Sales catalogues: Hodgson

Date:
28th- 29th November 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/10/56
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Hodgson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    28 Suetonius. Historie of Twelve Cesars, Emperors of Rome, translated into English by Philemon Holland. Together with a marginall Edition, Printed for M. Lownes 1606, and The Historie of Justine, 1606, the 2 in 1 vol, original calf, with Lyonesse centre ornament, and the fine armorial book-plate of Sir T. Hanmer, 1707, on the verso of the first title Edition, sm. folio, calf (broken, and many Ul. slightly water-stained) [N. Okes] for H. Blount 1614 preserved (a few ll. repaired, and one slightly defct.) W. Stansby for W. Burre 1610 31 Donne (John) Enccenia. The Feast of Dedication. Celebrated at Lincolnes Inne in a Sermon there upon Ascension day, 1623, First Edition, sm. 4to [A 3 ll. and B to G1 in fours], half calf een ee a 32 Donne (J.) Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, brilliant umpression of the rare portrait by Lombart, First Edition, with the blank leaf at end, sm. 4to, calf (re-backed) J. Flesher for R. Marriot 1651 33 Mitton (J.)—Justa Epovarpo Kina NAUGFRAGO, ab Amicis moeeren- tibus amoris . . . [second title]: OBSEQUIES TO THE MEMORIE or Mr. Epwarp Kine [containing the First Epition oF MILTon’s “ Lycras’’], 7. Buck & R. Daniel, Cantabrigie 1638, bound up between 1654-1662, also the Speech (before Execution at Edinburgh) of James Guthrey, 1661, with a contemporary MS. “‘ table of ye principall things . . . in this booke ’’—but no particular mention of Milton’s Poem, in 1 vol, sm. 4to, old calf (re-backed, and a small wormhole in upper margins) 1638-62 qq A clean and perfect copy of Milton’s “ exquisite poem ’’—to use the simple eulogy of a most distinguished living critic— Lycidas,” which is not only one of the greatest poems in the language, but also one of the very rarest of all the great English poems in its original form, that is as a First Edition. The collation is as follows :-— Title, etc. [A] 41l., B—D in fours, EH 6 Ul., F (second title) to I 2, in fours. It may be added that the last 2 pages of the first part, which were mis-printed 31 and 32 have been altered in a contemporary hand to 35 and 36. The measurement is 7hin. by dkin. (see Facsumile).
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