Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law
Description:
In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Title from incipit., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Script: Gothic Textura., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., and Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Merkwürdige Reisen durch Niedersachsen, Holland und Engelland
Description:
BEIR WB 42971: Imperfect: Vol. 3 wanting., Editor's dedication signed: Johann Georg Schelhorn., Imprint to vol. 3 reads: Ulm 1754 auf Kosten der Gaumischen Handlung., Printer's name from colophon of vols. 2 and 3., and Pagination: v. 1: [14], CLXXXVI, 544 p., frontis. port. and 26 folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 604 p., 28-32, [4] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: [12], 756 p. including frontis., + [14] folded leaves of plates.
Publisher:
Gedruckt von Christian Ulrich Wagner
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands, Great Britain, and Lower Saxony (Germany)
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Libraries, and Authors, German
Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookscript, produced in England in the sixteenth century. Translated by John Trevisa
Description:
In English. and Binding: the spine was covered with a brown paper backing by R. N. Green-Armytage, January 26, 1934, and the volume is kept unbound in paper boards.
Vitruvius Britannicus, ou l'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des bâtimens reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne
Description:
The title pages are engraved in volumes 1-2, 4-5., Vol. 3 contains "The geometrical plans of the most considerable gardens and plantations.", Vols. 4 and 5 are a continuation by Woolfe and Gandon., and BAC: British Art Center copy is a large paper copy, with volumes IV & V larger than volumes I to III. All volumes are first issues with lists of subscribers and volumes IV & V with the bookplate of Edward Harbord, Lord Suffield. Bound in contemporary calf; rebacked.
Publisher:
Sold by the author over against Douglas-Coffee house in St. Martins-Lane : John Nicholson in Little Britain : Andrew Bell at the Cross-Keys in Cornhil : W. Taylor in Pater-Noster -Row : Henry Clements in St. Pauls Church-yard : and Jos. Smith in Exeter Change
