Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Browne, Thomas (1605-1682)
Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchral Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus.

London: Printed for Hen. Brome, 1658.

First edition, octavo, illustrated with three engraved illustrations (of which two are full-page), separate title to The Garden of Cyprus; lacking leaf with longitudinal title; publisher's advertising leaf present; bound in full contemporary English sheepskin, unsophisticated and nicely preserved, worming to top inner gutter margins, 6 3/8 x 4 in.

Wing B-5154; Keynes 93; Pforzheimer 110; ESTC R202039.

Ex libris Christopher Clark Geest (1936-2023)