May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Du Verdier, Gilbert Saulnier (1598-1686)
The Love and Armes of the Greeke Princes. Or, the Romant of Romants.

London: Printed by Thomas Harper for Thomas Walkley, 1640.

First edition in English, small folio, translated by Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1584-1650), with his woodcut arms on each of the three title pages; bound in antique half sheepskin with marbled paper boards, worn; ex libris Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, with his Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate paste inside the front board, some minor faults to text leaves, including tears to blank margins, spotting, and older inscriptions, lacking two blanks, 10 3/4 x 7 in.

STC 21775; ESTC S116707.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.