Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Barclay, John (1582-1621)
His Argenis, Translated out of Latine into English.

London: Printed by Felix Kyngston for Richard Meighen & Henry Seile, 1629.

Quarto, illustrated with engraved portrait frontispiece of Barclay bound opposite the title, and twenty-two engraved plates by Claude Mellan and Leonard Gaultier, these plates first used in the French edition of 1623; bound in early 18th century English paneled calf decorated with blind tooling and speckling, with spine label, nicely preserved, 8 1/4 x 6 in.

STC 1394; ESTC S100798.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.