Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
December 1886-August 1887
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/45
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pretenders, and generally on the state of classical learning throughout Europe, with amusing anecdotes interspersed ; amongst which will be found the laugh- able story of the Frenchman who said “‘ Nos Galli non cliramus de quantitate syllabarum.”’ On the subject of Music, Pace held that all the knowledge of the ancients had been thrown into the shade by the English musicians of his own time who were true masters of the scienceof harmony. The book is bound up with es Palladii Fusci Patavini de situ orae Lllyrici . ; Antonius Bladus, Rome, 1540. ; 36108 P. VELLEI PATERCVLI Historiae Romanae dvo volvmina.. per Beatvm Rhenanvm Selestadiensem ab interitv vtcvnqve vindicata, sm. folio, Furst Hdztion, the title and two other leaves decorated with fine woodeut borders, the first of which bears the monogram of Ambrose Holbein, 1517 ; red morocco gilt, gilt edges, Ons Basileae, I. Frobenius, 1520 With the signature of the celebrated Dutch scholar Janus Broukhuys on the title, and MS. notes by him. 36109 Arrant & Hannonis periplus. Piurarcuys de fluminibus & mon- tibus. STRABONIS epitome . (omnes Grece editi, cum prefatione Sigismundi Gelenii), sm. 4to. Hirst Hditions, calf neat, gilt edges, from the library of the Duke of Sussex, 25s Basileae, Froben. 1533 36110 PTOLEM AI (Clavdii) Alexandrini philosophi cum primis eruditi, De Geographia libri octo.. (Greece, edidit Hrasmus), sm. 4to. First edition, vellum, £38. 3s Basileae, Froben. 1533 Johann Bergmann (1494-99), 86111 COLUMBUS. In laudem Serenissimi Ferdinandi Hispaniar’ regis, Bethice & regni Granatz, obsidio, victoria, & triiphus, Et de Insulis in mari Indico nuper inuentis, sm. 4to. woodcut of King Ferdinand on title, and four large woodcuts in the text of the “ De Insulis”” representing the navigation and discoveries of Columbus ; bound in vellum, £105. [ Basile] J. B. (Bergman de Ole), 1494 This little volume was an appropriate conjunctive record of the two great contemporary events on which the greatness and glory of Spain were founded—namely, the destruction of the Moorish power by the capture of Granada, and the discovery of the New World by Columbus,—both signalising the year 1492. The first work is a dramatic representation of the siege, written by Carolus Verardus, one of the Pope’s chamberlains, and produced on a private stage in the palace of Cardinal Riario immediately after the announcement in Rome of the trfumph of Ferdinand and Isabel. The other, which is the Latin version of the famous letter of Columbus dated from Lisbon on the 14th of March, 14938, on his return from his first voyage to the Indies, had already been printed several times in separate form in 1493. There is a preliminary poem addressed to King Ferdinand
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