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Credit: Sales catalogue 332: William Ridler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![330 SPEED’s Old Map of DuruHam, with View of Durham, 2 ft. sq., curious old map, 3s 6d 1610 3381 DYING SPEECHES and Behaviour of State Prisoners, MARY Q. OF Scots, Sir W. RALEIGH, Laup, Charles /., the Regicides, &c., thick 8vo, FINE copy, old calf nt., 6s 6d 1720 332 EARLY CHRONICLES of Scorntanp.— Fordum, (Johannis de) ScoTicHRONICON, cum Supplemento edidit THos, HEARNE, 5 vols, roy. 8vo, LarGE PAPER, plates and cuts of seals, FINE Cory, bright old gilt calf nt., £1 8s 1722 { JOnly 50 copies printed. Willet’s copy sold for £12 12s— Duke of Grafton’s £15 15s. Roxburghe £16 5s 6d. 333 EARLY EneuisH Portry.—Hayward (Thos.) British Muse, or a Collection of our ENGLISH Poets of the 16th and. 17th Century, alphabe- tically digested, 3 vols, 12mo, brown calf nt., 6s 6d 1738 334 EARLY Merricat TAtLgzs, including the His- tory of Sir Egeir, Sir Gryme and Sir Gray-Steill (with Preface and Notes by D. Larne), stout sm. 8vo, front. by U. K. Sharpe, portrait of the Earl of Eglinton (only 175 copies printed) antique calf extra, 16s Edinb., 1826 335 EARLY Printing and Wood Engraving.— Sotheby (S. Leigh) Specimens of the PRINcIPIA TYPoGRAPHICA, many large plates of facsimiles of the BLockK Books ia colours, etc.—Remarks on the Paper Marks in the Earty Biock Books, and in the Books printed by WILLIAM Caxton, the first English Printer, ILLUSTRATED with nu- merous. curious plates and cuts, 1858—Summary of the Contents of the Principia Typographica, 1858, 3 vols in 1, thick folio, half green morocco extra, gut top edges, uncut, £2 2s 1858 These were not printed for sale. Usually sell together from 8 to 10 pounds. 336 EARLY Printine. — $salmorum — Exposi- tionum libri Psalmorum, per sacre ecclesiz Hieronymum, Augustinum, ac Cassiodorum, sm. folio, printed in a large bold gotftc letter, folio 1, with ornamental border, folio 2, beautiful WOODCUT ORNAMENTAL BORDER down the page, with very large Capital letter (little stained) half brown morocco extra, gut top edges, VERY RaRE. £2 28 [ Augsburg, G. ZAINER, 1468—70] THIS 18 ONE OF THE FIRST OF THE AUGSBURG Books BY ITS First PRINTER, the woodcut border on vol 2 is very fine, and perhaps the first. border in a book printed. I cannot find the work noted in any Bibliographical work I have referred to. 337 EARLY Printinc.—Duns Scott (Joannis, Native of DunsE in Berwickshiae) Scriptum in quat Libros Sententiarum, stout sm. folio, black Jetter, VERY LARGE COPY, with rough leaves, bds., from the MAKELLAR LIBRARY, RARE, £1 8s Venet., J. DE COLONIA ET J. MANTHEN, 1477 A brilliant specimen of these early printers on paper like vellum, see also Dibdin’s Spencer Catalogue. 3388 EARLY Printinc.—Turrecremata (J. de) Expositio Brevis et Utilio super toto Psalterio, thick sm. folio, Slack dLeiter, VERY LARGE COPY, with rough leaves, the margins slightly stained, but it would cut of in binding, bds., AN EDITION OF VERY GREAT RARITY, £2 18s Mogunt.. PER P. SCHOYFFER (with device), 1478 Otley has given an interesting account of the type used in this volume stating it is the same as used in Fust and Schoeffer’s Bible of 1462, the work was the most popular exposition of the Psalms of the day, and no less than fourteen editions succeeded the present before the expira- tion of the XVth Century, but the early ones are trea- sured by the curious as the more rare and valuable. The La Valliere copy sold for 300 FRANCS, Morris’s copy £10 10s. 339 EARLY Printinc.