Sales catalogue 924: James Tregaskis & Son

Date:
July 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/51/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 924: James Tregaskis & Son. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MENTE SABER. LA LENGUA ARAUIGA. Sm. 4to, armorial woodcut on _ title-page (repaired), several woodcuts, printer’s device and a large armorial woodcut at end, woodcut initial letters, some headings, etc., printed in red, printed throughout in a large Gothic letter, some leaves stained, original limp vellum. £40 0 0 ! Juan Varela. Granada, 1505 «+ The first edition of the first Arabic vocabulary and grammar published in Europe. Brunet IV. 463. Brunet states that this book is very rare, especially when complete. On the reverse of the title-page is a full-page woodcut of the author presenting his book to Hernando de Talavera; first Archbishop of Granada, to whom the book is dedicated ; on a3b is the Arabic alphabet; at ala (second series) we have a fresh title-page with the wood- cuts repeated: Vocabulista arauigo en letra castellana. SAPIENTIAE. Folio (113 by 83 in.), (A8, B6, a8, b6, c8, d, 6, f-x, 8.6.6.6, y6, z, A-I, 8.6.6.6, M6) » m3 and m4 duplicated, double columns, 54 lines, head-lines on recto of leaf, marginal section letters, Gothic letter, capital spaces (some with guide letters), without page numerals, or catchwords, early manuscript notes, wooden boards, pigskin back, with clasps and catches. Fre copy. £34 0 0 [Heinrich Gran]: Hagenau, 1494 «« Hain-Copinger *8761: Proctor 3181, Brit. Mus. p. 683. Gran was THE FIRST PRINTER IN HAGENAUv. 47. BARELETTA (Gabriel) SERMONES DE TEMPORE (DE SANCTIS). Sm. 4to, Gothic letter, spaces left for initials with directors, initials supplied in ted, text rubricated throughout, con- temporary stamped leather over oak boards, clasps. £3 10 0 Heinrich Gran for Johann Rinmann of Ohringen: Hagenau, 1510 «« Not in Proctor II. No copy in British Museum. This famous preacher lived c. 1470-80, and his works were very popular. KIEL TRIUM MAJORIS BRITANNIAE SCRIPTORUM hoc est Angliae, Cambriae ac Scotiae Summarium, in quasdam centurias divisum, cum diversitate doctrinarum atque annorum recta supputatione per omnes aetates a Japheto sanctissimi Noah filio, ad annuum Domini 1548. Sm. 4to, large woodcut on title, large woodcut portrait of author inserted facing preface, large and small ornamental initials, panelled calf, gilt back. £1700 John Overton: Gippeswici [Ipswich] 1548 «x FIRST ISSUE OF FIRST EDITION. This is the only known book with the imprint of Overton at Ipswich. There is of course considerable doubt as to how much if any of the book was actually printed in that town. It is generally said that there are two editions of this book, but as a matter of fact there are only two issues differing only in the lettering below the woodcut or the title, which in the later issue bears the imprint of Theodori- cus Planteanus of Wesel and the date of 1549. Both the issues have the Ipswich Colophon. The inserted woodcut portrait occurs in no other copy seen. It was engraved the same year as the book was printed. TIS, quorum accuratiori cultui facem praetulit antiquitas. r2mo, first edition, 8 l1., 342 pp., old half parchment. £1 2 0 Joachim Reumann for Johann Sebastian Riechel: Kiel, 1695 xx The author endeavours to prove that most so-called modern ideas were familiar to the ancient world, and that one finds in their writings the germ of all modern philosophical, moral and political theories ; he also endeavours to prove that all the discoveries in the arts and sciences are simply the result of knowledge derived from ancient sources. (Biog. Univ., Vol. 33, p. 90.)
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