Sales catalogue 671: Henry Sotheran & Co

Date:: 30 April 1907

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/47

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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MISCELLANEA BIBLICA, continued :— tions, with folding plate of fs. title-page of the Great Bible, 8vo. hf. morocco neal, uncut, t.e. g. (choice copy), scarce, £1. 125 1739 ‘ Best edition ’.—Lowndes. ‘ ‘A valuable work, to which all succeeding writers on the history of the English versions of the Bible are indebted.’—Horne. AN EARLY BIBLE CONCORDANCE : : 82 LUC bE BRUGES [latine Lucas Brugensis] (Francois) RoMAN2& Cor- RECTIONIS, in Latinis Brstus Epirronis Vuieats, jussu Sixti V. P. M. recognitis, Loca InsienioraA; accessit Libellus alter, continens alias lectionum varietates, in eisdem Bibliis Latinis, ex vetustis. Manuscriptis, etc. etc. ; with printers’ vignette on title and last leaf, 4to. old calf, £2. 2s Antverpic, ex off. Plantiniana, 1618 ‘Luc, qui eut part a toutes les entreprises bibliques de son temps, entre autres a la polyglotte d'Anvers, fut le premier erudit qui composa, sur le travail primitif d’ Hugues de St.-Cher, une bonne concordance de la Bible’.—Biogr. Gén. THE FIRST ENGLISH CONCORDANCE TO THE BIBLE: 83 [MERBECK (Joun)] A ConcorpDANCE, that is to saie, a Worke wherein by the ordre of the letters A. B. C. ye maie redely finde any worde conte'gned in the Wuo te BiBLE so often as it is there expressed or mencioned: only edition, printed in black letter in 3 columns, with title within woodcut lorder, and vignette of the Annunciation and other woodcut initials, folio, finely bound in purple morocco extra, g.e. (A FINE AND TALL Copy); rare, £6. Gs Richard Grafton, Fuly, 1550 This interesting book is the first English Concordance to the whole Bible; its only forerunner being Gibson’s one to the New Testament in 1536. Its author was organist of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, and the author of ‘The Book of Common Prayer Noted’ published in the same year, which was an edition of-the musical parts of the First Prayer Book of Edward VI. set to the ancient Plainsong (q. v. sub LITuRGIES, post). The compilation of the Concordance got Merbeck into trouble with Henry VIII., and he was tried for heresy, and only escaped condemnation at the intercession of Bp. Gardiner. It is a remarkable work of nearly goo pages, each divided into 3 columns. 84 WESTWOOD (JoHN OBADIAH) PAL#OGRAPHIA SACRA PICTORIA: ILLUs- TRATIONS of the AncreENT Versions of the Bisie, from Irtuminatep MSS., Cents. IV.—XVI., with 50 plates, finely coLouRED and heightened with gold and silver, under the direction of OwEN Jones, exhibiting some of the most curious and interesting examples, besides woodcuts, roy. 4to. hf. morocco, uncut, t. e. g. (SCARCE), £5. 5s 1843-5 BIBLE PRINTS: 85 A PROBABLY UNIQUE WORK, imperfect, lettered ‘History of the Bisre’, black letter, with numerous well-executed woodcuts, sq. 24mo. straight-grained purple morocco yilt, g. e., £28. (co. 7535 | This very interesting, and in all probability unique, volume came from the library of RaLpu THORESBY, F.R.S., the historian of Leeds, and bears the inscription ‘e libris Rad. Thoresby Leodiensis’ on the first leaf, and his initials and the date ‘6 Sept® 1717' on the last. It afterwards became the property of SAMUEL WELLER SINGER, the antiquary, who added the following MS. note: ‘The Original of this Book appears to have been printed at Antwerp in 1535 by Simon Coquus, with the following title: ‘Enchiridion compluscula eorumque in Veteris Testamenti Sacris Bibliis traduntur picturis expressa continens: addito insuper textu: ac mox precationibus piis ad rem facientibus, e lingua vernacula, in Latina per Guilh. de Banteghem, Alosteum Cartusianum tralatis. 12°.’ The identical woodcuts are used in the Latin work of which Thorpe had a copy in 1827. ‘I never met with another copy of the English version, which was probably destroyed with the early Editions of the Testament in English.’ Although largely imperfect, this work is important (quite apart from the fact that no other copy of the English translation is known) for its woodcuts, specimens of which are reproduced in Jackson’s History of Wood Engraving, pp. 462 and 463. . ; 86 AMMAN (Jost): Icones Novi TESTAMENTI; 85 full-page woodcuts after J. A. (FINE IMPRESSIONS), mounted on drawing paper, folio, boards, (wanting litle and about 8 plates), cheap, £2. 2s | Francfurt am Mayn, M. Lechler und Hier. Feyeralendt, 1571 ‘Jost Amman was undoubtedly one of the best professional designers on wood of his time. . . . His works have proved a mine for succeeding artists; his figures were frequently copied by wood engravers in France, Italy, and Flanders, and even some modern English paintings contain evidences of the artist having borrowed something more than a hint from the figures of Jost Amman.’—Fackson’s Wood Engraving. 87 HOLBEIN (Hans) The Imaces of the OLD TESTAMENT, lately expressed, set forthe in YNGLISHE and FrENcuE, vuith [szc] a playn and brief exposi- tion, with FINE IMPRESSIONS of the 94 woodcuts and figures of the 4 Evangelists on

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