Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
MILTON, JOHN. Literae Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani, Cromwellii, reliquorumque perduellium nomine ac jussu conscriptae. [4], 234 pages; lacks the 3 blanks at end. 12mo, contemporary panelled calf, expertly rebacked; few headlines shaved. Bookplates of John Camp Williams, Burton Pearl, and Helmut N. Friedlaender. [Amsterdam: Pieter & Jan Blaeu], 1676

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first edition of a posthumously published collection of dispatches and letters written by Milton as Latin Secretary to the Council of State under Cromwell. Shawcross 321; Wing M2128.