Brzesciu Litewskim z roskazania a nakladem Oswieconego Pana, Pana Mikolaia Radziwila . . Roku Panskiego, tysiacnego, piecsetnego, szescdziesiathego trzeciego [Brescz, 1563] EXCESSIVELY RARE. The Radzivil Bible, and the second Polish Bible, the first having been printed two years previously. This copy, when sold in Heber's sale for £26, wanted the Register, which was added by Dr. Hawtrey, and bound. In Hawtrey's sale it sold for £70. Collation Old Test., 13 preliminary leaves, and pages (1)-579; New Test., pages (1)-143, including the title; Register, 7 leaves. In the numeration of Old Testament there are two numbers 154, no 160, two numbers 372, no 439; and in that of the New there is no number 84. 38480 PAPROCKY. Herby Rycerztwa Polskiego. . . Przez Bartosza Paprockiego . . . (Armorial of Polish Nobility). Folio, black letter, with portrait and woodcuts of arms, the last two pages mended, half bound, £10. W Krakowie, w Drukárni Mácieiá Gárwólczyká.. 1584. Przez 38481 GWAGNINUS. Kronika Sármácyey Europskiey Alexandra Gwagnina. . . 9 parts in 1 vol. small folio, gothic letter, with map and numerous woodcuts, some leaves mended, calf, £24. W Krakowie, w Drukárniey Mikoláiá Lobá.. 1611. Excessively rare. This copy in 1762 belonged to Stanislas Prince Lubomirski, and has his bookplate. Collation 12 preliminary leaves; Kroniki Polskiey, pages 1-275, and 3 leaves of Register; Kronika Litewskiego, 2 preliminary leaves, pp. 1-116, and 2 11. of Register; Kronika Ruskiey, 2 prel. 11., pp. 1-40, and 1 1. of Register; Kronika Pruskiey, 2 prel. 11., pp. 1-61, and 3 pp. of Register; Kronika Inflantskiey, 2 prel. 11., pp. 1-30, and 1 1. of Register; Kronika Szweckiey, 2 prel. ll., pp. 1-46, and 1 1. of Register; Kronika Moskiewskiego, 2 prel. ll., pp. 1-87, and 4 pp. of Register, with a large map of Russia; Kronika Tatarskiey, 2 prel. 11., pp. 1-32, and 1 1. of Register; Kronika Grecyey, Title, pp. 1-81, and 2 pp. of Register. 38482 OKOLSKI. Orbis Polonys . . in qvo antiqva_Sarmatiarvm Gentilia, pervetvstæ Nobilitatis Polona Insignia, Vetera & Noua Indigenatus meritorum præmia & Arma, specificantur & relucent Avthore R. P. Fr. Simone Okolski . . 3 vols. folio, with frontispiece and woodcut coats of arms, red morocco, gilt edges, £15. Cracovie, In officina Typographica Francisci Cæsarij.. 1641 38482* KOCHOW KOCHOWSKI (Vespasiani á) Annales Poloniæ ab Obitu Vladislai IV (ad Abdicationem Johannis Casimiri Regis), 3 vols. small folio, calf extra, very scarce, £10. Cracovia, 1683(-88-98) 38483 POTOCKY. Poczet Herbow Szlachty Korony Polskiey y Wielkiego Xiestwa Litewskiego... Przez Waclawa z Potoka Potockiego (Heraldic Poem giving the History and Armorial bearings of Polish families), folio, numerous woodcuts of arms, vellum, EXCESSIVELY RARE, £7. 10s w Krakowie, 1696 38484 NIESIECKI. KORONA POLSKA przy Zlotey Wolnosci (Herbarz) Przez X. Kaspra Niesieckiego... small folio, with numerous woodcut coats of arms, calf, EXTREMELY RARE, £25. . 1728. W Drukarni Collegium Lwowskiego Societatis Jesu (1728-43) Brunet's note regarding this valuable work is as follows: "Ouvrage généalogique et héraldique très-important, mais à peine connu chez nous, où il est excessivement rare." Ebert calls it "a highly valuable work, very rare," and says that its statements are recognized by the Austrian Government as sufficient authentication of nobility and genealogy. Probably there are not more than three copies in the British Empire. 38485 DUNCZEWSKI (S.) Herbarz Wielu Domow Korony Polskiey y W. X. Litewskiego. . Przez Stanislawa Josefa a Duneburg Dunczewskiego. . 