Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/476
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    10/136 page 2170
    7861 felicius suscipiendo viam aperit], (¢it/e and pp. 48), polished calf extra, inside dentelles, g.e. by F. Bedford sm. 8v0. Upsaliw. 1725 WAKEFIELD (ROBERT) RoBERTI VVAKFEDI SACRARUM LITERARUM PROFESSORIS EXIMII REGIIQ; SACELLANI SYNTAGMA DE HEBRE- ORUM CODICU INCORRUPTIONE. Item eiusdem Oratio Oxonjj habita, vnacum quibusdam aliis lectu ac annotatu non indignis, title within woodcut border, full size cut of royal arms on reverse of last leaf, old limp vellum, fine copy with rough edges sm. Ato. (se. lua. ebm. c. 1530) »* A—L2,1n fours. The title is in the same woodcut border as Wynkyn de Worde used in Whitinton’s Vulgaria, 1521, and used by him in 1521-1534. On the verso of the last leaf are the Royal arms. This is considered to be the first book printed in England containing Oriental characters. Five other copies are known: Two in the British Museum, and one at the Bodleian, University Library, Cambridge and Lainbeth respectively. It contains an Argument in favour of the Divorce of Henry from Q. Katherine ; and also the first edition of - Pace’s letter. Triumph Celebrated in the Palace of Diana Ardenna. By the Rustick Muse of R. W. IIpocxyo-hide-paorE. [Quotation from Owen’s per | 20. first and last original blanks) Printed Anno Virginis parturientis. 1662 * concluded from the Topicks of Onmmatology) most Heroically virtuous Mrs. Anne Gibbs.” Who personated Gartrude Harebr. wife Rosinda Dionysia A Lady Lucretia in Tu Quoque Madworld my M., Young Admirall, All’s lost by lust, Merry Milkm. Rape of Lucrece July 3. 6. 4. 4. 8. 5. 5. 8. 1661. At the (Quondam Antelope, now) King’s Arms in Holywell Oxon. IIANAAEOA zAacoAdya, Or the Deplumation of Mrs. Anne Gibbs, Of those furtivous perfections whereof She was supposed a Proprietary, By Envious Fame. Deplored by her (once) Admirer, R. W. [Quotation from Owen’s Epigr.] (8 77.) Printed Anno Virginis parturientis. 1662 8bris 9, 1662.” On the 4th leaf is a second title: ITAAINOAIA. Sive Fama. Vapulans: Occasioned by her Retractation of her pre- cipitate censure of Mrs. Anne Gibbs, By her real Convert and Re-admirer, R. W. Printed... . 1662.” Philomus. | Quotation face Ovid’s Tristia.] (167.) London, Printed in the Yeare 1664 This and the two preceding tracts are bound up together in a
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