Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
15th June 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/169
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — a 573 a with maps and plates (some by Hogarth), 2 vol. old calf 1723 | Muffett (Thomas) Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum ; numerous woodcuts, old calf (a few Il. stained), with auto. of T. Willughby 1634 574 575 O77 578 d79 calf (corner of last leaf slightly defective), with auto. of T. Willughby Munster (Sebastian) Cosmographise Universalis Libri VI; with engraved title (slightly cut ito), portrait on reverse, nwmerous folding woodcut views and maps (including AMERICA), and mani hundred smaller woodcuts of portraits, views, natural history, etc., old calf (a few ll. defective and some plates a little damaged ; binding broken), with autos. of ‘Carolus Fairfax’ (on title) and T. Wallughby Basilex, 1559 Munster (Sebastian) Another Copy, lacking pp. 557-572 and all after p. 1160 (2.2. leaf of Hebrew text, colophon, and following maps), a number of ll. defective, contemporary brown stamped calf over oaken boards (back defective and ll. loose), w.a.f. Muscorum (Specimina) Methodo Dilleniana digesta; a large number of specimens of mosses and lichens in their natural state affixed to blank paper within engraved border-work, and pasted in a large scrapbook 18 by 11 inches, with title-page consisting of MS. trtle as above swrrounded with various mosses suitably arranged, old hf. sheep [c. 1700] Musellius (Jacopo) Numismata antiqua ab eo collecta et edita ; witi engraved tiles, allegorical and other plates, and numerous plates of coms, 3 vol. old calf Verone, 1751 Newcastle (Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of) Description of a New World called. the Blazing-World, with frontispiece containing portrait (defective), old calf (1 cover loose, and some ll. stained) 1668 NewcastLe (William Cavendish, Duke of) Methode et Invention nouvelle de dresser les Chevaux . . . traduit de l’anglois de Vauteur, preniére edition ; with engraved title and 42 large double- size plates, old calf (broken ; both titles creused, margin of engr. title torn, some plates and ll. of teat stained), with auto. of Wallughby . Anvers, 1657 A CompterE Copy. The date on the printed title has been altered by hand to 1658. Nieremberg (Eusebius) Historia Nature, maxime peregrinz Libris Pe “aie woodcuts, old calf, with auto. of T. Willughby Antverpre, 1635
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