2 vols. in 1, folio, black letter, with woodcut coats of arms; several leaves mended, calf, very scarce, £10. (Cracovia) 1757 Collation Tom. I, Frontispiece, 9 preliminary leaves (including Title), pages 1-500, and 2 11. of Register; Tom. II, Title, pp. 1-501, and 2 11. of Register. The pagination is irregular, there being-in Vol. I, no numbers 31-2, a series of star numbers 151-6 between 156 and 157, and a double series of numbers 165-76, no 197, two numbers 233, no 159-60 ;-in Vol. II, no 216-7, a series of star numbers 218-21 between 218 and 219, four additional star numbers 282, no 367. Russica. 38486 BIBLIA, siryetch Knigi Vetkhago i Novago Zavyeta, folio, woodcuts, calf, RARE, £21. (Moscow) 1663 This is the third edition of the Slavonic Bible, and was reprinted from the Ostrog Bible of 1581. 38487 (BIBLIA SLAVONICA.) Biblia.. Vetkhago i Novago Zavieta, 2 vols. folio, engraved title, vignettes, calf, RARE, £2. 10s Slovenicum. Moscow, 1766 38488 BIBLIA Wendica (Vandalica) Tu ie, Use Suetu Pismu, Stariga inu Noviga Testamenta, Slovenski, tolmazhena, skusi Juria Dalmatina Bibel, das ist die gantze heilege Schrifft Windisch durch Georg Dalmatinum, 3 vols. in 1, LARGE PAPER, woodcuts, slightly wormed, else a very fine copy, folio, in blue morocco, leather joints, on inside covers the full length portraits of Luther and Melanchthon, forming the covers of the original binding, £16. Wittenberg, Hans Krafft's Erben, 1584 This is an excessively rare volume, the entire impression having been seized immediately after completion and most of the copies burnt. VIII. AMERICA. 38489 ELIOT'S MASSACHUSETTS BIBLE, second edition. Mamysse Wu Vunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament . . John Eliot. . . 2 vols. in 1, sm. 4to. Title mounted, purple morocco, £60. Cambridge [Mass.], Printeuoop nashpe Samuel Green. MDCLXXXV. (1685-80) This copy has on the title the autograph of Josiah Cotton the son of the Rev. John Cotton, who so materially assisted Eliot in preparing this edition. 38490 PSALMS (The) Hymns and Spiritual Songs, of the Old and NewTestament: Faithfully translated into English Meeter. the Use, Edification and Comfort of the Saints in Publick and Private, especially in New-England . . . 12mo. with MUSIC, For several interesting MS. notes by Mr. Gardyne, in the original calf binding, £5. 5s VERY RARE. Boston: Printed by D. Henchman over against the Brick Meeting-House in Cornhil. 1730 The twenty-third edition of the famous Bay Psalm-Book. 38491 AMERICAN MUSICAL MISCELLANY (The): a Collection of the newest and most approved Songs set to Music, sm. 8vo. with Music, calf, VERY RARE, £3. 5s Northampton, Mass., by Andrew Wright, for Daniel Wright With the book-plate: "property of James Ombrosi U.S. of A., 1801." IX. ORIENTALIA. 38492 (CATECHISMUS MALAICE.) Ichtitsaar Catechismoe. . . 12mo. half red morocco, gilt edges, £2. 2s Batavia, Abraham van den Eede, 1685 The Malay is printed in Roman character. Collation pages (1)-170, including the Title; and 5 leaves of Vocabulary. 38493 TESTAMENTUM Novum Damulice edentibus B. Ziegenbalg et J. Ě. Gründler, 4to. calf, gilt edges, 18s (1714) The dedication, which is in Tamil and Dutch, is dated Tranquebar, 1714. 38494 BIBLIA. O Velho Testamento na Lingoa Portugueza pelo R. P. Joam Ferreira A. d'Almeida, 5 Parts in 1 vol. 4to. old gilt calf, £2.2s (Trangambar, 1719-38-44-51-32) Complete copies of the five parts are very rarely found united. 