Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1909
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/259
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    i» Lot 521—continued. occurs a printed Italian passage. It belonged in 1482 to a certain Frater Stephanus Moledus, a German, and has an inscription on the first blank leaf. 522 Lactantius (L. C.) [Opera Varia] Divinarum Institutionum lib. VII, ete. title within jine woodcut figured border, woodcut initials and ornaments, printer's device on separate leaf at end, contemporary German binding in oak boards, leather, stamped in panels of classical and emblematic female figures and ornaments with a crucifiv in gold in the centre of upper cover, and Christ descending into Hell blind stamped on the under, with legends, y. e. a very well preserved AND AN UNCOMMON SPECIMEN OF SWIss-GERMAN BINDING, but the clasps are missing, enclosed in a new purple morocco slip case (from the Sunderland library) sm. 4to. Basiliae apud Andream Cratandrum, 1521 523 Laderchius (Jacobus) De Sacris Basilicis SS. Martyrum Marcellini Presbyteri et Petri Exorcistae de Urbe Dissertatio Historica, old Italian red morocco, full gilt ornamental back, line frame sides with corner fleurons, with the arms of Cardinal de Medici in centres, g. &. FINE Copy (from the Fountaine library) 4to. Romae, Pr. Gonzaga, 1705 524 Lake (Edw. Archdeacon of Exeter) Officium Eucharisticum; a Preparatory Service to a Devout and Worthy Reception of the Lords Supper, thirteenth edition, contemporary Hnglish mosaic binding in black, yellow and red, in scrolls and compartments, with rich and elegant gilt tooled ornaments, g. €. A FINE SPECIMEN cer. 8v0. C. Wilkinson at the Black Boy in Fleet-street, 1689 525 LAMBARDE (Wm.) A PERAMBULATION OF KENT, containing the des- cription, Hystorie and Customes of that Shyre: collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare 1570... and now increased by the addition of some things which the Author himself hath observed since that time, FIRST EDITION, title within woodcut ornamental border, map, woodcut initials, old red calf gilt, plain edges (Fountaine copy with device of an elephant on back), fine large and clean sm. 4to. Imprinted..by Henrie Middleton for Rafe Newbery in Fleetestreate, 1576 526 Lambarde(Wm.) A Perambulation of Kent, conteining the Description, Hystorie and Customes of that Shyre, written in the yeere 1570: first published in the yeere 1576, and now increased and altered after the Author’s owne last Copie (second edition), dlack letter, title within fine ornamental border, woodcut map and folding card of the Beacons, woodcut initials, two signatures on title, a few Ul. slightly stained, otherwise a fine large copy, original calf sm. 4to. Imprinted ..by Hdm. Bollifant, 1596 527 Lambarde (Wm.) The Perambulation of Kent .. corrected and enlarged ; to which is added the Charters, Laws and Privileges of the Cinque Ports, never before printed, calf (cover broken) Sate. 8vo. printed for M. Walbancke, etc. 1656 *,* This is the only edition containing the Charters, etc. of the Cinque Ports.
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