May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
Holyday, Barten (1593-1661)
Technogamia: Or the Marriages of the Arts.

London: Printed by William Stansby for John Parker, 1618.

First edition, quarto, first word of title in Greek; title mounted due to a number of tears and defects, mostly skirting the print; excised hole repaired, the word "Printed" in the imprint and the first letter in "sold" provided in good pen facsimile; title soiled, lesser tears in the four leaves following the title, all repaired; bound in full straight-grained red morocco by MacDonald, aeg., purchased from Fleming in 1973; 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.

STC 13617; Greg II 353 (a); ESTC S104173; rare at auction, last offered in 1948.