Speed, John
The Second Book: containing the Principality of Wales [extracted from "The Theatre of the Empire..."]
£2,772
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
London: Thomas Basset at the George in Fleet Street, and Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1676. Folio, extracted from Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Great-Britain…, comprising section title-page, 14 hand-coloured maps of Wales and pp.97-126 of the work, finely bound in eighteenth-century (1750s) speckled calf gilt with the arms of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln, K.G. to the covers, spine sympathetically renewed, a little restoration to covers, a few neat repairs to lower margins, mounting guards renewed
Provenance
With the arms of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln, K.G.