Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
17-18 December 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/979
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    451 Martial. Epigrammata, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, some leaves shaved at top, original cloth, 1615—Cicero. De Officiis, S.T.C. records one copy only, original sheep-skin, Cam- bridge, 1639—Sibbs (Richard) The Sovles Conflict with itself, FIRST EDITION, original calf, 1635; ete. (8) 453 Record (Robert) John Dee, John Mellis and others, The gexn@rovnd of Arts teaching the perfect worke . . . of Arith- ( ln) meticke, Bh 2-4 defectwe, original calf, 1631—[De la Mothe (G.) The French Alphabet: The Treasvre of the French Tongue], wants a1 and 2, defects in a3-B3, unbound [imprint on title of part IT], Printed by George Miller, 1631 (2) ** Both works are editions unrecorded in the 8.T.C. 454 [Henry VIII]. A Description of the Solemn Justs held at Westminster . . . upon the Birth of their eldest Son, Prince Henry, a.p. 1510, an engraving, coloured, forming a roll 17 ft. by 54 1n. Soc. of Antiquaries, 1729 455 [Damiano] Libro da Imparare Giocare a Scachi, . .. In lingua Spagnola & Taliana, novamente Stampato, gothic fetter, large woodcut on title, and woodcut diagrams in the text, title and last two leaves slightly defectwe, original vellum [no place or date, c. 1520| 456 Cleuer (R.) and J. Dod. A Godlie Forme of Householde Government, some headlines and some marginal notes shaved, corner of title repavred, half calf, 1612—Rainoldes (J.) The Summe of the Conference betweene John Rainoldes and John Hart, partly Siac fetter, edges browned, title stained, old calf, 1609; and others; sold not subject to return (7) 5% Hispanus (Petrus) The Treasury of Health .. . translated into English by Humfrie Lloyd, black fetter, text complete, wants all after 28 (Table), margins of first 8 ll. frayed, contemporary lump vellum T. Last, 1585 458 Horar B.V.M. ap usum Sarum cum CALENDARIO. Manv- SCRIPT ON VELLUM, written in clear gothie characters m black, red and burnished gold, 16 lines to a page, 208 Ul. (+ two blanks), SEVEN FULL-PAGE MINIATURES, TWELVE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS IN GOLD AND COLOURS, many pages decorated with full borders with half-length mima- tures at the corners of angels, saints and other figures, birds and insects being also introduced, old green morocco Guts Ge: (122 mm. by 85mm.) HENeLIsH, c. 1450 ** Two of the full-page miniatures are unfinished (S.
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