
GENERAL AND CONTINENTAL BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Lot 100•
PAUSANIAS Descrittione della Grecia, 1594; and others (10)
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,402.50 inc. premium
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PAUSANIAS
Descrittione della Grecia, first edition in Italian, title within woodcut border, waterstaining at end, eighteenth century vellum, 4to, Mantua, F. Osanna, 1594--CASSIUS DIO (LUCIUS) Historiae romanae, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispieces, Hamburg, C. Herold, 1750--HERODOTUS. Historiarum, half-title, additional engraved title, upper joint splitting, Amsterdam, P. Schouten, 1763--FABER (BASILIUS) Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae, 2 vol., half-titles, Leipzig, T. Fritsch, 1726, folio--CATO et al. Scriptores rei rusticae, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece and 4 folding plates, 4to, Leipzig, C. Fritsch, 1735--GRONOVIUS (JOHANN FRIEDRICH) De sestertiis, eighteenth century red morocco gilt, g.e., 8vo, Amsterdam, L. & D. Elzevir, 1656, contemporary blindstamped vellum unless otherwise mentioned; and another (10)
Footnotes
Provenance: First work, Lord Robert Spencer (1747–1831), third son of the third Duke of Marlborough and friend of Charles James Fox, bookplate; thence by descent; Sotheby's, 19 November 1970, "property of the Trustees of the will of the late E.C.P. Lascelles, Esq., removed from Woolbeding House." Second work, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, bookplate.