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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    FOLIO 291 292 293 295 296 297 41 Second Day Dugdale (Sir William) History of St. Pauls Cathedral, rirsT EDITION, portrait and plates, one slightly defective, calf, re- backed - 1658 Florus (Lucius) De Gestis Romanorum, ete. woodcut initials, calf gilt, arms of Charles, Lord Stuart de Rothesay on sides, joints weak, Bale, 1532—Paulus Diaconus. De Origine et Gestis Regum Langobardorum, Bade’s device on title, the whole within a fine woodcut border, woodcut initials, half morocco, Paris, J. Bade, 1514 (2) Foxe (JoHN) The First [The Second| Volume of the Ecclesias- tical Historie, 2 vol. in 1, fourth edition, mostly Slack letter, many woodcuts, wants title to vol. I (title to vol. II bound wn its place), boards, leather back, brass clasps; sold not subject to return John Day, 1583 Gerarde (John) The Herball ... Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, woodcuts, engraved title (slightly defectwe), four leaves of table slightly defectwe and mended, wants al (blank), calf, one joint roughly mended 1633 Gesta Romanorum, gpthie letter, 102 leaves (last blank), two columns, 18 leaves of old manuscript (text and commentary) at end, wooden boards, pigskin back, brass catch with iitials “A. D.” clasp wanting [| Hain, *7751; Pellechet, 5259 (one copy only); Proctor, *631]| (280 by 208 mm.) Strassburg, Printer of the 1483 Jordanus, 7-12 Jan. 1499 GLANVILLE (BARTHOLOMEW DE) De PropRIETATIBUS RERUM, gothic Letter, 300 leaves (last blank), two columns, wormhole affecting two or three letters of table [Hain, *2506; Pellechet, 1873; Proctor, 592]; Crescentiis (Petrus de) Opus ruralium commodorum, gothic letter, 148 leaves (last blank), two columns [Hain, *5831; Proctor, *602]; bound together, original stamped morocco (worn), over wooden boards, brass clasp (one wanting), and catches | (287 by 200 mm.) Strassburg, Printer of the 1483 Jordanus, 14 Feb. 1485—9 Mar. 1486 Glanville (Bart. de) De proprietatibus rerum, [translated into English by John of Treves], Slack letter, wants all before Al (fol. 1) and after D6 (fol. 384), also ff. 75, 145, 146, 159, 381 and 382, fol. 1 stained, slit in fol. 101, fol. 160 torn, initial cut from fol. 376 affecting text on verso, some leaves supplied from a smaller copy, calf gilt, rebacked [T. Berthelet, 1535]
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