Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
LUCANUS, MARCUS ANNAEUS. Pharsalia. Commentary by Hugo Grotius and Richard Bentley. [6], 525 pages. 4to, 289x229 mm, early 19th-century gilt-armorial brown calf, scuffed, spine slightly faded; scattered foxing. Strawberry Hill, 1760

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first strawberry hill edition, limited to 500 copies, "perhaps the most distinguished piece of printing to come from the press" (Hazen); second state of the preliminaries. Hazen (Strawberry Hill) 7; Bartholomew 193. From the libraries of Herbert Norman Evans, with his arms on covers; Sir William Vernon Guise, with his armorial bookplate; and Thomas B. Stevenson.