Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civill.

London: Printed for Andrew Crooke, 1651 [circa 1680].

Folio, the third edition, with the engraved frontispiece retouched, and five rows of typographical ornaments on the title page; folding typographical table; bound in contemporary English paneled calf boards, rebacked, corners and edges repaired; browning and water staining to contents, a large copy; typographical title page torn with loss and mounted; modern bookplate inside front board, later endleaves; five leaves with small portion trimmed from blank fore-margins; slight scattered marginal worming; Tt4 with large diagonal corner trimmed from blank outside bottom margin; 13 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.

Wing H-2248; Macdonald & Hargreaves 44; Pforzheimer 492.