Sales catalogue 333: Ellis

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/33/19
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 333: Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PE 78 79 80 woodcut device of De Marnef.] [Fol. 2] Incipit liber primus Johannis gerson cancellarii parisiensis. De imitatione Christi & de contéptu oim vanitatum mundi. [Sequitur tractatus de meditatione cordis ab eodem M. iohanne de gersono.] [S. 1. et a, sed Paristis, circa 1490.] Sm. 8vo, Goruic LETTER, rubricated throughout, an extremely rare edition, dark blue morocco exira, gilt edges, £12 12s. Copinger, 3219; De Backer, 11; not in Proctor. IMITATION (L’) de Jesus-Christ. Diuiseé en 1111 Liures Fidelement traduits du Latin de Thomas a Kempis, Chanoine Regulier. Edition nouvelle, Soigneusement reueue & corrigée. A Paris, Del Imprimerie, & des nouveaux Caractheres de P. Moreau, tout contre la grande porte des Augusitins MDCXLIII [1643]. Sm. 8vo, with engravings pp. 48—46 in duplicate in place of pages 35-88 which are consequently wanting, contemporary French calf gilt, gilt edges, £2 2s. An excellent specimen of the new types of P. Moreau. JACOMBE (Thomas), Minister of Martins-Ludgate in the City of London. Enochs Walk and Change, opened ina Sermon at Lawrence-Jury in London, Feb. 7th. 1655. at the Funeral of the Rev. Richard Vines. With a short Account of his Life and Death. With some Elegies, etc. [in Verse] on his death [by Roger Drake, Peter Vinke, R. Wylde, Thomas Playre, etc.]| London, Printed by T. R. and E. M. for Ralph Smith, 1656. Sm. 4to, sewed, £2 10s. JUSTINUS. Trogi Pompeii Historiarum Philippicarum epitoma: ex Manuscriptis codicibus emendatior: & prologis auctior. In eandem note. Excerptiones Chrono- logice : et Variarum lectionum libellus. Parisiis, apud Dionysium du Val, sub Pegaso, in vico Bellowaco, 1581. 8vo, original calf, with the coronet and initials °° H.L.”’ in blind on sides, £2 2s. [KING (Peter), Lord Ockham]. The History of the Apostles Creed : with Critical Observations on its several articles. London, 1702. 8vo, First Epirion, contemporary calf, gilt panelled sides, gilt edges, £1 1s. The first attempt to trace the evolution of the creed ; it not only gave a great impulse to research, but deter- mined the main lines upon which it was to be conducted.
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