Sales catalogues: Quaritch

Date:
1952
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/55
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

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

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    353 OLIVER OF CASTILE. The History of Oliver of Castile. Reprinted from the unique Copy of Wynkyn de Worde’s Edition of 1518 preserved in the Library at Britwell Court. Edited by R. E. Graves. 4to., half morocco. Roxburghe Club, 1898 £4 10s. $12.60 354 ONGANIA (F.). L’Arte della Stampa nel Rinascimento Italiano Venezia. 2 parts, impl. 8vo., with an immense number of facsimiles ; in a portfolio, a little worn. Venice, 1894 . : £3 $8.40 355. ORCUTT (W. D.). The Book in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth Centuries shown in Facsimile Reproductions from the most famous printed Volumes . . . with an Introduction by Dott. Comm. Guido Biagi. 4to., with 3 coloured and many plain plates ; boards, vellum back, gilt top, binding slightly soiled. [1928] £4 $11.20 Limited to 750 copies for England. ; 356 OTTLEY (N. Y.). Inquiry concerning the Invention of Printing . . . including also Notices of the early Use of Wood Engraving in Europe, the Block-Books, etc. With an Introduction by J. Ph. Berjeau. 4to., with 37 plates and numerous woodcuts ; half morocco, a-litile rubbed. 1863 £410s. $12.60 357 PALMER (S.). A General History of Printing; from the first Invention of it in the City of Mentz, to its Propagation and Progress thro’ most of the Kingdoms in Europe: particularly the Introduction and Success of it here in England. With the Characters of the most celebrated Printers, from the first Inventors of this Art to the Years 1520 and 1550... 4to., old panelled calf, sprinkled edges. 1733 £7 $19.60 ° “In the compilation of this work Palmer was greatly assisted by George Psalmanazar.’—Lowndes. 358 PAPER AND PAPER MAKING. BRIQUET (C. M.). Les Filigranes. Diction- naire historique des Marques du Papier des leur Apparition vers 1282 jusqu’en 1600. Deuxiéme Edition. | 4 vols., roy. 4to., with 3 plates, 16,112 facsimiles of watermarks and 39 illustrations tm the text; half buckram. Leipzig, 1923 £47 10s. $133.00 359 CHURCHILL (W. A.). Watermarks in Paper in Holland, England, France, etc., in the XVII and XVIII Centuries and their Interconnection. 4to., with numerous facsimiles of watermarks ; cloth. Amsterdam, 1935 £8 10s. $23.80 360 HARVARD. IIlustrissimo ac sublimi Virtute, optimaque Eruditione, ornatissimo Viro Francisco Bernardo, Baronetto, Provinciae Massachusettensis Gubernatori . . . Thomae Hutchinsono . . . Vice-Gubernatori.. . Johanni Winthrop, S.R.S._ Collegii —Harvardini Socio, Mathesews ac Philosophiae Professori Hollisiano . . . Theses hasce, quas . . . in Collegio-Harvardino defendere . . . conabuntur Juvenes in Artibus initiati, Petrus Oliver, Jacobus Winthrop [and 37 other names]... (Colophon :) Habita in Comitiis Academicis, Cantabrigiae, Nov-Anglorum, Decimo- quarto Calendas Sextilis, Anno MDCCLXIX. Typis Richardi Draper. In Papyrum Miltoni in Nov-Anglia confectam. Broadside, marginal rule outside the text measuring 214 x 144 inches, with blank margins of about an inch all round, edges at sides untrimmed ; a little foxing in one corner and very small defects in-two old folds, but in good condition. Cambridge, Mass., 1769 £40 $112.00 Not in Sabin, but cf. no. 30765. The Theses under nine headings, Technology, Logic, Metaphysics, Ethics, Theology, Grammar, Rhetoric, Mathematics and Physics, are ranged in three columns. The emphasis is on the last two headings, with 33 and 32 subjects respectively, and the complete absence of Classics is noteworthy. yop The reference in the colophon to the local origin of the paper on which this broadside is printed is interesting. . 361 HUNTER (Dard). Papermaking. The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo., with a frontispiece, 317 illustvations and a map; cloth. 1947 £3 8s. $8.82 This book traces the development of paper-making from its invention in China, through its spread to other Oriental countries and its introduction into Europe. The author discusses in detail the processes of paper-making ; of the various products, its merits and demerits ; watermarking ; counterfeiting, and although full of technical detail, is easily and delightfully written. 362 LE CLERT (Louis). Le Papier. Recherches et Notes pour servir 4 l’Histoire du Papier, principalement a Troyes et aux Environs depuis le Quatorziéme Siécle. Avec Préface par Henri Stein. 2 vols., folio, with coloured frontispiece and 78 plates, many of which ave coloured, including numerous reproductions of watermarks, manuscripts, maps, views, and coats of arms, and many figures in‘ the text; sewed. Paris, 1926 | | £12 $33.60