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The Bible in Miniature or a Concise History of the Old and New Testament. London: for E. Newbery, 1780. (40 x 28mm). Engraved titles and 14 plates (occasional very light spotting) but A GOOD COPY in contemporary calf, compartments of flat spine panelled in gilt (lightly rubbed). Provenance: William Gover 15 April 1794 and January 19 1830 (inscriptions on an endpaper). Spielmann 17 (calls for engraved titles and 12 plates only).
HALL, John (1627-1656). Horae vacivae or Essays. Some Occasaionall Considerations. London, E.G. for J. Rothwell, 1646. 12° (119 x 65mm). Engraved portrait by Marshall, with the final errata leaf (portrait inlaid, a few light spots and stains). Early 19th-century blue straight-grained morocco, gilt supra-libros on sides of the Society of Writers to the Signet, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Wing H349; Grolier 417.
ALCIATI, Andrea (1492-1550). Emblemata, edited by Claude Minoe. Antwerp: B. Moretus, 1648. 16° (114 x 77mm). Woodcut device on title and penultimate page and 211 emblematic illustrations in the text. Modern calf, gilt edges. This edition not mentioned by Praz.
And 2 miniature books.
HALL, John (1627-1656). Horae vacivae or Essays. Some Occasaionall Considerations. London, E.G. for J. Rothwell, 1646. 12° (119 x 65mm). Engraved portrait by Marshall, with the final errata leaf (portrait inlaid, a few light spots and stains). Early 19th-century blue straight-grained morocco, gilt supra-libros on sides of the Society of Writers to the Signet, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Wing H349; Grolier 417.
ALCIATI, Andrea (1492-1550). Emblemata, edited by Claude Minoe. Antwerp: B. Moretus, 1648. 16° (114 x 77mm). Woodcut device on title and penultimate page and 211 emblematic illustrations in the text. Modern calf, gilt edges. This edition not mentioned by Praz.
And 2 miniature books.
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