May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214

Sale 2214 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SLEIDANUS, JOHANNES. A Famouse Cronicle of oure time, called Sleidanes Commentaries, concerning the state of Religion and common wealth, during the raigne of the Emperour Charles the fift. [5] (of [6]), 444, 449-70, [17] (of [18]) leaves; lacks the blanks A6 and 3Q4. Folio, modern olive calf in pseudo-period style; contents toned with occasional marginal dampstaining, occasional worming not impairing legibility, title heavily browned, blank corner of 2B2 restored, marginal restoration on last index leaf slightly affecting text on recto. (John Daye for Abraham Veale and Nicholas England, 25 September 1560

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first edition in english of an important contemporary account of the Reformation; first state of colophon. STC 19848.