Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/684
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    209 240 Island of Noibla. The Second Edition, 2 vol. sprinkled sheep gilt, 1765—[Howell (James)| Instructions for forreine Travell, wants first three leaves, including title, portrait and frontispiece, sheep [ 21642 ]—-Gastronomiana, coloured frontispiece, original wrappers, uncut, Paris, 1809 (6) Containing the Choicest Receipts ... Now in Use in the Queen’s Palace of St. James’s, Kensington, Hampton Court and Windsor, FIRST EDITION, plates (one imprint shaved) panelled calf, 1710—Smith (R.) Court Cookery : or the Compleat English Cook, two leaves of advertise- ments at end, original calf gilt, top cover loose, 1723 (2) plates, half morocco gilt, 1814-15—Sowerby (James) English Botany, vol. I-VII and XXXI-XXXIV, titles to vol ITI-V, and indexes to vol. I-V, bound in one vol., together 12 vol. coloured plates, half calf gilt [1790]- 1812—The Florist, 60 coloured plates, rough calf, n. d.; etc. (16) % 3% parts, wants Al (blank), damp stains, mostly wm fore- margins, orignal vellum, 52 blank leaves bound in at be- ginning and end [On title] Londini. In aedibus Thomae Marche, 1556 [Colophon] @, Limprinted at London ... by Thoms (sic) Marshe, Anno, M.D.L.VI. A most interesting copy of a rare edition, having both the original and cancel leaves, v 4 and 5, ff 156 and 157. The original page v4 recto reads (speaking of King John; contractions amplified): “ Et iste magnanimus rex multa incommoda contra fas et jus per superbiam, avariciam, et hypocrisin Romae episcopi patiebatur, ut plane patet in annalibus.” These unseemly expressions were perhaps brought to the notice of the Queen’s advisers; anyhow the passage was reprinted to read, “ Ht iste rex concessit quod ipse et successores sui essent feodarii domino pape reddende proanghia annuatim, Ixx. marcas, et pro hibernia ducentas,’ The cancel leaf is further distinguishable by having the 6 of the foliation inverted.
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