Sales catalogue 106: Davis & Orioli

Date:: 20th century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/16

Credit: Sales catalogue 106: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$5 op) “I ANTONIO (Nicolas) De Exilii, Poena antiqua et, nova exulumque Conditione et iure libri tres. Antwerp, Jacobus Meursius; 1659 £1/5/— _Folio.. Old calf, with arms of Earl of Roden? The auihor,was the famous Spanish bibliographer. ANTONIUS DE S. DOMINIS. Comecan as vidas de algtis sanctos da ordem dos pregadores. Coimbra, J. de Barreyra and J. Alvarez, 1552 £12/12/- Folio. Old timp vellum. Roman character)’ 104 ff. Woodcut borders to title-page. A collection of lives of famous Dominicans. On page 190 1s a Portuguese translation. of Savonarola’s letter to Donna Maddalena, first printed in Florence circa 1495. Apart from some slight marginal repairs, a fine copy, from the library of Carlos I. of Portugal. Silva I.,p.127, “ rarissimo libro.” AUTO DA FE. Relacion muy verdadera donde se da larga cuenta del auto que la santa Inquisicion hizo en la Ciudad de Logrofio . . . a donde fueron. sacados treynta y tres bruxos y bruxas y castigad conforme sus delitos. Logrofio, Juan de Mongaston, 1611 £5/5/- 4to. Black morocco, with cross on cover. 411. One of the earliest accounts of an auto da Fé. On this occasion numerous sorcerers and witches were burnt. The present poem gives an account of the alleged crimes of the witches. Very rare. BARROS (Ioa6é de) Decada Primeira, Segunda Terceira da Asia dos Feitos que os Portugueses Fezorao no descobrimento e conquista dos mares e terras do Oriente. Lisbon, Torge Rodriquez, 1628 Quarta Decada da Asia de Joam de Barros’. . . reformada acrescentada Impressa Real, 1615 £15/15/— 4 vols. Folio. Old calf, with arms of Earl of Roden. Very rare collection of relations of early Portuguese voyages and discovertes in Asta. The first three volumes appeared in 1552 and 1553 and were reprinted in the present Lisbon edition of 1628. The fourth decade, our copy of which lacks the title-page, but has the 3 fine maps of Java, and parts of India, was a posthumous work of the early decades are of the utmost rarity, no copy upPenrs im auction records for 9 BOCCACCIO (G.) Libro de Juan Bocacio que trata de las illustres mujeres. “Seville, J. Cromberger, 1528 £10/10/- Folio. Hf. calf. Goth. char. Woodcut title, obihnas vemarkable cuts of famous last leaf restored, some very slight stains, otherwise a good copy. Palaw I I, 239. 4to. Old calf, with arms of Earl of Roden. Engraved front.>\ \st edition. Brito Chronista geral et Religioso'da ordem deS. Bernardo. Part I. Monastery III. and IV. Monastery of S .Bernardo for Pedro Craesbeeck, 1632». £10/10/— 4 vols. Folio: Old calf, with arms of Earl of Roden. Engr aved title to volume I. Fundamental book for the history of Portugal, printed im the Benedictine monasteries at Lisbon and Alcobaza, probably the first book printed 1m this latter was published in 1650, 1672, 1683 and 1729: The two first parts are.so rare that they were reprinted in 1690. Margin of title of first part’ wormed, otherwise a very fine set. |$

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