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Lot 49
White (John) Art's Treasury of Rarities: and Curious Inventions. In Two Parts., fourth edition, for G. Conyers, [c.1710]
Hammer Price: £2,200
Description
White (John) Art's Treasury of Rarities: and Curious Inventions. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Mystery of Dying Cloth, Silk, Stuffs, Hair, Feathers, Bone, Horn, Ivory, Leather &c.... making Perfumes. The Art of Drawing, Limning, Painting, Japaning and Laying on Colours... Part II. Containing the Quality, Generation and Product of Metals, Natural and Artificial... To prepare Gold and Silver for Writing... The Mystery of Beautifying... and Perfuming Gloves... Brewing Fine Ale, making Wines. Legerdemain, and Divers other Curiosities, fourth edition, woodcut portrait frontispiece, closely trimmed, occasionally affecting pagination or touching catchwords, ink inscriptions to frontispiece recto with some show-through and to A3, light browning, bookplate removed from front pastedown, 19th century calf, upper joint cracked, rubbed, [ESTC N16242; Wing W1788AB], 12mo, for G. Conyers, [c.1710].
⁂ A scarce and charming gallimaufry, the copy in the BL lacks the portrait.
Description
White (John) Art's Treasury of Rarities: and Curious Inventions. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Mystery of Dying Cloth, Silk, Stuffs, Hair, Feathers, Bone, Horn, Ivory, Leather &c.... making Perfumes. The Art of Drawing, Limning, Painting, Japaning and Laying on Colours... Part II. Containing the Quality, Generation and Product of Metals, Natural and Artificial... To prepare Gold and Silver for Writing... The Mystery of Beautifying... and Perfuming Gloves... Brewing Fine Ale, making Wines. Legerdemain, and Divers other Curiosities, fourth edition, woodcut portrait frontispiece, closely trimmed, occasionally affecting pagination or touching catchwords, ink inscriptions to frontispiece recto with some show-through and to A3, light browning, bookplate removed from front pastedown, 19th century calf, upper joint cracked, rubbed, [ESTC N16242; Wing W1788AB], 12mo, for G. Conyers, [c.1710].
⁂ A scarce and charming gallimaufry, the copy in the BL lacks the portrait.
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