Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
February 1899
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/60
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ee ae Roe, ere. 141 1805 Biblia. Die Deutsche Bibel; die gantsche heilige Geschrifte, lit. goth. double columns, cocccLXxxit numbered Il. without signatures, 107 spirited woodcuts, some with scrolls of teat in the 4 manner of the ancient Block-Books, allin beautiful uncoloured state, large ornamental capitals in colours, teat of one leaf slightly defective, margins of two leaves pieced, and*some headlines cut into, boards covered with stamped ornamental pigskin, clasps and bosses | Nuremb, Ant. Koberger, 1483 *,* The ninth edition of the Bible in German, and the first printed in Nuremberg. Of the greatest rarity with all the | extraordinary woodcuts in pure uncoloured state. These cuts 4 d ‘he de are usually said to be the same as those used for the low ‘ ly 4 Saxon edition of Cologne about 1480, but the British Museum Dur Catalogue says: ‘‘ There are numerous woodcut illustrations different from any in previous editions.” In this edition the Temptation of Joseph is attributed to Pharaoh’s (not Potiphar’s) wife. > | ) 1806 MerrHopus GEOMETRICA das ist kurtzer wolgegriindter uund aussfuhrlicher Tractat von der Feldtrechnung und Messung wie solche zu Fuss Ross und Wagen an allen orten und enden, &c. black letter, 45 full-page plates and a number of head and tail pieces, all beautifully colowred by a contemporary artist O 10: 0: and heightened with gold and silver, the foliation is cut into in £ i places, but it is a very fine large copy, vellum d kno . | Niirnberg, durch Valentin Fahrmann, 1598 ot of” ** A remarkable copy of a very rare book. Plates 35 and 36%) 1~' contain a representation of some curious early carriages. Bound up with it is a copy of Solides Gloria ein schoner furtzer extract de Geometriz unnd Perspective, Nurnberg, 1599, illustrated with a series of contemporary water-colour drawings. 1807 AcTis (THE) AND CONSTITUTIOUNIS OF THE REALME OF SCOTLAND maid in Parliamentis haldin be the rycht excellent hie & mychtie Princeis Kingis James the First, Secund, Thrid, Feird, Fyft, and in tyme of Marie now Quene of Scottis, | Ack viseit, correctit, and extractit furthe of the Registers be the “~~ ' Lordis depute be speciall commissioun thairto, black letter, ~ ( M title above the large arms of Scotland, woodcut initials, fine copy, . with the 5 unpaged leaves, old calf, arms of the Douglas family on _r\ sides, very rare + Imprentit at Edinburgh be Robert Lekprewtk, xxvitt Nov. 1566 *,* The Black Acts. Copies of this date have no folio 133. The title is folded and so has escaped the binder’s knife toa greater extent than usual. Lord Ashburnham’s copy sold for £16 10s. last year.