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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    334. [VaueHan (Str WILLIAM)] CAMBRENSIVM CAROLEIA... opera & studio Orphei Iunioris, FIRST EDITION (wants the map, a few letters damaged by small stains), calf gilt 8vo. Hacudebat Gulielmus Stansbeius, 1625 *,* APPARENTLY THE ONLY OTHER COPY KNOWN ISIN THE BRITISH Museum. The work consists of a Latin poem, dedicated under the name of Orpheus Junior to King Charles I. It contains several verses on Newfoundland and a map (wanting in this copy) of the Colony by Capt. J. Mason (see lot 335). The name of William Griffith is on the title. 335 VauGHAN (Sir W.) Cambrensivm Caroleia...Opera & Studio Gulielmi Vaughanni Militis, map (a small hole damaging five words of the dedication leaf, some head-lines, catchwords and sig- natures cut into, the map slightly torn, and a small piece of the right hand top corner missing), calf gilt; from the George Chalmers library 8vo. Impensis Francisci Constable, in caemiterio S. Pauli, 1630 *,* APPARENTLY THE ONLY COPY KNOWN OF THIS EDITION. WITH THE FOLDING MAP. Incomplimentto Wales Sir William Vaughan had given his settlement in Newfoundland the name of Cambrid, and included all the names of the counties of South Wales except Radnorshire. ‘These names no longer exist. 336 Vircin. Opera... figuris atque imaginibus per Sebast. Brandt superadditis, NUMEROUS LARGE AND SPIRITED WOODCUTS, small wormholes through a few leaves, original blind stamped pigskin over wooden boards folio. Strasburg, Joh. Grieninger, 1502 337 Virgil. I sei primi libri del Eneide tradotti a piu illustre & honorate Donne, woodcuts, separate title to each book, red morocco, g. é. 8v0. In Vinegia per Giovanni Padouano ad spesa del Federico Torresano d Asola, 1544 338 Vita Ade et Eve; Gesta Romanorum; De Pestilentia; Tractatus de virtutibus balneorum, etc. MANUSCRIPT on paper, 178 Il. (9 in. by 5% in.), long lines, written by various scribes, calf sm. folio. XV CENT. *,* Contains an account of the Dedication of Westminster Abbey. 339 Vitruvius. De Architectura et Frontini de Aquaeductibus, nume- rous woodcuts and diagrams, title within woodcut border (slightly defective), one initial on sig.B1 slightly defective, old calf, gilt back, gilt gauffred edges, Florentiae, P. de Giunta, 1513—Cei (Francesco) Sonecti, capituli, canzone, ete. title within fine wood- cut border, morocco, g.é. ib. 1514; ete. 8vo. (3) EL
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