Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 3,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PEPYS, SAMUEL. Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England. Folding letterpress table. [4], 214, [17] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait after Sir Godfrey Kneller. 8vo, 167x109 mm, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked; contents clean apart from small stain at bottom edge of opening leaves, clean tear in table repaired on verso, blank corner off C5, repaired clean tear in N1. London: Ben. Griffin for Sam. Keble, 1690

Additional Details

first edition; issue with Griffin-Keble imprint. Pforzheimer 793; Wing P1450. tipped in is a letter signed from pepys while Secretary to the Admiralty to Sir Thomas Chicheley, Master-General of the Ordnance, concerning sailing orders for the ship Swallow. One page, small folio; lightly foxed, with vertical and horizontal creases, left edge chipped in a few places. Derby House, 2 April 1675.