10263

1826

10262 VITRUVIUS. Architecture, translated by Gwilt, 4to. 10 plates, vignettes on India paper, (pub. at 36s) bds. Es 1826 the same, folio, LARGE PAPER, 10 vignettes on INDIA PAPER, hf. russia, 258 10264 VITRUVIO della Architettura, con il suo Comento in volgar per G. B. Caporali, large 4to. 75 woodcuts, vellum, (Dr. Wellesley's copy) 188 Perugia, 1537 10265 WEALE. Public Works of the United States of America; pts. I and II. impl. folio, 40 plates of Aqueducts, Reservoirs, &c. (pub. at 40s) in a portfolio, 78 6d 1841 on the "Great Britain" Atlantic STEAM SHIP, atlas folio, 25 plates of sections, (pub. at 258) sd. 38 6d 1847 Theory, Practice, and Architecture of Bridges of Stone, Iron, Timber and Wire, 4 vols. in 3, stout roy. 8vo. plates and 92 woodcuts, half morocco, £2.

10266 10267

1843 10268 WEBSTER'S (Th.) Port and Docks of BIRKENHEAD, roy. 8vo. 9 maps, plans, sections, and diagrams, (pub. at 15s) cloth, 6s

1848

10269 Principles of Hydrostatics, an elementary treatise on the Law of Fluids, 8vo. 4th edition, with additions, cloth, 2s 6d 1856 10270 WEIDLER (J. F.) de Machinis Hydraulicis, 2nd edition, sm. 4to. 5 plates of hydraulical machinery, sd. 2s 6d Vitemb. 1733

10271 WELLS'S (S.) History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the FENS called BEDFORD LEVEL, with the constitution and laws of the Bedford Level Corporation, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. bds. 30s; or hf. calf, 36s the same, Vol. I. only, boards, 158

1830 10272 10273 WHITEHAVEN HARBOUR: Reports of Sir J. Rennie, J. Smeaton, D. Logan, &c. on Whitehaven Harbour, roy. folio, 19 plans, hf. bd. 7s 6d Whitehaven, 1836 10274 WIEBEKING'S (C. F. von) Theoretisch-practische Wasserbaukunst, 4 vols. 4to. hf. russia, 20s München, 1811-17 10275

10275*.

10276

10277

BÜRGERLICHE BAUKUNDE durch Geschichte und Beschreibung der merkwürdigsten Antiken Baudenkmale und ihrer Abbildungen bereichert, 4 vols. in 3, 4to. hf. russia-ARCHITECTURE CIVILE : Les PLANCHES, impl. folio, Plan of Warsaw, the Royal Palace at Stockholm, and Plates 1-210, hf. bd. morocco, gilt edges-together 4 vols. 4to. and 1 vol. folio, £5. München, 1821-26 --Architecture Civile: Bürgerliche Baukunde, plates 1-83, atlas folio, hf. bd. uncut, 20s s. l. e. a.

OPERA VARIA: Von dem Einfluss der Bauwissenschaften, München, 1818-Memoire sur l'Etat de l'Architecture Civile dans le Moyen Age, Munich, 1824-Collection des Tables de l'Architecture Civile, 1831 -Memoires concernant les améliorations des Ports de Venise, le cours de la Brenta, etc. 1810-Beyträge zur Hafen- Seeufer- und Flussbaukunde, plates, 1810-in 1 vol. 4to. hf. russia, 30s

Analyse descriptive, historique, et raisonnée des monumens de l'Antiquité, des edifices les plus remarquables du moyen-age et des derniers temps, et des constructions hydrotecniques en Europe, Vol. IV, La Hollande et la Grande Bretagne, 4to. numerous plates, hf. russia, 20s

Munich, 1840

10278 WILD (Charles) Illustrations of Lincoln Cathedral, atlas folio, LARGE PAPER, 16 plates, proofs on India paper, (pub. at £10. 10s) bds. 30s 1819 10279 WOOD (N.) on Railroads, and Interior Communication in General; containing numerous Experiments on the Powers of the Improved Locomotive Engines, and Tables of the comparative Cost of Conveyance on Canals, Railways, and Turnkipe Roads, 8vo. third edition, very greatly enlarged, with 13 large plates, and several new woodcuts, (pub. at £1. 11s 6d) hf. calf, 78 1838

10280 WILLIAMS (C. W.) on the Combustion of Coal and the Prevention of Smoke, 8vo. 141 cuts, cloth, 38 6d

1854

10281 REPORTS ISSUED BY GOVERNMENT, BLUE BOOKS, and official documents relating to Harbours, Bridges, Inland and Coast Navigation, Roads, Railways, Rivers, Shipwrecks, Lighthouses, and other subjects of Engineering, in all 86 vols. folio bd. and 24 parts sd. collected during his long professional career by Sir John Rennie,-to be sold a bargain at about the waste-paper value, £12. 1800-66

Date.

