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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    138 Plautus 8vo. Joannes Gymnicus. Cologne, 1530 Black calf. Two panels. Four bands. I. Panel. Divided into two smaller panels by a band having upon it a ragged staff wreathed round with a spiral ribbon. The smaller panels, identical in design, are divided by a perpendicular line into two parts containing spiral vine branches with foliage and fruit. In the curves of each are three figures, a dog, an eagle and a wyvern facing each other. The border is of diaper work with quatrefoils in lozenges formed by double diagonal lines. II. Panel. Divided into two smaller panels by a band having a figure of a wood house armed with a club with a background of spiral foliage upon it. Each of the smaller panels, similar in design, is divided by a perpendicular line into two parts containing spiral vine branches with leaves and grapes in four curves. These contain figures of dogs, eagles, wyverns and monkeys facing each other. Both panels are bordered by the inscription, interrupted at the corners by fleur-de-lys : Ostende nobis domine / misericordiam / tuam et salutare tuam / da nobis. In the right-hand panel the inscription begins in the left-hand lower ‘corner. In the left panel the upper right-hand corner, and has “domie” in place of ‘ domine.” | 139} Polidamus (V.) De Re medica 8v0. 1540 So Brown calf. Two panels. Three bands. Binder John Reynes I. Panel. In the centre within circular medallions are two classic heads, one encircled with a wreath, the other in a helmet. On either side of these are renaissance pillars connected at both head and foot by floral ornamental arches. Round all runs a border having at each side a conventional renaissance design. At the top are two griffins looking opposite ways, and ending in floral tails. At the bottom a design of inter- laced rope work. Between the medallions are the binder’s initials and mark. II. Panel. Exactly similar to the first panel except in some minor points of detail. ** [Some small worm-holes through the upper cover. Two small holes through the lower cover, one of them caused by a worm. In a padded case. | Weale, p. 148, no. 196. 140 Pomponius Laetus (J.) Romanae Historiae Compendium Ato. Bernardinus Venetus. Venice, 1499 Orosius (P.) Historiae 4to. Jean Petit. Paris, 1506 Brown calf. One roll. Three bands. Binder Garret Godfrey I. Roll. Divided into five compartments, containing a turreted gateway, with portcullis, a fleur-de-lys, a pomegranate and a Tudor rose. Each is surmounted by a royal . crown and is under a crocketed canopy. In the fifth | roe & | compartment are the binder’s initials and mark.
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