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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    210 Pratina (J. B. S. pe) DE HONESTA VOLUPTATE, gothic letter, 94 //. (last blank), MS. index in a neat sixteenth century hand on three leaves of vellum at end, marginal stains at beginning, otherwise a FINE COPY, measuring 201 mm. by 137 mm., vellum gilt | Hain, *13052 ; Proctor, *7266} Ato. Cividale, Gerardus Lisa, 24 Oct. 1480 *,* The first book from this press and the first printed in Cividale. 211 Platine de honesta : voluptate : = valitudine : vel de obsoniis: = arte coquinaria libri decé, vellum 4to. Venice, J. Tacuinus, 1503 *.* From the library of Richard Farmer (1737-97 im with his autograph signature on title. bo tl LS Plautus. Comoediae XX, title within woodcut border (defective), full- page woodcut of a theatre (from the 1497 Terence), over 300 small woodcuts, fol. 11 torn and mended, vellum, centrepiece with initials G. M. R. F. in blind on sides folio. Venice, L. de Soardis, 1511 213 Pliny the Elder.~ Historia mundi naturalis, 22 woodcuts by Hans Weidetz, many smaller cuts by Jost Amman and others, has the blank leaf *4* 4, but wants )( 4, title soiled and mounted, a few small stains, panelled calf, back defective folio. Krankfort, 1582 214 Poeniteas cito, gothic letter, 18 7, “ Accipies” woodeut (cut A) on title, last leaf torn and mended, black sealskin | Hain, *13161 ; Proctor, 1315; Voulliéme, 974] Ato. Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, 10 June, 1493 215 Polacco (Giorgio) Anticopernicvs Catholicvs, sev de terrae statione, et de solis motv, contra systema Copernicanum, Catholicae Assertiones (*, A-N 6 tn fours), plates, including a view of the Moon on p. 18, Venice, 1644—Torrensis (Franciscus) De sola lectione legis & pro- phetarum Iudaeis cum Mosaico vitu, & cultu permittenda: et de Iesv in synagogis eorum ex lege, ac prophetis ostendendo, & annun- ciando (A-zZ2 in fours), woodcut on title, device at end, Rome, V.& A. Doricus, of Brescia, 1555 ; bound together, original vellum Ato x The first tract contains the findings and sentence of the Inquisition against Galileo in 1633 with his recantation ; according to Karl von Gebler, the original text of these is not elsewhere preserved. Galileo was sentenced to imprisonment “per tempo ad arbitrio nostro” and to repeat the seven Penitential Psalms weekly for three years. 216 Potpo (JEAN) Discours Historial de antique et illustre cité de Nismes, woodcuts, polished calf gilt, FINE COPY | folio. Lyons, G. Roville, 1560
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