Sales catalogue 528: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/83
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 528: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Latin—continued. Theophylactus—continued. Canones Apostolorum. Mainz, Jo. Schoeffer, 1525. (Bound together). Folio, boards, calf back, with the Pirckheimer bookplate by Diuirer. £65 Both items are presentation copies to Bilibald Pirkheimer. The first one from Cratander, the printer, with inscription: ‘‘D. Bilibaldo Pyrckheimero dfio atque Patrono suo, And. Cratander D.D.’”? The second one, possibly from J. Schoeffer, the printer, with inscription: ‘‘Dno Bilibaldo Pirckheymer senator Patricio, Nurnberg.”’ HORATIA NELSON’S COPY. o4 [NELSON.| [Raphael.| Descrizzione delle imagini dipinte da Rafaelle d’ Urbino nelie Camere del Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano. Di Cio. Pietro Bellori. With engraved vignettes and ornamental capitals. Folio, old vellum. Rome, Gto. Giacomo Komarck, 1605. 18s The title bears the autograph of Horatia Nelson Ward, the daughter of Nelson and Lady Hamilton. LADY HAMILTON’S Copy. 95 ———— [Pliny.] Caji Plinii Caecilii secundi Panegyricus, cum notis integris . . ~- Gurante Joanne Amtzenic. With engraved frontispiece. Ato, old vellum with blind-stamped fleurons on sides. Amsterdam, Jansson Waesberg, 1738. £6 10s An interesting copy, bearing the signatures of Lady Hamilton and her daughter, Horatia Nelson Ward. 96 [NETHERLANDS.| Bombarist (Lawrens). Apyil-Kaart of Kaart Spel, van Momus, naar de Nieuwste Mode. Comblete set of 52 engraved playing cards with title and extra plate. I2mo, crimson morocco, gilt lines on sides, gilt fleurons im corners, full gilt back, woe: (Holland), Cot 726. £10 10s The playing cards were designed to caricature Law’s famous Mississipi Scheme.
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