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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    12045 12046 12047 12048 12049 12050 TERENTIUS ci directorio. . . cométariis. . . folio, nwmerous spirited woodcuts, fine large copy in the original oak boards, with clasps, £4. 10s Argent. J. Griiminger, 1496 ‘‘ Edition remarquable 4 cause des nombreuses gravures sur bois trés- singuliéres qu'elle contient.”’—Brunet. VIRGILIL PUBLIT Marois orzra [cum Commentariis Servii Mauri Honorati Grammatici, A‘lii Donati, Christofori Landini, A.Mancinelli et Domitii Calderini, curante Sebastiano Brandt], sm. folio, numerous very .spirited woodcuts with aylographic inscruptions, fine copy in stamped pigskin, rare, £12. 12s Argentorati, J. Grieninger, 1502 The woodcuts are the finest and most characteristic examples of the anonymous school of Alsatian art. HUGONIS (Johannis) pr Sierstar Quadruvium Ecclesie, quatuor prelatorum officium quibus omnis anima subjicitur, sm. folio, several large woodcuts, with some marginal notes which have been said to be in the handwriting of Melanchthon, green morocco extra, £3. 1504 This curious work on the duties and mutual relations of the estates of the empire (Pope, Emperor, Bishop, Priest, and Layman) was put in the Index Prohibitorum, as treating upon too delicate a subject. Pontus anp Srponta. Hie hebt sich an ein schoée hystori . darausz vnd dauon man vil gutter schoner lere vnd vnderweistg vn geleichniiss mag nemé . . Wolche hystori . . fraw Heleonora geborne kiinigin vsz schottenlande . . loblich v6 frantzosiger zungen in teutsch getranszferieret . . hat . dem. herren Sigmund ertzhertzog zu ostereich . Irem eelichen gemahel zu heb vnd wol geuallen, small 4to. 52 woodcuts, different from those in the Augsburg edition of 1492, one leaf of text a little defective, hf. calf, RARE, £7. 10s Straszburg, durch Martini Flach, 1509 CAOURSIN, Historia von RHODIS wie ritterlich sie sich gehalté mit dem Tyrannischen keiser Machomet uss Tiirckyé, lustig uf lieplich zu lesen, sm. folio, large woodcut on title, and nnmerous woodcuts representing the Srege of Rhodes and various events in the history of the strife between the Knights and the Turks, fine large copy, rare, £5. 5s Straszb. Martin Flach, 1513 The translator from the Latin was Joannes Adelphus, medicus, of Strass- burg, a useful literary populariser of those days, whose pen was always at work. He gives in the preface a gossipy account of his various productions. ALEXANDER. Das buch der geschicht des grossen Allexanders wie die Eusebius beschriben un getetitscht hat, new cetruckt mit vyl schénen figuren, sm. folio, large woodcuts, vellum, £6. Straszburg, Mathisz Hiipfuff, 1514 Wundtarzney, fine large woodcuts of Surgical Operations, Instruments and Machinery Straszburg, Johann Schott, 1517 down Straszburgh, Johann Schott, 1516 The second work “Die Emeis,’? or ‘‘Das Buch yon den Omeissen”’ of