Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
28 July 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/866
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    519 Oyid’s Metamorphosis Englished by G. S[andys], FIRST EDITION, engraved title and plate, contemporary calf 1626 520 Peréival (R.) A Dictionarie in Spanish and English ,. . enlarged and amplified . . . by John Minsheu, with Percival’s Spanish Grammar... augmented... by John Minsheu, in 1 vol. old panelled calf, arms of William Capell, Earl of Essex on sides E. Bollufant, 1599 521 Chaucer (G.) The Workes ... with the siege .. . of Thebes, compiled by Jhon Ledgate, Monke of Berie, blact tetter, fourth collected edition, woodcut of Chaucer's arms on title (coloured), separate titles (within woodcut border) to the “Tales” and “ Romaunt of the Rose” (both coloured), woodcut initials, FINE copy, panelled calf J. Kingston for J. Wight, 1561 ** The issue with ten preliminary leaves (instead of 14) and with no woodcuts in the Prologue to the Tales. Above the title are painted the arms of the family of Hooker, alias Vowell of Exeter; below is written “Jhon Norton,” and above are vestiges of a signature, which may be “ Zacharie Hooker ” (son of John Hooker, alias Vowell, the antiquary). 522 Donn (Benjamin) Map of the County of Devon, with the City of Exeter, 13 folding maps engraved by Thomas Jeffreys, PRINTED ON VELLUM, half morocco London, for the author, 1765 ** Apparently the sole copy on vellum. With the Marquis of Rockingham’s (1730-82) ex-libris and a coloured engraved portrait by T. Wright after Artis, of the Earl of Fitzwilliam, who inherited the Rockingham Estates. 523 Alken (S.) Six plain Views published by Darling and Thompson, wrappers, 1795; Three Prints of American Indians after C. Bodmer, two in colour; Fourteen Views of Tewkesbury Abbey Church, some coloured, wrappers, 1802; and other Views, etc. in a portfolio |
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