May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
Goffe, Thomas (1591-1629)
The Couragious Turke, or Amurath the First. A Tragedie.

London: Printed by B. Alsop, & T. Fawcet for Richard Meighen, 1632.

First edition, quarto; contents generally good, margins cut quite close, with cropped sidenotes on C3 verso, C4 recto, and D1 verso; bound in modern half morocco and buckram boards, 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.

STC 11977; Greg II 458 (a); ESTC S122361; rare at auction, Rare Book Hub lists copies sold in 2015 (Pirie), 1962, 1939, 1918, and 1916.