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EARLE, JOHN — [THOMAS HOBBES]
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
- Micro-cosmographie. Or, a peece of the world discovered in Essays and Characters. London: by R. B[adger] for Robert Allot, 1630
- ink, paper, deerskin
12mo (5 x 2 3/4 in.; 128 x 70 mm). Outer fore-margin worming in sigs. B and C, H5 torn and with paper flaw, three lines of the title cropped at fore-edge, some early ink scribbling on title-page and into the preface, blank before B1 lacking. Contemporary limp deerskin; some soiling, held by one cord only. Modern quarter red morocco gilt folding-case.
Provenance
Thomas Hobbes (signature) — John Fleming (Christie's New York, 1988, lot 176). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch
Literature
STC7443; ESTC S118112
Catalogue Note
Thomas Hobbes's copy, with his signature "Tho: Hobbes. 1653" above headline on B4, a small Latin inscription on B11v and a Greek note on L4.