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Cover of Catalogue of very choice and valuable early printed books with a few illuminated manuscripts, the property of Charles Fairfax Murray, Esq. (deceased), (sold by order of the executors), comprising the famous block book of the Apocalyptic Visions of St. John, c. 1460; rare XVth and XVIth century books, with woodcuts, including Columna's Mer des histoires, Verard, c. 1505, with a folding woodcut hitherto unknown to bibliographies; a fine and extensive series of tracts by Savonarola, many with woodcuts; illuminated liturgical and secular manuscripts on vellum; books in fine bindings, including beautiful examples of XVIth century Lyonese workmanship, etc.; etc. Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge… on Friday, the 18th of July, 1919…

Catalogue of very choice and valuable early printed books with a few illuminated manuscripts, the property of Charles Fairfax Murray, Esq. (deceased), (sold by order of the executors), comprising the famous block book of the Apocalyptic Visions of St. John, c. 1460; rare XVth and XVIth century books, with woodcuts, including Columna's Mer des histoires, Verard, c. 1505, with a folding woodcut hitherto unknown to bibliographies; a fine and extensive series of tracts by Savonarola, many with woodcuts; illuminated liturgical and secular manuscripts on vellum; books in fine bindings, including beautiful examples of XVIth century Lyonese workmanship, etc.; etc. Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge… on Friday, the 18th of July, 1919…

Wilkinson and Hodge Sotheby
Cover of A catalogue of rare and valuable books comprising manuscripts, books printed on vellum, Americana, English literature, French illustrated books and miscellaneous recent purchases being the choicest items of the libraries formed by the late Lieut.-Col. Hibbert, formerly of the Grenadier Guards; Sir Andrew Fountaine (temp. Q. Anne and K. George I.), Narford Hall, Norfolk; the late M. Eugène Paillet, Président de la Société des Amis des Livres; and other eminent collectors (Catalogue no. 217)

A catalogue of rare and valuable books comprising manuscripts, books printed on vellum, Americana, English literature, French illustrated books and miscellaneous recent purchases being the choicest items of the libraries formed by the late Lieut.-Col. Hibbert, formerly of the Grenadier Guards; Sir Andrew Fountaine (temp. Q. Anne and K. George I.), Narford Hall, Norfolk; the late M. Eugène Paillet, Président de la Société des Amis des Livres; and other eminent collectors (Catalogue no. 217)

Bernard Quaritch
Cover of Catalogue of a valuable collection choice, rare, and curious books, consigned from Germany: among which are Biblia sacra latina, very fine copy, Moguntia, per Pet. Schoyffer, MCCCCLXXII; Biblia sacra latina, a remarkably fine copy of an exceedingly rare edition, printed at Nuremberg, by J. Sensenschmidt, previous to his edition with the date of 1475; various other rare and early editions of the Scriptures; Brydenbach, Itinerarium in Serram Sanotam, fine and large copy, Spiræ, 1502; Cathonis Ethica, fine copy of a very rare edition; Schedel Liber Cronicarum, cuts; Hieronymi Tractatus et Epistolæ, 2 tom.; Romæ, per Sweynheim et Pannartz, MCCCCLX; Holland, Heroologia anglica, fine copy, 3 vol. in 1; Jacobi Magni Sophologium, impr. per Mentellin, circâ 1469-70; Mandeville's Voyage in the East, text in German, an exceedingly rare volume, Aug. trad, per Hans Schensperger, MCCCCLXXII; Pisis Pantheologia, 2 tom. first edition, MCCCCLXXIII; Plinii Historia, very fine copy, Nic. Jenton, MCCCCLXXII; Rudimentum noviciorum, a very rare chronicle, illustrated with numerous wood engravings; Vincentius de Venatione, a fine and early manuscript upon vellum, with illumination; Richardi de Buri Philobiblon, a scarce edition, (1483), etc. An extensive collection of rare and curious tracts illustrative of English history.

Catalogue of a valuable collection choice, rare, and curious books, consigned from Germany: among which are Biblia sacra latina, very fine copy, Moguntia, per Pet. Schoyffer, MCCCCLXXII; Biblia sacra latina, a remarkably fine copy of an exceedingly rare edition, printed at Nuremberg, by J. Sensenschmidt, previous to his edition with the date of 1475; various other rare and early editions of the Scriptures; Brydenbach, Itinerarium in Serram Sanotam, fine and large copy, Spiræ, 1502; Cathonis Ethica, fine copy of a very rare edition; Schedel Liber Cronicarum, cuts; Hieronymi Tractatus et Epistolæ, 2 tom.; Romæ, per Sweynheim et Pannartz, MCCCCLX; Holland, Heroologia anglica, fine copy, 3 vol. in 1; Jacobi Magni Sophologium, impr. per Mentellin, circâ 1469-70; Mandeville's Voyage in the East, text in German, an exceedingly rare volume, Aug. trad, per Hans Schensperger, MCCCCLXXII; Pisis Pantheologia, 2 tom. first edition, MCCCCLXXIII; Plinii Historia, very fine copy, Nic. Jenton, MCCCCLXXII; Rudimentum noviciorum, a very rare chronicle, illustrated with numerous wood engravings; Vincentius de Venatione, a fine and early manuscript upon vellum, with illumination; Richardi de Buri Philobiblon, a scarce edition, (1483), etc. An extensive collection of rare and curious tracts illustrative of English history.

S. Leigh Sotheby