Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
16-18 February 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/898
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    12/260 page 8
    30 ScHeEpEL (H.) Das BucH DER CHRONIKEN UND GESCHICHTEN [The Nuremberg Chronicle translated by Georg At], gothic letter, 297 U1. [B.M. II, p. 487], NUMEROUS WoOOoD- curs BY WOHLGEMUTH AND PLEYDENWURFF, some of the cuts coloured by an old hand, bookplate on verso of title “ Bibliotheca privata Antonu Ignatu S.R.I. Principis, Praepositi, ac Domini Elvacensis, Comitis Fugger in Kirchberg, et Wetssenhorn,”’ old calf Nuremberg, A. Koberger, 23 Dec. 1493 304 CHATELAIN (H. A.) AtLAs Historique, 7 vol. folding maps and engravings including America, old calf gilt Amsterdam, chez Z. Chatelain, 1739 31 Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra. Novum Testa- mentum only, gothic fetter, 31271. (last blank), double columns, glossa surrounding in smaller type, 73 lines, initials painted in red and blue, rubricated throughout [part of Hain, 3165; Proctor, 4180], some manuscript marginalia im an old hand, old limp vellum F. Renner, Venezia, 1482 32 Chaucer (G.) Caunterbury Tales, blacts letter, woodcuts, wm- perfect copy, consisting of folios sig. b 2 to 4, c3 to 8, d2 to 6 and 8,cl and 3 to 5, £2 to 6, g3 to 5, h3 to 6, 11, 28teo ey kil to Bp 516, ML eG pmedoigen 11371076, 01 toNG complete, pl? 10, G15 Aw ee, Dian cern a, sl to 8 complete, t1, 2, 4, ul, 2, 3, 5, x1 to 6 complete, y 1 to 4 complete, 21 tv 4 complete, ¢91 to 6 complete, 91, 2, 3,5, many of these leaves are defective, but have been carefully mended, and missing lines, or words of teat filled in manuscript, some margins renewed and repatred, the missing leaves supplied in a neatly written modern hand with facsimiles of the woodcuts, contem- porary stamped calf on oak boards, clasps missing, with a roan cover Emprynted at Westmestre by Wynkin de Word, 1498
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3