Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/711
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lor 536—continued. Bautista Bidello. Ano 1610. Con licencia de Superiores, y Previlegro Milan, 1610 * The first edition printed in Italy, and the first which, in place of the usual Dedication to the Duc de Bejar by Cervantes, has a Dedication, by the publishers, to the Conde Vitaliano Vizconde. 537 Rabelais (F.) Works, translated by Urquhart and Motteux revised by Mr. Ozell, 5 vol. portraits and plates, old calf; sold not subject to return 1750 5388 SaxeEy (SAMUEL) A STRAUNGE AND WONDERFULL EXAMPLE OF THE IUDGEMENT OF ALMIGHTY GoD, shewed vpon two adulterous persons in London, in the parish of 8S. Brydes, in Fleetestreete, this thirde of Februarie. 1583. Set forth for a memorable Example before our eyes, both to make vs remember the frailty of this life, and to call vs vnto repentance, Sfach fetter, a small hole through the first nine leaves reparred, slightly affecting the text, slightly stained at end, unbound, in cloth case @ Imprinted at London, in Fleetestreate, beneath the Conduite, at the signe of 8S. Iohn Euangelist, by Hf. Jackson. (1583) ** ONLY ONE COPY IS RECORDED IN THE SHORT-TITLE CATALOGUE (Britwell, now in the hbrary of Sir R. L. Harmsworth). 539 Exyor (Sir T.) @ The Banket of Sapience gathered oute of dyuers and many godlye authoures ... Newly augmented and somewhat waterstaned, margins cut affecting some marginal notes, calf; sold not subject to return @. Imprynted at London by Jhon Wally, dwelling in Foster lane. (London, John Walley, 1557) ** Not in the Short Title Catalogue, and apparently the only copy known. 540 Raleigh (Sir W.) The Life and Death of Mahomet, The Conquest of Spaine, Together with the Rysing and Ruine of the Sarazen Empire, FIRST EDITION, original calf 12mo. London, Printed by hk. H. for Daniel Frere, and are to be sold at the red-Bull wm little-Brittain. Anno Dom. 1637 541 JamesI. The Psalmes Of King David Translated by King James, FIRST EDITION, engraved title, with portrait of the King, by William Marshall, original calf gilt Oxford, Printed by William Turner Printer to the famous Uniwersity, MDOXXXI *%* This copy contains Marshall’s rare engraving of the Royal Arms. It also contains Charles I’s Proclamation, engraved by G £46
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