£2,250
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 589
Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
London: Robert Barker, 1616. Folio in sixes, engraved Old and New Testament title-pages, ruled in red throughout, contemporary gilt tooled calf, final leaf (blank) lacking, some repairs, dust-soiling and a few tears slightly affecting the text in places, covers detached and very rubbed [ESTC S113708, Darlow & Moule 349]; [bound with] an incomplete 'Book of Common Prayer' including The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures..., including the map of Canaan; [bound with] The Whole Booke of Psalmes... London, 1609. Folio, incomplete, with repairs affecting text; contained in a 19th Century ebony Indian box elaborately carved in relief with monkey, peacock, gazelle, pomegranate and floral motifs, bearing a heraldic white metal heraldic plaque to the lid, with another plaque to the underside reading: "This Case is made of wood Excavated from the side of The Sacred City of Oojan in Central India...", this box in turn held within an oak chest with a brass plaque bearing the name Col Wardrop