Lot 344
Burnet, Gilbert
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
The history of the Reformation of the Church of England. London: Richard Chiswell, 1679-1715. Folio, 3 volumes, bookplates to paste-down endpapers: volume 1: 1679, engraved title and title in red and black, 7 portraits, contemporary blind-tooled calf, rebacked, several closed tears and small holes with loss of up to a couple of words, occasional spotting, covers and spine rubbed and slightly gouged [ESTC R36341]; volume 2: 1681, half-title, engraved title and title in red and black, 9 portraits, contemporary blind tooled calf, rebacked, later spine, several marginal repairs and repairs to page corners with no loss of text, occasional dust-soiling and dampstaining, some very occasional light spotting, small hole to page 241 with loss of a couple of letters, spine a little rubbed, upper joint beginning to crack [ESTC R226789]; volume 3: London: J. Churchill, 1715, title in red and black, 5 portraits, contemporary blind tooled panelled calf, rebacked, some browning to pages and a little spotting, repair to upper corner of 3H with no loss of text, covers and spine a little rubbed [ESTC T112809]; Sanderson, William. A compleat history of the lives and reigns of Mary Queen of Scotland and of... James the sixth, King of Scotland... London: Humphrey Moseley, Richard Tomlins and George Sawbridge, 1656. 4to, portrait, later? calf , worming to upper margin of portrait, title and initial pages, lacks portrait of Queen Mary, eight unnumbered pages following the initial six pages of the second part of the text and the final eleven unnumbered pages, some browning, occasional spotting and a few instances of very faint printing, spine a little faded and chipped [ESTC R5456; Wing S647] (4)