Jun 01, 2023 - Sale 2639

Sale 2639 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-1677)
Theatru[m] Mulierum, sive Varietas atq[ue] Differentia Habituum Foeminei Sexus, diversorum Europae Nationum Hodierno Tempore Vulgo in Usu.

London: Printed and sold by Henry Overton, 1643 [-1663].

Oblong folio, completely engraved in 12mo format and printed on large sheets, this copy arranged with with two plates per page, comprising a suite of forty-eight numbered plates, twenty-five leaves including the title page; plate sixteen cut away by a child and somewhat mutilated and defaced, loosely inserted; dates in the plates range from 1643 through 1663; bound in later half black calf, ex libris Gilbert R. Redgrave with his bookplate and extensive manuscript notes on the edition on ffep from 1901; 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.

Wing H-2450; ESTC R178089.