Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
4 May 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/640
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lot 62—continued. PASSIO DOMINI NOSTRI JESU... per fratrem Chelidonium collecta cum figuris Alberti Dureri Norici Pictoris, 12 woodcuts, THE FIRST AND ONLY COMPLETE EDITION OF THE GREAT PASSION, with Latin teat (ib. vol. I, p. 262), Impressum Nurnberge per Albertum Durer pictorem...1511; APOCALIPSIS CU FiGurRis, 16 woodcuts, the second edition of the Apocalypse, with Latin teat, Impressa denuo Nurnberge p. Albertum Durer pictorem...1511; together in 1 vol. BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS OF THE WOODCUTS, but small worm-holes throughout. The three works which Durer describes in his Netherlands journal as “ die grossen Bucher” were originally issued tn 1511, and this set has remained united from an early period, as is proved by an inscription on the fly-leaf : Norimbergae 15 Mati 1636 stilo vetert. In legatione ad Caesarem Ferdinandum Secundum. Virtutis laus Actio. Arundell and Surrey,” and another note on the same leaf ‘‘ This Book belonges to the Royal Society’s Library in Gresham Colledge April 9: 1703,” old half calf, joints cracked, VERY LARGE COPIES (17 in. by 122 in.) Solio [See I~LusTRATION. | 63 Erasmus (D.) Adagiorum chiliades tres, a few small worm-holes through some leaves at beginning, Pirckheimer’s book-plate engraved by Diirer on fly-leaf (slightly wormed), calf, Venice, Aldus, 1508 ; ete, folio. (2) 64 Erasmus (D.) Libellus novus et elegans de Puerisstatim ac liberaliter instituendis, a few small worm-holes, Basileae, 1529 ; Luciani Erasmo interprete Dialogi & alia emuncta... Quaedam etiam a Thoma Moro latina facta: & Quaedam ab eodem concinnata, wormed, in edibus Ascensianis, 1514; and another 4to. 65 Erasmus (D.) Apologia, refellens suspiciones ... D. Jacobi Latomi, title within border, small worm-holes [| Basle, J. Frobenius, 1519] ; Apologia Erasmi Roterodami, refellens quoridam seditiosos clamores apud populum, title within border, 7b. 1520; Antibar- barorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, title within border, 7b. 1520; Auctarium selectarum aliquot epistolarum Erasmi Roterodami ad eruditos, title within border, 7b. 1518; Erasmi Roterodami Blasphemiae et impietates per Jacobum Lopidem Stunicam nune primum propalatae, Romae, Ant. Bladus, 1522 ; Richardi Pacei...de Fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur liber, title within border, a few small worm-holes, Basileae, J. Frcben, 1517; and 3 others, in 1 vol. old half calf, binding broken 4to 66 Erasmus (D.) De duplici copia verborum ac rerum Comentarii duo. Krasmi de ratione studij, deque pueris instituendis Comentariolus, title within woodcut compartment, small worm-holes thxcugh some leaves, Basileae, J. Froben, 1521; D. Erasmi Roterodami opus de
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