Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
February 1882
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/31
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nizami’s Srxanpar Nama—see Romance of Alexander. 7284 SADI. Tue Gunisran; or Rose-Garden, of Shekh Muslihw’ d-Din Sadi of Shiraz, translated for the first time into prose and verse, with life of the author, by Edward B. Hastwick, 8vo. elegantly printed within red borders, with three illuminated pages in facsimile from some exquisite Persian MSS., green cloth extra, £2. 2s Hertford, 1852 7285 Tootr Namen, or Tales of a Parrot, Persian and English (by Gladwin), roy. 8vo. bd. 10s 1801 7286 Tutt Namen: des Papagaienbuch, Deutsch, nach der tiirk. Bear- beitung, von Rosen, 12mo. hf. calf, 4s Leipzig, 1858 III. ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN FICTIONS (exclusive of Epics and a few special creations), 7287 Cox (Geo. W.) Tales of the Gods and Heroes, 16mo. plates, cloth, 2s 6d 1863 7288 Puotit Myrioprsnon, sive Bibliotheca librorum quos Photius patriarcha Constantinopolitanus legit et censuit, Greece, edidit Hoeschelius, Latine reddidit Andreas Schottus, folio, old calf, 15s [ Geneve], Paulus Stephanus, 1612 7289 ——_———— idem opus, hac ultima editione recognitum, folio, Best edition, old calf Rtothomagi, 1653 This important review of Greek Literature takes its place here as containing not only an account of the Greek story-writers, including some who are wholly lost to us otherwise, but also a summary of the various narratives described. There are two classes, Erotici and writers of Incredibilia, under which headings we find the pastoral and adventurous Romances, and the recitals of fabulous Voyages. ApoLLonius Ruopius—see wnder Hrics, post. 7290 APULEIT Meramorpnoszos liber: ac nonulla ALIA OpuscuLaA eiusdem (edente Joanne Andrea Episcopo Aleriensi) : necnon epitoma Alcinoi in disciplinart. Platonis, folio, Editio Princeps, very large copy, with rough edges, old blue morocco gilt, £75. Rome, in domo Petri de Maximo (per SWEYNHEYM et : Pannartz), 1469 EXCESSIVELY RARE. The outside margins measure 23 and the lower ones 32 in. The height of the middle page is 13% in. Collation: 1 blank leaf; Hpistle of the Bishop of Aleria, 511 ; Table, 1 leaf; another blank leaf; Apuleius, 154 Il. ; then another. blank leaf; followed by Alcinous which occupies 17 ll. with colophon on recto of the last; and finally another blank leaf, making together 181 leaves. Brunet gives only 177, but he probably did not count the blank ones. Printed in Roman ' letters without numerals, catchwords, or signatures. The capitals painted in by hand. It is said only 275 copies of this work wero printed.