17th Sep, 2024 10:00
The September Auctions 2024
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Mining: Pettus (Sir John) Fodinae Regales
Mining: Pettus (Sir John) Fodinae Regales Or the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and...Ireland, London: by H[enry] L[loyd] and R[obert] B[attersby] for Thomas Basset, 1670. folio, contemporary speckled calf with decorative gilt tooled spine, first edition, with initial blank with clear watermark, engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Sherwin, 2 engraved plates with letterpress key on verso, 2 engraved coats-of-arms in text, one with printed slip pasted beneath, Corrigenda leaf at end
Provenance:Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Footnote:[Duveen p.468; Goldsmiths' 1930; Kress 1270; Neville II p.296; Wing P1908] The standard 17th century English work on mining by the deputy governor of the Royal Mines, including the first dictionary in English of mining terms and considerable technical information on mining, metallurgy and coinage.
The author was the great-grandfather of Samuel, 1st Baron Sandys.
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Sold for £1,900
Mining: Pettus (Sir John) Fodinae Regales Or the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and...Ireland, London: by H[enry] L[loyd] and R[obert] B[attersby] for Thomas Basset, 1670. folio, contemporary speckled calf with decorative gilt tooled spine, first edition, with initial blank with clear watermark, engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Sherwin, 2 engraved plates with letterpress key on verso, 2 engraved coats-of-arms in text, one with printed slip pasted beneath, Corrigenda leaf at end
Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
[Duveen p.468; Goldsmiths' 1930; Kress 1270; Neville II p.296; Wing P1908] The standard 17th century English work on mining by the deputy governor of the Royal Mines, including the first dictionary in English of mining terms and considerable technical information on mining, metallurgy and coinage.
The author was the great-grandfather of Samuel, 1st Baron Sandys.
THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Binding with wear, abrasions and scuffs, corners bumped, hole to upper front bank endpaper, frontispiece with tear and light foxing, frontispiece imprinted on title, some moisture marks and brown spotting and ink smudges to occasional pages, tear to edge of vignette arms on p. 23, pages toned, occasional marginal notes, first plate slightly trimmed to lower edge, some old fold marks,
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