Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
29-31 October 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/760
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Se 616 647 648 649 650 651 OCTAVO ET INFRA. BREVIARIUM AD USUM ROMANUM CUM CALENDARIO, MANU- SCRIPT ON VELLUM, written by a German scribe in red and black in a regular but rather rough gothic hand, double columns, 29-30 lines to a page, 376 ll. large and small initials in red and blue, the first two leaves of the Calendar are wanting and two leaves are missing in the body of the book and several (°) at end, modern brown morocco binding (175 mm. by 127 mm.) GERMAN, XV CENT. Dantx [Divina Commedia], second title misbound at end, woodcut, rules on three leaves at end slightly cut into, red morocco, with the anchor on sides, g. é. 12mo0. Vinegia: Aldus, 1515 [BerNArD (Satnt)| Here begynneth a godly treatyse, and it is called a notable lesson, otherwise it is called the golde epystle, [at end:] praye for the olde wretched brother of Syon Rycharde Whyteforde, 8 Jl/. (only part of the book), black letter, half calf, VERY RARE ; sold not subject to return John Cawood, printer to the Kynge and Quenes Maiesties, n. d. |e. 1554-5] Wortp 1N MINIATURE (The), edited by F. Shoberl. 43 vol. coloured plates (wants 5 vol., has 5 in duplicate), half calf (one back damaged) ; sold not subject to return Rh. Ackermann, n. d. Baskerville Press. A Vocabulary or Pocket Dictionary. To which is prefixed a Compendious Grammar of the English Language, wants sia leaves (sigs. c and d), original cloth, uncut ; sold not subject to return Birmingham : Printed by John Baskerville... 1765 Rousseau (J. J.) Du Contract Social, wants the duplicate pp. 111- 112, mottled calf, back gilt, \762; Lettres écrites de la Mon- tagne, 2 parts in | vol. “4. De Luc” written on title, boards, uncut, Amsterdam, 1761; etc. ; sold not subject to return (11) Aretino (L.) Aquila Volante, some slight stains [2 Venice, 1508]; etc. ; sold not subject to return (3) Psalmista monasticum noviter impressum: cum antiphonis et orationibus commentarionum totius anni, finely printed in red and black, with many woodcuts in the teat, and manu- script additions at end, dark blue morocco, with blind tooling Florence, 1507
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