Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HEYWOOD, THOMAS. Gynaikeion; or, Nine Bookes of Various History concerninge Women. [10] (of [12]), 466, [2] pages, including engraved title with vignettes of Apollo and the 9 Muses, and final blank; lacks initial blank. Folio, 296x187 mm, old panelled calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; dampstaining in upper margins through most of volume, title rehinged, shaved along bottom edge, small rust hole in L4 affecting a few letters, short clean tear in Q1, paper flaw in blank lower outer corner of 2M6. London: Adam Islip, 1624

Additional Details

first edition of a book on notable women in antiquity, grouped according to characteristics exemplified by the Muses. STC 13326.