Apr 07, 2011 - Sale 2242

Sale 2242 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ASCHAM, ROGER. A Report and Discourse written by Roger Ascham, of the affaires and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles his court, duryng certaine yeares while the sayd Roger was there. [36] leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. 4to, mid-19th-century gilt-panelled red morocco by Francis Bedford, slight crack at top of front joint; contents washed, endpapers foxed. London: John Daye, [1570?]

Additional Details

first edition of an account of contemporary political developments in Germany written toward the end of Ascham's tenure as secretary to Sir Richard Morison, ambassador to the court of Emperor Charles V. Pforzheimer 14; STC 830.