Search Results: Authors starting with S from Adam Weinberger Books

Memmingen, 1676. Folio (208 x 310 mm). Latin ms. and illustrations on paper. 184 ff. with gilt-raised title-page and a total of 292 watercolour and gouache plant illustrations (1 double-page), captioned and numbered 1-290 by a contemporary hand (nos. 45 and 149 assigned twice). 19th century green half cloth over marbled boards. Stored in custom-made half morocco case. Unique, museum-quality manuscript herbal, previously unknown to research, compiled for the Memmingen pharmacist Wolfgang Schötz by an unidentified but obviously professionally trained artist. The nearly 300 watercolours and gouaches, all impressively accomplished, show the principal Central European medicinal, poisonous, spice and ornamental plants as they were to be found in the gardens, meadows and forests of the free imperial city of Memmingen: hollyhock, tarragon, snow pea, prunella, dandelion, spiked rampion (phyteuma spicatum), swallow-wort (asclepias vincetoxicum), echium, caper spurge (euphorbia lathyris), white… Read More

43 seals from 16th (possibly 15th) to the 18th century. Between 2.5 and 6.5 cm. Most in black and red. Some uncoloured. In specially made wooden boxes. Mostly German. Six of them are chipped or broken. Warrants further study. We have some pictures for you.

SWIFT, Jonathan. A Character of Don Sacheverellio, Knight of the Firebrandin a Letter to Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., Censor of Great Britain. Dublin, Printed and Sold by Francis Higgins, Bookmaker; and are to be had of A. Baldwin in London. 8vo., 16 pp., tract with strings, laid loosely in a later protective boards; internally some toning and foxing, one small upper marginal loss.Teerink (1937) notes "doubtful.. the style would suggest this to be by Swift". Rothschild records "Conjectural and Supposititious Works" Ref: Rothschild 2197; Teerink 1937. A uncommon Swift or pseudo-Swift imprint, underscoring the Irish reading public's interest in the famed the Sacheverellio trial.