PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Catalogue Information: 358 lots | 164 with images
Lot 1: ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of The University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. London: L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh for Ackermann, 1815.
2 volumes, 4 o (330 x 265 mm). Half-titles, 4pp. subscribers' list. Engraved portrait of the Duke of Gloucester and 95 hand-colored plates comprising 64 aquatint views by Stadler, Havell, Bluck and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, 1 [...more]
Lot 2: [ALDINE PRESS]. PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius. Comoediae. Venice: Aldo Manuzio and Andrea Torresano, July 1522.
4 o (207 x 135 mm). 298 leaves. Italic type. Woodcut dolphin and anchor device (Fletcher 6) on title and verso of last leaf, initial spaces with guide letters. (Minor marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, g1 with short marginal tear.) Contempor [...more]
Lot 3: ALLOT, Robert (fl. 1600), editor. Englands Parnassus: or, The choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall comparisons. London: printed for N[icholas] L[ing], C[uthbert] B[urby], and T[homas] H[ayes], 1600.
8 o (147 x 91 mm). Woodcut device of Ling on title (McKerrow 301). (Lacking two preliminary blanks A1-A2 [A1 signed] and Kk8; title, first two preliminary leaves and final two leaves with inner margins renewed, other mostly minor marginal repairs, oc [...more]
Lot 4: ALPINUS, Prosper (1553-1617). De medicina Aegyptiorum, libri quatuor. -- De plantis Aegypti liber. Venice: Francesco dei Franceschi, 1591-1592.
2 works in 3 parts in one volume, 4 o (245 x 172 mm). Woodcut initials, text illustrations including two full-page woodcuts of medical treatments and 38 full-page woodcuts in De plantis. (Title with gutter margin renewed, two sectional titles with pu [...more]
Lot 5: ALPINUS, Prosper. De plantis Aegypti liber...accessit etiam liber de balsamo ali…s editus. Venice: Francisco de Franceschi di Siena, 1592.
2 parts in one volume, 4 o (223 x 162 mm). 38 full-page woodcuts in text, and smaller woodcuts in text; woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (Title evenly browned and slightly soiled, very occasional other pale browning, light stains to approximately 12 le [...more]
