Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June-July 1908
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/248
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    INCUNABULA (MiILANO)—continued. ~ Leonhard Pachel. 211 1493. GeorgiusTrapezuntius. Rhetorica, old ved morocco gilt, m.e. fol. Hain 7609, Proctor 5994. 9911]. roman characters; large capitals painted in red and blue on a gold ground on leaf a ii, and small capitals rubricated in red and blue. Finelarge copy of ascarce edition. 1494. Suetonius. De vita XII Caesarum, cum commentario Ph. Beroaldi, half russia folio Hain 15127, not in Proctor. 326 1]. roman characters, with passages in Greek, woodcut capitals, and printer’s device. Fine clean copy of a nicely printed edition. Not in the British Museum or Bodleian Libraries. bo pond Lo Ulrich Scinzenzeler. 913 1498. Sidonius (Caius Sollius) Apollinaris. Poema Aureum eius- demque Epistolae (cum commentario J. B. Pii), fine old French red morocco gilt, from La Valliére’s collection sm. folio ain *1287, Proctor 6038. 1441]. roman characters, title in gothic, with very curious Greek characters. FIRST EDITION WITH A DATE. Fine woodcut initials, of which the earlier ones have been illuminated. RARE. 214 s. a. l. et typ. n. [1488]. Servius. Vocabula brevi compendio cum auctoritatibus ipsius Virgilii utilissima per pueris ad disputandum, boards sm. 4to Hain 14712, Proctor 6047. 48 ll. roman characters, with a few words of Greek, woodcut initials, inner margins of first 2 Il. repaired and stained. Heinrich Scinzenzeler. 1493. Isocrates. Orationes, Graece, curante Demetrio Chalcondyla, russia Solio EDITIO PRINCEPS, AND VERY RARE. Hain 9312, Proctor 6065. 200 ll. (including 2 blank), Greek characters, with printer’s device at end. Very fine large copy (measuring 114 by 8¢ in.) of the third book printed wholly in Greek. LS —s Or Johannes Bissolus and Benedictus Mangius. 216 1499. Suidas. Lexicon, Graecé, a Demetrio Chalcondylo editum curante J. M. Cataneo, old red morocco, full gilt back, g.e. folio. Hain* 15135, Proctor 6077. 516 ll. Greek characters, EDITIO PRINCEPS. The first three leaves have slight mendings, otherwise a very fine copy of one of the most elaborate Greek works of the XV century presses. Typographus Anonymous. s. l. a. et typ. n. (c. 1499). Claudianus. De raptu Proserpinae, cum commentariis Jani Parhasii, imp vellum sm. folio Not in Hain; Proctor 6091. 59 ll. (commencing aaii), roman characters, with passages in Greek. Slightly wormed and last leaf split in the middle. RARE. bo pas ~I
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