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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    Srance—Strassburg, Johann [Reinhard] Criininger—coxz:nued. SERMONES—continued. SERMON. CAPITALS, INITIAL-STROKES AND PARAGRAPH-MARKS SUPPLIED IN RED. 3 + Folio. Vellum. Strassburg, Johann [Reinhard] Griininger, 31st March, 1489. £7 78 Not in Hain. British Museum Catalogue, vol. 1, pp. 105-6. Proctor 453. (No title-page.) ONLY 1 Copy 1x U.S.A. (accorDING TO CENSUs). WITH ONE OF THE EARLIEST FIFTEENTH CENTURY BOOK- PLATES - KNOWN. 63 BITONTO (Antonius de), a Franciscan. Sermcnes dominicales per totum annum, cum suis concordantiis veteris et novi testamenti jurisque cancnici in marginibus inserte. Black Letter, DOUBLE COLUMNS, 35-LINES AND HEAD-LINE TO A FULL PAGE. CAPITAL SPACES. CAPITALS, INITIAL-STROKES AND PARAGRAPH- MARKS. SUPPLIED IN_ RED. . Small 8vo. Ov7zginal fifteenth century binding of oak boards covered with leather, bearing a prettily stamped design. Old pigskin back, one clasp. Strassburg, Johann [Reinhard] Griininger, 25th January, 1496. b) . (SEE ILLUSTRATION OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY OWNER’S EX-LIBRIS, PEATE No. X.). £35 WITH THE ORIGINAL FIFTEENTH CSNTURY COLOURED WOODCUT BOOKPLATE OF THE CARTHUSIAN BIBLIO- PHILE, HiLPRAND BRANDENBURG OF BUXHEIM, PASTED INSIDE FRONT COVER AND A_ SIX-LINE FIFTEEENTH CENTURY MS. INSCRIPTION ATTESTING THE PRESENTATION TO THE BuxHEmt CHARTER~ HOUSE FROM HiLpRAND BRANDENBURG. Hain *4219. Proctor 467.. No copy in the British Museum Library. Onty 1 Copy OF THIS PRETTY LITTLE INCUNABLE IN U.S.A. (AccorDING TO CENSUS). 64 VORACGINE (Jacobus de). Lombardica historia, sive Aurea Legenda Sanctorum Black Letter, DOUBLE COLUMNS, 44 LINES AND HEAD-LINE TO A FULL PAGE. CAPITAL SPACES, WITH GUIDE-LETTERS. THE HEAD-LINES GIVE THE NAMES OF THE SAINTS AND THE FOLIATION. 4to. Original fifteenth century binding of oak boards covered with stamped leather (rebacked). Strassburg (Johann [Reinhard] Griininger), 1496. £10 10s With a very early French woodcut of the Descent from the Cross pasted on verso of title, with the words, ‘“‘ Nostre Dame de Pitié.’”’ With the last blank leaf which is wanting in the British Museum copy. This is No. 60 in Pellechet’s Jaques de Voragine, Liste des éditions de ses oeuvres g publiés au XV. siécle. Not in Hain. British Museum Catalogue, vol. 1, p.111. Proctor 476 A. Copinger 6466.
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