Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
28 July 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/418
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lot 252—continued. | known Canada, Newfoundland, Arcadia, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana, the Great Lakes, locations of the various Indian tribes, forts, rivers, etc. Inset is a map of the regions round. Hudson Bay, Arctic Circle, Labrador and Greenland. 253 PrREZ DE GUZMAN (HERMAN) MAR DEISTORIAS, VIRST EDITION, lit. goth. double columns, title in large characters within a woodcut border, first page of text also surrounded by an elaborate woodcut border, slightly cut into and a corner de- fective, some ll. slightly defective and restored, last leaf in Sacsimile, hagf dark green morocco, Salva’s copy Valladolid por Diego de gumiel, 1512 254 Gomez MiepEs (BERNARDINO) LA HISTORIA DEI. MUY ALTO E INVENCIBLE REY Don IAYME DE ARAGON, primero deste nombre llamado el Conquistador ... traduzida en lengua Castellana, double columns, ornamental woodcut initials, Sull-page woodcut portrait, red morocco, g. eé. Valencia en casa de la viuda de Pedro de Huete, 1584 255 Hieronymus (S.) Epistolae, Itt. goth. double columns, 50 lines to a column, rubricated, painted initials, without printed sig- natures or catchwords, some wormholes throughout, but a very large copy, some MS. signatures and catchwords being still visible, dark olive morocco extra, blind tooled arabesque borders | Hain-Copinger, 8549 ; Proctor, 203] (Strassburg, J. Mentelin, not after 1469) x” Very rare; a splendid specimen of the early press of the prototypographer of Strassburg. Itisundated, but was not printed after 1469 as there exists a copy in a contemporary binding which has that date impressed on the sides: “‘illi- gatus est apo d. 1469.” From the fact that it contains fewer letters than the famous edition printed by Sweynheim and Pannartz in 1468, which is generally asserted to be the editio princeps, it can, with much plausibility, be claimed as the first edition of the work. 256 Binptne. Joannis Chrysostomi in omnes Pauli apostoli epis- tolas accuratissima et divina interpretatio, ca// gilt, line borders and frames, with coat-of-arms of K. Charles Lwhen Prince of Wales in centre of covers, the porteullis, lion, rose, unicorn stamped in panels on back, one cover missing and restored ( joints repair ed) Verona@, 1529 257, Columna (F. de) Hypnerotomachie ou Discours du Songe de Poliphile, deduisant comme Amour le Combat a l’occasion de Polia, lustrated with very fine wood engravings (includ- ing the worship uf.Priapus), morocco gilt, g.e. (marginal note on p. 12 cut into and title- -page slightly shaved) Paris, pour Jacques Kerver, 1561 *,* This first French edition is considered more correct than ¢ D
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