The Collection includes:

1800 state of Inland Navigation, Dublin.
1810 nature and extent of the bogs in Ireland,
3 vols. folio, hf. russia.

1815 on the construction of the Caledonian
Canal.

1819 state of the road from London to Holyhead. 1825 on the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad Bill, 2 vols.

1825 on the alteration of several Acts relative to the Wet Docks at Leith, and on the construction of a Harbour at Trinity.

1826 on the Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation Bill.

1829_the_ improvement of the Approaches to
London Bridge, 2 vols.

1832 construction of a pier at Gravesend.
1834 the establishment of steam communication
with India via Red Sea.

1835 construction of the Great Western Rail-
way, 2 vols.

Date.

1841 Popalation returns of Scotland.
1841 on the formation of the Kingston-upon-
Hull and Sunderland Docks.

1841 on the improvement of the River Thames.
1842 on Post Office communication with Ire-
land.

1842 on the Act for making the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway.

1843 of the Railway Department to the Board of Trade.

1843 on the Shipwrecks of British Vessels and the Means of Preserving the Lives and Property of Shipwrecked Persons.

1844 on the state of large towns and populous districts.

1845 on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, and the enlargement of the Holyhead Harbour. 1846 on the revenue, population, and commerce of the United Kingdom.

1844 on the Birkenhead Docks.

1836 construction of the London and Brighton 1844 on the Metropolis Improvements. Railway.

1836 the Medway Navigation Bill.

1837 the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

1841 Report of the Commissioners appointed to take the census of Ireland.

1841 Population returns of England and Wales, 2 vols.

1845 on Lighthouses.

1845 on Tidal Harbours.

1845 Harbours of the United Kingdom.
1846 of the Gauge Commissioners.

1847 on the construction of the Holyhead Har-
bour.

1847 on the Portland Breakwater.

10282 SIR JOHN RENNIE'S Collection of TRACTS on ENGINEERING, MECHANICS, HYDRAULICS, WATER WORKS, HARBOURS, NAVIGATION, RAILWAYS, and other Scientific Subjects, divided into 3 lots.

I. Folios, in all 6 vols. as below described, £2. 16s.

HULL'S (Jos.) Description and Draught of a new invented Machine for carrying Vessels or Ships out of, or into any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind or Tide, or in a Calm, Transcript, London, printed 1737-Navigation improved, or the Art of Rowing Ships of all Rates in Calms, with a more Easy, Swift, and steady Motion, than Oars can. Also a Description of the Engine that performs it, 52 pages, MS. transcript, London, printed 1698, in 1 vol. calf

UITWATERING te Catwyk aan Zee, 1802; Rap-
port door Conrad Blanken en Kros, with 18
large folding plates of the Navigation of the
River Rhine, half calf
1803

A BILL for inclosing and reclaiming from the
Sea, certain Tracts of Land forming the
Great Estuary called "The Wash," between
the Counties of Norfolk and Lincoln, with
maps and letters-Report on the Employ-
ment of Children, with numerous plates, half
calf
Reports on Projected Canals in the Delhi Terri-
tory, with tables & maps, sd. Allahabad, 1841
HARBOURS OF SCOTLAND: Nautical Descrip-

1840

tions of the West Coast and Western Islands
of Scotland, and Reports on Canals and
Harbours by Telford, with 4 very large maps,
cloth
? 1800

PROSPECTUSES OF RAILWAYS, when first
Projected, including that of the North Wales
Railway Company; Central Kent Railway;
The Company of the Great Level of the
Wash; The proposed Chester Ship Canal,
1841; The East India Agricultural Com-
pany; The Canadian Land and Emigration
Society, 1847; The London and Brighton
Railway Company, 1840; A Word on the
Art of Aerostation, 1846; The Albion
Steam Navigation Company; The Bognor
Improvement Company; The Proposed Lon-
don and Paris Railway Communication; The
Deal Pier, 1837; London and Norwich
Railway. 1844; The Patent Alkali Com-
pany, 1847; Bristol and Clifton Water
Works; Suggestions for the Improvement
of Lowestoft Harbour, 1838, with 34 maps
and plans, and many others, in 1 vol. cloth,
an extremely rare and curious collection, no
doubt unique

10283 II. Quartos, in all 40 Tracts, with numerous plates, maps, plans, and other illustrations, in all 14 volumes, hf. calf, the rest unbound, a most valuable and rare collection, £7.

