Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
11 July 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/715
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    blac letter, many woodcuts (eight shaved), including two impres- sions of the portrait, title within woodcut border, woodcut initials and ornaments, small stains on title, FINE COPY, Imprinted at London in Flete Strete by Tho. Povvell. Anno. 1556; bound together, panelled morocco, blind tooled, lined morocco, inside panels gilt, g.e. by C. Hering, with his ticket Ato VERY RARE. The Farmer—Townley—North—Heber (IV, 998) copy. verie usefull for all Gentlemen, Captaines, Gunners, Shop- keepers, Artificers, and Negotiators of all sorts (A 8, a 8, B-xx 8; Al a blank, 42 engraved title), preliminary verses and some of the rules of arithmetic wm verse, small hole in v1 and pp 1, original calf, Bindley copy, A VERY GOOD COPY, VERY RARE 8vo. London: Printed by I. B. for Iames Boler ... 1633 with a Premonition of his Maiesties, to all most Mightie Monarches, Kings, free Princes and States of Christendome, hole wm title and first leaf, contemporary mp vellum; Heber copy; sold not subject to return 4to. Rh. Barker, 1609 e instead of the fifth 2) is written in a contemporary hand inside the lower cover. For its treatment as a Baconian anagram see Sir E. Durning-Lawrence’s Bacon is Shakespeare, 1910, also Britwell Sale Catalogue, 15-18 Mar. 1926, Lot 112. TRAITEROVS/ CONSPIRACIE of Scottisch Papists,/ against God, his Kirk, their natiue Cuntrie, the/ Kingis Majesties persone and estate;/ set downe, as it was con-/fessed and subscriuit be M. George Ker, yet/ remaining in Prisone, and David Grahame of Fen-/trie, iustly executed for his treason in Edinburgh, the 15./ of Februarie. 1592./ Wherevnto are annexed, certaine intercepted/ Letters, written by sundrie of that factioun/ to the same purpose [A]-D 4, black fetter, half roan 4to. At Edinburgh/ Printed by Robert Walde-/graue, Printer to the Kingis Maiestie (1592-3) described by Dickson,and Edmond, pp. 465-6. England, portrait and two folded plates, signature of author on half-title, original marbled paper wrappers, uncut 8v0o. 1784
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