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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    “SIZES 119 120 121 123 124 125 126 MIXED 28 Luther (M.) De servo arbitrio Mar. Lutheri ad D. Erasmum Rotero- damum, small worm-holes through some leaves, Wittenbergae, J. Lufft, 1525 ; Martini Lutheri epistolarum farrago, small worm- hole, Haganoae, J. Secer, 1525; Epistola Martini Lutheri ad Henricum VIII ... Responsio dicti... Regis, small worm-holes, margin of some leaves water-stained | Wittenberg 7], 1527; with another, in 1 vol. half morocco 8vo Luther (M.) Aliquot nomina propria Germanorum ad Priscam Etymologiam restituta, per quendam Antiquitatis studiosum, title within woodcut border, inscription on title said to be in the handwriting of Melanchthon “i.e. M. Luther,’ a small worm- hole throughout, unbound 4to. Wittembergae, Nic. Schirlentz, 1537 Maius (Junianus) De priscorum proprietate verborum, gothic letter, double columns { Hain, *10540; Proctor, *6483], capitals in red and blue, worm-holes through a few leaves at beginning and end, old calf, joints broken and back defective folio. Treviso, Bernard of Cologne, 1477 Maius (J.) De priscorum propriétate verborum, oman letter, 348 Zl. [ Hain, *10545], a few leaves at beginning and end stained at top, some other leaves slightly water-stained, worm-holes through some leaves, old half calf, joints cracked, Pirckheimer book-plate folio. Venice, Jo. Rubeus, 23 Feb. 1490 MALHERIO (PETRUS ALPHONSUS) Gesta proxime per Portugalenses in India: Ethiopia: & aliis orientalibus terris, 6 //. gothic letter, minute hole in the last leaf, some uncut edges, unbound 4to. Rome, Jo. Besicken, 7 Nov. 1506 qui s’ étaient passés quelques mois avant sa publication.” — Brunet. It is said by Graesse that TWO COPIES ONLY of this edition are known: one in the Grenville library and the other in the library of the Royal Society (this copy). There was another copy in the Huth collection. Mamardus (Jo.) Epistolae Medicinales in quibus multa recentionum errata et antiquorum decreta reserantur, unbound 4to. Ferrariae, Bernardinus do Odonino, 1521 Margaret of Navarre. L’Heptameron, old calf, binding broken, a Lyon, pour Loys Cloquemin, 1572; ete. 16mo. (2) Martial. Epigrammata (with the Commentary of Domitius Calderinus), roman letter |B. M. V. 317], large and small capitals and paragraph marks in red and blue, two or three small holes through the first leaf slightly affecting the text, small worm-holes through a few leaves at beginning and end, old calf, rebacked, book- plate of Bilibaldus Pirckheimer on fly-leaf Solio. Venice, Thomas de Blavis de Alexandria, 12 June, 1482
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