Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1939
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/49
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    91 HOLINSHED (R.) CHRONICLES of ENGLAND, IRELAND and SCOT-. LAND, newlie augmented and continued until 1586, by J. Hooker, &c., titles within fine ornamental borders, 3 vols, sisagi 18th century diced calf (joints repaired), 1586-87 | £20 Certain leaves of this edition were suppressed by order of the Privy Council. Several of the original leaves still exist in this copy, the others being replaced from the eighteenth century reprint. 92 HOLLAND AND SPAIN, 1599.—PROCLAMATION . . . of. the UNITED PROVINCES, whereby the Spaniards and all their goods are declared to be Lawful Prize . . . Restraint of sending Goods, Wares and Merchandizes to the Spaniards, Enemies of the Nether- lands, trans. from the Dutch, sm. 4to., Amp vellum, Imprinted by fF. Wolfe, 1599 : £5 i HOMER?’s ILIADS and ODYSSES, trans. by GEORGE CHAPMAN, en- graved title by W. Hole, with portrait of Chapman on verso, sm. folio, red morocco extra, gilt panelled sides, g.e., by Riviere, For N. Butter, N.D. [1616] : ' «£16 FINE TALL COPY. It contains the rare preliminary leaf, ‘“‘ To the Memory of Prince Henry,” but not the sub-titles to the Iliad and Odyssey. 94 HOMILIES. — CERTAINE SERMONS appointed by the QUEENES MaAIESTIE, to be declared and read, by all Parsons, Vicars and Curates . title within woodcut border, 8vo., calf, with clasps, 1587 £2 10s 95 HOOPER (j., Bishop of Gloucester) A DECLARATION of the X. HOLYE ~COMMANDEMENTS, title within woodcut border, sm. 8vo., morocco gilt, by Bedford, R. Fugge, 1550. £3 INCUNABULA. 96 ANSELMUS.—Opera, gothic letter, rubricated, 182 leaves, 2 columns, 45 lines and headlines, 4to., old boards (repaired), NUREM- BERG, CASPER HOCHFEDER, 1491 | £5 The first book from this press. 97 APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS (Caius Sollius) POEMA aureum et EPISTOLAE [edited by Jo. Bapt. Pius of Bologna], with fine woodcut initial letters, folio, vellum, Ulrich Scinzenzeler, Milan, 4th May, 1498 £8 This is the first dated edition of Apollinaris Sidonius. His poems are valued for the historical facts recorded in them and have been frequently reprinted. He died between 480 and 490.
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