Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Lilly, William (1602-1681)
An Astrologicall Prediction of the Occurrances in England, Part of the Yeers 1648. 1649. 1650.

London: Printed by T[homas] B[rudenell] for John Partridge and Humfrey Blunden, 1648.

Quarto, one of three variants printed the same year with the title set slightly differently; illustrated with text woodcut horoscopes for James, 1st Duke Hamilton (1606-1649), who was executed as a traitor after his defeat by the New Model Army lead by Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Preston; and another for the city of London; title page and final leaf mounted and trimmed; bound in later buckram, 7 5/8 x 5 1/4 in.

Wing L-2211; ESTC R205058.