Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/800
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Other Properties. FOLIO. 519 d21 gothic fetter, 322 11. (should be 327 1l.), wants title, first leaf of table, ff. 207, 208 (numbered 187, 188), and 323 (first leaf of De Sarmacia), but has the blank leaves 321 and 322 and the leaves 279-281 (numbered 259-261), blank except for head-lines and numerals, ff. 3-5, 203-206 (numbered 183-186), and 313, 314 (numbered 293, 294) supplied from a smaller copy, woodcuts, half calf, defec- tive [ Hain, *14508]|; sold not subject to return Nuremberg, J. Koberger, 12 July, 1493 [Tengler (Ulrich) | Layen Spiegel von rechtmassigen ordnun- gen in Burgerlichen und peinlichen regimenten, FIRST EDITION, gothic fetter, one double-page and 28 full-page woodcuts, a few corners mended, fore-margins of last five leaves strengthened, otherwise a good copy, boards Augsburg, Johann Otmar, 1509 Rolewinck (Werner) Fasciculus 'Temporune, gothic letter, 73 17. (should be 74 1l.), wants last leaf, woodcuts, small ink- stain on fol. 2, vellum [Redgrave, 52; Hain, *6935]| Venice, H. Ratdolt, 8 Sept. 1485 Boethius. Opera, part I only (part IT, 96 ll. containing “ De consolatione” and “ De scholarium disciplina,’ was pub- lished wn the previous year), gothic fetter, 256 l/. fol. 124 blank, woodcut diagrams, a few stains, vellum, loose | Hain, *3351; Proctor, *4517| Vemee, J. & G. de Gregorus, 18 Aug. 1492 ** The B. M. Cat. Inc. makes no mention of the blank leaf, which comes between the folios numbered 109 and 111. There appears to be no lacuna, as the De interpretatione ends on the previous leaf and the De dwisionibus begins on the next, and these are successive headings in the general title. The book will, however, be sold not subject to return in respect of this leaf. Ryd (V. A.) Catalogus Annorum et Principum, FIRST EDITION, woodcuts, wants g 3, stained, bound in a leaf a MS. chowr-book on vellum Berne, 1540
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