Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Carpenter, Nathanael (1589-1628?)
Geography Delineated forth in Two Bookes.

Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield & William Turner for Henry Cripps, 1625.

First edition, quarto, two parts in one volume; first leaf blank and present; with two folding tables of four, text illustrations; bound in attractive full contemporary unrestored English speckled calf ruled in blind with a triple rule on the boards, edges with gilt rolled decoration, both endcaps and endcaps intact, slight loss of leather to front board, top edge; with four large raised bands to spine, sewn on alum-tawed sewing supports, fly-leaves not pasted down inside boards, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.

STC 4676; Madan I p. 123; Sabin 10999; ESTC S107662.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.