Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM, Sir. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 2 engraved tables of consanguinity and descents in Volume 2. [4], iv, [4], 485, [1]; [8], 520, xix, [1]; [8], 455, [1], xxvii, [1]; [8], 436, vii, [76] pages. 4 volumes. 4to, 273x218 mm, contemporary calf with gilt arms of John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710-71) on covers, rebacked, cover edges worn, dark stains on front cover of first 3 volumes; occasional heavy browning or foxing. Bookplates of Woburn Abbey, seat of the Dukes of Bedford, dated 1873. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1766-68-68-69

Additional Details

Second edition of the first volume, third edition of the second, and first edition of the third and fourth. Eller 2, 1; Printing and the Mind of Man 212; Rothschild 407.