Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
3rd June 1873
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/10
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    861 862 $63 864 Catalogue of the Perkins Library. VOLTAIRE. LA HENRIADE. PRINTED-ON FINE VELLUM. UNIQUE, morocco ex. by Bradel, goints and silk linings Paris, Didot, 1790 “The only copy so went as certified by MS. Note (on reverse of half title), signed “ P. Didot fils ainé.” From Prince Golownin’s sale. WHITAKER’S HISTORY OF RICHMOND- SHIRE. LARGE PAPER, INDIA PROOF IMPRESSIONS of the Platesafter Turner. 2 vols. superbly bound in russia ex. broad borders of gold on sides, gilt edges, by C. Lewis 1823 Beautiful copy of this rare County History. Whitaker’s History of Leeds—see Thoresby. Wilkinson. Londina Illustrata. Engravings of Public Buildings, &c. in London and Westminster, with Descriptions, LARGE PAPER, 2 vols. in 1, Zalf russia 1819 Wilkinson. Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, plates, oroceo ex. 1817 BIBLIA SACRA LATINA e Versione et cum Prefatione S. Hieronymi, 2 vols. FIRST EDITION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, AND THE OFIRSL BOOK EXECUTED WITH METAL TYPES: BY THE INVENTORS OF THE ART OOF, PRINTING. “A -MOST SPLENDID AND MAGNIFICENT COPY, PRINTED UPON VELLUM, WITH THE CAPITALS ARTISTICALLY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLOURS. Jn the original binding, with clasps and bosses. [Moguntia, per Gutenberg et Fust, circa 1450-55] *,* This edition is generally known by the name of the MAZARINE BIBLE, from the first discovery of a copy inthe Library of Cardinal Mazarin. It is printed in double columns, in imitation of the large letters employed by the Scribes in the Church Missals and Choir Books. In contemplating this work, the mind is lost in astonish- ment that the inventors of printing should by a single effort have exhibited the perfection of their art. Trithemius says in his Chronicle, that he was told by Peter Schoiffer (the partner and son-in-law of Fust) that this edition was executed’ about the year 1450, and that the expenses incurred in the printing were so enormous that 4,000 florins were expended before 12 sheets were printed. This MAGNIFICENT COPY formerly constituted the chief orna- ment and glory of the Library of the University of Mentz,
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