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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    MANCHESTER.—77. SHORTHAND. BYROM (John) THE UNI- VERSAL SHORTHAND, or The Way of Writing English, in the most easy, concise, regular, and beautiful manner, applicable to any other language, but particularly adjusted to our own. §8vo, first edition, numerous engraved plates, contemporary red morocco, gold borders on sides, gilt back, g.e., A MATCHLESS COPY. £3 00 Joseph Harrop, Manchester, 1767 +s ‘‘The method is in appearance one of the most elegant ever devised, but it cannot be written with sufficient rapidity, and consequently it was never much used by professional stenographers. . . Still its publication marks an era in the history of shorthand, and there can be no doubt that the more widely diffused system published by Samuel Taylor in 1786 was suggested by and based upon that of Byrom.’’—D.N.B. Lowndes 338: ‘‘ An excellent system of stenography.’’ MANTUA.—78.. EUSEBIUS. HISTORIA: ECCLESIASTICA, trans- - lated by Rufinus, presbyter. [Ff. 1-2. Address to Frederick Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. Fol. 3a]. Incipiunt capitula primi libri hystorie ecclesiastice. [Fol. roa.|] Incipit liber primus hystorie ecclesiastice. Sm. folio, Roman letter, 171 ll., 34 long lines to the page, wooden boards, calf back. £35 0 0 Mantua, Johann Schall, 1479 +, Hain *6771, but as he only specifies 170 leaves, the copy which he examined was probably imperfect. The printer’s name, place and date are given in a set of Latin elegiacs at the end of the book. ‘‘ The volumes which issued from his [Johann Schall’s] press are of equal beauty and rarity, and it is seldom that we behold a more elegant specimen of ancient typography than that which is now before us [the Eusebius].’’ Duibdin, Bibliothec. Spenc. MEDINA DEL CAMPO.—79. BOSCAN (Juan) LAS OBRAS DEL BOS- CAN y algunas de Garcilasco de la Vega: repartidas en quatro libros. Sm. 4to, title in woodcut border, in red and black, Coat of Arms in centre, printer’s woodcut device at end, original limp overlapping vellum, clean and large unpressed copy, many leaves with rough edges. £17 0 0 Pedro de Castro for Juan Pedro: Medina del Campo, 6 Aug., 1544 «x Very rare. Not in British Museum. Only known to Perez Pastor, Imprenta en Medina, pp. 31-35, from a copy in the private library of D. Jose Sancho Rayon, which copy was imperfect, wanting sig. *« 1-2, containing a second privilege. MELBOURNE\.—8o0. AUSTRALIA. SOUVENIR ‘VIEWS OF MEL- BOURNE AND VICTORIAN SCENERY. Oblong folio, sixteen lithographic plates (11 by 142 in.) , in a half morocco volume. £7 0 0 Melbourne [circa 1850]
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