Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 317

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
SORBIÈRE, SAMUEL. Relation d'un Voyage en Angleterre, où sont touchées plusieurs choses qui regardent l'estat des sciences & de la religion & autres matieres curieuses.<> Folding engraved plate. [12], 192 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, quite worn, joints cracked, cords intact; some foxing. Cologne: Pierre Michel [i. e., Amsterdam], 1666

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Survey of intellectual life in England, particularly in the fields of science and medicine, addressed to Louis XIV and written to elicit official support and patronage from the King for a French academy of science; first published in 1664. Alden 666/143; Willems 1760; DSB XII, 584-85.<