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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    PFORZHEIM.—101.. [ARS MEMORANDI: Petrus de Rosenheim] RATIONARIUM EVANGELISTARUM omnia in se evangelia prosa, uersu, imaginibusque quam mirifice complectens. Sm. 4to. (6g by 52+ in.), Roman letter, 27 long lines to the page, 18 leaves, woodcut initial letter and fifteen extraordinary full-page woodcut illustrations, printer’s device on last leaf, half calf. £9 0 0 Thomas Anshelmus: [Pforzheim] 1510 ‘y's Proctor, 11772. Weigel, 259. RACOW.—102. ASSERTATIONES THEOLOGICAE de ‘Trino et Uno Deo, adversus novos Samosatenicos, ex Praelectionibus Collegii Posnaniensis excerptae. Una cum Animadversionibus Fausti Socini. Sm. 8vo, Italic letter, old crimson morocco, 3-fillet gilt borders on sides, floral gilt design tooled on back, gilt edges of boards, gilt border on interior of boards, gilt edges. £3 10 0 Sebastian Sternach: Racow, 1618 '.s Apparently unknown to Brunet. Socinus is of course the famous heresiarch who founded a Unitarian colony, which afterwards became Racow. Sebastian Sternach married the daughter of Alexis Rodecki, the first printer in Racow. READING.—103. WISE (Edward, Attorney at Law) THE REMARK- ABLE TRYAL OF THOMAS CHANDLER . . . for wilful and corrupt perjury. S8vo (71é by 48 in.), wrapper. £2 5 0 C. Micklewright, Reading, 1751 «x Brit. Mus. Cat. ‘‘W.’’ Vol. 22, p. 154. NOTIN THE DICT. NAT. BIOG., Attisonr, LownpEs or Warr. PROBABLY THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN Reapine. Mr. Allnutt, the authority on English Provincial presses, only mentions The Reading Mercury, which periodical began its career in 1723. As Mr. Allnutt only carries his investigations down to 1750 he does not include this book. See Bibliographica, Vol. 2 and 3, passim, Allnutt, English Pro- vincial Presses. RIMINI.—104. MODESTUS ARIMINENSIS. (Pub. Franc.) VENETIA- DOS lib. XII.et alia poemata. BorTH PARTS, sm. folio (12 by 8% in.), Roman letter, title in red, within a woodcut cartouche, initials blank for rubricator, English red straight-grained morocco, sides gold-lined of intersecting squares, with the Wodhull Arms in gold, back gold-— tooled, inside gilt roll, g.e., fine copy with large margins. £6 0 0 Bern. Vitali of Venice: Rimini, 1521 +» The two parts are rarely found together. For many years supposed to nae first book printed in Rimini, but later discoveries have made it the second. 105. PERIGLI (Angelo) PERUTILIS ET PRACTICABILIS TRACTATUS, de paleis et olivis: cum additionibus et revisione Domini Alexandri Ortyg., advocati Ariminensis. 312mo, waterstained,. old vellum. £1 00 Erasmo Virginio: Rimini, August 19, 1550. as Fumagalli, Lex. Typ. Italiae, 327. Rare. Not in Pritzel or Jackson. The first book by this printer at Rimini.
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