Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 138
  • 138

Camden, Sir William

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Annales Rerum Anglicanarum et Hibernicarum, regnante Elizzabetha ad annum salutis 1599. London: Stansby for Waterson, 1615Tomus alter Annalium Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha,,, Sive Pars Quarta. London: Stansby, for Waterson, 1627
  • ink, paper, leather
2 volumes folio (11 1/8 x 7 in.; 283 x 178 mm & 11 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.; 289 x 186 mm). Woodcut initials. Contemporary calf with gilt arms of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, on each panel; rebacked, regilt (?). 

Provenance

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (armorial binding) — William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam (bookplate). acquisition: Salloch

Literature

STC 4496 & 4498

Catalogue Note

First edition of both volumes. It is because his work necessarily dealt with people still alive that Camden deferred the publication of the second volume until after his death.