Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
July 1883
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/26
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2381 Syntax (Doctor) Tour in Search of the Picturesque (by W. Combe), FIRST EDITION, 31 colowred humourous plates by Row- landson, calf gilt, by C. Lewis 1812 2382 TABARIN. Recueil general de ses (Huvres et Fantasies, fine copy in bhie morocco, borders of gold, gilt edges, by Thowvenin, Rouen, 1664 *,* Rare. The Labedoyére copy sold for 171 francs, and the Solar for 145 francs. 2383 Tabella Cibaria: the Bill of Fare: a Latin Poem implicitly - translated and fully explained in copious Notes, WS. notes by Mr. Beckford, calf extra, gilt marbled edges, by C. Lewis, 4to. 1820 *,* Only 50 copies printed, see author’s long Latin inscription to Mr. Beckford prefixed. 2384 TABLEAU DE LA CROIX representé dans les Ceremonies de la Sainte Messe ensemble le Tresor de la Devotion aux Sou- frances de N.S. J. C. engraved throughout with 100 plates by Collin and others, brilliant impressions, fine copy in red morocco covered with gold tooling (a petits fers), by Le Gascon, with clasps Paris, F. Mazot, 1651 2385 ‘TABLEAU DES PIPERIES DES FEMMES MONDAINES, fine copy in red morocco, gilt edges Cologne avec la sfere, 1685 *,* Extremely rare. A copy sold for 170 francs in the Comte H. de Chaponey’s sale. 2386 Tableau de la Vie et du Gouvernement des Cardinaux Richelieu et Mazarin et de M. Colbert representé en diverses Satyres et Poésies ingenieuses avec un Recueil d’Epigrammes sur la Vie et la Mort de M. Fouquet et Paris Ridicule par M. Petit, fine copy in green morocco, silk linings, gilt edges, by Bradel T Ainé, with has ticket Cologne, 1693 *,* Scarce. Salmon’s copy sold for 67 francs. 2387 Tableau. Another edition, calf ib. 1694 2388 TapouroT (E.) Les BIGARRURES DU SEIGNEUR DES ACCORDS, woodcut portrait, Paris, 1588--Les Touches du Seigneur des Accords, ib. 1586, fine copy in blue morocco, gilt edges, by Roger Payne in 1 vol. *,* Swift extracted his Art of Punning from the whimsical Bigar- rures of Tabourot. LEarly editions are very scarce. This copy sold for £6. 10s. in Colonel Stanley’s sale. 2389 Tabourot (E.) Les Bigarrures et Touches du Seigneur des Accords, avec les Apophtegmes (Contes facecieux) du Sieur Gaulard et les Escraignes Dijonnoises, 2 vol. in 1, woodcuts, fine copy in green morocco, gilt edges, by C. Smith Paris, 1662 *,* Swift was deeply indebted to Tabourot for his wit, his Art of Punning being in great part extracted from the Puns and Clenches of Les Bigarrures. The work of ‘“ Apophtegmes du Sieur Gaulard” is the foundation of most of our Jest-Books, and contains many of the ridiculous blunders issued as standard Trish Bulls. 2390 Tachard (Guy) Voyages de Siam des Péres Jésuites envoyés aux Indes et 4 la Chine, Paris, 1686—Second Voyage du Pére Tachard et des Jésuites envoyez par le Roy au Royaume de Siam, ib. 1689, LARGE PAPER, maps and plates, brown morocco, gilt edges, by J. Mackenzie 2 vol.in 1. Ato. * * Rare. This copy sold for £4, 4s, in Hanrott’s sale.
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