Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1140 1141 1142 1143 1144 1145 1146 boards, the sides and back stamped to an arabesque design, and entirely gilded, in the centre of each cover a metal plaque with a bust of a man in armour, metal corner-pieces and 3 clasps, the edges tooled and coloured with an arabesque design ; sold not subject to return folio. No printer, place or date [c. 1480] Brinpine. Simon de Cremona. Postillae super epistulas et evangelia, gothic letter, dowble columns, morocco gilt, in the Maioli style, the sides painted in imitation of inlays, in the centre the Farnese arms surmounted by an archbishop’s hat in gold and colours, gauffred edges, metal clasps and studs ; sold not subject to return folio. Reutlinger, Johann Otmar, 1484 Brnpine. Maius (Junianus) De priscorum proprietate ver- borum, roman letter, double columns of 57-58 lines, brown morocco, the sides richly gilt and blind tooled in the centre, the Canevari medallion of Apollo in his chariot and the usual Greek inscription, the back mended by Douglas Cockerell ; sold not subject to return, [Hain *10543 ; Proctor 4849] folio. Venice, Peregrino Pasquale with D. Bertochus, 1485 Binding. Augustinus (8S. Aurelius) Liber Epistolarum, initials in red, oak boards covered with stamped pigskin, with a painting on the fore-edge of Christ and His Disciples, signed “ Joan. H. Beck” [Johann Heinrich Beck, ? died 1875] (sold not sub- ject to return) folio. Basle, John of Amerbach, 1493 Brnpine. Hieronymus. Explanationes sacrae scripturae, gothic and roman letter, long lines, calf, a rich interlaced design, with arabesque ornaments on the sides painted blue, red, yellow, white, etc., 2 clasps, each with 3 small enamel miniatures, gauffred edges gilt and coloured, bosses (sold not subject to return) folio. No printer, place, or date [Venice, c. 1497] Binding. Book-cover, stamped pigskin, in the centre a panel with a half-length portrait of the Emperor Maximilian IT, surrounded by borders of roll-produced ornaments small folio. Nuremberg, c. 1570 Binding. Book-cover of red morocco, with dentelle border and large central ornament [Italian, XVIIth Century] ; Book- cover, vellum with a printed border, in the centre a stamp representing the Crucifixion, below the date 1587 ; etc. 8vo. (3) Binding of the XVII Century, in French olive morocco gilt, lettered on upper cover ‘‘ Maison du Roy pour lannée 1688,” ‘Paul Estienne Brunet Escuyer St de Rancy Tresorier General,” ‘“‘ De Ganeau Procureur,’’ owter scroll and line borders, intervening spaces and back covered with large fleurs de lys (contains blank paper only); sold not subject to return folic](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31653455_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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