Books & Works on Paper, to include the Boxing Collection of

Watkins, 24th Aug, 2023 10:00

Brian and Debbie

13 [Psalterium] [Psalterium]

Psalterium Romanum Dispositum per Hebdomadam ad normam Breviarij…, 220 leaves with addition of 'In festo' (11 ll.) and 'Hymni' (2 ll.only), lacking everything after A2, woodcut devise depicting Europa and the bull on frontispiece, text in black and red, printed music, several leaves largely restored, with occasional loss of text on margins, some tearing, dust soiling and some staining throughout, marginalia to gathering G, nearly contemporary calf, with metal bosses and clasps hinges, worn and scuffed to corners, new marbled endpapers, folio, Cieras, Venice, 1683.

£400-600

14 Rome- Torriggio (Francesco Maria) Rome- Torriggio (Francesco Maria)

Le Sacre Grotte Vaticane, First Edition, woodcut vignettes depicting Peter and Paul on title, some pages misnumbered, light age yellowing, rebacked, later half calf over marbled boards, a little rubbed, Chatsworth library shelfmark, [Rossetti, G-611; Olschki Choix 18144; Schudt 1045], 8vo, Viterbo, I Discepoli, 1618; with Cato, Disticha de moribus ad filium, engraved frontispiece, title printed in black and red, double column, light age yellowing, contemporary calf, gilt spine, imperial gilt tooled device to boards, rubbed and scuffed, with spine head exposed, corner bumped, 4to, Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Ex officina Schouteniana, 1754, and 2 other incomplete volumes of related interest (4)

£150-200