Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
July 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/527
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    1175 1176 1 rary 1178 1179 1180 118] in 1 vol. contemporary red morocco gilt, borders composed of a. series of joined loops and stars, enclosing a rich floral design, g. €.; sold as a binding not subject to return 8vo Book of Common Prayer, with the Psalter, Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1767 ; New Version of the Psalms by N. Brady and N. Tate, for the Company of Stationers 1766, in 1 vol. contemporary English red morocco gilt, tooled all over with large and small pear-shaped ornaments, flowers and dots, within scroll borders, g. e.; sold as a binding not subject to return, preserved in a lined box 8vo Book of Hours of Yolande of Flanders, MS. of the 14th Century in the library of H. Y. Thompson, with Description by S. C. Cockerell, facsimiles, half roan 4to. 1905 Borromeus (Antonius) Contra Hebraeos Opusculum, MS. on VELLUM, ITaLian, XVITH CENTURY, 33 leaves (94in. by 62in.), written in cursive italic characters, 30 long lines to a page, the first page of the work surrounded by finely painted borders composed of conventional floreate scrolls, with birds and an ape introduced, at foot is emblazoned the coat-of-arms of the Doge Loredano to whom the work is dedicated, contemporary brown Venetian morocco, gilt borders of arabic knots and blind inner frames of the same, in a lined box sm. folio. XVI CENT. Bossuet (J. B.) Justification des Reflexions sur le Nouveau Testament, black morocco, plain sides, doublures of red morocco. with gilt scroll borders, g. e. by Du Seuil 8vo. Lille, 1710 Bossuet (J.—B.) Discours sur |’Histoire Universelle, avec une Notice Litteraire par P.-F. Tissot, 2 vol. iluminated title, and each page surrounded by a woodcut border, plates, calf” extra, the outsides covered with golden fleurs-de-lys and wreaths, g. ¢. by Hayday . imp. 8vo. Paris, s. a. Bossus (Matthaeus) De instituendo sapientia animo, roman letter, long lines, 24-25 to a page [Hain 3677 ; Proctor 6609], Bononiae a Platone de Benedictis, 1495; Sermo in Jesu Christi Passionem, roman letter, long lines, 25 to a page [Hain 3678 ; Proctor 6610], 71b., 1495, in 1 vol. brown morocco extra 4to Bradley (E.) Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, the three parts, in 1 vol. half calf gilt, 1853-7—Motley, FIRST EDITION, half” morocco, 1855, woodcuts by the author; and others = 80. (4)»
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