Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/828
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    933 934 935 936 937 938 939 FOLIO. Bacon (Sir F.) History of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, portrait, title within woodcut border, two small holes rubbed in top margin of frontispiece, Viscount Wolseley’s copy, with his bookplate, contemporary calf, rubbed 1622 Bacon (Sir F.) Advancement and. Proficience of Learning, interpreted by G. Wats, portrait and engraved title, slight tear on p. 86 repaired, name at back of frontispiece and at top of title mm an old hand, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked Oxford, 1640 Beaumont (F.) anp J. FuetcHer. Fifty Comedies and tragedies, engraved frontispiece, portrait, manuscript mdex on fly-leaf, old boards, bottom rubbed, leather back gilt : 1679 Brer1a Latina [Genesis-Psalms], vol. I only, gothic fetter, 319 ll. two columns, 41 lines, initials, chapter numbers, book headings and head-lines supplied wm red, first page soiled and two die stamps, one partly removed, small stain and die stamp on last page, otherwise a fine and very large copy, with some manuscript quiring, measuring 390 mm. by 289 mm. boards [Hain, *3035; Pellechet, 2267 ; Proctor, *258] [Strassburg, H. Eggestem, c. 1465] ** The third book from the third Strassburg press, and the first in which Eggestein’s type 2 is found. — Brsiia Latina [Genesis-Psalms]|, vol. I only, gothic letter, 60 lines to a full page, 208 ll. uluminated frrst vnatial letter in blue and gold, extending full-length of inner margin and terminating in leafy ornamentation partly across top and bottom margins, other initial letters throughout in red, outer margin of one leaf repaired and also outer margin of last leaf wormed and stained, measuring 172 1. by 12%. stamped pigskin over boards, metal clasps and metal corners [c. 1470 ?| BROWNE (SIR THOMAS) Works, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, portrait, outer margin of a few pages and portrait a little wormed, old calf, rubbed 1686 Buonaiuti (M.) Italian Scenery, 32 coloured plates, con- temporary moroccco gilt extra, panelled sides, inside borders 1806
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