Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
July 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/745
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    42/80 page 36
    R94 295 297 300 501 302 (308 Matthew of Westminster. Flores Historiarum, 250 JI., ff. 6 and 250 blank, title within woodcut border, one leaf of index water-stained, otherwise A FINE copy, Londini, Excudebat Thomas Marshius, secundo die Iuniyj, anno gratiae. 1570 (altered with a pen to 1576 on title and in colophon), bound with another, vellum, with ties (one MISSING) ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM) THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM, portrait and 114 maps, all uncoloured, calf, FINE COPY Amsterdam, 1584. Piranesi (G. B. and F.) Plates from “ Vedute di Roma” and other works, 41 double-page plates in all, including three by other engravers, half calf n. a. Pitt (Moses) The English Atlas, 4 vol. about 120 maps (un- coloured), vol. I lacks binding, remainder panelled calf gilt Oxford, 1680-3 Porta (J. B.) Natural Magick in Twenty Books, sheep 1669 Rushworth (John) Historical Collections, portrat, calf, 1759 ; The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Stafford, portrait, calf, back defective, 1780—A Collection of all the publicke Orders, Ordinances and Declarations of ... Parliament, 1642-46, frontispiece, half sheep, worn, 1646 (3) Spence (Joseph) Polymetis, plates, calf, worn, 1747—Alberti (L. B.) Architecture; Bartoli (Cosimo) Of Painting and Statuary, translated by James Leoni, 75 plates by Picart, boards, back-strip wanting, uncut, 1755 ; etc. (3) Strabo. De situ orbis lib. XVIT gr. et lat. stamped pigskin over wooden boards, Bdle, 1549—Appian. Romanae Historiae, graece, some water-stains, contemporary Lyonese binding of panelled calf, sides richly gilt, rubbed and torn, g.e. Lyons, 1551 (2) Stow (John) Annals, Sfact letter, title defectwe and mounted, defect in last leaf (missing text supplied in old MS.), panelled calf, joints broken, 1615—Scot (Reginald) The Discovery of Witchcraft, calf, loose, 1665; and another (3) Valerian (J. P.) Hieroglyphica, woodcuts, calf, Lyons, 1602— Annotationes doctorum Virorum [Politian, Sabellicus, Beroaldus and six others] in Grammaticos, Oratores, Poetas, ete. vellum [Paris], Josse Bade for Jean Petit, 1511 (2)
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3