Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 1,092
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CLARKE, SAMUEL (1599-1683). A General Martyrologie, containing a Collection of All the Greatest Persecutions which have befallen the Church of Christ, from the Creation, to our Present Times; wherein is given an exact Account of the Protestants Sufferings in Queen Maries Reign . . . Third Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.<> Engraved frontispiece portrait of Clarke (reinforced in outer margin; 12 plates with 8 subjects each, depicting martyrs being tortured; 11 portraits in text. [40], 544, [2], 483, [5] pages. Folio, old calf, rebacked with leatherette; repaired clean tear in plate facing page 180 in first part, upper outer corner of 3A5 in second part torn with text loss. London: William Birch, 1677