Sales catalogue 505: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/63
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 505: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1477 MERLINS (Ambras). THE Mysrery or Ampras MERLINS, Standard-bearer Wolf, and last Boar of Cornwall. With sundry other Misterious Prophecys, both Ancient and Modern, plainly unfolded in the following treatise, on the signification and por- tent of that prodigious Comet, seen by most part of the World Anno 1680 with the Blazing-Star Anno 1682, etc. 4 pp., folio. Half morocco. London, Printed for Benj. Billingsley, 1683. oui os Prophecying the ‘‘ downfall of the house of Austria, Vienna, and the Empire of Germany, with Rome, Italy, and the Pope and Papicy, the King and Kingdom of France, with several other Countrys in Europe, and the danger of an invasion of England by the Turks, and then the convertion of the said Nation to the Christian faith.’’ LEtc., ete. 1478 | METALS. Wesstrer (John; practitioner in Physick and _.--—- Chirurgery). Merattocrapuia; or, an History of Metals, ¥. wherein is declared the signs of Ores and Minerals both before \) \ and after digging, &c.; as also the discussion of difficult Ques- JY) tions of Mystical Chymistry, as of the Philosopher’s Gold, the _/4 Liquor Alkahest, and such like. Small 4to. Half calf neat. London, 1671. f 2085 1479 MEXIA (Pedro). THe MHisrorre oF att THE ROMANE Emprrors, beginning with Caius Julius Caesar, and successively ending with Rodulph the second now raigning. First collected in Spanish by Pedro Mexia, since enlarged in Italian by Lodovico Dulce and Girolamo Bardi, and now englished by W. T(raheron). Title within woodcut border, and woodcut portrait of each Emperor above the account of the reign. First Eprrion 1n ENGLIsH. | Folio. Original calf (worn). London, Printed for Matthew Lownes, 1604. £5 5s Traheron appears to have been a soldier in Holland, probably under Colonel Horatio Vere to whom the book is dedicated, and to have left the service through consequent ill-health.