Lot 44
Ross, Alexander
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Pansebeia: or, a view of all the religions in the world .. the third edition, enlarged and perfected … To which are annexed The lives, actions, and ends of certain notorius hereticks with their effigies in copper-plates. London: for John Saywell, 1658. 8vo., 2 parts, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved emblem on the titlepage (repeated on the titlepage to the Lives), 17 engraved portraits in the second work contemporary calf, later rebacking, edges rubbed, general light paper discolouration, inner joints cracking
Footnote
Note: Wing R1973; Sabin 73315. First published in 1653, it includes an account of the religions of both North and South America on pp. 102-120.