Sales catalogue 594: Maggs Bros

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/135
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 594: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARCHITECTURE: SERLIO (Sebastian) : BooxeEs oF ARCHITECTURE—continued. First Eprrion in ENczisH. Brack Lerrer. Folio. Half calf. London, for Robert Peake, 1611. £8 8s S. 1 .C. 22235, Translated from the Dutch by Robert Peake. Each book has a separate title (the first has been remargined and laid down; last leaf also laid down). WITH THE CANCELLED LEAF. [340] t——— WOTTON (Sir Henry). THE ELements or Arcuirecture, Collected by Henry Wotton Knight, from the best Authors and Examples. First Epirion. Small 4to. Half morocco. London, John Bill, 1624. £8 10s S.T.C. 26011. For the most part a paraphrase of Vitruvius. With the original leaf pp. 15-16 and that cancelling it. [341] ARIOSTO (Ludovico). Srven PLanets Governine Irate, or His Satyrs in seven Famous discourses, shewing the estate 1. Of the Court and Courtiers. 2. Of Libertie and the Clergy in general. 3. Of the Romane Clergie. 4. Of Marriage. 5. Of Soldiers, Musitians, and Lovers. 6. Of Schoolemasters and Schollers. 7. Of Honour, and the happiest life. © Newly Corrected and Augmented, with many excellent and noteworthy Notes, together with a new Addition of three most excellent Elegies, written by the same Lodovico Ariosto, the effect whereof is contained in the Argument. Small 4to. Red morocco, g.e. London, William Stansby for Roger Jackson, 1611. S.T.C. 745. In verse throughout. 418 18s Erroneously ascribed by the publisher to Gervase Markham, but in reality the work of Robert Tofte, poet and translator. (Title remargined.) [342] [ASTELL (Mary).] An Essay 1n DereNce oF THE Femate Sex. In which are inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c. In a Letter to a Lady: Written by a Lady. Wuth engraved frontispiece of The Compleat Beau. Small 8vo. Fine copy in old calf. London, for A. Roper and E,. Wilkinson, 1696. £4 158 [343] ASTROLOGY. GADBURY (John). De Comeris: or, A Discourse of the Natures and Effects of Comets, as they are Philosophically, Historically and Astro- logically considered. With a brief (yet full) Account of the III late Comets, or Blazing Stars, visible to all Europe. And what (in a natural way of Judicature) they portend. ‘Together with some Observations on the Nativity of the Grand Seignior. With engraved frontispiece, with verse beneath. First Eprrion. Small 4to. Old limp vellum. London, L. Chapman, 1665. 41 15s It is curious to note that in the year of the Great Plague, Gadbury predicted the outbreak. [344] AUGUSTINE (Saint). Sr. Aucusring, of the Citie of God, with the Learned Comments of Jo. Lod. Vives. Englished by J. H(ealey). : Folio. Original calf. [London], George Eld, 1610. u8r 45s S.T.C. 916. The first English edition with dedication to William Earl of Pembroke, to whom the first folio Shakespeare of 1623 was dedicated. [ 10.4
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