Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
POLYBIUS. The History . . . Translated into English [from the French of Louis Meigret] by Edward Grimeston, Sergeant at Armes. Title within woodcut ornamental border. Folding plan ("The Plot of the Romanes Campe," trimmed in blank outer margin). [14] (of [16]), 480, [16] pages, including final blank; lacks initial blank. Folio, later mottled calf, rebacked; contents browned, upper outer corner of P2.3 charred slightly affecting pagination, 17th-century inscriptions on front free endpaper. London: Nicholas. Okes for Simon Waterson, 1634

Additional Details

first complete edition in english; issue with Waterson imprint dated 1634. Hoffmann III, 276; STC 20099.