Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1906
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/221
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tI 78 Bonaventura (S.) Speculum/Beatae Mariae Virginis (51 J. the first blank), |Hain *3567]|, Augustae per Anthonium Sorg im- pressus 1477 — Imago Beatae Virginis compositus a fratre (43 Ul. including two blanks), absque nota—Joannis Pithsani (sic 2 Jo. Peckham) Archiep. Canthuariensis Ord. Frat. minorum liber de Oculo Morali (cum Tabula Materiarum per Fratrum Mathias de Wienna), 61 dl. 7b. —Secuntur quin% libri de Consideratione domini Bernhardi Abbatis Clareval- lensis ad Eugenium Papum ; Ejusdem de Conflictu Cavitatis (ste) Babilonis et Jherusalem ; (38 d/.) 2b. — Liber Cipriani Episcopi & Martyris de duodecim abusionibus Seculi (8 JU. one blank), 2b. ; in 1 vol. contemporary oak boards, red leather, with small stamps of roses, fleurs-de-lis and panel ornaments, letter clasp catches sm. folio. Augsburg, Ant. Sorg, 1477 All these pieces are printed in the same semi-roman type, long lines, 38 and 39 leaves, without marks, having outline woodcut initials throughout. They were evidently all issued in one volume, and are of the year of the first Treatise which has the imprint. A large and clean and very rare volume. lit. goth. 4 columns, with signs. red rubrics, capitals painted in blue and red (wormed), contemporary oaken boards, stamped ornamental pigskin 80 Bonifacius VIII Papa. Liber Sextus Decretalium ; Constitutiones Clementinae, etc. (per Jo. Andream editae), lit. goth. 4 columns, without marks, capitals and running titles in red, “ illumi- natum per me Conradum Strit d’Esselingen” (see MS. in- scription below imprint), 2 or 3 ll. wanting, contemporary oaken boards, pigskin, with small stamps of Lamb and flag, unicorns, fleurs-de-lis and Medici balls, fairly well preserved large folio. Basil. M. Wensler (with shields in red), 1476 Bond (F.) Gothic Architecture in England, 7l/ustrations, 1905— Timmins (H. T.) Nooks and Corners in Shropshire, map and illustrations, 1899—Davie (W. G.) Old Cottages, etc. in the Cotswold District, with notes, etc. by E. Guy Dawler, 100 plates, 1905 4to. (3) Books about Books, edited by A. W. Pollard, LARGE PAPER, 6 vol. illustrations on Japanese paper, portraits, etc. half vellum, 150 copies printed Svo. 1893-94 Boswell (James) Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. and his Tour to the Hebrides, edited by H. Morley, 5 vol. portraits after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 500 copies printed, uncut roy. 8vo. 1884-85 Boswell-Stone (W. G.) Shakspere’s Holinshed, the Chronicle and the Historical Plays compared, 1896—Seeley (L. B.) Fanny Burney and her Friends, LARGE PAPER, 150 copies printed, portrait and illustrations, half bound, g. t. n. d.—Morris (W.) The Roots of the Mountains, 250 copies printed on Whatman paper, 1890 4to. (3)
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