Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 302

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WRIGHT, THOMAS, S.J. The Passions of the Minde in Generall. Folding table of the supreme perfections in God. [14] (of [16]), 352, [8] pages; lacks initial blank. 4to, contemporary calf, conspicuously rebacked; contents generally clean. 19th-century armorial bookplate of Cornelius Paine; signature of Edward Sherman Lindsey dated 1891. London: Miles Flesher for Robert Dawlman, 1630

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Fourth edition of a psychological treatise by a Roman Catholic controversialist, describing and classifying the emotions in philosophical and religious terms. The book was first published in 1601 and cited by Burton in The Anatomy of Melancholy. Alden 630/218 (for passages on the author's passion for tobacco and miscellaneous New World references); Hunter & Macalpine, page 62; STC 26043.