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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![YB 210 Livius. (¢tle) T. Livii Decades, (colophon on last leaf) T. es 0 Livii patavini Decades Explicunt, etc. roman letter, 61 lines ig / = oe to a full page, 3 full-page border woodcuts, and 171 smaller sane ‘ ones in the text, some signed with the initial F’. green morocco ae am extra, sides elaborately tooled in the Grolieresque style, g. e. gi Os by Riviere & Son Venetiis per Philippum Pincium Mantianuv impress anno mccccacy. Wi. nona once (1495) *,* A most excellent copy of this extremely fine woodcut book. Many of the cuts are from original designs, but others had already appeared in the Mallermi Bible. 211 Margarita Decreti seu tabula Martiniana Decreti [edita per | - Fratrem Martinum Ord. Praed. domini Papae penitentiarum 8 \ 7! et Capellanum |, fit. goth. double colwmns, 52 lines with signs. 2 [Hain *10835], mottled calf gilt absque ulla nota [14—] Lo : 212 Matthioli (P. A.) Commentarii in Pedacium Dioscoridem de 4 A Medica Materia, newmerous beautiful woodcuts of plants and p} - >7 animals, fine copy in niger morocco by Douglas Cockerell ' Venetiis, 1558 213 Montaigne. The Essayes, or Morall, Politike and Miullitarie Discourses now done into English by John Florio, FIRST ).,\’ EDITION, green morocco extra, the sides tooled to shield-like 2”. \ patterns oe the lettering, a e. by Riviere & Son ae ” Sims for Ly. Blount, 1603 *,* A most excellent copy, sound and clean, but unwashed, and quite complete, having the two “Erratas” and the verses by Samuel Daniel ; these are frequently missing. } 214 NeLson. Musztum WoRSLEYANUM ; or, a Collection of Antique Basso-Relievos, Bustos, Statues and Gems, with Views of Places in the Levant, taken on the spot in the years 1785, 6 and ’7 ; Docti rationem Artis intelligunt, indocti volupta- tem, Quin. lib. IX, 4, 2 vol. portrait and numerous fine engravings, in the original red morocco, richly tooled 1794 ae *,* These splendid volumes are from the library of Admiral ‘2° Lord Nelson, to whom they were presented by the author. A long inscription presenting them to Lord Nelson and a letter addressed to the great Admiral, both in the autograph of Sir R. Worsley, are in the volumes. These beautiful volumes were presented by Nelson to Lady Hamilton, and they were sold in her sale (at Christie’s), in 1809, for 50 guineas, and then passed into the famous Dent collection. Only 100 copies of this splendid publication were printed for Sir Richard Worsley’s friends and public institutions. The present copy has the rare extra leaf printed on vellum, which was issued with but two or three of the special copies.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31657965_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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