[Silesio, Mariano]

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Description

The Arcadian Princesse; or, the Triumph of Justice. (Trans. Richard Braithwaite). London: by Th. Harper for Robert Bostocke, 1635
Paper, Ink, Leather

8vo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.; 140 x 89 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece by William Marshall with facing leaf of verses, numerous woodcut initials throughout; lacking first blank as usual, frontispiece and verses loose, frontispiece slightly and neatly remargined at fore-edge, final four leaves with small filled hole in bottom margin. Nineteenth-century red morocco gilt, front cover with arms of A. W. Griswold, by C. Murton; extremities slightly rubbed, front free endpaper detached.

Provenance

Almon W. Griswold (Leavitt, 1 June 1880, lot 142) — Robert Hoe (morocco label; Anderson, 25 April 1911, lot 488) — Henry E. Huntington (part 8, Anderson, 24 April 1918, lot 35) — Lawrence Strangman (bookplate) — H. Bradley Martin (Sotheby's New York, 30 April 1990, lot 2650)

Literature

STC 22553

Catalogue Note

First edition in English; with distinguished provenance.