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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    103 104 105 106 107 83, MARYLEBONE HIGH STREET, LONDON, W.1. 17 INCUNABULA—continued. PETRUS LOMBARDUS.—TExtus SENTENTIARUM, prinied in double columns, large initials painted in red, folio, contemporary binding of stamped calf over wooden boards, the title, “‘ Textus sententiaru,” lettered at top of front cover, Nicolaus Kesler, Basil, 1492 £8 10s Not in British Museum. With the blank T6. Early work with a title-page, in an interesting early binding, which also bears the title. [ROLEWINCK (Werner)] FascicuLus TEMPORUM, FIRST EDITION, in red or blue, and WOODCUT VIEWS IN CONTEMPORARY COLOURS BY THE ORIGINAL ILLUMINATOR, sm. folio, 18th century calf, gilt back, FINE COPY, COLOGNE, ARNOLD THER HOERNEN, 1474 £48 THE EARLIEST OF THE FOUR ISSUES OF THIS CELEBRATED CHRONICLE, having the table on eight leaves and no woodcuts of Cologne and the Crucifixion. Later issues have these cuts stamped in by hand, and in the third and fourth, a table on ten leaves with additions and corrections is substituted for the eight leaf table. In the last issue a continuation to 1477 is printed on the verso of the last leaf. The woodcuts include views of Rome, Treves, the Tower of Babel, the Ark, &c. Hain 6918 3; Proctor 935. LIVY (T.) The ROMANE HisTorIE ; also the Breviaries of L. Florus, with a Chronologie to the Whole Historie, trans. by PHILEMON HOLLAND, FIRST EDITION, woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth on back of title, folio, contemporary calf, Printed by Adam Islip, 1600 £7 10s LONDON APPRENTICES, The Honour of : LONDON APPREN- TICES EXEMPLIFIED, in a Brief Historical Narration, containing many Heroicall Actions done by . . . sm. 4to., hf. calf, Printed by B. A., LONDON.—[Forp (Dr. Simon)}] LoNpDINI quod RELIQUUM, or Londons Remains [in Latin Elegiacs, with English Translation]— Actio in Londini Incendarios [in Latin Hexameters only], FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to., calf, Printed for Sa: Gellibrand, 1667 £1 10s “Poems relating to the late dreadful Destruction of the City of London by yk
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