Tag: Sotheby’s 1856

M–O, Unlocated

Manwood – A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest (1598)

Manwood, John. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes, and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art : as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke (London : Printed by [Adam Islip? for] Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, 1598)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 308. ESTC S111993.

Unlocated. Last leaf of index lacking.

M–O, Unlocated

Manuscripts: “Speculum Christianae” and “Common Place Book”

Lot 307 in the Sotheby’s sale was comprised of “a parcel” of manuscripts. Only two are named:

1. “Speculum Christianae” which is “on vellum” and “imperfect at the end.”

2. A “Common Place Book, Containing Religious Extracts, &c.; with old Sermons.”

Both manuscripts were sold to bookseller Joseph Lilly for two shillings.

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 307.

Unlocated.

J–L, Located

Lloyd – The Marrow of History, or, The Pilgrimage of Kings and Princes (1659)

Lloyd, Lodowick. The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimage of kings and princes : truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns; and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone (London : Printed by E. Alsop, dwelling near the Upper-Pump in Grubstreet, 1659)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 303. ESTC R216862.

British Library G.16582. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.