Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
PEIRCE, ROBERT. The History and Memoirs of the Bath: containing Observations have been there wrought, both by Bathing and Drinking those Waters. Folding engraved bird's-eye view of Bath. [32], 399, [1] pages. bound with: OLIVER, WILLIAM. A Practical Dissertation on Bath Waters. [8], 168 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 166x101 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip; margins of the first work trimmed close occasionally affecting pagination, second work heavily browned. Armorial bookplate of the chemist Count Marco Carburi (1731-1808). London: Printed for Henry Hammond, Bookseller in Bath, 1713; J. D. for T. Varnam et al., 1716

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first editions; second issue of the first work, which had originally appeared in 1697, with the title reset. Neville II, 284-85 and 240.