Sales catalogue 479: Maggs Bros

Date:
1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/45
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 479: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1496 1496 Maces Bros., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 7 situ orbis. [Edited by Hermolaus Barbarus. | Roman Letter, 27 long lines and head-lines to a full page. Capital spaces, with guide-letters, also woodcut capital on 2a. ,Catchwords at ends of quires. With many woodcut initial-letters. Ato. Half vellum. (Venice, Christophorus de Pensis, about 1495). £18 18s Hain *11013. Proctor 5259. British Museum Catalogue, Vol. V., p. 476. { Only three copies in U.S.A. (according to Census). A.D. [3884] LILIUS (Zacharias). Orbis breviarum. Roman Letter, 38 lines to a full page. Marginaha. The title surrounded by an ornamental woodcut border with a head in a cartouche in the footpiece and figures at each corner. Two geographical diagrams on 4b, one shewing the various zones, and the other being an early ‘‘ tau’’ map of the world. Printers’ device below colophon on last leaf. Ato Vellum (worm-hole repaired). Naples, Ayolfo de Cantono, oth March, 1496. £175 Hain *10102. Proctor 6744. Fava and Bresciano, La Stampa a Napoli, No. 190. This, the second, edition of Lilius is one of only six incunabula from the press of Ayolfo de Cantono. Dibdin in the ‘‘ Bibliotheca Spenceriana’’ describes it as ‘fone of the most elegant volumes from the early Neapolitan press.’’ A.D. [3885] CORVINUS = (Laurentius). | Cosmographia dans manuductionem in tabulas Ptolemaei. Small 4to, full morocco by Duru, g.e. (Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not before 1496). (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. VII.). 275 Not in Harrisse. £ British Museum Catalogue of fifteenth century books, Vol. III., p. 772. Hain *5778. On folio G7 reference is made to ‘‘ Terra Incognita’’ in the Western Ocean. At the beginning is a letter from the editor, Henricus Bebel, to Hartmannus de Eptingen, Canon of Basel, dated Basel, 1496.
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