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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    460 Milton (J.) Eikonoklastes in Answer to a Book entitl’d Eikon Basilike, the Portrature (sic) of his Sacred Majesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings, the Author J. M. FIRST edition (pages 210 and 211 very slightly defective, otherwise FINE large uncut copy), bound in new niger morocco, lettered in gold on upperside, by S. Cobden-Sanderson, very rare in THIS STATE Printed by Matthew Simmons, next dove to the Gilded Lyon in Aldersgate Street, 1649 461 Milton (J.) Eikonoklastes, FIRST edition ; another copy (cut, and headline of page 50 slightly cut into), unbound ib. 1649 462 Milton (J.) Judgment (The) of Martin Bucer, concerning Divorce, to the Parliament of England, FIRST EDITION (some margins cut into), unbound Printed by M. Simmons, 1644 463 Milton (J.) Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books. The Author John Milton, first edition, seventh title-page, with five-line Address, Argument and Errata (one leaf of “ TheArgument” and several others cut into), modern calf antique, r. e. Printed by S. Simmons, and are to be sold by T. Helder at the Angel in Little Brittain, 1669 FOLIO. 464 Browne (Joannes, M.D.) Myographia Nova, sive Musculorum Omnium accuratissimi Descriptio, etc. large PAPER,portrait by R. White, and fine anatomical plates (that at page 12 missing), old calf Jo. Redmayne, 1684 465 Chabraeus (Dom.) Omnium Stirpium Sciagraphia et leones, numerous woodcuts of plants (frontispiece mounted, and last leaf defective), half vellum Genevae, S. de Tournes, 1678 466 (H)Ortus Sanitatis [Tractatus de Herbis, de Animalibus, de Avibus, de Piscibus, et de Urinis] (Per Joannem de Cuba), lit. golf), double columns, 48 lines to a full page, with signs. 4 separates titles with full-page cut on reverse of each, many hundred woodcuts of plants, animals, etc. (first title mended and slightly defective, wants 2 leaves, b 4 and 5, containing chapters 379-382, otherwise good) [/Iain *8944 ; Proctor 860], contemporary binding in oak boards, half pig- skin, stamped with ornaments Moguntiae, Impensis Jacobi Meydenbach, 1491 467 [Hortus Sanitatis] (Par Joanne de Cuba) Le Jardin de Sante translate de latin en francoys nouvellement Jmprime a Paris; Le Traicte des Bestes, Oyseaulx, etc. lettres bdtardes, double columns, title in red and black, with a woodcut of a garden, and a large cut on reverse of the author presenting his book to a King (mended)-, corners of several other leaves mended and wanting sig. g g iii, numerous woodcuts of plants, animals, etc. 2 vol. in 1, old calf (mended) Paris, Philippe Le Noir (ivith device), s. d. (1539 ?)