Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/435
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    694. 695 696 697 698 peculiar purple colour, with green, blue and yellow introduced, within a border of burnished gold, and marginal extensions of a conventional floreate character, decorated with large gold dots XV. CENT. Schedel (H) Chronicon Nurembergense (Nuremberg Chronicle,) ed prima, lit. goth, title missing and other leaves mutilated, initials in blue and red, large copy, old calf (Sold not subject to return) Nurembergae, A. Koberger, 1493 Andreae (Antonius) Questiones super XII libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis, lit. goth, double columns (51 Il.), starned, vellum [Copinger 415] ; folio. Sine Nota—Assarachus (Andreas) Historiae novae ac Veteres, lit. rom. (wants 2 Il.), title with woodcut borders, second title with full-page woodcut, printer’s device on last leaf, vellum; sm. folio. Impressum Mediolanr Gotardi Pontici, 1516 (Lot sold not subject to return) (2) Petrarca (Franciscus) Librorum Francisci Petrachae Basileae, Impressorum Annotatio, lit. rom., 49 and 55 lines to a page 390 Ul. including 2 blanks), last blank leaf wanting, some head- lines slightly shaved, some lines scored through, some leaves repaired and slightly stained, [H.C. 12749]. Red morocco, with coat-of-arms stamped in gold of J. Gomez de la Cortina, rebacked ; Impressis Basileae per Magistrum Ioannem de Amerbach, 1496 Pole (Cardinal) Reginaldi Poli cardinalis Britanni ad Henricu octavum Britanniae regem, pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defen- sione libri quatuor (wants title), FIRST EDITION, several leaves stained and slightly damaged, vellum folio. Romae, A. Bladus (Typis Aldinis) no date [1536 Binding. Marci Tulii Ciceronis Epistolae. Venetss apud Hrer. Scotum M.D. xxxxit., brown morocco, gold tooled, with a medallion representing Helios driving a chariot up Mount _ Helicon, surrounded by a Greek inscription, after the type of Canevarius, back damaged—Historia de concilio Tridentino di Pietro Soave Polano; s. 1 et n. (Aldine device on title), 1629, crumson morocco, gold tooled, medallion of a Roman head in the centre surrounded by two line fillets, and ornaments, rubbed (Lot sold not subject to return) (2) 20 Lower Belgrave Street, S.W. OCTAVO ET INFRA. Binding. Macrobius, Lyons, Seb. Gryphius, 1556, brown leather over oak boards, consisting of a panel with border of. stamps of
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