Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:: May-June 1927

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/707

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

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$673 Dante. Comedia, numerous woodcuts, contemporary Italian red morocco, border round sides of lines in blind and gold, the latter interlacing at intervals, in the centre of the upper cover within a leafy circular compartment an arm holding arrows over a tree round which is the scroll “ Si fractus illab| atur orbis,” on the lower cover the author’s name within a double circle of fleurs-de-lys and flames, g.e.; sold not subject to return Vinegia, 1536 A similar example was in the Corfield sale, 21/11/04, Lot 361; reproduced Burlington Fine Arts Catalogue. Pl. XxXxIv. 674 Descartes (R.) Musicae compendium, diagrams, vellum, Amste- lodami, 1656—Bini (Pietro di lorenzo) Memorie del Calcio Fiorentino, folding plate, boards, Firenze, \688; ete. (6) 675 Decartes (R.) Tractatus de Homine, et de formatione foetus, woodcuts, Amstelodami, 1686; Passiones animae, 7b. 1692, in | vol. old calf--Schenck (Jo. Geo.) Monstrorum historia memorabilis, engravings of monsters, boards, Francofurtz, 1609 (2) 676 Designs, Original Designs for Stained Glass Windows, by W.M., a scrap album of coloured designs, cloth ; A note- book full of coloured drawings and tracings of decorative borders chiefly from early manuscripts ; ete (5) 677 Dickson (R.) & J. P. Edmond. Annals of Scottish Printing, buckram 1890 678 Dion Cassius. Historico delle Guerre & Fatte de Romani: Tradotto di Greco in lingua vulgare, per M. Nicolo I.eoniceno, woopcuts, half calf, back broken, Vinegia per Nicolo @ Aristotile di Ferrara detto Zoppino, 1533; ete. (8) 679 Doctrinale Sacro de Maria Vergine, vellum, arms on sides, Bononie, per Hieronymum Platonidem de Benedictis, 15\1— Prediche de frate Roberto, NUMEROUS WOUDCUTS, ome leaves stained, old sheep, Venetia per Bernardino Venetiano di Vidali, 1508 ; sold not subject to return (2) 680 Donatus (Dionysius Appollonius) De octo orationis partibus libri octo, WOODCUT on title, original vellum ; Perusie apud Leonem : per Cosmum cognomine Blanchinum, 1517 681 Drury (D.) Illustrations of Natural History, 3 vol. coloured plates of insects, haf calf (worn), 1770-82 ; ete. (4) 682 Erizzo (Seb.) Le Sei Giornate, title backed, note of ownership on title and at end “Tac. Avg. Thvani,” inserted in a binding of thick wooden boards painted in gold and colours on a gesso ground, two coats-qf-arms on each cover, Venetia, 1567 ; and another ; sold not subject to return (2)$

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