Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:: March 1910

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/270

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

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$Lot 661—continued. other Unimproveable Rents, the 11 parts complete, including Appendix and 2 folding plates, dated 1787-1792, uncut, scarce 1792 662 Sotheby (S. L.) Memoranda relating to the Block-Books pre- served in the Bibliothéque Impériale, Paris, cuts, author's presentation copy to Hepworth Dixon in his autograph on title, wrappers (plain piece of front wrapper and title torn off), not for sale, 1859—Specimen of Mr. S. L. Sotheby’s Principia Typographica, 23 plates from block-books (3 proofs), not printed for sale, 1858—Paper-Marks in the Early Block- Books of the Netherlands and Germany... with illustra- tions of the Types and Marks in the production of the Press of Caxton, 28 plates, and numerous cuts in the text, author's - presentation copy to H. Dixon, not printed for sale, 1\858— Summary of the Contents of the Principia Typographica, author’s presentation copy to H. Dixon, privately printed 1858 ~ */* There are added: (1) An original pencil drawing, consisting } of block-book figures by Leslie Ward; (2) A cancelled sheet containing pp. 201-206; (3) A leaf on which the author wrote: © This Enlarged Specimen of the Principia Typo- eraphica and Memoranda &c. presented to H. Dixon by the Author, Norwood, 26 Aug. 1859”; SCARCE. 663 Bruyn (Abraham de) Habits de Diverses Nations de |’Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amérique, ORIGINAL EDITION, jine engraved title, and 57 plates containing 212 costumes and 4 portraits, mounted on stout paper, in portfolio, very rare 1581 664 Bickham (George, Junr.) A New Introduction to the Art of Drawing, both parts in 1 vol. FIRST EDITION, 2 engraved titles and 32 plates, half calf oblong, scarce and unknown to Lowndes : 1743 665 Degen (Louis) Les Constructions en Bois, avec le Supplément, 2 vol. 82 plates in black and red, in portfolio Paris, 1859-62 666 Engravings. Gems in the Imperial Cabinet at Vienna, 31 plates by Kohl, Mark, Mansfeld, Ponheimer, Adam, Durmer and > Schitz, from designs by Kibler, etc. inlaid in thick yellow paper, brilliant impressions, half red morocco gilt, scarce imp. folio. | Paris, 1828] 667 La Marra (Francesco) Raccolta di cinquante Disegni Originali delle eccelenti Pittori Napoletani Mattia Preti, Luca Gior- dano, Francesco Solimena, incisi in rame in modo che se ne esprima il colere el il tocco del pennello dal Cavr. Francesco La Marra, 50 wnlettered proof plates in red and brown, ori- ginal impressions, half bound Napoli, 1792 668 Views. Ricci (Marco) Hasce XXIV Tabulas olim a Marco Ricci expressas que extant, in aedibus Joseph Smith et Antonii Mariae Zanetti qui eas delincid et in lucem edit. jine en- graved title and 24 etched views, proofs before letters, half calf, oblong, rare Venetiis, 1743$

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