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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    362 THEVET (Andrew) The NEw FounpD WorRLDE, or ANTARCTIKE ; wherein is contained woderful and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as Beastes: Fishes, Fouies, Serpents, ‘Trees, Plants, Mines of Golde and Silver : garnished with many learned aucthorities . . ; trans. into Englishe ; wherein is reformed the errours of the auncient - Cosmographers, FIRST EDITION, title within type-metal border, sm. Ato., brown morocco gilt, g.e., by Hering, with Savile arms on sides; me rioins at London by Henrie Bynneman nom Thomas. Hacket, 1568 £140 THE RAREST OF ALL ENGLISH TRAVEL BOOKS. A LARGE COPY, measuring 6% by 5 inches. From the famous library of Rufford Abbey. Thevet, a Franciscan Friar, accompanied Villegagnon when the latter went out to establish a French colony on the coast of Brazil in 1555. He was there for a few months only, but in that time gained a considerable knowledge of the manners and customs of the natives. He knew personally all the. -. contemporary French navigators to Canada.and Brazil, and includes. their experiences in this work. THE ACCOUNT OF CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND OCCUPIES 28 PAGES, AND IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST PUBLISHED ABOUT THESE COUNTRIES. 363 TAYLOR (John, Water Poet) All the Workes of, beeing Sixty and three in number, FIRST EDITION, engraved title (slightly repaired), and 181 small woodcuts, sm. folio, original panelled calf (repaired); Printed byf. B. for ee Boler, 1630 £16 TRANSPORT. 364 ACKERMANN.—NINE ENGRAVINGS of HIGH CLASS CARRIAGES, BROUGHAMS, TRAPS, &c., oblong 4to., Af. morocco, 1816 f1 365 BOURN (Daniel) A TREATISE upon WHEEL CARRIAGES, shewing their Present Defects, with Folding Plan and Description of a New Constructed Waggon, 8vo., hf. roan, 1763 £1 5s 366 BOURN (Daniel) Some BRIEF REMARKS upon Mr. JACOB’s TREATISE -on WHEEL-CARRIAGES, 8vo., hf. roan, 1773 . £15s 367 BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—A Report of Mr. Grpps (Crvit EN- GINEER) upon the several proposed Lines for a BRIGHTON RAIL- WAY, with 2 very large folding plans and plate, second edition, 8vo., cl. [1835] | ‘aaa 18s
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