Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
LIVIUS, TITUS. The Romane History . . . Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke. Woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth I on title verso; another of Livy on [-]4v. [10] (of [12]), 804, 809-1351, 1354-1403, [41] (of [43]) pages; lacks initial and final blanks. Folio, 17th-century panelled calf, rebacked with pigskin; light marginal dampstaining through much of volume, scattered cropped marginalia, title soiled, torn in blank upper outer and lower inner corners and mounted, with portrait on verso visible through excised portion of mount, clean tear in 3I3, piece torn out of blank outer margin of 3M6 and 3P3, worming in blank lower margins at end. Signature of George Brooke of Chester dated 1609 at end. London: Adam Islip, 1600

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first edition in english, and the first of Holland's 6 translations of classical texts; for the others see lots 104, 139, 141, 160, and 172. Pforzheimer 496; STC 16613.