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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    Lor 458—continued. Michael and S. George), two others represent the expulsion from Eden, and yet another the lady owner of the book with her guardian angel kneeling before the Virgin and Child (she is again depicted on folio 418 just before Prime). An unusual feature of this manuscript is the large number of small figures of angels and saints in the margin which occur throughout the first half of the book, A good many borders have been somewhat cut into at the top and some of the figures are a little rubbed, 459 [ApprrtEy (C. J.)] Memorrs oF THE LATE JOHN MyrTton, Esa. by Nimrod, third edition, with a Brief Memoir of Nimrod by the Author of “ Handley Cross” [R. S. Surtees], erghteen coloured plates by H. Alken and T, J. Rawlings, has the 8 pp. Publisher’s Catalogue at end, the plate facing p. 56 a lrttle stained, one end-paper cut out, original cloth gilt, slightly frayed, g. e. Rk. Ackermann, 1851 460 Morley (Thomas) A Remonstrance of the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Murders committed by the Irish Rebels against the Protestants in Ireland (8 Il. some marginal notes and numerals shaved, a few stains), half calf Printed by E. G. 1644 >) 461 [Ashmole (Elias)] Fasciculus Chemicus: or Chymical Col- Z lections. Expressing the Ingress, Progress, and Egress, or the Secret Hermetic Science .. . by James Hasolle, frontispiece, a few stains, old calf, rebacked 1650 462 Aldine Press. Horace. Opera, FIRST ALDINE EDITION, blank portions of first and last leaves neatly repaired, red morocco, g.e. by Riviere Vemce, May, 1501 A COLLECTION OF MEDICAL BOOKS. _., OCTAVO ET INFRA. as Neal 463 Béguin (Jean) Les Hlémens de chymie, woodcuts, old vel- (ivy , Subtilité et subtiles inventions, traduit par R. Le Blanc, modern vellum, 1566; and others (6) 464 Cope (Sir A.) Abbreviatio chronicorum, Manuscripr on 152 Ul. in a curse gothic hand in black and red, old vel- E
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