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Early English Literature. Miniatures. Bindings.
39
Quebec, Boston, George Washington, D r. John-
son, Putnam, etc. etc.
This edition in quarto is very rare.
100 MACPHERSON, JAMES. (1736—1796) (Scottish poet and translator
or author of the Ossianic poems).
Autograph letter signed „James Macpherson”, dated “Nor-
folk Street May Ist 1784.” 410. 1 page. $ 200.—
The letter is addressed to the antiquarian Thomas A s 11 e and
refers to Astle’s work “The Origin and Progress of Writing.”
Macpherson’s autographs are excessively
rare.
101 MACPHERSON, JAMES.
Autograph letter signed “James Macpherson”. Dated
“Parliament Street Tuesday morning May i6th 786.”. 4to. pdge.
$ 75- —
SEE PLATE IX.
102 MATARATIUS for MATURANTIUSJ, FRANCISCUS.
DE COMPONENDIS VERSIBUS hexametro et pentametro opus-
culum. Perugia, Stephanus Arnes (Arndes), June i6th, 1481. Sm.
4to. Gothic type. 1 blank leaf and 28 unn. leaves with Signature,
32 lines. With woodcut initial at the beginning of text. Capital spaces
left. Boards. S 475-
Hain 10 890. Proct. 7232. Burger II 330.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE.
The Komm. f. d. Gesamtkat. d. Wiegendrucke knows only
the 4 copies of the British Museum, Stuttgarter Landesbibliothek,
Königliche Bibliothek Copenhagen and John Rylands’ s Library in
Manchester.
First book issued by Stephanus Arndes’s
first press at Perugia.
An ars poetica (poetics) chiefly based on VIRGIL.
Large and very fine copy but for some brown stains. With some
old ms. marginal notes.
103 MEYER, CONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898).
Autograph manuscript of three poems. Unsigned and
undated. 4to. 2 pages. S 48.—
Fine manuscript of great literary interest containing the first
Version of 3 poems, differing slightly from the printed edition.
It contains the wonderful poem “Julia C a p u 1 e 11 i” ,
(wellknown under its later title “D er Marmorknabe“), ,,D i e
gegeisselte Psyche“, and „Der Bergwald, later
published as ,, J etzt rede D u“.
PAUL GOTTSCHALK, Berlin W. 8, Unter den Linden 3 a.
39
Quebec, Boston, George Washington, D r. John-
son, Putnam, etc. etc.
This edition in quarto is very rare.
100 MACPHERSON, JAMES. (1736—1796) (Scottish poet and translator
or author of the Ossianic poems).
Autograph letter signed „James Macpherson”, dated “Nor-
folk Street May Ist 1784.” 410. 1 page. $ 200.—
The letter is addressed to the antiquarian Thomas A s 11 e and
refers to Astle’s work “The Origin and Progress of Writing.”
Macpherson’s autographs are excessively
rare.
101 MACPHERSON, JAMES.
Autograph letter signed “James Macpherson”. Dated
“Parliament Street Tuesday morning May i6th 786.”. 4to. pdge.
$ 75- —
SEE PLATE IX.
102 MATARATIUS for MATURANTIUSJ, FRANCISCUS.
DE COMPONENDIS VERSIBUS hexametro et pentametro opus-
culum. Perugia, Stephanus Arnes (Arndes), June i6th, 1481. Sm.
4to. Gothic type. 1 blank leaf and 28 unn. leaves with Signature,
32 lines. With woodcut initial at the beginning of text. Capital spaces
left. Boards. S 475-
Hain 10 890. Proct. 7232. Burger II 330.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE.
The Komm. f. d. Gesamtkat. d. Wiegendrucke knows only
the 4 copies of the British Museum, Stuttgarter Landesbibliothek,
Königliche Bibliothek Copenhagen and John Rylands’ s Library in
Manchester.
First book issued by Stephanus Arndes’s
first press at Perugia.
An ars poetica (poetics) chiefly based on VIRGIL.
Large and very fine copy but for some brown stains. With some
old ms. marginal notes.
103 MEYER, CONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898).
Autograph manuscript of three poems. Unsigned and
undated. 4to. 2 pages. S 48.—
Fine manuscript of great literary interest containing the first
Version of 3 poems, differing slightly from the printed edition.
It contains the wonderful poem “Julia C a p u 1 e 11 i” ,
(wellknown under its later title “D er Marmorknabe“), ,,D i e
gegeisselte Psyche“, and „Der Bergwald, later
published as ,, J etzt rede D u“.
PAUL GOTTSCHALK, Berlin W. 8, Unter den Linden 3 a.
