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.

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    623 626 628 629 630 631 Petrarca (Francesco) Opera con li commenti historiate per Nicolo Perazzone, device on title and sia full-page woodcuts within borders (two slightly defaced by pen-marks), first two leaves slightly defective and mended, top corners of neat jive leaves mended, some stains, old green vellum, rebackid Venice, Barth. de Zanis, 1508 Pfintzing (Melchior) Tewrdannckh. A Reproduction of the Augsburg, 1519, edition, edited by W. H. Rylands, introduc- tion by G. Bullen, facsemzles of woodcuts, calf, t.e.g. 1884 Plautus. Ex emendationibus adque commentariis Bernardi Saraceni, J. P. Vallae Comediae XX, ¢t7tle within fine wood- cut border (slightly damaged), one full-page and many smaller cuts, wants sig. E, first few leaves stained, fore- margins of seven leaves defective, affecting a few words of ‘emendationes” and commentary, old vellum, slit, Venice, Lazarus Soardus, 1511 ; ete. (2) lautus (M. A.) Comoediae viginti cum commentariis Bernardi Saraceni, J. P. Vallae et Pyladis Brixiani, title in red and hlack, 88 woodcuts, title defective and mended, some stains and worm-holes, wooden boards, stamped calf back Venice, M. Sessa and P. de Ravanis, 1518 Pliny, the Hider. Historia Naturalis, lib. XXXVI; addita est tabula vel index copiosissimus Ioannis Camertis, 2 vol.in ], title in red and black within woodcut border, each book headed by a map or woodcut, some leaves at end stained, bound in a leaf of vellum MS. (text obliterated) Venice, M. Sessa and P. Serenae, 1525 Plutarch. Lives, translated by Sir Thomas North, ¢7tle mended, last two leaves of table defective and mended, calf, joints broken Rh. Field, 1612 Pollard (A. W.) Shakespeare Folios and Quartos. A Study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare’s Plays, facsimiles, boards, uncut 1909 Psalter. Quintuplex Psalterium [Latine] Gallicum, Romanum, Hebraicorum, Vetus, Conciliatum, finely printed in red and black, title within woodcut border, original stamped calf, vebacked Paris. Henri Etienne, 1513 Psalterium Polyglottum Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum et Chaldaicum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus [studio Aug. Justiniani], ¢ztle in red and black within woodcut border, device at end, a few leaves at each end wormed, margin of title strengthened, a few words on A4 recto defec- tive, diced russia, cover loose Genoa, P. P. Porro, 1516 y* The first Polyglot Psalter, containing as a gloss on the psalm ‘‘Coeli enarrant” the earliest printed account of the life and voyages of Columbus (a fellow townsman of Gius- tiniani, the editor) and of his discovery of America.
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