May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
LAMBARD, WILLIAM. A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the Description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre. Title within type ornament border. Woodcut map of England on A5v (cropped at bottom with slight image loss). [10], 588, [6] pages, mostly printed in black letter; lacks the folding map of Beacons in Kent. 4to, 19th-century 1/2 olive calf with red morocco lettering piece; occasional light soiling, cropped early marginalia, title reinforced in upper margin on verso. 19th-century signature of Edward Thornton on title, pencil notes in another hand on verso; bookplates of Francis Gray Smart and Norman J. Sondheim. London: Edm. Bollifant, 1596

Additional Details

Second edition of the first English county history, originally published in 1576. STC 15176.