Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
RALEIGH, WALTER, Sir. The Historie of the World. 8 double-page engraved maps. [66], 1143, [57] pages, including engraved allegorical additional title, preceding leaf of explanatory text, and portrait of Raleigh. Folio, 345x228 mm, 17th-century mottled calf, later gilt spine, joints worn; contents clean. Lowther Castle bookplate of the Earl of Lonsdale, Lowther monogram in spine compartments. Printing and the Mind of Man 117 (1614 original edition); Wing R164A (this edition). London: Robert White, John Place, and George Dawes for George Dawes, 1666