Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/850
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    124 125 126 127% 128 129 Brown (Davin) THe NEw INVENTION, INTITULED, CALLI- GRAPHIA : OR, THE ARTE OF FAIRE WRITING ... by His Majesties (? a blank or with signature only), calf gilt, VERY RARE. 8v0. St. Andrews, E. Raban, 1622 Browne (Sir Thomas) Works, portrait by R. White, original calf, one joint cracked folio. 1686 Browne (Sir T.) Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with the Garden of Cyrus, FIRST EDITION, two plates, has the two leaves at end, “ The Stationer to the Reader” and leaf of book advertisements, with slip of errata on verso, but wants the last leaf which is blank except for longtitudinal label, old calf gilt Brunner (A.) HExcubie Tutelares LX Heroum qui ab anno Ch. DVIII in Principatu Boiarie secuti, 60 portraits, engraved title shaved at top, contemporary panelled morocco, g. e. [Munich], ture of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun at end, old vellum, Leyden, 1626—Hippolitus. De Consummatione mundi, signature of Alexander Boswell inside front cover, limp vellum, Paris, 1557 ; and 6 others (9) Buchanan (G.) Psalmorum Davidis paraphrasis poetica, imperfect, LATE 16TH CENTURY FRENCH BINDING, olive morocco, two-line fillet round sides, oval centre ornament of leafy sprays, back decorated with curving leafy sprays, g.e.; sold as a binding and not subject to return 8v0. A. & f. Stephanus, n. d. Buchanan (G.) Psalmorum Davidis paraphrasis poetica, nune primum edita, 17th Century French binding, dark brown calf, large centre and corner-pieces of interlacing arabesques on an azured gold ground, the background filled m with a semis of a small quatrefoil flower stamp, in the centre within an oval, on the upper cover the letters M.P.V. on the lower cover Sr. D A [L ?] —IS (the third letter is indistinct and the fourth wlegible), back repaired, g.e.; sold not subject to return Svo. H. & kh. Stephanus, n. d. Bunyan (John) Le Pélerinage d’un nommé Chrétien, FIRST FRENCH EDITION, engraved frontispiece, old calf gilt 12mo. Paris, 1783 \ Gf?
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