Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ARCHITECTURE.) Dugdale, William, Sir. The History of St Pauls Cathedral in London from its Foundation until these Times. 15 etched architectural plates, all but 2 double-page, and one half-page and 30 full-page etched illustrations by Wenceslaus Hollar. [8], 299, [6] pages, including frontispiece portrait of Dugdale by Hollar. Folio, 340x225 mm, 18th-century russia gilt, spine ends chipped, covers detached; fingerprint and minor stains on portrait, light soiling on title, faint dampstain in blank outer margin of a few leaves toward end, contents otherwise generally clean. London: Tho. Warren, 1658

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first edition. "The most detailed study of a single building produced in seventeenth-century England, and the best evidence for how St. Paul's Cathedral looked before the 1666 Fire of London"--Millard II, 17. Pforzheimer 341; Wing D2482.