La devise des armes des chevaliers de la Table Ronde. Paris: pour Barbe Regnault, 1559.
Illustrated.
Provenance: John Gregory Crace. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 238 (sold to Van de Pret for £7 12s. 6d.). — National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum (RC.D.26).
Sotheby 1898:
October 20, 2016
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Two volumes bound together:
[1] Curio, Johannes. Conservandae sanitatis praecepta saluberrima. Frankfurt: Christian Egenolff, 1559.
[2] Schneeberger, Anton. De bona militum valetudine conservanda liber. Krakow: Lazarus Andreae, 1564.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Jane Morris. — May Morris. — Mary Lobb. — Lobb sale 1, no. 55. — Unlocated.
January 29, 2015
Erasmus, Desiderius. Adagiorum chiliades quatuor cum sesquicenturia, ex postrema autoris recognitione. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius, 1559.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 516 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 9s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 2052/D).
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 413 (with three X’s beside the title).
Digital version: Internet Archive (Morris copy).
Sotheby 1898:
December 15, 2014
Giovio, Paolo [Paulus Jovius]. Illustrium virorum vitae. Basel: Peter Perna and Heinrich Petri, 1559.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 606 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 9s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 19 (with three X’s beside the title).
Digital version: BSB.
Sotheby 1898:
August 25, 2014
Fabyan, Robert. The chronicle of Fabian, whiche he nameth the concordaunce of histories newly perused and continued from the beginnyng of Kyng Henry the Seventh to the ende of Queene Mary. 2 vols. in 1. London: printed by Jhon Kyngston [John Kingston], April 1559.
Morris’s note in MS catalogue (1): “Title wanting.” Note in MS catalogue (2): “seems to be perfect but title humbugged about.”
Provenance: Morris (purchased for £2 2s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 525 (sold to Tregaskis for £1 8s.). — Tregaskis catalogue, 18 September 1899, no. 77 (£2 13s.) — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 49b (£1 10s.). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 9. — MS catalogue (2), no. 91 (with 3 X’s next to it).
Sotheby 1898:
August 15, 2014
Petrarca, Francesco. Hülff, Trost und Rath in allem Anligen der Menschen . . . zwei Trostbücher, von Artznei und Rath beyde im gůten und widerwertigen Glück. Frankfurt am Mein : Bei Christian Egenolffs Erben, 1559.
Illustrated. With bibliographical note by Sydney Cockerell.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 944 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4 18s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 4929/D).
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 8b, no. 89 (£1 10s.).
Sotheby 1898:
The Library of William Morris 
December 28, 2016
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