Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/672
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    208 209 210 a1 Ce) ia Ww 213 214 setting-up), small worm-holes through some leaves at beginning and end, the first leaf backed, crushed black morocco stamped in blind, g.e. by Zaehnsdorf folto, Venice, FE. Ratdolt, 25 May, 1482 Euclid. Elementa, roman letter, title in gothic and large woodcut calligraphic letters, device of printer on title, fine three-quarter white-on-black border on first page of text, heading and large ornamental initial wn red, diagrams in the margin, crushed brown morocco, gilt inside border, g.e. folio. Venice, Jo. Tacuinus, 1505 Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie ... faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley . with a very fruitfull Preface made by M[aster] I[ohn | Dee, FIRST EDITION, woodcut title, diagrams, woodcut portrait of Day at end, wants the foldimg table between sig. A and B, old calf folio. [Colophon] At London Printed by Iohn Dae Evelyn (John) Publik Employment and an Active Life pre- fer’d to Solitude, and all its Appanages, FIRST EDITION, original sheep, 1667; etc. 8vo. (6) [ Evelyn (Mary)| Mundus Muliebris: or, the Ladies Dressing- Room unlock’d, and her Toilette spread. In Burlesque. Together with the Fop-Dictionary, FIRST EDITION, in verse and prose, wants the last leaf (sig. D4, ? a blank), half calf 4to. 1690 Exaltatio Alae. The Ex-ale-tation of Ale. Done into verse by AEMOMSDS Sigh ASL CUG UhCOgUE FOOL, COl UULe Tans Liss, copy 8vo. Anno Dom. 1666 Fabyan (R.) Chronicle ... to thende of Queene Mary, 2 vol. in 1, blact letter, titles within borders, dark brown morocco. panel tooling in blind and gold on sides, g.e. by Clarke and Bedford folio. London, J. Kyngston (“ Mense Aprilis =) 5 1559 Fage (Robert) Cosmographie or, A Danae of the Whole World, frontispiece, uncludes pp. 112-166 dealing with America, tear in inner margin of sig. A3, original sheep, 1671—Hill (T.) Natural and Artificial Conclusions ... with a new addition of Rarities, for the practise of sundry Artificers, woodcuts, black letter, corner of sig. 02 defec- tive, one or two head-lines shaved, original calf, 1684;
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