£1,000
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
Now exactly translated from the Italian. London: for Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1674. Second edition in English, 8vo (17 x 10.6cm), contemporary tree sheep, rebacked and relined, engraved portrait frontispiece, ownership inscription 'James Espinasse, Gray's Inn' to initial blank, his bookplate to front pastedown (presumably reimposed), toning, browning and occasional damp-staining to margins, worm-track to lower margin in quires A-D (repaired in frontispiece and title-page), title-page marked, 2A7 and 2B7 with marginal repairs, a few other marks [ESTC R22284; Wing M136]
Note: Uncommon. The first edition in English appeared in 1595.