Sales catalogue 671: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:
30 April 1907
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/47
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 671: Henry Sotheran & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 ASCHAM (RocER) ToxopniLtus: The Schoole, or partitions of Shooting contayned in two bookes, and now newly perused. Pleasaunt for all Gentlemen, and Yomen of England for their pastime to reade, and profitable for their use to follow bothe in Warre and peace, vignette on last l., sm. 4to., black letter; handsomely bound in russia (underscored and with marginal notations in an old hand, otherwise an UNUSUALLY FINE AND TALL COPY) ; VERY RARE, £8. 85 _ Abell Feffes, 1589 Third and last of the three original editions, all of which are now of great rarity. The work itself is a defence of the then declining art of archery, and written in an English of remarkable vigour and purity, ranking high in the history of English literature, for which the author has been justly called ‘the Father of English Prose.’ 8 ASTLE (Tuomas, F.R.S.) The ORIGIN and PROGRESS of WRITING, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary : also Account of the Origin and Progress of PRINTING; second Edition, with Additions [and Appendix on the Radical Letters of the Pelasgians], portrait and 31 fine engravings from ancient Marbles, MSS., and Charters, folio, LaRcE PareR; handsomely lound in russia extra, g. e., ly F. BeprorpD (CHOICE copy), £8. 8s 1803 ‘A most important contribution to the English literature of palzography . .. The chapters devoted to medizval handwriting are still of use to the student, as they are based on the author’s personal investigations. The numerous plates, which greatly enhance the value of the work, are well engraved by Pouncey.’—H. R. Tedder, F.S.A. 9g ATHENIAN GAZETTE (THE): or, CasursticAL MeERcurRY, resolving all the most Nice and Curious Questions proposed by the Ingenious [edited by Joun Dunron, bookseller], from Mar. 17 to Oct. 17, 1691, original edition, 4 vols. folio in 1, old hf. calf, uncut (rare), £3.38 printed for John Dunton, at the Raven in the Poultry, 1691 ‘Dunton carried it on with the help of RicHarp SAuLT and SAMUEL WESLEY, with occasional assistance from JOHN Norris . . . GILDON wrote a ‘ History of the Athenian Society’, with Poems by DEFoE, TATE, and others prefaced. Sir WILLIAM TEMPLE was a correspondent, and SwiFT, then in Temple’s family, sent them the ode which caused DrypDEn to declare that he would never be a poet.’—Sir Leslie Stephen. 10 AUGUSTINUS (S. AuRE tus, Episc. Hipponensis) OPUSCULA PLURIMA, VIZ. Meditationes, Soliloquia, Confessiones, de Vera Religione, de Doctrina Christiana, etc. etc., 4to., gothic letter; old white vellum (vERY FINE AND REMARKABLY CLEAN COPY) ; RARE, £6. 6s [Colophon :| per Andream de bonetis, Venetiis, die X XIII. mensis Fulii, 1484 : Hain-Copinger *1947, and Proctor 4813. rr ——— De CivitTaTE DEI [in fine: Aurelii Augustini de ciuitate dei feliciter explicit: confectu3 uenetijs ab egregio & diligéti magistro Nicolao ienson: Petro mozenicho principe: Anno a natiuitate domini milesimo quadringétesimo septuagesimo quinto: sexto nonas octobres]; with the initials painted in red and llue, thick folio, gothic letter ; old calf (XVI. Cent.), rich blind-tooling on sides (binding slightly damaged and one board broken, and a few ll. water-stained, otherwise a FINE AND VERY TALL COPY), with some old MS. notes on margin, £11. Its [ Venetiis,] Nic. Fenson, 1475 Hain-Copinger *2051, Proctor 4096, and Mile. Pellechet 1550. It is a fine example of Jenson’s press, printed in a very handsome Gothic type, and consists of 302 ll., in double columns, 46 lines to a column, and has neither foliation, signatures, nor catchwords. I2 ——— CONFESSIONS, translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated, wherein, Divers Antiquities are explayned ; and the marginall notes of a former Popish Translation [by Str Tosre Marruew], answered, by Witit1am Warts, Rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete, with front. by R. Vaughan, thick 16mo. old calf, gilt centre- piece (top of Lack slightly damaged) ; RARE, £2. 5s 1631 This edition (of which there is no copy in the British Museum) is further interesting for having been edited by Dr. Pusgy in 1838 for the ‘ Library of the Fathers.’ The translator was afterwards chaplain to Prince Rupert. 13 [AUSMO vel AUXMO (NIcOoLAUS DE)] SUPPLEMENTUM, seu Summa que Magistrutia seu Pisanella vulgariter nuncupatur. [ Fol. 1a:| In noie di nostri Jhesu christi. Amen. Incipit liber qui dicitur Supplementum ; with numerous initials painted in red and blue, AND 20 LARGER ONES FINELY COLOURED AND HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD, also FINE FLORAL PAINTING IN GOLD AND COLOURS ON PAGE f, thick folio, gathic Ietter ; old stamped leather on stout oaken loards (binding damaged and wormed, but a VERY TALL AND CLEAN Copy), £6. 6s [ Colophon on fol. 333 :| Venetiis p. Franciscum de Hailbrun &} Nicolat de Frankfordia socios, 1476 Hain-Copinger *2155 and Proctor 4165 ; consisting of 355 ll.,in double columns, 47 lines toa column.
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