Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/425
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    713 714 715 716 Mayer (Luigi) Views in the Ottoman Dominions, in Europe, in Asia, and some of the Mediterranean Islands, coloured plates, morocco (rubbed), 1810 ; ete. - (2) Holkot (Robert) Opus super sapientiam Salamonis, lit. goth. double columns, 58 lines to a page (228 Ul.), rubricated, capitals in red and blue [Hain, *8758 ; Proctor, 7853], original binding of leather over oak boards stamped in blind divided by diagonal intersecting three line fillets, the com- partments impressed with stamp of lamb and crucifix, acorns and fleurs-de-lys (back damaged) Impressum est Basilee (Johann of Amor bach), 1489 *.* Robert Holkot was an English Dominican born in Nor- thamptonshire. Axrsop. Vita [ET FABULAE| ere fabulatoris thee ted ¢ e greco latina per Rimicium facta, Itt. goth. dong lines, 42 to a page, 112 Ul. (should be 114), [not in Hain ; Proctor, *387 ; Pelle- —* chet, 196], 190 remarkable woodcuts (coloured), small holes slightly affecting teat mended in some leaves, brown levant morocco, tooling in blind on sides no place, printer or date (Strassburg, H. Knoblochtzer, circa 1481- 9) *,* COLLATION : a—o in eights al s1xes alternately (wanting al and a8), p—q in eights. Diomedes. De Arte Grammatica opus, etc. roman letter, with some Greek, long lines, 46 to a page, 84 ll. | Hain, 6218; not in Proctor), small wormholes throughout, woodcut border white on a black ground, enclosing a woodcut within a similar border on recto of second leaf, old wooden boards, calf back Venice (Theodorus de Ragazonibus), 10 March, 1494 Vicyana (Martin de) Libro tercero dela Chronyca dela inclita y coronada ciudad de Valencia y de su reyno, lit. goth. large armorial woodcut on title and numerous smaller woodcuts in teat, title and several Ul. very slightly defective, chiefly owing to wormholes, and neatly mended, crushed red morocco, line panel tooling on sides, panel back, g.e. by F. Bedford Valencia, 1564 Longinus (D.) De Sublimitate (Gr cece et Latine), LARGE PAPER, with the preface from the printer to Pius VI which was suppressed in many copies, red morocco, gilt border round * . sides, g.e. green silk end-flaps, with Beaufoy book-plate Parmae, typis Bodonianis, 1793 Tasso (Torquato) La Gerusalemme liberata, 2 vol. LARGE PAPER, red morocco, gilt border round sides, g. é. Breen silk end- flaps, with Beaufoy book-plate Parmae, co tipi Bodoniani, 1794 Aristotle. Opera (Graded) nune primum instaurata atque restituta per Des. Erasmum Roterodamum, 2 vol. in 1, title to vol. Lf mended, crushed red morocco, panel tooling formed by three-line fillet on sides, panel back, g.e. Basileae, per lo. Beb. et Mich. Ising. 1539
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