Sales catalogue 341: William Ridler

Date:
November 1899
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/45/5
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 341: William Ridler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    126 ANCIENT CuHarters-—MaBILLON (Jo.) De RE DIPLOMATICA, cum Supplemento, et Indice Uni- versali, 2 vols in 1, folio, num. engraved plates of facsimiles of ANCIENT CHARTERS, FINE COPY, bright old gilt calf neat, £1 1ls6d Paris, 1709 In this valuable work will be found numerous Hcclesias- tical Documents. This copy cost late owner £4 14s 6d, see slip. 127 ANCIENT CUSTOMS—Grand Coustumter of the Country and Dutcuy of NorMaANDIE, with additions, &c., (in Ancient French), sm. folio, black letter, woodcut title with arms and many woodcut letters, FINE Copy, old brown calf very neat, RARE, £2 2s Rouen, 1539 A valuable and rare early work for its references to An- cient customs, full of interest to the ENGLISH COLLECTOR. 128 ANCIENT Funerat Monuments of Gr. Bri- TAIN and the Dissolved MONASTERIES, with ac- count of Eminent Persons interred, by John Weever, thick sm. folio, portrait and engraved front. by Cxcit, woodcuts of brasses, etc., FINE copy, calf gilt extra, gilt edges, £1 18s 1631 An extraordinary collection of Epitaphs and Church- yard inscriptions from the old Tombs of nearly every Church in England, many in verse and very curious. 129 ANCIENT Ivatian PoEts.—Poesei di Diversi Autori Antichi, 12 vols in 6, cr. 8vo, green mo- rocco super extra, Countess of BESSBOROUGH Crest in gold, gilt edges, PRETTY SET OF BOOKS, £1 1s 1817 130 ANCIENT MS.—Ovintm Opera, Fasti, de Arre AMANDI, Psittacus, de Annulo, de Aurora, de Sommo, et de Medicamine, thick sm. 4to, MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER, pp. 330, ina neat Italian hand, russia gilt extra, £1 18s etrea 1400 A most important MS. of Ovid. Appears to have cost late owner £8 18s 6d. 131 ANCIENT MS.—Hieronymus (8.) Regula, Svo, MANUSCRIPT, on 82 ll. of vellum beautifully written in small gothic letter, long lines, his- toriated initial on first leaf, containing portrait of the saint, original oak bds., FINE PRESERVA- TION, £2 2s Sac. XIII. 132 ANCIENT MSS. on GarDENING.—Precentiis (Petrus de) Ruralium Commodorum, tisri XII, thick folio’: Manuscript (512 pages), in double columns, painted capitals and ornamental pen letters, SPLENDID PRESERVATION, new half calf gilt extra, marb. edges, £3 3s circa 1400 Prescentius was one of the first writers on GARDENING, and several editions of this MSS. were printed before 1500. 133 ANCIENT Marstzs in the British Museum, Described by T. Combe, 3 vols in 1, royal 4to, LARGE PAPER, many beautiful plates, russia gilt edges. 93 (pub at £6 6s) 1812 134 ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY.—Images ou Pein- tures des deuxs Philostrates, Sophistes, Grecs, &c., mis en Francois, enrichis d’Arguments et Annotations, folio, very numerous large and beautiful plates in the style of CauLot, by Gaul- tier and DE LEU, half calf nt., 21s Paris, 1614 The prints are all beautiful impressions. 135 ANCIENT Myrnotocy.