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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    160 161 162 163 164 an introduction vnto his tyme: Examplefyed by Scripture and done into verse by I. S., manuscript on paper, 108 leaves, neatly written in a regular hand, the title written within an engraved border, calf (201:mm. by 137 mm.) c. 1600 ** Inscribed on verso of fol. 2 “ Liber Joannis Speed ex dono Charissimi patris. April: 19. 1628.” This is presumably John | Speed the younger, whose father, the historian and cartogra- pher, died in 1629. The poem is not in the latter’s hand and does not appear to have been published. If not the work of John Speed the elder, it may perhaps be attributed to Joshua Sylvester or to Sir John Stradling; or possibly to John Shaw (1559-1625) who was a friend of Camden’s and probably ac- quainted with Speed. Selden (John) Titles of Honour, FIRST EDITION, original sheep, covers loose 1614 Seven Champions. The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendome. The First [Second] Part, 2 vol. in 1, mostly Glact Vetter, forst leaf of text defectiwe, catchwords shaved on 02 verso and 03 verso (vol. I) and headlines shaved on 43 verso, S2 recto and 83 verso (vol. II), sheep, joints broken 1675 Sprat (Thomas) History of the Royal-Society of London, arms of the Society as frontispiece, sprinkled calf, jownt broken, 1667 —Goodall (Charles) The Royal College of Physicians of London . and an Historical Account of the College’s proceedings against Empiricks and unlicensed Practisers, calf, defective, 1684 (2) Thorigny (C. R.) De rebus Turcarum, Paris, R. Etienne, 1540; Geoffroy (Antoine) Briefue descriptid de la Covrt dv Grant Tvre, 1b. C. Wechel, 1546 ; and another; bound together, vellum Treaties. Treaty of Peace, Utrecht, 11 Apr. 1713, French, Latin and English, 1713; Treaty of Navigation and Commerce, Utrecht, 9 Dec. 1713, Latin and English, and Spanish and English, 1714; Treaty of Peace, Utrecht, 13 Jul. 1713, Spanish, Latin and English, and French, Latin and English, 1713; Treaty of Navigation and Commerce, 11 Apr. 1713, Latin and English, 1713—Steele (Sir Richard) The Englishmen, 1714; The Crisis, 1714; and 2 others; bound together, panelled calf Ussher (James) Britannicarum Ecclesiarvm Antiqvitates, rough calf Dublin, 1639
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