A 3½" Gauge LMS 8F Class 2-8-0 No.48305 Locomotive & Tender
lot 201 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
A 3½" Gauge coal-fired Live Steam ex-LMS Stanier '8F' Class 2-8-0 Locomotive and Tender, the engine win outside cylinders with outside valve gear, ... read more
Sold for £1,875 Result plus buyers premium More details 7
A 3in Guage Model of Canterbury & Whitstable Railway 0-4-0 Locomotive & Tender 'INVICTA'
lot 202 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
built by E. Lofthouse with brazed copper boiler by Swindon Boilers serial no. 95997 with pressure gauge, sight,glass, pressure valve, twin inclined ... read more
Sold for £1,000 Result plus buyers premium More details 6
Great Indian Peninsula Railway Coffee Pot
lot 203 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
A Copeland Spode Porcelain Coffee Pot, white ground, decorated with blue and gilt decoration, with the Crest of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 2
Collection of 10 Reeve and Benham 'Popular ' Series of Natural History books
lot 204 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
including : Henry Sowerby's Popular Mineralogy, 1850, Mary Robert's Mollusca, 1851, D Landsbrough's British Zoophytes, 1852, Thomas Moore's British ... read more
Sold for £750 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
Lacambre, George, Traité Complet de la Fabrication de Bières et de la Distillation des Grains
lot 205 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Lacambre, George, Traité Complet de la Fabrication de Bières et de la Distillation des Grains, Nouvelle Edition, 1856, full leather with gilt ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 6
Pasteur, Louis, Etudes Sur Le Vin, and Studies on Fermentation the Diseases of Beer
lot 206 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Etudes sur le vin. Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1866, Pasteur Louis, 8vo. with 32 colored plates of microbes viewed through the microscope. ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £500 More details 5
Collection of 13 Books Related to Wine & Beer Making
lot 207 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Including; Cooper, A the complete Distiller, 1757, fold out plate of distilling equipment, original tan leather boards, later replaced leather spine; ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £400 More details 5
Collection of 10 Books on Chocolate & Sugar Production
lot 208 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
including: Zipperer, Paul, The Manufacture of Chocolate, and Other Cacao Preparations, 2nd Ed. 1902; Jensen, H. R., The Chemistry Flavouring and ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 1
lot 209 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Jeffreys, John Gwyn, British Conchology or an account of the Mollusca, in 5 vols, vol. I 1904 reprint, vol. I 1st ed. 1863, vol. III 1st ed. 1865, ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 6
Wood, W, Index Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign..
lot 210 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Wood, W, Index Testaceologicus; or A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign.. First Edition, published 1825, with double plates one plane and the ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 4
Turton, William, Conchylia Insularum Britannicarum
lot 211 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Turton, William, Conchylia Insularum Britannicarum, The Shells of the British Islands, published 1822, original green cloth, paper label to spine, ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 4
BUCKLER, W, STAINTON, H.T, The Larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths. Vol. I-IX
lot 212 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
BUCKLER, W, STAINTON, H.T, The Larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths, printed for the Ray Society, London 1886, Vol I - IX, with 105 ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 3
Charles Darwins First Published Contribution
lot 213 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Stephens, James Francis, Illustrations of British Entomology, published 1828 - 1835, supplement, 1846, 12 vols, 8vo, quarter leather, marbled boards, ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £500 More details 2
Engineers Site Book for Peoria & Oquawka Railroad, c.1850
lot 214 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Undated manuscript note book, c.1850's, ahrd cover with marbled boards 15cm x 18cm, tan cloth spine, inside front cover pasted down is a blue printed ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 3
Fowler, W.W., The Coleoptera of the British Islands
lot 215 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
The Coleoptera of the British Islands, published London 1887, hand coloured plates, Vols I-V: bound in red half leather, marbled endpapers, bookplate ... read more
Estimated at £400 - £600 More details 5
A Large & Well Annotated Mid 19th Century Album of Pressed Ferns
lot 216 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
the anonymous album, 26cm x 35cm half leather with green fabric boards with gilt text for 'FERNS', blue marbled en papers, pages throughout ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 11
Tripp, British Mosses & Others
lot 217 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
including, Tripp, F. E., British Mosses Their Homes, Aspects and Uses, published 1874, with 39 coloured plates in 2 vols, green cloth; Mrs Alfred ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 1
Hamilton, Edward, The Flora Homoeopathica
lot 218 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Hamilton, Edward, The Flora Homoeopathica; or Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants Used as Homoeopathic Remidies, 2 Volumes in 1, ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £400 More details 7
lot 219 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Greville, Robert Kaye, Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Cryptogamic Plants belonging chiefly to the Order Fungi; ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £500 More details 5
Bentley & Trimen, Medicinal Plants
lot 220 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Bently, Robert, & Trimen, Henry, Medicinal Plants: being descriptions with original figures of the Principal Plants Employed in Medicine, Printed ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £500 More details 6
A Large Album of Pressed Plants well Annotated
lot 221 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
the anonymous album, c. 1845 ( from the date on one of the pressed Plants) folio , marbled boards, leather spine, well annotated index to specimens ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 5
Folio of 24 Mounted Seaweed Specimens
lot 222 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Attributed to Cook, James, c.1880, folio folder of mounted pressed seaweed titled, Beautiful Seaweed', in a folio folder brown silk binding, gilt ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 10
Baxter, W., British Phaenogamous Botany, Flowering Plants
lot 223 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Baxter, W., British Phaenogamous Botany or Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of Flowering Plants, Published by the author, 1834, 6 vols, ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 5
Smith, James Edward, & Sowerby, James, English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British plants
lot 224 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Smith, Sir James Edward, Sowerby, James, English botany; or, Coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and ... read more
