Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/678
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    81 82 84 COoLONNA (FRANCESCO) HYPEROTOMACHIA POLIFILI, FIRST EDITION, roman letter (some Greek and Hebrew type), 221 (should be 234) leaves, wants the first four leaves, quire B, and F 4, these 13 leaves supplied in facsimile, FINE IMPRESSIONS OF THE BEAUTIFUL WoopcuTs, woodcut initial, minute rust-hole in o 4, tiny flaw in el, slight defects, affecting three or four letters, in h 6, otherwise @ FINE COPY, measuring 303. mm. by 207 mm., pigskin, blind tooled, g.e. by Zaehnsdorf [| Hain, *5501; Pelle- chet, 8867; Proctor, *5574|; from the library of Sir Henry Cole, K.C.B. folio. Venice, Aldus Manutius, December, 1499 ComestTor (Petrus) Historia ScHouastica, roman letter, 222 leaves (last two blank), woodcut outline initials carefully filled- in by the rubricator in red, two on fol. 1 with backgrounds of mauve, brown and green, rubricated throughout, a few worm- holes affecting about 30 letters wn all, otherwise an EXTREMELY FINE Copy, measuring 407 mm. by 283 mm., half vellum | Hain, *5531; Pellechet, 3880; Proctor, *1539] folio. [Augsburg|, Gunther Zaner, 1473 ** “ But for a few trifling worm-holes, this work is as perfect as the day it was printed 413 years ago. G. R. R.”—WNote on fly- leaf. Commines (Philippe de) Cronique & hystoire .... contenat les choses aduenues durat le regne du roy Loys vnziesme, [ettrrs batartes, title and device printed in red and black within wood- cut border, full-page woodcut of Lows XI and his court on verso, the leaf torn and mended, old calf, back gilt 4to. Lyons, Claude Nourry, 1526 ** Books I-VI only. Books VII and VIII were not printed till 1528. Cousin (Jean) La Vraye Science de la Pourtraicture descrite et demonstrée, woodcut title (mounted), and 36 woodcuts. large worm-hole at end, half morocco, oblong, Paris, G. le Bé, 1676— Hamellius (Pascasius) Perspectiva tribus libris succinctis, woodcut diagrams, original vellum, wb. Gilles Gourbin, 1556— Collimitius (Georgius Tannstetter) Usus almanach. seu Epheme- ridum, table on d 4 verso touched at fore-edge, buckram, Vienna, H. Victor for J. Metzker, 1518 (3) CranacH (Lucas) Passtonat CHristr und Antichristi, gothic letter, title within woodcut border, 26 woodcuts by Lucas Cranach, head-lines on A3 shaved, blue morocco gilt, inside dentelles, g.e. by Bedford 4to. [Wittemberg or Erfurt, 1521] *“ “This is the variant of the Ist edition in which the woodcut on f. B2 y. represents Christ fallen under the weight of his cross ... JI incline to the belief that this form of the book is the earlier one. It is a very fine copy and the impressions of the woodcuts are remarkably clear. G. R. R.”—Note inserted.
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