Lot 118
  • 118

Browne, Sir Thomas

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • A Letter to a Friend; Upon Occasion of the Death of His Intimate Friend. London: Printed for Charles Brome at the Gun at the West-End of S. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1690
  • ink, paper, leather
Folio (12 x 7 3/8 in.; 305 x 185 mm). Stabbed and stitched in marbled wrappers. Brown cloth portfolio.

Provenance

Dr. Eli Moschowitz (note by R.S. Pirie inside portfolio). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1965

Literature

Wing B5158; ESTC R19833; Keynes 135

Condition

Folio (12 x 7 3/8 in.; 305 x 185 mm). Stabbed and stitched in marbled wrappers. Brown cloth portfolio.
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Catalogue Note

First edition.