Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May-June 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/707
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Tragicorum Londini publice celebratorum, 8 portraits (including Henry, Earl of Holland) and a view of White- hall, with the execution of Charles I, old red morocco gilt, bound for Leclere de Lesseville, Seigneur de Saint-Leu, Councillor of the Paris Parliament ,with his arms on the sides, g. e. (Du Seuil), from Baron Pichon’s Lrbrary, (sale, 1896, lot 1040) Amsterdam, J. Janson, 1649 the Christen faythe, to holde againste the Pope, and al Papistes, and the gates of hell, with other thre very profitable and necessary bokes, Slack fetter, wanting sig. M 8-Q 4, 28 leaves, title guarded and margins repaired, calf gilt, g.e.; sold not subject to return [ 15—] a. gothic letter, 109 (should be 110) leaves (8 leaves unsigned ; b, 10 Ul.; a-h4, A-p in eights), wants ¢ 8, 18 large and 29 small cuts, Vérard’s device at end, printed throughout within borders, mostly historiated, two of the large cuts roughly coloured, wmitrals wm gold on blue or magenta grounds, calf gilt, medallion stamp on sides, back repaired [ Macfarlane, 241; Bohatta, 859; not wm Brunet or Lacombe (but cp. Brunet, 1483 and Lacombe 167) | Paris, Antone Vérard, 21 July, 1508 “romme” is written in by hand. The first 18 and last 32 leaves are common to the editions (of the Uses of Paris and Chartres respectively) described by Brunet and Lacombe under the numbers quoted above. The remaining 60 leaves are peculiar to the Use of Rome and replace the 72 leaves signed a-i in the other two editions. separate edition, buckram, t. e. g. 1912; ete. (2) * bons fideles contre les erreurs de la secte commune des Anabaptistes; Contra la secte Phantastique et furieuse des Libertins, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol. in 1, ruled in red throughout, original calf, enamelled and gilt to a fine geometrical pattern with painted strapwork, the date of the binding (1552) ws stamped in gold wm the centre of each cover, the top and bottom panels of the back have been very skilfully repaired; sold as a binding, not subject to return Geneva, Jehan Girard, 1545 many ways the Lyonnese work of the period, but it was
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