Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
2 July 1903
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/143
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    1175 Camden (W.) Britannia, by Gibson, 2 vol. portrait, maps, ge. old calf 1753 1176 Dart (J.) History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter’s, Westminster, 2 vol. numerous plates, TUSSI n. ad. 1177 Dart (J.) History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, numerous plates, russia 1726 1178 Thornton (W.) History of the Cities of London and Westminster, &c. plates, Hogg, n.d.— Universal History of Arts and Sciences, 2 vol. plates, 1745; &c. 5 vol. 1179 Spencer (N.) Complete English Traveller, numerous plates, 1772— Baker (Sir R.) Chronicle of the Kingsof England, imperfect, engraved title, 1674—Holy Bible, black letter, very imperfect, but with title to N. T.1602; &e. 7 vol. 1180 La Loubére (M. de) Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, maps, 1693—Blaize de Montluc (M.) The Commentaries of France, portrait, 1674, and a vol. of Tracts on the Popish Plot 3 vol. 1181 Martyrologium Usuardi Monachi, MANUSCRIPT ON VEL- LUM, written in fine large qothtc characters, in double columns, ornamented with a large number of fine initial letters, painted in red and blue, 126 pp. large margins, half calf SAC. XIII y Usuardus was a French monk who, under the patronage of Charles the Bold, composed a Martyrology which is very rare. He died about 877 A.D. - 1182 Themistius, Omnia Opera, paraphrases a Aphrodisiensis, Greecé, EDITIO PRINCEPS, woodcut initials, vellum, Duke of Sussex copy, Aldus, 1534—Bol (H.) Illustrations of the Months, the Creation, &c. 15 plates, half calf, 1585 (2 1183 Anselmus (Archiep.) Cantuariensis Liber qui Blusidariag dicitur, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 96 pp. finely written in neat gothte letters, in red and black, double columns, 27 lines, old vellum SZC. XIV 1184 Cicero (M. T.) Tusculanarum Questionum libri V, ejusdem Verrinarum Invectivarum Liber, fine manuscript of the 15th century in first-rate preservation, on VELLUM, with illuminated capital, calf *.* Manuscripts of these works of Cicero are of very rare occurrence, besides which this important Codex affords many valuable various readings. 1185 Gregory (St.) Libro de Morali-comincia La Pistola de Sancto Gregorio Papa sopra il Libro, De Morali Alex- andro Vescovo di Sibilia, 2 vol. old vellum (small portion of last leaf of vol. I made up in MS.) impresso nella dignissima cicta di Firenze per Nicholo di Lorenzo della Magna, 1486
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