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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    94, 95 96 97 98 MARGUERITE DE VALOIS. L’Heptameron ou His- toires des Amans fortunez des nouvelles de tres-Illustre & tres-Excellente Princesse Marguerite de Valois, Royne de Navarre. NRemis en son vray ordre, confus auparauant en sa premiere Impression. Par Claude Gruget, Parisien. Sus ’VImprimé a Paris, par Jacques Bessin. 1615. 12mo, original limp vellum, £5 10s. MARTIN (M.), A Late Voyage to St. Kilda, the Remotest of all the Hebrides, or Western Isles of Scotland. London, Printed for D. Brown and T. Goodwin, 1698. Sm. 8vo, First EDITION, with map and plate of birds, one leaf (pp. 137-8) slightly defective, contemporary sheep, £1 10s. MARTIN (Richard), A Speach delivered to the King’s most excellent majestie in the name of the Sheriffes of London and Middlesex. At London, Imprinted for Thomas Thorppe, 1608. Sm. 4to, half morocco, £7 10s. This Address to King James I on his accession was delivered by Martin, who was Recorder of London, at Stamford Hill, during the royal progress from Theobalds to London. MASSORILLUS (Laurentius), Aureum Sacrorum Hym- norum Opus. Impressum Fulginie per Iohannem Simonem & Vincentium Cantagallos Fulginates, 1547. Sm. 4to, printed in italic, woodcut of the Crucifixion on the title-page, fine copy, original limp vellum, £4 4s. The author was a Franciscan friar of Foligno, and the volume was printed at that city in a very remarkable italic type. Cotton, in his Typographical Gazetteer, says: ‘‘ The art [of printing] however was but sparingly carried on at Foligno; very few of its books remain to us: and after the year 1479 we hear no more of the presses or productions of this town.”’ Brunet was also ignorant of this revival of printing at Foligno. MILTON (John), An Apology against a Pamphlet call’d a Modest Confutation of the Animadversions upon the Remonstrant against Smectymnuus. London, printed by E. G. for John Rothwell, 1642. Sm. 4to, First Epirion, with old MS. notes, and the names of the Smectymnuan divines on the title-page, EXCESSIVELY RARE, half blue morocco, gilt edges, £8 8s. One of Milton‘s earliest publications, being his final contribution to the controversy with Bp. Hall on Epis- copacy.
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