Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
29-31 July 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/653
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    matters, including Hunting, Fishing, Fowling, Archery, Husbandry, Games, others relating to almost all the Counties, provisions, The Printing and binding of Books, Trades, etc., etc. 100 Broadsides, dealing with Coin (5), Revenue (3), Trade (8), Papists (5), Arms and Munitions of War (5), Parliament (5), The Plagues of 1625 (8) and 1630 (2), Soldiers (9), Vagabonds and Paupers (5), Lent and other Fasts (5), Fairs (2), Suppression of Books (2), Building in London (2), Residence in London, Excessive Use of Roads, Burglaries, Manufacture of Alum and Starch; Unlawful Games, Copyright, King’s Evil, Peace with France, 1629, and with Spain, 1630, the Price of Food, and many other matters, in 1 vol. calf, defective; sold as a collection not subject to return 1625-30 title, also ff. 352, 355 and the last leaf (blank), old calf, covers loose; sold not subject to return [Kele, Toye, Petit or Bonham], c. 1546 121i. (only), without portraits or the additional leaves, first unitial vlluminated in gold and colours, boards, leather Dace 30.1. John Whitaker, 1816 Whitaker to Mr. Wheatley, Queen Street, Westminster, asking him to sell a copy of Magna Carta by auction, with a reserve of six and a half guineas. historia que a plerisqz Aurea legenda sanctort appellatur. Item Maryrologiti Usuardi monachi ad Karolum magnum, gothic fetter, 316 U/. 45 lines, two columns, witials supplied um red and blue, first mmitrals of the “ Legenda” and “ Martyrolagvum” im blue with pen-work decoration im the margins, origimal stamped calf over wooden boards, back defectwe at top, brass clasps, catches, and corner- guards at foot, FINE copy [Proctor, +1079; Copinger; 6453 + Hain-Copinger, 16111; B. M. 13.3615] Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 1490 At the head of the title-page is written “ Liber domus Maricastri pro cella f Judoci Vredens.” Below is a modern note of ownership and bibliographical note. The Martyr- ologvum is mis-bound between the table and the text of the Legenda.
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