Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BLOUNT, HENRY, Sir. A Voyage into the Levant. [2], 126 pages. 4to, 182x140 mm, contemporary sheep, spine chipped at top and cracked and chipped at bottom, with later crude lettering in ink; lower portion of contents dampstained throughout, scattered ink blots including one obscuring text in lower outer corner of page 124, later underscoring and marginalia. Contemporary signatures of Thomas Hippisley on title and Izaak Walton (probably not the author) across woodcut headpiece on page 1; signature of Wm. Hawkins dated 1682 and 19th-century signatures of Henry Alworth Merewether and Vito Morpurgo on front endleaves. London: J. L. for Andrew Crooke, 1638

Additional Details

Third edition of a 1636 work describing the author's travels to the Balkans, Constantinople, and Egypt in 1634. STC 3138.