Murray's Description of the proposed Wet Dock at Sunderland, large maps and plans 1846 10284 III. Octavos, in all 356 Tracts, the bulk bound in 27 vols. the rest un

The preceding 4 lots, consisting of 133 bound volumes, and altogether of nearly 1000 Tracts and Opera minora, illustrative of the History of Engineering, were collected by Mr. John Rennie and Sir John Rennie, the two great Engineers, and they ought to be secured for some Public Library. It would be impossible to get again together such a collection, as from the trifling value of many of these books and tracts at the time of publication, they were read and destroyed.

The four lots, priced separately £36. 16s, will be sold together for £25. 10285 FEN TRACTS. A most interesting and valuable Collection of Tracts relating to the Drainage of LINCOLNSHIRE and NORFOLK, formed by Sir JOHN RENNIE, in all 84 Tracts, £12. 12s. Including the following:

WORKS ON THE FINE ARTS,

THE GALLERIES, BOOKS OF COSTUME, OLD VIEWS, ENGRAVINGS, PORTRAITS, ORNAMENTS, EARLY WOODCUTS.

DRAWINGS AND ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS :

10286 HOWITT (S.) ILLUSTRATIONS OF ESOP'S FABLES, Thirty Original DRAWINGS IN WATER-COLOURS by this eminent Artist, (many of them with his signature), finely designed and executed, folio, well adapted to illustrate Barlow's edition, £15. (? 1820) 10287 LA CAVE, DRAWINGS AFTER NATURE. A Collection of about one hundred Original Drawings by this talented Artist, depicting Rustic Scenery, Groups of Figures, Landscapes, old Buildings, Churches, Cottages, Roadside Inns, Animals, Sheep, Oxen, Horses, etc. very beautifully executed after Nature, and highly finished in Water-colours, all mounted on thick tinted paper and bound in 1 vol. roy. folio, crimson morocco extra, with joints and gilt edges, £25.

1800, etc.

This splendid volume is worthy the atten- | pastoral landscapes, figures of cattle, etc. rition of the connoisseur. Very little is known of valling even Cuyp and Berghem. this English Artist, who excelled in depicting

10288 Mantegna. VORAGINE (Jacopo di) Legende di tutte i Sancti et le Sancte, dalla Romana Sedia acceptati & honorati (tradotte da Nicolao de Manerbi), folio, FIRST EDITION, slightly stained, and several leaves mended, the margin ornamented with 52 original pen and ink DRAWINGS, by Andrea MANTEGNA, in the master's best style, russia extra, gilt edges, from Dr. Wellesley's library, £36. Venetia, N. Jenson (1475) 10289 OFFICIUM Beatæ Virginis Mariæ secundum Consuetudinem Curiæ Romanæ cum Calendario, 16mo. Manuscript on VELLUM, beautifully written by an Italian Scribe for a Member of the Family of ALDOBRANDINI, whose ARMS are painted beneath the first two Miniatures, adorned with letters of gold, illuminated capitals, elegant borders, and 11 superb MINIATURES, executed by a first-class Artist in gold and colours, blue velvet, gilt edges, £94. circa 1490

This" Gem" fetched at Sir Thomas Gage's | tained at low prices, "first-class Italian Illumisale a very high price ;-the MS. is well worth nated MSS. are of the rarest occurrence." the price affixed. Ordinary MSS. are easily ob

10290 ROMAN ACADEMY OF ART: Ordini e Statuti dell' Academia del Disegno de Pittori, Scultori et Architetti di Roma, sotto il titolo e padrocinio di San Luca, folio, 211 pp. MS. on paper, old calf, 188 (temp. 1630) 10291 ROMANT DES ROMANS ou on verra la suitte et la Conclusion de DON BELIANIS de Grece, du CHEVALIER DU SOLEIL et des AMADIS, par Du Verdier, 7 vols. sm. 4to. fine engravings, beautiful copy, probably the only one printed in 4to. with several DRAWINGS in illustration, rich old red morocco, gilt edges, by De Rome, £14. Paris, 1626-9 10292 SCHMIDT (G. F.) Catalogue of his Etchings and Engravings, a neatly written English MS. 8vo. 186 pp. prepared for publication, hf. calf neat, from Dr. Wellesley's library, 248

(P 1840)

10293 ADAMS'S (R.) Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia, impl. folio, 61 beautiful plates by Bartolozzi and other celebrated Engravers, very fine original impressions, half bd. uncut, 36s 1764 A copy of this very splendid work fetched at Col. Stanley's, £6. 16s 6d; 1819, North's, Willett's sale £5. 158 6d; Townsend's, £6. 16s 6d; | £7. 10s; 1862, Miss Currer's, mor. £8. 17s 6d.