Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

35 35 c (BINDING.) Stanley, Thomas. Poems. 86, [2]; 164, [2]; [165]-260 pages, including blanks f4 and L8. 3 parts in one volume. 8vo, 167x108 mm, late 19th-century citron morocco by Stikeman gilt-tooled to intricate panel design on covers with border and large center lozenge composed of small inlaid crimson, red, and citron morocco lozenges, similar decoration on turn-ins, crimson silk doublures and endleaves, front joint just starting at bottom; contents generally clean with only occasional light soiling, minor restoration along fore edge of A5-6 and bottom edge of I1, small rust hole in N1 affecting a few letters; morocco-edged marbled board slipcase. Morocco booklabels of Marshall C. Lefferts and Winston A. Hagen on front endleaf, along with tipped-in bookseller’s description. [London]: Printed in theYear, 1651 [1,500/2,500] first edition of this collection of Stanley’s verse and translations, including the first complete English version of the Anacreontea; privately printed first issue , in a superb mosaic binding by stikeman . Without the 1650 Aurora, another volume of his translations sometimes bound with this collection. Hayward 101; Hoffmann I, 145; Pforzheimer 986; Wing S5241. 34