Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/554
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lot 114—continued. Henry the fift. Henry the fift, his life and death. Foure Battels Betweene the two Houses of York and Lancanster (sic). The Field of Banbery. The Losse of Elizabeth. The Praise of King Iames. And lastly, a Poeme to the Yong Prince (a few leaves cut into slightly damaging the teat or marginal notes, wants A 1, a blank ?), half calf 4to. Printed by Thomas Creede, for Roger Lackson, and are to be solde at his shop in Fleetstreete, over against the Conduit, 1604 *,* VERY RARE, from the Bindley and Heber libraries. It is entirely in verse, and contains a reference to the stage: These penny Poets of our brazen stage Which alwayes wish, O let them wishe in vaine, With Roscius gate thy gouerment to staine. 115 Henry VIII. LITERARUM, QUIBUS INVICTISSIMUS PRINCEPS, HENRICUS OCTAUUS, REX ANGLIAE ET FRANCIAE...RESPONDIT AD QUANDAM EPISTOLAM MARTINI LUTHERI, ad se miss, et ipsius Lutherane quoque epistole exemplum (sign. A 8-F 8, G 3), title within woodcut border, small holein sign. C1, slightly affecting two letters, blank margin of sign. D2 neatly repaired, calf, the sides of the original calf binding neatly inlaid, the upper cover stamped with the “ Redemptoris Mundi Arma” panel (Weale, Rubbings, p. 127), the lower one with the Royal arms and Tudor rose (2b. p. 127), both with the mark of John Reynes, EXTREMELY RARE 8v0. In aedibus Pynsonianis, 2 Dec. 1526 116 Henry (Philip) An Account of the Life and Death of Mr. Philip Henry, Minister of the Gospel, near Whitchurch in Shropshire, portrait by White, calf; from the Heber library 8v0. Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1699 117. Hrywoop (Joun) A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the proverbes in the englishe tongue, compacte in a matter con- cernyng two maner of mariages, made and set foorth by John Heywood, FIRST EDITION, title within an architectural woodcut border (a name, “ Petre Smyth,” on the title, some passages very Saintly underlined), calf, FINE COPY 4to. [Colophon] Jmprinted...in Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelet, prynter to the Kynges hyghnesse.. . Anno M.D.XLVI([1546] ae ONLY ONE OTHER COPY OF THIS EDITION APPEARS TO BE RECORDED, that in the Roxburghe sale. [See ILLUSTRATION]. 118 HigpEN (RANULPH) PoLYCRONICON, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, written in Latin by an English scribe in gothic characters, long lines, 163 ll. (8 in. by 54in.), begins ‘De Oceano” (4.e. Book J, Chap. LX, in Cazton’s Translation), and ends imperfectly c. 1350, calf 4to. Hnglish, XV CENT.
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