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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 213

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Operum tomi duo priores [-tertius, -quartus], 4 parts in 2 vol., [Paris, Jean Petit, Josse Bade, and Conrad Resch, 1522]

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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ORIGINES (ADAMANTIUS)

Operum tomi duo priores [-tertius, -quartus], 4 parts in 2 vol., titles to Parts 1 and 3, each with a large woodcut of the interior of a printing workshop, the first printed in red and black, large woodcut initials, lacks final blank in Part 2, first six leaves (including title) and final 2 leaves of Part 4, occasional sprinkled single wormholes, second volume with some light dampstaining, final 2 leaves repaired with some loss, contemporary English blindstamped calf over wooden boards, covers with repeated design of intersecting roll borders (including Oldham 946), enclosing central panel filled with alternating vertical impressions of a dragon-and-gryphon roll, signed with initials "W.G." and "I.G." (Oldham 560) and a twisted pineapple roll (Oldham 953), spines in 5 compartments with raised bands, later lettering label within one compartment, modern endpapers but retaining original binder's waste and manuscript sewing guards (including a fragment of a ?seventeenth century French vernacular telling of the story of Troy), sides with scattered single wormholes and a few small areas of abrasion, extremities of spine repaired [Adams O280], folio (340 x 210mm.), [Paris, Jean Petit, Josse Bade, and Conrad Resch, 1522]

Footnotes

Provenance: ?R. Leede, early signature on title to Part 1; several annotations in an ?early seventeenth century hand in Part 4; Sotheby's sale, 11 November 1974, lot 199 (catalogued as 1512 edition); K.J. Hewett, bookplate.

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