Sale 2617 - Lot 152
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Sale 2617 - Lot 152
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)
Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, or a Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. Together with the Garden of Cyrus.
London: for Hen. Brome, 1658.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with three engraved illustrations (of which two are full-page), separate title to The Garden of Cyprus, with longitudinal half-title and errata leaf; the H. Bradley Martin copy, with bookplate inside back board, bookplates of William Wakely Boreham inside front board; exhibited at the National Book League's Festival of Britain, Exhibition of Books at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1951, with exhibition ticket inserted, 6 1/4 x 4 in.
Wing B-5154; Wither to Prior 108; Keynes 93; Pforzheimer 110.
From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, or a Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. Together with the Garden of Cyrus.
London: for Hen. Brome, 1658.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with three engraved illustrations (of which two are full-page), separate title to The Garden of Cyprus, with longitudinal half-title and errata leaf; the H. Bradley Martin copy, with bookplate inside back board, bookplates of William Wakely Boreham inside front board; exhibited at the National Book League's Festival of Britain, Exhibition of Books at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1951, with exhibition ticket inserted, 6 1/4 x 4 in.
Wing B-5154; Wither to Prior 108; Keynes 93; Pforzheimer 110.
From the Ken Rapoport Collection.