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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    8363 VIRGILO degvisat o I’Hneido byrlesco, del Sr. de Vales, de Mountech, 4to. beautiful copy in olive morocco extra, by Lortic [ from the Didot collection], £36. A Tovlovso, 1648 Collation: title, dedication, 2 leaves; 58 pp. et 1 blank leaf for the first book ; 74 pp. for the second ; 68 pp. for the third, and 75 pp. for the fourth. This is the only complete copy recorded by bibliographers. Of the five known to Brunet, his continuator, and the authors of the Biographie Toulousaine, three ‘wanted the last 75 pp.; the fourth may or may not have been imperfect, and this is the single copy in which the “ Libre quatrieme”’ is contained. 8364 Weaver (Thomas) Plantagenets Tragicall Story: or, the Death of King Edward the Fourth: with the unnaturall Voyage of Richard the Third through the Red Sea of his Nephews innocent bloud, to his usurped Crowne. Metaphrased by T. W. 12mo. fine portrait by Marshall, calf, £2. 2s 1649 8360 Yague de Salas (Juan) Los Amantes de Tervel, Hpopeya tragica, con la restauracion de Hspafia por la parte de Sobrarbe, y conquista del Reyno de Valencia, thick 18mo. with a woodert portratt, vellum, £7.7s Hn Valencia, por Pedro Patricio Mey, 1616 Very RARE. The above is a fine copy, excepting a few very slight stains, and contains the two additional leaves at the end which were printed after the book had been published, and which are wanting in most copies. Among the preliminary pieces are sonnets by Lope and Cervantes. XII. APPENDIX TO ROMANTIC FICTION. J. Chronicles of Chivalry. 8366 BAYARD. Histoire du Chevalier Bayard, Lieutenant General pour le Roy au Govvernement de Daulphiné, et de plusieurs choses memorables advenues en France, Italie, etc. depuis l’an 1489 iusques 4 1524 (par le Lorvat SrrvirevuR), sm. 4to. portrait, old calf, with Arms on sides, fine clean copy, £5. Paris, 1616 8367 Bayarp. The very joyous, pleasant, and refreshing History of the .. good knight without fear and without reproach = Edward C. Kindersley, 8vo. frontispiece, cloth, 10s | 1848 Adapted from the history of “le loyal serviteur.” 8368 THE BLACK PRINCE: an historical poem written in French by Chandos Herald, with a translation and notes by H. O. Coxe, Ato. hf. bd. £2. 10s Roxburghe Club, 1842 Although called a poem, it is merely valuable as a history ; lacking all the romantic spirit and beauty of Froissart’s story. 8369 CRONICA DE DON JAIME I. AUREUM OPUS regalium privilegiorum civitatis et regni Valentie . ... CoMENGgA LA Coqursta p. lo serenissimo e catholich princep de immortal memoria do Jaume p.lagra de deu Rey de Arago .. . delainsigne ciutat e regne de Valencia: deliurat aqlla de la mahometica s’vitut, stout sm. folio, nothic letter, woodcut portratt of the Conquistador, and woodeut barders, the first and last leaves in facsimile, and some leaves water-stained, calf, £20. Valencie, Didacus de Gumiel, 1515