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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    The Property of the Revd. WR. C. Davies. OCTAVO ET INFRA. 414 Bipiia LATINA, gothic letter, 493 Z1., two columns, rubricated, a Jew initials supplied in colour, wants a 1 (blank), title slightly defective and inlaid, a few margins mended, affecting marginal notes in sheet a,° some head-lines shaved, £6 (containing “ Translatores Biblie”) defective and mended, old calf, back gilt | Hain-Copinger, *3107; Pellechet, 2329 ; Proctor, *7755] Bale, Johann Froben, 27 June, 1491 *,* The first known book from this famous press. 415 Walton (Izaak) The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, wants portraits, a few head-lines shaved, original calf, back broken, 1670—Drexelius. The Considerations of Drexelius upon Eternity. Translated by Ralph Winterton, two plates, title defective, original calf, joints breaking, 1675 ; lot sold not subject to return (2) 416 London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1741, folding frontispiece, sheepskin, back defective, metal clasp and catch (54 mm. by 30 mm.) [1740] QUARTO. 417 Biblia Latina, gothic letter, ttle in red and black, woodcuts (the “ Mal- lermi” cuts) and woodcut initials, stains, some margins shaved, original stamped black morocco over wooden boards ; sold not subject to return Venice, L. A. de Giunta, 28 May, 1511 418 BLUNDEVILLE (THomas) [The fower chiefest offices belonging to Horsemanshippe], FIRST EDITION, wants A 1 (general title), separate titles within woodcut borders to “ The Order of Dyeting of Horses” and “ The Order of Curing Horses Diseases,” corners dog-eared, slight defects in A 2 and ii 4, original vellum W. Seres, c. 1565 FOLIO. 419 Brpuia LATINA, gothic letter, 581 U2, first initial painted in colours on a gold ground, other initials supplied in red, wants a1 (blank), a few head-lines shaved in the Pentateuch, also on r5 and nn 6, a Jew marginal notes shaved in the Gospels, worm-holes causing slight defects at beginning and end, original stamped pigskin, torn and defective, over wooden boards | Hain-Copinger, *3093 ; Pellechet, 2320; Proctor, *517] [Speier, Peter Drach| 1486 *,* The reasons for assigning this book (given by Proctor to J. Priiss of Strassburg) to Drach will be found in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Inc., vol. I, p. 119.
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