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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    BINDINGS, continued :— sides covered with rich gold- tooling, representing a superb design, consisting of ornamented geometrical figures interwoven with graceful arabesques, g. e., probably ly Samurn Mearne (see illustration) ; 1n FINE CONDITION, £31. 10s 1695-6 103 HERBERT (GEorGE; Curate of Bemerton) The TEMPLE: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, with Life [by Izaak Watton], with several Additions, roth Ed., with Table, portrait by R. White (slightly inked and mounted): The SyNAGoGuE ; or the Shadow of the Temple, in Imitation of Mr. George Herbert [by CuristopHER Harvey, pr.], 6th Ed.—2 vols. 16mo. in £, contemporary English red morocco super- extra, very richly tooled sides and back, g. e., £1. 108 1674-3 HORATII Opera (1770)—v. BASKERVILLE PRESS, ante. ODEs, SATYRES, and EPISTLEs, done into English [Verse, by Tuomas Creecu, pr.], with fine emblematic front. on copper Ly M. Burcusrs, 8vo. finely tound in contemporary English red morocco extra, Harleian gold-tooling on sides, g. e. (FINE COPY); RARE, £1. Is . 1684 First Epition, with dedication to Dryden, of this much-ridiculed version, which nevertheless went through many editions, 105 HORNECK (AnrTuHony, D.p.) The CruciFIED Jesus, ora full Account of the Sacrament of the Lorn’s Supper, 4th Ed., with front. ; ruled with red lines, 8vo. CHARMINGLY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY DARK BLUE MOROCCO SUPER-EXTRA, lack and sides inlaid with citron and red morocco, with elaborate floral designs, inluid and richly tooled corner and centre pieces, brass-Lound corners, g. e., with fine floral design painted on fore-edges (see illustration), £18. 18s 1700 An unusually fine specimen of binding, doubtless the work of SamMuEL MEarNE, and but for the faded and slightly rubbed back, in excellent preservation. Apart from the skill necessary to produce such a piece of binding, the artistic design is of the highest order, and may well be classed among the very best contemporary productions of the art. It is interesting to notice its likeness tosome so-called ‘ original’ designs of recent date. 106 KORAN (THE) in PERSIAN, written in Persian characters on 200 Il. of parch- ment; the first 2 pp. illuminated, and every page within a small gold lorder, 24mo. IN THE ORIGINAL FINE LACQUER BINDING; consisting of an elaborate floral design on a gold ground, plain leathern Lack (1N Goop conpiTIoN), £8. 8s Sec. XVIII. » written in ARABIC, with a marginal PERSIAN TRANSLATION; A Manuscript oF KasHMIR WORKMANSHIP, ON 206 LEAVES OF NATIVE GLAZED PAPER, the text written on gold ground, and each page ruled with gold, with 6 fine illumina- tions, and with ornaments in gold and blue, roy. 8vo. IN A BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL PERSIAN LACQUER BINDING, with fine painting of flowers on olverse and reverse of panels (in choice condition), from Libri’s Library, £18. 18s Cent. XVIII. See also MANUuscRIPTS, post. A BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OF AN XVIIITH CENTURY BINDING: 108 LILIE [(Wi tim, first High Master of St. Paul’s School)| SHORT INTRO- pucTION of Latin Grammar: Brevissima InstiTuTio, seu, Ratio Grammatices cog- noscende: Linizrs RuLes Construgep, with Tho. Robinson’s Heteroclites—3 vols. 16mo. in I, CHARMINGLY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY DARK-~BLUE MOROCCO SUPER-EXTRA, inlaid with red and citron morocco in an elaborate floral design, and richly tooled sides and Lack, g. e., by S. Mearne (see illustration), £15. 15s 1680-79-83 Bound in a style similar to Horneck’s work (g. v. supra), by the same binder, and in a REMARKABLY FRESH STATE OF PRESERVATION. For some reason the reverse of the binding has never been finished. tog LOUIS XV.: Le Sacre de Louis XV, Roi de France et de Navarre, dans l’Eglise de Reims le Dimance 25 Oct. 1722; ENGRAVED THROUGHOUT WITH 77 PLATES, including text printed on one side and within ornamental borders, with fine large plates of pageantry, costume, etc. (brilliant proofs), atlas folio, coNTEMPORARY FRENCH GREEN MOROCCO EXTRA, with rich gilt ornaments and the royal arms of France on sides, g.e. (fine copy), with Towneley Lookplate, £84. 1722 A SUPERB COPY: 110 LUCRETIUS: DELLA NATURA DELLE COsE, libri sei, tradotti dal Latino in Italiano da ALEssANDRO MARCHETTI ; with magnificent Rd Ah of the 2 fronts. and 2 titles Ly E1sen, 6 plates by Cocuin and Le Lorrain, and 7 vignettes and § culs-de- 104 107
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