—Bryant’s (Jacob) MytHowoey, 3 vols, 4to, LARGE PAPER, many PROOF PLATES by Basire, with the MARLBOROUGH Gem, FINE copy, old calf nt., £1 Is 1774 Copies on large paper have sold Roxburghe £8 8s, White Knights £8 18s 6d. Stevenson £9 9s, Williams £13 13s. 136 ANCIENT MyrHotoaicat Prints.:—Marolles, Tableaux du Temple des Muses, folio, ORIGINAL Epirion, 84 beautiful plates of MyTHOLOGICAL Supsects, engraved by Bloemart; BRILLIANT PROOFS (with the original plate of suppressed subjects, Salmacis, dc.) FINE CoPY, bright old gilt calf nt., £1 8s Paris, 1655 The Philips copy sold for £5 5s. The plate of Salmacis is nearly always wanting. | 137 ANCIENT Pictrurrs. — Homeri [liados Picture antique ex Codice Mediolanensi Bibli- othecee Ambrosianze, Rome, 1835—VirRGIILI Pic- TURE ANTIQUA ex Codicibus Vaticanis, 7b. 1835, 2 vols in 1, folio, wpwards of 120 beautiful plates after the curious Uluminations of the sixth cen- tury (the earliest known) original bds., 18s 6d 138 ANCIENT PICTURES.—Virgilii Codicis An- tiquissimi Fragmenta et Picture et Bibliotheca ‘ Vaticana, folio, LARGE PAPER, 60 beautiful plates from pictures of the 10th Century, BRILLIANT PROOF IMPRESSIONS, FINE COPY, bright old gilt calf neat, £1 1s Rome, 1741 A most superb edition, beautifully executed; the en- gravings are of considerable importance for early Art. 1389 ANCIENT Poetry of Scotnanp, by, Davip Laine, thick sm. 4to, only 104 copies printed, half mor. neat, uncut, 15s Edinb., 1884 140 ANCIENT Popular and Romance Poetry of Scotland by Davip, Laine, with addition by John Small, thick sm. 4to, portraits and wood- cuts, cloth bds., neat, uncut, 10s 6d Hdin., 1885 141 ANCIENT PORCELAIN.—-David (F.) Anti- quities Etrusques et Romaines, avec leurs expli- cations par D’Hancarville, 5 vols, 8vo, with 300 beautiful plates in colowrs, FINE copy, French marb, calf extra, gilt edges, £2 153. Paris, 1787 Splendid work on Ancient Porcelain. Copies usually sell for £6 6s and more at sales. Hailstone copy £5 15s. 142 ANCIENT Porrery.—Birch (Sam., 5,4.) History of ANorENT Porrery, Egyptian, Assy- rian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, thick 8vo, BEST EDITION, many coloured plates and engrav- ings on text, cloth bds. very nt., 168 6d 1873 143 ANCIENT Sgats.—Nicolai (J.) Tractatus de Siglis Veterum, sm. 4to, cuts of seals, old. gilt calf nt., 5s 6d 3 1706 144 ANCIENT Sratuzs. — Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, 2 vols, roy. folio, several splendid portraits, and 320 large and fine plates of ANTIQUE STATUES, FINE COPY, vellum very neat, £2188 No date, about 1640 Copies of this book have sold for £20 and upwards. 145 ANCIENT VASES.—Hamittron (Sir, W.) Splendid Works on the Paintings on ANCIENT VASES, with descriptions in English and French, ORIGINAL EDITION, COMPLETE in 2 vols, thk. roy. folio, many hundrea’ splendid plates, old half TUssid, RARE, £1 10s 1791 A most elaborate work ou the subject, copies used for- merly to sell for £30 and uj»wards.—see BoHN. 146 ANCIENT Worsettes.—Romeyn de Hooghe, Hieroglyphica, thick -4to, portrait and very nu- merous large BRILLIANT PLATES, illustrating the WorsHIPS OF THE ANCIENTS, old calf nt., RARE, #1 13 Amst., 1744 These are some of the most extraordinary plates that Romeyn de Hooghe ever engraved. 147 ANGLL2Z.—Triveti (N.) Annales sex Regum Angliz, edidit A. Hall, 2’ vols, royal 8vo, LARGE PAPER, port. of Author,, Monk of 12th Century, calf gilt, nice old bookp late, 128 6d Oxford, 1719 Only 50 copies printed this; size. Heath’s copy £3 18s.
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