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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    = . A Ee GE ite Poe nae a) ee eee What’ eh OR oe ee hg ee ren a Mot a oe « ; , re x ericd: 84 BERNARD QUARITCH’ S CATALOGUE, No. 702 Lm - ADDENDA és 1219 BLADES (W.). ‘Shakspere and Typography ; being an Attempt to show Shakspere’s personal __ Connection with ...the Art of Printing. Also, Remarks upon some common typographical Errors, with especial Reference to the Text of Shakspere. ; 8vo., cloth. 1872 ; £1 5s. $3.50 Presentation copy signed by the author. Inserted is a holograph letter from the author to J. P. Edmond: He writes ‘‘...It was meant more as a jeu d’esprit than anything else, its object being to prove that if you open your eyes to everything in Shakespere that tends to prove : your proposition ... you will find enough to prove S. to have been anything you wish to make tai object of course ic was to prove him a printer which I no more believe than I do that he was a scavenger . 2.8 1220 CAXTON (W.). Commemoracio Lamentacionis sive Compassionis heate Marie. Reproduced in facsimile from the unique Copy printed at Westminster by William Caxton, with an Intro- duction by E. Gordon Duff. 8vo., boards, vellum back. «Bibliographical Society of Lancashire, 1901 £1 5s. $3.50 First ‘of a projected series of facsimiles of unique early English books, limited to 200 copies. 1291 CRAWFORD AND BALCARRES (James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of). Dun Echt Observatory Publications. Classification Scheme, and Index to the same, of the Library of the Observatory. Advance Sheets, subject to Revision. 4to., boards, cloth back. Dun Echt, 1879 £1 $2.80 In 1874 Lord Lindsay took an expedition to Mauritius to observe the transit of Venus. Though the observations were marred by clouds they were enabled to report valuable data for the determination of longitudes and the method of establishing » the solar parallax. The results were published in the Dun Echt Publications, long regarded as an important source of astro- nomical information. 1222 EDINBURGH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. Lists of Fifteenth’ Century Books in Edinburgh. Libraries. By Members of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. Ato., buckram. Edinburgh, 1913 £2 10s. $7.00 One of 20 copies reprinted for presentation from Vol. 9 of the Papers of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. 1223 ENSCHEDE EN ZONEN (Joh.). Die Lettergieterij van Joh. Enschedé en Zonen.’ Gedenksch- rift ter Gelegenheid van, haar Honderdvijftig-Jarig Bestaan op 9 Maart 1893. Ato., with 21 plates, 4 of which are original prints from 18th century plates, and facsimiles im the text ; ‘cloth. H aarlem, [1893] £2 10s. $7.00 The firm, now the best type- foundry in Holland, was originated by Isaac Enschedé ih 1703. Its types have been in use — all over the continent for nearly 250 years and are highly esteemed for their beauty and excellence. a 1224 FELL (Dr. J.). Specimens of Books printed at Oxford with the Types given to the University by John Fell. . Folio, with 185 specimen pages ; cloth. Oxford, 1925 Eber + £7 $19.60 Only 550 copies printed, and now out of print and scarce. 1225 FLETCHER (Andrew), of. Salioun. The printed Works of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. Collected by Robert A. S. Macfie. Provisional List. Ato., boards, cloth back. ‘1898 £1 10s. $4.20 — A collection of three portraits of, and twenty-four facsimiles of title-pages of works by, or attributed to, Andrew Fletcher, -- — ' 1653-1716, Scottish patriot and writer on political subjects; with Macfie’s notes and observations in MS. The completed bibliography was privately printed in 1901 in a strictly limited edition of only thirty copies. . 1226 HORN-BOOK. Facsimile of a Horn Book, printed by Edward Raban. No date (c. 1622). | Folio, reproduced on a single leaf of vellum ; bound with several sheets of blank paper im half calf. [c. 1890] £1 15s. $4.90 The original, from the press of Aberdeen’s first printer, consists of four impressions in black letter of four different horn- books, printed on one sheet. The impressions are laid head to head as if they formed part of a sheet of a book ; indicating that a quartette of hornbooks was printed with each pull of the press, and proof of their extensive use. 1227 THOU (J.-A. de) Catalogus Bibliothece Thuane a clariss. Vv. Petro & “Iacobo: Puteanis, ordine alphabetico primtm distributus.. Tum secundum Scientias & Artes a clariss. Viro Ismaele Bullialdo digestus. Nunc vero editus a losepho Quesnel...cum Indice alphabetico Authorum. Parislis...apud — Dom. Levesque Directionis Notarium...M.D.C.LXXIX. 2 vols., 8vo., with an engraved title ; old panelled calf, 2 joints neatly repaired. Paris, 1679 £30 $84.00 This catalogue of De Thou’s magnificent library was the most accurate and well ordered ever to have appeared in France, and is the only record we possess of what was probably the finest, choicest, and most comprehensive library formed in the sixteenth century. De Thou was a fastidious collector, his library of some 8,000 printed books and 1,000 MSS., all well bound and in perfect condition was formed with the eye and the instinct of historian and man of taste. He forbade its division, sale or dispersal in his will and bequeathedNt to his sons, appointing the scholars Pierre and Jacques du Puy (‘the two Puteani’) its custodians until the sons should be of age. In time the library, now considerably augmented and expanded, passed out of the family into the possession of the President Charron de Ménars, and, in 1706, he sold it to the Cardinal de Rohan. The Cardinal left it to his nephew, the Prince de Soubise, of high fame for his prowess in the auction room, but the victim of a frenzy for books, and in 1789 the collection met its melancholy end under the hammer. The catalogue for the sale was prepared in a hurried and haphazard manner. Only 8,302 of over 20,000 items of out- standing interest were recorded and books were bought at absurd prices. Brunet says “On peut dire, sans exagérer que... mille vol. choisis dans la bibliothéque Soubise, produiraient