Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/693
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Ov 578 580 581 582 583 LatHam (Simon) Lataams Fantconry or The Faulcons Lure, and Cure : in two bookes ([A], a, , B-v 2 in fours), FIRST EDITION, woodcuts on title and 4, cancel leaf at «3, wants [A] 1, probably blank, a few catch-words, signatures and top-rules shaved, pp. 100-1 cut into at foot, Printed at London for Roger Lackson ... 1614; Lathams New and Second Booke of Falconry (4 ll. unsigned, first blank; a, a, B-V im fours), FIRST EDITION, two titles, first within border of ten wood blocks (one repeated in second title, others in the text), larger cut on pp. 80,93, making 45 impressions of 11 cuts, one top-rule ond one border-rule on first title shaved, top outer corner of last leaf mended, otherwise a good copy, At London, Printed by I.B. for Roger Iackson ... 1618; bound together, old -sprinkled calf, joints renewed * The original edition of Lathams Falconry is EXCEEDINGLY RARE; the Britwell copy sold in these rooms in April, 1925, appears to be the only other recorded. Like this copy, it lacked the blank leat before title. Luther (Martin) A Commentarie vpon the fifteene psalmes, called ... Psalmes of Degrees... Translated... by Henry Bvll (A-x3 in eights), FIRST EDITION, Slack fetter, old stamped calf London, Printed by Richard Field... 1615 [Milton (John)| Tetrachordon : Expositions vpon ... Mari- age, or nullities in Mariage, FIRST EDITION, catch-word touched on a4, small stains on p. 49, half calf 1645 Ussher (James) A Discourse of the Religion Anciently pro- fessed by the Irish and British (4, 4 U/.; *, 4 1/.; B-K4 in eights), FIRST LONDON EDITION, corner torn from title affecting rules, boards London, Printed by R. V. for the Partners of the Irish Stocke. 1631 Watts (William) Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, 84 plates, straight-grained blue morocco gilt, rubbed, g. e. oblong [1779-86 | FOLIO. Bacon (Francis) Resuscitatio, portrait, sheep 1657 **Tnseribed on title “ Emptum per me Bostel of Achinleck, 1664.” Browne (Sir Thomas) Pseudodoxia Hpidemica, FIRST EDI- rion, old calf, rebacked 1646
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