May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Milton, John (1608-1674)
A Defence of the People of England [...] in Answer to Salmasius's Defence of the King.

[London or Amsterdam? no printer,] 1692.

First edition in English, octavo, translated from the Latin, Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio by Joseph Washington, in reply to Claude Saumaise's Defensio Regia pro Carolo I, with two original blanks, bound in full 19th century sponge-decorated calf by Blunson & Co., gilt tooled spine, tiny wormholes in some outer margins, repair to blank margin of R4, slight staining, aeg, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.

Grolier Wither to Prior 590; Pforzheimer 726; Wing M-2104; Shawcross Milton 359; Coleridge's Milton Collection 55.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.