Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
13-16 May 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/397
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    1429 Martinus Poblacion (J.) De usu astrolabi compendium, vom. letter, 14 Ul. long lines, title within woodcut border, orna- mental initials, diagrams, numerous MS. notes, slightly water-stained, boards 4to. Parisiis apud H. Stephanum, n. d. (c. 1519) 1430 Martyrolieaien quod et Viola Sanctorum inseribitur, lit. goth. 126 Ul. only (wants d1,10), long lines, 30 to a Full page, with signatures, but without Joliation or catch-words, many il. wormed, French marbled calf gilt, g. e. | Hain, #10866 ; not in Pr octor] folio. s.n. (Lugduni, Nicolaus Philippi and Marcus Reinhard, c. 1480) *,* Very rare ; one of the few books printed solely in the large type 2 of these printers. 1431 MARY QUEEN oF Scots. MARTYRE DE LA ROYNE D’ESCOSSE DOVAIRIERE DE FRANCE, contenant le vray discours des - traisons & elle faictes 4 la suscitation d’Elizabet Angloise . sont adioustees deux Oraisons funebres, et un livre de Poémes le tout sur le mesme subject, FINE COPY, blue levant morocco super extra, g. e. by F. Bedford 8vo. Anvers, Gaspar Hleysben, 1588 y»” VERY RARE; the last 100 pages are in verse. Inserted isa beautiful pen-and-ink portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, which ~ was found ina short letter relating to her written by Sir ty Walter Scott, which letter was sold some twenty years since “at Wellington St. for a large sum. Probably the portrait was drawn by Sir W. Scott. 1432 I Macer. Herbrarti varies q vis cognoscere vires Macer adest : -© — disce quo duce doct? eris, lit. goth. woodcut portrait of author on both sides of title leaf, woodcuts of plants in teat, wants last lea h small worm-hole at beginning, some stains, old boards sm. 8vo. s.n. (2 Paris, e. 1500) (1433) Matheolus Perusinus. Tractatus de Memoria, lit. goth. Lae, i” Phe iain part of this tract is printed in type 1 of E. Reu- ay. X wich, which is the same as SchoOffer’s type 8. 1434 Matienzo (Luys) Verdadera Relacion de la espantosa Lluuia de sangre que cayd en los campos de Villorado, y en Villa franca de los Motes de Oca, el dia de la Magdalena, este ao de mil y seiscientos y ocho, new vellum, padded with blanks (Huth copy) sm. 4to. [Colophon] Jmpressas con licencia, En Sala- manca, Hn casa de Antonia Ramér ez viuda. Afio 16(0)8 *,* Fourll. Inverse. Beneath the title is a woodcut of monks singing in choir, and above the colophon another of the Virgin and Child, in a nimbus and encircled by a rosary. The author is mentioned by Salva (no. 281) as a contributor
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