Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
3rd June 1873
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/10
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LOX 853 Tableaux Hisroriques de la RevoLtuTion FRangalse, upwards of 200 Engravings and Portraits, with descriptions, 3 vols. russia ex. Paris, 1800 A complete Pictorial History of the First French Revolution. 854 THoressy’s History of Leeps, revised by WuiTakeEr, with the Appendix, LARGE PAPER, PROOF PLATES, 2 vols. russia super ex. borders of gold on sides, gilt edges (but uncut at bottom) 1816 855 TURNER’S PICTURESQUE VIEWS in ENGLAND and WALES. LARGEST PAPER, INDIA PROOFS and ETCHINGS (of which only 12 sets were taken), atlas size, EXTREMELY RARE 1832 Vol. I consists of 60 plates (and Etchings), with Descrip- tions. Splendidly bound in morocco, ex. joints and gilt edges. Vol. 2, consisting of 12 Plates and Etchings, is half bound *,.* The Work, to be complete, should comprise 96 Plates 856 Vertot. History of the Knights of Malta. Portraits. LARGE PAPER, 2 vols. half bound 1728 857 Virgil. A series of Engravings by Bartoli, with Extracts of the Passages (in Manuscript) which they are intended to illustrate, half bd. — Hed. 858 VITAS PATRUM, or THE Lyves or OLDE AUNCYENT © FADERS HERMYTES, translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by WILLIAM CAXTON, late deed and fynysshed it at the laste daye of his lyff, Black Letter, woodcuts, morocco extra, blind tooled, doublé with morocco, and leather fly-leaves Emprynted in Westmynstre by Wynkyn de Worde, 1495 *,* THIS EXTRAORDINARILY FINE Copy has rough leaves both on fore edge and at bottom, and is complete with the title and last leaf, containing Caxton’s device, and large cut on reverse. It is one of Wynkyn de Worde’s most magnificent typo- graphical productions, and most probably the fihest copy in existence. 859 Vitruvius. Architecture, translated by J. Gwilt, LARGEST PAPER, /udia Proof Vignettes, morocco ex. gilt leaves( Preseri- tation Copy from the Translator) 1826 N