拍品 634
  • 634

TABLES, CALENDRICAL, ENGLISH, 3 VOLUMES

估價
300 - 400 GBP
招標截止

描述

  • A collection of 3 volumes, comprising:
i. [Tailfer, Robert]. True and correct tables of time: calculated for the old stile for 784 years viz. from A.D. 1300, to 2083, both inclusive; and for the new stile, from its commencement viz. 1582 to 2083 inclusive, being 501 years. London: n.p., 1736, 8vo, frontispiece, title and 10 plates, engraved throughout by George Bickham and printed on one side only, contemporary calf, (bought from Colin Franklin, Culham, Oxfordshire, 1990), [T&W T4; ESTC T97218], binding wornii. [Marcel, Guillaume (1647-1708)]. Chronological tables of Europe; from the nativity of our saviour to the year 1726... contriv'd in a small compass for the pocket (trans. William Parsons). London: B. & B. Barker, 1740, oblong 12mo (75 x 120mm.), 47 engraved plates, 35 printed on one side only (of which 2 are folding) and 12 printed recto/verso, contemporary vellum gilt, (E.W. Stillingfleet, contemporary signature; bought from Colin Franklin, Culham, Oxfordshire, 1993), [T&W P19; ESTC N26790]iii. Wetherald, Rowland (1727-1791). The perpetual calculator: or, time's universal standard. Newcastle: I. Thompson & Co., 1760, 8vo, one folding table, contemporary calf, (John Fenwick, bookplate and signature; bought from James Burmester, Bristol, 1987), [T&W W36; ESTC T111571], first few and the last leaves soiled, binding worn and rebacked

Condition

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