Lot 212
Maffei, Giovanni Pietro
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£425
Description
L'histoire des indes orientales et occidentales. Paris: Robert de Ninville, 1655. 2 parts in one volume, 4to, woodcut initials and ornaments, contemporary calf, gilt arms on sides of William Douglas, third Earl and first Duke of Queensberry, and gilt stamp of The Society of Writers to the Signet, paper fault tear to outer blank margin of Nn1 in part 2, spotting, worn, joints cracked
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire