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mei/00211337 Auct. K 4.9d.
[00211337]
Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: Auct. K 4.9d.
ISTC No.ia00097000
AuthorAesopus
TitleVita et Fabulae [Greek]. Ed: Gabriel Bracius
Imprint[Venice : Bartholomaeus Pelusius, Gabriel Bracius de Brisighella, Johannes Bissolus and Benedictus Mangius, about 1498]
Provenance namePayne; bookseller,London from 1740; Thomas Payne (1719-1799); his son Thomas Payne (1752-1831); his nephew John Thomas Payne; in partnership with Henry Foss 1813-50; see Maxted, London Book Trades, 172-3; Munby, Phillipps Studies, III 43-5 and ad indicem; Pearson, Provenance Research, 162-3; the Bodleian bought inter alia eight incunabula from A Catalogue of Books Printed upon Vellum (London, 1829).
Note Provenance: Purchased from Payne and Foss (1832), no. 1155 for £2. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1832), 1, and Library Bills (1829-32), no. 428.
Provenance namePayne; bookseller,London from 1740; Thomas Payne (1719-1799); his son Thomas Payne (1752-1831); his nephew John Thomas Payne; in partnership with Henry Foss 1813-50; see Maxted, London Book Trades, 172-3; Munby, Phillipps Studies, III 43-5 and ad indicem; Pearson, Provenance Research, 162-3; the Bodleian bought inter alia eight incunabula from A Catalogue of Books Printed upon Vellum (London, 1829).
Note Provenance: Purchased from Payne and Foss (1832), no. 1155 for £2. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1832), 1, and Library Bills (1829-32), no. 428.