Sales catalogue 422: Maggs Bros

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/13
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 422: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hayward (Sir John)—conxtinued. 782 —_—— The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, with the begin- ning of the Raigne of Queen Elizabeth. The Second Edition, corrected and amended. Portrait of Hayward by Pass, and engraved title by Marshall. i2mo, calf: Londen, 1030: £2 2s *%*%* Tntroduced on the engraved title are portraits of King Edward and Queen Elizabeth. 783 HEATH (James). A Brief Chronicle of the late Intestine Warr in the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. With the Interven- ing Affairs of Treaties, and other Occurrences relating thereunto. The 4 parts in I vol., wth the engraved ttle, and 35 portraits, original 1mpressions. Thick 8vo, original calf. London, 1063-4. £3 3s *** Lacks portrait of Van Tromp. This is a book which is rarely found perfect. 784 HELIODORUS: An Athiopian Historie. Fyrst written in Greeke by Heliodorus, and translated into English by T(ho.) U(underdowne), no lesse witty then pleasant, being newly corrected and augmented, with diuers new additions by the same Author, whereunto is also annexed the Argument of every Booke in the beginning of the same, for the better understanding of the Storie. Small ato, strazght-grain morocco gilt, g. é. Printed at London, 1605. £15 *%*%* A Story in this work is alluded to in Shakespeare’s ‘‘ Twelfth Night,’? Act V., he a HENRY VIIITH’S DIVORCE OF CATHERINE OF ARRAGON. 785 HENRY VIII. The Determinations of the moste famous and mooste excellent universities of Italy and Fraunce, that it is so unl(aw)efull for a man to marie his brothers wyfe that the pope hath no power to dispense therwith. Black Letter, 72@/e within woodcut border. 12mo, old calf. _ (Colophon) /mpriented at London in the house of Thomas Berthelet printer to the Kinges most noble grace the 7 Day of Novembre 1531. £25 *%** A most interesting volume, printed by order of King Henry VIII. in support of his plea for divorce. The King desired the opinions of the foreign universities as more impartial. Henry sent Reginald Pole to Paris to influence the divines of the Sorbonne, and in the spring and summer of 1530 other agents were busy corrupting (Continued ever) /