Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
July 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/816
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    79 80 81 82 85 86 11 First Day Verneri Annotationes . . . huic accedit translatio nova primi libri Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei, diagrams and woodcuts (one woodcut shaved), Ingolstadu, 1533—Quadrans Apiani astron- omicus ... nunc primum editus, diagrams and woodcuts, 1532 ; Horoscopion Apiani, diagrams and woodcuts, Ingolstadu, 1533 ; in 1 vol. old vellum Aristotle. Politiqves, or Discovrses of Government. Translated [? by I. D.], First EDITION, two preliminary leaves misbound, old calf London, Adam Islip, 1598 Armstrong (Sir W.) Gainsborough & his place in English Art, plates, buckram 1899 Armstrong (Sir W.) Sir Joshua Reynolds, plates, buckram 1900 Armstrong (Sir W.) Sir Henry Raeburn, with an introduction by R. A. M. Stevenson, plates, buckram 1901 AUGUSTINE (ST.) DE civitTaTE DEI, gothic letter, dowble columns, 46 lunes, 208 ll. (three blank leaves wanting) [B.M. vol. V, 201; Hain, *2052], on the first leaf of text after “ Table” a large ‘anitial I in red, green and pink on a ground of blue and burnished gold, in the lower margin a coat-of-arms (azure, a chevron or between three estotles argent), large and small initials and paragraph marks in red and blue, old half vellum Venice, Gabriele di Pretro, 1475 Booke (The) of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments ... for the use of the Church of Scotland. [The Psalter, or Psalmes of David], {act fetter, title a little soled, small hole in title affecting a rule, second edition with catch- work “certain” omitted, old calf Edinburgh, R. Young, 1637-36 Browne (Sir Thomas) Works, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, portrait by White, margins of some leaves slightly wormed, original calf, rebacked, corners worn 1686 [Burton (Robert)| The Anatomy of Melancholy, the sixt edition, engraved title, small hole through one or two leaves, old calf 1652 Curysostom (St. Jo.) Homiliae super Joannem, roman letter, 267 Il. (should be 280 Il.; wants ten preliminary leaves, includ- ing two blanks, and three other leaves), 33 lines [B.M. vol. IV,
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