Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/454
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    2891 2892 2893 2894 2895 gothic letter, 136 Ul., including first blank, double columns, 41 lines to a full column, with signatures, illuminated ential in gold and colours, with marginal elongations on first page of text, other initials supplied in red and blue alternately, a few small worm-holes, half calf, large copy [Hain *1270 ; Proctor 4342] 4to. Venetsjs, Johannis de Coloma agripinensi, ae Johannis Manthan de Gherretzen, 1480 mortalium cura, gothic letter, 94 Il., with signatures, long lines, 27 to a full page, a few Wl. slightly foxed and stained, several small worm-holes in text, old half calf [not seen by Hain 1226 ; Proctor 6333 | 4to. [Fuirenze, Jacopo di Carlo], 1488 couo di Firenze e intitolato Curam illius habe, roman letter, long lines, woodcut on title, and another at the end, half bound [not seen by Hain 1214 ; Proctor 6355 | 4to. Impresso in firenze per Sen Lorenzo de Morgiam & Llanni di Piero di Maganza, 1493 mortalium cura, roman letter, first page of text within woodcut border-piece (shaved at fore-edge), 3 woodcut devices on last leaf, wants al (with title and woodcut), and a8 (the former supplied in facsimile, half bound) 4to. Firenze, ad petitione di fer Piero Pacini da Pescia, 1507 Aurelius (translated out of Frenche into Englysshe by John Bourchier knyghte lorde Barners), blach ietter, title within Holbeinesque border, woodcut device on the verso of the 4th leaf, half calf, the copy of k. Farmer 4to. TT. Berthelet, 1535 Hazlitt IV, describing this copy, says: “ Sotheby’s July 30, 1894, in lot 1101, from Farmer’s Library, with his autograph and a long MS. note by him on fly leaf ; it appears to have been Ratcliff’s. I have seen no other. A—Uu 3 in fours, Uu 4 having been blank or with a device.”’ couo de Firenze del ordine de frati predicatori, gothic letter. woodcut on title, boards enclosed in a vellum cover, richly gilt, leather ties ‘8v0. Venetia, per Prero di quarengy) Berga- masco, 1674
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