Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Donne, John (1572-1631)
Deaths Duell.

London: Printed by Thomas Harper for Richard Remer & Benjamin Fisher, 1632.

First edition, quarto, engraved portrait of Donne in a winding sheet by Martin Droeshout bound opposite the title page; lacking A1, blank but for the ornamental signature mark; bound in full modern crushed blue morocco by Riviere, the Pirie copy, with bookplate; armorial engraved bookplate of Stabilis family pasted inside the front board; text leaves toned; small marginal wormholes professionally patched throughout, 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.

STC 7031; Wither to Prior 283; Keynes 24; Pforzheimer 293; ESTC S102388.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.