Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the first [-third] ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 11, etc / [Sir Mark Masterman Sykes].

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[1824]
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Credit: Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the first [-third] ... Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Evans ... on ... May 11, etc / [Sir Mark Masterman Sykes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ja. SP ae 1014 [PiLpal Fasut#.] , Directorium Humane Vite alias se 2 Parabole Antiquorum Sapientum (et vocatur Liber Be- lil et Dimne et prius quidem in Lingua fuerat Indo- rum translatus) FIRST EDITION, wood cuts, green morocco, without date or place, but printed about the year, 1480. #* 4 Book of great rarity and curiosity. No Col- lection of Tales enjoys a greater reputation in the East. Sir William Jones, in his Discourses on the Hindoos, thus expresses his admiration of them, and points out the real name of the author. The Fables of Vishnusarman, whom we ridiculously call Pilpay, are the Most Beautiful, if not the most ancient in the world.” This Latin Version was made by John de Capua, from the Hebrew, and is the Parent of all the European Translations. See Ellis’s Metrical Romances, Vol. 3. F7, /o _. 1015 Isidori (Episcopi Hispalensis) Etymologia, First EDITION, WITH A DATE, PRINTED UPON VELLUM, MOST BEAUTIFUL copy, splendidly bound in olive morocco, by Lewis, with moroccco lining, *,* Tus First Book PRINTED IN Roman CHarac- rers IN Germany. Schelhorn says he has com- Bie. pared it with the Roman types of J enson’s Quinti- lian, which always filled him with delight and admiration,” and thought “ that the types of this edition might vie with them in beauty.” This is the splendid copy which was sold in the First portion of Sir M. Sykes’s Library, No. 1651, and excited so much admiration, but it proves to want a wood plate of an Etymological Tree. SP @ —- 4016 Auli Gellii Noctes Atticz, FIRST EDITION, VERY RARE, 4 Rome, rER SwEYNHEYM ET PaNNARTZ, im domo Petri de Maximis, MCCCCLXIX. fe. 1017 Hsopiet Gabriz Fabulz, Gr. et Lat. Phurnutus de Natura Deorum, Gr. &c. in old red morocco binding, . Apud Aldum, 1505 4. A4 4018 Breviarium Secundum Consuetudinem Ecclesiz, MANU- SCRIPT, UPON VELLUM, with illuminations. embroidered binding, Printed by Barker, 1607 , pS —— ~~ 1020 Fasciculus Temporum, wood cuts, | Per Erhardum Retdolt, 1481 | La » H/-_ _—_‘1021 Herolt, Sermones Discipuli super Epistolas Dominicales, without date, place, or name of printer, but apparently from the press of Ulric Zel, uncut. | I “Lore < .