Sales catalogue 518: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/73
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 518: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Africa—continued. 5 Egypt. Ebers (G.). Egypt: Descriptive, Historical and Pic- turesque. Translated from the Original German by Clara Bell. Weth an Introduction and Notes by S. Birch. With hundreds of tllustrations in the text. 2 vols., 4to, orignal cloth, g.e. London, n.d. (1878). £1 10s Mayer (L.). Views in Egypt, from the Original Draw- ings in the possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, taken during his Embassy to Constantinople; with historical observations, and incidental illustrations of the manners and customs of the Natives of that Country. 48 finely coloured plates. Large folio, full red morocco, gilt back, gilt borders on sides, g. eé. London, 1801. £7 15s Wilkinson (Sir J. Gardner). The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. Revised and corrected by S. Birch. With numerous illustrations. 3 vols., 8vo, ortginal cloth, uncut. London, 1878. £3 5s § = Harris (Capt. W. Cornwallis). Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa. Delineated from Life in their Native Haunts, during a Hunting Expedition from the Cape Colony as far as a Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 and 1837, with Sketches of the Field ports. Coloured vignette on title, and 30 fine and large coloured litho- graphic plates by Frank Howard. _ Best ISSUE, with the Heads, Horns, etc., of various Game as tail- pieces. Large folio, half morocco gilt, g.e. London, 1840. £31 10s THE FAMOUS ILLUMINATED BIBLE OF THE HOUSE OF ALBA. Q ALBA (Duke of). Biblia (antiguo Testamento) traducida del Hebreo al Castellano por Rabi Mose Arragel de Guadalfajara (1422-1433?) y publicada por el Duque de Berwick y de Alba. . With 290 coloured illustrations, 29 initial letters of the Books, with borders, and 5 full-page illustrations, all reproduced in gold and colours. 2 vols., folio, leather, bound in the Hispano-Moresque style, being a fathful reproduction of the binding of the Toledan Missal shown in the Biblioteca Nactonal. Madrid, Privately Printed, 1920. £34 _ ‘This Bible, consisting of the Old Testament translated from the Hebrew into Spanish, and known as the Bible of the House of Alba, is now published for the