Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
10-14 November 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/877
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    1017 ~=Curtius (Quintus) Historia Alexandri magni, roman letter, 69 U. wants the last (blank), bottom inner corners of last few leaves water-stained, a few marginal repairs, last leaf discoloured, vellum |Hain-Reichling, 5884; Pellechet, 4066 (two copies only); Proctor, 6925 | folio. Verona, Printer of Augurellus, 18 Aug. 1491 * Only two books from this press are known. 1018 CaracctoLus (ROBERTUS) QUADRAGESIMALE de_ poenitentia, gothic fetter, 248 leaves, ff. 1 and 16 blank, initials supplied in red, rubricated, stamped pigskin over wooden boards | Hain, *4420; Proctor, *7454; not m Pellechet or Winship | foo. Bale, Berthold Ruppel |ff. 1-138| and Michael Wenssler [ff. 189-284], not after 1479 1019 VroLa SANCTORUM, gothte letter, 92 Ul., woodcut initial, first and last leaves slightly stained, vellum {| Hain,* 10867 ; Proctor,* 7523 | folio. [Bdle, Bernhard Richel, c. 1474] *,* Hither the first or the second edition, Hain,*10866 being perhaps earlier. 1020 Augustine (Saint) De Trinitate, gothic letter, 86 2/., 2 columns, a few worm-holes at beginning |G. W. 2926; Hain, 2037; Pellechet, 1541; Proctor, *7581]|; bound with Augustine (Saint) De civitate Dei, gothic letter, 268 2/., 2 columns, text surrounded by commentary, woodcut on verso of title, worm-holes at end |G. W. 2887; Hain, 2064; Pellechet, 1559; Proctor, *7578 | folio. Bdle, Johann Amberbach, 1489 1021 Augustine (Saint) Epistolae, second edition, roman letter, 328 UL, half calf gilt |G. W. 2906; Hain, 1969; Pellechet, 1483; Proctor, *7599 | folio. Bdle, Johann Amerbach, [14 ]23 1022 Bromyarp (JOHN DE) SUMMA PRAEDICANTIUM, 2 vol. FIRST EDI- TION, gothic letter, vol. LZ, 362 Ul., the first blank, wants ff. 56 and 364 (both blank), vol. IT, 324 Ul., first and last blank, 2 columns, rubricated, a few worm-holes at beginning and end of vol. I, ort- ginal stamped pigskin over wooden boards | Hain,*39938 ; Pellechet, 3025; Proctor, 7615| folio. [Bdle, Johann Amerbach, not after 1484] Both the B. M. Cat. Inc. and Pellechet give inaccurate collations of vol. I: the correct collation (using the B. M. notation) is: [ 42 es alo Asin eightawexcept “*, ****a‘and ‘b, each 10 Il. and Pp and R, each 6 ll.; *1, b 10 and s 8 blank.
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