38495 BIBLIA DAMULICA: Vetus Testamentum studio et operâ Bartholomæi Ziegenbalgii et Schultzii, 4 vols. in 3, 4to. Editio Princeps, vellum, £2. Tranquebariæ, 1723-29 The first volume of the Bible is printed on paper of excessively coarse texture and bad colour, which was evidently manufactured in India. The missionaries seem to have procured from Europe the paper used for the continuation of the work. 38496 (BIBLE.) Het Nieuw Testament. . In de Tamulsche Spraak overgezet. . 4to. THICK PAPER, calf, £2. 2s Gedrukt te Colombo in's Comps: gewoone Drukkery door Pieter Bruwaart. A°: MDCCLIX (1759) 38497 (GEORGIA. History of Georgia, by David, Son of George XIII, King of Kakheth), in the language and character of Georgia, 12mo. printed on blue paper, half russia, £2. 88 (Tiflis, 1798) 38498 ANDERSON (John) Political and Commercial Considerations. relative to the Malayan Peninsula, and the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca, 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. sd. 10s Prince of Wales Island. . By William Cox. 1824 38499 EXPOSITION (An) of the Political and Commercial Relations of the Government of Prince of Wales Island, with the States on the East Coast of Sumatra, from Diamond Point to Siack, 4to. sd. 78 6d Prince of Wales Island, 1824 38500 (ANDERSON.) Observations on the Restoration of Banca and Malacca to the Dutch, as affecting the Tin Trade and General Commerce of Pinang, 4to. bds. 78 Cd (Ib., 1824) X. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EARLY PRINTING. 38501 AMES (Jos.) Typographical Antiquities: or an Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing in Great Britain and Ireland; augmented by Wm. Herbert, 3 vols. 4to. portrait and woodcut facsimiles, with an autograph letter from the author inserted, hf. calf gilt, £3. 10s 1785-90 38501a385016 the same, 3 vols. 4to. LARGE PAPER, vellum, £5. 1785-90 the same, 3 vols. 4to. LARGE PAPER, russia, £4. 1785-90 38501cARGELATI, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Mediolanensium, 2 vols. folio, old calf gilt, arms on sides, 24s Mediol. 1745 Including "Saxii Historia Literario-Typographica Mediolanensis ab 1465 ad 1500," and "Catalogus Librorum Mediolani editorum seculo XV." 38502 AUDIFFREDI (J. B.) Catalogus historico-criticus Romanarum Editionum saeculi XV, 4to. uncut, 7s 6d Romae, 1783 Specimen historico-criticum Editionum Italicarum saeculi XV, 4to. uncut, 7s 6d 1794 Paris, 1853 38503 38504 BERNARD (Aug.) De l'Origine et des Débuts de l'Imprimerie en Europe, 2 vols. 8vo. with 13 plates of facsimiles of MS. and type, hf. bd. 128 38505 BOTFIELD (B.) Præfationes et Epistolæ Editionibus principibus Auctorum veterum præpositæ, 4to. Roxburghe, uncut, 10s Cantabrigiæ, 1861 38506 BRESCIA. SPECIMEN Varia Literaturæ quæ in urbe BRIXIA florebat vergente ad finem sæculo XV usque ad medietatem sæculi XVI, 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. vellum, 78 6d Brixiæ, 1739 38507 BRITTANY. L'IMPRIMERIE en Bretagne au XVe siècle : étude sur les incunables bretons, avec fac-simile contenant la reproduction intégrale de la plus ancienne impression bretonne, 8vo. facsimile, sd. 78 6d Nantes, 1878 38508 CAXTON. Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, with evidence of his typographical connection with Colard Mansion, the printer at Bruges, by W. BLADES, 2 vols. 4to. plates and facsimiles, hf. bd. £3. 16s 38509 DE VINNE (Th. L.) The Invention of Printing: a Collection of Facts and Opinions descriptive of Early Prints and Playing Cards, the Block-Books of the 15th century, the Legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates, thick 8vo. with facsimiles of early types and woodcuts, cloth, 21s 1861-63 1877 38510 the same, second corrected edition, thick 8vo. cloth, 31s 6d 1877 38510a ESSAI philologique sur les commencemens de la Typographie à Metz, 8vo. port., sd. 38 6d 38512 1828 38511 FOURNIER le jeune, Traités historiques et critiques, sur l'Origine et les Progrès de l'Imprimerie, 5 parts in 1 vol. sm. 8vo. fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, £3. 