
ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY
Lot 125•
RALEIGH (WALTER) The Historie of the World, 1628; COMMYNES (PHILIPPE DE) Historie, 1596; and an incomplete copy of Stow's Survey of London (3)
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,083.75 inc. premium
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RALEIGH (WALTER)
The Historie of the World, engraved portrait on title, with "Minde of the Front" but wanting the additional engraved title page dated 1614, 6 engraved double-page maps and 2 battle plans, woodcut genealogical tables, contemporary calf, rebacked [ESTC S116303], H. Lownes, 1628--COMMYNES (PHILIPPE DE) The Historie, title within elaborate woodcut, woodcut genealogies, title slightly trimmed and strengthened at fore-edge, seventeenth century calf, rebacked [ESTC S107247; Pforzheimer 190], A. Hatfield for J. Norton, 1596; with an incomplete copy of Stow's "Survey of London", c.1633, folio (3)
Footnotes
Provenance: First work, Charles Dormer, ownership inscription on title; Second work, Benedictine Abbey of Fort Augustus, bookplate.