Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 223

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(RALEIGH, WALTER, Sir.) A Declaration of the Demeanor and Cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, as well in his Voyage, as in, and sithence his Returne; And of the true motives and inducements which occasioned His Maiestie to Proceed in doing Justice upon him, as hath bene done. Woodcut royal arms on title verso. [4], 64 [i. e., 68] pages, including initial leaf, blank except for signature A and woodcut ornament on recto. 4to, 180x133 mm, 20th-century 1/4 morocco; contemporary owner's inscription on initial leaf, dampstain in lower inner corner of A3, contents otherwise clean. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1618

Additional Details

first edition of an attempt to justify Raleigh's execution, "sometimes attributed to Francis Bacon, but in fact composed by the commissioners, including Bacon, appointed to try Raleigh" (ESTC). Alden 618/37 (for discussion of Raleigh's Guiana voyages); STC 20652.5.