Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
24 July 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/861
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    84 85 86 87 89 SIZES MIXED. Gregorius Magnus. Dialogi, gothic fetter, 37-38 lines, 86 Il. some worm-holes, two or three small stains, original blind stamped vellum over wooden boards, Ruskin book-label |[Haiwm, *7958; Proctor, *1735; Pellechet, 5355 | folio. No place, printer or date [Augsburg, Jo. Wrener, n.d, (? 147-)] Herrick (R.) HespertpEes : or, the Works both humane & divine of Robert Herrick Esq. FIRST EDITION, wants portrait and two leaves (sig. 0% and 14), top margin of title cut away and title laid down, pagination of some leaves cut into, a verse on p.3 scored through, the first line on sig. Ee 7 shaved, calf 8v0o. 1648 HEURES A LUSAIGE DE ROUEN, PRINTED ON VELLUM in gothic letter, wm red and black, 41 lines, 13611. 14 cuts all coloured by a contemporary hand, large and small initials coloured by hand, black morocco with clasps, g. e. Ruskin’s book-label inside cover 8vo (172 mm. by 93 mm.). Rouen, Prerre Olwier for Louis Bouvet, n. d. [c. 1520] * EXTREMELY RARE. Unrecorded by Lacombe or Bohatta. Homer. THE WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER, TRANSLATED BY GEO. CHAPMAN, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, engraved title by W. Holl, with portrat of Chapman on the back, engraved dedication and engraved title to the Iliad (the title to the Odyssey is wanting, as in nearly all known copies), pen-marks in margins of some leaves, Ruskin’s copy with book-label and a few manuscript marginal notes by him, original calf, one joint cracked folio. London, for N. Butter, [c. 1616] Horace. A MeEpiIcINABLE Moratt, that is, the two Bookes of Horace his Satyre’s, Englyshed accordyng to the prescription of saint Hierome...The Waityngs of the Prophet Hieremiah, done into Englyshe verse. Also Epigrammes, T. Drant, Slack fetter, the date on the title defectively printed, blank corner of sig. G6 repaired, small hole in sig. 18 affecting catch-word, blind-stamped calf, g.e. with Ruskin’s book-label Ato. London, T. Marshe, 1566 *, First Edition of the First Version of Horace in English and the only edition of Jeremiah and the Epigrams. Hyginus. Poetica astronomica, roman letter, 32 lines, 56 Il. wood- cuts (most of the woodcuts coloured by a contemporary hand), several leaves slightly soiled, old half calf [B.M. vol. V, 289; Hain, *9063 | 4to. Venice, EK. Ratdolt, 22 Jan. 1485
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