Volume 1

Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P., Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Emeritus Harveian Professor; consulting physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; late President of the Pathological, Epidemiological and Dermitological Societies : comprising his collection of rare herbals and other natural history books, a series of the first and later editions of John Milton's writings and Miltoniana, and old and modern books in general literature. Which will be sold by auction by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 30th of January, 1912, and following day.

  • Payne, Joseph Frank, 1840-1910.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P., Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Emeritus Harveian Professor; consulting physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; late President of the Pathological, Epidemiological and Dermitological Societies : comprising his collection of rare herbals and other natural history books, a series of the first and later editions of John Milton's writings and Miltoniana, and old and modern books in general literature. Which will be sold by auction by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 30th of January, 1912, and following day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    2- -O First Day 2 SIZES MIXED n - o o - O S' ~ O O - O 3 Alpinus (Prosper) De Plantis Exoticis lib. II, opus completum, editum studio ae opera Alpini auctoris filii, engraved title and numerous engravings of plants, old. calf sm. Mo. Venet. Jo. Guerilius, 1556 4 Alpinus (Prosper) De Plantis HCgypti Liber, accessit etiam liber de Balsamo aliis editus, full-page woodcuts of plants, limp vellum 4to. Venet. Fr. de Franciscis, 1592 5 Alpinus (Prosper) De Plantis iEgypti Liber, cum Observationibus & Notis Jo. Veslingii; accessit Alpini de Balsamo, editio altera emendatior, numerous woodcuts of plants, etc. vellum 4to. Patavii, P. Frambottus, 1640[—1638] 6 Apuleius Platonicus. Herbarium Apulei Platonici : “Incipit Herbarium Apulei Platonici ad Marcum Agrippam,” lit. rom. (partly in capitals and partly in lower case), long lines, without marks, 130 crude outline cuts of plants (with contemporary MS. names in Italian), limp vellum, enclosed in a cloth case [Main *1322] sm. 4to. Absque nota [Romai, J. Philip de Lignamine, c. 1488-84] *** Extremely rare. The work begins with the Epistle of Lignamine to Julian de Rovere (afterwards Pope Julius II) [some copies are dedicated to the Cardinal Gonzaga], This Epistle, with the Tabula, occupies 5 leaves (slightly mended). On the reverse of the last leaf is a “Registrum ” ; and the text has 97 leaves. This is the earliest printed book WITH FIGURES OF PLANTS. 7 Apuleius Platonicus. Herbarium [cum Praefatione Antonii Musae et Indice], Manuscript on paper (52 ll. 8i by 5i in.), written in neat cursive letters in red and black, half moi'occo gilt, g.e. [Phillipps’ MSS. no. 3392] sm. Mo. SiEC. xv 10 - O 8 Avicenna. De Animalibus per Michaelem Scotum de Arabieo in Latinum translatus, lit. rom. long lines, 55 to a full page, with signs, title in gotfu'r Irttrr, 54 numbered leaves [Haiti *2220], new half morocco sm. folio. [absque ulla nota] [l 4—] P _ 0 9 Baker (Henry) The Microscope made Easy, B,. Dodsley, 1743 ; Natural History of the Polype, frontispiece and woodcuts, ib. 1743—Ray (John) Discourses concerning the Dissolution of the World, 1692—Browne (SirT.) Certain Miscellany Tracts {wants portrait), 1684—Watkins (Fr.)'L’Exercise du Micro- scope, plates, 1754 8w. (5) -7 _ £, 10 Bassaeus (Nic.) Eicones Plantarum seu Stirpium, Arborum nempe, Fructicum, Herbarum, Fructuum, Lignorum, Radicum, Oin- nis Generis, tam Inquilinorum quam Exoticorum(in Germania, etc.), curante N. Bassaeus, etc. upwards of 2250 cuts oj plants, etc. two on a page, with nomenclature in Latin and German, old calf with Earl of Aylesford’s ex-libris __ thick oblong Mo. Francof. a. M. N. Bassaeus, 1590 - / - O