The Birmingham Assay Office Library
Thursday 26th March 2020 | 10:30 am | Lots:
LOT 1
Account (An) of the digging up of the quarters of William Stayley, lately executed for high...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £480
LOT 2
Act (An) to prohibit the Importation of light silver coin of this realm from Foreign Countries...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer Price: £320
LOT 3
Adam (Robert) Designs for Vases and Foliage, from the Antique, 12 engraved plates, original...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 4
Electricity.- Adams (George) An Essay on Electricity, Printed at the Logographic Press for the...
Estimate: £150 - £200
Hammer Price: £420
LOT 5
Adams (George) Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, 5 vol., second edition, by J....
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £300
![Afghanistan.- Afghan Boundary Commisssion. 18 Plates of Ornamental Tiles collected by..., 18 chromolithographed plates, [c.1890].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/efa70b05-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/7917ef8b-4b91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "Afghanistan.- Afghan Boundary Commisssion. 18 Plates of Ornamental Tiles collected by..., 18 chromolithographed plates, [c.1890].")
LOT 6
Afghanistan.- Afghan Boundary Commisssion. 18 Plates of Ornamental Tiles collected by..., 18...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 7
Greek & Roman weights and measures.- Agricola (Georgius) Libri quinque de mensuris & ponderibus,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £800
LOT 8
Mining & metalurgy.- Agricola (Georgius) De re metallica Libri XII, Basel, Hieronymus Froben and...
Estimate: £3,000 - £4,000
Hammer Price: £6,500
LOT 9
Mining & metallurgy.- Agricola (Georgius) Opera de l'arte de metalli partita in XII. libri,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £3,500
LOT 10
Mining & metallurgy.- Agricola (Georgius) De re metallica libri XII, numerous woodcuts,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £3,500
LOT 11
Ornament.- Albertolli (Giocondo) Alcune Decorazioni di Nobili Sale ed Altri Ornamenti, bound...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £380
![Alchorne (Stanesby) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of a Portion of the Valuable Library, priced throughout and with some buyers' names, R.H. Evans, 1813.
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LOT 12
Alchorne (Stanesby) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of a Portion of the Valuable Library, priced...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £550
LOT 13
Alchymia Vera Lapidis Philosophorum = Von der Rechten wahren Kunst des Goldmachens, Magdeburg,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £2,200
![Metals, fossils & minerals.- Aldrovandi (Ulisse) Musaeum metallicum in libros IIII distributum, first edition, [Bologna], [G. Battista Ferroni], 1648.
&](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/b7a40b05-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/9f36f6b5-4e91-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "Metals, fossils & minerals.- Aldrovandi (Ulisse) Musaeum metallicum in libros IIII distributum, first edition, [Bologna], [G. Battista Ferroni], 1648.
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LOT 14
Metals, fossils & minerals.- Aldrovandi (Ulisse) Musaeum metallicum in libros IIII distributum,...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £5,500
LOT 15
Trade.- Anderson (Adam) An historical and chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce from...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer Price: £380
LOT 16
Silver.- Andren (Erik) & others., Svenskt Silversmide 1520-1850, Stockholm, 1963 & others on...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £350
![Economics.- Money.- [Angot des Rotours (Noêl)] Almanach des Monnoies, Paris, Méquignon, 1784; and the same for the years 1785-1789 (6)](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/8eaa0b05-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/69cf9605-4c91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "Economics.- Money.- [Angot des Rotours (Noêl)] Almanach des Monnoies, Paris, Méquignon, 1784; and the same for the years 1785-1789 (6)")
LOT 17
Economics.- Money.- [Angot des Rotours (Noêl)] Almanach des Monnoies, Paris, Méquignon, 1784; and...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 18
Ceramics.- Maiolica.- Argnani (Prof. Federigo) Ceramiche e Maioliche Arcaiche Faentine, one of...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £350
LOT 19
Gold & Silver.- Arphe y Villafane (Juan de) Quilatador de la plata, oro y piedras, conforme a...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £4,200
LOT 20
Arphe y Villafane (Juan de) Varia commensuracion para la escultura y arquitectura, fifth...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 21
Middle East.- Artin Pacha (Yacoub) Contribution a l'Étude du Blason en Orient, one of 300...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 22
Antiquités du Bosphore Cimmérien Conservées au Musée Impérial de l'Ermitage, 3 vol., including...
