Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
10-11 May 1907
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/228
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    330 331 333 334 — 335 336 Shelvocke (Capt. G.) A Voyage round the World by way of the Great South Sea, performed in the years 1719-22, map and plates, old calf 8vo. J. Senese, etc. 1726 Shirley (Jas.) The Dukes Mistris, as presented by her Majesties Ser- vants at the Private House in Drury Lane, FIRST EDITION, -J/. Norton for A. Crook, half bound, date erased (1638)—Albumazar, a Comedy presented before the King’s Majesty at Cambridge, by the Gentlemen of Trinity Colledge (én 1614 by Tomkis), N. Okes, 1635—Suckling (Sir John) The Discontented Colonel, FIRST EDI- TION, L. G. for Francis Kagles-field, n. d.; the two last plays in 1 vol. half bound sm. 4to. (2) Sidney (Sir Philip) The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, now the ninth time published, with a two-fold Supplement, and a Sixth Book by R. B. title and neat leaf slightly defective, old calf Solio. J. Waterson and R. Young, 1638 Sidonius Apollinaris. Poema Aureum eiusdemq, Epistolae, cum Commentariis ; Nonius Marcellus; Varro de Lingua Latina, etc. (edita a Jo. B. Pio), EDITIO PRIMA, lit. rom. long lines, with signs. woodcut ornamental initials, half vellum sm. folio. Mediol. Uldericus Scizenzeler, 1498 Smith (John) Chronicon Rusticum-Commerciale; or Memoirs of Wool, etc. 2 vol. old calf 8v0o. T. Osborne, 1747 SPECULUM HUMANAE SALVATIONIS. German MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (51 Ul. 114 by 94 in.) Latin teat, written in flowing cursive characters by a German scribe, in double columns of 58 lines to the Prohemium and 25 below the figures; 192 REMARKABLE DRAWINGS IN WATER-COLOURS, with explanatory scrolls in black ink, modern boarded green velvet sm. folio. Sc. XV yx” A REMARKABLE VOLUME, ONE OF THE MS. PRECURSORS OF THE BLOCK-BOOK EDITIONS OF THE SPECULUM SALVATIONIS issued in the Low Countries in the XVth Century. It begins with the Prohemium and an alphabetical table occupying 5 pp. The draw- ings begin on the reverse of the third leaf with the Separation of Angels and Demons, the Creation of Adam and Eve, etc. and the figures end with the Coronation by Christ of the Virgin. On the reverse of the last leaf is a contemporary religious poem in German in rime, occupying 156 lines. THE DRAWINGS ARE VERY INTEREST- ING, especially from the point of view of costume and armour, many of the figures being clothed in coat armour with armorial bearings [See FACSIMILES]. The colours chiefly used are red, blue, purple, grey and brown. Some lines on the first page are illegible. Sponcir (Cav. Ottone) Historia delle Attioni de’ Re’ dell’ Ungaria, views, plans and portraits, vellum sm. 4to. Venet. L. Pittont, 1685 Stafford (Thos.) Pacata Hibernia. Ireland Appeased and Reduced, or a Historie of the late Warres of Ireland, etc. ORIGINAL EDITION, jine portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Lord Carew, and all the 17
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