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Lot 18
  • 18

Browning, Robert

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • Paracelsus. London: Efingham Wilson, 1835.
  • Paper, ink, leather
8vo. Original grey boards, printed paper label; a fine copy. Cloth folding case.

first edition. Browning's second book, published when he was 24.



The very fine Houghton copy.

Provenance

Arthur Houghton (bookplate, sale Christie's, 13 June 1979, lot 85)

Literature

Hayward 252; Ashley I, pp. 111-112; Tinker 414