Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
1 August 1859
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    80 THE CHOICER PORTION OF FOURTH DAY’S SALE. ‘600 CrRvont pa Conte (Giovanni) Canzone in Morte del 8. D. Francesco] YWrnim, | Medici Gran Duca di Toscana / RARE (See Moren?) Ato. Firenze, B. Sermatelli, 1587 | 601 Crrvonr pa Corie (Isabella) Canzone al Christianissimo Enrico IV, Os Re di Francia e di Navarra, sopra la sua Conversione 4to. Fiorenza, G. Marescotti, 1597 Seger, 602 CzrsoLE (Frate Giacobo da) sopra il Giuoco delli Scacchi | ¢O Me scarce Svo. s.d. M.D.XXXIIII.| 603 CrssoLes (Jacques de). Le Jeu des Echez moralise. Cy finist le (20m liure des eschecz & lordre de-cheualerie traslate de latin en francoys, : i woodcut titlepage and capitals | black letter, mulberry morocco extra, gilt edges, by Kehler | small 4to. Paris, Michel Le Noir, 1505. This rare edition at the end of “Le Livre de lordre de chevalerie” contains. “ung petit traictie a lenseignement & au prouffit de tous princes barons & aultres qui le vouldront entendre & garder lequel fut fonde & extrait dune Jictton trouvee en escript,” which is a dialogue between “ Melibée et Prudence.” This being appended has led Du Verdier into the error of supposing it a part of the work, and that this “Jeu des Echecz” was totally different from that of Jacques de Cessoles, once so popular as to be translated into almost every European language, including into English from the French by William Caxton, whose first edition was printed in 1474, A manuscript. of this version in the King of Sardinia’s library states that the French translator’s name was “F’rére Jean du Vignay de lV Ordre des Fréres du Hault Pas,” and that it was made “ &@ la requeste et priére de noble homme Bertrand Aubry de Tarascon.” CS unknown to Brunet, Italian vellum Delia, 8vo. Venetia al Segno del Pozzo, 1551 605 Cuarmis (Fratris Bartholomei de) Interogatoria sive Confessionale i = Jine copy, the first page surrounded by an illuminated border, red mor- rocco extra, gilt edges, by C. Hardy 8vo Mediolani, per D. de Vespolate et J. de Marliano, 1478 This scarce volume has the arms of the VisconTr painted in the border, and _ | was formerly in their celebrated library at Pavia. | 606 Cuamprer (Simphorien) La nef des princes; et (la Nef) des batailles a de noblesse avec le chemin pour aller a lospital (par Robert de Barsat, ou Balzac), woodcuts : black letter, fine copy in Venetian morocco super extra, tooled sides, gilt edges, by Capé small 4to. Paris, Philippe le noir, 1525 — An account of the various Pieces (in prose and in verse) contained in this rare volume will be found in Brunet, vol. I, p. 625. The most valuable and | curious of these is the “ Declaration du Ciel et du Monde et des Merveilles de la Terre,” with woodcut maps. Amongst these “ Merveilles” are enumerated — fountains, whose waters are famous for rendering drinkers white or black, | sterile or non-sterile, or other extraordinary qualities. England is described _ as ie country from whence come “les pierres que on appelle gagattes et de perles,
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