Bindings
A collection of 12 books
£750
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Wotton, Sir Henry Reliquiae Wottonianae. or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems. London: R. Marriot, G. Bedel and T. Garthwait, 1651. First edition, 12mo, 3 (of 4) engraved portraits, light dust soiling, some pages nibbled, edge of pp. 47-52 charred, later reversed calf, rebacked, lacks text after p.408; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: R. Marriot, G. Bedel and T. Garthwait, 1654. Second edition, 12mo, engraved frontispiece trimmed, engraved portraits, later calf, neatly rebacked; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: T. Roycroft for R. Marriott [&c.], 1672. Third edition, 8vo, 3 (of 4) engraved portraits, contemporary calf, worn; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: T. Roycroft for R. Marriott, &c., 1672. Third edition, 8vo, 3 (of 4) engraved portraits (lacking portrait of King Charles I), contemporary calf, repaired; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: for B. Tooke and T. Sawbridge, 1685. Fourth edition, 8vo, 4 engraved portraits, good 20th century half calf gilt, rusthole affecting text at p.695; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: for B. Took and T. Sawbridge, 1685. Fourth edition, 8vo, 4 engraved portraits (the first, frontispiece cut down and mounted), 19th century calf gilt, rebacked retaining original spine; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: B. Tooke and T. Sawbridge, 1685. Fourth edition, 8vo, 4 engraved portraits, title with library stamp and repairs at base, contemporary calf, somewhat spotted, rebacked; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: B. Tooke and T. Sawbridge, 1685. Fourth edition, 8vo, 1 (of 4) engraved portraits, contemporary calf, some spotting, neatly rebacked; Quarles, Francis The Shepheards Oracles. London: John Marriot and Richard Marriot, 1646. Small 4to, later calf, lacking engraved title-page, some leaves repaired with loss to text [ESTC R217945]; Roberts, Lewes The Merchants Map of Commerce. London: R. Horn, 1671. Second edition, folio, contemporary calf, lacking 3 (of 4) maps and 5 leaves [ESTC R235234]; De Pontis - Charles Cotton, translator Memoirs of the Sieur De Pontis. London: James Knapton, 1694. Folio, contemporary panelled calf, a little rubbing [ESTC R33977]; Wood, Anthony Athenae Oxonienses. London: R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, 1721. Folio, two volumes bound together, facsimile title page in volume 1, later calf retaining some of an older binding; sold not subject to return (12)