Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
1874
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/14
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    aes ———_-—_—_—r Agenda Ecclesize Moguntinensis, per Sebastianum, Archiep. Mogwnt. 4to. fine copy, in stamped hogskin, £2. 10s . Mogunt. Fr. Behem, 1551 Printed in a remarkably clear bold type. Agincourt (Seroux d’) Hisrorre per’ Art PAR LES MONUMENS, depuis sa Decadence au IV_ Siecle jusqu’a son Renouvellement au XVI, original and best edition, 6 vols. royal folio, 325 plates, half cloth boards, uncut, con- tents lettered, £6. Paris, 1823 Akerman’s Roman Coins: a descriptive Catalogue of rare and unedited Roman Coins, 2 vols. roy. 8vO. LARGE PAPER, INDIA PROOFS, plates, hf. russia, £2. 2s 1834 -—— the same, 2 vols. in 4, roy. 8vo. INTER- LEAVED, with many valuable MSS. notes by Mr, Bergne of the Foreign Office, hf. bd. russia, £4. 15s 1834 Algeria. Expioration ScrientiFique de L’ ALGERIE en 1840-42, PUBLIZE PAR ORDRE DU GOUVERNEMENT Paris, 1849-50 Crustacea, Insects : LUCAS (H.) His- toire Naturelle des Animaux Articulés, 3 vols. atlas 4to. 122 highly finished coloured plates, containing nearly two thousand figures, (pub. 440 frs.) hf. red mor. unent, £10. Parix, 1810 Contents: Iére partie: Crusfacés, Arachnides, Myria- podes et Hexapodes.—IIme et IIIme parties; Insectes. Reptiles and Fishes: GUICHENOT (A.) Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles et des Poissons de Algérie, atlas 4to. 12 coloured plates, if. green morocco, unent, £2. 28 - Paris, 1850 Alif Laila: Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, commonly known as the * Arabian Nights’ Entertain- ments,” now, for the first time, published com- plete in the original Arabic, from an Egyptian MS. brought to India by the late Major - Turner Macan, editor of the “ Shah Nameh,” edited by Sir W. H. Macnacuren, 4 vols. roy. 8vo. (pub. at £6. sd.) £3. 3s Cale. 1832-42 —— the same, 4 vols. roy. 8vo. very fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, sides and backs emblematically tooled, £5. 5s 1832-42 . This edition of the Arabian Nights will be found a most useful book for the practical study of the Modern A:abie Language. Itis held in the highest estimation. Allibone (S. A.) Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, 3 vols. impl. 8vo. cloth, £4. 4s Phila. and London, 1859 Alphabets. Pranwy (Johann) [ Alphabete und zierliche Schreibkunst] von den Neudérffern verlegt, sm. 4to. hf. morocco, £3. 10s Niirmberg, 1631 A great variety of fine Ornamental Letters. The first fourteen leaves, which are from. copper-plates, pear no marks, but stand as signature A, The rest of the book is from wood-blocks, and is divided into signatures B, C, D, E, euch of twelve leaves; F, which contains six leaves; and G two leaves. America. “Diaz pret Castinzuo. Historia verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva Es- pafia, escrita por Bernal Diaz uno de sus Con- quistadores, sacada 4 luz por Remon, sm. fol. Editio Princeps of a famous work, 6 preliminary leaves, including title, folios 1-254, and 6 leaves of table at the end, vellum, RARE, £4. Madrid, 1632 —— the same, a very fine tall copy in vellum, os : 1632 This is the first and original edition of the book, as may be seen from the absence of chapter 212, which was only - added in the second edition published in the same year. J Bernat Diaz DEL CasTILLo, Historia verda- dera de la conquista de la Nurva-Espafia, sacada a luz por Al. Remon, folio, engraved Frontispiece, hf. morocco, the Svbolemski copy, — £4. 15s Ae Madrid, 1632 — This second edition, which is a totally different impres- sion from the first (and not merely a reissue with a new Prodigies and Portents that preceded and accompanied the Conquest. DaviLa Pavia, Historia de la fundacion y discurso de la provincia de Santiago de México, folio, vellum, fine copy from the Sobolewski library, £7. 10s Brusselas, 1625 — This important work is of extreme rarity, although A there exist editions printed in 1596 and 1634, as well as the above. It contains some of the most valuable materials in existence forthe history of the Spanish Conquest and settle- ments in America; as well as of the manners, language, and religions of the aborigines. Davila Padilla was born in Mexico in 1562, and had the fullest opportunities of obtaining — authentic information. He is the éarliest writer who men- — tions the establishment of Printing in the New World. Preprauita (L. F.) Historia general de las Con- quistas del Nuevo Reyno de Granada, sm. folio, bound, £5. Amberes, Verdussen, 1688 Vertia Linace (J. de) Norte dela Contratacion — de las Indias Occidentales, small folio, vellum, — £2. 108 Sevilla, 1672 —— the same, with an engraved frontispiece, fol. culf, £3. 10s 1672 VILLAGUTIERRE Soro-Mayror (J. de) Historia de la conquista de la provincia de el Itza; | reduccion y progressos de la de el Lacandon, y otras naciones de Indios barbaros, de la mediacion de el reino de Guatemala a la pro- vincias de Yucatan en la America septentri- onal. Vol. I. (y unico) folio, plain morocco, £4, 49 _ Madrid, 1701 Livre estimé contenant, un frontisp. gravé, un titre impr., 30 ff. prelim., 600 pages et la table de 17 feuillets. Bel exemplaire. 4 America. MatuHer’s Hccrestastican Hs toRY of New-England, 1620-98, folio, with the original map, calf, from the libraries of =| William and Samuel Wilberforce, a good copy, . ele LOS 1702 q A copy interesting on account of its former owners. y | American Journal of Conchology, — Vols. I-VII{, or 1865-71, with the continua- — tion in the Proceedings of the Academy of | Natural Science, 72-73 part I, including Ca-_ talogue of Recent Mollusca, described prior to Ist January, 1868—together 9-vols. and one © part, 8vo. 6 in hf. calf, the rest and the cata-_ | logue stitched, many colowred plates, £10. ; Philadelphia, 1865-73 — | American Oriental Society. Journat, - plates of facsimiles, ete. in parts, uncut, £6. 158 Boston, New York and New Haven, 1847-590 —— the same, Vols. I-V complete, 5 vols. 8yo. |
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