Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/691
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    92 93 94 95 96 senting the Ordinaunces ... of ,.. Alexander (surnamed) Severvs, to suppresse ... Dicing-houses, Tauarns, and common Stewes .. . herevnto, is added, A Touchstone for the Time, black letter, FIRST EDITION, wants A 1 (with signature only) and K 4, head-line touched on fol. 3 and shaved on fol 35, old calf gilt, RARE R. Jones, 1584 [See ILLUSTRATION. | estates may behold the Conquests of Enuy, black letter, FIRST EDI- TION, ttle within type-metal border, royal arms on verso, small worm-hole through greater part of book causing defects to a few letters, fore-margin of D3 mended, otherwise a good copy, old calf gilt J. Windet for G. Seton, 1586 Rare. William Herbert’s copy, with his note “Ames p. 410, 372, W H p. 1225/6 ” on title, title, Virginia’s Discovery of Silke-vvormes, with their benefit. And The Implanting of Mulberry Trees. Also the dressing and keeping of Vines... Together with The making of the Saw-mill (A-L 3 in fours), woodcut on title and five full-page woodcuts, wants Al (blank), U3 slightly defective, unbound T. H. for John Stephenson, 1650 and George late Duke of Buckingham, woodcut on title, half calf, 1641—Hayne (Thomas) Life of Martin Luther, portrait, sheep, 1645—| Cavendish (George) ] The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, portrait (mended), russia, Printed for the good of the Common- wealth, n. d.—|Bent (James)| The Bloody Assizes: or A Compleat Life of George Lord Jefferies, date on title defective, half calf 16[89]; and other Biographies (7) FOLIO. FROISSART (JEAN) CRONYCLES ... translated ... into our materall (sec) Englysshe tongue, by John Bouchier knyghte, lorde Berners, 2 vol. in 1, black letter, 666 Ul. woodcut on verso of title, woodcut initials, quire SS misbound, head-line on RR 3 recto touched, old red morocco gilt, inside borders, g.e. joints and corners mended W. Middleton, n.d. and R. Pynson, 1525 Collation: Vol. I a, 6 ll.; B, 4 ll. ; a—-u, aa—uu, aaa—ooo 4 in sixes. Vol. II 4, 8 Il. ; A (repeated)—U, AA-UU, AAA-O00 8 in sixes. plates, Oxford, 1675 ; Cantabrigia [llustrata, engraved title, por- trait and 30 plates, rule shaved on plates 6 and 22, plate 25 slit, Cambridge, |1688]|; bound together, contemporary panelled red red morocco, sides richly gilt, rebacked, g. e.
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