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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    title discoloured and margins repawed, last leaf discoloured, half green roan, g. é. 4to. No place, printer or date |? London, c. 1625] ** VERY RARE. The “ Leyden” edition has a different engraved title, with imprint “ Ghedruckt in Lydden, by Ian Masse.” In the present copy, the engraved title is divided into two compart- ments. In the upper one are eight persons seated at a table with a chess-board in the centre; and in the lower compartment are three full-length figures, headed “the Fatte Bishop,” “ the Black Knight,” and “the White Knight.” In the background are the three figures in-a sack. 154 [Mitton (JoHNn)| OF REFORMATION touching Church Discipline and F2, some under-luungs and a few marginal notes in red im an old hand, lower edges uncut, Printed, for Thomas Under- hill, 1641; ANIMADVERSIONS upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnvvs, FIRST EDITION (7utle = 1 leaf; B-F 4, G 2, H-I 4, K 2), a few old under-linings in red, uncut at bottom and sides, RARE, London, Printed for Thomas Underhill ... 1641; OF PRELATICAL HPISCOPACY, FIRST EDITION (Title=1 leaf; A-c 4), many edges at side and bottom uncut, London, Printed by k. O. & G. D. for Thomas Underhill ... 1641; Toe Reason OF CHURCH-GOVERNEMENT urg’d against Prelaty by Mr. John Milton. In two Books, First EDITION (Title= 1 leaf; a-H 4; one leaf at end without signature), some under-linings and a few marginal notes in red in an old hand, worm-hole through three leaves at end, uncut at bottom and sides, London, Printed by LE. G. for Iohn Rothwell ... 1641; AREOPAGITICA, FIRST EDI- TION (A-E 4, F1), worm-hole throughout (very minute after the first two sheets), uNcut at bottom and sides, London, Printed wm the Yeare, 1644; Tor TENURE OF KINGS AND MAGISTRATES, FIRST EDITION (4-E 4, F 2), small hole wn D3, UNCUT at bottom and sides, London, Printed by Matthew Simmons ... 1649; Brier Notes upon a late Sermon ... Preached ... by Matthew Griffith ... observd by J. M.[ilton], FIRST EDITION (A-B 4), London, Printed in the Year 1660; Exvewv ?AA}Oun .. . wherein the false colours are washed off. ..“Kucwv BaotAcch, frontispiece (loosely inserted from a smaller copy), small hole in sig. N 4, 1649; in 1 vol. half black leather,. by C. Hering; sold as a collection and not subject to return Ato 155 Mitton (J.) Or True Rexicion, Haeresie, Schism, Toleration, FIRST EDITION, title slightly soiled, three words at foot of the last page cut into, London Printed in the Year, 1673—An Answer to Several Reasons for the Taking off the Prohibition, and giving Leave to the Importation of Irish Cattel (4 JI.), 1677—T wo Letters from the Hague of Prince Charles his going
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