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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    298 299 300 301 302 303 304 Hakluyt (Richard) Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discov- eries, FIRST EDITION, wants title, * 8, pp. 1-12, 401-408, 491-4, 499-517, B3, Aa 3, and xy 3 and 4 defective half calf [1589]; etc. (3) Harr (Joun) KAINIKH, or The Diet of the Diseased. Divided into Three Bookes ({l, 4//.; *, 47/.; (a) 621. ; (aa), 47/.; a-v, Aa-Vu, ~ Asa-Mmm 6 in fours; **,4U1l.; 000, 4d.; [1 blank), original calf, slightly defective, VERY RARE London, Printed by Iohn Beale, for Robert Allot ... 1638 Hemmerlin (Felix) Opuscula et tractatus, gothie letter, 184 leaves, fourth (here. placed first) and last blank, large copy, boards [ Hain, *8424; Proctor, *482] (273 by 195 mm.) [Strassburg], n. d. ** Assigned by Proctor to Johann Reinhard, but placed by the B.M. Cat. Inc. among the unassigned books, with a doubtful ascription to Wilhelm Schaffener (see vol. I, p. 102, ll. 11-13). Heylin (Peter) Cosmographie, wants engraved title, maps, slightly defectwe and mended, early map of Virgima and Florida in- serted, half calf, 1652—-Speed (John) Historie of Great Bri- taine. The Second Edition, woodcuts, wants portrait, D5 slightly defective, rough calf, 1623-—-Camden (William) Bri- tannia, revised by Edmund Gibson, 2 vol. portrait, maps, plates and woodcuts, panelled calf, damaged, 1732 (4) Holinshed (Ralph) The First and second volumes of Chronicles ... augmented and continued ... by John Hooker alias Vowell, vol. I only, Sines letter, original calf, rebacked [1586]; etc. (3) Hortus SANITATIS, gothic letter, 360 leaves (Brunet gives 355 only), two columns, 57 lines, title in red and black within woodcut border, woodcuts, a few leaves water-stained, last leaf of table mounted, date erased from title, original vellum bh aky ** Collation : a-z, A-Z, Aa-Ee in sixes, except a, |, s, B, F, N, and cc in eights; Ff-Kk in eights. Howell (James) Londinopolis, frontispiece mounted, wants map, calf, rebacked 1657 INTRATIONUM LIBER omnibus legum Anglie, Slack letter, title within woodcut border, with initials W. R. (two letters on verso defec- twe), second leaf has adhered to title, causing slight defect, a few wormholes causing minute defects in table, headline touched on 0 4 verso, headlines and numeral shaved on c 3, calf gilt, arms on upper cover Henry Smith, 1546 *. The arms on the cover are a lion passant guardant below a chief ermine; supporters, a unicorn and a lion; motto, “ Quo fata vocant.”
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