Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/541
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    4927 4928 4931 4932 4933 4934 4935 4936 4937 4938 Aurea expositio hymnorum una cum textu, gothic letter, Jong lines, printer’s device on the title and at the end, wants one leaf (1i), half vellum 4to. Parisiis, Petrus Lenet, 1486 Aurelius Victor (Sextus) De viris illustribus, roman letter, long lines, 34 leaves | Hain, *2131; Proctor, 4082], initials in red and blue, rather badly water-stained, half calf 4to. Venice, N. Jensen, n.d. (c. 1471) Austen (R. A.) A Treatise of Fruit-Trees, engraved title, a Jew small worm-holes, half calf 4to. Ozford, 1657 Bach (J. C.) Six Sonates pour le Clavecin ou le Pianoforte, engraved title by Bartolozz, engraved plates af musical notation, mottled calf gilt, g.e. by R. de Coverly, with ex- libris of W. H. Cummings, n. d.—Bach (C. P. E.) Sei Sonate per Cembalo, engraved plates of musical notation, half morocco gilt, g.e. by F. Bedford, with ea-libris of W. H. Cummings, for I. Walsh, n. d. oblong folio. (2) Bacon (Sir F.) The Essayes or Counsels, civill and morall, newly enlarged, calf (repaired) 4to. 1629 Bacon (Sir F.) Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learn- ing, interpreted by G. Watts, portrait, signature of F-. Drake, 1678, on the jly-leaf, calf Solio. Ozford, 1640 Bacon (Sir F.) Cases of Treason, FIRST EDITION, last leaf defective, unbound, uncut 4to. 1641 Bacon (Sir F.) Ordinances, FIRST EDITION, a few minute worm- holes, uncut at fore-edge and foot, unbound 4to. 1642 Bale (J.) The Apology agaynste a ranke Papyst, black letter, FIRST EDITION, or?ginal calf, blind lines, gilt centre orna- ments and corner tools (rebacked), J. Daye (1550); and another 8v0o. (2) Balfour (G.) The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 vol. portrait, uncut, t. e.g. 1901—Shorter (S.) The Brontes, Life and Letters, 2 vol. plates, buckram, uncut, t. e.g. 1908 8vo. (4) Banks (J.) The Island Queene; or, the Death of Mary, Queen of Scotland, FIRST EDITION, corner of last leaf mended, half calf (Huth copy) 4to. 1684 Baptista (Mantuanus) Parthenice Catharina [? Hain, 2369 (2) or 2376; Proctor, 8385], Paris. T. Kerver for J. Petit (not before 5 Aug. 1499); De calamitatibus temporum [Hain, 2385; Proctor, 8386], ib. 4 Sept. 1499; with two others, in 1 vol. original stamped pigskin over wooden boards, catches and clasps ; from the Kloss and Dunn ie ae 4to. (1 Barbarus (H.) Castigationes Plinij, soman letter, with passages in Greek, 2 parts in 1, numerous contemporary MS. notes, some margins mended folio. s.n.[? Venice, after 25 August, 1492]
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