—Ovipmt Opera Omnia, 3 vols, sm. folio, VERY EARLY PRINTED EDITION, LARGE SOUND copy, old gilt calf, EARL JERSEY’S BooKPLatE, VERY RARE, £3 10s Vicentie, H. Lichtenstein, 1480 Dibdin in the Spencer Catalogue called it ‘‘a very ele- gant impression.” Copies have sold for £20 to £30 in the great sales. The present one cost late owner £15 15s in the Jersry sale. 5 ne 340 EARLY Printinc.—Joannes Canonicus super octo Libros Physicorum Aristotelis, sm, folio, Glack Wetter, veRY FINE copy, red morocco super extra, gold tooling on sides, gilt edges, leather joints, from the SYSTON PARK COLLECTION, £2 2s Venetits, O. Scotus, 1481 A most beautiful specimen of Black letter printing over Four Hundred Years old, in the finest possible state. The paper is like vellum. Purchased out of Longman’s Cata- logue, 1529, for £8 8s. 341 EARLY Printinc.—Puatina in Vitas Pontifi- cum, thick sm. folio, Black Getter, rwbricated capital letters, original oak bds., half pigskin back from the MorRIS COLLECTION, £2 88 Kosurcer, 1481 UNCASTRATED EDITION, later ones much altered and omit the life of Pork Joan. Heber’s copy sold for £5 18s. 342 EARLY Printinc—PorpuHyrivs in Aristotelis Pradicamenta, sm. folio, VERY LARGE COPY, with rough leaves, old half mor. binding, 18s 6d Venet., P. Venetwm, 1481 Dr. Heath’s copy sold for £4 4s. 3438 EARLY Printinc.—PLotiniI OPERA OMNIA, E Gr2xco in Latinum translata a MARSILIO FIcrNo, 2 vols in 1, thick folio, Epit10 PRINCEPS, FINE COPY, russia extra, yellow edges, by ROGER PAYNE, £2 12s 6d Florentie, A. Miscominus, 1492 See Dibdin’s glowing description as regards the beauty and rarity of this edition, he devotes 3 whole pages to it in vol 2, of the Spencer Catalogue. De Bure says that copies are rare and sought after by the curious. Mac- Carthy's copy sold for 1,020 Franes. This copy cost late owner £7 17s 6d, see printed slip. 344 EARLY Parintine.—Sallustius.—C. Crispi Sallustii bellum Catilinarium cum commento Laurentii Vallensis, etc., sm. folio, FINE COPY, beautiful woodcut at end of Printer’s Device, russia extra, 18s 6d Brixtm, B. Misinti, 1495 345 EARLY Printinc.—Pomponius Mele de Situ Orbis, fine woodcut title, large woodcut let- ters and PRINTER’S DEVICE BY HOLBEIN, 1512— Lilii (Z.) Orbis Breviarium, very beautiful wood- cut device of JOHN GouRMONT, and woodcut capitals, Paris, 1500, in 1 vol, sm. 4to, old brown calf nt.. Morris Cory, 16s 1500—12 346 EARLY Printinc.— Busebtt Ecclesiastica Historia Latine per Ruffinum, et Bep# Eccle- siastica H1sToRIa GENTIS ANGLORUM, black letter, H. Grau, 1506—Comestor (P.) Historia Scho- lastica, black letter, Argent., 1503, thick sm. folio, LARGE COPY, a few leaves mounted, new half blue mor. extra, gilt top edges, RARE, 28s 1503-6 347 EARLY Printina.— Luther (Mart.) Piae ac doctae in Psalmos Operationes, sm. folio, EDITIO PRIMA, title within fine woodcut border, and very beautiful woodcut of the Crucifixion with marks FF and FSH, also large pictorial woodcut letters, FINE COPY, contemporary oaken boards, covered with stamped leather neat, in centre of side the Tupor Rost, Morris’ book label, VERY RARE, £2 12s 6d Basil, 1521 Binding like those of Henry VIII. The woodcuts are fine; appears to have cost Mr. Makellar £6 6s, see Ayleaf.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33157376_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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