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BURTON (ROBERT)
The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes & Severall Cures of it... by Democritus Junior, Oxford, [John Lichfield for] Henry Cripps, 1632

14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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[BURTON (ROBERT)]

The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes & Severall Cures of it... by Democritus Junior, fourth edition, engraved title within allegorical border, woodcut headpieces and ornaments, woodcut device on colophon, lacks one leaf (2C3), 'Argument of the frontispiece' leaf torn in margin, 4 leaves with small rust hole affecting some letters, very small dampstain in lower fore-corner of approximately 80 pages, contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, repaired at head [ESTC S122249; Madan I, p.162; STC 4162], folio (280 x 180mm.), Oxford, [John Lichfield for] Henry Cripps, 1632

Footnotes

Provenance: Lewis Anwyl, ownership signature on "To the Reader" leaf and "Annvill decimo" on rear paste-down (see also lots 275 and 354); the same leaf also with notes by an early reader, including "Amulet for ague 399" [a spider amulet], "philantia [or self-love] 120", "Sex res non naturales... fol. 64" [on diet and meat], and "Ja: Boissard: de divinatione et magicis praesigiis... [?] a bry hist. America" (Jean-Jacques Boissard's Tractatus posthumus... de divinatione... incisis per Joh. Theod. de Bry, discussing witchcraft in Europe and America, was first published in 1611); Porkington Library label; by descent to the present owner the 7th Lord Harlech.

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