Sales catalogue 20: Andrew Block

Date:
1937-1938
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/26/13
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 20: Andrew Block. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    272 FETES.—PERRAULT (Charles) Courses de Festes et de Bague faittes par le Roy et par tes Princes et Seigneurs de sa Cour en l’année 1662. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1670. Folio. Contemporary mottled calf, arms of Louis the XIV. in gold on sides £8/8/- 4 ll., 104 pp. (pp. 65-67 being repeated in numbers). Fine engraved title and 96 beautiful en- graved plates showing tournaments, armoury, etc. There ave 12 engraved head and tail pieces. The text is by Charles Perrault. There is a Latin poem by Esprit Fléchier. The plates are engraved by Chauveau, Isr. Silvestre, etc. The book was later included in the great collection entitled Le Cabinet du Roi, but these separately issued copies are preferable to those, because they contain the first impressions of the plates. Brunet IJ, 337. 273 FIELDING (Henry) A Proper Answer to a late Scurrilous Libel, entitled, An Apology for the Conduct Of a Late Celebrated Second-Rate Minister. Ist edn. Dublin, 1748. gen Sewn 25/- 274 FIREWORKS.—A Proclamation concerning the throwing of fireworks in the streets, issued by the Lord Mayor, 3rd Nov., 1674. Lond., Andrew Clark, 1674. A large quarto Broadside, printed on one side only; with the City arms at the head 30/- “Whereas divers rude and disordered Young-men, Apprentices and others, do now of late presume and take to themselves a Liberty (beyond what hath ever been in former times) to throw about Squibs and Five-works 1n the Streets and Publick Passages of this City, ... 275 FLORUS (Lucius Annaeus Julius) L. Annaei Flori Rerum Romanarum Libri quatuor, Johanne Minellio. Engraved and printed title. London, J. Gellibrand, 1683. 12mo. Old A (worn) 276 FOLK-LORE.—Monreiro (Mariana) Legends and Popular Tales of the Basque edie Illus. by Harold Copping. Lond., 1887. 4to. Orig. cl., Uncut 10/- One of 100 signed copies. 277 FOLK-LORE.—ZEIrTLIn (Ida) Skazki: Tales and Legends of Old Russia. Cold. tllus. by Theodore Nadejen. [1926.] Large 8vo. Orig. cl. 10/6 278 FOOTBALL.—Discorso Sopra’l Giuoco del Calcio Fiorentino. Del Puro Accademico Alterato. Di nuovo ristampato. Florence, 1615. 4to. Old wrapps. 35/- 279 FOXE (John) [Book of Martyrs :] RERuM In Ecclesia GESTARUM, quae postremis & periculosis his temporibus, maximarumque ; per Europam persecutionum, ac Sanctorum Dei Martyrum, caeterarumque ; [etc.]. Pars Prima. Im qua primum de rebus per Angliam & Scotiam gestis, atque im primis de horrenda, sub Maria nuper Regina, persecutione, narratio continetur. Ist edn. Basle: Nicolas Brylinger, 1559.—Martyrum Historia. PPARs SECUNDA, quum autem in prima parte Martyres salte Angliae & Scotiae, a D. Joanne Foxo Anglo superioribus annis sint annotatae, hac demum secunda nunc primum res memorabiles Martyru per Germaniam, Galliam, et Italiam a loannis Hussi tempore ad praesentem 1563 annum gestae. Authore Heinrico Pantaleone Ordinarie Physico in Academia Basiliensi. Ist edn. Basle: ‘Nicolas Brylinger, 1563. Folio, two parts in one volume. Contemp. cf. This publication is four years earlier than the English edition. Itis not recorded in the S.T.C., and contains many things not found in the English version. The continuation is seldom found with Foxe’s text as 1t was published four years later. 280 FRANGE.—BretTonneau (Guy) Histoire Genealogique de la Maison des Briconnets. Contenant la Vie et Actions plus memorables de plusieurs Ilustres Personnages sortis de cet estoc, Cardinaux, Evesques, Ambassadeurs, etc. With an Lak Steak and printed title. Paris, J. Daumalle, 1620. 4to. Orig. vell. 21/- 281 FRANCE.—Chronoloygie Septenaire de l’Histoire de la paix entre les Roys de France et d’Espagne. Engraved and printed title. Paris, J. Richer, 1607. 8vo. Old cf. £1 FRAUDS.—See under CarasBoo; PSALMANAZAR. 282 FREEMASONRY.— An Illuminated Manuscript Address, on Vellum, to the Right Hon. the Earl Howe, G.C.H. Provincial Grand Master of Leicestershire from the Brethren of the Province October ix. mdccclx (1860). Folio. Full tooled morocco, with masonic emblems. Inset in a panel inside the front cover ts.a fine portrait painted in o1l-colours by T. Jones Barker, of Earl Howe in his full Masonic Regalia as Provincial Grand Master £12/12/- 283 FREEMASONRY.—Masonry, or Freemasonry. An extract of 214 pp. (double column) FREEMASONRY.—See also under BINDING.
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