Sold for:
$5,000
$5,000
London: Printed by John Darby for the author, 1721. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked, blind-stamped roll-tooled border to boards, gilt-lettered spine. Second edition of Leoni's English edition. Complete with list of subscribers, engraved frontispiece and portrait, and 218 engraved plates (on 203 sheets). Edgewear; bookplate of Thomas, Earl of Pomfret, tipped to front pastedown; intermittent brownspotting; light offsetting from some plates; darkening to some leaves.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2015-05-07
