Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/790
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Second Dar 49 OCTAVO : ou | TORIANO (GIOVANNI) Select Italian Proverbs... newly made {| f e oe” Ba. | to speak English. (A-E6 in twelves, E 6 blank), FIRST b/ ii, 3 EDITION, E6 laid down inside lower cover, original sheep, A L Voight-Heber-Christie Miller copy [A Agr 12m0. Prunted by Be Dicwwell Printer to- the Universitie of Cambridge, and are to be sold by J. Martin and J. Tidley .. . 1649 Fl /) b 612) Vintvain (Rosert) Enchiridium Epigrammatum . Latino pa, fo: penal Anglicum. An Epitome of Essais, Englished out of a Latin : without elucidat Explications og CRICE. orl Fardel of %6 Fragments, ORIGINAL EDITION (a, 8 U.; b, 4Ul.; a-pd 4 in eights ; ff. 13-224 numbered 1-191 [nos. 18 and 68-87 repeated), arms of Oxford University on al, half-title on a2, some head-lines, numerals, catch- words and signatures shaved, also marginal notes on the verso of A38, c¢3 and vd3 and foot-rules on title, original defects iv C5 and-P1, rust-hole-m coe 7, fore- edges water-stained, green morocco gilt, inside borders, Ge 1654 ** Contains about 1,500 epigrams, each in [nghsh and Latin, on an immense variety of subjects, including one on Mrs. Huchenson and Mrs. Dyer of Boston in New England. On the half-title (itself an unusual feature in a pre-Restoration book) is written “ Governour Black- more,” no doubt Sir John Blackmore, Governor of St. Helena, 1678-90. Anglois et autres Sujets, FIRST EDITION, contemporary. 313 [Voltaire (I. M. A. de)| Lettres Eerites de Londres sur les bs blue morocco gilt, g. e. Bale, 1734 314 [Walker (Ol danas: Of Education, Especially of Young se Gentlemen . .. The Second Impression with additions calf Lonto. Oxford, 1573 dadlee ows b, 515 | White (Thomas) A Sermon Preached at Pawles Crosse on | 4 ; | Sunday the ninth of December 1576, by T.W. Imprinted , at London by Francis Coldock, 1578; A Sermo Preached )A at Pawles Crosse on Sunday the thirde of Nouember 1577 in the time of the Plague, by T. W. [same imprint], 1578; Fork, in 1 vol. Hfaet fetter, “titles within woodcut borders, MS. mscriptions on reverse of both titles, morocco, g. @. fit Ao 7 el eee ale ale ** Both rare. §.T.C. records two copies of the first and three of the second. The first Sermon (according to Payne Collier) “contains the earliest notice of regular theatres in London.” :
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