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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    370 | 373 374 375 376 377. - 378 379 CoLuMNA (F. pE) HyPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI, FIRST EDITION, NUMEROUS FINE WOODCUTS, the cut on sig. m6 unmutilated, MS. notes on title signed ‘‘ F. Pona 1635,” title slightly soiled, other- wise a good copy, brown morocco, geometrical tooling on sides, anchor in gold in centre, gilt back, g. e. Solio. 1499 Dioscorides (Ped.) De materia medica libri sex, etc. (g7aece), FIRST EDITION, 135 Ul. only, containing the works of Dioscorides, brown morocco gilt, anchor in gold on upper cover and crest on lower, panelled back, g. e. | folio. 1499 Epistolae diversorum philosophorum oratorum Rhetorum sex & viginti (graece), calf gilt, g. e. 4to. 1499 Catherine of Sienna (St.) Epistole devotissime, large /ull-page woodcut of St. Catherine, title wormed (supplied from another copy) mended and margined to size, small worm-hole through neat few leaves, last leaf in facsimile, purple morocco gilt, g. é. ; sold not subject to return Solio. 1500 Lucretius (T.) Libri sex nuper emendati, first leaf very slightly defective and mended, straight-grained red morocco, blue silk linings, g.e. by Bozerian 4to. 1500 Horace. [Opera], FIRST ALDINE EDITION, first page of teat with a painted border and coat-of-arms at foot, initials in red and blue, jirst few leaves somewhat discoloured at foot, old dark green morocco gilt, RARE 8vo (63 in. by 8¥%n.) 1501 EDITION, brown morocco gilt, g. e. by Clarke & Bedford 4to. 1501 Petrarch (F.) Le Cose volgari [Sonetti et Canzoni], brown morocco gilt, g. é. 8vo. 1501 *,* The first Italian book printed in the Aldine italic type. Philostratus. De vita Apollonii Tyanei, etc. (graece et latine), 2 vol. sheepskin, back gilt Folto. 1501-2 Picus (Jo.-Fr.) De imaginatione, straight-grain blue morocco, border in gold and blind on sides, leather doublures with gilt border, g. e. by Bozerian jeune, FINE COPY 4to. 1501 Poetae Christiani. Prudentii poetae opera, etc.; Sedulii mira- bilium divinorum libri IV, ete. ; Gregorii Nazianzeni opusculum,
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