Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Letters of State to Most of the Sovereign Princes and Republicks of Europe from the Year 1649. Till the Year 1659.

London: Printed in the year, 1694.

First edition in English, 12mo; includes a catalogue of Milton's works and the first publication of four sonnets [printed on b2-b3]; an English translation of the original Literae Pseudo-Senaturs Anglicani by Milton's nephew, Edward Phillips; with verses addressed to Cromwell, Fairfax, Vane and Skinner appearing for the first time; title page chipped and toned; bound in full modern navy blue morocco; lower blank margin of B2 torn away; surface of P12 verso thinned with a loss of a few letters; 5 3/4 x 3 1/4 in..

Wing M-2126; Grolier 621.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.