Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1906
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/207
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lot 64—continued. without marks (82 Ul. the last 4 on paper of a different make), 29 REMARKABLE WooDcuUTS of Sibyls, etc. in rude outline, old calf sm. 4to. “ Finit Donatus Theologus. impressum Ro. An. dni MCOCCCLXXXI.” *,* EXTREMELY RARE and important for the early woodcuts, which partake of the xylographic character. [Jnglis copy]. 65 Bardi (Giovanno di) Discorso sopra il Giuoco del Calcio Fiorentino del Puero Accademico Alterato al Gran Duca di Toscana, double-page metal engraving of the game in progress, calf gilt sm. 4to. Firenze nella stamperia de’ Giunti, 1580 *,* EXTREMELY RARE; the most ancient edition of this Treatise on the Game of Football as played by the Florentines in the 16th century. The engraving at the end shows the game in progress in a wide court within palaces, the positions of the players being shown by numbers. 66 Bartholinus Anatomy; made from the Precepts of his Father, etc. in Four Books and Four Manuals, being part of the First Volume of the Physitians Library published by N. Culpepper & Abdiah Cole, copperplate engravings, old calf (rebacked) sm. folio. P. Cole, 1663 67 Bartholomeo di Paxi da Venetia. Tariffa de Pexi e Mesure, con Gratia et Privilegio [on A iz].. Opera Chiamata Taripha, la qual tracta de ogni sorte de Pexi e Misure correspondenti per tuto il mondo, fata e composta per Miser Bartholomeo di Paxi da Venetia, EDIZIONE ORIGINALE (title mended), modern red morocco extra, VERY RARE sm. 4to stampato in Venesia per Albertin de Lisona Vercellese, 1503 68 Baudartius (Guilhelmo) Polemographia Auraico-Belgica, 259 fine copper- plate views of cities, portraits, plans of battles, ke. fine impressions, 2 vol. in 1, vellum (Duke of Sussex’s ex-libris) obl. Ato. Amst. S. Colin. 1622-3 69 Beccatelle (Ant.) Antonii Panhormite Familiarum Liber Incipit.” Ut. rom. 80 Ul. long lines, 33, 34 and 35 to a page, without marks, (wants the first leaf containing the preface), half russia, good copy sm. folio. absque ulla nota (sed Neapoli Sixtus Riessinger c. 1478] 70 .BeHam (Hans Sebald) Typi in Apocalypsi Joannis depicti ut clarius Vaticinia Joannis intelligi possuit, HSB. cut on title, and 26 fine cuts in the teat, brilliant impressions, brown morocco plain, g. e. large and good copy, RARE sm. 4to. Francof. C. Hgenolph, 1539 71 [Beham(H-S.)] Das Bapstum, mit seinen gliedern gemalet und beschrieben, fit. goth. 38 UZ. (with a letter of Martin Luther at end dated 1526), 67 fine spirited woodcuts of heads of Religious Orders, unbound, fine clean copy |see Passavant IV, 79], VERY RARE 12mo0. Waitteberg, 1563 72 Belial. Cy Comence le Proces de belial a lencontre de Jhesus. Processus Luciferi contra Jhesum, MODERN MANUSCRIPT TRANSLATION 7nto English of the printed French edition of Lyons, 1482, with a SUPPLEMENT, 363 pp. neatly written, with 2 facsimile drawings, half calf | | XIX CENT.
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