and writer of his own medical, philological and humanities works.
[Ref: 64157] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)