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Credit: Sales catalogue 329: William Ridler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![361 lack Wetter.—Actes of Putters & Mary, title with royal arms, FINE copy, half calf neat, £1 8s J. Cawood, 1558 Acts of Philip and Mary’s time are VERY RARE. Fine specimen of early English Printing. 362 Black Better.—Cusser (Thos.) Five Hun- dred Points of Goop HusBanpry, Hopps and Gardening, sm. 4to, woodcut title, FIRST COM- PLETE EDITION, small corner of one leaf defective, half calf nt., RARE, £1 15s 1576 A copy recently sold for £1010s. A most interesting Picture of the Customs of our Ancestors. 863 lack Letter.—Nichols (John) Oration made at Rome before the FouRE CARDINALES of the Inquisition, sm. 8vo, half russia nt., RARE, 10s 6d John Charlewood, 1581 This copy sold in the Sussex sale for £1 17s. The au- thor was arraigned asan Heretic by the Cardinals who compelled him to preach a Sermon against his own Pro- testant Faith. 364 Glack BHetter.—Stocker (Thos.) Tragicall Historie and Civil Warres of the LowE Covun- TRIES, with the Barbarous Crueltie and TYRAN- NIE of the SPANIARDS, sm. 4to, LARGE SOUND copy, dedicated to Ropert DupLeY ERLE of LEICESTER, original calf binding, £1 5s 1583 A copy sold, May 1897, at Sotheby’s for £5 10s. 365 Black Letter—Scot (Reginald) DiscovEeriz or WITCHCRAFT, wherein the lewde dealings of WITCHES and WITCHMONGERS is notabledetected, etc., thick sm. 4to, FIRST EDITION, curtous wood- cuts, title in MS. and 1 leaf wanted, otherwise a sound copy, old brown calf neat, VERY RARE, £1 10s 1584 Copies have sold for £20 and upwards. Lord Ashburn- ham’s copy £50. Shakespeare it is well known made great use of the work, it was ordered to be burnt by James Ist. 366 @lack Detter.— Colpnet (Ant.) True His- tory of the Crivitt Warres of FrancE, thick sm. 4to, title within a woodcut border, LARGE copy, old calf nt., £1 18 T. Woodcock, 1591 A most rare work, the Crowford copy sold for £5 5s. 367 lack Hetter.—Mirrour of Princely Deedes, THE VALIANT ACTS OF THE KNIGHT OF THE SUN, etc., TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH by M. T., sm. 4to, title within a border (not perfect) old calf, VERY RARE, 14s T, East, 1595 This work formed part of Don Quixote’s library. In his debate with the curate he says no romance comes up to the Knight of the Sun. Inglis’s copy sold for £20. 368 lack Letter.—Famous History of Montelion, Knight of the Oracle, with a variety of Pleasant Discourses, sm. 4to, woodcut front. mended, and a leaf wanting, calf neat, 7s 6d 1671 The Way copy sold for £5 5s. 869 BLAKE.—Gay’s Fables, with Life, Stock- DALE’S FINE EDITION, printed in large type, 2 vols in 1, thick roy. 8vo, with 70 beautiful engrav- ings by BLAKE, Stothard, FINE Cory, rich old gilt blue morocco extra, gilt edges, by KALTHOEBER, £1 15s 1793 870 BLAKE.—Blake (Wm.) The Grave, a Poem, by Robert Blair, roy. 4to, portrait, engraved title, calf nt., SCARCE, £1 1s old gilt tree calf extra, SCARCE, £1 1s 1795 BLAKE, calf extra, 58 373 BLAKE (W.)—The Gates of Paradise, 4to, many tinted plates, facsimile of the RARE ORIGI- NAL, ONLY 50 COPIES PRINTED, half morocco neat, uncut, 15s 793 374 BLAKE.—Hayley’s (W.) BatuaDs, cr. 8vo, First Epition, beautiful plates by Buakeg, blue morocco extra, gut edges, 12s 6d 1805 White’s copy sold for £2 2s. Hirst’s copy £3 3s. 375 BLAKE.—Scott (John, the Bard of AMWELL in Herts.) Poetical Works, includes his Poem on AMWELL, 8vo, First EDITION, portratt, plates and vignettes by BLAKE, BARTOLOZZI, d&c., FINE COPY, russia gilt nt., SCARCE, 10s 6d 1782 376 BLAKE aud Brwickx.--Thornton (R. J.) Pastorals to VireIL, with Descriptions in Eng- lish and Latin, 2 vols, 8vo, 230 beautiful plates and woodcuts by WM. BuaKE, the Bewicks, and yellow edges, RARE, £2 28 1821 = The last copy of this book sold in Sotheby’s Auction Rooms produced £6 6s. Jupp copy sold for £6 10s. . So and guards, old gilt red mor. extra, 5s 378 Block Book.—Ars Mlortendt, Reproduced in Facsimile of the Unique Biock Book, the Editio Princeps of 1450, with very curious full page woodcuts, and descriptions by W. Rylands, Ato, cloth bds, nt., 15s 1450—1881 For the unique original the trustees of the British Mu- seum gave £1,072 10s. Only a few copies printed. 379 Block Wook.—Acta Apostolorum circa 1400, facsimile reproduction of the Unique original, Ato, 42 singular plates, hf. roxburghe, only 50 Copies reproduced for PRIVATE CIRCULATION, 16s 1840 380 %lock Books and Harty Pamntine.—Falken- stein (Dr. C.) Geschichte der Buchdruckerunst in irher Enstehung und Ausbildung, thick 4to, numerous facsimiles of Brock Books, Eariy Woopvcuts, Printing in its infancy, de., half calf nt., SCARCE, 148 Leipzig, 1840 This work has long been out of print. 381 BLONDEL (David) Treatise of the SIBLYS so highly celebrated by the Antient Heathens, Englished by J. Davies, of Kidwelly, sm. folio, Fine Copy, old calf nt., Scarce, 15s 1661 First Epition dedicated to Sir Edw. Maunsell of Mar- gam, in the co. of Glamorgan. 382 BLORE (Ed.) Monumental Remains of Noble and Eminent Persons, the SEPULCHRAL ANTIQUI- TIES of Gr. BRITAIN, 4to, LARGE PAPER, numerous calf, gilt extra, £1 8s A beautiful and captivating performance.—DippiIN. Only 50 copies printed on large paper at £8 8s each. é 883 BOBBIN (Tim.) Human Passions delineated, folio, 120 plates, droll, satyricall and humourous in the HoGARTHIAN STYLE, including the original plate 19, cloth bds., 10s 6d N.D. [1840] 384 BOCCACE (Jean) NouvEtuzs, 4 vols, 8vo, many beautiful plates by MARILLIER, FINE COPY, half calf very nt., SCARCE, £1 1s Paris, 1802 The Phillips copy sold for £5 5s. Toovey’s £4 4s, and this copy cost late owner £3 10s. 385 BOCCACCIO, In DECAMERONE, nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato, thick sm. 4to, front., FINE COPY, half morocco extra, guilt top edges, uncut, £1 1s 1527—1725 A verbatim reprint of the excessively rare Giunta edi- tion. which has always been highly esteemed from not having been castrated. ; at ee pe et ed, \](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33156554_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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