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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    Maces Bros., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 15 SacroBUsTO—continued. rinter are also worked into the design. On 3b is a large woodcut of Trania, Astronomia, and Ptolomeus. Numerous astronomical and eometrical diagrams in the text and margins. olio. Vellum. Paris, Henri Estienne, 1oth November, 1511. £12 12s | This edition of Sacrobusto printed by Henri Estienne is a scarce book (the British Museum Library is without a copy). It contains some additional matter (‘quantum necessarium est’’). The condensed Euclid (books I-IV) occupies six pages only. See also footnote to No. 3878 in this catalogue. 1513 A.D. [3899] MANUEL (King of Portugal). Abtruck ains lateinischen Sandtbrieues an Babstliche Heiligkeit von Kuenik- licher Wurde zue Portegal, dis jars aufgangen von der eroberten Stadt Malacha in India etc. With the Royal Arms of Portugal on title. Black Letter. Ato. Bound by Lortic in full levant morocco, inside dentelles, g. e. Augsburg, Erhart Oeglin, September, 1513. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XIV.). Not in Rodrigues, Bibliotheca Brasilense. £65 1513 A.D. [3900] MANUEL (King of Portugal). Epistola poten- tissimi. Emanuelis Regis Portugallie etc. De victoriis nuper in Africa habitis. Woodcut Arms of Portugal on title. Printed in Black Letter. Ato. Bound! by Lortic in full levant morocco, inside dentelles, g. e. (A¢ End) Dat in Urbe nostra Ulyxbon. Pridie Kalen. Octobris, 1513. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XV.). [ Soxp | Rodrigues Bibliotheca Brasiliense, 922, who calls this ‘‘ rarissimo.’’
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