Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Speed, John (1552?-1629)
The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans.

London: Printed by John Dawson for George Humble, 1632.

Third edition, folio, lacking the portrait; illustrated with text woodcuts, including ancient coins, ancient Britons (both wild and "more civill"), royal family trees, seals, and other images; bound in modern full calf; with light to moderate water staining and intermittent evidence of pink mildew, title and several preliminaries with paper reinforcement, approximately ten pages with corner tears, some with loss of text and woodcuts, 13 x 8 1/4 in.

STC 23049; ESTC S997.