b'1581341 1345ROBERT SAYER, (1725-1794) A WASHINGTON IRVING LIBRARY:The Artists Vade Mecum; being the whole Art of Drawing,Fourteen volumes in matching bindings (leather and marbled taught in a new work, elegantly engraved on one hundred folioboards) comprising The Sketch Book of Geoffry Crayon, copper plates; containing great variety of examples in everyGent. (2 vols., 1820); Bracebridge Hall; or The Humorists by branch of that noble art; as parts of the face, heads, hands,Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (2 vols., 1822); Tales of a Traveller by feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds,Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (2 vols, 1824); A History of the Life insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes.and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (4 vols., 1828, with Collected from the works of the greatest masters. To which ismaps) and A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (2 vols., prefixed, an Essay on Drawing: with introductory rules for the1829); The Alhambra (2 vols., 1832). (14)use of learners: in which the first principles of that useful and$300500 noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master. 13461762; 8pp., 100 numbered copper plates [lacks #46]. LightTHOMAS CARLYLE single page hand-written manuscript foxing and browning to the paper throughout, several inkletter dated December 11, 1825, framed and mounted with markings, mainly to the title page; Contemporary boardsaccompanying Sothebys 1965 catalogue and additional but lacks spine; pages mainly in bundles. Contemporaryresearch notes.ownership name of Mary Hanbury, June 1738.; 31 x 41cm overall (2)[Printed and published according to Act of Parliament: and sold$250350 by R. Sayer, at the Golden-Buck, in Fleet-Street. MDCCLXII].Despite its authoritative title, this is not so much a detailed1347drawing manual as a rare and fascinating cross section of theTwo plates from The Punishments of China, Peine de la stock of the print seller and publisher Robert Sayer in 1762.Cangue by Regnier and Malfaiteur enchaine a une tige de The Vade Mecum was first published in 1762, of which justfer by Schael,6 copies - British Library, Getty, Yale Center, DeWint, Statesteel engravings, hand coloured, circa 1830,Library of Australia, one sold in London in 2015, and thisboth approx. 20 x 15cm. (2 items).example are recorded. The second edition is recorded in just$100150 two copies (Yale, and University of California). A third edition appeared in 1776 (BL, Leeds, Columbia, Yale Center only). 1348$1,2001,500Two plates from La chine, moeurs, usages, costumes, arts et mtiers, Bateliere and Domestique, Valet de Chambre 1342 both by Formentin,BASIL KENNETT, steel engravings, hand coloured, both approx. 17 x 15cm. (2).Romae Antiquae Notita: or The Antiquities of Rome in Two$100150 Parts,[London : J. & R. Tonson, et al., 13th edition], 1763, 375pp1349+ index; engraved frontis, engraved plates and a map,BEATRIX POTTER childrens books (13 items), Beethoven some folding; full calf binding. sheet music in hard bound volume, and London Illustrated $150200volume 18 January - June 1851 bound in cloth boards with original fold out canvas backed lithograph of the exterior of the 1343 Crystal Palace 1851 Grand Exhibition (15 items total). An antique Islamic Indo-Persian illuminated manuscript page,$100200 19th century. One loose folio with recto, finely illustrated with1350images of two hornbills. Ink and opaque watercolour on paper, mounted in lucite panel. John LUBBOCK,34.8 x 18.4cm Pre-historic Times, as illustrated by Ancient Remains and the manners and customs of modern savages,NOTE [London : Williams & Norgate, 1865]; 512pp, leather and green The text is written in both Arabic and Farsi; in red are versescloth binding, marbled endpapers; gilt titles to spine.from the Quran in Arabic, in black are the translation and$150250 interpretation of the verses in Farsi.$60080013511344 [BINDINGS],Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by William Rev. W. BINGLEY, Edmondstoune Aytoun, [Edinburgh, William Blackwood Animal Biography or Popular Zoology. and Sons, 1870]; A History of the Vegetable Kingdom by arranged according to the system of Linnaeus, 1813, William Rhind, [London, Blackie and Son, 1872]; The English [London, C. and J. Rivington, et al.] 3 volumes, hardcover,Circumnavigators by Purves and Cochrane, [London, William all in matching calf boards with marbled endpapers. P. Nimmo, 1878] and Great Commanders of Modern Times $200300and The Campaign of 1815 by William OConnor Morris, [London, W. H. Allen and Co., 1891] (4 items)$300400 1352Cassells HISTORY OF THE WAR between FRANCE and GERMANY 1870-1871,[London : Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1st ed.], 2 volumes, buckram and leather, with 5 raised bands to spine with gilt titles. (2)$150200 '