Sale 2617 - Lot 232
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Sale 2617 - Lot 232
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Polemon, John, ed. (fl. circa 1577)
All the Famous Battels that have been Fought in our Age throughout the World.
London: by Henrye Bynneman & Francis Coldock, [1578].
First edition, quarto, title page printed within elaborate war-themed woodcut compartment, text printed in black letter, detailing battles fought between 1495 and 1572; bound in full dark green morocco by C. Smith with gilt tooling, aeg.; small restorations to blank lower corners of three text leaves, small rust hole in O3; 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
STC 20089; ESTC S114773 locating six copies in American libraries.
From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
All the Famous Battels that have been Fought in our Age throughout the World.
London: by Henrye Bynneman & Francis Coldock, [1578].
First edition, quarto, title page printed within elaborate war-themed woodcut compartment, text printed in black letter, detailing battles fought between 1495 and 1572; bound in full dark green morocco by C. Smith with gilt tooling, aeg.; small restorations to blank lower corners of three text leaves, small rust hole in O3; 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
STC 20089; ESTC S114773 locating six copies in American libraries.
From the Ken Rapoport Collection.