Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549

Sale 2549 - Lot 133

Price Realized: $ 520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 550 - $ 750
Whitworth, Charles (1675-1725)
An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710; and Two Other Works.

[Twickenham]: Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.

First edition, octavo, A4, c4, B-X4 (preliminary signature b4 misbound between sigs N & O) engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title vignette; [bound with] Breton's Praise of Virtuous Ladies, edited by Sir Egerton Brydges, Kent: Printed at the Private Press of Lee Priory by Johnson & Warwick, 1815, engraved vignette to title, limited edition of eighty copies printed, based on the 1606 edition, 38 pages, text within triple rule throughout, publisher's original printed label with edition size and price pasted inside back board; [bound with] John Russell, 1st Earl Russell's (1792-1878) The Establishment of the Turks in Europe. An Historical Discourse, London: John Murray, 1828, first edition, with half-title, 128 pages; the three works bound together in 19th century diced russia, rebacked, a.e.g., contents good, ex libris Edward Ingraham, with his heraldic engraved bookplate inside the front board, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.