Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
Limited Edition Facsimiles of Early Books.
Including: The Anatomical Excercises of Dr. William Harvey de Motu Cordis, 1628: de Circulatione Sanguinis, 1649; the First English Text of 1653, London: Nonesuch, [1928], copy no. 598 of 1450, bound in full niger goatskin, tooled and lettered in gilt, t.e.g.; Ovyde hys Booke of Methamorphose, trans. William Caxton, Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon & published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1924, copy no. 292 of 375 copies printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper, bound in publisher's quarter linen with blue paper boards, unopened; Boccaccio des Cas de Nobles Hommes et Femmes Malheureux, London; Chiswick Press, Charles Whittingham & Co., [1911], with folding color-printed frontispiece; [and] Schoenbaum's William Shakespeare: a Documentary Life, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, in assoc. with the Scolar Press, 1975, copy no. 98 of 200 signed by the author. in publisher's binding and slipcase, very good; a prospectus for a facsimile of the Council of Constance, and other ephemera.