Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Purchas, Samuel (c. 1577-1626)
Purchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discovered, from the Creation unto this Present.

London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1614.

Second edition, folio, bound in contemporary English calf boards tooled with gilt lozenges to each board; artlessly rebacked, with later endleaves; title page mounted; large section of marginal worming affecting a section approximately 250 pages, some with old paper repairs; other old paper repairs to text leaves; top margin damaged throughout, with toning, tears, and weakened paper; worse at the beginning; last fifteen or so leaves of the table toned with extensive marginal damage with old repairs of marginal reinforcement; 11 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.

STC 20506.