Dec 01, 2005 - Sale 2059

Sale 2059 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 1,035
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
ROBERTS, FRANCIS. Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum. The Mysterie and Marrow of the Bible; viz., God's Covenants with Man . . . From the Beginning to the End of the World. [66] (of [68]), 1721, [38] pages, including final errata leaf; lacks initial blank. first edition * Clavis Bibliorum. The Key of the Bible, unlocking the Richest Treasury of the Holy Scriptures . . . Fourth Edition. [4], 631 pages. Together, 2 volumes, each with extraneous engraved portrait of Roberts mounted opposite title. Folio, contemporary calf, worn, both need rebacking; contents of both browned, with the first also dampstained, and the second lacking front free endpaper. Wing R1594, R1588A. London: R. W. for George Calvert, 1657; J. R. for Peter Parker, 1675