Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
February 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/835
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    523 524 526 On bo ~ and 14 double-page maps, all coloured, half calf; sold not subject to return Antwerp, C. Plantin, 1584 Moll (Hermann) Atlas Minor, 62 maps, including 17 of America and the West Indies outlined in colour, half calf, oblong J. and C. Bowles, n. d. Cooper (Thomas) Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae, title torn, wanting sig. 111 (1a blank), half leather London, 1584 Regula Benedicti Abbatis [Part II on/y], gothic letter, printed in red and black, capitals supplied in red, 16 ll., 42 lines to the page, book-plate of Francis Freeling |collation to 1 in eights|, calf gilt [No place, date or printer, c. 1500] Chorale. Fourteen Leaves from a Choir-book, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, im red and black, initials in red or blue, musical notation, half calf ltalian, XVI CENT. Hymn Sheets. <A Collection of Twenty-three Hymn Sheets, 44 Jl. in all, all engraved, bound together, boards Dublin, Mary McCalley, n. d. CamMpaNnus (J. A.) OpreRA OMNIA a Michaele Ferno edita, FIRST EDITION, mostly roman letter, 304 Ull., woodcut on title, another on fol. 302 verso, woodcut initials, title dis- coloured, slight water-stains on the first eight leaves, a few old pen-notes, small defects in the last two leaves, vellwm | Tain, 4286; Pellechet, 3180; Proctor,*3879 | Rome, Eucharius Silber, 31 Oct. 1495 VINCENT, Qf Beauvais. SPECULUM HISTORIALE, 3 vol. SECOND EDITION, gothic letter, 336+331+ 372 Il, the last blank, wants ff. 10 and 11 (both blank) in vol. I, 2 columns, first initial illuminated in gold and colours, other initials supplied in red, rubricated, a few old pen-notes, marginal defect in Sol. | of vol. I, water-stains in some upper margins of vol. and some lower margins of vol. [1], otherwise a FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL MONASTIC BINDING of stamped pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasps and catches (to vol. I and ITT only | Copinger, 6247 ; Proctor,*1639 | Augsburg, The Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra, 1474] *,* A notable example of a book edited (from manuscripts in the monastery library), printed and bound within the walls ef a monastery. ~
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