Notes from Sotheby's : being a compilation of 2,032 notes from Catalogues of book-sales which have taken place in the rooms of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, between the years 1885-1909 / by Frank Karslake.

  • Karslake, Frank, 1851-1920.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Notes from Sotheby's : being a compilation of 2,032 notes from Catalogues of book-sales which have taken place in the rooms of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, between the years 1885-1909 / by Frank Karslake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treasure of Gladnesse. This Boke is called the Treasure of Gladnesse and semeth by the copy, being a very little Manuell and written in velam to be made above CC yeares past at the least, 6. si^ns in 8*5, 24mo. H. Denham for J. Charlewood, 1565 (June 11, 1900 ; 768). * Very little know to bibliographers. The edition of 1563, mentioned on the title as the date of its first printing, is totally unknown. Editions with dotes 1564 and 1579 appear to have occurred in Auction Catalogues. Lowndes only quotes editions of 1572 and 1581. Treasurie of Auncient and Moderne Times (Part 2), engs,. etc., jo, 1619 (Mar. 27, 1906 ; 949). * This volume contains at pages 364 and 365 “ The memorable historie of faire Julietta of Verona the Montacute and Romeo the Capulet.” An account of this Shakespearean volume will be found in Halliwell’s “ Index to the Works of Shakespeare.” Trippe (Simon, M.D.) Christianus Medicus in qua cum primis Galenus vindicatur a 4 calumniis, &c. the Original Autograph Manuscript, dedicated to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Ato. 1572 (Mav 21, 1900 ; 919). Dr. Simon Trippe was a celebrated physician of Queen Elizabeth’s time, who practised cliiefly at Winchester, but whose services were in demand in other parts of the country. He was a fellow of Christ’s College, Oxford, and a letter from him to Mr. George More, of Losely, dated 1581, was printed by Kemp in his Loseley MSS. Tristan de Leonnois. Histoire du tres vaillant noble et excellent chevalier de la table ronde, fils du roi Meliadus de I^eonnois, redi- gee par Tuce chevalier Seigneur de Chasteau du Gast, IcttCCS batHUDCS, dMuhle columns^AQ lines to the full column,2 vol.,11 wood- cuts, fo. Paris, Anthonie verard, s.d. (1494 ?) (July 29, 1901 ; 610 * Verard’s first illustrated edition of this famous Romance and of such ex- cessive rarity that we are unable to trace the sale of a copy within recent years. Even M. Didot’s collection was without it. No. 130 of Mr. Mac- farlane’s list, who states that the cuts are of high excellence. True Briton, nos. 1-25 (2 Jan. to 19 June, 1729), forming a com- plete volume, 1759 (Dec. 11, 1903 ; 289). * Contains the 4th impression of Gray’s Elegy (April 17), and the third im- pression of the Epitaph ” Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth ” (March 6). Not mentioned by Mr. Gosse in the prefatory note to the Elegy in his edition of Gray’s Works, 1884. Tuccaro. Trois Dialogues de TExercise de Sauter et Voltiger en TAir . . . Par le Sr. Archange Tuccaro de FAbruzzo ... 38 large woodcuts of vaulting, &c., Ato. Paris, 1599 (June 3, 1902 ; 1170). * A curious and remarkable book, descriptive of the acrobatic art ; the first of its particular kind. The Italian author had first been in the service of Maximilian II., and then betook himself to France with the Emperor’s daughter, who married Charles IX. With this King and with Henri IV. he held the office of Royal Jumper (Saltarin du R«^ ,