Sales catalogue 402: Maggs Bros

Date:
1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 402: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Italpy—Brescia. Boninus de Boninis.—A.D. 1483. 216 GELLIUS (Aulus). Noctes Atticae. ROMAN LETTER, 37 LONG LINES TO A FULL PAGE. CAPITAL SPACES. GREEK TYPE USED. Folio. Ov7iginal binding of oak boards covered with stamped leather (repaired). Brescia, Boninus de Boninis, 3rd March, 1485. £i2 12s Hain *7521. Pellechet 5012. Proctor 6958. Onty 5 Corims 1x U.S.A. (accorpine To CENsUs). Jacchus Britannicus.—A.D. 1485. THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED BY THIS PRINTER ALONE. 217 PHILELPHUS (Franciscus). : Epistolarum liber. ROMAN ‘LETTER, 44 LONG LINES TO A FULL PAGE. WITH INITIAL LETTER ON FIRST LEAF BEAUTIFULLY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLOURS, ILLUMINATED BORDER WITH A COAT OF ARMS AT BOTTOM OF SAME LEAF. INITIAL LETTERS SUPPLIED IN RED AND BLUE ALTERNATELY. Folio. Vellum, with Arms on side of Gomez de la Cortina. Brescia, Jacobus Britannicus, 7th May, 1485. £14 14s Hain *12933. Proctor 6976. With numerous contemporary MS. notes on margin and between the lines. OnLy 4 Copies 1x U.S.A. (ACCORDING TO CENSUS). 218 IMITATIO. De Imitatione Christi & contemptu mundi. ROMAN LETTER, 25 LONG LINES. TO. A-PULL: PAGE. CAPITAL SPACES, . WITH GUIDE-LETTERS. CAPITALS SUPPLIED IN RED AND BLUE. 8vo. Morocco. 3 Brescia, Jacobus Britannicus, 6th June, 1485. £18 18s Hain 9087 (without seeing it). Proctor 6978. De Backer 19. No Cory 1x U.S.A. (accorpine To CENSUS). 219 CORNELIUS NEPOS. | De vita illustrium virorum. ROMAN LETTER, 44 LONG LINES TO A FULL PAGE. WOODCUT INITIAL LETTERS. Foho. B8oards. Brescia, Jacobus Britannicus, 17th September, 1498. £7 10s Hain 5736 (without seeing it). Prector 7005. Pellechet 3986.
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