Sales catalogue 314: Ellis

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/33/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 314: Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    189 190 191 192 193 SCULPTURE.— GAURICUS (Pomponius), De sculptura seu statuaria, libellus sane elegantissimus, pictoribus, sculptoribus, statuariis, architectis, ete. mire utilis, et lectu iucundus. Item Atgloge lepidissime, dus. Antuerpiw, apud Ioan- nem Grapheum, 1528. Sm. 8vo, with large woodcut device on ihe last page, red morocco gilt, gilt edges, £4 4s. - Among his contemporaries whom the author includes in his list of famous sculptors are Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci as well as Donatello and other earlier Italians. MEMES (J. S.), Memoirs of Antonio Canova, with a critical Analysis of his Works, and an historical View of modern Sculpture. Hdinburgh, 1825. 8vo, with portrait and 3 plates, half calf gilt, 15s. SHIP MONEY,— PRYNNE (William), An humble Remonstrance against the Tax of Ship-money lately imposed: laying open the Miegality, Injustice, Abuses, and Inconveniences thereof. London, Printed for Michael Sparke senior, at the signe of the Blew Bible in Greene-Arbour. 1648. Sm. 4to, sewed, £1 10s. TOURNAMENTS.— GESCHLECHTER-BUCH: Darinn der loblichen Kayser- lichen Reichs Statt Augspurg so -vor Funffhundert und mehr Jahren hero, daselbst gewohnet, und bisz auff acht abgestorbe, auch deren so an der abgestorbnen statt ein- genommen und erhohet wordenseyn. Franckfurt-am- Mayn, In Verlegung Johann Wilhelm Ammons und Wilhelm Gerlins, 1661. Folio, with numerous fine full-page woodcuts of the champions of the German tourneys of the Middle Ages (each with a shield bearing his arms), vellum, £6 6s. These beautiful full-page woodcuts are of the highest importance as illustration of the armour and weapons of the joust. This work was_first issued in 1580, and the present edition closely resembles books of that period typographically. VIENNA PRESSES.— BARTHOLINUS (Riccardus), Odeporicon idest Itinerarium Reuerendissimi in Christo patris et Dni D. Mathei Sancti Angeli Cardinalis Gureensis coadiutoris Saltzburgen. Generalisqz Imperii locumtenétis, quaqz in conuentu
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