3s Paris, 1758-63 Manuel Typographique, utile aux gens de lettres, & à ceux qui exercent les différentes parties de l'Art de l'Imprimerie, 2 vols. sm. 8vo. with 2 frontispieces and 16 plates, and specimens of types in all languages, 101 different alphabets, etc., red morocco extra, gilt edges, £2. 2s Paris, 1764-6 38513 FUMAGALLI (Carlo) Dei Primi Libri a stampa in Italia, e specialmente di un Codice Sublacense impresso avanti il Lattanzio, e finora creduto posteriore, 8vo. with 2 facsimiles, sd. 58 Lugano, 1875 38413a GRENVILLE Catalogue. Bibliotheca Grenvilliana. Bibliographical Notices of the Library of the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, by J. T. Payne and H. Foss, 3 parts in 4 vols. large 8vo. cloth, £8. 15s 1842-72 384136the same, LARGE PAPER, 4 vols. impl. 8vo. hf. bd., uncut, rare, £21. 1842-72 38514 HAIN (Lud.) Repertorium Bibliographicum, in quo libri omnes ab arte typographica inventa usque ad annum MD typis expressi recensentur, 2 vols. in 4, 8vo. THICK PAPER, hf. calf neat, gilt tops, uncut, £4. 4s Stuttgartiæ, 1826-38 38515a Hessels' Works. GUTENBERG: was he the INVENTOR OF PRINTING? An historical Investigation embodying a Criticism on Dr. VAN DER LINDE'S "Gutenberg," by J. H. HESSELS, 1 vol. 8vo. xxviii and 202 pp., (pub. at 21s), hf. morocco, 10s 6d 1882 The best and most critical account of the History of Printing with movable type. Every document connected with the History of the Invention of Printing has been verified by the energetic and intelligent author. The mystery still remains—who was the inventor of Printing? That Gutenberg was an early printer Mr. Hessels fully admits. Only 200 copies were printed for sale. 38515 HASZLER (K. D.) Die Buchdrucker-Geschichte Ulm's zur vierten Säcularfeier der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst, with facsimiles of type and woodcuts, Ulm, 1840-Hassleri Explicatio Monumenti Typographici antiquissimi nuper reperti, 1840-in 1 vol. roy. 4to. calf, 6s 1840 38516 HOUDOY (J.) Les Imprimeurs Lillois; Bibliographie des Impressions Lilloises, 1595-1700, impl. 8vo. sd. 15s Paris, 1879 38517 LABORDE (Léon de) Débuts de l'Imprimerie à Mayence et à Bamberg, ou Description des Lettres d'Indulgence du Pape Nicolas V, Pro Regno Cypri, imprimées in 1454, impl. 4to. with 9 plates of facsimiles, bds. 18s Paris, 1840 "Ce volume, tiré à très petit nombre, contient des aperçus fort ingenieux et des documents précieux sur l'origine de l'imprimerie."-Brunet. 38518 PLANTIN. DEGEORGE (Léon) La Maison Plantin à Anvers: monographie complète de cette imprimerie célèbre aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, 2e édition augmentée d'une Liste chronologique des ouvrages imprimés par Plantin à Anvers, 1555-89, 8vo. portrait and plates, sd. 68 Bruxelles, 1878 38519 RUELENS (C.) et A. de Backer, Annales Plantiniennes (1555-89), 8vo. sd. 3s 6d 1866 38520 SOTHEBY (S. L.) Principia Typographica; the Block-Books, or Xylographic Delineations of Scripture History, issued in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, during the 15th century, exemplified and considered in connexion with the Origin of Printing, with an attempt to elucidate the character of the Paper-Marks of the period, 3 vols. roy. 4to. with 120 full-page facsimiles, some in colours, of Block-Books, calf gilt, £8. 88 1858 |