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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    Quintilianus (M. F.) Oratoriarum Institutionum libri XII 8vo. Joannes Soter. Cologne, 1528 Brown calf. One panel repeated. Four bands. Panel. The centre is filled with alternating cusps, each ending in an acorn and a quatrefoil. (Six complete and two halves). Round all runs a border having a wyvern in the centre of each side between branches of foliage. In the upper part is a wyvern and in the lower an owl, each between tufts of leaves. In each corner is a conventional artichoke ornament. ** [Back defective at top. In a padded case. ] Ravennas (Petrus) Compendium juris civilis 8vo. Regnault Chaudiere. Paris. Brown calf. Two panels. Three bands. Binder’s initials 1. 8. I. Panel. The Adoration of the Magi. In the centre the Blessed Virgin is seated holding the infant Christ. On the right are the Magi and one is kneeling and offering a gift to the Infant. On the other side Joseph is standing and two other people are behind him. In the background is the stable with an open-worked gable, and a wall on which stands a large bird. At the base is a shield with the mark and initials of the binder. On either side are formal renaissance pillars from which springs an arch with a festoon of foliage hanging from it. II. Panel. The centre is divided perpendicularly into three, the centre strip containing a vine tendril, and the other two spirals of foliage each containing four fabulous beasts. Round all is a frame with a diapered pattern. Cambridge. The mark is his, but reversed. The S here is also reversed ; so that both may have been cut the wrong way by the engraver, a not uncommon occurrence. The only known example.”—MS. note by Duff on a loose slip of paper. Small worm-holes through the upper cover, the wooden board of which is worm-eaten. Back slightly torn. In a padded case. | Not in Weale. [See ILLUSTRATION. | [Reisch (Gregorius) | Margarita philosophica (woodcuts, diagrams and music) 4to. [? 1496] Brown calf. Four bands. Stamp. A diamond-shaped floriated ornament with an oval-shaped centre-piece divided into four by diagonal lines, the spaces containing quatrefoils. similar to above. This binding has a large centre panel divided by diagonal lines, into four diamond-shaped spaces and eight half diamond spaces filled with
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