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¶ Mizauld (four titles)

May 16, 2017

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The following titles are bound together:

[1] Mizauld, Antoine [Antonius Mizaldus]. Secretorum agri enchiridion primum, hortorum curam. Paris: F. Morellus, 1560.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 39 (5s.).

[2] Mizauld, Antoine. De hortensium arborum insitione opusculum. Paris: F. Morellus, 1560.

[3] Mizauld, Antoine. Alexikepus, seu auxiliaris hortus, extemporanea morborum remedia ex singulorum viridariis facile comparanda paucis proponens. Paris: F. Morellus, 1565.

[4] Mizauld, Antoine. Nova et mira artificia comparandorum fructuum, olerum, radicum, uvarum et aliorum hortensium. Paris: F. Morellus, 1564.


Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 644 (sold to Cotton for 6s.). — Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden (SB317.8 .M59 1560) [acquired from W. Junk, Berlin, 1902].

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 434.


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¶ Fine — De solaribus horologiis (1560)

March 12, 2015

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Fine, Orance [Fineus Orontius]. De solaribus horologiis et quadrantibus, libri quatuor. Paris: Gulielmum Cauellat, [1560].

Illustrated. With bibliographical note by Cockerell.

Provenance: John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare [?]. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 298 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 5s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / B 2286/B).

References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 7 (£4 6s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 430 (with three X’s beside the title).

Note in MS catalogue (1): “pretty ornaments.”

Digital version: Gallica [illustrations only].

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