Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Coryate, Thomas (1577-1617)
Thomas Coriate Traveller for the English Wits: Greeting. From the Court of the Great Mogul, Resident at the Towne of Asmere, in Easterne India.

London: Printed by W. Jaggard and Henry Featherston, 1616 [i.e. circa 1730].



Quarto, lacking initial blank A1; illustrated with woodcuts of people riding elephants, a goat, a unicorn, and others; bound in full straight-grain dark blue morocco, some water staining to contents; leaf D3 crumpled and torn with loss to corner of blank margin, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.

ESTC T228561.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.