Oct 24 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2683 -

Sale 2683 - Lot 99

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Holland, Henry (1583-c. 1649)
Herwologica Anglica Hoc Est Clarissimorum et Doctissimorum, aliquot Anglorum qui Floruerunt ab Anno Cristi M.D. usque ad Presentem Annum M.D.C.XX.

Arnhem: Impensis Crispini Passaei Calcographus et Jansonij Bibliopolae, [1620].

First edition, folio, engraved allegorical title page in architectural frame incorporating a map of England and a view of London Harbor and inhabited by allegorical female figures and cherubs; illustrated with a series of 65 portraits of important Britons and two engravings of monuments to Queen Elizabeth and Prince Henry; bound in full 19th century blind-decorated russia by Dickenson of Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England, rebacked; ex libris Hermann Marx and George Goyder, with bookplates, additionally signed by Goyder on flyleaf; 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.