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Auction archive: Lot number 18

Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde, and De Proprietatibus …

Auction 09.04.2015
9 Apr 2015
Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$448 - US$597
Price realised:
£380
ca. US$568
Auction archive: Lot number 18

Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde, and De Proprietatibus …

Auction 09.04.2015
9 Apr 2015
Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$448 - US$597
Price realised:
£380
ca. US$568
Beschreibung:

Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde and De Proprietatibus Rerum, number 95 of 138 copies, illustrations, with an original leaf from 'De Proprietatibus Rerum' c.1495 loosely inserted in transparent folder at end, original morocco-backed pictorial boards, uncut, some fading to spine and upper cover at head, [B & B A53], large 4to, Newtown, Pa., Bird & Bull Press, 1992. *** "De Proprietatibus Rerum (On the Properties of Things) by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, written about 1250, became the most influential and widely read encyclopedia of the late medieval period. The work was translated into several languages and remained popular over a span of three centuries... It was the first English book printed on paper made by England's first papermaker, John Tate; the first printed English version of Bartholomaeus, and it was printed by Wynkyn de Worde ..". Henry Morris in Forty-Four Years of Bird & Bull, A53 p.28

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2015
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde and De Proprietatibus Rerum, number 95 of 138 copies, illustrations, with an original leaf from 'De Proprietatibus Rerum' c.1495 loosely inserted in transparent folder at end, original morocco-backed pictorial boards, uncut, some fading to spine and upper cover at head, [B & B A53], large 4to, Newtown, Pa., Bird & Bull Press, 1992. *** "De Proprietatibus Rerum (On the Properties of Things) by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, written about 1250, became the most influential and widely read encyclopedia of the late medieval period. The work was translated into several languages and remained popular over a span of three centuries... It was the first English book printed on paper made by England's first papermaker, John Tate; the first printed English version of Bartholomaeus, and it was printed by Wynkyn de Worde ..". Henry Morris in Forty-Four Years of Bird & Bull, A53 p.28

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2015
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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