Dec 01, 2005 - Sale 2059

Sale 2059 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL. The Firste [Laste] Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Parts 1, 3, and 4 (of 4) in 3 volumes. [8], 124 [i. e., 126], [1] leaves, 289 pages; [2], 28 leaves, 115, [3] pages; 328-1876, [86] (of [100]) pages. Titles within woodcut ornamental borders; profusion of woodcut text illustrations, with many repeats; lacks the folding view of edinburgh. Black letter. 4to, 19th-century black morocco gilt, sizes not uniform, extremities rubbed; some browning, soiling, and marginal dampstaining, some sidenotes cropped, occasional marginal tears, fraying, or paper corrosion variously affecting text, several leaves supplied from another copy, one index leaf defective. London: John Hunne, 1577

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first edition,