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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    351 Gaza (THEODORUS) Introductivae grammatices libri quattuor, ete. (graece), FIRST EDITION, ornamental woodcut initials and head- preces, first few leaves slightly wormed, calf, anchor in gold on upper cover and crest on lower Jolio, 1495 352 ‘THroorirus. Theocriti Eclogae triginta... Hesiodi Theogonia, ete. (graece), FIRST IMPRESSION OF THE FIRST ALDINE EDITION, with sig. 8. G6 verso blank, interlacing woodcut initials and head- pieces, a few leaves very neatly mended, green morocco, gilt line tooling forming a panel, the corners filled-in with flowers, circles and dots with ogee-shaped inner edge, anchor on upper cover, crest and coronet on lower cover, gilt back, g.é. FINE COPY folio, 1495 353 THESAURUS cornucopiae & Horti Adonidis (graece), old olive morocco, 3-line fillet round edges, gilt panelled back with flcwers, stars, circles, etc. g. e. Jolio. 1496 354 Thesaurus Cornucopiae, & Horti Adonidis (graece), top margin of some leaves at beginning and end water-stained and frayed, title stained and mended, contemporary blind-stamped English calf over wooden boards, outer border formed of a voll containing a lion, a portcullis, a wivern and a branch with acorns enclosing a panel divided by intersecting 3-line fillets into diamond-shaped compartments, each containing a conventional leafy ornament, raised bands; sold not subject to return folio. 1496 355 Dictionarium graecum copiosissimum...cum interpretatione latina, etc. title slightly stained at top, a few leaves at beginning very slightly wormed and worm-holes through some leaves at end, calf | folio. 1497 356 HoRAE beatiss. uirginis secidum consuetudinem romanae curiae (graece), title in red with woodcut of the Annunciation on the verso, initials and woodcut head-pieces in red, on a vellum fly-leaf various specimens of the Greek alphabet in a contemporary hand, original Italian calf stamped in blind to a panelled design, in morocco slip case, RARE, FINE COPY 16mo. 1497 357 JAMBLICHUS. De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum, _ etc. FIRST EDITION, a few leaves very slightly stained, calf, g. e. Solio. 1497 ansl LEONICENUS (Nic.) Libellus de Epidemia quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant, 29 Ul. has the rare leaf of errata at end, the title and the last leaf margined to size, red morocco gilt, g.e. 4to. 1497 359 Matoius (LAur.) Epiphyllidis in dialecticis, roman letter, long lines, 53 Ul. only (wants last leaf), one or two small worm-holes through- out [| Proctor, *5558]|, July, 1497—De conversione propositionum culuscunque generis secundum peripateticos, 72 /.1497— Quaestio Auerrois in librum priorum traducta per Heliam Lebraeun, 32 //. n.d. (1497); in 1 vol. half vellum, EXTREMELY RARE 4to, 1497
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