Sales catalogue 468: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/38
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 468: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Carter (T. F.)—continued. Thought and in Wares along the Great Silk Ways; (18) Paper’s Thousand Year ‘Journey from China to Europe; (14) The Printing of the Uigur Turks in the Region of Turfan; (15) Islam as a Barrier to Printing; (16) The Meeting of China and Europe in the Mongol Empire; (17) Persia the Crossroads between the Hast and the West; (18) Block Printing in Egypt during the Period of the Crusades ; (19) Playing Cards as a Factor in the Westward Movement of Printing; (20) The Printing of Textiles; (21) Block Printing in Europe. Part IV. Printing with Movable Type: (22) The Invention of Movable Type in China; (23) The Great Expansion of Movable Type Printing in Korea; (24) The Pedigree of Gutenberg’s Invention. Notes. Bibhography. VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE CURSIVE. TYPE USED. 1419 GASTILLIO (Bonaventura). Gallorum insubrum antiquae sedes. 4to, crimson morocco, three-line fillet border on sides, with the Arms on sides of J. A. De Thou (Second Arms incorporating those of the mrst wile). Milan, Poe Castiliio, 1 5 aa. Very important for the cursive type used. Bound up with: LOFFREDO (Serrante). Le Antichita di Pozzuolo et Luoghi Convicini. Naples, 1570. MYLAEUS (C.). De primordiis clarissimae urbis Lugduni. Lyons, Gryphius, 1545. The three books in 1 vol., 4to. (SEE. ILLUSTRATIONS, PLATES Nos.- XII. and XII1.). £15 15s 1420 [GAXTON.] The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. A facsimile reproduction of the first book printed in England by William Caxton, Me LAY 7: Printed im red and black. Royal $vo, cloth, . Pondon.13 77. £2 5s 1421 DURRIEU (M. le Comte Paul). Les Heures a l’usage d’Angers de la Collection Martin le Roy. With 21 reproductions of the most beautiful mimiatures of this fifteenth century manuscript. Folio, in original portfolio. Paris, privately printed, 1912. £6 6s 1422 FITZMAURICE-KELLY (].). Spanish Bibliography. smallSve, cloth. . Oxdord, wo25. 12s 6d
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