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AGRICOLA, DANIEL.
Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi s[ecundu]m serie[m]
q[ua]ttuor eva[n]gelistaru[m].
Large woodcut on title and 20 small woodcut text illus-
trations by
URS GRAF
. 39, [1] leaves. 4to, 195x138 mm, old leather, recased, endpapers
renewed, front joint starting; margins trimmed affecting some sidenotes, marginal damp-
staining throughout, scattered underscoring and marginalia, old institutional stamps on
blank last page. Signature of Fr. Schleiermacher dated 1801; bookplate of Richard Zooz-
mann dated 1900.
(Basel: Adam Petri de Langendorff, 31 July 1514)
[2,000/3,000]
Popular harmony of Gospel accounts of the Passion, issued as an appendix to Guillermus
Parisiensis, Postille maiores super evangelio et epistolas, not present here. VD16 E4386,
B4708.
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ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, Earl of Stirling.
Recreations with the Muses.
Title
within woodcut architectonic border. [10] (of [12]), 253, [1]; [4], 326 pages; lacks initial and
final blanks. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 278x180 mm, modern leather; mostly marginal
toning, small wormhole in blank lower outer corners, scattered dampstains, title rehinged,
early 19th-century portrait of the author mounted on verso of flyleaf opposite, conspicu-
ous soiling at bottom of page 61 in first part.
London: Tho. Harper, 1637
[250/350]
FIRST EDITION
.
Without the frontispiece portrait of Alexander by Marshall found in few
copies. Greg III, 1010-11; Pforzheimer 5; STC 347.
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(ARABIAN NIGHTS.) Forster, Edward, translator.
The Arabian Nights.
24 hand-
colored engraved plates before letters after Robert Smirke, with captions printed on tissue
guards. lxi, [7], 385, [1]; [6], 432; [6], 405, [1]; [6], 461, [1]; [vi], 474 pages, including half-
titles. 5 volumes. 4to, 270x209 mm, contemporary navy straight-grain morocco attractively
gilt with crest of the Duke of Marlborough in center of covers, joints and spine ends
rubbed; plates and tissue guards heavily foxed offsetting onto adjacent leaves, text otherwise
clean.
London: W. Bulmer and Co. for William Miller, 1802
[1,000/2,000]
FIRST FORSTER EDITION
,
translated from the French version by Antoine Galland.
HAND
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SOME LARGE
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PAPER SET
,
from the collections of George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of
Marlborough (1766-1840), sold as lot 169 in the sale of his White Knights Library on 7
June 1819; and the classical scholar Henry Drury (1778-1841), with his signed collation note
dated 1820.
EARLY PRINTED BOOKS
Lots 1-170
Images of each lot can be found at swanngalleries.com