May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 143
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
Herne, Samuel (fl. circa 1677)
Domus Carthusiana: or an Account of the Most Noble Foundation of the Charter-House near Smithfield in London.

London: Printed by T.R. [Thomas Roycroft] for Richard Marriott & Henry Brome, 1677.

First edition, octavo, illustrated with three full-page engravings: portrait frontispiece of Thomas Sutton by F.H. Van Houe; full-length portrait of a Carthusian monk; and an image of the monks at prayer in the Charterhouse; bound in full contemporary English calfskin, marbled edges, ex libris Rolle, with armorial bookplate pasted inside front board, contemporary ownership inscription to ffep, 7 x 4 1/4 in.

Wing H-1578; ESTC R10688.