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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    388 389 390 391 393 394 (ii) The Resurrection of the Dead, (iii) The Crowning of the Virgin. The last leaf of the “‘ Purgatorio” (sig.x 3) 1s wanting and supplied in old manuscript facsimile on vellum, old red morocco, gilt border on sides with arabesques and sprays at corners, in the centre the arms of a bishop, probably of the family of Este ( per pale, land 4 an eaglet displayed with coronet above; 2 and 3 a porcupine within a wreath, ona bar in chief four fleurs-de-lys ; over all an escutcheon of pretence, per pale, dexter a cross, sinister a wolf rampant), sprays within panels on back (back wormed at top and bottom), gilt gauffred edges ; sold not subject to return 8vo. 1502 EXTREMELY RARE. The first octavo edition of Dante and the first book in which the Aldine anchor is used. [See ILLUSTRATION]. Dante. L&E TERZE Rime Di DANTE, another copy, printed on paper, a faint water-stainin top margin of some leaves at end, inscription on fly-leaf, “ Bought at Sir Mark Sykes’s sale, 1824,” old red morocco, 3-line fillet in gold round sides, back tooled with flcwers, dots, etc. A FINE COPY 8vo. 1502 DANTE. Le terze rime, Lyons counterfeit edition, a few leaves at beginning and end slightly discoloured, contemporary Italian brown morocco, interlacing line tooling on sides, on the upper cover a half- length portrait of Dante, binding somewhat rubbed and portions of the gold tooling worn away, g.e. with painted design round edges of a vine-branch with grapes 8v0o. [Lyons], n. d. (1502 07 1503) Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius. [Opera], ed morocco, g. e. 8vo. 1502 Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius. [Opera], wants last leaf but one containing the colophon, old black morocco, 3-line fillet round sides, gilt back, 1502—Statius: Sylvarum libri V. Thebaidos libri XII. Achilleidos II, old calf gilt, gilt back, goints worn, g. e. 1502 ; co) 8vo. (3 Cicero (M. T.) Epistolae Familiares, painted initial cn first page, other initials in blue and red, straight-grain purple morocco 8vo. 1502 *,* Rare. The first volume of Cicero printed by Aldus. Heropotrus. OPERA (g7aece), FIRST EDITION, small worm-hole through some leaves, old calf gilt, with Roxaburghe arms on sides jolie. 1502 Lucan. [Opera], old red morocco, 3-line fillet round sides, inner panel formed by a similar fillet with floreate corner-pieces and in the centre the arms of Antoine Ferrand, gilt back, g. e.
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