The following titles are bound together (both illustrated, with a bibliographical note by Sydney Cockerell):
[1] Medicinarius. Das Buch der Gesuntheit. Liber de arte distillandi simplicia et composita. Strassburg: J. Grüninger, 1509.
[2] Ficino, Marcilio [Marsilius Ficinus]. Das Buch des Lebens. Strassburg: J. Grüninger, 1508.
Provenance: Edward Hailstone. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 726 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3 15s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB/D 1113/D).
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The following titles are bound together:
[1] Hieronymus, von Rebdorf. Panis quotidianus de tempore. Augsburg: Heinrich Gran and Johann Rynmann, 1509.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 22 (£8).
Digital version: BSB.
[2] Sermones [. . . ] hyemalis estivalis (de sanctis). Augsburg: Heinrich Gran and Johann Rynmann, 1509.
Digital version: BSB.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 855 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £8). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions (1), lot 227 (sold to Eiseman for £ 5 5s.). — Unlocated.
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Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso]. Metamorphoses. Venice: Georgio Rusconi, 1509.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris (purchased for £1 1s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 928 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 6s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Claremont Colleges Library (Special Collections PA6519 .M2 1509).
Reference: MS catalogue (1), fol. 5.
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Ovid. Accipe studiose lector P. Ovidii Metamorphosin cum luculentissimis Raphaelis Regii enarrationibus. Venice: Giorgio Rusconi, 1509.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 927 (sold to Quaritch for £7 15s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 402 (with two X’s next to it).
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Marineo, Lucio [Marineus Siculus]. Pandit Aragonie veterum primordia regum. Zaragoza: Jorge Coci, 1509.
Provenance: Joachim Gomez de la Cortina. — Marques de Morante. — Morante sale, Paris, 1872, lot 1720. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 785 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £8). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Sotheby, 26 November 2008, lot 17 (sold for £11,250). — Christie, 1 December 2015, lot 57 (estimate £9,000–12,000). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 47 (£8).
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Bergame, Nicolas de. Destructorium vitiorum ex similitudine creaturarum exemplorum approbatione per modum dialogi. Leyden: printed by Claudium Nourry, 1509.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 282 (sold to Leighton for £16). — Quaritch Centenary catalogue (1947), no. 62 (£345). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 16b, no. 197 (£15).
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Procopius. De bello Persico. Rome: Eucharius Silber, 1509.
Provenance: Royal Society (duplicate). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 971 (sold to Dawson for 16s.) — Catalogue of Old and Rare Books, Pickering & Chatto, 1900, no. 1105 (£2 2s.). — Rosenbach (sold to Joseph M. Fox, 1903, for $11.75). — Joseph M. Fox. — William Logan Fox. — Library Company of Philadelphia (Rare/*Six Proc Log 1938 Q).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 41 (£1). — MS catalogue (2), no. 947. — Wolf, Edwin, 2nd, and John F. Fleming. Rosenbach: A Biography. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1960. (See p. 49. The Procopius was the second book sold by Rosenbach.)
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Horborch, Guillelmus, comp. Decisiones Rote novae [et] antiquae. [Lyon]: Stephano Gueynard, [1509].
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 281 (sold to Downing for £2 6s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 16b, no. 196 (no price given).
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June 22, 2017
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