Estimate: £5,000 - £7,000
Hammer Price: £10,000
LOT 23
Appeal (An) to manufactures, on the present state of trade, &c, Birmingham, Printed by James...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 24
Private Press.- Gold & Silver.- Ashbee (C.R.) Modern English Silverwork, one of 200 copies...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 25
Japan.- Audsley (George A.) & James Lord Bowes. Keramic Art of Japan, 2 vol., 41...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £260
LOT 26
Pugin (Augustus Welby N.).- Ayling (Stephen) Photographs from Sketches, 2 vol., first edition, 1865;...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer Price: £940
LOT 27
Gold & Silver.- Badcock (William) A New Touch-Stone for Gold and Silver Wares, second edition,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £750
LOT 28
Gold.- Bainbridge (Henry Charles) Peter Carl Faberge, one of 250 specially-bound deluxe copies...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £380
LOT 29
Bando per conto de tiralori, battilori, tessitori d'oro & altri artieri sottoposti all'Arte di...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £700
LOT 30
Barba (Albaro Alonso) The art of metals, in which is declared the manner of their generation,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,700
LOT 31
Mining & metallurgy.- Barba (Albaro Alonso) Berg-Büchlein, darinnen von der Metallen und...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,000
LOT 32
Barba (Albaro Alonso) Traité de l'Art Métalique Auquel on a joint un Mémoire concernant les...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £950
LOT 33
Mining & Minerals.- Barba (Albaro Alonso) A collection of scarce and valuable treatises upon...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £800
LOT 34
Hair.- Barber's Company. A Translation of the Charter...Granted by King Henry VIII. to the...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 35
Engraved Gems.- Bartoli (Pietro Santi) Museum Odescalchum, sive Thesaurus Antiquarum Gemmarum, 2...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £450
LOT 36
Baskerville.- Vocabulary (A), or pocket dictionary. To which is prefixed, a compendious grammar...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £380
LOT 37
Baskerville.- Bible, English. The Holy Bible, 2 parts in 1, Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1769-71;...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,000
LOT 38
Waterworks.- Fireworks.- Bate (John) The mysteries of nature and art. In foure severall parts....
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 39
Ceramics.- Sevres.- Baumgart (E.) La Manufacture de Sevres a l'Exposition Universelle de 1900,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £280
![Beardsley (Aubrey) A Portfolio of...Drawings Illustrating "Salome" by Oscar Wilde, title & 17 plates, [1920].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/bc667206-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/582c140f-4d91-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "Beardsley (Aubrey) A Portfolio of...Drawings Illustrating \"Salome\" by Oscar Wilde, title & 17 plates, [1920].")
LOT 40
Beardsley (Aubrey) A Portfolio of...Drawings Illustrating "Salome" by Oscar Wilde, title & 17...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £2,400
LOT 41
Ornament.- Beauvallet (P.N.) & Charles Normand. Fragmens d'Ornemens dans le Style Antique, 2...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £200
LOT 42
Middle Ages.- Becker (C.) and J. von Hefner. Kunstwerke und Geräthschaften des Mittelalters und...
Estimate: £200 - £300
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 43
Medicine.- Beddoes (Thomas) & James Watt., Considerations on the Medicinal Use, and on the...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 44
Bedford (William Kirkpatrick Riland) A Collection of Arms of Gentry in Warwickshire, manuscript...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £450
LOT 45
Béguin (Jean) Les Elemens de chymie, rare first edition, Paris, Mathieu le Maistre,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £900
LOT 46
Geology & Mines.- Behrens (Georg Henning) The natural history of Hartz-Forest, in His Majesty...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 47
Bengal or East-India calendar (The), for the year MDCCXCVI. Including a list of the ... and...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £450
![Ornament.- Bérain (Jean) & others., [Livre de Desseins], collection of 129 engraved plates from various series, Augsburg, Jer.Wolff., [early 18th cent](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/10a60b05-9b90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/18d5da28-4b91-ee11-817a-6045bdcfd69d.webp "Ornament.- Bérain (Jean) & others., [Livre de Desseins], collection of 129 engraved plates from various series, Augsburg, Jer.Wolff., [early 18th cent")
LOT 48
Ornament.- Bérain (Jean) & others., [Livre de Desseins], collection of 129 engraved plates from...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,600
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