Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/567
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    20/98 page 14
    L65 166 167 168 169 170 Ler 172 173 Erasmus. In Evangelium Luce Paraphrasis, ztalic letter, original wooden boards, covered with stamped calf, with the mark and initials of the binder I. V. B. ina shield, rebacked Basileae, 1523 to be in the handwriting of Martin Luther. (Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby, in a memorandum dated July 10, 1851, and bound up with the book, says: ‘I have not the smallest hesitation of pronouncing the whole of the MS. notes and MS. index to be in the autograph of Martin Luther.”) Epistolarum obscurorum virorum, Romae, 1557; and other pieces in 1 vol. original stamped calf and wooden boards— Thomas Aquinas, Aureae Conclusiones | ed. JoannesFoulerus, Bristoliensis], original stamped pigskin, Venetiis, 1572 ; ete. (3) Vergilius (P.) Adagiorum Opus, ¢talic letter, a few MS. marginal notes, original stamped calf (repaired) Basileae, 1541 Dictionarium Pauperum, gothte letter, woodcut printer’s device at the end, original binding of eak boards and stamped leather, linings from a MS. on vellum Impressa Colonie retro Minores, 1504 Josephus De Antiquitatibus Iudaeorum Libri X, ztalic letter, device on the title and at the end, contemporary Netherlandish binding of oak boards, each side stamped with two panels, each with borders and two compartments, the latter with vine branches with fruit and leaves enclosing birds, etc.in the curves, the upper cover with marginal legends Lugduni, Seb. Gryphius, 1539 Florus (L. A.) L’Historie Romane; Le Notitie del Mondo, di L. Ampelio, PRINTED ON VELLUM, woodcut device at the end, engraved leaf of dedication, name of dedtcatee erased and arms defaced, name erased throughout the dedication, original morocco gilt, on the sides the coat of arms of a knight (three bendlets) ornamented with au pointillé work, with a frame of 2-line fillets, at each angle a flower of inlaid brown morocco and gilé au pointillé work, border of red inlay, gilt tooled and au pointillé ornament, back in five compartments, with red inlays and gilt au pointillé work, Horatii Poemata Omnia, anchor and dolphin device on title and last leaf (title defective and a few leaves wormed), old calf, gilt panel on sides with Horatii” stamped in gilt, gilt and gauffered edges (worn), sm. 8v0, Venetiis in aedibus Aldi, etc. 1527 - ete. (3) Euripides. Tragoedie Septendecim, FIRST ALDINE EDITION, 2 vol. in 1, with early marginal notes, old blind stamped vellum over wooden boards, with clasps Venetiis, apud Aldum, 1503 Silius Italicus. De Bello Punico Libri XVII, stamp of Cardinal Lomellinus Benedictus on title (some margins stained), old blind stamped calf, with title on upper cover, and on the
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