Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Lot 543—contonued. black etter, printed by William Ponsonbie, 1592; 10 rare pieces in 1 vol. oreginal vellum 4to These rare tracts belonged to the celebrated divine and poet Dr. Donne, and contain, besides his signatures, numerous important references in his autograph. The tracts themselves are all of a high degree of rarity, and their value is greatly enhanced on account of the interest attached to the collection, from the fact of its former owner, and as a memento of this famous map, perhaps not to be equalled. 544 Doves Press. Cornelli Taciti de Vita et Moribus Julii Agricole liber, finely printed in roman letters, vellum Hammersnuth, by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, etc. 1900 545 Dryden (John) Threni Cantabrigienses in Funere duorum Principum Henrici Glocestrensis, Marize Arausionensis, Serenissimi Regis Caroli I], Fratris and Sororis, FIRST EDITION, very large copy, possibly large paper, original vellum 4to. Cantabrigre, excudebat Jannes Freld, celeberriemee Academic Typographus, ann. dom. 1661 *,* On signature H 1 will be found a contribution by Dryden, then at college, one of his earliest attempts in print. 546 Elder (John) Historia Maioris Britanniz, tam Anglie q Scotie per Joanne Maiorem, nomine quidem Scotum, professione autem Theologum, e veterum monumentis concinnata Venundatur Iodoco Badio Ascensits, ex officna Ascensiana ad Idus Aprillis MDxxt (1521) *,* This rare Shakespearean book is “ Illustrated with a woodcut of the arms of Scotland, and dedicatory verses from the printer to James V on verso of title. The sheets containing the irregular signatures at the end are wanting in all three copies at the British Museum. This work is said to contain the earliest printed notice of Robin Hood.”—Catalogue of Capell’s Collection of Shakespeariana. 547 Elizabethan London. Speculum Britanniz, an Historicall and Chorographicall Description of Middlesex, wherein are also Alphabeticallie sett downe the names of the Cyties, Townes, Parishes, Hamletes, Howses of Name, &c. engraved title, maps and woodcuts of arms, morocco, g. é. 1593 This excessively rare volume contains the three folding plans (by John Norden) of Middlesex, London and Westminster, in excellent condition. The second of these plans shows the Rose Theatre (called by Norden “the Play Howse”), the only regular theatre then cn the south of the Thames, and that in which Shakespeare’s earliest dramas were produced. ‘ This plan (says Halliwell-Phillipps) gives a more accurate idea than any other existing of Southwark as it was in Shakespeare's time.” 548 Hunapius of Sardis. The Lyves of Philosophers and Oratours, written in Greeke by Eunapius, of the Cittie of Sardeis in Lydia, brought into light, translated into Latine, and dedicated to the Queene’s most excellent Majestie, our moste gracious](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31665330_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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