Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
15th June 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/169
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    360 Foxe (John) [Book of Martyrs] The Hcclesiasticall History con- tayning the Actes and Monumentes of thynges passed in every kynges tyme in this Realme .. . newly recognised and inlarged by the Author, Vol. I. black letier, with woodcut ttle, and wood- cuts wn the text (1 folding), contemporary oaken boards covered with stamped calf, with initial “F. w.” on sides (rubbed and back defective, but a fine copy), with signatures of Francis and T. Wallughby ° John Daye, 1570 The end-papers affixed to the boards consist of leaves from an early illuminated MS. on vellum, containing a fine ‘illuminated letter “A” with full-page border 3861 Fragments of Books; Book-cover (1 side only), with royal badges of Tudor roses, gs -de-lys, and the turreted gateway with portcullts (torn) a parcel 362 Gage (Thomas) The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land : aN or, a New Survey of the West Indias containing a Journal of 3 300 Miles within the main land of America, first edition, old calf, with auto. of T. Wallughby 1648 363 Gage (Thomas) New Survey of the West Indias: or The English American his Travail by Sea and Land, containing a Journal of 3,300 Miles within the Main Land of America [second edition ], with maps, old sheep, with contemporary signatures on title, etc. 1655 364 ‘Galenius (Claudius) Opera Latina, acced. Prefatio et Prolegomena tripartita, de Vita Gesneri ejus libris et interpretibus ; with wood- cut ttle and cuts in the text, 5 vols. contemporary vellwm, on sides the arms of the University of Cambridge, the end-papers consisting of leaves from the Decretaliwm of Pope Gregory LX; with auto. of T. Wallughby Bastlee (F'roben.), 1561-2 365 Gayton (Edmund) Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot | with references to Shakespeare |, first edition, old sheep (a few ll. slightly foxed) with auto. of T. Wallughby 1654 1366 | Rousse (Thomas) [Compendiosa totius Anatomie delineatio], being “ H an abridged translation into English of Vesalius’s great work on Anatomy published in Basle in 1043, wanting the title with the portratt of Queen Hlizabeth, BUT WITH THE RARE FOLDING ANA- TOMICAL woopcurT of the male and female, with the movable slips (FOUND IN THIS EDITION ONLY), and numerous full-page anatomical engravings on copper (some margins cut into, including that of the large woodcut), old calf (some ll. torn or stained) w.a.f. [Thomas Gemini, 1559] The plates by the Author as published in the first edition areamongst the _ earliest copperplate engravings known in England. The same plates are » here used again, with the addition of the large woodcut by another artist which is sometimes met with separately, and was incorporated by Gemini into his own work