Estimated at £600 - £800 More details 8
Woodville, William, Medical Botany
lot 225 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Woodville, William, Medical Botany, containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with Plates, of all the Medicinal Plants, Indigenous and Exotic, ... read more
Estimated at £400 - £600 More details 4
New York Agricultural Experiment Station Books
lot 226 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Comprising of The Grapes of New York, Printed Albany 1908, The Plums of New York, Printed Albany 1911, The Cherries of New York, Printed Albany 1915, ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 2
Knapp, J., L., Gramina Britannica; or Representations of the British Grasses
lot 227 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Knapp, J., L., Gramina Britannica; or Representations of the British Grasses,2nd ed, london 1842, Presentation copy from the Author to Caroline ... read more
Sold for £875 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
Fee, A., Essai Sur Les Cryptogames des Ecorces Exotiques Officinales
lot 228 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Essai Sur Les Cryptogames des Ecorces Exotiques Officinales, Precede D'Une Methode Lichenographique, et D'Un Genera, Avec des Considerations Sur la ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £400 More details 8
Brown, Captain Thomas, Illustrations of the Fossil Conchology of Great Britain
lot 229 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Brown, Captain Thomas, Illustrations of the Fossil Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland with Descriptions and Localities of all the Species, ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £400 More details 9
A Collection of 10 Books on Crystallography and Geology
lot 230 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
including: Lyell, Charles, Elements of Geology, London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1838, half calf with marbled baords, recent bookplate, Bischof, ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 8
Sowerby, James, The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain
lot 231 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Sowerby, James, The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of those Remains of Testaceous Animals or Shells which ... read more
Estimated at £2,000 - £4,000 More details 10
Collection of 7 Books on Poisoning
lot 232 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
including: Accum, Fredrick, A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting Fraudulent Sophistications.... and Methods of ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 1
Ramsey, William, The Gasses of the Atmosphere, Prize Binding
lot 233 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Ramsey, William, The Gasses of the Atmosphere, the History of Their Discovery, Macmillan, 1902 2nd ed. full leather prise binding with the seal of ... read more
Estimated at £60 - £80 More details 3
lot 234 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
The art of distillation: or, A treatise of the choicest spagyrical preparations, experiments, and curiosities, performed by way of distillation. ... read more
Sold for £1,062 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
Lillie, Charles, The British Perfumer
lot 235 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
The British perfumer: being a collection of choice receipts and observations made during an extensive practice of thirty years, by which any lady or ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 2
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, Elements of Chemistry, in a New Systematic Order
lot 236 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, Elements of Chemistry, in a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries, first edition in English, ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 4
Collection of Zeiss Microscope Catalogues
lot 237 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
including Moritz Vin Rohr ABBE'S APOCHROMATS in commemoration of the fiftieth of their announcement, July 9, 1886 Zeiss Microscope Catalogues for ... read more
Estimated at £50 - £100 More details 2
lot 238 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Atlas der Diatomaceen-Kunde, Begrunder von Adolf Sch,idt, Fortgesetzt von Martin Schmidt, Fredrich Fricke, Heinrich Heiden, Otto Muller und Fredrich ... read more
Estimated at £60 - £80 More details 5
Pritchard, Andrew, A History Of Infusoria
lot 239 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
HISTORY OF INFUSORIA, INCLUDING THE DESMIDIACEAE AND DIATOMACEAE,BRITISH AND FOREIGN. BY ANDREW PRITCHARD, Esq., M.R.I., AUTHOR OF THE MICROSCOPIC ... read more
Sold for £262 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
A Folio Catalogue of Engravings of the Microscopes of the Crisp Collection
lot 240 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
An unusual catalogue of the Frank Crisp Collection of Microscopes, folio, half leather with green faux leather to boards, black leather spine with ... read more
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500 More details 1
lot 241 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Hooke, Robert, Micrographia, or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries thereupon. ... read more
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500 More details 6
Baker, Henry, Employment for the Microscope
lot 242 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Baker, Henry, Emplyment for the Microscope In two parts. I. An examination of salts and saline substances, their amazing configurations and crystals, ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 4
lot 243 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Gorter, Joannes de, Chirurgia Repurgata...editio altera italica accuratissima, published Padua, Typis Seminarii, Apud Joannem Manfrè, 3rd Itallian ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 3
Ellis, George Viner, Illustrations of Dissections, 1867
lot 244 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Illustrations of Dissections, IN A SERIES OF ORIGINAL COLOURED PLATES THE SIZE OF LIFE, REPRESENTING THE DISSECTION OF THE HUMAN BODY, WITH ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £200 More details 6
lot 245 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
G. J. Van De Well, De Dynamo & De Elektromotor, pub.c.1908, board with faux leather spine (34.5cm x 24cm), top board with illustration of a Dynamo ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 2
Collection of 8 Books On Spectroscopes & Spectrums
lot 246 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
including: Aurorae and their Spectra, JRand Capron, 1879; Spectrum Analysis in its Application to Terrestrial Substancesand the Physical ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 2
Lodge, Oliver, Electrons, Prize Binding
lot 247 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
Lodge, Oliver, Electrons, or the Nature and Properties of Negative Electricity, published London George Bell & Sons, 1907, full red leather prize ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 3
Manuscript Book on The Use of the Globes & Astronomy
lot 248 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
manuscript text book, dated 1840, inscribed to the inside of the cover Adine Josephine Edlmann 30th March 1840, containing various problems ... read more
Estimated at £60 - £80 More details 6
lot 249 (Science, Medicine & Early Technology, 1st May, 2024)
the bomb engraved 10LB PL44 dismantled and chrome plated on a modern stand, length 46cm
Sold for £400 Result plus buyers premium More details 5