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Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photography

8th March 2019 | 10:00AM | Crewkerne Salerooms

Lot 390

Raleigh, Sir Walter. The History of the World. In Five Bookes, engraved additional title, title with engraved portrait, 6 double-page engraved maps and 2 double-page engraved battle plans, with 'The Minde of the Front' leaf, G5 and Tt6 with tears to margins, paperflaws to Rrr4 and Zzzzz3 with minor loss of text, the latter over two lines, rustholes to B3*, E4, Kk5, Qq2, Kkk, Vvv4 with minor loss of text, one double-page map with split along fold, lacks final blank, seventeenth century calf, rebacked, folio, London: William Jaggard, 1621 [STC 20639]
£500 - £800
£800.00
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Phil H

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