Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Denham, John (1615-1669)
Poems and Translations with the Sophy.

London: Printed [by John Macock] for H[enry] Herringman, 1668.

First edition, second issue, with errata on N6; octavo, with leaves F2, F3, and I6 canceled, N8 lacking (true in all copies, likely I6 cancel was printed as N8), with a separate title page for The Sophy; bound in a fancy Riviere binding of deeply polished black morocco with ornate tooling to both boards in blind and gilt, each board sporting an oval brown morocco inset with title, author, and date of imprint, aeg., beautifully preserved; 6 3/4 x 4 in.; Wing D-1005; Pforzheimer 285; Wither to Prior 263; ESTC R4710.

[Together with] Denham's Coopers Hill, London: Printed for Henry Moseley, 1655; quarto, final blank present, bound in modern half red morocco binding; 8 x 5 3/4 in. Wing D-996; ESTC R29709. (2)

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.