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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    Folio (113 by 9% in.), lettres batardes [Duff, plate xlvii.] (2 11., a-y8 z6 76). This copy lacks the first two leaves, fifty lines to the page, with headlines and marginalia, without catchwords or page numerals, Le Talleur’s device at end, a few leaves slightly stained, contemporary manuscript notes, some blank margins repaired, modern polished sheep. £110 0 0 [Guillaume Le Talleur: Rouen for Richard Pynson: London, 1400 | »s Hain-Copinger 15092 (not seen by Hain); Proctor 8768; Gordon Duff was printed later, and was only inserted in certain copies. If that is the case, the present book is perfect. Sez REPRODUCTION ON Pace 45. 110. BOETHIUS (Ancius Manlius Severinus) DE CONSOLA- TIONE PHILOSOPHIE cum Commentario Scti Thome & Jod. Badii; item eiusdem de disciplina Scholarium (not found in this copy). Sm. 4to, Gothic letter, two types, title printed in red and black, and fine woodcut device of Jehan Mace, an ancient English calf binding with two stamped panels, on both sides, each measuring 44 by 22 in., composed of two large superimposed medallions with busts of men — crowned with laurel wreaths, flanked by six semi-medallions with busts of warriors; the intervening spaces filled with foliated orna- | ment [see Weale 202.] £900 For Jean Mace of Rennes: Rowen [1504 | ss AN EXCEEDINGLY BRIGHT SPECIMEN OF AN ENGLISH STAMPED BINDING. Leyes del Fuero. Folio (114 by 72 in.) , Royal Arms of Spain on title page, roan roxburghe, FINE COPY, with contemporary notes. £15 0 0 Juan Gysser: Salamanca, June 23, 1502 »'s Nor In THE BritisH Museum, Sarva, Herepia or Panzer. Collation: a-d in sixes. Description: ala: [Royal Arms of Spain, 125 x 91 mm.] / leyes del estillo. y declaracio- / nes sobre las leyes del fuero.—alb: blank :—a2a: Aqui comiencan las le- / yes del estilo: que por a / tra manera se llamen de / claracion delas leyes.—d3b: at foot of column 2: Fin.—d4a: Comienca la tabla de to / das las leyes que eneste libro se contienen: d6b: at foot: Fueron impressas & acadabras estas leyes en-la / muy noble & leal cibdad de Sala- manca per Ju / an gysser aleman de Silgenstad. a xxiij. dias del / mes de Junio. Ano de mill. cccccii. afiios—Fifty-six lines to page, 24 leaves, double columns, text printed in a small Gothic letter (20 lines = 67 mm.), title and pareesaph headings, etc., in a large but otherwise similar letter, initial spaces eft. VISIBLE WORLD: or, the wonders of the invisible world displayed in five parts. Part I. An account of the sufferings of Margaret Rule, written by the Rev. C. M. [Cotton Mather]. Part II. Severall letters to the author, etc., and his reply relating to witchcraft. Part III. The differences between the inhabitants of Salem Village, and Mr, Parris, their minister, in New England. Part IV. Letters of a gentleman uninterested, endeavouring to prove the received opinions about witchcraft to be orthodox. With short essays to their
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