Baker, Richard
A Chronicle of the Kings of England
£1,071
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles & others. London: for Daniel Frere, and are to be sold at his shop, 1643. First edition, folio (33.5 x 21.5cm), [10] 181 [1] 163 [1] 108 163 [37] pp., contemporary calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page by William Hole, errata leaf present, printer's waste from a contemporary edition of the Bible (containing the Apocrypha) used as printer's waste, ownership inscription ‘A M’ (i.e. Anthony Murray of Dollerie) to head of title-page, early manuscript marginalia from pp. 1-42, early pen-and-ink sketch of a man-of-war to rear free endpaper, marginal loss to F1, damp-staining to index [Wing B501];
Camerarius, Philippius. The Living Librarie, or, Meditations and Observations Historical, Natural, Moral, Political, and Poetical. Done into English by John Molle. London: Adam Islip, 1621. Folio in sixes (29 x 19cm), [12] 403 [5] pp., contemporary calf with gilt armorial lozenges to covers (rubbed), title-page with woodcut strapwork border, initial and terminal blanks possibly original, vellum manuscript waste spine-lining, ownership inscriptions ‘Ex libris Jacobi Murravii 1701’ and ‘This book was read by Alexander Murray anno 1702’ to title-page and initial blank respectively, Hebrew annotations to front free endpaper, title-page slightly marked and with small hole to lower margin, closed tears to foot of A6 and Z1, a few other minor blemishes [STC 4529];
Douglas, Gawin (translator). Virgil's Aeneis, translated into Scottish Verse. A New Edition. Edinburgh: Andrew Symson, and Robert Freebairn, 1710. Folio (31 x 18cm), later calf, ownership inscription (Anthony Murray) to title-page, bookplate (Murray Esqre of Dollerie) to front pastedown, 1553 title-page bound after list of subscribers instead of in first gathering, bound without pi4 (blank), small hole to head of title-page, intermittent damp-staining (stronger to index);
[Estienne, Charles]. Dictonarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum … Editio novissima, recensuit, supplevit, locisque pene infinits emaculavit Nicolaus Lloydius collegii Wadhami … socius. Oxford: ex typographeo Gulielmi Hall; impensis ejusdem, et Guilielmi Downing. Prostant Amstelodami, 1670. Folio, [8] 830 pp., contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, yapp edges, ownership inscription ‘A M’ to title-page, damp-staining, front free endpaper and initial blanks working loose;
Calvinus, Johannes (c.1550-1614). Lexicon Juridicum Juris Caesaeri simul, et canonici. Geneva: apud Petrum Balduinum, 1622. Folio, 1047 pp., contemporary vellum (textblock loose in binding), ownership inscription ‘Anthony Murray, Leyden 22 Feb 1700’ to initial blank, light marginal worming, damp-staining (5)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.