Beautifully finished ACHROMATIC MICROSCOPE, with all the latest improvement
and apparatus, complete from 3l. 15s., at
C. BAKER'S. Optical and Mathematical Instrument Warehouse, 244. High
Holborn (opposite Day & Martin's).
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Important Sale of Rare Books, Books of Prints, and Illuminated Manuscripts.
MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property
and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by AUCTION, at their
House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on MONDAY, January 9, 1854, and Three
following Days, at 1 o'clock precisely, an Important COLLECTION of RARE
BOOKS, Books of Prints, Illuminated and Historical Manuscripts, from the
Library of a distinguished Amateur, deceased:--comprising, The Grand Work
on Egypt, executed under the munificent direction of Napoleon I., the
original edition on vellum paper, 23 vols. The Beautiful and Interesting
Series of Picturesque Voyages by Nodier, Taylor, and De Cailleux; Barker,
Webb et Berthélot, Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries, a magnificent
work, in 10 vols. with exquisitely coloured plates; Algérie. Historique,
Pittoresque et Monumentale, 5 vols. in 3; Le Vaillant, Histoire Naturelle
des Oiseaux, on vellum paper, the plates beautifully coloured, 3 vols.;
Melling, Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople, 2 vols. in 1; Montfaucon,
Antiquité Expliquée, avec Supplément et les Monumens de la Monarchie
Françoise, 20 vols., a most beautiful copy, in morocco, of the best
edition, on large paper; Sebæ Rerum Naturalium Thesaurus, 4 vols., an
exceedingly choice copy in rich French morocco; Museum Worsleyanum, 2
vols., on large paper; Shaw, Illuminated Ornaments, on large paper, the
plates exquisitely illuminated in gold and colours; Beroalde de Verville,
Le Moyen de Parvenir, a very fine copy of the rarest Elzevir edition;
Cieza, Historie del Peru, 1560-64, rare; Boccaccio, Il Decamerone, Ven.
1492, extremely rare; Consolat dels Fets Maritims, very rare; Denyaldi,
Rollo Northmanno-Britannicus, fine copy, and very scarce; Henninges,
Theatrum Genealogicum, 4 vols. in 5; Le Merre, Recueil des Notes concernant
les Affaires du Clergé de France, 13 vols., a beautiful copy; Mandeville,
Le Grande Lapidaire, 1561, an extremely rare edition; Renversement de la
Morale Chrétienne, rare; Verheiden in Classem Xerxis Hispani Oratio, very
rare; Rare Works relating to England; Books of Emblems; A curious and
interesting Volume in German, giving an Account of the Crusades against the
Turks by the Christians, printed by Bämler. in 1482; Some highly
interesting Historical and other Manuscripts; Finely illuminated Horæ and
Missals; and an interesting Fragment in the Autograph of Rousseau.
To be viewed Two Days prior, and Catalogues had; forwarded Free on receipt
of Six Postage Stamps.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, MATERIALS, and PURE CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS.
KNIGHT & SONS' Illustrated Catalogue, containing Description and Price of
the best forms of Cameras and other Apparatus. Voightlander and Son's
Lenses for Portraits and Views, together with the various Materials, and
pure Chemical Preparations required in practising the Photographic Art.
Forwarded free on receipt of Six Postage Stamps.
Instructions given in every branch of the Art.
An extensive Collection of Stereoscopic and other Photographic Specimens.
GEORGE KNIGHT & SONS, Foster Lane, London.
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