Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
25th November 1882
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/33
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    12221 12223 12224 Paris: 12225 12226 Silversmith -Work, by “Le Petit Bernard,” fine copy in brown morocco, gilt edges, by Holloway, £7. 15s Inone, G. di Tornes, 1559 Considered by Didot to be ‘le chef-d’ceuvre du Petit Bernard.” (PARADIN) Quadrins Historiques de la Bible, revuz et augmentez d’un grand nombre de figures, 232 woodcuts, 1560— Fieures du Nowveatt Testament, 96 woodcuts, 1559—2 vols. in 1, TIvion, 1560-59 Le Senrentiose Impress di Monsignor Paulo Giovio et del Signor Gabriel Symeoni, small 4to. 252 beautiful woedeuts of - emblems, none of them bearing the designer's mark, but all from the hand of “ Le Petit Bernard,” limp vellum, £38. 3s | | Lyone, Gul. Roviglio, 1562 Notin the Didot collection. This is one of the rarest volumes of Rouillé’s press, and is much less often seen than the Imprese militari published in 1559, which contains less than two-thirds of the woodcuts in this yolume. Adsorr (cu) Fabule; Gabrie Fabelle xxxxiur1; Batrachomyo- machia; Galeomyomachia; omnes Greece et. Latine; acc. Aisopi | fabule xiir ab Avieno carmine conscripte Latine, 16mo. numerous small and spirited woodcuts, contemporary calf binding, with Arms in centre, £3. 16s Lugd. ap. J. Tornesium, 1570 The escutcheon on the sides is like one-half of that which was borne by Mary (Queen of Scots) It is the royal arms of France and England quar terly, without a crown. The additional six fables of AXsop beyond those in the Aldine edition, are in three instances mere paraphrases of some already in the series, Srmnont (Gab.) Figure de la Biblia, illustrate de Stanze Tuscane, Dione, G. Rovillio, 1577—F igure del Nuovo Testamento, illustrate da Versi vulgari Italiani, 7b. 1588—2 vols. in 1, 12mo. with about A5Q woodcuts by Jean Moni on the same subjects as the Bible prints (“ Quadrins”) of 1554-59, but totally different in composition, vellum, very fine tall copies, £5. 1577-88 ROMAN DE LA ROSE. Le romant de la rose || Codicille & . testament de || maistre Iehai de meun, sm. 4to. lettres gothiques, double columns, woodcuts, very fine copy in old French red morocco, gult edges, by De Rome, fr om the Didot collection, £63. Nouuellement Imprime a Parts | par Jean Du Pré pour Antoine Vérard], s. a. (? 1490] The title of the second part is as follows : ‘“‘ Le codicille & testament || de maistre Jeha de meun || Auecques lepitaphe du feu roy Charles || septiesme qui trespassa a Meun.” Brunet, in citing it, gives, instead of the last two words, “audit Meun,” which is probably an error on his part, not an indication of a different issue. SONGH DU VERGIER [On aii :] Cy commence le pmier liure intitule le songe du vergier: du clere & du cheualier, folio, lettres gothiques, large woodcut, very fine copy in old Fr onch calf gilt, £20, (Lyon) par Jacques Maillet, 149]