Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1908
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/246
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    The Property of a Gentleman. OCTAVO. Lot 288. = |RAYER (The Booke of Common) ete. roman letter, woodcut Bl} title. R. Barker & Assignes of John Bill 1632—Novum Testamentum Graecum. (Numerous old MS. notes) (wants title) n. d. (ib.).—Whole Book of Psalmes in English Meeter by Sternhold and Hopkins etc., with apt notes, Stat. Co. 1632; in 1 Vol., original mottled vellum binding with gilt line panels and corner and centre floreate ornaments, probably LirrtE GippING binding. 289 Herbert (George) The Temple ; Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. The Third Edition (no portrait), TALL copy, in original brown morocco, with gilt tooled line panels and corner and centre floreate ornaments g. e., probably LirrLe Gippine binding Cambridge, Buck and Daniell, 1634 290 Lessius (L.) Hygiasticon; or the right course of preserving Life and Health into extreme Old Age; now done into English; the second edition, original brown morocco, blind stamped with series of stars within oval lines g. e., perhaps by the LittLeE Gippine Binders Printed by the Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1634 291 Wakefield (Gilbert) Correspondence with C. J. Fox 1796-1801 on Classical Literature, brown calf, gilt, inlaid back and sides, m. e. . Cadell & Davies, 1813 292 [Manning (Edward)] Ashrea ; or the Grove of Beatitudes, represented in Emblemes ; and by the Art of Memory to be read on our Blessed Saviour Crucified etc. 8 emblematic plates of trees, Signature of Thos. Park on title (title mounted, last leaf backed ; corner of D2 defective) new brown morocco, scarce printed for W. P. at Grayes-Inn Gate in Holborne, 1665 293 Indulgence. An Indulgence probably printed by Wynkyn de Worde ; a single woodcut leaf, with black letter text, a crucifix in centre with a border of crucifixion details (5 xX 3 in.). “To al thé Y* devoutly say V.' Pr. Nr. V. Aves & a Crede afor such a fig” ar granted XXXII. M. VII. C. LV. Yés of P®.” ete. Top corner slightly defective, mounted on white paper, bound in a red morocco volume filled with blanks, extremely rare, if not unique [Wynkyn de Worde, 1507]
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