May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 7,424
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
PLATO. The Republic. English translation by Henry Spens. [8], [v]-xl, 430, [2] pages, including final ad leaf. 4to, 203x152 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spine worn, with vertical cracks, ends chipped, most of lettering piece off, joints reinforced; insignificant dampstaining along bottom edges toward beginning, contents otherwise clean. Armorial bookplate of James Banks, M.A., of Lincoln College, Oxford, his signature dated 1848. Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1763

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first edition in english. Gaskell 423; Hoffmann III, 149.