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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    APPENDIX—continued. STRASSBURG.—167. LABORDE (Léon de) DEBUTS DE L’IMPRI- MERIE A STRASBOURG, ou recherches sur les travaux mysterieu:x de Gutenberg dans cette ville, et sur le procés qui lui fut intenté en 1439 a cette occasion. Royal 8vo, a few facsimiles of types, woodcuts, writing, and three tinted reproductions of watermarks, half green morocco. RARE. £2 50 Techener: Paris 1840 +x 84 pp + list of plates + 5 plates (3 folding). 168. [MENTEL (Jacques) ] BREVIS EXCURSUS DE LOCO, tempore et Authore inventionis typographiae, ad clarissimum virum Gabrielem Naudaeum Parisiensem. Sm. 4to, 13 pp., red roan rox- burghe. £14 10 0 _ Antoine Vitré: Paris 1644 +s Not in Brunet or Watt. Some writers attribute this book to Antoine Vitré. (Bigmore & Wyman, ii., 37). 169. [SCHRAG (Johann Adam)] BERICHT VON ERFIN- DUNG DER BUCH TRUCKEREY IN STRASSBURG. Sm. 4to, - X, A-G4, slightly discoloured, old wrapper... £100 0 Mauritz Carlen: Strassburg 1640 «x According to Holzmann and Bohatta, I., p. 189, the author of this curious tract, which endeavours to prove Johann Mentel, first printer in Strassburg, the inventor of printing, was written by Johann Adam Schrag (Bigmore & Wyman, II., p. 324). The author deals with all the other claims, including the Chinese, Mainz and Haarlem, and proves by a sort of process of exhaustion that Strassburg only could be the cradle of printing. , TURIN.—170. MAROCCO (Maurizio) _CENNI SULL, ORIGINE F SUI PROGRESSI DELL’ ARTE TIPOGRAFICA IN TORINO dal 1474 ad 1861. 8vo, cloth. £1 2 0 Botta: Turin 1861 VIENNA.—171. DENIS (Michael) WIENS BUCHDRUCKERGES- CHICHTE bis M.D.LX. gto, engraving of the Garelli Library on title, and frontispiece of printers’ devices, half calf. £1 18 0 Christian Friedrich Wappler: Wien 1782 172. MAYER. (Anton) WIENS BUCHDRUCKER-GES- CHICHTE, 1482-1882 herausgegeben von der Buchdruckern Wiens. Two vol., 4to., numerous facsimiles, some in colour, original marbled boards, linen back. £4 50 Vienna 1883 sx Arranged in chronological order, this work gives particulars of books printed in Vienna from 1482-1882, with bibliographical and biographical notes and an index of the printers and authors.
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