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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    boten 27 87 VocasuLarivs Latino-Theutunicus secundum Ordinem Alphabeti UNIQUE) unknown to Brunet & other Bibliographers Ato. s.l. & a. circa 1470 Printed in a semi-gothic type, without signatures, pagination, or catchword. The work, containing 168 leaves, with 32 lines to a full page, ends on the recto of 168, with the words (forming line 20) “Laus deo uni et trino Amen.” To etymologists this ancient glossary is most important, as it gives the meaning of many words which will be sought for in vain in the usual dictionaries. prende la Sapienza d’ un Giovane nel corregger la superba Moglie (in ottava Rima) woodcut uncut, rare small 4to. Venetia, Trevigi § in Pistoia, Per i Fortunuti, s. a. This is the original poem on which Shakspeare’s “Taming of the Shrew ” was SL, founded. CMO ORG TorpatRE. La Henriade travestie en vers burlesques (par Fougeret de Monbron) scarce, calf small 8vo. a La Haie, 1746 2790 Voyages (Recueil des) qui ont servi 41’ Etablissement et aux Progrés de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales formée dans les Provinces- Barn e aly AVG oe, ancl, very fine copy in old French red morocco, gilt edges, by De Rome, with the Arms of H. R. H. the Comtzusse p’Artois, (Wife of | Charles X.) on sides 12mo. Amst. 1710-38-5-5-6 2791 Voyaess. Recueil de Voyages au Nord (publi¢ par J. F. Bernard) 10 vols. maps & plates S. A. R. la ComtTEssE D’ ARTOIS on sides, by De Rome 12mo. Amst. 1731-38 The Journeyings of Our Saviour, map and plates Svo. London, 1708 Tue DEDICATION Copy TO QUEEN ANNE, in old English red morocco, the sides richly ornamented with gold tooling, gilt edges, and having the cypher of Her Majesty as the centre ornament. (Boone 2793 WustHEMERt (B.) Tropi insigniores Veteris atque Novi Testamenti Svo. Basilee, 1527 A fine specimen of German binding of the XVIth century, stamped with four elegant medallion portraits surrounded by borders, with the letters T. P. placed between those on front of cover. Libellum quo ejus pro Jure Principum falso criminatur, scarce, unknown to Lowndes, Paris, 1613-—HakEWILL (Georgii) Scutum Regium, Londint, 1612 in one vol, 8vo. Tuuanus’s Copy, in “veau fauve,” with his large arms on sides and his. Mono- 2 gram on the back, stamped in gold. Cd ovté, 2795 VVuson (Mare de, Sieur de la Colombiere) La Science Heroique, plates of Arms BEST EDITION, SCARCE, fine copy in old orange morocco, gilt edges, the sides and back completely covered with golden fleurs-de-Lys In French binding of the XVIIth century. The real author of this valuable work is said to have been Denis Salvaing de Boissieux. cal PUBS
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