Sep 23, 2004 - Sale 2013

Sale 2013 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BLAGRAVE, JOHN. The Mathematical Jewel, shewing the making, and most excellent use of a singuler Instrument so called. Woodcut text illustrations and diagrams. [12], 124 pages; lacks leaf with woodcut on recto and verso, double-page table of fixed stars, and c2.3 (pages 19-22). Folio, 18th-century 1/2 calf gilt, front cover and front free endpaper detached; some dampstaining and foxing, title heavily soiled, with blank corner restored and early annotations on verso, blank lower margin of M2 excised, corner of P4 repaired with some text loss, outer margin of last leaf reinforced on verso. London: (Thomas Dawson for) Walter Venge, [1585]

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