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¶ Guevara — The dial of princes (1582)

December 3, 2014

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Guevara, Antonio de. The dial of princes. Trans. Thomas North. London: Richard Tottel, 1582.

With a slip of paper in Morris’s handwriting laid in.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 472 (sold to Pickering for £4 8s.). — Edwin N. Lapham.— Lapham sale, Anderson (New York), 1–3 December 1908, lot 982. — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 50b (no price). —  ESTC (S103482). — MS catalogue (2), no. 133.

Digital version: EEBO.


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¶ Batman — Batman uppon Bartholome (1582)

August 25, 2014

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Batman, Stephen. Batman uppon Bartholome: his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended. London: printed by Thomas East, 1582.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 553 (sold to Jones for £6). — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 48b (£2). — MS catalogue (2), no. 983.


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