Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
14 March 1902
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/88
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    71 73 74 15 76 17 78 SCRIPT ON VELLUM (183 Ul. 44 by 3 ins.) written in neat lettres batardes, 14 lines to a page, by a French scribe (Calendar in French), with 15 small FINELY PAINTED AND RICHLY ILLUMINATED ARCHED MINIATURES, (2 by 14 in.) surrounded by exquisite borders of scroll flower ornaments, nearly every page, including Calendar, having marginal decorations of a similar character, thick boarded brown morocco, the back and sides covered in rich floreate and geometrical scrolls and compartmental ornaments, with name of former owner ‘GILLES DAVOULT” in oval centres, g. e@. (CLovis EVE), a genuine and well-preserved specimen 12mo. late XVth century Hore Diurne cum Psalterio Romano ad Usum Cleri Basilice Vaticanz cura Henrici 8. R. G. Presbyteri Cardinalis Ducis Eboracensis edite, red and black, frontispiece and plates, old Italian red morocco, with eiaborate gilt ornaments, g. é. THE EDITOR THE CARDINAL DUKE OF YORK’S OWN COPY, with his arms (England with a crescent) on sides, g. &. in fine condition. [See PLATE] small 8vo. Lome, 1756 *,* The Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart, called Cardinal Duke of York, to whom this volume belonged, and under whose supervision it was published, was brother to the Young Pretender, and the last of the Stuarts in the male line. Horativus. Opera; eneis Tabulis incidit Johannes Pine, FIRST or ‘‘ POST EST” EDITION, fine impressions of the engravings, 2 vol. old French citron morocco, ornamental backs and sides, bronzed flower end papers, g. e. royal 8vo. Lond. Jo. Pine, 1733 Horatius. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera, portrait by St. Aubin, green mo- rocco, line tooled, UNCUT, some ll. not cut open, black rules in side margins, bound by Hayday, RARE in this state 12mo. Paris. e Typog. Regia, 1733 Horatius. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, editio stéreotypa, grand papier vélin, portrait by St. Aubin, crushed crimson morocco, plain, g.e. by David small 8vo. Paris, Didot, an VIII (1800) Horatius. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Pickering’s Diamond type edition, portrait by L. Grave l6mo. W. Pickering, 1820 Horatius. Opera, recensuit atque interpretatus est Jo. G. Orellius, addita Var. Lectt. editio tertia emendata et aucta curavit J. G. Baiterus, 2 vol. calf extra, m. e. Turici, 1850 Horatius. Les (Euvres d’Horace, traduction nouvelle par Jules Janin, 2° édition, portrait by St. Aubin on india paper, crushed crimson mo- rocco, full gilt ornamental back, line sides, inside dentelles, g. e. by David 12mo. Paris, Hachette, 1861 Huginus 4 Barma. Saturnalia Regna S. M. I. 8S. P. in aurea szcula con- © versa, id est Magisterium Thesauri, &c. anno 1657, in luceem primum editum, Paris. P. Derieu, 1779 ; Le Regne de Saturne, change en Siécle d’Or, traduit du latin par Pr. TH. AN*****, 7b. 1780; 2 vol. in 1, plates of emblems, old French red morocco, full gilt floreate back, line sides with corner fleurons, g. e. (Derome), engraved business ticket of Derieu the publisher pasted in flyleaf, RARE 12mo