Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
[DEFOE, DANIEL.] The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Engraved frontispiece. [4], 364 pages * The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Folding engraved frontispiece map. [8], 373, [11] pages * Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Double-page folding etched frontispiece map (rehinged). [16], 270, 84, [2] pages. Together, 3 volumes. 8vo, later 18th-century tree calf gilt, expertly rebacked retaining original spine compartments; scattered minor stains in second volume; scattered minor foxing in third. James Hale Bates bookplates. handsome set. London: W. Taylor, 1719; 1720

Additional Details

Third edition, second issue, of the first volume; first edition, second issue, of the second volume; and first edition of the third volume. Hutchins, pages 74, 97, 122; Printing and the Mind of Man 180.