Sales catalogue 461 : Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/33
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 461 : Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    127 [BEWICK (T.).| Consett (Matthew). A Tour through Sweden, Swedish- Lapland, Finland, and Denmark. In a series of letters. With seven copperplate engravings by T. Bewick, and one woodcut, also with the additional insertion of fine proof impressions, before letters, of the copperplate engravings of the Midnight Sun at Tornao, and the Entrance into Upsala. Ato, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, g. e., by Kalthoeber, with the binders ticke?. Stockton, R. Christopher, for the Author, 1780. £5 5s The plates are of especial interest, being some of the very few copperplate engravings executed by Mr. Bewick. The two views were engraved by him from two pictures painted by a Swedish Artist named Martin at Stockholm. (28 BEZA (Theodore). A discourse wrytten by M. Theodore de Beza, con- teyning in briefe the Historie of the life and death of Maister John Calvin, with the Testament and laste will of the saide Calvin, and the Catalogue of his Bookes that he hath made. Turned out of French into. Englishe, by I.-Sez Black Letter. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. I2mo, morocco, g. é London, Imprinted by Henry Denham | 1564). £9 18s * * * Theodore Beza, a Genevese Reformer, after his appointment as theological professor and president of the college at Geneva, became Calvin’s ablest coad- jutor. Through Beza, Calvin made his influence felt in the great struggle in France between the Guises and the Protestants.
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