Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Topsell, Edward (1572-1625)
The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes.

London: Printed by William Jaggard, 1607.



Folio, with the woodcut of the gorgon on the title page, illustrated with text woodcuts of animals throughout; lacking three text leaves: 103/104 [K4], 317/318 [Ee3], and 319/320 [Ee4]; bound in full English speckled calf, tooled in blind; ex libris Elizabeth Ann Horner (1760-1843) of Mells Park, Frome, with stenciled signature on title; woodcut of giraffe on page 101 trimmed with loss; Bbb2 torn with loss to text inner corner (paper repaired); 12 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.

STC 24123.

Rasmussen-Hines Collection of Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature.