Howell, James
£525
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Dendrologia. Dodona's grove, or the vocall forrest. [London]: H. Mosley, 1640. 4to, inscribed "Jane Howell", [possibly presentation copy from the author to his wife], with four line verse in the same hand, initialled A.R., with old bookseller's catalogue description and note "Pym library, 1948", [STC 13872; ESTC S119170]; title with large engraved vignette, frontispiece, and 2 plates, modern vellum-backed marbled boards, margins of frontispiece, title, A1-2, a1-2 repaired in margin, the 2 plates with slight marginal loss and laid down