Sales catalogue 930: James Tregaskis & Son

Date:
December 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/51/2
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 930: James Tregaskis & Son. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    British Museum. 65 CHARLES II. A FORM OF PRAYER, with Thanksgiving, to. be used of all the Kings Majesties Loving Subjects the 29th of May yearly, for His Majesties Happy Return to His Kingdoms: It being also the Day of His Birth. 4to, black letter, old mottled calf, gold line border on sides, in centre a rectangular panel.of 3 gold lines, at corners the crowned Cypher of Charles II. between palm branches, g.e. £9 10 0 J. Biil.& C. Barker: London 1662 66 CHARLES II. A FORM OF PRAVER. [Another copy.]. Calf, double gold line border on sides, gold line frame in centre with ornaments at corners enclosing the Royal Arms impressed in gold, g.e. £8 10 0 1662 67 CHRYSOSTOMUS (Sanctus Joannes) AN EXPOSITION VPON THE EPISTLE OF S. PAULE THE APOSTLE TO THE EPHESIANS: by S. John Chrysostome, Archbishop of Constan- tinople. Perused and auctorized, according to an order appointed in hir Maiesties Iniunctions. Sm. gto (7% by 5%in.), title-page with woodcut border [McKerrow 230x], with the Royal Arms between Fame and Victory, at top; the Stationers’ Arms, a Lion and Dragon, below, and the initials ‘‘ H.B.,’’ lace woodcut ornaments, initia} letters, printed chiefly in black letter, Bynneman’s device [ McKerrow 119], of the Brazen Serpent, between text and table, with original blank leaf Vu4, original limp vellum. £6 0 0 Henry Bynneman and Ralph Newbery: London, Dec. 24, 1581 xs FIRST EDITION. Dedicated to the Countess of Oxford (daughter of Lord Burleigh): this dedication—lacking in the British Museum copy—is on an inserted leaf. The name of the translator does not appear to be known. Nor IN Hazuitr Bris. Cotu., British Mus. Cat. of Eng. Bks. to 1640, p. 221. CLASSICS. 68 Boethius (Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus) FIVE BOOKES OF PHILOSOPHICALL COMFORT, full of Christian con- solation, written a 1oco yeeres since, by Anitius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boctius ; a Christian consul of Rome. Newly translated out of Latine, together with marginall notes, explaining the obscurest places [by I. T.]. [Device. McKerrow 282]. 12mo (63 by 47% in.), 7 ll., 144 ll. (A-T), lacks A (a blank leaf), woodcut initial letters and ornaments, a few leaves soiled, boards. £2 0 0 John Windet for Matthew Lownes: London 1609 :. FIRST EDITION. Brit. Mus. Eng. Cat., 242. Hazlitt I., 42, who reads ‘‘ Auitius’’ in the title-page. Sayle, 2176. Not in Schweiger.