Jun 03, 2014 - Sale 2352

Sale 2352 - Lot 201

Price Realized: $ 1,024
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BOTANICAL.) Gerard, John. [The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes.] Profusion of woodcut illustration in text. Thick 4to, 285x205 mm, early calf, rebacked, covers detached, worn; lacking title and several leaves with others loose (mainly preliminaries and finals), replaced with late 19th century manuscript copies, repairs to edges mostly towards the front and back, some pages shaved at top margin, otherwise clean. [London: John Norton, 1597]