Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
16 March 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/636
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    34 30 36 France, 2 and 3 England, supported by the dragon and greyhound, and ensigned with a royal crown. Abovethe shield on either side are angels holding blank ribbons, and between them is a small Tudor rose. Below the shield on either side are portcullisses, II. Panel. In the centre is a shield with the Royal arms impaling those of Katherine of Aragon. ‘lhe shield is supported by two angels and is surmounted by a royal crown, above which are two sprays of roses. At the base of the panel is a mound covered with herbage and two sprays. Plain end-papers, clasps missing. of the panels. In a padded case. | I. Weale, p. 128, no. 128. IT. p. 127, no. 127. Burgo (Joannes de) Pupilla Ocul . 8vo. for I’. Regnault. Paris, 1518 Brown calf. Two panels. Three bands. I. Panel. The centre portion is filled by alternating cusps ending in acorns (eight complete and one half). The side borders contain .branches [with artichokes]and acorns. At top and bottom leaves and pine cones. At each corner is a conventional artichoke. II. Panel. The centre portion is filled by alternating cusps ending in acorns (six complete and one half). The border has at the top a branch with bunches of grapes, at the bottom a spray with a flower, on the right leaves and acorns, on the left leaves and quatrefoils. At each corner 18 a conventional artichoke. a padded case. | Buteo (Joannes) Opera Geometrica 4to. Thomas Bertellus. Lyons, 1554 Brown calf. Fwe bands. ©. 43 Both sides are ornamented with a broad roll of renaissance design, very finely engraved with pillars, vases, masks and floral sprays. At the sides of a pedestal surmounted by three heads are the initials C. D. ** [Edges worn: rebacked. | Caesar (Caius Julius) Commentarii 8vo. N. Brylinger. Basle, 1539 Brown calf. Two panels. Three bands. Binder I. R. J. Panel. St. George. St. George on horseback holds his broken , lance, the other portion having transfixed the throat of the dragon _ which lies below his horse’s hoofs. In the background on the left kneels the rescued princess, while from a turretted castle in the right . hahfd corner the king and queen watch the combat. Below “ts the inscription “Scts georgi’ I. R.” Round all isa ae broad barder, the top depicting the walls of a city, while EY: ‘ the other three sides contain hunters in a forest pursuing with dogs a boar, ’a'stag, a dragon and a lion.
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