Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
17 March 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/638
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    132 733 734 735 737 738 never before published, engraved title and coat-of-arms on last leaf by G. Glover, original calf Suirtey (JAMES) A Pastorall called the Arcadia, FIRST EDITION, title touched at top, headlines on H2 and 12 shaved, half green morocco 4to. I. D. for John Williams and FP. Eglesfield, 1640 stamped morocco, panelled sides, remainder panelled russia gilt, 1635; Saints’ Cordialls, 1637; God’s Inquisition, Light from! Heaven, Christian’s Portion, A Fountain Sealed, The Bruised \ portrait), all 1638; Bowels Opened, Beams of Divine Light, An Exposition, ete., Christians End, Excellency of the Gospel, Christ’s Exaltation, Breathing after God (with portrait), all 1639 ; collection not subject to return Silius Italicus: De Bello Punico, Paris, S. de Colines, 153; Ausonius: Opuscula, Lyons, S. Gryphe, 1537; in 1 vol. contem- porary stamped calf—Homer : Opera, gr. et lat. original stamped pigskin, Strassburg [1572]; and another 8vo. (4) Smith (Thomas) The Art of Gunnery, black letter, part of another work on Gunnery bound at the end, half calf 4to. 1643 Socirtie (THE) OF THE Rosary. Newly Augmented, woodcut on title with motto in Latin above and below, the whole within type- metal border, woodcut and border repeated on p. 213, head-lines shaved or cut into on pp. 82-88 and 221-228, otherwise a FINE coPY, original vellum 12mo. Without imprint |? Printed abroad, about 1580] *,* EXCEEDINGLY RARE. Not mentioned by Lowndes, Watt, Hazlitt or Sayle, and not in the British Museum (1884 Catalogue). Cul- lation: 46, B12, c 4, D—-N 8 in twelves, 112, last two blank (last leaf pasted down as end-paper). On {11 is a fresh title (rules cut at top) ‘An Epistle Consolatory: of an avneient Pope. To the Catholicks of Albania... Newly translated.” Solinus. Polyhistor, roman letter, 101 Ul. wants first (blank), half bound [ Hain-Copinger, 14878 ; Proctor, *6850]; sold not subject to return 4to. Parma, Andreas Portilia, 1480
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