Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Camden, William (1551-1623)
Britannia, sive Florentissimorum Regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et Insularum Adiacentium.

London: [Eliot's Court Press] Impensis Georg. Bishop, 1594.



Quarto, fourth edition; title page mounted; contemporary signature of Robert Webster to title; bound in full contemporary ornately gilt-tooled brown calf, with a large central lozenge-shaped tool, four framing corner-pieces with knotwork designs, the field between these elements filled with individually placed gilt stars; bound with a flat spine similarly decorated in gilt compartments, aeg.; expertly rebacked; lacking terminal blank leaf Bbb4; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.

STC 4506; ESTC S107385.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.