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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    162 163 folio. Egidws Gourmont. Paris, 1512 Brown calf. Two rolls. Four bands. I. Roll. Formed by a twining branch. with foliage, flowers, and monkey, a dog, a lion reguardant, a dog, a bird (defaced), and a wyvern. Il. Roll. An eagle, a dog and a bee, separated from each other by large flowers and sprays of foliage, The side is ornamented with a frame running about an inch from the edge, and crossing at the corners formed by Roll I bordered by a three line fillet. Within this is a panel divided vertically by fillets into three compartments filled by Roll II. Diagonal fillet lines run from the inner corners of the frame to the corners of the panel. This binding was probably made by Richard Faques as it had as end- papers the title and another leaf of a Donatus by Guillam Faques and the colophon and another leaf of a Statuta An I Hen. VIII of Richard Faques, both from unused copies [and both otherwise unknown]. This rollis found later used with the roll with the initials K. L. or L. K. (Weale p. 134, No. 156), on the binding of Erasmi Adagia, Lyons 1528 in U. L. C. slightly defective at top and bottom. The brass catches remain but the clasps are missing. | Weale, p. 117, no. 94. 8vo. Bernhardus Jobinus. Strassburg, 1574 8vo. Bernhardus Jobinus. Strassburg, 1575 White pigskin. Two panels. Four bands. ber Ae I. Panel. Augustus, Duke of Saxony. A half-length figure of the Duke in a rich costume, over which is a mantle with a high stand-up collar. He is standing full-face and holding up the sword of state. Behind him are two pillars surmounted by shields, bottom of the panel, below his right hand is a monogram, apparently H.'T.S. Below the figure is the inscription : VON GOTTES GNADEN AUGUSTUS HERCZOG ZU SACHSEN UND CHURFU II. Panel. An elaborate coat of arms of the Empire, surmounted by three helmets and crests, and standing between two pillars with ribbons inscribed P, L. IS. Below the arms is the inscription : WAPEN DES H ROMISHEN KEISERTHUM Round both sides runs a border-roll with medallion heads, separated by formal foliage. On the spaces above and below the obverse panel are stamped the initials B. E. C. H. and date 1573.
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