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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    102 108 104 105 106 107 OSTEND.—Histoire remarquable et veritable de ce qui s’est passé par chacun iour au siege de la ville d’Ostende, de part & d’autre iusques a present. Contenant les assaults, allarmes, deffenses, inuentions de guerre, mines, contre- mines, & rentrenchement, combats de Galleres & rencontres Naualles, et ce qui s’est passé en Visle de Cadsandt & au siege de l’Escluse a l’arriuee du Comte Maurice. <A Paris, chez Jeremie Perier, 1604. 8vo, two leaves of ** au lecteur ”’ (A4 and 5) in photostat facsimile, but with the VERY RARE FOLDING PLAN, Cloth, £3 3s. The folding plan is wanting in the British Museum copy. OXLEY (John), Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18. London, 1820. 4to, 4 maps, 5 plates (2 COLOURED), library stamp on title, ORIGINAL half calf, uncut, £3 18s. PARKMAN (Francis), Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. France and England in North America. Boston, [Mass.] 1928. 8vo, with portrait, cloth, 5s. PASTON LETTERS. Original Letters, written during the Reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III. With Notes Historical and Explanatory; by John Fenn. London, 1840-1. 2 vols. in 1, sq. 8vo, with 4 portraits and woodcuts, cloth, 8s. PETTUS (Sir John), Fodinae Regales, Or the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales and the English Pale in Ireland. As also of the Mint and Mony. With a Clavis Explaining some difficult Words relating to Mines, etc. London, 1670. Folio, with brilliant impression of the portrait by W. Sherwin and engravings, contemporary blue morocco, panel sides, gilt back, gilt edges, £7 10s. Dedicated to Prince Rupert. PHAEDRUS. Fabularum AXsopiarum libri V. Nunc primum in lucem editi. Augustobone Tricassium, excudebat Jo. Odotius Typographus Regius. 1596. 12mo, First EDITION, red morocco gilt, £10 10s. This charming little volume, the First Epririon of Phedrus, was printed at Troyes, the native place of Frangois Pithou who had discovered the manuscript from which it was printed. It is of VERY GREAT RARITY.
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