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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    numeru folioru. ppter errorem ex impressive factum / emedare cures. inci- piendo a. 23, folio. i quo folio . . . ; Kk6a: Conclusiones vna cu registro cotra quorundaz bohe / moru errores eoruqz perfidia. veru modu coionis xpi fide / liu sm ritu et approbatione romae ecclie catholice notifi / cantes. cu multis alijs pro eiusde ecclesie defensioe. vtiliter / et fructuose subservietib. Nouissime pia p informatione / fructus & vtilitate. oim vere & recte credetiu. per Licetiatu / Balthasar. fratr collegij sancti Bernhardi Liptzick pro uisore. Anno domi. 1.4.9.4. ex diuersoru doctoru optima doctrina in unu copediose collecte. Ibidemqz alma in achademia. per modu repetitois publice declarate. hic pe / dem statuunt foeliciter. / [ Device. ] Hain *2349; Proctor 3016. Not in Winship. Census, or Pellechet. The- only edition published in the fifteenth century. Gregor Boettiger or Werman (as he calls himself in two of his books) established himself at Leipzig in 1492, and continued there until 1497. He criginally came from Kriminitschau. The larger type used in this book is interesting, owing to its strong resemblance to that of the 42-line Bible. (Voulliéme: Deutschen Drucker, 87-88.) This tract is directed against the Hussites, or disciples of John Huss, who was himself in part a follower of Wycliffe. The growth of the sect was largely due to the terrible rapacity of the Roman Church and the immorality of some of its members. It was also a democratic movement, an uprising of the peasantry against the landowners, at a time when one third of the soil was in the pcssession of the clergy. The Hussite movement assumed a revo- lutionary character as soon as the news of the death of Huss reached Prague. From this time (1415) until the German Reformation the Hussites were in- volved in almost continuous warfare. Later they accepted largely the doc- trines of Luther and Calvin and dropped the distinctive name of Hussite for the more general one of Protestant (Encyc. Brit. vix., 4-7). ATIBUS LIBRI QUINQUE. Sm. folio (114 by 72 in.), first edition, title within fine architectural woodcut border, ornamental woodcut initials, printed in Italic letter, device at end, old boards, calf back, gilt. £10 10 O[Lwis Rodriguez]: Lisbon, March, 1540 +« The volume also contains: Miscellaneorum Liber, and De Pudore Liber. Nor in Hirscu. neu, Ganwyll y Cymry. §8vo, a fine copy in contemporary ted morocco, gilt floral borders on sides enclosing a small ornament, gilt panelled back, g.e., from the Heber and Powis libraries. £6 15 0 R. Thomas: Llanymddyfri, 1771 x» THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED AT LLANDOVERY. ‘An exceed- ingly popular work in Wales. According to Calamy, Pritchard’s works occasioned many hundreds of the ignorant Welch, who delight in songs, to learn their own language.’’—Lowndes. 4to, a fragment consisting of two leaves (ff 11-12) containing three passages of English verse (twelve lines in all), printed in black letter (Gordon Duff, plate XXVII.], initial spaces filled in, rubricated. £25 0 0 William de Machlinia for Henry Frankenberg: London [1486-90 | +» Gordon Duff No. 415. Some idea of the importance of this book in the history of English printing will be gathered from the fact that it is one of the exhibits in the Permanent Exhibition of Printed Books in the King’s Library, British Museum (Exhibiton catalogue, p. 68, No. 8. The firm of Lettou & Mach- linia (founded by Lettou alone, and wound up by Machlinia (alone) was the
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