Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(NONESUCH PRESS.) Herodotus. The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus. 10 wood engravings including the frontispiece, 1 color plate, and 9 maps (7 double-page) by T. Poulton. Thick small folio, publisher's 1/4 gilt-decorated robin's egg blue vellum over cloth, spine a bit faded, cloth slightly fraying at edges. Designed by Francis Meynell and printed by Walter Lewis. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. number 300 of 675 copies. Bloomsbury, 1935