Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/21
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (a) Books from the Libraries of Kings, Queens, and Famous Men and Women. ENGLISH ROYALTY. Henry VIil., King of England. 197 ENCHIRIDION PCLARE ECCLESIAE SARUM (CUM CALENDARIO) DEVOTISSIMIS PRECATIONIBUS AC, VENUSTISSIMIS IMAGINIBUS ET IIS QUIDEM NON PAUCIS REFERTUM. Printed in red and black Gothic Letter, with numerous full-page woodcuts of Scripture Scenes, Moral Lessons, etc., with descriptions beneath in English verse. Also numerous fine ornamental initials, with Kerver’s small device on title and the ‘‘ Arma Redemptoris Mundi ”’ on last page, followed by the colophon. Thick 12mo. ‘‘ Impressum est hoc Orartum Paristis in edibus Vidue Spectabitls Virt Thielmanni Kerver, anno 1528.’ FURE CONTEMPORARY CALF: FROM THE LIBRARY OF KRivGeneN RY Vib, Wilh HIS: ARMS: ON EACH SIDE; SUR- MONE by A CROWN AND THE LETTERS RR. Cc. (REX CATHOLICUS) ENCLOSED WITHIN GILT ARABESQUES. £105 A PERFECT COPY OF AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE SaRuM BooK. PRINTED ENTIRELY UPON VELLUM, THE UPPER COVER AND THE LOWER PORTION OF THE BACK ARE A LITTLE DAMAGED, BUT THE BOOK IS A ‘VERY DESIRABLE COPY. EXNCLOSED IN A DARK-BLUE MOROCCO PULL-OFF CASE. Henry Vill, King of England. 198 THOMAEUS (N. Leonicus). DE VARIA HISTORIA LIBRI IJ] NUPER IN LUCEM - EDITI: Woodcut device on title and at end. Ate, “Basel, 1531: ORIGINAL BINDING OF WOODEN BOARDS AND BROWN Cree ov ete NR LACOBIL.--BOOKSELLER.AND, BINDER, Sane tii PANELS, ON: UPPER COVER; THE TUDOR Rese eer WEEN TWO: SCROLLS HELD. BY ANGELS,. IN- Ser eee eer hOon Vikki UTIs,” EFC., AT FOOT. THE DNDER Ss TRADE MARK AND INITIALS “‘H. I.” ON’. LOWER COVER, LARGE ARMS OF ENGLAND (HENRY VIII.) QUAR- TeRED With PRANCE, SUPPORTING A DRAGON AND HOUND With INITIALS “H.-F.” Upper cover a little wormed, and one worm-hole in lower cover, other- wise in fine original state. (SBe TLLUSTRATION, PLATE No. III.). £42
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