Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
14-16 December 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/977
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    186 Mallet (David) Alfred: A Masque, FIRST EDITION of the revised version, contains the Advertisement relative to the authorship of “Rule Britannia,” wrappers, UNCUT 1751 187 Voltaire. Original Pieces relative to the Trial and Execution of Mr. John Calas, Merchant at Toulouse, who was broke on the wheel in that City, for the supposd murder of his Eldest Son to prevent his turning Roman Catholic, calf extra, UNCUT Jor T. Becket and P. A, de Hondt, 1762 *,* The Unrecorded First English Edition. | Printed in the same year as the French Edition published at Geneva. The French text is printed opposite. 188 Ovid. Metamorphoses en Rondeaux Imprimez et Enrichis de Figures per Ordre de sa Majesté (translated by Isaac Benserade), engraved title after Le Brun by Le Clerc and vignettes by Chauveau, green morocco extra, g. é. 4to. Paris [Imprimerie Royale, 1676 *,.* With three of the Drawings by Francois Chauveau, for the vignettes at pp, 114, 124 and 176. A COLLECTION or PUBLICATIONS or THE ALDINE PRESS, 1497-1598. 189 Ursanus (Bouzanius) Institutiones Graecae grammatices, roman letter, 214 ll. contemporary vellum, [Hain, *2763; Proctor, 5554] sm. 4to. January, 1497 ** FIRST EDITION of the first Greek grammar with the rules written in Latin. 190 Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, [Opera], FIRST ALDINE EDITION, old red Morocco g.e. 8vo. January, 1502 191 Ovid. Metamorphoseon Libri XV, FIRST ALDINE EDITION, 18th Century red straight-grainéd morocco, 9. @. 8vo. October, 1502 192 Statius. Statii Sylvarum Libri V, Thebaidos Libri XII, Achilleidos duo, FIRST ALDINE EDITION, 18th Century French yellow morocco gilt, g. é. 8v0o. August, 1502 193 Xenophon. Xenophontis omissa: quae & graeca gesta appellantur, ete. FIRST ALDINE EDITION, 18th Century red morocco gilt, 9. e. folio. 1503 194 Bessarion (Cardinal) In calumniatorem Platonis, ete. roman and greek letter, contemporary vellum folio. 1503 195 Augurellus (Aurelius) Poemata, old green morocco gilt, g. e. with book- plate of Duke of Sussex 8vo. 1505
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