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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    444 Randolph (Thos.) Poems, with The Muses Looking Glass and Amyntas; whereunto is added The Jealous Lovers; the Fifth Edition with several Additions corrected and amended (a few ll. wormed), old calf, rebacked, Oxford, printed for F. Bowman, 1668—The Historie of Quintus Curtius, trans- lated into English by John Brende, Mark Irttrr (wants C 1 and S 8), old, calf, printed by Abel Jeffes, 1592 (2) 445 Rochester (Earl of) Poems on Several Occasions, with Valen- tinian, a Tragedy, etc. (few leaves cut into), calf, old ex-libris of John Whitfield, Surgeon, on back of title printed by H. Bills, 1710 446 Swift (Dean) Works, with Life and Notes by Hawkesworth, plates, 12 vol. old calf, C. Bathurst, etc. 1760—Richardson (Sam.) Clarissa (vol. IV wants title), 8 vol. 1751 ; Pamela, 4 vol. 1775; Sir Charles Grandison, 7 vol. 1796 ; and another (32) 447 Testament. Les Epistres Sainct Paul; Les Epistres Catholiques de Saint Jaques, Sainct Pierre & S. Jean; L’Apoealypse, ou Revelation de Sainct Jean (French and Latin), wants sig. E E 3, woodcut title and spirited cuts in the Apocalypse, ruled in red, old blue morocco, with blind stamped ornaments, blue edges, scarce cl Lyon, par A. Benoist, 1562 448 Milton (J.) Paradise Regain’d, a Poem in IV Books; to which is added Samson Agonistes, second edition (wants leaf of “License”), calf antique, r.e. Printed for John Starkey in Fleet-street, 1680 449 Milton (J.) Poems, etc. upon Several Occasions ; both English and Latin, etc. composed at several times; with a small Tractate of Education to Mr. Hartlib, second edition (wants portrait, and page 9 slightly defective, and title written on), calf antique, r. e. Printed for Thomas Bring in Fleet Street, 1673 *** Several of Milton’s Poems appear first in this edition. QUARTO. 450 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 con- temporary MS. names in Italian), limp vellum, enclosed in a cloth case [Bain *1322] absque nota [Romcc, 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 (the title being slightly defective, and the fourth page made imperfect by the figures being erased, etc.) 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.