Sales catalogues: Quaritch

Date:
May 1899
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/52
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Psatrerium Hebreum, Greci, Ambici & Chaldett . . at end: Petrus Paulus Porrus, genue . millesimo quingentesimo sextodecimo. Folio, fine copy; early stamped Genoa, 1516 Bishop Giustiniani who edited this book has inserted as a marginal note to Psalm XIX, an account of the first voyage of Columbus, which is continned over five pages. ww ~~ i) Nelle quali s ha particolare & vera relatione della vita, § de’ fatti dell’ Ammiraglio D. CHRISTOFORO COLOMBO, suo padre . . di lingua Spagnuola tradotte nell’ Italiana dal S. Alfonso Viloa . . VENETIA MDLXXI . . 12mo. fine copy in vellum binding, with the Wilbraham bookplate 1571 First EDITION ; RARE. One seldom sees the first edition of this celebrated book. The MS. original in Spanish which has never been found was in 1571 in the possession of Baliano di Fornari, to whom the dedication is addressed ; and it seems to have been intended to print it after the issue of the translation. But this was never done. HISTORIE DEL SIG. DON FERNANDO COLOMBO . . relatione della Vita, & de’ fatti dell’ Ammiragho Don CHRISTOFORO COLOMBO suo Padre . . 12mo. fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges In Milano (1614) CANCELLIERI (Francesco) Notizie storiche e bibliografiche di Cristoforo Colombo .. 8vo. portrait on title ; beautiful copy in citron morocco extra, gilt edges Roma, 1809 [HARRISSE (Henry)] Notes on Columbus, sm. folio, pp. viii and 227, urth 13 plates, consisting of a portrait of Columbus, and fac- similes of autograph notes by him, and of pages of rare books; hf. morocco, uncut, VERY RARE New York, 1866 Only ninety-nine copies were printed of this extremely interesting and valuable book; all for private distribution. Mr. Barlowe’s library furnished M. Harrisse with the material, and the expenses were defrayed by him. This copy is No. 68. Fernand Colomb sa vie ses couvres essai critique par . . [Harrisse | impl. 8vo. hf. morocco, gilt top ‘Paris, 1872 Ferdinand Columbus left his library of 15,370 books to his nephew, us: Colon, on condition that the latter should supply 100,000 maravedis yearly for the cost of their maintenance in proper order, and the salary of a caretaker. Photographic facsimile of the Manuscript in the Archives of the Foreign Office in Paris, now for the first time published, with expanded text, translation into English, and an historical introduction, the trans- literation and translation by George F. Barwick, the introduction by Henry Harrisse, compiled and edited by Benjamin Franklin Stevens, small folio, boards half covered with pigskin, anchor clasps 1893 An interesting set of documents—the originals being one of the legalised tran- scripts which Columbus caused to be made for transmission to Genoa. Coptce CoLtomBpo-AMERICANO. -La Tavola di Bronzo, il Pallio di seta, ed il Codice Colombo-Americano illustrati per cura di Giovanni Banchero, impl. 8vo. map, portrait, and fuesimiles ; green morocco, Savoy arms on sides Genova (1857) The Cedules of Privileges granted to Columbus, and other original documents, preserved at Genoa are here printed in Spanish and Italian. Los Resros pe Coton. Informe de la Real Academia de. la Historia sobre el supuesto hallazgo ..enla Iglesia Catedral de S. Domingo. 12mo. 6 dlustrations, cloth; 7s 6d, or hf. morocco 1879 the true interest thereof attempted to be shewn by a citizen of New York. New York. Printed by 8. and J. Loudon for the Author, and given to the Public gratis MpccLxxxvi. 8vo. 12 leaves, the last one a blank, uncut, bound in Spanish morocco Privately printed, 1786 An extremely curious treatise recommending amity and trade with Britain, but a complete commercial avoidance of all other countries outside of America. of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies as revised and pro- posed to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church, at a Convention one mp 10 15 O
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