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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    119 HicpEN (R.) PoLicRonicon [translated into English by John of Trevisa], black letter, title and last leaf (blank but for Caxton’s device) in facsimile, piece torn from margin of folio 183 affecting a marginal note and repaired from another copy, fore-edge of last seven leaves neatly repaired, two or three letters on folio 340 a little defective, blind stamped brown morocco, g.e. by Clarke & Bedford; sold not subject to return Solio. Westminster, Wynkyn de Worde, 13 April, 1495 *,* On sig. N 4 recto occurs the first specimen of music printed in England. 120 Higden (R.) Policronicon, black letter, 35 1. only, wrappers ; sold not subject to return folio. Westminster, W. de Worde, 1495 121 ~ Historia delle cose occorse nel regno d’Inghilterra, in materia del Duca di Notomberlan dopo la morte di Odvardo VI, olive morocco gilt, uncut 8vo. Nell’ Academia Venetiana, 1558 122 Hocvs Pocvs Ivnior. The Anatomie of Legerdemain, or The Art of lugling set forth... Unto each Tricke is added the figure, where itis needfull for instruction, /rontispiece and woodcuts (the corner of one leaf torn off damaging the text) gee) Printed by T. H. for R. M. 1634 193 ~~ Homer. Inias ur Opyssea (Graece) [with the Latin Preface ae ‘“Bernardus Nerlius Petro Medicae Laurentii Filio. S.” dated Florentiae, Idibus Ianuariis, 1488], FIRST EDITION, 2 vol. printed in small Greek characters, long lines, 39 to a page, 438 Ul. (vol. T, 249 Ul.; vol. IT, 189 ll.; wants two blank leaves, i.e. sig. E10 (first series) in vol. I and ert 6 at the end of vol. IT) | Hain, 8772; Proctor, *6194], margins of a few leaves in sheets A and B (second series) in vol. I very neatly repaired, a few small worm- holes through some leaves at end of vol. II filled in, green morocco gilt, g.e. inside dentelle borders, A FINE COPY, 124in. (12 in.) by 8 in. RARE folio. Florence, Bart. di Libri for B. and N. Nerlius, 9 Dec. 1488 124 Homer. Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia, ete. (Graece), morocco, g. é. Venetiis, Luc.-Ant. Junta, 1587—Aristotle: De arte poetica (Graece), straight-grained blue morocco gilt, silk linings, g. e. ; Srom the Heber library, Florentiae, apud Juntas, 1564—Terence: Comoediae, calf gilt, book-plate of Horace Walpole, inside cover, g.e. tb. 1572 ; ete. 8vo. (5) 125 Homies. Pregethan a osodwyd allen trwy awdurdod ... black letter, 34 long lines to a page (wants title and preliminary leaves), text A-M in eights; Aa—Tt in eights; Vv, 4 ll.; Aaa—Ttt in eights ; sold not subject to return, calf 4to. n.d. [1606] C2
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