Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
30 January 1912
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/299
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    94 Pena et Lobelius. Stirpium Adversaria Nova ; another edition, engraved title and numerous cuts of plants, vellum folio. Londini, excudebat prelum Thomae Purfoetii, 1605 *,* PRESENTATION Copy to Jacob Gruter from M. Lobel, with his autograph inscription on the leaf after title. 95 Plantarum seu Stirpium Icones (ex Matth. Lobelio et R. Do- donaeo), wpwards of 2,000 woodcut figures of plants, with a Italian, Spanish and English, vellum, RARE 96 Plinius Historiae Naturalis libri XX XVII aptissimis figuris exculti ab Alexandro Benedicto Ve. Physico emendatiores redditi (nune primum recognitus), lit. rom. title in large red and black gothic, with Sessa’s device of cat and mouse, numerous fine woodcuts (by Zoan Andrea) and many hundred ornamental woodcut initials, vellum Jolio. Venetits, Melchior Sessa, 1513 97 Plinius. The Historie of the World, commonly called The Naturall Historie, translated into English by Philemon Hol- land, Doctor in Physicke, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol. in 1, old calf, plain edges, good copy folio. printed by Adam Islip, 1601 98 Porta (J. B.) Phytognomonica, Octo libris Contenta, title within woodcut border, with portrait on reverse, and numerous wood- cuts of plants, etc. and ornamental woodcut initials, vellum folio. Neapoli, H. Salviani, 1588 99 Pritzel (G. A.) Thesaurus Literaturae Botanicae Omnium Gen- tium, calf (broken), Lipsiae, Brockhaus, 1851—C. Bauhini Theatri Botanici, old calf, Basil. 1671—Velschius (G. H.) __ Exercitatio de Vena Medinensi, plates, vellum, Aug. Vind. WY 1674—Licetus (Fr.) De Motu Sanguinis, etc. old calf, Utini, 1647 sm. 4to. (4) 100 Proeclus. Sphaera. Astronomiam Nomiam incipientibus utilis- sima Thom. Linacro Britanno interprete (10 di.) Viennae, ' Pannoniae, H. Victor, etc. 1511—Fragments of Two Old Black Letter German Medical Books with Woodcuts [15—] —Stephanus (C.) De Re Hortensi Libellus, calf, Trecis Nic. Paris. 1542 (sold not subject to return) (4) 101 Rea (John) Flora, Ceres and Pomona: or a Complete Florilege, furnished with all Requisites belonging to a Florist, the second impression, corrected, LARGE PAPER, engraved title and plates of garden plots, old calf (rebacked) Jolio. T.N. for George Marriott, near the inner Temple, 1676 102) Renealmus Blaesensis (Doctor Paulus) Specimen Historiae Plan- tarum, Gr. et Lat. fine full-page copperplate engravings of plants, the English names written below each plate, limp vellum 4to. Paris. Hadrian Beys, 1611 103 Rondeletius (Gulielmus) Libri de Piscibus Marinis, in quibus Verae Piscium effigies expressae sunt, EDITIO PRIMA, nwme- rous woodcuts of fishes, etc. 2 vol. in 1, old calf, r. e. folio. Lugd. M. Bonhomme, 1554-5
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